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Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures 2017/18
Ostrom Workshop Colloquium Series and Tocqueville Lectures
Ostrom Colloquium Series Tocqueville
01/22/18 Colloquium Series - Diane_Henshel:…
01/22/18 Colloquium Series - Diane_Henshel: Integrating Attackers, Defenders, and National Culture into Cybersecurity Risk Models
From David Price on January 23rd, 2018
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Current cybersecurity risk modeling methodologies do not consider humans as risk initiators or mitigators. Human factors are considered primarily in terms of how users…
01/29/18 Colloquium Series - Gertjan Plets:…
01/29/18 Colloquium Series - Gertjan Plets: "Well-Oiled Cultural Politics in the Altai Republic: Promoting Indigenous Heritage in Gazprom's Resource Colonies"
From David Price on January 29th, 2018
Drawing on ethnographic perspectives, this paper will explore the neoliberal imbrications defining cultural politics in Russia's indigenous resource frontiers.…
02/05/18 Colloquium Series - Cyanne E. Loyle:…
02/05/18 Colloquium Series - Cyanne E. Loyle: "Rebel Governance and Judicial Process during Armed Conflict"
From David Price on February 5th, 2018
While justice and rule-of-law strategies are being increasingly studied in regard to government behavior, new data on the use of transitional justice during armed…
02/06/18 Tocqueville Lecture Series - Amy L. Wax:…
02/06/18 Tocqueville Lecture Series - Amy L. Wax: "What is Happening to the Family and Why?"
Behavior in the realm of family and sexuality has changed rapidly over the past 70 years, with dramatic shifts in sexual relationships, courtship, marriage, divorce,…
02/12/2018 Colloquium Series - William Bianco:…
02/12/2018 Colloquium Series - William Bianco: "Selling Science: New Insights into Measuring Research Productivity"
From David Price on February 12th, 2018
This paper focuses on assessing productivity in basic research programs, and on how the ability to make these assessments insulates these programs from political…
02/16/2018 Tocqueville Lecture Series - William…
02/16/2018 Tocqueville Lecture Series - William Scheuerman: "Civil Disobedience"
In his new book, William Scheuerman systematically analyzes the most important interpretations of civil disobedience. Drawing out the striking differences separating…
02/19/2016 Colloquium Series - Charles Trzcinka:…
02/19/2016 Colloquium Series - Charles Trzcinka: "A Tangled Tale of Training and Talent: PhDs in Institutional Asset Management"
Performance of investment products managed by firms in which PhDs play a key role is superior to the performance of products managed by otherwise similar firms. This…
02/26/2018 Colloquium Series - Jean-Paul Faguet:…
02/26/2018 Colloquium Series - Jean-Paul Faguet: "The Paradox of Land Reform, Inequality, and Development in Colombia"
Over two centuries, Colombia transferred vast quantities of land, equivalent to the entire UK landmass, mainly to landless peasants. And yet Colombia retains one of the…
03/20/18 Colloquium - Aurelian Craiutu: "A…
03/20/18 Colloquium - Aurelian Craiutu: "A Voice of Moderation in the Age of Revolutions: Jacques Necker's Reflections on Executive Power in Modern Society"
From David Price on March 19th, 2018
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When Auguste de Staël edited Jacques Necker's complete works in fifteen volumes in 1821, the public was surprised to discover how prolific the former minister…
03/26/18 Colloquium Series - Tulia Falleti:…
03/26/18 Colloquium Series - Tulia Falleti: "Social Origins of Institutional Strength: Prior Consultation over Extraction of Hydrocarbons in Bolivia"
Much has been written in the social sciences about why and how institutions come about and gradually change. Less attention, however, has been paid to the questions of…
04/02/2018 Colloquium Series -J. Terrence McCabe:…
04/02/2018 Colloquium Series -J. Terrence McCabe: "The Emergence of the Village and the Erosion of Traditional Institutions: A Case Study from Northern Tanzania"
From David Price on April 2nd, 2018
Rangelands cover more of the earth's land surface than any other type of land. In Africa, it is estimated that rangelands cover about 40% of the land mass, and are…
04/09/18 Colloquium Series - Karen Clay:…
04/09/18 Colloquium Series - Karen Clay: "The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Resources on Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the United States 1936–2015"
From David Price on April 9th, 2018
This paper draws on new state-level panel datasets spanning 1936–2015 covering the three most valuable natural resources during the period—oil & gas,…
04/16/18 Colloquium Series - Robert Gibbons:…
04/16/18 Colloquium Series - Robert Gibbons: "Culture and Institutions" Meets "culture in organizations"
From David Price on April 16th, 2018
The growing economics literature on "Culture and Institutions" explores how these concepts influence each other. For example, Guiso et al. (2013) found that…
04/23/18 Colloquium - Benjamin Cashore:…
04/23/18 Colloquium - Benjamin Cashore: "The Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor: Bringing the Environment Back in to Environmental Studies"
From David Price on April 23rd, 2018
Elinor Ostrom's work challenging prevailing metaphors about how to solve "tragedies of the commons" had two profound impacts. First, it demonstrated…
04/30/18 Colloquium - Miriam Golden:…
04/30/18 Colloquium - Miriam Golden: "Reelection, Political Selection, and Development"
From David Price on May 1st, 2018
We assemble original data from 112 countries around the world on the reelection rates of national legislators in recent elections. The data show that incumbent…
09/11/2017 Colloquium Series: David Stadelmann…
09/11/2017 Colloquium Series: David Stadelmann Department of Economics, University of Bayreuth:"Politicians Change Their Behavior and Seek the Public Interest after Achieving Office"
From David Price on September 11th, 2017
Do newly elected politicians correspond to the public interest after achieving political office? We show that politicians change their behavior once changing from one…
09/18/17 - Angie Raymond: "Information and…
09/18/17 - Angie Raymond: "Information and the Regulatory Landscape: A Growing Need to Reconsider Existing Legal Frameworks"
Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems are already being used to enhance our lives and to transform the way businesses operate. Businesses across a broad spectrum…
09/20/17 Research Series - Daniel A. DeCaro:…
09/20/17 Research Series - Daniel A. DeCaro: "Legal Design Principles for State-Reinforced Self-Governance"
Self-governance is a fundamental aspect of democracy, and an essential foundation of societal cooperation and problem-solving in the United States. Vincent and Elinor…
09/22/17 Tocqueville_Lecture - Damon Linker:…
09/22/17 Tocqueville_Lecture - Damon Linker: "The Task of Thinking in an Age of Reaction"
Political pundit and academic book editor Damon Linker will discuss what it's like to analyze and comment on current affairs at a time of intense political…
09/25/17 - Murat Iyigun: "The Ideological…
09/25/17 - Murat Iyigun: "The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change"
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why are such failures often associated with a rise in…
10/02/2017 Colloquium Series - Hyeran…
10/02/2017 Colloquium Series - Hyeran Jo:"Weapon of the Weak? Rebel Groups' International Law Talk, 1974–2011"
From David Price on October 2nd, 2017
Rebel groups in armed conflicts around the globe are often violators of international law. Yet, out of approximately 350 rebel groups in contemporary armed conflicts, 60…
10/05/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Peter Levine:…
10/05/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Peter Levine: "Elinor Ostrom and the Citizen's Basic Question: What Should We Do?"
From David Price on October 5th, 2017
Instead of asking "What is going on and why?" or "What should be done?" (the most typical questions in the social sciences), a citizen must ask…
10/09/17 Colloquium Series - Margaret Levi:…
10/09/17 Colloquium Series - Margaret Levi: "Conflict, Institutions, and Public Law: Reflections on Twentieth-Century America as a Developing Country"
During the early 20th century, the United States struggled with intense labor conflict, unstable institutions, geographic fragmentation, and economic uncertainty and…
10/16/17 Colloquium - David Victor: "An…
10/16/17 Colloquium - David Victor: "An Experimentalist Approach to Governing Global Climate Change"
From David Price on October 16th, 2017
One of the central difficulties in managing global commons problems is that the relevant actors often do not know which actions to take nor the cost and impact of…
10/18/17 Research Series - Manny Teodoro:…
10/18/17 Research Series - Manny Teodoro: "Privatization as Political Decoupling: Water Conservation and the 2014–2017 California Drought"
Over the past three decades, decoupling has emerged as a regulatory strategy for promoting conservation, especially in the energy sector. Decoupling refers to the…
10/23/17 Colloquium Series - Scott Shackelford:…
10/23/17 Colloquium Series - Scott Shackelford: "Cyber War and Peace: Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age"
From David Price on October 23rd, 2017
Many leading environmental and security concerns now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers, that is, the areas historically outside of…
10/30/17 Colloquium Series - Xavier Basurto:…
10/30/17 Colloquium Series - Xavier Basurto: "Finding Order Amid Complex Small-Scale Fisheries Self-Governance Arrangements: A 'Beyond-Harvesting' Research Agenda for Common-Pool Resources Theory"
In this paper, we expand existing conceptual tools from institutional analysis and common-pool resource theory to guide research on self-governing regimes. We use…
11/06/2017 Colloquium Series - Dominic Parker:…
11/06/2017 Colloquium Series - Dominic Parker: "Property and Poverty on American Indian Reservations"
From David Price on November 6th, 2017
Popular narratives attribute poverty on Native American reservations today to historical resource expropriation and the resulting dearth of high-quality land, but the…
11/10/17 Tocqueville Series - Alvin Felzenberg:…
11/10/17 Tocqueville Series - Alvin Felzenberg: "The Future of Bill Buckley's Conservatism in the Age of Donald Trump"
From David Price on November 10th, 2017
We have heard quite a bit in recent years about populism and especially, populism on the right. On the overall question of who should make policy, William F. Buckley Jr.…
11/13/17 Colloquium - Kent Portney:…
11/13/17 Colloquium - Kent Portney: "Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Solving a Common-Pool Resource Challenge?"
Emerging natural system research has documented connections between water, energy, and food with an eye toward prescribing how to achieve greater efficiencies and to…
11/27/17 Colloquium Series - James Farmer:…
11/27/17 Colloquium Series - James Farmer: "Extending the Design Principles for Common-Pool Resource Governance to Conservation Easements on Private Lands"
Private land conservation (PLC) mechanisms, such as conservation easements (CEs), create increasingly complex and potentially resilient regimes for securing and…
12/4/17 Colloquium Series - Marco Janssen:…
12/4/17 Colloquium Series - Marco Janssen: "Playing Games to Save Water: Collective Action Games for Groundwater Management in Andhra Pradesh, India"
From David Price on December 4th, 2017
Groundwater is one of the most challenging common-pool resources to govern, resulting in resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of…
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'''
Smoothtest
Copyright (c) 2015 Juju. Inc

