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Battlefield 2042 Gets A Few Days Of Free Access In December
Different dates for Steam and PlayStation players though.
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Fans of the Battlefield series are aware that the latest entry in the series, Battlefield 2042, is not in the greatest of spots right now. That being said, the game is still trudging along, with its Season 3 rolling around at the end of the month. For those who didn't buy the game, but would like to give the game a go, you can do so at the very start of next month.
The game's publisher, Electronic Arts, has announced an upcoming free access period to Battlefield 2042. These free windows fall on different dates depending on if you're playing on Steam, or on PlayStation.
Source: EA / YouTube.
For the duration of these free access windows, you can basically get everything that Battlefield has to offer. The exception is of course the Premium Battle Pass, unless you actually buy it. Instead, you'll get login rewards which include Lis and Crawford, specialist characters from Season 1 and 2, respectively.
If you decide to buy the game later, your progress and purchases will be carried over. Though it is weird that anyone would pay for things for a game that they haven't yet bought. For what it's worth, EA says that there will be discounts for Battlefield 2042 during the holiday sale period. Though the significance of the discount remains to be seen.
Source: EA.
As part of Season 3, EA is bringing back classes, and reassigning specialists to them accordingly. That being said, these will likely not be part of the free play period, since the publisher says that they will only be a part of the 3.2 update.
But back to the Battlefield 2042 free access dates. For Steam, the free access period is between 2 and 6 December, after adjusting for timezone differences. As for PlayStation, the dates are between 17 and 24 December. You'll need to sign into your EA account, which may or may not prevent you from jumping into the the two different free access windows.
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A modem is a device attached to the computers that can convert digital signals to analog signal and vice- versa. Digital signal is a group of discrete electronic units that are transmitted in rapid succession and an analog signal consists of continuous electrical waves. Modem is a short name for modulator-demodulator, where modulator can convert digital signals to analog signals and demodulator does the opposite. Modem is a device that enables computers, fax machines and other equipment to communicate with each other across telephone lines or over cable television network cables. Since telephone cables can carry analog signals, the computer generated digital signal is first converted into analog form so that it can be carried by telephone lines. Upon receiving it, the modem at receiver end can understand it. Modems transmit data at different speeds, measured by the number of bits of data they send per second (bps). Examples of modem speeds are: 256 Kbps, 512 Kbps, 2mbps, etc.
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1. A modem is a device attached to the computers that can convert analog signal to digital signals and vice-versa.
2. An analog signal is a group of discrete electronic units that are transmitted in rapid succession.
3. Digital signal consists of continuous electrical waves.
(A) Only statement 1 is correct about MODEM.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to Will de Cleene, 16:59 Mar 31, 2012
Worst McCartney song:
See, I like that song. It's light and a bit fluffy but doesn't offend (and the album it was lifted from is rather fine and, after a bit of a critical lashing at the time is now seen as rather groundbreaking in its own experimental way).
There are, IMO, far, far worse in the catalogue:
The Lennon=good/McCartney=bad backlash was partially a critical thing after the end of the band that kinda changed everything. He (and Yoko) were cast as villains by the music press and then, of course, he added fuel with a steady stream of pretty drecky singles.
And then John got shot and canonised.
Hell, large parts of Double Fantasy are more drecky than much of McCartney's post Beatles work.
Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3283 posts Report Reply
James Butler, 17:00 Mar 31, 2012
I've been thinking too, and the thread ties in nicely to some other stuff I've been thinking about recently - such as why do I, and atheist of several year's standing, still go to church almost every month to sing a service? (Bear with me.) Because most music has a function, a time and place and context which enhance its meaning (and whose meaning, in return, it enhances); and bringing it out of context, so it can no longer serve that function, means losing part of that meaning. My flatmate is in his bedroom right now, (probably) surfing the internet while he listens to late-90's drum 'n' bass; he's not in a club in Birmingham in 1996, so no wonder it sounds a bit naff. Similarly none of the many settings of the Evening Service (Mag and Nunc) by C. V. Stanford are my favourite bits of choral music to sing; but in an Evensong service in a large Victorian church they make perfect sense. The Evensong service itself is a fantastic bit of poetry and pageantry, roughly contemporary with the King James Bible, and hearing it said and sung in context is worthwhile for anyone with an interest in British cultural history. In fact most of what has been said about "Music" in this thread is probably applicable to art in general.
Sorry, what was I saying? What's the function of "Sound Chaser"? Fucked if I know. Showing off your HiFi to your Oxbridge classmates maybe.
Simon Grigg, in reply to James Butler, 17:03 Mar 31, 2012
I guess my problem with much prog is it never seems to. Those 3 minute singles just nailed Yes.
Showing off your HiFi to your Oxbridge classmates maybe.
The reason of course we were plagued with Dire Straits. PolyGram did a deal with Philips and Sony to give away a free Brothers In Arms CD with every player bought for the first couple of years.
And the deal was they bought them retail - thus they charted.
Jackie Clark, in reply to James Butler, 17:08 Mar 31, 2012
See, I love hymns and I'm a nonbeliever. Even when I went to Marsden, an Anglican school where church/chapel was a part of every day life and where I became an atheist (not one anymore, but that's a different discussion), I wouldn't kneel to pray, but I always stood to sing. I mean what's not to love about this song?
Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply
Simon Grigg, in reply to Jackie Clark, 17:12 Mar 31, 2012
See, I love hymns and I'm a nonbeliever.
philipmatthews, 17:13 Mar 31, 2012
In the context of England in the early 1980s, this was a great version:
Hebe, 17:26 Mar 31, 2012
Hell will play this, on repeat. Pompous.
Heaven on the other hand will have Grace:
Russell Brown, in reply to Jackie Clark, 17:28 Mar 31, 2012
But you said you didn't like Christian music!
But I expect you meant the sub-genre we know as "Christian rock", and I honestly can't say why almost none of it seems to be any good. Prefacing any genre with the world "Christian" just seems to not work out.
On the other hand, I'll swoon for the Staples Singers.
Speaking of which, Mavis Staples' collaboration with Jeff Tweedie from Wilco made a nonsense of the boundaries of genre:
Jackie you do actually have to look at that one.
I do like this
Hilary Stace, 17:42 Mar 31, 2012
We have had a lot of rugby and national anthems in our house over the years. There is a whole genre of variable quality national anthems that we will hear later this year at the Olympics. (And maybe some stumbles like Borat's invention being played as the official Kazakhstan anthem at some international competition recently.)
Scott Chris, in reply to Sacha, 17:43 Mar 31, 2012
Amongst which audiences? I reckon Britney has more cred for a recent pop song.
Ha. Good point. In relative terms, more cred with forty-something self-deluded wannabe aficionados like me. (Actually, I have more respect for Ms Spears talents than most)
Auckland • Since Feb 2012 • 167 posts Report Reply
3410, 17:48 Mar 31, 2012
PolyGram did a deal with Philips and Sony to give away a free Brothers In Arms CD with every player bought for the first couple of years.
Wait... I always thought that was a joke.
