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New Brunswick, N.J. (June 3, 2019) – The exotic pet trade has led to several hundred non-native and invasive animal species globally that could harm native species and ecosystems, and the number is expected to rise, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Thousands of vertebrate animal species, and tens of millions of animals, are shipped internationally and within countries to meet a growing demand for exotic pets, the study says. Annually, the exotic pet trade is a multibillion-dollar business.
"The volume of vertebrate animals that are traded worldwide is shocking, even to relatively seasoned invasion biologists," said lead author Julie L. Lockwood, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. "The market in exotic pets has grown considerably since the 1970s, and so I don't think most of us fully grasped how expansive the trade has become. It is very clear that the species imported into the U.S. at the highest volume (number of individuals), for example, are most likely to have non-native or invasive populations here."
Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades ecosystem and lionfish in Caribbean coral reefs are examples of invasive former pets that become predators in an ecosystem and tend to drastically reduce the native species they eat as prey, leaving the native food webs profoundly altered, Lockwood said.
The key to addressing the invasion threat from exotic pets is learning more about the socioeconomic forces that drive the massive growth in the exotic pet market and the socioecological factors behind the release of pets into the environment by their owners. These factors likely vary according to cultural pet-keeping traditions across regions and whether purchases were legal or illegal. The gaps in our understanding of the exotic pet trade must be addressed so effective policy solutions can be implemented, the study says.
"Consumers should be very careful what species they choose to keep as a pet, making sure that they choose one they can care for throughout the pet's life," Lockwood said. "They should buy from a reputable seller who sustainably sources their animals and follows industry best practices for the care of their animals. If an owner can no longer care for a pet, they should talk to a local pet shop owner, their veterinarian or even state wildlife biologists and ask for options for how to relinquish ownership in a responsible manner."
Lockwood is available to comment at julie.lockwood@rutgers.edu
Here's a link to the study: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.2059
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Subsidiary unit
Financial services, aviation leasing, real estate
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
Michael A. Neal, Chairman and CEO
US$ 006.5 billion (2011)
GE Money
www.gecapital.com
GE Capital is the financial services unit of the US conglomerate General Electric.[1]
GE Capital provides commercial lending and leasing, as well as a range of financial services for health care, media, communications, entertainment, consumers, real estate, and aviation. GE Capital focuses primarily on loans and leases that it underwrites to hold on its own balance sheet rather than on generating fees by originating loans and leases, then selling them to third parties. Most of GE Capital's commercial loans are to small and mid-sized companies, spread across multiple industries and geographies and secured by tangible assets. More than 70% of GE Capital's loans are under $100 million. GE Capital's consumer lending activities are also diversified by product and geography, and include operations in 55 countries.[2]
It has a number of divisions which include GE Money, GE Real Estate, GE Capital Aviation Services, GE Energy Financial Services and GE Commercial Distribution Finance.
As of Q3 2009, GE Capital had 60,000+ employees worldwide, operating in more than 55 countries, with total assets of $551B. It was rated AA+ with stable outlook by S&P.
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1.2 Denmark
1.3 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.4 Hong Kong
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1.11 Romania
1.12 Russia
1.13 Sweden
1.14 Switzerland
1.15 United States
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2.1 Austria
GE Money Bank (formerly GE Capital Bank) is one of the largest financial institutions in the Czech Republic. It is a full-service bank with an extensive network of branches and ATMs. Its services focus both on retail clients and small and medium-sized enterprises. It was founded in 1997 after acquisition of Agrobanka bank as GE Capital Bank. In the year 2000 it changed the name to GE Money Bank. Its headquarters are located in Prague. Call center is operating from Ostrava.
GE Money Bank Denmark (previously GE Capital Bank Denmark) offers credit cards, loans and financial solutions. Brand names include Acceptcard, Morecard and E-lån.
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GE Capital is incorporated as a Restricted License Bank in Hong Kong. Major focus is in mortgages (homes and automobile) and personal loans.
Budapest Bank, was established in 1987 as one of the first commercial banks when the two-tier banking system was created in Hungary. Since 1995, GE (General Electric Company) as owner provides solid background for the bank. Budapest Bank offers a full range of financial and banking services for consumers and small- and middle-sized businesses.
GE Money Bank Latvia is a universal bank owned by GE in Latvia (merged from the former BTB bank and GE Money financial company[3]), offering loan and deposit products to both private and legal entities.
GE Artesia Bank, a part of GE Capitals subsidiary GE Commercial Finance, offers banking services to High-net-worth individuals as well as corporates in the Netherlands. It provides capital finance, long-term finance, leasing and finance for specific international trade transactions.
GE Finance and insurance, trading as GE Money, is a registered financial service provider in New Zealand that provides consumer finance, personal loans and insurance products.
GE Money Bank Norge is a division of the Stockholm-based Swedish subsidiary GE Capital AB. It is a leading provider of consumer finance products in Norway with more than 300,000 clients and total lending of NOK 5 billion, second only to the major domestic bank DnB NOR.
It is the second bank in Norway to offer US style credit cards with zero annual/monthly fee and including a grace period, after Bankia Bank ASA. In the eighteen months following the launch of GE MasterCard in June 2001, the market increased to more than 100,000 US style credit cards. Before these cards, Norwegian banks only offered annual fee cards or cards with no interest free grace period.
Polish GE Money Bank S.A. is located in Gdańsk. After acquiring the Polish bank BPH SA and governing under its brand (31 Dec 2009) Polish headquarters are located in three cities: Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk.
In Romania GE Capital has two subsidiaries:
GE Money, a personal finance and leasing company.
GE Garanti Bank, a bank detained by GE Capital in a joint venture with Garanti Bank International from Turkey. GE Garanti is located in Bucharest.
