FROM CHANGES IN LOGO, DOES BRAND CHANGE?
People like changes. Changes in appearance, career or social status are always seen as a step to something new and better, as the next evolutionary step in the personal history. We emphasize that we are talking about changes carried out purposefully and consciously, rather than those that occur by the outside forces or by chance.
The same happens with the logos of companies and brands: the older they are, the more inevitable changes in their visual appearance. Firstly, it is necessary to respond to the worldwide trends in design, and secondly, still to be liked by fans of the "old school" design of our product, when they were tall enough to walk under the table, and thirdly - to attract a new audience among the young. And at the same time, those companies should be themselves, without losing the uniqueness of their "voices".
Today, during a crisis, the need for re-branding of the company may be another reason that many of them will shift or diversify their activities, and the company that only produced garden gnomes, suddenly start to expand further and sell gates for houses.
But first, let us walk through this concept.
is a fundamental change for the brand image, its ideology and values, and its positioning in general. According to Olga Kashkan, Fabula creative director, «rebranding affects primarily strategic brand image. Successfully done corporate rebranding is a kind of reincarnation that can take the company to a new level, to make its products more marketable in today's market conditions, to "fill" the brand with the new meaning and to refresh its emotional field. "
Few people know, but Marlboro initially positioned itself as a manufacturer of premium women's cigarettes. However, the product did not appeal to women and the company decided to rebrand and reorient the product to the men as primary consumers.
Generally, rebranding is not much of a visual "upgrade" but it is a complete creation of a new image (very valuable at that), inspiring customers and partners to see the brand or company in a new light: a strong, flexible, moving forward no matter what.
is a change in the visual style of the brand towards relevance. Give a gloss. Get rid of the unnecessary details and small flaws of the font. The main thing is to use professionals who know how to make the modern look while maintaining brand awareness, otherwise "slight improvement" may result in the case of "serious redesign".
is a fundamental change in the visual attributes of the brand, after which the package design or corporate identity are virtually new to consumers.
In 2013, the brewery "Krinitsa" changed the marketing strategy and optimized the main product line under the name "Krynitsa", to strengthen the brand itself.
Bright color codification brought a clear separation for the various types in the product line and at the same time it becomes better and easier to read the name of the trademark- now it is easier to detect various choices!
The new design was needed to convey the idea of naturalness, organic nature and at the same time give the bottle new and modern look. The solution to these problems has become a colorfully painted design area, where a similar but new symbol - birch leaf - was portrayed.
An example of a fundamental corporate rebranding, when the changes include not only a logo and identity but a name. The brand now has a brand character, in a form of a "walking wallet" with smile symbolizing affordable prices and the store has become was well perceived as the specialty shoe store.
Store presentation in the corporate style. Photo: Company "Barcode Wizard"
Redesign of "Mishutka" frankfurters allowed the brand to achieve their fullest potential. Fabula specialists not only created a much more charismatic brand character, but introduced the identity blue-and-white checkered pattern. The new hero Mishutka made below the line marketing more efficient and effective, and the developed communication platform enabled to clearly identify the main characteristic of the brand, the essential things when planning an advertising campaign.
The designers of Fabula Branding were tasked to make a modern logo and distinguish it from the competition and at the same time to maintain continuity with the previous logo.
The new corporate identity was developed in the exact opposite way from the norm: the traditional logo is small and the font unit large, but in this case, the reverse approach was chosen, with a large, noticeable brand name and a small font. Status bar was also placed outside the box: inner words were place vertically.
Redesign for "Akvilia" is largely based on a shift of emphasis in the positioning and this was reflected in the detailed new label: the foundation was not just natural and purified water but also the uniqueness of its origins with rare 4-component mineral composition. The benefits of the products were presented by the designers of Fabula via special infographics and the logo/brand zone made the product larger and more visible on the shelves.
Of course, these are by no means all of brands that have been (or are) at the stage of the rebranding, restyling or redesigning by Fabula Branding company.
The process is labor intensive, requiring patience and careful approach. But the results are worth it: a new brand lives and "shines", inspiring others to change. We think that these examples of rebranding in Belarus are the living proof of that.
Courage and happy "rebirth" to all who seek a breakthrough!
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Victories went to the more experienced teams in the first Draw of the Dominion Provincial Championships at the Toronto Cricket and Curling Club.
Chris Rees, looking to regain his title after a couple of years, beat Mark Ideson's Ilderton 1 by 8-3 with three consecutive steals for 6 points in the middle of the game.
Bruce Cameron gave up a 3 ender in the first, but stole the last 8 points to win 12-4 against Dal Wrigley's Ilderton 2.
Ken Gregory got off to a perfect start, scoring 4 in the first end on the way to a 8-2 win over Ottawa's Richard Fraser.
In Draw 2 this afternoon, home ice favourite Chris Rees overcame a 6-4 deficit to post a 3 in the 8th for a 7-6 win over Ottawa's Bruce Cameron.
Ilderton's Mark Ideson gave up single point steals in each of the first three ends playing Ottawa's other rink skipped by Richard Fraser, before steadying to win 8-3 in 7 ends.
Bradford's Gregory defeated Dal Wrigley's Ilderton 2 side 15-0.
Rees will win in a "walk".


