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namespace naive {
namespace backend {

namespace {

struct {
  EGLDisplay display;
  EGLConfig config;
  EGLContext context;
  EGLSurface surface;
} gl;

}  // namespace

EglContext::EglContext(void* native_display,
                       void* native_window,
                       int32_t platform) {
  EGLint major, minor, n;

  const EGLint context_attribs[] = {EGL_CONTEXT_CLIENT_VERSION, 2, EGL_NONE};

  const EGLint config_attributes[] = {EGL_SURFACE_TYPE,
                                      EGL_WINDOW_BIT,
                                      EGL_RED_SIZE,
                                      1,
                                      EGL_GREEN_SIZE,
                                      1,
                                      EGL_BLUE_SIZE,
                                      1,
                                      EGL_ALPHA_SIZE,
                                      1,
                                      EGL_RENDERABLE_TYPE,
                                      EGL_OPENGL_ES3_BIT,
                                      EGL_NONE};

  PFNEGLGETPLATFORMDISPLAYEXTPROC get_platform_display =
      (PFNEGLGETPLATFORMDISPLAYEXTPROC)eglGetProcAddress(
          "eglGetPlatformDisplayEXT");
  assert(get_platform_display);
  gl.display = get_platform_display(platform, native_display, nullptr);
  assert(eglInitialize(gl.display, &major, &minor));
  assert(eglBindAPI(EGL_OPENGL_ES_API));
  assert(eglChooseConfig(gl.display, config_attributes, &gl.config, 1, &n));
  LOG_ERROR << "eglConfig " << n;
  assert(n == 1);

  gl.context =
      eglCreateContext(gl.display, gl.config, EGL_NO_CONTEXT, context_attribs);
  assert(gl.context);
  gl.surface = eglCreateWindowSurface(gl.display, gl.config,
                                      (EGLNativeWindowType)native_window, NULL);
  assert(gl.surface);
  eglMakeCurrent(gl.display, gl.surface, gl.surface, gl.context);
  eglSwapInterval(gl.display, 1);
  glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
}

void EglContext::CreateDrawBuffer(int32_t width, int32_t height) {
  display_width_ = width;
  display_height_ = height;
  glGenFramebuffers(1, &framebuffer_);
  glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, framebuffer_);
  glGenTextures(1, &rendered_texture_);
  glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, rendered_texture_);
  glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, display_width_, display_height_, 0,
               GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, 0);

  glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
  glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
  glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D,
                         rendered_texture_, 0);
  assert(glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_FRAMEBUFFER) == GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE);
  glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
}

void EglContext::BindDrawBuffer(bool bind) {
  glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, bind ? framebuffer_ : 0);
}

void EglContext::BlitFrameBuffer() {
  glBindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER, framebuffer_);
  glReadBuffer(GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0);
  glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
  glBlitFramebuffer(0, 0, display_width_, display_height_, 0, 0, display_width_,
                    display_height_, GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT, GL_LINEAR);
}

void EglContext::MakeCurrent() {
  eglMakeCurrent(gl.display, gl.surface, gl.surface, gl.context);
}

void EglContext::EnableBlend(bool enable) {
  if (enable)
    glEnable(GL_BLEND);
  else
    glDisable(GL_BLEND);
}

void EglContext::SwapBuffers() {
  eglSwapBuffers(gl.display, gl.surface);
}

}  // namespace backend
}  // namespace naive

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Cyber Crime Report Finds Old Breaches Led to New Breaches
Motivations behind the attacks ranged by industry and, predictably, not a single sector was left untouched by the unscrupulous actors.
Top Industry Target: IT
Information technology (IT) was the top targeted industry in the first half of 2016, accounting for 34 percent of all cyber crime chatter. That is an increase of four percent over last year. LinkedIn was the top trending cyber crime target across all categories, which stems from their 2012 data breach that, as announced in May of this year, actually impacted 100 million more users than originally thought. Reports continue to surface of secondary organizations now having their data stolen due to a combination of the LinkedIn breach, widespread user password reuse and remote access software from services such as GoToMyPC, LogMein and TeamViewer. Microsoft was another top trending target in the IT category, as was Android.
Past cyber attacks and the tools used to carry them out have led to new breaches this year, according to key findings in a new mid-year cyber crime trend report just released by cyber threat intelligence provider SurfWatch Labs. In a study of events that occurred in the first half of 2016, the stockpile of personal information garnered from old data breaches led to new compromises and lucrative payoffs for cyber criminals.
While the diversity of cyber threats can seem overwhelming when viewed in isolation, when viewed collectively, they paint a picture of an increasingly connected cyber crime world. Malicious actors excel at taking one piece of information and leveraging it to perform additional attacks, gain more information, and widen their reach. The stories so far in 2016 clearly demonstrate this method and capability, with numerous cyber incidents tied to previous data breaches. The effects of cyber crime continue to ripple outwards – affecting those in the supply chain and beyond.
Motivations behind the attacks ranged by industry and predictably, not a single sector was left untouched by the unscrupulous actors. The new report does indicate that the familiar company response to a breach — "We were breached by a sophisticated attack but it has now been contained" — actually contradicts what has really happened so far this year. In truth, the majority of tactics used were not new or sophisticated.
To compile this report, SurfWatch Labs collected tens of thousands of cyber event activities from open and Dark Web sources and then normalized, categorized and analyzed the data for impact based on the CyberFact information model. Knowing the breakdown of industries targeted, the effects of attacks and the tactics criminals employed provides better insight into what the bad guys are up to. This translates into more informed forecasts of how cyber crime will impact organizations similar to yours and consequently, what to do to minimize your risk.
In this slideshow, Adam Meyer, chief security strategist, SurfWatch Labs, has highlighted key findings from the report.