Russian GE Money Bank Russia is located in Moscow.
The Swedish subsidiary is GE Capital Bank AB. Based in Stockholm, the bank trades as GE Money Bank.
GE Money Bank is the largest provider of small consumer credits in Switzerland. In 2006, the company partnered with Migros, allowing them to offer credit cards contracts through Migros.
GE Capital Retail Bank provides retail banking and credit services to consumers, businesses, merchants, and retailers in the United States and internationally. It offers retail sales finance, such as private label credit card programs, installment lending, bankcards, and financial services for consumers, retailers, manufacturers, and health-care providers, as well as offers financing programs to dealers, retailers, associations, contractors, and service providers. The company also provides retail consumer financing solutions, such as private label credit cards, dual card, flex loans, and all-tender loyalty and gift cards; and business credit services, including business process outsourcing of open account trade credit, private label revolving credit programs, receivables financing, and inventory financing. In addition, GE Capital Retail Bank offers a range of financial products, including personal loans, mortgages, debt consolidation, home equity loans and credit insurance, and credit protection products. Further, it provides support services, including cardholder and dealer services, credit training, online, quality, and legal/compliance services. The company serves various industries, such as automotive, consumer electronics, flooring, healthcare, home furnishings and improvement, HVAC, elective health care, jewelry, landscaping and irrigation, luxury goods, marine, music, outdoor power equipment, pool and spa, power sports, recreation vehicle, sewing, sporting goods, travel, vacuum, and water treatment industries. It offers its products and services through dealers, retailers, associations, contractors, manufacturers, healthcare practices, and service providers. The company was formerly known as GE Money Bank and changed its name to GE Capital Retail Bank in October 2011. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Draper, Utah. GE Capital Retail Bank operates as a subsidiary of General Electric Capital Corporation.[4]
GE Capital Retail Bank acquired MetLife Bank from MetLife in 2011.[5]
For more information on GE Money Bank in the U.S., see GE Money.
Former operations
Austria's GE Money (formerly GE Capital Bank) was founded in 1994 after the successful acquisition and merger of Mercurbank and AVABANK. Today, it's one of Austria's leading consumer and auto finance businesses and a market leader in retail sales financing. Based in Vienna, with a network of branches throughout the country, the business provides a variety of innovative financial services including auto lending, private lending, sales finance and third party personal lending. The primary focus is on consumers, customers and business partners, such as car dealers, retailers and loan brokers.
The Austrian division was purchased, along with the German, Finnish and British store card operations of GE Money, by Grupo Santander in January 2009.[6]
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Canadian General Electric1
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GE Security2
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Whatman1
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Engine Alliance (50%)
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (60%)
GE Honda Aero Engines (50%)
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NBC (1926-1930, 1986-2004)
NBCUniversal, LLC (2004-2013)
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Trivection oven
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Edwin J. Houston
Elihu Thomson
James Cash, Jr.
Ann Fudge
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Rochelle Lazarus
Roger Penske
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Nela Park
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BBVA Compass*
BMO Harris*
Citizens Financial Group*
City National (California)
Comerica
Deutsche Bank*
Fifth Third
First Niagara
HSBC Bank USA*
Hudson City
John Deere Capital
M&T
New York Community
People's United
Santander*
SunTrust
Synovus
TD Bank*
UnionBanCal*
Utrecht-America*
Zions
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An historical vote at the European Parliament
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Restitution and Reparation :
An historical vote at the European Parliament!
The State of the African Diaspora is pleased to announce the vote of a Resolution in the European Parliament that includes a Call for restitution and reparation.
Louis-Georges Tin, Prime Minister of The State of the African Diaspora has worked with the ″CRAN″ (Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires de France) and ″ENAR" (European Network Against Racism) to make this happen. He has started a campaign on slavery and colonisation that has attained several achievements in terms of restitution and reparation in France, Belgium and now in the EU Parliament.
The text adopted by a large majority of the Members of the European Parliament states…
7. Recalls that some Member States have taken steps toward meaningful and effective redress for past injustices and crimes against humanity – bearing in mind their lasting impacts in the present – against People of African Descent;
8. Calls on EU institution and the rest of Member States to follow this example which may include some form of reparations such as offering public apologies and the restitution of stolen artefacts to countries of origin."
""Crimes against humanity", "redress", "restitution", "reparation" – these are the words we have been campaigning for, and after all these lobbying efforts, I am pleased that they are in this text", said Louis-Georges Tin.
"For the first time ever, the European Union takes a clear position for reparation and restitution. It is historical and it is a strong signal to all the countries of Europe, and also to other countries like the USA, Brazil, Colombia and even the countries of the CARICOM, where the debate is still continuing", added the Prime Minister.
The State of the African Diaspora, has a strong agenda for Reparation and calls state leaders and defenders of human rights to take action to ensure these recommendations are implemented as soon as possible : restitution of colonial treasures; museums; scholarships for students of African Descent; amending school curricula and textbooks; foundations for the memory of slavery and colonisation; agrarian reforms; fundings for movies on slavery and colonisation; cancelling of debts for African countries; real policies for development (and no more neo-colonialist efforts through western companies); climate justice and reparation and support for repatriation for the diaspora – are only a few examples of what can be done for global justice.
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Resident voice: The role of tenants in running affordable housing
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Act Local: Empowering London's neighbourhoods
24 September 2019 | Joe Wills
Pat Turnbull makes the case for tenants to be given a greater say in running their own housing – and how to do it.
In the two years since the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people, there have been many discussions about how to ensure the voices of social housing tenants are heard. On this occasion, I'd like to flip that question and ask: how do we get landlords and our government (at all levels – local to national) to better listen to tenants?
That's a question that should be on the minds not just of tenants but of housing managers, community engagement workers, councillors, MPs, local journalists and others who could make a difference.
