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Home Auto Ford to stop India production: Five auto companies that bid farewell
Ford to stop India production: Five auto companies that bid farewell
Ford is hardly the first auto giant to have decided to halt local production in India. Many have packed bags and shipped out in the past.
Some of the prominent automobile brands that quit the Indian market are Chevrolet, UM Motorcycle, Harley Davidson, among others.
| Updated on: 09 Sep 2021, 05:55 PM
Chevrolet Beat was one of the popular and practical cars in India, that was discontinued.
India has the world's fifth-largest auto market in the world. And it is growing fast. But with opportunities come challenges galore and not everyone can chart out a path towards definitive success. Even as many OEMs continue to see the Indian market as an oasis, some - like Ford Motor - have had a challenging time with losses galore.
Ford on Thursday announced it will end local manufacturing in the country and that it will now only offer high-end cars via CBU route. Blaming mounting losses for the decision, Ford added it will ensure existing customers face no hurdles.
It is an assurance customers have been given even by other big brands when opting to pack up and ship out.
Here are five big automobile brands that quit India in the last decade:
General Motors was present in India with its Chevrolet car brand. Despite having some interesting global products in its kitty, Chevrolet was never able to grab a sizeable market share. The company lost its battle against popular mass-market car brands such as Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Mahindra etc.
GM started its India operations in 1996 with Opel and tasted minor success before discontinuing it. Then it introduced Chevrolet in 2003. The carmaker's decision to withdraw the Chevy brand from India came as a shock, right after few months of GM CEO Mary Bara's announcement of a $1 billion investment in the country.
The iconic Italian car brand ended its operations in India last year due to unsatisfactory sales performances for quite a long time. The carmaker brought some interesting models in India including Fiat Punto, Linea, Punto EVO etc. The car brand received a pretty good response in the early 1990s. However, as competition grew with time, Fiat started losing ground.
The shoddy designs of its cars and lack of features along with low fuel efficiency were the reasons that led Fiat to lag in the competition. The automaker's lack of interest in bringing new models to the Indian market was another reason that affected its sales performance. The carmaker ceased production in January 2019 and completely stopped operations in March 2020.
United Motors of America kickstarted its journey in India by partnering with Lohia Auto. It brought some spectacular cruiser motorcycles in India including Renegade Commando, Renegade Sport S and Renegade Classic. However, despite being visibly attractive, the motorcycles were criticised for poor quality. This eventually resulted in impacted brand image and sales as well.
UM wanted to compete with Royal Enfield but didn't show the might or will to bring in competitive technologies or products. The poor quality components disrupted its dream midway. Eventually, it left the Indian market in October 2019, which created quite an uproar among the dealers. Currently, UM is facing legal prosecutions from the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association (FADA).
Harley Davidson's exit from the Indian market came as a big shocker for the Indian motorcycle enthusiasts and auto industry stakeholders. The US-based iconic premium motorcycle manufacturer announced that it will cease Indian operations in September 2020.
The high price of its motorcycles due to steep tax rates, competitive models from rivals brands at affordable pricing were the reasons that led HD to take such a decision. It came as a part of the brand Rewire business overhaul strategy.
Harley later inked a deal with India's largest two-wheeler major Hero MotoCorp. As per the agreement, Hero MotoCorp now sells and services Harley-Davidson motorcycles. It also sells parts and accessories and merchandise through a network of brand-exclusive Harley-Davidson dealers and Hero MotorCorp's existing dealership network in India. As part of a licensing agreement, Hero MotoCorp has been given the right to develop and sell a range of premium motorcycles under the Harley-Davidson brand name.
Premier Automobiles
Premier Automobiles Ltd. was one of the most successful and famous automobile brands in India that had to cease operations due to lacklustre sales. The company is most famously known for its cars like Rio and Padmini. The Premier Padmini is still predominantly operational as taxis in Mumbai. The company started its operations in the late 1940s.
It used to sell licenced vehicles from famous international brands such Plymouth, Dodge, Fiat, Peugeot etc. However, with the liberalisation of the Indian economy, the competition mounted and it became tough for Premier to continue operations. Sales performance too dropped drastically. Eventually, the Pune-based auto company ceased its operations. In December 2018, Premier filed for bankruptcy.
First Published Date: 09 Sep 2021, 05:34 PM IST
TAGS: Ford General Motors Chevrolet Opel Ford India Harley Davidson Fiat UM Motorcycles Premier Automobiles


On Thursday last (08 December 1892) the relatives and friends of Mrs. John F. Boy were inexpressibly shocked at receiving the news of her sudden death. The sad event occurred about an hour before noon while Mrs. Boy was performing her domestic duties at her home on Fifth Street. She had got a jar of fruit from the cellar, but forgetting the can opener, went back to get it. As she did not return Mr. Boy became alarmed at her absence, and going to the cellar was horrified to find her lying on the floor at the bottom of the stair apparently dead. Dr. R. M. Wilson was sent for in greatest haste, and on his arrival an examination only served to verify the fact that life had been extinct for some time. Mrs. Boy for many years had been subject to apoplectic strokes and heart trouble, and had been cautioned several times by her physician against performing any heavy task. It is supposed that her death was due to heart failure induced by overexertion. The deceased was born in Hesse Darmstadt August 02, 1826, and immigrated to America with her parents in 1837, locating with them at St. Louis. She was married in 1847 to John F. Boy, and six years later came to this city with him, where they have resided ever since. Mrs. Boy was the mother of six children, two of whom are dead. The surviving members of the family are Amelia, wife of E.F.L. Rautenberg of this city; Julia, wife of Fred Obermiller, of Mt. Pulaski; George Boy, of this city, and Charles Boy, living in Cumberland County. The funeral took place from the family residence, No. 1103 Fifth Street, on Sunday (11 December 1892) at 2 o'clock. The services were conducted by Rev. Henry Schmidt, of St. John's Evangelical Church, in the presence of a large concourse of friends, relatives and neighbors.
This page is "Mrs. John F. Boy Obituary" on the Logan County, Illinois, ILGenWeb site. The address of this page is http://logan.illinoisgenweb.org/obits/boymrsjohn.htm..


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Los Angeles Zine Fest from Nature Show on Vimeo.
The L.A. Zine Fest was the talk of the town this last week!
We were so excited to see how many people besides us are gearing up for this awesome event. It was really motivating to read all this great press as we were silkscreening over 60 promo posters in organizer Rhea's living room.
< Magick Orchids at The Smell /// Heart Break Cinema at Heart On!


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# Personalizzazione del JRE
{: #customizing_jre}

Le applicazioni vengono eseguite in un JRE (Java runtime
environment) fornito e configurato dal pacchetto di build Liberty. Il pacchetto di build Liberty rende anche possibile configurare la versione o il tipo di JRE, personalizzare
le opzioni JVM o sovrapporre le funzioni JRE.

## IBM JRE

Per impostazione predefinita, le applicazioni
sono configurate per essere eseguite con una versione leggera di IBM JRE. Questo JRE
leggero è semplificato per fornire una funzionalità di base ed essenziale con
un ingombro su disco e in memoria decisamente ridotto. Per ulteriori informazioni sui contenuti del JRE leggero, consulta [Small Footprint JRE](http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYKE2_8.0.0/com.ibm.java.lnx.80.doc/user/small_jre.html).

Per impostazione predefinita, viene utilizzato IBM JRE versione 8. Utilizza la variabile di ambiente JBP_CONFIG_IBMJDK per specificare una versione alternativa di IBM JRE. Ad esempio, per utilizzare
				l'IBM JRE 7.1 più recente, imposta la seguente variabile di
				ambiente:
```
    $ cf set-env myapp JBP_CONFIG_IBMJDK "version: 1.7.+"
```
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La proprietà version può essere impostata su un intervallo di versioni. Gli intervalli di versione supportati
sono due: 1.7.+ e 1.8.+. Per dei risultati ottimali, utilizza Java 8.

## OpenJDK
{: #openjdk}

Facoltativamente, le applicazioni possono essere configurate per
l'esecuzione con OpenJDK come JRE. Per abilitare l'esecuzione di un'applicazione con OpenJDK, imposta la variabile di ambiente JVM su "openjdk". Ad esempio, utilizzando
lo strumento riga di comando, esegui il comando:
```
    $ cf set-env myapp JVM 'openjdk'
```
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Se abilitato, viene utilizzato OpenJDK versione 8 per impostazione predefinita. Utilizza la variabile di ambiente JBP_CONFIG_OPENJDK  per specificare una versione alternativa di OpenJDK. Ad
				esempio, per utilizzare l'OpenJDK 7 più recente, imposta la seguente variabile di
				ambiente:
```
    $ cf set-env myapp JBP_CONFIG_OPENJDK "version: 1.7.+"
```
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La proprietà version può essere impostata su un intervallo di versioni come 1.7.+ o qualsiasi versione
				specifica elencata nell'[elenco di versioni OpenJDK disponibili](https://download.run.pivotal.io/openjdk/lucid/x86_64/index.yml). Per dei risultati ottimali, utilizza Java 8.

## JRE Oracle
{: #oracle_jre}

Consulta [Utilizzo di JRE Oracle](oracle_jre.html) per informazioni sull'utilizzo di JRE Oracle.

## Configurazione delle opzioni JRE
{: #configuring_jre}

### Configurazione predefinita di JVM
{: #jvm_default_config}

Il pacchetto di build Liberty configura le opzioni JVM predefinite tenendo conto di quanto segue:

* Il limite di memoria dell'applicazione.  Le impostazioni heap JVM applicate sono calcolate in base:
  * il limite di memoria di un'applicazione, come spiegato in [Limiti di memoria e pacchetto di build Liberty](memoryLimits.html#memory_limits)
  * il tipo di JRE, poiché le opzioni correlate all'heap per JVM variano in base alle opzioni supportate del JRE.