Code Licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE file.
'''
import unittest
from smoothtest.webunittest.WebdriverManager import WebdriverManager
from smoothtest.settings.default import SINGLE_TEST_LIFE
import os

class TestXpathBrowser(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        # We need to enter "single test level" of life for each test
        # It will initialize the webdriver if no webdriver is present from upper levels
        self._level_mngr = WebdriverManager().enter_level(level=SINGLE_TEST_LIFE)
        # Get Xpath browser
        self.browser = self._level_mngr.get_xpathbrowser(name=__name__)

    def tearDown(self):
        # Make sure we quit those webdrivers created in this specific level of life
        self._level_mngr.exit_level()

    def test_select(self):
        # Load a local page for the demo
        self.get_local_page('xpath_browser_demo.html')
        # Do 2 type of selection
        self.browser.select_xpath('//div') # Xpath must be present, but no inner element may be returned
        self.browser.select_xsingle('//div') # Xpath must be present and at least 1 element must be present

    def test_extract(self):
        # Load a local page for the demo
        self.get_local_page('xpath_browser_demo.html')
        # Do 2 type of selection
        self.browser.select_xpath('//div') # Xpath must be present, but no inner element may be returned
        self.browser.extract_xsingle('//div') # Xpath must be present and at least 1 element must be present

    def get_local_page(self, file_name):
        # Auxiliary method
        root_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
        url = 'file://' + os.path.join(root_dir, 'html', file_name)
        self.browser.get_url(url)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

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H.R.1589 - Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act110th Congress (2007-2008)
Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1] (Introduced 03/20/2007)
House - Armed Services
House - 04/03/2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (All Actions)
Armed Forces and National Security
Summary: H.R.1589 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)All Information (Except Text)
There is one summary for H.R.1589. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.
Introduced in House (03/20/2007)
Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act - Repeals, as of the later of October 1, 2007, or the date of enactment of this Act, certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military pay or who would be entitled to retired pay except for being under 60 years of age.
Provides for the recoupment of certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive the recoupment requirement in certain cases.
Repeals the optional authority of (and instead requires) the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity to a member's dependent children when there is no eligible surviving spouse.
Directs the Secretary to restore annuity eligibility to a surviving spouse who earlier agreed to transfer such eligibility to a surviving child or children of a member.