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Disappearing Object Phenomenon
When items disappear and reappear
What are the possible explanations for the disappearing phenomena?. Yuri_Arcurs / Getty Images
By Stephen Wagner
Do objects disappear around your home, then inexplicably reappear? You might be a victim of disappearing object phenomena (DOP). What could be the cause?
Typically, DOP involves an object that the person had just been using or that they invariably keep in one particular place. When they go to use the object, it is gone. The person looks high and low for the object, often getting others involved in the search, but it cannot be found. A short time later, or perhaps the next day, the person is surprised to find the object returned to the spot where it is always kept or in some other obvious place where the search should have found it.
What happened here? Where did the object go? Why did it "disappear"? How was it returned? What forces are at work in this highly strange yet relatively commonplace phenomenon? There are several possibilities, from the mundane to the peculiar to the profoundly bizarre—both psychological and paranormal.
Absentmindedness
When examining such occurrences as DOP, you must first consider the most ordinary possibility: that the person simply misplaced the object or forgot where she put it. This, in fact, probably accounts for the vast majority of reported DOPs. For example, a woman always puts her hairbrush in the same place on her dressing table, but now is not there. It's quite possible that being distracted somehow, she absentmindedly carried it to another room and put it down on a table.
Naturally, when she goes to look for the brush she's astonished that it's not on the dressing table. And she'll most likely look all around the dressing table since that is where it is always kept. She might not even think to look in the other room on the table because why in the world would she ever do such a thing? Yet things like this probably happen more often than we imagine.
This DOP possibility falls apart when the hairbrush is later found on the dressing table in its usual spot. Unless the woman was experiencing temporary blindness with regard to this one object, then other possibilities must be considered.
The Borrower
Here's another mundane, but highly possible cause that you must consider if you are to investigate DOP seriously. When the hairbrush has vanished from the dressing table, after her initial search, the woman would quite likely question other members of the household. Even though they might deny up and down that they borrowed the hairbrush, it's very plausible that a family member did, in fact, borrow the item.
Seeing that mom is upset, and perhaps not wanting to get into trouble for borrowing an item they know they shouldn't touch, they'll deny taking it. Then, when mom is elsewhere in the house, the borrower sneaks back to the dressing table and returns the brush. And when mom returns to the scene of the "crime," the brush has amazingly returned to its proper spot. And a household mystery is born.
This possibility can be eliminated, of course, if the person lives alone or when other family members are not around when the DOP occurs.
The "absent-minded" and "borrower" possibilities aren't as exciting or intriguing as those that follow, but they probably solve a majority of DOP cases. We must remember that any paranormal investigation must first rule out the most likely, if pedestrian, explanations for what seems like an unexplainable event. Only then can you consider more unusual possibilities.
"I have all of my grandmother's jewelry boxes and most of her jewelry. Many times I would forget and leave my jewelry out on my dresser or counter, and in the morning they would be gone from the dresser or counter and in one of the jewelry boxes."
When disappearing object phenomena (DOP) occur, a lot of people blame a poltergeist, if only half seriously. A poltergeist is usually defined as a mischievous or noisy spirit. Poltergeist activity often includes unexplained noises, music, smells, and movement of objects. So when that hairbrush disappears, some people think, it must be because of a poltergeist.
And some might have more reason to think a poltergeist is responsible than others. This might be the case if the hairbrush incident is not an isolated one. If the person finds that objects are "disappearing" or being moved on a regular basis, for example. Or if there are other phenomena, such as unexplained smells and noises that the person can associate with the missing item.
Sometimes the particular item has a history that gives the person the idea that a spirit is involved. For instance, a watch that belonged to a grandfather might be found to be moved to a certain place on its own—the sort of place that grandfather usually kept it. Or like the case of the grandmother's jewelry above.
Even though it seems likely to the person that a spirit or poltergeist is responsible, it is still unknown what a poltergeist really is. In the case of DOP, is it an actual spirit that has somehow become attached to the object and by some force that science cannot yet explain moves or borrows the object? Or does the activity arise from the person's subconscious and their emotional relationship to the object and its original owner?
Temporary Invisibility
"It was the night of my freshman homecoming. I had brought three dresses a few days or so before and was planning on wearing the simple black and white one. Nothing fancy. I went to my closet an hour or so before the dance to get ready and the dress wasn't in my closet. Nowhere in my closet, not even with the other two dresses. My mom and I searched everywhere but still couldn't find it.
"My mom finally said I had to wear one of the others and so I chose one of the white ones. A day or so after the dance, I went to my closet to find a shirt and the black and white dress I was going to wear to the dance was the first piece of clothing on the rack. Go figure."
Let's again take the example of the woman and her hairbrush. She believes she placed it on the dressing table as always, but it is gone and she has thoroughly looked for it. There's no one else in the house who could have borrowed it. A while later, it's back on the dressing table. It was Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" who said, "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Here's an improbable explanation: the hairbrush—or the girl's dress—temporarily became invisible.
There is no scientific hypothesis that allows for an object to become invisible and then after a time becomes visible again. Yet that is exactly the effect as perceived by some DOP experiencers. And if this temporary invisibility is somehow possible, it raises many questions: How or for what reason does a specific object become invisible? Does the effect have something to do with the person's regular or intimate use of the object? Is it a physical effect produced by some unknown mechanics of the human mind?
Sometimes this "invisibility" can be a strictly psychological phenomenon. The object is really there, but our attention is so diverted that we literally don't see it. It's an example of selective attention.
Dimensional Shift
"I looked everywhere for my car keys. I looked everywhere in the kitchen and living room—just everywhere! Then all of a sudden I heard keys drop in the kitchen. I went in and there they were on the ground."
The existence of dimensions other than the three we jostle around in every day is theorized by science. Sometimes referred to as "other planes of existence" by the more spiritually minded, these dimensions are sometimes thought of as places where spirits and other forms of reality might reside. Could the temporary invisibility or movement of objects be explained by their slipping into another dimension? Is some kind of dimensional or temporal shift to blame? It's a pretty far-out notion, but then a genuine DOP experience is hard to explain.
Even when the rational explanations are ruled out, there are still enough intriguing DOP experiences remaining to remind us that there is much more to this life, this reality than we are currently aware.
And here is one more possibility:
"The first thing I think of when that [DOP] happens is faeries since one of the places I lived in had some. They tended to take things and then give them back later. One time, in full view of a number of people, I was getting ready to leave the apartment, and since I was always in the habit of misplacing my keys, no faeries needed, I had taken to hanging them on a heavy biker wallet chain and had some jangly brass key tags to boot. They weren't where I'd put them, and I had to leave.
"So I hollered, 'Okay, guys, this isn't funny. I need my keys NOW!' My friends were watching as they materialized out of thin air above the shelf I had my phone answering machine on and clattered to the shelf."
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CLASSICAL COMPETITION: The Guam Symphony Society is hosting its annual competition for young musicians this month. Director Stephen Bednarzyk, seen in this file photo leading the symphony in a Seaside Holiday Concert at the Governor Joseph Flores Memorial Park Amphitheater, is coordinating the competition. Post file photo
Young musicians invited to annual competition
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The Guam Symphony Society invites young classical musicians, ages 6-21, to enter the annual Young Artists Competition later this month.
The competition is open to artists of voice, piano, strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion.
"It's a wonderful opportunity for young musicians studying classical music to compare themselves against other musicians on island who are studying classical music," said symphony director and competition coordinator Stephen Bednarzyk.