* Le [Funzioni Liberty supportate in Bluemix](libertyFeatures.html#libertyfeatures).
  * Le transazioni database globali con commit in due fasi non sono supportate in Bluemix e sono pertanto disabilitate impostando -Dcom.ibm.tx.jta.disable2PC=true.

* L'ambiente Bluemix.

    Le opzioni JVM sono configurate per fornire l'ottimizzazione in un ambiente Bluemix e per essere di ausilio nella diagnostica di condizioni di errore correlate alla memoria.
  * il rilevamento e il ripristino rapido delle condizioni di errore di un'applicazione viene configurato disabilitando
le opzioni di dump JVM e terminando i processi quando la memoria di un'applicazione si esaurisce.
  * l'ottimizzazione della virtualizzazione (solo per IBM JRE).
  * l'instradamento delle informazioni sulle risorse di memoria disponibili dell'applicazione quando si è verificato
l'errore al Loggregator.
  * se un'applicazione è configurata per abilitare i dump di memoria JVM, l'interruzione dei processi Java è disabilitata e i dump di memoria JVM vengono instradati a una directory "dumps" dell'applicazione	comune. Questi dump possono essere quindi visualizzati dal dashboard Bluemix o dalla CLI CF.

Il seguente è un esempio della configurazione JVM predefinita di esempio generata dal pacchetto di build per un'applicazione distribuita con un limite di memoria 512M:

```
    -Xtune:virtualized
    -Xmx384M
    -Xdump:none
    -Xdump:heap:defaults:file=../../../../../dumps/heapdump.%Y%m%d.%H%M%S.%pid.%seq.phd
    -Xdump:java:defaults:file=../../../../../dumps/javacore.%Y%m%d.%H%M%S.%pid.%seq.txt
    -Xdump:snap:defaults:file=../../../../../dumps/Snap.%Y%m%d.%H%M%S.%pid.%seq.trc
    -Xdump:tool:events=systhrow,filter=java/lang/OutOfMemoryError,request=serial+exclusive,exec=../../../../.buildpack-diagnostics/killjava.sh
    -Dcom.ibm.tx.jta.disable2PC=true
```
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### Personalizzazione della configurazione della JVM
{: #customizing_jvm}

Le applicazioni possono personalizzare le opzioni JVM con le specifiche definite dal JRE configurato per l'applicazione. Fai riferimento alle linee guida su come specificare un'opzione e sul suo utilizzo direttamente dalla documentazione del JRE poiché le opzioni variano in base al JRE.

JRE
Formato delle opzioni della riga di comando
Riferimento

IBM JRE
include le opzioni di runtime (con prefisso -X), le eventuali proprietà di sistema Java (con prefisso -D) e non raccomanda -XX per un utilizzo casuale (queste opzioni sono soggette a modifica)

[Opzioni della riga di comando della Versione 8](http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYKE2_8.0.0/com.ibm.java.lnx.80.doc/diag/appendixes/cmdline/cmdline.html), [Opzioni della riga di comando della Versione 7](http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYKE2_7.0.0/com.ibm.java.lnx.70.doc/diag/appendixes/cmdline/cmdline.html)

 OpenJDK
è basato sul runtime HotSpot che ha la notazione di
-X per non standard, -XX per le opzioni sviluppatore e i flag booleani
per abilitare o disabilitare l'opzione
[HotSpot Runtime Overview  ![Icona link esterno](../../icons/launch-glyph.svg "Icona link esterno")](http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot//docs/RuntimeOverview.html)

Un'applicazione che richiede le opzioni JVM personalizzate può impostare l'opzione come un valore per una delle variabili di ambiente IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS, JAVA_OPTS o JVM_ARGS in Bluemix. Fai riferimento alla sezione Variabili di ambiente su come impostare la variabile di ambiente di un'applicazione. Un server in pacchetto o una directory server può anche includere un file jvm.options che contiene le opzioni di riga di comando invece dell'impostazione di una variabile di ambiente.

Quando le opzioni JVM vengono applicate al JRE, vengono applicate prima le opzioni
predefinite del pacchetto di build Liberty, seguite dalle opzioni personalizzate. Le opzioni personalizzate sono accodate in
un ordine specificato, che è elencato nella tabella. La sequenza delle opzioni Java applicate definisce quali opzioni hanno la precedenza. Le opzioni applicate per ultime hanno la precedenza sulle opzioni applicate in precedenza.

Nota: alcune opzioni potrebbero non diventare effettive se non vengono attivate da un agent.

Ordine applicato
Impostazione delle opzioni JVM dell'applicazione
Descrizione
Tipo di applicazione supportato
Per aggiornare l'opzione JVM di un'applicazione distribuita
Applicabile a OpenJDK JRE

1
IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS
una variabile di ambiente supportata da IBM JRE
Tutti
Riavviare o ripreparare l'applicazione
No

2
JAVA_OPTS
una variabile di ambiente mediante il framework del pacchetto di build Liberty Java Options
Tutti
Ripreparare l'applicazione
Sì

3
jvm.options
un file di configurazione JVM supportato dalla directory server o dal server in pacchetto di runtime Liberty
Package server
Ripreparare l'applicazione
Sì

4
JVM_ARGS
una variabile di ambiente supportata dal runtime Liberty
Tutti
Riavviare o ripreparare l'applicazione
Sì

### Determinare le opzioni JVM applicate di un'applicazione in esecuzione
{: #determining_applied_jvm_options}

Fatta eccezione per le opzioni definite dall'applicazione che sono specificate con la variabile di ambiente JVM_ARGS, le opzioni risultanti sono rese persistenti nella variabile di ambiente come opzioni della riga di comando (applicazioni Java autonome) oppure in un file`jvm.options` (applicazioni Java non autonome). Le opzioni JVM applicate per l'applicazione possono essere visualizzate dalla console IBM Bluemix o dalla CLI CF.

Le opzioni JVM per l'applicazione JAVA autonoma sono mantenute come opzioni della riga di comando. Possono essere visualizzate dal file `staging_info.yml`.

Per visualizzare il file `staging_info.yml` in un'applicazione in esecuzione in un nodo DEA, esegui:

```
    $ cf files myapp staging_info.yml
```
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Per visualizzare il file `staging_info.yml` in un'applicazione in esecuzione in una cella Diego, esegui:

```
    $ cf ssh myapp -c "cat staging_info.yml"
```
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Le opzioni JVM per la distribuzione di WAR, EAR, directory server e server in pacchetto sono memorizzate in un file `jvm.options`. Il file `jvm.options` può essere trovato nella directory `app/wlp/usr/servers/<serverName>/`. In molti casi ```<serverName>``` è impostato su `defaultServer` a meno che un server compresso non era stato distribuito con un nome server diverso. Ad esempio:

Per visualizzare il file `jvm.options` in un'applicazione in esecuzione in un nodo DEA, esegui:

```
    $ cf files myapp app/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/jvm.options
```
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Per visualizzare il file `jvm.options` in un'applicazione in esecuzione in una cella Diego, esegui:

```
    $ cf ssh myapp -c "cat app/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/jvm.options"
```
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#### Utilizzo di esempio
{: #example_usage}

Distribuzione di un'applicazione con le opzioni JVM personalizzate per abilitare la registrazione della raccolta di dati inutilizzati dettagliata di IBM JRE:
* Le opzioni JVM incluse nel file `manifest.yml` di un'applicazione:

```
    env:
      JAVA_OPTS: "-verbose:gc -Xverbosegclog:./verbosegc.log,10,1000"
```
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* Per visualizzare il file della registrazione della raccolta di dati inutilizzati dettagliata generata da JVM su un'applicazione in esecuzione su un dono DEA, esegui:

```
    $ cf files myapp app/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/verbosegc.log.001
```
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* Per visualizzare il file della registrazione della raccolta di dati inutilizzati dettagliata generata da JVM su un'applicazione in esecuzione su una cella Diego, esegui:

```
    $ cf ssh myapp -c "cat app/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/verbosegc.log.001"
```
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* Per aggiornare l'opzione di IBM JRE dell'applicazione distribuita per attivare un heap, uno snap e un javacore oppure una condizione di memoria esaurita (OutOfMemory), impostare la variabile di ambiente dell'applicazione con l'opzione JVM e riavviare l'applicazione:

```
    $ cf set-env myapp JVM_ARGS '-Xdump:heap+java+snap:events=systhrow,filter=java/lang/OutOfMemoryError'
    $ cf restart myapp
```
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 Consulta la documentazione [Registrazione e traccia](loggingAndTracing.html#download_dumps) per i dettagli sulla visualizzazione e lo scaricamento dei file di dump generati.

### Sovrapposizione del JRE
{: #overlaying_jre}

Ci sono alcuni casi in cui è necessario
aggregare i file con il JRE per esporne le funzioni. Lo sviluppatore dell'applicazione può fornire i file JRE per la personalizzazione.

I
file da sovrapporre possono essere impacchettati con WAR, EAR,
o JAR dell'applicazione in una cartella resources alla root dell'archivio. Per un server (directory server o file compresso), i file possono essere impacchettati in una cartella resources nella directory server, con il file server.xml.

* WAR file
  * WEB-INF
  * resources
    * other files
    * .java-overlay

* EAR file
  * META-INF
  * resources
    * other files
    * .java-overlay

* JAR file
  * META-INF
  * resources
    * other files
    * .java-overlay

* server_name DIR
  * apps
  * dropins
  * server.xml
  * resources
    * other files
    * .java-overlay

La directory .java-overlay contiene dei file specifici nella stessa gerarchia di file di Java JRE di cui si sta eseguendo la sovrapposizione a partire da	.java/jre.

