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CRE's Next Generation: Northwestern Mutual's Nylz Reyes On His 'Covert Infiltration' Of The Industry
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January 31, 2021 Matthew Rothstein, Bisnow East Coast
This series asks rising stars in commercial real estate about their thoughts on some of the biggest issues facing the industry, including inequality, climate change and technology.
Growing up, Northwestern Mutual Real Estate Associate Nylz Reyes never thought he'd wind up in commercial real estate, much less making a difference for people of color in the industry.
"I was never even that big about race," Reyes told Bisnow. "I would get into arguments with my siblings because I was so much like, 'It's all about work.'"
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Northwestern Mutual Associate Nylz Reyes in his home office, standing beside a photo collage of his four inspirational figures in commercial real estate.
In getting to where he is now, Reyes was forced to confront the challenges unique to Black people and other marginalized ethnic groups. He is still all about work, but now what he does is more than just for his own advancement. He formed CBRE's first local diversity task force and still champions it after leaving the company.
"I'm pretty much the poster child for diversity in the CRE industry, and I say that because my background is very atypical in the business," Reyes said.
The son of a Jamaican mother and a father from the Dominican Republic who split up soon after he was born, Reyes was raised in the East Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia. The neighborhood's ZIP code, 19150, is 95% Black according to census data, and Reyes both recognizes how difficult it can be to rise above such circumstances in the poorest big city in the U.S. and bristles at the notion that his story could be defined by what he looks like or where he comes from.
"Sometime the ZIP code you're born in is predictive of your life, of the opportunities that will or won't be provided to you," Reyes said. "I'm definitely on point, high speed, legit when it comes to getting stuff done. That's my personality … And I say that because I'm not the kind of person who's blaming problems on 'the man.'"
Growing up the oldest of five children without a consistent father figure, Reyes struggled through high school while "lost in the sauce," without the grades to stay on the football or track and field teams despite showing some athletic promise. Wanting to make his mother proud but unsure how, he found his next step in the military recruiters that heavily target neighborhoods like East Mount Airy, promising a way to pay for secondary education. Only 17, he obtained his mother's permission to enlist in the Army National Guard.
"I hate to say this, but Uncle Sam was my daddy, because I joined at such a young age," Reyes said. "The values my drill sergeants instilled in me became my framework going forward, and they gave me a form of mental toughness to where I became very disciplined, easily motivated and comfortable being uncomfortable. And I took that and have carried it for the rest of my life."
From there, Reyes attended the historically Black North Carolina A&T University, entering the nursing program and graduating with honors. He returned to Philadelphia and took a job at one of the most challenging nursing gigs in the city: the emergency department at North Philadelphia's Einstein Medical Center. As he moved from there to Hahnemann University Hospital and finally to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he distinguished himself to co-workers and his community as a fast riser.
"I felt great about myself," Reyes said. "I was a leader in my neighborhood; everybody knew me."
A stretch of Mount Pleasant Road in the 19150 ZIP code within Northwest Philadelphia
But when HUP began construction on its New Patient Pavilion, it kindled what Reyes described as a latent interest in commercial real estate, showing him firsthand the influence that people who buy and sell buildings of that size could wield. He also found himself, at 30 years old, wondering where his next steps should lead.
"Based on that exposure to the real estate of the hospital, I dove deep into Google and emerged three weeks later with a full-grown beard, knowing, 'This is what I'm going to do,'" Reyes said.
As luck would have it, one of his patients in the specialized intensive care unit where he worked was John Gallagher, the former chief financial officer of Brandywine Realty Trust who has since died. Reyes shared his interest, and Gallagher set up a meeting with himself, Jackson Cross Partners founding partner Pete Davisson and retired real estate executive Pat Armstrong — what Reyes called "My 'three wise men' meeting."
The "wise men" told Reyes what he would learn firsthand later on: Success in real estate is based on relationships and experience. Without any of the former, Reyes applied for graduate school to gain the latter. Even as he attended New York University's master's program in real estate, attending and placing well in contests like the 2016 MIT Real Estate Competition, he saw himself falling behind his classmates for reasons he couldn't identify.
"My classmates were getting jobs, interviews, internships, and I wasn't getting anything," Reyes said. "Grad school was like $120K, so I couldn't come out of it with no job. So then I used my military background, thinking, 'OK, I've got to come up with a plan to covertly infiltrate the industry.'"
Reyes was heartened by the stories of his role models in the industry: Tristan Capital Partners Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Ric Lewis; BentallGreenOak CEO Sonny Kalsi; Capri Capital Partners co-founder, Chairman and CEO Quintin Primo; and MacFarlane Partners Chairman and CEO Victor MacFarlane. When he graduated from NYU, he tagged each of them in a LinkedIn post that read, simply, "I got next!"
Reyes knew he wanted to work in his hometown, but the only valuations job he was offered anywhere was with CBRE's health care practice in Boston. Since CBRE didn't have a Philadelphia-based health care valuation practice at the time, Reyes committed to learning the ropes in Boston before coming back to Philly.
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A rendering of Penn Pavilion, Penn Medicine's $1.5B hospital project
"My friends were like, 'Why are you doing this? Not only are you leaving health care, but going to Boston?'" Reyes said, referring to Boston's reputation of being unwelcoming to Black people. "They were like, 'We appreciate you for being Captain Black America, but Boston? We're a little scared for you.'"
He looked to CBRE Executive Vice President Randal Dawson, who specializes in valuations just like Reyes wanted to, as a mentor and an example that his goal was possible.
But within two weeks of starting at CBRE, Reyes sensed something was off. His immediate superior, who no longer works at the company, initially promised to bring Reyes along to a health care real estate conference in Philadelphia. But as the conference's first day drew closer, the manager wouldn't commit to even telling Reyes whether they would be traveling by plane or train. When the day came, the manager said he was going down to Philly alone.
"I heard the excuses: 'Something came up, money's tight,' etc.," Reyes said. "I'm a soldier, so I got back to work, but I was hurt."
Reyes struggled against the microaggressions familiar to so many women and people of color in the business world at large: finding himself excluded from meetings and email threads, losing opportunities to make the connections the industry runs on.
"So many people don't realize what covert racism looks like," Reyes said. "It's not a Confederate flag on your lawn; it's what I dealt with."
After bringing his concerns to his superior, Reyes was promised that he would be given more opportunities, and in February 2017, he received one. Reyes was given the assignment to work on a valuation for The Watermark at Franklin Square in Philadelphia, a swanky senior living facility owned by Fortress Investments.
"I thought, 'This is what I stayed here for,'" Reyes said. "I knew it was worth something."
Mere weeks later, the account was reassigned to a White man who had graduated from college the previous summer. Reyes said the slight crystallized how much more likely a manager or executive is to hand opportunities to people who look like them.
"Lack of advancement is not something that my White colleagues ever had to face," Reyes said. "I can't tell you how many people I talked to that were lacrosse players or coaches, and they said they heard about commercial real estate by seeing a guy pull up in a Bentley, asking where they worked and asking for a job. And boom, they got it."
Reyes slammed his laptop and walked out of the office that day, feeling defeated. CBRE leadership called him and asked what it could do to get him not to quit. His answer: "Put me back in Philly."
Nylz Reyes with his four inspirations, clockwise from top left: MacFarlane Partners' Victor MacFarlane, Capri Capital Partners' Quintin Primo, BentallGreenOak's Sonny Kalsi and Tristan Capital Partners' Ric Lewis
Once he arrived back home, Reyes attended the same conference from which he had been snubbed and saw the same manager — with the White employee who had replaced Reyes in tow. It strengthened his resolve to attack the problem himself.
Reyes saw that CBRE had diversity task forces at the national level, but as the truism goes, real estate is about three things: location, location, location.
"There was nothing on the local level," Reyes said. "So with my military mindset, I was like, 'We need to form this task force. We need to attack this problem.' I would literally communicate with my team like I was their captain."
Reyes noticed that much of the diversity in real estate was in property management or other divisions that mainly worked away from the main offices, preventing them from forming the connections that might allow them to spread their wings. Every few months, the task force would have events to bring people from those groups into the office.
"The diversity that's in CRE is out in the field, it's not in the office," Reyes said. "In the office, it's mostly all White, so how else do you bring them in front of executives?"
Bisnow asked CBRE for comment on a detailed list of Reyes' experiences. The company responded with the following statement from a spokesperson:
"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is a priority for CBRE. Our company and our work for clients are enhanced by maintaining an environment where people of all backgrounds and experiences can thrive. We continually strive to improve our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and appreciate Nylz Reyes' help with those efforts during his time at CBRE and value the work he performed for our clients. We wish him great success in advancing his career."
