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When laptops computers first appeared in the early 1990s, manufactures called them "freedom machines" with ads showing smiling users inputting at the poolside and the beach. We don't see these ads anymore. People are aware that technology isn't increasing our leisure time — we seem to be working harder than ever!
There is hope out there, however. I offer my suggestions of where to start.
Technology training is key to efficiency increases.
Companies and individuals must make a commitment to technology support and training. Efficient use of word processing, spreadsheets and database tools can improve productivity. The proper use of Salesforce or other contact management and sale automation tools can be very productive. Online meeting site selection tools can save time as well as knowing the proper use of a wide range of event and tradeshow technology tools. Meeting planning software, when used efficiently, can streamline and automate many meeting planning tasks.
It is essential that, not only do companies provide tech tools to increase productivity, but they need to devote time and resources to make sure that staff are properly trained in using them.
The most productive employees tend to embrace technology change and actively seek out opportunities to learn. There are loads of free tech-training videos on YouTube. An excellent way of finding out about new technology for the events and tradeshow industries is at tradeshows and industry meetings. There are also publications, newsletters and blogs than commonly address using technology for the events.
As technology advances, it becomes easier to use.
Mobile devices have become easy enough for a toddler or a grandparent to use. Computers are continuing to become lighter and more intuitive. Location-based services such as GPS and many mobile apps have change the way we find things. Artificial intelligence and voice recognition are making access to technology simpler. Mobile-friendly voice-based search will become much more wide-spread. The trend toward ease of use and simplicity will continue at likely an increasingly rapid pace making technology adoption by all of us an easier task.
We must learn to turn off the switch at times.
Many of us have allowed technology to intrude on our leisure time. We are multitasking very well and have become the more productive. However, as poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau prophetically stated more than 150 years ago "Men (and women) have become tools of their tools." The problem is that we can't run an engine at top speed indefinitely – we must strive to establish balance in our lives. Time must be set aside for our families, for friends, for recharging, for leisure activities. Learn to use technology to help you be more efficient on the job, but also, learn when to turn off the phone, email, and other gadgets. Using technology wisely also involves knowing when to not use it.
This digital revolution we are experiencing is a basic change in the way people communicate and transact. While we take a while to cope with the rapid rate of change, the opportunities for those that adapt and work with it are great. At the same time, however, we must balance our lives and not become tools of our tools.
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By definition, the humanities themselves are open to being continually re-defined. The apply of recent art, for example, is a testomony to the shifting boundaries, improvisation and experimentation, reflexive nature, and self-criticism or questioning that art and its circumstances of production, reception, and risk can endure. For common discussions of the foundations, ideas, practice, and character of the humanities, see aesthetics. For the technical and theoretical elements of several arts, see structure, calligraphy, dance, drawing, literature, movement image, music, painting, pictures, printmaking, sculpture, and theatre. See additionally the historic discussions in historical past of the motion picture and history of photography.
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Art has long been controversial, that's to say disliked by some viewers, for all kinds of causes, though most pre-modern controversies are dimly recorded, or utterly lost to a modern view. Iconoclasm is the destruction of art that's disliked for quite so much of causes, including religious ones. Aniconism is a common dislike of either all figurative images, or usually simply non secular ones, and has been a thread in lots of major religions. It has been a crucial issue within the historical past of Islamic art, the place depictions of Muhammad remain particularly controversial. Much artwork has been disliked purely because it depicted or otherwise stood for unpopular rulers, events or other groups.
Though scholars agree that music usually consists of a few core parts, their precise definitions are debated. Commonly recognized elements include pitch , length , depth and timbre. Though considered a cultural common, definitions of music differ wildly all through the world as they're based mostly on diverse views of nature, the supernatural, and humanity. Music is often differentiated into composition and efficiency, while musical improvisation could additionally be regarded as an middleman tradition.
Art may be characterized when it comes to mimesis , narrative , expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities. During the Romantic period, artwork got here to be seen as "a particular school of the human mind to be categorized with faith and science". They can employ skill and creativeness to supply objects, performances, convey insights and experiences, and construct new environments and areas. Additional emoji descriptions and definitions are copyright © Emojipedia. Emoji photographs displayed on Emojipedia are copyright © their respective creators, unless otherwise famous. If you'd prefer to sustain with news, exhibitions and events on the Gallery, please enter your details beneath.
An example of this is the Silk Road, where Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian and Chinese influences may combine. Greco Buddhist art is amongst the most vivid examples of this interaction. The assembly of different cultures and worldviews also influenced artistic creation. An instance of that is the multicultural port metropolis of Trieste initially of the twentieth century, the place James Joyce met writers from Central Europe and the artistic development of New York City as a cultural melting pot. The history of 20th-century art is a narrative of infinite possibilities and the search for new standards, each being torn down in succession by the following.
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First thing that comes to your mind when somebody says Andaman Islands is lying lazily on the beaches and swimming in the shallow waters. But we have a totally different scenario in our off-beat expedition. We explore several non-touristy islands and hidden beaches, ride through the thick forests for swim in the fresh waterfalls, sail to different island by private and government ferry, private boat and huge titanic type ship, small speed boat and even fishermen Dungi to give you the best of experience in the Andaman Islands. This is not a luxury trip for honeymooners, but exhausting and exhilarating expedition for explorers at heart.
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Experience Scuba Diving, it's mysterious, magical, and simply breathtaking; above all it's a lot of fun!
NOTE: This is only a model itinerary, the exact itinerary will not be shared with the participants as there will be impromptu changes to make the tour more exciting.
Reach Port Blair Airport by noon. Check into your hotel and freshen up. Visit the Cellular Jail and head to Wandoor beach for introduction session of all the fellow backpackers in the tour. Will explain the concept of backpacking and what to expect from this tour.
Early morning wake up call to catch the first ferry of the day to Neil Island. It's a completely laidback island with its natural beauty still intact. Once we reach the jetty, we collect our mopeds and head to our beachside shacks to check in and freshen up. Get ready for the best part of Andaman's crystal clear waters and vibrant marine life – Scuba Diving. After the mesmerizing visual treats in the deep ocean, we head to the Natural Arch during low tide to witness nature's architect. We head back to our shacks for spectacular sunset at the adjacent beach. Some fun activities and chill by the beach side.
To witness something extraordinary, we have to get up at extraordinary hours in the morning! Wake up call at 0400hrs and we head to Sitapur beach for the most colourful sunrise. Post early breakfast, with our packed lunch and snorkel kits, we start our hike towards the hidden beach – Bhanga Dungi. After almost an hour, we finally reach the isolated beach best for snorkeling. We will swim our hearts out in the vast ocean and start hike back by late noon. Leisure time for everyone to explore the small island by themselves on moped.
