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"The new company strategy that respects the environment, people and the community."
Focus on quality and the idea of continuous improvement in terms of: product, process and people.
Promote savings in all its forms.
Adopt policies that respect the environment, but also employees, customers, suppliers, the community. In summary, all the stakeholders of the company.
Eco-Etichal Charter
Dami is the first company to adopt an Eco-Ethical charter. It is a summary document between the principles of the Code of Ethics and the corporate green policy. With the Eco-Ethics Paper, Dami has promoted a new corporate strategy "For better living", respectful of the environment, people and the community.
Social and Environmental Sustainability Report
The sustainability report is a document that the Organization draws up voluntarily to communicate in a transparent way to all stakeholders the performance not only economic, but also social and environmental. Through this reporting tool, the company intends to describe and report the annual results of the sustainability path.
The increasing integration between economic decisions and the assessment of their social and environmental impacts are the basis of the company's ability to create long-term value for all stakeholders.
The green policy is for Dami innovation, a model of technological, economic, human and environmental development. Starting from product innovation, through the continuous research and use of sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, then moving on to process innovation with the introduction of the lean methodology up to organizational innovation that concerns people and the business climate.
Green actions:
ISO 14001 certification with the aim of developing a new business approach increasingly oriented towards efficiency, waste reduction, greater attention to the exploitation of natural resources
Social Report and Sustainability Report to communicate, in a completely voluntary and transparent manner, information on the social and environmental impact, as well as economic, of Dami towards its main stakeholders, in relation to the results achieved and the ways in which these have been prosecuted.
Adoption of a real-time monitoring system of energy consumption with the notification of alerts that reach the company information system, if anomalies occur
100% Green
Certificate issued by A2A which certified Dami 100% green for the use of energy from renewable sources
Adoption of eco-sustainable and fully recyclable materials
Replacement of traditional light bulbs with low consumption ones
Providing water bottles to company employees to avoid the use of plastic
Construction of a vertical warehouse where the molds are stored. It's used to move and recover the molds in extreme safety and without physical effort on the part of the operator, respecting the environment
DFACTORY
Starting from the awareness that "I train while I work and I work while I train", Dami has decided to give life to a real training course aimed at the continuous professional and personal improvement of its collaborators.
Because competent, constantly trained and motivated collaborators represent an added value to compete in an increasingly global market.
DFACTORY is - therefore - a physical and virtual space in which it is possible to do real training, aimed at acquiring technical skills and developing transversal skills.
DFACTORY is also made available to all stakeholders of the company in order to share LEARNING MARKETING, or marketing of knowledge, experience, to create culture on the production of soles for footwear with a renewed eco-sustainable sensitivity.
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Category:Analyses, commentaries, reports, and studies by academia, civil society, jurists, and governments
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Pages in category "Analyses, commentaries, reports, and studies by academia, civil society, jurists, and governments"
A 30-year struggle: The sustained efforts to give force of law to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (multiple languages, global, UNESCO Courier)
A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 (English, United States of America, Columbia Law School)
A Concise Guide to the Federalist Papers as a Source of the Original Meaning of the United States Constitution (English, United States of America, Boston University Law Review)
A Concise Guide to the Records of the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 as a Source of the Original Meaning of the U.S. Constitution (English, United States of America, George Washington Law Review)
A Concise Guide to the Records of the State Ratifying Conventions as a Source of the Original Meaning of the U.S. Constitution (English, United States of America, University of Illinois Law Review)
A Concise Guide to Using Dictionaries from the Founding Era to Determine the Original Meaning of the Constitution (English, United States of America, George Washington Law Review)
A Decision Theory of Statutory Interpretation: Legislative History by the Rules (English, United States of America, Yale Law Journal)
A Fresh Look at the Federal Rules in State Courts (English, United States of America, Nevada Law Journal)
A Handbook for the Justice and Peace Commission: Best Practices of Community Legal Advice Programs, Program Assessment and Recommendations (English, multiple legal systems, Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic)
A History of Injunctions in England Before 1700 (English, England, Indiana Law Journal)
A Law Professor's Guide to Natural Law and Natural Rights (English, any legal system, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy)
A Legal Education Renaissance: A Practical Approach for the Twenty-First Century (English, United States of America, William Mitchell Law Review)
A Model Code of Conduct for Student-Edited Law Journal Submissions (English, United States of America, Journal of Legal Education)
A New Look at the Zong Case of 1783 (English, United Kingdom, XVII-XVII)
A Second Language Speaker in Court: Linguistic Phenomena Threatening Justice (English, Australia, Alternative Law Journal)
A Short History of the Preparation and Enactment of the Uniform Commercial Code (English, United States of America, University of Miami Law Review)
A Statute of Repose for Product Liability Claims (English, United States of America, Fordham Law Review)
A Theory of Agency Law (English, United States of America, University of Pittsburgh Law Review)
Abstention in the Time of Ferguson (English, United States of America, Harvard Law Review)
Adding Joy Silk to Labor's Reform Agenda (English, United States of America, Santa Clara Law Review)
Administrative Procedure Act (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
African Customary Law, Customs, and Women's Rights (English, multiple legal systems, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies)
Agency Models in Law and Economics (English, United States of America, Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics)
America 's First Law School Library: A History of the College of William and Mary 's Marshall-Wythe Law Library, 1779-1995 (English, United States of America, Wolf Law Library)
An Appeal to the World (English, United States of America, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
An Inconsistent Chevron Standard: Refining Chevron Deference in Immigration Law (English, United States of America, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal)
An Introduction to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) for Teachers and Teacher Educators (English, European Union, CLIL Journal of Innovation and Research in Plurilingual and Pluricultural Education)
An Overview of the Grossly Inconsistent Definitions of "Gross Negligence" in American Jurisprudence (English, United States of America, John Marshall Law Review)
An Unacknowledged Constitutional Crisis: United States v. Shipp II (1909) (English, United States of America, Maryland Law Review)
Ancient Legal Maxims and Modern Human Rights (Latin and English, global, Campbell Law Review)
Anglo-American Jurisprudence and Latin America (English, multiple legal systems, Fordham International Law Journal)
Anglo-American Legal Citation: Historical Development and Library Implications (English, United States of America, Law Library Journal)
Another Look at Professor Rodell's Goodbye to Law Reviews (English, United States of America, Virginia Law Review)
Anti-Inquisitorialism (English, United States of America, Harvard Law Review)
Arbitration in the Age of COVID: Examining Arbitration's Move Online (English, United States of America, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution)
Are Footnotes in Opinions Given Full Precedential Effect? (English, United States of America, Green Bag)
Are Language Rights Fundamental? (English, Canada, Osgoode Hall Law Journal)
Aristotle's Conception of Justice (English, any legal system, Notre Dame Law Review)
Article IV, Section 2: Movement Of Persons Throughout the Union (English, United States of America, National Constitution Center)
Auer deference (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
Baker v. Carr (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
Beyond Contrastive Rhetoric: Helping International Lawyers Use Cohesive Devices in U.S. Legal Writing (English, United States of America, Florida Journal of International Law)
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (English, England, Avalon Project)
Borrowing Private Law in Latin America: Andrés Bello's Use of the Code Napoléon in Drafting the Chilean Civil Code (English, multiple legal systems, Louisiana Law Review)
Bottomheavy: Legal Footnotes (English, United States of America, Journal of Legal Education)
Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
Breaking the Silence: Should Jurors Be Allowed to Question Witnesses During Trial? (English, United States of America, Vanderbilt Law Review)
Brief History of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the United States (English, United States of America, Cadmus)
Brown, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Silent Litigation Revolution (English, United States of America, Vanderbilt Law Review)
Building a Tower of Babel or Building a Discipline? Talking About Legal Writing (English, United States of America, Marquette Law Review)
Causa and Consideration in the Law of Contracts (English, multiple legal systems, Yale Law Journal)
Chevron deference (doctrine) (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (English, United States of America, Chicago-Kent Law Review)
Collaborative Legal Pluralism (English, Spain, Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History)
Colonialism (English, multiple legal systems, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice (English, multiple legal systems, Cambridge University Press)
Constitutional Courts in East Asia: Understanding Variation (English, multiple legal systems, Journal of Comparative Law)
Constitutional Theory for Criminal Procedure: Dickerson, Miranda, and the Continuing Quest for Broad-but-shallow (English, United States of America, William & Mary Law Review)