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As I was reading through the excellent book, Clojure Programming book by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper and Christophe Grand, I got to the part on Concurrency and felt that I should write about these primitives as a taste of what concurrency is like in Clojure. I highly recommend reading the book as it explains these concepts far better than I could in this short post!
Here first assign the delay to a var, arbitrarily called 'd', if we look at it, we can see it starts in a pending state. We can then check if it has been run with the realized? function – dereferencing it (with the @) causes the code to run and Hello world! printed. Notice that the second @d does not print Hello world! again.
… 10 seconds pass ….
You can see that realized? is once again useful for when you don't want to incur the blocking penalty and that you didn't need to dereference do-something for the value to become realized.
Of course, calling @p will block the REPL until you open a new one and deliver it (provided you're using swank or something that can have multiple open REPL threads). There are some really neat ways to combine the promise with future to get nice and declarative concurrency semantics. But I'll leave that as an exercise for you.
I really enjoy how the dereferencing work exactly the same for future, delay and promise as they do for the Clojure atom and ref types.
It's a fantastic feeling being able to code plugin stuff on the fly – and as a glimpse into that world, I've created a small timelapse video demo'ing some basic possibilities. Apply some imagination though, I'm sure you'll come up with some awesome stuff..
Most importantly for me is the exploratory nature of Clojure – It fits very well into the nature of Minecraft. It's thrilling to be able to discover and tweak code for your plugin on the fly.. But see for yourself: Make it full screen btw.
And yes. I get killed by a spider.
I'm planning to build a leiningen template so that starting a new clojure bukkit plugin is as simple as lein new bukkit-plugin [plugin-name]. I'm also re-implementing my MemoryStone plugin just so that I have a base to work from in order to really flesh out the shared clojure library.
One idea I'm toying with is making a more intuitive way of registering listeners to Bukkit. I'm not sure if I'll actually end up with anything other than a convenience wrapper function for .registerEvent, but it's worth messing with.
As you can see in the clj-minecraft project, I'm wanting to provide a fairly solid set of basic plugin building blocks so that you have simple access to the fundemental building blocks of plugins. My goal is also to implement and wrap some common plugins, such as SpoutCraft and the various Economy managers.
I would like the 3rd party libraries to be supported in a way that automatically "switches off" when the plugins aren't present, so that plugin developers don't have to worry about it besides actually making sure they have alternative methods of using their plugins.. But we'll see as I thresh this out.
Feedback will be hugely appreciated and I always welcome a helping hand! So please, contact me, fork my repo's and make pull requests!
At the beginning of the video, you'll notice that I have my browser open – I hadn't read the problem statement yet, which is dangerous since it could be a really tough problem!
Turns out, it was a dead simple problem. At first it looked like I needed to do some pathfinding (was about to brush up on a*).. but then it was just a matter of checking if both sides of the road is occupied with a "W" or not.. Fairly simple.
So I recorded myself building two solutions and have checked in another (better, imho) solution into the mix. The video is recorded at 5 fps, and each frame is 5 seconds apart, so each second is 25 real seconds..
Take note that I had not prepared at all for the problem. I hadn't created a project yet or setup anything on my emacs. In the first second or two you'll see me 'lein new' and cd to the new project folder. And then a little later start the swank server for emacs to connect to (about 15s in).
The third approach, which you can view here as the function (another-reachable) was a lot more interesting – It interleaved the characters, then used a loop / recur to take pairs off the resulting array, concat the characters and check for "WW" – returning immediately with "NO" if not possible to cross.
I've recently started delving into the interesting world of Functional Programming. This was sparked by an amazing video by Rich Hickey called "Simple Made Easy" – I highly advise every programmer to listen closely, this man has his head screwed on right and has given a lot of thought to his subject matter. Even if you're not interested in Clojure, as a developer, I believe every one of his talks are highly valuable and worthwhile pondering.
In line with adopting Clojure, I've mostly switched to Emacs. I still use PhpStorm for PHP development and Eclipse for Java development – I would prefer to move away from them, but emacs has a rather significant "bootstrap" time, so I don't think I'd really make much of a return on investment there.
Rather, I'm leveraging the excellent emacs clojure-mode with paredit, slime, lein and swank which really makes clojure development shine. I still can't get over how amazing on the fly development is with emacs + clojure. I have to remind myself that I'm actually working on a program every now and then and not just having fun.
To that end, I've decided to start doing past TopCoder SRM challenges in Clojure, as thinking practice. I could be doing something, you know, actually useful. But I'm looking for something that's highly mentally stimulating but small and of a throw-away nature.
Tonight I got a bee in my bonnet again.. was curious to see how the arduino would fit on a lego plate (well, technically not quite reaal lego, but let's pretend for a while), and how I'd go about breaking that out into usable lego chunks..
Arduino Duemilanove, mounted on a lego plate.
As you can see, there's an extra mounting hole – I had started off mounting it to the bottom of the plate, but I think that was just a disaster – there's not enough space on the plate to break out properly with my paperclip method and trying to hold the whole thing up with just the top studs (against gravity) is precarious at best.. So I decided to put it on top.
If you're sharp, you might notice the twisted red wire and the odd red wire in the next .. and if you're an electronic engineer, you'll probably also instantly guess that I've chosen the red wires on each set of connectors to go to ground.
Now I just have to figure out how to connect those ends up to lego and break it in from there…. Any ideas?


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Latest Burma 'Reforms' Another Farce
Why recently announced free press policy changes are meaningless.
Leon Wolf
While much ink has been spilled in the Western press about Russia's worrisome attempts to reassert its influence over the former satellite republics of the USSR, relatively little attention has been paid to the extent to which the People's Republic of China remains a malignant leavening force on the entirety of Southeast Asia. The "Republic" of Myanmar is one of the foremost exemplars of this Chinese influence, as the military junta which exercises an iron grip over the populace is both propped up by the PRC government and is insulated from Western pressure or sanctions by the same.
In an indication that the Burmese government is feeling some pressure to at least put on a show that democratic reforms are taking place, the government announced last weekend that it was relaxing its rigid censorship rules on the press. A closer look at Myanmar's announced policy, however, indicates that the proposed reforms – like the alleged elections of a civilian government earlier this year -- are almost entirely illusory (emphasis added):
Myanmar media reacted with caution on Saturday after the country announced a slight easing of repressive censorship rules for some publications, but kept its tight grip on news titles.
Sports journals, entertainment magazines, fairytales and the winning lottery numbers will not need to have prior approval from the information ministry before they are printed, publishers were told at a meeting on Wednesday.
However, officials said these titles would still be scrutinised before they go on sale.
What a huge leap towards democracy – newspapers in Myanmar can now publish the winning lottery numbers without checking with the government censor first. Of course, the real trap here is that even the superfluous and non-political sections of the paper will still be censored, they just won't be censored before printing.
Under the current system, newspapers must submit all copy to the government's information ministry before printing in order to prevent the newspapers from saying anything whatsoever critical of the government, which is prohibited by law. Under the new system, the newspapers can print without checking with the government first, but if the government inspects them after publication and finds the pieces unsatisfactory, the reporters in question can simply be jailed. Given that the Burmese government currently holds roughly three dozen members of the media in prison for writing pieces that displeased the Myanmar government, one can be sure that only reporters who are ready to serve a lengthy prison sentence will risk even the most mildly critical article about the ruling government.
The government's ominous clarifying statement on the policy clearly indicates that it has no intention of allowing any sort of truly free press in Myanmar:
"If all publishers cooperate with us by really believing in us, they will get complete freedom for writing and publishing soon," Tint Swe, deputy director general of the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), told Wednesday's meeting.
But the sports editor said a new media oversight committee, which will work alongside the PSRD censors, had added uncertainty for publishers.
Reporters Without Borders, which ranked Myanmar 174th out of 178 countries in its 2010 press freedom index, has said the country's pre-publication censorship of more than 150 privately-owned newspapers and magazines was "virtually unique in the world."
Meanwhile, the Burmese government, along with their defenders in the PRC, will surely wave around this latest "reform" as evidence that things are changing in Myanmar, even while continuing to prevent their people from hearing anything mildly critical of the government. The government is likewise consolidating and tightening its control over Internet usage in the country, even requiring Burmese citizens to report on each others' Internet usage:
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders released a report shortly after last year's elections alleging that what the government had presented publicly as an Internet "upgrade" would in fact improve its on-line surveillance capabilities. "The new system requires Internet requests to go through even more ISP [Internet service provider] servers and therefore users are subjected to more screening and controls," the report said…
Underground journalists who have kept the world informed about pivotal events that the regime has tried to censor will in future struggle to feed footage and information to foreign news outlets, as they did so effectively during the August-September 2007 uprising and crackdown.
The government's improved online surveillance capabilities are already on display: in April a former army captain was arrested for possessing an e-mail with the words "national reconciliation" in its title. He faces up to 20 years in prison under the draconian Electronics Act and may well carry the distinction of being the newly elected government's first political prisoner.
These are not the actions of a government that has the slightest intention of encouraging or even allowing true democratic reform.
The forecast for Myanmar looks bleak on almost all fronts. Like many countries in Southeast Asia, it remains pressed between the totalitarian PRC on one side and totalitarian-minded Islamists on the other. Sadly, much of the region looks to remain hostile to the interests of Americans, Christians, and the basic freedoms of its own citizens.
Leon Wolf is a Nashville attorney, and contributing editor to RedState.com, as well as numerous other online publications. He is a veteran of several Republican political campaigns.