Bad clubs and bad hair days in the eighties. Why does anyone want to live through that again?.
Still on the religious-themed songs that aren't completely hideous tangent:
Scott Chris, in reply to Danielle, 17:53 Mar 31, 2012
I suppose I think your 'that's a conditioned response!' argument isn't that relevant here. It's not as though all prog is being dismissed out of hand as worthless, for no reason. And hey, I *like* the fuckin' Eagles, to Lebowski-ise the thread.
Yeah maybe. Perhaps it's simply a case of me wanting to post the Thompson cover and making up a specious premise to fit. My sub-conscious is a mystery to me at times. Oops, gotta make dinner.
JacksonP, 17:55 Mar 31, 2012
Since we're going gospel, I do like a bit of Gregorian too.
And, speaking of heaven, there'll be dancing, right?
PS For Tracymac, having been there myself.
Track 1: Gothic Voices O Lerusalem - (Hildegard von Bingen)
Track 2: Dead Can Dance - Frontier
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Hebe, in reply to JacksonP, 18:02 Mar 31, 2012
Bound to be; and it will an embarrassment-free zone too. There will be a large sound-proofed area for prog rock (with beanbags). And good food.
James Butler, in reply to Simon Grigg, 18:04 Mar 31, 2012
The reason of course we were plagued with Dire Straits.
Related of course to the reasoning behind Days Of Future Passed - Deram wanted to show off their new recording tech for both classical and pop music, but couldn't be bothered springing for two different records to do it on. Which leaves us with juxtapositions like this:
James Butler, in reply to Russell Brown, 18:12 Mar 31, 2012
Prefacing any genre with the world "Christian" just seems to not work out.
Except, like, Church music, right? Because that's often awesome.
Sacha, in reply to James Butler, 18:23 Mar 31, 2012
no wonder it sounds a bit naff
Jackie owes you one for that dig :)
Sacha, in reply to Hebe, 18:24 Mar 31, 2012
Heaven on the other hand will have Grace
love that track
Simon Grigg, in reply to 3410, 18:29 Mar 31, 2012
Not at all. It was negotiated by Ed Bicknell, the DS manager in 1984, and it was DDD digitally recorded specifically for that purpose when the CD was heavily mass-marketed for the first time in 1985.
He then got all grumpy and sued Phonogram a few years later for putting a 75% royalty deduction in place for 'New Technologies' i.e. CD, on the deal that he'd put together - and continuing to deduct it for years after the CD was the dominant format.
Thus the artists were obliged to pay for the technology they were promoting.
Those wacky record companies....


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844 ANTON POHL IN WIEN.
A SUPERB QUALITY MONTH DURATION MAHOGANY LATERNDLUHR BY THIS EMINENT MAKER. CIRCA 1835.
An extremely elegant and attractive mahogany Laterndluhr. The case of fine proportions has an ogee pedimented roof to the lift off hood. It has the typical lift out trunk and base doors with glazing to all three sides. The doors and the glazed panels are strung with boxwood, as is the architectural top.
The month duration weight driven movement is of the finest quality. It has end stops throughout the train and a relatively narrow plate separation to avoid flexing. The wheel work is beautifully crossed out with six crossings to the larger wheels and five crossings to the others. It has a Graham deadbeat escapement, maintaining power and a particularly large great wheel with a small diameter barrel which protrudes out of the back of the movement. The large great wheel and small diameter barrel enables the clock to have a month duration with only four wheels in the train, the same number as you would find in a week duration clock. It has the usual beat adjustment at the bottom of the crutch.
The two piece dial is a particularly fine feature of the clock. It has a beautiful fire gilded cast bezel and the centre of the dial is beautifully engine turned and also fire gilded. The main chapter ring is silvered with Roman numerals and an outside minute ring, and there is a silvered seconds ring below XII and a signature plaque above VI signed for the maker Anton Pohl in Wien. It has beetle and poker blued steel hands.
The heavy brass bob pendulum has a steel rod and a rating nut at the bottom. It runs against a silvered beat plaque mounted in the bottom of the case. The brass cased weight is off set to the left. There is a blued steel plaque attached to the top of the pendulum engraved Meisterstück. This would normally signify that this was the masterpiece clock produced by the maker for admission to the Guild as a Master Clockmaker. However, it is more normal for the movement to be engraved and dated.
Anton Pohl was born in 1803, and was working in Brunn and Gebirge at the beginning of his career. He was working in Vienna from about 1830, and was admitted as a Viennese Master by 1835. He died in 1856.
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Before liberalisation of Indian Economy, career in finance was perceived as a back office record keeping job; but after the liberalisation it has become much more challenging and interesting. Today, it is seen as a career that provides greater roles in decision making, planning and controlling operations in any organisation.
No doubt, Chartered Accountancy course has enjoyed wide popularity but CMA and CS courses too have been gaining popularity over the last few years. Particularly, growth in numbers of students enrolled for CMA is far more than any other course in India. This is because of cost awareness amongst the business entrepreneurs due to growing competition in the market, and this has resulted in increased demand for CMA.
Although all three course are good and guarantees a secure future but I would limit my article to "Career as a CMA" – as a lot have already been written about the other two courses.
A CMA is a person who performs services involving costing, pricing of goods and services, verification or certification of Cost Records and Taxation, especially in Indirect Taxation.
Unlike pure accounting professionals, the demand for CMA cuts across functions in all organizations. In marketing department, he is required to prepare the quotation, in production department he is required to advice on the profitable product mix, in purchase department for taking make or buy decisions and in top management for identifying business risks and their mitigation.
Not only are these, CMAs also working in the fields of Taxation, Valuation, Risk Management, etc. We may, therefore, say, CMAs are ALLROUNDERS rather than mere batsmen or bowlers.
Earlier only Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) Companies offered job to CMAs, but in the last few years trends have changed. Now almost all enterprises/ companies show their interest in giving job to CMAs. It has shown in Institutes' campus placement where, apart from PSUs, companies such as ITC, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Wipro, Ashok Leyland, Ford etc. are regular recruiters.
Nowadays, with multi-product ventures taking place, it has become important to know and understand the exact cost of every product and service at different stages to minimize the expenditure incurred on them and to ensure optimum utilization of resources. This is where the role of Cost Accountant comes and that is the reason behind increase in demand of the CMAs.
As mention above, a CMA is an ALLROUNDER rather than mere a batsman or a bowler, -apart from cost related assignments, we find CMAs doing jobs as Manager – Taxation, Manager – Accounts, Manager – Credit etc in many companies. Many CMAs are holding top management positions, viz., Managing Director, Finance Director, Financial Controller, Cost Controller, Chief Internal Auditor, CEO, CFO etc.
Besides this, the Institute of Cost Accounts (ICAI) has entered into MoUs with many accounting bodies across the Globe which is creating job opportunities for CMAs abroad too.
Realising the importance of the profession of the Cost and Management Accountancy in the economic development of the nation, the Central Government has constituted an All India Cadre known as Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICAS) at par with other Class-I services such as IAS, IFS etc. to advise the Government in cost pricing and in framing the appropriate fiscal and tax policies. CMAs are eligible for Indian Cost Accounts Service/Job.