Ad esempio, se desideri utilizzare la crittografia AES a 256 bit, devi soprapporre questi file di politica Java:

```
    .java\jre\lib\security\US_export_policy.jar
    .java\jre\lib\security\local_policy.jar
```
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Scarica i file di politica senza limitazioni appropriati e aggiungili all'applicazione come:

```
    resources\.java-overlay\.java\jre\lib\security\US_export_policy.jar
    resources\.java-overlay\.java\jre\lib\security\local_policy.jar
```
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Quando esegui il push dell'applicazione, questi jar si sovrappongono ai jar di politica predefiniti nel runtime Java. Questi processo abilita la crittografia AES a 256 bit.

# rellinks
{: #rellinks notoc}
## general
{: #general notoc}
* [Runtime Liberty](index.html)
* [Panoramica di Liberty Profile](http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.nd.doc/ae/cwlp_about.html)


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West to ride factory Kawasaki for rest of 2007 MotoGP campaign
Published: 19 June 2007 Updated: 24 November 2014
Anthony West aboard the ZX-RR at the Catalunya test
Aussie Anthony West will ride a factory Kawasaki ZX-RR for the remainder of the 2007 MotoGP world championship.
MCN can reveal the 25-year-old, currently running in World Supersport, has been signed by Kawasaki to replace injury-prone French rider Olivier Jacque with immediate effect, starting in this weekend's British MotoGP at Donington Park.
The Japanese factory will officially announce the deal on Thursday at Donington Park, but Anthony West will partner Randy de Puniet in the remaining 11 races of the season.
West tested the ZX-RR after the recent Catalunya MotoGP in Barcelona, with former world 250 champion Jacque sidelined by injury for the third time since his shock return to full-time racing in 2007.
West, who recently split from the Italian-based Team Sicilia 250 GP squad, impressed Kawasaki not only with his lap times but also with the technical feedback.
And he has now been handed a golden opportunity to stake his claim to a permanent MotoGP slot alongside fellow countrymen Casey Stoner and Chris Vermeulen.
At the time of Anthony West's surprise test, which was revealed by MCN, Kawasaki bosses had already begun to reluctantly consider replacing Olivier Jacque on a long-term basis.
Jacque missed part of the pre-season IRTA test in Qatar with concussion after a massive crash and then had to sit out his home MotoGP in Le Mans after suffering a right arm injury in a crash during practice for the Shanghai GP in China.
He was then forced out of the Catalunya MotoGP with neck injuries following another crash, and Kawasaki bosses decided to act to try and relieve some of the pressure and burden of bike development off de Puniet.
Olivier Jacque will revert back to his previous role of test and development rider.
After his recent Barcelona test, Anthony West had told MCN that he was keener to get on a MotoGP bike than ever before, with the new 800s suiting his 250 style.
Anthony West thought he had found himself a new career path in the World Supersport series riding a Yamaha R6 in place of injured compatriot Kevin Curtain.
He'd only replaced Curtain for three races but claimed superb victories in two, including one in a rain-lashed debut at Silverstone, and currently sits fifth in the standings.
He raced in 14 premier class races in 2001 on a production Honda NSR V-twin 500cc machine.
By Matthew Birt

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The business environment has always been one of the major contributing factors in the success of the business. When establishing a business, an entrepreneur has to consider many business aspects, as well as how it will be established in a particular environment. It is very important for both the new and experienced staffs to know that European Union has always been a very fertile ground for businesses.
The European Union is the political and economic union of 28 member states located in Europe. It operates under supranational independent institutions and negotiated decisions by the governments of all member states. The EU is composed of one representative from each of its member country, and its capital is Brussels, Belgium. The council of ministers, the parliament and commissions are always working hard to see that all member states are united to create common legal business environment.
The railway services. There are open domestic railway services in order to help to improve the cost efficiency and quality of service in the transport sector.
Maritime transport. Goods transported between EU member countries are no longer subjected to administrative and customs control that are applied to goods arriving from other oversea ports.
Air transport. There is improved safety, capacity and environmental impact on the transportation by air among member countries.
The implementation of the third energy package. The legislative policies on gas and electricity among the EU member states are established in order to favor member countries (Pelkmans & Luchetta, 2013).
Telecommunications and broadcasting. Telecommunications services are improved due to the provision of huge and high broadband networks.
The EU has established the consumer protection whose main goal is to ensure that consumers by themselves, the use of the internet and e-commerce, as well as a common currency across borders are protected.
It has also put in place policies that will ensure environmental safety and the increase in energy efficiency at the macroeconomic level, and also try to inform consumers about their household energy usage. This occurs in order to reduce the dependence on foreign source of energy. The consumer products sold in EU now have energy efficiency rating and their consumption statistics.
The EU has also adopted continent-wide information technology standards to ensure that consumers have access to information technology services such as telephone and internet services at affordable prices.
Personally, as a company controller, the efforts put in place by the EU makes life easier, because of the freedom to interact with people from different backgrounds and nationalities, and people of different status.
Also, from a corporate standpoint, the efforts of the EU to make doing business easier in Europe has been of great help in related with both local and foreign counterparts and consumers, and also in achieving success (Doing business in a more transparent world, 2012).
However, on an international level, the efforts of the EU have created a strong business relationship, for example, not only between two countries, but also between other countries and Europe as a continent. Furthermore, there is an improved level of integration among the member states compared to other continents.
In conclusion, both experienced and new staffs should know that, due to Europe's structure, geographical location, and also the policies put in place by the EU to foster economic and political growth among member states, businesses experience and will continue experiencing tremendous growth both among the EU countries and also with other countries.


