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This Data Processing Agreement ("Agreement") forms part of the Contract for Services ("Principal Agreement") between Retention Science (the "Data Processor"), and each of the Data Processor's customers (the "Company") (together as the "Parties").
(A) The Company acts as a Data Controller.
(B) The Company wishes to subcontract certain Services, which imply the processing of personal data, to the Data Processor.
(C) The Parties seek to implement a data processing agreement that complies with the requirements of the current legal framework in relation to data processing and with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
(D) The Parties wish to lay down their rights and obligations.
IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
1.1 Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms and expressions used in this Agreement shall have the following meaning:
1.1.1 "Agreement" means this Data Processing Agreement and all Schedules;
1.1.2 "Company Personal Data" means any Personal Data Processed by a Contracted Processor on behalf of Company pursuant to or in connection with the Principal Agreement;
1.1.3 "Contracted Processor" means a Subprocessor;
1.1.4 "Data Protection Laws" means EU Data Protection Laws and, to the extent applicable, the data protection or privacy laws of any other country;
1.1.5 "EEA" means the European Economic Area;
1.1.6 "EU Data Protection Laws" means EU Directive 95/46/EC, as transposed into domestic legislation of each Member State and as amended, replaced or superseded from time to time, including by the GDPR and laws implementing or supplementing the GDPR;
1.1.7 "GDPR" means EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679;
1.1.8 "Data Transfer" means:
1.1.8.1 a transfer of Company Personal Data from the Company to a Contracted Processor; or
1.1.8.2 an onward transfer of Company Personal Data from a Contracted Processor to a Subcontracted Processor, or between two establishments of a Contracted Processor, in each case, where such transfer would be prohibited by Data Protection Laws (or by the terms of data transfer agreements put in place to address the data transfer restrictions of Data Protection Laws);
1.1.9 "Services" means the services the Company provides.
1.1.10 "Subprocessor" means any person appointed by or on behalf of Processor to process Personal Data on behalf of the Company in connection with the Agreement.
1.2 The terms, "Commission", "Controller", "Data Subject", "Member State", "Personal Data", "Personal Data Breach", "Processing" and "Supervisory Authority" shall have the same meaning as in the GDPR, and their cognate terms shall be construed accordingly.
2. Processing of Company Personal Data
2.1 Details of Data Processing.
2.1.1 Subject matter. The subject matter of the data processing under this DPA is
Customer Data.
2.1.2 Duration. As between Retention Science and Customer, the duration of the data processing
under this DPA is determined by Customer.
2.1.3 Purpose. The purpose of the data processing under this DPA is the provision of
the Services initiated by Customer from time to time.
2.1.4 Nature of the processing: Compute, storage and such other Services as described
in the Documentation and initiated by Customer from time to time.
2.1.5 Type of Customer Data: Customer Data uploaded to the Services under
Customer's Retention Science accounts.
2.1.6 Categories of data subjects: The data subjects may include Customer's
customers, employees, suppliers and end-users.
2.2 Processor shall:
2.2.1 comply with all applicable Data Protection Laws in the Processing of Company Personal Data; and
2.2.2 not Process Company Personal Data other than on the relevant Company's documented instructions.
2.3 The Company instructs Processor to process Company Personal Data.
3. Processor Personnel
Processor shall take reasonable steps to ensure the reliability of any employee, agent or contractor of any Contracted Processor who may have access to the Company Personal Data, ensuring in each case that access is strictly limited to those individuals who need to know / access the relevant Company Personal Data, as strictly necessary for the purposes of the Principal Agreement, and to comply with Applicable Laws in the context of that individual's duties to the Contracted Processor, ensuring that all such individuals are subject to confidentiality undertakings or professional or statutory obligations of confidentiality.
4.1 Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of Processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, Processor shall in relation to the Company Personal Data implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to that risk, including, as appropriate, the measures referred to in Article 32(1) of the GDPR.
4.2 In assessing the appropriate level of security, Processor shall take account in particular of the risks that are presented by Processing, in particular from a Personal Data Breach.
5. Subprocessing
5.1 Processor shall not appoint (or disclose any Company Personal Data to) any Subprocessor unless required or authorized by the Company.
Sub-processor Obligations. Where Retention Science authorises any sub-processor as described in
Section 5.1:
(i) Retention Science will restrict the sub-processor's access to Customer Data only to what is
necessary to maintain the Services or to provide the Services to Customer and
any End Users in accordance with the Documentation and Retention Science will prohibit the
sub-processor from accessing Customer Data for any other purpose;
(ii) Retention Science will enter into a written agreement with the sub-processor and, to the
extent that the sub-processor is performing the same data processing services
that are being provided by Retention Science under this DPA, Retention Science will impose on the subprocessor the same contractual obligations that Retention Science has under this DPA; and
(iii) Retention Science will remain responsible for its compliance with the obligations of this DPA
and for any acts or omissions of the sub-processors that cause Retention Science to breach any
of Retention Science's obligations under this DPA.
6. Data Subject Rights
6.1 Taking into account the nature of the Processing, Processor shall assist the Company by implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures, insofar as this is possible, for the fulfillment of the Company obligations, as reasonably understood by Company, to respond to requests to exercise Data Subject rights under the Data Protection Laws.
6.2.1 promptly notify Company if it receives a request from a Data Subject under any Data Protection Law in respect of Company Personal Data; and
6.2.2 ensure that it does not respond to that request except on the documented instructions of Company or as required by Applicable Laws to which the Processor is subject, in which case Processor shall to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws inform Company of that legal requirement before the Contracted Processor responds to the request.
7. Personal Data Breach
7.1 Processor shall notify Company without undue delay, and, where feasible, no later than 72 hours upon Processor becoming aware of a Personal Data Breach affecting Company Personal Data, providing Company with sufficient information to allow the Company to meet any obligations to report or inform Data Subjects of the Personal Data Breach under the Data Protection Laws.
7.2 Processor shall co-operate with the Company and take reasonable commercial steps as are directed by Company to assist in the investigation, mitigation and remediation of each such Personal Data Breach.
8. Data Protection Impact Assessment and Prior Consultation Processor shall provide reasonable assistance to the Company with any data protection impact assessments, and prior consultations with Supervising Authorities or other competent data privacy authorities, which Company reasonably considers to be required by article 35 or 36 of the GDPR or equivalent provisions of any other Data Protection Law, in each case solely in relation to Processing of Company Personal Data by, and taking into account the nature of the Processing and information available to, the Contracted Processors.
9. Deletion or return of Company Personal Data
9.1 Subject to this section 9 Processor shall promptly and in any event within 10 business days of the date of cessation of any Services involving the Processing of Company Personal Data (the "Cessation Date"), delete and procure the deletion of all copies of those Company Personal Data.
10. Audit rights
10.1 Subject to this section 10, Processor shall make available to the Company on request all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with this Agreement, and shall allow for and contribute to audits, including inspections, by the Company or an auditor mandated by the Company in relation to the Processing of the Company Personal Data by the Contracted Processors.
10.2 Information and audit rights of the Company only arise under section 10.1 to the extent that the Agreement does not otherwise give them information and audit rights meeting the relevant requirements of Data Protection Law.
11. Data Transfer
11.1 The Processor may not transfer or authorize the transfer of Data to countries outside the EU and/or the European Economic Area (EEA) without the prior written consent of the Company. If personal data processed under this Agreement is transferred from a country within the European Economic Area to a country outside the European Economic Area, the Parties shall ensure that the personal data are adequately protected. To achieve this, the Parties shall, unless agreed otherwise, rely on EU approved standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data.
12. General Terms
12.1 Confidentiality. Each Party must keep this Agreement and information it receives about the other Party and its business in connection with this Agreement ("Confidential Information") confidential and must not use or disclose that Confidential Information without the prior written consent of the other Party except to the extent that:
(a) disclosure is required by law;
(b) the relevant information is already in the public domain.
12.2 Notices. All notices and communications given under this Agreement must be in writing and will be delivered personally, sent by post or sent by email to the address or email address set out in the heading of this Agreement at such other address as notified from time to time by the Parties changing address.
13. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
13.1 This Agreement is governed by the laws of The United States of America.
13.2 Any dispute arising in connection with this Agreement, which the Parties will not be able to resolve amicably, will be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, subject to possible appeal to the EU.
[1] Parties may reproduce definitions and meanings contained in Directive 95/46/EC within this Clause if they considered it better for the contract to stand alone.