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"There are only a couple of venues you can do this at, the other venue being the Tumon Bay Music Festival; they have a solo and ensemble contest. And then we have our competition, too. So it's one of the few competitions where these students get a chance to kind of flex their musical muscles and see how they're progressing as young musicians."
Bednarzyk said there have been students who competed and went on to universities off island and now are music professors.
"Some of the kids who've been in the competition have been very successful in their music careers," he said.
This year's competition will be slightly different because of the pandemic.
"Last year we couldn't even get the competition off the ground because of this pandemic," he said. "Usually, the final round is open to the public. But this year, because of restrictions, we can't open it to the public. That's one of the issues we've been working with this year."
The competition will be held Jan. 26 and 27, at the University of Guam Fine Arts Theater. Interested competitors will have to submit all entry forms and other required material by 5 p.m. Jan. 21.
Competitors will perform before a closed panel of judges on Jan. 26. A second round will be held Jan. 27.
During the audition, artists must come prepared to perform one complete movement of a work or two contrasting arias. Accompanists are the responsibility of and must be provided by the artists.
Contestants are divided into the following categories:
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• Junior: Grades 7-9
• Senior: Grades 10 and up
Top three winners for each category will be announced on Jan. 28.
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• Applicants must provide one copy of their selection(s) for the judges with the application.
• Applicants must submit two letters of recommendation with their application. One must be from their principal music teacher.
• An entry fee of $100 must be submitted with the application. Make checks payable to Guam Symphony Society.
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DeFranco v. Judy, Nos. 2012-G-3114, 2013-G-3135: Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment in Legal Malpractice Action
by Boston Lawyer
In Massachusetts, professional negligence claims against an attorney must be filed within three years (M.G.L. c. 260 § 4). Fraud claims also have a three year statute of limitations (M.G.L. c. 260 § 2A). However, these periods do not begin to run until a client's discovery of the actionable conduct. An Ohio appellate court has considered these issues under Ohio law and affirmed a lower court's entry of summary judgment in favor of two attorneys in a legal malpractice case.
In DeFranco v. Judy, a woman was involved in a dispute with an Ohio county over whether a septic system on her property violated local health and zoning bylaws. In 1997, the woman hired an attorney to represent her in this matter, but he was unable to resolve the bylaw issues.
By 2004, the dispute was still ongoing, and the woman retained another attorney to represent her. The second attorney negotiated a favorable settlement, which included a future test of the septic system to determine if it was in violation. However, the woman refused to sign the agreement. The second attorney then successfully withdrew his representation. Several months later, the attorney confirmed that a test had not been performed.
In 2011, the county wrote a letter to the woman affirming that a test was never conducted. Consequently, the woman filed an action against both attorneys, alleging that they had committed malpractice and fraud by failing to ensure that the system was tested. The attorneys moved for summary judgment on the basis that the applicable statutes of limitations had expired. The trial court granted the motion and the woman appealed.
In Ohio, a legal malpractice suit must be filed within one year of a client's discovery of an attorney's negligent conduct. Claims for fraud must be brought within four years of the date when the fraud was discovered, or reasonably should have been discovered.
The appellate court found that the woman knew that the test had not been conducted at the time of the attempted settlement because it was specifically contemplated in the agreement. Because the woman waited over seven years to file a lawsuit, both causes of action were time barred. Therefore, summary judgment was appropriate.
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What's With All the Exhibitions About Prisons?
Featuring Ashley Hunt, Rachel Nelson, and Risa Puleo in conversation with Pete Brook
Thursday, June 17, 2021 to Thursday, June 17, 2021
Curators and educators Ashley Hunt, Rachel Nelson, and Risa Puleo join writer and curator Pete Brook for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.
Artist Barbara Bloom (b. Los Angeles, California: 1951) lives and works in New York City. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The Serpentine Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; among many others. An extensive survey of her work, The Collections of Barbara Bloom, was organized in 2007-08 by Brian Wallis for the International Center of Photography, New York, and traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Barbara Bloom: Works on Paper, on Paper at David Lewis Gallery (davidlewisgallery.com)
Rachel Nelson
Curator, writer, and educator Dr. Rachel Nelson is director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz. She is currently working on a monograph, Seeing in Whiteout, focusing on the strategies contemporary artists use to reveal and disturb the racialized histories and presents of prisons and policing in the United States. Recent publications include book chapters, exhibition catalogue essays, journal articles, and review, included in the Brooklyn Rail, NKA, Third Text, Savvy, and African Arts.
More on Rachel Nelson
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@rachelnelson19
Risa Puleo
Risa Puleo is the curator of Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, which opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and traveled to Tufts University Gallery. She is a curator of the 2023 Counterpublics Triennial in St. Louis. Puleo teaches art history at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and in the Northwestern Prison Education Program.
More on Risa Puleo
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Pete Brook
Freelance writer and curator Pete Brook is interested in social justice and the politics of visual culture. He writes and edits Prison Photography, a website that analyzes imagery produced within and about prisons with a focus on the American prison industrial complex. Prison Photography has been recognized as one of the best photography blogs by LIFE.com, the British Journal of Photography, and the Daily Beast.
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Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent. While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word. He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, A Place to Stand, the story of which is now also a documentary by the same title.
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1. BUSINESS PREMISE LICENSES AND SIGNBOARD LICENSES
Companies doing business in Malaysia are required to apply for business premise licenses and signboard licenses from the respective State Authorities. The requirements for the application of a business premise license and a signboard license may vary according to each local authority. Generally, an application for a business license and signboard license must be accompanied by:
(i)	Photocopy of the applicant's identity card
(ii)	Passport-sized photograph of the applicant
(iii)	Copy of the company's M&A and Forms 9, 24 and 49
(iv)	Copy of either the rental agreement or the sale and purchase agreement of the company's business premise
(v)	Copy of the Certificate of Fitness of the company's business premise
(vi)	Copy of the Fire Department's support letter
(vii)	Copy of the location plan of the company's business premise
(viii)	Photographs of the business premise
(ix)	Photographs showing the location of the company's signboard
(x)	Samples of the signboard indicating its design and colors
For further information for companies located in Kuala Lumpur, kindly visit DBKL's website at www.dbkl.gov.my
For further information for companies located in Petaling Jaya, kindly visit MPPJ's website at www.mbpj.gov.my
2. SPECIAL LICENSES
In addition companies doing the following businesses are also required to obtain special licenses:
i)	Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies with shareholders' funds of RM2.5M and above or which employ at least 75 full-time employees are required to apply for manufacturing license from MIDA.
For further details please visit MIDA's website at http://www.mida.gov.my
ii)	Banking
Under the Banking and Financial Institutions Act, 1989, the Malaysian Central Bank licenses and regulates businesses such as banking, money broking, discount houses, provision of credit and finance, merchant banking, deposit taking and certain other financial businesses.
For further details, please visit Bank Negara's website at www.bnm.gov.my.
iii)	Building and Construction
All Companies in this field must obtain a licence from the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) prior to incorporating in Malaysia and before undertaking any construction and related activities in the country.
For further details, please visit CIDB's website at www.cidb.gov.my
iv)	Oil and gas industry
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For further details, please visit Petronas website at www.petronas.com.my
v)	Wholesale and Retail Trade
