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2018 Greater China PR Consultancies of the Year
The 2018 Asia-Pacific PR Consultancies of the Year are the result of an exhaustive research process involving more than 100 submissions and meetings with the best PR firms across the region. Consultancy of the Year winners were announced and honoured at the 2018 Asia-Pacific SABRE Awards on 11 September in Singapore. Analysis of all Finalists and Winners can be accessed via the navigation menu or below:
Winner: Weber Shandwick (Interpublic Group)
Weber Shandwick has posted impressive regional growth over the past three years and Greater China exerts a compelling influence over that expansion, with the sub-region accounting for 51% of regional revenues. More than a third comes from mainland China, where 2017 growth was flat in line with tougher market conditions, but has already rebounded to 18% growth in 2018, reflecting the investment in capabilities that has resulted in a much clearer focus on digital, data and creative. The firm now has 400 people across offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan and Hong Kong, bolstered by the 2017 acquisition of data consultancy Bomoda.
We'll get to mainland China shortly, but first, special mention should probably be made of Weber Shandwick's stellar Hong Kong office, which under the long-term leadership of Albert Shu continues to defy gravity in impressive fashion, submitting 7.5% growth in 2017, after seven consecutive years of double-digit growth. That takes Hong Kong revenue to an estimated $15m, making Weber Shandwick the market's largest international agency, with strength across healthcare, corporate and consumer, and a client base that includes AXA, Facebook, HK Jockey Club, MasterCard, Pfizer, Samsung, China Duty Free and Fidelity.
Under the leadership of chairman David Liu and president Darren Burns, meanwhile, China has established itself as a global innovation centre for Weber Shandwick, thanks in large part to the C3 platform that connects content to commerce. The firm has also developed an influencer management tool called Kloud, and has worked hard to make inroads into integrated digital and creative assignments, hiring senior talent across analytics and creative. Indeed, the firm's China operation now counts 40 content people in China alone, supported by Bomoda's data analytics capabilities, helping position Shanghai as Weber Shandwick's fastest-growing major global office, up 42% in 2018.
Accordingly, there was new business from Aldi, General Mills, GE Social, Hyatt, Oppo, Turkish Airlines, Vanguard, Victoria's Secret, Vivo and Wrigley, to go with growth from existing clients Nike, ExxonMobile, GSK, GE, Microsoft, MasterCard and Nestle. Campaign highlights, meanwhile, included a Hong Kong campaign that changed government policy on mental health; the SABRE-shortlisted 'Secret Detective' effort for GSK's Lamisil that helped the product launch with considerable success; and, a confidential data-driven initiative on behalf of a major beauty player, which helped to reshape its entire social media and CRM story. — AS
BlueFocus Digital (BlueFocus Communication Group)
Since its launch in 1996 (then known as Blue Focus PR), Oscar Zhao's company has grown into the largest public relations consultancy in China and one of the top 10 public relations businesses in the world, with 2017 fee income (per our 2018 Top 250 ranking) of more than $320 million—up by 12% last year.
Today, BlueFocus Digital employs more than 1,500 people offering a unique blend of digital marketing and public relations services in China across offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Xi'an. The firm is led by CEO Richard Jiao, supported by COO Stanley Xiao, chief strategy officer Yorf Guo, VP Bruce Zhu and SVP Donna Li. As such, BlueFocus Digital is the China market leader in many areas — mobile advertising, OTT, and on Google/Facebook.
Accordingly, it represents many of the country's largest companies (Tencent, NetEase, JD.com, Alex, FAW-Volkswagen). New business over the past 12 months came from L'Oreal, Air China, Transsion, Great Wall Automobile and Chery Automobile.
Since 2017, furthermore, the firm has continued to bolster its market-leading digital capability, rolling out new platforms and products based on data technology, including smart TV advertising, CRM marketing and social media management. Around 87% of group revenues now come from data tech-related business, and more than 20% of the firm's creative work is developed by intelligent robots designed by the agency itself.
Campaign highlights; an AR restoration campaign for nine city gates in old Beijing on behalf of Baidu; the Samsung Note8 'renaissance' influencer campaign and work for OnePlus and Dyson. — AS
FleishmanHillard (Omnicom Group)
Despite a management restructuring that saw the retirement of long-term China leader Li Hong, FleishmanHillard's Greater China operation continues to motor along in some style, with Greater China president Rachel Catanach supported by a new leadership team that includes COO Lichi Hsueh, GM Judy Wei in Beijing, GM Yisi Liu in Shanghai, and GM Geoff Bilbrough in Hong Kong. That team is supported by new specialist hires as FleishmanHillard rebalances its portfolio towards Shanghai (which grew at a double-digit clip), with Graham Fordyce arriving as China ECD and Helen He joining from @Comms to lead digital as SVP.
Greater China remains the single largest driver of FleishmanHillard's Asia-Pacific revenue, led by the Hong Kong office that has carved out a specific niche when it comes to helping China brands go global. That portfolio includes major global mandates for Alibaba and Huawei, both of which feature on a Greater China client roster that also includes GM, Hongkong Land, Nike, Corning, Harley Davidson, J&J and Blancpain. There was also new business from BNY Mellon, ICBC, LaSalle Investment, FC Barcelona, Liverpool FC and Tencent's international business group — underlining FleishmanHillard's strength across consumer, sports/entertainment, financial services and corporate.
The firm's thought leadership has brought a specific focus on the critical areas of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. And Fleishman's Greater China work continues to impress, including a particularly imaginative SABRE-nominated campaign that positioned Harley-Davidson around the Rap of China reality show, along with similarly creative efforts for Hongkong Land and Beyond Ventures — AS
Ogilvy (WPP)
With fee income estimated at more than $75m, Ogilvy PR remains the largest international PR consultancy in China, a position it has held with distinction for many years. The firm's regional CEO Scott Kronick, of course, made his name in the market, and remains based in Beijing, surrounded by a handpicked leadership team that has, for the most part, remained in place for more than a decade. That kind of stability continues to pay off for Ogilvy PR in Greater China, where Kronick and China/Hong Kong president Debby Cheung oversee a network that includes offices in Hong Kong, Taipei, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and a new operation in Shenzhen, adding up to around 650 staffers, a little more than half of the network's total Asia-Pacific headcount.
Despite tougher market conditions, and the agency's own shift to the 'One Ogilvy' model, Ogilvy's PR operation remains in fine fettle in Greater China, exemplified by a content to commerce capability that works for Chando, Brita, Elixir, Anissa and Nescafe, and the launch of two new data products — one focused on WeChat and the other a global KOL management system for Huawei from Hong Kong.
All of which helped drive upper single-digit growth in 2017, bringing in new business from Vivo, Amazon, Xi'an Tourism, Alfa Romeo, Hennessy, Costa, Tencent, Allianz, 3M, Marriott, UOB and Swarovski. The firm's reputation with large local players and outbound-focused government entities remains second to none, typified by high-level support for the Xi'an Government's efforts to promote itself as an international investment destination. Those new accounts join an existing client roster that includes Huawei, Tencent, IBM, Dell, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, Nestle, Jala, Shiseido and Ford.
But it is not just the agency's scale that impresses in China. The work continues to demonstrate the kind of 'next chapter' thinking that has been in place for several years now, thanks to a strong creative contingent and one of the strongest digital units in the market. The firm's '52 Mayors' campaign for Wanda, for example, helped rebuild Danzhai village by promoting it through social influences. For Chando, the firm created a Mother's Day campaign that inspired young Chinese women to appreciate their unique features, driving 118% uplift in ecommerce sales. And for Huawei in Hong Kong, the agency live streamed local hero Rex Tso's boxing fight, helping the brand move from fifth to third in the market.
Meanwhile, Ogilvy's focus on upgrading its planning, products and services continues to bear fruit. It is worth noting that, while the broader group grapples with the challenges of becoming one agency, Ogilvy PR is already a central presence at Ogilvy China, evidenced by the senior roles held by Cheung (who oversees Shanghai), Beijing president Selina Teng and Guangzhou MD Frangelica Liang. — AS
Ruder Finn (Independent)
Ruder Finn's regional revenues were up 8% in 2018 to $30m, and much of that was down to a Mainland China operation that remains one of the market's strongest, with around 400 people including new Asia-Pacific CEO Elan Shou, who is based in Shanghai. Shou took on the top job when Jean-Michel Dumont returned to Europe to become Ruder Finn's global strategy director, and her elevation reflects the manner in which the agency's China operations have outperformed in recent years, thanks to considerable strength across automotive and luxury, along with growing practices in travel & tourism, beauty and digital.
The agency's China client base favours these sectors, including such names as Hermes, Longines, Montblanc, De Beers, Mercedes-Benz, Lamborghini, Volkswagen, Bentley, Shanghai Disney Resort, Emirates, Four Seasons and L'Oreal. And much of the new business had an integrated flavour, including assignments for Moet Hennessy Diageo, Almond Board of California, 3M, JD.com, VIP-Lux, Amazon and BMS. That reflects the firm's re-engineering of its integrated capabilities, which now includes digital media buying, campaign design and advertising.
In addition to Shou, key leaders included IMC practice leader Long Xi, new Hong Kong MD Paul Yang, and new group creative and planning directors, in Santi Yan and Paul Wang, respectively. Unsurprisingly, the best of the firm's work blends consulting with integrated marketing strength, with specific campaign highlights for the Singapore Tourism Board, 3M, Midea, Porsche China, Shanghai Disney Resort and Bristol Myers Squibb. — AS
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City with Animals
City with Animals is an oil on canvas piece that Max Ernst did in 1919. The German sculptor and painter did the painting at a tumultuous period in Europe. It was during this time that the Russian empire was crumbling, World War I started, and the arts saw avant-garde institutions infiltrate the industry.
During the war, Ernst served as an artillery engineer and most of the artwork he did during this era was a reflection of the troubles he had witnessed. In most of his paintings, the artist used imagery to relay messages. He made his works appear as dream sequences and City with Animals is one example. In this painting, Ernst presents a scene where a lot seems to be going on. The foreground has three central animals, a cow, calf and donkey. They are on a partially green patch that appears higher than the rest of the area.
The large cow is resting as if it just finished grazing. A single play sprouts from the ground where the animals are sitting. In the background, a collection of buildings are sitting on a valley. Houses are on either side of a path that meanders from one end of the street to the other. People are scattered all over. In the furthest house, a man is leaning outside a balcony, as if searching for something.
Ernst loved playing with colours in his different techniques. Here, he used a wide range that spans primary and secondary classes. The cow is indigo, the calf is red while the donkey is a rich shade of green. The ground where the animals are on is a mixture of lights green and a bright azure hue. As for the buildings, they are mostly green and blue. The different shades provide a vibrant contrast. Hints of red and yellow are all over the painting. The sky goes from a light to a darker shade of green.
Ernst had a big interest in aesthetics as he explained in an article titled "On The Origins of Colour" and this artwork is a manifestation of that. City with Animals combines Cubism and Surrealism. It a testament to the unique blend of painting methods for which Ernst was famous. A closer look will reveal the Futurist tones of the artwork. The ambiguity of the characters in the piece gives it the enigmatic traits that define Surrealism. City with Animals is not open to easy interpretation, and that is part of the style. It represents what Ernst imagined a city with animals would look like.