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I'm an unethical cad.
Sometimes I think it would be better if I was someone else, with other goals, other drives, other sensory requirements. Lying is part of my core but I am told it is not part of every man.
You see, there comes a time in my every day when I look at myself and feel I am decidedly lacking in something. Some call it self loathing and it hurts like the sins of our fathers all congealed into my generation.
When I get like this I look into myself and see the growing fire of dissatisfaction coming from my soul and it's licking each level inside me working it's way up. Fire hurts, my emptiness hurts, and I am desperate for salvation.
You would like to see the contents of my camera phone as incriminating evidence. As you start to see exactly how disgusting I am, my internal damage control mechanism would kick in and we'd find some macho common ground. All of a sudden be close buddies and you'd forget that I did your sister and broke her heart.
Maybe on the other hand you are a member of my portable just-fucked-you gallery, you'll still not hate me for long. I still look good, and I still cruise through this city like I own it. The truth is, as human animals, the fact that my genes gave me the body and the face you would see means that in the moment I do own the space I am in wherever I am.
My camera phone has a population of good moments that ended poorly, but just as I carry it around with me, so do I carry my concealed baggage. No matter how much I hurt you with my callous heart, you'll never hate me more than I hate myself.
posted by J at 1:20 AM 8 comments
Somewhere along the way I went off the rails.
I now find my posts from events to miss completely who I am now but rather express those depraved parts of my past that manifest themselves occasionally and get stuck in my head.
For the last few months I've seen no point in posting here other than to indulge my petty subconcious animal self.
Grant vs Me part 1
Wasted potential pains me.
As much as my wrinkled up 30 something carcass feels some alpha male intimidation from Grant sitting across from me in his 27 year old rugby half forward trained English aristocrat model turned actor looks and poise, the feeling of male race deprecation soon leaves me as the young lad gets that all too common fear of the attractive woman double taking our group. Actually, she bypassed me and as I can see a woman's intentions often almost as soon as she generates them, knew she'd spotted him as the one true specimen that can give her the correct genetic donor package to ensure her offspring are superior.
It's often strange the way things turn out. I never really noticed the barriers of life rolling underneath me an out on my wake as I age more gracefully than all my peers, especially the married nagged sad sacks of shit from my older past. Aging gracefully or not, it matters little that in my late 30s I am in my late 30s and never again will I be able to compete with the superficiality that is a 27 year old buck in his prime.
Let's say that I am still virile enough and attractive enough to satisfy the eye candy requirement of most women and in most crowds would not feel the effect of my age, but Grant, well, it's not enough to state that he is me as I was because as far as impression goes, and the accent, he's far more than I ever was. I'm gay enough to understand when metrosexual is surpassed by heterosexual ruggedness, and well, I am employed to notice when both men and women are marketable to the masses.
There are only two of us in the group of five, me and Grant. I don't need to describe the other guys, it's not necessary, if you were a woman able to see us, you'd agree.
A long with her forty inch legs and the fine lines of her Norwegian cut face, the person whom I was to know as Hayley stepped into the bar presumably looking for her friends who were a gaggle of lesser creatures and cougars that had gone on to a club off Robson Street ten minutes prior. Despite her looks, which were the price of entry into my attention in the moment, she did the most amazing breeze across our vision streams, eyes like beams rolling up and down her body with one exception. I ignored her while Grant, I think drooled some.
Hayley did double take on Grant and my age jealousy hated him. He seemed to not understand that she'd set her eyes on him and ignored us, rejected us, and it was as if our judgment or potential disapproval of her female specimen was irrelevant to her self esteem.
I had to have her.
The Westin Grand hotel bar is not very large, but large enough at 1am put five slightly drunk guys in one corner and for Hayley to find an empty table at the other end. This is where she placed herself, and to this day, despite her conversation, I was not sure she was ever waiting for her friends or had missed the club scene that evening.
Hayley was on the prowl, and Vancouver is saturated with appropriate targets for her traveling entertainment. She was across from us, just far enough away out of passive conversation or impressionable communication range, made sure we could see all of her legs from mid thigh down as she folded herself into a chair and opened her cellphone.
I knew Grant was in and the three of us in the no-hope category also knew Grant was in, only, Grant did not know he was in. I leaned into our huddle as our conscious conversation continued as it was before Hayley entered our periphery, and looked over at her. I caught her eye for half a second where she turned away as if I did not exist. I looked back at the group then returned a quick glance to see she had not returned my eye.
As pained as that made me feel in my old age, I knew she'd decided if anyone was to have any chance of even smelling her this night it was grant. I hushed the tone of my voice, leaned into Grants space, and said to him.
"If you don't go over there I am going remove your testicles".
posted by J at 5:08 PM 1 comments
Liar, or crazy
Remembering a woman I used to be in a casual relationship with, or a non-relationship. It just worked with her sexually, for me sometimes I'd think about fucking her a little too much. She was half black, but before she told me I never assumed anything other than olive skin. Her scent was not particularly erotic, kind of generic shampoo scent, and her hair was kind of bizarre.
She was cute enough, and she was a runner so she had good long toned legs, but she wasn't tall. She was not beautiful, but she had an amazing ass.
My story with her ended a long time ago. We'd never really hooked in a relationship, and not been exclusive. Although she'd mention the men she was drinking with and hanging with she lied expertly and subtly about how they weren't sleeping with her, and that's cool, but she did however maintain the veil of anonymity with regards to the others in her life until one day we were doing our thing - about to fuck, and she drops the bomb.
"I'm 5 days late."
Ok, I'm thinking, I like her, but not sure about what that means. Before I can react she also says.
"I've been sleeping with this other guy"
And I'm thinking, well, I know, why tell me unless it's his. But she continues.
"And I was tested positive for chlamydia but I don't know if I got it from you or him."
She knew we'd always used condoms except that first time we hooked up a year before and the thing broke, I felt the sensation against my bare skin which although felt great was warning enough for me to pull out and re-apply protection. Then there was the time she swallowed, but who knows if she's even protected from this other guy.
Before I know it she's maybe pregnant, has another dude, and got a disease from him. I was tested and found negative, but I took the anti-biotic bomb anyway. Then she goes radio silent for a couple of weeks. We talked on and off regularly, she was like a supportive intelligent friend whom I also fucked on occasion. In the moment I'm thinking she's wanting support but giving me reasons to deny it.
After a few weeks of radio silence she wanted to have lunch. It was a normal lunch, normal, we talked about the same stuff, we flirted, but getting down to it she stopped as we were making out and said she wanted to talk about this other guy she'd been seeing.
She doesn't want a relationship but she feels she had it with me, she finds him stupid as he's 8 years younger. She finds him boring in bed because he doesn't know what he is doing and is selfish. They're not exclusive, and she doesn't like that he hangs around her house too long and they have no conversation because he's dumb. And he's the guy who gave her chlamydia because he sleeps around, and was not the guy who stayed with her during the night of her pregnancy scare - which ended up being false.
Her decision was that because this other guy is a finite thing, as in she's going to end it soon, that she's going to feel safer in the non-relationship with him. Not that I wanted her or anything, I just felt bad being lied to about the deal with this other guy - he's crap but she chose him over me because we had a connection and that scared her.
On top of that after the lunch I paid for that day, she borrowed $40 to get her dry cleaning on the way back. So in short, that day, I got dissed, gave her $40 and lunch, and went to her for the pleasure.
I had a hard time believing anything she said, but basically didn't want to hurt my feelings by making me the loser in a possible relationship choice between me and this other guy. She seemed genuine but really she was not.
This is the sort of woman who used to inhabit my single life.
Crying is hard
I go for a long time without feeling and it's not like forgetting to take a shower where the requirement to look after oneself becomes overwhelming, we get to escape ourselves endlessly.
I hide.
Everything is a waste of time, something to validate your living experience falling down the shute to death. Some of us get it sooner, some of us seem to never die but go on without getting tired while our bodies secretly store the loss in places we can't see.
The linoleum floor was emaculately polished and shiny reflecting the soulless flourescents overhead hidden in their plastic recesses replaced once every eight hundred deaths. I stared at my shoes and shifted in the seat, a seat made for short term occupation sometimes forced to endure longer compression as people moulded to the hospital timeframe in best ways they know or unthinkingly don't know how.
The coke machine provided the only color in the waiting room, the deep red softening into a pinkish hue reflected from the sterilized floor. The rest of the room was a poor grain black and white film, three other strangers, some of them together, I don't care shared their own individual relationships with plastic chairs identical yet somehow never meant to comfort.
I usually didn't feel.
Her laughter was still echoing in the back room of my short term memory, the feeling still struggling to hold onto the trappings of before with her posture perfect and her hands and ten and two on the wheel, her hair in a pony tail, her concentration breaking from the road to me and our blended moments. I never left the scene in the car somewhere in my conciousness, I'm still there looking at her.
Thump thump thump, Estella really made it work where everything else failed.
Euphoria was her product and she gave it to me, starting from the first time she interrupted me on the beach in Mexico until, until the last joke that seems to have frozen my feelings for a lot of my waking hours. Feelings frozen don't return the same from the investment but meerly grant to elusive promise of another rendition of her adding to me just exactly the way that I can't do myself.
My days working gave me a superficial buzz of progression. Sometimes those days had peaks, like one moment when a take finished and as he was walking off I got a side glance and the look from Dennis Hopper that was probably just an acid flashback or maybe hopefully a telepathic "you got it kid" emanation. Those moments end, a burnt offering to time and faded, yet that last joke with Estella just will never go away.
Crying is good for the soul, but I don't do it anymore.
It was the dead of night and my three strangers held individual pensiveness and an unsteady desperation to get the bad news over with so we could at least know. I had been in the room for three hours, I don't remember pacing but I know I did.
I see the contours of her cheekbones derived from cooking different European genetics and the gypsy, or maybe spirit from a new place. I confuse the memory with her dancing in the shadows around a ten foot bonfire on a distant beach where it doesn't matter to anyone but me that I know the exact pattern of the wrap she wore over her little blue biknini and the way her hair flowed around her trapping my pathetic heart before she really even wanted to try.
The bruise on my forehead and the cut on my chin were swelled but I could have been back there on the beach wearing almost nothing perfectly healthy and intact wondering what she'd say next in her accented fascination.
She always had the cutting revelation, even the repeats made new sense.
I felt better that I didn't get the job in Toronto, better because she made me accept responsiblity for my success and failures. Estella opened the door on my limitations and proved to me that I was in control of my motion through life. We laced our love and companionship with laughter and extreme emotions and role play and fantasy.
"You know I could tell your brother's cat was Mexican", my comment was pointed to get her attention from whatever it was she was thinking, explaining, or mimicking on the car radio.
She looked over and pursed her lips, her left eye was slightly bigger than her right but I didn't care.
"How does a silly little man from Indiana get this birth information from the world of cats?"
I loved her insulting me.
"Trial and error"
She changed up gears, the muscles in her thighs clearly flexed and defined as her skinny legs activated the clutch.
"You tested Joey's cat?"
"Test, torture, same thing"
I broke her gaze and let her return to concentrating on driving.
"I did a series of freefall experiments, every time I dropped him he always landed on his head"
At that moment her laugh filled the car, and that permanent record in my memory. That's the first thing I remember about that time. The second is the sound of metal tearing and glass shattering or cracking, and then a blunt trauma as the airbag knocked me out.
I felt heat from the pink reflection of the Coke machine, which was impossible. As the glass door opened three other people held their breath. They all looked up and then quickly sighed and returned to their silent anticipation. The man in green, a doctor I recognized from the urgent end of a hazy ambulance ride. He had a look of anguish on his face and dead but moist eyes, I knew from his slumped body language that he was tired and had bad news.
That last laughter was the strongest connection to Estella that I would ever have again. She did not come back from being wheeled into the emergency room, into surgery, did not come back from her trail of blood, I was less than I was before I'd been interrupted by her on the beach and taken prisoner.
I didn't sit, but as the doctor's hand fell from my shoulder I stood staring at the television in the other room through a glass partition. The television like my muffled tortured grief stricken soul was silent in the moment, the sound heard elsewhere, somewhere, anywhere but here.
The glass door slid open again, and my three companions repeated their urgent seeking with their faces as they looked up. It was not a doctor, it was dark and tall figure unusually dressed shabbily quite out of place in his own clothes, Estella's father. He entered the room and looked up at me, her eyes were alive in him and for a moment I was terrified of him.
The terror passed as I saw the fear come back at me in spades. His tear struck eyes pleaded with me in the passing seconds to reassure him but for what I know all he got back in return were my own imparting of emotion breaking it down in no uncertain terms that today was our day of loss and nothing was going to be easy.
He cross the room and wrapped me in his arms and with his head pressed firmly against my neck I could feel the heat of his body transfer to me. He squeezed me tight and my shoulder became wet with his tears. The memory of the sound of Estella's laughter and the rending of metal was replaced by the deep howling of a parent's pain.
The old man never reached out to me, never made me feel good enough until that last moment. With him crying in my arms and me holding him up, and wrapped in the torturous persistant last memory of my last good time with Estella, I finally felt accepted and acceptable to the world.
I was finally able to cry.
posted by J at 4:00 PM 16 comments
Back of my mind
How do I define my success?
It changes yearly, it's whimsical branch after branch of choice and failure and some success mixed in with help from people and a vacant mind.
I bring it without needing to think about it and each day that drives past leaves me with wonderment about how it was an how it could have been if only this or that had happened. I don't mix regrets with my daily life, but some time way back I used to mix it with chemical compensation and swim in the melancholy and euphoria all too often.
Estella eyed me from across the table.
It was a nice restaurant, new décor, new food, new chef, hotter staff than it really needed to have. Even the boys were pretty, pretty and gay, but I was not out of place and neither was she.
A full glass of scotch was already on it's way to yesterdays replay in the urinary tract, Estella's long fingers found some ice in her water. She stirred the water, she was toying with the cubes but never really concentrating on it, rather she was eyeing me because I'd just explained questionable content, intentions, reactions, and how I was given the short stick again.
"An actor has a range"
She pursed her lips and blew out some air, the blonde at the next
table was distracted.
"An actor has a range" Estella mimicked me. "Listen to you" She looked over to the blonde and rolled her eyes like they had an in joke about me.
I brought my thoughts into line, put my best defensive pattern in order. I stopped for a second and looked across at her almond eyed stare and puckered mouth and thought about how wrong I have been for every part I have ever auditioned for, how my grandfather voted for President Taft and other side branches that stick in my mind when I am not thinking about sex or money.
The conclusion I came to was that I was a crappy actor and nobody liked me when I wasn't smiling or hitting on them, and then I allowed myself to remember how often I hit on women and how often I smiled at networked people. I lifted the scotch and sealed the booze's fate in one gulp, I am a sloppy wasteful drunk, but at least I can restrain myself from blowing chunks when I need to.
It took me a swallow and a good minute to recognize that Estella's last comment was an invitation to speak, my move in this game where she was always four or five thousand thoughts ahead of me. I should have changed my tact, but she was so mesmerizing most of the time that I left most of my thinking in the laundry hamper and just never bothered to pick it up..
"Wendy asked me go, she said I was a shoe-in", and I detected desperation in my voice. I so hoped she believed what I wanted to believe. Wendy was a cool French Canadian version of me, manger-la-marde grimace just like me, as fake as me, and also as quick to swap attention to the next task at hand and not get bogged down in details once a decision was made.
Wendy was the perfect casting drone.
Cocking her head to the side Estella moistened her lips and blinked.
"And?"
I wasn't really on a roll, you see I never believed for a second that Wendy's exuberant invitation to read for the part was just her way of motivating me to audition for an obscure venture twenty five hundred miles away in place where I know nobody and where I know it gets colder than Indiana.
Because I didn't believe that I was a sure thing for the part, really, I knew Estella didn't believe it. Between you and me, she could read minds and bend time and space to suit her oliverian hide in just the way she liked it.
"I didn't get it, I had Adrian asking for me but" I was shrugging while I was explaining in a way that normal people would have taken an eight year lease on, you know that bit where I made friends with someone important during the audition process and perhaps that meant something in this cloak and dagger industry.
I paused just a little too long and Estella's hidden Jaguar genetic augmentations sprung to life and she kicked me right in the balls.
"Why do you think that Sarah didn't like you?" Of course Estella was right on the money, like the knife in Mexico City, sharp and surgical, her wit was a swab of hydrogen peroxide ready to clean the wound, or in the last century, a handful of maggots.
"You knew I was going there didn't you?"
She smiled, I smiled involuntarily, she'd come back from disdain.
"Of course I did, you're a sleazy old man" She lifted her long finger from the ice in her little sea of Peligrino and flicked the water on the tip at me. This was where she wanted me to go to, that place where I was not whining about how unsuccessful I am, but in that space where I am taking full responsibility for my actions and where nobody is sabotaging my life but my own unguided sense of right and wrong.
"Bitch"
"ooh, sleazy old man, I said it correct right? I just want you to admit that you undid all the work Wendy and Adrian did by hitting on her, if you ever really had a shot." She had heard my story, she had probed my mind with her powers, and as quick as she was she didn't need more explanation, she had me down.
"Yeah, you're right".
I leaned back and laughed.
"So you find blowing six figures and five months work funny?" She got her serious face back on and returned to her stare tactics until I'd come down from the laugh.
"Yes, it's fucking hilarious you all-knowing witch, I don't know how you know me so well, but then again, just think, if I got the part I'd be in Toronto right now and you'd be having dinner with some other old sleazebag."
"That's true, but you know I would be fucking him later tonight."
"That was so funny Jed"
Drew leaned into my defensive zone like he always did, he should have been a woman he was so blonde, and his stupid sunglasses still on top of his head even though it was well past midnite.
I struggled to finish my story, the one Drew was so dedicated to hearing.
"heh, you gotta slasch, see, you know, the lake, look on her fish, face"
Julie was giggling to herself. She was well past her used by date tonight, but her good time vibe was infectious. She sat to my right, one leg over my lap, the other folded under her, a martini in one hand and her other tracing her fingers up and down my drunk arm.
Drew pointed at me.
"you're drunk"
Drew grinned, took his half glass of whatever and touched it to my glass, which apparently I was still holding, and put it to his lips. That was what he tried to do, only he missed his mouth by an inch and poured half of the contents of the glass on the floor over his chin before correcting and making up the distance.
I suddenly found sticky alcohol on hardwood floors comforting.
"nice save, and yes, drunk am I, I am drunk"
Drew's eyes became animated and he lurched into a new thought, I was not able to break this extended attention stream.
"you know Jed, if we were Simon and Simon, you'd be Rick and I'd be AJ"
Even drunk he was able to recall my fascination with Gerald McRaney and put me into the "ugly guy" category. I was too wasted to fight him on this one.
I looked over at the window, the big bay window, the one that showed a nightly image of LA's twinkling lights. The city below mesmerized me for something like five minutes, or and hour, I was not sure. It still looked damp outside, stupid rain.
Drews glass was on the floor, his face was on it's side on my coffee table. There was crap everywhere, signs of a successful night of escape indoors. I lifted Drew's head using his blonde mop as a handle.
"Drew, I mean AJ!!!"
I raised my voice, but I didn't think he was concious.
"guess you're here staying, staying hip, here, you're staying here"
Julie started laughing at me, or Drew, or Kim who was curled up in the chair like a cat fast asleep. Drew was still out cold as I put his head back down on the coffee table and Julie's laugh started to warm me up.
"You girly, you are too home to go drunk now"
We both guffawed at my bad radio station command of english.
As I stood up from the sofa Julie caught my eye and put out her hand for me to take.
"Yes sir"
The left edge of her mouth curled up showing me her devious smile, maybe she planned everything.
posted by J at 11:36 PM 7 comments
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Словесная ролевая игра (словеска, ролевая) — разновидность ролевых игр с полным отсутствием материального компонента: игра происходит исключительно путём речевого взаимодействия игроков, описывающих действия своих персонажей, и мастера, описывающего реалии окружающего мира и реакции мастерских персонажей. Может проводиться в реальной жизни и в интернете.