Content and Language Integrated Learning: A Duoethnographic Study about CLIL Pre-Service Teacher Education in Argentina and Spain (English, Argentina and Spain, RELC Journal)
Content-based instruction and content and language integrated learning: The same or different? (English, Basque Autonomous Community, Language, Culture and Curriculum)
Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial (English, United States of America, National Institute of Justice)
Convicting the Innocent: Aberration or Systemic Problem? (English, United States of America, Wisconsin Law Review)
Correcting Injustice: Studying How the United Kingdom and the United States Review Claims of Innocence (English, United Kingdom and United States of America, University of Toledo Law Review)
Council of Europe standards on judicial independence (English, European Union, European Parliament)
Court Interpretation: Model Guides for Policy and Practice in the State Courts (English, United States of America, National Center for State Courts)
Courts and the Creation of a Spirit of Moderation: Judicial Protection of Revolutionaries in Argentina, 1863-1929 (English, Argentina, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review)
Criminal Justice Standards: Defense Function (English, United States of America, American Bar Association)
Criminal Justice Standards: Prosecution Function (English, United States of America, American Bar Association)
Criminal Municipal Courts (English, United States of America, Harvard Law Review)
Criminal Procedure: France, England, and the United States (English, multiple legal systems, DePaul Law Review)
Crisis-Induced Innovation in U.S. Legal Education (English, United States of America, Journal of Legal Education)
Critical assessment of using wikis in legal education (English, Netherlands, Journal of Information Law & Technology)
Data ideologies of an interested public: A study of grassroots open government data intermediaries (English, United States of America, Big Data & Society)
De Harvard a Stanford: Sobre la historia de la educación jurídica en los Estados Unidos (Spanish, United States of America, Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado)
Declaratory Judgment Practices after SanDisk v. STMicroelectronics (English, United States of America, Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal)
Deconstructing Independent Agencies (and Executive Agencies) (English, United States of America, Cornell Law Review)
Deference (administrative state) (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
Defining Dicta (English, United States of America, Stanford Law Review)
Determining the Ratio Decidendi of a Case (English, England and United States of America, Yale Law Journal)
Developing a People-Centered Justice in Singapore: In Support of Pro Bono and Innocence Work (English, Singapore, University of Cincinnati Law Review)
Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable basic legal service models: Briefing paper (English, multiple legal systems, Law and Development Partnership)
Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable basic legal service models: Costing methodology paper (English, multiple legal systems, Law and Development Partnership)
Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable basic legal service models: Final report (English, multiple legal systems, Law and Development Partnership)
Development of a New Legal System in the People's Republic of China (English, China, Louisiana Law Review)
Disaggregating "Immigration Law" (English, United States of America, Florida Law Review)
Discours sur les vices du langage judiciaire (French, France, Jacques Berriat-Saint-Prix)
Discrimination: A Constitutional Dilemma (English, United States of America, William & Mary Law Review)
Disparities in Postconviction Remedies for Those Who Plead Guilty and Those Convicted at Trial: A Survey of State Statutes and Recommendations for Reform (English, United States of America, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology)
Dissent: The Rewards and Risks of Judicial Disagreement in the High Court of Australia (English, Australia, Melbourne University Law Review)
Dissenting Opinion and Judicial Independence (English, Estonia, Juridica International)
Dissenting Opinions in the Supreme Courts of the Member States (multiple languages, multiple legal systems, European Parliament)
Divide & Concur: Separate Opinions & Legal Change (English, United States of America, Cornell Law Review)
Do Attorneys Really Matter? The Empirical and Legal Case for the Right of Counsel at Bail (English, United States of America, Cardozo Law Review)
Doctrine of Consideration and the Civil Law Principle of Cause (English, multiple legal systems, Dickinson Law Review)
Doctrine of Younger v. Harris: Deference in Search of a Rationale (English, United States of America, Cornell Law Review)
Does Justice Have a Syntax? (English, United States of America, Journal of Legal Education)
Doha Declaration (multiple languages, global, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
Don't Cry Over Filled Milk: The Neglected Footnote Three to Carolene Products (English, United States of America, University of Pennsylvania Law Review)
Downtown Code: A History of the Uniform Commercial Code 1949-1954 (English, United States of America, Buffalo Law Review)
Due Process as Separation of Powers (English, England and United States of America, Yale Law Journal)
Due Process of Lawmaking (English, United States of America, Nebraska Law Review)
Economic Foundations of the Law of the Sea (English, multiple legal systems, Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics)
Effects of the Bogota Declaration on the legal status of geostationary orbit in international space law (English, multiple legal systems, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence)
Ejusdem Generis: What Is It Good For? (English, United States of America, Judicature)
Emerging Impacts in Open Data in the Judiciary Branches in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (English, multiple legal systems, Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento)
Equipping the Garage Guys in Law (English, United States of America, Maryland Law Review)
Ethnographic Research on the Impact of Legal Information Institutes in Zimbabwe and South Africa (English, South Africa and Zimbabwe, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research)
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: The Benefits of Aristotelian Rhetoric in the Courtroom (English, United States of America, Washington University Jurisprudence Review)
Evolution of Corporate Law: A Cross-Country Comparison (English, multiple legal systems, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law)
Evolving Understandings of American Federalism: Some Shifting Parameters (English, United States of America, New York Law School Law Review)
Exploring Trial Advocacy: Tradition, Education, and Litigation (English, United States of America, Tulsa Law Journal)
Federalism and the Scab of Colonialism (English, Puerto Rico and United States of America, Revista de la Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación)
Footnotes as Product Differentiation (English, United States of America, Vanderbilt Law Review)
For Whom the Statute Tolls: An Analytical Look at the Tolling Provision in Florida's Product Liability Statute of Repose (English, United States of America, Florida Bar Journal)
Formation of Contracts in South American Legal Systems (English, multiple legal systems, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review)
Founding-Era Translations of the U.S. Constitution (multiple languages, United States of America, Constitutional Commentary)
Four Models of the Criminal Process (English, United States of America, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology)
Fun with Reverse Ejusdem Generis (English, United States of America, Minnesota Law Review)
Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning (English, United States of America, Yale Law Journal)
Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice (English, United States of America, American Bar Association)
Goodbye to Law Reviews (English, United States of America, Virginia Law Review)
Greece's third way in Prof. Tushnet's distinction between strong-form and weak-form judicial review, and what we may learn from it (English, Greece, Jus Politicum)
Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction: Rule of Law (English, global, United States Institute of Peace)
Habeas Corpus in the States: 1776-1865 (English, United States of America, University of Chicago Law Review)
Hendiadys in the Language of the Law: What Part of "and" Don't You Understand? (English, United States of America, Legal Communication & Rhetoric)
Highlights from the U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults: Their Skills, Work Experience, Education, and Training (English, United States of America, National Center for Education Statistics)
Historical Origin of the Prison System in America (English, United States of America, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology)
Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
How Benefit Corporations Are Redefining the Purpose of Business Corporations (English, United States of America, William Mitchell Law Review)
How Different Are the Early Versions of the Constitution? (English, United States of America, Green Bag)
How the Creation of Appellate Courts in England and the United States Limited Judicial Comment on Evidence to the Jury (English, England and United States of America, Journal of the Legal Profession)
How to measure the rule of law (English, any legal system, MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics)
How to Remove a Federal Judge (English, England and United States of America, Yale Law Journal)
How to Talk Crimey and Influence People: Language and the Politics of Criminal Justice (English, United States of America, Drake Law Review)
How to teach legal English to busy students? Asynchronous and other options (English, United States of America, LinkedIn)
How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history (English, United States of America, Pew Research Center)
Hyper-Presidentialism: Separation of Powers without Checks and Balances in Argentina and Philippines (English, Argentina and Philippines, Berkeley Journal of International Law)
If You Build It, Will They Come? An Empirical Study of the Voluntary Use of Mediation and Its Implications (English, United States of America, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution)
Igniting the Conversation: Embracing Legal Literacy as the Heart of the Profession (English, United States of America, Law Library Journal)
Impeachment and the Constitution (English, England and United States of America, Congressional Research Service)
Impeachment of Witnesses: Part I (English, United States of America, Public Defender Reporter)
Impeachment of Witnesses: Part II (English, United States of America, Public Defender Reporter)
Impeachment: An Overview of Constitutional Provisions, Procedure, and Practice (English, United States of America, Congressional Research Service)
