This page lists events relating to the use of ICT for environmental regulation. The site has no role in the organisation of these; please refer to the websites linked for further information.
The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.
SMARTGREENS 2014 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.
The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session.
The GEO Appathon is a global App development competition that aims to develop new, exciting, and - most importantly - useful Apps using Earth observation data from the free and expansive Earth Observation data sets in the GEOSS public database.
The first ever GEO Appathon kicks off on Wednesday 7 May 2014 and runs until 31 August 2014. Participation is open to any non-commercial entity, individual and team from any background in any country. Apps can be created for any of the main operating systems and be designed for any type of portable device. All Apps will be judged by our panel (including Microsoft and ESRI) and the top 3 winners will receive a cash prize and a year-long GEO network endorsement and publicity for the App.
Visit our GEO Appathon website (www.geoappathon.org) for more rules, details of how to register and information about how you can help us unleash the potential of Earth observation data!
Many scientists are now arguing that we must spend an equal effort on adaptation or preparedness for Climate Change as we do on mitigation. Some governments are already mandating institutions and other organizations to start to prepare Climate Change Preparedness plans. For example President Obama has recently issued an Executive order for all US government departments and agencies to develop such plans. It is expected that many European governments will soon adopt similar policies.
The results of the BoF will also be picked up/activated in the GN3+ Green Team and discussed with TERENA and DANTE.
- José OSPINA, Project Manager, MicroPro Computers (Ireland), working on the development of iameco green computers.
- Eva KERN, Research associate at Green Software Engineering project (Germany), which aims at applying "Green" principles on software processes.
- Sean CRONIN, CEO of EnergyWatchIT (Ireland), with their Green IT policy management tool to reduce IT electricity costs.
- Eric RONDEAU, Coordinator of Erasmus Mundus Master program in Pervasive Computing and Communications for Sustainable Development (PERCCOM) gathering 4 European Universities.
- Thierry LEBOUCQ, manager of Kaliterre, Greenspector presentation, a tool detecting consuming objects in computer source codes.
For the 12th time the Technical Committee "Informatics for Environmental Protection" of the German Informatics Society will award the "Environmental Informatics Prize". The prize is awarded for students' works in the field of environmental informatics. Such work takes the form of projects undertaken either as part of a course or for a degree (excluding PhD) at an academic university or a university of applied sciences. The projects must demonstrate the contribution of methods and technologies of informatics to the solution of environmental problems or dissemination of information supporting sustainable development in general.
The Fifth International Conference on Future Energy Systems June 11-13, 2014, Cambridge, UK.
We are pleased to invite you to attend the Fifth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-‐Energy), where energy, computing and communication meet.
After the successful experiences of Passau (Germany) in 2010, New York City (USA) in 2011, Madrid (Spain) in 2012, and Berkeley (USA) in 2013, this fifth edition will be held in Cambridge (UK), on June 11-13, 2014.
This year we are proud to present an exciting technical program including 23 high quality papers, and 16 posters and demos presenting the state-‐of-‐the-‐art research carried out by universities, research centers and companies in the broad areas of computing and communication for smart energy systems (including the smart grid), and in energy-‐efficient computing and communication systems.
The technical program will also include Keynotes speakers: Pr. Berend Smit (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Olivier Verscheure (IBM Research).
he George Washington University Law School (GW Law) will convene the first in a series of events focusing on Next Generation Compliance on March 26 and 27, 2015. The symposium will address the role of advanced monitoring, remote sensing and new forms of information gathering, analysis and disclosure in environmental compliance and enforcement. Erasmus University Rotterdam will hold the second event in April 2015 addressing the use of management systems and the role of behavioral motivations in environmental compliance and enforcement.
This Call for Papers focuses on the GW Law Symposium.
As tomorrows' systems designers, Requirements Engineers have a very important role to play in order to ensure that future socio-technical systems are sustainable. For example, requirements have an important impact on the potential premature obsolescence of hardware, on the electricity consumption of software or on the number of servers needed to offer a service. Further, as ubiquitous socio-technical systems alter the way we live and work, the requirements of those systems have to be carefully written such that those new ways of living and working are more sustainable. For example: how do I invent an Enterprise Management System that will help my company be more responsible and create more value for all stakeholders? More and more, in the industry, companies do not only want to be "ecologically trendy", but also become aware that sustainability requirements will have strategic impacts on business organization and value creation.
This workshop provides an interactive stage for researchers and practitioners to share current challenges and results in RE for sustainable systems. But more than discussion, we want to foster action, and aim at jumpstarting collaboration through the live creation of hybrid teams that commit to work together to make a better world for our little mascot Susy (see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~bpenzens/2014re4susy/).
+ contributions in any other multi-media format accompanied by a 2-page extended abstract.
Given the transdisciplinary nature of sustainability concerns, we particularly welcome contributions that involve hybrid co-authorship.
We offer shepherding, should you wish help in writing your first contribution to a scientific workshop, or in our community.
RE4SuSy is held at RE'14, the premier venue for discussing Requirements Engineering Research and Practice.
The EnviroInfo 2014 is the 28th edition of the long standing and established international and interdisciplinary conference series on leading environmental information and communication technologies. Combining and shaping national and international activities in the field of applied informatics and environmental informatics in making the world a better place for living, the EnviroInfo conference series aims at presenting and discussing the latest state-of-the-art development on ICT and environmental related fields.
Under the supervision of the the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg the 28th EnviroInfo conference will discuss the special topic of ICT for energy efficiency as main conference theme as well as the whole range of cross-cutting topics in ICT and environmental sciences.
As the EnviroInfo conference series tries to strengthen the interdisciplinary activities in the fields of sustainable development, participants from industry, higher education and research institutes will be invited to exchange ideas and solutions for current and future problems.
4th Workshop on "Energy-Aware Software Engineering and Development"
Software Engineering aims at developing and evolving software systems in an economic manner, considering project specific needs and quality goals. One of these quality goals, which becomes more and more important, is the "energy efficiency of software systems". Improving the energy consumption of mobile devices will not only increase the uptime and battery lifespan, it will also improve the carbon footprint. Viewing energy efficiency is not only restricted to mobile devices, it also affects e.g. embedded systems and data centres, where energy is a major factor in costs and environmental burden.
Next to serious and ongoing efforts in hardware design, at the operating system level and by optimized code generation, software engineering techniques also contribute to optimizing energy consumption by improving software design: wasting energy can be avoided by e.g. removing energy code-smells, improving data-base queries and storage methodologies, replacing fast, but energy-consuming components by slower but more energy efficient alternatives or by transferring functionality to the cloud, where integrated energy optimization on all technical levels can be applied. This list gives only some examples of optimizing energy consumption on software level. These and further approaches will be discussed at EASED.
· Model software-caused energy behaviour of embedded systems.
