The total amount of tax you pay reaches far beyond what you owe the federal government. Depending on where you live, most likely you're required to pay additional taxes, including property and sales tax. The disparity between the amount of tax you pay in a low-tax city and that in a high-tax city can be dramatic. Living in any of these 10 cities could save you a bundle, although the exact amount may fluctuate based on your income and lifestyle choices.
Nevada residents benefit from living in a state with no income tax. Las Vegas residents also enjoy low property tax rates, the ability to deduct state and local sales tax payments and the absence of any local income tax. According to the District of Columbia's Office of Revenue Analysis, Las Vegas residents pay only $1.15 per every $100 of assessed property value, a rate lower than most U.S. cities.
Although the sales tax rate of 7.75% is fairly high, consumers only pay this tax on 37.4% of goods, with food and many consumer goods being sales tax exempt. The net result is an average tax rate of just 5.6% for a family earning $150,000. However, lower-income families face a steeper 10.5% average rate.
Manchester is known for having high property taxes, with the city itself referring to property tax as its principal tax. However, the high property tax rate is offset by the total absence of other types of tax. Manchester is one of the very few cities with absolutely no sales or income tax. Additionally, New Hampshire residents enjoy the benefit of no state income tax on wages. Families earning $150,000 pay about 9.1% of their income on average in Manchester.
Sioux Falls residents enjoy a low overall tax level since there are neither state taxes in South Dakota nor city taxes in Sioux Falls. Although sales tax in Sioux Falls is rather high, this is offset by the lack of income tax and very low auto taxes. All-in, a family earning $150,000 can expect about 5.9% in total state and local taxes in Sioux Falls.
As with most cities on this list, Memphis keeps its overall taxes low by having no city or state income tax. Like New Hampshire, Tennessee does levy income tax on certain items, such as dividend or interest income, but it leaves wages untaxed. Since the main tax in Memphis is sales tax, lower-income residents pay a higher tax rate, at about 11%, than higher-income residents, who pay about 4.6 to 4.8%.
If you live in Billings, you enjoy the lowest income tax burden of all observed cities in the Office of Revenue Analysis report. You also avoid paying sales tax to either the city or the state. One of the few downsides of Billings is paying a higher-than-average gas tax. Taxes clock in at a relatively low 7.4% on average.
In addition to living in an income tax-free state, Jacksonville residents avoid paying any city income tax. Typical Jacksonville families earning over $150,000 per year pay just 4.3% overall in state and local taxes, with the vast majority of the state's tax revenue coming from its 6% sales tax. However, the net tax rate for city residents is offset by the high 11.8% average faced by lower-income families.
Fargo residents have one of the lowest overall tax burdens in the United States, at about 5.2%. The bulk of tax collection in Fargo comes from property, auto and sales tax, since there is no state or local income tax. However, rates are still low overall in those categories. Fargo also derives income from various gas and oil production taxes that don't affect the average resident.
Houston has high sales and property tax rates, but with no state or local income taxes, overall tax rates are still low for residents. Only eight cities surveyed had a tax rate less than 5% for a family of three earning over $150,000 per year, with Houston being one of them.
Anchorage is something of an oasis when it comes to taxes, as residents typically earn high incomes but have a light tax burden. Neither Anchorage nor Alaska levy an income tax, and Anchorage residents don't pay sales tax. Auto taxes are another bright spot, being among the lowest of any city. The result is an approximate 3.4% total tax burden.
While not an obvious candidate, Cheyenne, Wyoming tops the list of U.S. cities with the lowest tax rates. Cheyenne tax rates are low across the board, with an average 9.7% rate for lower-income families. Higher-income families fare even better, with an overall rate of just 3.1%, including property, auto, sales and income taxes.


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Masi Oka on Hollywood: "You can't get Asians cast in leads yet"
By Chris McKittrick on	 April 1, 2013 Actors on Acting, Film
Besides Hayden Panettiere and Zachary Quinto, perhaps the biggest breakout star of NBC's fondly-remembered superhero series Heroes was Japanese-American actor Masi Oka, who starred as Hiro Nakamura. Since the end of the series, Oka has had several roles but nothing on par with his major role on Heroes. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter while appearing at the Okinawa International Movie Festival, Oka opened up about his belief of Hollywood's reluctance to cast Asian actors in lead roles.
Oka points out that Hollywood is obviously obsessed with success, and how the game would change if a movie or a television show starring an Asian actor took off. He explains, "It's changed in Hollywood, but only so much. You can't get Asians cast in leads yet. Maybe as a second lead, but the lead is still going to be Caucasian or African-American. But Hollywood is fickle, it follows trends. If a show or a film did well with an Asian lead, then it would take off."
Naturally, he still hopes that he could break down the barriers. He uses his childhood as an example of how he could appeal to both American and Asian audiences, saying, "I grew up bicultural, reading manga in America. I'm a product of that. I want to act as a bridge between Japan and America."
Of course, Oka believes he could land some strong roles in Japanese productions, though he is wary about the paycheck. He says, "No offense, but the money is different, but I would consider something if it was a really meaty role. But my agents know I'd be asking them a really big favor."
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Issues analysis
Common sense on global warming
Fred Hutchison
RenewAmerica analyst
When a controversial issue in science is politicized and seems to become a fad, does an ordinary person have the tools to judge whether it is likely to be good science, or junk science carried along by scare headlines and politically-correct institutional group think?
Well, the ordinary person has some advantages that academic scientists often lack — such as common sense, a disinterested objectivity, and freedom from peer pressure or political agenda. He does not need to worry about rejection of his doctoral thesis or denial of tenure if he says something heretical to establishment science. The ordinary person is not trained in the currently prevailing paradigms of institutional science, and he is able to see things that the intensely specialized graduate studies and tightly focused paradigms of the academic world tend to filter out.
With that in mind, let's take a look at global warming. First, we shall consider a "smell test" that an ordinary person can employ with the help of common sense. Then, if the global warming movement does not pass the smell test, we shall build upon scientific facts that are available to a bright college freshman to evaluate whether the global warming theory is likely to be valid.
The Smell Test
Liberal syndicated columnist Nicholas D. Kristof was once an enthusiastic environmentalist, but says, "I'm now skeptical of the movement's I-have-a-nightmare speeches." He said in a recent column, "The fundamental problem, as I see it, is that environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they have lost credibility." He recalls the warnings in the seventies that the Alaska oil pipeline would decimate caribou herds. The herds have increased five fold since then. Kristof also recalls panicky warnings in the seventies of global cooling and the disasters this would bring to the world. Allegedly, the meteorologists were nearly unanimous in their predictions of global cooling. Kristof mentions other scare warnings that did not come true, such as disastrous overpopulation in Asia, famines, nuclear winter, and radical changes in the weather. The things that disillusioned Kristof give us a simple smell test: 1) scare warnings of impending disaster; 2) assertions that scientists are unanimous; and 3) politicalized groups that have a bad track record in their predictions.
Let us add a fourth item to the smell test. When the conventional view is challenged, do the proponents refuse to answer the facts and logic of the challenge? One of the founding principles of empirical science is to attempt to falsify every hypothesis and accept only those hypotheses that cannot be refuted. The mark of good science is the willingness to discuss the intelligent criticisms of a hypothesis. The refusal to consider and discuss intelligent criticism based upon facts and logic is the mark of group-think junk science. The evasion of criticism is invariably accompanied by changing the subject.