Implicature (English, any legal system, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Implicit bias is a challenge even for judges (English, United States of America, ABA Journal)
Improving Access to Justice in State Courts with Platform Technology (English, United States of America, Vanderbilt Law Review)
In Defense of Dissents (English, United States of America, Hastings Law Journal)
In the Tribunal of Conscience: Mills v. Wyman Reconsidered (English, United States of America, Tulane Law Review)
Independent federal agency (English, United States of America, Ballotpedia)
Index of Legal Certainty (English and French, multiple legal systems, Notaries of Europe)
Informal Justice Systems: Charting a Course for Human Rights-Based Engagement (English, multiple legal systems, United Nations Development Programme)
Inside the Taft Court: Lessons From the Docket Books (English, United States of America, Supreme Court Review)
Intercircuit Conflicts in the Courts of Appeals (English, United States of America, Montana Law Review)
International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (multiple languages, global, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning (English, any legal system, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Interpretation and Construction in Contract Law (English, United States of America, Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works)
Introducing "Language & Law," (English, global, International Journal of Language & Law)
Introductory Comment: A Historical Introduction to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (English, United States of America, Ohio State Law Journal)
Ipse Dixit: The Restatement (Second) of Contracts and the Modern Development of Contract Law (English, United States of America, George Washington Law Review)
Is Logic Culturally Based? A Contrastive, International Approach to the American Law (English, United States of America, Journal of Legal Education)
Isaac Parker, Bill Sikes and the Rule of Law (English, United States of America, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review)
Islamic Criminal Law and Procedure: Religious Fundamentalism v. Modern Law (English, any legal system, Boston College International & Comparative Law Review)
Isolated and Politicized: The NLRB's Uncertain Future The National Labor Relations Board in Comparative Context: Introduction (English, United States of America, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal)
It Must Be Rock Strong! Guanxi's Impact on Judicial Decision Making in China (English, China, American Journal of Comparative Law)
Jargon as a barrier to effective science communication: Evidence from metacognition (English, any legal system, Public Understanding of Science)
Judges' Rules and Police Interrogation in England Today (English, England, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology)
Judging During Crises: Can Judges Protect the Facts? (English, United States of America, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal)
Judging the Fugitive Slave Acts (English, United States of America, Yale Law Journal)
Judicial Conference and Its Committee on Court Administration (English, United States of America, Federal Judicial Center)
Judicial Conflict Resolution in Plea Bargaining as the Golden Mean Between the Adversarial and Inquisitorial Legal Systems (English, multiple legal systems, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution)
Judicial Deference to Executive Branch Treaty Interpretations: A Historical Perspective (English, United States of America, New York University Annual Survey of American Law)
Judicial Enforcement of NLRB Bargaining Orders: What Influences the Courts? (English, United States of America, University of California Davis Law Review)
Judicial Intervention in Evidence (English, United States of America, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal)
Judicial Power in Latin America: A Short Survey (English, multiple legal systems, Legal Information Management)
Judicial Review in Latin America (English, multiple legal systems, Ohio State Law Journal)
Judicial Review, James Bradley Thayer, and the Reasonable Doubt Test (English, United States of America, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly)
Jury Nullification: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography (English, United States of America, Valparaiso University Law Review)
Jury Trial -- Unanimous Verdicts: Johnson v. Louisiana, 406 U.S. 356 (1972), Apodaca v. Oregon, 406 U.S. 404 (1972) (English, United States of America, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology)
Justice for All: Final Report (multiple languages, global, Center on International Cooperation)
Justice Policy Series, Part I: Access to Justice (multiple languages, global, Open Government Partnership)
Justice Policy Series, Part II: Open Justice (English, global, Open Government Partnership)
Justicia 2020: Cercana, moderna, transparente e independiente (Spanish, Argentina, Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos de Argentina)
La Ley: Clave para el Desarrollo sin Exclusiones — Volumen I (Spanish, global, Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and United Nations Development Programme)
Langdell's Legacy: Living with the Case Method (English, United States of America, Villanova Law Review)
Last Writes? Reassessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace (English, United States of America, New York University Law Review)
Latin American Legal History: Some Essential Spanish Terms (Spanish and English, multiple legal systems, Berkeley La Raza Law Journal)
Law as a Science (English, any legal system, Indiana Law Journal)
Law in a Digital World: Computer Networks and Cyberspace (English, United States of America, Villanova Law Review)
Law Libraries and Laboratories: The Legacies of Langdell and His Metaphor (English, United States of America, Law Library Journal)
Law Making in the European Union: On Globalization and Contract Law in Divergent Legal Cultures (English, multiple legal systems, Louisiana Law Review)
Law Review's Empire (English, United States of America, Hastings Law Journal)
Law Reviews (English, United States of America, Washburn Law Journal)
Legal Aid and the Rule of Law in the People's Republic of China (English, China, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies)
Legal Cause (English, United States of America, Yale Law Journal)
Legal Certainty versus Equity in the Conflict of Laws (English, multiple legal systems, Law and Contemporary Problems)
Legal Education and Professional Development: An Educational Continuum (English, United States of America, American Bar Association)
Legal Education en Español: A Pedagogical Model (English, United States of America, Harvard Latinx Law Review)
Legal Empowerment Experiences from Latin America (English, multiple legal systems, Namati)
Legal Innovation and Empowerment for Development (English, global, World Bank Legal Review)
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Pope Says 'Real Disciples Never Share Faith' or 'Try to Convert People'
"Asked by one of the students Friday how a Christian should treat people of other faiths or no faith, the pope said that "we are all the same, all children of God and that true disciples of Jesus do not proselytize."………….Jesus said something different. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you (Matthew 28:18-20).
Sanhedrin Hosts Menorah Lighting on Mount Zion to Enact Ezekiel's Prophecy of Judgement Against Edom
… the Sanhedrin will be hosting a Menorah lighting on Mount Zion for all nations, bringing together representatives of all of humanity, in what is the battle call for the war of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness. The battle lines have already been drawn and at stake are the fates of several governments, if not the world.
Cluster of 5+ magnitude quakes strikes off Vancouver Island
Four earthquakes measuring between 5 and 6 in magnitude struck Monday off the coast of Vancouver Island, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
A Fulfillment of Prophecy': Meet the Israelis Living in the Golan Heights
When President Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, Israel thanked him by naming a community after him. But who would want to live so close to a hostile Syrian border with Iran trying to attack?
Iran spends nearly $25 million a day on agencies suppressing dissent
The protests started in mid-November over a tripling of gasoline prices and rationing, but also included an outcry against government corruption and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hundreds of people were killed between Nov. 15 and 18, as the government cracked down on protests. The government shut down phone lines and Internet access, but videos emerged showing soldiers shooting unarmed civilians,
US Military Looking To Pull Back? Why The Pentagon May Withdraw Troops From West Africa
The Pentagon reportedly is weighing a decision on removing U.S. troops from West Africa in the first phase of a global redeployment to focus priorities on Russia and China.
What Are Hypersonic Weapons? Russia Claiming Military Superiority For First Time
Putin on Tuesday told military brass Russia has become the first country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons, giving it military superiority over the United States for the first time. "Now we have a situation that is unique in modern history when they are trying to catch up to us," he said. "Not a single country has hypersonic weapons, let alone hypersonic weapons of intercontinental range."
Massive 2,034-foot asteroid will zoom past Earth just after Christmas
A gigantic asteroid will zip past Earth just after Christmas, NASA reports. The massive space rock, which is known as 310442 (2000 CH59), will be closest to our planet on December 26 at 2:54 a.m. EST, according to NASA. The space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) estimates its diameter will be in the range of 919 to 2,034 feet. At the higher end, that means it could be as large as One World Trade Center in New York City, which tops out at 1,792 feet, including the tip.
Bloomberg Campaign Leveraged Prison Laborers To Make Campaign Phone Calls
Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign said it unknowingly utilized prison laborers through a subcontractor to make phone calls on behalf of the campaign. Prisoners incarcerated at an Oklahoma minimum-security women's prison, the Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center, were making calls to California on behalf of the Bloomberg campaign, The Intercept reported on Tuesday. The prison laborers disclosed during the calls that they were paid for by the multibillionaire's campaign, but not that they were incarcerated.
Israeli Airstrike in Syria Kills Iranian General – Report
A source in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Reuters that four cruise missiles were believed to have been launched across the coast through Lebanese airspace toward Syria. "One of the hostile targets fell in Aqraba region in the Damascus countryside," the source said.
An alleged Israeli airstrike on Damascus on Sunday night reportedly killed three including an Iranian General.
SBC Professor Claims Women Can Preach Because Jesus Broke Commandments, Too
