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Today's children are more interconnected than ever. With over four billion internet users across the world, the limits of children's experiences are no longer bound by their bedroom doors, their classroom walls, or the borders of their nation. Unfortunately, the same can be said for the rest of the world – including those seeking to harm children. As the internet's reach grows, every day, the number of children at risk of online sexual exploitation and abuse multiplies.
Thanks to the generous contributions of the United Kingdom Home Office, Human Dignity Foundation, and the Oak Foundation, the Safe Online initiative supports projects around the world that protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Launched in 2016, Safe Online has so far mobilized US $83 million, of which US $48 million were invested in 60 projects with impact in over 70 countries. Crucially, alongside these investments, Safe Online is increasingly contributing to global policy discussions on child online safety and continues to foster knowledge generation and collaboration within and between networks to maximize the use of collective resources and ensure investments have a broad impact.
Safe Online investments range from supporting programs at country and regional level as well as large-scale research projects (e.g. Disrupting Harm) to designing new and scaling-up existing technology-based solutions along with two other major investments with our partners, the UNICEF Innovation Fund and the Technology Coalition Research Fund awards. Read more about Safe Online portfolio by exploring our Grantee Directory, or sign up to the End Violence Newsletter to receive regular updates.
In 2022, Safe Online is investing an additional US$15 million for solutions to make the internet safer regionally, in Eastern and Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia, and globally to build and deploy technology solutions.
Every half a second, a child
makes their first click online.
Across the world, children's lives are being shaped in two worlds — the physical and the digital — but more often than not, those worlds blend into one.
Children's lives are now being shaped behind a screen, and every day, children are diving deeper into platforms not designed with their safety in mind. As they ingest information, build friendships and make connections, disturbing trends are emerging that threaten children of all ages — even those too young to speak.
With all of its many advantages and opportunities, one of the unforeseen consequences of the rise of the internet and digital technologies has been an exponential growth in online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA), especially through the illicit generation and sharing of child sexual abuse images and videos. More than 200,000 children go online every day, and 800 million are actively using social media. Couple that with the fact that at any given time, an estimated 750,000 individuals are looking to connect with children for sexual purposes online. The explosion of smartphone technology around the world has only catalysed this threat, and the resulting statistics are incredibly alarming.
Child sexual exploitation online:
an ever-growing threat
The numbers of violent and sexual images and videos of children uploaded or live streamed on the internet and Dark Web are increasing at a devastating speed. After nearly disappearing in the 90s, the spread of child sexual abuse material exploded with the rise of the internet, while child sex trafficking increased with exposure to a greater market online.
A decade ago, there were less than one million reports of child abuse material. In 2019, that number climbed to 70 million, a nearly 50 per cent increase over 2018 figures. Many more remain undetected.
Significantly higher number of child sexual abuse material remains undetected, including those on the Dark Web. The expansion of the Dark Web, which is only accessible through specialized software, is another facilitator of online child sexual abuse.
From 2013 to 2018, the number of Dark Web users increased from one to four million. Users of the Dark Web can remain anonymous and, for the most part, untraceable. Because of this, many of the worst forms of child abuse happen through the Dark Web. More than 80 per cent of internet traffic on the Dark Web is generated by visits to websites that offer CSAM, according to a study of "hidden service" websites conducted by the University of Portsmouth. In 2018, 2.88 million accounts were registered globally across the 10 most harmful Dark Web sites focused on child sexual exploitation and abuse online.
The younger the child, the more at-risk online
Studies show that younger children are at an even higher risk of online sexual exploitation, with 89 per cent of victims between 3 and 13 years old.
The Global Threat Assessment conducted by the WeProtect Global Alliance cited that one of the many hidden Internet services dedicated to the abuse of infants and toddlers contained over 18,000 registered members, with another similar forum receiving over 23 million visits.
In addition, a survey conducted by the Canadian Center for Child Protection indicates that 56 percent of the child abuse online began before the age of 4, and 42 percent were abused for more than 10 years. And, reports received by the Internet Watch Foundation show that in the United Kingdom, half of online child sexual abuse cases involve children under age 10, and one-third of those images involve rape and sexual torture.
I. WE INVEST
Since its inception in 2016, the End Violence Fund has invested $47 million in 55 projects focused on preventing and eliminating online child sexual exploitation and abuse in over 70 countries. This includes a large-scale research project, Disrupting Harm, that is engaging three organisations to better understand how digital technology facilitates the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents.
Explore the work of our grantees here, and click the tab to the right – THE RESULTS – to learn more about their impact. You can also view the below map by clicking here.
OUR LATEST INVESTMENT
End Violence's latest round of investment centred on solutions that leverage existing and new technologies to prevent and combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse. Through a $10 million open call, the Fund is supporting partners to scale and adapt existing solutions, and to develop new technologies that use tools like artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, blockchain, virtual reality and other innovative solutions that have the potential to enhance detection and response to online child sexual exploitation and abuse and prevent known and emerging threats.
Learn more about our latest funding round.
PROJECT PROTECT
In 2020, the End Violence Partnership teamed up with the world's biggest technology companies to support a new initiative – Project Protect – to end violence against children online. Project Protect is an initiative led by the Technology Coalition, a group of 18 tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and Twitter. The End Violence Partnership is working with the Coalition on the research aspect of this project, while the WePROTECT Global Alliance is working to strengthen transparency and accountability across the industry.
In January of 2021, End Violence and the Technology Coalition are launching the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund to expand knowledge of online child sexual exploitation and abuse and explore the most effective measures to prevent it.
Through this collaboration, End Violence is teaming up with the biggest players in the technology space as part of Technology Coalition's Project Protect. Project Protect seeks to prevent and eradicate online CSEA through technology innovation, collective action, research, knowledge sharing, and increased accountability. This fund is an essential part of that process, supporting actionable research that will lead to real, lasting change for children's digital safety.
As the lead research arm of the project, End Violence will support the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund. We will fund research that produces actionable insights and can impact product and policy development to protect children from risks online. Key outcomes include:
Improving our understanding of online child sexual exploitation and abuse, with a focus on offender behaviour and children's experiences;
Building an evidence-base for product and policy development so that industry and other stakeholders' response to preventing and disrupting child sexual exploitation and abuse is based on a solid foundation of research; and
Providing shared understandings so all sectors of the ecosystem working to end online child sexual exploitation and abuse (industry, education, government, civil society, law enforcement) have a stronger awareness of how their work intersects and can be made more effective at all levels.
