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Jesuit Refugee Service outlines educational vision and hints at further Georgetown involvement
Sunday afternoon, Internet2, a community of academic, industry, and government leaders who work together to find ways to advance global research and education, is hosting its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Georgetown President Jack DeGioia, along with members of the Jesuit Refugee Service and the World Bank will deliver the meeting's keynote address.
DeGioia's address follows a trip taken last year by Georgetown faculty and staff to the Kakuma Refugee Camp, which houses refugees from conflicts in Kenya. The camp is home to over 100,000 refugees, many from Sudan and Somalia, and JRS has been there for months providing aid and protection to the refugees.
Yesterday, Vox interviewed International Director of JRS Peter Balleis S.J., who explained the role technology plays in JRS's educational programs.
In recent times, however, JRS has been able to provide the refugees with far more than aid materials and physical protection. JRS now has a broad network of educators, who, with the help of modern technology, are able to provide high-level education to the refugees in their camps.
"The Jesuit Refugee Service has been involved in over 50 countries for more than 30 years," Balleis said. "Some Jesuit in a refugee camp had the idea to partner with a Catholic, Australian university to bring tertiary education to the refugees." Since then, Balleis explained, JRS has worked to find further ways to bring higher education to camps around the world.
"Technology makes it possible," Balleis said. "15 years ago we started a tutorship program in a camp for 10 years with 60 students, and only 20 graduated. There was no personal, direct link with the university." Improved communications technology has removed this barrier between students and teachers. Now university professors can directly interact with refugees who are miles away.
JRS first implemented the new approach in Malawi, Kenya, and Syria, and, while they found tremendous success, these programs taught JRS a few key ways to improve. For example, in addition to allowing refugees to receive full diplomas in certain subjects, JRS offers the refugees certificate courses. "Our assessment [of the first three camps] showed us that, while there was a need for tertiary education on a diploma level, there's also a need for … shorter courses, delivered in the course of three months," Balleis said. "These 'certificate courses' make a faster change in the life of a camp."
The online diploma program for refugees began in October of 2010, meaning that the first graduates will be receiving their diplomas this year. Each year, a typical refugee camp program will take in 30 or 35 students, who are less likely to drop out than a typical university student, according to Balleis.
Cindy Bonfini-Hotlosz, the Chief Information Officer of JesuitNET, joined Balleis in his interview with Vox and offered more insight into how the refugee learning centers are built. As Bonfini-Hotlosz explained, not much is needed to make a very big difference. The typical learning learning center has about 70 computers, a few big rooms, a source of sufficient power, and internet access. "If we can get a drop into anywhere, we open up the world for these people," Bonfini-Hotlosz said.
Even though most of the professors are miles away from the refugees, they feel a close connection with each their students. Bonfini-Hotlosz recounted her experience teaching a course to refugees. "There was no mental distance between me and the camp," she said. "Even though I haven't been there physically, it's like I was there every day I was teaching them."
Unfortunately, the program in Syria was uprooted by the outbreak of civil war this past year and was moved to Lebanon, where JSR certificate course graduates have helped establish a new place for refugees.
Balleis sees the ultimate goal of the refugee program as reducing global violence and engendering communities with more respect for human rights. "If you look at the world, the places with the lowest human development index … have a lot of wars," Balleis said. "I come to a very simple conclusion: low connectedness and low knowledge mean higher conflict … That's where we are."
JSR has high hopes to improve the learning even further. While many universities have professors and administrators participating to teach and create courses for the refugees, Regis University officially accredits the their work and diplomas. Father Balleis revealed that he hopes that Georgetown someday may accredit the refugee diplomas.
Additionally, according to Balleis, an online tutoring program between the refugees and Georgetown students may someday become a reality. "Georgetown students could help a refugee student on the other side," he said. "I would love to have students from the universities which help us spend two or three months to be a tutor and study with the refugees online."
Photo: Ryan Greene/Georgetown Voice
Posted April 22, 2013 by Ryan Greene
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ERIC SHAWN: Pakistan ' s ambassador in the United States says that the Taliban rules the region once the sun goes down. He ' s telling Fox News that the Taliban and al-Qaeda in his words, "own the night there," and that the war in Iraq fueled terrorist activities. Steve Emerson is the author of "American Jihad, the terrorists living among us." Steve, an expert on terrorists joins us now. Steve, good to see you.
SHAWN: Six years in a war, 402 American lives in Afghanistan . Taliban resurgent, have we done enough or is it Pakistan's fault?
EMERSON: That ' s a good question. You know, there ' s been a cat fight between Pakistan and Afghanistan about who is responsible here. There ' s no doubt that the Taliban have been resurgence in southern Afghanistan . And there ' s also no doubt that the Afghanistan government has been blaming Pakistan for allowing the Taliban to basically come across the border and for the I.S.I., The Pakistan's intelligence services to really do nothing about the whole deployment of the Taliban across the border. So I would say that the Pakistan government is really largely to blame for much more of the problem than the Afghani government is.
SHAWN: What does that mean for us? We had the recent terror bust, the J.F.K. Terror bust in the United States . Of course, 9/11 formulated and hashed and carried out from Afghanistan because of Osama bin Laden. And he ' s not been caught.
EMERSON: Well, that' s a good point. I mean, here is the question: will Afghanistan suddenly become a center of gravity for activities and for plots to be the center of gravity for plots to be coordinated and dispatched from against the united states either in Europe or in the united states again, as they were on 9/11 and prior to 9/11? Could it happen again also in Iraq should the United States leave? That' s the big fear. And if it happens in Afghanistan , will then the entire deployment there be annulled. I don' t think that's going to be in the cards at this rate. The United States is still on the offense and I think Pakistani government officials' charge is a little bit exaggerated right now. I think he' s really trying to make a dig at the Afghani government, because he doesn' t -- he wants to deflect the criticism against the Pakistani government for doing too little and for making the actual de facto agreement with the Taliban in Waziristan .