[2] Mandatory requirements of the national legislation applicable to the data importer which do not go beyond what is necessary in a democratic society on the basis of one of the interests listed in Article 13(1) of Directive 95/46/EC, that is, if they constitute a necessary measure to safeguard national security, defense, public security, the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offenses or of breaches of ethics for the regulated professions, an important economic or financial interest of the State or the protection of the data subject or the rights and freedoms of others, are not in contradiction with the standard contractual clauses. Some examples of such mandatory requirements which do not go beyond what is necessary in a democratic society are, inter alia, internationally recognized sanctions, tax-reporting requirements or anti-money-laundering reporting requirements.
[3] This requirement may be satisfied by the sub-processor co-signing the contract entered into between the data exporter and the data importer under this Decision.
Standard Contractual Clauses (processors)
For the purposes of Article 26(2) of Directive 95/46/EC for the transfer of personal data to processors
established in third countries which do not ensure an adequate level of data protection
The entity identified as "Customer" in the DPA
(the "data exporter")
Retention Science
2601 Ocean Park Blvd #104, Santa Monica, CA 90405.
(the "data importer")
each a "party"; together "the parties",
HAVE AGREED on the following Contractual Clauses (the Clauses) in order to adduce adequate
safeguards with respect to the protection of privacy and fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals
for the transfer by the data exporter to the data importer of the personal data specified in Appendix 1.
Retention Science GDPR Data Processing Addendum 10
For the purposes of the Clauses:
(a) 'personal data', 'special categories of data', 'process/processing', 'controller', 'processor', 'data
subject' and 'supervisory authority' shall have the same meaning as in Directive 95/46/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with
regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data;
(b) 'the data exporter' means the controller who transfers the personal data;
(c) 'the data importer' means the processor who agrees to receive from the data exporter personal
data intended for processing on his behalf after the transfer in accordance with his instructions and
the terms of the Clauses and who is not subject to a third country's system ensuring adequate
protection within the meaning of Article 25(1) of Directive 95/46/EC;
(d) 'the subprocessor' means any processor engaged by the data importer or by any other
subprocessor of the data importer who agrees to receive from the data importer or from any
other subprocessor of the data importer personal data exclusively intended for processing
activities to be carried out on behalf of the data exporter after the transfer in accordance with his
instructions, the terms of the Clauses and the terms of the written subcontract;
(e) 'the applicable data protection law' means the legislation protecting the fundamental rights and
freedoms of individuals and, in particular, their right to privacy with respect to the processing of
personal data applicable to a data controller in the Member State in which the data exporter is
established;
(f) 'technical and organisational security measures' means those measures aimed at protecting
personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised
disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a
network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing.
Details of the transfer
The details of the transfer and in particular the special categories of personal data where applicable are
specified in Appendix 1 which forms an integral part of the Clauses.
Third-party beneficiary clause
1. The data subject can enforce against the data exporter this Clause, Clause 4(b) to (i), Clause 5(a)
to (e), and (g) to (j), Clause 6(1) and (2), Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 12 as third-party
beneficiary.
2. The data subject can enforce against the data importer this Clause, Clause 5(a) to (e) and (g),
Clause 6, Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 12, in cases where the data exporter has factually
disappeared or has ceased to exist in law unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal
obligations of the data exporter by contract or by operation of law, as a result of which it takes on
the rights and obligations of the data exporter, in which case the data subject can enforce them
against such entity.
3. The data subject can enforce against the subprocessor this Clause, Clause 5(a) to (e) and (g),
Clause 6, Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 12, in cases where both the data exporter and the
data importer have factually disappeared or ceased to exist in law or have become insolvent, unless
any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract or by
operation of law as a result of which it takes on the rights and obligations of the data exporter, in
which case the data subject can enforce them against such entity. Such third-party liability of the
subprocessor shall be limited to its own processing operations under the Clauses.
4. The parties do not object to a data subject being represented by an association or other body if
the data subject so expressly wishes and if permitted by national law.
Obligations of the data exporter
The data exporter agrees and warrants:
(a) that the processing, including the transfer itself, of the personal data has been and will continue
to be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the applicable data protection law
(and, where applicable, has been notified to the relevant authorities of the Member State where
the data exporter is established) and does not violate the relevant provisions of that State;
(b) that it has instructed and throughout the duration of the personal data processing services will
instruct the data importer to process the personal data transferred only on the data exporter's
behalf and in accordance with the applicable data protection law and the Clauses;
(c) that the data importer will provide sufficient guarantees in respect of the technical and
organisational security measures specified in Appendix 2 to this contract;
(d) that after assessment of the requirements of the applicable data protection law, the security
measures are appropriate to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or
accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, in particular where the processing
involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing,
and that these measures ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks presented by the
processing and the nature of the data to be protected having regard to the state of the art and
the cost of their implementation;
(e) that it will ensure compliance with the security measures;
(f) that, if the transfer involves special categories of data, the data subject has been informed or will be
informed before, or as soon as possible after, the transfer that its data could be transmitted to a
third country not providing adequate protection within the meaning of Directive 95/46/EC;
(g) to forward any notification received from the data importer or any subprocessor pursuant to
Clause 5(b) and Clause 8(3) to the data protection supervisory authority if the data exporter
decides to continue the transfer or to lift the suspension;
(h) to make available to the data subjects upon request a copy of the Clauses, with the exception of
Appendix 2, and a summary description of the security measures, as well as a copy of any contract
for subprocessing services which has to be made in accordance with the Clauses, unless the
Clauses or the contract contain commercial information, in which case it may remove such
commercial information;
(i) that, in the event of subprocessing, the processing activity is carried out in accordance with Clause
11 by a subprocessor providing at least the same level of protection for the personal data and the
rights of data subject as the data importer under the Clauses; and
(j) that it will ensure compliance with Clause 4(a) to (i).
Obligations of the data importer
1 The data importer agrees and warrants:
(a) to process the personal data only on behalf of the data exporter and in compliance with its
instructions and the Clauses; if it cannot provide such compliance for whatever reasons, it agrees
to inform promptly the data exporter of its inability to comply, in which case the data exporter is
entitled to suspend the transfer of data and/or terminate the contract;
(b) that it has no reason to believe that the legislation applicable to it prevents it from fulfilling the
instructions received from the data exporter and its obligations under the contract and that in the
event of a change in this legislation which is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the
warranties and obligations provided by the Clauses, it will promptly notify the change to the data
exporter as soon as it is aware, in which case the data exporter is entitled to suspend the transfer
of data and/or terminate the contract;
(c) that it has implemented the technical and organisational security measures specified in Appendix
2 before processing the personal data transferred;
(d) that it will promptly notify the data exporter about:
(i) any legally binding request for disclosure of the personal data by a law enforcement
authority unless otherwise prohibited, such as a prohibition under criminal law to
preserve the confidentiality of a law enforcement investigation,
(ii) any accidental or unauthorised access, and
(iii) any request received directly from the data subjects without responding to that request,
unless it has been otherwise authorised to do so;
(e) to deal promptly and properly with all inquiries from the data exporter relating to its processing
of the personal data subject to the transfer and to abide by the advice of the supervisory authority
with regard to the processing of the data transferred;
1 Mandatory requirements of the national legislation applicable to the data importer which do not go beyond
what is necessary in a democratic society on the basis of one of the interests listed in Article 13(1) of Directive
95/46/EC, that is, if they constitute a necessary measure to safeguard national security, defence, public security, the
prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences or of breaches of ethics for the regulated
professions, an important economic or financial interest of the State or the protection of the data subject or the rights
and freedoms of others, are not in contradiction with the standard contractual clauses. Some examples of such
mandatory requirements which do not go beyond what is necessary in a democratic society are, inter alia,
internationally recognised sanctions, tax-reporting requirements or anti-money-laundering reporting requirements.
(f) at the request of the data exporter to submit its data processing facilities for audit of the processing
activities covered by the Clauses which shall be carried out by the data exporter or an inspection
body composed of independent members and in possession of the required professional
qualifications bound by a duty of confidentiality, selected by the data exporter, where applicable,
in agreement with the supervisory authority;
(g) to make available to the data subject upon request a copy of the Clauses, or any existing contract
for subprocessing, unless the Clauses or contract contain commercial information, in which case it
may remove such commercial information, with the exception of Appendix 2 which shall be
replaced by a summary description of the security measures in those cases where the data subject
