Members from different social organizations and trade unions came out on February 4 to the streets to protest against the TPPA, signed at the same day in New Zealand by 12 countries, including Chile, Mexico, Peru, United States and Canada.
Members from different social organizations and trade unions came out on February 4 to the streets to protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, known as TPPA, signed at the same day in New Zealand by 12 countries, including Chile, Mexico, Peru, United States and Canada, which are part of a geographic area that represents 40% of the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The protest, which brought together more than a thousand people, was organized by the organization "Chile Mejor sin TPP" (Chile better without TPPA), and included the participation of public sector trade unions affiliated to the Public Services International (PSI) in Chile.
"The TPPA not only affects the sovereignty and democracy of Chile, since it will be others who will decide over our laws, but also our rights will be violated by corporations."
In addition, Araya criticized the "secrecy" of the agreement, which has more than 5,000 pages and was made transparent less than three months ago.
"The treaty will harm access to medicines because the TPPA will allow large pharmaceutical corporations in the world to set prices, and state enterprises as CENABAST will be transformed into a small or medium business with no ability to compete."
"Organizations like 'Chile better without TPPA'", which affiliates from PSI are part of, have been raised to denounce the content of this treaty and require Parliament to reject this deal, because it will directly affect the ability of the Chilean State to guarantee its sovereign decisions in relation to the multinationals."
Insunza said that this treaty is tailored for large multinationals, which will ensure their profits and not the needs of the citizens of a country and its autonomous decisions.
Representatives of PSI affiliates in Chile added that this agreement not only restrict national sovereignty and raise the prices of medicines, but attempt against food sovereignty, threaten human rights, alter the internal rules and limit the Constitution of the country.
The nations which have signed the TPPA are United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Chile, Mexico and Peru.
Now, each State shall have a period of two years to ratify the agreement in their respectives Parliaments. The TPPA will enter into force 60 days after completion of the internal procedures in each country member.
If this not happens in the next 24 months, TPPA also takes effect at the expiration date, if at least six of the adherents represent 85% of the combined GDP of the block. In other words, it needs just the rich countries approval.


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The Scary Facts About Formaldehyde in Cigarette Smoke
The Inside of Cigarettes
After You Quit
How to Quit Smoking
Nicotine Withdrawal
Smoking-Related Diseases
Terry Martin quit smoking after 26 years and is now an advocate for those seeking freedom from nicotine addiction.
Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD on October 02, 2015
Sanja Jelic, MD, is board-certified in sleep medicine, critical care medicine, pulmonary disease, and internal medicine.
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Most Common Human Exposures
In Cigarette Smoke,
In E-Cigarette Vapor
Short-Term Health Risks
Long-Term Health Risks
Formaldehyde is a colorless, flammable gas with a strong odor. A small amount of formaldehyde is produced in our bodies naturally, but most formaldehyde is released into the environment by the burning of fuels and household waste. Cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapor both contain formaldehyde.
Most of us think of formaldehyde as a liquid but, in reality, we are probably thinking of the substance used to preserve biological specimens --- formalin --- a mixture of formaldehyde gas, water, and methyl alcohol.
Formaldehyde is also an industrial chemical that is present in a wide variety of applications. It's used to produce building materials (including pressed wood products), many household products, and is even a part of the manufacturing process for wrinkle-free cloth. Formaldehyde is also used in glues, adhesives, and disinfectant products.
Surprisingly, formaldehyde is also used to deactivate live viruses and toxins used in making vaccines. The process is regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Dangerous Chemicals in Cigarettes
The most common way people are exposed to formaldehyde is by breathing air that is tainted with it in poorly ventilated indoor environments. Products made with formaldehyde can release this gas over time, causing the concentration to build up in enclosed areas.
A common source of formaldehyde exposure comes from cigarette smoke, which is laden with formaldehyde.
Research suggests that e-cigarette vapor also contains formaldehyde, though in quantities that are usually less than what is present in cigarette smoke. Breathing secondhand and third-hand smoke indoors is a contributing factor for formaldehyde exposure as well.
Formaldehyde is a by-product of the combustion process of cigarette smoking. Formaldehyde is generated by additives, specifically sugars, burnt with the cigarette. In general, it is the very the first puff of the cigarette (first-hand smoke) that kicks off abnormally high levels of formaldehyde, and it is inhaled to a lesser degree by people by people in the vicinity of the cigarette smoker (second-hand smoke).
Even more interestingly, recently re-discovered and newly published research from the early Nineteen Nineties conducted under rigorously controlled conditions by the Phillip Morris Tobacco Company established that the chemicals from every cigarette smoked remain in the environment --- on the walls, the carpeting, the furnishings --- for months after smoking, circulate repeatedly in the air, and even inter-react to form new toxins and carcinogens. Elevated levels of toxic smoking chemicals, including formaldehyde, remain in the air for more than 12 hours after smoking.
Formaldehyde is responsible for some of the nose, throat and eye irritation smokers experience when breathing in cigarette smoke.
In a letter published in the January 22, 2015 issue New England Journal of Medicine, researchers suggest that a "masked" form of formaldehyde is present in the condensed liquid from e-cigarette vapor in concentrations much higher than in cigarette smoke. The scientists call it masked because it is a slightly different form of formaldehyde—one that they feel is more likely to be deposited on delicate lung tissue, once inhaled.
Formaldehyde levels in the blood deriving from e-cigarette vapor tend to register less than the same blood levels of formaldehyde tracing to cigarette smoke. The average measured blood level of formaldehyde deriving from e-cigarette vapor is approximately 1mg, but this value is dependent in part on the heat setting of the electronic cigarette device being used to administer the e-cigarette vapor and the amount inhaled.
Facts About e-Cigarettes
When formaldehyde is present in the air at levels exceeding 0.1 parts per million, some individuals may experience short-term health effects, including:
Watering of the eyes
Burning sensations of the eyes, nose, and throat
Some people are quite sensitive to formaldehyde, while others have no reaction to the same level of exposure. People who are sensitive to formaldehyde run the risk of developing asthma from continued exposure to inhaled formaldehyde.
Lab studies have shown that exposure to formaldehyde could cause nasal cancer in rats, and some studies of industrial workers have suggested that formaldehyde exposure might be associated with nasal cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer in humans.
In 1995, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that formaldehyde was a probable human carcinogen. In a reevaluation of existing data in June 2004, the IARC reclassified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen.
Because formaldehyde rapidly changes in chemical composition once it's absorbed, scientists think inhaled formaldehyde is primarily an upper respiratory tract cancer risk. More research is needed to understand what happens when formaldehyde reaches the lungs.
Researchers also believe that formaldehyde is a significant risk factor for myeloid leukemia.
To date, science has identified more than 7,000 chemicals, including 250 poisonous and 70 carcinogenic compounds in commercially produced cigarette smoke.
If you're still smoking, start working on a plan to quit. Smoking is a dangerous habit that has serious health consequences.
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An opportunity to learn why Rotary is a great organisation to be part of. Scroll down to watch a video of 'peoples' views' of Rotary, as an organisation, and what it can offer as a member.
The Rotary Club of Haslemere is part of an organisation of both men and women who like to volunteer their time and talents to serve their communities at home and support worthwhile causes overseas.
The Club is part of the largest humanitarian organisation in the U.K. for people who wish to give something back to the community in a dedicated and friendly way.
The Club meets weekly, on a Thursday, at the Georgian House Hotel in the High Street Haslemere. We enjoy a meal, formulate ideas for events and activities, but above all to enjoy friendship and have fun. The club operates in a way that is non-political, non-religious, and is open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
Above all we aim to have fun.
Each Rotary Club operates autonomously within the Rotary family and selects charities and good causes it wishes to support each year.
Rotarians are welcome to visit any Club anywhere in the world. Clubs work together providing links between countries all over the world.
The 4 way Test, of the things we think, say, or do.
If you would like to join us you will find a warm welcome from Club members. If you would like to make contact to find out more, please fill in your information on the form below the video.
Please watch the video below, by clicking on the arrow head, and learn more about Rotary.


