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New Deal: Dylan Walsh
Dylan Walsh heads to Australia
Monday 23, December 2019
Although Dylan Walsh showed plenty of potential during his first term in MX2 in the FIM Motocross World Championship, he was unable to secure a ride in Europe and therefore had to look elsewhere. Now, just days away from the beginning of a new year, it has been confirmed that he will race for Serco Yamaha in Australia in 2020. Walsh released the following statement via a team press release.
"I would love to have stayed in Europe and continued racing as I felt that I would be a contender in MX2 this year, but with the tight economy my team shut down and I was left with nothing. Australia was the first place I looked when I got the news and, at the same time, Gavin has been doing some research on me, so it all worked out smoothly and here we are. Serco Yamaha have a great reputation and also a lot of success over the years in both motocross and supercross so its awesome to be part of such a strong and committed team.
(Ray Archer)
"My plan is to stay in New Zealand and do the nationals over there as a warm up for the MX Nationals in Australia. I will then base myself in South East Queensland to be near the team and get stuck into racing in Australia. I'm both excited and looking forward to the new challenge and know that the level of racing in Australia is very good at the moment. I watched the racing regularly while I was in Europe and its no coincidence that many MXGP teams are looking at Australian riders. I'm fit, ready to go and hoping for a great season both here in New Zealand and Australia."
Walsh finished twenty-second in the 2019 FIM Motocross World Championship but did not compete in six of the rounds. A ninth in a moto was a season-best finish – he finished in the top ten in a moto on three other occasions. Additionally, he picked up the MX2 title in the 2019 Maxxis British Championship and won seven of the sixteen motos. The team that he rode for this season, Revo Husqvarna UK, closed their doors at the end of the season due to the lack of a title sponsor.
Words: Lewis Phillips | Lead Image: Ray Archer

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Biografia
Figlio di una famiglia di agricoltori della provincia di Cuneo e agricoltore a sua volta, è laureato in Giurisprudenza presso l'Università degli Studi di Torino.

Carriera politica

Consigliere comunale ad Alba
Inizia la sua carriera politica candidandosi come consigliere comunale di Alba alle elezioni amministrative del 1995 nelle liste della Lega Nord, dove, ottenendo 100 preferenze, è il primo dei non eletti e viene nominato vicesindaco il 4 maggio di quell'anno, rimanendo in carica fino al 25 ottobre 1997. Il 15 aprile 1998, a seguito delle dimissioni di un consigliere leghista, entra in consiglio comunale.

Dal 1999 al 2004 è ancora vicesindaco di Alba; successivamente passa dalla Lega Nord a Forza Italia, con cui è eletto consigliere comunale nel 2004 con 941 voti di preferenza.

Consigliere e assessore regionale
Nominato per la terza volta vicesindaco del comune langarolo, si candida per la prima volta nel Consiglio regionale del Piemonte nel 2005 risultando eletto con 10 880 preferenze; di conseguenza, decade dall'incarico nella giunta comunale.

Durante la sua militanza politica ad Alba, città in cui risiede, ha ricoperto inoltre i seguenti incarichi: vicepresidente del Comitato regionale Forza Italia Piemonte; delegato alle attività dei Club Forza Silvio; assessore al turismo; vicepresidente dell'Ente Turismo Alba, Bra, Langhe e Roero; presidente dell'Ente Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo Bianco d'Alba (dal 2003 al 2010); responsabile, fino al 2005, del progetto "Nuova D.O.C. Alba"; vicepresidente dell'Albese Calcio e presidente del Centro Ricreativo Bocciofila di Alba.

Ricandidato alle elezioni regionali in Piemonte del 2010 con Il Popolo della Libertà nella circoscrizione di Cuneo, risulta eletto ottenendo 14 527 preferenze, venendo poi nominato assessore regionale all'istruzione, turismo e sport.

Europarlamentare
Candidato alle elezioni europee del maggio 2014, è eletto nelle liste di Forza Italia nella circoscrizione Italia nord-occidentale con 35 388 voti.

Presidente della Regione Piemonte
Il 31 gennaio 2018 il coordinatore regionale Gilberto Pichetto Fratin annuncia la volontà di candidare Cirio alla presidenza della Regione Piemonte per il centrodestra in vista delle elezioni regionali del 2019.

Il 9 giugno dello stesso anno riceve un avviso di garanzia per peculato insieme ad altri ex consiglieri regionali piemontesi: gli vengono contestati 20 000 euro per spese di rappresentanza e comunicazione tra il giugno 2008 e il maggio 2010.

Il 29 marzo 2019, dopo aver dato la disponibilità alla corsa in vista di una possibile richiesta di archiviazione (eventualità derivante dal fatto di non aver ricevuto l'avviso di conclusione delle indagini), Forza Italia, Lega e Fratelli d'Italia ufficializzano la sua candidatura alle regionali piemontesi.

Il successivo 26 maggio viene eletto presidente con il 49,86% dei voti, prevalendo sul presidente uscente Sergio Chiamparino. Verrà proclamato ufficialmente presidente il 6 giugno.

Nel luglio 2019, alla luce della documentazione presentata per giustificare le spese sostenute e documentare la correttezza del proprio operato, il procedimento per peculato è stato definitivamente archiviato.

Incarico al Comitato europeo delle Regioni

Dal 28 giugno 2022 è il Capo della delegazione italiana al Comitato delle Regioni a Bruxelles.

Note

Voci correlate
 Elezioni regionali in Piemonte del 2019
 Europarlamentari dell'Italia della VIII legislatura
 Forza Italia (2013)
 Presidenti del Piemonte

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Politici della Lega Nord
Politici di Forza Italia (1994)
Politici del Popolo della Libertà
Politici di Forza Italia (2013)
Presidenti del Piemonte
Europarlamentari dell'Italia della VIII legislatura
Consiglieri regionali del Piemonte
Studenti dell'Università degli Studi di Torino