is unable to obtain a copy from the data exporter;
(h) that, in the event of subprocessing, it has previously informed the data exporter and obtained its
prior written consent;
(i) that the processing services by the subprocessor will be carried out in accordance with Clause 11;
(j) to send promptly a copy of any subprocessor agreement it concludes under the Clauses to the data
exporter.
1. The parties agree that any data subject, who has suffered damage as a result of any breach of the
obligations referred to in Clause 3 or in Clause 11 by any party or subprocessor is entitled to receive
compensation from the data exporter for the damage suffered.
2. If a data subject is not able to bring a claim for compensation in accordance with paragraph 1 against
the data exporter, arising out of a breach by the data importer or his subprocessor of any of their
obligations referred to in Clause 3 or in Clause 11, because the data exporter has factually
disappeared or ceased to exist in law or has become insolvent, the data importer agrees that the
data subject may issue a claim against the data importer as if it were the data exporter, unless any
successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract of by
operation of law, in which case the data subject can enforce its rights against such entity. The data
importer may not rely on a breach by a subprocessor of its obligations in order to avoid its own
3. If a data subject is not able to bring a claim against the data exporter or the data importer referred
to in paragraphs 1 and 2, arising out of a breach by the subprocessor of any of their obligations
referred to in Clause 3 or in Clause 11 because both the data exporter and the data importer have
factually disappeared or ceased to exist in law or have become insolvent, the subprocessor agrees
that the data subject may issue a claim against the data subprocessor with regard to its own
processing operations under the Clauses as if it were the data exporter or the data importer,
unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter or data
importer by contract or by operation of law, in which case the data subject can enforce its rights
against such entity. The liability of the subprocessor shall be limited to its own processing
operations under the Clauses.
Mediation and jurisdiction
1. The data importer agrees that if the data subject invokes against it third-party beneficiary rights
and/or claims compensation for damages under the Clauses, the data importer will accept the
decision of the data subject:
(a) to refer the dispute to mediation, by an independent person or, where applicable, by the
supervisory authority;
(b) to refer the dispute to the courts in the Member State in which the data exporter is
established.
2. The parties agree that the choice made by the data subject will not prejudice its substantive or
procedural rights to seek remedies in accordance with other provisions of national or international
Cooperation with supervisory authorities
1. The data exporter agrees to deposit a copy of this contract with the supervisory authority if it so
requests or if such deposit is required under the applicable data protection law.
2. The parties agree that the supervisory authority has the right to conduct an audit of the data
importer, and of any subprocessor, which has the same scope and is subject to the same conditions
as would apply to an audit of the data exporter under the applicable data protection law.
3. The data importer shall promptly inform the data exporter about the existence of legislation
applicable to it or any subprocessor preventing the conduct of an audit of the data importer, or
any subprocessor, pursuant to paragraph 2. In such a case the data exporter shall be entitled to
take the measures foreseen in Clause 5 (b).
The Clauses shall be governed by the law of the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
Variation of the contract
The parties undertake not to vary or modify the Clauses. This does not preclude the parties from adding
clauses on business related issues where required as long as they do not contradict the Clause.
Subprocessing
1. The data importer shall not subcontract any of its processing operations performed on behalf of
the data exporter under the Clauses without the prior written consent of the data exporter.
Where the data importer subcontracts its obligations under the Clauses, with the consent of the
data exporter, it shall do so only by way of a written agreement with the subprocessor which
imposes the same obligations on the subprocessor as are imposed on the data importer under
the Clauses. Where the subprocessor fails to fulfill its data protection obligations under such
written agreement the data importer shall remain fully liable to the data exporter for the
performance of the subprocessor's obligations under such agreement.
2. The prior written contract between the data importer and the subprocessor shall also provide for
a third-party beneficiary clause as laid down in Clause 3 for cases where the data subject is not
able to bring the claim for compensation referred to in paragraph 1 of Clause 6 against the data
exporter or the data importer because they have factually disappeared or have ceased to exist in
law or have become insolvent and no successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of
the data exporter or data importer by contract or by operation of law. Such third-party liability of
the subprocessor shall be limited to its own processing operations under the Clauses.
3. The provisions relating to data protection aspects for subprocessing of the contract referred to in
paragraph 1 shall be governed by the law of the Member State in which the data exporter is
4. The data exporter shall keep a list of subprocessing agreements concluded under the Clauses and
notified by the data importer pursuant to Clause 5 (j), which shall be updated at least once a year.
The list shall be available to the data exporter's data protection supervisory authority.
Obligation after the termination of personal data processing services
1. The parties agree that on the termination of the provision of data processing services, the data
importer and the subprocessor shall, at the choice of the data exporter, return all the personal
data transferred and the copies thereof to the data exporter or shall destroy all the personal data
and certify to the data exporter that it has done so, unless legislation imposed upon the data
importer prevents it from returning or destroying all or part of the personal data transferred. In
that case, the data importer warrants that it will guarantee the confidentiality of the personal data
transferred and will not actively process the personal data transferred anymore.
2. The data importer and the subprocessor warrant that upon request of the data exporter and/or
of the supervisory authority, it will submit its data processing facilities for an audit of the measures
referred to in paragraph 1.
APPENDIX 1 TO THE STANDARD CONTRACTUAL CLAUSES
The data exporter is the entity identified as "Customer" in the DPA
Data importer
The data importer is Amazon Web Services, Inc., a provider of web services.
Data subjects are defined in Section 2.1.6 of the DPA.
The personal data is defined in Section 1.1.2 of the DPA.
Processing operations
The personal data transferred will be subject to the following basic processing activities (please specify):
The processing operations are defined in 5.1 of the DPA.
This Appendix forms part of the Clauses and must be completed by the parties.
Description of the technical and organisational security measures implemented by the data importer in
accordance with Clauses 4(d) and 5(c) (or document/legislation attached):
The technical and organisational security measures implemented by the data importer are as described
in the DPA.
Annex D – Jurisdiction-Specific Terms
Objection to Sub-processors. Customer may object in writing to Retention Science's appointment of a new Sub-processor within five (5) calendar days of receiving notice in accordance with Section 3.1 of DPA, provided that such objection is based on reasonable grounds relating to data protection. In such event, the parties shall discuss such concerns in good faith with a view to achieving a commercially reasonable resolution. If no such resolution can be reached, Retention Science will, at its sole discretion, either not appoint such Sub-processor, or permit Customer to suspend or terminate the affected Service in accordance with the termination provisions in the Agreement without liability to either party (but without prejudice to any fees incurred by Customer prior to suspension or termination).
The definitions of: "controller" includes "Business"; "processor" includes "Service Provider"; "data subject" includes "Consumer"; "personal data" includes "Personal Information"; in each case as defined under CCPA.
For this "California" section of Annex D only, "Retention Science Services" means the suite of marketing tools and insights available for Retention Science Customers to use, including without limitation, email campaign management, advertisements, and SMS and other related digital communications, analytics and tools made available through the Retention Science online marketing platform, as may be further described in the App and/or on the Retention Science Site.
For this "California" section of Annex D only, "Permitted Purposes" shall include processing Customer Data only for the purposes described in this DPA and in accordance with Customer's documented lawful instructions as set forth in this DPA, as necessary to comply with applicable law, as otherwise agreed in writing, or as otherwise may be permitted for "service providers" under the CCPA.
Retention Science's obligations regarding data subject requests, as described in Section 8 (Data Subject Rights and Cooperation) of this DPA, apply to Consumer's rights under the CCPA.
Notwithstanding any use restriction contained elsewhere in this DPA, Retention Science shall process Customer Data only to perform the Retention Science Services, for the Permitted Purposes and/or in accordance with Customer's documented lawful instructions, except where otherwise required by applicable law.
Retention Science may de-identify or aggregate Customer Data as part of performing the Service specified in this DPA and the Agreement.
Where Sub-processors process the personal data of Customer contacts, Retention Science takes steps to ensure that such Sub-processors are Service Providers under the CCPA with whom Retention Science has entered into a written contract that includes terms substantially similar to this DPA or are otherwise exempt from the CCPA's definition of "sale". Retention Science conducts appropriate due diligence on its Sub-processors.
Retention Science takes steps to ensure that Retention Science's Sub-processors, as described in Section 3 (Sub-processing) of the DPA, are third parties under PIPEDA, with whom Retention Science has entered into a written contract that includes terms substantially similar to this DPA. Retention Science conducts appropriate due diligence on its Sub-processors.
Retention Science will implement technical and organizational measures as set forth in Section 4 (Security) of the DPA.
Note: If you would like a version of this DPA that is executable, please submit a request via email to help@retentionscience.com


