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Chavismo's hidden victory: a new twist in Latin America's Pink Tide
Luis Angosto-Ferrandez
A member of Constituent Assembly holds up a picture of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez.
In January last year, Henry Ramos Allup, president of the then newly-installed Venezuelan parliament, hastened to make a demonstration of institutional power. The opposition bloc had obtained a strong victory in the 2015 legislative elections and the veteran political leader of Democratic Action (AD) was probably thinking that Venezuela would soon follow Argentina's suit and do away with its leftist government.
In his inaugural speech, Ramos Allup remarked that the executive's mandate "could be terminated before [its statutory] chronological time for any of the causes that the constitution stipulates". In fact, he presented such termination as a commitment that the new Assembly would try to achieve in a period of six months.
Allup had an early start in his first day in office. As soon as he was sure that smart phones around him were ready to record, he gave his first commands as the new maximum authority in the legislative premises: all pictures of former president Hugo Chavez should be taken away from the building and sent away to Sabaneta (Chavez's birthplace), or else thrown into the rubbish bin.
Furthermore, he also asked removal workers to do away with all recent representations of Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar [which represented him with darker skin]. Allup dismissed these as "an invention of that mister [Chavez], a crazy thing".
A year and a half later, on August 4, pictures and paintings with the images of Chavez and Bolivar returned to the legislative palace, heading the march of the elected members of the new Constituent Assembly.
Chavez's legacy
This movement of political symbols, in and out of the legislative premises, represents far more than a mere display of political allegiances and wills. The return of Chavez's and Bolivar's images to the legislative palace is a dramatised materialisation of a somewhat hidden victory of Chavismo: Chavez-as-symbol has not only survived the temporary exile from these quarters, it has returned strengthened.
To understand this strengthening (and the victory that it represents for Chavismo) one just has to look at the manoeuvring of prominent Venezuelan and international political actors during the past few months – particularly since the new crisis of the so-called guarimbas [violent street protests] that started in April.
In another episode of the ever extraordinary recent history of the country, we have listened to how even the bitterest enemies of the late Chavez now praise his government outcomes and/or recognise the legitimacy of the electoral majorities that sustained them during his 14 years in government.
In illustrative recent examples, Henrique Capriles, one of the (contested) leaders of the opposition and a (defeated) presidential rival of Chavez, and then Maduro, said at an August 6 public forum: "For many years […], when Chavez was supported by a majority [of Venezuelans], within the opposition bloc we aimed to ignore that majority, and it is to be seen how we crashed against a wall."
A few weeks earlier, former Spanish president Felipe Gonzalez (an informal spokesperson of right-wing critics of Chavez), labelled Maduro's call for a Constituent Assembly as "anti-Chavista", in a bizarre attempt to delegitimise it.
All these declarations are obviously part of the desperate, "everything-goes" attempt at eroding the legitimacy of Maduro's government and at symbolically detaching the latter from a Chavista legacy.
But it is also a recognition of political defeat, and moreover an indirect acknowledgement that anyone who wants to govern in Venezuela now (or in the medium term) will have to be, at least to start with, careful with the type of policies proposed and implemented: the centre of the political board has shifted to the left, and even amid a brutal economic crisis, a very large share of Venezuelans will not even consider the possibility of following the siren chants that would return them to an open neoliberal political frame.
Bolivarian governments have generated some doubts and uncertainties among many of their supporters, but also sowed among them some crucial certainties: historical processes need to be read beyond specific governments, and what is at stake in Venezuela is a definition of the future of the country, of the terms of Venezuelan insertion into global capitalism and the possibilities of clearing grounds to post-capitalist experiences.
New collective subjects
In this respect, the millions of Venezuelans who voted on July 30 to elect members of the Constituent Assembly were doing something that demonstrates, once again, the successful and lasting effects of what came to be known as the "Pink Tide" in Latin America. These effects are still felt in countries where leftist blocs gained shares of state power thanks to strong and, in many cases, repeated electoral victories.
Those victories kept the nowadays naturalised neoliberal motion of public policy on the back foot. Furthermore – and crucially given the current global scenario – they contributed to cementing collective subjects (state-supporting social movements) that did not exist before the Pink Tide.
These collective subjects have transcended electoral defeat, for even when they occurred (such as in Argentina in 2015) they remain ever present as close, realistic contenders for government. Let us remember that Mauricio Macri's victory in Argentina was very narrow, and that other cases that are used as examples of an ebbing Tide also represent narrow victories of rightist forces.
Furthermore, in other cases used to certify the alleged historical defeat of the Pink Tide, such as Brazil, national rightist forces have tried to avoid an open electoral confrontation with leftist rivals. Not only did they remove former Workers' Party (PT) president Dilma Roussef in a parliamentary coup, they also manoeuvred to ensure that the likely PT candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could not become a presidential candidate again.
In Venezuela, the collective subject that was created with the Pink Tide – or to be more exact by the shares of state power that access to government facilitated – remains alive too, as the Constituent Assembly vote demonstrates.
Despite the number of messages that some progressives from all over the world send to Chavismo and the number of death certificates that have been produced to facilitate the aseptic burial of the Latin American Pink Tide, the left in Venezuela and Latin America remains exceptionally successful by any globally applicable standard.
It has not only been capable of showing effective alternatives to neoliberal governance for a good while, but has also brought political precariousness to right-wing governments in many countries. Left-leaning blocs remain as clear options for post-neoliberal government even in moments of crisis.
Considering how far that reality is from most of Europe, North America or Australia, and considering the type of post-neoliberal subjects that are taking shape in other parts of the world – often led by proto-fascist forces or by anarchic extreme right-wingers – it is certainly not difficult to give another twist of positive appraisal to the Pink Tide.
[Luis F Angosto-Ferrandez lectures in anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Sydney. His recent publications include Venezuela Reframed: Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and the Socialisms of the 21st Century (Zed Books, 2015) and Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent (Routledge, 2014). Republished from Progress in Political Economy Blog.]
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The Testaments
The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
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**THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE**
In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred?
The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes?
Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about the real-life events that inspired The Testaments and The Handmaid's Tale.
'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne Enright
PRAISE FOR THE TESTAMENTS:
'Everything The Handmaid's Tale fans wanted and more. Prepare to hold your breath throughout, and to cry real tears at the end' Stylist
'She manages to write about the darkest and most terrifying parts of human psychology in a way that is still deeply funny and full of dark strange hope' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power

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HomeNewsFOO FIGHTERS: SONIC HIGHWAYS DVD/BLU RAY AND DIGITAL RELEASE VIA iTUNES APRIL 7
FOO FIGHTERS: SONIC HIGHWAYS DVD/BLU RAY AND DIGITAL RELEASE VIA iTUNES APRIL 7
February 23, 2015 Mark Millar News 0
Fresh off winning the fans' vote to be named Best International Act at the NME Awards while in the thick of a massive Australia/New Zealand stadium tour, Foo Fighters have confirmed the details of the DVD/Blu-Ray and iTunes release of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways:
The critically acclaimed and award-winning HBO docuseries directed by Foo Fighters' own Dave Grohl, will receive a deluxe DVD/Blu-Ray treatment and digital release via iTunes on April 7. Assembled with the same passion that went into the musical odyssey that produced both the series and the current Foo Fighters album that shares its title, the Sonic Highways DVD/Blu-Ray package features bonus footage filmed during each of the eight episodes - plus extended interviews with President Barack Obama, Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, Joan Jett, Ian Mackaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat, Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood and Joe Walsh.