The theological ineptness of Karen Swallow Prior, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary's new professor, knows no limits. In her attempt to defend female preachers, the self-professed feminist and animal rights activist claimed that Jesus broke the Sabbath, making it okay that women bend the Bible's rules on preaching.
Pope Reinvents Church: Nixes Traditions, Claims Jesus is 'Refugee', and Now: 'Eco-Sins'
Pope Francis' Christmas address shocked many as he rejected tradition, Western culture and compared Jesus in Bethlehem to a refugee. "Christendom no longer exists!" Francis declared in his speech. "Today we are no longer the only ones who create culture, nor are we in the forefront of those most listened to."Pope Francis specified that the culture he was rejecting was European. It should be noted that Jesus was not a refugee and was, in fact, described in the New Testament as being from the tribe of Judah.
Iraq's Parliament Approves New Election Law amid Protests
Drafting a new election law has been a key demand for the hundreds of thousands of protesters who've taken to the streets in Baghdad and the predominantly Shiite south since Oct. 1. They've already forced Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to resign late last month. Iraqi security forces have frequently responded with lethal force, killing at least 400 people.
IDF preparing for confrontation with Iran – Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi
The IDF is preparing for a limited confrontation with the Islamic Republic as Israel continues to act against Iranian entrenchment, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi warned Wednesday morning. "There is a possibility that we will face a limited confrontation with Iran and we are preparing for it," Kochavi said at a conference in honor of former IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak…
Netanyahu announces 3,000 new units to be built in West Bank settlements
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that 3,000 new residential and industrial units would be built in settlements in the West Bank, Israel Hayom reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the decision will be brought before the High Court for approval within two weeks. The announcement came on the eve of the Likud Party primaries, which are scheduled for Thursday.
Australia comes out against ICC investigation of Israel
Australia opposes the International Criminal Court…decision to investigate alleged war crimes by Israel and the Palestinians, joining the US in speaking out against the probe…"Australia is concerned by the ICC Prosecutor's proposal to consider the situation in the Palestinian Territories, subject to a ruling by the Court's Pre-Trial Chamber on the scope of the Court's territorial jurisdiction in the matter."
India National Population Register: Database agreed amid protests
The Indian cabinet has approved funds for a census and a population survey to be held next year despite weeks of protests over a citizenship law that critics say is anti-Muslim. Authorities say the updated National Population Register (NPR) will be a comprehensive list of all residents. However, critics say it will be a list from which "doubtful citizens" will be asked to prove they are Indian.
Laser-Linked Satellites Could Deliver 'Internet from Space'
A new design could double the network capacity of future "internet from space" systems. Satellites do not yet play a major role in the world's internet infrastructure. However, this may soon be set to change. Within the next decade, a new generation of satellites could lay the foundations for an "internet from space," says Ankit Singla…
First head transplant will be achievable within the decade, says former NHS neurosurgeon
The world's first human head transplants may be just a decade away, a former NHS neurosurgeon has said, after working out how to achieve the groundbreaking operation. Bruce Mathew, a former Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, is now an expert in hyperbaric medicine, helping divers to recover from the bends.
Taiwan president urges more talks on contested China 'infiltration' bill
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen urged parliament on Wednesday to have more discussion on a proposed anti-infiltration bill which the government says is needed to combat Chinese influence and has been condemned by the main opposition and Beijing. The legislation is part of a years-long effort to combat what many in Taiwan see as Chinese efforts to influence politics and the democratic process on the island.
Jordan Valley annexation to be put on hold amid ICC probe
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancels a meeting of an inter-ministerial team intended to discuss the annexation of the Jordan Valley, following the International Criminal Court's decision to launch a probe into alleged Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians. The sources said Tuesday the meeting was due to take place over the past weekend…
Thousands mark Christmas in West Bank town of Bethlehem
Thousands of Christian pilgrims on Tuesday flocked to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, celebrating Christmas Eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus. Visitors converged on the town's large Christmas tree in Manger Square, near the spot believed to mark Jesus' birthplace.
Iran to hold joint, four-day navy drill with Russia, China
Iran's armed forces will hold a joint, four-day naval exercise with Russia and China in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, a spokesman said Wednesday. The drill, which is to start on Saturday, will be the first such trilateral exercise as Tehran seeks to boost military cooperation with Beijing and Moscow amid unprecedented economic sanctions from Washington.
China instructs Bible to be rewritten as pro-communist: report
The Chinese Communist Party instructed the Bible and other religious texts to be rewritten in an expressly pro-communist perspective that conforms with the party's goals.
Exclusive: Pentagon warns military members DNA kits pose 'personal and operational risks'
The Pentagon is advising members of the military not to use consumer DNA kits, saying the information collected by private companies could pose a security risk, according to a memo co-signed by the Defense Department's top intelligence official.
After Years Of Supporting The Palestinians Over Israel, The Vatican Shows They're In Full Control Of The West Bank City Of Bethlehem On Christmas Eve
For years now, Pope Francis from the Vatican has been supporting Palestine over Israel at every opportunity, and that support has paid big dividends. In 2015, Pope Francis signed a treaty giving official Vatican recognition to the state of Palestine. Last year the Catholic pope met with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss how they might go about overturning President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the list goes on and on. So what do we see on Christmas Eve 2019 in the town where Jesus was born? We see the hand-picked representative of the Vatican, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, crossing through the army checkpoint, and being escorted by uniformed Palestinian scouts as a conquering hero.
Typhoon "Phanfone" (Ursula) makes landfall in Samar, high-risk structures may experience heavy damage, Philippines
Typhoon "Phanfone," known as Ursula in the Philippines, made landfall in Samar on December 24, 2019, with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/h (74 mph) and gusts to 150 km/h (94 mph) — Category 1 hurricane equivalent on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Destructive typhoon force winds are expected to begin affecting areas under TCWS #3 in Masbate including Ticao Islands and portions of Northern Cebu late evening, PAGASA warns. High-risk structures may experience heavy damage. Storm Surge of up to 2 m (6.5 feet) may affect the several coastal areas of Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, and Leyte.
BUSTED: FBI's 'Innocent Professor' Halper Ran a Mob-Backed CIA Bank That Illegally Funded Millions to Iran Contras — After Halper Ran Spy Operation Against Jimmy Carter's White House
Shocking revelations are surfacing against the FBI's star witness who went undercover to infiltrate the Donald Trump campaign.
Tesla Model 3 Owners Are Taking The RFID Microchip From Their Key Cards And Implanting Into Their Arms In Mark Of The Beast Warm Up Act
As more and more time passes, people have gone from being afraid of the advancement of human implantable technology, to embracing it, and now they're finding ways to do it themselves. This is the new frontier, and where the giants of Silicon Valley are investing billions. As we constantly tell you, the path to implanted microchips happens in 3 steps. Step 1 they get you in front of a computer, Step 2 they get the computer on you, as in your mobile device that's always in your pocket, and Step 3? That's the one happening right now.
Virginia Governor Northam Increases Corrections Budget In Anticipation Of Jailing Gun Owners
As if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's wholesale attack on law-abiding gun owners wasn't enough, the disgraced public official and his Michael Bloomberg-bought allies in the General Assembly now want the state's hard-working taxpayers to foot the bill for their unconstitutional schemes. The budget bill (HB30) includes an appropriation of a quarter million dollars to carry out a host of gun control measures that Northam and his anti-gun allies hope to enact.
George Soros and his 'rented evangelicals' outed by Christian leaders
A new video from the American Association of Evangelicals reveals how George Soros, through his many funding ventures, has been busily infiltrating the Christian base in America to divide, and ultimately conquer, the religious minded within the Republican Party.
Here's How Bad San Francisco's Poop Problem Got In 2019
San Francisco residents reported more than 30,000 cases of poop to authorities in 2019, city records show.
A Texas school that touts a "100% vaccination rate" has been forced to close its doors and send students home after a whooping cough outbreak swept through the school, infecting students who were already vaccinated.
Confirmed: Abortionists really are Satan's minions – check out this extraordinary video that was BANNED by YouTube
A pro-life group known as "Created Equal" has released a powerful new documentary entitled, Abortion: A Doctrine of Demons that exposes the many inextricable links between Satanism and the abortion industry.
Walmart pork found to contain deadly "superbugs" that are resistant to antibiotics
The animal welfare group "World Animal Protection" has published a new study revealing that many of the pork products sold at Walmart stores are contaminated with antibiotic-resistant "superbugs."
BREAKING: Epstein trafficking network STILL operational, finds InfoWars investigation… photos, videos
InfoWars.com, one of the leading voices in independent media, is breaking a bombshell story tonight, revealing what appears to be strong evidence that the Jeffrey Epstein young girl trafficking network is still operational and still recruiting girls.