When Adam Mullen arrived as CBRE Philadelphia's Market Leader in January 2019, he was immediately supportive of Reyes' diversity efforts and his career ambitions. Mullen brought him to conferences and introduced him to executives at other CBRE divisions and even other companies, but most of the time, the communication would peter out before Reyes had the chance to formally interview.
Philadelphia senior living facility The Watermark at Franklin Square
"Whenever a person of color has a fault in the hiring process, boom, it's a reason for you to be done," Reyes said. "[With] a White male, they always find a reason to push you over that issue."
Eventually, Reyes interviewed at Northwestern Mutual, where he saw greater diversity throughout the company's ranks and a "Midwestern niceness" that he found especially welcoming.
"Northwestern got diversity recruitment right," Reyes said. "There are people of color at executive levels, in offices around the country, and in positions I wanted to be in. I didn't tell them anything I went through, and they hired me anyway.
"They said, 'You come here, you perform, the sky's the limit.' And I saw that throughout the company."
Reyes joined Northwestern over the summer, but he still participates in meetings of the CBRE diversity task force he founded in Philadelphia and helps put on events like job fairs for students at local colleges, including the region's historically Black institutions Cheyney, Lincoln and Delaware State universities. It was at one of those events that Reyes found the next challenge he wanted to attack.
"One of my pet peeves is that minorities in the industry don't reach back out enough," Reyes said. "I don't think all the blame should go on White people. I wasn't looking for Adam Mullen to recruit and retain people, to budget for it. I took ownership of my community, gathered individuals like me and gave them the pitch on commercial real estate, which they had no exposure to.
"All the White brokers who went to Wharton, to Villanova, they go to the career events," he said. "So if you're Black and went to Temple, you need to go to these job events and be leading the charge. And that's why I got the results."
Now, Reyes is confident that Northwestern gives him the opportunity to advance and fully expects to take advantage and rise as high as he can. But to truly take not just his own fate, but the fate of those who share in his struggle, in his hands, he believes he will have to start his own company one day.
"Coming from the ZIP code where I grew up to where I am now, why stop here? I'm going for gold."
Contact Matthew Rothstein at matt.rothstein@bisnow.com
Related Topics: Quintin Primo, CBRE, Northwestern Mutual, Next Generation, Victor MacFarlane, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Sonny Kalsi, Ric Lewis, Adam Mullen, Nylz Reyes, Randal Dawson
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Manda Scott Books In Order
Publication Order of Boudica Books
Dreaming the Eagle (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Dreaming the Bull (2004) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Dreaming the Hound (2005) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Dreaming the Serpent Spear (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Capitaine Inés Picaut Books
Into The Fire (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Treachery of Spies (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Kellen Stewart Books
Hen's Teeth (1996) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Night Mares (1998) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Stronger Than Death (1999) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
No Good Deed (2001) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Crystal Skull (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Vengeance of Spies (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
2012: Everything You Need to Know about the Apocalypse (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Manda Scott is a mystery, thriller, and historical fiction author that was born and raised in a small village near Glasgow in the United Kingdom. It is a small village with a rich history that includes the Covenanters and the Alexanders of Eglington.
She spent much of his childhood in the small village where his father still lives and hence, he is rooted as could be in the happenings in the countryside.She often considers moving back home from time to time though he has lived in England so long that it has become a second home.
While she was growing up, her father was a mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Strathclyde and was among the first to start teaching a computer-aided machine tools course.
She thanks her father for the various times she slipped into her geek phase. As for her mother, she always dreamed of becoming a vet but lacked the knowledge and schooling and resorted to setting up a raptor rehabilitation center.
Her childhood was thus spent in a house full of buzzards, kestrels, and owls, and the occasional RTA deer or litter of fox cubs. As such, it is not surprising that she would become a vet before she became a professional author. She thinks becoming a vet was to some extent living out the fantasies of becoming a veterinarian her mother had.
As for her schooling, Manda Scott went to an all-girls private school as a four-year-old and left after graduating to go attend the Glasgow Vet School. She had always been an introverted, shy, and asocial child that was not interested in the usual girly obsession such as fashion, music, and boys. She had a very good time at her small private school where they left her to her books when she said all she wanted to become was a vet. Since Manda had to have a rounded education to become a vet, she had to attend Glasgow rather than her preferred Edinburgh.
While she was not happy about not attending her favorite college, she came to love Glasgow as it set her up well for a great career as a veterinarian. Veterinary training took the better part of five years though she loved learning about animals. Moreover, the education she got at Glasgow including how to research topics efficiently, how to use the library and how to derive information from a source and interpret it has been very useful in her later career. Particularly important was the Need for Cognition skill which Manda believes is an absolute requirement that her veterinary training helped hone.
After graduating from college, Manda Scott got a job as a surgical intern in Cambridge and several years later, she had moved through the ranks and started her own equine practice.
She was a specialist in neonatal intensive care and equine anesthesia and hence did not have much time for writing. Scott had practiced for ten years before a tragic event led her back to her passion for writing. When her mother died, she found among her things a 10-page story about her pet owl that she had written as a child.
Manda had always wanted to write but knew that with a very busy veterinary practice it was going to be almost impossible to write something worthwhile. But then a three-month gap in between jobs gave her the opportunity she needed and she wrote a James Herriot-like novel with a Vet School setting. While she could not get a publisher, she landed an agent who liked it enough, and even though he did not get her book published, he nudged her in the right direction.
She also started attending a writing course with Fay Weldon who encouraged her to write TV scripts. Manda started writing the manuscript for her debut novel "Hen's Teeth" on her thirtieth birthday, convinced that she had to do it then or else she would never accomplish her dreams. Her Orange Prize-shortlisted work was published in 1998 and she has gone on to write more than 10 novels in the "Kellen Stewart" and "Boudica" series alongside several single standing titles and a collection of short stories.
Manda Scott's "Dreaming the Eagle" the first novel of the "Boudica" series introduces the lead of the series Boudica. Her name is derived from an ancient Celtic word that means Bringer of Victory. She is the last defender of Britain's ancient Celtic culture and the only woman that had led warriors into battle. Boudica had surprised everyone when her warriors had successfully triumphed and repelled the mighty legions of an Imperial Rome.
The story is set in 33 AD, where Boudica then named Breaca is a red-haired, eleven-year-old daughter of one of the nobles of the Eceni tribe. During those times, an eleven-year-old was considered to be straddling the divide between childhood and womanhood. Boudica fantasizes about becoming a mystical leader called a Dreamer that was a specialist with the skills of foretelling the future. But since she had tracked down and killed the assailant that had attacked and murdered her mother, the tribe believed she had the qualities of a warrior. The novel is also the story of Caradoc and Ban the men that Boudica adores. Her half brother Ban would do anything to become a warrior though he has all the characteristics of a Great Dreamer while Caradoc is an inspirational leader and exceptional warrior. Ban finally decides to become a Druid and goes back to his Celtic tribe thus saving Boudica from the tough choice she had to make.
"Dreaming the Bull" by Manda Scott continues to tell the story of Boudica, the British warrior queen. The story immerses the readers into a world full of courage, passion, lovers and warriors, dreamers, and druids. Ban had risen through the ranks in the Roman cavalry to become an officer, which means that he eventually has to face his sister Boudica in battle.
It is not long before they are taking position on opposite sides of a gruesome war of attrition between the defeated British tribes and the occupying Roman forces. Each side is determined to kill as many of the enemy as they can and it is a battle that promises to be gory. Meanwhile, Breaca's lover Caradoc is captured and now faces execution if he is found guilty of the crimes he has been charged with. Ban is the only man with the power to save Caradoc though he has spent more than a decade living a lie. Heroism has brought them together but treachery is tearing them apart. It is a story of betrayal, passion, and love that asserts that each life is sacred.
Manda Scott's "Dreaming the Hound" is a thrilling and bold tale of imaginative fiction that chronicles the titanic clash between mankind and magic. Nature is the ultimate god to the Eceni tribe of Britain and whenever they go to war, the warriors are joined by the spirit of nature in addition to their ancestors. But they are now about to be run over as Nero is running out of patience with the restive and wild tribes in Britannia and has decided to deal with them once and for all. Boudica's family finds itself at the heart of the brewing conflict. Her son Cunomar wants to be as fierce a warrior as his mother, her young daughter Graine is a powerful Dreamer though she had been scarred by her experiences in war. Meanwhile Ban her half brother is torn between Eceni and Roman, dreamer and warrior. It is not long before war breaks out between the Romans and the tribes which forces Boudica to make a daring sacrifice. She disguises herself and travels into Roman held territory not caring that if she was caught, she would be crucified. What happens next is a ruthless drama of sacrifice, heroism, and betrayal that will force Boudica to arm every tribe dreamer and warrior in a quest to push the Romans back into the sea.