& University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified, CMA with First Class Graduation can be appoint as Assistant Professor in universities and colleges in the area of Management/ Business Administration.
& Various Universities (36 till today) have recognized CMA qualification for the purpose of admission in PhD in Commerce. It enables CMAs to pursue PhD without any master degree.
In the job market both professional accountant i.e. CA and CMA, are treated as equivalent. It is in the field of practice, in which CAs has more scope than CMAs but this situation is changing too, – all thanks to Notifications and Cost Orders issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA).
Every company on which Companies (Cost Accounting Records), Rules 2011 (CARR 2011) apply, (Covering Lakhs of Companies) shall keep Cost Records on regular basis and submit a Compliance Report, in respect of each of its financial year duly certified by a Cost Accountant, to the Central Government.
Almost all organizations / industries engaged in Production, Processing, Manufacturing, Mining to which CARR 2011 applies are now covered under Annual Cost Audit (MCA order 52/26/ CAB 2010 dated 06Nov 12). Only Cost Accounts are authorized to sign Cost Audit Report.
States have authorised Cost Accountants for auditing, certification of returns and to appear as authorised representative on behalf of their clients under the relevant Acts.
3. Certificate of Cost of production of captive consumed goods as per Rule 8 of Central Excise Act, 1944 in accordance with CAS-4.
4. Certificate for Average Cost of transportation as per Rule 5 of the Central Excise Valuation (Determination of Price of Excisable Goods) Rules, 2000.
6. As per MOU with CBEC, CMAs are authorised to act as facilitators under CFC Scheme in filing various Excise and Service Tax Returns.
& MCA has authorized CMAs for certification of returns and various forms required by a company from its Incorporation to Liquidation. CMAs are also authorized to appear as authorized representatives on behalf of their clients before Company Law Board.
CMAs can certify DGFT Documents under Foreign Trade Policy. Under the EXIM Policy and Procedure, CMAs can certify all Documents which are required by Exporters.
Parliament Standing Committee has suggested inclusion of Cost Accountants in "Accountant" definition under Direct Tax Code. This will authorized CMA to do Tax Audit.
Certification of Application for License and renewal thereof to act as Surveyor and Loss Assessor under Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority.
Certification of various forms prescribed under the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission.
& Compliance Audit for the purpose lending under Consortium Arrangement / Multiple Banking Arrangements, banks are required to obtain regular certification from professional like CMAs regarding compliance of various statutory prescriptions that are in vogue.
Stock Audit and Concurrent Audit of many Public Sector and Private Sector Banks.
CMAs are authorized for certification of various forms prescribed under Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP).
Empanelled by many Public and Private Companies and Cooperative Societies as Internal Auditor for auditing financial books of accounts.
Apart from above services, Central & State Governments, Companies, Banks have empanelled CMAs for variety of work such as Cost Management, ERP, Financial Management, Project Consultancy, Materials Management, Tax Planning, Revival of Sick Units, Incentive Plans, Energy Audit etc.
Even after all this, one may not agree that scope in Practice is equal for both CAs & CMAs. I would like to say one thing, there is no doubt that CAs have more scope in practice as even a General Stores requires Tax Audit but the number of practicing CAs are far more than this and in CMAs, work-to-be-done is more than practicing CMAs.
In today's world, apart from Degree / Qualification, one should have below mention qualities in his personality to have successful career as CMA.
Passion for learning. It is more required in case of practising CMAs, as they themselves says – they are doing practise (means still learning) no matter how many years they have spent on practice i.e. learning.
Thank you for the detailed explanation.it was rather motivational and inspiring in an atmosphare where people compare this course with CA directly when they both have diff roles and work area.
Hello Sir, I'm a CMA inter student. Your article was very knowledgeable. Thank you so much for the information that you have provided to all upcoming cma's. I found it very helpful. Thank you.
Thankyou for furnishing these information regarding CMA, its very much beneficial. I am going to appear for CMA inter in DEC. 2017. From the point of job prospect i would like to know that what goverment job can I have access on after becomming a CMA also if there is any scope in RBI for the same. kindly help me with a detail description of it.
Sir I am ami b.com graduate.. I want to know that what will be the opportunity for me….. And what kind of salary expect due to the practice prio….?
I am a student cma foundation. and i am from arts background. I passed my Higher Secondary exam on 2011 and i will appear for foundation December 2015 so can u tell me that when I will complete CMA final will i face problem to get a job coz my year drop? pls reply me as soon as possible.
Really a nice article sir.Quite motivating for the students, as well as the young Professional.All the key points were discussed briefly.
AUDIT IN COMPANIES ACT IS A COST, FINANCIAL & MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS AUDIT. HERE ONLY CMAS BE ALLOWED TO FURNISH THE SAME (ANNUAL REPORT PRESUMED TO BE UNDERSTANDABLE BY MEMBERS OF PUBLIC INDICATES THE SAME). REASON BEING CAS ARE AUTHORISED TO WORK IN THE AREA OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS ONLY. WHEREAS IN INCOME-TAX ACT, IT IS A TAX LAW AUDIT. THEREFORE ALL PERSONS AUTHORISED TO PREPARE RETURN UNDER RULE 12A READ WITH SECTION 288(2) OF INCOME-TAX ACT, BE ALLOWED TO FURNISH TAX LAW AUDIT REPORT U/S 44AB. HERE MORE STRESS GIVEN TO INTERPRETATION OF LAW. THEREFORE, DECISION OF LEARNED OFFICIALS IN FINANCE MINISTRY TO EXPAND THE DEFINITION OF ACCOUNTANT IN DTC TO INCLUDE RELATED PROFESSIONAL IS APPROPRIATE. I MIGHT HAVE USED THE WORD MOST APPROPRIATE, IF TAX ADVOCATES AND INCOME-TAX PRACTITIONERS WERE ALSO INCLUDED IN DEFINITION OF ACCOUNTANT IN DTC-2013. AS CBDT COULD NOT GET SECTION WISE WRONG CLAIMS IN TAX AUDIT REPORT FURNISHED BY CAS SINCE 1984 TO CONCLUDE QUALITY ASSESSMENT, WHY 2ND OPINION ABOUT EXPANDING THE DEFINITION OF ACCOUNTANT IN INCOME-TAX ACT/DIRECT TAXES CODE.
i have appeared intermediate 2nd year MPC exams and waiting for results.
can u please advice where shall i get the colleges in andhra pradesh to study this CMA course. please advice.
Please let me know which has higher recognition in India – CMA(US) by IMA or CIMA UK?
sir thanks for givving us such imp knowledge…. pls give me some information about governent services in field of commerce….
Please give me information about GST. How to calculate GST. Give me recent best book name with author.
I am waiting your reply.