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52 | Are You A Nature Lover ?!
This week, I released a video-> WHY Lithuanians LOVE NATURE So Much ?! | Lithuania Vlog. I'd love to hear your thoughts! 👂 👀
Last week, it was an exciting moment but super busy at the same time. Simply because we were in Madrid arranging flat visits. In fact, we saw 7 properties in various areas in Madrid. But only one was love at first sight so we didn't hesitate and made an offer. Luckily the offer was accepted so we're moving at the end of September. 🇪🇸
We'll be based in one of the 6 "barrios" (neighbourhoods) of Salamanca district. In case you're curious, these wards are: Castellana, Fuente del Berro, Goya, Guindalera, Lista and Recoletos. I don't want to overshare for now as I'll make a video about it later this month or in early October. So bear with me! 🙏
Talking about exciting things, have you ever noticed Instagram profiles of Lithuanian people adding a line "Nature Lover"? I've always been curious about it. It's remarkably interesting because I like nature too but I don't promote it on my Instagram profile. So I tried to figure it out here. 🌳
If you're a true nature lover, then you'll connect very well with Lithuanian people (and Baltic too). If you kind of like it, you'll still connect but probably you'll be learning a lot of new stuff. And if you don't like it, why are you even reading this? 🤓
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
By Lao Tzu
If you've ever paid attention, many Lithuanians put on their Instagram profile "Nature Lover" but why do they really love nature so much? I've tried to figure it out in one of my recent trips. Let's talk.
Read more: This is Why Lithuanians Love Nature
All the time I see Lithuanians saying they're nature lovers. But why they love nature so much ? Seeing this might help understand. Let's explore Lake Sartai and Birštonas to explain. Here's the video.

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The Big Idea: Matt Forbeck
In the annals of the dreaded author question "where do you get your ideas?" It's entirely possible that Matt Forbeck has got the most interesting response, at least when it comes to his novel Amortals. I'd go on further about it, but I think I should just let Forbeck jump right in and take this one.
MATT FORBECK:
Amortals started — starts, actually — with a snuff film.
In case you're a sensible person who doesn't know about such things, a snuff film is a movie of someone getting killed. They're the real thing, sometimes full of blood, brains, and guts, but always capped off with a real live person being punted off this mortal coil, often in a gruesome or grisly way. No special effects here.
I've never seen a snuff film, and I don't have any desire to. There's enough death in the world without me having to go hunt it down and rubberneck at it. But when I heard about these movies — about the fact that some people made them on purpose by recording premeditated murders — the idea of them struck a nerve.
I started wondering not about what it would be like to make such a film but to be the subject of it. To be strapped into a chair, beaten and abused, terrified for your life, and then shot to death. To be the man who got shot just so someone else could see you die. And record it for other people to watch.
That just pissed me off.
From there, I thought about what it would be like to have that happen to you — and then be able to come back, but with only the snuff film as evidence of what had happened. What would you do? How would you react? And how would you find your killer and make him pay?
That's impossible, of course. You don't get to come back from the dead. Right?
Well, not today, but that's one of the great things about science fiction. You get to play around with technology we don't have yet, things that make the impossible possible, at least in the story.
I sat down and wrote the first chapter of what became Amortals in one big rush. It was brutal and horrifying, and at the end of it, the victim woke up in a fresh clone body and was charged with going back out into that cold, hard world and solving his own messy murder.
From there, I didn't really know where to go. I came up with an outline and shopped it around, but this was back in 1994. Not only was I a lot younger then but I only had couple handfuls of publishing credits, and most of those were in tabletop games rather than fiction. Even though my career in that field was taking off, those credits totaled up to not even a fraction of what I needed to make an editor jump up and offer me a contract based on what little I had.
As a busy working writer, I couldn't spare the time to sit down and write an entire novel on the hope that someone might buy it. Even if I did sell the book, that would mean not eating for the months I was writing, and wasn't able to risk that at the time. I shelved the idea, promising myself I'd come back to it later.
In the intervening fifteen years, I moved from being a full-time game designer into writing tie-in novels, and I established a reputation as someone who could spin a good yarn. Most importantly, my editors became comfortable with the idea that I wouldn't disappear with an advance, that I could and would finish what I started. One of them — Marc Gascoigne at Angry Robot — finally took a flying leap of faith on a refurbished version of that thin outline of mine and, based on a page-and-a-half synopsis, signed me to write the book.
Then, of course, I couldn't avoid it any longer. Any excuses I might have had vanished. I had to sit down and write it. After all, I'd already cashed the check and spent it.
Fifteen years passed between me having that initial inspiration and sitting down to write the book, and the thrust of the book evolved due to that. Not only had the world changed, but I had too. The concerns of a young man fresh out of college naturally differ from those of a guy with five kids. The core of the story, though — the spark that ignited the flame — hadn't changed at all.
Amortals — the version that's in stores already — starts the same way now as it did back in '94: with a snuff film, a lot of bullets, and a man bent on avenging his own death. The power of that idea carried me all the way through.
Amortals: Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Indiebound|Powell's
Read and listen to an excerpt. Follow Forbeck on Twitter.
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11 Comments on "The Big Idea: Matt Forbeck"
Sheila O'Shea
I'm glad he found his inspiration from the idea, but I do wish he wouldn't spread the notion that snuff films are a genuine phenomenon in this reality instead of a popular myth in fiction.
Geoffrey Kidd
It's also available at fictionwise.
fairyhedgehog
Drat, you made me go and buy it!
Well, reading the extract convinced me I want to read it, anyway.
Scott Sigler
I read an advance copy of this and enjoyed it. "Watching your own snuff film" is definitely a way to kick a book off with a bang.
Tim Pratt
Well, you've certainly never seen a snuff film, because there *aren't* any, as far as anyone has been able to determine — with snuff film defined as the intentional filming of a death which is then sold for profit (Obviously deaths have been caught on film, but those aren't "snuff films.") They're one of the great persistent urban legends. Certainly rich material for a sci-fi horror story though.
Just purchased the book and read the first two chapters. The concept of the 'amortal' is an interesting one, and I look forward to seeing where the story goes from here.
Well, that just made me go and buy it. I am definitely looking forward to it.
I haven't read it yet, but it's on my "must read SOON" list. Matt is an A-plus gentleman and a hell of a fine writer.
coolstar
This book certainly starts with a horrible premise that's made even MORE horrible
in Orson Scott Card's short story, "A Thousand Deaths", which was, I think, first published in 1978. I mention this not because I think Mr. Forbeck cribbed the idea (I don't know, don't care, and ideas are hardly patentable or copyrightable (is that a word?) anyway) but because the OSC short story sticks in my mind as being possibly the most horrific story I can remember reading. So much so that I wrote a disclaimer on a postit note when I gave the collection I read it in to friends. Until I just looked it up, which took a while since I couldn't remember the title, I had no idea it was so old. If you like the central idea posited above, you'll probably like that short story. I leave it to each person's moral judgement as to whether or not they want to actually put money into OSC's pocket for the privilege (may be impossible to actually do that anyway if the anthology is out of print).
Glad see some more books from Angry Robots getting press. They have a fantastic stable of authors … Assuming you can call a group of authors a stable. I picked this up a few weeks ago. Guess I better moveit up my list.
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I have wrote several poem on my email, how can I get them in own book.?
You must think very highly of them.
You have WRITTEN several POEMS.
You have "written" (not "wrote") several poems (plural requires an 's'). Does your computer have a printer? If yes, then use the word processing feature to type out your poems and then hit "save" and "print." Assemble the poetry into a manuscript in whatever order you wish, perhaps look to illustrate the pages, design a cover...and set the project aside while you head to a bookstore or library to get a copy of the most current "Writer's Market" book. Look under publishers of poetry, study the process the book describes for getting your work published---to include a "query letter" that some publishers require from a would-be published author, and act accordingly.
Once you figure out the details, then make sure your manuscript fits the requirements (like double-spaced, etc.), submit the query letter to the publisher you choose from the Writer's Market book (if required), check over your typed manuscript for grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors and make corrections as needed, then mail off your manuscript with a "return receipt requested" (to prove you mailed it) and an enclosed Self Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) if you want the manuscript back.
Many poets create chapbooks of their poetry, which are home-made and artistically bound in small numbers.
Step one is to print the poems and trim the pages to more or less uniform size so the poems are positioned the way you want them. Remember to leave extra white space on the left edge, where they'll be bound.
Step two is to figure out what kind of cover you can do.
Step three is how to affix that cover.
Go to some poetry readings and look at other poets' chapbooks.