Like a true explorer, we go on sailing expedition to another isolated Island on our private boat. With very few inhabitants, Long Island is a perfect retreat for backpackers. It will be a long sail from Neil Island and we finally reach the island by noon and check into our guest house. Post lunch we head to Lalaji Bay Beach by the only taxi in the whole island. We play and snorkel around in yet another beautiful deserted beach until sundown. Then we get picked up by a large Dungi for a surreal night sail back to the guest house.
Our day starts before the dawn and we watch the sunrise as we start our sail back to Neil Island. We reach Neil Island just in time to catch our ferry to Havelock Island. This island is the most happening place in Andamans. You will find a lot of lively tourists and bustling cafes at several places in the island. In the evening, after our ride to the Asia's best beach – Radhanagar Beach, we go on café hopping and retire for the day.
After 10 hours of sailing, we finally reach Little Andaman. This is one of our favourite destinations – a paradise for adventurers and beach lovers. After checking into our shacks, we get on our mopeds and head south to the lighthouse. Enroute we visit Nicobari Bastis and then maneuver our two-wheelers through dense forest. The view from above the lighthouse is breathtaking. On our way back, we stop at White Surf Waterfalls for a refreshing swim in the freshwaters and return to our stay for a good rest after a tiring day.
We reach Port Blair early morning. Freshen up at a room and head to the airport to depart to mainland.
Thus our amazing Andaman Backpacking Odyssey comes to an end with lots of memories, experiences and new made best friends!
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On Monday September 23rd, 2013 I went to see a discussion with Diane Ravitch hosted by The Century Foundation. I was super excited since last time she spoke at Bank Street college earlier this spring I ended up missing the presentation.
Though this post is long overdue (Research papers and various essays as required by my public affairs professor, statistics homework that overstayed their welcome from saturday well into Sunday night, work, general exhaustion of the mental faculties etc.) I feel it more relevant because of two reasons.
1. I finally had the opportunity to read the long awaited chapter where Diane outlines a clearcut vision for how to improve the charter school arena thereby mitigating the effects of the "corporate reform movement" aka the private ed reformers.
Whilst spending 4 days of my winter break cranking out my final research paper for my Introduction to Public Affairs class at Baruch College (a core requirement that I initially was not excited about at all and so delayed until my 3rd semester) During my first attempt at taking this class I ended up dropping it when a professor was going to teach it as a lecture-style, rote memorization class- memorize all the presidents including their incumbencies and other AP History HS type approaches.This class I enjoyed, the professor was cynical and real about the policymaking arena, her sardonic tone and questioning demeanor always challenged the class.
The assignment for the final paper was to choose a particular instance of policymaking formation ( a law that had been enacted for at least 5 years) and outline how it came to be. This was based on the central model of policymaking we had learned in class- Kingdon's model which relies on the " three P's" Policy, Politics and Problems.
"Solution No. 5: Ban for-profit charters and charter chains and ensure that charter schools collaborate with public schools to support better education for all children.
This reveals how easily perverted a vision, a policy can become from when it is first legislated and /or envisioned till the time it is actually implemented (Because of the "3 P's") With DeBlasio's policy of charging rent to co-located charters, what new problems will be created in the political arena when it comes to cultivating a collaborative partnership between the Charter world and public school how will charter. Ravitch and the Kingdon model go so well together.


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4 Fun Facts About the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, and Why You Don't Want to Miss It!
This year, on August 21, the United States will experience an amazing solar eclipse. A solar eclipse is an incredibly rare event to experience, and here are some fun facts about this phenomenon that will get you counting down the days until August.
The 2017 total solar eclipse is the first one to happen in the continental U.S. for 38 years. Previously, the last eclipse on February 26, 1979, was only viewed by those in select states in the Northwest, but come August, everybody in the country will be able to view at least a partial eclipse.
The moon's orbit tilts five degrees to the Earth's orbit around the sun.
The intersection of these two paths are known as nodes.
A solar eclipse only occurs when the sun lies at one node and the Earth stands at the other. But since the moon and the sun are constantly moving at separate rates, this is a rare occurrence.
Astronomers call the length of time between lunar and solar eclipses to be a Saros cycle. This is when the moon's distance from the Earth is the nearly the same as in a total solar eclipse. Generally each lunar and solar eclipse happen within a Saros cycle, which recur every 18 years, 11 days, and eight hours.
The period when the sun gets in the path of the moon is called totality, and this period will only last for a maximum of two minutes and 40.2 seconds. This happens so fast that you won't even notice when your surroundings are getting dark, so make sure to set a reminder to go outside so you don't miss it!
With these facts in mind, August can't come fast enough!


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Secret Love Island romp that was too X-rated for TV revealed
Love Island is returning tonight, and fans can't wait to see which contestants are going to get frisky as they find love.
Some of the Love Island 2019 stars have sworn they won't have sex on the show, but the same can't be said for previous contestants.
Host Caroline Flack revealed to Daily Star Online that producers had to cut a sex scene because it was too X-rated for viewers.
She said: "I can't tell you what it was but I remember we all saw it.
"There was a lot of banging. It was all natural."
Meanwhile, Caroline also spoke about her own love life, as she confirmed she is single after her romance with rugby player Danny Cipriano fizzled out.
She said: "I am dating. I have been on some dates. That's all I am going to say. I am not in love. No. Definitely not.
"I've just been saying yes to dates more than I have before. I used to be quite a no person.
"Because I was in quite a serious relationship last year, I just wanted to have some fun this year. So I have been having fun. It's been really good."
Caroline also spoke about how she was coping following the end of her engagement to Celebrity Big Brother's Andrew Brady, admitting it was "tough".
She said: "A lot of people go through it. You have tough years.
And then times just get a bit easier. It's a bit easier now."
Love Island returns tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
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Movement & Delivery misdirected mail.
Judy Costantini / misdirected mail.
The letter carrier keeps delivering mail from another apartment to mine. It is inconvenient to me also to the person in apt 212. I am also not recieving mail that I am suppose to get but haven't because it might be delivered to someone else.
I wouldn't mind so much if it was once in a while. But this is happening 2 or 3 times a week. It is unacceptable. I expect a little more professionalism from the corporation as big as Canada Post.


Business is a risk taking enterprise. And most forms have lots of competitors, each of which is delighted in enhancing their own markets at the expense of their competitors. All enterprises have stakeholders whose interests sometimes align and sometimes conflict with those of the enterprise. Each can affect the reputation of the others. The new arena of conflict and competition centers on what had been a business backwater--corporate social responsibility--and its increasing significance in the economic decision making of enterprises. This can pit national law against international standards and corporate against international regulatory frameworks. (Backer, Larry Catá, Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: The United Nation's Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations as Harbinger of Corporate Responsibility in International Law. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 37, 2006). Nonetheless, the adverse effects of business activities on social, environmental or human rights interests of others is now an important component of business operation--and is assessed in part by its reputation. Still, there is a risk to a conflation of competition and conflict with reputation stress. Where reputation enhancement involves strategies that minimize risk taking, the result can be a move from a competitive to a regulatory/managed market environment. That change in fundamental behavior approaches of enterprises can affect the nature and character of globalization in important ways.