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Some weeks back, halfway through the development of Shownar, I saw a whole bunch of messages on Twitter about a mix on BBC Radio 1. That was the Jaguar Skills Gaming Weekend mix — it's no longer on iPlayer, but that turned into an ace afternoon with ace music.
More recently the Reith Lectures have been on Radio 4. Shownar's finding a load of blog posts about the lectures, really insightful ones. I didn't realise the lectures were on until they popped up on the site one morning.
Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular. You can explore the shows at Shownar itself. It's an experimental prototype we've designed and built for the BBC over the last few months. We'll learn a lot having it in the public eye, and I hope to see it as a key part of discovery and conversation scattered across BBC Online one day.
Dan calls out our colleagues at the BBC. I'd like to thank especially him and Kat Sommers. Our data partners at Nielsen, Twingly and Yahoo!, as well at the LiveStats team inside the BBC — it's been a pleasure to work with you. Major kudos to the folks behind the BBC Programmes database and system for creating such a fundamental piece of infrastructure. And to everyone working for and with S&W: Max Ackerman, Jesper Andersen, Nick Ludlam, Jack Schulze, and most especially Tom Armitage, Phil McCarthy and Phil Gyford, great work and well done all! I'm proud to work with all of you.
The idea of using computers to watch and reflect audiences, to find not just what's popular but what's surprisingly popular, turns out to be a number-crunchingly heavy task. I hope that Shownar, during this phase of its development, becomes a site people genuinely use daily to join in talking about and with the BBC, and to widen their consumption to previously undiscovered, engaging programmes. There's a feedback address on the site — please use it! We're after stories of where it works and where it doesn't, and some insight into whether this kind of product really does change habits. It has mine.
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First, the primary focus is a video collection (a pod) rather than a single one. Collecting can be done by individuals or together. So, for example, here are 4 people collecting indie music. You can scrub over the videos for a rank and rating preview before watching, and the sparkline at the top right gives you an idea of the popularity of the pod.
Second, VodPod lets you upload videos but doesn't ask for an exclusive relationship. It reaches out into the Web–you can include videos from YouTube, Google Video, and so on in your pod, and keep all of them collected alongside your own ones. These highlighted pods all mix-and-match from different service.
Last is something Mark Hall just told me about: Each video has a low-threshold response widget next to it, so you can say quickly that you loved, just watched, or laughed at what you saw. If you add your Twitter details in your vod:pod profile, that response will also be announced to your Twitter buddies. Simple, social and (importantly) deliberate every time.
There's a lot more to come – really big features – but I'll leave it there.
vod:pod is the first service I've watched all the way from early concept through to launch. S&W did some very early product ideation and experience work – on how people find videos to watch online, as Mark discusses – and I've been following progress since. While the shape of the solution has changed considerably, the core values have been maintained: Organising, socialising, and being part of the Web.
I find that promising, and so vod:pod's what we use to host videos for this blog.
Adaptive Path kindly invited me to their offices this morning, where I muddled through my Making Senses talk, on using the human senses as inspiration for next-generation Web browser functionality.
As far as interaction on the computer desktop and the Web goes, navigational and spatial metaphors dominate. On a micro level we talk about direct manipulation of files via icons: Dragging, moving, opening and so on. On a macro level, we have addresses, visiting, and sitemaps.
When a person has navigated to something, they can know what it is because of the navigation itself. For instance, you know you're in London because you followed all the signposts to London.
In a world of cheap sensors, many, many display surfaces, and high connectivity, we are presented with information without that navigational context. Furthermore, in areas which have traditionally used the navigational metaphor (mainly the Web), navigation might not be the most appropriate approach to reading the news, buying books, or hanging out in chatrooms. Yet still we approach Web design armed with this metaphor.
It's as important that a thing can be instantly appreciated for what it is, as that it can be navigated to. 'Instantly appreciate' means comprehend pre-consciously, just as we instantly appreciate a chair as a chair when looking at it, without having to deliberately deduce the meaning of the pattern of light on our retina.
As a guide to what qualities we should be able to instantly appreciate, we can use human and animal senses to show what features we need to recognise of things in the environment. Sensing these features is sufficient to let us intelligently interact, without navigating.
To summarise these features, we need to be able to detect: Structure, focus and periphery, rhythms of activity, summaries, how this particular thing is situated in the larger environment (and more). The Web browser, as our sensory organs online, should do this job, instead of leaving it to the websites themselves.
The high-level structure of all sites should be represented by the browser in a consistent way, not by each site differently.
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There are more ideas, but that's what the presentation discusses and illustrates.
Incidentally, the image at the top of this post is from J. J. Gibson's The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, which talks about how we see continuously and actively as we move through space. I'd like to consider browsing the Web in the same light.
As the web reaches further into our lives, we will consider the increasing ubiquity of connectivity, what it means for real world objects to be part of the web, and the increasing blurring of the lines between virtual worlds and our own.
The call for participation is now open; topics we find especially interesting are mobile devices, RFID, user interface, web apps, and of course where this is all going.
Alongside Adam Greenfield of Everyware and Gavin Starks of Global Cool, S&W will be keynoting. See you there!
Apollo is Adobe's cross-platform runtime, based on Apple's WekKit, that lets you run HTML/CSS/AJAX apps on the desktop. It works offline, includes an API for communication between Apollo apps, and will let you write database hooks to a local or remote persistent store. The Apollo wrapper will be distributed free, like Acrobat Reader or the Flash Player (personally I think this is the wrong model–apps should be standalone, but we'll see). Some Apollo screenshots.
Next is WebKit on Rails which is exactly what I wanted to see when I gave that talk. It makes it easy (well, easier) to take your Ruby on Rails web app, wrap it in WebKit, the Mac HTML renderer, and run it as a desktop app. See the list of existing projects for applications you can already download.
Last up is Pyro, which wraps 37signal's Campfire browser-based live chat application and turns it into a Mac app. Features include a badged application icon (the number of unread messages are shown), drag and drop upload, scripting support and more. Someday all web apps will be available this way.
The concept of taste led me to imagine what it would be like to take a hyperlink on a webpage, and pop it in your mouth (taste starts on slide 7). Just like our tongue picks up a 4 or 5 flavours, but sometimes we really enjoy a salty or bitter taste and sometimes we don't, what are the 4 or 5 tastes of a webpage that we like depending on our mood and nutritional requirements of the day?
Is it an outward-linking page, like a contents page, or an inwardly focused page like an essay?
Is the text more in the 3rd person, like a corporate or academic page, or more about the 1st person–subjective, like a blog or journal?
Do many people link to this page, ie what is its pagerank?
They're okay, as tastes, I think, but really could be better.
At eurofoo06, Ben Gimpert presented on the "Theomatics of Food" (he has a culinary background). He spoke about mouthfeel, that sensory experience of taste, materiality, stickiness… it's a grand word.
Now this I like. Given those 4 tastes, and their corresponding feelings, are what we need to make a first-pass judgement on whether we need the buckets of chemicals available in any given food… could I use these real tastes to make the equivalent 4 for webpages?
What does my browser-mouth taste when I click a link? What are the basic flavours of HTML? What is the pagefeel?
So I think I'll revise my original 4 web tastes. They'll still take a lot of datamining to calculate, but that's fine. Perhaps crunchy pages are like popcorn, ones people stay on for not much time, but when they click away it tends to be on another, almost identical page. Coating-y pages are ones that linger… could these be social sites, where you get embroiled in the community, sticky sites?
Chewy sites are long and worthwhile: academic papers, pages that are knowledge hubs, using keywords from a lot of separate parts of the web. And I'm not sure what pucker-y/sour is. Sour makes me think of lemons, which makes me think of citric acid at the centre of the metabolic cycle, which tastes nasty but is at the middle of all life. Perhaps the equivalent for the web is hyperlinks. Pages with a lot of hyperlinks on them are the concentrated stuff of life on the web, and so they taste very, very sour.
I still think it's worth taking huge quantities of every metric we can gather about the web and web browsing behaviour – page linger time, click-away time, search terms, text reading age, word tense, link network position, everything – and datamining it as much as we can. Maybe out of all of that we'll find some stable metrics for describing pages, possibly even those pagefeels, and those will be great additions to search engines and web browsers.


