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Making of Kelpies
The world's largest equine piece of art was a challenge to build. With almost one thousand individual stainless platelets, proficiency and precision was required to finishing this ambitious sculpture that outbraves the winds of Scotland.
Two huge metallic horse heads overlook the Forth & Clyde Canal in central Scotland were completed in April 2014, forming the centerpiece of a recreational complex near Falkirk.
Designed by local sculptor Andy Scott, the two 30-metre-high horse heads are clad with more than 900 steel platelets manufactured, cut and processed by Outokumpu. Each of the giant gleaming heads weighs more than 300 tons.
Enormous equine engineering
Creating lasting outdoor artwork on such a massive scale represents an engineering challenge comparable to bridge building. Finding a suitable material for the metallic horse coats was a crucial part of this challenge. Scott's designs featured hundreds of separately profiled steel plates.
It was essential to find a steel grade that could withstand Scotland's often wet and windy weather – and not distract passing drivers by reflecting too much glare. The full size Kelpies were too big to galvanize, so the obvious choice was stainless steel.
Finding the optimal material
The design team's engineers promptly approached Outokumpu for advice, and Supra 316L stainless grade was picked as the perfect course for the horses. This grade met all structural and corrosion-resistance demands, while also looking aesthetically appealing even with a duller surface finish.
Soon Outokumpu was producing the first batches of profiled panel according to the demanding construction program. Each head consists of nearly 500 unique pieces of "skin", made from 6 millimeter thick platelets. Over 900 tailored platelets of stainless steel grade Supra 316L produced at Avesta, Sweden, and Tornio, Finland, were laser cut to size in Outokumpu's Service Center in Sheffield, UK.
Putting pieces together
Hundreds of carefully labelled and protected platelets were sent to SH Structures, who had the task of putting together the two giant horse-shaped 3D jigsaw puzzles. "We received deliveries from Outokumpu on a regular basis to meet our very tight build schedule. They consistently arrived on time and were clearly marked and covered with a protective film ready to be fitted to the support structure," says Dave Perry, Contracts Manager for SH Structures.
During the summer of 2013, passers-by could watch the two huge horse heads coming together next to the busy M9 motorway. Since the Helix Park opening in April 2014, the Kelpies are rapidly becoming one of Scotland's most photographed attractions. The engineering excellence has also been recognized with various awards. Outokumpu's input is clearly visible on these equine sculptures, which are inspired by mythical water horses and mighty workhorses.
Tornio, Finland
Outokumpu's Tornio operations is the most integrated stainless steel plant in the world. State-of-the-art technology, sophisticated equipment and unrivaled expertise produce outstanding quality year after year.
Sheffield CPSC, UK
Located near the site where stainless steel was invented in 1913, Outokumpu Stainless Distribution (OSD) continues that innovation today as the premier stainless steel coil and plate service center in the U.K.
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Equine art on an enormous scale


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Uniqlo deploys lasers and eco stones for sustainable jeans
Fast Retailing to reduce 90% of water usage at facilities across Asia
NAOMI HAYASE, Nikkei staff writer August 20, 2019 14:28 JST
Fast Retailng use lasers to burn the jeans to create the distressed looks popular with consumers. (Photo by Naomi Hayase)
LOS ANGELES -- The parent company of Japanese retailer Uniqlo will slash water use by 90% to 99% in the production of all jeans for the apparel chain, starting in 2020.
Fast Retailing will combine water-saving technology, water recycling and lasers to create its vintage looks, rather than relying on manual labor and excessive washing to produce distressed denim for all of its jeans lines.
Such sustainable pants are being designed and produced in Los Angeles at the Jeans Innovation Center, Fast Retailing's research and development facility that opened in 2016.
The JIC's designers create a vintage denim look by computer, then use lasers to burn the jeans based on that design to create the distressed looks popular with consumers.
An estimated 70% of Asia's rivers and lakes are contaminated by the 2.5 billion gallons of wastewater produced by the continent's textile industry, environmental news site EcoWatch says. This includes the southern Chinese city of Xintang, where 300 million pairs of jeans are produced annually.
Rather than using traditional washing machines and tumbling with pumice stones to create further distressing, the company employs "Nano-bubble" technology along with man-made "eco stones" that can be used repeatedly without disintegrating, requiring far less water per wash.
To achieve lighter washes and clean the residual indigo dye, a water-less ozone washing technology is used. Finally, all water used is put through a recycling system. Fast Retailing plans more testing and consultation with the machine manufacturers, hoping to reduce water consumption by nearly 99%.
"The JIC was built from our desire to make denim more sustainable," said Masaaki Matsubara, chief operating officer of Fast Retailing JIC. "We are always thinking about design with sustainability in mind. Our vision is of a near future when denim production is much cleaner and less resource-intensive, and the center is helping to make that a reality for customers everywhere around the world."
Matsubara said the new process has brought no price increases for customers so far, and the executive hopes eventually it may reduce costs for consumers.
Man-made "Eco stones" can be used repeatedly without disintegrating, requiring far less water per wash. (Photo by Naomi Hayase)
"We have innovated with existing technology, figuring out how to outperform other brands at scale to achieve water savings of up to 99% in the wash process at our full production scale," Matsubara said. "We never intended to reduce water used for jeans washing by only 10% or 20%. Ultimately, we want to reduce water usage to near zero -- only this can be considered true innovation."
These techniques will be applied worldwide to Fast Retailing production facilities and brands including GU, J Brand, Theory, Helmut Lang and Comptoir des Cotonniers.
Fashion ranks as one of the most polluting industries in the world. Some retailers have made strides to be more mindful of their practices, among pressure from ecologically conscious millennial and Generation Z consumers. Big retailers like Nike, H&M and Stella McCartney as well as direct-to-consumer brands like Everlane, Rothy's and Allbirds have touted their environmentally friendly practices.
All the water used at the Jeans Innovation Center is put through a recycling system. (Photo by Naomi Hayase)
Uniqlo's denim competitor Levi's has its own water-saving technology, said to reduce usage by up to 96%. The American company says it aims to use this technology in 80% of its products by 2020.
In addition to reducing water consumption, Fast Retailing said it will switch to 100% sustainable cotton by 2025, and become certified by the Responsible Down Standard by 2020. The company also targets an 85% cut in the use of plastic by 2020, including by switching to recycled paper bags in all Uniqlo and GU stores worldwide starting next month.
Fast Retailing's laser engraving system eliminates manual distressing, which was hazardous to workers' health. The system also allows production of up to 60 pairs of jeans per hour, as opposed to 10 per hour when done by hand.
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How to retrieve Attendance from Biometric Device in Paywings?
Most of the companies or the organization are using Biometric devices to punch attendance of their employees.Paywings facilitates Biometric device integration, user can easily fetch data i.e attendance from Biometric device being used in company or the organization.
Click on Biometric Details Tile.
Firstly user should enter biometric device details, please refer Biometric Device Details .
Click on Open Comm button to set communication between the Biometric Device and Paywings.
Click on Log Data Button to fetch log from Biometric Device.
User should select Payroll Period i.e. MonthYear to be generated.
Click on Get Log Button, which will display Log Data i.e. attendance of the selected Payroll Period i.e. MonthYear.
Click on Save Data Button.
A message pops " Data Saved" , click on Ok button to save in Database.