As a fifth smell test, look for the following kinds of ploys of redirection: a) "You are not qualified to question science," b) "All scientists say X; therefore, anyone who questions X is not of science," c) "You must be motivated by political loyalties, economic vested interests, or religious beliefs if you question X," d) "You must be ignorant or lacking intellectual honesty if you question X," e) You desire a personal insult that demonizes you and casts you in the role of a monster, an enemy, or a fool. This is how Hollywood answers her critics: cast them as a demon or a crank in the next movie. It is an old cartoonist's technique that goes back to Michelangelo who is alleged to have painted the face of Pope Paul III on the devil in The Last Judgement.
Readers who wish to try the smell test might go to any Environmentalist or Global Warming interactive web site with an intelligent criticism and see if they can get an intelligent answer. If the Global Warming advocates flunk the smell test, should one join with Horatio and say "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"? Not at all. If we jump to hasty conclusions, we become just as bad as the partisans of junk science. If we fail to make a solid case of our own and manipulate science just to confute the junk science partisans, we acquire a bad smell of our own. The smell test is merely a warning signal that we need to investigate further. How shall we proceed? Start with the known facts and ask serious questions. What follows is my attempt to do just this with facts readily available to any college freshman.
Atmospheric Cycles
The global warming theory is based upon the concept of a greenhouse effect. In brief, the greenhouse effect occurs when the ground is heated from sunlight and radiates the heat into the air, and the escape of heat into the stratosphere is slowed by elements in the lower atmosphere. Global warming theory holds that the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air due to automobile exhaust and industry emissions has intensified the greenhouse effect and is causing global warming.
A few scientific basics about the atmosphere are needed before we can think intelligently about the greenhouse effect. Our atmosphere consists mainly of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and dust. All these elements are directly or indirectly necessary for plant and animal life on earth. Each of these six elemental substances is taken from the air and replenished to the air in a regular cycle.
Nitrogen cycle: 78% of the air consists of nitrogen. Bacteria fixate nitrogen gas from the air and form nitrogen compounds. Tiny insects consume the bacteria, and these in turn are eaten by larger animals and birds that digest the nitrogen compounds and use it in organic tissues. Animal feces and the decay of dead animals goes through a process of putrefaction in which ammonia is produced. Ammonia, which has a strong odor, releases some nitrogen into the air and returns some nitrogen into the soil. Plants use nitrites in the soil as a nutrient. Dead plants putrefy, produce ammonia and release nitrogen to the air and the soil. Atmospheric nitrogen is an inert, colorless, odorless gas, and has no known influence on the greenhouse effect.
Oxygen cycle: Animals breathe oxygen in the air, and it is brought by the circulatory system to the cells of the body, where oxidation of food produces energy that supports body activity. Plants use carbon dioxide and sunlight in a process called photosynthesis, which produces living plant tissue that can be consumed by animals. A byproduct of photosynthesis is oxygen. Plants use a small part of the oxygen for oxidation of energy in their own tissues and release the remainder of the oxygen into the atmosphere. Oxygen levels are stable in spite of deforestation and industrial consumption of oxygen. 90% of oxygen replenishment for the air is produced by green algae in the oceans. Oxygen supplied by increased
agricultural productivity has compensated for oxygen lost from deforestation and oxygen consumed by forest fires and industrial use. Oxygen is a colorless, odorless gas that has no known influence on the greenhouse effect.
Carbon dioxide cycle: Plants consume carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere in the process of photosynthesis. Carbon is removed from the CO2 and is processed into plant fibre. When a tree is burned, the charred wood and ashes consist mostly of carbon. Animals eat plants and integrate some of the carbon into their bodies. Life on earth is carbon-based, and the source of that carbon is carbon dioxide in the air. CO2 in the air is replenished by the exhalations of animals as they breath, by plants as they release gases, by forest fires that release CO2 along with carbon ash in smoke, and by the fumes from the rotting of dead plants. Volcanic eruptions and industrial processes also add CO2 to the air. Atmospheric carbon dioxide seems to have increased during the last century from some combination of volcanic eruptions, forest fires, and industrial processes. The relative importance of these three as causes of increased CO2 is not clear. Whether increases in CO2 in the air boost the yield of farm plants is a topic of study and debate. Like nitrogen and oxygen, CO2 is a colorless, odorless gas.
Although neither nitrogen or oxygen has an influence on the greenhouse effect, for some reason CO2 is assumed by environmentalists to influence the greenhouse effect so as to cause global warming. We are all waiting for an explanation of how CO2 differs from nitrogen and oxygen in its influence on the greenhouse effect. Until such explanation is forthcoming, it seems reasonable to suspect that the theorists are failing to differentiate between wholesome CO2 and poisonous CO1 (carbon monoxide) and other toxic gases that accompany CO2 in industrial pollution. Why are the global warming theorists singling out a wholesome gas that is necessary for life on earth as the culprit of the impending disasters they are predicting?
Water cycle: Water exists in the atmosphere mainly in the form of water vapor and water mist. Water
droplets gather into mist and mass as clouds and fogs. Warm mist air rises to meet cool higher air and condenses as water droplets in clouds, which fall to earth as rain. Fresh water is essential for life, and most plants and animals consist of over 70% water. Water on the land runs into the oceans and the evaporation of ocean water replenishes water vapor in the atmosphere. Industrial processes and forest fires release water vapor, but not in amounts that are significant relative to ocean evaporation. Water vapor is a colorless, odorless gas and has no influence on the greenhouse effect.
However, water mist formed into cloud cover does retain some of the heat radiated from earth that is warmed by the sun, and does appear to produce a greenhouse effect. As we shall see in this analysis, most of the greenhouse effect comes from cloud cover. Increased cloud cover seems to produce mild cyclical warming spells on earth. Warming trends are reported by some historians to be times of good harvests, relative prosperity, and relatively-stable weather in the northern hemisphere — contrary to the warnings of the global warming Cassandras.
Dust: Fine dust in the atmosphere stimulates water vapor to condense into water droplets or snow-flakes, some of which melt in the air and turn into rain drops. Dust increases cloud cover, rain, and snow. Most atmospheric dust comes from sandstorms on the deserts, soot from forest fires, and fine ash from volcanic eruptions. Dust can be gradually
cleansed from the air through the water cycle, if there is a reduction of sandstorms and a remission of volcanoes. However, scientists tell us the sandy deserts are increasing in size. Presumably, dust in the air is also increasing. This implies a moderate increase in cloud cover and a mild warming trend. Indeed, the "little ice age" tapered off about two centuries ago, and a gentle warming trend has been taking place ever since along with an increase in the size of sandy deserts.
Dust can produce local conditions of haze. Whether haze influences the greenhouse effect is not clear. Industrial pollutants can contribute to haze and dust in the air. However, the quantities of dust from pollution are probably not material in relation to the dust produced by desert sandstorms, forest fires, and volcanoes. However, CO2 — a colorless, odorless gas — has no effect on dust, haze or cloud cover.
The Greenhouse Effect
Without the greenhouse effect, scientists estimate that the temperature on earth would fall to 100 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and the oceans would freeze. The greenhouse effect is essential to the survival of life on earth. The global warming theorists are worried about a runaway greenhouse effect that they presume to have occurred on the planet Venus resulting in extremely high estimated temperatures on that planet.