You have to wonder who would break into a church. That's what Smithfield Police are trying to determine. A burglar alarm apparently scared away intruders at the First Missionary Baptist Church on Caswell Street in Downtown Smithfield.
Police responded to a burglar alarm at the church around 12:40am Monday. When they arrived they discovered a window had been broken out.
No items were reported missing. Anyone with information about the break-in at First Missionary Baptist Church is asked to call Smithfield Police at 919-934-2121.


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Sample a Little Sondheim By Peter Filichia
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall after the Masterworks Broadway powers-that-be decided, "Yeah, let's put out a compilation called The Essential Stephen Sondheim."
Yes, doing such would be a nice way of celebrating Mr. Stephen Sondheim's 86th birthday. But saying that there would be an album called The Essential Stephen Sondheim was the easy part.
Now — what to choose?
After all, musical theater's greatest composer-lyricist has written hundreds of songs. How can anyone be correct in whittling down all those into one "essential" album?
No one could, which us why The Essential Stephen Sondheim had to be at least a two-CD set. Even so, considering that you could spend a full 24-hour day playing one Sondheim song after another non-stop and still not cover them all, reducing the oeuvre into one disc of cuts just wouldn't cut it. So there are two, with the songs chronologically arranged.
Even after the first selection was okayed by everyone, there had to be more controversy. By including "America" from West Side Story, do we choose the rendition from the 1957 original cast album or the 1961 soundtrack?
Usually, songs in film versions of Broadway shows from the '50s onward are reasonably similar to their stage counterparts, but not in this case. At the Winter Garden, the young Puerto-Rican women between themselves discussed the pros and cons of living on the isle of Manhattan; on screen, the girlfriends expressed solidarity in their love for their new country and did battle with the (understandably) disgruntled Shark men.
(I say the film lyric as well the idea behind it is the superior version of the two. Well done, choosers!)
"Somewhere" is from the film, too. Notice in the liner notes that Jim Bryant (who dubbed Richard Beymer) and Marni Nixon (who subbed for Natalie Wood) are properly identified as the singers.
Including "Tonight" (from West Side's original cast album) was wise, if only to remind us that even at a mere 27, Sondheim could wax poetic and come up with a profoundly insightful lyric.
"And make this endless day endless night" expresses a feeling we've all experienced: waiting for something can make the day seems endless, but when the event you've been waiting for finally arrives, you never want it to end.
Onto Gypsy and "Everything's Coming up Roses." This had to be included, not only because it resulted in one of musical theater's finest first-act curtains, but also because Sondheim actually created an idiom with these four words.
Seriously: go to www.clichesite.com, look under "E," and you'll find "Eveything's coming up roses" awaiting you between "Everything but the kitchen sink" and "Everything is copasetic."
Using a cliché is never a good idea for a writer, but actually creating a line good enough to enter into the mainstream – and see it stay there — certainly is.
"You Gotta Have a Gimmick" had to be included. Have you ever known anyone who doesn't love this number? By the way, a common misconception is that Chotzi Foley, as a result of her fanciful name, is the gravel-voiced Mazeppa; no, the women who sounds as if she's been gargling with razor blades is named Faith Dane — i'faith, as Shakespeare would have said – and is still with us at ninety-two.
"Comedy Tonight" (from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) reminds us that Sondheim can write a dazzler while out-of-town and under the gun. On the other hand, the title song of Anyone Can Whistle was definitely in place before the Philadelphia tryout. This was the ballad that silenced many with uneducated ears who'd been insisting that, yes, Sondheim was a great lyricist but couldn't come up with a beautiful melody. Then they heard this one. Case closed.
"Everybody Says Don't" shows us how ahead of his time Sondheim was in the early '60s. Years later, hippies and yippies in the counter-cultural movement would essentially be in line with every protest that Sondheim made in this song.
Sondheim himself might be disheartened that The Essential Stephen Sondheim includes the title song – or any song — from Do I Hear a Waltz? He has always, always, ALWAYS discredited this show – but, as many of us have inferred, he's basing his objections on the miserable time he had collaborating with composer Richard Rodgers. They did not see eye-to-eye and often went toe-to-toe.
Frankly, both men did wonderful work, which we'll discuss in detail in May when the 1965 musical is revived at Encores! But any song with this lyric must be considered first-rate: "Such lovely blue Danube-y music / How can you be / Still?"
The collection doesn't neglect Evening Primrose, the 1966 TV musical that Sondheim did before he made the most spectacular Broadway comeback since – well, since his mentor Oscar Hammerstein II rebounded from a lousy '30s to an historic '40s. Although no soundtrack album was ever officially made of this hour-long TV special, Bernadette Peters does "I Remember" here, which won't engender any complaints.
Now comes the '70s and while we've already seen genius from Sondheim, here he raises the stakes. We're lucky to have Pamela Meyers' "Another Hundred People," for after the premiere Boston performance of Company (when the song was in the second act), there was serious talk of dropping it. A night later, it was inserted where it's resided happily ever after.
Speaking of comebacks, when Company opened, Elaine Stritch hadn't been in a Broadway musical in more than eight years. In "The Ladies Who Lunch," Stritch and Sondheim remind us that there are indeed women who are always "claiming they're fat" — so that everyone can say, "Oh, you're not! You look GREAT!" Sondheim's tossing off, "Another thousand dollars" lets us see how money means nothing to these women.
Having written a great opening number out-of-town in "Comedy Tonight," Sondheim in Company showed that he could write a great eleven o'clock number in a hotel room far away from New York town. The result was "Being Alive," sung by Dean Jones for only a short run in the theater, but a never-ending run on long-playing record, 8-track tape, cassette, CD, digital download and beyond.
That's the first disc of the two. We'll tell about the second disc of The Essential Stephen Sondheim next Tuesday. Do drop in!
Peter Filichia also writes a column each Friday at www.mtishows.com and www.kritzerland.com and each Monday at www.broadwayselect.com. His book The Great Parade: Broadway's Astonishing, Never-To-Be Forgotten 1963-1964 Season is now available at www.amazon.com.


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Grisly Cold-Case Killing Comes Back to Life
A jury convicts Howard Pilmar's wife and brother-in-law in horrific stabbing
By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff
Posted Mar 10, 2019 1:55 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Manhattan businessman Howard Pilmar was found stabbed to death in 1996, but the crime went unpunished—until now. On Friday, a New York jury found Pilmar's wife and brother-in-law guilty of luring him to his office to stab him dozens of times. "They planned it as a trap, and they set it up as a trap," says the lead prosecutor, per the New York Times. "And he didn't stand a chance." The case hinged on wife Roslyn Pilmar's need for the $1 million-plus in insurance money she received from Howard's death. She had been caught embezzling $160,000 from a dentist's office where she once worked, which she still owed, and had roughly $14,000 in unpaid taxes. Witnesses also said Roslyn, 61, had carped about her husband's verbal abuse.
That apparently motivated her brother, Evan Wald, 45, who once said he would kill Pilmar if he ever hurt Roslyn. Plus a drop of Wald's blood was at the scene, and police noticed a cut on his hand that he attributed to picking up a broken plate. "His hand was cut. So what?" his lawyer said in court. "That doesn't mean he killed anyone with a knife." But it was enough for the jury, who took 3 1/2 days to convict them of killing the office supply entrepreneur and upscale coffee shop pioneer, per the New York Post. The verdict sent Howard and Roslyn's only child Philip storming out of the room—he'd always sided with his mother—and Howard's stepmom Carol into sobs. "I feel relieved," she said. "Finally justice." The perpetrators each face 25 years to life. Roslyn's lawyer says they plan to appeal. (Read more murder stories.)
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Mar 10, 2019 3:31 PM CDT
One thing happening more and more often are old cold cases being reopened. Because of improved police technology and precise DNA detection, surprised people are suddenly seeing police on their door steps. Crimes of passion are usually cracked quickly because in that fit of rage, people leave clues everywhere. But crimes plotted methodically are harder but even those, there is often some clue that surfaces.
JJ Michaels
Way to bury the lead of "why this took so long" ..oh, wait...you didn't bury it, you IGNORED it. It's Newser. Figures.