Studies of Europeanization have demonstrated that the impact of European integration differs between Member States and across policies. Although Europeanization research has been expanded and clarified in recent years, we still know relatively little about the factors mediating the national processes of change that thus condition impact. This article examines the impact of European social security integration on national welfare institutions in Denmark and Germany, and it traces the Europeanization process, which may explain the diverging impact of a common input in these two Member States. In order to understand how the same process of integration may cause a diverging impact on national institutions, two sets of mediating factors are examined: firstly, the institutional and de facto exposedness to European integration; and, secondly, the national political, administrative and legal responses to integration. It is argued that these intervening variables are decisive for how common European demands are mediated nationally and are likely to explain impact variations referring to the same cause.


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Partner Appreciation Day: SILCA
by Chris Harris | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog | 0 comments
As part of a continuing series that will be running every Thursday, we're going to be featuring the backgrounds and services of our numerous sponsors and partners. Furthermore, we're going to exhibit how their relationship with us is making an impact in the lives of youth and in the community. Today, our focus is on SILCA:
SILCA was founded in 1917 by Felice Sacchi just outside of Milan, Italy. The company innovated and grew quickly by innovating as the first company to put gauges on pumps, the first company to produce a true 'high-pressure' frame pump, the first to work with the revolutionary lightweight material plastic after the end of WWII. More recently, the company was first with a valve controlled CO2 inflator, and with some irony, the first to move away from plastics and back to wood handles. Along the way, the company ideals became deeply rooted in a combination of durable materials, traditional craftsmanship, and innovation. It is no accident that so many of the SILCA pumps of the 1960's and 70's are still in use today, nor is it accidental that they continue to sell replacement parts for those very pumps.
Rolling into 2014, SILCA headquarters and manufacturing have been moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Here, they're rebuilding a once great icon into a new great icon. They're using the finest materials and craftsmanship achievable in their products. Here in Indianapolis, the company is surrounded by the motorsports industry, which attracts some of the finest minds and manufacturing capabilities anywhere, and it is from those minds and often times that same equipment that SILCA parts are now born. Each and every SILCA component is designed for beauty, function, strength, durability, and longevity before it is carefully produced by hand to the highest standards. They take great pride in upholding the 100 year history of this brand.
Relationship with Nine13sports:
Kids Riding Bikes uses the best pump in the world on a daily basis!
Nine13sports relationship with SILCA began in February of 2014. The relationship was a natural and practical fit, especially with the bicycle pump needs that our bikes require daily. Considering the organization had just relaunched in Indianapolis in early 2014, we were excited to partner with a local company of such high standards and professionalism. From the beginning of our partnership, Josh Poertner and the entire SILCA team have been nothing but advocates and proponents of Nine13sports and everything that we're doing to get kids riding bikes. For 14 years Josh was Technical Director at Zipp Speed Weaponry and he's been a lifelong SILCA fan since buying his first SILCA pump in 1990, a pump still in daily use today. Incidentally, we were introduced to Josh by previous President of Zipp, Andy Ording. Andy, similar to Josh, is a devoted and passionate supporter of ours and the cycling community as a whole. We're so thankful and appreciative to have so many long-standing advocates of Nine13sports and we're excited to continue building these meaningful relationships that impact and cultivate thousands of youth lives.
For more information on SILCA, check out their website