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From the day it opened in July 1955, in an event given live TV coverage, Disneyland has been a key symbol of contemporary American culture. It has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, a harbinger of shopping-mall culture, a symbol of American hegemony in entertainment, the epitome of fantasy, simulation, pastiche, and the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. Yet for all the power of Disneyland as metaphor, almost no one
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The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and music is the assumption that the comparison of these two domains can shed light on the structural and


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Production: Food production index covers food crops that are considered edible and that contain nutrients. Coffee and tea are excluded because, although edible, they have no nutritive value."
Production index: Food production index covers food crops that are considered edible and that contain nutrients. Coffee and tea are excluded because, although edible, they have no nutritive value.
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Q: How do you set the quality for RenderTarget2D.SaveAsJpeg()? public void SaveAsJpeg(Stream stream, int width, int height)

RenderTarget2D.SaveAsJpeg() is missing a parameter to set the Jpeg quality and the output has lots of artifacts. (increasing the size of the image does help a bit but it still looks bad)
Is that parameter hidden somewhere in XNA? How can I improve the quality of the jpeg?

A: There is no quality parameter in the XNA 4.0 API for encoding JPEG images.
As a very round-about way of doing things, you may be able to create a Silverlight WriteableBitmap, copy the data out of your render target and into that, and then use Extensions.SaveJpeg to save it with a custom quality level.
A better alternative might be to simply save a PNG image.

A: I will agree with Andrew Russel that a much better alternative would be to simply save to PNG, but if you simply HAVE to save to jpg, then there is a much better way than go trhough WriteableBitmap.
What you can do is create an empty Bitmap object and transfer the texture data over so you will do a Texture2D to Bitmap convertion. Simply copy from below:
    public static Bitmap ToBitmap(this Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Texture2D rd, int Width, int Height)
    {
        var Bmp = new Bitmap(Width, Height, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);

        byte[] data = ToBytes(rd);

        var bmpData = Bmp.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, rd.Width, rd.Height), System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageLockMode.WriteOnly, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);

        System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.Copy(data, 0, bmpData.Scan0, data.Length);

        Bmp.UnlockBits(bmpData);

        return Bmp;
    }

    public static byte[] ToBytes(this Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Texture2D rd)
    {
        byte[] data = new byte[4 * rd.Height * rd.Width];
        rd.GetData<byte>(data);

        SwapBytes(data);

        return data;
    }

    private static void SwapBytes(byte[] data)
    {
        System.Threading.Tasks.ParallelOptions po = new System.Threading.Tasks.ParallelOptions();
        po.MaxDegreeOfParallelism = -1;

        System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.For(0, data.Length / 4, po, t =>
        {
            int bi = t * 4;
            byte temp = data[bi];
            data[bi] = data[bi + 2];
            data[bi + 2] = temp;
        });
    }

Note that the above is pretty efficient, but with certain drawbacks. A similar code to the above can be used to very quickly achieve a Bitmap to Texture2D convertion, but without premultiplying alpha.