THE growing menace of gill netting has been illustrated by the discovery of a huge trap filled with dead specimen fish.
River Wye canoeist and angler Jet Moore was leading a group on a four-day Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme trip when he spotted the illegal net near Bridge Sollers in Herefordshire.
Jet, from Llandyssul, Carmarthenshire, said: "The net was strung across the river tied to a tree on both banks.
"That short stretch is particularly full of trees and is fairly inaccessible although fishing is very popular generally in the area.
"It was sad to see so many large dead fish in the net. There must have been about 15, mainly barbel up to double-figures, of which two or three were still alive.
"I cut the live ones out and released them and they seemed to swim off allright. From the way one looked partially decomposed the net could have been there for a week.
"Sometimes its easier to see nets in the water from a boat than it is from the bank although I hadn't noticed anything when we passed by three days previously.
"I cut the net from the tree on one side and called the Environment Agency who were very responsive. We had to leave but I gave my number so I could help direct them to the site if necessary.
"They also rang me back to make sure I knew it had been cleared. I have seen gill nets in rivers before but never on the Wye which I use regularly," added the member of the Wales Canoe Board.
Dave Throup, area fisheries manager of the EA commented: "We had to launch an operation to remove a 30 metre illegal net on the River Wye in Herefordshire this afternoon.
"Sadly many fish were already dead including some very big barbel and a metre-long salmon. It was highly irresponsible thing to do and represents a danger to all wildlife as well as pets and canoeists," he concluded.
An EA Press officer said: "Gill nets are illegal and pose a significant risk to fish and other wildlife. We take illegal fishing very seriously and anyone fishing illegally can expect to be prosecuted and face a substantial fine.
"Over the last 12 months we received 21 substantiated reports of illegal nets and the he offence is unauthorised fishing with a maximum fine of £50,000.
Since the incident many stretches of the River Wye have closed to fishing by anglers due to disturbing low summer water levels.
If you fancy a crack at the river, we recommend you watch this video below with Mail columnist Steve Collett and a River Wye expert and guide, Adam Fisher.
River fishing – is it a dying art?


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So I spent a lot of time digging though the giant pile (on my bed, of course), putting things away in their various places: lots went to the kids room, lots to the craft area, and lots went in the "keepsake" pile. Here's what that looked like when I was done: one empty laundry basket, one trash can full of trash, one smaller laundry basket (twice emptied) full of recyclable paper. The keepsake pile went into the Room of Requirement in the keepsake drawer of doom (it's overflowing). Then I moved the paper shredder up under the computer area to be closer to the mail sorter. I made a folder for the mail sorter to keep ads & coupons in for the Nicholas to look at and filed away things from the to-be-filed folder. Tomorrow when I get time I'll clean out junk drawer #2 and return the mailing supplies to it (it has about half of them there right now, but some got moved while I was doing Christmas cards & thank you notes after Christmas and never made it back into the drawer because one of the kids jammed the drawer full of junk during one of our cleaning rushes New Year's Eve).


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La Lioré et Olivier era un'azienda aeronautica francese fondata nel 1912 ed attiva nella prima parte del XX secolo nella produzione di idrovolanti ed aerei ad uso civile e militare.

Gli stabilimenti erano decentrati, ad Argenteuil e Marignane, a Clichy, dove era sede la Société de Constructions Aéronautiques d'hydravions "Lioré et Olivier" alla cui direzione dell'ufficio di progettazione era Marcel Riffart, e Rochefort.

Con la nazionalizzazione, effettiva dal 15 luglio 1937, voluta dal governo francese nella quale vennero coinvolte tutte le aziende aeronautiche francesi ad indirizzo bellico, la Lioré et Olivier venne assorbita in due nuove realtà aziendali, la Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du sud-est (SNCASE) che acquisì gli stabilimenti di Argenteuil e Clichy, e la Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du sud-ouest (SNCASO) che acquisì quello di Rochefort, che continuarono ad usare la denominazione aziendale originale.