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Secret sharing is a method for distributing a secret among participants or locations. A secret can consist of any data; for example, a password, a message, an account number, an ecnryption key, missile launch codes, or a Bitcoin private key all represent highly sensitive and important secrets. Traditionally, when guarding highly sensitive information, one would have to choose between keeping a single copy of the secret in one location for maximum secrecy, or keeping multiple copies of the secret in different locations for greater reliability. By increasing storage locations or entrusted parties, reliability is increased at the expense of secrecy. Secret sharing addresses this problem by allowing arbitrarily high levels of confidentiality and reliability.
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PassGuardian is built on secrets.js, an open-source implementation of Shamir's sharing scheme. While secrets.js permits Galois Fields up to 20 bits in size, PassGuardian uses an 8-bit binary finite field for computations. The share format is described at the secrets.js page.
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Like most website operators, PassGuardian collects non-personally-identifying analytics information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. PassGuardian's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website.
PassGuardian requires the availability of a cryptographically-strong pseudo-random number generator (CSPRNG) during the secret splitting phase only. If a strong PRNG is not found during run-time, PassGuardian will use the built-in Math.random(), which is NOT cryptographically secure. Consider upgrading to a newer browser that supports crypto.getRandomValues() to take advantage of the increased security that this PRNG provides.
There are many scenarios where secret sharing is useful. Some interesting examples are:
Reliable distributed classified data storage
Shares can be stored on multiple servers and in multiple locations. A security breach in one or more locations would be insufficient to recover the sensitive data. A server breakdown in one or more locations would not necessarily mean loss of classified data, as long as a threshold number of shares remain accessible.
Sharing sensitive information via insecure channels
Shares can be distributed via a combination of secure and insecure channels and media and combined by the recipient to reconstruct the original data. Interception of less than the threshold number of shares would be insufficient to reconstruct the original secret.
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Shares can be distributed to members of a committee. For a policy or process to be initiated, a majority of the members must be present with their shares. A variation of this scenario is when different members are assigned different voting powers by holding different quantities of shares. For example, a bank manager might hold 5 shares of a vault key, and each of his or her subordinate supervisors might hold 1 share. The bank manager's 5 shares are sufficient to unlock the vault, but all 5 supervisors must be present to perform the same task. This can be extended to arbitrary hierarchical schemes where each share is re-shared with a different number of participants, delegating various levels of responsibility and power to the participants.
An interesting example of this is the division of the DNSSEC root key among 7 Trusted Community Representatives (TCR). DNSSEC is the backbone of internet security and the "root zone" is signed with a key. While the DNSSEC Practice Statement doesn't state what sharing scheme is employed, it is feasible that Shamir's secret sharing is used in a (7,5) configuration, i.e. 5 of the 7 TCRs must be present to reconstruct the root key.
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India, Nepal sign 6 MoUs during Modi's visit to Nepal
By Special Correspondent May 17, 2022 May 17, 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an official visit to Lumbini, Nepal on May 16, 2022, coinciding with the auspicious occasion of Buddha Purnima, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Nepal Rt Hon'ble Sher Bahadur Deuba. As Prime Minister, this was Shri Narendra Modi's fifth visit to Nepal and first to Lumbini.
Prime Minister was warmly welcomed on arrival by Prime Minister Deuba, his spouse Dr.Arzu Rana Deuba, Minister for Home Affairs Mr. Bal Krishna Khand, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Narayan Khadka, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation Ms. Renu Kumari Yadav, Minister for Energy, Water Resources & Irrigation Ms. PamphaBhusal, Minister for Culture, Civil Aviation and Tourism Mr. Prem Bahadur Ale, Minister for Education Mr. Devendra Paudel, Minister for Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs Mr. Govinda Prasad Sharma, and Chief Minister of Lumbini Province Mr. Kul Prasad KC.
Upon arrival, both Prime Ministers visited the Mayadevi temple, within which lies the birth place of Lord Buddha. At the temple, the Prime Ministers attended prayers conducted as per Buddhist rituals and made offerings. The Prime Ministers lit lamps and visited the historical Ashoka Pillar, that carries the first epigraphic evidence of Lumbini being the birthplace of Lord Buddha. They also watered the holy Bodhi tree that was brought as a gift by Prime Minister Modi during his visit to Nepal in 2014.
Prime Minister Modi together with Prime Minister Deuba participated in the "Shilanyas" ceremony for the construction of the India International Centre for Buddhist Culture and Heritage at a plot in Lumbini belonging to the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) based in New Delhi. The plot was allocated to the IBC by the Lumbini Development Trust in November 2021. After the "Shilanyas" ceremony, the Prime Ministers also unveiled a model of the Buddhist centre, which is envisaged as a Net-Zero compliant world-class facility that would house prayer halls, meditation centre, library, exhibition hall, cafeteria and other amenities and would be open to Buddhist pilgrims and tourists from around the world.
Both Prime Ministers held a bilateral meeting, during which they followed up on their discussions held on April 2 in New Delhi. They discussed specific initiatives and ideas to further strengthen cooperation in various sectors, including culture, economy, trade, connectivity, energy and development partnership. The two sides agreed in principle to establish sister city relations between Lumbini and Kushinagar, that are among the holiest sites of Buddhism and reflects the shared Buddhist heritage between the two countries.
Six MoUs/Agreements were signed and exchanged during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Lumbini, Nepal. They are
1. Memorandum of Understanding between Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Lumbini Buddhist University on the establishment of Dr. Ambedkar Chair for Buddhist Studies
2. Memorandum of Understanding between Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) and CNAS, Tribhuvan University on the establishment of ICCR Chair of Indian Studies
3. Memorandum of Understanding between Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Kathmandu University (KU) on the establishment of the ICCR Chair of Indian Studies
4. Memorandum of Understanding in collaboration between Kathmandu University (KU), Nepal and Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), India
5. Letter of Agreement (LoA) between Kathmandu University (KU), Nepal and Indian Institute of Technology (IITM), India [ For Joint degree program at Master's level]
6. Agreement between SJVN Ltd and Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) for Development and implementation of Arun 4 Project.
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Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) partners with Indian School of Business (ISB) to further built capacity of officers from its ecosystem
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Google Bans Ads that track and monitor users without permission
Google has been questioned a lot about the ads and the regulations that allow tracking the user's details. Ever since they have been under scrutiny for the same, the company has been very careful about their products and ads learning about the user's whereabouts and usage behaviors to target specific ads.
As per the recent update from the tech giant, they have banned ads used to spy and track the users without their permission. Google has already banned a lot of such applications on the Google Play Store for the same reason and will continue to do so in the future.
The information was released by the company in its Ad policy update this week. The update will be implemented from August 11 and will ban any Ads and services that have been secretly tracking the users. As per Google, they would never allow any ad or app on their platform, which compensated the user's privacy without their permission. The apps and ads can be used for surveillance by monitoring text, browsing history, and calls. The same data is used by the ads to target specific ads to the customer that they might have browsed before.
However, the policy changes do not implement the applications that have been installed by private investigation teams and parents to monitor their children. The company has also made it clear that any advertiser who cannot follow these regulations will see a suspension of the account within seven days of the warning period.
However, it raises a question on why these ads and applications were approved in the first place by Google. Despite the ban on such things, companies are still pushing such ads occasionally through the application, which would help them avoid detection. Google will possibly be taking more stringent action on such app developers and advertisers in the future.
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hobart 28 – 29 October
Delegates at Congress 2019 were captivated with content from acclaimed thought leaders who are leading the way with artificial intelligence, digital money and the future of finance. You will find details on the quality 2019 program below. CPA Congress will be back in 2020 with another engaging program.
HOTEL GRAND CHANCELLOR HOBART
Registration and arrival
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KN1: Reimagining the future through the lens of digitisation and automa…
Science and technology are creating a world that is more peaceful, transparent and abundant. Future Crunch will help you to generate optimism and shift perceptions to create new and better ways of doing things in the 21st of century.
Tané Hunter
Cancer Researcher and Big Data Scientist, Future Crunch
Tané is a big-data scientist, cancer researcher and bioinformatician. He's a co-founder of Future Crunch, as well as data analytics startup, Lighthouse.
He holds a Masters in Bioinformatics from the University of Melbourne and has worked for the Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital diagnosing rare genetic diseases using by analysing DNA with data-mining and machine learning.
He believes that cognitive code can help solve some of the biggest problems in finance, business and science. He is currently completing his PhD at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, using molecular biomarkers in DNA and analysing them using artificial intelligence to improve treatments for people suffering from cancer. He's also a former US mountain biking champion and an avid sailor.
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KN2: What can human behaviour – and "big data" – tell us about the econ…
In this session we'll examine economic growth, interest rates, and the housing market data. Some analysis will be provided before exploring how businesses and consumers are thinking and feeling and how this might affect your business going forward.
Join Dean for an economic outlook for both Australia (focus on Tasmania) and the world, with a twist. Learn how intersecting economics, psychology and advanced data analytics can provide a more comprehensive economic perspective.
Dean Pearson
Strategic Speaker on Behavioural & Industry Economics, NAB Dean leads a team of analysts responsible for providing unique insights into consumer and business behaviour by intersecting economics, psychology and advanced data analytics. As a behavioural economist and commentator with almost 30 years' experience, Dean has worked to debunk the view that humans are rational, clear-thinking beings. Instead, we behave and make choices that are often illogical and based on emotion. And, if we are to truly understand the economy, it is important that we know the underlying emotional state and motives of the people who work and live within it.
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KN3: Future of Finance: Digital Money and Blockchain
Nathana O'Brien Sharma is based out of Silicon Valley and is at the forefront of the virtual currency and blockchain revolution. Finance professionals will need to understand the benefits of virtual currency versus traditional capital raising opportunities.
Digital assets are the main use for blockchain, over $3 Trillion of business value in the future will be generated by Blockchain technology. Nathana will discuss some of the world's most cutting edge Blockchain uses and pilots to demonstrate how this technology is solving some of the most complex business and finance problems.
Nathana O'Brien Sharma
Faculty, Blockchain, Policy, Law & Ethics, Singularity University Nathana O'Brien Sharma is a Faculty member at Singularity University, where she writes and speaks for international audiences on the future of technology, law and business. Nathana is also General Counsel at Labelbox, one of the most exciting artificial intelligence startups in the Silicon Valley today.
Nathana worked as an Intellectual Property Associate at Gunderson Dettmer, a leading emerging company and venture capital law firm. While at Gunderson Dettmer, Nathana helped a range of technology companies on data privacy and cyber security strategy. She has also worked at the Israeli Supreme Court and the Center for Creative Technologies.
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12.00PM - 12.45PM
KN3-FS: Future Skills Think Tank
There has been much debate about the future of accounting as a profession. Role automation is leading to employer demand shifting from job title to skill set, but what skills will professional accountants really need?
Join our high-profile group think tank to be part of a live open discussion with our leading thought leaders and CFOs. They will take you into the future jobs and skill sets that will change the way we work and live.
Carl Harris
Managing Partner, Deloitte Tasmania
Carl is the Managing Partner of Deloitte Tasmania and heads the Hobart Assurance & Advisory practice covering listed entities, government businesses and private companies. During his 25 year career Carl has worked across many industries but is known for his public sector, energy, agribusiness and consumer products knowledge and experience.
Carl is passionate about creating an inclusive and diverse work environment and contributes some of his spare time to helping transform education outcomes in Tasmania - whether this be through advocacy, public speaking or his support of the not-for-profit organisations in this space.
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Dr Simon Eassom
Executive General Manager, Education, CPA Australia Dr Simon Eassom is a proven thought leader and subject matter expert on the future of learning and the alignment of technology with business strategy for the higher education and corporate education sectors. He has over 30 years' experience as an academic and a business development executive delivering transformational projects as well as developing, consulting on, and selling innovative digital solutions for education.
Simon has been a leader in the adoption of AI, predictive analytics, blockchain, and the Internet of Things for the sector and has been instrumental in the creation of digital solutions at the leading edge of the transformation of learning. He has been a senior leader within the university sector, a global industry executive for one of the world's most iconic technology companies and is currently Executive General Manager (Member Education) for the one of the largest professional member organisations for accountants and finance professionals. /-/media/corporate/allimages/cpa-congress-2019/2019-speakers/simon-eassom.png?h=180&w=180&rev=7bbccfc5d9724e8e93543585834ae3ff
Prof. Lisa McManus
Head of School, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania Professor Lisa McManus is a Professor of Accounting and the Head of School (Accounting, Economics and Finance) in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania.
Professor McManus holds a PhD from Griffith University in the management accounting area. Specifically, Professor McManus's main research interests lie in the broad area of performance measurement/management. She has researched and published widely in quality Australian and international refereed academic journals on a number of topics such as customer accounting, strata title issues, accounting education, work-integrated-learning and business ethics.
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Business Lunch: Overcoming adversity to become the best version of your…