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Q: JqGrid forms server validations and custom error messages I have editable grid with toolbar that has buttons for editting adding and deleting records.

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*I would like to use server side validations from my asp.mvc to display validation messages on jqgrid edit form. (is this posible?)

*I would like to overide message (Internal server Error ...) on edit form when exception occurs in the application. (this should be possible but I just cant figure out how to do this, perhaps using errorTextFormat, but how?  )

Can someone provide example?

A: You are right that errorTextFormat is the correct way to get server response in case of HTTP errors and display the corresponding error message.
First of all your server have to return response with an HTTP error code in the HTTP header. Then you should define your implementation of the errorTextFormat event handle either as a part of prmEdit, prmAdd, prmDel parameters of the navGrid or you can overwrite jqGrid default settings (see here). I personally prefer to set errorTextFormat by modifying of jQuery.jgrid.edit and jQuery.jgrid.del. An example of the corresponding code you can find in the following old answer.
The exact code of errorTextFormat function should depend on the format of the server response. I use ASP.NET MVC with WFC inside of the site and the server can return either JSON encoded string response (if the error come from throw new WebFaultException<string> ("my error text", statusCode); which I thrown explicitly) or sometime HTML response. In my implementation of errorTextFormat I test which kind of error response I received and convert the server response. Here is the code fragment:
my.errorTextFormat = function (data) {
    var str = data.responseText.substr(0, 1);
    var str1 = data.responseText.substr(0, 6).toLowerCase();
    if (str === '"') {
        var errorDetail = jQuery.parseJSON(data.responseText);
        var s = "Fehler: '";
        s += data.statusText;
        s += "'. Details: ";
        s += errorDetail;
        return s;
    }
    else if (str1 === "<html " || str1 == "<html>" ||
             data.responseText.substr(0, 169) === '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\r\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">\r\n<html ') {
        var bodyHtml = /<body.*?>([\s\S]*)<\/body>/.exec(data.responseText)[1];
        return bodyHtml; //bodyContents1;
    }
    else {
        var res = "Status: '";
        res += data.statusText;
        res += "'. Felhercode: ";
        res += data.status;
        return res;
    }
};
jQuery.extend(jQuery.jgrid.edit, {
    ...
    errorTextFormat: my.errorTextFormat
});
jQuery.extend(jQuery.jgrid.del, {
    ...
    errorTextFormat: Testportal.errorTextFormat
});

The code is not perfect, but you can use it to create your own one.