The glass panes of a greenhouse admit sunlight that warms the interior surfaces of the greenhouse. These warm surfaces radiate heat, and the plants in the greenhouse produce some heat through the process of photosynthesis and the oxidation of plant tissues. The solid glass walls and ceiling of a greenhouse transmit some heat to the outside, but do so at a slower pace than the production of heat inside the greenhouse. Therefore, greenhouses can stay warm through the winter without central heating. Leaving the windows closed in a car parked in the summer sun can result in temperatures of over 100 degrees in the car — a microcosm of the greenhouse effect.
Glass is a crystalline frozen liquid much like ice, except glass melts at a vastly higher temperature than ice. Glass refracts light, and light shining through glass objects can produce tiny rainbow images. Like glass, both water and ice refract light, resulting in rainbows or rainbow images. Clouds can refract light and produce rainbows because clouds consist of water droplets. Rainbows are more visible and spectacular just after a rainfall when the clouds begin to clear and sunbeams pierce the air when it is still filled with tiny water droplets. Since water droplets in clouds refract light in a manner similar to greenhouse glass, cloud cover as a metaphor for a greenhouse is logically valid.
However, there are no carbon dioxide clouds above the earth, because liquid CO2 evaporates at 71 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Dry ice, or frozen CO2 is interesting and useful stuff, commonly used to cool perishables during shipping. Dry
ice "sublimes" at 109 degrees below zero F, which means it turns directly from a frozen solid to gas vapor. Hollywood and Broadway use fuming dry ice to create the visual effect of an eerie fog. In the upper stratosphere, miles above the clouds, temperatures are low enough to condense CO2. However, there are no CO2 clouds at that altitude, because as dry ice crystals fall to earth and reach slightly warmer altitudes, they quickly sublime into CO2 fumes and dissolve into the atmospheric cocktail of gases. Unlike water mist in clouds but like water vapor in the air, CO2 gas does not refract light and has no greenhouse effect. Pilots use dry ice to seed clouds and induce rain. If this phenomenon can occur in nature without the help of pilots — which may be remotely possible during extremely cold weather conditions in polar regions — it would work against global warming. The seeding of clouds reduces atmospheric water vapor and thus reduces cloud cover, which in turn works against global warming.
The burden of proof lies with those who claim that CO2 gas has a greenhouse effect, because they have presented no understandable mechanism or process that explains how CO2 gas in the atmosphere increases heat on earth. The greenhouse metaphor that is successful for water droplets in clouds appears to be a failure when applied to CO2 gas. If we receive evasions instead of answers and explanations from scientists on this crucial question, we have a right to conclude that global warming theory does not make sense, and we can consign it to the accumulating heap of junk science, along with the discarded theory of global cooling of thirty years ago.
RenewAmerica analyst Fred Hutchison also writes a column for RenewAmerica.
© 2005 Fred Hutchison
The views expressed by RenewAmerica analysts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of RenewAmerica or its affiliates.
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Garson, G. D. (2013). Scales and Measures. Asheboro, NC: Statistical Associates Publishers.
ASIN number (e-book counterpart to ISBN): B00A2ZTHX4.
A graduate level introduction to and illustrated tutorial on scales and measurement, using SPSS, SAS, Stata, WINSTEPS, and jMETRIC.
New coverage of ordinal coefficient alpha, recommended over Cronbach's alpha for binary and ordinal items.
New introduction to item response theory, with annotated computer output.
New FAQ on standardization vs. rescaling.
Now includes all of "Measurement Levels" as well (which is now discontinued as a separate title).


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The blue of the Society represents the color worn by the Navy during the War of 1812 and the gray represents the color worn by the Army. The Insignia represents the Star of Hope upon the Anchor of Faith within the Circle of Friendship.
The National Society USD 1812 has over 5,365 members, 42 state societies, and over 162 chapters. The National Headquarters, located in Washington, DC and depicted below, houses books which have been donated by members to the library, and historic artifacts and memorabilia to the headquarters museum and furnished the house with period furniture. The first floor houses the N.S.U.S.D. of 1812 Memorial Library, which contains many holdings on genealogical research and scholarly studies on the War of 1812 period. The second floor of the new building, occupies the 1812 Museum. It is an exceptional facility dedicated to the 1784-1815 time period.
The State Society was organized in Williston, SC on February 15, 1916 and in May 1917 the Society petitioned to be part of the National Society. The official name of our Society is South Carolina Society, United States Daughters of 1812 and we celebrated our Centennial year in 2017. Membership includes 4 chapters and over 110 members.


Advertising any product to me is becoming more and more difficult. It is not just me, there is a growing number of people who are discovering ways to skip ads almost completely in their daily lives.
In my own case, I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a newspaper but it would be years ago. I prefer to get all my news online.
I used to listen to quite a bit of radio when I was on the road. Now however, I fill my iPod with podcasts before setting off on any journey and listen to those instead. This means that I am listening to content of my selection, relevant to my work, and I am not at the whim of whatever presenter happens to be on the radio.
I watch a decreasing amount of television. The TV I do watch tends to be DVDs or movie channels with no ads. I'd potentially watch a little more TV if I had Sky+ (similar to Tivo) but it is waaaaaaay too expensive.
And yes, before anyone says it, I do see the irony of posting this on a site who's hosting is being paid for by Google ads!
So if you were an advertiser, trying to get your brand/message through to me (and people like me), how would you go about it?
Apologies if you were trying to access this site or its podcasts at around 1am GMT this morning – the site was briefly offline. The site was offline because I exceeded my hosting bandwidth allowance – due to the unprecedented success of my podcasts!
A victim of my own success!
Fortunately the nocturnal FrankP rang me to alert me (knowing that I was probably asleep but also knowing that I would be prefer to be woken to get this sorted asap) and even more fortunately, I have the mobile number of the MD of my hosting co. I rang him and he said he'd get it sorted – that's good service, thanks Michele.
Who would you like to hear podcast?
Ok, I have done a good few podcasts at this stage and I can honestly say I am really enjoying the interview type podcasts and the feedback to them has been overwhelmingly positive (of course, I realise that is far more to do with the interviewees than anything I bring to the table!).
This is a format I will be doing a lot more of and I already have another couple of interviewees lined up. However, before going too much further down this line, is there anyone you'd particularly like to hear interviewed? In all cases, when an interview is coming up, I will allow people to submit questions that I will subsequently put to the interviewee.
So, who would you like to hear interviewed and what would you like me to ask them?


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Биленкин — еврейская фамилия.

Известные носители
 Биленкин, Дмитрий Александрович (1933—1987) — советский писатель-фантаст, литературный критик и журналист.
 Бельский, Яков Моисеевич (настоящая фамилия — Биленкин; 1897—1937) — деятель советских спецслужб, писатель и журналист, карикатурист.
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In this article we represent the results of the investigation, aimed at the development of "self-estimation" of the 9-th grade students in the process of reviewing the paragraph "Function". The authors worked out a special system of tasks teaching students to plan, anticipate and control their activity at the stage of reviewing.
Keywords: universal studying activity, self-regulation, metacognitive experience, self-estimation, reviewing.


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The Robbins Report
TRR: Goodbye Press Freedom: Occupy Wall Street Proposing Government Controlled Media
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By James S. Robbins The Washington Times - October 12, 2011, 11:30PM
You would think the members of the Occupy Wall Street movement would be grateful to the media for all the attention they are getting. But according to the draft "American People's New Economic Charter," the group is discussing ways to bring an end to freedom of the press as we know it. Rather than calling for more decentralized free media, citizen journalism, blogging, tweeting and so forth, the occupiers are proposing creating a centralized, top-down communications system, subsidized, monitored and controlled by the government.