EASED@EnviroInfo follows up on the Workshop on Developing Energy-Aware Software Systems (EEbS 2012), held at the annual GI Conference in September 2012 (http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/medien/mobile-media/eebs-2012.html), 2nd workshop on Energy-Aware Software Engineering and Development (EASED@BUIS), held at BUIS Tage in April 2013 (http://www.se.uni-oldenburg.de/eased2013), and the 3rd workshop on Energy-Aware Software Engineering and Development (EASED@GI 2013), held together with the workshop "UINW - Umweltinformatik zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Wandel" at the GI Conference in September 2013 (http://www.se.uni-oldenburg.de/preprocess.php?seite=61345.html&include0=generated-content/gi2013.html).
Accepted papers for ESEAD@EnviroInfo will be published in the workshop section of the EnvrioInfo 2014 proceedings. Authors of the best paper at ESEAD@EnviroInfo will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the "EnviroInfo 2014 Selected Papers" publication issued by Springer.
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers (6 pages following the EnviroInfo Layout (http://enviroinfo2014.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/EnviroInfo2014Format.dotx) not later than June 6, 2014 through Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enviroinfo2014). When submitting, please tick "Workshop: Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development".
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.
Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment.
SuSC (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications.
Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.
Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm.
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.
Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
'Computing and Communication for Sustainable Development' is the theme of the Conference on Eco-Friendly Computing and Communication Systems (ICECCS 2014) which will be held 18-21 December 2014 at NITK Surathkal, Mangalore, India. ICECCS 2014 is the third in the series organised by NITK Surathkal. The past two conferences have been highly successful and well-commended, and we strive to further enrich quality and relevance of the conference this year.
The conference will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research and practice on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing, and computing for a more sustainable planet. It will feature keynotes by eminent persons in this area, presentation of peer-reviewed articles, panels, workshops, and tutorials. The conference will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE, and the proceedings will be published by IEEE Digital Library, Xplore. Selected papers will be recommended for the publications in reputed journals, including special issues, following further update and revision.


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class RoodiAnalyzer
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  def columns
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  def name
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    ScoringStrategies.present(row)
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The Overlook Film festival's Master of Horror Award was established to honor a living legend who has contributed lasting innovations to the genre throughout a long career, inspiring new filmmakers for years to come. This year's recipient is the one and only Roger Corman, director and producer extraordinaire whose techniques, output and mentorships changed the face of independent film. Joining Corman onstage will be filmmaker Mick Garris (creator of "Masters of Horror" and the miniseries events "Stephen King's The Shining" and "The Stand") to hold a live conversation about Corman's illustrious career for the podcast POST MORTEM WITH MICK GARRIS. Stay for a feature presentation of a classic Corman masterpiece X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES.
Producer and director Roger Corman has made more than 300 feature films. The "Godfather of Independent Film," he is best known for his guerrilla filmmaking on pictures such as Little Shop of Horrors and for his internationally acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price. His exploitation style birthed the modern Hollywood blockbuster and influenced filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Eli Roth.
Corman also discovered a generation of Hollywood talent including Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sandra Bullock, Will Ferrell, Mila Kunis, Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Lee Jones, Gale Anne Hurd, Ron Howard, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, Joe Dante and Peter Bogdanovich.
Corman was one of the first American distributors to bring foreign cinema to the States, distributing the films of Akira Kurosawa, Francois Truffaut, Frederico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman and Werner Herzog through his company New World Pictures.
In 2009, Corman received the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.


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Draft Emergency Ordinance to Amend Law 62/2011 on Social Dialogue
Draft Emergency Ordinance to Amend Law 62/2011 on Social Dialogue Joint Comments of European Commission and IMF Staff October 12th, 2012
We received a revised draft Emergency Ordinance (version: August 28, 2012) that aims to amend Law 62/2011 on social dialogue. We understand that the present draft was prepared by trade union confederations that are representative at the national level and by only four employer confederations. Given the importance of Law 62/2011 for labor relations in Romania, which embodies a key reform, we think it is inappropriate to amend this law through an emergency ordinance and consider it of the utmost importance to go through the normal legislative process which ensures a thorough preparation and proper consultation of all social partners, including all employer organizations representative at the national level.
Based on the existing agreements with the European Commission and IMF staff and in line with the in-depth discussions on a previous draft of the Emergency Ordinance that were held during the IFI mission to Romania in August 2012, we strongly urge the authorities to limit any amendments to Law 62/2011 to revisions necessary to bring the law into compliance with core ILO conventions.
Comments on collective bargaining critical to ensure compliance with the programme
National collective agreements: The re-introduction of national collective labor agreements with automatic erga-omnes extension risks resulting in a misalignment of wages and productivity developments across firms, sectors and occupations. We strongly urge the authorities to ensure that national collective agreements do not contain elements related to wages and/or reverse the progress achieved with the Labor Code adopted in May 2011 (e.g. on working time regulation).
Sectoral collective agreements: The draft legislation repeals the existing numerical criteria for the registration of collective labor contracts and replaces them with numerical criteria for their extension (Art. 133). We strongly urge the authorities to ensure that the threshold of 50% of the total number of employees in the sector refers either to employers' associations only or to both trade unions and employers' associations.
Collective wage bargaining in the public sector: If changes are made to Chapter 4 regulating collective bargaining in the public sector, appropriate safeguards need to ensure that public sector wage developments are aligned with productivity and budgetary prudence.
Annual obligatory bargaining: The obligation to conduct collective bargaining annually, as well as the pre-defined subject of bargaining, leads to unnecessary transaction costs, especially for small firms (Art. 129). We strongly urge the authorities to abolish the obligation to bargain annually and replace it with an obligation to start collective bargaining before the expiration of collective labor agreements.
Labour conflict: We are concerned about loosening procedures in the existing legislation that are intended to avoid the proliferation of strikes (Art. 183, 186, 195, 197, 203 and 205).
Union representatives: We recommend to limit the number of elected and appointed representatives to be protected under Art. 10 to an appropriate number and timeframe.
Contributions to unions and employer associations: If an obligation for employers to withhold trade union members' contribution from payroll is introduced, we strongly advise the authorities to make it conditional upon the employee's written approval (Art 24). In addition, we highlight the risks that the provision to make dues paid to employer organizations deductible from income tax (Art 68) would impose an unnecessary fiscal burden on society.
Positive Evaluation
Firm level collective agreements: We welcome measures that are conducive to unblocking collective bargaining at the firm level such as looser criteria for their establishment (5 instead of 15 employees; Art. 3) and their representativeness (35 percent instead of 50 percent; Art. 51). We also welcome the withdrawal of the requirement that all parties entitled to attend negotiations have to sign a collective agreement, notably those that do not reach representativeness criteria (Art. 146).
To avoid confusion, it would be useful to clarify the terminology at the beginning of the proposed draft legislation as done in the current legislation in Chapter 1.
Please provide a more detailed description of Article 129(5a-k): can social partners that are representative at national level set basic wages and/or wage coefficients?