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Consortium to exploit the potential of graphene and carbon nanotubes launches in Cambridge
Prof. Alan Windle from University of Cambridge addressing delegates at the NCEM-1 dinner.
The 1st Nano-Carbon Enhanced Materials Consortium (NCEM-1) launched at the meeting in Downing College Cambridge, UK yesterday (19th April 2012) and the opening dinner at Trinity Hall Cambridge on 18th April 2012. The consortium brings together potential users from defence, electronics, structural materials, metal refining and power generation industries with a shared interest in understanding the challenges and opportunities of nano-carbon disruptive technologies.
The NCEM-1 Cambridge meeting delegates and consortium members were addressed by leading academics from University of Cambridge and experts in the field of nano-carbon materials: Prof. Bill Milne from Department of Engineering who gave presentation about nano-carbon electronics and Prof. Alan Windle and Dr. Krzysztof Koziol from Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy who presented scientific advances and commercialisation challenges related to carbon nanotube fibre technology. The NCEM-1 consortium members form Nokia Research Centre (UK) and International Copper Association also gave presentation about their vision and challenges related to commercialisation of nano-carbon technologies in mobile electronics and copper metal composite applications.
NCEM-1 delegates at Downing College.
The NCEM-1 Cambridge meeting delegates and consortium members coming from 7 different countries and include: University of Cambridge (UK); Nokia Research Centre (UK); ST Microelectronics (Italy); International Copper Association (USA); Nexans (France); Bosch (Germany); Oxford Instruments (UK), National Grid (UK), Thales UK (UK), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and Codelco (Chile).
Dr Bojan Boskovic, CEO of Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd, who leads the consortium said: "Delegates are interested in three main areas of application: next generation of electronic materials, smart structural materials, and improved thermal and electrical conductors. We are looking to help development of nano-carbon technologies and facilitate supply chain building. "
Dr Peter Hewkin of Centre for Business Innovation (CfBI) added "The NCEM-1 consortium joins a number of other consortia run by CfBI, these include: Microfluidics, Open Innovation and Inclusive Design, all of which have close links with the University of Cambridge".
Malcolm Burwell from the International Copper Association commented after the consortium meeting "We all felt that the value obtained from the single meeting that we just had justified the yearly fees on its own."
The NCEM-1 consortium is open for new members to join and it will initially run for a period of 12 months during which it will visit Scotland, Germany and Belgium. For further details and information how to join please contact Bojan.Boskovic@cnt-ltd.co.uk.
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HomePress releasesTungsten Network offers complete business continuity in France ahead of new e-invoicing mandate
Tungsten Network offers complete business continuity in France ahead of new e-invoicing mandate
Tungsten Network is gearing up to help businesses in France meet the new mandatory electronic invoicing and reporting requirements. Responding to the French government's legal requirements that mandate the adoption of e-invoicing for all B2B transaction from 2024 onwards, Tungsten is offering businesses in France, and those who transact in France, consultancy, and guidance on how to fulfil these obligations as well as e-invoicing solutions. As a pioneer of electronic invoicing Tungsten has a long pedigree in working with businesses who are obligated to operate under such frameworks and has been offering compliance related services in France since 2004.
Tungsten's e-invoicing offering supports businesses with the full range of compliance challenges – from identifying obligations and assessing requirements to designing and managing solutions. Additionally, Tungsten plays a key role in keeping abreast of interpreting and
offering wise counsel on all the changes in the regulatory environment across the globe. For over 20 years Tungsten has led the field in electronic invoicing and has been developing its regulatory and best practice knowledge from local market experience, building new format conversions, connecting locally authorised compliance partners and tax authorities, and enabling the use of true invoice digitisation.
"Tax mandates are ever-increasing with a lot of European countries posing a real challenge. But it's made much simpler for us as we know Tungsten is on top of compliance requirements" commented Greg Liebe, Global Process Owner, GSK.
"As more governments mandate e-invoicing, dealing with every authority and each new platform can be overwhelming. And if you're not compliant, you're compromised", said Ruud van Hilten Tungsten's head of Compliance.
"We shield businesses from the cost and risk of non-compliance by providing globally compliant products and services. We stay ahead and abreast of the rules and obligations to keep our customers and their suppliers covered both today and tomorrow. And through our partnership with PwC we offer additional peace of mind. Together with their tax experts and our ongoing Tungsten internal research, development and audits it means businesses have a trusted team of global tax experts acting on their behalf. That is the value we bring."
Tungsten has built a comprehensive tax compliance overview here and provides specific country overviews including France.
For further information contact Fiona Mclean: [email protected]
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Tungsten Network is the world's largest, compliant business transaction network. A leading global electronic invoicing and purchase order transactions network; Tungsten's mission is centred on enabling a touchless invoice process allowing businesses around the globe to gain maximum value from their invoice process.
Tungsten processes invoices for 60% of the FTSE 100 and 68% of the Fortune 500. It enables suppliers to submit tax compliant e-invoices in 54 countries, and last year processed transactions worth over £220 billion for organisations such as Caesars Entertainment, Computacenter, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Mohawk Industries, Mondelēz International, Procter & Gamble, Shaw Industries, Unilever and the US Federal Government.
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in London, Tungsten has offices in the US, Bulgaria, and Malaysia, employing over 227 people. In June 2022, Tungsten was acquired by Kofax.
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The NFL kicked off Super Bowl LI festivities in Houston by hosting the participating teams and fans in primetime at Super Bowl Opening Night Fueled by Gatorade on Monday, January 30, 2017 at Minute Maid Park. Starting QB Tom Brady of the NE Patriots and Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons were on stage together to answer the questions of the attending media. This is the second year of Super Bowl Opening Night, it will be the first time the players and coaches meet with the media in Houston prior to the Super Bowl.
The event featured live musical performances by X Ambassadors, special appearances and autographs by NFL Legends, cheerleaders and team mascots, and a Red Carpet fan photo opportunity all while fans sat in the stands and watch the players of Super Bowl LI be interviewed. And this could be the final appearance from retiring sports broadcaster Chris Berman. Super Bowl Opening Night in Houston was televised live on NFL Network. Fans in attendance received a great "swag"gift bags with a radio to tune into NFL Network coverage and listen to some of the individual player interviews from the podium microphones.


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When Hill left Loveless, he broke Kody Lawton's already battered heart. And now that he's working on her father's case, avoiding him is impossible. She can handle Hill and her unwanted feelings–until he puts his life on the line to protect her. Suddenly, Kody realizes that Hill could be taken away from her…for good.
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Knights Shields
The use of shields in medieval Europe was inherited from the legacy of the Roman Empire where the soldiers used a wide variety of shields.
The type and design of shields in Europe evolved significantly over the course of the medieval period, as battlefield weapons and military culture evolved.
The Anglo Saxons used a shield formation as a tactic on the battlefield
Early medieval shields in Europe were round-shaped and were usually constructed from wood with leather reinforcements.
Over time, as knights became the most important military body on the battlefield, shields with more elaborate designs came into use featuring construction from sturdier materials.
Following are some of the most common types of shields used by medieval knights.
Kite Shield
The kite shield was one of the earliest advancements over the simple round shield. The kite shield, as the name suggests, had a kite-like design and was constructed either in the shape of a wide teardrop or a flat-topped design.
Norman knights were among the first to use this type of shield and popularised it throughout Western Europe from the 10th century onwards.
One of the vital advantages of a kite shield was that although it was only slightly heavier than a round shield, it effectively protected one complete flank of a knight as he fought on the battlefield.
Before Full Plate Armour the Longer Kite Shield Protected the whole body *Norman knights
This effectively guarded the knight against any lower body wounds he could otherwise sustain. The shield remained popular among European knights until the 13th century.
Heater Shield
The heater shield was a type of shield that gained popularity among medieval knights in the late 12th century. This type of shield was typically small in size, essentially a trimmed version of the kite shield.
Knights Templar Heater Shield
The small size of the shield made it easier to wield it speedily on the battlefield during combat and to carry it with no discomfort.
The use of the heater shield became widespread at a time when body armor became more prevalent in Europe and there was little need to carry a long shield to guard the lower body.
Another advantage of the heater shield was its inexpensive yet sturdy construction, the typical design comprising of wooden construction overlaid with leather.
The heater shield was a type of shield that gained popularity among medieval knights in the late 12th century.
Bouche Shield
Bouche was a specialized type of shield which became popular among European knights in the late medieval period. The shield itself had little to no value on an actual battlefield.
It was rather popularly used by the knights in jousting contests during knightly tournaments. The defining characteristic of such a shield was a lance resting in the upper corner of the shield, allowing a knight to fix his lance into the corner of the shield and aim it with a steady posture at the approaching opponent.
Bouche shields remained popular until the culture of knightly tournaments came to an end in medieval Europe.
Knightly shields in the High Middle Ages evolved primarily in view of the fact that the knights had become the most important military body in battlefield combat.
Full Plate Armour
Towards the late medieval period, plate armor became more readily available and the significance of knights declined as infantry became as formidable a part of an army.
These changes were reflected in the shields used by the knights which reached the peak of their structural innovation in the 10th to 12th centuries and began to decline in use and design afterward.
knights plate armor, advanced armor for a knight.
Anglo Saxon Shields
Buckler Shield
Byzantine Shields
Carolingian Shields
Cavalry Shields
Footsoldiers Shields
Medieval Shield Design
Medieval Shield Parts
Medieval Shields History
Moorish Shields – Adarga Shields
Norman Shields
Pavise Shield
Shield Colours and Meanings
Shield Symbols and Meanings
Shields and Heraldry
Soldiers Shields Types
Targe Shield