Yoga is a complete science of human life itself, with its origins dating back several thousands of years ago in India. It is the most ancient and the most complete system for human development that has ever existed.
Literally, the word yoga comes from the sanskrit word « yug », meaning to yolk or to unite.
The ultimate goal of Yoga, as long as it is practiced with its full and original intention, is to allow for the "individual" consciousness to "melt" into universal consciousness (or the Absolute, God, Supreme Being, etc.) and to remain in peace and joy.
In fact, all our life we have been deeply conditioned to believe that we are separate entities, with separate individual consciousness, and that our consciousness was born out of a brain in a human body, and is susceptible to all the changes and sufferings of its host. We have never questioned this belief of being separate and have lived with a persistant feeling of lack, incompleteness and fear of death.
Yoga teaches us from our own sensitive experience and not merely by intellectual analysis that our consciousness IS, and in reality is truly intemporal and limitless, thus universal. When this understanding becomes alive in our experience, we realize our true nature and a whole new way of living and seeing reality can start for us. Life becomes anchored in peace and unconditioned happiness, true creativity can therefore emerge using our body and mind as tools for its full expression.
Yoga is well suited to our modern society and life style and does not require any religious rituals and beliefs. On the contrary, Yoga is a true science for human life, leading man to its natural freedom and happiness.
Every session guided by Kamala is like a long meditation on the Self, sometimes with bodily movements and other times in complete immobility.
Click here to view the calendar of events with Kamala.
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Heart Vs. Humbug, by M.J. Rodgers
>> Friday, August 11, 2006
Heart Vs. Humbug is book #3 of M.J. Rodgers Justice Inc. series. So far, the first two books have been just ok, but they are at least different from most Harlequins.
He said the law couldn't afford a heart...
Attorney Brett Merlin - alias the Magician - was certain he'd squashed one senior citizen's Christmas crusade against his Scrooge of a client. Until he met opposing counsel, the fiery, flame-haired Octavia Osborne... and his open-and-shut civil suit escalated to murder in the first degree.
Suddenly, the magician of law found himself up against a mistress of legal abracadabra, who pulled more countersuits out of her attorney's brief than Santa did presents out of his sleigh.
What Brett saw as a matter of law, Octavia saw as a matter of heart. Either way, he was out to set some surprising new precedents - both legal and personal.
When I read the first two books in the series, Beauty Vs. the Beast and Baby Vs. the Bar, I had a very similar opinion of them: fascinating legal drama, but mediocre romance and characterization. Heart Vs. Humbug wasn't much different, other than the fact that the legal angle, though nice enough, wasn't as interesting as that in the other books. This one was a C+.
Granted, the last book featured a psychologist accused of killing one of the personalities of a Multiple Personality Disorder patient, and that's hard to top. But even considering that, the case here is more than ho-hum enough in its own right. The plot involves a Senior Citizen Centre locked in a battle with their landlord, who has raised the rent in order to force them out so he can develop the land into a nice, profitable complex. Yawn.
Heroine Octavia Osborne (a Justice Inc. associate) has been asked to help by her grandmother Mab, one of the Centre's director, while our hero, Brett Merlin, a lawyer himself, is helping his uncle, the landlord in question (but don't worry, the mean Scroogen isn't a blood relation of Brett's; he's merely married to his aunt).
The first sections of the book are the best, because they show Octavia and Brett locked in legal battle, and that's where Rodgers is always great. I very much enjoyed the ways each found to outmanouver the other, and most especially the courtroom scenes. Those were witty and fun. And I loved that Octavia tended to get the best out of Brett (not a double standard in this particular case... it's just that Scroogen was so mean and horrid!).
But after a while, when the legal drama turned to murder mystery, things became pretty dull. The characters didn't help. Octavia and Brett were the only ones who showed even minimal depths; most of the others were pretty wooden. Scroogen was the worst: a more cardboard villain I've never seen.
And speaking of Octavia and Brett's depths, that was somewhat disappointing, because these characters had huge potential that Rodgers ended up wasting. I was pretty interested in the issues that were set up, especially their views of the law and what it means to uphold it. There's Octavia, with her attitude that what's important is the spirit of the law, and there's Brett, who thinks it's most important to follow the law to the letter. It would have been a fascinating subject to develop, especially given Brett's history of putting The Law above everything else, even his ex-wife.
However, the space that could have been spent exploring how these two very different people can manage to get along in a relationship is spent on the boring plot. I was especially disappointed at the end, when Brett makes a certain gesture that's absolutely HUGE for him, and we don't get to see any details about why and how he came to that decision.
All in all, a book even fans of this series might skip without really losing much. There's almost no Justice Inc. stuff here. There's only a tiny cameo appearance by AJ (we don't really learn anything about her, anyway), plus a hint about something mysterious in Adam's past, about some kind of spate of law-breaking after his wife left him, but since Adam hasn't really shown up much in the whole series, it was hard to get too worked up about it.
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"Welcome to the Edge" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billie Hughes, from his 1991 album of the same name. Written by Hughes, Roxanne Seeman, and Dominic Messinger, the single was released in Japan by Pony Canyon on May 15, 1991, under the title .