Do sectoral collective agreements, in case the criteria for extension in Art. 133 are not met, apply only to companies that are affiliated to signatory employers' organizations or also to companies which are not affiliated to signatory employers' organizations but employ workers who are trade union members?
Article 143 in the existing law stipulates that enforcement of collective labor contracts registered at sector level may be extended by order issued by the minister, subject to the approval of the national tripartite council, at the request of all signatory parties. In the draft ordinance, Art. 133 regulates under which conditions collective contracts at sectoral level can be extended to non-signatory parties. Please clarify whether this extension continues to be at the order issued by the minister, subject to the approval of the national tripartite council.
We observe that Chapter 4 on collective bargaining parties and their representation in the public sector in the existing law is entirely repealed in the draft ordinance. However, some of Chapter 4's provisions can now be found in other parts of the draft ordinance including in Art. 128 and Art. 133. Please elaborate on the reasons why Chapter 4 has been repealed and whether the intention is to make changes to the provision that salaries in the public sector can only be subject to collective bargaining within limits established by law (see Art. 138 in the existing law).
The draft ordinance does not refer to Art. 180 of the current legislation, thus suggesting that the article remains unchanged; however, given that its content appears in Art. 182 of the draft, it seems that Art. 180 was repealed. Similar issues exist for articles 165-174, 178-180, 187, 189 and 191.
The English translation of the proposed Article 92 seems to suggest that the size of the CES is reduced to 30 participants which may not have been intended.
draft emergency ordinance law 62/2011
http://www.ces.ro/draft-emergency-ordinance-to-amend-law-62-2011-on-social-dialogue/en/84 Friday, November 02, 2012 9.322 views 4.181.040 website hits

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Artificial Intelligence – Predicting Customers with Gaurav Bhattacharya
Arlen: Welcome to the e-commerce marketing podcast. Everyone I am. I'm your host, Arlen Robinson. And today we have a very special guest Gorav Bhattacharya. Who is the CEO of Involve. Before starting Involve he worked in product for ASML and PwC. His background is in software & product development. At the age of 17, he started his first company Iti which created a platform for radiologists and helped them prevent female foeticide in India. Currently, Involve employs 40 people and is growing rapidly building products for distributed teams.
Gaurav: Thank you for having me, Arlen, I'm really excited to be here and contribute and also connect with your listeners.
Arlen: All right, great. It's awesome to have you. And today's topic of the day is going to be artificial intelligence and the use of machine learning and predicting customers.
You know, it's really amazing how technology has advanced in such a way. And it's awesome that companies such as yours are able to really leverage, you know, these advancements and helping. Businesses predict customers and effectively reach the people that they need to reach. And so that's awesome. Things are a lot different than when I first started in the whole internet business, which was about 20 years ago, yet it's a different animal these days.
But before we get into all of that, why don't you tell us a little bit more about your background and specifically how you got into what you're doing today?
Gaurav: Thank you for asking that question Ireland. So a little bit about me, as you mentioned already, I come from a software background just growing up. I was really excited about computers.
I had lost my father to cancer and our Stu uh, had this single mom who was a blue collar worker. She worked super hard to give me and my brother a good education. And one of the things that she brought home, was it old windows? Computerizing. It was like in 92 windows PC, and I was really excited about it.
And I got passionate about computers, about coding. That kind of became an outlet for me and took on a lot of projects to bring in money to the family and just stayed excited. I had the opportunity to start a company with my co-founder. Samia who was one of the only, I think we met at a coding class when we were in high school and she was the only girl out of one 62 guys in that coding class.
So that was really funny. She has a great background. She loved coding. So we started coding together. After we did our first company, we had an opportunity to sell it. And then we moved to the U S of your boats from India. And the way that we stumbled upon this opportunity was we had another. Successful business that we were working on.
It was a software as a service company, similar to OSI, and we had a subscription model, but we found that it was really hard to predict your revenue. It was really hard to understand when customers are going to churn. What are the predictions for churn? And then what are the customers that are ready to buy more or expand?
That was a huge challenge at visa. And we built this like project in-house where it was a simple dashboard that took Excel spreadsheet, data, and it applied artificial intelligence on it to predict which customers are showing. Almost like an early warning system that are showing signs of churn that might leave you.
And then also bridge accounts are happy that we could expand into. So that's kinda how the origination of this product and this platform became, and that's what involvement involved AI started. That's kind of our story of getting started. So we kind of saw a problem that we faced and we wanted to solve it and found that this is a problem.
That's very common with others and decided to scale.
Arlen: That's awesome. And you're probably not the first person that I've interviewed before that has told me the same story. As far as you birthing a business out of a need that you had directly you and your business partner head. And that's really awesome because those are usually the types of businesses where the founders are really kind of all in, because you're really.
Doing it because you're so familiar with that particular problem and you're able to understand it more and then effectively try to solve it, not only for your own company, but for others. So that's awesome. And it's definitely a subject that I'm very familiar with as far as being an owner of a SAS company and dealing with churn.
Yeah. It's something that we battle every day and you were right. It is very difficult to do predictions with. Customers and finding customers that are at a certain point in predicting wind customers churn in it's, uh, like you said, I'm definitely not alone in this most SAS companies deal with churn and doing accurate customer predictions as well.
So definitely a challenge that we all face. Now, you know, we really hear a lot about artificial intelligence these days. It's kind of a buzz word as well as machine learning. So before we kind of dive deep, Why don't you explain really what it is and how it can relate or how those relate to helping businesses grow and find customers.
Gaurav: Yeah, absolutely. That's a great question then. And I'll give a brief background about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Every time we think of artificial intelligence, just because if media it's always a negative connotation that AI is gonna replace all jobs. And I don't think it's going to replace jobs.
It's just going to create the workforce to become a little bit more smarter and the jobs will just relocate to something else. That's what I feel. And I feel there's also a time between now and for the next 50 years until AI becomes evil. That AI can really help us and really help us do our jobs better.
So that's what I'm really passionate about. And the Genesis of machine learning and artificial intelligence has been going on for about a hundred years. So it's not a new concept, but what's happened in the, in the recent past. Is that technology. And computing has become so fast with everything in the cloud and us continue to create these ships that can process data really fast, that AI is now accessible for everybody.
So just to be back on, on what artificial intelligence and machine learning is, and deep learning is the concept is that we take data or we take historical data to be able to. Take certain and predict certain outcomes and why that's happening based on the outcomes, the machine is automatically able to change the algorithms to improve the outcome.
So just as an example, it's a, it's almost like an Excel spreadsheet. The Excel spreadsheet says that round. Let's say if I have 95.6 and I want the Excel to round the number for me. And it makes it 96 because it's a little bit above 95.5. Right? So it makes it 90, 96 for example. But what machine learning can help you do is it can also treat the algorithm to say that if the output would be better, if I rounded to 95, then it would change the algorithm.