It's worth first reminding ourselves why it is important to seek out and listen to the views of tenants. In the wake of Grenfell, this might feel obvious – but with 14 families still living in temporary accommodation two years on, it's clear that at least some in social housing could do with a recap.
First, tenants and leaseholders know what is happening in our homes and neighbourhoods better than anyone else. This is all the more so in London, a city of increasing transience, in which social housing tenants and residents still form the most stable of communities.
Second, and too often forgotten: we pay the wages. Our landlords exist to serve their tenants and should therefore be keen to know what we think of their service. Working against this is a persistent myth that social housing tenants are getting something for nothing, and should be grateful for whatever we get regardless of quality.
Third, there is little choice for those living in social housing, particularly in London where some 78 per cent of the housing need backlog is for social rented homes. If we have fire safety concerns, our choice is between staying put and campaigning or moving into poorquality private lets, risking homelessness if we can't keep up the rent. This means that social housing tenants rarely "vote with their feet" and leave if there is a problem with their landlord or the building, even a serious one.
Consumer-style approaches to hearing from tenants (think "focus groups" and "mystery shoppers") are increasingly popular among housing associations and councils alike, but are of limited use when it comes to curbing institutional complacency where it exists. Participants in these initiatives are often self-selecting or selected by the landlord. If they raise unwelcome concerns, their views can be easily dismissed as those of just one tenant.
The best landlords have an active ear close to the ground, taking complaints seriously and prioritising putting things right. How can we make sure that all landlords follow their example? And how do we ensure that tenants are listened to by local, regional and national government as well?
As we see it, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Here are five mechanisms that already exist which landlords and government workers could make better use of to ensure they are listening to tenants:
1. Tenants and Residents Associations (TRAs)
When it comes to dealing with their landlords, social housing tenants amplify their
voices by forming local TRAs: it is harder to dismiss what's said by a committee elected by their neighbours at an open annual meeting. For housing managers, this can be a mutually beneficial relationship: TRA committees are an accountable ear on the ground and worth their weight in gold, especially for those having to split their time across various estates. Some councils and housing associations provide resources and grants to support their TRAs. This should become standard practice: councils and housing associations should be required to set aside a proportion of tenants' rents to provide TRAs with grants to help cover running costs.
2. The Right to Manage and the Right to Transfer
These are two little-known rights that give council tenants the ability to take matters into their own hands when things are going awry with their landlord. Subject to various safeguards and a ballot, the former allows tenants to jointly take on the management of their estates by forming a Tenant Management Organisation (TMO); the latter pushes this further by allowing tenants to form a community-led housing association or Community Land Trust (CLT) to take full ownership of their homes. TMOs, CLTs and housing co-ops are all resident-run membership organisations, democratically accountable through annual elections.
Unlike KCTMO (the management organisation responsible for Grenfell Tower), most TMOs are small-scale, managing several hundred properties or less, with an estate-based housing office. Godwin and Crowndale Tenant Management Co-operative in Camden manages just 173 flats across two neighbouring blocks. It was formed in 1992 by residents who were at their wits' end about entrenched antisocial behaviour problems. Now – 27 years on – the TMC and the community are thriving, with the resident-run board able to respond quickly and effectively when problems do arise. In Bermondsey, tenants on the board of Leathermarket Joint Management Board (JMB) led the development of 27 new council homes on a former garage site on the Kipling Estate.
When in charge of the budget and other decisions, tenants can ensure that their needs are put first. Taking ownership can also help protect residents from imprudent demolition, or loss of community areas and green spaces to profit-making ventures (West Kensington & Gibbs Green Community Homes are a great example of tenants campaigning for this). We'd like to see both rights extended to housing associations to ensure all social housing tenants have this option. Of course, social landlords can prevent matters getting to that stage by working in a serious and collaborative manner with their TRAs.
3. Ballots and full community involvement in regeneration and largescale development areas
Living on public land, social housing tenants and leaseholders are disproportionately vulnerable to losing their homes and green spaces in regeneration schemes, as councils and housing associations seek to plug holes in their budgets or meet housing delivery targets. Yet lower-income households are typically the least likely to be involved in the decision-making process.
At London Tenants Federation (LTF), we believe that estate regeneration should be resident-led and demolition should be a last resort. We've had some success in calling for the introduction of ballots to protect tenants from the worst demolition schemes, though we believe the Mayor of London could still do more to protect the unnecessary demolition of valuable, existing social rented homes.
Furthermore, tenant representatives could be involved a lot more in the development of borough-wide planning and housing policy, and in scrutinising planning applications. LTF has recently done grant-funded work creating networks of tenants and other community groups to influence large-scale developments in London, including the Grand Union Alliance in the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation area. However, we feel this could become more standard practice if the boroughs supported it and the Mayor drew up a Statement of Community Involvement for his Opportunity Areas.
4. The Local Authority Committee System
While abolished under Labour, the Localism Act gave councils the freedom to revive the system in 2012. This could bring more people (including tenants) into debates around and scrutiny of decision making. The Committee System allows councils to delegate decision making on certain areas (e.g. housing or planning) to committees or subcommittees comprised of elected councillors. Rather than decisions being made behind closed doors by a cabinet or an elected Mayor, this opens the process up to greater accountability and scrutiny. We challenge more councils to take up this opportunity and – as often occurred in the past – to extend invitations to local elected tenant representatives who could speak up for social housing in their borough.
5. Tenants' Federations
These are forums that bring together elected tenant reps of individual social landlords to share information and collectively hold their landlord to account. Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations, one of few federations in London to be funded by their council, runs successful tenant-led campaigns whilst also providing training, legal advice and other resources to TRAs in Southwark. Tenant federations and organisations make up the membership of London Tenants Federation. Together we ensure that tenants' local and grassroots perspectives are taken into account in London-wide planning policy and decision making, most recently feeding into the draft new London Plan.