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Steele Leaked to Media Because FBI Reopened Clinton-Email Case, New Documents Show
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Home Indian Film Awards Filmfare Awards 3rd Filmfare Awards
Indian Film Awards
3rd Filmfare Awards
3rd (Third) Filmfare Awards 1956
The 3rd Filmfare Awards (At a Glance)
Place Held Bombay
(now Mumbai)
Nominations No
Number of Award Categories 12
Most Awards Biraj Bahu (2),
Jagriti (2)
Previous Filmfare Awards 2nd Filmfare Awards 1955
Next Filmfare Awards 4th Filmfare Awards 1957
Filmfare Awards is one of the oldest awards for Indian Cinema. These awards are presented to the artists of Hindi Cinema for their excellent work to motivate and admire their talent. The 3rd Filmfare Awards was the third installment of the Filmfare Series.
The original name of the Filmfare Award was Clare Award, named after Clare Mendonca. He was a film critic of The Times of India who unfortunately died in the same year.
Filmfare Awards started in the year 1954, the 1st award ceremony was held on 21st March 1954. The first award ceremony was held in the Metro Cinema (Established 1938), situated in Bombay (now Mumbai).
3rd Filmfare Awards were held in Bombay like the earlier two award functions. Film personalities received awards in twelve (12) categories.
Winners of 3rd Filmfare Awards (1956)
S. No. Award Winner
1 Best Film Jagriti (1954)
2 Best Director Bimal Roy for Biraj Bahu (1954)
3 Best Actor Dilip Kumar for Azaad (1955)
4 Best Actress Kamini Kaushal for Biraj Bahu (1954)
5 Best Actor in Supporting Role Abhi Bhattacharya for Jagriti (1954)
6 Best Actress in Supporting Role Nirupa Roy for Minimji (1955)
7 Best Music Director Hemant Kumar for Nagin (1954)
8 Best Story Pandit Mukhram Sharma for Vachan
3rd Filmfare Awards 1956
9 Best Cinematographer B & W Dwarka Divecha for Yasmin
10 Best Editing Hrishikesh Mukherjee for Naukari
11 Best Sound Recordist R. Kaushik for Amar
12 Best Art Director (B&W) Rusi Banker for Mirza Ghalib
Technical Awards of 3rd Filmfare Awards 1956
Highlights-3rd Filmfare Awards 1956
Bimal Roy won Filmfafe Award for Best Director for the 3rd Consecutive Year. He won the first for Do Bigha Zamin (1953) and for Boot Polish (1954) in the 1st Filmfare Awards and 2nd Filmfare Awards, respectively.
Dilip Kumar won his second Filmfare Award for Best Actor. He won the first one for Daag (1952).
Film Biraj Bahu (1954) and Jagriti (1954) won most numbers of awards i.e. 2 each. Biraj Bahu grabbed awards for Best Director and Best Actress whereas Jagriti won for Best Film and Best Actor in Supporting Role.
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Issue date : Tue 12 November, 2019
Q&A: Labor's Mark Butler says climate debate should be put aside amid bushfires
Tue 12 November, 2019
The shadow climate change minister, Mark Butler, issued a plea last night to set aside public debates about climate change while communities are fighting for their lives and homes in the face of unprecedented bushfires.
Q&A recap: Panel debates climate change and bushfires
Adam Bandt urges swift fire policy response like Port Arthur massacre
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The milk, the whole milk and nothing but the milk: the story behind our dairy woes
The plight of Australia's dairy farmers is on the political agenda this week, after One Nation leader Pauline Hanson narrowly failed in her Senate bid for a minimum milk price. But getting fair payment for their goods is far from the only challenge dairy farmers face.
The causes of unprecedented bushfires are complex but climate change is part of the puzzle
As bushfires tear through New South Wales and Queensland, leaving a trail of destruction, we inevitably find ourselves asking: what can be done to stop (or at least tame) them?
For farmers climate change is the headline to our lives, but McCormack's Nationals avert their gaze
The deputy prime minister and his party poke their own constituency in the eye in favour of inexplicable political priorities
Carbon claims fanciful when the climate jury's still out on drought
Your heart goes out to the people in NSW and Queensland affected by the bushfires. In many instances, the very same people are also being weighed down by the damaging impact of a prolonged drought.
Tackling climate risk will put out bushfires
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We need urgent and increasing action on climate change, not ambivalence
How the world sees Australia on climate change was one of the more insightful aspects of my time as ambassador for the environment for the past few years. The world is not one thing and has many actors, so obviously there were different views, even on different elements of our approach to this central challenge.
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Australia's climate response among the worst in the G20, report finds
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Deputy Premier says climate change talk amid fire crisis a 'disgrace'
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Timetable set down for waste export ban
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As bushfires rage across the Australian east coast – and large areas of NSW, including Sydney, face a "catastrophic" fire warning – much attention has been directed towards the response of the nation's political leaders for their steadfast refusal to acknowledge the link between the bushfires and climate change.
Worse than Black Saturday: Victoria braced for 'very extreme' heatwaves
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My community deserves the unvarnished truth from me, its mayor. Ignorance and arrogance delivered us ashes
Regional mayors criticise politicians for failing to link climate change and deadly bushfires
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Michael McCormack's tough words only confirmed his weakness
Australian politicians prove their failings when they cannot address the reality of climate change when confronting the immediate crisis of drought and bushfire.
Australia, our backyard is burning: Now is precisely the time to be talking about climate change.
As our backyard burns, our Prime Minister Scott Morrison has borrowed a platitude from President Donald Trump's phrasebook. He'd like to send "thoughts and prayers".
Where there's smoke, there are lies: Bushfires a sign of a catastrophic political reckoning
A state of emergency and an unprecedented warning of catastrophic fires threatening the entire Sydney basin and pretty well the rest of NSW spells the end of politicians denying reality.
Greens pour fuel on fire to score political points
Greens MP Adam Bandt has no need to battle bushfires in his downtown Melbourne electorate, but that is not the reason he should shut up until the crisis is over. He should do so out of basic human decency. People grieving loved ones, the families devastated after the loss of their homes, pets and farm animals, do not need callous Mr Bandt's cruel brand of politicking.
Early-season, 'catastrophic' bushfires are a sign of more to come over summerv
The NSW bushfires have been described by Premier Gladys Berejiklian as "some of the most devastating bushfires we have ever seen", prompting her to declare a state of emergency, the first since 2013.
The Prime Minister needs to get real on climate
Despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison's best efforts, Australia has a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions in 31 years' time. His suggestions that Labor's renewable energy target of 50 per cent by 2030 is an economic "wrecking ball" is as pointless and wrong as his claims that pursuing a budget surplus when the economy is stagnating is good for "jobs and growth".
Norway's Equinor must change environmental plan to drill in Great Australian Bight
Norwegian energy company Equinor has been ordered to modify and resubmit an environmental plan to drill an oil exploration well in the Great Australian Bight.
Norwegian company Equinor ordered to resubmit environmental plan to drill for oil in Great Australian Bight
Norwegian oil company Equinor's Bight drilling plan knocked back again
Norwegian energy giant ordered to modify and resubmit environmental plan
Ethics code creates confusion around ESG
A debate is raging about what the Financial Advice Standards and Ethics Authority's Code of Ethics means for ESG investing and advising clients on ethical investment options, with FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield looking to clarify the issue.
Shareholder activism might sound good, but it's delusional to think it will change anything much
In the wake of systemic corporate misconduct scandals such as those brought to light in the banking royal commission, and issues such as income inequality and climate change, there are growing public demands for increased corporate accountability and less emphasis on shareholder returns.
Drought-ravaged profits
"City people, politicians, have no concept of how difficult farming has become, how much cash businesses are burning through," says Dugald Bucknell, whose family have farmed cattle at Quambone, 600km northwest of Sydney, since 1912. "The number of cows that have been slaughtered from this is phenomenal."
NSW, Qld bushfires: IAG most exposed to claims
Insurance giant IAG has the biggest financial exposure to the NSW bushfires, and the damage bill is expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the next week.
Climate Solutions Fund aims to 'way exceed' Paris targets
Retiring Business Council president Grant King said the Morrison government's $2.5 billion Climate Solutions Fund could be rejigged to deliver more carbon abatement that would enable Australia to exceed Paris climate targets.
Wind and solar start to pull prices down as average share rises to 20 per cent
Variable renewable energy – wind and solar – has reached more than 20% on a 30 day moving average for the first time.
Testing underway for Australia's first offshore wind farm
Site exploration tests for what would be Australia's first offshore wind farm, the massive 2000MW Star of the South project, are set to begin off the south coast of Gippsland in Victoria in November.
Brisbane mum Renee Dikeni ditches car and embraces bike transport 'for the environment'
Most of us reach for the car keys every day, but could you ditch the car to make way for your bike for 365 days and still get to work, get the kids to sport and pick up the groceries?
Long life, loose fit, low impact: Playing the long game on sustainable buildings
It may not be possible to re-love every component of a building but if we want ensure buildings remain as sustainable as possible throughout their lifetimes, the property industry needs to embrace the "three L's": long life, loose fit, low impact.
'We're losing the battle': Fears flare over koala population following bushfires
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Deer not departed: Scientists rediscover tiny species after 30 years
When a tree dies, don't waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory
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'As bad as it gets': Sydney braces for unprecedented fire danger
Sydney is bracing for unprecedented and catastrophic bushfire danger, with conditions being likened to Victoria's deadly 'Black Saturday,' as about 578 schools were expected to close across NSW on Tuesday.
Seaweed scientists replanting giant kelp forests tolerant of warmer waters
Marine scientists are planting tiny spores of giant kelp in southern Tasmania to rebuild the state's famous underwater forests and tackle climate change.
'Old hat': Is there a link between climate change and bushfires?
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Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze
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Queensland fire emergency leaves Brisbane's air quality worse than Beijing
The air quality in Brisbane is currently worse than Beijing as haze from bushfires burning across Queensland and New South Wales blankets the south-east corner.
Coca-Cola launches latest recycling initiative and sponsorship
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Forget Carbon-Neutral — This New York Company Is Making Carbon-Negative Vodka
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Here in Australia, we live in such a climate backwater that ideas like 'renewable energy' and one's 'carbon footprint' seem completely foreign to a seemingly vast amount of the population. You may, then, be surprised to know that despite the insistence of Scott Morrison and his friends in Canberra that we're 'doing our bit', there are people around the world who are coming up with far more radical ways to combat climate change than the bulk of people are Down Under.
Vivaldi reworked to 'make climate change audible'
A classical orchestra in Germany aims to "make climate change audible" with a reworking of Antonio Vivaldi's famous violin concertos "The Four Seasons" using algorithms based on climate data.
Southerly buster to drop temperatures but bring more uncertainty
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The day it forgot to rain on Australia
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Tuesday's gusty winds and hot, dry conditions force authorities to initiate total fire ban
In a grim foreboding of the long, hot, dry summer ahead, the ACT has joined New South Wales in declaring a total fire ban on Tuesday.