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Born: Sep 15, 1983, Chalakudy, Kerala, India
A popular actor in the Malayalam film industry, Shine Tom Chacko started his career in the film industry as an assistant director to Kamal for about nine years. He made his debut on the silver screen as an actor with Gaddama (2011) where he played a supporting role. He subsequently played smaller roles in Salt N` Pepper (2011), Chapters (2012), and Ee Adutha Kaalathu (2012), before eventually making his debut in a lead role with Ithihasa (2014). His other notable film credits include Dum (2016), and Mannamkattayum Kariyilayum (2017), a Malayalam language family drama-thriller directed by Arun Sagara, Kayamkulam Kochunni (2018), Ishq (2019), Unda (2019), Mask (2019) and My Santa (2019).
My Santa
Ishq (Malayalam)
Oru Kaatil Oru Paykappal
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Born: Jun 01, 1955
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text:
from setuptools import setup

long_description = open("README.rst", "r").read()

setup(name='DateJS',
      description='Python Library that converts Javascript Date objects to Python Datetime objects',
      version='0.5',
      long_description=long_description,
      url='https://github.com/rithik/DateJS',
      author='Rithik Yelisetty',
      author_email='rithik@gmail.com',
      license='MIT',
      classifiers=[
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
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Google has released an Android version of its latest Android smartphone, the Google Glass, and the Glasses camera app for the camera is available for download.
The app lets you take photos and videos, as well as play videos and audio from your phone and tablet.
It's an important feature because Glass will need to be worn in order to make a video call, and you can't record your conversation with the phone.
Google says that Glass will also make voice calls through your speakerphone.
You'll need to set up a Google Voice account with Google and set the time and duration of the call.
Glass will ask for permission to record your call when you set it up.
Glass is expected to launch on April 24.
Glass, which is currently available only for developers, will likely become an official Google product for a limited time.
It comes with a $99 Google Glass camera.
Google is trying to make Glass a viable product for serious users, though.
The company said last week that it's also working with the Federal Trade Commission to prevent consumers from buying a $1,200 device with Glass.
Google Glass has a built-in microphone, so you can make calls using your voice.
The device will also have built-ins for audio and video recording.
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Sri Lanka is attempting to eliminate diseases like malaria, as well as preventing new pathogens from entering the country, now that travel is on the rise. The border health strategy aims at adopting an evidence informed and migrant sensitive approach to safeguard the country from the spread of disease and to ensure the health of travellers.
The border health information system designed and developed by IOM and the Ministry of Health will enable health data to be captured via mobile tablet computers at points of entry using an open-source software platform, allowing for real-time disease surveillance and data mapping.
The accompanying standard operating procedures manual provides information for border health officials on public health measures for prevention, early warning and response to various public health events. This includes of an international spread of disease and threat of biological, radiological or chemical agents.
The manual not only encapsulates measures from international health regulations, but also encompasses migration health-related procedures, such as those dealing with migrant worker abuse and malaria screening of irregular migrants.
The third component of the project focuses on revising the existing domestic legislation on quarantine health to give border health officials regulatory powers and functions.
Together, the new products form part of a national border health project funded by the Canadian government and implemented by IOM and the Sri Lankan government's Directorate of Quarantine.
"This project will help address health challenges relating to increased cross-border travel and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases within a comprehensive border health strategy," commented IOM Chief of Mission Giuseppe Crocetti.
"With the rapid increase of international travel comes the emergence and re-emergence of new diseases. I have given high priority to the Migration Health Program having launched the Migration Health Policy for our country in 2013. The fact that we now have a dedicated National Border Health strategy shows our commitment for protection of migrants and the public health of our country at large. These SOPs are like a 'compass' that health officials can hold to guide them in their daily work," noted Sri Lankan Health Minister Maithreepala Sirisena.
The project also fulfils a key objective of the Sri Lankan Government's National Policy on Migration Health, which IOM Sri Lanka has supported for the past four years.


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"Painting with light." "A master of naturalistic black-and-white photography." That's how director Daniel Mann described the work of cinematographer James Wong Howe (1899-1976), who was born today in 1899. Over a 53-year career, he photographed some of Hollywood's top stars to brilliant effect. Nominated for nine Academy Awards®, he won two for his lustrously moody black-and-white work on The Rose Tattoo (1955) (directed by Mann) and Hud (1963). But his work in color in equally impressive, and Twilight Time's three Blu-rays showcasing Howe's thoughtful approach and unique skill are true widescreen beauties. Consider how the sweltering heat and the sweaty unresolved passions of the characters are conveyed through his lenses on broiling Kansas locations in director Joshua Logan's Picnic (1955, now sold out). Then saddle up for the Arizona landscapes and ideally composed interior character compositions between the conflict-ridden ensemble of Hombre (1967), reteaming Howe with Hud star Paul Newman and director Martin Ritt. Finally, there's his last opus, Funny Lady (1975), a dazzling cavalcade of color, music and show-business glamour swirling around Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice. It's a swan song (for which he was Oscar®-nominated) that's a particularly apt summing-up of decades of shining a rare light of creativity and craftsmanship on the cinema of our screens and in our dreams. Experience the man himself, interviewed a year before his death and offering some secrets about his process, in the half-hour documentary James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, produced by the University Film and Video Foundation and available at https://vimeo.com/15815385.


One of the controllers with software looks very attractive price wise, the Arturia Analog Experience (The Laboratory 49). Comes with a nice looking software package. But I am starting to think I want to learn keys and would like an actual instrument that will also control software. How is the M-Audio Venom; would I be giving up a lot as compared to the Arturia in terms of being able to utilize software? Any other suggestions bearing in mind I would like to keep price down below 600 - 700?
But I am starting to think I want to learn keys and would like an actual instrument that will also control software.
A digital piano is probably going to make you happier, then. Yamaha P-series in the low numbers (P95B is only $550 on Amazon). Both the units you name don't have good keyboard action, the Yam's going to be decent-good.
How is the M-Audio Venom; would I be giving up a lot as compared to the Arturia in terms of being able to utilize software?
Not much. Arturia's keyboard is not self-contained; it won't make any sound by itself, while the Venom will. However, the Venom has fewer controllers. Controllers are not hard to add afterwards, however.
But if you want to learn to play, no amount of controllers is going to help you. Polyphony and good-feeling keys are.
I agree about the electric piano. If you're serious about taking lessons or learning you need 88 weighted keys.
If you can save a bit more money, I'd suggest you get a kurzweil workstation. Good keybeds. The used K series are more than 700, but you'd get a great synth as well (albeit a bit challenging to program).
I think the M-Audio Venom would be a good choice for what you're looking for. You mentioned you want to learn keys...synth or piano? If you want to learn to play piano, then I would definitely look for a weighted, 88-key digital piano. However, if not, then a synth would be ideal.
An electronic piano is great if you only need it for piano sounds. But if you want a more "complete" synth you can draw other sounds from (e.g., strings, brass, basses, drums, etc) and maybe build a full song, you're going to need some sort of workstation.
Newer workstations like the Korg M3 are expensive, but you can probably find an older model within your budget. You need 76 or 88 weighted keys for your piano lessons, so I'd suggest something like a Roland XP80, Yamaha S80. Korg workstations (Trinity, Triton, etc) tend to hold their value a bit better, so they're probably around $1000 - maybe an older model like the Korg N264 would work for you.
I have no plans to take formal lessons - did that for 8 years or so way back when. Don't remember a whole lot.
I do want a synth and not just an electric piano. And from what I am hearing here is that if I want a good keyboard with weighted keys AND good synth features I may have to up the budget some. OR possibly buy a good keyboard and one of the smaller synths as well. I want to create inside software but want to also experiment with things as well as enhance my ability to play keys. I have these tunes going on in my head that need venting.
Used Alesis QS 6.1 or 8.1 - Synth and good Pianos.
It's got a PC to Computer interface..... it's not as easy as USB but it uses the PC serial port which is always available as far as I'm concerned.
Would an electric piano trigger something like this synth? Wouldn't that give the best of both worlds?