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ALTMAN v. HO SPORTS COMPANY, INC.
On September 17, 2010, the parties appeared by telephone to jointly request that the discovery deadline be extended to allow the deposition of third-party witness, Rusty Malinowski. The parties agree that Mr. Malinowski was properly served a deposition subpoena for a deposition to occur on September 15, 2010, but the deposition did not proceed because Mr. Malinowski was unavailable. Moreover, Mr. Malinowski, a professional wakeboarder, will be out of the country filming a movie over the next few weeks. However, Mr. Malinowski is available in early October and the parties agree that the deposition will be concluded no later than October 7, 2010.
Good cause appearing, the Court GRANTS the parties a one-week extension of the nonexpert discovery deadline, until October 6, 2010, to complete the deposition of Rusty Malinowski only.
On the other hand, Defendant requested to be permitted to extend discovery to take the deposition of Skylar Dubrow. Apparently, Dubrow was driving the boat at the time that Plaintiff was injured in the wake-boarding incident. At the time of his initial disclosure, in December 2009, Plaintiff failed to provide Mr. Dubrow's address. Likewise, despite having ongoing contact with Debrow, Plaintiff failed to give contact information for Dubrow at his deposition. Although he agreed to provide this information at the time of his deposition, Plaintiff has failed to do so. Since this time, Defendant has not propounded additional discovery as to Mr. Dubrow's whereabouts and Plaintiff has failed to amend his initial disclosures to report this witness' address. Plaintiff oppose Defendant's current request.
. . . Rule 16(b)'s "good cause" standard primarily concerns the diligence of the party seeking the amendment. The district court may modify the pretrial schedule "if it cannot reasonably be met despite the diligence of the party seeking the extension." Fed.R.Civ.P. 16 advisory committee's notes (1983 amendment) . . . Moreover, carelessness is not compatible with a finding of diligence and offers no reason for a grant of relief. . . . [T]he focus of the inquiry is upon the moving party's reasons for seeking modification. . . . If that party was not diligent, the inquiry should end.
Parties must "diligently attempt to adhere to that schedule throughout the subsequent course of the litigation." Jackson v. Laureate, Inc., 186 F.R.D. 605, 607 (E.D. Cal. 1999); see Marcum v. Zimmer, 163 F.R.D. 250, 254 (S.D. W.Va. 1995). In part, "good cause" requires the parties to demonstrate that "noncompliance with a Rule 16 deadline occurred or will occur, notwithstanding her diligent efforts to comply, because of the development of matters which could not have been reasonably foreseen or anticipated at the time of the Rule 16 Scheduling conference . . ." Jackson, 186 F.R.D. at 608.
Because Defendant has failed to diligently conduct discovery on as to Mr. Dubrow, has failed to make efforts to obtain his contact information by other means and has not served a deposition subpoena on Mr. Dubrow, the Court does not find that good cause exists to amend the scheduling order to allow Defendant to locate, notice and take the deposition of Mr. Dubrow. Thus, Defendant's request is DENIED. However, this request is without prejudice to Defendant's ability to take the deposition of Mr. Dubrow before the discovery cut-off and without prejudice to any later motion by Defendant to exclude the testimony of this witness at trial based upon Plaintiff's failure to make a proper and full disclosure.
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Joint Media Statement issued on behalf of a Civil Society Working Group nominated to draft an independent Code of Governance for Non Profit Organisations (NPOs) in South Africa.
The Working Group was nominated at a Civil Society Consultative Forum held in August 2010, and includes Chris Mkhize (Chief Executive Officer, Uthungulu Community Foundation); Shelagh Gastrow (Executive Director, Inyathelo - The South African Institute of Advancement); Colleen du Toit (Chief Executive Officer, Charities Aid Foundation Southern Africa - CAF-SA); Jimmy Gotyana (President, South African National NGO Coalition - SANGOCO) and as legal adviser, Richard Rosenthal (Richard Rosenthal Attorneys).
A proposed code of governance for non-profit organisations in South Africa has been released for public comment. The draft Independent Code of Good Governance for Non-Profit Organisations in South Africa aims to encourage best governance practice and was initiated by a group of NPOs at a Civil Society Consultative Forum meeting in August 2010. They recognised the need for South African civil society to formulate and adopt its own distinct code rather than be regulated by government or corporate sector codes. The working group mandated to develop a draft code has already consulted hundreds non-profits across the country, and individuals and organisations now have until the end of April to submit their final suggestions and comments. It is intended that the process should culminate in the formal adoption of the proposed new independent code by the end of July.
Inyathelo Executive Director Shelagh Gastrow says the large and diverse non-profit sector in South Africa needs a code that reflects its unique values and principles. "NPOs are a special kind of institution in that they exist primarily to serve the common good and are not motivated or driven by profit-making or self-benefit. Although we recognise the importance of other governance codes, including the so-called "King III" Code devised under the auspices of the Institute of Directors, we have consistently argued that these do not adequately reflect the values and ethos of the NPO sector. In fact, some of the "King III" principles are completely impractical, unaffordable and unattainable for many non-profits, and they don't accommodate the distinct principles and accountability requirements of non-profits which go beyond those of the corporate sector," explains Gastrow.
President of SANGOCO Jimmy Gotyana says the the proposed independent code is intended to be voluntary and will not be imposed. "We believe compliance should be aspirational and supportive rather than prescriptive. Although the code will not have any official or legal status, it is widely supported by the donor community and has the support of the Non-Profit Organisations Directorate in the Department of Social Development. It brings together views and inputs from previous documents, including the SANGOCO Code of Conduct and Ethics. We want the values and principles outlined in the code to be widely understood and supported by NPOs and all sectors of society," says Gotyana.
The 18-page draft document proposes eight particular 'values' which are of special relevance and concern to the NPO sector, as well as six key leadership principles, and five statutory legal and fiscal principles. Colleen du Toit, Chief Executive Officer of CAF-SA, says it represents a unique opportunity for the NPO community to publicly recommit themselves to certain core values and principles, including fidelity to purpose, democracy, transparency and accountability. "The code deals with how to handle things like conflicts of interest and self-dealing as well as the responsibilities of boards to ensure that scarce resources are spent appropriately in the public interest. There is also a section which affirms the independence and need for impartiality of NPOs so that they are not dictated to by any particular constituency or interest group. Leadership is also identified as an essential ingredient of good governance, and the Code includes six operational principles to facilitate the effective management of fundraising, sustainability and risk," explains du Toit.
CEO of the Uthungulu Community Foundation, Chris Mkhize, says the working group will be hosting workshops in Cape Town, Gauteng, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein during March and April in order to get further input and encourage dialogue and debate around the draft independent code. "We really want to ensure the widest possible support so we encourage everyone in the NPO sector to attend the workshops or email or call with suggestions and comments. We are confident that collectively we can create a benchmark for good governance in South Africa to ensure NPOs become more effective and earn well-deserved donor support and public confidence," says Mkhize.


....cause it's the niggaz who front that be pullin stunts"
I'm to the shooting range with a friend to give a couple of guns some testing. One of them will be my new Hi Point CF 380, which I intend to carefully review. Of course, I'll post my review for you when I finish. In the interim I'm going to touch on silver.
As if I need an excuse, her necklace is silver.
I'm holding off on buying, because I no longer feel that 33 is the bottom. Although in earlier posts I set my buying target at just over $34/oz (and silver is currently $33.90), continued trends have led me to believe that it will continue a plunge. I'd been expecting a dip, but was basing that expectation on events such as the end of QE2, and general market sentiment.
The oil release took me by surprise, and I feel it is heavily contributing to the hurting silver market. In a normal market, I would expect silver to rise again with gasoline, but I feel that by the time oil explodes again (Two months?) the worst of QE2 will be rolling through.
My hedge buy around $34.50 also has given me further confidence to probe the depths. I am considering buying another hedge against an upward spike if it breaks past $35/oz again. Today's charts haven't found any really constant level of resistance, and have been fluctuating up and down wildly. I'm not particularly interested in watching second by second, given my longer-term views on the subject.
Paper players might be a bit more interested in examining kitco.