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The white 'Raw Bloke', the Aussie bushman, the tough man is a'dying in Australia. At the same time Australia is leading and impacting on global 'sophisticated society' in terms of culinary influence such as fusion cooking. In fact – I'd argue stereotypes of Ozzie aren't enough – the bushman is much more bushman and the urban male much more urban.
Why is the 'pure, white' bush bloke culture dying? There are a variety of reasons – immigration from Asia, (Australia is more multicultural) rural depopulation and lastly the money is flowing to the town not the country.
The basic idea is the tent turns up and anyone can challenge a professional fighter. (6-10 fighters tour with the tent) Women box women. it's not just a man's game.
At Birdsville, NSW (population 150) the annual boxing tent is the highlight of the outback calendar with 1000's of people flying in for the celebration of beer, boxing and BBQ. As attendees say "It's the event of the outback year"; others go further "I live for Birdsville".
Recently Fred was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to Birdsville and for keeping an icon of Australia alive.
So let's think about this. Food the most basic and key badge of a society – is becoming more sophisticated at the same time as a significant part of the population is fighting for "tucker" survival. Le cru et le cruit are becoming more 'cruey' and more 'cuitey' a la meme temps.
Recently, after I wrote a piece of copy on Corporate Responsibility for a global company, I was asked to take out the word 'fair' on the grounds that it was 'too philanthropic'. I was surprised: don't 'fair' and 'philanthropic' mean something quite different? We generally think of 'fair' as referring to an abstract system of equality and justice, while philanthropy is more about the subjective, personal feelings of the donor.
Perhaps my client put the two concepts together because, however contrasting, they're both now inimical to the way Corporate Responsibility is heading. While justice and philanthropy may carry different meanings in ethics, they're equally 'in excess' of the corporate world's newly internalised and systematised take on ethics.
Broadly speaking, the language of Corporate Responsibility now describes ethics as a direct profit driver, integrating it into core business activities. It's an attempt to 'own' ethics, remedying the way it's previously stuck out like a sore thumb in business symbolism.
For example, residually speaking, Corporate Responsibility is about 'philanthropy'. In practice, that means companies give money to their favourite charities. It's an add-on: a nice thing to do that's more or less arbitrary and subjective. It has only a tangential and inessential relationship to business.
Dominant symbolism sees a turn from philanthropy to justice. The idea of Fair Trade comes in – casting doubt on old-fashioned 'charity-giving' as top-down, patrician and unsustainable. Companies start offering consumers ethical options, based on giving suppliers and workers a fair deal and fair conditions.
It sounds good – but ideas of justice and fairness still don't fit. They continue to trouble business by referring to an ethics grounded and legitimised outside the corporation itself. After all, 'fair' applies to everyone, everywhere: it's an idea based on a transcendent, public and shared sense of what's right and wrong.
Just as old-fashioned philanthropy represented something 'in excess' of profit (subjective feeling), so does the idea of fairness: it belongs to a public language that's not reducible to the corporate realm.
The emergent term in Corporate Responsibility – ethics as a growth engine – seeks to cut off these uncomfortable 'sore thumbs' (philanthropy and fairness) and integrate ethics into the internal symbolic system of business. Now, companies are talking about ethics as the way they're going to drive growth – not as a nice add-on (philanthropy), or as an incursion of public value systems into their thinking (fairness). From now on, ethics isn't going to be anything 'other' to business: it's going to be reclaimed as inherent.
For an example, we can turn to a concept now in vogue in Corporate Responsibility: 'Natural Capital'.
'Natural Capital' means seeing the planet itself as an asset: we can either tend it carefully so we can live sustainably off its interest, or just erode its capital worth, as we have been doing. The symbolism here also means seeing the earth as a 'service provider' which gives companies the air and water they need to do business, just as Apple supplies them with laptops.
What's interesting about the symbolism here is the way it erodes all distinction between 'ethics', 'nature' and 'profit'. All terms find themselves reduced to the language of the corporation itself, which can now claim independence from external symbolic systems and values.
Print is dead, long live magazines!
We all know print is in decline and as a medium it is unsustainable.
However, these days the business of newspaper publishing comprises print, web and apps, and it is a tale of two trends. Whilst the US and Europe are experiencing a decline, the emerging markets are showing signs of growth with LatAm expecting the largest increase of 4.7% over the next 4 years. The burgeoning free newspaper market is also seeing growth in the Asia Pacific and Latin American regions.
But interestingly people do expect to pay for their mobile sources of information and entertainment. Apps like Flipboard aggregate news from multiple publishers where you can build your own 'news playlists'. Apple has launched Newsstand on the iOS 5 (although typically they retain all the data). The new Facebook apps allow publishers to be exposed to a wider audience via exposure in the Ticker and on your newsfeed; The Guardian app gets over 1 million page views a day from Facebook. With the increase of information sharing editors or curators are being superseded by friends or 'people like you'.
Ever since Esquire launched its Augmented Reality enabled edition 2 years ago, magazines have been looking for different ways to engage their readers on multi platforms by innovating and diversifying their offer.
Vice started life 17 years ago as a niche free magazine in Canada and now has over 30 local editions, it runs an international creative agency, an IPTV channel and even a pub! The Reader's Digest meanwhile makes only 20% out of actual publishing – the rest is from financial & other services. Meanwhile in China, Vogue and local women's fashion glossy Raili regularly publish editions of 350 pages and have even created TV shows.
Contract and niche magazine publishing are thriving. British photographer Rankin has just launched a new bi-annual, Hunger, whilst 'We Love Pop' is a new title from Egmont. Even Conde Nast's Style.com has launched in print and the BBC has just sold all their titles to a Venture Capitalist so business can't be all bad.
Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Centre for Civic Media at MIT, an internet advocate, agrees that the internet doesn't match the ability of printed media to bring you information you didn't know you wanted to know. This presents an interesting argument in defence of 'stumbling across' the printed page.
Ultimately, the media owners who survive will be those who offer a unique service to brands, enabling them reach their discrete communities of loyal readers. With insights into their readers, publishers and brands can partner to co-create impactful content with the resources of editorial and in-house creative teams.
In the previous article on Hermes, starting with cultural origins in ancient times, I took note of the figure of the deity as a channel of communication and as a message. Here I want to focus on more recent times and 'culture capital' – specifically how marketing and advertising scoop up ready-to-use forms from history and universally recognised traditions as well as from local legends and myths in order to connect stories and symbols with their products (goods/services) and in such a way as to grab the attention of the potential consumers. This is clear demonstration of a principle, defined by Russian semiologist Yuri Lotman, who maintains that 'old texts', which circulate in culture, are there to be appropriated in terms of what exists on the surface and then refreshed by means of new codes.
In the case of Hermes, on the basis of some limited research (which we invite Semionaut readers to supplement) on uses of the name and figure in modern trade and advertising, it appears that in the mass consciousness in the most cases the deity remains the one who rapidly delivers messages and objects from one point to another. His most usual physical attribute – the wings (whether on his hat or sandals) is the most exploited symbol, preferred among the shipping and logistic companies. In Bulgaria we note a small difference, maybe because we here are close to the Hermes's area of origin and operation, in that we see his attributes and name incorporated into tourist agencies and one well-known publishing house. Obviously for the locals the deity also has meaning of transfer.
But there are some curious exceptions, for example the use of the caduceus (Hermes's sceptre) and serpents in logos as a reference to the medicinal skills of the Greek god. There is also one case from the not too distant past where a famous typewriter brand was named 'Hermes', clearly alluding to the god's connection model with the invention of writing. Like the use of his name of publishing house this has a connection with transfer of knowledge and wisdom by means of some kind of medium – language and books. In a sense, time is a medium as well and as we saw in the earlier piece, time and space are mixed together when Hermes does what he does – moreover, he is among the immortals and his actions are set in the mythologically timeless.
In contrast with all these relatively easily decodable meaning, among the richest and most eloquent examples for the use of this mythologeme in its full brilliance remains the name of the French luxury Hermès. This company was established in 1837 by Thierry Hermés and is today one of the major players in the fashion and luxury business alongside such brands as Gucci and Louis Vuitton. The Hermès offer includes perfumes, jewelry and various accessories but the main products which bring the fame of the company are bags and sandals. As we might presume, the brand;'s communication deliberately emphasizes the connection between these products and the deeds of Hermes as messenger wearing winged sandals, one of whose main attributes is a bag. From this point we could decide that the company does not count only on the coincidence in the names of its founder and the one of the Greek deity. Moreover, in the creation of the visual identity (predominantly in its logo) Hermès has always been prepared to access tangentially other symbolic accoutrements of the deity. A historical execution of the logo (above), for example, puts the main element – a cab with one horse in front of it – above two images of the caduceus (placed on the left and on the right side, with wings and interlaced serpents added). In this way we have an opportunity to observe the mythology in action – in new context but with the message adapted to the perceptions of a contemporary consumer audience.
We would love to hear comments below about any other variations on this broader theme of how Hermes symbolism has been and is deployed by brands.
Our understanding of innovation and creativity is accelerating in this age of technology and openness. And from a corporate point of view, there is a thirst for answers … what is the "magic formula" of creativity in business? How do we innovate to maximize profit and competitive potential? How do we do so faster and faster? What is the right management model for innovation? How do we stay true to brand while being open to outside ideas and influences (which have been clearly demonstrated as critical triggers to new ways of thinking and doing)?
Does great innovation come from play or science? And how significant are the "ways of being" of each of these two brands on talent recruitment?
Lohr suggests that invariably, these two different creative archetypes will begin to converge and adapt. The question is, where will it go?
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Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); TRICARE Uniform Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Benefit-Prime Enrollment Fee Exemption for Survivors of Active Duty Deceased Sponsors and Medically Retired Uniformed Services Members and Their Dependents
Agency: Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary
This final rule creates an exception to the usual rule that TRICARE Prime enrollment fees are uniform for all retirees and their dependents and responds to public comments received to the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on June 7, 2013. Survivors of Active Duty Deceased Sponsors and Medically Retired Uniformed Services Members and their Dependents are part of the retiree group under TRICARE rules. In acknowledgment and appreciation of the sacrifices of these two beneficiary categories, the Secretary of Defense has elected to exercise his authority under the United States Code to exempt Active Duty Deceased Sponsors and Medically Retired Uniformed Services Members and their Dependents enrolled in TRICARE Prime from paying future increases to the TRICARE Prime annual enrollment fees. The Prime beneficiaries in these categories have made significant sacrifices for our country and are entitled to special recognition and benefits for their sacrifices. Therefore, the beneficiaries in these two TRICARE beneficiary categories who enrolled in TRICARE Prime prior to 10/1/ 2013, and those since that date, will have their annual enrollment fee frozen at the appropriate fiscal year rate: FY2011 rate $230 per single or $460 per family, FY2012 rate $260 or $520, FY2013 rate $269.38 or $538.56, or the FY2014 rate $273.84 or $547.68. The future beneficiaries added to these categories will have their fee frozen at the rate in effect at the time they are classified in either category and enroll in TRICARE Prime or, if not enrolling, at the rate in effect at the time of enrollment. The fee remains frozen as long as at least one family member remains enrolled in TRICARE Prime and there is not a break in enrollment. The fee charged for the dependent(s) of a Medically Retired Uniformed Services Member would not change if the dependent(s) was later re-classified a Survivor.
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Contract Period for Task and Delivery Order Contracts-Deletion of Congressional Reporting Requirement (DFARS Case 2014-D018)
Agency: Defense Acquisition Regulations System, Department of Defense
DoD is issuing a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to delete an obsolete congressional reporting requirement.
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Payment in Local Currency (Afghanistan) (DFARS Case 2013-D029)
DoD is issuing a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to incorporate into the DFARS policies and procedures concerning payment for contracts for performance in Afghanistan.
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Clauses With Alternates-Taxes (DFARS Case 2013-D025)
DoD is issuing a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to create an overarching prescription for a tax-related clause with an alternate and add a separate prescription for the basic clause. The rule also includes in the regulation the full text of the alternate clause.
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Limitation on Use of Cost-Reimbursement Line Items (DFARS Case 2013-D016)
DoD has adopted as final, with changes, an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement section 811 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, which prohibits DoD from entering into cost-type contracts for production of major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs). In implementing section 811 of the NDAA for FY 2013, DoD further defined the prohibition on entering into cost-type contracts to explicitly state the prohibition also applies to entering into cost- reimbursement line items for the production of MDAPs.
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Storage, Treatment, and Disposal of Toxic or Hazardous Materials-Statutory Update (DFARS Case 2013-D013)
DoD is issuing a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to conform with statute, amend the clause prescriptions, and update the basic and alternate clause for the prohibition on storage, treatment, and disposal of toxic or hazardous materials.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Agency: Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force
The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
36(b)(1) Arms Sales Notification
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated July 21, 1996.
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Agency: Department of Defense, Department of the Army
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Department of the Army announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Limitations on Terms of Consumer Credit Extended to Service Members and Dependents
Type: Proposed Rule
The Department of Defense (``Department'') proposes to amend its regulation that implements the Military Lending Act, herein referred to as the ``MLA''. Among other protections for Service members, the MLA limits the amount of interest that a creditor may charge on ``consumer credit'' to a maximum annual percentage rate of 36 percent. The Department is proposing to amend its existing regulation primarily for the purpose of extending the protections of the MLA to a broader range of closed-end and open-end credit products, rather than the limited credit products currently defined as consumer credit. In addition, the Department is proposing to amend its existing regulation to amend the provisions governing a tool a creditor may use in assessing whether a consumer is a ``covered borrower,'' modify the disclosures that a creditor must provide to a covered borrower, implement the enforcement provisions of the MLA, as amended, and for other purposes.
Information Collection Requirement; Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Independent Research and Development Technical Descriptions
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), DoD announces the proposed extension of a public information collection requirement and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. DoD invites comments on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of DoD, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved this information collection under Control Number 0704-0483 for use through January 31, 2015. DoD is proposing that OMB extend its approval for use for three additional years.
TRICARE Calendar Year 2015 TRICARE Young Adult Program Premium Update
This notice provides the updated TRICARE Young Adult program premiums for Calendar Year (CY) 2015.
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service is deleting two systems of records notices in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The system notices are entitled T7290, Nonappropriated Fund Accounts Receivable System and T7330b, Defense Finance & Accounting Service Transaction Interface Module (DTIM).
Agency: Department of Defense, Department of the Navy
The Department of the Navy proposes to alter the system of records notice, NM-05724-1, ``Fleet Hometown News System (FHNS) Records'' in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. This system will be used to collect, maintain and generate public awareness of the accomplishments of Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Army, Air Force and government civilian personnel by distributing news releases and photographs to the hometown news media of individual service members or civilian employees. Hometown news media include, but are not limited to, newspapers, radio and television stations, and college/university alumni publications throughout the United States and its territories and their respective Web sites. Release of this information is done with the individual's full cooperation and written consent.