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The Mareel auditorium provided the perfect venue for the Karine Polwart Trio last Friday night, for what proved to be a very special night of music.
Karine Polwart, flanked by Steven Polwart and Shetland's own Inge Thomson, entertaining the audience at Mareel on Friday night. Photo: Dave Donaldson
Since her first visit to Shetland back in 2002 with the Scottish folk band, Malinky, Karine has forged her own solo career and is quite rightly now regarded as one of Scotland's finest singer/songwriters. As the audience made their way to their seats there was a sense of anticipation.
First we were treated to a short solo spot from Shetland singer/songwriter, Malachy Tallack.
This may have been Shetland audiences' last chance to see Malachy perform for a while, as he explained he was moving to Glasgow a couple of days after the gig. It is perhaps apt then, with this life change planned, that Malachy chose to start his set with the self-penned song Leaving My Old Self Behind. This upbeat number was a great way to kick off the set and is one of the songs Malachy has worked on with his band line-up, Country & Northern.
The material he has written under this guise has allowed audiences to see a less serious side of Malachy, and this was again evident in his tribute to a certain alcoholic drink in Silver and Yellow Can of Dreams. For the reviewer, who is a fan of the melancholy, my pick of the set was the beautiful A Space recorded on his album From the Thorn. Lyrically, this song seemed in keeping with what was yet to come from the main act of the evening.
Following Malachy's short set, Karine took straight to the stage, accompanied by her brother, Steven Polwart (on guitars and vocals), and Shetland's own Inge Thomson (on accordion, vocals and various percussive instruments). What was clear from the outset is the tightness of this talented trio. There are no egos at play, with the three individuals focused only on the delivery of the songs. It is so easy to over-play, but every note and beat, sung or played, had been carefully planned, with appropriate space left to form the atmospheric backdrop to Karine's perfectly crafted lyrics.
Over the course of the night we were treated to a selection of songs from Karine's back catalogue, with more significant focus on material from her most recent album Traces. Karine's voice has the ability to sound fragile and strong at the same time and shares equal billing with her songwriting skills. Her songs have their roots in traditional Scottish folk music, with a strong sense of time and place embedded in every line. Early on this was demonstrated in her tribute to her former neighbour, Molly Kirstensen, Salter's Road.
Politically aware, Karine's songs often champion the views of herself or others. With clever imagery in Cover Your Eyes she pays tribute to the homeowners who have resisted attempts to be moved from their homes on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire where Donald Trump chose to put a golf course. She also took the chance in her introduction to poke some fun at Mr Thump's hairdo!
The highlight of the first half for me had to be Waterlily. Based on the book Cold Night Lullaby by Colin MacKay, the song tells the desperately sad story of his lover, Svetlana, and her two children being killed during the war in Bosnia. I know this incredibly powerful song brought many of the audience to tears and I have been left with the chorus running around my head for the days following the concert.
Many of Karine's song do have serious themes, so it was great see her kick off the second half of the set with the light-hearted John C Clark (The Gasman Song), a tongue-in-cheek song about a love affair with, you've guessed it, a Gasman. There were a few chuckles as she performed this one on her own, before Steven and Inge re-joined her.
The youngest member of the audience on the night was an infant, complete with incredibly cute ear protectors. Having spotted this early on in the show, Karine chose to dedicate the song Rivers Run, written after the birth of her own son, to the baby. This is a lovely song, which manages not to fall into the trap of being overly sentimental.
Inge was then given the spotlight. She explained that she was going to do a song about boats. Usually at this point in the show she would talk at some length about this, but given it was Shetland she didn't see the need. Inge's voice is soft, with an almost childlike quality to it. This perfectly complements Karine's voice, but was equally endearing on this song, on which she used vocal looping and a range of the instruments at her disposal to create a musical seascape for her solo voyage.
Polwart delivered a "night not to be missed", playing songs from last year's Traces album and dipping into her back catalogue. Photo: Dave Donaldson
A few more songs from the trio, including some poetic, historical licence on Sorrowlessfield, and all too soon Karine was introducing the final number. While Steven and Inge set the scene musically, Karine explained the story behind King Of Birds, another of the tracks on her latest release. As we all pictured the wren taking his place as the King of Birds, the trio's voices soared to a stunning conclusion which left the audience calling out for more.
We were obliged with one further song, Follow The Heron, a song Karine explained had been written on her first trip to Shetland. This was dedicated to Inge's cousin, the late Lise Sinclair, who I know would have loved this show, and brought proceedings to a fitting end. Karine at times seems almost apologetic on stage for taking up the listener's time, but this was a night not to be missed and the audience left with her beautiful songs ringing in their ears.
Sheila Duncan
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(Photo: Courtesy of Shanna Lewis)Colorado is among a handful of states with more jobs now than it had before the recession, but rising wealth has not been equally distributed.
Wealth shifted to higher-income households in all but two of the state's metro areas, according to a study commissioned by the US Conference of Mayors.
Denver, Grand Junction, Fort Collins, Greeley, and Colorado Springs all saw wealth shift more to the top end between 2005 and 2012. Only Pueblo and Boulder saw growth in wages to lower income households.
The greatest shift in wealth to high-income households was in the Greeley area, where oil drilling has boomed in recent years. Average household incomes there rose 22 percent from 2005 to 2012 to $70,556 a year.
Boulder has the state's largest share of high earners in the state, and ranks near the top nationwide, with nearly half of households earning more than $75,000 a year. The region has a significant concentration of tech jobs, helping families there collect the highest wages in the state, with an average household income of more than $90,000 a year.
On the other end of the spectrum is Pueblo. The region is still reeling from the steel industry's exodus in the 1980s, and has the state's greatest proportion of lower-income families. More than 40 percent of households earn less than $35,000 a year. Average wages in the Pueblo area have grown at the slowest pace of any of the state's metro areas, less than 10 percent over seven years.


The Renland ice cap is situated in Eastern Greenland on a high elevation plateau on the Renland peninsula in the Scoresbysund fjord (figure 1).
Climatic conditions on the Renland ice cap are strongly influenced by the varying Arctic sea ice export along Greenland's east coast. An ice core from the Renland ice cap is thus perfectly suited for obtaining information on Eastern Greenland climatic conditions including the export of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean for the past 100,000 years. We therefore propose the REnland ice CAP project (RECAP).
The RECAP ice core drilled to bedrock will be the backbone of a coordinated science program between Denmark, Germany and the U.S. The shallowness of the Renland ice cap furthermore assures that it does not have a brittle ice zone in the Holocene ice like the Greenland ice sheet. The RECAP ice core can therefore yield the first continuous Holocene profiles of gasses and chemical impurities extracted from Greenland.
Figure 1: Left, map of Greenland, showing the location of the Renland Ice Cap (Danish Cadastre). Right, satellite image of the Renland peninsula, which is almost entirely covered by the Renland ice cap. The dome on the eastern plateau of the Renland ice cap is marked with a purple square.
The Renland ice cap is constrained by the surrounding topography and its eastern plateau reaches an elevation of 2340m at its summit, where the thickness of the ice cap is almost 400m and the accumulation rate approximately 0.5m of ice equivalent precipitation per year . Brittle ice, that is very detrimental to ice core quality, forms at depths below 600m, hence in contrast to the main Greenland ice sheet, the Renland ice cap contains no brittle ice zone. An ice core from Renland will therefore also yield the first continuous Holocene profiles of gasses and chemical impurities from Greenland.
Figure 2: The Hans Tausen intermediate drill system in operation during the 2006 Flade Isblink ice core project.
1) How did the East Greenland and thus Arctic sea-ice conditions evolve during the Holocene and the Glacial and how did conditions and variability compare to the present downturn in sea ice?
2) How did the atmospheric composition, including pole-to-pole gradients in trace gas contents, change during the entire Holocene?
3) What is the East Greenland signature of the abrupt climate shifts seen during the last Glacial?
4) Has the Renland ice cap always had the same shape and size, so the climate record from a Renland ice core can be assumed to stem from snow deposition on a site with unchanged elevation, yielding a Greenland climate record at fixed elevation?
These science questions are directly influencing how the scientific community will interpret the present decline in Arctic sea-ice; our future understanding of the dynamics of the climate system; our interpretation of Human and natural influences on the Earths atmospheric composition; and our future interpretation of the ice cores from the main Greenland ice sheet. To address these, as well as numerous other science questions, we propose to drill the RECAP core through the Renland ice cap down to bedrock. The core will be drilled with the modern well-proven Copenhagen intermediate drill system, capable of drilling high quality 4 inch diameter cores in liquid-filled boreholes (figure 2).
 Johnsen et al. 1992, A"deep" ice core from Eastern Greenland, Medd. Grøn., Geoscience, 29, 1992.