The charter envisions the government assuming much broader responsibilities in educating and employing journalists. The charter suggests subsidizing "journalism in institutions of higher education and all forms of public access media according to need, regardless of political position." And freshly-minted government-subsidized journalists can look forward to government-subsidized jobs. The charter recommends "Increase[d] funding for public media outlets, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting." The authors want to use "the existing Federal public relations budget" (whatever that is) "to pay for real freedom of the press." Why they think that being paid for and controlled by the government would give journalists "real freedom" is puzzling. Investigative journalism focusing on government misdeeds would be particularly problematic, since it would be biting the hand that feeds. In practical terms the occupiers' plan is a recipe for ceaseless government misbehavior with no chance of the public ever knowing about it.
In the new regime the self-policing function of journalism, or even the watchdog function of bloggers and other independent fact-checkers would be discarded in favor of government-based oversight. The charter suggests a "Truth in Journalism" law along the lines of "Truth in Advertising" regulations "whereby the FCC is required by law to report on journalistic errors and intentional deception." But being able to prove intentional deception would involve giving the FCC a broad array of investigative powers. Chilling effect, schmilling effect.
For those media consumers who lack critical thinking skills, fear not. The charter asserts that "a clear distinction must be made between informative fact-based programs and columns, and op-ed programs and columns." Most people tend to pick up these differences on their own – in case you were wondering, Washington Times opinion articles are in a separate section clearly marked "Commentary." But the authors of the charter are interested in protecting the lowest common denominator media consumer from accidentally mistaking opinion for fact, or maybe vice-versa. The charter suggests "warning stamps required next to the program stamps letting people know if the program is opinion based vs fact," which is really a false dichotomy since any opinions worth reading have a strong factual basis. Besides, the problem in the media today is not fact-based opinion, but opinion-based facts.
There was a disagreement over how the press should handle war reporting. One poster suggested mandating "no reporting on wars, like the 60's - misleads us into forgetting about military expenses." It's hard to understand what this means exactly since in the 1960s there was a lot of reporting on wars, Vietnam in particular, and it did anything but make people forget military expenses. But another poster took issue with this proposed bit of censorship, arguing "there will be no war, so that's moot. The government will have one media center in which it broadcasts/reports on its news. Who do these warmongers think are going to attack us?" Well, regardless of who the attacker is, if they mount a first strike on the government's "one media center" no Americans will even know there is a war on.
The charter adds, helpfully, that "There is no democracy without the free flow of information." Which argues against 99% of what the occupiers are proposing.
Government Mandated Warning: The Robbins Report is the completely biased opinion of one increasingly perplexed writer.
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Central Ohio's aspiring young instrumentalists in grades 9-12 perform in this ensemble directed by Associate Conductor of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Andrés Lopera. The 91-member orchestra has students from 19 high schools in nine counties. Members are selected through a competitive audition process held annually in April/May.
Youth Orchestra typically performs 3-4 times a season and focuses on developing all the elements of professional musicianship by performing full symphonic works. Previous repertoire has included Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar, Festive Overture by Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.
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ABOUT THE YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Sponsored by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the organization emphasizes the performance of standard orchestral literature with special emphasis on American music under the leadership of a professional conductor with regular advice from coaches from the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Weekly rehearsals during the school year are carried out under professional standards, and the members are expected to take private lessons and maintain leadership responsibilities in their school ensembles.
The orchestra will perform three concerts at its home, The Speaker Jo Ann Davidson Theatre at the Vern Riffe Center in downtown Columbus. In 1998, the Youth Orchestra was one of six chosen worldwide to appear at the 1998 Banff International Youth Orchestra Festival in Banff, Alberta, Canada. During the summer of 1999, it made its first European tour, performing highly acclaimed concerts in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Returning to Dresden Germany in 2000, the Orchestra developed an exchange relationship with the Heinrich Schultz Konservatorium, a community music school that boasts 8000 students. In June of 2005, the Orchestra embarked on an extensive 15-day tour of the Peoples Republic of China and Hong Kong performing in five different cities, including a concert atop the Great Wall of China. In June 2015, the Youth Orchestra made its premier performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City and returned for a second performance in June 2018.
The Youth Orchestra has appeared at regional conferences of the Ohio Music Educators Association, and the national conferences of the Music Educators National Conference and the American Symphony Orchestra League. In 1998, the Orchestra released its first CD recording featuring Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, and its concerts are regularly re-broadcast on WOSU-FM. Artists appearing with the Orchestra in recent seasons have included George Goad, Alicia Hui, Andrew Carlson, Gregory Fulkerson, Christopher Durrenberger, David Thomas, Andreas Henkel, Marilyn Nims, Stephen Secan, Charles Wetherbee, Eugenia Zuckerman, Caroline Hong, and Linda Nolan.
Andrés Lopera, conductor
One of the current leading Latin-American conductors in the U.S, Andrés Lopera has led orchestras throughout the Americas for more than a decade. Having recently completed his third season as assistant conductor of the Colorado Symphony, Lopera has directed performances with orchestras such as the Oregon Symphony, Toledo Symphony, NewWorld Symphony, and Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, as well at summer festivals, including the National Repertory Orchestra and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. In 2017, he covered a series of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel and Carlos Miguel Prieto.
At the international level, Lopera has performed with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra and the EAFIT Symphony Orchestra in his home country of Colombia, among others. He has also presented concerts and collaborated with both professional and youth orchestras throughout Central and South America, including organizations in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Honduras.
In 2012, Lopera was appointed music director of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Portland where he oversaw a program with more than 450 students, 12 ensembles, and 10 conducting staff. In recognition of his contributions to Portland, he received the Portland Monthly Award, Rising Star Award, and the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber Bravo Award. Additional honors include the Orgullo Colombiano Award and Egresados Que Inspiran from EAFIT University, both received in 2017.
Lopera has studied and worked with some of the most outstanding professional artists in the field, including Hugh Wolff, Andrew Litton, David Loebel, Carlos Kalmar, Ludovic Morlot, and Marin Alsop. He earned a master's in orchestral conducting from New England Conservatory.
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Marianne Dubuc is an author and illustrator who has published more than a dozen picture books. She works in French and her books have been published in more than 25 languages. Her first book, The Sea (Le mer), appeared in 2006. Other works include The Bird and the Lion (Le lion et l'oiseau), which received a 2014 Governor General's Literary Award; Mr. Postmouse's Rounds (Le tournée de Facteur Souris), which won the 2016 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award for Children's Picture Books; and Up the Mountain Path (Le chemin de la montagne), which won a 2018 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Dubuc lives in Montreal.
Interview with Marianne Dubuc, 2020 Vicky Metcalf Award winner
"Marianne Dubuc has created an unforgettable and enchanting oeuvre of stories. Funny and intimate, her books orbit the deepest of subjects, casting questions of friendship, loneliness, change, and loss, with the lightest of lines and quietest grace. Many writers for children are frightened of the blank page but Dubuc uses white space and silence with great confidence, demonstrating a profound respect for her young readers. She knows children are sage and curious and holders of immense feeling. She knows, as children know, that a story is often what happens between words. She lets us all in.
'You're welcome to stay with me,' Lion says in The Lion and the Bird.
And we reply, 'Yes. I think we will.'