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Мелкомасштабная самофокусировка (ММС) – это один из эффектов самовоздействия света, заключающийся в том, что амплитудно-фазовые возмущения светового пучка приводят к его распаду  на нити — филаменты , в которых интенсивность излучения может нарастать вплоть до уровня, вызывающего разрушение оптических элементов . ММС проявляется при распространении лазерного пучка, мощность которого многократно превышает критическую мощность самофокусировки . С практической точки зрения этот эффект часто оказывается ответственным за оптический пробой прозрачных материалов, является ограничивающим фактором при создании мощных лазерных систем и играет важную роль в возникновении других физических процессов .

История эффекта самофокусировки
Возможность самофокусировки электромагнитных волн была предсказана Г.А. Аскарьяном в 1962 году. В.И. Талановым в 1964 году было представлено обоснование эффекта самофокусировки при распространении электромагнитного излучения в нелинейной среде.  В 1964 было сделано предположение, что самофокусировка является пороговым эффектом, то есть возникает в лазерном пучке мощность  которого превышает некоторую критическую мощность самофокусировки. Впервые самофокусировка экспериментально была зарегистрирована в 1965 году А.Р. Рустамовым и Н.Ф.Пилипецким, которые  наблюдали тонкую светящуюся нить при распространении наносекундного лазерного импульса мегаваттной мощности в кювете с органическими жидкостями.

Теория образования нитей
Основы математически строгого описания теории мелкомасштабной фокусировки  были заложены Талановым и Беспаловым .

Анализ явления ММС проведен на основе стационарного нелинейного параксиального волнового уравнения:

         ,

где  , − волновое число,  – комплексная амплитуда плоской волны поля.

Это уравнение выводится в приближении медленно меняющихся амплитуд из общего волнового уравнения.

О характере распада плоской волны можно судить по развитию ее малых возмущений , поэтому комплексную амплитуду поля следует представить  в виде:, где , где - амплитуда плоской невозмущенной волны,  – малое возмущение поля.

Представляя малые возмущения поля  в виде:  и оставляя только члены первого порядка по , из получаем:

      ;

      .

Амплитуды и  могут быть представлены в виде:

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где  – поперечный волновой вектор;  – вектор поперечных координат.

Тогда из уравнений  получаем дисперсионное уравнение:

где – инкремент возмущений, – волновое число.

Нелинейные искажения поля будут нарастать, только если инкремент – действительное число. Таким образом:

 Диапазон пространственных частот, в пределах которого возможен рост мелкомасштабных возмущений: . Возмущения с поперечным волновым числом в данном диапазоне неустойчивы по , тогда как при   возмущения устойчивы.

 Критическое значение поперечного волнового числа  : . Частотная зависимость скорости нарастания колебаний амплитуды  может быть записана в виде:

 Инкремент неустойчивых возмущений  достигает наибольшего значения  при , где

Интеграл распада (B - интеграл)
Интегральной характеристикой, позволяющей оценивать ММС, является так называемый интеграл распада или B-интеграл, определяемый в единицах СГСЕ следующей формулой: ,

где — длина волны и  — скорость света в вакууме,  и  — линейный и нелинейный показатели преломления нелинейной среды ,  — интенсивность вдоль оси пучка, — длина нелинейной среды.

Интеграл распада определяет нарастание интенсивности в мелкомасштабных пространственных возмущениях интенсивности: , а также нелинейный набег фазы наиболее опасных возмущений, приобретаемый на длине  в мощном лазерном пучке: . Условие отсутствия нелинейного роста возмущений амплитуды − ограничение накопления B-интеграла на каждом оптическом элементе некоторым заранее заданным числом, который обычно колеблется в диапазоне B = 1÷5 .

Характерные масштабы ММС

 Поперечный размер наиболее быстро развивающихся возмущений :

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 Характерный масштаб ММС - это продольная длина, на которой начальная амплитуда возмущений нарастает в  :

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 Длины мелкомасштабной и крупномасштабной самофокусировки соотносятся как:

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При  выполняется неравенство , что и предопределяет доминирование мелкомасштабной самофокусировки. При характерных для мощных лазеров параметров излучения (ГВт/см2, ед. СГСЕ) поперечный размер и характерный масштаб ММС соответственно равны  мм и  см .

 Мощность отдельной нити (неоднородности), оцениваемая как поток энергии через сечение площадью , с точностью до коэффициента порядка единицы равна критической мощности стационарного пучка . С ростом интенсивности пучка растет количество нитей, а не их интенсивность.

Классические методы подавления самофокусировки
Существуют методы подавления самофокусировки:

 Пространственная фильтрация

Один из методов борьбы с ММС заключается в уменьшении амплитуды затравочных возмущений интенсивности, источником которой может быть дифракция на формирующих и ограничивающих пучок апертурах, различные неоднородности в усилительном тракте . В современных сверхмощных лазерных усилительных системах для подавления дифракционных возмущений обычно используется аподизация и пространственная фильтрация с использованием угловых пространственных фильтров . Пространственный фильтр представляет собой телескоп Кеплера, в общем фокусе двух линз которого располагается диафрагма, которая отбирает наиболее опасные пространственные возмущения, нарастающие в результате ММС, не давая им развиваться в следующем усилителе.  Для всех типов лазеров использование угловых пространственных фильтров между каскадами усиления является классическим способом ограничения В-интеграла.