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Studiò al ginnasio di Amburgo e poi all'Università di Leida, dove fece conoscenza con alcuni dei principali studiosi della sua epoca, tra cui Giovanni Meursio, Daniele Einsio e Filippo Cluverio, che accompagnò nel 1618 in Italia, occasione in cui fu iniziato agli studi di geografia. Al suo ritorno ad Amburgo non ottenne un posto al ginnasio: deluso, lasciò la Germania, e, a partire dal 1622, visse due anni in Inghilterra (a Londra e Oxford), dove raccolse materiale per i suoi Geographi Minores; infine si recò a Parigi.

Nella capitale francese divenne bibliotecario di Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, presidente del Parlamento, amico degli studiosi Pierre e Jacques Dupuy, e corrispondente di Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Fu in questo periodo che si convertì al cattolicesimo, probabilmente a seguito della lettura in greco e in latino dei Padri della Chiesa, lettura a cui lo aveva spinto la sua passione per il platonismo.

Nel 1627 si recò a Roma e, attraverso la raccomandazione di Peiresc, fu ammesso alla corte del cardinale Francesco Barberini, già nunzio apostolico e possessore della più importante biblioteca privata di Roma, di cui Olstenio divenne bibliotecario nel 1636. Papa Innocenzo X lo nominò sovrintendente alla Biblioteca Vaticana. Fu sempre Innocenzo che inviò Olstenio in diverse missioni, come quella di portare il cappello da cardinale al nunzio a Varsavia nel 1629. Papa Alessandro VII lo mandò ad Innsbruck per ricevere l'abiura dal protestantesimo dell'ex-regina Cristina di Svezia, mentre nel caso della conversione di un nobile danese, il langravio di Darmstadt e di Ranzau, Olstenio agì da intermediario.

Malgrado i suoi incarichi ufficiali, Olstenio fu soprattutto uno studioso alacre e dalla cultura vastissima, ma non abbastanza costante per portare a termine i propri ambiziosi progetti, tra cui quello di correggere e completare i lavori di Cluverio, di collazionare, tradurre e commentare i lavori dei neoplatonici, di raccogliere le omelie inedite dei padri della Chiesa greci, di collezionare iscrizioni, di scrivere un critico del testo greco della Bibbia, di raccogliere tutti i monumenti e gli atti della storia dei papi. Tutte queste differenti imprese consumarono le sue energie e riempirono i suoi quaderni di appunti, ma senza conclusioni.

Opere
Tra le opere di Olstenio effettivamente pubblicate sono le sue note sull'Italia antiqua di Filippo Cluverio (1624); un'edizione dei frammenti di Porfirio con una dissertazione sulla sua vita e le sue opere (1630); alcune note su Eusebio contro Ierocle (1628), sui Detti di pitagorici tardi (1638), e sul De diis et mundo del neoplatonico Saturnino Secondo Salustio (1638); un'edizione del Trattato sulla caccia di Arriano (1644) e del Codex regularum monasticarum, una raccolta di regole monastiche (1661). Riscoprì e pubblicò per la prima volta il Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum, una raccolta di atti pontifici redatti nella Cancelleria della Curia romana dal V all'XI secolo, ma la sua pubblicazione fu immediatamente bloccata da papa Alessandro VII (1660).

Dopo la sua morte, tra le sue carte furono trovate e pubblicate le collezioni di sinodi e monumenti ecclesiastici, la Collectio romana bipartita (1662), oltre agli Atti di Perpetua e Felicita, di Bonifacio, di Taraco, Probo e Andronico (1663) e le Notae et castigationes in Stephani Byzantini ethnica (1684).

Pubblicazioni (selezione)
  Luca Olstenio, Endecasyllabi in nuptias Taddæi Barberini & Annæ Columnæ, Roma, 1627, 1629

Bibliografia
 Luc Holstenius, dans Louis Ellies Dupin, Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques, chez Pierre Humbert, Amsterdam, 1711, tome XVIII, pp. 1-2 (online)
 Luc Holstenius, dans Jean-Pierre Niceron, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des hommes illustres dans la république des lettres avec un catalogue raisonné, chez Briasson, Paris, 1735, tome 31 pp. 236-247 (online)
 , vol. 7, 1887, pp. 62-128, vol. 8, 1888, pp. 323-402, vol. 8, 1888, pp. 521-608.

 Nicolaus Wilckens, Leben des gelehrten Lucae Holstenii (Hamburg, 1723)
 Johann Möller, Cimbria literata, iii. (1744).

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Biblioteca Vaticana
Studenti dell'Università di Leida
Accademici Umoristi

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Die Olivmangabe (Cercocebus agilis) ist eine Primatenart aus der Familie der Meerkatzenverwandten (Cercopithecidae).

Merkmale
Olivmangaben erreichen eine Kopf-Rumpf-Länge von rund 45 bis 65 Zentimeter, wozu noch ein ungefähr gleich langer Schwanz kommt, sie wiegen 5 bis 13 Kilogramm, wobei die Männchen deutlich größer als die Weibchen werden. Ihr Fell ist an der Oberseite graugrün oder olivgrün gefärbt, der Bauch ist heller, oft weißlich.

Verbreitung und Lebensraum

Olivmangaben leben im mittleren Afrika. Ihr Verbreitungsgebiet reicht von Kamerun und Äquatorialguinea über den Norden von Gabun und der Republik Kongo bis in die nördliche Demokratische Republik Kongo. Hier bildet der Kongo-Fluss die Südgrenze ihres Habitats, südlich davon lebt die verwandte Goldbauchmangabe. Ihr Lebensraum sind Wälder in der Nähe von Flüssen oder Seen, die zumindest zeitweise überflutet sind.

Vermutlich stellt die Zerstörung des Lebensraums eine Gefährdung für die Art dar. Die IUCN listet die Art jedoch als "nicht gefährdet" (least concern).

Lebensweise
Sie sind wie alle Altweltaffen tagaktiv und halten sich zeitweise am Boden auf, die Männchen mehr als die Weibchen. Sie leben in Gruppen von etwa 8 bis 18 Tieren zusammen, die sich aus einem oder mehreren Männchen, etlichen Weibchen sowie den dazugehörigen Nachwuchs zusammensetzen.

Die Männchen führen und beschützen die Gruppe. Sie stoßen laute Schreie aus, die sowohl die Gruppe zusammenhalten als auch andere Gruppe auf die eigene Anwesenheit aufmerksam machen.

Olivmangaben sind Allesfresser, die jedoch vorzugsweise Früchte zu sich nehmen. Daneben verzehren sie auch Samen, Nüsse, Knospen und Pilze, aber auch Vogeleier sowie Insekten und andere Kleintiere.

Systematik
Früher galt die Olivmangabe als Unterart der Haubenmangabe (als Cercocebus galeritus agilis), erst seit den 1970er-Jahren wird sie als eigenständig betrachtet. Die Goldbauchmangabe wiederum galt als Unterart der Olivmangabe und wird seit 2001 als eigene Art geführt.