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"Selfies are the new autographs" and Steven Galanis (CEO of Cameo) is capitalizing on that. Steve Grzanich and Steve discussed the breakdown of how the Cameo app is repackaging the autograph, by providing consumers with the option to buy personalized video shout outs from celebrities, how they overcome adversity, and their growth path. Jon Jesse (Vice President of Industry Development at the International Home and Housewares Association) then looked ahead to next week (March 2nd-5th) to preview the 2019 International Home + Houseware Show coming to the McCormick Place.


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Meet The Madam: Epstein Arrest Casts Spotlight On Clinton-Linked Socialite
Questions swirl around role of Ghislaine Maxwell in Epstein's trafficking crimes
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Image Credits: Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images.
Following the arrest of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein last Saturday, many outlets have turned their attention to his longtime confiante, socialite heiress Ghislaine Maxwell – who has been accused by three women of procuring and training young girls to perform massage and sexual acts on the 66-year-old registered sex offender and his associates.
Maxwell, 57, comes from money. Her father was publisher Robert Maxwell – who himself faced accusations of being a Mossad double (and possibly triple) agent and a "bad character" who was "almost certainly financed by Russia," according to the British Foreign Office.
Robert Maxwell died in 1991 when he fell from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine – however the circumstances surrounding his demise have been rife with speculation (including that it was a Mossad assassination – a theory which attorney and longtime Epstein associate Alan Dershowitz slammed in a 2003 op-ed).
It is unknown exactly how Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell met – however they reportedly dated around 1992, shortly after her father's death. After breaking up, they remained good friends. In 1995, Epstein renamed a now-defunct Palm Beach company "Ghislaine Corp," which was dissolved in 1998 per the Wall Street Journal. In 2003, Epstein described Maxwell as his "best friend," who was not on his payroll – yet "seems to organize much of his life."
The Oxford-educated Maxwell, described by many as a man-eater (she flies her own helicopter and was recently seen dining with [Bill]Clinton at Nello's on Madison Avenue), lives in her own townhouse a few blocks away. Epstein is frequently seen around town with a bevy of comely young women but there has been no boldfaced name to replace Maxwell. "You may read about Jeffrey in the social columns, but there is much more to him than that," says Jeffrey T. Leeds of the private equity firm Leeds Weld & Co. –New York Magazine (2002)
Maxwell also attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding – and has been linked to other prominent people such as Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz.
Here's Ghislaine Maxwell, by many accounts Jeffrey Epstein's "pimp" and "groomer of girls" at Chelsea Clinton's wedding. pic.twitter.com/leBUwqoWnT
— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) July 7, 2019
Accusations of recruiting underage girls
Maxwell was accused by alleged Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre of recruiting the then-15-year-old into sexual slavery while she was working at a towel girl at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.
Giuffre asserts in her complaint that Maxwell, the sole defendant in the suit and the daughter of late publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, routinely recruited underaged girls for Epstein and was doing so when she approached the $9-an-hour locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 1999 about giving massages to the wealthy investment banker.
Giuffre alleges that Maxwell ultimately trained her in how to give "massages" to Epstein that involved sex acts and, essentially, prostitution. When Maxwell publicly denied the allegations and called Giuffre a liar in 2015, that gave her the opening to head to federal court and file the defamation suit now headed for trial. –Politico
According to court filings, Maxwell was said to have hired, supervised and fired household staff, while directing the visits of dozens of "massage therapists" to Epstein's residence, according to the Journal.
In depositions taken in 2009 and 2010 as part of civil lawsuits against Mr. Epstein, household employees said Ms. Maxwell was a central figure in Mr. Epstein's private life. Several said Ms. Maxwell hired, supervised, and fired household staff, while directing the visits of dozens of "massage therapists"—typically young women.
Juan Alessi, who said in one of the depositions that he served as the Palm Beach house manager from around 1992 through 2002, described a basket of sex toys in Ms. Maxwell's bathroom closet. He said he would find them around when he cleaned up after visits from the young women. –WSJ
Maxwell was accused in a 2014 court filing of being a "co-conspirator in Epstein's sexual abuse" and of taking "numerous sexually explicit pictures of underage girls involved in sexual activities," which included Giuffre. Maxwell has called the claims "obvious lies."
The accusations were made as early as 2009 in lawsuits covering conduct that allegedly occurred from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Together with the federal indictment in New York against Mr. Epstein, the civil cases describe an enterprise centered on procuring and sexually exploiting young women, and intimidating them into silence.
One accuser in a 2017 lawsuit called Ms. Maxwell "the highest-ranking employee" of that alleged enterprise, a role in which she was said to have had managed Mr. Epstein's household and his sex life. –WSJ
While Maxwell hasn't been charged in connection with any of Epstein's activities, however more information on their relationship is expected to be revealed in the coming weeks. Prior to Epstein's arrest, a federal appeals court in New York ordered the unsealing of up to 2,000 pages of court documents from a 2017 lawsuit against Maxwell – a decision her attorney says they will challenge.
Alex Jones presents video footage of President Trump's press conference on the White House lawn where he reiterates that he isn't friends with Jeffrey Epstein and once threw him out of his club.


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Driverless cars may be more likely to hit dark-skinned people, study finds
Concerning research has found that self-driving cars may be more likely to run over dark-skinned pedestrians as a result of the detection system used.
Ally Foster@allyjfoster
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More than 50 per cent of drivers won't feel safe in driverless cars: study
More than 50 per cent of Australian drivers say they will not feel safe in driverless vehicles, according to a national study about the future of transport. The survey also revealed more than 30 per cent of people believe autonomous vehicles should be used only to transport goods and not people. NRMA's Peter Khoury told Sky News despite the concerns, driverless vehicles have the potential to make roads safer.
Disturbing issue with driverless cars. Picture: Predictive Inequity in Pedestrian DetectionSource:Supplied
There are concerns that self-driving cars may pose a serious threat to some members of the public after a study found that the cars are less likely to detect people with darker skin.
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology found automated vehicles were better at detecting people with lighter skin tones.
The paper, titled Predictive Inequity in Object Detection, raised concerns that pedestrians with dark skin could have a higher risk of being run over by these vehicles.
There have already been cases of pedestrians being hit by self-driving cars, including the woman who was killed in the US by a driverless Uber in 2018.
Situations such as this prove that there are already risks to pedestrians that need to be considered.
The study found the detection technology was less accurate when identifying dark skinned pedestrians. Picture: Predictive Inequity in Pedestrian DetectionSource:Supplied
"This behaviour suggests that future errors made by autonomous vehicles may not be evenly distributed across different demographic groups," the study read.
"A natural question to ask is which pedestrians these systems detect with lower fidelity, and why they display this behaviour."
The study used the Fitzpatrick scale, a system that classifies different skin tones, and fed the different images into the object detection technology used in these driverless cars.
Researchers then analysed how often the system correctly detected the presence of people in the dark-skinned group compared to those in the light-skinned group.
The results proved unsettling, revealing on average the technology was 5 per cent less accurate in detecting people with dark skin tones.
The academics also accounted for factors like time of day, lighting and other objects that may have obstructed the detection system's view.