Originally premiering on HBO October 17, 2014, Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways has gone on to win this year's Cinema Audio Society Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Non-Fiction, Variety or Music - Series or Specials (for the Los Angeles episode), as well as the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Best Sound and Music Editing: Television Documentary, Long Form (for the Seattle episode).
Described by Grohl as a love letter to the history of American music, Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways followed Grohl and fellow Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear as they recorded each song in a legendary studio in one of eight iconic American musical capital cities – Chicago, Washington DC, Nashville, Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York – tapping into the deep musical heritage and cultural fabric of each locale: experiencing firsthand how each region shaped these musicians in their formative years, and in turn the impact those people had on the cultural fabric of their hometowns. The resulting eight songs were released as the eighth Foo Fighters album, each song featuring local legends sitting in, with every lyric written in an unprecedented experimental style: Dave held off on putting down words until the last day of each session, so as to be inspired by the experiences, interviews for the HBO series, and other local personalities and experiences that became part of the process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TrqXHoL10
With the DVD/Blu-Ray release of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, the journey is expanded and enriched, with virtually every word and note captured and shared with the viewer. If Grohl's 2013 feature film directorial debut, the Grammy-winning Sound City, was a celebration of the human element in the creation and recording of music, Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways is, in its director's words, "a chronicling of a journey to unravel the fabric of our musical identity... not only the making of our most ambitious album... this is Sound City on steroids." Dave's unequaled passion for both the music he creates and the music that inspires its creation once again fuels the type of honest and trusting musician-to-musician exchange that made Sound City a critical and commercial smash-and that makes Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways required viewing for music fans for generations past, present and future.
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Rick Astley says he's up for releasing his and the Foo Fighters rendition of his hit song 'Never Gonna Give You Up' for charity. The 80s pop legend was invited by the group's frontman Dave...
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January 7, 2020 Mark Millar News, New music 0
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders ring in the new year with a brand new video for "Middle Child," the "blown-out and over-the-top rocker" (STEREOGUM) from the LOUDWIRE 50 Best Rock Albums of 2019 charting...
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders announce third album, 'Get The Money' out November 8th
On November 8, Taylor Hawkins will descend from the levitating drum throne on which he's spent two years on tour supporting Foo Fighters' international #1 album Concrete and Gold. The forthcoming third Taylor Hawkins and...


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Charles Barbier de la Serre (Valenciennes, 18 mei 1767 - 29 april 1841) was een Franse legerkapitein die gespecialiseerd was in cryptografie en stenografie. Hij ontwikkelde op verzoek van Napoleon een nachtschrift ("Ecriture Nocturne") op basis van de tast, om militaire boodschappen door te geven die 's nachts op het slagveld zonder geluid of licht gelezen zouden kunnen worden. Dat systeem bestond uit puntjes die vanaf de achterkant in papier geprikt konden worden en vanaf de voorkant gelezen konden worden. De puntjes van elke letter of lettercombinatie stonden in een matrix van 2 bij 6 puntjes.

Brailleschrift
Barbier de la Serre ontwikkelde op verzoek van Napoleon een nachtschrift ("Ecriture Nocturne") op basis van de tast. Deze diende om militaire boodschappen door te geven die 's nachts op het slagveld zonder geluid of licht gelezen zouden kunnen worden. Dat systeem bestond uit puntjes die vanaf de achterkant in papier geprikt konden worden en vanaf de voorkant gelezen konden worden. De puntjes van elke letter of lettercombinatie stonden in een matrix van 2 bij 6 puntjes.
Het nachtschrift werd echter geen succes door de moeilijkheid van ontcijferen. Op verzoek van de Académie des sciences gaf hij in 1821 een presentatie van zijn systeem op een school voor blinden, en daarbij was de toen elfjarige Louis Braille een toehoorder. Hij verfijnde de techniek en verminderde het aantal puntjes tot een matrix van 2 bij 3 puntjes, wat veel bruikbaarder bleek. Zo ontstond het Brailleschrift.

Barbier, Charles

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Q: AWS CLI: "cannot import name UnrewindableBodyError" I got below error when running 'aws' on a ec2 instance. Any clues what this problem is about?
>>aws configure

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/aws", line 19, in <module>
    import awscli.clidriver
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 17, in <module>
    import botocore.session
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/session.py", line 27, in <module>
    import botocore.configloader
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/configloader.py", line 19, in <module>
    from botocore.compat import six
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/compat.py", line 26, in <module>
    from urllib3 import exceptions
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .connectionpool import (
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 31, in <module>
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  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 45, in <module>
    from .util.ssl_ import (
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .request import make_headers
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/request.py", line 5, in <module>
    from ..exceptions import UnrewindableBodyError
ImportError: cannot import name UnrewindableBodyError

A: In order to install aws cli on rhel 8 follow these steps
install python3-pip

pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user

confirm it by this
aws --version

if you want to check out docs on installation.
However my recommendation will be to NOT store your aws credentials ( programmatic key) within your instance because if by any chance your instance is compromised so does your account too, or if instance is shared among other users, they will get access to your creds.
if it was local or personal computer i would have recommended to go with aws configure command but since its not, the best practice will be to
create IAM role,give permission according to your use case, and attach that role to your ec2 instance and then run aws cli commands.

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Jonathan Padwe, "Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Cambodia's troubled history has often been depicted in terms of conflict, trauma and tussles between great powers. In Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands (U Washington Press, 2020), Jonathan Padwe assembles this history from narrative pieces by and of the Jarai, an ethnic minority living in the country's highlands. Demonstrating how landscapes and social formations simultaneously changed each other, the book takes a reader through the various historical conjunctures - the Jarai's agency in opening up pre-capitalist resources frontiers; the colonial state's attempted rationalization of the landscape through rubber enterprises; trauma and displacement during the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge regime and re-diversification of the scarred land in recent years. In the process of accessing these histories, the book analyzes forest biota and agricultural practices, enabling a new approach to conceptualizing landscapes that melds representation, materiality and ecology.
In this episode, we discuss how to approach ethnography in inaccessible places, conceptualizations of nature-culture, ecological de-diversification and re-diversification and how bombs could be remembered as flowers falling from the sky.
Jonathan Padwe is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. His research interests center on social and environmental change in mainland Southeast Asian uplands, issues of equity and equality in development and indigenous identities.
Faizah Zakaria is assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. You can find her website at www.faizahzak.com or reach her on Twitter @laurelinarien.
Matthew McManus, "A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights" (Palgrave, 2020)
The tradition of political liberalism has a long and complicated history, filled with twists, turns, critiques and responses that have filled books, essays and lectures for several centuries now. Questions of the importance and limitations of individual rights and how to balance different interests have produced no shortage of theoretical conflict as different figures have attempted to make sense of the importance and limits of individuals and their rights.
Diving right into this debate is Matt McManus, returning again to the New Books Network to discuss his recent book A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights (Palgrave, 2020). Going back as far as Burke, Hobbes, Kant and Locke, and then through critiques of liberalism from both radically progressive and reactionary orientations, the book traces the various ideas of liberalism up to the present in figures such as Habermas, Rawls and MacIntyre. It also posits it's own understanding of liberalism, which emphasizes every individual's right to self-authorship as a central pillar for developing the liberal project. Crossing the fields of history, philosophy, political theory and law, the book offers a number of interventions across an array of fields, and will be of immense use to those seeking to understand some of the most pressing concerns of our time.