It would say that. Okay. Unless the number is. 95.7 and below it should become 95 instead of 96. So the machine becomes smart enough to understand what is the best outfit I'm trying to achieve and change the algorithm as well as whatever the algorithm is based on the historical data. And then also looking at the outcomes that we want to achieve.
So that's the basic difference. So it's just that the algorithms can change automatically based on the data you feed it.
Arlen: Yeah, that's a great example. As far as this spreadsheet is concerned, I think it kind of definitely paints a picture of what it is on a simplistic level. And now that we have an understanding of really kind of what it is in order of some of the things that you can do at a very basic level, how would this apply to assisting customers specifically, typically over businesses, rather e-commerce businesses, right?
Yeah. There find customers and grow their business.
Gaurav: Absolutely. So Arlyn, the two ways that I feel that businesses can really leverage artificial intelligence is a, is for automation and B is for prediction. So let's talk about automation. So automation could be all the manual tasks that e-commerce businesses have to do.
Everything from, let's say, manual emails that they send to their customers, to customer advocacy programs that they might be doing from lead generation to replying messages, to answering support tickets, to basically make sure that the shipping goes on time, make sure that we have loyalty programs in place.
All of these things can be automated. If we have enough historical data that, that we were talking about. If we know. What are their expertise? How do we reply to customers? How do we find the right customers and the right personas? These things can be automated using AI, and it can also be done in-house but it also, if there's no expertise is a lot of softwares now, similar to your platform, there's the softwares that assist with any part of automation.
So you don't need a person to manually do that. The second part of it is prediction. So prediction can happen in lead generation. You can predict which leads. Have a higher score attached to them, which leads have a higher conviction of, of closing. And then you can create a similar kind of audiences for outreach programs, or really understand the kind of audiences you're attracting for your products or your services.
So that's where prediction can really come into place, really predicting where the market is headed and which, what kind of products and what services should we be offering for which segment in the market for best possible results. So, yeah. I feel these are the two things that we can really leverage AI into so that we can improve our productivity and have better conversion and ultimately improve revenue for our businesses.
Arlen: That totally makes sense. And when you were describing that you were talking about, I guess the problem with a lot of businesses have, is finding the right customer because, you know, you can do some blanket marketing campaigns across a variety of different channels and places where customers. Are found, but if you really aren't targeted enough for you, if you're not really using your understanding of who the right customers are, then you're definitely burning a lot of, of advertising dollars, for sure.
And I can see how artificial intelligence can help you with all the marketing efforts and analyze that data and then understand what types of channels you need to go after what. Ads should be shown and kind of the whole thing. It almost sounds a little bit like it does kind of fall even under the category of.
Conversion optimization, really conversion rate optimization because you're utilizing these strategies to really just prove conversions where you're helping a business find that right customer and then ultimately convert. Does that seem like that's the kind of under the same case?
Gaurav: Yeah, absolutely. I think you hit the nail on its head, basically.
It's all about how do you improve lead generation? So how can you get more pipeline for your products and for the customers as well as how do you improve conversion? So your win rate improves and your customer expansion improves. Once you have a customer, how do you keep them longer? How do you keep them buying the products or services that you have?
So, absolutely. I think it's a lot about filling the pipeline with more. Qualified opportunities and leads and customers that kind of would be the best fit for you as well as improving the conversions at different stages. I think that's an opportunity really easily that companies can leverage AI for
Arlen: now in your experience, you know, helping customers.
Do this, what are some specific strategies that you've seen or you guys have put in place to predict and really acquire the right customers? And, um, can you provide us some examples of maybe some companies that have used these strategies and kind of what they're doing?
Gaurav: Yeah, absolutely. So I can give an example that we do that can be extrapolated for a different business.
And obviously every business is different. So the KPIs and key indicators are going to be different for them. But for us, what we do is we have. A prediction model for pipeline and a prediction model for customers. And what we do is we look at a lot of key indicators, key indicators from what is the order size, how often does a customer order, what do they order?
What's candida problem that they're facing with our product. So we have a software product. How much usage do they have? We look at executives. Do we have direct relationships with executives over there? Is there any movement with executives happening? What have the customer been talking about on press releases recently?
Again, these are key indicators that apply to us, but a similar model can be built for e-commerce businesses as well. And then ultimately what ends up happening is you look at these things and when these things are changing, we build an early warning system to tell us that what are the top opportunities that can convert and what should be dropped?
Which ones should we not focus on as well as focusing on the top customers, which are the customers that have high risk right now, or they have a high probability for expansion or buying a new product or buying more products. So that's what we have built through. Basically they key indicators fi feeds the algorithms, teaching it.
How the key indicators impact the likelihood of buying more or going to a different competitor. And then we just monitor that over time and the AI system can do that automatically and can do that. That's a little bit more complicated, but in terms of AI products that e-commerce companies can use, there are some products that helped with better messaging.
So one of the products that we use. It's called outreach.io, but that's a product that's used for messaging out to its users, making sure that we do proper messaging handle support tickets properly. There's obviously a lot of chat systems that provide automation, but these are the two big spectrums over here.
So there's automation and prediction. So our focus is on prediction, but automation can be equally valuable for a. Small business when we have their hands full and they really don't have time to respond to hundreds of tickets that are coming in and also answer questions about their products all the time.
That's something that could be really valuable as well.
Arlen: Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I can definitely see what this small business owners e-commerce businesses. Um, as you mentioned, that are really kind of overwhelmed with their day to day responsibilities. And a lot of times communication is tough to be able to.
If I could, we communicate to all their costumers where you've got inquiry inquiries, you have problems, or, you know, you just have general, you know, messages that are coming in that have to be responded to. And I can understand where a lot of these responses are going to be similar. So that's where I would see an AI system when she let me coming into play, because it can, it can see these.
Questions and inquiries and then respond accordingly and whole there's a ton of, like you mentioned chat solutions, there's these chat bots, which are really intelligent. And there's so many of these days where it's like, you, you go online. I was just, I'm logged in earlier to American express checking one of my credit cards and fall.
It seems like these days is they immediately use it. Some type of bot technology immediately with most of these systems and they don't really engage. The actual live person until it kind of reaches a point where it doesn't really know what to do or respond and then go from there. But usually I'm the type where I usually bypass it immediately and I easily type an agent.
And I think the systems can immediately understand. They all know, as soon as it sees that word agent or representative it immediately then pings one of their staff and then they jump in.
Gaurav: Absolutely. No, absolutely Eileen and this, I think it's, I also feel that these chat bots are overused or misused.
Because nobody can take away that authenticity of a live agent or someone helping you there's there's companies that, that we have seen where this automation process can be at different points of the process. Instead of at the front of the process, when an actual person triages a ticket or an issue that's happening, they can then send it to an automated system for solving the query and then closing the loop on it.