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Montreal in Technology
Entrepreneurs under 25
Inspiring Founders Series
The Coworker Series
Inspiring Founders
Julien Smith and co. launch next endeavour
Steve La Barbera
.	 Published on November 2, 2020. November 2, 2020 0
Practice is Montreal's newest startup endeavor. Led by Julien Smith, co-founder at Breather, the company offers a suite of software tools for coaches, consultants, therapists and other professionals. Ben Nevile, formerly Breather's CTO, has also taken on the same role here under Smith once more.
Smith has teased for months that a new project was coming, and posted news of the new project to his Facebook page on Friday. Few details are available so far, but the platform helps professionals streamline scheduling, invoicing, payments, and organize client notes all in a single tool that also offers interactive messaging. This is all designed to free up busy professionals, allowing them to do more and invoice more all while providing better service and helping a greater number of people.
Early access is now available on the website. Wider access will be made available over the coming months. In a statement on Medium Smith provided more detail on the project. "Our current customers are solopreneurs of all stripes — from performance coaches for Olympic athletes to first timers who are just getting their initial clientele during this pandemic. But whoever you are, and whatever you have to teach, we welcome you and we want to talk to you. We believe you have something to contribute, and we want to help you get up and running, quickly."
For the time being the service is available on iOS and web only.
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AdBrite Shutters Exchange, Sale Talks Continue For Marketplace And IP Assets
by David Kaplan // Monday, January 28th, 2013 – 6:36 pm
AdBrite has shut down its exchange, and says it is close to selling off its other assets: namely, its B2B Marketplace directory and the intellectual property and engineering operations that power the core exchange product. In essence, this means that adBrite as it has been known -- since evolving from an ad network -- will soon be no more. But, for the time being at least, adBrite CEO Hardeep Bindra tells AdExchanger that the company is still operating with a skeletal staff, though the brand remains alive nevertheless.
"The sale could happen in a matter of days, with the worst case scenario being three- to four weeks," Bindra said, after AdExchanger contacted him in response to a report that the company was shutting down after sales talks fell through by AllThingsD's Peter Kafka.
Although in a letter to clients (the full document is at the bottom of this post), Bindra says that bankers pulled the plug on adBrite after failing to sell the company as a whole, it is in talks with "several" private equity firms and "established" ad tech firms about purchasing the technology and related assets piecemeal. If a PE firm takes over, Bindra said that the adBrite name could well survive. But if an ad tech firm makes the purchase and folds the exchange technology into an existing system, the adBrite logo will probably be retired.
AdBrite is vague about why it had to shutter now. It may have suffered from a drought of quality inventory on its platform, as more mature exchange offerings hoovered up ad space. Or it may have been hurt by its past association with adult content, though Bindra noted that the Spanish adult ad network Exoclick was always independent and has no connection to adBrite these days.
The shuttering of adBrite's exchange comes as some other ad tech companies have encountered problems. As Business Insider's Alyson Shontell reported, e-commerce platform Group Commerce has laid off 28% of its 109-person staff and will focus on a more automated solution going forward. Earlier this month, we reported that Spruce Media made significant staff cuts in account management as it sought to reposition itself to concentrate on its social enterprise ad software business.
For adBrite, this move comes after several months of significant upheaval between its board and the senior management.
Though it had shifted gears from its ad network beginnings, the company was never recognized for making the full leap. So, last May, adBrite's board decided it was time for a change and brought in Bindra, a former Yahoo/Right Media executive, to complete the evolution.
He was joined by former Yahoo colleague and Oracle technologist Joaquin Delgado. Over the summer, the company added John Underwood to run business development. (We spoke with the team last month about its mobile and video expansion plans.)
The decision to put the company up for sale was made a little less than a month ago, Bindra told AdExchanger today.
"We decided, as we went down the path to sell the business as a whole, that it made the most sense to sell the IP and the core engineering technology," Bindra said. "Following an evaluation of the business with our lenders and investors, we all agreed that this space is crowded enough that we can find a strategic buyer for the IP business. It didn't make sense to operate a marketplace on our own. We agreed to put it in the hands of a network or entity that can take advantage of the scale we've been able to achieve, particularly our ability to handle over 1 billion impressions a day across PC and mobile. We fully expect to see that business that would be thriving in a different setup, whether it's under the umbrella of a PE firm or an ad tech company."
Of the 26 total adBrite staffers who were there before the sale period, Bindra said that there are about 11 employees under the IP and engineering departments. "Most of those people will be transitioning elsewhere," he said. "Apart from that, it's more uncertain."
AdExchanger obtained a letter that Bindra confirmed he sent to some clients:
ADBRITE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION]
I wish I was writing to share better news. Our M&A effort fell through week before last and AdBrite's secured lenders [banks] have made the decision to cease operations effective Feb 1, 2013. Between now and then, we are in the process of selling AdBrite's core assets – its marketplace and Intellectual Property to interested parties. While we are not broadcasting the details, given that we have maintained an open and collaborative partnership, I wanted to reach out directly to you with the news.
Needless to say this is an unexpected and abrupt outcome impacting us all adversely. While this is a very trying time for my team and I, I did want to express my thanks for being invaluable clients and above all a good sounding board for us when we've come with ideas or sought direction.
There is a transition team that has been put in place that will help with the wind down effort and the asset sale – and John Underwood [copied above] and I can be reached throughout this process. If you would like to have a quick call on this topic, we will work with your schedule to set it up.
I have one parting request. Over the course of the last few months, we've built a team I am personally very proud of. All of us have been affected by the Bank's decisions here and I would request that if there are open positions within your organization where some of them could find a new home in – I would much appreciate that insight.
I am available to vouch for any one of our employees and so please feel free to reach out to me for thoughts if you see one of their resume's come across your desk. It has been a pleasure working with you all over the last few months and I hope our paths cross again in the near future. Will look forward to hearing from you on setting up time to chat.
Solemnly,
HB
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Shmueli, G., R. P. Russo, and W. Jank, "The BARISTA: A Model for Bid Arrivals in Online Auctions", Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 1, issue 2, pp. 412-441, 2007. BARISTA datasets.xls (1.23 MB)
Yahav, I., and G. Shmueli, An Elegant Method for Generating Multivariate Poisson Data, 10/2007.
Yahav, I., and G. Shmueli, "Evaluating Directionally-Sensitive Multivariate Control Charts with an Application to Biosurveillance", Working Paper RHS 06-059: Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2007.
Hyde, V., W. Jank, and G. Shmueli, "A Family of Growth Models for Representing the Price Evolution in Online Auctions", 9th Intl Conference on Electronic Commerce, Minneapolis, MA, 2007.
Shmueli, G., W. Jank, and R. Bapna, "Measuring Consumer Surplus on eBay: An Empirical Study", Working Paper RHS-06-053: Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2007.
Jank, W., and G. Shmueli, "Modeling Concurrency of Events in Online Auctions via Spatio-Temporal Semiparametric Models", Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), vol. 60, issue 1, pp. 1-27, 2007.
Shmueli, G., and O. Koppius, "Predictive vs. Explanatory Modeling in IS Research", Conference on Information Systems & Technology (Best Paper Award), Seattle, WA, 03/11/2007.
Buono, P., C. Plaisant, A. Simeone, A. Aris, B. Shneiderman, G. Shmueli, and W. Jank, "Similarity-Based Forecasting with Simultaneous Previews: A River Plot Interface for Time Series Forecasting", 11th Intl Conference on Information Visualization (InfoViz), Zurich, Switzerland, 2007.
Shmueli, G., T. Lotze, and I. Yahav, "Simulating Multivariate Syndromic Time Series and Outbreak Signatures", Working Paper RHS-06-054: Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2007.
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Fienberg, S. E., and G. Shmueli, "Comment on "A Bayesian Dynamic Model for Influenza Surveillance" by Sebastiani, Mandl, Szolovits, Kohane, and Ramoni", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 25, issue 11, pp. 1821-1822, 2006.
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Shmueli, G., and S. E. Fienberg, "Current and Potential Statistical Methods for Monitoring Multiple Data Streams for Bio-Surveillance", Statistical Methods in Counter-Terrorism: Game Theory, Modeling, Syndromic Surveillance, and Biometric Authentication, New York, Springer, 2006.
Murphy, S., H. S. Burkom, and G. Shmueli, "Data Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring", Syndromic Surveillance Conference (in Advances in Disease Surveillance, 1:53), 2006.
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Shmueli, G., N. R. Patel, and P. C. Bruce, Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office Excel with XLMiner, 1st edition: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Jank, W., G. Shmueli, and S. Wang, "Dynamic, Real-time Forecasting of Online Auctions via Functional Models", Proceedings of 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining , 2006.
Shmueli, G., W. Jank, A. Aris, C. Plaisant, and B. Shneiderman, "Exploring Auction Databases through Interactive Visualization", Decision Support Systems, vol. 42, issue 3, pp. 1521-1538, 2006. DSS AuctionExplorer PrintVersion.pdf (1.68 MB)
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Hyde, V., W. Jank, and G. Shmueli, "Investigating Concurrency in Online Auctions Through Visualization", The American Statistician, vol. 60, issue 3, pp. 241-250, 2006.
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As a one-stop email marketing service, ActiveCampaign, which starts at $9 monthly has a lot to use, including unrestricted e-mails with all of its strategies, third-party integrations, and a range of auto-responders. This results in a rather hectic interface, which can be hard to take in initially glimpse.
ActiveCampaign has a big library of online support resources and onboarding services, and you can receive aid by means of live chat, but not by phone. It's similar to Project Display in many methods, though each bests the other one in some areas. For the very best e-mail marketing experience want to our Editors' Choice choices in this category: Campaigner and MailChimp ($ 10.
Like a number of other email marketing programs, ActiveCampaign also extends its functions into marketing automation as you'll see listed below. The company organizes its strategies depending upon the variety of subscribers you're seeking to reach. See Amunt Made From Email In Active Campaign. Plans begin at $9 monthly for up to 500 contacts and limitless emails. At each subscriber level, you can upgrade to a Plus strategy that adds several features consisting of client relationship management (CRM), a custom-made domain, and custom-made branding.
Plans go all the way up to 100,000 contacts; if you need more, you can contact ActiveCampaign for a custom-made strategy. In in between, you can go with 2,500 contacts for $29 monthly, 5,000 contacts for $45 monthly and so on. All plans include endless e-mails, unlike Campaign Display, which offers both basic strategies with limited emails, and more expensive unlimited plans.
ActiveCampaign offers a 14-day free trial that does not need a charge card. To get started, all you require is your business name and email address. Next, you established a password and after that select the service you're looking forin addition to email marketing, it provides marketing automation, CRM, and sales automation.
The dashboard is overwhelming initially glimpse. It's tough to know where to look initially. On the ideal rail is a social activity feed, consisting of social shares, unsubscribes, click rates, and more. To the left of that is a summary of your campaign activity. Part of the confusion is that it's filled with sample information that disappears when you mouse over it.
It's also confusing since ActiveCampaign also uses CRM and other functions that you might not prepare to utilize, but show up on the control panel anyway if you're using the totally free trial (See Amunt Made From Email In Active Campaign). Along the top of the screen are your primary alternatives: contacts, campaigns, lists, and other non-email marketing related functions.
From here you can import and export CSV files or import from a third-party service, such as Asana ($ 0. 00 at Asana), Base CRM , Zoho CRM ( Visit Website at Zoho CRM), and a lot more. This is another location where it bests Project Monitor, which has no 3rd party integration (See Amunt Made From Email In Active Campaign).
Before you add any contacts, though, you need to develop a list, just like with Project Monitor. When you create a list, you need to give it a name, supply your company's mailing address for the footer, business URL, and a note letting subscribers know why they're getting the e-mail (this may minimize spam reports from absent-minded users.) Next, you can import contacts to that list.
You can likewise opt not to import a particular field. I tried out adding email, name, and birthday. It recognized e-mail, however not the other 2, but I was able to quickly create custom-made fields. You can also tag contacts for easy browsing. Click on the campaigns tab to develop a newsletter.
You'll probably send out basic emails the most, but you can also select automated (based upon logic you develop), autoresponder (based on an action by the subscriber), A/B test, RSS-triggered, or date-based (See Amunt Made From Email In Active Campaign). Then select the list you desire to send out to; you can also sector that list using contact details, area, pages they checked out on your website, and more.
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You can also make a component conditional based upon data from your contacts, such as if they have actually made a recent purchase. You can likewise drag components around the page to alter their position, which didn't constantly work in my tests. Once you upload an image to a newsletter, it is saved in your library for reuse; you can even produce folders for much better organization.
Then you can send test, or schedule delivery (See Amunt Made From Email In Active Campaign). At the bottom of this screen, you can see your spam score. In my very first newsletter, I was alerted about utilizing a totally free e-mail service provider. Custom emails are typically better for trust. You can likewise preview by email customer and on desktop.
ActiveCampaign supports multi-user editing, which works similarly to Microsoft Word's ($ 128. 00 at Amazon) track changes feature. Autoresponders can be triggered by subscribes, unsubscribes, email opens or link clicks, and events, such as birthdays and anniversaries. You need to first established an email in order to establish an auto-responder, which is a bit irritating because you don't find out up until you're currently overcoming the process.
As I pointed out previously, you can pick what to track and include Google Analytics integration. On the reports tab, you can see all the campaigns you have actually sent out, in addition to opens and clicks. Clicking on a campaign brings you deeper; you can see which subscribers have opened your e-mail, link clicks, a map revealing where your customers are, which email clients they utilize, and unsubscribes.
Note that, like all e-mail marketing services, you will just be able to see views if your e-mail shows images or if a recipient clicks a link. See Amunt Made From Email In Active Campaign. There are several methods to get help in ActiveCampaign. On every screen, you'll see a button with a question mark on it with links to the knowledgebase, training resources, and live chat with support.
The knowledgebase consists of videos and articles on ActiveCampaign functions. Under training, you can set up a 30-minute call or an in-person meeting in Chicago to get a detailed walkthrough of the service ($ 65 or totally free with Plus or Enterprise account). You can also sign up for a webinar, which are typically arranged when a week.
ActiveCampaign stands amongst the best marketing automation tools in the industry. Although it's not as total as our Editors' Choice tools Pardot ( Go To Website at Salesforce. com) and HubSpot ( 50. 00 Per Month at HubSpot), ActiveCampaign, is more than enough to help most businesses accomplish fundamental and mildly complex objectives.
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Could Twitter be spooked by the news that Snapchat has overtaken it in terms of daily usage?
Messaging app Snapchat has reportedly surpassed Twitter in daily usage figures for the first time.
Twitter, which seems to lurch from one crisis to another these days, will hardly be chirpy about the latest development.
According to Bloomberg, Snapchat has 150m users every day, according to sources close to the company.
This is greater than Twitter, which has less than 140m daily users.
This suggests that Snapchat's user base has grown 35pc in three months, while Twitter said in its most recent earnings report that its user base has grown just 3pc.
The latest indication may be spooking Twitter but Snapchat still has some way to go to catch up with Facebook, which has more than 1bn daily users.
Snapchat, which was founded only four years ago, last week raised $1.8bn in a gigantic funding round, valuing the company at $18bn, even though it currently brings in just $60m in revenues from advertising.
A report at the time from TechCrunch signalled that Snapchat's user figures had risen steadily from 50m in March 2014 to 110m over Christmas.
The company was founded in Stanford University by Evan Spiegel, Bobbie Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students.
Snapchat began under the name Picaboo, inspired by the concept of messages that would disappear, and hence the ghost logo for the company.
A bitter dispute over Brown's role in co-founding the company was settled, crediting Brown with a role in conceiving the idea.
Snapchat's whole concept is in the name, with it allowing people to send annotated selfies and short videos that disappear after a short time, turning communication into a kind of game where users can achieve a"Snapstreak". Last year, Snapchat branched into the world of news and Live Stories.