Matt McManus is a professor of politics at Whitman College. He is the author of a number of books, including The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism, and is also one of the coauthors of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both of which we discussed in previous episodes of this podcast.
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Melissa Michelson and Brian Harrison, co-authors of the book Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017), which focused on how people came to change their minds about same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, examine their thesis from the previous research to determine if it is applicable to transgender rights as well. What they find is that they need to look at a different kind of framework to engage individuals who are opposed to transgender rights in order to shift that thinking and provide an opening to changing hearts and minds (which is also part of the thrust of Brian Harrison's 2020 book, A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America, Oxford University Press, 2020). Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights (Oxford UP, 2020) focuses on transgender and gender non-conforming rights and how American society has responded and is responding to this subsequent wave of advocacy for the rights of those within this community. Harrison and Michelson's research indicates that people understand marriage and gender identity in very different ways, and this discrepancy is what led them to reconsider the kind of theoretical framework necessary to move towards rights advocacy for those in the gender non-conforming and transgender community. The book employed a number of different research methods to distinguish what might move people towards being more open to transgender rights. Transforming Prejudice develops the theory of gender identity reassurance as the optimal means to open up the space to changing minds, helping individuals become less afraid and more accepting of the gender non-conforming/transgender community. This is a fascinating and important analysis that also helps guide activism while contributing to political science and social movement scholarship.
Lilly J. Goren is professor of political science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. She is co-editor of the award winning book, Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012), as well as co-editor of Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
Gábor Scheiring, "The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary" (Palgrave, 2020)
As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had, like Hungary's four-term prime minister Viktor Orbán, Trump could have created an "illiberal democracy" - a country with democratic trappings but with a charismatic, nationalist leader in charge of a hegemonic party, politicised institutions, and facing a divided and hobbled opposition.
"For two decades after the fall of socialism, Hungary was heralded as a champion of liberal reforms", says Gábor Scheiring. "The country turned from a laboratory of neoliberalism into a laboratory of illiberalism".
Orbán is a skilful politician, he argues, but his success is built on fundamental economic and political mistakes made by governments of the left in the early days of the transition. The prime minister and his party used this environment to launch a "pre-meditated, systematic and aggressive" campaign to court national rather than transnational capital and replace the socialists as the representatives of "left-behind" working class communities. This is a formidable coalition.
Today I talked to Scheiring about his book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Palgrave, 2020). Scheiring is a sociologist and economist, a former Green member of the Hungarian parliament from 2010-2014, and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan.
*His own book recommendation is Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press, 2020)
M. Nestle and K. Trueman, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" (U California Press, 2020)
Marion Nestle describes her new book as "a small, quick and dirty reader for the general audience" summarizing some of her biggest and most influential works. Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know About the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health published September 2020 by University of California Press, was written in conversation with Kerry Trueman, a blogger and friend. Trueman's questions served as prompts to organize Nestle's 800-1000 word summaries in approachable and engaging prose. Readers familiar with Nestle's groundbreaking Food Politics will recognize many of the ideas and information, but this new pocket-sized and affordable volume serves as an introduction for undergraduate students or readers new to Food Studies. However, Nestle does cover some new material in her explanation of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, especially the campaign for Zero Hunger. Nestle also summarizes how nutrition advice has changed in the last few years by thinking about food in categories ranging from unprocessed (corn on the cob) to ultraprocessed (Nacho Cheese tortilla chips). This reevaluation makes it easier to identify foods that are acceptable to eat without excessive focus on micronutrients. In the conversation, Nestle addresses the ethics of marketing food to children, food as a human right and access in the Covid era, the possibility of a National Food Policy Agency, the politics of food banks, and the promise of regenerative agricultural practices. Nestle concludes by talking about the pleasures of food and eating and how to establish a "loving relationship" with food that doesn't include fear, guilt, or anxiety about nutrition.
Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, and the author of books about food politics, most recently Unsavory Truth.
Carrie Helms Tippen is Assistant Professor of English at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches courses in American Literature. Her 2018 book, Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity (University of Arkansas Press), examines the rhetorical strategies that writers use to prove the authenticity of their recipes in the narrative headnotes of contemporary cookbooks. Her academic work has been published in Gastronomica, Food and Foodways, American Studies, Southern Quarterly, and Food, Culture, and Society.
Lindsay Herring is a first-year M.A. Food Studies Candidate at Chatham University. She loves historical cookbooks, food policy and activism through history, and vegan baking. Personally, she enjoys theatre, singing and traveling (someday again!).
Archish Kashakar is a chef and culinary educator who is currently a second-year M.A. Food Studies Candidate at Chatham University. He works with the program's research offshoot CRAFT as a Food Lab Graduate Consultant and also serves on the board of the Graduate Association of Food Studies as a Social Media Manager. He is currently working on his thesis that traces the history of Singaporean street food dishes and their development in a post-World War II era. Follow on Twitter @archishkash.
Christoph Menke, "Critique of Rights" (Polity, 2019)
Christoph Menke, who is professor of philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Germany and considered the most important representative of the third generation of the "Frankfurt School of Critical Theory", presents in Critique of Rights (Polity Press 2020) a critical reflection on modern normativity in the so-called "Western world". More specifically: He analyzes "subjective rights". To have a right means to have a justified and binding claim. Now Menke exposes in his book – which is both a genealogy and an ontology of law – that these "subjective rights", which mark the birth of bourgeois society, have ambivalent properties. They are not only expressions of individuality and freedom everybody of us enjoys today as the most important achievement that Enlightenment has transferred to us. They also create what Karl Marx called "the entitlement of the egoistic human being, set apart from his fellow human being and from the community". Private interests become the new natural basis for politics. Contrary to what one might think "subjective rights" do not empower the citizens of a political community but disempower them.
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The New Books podcasts do me a huge service by keeping me up to date on my field (American elections and public opinion) while introducing me to work is never have thought to read on my own. For example, I really enjoyed the recent episode on Buddhist politics in Myanmar.
However, they also occasionally remind me how much academics struggle to explain their work. Obviously these podcasts aren't aimed at a lay audience, but the interviewees often have trouble conveying why even another academic outside their subfield might care about their subject. And the interviewers sometimes seem indifferent when not talking about their own are; sometimes it feels like they're just skimming the chapter titles to guide their questions.
On the whole, though, very edifying podcasts and I'm extremely grateful to the people who volunteer their time to make them happen.
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1. Is it possible to alter the 'material type' of a bibliographic record?
Material type is a value stored in the bibliographic record. It is displayed by default in both the search results and details pages in both the Koha staff client and the OPAC (more on how to change what is displayed in these interfaces in tip #2). Figure 1 highlights how the material type of 'Book' is displayed in the staff client search result interface.
The material type value is defined in a bibliographic record as a single character stored in the 006 (7th position) of the leader field (first field in a MARC record). In figure 2 the material type of 'book' is denoted by the digit 'a' in the 006 position.
1) Go to Administration -> Global system preferences -> Search for 'material type'.
4) Change the 7th character in the 000 Leader field. For example, changing this value to 'b' results in the material type being set to 'Article'.