As with TRAs, we'd like to see more landlords set aside funds to support the running of tenants' federations. Bodies such as these and our own London-wide federation are more able to actively engage with the wider voluntary and community sector. Recently, this has enabled us to successfully campaign for the GLA to set up a Housing Panel that brings together voluntary and community sector organisations (including ours) to feed into the Mayor's housing policy.
More could be done. There has been much discussion of a national body to represent tenants. Tenants' federations, fed by a thriving network of local TRAs, TMOs and co-ops, could provide the strong foundations and grassroots accountability that would give such a body the legitimacy it needs to succeed.
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6 Ways to Stop Digital Piracy
Posted by Mathieu Harel
Content Piracy | Content Security | Digital Piracy
With content owners increasingly worried about seeing the value of their investments disappear in the face of concerted piracy attacks, here are 6 ways to stop digital piracy. Updated December 2022.
Looking at the global scope of video content piracy activities, there is both causes for hope and cause for alarm. On the one hand, there are increasing industry initiatives that seem to be working and at least stopping the acceleration of piracy; on the other, there are more and more routes for the pirates to get illegal content to the consumer. There is also a constant evolution of the techniques used to pirate content, with new illegal approaches such as CDN Leeching presenting significant and worldwide challenges for some of the biggest names in the industry.
Once upon a time, the barriers to viewing pirated material were significant enough to put many viewers off. Files had to be found on torrent indexing sites, malware and poor-quality material needed to be sifted out, and the material had to be downloaded, often converted, and then coaxed to play on a television set. The picture quality was often poor, and the audio sometimes worse.
Fast forward a few years, and everything is so much easier. While legitimate viewers have more options than ever before, such as with our Secure Video Player, to watch premium content in high quality, consumers looking for illegal content can also choose from a proliferation of viewing platforms that are live streaming pirated material. The pivot towards app-based television has opened up whole libraries of pirated material on set-top boxes and more.
While there are still more legitimate IPTV services than not, 23 million viewers across 9 million households in the USA used a pirate IPTV subscription service last year, while the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance estimated that €3.21bn was lost by the Pay-TV industry in Europe to illegal IPTV services in 2021 alone. It estimates that 4.5% of the European population use illicit IPTV, rising to 11.8% of the 16-24 demographic.
So, how to stop piracy? What can operators do? We've broken down the anti-piracy protection measures broadcasters and operators can take into six different areas, adapted and updated from a presentation given by Olivier Dufour, CEO of France, Motorsport Network, at our TVLS 2018 event. Individually some of these techniques are powerful in their own right but taken together; they represent a new culture of affirmative anti-piracy action that represents a step-change in the battle against content pirates and a roadmap charting how to stop illegal downloading.
Stopping digital piracy in its tracks
1. Remove the Incentive
One of the most-effective ways of dealing with piracy is by removing the incentive for the consumers to look for pirated content. Effectively this can be characterised by offering a good product and a good user experience at a fair price. The advent of AVOD driven services has provided more flexibility than ever with this, as companies are able to provide premium, subscription and ad free services alongside cheaper ad-subsidised ones, with a range of different technical options covering picture resolution and number of devices as well. The result is a tiered approach that is becoming increasingly common worldwide.
There are also differences between approaches in different countries. As of 2021, Netflix's price range in India was $6.70 to $10.99 (approx), but it also had a mobile-only offering that costed an even cheaper $2.70 (approx) per month. Indeed, mobile-only offers are increasingly important in emerging economies, and price competition is fierce.
Price, though, is not the only differentiator. The importance of the user experience cannot be understated; viewers want sympathetic interfaces that contain the usual sophisticated bells and whistles such as personal recommendations, and they want excellent picture quality with no buffering and/or latency. The more the industry can provide that at a realistic cost, the fewer people will be driven towards pirate arms.
You are not going to stop everyone from watching pirated content, but this can remove some of the more casual illegal consumers using digital piracy services.
2. PR & Education
There are several strands to this, but effectively the goal is to highlight to the consumer that piracy is a crime and it is illegal. To those within the industry, this is obvious; to those outside it, it is anything but.
We've written recently about the problem of password sharing and how up to 4O% of US consumers are sharing login credentials. This has become a normative crime — one that 'everyone' does, and so the activity no longer appears illegal because the behaviour is normal. The usual example given is speeding, but video piracy is prevalent enough that maybe it should replace speeding in textbooks.
Indeed, Netflix has made this a very public issue during 2022 and looks to be moving forward with plans to substantially diminish password sharing through the course of 2023.
Efforts made to remind viewers that piracy is both morally wrong and a crime can prove successful in driving down numbers, as have been campaigns that have highlighted the role of organised crime in pirate activities, exposure to malware and inappropriate material, and the danger to advertisers of negative brand association with pirate sites.
3. Barriers to Entry
In the same way that you want to make it easy for consumers to choose legal alternatives, you want to make it hard for the pirates. The era of unprotected content is long gone. Content owners looking to protect their investment and Intellectual Property will only strike licensing deals with operators that can demonstrate that they take such threats to the revenue stream seriously in turn.
What that means in practice is changing all the time. Where once card-based Conditional Access Systems were as sophisticated as operators could get, the move towards IP and OTT delivery has necessitated a transition to software-based Digital Rights Management in turn. Even so, there is no single technology that can guarantee security. The best practice now involves a multi-disciplinary approach that encompasses both prophylactic anti-piracy measures and the following two criteria governing detection and enforcement as well.