When incorporating in Malaysia, note that all proposals for foreign involvement in wholesale and retail trade must obtain the approval of the Committee on Wholesale and Retail Trade (CWRT).
There is no restriction on maximum shareholding i.e. foreigners can own 100% of a company. If they own more than 30% of any company, they will be required to apply for Foreign Investment Committee approval, the process of which takes more than 6 months but approval is normally given. Normally, small businesses will not apply for any FIC approval unless there is business with the government departments.
Wholesale and Retail Trade (WRT) license is required by all companies that are in the wholesale, retail, trading, import/export and restaurant business which have foreign shareholding. The WRT license is required by all the said business sectors before they can apply for a professional work permit.
The Companies with foreign ownership that are engaged in distributive trade are required to obtain a wholesale and retail trade (WRT) license from the Malaysian Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA) [KEMENTERIAN PERDAGANGAN DALAM NEGERI DAN HAL EHWAL PENGGUNA (KPHDN)]. For WRT, the minimum paid up capital requirement is RM 1 million. Other companies with foreign ownership that are not engaged in distributive trade do not require a WRT license.
For further information, kindly visit KPHDN's website at www.kpdnkk.gov.my
3. FOREIGN INVESTMENT COMMITTEE APPROVAL
Foreign investors may have to obtain the approval from the FIC for the following:
any proposed acquisition by foreign interests of any substantial fixed assets in Malaysia
any proposed acquisition of assets or any interests, mergers and take-overs of companies and businesses in Malaysia by any means, which will result in ownership or control passing to foreign interests
any proposed acquisition of 15% or more of the voting power by any one foreign interest or associated group or by foreign interest in the aggregate of 30% or more of the voting power of a Malaysian company and business
control of Malaysian companies and businesses through any form of joint-venture agreement, management agreement and technical assistance or other arrangements
any mergers and take-over of any company and business in Malaysia whether by Malaysian or foreign interests
any other proposed acquisition of assets or interests exceeding RM10 million in value whether by Malaysian or foreign interests (the threshold was revised to RM10 million with effect from 21 May 2003)
Any acquisition by Malaysian interests of shares in Malaysian incorporated companies which constitutes more than 50% of the voting power of the company, i.e. where it gains statutory control.
Specific projects approved by the Government are exempted from the requirement of obtaining FIC's prior approval. Normally, small businesses will not apply for any FIC approval unless there is business with the government departments.
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Hertford County advances
Published 6:09 pm Friday, February 25, 2022
By Cal Bryant
AHOSKIE – Hertford County High School is moving forward in the 2022 NC High School Athletic Association's state basketball play-offs.
Hertford County's Jeremiah Benthall (#12) drives past a Northeastern defender during Thursday night's 60-35 win over the Eagles in the second round of the Class 2A state play-offs. Photo by William Anthony
Both HCHS varsity teams advanced to Saturday's third round thanks to wins here Thursday night.
The Lady Bears (23-3 overall and the #2 seed in the Eastern Class 2A bracket) defeated #15 Fairmont High School, 54-44. HCHS led 32-27 at halftime.
Desiree Askew scored a game-high 23 points to lead the Lady Bears. Askew also added 16 rebounds, four assists, and six steals.
Tamia Britt aided in the win by scoring 12 points. Brooklyn White (8), Ashley Jenkins (6), and Jaliyah Mitchell (5) rounded out the HCHS scoring.
Fairmont was led by Lakayla Chavis (12 points).
The Lady Bears will host seventh-seeded Roanoke Rapids (16-2 overall) in Saturday's third-round action. Tip-off is at 6 p.m.
In Thursday's varsity boys game, HCHS (seeded fifth) turned up the defensive pressure and routed conference nemesis Northeastern High School, 60-35. That win avenged a 73-68 loss by the Bears on their home court against the Eagles in last week's conference tournament semifinals.
"We changed things up a bit since we last played them and really got after their guards on defense," said veteran HCHS coach Charles Simmons.
After a slow start, HCHS led 20-11 at halftime and then built a big lead in the third quarter where the Bears outscored Northeastern, 26-11.
Freshman Rimiez Williams led HCHS, scoring a game-high 25 points on an 11-of-17 effort from the floor. Keveon Rodgers (12) and William Valentine (11) also scored in double figures. Rodgers added 14 rebounds as HCHS held a dominating edge on the boards (29-13).
Tamia Britt (#22) is fouled by a Fairmont High School player as she launches a shot in Thursday night's game. Britt and the Lady Bears advanced to the third round of the state playoffs with a 54-44 victory. Photo by William Anthony
HCHS (20-6 overall) will travel to fourth-seeded St. Pauls (21-5) for a third-round match-up on Saturday. Tip-off is at 5:30 p.m.
Both Hertford County teams posted lopsided wins in their state tournament openers on Tuesday night at home.
The Lady Bears routed #31 North Johnston, 72-33. Askew scored a game-high 31 points. Britt (15), Jenkins (12), and White (10) also scored in double figures for HCHS.
In the boys game, HCHS knocked off #28 James Kenan, 79-44, led by 25 points from Israel Powell and 10 points each by Jeremiah Benthall and Valentine.
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The Psychologizing of Modernity in Art and Architecture
Historian Mark Jarzombek on the influence of psychoanalysis on modern architecture, stadiums and bathhouses, and the Self
videos | August 19, 2015
What does it mean to have modern consciousness? How does architecture manipulate our perception? How can we study the effect architecture on a viewer? These and other questions are answered by Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark Jarzombek.
All of us, we think of ourselves as modern: we have modern conveniences, cars, world views and what not. But what does it mean to be modern? And this is the question that I am interested in precisely because I think psychology helps us be modern in a way that doesn't reveal its modernity. So, in other words, I think of steel and concrete that make this building, I see, "Oh, that's modern". I can point to it and say, "That's modern". But if someone says "Why are you modern?", I might not point to myself and say "I am modern" as a person – my self-hood, my identity is modern. So how does that happen, so why is that that we point to things as modern and not in some sense to our own consciousness as being modern?
And this is the paradox of what psychology can do for us. We know that psychology is a discipline, there are professors and doctors who teach it and work on it, but in some sense there's another type of psychology which is already embedded within us that we have naturalized and normalized. I can turn to a newspaper that says: if you want to be at a meeting you should wear red tie, or a blue tie means this, or a striped tie means that. Or how we sit and talk to each other can send some sort of psychological messages. And all undergraduates in the United States take psych 101, so they learn how to not only understand psychology, but to participate, if you will, in this sort of the secret game of being potent of possibly psychologize yourself, but engaging in a trick uncoupling yourself from the psychology world.
Every time I go shopping, I am the victim of some psychological study that has decided that men when they enter a store will turn right or turn left, or that luxury goods should be here, or luxury goods should be there, or that this type of music makes you feel relaxed, and maybe you'll buy more this way. There's not a store in the United States that has not been produced by commercial psychologists. We don't know who they are, these are invisible people who are continuously cooperating in this field. So why is that we have allowed ourselves to be to be manipulated this way – sometimes very artificially we might say – but actually we are participants in this manipulation all the time.
So we have naturalized this in the same way that you could think of perspective in painting. In the 15th century, when perspective was invented, people were like, "Wow, this looks really weird!" Today if you do a perspective, no one thinks it's weird. We completely understand what perspective means, whether you paint it or not. Psychology is the same thing, basically invented in the 1880's as a field in a discipline. We have naturalized all or many of its messages, so today we see it as completely normal. If you would go into 1850 and talk about psychology, people would go, "That's like… I don't understand what you're talking about".
The idea of a "Self", with the capital S, which is sort of supposed to be integral to its identity and its relationship to other people, and those relationships with other people are supposed to be working and be filled with empathy, and connections, and so forth – these types of world views basically come from the 20th century. And in some sense you could really say that after the World War II they were even strengthened by art and architecture that began to sort of look at psychology as a way to in some sense invigorate its own performability in the social world.
Gestalt psychology, which is a particular way of understanding how objects become in some sense embodied certain psychological principles – so that's not just humans having psychologies, now an object can have a psychology – which for some may sound sort of strange. But basically this was very much of a powerful argument in the in the 50s.