 Использование фазовых эффектов для ограничения ММС

Способ заключается в использовании оптических ретрансляторов – двух софокусных линз. При определенных ограничениях на интеграл распада в нелинейных элементах и геометрические размеры ретрансляторов фазовые возмущения, нарастающие в первой нелинейной среде, расположенные до ретранслятора, в результате введенной фазовой задержки преобразуются в убывающие во второй нелинейной среде, за ретранслятором .

 Выбор поляризации излучения

Скорость развития мелкомасштабных возмущений при ММС зависит от поляризации излучения . Инкремент нарастания возмущений для эллиптически поляризованной волны уменьшается по сравнению с линейно поляризованной волной, что связанно с уменьшением нелинейного показателя преломления n2. При изменении коэффициента эллиптичности от линейной поляризации до круговой в 1,5 раза уменьшается значение интеграла распада .

Другие способы борьбы с ММС
Существуют и другие способы подавления самофокусировки, которые не нашли широкого применения в современных мощных лазерных системах:

 Нарушение пространственной или временной когерентности излучения ;
 Уменьшение нелинейного показателя преломления n2 лазерных материалов. Недостатком данного способа является то, что пределы варьирования n2 в лазерных стеклах и кристаллах очень ограниченны ;
 Введение в усилительный тракт  дополнительных элементов с отрицательным значением нелинейного показателя преломления. Однако, не нашлось соответствующих сред с высокими значениями пропускания и высокой лучевой стойкостью .

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This week Max and Court welcome Mark Rob from Commavia, and the Jetwhine blog. OSH begins this week, and we spend some time talking with Rob about the upcoming events at EAA Air Venture 2008.
We also go through listener emails and voice mails as we hear from former guests Dan Webb and Ryan Keough.
he intro music is once again produced by Bruno Misonne. Check out Bruno's aviation music at http://www.brunomisonne.com.
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Monumental and supernatural
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The snapshots by photographer Christopher Herwig – collected in a new volume with commentary by critic Owen Hatherley – showcase how in the Soviet Union, the subway was a powerful tool for political propaganda
Put out by the British publishing house Fuel, the volume Soviet Metro Stations documents the subway environments built between the 1930s and the 1980s in the former Soviet Union, from St Petersburg to Moscow, from Minsk to Tashkent, from Kiev to Tblisi, passing through Ulduz, Yerevan, Dnipro and many other cities.
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Through the snapshots by photographer Christopher Herwig and the texts by critic Owen Hatherley, the volume showcases how the monumentalism and the opulence, the marble and the concrete, the mosaics and the sculptures of this underground infrastructure played a role in the regime's propaganda.
Elektrozavodskay metro station (1944), Moscow, Russia. (ph. Christopher Herwig)
In the subways – like in the cities in general – architecture, sculpture and art intertwine, interact and complement each other, corroborating the demagogic vision of the centralised state as the sole driver of political and economic decisions made for the well-being of citizens.
Kyivska metro station (1984), Kharkiv, Ukraine. (ph. Christopher Herwig)
In this sense Soviet subway stations, where there is an interplay of heterogeneous languages – from byzantine to baroque to constructivist –, become a sort of "shared luxury" intended for everyone and for the good of all. "For us – former premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev recounted in his memoirs – there was something supernatural about the Metro".
Soviet Metro Stations
Photographs by Christopher Herwig, text by Owen Hatherley
Fuel, 2019 (distributed by Thames & Hudson / D.A.P.)
240 pages, £ 24.95 / $ 34.95
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Want to Avoid Obamacare? Get Elected to Congress!
Politico released a statement today through Marketwatch stating that a deal had been reached with Congress that would allow them to be exempt from many provisions in Obamacare. You know, those provisions that the majority of Americans were against, and yet still have to deal with as this liberty-infringing behemoth rolls out.
Under the law, popularly referred to as Obamacare, lawmakers and their aides were required to source health insurance "created" by the law or offered through one of its exchanges, and without the subsidies they currently enjoy, the members of Congress would have faced thousands of dollars in additional premium payments each year, the report said. However, the Office of Personnel Management now plans to rule that the government can continue to make a contribution to the health-care premiums of the lawmakers and their staff, it said, citing unnamed congressional sources and a White House official.
As the major provisions of Obamacare take hold in the coming years, we will see many citizens paying more for their own healthcare (drastically in the case of young, healthy people), while may of those same citizens see their hours cut due to Obamacare mandates on businesses. And now, as a bonus slap in the face, the money being taken from these increasingly smaller paychecks will continue to subsidize the power-elite in Congress, along with their aides. There is no aspect of this that is right, just, or fair to the American people.
For Congress to seek this deal at the expense of the American people (literally) is an overt signal that they consider themselves elite and above the average citizen that they are representing. "Do as I say, don't do as I do," seems to be the unspoken moniker of politicians and this has been no different. It's a pathetic display.
At least the head of the IRS still has to abide by the same rules that the rest of us do when this terrible, bloated, and already dysfunctional legislation comes into effect – even though he doesn't want any part of it.


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A sneak peek into tonight's episode of 24 Hours in A&E "TREE OF LIFE"
This episode focuses on the precious relationships between family and friends that pull people through difficult times.
84-year-old Neil is rushed to St George's after falling down the stairs at home. His wife Jenny describes finding him at the bottom of the stairs and reflects on the shock of realising their life may never be the same again. Orthopaedic Registrar Rob is called to resus to assess Neil's injuries and is concerned that he has a severe shoulder dislocation. Dr Rob highlights the difficulties of treating elderly patients because of their physical vulnerability. He tells us that the lesson he has learned is 'when treating trauma in the elderly, expect the unexpected.'
As Neil is sent for emergency scans to determine the extent of his injuries, Jenny tells us about their early life together. She explains that Neil has always been a lover of nature – he was the Horticultural Officer for London and would woo Jenny with flowers when they were first dating. They soon got married and had children and while Jenny was busy working as a Mayor, Neil took well to being a father. He loved to share his passion for nature with them. His daughter Jane tells us of precious time in the garden with her father, a place she could really talk to him and confide in him.
As doctors become increasingly worried about Neil's shoulder and an underlying heart condition, we hear how Neil carved out a long career for himself as one of London's leading Tree Officers. Jane tells us 'his job was to protect the existing trees where possible.' She tells us how, in the 1960s, Neil fought for a preservation order to save a Mulberry tree that was under threat from being ripped up as a new housing estate was being built. Jane tells us of the pride she feels when she sees the trees he's saved, and the legacy he has left for London.
25-year-old Danny is rushed to A&E after a road traffic collision where he has been knocked from his motorbike. Orthopaedic Registrar Sadia is concerned about a serious leg fracture and that Danny may have other hidden internal injuries. Danny's girlfriend Angy tells us about their relationship which saw them expecting a child very quickly: they were a year and a half into their relationship when Angy fell pregnant and had never considered children. Now, they have a healthy 10-month-old baby and a happy life together which Angy fears losing: 'Every minute he is on that bike I worry. I just think 'how is my child going to grow up without a dad?'
23-year-old Adil comes to St George's after twisting his knee playing badminton. His friend Sibby brings him in, and tells us of how Adil is renowned as accident-prone. Emergency Nurse Practitioner Craig sends Adil for an x-ray, and as his results come in, Adil tells the tale of being born with Dextrocardia, a rare congenital condition which means his heart is unusually located on the right side of his body.


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During the appeal, security forces blocked the relatives of the defendants from entering the courtroom despite their strong protest. Later, they permitted only Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thap, the wife of Mr. Vinh, to sit in the room and sent others to another room so they could watch the appeal via TV screen only.