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23–50% Of Current Electric Drivers Plan To Get A Tesla Model 3 Next (CleanTechnica Report)
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Originally published on CleanTechnica.
Below is another segment of CleanTechnica's new, 93-page electric car & driver report. In case you missed previous intros, for the report, we surveyed over 2,000 electric car drivers living in 28 countries (49 of 50 US states, 26 European countries, and 9 Canadian provinces). We wanted to find out what early electric car adopters require and desire from their next electric cars and from EV charging networks, as well as what EV life is like so far for them/you.
This report segments responses by three distinct electric vehicle groups (Tesla drivers, pure-electric but non-Tesla drivers, and drivers of plug-in hybrids) as well as by continent (North America versus Europe). This segmentation unveils clear differences on many topics — which is sensible given the vast variation in user experience for each type of EV and for the two regions, but which we've never seen uncovered before.
You can get the full 93-page report — Electric Car Drivers: Desires, Demands, & Who They Are — for $500, or you can check out the first 60 pages for free here [pdf]. (Also, if you contributed to the report and want a free copy, drop us a note and we'll send the entire report your way.) Core report partners included EV-Box, T Shuttle, and Important Media's central team. Other report partners included The Beam, EV Obsession, and the Low Voltage Vehicle Electrification summit.
Expected Next EV Model (… As You'd Expect)
With over 100,000 reservations logged in under 24 hours — before the car was even unveiled — it doesn't take six polls to uncover which electric car tops the list of "expected next EV model." Nonetheless, the Tesla Model 3 didn't single-handedly account for the majority of answers for that question, and seeing the precise "future car" split according to 6 six very different EV-driving groups is fascinating.
As with our initial EV owner report, it's striking how loyal many consumers are to the brands and models they are currently driving. Of course, given that they chose those brands and models in the first place, they must have had several reasons (or at least one or two reasons) for doing so. Nonetheless, it's interesting how many Volt drivers plan to get a Bolt, how many LEAF drivers plan to stick with a LEAF, and how many Tesla drivers don't plan to leave the brand.
With regard to that last point, 91.6% of European Tesla drivers and 90.4% of North American Tesla drivers plan to get another Tesla next — a Model 3, Model S, Model X, or Model Y. That doesn't even count the people who plan to get another Tesla but don't know which one, or who don't plan to get another car at all (don't expect to outlive their Tesla).
Similarly — but not so dramatically — 20.5% of North American plug-in hybrid drivers (which are primarily Volt drivers) chose the Chevy Volt, and another 18.9% of them chose the Chevy Bolt. In Europe, where the Volt isn't so widespread, those numbers dropped to 1.6% and 4.8%, respectively.
The following chart provides an overview of the most popular models for respondents' expected next EV, broken down by the 6 distinct EV driver groups. After that are more detailed charts for each of those 6 groups.
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Australian actor Eric Bana has been cast as Dirty John in the on-screen adaptation of the popular podcast.
American T.V network Bravo, has ordered a two-season anthology, with season one based on Dirty John, which was released last October and downloaded 10 million times in just six weeks. Netflix has picked up the rights to screen the show in Australia.
Fans of the true crime genre will already know that in 2014, Debra Newell (Connie Britton) met John Meehan (Bana) on an over-50s dating website what follows is a modern story of love gone bad.
L.A Times investigator and podcast host Jeffrey Goffard explains it as, "a cautionary tale about the ways that a sociopath, like a predator, can find the victim and tell these victims exactly what they want to hear."
In the case of bad guy John Meehan, "this is a craft that he's been practicing for decades, pretty much his entire adult life. He'd been honing this particular skill. He was a professional," Goffard warns.
The second season of Bravo's anthology will focus on a different case. Connie Britton is best known for season one of American Horror Story and American Crime Story. Britton has also starred in Nashville and Friday Night Lights.
Dirty John drops this Thursday, February 14th on Netflix.
The man of your dreams. And your nightmares. @DirtyJohnBravo premieres TOMORROW at 10/9c.