 Также словесной часто называют любую настольную ролевую игру с собственным, оригинальным сводом правил. Одной из наиболее известных настольных словесных игр является Мафия.

 Разновидностью словесной ролевой игры является текстовая. В интернете словесными обычно называют текстовые форумные ролевые игры (ТРПГ, англ. TRPG — текстовая ролевая игра (Text Role Playing Game), ФРПГ (форумная рпг)).

 В нынешний век технологий появились профилирующие сайты, созданные для литературного развития игроков. В которых создается квинтэссенция всех возможностей на одной площадке, под удобным управлением.

Текстовые игры могут быть письменными и устными.

Устная словесная ролевая игра выглядит как фестиваль сказочников и трубадуров: участники рассказывают историю по очереди, отталкиваясь от того, кто какие линии повествования и каких персонажей ведёт. Этот вид текстовых игр малоизвестен и требует от участников высокого уровня концентрации и хорошего взаимодействия.

Форумные текстовые ролевые игры используют интернет-форумы. Сам процесс игры представляет собой моделирование группой людей той или иной ситуации. Каждый из играющих играет своим персонажем.

Впоследствии ролевые игры в русскоязычном сегменте Интернета распространились с форумов на  социальные сети. Это произошло из-за более широкого развития социальных сетей как явление Ия виртуальной жизни. С 2010 и по сей день ролевые игры в ВКонтакте являются достоянием молодёжи, но замечена тенденция смены «открытой» модели игры (когда каждый может перейти в сообщество и посмотреть на чужую игру) к «закрытой» — в личных сообщениях или приватных беседах.

Словесные ролевые игры могут быть оригинальными или основанными на различных тайтлах/фэндомах. В последнем случае ролевая игра проходит с сюжетом, персонажами, событиями, которые описываются в том или ином аниме/книге/сериале/фильме/мультфильме и т. д.

В играх по уже существующим тайтлам/фандомам более всего ценится умение игрока вжиться в уже известный образ и убедительно передать его (отыграть). В играх-ориджиналах, использующих оригинальные миры, сюжеты и персонажей, персонажей придумывает и предлагает к отыгрышу мастер либо каждый игрок придумывает себе персонажа сам. Сюжет игры в любом случае обычно предлагается мастером. В играх по уже существующим вселенным это могут быть отыгрыши сюжетов тайтла либо вариаций, а также сюжеты AU (alternative universe) — этим термином обозначают перенесение персонажей тайтла в другое время, другие обстоятельства, либо в совершенно «другой мир». Также есть жанр «ориджинал», подразумевающий собой игру, не основанную на каком-то существующем фандоме. В этом случае все персонажи и сама вселенная являются собственностью игроков. Как дополнительный жанр вытесняют также и «Пропущенную сцену». В этом случае игроки дополняют одну из сцен, уже существующих в конкретном фандоме, но строго следят за тем, чтобы никто не выходил из канона. Действия и характер персонажей, которые не входят (или даже противоречат) канону называют ООС, что расшифровывается как «Out Of Character».

Словесная ролевая игра — это популярное интеллектуальное развлечение. Игровая аудитория текстовых ролевых игр тесно пересекается с аудиторией читателей и авторов фанфиков. Большинство понятий и определений, в том числе жанры, позаимствованы именно с ресурсов, специализирующихся на написании и чтении фанфиков. Можно сказать, что обе эти культуры идут нога в ногу друг с другом и возникли в один и тот же период времени.

История словесных ролевых игр
Словесные ролевые игры берут своё начало в крупных компьютерных клубах США, а также в BBS (электронные доски для обмена сообщениями), в которых сидели чаще всего студенты университетов. Ограниченные сюжетными механиками и развитием видеоигр, среди студентов начинают формироваться клубы, которые начинают на основе той или иной видеоигры разыгрывать свой собственный сюжет. Дальнейшее развитие социальных сетей открыло широкий доступ для масс к обмену сообщениями и развитию текстовых ролевых игр.