Catalyst has a script called fix_leader.pl. This script can update the material type values in the leader field of bibliographic records so the material type matches the itemtype of the biblioitems. The script retrieves the biblionumber of all bibliographic records with an item level item type of 'Continuing Resources' and it goes through and changes the leader of each biblio to serial.
At present this only works for changing the material type where the itemtype is 'Continuing Resource' (i.e. a periodical), however with a small modification this script can work with a variety of itemtypes.
2. Can the information displayed in search result pages and book detail pages in the Koha OPAC and staff client be customized?
In Koha on the search result and the individual book detail pages in both the staff client and OPAC interfaces, you will notice information about the book is displayed.
So what you can do is ask your Koha support vendor, to create a custom XSLT file from one of the existing community XSLT files, then amend it to show the MARC fields you are interested in displaying. Upload this file to the Koha server, and change the appropriate aforementioned system preferences to point to the new custom XSLT file.
3. Why is there a 'No cover image available' box appearing in OPAC search results and can it be hidden?
This box is displayed because you have the OPACLocalCoverImages system preference enabled, and Koha can find no local cover image for that biblio. Figure 6 is also displaying a cover image, this is because the AmazonCoverImages system preference is enabled and Koha has been able to retrieve a cover image from Amazon.
4. We have upgraded to Koha 18.05 and the styling is broken, how do we fix this?
After upgrading your Koha instance to an 18.05.x version you may find that the styling of your site is broken.
(i) Ask your Koha support vendor to add the following two Apache rewrite rules to the /etc/koha/apache-shared-intranet.conf and /etc/koha/apache-shared-opac.conf files.
Now reload your webpage and the styling should be displaying correctly.
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Sherif Lanre: Why has Sherif Lanre quit Love Island 2019? What did Sherif do?
Love Island 2019 only kicked off last week on Monday, June 3 with 12 singletons going into the famous ITV2 villa. The Love Island cast members have only been in the villa for a week but it looks like there's already trouble in paradise. Sherif Lanre decided to quit the show after he broke the rules of the ITV2 series.
Why has Sherif Lanre quit Love Island 2019?
Sherif has quit Love Island after breaking the rules of the programme and decided mutually to walk away from the villa.
In a statement, a Love Island spokesman told Express.co.uk: "After breaking the villa rules S had conversations with the producers and it was mutually agreed that he would leave the Love Island villa."
Sherif went on to say: "In a case of poor judgement, I broke the villa rules and as a result agreed with the producers that it was best for me to leave the villa.
WHO IS IN THE LOVE ISLAND 2019 CAST?
"I regret that I didn't conduct myself in the right way and, as a 20-year-old guy, it's something I know I will take on board and learn from."
He added: "I really enjoyed my time in the villa and look forward to catching up with everyone on the outside."
Sherif was coupled up with Anna Vakili, who is now single and not in a couple, leading to questions about who she could team up with.
HOW TO WATCH LOVE ISLAND 2019 ONLINE
What did Sherif Lanre do on Love Island?
There's been no confirmation of what actually happened and how Sherif broke the rules on the show.
There are rules which Islanders have to adhere to while in the house. Express.co.uk has contacted ITV for comment on this and to see the guidelines.
According to reports, some of the Love Island rules include not masturbating while in the house and not appearing in the nude because the villa considered a public space.
WHO HAS PREVIOUSLY WON LOVE ISLAND?
Contestants are only allowed to smoke in the designated smoking area which only one person can use at a time.
Ex-Islander Simon Searles previously told The Sun: "They give you a bit of a handbook before and it's in regards to consent, nakedness, condoms, what's right and what's not.
"You never really get a lot of drink but they do say if someone's had too much to drink do not have sex with them.
"It's just obvious social stuff. Even though it's a bedroom it's a public bedroom."
IS LOVE ISLAND ON SUNDAYS?
He went on to say: "Everyone is just uptight."
There have also been reports that contestants can't drink too much on the programme.
Meanwhile, former contestant Liana Isadora Van-Riel said: "You're allowed one or two drinks a night, either wine or beer, no spirits."
Love Island continues on ITV2 tonight at 9pm
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Voter ID Laws
Do voter ID laws prevent election fraud or disenfranchise innocent voters?
Today's Topic: Voter ID Laws
And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader. In other words, although I am a lawyer, I'm not your lawyer. In fact, we barely know each other. If you need personalized legal advice, contact an attorney in your community.
Voter ID Law is Upheld – For Now
As the 2012 election approaches, lawsuits are breaking out all over the United States to contest new voting regulations being implemented in a number of states. In the latest round, on Aug. 15, 2012, a Pennsylvania judge allowed a state law to go into effect that requires voters to show photo identification before they can cast their ballot. . Although this was only a preliminary ruling, and not the final decision on the law's constitutionality, it has grabbed headlines across the country and even fueled an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Let's examine why voter ID laws are so controversial, and why the judge decided, at least for now,to uphold this new law.
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Back to the issue!
The Voter ID Controversy
Voter ID laws have passed in various states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. The Indiana law has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, while the others still face court challenges.
The advocate's argument is straightforward – it's a mechanism to combat fraud. And besides, what's the harm of requiring people to prove that they are who they say they are? But the opponents claim that they are designed to disenfranchise voters who are least likely to have photo IDs, such as the indigent or elderly. This is why the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Pennsylvania law.
New Pennsylvania Law Requires Photo ID
The Pennsylvania law is known as Act 18. Enacted in March 2012, it requires people seeking to vote in the Commonwealth to first show some form of photo identification issued by a federal, state, or municipal agency, including state universities. People who have a religious objection to having their picture taken are allowed to use certain state-issued IDs without photos. And, finally, anybody who shows up at the polls without an ID is allowed to cast a provisional ballot, which will count as long as the voter can deliver proof of identification within six days.
Does the Voter ID Law Violate Fundamental Rights?
The validity of Act 18 has been challenged by individuals and organizations who argue that the law violates the Pennsylvania Constitution in three respects:
First, that the law places an undue burden on the right to vote.
Second, that it violates the guarantee of "equal protection" because it affects some groups of voters more than others (see my earlier article for more on equal protection).
And third, that it creates a new qualification for voting beyond what the constitution requires.
The challengers asked the court to impose a preliminary injunction; in other words, they wanted the judge to stop the state from enforcing the law until the lawsuit is resolved. It's not clear how long the case will take, but an injunction would certainly mean that the law would not be in effect for the November 2012 general election.
The Voter ID Law Does Not Cause "Irreparable Harm"
Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson denied the preliminary injunction. Simpson ruled that the challengers had failed to show that they would suffer "irreparable harm" without an injunction – and, typically, judges refuse to impose injunctions without a showing of irreparable harm. Because of measures taken by the state to accommodate people without a photo ID, Judge Simpson concluded that voters would not be disenfranchised by the law.
The Law Does Not Burden the Right to Vote
But the judge also said that the lawsuit against Act 18 was unlikely to succeed on the merits. To strike down a law, a court has to be convinced that the law is destined to violate the constitution under all circumstances; in other words, that there is no way the state could enforce the law without infringing on people's rights.
In this case, the challengers raised a number of hypothetical scenarios in which the law could create an undue burden on people's right to vote. However, the judge was not convinced that any of those scenarios would come to pass. Moreover, the judge ruled that the challengers were not likely to establish a violation of "equal protection" because the Voter ID law is not aimed at any particular group. It simply gives poll workers another tool to verify that the person voting is who they claim to be.