Dylan Alcott OAM presents his extraordinary life story with equal measures of wit, intelligence, and emotion. Dylan's journey so far has been an epic tale punctuated by life-changing lessons, which have helped shape this high-achiever into one of Australia's biggest sporting success stories. Dylan's message has been crafted with the humility, resolve, and passion that demonstrates the personal journey he has travelled to confront his disability and to build his identity in the public domain.
The key takeaways from this session will be about buying into team culture, having passion and purpose, giving back, making an impact, seeing life through positive eyes, and being the best version of yourself. The audience will share in those same valuable insights, which have allowed Dylan to emerge from a difficult adolescence where he wrestled with his disability to shaping his career as a Paralympic gold medalist, media personality, philanthropist, business owner, and social advocate.
Dylan Alcott is changing the game for Australians living with disability.
Dylan Alcott OAM
Paralympian gold medallist and Australian Open champion Dylan Alcott OAM is one of Australia's most successful athletes of all time and happens to be in a wheelchair. The 27-year-old has won three gold medals in two different sports at the Paralympic Games, and in 2018 won his fourth consecutive Australian Open wheelchair quad singles tennis title.
His athletic achievements earned him the 2016 Newcombe Medal – the highest honour in Australian tennis, and the first ever for a wheelchair tennis athlete. In 2015, he joined the Seven Network's tennis commentary team. He is now a regular panellist on Channel 10s 'The Project', and a member of the Triple J presenter network.
At the 2018 Australian Open, Dylan taught A-List movie star Will Smith how to play wheelchair tennis – the entertaining exchange dubbed 'Willin and Dillin' earned enormous traction on social media. Dylan also went head-to-head with Arnold Schwarzenegger, trading famous movie lines from Predator with the Hollywood heavyweight. /-/media/corporate/allimages/congress-2018/2018-speakers/dylan-alcott.jpg?h=180&w=180&rev=edcd1f37a407483d9a6db20efbb02959
A1: Australia Post: Developing internal finance RPA capabilities
Australia Post are using RPA technology to drive operational effectiveness, reduce the cost of their finance function and most importantly free up the finance team to focus on high value business critical activities.
Hear from Australia Post on how they are transforming their finance business through RPA adoption. They will share their lessons learnt and the significant impact this change has had on people and skills, including the renewed role the finance function will now play to support.
Steven Morris
Head of Accounting Services, Australia Post Steven Morris is the Head of Accounting Services at Australia Post. He has over 20 years' experience in Shared Services & Accounting Operations and is passionate about delivering a highly effective & efficient back-end accounting function to the broader Australia Post business. /-/media/corporate/allimages/cpa-congress-2019/2019-speakers/steven-morris.jpg?h=180&w=180&rev=900bc2023e6345bc9bf0fd141c7fe8ee
Praveen Bothra
Vice President, Products, Mindfields Praveen has 15+ years of experience in Finance, Consulting and Finance transformation. His areas of expertise include leading Finance teams, delivering operational and cost efficiencies and managing change; Ensuring integrity and timeliness of financial performance reporting with sharp focus on development of analytical capabilities to improve insights to the business.
Praveen most recently held several senior roles at ANZ Bank, where he was responsible for driving successful Finance Transformation initiatives including Intelligent Automation for Finance function. He has previously held leadership positions at Genpact responsible for delivering finance transformation projects to top ASX listed companies. /-/media/corporate/allimages/cpa-congress-2019/2019-speakers/praveen-bothra.png?h=180&w=180&rev=60b70bc146a44c6ba50afdf61c35ee5b
A2: Managing generational diversity at the workplace
An age gap of nearly 50 years between the oldest Baby Boomers and youngest in Gen Z can lead to a stark difference in needs and attitudes amongst the workforce. In this engaging session , Nigel Sutton will explore a different mindset that leaders must consider to strategise and balance generational bias. The stories we tell and hear everyday in the workplace contribute to real and perceived generational bias, discover the story you are telling and how it impacts your leadership.
Nigel Sutton
Director, NDS Productions Nigel is an accomplished speaker, trainer and creative consultant. He has worked with a diverse range of industries as a trainer and consultant developing team cultures and translating strategy into operational outcomes. He has international experience in successfully training, developing, and leading multi-generational teams through periods of change and cultural transformation. From sharing the screen with Billy Connolly, working with zookeepers and silverback gorillas, to developing education programs for a slavery museum in Qatar, Nigel's unique perspectives will bring refreshing insights to managing generational diversity at the workplace. /-/media/corporate/allimages/congress-2018/2018-speakers/nigel-sutton.jpg?h=180&w=180&rev=31444249d4de426c83e8b1316e284b55
B1: Insights into the Future of Financial Reporting
Financial reporting has long been viewed as the main form of communication with investors on corporate financial performance, however the proliferation of multiple channels of information and the different information demands from stakeholders continues to challenge the status quo.
Join the presenter as they provide their insights on the future of financial reporting and discuss:
• The purpose of the modern corporate annual report
• The effectiveness of financial reporting standards
• Some future developments in financial reporting
• Special purpose reporting and its future
Ram Subramanian
Policy Advisor – Reporting, Policy & Advocacy, CPA Australia Ram Subramanian is a Policy Adviser in Reporting within the Policy & Advocacy team at CPA Australia. Ram leverages his technical expertise to effectively communicate key messages in reporting to finance professionals and others with a stake in business and social enterprises. His key responsibilities include formulating policy positions and commenting on reporting developments, including input to developments in the not-for-profit sector. In his role, Ram is also involved in the provision of technical support to CPA Australia's membership and other stakeholders, and representing CPA Australia in various forums. Previously, Ram has worked in senior roles within the practice sector in the United Kingdom for a number of years. Ram's previous role involved managing the technical advisory services of a major professional accounting body in the United Kingdom. /-/media/corporate/allimages/cpa-congress-2019/2019-speakers/ram-subramanian.png?h=180&w=180&rev=b676f218426f4989bdee0d8b789ff70e
B2: Increasing value through effective finance business partnering
Business success today is reliant on the finance team being a trusted adviser to the executive, through the provision of high-quality insight and advice. With technology now able to fulfil many basic accounting functions, accountants and finance teams have a perfect opportunity to focus more acutely on value-creating activities.
This session explores how modern finance teams can meet key expectations of CFOs, senior executives and cross functional teams, by understanding the business, supporting strategy and decision making, challenging performance, and uncovering new opportunities.
Key topics of this session include:
• making a business partnering approach work for your finance team
• adopting the habits of high-performing business partners
• understanding and knowing your business better
• reporting and focusing on the insights that matter.
David Gaetjens
State Finance Manager, Operations and Property SA/NT, Coles David Gaetjens is the State Finance Manager for Coles Supermarkets in South Australia and the Northern Territory. David actively partners with the State General Manager and operational team to deliver improved commercial performance in the stores and execute key operational strategies. His role includes reviewing and challenging results, delivering insightful analysis on business performance, and influencing subsequent commercial decisions. David is a qualified accountant with more than 20 years of commercial finance experience gained from both the corporate sector and professional services. /-/media/corporate/allimages/congress-2018/2018-speakers/speaker-images/david-gaetjens.jpg?h=180&w=180&rev=34ce65e789f44d04935f734c6734a8d0
C1: The high cost of ignoring mental health in the workplace
Did you know that people experiencing work-related mental health issues take up to three times longer to return to work than those with physical injuries? With claims of mental health absenteeism on a rise in rapidly changing work environments, increased pressure to meet deadlines and budgets, longer hours and conflict in relationships - leaders can help staff become more resilient and build the scaffolding to support the mental wellbeing of all staff.
But there are other hidden costs, have you thought about presenteeism, workers compensation, new staff recruitment and training and staff morale etc. Apart from moral and ethical reasons to ensure mental health of employees, the financial argument is compelling.
Anne Sheehan
Mental Health First Aid, Australia
Anne is passionate and committed to the promotion of good mental health and capacity building through community connections. She has worked for various Government agencies for over 25 years, including roles such as policy development, education and training, project management, contracts and corporate governance. In addition, Anne has a wealth of facilitating and training experience, having worked across the public, community and private sectors.
Anne has formal qualifications in education, corporate governance, professional coaching and as a Mental Health First Aid Instructor, in addition to other study in mental health. She is a firm believer and a committed participant in lifelong learning. Over the past 30 years, Anne has committed 1000's of volunteer hours to a range of not-for-profit organisations, issues including health, sport and recreation and mental health. Anne's consulting and training experience is second to none. She is a dynamic and engaging trainer and facilitator and her facilitation style is inclusive and respectful.
C2: The human side of Change Management
Long-term structural transformation has four characteristics:
- scale (the change affects all or most of the organisation),
- magnitude (it involves significant alterations of the status quo)
- duration (it lasts for months, if not years) and;
strategic importance
Yet companies will reap the rewards only when change occurs at the level of the individual employee.
Nic Stephen
Associate Director of SRA Corporate Change Nic Stephen is the Associate Director of SRA Corporate Change, leadership coach, facilitator, cultural strategist, teacher and Stroke survivor. He has held positions with private training providers, peak sporting bodies, large franchise operations, recruitment and employment agencies, as well as spending his early career as a school teacher – where the drive to inspire others was born. Nic has worked across the business spectrum, developing a great diversity of skill, experience, knowledge and practice. To Nic, outstanding leaders develop and breathe life into those around them, helping others to believe in themselves and drive transformational change.
Nic's strives to grow purposeful and resilient leaders that can spread transformational health throughout the organisations. Helping organisations build cultures worth belonging to and leaders worth following is a compelling vision and one that drives energy and inspiration every day. Nic delivers inspiring and thought provoking sessions on a variety of topics including; the new workplace manifesto – overcoming the challenges of today's workplace, creating relational currency in your workplace, leading through volatility, creating more coach-like leadership practices, and purpose crafting when there's never enough time. /-/media/corporate/allimages/speakers/speaker-placeholder.jpg?h=180&w=180&rev=d19f11a9afd1470cb50c858040ff1ff0
KN4: Watch this space: Expanding our imaginations and our world onto Ma…
Dr Adriana Marais, physicist, innovator and aspiring extra-terrestrial, believes that we are living at a unique point in the history of life on Earth. Developments in science and technology are taking place at an unprecedented rate, and the expansion of our society beyond this planet is within reach.
In December 2020, she and her team will depart for an overwinter, off world settlement simulation experiment in Antarctica to demonstrate community living and off grid capabilities from life support to communication systems, in the harshest and most isolated environment on Earth. The expedition is an initiative of #ProudlyHuman: pioneering new frontiers in research and technology for a sustainable future on Earth, above and beyond.
Dr Adriana Marais
Founder of #ProudlyHuman, Director - Foundation for Space Development, Former Head of Innovation - SAP South Africa Adriana is the Founder of #ProudlyHuman, as well as Director at the Foundation for Space Development, an initiative of which is Africa2Moon, to inspire the youth of developing nations, in particular Africa, to "Reach for the Moon" through education and science. She is also a member of the South African government advisory task team on the 4th Industrial Revolution, Faculty at the Singularity University and Duke Corporate Education, and an astronaut candidate with the Mars One Project.
Previously, Adriana was Head of Innovation at SAP Africa between 2017 and 2019. Her career began in academia, and she has authored numerous articles on her research in theoretical quantum physics. Adriana holds an MSc (summa cum laude) in quantum cryptography and a PhD in quantum biology. Her postdoctoral research focused on quantum effects in photosynthesis as well as the origins of prebiotic molecules and life itself. She is currently pursuing a second PhD in economics in resource-constrained environments at the University of Cape Town. Adriana has won numerous awards including the L'Oreal-UNESCO International Rising Talent Award in 2015 and the Royal Society of South Africa Meiring Naude Medal in 2016. She is an alumna of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in physics and a Global Women's Forum Rising Talent, both 2016. /-/media/corporate/allimages/cpa-congress-2019/2019-speakers/dr-adriana-marais.jpg?h=180&w=180&rev=0b54728307744d6080485b48bde95c40
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Thoughts become words. Many times our thoughts will take shape within and come out through words. As a man thinks in his heart so is he. What you think, ponder on, run over and over in your mind will find a place in your heart, and will, by course, come out your mouth.
Have you ever rehearsed your argument or rebuttal over in your mind to a point it became an all-consuming thought process. Then, at the first opportunity — which many times is an inappropriate time — those words came flowing out of the mouth. As justified as we felt about our situation, the barrage of words that spewed out our mouths left us with an ill feeling inside.
Proverbs 23:7, 8 (NIV) reads, "'…Eat and drink'. He says to you, but his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments." The enemy comes with his words or we rehash words from our own well of thoughts and we "consume" them until they consume or overtake us and we vomit them out of our mouths. It says we lose our compliments. All that comes out of us is negativity and foul feelings.
Our minds are never empty of thoughts. We need to apply into our minds the material that we will use in the future. We can only take to war what we have prepared for in peacetime.
We are in a fight of faith and sooner or later our faith will have to go to war. Our faith has skirmishes every day. Too often our faith goes to war because of the nature of this world. Jesus said "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." We overcome by faith and faith is built on God's words.
To rehearse arguments, rebuttals, justification and accusations that have actually taken place or only taken place in our thought processes is like dining off of satan's table. "You are what you eat" someone has said.
If we apply our time, our energy and seek to learn of Jesus and His Word, we will feast at his table. We consume — take into ourselves — heavenly nutrition for energy and living. Then when the fight of faith comes our way, we are full of sound doctrine and instruction. We are prepared. Otherwise, when troubles come, we are tempted to eat off of satan's garbage heap. When someone is hungry to the point of starving, they will seek after and eat thrown away hamburgers. Even throw aways from the dumpsters are not out of the question.
The Lord reminds us that his sheep hear his voice. The Lord is speaking. The enemy is also speaking. Take heed who you listen to. Encouragement, hope, unity or gossip, accusations and murmuring — we have many choices before us.
Throughout each day, our surroundings are filled with multitudes of words. We interact with family members, co-workers and acquaintances. We hear and must judge what is coming to our ears.
Confusion is not of God. He will divide between truth and error. Isaiah 26:3 says of the Lord, "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you." Keep your mind (thoughts) on God, his character.
Circumstances don't always have to change for you to be at perfect peace.