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Private placement securities litigation in Ontario
01 Oct 2019 | By Siskinds LLP, Garett Hunter
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This has been the year of cannabis market sector scandals. Headlines have been thick and fast. Investor losses have been significant.
A large part of the financing that facilitated the massive growth of the cannabis sector has been through the prospectus exempt issuance of securities (more commonly referred to as a private placement). The trend in the cannabis sector is consistent with the growth in exempt market investments generally. Over the last decade, the amount of capital invested in Ontario's prospectus exempt market has roughly tripled. According to figures compiled by the Ontario Securities Commission, exempt market investments in Ontario increased from $30.7 billion in 2010 to $91.6 billion in 2017.1
The prospectus exempt market is where securities are issued to the public without a prospectus being filed with securities regulatory authorities. Exempt market investments can only be made when investors qualify for specific exemptions. Section 2.3 of National Instrument 45-106, Prospectus Exempt Distributions, provides one key exemption from the prospectus requirement—for trades in a security if the purchaser is an "accredited investor".2
The accredited investor exemption is the exemption most frequently utilized in Ontario. For an issuer selling securities, the exemption offers an inexpensive, fast and predictable alternative to undertaking, for example, an underwritten offering through a prospectus.
The regulatory justification for prospectus exemptions is typically that protections offered by prospectus disclosures and continuous disclosure are not always necessary or practical.3 The Ontario Securities Commission provides two rationales for the accredited investor exemption. First, accredited investors are assumed to be sophisticated. That is, capable of obtaining expert advice and analyzing information needed to assess an investment without a prospectus or continuous disclosure. Second, they are assumed to be able to withstand the loss of their entire investment.4
This does not change the reality that, in some cases, accredited investors who participate in an exempt offering will be provided with misleading information and will suffer a loss as a consequence.
The type of disclosure, if any, given to accredited investors as part of an offering under the accredited investor exemption is important because the absence of a prospectus or other continuous disclosures and the corresponding remedies provided in the Securities Act may introduce barriers to recovery. Commonly, the disclosure given to accredited investors takes the form of either a term sheet or an offering memorandum.5
A term sheet is not defined in the OSA but is described by the Ontario Securities Commission as a "skeletal outline of the features of a distribution without dealing extensively with the business or affairs of the issuer of the securities being distributed."6 It typically deals only with the terms of the issue. In contrast, an offering memorandum is defined as "a document, together with any amendments, purporting to describe the business and affairs of an issuer that has been prepared primarily for delivery to and review by a prospective purchaser so as to assist them to make an investment decision in respect of the securities being sold, but does not include a document setting out current information about an issuer for the benefit of a prospective purchaser familiar with the issuer through prior investment or business contacts."7
The definition of offering memorandum does not mandate use of the standardized offering memorandum form. As such, a document which is not in the standardized form may still be an offering memorandum where it "purports to describe the business and affairs of an issuer and has been prepared primarily for delivery to and review by a prospective purchaser." Indeed, the Ontario Securities Commission is of the view that a document can be an offering memorandum when it describes the business and affairs of an issuer and is "prepared in contemplation of soliciting investment from the prospective purchaser."8
A misrepresentation in an offering memorandum will attract potential liability under section 130.1(1) of the OSA, in addition to potential liability at common law, in equity and under the applicable corporate statute.9 Where an offering memorandum contains a misrepresentation, a purchaser who purchases a security offered by the offering memorandum during the period of distribution and meets the other securities law requirements has a right of action for damages or rescission without regard to whether the purchaser relied on the misrepresentation.10
That is, accredited investors who suffer loss due to a misrepresentation in an offering memorandum (or documents incorporated therein) do not need to prove reliance, negligence, fraud or any other culpable state of mind to obtain an order for damages or rescission. In effect, subject to defences,11 section 130.1(1) of the OSA only requires that: (1) a purchaser purchase a security offered by the offering memorandum during the period of distribution; and (2) the offering memorandum contains a misrepresentation.
Accredited investors who purchase securities offered by the offering memorandum must act quickly if they believe the offering was affected by a misrepresentation. Strict time limits apply for commencing an action for misrepresentations in an offering memorandum under the Securities Act. An action for rescission of the purchase must be commenced within 180 days of the transaction. An action for damages must be commenced within 3 years after the date of the transactions or 180 days from the date the investor had knowledge of the facts underpinning the action.12
Accredited investors who receive only a term sheet face comparatively more barriers to recovery. Per the discussion above, unless the term sheet "purports to describe the business and affairs of an issuer and has been prepared primarily for delivery to and review by a prospective purchaser", section 130.1(1) of the OSA will be inoperative.13 In contrast to an accredited investor who purchases under an offering memorandum, the accredited investor who acquires under a term sheet affected by misrepresentation will have to prove reliance, negligence, fraud or other culpable state of mind, as the case may be, to obtain an order for damages or rescission. The reliance requirement makes it difficult for a group of similarly situated investors to pursue recovery collectively via a class proceeding, which, depending on the size of the individual losses of the accredited investors, may be the only economic means of doing so.14
Garett Hunter is an associate lawyer with Siskinds' Class Actions team. His practice focuses on securities class actions and shareholder rights. If you have suffered loss as a consequence of a misrepresentation in an exempt distribution or have any other class action issue, please contact him at [email protected], or 519-660-7802.
1 See: OSC Staff Notice 45-716 "Ontario Exempt Market Report", https://www.osc.gov.on.ca/documents/en/Securities-Category4/rule_20181129_45-716_exempt-market-report.pdf.
2 NI 54-106, s 2.3.
3 See: Ontario Securities Commission, "Summary of Key Capital Raising Prospectus Exemptions in Ontario", January 28, 2016 https://www.osc.gov.on.ca/documents/en/Securities-Category4/ni_20160128_45-106_key-capital-prospectus-exemptions.pdf.
4 See page 2, https://www.osc.gov.on.ca/documents/en/Securities-Category4/SecuritiesLaw_ni_20151029_45-106_amendments.pdf
5 In Ontario, an issuer can voluntarily provide accredited investors with an offering memorandum; 45-501CP s 5.2(2).
6 45-501CP s 5.6(2).
7 Securities Act, RSO 1990 c S 5, s 1(1).
9 The Ontario Securities Act contains non-derogation provisions for statutory primary market misrepresentation claims, so that the ability to assert rights of action at common law, in equity, or under the federal, provincial or territorial corporation statutes is preserved. See Securities Act, RSO 1990 c S 5, s 130.1(7).
10 Securities Act, RSO 1990 c S 5, s 130.1(1).
12 Securities Act, RSO 1990, c S 5, s 138; Persaud v. Talon International Inc., 2018 ONSC 5377 at 109-110.
14 See e.g. Green v Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, 2016 ONSC 3829 at para 13.
About Garett Hunter
Garett is an associate lawyer in our class actions department, focusing on complex securities, consumer protection, and price-fixing class actions.