Pt. Reyes Station, Calif.: Today Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) announces that it has permanently protected 440 acres of historic farmland near the town of Tomales. This land is a part of the 920-acre Poncia family farm, which is home to the family's business, Stemple Creek Ranch. Stemple Creek sells grass-fed beef and lamb to butcher shops, grocery stores and direct to people throughout the Bay Area.
The 440-acre ranch has been in the Poncia family since the early 1900s when Angelo "Pa Nono" Poncia purchased it after he migrated to West Marin from Italy. Today, Loren Poncia and his wife Lisa oversee the ranch with Loren's parents, lifelong ranchers Al and Cathie Poncia.
Like many farming families, the Poncia family faced losing the ranch when they inherited it from Al's aunt a decade ago. Its pasture is critical to the Stemple Creek Ranch business. But to hold on to the farmland, they would have to pay a nearly $1 million inheritance tax. This posed a "terrible burden" for the small business, says Al.
Unfortunately for farming families in Marin, the tax amount is based on the market value of the land for residential development rather than for agriculture. Even though families can opt to go through a complicated IRS "alternative valuation process" to reduce the tax, as the Poncia family did, it does not reduce it close enough to its true agricultural value.
Marin's ranch properties face a very high risk of conversion to estate development, which threaten Marin's local food, wildlife and scenic rural landscape. Just down Highway 1 from the ranch, an 850-acre ranch was sold to a San Francisco real estate investment company. The company broke up the land and listed three separate parcels for $2.5 million each.
Protecting the ranch will enable Loren, a fourth generation rancher, to carry on what his great grandfather Angelo "Pa Nono" Poncia started more than a century ago.
Protection of the ranch was made possible by MALT's community of supporters, the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program (FRPP) and the California Department of Conservation, which together contributed to the $1.4 million price of the agricultural conservation easement. The easement is a legal tool that preserves the ability of the land to be used for agriculture by prohibiting uses inconsistent with food production.
Individual donors and family foundations contributed $676,000, FRPP contributed $528,000 and the California Department of Conservation contributed $250,000.
"The protection of the Poncia family's livelihood and preservation of farmland is an important goal for all Californians, and the DOC is pleased to be a part of it, says Department of Conservation Director Mark Nechodom.
Now that the ranch is protected, Loren and his family can look to the future.
About MALT: Marin Agricultural Land Trust is a member-supported nonprofit organization created in 1980 to permanently preserve Marin County farmland. Some of the Bay Area's most highly acclaimed dairy and meat products and organic crops are produced on farmland protected by MALT conservation agreements, which total more than 46,000 acres on 72 family farms and ranches. To learn more about MALT, visit www.malt.org.
About USDA NRCS FRPP: The USDA's Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program (FRPP) provides matching funds to help purchase development rights to keep productive farm and ranch land in agricultural uses. Working through existing programs, USDA partners with State, tribal, or local governments and non-governmental organizations to acquire conservation easements or other interests in land from landowners. USDA provides up to 50 percent of the fair market easement value of the conservation easement. For more information, please go to www.nrcs.usda.gov.
About California Department of Conservation: The Department of Conservation provides services and information that promote environmental health, economic vitality, informed land-use decisions and sound management of our state's natural resources. For more information, please go to www.conservation.ca.gov.


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Hundreds Gather to Bring Justice for Dog Strapped With Fireworks
Indy, a then 2-year-old pit bull, was discovered in an alley on July 5, 2013 with third-degree burns over half his body.
By Samia Khan
Published Jun 11, 2014 at 7:48 AM | Updated at 1:59 PM PDT on Jun 11, 2014
Indy, a pit bull that was found with serious burns over the Fourth of July weekend last year, appeared outside the Van Nuys Courthouse where the man suspected of strapping fireworks and lighting the pup ablaze faced a judge in a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, June 10, 2014.
Hundreds gathered outside a Van Nuys courtroom Tuesday in support of Indy, a dog who suffered severe burns after a man allegedly strapped fireworks to the pup on the Fourth of July and then abandoned him in an alley in Winnetka.
Carlos Duarte, 41, was arrested in February on suspicion of animal cruelty, seven months after someone found the abandoned pup with third-degree burns over half his body. Doctors believe the dog was strapped with fireworks and lit ablaze.
Read: After Dog Strapped With Fireworks on July 4, Man Arrested for Alleged Animal Cruelty
Duarte appeared at the Van Nuys Courthouse Tuesday for a preliminary hearing. Outside, a large group gathered with signs and t-shirts in support of bringing "justice for Indy." Indy himself was also present.
Dog "Indy" Hurt By Firework Is Almost Fully Healed
Indy, the sweet pit bull who was seriously injured by a firework on the Fourth of July, is doing remarkably well. Indy is almost completely healed from the third degree burns, and now is in training working on his obedience. Kathy Vara reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Nov. 19, 2013.
(Published Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013)
"We're hoping that (Duarte) does get prison time," Steve Spiro of the Shelter Transport Animal Rescue Team (S.T.A.R.T.) said. "Often times there aren't enough stricter laws for animals and we're really hoping that the judge sees that this was an innocent victim and punishes him to the full extent of the law."
Supporters hope their presence will influence the judge to take the case seriously and not minimize it just because the crime involves a dog and not a person.
"The voiceless need to be heard and the only way for that to happen is by the community getting together, like a strong support today, to show the court system that, listen, we won't stand for this, we want justice," Spiro said.
"Prognosis Is Good" for Pup Injured by Fireworks
A 2-year-old pit bull who may have been intentionally injured by fireworks underwent the latest in a series of surgeries Friday. A well-known burn specialist who typically works with humans has been called in to treat the pup, dubbed Independence. Kathy Vara reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on July 12, 2013.
(Published Friday, July 12, 2013)
Read: Pit Bull Stabbed to Death in San Francisco Street Fight
Nicknamed Indy because he was rescued during the Independence Day holiday, the 3-year-old pit bull captured the hearts of many across the Southland, with supporters donating to his lengthy recovery.
"This is one of the most severe cases of animal abuse I personally have ever been closely involved with and I, it just breaks my heart," Indy supporter Gloria Butler said.
The person who found Indy initially took him to S.T.A.R.T. Indy was then transferred to the WestlakeVillage Animal Hospital, where he underwent at least four surgeries and skin grafts, some performed by Dr. Richard Grossman, a well-known surgeon who typically operates on humans.
"He's still got the scars to show from his trauma, he was in the hospital for almost half a year," Spiro said.
Indy's stay at Westlake Animal Hospital included a visit from comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi.
After six months of recovery, Indy was adopted by Jenny Mandel, a veterinary technician at Westlake Village Animal Hospital who helped him make an "unbelievable" recovery.
Read: Dog Strapped With Fireworks Finds Forever Home
"You know, the dog is doing much better, and this is also part of the recovery – seeing justice for Indy, seeing this man who did such a horrendous, horrendous act of animal abuse get punished," Butler said.
Police had been looking for the man who was seen on surveillance footage yanking Indy by his collar out of a truck bed on July 4, 2013. Officials said that the public helped lead police to the truck which led to the arrest of Duarte.
"I'm hoping (that) it shows other people that if you abuse an animal, you're going to jail," Spiro said. "I really hope that (Duarte) is sorry for what he did and I really hope that he can learn a lesson from this."
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Mundra will be the second LNG project of Adani where IOC is investing.
New Delhi: Malaysian state-owned oil and natural gas producer Petronas is keen to buy a stake in Indian Oil Corporation's under-construction 5-million tonne a year LNG import terminal at Ennore.
Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or Petronas, is the second firm after Petronet LNG Ltd, India's biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer, to have expressed interest in taking a stake in the Ennore plant.
"Petronas has expressed interest in taking a stake," IOC Chairman Sanjiv Singh told reporters here. "Nothing has been finalised so far. It's at a preliminary stage as of now."
IOC holds 95 per cent stake in the Rs 5,151-crore Ennore LNG import terminal, which is expected to be completed by June 2018. Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) has 5 per cent.
The state-owned refiner wants to retain a minimum 50 per cent stake in the project and so, practically 45 per cent stake is available for the taking.
"There is Petronas and then, there is Petronet which has also expressed interest. We have to see what fits our business," he said.
Singh, however, clarified that mere taking equity will not guarantee any company of a proportionate capacity on the import terminal. "Capacity booking (for import of own LNG cargoes) is separate than equity stake. They are two different things," he said.
While Petronas may be looking at Ennore as a market to sell the global portfolio of LNG it has, IOC is likely to retain a major say to bring its own gas.
The IOC board had earlier this month given 'in-principle' approval to acquire up to 50 per cent sake in Adani Group- backed Mundra LNG import terminal in Gujarat for an estimated Rs 750 crore.
GSPL LNG Ltd, a joint venture of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation and Adani Enterprises Ltd, is setting up a 5- million tonne per annum (mtpa) LNG terminal at the Mundra port in Gujarat.
Singh said IOC is talking to GSPL about valuations of the stake. Going by a back-of-the-envelope calculation, roughly 30 per cent of the Rs 5,040-crore project cost is equity and IOC will pay for half of that.
A final number will be arrived at after the valuation exercise is completed, he added. The Mundra LNG terminal will be commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2017-18.
As the second-largest natural gas player in the country, IOC is making significant investments in natural gas infrastructure and marketing, in line with the country's changing energy mix.
"We already have investments across the gas value chain, from LNG import terminals to city gas distribution networks, the major among them being a 5-million tonne LNG import terminal at the Kamarajar port near Chennai, scheduled for commissioning in 2018-19," Singh said.
IOC has taken 39 per cent stake in the proposed 5-mt a year LNG import terminal at Dhamra in Odisha. The Adani group has 50 per cent in the project and the remaining 11 per cent is with state-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd.
The Mundra terminal is expandable up to 10 mtpa in the near future.