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Q: How to obtain pairwise comparisons as Significant (S) or Non-significant (N) in Randomised Complete Block Design? In this problem, I am testing effects of 3 insecticides on a variety of rice. To obtain data, 4 plots have been used (of equal area each). As plots can be different in soil fertility, sheltering from winds, etc., a randomised complete block design (RCBD) approach has been adopted, such that each plot has been subdivided into three rows of each insecticide. Response variable collected is number of weed plants that emerge in each plot. Data obtained is:

While performing ANOVA, sum of squares of treatments, sum of squares of error, sum of squares of blocks and total sum of squares is calculated, from which F value is determined.
As F-critical calculated from standard tables for alpha = 0.05 is 5.14, it is concluded that treatments are significantly different.
Now it is desired to obtain a 'Significant (S)' or Non-Significant (N)' chart as shown below:

In the table shown, N stands for Non-significant difference in means and S for significant. The entries have been made randomly, for illustrative purpose only. Output as shown in the table is desired. I am using MS Excel. Please mention how can it be accomplished in Excel. Can it be done using Fisher Least Significant Difference (LSD) approach? If yes, then how?

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The National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, abbreviato National Trust for Scotland, è un'organizzazione benefica scozzese dedita alla conservazione e alla tutela del patrimonio culturale e naturale della Scozia. Esso è la più grande organizzazione associativa della Scozia, possiede e gestisce territori per un totale di 180.000 acri (730 km2) di terra e 130 proprietà tra cui castelli, antiche abitazioni di piccole dimensioni, siti storici, giardini e aree rurali remote. È simile in funzione al National Trust, che copre l'Inghilterra, il Galles e l'Irlanda del Nord, e ad altri trust nazionali in tutto il mondo.

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The story of a local literary gem, lost and found
By San GrewalStaff Reporter
Sat., Jan. 26, 2008timer6 min. read
In an age when search engines and social networks give users everything they need to know – about the past, present and future – there is seemingly no such thing as a revelation any more.
But what of a forgotten novel, once an international bestseller, somehow missed by all the digital archives, about the very city in which you live, set more than a half century ago with vivid details about where we came from and the shape of things to come.
The Torontonians, set in the 1940s and `50s and originally published in 1960, is just such a discovery.
It was written by Phyllis Brett Young, a largely forgotten author who died in 1996, 11 years before her book was finally rescued and republished late last year.
It's difficult to decide what is more astonishing: The book's utter disappearance, along with the author, from the literary map; or its acute examination of subjects still central to the changes currently redefining Toronto some 50 years later.
The relevance to today is remarkable. Take, for example, the novel's disdain for the homogeneity of Toronto's nascent suburbs. Today, those same neighbourhoods – Rosedale, Forest Hill, Leaside – are wealthy, inner-city enclaves, and arguably just as homogeneous as the insular places Young skewered.
Five decades later, we see the same patterns Young uncovered in The Torontonians playing out in the Chinese enclaves of Markham and in the self-imposed isolation of South Asians in Brampton.
"I don't think my mother would have liked to see that," says Valerie Argue, Young's only child. "She wouldn't have wanted people to live with very little contact to others. My mother certainly was someone who appreciated a diversity of spirit."
That sentiment is supported by something Young told the Star in 1960, talking about the previous decade: "Toronto was basically British, with a lot of traditions – some good, some bad.
"Those who think they should all be kept, are simply lost in the pulsing metropolis of today. Those who want to throw out everything would sacrifice the flavour of a city which can retain graciousness and dignity in spite of the vitality of today's explosion."
That sort of acuity – neither reactionary nor radical – characterizes The Torontonians and probably saved it from permanent obscurity. When a McGill historian got her hands on a used copy last year, she saw the book's merit right away and was instrumental in its reissue. It's now making its way on to reading lists at a number of Canadian universities.
Given the decades of neglect, it's difficult to convey just what a literary star Young was in her time, but the evidence is in the archives.
For her effort in writing The Torontonians Young, who described herself as a housewife, was once compared to Robertson Davies and Hugh MacLennan. The Toronto Star's Robert Fulford, when the novel was just released, reported that local bookstores carrying it were experiencing "unusually large sales" and, based on its purchase by British publisher W.H. Allen, Fulford predicted a "much wider appeal."
The book was later published under the title Gift of Time in the U.S., prompting the The New York Times to proclaim: "In a growing catalogue of books that have been probing the sweet life of suburbia, Mrs. Young's stands out as both wise and witty."
In Europe, The Torontonians was also published as The Gift of Time. In Australia, where Young was described as "One of Canada's outstanding novelists," it was called The Commuters, a title that captured the physical and psychic dislocation of a growing "sub"-urban class.
Young began contemplating The Torontonians during a five-year stay in Geneva, where her husband worked for the United Nations. After returning to Ontario in the 1950s, the self-taught writer, first-generation Canadian daughter of English parents and wife of an international civil servant wanted desperately to rewrite her city's reputation as a dull colonial outpost.
In contrast with the "hogtown" jokes commonly told in North America, Young would treat Toronto as the "sophisticated, cosmopolitan city it is," complete with the struggles of any dynamic metropolis.
By 1960, the city was in the fever of a postwar boom and being stretched to new limits – geographically, economically, socially and architecturally (in that spirit, the book's original cover featured a sketch of Viljo Revell's winning design for a new city hall, five years before the building went up).
Canadians were beginning to define their own art and culture and the country's politicians began shaping a unique international identity as a soft power, one whose policies often played U.S. and European allies off of each other.
The Torontonians was the first internationally read novel that both chronicled and celebrated the city's demographic transition, a provincial British town opened by the arrival of Greeks, Italians, Portuguese, Polish and other Europeans.
Hung on a narrative that details the lives of "Rowanwood" housewives (Young's alias for Leaside, which in the 1950s was the northern edge of Toronto) who occupy the affluent suburb above the city during the day – after husbands empty out on their morning commute downtown – the book operates on two interconnected levels.
The banality of the women's tedious lives, spent anticipating the perfect Chinese carpet to complete the home, "thick and soft, the clear translucent green of a tropical sea...the outward and visible proof of success," or struggling over just the right dress for an upcoming dinner party is a critique of the city's provincial past.
But while detailing what's marked those inner lives, the novel also cautions against an equally tedious and inauthentic future, defined by hyper-consumerism and massive urban sprawl in pursuit of the ideal "sub"-urban setting – that magical place between the inner city and the countryside where a perfectly manicured lawn and translucent Chinese carpet can signal ones arrival.
American-style consumerism is welcomed skeptically, as a possible antidote to the ingrained class structure that had until then defined one's social standing. But the following passage highlights Young's cynicism toward the artifice of such consumption and where it could lead:
"Tempted by newer and shinier gadgets, enticed by advertisers who knew only too well how to do their job, you took on more and more and more. Finally, run ragged by all the easier work you had undertaken, you had little or no time left for anything other than tending your machines."
The place Karen Whitney, the novel's central character, strives for is the same place she hopes her city will reach, somewhere between the past it has moved from and the future that seems to be unfolding.
Because of a coincidence in the early 1990s, we can see today's Toronto – a city still defined by its growing pains and still trying to prove its sophistication to the world – in the novel that first put the city on the international map.
"A friend found a copy in a used bookstore in Wolfville, Nova Scotia," explains Suzanne Morton, a McGill University history professor who says she had never heard of Young, but was instrumental in getting The Torontonians re-published.
Argue hopes the rissue will resurrect The Torontonians and her mother's forgotten reputation as one of Canada's best author's.
Young's disappearance was so complete that upon her death in 1996, the only mention of the author was a short death notice placed by her daughter.
It read, in part: "Phyllis Brett Young was a well-known Canadian novelist whose books have been enjoyed by readers in many different countries."