Как происходит игровой процесс?
Сам процесс словесной ролевой игры основан на двух компонентах:
 создание персонажа;
 определение сюжета и его развитие.
Стоит отметить, что развитие сюжета может зависеть от уровня вмешательства ГМ в ролевую игру. Есть ролевые, где уровень вмешательства ГМ минимален, игроки практически ни в чём не ограничены. В ролевых, где уровень вмешательства ГМ высок, допускается незначительная свобода в создании сюжета, чаще всего это касается личных взаимоотношений между персонажами, но не стоит удивляться, если ваш ГМ решит привнести «перчинки» в отношения ваших персонажей. Однако если мы рассматриваем ролевую игру в личных сообщениях, между 2 игроками, то чаще всего они полностью свободны в своём сюжете, но заранее определяют его основные направления.

После создания персонажа, поиска соигрока и определением основной ветки сюжета, игроки начинают писать посты. Объёмы постов определяют темп игры:
 коротким постам, которые в сегменте СНГ текстовых ролевых игр чаще всего называют «однострочными» (игрока соответственно «однострочником»), соответствует более быстрый темп игры. Чаще всего с данных постов начинают новички. А также особенностью являются разнообразные символы, которые подчёркивают действия персонажа: *…*, \…\ и т.д.
 длинным постам (игрок — «многострочник») соответствует более медленный темп игры. Данные посты оформляются строго в литературном стиле.
Взаимодействие по типу «пост-пост» продолжается до тех пор, пока не подойдёт к логическому завершению сцена ролевой игры. Если игроки понимают, что им комфортно играть друг с другом они могут перейти к другой сцене, которая чаще всего отыгрывается в другой локации. Из подобных сцен складывается сюжетная ветка двух героев.

Где происходит игровой процесс?
Сегодня основными платформами на которых происходят текстовые ролевые игры являются социальные сети, форумы и мессенджеры. Facebook, Tumbler, Instagram, Telegram, VK, Discord, Reddit — везде можно найти сообщество посвящённое ролевым играм и сами игры непосредственно.

По месту игрового процесса текстовые ролевые игры можно разделить на 2 вида:
 ролевая игра через личные сообщения, конференции — чаще всего ролевой процесс происходит между двумя игроками, однако встречаются так называемые комнаты на большее количество персонажей. Данный тип может использоваться для проведения квестов и т.д.
 ролевая игра в группах, сообществах, форумах — наиболее распространённый тип. Он подходит для множества игроков, множества сюжетных сцен и т.д. В ролевой группе создаются определённые темы, в которых происходит непосредственно ролевой процесс игроков. В одной теме несколько игроков могут вести свои сюжеты параллельно друг другу.
Более редкая версия платформ для игр - это сайты. Они не все могут похвастаться необходимым функционалом. Однако есть и такие сайты, в которых всё создано для игроков и их удобства, такие как NoChildrenGame.

Примечания

Ролевые игры
Словесные игры
Виды игр

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This post is another installment of my MTFF series. In this series I share the ways I am making the foreign familiar to my children. My goal is to help them develop a global perspective. My hope is that they realize both that the world is immense with so much to see and explore, filled with people who may look different or may do things differently AND that it's a small world after all -- that we are all human with similar needs and wants.
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Something I am cognizant of in this journey of making the foreign familiar is the fine line between fostering a global perspective and perpetuating cultural stereotypes. It is not my goal to provide superficial exposure to as many cultures as possible and call it a day. For a 1-year-old and 4-year-old, however, I do recognize that the age-appropriate approach is to share snippets of a variety of cultures until my children are old enough to have discussions about how cultures are multi-faceted and that knowing just one facet, or even a handful of facets, doesn't mean we understand the whole.
I also recognize that playing a song in Farsi or Luganda doesn't mean my children will turn around and learn those languages with ease, but because they are still in what Dr. Montessori explained is a "sensitive period for language," they are indeed absorbing the sounds of foreign languages in a way that our adult brains cannot. If there is a chance that in the future my children want to study foreign languages, I like to believe that pronunciation will come easier to them because of their exposure to such a wide variety of sounds from birth to age 6. Plus, music is fun and triggers memory, so learning nursery rhymes and other songs in a particular target foreign language actually helps all language learners master a new language.
Hunter has his own portable CD player in his room with access to a little CD organizer. Inside we have the usual Raffi and some Lisa Loeb (!), but we also have several Spanish-language CDs we have purchased or received as gifts over the years. More recently we started borrowing foreign language music CDs from the children's section of the library. We have very much enjoyed several of the Putumayo Playground CDs. We have listened to one from Asia, another one from Australia, and another one from Europe. Next on our list is the one from Africa. I also really like one from Germany called "Kinderlieder Aus Deutschland und Europa." We've also borrowed a couple from the "Rough Guide to" series: "World Music for Children" and "World Playtime."
Also from the library, we check out books from the "Our World" section, like the one pictured above called Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad. What I love about this book, besides the lovely story, is that Hunter learned not only that Arabic sounds different but that it looks different too. At 4 years old, even though he doesn't yet know how to read, he has enough reading awareness to grasp that we read from left to right and Arabic is read (and written, of course) right to left.
I'd love to know of any other ways you expose your children to foreign languages! Please share!
Outfit notes: In the photos, Hunter is wearing the Apollo Bay Pocket Tee in paprika, currently on sale. Paloma is wearing the Cape Otway romper.
1. Create crafts and child-friendly artwork inspired by different cultures from around the world.
2. Learn about animals from around the world.
3. Expose children to foreign languages.
4. Attend public cultural festivals and celebrations.


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Six interesting football games this coming weekend………

— Oregon @ Cal– Ducks lost their last four games.