Through the first month of the season, there's a growing consensus about Kentucky's basketball team: As John Wall goes, so goes Kentucky.
It's a premise adopted by Connecticut, which plays UK in Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.
"When you give the guy the ball that much, then I think you're making a statement: that you want him to determine the outcome of the game," UConn Coach Jim Calhoun said on a teleconference Tuesday.
But such dependence clashes like polka dots with stripes given UK's emphasis on a team-first approach for its star-studded roster.
"Well, we played without him" against North Carolina on Saturday, Calipari said.
True. And with Wall sidelined or hobbled because of cramps, UK saw a 19-point lead shrink to two in a game even Calipari now says should have been lost.
"I will tell you his energy is contagious, if you want it to be," Calipari conceded. "If you choose to look at him and feed off it, it's contagious."
Calipari brushed aside any concerns about Wall's health. The cramps were no factor in a strenuous practice on Monday, the coach said.
Wall also suffers from tendinitis in a knee, which Calipari dismissed as part of the bargain for players who run and romp over a long period of time.
"You learn to live with it," Calipari said, "or retire."
Wall first experienced tendinitis as a high school junior.
"It can slow you down. Then you can't really jump like you want to, and you can't move like you want to. Pretty sore. It's like bumping knees. You get a pain that hurts real bad."
Clearly, the tendinitis has not severely affected Wall. He's been the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week the past three weeks.
To ensure that the pain does not hamper his play, Wall said he takes pre-game "icy-hot" treatments. He also wears knee pads.
If sufficiently protected, Wall acknowledged that he could decide a game single-handedly, or as much a one-man effort as basketball allows.
"I think I have the talent," he said before adding, "That's something you have to learn. You can't do it as much in college. Teams focus on you. In high school, people get out of your way. In college, they don't care who you are. They're not getting out of your way."
Connecticut will put a top priority on containing Wall.
"Stopping Wall is one," Calhoun said of his defensive priorities. "And one-A right beside, 'Don't get overwhelmed by their size.' That's my greatest fear."
The Huskies prefer that forward Stanley Robinson stay on the wing, where he is a more difficult matchup, Calhoun said.
As for Wall, Calhoun saluted him as unusually gifted.
"Anybody who has watched him play (knows) he's not a freshman," Calhoun said. "He's a great freshman."
Typically, freshmen have their ups and downs, the UConn coach said, before adding, "I put Wall somewhat out of that equation because I think he's one of those, quote, special, special players."
Calipari said he anticipated UConn trapping Wall to get him to give up the ball. Then the UK coach said he wanted to see how the Cats respond.
UConn's point guard is sophomore Kemba Walker, who leads the team in assists (40) and steals (18) while averaging 15.4 points.
Calipari lamented the mistake of not pursuing Walker, a high school star from the Bronx, as a prospect two years ago. Then coaching at Memphis, he passed after watching Walker play in one game.
Calhoun described Walker as a typical New York City point guard.
"They all go rim to rim 100 mph," the UConn coach said. "They're athletic. They're durable. They have a certain swagger.
"Kemba's an exceptional athlete. He's exceptionally quick and a very good defensive player."
Walker shoots better (55.6 percent from three-point range) than the typical NYC point guard, Calhoun said.
But, because of Wall, Walker's defense will be center stage this game.