4. Technology & Operations
You can't fight ghosts; you need to know what content is being pirated and where. That means being able to identify content, a live pirate stream, as having come from your own video ecosystem. That requires technical intervention at the pre-transmission stage. Monitoring is the key to success here, whether automated — and there are some interesting developments in AI monitoring of video streams, deployed and under development — or human-led. In an ideal world, at least for now, a hybrid solution is typically deployed.
Once a breach has been detected, swift action is necessary to deal with it. This has become ever-more important in recent years as piracy has pivoted towards real-time streaming and the lucrative illegal revenue streams associated with live sport in particular (the premium prices paid for accessing sports content making it a particular target).
Here, high-level agreements with the search engines and social networks consumers use to locate pirated content are key to rapid and real-time action.
5. Legal & Enforcement
There are a variety of countermeasures that TV Service Providers can use to interrupt and remove pirated content, from the traditional take-down notices to increasingly sophisticated real-time messages. With the correct anti-piracy services, operators can identify consumers who are watching illegal streams and incentivize them to switch to legitimate services. These actions scale from soft to hard, with the harder countermeasures involving the introduction of law enforcement authorities.
The key is speed. While prosecution will always be a much slower process that happens after the event, removing the content from the internet as swiftly as possible is the best way to deter pirates and drive consumers towards legal alternatives.
6. Cooperation
While companies at all levels of the broadcast chain are used to competition, the losses to content piracy are too great for there not to be concerted efforts at cooperation. These need to take place at all levels of the industry and at all steps of the process, from production and on-set content security through to transmission.
The concept of herd immunity which is such a crucial aspect of global vaccination programs, is important here. The more companies and organisations that are involved, the more effective the overall solution. Unfortunately, the converse can also be true, and if there is any weak spot in the chain at any point, even in a place far removed from what was considered to be the primary route to the consumer's television or device, that weakness is there to be exploited.
How to Stop Digital Piracy for Good
How to avoid piracy? The short answer is that you can't. While content is being made and broadcasters and operators are charging a price for providing it to their viewers, there will always be pirates looking to exploit that relationship between supply and demand and turn it to their own advantage. What has changed over the past few years is that this has progressed from what was effectively a hobbyist industry to a serious criminal enterprise with equally serious consequences for the industry as well.
But while you cannot halt content piracy, you can mitigate against it. These six ways to prevent piracy that we have covered here are a start. There is, of course, a lot more detail that can be put on these too. For more information, you can find out about how VO's sophisticated Anti-Piracy Services operate and/or download a white paper on the subject here.
Mathieu Harel
Mathieu Harel is the marketing director of VO Anti-Piracy services. In the past, he has worked as a technical and integration leader, helping major European telecom operators deploy new software versions for their STBs. His 15-year career in the multimedia industry and his strong technical understanding of the end-to-end video delivery chain has given him a 360° view of the video delivery market. Prior to joining VO he was the marketing manager of the Canadian subsidiary of SII group. He holds a master's degree in Information Technology from ESIR (École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Rennes).
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Peppermint oil is an aromatic herbaceous plant that has many versatile functions. Oil pressed out of the herbaceous plant is pale yellow in color. It has a very minty aroma that is cool and bracing. Peppermint oil contains Omega-3 fatty acids, iron, magnesium, calcium, Vitamins A and C, minerals, potassium, manganese and copper.
Just make your kissable or get rid of tobacco smells; it provides many other health benefits of the peel, hair apart from your body. What are they for? Well, read our post here and visit for yourself.
Peppermint oil progresses healthy and absolved skin. The menthol in peppermint oil, soothing tired skin, brightens dull skin and makes to control additional oil production. When cut with a carrier oil, like jojoba, and put on topically, peppermint oil refreshes skin and get rid of oil. By containing and getting excess oil on the skin, peppermint oil can help prevent acne and congested pores. Therefore, the skin color is clear and luminous.
Peppermint oil turns as an effective hair tonic when mixed with other requirement oils like tea tree oil, coconut oil, castor oil and even Vitamin E oil.
Forget it for 24 hours prior to washing your hair.
Repeat this 3 times a workweek to make rid of lice completely.
Or else, you can also dilute peppermint oil with olive oil if you feel any sort of skin irritation.
Peppermint oil as well reduces the itchy sensation consorted with dandruff.
Peppermint oil gives a tingling sensation when rubbed down onto the scalp which means that the oil is working on balancing the pH levels. This serves to counteract the effect of excessive oil production. Hence it cuts the hair greasiness. This stimulates hair follicles and increases blood circulation in the scalp, encouraging hair growth.
Peppermint hydrates the hair follicles from within to make your mild, shining and smooth hair. Rub a few drops of peppermint oil on your hands and smooth it through the hair. Moreover, peppermint oil is non-greasy and will make your hair pleasantly scented. It makes the sack equally easily be used with hair straightening tools as a hair protecting serum.
Several modern researches have concluded the numerous benefits of this herbaceous plant. It has anesthetic, aesthetic, astringent, decongestant, antiseptic and antimicrobial properties which help to handle a number of health conditions like cold, flu, sinusitis, dry cough, fever, chills and digestive troubles.
Peppermint oil comprises vitamins A and C, omega-3 fatty acids, and minerals, including potassium, manganese, iron, magnesium, calcium, and bull. The numerous health benefits of peppermint oil take its power to treat several health troubles.
Peppermint oil is supposed to cure an upset stomach. Use peppermint oil as a seasoning agent in food or add a few drops in a glass of tender water and drink it after your meal. Being communicative in nature, peppermint oil helps to dispel gas. It also relieves stomach and bowel spasms and is the best antidote for an upset tummy.