First, media coverage, whether traditional or social, has dramatically increased globally. This increased scrutiny has made it virtually impossible for companies to hide. Transparency is expected, while companies have less control over their messages; and once an issue is on the Web, it will likely stay there forever.
The second factor is an unexpected consequence of globalization. The globalization of activist organizations has matched the global reach of companies. NGOs have increasingly succeeded in forcing private regulation: the "voluntary" adoption of rules and standards that constrain certain forms of company conduct without the involvement of public agents. In many cases, the mechanism driving change is the creation of reputational crises for globally operating companies that, when effective, leave the companies with no choice but to change their business practices.
Third is a shift in expectations about corporate conduct, especially among younger population segments. Evidence for these trends can be found in the explosive growth of areas such as corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and socially responsible investing. Some critics have dismissed these trends as passing fads that lack sustained impact, but reputational crises are increasingly being driven by moral outrage, whether over environmental concerns or executive perks.
These factors identify not merely but also a governance environment in which the character of business risk has expanded and in which governance systems have grown beyond the state. (Backer, Larry Catá, Economic Globalization and the Rise of Efficient Systems of Global Private Lawmaking: Wal-Mart as Global Legislator. University of Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2007).
The corrective, of course, involves a change of perspective and the cultivation of different governance habits. It also requires a different approach to the calculation of risk. Diermeier focuses on the traditional markers of risk--financial and operational. "Challenges to a company's reputation typically arise out of a specific business context and thus require management and execution as an integral part of business decisions. This is critically important for the prevention of reputational crises, which can arise as a result of any business decision, whether it involves product design, marketing strategy, the pricing model, the compensation process, or even market entry or M&A activities." (Daniel Diermeier, The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities, The European Business Review 2012). But these concerns are as important in the area of adverse environmental, social and human rights activities of corporations.
Consider the recent problems of Apple with its downstream supply chain manufacturer, Foxconn. Compare Jay Greene, Riots, suicides, and other issues in Foxconn's iPhone factories, CNet Sept. 25, 2012) ("The weekend violence is the latest in a growing list of incidents that have heightened concerns over conditions in factories that make iPhones and other high-volume tech products. There have been employee suicides, explosions at two plants that make Apple gadgets, and reports of harsh working conditions. A New York Times investigation of the manufacturing of Apple products in China in January painted a picture of a company that wants to improve the workplace at its partners such as Foxconn but "falters when it conflicts with crucial supplier relationships or the fast delivery of new products."") with Cain Nunns, Apple's FoxConn factory riots haven't hurt profits, Alaska Dispatch, Sept. 26, 2012 ("These protests add to Foxconn's already dubious reputation for running its plants with military-style discipline, shoddy working conditions, forced overtime and low wages. . . . But that reputation hasn't seemed to dent the gains of those who profit most. Foxconn founder Terry Guo is one of Taiwan's richest men, and Apple is already the world's most valuable company.").
Yet the Foxconn riots make make Professor Diermeier's point. "It's Foxconn's usual practice to put the blame on the workers, especially when violence occurs. By doing this it implies they are non-educated and like to fight among themselves, which legitimizes the use of military force against them. Second, it shifts the focus of discontent from the company to the workers themselves, so as to save Foxconn from publicly looking like a sweatshop," Cheng added." (Cain Nunns, Apple's FoxConn factory riots haven't hurt profits, Alaska Dispatch, Sept. 26, 2012, quoting Yi-yi Cheng of Hong Kong-based labor rights group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior.). Foxconn suggests that reputational stress and its mitigation need not be harmonized with emerging human rights frameworks. In this case, the mitigation of reputation risk may actually create incentives to deepen adverse relationships with labor, for example. In the context of the human rights due diligence of the the U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights, it suggests that such due diligence can be used to alert and divert human rights actions rather than to alert and mitigate.
A company's reputation consists of what others are saying about the company, and not just its business partners and customers. It is essentially public. Successful reputation management therefore requires the ability to assume external actors' perspectives and viewpoints. . . . Effective reputation management will always be challenging and, like any business skill, will require innovation and adaptation. However, appropriate capabilities can dramatically reduce the complexity of reputational challenges, help spot problems early, and assist in the development of effective strategies that are deeply integrated with the rest of the business. (Daniel Diermeier, The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities, The European Business Review 2012).
The object, then, remains centered on the enterprise, rather than on the enterprise within a web of obligations. Norms can be used strategically and the relationship between enterprise and stakeholders can be reduced to a competition among distinctly interested competitors. The difference from traditional markets is that operations markets now exists in multidimensional spheres: markets for profits; markets for reputation; markets for influence among governments; markets for consumer purchasing patterns; markets for secondary trading in shares; markets for media relations, etc. Each, of course, affects the other, but none overlap completely. "An effective reputation management system requires the right strategic mind-set, supported by processes, values and culture. Reputational challenges are essentially public. They put the company on stage in an environment of intense media coverage, a highly motivated, even hostile advocacy environment, observed by a skeptical public. What looked like a good business decision a few months ago when it was done in the context of typical business processes driven by cost savings and value creation may now look highly problematic, even monstrous." (Daniel Diermeier, The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities, The European Business Review 2012).
Companies must therefore recognize the reputational impact of any business decision before it is made whether they are related quality control (Toyota and Johnson & Johnson), safety (BP), product design and disclosure (Goldman Sachs), compensation (AIG), or executive conduct (HP). In all these cases, managers in departments ranging from HR to Engineering made decisions that had massive reputational consequences. . . . It emphasizes the fact that a company's environment during a reputational crisis will look very different from its environment in normal times. In the case of AIG's retention agreements, for example, a confidential contract between two parties faced sudden scrutiny in the glaring spotlight of 24-hour news coverage, simplified for a mass audience, with an emphasis on emotional impact and moral outrage. Advocacy groups that typically lie dormant or unorganized may jump on the stage, followed by politicians, regulators, and other officials. . . . he key to successful reputation management is that all decision makers in the organization view themselves as stewards of the company's reputation. Proactive reputation management needs to anticipate the possibility of such developments and incorporate them into decision making. It requires a mindset that reflects an awareness that through our business decision today, we are creating the facts that will be the basis for our story tomorrow. (Daniel Diermeier, The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities, The European Business Review 2012).
Such an approach can be seamlessly integrated into enterprise decision making structures.
One of the CEO's main tasks is to integrate reputation management into the operational processes of the business. One approach to accomplishing this task has been to create a separate corporate function: a chief reputation officer (CRO) or chief reputational risk officer (CRRO). . . . An alternative is the creation of a corporate reputation council (CRC). This is a cross-functional unit composed of senior executives with actual decision-making authority. . . . Good governance and decision-making structures are necessary for effective reputation management, but even these alone are not sufficient.