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Digital Ally Inc. (DGLY) is expecting -16.55% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?
Digital Ally Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY) on January 24, 2023, started off the session at the price of $0.30, soaring 13.72% from the previous trading day. During the day, the shares moved up to $0.3425 and dropped to $0.29 before settling in for the closing price of $0.29. Within the past 52 weeks, DGLY's price has moved between $0.21 and $1.22.
Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.30% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 517.30%. With a float of $50.29 million, this company's outstanding shares have now reached $50.37 million.
The firm has a total of 146 workers. Let's measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is +26.45, operating margin of -68.93, and the pretax margin is +119.23.
Digital Ally Inc. (DGLY) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Security & Protection Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Digital Ally Inc. is 7.52%, while institutional ownership is 13.90%.
Digital Ally Inc. (DGLY) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 6/29/2022, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported -$0.02 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at -$0.12) by $0.1. This company achieved a net margin of +118.97 while generating a return on equity of 72.61. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.08 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 517.30% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company's EPS will surge by 20.00% during the next five years compared to 17.20% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Digital Ally Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY) Trading Performance Indicators
Digital Ally Inc. (DGLY) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.70 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company's price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.46.
For the trailing twelve months, Company's Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.17, a number that is poised to hit -0.12 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach -0.41 in one year's time.
Technical Analysis of Digital Ally Inc. (DGLY)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Digital Ally Inc., DGLY], we can find that recorded value of 0.42 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.34 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock's Stochastic %D was 80.38%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.03.
During the past 100 days, Digital Ally Inc.'s (DGLY) raw stochastic average was set at 29.17%, which indicates a significant decrease from 90.38% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 85.24% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 75.98% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock's 50-day Moving Average is $0.2943, while its 200-day Moving Average is $0.6324. Now, the first resistance to watch is $0.3515. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $0.3733. The third major resistance level sits at $0.4040. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $0.2990, it is likely to go to the next support level at $0.2683. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $0.2465.
Digital Ally Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 18.19 million based on 53,903K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 21,410 K and income totals 25,470 K. The company made 8,480 K in profit during its latest quarter, and -1,900 K in sales during its previous quarter.
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Seralini Attacker Found Guilty of Forgery over Monsanto Study Review.
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Marc Fellous, former President of the Biomolecular Engineering Commission (CGB), has been found guilty of forgery and use of forgery to defame Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini.
On 22 September a judge in the Criminal Court of Paris found Fellous guilty of forgery and the use of forgery in order to defame Prof Gilles-Eric mobile gambling Séralini and CRIIGEN, a research association which focuses on the risks of genetic engineering and pesticides and the development of alternatives.
Marc Fellous is a GMO proponent who was formerly President of the Biomolecular Engineering Commission (CGB), which assessed the safety of GMOs in France for the ministries of agriculture and environment from 1998 to 2007. In 2016 he became president of the French Association for Plant Biotechnology, a lobby group that was set up to promote GM crops.
Last November Fellous lost a libel case to Séralini. The court ruled that Fellous had defamed Séralini.
During that court case, Fellous used or copied the signature of a scientist without his agreement ("forgery" and "use of forgery") to argue that Séralini and his co-researchers were wrong in their reassessment of Monsanto studies. The Séralini team's re-assessment reported finding signs of toxicity in the raw data from Monsanto's own rat feeding studies with GM maize.
The new court ruling means that Fellous will be sentenced in a few months' time – probably in early 2017 – at a public correctional hearing. The use of forgery in a court case is a serious offence and may result in a jail sentence.
The ruling marks a second court victory this year for Prof Séralini, his research team, and CRIIGEN. On September 7 they won a libel suit in the Appeals Court against Marianne magazine and its journalist Jean-Claude Jaillette, who repeated the defamatory words of the American pro-tobacco and -GMO lobbyist Henry I. Miller.
http://www.gmoseralini.org/seralini-attacker-found-guilty-of-forgery-over-monsanto-study-review/


Cycling on the trail of the Giro d'Italia through the Dolomite passes, cycling from one mountain pasture to another at the bottom of a glacier, cycling with the family through flowering orchards. Or, for the bravest, cross the Alps by bike on a multi-day tour. South Tyrol offers all the ingredients for a pleasant and breathtaking cycling experience: 300 days of sunshine a year, mild temperatures, landscapes ranging from Alpine to Mediterranean, an extensive network of cycle paths, exciting mountain bike trails and numerous tours for all levels of difficulty.
In the valleys of South Tyrol there are numerous bike paths, particularly suitable for cycling enthusiasts, beginners and families. The most famous bike paths are the Val Venosta cycling track (part of the Via Claudia Augusta), which goes from Passo Resia/Reschenpass to Merano/Meran or even to Lake Garda and Verona. The Val Pusteria cycling track, which leads from Bressanone/Brixen to Dobbiaco/Toblach and then to Lienz is also very popular among bike lovers. Along the way, many restaurants, pubs and traditional inns invite you to a pleasant break.
Fit mountain bikers can prove their skills by taking part in the Dolomiti Superbike or the famous Sella Ronda Hero marathon and cycling along the various trails and breathtaking routes. If you prefer to ride a little longer, you can either ride the 120 km long Stoneman-Trail or try your hand at an exciting bike ride across the Alps. Freeriders and downhill skiers can enjoy countless trails and 8 km of downhill runs on the Plan de Corones/Kronplatz in Val Pusteria/Pustertal.
South Tyrol is a region that has a lot to offer for cyclists. A special event is the Sella Ronda Bike Day with its 4 passes and the world-famous Maratona dles Dolomites, which stretches along 6 Dolomite passes.
If you need a bike, you can rent one at the 20 bike rental stations of Südtirol Rad/Bici Alto Adige that are located along the bike paths. Afterwards, you can return your bike to any station of Südtirol Rad/Bici Alto Adige.
South Tyrol also offers a "bikemobil Card" for one, two or seven days, with which you can use all public transport in the region.
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René Léonard (23 June 1889 - 15 August 1965) was a French racing driver who, along with André Lagache, won the inaugural running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in .

Career
Léonard and Lagache were both engineers for the Chenard et Walcker automobile company, and were chosen to drive one of the three entries in the endurance event.  Their "Sport" model finished by a four lap margin over another Chenard et Walcker. They drove together the next two years, but failed to finish either time.

Driving for Chenard et Walcker, Léonard won the  in 1924. He drove with Lagache to win the second edition of the Spa 24 Hours in 1925, and the pair also finished third in 1926. Léonard won the 1926 Gran Premio de Turismo, a 12-hour race for touring cars held at Circuito Lasarte in Guipúzcoa, Spain.

Following the 1926 season, Chenard et Walcker withdrew from competition. However, in 1932, he was seen driving one of their cars in the Lisieux hillclimb and a one-kilometre race in Strasbourg. The same year, he moved to Saint-Gratien to be near to the company's factory. For the 1937 24 Hours of Le Mans, he managed a private team of Chenard-Walckers owned by  and fielded by Yves Giraud-Cabantous.

Racing record

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

External links
René Léonard at racingsportscars.com.