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Song of the Day: Ivan & Alyosha - Bury Me Deep
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Ivan & Allyosha // photo by Amber Knecht
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. This week, we'll be featuring songs by local artists playing the 2015 Capitol Hill Block Party. Today's song is "Bury Me Deep" by Ivan & Alyosha from the 2015 album It's All Just Pretend on Dualtone.
Ivan & Alyosha - Bury Me Deep (MP3)
Earnest folk-influenced melodies guide the incandescent indie rock of Seattle's Ivan & Alyosha. Formed by Tim Wilson (lead vocals, guitar) and Ryan Carbary (guitar, piano), the project is named for characters in The Brothers Karamazov. A pair of EPs (2007's The Verse, The Chorus and 2009's Fathers Be Kind) grew local hype for the group, and gave them enough momentum to travel to Austin for a successful showing at SXSW 2010. The band's full length debut, 2013's All The Times We Had, only continued the band's upward trajectory, and for their sophomore effort, the band – now comprised of Wilson, Carbary, bassist Pete Wilson, guitarist Tim Kim, and drummer Cole Mauro – entered the studio with Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, My Morning Jacket) to create their sophomore effort, It's All Just Pretend. One of the hardest-charging tracks in the band's catalog, "Bury Me Deep" uses dark imagery and a thick, layered arrangement to channel Wilson's conflicted romanticism. Structured like a country tune and played with the bombast of a rock song, the band shifts from a driving momentum in the verses to crashing through the choruses, never losing an ounce of urgency. In between all of its musical muscle, "Bury Me Deep" cuts deepest when Wilson sounds nearly desperate, holding out for an answer (much less a positive one) and turning the song into one of Ivan & Alyosha's most compelling tracks to date.
Ivan & Alyosha are in the final stretch of a North American tour and will play the Capitol Hill Block Party Main Stage on Saturday, July 25, at 4:45PM. Find out who else is playing the CHBP here and keep up with Ivan & Alyosha on their website and Facebook page. Below, watch the band play "Bury Me Deep" recently at KEXP:
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Making Vaccinations a Family Affair
The Yost family is used to not being able to spend a lot of time together. Tina has been working as a cardiac ultrasound tech at Soundview Medical Associates for over 21 years. Robert has been a firefighter for 33. Two jobs where schedules don't always line up.
So you would think that when they get a free day, they would like to be together. However, they say there is something more important than spending time together — vaccinating the community against COVID-19.
"It doesn't bother me too much. We are used to having different shifts," said Tina Yost, Paramedic Vaccinator. "When he was doing shift work, I was working evenings at the hospital, so we are used to working apart for stretches of time. It's always nice to be able to be together, but this, this is just too important. We will catch up at some point"
Robert and Tina Yost are a vaccinator couple. When Hartford HealthCare put out a call for help, they both didn't hesitate to answer. On any given day you will find Tina at the Sacred Heart clinic, Robert at Central High School. They may even be working in the FEMA mobile clinic. Sometimes together, a lot of the time apart. It doesn't matter — putting shots in arms is what counts.
"I just felt that this was a historic and important thing to do. When the blast went out that they needed the help, I signed up immediately and asked what did they need me to do," said Tina.
Even before the call went out, Robert was working to try and keep people safe. He is not just a firefighter, which is already impressive. Robert Yost is the Chief for the Westport Fire Department, which also make him the Director of the Office of Emergency Management.
"You think back to those meetings and the plans. Everything is changing," said Robert. "My police chief was reminding me that back in February, we were telling people they were good, they didn't have to wear a mask. And then two days later, we had that party in Westport with the big outbreak. We were then telling everyone that they needed masks. We were spraying everything with bleach. Everything keeps evolving, but to be there through the whole process — just trying to help is important."
For Robert, "just trying to help" means stepping out of the office and joining his wife on the front lines of the vaccination effort.
"This was an all hands on deck effort. Especially in the early stages where you couldn't get an appointment and there were long lines," said Robert. "I just wanted to help out and do my part. I had a skill set. I am a registered nurse. So I figured I could step up."
Both Tina and Robert joined the so many other who stepped up to tackle the pandemic. With over 55 percent of the Connecticut population being fully vaccinated, their effort has not gone to waste. But Tina says those numbers could be better.
"I want to see more and more people get vaccinated. I want those who have gotten vaccinated to tell their friends and family how easy it was, simple and painless. I am so proud of the numbers that Connecticut has, but I would really like to see those get higher. I would like to keep that fire lit."
As chief of the department, Robert has set the example for the rest of the firefighters in Westport, with many of them now also serving as vaccinators around the region. It's been a drastic change in the tempo for everyone involved. Robert hopes their efforts can soon bring an end to this crisis, and get them prepared for anything that can potentially come down the line.
"Your house catches fire, we come in and put it out. We try to get you resources to get your life back on track. There is a definite beginning and an end. The emergency part is maybe a day or even a few hours," said Robert. "This thing has been going on for over a year, and it keeps changing. There is no playbook. Nobody wrote down anything from 1918 with regards to how you run a pandemic. On some things we were caught flat footed. Hopefully we won't make that mistake again."