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Balloon Releases Kill Animals — Let's End Them!
What goes up must come down.
Make no mistake: Releasing balloons outdoors is littering, and littering kills animals and harms the environment. Despite the risk that balloon releases pose, many events still feature them. You can protect animals by asking venues to cancel planned releases. What are you waiting for? Get started now:
Urge Venues to Cancel Balloon Releases
Balloons released outdoors can travel vast distances before finally bursting and falling to the ground or into bodies of water. For example, a balloon released at a University of Nebraska—Lincoln home football game was found on a beach in New York, more than 1,200 miles away. Even biodegradable versions can take as long as four years to break down!
Animals can mistake balloon fragments for food and consume them, which can result in slow death via choking or suffocation.
Land and sea animals have starved to death after their intestines have become blocked by balloon fragments. Wild birds have been found with latex from balloons or strings binding their beaks, necks, and legs. And every year, numerous dolphins, whales, and sea turtles become beached and die after ingesting balloons, which they mistake for jellyfish, one of their regular food sources.
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Marine conservationists and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service vehemently oppose balloon releases. The states of California, Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia, plus many cities, including Baltimore; Louisville, Kentucky; and Nantucket and Provincetown, Massachusetts, have laws banning or restricting balloon releases, and more bills are being introduced.
Schools across the country, including Clemson University in South Carolina, are ditching these deadly displays, thanks to compassionate people who are speaking up to let administrators know that deflated helium balloons and their tangled strings are often found stuck in trees or washed up on beaches, where they pose a risk to animals. But a few other venues need a push to cancel planned outdoor balloon releases.
You can urge them to do just that.
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After you enter your information, just keep clicking the "Send Message" button until you've completed them all. Once you've taken every action, be sure to share this page with your friends, family members, and social media followers. Encourage them to join you in speaking up about the dangers of balloon releases.
Urge Kent State University to Halt Irresponsible Balloon Releases
I respectfully urge you to implement a policy against balloon releases. Balloons can travel vast distances before finally bursting (or otherwise losing their buoyancy) and falling to the ground or into waterways. Animals then mistake the fragments for food and consume them, which can result in a slow death from choking or suffocation. Land animals have starved to death after their intestines became blocked with balloon fragments, and wild birds have been found with balloon latex binding their necks, beaks, and legs. "Biodegradable" balloons and their strings are just as hazardous and can take months or even years to break down in the environment, posing risks in the interim. Please end Alpha Sigma Phi's dangerous and environmentally irresponsible activity. Thank you for your compassionate consideration of this important matter.