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The CWM Small/Micro Cap Growth strategy provides exposure to growth companies predominantly within the micro and small capitalization universes. The Small/Micro Cap Equity portfolio utilizes a market capitalization range from $50 million to $1.5 billion. For comparative performance purposes we utilize the Russell 2000 Growth Index over a full market cycle, typically defined as a three to five year time period.
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The CWM Large Cap Growth strategy provides exposure to those growth companies that CWM believes possess a franchise position within their industry and has compelling growth opportunities for the future. The investment team focuses on those companies with market capitalizations from $5 billion to $500 billion where we are able to identify earnings growth considerably above historical trends or consensus expectations. For comparative performance purposes we utilize the Russell 1000 Growth Index over a full market cycle, typically defined as a three to five year time period.
The CWM Growth Equity strategy provides exposure to growth companies in the small, medium, and large capitalization universes. By managing a diversified equity portfolio utilizing the full market capitalization spectrum, our active portfolio management approach is not constrained by a company's market value. For comparative performance purposes we utilize the Russell 3000 Growth Index over a full market cycle, typically defined as a three to five year time period.
The Global Environmental Opportunities Strategy (GEOS) seeks to provide diversified exposure to companies that can profit from climate change action. GEOS is designed to leverage the technologies that will help mitigate and adapt to the implications of climate change. The portfolio management team evaluates companies based on a rigorous review of environmental and financial criteria. GEOS invests across nine climate themes to provide diversification and opportunity within each economic sector. The strategy is global, and invests across the full market capitalization spectrum. GEOS holds diversified large companies that are exposed to multiple climate themes, as well as smaller, specialized companies that have leading technologies.
The CWM ETF Global Strategy seeks to utilize market conditions when they present themselves globally, providing diversified exposure and portfolio value. This allows CWM complete flexibility in terms of asset allocation. With our guiding principle of capitalizing on opportunities in all market conditions, we are consistently prepared to leverage stocks, bonds, treasuries, currencies, commodities, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), cash, emerging markets and/or sectors in the ETF strategy.
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A flat ride this evening visting the Vale villages of Lyford, Charney Bassett and Goosey.
These rides are designed to be sociable and leisurely at a riding pace of about 10 miles per hour, suitable for newcomers to cycling, irregular cyclists and families and for those who just fancy a gentle ride . We'll stop to admire the scenery and anything that takes our eye, and no-one will be left behind. All are welcome although U-13s should be accompanied by a responsible adult .
A very pleasent evenings ride with a slight detour to the heart of Lyford village to see the camera shy goats followed by an improptue tour of Charney Basset village before returning to Grove via Denchworth.


A reader for pleasure and a reviewer to spread the love of great books. My mantras, 'you can never have too many books' and 'time spent reading is never time wasted'. Books are my passport to many times, places, and experiences, and I want to stamp them all. I focus most of my read on LGBTQIA and comics, so any comic with gay leads then I want to read it.


The System Support Specialist is responsible for managing and responding to trouble tickets through the online help desk system, providing first level technical support, workstation support, system set-up and configuration, MS Office support, printer set-up and troubleshooting, user network connections, smartphones, and remote workplace technologies. The System Support Specialist provides accurate and timely solutions that allow users to effectively use computer software and hardware efficiently.
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with users, management, internal and external customers, and vendors.
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Abbott CEO Miles White to step down in March
By Robert Channick
Abbott Laboratories CEO Miles D. White, right, will be replaced by Robert B. Ford, left, current president and chief executive officer of the company, after White steps down in March 2020. White will remain executive chairman of the board. (Abbott)
Abbott Laboratories CEO Miles White, who has been at the helm of the north suburban-based health care company for 21 years, plans to step down March 31, the company announced Wednesday.
Succeeding him as CEO will be Robert Ford, a 23-year veteran of the company who is its president and chief operating officer. Ford has also been elected to Abbott's board.
White will remain executive chairman of the board.
The change at the top of Abbott, one of the Chicago area's largest publicly traded companies, will make Ford only the 13th CEO in the company's 131-year history, with all of its leaders having been promoted from within its ranks. White presided over significant change at Abbott, including two spinoffs and several major acquisitions.
White was named chairman and CEO in 1998 after leading Abbott's diagnostics division, beating out two other internal candidates. He was pegged at the time by analysts as an aggressive manager who would pursue a robust acquisition strategy, his hallmark at the helm of the diagnostics division.
During his tenure, White dramatically and successfully reshaped Abbott, shedding name-brand pharmaceuticals and hospital products to focus on health care products such as coronary stents, diabetes testing equipment and infant formula.
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In 2004, Abbott spun off Hospira, its hospital products unit, which was subsequently acquired by Pfizer. The pharmaceutical division, bolstered by White's purchase of BASF's Knoll and its industry-leading drug, Humira, spun off as AbbVie in 2013, which became a Fortune 100 company on its own.
Abbott had worldwide sales of $30.6 billion in 2018, up 11.6% year over year.
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"One of the primary goals in my career has been to leave the company well positioned for the people who count on us," White said in a news release. "Today, the company is the strongest it has been during my tenure, and I am confident that Robert will lead Abbott successfully into the future."
White, 64, has been an influential Chicago-area business leader, and serves on a number of corporate boards including Caterpillar and McDonald's. He served on the board of Tribune Co., the former parent company of Chicago Tribune owner Tribune Publishing, from 2005 to 2007.
Ford, 46, who has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, joined Abbott in the diabetes care division in 1996, and was appointed president and chief operating officer last year. His resume includes overseeing Abbott's $25 billion acquisition of medical device-maker St. Jude Medical in 2017 and the launch that same year of the FreeStyle Libre, a diabetes monitor that doesn't require a needle.
rchannick@chicagotribune.com


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The International Cricket Council announced fixtures for the ICC T20 World Cup 2020 on. For the First time, men and women tournaments will be held as standalone events in the same year and in the same country (Australia).
The women's T20 World Cup will take place from February 21 to March 8, culminating with the final on International Women's Day. The men's event will take place later in the year from October 18 to November 15.