Learn more about Project Protect and the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund.
II. WE CONNECT
End Violence doesn't just provide financial support to our grantees – we provide platforms for exchange, learning and collaboration as well.
THE FIRST GRANTEE CONVENING
After three years of grant-making, the Fund held its first grantee convening from 8-10 December 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The grantee convening provided a platform for organisations across the world to come together, share their resources and experiences, and strengthen the field of child online safety. Nearly 50 individuals attended the convening, representing 38 grantee organisations from 33 projects.
To learn more about the grantee convening, watch the video above and read the recap report, which highlights the learnings, solutions and challenges brought to light over the course of the event.
ONGOING KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE WEBINARS
Since the Fund's inception, we have held digital events for grantees to learn from each other from wherever they are across the globe. In June 2020, End Violence held its 10th knowledge exchange event, which gathered 117 individuals from partner and grantee organisations around the world.
Learn more about the latest event, and access the learnings, challenges and solutions experienced by our grantees.
III. WE MOBILISE
End Violence is increasingly coordinating with key actors across the child online safety ecosystem, pushing for children's right to a safe, healthy online experience through collaboration, advocacy and partnership. In addition, End Violence is an active player in global policy discussions involving:
Connectivity and safety. We bring a unique perspective from the field and make broader links with violence against children in multiple forms, including through membership of the Internet Policy and Governance (ITU) and the UNESCO Broadband Commission's working group on child online safety.
Privacy, security and protection. As the discussions around regulation, responsibility and the need for privacy are evolving, End Violence is championing children's rights as paramount in business decisions that will impact on the ability to protect children from online harm.
Frontier technology and human rights. We are a member of a newly convened, diverse group of stakeholders working on developing global guidance on artificial intelligence and children's rights. As part of this engagement, we are looking into the principles, policies and mechanisms within new and frontier technology, ensuring they do not exacerbate harmful norms, inequalities and outcomes that drive violence against children.
The release of a new campaign, Stay Safe at Home. Stay Safe Online., with our partners in the technology sector, which boosted awareness of risks online and provide resources for parents and children to stay safe.
The coordination and publication of a global leaders' statement, which called for an urgent, united effort to address violence against children as part of the broader response to COVID-19, including online.
A recent guidance document from the Safe to Learn coalition, which aims to help education ministries facilitate safe, effective online learning experiences for children during COVID-19.
Since 2016, End Violence Fund has invested $44 million in 52 projects focused on preventing and eliminating online child sexual exploitation and abuse in over 50 countries.
Explore the links below to learn more about what our grantees have accomplished.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented rise in screen time. School closures and strict containment measures mean more and more families are relying on technology and digital solutions to keep children learning, entertained and connected to the outside world, but not all children have the necessary knowledge, skills and resources to keep themselves safe online.
Spending more time on virtual platforms can leave children vulnerable to online sexual exploitation and grooming as predators look to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic. A lack of face-to-face contact with friends and partners may lead to heightened risk-taking, such as sending sexualized images, while increased and unstructured time online may expose children to potentially harmful and violent content, as well as a greater risk of cyberbullying.
End Violence, together with its partners UNICEF, ITU, UNESCO, UNODC, WePROTECT Global Alliance, WHO, and World Childhood Foundation USA, released a technical note and a resource pack to support governments, ICT industries, educators and parents to be alert, take urgent measures to mitigate potential risks, and ensure children's online experiences are safe and positive during COVID-19.
Click the buttons below for resources on specific topics.
Argentina launches its first portal to report child sexual abuse material
In Ghana, a law to address online child sexual exploitation is approved
In Tunisia, a new portal is launched to fight online child sexual abuse
Why did COVID-19 supercharge online sexual exploitation of children?
IWF launches new campaigns for teen girls to combat self-generated child sexual abuse imagery
Tech Matters launches Aselo, a new software platform to strengthen child helplines across the world
UNICEF Dominican Republic launches new platforms to keep kids safe online
Celebrating the adoption of General Comment 25
Ensuring the Safety of Children in the Digital World: an article from the Business and Human Rights Review
Safe Online Investment Portfolio Results 2020
The Safe Online investment portfolio continued its efforts across 70 countries to secure a safe Internet for all children by building stronger systems, evidence, models, and solutions. View the results of its investments.
News update: The UN CRC includes General Comment 25 to protect kids online
The UN CRC has adopted the new General Comment No. 25 (2021) on children's rights in relation to the digital environment. Read the CRC in full at the link above.
Child Online Safety
Click the link above to learn more about child online safety and End Violence's response.
COVID-19 & Implications for Protecting Children Online
This technical note sets out some of the key priorities and recommendations on how to mitigate risks children are facing online during COVID-19.
Click here for the expanded resource pack.
In early 2019, End Violence invested $6.6 million to develop Disrupting Harm, a large-scale research project that aims to better understand how digital technology facilitates the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents, both online and offline. Learn more about the study through the above link.
Grantee Convening Report
After three years of grant-making, the Fund held its first grantee convening from 8-10 December 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read this report to learn more about the event, and the learnings, solutions and challenges that were brought to light there.
End Violence Fund Report 2018
In 2018, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children published a report on the first two years of the Fund's investments.
Report from End Violence, WePROTECT and UNICEF
This report details working examples of the WePROTECT Global Alliance's Model National Response, a framework that outlines capabilities needed in-country to tackle online exploitation, abuse and violence against children.
Global Kids Online: Surveys results from 11 countries
The Global Kids Online project works to gather rigorous, cross-national evidence on the risks that children encounter on the internet, along with the opportunities for social connection, entertainment, learning, participation, creativity, and expression of identity. Learn more in the report.
Global Threat Assessment 2019
Learn more about online child sexual exploitation and abuse through this report.
Child Online Safety: minimizing the risk of violence, abuse and exploitation online
This report has more information on children's risks online, and aims to increase the prioritization of child online safety among all key stakeholders and decision-makers.
Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment
This assessment of the cybercrime threat landscape highlights the persistence and tenacity of a number of key threats.
Safe Online Grantees
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The Perils of Border Crossing: 'The Undocumented'
Cynthia Fuchs
The story of Francisco Hernandez provides an aptly difficult and elusive focus, in the sense that he has disappeared following his decision to cross the desert.