Background
"Welcome to the Edge" was written by Hughes and Seeman with Messinger, music director and composer of the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara, after a previous song, "Turn it All Around", that Messinger had selected in 1988 to use in connection with a love triangle between the character Julia and Father Michael, became a popular love theme, prompting viewer requests. The song was connected to the character of Robert Barr. As the drama unfolded, "Welcome to the Edge" became a central love theme revolving around the Robert, Kelly Capwell, and Craig Hunt love triangle. Hughes' version was attached to the Robert and Kelly love affair while a female vocal version was attached to the Kelly  and Craig Hunt love affair, with performances airing for two years.

"Welcome to the Edge" was nominated for Outstanding Original Song at the 18th Daytime Emmy Awards in 1991.

Commercial success in Japan
In 1990, the Japanese duo Wink recorded a version of "Welcome to the Edge" titled , which was the B-side of their single "Yoru ni Hagurete (Where Were You Last Night)". Hughes and Seeman produced a new version of the song using the arrangement of the Wink recording with Chuck Wild programming the track and recording Jimmy Haun's guitar section at Wild's Hollywild Studio. Hughes' vocals' were recorded over the track mix at Glass Sea Studios. The new version became the theme song of the Fuji TV drama I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore. The single hit No. 1 on Oricon's international singles chart and sold over 500,000 copies. Billboard journalist Kaz Fukatsu remarked: "That's an impressive figure, since most karaoke fans can't sing along in English. Five years ago, No. 1 international songs sold only about 40,000 copies."

"Welcome to the Edge" was awarded No. 1 International Single of the Year at the 1992 Japan Gold Disc Awards. Hughes performed the song live for the telecast in Tokyo.

Track listing

Personnel
 Billie Hughes – vocals, keyboards (2), programming (2)
 Chuck Wild – keyboards (1), programming (1)
 Jimmy Haun – guitar (1)

Chart performance

Certification

Bon Chic version

Japanese band Bon Chic's version of "Welcome to the Edge" was released through Apollo Sounds Japan through the Hummingbird label on May 29, 1991. This version was used in the next episode announcement of episode 10 of I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore. A remix of the song, known as the "Add 909 Mix", was included in the band's second album Bon Chic II.

Track listing
All music is arranged by Dada.

Jeniffer version

Italian singer Jeniffer's version of "Welcome to the Edge" was released through Toshiba EMI on November 6, 1991.

Track listing

Other cover versions

Japan
 Wink covered the song in Japanese as , which was the B-side of their 1990 single "Yoru ni Hagurete (Where Were You Last Night)".
 Mie Yamamoto covered "Todokanu Omoi" on her 1991 debut album Sweet Love/Todokanu Omoi.
 The Nolans covered the song on their 1992 compilation album Colorful Nolans.
 Bill Champlin covered the song on the 1992 various artists album Love Stories.