This has raised concerns that driverless cars may pose more of a threat to certain people. Picture: Predictive Inequity in Pedestrian DetectionSource:Supplied
This means that the disparity between detections is not just a result of dark skinned people in the images "appearing in more difficult scenes for detection", according to the study.
One of the authors of the study, Jamie Morgenstern, told Vox the companies using these detection technologies may need to have other systems in place as well.
"The main takeaway from our work is that vision systems that share common structures to the ones we tested should be looked at more closely," Ms Morgenstern said.
Though the findings were concerning, it has been pointed out that there were some flaws in the research.
Researchers were unable to test the object detection models actually being used by self-driving car manufacturers, as these companies don't want to make their personal data available for that purpose.
This means that they had to instead had to use already publicly available datasets and test different models that have already been used by other researchers.
The Robot Uprising is coming. For real.
From robot vacuums to DIY checkouts, find out how our love of technology helped kick-start the inevitable robot uprising as the 'automation industry' looks set to take 800 million jobs from humans by 2030.
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Dundalk director to screen internationally acclaimed horror film at An Tain
Director Aislinn Clarke
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Director, Aislinn Clarke, will introduce her debut feature film, The Devil's Doorway, at An Táin Arts Centre on January 29th, 2019.
Clarke, originally from Fatima and former pupil of Gaelscoil Dún Dealgan & Coláiste Rís, is the first Irish woman to write and direct an Internationally-distributed horror film.
The Devil's Doorway premiered in competition at the Seattle International Film Festival, before opening in cinemas across the US in July 2018.
The unsettling film, set in a Magdalene Laundry in 1960, has been released in cinemas across South America, as well as being distributed in Japan, the Middle East, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia, and across Europe.
The film is included in Rotten Tomatoes Best Horror Films of 2018 and has appeared on several critic's Best of lists.
Clarke, who is a lecturer in screenwriting and film at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast, is an award-winning film-maker, who was this year nominated for Screen International Genre Rising Star and the Bingham Ray New Talent award at the Galway Film Fleadh, among other accolades.
This will be the first public screening of the acclaimed film in her hometown.
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Jupiter – New View
Bonus: The Moonraker (James Bond) score works great even if the obvious (and maybe overused) choice would have been Holst's track.
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Hubble finds 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought. NBD.
One of the most fundamental questions in astronomy is that of just how many galaxies the universe contains. The landmark Hubble Deep Field, taken in the mid-1990s, gave the first real insight into the universe's galaxy population. Subsequent sensitive observations such as Hubble's Ultra Deep Field revealed a myriad of faint galaxies. This led to an estimate that the observable universe contained about 200 billion galaxies.
The new research shows that this estimate is at least 10 times too low.
@ nasa.gov
Juno.
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th, 3 million miles distant. The innermost moon is volcanic Io; next in line is the ice-crusted ocean world Europa, followed by massive Ganymede, and finally, heavily cratered Callisto. Galileo observed these moons to change position with respect to Jupiter over the course of a few nights. From this observation he realized that the moons were orbiting mighty Jupiter, a truth that forever changed humanity's understanding of our place in the cosmos. Earth was not the center of the Universe. For the first time in history, we look upon these moons as they orbit Jupiter and share in Galileo's revelation. This is the motion of nature's harmony.
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Shock Breakout: Exploding Star
The brilliant flash of an exploding star's shockwave—what astronomers call the "shock breakout" — is illustrated in this cartoon animation. The animation begins with a view of a red supergiant star that is 500 times bigger and 20,000 brighter than our sun. When the star's internal furnace can no longer sustain nuclear fusion its core to collapses under gravity. A shockwave from the implosion rushes upward through the star's
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Earth in 4k from ISS
The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven of its crew on February 1, 2003—a tragedy made worse because it didn't have to happen. But just as it is human nature to look to the future and wonder what might be, so too is it in our nature to look at the past and wonder, "what if?" Today, 13 years after the event, Ars is rerunning our detailed 2014 examination of the biggest Columbia "what if" of all—what if NASA had recognized the danger? Could NASA have done something to save the crew?
@ arstechnica.com
What we'll do in space by 2016. Er…they
With such rapid expansion of capability, it may seem difficult to tell what the next 60 years will bring, much less the next century. But we never do anything in space without first imagining what we could do, so in that spirit, here is an attempt to predict—and nudge us into—the future.
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It's probably not aliens
That left some speculation about, um, aliens. While it's incredibly unlikely, it does kinda fit what we're seeing. An advanced civilization would have big energy requirements, and it would make sense to build huge structures around their star to capture as much light as possible for solar power. The dips in light we see are then these "megastructures" passing in front of the star (some people call this a Dyson Swarm; a collection of enormous solar panels enclosing the star).
American satellite started transmitting 46 years after being abandoned in 1967
An Amateur Radio Astronomer in North Cornwall accidentally picked up the signal in 2013 and after cross checking with various lists, has identified it as LES1 built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and launched in 1965. The satellite failed to reach its intended orbit owing to a wiring error and has been drifting out of control ever since.
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When I dip, you dip, we SPICY MUSTARD dip! We breakfast boarded last week, so we're on to slightly healthier adventures this week; a colorful veggie board with our Spicy Parmesan Mustard Dip. Cue the drool emoji because this 3 ingredient dip will have you coming back for more. Do you like Spicy Stout Mustard? Parmesan Cheese? Mayo? Good, then you're gonna love this. Just mix it all together and voila, you're done!
Spicy Parmesan Mustard Dip is obviously delicious with veggies (come on, do you not want to eat this whole board above?), but it's also super good with just about anything. Try it with potato chips, pretzels or pita chips. Spread it on a sandwich or dip some chicken in it! You could also put it in a small baking dish with spinach and artichokes and bake at 350 for 30 minutes for a warm dip!
If that doesn't make you reach for your jar of Spicy Stout mustard, we don't know what will! Oh, and bonus, if you're out of mustard, it's the perfect week to stock up. We have 3 for $25 happening online now through Friday (3/29)!
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Resilience and flexibility: How Visit Florida built wellbeing into remote working
We're facing one of the greatest global health challenges of the last one hundred years – but how can we promote social and mental wellbeing during a year of uncertainty? We spoke to Dana Young, CEO and President at Visit Florida, to understand how lessons learned from their continued fight for survival allowed the organisation not only to thrive during the pandemic, but to support the wellbeing of their employees throughout the stress of the last six months.
Thank you for joining us, Dana. I have to start with the biggest question, which has to be around COVID-19. What was the biggest learning for you and your team from the crisis and the early steps of recovery?
Clearly COVID-19 wasn't something that any of us saw coming – maybe we should have, but we didn't, and certainly no one saw how long and how devastating this would be on our economies and our daily lives. The name of game is uncertainty, right? We're living in a very uncertain time.
For Visit Florida, we're in a very unique position to deal with uncertainty. When they talk about making lemonade out of lemons, that's pretty much what we've been able to do. We 've been an organisation which has had to deal with tremendous uncertainty over the past four years, and the last two years dealing with government and legislative issues that may have made our organisation completely go away. So with that, we've become a very stream-lined, very focussed, and very resilient organisation – and we've learned to be incredibly flexible in how we do business.