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Thomas Geissmann: Vergleichende Primatologie. Springer-Verlag, Berlin u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-540-43645-6.
 Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder (Hrsg.): Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

Weblinks
 Informationen bei Mangabey Species Survival Plan (englisch)

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New report proposes income policy to reduce working-age poverty in Canada
A report released today by Maytree and Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) recommends that the federal government create a new income support benefit for working-age single adults. This benefit would see the government take a leadership role in reducing the depth of poverty this group experiences.
The proposed Canada Working-Age Supplement (CWAS) would enhance and expand the Canada Workers Benefit (CWB) for all working-age single adults without children living in poverty, whether or not they are earning income from employment.
Working-age single adults without children face the highest rates and deepest levels of poverty in Canada. Of the more than 1.8 million people living in deep poverty in Canada, 50 per cent are unattached single adults.
"We've seen that targeted income supports, like those offered to seniors and families, can have a significant positive impact on poverty levels," says Nick Saul, CEO of Community Food Centres Canada. "But when it comes to policy, working-age single adults have long been ignored. If our government wants to deliver on its human rights obligations and meet its target of reducing poverty by 50 per cent by 2030, it needs to focus on this group."
CWAS would establish an income floor for all working-age single adults with a maximum benefit of $4,000. This would have a clear and immediate impact by increasing income by up to 40 per cent for people living in deep poverty. About 3.1 million unattached single adults across Canada would receive the benefit, of which about one million would be new recipients.
"The Canada Working-Age Supplement would not only complement Canada's existing social safety net, it would be transformative in advancing the idea that working-age single adults should be eligible for income support not because they've earned it as workers, but because they need it as people," says Elizabeth McIsaac, President of Maytree.
The report was co-authored by Maytree and CFCC to highlight the inadequacy of current income supports and propose a progressive policy solution. It includes an in-depth analysis of poverty in Canada today, an overview of the Canada Workers Benefit, literature and jurisdictional reviews, comprehensive analysis and costing of four different models, and targeted recommendations for the preferred model of the Canada Working-Age Supplement.
You can download the full report at https://maytree.com/publications/canada-working-age-supplement/.
About Maytree:
Maytree is a human rights organization committed to advancing systemic solutions to poverty and strengthening civic communities. We believe the most enduring way to fix the systems that create poverty is to ensure that economic and social rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled for all people living in Canada. Through our work, we support non-profit organizations, their leaders, and people they work with. Learn more at: https://maytree.com
About Community Food Centres Canada:
At the heart of Community Food Centres Canada's work is the belief that food is a basic right. We bring people together around good food so communities can thrive. With more than 350 partners across the country, we build inclusive, culturally responsive Community Food Centres, share knowledge, create health-focused programs, and advocate for equitable policy change. Learn more at: cfccanada.ca.
Maytree's media inquiries are handled by:
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Every day we hear new predictions about how Internet of Things (IoT) will change the world and transform our way of life. What you may not think is that IoT has changed the way we respond to emergencies and save lives.
With the growth of IoT, major industries and government organizations are enjoying their benefits. Emergency responders are no exception. Globally, IoT plays an important role in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of emergency response systems, saving lives and making cities safer.
What does IoT have to do with an emergency response? To begin with, the development of advanced sensors has enabled appliances, buildings and even clothing to become intelligent and connected. This has enormous benefits for emergency responders – the more information they have, the easier and safer their work becomes. All branches of the emergency department benefit from IoT solutions in a unique way.
The goal of EMT is to save time and improve patient care. Now, IoT allows EMTs to access patient records from moving databases. They can also transmit vital signs of patients to hospitals during their ambulance transit, giving hospital staff the information they need to prepare for admission. In-depth knowledge of the condition of patients allows them to have the right personnel and equipment in hand when the patient arrives.
Advanced use of data – gathering and analyzing information from multiple sources – could help police to prioritize resources and protect businesses. Visualization systems now exist that allow forces to monitor and integrate a wide range of data flows, such as transit maps, meteorological reports and crime statistics. The authorities can then look for models and trends.
Forensic digital medicine is a growing aspect of the daily police. The IoT, however, has the potential to make it easier and faster to gather evidence. "Digital Medical Devices" could significantly speed up police investigations, as officers could extract the required information much more quickly than they do today.
The connected autonomous vehicles will provide the opportunity to cover areas that would otherwise not have priority. Systems are already designed to enable connected ambulances, police cars and engines to communicate with other vehicles on the road. Similarly, body cameras have already been deployed in all forces to improve accountability, while sensors offer another opportunity to support agents operating the most dangerous environments.
IoT devices ranging from home security systems to sensors in smart cities will help the police know, in the most serious crimes, where a suspect was, with whom they were and what they were doing. Some felt that this could actually be a deterrent, as criminals know they have a much better chance of being trapped.
Few organizations will benefit from IoT more than fire services. Fire departments are improving their response with sensors and databases providing advance information on fire progression, occupant numbers and floor plans.
IoT also makes jobs safer for firefighters. The new intelligent clothing, armed with sensors, signals the vital signs and temperature of firefighters in dangerous situations. This information helps firefighters decide when to withdraw or warn a rescue team that a firefighter is in trouble.
More and more opportunities are evolving every day, such as more affordable security and security systems that can monitor faster fire detection and control systems, doors, video cameras and thermostats. New fire stations are now installed with much of this IoT connectivity, which also includes Wi-Fi networks everywhere.