Peppermint oil benefits the respiratory system. The menthol in peppermint oil supports to make the respiratory pamphlet. The oil of peppermint acts as an expectorant and provides relief during a regular binge of cold and cough, and to a greater extent serious sinusitis, asthma, and bronchitis. Use peppermint oil as a cold wipe along the chest or inhale it done a vaporizer and you will notice that your nasal congestion has gone away.
Peppermint oil is likewise applied for relief from headaches. Inhaling a few drops of peppermint oil sprinkled on a handkerchief or dabbed on your wrist will get away a nagging headache. It too behaves as a stress buster.
Peppermint oil is applied to handle tension and annoyance. Later a long, tiring day, inebriate yourself in a bath or shower after using some drops of peppermint oil to your torso. The tonic properties of the oil will make you feel excited once more. The cooling properties of peppermint oil benefit by getting rid of the pain. It can be taken orally and applied topically.


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Often asked: Who Won The Soccer Game Between Usa And Jamaica?
1 Who won the soccer game USA vs Jamaica?
2 Did USA beat Jamaica today?
3 Where can I watch the Gold Cup Jamaica vs USA?
4 Is Costa Rica safer than Jamaica?
5 Is Jamaica a US ally?
6 Is there a Jamaica in the US?
7 Where is Jamaica USA?
8 Why is Qatar in Gold Cup 2021?
9 Which jockey has won the most Gold Cups?
10 Why is Suriname in Concacaf?
11 Where can I watch Jamaica vs USA soccer?
12 Where can i stream Concacaf Gold Cup?
Who won the soccer game USA vs Jamaica?
ARLINGTON, Texas (July 25, 2021) – The U.S. Men's National Team defeated Jamaica 1-0 on an 83rd-minute header from Matthew Hoppe in a closely-contested Gold Cup Quarterfinal on Sunday night at AT&T Stadium.
Did USA beat Jamaica today?
The United States men's national team advanced to the Gold Cup semifinals on Sunday with a dramatic 1-0 victory over Jamaica in the quarterfinals. It was Schalke striker Matthew Hoppe who grabbed the winner, heading home with pace in the 83rd minute for his first international goal.
Where can I watch the Gold Cup Jamaica vs USA?
USMNT vs. Jamaica Live Stream: Watch Gold Cup Online, TV Channel, Lineups
Time: 9:30 p.m. ET.
TV Channel: FS1, TUDN, Univision.
Live Stream: You can stream the match on fuboTV.
USA XI: Turner; Moore, Robinson, Sands, Vines; Acosta, Lletget, Busio; Arriola, Dike, Hoppe.
Is Costa Rica safer than Jamaica?
Travelers generally feel safer in Costa Rica compared to Jamaica when exploring or going out at night outside their all-included resort. Though there can thefts or car breaks in Costa Rica, the safety issues are nowhere near Jamaica's, which is known for its strong poverty and high crime rates in some areas.
You might be interested: Do Professional Soccer Players Wear Ankle Braces?
Is Jamaica a US ally?
The United States established diplomatic relations with Jamaica in 1962 following Jamaica's independence from the United Kingdom. The United States and Jamaica maintain strong and productive relations, based on trust and mutual interest.
Is there a Jamaica in the US?
Jamaica, Vermont The Vermont city wasn't actually named after the Caribbean island. The word Jamaica is from the Natick language of the indigenous people living in the region. The word means "beaver." Located in the state's Windham Co., the name was even included in the city's charter and encompasses 42 square miles.
Where is Jamaica USA?
It is situated some 100 miles (160 km) west of Haiti, 90 miles (150 km) south of Cuba, and 390 miles (630 km) northeast of the nearest point on the mainland, Cape Gracias a Dios, on the Caribbean coast of Central America. The national capital is Kingston. Port Antonio, Jamaica.
Why is Qatar in Gold Cup 2021?
How did the Qatar get into the Gold Cup? The soccer governing bodies in the Asian and CONCACAF regions formed a working strategic partnership in 2018 to support the growth of soccer in both parts of the world. As part of that arrangement, Qatar was invited to participate in the 2021 and 2023 Gold Cup tournaments.
Which jockey has won the most Gold Cups?
Taaffe is the most successful Gold Cup jockey to date, famous for his partnership with ARKLE, Taaffe rode 32 Cheltenham winners, including four Gold Cups (1964-1968) and five Champion Chases.
Why is Suriname in Concacaf?
– Suriname is an up-and-coming team thanks to dedicating their efforts in growing the footballing culture to strengthen their team. Their mission is to have a strong team that will lead them into international tournaments and put the country's name on the list of contenders to win the Concacaf Gold Cup.
You might be interested: Quick Answer: How Long Is Youth Soccer Season?
Where can I watch Jamaica vs USA soccer?
If you are not in front of a television, FOX.com/live and the Bally Sports app will live stream the match. You'll need a cable subscription to access both. If you don't have one, you can get a free trial from YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, AT&T TV Now, FuboTV, or Sling TV to stream the match.
Where can i stream Concacaf Gold Cup?
How to watch Gold Cup 2021 matches in USA
TV channels: FOX, FS1, FS2.
Spanish-language TV: Univision, UniMas, TUDN, Galavision.
Streams: fuboTV (all 31 matches) | FOX Sports & TUDN apps for authenticated subscribers.
Who Retired From The Us Women's Soccer Team?
FAQ: Why Is Extra Time Added In Soccer?


The team at Specsavers in Goole is pleased to be stocking a new range of exclusive glasses by CONVERSE, the name behind some of the world's most iconic and enduring sneakers.
They will be available to buy in-store from Wednesday 17 June.
Rob Winlow, store director at Goole Specsavers, said; 'Converse is a truly legendary name and we're really excited to be offering its new glasses collection exclusively at Specsavers.


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Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.

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Megan's Tiny Treasures: No Barking!