That actually leads on quite neatly to my next question. Many destination marketing organisations are facing serious financial challenges in the coming years. As a DMO which has been quite visible in your advocacy and your fight for continued funding, do you have a top tip for organisations looking to diversify or to secure their current funding?
In terms of funding, there are many models out there. We're funded by state dollars, at least half by rental car surcharges, so our money does come from the state government and then we match that one to one. And yes, we've been very involved in advocacy for funding and, frankly, for existence for the last four years.
I guess my top tip is to start collecting data – and I'd hope that they're already collecting data now! Advocacy has to be based on data, DMOs need to be able to show their worth, show their ROI, and that always needs to be back up by irrefutable data. Collect the data that you need down the road now, so that you're ready to use it later?
We study everything we do, and everything we do is tracked and backed by data. We're tracking KPIs on every single piece of content that we put out there. We track sentiment analysis. We look at the ROIs on the ad campaigns – we're able to show that we spent $1,000, and we gained £1,000,000 in value. That's quite a compelling argument, though it's just an example. Being able to track the success of various campaigns is really critical, and it takes a lot of work, it costs money to do it, but we found that it's an investment worth making because we can show that even those who are not easily convinced that what we do is important.
Looking forwards then – and you've mentioned already that you've been increasingly flexible in your approach over the past few years anyway - are you rethinking your internal structure to be more resilient in the future?
I think any organisation should always be looking to the future and be trying to make themselves better, and more efficient. COVID-19 or not, that should be a goal of any organisation. But as I mentioned before, Visit Florida has been put into the streamlining mode in the past few years and in fact, in a little less than two years, I'm at 50% of our staff. That has really forced us to really think about our mission, to be very goal-focussed, and as decisions present themselves, to always be putting it through the lens of 'does this help us to accomplish our mission.' And if it does, then we figure out how to do it and we do it well, and if it doesn't, then there are things have gone by the wayside.
Our agency structure that we've revised over the past few years is very scalable, and so that's allowed us through very good times and very rough times to keep same agencies in place and do the same types of projects with them, but in a scaled way depending on the environment. With the staff now working remotely, we are very focussed on communication, and making sure that we're communicating across silos, and that everything is done for the accomplishment of our mission: to bring people to Florida, and now with our in-state campaigns, to get Floridians to travel within the state of Florida, and to harness the pride that Floridians have to live in such a wonderful place to support our local businesses.
I'll come back to your in-state campaign in a moment, but you also mentioned having your staff working from home. As the CEO and President, what has been the hardest shift for you as you moved from the office into any number of homes across Florida? Are you planning on adapting your workplace when it becomes safe to return to the office based on this?
It's been a learning curve, as I assume for it has been for most organisations out there. Very few organisations are 100% remote all the time. I have to say, I always appreciated our IT team, but I never appreciated them as much as I do today. For one thing, they were extremely proactive. From early February, they on their own said "We may need to be working remotely. We probably won't be, but why don't we start that process? Why don't we start making sure everyone's laptops are up to speed and have the most current software, that we have enough internet hot spots for people without good internet in their homes?"
The efforts of our IT team made that transition so much easier than it would have been otherwise, because when we did go remote, we were ready. We had the laptops for everyone. We had the equipment that we needed. We had Zoom and other options already in our bag of tools. Then it was just a matter of getting used to multi-time daily zooming, but being able to get that right – even just people learning to get their laptop set right so they weren't looking up or down was a huge help.
We are thinking about changing the way we work. We don't have any answers yet, but our lease expires in April 2022 in our current location. We had planned to probably relocate, but now we're having to think really hard about what the next office would look like and how it would function, and how much space would we really need. We haven't missed a beat when working remotely, so it's a question – and it's not answered yet – of what do you need at headquarters, and what can you accomplish remotely. Our timing is pretty good, because we can figure out what does work and what doesn't, but so far, it's all worked fantastically.
As an organisation, Visit Florida is still working 100% remotely. I've been in the office a little bit, and some of our executives come in and out for various reasons, but for the most part we're still remote and will be for quite some time. It's a decision point that I need to focus on soon, which is when will we be ready to bring everyone back. It's still to be determined. We've got children – there's a variety of in-person learning for school children and zoom based learning and parents make that decision. It's really rocked the world for several of our employees, particularly those who have several school aged children at home. It's tough to talk about coming back to the office when you might have four children learning virtually at home.
The experience of the pandemic has been very different for individuals. Have you been able to do much as an organisation to help support your employees throughout the stress of the past six months?
Our employees are the heart of our organisation and we have a lot of very talented, creative, wonderful people. When we were in the office, we were very close and personal organisation, so the challenge – which I believe we've met very well! – is to try and preserve that personal connection that's so important to Visit Florida. As we're constantly on calls, we try to do zooms rather than conference calls so we can see each other, but we also try to do things that are fun, we try to celebrate important life events, like birthdays or the birth of a child – the things that are important and that if we'd been together, we absolutely would have had cupcakes to celebrate together.
We've had a few after hours wine and zooms to toast one another after the workday. We had a pet parade that someone organised – that was fun! Everyone had their pets with them and introduced them to the group. It was a fun event. I think just having some fun even if we're remote. Remote working doesn't mean truly remote – we can still stay connected, and we've been really working to do that.
Do you have any other suggestions for CEOs who are looking to support their employees' mental wellbeing through the pandemic and beyond?
I'd just reiterate that just because an organisation is working remotely does not mean that you have to lose the personal connections that keep your organisation at its best. Making sure that the organisation is constantly in communication across all departments and siloes is very important. We've actually refined some of that working from home even better than when we were all in the office because we took for granted that we were cross-pollinating and that people were sharing information, and maybe we weren't doing it as well as we could have been because now we're doing it in a very robust way and it's working well. So my suggestion is for people to look for ways to keep communication strong, and not to lose that personal connection.
I was reading that 'quality of life' was going to be a major element of your plans going forwards. Can you tell me more about what this will mean for your strategy?
Pre-COVID, we had just completed our strategic plan for the coming several years, quality of life was incorporated as part of that. This is a living, breathing document that we'll continue to refine with our board and our committees, but the idea is that Florida is the best place to vacation, and that Floridians are so fortunate to live here. That's the core of our in-state marketing campaign that's in market right now. We live here, because we love here.
Tourism impacts every Floridian in a positive way by improving their quality of life; there are more restaurants to go to, there are more cultural assets available, there is more funding for those things that make a community liveable like good infrastructure, parks, schools – all those things that contribute to quality of life. Here in Florida, tourism is our number one industry, so it's also the key to quality of life. What we're trying to do in this strategic plan and in our marketing campaigns going forwards it to even better connect the dots between tourism in the state of Florida and quality of life for our residents here. We're very fortunate to live in the place where the world vacations.