Hong Kong
 Cherrie Choi covered the song in Cantonese as "Wèi nǐ de mèng lái, wèi nǐ de àishēng" (為你的夢來,為你的愛生, "Come for Your Dream, Live for Your Love") on her 1992 album Liù yuè de àirén (六月的愛人, Lover of June).
 Joyce Lee covered the song in Cantonese as "Qǐng Biǎo Tài" (請表態) on her 1992 album Lee Loksze  (李樂詩, Joyce Lee).

Germany
Santa Barbara aired on RTL under the title California Clan, with a soundtrack album released by Intercord including a cover version of "Welcome to the Edge".

See also
 List of best-selling singles in Japan
 Big in Japan

References

External links

1990 songs
1991 singles
Billie Hughes songs
Songs written by Billie Hughes
Songs written by Dominic Messinger
Songs written by Roxanne Seeman
Pony Canyon singles
Love themes
Television drama theme songs
J-pop songs
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Oricon Weekly number-one singles
Wink (duo) songs
Oricon International Singles Chart number-one singles

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There are more than six billion mobile subscribers in the world, and – according to industry analyst firm mobiThinking – more than 30 percent reside in China and India alone. India's mobile subscriber base reached nearly 904 million in January 2012. These staggering numbers, coupled with the 100-percent year-over-year growth in smartphone sales in India since 2010, represent a huge opportunity for location-based services (LBS) in the region.
Already, there are early indicators of the tremendous potential of LBS in the India market. As an example, according to Rajan Anandan, managing director of Google India, about 40 percent of search queries for Google India come from mobile phones, compared against the United States (14 percent), UK (6 percent) and Russia (11 percent).
Industry studies have found that – after texting – search is the most-performed activity by smartphone users, followed by news, entertainment, maps, and social networking.
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Interestingly, improving LBS context and relevance involves leveraging LBS users as producers of location-based data. As users perform searches, a sophisticated backend system "learns" what types of searches are performed, when and where they are conducted, and refines its delivery of contextually aware services based on that data.
For example, to provide contextually aware LBS services in India, Poynt partnered with The Times Group of India, the largest media company in the county. Through the Group's TimesCity.com one-stop-shop website, Poynt delivers location-based information on movies, nightlife, restaurants and many more entertainment-related searches. In the near future, those LBS services will extend to other lifestyle-oriented applications. By pairing Poynt's LBS services with TimesCity.com's user data, the ultimate benefactors are consumers who receive a hyper-local, contextually aware search experience.
While LBS promises tremendous potential in delivering value to consumers, there are some challenges that brands and advertisers must consider to ensure success. The three primary challenges involve performance, privacy, and relevance.
Regarding performance, there are a few dimensions to how users experience a location-based service. First, the quality of the app plays a large role. How is the user interface? Is it easy to navigate? Is information readily available and easy to view?
Second, the speed of the network – whether users access LBS via a 2G, 3G, or 4G connection – determines how quickly LBS queries and downloads occur. This speed has a direct correlation to the quality of experience when using an LBS app.
Privacy is a major factor in LBS, both from a consumer and brand/advertiser standpoint. Consumers choose whether to share their location to receive relevant LBS data with the expectation that their information will be kept private. LBS services must adhere to industry privacy standards and not mis-use consumer data for wrongful applications such as spying or flooding with spam messages.
Besides being highly relevant and accurate, location data must constantly evolve, get updated, and be easily navigated on limited screen real estate. LBS services must find ways to minimize the time and cost to maintain their data, and keep it relevant and up to date.
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Blocky Horror Game 'Paratopic' Coming to Steam in September
Paratopic's Atmospheric Horror Is Coming to Steam
Paratopic, a first-person horror game with an old school style, is going to launch on Steam on September 6th, according to an official press release.
However, it's not the original game that's going to be launched on Steam. Instead, it'll be the Paratopic: Definitive Cut which has "a whole lot of tweaks, extra content and a few more spaces to explore."
Paratopic follows the stories of three different characters: an assassin, a smuggler, and a young girl. The game is meant to have a surreal horror atmosphere and it gives off some serious Twin Peaks vibes.
"Paratopic is a surreal, grimy adventure game which – across a series of detailed vignettes – leads you through a cruel fever-dream world," the game's official description reads. "We see through the eyes of three separate characters whose personal stories intertwine, the connections between them waiting to be unravelled. Smuggle illicit VHS tapes, kill, drive through the night, explore decaying urban spaces and take a gentle stroll through the woods as you go for a spot of birdwatching."
This upcoming horror game is going to cost $5.49 on Steam and its soundtrack costs $3.
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Racism and Racial Surveillance
By: Helena Machado • Sheila Khan • Nazir Ahmed Can • Ana Monteiro
Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems.
Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the upsurge of racism, surveillance, and criminalization, as well as the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge production such as that of artistic field, forensic genetics and criminal identification.
Drawing on multi case studies the book then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals in a broad range of areas of social sciences and humanities research, including fields such as criminology and policing, science and technology studies, arts studies, literary studies, race and ethnic studies and, finally, memory studies.
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How the Benesse Art Site Naoshima Revitalized a Cluster of Japanese Islands
The unlikely mecca for top artists—James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama, Walter De Maria—and their patrons is commanding global attention
By Laura Itzkowitz
Yellow Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama in Naoshima, Japan.Photo: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images