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Le Ordu Kaboul Football Club (en dari et en ), plus couramment abrégé en Ordu Kaboul, est un club afghan de football fondé en 1976 et basé à Kaboul, la capitale du pays.

Historique
 2006 : Premier titre de Champion d'Afghanistan.

Palmarès

Anciens joueurs du club
  Israfeel Kohistani

Notes et références

Club de football en Afghanistan
Club de football fondé en 1976
Club sportif à Kaboul

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By Christina Kim - Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Winners Win and Quitters Quit
I have recently read an article about people who quit; well, basically, termed as quitters.
The article talked about how those who quit their jobs write about it everywhere, that it seems to be turning into a trend; as though glorifying the act of quitting.
While I do agree with the perspectives the author had projected in his piece, and the frustrations over the number of articles spamming the Internet (indeed, the numbers of articles of such nature seem to be taking over the cyber space), there are probably a few other points that I would add or see from a different light.
He talked about people who would publicize about how they made the decision to quit their jobs.
They write about quitting, about how it made them feel better, and making that decision to leave was one of the best they have made.
He mentioned that it was frustrating, the way people seem to be always talking about quitting and that it is getting tiring to this point as there is nothing new.
Everyone is writing about how they quit their jobs when things did not go well for them.
The author asked one question,
"How about those who thrived on?
I don't want to hear about those who quit because quitters quit.
I want to hear about those who stayed on, amidst all the challenges and emerged successful at the end of the day.
I want to hear about how they continued to survive and the challenges they faced and Why they did not think of quitting"
We have heard so much about people who called it quits, but how about those who stayed on?
How about those who probably had no choice but to stay, and then proceeded to make the best of the situation to their advantage?
These are the unsung heroes.
These are the people who choose to take up the challenge and went for it.
I am not criticizing those who quit either.
Don't get me wrong.
I am merely looking at the whole thing about writing about it, and putting it on public display about their decision.
That is probably something I don't quite see the point.
To motivate others?
To publicly announce to others that you are officially jobless or no longer with the company and moving on to your next endeavor?
It is probably a momentary exaltation that propelled one to share about their feelings and happiness, and consequently tell others to do the same, or at least consider?
Maybe that is not what they meant or wanted to do either.
They did not want to tell everyone to leave their jobs nor are they saying, follow their tracks.
They just did not realize, that sometimes, their act of announcement and public display of that sense of achievement to make them feel good about themselves, are simultaneously inflicting pain onto others.
What others did not tell you is, they absolutely do not care whether you stay or quit your job.
It is not important.
While they are envious of your newfound sense of liberty away from your workplace, they do secretly wish that they could just follow suit.
They harbor a sense of hatred towards those who quit, those who are more successful than them and those who urged them to stay for that 'better tomorrow'.
But most of all, they hate themselves more than anyone or anything else.
They wished they had that courage to make the same move.
They wanted so badly, but they had no choice.
They kept telling themselves that, to be conscious of their own situation and to be responsible that they ended up hating that whole bunch of crap they told themselves.
They wanted that liberty as much as those who quit, because seriously, do you actually believe that everyone loves their jobs?
Maybe some do, but most don't.
There are two sides to the coin.
People who stayed on their jobs; did it probably because they had to or they saw a better chance at promotion (that 'better tomorrow' right there).
They slaved away, worked hard and kept improving themselves to achieve that end goal; that bright shining trophy cup sitting there, waiting for them.
It is something that kept them going and they harbored that hope.
They see that there is indeed that opportunity that they could count on.
It is that tiny doorway to that heavenly staircase up the corporate floors.
That is what they are banking on and the reason to thrive.
What happens when someone else takes that grand prize away instead?
Someone else was picked to be the winner or was deemed to be more suitable and more worthy of that trophy.
That someone took your place; that spot of promotion you have worked yourself to death all that time.
You see, when there is a gleaming prize like that sitting on a high display table, you didn't think you would be the only one competing for it, did you?
Unless there is only you and your boss and probably another employee in the office.
If you are in a huge corporation; a multi national corporation, chances are, there are many other contenders to that tiny throne, or trophy.
It gets worse as one goes higher in the hierarchy.
However, it is not all bleak, because if you look at it in a different light, there is always someone who Will hold that trophy.
Someone will be selected.
Out of a bunch of people who are competing for it.
There is always a winner.
The only question is, "Who?"
Nobody really knows, except the management or the people doing the selection.
Sometimes it could be pre-determined; based on the various criteria, not overlooking the relationship card as well.
However there are times when change comes into the picture and suddenly the whole decision takes on a different turn.
Someone who could have already been chosen would end up being pooled again, and the selection process begins again.
From being the first in the queue and almost touching the handle of the trophy, he or she ends up having to queue all over again.
There are just a million different possibilities out there.
That is the point; it is not easy.
That is why it is challenging and the people who stayed and survived, are the most admirable of the lot.
Not all emerge as winners, but the point is we don't hear about those who did not win and merely survive.
We always hear about those who won, or simply, quit.
The company does recognize the loyalty these thriving employees demonstrated by awarding them with the numerous loyalty awards marked by the number of years and milestones they have served the company.
Those are publicized in company events and probably appearing in the website, newsletters and notice board.
How often do we hear of these people in the mainstream media, unless again, it is by advertisement?
Do these people share their stories?
We do know most of these people, and some of them will jokingly tell you, "I don't have a choice"
There are also those who just love the company, environment, the renumeration package and such that they just could not bear to leave.
There are many more reasons for those who stayed and not leave.
Everyone has their reasons.
The same goes for those who quit.
Not everyone who quits makes a big deal out of it.
Sometimes there is that other side of the story.
Why do people quit?
The same thing; a multitude of reasons could be pushing them in that direction.
Not everyone wants to quit.
Not everyone who quits gives up easily.
It is not always the case.
It is not about chickening out or not being able to handle the challenges or changes in the organization.
It is not all that.
Quitting is a decision and more often than not, those who quit will always say that it is a tough decision.
It is not a typical response (well, maybe it is, for some), nor is it a prefixed script to give it that little emotion into the fact of one's departure.
Sometimes, it is the reality.
It could really be the case for some people, as not everyone really wants to quit, as I have said.
It is not always the case that one thinks about leaving their job all the time and then just decides to pack their bags and leave.
Maybe there are some who does that, but not everyone, definitely.
I speak for myself, and also from my experience.
I am not defending people who quit, but I am just sharing a different perspective.
I have also made decisions to leave my companies before.
There are times when I just wanted to leave; so yes, these are the times when thoughts like these do cross the mind.
I won't lie about it.
Then when I think about it, it could be a different thing.
Sometimes I could just tell myself, I could do this, why leave?
Others could do it, so can I.
It is that self inner motivating machine that kept me going.
So you see, there is always that mechanism where one will not simply be blinded by their thoughts and act on impulse.
People who quit do put thoughts into it; not because they are always thinking of quitting the moment they were put on the job, but because of certain circumstances which could lead them to come to the decision.
To think and to decide versus to actually do it in reality are two different things altogether.
Those who never quit, could have been thinking all the way that they wanted to, but never did.
Those who quit, just happen to think and act.
There is never a right or wrong to anything.
There is just that list of a million possibilities for reasons to stay or just quit.
Unforeseen circumstances, management, unhappiness, career growth, working environment, salary, better prospects, you name it.
It is not about glorifying the fact that one quits their job, over those who didn't.
It shouldn't even be that way.
Quit on your own account and only you have to answer to that yourself.
You do not have to rub it into the faces of others who did not make the same decision.
Sometimes it is true that Quitters quit.
That is where the word is derived from anyway.
However, it is not the same the other way round.
Not all who quit are Quitters.
Sometimes they could have their reasons unspoken of.
Who are we to judge?