(Daniel Diermeier, The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities, The European Business Review 2012).
And so reputation value maximization strategies tend to mimic strategies for mitigating adverse environmental, social and human rights effects of enterprise activity. Yet Professor Dermeier deftly shows how the process need not be bent to objectives of corporate social responsibility or respect for human rights. What is a weapon in the hands of NGOs and other human rights and CSR motivated stakeholders in their engagement with the enterprise, pressure on reputation, becomes an object in its own right in the hands of the enterprise. Thus reoriented, reputation enhancement can be liberated from programs of human rights due diligence to CSR objectives. This should serve as a caution for those who would design systems for enhancing the human rights and CSR practices of enterprises.
But there is a risk here as well. business reputation is critically important. But the maximization of enterprise value production (however that is calculated) is even more so. Where risk management becomes central to the operations of an enterprise, where risk management becomes the core basis on which performance is assessed, the potential value maximizing utility of the enterprise itself may be put at risk. The trend toward managerialism in all aspects of organized life has been strong in recent decades. It represents in a way both a desire to contain risk and evidence that as societries become richer they become more risk averse (e.g.Democracy Part XXV: Law as Command or Surveillance as Law in an Era of of the Mass Production of Political Organization). The result is a better managed enterprise, but also one that is less willing to take risks and therefore more unlikely to achieve higher rewards. The balance between risk and safety is a hard one, and also a moving target. it is as likely a product of cultural premises as it is of the governance architectures put in place by governments and enterprises themselves. This society appears to be moving decisively, though, to an era where risk taking is more dangerous and the management of the downside more central to operations than the attainment of the high reward at high risk.


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Impact of Divorce on Your Restaurant Business
2 Min Read	 3.21.2018	 By Chantale Suttle
As a divorce lawyer, I've had the privilege of representing many small business owners. Restaurant owners are my hands down favorite because restaurants are held together by hearts and souls. Restaurants bear witness to friendship, love, and celebration: young couples on first dates, families celebrating birthdays, the neighborhood baseball team grabbing a bite after a tough game.
The two greatest risks to a restaurant during the owner's divorce are accusations of unreported cash income or of code violations that put patrons at risk.
More than any other type of business, restaurant owners bring all of themselves to their businesses. Unfortunately, that means a restaurant is no ordinary asset when it comes to dividing it in a divorce. The emotional impact of a divorce takes its toll on both the owner and the business. Worse, the attorney's fees related to the disposition of a restaurant can exceed the value of the restaurant itself.
The two greatest risks to a restaurant during the owner's divorce are accusations of unreported cash income or of code violations that put patrons at risk. Business owners in a difficult divorce may find that the worst accusations come from their own spouse. They may hope that the judge will stop or correct their vindictive spouse, or that the judge can remedy any damage to the business. Neither is true; the divorce judge could be part of the problem. The judge will likely require that the restaurant disclose extensive confidential information regarding its finances and operations so that the value of the business and the owner's true income can be determined. This will be in accordance with nearly every state's law on financial disclosure in divorce. Not only are the disclosure requirements intrusive, they can be incredibly burdensome. The restaurant will likely need its own attorney to satisfy the court's orders. In the worst possible case, the judge may decide that neither spouse can be trusted to run the restaurant, and appoints a paid receiver to operate it instead.
To help protect the restaurant from a terrible time in divorce court, a restaurant owner who is engaged to marry should hire a lawyer to write a customized prenuptial agreement that speaks to the future growth of the restaurant, and its valuation, division, ownership and control. If you plan on acquiring an interest in a restaurant, and you are already married, you need a postnuptial agreement that does the same thing.
Examples of language specific to protecting restaurant owners include: confidentiality clauses to protect proprietary recipes and formulas; damages clauses that specify the amount the owner will receive if their spouse attacks the restaurant on social media; clauses to account for any "sweat equity" for unpaid work the nonowner spouse performed; and traditional noncompete clauses delineating a geographic area where the nonowner spouse may not open a competing restaurant.
You should consult a divorce attorney licensed in your state who has experience representing businesses, and ideally, restaurants in particular. That attorney can customize a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement to meet the unique characteristics of your restaurant and state law.
The restaurant business is hard enough. Just surviving the first few years is a tremendous challenge. That's why it's important to protect your business and hard work with a well-crafted prenuptial or postnuptial agreement.
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Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying" music you own is "stealing"
Testimony today in Capitol v. Thomas quickly and inadvertently turned to the …
Eric Bangeman - Oct 3, 2007 2:12 am UTC
Duluth, Minnesota — Testimony today in Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas quickly and inadvertently turned to the topic of fair use when Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, was called to the stand to testify. Pariser said that file-sharing is extremely damaging to the music industry and that record labels are particularly affected. In doing so, she advocated a view of copyright that would turn many honest people into thieves.
Pariser noted that music labels make no money on touring, radio, or merchandise, which leaves the company particularly exposed to the negative effects of file-sharing. "It's my personal belief that Sony BMG is half the size now as it was in 2000," she said, thanks to piracy. In Pariser's view, "when people steal, when they take music without compensation, we are harmed."
Pariser has a very broad definition of "stealing." When questioned by Richard Gabriel, lead counsel for the record labels, Pariser suggested that what millions of music fans do is actually theft. The dirty deed? Ripping your own CDs or downloading songs you already own.
Gabriel asked if it was wrong for consumers to make copies of music which they have purchased, even just one copy. Pariser replied, "When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'," she said.
Countless studies have shown that the majority of music on portable music players like the iPod comes from sources other than download services. For most people, that music is comprised primarily of songs "ripped" from CD collections to MP3 or some other comparable format. Indeed, most portable music players comes with software (like iTunes) which is designed to facilitate the easy ripping of CDs. According to Pariser's view, this is stealing.
We've actually heard something similar to this view before. As part of the 2006 triennial review of the effectiveness of the DMCA, a number of content-related industries filed a joint reply with the government on the effectiveness of the DMCA and the challenges that lay ahead for copyright. The argument relating to CDs espoused in the joint reply could be summarized: although nothing has prevented consumers from making backups of CDs, this cannot be construed as authorization from the music labels for them to do so. Thus, there has been no authorization of said backups, and the coincidental ability to make backups currently should not be mistaken for fair use.
Pariser's views appear to be similar, insofar as she clearly suggests that consumers have no right to make backups of the music that they have purchased in CD form or even in download form.
Ken Fisher contributed to this report.
Eric Bangeman Eric has been using personal computers since 1980 and writing about them at Ars Technica since 2003, where he currently serves as Managing Editor.


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When groups of people hang out, there is usually some humorous banter between them; a bit of cheeky name-calling, a few in-jokes, etc. When you're working with groups of young people you get all that magnified to the extreme and often things get said that are rude, offensive or generally unhelpful – even if they were not originally intended that way. When this happens, the comment or behaviour needs to be challenged (and hopefully discussed) so people can learn how it might be insulting to others. If it's not challenged, then it can become normal or even a habit.