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When Massachusetts announced it would allow early voting this year, I wasn't sure I wanted to take advantage of it. I like the annual ritual of walking to our local polling place after work on Election Day to vote alongside our neighbors, and I was afraid early voting would feel as impersonal as mailing in an absentee ballot.
I shouldn't have worried. Today after lunch J and I walked to Newton City Hall to cast our early ballots, and along the way we saw a half dozen strangers sporting "I voted" stickers. One be-stickered man said hello as he and his partner passed, and his friendliness reminded me of the annual melting of New England resolve that happens on Marathon Monday. There's something about doing your civic duty that makes even the most reticent New Englander a bit more cheery, whether that civic duty involves casting a ballot or cheering on passing runners.
At City Hall, a handful of volunteers stood outside with signs reminding us to vote yes to protect farm animals. Inside, a police officer sat quietly in a corner while a pair of election volunteers steered J and me to a check-in table where workers tapped our names into tablets, verified our address, and handed us a double-sided ballot and early-voting envelope.
There wasn't a line to check in, but the dozen or more ballot booths lined along a nearby hallway were full. "At this rate," an election worker told J as she applied a precinct sticker to his ballot envelope, "there won't be anyone who hasn't voted by election day." Indeed, as of yesterday more than a tenth of all Newton voters had already cast their ballots, and who knows how many more voters will turnout before early voting ends on November 4th.
After I'd filled out my ballot and sealed it in its envelope, I had to wait at the ballot box while two adolescent girls in soccer uniforms politely asked the election volunteer if they could have a voting sticker even though they were clearly too young to register. The worker gave each of them two stickers: "One for this outfit, and one for your next." Maybe in four years, these girls will be old enough to cast their own ballots, emboldened by the realization that they too can be President.
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AMC Announces "AMC Independent"
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For a while AMC has been an approachable theater chain for independent filmmakers seeking a direct way to get their films in front of theatrical audiences. Now, the company has announced AMC Independent ("AMCi"), a program that commits screens in 60 AMC venues to independent fare. Most of the films upcoming on the initial AMCi slate are mini-major titles (Please Give, Babies) that I'm sure would have wound up on AMC screens anyway, but the fact that the company has positioned the program they way it has — and the noises they are making about future programming — are encouraging for filmmakers without such distribution giants behind them. From the company's blog:
As part of the independent film community, you know that big ideas, big innovations and big stories too often suffer from limited levels of support. AMC understands the value of passionate filmmaking, the importance of a truly independent voice and the fact that big impacts are often delivered by "small" films.
It is for this reason that AMC is proud to announce AMC Independent, our renewed commitment to advancing and expanding independent film. Over the upcoming months, you'll see an amplified commitment to independent storytelling at AMC theatres around the country, both on-screen, in partnerships with filmmakers and film festivals, and throughout our theatres and guest outreach….
We will still work with motion picture studios for content, however, AMCi will provide a direct opportunity for feature-length filmmakers to connect with AMC to share their work with the possibility of an on-screen relationship. . We won't catch "lightning in a bottle" each time, but when lightning does strike, we will be able to act nimbly with existing, demonstrated support for independent film and arts.
Selection will be based on content and the projected interest from guests. If's it's a quality feature-length story that may have not been told and has a chance to grow, we will consider it.
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Out of the 37 nieces and nephews I have, not one of them is born in the month of June, crazy eh? So no n/n's cookie post this month.
So today I thought I would share what the kids and I did, we made homemade fruit popsicles. Our local Winco was having a big sale on fruits so I bought a bunch and we have been enjoying fresh berries and fruits all week. But I was afraid that some of the fruit was going to go bad, I know I could have just froze them but with the summer heat headed our way I figured the kids and I could make healthier, tasty versions of the frozen treat for the hot summer days.
I also strained the berry flavored ones so that my kids would not complain about the seeds.
Put all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. Pour into Popsicle molds or use small paper cups like Dixie, put in your stick and freeze for at least 3 hours. Store in an freezer bag or airtight container.
Put all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. Pour into popcicle molds or use small paper cups like Dixie, put in your stick and freeze for at least 3 hours. Store in an freezer bag or airtight container. You could also use vanilla powder and do all kinds of variations but I prefer the chocolate over the vanilla.
So if you want to make a healthier version of this frozen treat this summer you should! It's also a great activity to do with your kids, my son loved helping count out the cups and putting the sticks in.


My acer 3000 aspire pc will no longer install any software. I've tried installing office products and printers from cd's but it won't accept them. Nothing happens when i put the software in cd drive. The drive powers up but that's it, nothing comes on the screen. Any suggestions?
Go to My Computer & start the installation manually?
Go to start and locate "Set Program Access and Defaults"
Make sure that autorun for discs is enabled.
I don't know how to install software manually. What are steps? Thanks.
Auto run is enabled on computer. Thanks for the suggestion.


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        imgURL = URL.createObjectURL(file);

    img.onload = function() {
        var width = img.naturalWidth,
            height = img.naturalHeight,
            maskedImage = document.getElementById('masked-image');

        maskedImage.setAttribute('xlink:href', imgURL);
        maskedImage.setAttribute('height', 395);

        let prevX = 0,
            prevY = 0,
            translateX = 0,
            translateY = 0,
            scale = 1,
            zoomFactor = 0.1;

        function onDragStart(evt) {
            if (evt.dataTransfer && evt.dataTransfer.setDragImage) {
                evt.dataTransfer.setDragImage(evt.target.nextElementSibling, 0, 0);
            }
            prevX = evt.clientX;
            prevY = evt.clientY;
        }

        function onDragOver(evt) {
            translateX += evt.clientX - prevX;
            translateY += evt.clientY - prevY;
            prevX = evt.clientX;
            prevY = evt.clientY;
            updateStyle();
        }

        function updateStyle() {
            let transform = "translate(" + translateX + "px, " + translateY + "px) scale(" + scale + ")";
            if (document.querySelector('#uploadedImg img')) document.querySelector('#uploadedImg img').style.transform = transform;
        }

        URL.revokeObjectURL(imgURL);
    };

    img.src = imgURL;

}

Please let me know if you have any other doubts....
Thanks in advance....

A: To display an image from user's disk is just a matter of creating an URL pointing to it, and to set an  tag's src pointing to this URL.
Youapparently know how to do it with URL.createObjectURL.
In your draggable version, you already have such an  element, so you just need to set its src in the input's onchange event:

fileup.onchange = e => {
 target_img.src = URL.createObjectURL(fileup.files[0]);
}

///Below is OP's code\\\

let prevX = 0, prevY = 0,translateX = 0, translateY = 0, scale = 1, zoomFactor = 0.1;
//const img = document.querySelector('#uploadedImg img');

function onDragStart(evt) {
  if (evt.dataTransfer && evt.dataTransfer.setDragImage) {
evt.dataTransfer.setDragImage(evt.target.nextElementSibling, 0, 0);
  }
  prevX = evt.clientX;
  prevY = evt.clientY;
}

function onDragOver(evt) {
  translateX += evt.clientX - prevX;
  translateY += evt.clientY - prevY;
  prevX = evt.clientX;
  prevY = evt.clientY;
  updateStyle();
}

function updateStyle()
{
let transform = "translate(" +translateX+ "px, "+ translateY + "px) scale("+scale+")";
if(document.querySelector('#uploadedImg img'))document.querySelector('#uploadedImg img').style.transform = transform;
}
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  background-color: green;
  margin: 20px auto;
  -webkit-mask-image: url(https://i.stack.imgur.com/EQpM4.png);
  mask-image: url(https://i.stack.imgur.com/EQpM4.png);
  -webkit-mask-position: center center;
  mask-position: center center;
  -webkit-mask-repeat: no-repeat;
  mask-repeat: no-repeat;
  position:relative;
  bottom:60px;
  left:40px;
}

.minaimg {
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<input type="file" id="fileup" />