Notifying internal resources. Let's say if there's an actual bug with AMX, a bot and Amex can create a ticket, can notify the engineers. They can use that information on when that issue will be solved to go back to the agent so that agent can get back to you. Instead of keeping all follow-ups and notifications, they can almost recommend the next best action.
So in two weeks, The bot could tell the agent that, Hey, you got to reach out to Arlin and make sure that you tell him that this issue is not resolved. And we were able to make some changes. So there's a lot of stuff that can happen, not just at the front end, but also middle and the back end. But it all depends on how you want your customer experience to be.
Arlen: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And the ultimate thing to note here is that is I think the big advantage has been one of the biggest benefits is the time saving factor that these tools and solutions will provide where it doesn't, these things don't have to manually manually be done. Like you say, where you could have things escalated to an engineer at a certain point where, you know, there's not somebody manually dictating at information and passing it on to where it's automatically happens.
Gaurav: Yep. Absolutely.
Arlen: Now you mentioned that you, uh, tools that can be used, there's a lot of chat bot tools, you outreach, diet IO, um, that kind of fall into the category of this, uh, artificial intelligence machine learning and, and effectively automating a lot of your communications. Are there any other tools or resources that you could recommend to make all of this happen?
Gaurav: Yeah, absolutely. So there's definitely a lot of tools that we use. Another one that we have heard of, which is really good, it's called zoom info. But what zoom in for does is it helps you complete. Some of the information. Let's say, if you have a form on your website and you have a certain lead information, you have their email, you have their first name, but let's say you don't have their last name.
So the system can automatically go search to it. And I can help you flag some of that. That's one of the things, another one that I like to use or have heard about is easy ask, which is a voice search engine. So it basically helps like e-commerce stores use voice commands so that anybody who is. Coming on for your products, you can use a lot of voice commands.
They can use voice commands to find different products. Internal people can do a lot of things there. I know for e-commerce companies, there's something called spark Toro. It's S P a R K T O R O, which is for influencer marketing. It has influenced your intelligence. So it. Constantly updates, influential information looks at brand mentions, looks at which influencers are doing what so that you get updated information and you can reach out to them.
So I think the areas that I have seen the most is auto-complete search plugins. So like I talked about ZoomInfo over there. I don't know if it's only for e-commerce companies, but I know they serve a bunch of other customers. There's a lot of marketing communication, automation, outreaches one, but.
There's so many more they're chat tools that are AI tools, his voice command APS that I was talking about, like easy ask. These are some of the ones that I've come across. I know I rambled on a lot, but if anyone has questions, I can obviously answer more and reach out and brainstorm on ideas too.
Arlen: Okay.
Great. Well, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Those are definitely some tools that, that I wasn't familiar with. And I know aren't going to be useful the listeners as well. So yeah, it's good to know that there are a lot of kind of leading edge companies that are out there that are kind of leading the way with this type of a technology, because there's so much that can be done.
You know, as we get ready to wrap things up, where do you see the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning, headed with regards to e-commerce and e-commerce marketing.
Gaurav: Yeah. I really feel that it's a lot about personalization for e-commerce. We call it like the fourth industrial revolution, AI too, you know, it's coming, it's going to be integrated in every facet, just how internet and software is now integrated in every single facet of every platform and every.
Company and every business, that's how AI is going to be embedded. I feel for e-commerce a lot is to do with personalization so that everything that you buy and every, that everything that a consumer or a customer is getting is completely personalized for what they like, how they like it. That's what I feel is the future.
Obviously, the. People who are in e-commerce businesses, running e-commerce businesses have know about the problems that can come up and that's, what's going to be solved first, but ultimately we feel, I feel that just from smart shopping, to really being everything personalized and while still having that brand feel and that having that brand, which is very personal, I think that's, what's going to be the future of
Arlen: e-commerce.
Yeah. Yeah. I think you're totally right on that for sure. One of the things that I was thinking about with regards to personalization, and I can definitely see this coming soon is you're probably familiar with the e-commerce companies that sell these. What do you call it? Uh, kind of. Curated kits of different products.
There's a lot of these curated clothing line types of companies or companies that they may not necessarily be creating the actual clothing themselves. But what they do is they curate a set of, let's just say, men's clothing. So, you know, a lot of these we'll put together. Different styles and different fashions of let's say pants, shirts and things that, you know, are fashionable these days that, you know, the average man would like.
And I, you know, I've seen a few of these and I've actually been interested in checking some of these out myself, but what I see as far as personalization and where these companies can kind of take it to the next level is as they get more data and as they start using AI and machine learning, what they'll be able to do is analyze data.
For a bunch of different demographics have different type of men. And so let's say for instance, I get an ad specific to me or our curated box with an ad specifically created to me based on where I live in my state, the climate of my state, my particular age and all of that. I mean, it's all presented to me and I'm like, wow, that's definitely something that we're aware that really truly uses this data to personalize.
The ad and the messaging that they're sending out to kind of a whole wide array of people. So yeah, I can definitely see that coming soon.
Gaurav: Yeah, absolutely.
Arlen: Yeah. Well, great. Gorav it has been awesome talking to you this, as we see AI machine learning is definitely where things are headed and it's no slowing down for sure.
So I know our listeners are going to take all of this information and then see how they can apply it is their own businesses. For sure, because it's, you're at the point where, you know, if you don't do these things, you're definitely going to be the left behind. But what I always like to do is just kind of shift gears here with my kind of final fund effect question, just to close things out and switch gears.
So our audience can get to know you a little bit better. What's one fun fact that you can let our audience know Bart.
Gaurav: That's a really question. So one of the things that I like to do for fun, I love playing chess. And what I like to do in my fun time is I always try to play chess against different computer systems.
And what I try to do is find. Any loopholes that the computer systems may have, which is really fun for me, it sounds pretty stupid, but I always try to like go back to like these old chess systems that were built. Let's say like in early two thousands or even late nineties. And they're these different games.
And I always try to find like these loopholes that they don't, that the system wasn't built to understand. What are the things I'm really excited about is like how AI is going to impact games and how AI influences everything. I know we were talking about NBA, our Lin, right? So everything is analyzed.
Golden state warriors always uses everything that, where should they shoot from? How should they have their place? They use a lot of AI and now a lot of NBA teams are using AI to make. Data driven decisions on which players, how many minutes who plays when obviously you cannot change that replace that system.
Every play cannot become like Jordan or LeBron James with that, but that's really exciting to me. So I always look at like, Things that I can, things that impact the games and how AI and bags games, um, but for fun, I look at these old chess systems and see, where does the algorithm break? What, what did they do wrong?
And then try to beat that test system.
Arlen: Gotcha. Yeah. That's interesting, man. That's cool stuff. Yeah. I recently started learning to play chess as well. I got to get back into it. There's really so much to it and I can definitely see why. Looking at those old systems, there's definitely some holes there, loopholes and
Gaurav: yeah.