The classic example for me was in my early days as a youth worker. A group of young people I worked with would constantly be putting each other down, often in very witty and creative ways. It became a bit of an art to outdo each other with insults and make jokes at each others' expense. The things they said to each other were rude and hurtful, but because everyone joined in and because they were delivered with razor-sharp wit, I ignored it for a long time.
I remember that one of their favourite phrases was "you're gay" – a term they used towards each other in a derogatory way. The implication in the statement was that being gay was a bad or stupid thing, and by calling someone "gay", they were therefore inferior in some way. Obviously this should have been addressed straight away, but it wasn't. I let it go.
My biggest regret now is that I went so long without challenging this behaviour directly. Partly I think that I wasn't too confident in standing up to them, and partly I rationalised that they didn't actually mean what they were saying as it was a joke. However, it was still wrong. In the end, the other workers and I enforced some rules about respect but it was too little, too late for that group.
So what about you? Have YOU ever let young people get away with things that should have been addressed? What was the outcome? Share with us in the comments!


When it comes to YouTube there are some people who have managed to become regular stars on the network. This is no easy feat and not just anyone can make a video to become an online sensation. The following YouTube stars have been building their brands for years. Here is a look at some of the top YouTubers on the web.
Founders Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist created Epic Rap Battles which is a program that pits famous personalities in history against one another. This particular show has nearly 2 billion views and a total of 12.6 million subscribers. Epic Rap Battle is also filled with lots of humor.
Samuel de Luque is known as Vegata777 is a video game player who creates walkthrough videos for people to see. These videos are entertaining, fun and filled with lots of funny action. Vegata777 makes the video games he plays into a movie like show so that people can sit back and really enjoy his programs. He has around 11 million subscribers and over 3 billion viewers.
Ray Williams Johnson is the creator of Equals Three which is a commentary program on viral videos. Johnson has been making these types of videos for years. In the past his program featured stars such as the the late Robin Williams. Equals Three has 3 billion views and nearly 11 million subscribers.
Australia is home to new internet sensation Wengie. This young lady has been making videos since 2013. Many people who are familiar with Wengie know of her by the trademark pink hair that she frequently sports on her show. Wengie has lots of entertaining videos that deal with subjects such as relationships, beauty secrets and how to wear the right clothing for any type of environment.
People in Australia love to tune in to Wengie. This Chinese born video hostesses makes videos that connects with her audiences. People frequently tune into her videos to watch this young lady make them smile and even laugh. Wengie is filled with lots of humor, wit and has an upbeat personality. She is definitely becoming one of the most famous YouTubers in history. Wengie has a total of 1.1 million subscribers and over 5 million views for some of her programs.


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is honored with a Brick from Suzanne Seminoff and Steve Seminoff.
It is with great pride, admiration, and love that we wish to honor our mother in The Plaza of Heroines at Wichita State University. She continues to be our inspiration, and provides a legacy of accomplishments, optimism, and giggles.
Born in Fairfax, Oklahoma, Doris Aleen (Shinn) Mayhew has lived most of her life in Wichita, Kansas. She nurtured two children, Steve and Suzanne Seminoff; two step-children, Barclay and Melinda Mayhew; and four grandchildren. She was educated in Oklahoma and Kansas. She was Commencement Speaker at Guthrie High School, received her B.S. degree from Oklahoma (A&M) State in Stillwater, received her M.S. in Education and a Specialist Degree in School Administration from Wichita State University. Her 29-year career teaching Home Economics/Foods included schools in Burbank, OK; Benton and Wichita, Kansas at Roosevelt and Brooks Jr. Highs and Southeast High School.
Since retiring from teaching, she has been extremely active in several organizations: Woman's Kansas Day Club; Project Beauty, Inc.; Wichita Farm and Ranch Club; Daughters of the American Revolution; Wichita Child Guidance Advisory Board; Normandy Republican Women's Club; Metropolitan Ballet of Wichita; Kappa Phi Club; Thursday Afternoon Music Club; Afternoon Home Economics Club; Daughters of American Colonists; Republican Precinct Committee woman; Wichita Historical Museum; Wichita Art Museum; Wichita Center for the Arts; Wichita/Sedgwick County Arts and Humanities Council; Soldiers and Sailors Monument Preservation Committee. Notable honors include: Woman's Kansas Day Club - Past State President and of one of the few second generation presidents following her mother-in-law, Patricia Mayhew, who was also once President of the club. Project Beauty, Inc. - As a past President and early developer of the Shakespearean Garden at Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, Doris was the driving force in obtaining donors for the sculptures, fountain, and benches. She chaired the sales booth at the Bard's annual birthday party. Using the Project Beauty symbol to develop a large trash can vehicle topped with a rose and a Trash Can Stan costume, she used them in parades to promote recycling and the beautification of Wichita. She started the downtown median strip to beautify a main street; was instrumental in implementing the Adopt-A-Highway program in Kansas initiating the highway clean-up north of Wichita on I-135 between 37th and 61st Streets; and continues keeping litter off neighborhood streets. Wichita Farm and Ranch Club - In 1998, she was chosen as the first woman President of this agriculturally oriented club in its 52 years of existence. She had an interesting, varied Board of Directors from all facets of agribusiness. Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) - Doris received a medal of national recognition for work done to promote trash clean-up and beautification of local and state areas.
Travel is a special interest, and Doris has visited all fifty United States of America. Other countries she's explored include Mexico, Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Netherlands, Liechtenstein, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Caribbean Islands.
Dancing is one of her passions. She enjoys Ballroom, Round and Square Dancing, Polka, Folk Dances, Country Western, West Coast Swing, and Push. Doris sews many of her costumes for dance competitions and historical folk dances in the Entre Nous Club; and has researched, constructed, and wears an Elizabethan costume at various Shakespearean events. She loves all aspects of entertaining, from the decorating and cooking, to getting people of similar interests together to share their knowledge. Her garden includes vegetables, flowers, and trees. She plays the piano and organ and likes to sing. Other hobbies include crossword puzzles, history research, reading, photography, and collecting. For spiritual enhancement, Doris explored 87 churches in the local area.
As her children, we've seen many phases of our mother; from working irrigation ditches on the farm to gracefully waltzing across a dance floor. She can lovingly listen and advise a friend or address a large audience or classroom. She's a teacher, leader, philanthropist, dancer, traveler, gardener, cook and hostess. But most of all, she's our mom, and we love her forever!
Submitted by Suzanne Seminoff and Steve Seminoff
A tribute to Doris A. Mayhew is located in section C08. She has been honored with a Brick.
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Leslie Ann Garside and Nicolas Membrillo were united in marriage March 21, 2015 at Wightman Chapel in Nashville, TN with Associate Pastor Eric Burton-Krieger officiating.