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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Cory Booker and the First Black Senators
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Originally posted on The Root
When the brilliant Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Stanford honors student, Yale Law School graduate and a former Rhodes Scholar, is sworn in as New Jersey's next U.S. senator on Oct. 31 (a historical event that should be widely heralded as a triumph of vision and one candidate's unwavering and consistent moral commitment to public service), it will mark only the second time in history that two African Americans will be serving in the Senate at the same time. This milestone, remarkably, was only reached earlier this year after Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina elevated Rep. Tim Scott to Jim DeMint's old seat and Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts appointed his former chief of staff, William "Mo" Cowan, to fill the vacancy left by current Secretary of State John Kerry until a special election could be held in June.
While Sens. Cowan and Scott only had a few months together in office, Booker and Scott will share the same chamber (at least) through 2014 when both must run again — Scott, for the first time, statewide. In both cases, Scott, a Tea Party favorite and the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction, has been matched up with a Northeastern Democrat, one who has already officiated same-sex weddings in his state. What a gesture it would be for them to sit together at President Obama's next State of the Union address in January. While their respective parties may continue to be divided over how best to represent the "1 percent" and the "99 percent," the Senate is now 2 percent black. In a nation that has twice elected a black man to its highest office, it is news at least worth noting — and, yes, for many, celebrating.
When Eric Foner of Columbia University, our leading historian on Reconstruction and an advisor on my current PBS series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, emailed me about these amazing facts the morning after Booker's victory, I knew I wanted to find out more about our early black senators. From working on the series, I was aware of the nearly 90-year gap separating the nation's first two, Hiram R. Revels (1870-1871) and Blanche K. Bruce (1875-1881), and the third, Edward W. Brooke (1967-1979), but I had no idea I would discover through research that Revels' swearing in would be delayed by the dead hand of the worst decision in Supreme Court history, or that before "Jim Crow" — in fact, just a decade after the Civil War — two other black men would almost achieve what Scott and Cowan and Scott and Booker have this year.
That's right! It could — and, as we'll see in next week's column, should — have happened 138 years ago on March 5, 1875, two years before Reconstruction ended. This was when the Senate moved to swear in the (second) black man whom Mississippi had sent to Washington, Blanche K. Bruce, even as it continued refusing to seat the first from Louisiana, P.S.B. Pinchback, a Civil War veteran and former state governor who'd been haunting the halls of Congress for two long years waiting for an answer.
Before deciding on the fate of these two individual black men, however, the senators in power after the Civil War had to settle an even more fundamental question when it came to seating Revels in 1870: Was it too soon, according to the Constitution, for any black man to be legally entitled to serve?
Please join me this week and next as I journey back to Reconstruction days in search of Cory Booker's oldest "ancestor" in the Senate and of the true — and fullest — significance of the 2 percent glass ceiling he has helped Sen. Tim Scott break for the second time this year. With Election Day on deck, a week from Tuesday, it's the perfect time for us to recall how precious a right voting is, and how much those who went before sacrificed for us to exercise it.
Hiram R. Revels
Jefferson Davis looking over his shoulder at Hiram Revels in U.S. Senate (Thomas Nast, 1870; loc.gov)
Article I, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution spells out the qualifications for becoming a senator by telling us who can't: "No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen."
In late February 1870, there was no question whether the first black senator-elect in American history — and one of the first Mississippi had sent to Washington since the Civil War — was old enough or resided in the Magnolia State. Hiram Rhodes Revels, 42 (at a time when the life expectancy of an average American man was mid-40s), had been born free to mixed-race parents in North Carolina in 1827, before even Andrew Jackson was president. After receiving seminary training in Indiana and Ohio, Revels had traveled the country as an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and eventually pastored churches in St. Louis and Baltimore. He had studied at Knox College in Illinois. He had helped organize and minister to black troops during the late rebellion. Following the emancipation, he had opened churches and schools for the freed people of Mississippi and served as an alderman and state senator. He impressed many political observers with his oratorical gifts and moderate temperament.
So, no, there was no question about Sen.-elect Revel's age or his residency — or about the powerful new voting bloc behind him. As W.E.B. Du Bois detailed in his classic 1935 study,Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, Mississippi already had a majority-black population before the Civil War; and, with its slaves now free and under the protection of federal troops, 60,137 blacks registered for the vote in 1867 compared to 46,636 whites.
Blacks also comprised the majority in 32 of Mississippi's counties, and in the state's first Reconstruction legislature, convened in 1870, they netted 40 seats, though, as Du Bois points out, based on their numbers, it should have been more. (Until the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, state legislatures, not voters, decided who would represent them in the U.S. Senate.) What Eric Foner has called "America's Unfinished Revolution" was just beginning, and the former slaves of the Deep South were on the verge of reinventing government — they thought, forever.
'Dred Scott' Redux
This was raw political power that the Republican Party was eager to embrace and Southern Democrats feared. (Remember, Abraham Lincoln had only been dead five years.) So by the time Revels reached the senate on Feb. 23, 1870 — and so soon after Appomattox — he was showered by applause from the gallery, but met resistance from the Democrats on the floor. Particularly galling to them was the fact that Revels was about to inhabit a seat like the one that their former colleague, Jefferson Davis, had resigned en route to becoming president of the Confederacy in 1861. When Davis was still in the Senate, the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) had still been good law, they knew, and it had gone out of its way to reject blacks' claims to U.S. citizenship — the critical third test any incoming senator had to pass.
In staring down Revels, the Democrats' strategy wasn't to rake over his birth certificate (an absurd tactic left to our own time) but to proceed as though nothing had happened in between 1857 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868. (Both of those measures had clarified blacks' status as citizens, blunting Dred Scott's force as precedent — the 14th Amendment as a matter of constitutional law.) As a result, by the Democrats' calculus, Revels, despite having been born a free man in the South and having voted years before in Ohio, could only claim to have been a U.S. citizen for two — and at most four — years, well short of the Constitutional command of nine. It was a rule-based argument, as rigid as it was reactionary. It twisted the founders' original concerns over allowing foreign agents into the Senate into a bar on all native-born blacks until 1875 or 1877, thus buying the Democrats more time to regain their historical advantages in the South.
So, instead of Sen.-elect Revels taking the oath of office upon his arrival in Washington, he had to suffer two more days of debate among his potential colleagues over his credentials and the reach of Dred Scott. While the Democrats' defense was constitutionally based, as Richard Primus brilliantly recounts in his April 2006 Harvard Law Review article, "The Riddle of Hiram Revels" (pdf), there were occasional slips that indicated just what animus — at least for some — lurked behind it. "Outside the chamber," Primus writes, "Democratic newspapers set a vicious tone: the New York World decried the arrival of a 'lineal descendant of an ourang-otang in Congress' and added that Revels had 'hands resembling claws.' The discourse inside the chamber was almost equally pointed."
Primus continues, "Senator [Garrett] Davis [of Kentucky] asked rhetorically whether any of the Republicans present who claimed willingness to accept Revels as a colleague 'has made sedulous court to any one fair black swan, and offered to take her singing to the altar of Hymen.' " Can you imagine a senator using such suggestive sexual language on the Senate floor today? (OK, maybe on Twitter.)
Foolishly drawn into the debate, some of Revels' own supporters contorted themselves trying to work within the Democrats' framework. Notably, one Republican senator, George Williams of Oregon, staked his vote on Revels' mixed-race heritage (as Primus indicates, Revels was "called a quadroon, an octoroon, and a Croatan Indian as well as a negro" throughout his life). It was a material fact to Williams, perhaps because, as President Lincoln's former attorney general Edward Bates had signaled in an opinion during the Civil War, just one drop of European blood was technically enough to exempt a black man from Dred Scott's citizenship ban against African pure-bloods.
Fortunately for all future black elected officials (just think of the pernicious effects of such a rule, however short-lived, on those who could not claim any obvious white heritage), other Republicans in the caucus refused to play along. As Primus recalls, "Senator Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania [asked his colleagues,] 'What do I care which pre-ponderates? He [Revels] is a man [and] his race, when the country was in its peril, came to the rescue … I admit that it somewhat shocks my old prejudices, as it probably does the prejudices of many more here, that one of the despised race should come here to be my equal; but I look upon it as the act of God.' "
The more decisive act for Republicans, as Cameron's backhanded comments indicated, was the Civil War, which (hello!) in four years had claimed the lives of 750,000 Americans, rewriting the Constitution in blood. To Republicans, before the country had spoken through the Civil Rights Act or Reconstruction Amendments, Dred Scott had, effectively, been overturned by what Sen. James Nye of Nevada called "the mightiest uprising which the world has ever witnessed."
Charles Sumner, the radical Republican senator from Massachusetts, understood the costs of that uprising, having shed his own blood beneath the cane of Preston Brooks in one of the most violent episodes in the lead-up to the war — right at his own Senate desk. And Sumner wasn't about to concede any ground to Dred Scott, which, to him, had been "[b]orn a putrid corpse" as soon as it had left the late Chief Justice Taney's pen. "The time has passed for argument," Sumner thundered, as quoted in my book, Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 . "Nothing more need be said … 'All men are created equal' says the great Declaration; and now a great act attests this verity. Today we make the Declaration a reality. For a long time in word only, it now becomes a deed. For a long time a promise only, it now becomes a consummated achievement."
Whatever the merits — or genuineness — of their various arguments (Primus gives most the benefit of doubt, arguing they were "sufficiently principled to qualify as an exercise in interpreting the Constitution" with a view to larger historical stakes), the Senate nevertheless ended up voting on Revels along strict party lines: 48 Republicans for swearing him in, eight Democrats opposed. At 4:40 p.m. on Feb. 25, 1870, some 56 years before the first Black History Week was celebrated, black history was made in America when Sen. Revels pledged before Vice President Schuyler Colfax to uphold the Constitution.
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Eurovision Song Contest Winner Måns Zelmerlöw's Heroes Bows At No.11 on the UK Singles Chart
As reported earlier this week, Måns Zelmerlöw was expected to enter the UK singles chart this Sunday. He didn't quite match the peak of Loreen's 2012 winner 'Euphoria' as 'Heroes' bows at No.11. Being a ESC winner doesn't necessarily equals a UK hit, last year's 'Rise Like a Phoenix' with Conchita Wurst reached No.17.
READ: WILL MÅNS ZELMERLÖW'S HEROES BEAT LOREEN'S NO.3 PEAK IN THE UK
Måns Zelmerlöw enters the Irish singles chart at No.10 this week. The single also climbs 24-5 on the Swedish singles chart, returning to No.1 on the Swedish downloads chart Digilistan.
READ: THE DARK SIDE BEHIND MÅNS ZELMERLÖW'S HEROES
Across Europe, Måns Zelmerlöw is the highest new entry in Germany at No.3 behind Felix Jaehn and Sarah Connor. It tops the Swiss chart, peaked No.5 in Belgium. Interesting to note, it has only reached No.37 in our neighbor country Norway.
READ: SWEDEN TAKES TOTAL ESC LEAD AS MÅNS ZELMERLÖW WINS
Not surprisingly, Jason Derulo tops the singles chart with 'Want to Want Me' ahead of Martin Garrix and Usher's collaboration ('Don't Look Down').
READ: CONGRATS MÅNS ZELMERLÖW, BUT ITALY ACTUALLY WON
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US$192.3 billion and counting: Dubai Airshow
Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines
Dubai World Central
Dubai, UAE. 17 November 2013 – Orders at the Dubai Airshow kept coming thick and fast, at a record-breaking breaking pace at the first day in the Dubai World Central (DWC) new venue.
Following on from a record-breaking morning order intake of US$192.3 billion, the afternoon saw Etihad Airways up the buying stakes with a US$26.9 billion order for 87 Airbus aircraft, plus purchase rights for a further 30.
The deal – for 50 A350s, 36 Airbus A320/A321neo and an A330-220F freighter - includes related engines. The A320/A321neos are scheduled for delivery from 2018, while the A350s will be delivered from 2020 onwards.
Etihad's newly-purchased A350s will be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, while the Airbus A330-200 freighter will be driven by two Trent 700s. Meanwhile the A320/A321neos will be powered by CFM LEAP-1A engines.
Etihad also announced a 'step-change in global aviation' with the launch of its first-branded regional operation, Etihad Regional, after taking a 33.3 per cent share in Swiss carrier Darwin Airline.
CEO James Hogan said the purchase opened up Europe to travellers on Etihad-branded aircraft. The announcement was followed swiftly by news of Etihad Airways new daily flights from Abu Dhabi to Zurich, from June 1, 2014, complementing its existing Geneva route.
Airbus was also celebrating a Dubai Airshow deal with Qatar Airways for five A330-200Fs, including eight options in a deal worth potentially worth over US $2.8 billion at list prices.
Dubai Airshow is organised under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and in co-operation with Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Dubai Airports, Dubai World Central and the UAE Armed Forces.
For F&E Aerospace, contact: Gemma L'Appanna, PR Manager – T: +971 4603 3300 M: +971 555 163 914; E: gemma.lappanna@dubai.aero
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<sect1 id="zend.auth.adapter.openid">
    <title>Open ID Authentifikation</title>

    <sect2 id="zend.auth.adapter.openid.introduction">
        <title>Einführung</title>

        <para>
            Der <classname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId</classname> Adapter kann verwendet werden um
            Benutzer durch Verwendung eines entfernten OpenID Servers zu authentifizieren. Diese
            Authentifizierungsmethode nimmt an das Benutzer nur ihre OpenID Identität an die Web
            Anwendung übermitteln. Dann werden Sie zu Ihrem OpenID Anbieter umgeleitet um die
            Eigentümerschaft der Identität mit Hilfe eines Passwortes oder einer anderen Methode zu
            prüfen. Dieses Passwort wird der Web Anwendung nie bekannt gegeben.
        </para>