Destinations within the state of Florida are constantly looking at ways to reinvent themselves and make themselves new and fresh again. We never want anyone to feel like they've been there and done that, we're always looking to provide that fresh view. We're looking at not only reinventing the destination itself in terms of the way that it's marketed, but also looking at making sure that the destinations are able to effectively communicate how they contribute to their individual communities. As I mentioned earlier, our instate campaign is really looking to re-awaken the pride that Floridians feel for living in the state where the world vacations, and reminding people how fortunate they are. Even with COVID, here we are in this beautiful, sunny place surrounded by water and beaches. It really lends itself to being outside in a wonderful, safe environment. So, reminding Floridians how lucky they are and then using that to connect in their minds why tourism is important.
We've been really looking at ecotourism in recent years as an area that's important particularly to our international travels, pushing that conservation message that is so important in Florida. If we don't have clean water, if we don't have pristine beaches, if we aren't taking care of our environment then we wouldn't be the amazing destination that we are. So making sure people understand why it's important to keep our state clean and preserve the environment people enjoy spending time in is also key to our messaging.
Lastly, are you hoping to collaborate more with other organisations during your recovery – either with your key stakeholders or with other destinations?
Collaboration is the heart of our model, that's how we market. We have over 13,000 industry partners here in the state of Florida. Some are very large destinations like Disney, Universal, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville – big areas of the state – all the way down to small players like a kayak rental organisation or a small, old motel on the beach that's reinvented itself. We have partners throughout the spectrum, and we have very robust marketing programmes that are available to everyone.
In addition, during the COVID rebound, we are co-investing at an unprecedented level on media for our rebound campaign. It's a level that I doubt is seen much in the world right now, but we're here to support our partners and they are financially challenged right now. We as an organisation – and with amazingly stable funding right now! – are able to step in to lift up the whole state and collaborate across all spectrums of the tourism industry in Florida.
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December 6, 2018 / 7:23 AM / 7 months ago
Facebook CEO backed sharing customer data despite second thoughts: documents
Paresh Dave
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg questioned the business case for giving millions of outside software developers wide access to customer data before endorsing the practice in 2012, according to internal emails published on Wednesday.
FILE PHOTO: Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Viva Tech start-up and technology summit in Paris, France, May 24, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo
The decision made it possible for a quiz app to gather data on about 87 million Facebook users the following year, and later share the information with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Donald Trumps' presidential campaign.
Zuckerberg lamented his choice in a Facebook post on Wednesday, saying that cracking down a year earlier could have helped the company avoid a privacy scandal that has tarred its reputation.
The CEO's 2012 emails, obtained by a British government panel investigating Facebook, provide an unusual window into the internal deliberations over the critical strategic question of how much customer data the social network should share.
Facebook had recently gone public and was counting on third-party apps such as games to help drive growth.
But Zuckerberg questioned whether such apps and the data they sent back to Facebook were producing sufficient increases in usage and revenue.
"In theory, we want information, but are the posts developers are giving us actually valuable?" Zuckerberg wrote in response to a lengthy email from a lieutenant. "They don't seem to be for targeting (content) and I doubt they drive meaningful increases in engagement either."
A proposed alternative was charging apps for access to Facebook user data, though such a move would have likely limited the number of apps that worked with Facebook, Zuckerberg wrote in one message.
Facebook stayed the course, with Zuckerberg rejecting fees in late 2012.
"The purpose of the platform is to tie the universe of all the social apps together so we can enable a lot more sharing and still remain the central hub," he said in an email to several top executives. "This finds the right balance between ubiquity, reciprocity and profit."
By 2014, Facebook had moved to restrict the free promotion and wide data access from which outside developers benefited. Though the tools and data remained free, they became less valuable to many app makers.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The deliberations in the late 2012 emails focused on profit rather than privacy.
Zuckerberg and senior leaders debated how data-exchange deals with companies like Spotify and Pinterest could generate revenue, believing that Facebook was getting less benefit from the arrangement than its partners.
Zuckerberg loosely proposed the idea of charging apps 10 cents for every user data request, a fee he estimated would cost Spotify and Pinterest about $3 million annually, according to one email.
In another thread, he and Sam Lessin, a director of product management, weighed the consequences.
Facebook had "maximized profit" from games integrating with Facebook by charging them a fee, Zuckerberg said.
But charging had led the best games to abandon Facebook's services, Lessin said, and he was "not proud" of those that remained. Lessin did not respond to a request to comment.
A person holds a smartphone with the Facebook logo in front of displayed "top secret" and "email" words, in this picture illustration taken December 6, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Ultimately, Zuckerberg in the emails stuck with the goal he had set when launching the developer tools years earlier: Get people to share more items on Facebook.
In its IPO filing, the company said working with other apps was "key" to increasing usage of Facebook and had improved its ability to personalize news feeds.
If Facebook made it easy for more apps to integrate social features, Zuckerberg wrote months later, "we should be able to unlock more sharing in the world and on Facebook."
Reporting by Paresh Dave; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Neil Fullick


Canadian immigration programs can be segmented into three broad categories, namely the economic programs, the Family Class programs, and refugee/humanitarian programs. In all three categories, 2016 can be described as an exceptional year. The new Liberal government saw opportunities to improve programs across the board and, by working in tandem with provincial partners, they managed to increase the number of new arrivals, reduce processing times, and give more people the opportunity to fulfil their life dream of coming to Canada.
Of course, it's the details that matter. Just how did this positive Canadian vision for immigration come about? Who was involved, who benefited, and why? Let's cast our minds back to this time last year.
As the year began, the new government had only been in office for two months. John McCallum had been named as the new Minister of Immigration, and one of the first acts was to re-brand what had been known as Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). It was around this time that IRCC was heavily focused on the government's election promise to settle tens of thousands of refugees from Syria, an effort that was widely commended and ultimately successful.
On the Family Class front, the Parent and Grandparent Program (PGP) application cycle proved immensely popular, with IRCC accepting 10,000 applications for processing after more than 14,000 applications were received within three days.
There were also developments in the economic programs. Quebec loosened the eligibility criteria for its skilled worker program and launched a new online application management system called Mon Projet Québec, Alberta began accepting new applications again under the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program, and the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program reopened all categories, some of which reached their intake caps within days. In addition, there were three Express Entry draws, with a total of 4,449 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) issued in January alone.
2016 was a year in which the Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs) became more dynamic than ever before. In February, British Columbia launched its Skills Immigration Registration System (SIRS), a new system for ranking and selecting workers and international graduates through most categories of the BC PNP. This includes categories aligned with the federal Express Entry system, as well as certain 'base' categories that are processed outside that system. Over the course of the year (up to the time of writing), BC has issued more than 6,000 Invitations to Apply for immigration to the province through the SIRS.
The federal Express Entry system continued to invite candidates to apply for permanent residence. The lowest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) cut-off threshold in February was 453.
The government also made commitments to reduce processing times, remove the conditional permanent residence provision from certain sponsored spouses and common-law partners, and ease the pathway to permanent residence for international students and graduates in Canada.
IRCC released its long-awaited year-end Express Entry report in April. Among other details, it was revealed that an increasing number of candidates outside Canada were being invited to apply for permanent residence — over the second half of 2015, 39% of all invited candidates resided outside Canada, more than double the figure for the first half of the year. Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia remained the most popular destination provinces, though at a per capita rate, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Island (PEI) were also highly popular.