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Johnnie Johnson, Professor of Decision and Risk Analysis, has been elected Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Association for Gambling Studies (APAGS).
APAGS is a not-for-profit international academic network consisting of scholars, professionals, regulators, and policy makers focused on gambling research and the gaming business around the world.
APAGS promotes multi-disciplinary gambling studies through consultancy, scientific research and international conferences and published scholarly journals.
Johnnie, who is Director of the Centre for Risk Research at Southampton Business School, says: "It is a great honour to know that my research in the areas of decision making in speculative financial environments and betting markets has been recognised in this way. This position, and my continuing work on the Academic Committee of APAGS, is an excellent means of promoting further research in the exciting areas of risk taking and speculation, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region."


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First NIS Hackathon "Petrol Station Hacking" Starts
The first NIS hackathon titled "Petrol Station Hacking", organized jointly by NIS and the Centre for Development of Technological Entrepreneurship and Innovations - ICT Hub, started in Belgrade tonight.
Pavel Kandalintsev, Deputy Sales and Distribution Director for Retail
During the three-day competition organized at the premises of the Centre for Innovations "Playground", four-member teams will compete in creating innovative software solutions for our petrol station concept development in order to make the stations even more attractive to customers.
As many as 40 competitors are taking part in the event, with the award fund for the three best solutions totalling EUR 5,000. The winners of the hackathon will be selected by a committee comprising eight members – six from NIS and one from ICT Hub and 30Hills each. In addition to providing its financial support, for the entire duration of the hackathon, NIS has also ensured mentoring assistance of IT, marketing and business experts and also good conditions for the competitors – modern equipment, inspiring space, fast internet connection and rest rooms.
The hackathon will last for 48 hours straight, until 4 March 2018, when the winning teams will be presented, and in addition to monetary awards, the best developed ideas and innovative solutions could also win support in their future development and commercial application.
At the start of the event, the competitors heard the speeches of the representatives of NIS Olivera Vujnović, IT Director, Pavel Kandalintsev, Deputy Sales and Distribution Director for Retail, Marija Halar, Director of Sales and Distribution Marketing Department, and Snežana Đurović, Director of IT Sector, who explained, from the perspective of the Company, the main guidelines of NIS petrol station business operation and the most significant solutions applied so far, and also presented NIS IT architecture. ICT Hub representative Dušan Vukanović explained the rules of the competition to the participants.
Olivera Vujnović, NIS IT Director
Olivera Vujnović, NIS IT Director, welcomed the competitors.
"NIS invests a lot in new technologies, both in the area of technological processes and in IT. For us, this really is a special event since this is the first time that NIS as a large corporation is working directly with the IT startup community. The topic we set today for the competitors is very important to us, it has to do with petrol stations and we named it petrol station hacking. Our Company's slogan is "Future at Work" and what we have here tonight really is future at work and I hope that this weekend we will come up with a definition of a future petrol station. I am convinced that the best ideas will become NIS reality".
Dušan Vukanović, the ICT Hub representative
During the presentation of the hackathon topics, Dušan Vukanović, the ICT Hub representative, said: "The reason why we are here tonight is to support corporations. To support large corporations so that they may simply try to find, in cooperation with technological startups, innovative talents, IT professionals and entrepreneurs, their own business models that are changing very fast. We established cooperation with NIS four months ago, but this is simply the largest event so far. It is great that over 50 teams applied to participate in the hackathon, which means that for every team present here there were four more teams we unfortunately could not accept, which again speaks volumes about the interest generated when a large corporation opens up towards the startup community and innovative people".
The competition, organized in cooperation with the Centre for Development of Technological Entrepreneurship and Innovations, represents the first step that NIS has taken in opening up towards the startup community and approaching technological startups as part of the Company's digital transformation.
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The Daily Ten – Blackstone's $16 Billion Biomed recap, The Netflix of Hotels, $2 Billion US tax fraud, Robot Cars in San Francisco…
October 16, 2020by Steve NsonNews
October 16, 2020 by Steve Nson
1. Blackstone Values BioMed Realty At $14.6 billion In Recapitalization Deal | News Break
Blackstone Group Inc (NYSE: BX) announced the sale of its portfolio company BioMed Realty for $14.6 billion on Thursday, to a group led by existing BioMed investors. BioMed was acquired by Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII L.P. and co-investors in 2016 and the sale represents a $6.5 billion gain.
The internal sale transaction from one fund to another is a part of Blackstone's long term strategy to recapitalize the unit.
With an 11.3 million sq. ft portfolio, BioMed tops the leaderboard among private owners of life science office building in the U.S.
2. Mortgage Lender IPOs Are Booming. Which Are the Best Buys? | WSJ
A historic mortgage market is also remaking the public-stock universe for home lenders. It's important for investors to consider how their models and multiples vary.
Home mortgage lending in the U.S. this year could hit record levels, and some big private lenders are eager to tap the public markets. Investors will have to sort out which—if any—to buy.
The first to go public this year was Rocket Companies. Its shares are up more than 24% from its August initial public offering. Now several other lenders may list. United Wholesale Mortgage is set to become public this year via a deal with a special-purpose acquisition company. Caliber Home Loans and AmeriHome revealed IPO filings this month,…
3. Hotels on demand: Operators are selling 'subscriptions' to lure back visitors | CNBC
Fitness membership? Check. Streaming account? Of course. Meal kit service? Sure.
How about your hotel subscription?
Whether for pleasure, work, or long-term lodging, hospitality operators are hoping on-demand stays could be your next must-have membership as the embattled travel industry tries to expand its reach.
InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott and Accor are among the major names that have launched or are considering monthly payment plans, as hotels try to attract restless remote workers ready for a change of scene.
4. Mortgage Credit for Some Americans Drying Up Amid Supply Deluge | Bloomberg
A flood of mortgage-bond supply combined with a dearth of credit for lower-quality borrowers point to how the U.S. housing market is becoming more uneven when it comes to access to historically cheap debt.
The Mortgage Bankers Association's index of housing credit availability dropped last month to the lowest since February 2014. The benchmark has slipped eight of nine months this year and stands 35% lower than at the same time in 2019. The index is a broad measure of credit supply that weights various borrower credit characteristics and the range of products available to them.
5. Nasdaq's VC arm invests in proptech startup Dealpath | The Real Deal
Nasdaq Ventures joins the likes of Blackstone and JLL backing data management company
Dealpath, the data management startup backed by the likes of Blackstone and JLL, received a new capital injection from Nasdaq's investment arm.
Nasdaq Ventures provided Dealpath with the new funding to help the proptech company to expand its cloud-based platform that manages the workflow on investment transactions, the companies told The Real Deal.
Nasdaq declined to divulge the size of the investment.
The latest cash injection follows investments from real estate players like Blackstone, JLL Spark, 8VC, GreenSoil Investments, Goldcrest Capital, LeFrak, Milstein and Bechtel.