Yayoi Kusama's polka-dotted pumpkin overlooking the ocean, James Turrell's Open Sky installation, and an entire art space by Walter De Maria are just a few of the groundbreaking works on display at Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a cluster of once-polluted islands in Japan's Seto Inland Sea rehabilitated by contemporary art and architecture by Tadao Ando, Sanaa, and Hiroshi Sambuichi. Like Dia:Beacon in New York and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, Naoshima is a pilgrimage site for contemporary art lovers and a place where locals can immerse themselves in art outside of the traditional galleries and museums. "I was born in a rather rural area, so I love nature," Soichiro Fukutake, the billionaire arts patron and honorary adviser to Benesse Holdings, says. "So rather than installing art in white cube museums, I like to install art in nature, art with strong messages, contemporary art especially, and find the right environment and the right architecture."
Full Moon Stone Circle by Richard Long at Benesse House Museum in Naoshima.
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Founded in 1989, the Benesse Art Site Naoshima continues to grow and develop, with new installations coming to some of the islands, including Teshima and Inujima. During Singapore Art Week in January, Fukutake awarded the inaugural Asian edition of the Benesse Prize—given at the Venice Biennale since 1995—to Thai artist Pannaphan Yodmanee, whose monumental installation is one of the highlights of the Singapore Biennale. Aftermath, which juxtaposes symbols of Buddhist cosmology with representations of modern urban decay, is on view at the Singapore Art Museum through February 26. Yodmanee has been commissioned to create a site-specific work for the Benesse Art Site Naoshima, becoming one of just a handful of Southeast Asian artists represented there. "I think we are going to be in the age of Asia going forward, and there's a lot of disparity between rural and urban areas in Asia," Fukutake says. "And I thought we could bring our approach of rejuvenating and building rural communities through art starting with Singapore and then broadening and roll out this approach through other parts of Asia."
Close-up of Karel Appel's Frog and Cat sculpture in Naoshima.
Having made his fortune at the Benesse Group—a leader in education, language training, and senior care—Fukutake ranks among Japan's 50 wealthiest individuals and is one of the world's most influential art collectors, advocating for contemporary art as a way to uplift rural areas. "To share with you my personal view, contemporary art should not be just something that people collect or invest for speculative purposes. We don't do that; I don't do that. I want to do something to close the disparity between urban areas and rural areas," Fukutake says. "Asia has a lot of billionaires who are building their wealth, and I'm hoping that a lot of such Asian billionaires can commit to such initiatives by using contemporary art to help rebuild rural communities." He advocates a new form of philanthropic capitalism that he calls "public interest capitalism," in which corporations establish a foundation that can use dividends to promote culture and the arts.
Benesse House Museum in Naoshima.
His own interest in art originated with his father, who collected works by Japanese-American artist Yasuoi Kuniyoshi. "When I got involved in directing Naoshima, the first museum that impacted me was the Louisiana Museum in Denmark near Copenhagen," Fukutake says, adding that Dia:Beacon, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Walter De Maria's Lightning Field in New Mexico, and James Turrell's Roden Crater—which he visited with the artist—influenced him, too. Thanks to his efforts, the Benesse Art Site Naoshima continues to inspire art lovers and architecture fans from around the world. "There are a lot of interesting Asian artists emerging now, and many Asian countries are in the process of developing," he says. Visitors to the islands can be sure to see more exciting work by contemporary Asian artists soon.
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Intuition is highly correlated to decision-making, so one of the easiest ways to exercise and strengthen your intuition is to force yourself to make the commonplace decisions of daily life faster and without second-guessing.
How long does it take you to decide what to order for lunch in a restaurant?
How many times do you change your mind between first getting the menu and placing your order?
And how many times do you end up ordering the same thing you always have?
It may sound silly, but we hereby challenge you to limit your decision-making process to 10 seconds when ordering from a menu, when deciding what color shirt to wear to work, when buying a new toothbrush, or when making any of the hundreds of other time-sucking decisions that have very little, if any, relevance to our happiness or fulfillment. Humor us and try this 10-second routine for a full week. If it doesn't work you can go back to agonizing over where to meet your friends on a Friday night or that everyday supermarket conundrum "paper or plastic?" If it does work you can pay it forward and recommend the exercise to friends and family.
Go simple. Part of the reason we tend to be so rational, rigid, and rules-based is that we're inundated with information that is uniformly rational, rigid, and rules-based. The trick is to distance yourself from the onslaught of data by doing something simple and absorbing – playing fetch with a dog, fishing, doing a jigsaw puzzle. Think about it this way, there is nothing in life simpler than taking a shower, yet that's where most people are at their creative best.
Meditation is the most commonly prescribed technique to boost intuition, but we've found that even the idea of meditation is off-putting to many people. It sounds too New Age or crunchy. So forget about forcing yourself to "officially" meditate. Instead, find yourself a comfy chair. Turn off all lights, televisions, cell phones, and any other noise-emitting gadgetry. Then sit in the dark and let the quiet wash over you. It's like a shower without the water.
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Background: Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is a cariostatic agent used to adjunctively manage dental caries in high-risk groups. However, black staining is a frequently reported side effect following SDF application and influences the acceptability of this treatment.
Aim: To evaluate the staining potential of SDF and the influence of the potassium Iodide (KI) application on the degree of black staining over time.
Design: Extracted carious primary molars were collected and sorted into pairs matched by tooth type, size and location of the carious lesion (n = 35). Teeth were stratified to receive either 38% SDF, KI immediately after SDF application, or 12% SDF. Standardised timelapse photography and image processing software was used to evaluate staining over a period of 7 days.
Results: Following SDF application, the onset of black staining occurred within 2 min and increased in value for up to 6 h post-application. The use of KI immediately after SDF application resulted in no noticeable staining of the carious dentine or surrounding enamel. No significant differences were evident in the staining potential between the different SDF concentrations (38% and 12%). Furthermore, root surface and cementum was found to stain darker and more readily when compared with the coronal enamel surface.
Conclusion: SDF has the ability to visibly stain dental hard tissues and its staining potential may be modified by application of KI.