Independent Lens: The Undocumented
Director: Marco Williams
Cast: Marcos Hernandez, Bruce Parks, Jeronimo Garcia, Kat Rodriguez
Studio: Hip Truth Productions, Two Tone Productions, ITVS
US date: 2013-04-19 (PBS)
Remains. The verb means to stay, to continue, to be left. The noun means the same, usually associated with what's left after a death -- writings, traces, and bodies. Each of these ideas has to do with what might be collected, measured or otherwise documented. When human remains are not documented -- when they are unidentified or unfound -- those family members and friends who are left behind in another way bear immeasurable burdens.
Marco Williams' remarkable film The Undocumented, airing 29 April on Independent Lens, considers these many burdens in a series of contexts, focusing on men, women, and children who cross the border from Sonora, Mexico into the United States by way of Arizona. More than 2500 of them have tried and failed over the past 15 years, at least by the rough and necessarily inaccurate count conjured by border patrol and Mexican consul officials. The losses are onerous for relatives, of course, and each instance brings with it a particular story of sacrifice and pain.
Just so, the story of Francisco Hernandez provides an aptly difficult and elusive focus, in the sense that he has disappeared following his decision to cross the desert. With a son in the hospital suffering from kidney failure, Francisco was determined to find work and so be able to fund Gustavo's treatment, even as his family worried for him. Another son, Marcos, now lives in Chicago, and the film follows his efforts to learn what's become of his father. Marcos feeds pigeons on the sidewalk outside the bakery where he works, remembering the difficulty of his own border crossing, a journey he's made to find his father. He keeps on his phone a recording of the last conversation he had with his father's coyote, who told him approximately where he abandoned Francisco after he became too sick to go on. "He didn't care about my father's life or anyone else's," laments Marcos, "All he cared about was money," more specifically, the $2500 he charged Francisco before they left Mexico.
"People are dying, and that should be enough to change things," says Kat Rodriguez of the Coalición de Derechos Humanos (the Human Rights Coalition), a grassroots organization that counters the militarization of the US southern border region. Kat's office receives calls every day from relatives of lost individuals, seeking help in locating them. Though this isn't Derechos Humanos' charge, staffers do their best to put people in touch with offices that can help, including local police and federal agents, the Mexican consulate (the Tucson office headed by Jeronimo Garcia), and the medical examines who are presented each day with unidentified remains.
The film traces the various steps in making identifications, beginning with Border Patrol Search and Rescue (BORSTAR) agents: here the camera follows along as men and women in uniforms travel over the desert, by vehicle and on foot. Sometimes they run to catch kids and young men in sneakers and t-shirts, people wholly unequipped to make the trek they hope to make, without enough water to survive in the 108 daytime degree temperatures, with little understanding of the environment or distances they face (coyotes frequently lie to clients, suggesting they have some 12 or 13 hours to walk, where the actual distance is closer to two and three days).
When the agents find survivors, they provide them with water and take them to shelters. They also find remains, bodies baked by the sun, skeletons, and bones scattered across the desert floor. These remains are transported to the Pima County medical examiner's office, where Bruce Parks takes photos and performs autopsies, looking for clues to identities in clothing, sometimes sewed into underwear along with money that has proved useless. Parks notes the rising numbers of cases his office must process each year, and explains, "We believe it's important to teat people equally and just as we would a US citizen. We can't do anything for the dead. All we can do is help the living."
The camera observes from a long, low, handheld distance as he and his colleagues zip and unzip body bags, as they roll gurneys from freezers to examining rooms and back again, as they measure bodies and body parts with tapes, cut into desiccated carcasses, examine jeans and mementos and boots. They check teeth in search of identifying markers, though dental records are hardly reliable in cases of impoverished farmers who've never been to a dentist before they leave for the US. They imagine an American Dream on the other side. Garcia clicks on photos stored on his desktop at the consulate, noting, "They lose it all in the desert."
And they are lost, as well. The living who remain do their best to go on; they conduct funerals when they are fortunate enough to have remains delivered to them. They do their best to remember when they do not. The film doesn't make an aggressive case against the current state of US border politics, but it doesn't have to. "Each case makes us think," says Garcia, "We understand their anguish." Parks adds, "The United States is asking for this labor force," as he stands over a table full of dry bones he tries to reassemble. As we benefit from such workers' efforts, he goes on, "We have to ask ourselves do we have some responsibility in these deaths."

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Bigg Boss 10 Episode 47 2nd December wirtten 2016 LIVE updates Contestants are disappointed with Gaurav Chopra's behaviour when Manveer Gurjar got injured. The Bigg Boss 10 contestants wake up to the Appy Fizz music. Manveer Gurjar tells Gaurav Chopra that he only sees Manu Punjabi as the captain but he (Manu) wants to back down. Lopamudra Raut, Nitibha Kaul and Priyanka Jagga get ready to sizzle in the pool. They ask Priyanka Jagga to take off her mic and come near the pool. She obliges and they push her in the pool. Though they are looking to have some fun, she ends up hurting herself and lashes out at everyone. Priyanka is crying the bathroom and complaining about the pain while Lopa says that they have ruined the entire fun. Lopa and Nitibha go to apologise but she refuses to calm down.


Hitchcock's early British films tend largely to be devoid of the interesting, endlessly analysable scores his later films have, (thanks mainly to Bernard Herrmann being sat at the musical helm). It seems to have been an almost standard practice to use a handful of musical scores or fragments in the occasional scene but to largely leave the films musically blank outside of their opening and closing titles. The Lady Vanishes (1938) has a more interesting, perhaps even innovative, use for its music in comparison to the films around it.
The film comes in the middle of a batch of spy thrillers and mysteries with Hitchcock having made almost one a year during the 1930s; most famously The 39 Steps (1935) but also The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Secret Agent (1936) and Sabotage (1936). Many of them feature visual innovations and general quality in filmmaking but few feature an emphasis on music (if at all) as The Lady Vanishes does (The 39 Steps has a brief momentary revelation when music gives the game away as to how the spies are siphoning information out of the country). What is more startling is that this subtle feature of musical narrative use doesn't actually reveal itself to be as such until well into the final quarter of the film, making a review of all that has gone on before it revealing of new audio-visual qualities.