The Supreme Court Has Approved Voter ID Laws
Although the Act 18 lawsuit was based on the Pennsylvania Constitution, Judge Simpson's decision was heavily influenced by a 2008 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Crawford v. Marion. In Crawford, the high court upheld an Indiana voter ID law against a challenge based on the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court said that a voter ID law that is justified for valid neutral reasons – like combating voter fraud – should be upheld even if the law was motivated by partisan interests. When reviewing a challenge, a court should generally defer to the legislature's judgment.
But let's get back to Pennsylvania.The fate of Act 18 is now in the hands of the state's Supreme Court, where the challengers will try, yet again, to get the law struck down. Since Pennsylvania is considered a "swing state," political strategists are hoping that the voter ID law (or lack thereof) will tip the balance of the election. We won't know that, of course, until November.
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Adam Freedman is a lawyer and a regular contributor to Point of Law and Ricochet. Freedman's legal commentary has been featured in The New York Times, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and on Public Radio. He holds degrees from Yale, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Naked Constitution (2012).


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Consent and Advertising in 2023
July 5, 2022 • read
Looking back, the Global Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) really set the bar for notice, choice, and consent and unbeknownst at the time, it gave us a look into the future of how privacy legislation would evolve. Years later, California provided the first interpretation of what privacy law was going to look like in the United States at the state level. Evolving from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), now four States have followed: Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah, with several others in discussion.
Today, organizations are mobilizing to devise consent management and notice strategies – the common themes across all the legislation – across multiple channels, brands, and devices from phones to smart TVs and connected appliances.
Joining WireWheel CPO Rick Buck at the SPOKES Privacy Technology Conference (held June 22-23) to discuss Consent and Advertising in 2023 are Jennifer Harkins Garone, Sr. Director, Privacy at Carnival Corp.; IAB and IAB Tech Lab EVP and General Counsel, Michael Hahn; and Gary Kibel, a Davis + Gilbert LLP Partner.
This seasoned group of privacy experts have seen the concepts of notice, choice, and consent go from non-existent to becoming a front and center issue.
A lot to unpack
With all these new laws, all the different state laws, and the lack of a federal law in the U.S., it is very challenging because definitions in the laws do not line up and obligations in the laws do not line up. This leads to the big question: what sort of solutions should you implement?
—Gary Kibel, Davis + Gilbert LLP
"Do you implement a state-by-state solution, or a one-size-fits-all solution based on the strictest standards brought together from multiple jurisdictions?" asks Kibel. "You can't simply say I'm going to follow the one strictest state, because there are unique differences."
"Some of the laws have definitions of sensitive personal information (PI), which do not line up exactly the same," notes Kibel. "The most impactful is that Virginia, Colorado, and Connecticut require an opt-in to process 'sensitive personal information,' California's CPRA and Utah require an opt-out."
Importantly, most of the sensitive personal information definitions include precise geolocation. While Apple now requires apps to ask permission to collect your location information, "this is not a common practice on the web where IP addresses and precise GEO information is collected without an express opt-in. This is one of the unique things that's going to change in 2023," advises Kibel.
This requires some big decisions: as it is not a requirement in every state, will it affect a pop-up for Virginia, Colorado, and Connecticut only, or is it going to do it for everyone regardless?
The weeds of the law
Consider just a small sampling of consumer rights across the States, the complexity of implementing consent in terms of policy and technical implementation becomes clear:
The privacy laws have opt-out rights for targeted advertising, but the states define them differently (California calls it cross-context behavioral advertising).
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) extends the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) right to opt-out of sale to include sharing and limiting the use and disclosure of sensitive PI. "The CPRA requires there to be a new link which has the words 'limit the use of my sensitive personal information,'" notes Kibel.
Other laws take a similar approach with a right to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, and profiling, with some requiring opt-in for use of sensitive personal information.
Once we dig into the weeds of the law, there are other disconnects even between the same concepts. The CPRA treats sale of data to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration, while in Virginia it is only 'monetary consideration', which again necessitates deciding "how to apply this right differently to consumers in different locations.
It is a lot to unpack. To help navigate the ever-changing privacy law landscape, WireWheel has created a Privacy Law Comparison Matrix.
The network-based approach to consent
"Do you need to obtain consent on the publisher or advertiser's page? Or can you obtain consent on a single page in a broader network that bands together," asks IAB's Michael Hahn.
To look at an issue like this, we have to start with 'what's the basic standard?' And while there are undoubtedly nuances in what it means to consent, for those thinking about this in a multi-state approach, you're going to end up with what is typically the most rigorous version of consent to apply it everywhere.
That most "rigorous version of consent" is the GDPR version, says Hahn, and one which also appears in some of the State laws. The CPRA adds that "a business must adhere to the following principles when designing its consent method, and any method that fails to meet these requirements may be considered a dark pattern and does not constitute valid consent" (Cal. Proposed Regs. § 7004(b)). The principals include:
Symmetry in choice
Avoid language of interactive elements that are confusing, and
Avoid manipulative language or choice architectures
Does a network-based approach to consent work?
"When referring to a network-based opt-in approach", says Hahn, "what we're really talking about is providing consent to a large number of, let's say publishers and ad tech companies to undertake cross-site tracking. In other words, you are being asked to opt-in to cross-site tracking for the network participants. However, when tested against the CPRA consent standard this network-based approach falls short."
It's tough to imagine making a strong argument to a regulator that when I go to publisher number one as a consumer, that I was sufficiently informed about what could be a large number of other publishers in the network…that providing this bulk consent is for a narrowly defined particular purpose.
And indeed, the CPRA states that any opt-in link applies only to the business with which the consumer intends to interact (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.185(a)(20)).
While the concept of multiple independent or joined controllers exist in state law, "generally speaking, state laws encumber the entity with whom the consumer has a direct relationship with a broad set of direct responsibilities and distinguishes them from third parties: a concept that that does not exist in Europe," notes Hahn.
Hahn also notes that the draft regulations have an entirely new concept: "The business needs to either a) disclose the third parties to whom they have sold personal information and such third parties control the collection of the information, or b) provide information about their business practices."
"I don't know what the second half of that means," confesses Hahn, "but whatever it does mean it suggests to me that it's impossible to fulfill that requirement" in a network-based approach.
Operationalizing privacy law requirements
When asked if the 'do not share' prohibition under CPRA is tantamount to the right to opt out of behavioral targeted advertising, two or three years ago, most of us would have said no, they're different. But the state AG has started to say they're the same because with a lot of the behavioral and targeted advertising that is done through cookies (such as with Facebook) somebody is exchanging money in order to get that.
—Jennifer Harkins Garone, Carnival Corp.
The question becomes "If my company website has a Facebook cookie who is then selling that information, how does somebody who is running a program handle it?"
For Garone, the answer is "you have to apply the ePrivacy Directive to everybody. Or apply California to everybody. And it is going to be available on January 1, 2023, as opposed to 2025, because if you iterate, it costs a lot of money. Heck, if you don't iterate it can cost a lot of money, so it is a very challenging decision."
You have to look to technology. "In one part of our business we have a homegrown tool and we started to find it costs too much in money and lead-time to make the necessary changes with the constant parade of new laws. So, we're looking at what the right technology stack is for us to manage it," says Garone.
If the cookie banner is your opt-out vehicle, how do you make that work together with do not share? How do you bring do not share into your cookie and tags? It's taking us a while to figure out because of all the nuances.