It's late in the evening but I promised, so here it is, the first images for Puppy Love. This is our 2012 Valentine workshop. The workshop will be held at Tin Soldiers on 11 and 12 February, and in Randburg at Elaine's studio on 24 March. We are open for bookings!
The puppy is made from mohair, about 28cm tall, and will have lots of painted detail, coming tomorrow! At the moment it looks like a little ghost.
Here I used the same pattern and miniaturised and adapted it to make a pug. It is not part of the workshop, but I will be showing you how to create many dog breeds from the basic pattern.
Puppy Love wears a romper. I have hand painted the fabric to get the exact design I want. This is part of the workshop, you will have the opportunity to paint your own fabric in class. There are more accessories, I will have pictures of that soon.
Can't wait, Megan!! LOVE the little doggie.
want to do this too....looks great!


Gone to Progressives every one.
"Monetary crank" was never exactly a household phrase, but I know for certain it was much more widely used and understood a century ago than it is today. If you had nutty ideas about money (such as: "cranking out lots of it will make us wealthy"), you were a monetary crank. We don't hear the term much these days even though the world is full of people—some in high places—whose pictures ought to be in the dictionary right next to the term.
The French did it all over again during the 1790s, when Robespierre and the revolutionaries argued that the recipe for a currency of reliable value was paper and ink mixed with guns, bayonets, and confiscated Catholic Church property. That little ride took about five years too—and ended in a similar wreck.
The inflationists' attention then turned to another medium: silver. The greenbackers became "silverites," and their rallying cry became "Free Silver at 16 to 1," meaning they wanted the federal government to buy as much silver as was available and stand ready to redeem 16 ounces of it for an ounce of gold. They also wanted legal tender paper silver certificates printed as well. They had enough influence to secure passage of the Bland-Allison Act in February 1878—the first of the acts putting the government in the business of purchasing silver for coinage.


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On August 16 2010 I wrote an article describing my predictions for the future of how we work.
Three years later I feel more strongly about these predictions. I also know that as they become more and more real in others lives, there is an even stronger need for effective communication.
With so many of us becoming free agents, we must be able to have meaningful and effective conversations to get work and to get work done.
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Organizations will maintain a skeleton staff and outsource 80% of their work. Not only will this reduce their risk and responsibility, it will reduce the financial demands for compensation, benefits, training and development as well as equipment, facilities, and management. Already being outsourced are support functions such as Information Technology, Finance, and Human Resources.
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21 minutes ago, The Prince of Porne said:
It's a good thing Hot Pie didn't resurface this season, or he would have had a vote on the council purely by virtue of being a character we recognized. I'm surprised Ed Sheeran wasn't there.
I'm surprised they didn't have Hot Pie suddenly appear in the final episodes as Dany's chief executioner, because creatively it made sense to them.
Ser Hedge
Location:Brexitland
46 minutes ago, SeanF said:
evulz
I wanted to ask you many posts ago
: "What's evulz pls?"
1 minute ago, Ser Hedge said:
It's from TV tropes "For the evulz" meaning a character doing, evil things just to be evil, usually while twirling their moustache.
On 5/19/2019 at 10:04 PM, LHakaLH said:
Tyrion wants Jon to kill Dany because Dany kills people, and killing is bad. Tyrion wants Jon to kill Dany for the good of humanity because Dany kills people for the good of humanity. Tyrion is sure that killing Dany will create a better world order because Dany is sure that killing people will create a better world order. Dany's problem is that she never questions that her own actions are in everyone's best interest, so she needs to be killed for what Tyrion never questions is everyone's best interest. Hmmm...
To be fair, this is pretty simple. Dany just killed like a million people for no reason. She's talking like she might do it again, perhaps to people they love. But the show can't have Tyrion lay it out like that because it has to be more dramatic-y.
On 5/19/2019 at 10:06 PM, SeanF said:
If Jon was going to kill Dany, it would have made more sense for him to know that he was sacrificing his own life in the process.
Even Caligula's assassins were put to death by the Praetorian Guard. Unless a coup comes from within the army, they're going to react very badly to their commander in chief being murdered.
Didn't Calgula surround himself with Germans or something so they wouldn't have any loyalty to anyone else?
3 hours ago, JMCH said:
The thing stopping Jon from being king of Westeros was Jon not wanting to be king of Westeros.
I wish this is how it had been clearly shown on the show. Jon not being able to live with the dishonour of what he has gone, elects to re-found the NW (my vows were for life - maybe in the books he is not really resurrected, so rings more true), or to seek solace in the far north.
Not railroaded by Snarky Sandra, automaton, ex-friend and holy trinity "Lord Tarly, Grandmaester, and Saruman the White, but no longer NW if you are sending guys back up there, but I'll wear black coz its cool" Samwell and GW.
LOL. Of course. indeed.
11 minutes ago, darmody said:
My point was that the loyal bodyguards of even complete monsters will usually avenge them.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/hbo-boss-on-game-of-thrones-finale-backlash-coffee-cup-gate-prequels-status-and-why-spinoffs-arent-in-the-cards/ar-AABIyC8
Is this guy serious? Really, people should read this stupid interview!
I see that on this site, we give almost exactly the same rating as they do IMDB.
I think a consensus is emerging.
7 minutes ago, SeanF said:
And in imdb this season a shit ranking for a series...
And the guys at HBO are happy and praising D&D! I don t understand… People didn t just hate the final...
1 hour ago, divica said:
My preference would be for none of the prequels to be made. Let the myths stay myths. As for more recent history: The account of the Dance is fascinating partially because the sources don't agree "But Mushroom's testimony, which is dismissed by most ...", why remove the ambiguity...
Let's finish the books first: ASOIAF with all the loose ends, Dunk and Egg, and FaB2, I think that's plenty.