The musical elements first appear in Michael Redgrave's character, Gilbert, who is a clarinetist researching old folk songs from Switzerland where the film initially starts (in its half an hour of seemingly comedic intent). Within the extremely British but amusing jokes that take up the majority of the film when in the Swiss hotel, Hitchcock actually smuggles in hints of the central mystery through music. There is seemingly an awful lot of musical connection happening, from Gilbert's interest to the musician outside serenading the, soon to disappear, Miss Froy (May Witty).
A seemingly random attack on the musician serenading goes largely unexplained but reading the film in a musical way offers some explanation. The narrative becomes focussed around Miss Froy's revelation that she is in fact a spy carrying secret information in code (hence the attempts to kidnap and make her "disappear"). This code takes the form of a musical melody that is given to our two main protagonists later on when they are all in grave peril. Listening to the short melody shouldn't be too new for the viewer for they have heard it before. Back at the hotel, away from the bustle of Gilbert's loud recreation of folk music in his hotel room, the serenading musician was basically playing the coded theme under Miss Froy's window. Perhaps this musical rendition was the final exchange of information between spies, giving Miss Froy the code she and the British needed before he's killed for being an accomplice to the allies.
Further on in the film, Gilbert's musicianship comes in handy for remembering the vital tune. His role as a musician was laid on quite heavily during the earlier scenes so the revelation that music would become a vital component to the film is already in its groundwork. When Gilbert barges in to Iris Henderson's (Margaret Lockwood) room, his identity as the man from upstairs isn't acknowledged until he gives a quick toot on his clarinet. The idea that music can define a handful of the characters, both as the heroes of the film and as individuals themselves (the coded melody virtually becomes a leitmotif of the character of Miss Froy) is quite a revolutionary one for Hitchcock whose use of music up to this point had been largely typical for the era.
As our heroes arrive back in London there is an air of sadness around them. Not only does it appear that Miss Froy was killed on the border during the attack but Iris is also dreading meeting her soon-to-be husband. However, the two must get to the foreign office in order to pass on the coded melody. In one of Hitchcock's strongest final moments, he uses music as a warm and welcoming happy ending. After constantly repeating the melody to himself since he was taught it, Gilbert forgets what it is while waiting outside the office. As they go to enter, the slow and wistful melody is heard diegetically on the piano. The two characters are given a brief moment of surprise before a happy realisation is assured as the melody can only mean Miss Froy is alive (which she is: sat at the piano playing the melody). The scene even harks bark earlier to Gilbert's entrance into Iris' room with the clarinet; acknowledging presence and narrative through a simple but emphatically important music fragment.
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There are two kinds of being: the active being of knowing and the passive being of being known. The human condition, as homo sapiens, is wrapped up in them both. We are what we know and we are also what we are known to be. This is philosophically helpful because from it we can make a measure of human authenticity.
It is not what we have but what we know that is important if we are going to feel authentic fulfilment. It is not what we are known to have but what we are known to know that should be important in a human, Sapiens society.
Of course this is not the case in human praxis. Authenticity is sadly lacking in our nihilistic, consumerist civilisations. Our disassociation with authenticity stems primarily from our illusion of the importance of the "have" and the "have not" against the "know" and "know not". It could be said that real human progress will not take off until this illusion is rectified. Progress through knowledge rather than through acquisitions.
Of the great "verbs" that describe the drives that create our identity, and through identity our sense of Being, to do, to have and to know, only the latter is truly a Sapiens' characteristic, being itself rooted in the Cartesian cogito ergo sum. But knowing implies more than the simple thought process. It requires self-consciousness and language.
Knowing is not just thinking. It is a kind of thinking. The kind of thinking that can come to conclusions – that can guard memories and recall things.
Only through knowing can we be creative. Only through knowing can humanity have its greatest hallmarks – art and technology.
Knowledge is a metaphysical element, for knowing and being-known are immanent in the Universe's being-here – or in other words, knowledge is immanent in Being. Because of its relation to knowledge, Being is not that which is, but is constantly becoming as knowledge advances. Knowledge provides clues for meaning, but it also springs from a primordial need to find meaning. Meaning, as such, is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge. It encircles knowledge. This also means that Being and Meaning are entwined, Meaning being the prime mover. Through knowledge, Being and Meaning are also wrapped up in Sapiens organisms and Sapiens can only be fulfilled through this fulfilment of Meaning by uncovering knowledge. Likewise, humanity as a Sapiens entity, can only be fulfilled by the uncovering of knowledge as well.
Epistemology should be an elementary subject of study in a Sapiens' education system, which sounds absurd. Yet, does that absurdity not merely indicate how deeply disconnected we are from our Sapiens nature?
The three pillars of traditional epistemology: 1) know that; 2) know how, and 3) become acquainted with something – by gaining knowledge of it. But before we can really know, perhaps the wisest course is to discover "why?". To do that we must firstly search for the meaning of Meaning.
Where are we now? and What's to be done?
We live in a two dimensional society: there is length and width but no height or depth. Our world is a flat plane, a cartoon reality replete with caricatures. Lacking is the third dimension that will pull us out of the flatness and allow us to properly see things for what they are, by allowing us to perceive things from all angles. The artist knows that depth is achieved by adding perspective, by understanding illumination and being able to master the shadows cast by the impenetrable and opaque. Depth is added by knowing and only by mastering shadow and perspective can liberation from the monotonous flatness of our two-dimensionality begin. Only when we have depth because we have been able to pull the flatness up will we know what to do.
The tautological knowledge creates knowing is profound. Knowing is a continual process of becoming, it is the process of unveiling, which in turn is a process of pulling forth, lifting up, stretching out, moving around, flying over and crawling under … All the things which we cannot do on the flat plane unless we know how to manipulate the art of generating perspective.
This is not a concern confined to the present: historical and futurological perspectives must also be deepened. Objectification is also required: an artist's ability to step outside of the paradigm that is being described and lived – to stand at a point outside of the space, and outside of time, in order to perceive everything that has been hidden and understand real necessity. Objectification is needed to be able to stand over the current of the river of time in order to understand where the continuum has been flowing from. In order to perceive the reasons and mistakes that have determined certain courses of history; in order to redirect rivers, ensuring cleaner, more transparent waters that are capable of irrigating the possibilities of our optimistic futurologies. Muddy rivers will only give us a muddy, carp-full ocean of little future hope.
And so we have two tasks to concentrate on: a) the act of discovering perspective and uncovering depth, and b) that of eradicating the factors that cloud our rivers and have been pushing the historical continuum to a false inevitability for centuries.