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New Frontiers at Sundance '15
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Last week I attended the Sundance Film Festival. It was my first time there and I was surprised and excited to see that they have an active New Frontier program exploring the future of storytelling. They hosted the New Frontier Exhibition — a really interesting collection of new media projects.
The work shown this year features a lot of virtual reality experiences — apparently a shift from previous years where projects were more screen-based. I talked with several of the artists and there was a real sense that VR technology (especially with Oculus Rift) has advanced far enough to make the medium useful for more than just technology demos.
It's really exciting to see Sundance, which has such a rich history of supporting artists, exploring the boundaries of technology and storytelling with these creative experiments.
As always, there's never enough time to see everything at an exhibit like this (and besides, there's all the "regular" Sundance stuff to see, too!) — but I had a chance to get through a lot. And wanted to share some of my experiences….
Way to Go (link), by Vincent Morisset, was a kind of VR walk through the woods. You're limited to a single path, but able to adjust your speed, to look around, and even fly as you progress. Like several of the projects, your path was fixed — but it was a beautiful, almost dreamy, experience. It was an interesting contrast to some of the other projects which had more emphasis on narrative. Instead, this let you move at your own pace — a have simple walk in the woods. The project will be available online soon at www.a-way-to-go.com
Project Syria
Project Syria (link), by Noony de la Neña, placed you in the middle of the street in Syria. With the VR headset you could walk around the intersection and, just as you approached a group of people talking, a rocket hits! Suddenly you're in the midst of debris and chaos. The project immersed you in the city, and then later in a refugee camp. It was a fantastic way to communicate a topical situation. Unlike infographics or news-games, the immediacy of experience, and feeling of agency as you walked around the environments, you got a real feeling for the situation.
1979 Revoloution Game
1979 Revoloution Game (link), by Navid Khonsari & Vassiliki Khonsari, had a similar intent of letting players experience situations (and make moral choices) in contexts that seem far away. It was great to see a mainstream company like Rockstar Games allow artists to use their platform (used for the Grand Theft Auto titles) used for exploring new ways of storytelling. But, for me, the animated characters felt too scripted, and the game-like play got in the way way of feeling like I was really there or had any real way to engage in the unfolding situations.
Perspective Chapter 1: The Party
Perspective Chapter 1: The Party (link), by Rose Troche & Morris May, was an incredible VR piece that takes place at a college party. It gives two perspectives, each about a five minutes long. The first is from a young man talking with a young woman at the party — the second is from the woman. As the piece evolves you see how different their two points of view are. While it could have had a more critical or emotional narrative, it was a remarkable experience — especially after seeing the Sundance premier of the film The Hunting Ground, about the crisis of sexual assault on college campuses.
Google Cardboard (link) — while most of the VR projects at the festival relied on high end technology, it was nice to see a totally low-tech approach from Google. By designing a simple viewer that holds a smartphone, they've created a simple path for almost anyone to experience VR. Google was giving out Cardboard kits and headsets — and several of the Sundance projects are available to download. There are also other apps and, for developers, an SDK. It's an exciting way to liberate VR into the world — I'm really looking forward to seeing the new things people create with it.
That's me, experiencing Birdly
Birdly (link), by Max Rheiner, may have had the least story, but was by far the most immersive. After climbing face-down onto a motorized platform, spreading your arms onto the extended panels, and strapping on the VR headset, you're suddenly a bird flying over San Francisco! And it was an amazingly experience! You flap your wings to rise higher, sway and turn to change direction, or dive down and fly between the buildings. The fan blowing wind at you, and the way in which the platform tilts and pivots, come together to create something that feels so real that, when you finish, you're feel like you've lost a sense you had before. It's definitely not going mainstream any time soon, but it's a great experiment at getting the "viewer" into impossible (or, non-human?) contexts. I'd love to see how it could be used for storytelling.
Birdly
Sometimes it's hard, in the hustle of the exhibition, to have the quiet, distraction-free experience that would benefit many of these pieces. Hopefully we'll soon be seeing ways to bring these pieces out of exhibits and museums, and into our more daily existences.
In the end, I had a blast at Sundance. And the New Frontier work excited me about new media in a way haven't felt in a while. Maybe it was the disruptive feeling that the work had in the context of Sundance. Or the way in which artists were pushing and testing the technology. But it all made sense for it had a sense of optimism and artist-lead creativity that's at the heart of Sundance.
(For more information on the exhibition and projects, check out these articles from Wired and The Verge.)
Tags experiments, storytelling, Sundance, virtual reality
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Clinical Experience: Dr Stariha was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery with honors from Queensland University in 1999. In 2011 he became a Fellow of The Royal Australia and NZ College of Radiologists. He joined Queensland X-Ray in 2010, previously holding a position of Radiology Registrar at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital for four years. Dr Stariha has completed fellowships in musculoskeletal and neurological imaging.
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The helpful hacker strikes again, this time finding a route into the communications company's private Web, then telling its security staff all about it. Who is Adrian Lamo, why does he do this, and would his life be the same if Kinkos kicked him out?
It's dusk in San Francisco, and at a Kinko's copy shop deep in the financial district Adrian Lamo shrugs off his overstuffed backpack and pulls out a battered Toshiba laptop. With a few keystrokes, the hacker fills the computer's display with a map of the United States, crisscrossed with hundreds of colored lines, crowded with geometric symbols and tiny text.
On inspection, the map charts in astonishing detail the physical infrastructure underlying much of the Internet: underground cables, repeaters, satellite earth stations, junctions, terminals, and the cable heads where a dozen transoceanic cables come ashore. As a trophy, however, the one-megabyte PDF file's most salient feature is a detail in the lower right hand corner, a warning in bold red, "RESTRICTED DO NOT REPRODUCE." Another notice reads, "Not to be reproduced in any manner or disclosed to unauthorized individuals," and a third warning runs sidewise up the edge of the map: "WorldCom RESTRICTED."
WorldCom is the latest target of a clean-cut 20-year-old hacker who's already drawn national attention discovering, exploiting, and then warning about serious security lapses at AOL, Excite@Home, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Like those other companies, security staff at the $20 billion communications giant might be surprised to learn they were compromised by a lone vagabond hacker who lives out of a weathered L.L. Bean backpack and does most of his work from Kinko's 'laptop stations,' using little more than a Web browser and his wits.
"The downside is, I'm running out of major U.S. corporations," says Lamo, as he plugs the Toshiba into the copy shop's free Internet link, and summons a Netscape window.
Web applications are an overlooked chink in many organizations' network security armor, Lamo explains. Sometimes, the weakness is an improperly configured Access Control List (ACL) that allows anyone on the Internet to visit an application that should be restricted. Other times, network administrators deliberately leave secret Web page wide open, counting on nobody stumbling across the URL.
The hacker makes his discoveries during marathon all-night sessions in front of his laptop. He scans Internet address ranges for undocumented Web servers, or uses well-known software bugs to find the names of private files on otherwise-public servers. Sometimes, he just guesses. At any given moment, Lamo has a long list of "interesting" Web sites he may or may-not look into further, depending on the vagaries of his ever-shifting curiosity.
Some of the ones he has looked into have made news. In September, Lamo discovered an exposed server at Microsoft that gave anyone with knowledge of the URL access to billing, shipping and purchasing data for any customer who purchased Microsoft products online. Earlier the same month, he used an exposed Web-based production tool to tamper with a wire service story on Yahoo! News, deliberately choosing an old story to minimize the impact.
The Problem with Proxies As he has with other networks, Lamo found the keys to WorldCom's kingdom in open Internet proxy servers. In normal operation, a proxy server is a dedicated machine that sits between a local network and the outside world, passing internal surfers' Web requests out to the Internet, often caching the results to speed up subsequent visits to the same URL.
But it's easy and common for administrators to inadvertently misconfigure proxy servers, allowing anyone on the Internet to channel through them. Sometimes companies and organizations even unknowingly run proxies. Hackers and privacy-conscious netizens catalog these open proxies, using them to anonymize their surfing. Lamo has perfected a different use: jumping through them to pose as a node on a company's internal network.
Using a common hacker tool called "Proxy Hunter," Lamo scanned WorldCom's corporate Internet address space, and quickly found five open proxies -- one of them hiding in plain site at wireless.wcom.com. From there, he needed only to configure his browser to use one of the proxies, and he could surf WorldCom's private network as an employee.
Once inside, he found other layers of security protecting various intranet sites from employees who might exceed their authorized access. But after a couple of months of sporadic exploring, Lamo has made substantial inroads. He can use WorldCom human resources system to list names and matching social security numbers for any or all of the company's 86,000 employees. With this information, all he needs is a birth date (he swears by anybirthday.com) and he can reset an employee's password and access his or her payroll records, including information like their salary, emergency contacts, and direct deposit instructions, complete with bank account numbers. He could even modify the employee's direct deposit bank account, and divert a paycheck to his own account, if he wanted to. "A lot of people would be willing to blow town for a couple hundred thousand dollars," says Lamo.
He has some access to customer records, too, primarily subscribers to WorldCom's data services. He can browse notes and circuit diagrams for AOL's new T1 cross border link between its Virginia offices and AOL Mexico, and a detailed engineering order for a connection between the World Bank's Washington headquarters and its Buenos Aires resident mission.
"For everyone at WordCom, the intranet is this boring thing that comes up in their web browser," says Lamo. "For me, it's a massive playground that's slowly and inexorably crumbling away at their security infrastructure."
No Forwarding Address A worker glances at Lamo from behind the counter, then turns his attention back to a print job. "The nights I'm alone in the city and I have nowhere to crash, I spend all night in the Kinko's," Lamo says. "They never kick you out."
One could call the copy shop chain Lamo's home-away-from-home, except that he has no home to be away from. The hacker leads a deliberately nomadic existence, traveling the country by Greyhound, crashing with friends, sometimes sleeping in abandoned buildings, always lugging the backpack that contains such necessities as a first aid kit, a thermal blanket, a change of clothes, the laptop with two missing keys.
When he was 17, Lamo's parents moved from San Francisco to the quieter environs of Sacramento, 80 miles to the east. Addicted to city life, Lamo chose to stay behind. He'd already tested out of high school and was performing computer work for non-profit groups, sometimes sleeping in their offices at night. Later, he did three months of network security consulting for Levi Strauss -- the only paid security work on his résumé -- and six months with a San Francisco private investigator that he doesn't like to talk about.
Today, Lamo lives off a modest savings, and spends most of his time in San Francisco and the suburbs of Washington D.C. -- both regions where he lived growing up, during a childhood that also included three years in Colombia. He sometimes stays with his parents in Sacramento, but wherever he goes, he becomes restless in he lingers in one place for too long. "I much prefer being mobile," he says. Nonetheless, Lamo doesn't know how to drive a car, relying instead on public transportation. For long distances, he prefers the bus over airliners or rail because he likes the atmosphere. "On Greyhound, you know you're America... Also, it's the last mode of transit that doesn't require identification."
Something of an urban explorer, Lamo sometimes goes 'dumpster diving' with friends, rummaging for interesting papers, manuals and other corporate artifacts amid downtown San Francisco's towering office buildings. A recent trip to Washington found Lamo trudging through the flooded remains of a long-abandoned electric plant along the James river. At 20, the hacker admits he doesn't yet know what he wants to be when he grows up; the question itself is absurd. "I don't feel obligated to set goals," says Lamo. "All the interesting things that have happened to me have been the result of synchronicity and organized chaos."
Putting himself in situations where "interesting things" can happen seems to motivate Lamo. Curiosity drives him as well. In a way, his Internet hacking is a natural extension of his real-life exploration. Born three years before the Macintosh, Lamo is part of the first generation of Americans to never know a society without personal computers -- a generation more comfortable than any before with the digital world. A WorldCom marketer might call him "Generation D." In fact, the company has another way of describing Adrian Lamo.
The Helpful Hacker "Vint Cerf recently did a public service announcement in which, generally speaking, the message was it would be really great if the hacker community went back to its roots," says WorldCom spokesperson Jennifer Baker. "I guess that from a general industry standpoint, Adrian seems to be doing just that... At that end of the day, what he did wasn't destructive or harmful."
Over a month after the Kinko's visit, Lamo has come clean with WorldCom, and the company is grateful. The hacker contacted the communications leviathan through SecurityFocus on Friday. Saturday morning, just as he crashed after an all-night hacking session on "an unrelated project," his cell phone rang. There were three WorldCom managers on the line, wondering of it was true that Lamo had cracked their global corporate intranet, and what they needed to do to fix it.
"I made it clear very quickly that all I was interested in doing was make it as positive an experience as possible for everyone," says Lamo. True to his word, the hacker would spend the rest of the weekend on conference calls and in email, bleary briefing the company on his months of illicit exploration. On Tuesday, the WorldCom turned to Lamo to give them a final bill of health. After a scan of their address space, he pronounced that WorldCom had successfully closed the proxy hole.
"What we discovered when we investigated Adrian's issues, was that there was a router with an inappropriate filter on it," says Baker. "In the end it was a human error, and we're really happy that he brought it to our attention... We really appreciate his efforts to work with us"
That instant willingness to cooperate, even to sign a non-disclosure agreement, with no strings attached is part of what's kept Lamo out of legal trouble, for what are indisputably violations of federal computer crime law. In May, when the hacker used an open proxy to crack ailing Excite@Home's internal Web, adding himself to the corporate directory and finding a route to millions of subscribers' records, he walked into the company's Redwood City, Calif. headquarters to brief network administrators in person, and he didn't leave before helping them plug the hole.
It also helps that Lamo's never tried to profit from his hacking. "There's an intangible something I can lay claim to now that would be irretrievably lost if I did," Lamo says. The fact that he doesn't hide behind a "handle" or pseudonym makes a difference, too. And once inside a network, there are lines -- particularly sensitive areas -- that he doesn't cross.
Lamo prefers the term "security researcher" to "hacker," and steers clear of the usual cyberpunk justifications for his probing: he isn't trying to make the Internet a safer place. "I do what I do, there's no particular motive I can describe." At the same time, he wouldn't mind seeing the world become safe for his brand of curiosity, for the interactions he's had with some of these companies to be the norm. His is a style of hacking -- open, brash, illegal, but carefully observant of an unwritten code of ethics -- that went out of style in America at the time of the first hacker crackdowns a decade ago, when Lamo was ten years old. "I've always sort of resented the fact that people that do what I do are in a position where they feel like they have to run and hide," says Lamo. "I'd like it if more people saw curiosity and corporate interests as things that can coexist without contradiction."
In keeping with his philosophy of letting "interesting events" find him, Lamo accepts the possibility that someday his Internet exploration may lead to criminal prosecution. So far, that hasn't happened, but some of the victims/beneficiaries of his attention worry for him.
"Because of his approach and what he's doing, maybe he'll be okay," says a source at one of the companies Lamo's hit in the past. "But the bottom line is, it is unauthorized access, and it's clear when you get into a company's network that there are disclaimers everywhere you go. I suppose at some point he could make the wrong people angry, or the timing could be such that he doesn't get a chance to come forward and say, 'Here's how I did it,' because they find him first."