One of the ways we can make it easier on ourselves is getting the right technology.
There are still a lot of questions around the new privacy laws
You have senior executives who have goals to meet. They want to do targeted advertising. You need to have conversations with them and there are a lot of questions to ask, says Garone:
Who are you sharing data with? Under what definition? What is the agreement that you have if somebody says, I don't want to process sensitive information? What are the contracts with third parties telling you? Are you making so much on targeted advertising that it is worth a potential fine? Can you cure in 30 days if necessary and what would be your plan to cure? Do you even have an internal process to get those regulatory letters to the right people?
In the end, operationalizing privacy, whether it is multi-state, single state, or globally, comes down to the basics. Questions need to be answered, competing requirements resolved, and decisions made.
"I was looking at an agreement with a third party," relates Garone, "that we're buying information from for prospecting. Going through the list of data elements…I found one was latitude and longitude. Why are we asking for precise geolocation? What are you going to do with that that you are not already getting? You're going to have to protect it like you protect a credit card number. So it was struck."
There are a lot of new common-denominator obligations:
Notice at point of collection. Updating privacy notices. Third-party due diligence for those with whom you share data. Contracting those third parties so they uphold your data the same way you're obligated to. The ability to provide and honor rights – not only effectuate those rights and collect consent – but to pass those signals throughout the ecosystem.
All that is really hard to do.
—Rick Buck, WireWheel
Why Students Need to Protect Their Privacy When Using Educational Technology: Tools and Tips
December 27, 2022 • read
Progress and the introduction of digital technologies in any sphere of human activity have strengths and weaknesses. So we will talk about education, then we are talking about the positive impact of using third-party applications and resources on student engagement and academic performance, and the danger of confidential information leakage. How to make work with the necessary and popular today EdTech tools safe, who should be involved in the process of creating a reliable environment, and what methods to use, we will deal with these issues today.
The problem of protecting confidential data in educational technologies
The problem, first of all, lies in ourselves. Have you ever wondered how many people read the terms of a data processing agreement before checking the box next to it? A study was conducted that showed that as many as 36% of those surveyed never read a company's privacy policy, and this is the number one issue that needs to be addressed in cybersecurity education.
Another problem for students, teachers, parents, and administration is dozens of used and unused applications that are tied to work accounts. If you do at least a superficial study, you will find that at all levels, from school administrators to students, work accounts are tied to dating sites, travel apps, etc. That is, they open the doors through which you can get to important and confidential information intended only for business purposes.
And of course, the purchase and implementation of insufficiently tested, protected, and certified digital products. Today, services for the education segment, both for administration and direct use in classrooms, are a multi-billion dollar market with huge competition.
When choosing components of a security system, such as classroom security cameras, or products for their school and program, administrators and teachers must pay great attention to how the product protects users' sensitive data. Especially you need to be careful with trial and test free versions, which still require registration and linking to an account. Such a "Trojan horse" can contain any filling, from banal poor protection to malware that can open the way to all the data stored in the account.
Therefore, both students and teachers should give preference to exclusively safe educational services. Studocu educational platform will help you avoid a lot of data security issues.
In fact, there are many more problems, they can be global, typical for the entire education industry, or local, arising in a particular region, users of a particular product, or in one school. But to know how to avoid confidential data leakage, in any case, you need to know how to protect yourself and your students, teachers, and parents as much as possible.
6 Tips for Protecting Student Data
The first step that must be taken to ensure the safe use of EdTech tools is to understand that there is a problem. And that this is a global problem that poses a real threat. Stolen data can be used for a variety of purposes, from advertising to criminal offenses. Only by realizing the depth of the problem and the consequences of a careless attitude toward it, one can begin to act seriously.
1. Review all the tools you have used or are using
During the pandemic, many educational platforms have made their services free or shareware. In an effort to give their students as many learning opportunities and more convenient tools as possible, school administrators and teachers have tried many of them. They manually entered the data of students, not fully realizing how much this data would be protected.
Now you have stopped using these services, choose a few of the most suitable ones. Perhaps they were even transferred on a paid basis, but this does not mean that the data that has already been entered is lost or protected. Be sure to make sure your information is secure.
2. Don't take it all on yourself
The safety of these children is the task of all adults who enter the zone of education of this child. It's nice to know that after the pandemic when many parents were at home with their children, took part in their studies, and were interested in educational services and tools, they became more attentive to data security.
Parents began to pay attention to what information and where their child contributes. Particularly attentive and responsible called teachers and asked how secure the information that my child enters into a particular application used at school is.
I would like to emphasize this point separately, cybersecurity and the protection of student data are the responsibility of not only schools but also families. Therefore, parents need to know which applications their children use at school and which ones they use outside of school. How reliable and safe are these products?
3. Be aware of the privacy policies of your digital education providers
If you decide to use the tool for the first time, be sure to contact the supplier. Read its privacy policy. For any doubtful or not entirely clear point, ask for an explanation. If you have doubts about the reliability of protection and safety, it is better not to use the product. There are thousands of companies on the market today, and you will definitely find a reliable analog or similar service.
Watch for changes to the privacy policy of companies that already supply you with such a product. Let's take an example. Schools in one small town all used one popular service for their educational process. On the same day, all responsible persons of these schools received a letter notifying them that there were changes in the privacy policy of the company and the product, so they need to give your agreement on a new one. All the responsible persons of all the schools did this without much trial, and only one teacher decided to ask what exactly had changed in politics.
He learned that the company can now track where children are by geolocation. Please note that we are talking about minors. The teacher raised this issue at his school, the principal tried to negotiate with companies to remove tracks from the app. As a result, the school refused to cooperate with this supplier. But other schools also did not stand aside, since this update did not suit very many. As a result, after customers massively began to refuse to work with an application that tracks the location of children, this item was removed.
4. Create an Application Verification Protocol
For these purposes, it will not be superfluous to use some useful tools. For example, you can start by checking the accounts of all students and school employees using ManagedMethods to get an idea of how they use data, what applications they use, and how much they follow data protection rules.
You can also involve your IT department in developing a protocol for working with new applications and periodically checking working tools for data security.
5. Develop a plan in case of information leakage
You don't want to think that such a problem may arise for you, so when this happens, everyone is not ready and does not know what to do. First of all, you need to make it clear to parents and students that such a situation has occurred. This can be done via email or SMS, on behalf of the administration of the educational institution or a special IT department.
Also, cybersecurity specialists can help you develop an algorithm of action in such cases. For example, students must register with a data theft protection service. It is advisable to introduce this algorithm to students and parents before the trouble has already happened so that after a leak or misuse, each of them knows what to do.
6. Be sure to have conversations with students and their parents about the rules of behavior on the Internet
For example, you need to talk about the fact that the browser search history needs to be cleaned regularly, and use special tools. You need to minimize your footprint on the Internet and prevent attackers from getting as much information about you as possible.
Be sure to explain to students and teachers what the rules of behavior in social networks are. You should not upload photos of the entire class to teachers on a personal page, or it is advisable to "blur" the faces of children using simple and free tools. You should not attach photos that show the names of your streets of residence, the route to and from school, and the addresses of the sections where you visit. Do not turn on geolocation and give the opportunity to strangers to determine their location.
Safety is the concern of each individual and all together. If we are all careful and responsible, then no one will be able to misuse our data and even just get it.