The answer to the question must ultimately lie between what ought to be done and what has seduced our attention away from the goal. The utopia is No-Place because we are not going there. We will never get to Timbuktu if we are walking across the Americas, but that does not mean that Timbuktu cannot be reached. Maps must be drawn so that we can see why we are trapped in the maze, but in order to draw such maps we must achieve altitude and be able to stand over the labyrinth. It is a contradiction that turns the path back in on itself and to understand the labyrinthine nature of the system we must reveal the tremendous contradictions which work in its favour.


I find it really hard to concentrate on tasks that require logical thinking when there is a lot of other things going on in the same room, especially if those other things are causing a lot of noise.
Some people can focus no matter what, but I'm pretty sensitive to unwanted background noise. Unfortunately everybody does not want their workplace to be quiet – some people actually want noise and chaos. Completely absurd to me, but that's the way it is.
Many offices today are really bad with regard to background noise. What is worse is that there isn't a whole lot you can do about much of that noise (provided you don't want it) unless you have the luxury of having a room of your own. Kind of like the old days when smoking was allowed in offices – there was no getting away from it for the non-smokers."


Digital marketing continues to grow for TV marketers when it comes to tune-in promotion for TV shows.
A study from Mixpo and Promax BDA, by way of eMarketer, says digital advertising now represents 24% of a TV marketer's tune-in advertising budget in 2014 -- up from 18% a year earlier.
Digital seemingly gained at the expense of the two biggest ad categories when it comes to TV program promotion. Radio -- still the biggest ad platform for TV marketers -- declined to 30% from 32%, while cable TV advertising dropped to 25% from 29%.
Research also noted that in addition to digital, print advertising for TV show advertising also grew 6% in 2014 from 2% the year before. Outdoor advertising slipped to 7% share from 8%.
Some 77% of U.S. broadcasting and syndication executives say that one major benefit was that digital tune-in advertising can reach viewers via their mobile devices, according to the study.
Estimates are that U.S. adults will spend 2 hours, 51 minutes with their smartphones and tablets, according to eMarketer.
More positive news for digital for TV promotion: There is an above-average completion rate for video tune-in advertising on smartphone and tablets -- 87.7% and 82.4%, respectively -- according to fourth-quarter 2013 research by Rhythm NewMedia.
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The Kodachrome Slides, perhaps all photographs taken by and owned by Bernard and Hilda Ray, needed to be dismissed as absolutely uninteresting and valueless by certain people. These certain people came to resemble a pack of hounds, baying for blood as the days and weeks of attention upon the matter elapsed.
The pack of slides-negators had to seem justified with their extended, passionate interest in the K-Ray Slides, while, at the same time, conveying the impression that these slides were of no interest at all!
How was this trick achieved? By a sleight of mind, whereby it was somehow made to seem credible that artefacts and events could be of no interest at all, and yet, at the same time, by their continued existence, represent a terrible blow to the credibility and progress of the area of human activity identified variously by the names of "UFO research" / "Ufology" / "UFO Community" (etc.).
It seems that the paranoia of the Slides-haters prevented them from individually engaging with what was occurring in a more-or-less realistic manner. The paranoia of the individual met the paranoia of the other individuals fomenting a quite hysterical ambience. This hysteria required the pointing of fingers at villains and absurdly speculative doom-laden pronouncements, based upon nothing more dangerous than a few slide photographs.
If there was nothing of significance on the photographs, then any reasonable person would be inclined to walk away from the situation to concentrate on more worthwhile activities. But the paranoid pack couldn't just go away. Why not?
Presenting feverishly distorted views of the content of the K-Ray Slides, the BeWitness event and related matters, someone among the rabble came up with the buzzword "FIASCO", which was latched onto by the other intellectual hounds.
Fiasco was the * ultra-ideal * single-word-distillation of their own slides-hating follies artlessly, repetitively projected as a would-be dismissal of everything that they were so paranoid about.


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Cards from Middle-earth: The Lord of the Rings Card Game
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This beautiful image, used here only for illustration purposes, was made by BoardGameGeek user Legynd, and was originally posted on the Lord of the Rings BoardGameGeek page.
Part roleplaying game, part card game–that's the best way to describe the LOTR card game in a nutshell. If you like the Lord of the Rings books and you love fantasy, you're going to have a blast with this game, a self-described "Living Card Game" that bridges the gap between booster-pack-driven card games and static dungeon crawls.
Basic Gameplay
This cooperative card game is for 1-2 players using one 226-card Core Set; you can also have up to 4 people playing if you have two Core Sets. All players, using constructed decks, work together to defeat the challenges on each of several epic "Quests" included in the game (thus, why I said it's sort of like a roleplaying game such as Dungeons and Dragons). Yet part of the game is also the luck of the draw every turn, which makes it a card game quite like Magic: the Gathering.
Players don't directly play through the events of the LOTR trilogy in order, but there are plenty of Middle-earth and Mordor-themed challenges and stories to see. Plus, you'll see a lot of familiar heroes and enemies as you play through each quest, so the flavor of the trilogy is not lacking in any regard!
There are four different starter decks to choose from, or you can create your own as well. (For first-timers, it's easier to use one of the prefabs to get the hang of the game.) Each prefab uses different characters from the Lord of the Rings books, combined together to help the deck achieve its specific goal to help the group. But if you want to build your own deck, you certainly can using the Core Set's selection!
Different Types of Strength
Remember, all players work together, so not every player's deck is meant to kick as much butt as possible in a short time–a good team of players requires various strengths to survive. In the LOTR card game, there are four basic strengths, called "Spheres:"
You will more than likely find that one of these spheres is easiest for you to play. For me, I played the Lore sphere really well, especially the prefab deck which served as the group's "healer." The other players I played with did better at the Leadership and Spirit spheres, respectively–the Leadership sphere has a lot more ranged attacks, and the Spirit sphere is more about taking damage and keeping on truckin'. Together we made a pretty sweet team! It just takes a little experimentation to figure out which sphere is right for you.
Adventure Packs: The New and Improved Booster Packs
You can play a full game with just the Core Set, but Fantasy Flight Games is also going to be releasing expansions called Adventure Packs every month, which will have new Quests, characters, items, etc. to add to your Core Set over time. Unlike booster packs, the cards will be known ahead of time, as far as I know, so you can pick and choose which Adventure Packs you want to add to your LOTR card game collection.