Or we can look at how certain spaces can affect us psychologically. Dark spaces, light spaces, with windows, or no windows, or whatever it is – we can analyze the psychological impact that architecture has on us or could have on us, and not just how we go shopping, but how architecture itself becomes a medium for certain psychological manipulations.
Do you design those in while you're designing? Do you use those operations to produce a certain type of architectural affect, or do you design a building and then in some sense forget that there are effects that you produced through certain types of manipulations?
What I wanted to research was how we are continuously playing the game while pretending not to play the game. And this is a philosophical project as much as it is a question about psychology. Because it gets to where do we position this magical Self that is both empowered though psychology and simultaneously rendered and disempowered through psychology.
In other words, if someone can look at me and render me transparent by analyzing the way I move my body, the type of clothes I'm wearing and so forth, then in some sense I'm becoming sort of invisible in the larger scheme of reality. But of course, I wouldn't feel that because psychology tells me about certain types of impairments. So art, and architecture particularly, already in the early 20th century, but particularly in the fifties and sixties, sort of embraced this problem. I would say, by the time we got to the seventies and eighties it was realized that it was harder to play the game than one would expect it.
So in art we see the drift towards psychoanalysis which is a much more complicated, purposeful driven, subjectivist driven project, not about psychological connections, but about your own personal issues, if you will. Architecture also drifted away from the psychological structure by looking at other types of issues having to do with the cultural paradigms, historical agencies and so forth.
But there's a moment in the 50s when psychology really was sort of part and parcel of how many artists and architects functioned both theoretically, you know, apositive, but also simultaneously, if you will, disempowering or rethinking the questions of architecture as a stable building with a function and a program, and that's all you have to talk about. Also in architecture, the study of architecture has to study lots of different things, including impacts and this sort of more difficult things to talk about.
The psychologizing of modernity is a process in which psychology seeps like water into a sponge – you don't see the water, you just see the sponge getting bigger. You know that the water is in there, it's just that you don't really see it. But if you squeeze a little bit, you get drips coming out. And what is it that is collected in that sponge of modernity if you try to look at it, if you think of the squeezes being architectural or theoretical research?
You can trace different philosophers, artists, architects, theorist who are embedded in that sponge. So, for example Lipps who is a German psychologist – he's the one who, you can say, discovered the idea of empathy, the fact that we relate to people individually by understanding each other's psychological realities. And you could go from there to someone like Arnheim who was an architectural theorist who writes about how space becomes – I mean, we might think of a concrete building, what does it have to do psychologically – but he talks about how space within certain buildings, even modern buildings, forces us to think in a certain way or feel certain things.
So we can feel a sense of exhaustion by walking up a long staircase, or we can feel a sense of community by walking into a space where there are chairs and tables. So by understanding how these spaces produce certain communalities or individual spaces, individual realities, they can be designed in that particular way. So Arnheim looks at, you know, various things like a sport stadium as a psychological space.
When we are on our own, we might like the Patriots or you might like a certain basketball game, but when we're in a stadium a whole different psychology develops. That is meant to be produced by the stadium itself, so the stadium is not just looking at a sports thing, it's a psychological space about communal participation in a particular event. And the way the sound is organized, the way the music is put in, and this seating and viewing and all this stuff is meant to produce certain effects.
Another great example is a building by Peter Zumthor, he's a Swiss architect. It's a bathhouse in Switzerland in Therme Vals, and this would be, you know, a classic example of a type of psychologized space. So here he wants a building where you go into the water, you are isolated by yourself, even if there might be a few other bodies floating around. He wants you to understand that the stone is cut in a particular way, so that you're seeing the stone, the lighting is very mysterious and dark, coming from the oblique angles. Even the changing room with its red coloration and small windows looking out in different ways is meant to produce sense of tranquility, repose, a type of thoughtfulness in how you're supposed to behave, how you are supposed to think, how you are supposed to get into the water. Sort of a cleansing activities – it's not just a place where you go and get wet and say, "That was really a nice sauna." It is supposed to have a whole almost mystical experience about it. And it's fabulous, and people really love it.
So that architect is particularly sensitive to, if you will, the individual psychology and how you use architecture to mould certain psychological experiences. So it's not just the experience of being in a bathhouse and washing, and getting wet, and the heat, and the cold, and so forth. But the architecture is a particularly strong player, and the materials that were chosen, and how the materials are used and shaped around you.
I give these two examples: a stadium where it's meant to be loud and powerful, and everybody's chanting the same thing is one type of psychological space, Zumthor's space which is just the opposite, it produces exactly the opposite effect. But both spaces are meant to produce certain effects within you, they're not just "go to pay your admissions and do something", they are supposed to transform you in a particular way. From the very, very quiet to the very noisy, but they all participate in that project which is to affect your psychological inner being. Maybe by the time after an hour or two after the bath you've forgotten it, but I'm sure Zumthor would hope it's a life changing experience in some way. Just as going into a football stadium with forty thousand other people would be a life changing experience if it's the first time you've done this.
Psychology is there, very much in how certain architects – not all – understand their operations within the designed framework. Some architects couldn't care less about it. That still doesn't mean that psychology is out of the game, it's just that it's not part of the conscious aspect of design. But some architects will very clearly use psychology as a way to begin to understand the manipulative aspect of the people that are using it.
Today if we compare what we study in an architecture school, psychology is really never discussed at all anymore. It is a completely forgotten discipline, no one studies how buildings affect you as such. You sort of have an intuition in the architecture school about how these things work. You might design a stadium and you might know, of course, that it impacts your psychology. But we don't really study psychologists, we don't have them coming in and helping us in forming our decision. It's seen as completely separate.
That doesn't mean that psychology doesn't saturate trough everything. And if you think of how in even what Rem Koolhaas calls "junk space" – just, you know, shopping centers – shopping centers are 100% built around psychology to get you to do more shopping. So what is the psychology of shopping? So if you are designing a shopping center, you may not be a world star famous architect, but you're using psychology a lot. So you could say that much of the junk space around us – the places where we go shopping, or where we are buying food, or this, or that – these are to a large extent already saturated with certain prototype ideas about how we respond psychologically. So McDonalds has people who have understood the psychology of buying fast food and what the color repertoire is – the orange is supposed to sort of excite certain salivatory processes that are just biological production that gets you want to buy food.
So we are in that manipulative world, and architecture plays in that world whether we teach it or not. I mean, you can think that's what it is. As a theoretical postulate it's probably nowhere in the academic world, but in the practical world of the build world out there, in the boxes, and in the shopping centers, and in the restaurants there's a lot of psychology, and it manipulates the world around it.
How do we analyse that, that's the critical part. Many of these studies are proprietary, you're not going to find them on any website, that's for sure, and you have to dig very, very deep into research to understand how these things are operating. And by that time we get into sociology or into almost anthropology of space which brings us far from architectural design. But I think it needs to be really forwarded much more, so that we see architecture, how in some sense it plays a very dynamic role, even if it's maybe just a box.