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The UN World Summit for Sustainable Development was a wasted opportunity to help the poor
By Andrew Hewett - posted Tuesday, 8 October 2002 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
For more than ten days in Johannesburg thousands of official government delegates were closely observed by the world's media and tens of thousands of members of civil society and business representatives have laboured over a lengthy implementation plan.
The Summit was supposed to build upon the historic Rio conference held 10 years ago and give an impetus to efforts to tackle the crises of world poverty and environmental degradation. But aside from a few noteworthy achievements, the overwhelming assessment is that it has delivered little for the poor or for the environment. And indeed the lack of real progress raises fundamental questions about the political commitment to build a sustainable future.
The Summit's Plan of Implementation can hardly be considered a coherent "program", let alone an action of implementation plan. Its positives are few. A time-bound target to improve sanitation provision, a recognition that the private sector is accountable for their social and environmental impacts and some useful measures to protect the oceans are the most noteworthy. And of course some governments did pledge significant resources.
But these few gains are overwhelmed by the lack of commitment to tackle the scandal of more than two billion people living in absolute poverty, denied their basic human rights to such things as access to education, healthcare and clean water.
When it comes to tackling poverty the Summit's implementation plan and declaration are marked either by silence, backsliding on long-standing commitments or high sounding rhetoric with no back-up in resources or definite timetables.
On one of the most central issues for poverty reduction worldwide – reform of international trade – Summit outcomes were neither here nor there. Without crucial adjustments, the current system of rigged trade rules will continue to clash with social and environmental values.
Volatile commodity prices – a major concern for many developing countries and cause of much poverty and vulnerability – are also left unaddressed at a global level. There was no progress on the urgent need to reduce rich country agriculture subsidies which often result in the dumping of produce on vulnerable developing country markets.
Long-standing commitments to increased foreign aid levels have been weakened. And notably, there is no new commitment to tackle the crippling debt crisis.
So why is the Summit characterised more by failure than success? Why has it failed to deliver on its own theme of "Poverty Eradication through Sustainable Development"?
The essential problem is a lack of political will on the part of the world's leaders, especially on the part of those from the rich world. Some, like United States' President George Bush and Australia's John Howard, did not even attend the Summit. This was a clear indication of their lack of interest in the issues being discussed at the Summit and their contempt for the process underway. President Chirac of France did attend and made a speech with high-flown rhetoric about "the house burning down" and that the world must act. Yet it is France opposing real reform of European Union agricultural subsidies - $40 billion per annum that depresses world prices and devastates the livelihoods of farmers in poor countries
Most world leaders, however, did attend. But the fine sentiments and grand rhetoric in their speeches were not reflected in their negotiating positions. Far too many countries were looking to turn back the clock, overturn principles agreed to at the Rio conference and roll back previous commitments.
When push came to shove, a concern for keeping spending down had priority. A narrow trade agenda triumphed. It was as though the world's rich countries had virtually all adopted a fortress mentality.
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Note: Using this process you cannot interchange product keys of different Windows 8.1 edition. So, if you have Windows 8.1 installed you cannot use a Windows 8.1 Pro product key, or the other way round. You have to use the product key of the same Windows edition which you have installed.
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Press Windows + Pause Break to open System Properties. You can also open System properties from Control Panel > All Control Panel Apps > System. After the System window opens up, click or tap (if you are using touch device) on Change Product Key.
Windows will open a modern dialog box which will let you type in a new Windows product key. Now, simply follow the wizard to activate Windows 8.1 using the new product key.
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Open the Run dialog box by pressing Windows + R hot key, type slui.exe 3 and click or tap on OK.
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Open an elevated command prompt (Right-click on the new Start Menu and select Command Prompt (Admin)) and type the command below.
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What is the Self?: Subjectivity and Narrative Progression in Richard Powers' "The Echo Maker"
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Van Loon, Julienne. 2007. What is the Self?: Subjectivity and Narrative Progression in Richard Powers' "The Echo Maker". The International Journal of the Humanities 5 (5): 19-24.
The International Journal of the Humanities
Division of Humanities
Faculty of Media, Society and Culture
Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)
In this paper I take an interest in a question that has been the subject of muchdiscussion across literary and cultural studies as well as in the parallel fields of philosophy, psychology and cognitive science during recent decades. The question is: what is the self? This paper offers a reading of Richard Powers' The Echo Maker to the extent that the novel constitutes an answer to this profound and difficult question. I draw on the work of theorists such as Uri Margolin, Alan Palmer and Lisa Zunshine, for their cognitive approach to literature. I am particularly interested to explore how the author manages to juggle the demands of conventional narrative progression required by the novel genre, including the construction of characters as relatively consistent,logical and 'rounded' individuals, with some radically destabilising approaches to the nature of consciousness and the self.