Okay, so you've got your plot done. The details are ironed out, and you have at least some idea what the beginning, middle and end will be. It doesn't have to be concrete, but it's good to have a skeleton. What do you do now?
Start writing, clearly. But before that, you should make sure you're not going to get stuck first. A lot of people writing novels tend to make it to around 20,000 words and then get hung up. We want to make sure that doesn't happen to you. Your story it great, and it deserves to be told. Just like parents, we want to give our story the best chance we can before sending it out into the world.
The best way to do that is to start out strong, and have a lot of characters and tricks to fall back on.
First of all, choose your method of storytelling. This seems simple, but it's really not. There are dozens of possible points of view that your story can be told from. Common ones that everyone knows about are first and third, but there are lots of others. Second person prose, though rare, can be engaging.
I find most people starting their first novel have the urge to write in the first person (that is, using I). Personally I found this very difficult in the beginning of my writing career. That could just be me, but I notice a startling amount of manuscripts coming into the submissions folder written in first person. Sad as it is, a high percentage of them are either never completed or… Well, bad. That sounds mean, I know. Hate saying it.
So you can obviously do what you want, but I'd suggest a specific type of third person storytelling called "Selective Omniscience." Maybe in the future I'll do a series on writing in the first person if enough people are interested.
So let's assume we're using "Selective Omniscience." In that, the narrator knows everything there is to know but is choosing what information he relays to the reader… Basically, the narrator is you. Even then, the voice you use is up to you. Will you be comical? Gritty? Neutral? Totally up to you. The benefit of this perspective is that it gives you the ability to move the focus from one character to another, much like different scenes in a movie. In fact, thinking of it as a movie helped me a lot in early works.
Okay, so next make sure you have solid characters. Get to know each of them. Some people do writing exercises as each character to accomplish this. I prefer to talk to myself as though I'm in a scene with them. The important thing is, have a strong feel for them before you start so that they'll act in believable, reasonable ways.
Make sure there are enough ideas for events scattered throughout your plot. If you only have 1-2 ideas for minor events, we're likely talking about a short story. Plenty of things should be happening.
Finally, write the first scene. This is all important. Shakespeare (according to an old Prof of mine) used to start every play with something exciting to capture the viewers attention up front. The same is true here. Look at my series': Black Womb starts with the woman fleeing from her captors. Infinity starts with a girl being stalked by a strange creature. Then, in both cases, the action quickly shifts to a normal setting where we introduce our main characters. That's not a coincidence. It's carefully formulated to bring the reader into the story, just like those scenes that happen before the credits roll on many television dramas.
Thanks for the mention! Are you a fellow writer? If so, be sure to keep us updated on your progress… Trying to build a community of authors here online!


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Asian Investigative Journalism Conference Canceled by GIJN
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The Global Investigative Journalism Network regrets to announce that it is canceling the this year's Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, which was slated for October 16-18 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The move comes after considerable work by the GIJN staff in finding a great co-host (Malaysiakini), a convenient venue, and funding to hold the biennial event.
Given the unpredictability of the coronavirus and its potential impact on attendees, GIJN asked for assurances that the conference could be canceled if necessary. The hotel refused and insisted that GIJN provide a 100% guarantee of all conference costs. "We found this unacceptable," said GIJN Executive Director David E. Kaplan.
"We would like to thank everyone who contributed at this early stage to IJAsia20," Kaplan added, "especially our partners at Malaysiakini and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's Media Programme Asia."
IJAsia20 would have been the fourth Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, which previously met in Manila, Kathmandu, and Seoul. Instead, GIJN will begin work on next year's Global Conference and a host of new projects, and promises to return to Asia in 2022.
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Uncovering Asia: Highlights of #IJAsia18
The completely sold out Uncovering Asia 2018, the third Asian investigative journalism conference, was a four-day blitz of intense exchange of knowledge, networking and building new investigative partnerships. A total of 440 journalists from 48 countries convened in Seoul, Korea from October 4-7 for the largest ever gathering of investigative journalists in the region.


2013 was a year of important shifts. Nokia sold to Microsoft. BlackBerry had one of its worst years ever. Both companies lost more than 90% of their market capitalization in less than a decade. Google's Android, meanwhile, grows stronger and is moving beyond smartphones to power cars, home electronics and wearable accessories. Twitter continues to grow, after its IPO this year, with the world's strongest platform for influence and dissemination.
While Barnes&Noble parted company with the Nook and is struggling to survive, a thriving Amazon and Kindle continue to transform publishing. In the hotel industry, AirBnB poses a serious threat to the revenues of established players and is disrupting the housing market. Uber's surge pricing controversy notwithstanding, the company cemented its position as the new way to access transportation without owning a car.
Platforms are eating the world. And the past year has only served to strengthen the case for these networked businesses.
We used to live in a world where commerce flowed linearly. Firms added value to products, shipped them out and sold them to consumers. Producers and consumers held very distinct roles. Value was created upstream and flowed downstream.
Now, market upstarts are displacing market leaders faster than ever before as entire industries transform. We are in the midst of a seismic shift in business models, powered by the Internet and a generation of connected users.
Business leaders, today, develop platforms that connect diverse participants with one another and enable them to interact and transact. On the Internet, anyone can be a producer. Today's network platforms aid the creation of entirely new markets by connecting producers and consumers with each other.
Three forces are powering the rise of platforms: ubiquitous network access with ever-increasing mobile penetration, reputation systems that enable trust among distributed strangers, and access to low cost shared infrastructure with tools and data to capture and coordinate interactions.
Platforms will displace high cost gatekeepers with meritocratic crowds. YouTube and eBay flip the gatekeeping process used in media and retail. In lieu of professional editors and buyers, anyone can produce and the market itself decides what the market wants.
Platforms will aggregate disconnected players in fragmented industries. OpenTable is rolling up unconnected and unaffiliated restaurants. RedBus, the world's largest bus reservation platform, gathers India's fragmented bus schedules and reshapes the travel landscape.
Platforms will unlock new value from spare resources and user-generated content. AirBnB's hosts and RelayRides' cars are the spare rooms and idle rides of thousands of individuals. Much of Facebook's appeal is the newsfeed produced from constant user activity. Instagram's $1 billion sale was a consequence of the work, not of 13 employees, but of more than 30 million contributors.
Ultimately, this transformation redefines competition. Firms that once sought advantage based on the strength of their internal resources and channel access now face competitors that harness armies of connected users and ecosystems of resources. Apple's App Store, hosting nearly a million applications, offers a compelling testimony to the power of ecosystems. More buyers on Ebay attract more sellers, which in turn attracts more buyers. More freelancers on oDesk attract more job postings and vice versa. Such feedback loops enable these businesses to grow into massive juggernauts. Businesses win based on their ability to captivate third parties and connect them to each other through creative interactions.
The rise of ecosystems also means that old linear rules no longer work given new platform realities. In operations, just-in-time inventory gets trumped by just-not-mine inventory. The IT function transforms from client server support to cloud service solution. In marketing, the profit maximizing price is often at or below zero. Charging every user can destroy network effects, yet data and network effects create critical competitive advantage.
Platforms aren't merely a Silicon Valley obsession. WalMart continues to invest in big data and is leading a retail evolution to the store-as-platform model. Nike+ is showing how the shoe can become a connected platform. Car manufacturers are building connected cars. And GE is forging ahead with its smart grid platform.
But, for every GE moving forward, there is an incumbent resisting change, often relying on regulators to stave off emerging platforms. Uber's disruption of public transportation has had to contend with many regulatory hurdles. AirBnb has run afoul of housing laws. And Kickstarter crowdfunding has been caught by public securities laws. Since regulation often lags innovation, this can succeed for a time.
So What Should You Do to Thrive in a Platformed World?
Remake the role that experts play inside your business to leverage user capabilities outside your business. Build social curation and reputation systems to employ the collective intelligence and judgment of your users.
Connect consumers to their best product options, regardless of source, through data-driven matchmaking. The firm that builds an OpenTable for consumer finance, considering appetites for risk and reputations of products that deliver on promises, would help buyers make sense of the dizzying array of complex and disconnected products. The value would be enormous.
Finally, solve a consumer problem in your industry by marshaling spare resources. If you're in transportation, build systems that employ other people's trucks before expanding your own fleet.
Platform opportunities are all around us. Industries like Education, HealthCare, Insurance, and Legal Services, are ripe for disruption. In an increasingly connected future, platforms will only grow in importance. We need to construct the frameworks and rules to allow everyone a fair shot at success in this new world.
In 2011, Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop sent out the "Burning Platform" manifesto to his employees. It was too late; the rules had already changed. What happened to Nokia and BlackBerry can happen to any business that doesn't leverage the power of platforms. But, for those willing to open their ecosystems and aid their consumers, the future looks bright indeed.
Welcome to the platformed world!
Sangeet Paul Choudary is a widely published technology analyst, startup advisor and innovation researcher. Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne, research scientists at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-authored this post.