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Lil' Mo is short in stature, not even hitting five feet in height, but there's nothing little about her drive, heart, or talent. Born Cynthia Loving, she was raised on Long Island but suffered frequent moves as the family followed her dad through the course of his military career transfers. The lack of permanent roots didn't keep her from knowing exactly where she wanted to end up: Manhattan. She wanted to make her mark there by becoming an entertainer, and she set her course for a way to get what she wanted. Wherever the family happened to be living, she competed in talent competitions. Later, with a contract in hand, she had to stand her ground when record company executives wanted to force a certain look on her, rather than allow her to sport the rainbow braids that have become something of a trademark for the singer. Once that particular battle was fought and won, she endured two years of anxiety as she waited for her debut to be released. The waiting was perhaps the hardest, and it brought Lil' Mo to the point where she was considering a switch to simply songwriting, rather than singing and performing. Thanks to the intervention of heavyweights such as Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z, however, she stuck it out. The welcome she received from the public and the community of music artists made the long wait worth her while. Lil' Mo's 2001 debut album, Based on a True Story, was a success. The singer penned every track but one, "Time After Time," which was originally recorded by another rainbow-haired crooner, Cyndi Lauper. Lil' Mo has collaborated on "Hot Boyz" with Missy Elliott, and Elliott subsequently became a trusted advisor and friend. Lil' Mo also collaborated with Ja Rule on his "Put It on Me," and is featured on "Parking Lot Pimping" by Jay-Z. She has performed with, or written songs for, a long list of artists that includes Blackstreet, Next, Lil' Bow Wow, Keith Sweat, 3LW, and ODB.
Unfortunately, not everyone was as thrilled with Lil' Mo's success as she and her friends and collaborators were. Just before her debut was set to hit record store shelves in the summer of 2001, a man attacked the singer in San Francisco just outside the Warfield, a theater where she had just finished a performance. He used a champagne bottle to club the singer's head, and Lil' Mo ended up with almost two dozen stitches. A majority of the publicity appearances scheduled for the following month, which had been specially timed to coincide with the release of her debut, had to be canceled until she regained her health. Despite the aftereffects she suffered, the singer persevered and continued to sing and write. Months later, Lil' Mo started working on air at Baltimore's radio station WXYV, where she remained until leaving in June of 2002 to devote more time to her career. The next year, Lil' Mo prepped for the release of Meet the Girl Next Door. She wrote every song on the album except for one; the first single, a duet with rapper Fabolous, "4Ever" was a springtime smash. ~ Linda Seida