There was also movement in business immigration to Canada when Quebec announced reopening dates for each of its business immigration categories, including the ever-popular Quebec Investor Program, as well as the entrepreneur and self-employed categories.
Since the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) first announced that it was aligning certain streams with the federal Express Entry system in June, 2015, candidates noted that the OINP provided a route to provincial nomination, which comes with a 600-point bonus under the CRS and an ITA at subsequent draw. The Human Capital Priorities stream proved to be particularly popular. This stream is 'passive' in the sense that an Express Entry candidate may only make an application if he or she is contacted by the OINP and issued what is known as a Notification of Interest (NOI).
In May, 2016, Ontario announced that it was placing a temporary pause on applications under some OINP streams, including Human Capital Priorities, due to the allocation having been reached. However, the OINP stated that it expected to be in a position to accept new applications through these streams again. Candidates in the pool should expect news from Ontario in the near future.
Also in May, BC had its BC PNP allocation increased, Saskatchewan welcomed more newcomers through its International Skilled Worker categories (including the SINP Express Entry sub-category), and the government edged closer to changing the Citizenship Act. Among other changes, these legislative changes would reduce the amount of time permanent residents have to live in Canada in order to become eligible to apply for citizenship.
The much-anticipated summer application intake period for the Quebec Skilled Worker Program opened the morning of June 13, before closing within hours after the intake cap was reached. This intake was restricted to individuals who had already created a Mon Projet Québec account earlier in the year, though the creation of new accounts was opened up later in the month in anticipation of the next intake period.
In other news, Manitoba and Saskatchewan continued to welcome skilled workers to their provinces through the Provincial Nominee Programs.
By mid-summer, the number of candidates being invited to apply for permanent residence through Express Entry had decreased to around 750-800 per draw. However, an IRCC representative, speaking at an event in Edmonton, Alberta earlier in the summer, revealed that the number of ITAs issued would increase significantly later in the year. In the end, this turned out to be the case.
The provinces remained active, with Saskatchewan and Manitoba conducting draws, and Canada's Atlantic provinces announcing a new collective strategy with the federal government. This strategy eventually became the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program, through which up to 2,000 newcomers will come to Canada in 2017.
The August intake for the Quebec Skilled Worker Program, much like the June intake, was reached within hours of the program reopening, benefiting individuals who had prepared well in advance. The government of Quebec wishes to move to a demand-based 'Expression of Interest' system (akin to the federal Express Entry system) at some stage in 2017, and so this intake may have been the final intake under the first-come, first-served system. But you never know, tech projects tend to take longer than expected to implement, and the program may reopen under the first-come, first-served model again before the new system comes into force.
British Columbia performed two BC PNP draws in August, providing a route to permanent residence for hundreds more workers and graduates. One noteworthy aspect of the BC PNP International Graduate sub-categories is that the graduate does not necessarily need to have studied in BC; graduates of institutions in other provinces may be eligible. There was also a draw under the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program, and Saskatchewan's International Skilled Worker – Occupations In-Demand sub-category reopened for 700 new applications (and, like previous intakes, this first-come, first-served intake filled within a couple of days).
There was plenty of Express Entry news through September as the number of ITAs issued began to increase when each draw was announced. Eventually, this culminated in draw sizes tripling between late August and mid-November. The CRS cut-off threshold also began to decrease once again at this time, in line with IRCC's expectations.
It was also revealed that more than 320,000 new permanent residents had landed in Canada over the period from July, 2015 to July, 2016, the highest number of new arrivals for many decades. Six provinces took in record numbers of newcomers.
In addition, British Columbia and Manitoba both conducted draws through their respective PNPs.
After a month in which Express Entry draws continued to grow larger in size, the big news in October came on the final day when IRCC published its 2017 Immigration Levels Plan. This plan called for significant increases in economic immigration to Canada, particularly through the programs managed under Express Entry, as well as the Provincial Nominee Programs (and many PNPs continued to welcome new applications through October). The number of people to be invited to apply for Canadian permanent residence through Express Entry in 2017 is expected to go up considerably.
The government also announced its intention to raise the maximum age of dependent children that may be included on an immigration application to less than 22 years of age (up from the current limit of less than 19). This goal forms part of the government's commitment to family reunification.
November was arguably the most important month in Canadian immigration over the entire year. In any other month, the fact that government of Canada's website crashed in the wake of the U.S. Presidential Election would be the main story, but not so in November, 2016, for this was the month when long-awaited improvements to the Express Entry system were announced. Not only that, but these improvements came into force just a week after the announcement.
The changes included the awarding of CRS points to former international students in Canada, a reduction in the number of points awarded for a qualifying job offer, the introduction of new ways to be awarded points for a job offer, and an increase in the validity of an ITA once it is issued to a candidate.
The expected outcome of these changes, according to IRCC, will be that 'A reduction of points to candidates with arranged employment means the CRS cut-off will decline.' Since the changes were first announced, tens of thousands of candidates and potential candidates have used the CRS Calculator to determine how the changes may affect their profile.
So far, December has also been a busy month. The Immigration Minister has announced that processing times for the spousal/common-law partner categories of Family Class immigration programs are to be reduced to 12 months, from an average of 24 months, with an additional goal to eventually reduce processing times to as low as six months. There was further good news for spouses and partners being sponsored within Canada when the Open Work Permit Pilot Program was extended for another year.
And that was not all the changes under the Family Class this month, as it was also announced that there would be a new lottery system for the 2017 Parent and Grandparent Program intake, providing sponsors with a 30-day window of opportunity to register their interest as of January 3, 2017.
Finally, there have been further draws for skilled workers at the federal (Express Entry) and provincial levels over the closing weeks of the year. The latest Express Entry draw saw a total of 1,936 candidates invited to apply for permanent residence.
"Right now, there is an appetite among all stakeholders for an even more robust, dynamic immigration system. The provincial governments are crying out for newcomers, and the federal government is well positioned and inclined to bring them in. Businesses and communities are looking for talent and regeneration," says Attorney David Cohen.
"2016 was remarkable for a number of reasons. Government goals were announced, but more importantly these goals were then met. We can expect more of the same as we enter 2017.


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Tuesday 14 March 2017 6:00pm
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Join Graeme Macrae Burnet at Dunedin City Library to discuss his Man Booker-longlisted novel, His Bloody Project.
In this compelling and original novel, using the words of the accused, personal testimony, transcripts from the trial and newspaper reports, Graeme Macrae Burnet tells a moving story about the provisional nature of the truth, even when the facts are plain.
His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the rules can change but justice is absolute.
Graeme Macrae Burnet was born and brought up in Kilmarnock and now lives in Glasgow, Scotland. In between, he lived in Prague, Bordeaux, Porto and London. His debut novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, is a psychological crime thriller set in the small town of Saint-Louis on the French–Swiss border. His second book, His Bloody Project, which deals with a triple murder in a crofting village in the Scottish Highlands, has been longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
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