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Q: Field of all algebraic reals over $\mathbb{Q}$ has infinite degree I am trying to show that field of all algebraic reals over $\mathbb{Q}$ has infinite degree.
I guess that $$1,\sqrt{2},\sqrt[3]{2}, \sqrt[4]{2}, ...$$
are lineary independent but can't prove it.

A: Perhaps simpler:
$$\forall\,n\in\Bbb N\;,\;\;[\Bbb Q(\sqrt[n]2):\Bbb Q]=n$$

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VLCShares is a web-app written in php. It aims to extend WiiMC online media tab features allowing to watch HD Files through vlc transcoding, fetch medias from websites (ex. Megavideo, AllSp, etc etc) and make them viewable in WiiMC without have to download them first. It also provide same features for Android Phones too.
* A new global Online Library where you can add your links through the global BookMarklet or manually.
Here's an improved version of the program. This can move back and forth within the stream and display information on duration and location within the file.
Is there anyway you can do this for windows users?
OK, I'd like to try to get this working in Windows. Attached is a zip with the english translations of README and the two application .ini files.
PHP 5.3 V6 for use with Apache at http://windows.php.net/download/ Do I want the ThreadSafe version?
Also where is the mod_rewrite you require? Any tips before I start?
i'm developing a windows version of vlc-share. I need a few more minutes. after, I will publish a guide for installing and configuring the software on Windows using EasyPHP (I think the quickest way) and ubuntu using apt.
Thanks for the translation. I'll add it in the next release.
1) Download EasyPhp (http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickeasyphp/files/EasyPHP/5.3.2i/EasyPHP-5.3.2i-setup.exe/download) and install it.
4) Download and install VLC 1.1.0 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/files/1.1.0/win32/vlc-1.1.0-win32.exe/download).
13) Now edit the file with your config (more info about this step here).
just before , where IP_ADDRESS = the ip address of pc where you install vlc-share.
Also, while vlc is playing, if you enable pcstream feature in config file, you will get in test page a link to html controls page where preview and stream controls are available through browser.
Francis, you are awesome! Thanks for your work, I can't wait to try it!
Not working yet. Here is the problem.
Apache reported that both 80 and 8080 were blocked by firewall so I tried 8081 and the server starts.
but then reports file not found.
Wed Jul 07 18:34:24 2010] [notice] Child 9188: Starting thread to listen on port 8081.
For the "file not found" problem, check your EASYPHP/conf_files/httpd.conf because you forgot to change something. Give a look to the attachment.
Maybe you miss step 7 or 8.
If you are not sure, you can also change ALL "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All".
Thanks for your help Francis, I did have one of the changes wrong and I've fixed it but still no luck.
Since my 80 and 8080 are blocked, I have used 8085.
I get "Loading…" for 30 seconds then Error loading file!
Attached are my key files so perhaps you can see what is wrong.
This is the error message in the Apache log so there is some progress.
I should also add that I am running W7-64bit.
I suspect that the problem should be in the nc call for check if vlc is alive. Maybe w7 (and UAC) stop apache from spawn the nc.exe process.
OOOPs…No I have double 8085..!!!!
I also have UAC turned off and run as administrator.
Ok, problem found. (my double http: was a type error, but your double port in url feels like bug :P).
PS: I have to go out for a few hours so I may be slow getting back to you.