— TCU @ West Virginia– Frogs won their last two visits...
Anaheim won its last five games with New Jersey, holding Devils to six goals (over 2-2-1). Ducks won last three visits to Garden State, all by one goal. Anaheim is off to an 0-3 start (4-2/3-2/3-2- over 1-1-1). Devils lost their first two games (both on road), scoring total of three goals.
Islanders won three of last four games with San Jose; four of last five series games went over. Sharks are 3-2 in last five visits here, but lost last two. San Jose won two of its first three games. Islanders lost two of first three games, but won only home game, in OT.
Washington won its last four games with Colorado; under is 5-3 in last eight series games. Avalanche is 3-2 in last five visits here, but lost last two. Colorado played at Pittsburgh Monday. Washington split its first two games, scoring two goals in each game (under 1-0-1).
Penguins won three of last four games with Montreal; under is 3-1-2 in last six series games. Pens won last three visits to Molson Centre (under 3-0). Pittsburgh won two of its first three games. Canadiens split their first two games, both on the road.
Road team won four of last six Arizona-Ottawa games (over 5-1). Coyotes won two of last three visits to Ottawa (over 4-1 in last five). Arizona won its season opener at home in OT over Philly. Senators won two of their first three games, with one win in OT, the other one in SO (over 3-0).
Florida won four of last five games with Tampa Bay; over is 5-3 in last eight series games. Panthers lost four of last six visits to this building (over 3-1 in last four). Florida won its first two games (under 1-0-1) allowing two goals. Lightning won its first two games, both at home, scoring nine goals (over 1-0-1).
Dallas Stars won six of last seven games with Nashville; under is 6-4 in last ten series games. Stars lost three of last four games in this building. Dallas split first two games (over 2-0), scoring nine goals. Nashville also split its first two games (over 1-0-1).
Minnesota won three of last four games with Los Angeles; under is 5-0-1 in last six series games. Kings are 2-3 in last five visits here (under 3-0-2). LA lost its first two games, scoring total of three goals. Wild split its first two games, winning its only home game.
Flyers won six of last eight games with Chicago; under is 3-0-2 in last five series games. Flyers are 2-3 in last five visits here- they split first two games this year (over 2-0, both on road). Blackhawks lost two of their first three games (over 2-0-1).
Home side won nine of last ten Buffalo-Calgary games; three of last four series games went over total. Sabres lost last five visits to Calgary, with only one loss by one goal. Sabres split first two games, winning only road game. Flames allowed 14 goals in losing first three games (over 2-1).
Home side won seven of last nine Carolina-Edmonton games (over 6-2-1); Hurricanes lost last three visits here, with two of three losses in OT (over 4-1 in last five). Carolina lost its first two games, both on road, both in OT (over 2-0). Edmonton won two of first three games (over 3-0).
Blues won their last three games with Vancouver, winning last two visits here. Under is 6-2-2 in last ten series games. St Louis won its first three games, 5-2/3-2/3-2. Canucks won their first two games, one in OT, one in SO (over 1-1)- both games were at home.
ANAHEIM vs. NEW JERSEY
Anaheim is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Anaheim is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games
New Jersey is 12-4 SU in its last 16 games when playing at home against Anaheim
New Jersey is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Anaheim
COLORADO vs. WASHINGTON
Colorado is 5-9-1 SU in its last 15 games ,when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Colorado's last 7 games when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington's last 7 games when playing at home against Colorado
Washington is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games at home
SAN JOSE vs. NY ISLANDERS
San Jose is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing NY Islanders
The total has gone OVER in 4 of San Jose's last 5 games when playing NY Islanders
NY Islanders are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games when playing San Jose
NY Islanders are 1-6 SU in their last 7 games
ARIZONA vs. OTTAWA
Arizona is 6-12 SU in its last 18 games when playing Ottawa
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Arizona's last 16 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Ottawa's last 6 games when playing Arizona
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Ottawa's last 6 games when playing at home against Arizona
FLORIDA vs. TAMPA BAY
Florida is 7-15 SU in its last 22 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Florida's last 14 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Florida
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Tampa Bay's last 5 games at home
PITTSBURGH vs. MONTREAL
Pittsburgh is 15-5 SU in its last 20 games on the road
Pittsburgh8-3-1 SU in its last 12 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Montreal's last 5 games at home
Montreal is 5-11 SU in its last 16 games when playing Pittsburgh
DALLAS vs. NASHVILLE
Dallas is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Dallas's last 15 games when playing Nashville
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Nashville's last 15 games when playing Dallas
Nashville is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing Dallas
LOS ANGELES vs. MINNESOTA
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Los Angeles's last 6 games when playing Minnesota
Los Angeles is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Minnesota is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Los Angeles
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Minnesota's last 19 games when playing at home against Los Angeles
Philadelphia is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games at home
Chicago is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games at home
BUFFALO vs. CALGARY
Buffalo is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
Buffalo is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Calgary
Calgary is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Buffalo
Calgary is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games
CAROLINA vs. EDMONTON
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Carolina's last 5 games when playing on the road against Edmonton
Carolina is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games
Edmonton is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Carolina
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Edmonton's last 5 games
ST. LOUIS vs. VANCOUVER
St. Louis is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Vancouver
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of St. Louis's last 16 games when playing on the road against Vancouver
Vancouver is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Vancouver's last 5 games
St. Louis @ Vancouver
Game 23-24
Buffalo @ Calgary
Carolina @ Edmonton
Philadelphia @ Chicago
Los Angeles @ Minnesota
Dallas @ Nashville
Arizona @ Ottawa
Florida @ Tampa Bay
Game 9-10
Pittsburgh @ Montreal
Game 7-8
San Jose @ NY Islanders
Colorado @ Washington
Anaheim @ New Jersey
ANAHEIM (0-2-0-1, 1 pts.) at NEW JERSEY (0-1-0-1, 1 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 7:05 PM
ANAHEIM is 15-24 ATS (-16.3 Units) first half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
NEW JERSEY is 16-12 ATS (+28.2 Units) in non-conference games over the last 2 seasons.
ANAHEIM is 213-167 ATS (+32.8 Units) after a non-conference game since 1996.
ANAHEIM is 4-0 (+4.0 Units) against the spread versus NEW JERSEY over the last 3 seasons
ANAHEIM is 4-0-0 straight up against NEW JERSEY over the last 3 seasons
2 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+0.0 Units)
COLORADO (2-0-0-0, 4 pts.) at WASHINGTON (1-0-0-1, 3 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 7:05 PM
WASHINGTON is 29-10 ATS (+11.3 Units) first half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
COLORADO is 16-11 ATS (+31.1 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5.5 over the last 2 seasons.
COLORADO is 13-9 ATS (+25.1 Units) in road games first half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
COLORADO is 219-168 ATS (+32.3 Units) after a non-conference game since 1996.
COLORADO is 111-82 ATS (+195.4 Units) in road games in non-conference games since 1996.
WASHINGTON is 57-65 ATS (-40.7 Units) in home games on Tuesday nights since 1996.
WASHINGTON is 159-202 ATS (-74.7 Units) in non-conference games since 1996.
WASHINGTON is 4-0 (+4.0 Units) against the spread versus COLORADO over the last 3 seasons
WASHINGTON is 4-0-0 straight up against COLORADO over the last 3 seasons
SAN JOSE (2-1-0-0, 4 pts.) at NY ISLANDERS (1-2-0-0, 2 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 7:05 PM
NY ISLANDERS is 3-1 (+2.1 Units) against the spread versus SAN JOSE over the last 3 seasons
NY ISLANDERS is 3-1-0 straight up against SAN JOSE over the last 3 seasons
PITTSBURGH (2-0-0-1, 5 pts.) at MONTREAL (1-0-0-1, 3 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 7:35 PM
PITTSBURGH is 4-2 (+1.2 Units) against the spread versus MONTREAL over the last 3 seasons
PITTSBURGH is 4-2-0 straight up against MONTREAL over the last 3 seasons
3 of 4 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+2.3 Units)
FLORIDA (2-0-0-0, 4 pts.) at TAMPA BAY (2-0-0-0, 4 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 7:35 PM
FLORIDA is 14-3 ATS (+17.0 Units) on Tuesday nights over the last 2 seasons.
FLORIDA is 11-2 ATS (+13.2 Units) in road games after a division game over the last 2 seasons.
FLORIDA is 11-7 ATS (+21.7 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record in the first half of the season over the last 3 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 7-13 ATS (-12.1 Units) on Tuesday nights over the last 2 seasons.
FLORIDA is 5-4 (+2.1 Units) against the spread versus TAMPA BAY over the last 3 seasons
FLORIDA is 5-4-0 straight up against TAMPA BAY over the last 3 seasons
ARIZONA (1-0-0-0, 2 pts.) at OTTAWA (2-1-0-0, 4 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 7:35 PM
ARIZONA is 2-2 (+0.6 Units) against the spread versus OTTAWA over the last 3 seasons
OTTAWA is 2-2-0 straight up against ARIZONA over the last 3 seasons
DALLAS (1-1-0-0, 2 pts.) at NASHVILLE (1-1-0-0, 2 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 8:05 PM
DALLAS is 42-31 ATS (+74.1 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5.5 over the last 3 seasons.
DALLAS is 29-12 ATS (+13.6 Units) first half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 11-3 ATS (+7.8 Units) in road games when playing with 2 days rest over the last 3 seasons.
DALLAS is 18-7 ATS (+10.0 Units) after allowing 4 goals or more over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 24-13 ATS (+37.7 Units) in road games after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game over the last 3 seasons.
DALLAS is 6-4 (+2.3 Units) against the spread versus NASHVILLE over the last 3 seasons
DALLAS is 6-4-0 straight up against NASHVILLE over the last 3 seasons
LOS ANGELES (0-2-0-0, 0 pts.) at MINNESOTA (1-1-0-0, 2 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 8:05 PM
LOS ANGELES is 89-82 ATS (-39.3 Units) in all games over the last 3 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 32-43 ATS (-20.1 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5 or less over the last 3 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 13-19 ATS (-13.9 Units) after a non-conference game over the last 2 seasons.
MINNESOTA is 41-49 ATS (-36.4 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
MINNESOTA is 14-21 ATS (-13.2 Units) after a division game over the last 2 seasons.
MINNESOTA is 17-25 ATS (-16.6 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record over the last 2 seasons.
MINNESOTA is 3-3 (+0.1 Units) against the spread versus LOS ANGELES over the last 3 seasons
MINNESOTA is 3-3-0 straight up against LOS ANGELES over the last 3 seasons
PHILADELPHIA (1-0-0-1, 3 pts.) at CHICAGO (1-2-0-0, 2 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 8:35 PM
PHILADELPHIA is 1-12 ATS (+16.3 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5.5 over the last 2 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 4-14 ATS (+19.2 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a losing record over the last 2 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 12-25 ATS (-16.2 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record in the first half of the season over the last 3 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 3-1 (+3.1 Units) against the spread versus CHICAGO over the last 3 seasons
PHILADELPHIA is 3-1-0 straight up against CHICAGO over the last 3 seasons
CAROLINA (0-0-0-2, 2 pts.) at EDMONTON (2-1-0-0, 4 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 9:05 PM
CAROLINA is 8-21 ATS (+30.8 Units) after a non-conference game over the last 2 seasons.
CAROLINA is 59-114 ATS (+198.8 Units) in road games in non-conference games since 1996.
EDMONTON is 166-167 ATS (-14.1 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a losing record since 1996.
EDMONTON is 74-84 ATS (-60.0 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a losing record in the first half of the season since 1996.
EDMONTON is 2-2 (+0.0 Units) against the spread versus CAROLINA over the last 3 seasons
EDMONTON is 2-2-0 straight up against CAROLINA over the last 3 seasons
BUFFALO (1-1-0-0, 2 pts.) at CALGARY (0-2-0-1, 1 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 9:05 PM
BUFFALO is 59-55 ATS (+128.8 Units) in road games on Tuesday nights since 1996.
BUFFALO is 2-2 (+0.5 Units) against the spread versus CALGARY over the last 3 seasons
CALGARY is 2-2-0 straight up against BUFFALO over the last 3 seasons
ST LOUIS (3-0-0-0, 6 pts.) at VANCOUVER (2-0-0-0, 4 pts.) - 10/18/2016, 10:05 PM
ST LOUIS is 30-17 ATS (+12.5 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5 or less over the last 2 seasons.
ST LOUIS is 103-81 ATS (+185.4 Units) in road games after a non-conference game since 1996.
ST LOUIS is 20-11 ATS (+32.2 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
VANCOUVER is 3-3 (+0.3 Units) against the spread versus ST LOUIS over the last 3 seasons
VANCOUVER is 3-3-0 straight up against ST LOUIS over the last 3 seasons
2 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=-0.2 Units, Under=-0.4 Units)
Short Sheet
Anaheim at New Jersey, 7:05 PM ET
Anaheim: 25-11 SU after 2 consecutive non-conference games
New Jersey: 9-11 SU off a close road loss by 1 goal
Colorado at Washington, 7:05 PM ET
Colorado: 21-15 SU as a road underdog of +100 to +200
Washington: 55-60 SU in home games on Tuesday nights
San Jose at NY Islanders, 7:05 PM ET
San Jose: 15-8 SU as a road underdog of +100 to +200
New York: 24-30 SU off a home win
Pittsburgh at Montreal, 7:35 PM ET
Pittsburgh: 15-5 SU after allowing 4 goals or more
Montreal: 7-18 SU off a road loss
Florida at Tampa Bay, 7:35 PM ET
Florida: 11-2 SU in road games after a division game
Tampa Bay: 7-13 SU on Tuesday nights
Arizona at Ottawa, 7:35 PM ET
Arizona: 16-48 SU after a non-conference game
Ottawa: 26-15 SU after a loss by 2 goals or more in their previous game
Dallas at Nashville, 8:05 PM ET
Dallas: 28-21 SU as a road underdog of +100 to +200
Nashville: 10-17 SU after scoring 3 goals or more in 2 straight games
Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8:05 PM ET
Los Angeles: 27-37 SU after a non-conference game
Minneosta: 12-4 SU off a close home win by 1 goal
Philadelphia at Chicago, 8:35 PM ET
Philadelphia: 8-36 SU in a road game where where the total is 5.5
Chicago: 27-9 SU after allowing 3 goals or more 2 straight games
Carolina at Edmonton, 9:05 PM ET
Carolina: 9-2 SU in road games after allowing 3 goals or more 2 straight games
Edmonton: 1-12 SU after allowing 6 goals or more
Buffalo at Calgary, 9:05 PM ET
Buffalo: 19-17 SU as a road underdog of +100 to +200
Calgary: 0-8 SU off a close road loss by 1 goal
St Louis at Vancouver, 10:05 PM ET
St Louis: 32-16 SU after one or more consecutive overs
Vancouver: 0-7 SU after 2 straight close wins by 1 goal
NHL trends heading into Day 7 of the 2016-17 season:
Home teams are 24-6-1 (77.4%)
ML Betting faves are 26-8-2 (72.2%)
Overs are 20-9 (69%)