We may now think: how can a box be a part of an architectural world? But it actually might have more impact on us in how we present ourselves as a modern subject then we might think. So the question is always not just what architecture is, but how architecture and us as modern subjects relate to these types of spaces, and for that we need a lot more research.
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Obama Finishes First Term With Fewest Press Conferences Since Reagan
01/15/2013 01:10pm EST | Updated March 17, 2013
President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush take part in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 31, 2012, to unveil the Bush portrait. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Obama conducted fewer press conferences during his first term than any president since Ronald Reagan, Politico reported on Tuesday.
The website asked presidential historian Martha Kumar, who regularly crunches the numbers about the commander-in-chief's interactions with the media, to see how Obama fared when compared to his predecessors. He turned out to have faced the press even less than George W. Bush.
The numbers:
President Obama - 79
President George W. Bush - 89
President Bill Clinton - 133
President George H. W. Bush - 143
President Reagan - 27
It's the second study of Kumar's in a year to look at Obama's fairly distant relationship to the White House press corps. Last February, she noted that he was on track to slightly outstrip the second Bush. By the end of his term, Obama had fallen behind. However, he has had many, many more (relatively) brief sit-down interviews with reporters of all stripes than either Bush 43 or Clinton.
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This album is a soothing, experimental switch from his last two albums, which were sonically minimalistic; The Colour in Anything is Blake's push into chaos in the most pleasing way possible.
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The young Montreal-based producer made his official mark on the world on May 6 with the release of his first album 99.9% which is a genre-defying album combining elements of funk, soul, R&B, and dance music into one cohesive project that also brings together many different artists from Goldlink to BADBADNOTGOOD to Craig David.
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Are you even surprised that Chance the Rapper is on this list? I mean, with every album he gets better and better from 10 Day to now, he has grown as an artist, and you can tell listening to the production variations, but also this sounds like a full album (…as in I would have paid for it, Chance.) Anyway, this "mixtape" is as comprehensive as we wanted, and Chance takes his throne as the King of Openers.
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In Vietnam's Green Hell
Martin Walsh
Adventure Travel Long-distance hiking 17/06/2019
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The air is so thick that you can hardly breathe, and sweat from the heat and humidity coats you in seconds. Half the foliage wants to hold on to you, clawing at your clothes and hooking your limbs. You hack away at the green walls, progressing slowly while swatting ineffectually at clouds of insects intent on bleeding you dry. Tropical rainforests are brutal, but these rapidly shrinking worlds need protection. In Vietnam, the task falls to the Forest Rangers.
A Ranger disappears into the undergrowth of Cat Tien. Photo: Martin Walsh
Stationed in the jungle, far from their families, these hardy souls only rotate out on breaks for six days per month. Last year, I joined them for 10 days to see how they coped, and to shadow their efforts tracking two rehabilitated pygmy slow lorises — a type of small primate related to lemurs. Along the way, I gained some first-hand experience of the challenges of tropical expeditions.
I immediately discovered, for example, that I had arrived ill-equipped. My hiking shoes, a solid pair of Merrells, fell apart after three days. The soles detached completely in the heat, and they rapidly became waterlogged in the infernal dampness. They felt like sodden lead boots. The Ranger's footwear surprised me, simple canvas lace-ups (think original Converse), but these fared much better. They were much lighter, dried quicker and could be cinched tightly around the ankles to keep out leeches.
Ranger Hoa takes a cigarette break, his smoke backlit by shafts of light through the forest canopy. Photo: Martin Walsh
I like most wildlife, but leeches are unquestionably hellspawn. During the rainy season, they march towards you from every direction as soon as you pause to catch your breath. They hang from leaves and drop on you from the canopy, they weevil their way through tiny holes in your defences. Leech socks and liberally applied repellent are therefore a must. Each morning we'd use toothbrushes to coat our shoes and socks. On my upper body, I found it best to go with a single long-sleeved shirt, tightly tucked into my trousers. Buttons were best avoided and a tight collar helped avoid unpleasant surprises.
An essential piece of kit was a machete. Fortunately, I was able to leave this tool in more experienced hands. Cutting your way through dense undergrowth is grueling work, but the Rangers of Nam Cat Tien in southern Vietnam are a tough bunch. Five Rangers live in the basic one-storey building that serves as the headquarters for this closed section of the national park.
There is no running water, and no respite day or night from the heat. It's agonizingly consistent: Every day, the heat peaks at around 35ºC, and at night it drops off only slightly, bottoming out at a far from chilly 27ºC. Except for straight after the monsoon rain, when you get some momentary relief, the humidity is cloying and ever-present. There are no fans, just one solar-powered outlet and an occasional fleeting spot of phone signal relegated to a corner of the building.
A rare golden-cheeked gibbon. Photo: Martin Walsh
From this simple base, each Ranger is responsible for a designated area of the surrounding forest. They must protect their patch from illegal logging and poaching, while also rotating shifts to guard the only dirt track into the sector.
But they're not only tasked with keeping people out of the forest, they also keep Vietnam's last wild elephants in. This part of Cat Tien is closed for a reason. It's estimated that between 20 and 50 wild Asian elephants have managed to survive here, in an increasingly isolated patch of forest. As their habitat has shrunk, conflicts with villagers have spiked. Elephants raid surrounding fruit farms, trample crops and occasionally kill villagers.
The Rangers have also found themselves in harm's way. One was lucky to survive with only broken legs, after taking shelter in an irrigation ditch. Another fled a small herd of elephants, only to be gored by a forest buffalo, the fearfully butch-looking guar. The violence hasn't been one way either: Villagers have allegedly poisoned and shot elephants over the past few years.
The government has set up an electrified fence to reduce these clashes, but it remains incomplete and some enterprising elephants have dug their way beneath the sections that work. For the Rangers, maintaining an effective perimeter only means that they are more likely to encounter elephants during their own patrols, since the few remaining pachyderms are packed into their seven hectares of responsibility.
I'm loathe to admit it, but the elephants are significantly more dangerous than the leeches. Just four days in, I had my first terrifying encounter. Deep in the forest, hoping for a radio-transmitter signal from one of the two incredibly elusive pygmy slow lorises, we had stopped to drink and to apply more insect repellent. A loud crash announced that we were not alone, quickly followed by a deep rumble and the sound of splintering bamboo.
We snatched up our belongings and ran headlong through the undergrowth away from the approaching noise. It was a frantic few minutes before we could rest. The Rangers suggested that the elephants had likely sniffed out the fruit-scented local repellent that we had been applying. Their curiosity could have been deadly.
The electric fence only stretches 1.5km in length. Photo: Martin Walsh
Perhaps an even bigger danger facing prospective jungle adventurers is navigation. The dense canopy and foliage make route-finding exceedingly difficult and thick clumps of bamboo often force detours. With no obvious landmarks and with direct-line travel almost impossible, an accurate and reliable GPS device is essential.
Jungle travel was significantly more taxing then I expected. I conceded defeat on the footwear front, binning my hiking shoes in favour of some fetching green canvas kicks. I left with a great deal of admiration for what the Forest Rangers are capable of withstanding, from six-hour slogs through the jungle to copious quantities of paint-stripper quality rice wine. These men somehow make living and working in the jungle look manageable. For me, 10 days was more than enough to send me scurrying back to colder climes.
Based in Da Lat, Vietnam. Freelance writer travelling the world one basketball court at a time.
www.martinwalshphotography.com
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Strangers from distant lands, friends of old... You have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle-earth stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite, or you will fall. Each race is bound this fate, this one doom.
You have only one choice. The Ring must be destroyed.
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Q: Create App Package Bundle Creation Failed. Access is denied I'm trying to run Create App Packages in Visual Studio 2013 for my Windows 8.1 Store app. After validating my license and selecting the app name it fails with the following:

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*0x80070005 - Access is denied.

The file its referring in the Error List is MakeAppx.
Sounds like a simple access restriction but I have no idea where the restriction is and I'm running as administrator anyway.
Any help?
Thanks.

A: Read this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/library/windows/apps/hh446767.aspx#create_package_using_mapfile
Pay atention to:
To create a package using a directory structure
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If you are specifying a struct. You need uses args -d.
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Cotton growers: Govts will jointly launch scheme to extend subsidy
Federal and provincial governments will jointly launch a scheme to extend subsidy to cotton growers besides seeking support from China and other countries for production of better seed to fully support the cotton growers.
Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar disclosed this while addressing a meeting of the Agriculture Committee held at the Governor's House here Thursday, constituted by him to resolve the issues being faced by the agricultural economy.
It was the fourth meeting of the Agriculture Committee chaired by Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar. Federal Minister for Food Security and Research, Fakhar Imam, Chairman CPEC Authority Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa (Retd), Provincial Minister for Agriculture Hasnaian Jahania Gardezi, Principal Secretary to Governor Punjab Dr Rashid Mansoor were present among other relevant Federal and Provincial officers and Vice-Chancellors of universities.
The meeting of the Agriculture Committee held at Governor's House devised recommendations for the use of modern technology for the development of the agricultural sector and also announced the launch of a campaign to promote cotton cultivation in South Punjab.
Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar further said that the present government is introducing reforms in all sectors in order to strengthen the economy, it is determined to solve the problems of farmers on a priority basis. In this regard, the agriculture committee has been set up on the directive of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The representatives of the farmers have also been included in this committee so that the government can be aware of the problems being faced by the farmers. Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said that the government will ensure the provision of quality seeds and quality pesticides to the cotton farmers and fully facilitate them so that more cotton can be grown in South Punjab.
Chairman CPEC Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa (Retd) assured full cooperation to the committee from CPEC and said that the support from China for agricultural research is yielding positive results. He said that China has appointed agriculture attache exclusively for Pakistan. Federal Minister for Food, Syed Fakhr Imam, said that a project is being launched to encourage the cotton farmers. Improvement in Cotton Production will result in the progress of the textile industry. The government under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan is making all-out efforts and utilising all resources to solve the problems of the farmers. Syed Fakhr Imam further said that the previous governments have only made tall claims to solve the problems of the farmers but the incumbent government is taking practical steps to facilitate the farmers.
Meanwhile, a delegation led by Ex-Nazim Haroonabad called on Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar and invited Governor Punjab to pay a visit to Haroonabad. Whilst assuring to resolve various problems including the provision of potable water, Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said that the provision of basic facilities to the public is the top priority of the present government.