With this award, we are delighted to celebrate and honour a writer and illustrator whose quiet brilliance is showcased in a body of work that includes, thus far, more than a dozen picture books available in both her langue maternelle, French, and in English translation, in Canada and around the world."
— 2020 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People Jury (Caroline Adderson, Kyo Maclear, and Susan Perren)
The Lion and the Bird
Works recognized by WT
The Bus Ride
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Otto and Pio
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Katherine Schwarzenegger And Chris Pratt Are Reportedly Honeymooning In Hawaii Now
By Alyssa Bailey
Newlyweds Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger are celebrating their two-week marriage—and Pratt's 40th birthday—in a tropical paradise: Hawaii. Us Weekly was told by multiple sources that the couple chose the islands as their honeymoon destination. The two were seen hanging out pool-side on Sunday, with one insider telling the outlet that Pratt was "swimming in the pool with goggles on and eating french fries."
The couple's honeymoon comes after the new Mrs. Chris Pratt shared two tributes to her husband: One for his birthday and a second for Father's Day. On Father's Day, she wrote, "Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband. Watching you be such a hands on and loving father was one of the many reasons I fell in love with you, and continue to each day. I love you ♥"
Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband. Watching you be such a hands on and loving father was one of the many reasons I fell in love with you, and continue to each day. I love you ♥
A post shared by Katherine Schwarzenegger (@katherineschwarzenegger) on Jun 16, 2019 at 3:22pm PDT
And on Pratt's birthday, she captioned a collage of photos of them, "Happy birthday to my darling angel face! So beyond blessed to laugh with you, love you, go on adventures with you, kiss you and live this magical life with you. You make life joy filled! I love you so much! Happy happy!"
Happy birthday to my darling angel face! So beyond blessed to laugh with you, love you, go on adventures with you, kiss you and live this magical life with you. You make life joy filled! I love you so much! Happy happy!
A post shared by Katherine Schwarzenegger (@katherineschwarzenegger) on Jun 21, 2019 at 10:17am PDT
Pratt and Schwarzenegger confirmed their wedding a day after their June 8 nuptials. They had identical Instagram captions with the shot they chose of each other in their ceremony outfits. "Yesterday was the best day of our lives!" Schwarzenegger wrote on her Instagram. "We became husband and wife in front of God, our families and those we love. It was intimate, moving and emotional. We feel so blessed to begin this new chapter of our lives. We are so thankful to our families and our friends who stood with us, and grateful to Mr Giorgio Armani, who created a once in a lifetime dress for me to wear, and for Chris, the perfect suit. This morning we feel nothing but blessed."
Yesterday was the best day of our lives! We became husband and wife in front of God, our families and those we love. It was intimate, moving and emotional. We feel so blessed to begin this new chapter of our lives. We are so thankful to our families and our friends who stood with us, and grateful to Mr Giorgio Armani, who created a once in a lifetime dress for me to wear, and for Chris, the perfect suit. This morning we feel nothing but blessed.
A post shared by Katherine Schwarzenegger (@katherineschwarzenegger) on Jun 9, 2019 at 11:27am PDT
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1. OUR COMMITMENT TO ONLINE PRIVACY
Your privacy is extremely important to Alerti. Please take a minute to read the following Privacy Policy so that you understand our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information relating to your use of the Alerti.com Site and Service ("Alerti.com" and "Service"), and the choices you can make about how your information is collected and used. As we update and expand our services, this Privacy Policy may change, so please refer back to it periodically.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and part of, the Terms of Use, which governs your use of the Service in general. By visiting Alerti.com, providing personal information, and/or using the Service, you ("User") signify your agreement to all of the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all these terms and conditions, please do not provide us with any information and do not use Alerti.com.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Alerti.com does not own or control, or to people that Alerti.com does not employ or manage.
If you have any questions or concerns about Alerti.com's Privacy Policy, please contact us at
I. Definitions
The terms below will have the following definition whether they are used in the singular or plural in this Confidentiality Policy :
Alert(s) : has the meaning given in the General Conditions of Use accessible here.
Alerti : has the meaning given in the General Conditions of Use accessible here.
Intermediate Archiving : Means the removal of Personal Data which still has an administrative interest for the Controller (e.g. for litigation and/or a legal obligation) to a separate database which is separated logically or physically, and to which access is restricted. This archiving is an intermediate stage before the effacement of the Personal Data or their anonymization.
Confidentiality Policy: Means this policy for the confidentiality and protection of the User's Personal Data implemented by the Controller which forms an integral part of the GC.
GC : Means together the General Conditions of Use accessible here and the General Conditions of Sale accessible here.
Content : Has the meaning given in the General Conditions of Use accessible here
Personal Data : Means the Personal Data as defined in the Legislation on Personal Data, which is collected and processed by the User within the scope of the creation, the management of his or her Personal profile and the use of the Services by the User.
Specific rights : Means the rights granted to the Data Subject by the Legislation on Personal Data and notably the following rights:
- Access (article 39 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
- Rectification (article 40 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
- Deletion (article 40 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
- Restrictions on Processing (article 40 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
- Portability (article 39 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
- Opposition (article 38 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
- Post-mortem directives (article 40-1 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978).
Identifiers : Has the meaning given in the General Conditions of Use accessible here.
Keywords : Has the meaning given in the General Conditions of Use accessible here.
Data Subject : Means a person whose Personal Data are processed (directly or indirectly) by Alerti and/or by a User.
Employee(s) : Means any natural capable adult person using the Alerti Website for exclusively business purposes acting in the name and on the behalf of a User.
Legislation on Personal Data : Means the Act n°78-17 of 6 January 1978 on computing, files and freedoms as amended by the Act n°2018-493 of 20 June 2018 on the protection of Personal Data and the application of the Community Regulation of April 27, 2016 published in the Official Journal of the European Union on May 4, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regards to the Processing of Personal Data and the free movement of such data (the "GDPR" for General Data Protection Regulation).
Controller : Has the meaning given in the Legislation on Personal Data.
Services : Has the meaning given in the General Conditions of Sale accessible here.
Alerti Website : Has the meaning given in the General Conditions of Use accessible here.
Terminal(s) : Means the equipment (computer, tablet, Smartphone, telephone etc) used by the User and/or the net surfer to consult or to display the Alerti Website and/or any other digital support published by a third-party.
Processing : Means, within the meaning of the Legislation on Personal Data, any operation or set of operations whether performed using automated processes or not, and applied to the Personal Data such as the collection, recording, organisation, structuring, conservation, adaptation or modification, extraction, consultation, use, and communication by transmission, broadcasting or any other form of making available, reconciliation or interconnection, limitation, deletion or destruction.
Users : Means indistinctly, the Clients and/or the Members within the meaning of the GC in their name and/or as far as is required on the behalf of their Employees.
I. The User's guarantees
A. Identifiers
The User will, at the end of the process for creating the User's account, possess the Identifiers which the User must keep in accordance with the instructions in the General Conditions of Use.
The User undertakes to keep these Identifiers strictly confidential and to only use them for a strictly personal use, which covers use by its Employees for whom it stands as guarantor for.
Any access to the Alerti Website using the User's Identifiers is automatically deemed to have been performed by the User under the User's liability.
In the event of the unauthorised use or the suspicion of the unauthorised use of the User's account (especially in the event of loss, theft or any fraudulent action with respect to the Identifiers), the User must, in addition to informing Alerti of this, prove his or her identity by using any means.
The User is liable for the use of the Identifiers by third parties up until Alerti has been informed.