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I Wanna Destroy is a multimedia collaboration between EMA and virtual reality designer Zach Krausnick. Combining elements of installation, live concert and 3D VR technology, the result is a combination of technological micro-narrative and human durational performance.
"I Wanna Destroy" at PS1 MoMA in NYC. Photo by Margarida Malarkey.
I Wanna Destroy is tied together by setting up parallel worlds. "Outside" the majority of the audience members experience a brand new song cycle by EMA, playing on a stage set up to look like a shabby apartment.
One at a time participants don the mask and enter virtual reality to find another layer of the outside narrative. "Inside" the 3D environment is rendered to match the stage set up. There is even an avatar of Anderson on the couch that tracks her motions.
The participant's visual experience in VR is projected back out into the venue, becoming part of the show.
The theme of multiple perceptions of reality is mirrored in the narrative, as Anderson
reads greeting cards from far-away relatives who seem convinced of her success and
glamour, even as she sits alone amidst trash and debris and doesn't have the heart to
tell them otherwise.
With both Anderson and Krausnick improvising with their respective tools, this piece
might be first in which a virtual reality creator and a musician actually "play" together
onstage. However, even as the piece breaks new ground technologically, transcendence
comes through the pre-internet aesthetic of paper greeting cards, and the universal
themes of family, guilt, illusion and isolation.
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A big hobby of TJ's is to dance in the middle of the mall randomly when he's feeling it! He'll just drop down where he is and start dancing! One day, he was dancing in Carousel mall outside of Zumiez, and the assistant manager saw him. The assistant manager was a local hip hop instructor, and wanted TJ to hang out at the studio with the older students. When TJ could find time, he enjoyed hanging out in the studio watching the older kids perform. He quickly learned so well that he found himself performing in the 2011 winter Recital with the Fifteen plus age group. Although he looked quite small compared to the other performers his talent proved to be larger than his stature. Tj was very much in his element and loving every minute of it!
In June, he tried out for his school's 5th grade variety show, and landed a spot. He did a tribute dance to his favorite dance crew, (Season One America's Best Dance Crew) winner's the Jabbawockeez. TJ posted this video to his YouTube channel, and it was seen by Chachi Gonzales (TJ's celebrity crush) from America's Best Dance Crew season Six winner (I aM mE crew), and also Jim Beaver from Supernatural. Both Chachi and Jim Beaver Tweeted the video, and more and more people began seeing TJ's videos and following him on his twitter. TJ has only had a twitter for about a year, and everything has been happening really fast for him.
What really started the kick off for TJ was his anti bullying video "Hang On," which was posted last July.
TJ has been bullied since elementary. He has been pushed down, kicked, called names, excluded, because he is less than average height for a kid his age. TJ had been getting a lot of tweets from fans that talked about being bullied and not feeling pretty enough or good enough, so TJ said he felt he needed to do something to show anyone and everyone out there that they ARE GOOD ENOUGH!
In November of 2011, TJ was asked to speak at the 2011 New York State Teen Institute Leadership conference. Right around this time, TJ decided he wanted to try using music and dancing as a way to reach people, in conjunction with his message.
It became a great way for TJ to interact with other kids, and get their attention to listen to what he had to say. TJ wanted to make an original song that would reflect real life situations, and together with his sister Shelby they wrote the verses to TJ's debut Single "We Stand." TJ then approached YouTube Sensation Tae Brooks, asking him to collaborate with him and sing and write the hook and take a stand together. The track was mastered with a lot of hard work by Tae's older brother Tadjh. Before the track debuted in November, TJ spoke at the teen institute conference, which is a youth leadership program for high school students to take a look at their communities and try to fix problems and bring out the best in themselves. TJ spoke to students at the conference from schools all across the NY area, such as Fabius Pompey, Lafayette, Tully, Marcellus, Windsor, Long Island representatives, Corcoran, and Westhill (many of the central NY high schools). This was TJ's first time speaking to people live and in public about his message, and it was very successful.
After the conference, he was approached by Lafayette middle school where he spoke in December. TJ's organization (campaign movement) is called "Challenge For Change" you can learn exactly what TJ does at schools and more about his campaign is on this website. TJ will soon speak at Windsor's wellness day on April 20th, and leaving immediately after to hop on a flight to Florida, where he will be speaking and performing at the first annual Erase Hate Tampa Bay Festival! The festival invited TJ to come and perform, and he is very excited. It is an anti hate/anti bullying festival to raise awareness and help promote unity in the Tampa Bay area. TJ is also assisting Erase Hate with their anti bullying/anti hate video contest, using the slogan "Make The Choice To Use Your Voice" from one of his previous videos. He is very honored and excited to be working with Erase Hate and can't wait to meet some of his fans at the festival.
Sending out blue beaded bracelets that he made to any fan that wanted to take a stand with him.
On his birthday, August 11th, TJ asked his fans if they would "Rep Blue" (wear the color blue) for the day to raise anti bullying awareness. The Color Blue is the National color for Anti-Bullying Awareness.
Created Two Anti Bullying Videos, "Hang On" and "Make The Choice To Use Your Voice" (See Above Video) where his fans sent in clips of them saying that they are making the choice to speak up.
Here is TJ's new single "We Stand" which will act as his new theme song for his campaign. TJ is currently working on the music video for this single which is going to be a real eye opener for a lot of people. You will find it embedded here once it has been completed.
Help Tj and his cause by purchasing your copy now!
I asked TJ what some of his favorites were and found out that his favorite color was blue, that he enjoys eating Starbursts candy, and watching Suit Life On Deck.
His musical inspirations include: Eminem, Lupe Fiasco, Ludacris, Jason Derulo, Taio Cruz, Michael Jackson, and Justin Bieber. He lists his favorite dance crew as Iconic Boyz, especially anti bullying spokesboy Vinny Castronovo, Jabbawockeez, and BBoy Bebo. His hobbies include playing his Xbox360 and Wii, jumping on his trampoline, riding his dirt-bike, playing his guitar outside, laser tag, talking to his fans, and on his lazy days he enjoys just sitting on mom's couch and watching Spongebob!
TJ also enjoys reading and lists his favorite author as James Patterson. For outdoor sports he enjoys playing basketball and baseball. His favorite Movie is the Transformer series and Real Steel! He lists Moms homemade spaghetti and hot dogs as his favorite foods and even eats hot dogs for breakfast!
TJ's message is to show kids that it is time to take a stand, right here, right now. When he recorded "We Stand," he got very emotional and wanted to make his audience feel that same emotion. He is hoping that the video will help put the words to the song to a visual that will open people's eyes so they can realize that the change needs to be made now, before it's too late.
TJ has only been rapping for about a year, and has had no vocal lessons in singing or rapping. He enjoys singing, but decided he likes rapping better.
Each morning TJ enjoys randomly messaging his fans to "Have A Good Day" and continues to challenge them to try to make a difference, even if it's something small, everyday.
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The typical bear trap is about 44 inches long, weighs about 45 pounds and has a jaw spread of about 16 inches. These traps are so strong they can snap a 2x4 piece of wood entirely in half. Suffice it to say, you have to be careful when wandering around the woods to avoid stepping on one as it would certainly be a very painful encounter.
Speaking of the pain from stepping into a bear trap, our discussion this morning we believe is an interesting one and particularly so, as it is true. It ended with a large $6B community bank agreeing to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it had improperly performed hedge accounting. The treasurer at the bank was also fined personally to settle charges he caused the accounting violations. That is where it ended, but where did it begin you may wonder.
It began simply enough. The bank was seeking to protect itself against interest rate risk using interest rate swaps, as it served its business clients by offering them fixed rate CRE loans. The bank then designated the loans and swaps as fair value hedging relationships under complex generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) dictated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Under those rules, entities (such as banks) must recognize all interest rate swaps as derivative instruments. As such, they must measure them at fair value on their balance sheet as either assets or liabilities. To reduce the byproduct issue of potential earnings volatility in the income statement, entities are allowed to use fair value hedge accounting for derivatives as long as the transactions meet certain requirements.
Ok, we know your coffee may not be coursing through your veins just yet, and we have already covered enough droll matter to put a sloth to sleep, but hang in there because this topic is important to community bankers.
The key to this complex accounting rule is that it allows entities to use fair value accounting, but only as long as the transactions meet specific requirements. Under the rules, entities must review and analyze their hedging relationships on a periodic basis and must discontinue the use of hedge accounting if the effectiveness of the instruments falls outside a certain range. Doing this process requires pretty good math, modeling and reporting skills.
Based on the news reports, it appears this bank did not follow the rules as laid out and instead allowed unsupported adjustments to be made to hedge effectiveness testing so it would continue to receive favorable accounting treatment. This apparently went on for about 4 years and was missed by management, auditors, directors and potentially other experts along the way, before employees eventually reported their concerns to management and a whistleblower complaint surfaced.
The damage to the bank from this is unknown at this point, but we are certain they did not want to have the SEC investigate them, make public announcements on the matter and deal with potentially aggressive regulatory follow up at a minimum.
The good news for community bankers is that this can all be avoided. 10Ys ago, we began offering our Borrower's Loan Protection (BLP) hedging product to solve this very issue. You see we knew the derivative accounting rules were complex, because we have on our staff people that have been involved in that world for almost 30Ys. We also knew community bankers most often have generalist finance teams on staff and that the accounting rules around derivatives are very specialized, so we had to find a solution. That was the genesis of BLP, where we do the complex hedge accounting, the business customers of community banks get the fixed rate loan they want and our community bank customers get a floating rate without having to deal with the complex hedge accounting issues.
Right now rates are low, but the Fed is pushing them higher. In addition, the difference between the 10Y swap rate and the 20Y is about 16bps. This environment means more savvy business customers are very likely to seek longer term fixed rate loans from community banks, while those banks will need a solution to do so (to compete effectively), as they manage interest rate risk (by transforming those payments into floating rate ones).
If your team has strong loan growth goals this year and you want some help on this, give us a call. We are almost entirely owned by community banks so we never compete with you. We are here to help and if we can assist your team, we want to do so. There is a simple and time-tested solution available, so contact us and we'll show you how to avoid the potential bear trap of arcane hedge accounting rules as you serve your customers and capture more loan business.
Yields dove 2bp due to a softened GDP in the 4th quarter.
The Department of Education has revised its data after a closer review and now finds at least 50% of students at 1,000 schools analyzed had either defaulted or failed to pay down at least $1 on their student loan debt within 7Ys.
An ABA/Ipsos survey finds 58% of consumers say they use their mobile device at least 1x per month to manage their bank account, 33% use it more than 3x per month and 72% say their bank's mobile app is very good or excellent.
PwC research finds surveyed directors say their board has done the following in the past 12 months regarding strategy: looked at emerging technological trends (62%); looked at long-term economic, geopolitical, and environmental trends (55%); studied competitor initiatives that could introduce disruptive approaches (53%); evaluated alternative strategies to those presented by management (33%); and visited a customer, distributor or supplier site (19%).