The U.S. Transportation Command proposes to alter a system of records, F024 AF USTRANSCOM D DoD, entitled ``Defense Transportation System Records'' in its existing inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. This system is transferring from the Department of the Air Force to the U.S. Transportation Command. This system be used to schedule the movement of individuals, and the movement and storage of personal property being transported in the DTS; to manifest and screen individuals and personal property being transported; to verify eligibility for transportation for customs, immigration and transportation security purposes, as well as to manage and optimize DoD transportation resources; to identify and trace lost shipments; to submit claims for damaged or lost shipments; to facilitate payment of commercial transportation service providers; and to monitor effectiveness of traffic management functions.
The Department of the Air Force is deleting five systems of records notices in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The system notices are entitled ``F071 AF OSI C, Criminal Records''; ``F036 AFOSI C, Internal Personnel Data System''; ``F036 AFOSI A, Career Development Folder''; ``F036 AFOSI D, Air Force Special Investigations Academy Individual Academic Records''; and ``F036 AFOSI B, Informational Personnel Records''.
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service proposes to alter a system of records notice, T7340, entitled ``Defense Joint Military Pay SystemActive Component'' in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. This system will ensure accurate and timely military pay and allowances to active component military members (including those who are enrolled at a military academy and those who participate in voluntary separation pay, Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program, basic military trainees or payment to a financial organization through electronic fund transfer program (including allotments and issuance and cancellation of United States treasury checks and bonds)); to document and account for military pay and allowance disbursements and collections; to verify and account for system input transactions; to identify, correct, and collect overpayment; to establish, control, and maintain member indebtedness notices and levies; and to provide timely, complete master individual pay account review; and to provide internal and external managers with statistical and monetary reports and to maintain a record of related personnel data.
The Department of the Air Force is deleting two systems of records notices in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The system notices are entitled ``F036 AETC U, Flying Training RecordsStudent'' and ``F044 AETC A, Drug Abuse Control Case Files''.
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Scientific Advisory Board; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce an open meeting of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). This meeting will be open to the public.
Judicial Proceedings Since Fiscal Year 2012 Amendments Panel (Judicial Proceedings Panel); Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Judicial Proceedings since Fiscal Year 2012 Amendments Panel (``the Judicial Proceedings Panel'' or ``the Panel''). The meeting is open to the public.
The U.S. Strategic Command is amending a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The system notice is FSTRATCOM 02, entitled ``Joint Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Management Enterprise (JSME).'' This system collects and maintains authorized users and points of contact for account management, internal housekeeping, access control, need-to-know determinations, and operational requirements for satellite communications.
Submission to OMB for Review; Prohibition on Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor
Agency: Department of Defense, General Services Administration, Agencies and Commissions, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB) will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement regarding prohibition on acquisition of products produced by forced or indentured child labor. A notice was published in the Federal Register at 79 FR 38894 on July 9, 2014. No comments were received.
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Submission to OMB for Review; OMB Circular A-119
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB) will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement concerning OMB Circular A-119. A notice was published in the Federal Register at 79 FR 38892 on July 9, 2014. No comments were received.
The Department of the Air Force is deleting a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The system notice is entitled ``F036 AETC V, Potential Faculty Rating System''.
Proposed Reduction in Hours of Operation at Lower St. Anthony Falls Lock and Lock and Dam 1, Located in Minneapolis, MN
Agency: Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers
The three Mississippi River locks in Minneapolis, MN (Upper St. Anthony Falls, Lower St. Anthony Falls, and Lock and Dam 1) currently operate 19 hours per day/7 days per week during the navigation season. This level of service follows the guidance from the Corps Inland Marine Transportation System (IMTS) Board of Directors. Section 2010 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (WRRDA) directed the Secretary of the Army to close the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam located on the Mississippi River at river mile 853.9 no later than 1 year after the enactment date of WRRDA 2014. With the expected closing of the Upper St. Anthony Falls lock, it is anticipated the remaining two Minneapolis locks will have less than 500 commercial lockages per year. To meet IMTS guidance, it is proposed Lower St. Anthony Falls and Lock and Dam 1 transition to one 10-hour shift per day/7 days per week during the 2015 navigation season and beyond. The navigation season on the Upper Mississippi normally begins in March, depending on river conditions, and wraps up by the end of November. Pool levels will not be affected by change of operating hours.
Board of Regents, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce the following meeting of the Board of Regents, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (``the Board'').
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Technical Amendments
DoD is making technical amendments to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to provide needed editorial changes.
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Domestic Source Restrictions on Certain Naval Vessel Components (DFARS Case 2014-D022)
DoD is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement the statutory domestic source restrictions on acquisition of certain naval vessel components.
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Multiyear Contracts-Statutory References and Cancellation Ceiling Threshold (DFARS Case 2014-D019)
DoD is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to update the cancellation ceiling threshold for multiyear contracts and to correct statutory references.
U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group; Notice of Advisory Committee Closed Meeting
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group. This meeting will be closed to the public.
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS)/TRICARE: TRICARE Pharmacy Benefits Program
This proposed rule would implement new authority authorizing an over-the-counter (OTC) drug program, make several administrative changes to the TRICARE Pharmacy Benefits Program regulation in order to conform it more closely to the statute, and clarify some procedures regarding the operation of the uniform formulary. Specifically, the proposed rule would: provide implementing regulations for the OTC drug program that has recently been given permanent statutory authority; conform the pharmacy program regulation to the statute regarding point- of-service availability of non-formulary drugs and copayments for all categories of drugs; clarify the process for formulary placement of newly approved drugs; and clarify several other uniform formulary practices.
Notice of Intent to Grant Exclusive Patent License; Grey Matter, LLC
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Grey Matter, LLC a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the field of use of Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicate (PMO) material for use as wearable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Wearable PPE will be designed for use in job-related occupational safety, health purposes, and other recreational activities. The PMO material will be designed to help protect from the hazardous chemicals of chlorine, ammonia, hydrogen chloride, sulfuric acid, hydrogen fluoride, formalin (formaldehyde), mercury, nitric acid, sulfur dioxide, phosgene, hydrogen bromide, nitric oxide, octamethylpyrophosphoramide, boron trifluoride, methyl bromide, phosphoryl trichloride, chlorine dioxide, bromine, nitrogen dioxide, phosphorous trichloride, fluorotrichloromethane, hydrogen sulfide, molybdophosphoric acid, toluene-2, 4-diisocyanate, fluorine, malathion, parathion, acetylene tetrabromide, 0-anisidine, sulfur trioxide, phosphine arsine, ethlene dibromide, pentachlorophenol, azinphos- methyl, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, potassium cyanide, tetrafluoroboric acid, tetrachloroethylene, cadium, deltamethrin, ethylamine, methylamine, ethylene dibromide, aldicarb, dichloroethyl ether, and nitrogen trifluoride in the United States, the Government-owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 7,754,145: Fluorphore Embedded/ Incorporating/Bridged Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas as Recognition Photo-Decontamination Catalysts, Navy Case No. 097,346//U.S. Patent Application No. 14/209,728: Microwave Initiation for Deposition of Porous Organosilicate Materials on Fabrics, Navy Case No. 102,325 and any continuations, divisionals or re-issues thereof.
The Department of the Army proposes to add a new system of records, A0040-66 ARNG, Medical Readiness and Waivers Records, in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. This system is used by the Army National Guard (ARNG) and U.S. Army Reserves (USAR) Surgeons to support recruiting and medical readiness of personnel in the Reserve Components.
DoD Investigative and Adjudicative Guidance for Issuing the Common Access Card (CAC)
This interim final rule establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for investigating and adjudicating eligibility to hold the DoD Common Access Card (CAC). The CAC is the DoD personal identity verification (PIV) credential. Individuals appropriately sponsored for a DoD CAC must be investigated and adjudicated in accordance with this part. Prior to this rule, DoD components have been implementing investigative and adjudicative requirements for Homeland Security Presidential Directive12 (HSPD-12) based solely on broad guidance issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This interim final rule elaborates on OPM guidance for component adjudicators who determine, based on review of investigative case files, whether to grant CAC eligibility to individuals who require: Physical access to DoD facilities or non-DoD facilities on behalf of DoD; logical access to information systems (whether on site or remotely); or remote access to DoD networks that use only the CAC logon for user authentication. The adjudicator's role is discussed further in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. The interim final rule provides the adjudicator with conditions that may be disqualifying and circumstances relevant to the determination of whether there is a reasonable basis to believe there is an unacceptable risk.
DoD Assistance to Non-Government, Entertainment-Oriented Media Productions
This rule establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for DoD assistance to non-Government entertainment media productions such as feature motion pictures, episodic television programs, documentaries, and computer-based games. This rule provides for oversight of production assistance decisions at centralized and senior levels of DoD to ensure consistency of approach among DoD and Service components with respect to support for entertainment media productions, including documentaries.
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Report on Alternative Measures of Allowable Reimbursement for Compensation of Contractor Employees
Agency: Department of Defense, Management and Budget Office, Executive Office of the President
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Department of Defense (DOD) seek public input for consideration in the development of a report to Congress on alternative measures of allowable reimbursement for the compensation of contractor employees. The report is required by section 702(e) of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113-67; enacted Dec 26, 2013).
Defense Policy Board; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Defense Policy Board (DPB). This meeting will be closed to the public.
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Enhancements to Past Performance Evaluation Systems
DoD, GSA, and NASA are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to accommodate the Architect-Engineer Contract Administration Support System (ACASS) and Construction Contractor Appraisal Support System (CCASS) modules within the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) database.
Department of Defense Military Family Readiness Council (MFRC); Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce a Federal advisory committee meeting of the Department of Defense Military Family Readiness Council. This meeting will be open to the public.
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement in Cooperation With the North Carolina Department of Transportation for Improvements to the US 70 Corridor Between the Town of LaGrange, Lenoir County and the Town of Dover, Jones County, NC, the Proposed Project Would Ultimately Serve as a Bypass to the Town of Kinston, NC
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), Wilmington District, Wilmington Regulatory Division is issuing this notice to advise the public that a State of North Carolina funded Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) will be prepared for improvements to the transportation system starting near the intersection of US 70 and NC 903 near the Town of LaGrange, Lenoir County, heading east near the intersection of US 70 and Old US 70 (NCSR-1005) near the Town of Dover, Jones County, NC.
Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Short-Term Projects and Real Property Master Plan Update for Fort Belvoir, Virginia
The Department of the Army announces the availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed update of the Real Property Master Plan (RPMP) for Fort Belvoir, Virginia, which includes proposed short-term projects and long-term development. In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the DEIS analyzes the environmental impacts associated with the proposed short- term projects, long-term development, and anticipated land use changes designated in an updated RPMP. The short-term projects are proposed for implementation by 2017. The long-term development projects are proposed for implementation by 2030. The DEIS assesses potential environmental impacts associated with future development and management of land, facilities, resources, and infrastructure. The updated RPMP incorporates adjustments to the land use plan in the RPMP that were made in the Final EIS for the Implementation of 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Recommendations and Related Army Actions at Fort Belvoir, Virginia (2007) and BRAC-related changes made since 2007.
Submission for OMB Review; Preventing Personal Conflicts of Interest for Contractor Employees Performing Acquisition Functions
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB) will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review an extension of a currently approved information collection requirement regarding Preventing Personal Conflicts of Interest for Contractor Employees Performing Acquisition Functions. This request for extension relates to FAR case 2013-022, Extension of Limitations on Contractor Employee Personal Conflicts of Interest, proposed rule, which published updated burden hours in the Federal Register at 79 FR 18503 on April 2, 2014. A notice was published in the Federal Register at 79 FR 33557 on June 11, 2014. No comments were received.
U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors Notice of Meeting
In accordance with 10 U.S.C. 9355, the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) Board of Visitors (BoV) will hold a meeting at Harmon Hall, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, on September 25-26, 2014. On Thursday, the meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. The meeting is scheduled to close to the public at 3:30 p.m. On Friday, the meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. and close at 11:35 a.m. The purpose of this meeting is to review morale and discipline, social climate, curriculum, instruction, infrastructure, fiscal affairs, academic methods, and other matters relating to the Academy. Specific topics for this meeting include a Superintendent's Update; USAFA Performance Measures Report; USAFA Academics Update; a Religious Respect Briefing; and an Athletic Department Update. In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR 102-3.155, one session of this meeting shall be closed to the public because it involves matters covered by subsection (c)(6) of 5 U.S.C. 552b. Public attendance at the open portions of this USAFA BoV meeting shall be accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis up to the reasonable and safe capacity of the meeting room. In addition, any member of the public wishing to provide input to the USAFA BoV should submit a written statement in accordance with 41 CFR 102-3.140(c) and 10(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the procedures described in this paragraph. Written statements must address the following details: The issue, discussion, and a recommended course of action. Supporting documentation may also be included as needed to establish the appropriate historical context and provide any necessary background information. Written statements can be submitted to the Designated Federal Officer (DFO) at the Air Force address detailed below at any time. However, if a written statement is not received at least 10 calendar days before the first day of the meeting which is the subject of this notice, then it may not be provided to or considered by the BoV until its next open meeting. The DFO will review all timely submissions with the BoV Chairman and ensure they are provided to members of the BoV before the meeting that is the subject of this notice. If after review of timely submitted written comments and the BoV Chairman and DFO deem appropriate, they may choose to invite the submitter of the written comments to orally present the issue during an open portion of the BoV meeting that is the subject of this notice. Members of the BoV may also petition the Chairman to allow specific personnel to make oral presentations before the BoV. In accordance with 41 CFR 102-3.140(d), any oral presentations before the BoV shall be in accordance with agency guidelines provided pursuant to a written invitation and this paragraph. Direct questioning of BoV members or meeting participants by the public is not permitted except with the approval of the DFO and Chairman. For the benefit of the public, rosters that list the names of BoV members and any releasable materials presented during the open portions of this BoV meeting shall be made available upon request.
Army Education Advisory Committee Meeting Notice
The Department of the Army is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Army Education Advisory Committee. This meeting is open to the public.