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It goes without saying, the Panasonic GH5 and GH5S are two of the most popular mirrorless cameras used by filmmakers, from novices to full-time professionals and everyone in between. For those folks who find themselves using their GH5/GH5S for serious film projects, it's highly recommended to invest in quality third-party accessories that will allow them to work with the camera as efficiently as possible.
In the next video, Caleb Pike of DSLR Video Shooter goes over the best accessories to buy, thus helping you create a proper rig for your own Panasonic GH5 or GH5S. The setup featured below is aimed at creating a system that improves the stabilization and handling of the camera, all while keeping the configuration compact enough for run-and-gun shooting.
The heart of Caleb's build is the Panasonic GH5S, which was chosen over the classic GH5. This particular decision was made mainly due to the GH5S larger sensor and dual native ISOs, leading to better low-light performance than its predecessor.
In addition, the S model was selected because of its better pixel quality compared to competing cameras, such as the Sony A7III. With the ability to shoot 4K 10-bit 422 video internally, the GH5S can produce more accurate colors and retain more image data than from Sony's similarly-priced offerings.
For the lens, the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 for Canon EF mount was used in the build. This lens has an outstanding reputation among DSLR/mirrorless camera shooters, largely thanks to the razor sharp images obtainable with Sigma glass. Also, with a low constant aperture of f/1.8, this lens is perfect for low-light shooting with a very shallow depth of field.
If you're someone who avidly uses the Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) on your GH5/GH5s, consider purchasing the G-Cup EVF Eyecup by Guerrilla. The eyecup is made of a soft material designed to provide comfort when looking through the EVF. In addition, the construction of the eyecup is flexible enough that it will not obstruct your ability to flip out the on-camera monitor.
The DSTE Pro DMW-BGGH5 Battery Grip is an excellent solution for those who think the GH5/GH5S' grip may feel somewhat cumbersome. Not only does the accessory provide you with improved camera ergonomics, but there are various function buttons located on the side of the grip for shortcuts to commonly used camera settings.
Furthermore, the battery compartment is located on the side of the battery grip, rather than on the bottom. This allows for convenient battery swapping when the camera is mounted onto a cage or gimbal setup.
As outlined in the video, the entire camera is housed in a GH5 Half Cage from SmallRig. Using a cage with this camera provides you with the ability to expand your build however you want, largely thanks to the various 3/8" and 1/4" 20 screws placed around the cage body. This includes mounting field monitors, portable LED lights, or even an external power source.
One accessory you can attach to the cage is the Adjustable Lens Shade from Dinkum Systems. It's essentially a one-sided matte box that allows you to block light coming from above your camera, helping you avoid possible light leaks or unwanted flares. The lens shade can be attached by screwing the base onto any of the screw holes found on the cage.
While the C-shaped design of the SmallRig cage enables you to use the camera's built-in right-sided grip, purchasing a few external grips will lead to more intuitive camera operation and handling.
For instance, the SmallRig Nato Top Handle is perfect for those looking to hold their cameras handheld at a low angle. Although the handle was originally designed to work with RED Cameras, it's compatible with the SmallRig Half-Cage for the GH5 as well.
In addition, the Wooden Handle Grip (Left) by NICEYRIG is also highly recommended to ensure you're holding your camera in a balanced manner. Not only is the wood construction of the handle visually appealing, but its design also nestles your hands for proper handheld operation.
At the end of the day, there is no one perfect camera configuration that everyone must follow. Rather than viewing the outlined rig as the ultimate camera setup, think of this article more as a guide that helps you identify what accessories may work for your own production workflows and specific requirements and simply pick the ones that you really need.


Exchange-traded funds have taken the investing world by storm, with their flexibility in allowing investors to buy and sell during the trading day appealing to traders and long-term investors alike. Vanguard Group made its reputation by offering traditional mutual funds to its customers, but it has also developed into a driving force in the ETF market, quickly climbing to become the No. 3 provider and using its emphasis on low costs to challenge the competition.
Vanguard offersmore than 50 ETFs, and it entices would-be brokerage customers by offering those funds on a commission-free basis if you buy them from a Vanguard brokerage account. But with so many ETFs on offer, Vanguard's lineup is intimidating to many investors who aren't sure how to pick from such a wide selection.
To simplify things, we dug deep into the Vanguard offerings to find the company's best exchange-traded funds. Your specific investment needs might make other funds more appropriate for your personal situation, but from the standpoint of cost, performance, and diversification, these ETFs deserve special notice.
Two smart ways to get into the U.S. marketVanguard offers a couple dozen ETFs tailored to U.S. stock investors, with a variety of different funds that break the market up by industry, company size, and relative valuation. For broad-based market coverage, it's hard to beat the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF , which charges just $0.50 in annual fees for every $1,000 you invest in the fund. The ETF has exposure to every part of the domestic stock market, from large to small, value to growth, across every sector of the economy. Gains of more than 8% annually over the past 10 years match up well against the broader market, showing just how successful stocks have been even considering the painful bear market in 2008 and early 2009.
For those who want a bit more income from their ETFs, Vanguard has two different funds focused on dividend-paying stocks. Some investors like the higher current yields from the Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF , but those with a longer time horizon might prefer the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF and its focus on stocks that have consistently grown their dividend payouts over time. With a five-year average annual return of 14%, Vanguard Dividend Appreciation doesn't quite match up to the 16% annual gain from its higher-yielding ETF peer. Over longer period of time, though, the stocks in Vanguard Dividend Appreciation have tended to produce amazingly strong returns that should give the ETF an edge. Moreover, with annual costs of just $1 per $1,000 invested, the dividend ETF comes at a nice price.
Take your investing globalInternational investing is often more expensive than buying U.S. stocks, but Vanguard's ETF offerings are quite reasonable. Vanguard offers the pan-global Vanguard Total World Stock ETF , which includes stocks from across the globe, but its 0.15% annual expense ratio is on the pricey side for the company.
Instead, the Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF provides exposure to the developed economic powers of Europe and Asia at an annual cost of just $0.90 per $1,000 invested. For emerging-market exposure, you can supplement that holding with Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF , the largest emerging-market ETF in the industry. Neither ETF has given investors particularly strong performance over the past five years, with emerging markets in particular lagging the growth in the U.S. stock market. Still, if the strength in the U.S. dollar eventually gives way to more normal currency-market dynamics, international stocks could ascend again.
On the fixed-income side, Vanguard has its Total Bond Market ETF , which charges just 0.08% in annual fees for a wide range of bonds that includes everything from high-quality Treasury bonds to riskier but higher-yielding investment-grade corporate debt. The ETF's performance can't stand up to the stock market, but an average return of 4.3% over the past five years is not terrible. Still, the fund doesn't include everything, leaving out municipal bonds, high-yield corporate junk bonds, and inflation-protected securities -- omissions that have held back its performance compared to some other bond ETFs.
Investors who like real estate investment trusts can turn to the Vanguard REIT ETF . With an annual average return of 17% over the past five years, the REIT ETF has been on fire. While those gains likely aren't sustainable, annual expenses of just $1 per $1,000 invested are hard to match elsewhere.
Vanguard has used its low-cost reputation to become a powerhouse in the ETF space. It's not the biggest provider, but Vanguard is gaining ground on its rivals as it demonstrates how low costs can make a big difference in your investing success.
The article Vanguard's Best ETFs originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Spotted on my travels, a movie: "Lost In Translution"
Latest addition to the viewing queue: Man with a Movie Camera, from the Soviet Union in 1929.
For those in the UK but some distance away from London, it might be worth checking National Express for their current offer of £1 tickets (each way) to/from London, from several busier locations, and £9 for all other destinations. Presumably the catch is in whatever availability they wish to permit, but better than their usual prices.
Wonder what the operating costs of a teleporter will be? Is it going to be along the lines of the net, where the physical locations don't matter, as far as cost of access go? Will there need to be stations at both ends? Enquiring minds need to know!
"...what would the nutrition information label be like for the witch's house in Hansel and Gretel?"
Unfortunately, in Japan the people are too polite to notice t-shirts. I have worn my 'taking auditions for a japanese g/f' without eliciting any laughter or more pointing then I usually get just by being a foreigner. Only the Chinese students noticed and laughed.
BTW, might you have any contact email addresses, or general pointers, for conversational English teaching? I really need a change of scene badly - just whiling away the time here's no good, and if I could be in Japan instead, earning a little (which would, in any event, be a lot more than at present), I'd surely have to be crazy not to look into the option.
Before I go home for spring break, I will visit the local outlet clothing store, the places that breeds bad Engrish tshirts, and buy them for people as presents. Cheap, and good 'family' fun for all. The Japanese is much easier to learn here, which isn't to say that I can speak Japanese. But for example, I can order food, or ask for directions, and even relatively understand what the people tell me in responce.
As for English teaching, it is incredibly easy to get a job here. I prefer going to table tennis club instead of teaching, as I dont need the extra money, but anyone who wanted a job already got one here. Unfortunately, these are all part time and probably wouldn't support someone living here fulltime. What it comes down is that you usually go to a language school and you get assigned students (3 groups at the beggining). Thats about 6 hours a week, and 10,000 Yen (100 dollars). Which is really good, and enough to live on if you don't have to pay rent... which sadly you will have to. If you are a good teacher, you get more classes... and etc. That is probably not what you are looking for tho. Now, as for full time positions, I am sure they are available, but as it is not allowed for us to legally do that, I have no idea.
I think I had a link somewhere for teaching English full time in Korea, if you are interested, I could go dig it up.
That reminds me.. I still have to watch Ping Pong.
I also need to visit your photo gallery!
Here is the website (http://www.ftunion.com/), and here is the email where you are supposed to send ones resume(apply@ftunion.com). And yeah, Korea is a good place for internet, and the few Korean people I have met here have been really nice.
As for Ping Pong, yes, watch, and imagine me as the main character instead of whatever the main char looks like (i no longer remember). And yes, my photo gallery needs to be visited, although the net address will be moving very soon as Hypermart is a group of bastards and are kicking me off.