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Donald Trump makes 100 false claims for second consecutive week
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WASHINGTON – Until this month, U.S. President Donald Trump had not made more than 60 false claims in any single week of his presidency.
He has now made 100 false claims in each of the last two weeks.
After shattering his old record by uttering an astonishing 103 false claims two weeks ago, an average of 14.7 per cent, Trump delivered precisely 100 false claims last week, an average of 14.3 per day.
As usual, part of the explanation for the barrage of lies and other dishonesty was simply that Trump talked a lot.
He tends to make more false claims at campaign rallies than at any other kind of event, and he had two rallies last week. He also did an interview on Fox News, a speech at the Foxconn factory site in Wisconsin, a speech promoting his tax cuts, a speech at a gathering of students and a televised meeting with members of Congress.
The pace of the president's dishonesty has increased significantly in 2018. After averaging 2.9 false claims per day in 2017, he is averaging 5.1 per day in 2018.
He is now up to 1,929 false claims for the first 528 days of his presidency, an overall average of 3.7 per day.
If Trump is a serial liar, why call this a list of "false claims," not lies? Click here for our detailed explanation. The short answer is that we can't be sure that each and every one was intentional. In some cases, he may have been confused or ignorant. What we know, objectively, is that he was not telling the truth.
Daniel Dale is the Star's Washington bureau chief. He covers U.S. politics and current affairs. Follow him on Twitter: @ddale8
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Duke's Zion Williamson is AP men's player of the year
Aaron Beard, The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Just about everything Zion Williamson did at Duke created a highlight or headline in a spectacle of a season.
The soaring dunks.
The open-court moves more nimble than his 6-foot-7, 285-pound frame should allow.
Even the freak occurrence of one of his feet tearing through its shoe in a fall to the court.
Handling all that attention became maybe the biggest lesson for the freshman, who quickly became the face of college basketball and the game's biggest star in years — then fittingly finished as The Associated Press men's player of the year.
"I was comfortable with it because you don't really have a choice," Williamson said in an interview with the AP earlier this week. "I think if you try to force it out, then it's going to bother you. ... My mom just told me to look at it as a lot of kids would wish to be in my position, so if it does bother me, I just think about it like that."
Williamson claimed 59 of 64 votes from AP Top 25 voters before the NCAA Tournament in results released Friday. Freshman teammate RJ Barrett earned two votes as a fellow AP first-team All-American, while Virginia's De'Andre Hunter, Michigan State's Cassius Winston and Murray State's Ja Morant each earned one vote.
Williamson had hoped to be in Minneapolis preparing for Saturday's national semifinals like Hunter and Winston. But the Blue Devils fell to Winston's Spartans in the Elite Eight as the top overall seed.
"I was just telling (teammates) don't let nobody tell you this season was a disappointment, because people have got to understand it's March Madness," he said, adding: "I mean, winning the championship is not a cakewalk."
In a likely one-year college stop for a possible top overall NBA draft pick, the 18-year-old Williamson averaged 22.6 points and 8.9 rebounds while ranking second nationally by shooting 68%. He also ranked among the Atlantic Coast Conference leaders in steals (2.12) and blocks (1.79).
Williamson's play was marked by breathtaking athleticism to go by, through and over anyone to get the ball (look at his personal-favorite 360-degree dunk against Clemson or his rapid-closeout swat of Hunter's shot at Virginia for proof).
There was the charisma, too. He projected a self-assured ease amid the crush of postgame interviews, even routinely having walk-on Mike Buckmire join him as a wingman as though bringing his teammate into his unique orbit.
"It's been remarkable what he's done," said North Carolina coach Roy Williams, who recruited Williamson. "There hasn't been many guys like that to come down the road. So the attention he's gotten, I think he'd deserved. ... He's driven a different ship."
That February shoe blowout illustrated just how different.
Williamson missed nearly six full games after injuring his knee in the fall, which had his left foot sticking through the side of his Paul George signature shoe from Nike. The bizarre image wounded Nike's day-after stock price and had some arguing that he shouldn't return to protect his pro stock.
That was never an option for Williamson. He returned in the ACC Tournament sporting a reinforced pair of Kyrie Irving Nikes, which followed Nike representatives visiting Duke's campus to sort out what went wrong.
The unusual moments of stardom didn't stop there, either.
"Cars will be driving by (on campus) and I mean, they'll just stop," Williamson said with a chuckle. "In the middle of the road. And people will jump out of the car and get pictures. I'm looking at my watch, I have two minutes to get to class and my class is a five-minute walk. ... I'll look at them and they'll be so high, I'm like, 'Yeah, I got you, I'll take the picture."
He also frequently encountered Duke fans waiting near the practice gym for autographs.
"You've got 20 minutes before that clock starts for practice, you've got like 20 people outside," Williamson said. "You're like, 'I don't think I can do this.' So then it comes down to: do I say no? Or do I tell them to wait?
"I've been in a lot of situations. Sometimes they understood, other times they weren't so accepting of it. But I guess that's part of life."
Williamson said there's "obviously a high possibility" he enters the draft but he's not ready to make anything official as he enjoys being a college student a little longer with plans on taking summer classes toward a degree.
Williamson said he has no regrets, calling the season "the most fun I've ever had in my life."
"My mom would tell me, 'College is something you don't want to miss out on' because not only have I enjoyed the basketball side of coming to Duke, I've enjoyed being a student here just as much," Williamson said. "The relationships I've built with the students here — like talking to kids I guess people wouldn't picture me talking to, hanging out with them — it's bigger than basketball."
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Zion Williamson, Duke — 59
R.J. Barrett, Duke — 2
De'Andre Hunter, Virginia — 1
Ja Morant, Murray State — 1
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Home/News/WANTED: Baron Rothschild Indicted in France Over Fraud Case!
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WANTED: Baron Rothschild Indicted in France Over Fraud Case!
John MorseJune 22, 2015
Source: cosmoschronicle.com
Baron David de Rothschild has been indicted over the allegations after the victims, mostly expats living in Spain, bought into his loan scheme.
The banking magnate will now be questioned in his native France, five years after a Marbella-based law firm began legal action against him.
French police have been told by a judge in Paris to track down the wealthy scion who has various homes in the country.
The case involves his company, the Rothschild Financial Services Group, which stands accused of falsely advertising an equity release loan scheme, bought into by more than 130 pensioners between 2005 and 2008.
More than 20 British pensioners in Spain took up legal action against Rothschild's company after losing their dream properties and thousands of euros.
Source: theolivepress.es
Paris-based liaison judge Javier Gómez Bermudez – famous for his role in prosecuting the Madrid bombers – announced the summons this week after the Denia Court issued the order.
The Baron is believed to be staying at his Normandy castle, or near to his Paris offices, and lawyers have provided state prosecutors in France with two possible addresses to find him.
Marbella-based lawyer Antonio Flores of Lawbird said the indictment was a 'breakthrough moment' in the case.
"It is a good step in the right direction," Flores told The Olive Press. "The courts are now in agreement with us that there is enough evidence to interrogate Baron Rothschild.
"The first thing they will have to do is find him. Once they have done that they can begin to question him.
"It is a real breakthrough moment for everyone involved."
Rothschild's product, the Credit Select Series Mortgage Loan, was sold to pensioners as a legal means to reduce the value of their homes for inheritance tax mitigation purposes.
The Tax Agency ruled that such a scheme constitutes fraud and Flores believes that Rothschild should be held accountable.
"In short, independently of what happened to the investment, Rothschild advertised a loan aimed at reducing inheritance tax, which is a breach of tax law," he said.
Flores, and two other prosecuting lawyers, will submit questions for Rothschild in relation to fraudulent advertising.
The Rothschild Group has so far failed to comment.
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If All Immigrants From Mexico Were Like This ...
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... then only the number of them would matter.
That's the clear conclusion from an article about ace, and contrarian, mutual-fund manager Bob Rodriguez (of First Pacific Advisors) in the latest issue of Fortune magazine, specifically these two paragraphs:
Rodriguez grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. His father, Joseph, was a Mexican immigrant who plated jewelry for a living (the family's otherwise modest house had gold-plated doorknobs). Though neither the mother nor the father, now both deceased, went to college, they taught Rodriguez and his older brother, Dick, about history and ethics. Joseph used to carry a copy of the Constitution in his pocket and would quiz his sons on it.
Joseph refused to teach the boys Spanish. "He was adamant that we be Americans," Rodriguez says. "He did not want my brother or me to grow up with an accent. It was not a good time to be of Mexican or Spanish heritage." Rodriguez's father proudly hung his certificate of U.S. citizenship in a "place of honor" in the family's den. (The Man Who sees Disaster, by Mina Kimes, Fortune, June 13, 2011; apparently not available online)
Because Rodriguez was 61 in 2009, we can identify his formative years, under the guidance of those assimilation-determined parents, as the late 1950s and early 1960s. What a vastly better United States we would have now if it were still, as back then, everyone's bedrock understanding that, while immigrants should have no shame in their heritage (how could they be responsible for that?), it's up to them to adjust to us, 100%.
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Why We Launch Virtual Court in Prison- Malami
Abubakar Malami, SAN, Minister of Justice
Being an address by the Minister at the launch of virtual court sitting at Kuje Prison,Abuja on December 6, 2021
Permit me to thank the Honourable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Comptroller – General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, the Nigerian Correctional Service, the Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Spotlight Initiative for their cooperation and funding support which has made today's event a reality.
One of the strategic interventions by the Federal Ministry of Justice towards engendering lasting reforms in the Criminal Justice Sector in Nigeria was the development of the Consolidated Sentencing Guidelines (Custodial and Non-Custodial) Practice Directions, 2020. The Ministry in collaboration with the Presidential Committee on Correctional Reforms and Decongestion thereafter hosted a Virtual Technical Session involving crucial stakeholders to review and validate the draft document.
At the end of the Session, it was recommended that "the Federal Ministry of Justice should expedite its engagement with the Nigerian Correctional Centres to make it possible for evidence of suspects in custody to be taken without their physical presence in court to avoid disruptions"
This is a re-enactment and consolidation of spirit of Administration of Criminal Justice Act targetted at speedy determination of cases by way of eliminating delays and displacement of denial of justice which will further support our policy of decongestion of correctional centres across the country.
It may be recalled that in my press release issued on the 20th of April 2020, on Post Covid-19 justice system plans, I had expressed the resolve of the Federal Ministry of Justice to respond appropriately to the challenges posed by the pandemic to the administration of justice in the country in collaboration with other critical stakeholders in the Justice Sector.
I also emphasized that there was the need for a paradigm shift in the administration of justice through the deployment of appropriate technologies to drive the administration of justice.
Accordingly, on the 27th of April 2020, the Committee on post Covid-19 Justice System in Nigeria was constituted and inaugurated. The primary aim of the committee is to assess and identify the challenges and impact of the Pandemic on the entire Justice System and make appropriate and actionable recommendations on the immediate, medium and long term measures for addressing the challenges of the pandemic.
One of the mandates of the committee is to work with the Nigerian Correctional Service to establish virtual court rooms/studios in correctional centres to enable suspects in custody participate in the remote hearing of cases or bail applications.
Consequently in this regard, the Ministry partnered with the UNDP and Japan Government towards deploying Virtual Court Proceedings in Correctional Centres nationwide with a Pilot Project in Kuje Correctional Centre.
As you may recall, the Covid-19 pandemic pushed various sectors of the economy of most countries of the world into a complete shutdown-from private sector organizations to public organizations, and even the Criminal Justice sector.
Court proceedings became delayed and there was an ensuing collapse of the prosecution of several high-profile cases. In the circumstance, the correctional centres were becoming overcrowded and gradually sliding into a very critical state. The Pandemic created a problem that basically could not be solved without the adoption of technology.
This project was, therefore, initiated to ensure the hearing and determination of urgent and time-bound cases, using the digital platform. This system would equally ensure speedy dispensation of trials in line with section 36(4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), which provides that every person shall be entitled to fair hearing within a reasonable time. It would also eliminate the issue of difficulties in conveying the inmates to court and would further ensure the safety and security of the inmates and law enforcement officers.
We are no longer constrained by mobility, space and time in the justice delivery on account of accommodation of the virtual court sitting facilities and deployment of incidental technology.
Notably, our justice system is founded on the constitutional principle of fundamental rights to fair hearing that requires the court to hear and determine cases in public and the physical presence of the suspects or parties in court.
I assure you that the Virtual Court Proceedings are in compliance with the provisions of section 36(3) of the Constitution, which provides for public court sitting or hearing. This Virtual Court Proceedings meet up with the expectation of the Constitution and are not private hearings but open to the respective counsel involved, the litigants (inmates) and the general public at large.
In addition, it is important to note that this virtual court hearing will not in any way contravene the provision of section 36(6) of the 1999 Constitution which provides for the arraignment, taking of evidence, tendering of documents, cross-examination and general conduct of criminal proceedings. In as much as these are done in accordance with the said provision, the virtual hearing would be valid.
This initiative will in no small measure help boost the economy by ensuring that funds meant for the movement of the inmates would be channeled to other essential areas of needs in the Correctional Centres, and assist the country to meet up with global best practice in terms of the Administration of the Criminal Justice.
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I have no doubt whatsoever, that the effective deployment of these facilities for the virtual court sitting proceedings for the inmates will significantly contribute to the overall efficiency of the criminal justice system in Nigeria.
As we launch these facilities today, I am hopeful that this initiative would bring about effective virtual court sittings in correctional centres nationwide which would feed into the adoption of the National Judicial Council Guidelines on Virtual/Remote Court Sittings and Quick Access to Justice for incarcerated citizens in Correctional centres across the Federation.
At this juncture, I must appreciate the commitment and dedication of the Administration of Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) Department of the Federal Ministry of Justice, the representatives of the UNDP and indeed, all stakeholders who worked round the clock to ensure the success of this project.
On behalf of the President, President Muhammadu Buhari, Federal Republic of Nigeria, I thank and express my deep appreciation to the Government of Japan and UNDP Spotlight Initiative for their funding support. We look forward to a continued collaboration and it is on this note that I wish to declare this facilities open.
ABUBAKAR MALAMI, SAN
HONOURABLE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION AND
MINISTER OF JUSTICE
223 days 12 minutes 11 seconds,
205 days 1 hour 53 minutes 36 seconds
Malami
Virtual Court
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These 162 acres of lush pasture/hay ground overlook the beautiful Cimarron Valley just a little over 20 miles east of Montrose, Colorado. Blue Mesa Reservoir is located about 14 miles east of the ranch and Uncompahgre National Forest approximately 13 miles south of this highly productive ranch. There are about 125 acres in flood irrigation. All fences are in excellent condition, most is new. Ranch is easily accessed from Highway 50. Sitting at an elevation of close to 7,000 feet, picturesque views of the whole valley await you from every window of the ranch-style 2600 square foot, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with an attached two car garage. This quality constructed home was built in 1998 has been very well cared for and was recently updated, including a new roof. Features include granite counters in kitchen, double ovens (one convection), gas cook top, dishwasher, gas log fireplace, vaulted ceiling in living room and energy efficient wood casement windows. Live water runs through the log pole corrals with outbuildings consisting of two loafing sheds, two equipment barns, and a 102' x 45' Quonset building/barn. There is a game fence around the hay stack yard. Irrigation water description is included in the associated documents. There is a decreed spring for domestic water in home.