On receipt of its duly established notification, Alerti will send the User an email enabling it to update its Identifiers which the User will be responsible for keeping strictly confidential.
If Alerti has legitimate reasons for believing that the security of the Alerti Website has been breached and/or that an incorrect use of all or part of the Services is due to an unauthorised use of the Identifiers by one or several Users, Alerti can temporarily suspend access to the account of the User concerned in order to protect the integrity of the Alerti Website and the data and if necessary require the User to modify his/her Identifiers.
B. The purposes of the Processing the Personal Data by the User
The User is exclusively liable for the Personal Data of Employees the User collects from the Alerti Website notably with respect to their activity on the Alerti Website and for the Processing the User performs using the Services.
The User is therefore responsible for ensuring that the Personal Data of the Employees and the Processing which the User performs via the Services are a) processed legally, fairly and transparently with regards to the Data Subject ; b) are collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes, and are not subsequently processed in a way which is incompatible with these purposes; c) adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary with respect to the purposes for which they are processed (data minimisation; d) accurate and if necessary kept up-to-date; e) kept in a form which permits the identification of Data Subject for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Data are processed ; f) processed in a way that ensures appropriate security for the Personal Data.
The User can in particular obtain Alerti's assistance for Processing requests to exercise Specific Rights sent to it by the Data Subject including by its Employees. It therefore has to send Alerti precise and understandable requests as well as a delivery deadline which cannot be less than ninety-two (92) working hours.
C. The use of Key Words in all or part of the Personal Data
It is, as far as is required, reiterated that Alerti does not control the Content or the Key Words selected by the User or the Content which is generated, and that it must therefore be considered to be a technical intermediary within the meaning of the act n°2004-575 of 21 June 2004 for trust in the digital economy.
The use of the keyword which is totally or partially composed of Personal Data is a Processing of Personal Data for which the User is the Controller.
Therefore, and without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph V below, the User, in his or her capacity as the Controller, guarantees Alerti that this Processing is lawful i.e. that at least one of the following conditions are satisfied :
The Data Subject has consented to the his or her Personal Data being processed in particular with respect to disclosure or the repetition of information on the Data Subject on the Internet and for a use connected to one of the functionalities of the Alerti Website and the Services ;
The Processing is required to perform a contract which the Data Subject is a party to or to perform the pre-contractual measures stipulated in the Data Subject's request;
The Processing is necessary to respect a statutory obligation which the User is subject to;
The Processing is necessary for protecting the vital interests of the Data Subject or another physical person;
The Processing is necessary for performing a mission which is in the public interest or comes under the public authority which is invested in the User;
The Processing is required in the legitimate interests of the User or a third party unless the Data Subject's interests or fundamental freedoms and rights requiring the protection of the Personal Data prevail, in particular if the Data Subject is a child.
In any event, the User is prohibited from using a Personal Data as a keyword which i) designates a minor under fifteen (15), unless the child's parents have consented to this and/or ii) is likely to permit "sensitive" Personal Data within the meaning of the Legislation on Personal Data to be processed.
The User guarantees Alerti that it will inform the Data Subject whose Personal Data are processed within the scope of the Services especially in relation to a keyword, in a timely manner and in the forms required by the Legislation on Personal Data.
The User can in particular obtain Alerti's assistance to process requests for exercising Specific Rights which are sent to it by the Data Subject whose Personal Data are used as Key Words. The User will then have to send Alerti a precise and comprehensible request as well as a delivery deadline which cannot be less than ninety-two (92) working hours.
The consequences for the User if a Data Subject makes a request to Alerti to exercise Specific Rights are detailed in paragraph VII below.
As far as is required, the User is reminded that the Alerti Website offers a functionality which enables it to exclude one or several Key Words from the Content and that it is must use this, if it is the sole recipient of a request to exercise a right of opposition from a Data Subject and for informing the said Data Subject of this as a consequence.
D. The use of Content which is totally or partially composed of Personal Data
Alerti conserves the Content in accordance with paragraph IV, C. below.
The User has access, via the Alerti website, to Content which is generated by the Services exclusively because of the User's instructions, without Alerti's control and which are conserved for the sole purpose stipulated by the User, which can extract them. The User is therefore solely liable in his/her capacity as the Controller, for his/her use of the Content. The User must therefore process this Content, including, if necessary, Personal Data, in accordance with the Legislation on Personal Data and this Confidentiality Policy.
II. The Processing of the User's Personal Data by Alerti
A. The legal grounds for the Processing by Alerti
In accordance with the Legislation on Personal Data, the Processing which is covered by this Confidentiality Policy has a specific legal basis.
1. The Processing necessary for performing your contractual dealings with Alerti
The User must accept these GC before he/she can use the Alerti Website.
These documents formalise a contractual relationship between the User and Alerti which serves as the legal basis for Alerti at the very least, collecting and Processing the Personal Data of its Employees.
These Personal Data are required to perform a certain number of Processings connected to the performance of the contractual relationship with the User, the purposes of which are detailed in paragraph IV, B. of this Confidentiality Policy.
2. The Processing required for a legal obligation which Alerti is subject to
The Processing by Alerti may also be required under a legal obligation, such as the decree n°2011-219 February 5, 2011 concerning the conservation and disclosure of data enabling any person who contributed to the creation of online Content to be identified.
B. The purposes of Processing the User's Personal Data by Alerti
The User's Personal Data are necessary for Alerti to enable the User to access the Alerti Website and the Services and to use and improve them and to permit Alerti :
To perform the operations relating to its commercial dealings with the User, i.e. concerning invoicing, accounting, following-up of the "customer relationship" with a User, such as satisfaction surveys, managing complaints, the use of the Alerti website etc.
Selecting Users to perform studies, surveys and product tests as well as loyalty, prospection and promotion actions
Personalise its communication for Users notably using information emails, according to their use of the Alerti Website.
Perform inspection operations i.e. the management of technical inspection operations (notably includes technical operations such as normalisation, enrichment and de-duplication).
Promotional commercial actions.
Compiling commercial statistics; marketing analysis and tools (notably classification, scoring, score, etc.).
The organisation of competitions, lotteries and any promotional action to the exclusion of gambling and gaming which requires the approval of the Online Gaming Regulation Authority.
Management of requests to exercise rights designated in paragraph VIII below.
The management of unpaids and litigation.
The management of the Users' comments on the Alerti Website and/or on the Internet pages published by the Controllers, such as social media pages.
The fight against fraud.
C. The collection of the User's Personal Data on the Alerti Website
Alerti collects, when the account is created and then as it is completed, the following Personal Data which the User either enters or communicates when browsing and which are conserved on an active base, throughout the period of the User's Subscription to the Services from the User's last connection to the Alerti website and for a period of three (3) years:
Surname, first name, telephone
Identifier used on the Alerti website
the connection data (date, time, IP address, pages consulted) for the User whilst browsing on the Alerti website.
The above Personal Data also are kept in Intermediate Archiving for an additional period of two (2) years in accordance with the prescription period.
Invoices for the Subscriptions taken out by the User
the amount of the transactions performed as well as the date and time of these transactions.
The above Personal Data are also are conserved in Intermediate Archiving for an additional period which can be up to ten (10) years in accordance with the Controller's tax and accounting obligations.
Only the Personal Data which is designated on the Alerti website as compulsory are essential for using the Alerti website and the Services.