All of us want to know that we have been a reason for some positive difference on this planet. We would like others to pat our backs and encourage us to do more and more positive stuff. Doing small good deeds loses its recognition in the eyes of normal people, as a result of which many refrain from doing good deeds. Hence the new platform has got launched online which is spreading its wings offline too and that is "www.adad.in - A deed a day". Anyone can register on this platform and start posting his/her daily good deeds. People always said that God alone counts and calculates your deeds, both good and bad. Probably this site shall share a small responsibility of at least maintaining the database of all the good deeds that you do in life. Since the platform itself asks you to post good deeds, you don't have to hesitate from posting feeling that you're boasting about yourself. What is being spoken more about happens more often. If it's your good deed that is spoken more often by people then more of it shall happen for sure. Your small deed might give someone an idea of doing something similar to that. Your deed can inspire a thousand others to repeat the same. As a result, a chain reaction shall set in, where each one is inspired by the other person's good deeds and the number of good deeds shall increase exponentially. If people are speaking about good deeds, reading about them, writing about their good deeds and doing positive things then there is no reason for the world not to get better. A whole vision of bettering the planet has got triggered through this novel platform.
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Doris Cook [״Little Cookie״] (born June 23, 1931) is a former pitcher and outfielder who played from  through  in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 130 lb., she batted right-handed and threw left-handed.

Doris Cook joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1949 at the age of 17, following in the footsteps of her older sister, Donna Cook, who played in the league from 1946 to 1954.

Born in Muskegon, Michigan, Doris was one of twelve children into the family of Sidney and Daisy (née Johnson) Cook. She played in a city softball league at age 14, before being scouted by the league under recommendation of her sister. She was signed a contract and relocated to the Springfield Sallies rookie team, a traveling developmental squad of the AAGPBL, which entertained crowds across the country, playing exhibition games before Major League Baseball contests.

Cook won her first game as a pitcher on the tour, which started in Chicago and ended up in Canada. She played in Yankee Stadium and Griffith Stadium. We traded autographed balls with Tommy Henrich of the Yankees, she recalled in an interview. From 1949 to 1950, she posted a 6–11 record in 17 pitching appearances and batted a 137 average (10-for-73).

In 1951 Cook was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies, playing for them two and a half years before joining the South Bend Blue Sox during the 1953 midseason. Paired with her sister Donna in South Bend, for the first time in her professional career, she retired from the league following the 1953 season.

Cook went 0–1 with a 5.74 earned run average in 22 games pitched and played 74 games at left field, while collecting a .128 batting average. I was more of a defensive player than an offensive one, she explained.

Following her baseball career, Cook worked in banking for more of two decades before retiring in 1994. Since 1988 she is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She also was elected to the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame along with her sister Donna in 1993. She currently lives in her hometown of Muskegon.

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What: All Issues : Making Government Work for Everyone, Not Just the Rich or Powerful : Civil Rights : S 160. (DC voting rights) On passing a bill that would add two seats in the House, one for Washington, DC and one for Utah/On passing the bill (2009 senate Roll Call 73)
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S 160. (DC voting rights) On passing a bill that would add two seats in the House, one for Washington, DC and one for Utah/On passing the bill
senate Roll Call 73 Feb 26, 2009
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This vote was on passing a bill that would give the District of Columbia voting rights in the House, and Utah an extra seat in the House.
Washington, D.C. currently has a "delegate" in the House, but she does not have full voting privileges – for instance, she can vote in committees, but not on the House floor. There is no D.C. senator. This is because D.C. is a district, not a state, and the Constitution only grants full representation in the U.S. Congress to states. The District of Columbia and other U.S. territories such as Guam, Samoa and Puerto Rico have delegates to the House who do not have full voting privileges.
The city of Washington, D.C. – whose license plates read "no taxation without representation" – has long sought full voting rights in Congress. But this has been a contentious and partisan topic, because giving voting rights to D.C. would, in essence, be giving Democrats an extra seat in the House. This is because the District's majority black population votes overwhelmingly Democratic, effectively giving the Democrats a safe seat. As an olive branch to the GOP, the bill would also expand Utah's number of members in the House with a safe Republican seat. Republicans have also argued that allowing Washington, D.C. full voting representation would violate the Constitution, which states that full voting rights are only for states. Technically Washington, D.C. is a federal district and is treated in much the same manner as U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico or Guam, which also have non-voting delegates to the House.
"The Senate today is moving to right a century's-old wrong. It is inexcusable and indefensible that nearly 600,000 people who live in the District of Columbia don't enjoy a voice in Congress as do other American citizens. We are the only democracy in the world that denies citizens of its capital—our capital, Washington, DC—the right to vote in a national legislature in any way. Residents of Washington, DC pay taxes. They sit on juries. They serve bravely in the armed services. Yet they are provided only a delegate in Congress who is not permitted to vote. This injustice has stood for far too long. Shadow representation is shadow citizenship and is offensive to our democracy," said Harry Reid, D-Nev.
In addition to granting DC a vote in the House, the bill also would repeal Washington, DC's ban on certain semiautomatic weapons, remove most of the city's registration requirements for gun ownership and generally make it far easier for DC citizens to own a gun. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that DC's gun laws – which made it all but impossible for a citizen to own a gun -- were unconstitutional, and ordered the government to redraft the laws. Since then, the DC City Council has redrafted the laws, but they are still very restrictive and are meant to actively discourage gun ownership. The language in this bill would essentially repeal most of the redrafted laws.
By a vote of 61-37, the Senate passed the bill. All but two Democrats present voted for the bill. All but six Republicans present voted against the bill. The end result is that the Senate passed a bill that would give Washington, D.C. full voting representation in the House (as well as an extra seat for Utah) and repeal most of DC's restrictive gun ownership laws.
HUMAN RIGHTS & CIVIL LIBERTIES — Enfranchising the Disenfranchised/Voting Rights
MAKING GOVERNMENT WORK FOR EVERYONE, NOT JUST THE RICH OR POWERFUL — Civil Rights
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