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Q: asp.net mvc model didn't receive on form submit I have written an asp.net mvc site that works fine on local.
But after publishing it, i have some problems with models sent from forms.
i think it determines my model state always not valid.
i don't receive any data!
    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult LogIn()
    {
        return View();
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult LogIn(Models.LoginViewModel data)
    {
        if (!ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            return LogIn();
        }
        TAPortalEntities db = new TAPortalEntities();

        UserAccount probableUser = db.UserAccounts.FirstOrDefault(p => p.UserName == data.UserName && p.Pass == data.Pass);

        if (probableUser == null)
        {
            ModelState.AddModelError(string.Empty, "نام کابری یا رمز عبور اشتباه وارد شده است!");
            return LogIn();
        }

        Session["LogedIn"] = true;
        Session["UserName"] = probableUser.UserName;
        Session["Course"] = probableUser.Course.Name;
        Session["TeacherName"] = probableUser.Course.TeacherName;
        Session["RealName"] = probableUser.RealName;

        return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
    }

and the view is like this:
@model TAPortal.Models.LoginViewModel

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "ورود به سایت";
}

ورود

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @*@Html.AntiForgeryToken()*@

اطلاعات ورود را وارد کنید

        @Html.ValidationSummary(true)

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.UserName, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

                @Html.EditorFor(model => model.UserName)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.UserName)

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Pass, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

                @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Pass)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Pass)

                <input type="submit" value="ورود" class="btn btn-default" />

}

    @Html.ActionLink("برگشت به خانه", "Index","Home")

@section Scripts {
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}

and the model class :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace TAPortal.Models
{
    public class LoginViewModel
    {
        [Required(ErrorMessage="نام کاربری باید وارد شود!")]
        [Display(Name="نام کاربری")]
        public string UserName { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "رمز عبور باید وارد شود!")]
        [Display(Name = "رمز عبور")]
        public string Pass { get; set; }
    }
}

see these results:
input:

output local :

output on online host :

A: Try to add this filter
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
to your POST Action
Edit:
in your get method instantiate your model and set to false the ValidationSummary
   [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult LogIn()
    {
       var model = new LoginViewModel();
        return View(model);
    }

A: Now I have the answer. I share it for the others who face this problem.
From first, every thing was correct but the wrong thing was the version of the .NET framework of my host. This type of coding requires .NET framework 4.5 but my host's .NET framework version was 4.0 and it was all the story.
Now I have transferred my code to a host of 4.5.


This is the Shortest Route between KIK and TMPT.
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Christine Sinclair and Diana Matheson Spearhead Canada's First Professional Women's League
Homegrown talent will no longer have to seek opportunities abroad for the first time ever in Canadian history.
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Plans to create Canada's first domestic professional women's league are under way, thanks to national team captain Christine Sinclair and former teammate Diana Matheson.
The new eight-team league is due to begin in 2025, with Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Calgary Foothills the first two teams to sign up to the competition.
The remaining six teams are expected to be announced next year, with each team set to include at least one Canadian international.
As it stands, the majority of the Canadian national team – who are currently ranked seventh in FIFA's world rankings – play abroad, including Chelsea's Jessie Fleming, Tottenham's Shelina Zadorsky and PSG's Ashley Lawrence.
Christine Sinclair, Canada's current captain and all-time international top goalscorer with 190 goals – more than any other man or woman in history – spoke of the league's potential to change the landscape of women's football in Canada earlier this week via TSN.
"Women players can develop and play professionally here at home instead of having to go abroad, as every one of our national team players must do now to be successful."
The Portland Thorns forward also discussed the significance of having women at the forefront of such a milestone moment, explaining how it's important that "women build this league" something echoed by former international teammate Matheson.
"It's time to change the narrative and inspire the next group," said Matheson, capped 206 times for Canada.
"I believe kids need to see it to believe it's possible to happen. With the launch of this league, they will be able to go into their own backyard and watch their heroes play and dream of one day representing their hometown professional club and maybe representing Canada."
Matheson, who retired in 2021, and her business partner Thomas Gilbert, are launching the yet unnamed league under the banner Project 8, a project that will hopefully see the next generation of players continue to build upon the legacy the likes of Sinclair have helped to create over the years.
Canada might have won the 2020 Olympic Gold, but this herculean move will see them go toe-to-toe with league leaders like England's WSL and the USA's NWSL. Match-ups that are long overdue.
Canada WomenChristine SinclairNWSLWLSWomen's Football


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Beverly Hills es un lugar designado por el censo ubicado en el condado de Citrus en el estado estadounidense de Florida. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 8.445 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 1.101,57 personas por km².

Geografía
Beverly Hills se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Beverly Hills tiene una superficie total de 7.67 km², de la cual 7.67 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 8.445 personas residiendo en Beverly Hills. La densidad de población era de 1.101,57 hab./km². De los 8.445 habitantes, Beverly Hills estaba compuesto por el 90.73% blancos, el 3.54% eran afroamericanos, el 0.4% eran amerindios, el 1.21% eran asiáticos, el 0.05% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 1.52% eran de otras razas y el 2.56% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 7.97% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Lugares designados por el censo en Florida
Localidades del condado de Citrus


On September 20 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA NY Chapter in association with the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers (IAEL) presented: "Beyond Berne and Borders: The Cross-Border Harmonization (or Not) of Digital Music Rights" at The Yale Club in NYC. While each country has its own national copyright law, they are harmonized to some extent by the Berne Convention and other international agreements.Recently, however, the European Union has made further efforts to harmonize the process of cross-border licensing throughout Europe. A panel of experts addressed how copyright licensing in the European Union differs from US practice, and how copyright licensing developments in Europe have impacted digital content delivery across borders. Panelists: Alexander Ross, Partner, Wiggin LLP (London); Eric Lauvaux, Partner, NomoS (Paris); Lee Knife, Executive Director, Digital Media Association (Washington, DC). Moderator was Jeff Liebenson, Liebenson Law (New York, NY).
Video/audio is below. No transcript.
This is a nice piece and I wish such could be organized in African countries.