Arlen: Finding those ways to kind of get around those loopholes. I'm sure is exciting and kind of a challenge there for you. So, yeah.
Gaurav: Yeah. It's like bugs, right? Like it's bugs everywhere because it's software. So if, you know, sometimes if you're ordering from Uber eats or any kind of online delivery system, you use like a old promo code, it doesn't work.
You use it like a couple more times. It probably starts working like the loopholes like that. Everywhere. And that's kind of what I, what I enjoy finding.
Arlen: Yeah. It's good stuff, man. Definitely. There's always a way to break a system for sure. Well, great gruff. It's definitely been awesome talking to you and thank you for sharing that.
Um, fun fact. Finally, if our listeners want to get a hold of you and pick your brain anymore about artificial intelligence or machine learning, what is the best way for them to get in contact?
Gaurav: Yeah, LinkedIn is great. You could find me easily on LinkedIn, but also email. So my email is. G a U R a V. That's my first name.
Add involve soft.com. That's the company website and that's the easiest way to get it. Get ahold of me. Okay. Hey,
Arlen: great. Well, thank you for sharing that girl was, it's been a pleasure talking to you and I hope our listeners take advantage of getting in touch with you so they can learn a lot more about how the artificial intelligence and machine learning can be applied to their business.
Gaurav: So thank you for joining us today. Thank you all. And thanks for your time.
Arlen: All right. It has been a pleasure. Take care. Thank you for listening to the e-commerce marketing podcast.
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A new name has emerged as a strong candidate to be the next head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
It's not a shock that the 50-year old Toronto product would be in contention for the position vacated by Chris Jones. Benevides parted ways with the Edmonton Eskimos following the 2018 CFL season and is pursuing his next coaching opportunity.
However he's enough of an under-the-radar candidate that he didn't make the initial list of candidates in our Monday morning Out Of The Tunnel column.
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Sources tell me Benevides and the Roughriders have talked, and that it could be a good fit. Benevides spent the past three seasons as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach in Edmonton, and he could very easily slip into the roles of DC/HC in Saskatchewan. That would provide minimal disruption in the other two phases of the Riders coaching staff: offense and special teams.
What may be attractive to new Roughriders General Manager Jeremy O'Day is Benevides' prior experience as a head coach with the BC Lions. Benevides was a tidy 33-21 on the sidelines with BC (2012-2014), however his win total descended each year (13-11-9) before being replaced by Wally Buono.
Meh, every great head coach has been fired at one time or another. Even New England's Bill Belichik was toasted in 1996 by Cleveland, or Toronto's Corey Chamblin in 2015 by Saskatchewan. You hope coaches learn from each experience along the way.
Meanwhile there's a rumour the Roughriders' top choice for the job is Marc Trestman, however I don't know how credible that rumour is. Like the Benevides situation, this should come as no surprise. Trestman is available after being fired by Toronto in November, and he's a highly decorated CFL coach with 3 Grey Cup rings. He's spent a generation in the NFL as an offensive coordinator.
Trestman also comes with a high salary, and that's where the Roughriders would likely be handcuffed again by the CFL's new football operations salary cap and staff limitation.
If we were to do a calcutta on this hiring, I'd list Craig Dickenson as a 2-1 favourite to replace Chris Jones followed closely by Benevides at 3-1. As for Marc Trestman? Make it 7-1. These Jerry Glanville reports have me completely baffled, but I'd list him at 500-1. Maybe even 1000-1. That notion seems completely preposterous.
Keep in mind too, that should the Riders hire someone else besides Benevides as head coach they are still in need of a defensive coordinator and that could very well be where Benevides fits into the picture.
He also would likely have an opportunity to return to TSN as an analyst, where's done a very nice job in the past.
TSN's Dave Naylor reported Wednesday afternoon that the Riders have already interviewed current offensive and special coordinators Stephen McAdoo and Craig Dickenson for the position.
On Scruffy's blog I listed it's a two horse race and it's due to that salary cap combined with one guy needing to do two jobs and add in a guy that will work cheap. Mike Benevedes is the front runner followed by Jerry Glanville. Marc Trestman would not come here. He is on his third job in 5 years and there is no QB here which is the same situation he just came from. Benevedes comes here then maybe there is a slight chance they reenter the Mike Rielly sweepstakes.
I still say Marc Trestman is the best guy. Answer to the DC question is to move Jason Shivers up to DC. He had experience calling plays at times last season and already knows the playbook. Should be relatively seamless.
Let's take the coach that ran the West's worst defense, promote him, and pair him with the West's worst offense.
I agree with the fact that the DC position is as important as the HC position in this case. The defence is probably the strongest phase of this team, followed very closely by the Special Teams. A strong DC will go a long way to ensuring that the big name defensive FA's want to re-sign. That and the CBA.
If he becomes our head coach God help us, worst defensive coordinator in the league, thats why Edmonton got rid of him.
At this point I guess everyone is on the table. Benevides does have HC experience. But that was under the ulmighty Wally who pulled his strings. If the Riders had a a decent OC. Then an experienced Head coach like Benevides could work. As long as he would just be the HC & let a yung Shivers handle the D w/o mettalling. Dickenson at ST Coordinater is the best. But McAdoo is a real weak link as OC. Thats what is really hindering this process.
Benevides was the coach in Edmonton who didn't blitz. Rider fans moaned and groaned for 3 years (almost) that we never blitzed! so why would we want to bring in a man who doesn't do it AT ALL???
ridiculous thing to hire this guy.
Jerry Glanville for Riders head coach. He brings a wealth of football experience and connections which could only help a rookie Gm.
I like Trestman but ... his Mom recently passed away from Cancer and his wife is fighting a battle with Cancer.
Right now may not be the best time for him to give 100% to this team.
Truthfully, I wouldn't expect too much this year considering the situation, there still is no solid q.b. In place, unles they let bridge go for it. And back him up with whoever ?
One year of Gerry Glanville and wait for LaPolice might be the best route. I would prefer that over Benevides! I agree with the above post he might help JO with recruiting with all his connections down south. I think that is something we will miss with Jones gone.
What about Richie Hall?? It's doubtful that they would get permission from the Bombers, but he fits both categories as previous head coach & a D-coordinator for many years and has ample ties to the Riders! He has had a damn good D in Winnipeg when given the opportunity to run his own show!
I agree with Richie hall too!
HIRE DANNY BARRETT YOU BOZOS RUNNING THE RIDERVILLE SHIP. DANNY BARRETT WOULD BE A GREAT HIRE AS SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS HEAD COACH.
Why do we need a "recycled" Head coach? Experience? In other word same old ideas new location. Try for some up and coming assistant coach that will inspire the team and the fans.
I think we go with McAdoo as HC.
Stephen McAdoo Assitant Head Coach has earned his keep and deserves the chance to move up as Jeremy ODay did as Assistant GM. Head Coach Stephen McAdoo, Saskatchewan Roughriders Football Club. Done! End of subject everyone! Goodnight!