Tuesday night's UEFA Champions League quarterfinal second leg fixtures feature four traditional giants of the European Game.
England's Manchester United square up to Barcelona of Spain, hoping to overturn a 1-0 deficit, while Italian side, Juventus host Ajax Amsterdam, with that tie deadlocked at 1-1.
Today brings the conclusion of #BarçaMUFC.
These are the cup ties that define European football. United need to repeat their heroics in the last 16 when they overturned a 2-0 first leg deficit to beat Paris St Germain.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wants his superstar squad to go beyond their physical ability.
Barcelona, meanwhile, want to remain the instigators in the quarter-final tie. They carry a 1-0 advantage into the return leg, but know it won't be enough, unless they continue to exert pressure.
They've got United goalkeeper, David De Gea, in their sights. Barcelona goalkeeper, Marc Andre Ter Stegen, says that De Gea is one of the best goalkeepers right now.
In the other first class tie, the Grand Old Lady of Italian football is having trouble with the young upstarts from Ajax. The clash is deadlocked at 1-1, with the action moving to Turin.
Ajax Coach, Erik Ten Hag says the team knows they've gotten under the skin of Juventus, but it's still all to play for.
Juventus will lean heavily on their Portuguese talisman, Cristiano Ronaldo. Coach Massimiliano Allegri says that Ronaldo has extraordinary quality.
Ajax are unbeaten in the competition on the road. In the last round, they beat Real Madrid 4-1 away from home.
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In Well, Kron creates a complex exploration of our assumptions about whether or not we are responsible for our own illnesses. She draws on stories of her family's history of chronic illness, her own stay in an "environmental ecology clinic," and her subsequent transition to health. Woven into this are stories of her childhood in a racially integrated neighborhood which was "healed" from decline by her mother's community work. Kron places herself on stage with the character of her mother along with a chorus of four actors. These characters continually undermine Kron's plans for the play - a meta-theatrical conceit that has proven exceedingly delightful to audiences as it subverts the autobiographical form by removing the narrator's assumption of omniscience and forcing her to react as her intentions are derailed and her motives are questioned.
The action takes place in 18th century. The benevolent Thomas Coram has recently opened a Foundling Hospital in London called the "Coram Hospital for Deserted Children". Unscrupulous men, known as "Coram men", take advantage of the situation by promising desperate mothers to take their unwanted children to the hospital for a fee. The story follows a range of characters, focusing on two orphans: Toby, saved from an African slave ship; and Aaron, the deserted son of the heir to an estate, as their lives become closely involved with this true and tragic episode of British social history.
This dramatic and musical text is a phantasmagorical re-imagining of the Peter Pan story. When the very fabric of Everland is threatened by a manipulative and controlling Wendy, a band of fairies—led by Tinkerbell and aided by Captain Hook and a chorus of Mermaid Prostitutes—mount a defense. Nana, the Darling Children, and the Lost Boys take on new lives in this highly poetic, visceral, and visually stunning exploration of "the savagery of innocence" and the necessity of the imagination.
Anton Chekhov is undeniably unique and the four masterpieces he composed during his brief life have inspired the course of contemporary theatre for more than a century. His plays are beautiful ones, comedies he called them, but poignant, full of love and yearning, orchestrated by subtle recurring themes that weave through their four act structure.
Birch trees are almost their signature. And they are large cast plays of a dozen actors. But ideally with no "stars." Each is part of an ensemble and has a fully developed off-stage life—one full of memories, dreams, hope and fears And each too, no matter the size of his role has a "moment," a time in which one can identify with the angst of the buried life.
The Irene Ryan Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further education. The Irene Ryan Foundation awards 16 regional and two national scholarships annually.
Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation of Encino, California, has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student performers at each regional festival. These scholarships are made possible by the generosity of the late Irene Ryan who is best remembered for her portrayal of the lovable and feisty 'Granny Clampett' in The Beverly Hillbillies.
Students below were all nominated for the Irene Ryan Scholarship based on their performances.