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Q: Multiplication for a 3d array and slicing I have a matrix of size 5 x 98 x 3. I want to find the transpose of each block of 98 x 3 and multiply it with itself to find the standard deviation.
Hence, I want my final answer to be of the size 5 x 3 x 3.
What would be an efficient way of doing this using numpy.
I can currently do this using the following code:
MU.shape[0] = 5
rows = 98
SIGMA = []
    for i in np.arange(MU.shape[0]):
        SIGMA.append([])
        SIGMA[i] = np.matmul(np.transpose(diff[i]),diff[i])
    SIGMA = np.array(SIGMA)
    SIGMA = SIGMA/rows

Here diff is of the size 5 x 98 x 3.

A: Use np.einsum to sum-reduce the last axes off against each other -
SIGMA = np.einsum('ijk,ijl->ikl',diff,diff)
SIGMA = SIGMA/rows

Use optimize flag with True value in np.einsum to leverage BLAS.
We can also use np.matmul to get those sum-reductions -
SIGMA = np.matmul(diff.swapaxes(1,2),diff)

A: You can use this:
my_result = arr1.swapaxes(1,2) @ arr1

Testing it out:
import numpy as np

NINETY_EIGHT = 10
arr1 = np.arange(5*NINETY_EIGHT*3).reshape(5,NINETY_EIGHT,3)

my_result = arr1.swapaxes(1,2) @ arr1
print (my_result.shape)

Output:
(5, 3, 3)

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The Election Commission and the Centre have crossed swords over the selection of new Home Secretary. The Centre has appointed GK Pillai as the new Home Secretary, whereas the EC is favouring Madhukar Gupta to continue on the post.
The Election Commission and the Centre have crossed swords over the selection of new Home Secretary. The Centre has appointed GK Pillai as the new Home Secy, whereas the EC is favouring Madhukar Gupta to continue on the post.
Snubbing the EC, PMO today said that the EC has an advisory role and thus it cannot be the final word on the appointment.