D. Recipients or categories of recipients of the User's Personal Data
- Country : USA
- Nature of data transferred : Surname, first name, email address, address, telephone
- Purpose of the planned transfer : Hosting the database
- Level of protection offered by the country or exception stipulated by the Legislation on Personal Data : Privacy Shield
- Nature of data transferred : email address
- Purpose of the planned transfer : Sending alerts
- Nature of data transferred : Surname, first name, email address
- Purpose of the planned transfer : Analysis of the functionalities used to improve the Service and personalise communication
- Purpose of the planned transfer : Support and chat Service with Users
E. Security of Internet transactions
In accordance with the General Conditions of Sale, the Alerti website uses the technology of the PayPal and the CIC (Crédit Industriel et Commercial) companies in order to guarantee the security of banking transactions by User.
Thus when a payment is made on the Alerti website, the User's bank account details are transmitted in an encrypted form to CIC and PayPal, and unknown to Alerti.
Alerti does not collect either the complete number of the User's bank card or its cryptogram.
If the User wishes to exercise the rights identified in paragraph VII above such as Specific Rights relating to the details of the bank card and the transaction performed, the User should contact PayPal and CIC directly. Alerti can provide the User with their contact details and the methods of contacting them.
F. The security of the User's password
Alerti takes full precautions to ensure that the User's password and, if necessary, the password of its Employees is stored securely.
However the security of this password also depends on its composition.
The User is therefore reminded that in order for the User's password to be valid it must be composed of a minimum of eight (8) characters.
Mnemomic techniques exist to create complex passwords such as :
Only conserving the first letters of a phrase ; for example the phrase "A password is remembered ! " corresponds to the password [email protected]!
By adding a capital letter if the word is a name (e.g. : word)
by using punctuation signs (e.g. : !)
By expressing numbers using figures 0 to 9 (ex : One →1)
III. Processing the Personal Data of the Data Subject generated in the Content by Alerti
The Users can generate Content using Key Words selected by them.
Alerti must therefore be considered to be a technical intermediary with the meaning of the Act n° 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 for trust in the digital economy, and is therefore unable to control the Key Words selected by the User or the Content generated.
Alerti will therefore intervene in its function of managing the Content in the User's name and on its behalf as the processer of the Personal Data within the meaning of the Legislation on Personal Data.
The Personal Data of the Data Subjecting the Content were not collected from the said Data Subject but from third-party publishers which makes them freely accessible on the Internet.
However it may be clearly impossible to supply information (within the meaning of the Legislation on Personal Data) to the said Data Subject and therefore obtain their consent and/or would require disproportionate efforts.
Alerti therefore provides the User with measures which the User considers are appropriate in order to protect the rights and freedoms and the legitimate interests of the Data Subjecting particular by i) making this Confidentiality Policy accessible to everyone i) implementing technical means to exclude certain results from the Content generated.
The Data Subject can also approach Alerti in order to perform his or her Specific Rights under the terms and conditions of paragraphs VII and VIII below case you were.
IV. The storage of the Personal Data of the Data Subject
The Alerti website is hosted by Amazon whose contact details are available by clicking here https://aws.amazon.com/fr/legal/
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/privacy.
All precautions have been taken to store the User's Personal Data in a secure environment and to prevent them from being deformed, damaged or an unauthorised third party having access to them. The Information transmitted by the User will never be transmitted to third parties for a commercial purpose or sold or exchanged.
The Content which is liable to contain Personal Data is reserved for exclusively for Users who generated them using the Key Words they selected.
V. The Specific Rights of the Data Subjects
In accordance with the Legislation on Personal Data the Data Subject have the following Specific Rights :
Access (article 39 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
Rectification (article 40 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
Deletion (article 40 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
Restriction on Processing (article 40 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
Portability (article 39 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
Opposition (article 38 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978),
Directives post-mortem (article 40-1 of the Act n°78-17 of January 6 1978).
The User, like Alerti, undertakes to cooperate fully in order to enable the Data Subject to exercise their Specific Rights.
A. Access Rights
The Data Subjects can obtain confirmation from Alerti that the Personal Data concerning them is or is not the subject of Processing, and that when they are, the access to the said Personal Data and the following information :
The purposes of the Processing ;
the categories of the Personal Data ;
the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the Personal Data has been or will be communicated
when this is possible the period of conservation for the Personal Data envisioned; when this is not possible the criteria used to calculate this duration
the existence of the right to ask Alerti to rectify or erase the Personal Data or a limitation on Processing their Personal Data or the right to oppose this Processing;
the right to make a claim to the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)
if the Personal Data is not collected from the Data Subjects, any information available concerning their source
the existence of automated individual decision making, including profiling and in the same cases, information on the underlying logic and the significance and the anticipated consequences of this Processing for the Data Subjects.
If the Personal Data are transferred to a third-party country or to an international organisation, the Data Subject are entitled to be informed of appropriate guarantees regarding this transfer.
Alerti supplies a copy of the Personal Data which is the subject of Processing.
Alerti can require the payment of its reasonable costs based on administrative costs for any additional copy demanded by the data subject.
If the Data Subject makes his or her request by email the information is supplied in a common electronic format unless the Data Subject requests otherwise.
The right to obtain a copy of the Personal Data must not infringe third-party rights and freedoms.
B. Rectification rights
The Data Subject is entitled to have an incorrect Personal Data on him or her corrected by Alerti as quickly as possible. The Data Subject is also entitled to demand that incomplete Personal Data is completed including by providing a supplementary declaration.
C. Rights to erase
The Data Subject shall have the right to obtain from the Controller the erasure of Personal Data concerning him or her without undue delay for one of the following reasons:
The Personal Data is no longer necessary in relation to purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed by Alerti;
the Data Subject withdraws the consent on which the Processing of his or her Personal Data is based and there is no other legal ground for the Processing
the Data Subject objects to the Processing under the conditions stipulated above and there is no overriding legitimate grounds for the Processing
the Personal Data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation
the Personal Data have been collected from a child.
D. Right to restrict Processing
The Data Subject shall have the right to obtain that Alerti restricts the Processing of his or her Personal Data were one of the following applies :
Alerti checks the accuracy of the Personal Data following a contestation by the Data Subject of the accuracy of his or her Personal Data
The Processing is unlawful and the Data Subject opposes the erasure of the Personal Data and requests the restriction of their use instead
Alerti no longer needs the Personal Data for the purposes of the Processing but they are required by the Data Subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims
The Data Subject has opposed the Processing under the terms stipulated above and Alerti verifies whether it's legitimate rights take precedence over the rights alleged by the data subject.
E. The rights to the portability of the User's Personal Data
The User is entitled to receive the Personal Data concerning him or her from Alerti in a structured commonly used and machine-readable format when :
The Data Processing is based on consent or on a contract and
the Processing is carried out by automated means
When the User exercises his or her right to data portability the User is entitled to have the Personal Data transmitted directly from Alerti to a Controller designated by the Data Subject when this is technically feasible.
The right to the portability of the Personal Data must not infringe third-party rights or freedoms.
F. The right to oppose
The Data Subject shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to Processing of Personal Data concerning him or her based on the User's legitimate interest. Alerti shall no longer process the Personal Data unless the User demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the Processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, Alerti and/or the User can conserve this Personal Data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The User is informed that Alerti is entitled to filter using automated scripts all the Content of the Personal Data which the Data Subject have exercised their right to opposition over with Alerti.
The User can contact Alerti at any time in order to reintegrate the Personal Data of a Data Subject into the Content providing in validly complete and fully justifies this.