Gary Offner, the head of Nasdaq Ventures, said Dealpath is the first real estate company out of the 14 firms the venture capital arm has invested in.
6. Stripe acquires Nigeria's Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent | TechCrunch
When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more geographies. Today the company is coming good on that plan in the form of some M&A.
Stripe is acquiring Paystack, a startup out of Lagos, Nigeria that, like Stripe, provides a quick way to integrate payments services into an online or offline transaction by way of an API. (We and others have referred to it in the past as "the Stripe of Africa.")
Paystack currently has around 60,000 customers, including small businesses, larger corporates, fintechs, educational institutions and online betting companies, and the plan will be for it to continue operating independently, the companies said.
7. OJO Labs Acquires Fintech Startup Digs, Plans to Double in Size This Year | Built in Austin
Homeownership remains a dream for many but a reality for few. OJO Labs CEO John Berkowitz said a lack of financial readiness prevents most people from calling the roof over their heads their own.
On Thursday, he used an undisclosed mix of cash and equity to buy Digs, in a move to help consumers of all income classes buy, sell and save for a home.
Digs, a Chicago-based app that helps consumers manage their finances before and after purchasing a property, will now be operated under the OJO umbrella, with Berkowitz still deciding if it will retain its independent brand. He said he expected Digs' tech to be incorporated into the AI-powered proptech platform within the next few months, and that he was attracted to the startup because of its shared mission of helping consumers make better financial decisions around their homes.
8. DOJ charges Texas billionaire in $2 billion tax fraud scheme | Fox Business
Prosecutors also announced that Robert F. Smith, founder and chairman of Vista Equity Partners, will cooperate in the investigation and pay $139 million to settle his own tax probe.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors charged Texas billionaire Robert Brockman on Thursday with a $2 billion tax fraud scheme in what they say is the largest such case against an American.
Department of Justice officials said at a news conference that Brockman, 79, hid capital gains income over 20 years through a web of offshore entities in Bermuda and Nevis and secret bank accounts in Bermuda and Switzerland. Prosecutors announced that the CEO of a private equity firm that aided in the schemes would cooperate with the investigation.
9. GM to run robot cars in San Francisco without human backups | TechXplore
General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit says it will pull the human backup drivers from its vehicles in San Francisco by the end of the year.
Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said in a statement that the company got a permit Thursday from California's Department of Motor Vehicles to let the cars travel on their own.
The move follows last week's announcement from Waymo that it would open its autonomous ride-hailing service to the public in the Phoenix area in vehicles without human drivers.
10. The Future of Hotel Design | The New York Times
Mobile guest rooms, enhanced contactless room controls, robotic servers and pop-up dining areas are just a few of the ideas hotel designers are considering for the post-Covid travel world.
Hotel occupancy is down 50 percent nationally in the pandemic-stifled world of travel. While hundreds of hotels nationwide remain closed because of the crisis, new hotels — from the sleek high-rise Joseph Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., to the Kimpton Armory Hotel in a 1941 Art Deco landmark in Bozeman, Mont. — continue to open.
Whether they are banking on the swell of tourism that many predict will follow the introduction of a vaccine, or bound financially to open, hoteliers are making plans for a future that now must consider new outbreaks and pandemics in the same way that public buildings permanently changed their security measures in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Boutique hotels that once acted as cultural commons with art exhibitions and buzzy public spaces will be toned down and disperse guests rather that draw them together, at least until the health crisis is over.
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Delaware's state representatives met for the first time this year and took on some big issues.
One of the first things on this session's "to-do" list was wrapping up a disagreement between the House and Senate over how to proceed with State Auditor Kathy McGuiness, who faces multiple criminal charges and has refused to step down.
Lawmakers spent the past few months consulting with former Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy Holland on how they can invoke an old article in the state constitution, allowing them to ask the Governor to remove a public official from office.
State Rep. Sean Lynn (D-Dover) says lawmakers were right to go with their instinct.
"After meetings with Justice Holland; House and Senate Leadership and judiciary committee chairs and vice chairs determined that asking the Supreme Court for an opinion regarding article 3, section 13 and article 6, section one of the Delaware Constitution was the best course of action," Lynn says.
House Lawmakers approved the original Senate resolution asking the State Supreme Court to weigh in on how to invoke this article to avoid any legal issues.
And both Judiciary committees will continue to meet and consult with Holland on their path forward while awaiting a response from the state's highest court.
And State Representatives approved some changes to Delaware's liquor laws.
House lawmakers approved Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf's (D-Rehoboth Beach) bill, which permanently allows restaurants and bars to serve alcoholic drinks with take-out and drive-thru service.
"It was the one thing that they all tell me helped keep most of them afloat — was the fact that we allowed them to have extended seating and had take-out alcohol with their take-out food," says Schwartzkopf.
Now, almost two years into this pandemic, this policy has become extremely popular among residents and visitors. Schwarzkopf says nearly 80-90 percent of Delawareans he's spoken with like this option for restaurants.
The bill saw a couple changes since it was released from committee earlier this week — including clarifying that take-out drinks need to be in a closed container, not one with a straw hole, and the limits on the quantity of alcohol sold per customer was reduced.
The bill saw near unanimous support in the House, with only State Rep. Paul Baumbach (D-Newark) dissenting. Baumbach previously expressed concern about permanently enacting these changes, and says lawmakers should consider extending the life of these policies for another year.
Roman Battaglia is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.
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SUMMARY: Much has changed in the Facebook-news media world since the Brexit vote, election of President Donald Trump, and the now famous #fakenews hashtag. Here's how Facebook is responding.
How the Facebook, news media relationship has changed in 1 year
World Congress Blog | 10 August 2017
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Patrick Walker, Facebook's director of media partnerships, Europe/Middle East/Africa, started at Facebook about a year before the 2017 INMA World Congress in New York City. Much has changed in that year, he said.
"It's been a big year for Facebook with regard to our relationship with the news industry. ... The company is changing for the better as our relationship with the industry gets more, I would say, much more ingrained with one another."
In that year, the company has:
Launched its Facebook Journalism Project.
Helped found the News Integrity Initiative.
Redefined its relationship with the media, becoming "more open and collaborative with industry," Walker says.
Walker sees the relationship between his company and the news media industry evolving in many ways:
"We have a very deep relationship with the media industry. It's evolved a lot to the point where now we do much more collaborative product development. As a company, we're more transparent. I think we've realised how important news is to people within their Facebook news feed, and we want to make sure the partners we work with are well represented and they have the right commercial opportunities as well.
"It's become, in some ways, more complex and somewhat tougher in some ways, but also better because now we have a really good, robust dialogue."
On how fake news, President Donald Trump, and Brexit have changed social media, Walker has this to say:
"Fake news, disinformation, hoaxes, propaganda, it's been around for a long time.... What's new is how quickly stories can spread on social media, how accessible these types of stories can become if you don't put checks in place to inform people what might be true and what might be questionable.