Excellence from the Beginning at Neokraft Signs Inc.
Since 1947, Neokraft has established a reputation as a leading custom sign fabricator in the State of Maine and throughout New England, U.S. and Canada.
The 'Neo-Kraft Company' is founded by Alexander Lobozzo, after leaving the US Army.
Alex Lobozzo initially operated out of his in-law's garage, then to sign painter friend Bert Marquis' basement on Nichols Street, in Lewiston, before moving to better facilities located on Washington Street in Auburn.
Neo-Kraft begins operations at 100 High Street, Lewiston, specializing in neon lighting and plastics.
Dutchy's Drive in, on the Lewiston/Lisbon line.
Reliable Oil, in Lewiston, Maine, became a landmark with its oil tower sign, incorporating thousands of sequenced bulbs, exposed neon, and unforgettable proportions!
Beautiful neon signs were a specialty of Neokraft, and Goodwin's Restaurants, located in Auburn, Farmington and South Paris, were shining examples of Neokraft quality!
Alex transfers ownership to his son and daughter-in-law, Vincent and Patricia Lobozzo.
NeoKraft relocates to its present location at 686 Main Street, in Lewiston.
"Signs that work." An update to the NeoKraft logo adds a tagline and a graphic element.
Neokraft engineers and executes an upgrade to the landmark Time & Temperature sign in Portland, improving efficiency and serviceability, while preserving its familiar appearance.
Peter Murphy, Paul Lessard and Phil Bolduc purchase Neokraft Signs, Inc. from the Lobozzo family.
Neokraft Classic Signs Restoration division is created Phil Bolduc becomes sole owner and the Neokraft logo gets a new look.
Neokraft wins United States Sign Council national design competition for the Oxford Casino pylon.


We brought our 2010 Corolla into the team at ASR. Within two minutes of us being there Steve was able to diagnose the issue as a dying battery. After replacing the battery, which they had on hand, further diagnostic testing revealed an alternator problem. Steve and team were able to fit us in to their busy schedule within the same day. Being new to the area we never felt like we were being taken advantage of. Steve explained everything in detail at the beginning and end of the repair transaction. ASR completely deserves their five star rating for their high quality work, fair pricing and exceptional customer service. We highly recommend them.
I came to asr with a fairly major engine problem after two other shops recommended to replace the engine with a remanned unit which just isn't even realistic given the age of the vehicle, they basically just wasted my time and ran up my towing bill. ASR took my vehicle and actually did the work, which is something I value. I know any service manager can sell you a motor you don't need and any decent mechanic can install it, but these guys didn't do that. Joey looked and my issue, did the work, and got my truck running again in a reasonable amount of time at a reasonable cost. They were super polite and I really appreciated that they informed me of how it was coming along and because my repair was not a straightforward job, they were willing to be in touch as things progressed so we didn't keep throwing good money after bad. I mean, you expect this kind of service right? Many shops do not deliver this. Joey did a great job on my vehicle and saved it from rotting in my driveway for a year, Steve was super helpful and communicated with me great and didn't pressure me in to buying things I didn't need. All in all very happy to return here and tell other people to use them too. Great shop.
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I'm really happy with the transmission replacement ASR did on our van, but they changed the price quote (before actually starting the work), so I'm dropping one star off the rating.
The repairs were done correctly and efficiently. The staff was very kind and made for a stress free environment. I would recommend to anyone in need of automotive service or repair.
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ACHTUNG ARCHITEKTUR. Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture.
Published: Camb, Mass, MIT, 1996.
Published: London, Country Life, (1936), 1939 2nd ed revised and enlarged, reprinted 1945.
Published: London, Country Life, nd, c1926?
Published: Wien, Akademie der bildenden Künste, 1983.
ANFäNGE DES FUNKTIONALISMUS. Von Arts and Crafts zum Deutschen Werkbund.
Published: Berlin, Ullstein ("Bauwelt Fundamente" no 11) 1964.
Published: Paris, Editions des Arts et Manufacturers, 1958.
INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE 1924-1934. Catalogue to the Centenary Exhibition of The Royal Institute of British Architects.


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NBYDS/EBYDS - Bowls Northamptonshire
ENGLISH BOWLS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (EBYDS) and NORTHAMPTONSHIRE BOWLS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (NBYDS)
ENGLISH BOWLS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (EBYDS)
This is a partnership initiative which was originally set up to provide a pathway to develop the sport for young people under the age of 18 years, and partners at that time included:
Bowls England - The English Indoor Bowling Association - The English Bowls Umpires Association - Bowls Development Alliance
Bowls England ended its partnership in about 2012, and in 2016 the Scheme changed its age range, and the upper limit is now 16 years. The two groups within that age are: Under 12 years and 12-16 years.
The Scheme's National Officers are:	Chairman Bernard Millard, 7 Barton Hamlet, Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk, IP31 2PP Email: janmillard005@btinternet.com
Scheme Secretary: Jeremy TOWLE, 23, Axmouth Driver, Mapperley, Nottinghamshire NG3 5SX
Tel 01157 528780 Email: jeremy.towle@sky.com
The country is split into 6 Regions, and each region has an organiser to arrange Regional Schools of Excellence for the participating Counties, with qualifying young players in two age groups (Under 15 years & 15-18 years) taking part in the National Final School of Excellence, which is held annually at outdoor and indoor venues on a rotational basis.
The School of Excellence at County, Regional and National level, consists of a series of short matches, played in small groups on a 'round robin' basis, plus a number of skills exercises undertaken on an individual basis with a scale of points awarded. The top scoring players then play semi-finals and finals to establish the top player in each age group and by gender.
The records will show that a number of our current Junior and Senior Internationals came through the EBYDS in their early years of bowling, and they valued the encouragement and direction which the scheme gave them.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE BOWLS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (NBYDS)
Northamptonshire, in common with many other Counties, established under the auspices of the EBYDS, its own scheme two years later in 2006, and at that time the four County Associations (indoor and outdoor men and women) formed the membership in equal numbers with delegates from each to form a group to organise the County School of Excellence. Bowls Northamptonshire (BN) is now the body for male and female outdoor bowling, and the revised Constitution reflects this.
The NBYDS under the guidance of its County Co-ordinators, firstly Andy Purcell, and then more latterly Irene Scoble, went from strength to strength, and with the encouragement from parents, clubs, coaches, and the Associations, participation by young bowlers in both age groups is very good, with around 50 youngsters taking part.
In addition to the School of Excellence, the NBYDS arranges competitions, both indoor and out, each year, with trophies, kindly presented by various individual supporters of the scheme, available to be won.
The current County officers of the Scheme are:
Chairmen:	Brenice Willmott & John Cooper (BN); Keith Howlett (NIBA); Heather Lack (NWIBA) who take the chair for one year in rotation.
Secretary:	Christine Cooper, 104a, Finedon Road, Burton Latimer, Northants NN15 5QA Email: johnchriscooper@googlemail.com
Treasurer:	Christine Cooper (above) Temporary Treasurer
Co-ordinator: Vacant at present
Chairmen's Photographs as follows:
Photo awaited
Photo Awaited Photo Awaited
Heather Lack N.W.I.B.A.
Keith Howlett, N.I.B.A.
John Cooper BN Men's Section
Brenice Willmott BN Women's Section
Velda Cooper B.N. - Women's Section
Chris Cooper Hon Secretary & Temporary Hon Treasurer
County Co-ordinator Vacant at Present
Steve Cooper Safeguarding Officer for the County
Barry Basford
County Coaching Coordinator
Andy Purcell, Founding County Coordinator for the NBYDS who retired from the Management Committee in 2012, is pictured left, and on the receiving a gift from the 2011 Chairman, Brenice Willmott