Wow some real goofy comments here. Must be silly season.
The riders did not blitz all that much last year. Did you goofballs watch the games. I recall many know it alls whining about the 3 man rush not working. You blitz depending on what plays the offense runs. The rider d ends were two of the best so others could drop back and cover. Result was arguably the best d in the league.
All I've seen are folks saying take; the low risk, no risk, comfortable, stop gap, temporary, popular, etc etc..blah blah.
This team has no QB and who knows how that changes. If they were to land a young Jennings, who would you want mentoring a young QB? Who of that bunch has a proven track record there? How many HC's have won a Grey Cup as a HC? Virtually every name mentioned with exception of Clements and Sarkasian have all been recycled. Campbell, Dickinson and Chamblin may be the only coaches who have coached a team to a Grey Cup. All the rest are still hoping. They need someone who has seen it all and done it all. The best barometer of future performance is past performance.
I don't think many if any really know what O'Day has on his mind. His credibility and reputation is on the line as well as anyone else's. If he's as capable and studious as many think I doubt he falls for any superfluous pushing of any candidate. He has a team with lot of real good pieces and fans will want to build on what's been done here already. A step back to 9 OR 10 wins will be deemed regression and even failure. The new HC will have to be an experienced capable person who is capable of building upon what's been done. Of the names floated out there only one or two even come close to meeeting those requirements.
Still grinds the gears that the CFL put in the coaching cap just to spite the Riders. Player cap? I get it. But the successful teams that market well should be allowed to enjoy the fruits of theur labor. Rider fans support the team and deserve the benefit. Coaching cap was punitive.
If the other teams want to have more revenue, quit whining and start selling.


I am writing from Bangalore, India where I recently visited Sneha Care Home, a "home away from home" for HIV infected children. Sneha Care Home is a part of the Sneha Charitable Trust, an initiative by the Brothers and Priests of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Camillus who are collectively known as Camillians. Today's International Red Cross originates from the work of Camillians.
The purpose of the visit was to listen, observe and exchange ideas between Sneha Care Home staff, volunteers and students. Over the course of four days, I was fortunate to gain valuable classroom teaching experience with children between the ages of 6 to 13; observe extracurricular activities such as student clubs; introduce new physical education elements emphasizing dynamic stretching and exchange ideas with Brothers, Priests and staff.
At the end of my stay, I met with Father Mathew Perumpil, Director of the Sneha Care Home who just returned from a visit to the USA. He spoke at length of macro and micro issues and we brainstormed together about ways in which Sneha Care Home may have a wider impact in addressing HIV AIDS at the state, national and international levels. Overall, it was a very inspiring visit and again challenged me to find ways of connecting the dots with my experiences in the field of social enterprise.
Thanks to my International Sport for Development and Peace Association colleagues Sarah Hillyer (Georgetown University) and Eli Wolff (Brown University), I was able to attend the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Symposium titled "Sport for Development and Peace: Initiatives, Challenges, and Pathways Forward." To view the presentations click here.
As with most conferences, one must find ways to take away the information that will add value to the organizations in which one serves. As a coach who works with young people, the three big "take-aways" were: designing positive sport-based experiences, the importance of pedagogy and leveraging support networks. Each of these requires skill, patience and coordination that can be developed over time. In short, to advance this field more awareness is necessary starting with coaches, teachers, administrators and parents.


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Students brandish placards during the Fridays for Future climate change protest in Paris. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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Yelling slogans and waving placards, protesters, young and old, took to the streets of France for a third time this year, demanding world leaders wake up to the threat of climate change.
Chanting: "1,2,3 degrees, is a crime against humanity," activists and environmental groups gathered on Friday at place de la Nation in south-eastern Paris, to urge nations to keep temperatures from rising to dangerous levels.
Perched on top of a massive statue representing the Triumph of the French Republic, with a woman at its helm, some demonstrators held banners reading 'Mother Earth is dying,' and 'We must act now.'
Organisers say around 30,000 people in France joined a global strike against climate change, heeding the rallying cry of the Swedish 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg. Officials put the number to just under 10,000.
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The figures may be a matter of debate. But the threat of climate change is not, said 16-year-old American student Ellington.
"I know that things are going wrong in the world right now and I know that this is part of the future I'm going to be a part of. I want to do something about it," he told RFI.
Thunberg has repeatedly accused leaders of not doing enough to prevent the harmful effects of climate change, which has led to ice sheets melting in Greenland and destroyed forests in the Amazon.
Solutions ignored
It is not just the Amazon which is burning but Bangladesh too, said activist Rakibul Islam.
"Bangladesh is also facing deforestation. Corporate groups are razing our land for profit. We want to tell the government they should stop this nonsense and save our mango forests," he told RFI.
Despite a year of weekly protests, the planet is still getting warmer. July 2019 was the hottest month on record.
For 20-year-old student Melanie Luce, the options were stark. "There is no point in going to class, if we have no future ahead of us," she said.
In her opinion, solutions exist, yet are being ignored.
"The French government promised to ban glyphosate within three years and nothing has happened. The same goes for pesticides. European countries were supposed to ban them and still haven't done so," she added.
Sluggish record
Clemence Dubois, from the NGO 350.org, which was behind Friday's march, says that French people are tired of the government's empty words.
"President Macron talks a lot about climate action and he received an award for being a champion of the Earth but emissions are still rising," she said.
Spurred by what they see as a sluggish, ineffectual response to the existential threat of global warming, demonstrators are hoping Friday's climate strikes will put enough pressure on world leaders who gather at the United Nations in New York on Monday for a climate summit.
"We are asking them to do their homework, listen to the science, listen to their own experts," added Dubois.
"We don't have time to wait for the next elections. Day by day we are going to hold leaders to account."
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We have started the New Year well with a donation of $5000 from Telstra Connected Communities. Thank you to all the Telstra customers who voted for us. We also received $1000 from Forster Keys Progress and Ratepayers Association (proceeds of $700 from Carols on the Keys and rounded up to $1000) we are indeed blessed by a generous and supportive community.
Just to let you know we provided an extra 400 hours of assistance to Palliative Care patients last year. The care is delivered by Mid Coast Assist, paid for by GLPCS and includes domestic assistance, personal care and nursing visits over and above what is provided by our dedicated Community Palliative Care Nurses.
Our name change has come into effect; hence see the new logo at the top of the page. There will be a time of transitioning over to the new name and logo for new badges, shirts and paperwork and that is underway at the moment.
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Who was girl in Blake Shelton home video at end?
Who wrote the song home that Blake Shelton sings?
Blake Shelton did a cover of an original song from Michael Buble. Buble co-wrote the song with Amy Foster-Gillis. You can watch the Michael Buble video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQnkYwfNfk
The country singer that sings home?
Did Blake Shelton write home?
No, "Home" was written by Michael Bublé.