Over the years, the diversity of the Canadian Armed Forces personnel has helped create a strong, resilient and flexible military that is able to apply a broad array of perspectives and talents across the spectrum of operations.
Today, Defence Minister Harjt S. Sajjan announced the first contracts awarded under the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program launched on April 9, 2018. Under the competitive projects element of IDEaS, four contracts totaling $690K are being awarded in response to the challenge of how the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) can recruit, retain and increase representation of women.
These first contract awards stem from the highly successful first call for proposals for the IDEaS program, which received over 600 proposals in response to the 16 defence and security challenges. In the coming months, contract awards for the remaining challenges will be announced.
From consultations with leading-edge organizations, to algorithms, machine learning solutions and the assessment of common causes of medical release from the military, the selected organizations will put their expertise forward to help the CAF successfully overcome challenges and barriers in recruiting and retaining women.
Innovators are encouraged to consult the IDEaS website for more information on this and subsequent calls for proposals as the program continues to take shape.
Canada's Defence Policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged, makes the recruiting of women a key priority of the Department of National Defence (DND) and the CAF.
For more than 100 years, women have had an active role in Canada's military and contributed to Canada's rich military history and heritage.
The Canadian Forces Recruiting Group enrolled 860 women by the end of Fiscal Year 2017-2018, representing 17% of the total recruiting objective of enrolling 5,000 new members that year.
The IDEaS competitive projects' call for proposal was administered by Public Services and Procurement Canada on behalf of the DND.
The second call for proposals under competitive projects will be launched in fall 2018.
Implement new procurement mechanisms that allow DND to develop and test concepts, and to follow through on the most promising ideas.


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Begonia arborescens est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Begoniaceae. Ce bégonia arbustif est originaire du Brésil. L'espèce fait partie de la section Pritzelia.
Elle a été décrite en 1820 par Giuseppe Raddi (1770-1829). L'épithète spécifique arborescens signifie « arborescent », en référence au développement en arbre de la plante.

Répartition géographique
Cette espèce est originaire du pays suivant : Brésil.

Liste des variétés

Selon ,  et  :
 variété Begonia arborescens var. arborescens
 variété Begonia arborescens var. confertiflora (Gardner) A.DC. (1861)
 variété Begonia arborescens var. oxyphylla (A.DC.) S.F.Sm. (1999)

Notes et références

Bibliographie
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Liens externes

Iconographie :
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In the competition between quarterbacks Paxton Lynch and Trevor Siemian, the Denver Broncos are talking a good game of being nonpartisan, but it's pretty obvious who they want to win.
In the competition between quarterbacks Paxton Lynch and Trevor Siemian, the Denver Broncos are talking a good game of being nonpartisan, but it's pretty obvious who they want to win.
In 2016, the used their first-round pick on Lynch so their investment has been made, and they want to see some rewards.
This offseason's biggest position battle is again in Denver, the quarterback-crazed city where John Elway and Peyton Manning both left the game caked in confetti and continue to cast long shadows.
The Broncos, a team with a dazzling defense and ambitions of a deep playoff run, must decide which young quarterback will lead them in 2017: gifted first-rounder Paxton Lynch or egghead seventh-rounder Trevor Siemian.
New coach Vance Joseph declared at his introductory news conference he would hold an open QB competition between Siemian, the incumbent, and Lynch, his backup.
Either one will be a bargain in the budget-based NFL. Siemian is due $615,000 this season and Lynch $880,000. That's less than a game's work for superstar Von Miller, who will make $17 million in 2017.
Yet the team's fortunes rest largely on the winner of this second straight summer quarterback competition.
Siemian emerged as Manning's surprise successor last summer, beating out both a raw rookie and an erratic veteran, Mark Sanchez. Siemian proved both impressive and inconsistent.
On the one hand, he threw for 3,400 yards and 18 TDs while going 8-6 despite a porous O-line, bland play calling, a battered backfield, and injuries to his left shoulder and right foot. He also had a habit of taking the check-down on third-and-long and not dumping it off in time to avoid big hits.
Lynch proved the poster boy for this latest wave of spread quarterbacks who aren't quite as ready for the pros as the wide receivers, defensive backs and edge rushers spawned by college football's latest trend. Bogged down by a complex playbook and fixing his footwork, Lynch went 1-1 in two starts and threw for 500 yards with two TDs and an interception in 10 quarters of work.
Neither Siemian nor Lynch did enough to avoid another QB conundrum in Denver, where the question of who's leading the competition reverberates on the radio shows like a daily visit to the optometrist. Is it one or two?
That was good news for Lynch supporters because Joseph has said the primary factor that will separate the two quarterbacks is making the right lickety-split decisions.
Although neither quarterback's 2016 season was enough to avoid another summer of open competition, both see last season's experience as invaluable.
After the Broncos finished 9-7 and missed the playoffs for the first time since Elway joined the front office in 2011, Siemian immediately underwent surgery on his left shoulder so he wouldn't miss any of the offseason program. Lynch hurried to work with quarterback fixer Charlie Taaffe to iron out flaws in his footwork.
McCOY RETURNS: Elway hired Joseph, and Joseph's first hire was Mike McCoy to run his offense.
The Broncos just completed their first week of offense vs. defense drills, and McCoy became the first coach or executive this offseason to describe Lynch's strengths in terms that didn't focus solely on his physical traits. Before, it was always praise for Siemian's acumen and accolades for Lynch's talents.
For the next few weeks, and certainly for a while in training camp, the quarterback competition will be split right down the middle, with each QB working with the starters every other day.
FIRST-ROUND STATUS: Even though Siemian showed flashes last season, the Broncos are giving Lynch every chance to win the job a year after Elway moved up five spots to select him with the 26th overall pick. In doing so, he outmaneuvered Jerry Jones, who had his eyes set on Lynch, not Dak Prescott. Prescott would lead the Dallas Cowboys to the NFC's top seed behind the league's best offensive line last season.
Lynch never really challenged Siemian last summer when the 250th overall pick in the 2015 draft parlayed his yearlong apprenticeship under Manning and Brock Osweiler into the starting job. Siemian only gave way when he was hurt. Lynch beat Tampa Bay but lost to Atlanta in his two starts.
Lynch said he won't get caught up in who he's throwing to or against.
"I think every rep is important whether you're with the 1s or you're with the 2s," he said.
SHOTGUN WEDDING: Both men love that McCoy's offense features more shotgun snaps than Gary Kubiak's old run-based scheme.
"To me, it's pretty different, but I feel like it fits more of how I play, and I'm more comfortable in it," Lynch said.
McCoy's system also fits Siemian's skills.


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Q: Set command line parameter in build.gradle One of the gradle tasks I'm running is doing too many printouts and since I can't adjust its inner log level I'm trying to run it with the -q command line option to restrict the printout to error level only. That works fine but I also need to run the task when I don't have access to the command line (like from inside IntelliJ and when running other tasks that are depending on it.)
Is there a way that I can specify in build.gradle that this task should always be run with -q?

A: It seems, that it's not possible to do it now for a single task - there is an open issue for supporting such a case, which is still open.

A: You can set a global log level in gradle.properties

org.gradle.logging.level=(quiet,warn,lifecycle,info,debug)
When set to quiet, warn, lifecycle, info, or debug, Gradle will use this log level. The values are not case sensitive. The lifecycle
  level is the default. See Choosing a log level.

It's not possible to reduce the scope to the task level but at least for test purpose, it will work.


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ADM completes acquisition of Chamtor
Finance | Active Nutrition | Food
Latest in series of enhancements to company's global sweetener and starch footprint
Archer Daniels Midland Company has completed the acquisition of Chamtor, a French producer of wheat-based sweeteners and starches.
"We are pleased to welcome Chamtor as the latest expansion of our global sweetener and starch footprint," said Pierre Duprat, President, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"France is well-known in Europe for its wheat production capabilities, and is a key destination market for starch-based products."
The Bazancourt plant is ideally located at the heart of the cereal market and within reach of customers across Spain, Germany, France and Benelux. We are excited to add our global capabilities to an already-strong business so that we can together meet growing customer needs throughout the region."
The French facility, which produces glucose, starch and proteins from wheat, is the most recent in a series of enhancements to ADM's global sweetener and starch capabilities.
In 2015, ADM purchased full ownership of corn wet mills in Bulgaria and Turkey, and a 50% stake in a wet mill in Hungary. Last year, the company acquired a sweetener and starch facility in Morocco, and announced expansion plans for the Turkey and Bulgaria plants.
"With increasing demand for sweeteners and starches in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, ADM is expanding in the region to ensure we meet those growing customer needs," Duprat continued.