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North Korea: Missile Launch Warns South Korea to Stop 'Suicidal Acts'
AP/Lee Jin-man
North Korea's government newspaper confirmed the launch of a "new-type tactical guided weapon" occurring on Thursday, describing it as necessary given the "annoying situation" with South Korea and warning Seoul to stop committing "suicidal acts" such as maintaining its military.
South Korean military officials said on Thursday that they had evidence two unknown projectiles, possibly new models of missiles, flew out of North Korea into the Sea of Japan (or East Sea in Korea) during apparent military exercises. The missiles were the first North Korea launched since May and appeared to be short-range. Dictator Kim Jong-un has focused on short-range defense since temporarily pausing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile tests in 2017.
North Korea remains under strict international sanctions over the 2017 tests. Pyongyang claims it has since ended its nuclear weapons program to focus on economic development, but satellite evidence indicates that it continues to run its Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, where the regime is believed to enrich the material it needs to build nuclear warheads.
North Korea claims it has offered to shut down Yongbyon in exchange for the world lifting sanctions on its economy.
Rodong Sinmun, North Korea's government newspaper, credited Kim with personally overseeing the military exercises Thursday. Kim found the test "satisfactory," according to the state report, and assured his officials that the missiles "would be hard to intercept." Kim insisted, however, that the weapons were necessary only defensively because South Korea was investing in maintaining its military and thus posing a threat to Pyongyang.
"[H]e [Kim] said that the ultra-modern weapons and equipment which the bellicose forces of the south Korean military are introducing with desperate efforts are definitely offensive weapons and their purpose is absolutely clear," Rodong Sinmun reported. "He stressed it is a work of top priority … to steadily develop powerful physical means and conduct the tests for their deployment for neutralizing those weapons posing undeniable threats to the security of the country immediately and turning them to scrap iron at an early stage when it is considered necessary."
North Korean media do not capitalize the name of South Korea because the Kim regime does not recognize its sovereignty, instead viewing South Korea as its rogue province.
Kim also reportedly accused the leftist government of South Korean President Moon Jae-in of "strange double-dealing behavior," agreeing to meet Kim personally but "behind the scene [sic], shipping ultra-modern offensive weapons and holding joint military exercises."
Kim advised South Korea to "stop such suicidal act as the introduction of ultra-modern weapons and military exercises and come back to the proper stand" of accepting North Korea.
North and South Korea have technically been at war since 1950, as neither they nor the other two parties in the Korean War, China and America, have ever signed a peace treaty. The parties signed an armistice agreement that ended war hostilities in 1953, an occasion North Korea will celebrate as "Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War" on Saturday.
North Korea refers to the Korean War as the "Great Fatherland Liberation War."
While Kim personally described the missiles as a warning to South Korea, Rodong Sinmun also took the opportunity to defend Seoul in its ongoing trade dispute with Japan, which at its root is a disagreement over unresolved World War II crimes against South Korean women. Rodong Sinmun urged an "all-out anti-Japanese struggle" on Friday, citing the country's Central Committee of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF). The newspaper supported growing boycotts of Japanese goods in South Korea, calling Japan's trade disassociation with South Korea an "impudent and gangster-like economic invasion" and blaming South Korean conservatives for allegedly emboldening Japan to fight their own country.
The trade dispute began when Japan accused South Korea of violating sanctions on North Korea. Seoul responded by accusing Tokyo of the same thing, and a growing anti-Japanese movement has developed in South Korea. Koreans have launched boycotts of Japanese beer, food, and media; gasoline stations are refusing to sell fuel to owners of Japanese cars.
Rodong Sinmun complained that the Japanese "reactionaries," incensed with South Korea, have also urged stricter adherence to international sanctions on the North.
"The present situation proves that unless the reckless acts of the Japanese political gangsters and south Korean conservative traitors against the nation and the people are frustrated, the history of national ruin in 1905 will repeat itself," the North Korean propaganda outlet predicted.
Following the Russo-Japanese War, Japan and the Korean empire signed a treaty in 1905 that turned Korea into a Japanese colony. Japan formally annexed Korea in 1910 and lost its control over the region in 1945 following its defeat in World War II.
President Donald Trump sent National Security Adviser John Bolton to Seoul last weekend to help both sides seek a resolution to the dispute. The Trump administration considers both Japan and South Korea close allies and both nations house sizable numbers of American soldiers.
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1. Stirred Clifton water bath designed for immersion of flasks/bottles/racks in a highly stable temperature environment throughout the water bath.
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Premier SFC Super Sunday Round 3
Teams will battle it out on Sunday 4th September to book their places in the next round of the Premier Senior Football Championship.
All games will commence at 4pm.
Buy Tickets for upcoming games below by date
St Finbarrs 3 3 0 0 62 33 29 6
Carbery Rangers 3 2 0 1 43 46 -3 4
Carrigaline 3 1 0 2 41 57 -16 2
Eire Og 3 0 0 3 37 47 -10 0
Mallow 3 2 0 1 43 30 13 4
Ballincollig 3 1 1 1 48 42 6 3
Douglas 3 1 1 1 42 42 0 3
Valley Rovers 3 1 0 2 33 52 -19 2
Nemo Rangers 3 3 0 0 46 34 12 6
Castlehaven 3 2 0 1 50 42 8 4
Clonakilty 3 0 1 2 27 30 -3 1
Newcestown 3 0 1 2 32 49 -17 1
As per competition regulations below is the compeition structure for the knock out phase.
The top group winner will qualify for the semi-finals, with the remaining two group winners, the three second-placed teams and the divisions / colleges winner (Carbery) qualifying for the three quarter-finals.
Teams (1-6) will be ranked as follows, on completion of the group stages:
Top Group winner
Second Group winner
Third Group winner
Top Group runner-up
Second Group runner-up
Third Group runner up
Quarter-finals: (a) 2v5, (b) 3v4, (c) 6 v Carbery
Semi-finals: 1 v (b), (a) v (c)
A repeat pairing is possible in the quarter finals in (a) 2v5 and (b) 3v4 above. If either scenario arises, then team 2 will instead play team 4, and team 3 will play team 5. Repeat pairings in semi-finals will be avoided, with pairings being adjusted where necessary.
The relegation final will be a straight play-off between the two lowest ranked teams (in terms of points won and scoring difference) amongst the three teams that finish bottom of their respective groups.
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