What does Blake Shelton consider his signature song?
Definitely "Home"
What is the country song about a message on an answering machine for a girl to call?
The song is called "Hurry Home" by Jason Michael Carrol. another is "Austin" by Blake Shelton
Who is the country music singer that sings Home by Michael buble?
Blake Shelton.
Who sang country version you want to go home oh lord you want to go home?
Who sang Home first Michael buble or Blake Shelton?
Michael Buble did wrote it first.
Who wrote the country song you want to go home sung by buble and Blake Shelton?
Mickel buble
What country singer sings the song home?
Country star Blake Shelton covered the Michael Bublé song, Home, and made it a country hit.
Who sang the song Home First Michael Buble or Blake Shelton?
Michael WROTE the song, so he would be the first singer of the song.....
What is the country song where the man is trying to get back home to be with his mother before she dies so he can hold her hand?
It's called "The Baby", by Blake Shelton. That's a good song! song about some shoes right?? "The Baby"
Who was the girl in the video Pretty Boy Swag?
Yes, it is the kardashian home
Song titles with the word old in it?
On Top Of Old Smokey Olden Days - Chicago My Old Kentucky Home Gimme Some of that Old Time Religion Old Red - Blake Shelton (Just an) Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night
Who is the girl in Three Days Grace's Home video?
probably a friend or his wife
Is the video of the little girl Alison Krauss in the video simple life?
Yes, it's taken from home movies of her, her brother and father.
Is there a home video of Vincent D'Onofrio pushing a girl?
Nope. (You could be referring to the movie Guy, in which he does push a girl. It was shot documentary-style in a lot of parts, with a hand-held video camera.)
What does Avril lavingne's nobody home video mean?
It's a song about a homeless girl.
What is the name of the music video where there is a girl that runs away from home?
i'm not too sure about which one you're talking about. But it might be Avril Lavigne's Nobody's Home music video. Epic song. Epic music video. See it on YouTube! NRBB
When does Gossip Girl come out on DVD?
Gossip Girl - The Complete 1st Season will be coming to DVD on August 19th, 2008, courtesy of Warner Home Video.
What is the country video with a young girl who leaves laundry out and leaves home with a boy?
Suds in the Bucket by Sara Evens i think
Was William Blake home schooled?
William Blake was home schooled up until the age of 14, when he was apprenticed to James Besire, a talented engraver, who taught Blake all that he knew about engraving. He was a great influence to William Blake's engravings Blake then went on to study art at the royal academy of London, England.
How can you unfreeze iPod touch video?
u hold down the home button and the sleep button and that should turn the ipod off.....that should unfreeze the video and then u can turn it on again and resume ur video twilight girl
Where Is Blake Sheltons home town?
Ada, Oklahoma.
What is the name of this song Country male singer singing about how he grew up with his mom and how he was her favorite boy and then he finds out she's dying and he flies to her bedside but she's alre?
The song is "The Baby" by Blake Shelton. It's the story of a mother's youngest child who doesn't make it home in time to see her on last time. I hope that helps cause I spent months looking for it myself. Matt
Who is the president or CEO of Home Depot?
The Home Depot chairman, president and CEO Frank Blake
Who is Francis Frank Blake?
I believe he is the CEO for Home Depot.
Who are the backup dancers in Jason Derulo's Don't want to Go Home music video?
The blonde short hair girl is Paula van oppen
Why did Avril Lavigne write the song 'Nobody's Home'?
Avril Lavigne wrote this song because this is how she felt, because she felt like she was alone or that nobody was home. She probably felt like no one was there with her, even when they were. In the music video, you can see that she is singing about a girl who is lost and that girl is supposed to be her.
What school does Isabella Blake-Thomas go to?
She is home schooled.
When did Home Sweet Home - video game - happen?
Home Sweet Home - video game - happened in 2007.
What has the author Peter Utz written?
Peter. Utz has written: 'Create excellent video' -- subject(s): Home video systems 'The complete home video book' -- subject(s): Home video systems
What can a girl do when shes horny and lives at home by herself?
Have a go at fisting or fingering your anus. Or you could make a video and send me what you do now and I could give you some advice. I could make a video and send one back. beyourself@hotmail.com
What has the author Charles Bensinger written?
Charles. Bensinger has written: 'The video guide' -- subject(s): Home video systems, Instrumentation, Methods, Video recording, Videotape Recording 'Chaco journey' 'The home video handbook' -- subject(s): Home video systems
When was Home Sweet Home - video game - created?
Home Sweet Home - video game - was created on 2007-12-12.
Where do you send your home video to Australia's funniest home video address?
when you watch the show they tell you
When was Japan Home Video created?
Japan Home Video was created on 1984-05-09.
When was Home Movies - video - created?
Home Movies - video - was created in 1995.
What is the name of the music where in the video a hot girl rushes home from work to take her sick alien pet to the vet quite recent?
Yeasayer - Madder Red - madder red
Where was the music video welcome home by metallica at?
Actually "Welcome Home(Sanitarium)" by Metallica has not a music-video.
Is trumpet of the swan Columbia tristar home entertainment?
it is supposed to be Columbia tristar home video but the video is Columbia tristar home entertainment
How can one make video games at home?
There are many resources that offer information on making video games from home. The best way to make a video game at home is to have a powerful computer for game developing.
Is Frank Blake the CEO of Home Depot?
Currently as of Feb.3 2013 Yes he is.
How did Ned Kelly save Richard Shelton?
Richard Shelton fell into a creek near Ned Kelly's home. Kelly was able to save him from drowning by pulling him out of the water. Kelly was an Australian bushranger who was born in Victoria, Australia in 1854, and was executed by hanging in November of 1880 at the age of 25.
What has the author John Melville Bishop written?
John Melville Bishop has written: 'Making It in Video' 'Making home video' -- subject(s): Amateurs' manuals, Home video systems, Video recording
Is there a Home by Three Days Grace music video?
Yes, there is a Home by Three Days Grace music video.
When did Home Alone - video game - happen?
Home Alone - video game - happened in 1991.
When was Live Concert Home Video created?
Live Concert Home Video was created on 1994-11-22.
What was different at Mrs. Blakes home in Fahrenheit 451?
Unlike the othere houses the firemen destroyed the owner Mrs. Blake was home.
Who went home in the glee project season 2?
All except Blake,Aylin and Ali..but i forgot all of the names who went home


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Beating Miami was not an easy task for Loyola, and their next opponent would be even more difficult. The Ramblers had to square off against three seeded Tennessee, a team that was the SEC champion and had just won their first game by 26 points. The Volunteers also had Grant Williams, the SEC player of the year, at their disposal. Not too many people had Loyola winning this one but as it turned out to it was a very entertaining, down to the wire game. And, to the surprise of many, Loyola pulled off the upset thanks to another buzzer beater, this time from Clayton Custer. The Ramblers had punched their ticket to the Sweet 16.
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