"We have become much more aware this is an issue, particularly with Brexit and the election in the U.S. And we've put a lot of things in place technologically — third-party fact checking partnerships — but also just educating the public more on what they should be aware of."
On the latter initiative, Facebook has:
Launched a public service announcement in 14 countries to educate people on how to identify fake news.
Contributed to a joint US$14 million investment in connection with the News Integrity Initiative to create a consortium, bringing together technology companies, education organisations, and non-profits to work on news credibility.
"Credibility of news in itself is at a very challenging point, and we need to do more to address it as a whole together."


Will Bouma, MPP for Brantford-Brant, is pleased that Ontario's budget delivered on April 11 by Finance Minister Vic Fedeli protects what matters most, and contains absolutely no new tax increases, while providing $26 billion over six years in relief for individuals, families, and businesses.
The 2019 Ontario Budget is a comprehensive and sustainable plan that balances the budget in five years, stimulates job creation, and protects critical public services that people rely on every day.
With this plan, Bouma says the Province is ensuring value for money and targeting spending to frontline services, while eliminating the deficit.
He says the signature initiative of the budget is the proposed Childcare Access and Relief from Expenses (CARE) tax credit.
The CARE tax credit would be one of the most flexible child care initiatives ever introduced in Ontario, putting parents at the centre of the decision-making process.
CARE would help low- and middle-income families with up to 75% of their eligible child care costs per year, including those for daycares, home-based care, and camps.
Bouma says Another key item in the budget is dental care for low-income seniors.
At least two-thirds of low-income seniors do not have access to dental care – and many end up in our emergency rooms as a result.
The government is investing $90 million starting at the end of summer 2019 to establish this new program to help Ontario's low-income seniors.
To help get Ontario moving, Bouma says the government is also making the single largest capital investment in subway builds and extensions in Ontario's history.
It is committing $11.2 billion to support four rapid transit projects in the Greater Toronto Area, including the Yonge North Subway Extension, the Scarborough Subway Extension, the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension, and a new subway, the Ontario Line.
He says other key initiatives in Budget 2019 include a new Ontario Job Creation Investment Incentive to help businesses grow and create jobs, a "Digital First" strategy to modernize Service Ontario's top 10 transactions and other government services, and a new auto insurance plan that puts drivers first.


Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times Researchers are learning how massage soothes aching muscles. A massage after vigorous exercise unquestionably feels good, and it seems to reduce pain and help muscles recover. Many people, both athletes and health professionals have long contended it eases inflammation, improves blood flow and reduces muscle tightness. But until now no one has understood why massage has this apparently beneficial effect.
Now researchers have found what happens to muscles when a masseur goes to work on them. Their experiment required having people exercise to exhaustion and undergo five incisions in their legs in order to obtain muscle tissue for analysis. Despite the hurdles, the scientists still managed to find 11 brave young male volunteers. The study was published in the Feb. 1 issue of Science Translational Medicine.


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For the readers interested in the stock health of Arbor Realty Trust Inc. (ABR). It is currently valued at $13.47. When the transactions were called off in the previous session, Stock hit the highs of $13.605, after setting-off with the price of $13.38. Company's stock value dipped to $13.2888 during the trading on the day. When the trading was stopped its value was $13.29.
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Recently in News on November 10, 2020, Arbor Realty Trust Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock. Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ABR) announced today that it priced its public offering of 7,000,0000 shares of common stock for total expected gross proceeds of approximately $94.5 million before underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses. The offering is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close on November 13, 2020. You can read further details here
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Arbor Realty Trust Inc. had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company's stock is recorded $15.32 on 02/06/20, with the lowest value was $3.54 for the same time period, recorded on 03/18/20.
Arbor Realty Trust Inc. (ABR) full year performance was -9.72%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock's existing status and the future performance. Presently, Arbor Realty Trust Inc. shares are logging -12.08% during the 52-week period from high price, and 280.51% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock's price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $3.54 and $15.32.
The company's shares, operating in the sector of Real Estate managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 1985471 for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Arbor Realty Trust Inc. (ABR) recorded performance in the market was -6.13%, having the revenues showcasing 17.64% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 1.67B, as it employees total of 532 workers.
Specialists analysis on Arbor Realty Trust Inc. (ABR)
During the last month, 2 analysts gave the Arbor Realty Trust Inc. a BUY rating, 1 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 1 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 0 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 11.20, with a change in the price was noted +4.61. In a similar fashion, Arbor Realty Trust Inc. posted a movement of +52.03% for the period of last 100 days, recording 1,453,162 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company's financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders' equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders' equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for ABR is recording 4.63 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 4.63.
Trends and Technical analysis: Arbor Realty Trust Inc. (ABR)
Raw Stochastic average of Arbor Realty Trust Inc. in the period of last 50 days is set at 75.30%. The result represents improvement in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 72.48%. In the last 20 days, the company's Stochastic %K was 69.17% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 66.63%.
Now, considering the stocks previous presentation, multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company's stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -6.13%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably improved by 58.28%, alongside a downfall of -9.72% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 3.22% in the 7-day charts and went down by 13.29% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were driven by 17.64% during last recorded quarter.
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Home World Europe News Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Italian court ruling postponed
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Italian court ruling postponed
Italy's Court of Cassation has delayed a decision on whether to uphold the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
The top court will hear from Raffaele Sollecito's defense team on March 27 before the judges give their verdict.
Former lovers Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were convicted for the second time in 2014.
They have maintained their innocence throughout and have already served four years in prison.
The Court of Cassation in Rome is due to confirm the guilty verdict or overturn it – either ordering another trial or effectively bringing about an acquittal.
A definitive conviction would trigger complicated attempts to extradite American Knox, who lives in Seattle in the US.
Raffaele Sollecito, from Bari, southern Italy, has remained in the country, and attended the court with his new girlfriend on March 25.
Speaking before the hearing, the Kercher family's lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said they hoped the court's decision would bring an end to the judicial process.
"It's a case that has gone on for so many years now," he said.
"They hope that this will be the final stage of this judicial process and they will at last… be able to remember Meredith outside of the court room [process]."
Leeds University student Meredith Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was found dead in the flat she shared with Amanda Knox, now 27, in Perugia, central Italy, where both women were studying.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, 30, were convicted of the murder by a trial court in Perugia in 2009.
They were freed in 2011 after an appellate court overturned the convictions.
The Court of Cassation rebuked the appellate judge's reasoning and last year an appeals court in Florence sentenced Amanda Knox to 28 years and Raffaele Sollecito to 25 years.
The latest ruling could confirm that conviction or overturn it – and either order yet another trial or effectively acquit the pair, although legal experts say the last option is unlikely.
Rudy Hermann Guede, born in the Ivory Coast, who opted for a fast-track trial, is serving a 16-year sentence for his role in the murder of Meredith Kercher.
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