Official LOTR Card Game Site
LOTR Card Game @ BoardGameGeek.com
Lord of the Rings Card Game Review with Tom Vasel (Youtube)
Lord of the Rings Card Game Playthrough, Part 1 (Youtube)
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Ервин Катона је рођен 5. јануара 1977. године у Суботици. У младости се бавио кикбоксом. На такмичењима стронгмана учествује од своје 25. године.

Сезону 2010. је завршио на другом месту у укупном пласману Лиге стронгманских шампиона (). Те године је победио на појединачним такмичењима у Бугарској, Србији и Словачкој, а у Холандији је завршио на трећем месту.

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Ервин Катона је учествовао у Великом брату 2010. године.

Ервин је власник теретане у којој вежба и припрема се за такмичења.

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I wonder where the March of Dimes stand on the connection of vaccine to some autism? They certainly avoid the massive research on older paternal age (34+) and risks to offspring. The March appears to be headed by executives in the pharmaceutical industry.
Has anyone an opinion on the role of the March of Dimes?
I caught both mumps and measles without lasting harm.
Pediatricians were concerned enough about mercury.. removed from childhood vaccines by 2002 .. concern was not autism .. lunacy of injecting mercury into little kids"
Um, peds did this? I thought it was only after parents pushed and pushed and pushed that they finally too it out. And that 'lunacy' should have been recognized a long time before - oh - about the time they were telling us all to get rid of our mercury thermometers (which - did they just get incinerated, putting large amounts of inorganic mercury into the air for us ALL to breath? Oh joy.
Makes me think they were all mad hatters..


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May 01, 2005 | by Norm Miller
Crossover Nashville
The Makings of Something Extraordinary
Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch said March 22 that he's "beginning to see the makings" of "something extraordinary" within the denomination.
Welch spoke at the Tennessee Baptist Convention church planters meeting, focusing on Welch's Everyone Can Kingdom Challenge for Evangelism.
The Everyone Can campaign "is getting the same touch, the same feel about it" of a great revival, said Welch, who moved to Nashville in February expressly to generate support for evangelistic activities related to the June 21-22 SBC annual meeting.
Welch launched the Everyone Can campaign last year via a nationwide bus tour, traversing the country and urging Southern Baptists to "Win ... Witness ... & Baptize 1 MILLION" people.
Recalling what he'd heard about the famous Shantung revival, Welch confessed to the church planters he had thought something like that may never happen a...
May 01, 2005 | by Kenneth S. Hemphill
A Partnership to Reach Samaria
Empowering Kingdom Growth is our overarching passion as a denomination. We want to see God use us as an instrument to expand His Kingdom. We have regularly underscored that this is not a program but a passion. Thus, it will always be anchored in prayer and will focus on spiritual awakening. Yet, we feel it is critical that we provide resources for our churches that will assist them in developing a strategic plan for fulfilling the Acts 1:8 challenge — to reach Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the Ends of the Earth. This task, we believe, was given to the local church, and the primary role of the denomination and its entities is to assist and partner with your church to accomplish this God-given mandate.
Remember that the Acts 1:8 challenge is to be accomplished simultaneously and not sequent...
May 01, 2005 | by James P. Guenther
Considering Its Legal Duties
Your SBC Executive Committee
A Note from Morris H. Chapman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the SBC Executive Committee
Dear Southern Baptists:
The title in each of the articles in this four-part series has begun with the phrase: Your SBC Executive Committee. Obviously, this is by design — it reflects the reality of the mindset and heart's desire of the Executive Committee. In introducing the first article, I reminded the readers that the Executive Committee is fully aware that it does not exist to serve itself; rather, it exists to serve the Southern Baptist Convention, and is in fact, an actual committee of the SBC. The Executive Committee is authorized, instructed, and commissioned to perform a number of specific functions on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention and they are listed in SBC Bylaw 18. The Executive Committee's signal purpose is "to act for the Convention ad interim (between SBC annual meetings) in all mat...
May 01, 2005 | by John Revell
It All Comes Back To The Gospel
Southern Baptists' Conventions and Associations
In 1897, while on a prolonged visit in London, Mark Twain received an unexpected visit from a reporter representing the N.Y. Journal. It seems that a report concerning the illness of Twain's cousin had been misunderstood in the States, and some had wrongly concluded that Twain himself was at death's door. On that occasion, the irrepressible author penned his now-famous response:
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
In recent days it has become somewhat chic, even among some Southern Baptists, to opine that denominationalism is dead, and therefore irrelevant. Certainly, some mainline denominations have clearly shown inarguable signs of irreversible demise, and in some cases that fate might be appropriate. When a denomination en masse jettisons its God-ordained responsibility to fulfill the assignment of Acts 1:8 — when it refuses to even acknowledge the authority and validity of the very source of that command, the Word of God &mdas...
May 01, 2005 | by R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Are All Humans Persons?
A New Assault on Human Dignity
America has been involved in an intense and culture-shaking debate over abortion that has now lasted into its fourth decade. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the issue at all. Far from it. That landmark exercise in judicial activism has led to the death of millions of unborn babies and left a scar across the nation's soul that will not heal until America regains its moral sense and defends the unborn.
Few genuinely new arguments have emerged from abortion advocates. Ever since the Supreme Court gave them the Roe v. Wade decision — handing them more than they had ever dreamed could be accomplished through legislation — the abortion rights movement has been stuck in an essentially defensive posture. After all, abortion on demand is now legal in all fifty states, and the nation's highest court shows no signs of a willingness to revisit the basic assumptions of the Roe decision.
Yet something...
May 01, 2005 | by Ken Connor
Government's Chief Role: To Protect Life
Thomas Jefferson never knew Terri Schiavo. But his words resonate with relevance as we reflect on the roles that the state of Florida and the government of the United States have played in trying to protect her life. "The first duty of government is the protection of life, not its destruction," declared Mr. Jefferson. "The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all."
It was Jefferson who, in penning the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that the right to life was "unalienable" because it was "endowed" to us by our Creator. Government's role, according to this revered founding father, was to "secure" the unalienable rights conferred by the Creator on his creatures.
In the hue and cry that has surrounded the controversy concerning Terri Schiavo's court-ordered death, many seem to have forgotten the role our Founding Fathers envisioned for government. Ther...