Alerti will contact the Data Subject beforehand to obtain consent his or her Content.
G. Post-mortem instructions
The Data Subject is able to give instructions relating to the conservation, erasure and communication of its Personal Data after his or her death and these instructions can also be recorded with a "certified trusted digital third party". These instructions or "digital will" can designate a person who is responsible for performing them. In default, the Data Subject's heirs will be designated.
If there are no instructions, these heirs can contact Alerti in order to :
Access the Processing of the Personal Data permitting "the organisation and settlement of the deceased's estate"
obtain disclosure of the "digital property " or the "data comparable with family memories transmissible to the heirs"
close the account of the Data Subject on the Alerti website and oppose the Processing of the Personal Data of the Data Subject.
In any event the Data Subject can inform Alerti at any time that he or she does not wish his or her Personal Data to be disclosed to a third party in the event of his or her death.
VI. Terms and conditions for exercising the Specific Rights of the Data Subjects
In order to exercise his or her Specific Rights with Alerti in order to if, necessary, obtain the oral reading of this Confidentiality Policy the Data Subject can and address his or her request :
By email by sending his or her request to the data protection officer for Alerti's data :
By letter post to the following address : Alerti – 7, Rue Pelée – 75011 Paris
By the Employee visiting Alerti Website, under the heading https://fr.Alerti.com/account/edit.
The Data Subject must be able to prove his or her identity in order assert his or her Specific Rights, by mentioning his surname, first name, email address, and by accompanying the request with a copy of his or her identity card, unless the Data Subject makes the request on Alerti Website in his or her capacity as an Employee.
The reply will be sent to the Data Subject within a maximum period of one (1) month following the date of the receipt of his or her order.
If necessary, this time limit can be extended by two (2) months by Alerti, which will inform the Data Subject of this given the complexity and/or the number of requests.
If the Data Subject makes a request to delete the Personal Data and/or the Data Subject exercises its right to request the erasure of the Personal Data, Alerti can however conserve the Personal Data in Intermediate Archiving form for the period necessary for satisfying its legal, accounting and tax obligations.
The Data Subject can make a complaint to the competent supervisory body at any time (in France, the CNIL : www.cnil.fr)
If the Data Subject wishes to send his or her request to the User they are asked to contact the User directly and in particular to consult his or her specific Confidentiality Policy.
VII. The cookies which are stored on the User's Terminal after browsing on the Alerti Website
A. General points
Alerti Website uses cookies.
A cookie is data which is stored on the Terminal which the User uses to access Alerti Website.
Cookies relate to the User's browsing on the Alerti Website and record the pages the User visited and the date and time they were visited.
These cookies never enable Alerti to personally identify the User.
These cookies are stored on the User's Terminal for a maximum of thirteen (13) months.
More specifically, the Personal Data collected from the cookies used by Alerti or third parties enables :
Statistics and the volume of traffic and the use of Alerti Website to be established in order to improve its attractiveness and ergonomics
Adapt the presentation of Alerti Website to the display preferences of the User's Terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.)
To memorise the information relating to a form completed by the User Alerti Website (registration or access to the account)
To enable the User to access his or her account using his or her pre-recorded Identifiers
To implement security measures for example if the User has requested to reconnect to Alerti Website after a certain lapse of time.
Alerti uses cookies to collect and process all or some of the following Personal Data for the above purposes :
Information connected with the Terminal of the User and/or the net surfer
The User's type of Terminal (Smartphone, tablet, computer, etc.)
that User's operating system on the User's Terminal (Mac Os, iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry etc.)
the categories of plug-ins and versions on his or her Terminal
the User's Internet Services provider (Orange, SFR, Bouygues, Free, etc.)
the browser used by the User (Safari, Chrome, Internet explorer, etc.)
the IP address of the User's Terminal
the geolocation data of the User's Terminal
that User's language preferences
the information on the User's browsing and the User's behaviour on Alerti Website :
the statistics on the consultation of the different pages of Alerti Website
the complete URL routing towards, via and from Alerti Website.
B. Alerti's Cookies
Alerti (credentials )
- role : distinction les Utilisateurs loggés
- Durarion : session ou 3 mois (se souvenir de moi)
Alerti (login )
- role : Used to distinguish multiple sessions by the same User
- Durarion : Length of the session or 3 months if "remember me" has been ticked "
Alerti (sessions )
- role : Used to differentiate browsing sessions
- Durarion : Duration of the session
C. Third party cookies
- role : Differentiate Users and sessions
- duration : 13 months
- Privacy Policy : https://policies.google.com/privacy?gl=FR&hl=fr
- role : Identify new sessions
- duration : 30 min
- role : Backup new sources of traffic
- duration : 6 months
- role : dentify the single Clients behind a shared IP and apply security parameters per Client
- Privacy policy : https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/?utm_referrer=https://www.google.fr/
Zopim
- role : Backup the Zopim channel ID across devices
- Privacy policy : https://www.zendesk.com/company/customers-partners/privacy-policy/
- role : Analyser use of the service and its features
- durée : 12 months
- Privacy policy : https://www.intercom.com/fr/terms-and-policies
- role : analyse use of the service and its features
- duration : 7 days
- Privacy policy : https://www.intercom.com/fr/terms-and-polici
New relic (nreum)
- role : Analyse page loading time, the start of the Client session, condition of the site
- duration : session
- Privacy policy : https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy
New relic (nragnt)
- Privacy policy : https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy.
D. Objection to cookies
The net surfer and/or the User are informed during their first visit, that they can object to the storage of cookies which are incidental to operating operational Alerti Website by configuring their web browser to do this and or by making their choices on this page (see below).
Information is liable to be recorded or read in the User's Terminal, subject to the choices made by the User, when the netsurfer and/or User browses on the Alerti Website.
You can find more help on the dedicated pages in your browser (the most common browsers are listed below) :
Internet Explorer : http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Google Chrome : http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari : https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=fr_FR&viewlocale=fr_FR
Firefox : http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20désactiver%20les%20cookies
Opéra : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html
L'Utilisateur peut également paramétrer son navigateur afin que celui-ci envoie un code indiquant aux sites Internet qu'il ne souhaite pas être suivi (option « Do No Track ») :
Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-fr/internet-explorer/use-tracking-protection#ie=ie-11
Safari™: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11952
Chrome™ : https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836
Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/comment-activer-option-ne-pas-pister
Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/fr/notrack.html
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Q: How to use a VM to create a Rails staging environment My app is in development and I do all my testing using WEBrick (I like the terminal output).
On the production server it will run on Phusion Passenger.
I'm running Snow Leopard and wish to test the app in an environment similar to the production environment.
Can I use Parallels to run a Debian install with Apache and Passenger and configure Capistrano to deploy to that?
Thanks!

A: I have been using VMware for that sort of thing. Its really easy to deal with network wise. I have recently switched to Virtualbox which is much nicer to actually work in (at least for me), does the same things, and is free. Download the Debian iso and create a new VM that uses it as its CDrom. Thats about all you need to do. Good luck.

A: This may not be the answer you're looking for but I've found it very straightforward to just run passenger locally for development. You can always tail the development.log, it's really just as easy as watching the terminal output from webrick.
Dev setup is made all the easier with the drag and drop ease of the phusion passenger pref pane.
http://www.fngtps.com/passenger-preference-pane
Seems like it would be easier than setting up the VM and all. Though yes, there could still be differences if your not hosting on OS X server I suppose.