References

1889 births
1965 deaths
French racing drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans winning drivers

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The band The Sunshine Underground was founded in 2000. Before coming to fame, the band got it's start in Telford. Generally, music journalists would define The Sunshine Underground's style within the genre/s of indie rock, and other rock music.
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(2012 Vintage) Along with Fiano di Avellino, Greco di Tufo is arguably the region's most prestigious white wine. Greco vines are believed to have been introduced to Campania by the Greeks (hence its name). The name Tufo instead refers to one of the villages from which the wine comes, but also the type of tufa-rich volcanic and clay soils which give Greco di Tufo its typical minerality. The Nativ Greco di Tufo has the characteristic pale color with gold reflections and opens with a rich and powerfully aromatic nose of apricot, peach and citrus. On the palate it is full bodied, soft and well balanced with excellent acidity and minerality. It is ideal as an aperitif with hors d'oeuvres, shellfish, lobster, all types of seafood, chicken dishes and cold meat.


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Q: Any library to read mdict *.MDX files in android? I have a .mdx file that infact is a dictionary database (some android apps like bluedict can read its data).
I have used Daemon.tools but it could not open it.
I was looking for any library or sources which helps me to read MDX dictionary files in Java, I have found some resources already such as KnIfER/mdict-java but it does not work in Android Studio (it has errors on accumulation_blockId_tree.xxing(new myCpr(position,1)).getKey().value line and it is connot resolve symbol 'value'). Does any one knows a good source about these files and possible libraries which could be used for it?.

A: Well, actually this is my java project.
the error mentioned is just a problem of jdk version. you can add <> parentheses after myCpr and convert return of xxing to type myCpr<Integer,Integer>  .
But now, I have very much reduced usage of rbtree and use more binary list searching.have a look there.

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I was recently talking with my emotional coach about my Healthy Parenting Resources business. This conversation began with the expression of my frustrations around another business that I started, but have been feeling stagnant in. When talking about the work I do with children and families, he pointed out the passion and excitement he saw in me. I think he actually said that I "light up!" This was not the case for my other business, and he challenged my thinking about both. During the process of his helping me think about both businesses differently, he suggested that I capture on paper the benefits that families receive for themselves and for their children from the coaching that I provide. It never occurred to me to do this, but when he suggested it, I decided to give it a go! So here I am, capturing the benefits on virtual paper, hoping to clearly share with others what I see as the life-long benefits of learning and practicing Respectful Parenting.
The idea of failing isn't something that sits well with me. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and moving outside my comfort zone to embark on something new or challenging can make me feel things that I would rather not feel. But I'm learning that one of the best ways to grow and improve in anything, is to do something I've never done before.
I frequently talk with parents I work with about the power of allowing and truly accepting a child's emotions. Something "magical" often happens when children's emotions are welcomed and validated. No matter how many times I see this process unfold between children and adults, I am never not inspired and in awe of it!
I recently had a "magical" experience with my 4-year-old niece, Lucy, that I felt inspired to share. She and her 9-year-old sister, Seara, asked me to be the judge for their fashion show contest. They each dressed up three Barbies in the most fashionable outfits they could find and I had to decide who won each round. I initially felt hesitant about the fact that I had to chose one niece to be the winner, because I didn't want the other one to feel bad. Then I remembered that I'm capable of handling any reactions and feelings they show AND that I should practice what I preach to parents and be willing to accept whatever emotions they might feel.
Sandra Hallman has a bachelor's and master's degree in child development and has been working with young children and their caregivers since 2000. She has provided families with service coordination in Early Intervention, as well as developmental and behavioral therapy and coaching in a variety of settings, including home, school/day care, community environments, and hospitals. Learn more about Sandra on the About page.


North Bristol Community Project (NBCP) provides a range of education, leisure and volunteer opportunities. We aim to support individuals from dissadvantaged groups such as refugees, asylum seekers, the unemployed, people with mental health issues, those recovering from substance misuse, the homeless, minority ethnic groups, women who have experienced domestic violence, older people experiencing social isolation, carers, ex-offenders, young people leaving Care and ex-veterans.
North Bristol Community Project delivers most of it's activities on site but we also work in collaboration with many partner organisations to deliver activities in informal settings in and around Bristol.
NBCP also hosts European programmes such as Erasmus and the Leonard Programme, which offer work placements for university level students.


I'm sat in the immigration office in Chennai and writing this post, waiting for the office boy to deliver some paper work to me.
It's a shame to see the wheels of Indian bureaucracy are still rusted together.
An Indian friend once told me that 80% of taxes in India go on paying for govt staff and govt pensions. If you visit any Indian govt office, you can well believe it.
The confusion starts from the moment you enter the grounds of the offices, which doubles as the passport office and loads of smaller ministry offices. The only way to find out where to go is to ask someone. Signs and maps would be expecting too much.
You then find the right office, down a small side street and a notice says welcome to hell. Or bureau of immigration, it depends which way you look at it.
There is a man sitting behind the most ridiculously small desk and he silently waves you to a guy standing nearby. This new guy waves you to a line of seats. You look around and guy #3 points to a seat you should take.
Every few minutes another soul enters the gates of hell and you all shuffle along, under the direction of guy #3.
It turns out that guy #3's job also involves preventing any Indians coming in to the office.
So, you finally get back to guy #1 behind the desk and he takes a note of your passport number and the reason why you dare interrupt them in their important jobs. No doubt it's the job of someone else to enter this data on a typewriter and then for a superior to enter it in a computer.
Guy #1 then allows you in to the office (guy #4, who's guarding the entrance moves aside) and tells you to go to office one. You get directed by guy #5 to take a seat and the whole shuffling process starts again, under the direction of guy #6.
Standing outside office one is guy #7. When a door bell rings, it's his job to wave the next foreigner in line in to the office. You don't see the previous foreigner come out of the office.
So now you are dealing with your 2nd guy behind a desk, and guy #8 overall. He goes through your paperwork, desperate to find a mistake or missing piece of paper. He went through mine 3 times before, to his absolute delight, he found one of my request letters was addressed to 'whom it may concern' instead of the 'frro officer'.
Once they find a mistake, that's it. The whole process comes to a stop. You are ordered to bring back the proper paperwork and he won't look at anything else or give you any more information until it's corrected.
So, you bring back the corrected paperwork and with great reluctance guy #8 concedes that your paperwork is adequate for the next stage and you are directed to your third desk.
Enter guy #9 to direct you to your seats and guy #10 to show you to the desk (which is almost 4ft from where you are sitting). The seat shuffling continues.
This time a lady goes through your paper work and agrees, like her colleague, that it is barely adequate. She then asks you for Rs 20,000 for the registration fee, which is fine because you took 40k, just to be safe.
She watches you like a hawk as you count out 20 1k bills. Then with absolute glee in her eyes, she tells you that they no longer accept cash. Yes, I was prepared for this too and brought out my cheque book. No, she says, we only accept bankers drafts now.
So I am now sat here writing this. I phoned my company and told them the details. It absolutely must get here by 12.30 I said, otherwise i have to wait until tomorrow. No problem, it will be there, they promised.
It's now 12.45 and I am still waiting. Don't know what will happen, but i'm hoping i can still make the payment.
The lady scrutinizes the bank draft hoping for some problems. I am now the only person left in the office.
I'm given a token and told to wait for my number to come up. Guy #12 shows me to a new room, guy #13 to show me where to sit. The room is empty.
Eventually the counter staff (girl #2) notices I'm waiting. A difficult task in an empty room, to be sure. Eye contact is made, I can go over.
But wait, she raises a hand to tell me to stop. A button has to be pressed first.
"Counter number two please" says the recorded voice. And her counter light flashes.
There is not a flicker of embarrassment on her face.
I may now go over.
Once more, the paper work is checked, double checked, triple checked and then again, just because.
"Behold" I replied and pulled out 3 more copies of all the paper work, flourishing them in the air.
It was evident that I had robbed her of a simply joy as she ruffles through the paper work again. Oh dear. The original registration permit is not here. It's not mentioned in the list of required paperwork given to me on the first visit, but no matter. How dare I try and beat the system by turning up with all the correct paperwork and correct number of copies.
Another call to the office. Send more documents! Within 10 minutes it's in my hand, but hell, err Bureau of Immigration has a final sting in the tail. The counter lady has gone for lunch. Please wait for an hour.