Protect Your Privacy While Shopping This Holiday Season
November 28, 2022 • read
With the gift-giving season right around the corner and inflation on everyone's mind, Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday are set to be blockbuster events this year. But before heading off to your favorite retailer's website, consider a few tips to protect your privacy and potentially get you the best price this holiday season:
Check URLs carefully. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are primetime for phishing attacks. It's all too easy to click on a fake link after that big meal and some wine or when waking up early on Monday. Look for the lock icon in the address bar and check to make sure the domain matches.
Use a VPN when bargain hunting. Ever get the feeling retailers know what you want before you ask? Or see a great price suddenly disappear after searching for a while? Companies are increasingly using your data from multiple sites to determine pricing in real-time. Using a VPN can help you seek out the best deals, keep retailers in the dark, and offer a little extra security.
For the most privacy, avoid downloading retailer-specific apps. Retailers can gather much more information about users when using their apps directly. Consider sticking to their websites if possible.
Check the privacy settings on those heavily discounted devices. Many of those doorbuster deals are being offset by increasing personal data collection and displaying additional advertisements in menus. Privacy-minded shoppers can edit those settings to protect themselves. You may also consider leaving the device off the internet and using a dedicated streaming device.
Voting and Your Privacy
November 7, 2022 • read
Today many Americans will flock to the polls to vote in the mid-term election. There is a lot more at stake than just who you vote for and who ends up in office. What many do not realize is that their personal data is at stake even though their vote is "anonymous".
The right to an anonymous vote is part of the U.S. democratic process. Yet when someone registers to vote, their voter registration record may be considered public record, and available to a variety of individuals or groups. Long before you walk into a voting booth, you may have received phone calls asking who you plan to vote for, texts promoting a candidate, and even when you apply for a driver's license you are asked your political leanings. Voting records are not private and this includes, name, address, phone number and sometimes even whether you voted or not.
If this isn't bad enough, political campaigns have been compiling, sharing, buying, and selling voter lists for decades. Third-party list brokers are compiling and selling your information, and email addresses are shared among candidates. Respecting users' right to privacy requires thoughtful consideration of how data is used, collected, stored, deleted, and retained. Information safeguards or data security include procedures, practices, and technology for keeping sensitive data safe. The strictness and uniformity with which data privacy rules and regulations are enforced might vary significantly from one jurisdiction to the next.
In 2019, Senator Diane Feinstein of California introduced the Voter Privacy Act of 2019 to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to ensure privacy with respect to voter information. It never passed.
There is no easy answer to how to keep your data private. Sure, you can not vote but it is a constitutional right to engage in the political process so privacy must be addressed. Though many states have Address Confidentiality Programs (ACPs), many have challenges controlling this data, so there is no privacy guarantee.
For a detailed look at voter registration privacy protections in any state, check out the National Conference of State Legislatures' Access To and Use of Voter Registration Lists Report.
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During Instagram Live on May 20, 2018, Kehlani responded to fans' comments asking her to meet Blackpink Lisa.
Kehlani, along with Marteen, were about to perform at Seoul Jazz Festival 2018 at Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea. She did Instagram live while also doing her makeup.
You all keep saying something about this girl Lisa from Blackpink, the Kpop group. Ya'll keep telling me to just meet up with her. But you don't just do that, you can't just tell me to go pull up on somebody, and I don't even know how to get in contact with them.
Here is our compilation video of Lisa mentioning Kehlani as her role model and favorite artist and Kehlani Instagram Live video responding to fans comments asking her to meet Blackpink Lisa.


Piccolo Park Early Learning Centre (AKA Piccolo) opened in 2015 with its farm theme incorporating ancillary barn style buildings with the historic Guy homestead built in 1899.
Starex's new white high pressure laminate (HPL) with ply edge range complemented the agricultural theme and the powder coating tied in with building structures. Veneers were added to match the natural floorboards of the homestead building.
Catering for 120 children and staff of around 17, each room has a subtle colour scheme and a tractor was custom built with practical aspects as part of the focus on a 'working farm' for the children, where they grow organic produce in the gardens.


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Scientific Staff for HPC Application Support at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Jülich, Deutschland)
Location: Jülich, Deutschland
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) operates one of the most powerful supercomputing infrastructures in Europe and makes it available to researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in Germany and throughout Europe. As part of this task JSC conducts various types of Research and Development, often in close collaboration with local, national, and international partner institutions. JSC supports users through its strong expertise in High-Performance Computing and Data Science, on an individual basis as well as within specific projects and cooperations. Together with researchers from various specific fields, such as e.g. biological sciences or energy and climate science, applications and algorithms are analysed, adapted, developed, and optimized which can then make proper use of parallel computing architectures of modern hardware. In addition, software tools and libraries are developed and provided to support users in the efficient use of the systems.
Strengthen JSC in the field "Application Optimisation" as a
Scientific Staff for HPC Application Support
Your Job:
You will be part of a team that is responsible for the analytics of simulation software, the support of their developers for code optimization and the development of supporting software tools on the JSC HPC systems. Your work will include:
Analysis of parallel scientific applications with respect to efficiency and scalability, in close collaboration with their developers
Identification of optimization potential, with focus on architecture-specific optimization strategies aiming at scaling and/or performance improvements
Co-development and application of software tools and libraries which are relevant for users and support staff on JSCs supercomputers, such as the system wide job monitoring
Benchmarking on hardware prototypes and analysis of results
Cooperation with partners in various projects funded by the federal government and the EU in the field of user support, optimization of application programs and development of software tools
Support for computing time projects as well as contributions to work shops and training activities
Preparation of project reports and presentation / publication of results at collaboration meetings, workshops, and conferences
Master's degree in Technomathematics or university degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or natural science or equivalent degree
Proven experience in parallel programming and the analysis of parallel applications using the paradigms Message-Passing (MPI) and/or OpenMP on Linux / UNIX systems
Programming experience in at least one of the following: C, C++, Fortran
Knowledge in the scripting language Python, knowledge of the scripting languages Perl, PHP and/or JavaScript is desirable
Proven background in software development, benchmarking, or application optimization
Firm experience in the usage of Unix-based operating systems
Ability to work independently and in a team of scientists with heterogeneous backgrounds
Firm communication skills in English and ideally a good command of German
Flexibility and willingness to travel to project meetings or other events
Experience with software analysis tools, regarding performance as well as correctness of codes, is desirable
Experience in GPU-based scientific modeling and simulations is desirable
Our Offer:
We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change. We support you in your work with:
The opportunity to be part of a challenging large-scale, multidisciplinary European Research Infrastructure project with 16 partners in eight countries
A diverse range of activities in an interdisciplinary, international research and support group and a friendly work environment
Excellent infrastructure of one of the largest research centres in Europe
Further development of individual strengths through a wide range of training and qualification opportunities
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Our Fasching evening last night was a great success enjoyed by many - you should try one of our events!
However, We are sorry we have had to cancel this event for local groups scheduled for the 22nd March.
7.30 p.m. FOR 7.45 p.m.
Fasching traditionally begins at exactly 11 minutes past 11 in the morning on the 11th of November, and ends at the stroke of midnight on Shrove Tuesday.
We will give you some detail about this ancient tradition and also have a sampling of some German food.
As this is a carnival it is usual to wear fancy dress when watching one of the many parades that take place. Dronfield Town Twinning Federation committee members (some, maybe not all!) will be embracing this tradition and will be in fancy dress on the evening.