        <para>
            Die OpenID Identität ist nur eine <acronym>URL</acronym> die auf eine Webseite mit
            entsprechenden Informationen über den Benutzer und spezielle Tags verweist welche
            beschreiben welcher Server verwendet werden soll und welche Identität dort zu
            übermitteln ist. Mehr über OpenID kann auf der
            <ulink url="http://www.openid.net/">offiziellen OpenID Site</ulink> nachgelesen werden.
        </para>

        <para>
            Die <classname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId</classname> Klasse umgibt die
            <classname>Zend_OpenId_Consumer</classname> Komponente welche das OpenID
            Authentifizierungs Protokoll selbst implementiert.
        </para>

        <note>
            <para>
                <classname>Zend_OpenId</classname> hat Vorteile davon wenn die
                <ulink url="http://php.net/gmp">GMP Erweiterung</ulink> vorhanden ist. Es sollte
                Angedacht werden die <acronym>GMP</acronym> Erweiterung für eine bessere
                Performance einzuschalten wenn <classname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId</classname>
                verwendet wird.
            </para>
        </note>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="zend.auth.adapter.openid.specifics">
        <title>Spezielles</title>

        <para>
            Wie in diesem Fall für alle <classname>Zend_Auth</classname> Adapter, implementiert die
            <classname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId</classname> Klasse das
            <classname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_Interface</classname>, welches nur eine Methode definiert:
            <methodname>authenticate()</methodname>. Diese Methode führt die Authentifizierung
            selbst durch, allerdings muß das Objekt vor dem Aufruf vorbereitet werden. So eine
            Vorbereitung des Adapters beinhaltet das Setzen der OpenID Identität und einige andere
            <classname>Zend_OpenId</classname> spezifische Optionen.
        </para>

        <para>
            Trotzdem, im Gegensatz zu anderen <classname>Zend_Auth</classname> Adaptern führt
            <classname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId</classname> Authentifizierungen an einem externen
            Server durch und das wird in zwei separaten <acronym>HTTP</acronym> Anfragen getan.
            Deswegen muß <methodname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId::authenticate()</methodname> zweimal
            aufgerufen werden. Beim ersten Aufruf wird die Methode nichts zurückgeben, aber den
            Benutzer zu seinem OpenID Server umleiten. Dann, nachdem der Benutzer auf dem
            entfernten Server authentifiziert ist wird dieser wieder zurück umleiten und das Skript
            muß für diese zweite Anfrage
            <methodname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId::authenticate()</methodname> nochmals aufrufen um
            die Signatur zu prüfen, welche mit der umgeleiteten Anfrage vom Server geschickt wird,
            und den Authentifikationsprozess zu beenden. Bei diesem zweiten Aufruf wird wie
            erwartet ein <classname>Zend_Auth_Result</classname> Objekt zurückgegeben.
        </para>

        <para>
            Das folgende Beispiel zeigt die Verwendung von
            <classname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId</classname>. Wie vorher erwähnt wird die
            <methodname>Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId::authenticate()</methodname> Methode zweimal
            aufgerufen. Das erste Mal, ist nachdem der Benutzer das <acronym>HTML</acronym>
            Formular übermittelt hat und <varname>$_POST['openid_action']</varname> auf
            <emphasis>"login"</emphasis> gesetzt wurde, und das zweite Mal nach der
            <acronym>HTTP</acronym> Umleitung vom OpenID Server wenn
            <varname>$_GET['openid_mode']</varname> oder
            <varname>$_POST['openid_mode']</varname> gesetzt wurde.
        </para>

        <programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
$status = "";
$auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance();
if ((isset($_POST['openid_action']) &&
     $_POST['openid_action'] == "login" &&
     !empty($_POST['openid_identifier'])) ||
    isset($_GET['openid_mode']) ||
    isset($_POST['openid_mode'])) {
    $result = $auth->authenticate(
        new Zend_Auth_Adapter_OpenId(@$_POST['openid_identifier']));
    if ($result->isValid()) {
        $status = "Sie sind angemeldet als "
                . $auth->getIdentity()
                . "
\n";
    } else {
        $auth->clearIdentity();
        foreach ($result->getMessages() as $message) {
            $status .= "$message
\n";
        }
    }
} else if ($auth->hasIdentity()) {
    if (isset($_POST['openid_action']) &&
        $_POST['openid_action'] == "logout") {
        $auth->clearIdentity();
    } else {
        $status = "Sie sind angemeldet als "
                . $auth->getIdentity()
                . "
\n";
    }
}
?>

<?php echo htmlspecialchars($status);?>
<form method="post"><fieldset>
<legend>OpenID Login</legend>
<input type="text" name="openid_identifier" value="">
<input type="submit" name="openid_action" value="login">
<input type="submit" name="openid_action" value="logout">
</fieldset></form>
*/
]]></programlisting>