May 01, 2005 | by SBC Staff
Southern Baptist Convention: June 21-22, 2005
Tuesday Morning, June 21
"Everyone Can" Learn and Train Others
And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. ~ 2 Timothy 2:2 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
8:00 Inspirational Music - Combined Choir and Orchestra, The Worship Choir of First Baptist Church, Springdale, AR, The Church at Pinnacle Hills, Rogers, AR, Celebration Choir and Orchestra of First Baptist Church Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL
8:10 Congregational Praise and Worship - Buster Pray, convention music director, associate pastor of worship ministries, First Baptist Church, Springdale, AR
8:15 Call to Order - Bobby Welch, president, Southern Baptist Convention, pastor, First Baptist Church, Daytona Beach, FL
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5:45 Worship and Praise - The Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra, Gardendale's First Baptist Church, Gardendale, AL
6:15 Welcome and Prayer - Steve Gaines, president, Pastors' Conference 2005, Gardendale's First Baptist Church
6:25 Worship and Praise - Jamie Parker, Gardendale's First Baptist Church
6:35 Message - Don Miller, Bible-Based Ministries, Fort Worth, TX
7:20 Worship and Praise - Charles Billingsley, Shadow Mountain Community Church, El Cajon, CA
7:35 Message - Voddie Baucham, Voddie Baucham Ministries, Spring, TX
8:25 Worship and Praise - Charles Billingsley
8:40 Message - Ergun Caner, Liberty ...
May 01, 2005 | by Tom Strode
Miraculous Results Using Non-embryonic Stem Cells
Stem cells are producing miraculous results without sacrificing young human beings in the process. Take Susan Fajt and Laura Dominguez, for instance.
Fajt, a paraplegic, and Dominguez, a quadriplegic, were told they would never walk again after separate debilitating automobile accidents damaged their spinal cords. However, both are beginning to do just that after transplant surgery using their own stem cells, thus adding their names to a growing list of patients being successfully treated by the cells at the center of a national debate.
Stem cells are the body's master cells that produce other cells and tissues. Their discovery has provided hope for treating a host of afflictions.
These master cells can be found in embryos and adults, as well as such sources as placentas and umbilical cord blood. Many researchers and their allies are pushing for the federal government to fund embryonic stem cell research, contending stem cells from embryos are more flexible a...
May 01, 2005 | by D. Joy Riley, M.D.
The Perfection Deception
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" provides a glimpse of mid-19th century perfectionism. At the outset of that story, Aylmer, who has attained some stature in the scientific world, has also procured for himself a bride, Georgiana. Georgiana is an exquisitely beautiful bride — until shortly after the wedding. A tiny crimson birthmark on her face, heretofore thought "a charm," becomes for Alymer a repulsive reminder of his wife's humanity, her "liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death ...."1 The remainder of the story concerns the impact of this perceived imperfection on first, Alymer, then Georgiana, and their relationship. Eradication of the birthmark requires a substantial price; but then, perfection always does.
Alymer and Georgiana are not alone in desiring a "higher quality of life." In 2003, the latest year for which compiled statistics are available, Americans underwent 8.3 million cosmetic pro...
May 01, 2005 | by Bobby H. Welch
You Never Know Who You Are Encouraging
We really never know how the Holy Spirit is working and what He may use to reach the soul of someone. Always have the name of Jesus on your lips and be ready to know how to share the gospel. Now may be their day of salvation. Read how the Holy Spirit took a casual statement that progressed through other events and then led to salvation of a young lady named Heather.
I can recall a startling remark that someone once said to me when I was not a Christian. At this point in my life, Jesus was little more to me than a mere story, and I did not think that the Bible was a book that people actually read anymore.
Nearly two years ago, I was at a birthday party and as one of the guests was leaving he turned to me and said, "Heather, keep your eyes focused on Jesus."
I was stunned and somewhat irritated by his bold statement, so I laughed it off and reached for another glass of wine. However, I could not stop thinking about the advice that had been given to...
May 01, 2005 | by Charles Lowery
Rhinos and Buffalo Birds
Across the grasslands of East Africa live some of nature's most fascinating animals. The rhinoceros, a two-horned terror of tremendous speed, size, and agility is feared by most of the creatures of the wild. Only the buffalo bird has no fear of the rhino. These birds perch on the back of the rhino. Some even peck into the rhino's back as a woodpecker pecks on wood. Some fly around the rhino's head and others perch on its ears. The rhino doesn't attack, for he and the buffalo bird have an understanding.
Rhino's have poor eyesight and their bodies are covered with parasites which they cannot control. The flock of birds on his back does a great service by eating the parasites which are the whole of their diet. When danger is in the area the birds let out a shrill call warning the rhinos of what they cannot see. In return, they are protected from predators by one of Africa's largest mammals. That's teamwork.
During a horse-pull in Canada, one horse ...
Truth Comes Out!
Zogby Poll Counters Others, Shows Opposition to Starving Terri Schiavo
Americans apparently did not support the starvation and dehydration of Terri Schiavo after all.
A new poll by Zogby International showed the public favors protecting disabled people such as Schiavo from being denied food and water, according to LifeNews.com. The survey results contradict those of surveys conducted before Schiavo's March 31 death and commissioned by major news media organizations.
Schiavo, 41, died in a Pinellas Park, Florida, hospice thirteen days after being disconnected from a feeding tube. The severely brain-damaged woman was at the center of a battle between her husband, Michael, and parents, Bob and Mary Schindler. Her husband contended she would not have wanted to be ...
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Live Nation Selected To Operate Two Major Sports Venues In Qatar
DOHA, QATAR (CelebrityAccess) — ELAN Live Nation, a joint venture between Live Nation and Qatar-based entertainment company ELAN Group, has been selected by the Qatar Ministry of Culture and Sports to operate two major sports venues in the emirate.
The joint venture will operate the Lusail Multipurpose Arena in Lusail, and Ali Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah Multipurpose Arena in Al Sadd, both recently built to host the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship. The joint venture will provide management, promotional, managerial, and facility maintenance support services for both venues, with an eye towards bringing international entertainment to Qatar.
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In 2014, the average French consumer spent $1,281 online. By the end of 2015, this number is expected to rise to $1,320, just above the European average of $1,277.
During the first three months of 2015, 193 million online transactions took place within France. This means that roughly 25 online transactions take place every second.
French consumers are very confident when it comes to placing trust in online payment mechanisms. Most make online purchases using bank cards, and consumers have become even more confident with plastic due to wide-spread improvements in payment security in France.