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The European Union – Latin America and Caribbean Foundation (EU–LAC Foundation) is an international organisation created in 2010 by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union (EU), Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) with the mission of strengthening and promoting the strategic partnership between both regions, improving its visibility and encouraging the participation of the respective civil societies.

Established in 2011 in Hamburg, Germany, where it is based, the Foundation is a tool for bi-regional relations. Its activities are aimed at nurturing intergovernmental dialogue, in particular in seven strategic thematic areas: Higher Education; Science, Technology and Innovation; Sustainable, Resilient and Inclusive Economy; Climate Change; Culture; Multilateralism and Bi-Regional Association; and Gender. However, other themes such as youth and the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are transversal axes for all its lines of action, which allows the Foundation to be a key actor in the deepening and dynamization of the bi-regional strategic association. The Foundation has 61 members: 33 member states from Latin America and the Caribbean, 27 Member States of the European Union, and the European Union itself through its institutions.

History
During the fifth European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean Summit (EU–LAC Summit), held in Lima, Peru, on 16 May 2008, the initiative towards the creation of a bi-regional organisation was launched by the Heads of State and Government of LAC and the EU.

At the sixth EU–LAC Summit, held in Madrid, Spain, on 18 May 2010, the decision on the creation of the EU–LAC Foundation was launched by the Heads of State and Government of the EU and LAC, the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission. The Foundation was created as a tool for strengthening the bi-regional partnership and as a means of stimulating debate on common strategies and actions.

The EU-LAC Foundation formally started its work on 7 November 2011 with a transitional foundation status under German civil law. It is based in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany.

The agreement establishing the EU–LAC Foundation as an international organisation with legal personality under public international law was opened for signature during the CELAC and EU Foreign Ministers Meeting in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic on 25 October 2016 and entered into force on 17 May 2019.

Members
The Foundation consists of 61 members: 33 member states from Latin America and the Caribbean, 27 member states from the European Union, and the EU itself through its institutions.

Since 2010, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is the EU's counterpart in the bi-regional partnership process. The CELAC is composed of the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Complete list of the members of the EU–LAC Foundation:

Latin American and Caribbean Members

EU Members States

Objectives and Activities
The objectives of the foundation are:

 Contribute to the strengthening of the CELAC-EU bi-regional partnership process involving participation and inputs of civil society and other social actors;
 Encourage further mutual knowledge and understanding between both regions;
 Enhance the mutual visibility between both regions, as well as of the bi-regional partnership itself.

To meet its objectives, the EU–LAC Foundation develops several initiatives in the following thematic areas:

1. Higher Education

The EU-LAC Foundation contributes to creating spaces for dialogue and knowledge management to build the Common Area of Higher Education between the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as to facilitate the participation and contributions of civil society, including the academic sector to bi-regional cooperation and dialogue.

2. Science, Technology and Innovation

In the area of Science, Technology and Innovation, priority is given to strengthening the linking of agendas and dialogue between governmental, non-governmental and academic stakeholders around the implementation of the Joint Initiative on Research and Innovation (JIRI).

3. Economic and Social Development

Within this theme, the EU-LAC Foundation develops a set of activities that address current economic and social problems and long-term trends affecting LAC and EU societies with a view to ensuring a robust recovery and building more innovative, inclusive, and resilient economies and societies. The Foundation aims to do this by (1) promoting bi-regional dialogue platforms with public and private actors to strengthen economic and business relations, (2) generating knowledge and promoting exchange on social cohesion and inclusion, and (3) promoting bi-regional digital partnerships.

4. Climate Change

Climate change is one of the priorities mentioned in the III. EU-CELAC Summit, as well as in Chapter 2 of the Bi-regional Action Plan. The EU-LAC Foundation promotes meeting spaces for dialogue and reflection with non-governmental actors of reference to enrich and strengthen the intergovernmental process that seeks solutions to the challenges societies face in both regions.

5. Culture

Culture is a fundamental instrument for the rapprochement between the countries of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean. The EU-LAC Foundation's activities in this strategic area are designed to contribute to greater knowledge and mutual understanding between our societies and to strengthen bi-regional cooperation. It also seeks to contribute to SDG 17 to "revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development".

6. Multilateralism and Bi-regional Association

In order to jointly address current international developments and new global challenges, the EU-LAC Foundation meets with key partners to review the advantages and potential of the EU-CELAC bi-regional strategic partnership. The Foundation promotes multilateralism as the viable architecture, from a perspective of shared values, problems, and solutions within bi-regional relations.

7. Gender

In chapter 7 of the 2015 EU-CELAC Action Plan, EU and Latin American and Caribbean authorities expressed their full commitment to work in favour of women, the reduction of inequalities, especially in terms of their access to economic and political rights, and the elimination of violence. The EU-LAC Foundation thus aims to share concrete experiences and knowledge among the members of the EU-LAC Women's International Network in order to advance the discussion on these issues.

Structure
The structure of the foundation comprises the Board of Governors, the President, and the Executive Director.

Board of Governors
The EU–LAC Foundation's Board of Governors oversees the management of the Foundation and ensures that the Foundation works towards its goals.