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Bernard Boutin, 88, former president of Saint Michael's College and Burlington Savings Bank
The obituary notice follows: Bernard L. BoutinMeredith. NH—–Bernard L. Boutin, 88, of 77 Barnard Ridge Road, Meredith died at the Lakes Region General Hospital, Laconia, NH on Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Mr. Boutin was born July 2, 1923 in Belmont, N.H., the son of Joseph L. and Annie E. (LaFlam) Boutin. He was a longtime resident of the Lakes Region and had attended the Belmont public schools and was Senior Class Valedictorian. He attended The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. from 1942-1943 and graduated Ph. B (Cum Laude) and Valedictorian from St. Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont in 1945. In 1963, he received an honorary degree, LLD, from St. Michael's College. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities from Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, N.H. in 1969 and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Plymouth State College of the University of New Hampshire in 1970. Mr. Boutin was a partner of the Boutin Real Estate Company from 1945-1963, President and Treasurer of the Boutin Insurance Agency, Inc. from 1945-1963 and Partner of the Busy Corner Store from 1956-1959.Mr. Boutin served two terms as Mayor, City of Laconia, from 1955-1959. He was the Democratic Nominee for Governor of New Hampshire in 1958 and 1960 and was in charge of the John F. Kennedy Campaign for President in the 1960 NH Primary. From 1956-1960 he was a member of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Boutin was appointed by President Kennedy as Deputy Administrator, General Services Administration, Jan. 1961 to November 1961 and then was appointed by President Kennedy as Administrator, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1961 to December 1964. In 1964, he was co-coordinator of Johnson for President for New England States and New York. From 1964-1965, Mr. Boutin was Executive Vice President of the National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D.C. In 1964, he was co-chair, with Gregory Peck, of one of the Presidential Inaugural Balls, Washington, D.C. In 1965 & 1966, President Johnson appointed Mr. Boutin as Deputy Director, The Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D.C. and then appointed Mr. Boutin as Administrator, Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C. from 1966-1967.From 1967-1969, Mr. Boutin was Director, Corporate Information Services and member of the President's staff of Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, N.H. and was consultant to the company from 1969-1976. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Indian Head National Bank, Nashua, N.H. from 1967-1969, a member-at-large of the, National Advisory Council, Small Business Administration in 1968 & 1969 as well as a member of the Resources Panel (consultant) of the American Bankers Association. He was also a member of the N.H. Coordinating Board of Advanced Education and Accreditation and Chairman of the New Hampshire State Board of Education in 1968 and 1969. Mr. Boutin was a Representative to the Board of Governors, Catholic University of America from 1968-1973. From 1970-1975,he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Federal Savings & Loan and from 1972-1974 he was a member of the Vermont Commission on Higher Education Facilities. Mr. Boutin was on the Board of Directors, National Council of Independent Colleges and Universities from 1970-1974.From 1970-1972, Mr. Boutin was on the Board of Directors of HI-G Inc., Windsor Locks, Connecticut and was on the Board of Directors of the Greater Burlington Industrial Corp. from 1969-1974. He was a member of the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee, U. S. Dept. of Transportation in 1969 & 1970, appointed by President Johnson.Mr. Boutin was President of St. Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont from March 1969 to November 1974. He was Executive Vice President of the Burlington Savings Bank from May 1975 to August 1976, President of the Burlington Savings Bank, Burlington, Vermont, from August 1976 to October 1980 and on the Board of Directors, First Deposit National Bank of San Francisco from September 1991 to January 1994.Mr. Boutin served on several committees including The First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital, The President's Committee for Equal Employment Opportunity, the Cabinet Committee on the National Stockpile, The President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, The President's ad hoc Committee on Disposal of Surplus Federal Land, the President's ad hoc Committee on the Architecture for Federal Buildings and Government Office Space, the President's Advisory Council on the Arts, the President's Committee on Rural Poverty and the Vermont Private Schools Study Committee.Mr. Boutin had been a Minister of the Eucharist since 1983 and in 1992, he was named by Pope John-Paul a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.Mr. Boutin was a former member, Board of Directors, of the Hillsborough County Community Action Committee, a former director of the American Standards Association, NYC, Past President of the New Hampshire Municipal Association, former chairman of the Laconia Airport Authority, former National Director and State President of St. Michael's College Alumni Association, former Vice president of the Laconia Chamber of Commerce, former director of both the Laconia and Burlington Rotary Clubs, a former trustee of Laconia Hospital, past Exalted Ruler of the Laconia Lodge of Elks #876, former member of the Government Advisory Council and American Management Association, a former member of the American Society for Public Administration, a former trustee of St. Michael's College, a former member of the International Platform Association, former director of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce, consultant, National Council of Catholic Men, 1967-1975, former member of the Fanny Allen Hospital Associates, Board of Governors, The Medical Center Hospital of Vermont from 1973-1980, Trustee, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont 1975-1980, Treasurer, 1977-1980, Chairman and Director of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program Advisory Council, 1975-1978, member of the Board of Rice Memorial High School from 1976-1978, member of the Ethan Allen Club, Burlington, Vermont from 1975-1980, trustee of the Vermont Foundation of Independent Colleges, Inc., 1976-80 and a former member of the Finance Committee, Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont.Mr. Boutin was the recipient of many awards including the Award of Excellence for Outstanding and Meritorious Service to the Home Building Industry of America by the Crestline Manufacturing Company in 1966, Top Performer Award in the Field of Housing, House and Home Magazine, in 1966, Outstanding Service as Administrator of General Services Administration, Contracting Plaster and Lather International Association in 1965, Certificate of Appreciation, Mississippi Conference NAACP in 1965, Distinguished Service Medal, General Services Administration, 1964, Commendation, the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped in 1964, Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Government, The Catholic University of America in 1963, the Award for Outstanding Achievement, St. Michael's College Alumni Association, 1959, the Certificate of Commendation, the National Guard, 1957, the Policyholders Good Citizenship Award, the Mutual Trust Life Ins .Co. in 1969 and the Eastern USA Outstanding Service Award, the National Council of Independent Colleges and Universities 1974, the Delta Epsilon Sigma and National Honor Society. In 2002, Mr. Boutin was inaugurated into the first class of the Saint Michael's College Academic Hall of Fame. Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Alice M. (Boucher) Boutin, of Meredith; six sons, Edmund J. and LindaAnne Boutin of Chester, N.H., Joseph L. and Dale Boutin of Burlington, Vermont, Louis B. and Carole Boutin of Bedford, N.H., John P. Winooski, Vermont, Paul R. Judy Boutin of Colchester, Vermont and Bernard L. and Gay Boutin II of Fremont, N.H.; five daughters, Bernadette A. and Bruce Fischer of Colchester, Vermont, Michelle A. and Dennis Lamper of Meredith, N.H., Marie J. Boutin of South Burlington, Vermont, Elizabeth J. and John McGrath of Manchester, Vermont and Suzanne T. Boutin of Rochester, N.H.; twenty-three grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; thirteen great grandchildren; five step-great-grandchildren; and four nephews and two nieces. In addition to his parents, Mr. Boutin was predeceased by two sisters, June Fitzpatrick and Lorraine Morin. Calling hours will be held at the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services on 164 Pleasant St., Laconia, N.H. on Monday, August 29 from 4-7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11am on Tuesday August 30 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 300 NH Route 25, Meredith, NH by the Very Reverend Dennis J. Audet, V.F., Pastor of the Church. Burial will be at the family lot in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Garfield St., Laconia, N.H. at 3pm. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Boutin Family Scholarship Fund at Saint Michael College or to the Building Fund at St. Charles Borromeo Church. Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com(link is external). Bernard Boutin passed away in Laconia, New Hampshire, on the evening of August 24, 2011. He was born in Laconia on July 2, and died peacefully after a short illness during which his family was constantly with him. Mr. Boutin was a well known New Hampshire native and was prominent in national affairs throughout the 1960's. He was a valedictorian graduate of Saint Michael's College, Class of 1945 and Mayor of Laconia from 1955 to 1959. In 1958 and 1960 Mr. Boutin was New Hampshire's Democratic nominee for Governor. In 1959 and 1960, he was heavily involved in the primary and general election campaign of President John F. Kennedy, with whom he had a close relationship. Shortly after President Kennedy's election, Mr. Boutin was named Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration, one of the largest federal agencies, and became its administrator from 1961 until 1964. After leaving the government for a short period, President Johnson appointed Mr. Boutin to be Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, a newly created federal agency, and then as Administrator of the Small Business Administration. One of Mr. Boutin's proudest accomplishments was the redesign and reconstruction of Lafayette Square across from the White House, a project that he worked personally with the President and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Among other positions, Mr. Boutin also served on the President's Advisory Council on the Arts and the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capitol. Mr. Boutin's career also included the Presidency of Saint Michael's College from 1969 to 1974, a period where he is credited with stabilizing the college financially, bringing it to co-education and building its endowment. Boutin retired in 1980 after serving as CEO of Vermont's largest bank. He was active after his retirement as an outside Director of several publicly held corporations. Outside of his professional career, Mr. Boutin devoted his life to service. He served on boards of medical facilities, educational institutions, business development organizations, and Catholic charities and committees. Mr. Boutin was also an advocate for the handicapped and for the preservation of historic sites and the reclamation of surplus federal lands. Boutin is survived by his 11 children and by his loving wife Alice (Boucher) to whom he was married for 67 years. read more
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Jokowi raises BPJS Kesehatan premiums, again
The premium for the third-class service was increased by a smaller amount, from Rp 25,500 to Rp 42,000, and the government will provide a Rp 7,000 subsidy for this service category, so participants only have to pay Rp 35,000.Read also: BPJS Kesehatan to return excess payments as participants continue to pay higher premiumsThe decree also states that the premium raise only applies to workers who pay their premiums independently, rather than paying through a cost-sharing structure between employees and employers.According to the decree, the premium hike takes effect immediately.BPJS Kesehatan manages Indonesia's national health insurance (JKN). In October last year, the President signed Perpres No. 75/2019, which stipulated a similar rise for BPJS Kesehatan premiums.However, the Supreme Court revoked the regulation in March, arguing that the provision violated a number of prevailing laws. (dpk)Topics : President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has raised the premiums for the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) – roughly two months after the Supreme Court annulled his earlier decision to increase the premiums.The higher rates are stipulated in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 64/2020 on health insurance signed by Jokowi May 5. The Perpres is the second amendment of the previous regulation, Perpres No. 82/2018, on the same matter.The new regulation raises the premium for the first-class service to Rp 150,000 (US$10.11) per month per person from Rp 80,000, while almost doubling the cost for the second-class service from Rp 51,000 to Rp 100,000. read more
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Polish parliament gives auto-enrolment law the go-ahead
Poland's auto-enrolled employee pension plans (PPKs) passed their first legislative hurdle on last week after politicians in the country's lower house of parliament voted in favour of the bill.The lower house, known as the Sejm, voted the government's bill through by 229 in favour to 197 against, with two abstentions. The bill now needs approval from the Senate (the upper house) and president Andrzej Duda.If it is passed, the law will come into effect on 1 January 2019, with the first tranche of enrolment – for large private companies with at least 250 employees – starting on 1 July.Auto-enrolment will subsequently be implemented for other tranches of companies in six-month intervals, with the final deadline – for small private companies with fewer than 20 workers, as well as all state-owned companies – set for January 2021. The system is obligatory for employers and voluntary for employees. Workers up to age 55 years will be automatically enrolled with the option to opt out, while workers aged 55-70 can choose to opt in.The government is aiming for a 75% participation rate – some 11.4m by the end of the last enrolment phase.Employers will contribute a minimum 1.5% of gross salary and employees 2%, with the option to increase this by a further 2.5% and 2% respectively.In order to reduce the burden on those earning lower wages, the law has scaled down the basic employee contribution rate for workers earning less than 120% of the minimum wage to a minimum 0.5%.In all cases the state will contribute a "welcome" bonus of PLN250 (€58), and an annual subsidy of PLN240.The government estimated that, by the end of 2027, the total value of accumulated PPK assets could range from PLN138bn, with the minimum 3.5% contribution, to as much as PLN294bn with the maximum 8% contribution.Stakeholders back reforms Wawel Castle in Krakow, PolandAccording to a recent survey conducted for the Polish Insurance Association, 66% of respondents assessed the new system positively and 22.2% were negative.The most appealing feature was that PPKs were deemed private, inheritable funds, the survey found – particularly significant after the previous Polish government transferred sovereign bond assets held in second-pillar funds to the first pillar in 2014, prompting legal action from some savers.Respondents to the insurance association's survey were also positive about the voluntary nature of the schemes, and subsidies from employers and the state.The range of providers, initially limited to investment fund companies, was expanded to include open pension fund managers (PTEs), insurance companies, and managers running existing employee pension funds (PFEs), all with at least three years' relevant experience.Mariusz Wnuk, vice president and chief investment officer of the Pocztylion-Arka PTE, said his firm would be offering PPKs."Our company has managed an open pension fund for 20 years since the beginning of the second pillar reform, and PPKs are very close to the idea of a second pillar," he said. "As a matter of fact, they seem to be better designed as an important part of our pension system and capital market."Each PPK provider will have to offer at least four funds or sub-funds with investment strategies tailored to the age of the participants. OFEs, in contrast, can only provide one portfolio, with no exposure to Polish government bonds.Both PPKs and OFEs are subject to a cap on investment in foreign assets of 30%.Wnuk added: "The PPK act will regulate eligible asset classes, investments and allocation limits for different age groups. On the other hand, [permitted] allocation differences will reach 30%, which gives us space for discretionary decisions."Our first view on investment strategies is to use the legal limits and guidelines to build core portfolios and use more active strategies the younger the members are."Participants will be able to access their fund for retirement purposes after age 60, with the option to take 25% as a lump sum.The remaining 75% is paid out in a minimum 120 monthly instalments, or a shorter period but with the penalty of capital gains tax.Members can also access 25% of their fund should they or a dependant fall ill. Participants can also tap their fund for a short-term loan to build or purchase a house or flat. read more
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