        <para>
            Man kann den OpenID Authentifizierungs Prozess auf verschiedenen Wegen anzupassen. Man
            kann,zum Bespiel, die Umleitung des OpenID Servers auf eine eigene Seite erhalten, indem
            der "root" der Webseite spezifiziert wird und ein eigener
            <classname>Zend_OpenId_Consumer_Storage</classname> oder
            <classname>Zend_Controller_Response</classname> verwendet wird. Man kann auch eine
            einfache Registrierungserweiterung verwenden um Informationen über den Benutzer vom
            OpenID Server zu erhalten. Alle diese Möglichkeiten werden detailierter im Kapitel
            <classname>Zend_OpenId_Consumer</classname> beschrieben.
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Tech It To The Limit
The World Economic Forum's report on the future of jobs highlights that we are at the dawning of a fourth industrial revolution. The pace of technological advancement is building, laying the foundation for smarter systems that will enable us to tackle problems from supply chain management to global warming and climate change. In January of this year, Australian-based business accounting platform MYOB released The Future of Business report. In it, MYOB Chief Technology Officer Simon Raik-Allen projected forward 25 years to what business might look like, and discussed ways in which SME's can prepare. As one of Australasia's largest software developers, MYOB is looking at the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence, and how it may affect business, society and work in the future. Here's what they predict is in store as a whole as we progress towards a brave new digital world.
THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Raik-Allen predicts that artificial intelligence, virtual reality, 3D printing and bio-technology will play a huge role in business – and life in general. Working remotely will become part of the societal norm. Advances in mobile and cloud technology will mean remote and instant access will become one of the most important technological drivers of change. Concepts that just a few years ago were in the realms of science fiction such as digital personal assistants and self-driving cars have already become a reality. In the near future, massive technological advances in everything from advanced robotics to implanted biological enhancements have the potential to greatly improve our lives. With the rapid development of technology, many predict a point when computers will reach a level of artificial general intelligence that enables them to learn on their own. This new intelligent entity will be capable of designing ever more sophisticated technology in a kind of runaway super-intelligence. The concept of a 'technological singularity' describes this moment, when humanity is suddenly tipped from its place as the dominant intelligence on the planet and faces an uncertain future. Ray Kurzweil, who is widely recognised for popularising the idea of the singularity, has been appointed by Google to work on the next stage of the search engine's development: intelligently organising and processing the world's information. As co-founder of the Singularity University, Kurzweil predicts that computers will outstrip their creators in intelligence by 2029.
According to research conducted by Oxford University, nearly half of the US workforce is in danger of losing jobs to robots in the next 20 years. In particular, recent studies have found that as technology drives robots to be more efficient and cost-effective, people who work in lower skilled roles including drivers and call centre workers would be out of a job. While many manufacturing and processing roles – especially in dangerous or highly specialised environments – are already filled by robotic workers, other areas will soon be affected. One of the fears often expressed about widespread automation and increasing technological automation is the threat of what has become known as the 'jobless future,' where people just can't compete with the efficiency and versatility of machines. In an increasingly globalised economy, workers will also have to develop new skill sets such as speaking multiple languages and changing sleeping patterns to conduct business across multiple time zones. Humans will have to compete harder for a smaller number of jobs whilst we battle our own biological limitations to keep up. As work begins to change the demands on our brains and bodies, we will increasingly use technology to augment and boost our abilities. Raik-Allen believes "the demands of our new jobs in the technological age and the advances we make in nano-technology and biological implants will likely drive us to increasingly shape ourselves to succeed in this new world." He suggests that rather than removing jobs as excercised in our previous experience of industrial revolutions, technology will provide more opportunities for rewarding work. Many of these roles will be in areas that are still in development or will depend on the next stage of technology. It is estimated that 65 per cent of children entering primary school now will work in a job that doesn't exist today.
THE FUTURE OF THE WORKPLACE
Interestingly, with all the ground-breaking technological advances predicted by 2040, Raik-Allen believes "the biggest impact will be on what we currently call 'the workplace'." According to MYOB, the focus of 2040 will be the 'suburban village' which will facilitate its geographic communities to live, work, eat and learn primarily within walking distance of home, and yet will be instantly and continuously connected to the wider global village through cloud communication, holograms, drones and 'bots. Reik-Allen believes we will have moved past the central workspace to the remote office or localised centres or 'hubs,' an evolution of today's shared workspaces. "Work styles and spaces will be more dynamic and decentralised, with personal technology enabling increased mobility and accessibility. This will have real implications for local and national economies, as well as key industries such as transportation and energy." Potentially people will able to spend their days without living interaction – just digital expereinces. The use of holograms will accelerate this even further. "Your workforce may be a globally connected group, using holographic projection to communicate in real time, but there will be people at the centre of the operation finding new and unique ways to collaborate on tasks and innovations."
THE FUTURE FOR PROFESSIONALS
Beyond the social and practical 'necessity' of human workplace relations, today's businesses rely on critical face-to-face interactions such as negotiation, conflict resolution and deal making. But, with a future where computers may be superior in their ability to conduct complex business analysis and create algorithms for the best possible course of action, is there a role for humans at all? In a world where so much is digitised and automated, it's the human factor that people will value the most. The ability to offer the crucial things technology can't – such as person-to-person interactions, displays of emotion and shared, interpersonal experiences – will see the creation of new industries. As technology begins to break down and homogenise our experiences, the very culture and character that has made us uniquely successful over thousands of years will once again become a thing of value. Reik-Allen believes that humans will remain essential to execute the deal based on trust, shared values, and an old-fashioned handshake, albeit within a new model. He suggests that in the future, special business deal houses will emerge where people will book time to meet other companies and make deals. They will house technology and holograms and set up environments conducive to making deals between humans much more effective. Although these may not be in the flesh, they will focus on creating a real experience rather than relying on algorithms negotiating on your behalf.
THE FUTURE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
With many internal and external factors shaping the future of business, MYOB advocates that the key will be getting future-ready. Raik-Allen offers three ways in which small businesses should prepare:
DIGITISE YOUR BUSINESS – Get online with a business website, and automate as many manual processes as you can. This is probably the most important step you can take in streamlining your operation today, to take advantage of the opportunities every new stage of technology provides. Anything you commit to paper now, or a system you have that can't handle automation, will not benefit your business in the future. Not only is the process good for your business now, it will prepare you for when the AI algorithms can operate over it!
SERVICE IS KEY – Focus on the customer experience that your product or service delivers, and be sure you understand why your customers like to interact with your business. Ironically in the age of robotics, human contact will become more valuable and sought-after and your customers are likely to seek out a more human service experience.
BROADEN YOUR BUSINESS NETWORK – Again, as more and more elements of our existence become automated, dealing with human colleagues will become a unique element of business. To make your business stand out in an automated world, you will need to focus and leverage your interactions with other companies. Create relationships and partnerships now that will enable you to pool your resources as the new post-AI world evolves.
In considering a future where the wildest ideas from science fiction literature and futuristic Hollywood blockbusters are increasingly becoming a foreseeable possibility, there still remain only two certainties: death and taxes. So, if nothing else, make sure you have a good accounting system! For the full MYOB "Future" series, see here To arrange a free trial of MYOB's new cloud-based accounting technology, see here
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The vital role that tourism plays in the Italian economy is demonstrated by the foreign exchange registered by the Italian Foreign Exchange Office (UIC) and the Italian National Bank. This is expected to reach an all-time record of EUR 30 billion in 2006. The growth in foreign earnings announced by UIC is even greater than that for the international market and considerably larger than that for Western Europe.


This message is about a biblically sound understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. The priority of the pledge of the Holy Spirit is calling us into a pilgrimage unto our inheritance in the resurrection. The Spirit Himself is a pilgrim as stated in 2 Chronicles 16:9.


Zocios is a brand new, comprehensive, customizable, integrated, and very affordable membership management system, especially designed for medical and professional societies and their component organizations.
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We cordially invite you to a seminar within the BioDIP Lighthouse Seminar Series on different microscopy techniques: 3D SIM, a superresolution technique accessible to you on the Campus.
Structured Illumination, as implemented in e.g. the Apotome is primarily used to increase image contrast only. However, using a 3D structured illumination pattern of light further benefits of even higher contrast and doubled resolution are possible.
The introduction will be given by Daniel J. White who is the application scientist for high/super resolution microscopy at GE Healthcare. Moreover two colleagues who already applied 3D SIM in their research projects will give a practical insight into the pros & cons of the technology: Andreas Müller (PLID) and Sandra Segeltz (MPI-CBG).


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Chamoim is een plaats (freguesia) in de Portugese gemeente Terras de Bouro en telt 350 inwoners (2001).

Plaats in Portugal


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WASHINGTON POST Sept. 03, 2011
Faye Blackstone, a rodeo trick rider who was elected to the
Cowgirl Hall of Fame and was best known for her saddle-dangling signature move,
the reverse fender drag, and who helped launch the career of country singer Reba
McEntire, died Aug. 30 at a hospital in Bradenton, Fla.
She was 96 and had complications from cancer.
Mrs. Blackstone was 3 when she began riding horses on her family's Nebraska
ranch. She taught herself how to do tricks while riding her horse to
She and her late husband, Vic, a bow-legged bronc rider from Texas, married
in 1937 on horseback in a rodeo arena in Bladen, Neb. They performed on the
rodeo circuit during the 1940s and '50s. During that time, she also rode in a
traveling show with Gene Autry and entertained crowds in New York's Madison
Square Garden and as far as Havana with her gymnastic feats.
Mrs. Blackstone could do headstands while her quarter horse galloped at full
stride. She could drop from the saddle, let her boots kick the arena dust and
spin to the horse's other side.
Diana Vela, the associate executive director of the National Cowgirl Museum
and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, said that Mrs. Blackstone is credited with
inventing three maneuvers: the flyaway, the ballerina, and the reverse fender
drag. For the last, Mrs. Blackstone hung on to the lower left side of the saddle
with her right leg and arm, extending her left leg and arm while her head bobbed
by the haunches.
With the "horse going full speed,'' Vela said, such a move required
spectacular athleticism.
Mrs. Blackstone said her innovations evolved because she was often among the
last trick riders to perform at rodeos.
"You didn't want to duplicate what they did,'' she told the Tampa Tribune in
1989. "You wanted to do something special.''
Fayetta June Hudson was born in Diller, Neb. At 8, she watched a female
rider handle a bronco as it went berserk.
"The horse jumped over the fence and behind the grandstand,'' Mrs. Blackstone
said in 1995. "She was riding that stuff with the greatest of ease. I thought,
'Boy, I want to do that.' ''
During the 1950s, the Blackstones settled outside Parrish, Fla., in Manatee
County. There, Mrs. Blackstone and her husband arranged for the flame-haired
daughter of some rodeo friends to get a spot performing at a country fair in
1978. The young singer was Reba McEntire.
"That was my first big fair by myself,'' McEntire said in 2003. "It was huge
Mrs. Blackstone performed in rodeos into the 1960s.
She was elected to the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1982, and her husband was
elected to the Rodeo Hall of Fame the same year. He died in 1987. Mrs.
Blackstone has no immediate survivors.
Unlike many trick riders, Mrs. Blackstone and her husband had the practical
knowledge needed for managing a large cattle herd.
"They knew cattle and knew about forages and grass and how to run a ranch,''
said Jim Strickland, a longtime friend of the Blackstones. "Faye was kind of a
bundle of dynamite. Small, fearless, and red-haired.''