The Board of Governors has 61 members representing each of the members of the EU–LAC Foundation. The Board of Governors meets at least twice a year and is co-chaired by the CELAC and EU presidencies.

President
Every four years, the Board of Governors selects an ad-honorem President, who has mainly representation functions. The President's office alternates between a national of an EU member state and a national of a Latin American or Caribbean state. If the appointed President comes from an EU member state, the Executive Director must be a citizen of a Latin American or Caribbean state and vice versa.

 2011–2015: Dr Benita Ferrero-Waldner, (Austria), former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria and former EU Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Neighbourhood, and Trade
 2016–2020: Dr Leonel Fernández, (Dominican Republic), former President of the Dominican Republic and President of the Global Democracy and Development Foundation (FUNGLODE)
 2020–2024: Leire Pajín Iraola, (Spain), former Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality and Director of International Development at IS Global

Executive Director
The Executive Director is the legal representative of the EU–LAC Foundation. The Executive Director is elected by the Board of Governors every four years, based on the recommendation of the regional group that holds the position of Executive Director for that period. If the selected Executive Director is from an EU member state, the selected President must be a citizen of a Latin American or Caribbean state and vice versa.

 2011–2015: Jorge Valdez Carrillo, (Peru), former Ambassador of the Peruvian Diplomatic Service
 2016–2020: Dr Paola Amadei, (Italy), Ambassador of the European Union to the Kingdom of Lesotho
 since July 2020: Dr Adrián Bonilla (Ecuador), former National Secretary of Higher Education

Financing
The EU–LAC Foundation is funded by voluntary contributions from its members.

See also
EU–LAC Summit (European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean Summit)
Latin America and Caribbean

References

External links
The Constitutive Agreement establishing the EU–LAC Foundation
Official website of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean Foundation
 Madrid Declaration establishing the creation of the Foundation (§ 34)
 Information from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on the EU–LAC Foundation (in German)
 The EU's Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, Federal Foreign Office of Germany
 The EU and Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a stronger partnership? , European Parliament, Policy Department for External Relations, 2020, doi:10.2861/658924.

Organisations based in Hamburg
Intergovernmental organizations established by treaty
Political conferences
Political and economic think tanks based in Germany

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Home Tech Bill Clinton denies finding evidence of extraterrestrial life
Bill Clinton denies finding evidence of extraterrestrial life
Although the Pentagon has come clean about some UFO sightings, former President Bill Clinton claimed that he found no signs of aliens at Area 51 during his time in office.
During an appearance Thursday on "The Late Late Show with James Corden," Clinton revealed that he and his former chief of staff, John Podesta, who was a fan of science fiction, "went out of their way to find out everything about Roswell."
Clinton added: "We also sent people to Area 51 to make sure there were no aliens."
The former president told Corden that he sent his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, to inspect the highly classified Nevada military base for aliens.
"I said, 'We have to figure out how we're going to deal with this because that's where we do a lot of our invisibility research, in terms of technology, like flying planes that aren't detected by radar and all that.' that,'" Clinton explained.
"So that's why they're so secretive. But there are no aliens that I know of.
Clinton also reflected on a 2018 Hawaii vacation he took with wife Hillary Clinton. During their trip, they visited the WM Keck Observatory and spoke with scientists about the possibility of life in outer space.
The 42nd president has learned that scientists have "huge arguments" about the existence of aliens.
"He said, 'There are some of us who think it's 85% likely and those of us who think it's 95% likely,'" Clinton said. "These are people who spend their lives doing this."
Although Clinton found no evidence of aliens during his presidency, the scientist told him that there is a possibility of life in outer space.
"He said, 'We think, in other words, it's very unlikely that there is no life.' There are a billion, not a billion planets, a billion solar-like systems. There are a lot of mysteries out there, so I think we need to take good care of this planet," Clinton shared.
"I think we should hang on to him if we can. But I also think he should keep us humble. There are many things we don't know."
Clinton's comments come after Congress held a hearing on UFOs in May and admitted there were more than 140 sightings that could not be explained.
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Q: "Add-In Warning. The license information for this add-in is missing or expired, so it may have limited functionality" One of our customers is facing an issue while trying to activate an app created by them.
The app is published as free of charge.
Location: https://store.office.com/en-001/app.aspx?assetid=WA104379484&ui=en-US&rs=en-001&ad=US&appredirect=false
It is downloaded a number of times by different users and works fine. However, for one particular user an error message is being displayed in Excel Online when trying to install and use the app:
"Add-In Warning. The license information for this add-in is missing or expired, so it may have limited functionality"
I went through the following documentation:
https://dev.office.com/officestore/docs/add-in-license-schema
However, I am not sure if the issue is related to app publishing/licensing in Office store as the issue is specific to one single user. I am yet to setup a call with the end user and troubleshoot the problem. Before I proceed, I wanted to check if you have ever come across this error.
Any leads will be very helpful.
Thank you in advance!
Best Regards
Saptarshi

A: I investigated, and in my case the user receiving the error received this error for every add in they attempted to install, indicating this was an error with Microsoft Word and not the add in.
The interesting thing was when using the web link "Open In Word" for the add-in, Word would prompt with a trust warning and open Word with the add-in installed, and the add-in would load. Closing and reopening Word after this though resulted in the same license error, so the entire process had to be repeated every time.


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Just MEDICINE. Let's call it what it is. Simply Medicine.
________ (Blank) is a term that we use to refer to a way of communication between parties in the healthcare dynamic.
Patients, Doctors, Physician Assistants, Nurses, in fact, any medical provider can interact and engage with each other in order to deal with a medical issue.
It is not a new technology. It was not developed with the purpose of improving communication and connectivity specifically among healthcare providers, but someone had the clever idea to use it for that end, and since then, it has become an important trend.
It makes things easier, faster, more efficient. It certainly cut costs, since communication happens, when possible and appropriate, at a distance, instead of in-person, hence saving time, miles, gas, money, etc. Its use and benefits are really intuitive. Why would you have to drive, ride or walk any distance to talk to your provider, if you can solve the problem by using this technology.
It is known that about 80% of medical office visits do not require physical contact, and it could be even higher for certain specialties.
Its drawbacks, risks and potential disadvantages are also fairly clear. For instance, both end-users each, do need a device and the infrastructure to to be able to engage. There's a cost to the system, but that is the case with everything, and technology does eventually get less expensive as it evolves. There's the feared risk that someone with ill intentions might intercept the interaction, "hack" it, and access personal, private and sensitive data about the patient. That's the reason that it is ruled by the HIPAA regulation, like anything in medicine.
Another problem is that most of the "visits" performed using this channel, might not be "paid" or reimbursed as well as a physical encounter, and that might be an important reason to why medical practices do not routinely embrace this channel of communication.
So, this is some "food for thought". Time to fill the _____(Blank) .
You may write TELEPHONE. You might want to use TELEMEDICINE. The fact is that, they are not different. They both involve the application of technology to improve what we do in medicine. At the beginning of the phone industry, we had to go thru an operator, a switchboard.
Then, as the device evolved, we could do it directly, from home, without intermediaries. Years went by, and the hardware improved, the sound of the voices was more clear, with no interruptions. Communication became better, easier and also cheaper.
The apparatus became nicer looking and smaller. Then, it even turned portable, for a selected few; then, almost suddenly, everyone could carry one…in their pockets.
As physicians, we frequently use the telephone to communicate with patients and consultant providers. We don't worry that someone will try to -very easily- intercept that call and gain access to classified information.
But, when we talk about using an app that allows video calls, then everyone gets very nervous about security and privacy, and potential HIPAA violations and the expensive consequences for the user and the institution. It does not make sense to slow progress and impair connectivity. Why would we limit the interaction to just voice, when we can have real time sound & video?
Talking "Face-to-face" is much better than talking "Ear-to-Ear"!
It is not PHONEmedicine, nor TELEmedicine…Just MEDICINE.
My next post will deal with how video communication, in healthcare, is also -or should be- evolving.
As tools like Virtual Reality (VR) improve, they should be part of our toolbox to engage with patients and colleagues.
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