It's tempting to have Dunk and Egg on TV, but since that's a much simpler story, there is the danger it gets "Hobbit"ified to make it another GOT.
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And, I imagine that people rating the series at 4.5 are rating it 8-10 for acting, camera-work, beautiful set pieces, and 0-2 for plotting and characterisation.
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32 minutes ago, Ser Hedge said:
Sandra, Queen in the North.
"Hey, didn't we just have a King in the North?"
"Yeah, now we got a queen."
"What happened to 'im? He dead?"
"Naw, not since last time he died."
"Well, where is he?"
"Up North."
"Then why ain't he still king?"
"Not this North. The North-North. Where they's guarding the Wall still."
"What, he playin around with some Wildling girl?...Ah, them highborn."
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1 hour ago, SeanF said:
All the great tragedies have you sympathising with the villain protagonist, even as you recognise that they have to die, or that if they win, their victory will be completely hollow.
Exactly. I think that Dany's turn would have been fantastic if they actually showed us that hollow victory - people who do not love her like the freed slaves did, the cultural shock of the different hygienic standards than what she had been used to from Essos.... the reality crash + the losses + feeling alienated could have been built really easily. And Jon could have been there for her at least to listen and hold her hand as a friend if not as a lover, there was so much that the dynamics between the two never even touched...
I think they should have let KL stand a little longer and let Dany destroy only the Red Keep, that would have caused enough damage and loss of life to make people rather unhappy with her. Then there would have been growing tension and Dany acting increasingly paranoid and distraught, until she would snap at a display of hostility and burn innocents for the crime of not liking her.
And you needn't go any further for a villain to sympathise with than the source material. Cersei is a horrible human being but she is also a mother whose son died in her arms and who doesn't have a single friend, which makes her such an easy target for Taena's manipulation. The walk of shame as a moment of her breakdown was a true masterpiece, and the show translated that well, as well as her reaction to the Purple Wedding. Pity they couldn't keep the standard.
Macbeth still has his courage at the end, and Othello his honour.
Othello is the single play which made me cry in the theatre. The man was totally broken, just a shell of his former self, but what really got me was Emilia, Jago's wife, when she realised to what ends her love and trust for her husband had been abused.
Daenerys's end in this series is more like a Jacobean splatterfest, - such as 'Tis Pity She's a Whore" where characters just slaughter each other for the evulz.
Or, "she's mad 'cos she's a Targaryen, nothing to be done". Wow, what a psychological masterpiece.
Dunno if this was based on a historical account, but in Graves' I, Claudius, Caligula's German guard nearly goes on a killing spree hearing about his death, and was only prevented by someone lying to them that the emperor survived. I would fully expect the Dothraki to do just that, and given Greyworm's turn for evil, perhaps even the Unsullied. Either way, neither the Dothraki nor the Unsullied should have had any say in anything - they were a foreign invading force loyal to the Mad Queen, and as such massacred in retaliation, which would make the whole thing even more tragic due to their role in saving the realm from the NK.
BTW, when Jon was imprisoned, why didn't Arya use her ninja skills to break him out? Or, why not have her infiltrate the prison to break him out, and him refuse because he felt he deserved to be punished? Or even better, not have him imprisoned at all, and rather let him refuse the crown and punish himself? As in, give him some agency?
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Kikajon
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HBO & all the actors and people involved in the series will never admit the level of disruption inadequacy shame (I am lacking the words) they have created. Everyone one of them will defend in spite of every evidence their work in order to get at least some money back. I bet no one will ever publicly admit the level of disaster and money loss this last series will bring about. If they did some heads might roll, it's the way it goes in (badly managed) business.
Low Sparrow
Such a truly horrible episode...
Why is Tyrion still alive? He said "our queen doesn't keep prisoners long" or something to that effect. Um, how long did she keep Vary or any of the others? SHE DID NOT! She just executed them. Grrr .. more bad writing and fanservice.
Why is John stll alive? Dogon or the unsullied should definitely have killed him
Why is Stansa still alive? Edmure Tully should have lopped off her bitch head after she ridiculed him like that. I know this one's a reach, but look, the precedent had already been set. Kill the Queen of the realm, you're sent to the Knight's Watch (kinda sorta). So, what would the punishment be for killing the "queen" of just one province? A few weeks in Dorne?
Why is Arya still alive? She should have died from that stab and twist to the gut a couple seasons ago. If not from the severity of the wound itself, which even with today's medicine survival would be far from assured ... most definitely from the infection after she jumped in the sewage filled water of Bravos afterwards.
Why is Bronn still alive? You mean NONE of the lords of The Reach, the wealthiest of the regions has enough money to hire a decent assassin to get rid of this shady character who has been made their Lord, and has no army?
I thought D&D wanted to "shock" ... just kill off everybody then and elect some random guy you introduce in the last episode as the new king of Westeros.
It would be a better ending than this pile of dung I suffered through...
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2 minutes ago, Kikajon said:
The sad thing is that sometimes, even if you write something with you heart's blood, it may not be enough. I believe that for many actors and crew this is the figuratively the case, and so they don't take the ctiticism well. Yet, nothing I see with Benioff and Weiss gives me the impression that there was this huge emotional investment on their part, definitely not with the latest seasons. Which is why I'm not going to spare them a thing.
They have made Bran king because he can tell stories.
Which D&D are not capable of.
It must seem a divine and majestic capability to them...it is a sort of coming out, isn't it?
1 hour ago, The Prince of Porne said:
Ed Sheeran wasn't there, but we did learn he had his eyelids burnt off in the Loot Train attack. Bronn's hookers were too busy talking about him in the first episode instead of, you know, acting like Happy Hookers of King's Landing.