Imagine hearing the words 'you have cancer'.
They're three small words but they can have a huge impact—on the person diagnosed, as well as their family and friends.
Since 2006, Smiddy riders, triathletes, swimmers and supporters, just like you, have raised more than $9 million for cancer research at Mater. These funds have already helped enable some of the breakthrough research discoveries that have the potential to change, and save people's lives.
additional support and care services for people living with cancer.
But much like any Smiddy event, it's a long, hard road to fight cancer … and we still need your help.
This year, with your support, we want to raise $1 million for Mater Research—our world-class institute that's investing in some very promising work in the cancer space.
The money you raise will go towards funding a range of potentially life-changing projects for those suffering from melanoma, prostate, ovarian and breast cancer. And it will contribute to the impact of global research by funding key collaborations with researchers in Queensland and around the world.
When 26-year–old Adam Smiddy passed away from an aggressive melanoma in 2006 his mates made a pledge. They placed a stake in the ground and committed to the long, hard road to fight cancer.
The Smiling for Smiddy legacy continues because of you.
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History of Weld » County 150 » Education in Weld County » Windsor Schools: RE-4
This information was provided by Rachel Kline of the Windsor-Severance Historical Society
Windsor's school district, Weld Re-4, was established in Weld County in 1870. Its first school, however, had been built four years prior, one and one-half miles west and one-quarter mile south of the original Windsor Town Hall (just south of Safeway). Built by neighboring families, the schoolhouse provided education for approximately 20 children in the western Weld County and eastern Larimer County area, until the Windsor and Timnath school districts were organized.
After creating District 4, Windsor residents established Whitney School by Whitney Ditch, south of town. Among the first school teachers were Miss Amelia Plowhead, Miss Brown, Miss Emma Hubbell, and Miss Mate Smith. After Windsor became well established, residents moved the schoolhouse to the west in 1883. R.S. Dickey took charge of the school as the sole teacher. Later the building was divided into two rooms in order to employ another teacher. In 1886, the old frame structure was replaced by a two-story, four-room brick building and moved to Walnut Street. Again, to provide more space, residents constructed another building on the corner of third and Walnut in 1904, known as Park School. Population growth of the general community also called for the creation of more district schools throughout the area including New Liberty, Riverside, Bracewell, Whitehall, Severance, and Oklahoma.
Around this time, most female teachers were required to live in a "teacherage" or with a family. Windsor had at least two teacherages near New Liberty and Whitehall that set specific rules for their teachers to live by. In 1915, a few of these rules included: 1) You will not marry during the term of your contract, 2) You will not keep company with men, 3) You may not loiter in downtown ice cream stores, 4) You may not dress in bright colors, 5) You may under no circumstances dye your hair, and 6) You must wear at least two petticoats. Teachers were also expected to
keep the school neat and clean by sweeping the floor at least once a day, scrubbing the floor at least once a week, cleaning the blackboards at least once
a day, and starting the fire at 7 a.m. so the room would be warm by 8 a.m.
With the advent of the of the Sugar Beet Factory in 1903 and the new residents that the industry brought, the Windsor School District found its schools wholly inadequate for the incoming number of children. By 1907, the school census listed 495 persons of school age in the district with 207 of them being children of German-Russian parentage. To accommodate the increasing population, Windsor residents voted to construct an additional wing on Park School in 1913. But not even the new additions provided enough space, and so Windsor residents contemplated construction of a new high school building. In 1918, the Windsor High School was constructed with George E. Tozer as its first principal. Not long after the construction of the new high school, the Windsor School District consolidated and sold the Whitehall and New Liberty schools and teacherages as residences. The school board then voted on the creation of a junior high school which was constructed in 1921.
Windsor gained national notoriety in 1924 when its high school basketball team won the US Basketball National Championship held in Chicago. The ball-handling wizardry of the Windsor players impressed the Chicago media so much so that the media dubbed the team "wizards" on the court. The name stuck, and upon the team's return home, the Wizards replaced the Windsor Bulldog mascot. During the championship, Frazier's Drug Store served up the daily basketball scores along with its fountain sodas. Updated scores were provided by the telegraph station manager, who ran scores across the tracks to the store where they were lettered on a big mirror behind the counter for Windsor residents. Large celebrations were held in Windsor and Greeley to honor the team.
The mid-century ushered in another population growth spurt in Windsor, requiring the construction of additional schools. In 1961, Tozer primary school was constructed with additions constructed in 1962 and later in 1978. Tragedy struck in 1964 when the junior high school caught on fire and was partially destroyed. Reconstruction of the portion of the building damaged by the fire was finished in 1966. In 1975, the new Windsor High School was constructed to the northwest of downtown which still hosts the Windsor Wizards. In 2010, the old Windsor High School was beautifully restored to house the Windsor Town Hall.
Today the Windsor School District includes Mountain View Elementary, Grandview Elementary, Range View Elementary, Skyview Elementary, Tozer Primary School, Severance Middle School, Windsor Middle School, Windsor High School, and Windsor Charter Academy.
To learn more about the history of Windsor and Severance or to find out how you can help preserve this history, visit www.thewshs.org. Watch for the Windsor-Severance Historical Society's new book, Windsor, a photographic history from Arcadia Publishing coming this fall.


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Q: scrapy: spider destructor (__del__) never executed I have created an scrapy spider that works well (it does what is supposed to do), but when finish working it doesn't execute the destructor code (del)
Versions are:
 - python 2.7.3
 - scrapy 0.24.6
 - Fedora 18
class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
stuff
def __del__(self):
    stuff_1

How could I execute my "stuff-1" code when MySpider is done?

A: Use signals. In particular, spider_closed signal:
from scrapy import signals
from scrapy.xlib.pydispatch import dispatcher

class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    def __init__(self):
        dispatcher.connect(self.spider_closed, signals.spider_closed)

    def spider_closed(self, spider):
        stuff_1()

A: @alecxe's answer is now deprecated
Use the from_crawler class method instead:

class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    ...
    @classmethod
    def from_crawler(cls, crawler, *args, **kwargs):
        spider = super(MySpider, cls).from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
        crawler.signals.connect(spider.spider_closed, signal=scrapy.signals.spider_closed)
        return spider

    def spider_closed(self, spider):
        spider.logger.info('Spider closed')


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Male dentist fires female assistant for being too attractive and in Iowa it's legal!
By Squire Patton Boggs on July 18, 2013 Posted in Discrimination, Recent Cases, Termination
Last week the Iowa Supreme Court confirmed its earlier ruling that a male dentist's decision to terminate his "irresistibly attractive" female assistant was not sex discrimination under Iowa law. Despite their 10 years of working together, the dentist, James Knight, claimed the firing of Melissa Nelson was necessary to save his marriage since he was concerned he might be tempted to stray. The dentist's wife reportedly shared that concern. Mrs. Knight also worked at the dental office and had discovered certain text messages sent by Dr. Knight to Nelson and demanded that Nelson be fired. The assistant alleged she was discriminated against because the decision was made on the basis of her sex since Knight would not have terminated her if she were a man. The Iowa high court disagreed and ruled the termination was not gender-based but was instead motivated by the dentist's "feelings and emotions."
The Iowa Court specifically limited its decision to the facts in front of it and highlighted that no sexual harassment claim was alleged and that the outcome may or may not have been different had one been a part of the lawsuit. It also left open the issue of whether a pattern of adverse actions against those of a particular gender would infer discrimination. Whether a court in one of the more employee-friendly states such as New York or California would follow this approach remains to be seen. One can imagine other courts could conclude that gender was a factor because Mrs. Knight urged her husband to fire Ms. Nelson because she was a rival woman. At a minimum, the case highlights the legal entanglements that can ensue from workplace romance or, in this case, apparently, near romance. While it is a win for employers, one can imagine that neither Dr. Knight nor his wife are all too pleased at having to defend their actions all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Tags: sex discrimination, sexual harassment, Supreme Court


Celebrated playwright and New Orleans native Ricky Graham will present the world premiere of his musical, "The Money Box," at Loyola University New Orleans in March. The production features music by Loyola alumnus Jefferson Turner '99 and lyrics by Graham and Sean Patterson.
Presented by the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, this exciting adaptation of Moliere's "The Miser" will run in Marquette Theater March 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 at 8 p.m., March 10 at 6 p.m. and March and 17 at 2 p.m.


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