Choose your personal and affordable insurance plan from 22 Individual health plans available in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Of the 2 insurance companies that offer Individual health plans in Fort Washington, Independence Blue Cross and Ambetter from Pennsylvania Health & Wellness have the highest number of plans to choose from. Fort Washington offers 4 Bronze plans, 10 Silver plans, 4 Gold plans and 1 for consumers to choose.
If you want to see a doctor outside of your network, you can select from the 3 Individual plans that participate in Preferred Provider Organization(PPO). You can enroll in one of the 13 Health Maintenance Organization(HMO) plan if you want if lower costs are most important and you don't mind using a Primary Care Physician (PCP). The least expensive Individual health plan that participates in Health Maintenance Organization(HMO) is the Keystone HMO Bronze plan from Independence Blue Cross. The monthly cost of this plan is $271.42.
If you are on a budget, check if you qualify for the premium tax credit which can lower your Health plan cost. The carrier with the largest selection of Individual plans in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania is Independence Blue Cross, which offers 13 plans with Health Maintenance Organization(HMO) network and 3 Preferred Provider Organization(PPO) network plans.
Independence Blue Cross has the largest network of practitioners in Fort Washington that accept Individual with 27 doctors to choose from.. Individual enrollees that need to see a specialist in Fort Washington are in luck, as the city has 15 doctors specializing in family medicine, 12 psychiatry & neurology specialists, and 7 pediatrics specialists who accept Individual health plans.


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"Hey Everybody!" é uma canção da banda australiana de pop rock 5 Seconds of Summer, contida em seu segundo álbum de estúdio, Sounds Good Feels Good (2015). A canção é o segundo single do álbum. A canção contém elementos de "Hungry Like the Wolf", por Duran Duran, que foi listado na lista dos créditos da canção.

Promoção
A banda apresentou a canção no Alan Carr: Chatty Man em 9 de outubro de 2015, e no TFI Friday em 6 de novembro de 2015. Depois, foi apresentada no American Music Awards de 2015 e no The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

 Recepção da crítica
A revista Time nomeou a canção "Hey Everybody!" como a terceira pior música do ano.

 Videoclipe
Em 16 de outubro de 2015, o videoclipe de "Hey Everybody!" foi lançado.

 Lista de faixas Download digital'''
"Hey Everybody!" – 3:16CD single alemão
"Hey Everybody! (edição da rádio)"
"Over and Out" – 2:59

Desempenho nas tabelas musicas

Canções gravadas por 5 Seconds of Summer
Singles de 2015
Canções de 2015
Singles lançados pela Capitol Records


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Iqubal Pannu, Senior Solutions Consultant, AEB (International) Ltd., looks at the key aspects to consider when navigating the US Export Control Reform.
The objective of the USExport Control Reform (ECR) is to simplify US export controls while enhancing USsecurity. Its ultimate goal is the consolidation of the two primary control lists – the United States Munitions List (USML) and the Commerce Control List (CCL) – into a single control list administered by one single agency using one central computer system.
As part of this, a large number of items previously classified as munitions are currently being transferred from the USML, administered by the Department of State, to the CCL, administered by the Department of Commerce.
This reform involves a significant development for European companies that utilise US-origin goods, software, technology, and related services in different industry sectors, including aerospace, automotive, defence, information technology, telecommunications and software development.
Many of the companies affected by ECR changes have previously been focused on dealing with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) that control the export and import of defence-related articles and services on the USML. Now that a large number of items are being transferred to the CCL, these companies need to familiarise themselves with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), as licenses may now be required from the Department of Commerce.
As the EAR is structured very differently than the ITAR, the ECR requires European companies to understand aspects of the EAR − including its licensing provisions and exceptions, its rules concerning the use of US-origin technology in overseas development and production, and other features that they did not have to consider before.
Determining which US federal agency has jurisdiction over products, technical data and services is a key step in identifying US export license requirements under the ECR. EAR and USML jurisdiction can apply merely on the basis that goods, software, or technology are of US-origin or contain US content – there is no need for the product to be located in the United States, and no need for US parties to be involved in the export or re-export transaction.
The USDepartment of State has export control jurisdiction over the export of defence items under the ITAR, while the US Department of Commerce has export control jurisdiction over the export of dual-use items and items that have strictly civilian or commercial uses under the EAR. Notably, a non-US company receiving and re-exporting UScontrolled items is responsible for ensuring the correct jurisdiction and classification of the items, even if this information has been provided to them by their supplier.
•	Among the most significant changes introduced with the ECR is the addition of the '600 series' to the CCL. The '600 series' is comprised of less sensitive military items that were formerly captured under the USML and hence subject to the ITAR. Moving these items to the CCL allows for more flexible controls under the EAR so they can be exported to NATO countries and other US allies more easily. They do, however, retain their nature as military items, and licenses from Commerce are required to export and re-export them unless an EAR License Exception is available.
•	Of additional importance is the revised license exception Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) of the EAR, which is designed to ease trade between the USand its allies and close partners. Some transactions that, prior to the ECR, would have been conducted under a license may now be possible under this exception, reducing the administrative burden on exporters. The STA allows export, re-export, and transfer of certain dual-use and "600 series" items to STA-eligible countries without a transaction-specific license, provided certain conditions are met.
•	Screening all parties involved in a transaction is a fundamental part of a company's US trade controls compliance programme. Under the ECR, the US Government has consolidated nine different screening lists from the Departments of State, Commerce and Treasury that can be used as a single resource for screening. If a party to a transaction is matched against the Consolidated Screening List, additional investigation is required to understand whether the process can continue, if an authorisation is required from the US government, or if other restrictions apply.
•	Finally, a new license exemption by the Department of State eliminates the need to obtain prior approval for transfers of unclassified defence articles to dual national or third country national employees of foreign business or government entities, or international organisations that are approved end-users or consignees for such defence articles. This exemption is subject to fulfilling certain screening and recordkeeping requirements.
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DEEPWATER RACE CLUB ON COURSE TO SADDLE UP WITH NEW POLO PLAY
Deepwater Jockey Club and Polo Club members celebrating the funding win, Brian Lana, left, Tricia Stack, Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall and Hamish Webb.
A $20,000 State Government cash hit, delivered by Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall, has bumped polo into the local sports world with a brand new club set to score a home pitch in Deepwater.
Mr Marshall announced the funding, from the government's new Back to the Track fund, to build a polo ground in the centre of the Deepwater racecourse – and the locals are rearing to go with a big match plan for a homegrown sports kickoff.
Deepwater horse breaker and inaugural polo club committeeman Patrick Herde says the funding is a winner for locals.
"It means the world to us," Mr Herde said. "There's no way in the world this polo club could get started and the ground couldn't happen without this $20,000."
Mr Marshall said the funding program was designed to support regional racing clubs to engage more horse groups and other clubs in their communities.
"The Deepwater Jockey Club and the newly formed local polo club are using this funding to develop a ground at the racecourse and forge a new sporting alliance that will increase the scope of sport locally," Mr Marshall said.
"The Deepwater Jockey Club is a beaut little club; a unique club with a unique character that last year won the Community Race Club of the Year title for NSW. It only races once a year, but what an event that is with thousands of racegoers attending the January event.
"This new partnership will see the polo club affiliated with the NSW association, get its own ground, and give the jockey club a new home for horse sports that will see more people using the racecourse and more people attending to watch a new homegrown sport there."
Jockey Club Secretary/Treasurer Tricia Stack says the club is more than excited with the funding hit and says the big Deepwater race meeting on 19 January will be followed with some intense work from the polo group from a few days later to get the ground going.
Mr Herde said working bees had already started to clean up the centre track area that will become the polo pitch but the big works to turn it from a weedy grass patch to a good green pitch would begin soon.
"We'll get some cattle manure in there because of the hard surface and hopefully find some locals with earthmoving equipment to get a start on the ground," he said. "It will be a big community effort.
"We're hoping to be able to play some practice chukkas from February and small tournaments in autumn, if not the following year. We're building this ground to last."