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Я́ков Петро́вич Ко́втун (22 октября 1916 — 15 сентября 2014) — советский геолог. Организатор геофизических работ по поиску железных руд, бокситов, сульфидного никеля и других полезных ископаемых на Воронежском кристаллическом массиве. В 1952—1983 годах — начальник Воронежской (Южной) геофизической экспедиции.

Биография

Детство, образование и воспитание
Родился в селе Вороньки (Полтавская губерния). Отец Пётр Романович (1879—1948), мать Ефросинья Осиповна (1882—1965) — простые сельчане. В семье было ещё три сестры (Ульяна (1907—1997), Ганна (1912—1933), Мария (1920—1988)) и единокровный брат (Мыкола (1900—1942)).

В первый класс Якова определили в 1923 году. В 1931 году окончил 7-й класс и поступил в Лохвицкий педагогический техникум, а в 1932 году — на рабочий факультет института инженеров водного хозяйства в Харькове. В 1933 году окончил институт и сдал экзамен на I курс Одесского института инженеров землеустройства. С 1934 года по 1939 год обучался в Одесском сельхозинституте (в 1934 году 2 института объединили в один и сделали отдельную кафедру по землеустройству), который он успешно окончил, получив диплом инженера-топографа и геодезиста и звание лейтенанта-артиллериста. В 1939 году распределился в Москву в Государственный Союзный Геофизический трест Министерства нефтяной промышленности на должность инженера-геодезиста в полевую геофизическую партию.

Работа в геологической области

Первая работа — сейсморазведка и поиск нефтяных месторождений (Доссор, Косчегил, Тюлюс и Кузбак), в Северном Казахстане. Женится на Радченко Зинаиде Прокофьевне (1922-2011). В 1942 году родился сын Вячеслав.

В 1944 году переезжает в Гурьев в должности начальника сейсморазведочной партии. В том же году родился второй сын — Валентин. В 1946 году по состоянию здоровья переводится из Казахстана на Украину, в Киев и назначается начальником геофизической партии в Донбасскую геофизическую экспедицию. В 1948 году — назначен начальником кубанской сейсморазведочной партии Министерства геологии СССР, участвует в открытии крупных газонефтяных структур Каневской, Ленинградской и Кущевской.

В 1951 году — начальник Северо-Кавказской сейсморазведочной партии на структурах Сельская и Манычинская. В 1952 году — начальник Крымской Сейсморазведочной партии, проводившей сейсморазведочные работы по разведке структур на Керченском полуострове.

10 октября 1952 года назначен начальником Курской геофизической экспедиции. Экспедиция была создана в 1948 году, являлась постоянной организацией в системе Центргеологии и структурно оформилась в 1948 году в г. Обоянь (Курская область). В 1964 году экспедиция переехала в г. Воронеж, где впоследствии (в 1967 году) получила название Воронежской геофизической экспедиции.

В 1950-е годы экспедицией были выработаны технологии и методика геофизических работ по поисковому и детальному картированию аномалий, связанных с богатыми железистыми рудами. За 10 лет работы экспедиция увеличила объем своей работы в 4 раза.

Начальником Воронежской экспедиции Яков Ковтун был 31 год (с 1952 по 1983 год). За это время были открыты и разведаны такие богатые месторождения железных руд, как Лебединское, Стойленское, Михайловское, Яковлевское, Понзенское, Реутецкое, Курбакинское, Чернянское, Гостищевское и т. д.

Являлся депутатом 7 созывов Коминтернского районного Совета депутатов трудящихся в г. Воронеж (с 1966 по 1980 гг.).

Яков Ковтун воспитал более десяти кандидатов и докторов наук в области геолого-минералогических наук. Под его руководством начинали свой путь и трудились будущие известные в геофизике люди. Среди них лауреат Ленинской премии Н. Г. Шмидт, лауреат Государственной премии СССР в области техники В. Н. Бойдаченко, доктора и кандидаты наук Н. П. Афанасьев, В. И. Павловский, Е. Б. Серебряков, Г. А. и А. А. Любимовы, заслуженный геолог Российской Федерации С. П. Василюк и другие. Работы Якова Ковтуна опубликованы в различных геологических сборниках советского времени, а также хранятся в Центральном фондохранилище Росгеолфонда.

После выхода на пенсию Яков Ковтун переезжает в Московскую область, в город Лобня. Еще 18 лет работает в должности инженера Главного научно-исследовательского и информационно-вычислительного центра Комитета Российской Федерации по геологии и использованию недр. Окончательно с трудовой деятельностью Яков Ковтун распрощался лишь в 2001 году в возрасте 84 лет.

Яков Ковтун почётный гражданин города Обоянь (Курская область) . В городе Обоянь на здании Хирургического отделения районной больницы, где ранее располагалась Курская геофезическая экспедиция (г. Обоянь, ул. Федоровского, 40) размещена памятная доска с текстом: "В этом здании работал с 1952 по 1964 год почетный гражданин г. Обояни заслуженный геолог Российской Федерации Яков Петрович Ковтун".

Яков Петрович Ковтун скончался 15 сентября 2014 года .

Награды
 Медаль «За трудовую доблесть» (Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 19 мая 1954 г. № 202/143)
 Орден Трудового Красного Знамени (Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 29 апреля 1963 г. № 1289-VI)
 Медаль «За трудовое отличие» (1968)
 Медаль «За доблестный труд в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Медаль «В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира Ильича Ленина»
 Знак «Отличник разведки недр» (1988)
 Знак «Победитель Социалистического соревнования 1974 года»
 Грамоты Министерства геологии СССР и РСФСР, Министерства природы Российской Федерации, Федерального агентства по недропользованию.
 Почётная грамота Правительства Российской Федерации (5 сентября 2011 года) — за большой вклад в развитие минерально-сырьевой базы России и многолетний добросовестный труд
 Заслуженный геолог Российской Федерации
 В 2001 году включен в информационно-биографический сборник Геофизики России.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Ковтун Яков Петрович
 Распоряжение Правительства РФ от 5 сентября 2011 г. N 1527-р «О награждении почетной грамотой Правительства Российской Федерации Ковтуна Я. П.»
 Указ Президента РФ от 13 сентября 1994 г. N 1906 «О присвоении почетного звания "Заслуженный геолог Российской Федерации"

Литература
 «Ветра и солнца брат» (сборник к 50-летию геологической службы Центрального черноземья), Центральный региональный геологический центр Министерства природных ресурсов РФ, Воронеж 1998;
 «Отдаем России», Комитет по геологии и использованию недр при Правительстве Российской Федерации, Москва, Издательство «Недра» 1993 ISBN 5-247-03434-1;
 «Геологи центральных районов России», Москва, Издательство «Геоинформмарк» 2007 ISBN 978-5-98877-027-5;
 «Геофизики России», Тверь, ООО «Издательство ГЕРС» 2001 ISBN 5-88942-017-8;
 «Геологическая служба Центральных районов России. История. Открытия. Люди.». Москва, Издательство «Геоинформцентр» 2003 ISBN 5-900357-84-8.
 «Геология — жизнь моя», « Железногорские ведомости» от 28 августа 2013 г.
 Итоги геофизических работ на Воронежском кристаллическом массиве с 1948 до 1965 г. и их дальнейшее развитие. Труды Воронежского государственного университета. Том 66. Геологический сборник. Издательство Воронежского государственного университета, Воронеж, 1968 г.
 «Обояни — 365 лет», «Обоянская газета» от 3 сентября 2014 г.
 «Аномалия в Обоянском уезде», «Обоянская газета» от 4 ноября 2016 гх.


Up to the end of 2011, 163 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in Homeopathy have been reported in 140 full papers in peer-reviewed journals. This represents research in 77 different medical conditions. Of these 163 RCTs, 67 (41%) were positive, 11 (7%) negative and 85 (52%) non-conclusive.
A number of systematic reviews have evaluated the Homeopathic research literature (Faculty of Homeopathy website).
Non-randomised, non-controlled clinical outcomes studies make a useful contribution to the evidence base (Faculty of Homeopathy website).
Image left courtesy of Homeopathy Research Institute: Dr Stephan Baumgartner (KIKOM, Switzerland) speaking at the Institute's Conference "Cutting Edge Research in Homeopathy", held in Barcelona, 2013.