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BBC HARDtalk is On the Road in Canada to examine if a country can deliver on its climate change commitments while continuing to pump out huge amounts of oil.
BBC HARDtalk is On the Road in Canada to examine if a country, which sits on the world's third largest oil reserves, can deliver on its climate change commitments while continuing to pump out huge amounts of oil. The oil sands, sometimes referred to as dirty oil, have long been a target of climate change campaigners who insist that the energy intensive extraction of oil sands and the greenhouse gas emissions it generates, means that most of the remaining deposits must stay in the ground. HARDtalk travels to the Cenovus Energy plant in northern Alberta to see how the thick heavy oil is extracted and meets Alberta's environment minister, Shannon Phillips in Calgary to ask her whether enough is being done to cut greenhouse gas emissions?
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Finally the day arrived! Tomorrow I'll take my plane to Europe and start my adventure! I want to meet lots of new people and places!
I have separated my trip and six parts (six itineraries) and I will keep you informed of everything I am doing. I'm going now at the end of December and every part (itinerary) of my trip will last a week, ie I'm going to be travelling for six weeks! I've been planning this backpack for years and it's finally come!
One new thing I'll introduce on this trip is to use this dating site to find people in the area that I'm going to be spending time in. Let's meet, people! So to let you know where I'll be, My first itinerary will be: Classical Europe: London, Paris and Rome. I will spend my first week in hostels in these three super classic destinations. If I'm in your town, send me messages for us to meet.
But I wanted to use this post to talk about meeting new people. Traveling is great. Backpacking, even better! It's a great opportunity to meet new places and, best of all, meet new people. But what if I'm a shy person? Can't I venture out? Of course you can! Thinking about it, I decided to list some things that I learned in my adventures and that you can use to break the ice when meeting someone new!
You're not a prejudiced person, right? Well, then don't be it in every way. Be very careful not to judge anyone by the clothes they are wearing, their hair color, their accessories and, specially, their sexuality. Be ready to start the conversation knowing that the person in front of you is a box of surprises and that she also is disregarding first impression prejudices about yourself.
Ask about simple things to know a little about the person's personality, being careful not to look like a police questioning. No need to load people with questions. Plant the seed looking for similarities between your question and something that is around you.
For example, if the person is talking about the best barbecue he has ever eaten and you are a vegetarian, you don't have to be embarrassed. You don't have to put yourself above anyone else, let alone make dualistic comparisons between right and wrong. Each person has a point of view and you can put yours in the conversation, even it being contrary to that of the person. Just be polite and understand that everyone thinks in different ways.
Of course everyone talks about gossip or things like that, but by meeting a new person you can replace those subjects with ideas, and create a much better image about yourself. But remember: it's not to start talking about your whole life plan and your goals and objectives to get there, because these things we reserve only to the most intimate, right? But you can talk about some simpler ideas. It shows a lot about who you are.
Many times we talk a lot and forget to listen. Stopping to listen carefully is super important in the communication process, okay? But it's not just to listen too. The secret is to show interest, with a posture that shows that you're listening for real. When the person pauses, then you give your opinion and speak what you have to say about it.
When we already know someone for some time, everything flows easier, right? You already know the habits and the way of thinking of the person and, at the smallest of glances, you have already said everything to each other. With someone new the things are certainly more difficult, but following these tips for sure things will get much better. But none of this is a rule, okay? The tips can help you better know what to do in the situation. Did you like the post? Tell me in the comments!


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La  du Tour de Lombardie s'est déroulée le . La course a été remportée par le coureur italien Paolo Bettini avec une moyenne de . Le parcours s'est déroulé entre Mendrisio et Côme sur une distance de .

L'épreuve faisait partie de l'UCI ProTour 2005.

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  Tour de Lombardie 2005 sur museociclismo.it

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Cyclisme en Italie en 2005
Cyclisme sur route en 2005
Sport en octobre 2005

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The stamps – designed by Howard Brown – feature texts from key bills and declarations from around the world.
Royal Mail is releasing a set of stamps to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, which features text from landmark bills and declarations from around the world.
The stamps have been designed by Howard Brown and feature illustrations and excerpts from a series of key texts, including the American Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Magna Carta itself.
Royal Mail worked with the Magna Carta 800th committee to select the bills and declarations.
As well as reproducing text from the Magna Carta – which was signed by King John on 15 June 1215 – the other stamps mark the 750th anniversary of Simon de Montfort's Parliament, the Bill of Rights, the American Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the Commonwealth.
Two special postmarks have also been created to mark the Magna Carta's anniversary, while on 15 June Royal Mail vans in 12 towns that have links to the Magna Carta – including Runnymede, where it was signed – will feature the Magna Carta stamp design.


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Прокопий Дмитриевич Осипов () — советский политический и российский хозяйственный деятель, народный депутат СССР (1989—1991).

Биография
Родился 20 марта 1948 г. в с. Джикимдя Горного района Якутской АССР.

Окончил Московский энергетический институт. По распределению направлен на Вилюйскую ГЭС, где работал инженером производственно-технического отдела, начальником смены, мастером, старшим мастером, освобожденным председателем профкома.
 1985—1986 — заместитель председателя, председатель Чернышевского поссовета.
 1986—1987 — заместитель заведующего отделом Мирнинского ГК КПСС.
 1987—1989 — секретарь парткома на предприятиях пос. Чернышевский.
 1989—1991 — народный депутат СССР, член Верховного Совета СССР, секретарь комитета по охране природы, рациональному использованию природных ресурсов.
 1992—1993 — заместитель Постоянного представителя Республики Саха (Якутия) при Президенте РФ.
 1993—1996 — директор Каскада Вилюйских ГЭС.
 1997—2000 — председатель Совета директоров АК «Якутскэнерго».
 2000—2003 — заместитель директора Якутского Представительства АК «АЛРОСА».
 2003—2005 — директор ООО «КДМ Оленек» (добыча и разведка алмазов).
 2006 — инспектор труда профсоюза энергетиков РС(Я).
 2007 — заместитель директора по производству ООО «ДОКОС» (строительство).

Народный депутат Верховного Совета ЯАССР 12-го созыва. Народный депутат Палаты Республики Государственного Собрания (Ил Тумэн) РС(Я) первого созыва.

Умер 31 марта 2019 г. в Санкт-Петербурге.

Источники
 В Санкт-Петербурге скончался известный якутянин

Члены Верховного Совета СССР (1989—1991)
Секретари парткомов КПСС на предприятиях и в организациях
Депутаты Верховного Совета Якутской АССР
Депутаты Государственного Собрания (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия)


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