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Fair use is an American legal principle that has enabled large enterprises in the US to use copyright material for free. Under Australian law, enterprises pay Australian writers, artists, creators, photographers and publishers to use their work, unless it's for public interest purposes outlined in the legislation, such as reporting news or parody.
One of the consequences of exceptions like US fair use is uncertainty and unpredictability for content creators.
The filing of copyright court cases in the US is vastly greater per capita than in Australia, and the fair use exception is raised in a significant and growing proportion of them. An analysis of copyright cases filed in the US in 2014 alone showed a defence of 'fair use' was raised in 43% of the defended cases. By contrast, an analysis of reported cases of the Australian Federal Court between 2006 and 2012 showed that 94 involved copyright, but only four of those referred to a copyright exception as a key issue.
If fair use was introduced into Australia, there would be less Australian content on our screens, on our bookshelves and in our schools and universities. PricewaterhouseCoopers recently estimated that introducing fair use in Australia could result in a loss of GDP of more than $1 billion.
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96.2% of the population is White, 2.4% is Black or African American, 1.6% is Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% is Asian, 0.3% is American Indian or Alaska Native, 0% is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 0.6% is two or more races. 91.4% have a high school degree or higher, and 17.2% have a Bachelor degree or higher.
The median home value is $122,100, there are 8,063 households, an average of 2.38 persons per household. The per capita income is $26,762, the median household income is $55,041, and 8.3% of the persons in Jones County are considered below poverty level.
The total number of firms, at last estimate, was 2,193. Retail sales (in $1000) were $257,667, and sales per capita were $12,629. The percentage of black-owned firms is 0%, and the percentage of women-owned firms is 29.9%.
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As Southern Baptists, Catholic Bishops, and Mormons Keep Gays in Crosshairs, Other Public Figures Talk of Bloody Revolution
Posted on the 12 June 2014 by William Lindsey @wdlindsy
While the men leading the Southern Baptists, U.S. Catholics, and Latter Day Saints are shoring up the battlements and notching their arrows for stepped-up war with the gays (and the culture at large, since it's caving in to the gays), this is what's going on at a broader level in our culture — and is not being addressed by the men leading the Southern Baptists, U.S. Catholics, and Latter Day Saints:
People running for elected office in these United States are openly and unabashedly calling for gay folks to be stoned to death, because, well, you know, the bible. And God.
While other people who advise important folks running for office in these United States are egging on violence and calling for "a contemporary religious war against the supposedly pagan government of the United States" since, you know, the gays:
The accelerating advance of LGBTQ rights, especially marriage equality, has become a flashpoint for the Christian Right's revolutionary impulses. In the wake of the Supreme Court's striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor in 2013, Peter Leithart took to the influential blog of the journal First Things (founded by the late Neo-Conservative Catholic thinker Richard John Neuhaus) to declare that the decision "presents American Christians with a call to martyrdom."
And as they talk about bloody revolution — because the bible, God, the gays — they have begun to flirt with toxic neo-Confederate fantasies about secession being spoonfed to them by influential Opus Dei priest and D.C. operative Rev. John McCloskey, who has declared that "the United States is no longer a Christian country."
Because the gays.
But not a peep that I've heard (have you?) from the men running the Southern Baptist Convention, the U.S. Catholic church, or the Mormon church about the danger of such overheated rhetoric on the part of other men who are, after all, right in bed with the men running these various churches in their shared distaste for the gays and their hunger and thirst to see heterosexual men crowned as the lords of creation. Nor any peep that I've heard (have you?) from the Catholic "liberals" who tell us what we need is more rationality and civility in our discussion of gay issues — not a peep to suggest that calls for bloodshed and dividing a nation around issues of sexual orientation might be more than a little bit irrational and uncivil?
While real human lives, the lives of fellow human beings, are in the crosshairs of these calls for bloodshed . . . .
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Almost everybody really likes cold, energizing drinking water they get from a water cooler no matter if it be at the office, in the house or maybe at university. However, precisely how a water cooler operates might be a total mystery.
One of the most well-known water coolers is the container filled water dispenser. This kind of appliance gets its own water out of an upside down container of drinking water inserted into very top of the water fountain. The moment the container of drinking water is turned over and placed within the orifice on the top of the water fountain, the protecting of the water bottle is severed or lanced by a component referred to as the 'spear', allowing the drinking water to pass into the drinking fountain.
Mains supply, or plumbed in water coolers typically contain a water filter system in between the incoming drinking water source and the water tank to improve the condition of the water and to enhance the safety for the consumer. As soon as the drinking water is in the reservoir it's time to refrigerate the drinking water. Each and every water cooler, both bottled and mains supply water fountains, possesses a reservoir inside the casing which contains drinking water. This particular water tank is the place where the water is chilled just before being poured.
The tank is kept filled either directly from a considerable PBS drinking water container, or off a water mains source. At this time there are a couple of primary methods of refrigerating the water: making use of a cooler or using thermoelectricity. The cooler process works in nearly the same way as a family fridge from home. A compressor presses together a gas, doing this induces the ambient temperature of the gas to climb, the gaseous substance is then passed to a condenser where the heat from the gaseous substance depletes and the gas cools off so it develops into a fluid.
The moment the gaseous substance is chilled it's pushed through an enlargement device that induces it to decrease in pressure and come to be even chillier. At this point, the gas meets in the evaporator which in turn assimilates the temperature from the water contained in the reservoir. This then warms up the refrigerant which in turn then begins the cycle once again. The routine is kept operational utilizing electricity to drive a pumping device.
Within the container is a faucet which prevents the drinking water from the bottle engulfing the drinking fountain. The drinking water within the water cooler is distributed in to a reservoir, in which it's cooled with a cooling solution. A cooling solution is a chilling agent that is distributed within water pipes that are positioned close to the water tank in the drinking fountain.
The refrigerant changes from a fluid into a gas as it moves in the pipes towards the storage tank due to the thrust in the pipes produced by a pumping device within the water fountain. The chilled gaseous substance in the drinking water pipe is pressed through the medium of a hydrant to make the gas even cooler.
As soon as the cooling solution is in a gas form and is flowing in the water pipes, it possesses the potential to assimilate the temperature out of the spring water in the storage tank, leaving behind refrigerated and refreshing drinking water that's freely obtainable. These are the very kind of water coolers Manchester office personnel love. The heat in the cooling solution is then eliminated from the water fountain.
As people dispense water, the machine will then replenish the tank and the process commences once again. Should the drinking water tank empty completely at the time of vending, it will definitely take a few minutes before the water fountain chills the drinking water to a very low heat level.
And the electric system of chilling the water depends on a machine which employs a thermoelectic effect, which implies that the minute electrical power passes through the Peltier device warmth is carried from one side of the apparatus to the another. This produces chilling on one side of the apparatus and it is used to chill the drinking water within your water cooler.
After the drinking water is chilled it's ready to be dispensed. The spout on the front end of the water cooler releases a control device connected to the cold water tank that lets the water to pass into your cup.
In a bottled drinking water dispenser, the drop in drinking water quantity inside the water tank triggers yet another spigot which enables more drinking water within the tank making sure the tank is constantly filled.
You may have seen that in case you disburse an excessive amount of drinking water from the water fountain the drinking water emerges warm. This occurs when you have emptied the water tank since it takes some time for the new water to be chilled inside of the tank.


Over the recent period, we have seen a big jump in the field of 3D printing. Researches are being done by many to come-up with their own innovations in the field, and here's a Canadian tech start-up who has innovative methods to offer.
Mosaic, the Montreal based tech firm, which part of the recent Canadian resurgence with start-ups, has managed to come up with something unique that opens up the accessibility of 3D printing technology.
Realizing the growing demand of 3D printers in a market that's turning affordable, Mosaic has introduced Palette, a device that can fill multiple colors into the most common 3D printers, including the cheaper ones.
Bringing in an option to inject colors into your 3D models, Palette extends compatibility to a wide range of printers, and will even support future models. Early interest is also high for the device, which mopped up a funding of C$75,000 ($61,064) since Tuesday in its crowdfunding campaign.
Palette can be filled with up to four colors at a time. The device will have the calculations done by itself for the requirement before fusing the strips to the model, which makes it heavily reliable with various materials like wood, steel and many more.
The device is not the sole option that exists to turn your monochrome printer into a multicolor printing device. However, that would require an addition of calibrated nozzles via hacking, which could eventually test your patience with its print speeds.
Apart from that, Palette also makes sure you don't require any extra modification due to its universal-akin 1.75mm filament dia.
Palette is now up for crowdfunding on Kickstarter, where it is available for pre-orders at a rate of $899. That may not seem too hefty even if adding the price of a single-color 3D printer.
The mount you pay for a multi-colored printer stands much higher than double the rates of what you spend for Palette and a low-end 3D printer.