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Q: Horizontal centering inside a position: absolute element The margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto way to horizontally center something works well when the container is static or relative positioned but seems to fail when it is absolute positioned.
Is there a way to get the auto margins to work in this situation? I need the container to be absolute for certain reasons.

A: absolute positioning is, by definition, going to use 0,0 as a point of reference for your positioning.
What I would suggest is using a container with position:absolute and width 100%, and then specifying with a position: 0 auto anything you want centered.


Ten delicious and auspicious reasons (and recipes!) to celebrate the coming Lunar New Year. For those who follow the Lunar Calendar, January 31st begins the Year of the Horse. The Chinese celebrate this as the Spring Festival, the Vietnamese celebrate this as Tet and the Koreans celebrate Seollal. Celebrations can go on for a couple of weeks, so if you plan on bringing in this Year of the Horse with tasty bites and libations, you should have some recipes ready at your fingertips. I do have quite the collection of recipes I have developed or collected. Despite having the name Lau, I am not Asian. I do think of my surname as a lucky name, bringing me the good fortune of having tasted quite a variety of delicious Asian food, giving me a healthy love for it, and as well, the ability to put together recipes even a Chinese grandmother would love- if I had one. So if someone were to mistake me for being Asian (and yes, this has happened before), I would not be insulted and as a matter of fact, I would enjoy it. I have an awful lot of recipes I could choose to share with you. So many in fact, I could spend the rest of the current lunar year typing away new recipes trying to get them to you. So I am going to have to pick and choose from among my favorites. Some may be mainstream, some may be for the more adventurous. Some may be commonplace and others more unique, but they will all be good, I promise you. You know because I am giving you the cream of the recipes I have available to post right now. I also have some other wonderful recipes already on the blog- and you can find those with this easy link, or divide them further with the recipe index on the lower right hand side of the page (have you noticed that before?) Those give greater detail than the simple alphabetical recipe indexes I keep which are easier to use if you already know what you are looking for. I also have a search box at the upper right hand side which I have found to be pretty effective at scanning the posts for keywords if there is something in particular you are looking for.
You won't get this at any takeout. You might wish you had a Chinese grandma to make this for you on a chilly day, or you can become the Chinese grandma yourself and make it for those you love. It is essentially a homestyle Chinese stew, and it's definitely a food of LOVE.
Season meat with salt and pepper, then sear meat on all sides in a large skillet before placing into a dutch oven.
Meanwhile, flavor broth by smashing lemongrass and simmering in the broth, which you should season with five spice powder, chee hao sauce, rice wine, soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar.
Pour broth over meat in the dutch oven, and cover with aromatic vegetables (ginger slices, split garlic cloves).
Cover oven with a tight fitting lid, then braise in an oven at 325F. for 45 minutes.
Add onion and carrots to pan. Cover dutch oven and braise at 325F for an additional 45 minutes.
Remove from oven and layer bok choy on top of all of it, replace the cover and bake for another 20-30 minutes, or until bok choy is tender.
Serve meat and vegetables over steamed rice with a little of the pan liquid (skim off unwanted fat), garnished with sliced scallions and drizzled with toasted sesame oil, if desired.
Grill outdoors or roast in your oven. Simple yet superb!
Toss asparagus with other ingredients.
Grill over coals on a fine-mesh grate until crisp tender, about 7-10 minutes (time will vary with size).
To cook indoors, bake in a 400F oven for 12 minutes or until cooked the way you like.
These make a great appetizer for entertaining, although you can easily have them as a main dish served with steamed rice, and kimchi on the side. I serve this with ssamjang, a thick sauce/paste which is made from gochujang and some other ingredients to flavor. If you don't have that, maybe a sweet/sour sauce or pot sticker sauce would do just fine.
If you are using wooden skewers, soak them at least an hour beforehand.
Mix together ground beef, green onions, minced garlic, rice wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, corn starch, sesame seeds, and sugar together in a bowl.
Shape meat mixture into 1″ balls.
Place on large pan and refrigerate for at least an hour to retain shape.
Prepare grill or heat broiler (I prefer charcoal grill).
Thread 2-3 meatballs per skewer and grill over medium coals 5-6 minutes per side or until juices run clear.
Serve with ssamjang sauce or sweet/sour or potsticker sauce, if desired.
Squid is delicious and no problem to make it all if you buy it already cleaned. It cooks in a flash and is perfect for a weeknight Asian meal.
Rinse squid and chop into small bite sized pieces.
Heat oil in a large skillet and stir-fry onion and carrot until almost tender; add squid, scallions and sauce to pan.
Cook squid for 1-2 minutes, just until it starts to curl up. Do not overcook as it makes it tough.
One of my freestyle stir-fries. I love all the garlic flavor!
In a small bowl, mix together chicken broth, vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, chile paste (if using) and sherry; set aside.
In another small bowl or cup, stir together the tbsp of cornstarch with the 3 tbsp of water and set aside.
Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a wok; add ginger and garlic and sizzle briefly, then add vegetables and Thai chilies (if using).
Stir-fry vegetables for approximately 3 minutes, then add the shrimp.
Cook the shrimp 2 minutes or until it curls and turns opaque or pink.
Add the sauce mixture and cook 1 minute more; then stir in the thickener (briefly stir first) and stir-fry until mixture thickens, about 1 minute.
My rendition of the popular Korean classic. Serve as a lettuce wrap with some sticky rice, grilled scallion and ssamjang sauce. This would also go well with kimchi or a cucumber salad!
Butterfly ribs into thin slices if necessary.
Mix marinade and marinate ribs 6 hours or overnight in a ziplock bag with all air removed.
Cut scallions into finger length pieces and lightly coat with sesame oil.
Grill rib pieces over hot coals, 2-4 minutes per side, or until it reaches desired doneness; grill scallions until tender and slightly charred.
To serve, make a lettuce wrap with some rib, some sticky rice, a bit of ssamjang, and a piece of scallion.
Spicy and delicious, perfect for autumn and the mushroom harvest! But do enjoy this anytime mushrooms are available, which is all the time.
While beef is still partially frozen, trim away excess fat and slice thinly.
Whisk together marinade and pour over beef in a ziplock bag; refrigerate several hours or overnight.
Whisk together sauce in a small bowl and keep nearby.
Heat oil in a wok over high heat, stir-fry beef with marinade, mushrooms and onions until cooked through.
Add sauce to wok, and cook, stirring, until sauce thickens.
Serve stir-fry with steamed rice if desired.
Easily steamed healthy fresh veggies with an amazing sauce!
Steam green beans and mushrooms 3-5 minutes or until done to your liking and mix in a bowl with tomatoes.
Whisk together remaining ingredients and toss with vegetables; serve.
This is balanced just the way we like it. My daughter could drink this stuff!
Stir together and serve with pot stickers or steamed Chinese dumplings. shu mai, etc.
This is a deliciously different and clever recipe for an interesting Asian drink from Diana at Appetite for China.
Simmer chopped plums over low heat until the flesh cooks soft, about 15 minutes, then add ginger slices and cook 5 minutes more.
Allow ginger-plum tea to cool.
Strain tea and discard solids.
Sweeten with sugar or splenda, stirring until dissolved.
Fill glass with ice and add ginger-plum tea 2 parts tea, and then top up with one part club soda.
Whew! narrowing my list down to ten was rough. I do hope you enjoy them and eventually get to try them all.
May I pin this to my New Year Celebration Pinterest board? These are wonderful recipes! I'd love to taste each one of them!
Thanks, Sue. And I hope you'll come see my board too! I've pinned a lot of delicious recipes this week. If I had come across yours sooner, I would have featured one of them in my Lunar New Year recipe roundup today!