If you would like to join in with the dressing up, here are some ideas: animals, kings/queens, super heroes, cowboy/girl, workmen, clown, pirate to name but a few.
Feel free to join in with the dressing up - it is not a necessity though - you can just laugh at everyone else!!!!
If you would like to come to the evening, please use the "contact us" section on the right, letting us know the number of attendees and any vegetarian needs.
– Civic Hall 7:30 p.m.
Potential events - we hope to do this.
This is in the early planning stage - keep in touch for up-to-date information.
We are sorry and give our apologies, because we have had to cancel this event scheduled for the 22nd March.
Below is a slideshow including 1 video taken in the centre of Esslingen; giving you an outline of the features of the visit enjoyed by the 31 people who went on our trip in September 2018.
Thanks to all who visited our stall at the Dronfield Gala on Sunday - please keep visiting our website to keep updated.
Here's a couple of photos taken during our preparations for serving a typical German summer drink.
This compiled video should give you a feeling of the event - all taken without a tripod so apologies for some of the video not being as stable as we would have liked.
... and they arrived safely in Sindelfingen - a day earlier than planned!
Our committee members David and Neil set off for Sindelfingen on 8th June, just after 9 o'clock - see our earlier post.
... and here they are in the marketplace in Sindelfingen on the 14th, after a total of 524 miles!
The photo was taken by a kind German who happened to be passing!
In doing this ride, David has been raising money for the new MacMillan Cancer Centre at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
We congratulate them both on a remarkable feat.
Here are a couple of views of the Strassenfest - an area in the "Twinning Village" and crowds near our stall.
An area of the "Twinning Village"
Here's a photo taken on Thursday, of our cyclists about to set off from the cross in Coal Aston, to ride all the way to Sindelfingen - apart from a pause on the ferry and overnight stops!
They'll arrive in Sindelfingen before the Strassenfest weekend begins next Friday..
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD – This week, we got a press release from the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn. It is proof that franchised chains like Holiday Inn can encourage diversity within their system, yet preserve their Holiday Inn-ness.
Now, you should know that I am a big Holiday Inn fan, and have been since I was a kid, when some of the restaurants had special kids menus printed on pirate hats. That's why I've written here about things like the greatness of the Holidome, the stupidness of changing the font and such. I will put up with a very mediocre Holiday Inn, just for the experience of being in a Holiday Inn, though I have to admit the chain has tested me in recent years by its inconsistent service and frustrating ignorance of its largest asset, its brand. (They are opening a new Holiday Inn mega-resort in Lake Buena Vista, at Disney. Good news.)
When I grew up, there were all sorts of special Holiday Inns with a sub-theme. One of the more interesting was the Holiday Inn 1776, which was in Williamsburg. Done with a Bicentennial spirit, it was built on a sprawling campus just outside of the restored area. While a fascinating concept, the dormers have an ill shape to them, which makes it look a bit off. It has changed franchises, now a Ramada, but still exists. The Holiday Inn Chattanooga Choo-Choo, now affiliated with Historic Hotels of America, was one of the wildest Holiday Inn experiments. It was built inside a train station.
Holiday Inn makes no mention of the vintage of their hotels. They try to hide the history of them, when they get old. But that is a bad idea. Here's why. Hotel guests care only if their hotels are well maintained, if the paint is fresh, and the carpeting is new. If the interior is fresh, the staff is friendly and the food is good, it is a successful Holiday Inn. Age has little to do with the equation, as hotels need to get "scraped" down to new interiors every few years anyway. You can, however, find the vintage old style motels by seeing if they are exterior corridors. Sadly, few of the signs survive except in museums.
Thankfully, still, there are sub-themed Holiday Inns, ones that carve their own identity yet adhere to the brand.
The Beverly Garland was built in 1972 by Fillmore Crank for his wife, well-known Hollywood actress Beverly Garland. The Beverly Garland Holiday Inn, designed to evoke Hollywood glamour, is nestled on seven lush acres that Beverly's husband purchased from Gene Autry. The hotel is not the old Holiday Inn style (two-story building around pool" or the new one, which is a four-story interior corridor hotel, but its own design. It has a sort of California Mission and Spanish Hacienda style, and each guest room and executive suite includes private balconies overlooking Hollywood's Santa Monica and Verdugo mountains. In addition to the pool and fitness center, amenities include tennis courts, a children's playground, Tula's California Café and Decoy Lounge. The Beverly Garland Holiday Inn is located at 4222 Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood, California, 91602. It is still family owned. Call 1-800-BEVERLY or visit www.beverlygarland.com.
Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach: This Holiday Inn is special because the Apollo astronauts stayed there during the moon shots. Even Walter Cronkite and CBS producer Don Hewitt stayed there. It is a rather special place because it is next to I Dream of Jeannie Drive.
Holiday Inn International Drive: This Orlando hotel had a part owner in John Glenn. It is massive, though the interior atrium makes me dizzy it is so big. It was developed by the legendary Henry Landwirth, who managed the Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach. Landwirth, a Holocaust survivor, is now known for the charity he helped start, Give Kids the World.
Holiday Inn Midtown: This Holiday Inn in New York is on West 57th Street in Manhattan. It's a bit off the main drag, but what is so wonderful about it is the rooftop pool, and the fact that you can drive a car inside it.
Holiday Inn Sarajevo: This place is special, not only because it is so funky looking, but because it survived the seige. It was a relic of the 1984 Olympics, but was nearly destroyed during the Yugoslavian war. Thankfully, the brand saw fit to keep its association when the city was rebuilt.
Holiday Inn University of Memphis: This hotel is owned by the children of Kemmons Wilson, the founder of Holiday Inn. It doesn't look like the Holiday Inns of old, but it has the family spirit, and is worth a stay while in Memphis.
We would love it if readers would leave comments as to other great Holiday Inns around the globe, particularly original exterior corridor Holiday Inns that have stayed in the system.
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My entry is the Holiday Inn-Commonwealth in Jacksonville, Florida.
This is a great older style Holiday Inn, with exterior corridors on the outside of the property and a Holidome in the center.
The coolest thing about this hotel isn't the great Southern-style food in the restaurant, the nice people who work there, or the fact that they have an enjoyable little bar/lounge, but the decor of the property.
It's vintage airplane.
In fact, a light plane (a single engine Aerocoop) hangs in the Holidome, along with a large scale model of a World War I biplane. The Aerocoop hangs at such an angle that it looks like it is buzzing the pool area. Awesome!
The walls of the lobby and corridors are decorated with black and white airplane pictures and the meeting rooms have names like: The Piper Cub Room.
I have attended several meetings there over the years– the first in 1988 or so. Stayed there many times, too.
Stayed there just a few days ago, most recently (another meeting of the same group, after all these years!).
I have stayed in many hotels over the years (and more than a few dull Holiday Inns!), but this one is laid-back-retro-cool in my books.
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Bad news on the Holiday Inn Commonwealth in Jacksonville, Florida.
It is now a Quality Inn, under the same ownership.
From the looks of photos their website, that cool plane buzzing the pool in the Holidome is gone, too: http://www.qualityinn.com/hotel-jacksonville-florida-FLB72
Perhaps a moment of silence is in order for another "local" Holiday Inn that is no more!
Horrible news I agree; I just want a "real" holiday inn thank you!
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