Though its popularity has decreased significantly in recent years, cash-on-delivery is still a choice amongst those e-shoppers with marked security concerns about online payments. Cheques are also sometimes used for this reason.
E-wallets, and particularly Paypal, are increasingly growing in popularity in France.
Within France, there were approximately 85.5 million bank cards in circulation in 2013. Of these, around 68.4 million were interbank cards (Cartes Bancaires, MasterCard, Visa) and the remainder were privately issued.
Of the three leading credit card schemes in France (Visa, MasterCard and Cartes Bancaires), Cartes Bancaires is the most popular, occupying over 50% of the French credit card market.
Cartes Bancaires (CB) is a French interbank payment scheme which requires a connection with a local acquirer. Transactions generated under this method are sent through the Carte Bancaire network which uses a closed French infrastructure, as opposed to being processed through Visa and MasterCard international networks as is the case in many other locations where credit card transactions are commonplace.
Importantly, CB cards are frequently co-branded with Visa or MasterCard. Where a French consumer holds such a co-branded card, international e-merchants can accept e-payments through existing MasterCard and Visa connections for cross-border online payments.
When targeting French customers, offering the CB family prominently on your online shop is a necessity for achieving respectable customer conversion rates. CB represents more than 8 billion transactions, 130 payment institutions and nearly 60 million cardholders. What's more, CB handles both credit card and debit card payments; Carte Bleue is a French debit card payment scheme that forms part of the CB interbank family.
Paypal is by far the most popular e-money payment service in France, and currently stands as the second most-used payment mechanism in the territory, after bank cards. There are currently over10 million French consumers using this service to purchase goods online. Like most e-wallets, Paypal's service allows shoppers to complete their transactions without having to expose their card details online, and offers users the option to pay using their account balances, bank accounts or credit cards.
Hipay, a comprehensive e-wallet solution offered by Belgian company HPME. This wallet allows consumers to pay online by card as well as many other alternative payment methods such as iDeal, SOFORT, Giropay, and PayShop. This e-wallet also offers a mobile service.
V.me by Visa, an e-wallet which allows consumers to store multiple payment cards in one location so they can make payments without entering any card details.
Pre-paid payment services are also used in France, though less frequently than e-wallets. Popular services include those of PaysafeCard and Neosurf.
Bank transfers, also known as virement bancaire in France, are not overwhelmingly used by consumers to pay for goods in France. More typically they are used by individuals to pay bills, rent, or transfer money into a savings account, though they are frequently used by companies to pay for goods and services.
Mobile purchasing is still not occurring overwhelmingly in France; in fact, purchases made via mobile devices only accounted for around 22% of total e-commerce in the first quarter of 2015 – well below the global average. Despite this, the ecosystem for mobile payments is developing rapidly.
The dominance of credit cards – in particular Cartes Bancaires, Visa and MasterCard – means that mobile payment systems in France are still heavily reliant on the bank card system. Many customers simply view payments via mobile as an extension of their payment cards, as opposed to alternative payment methods in themselves.
However, recent dedicated initiatives have been designed to promote m-commerce. These include Buyster, Cityzi, Kwixo, Kix and S-money. Allopass, which specialises in pay-per-phone and pay-per-SMS is also a notable mobile payments service in France.
Mobile payments at the point-of-sale (mPOS) are becoming increasingly popular in this territory, and increasing numbers of merchants are accepting them (currently >60%). Orange Cash, a recent and popular introduction, for example, acts as a prepaid Visa card which can be accepted at any Visa contactless payment terminal.
The legislation and tax applicable to you when selling to French consumers will vary depending on whether you are an EU incorporated entity.


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NSW Road Rule changes are a clear indication…or are they? | | A Wheel Thing.
NSW Road Rule changes are a clear indication…or are they?
From November 1st, 2012, the road rules for the state of NSW will change on a number of levels. One of the changes will be in regards to the use of a mobile phone; essentially, a driver cannot touch their phone whilst on the move. In some quarters this is being seem as over the top and draconian. To a point, those calls are correct, as most drivers are competent enough to be able to deal with more than one task at a time. On the other side of the equation is this: those drivers that have crashed whilst using a mobile weren't that good a driver in the first place. Sure, driving a car PROPERLY entails a measure of using your senses and analysing the input….but the drivers that crash simply don't and/or can't. Does this make the law fair or unfair?
Some common sense applies; if a pedestrian is on the road with a signalled crossing, if the signal changes to yellow or red, the pedestrian is allowed to continue without penalty. Gee…generous.
One of the major changes is in regards to indicating and roundabouts. This area is one that simply confuses the hell out of drivers, whereas in fact, it's one of the simplest things to do. For the benefit of around 95% of Sydney drivers, the indicators are operated by moving a lever mounted to the steering column and operated by moving your fingers to said column and causing it to move up or down. This then causes lights at the corner of your car to flash, telling other drivers which direction you intend to go. Surprisingly, most cars, trucks and even the occasional police vehicle have faulty levers….
The law when it comes to roundabouts will be: indicate left or right before coming into the roundabout. The driver must now indicate left to show they are exiting the roundabout, even if it's a four way roundabout. It's pretty much guaranteed that it's the last part that will confuse people. Guaranteed.
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Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting).
Hubert is a planning and environment lawyer. He regularly appears as an advocate at Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Planning Panels Victoria in town planning, property, and environmental matters.
Crown land and crown land licences.
He chairs the Property and Environmental Law Section Environmental Issues Committee of Law Institute of Victoria and is a member of the Executive of its Planning & Environmental Law Section.
He is also is a Committee Member of the VPELA Young Professional Group and Law Institute of Victoria's Planning and Local Government Committee.
In 2016 he was awarded the Victorian Planning Environmental Law Association (VPELA) Young Professional of the Year. As a result, he undertook further research into the role of 'Significant Social Effect' within the Planning and Environment Act.
He is invited annually to lecture on Negotiation and Mediation at Humboldt University in Berlin, as part of the joint Humboldt University (Berlin) / Tulane University (USA) 'International Summer School on Alternative Dispute Resolution'.
In 2018, Hubert was appointed a sessional tutor at Melbourne University in Planning Law and Statutory Planning.


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Q: Multi-threading Indy IdHTTP requests. Performance consideration issues My application queries 7 marketplaces in a row using Indy HTTP client. All marketplaces provide a unified interface to request/response. That said, the structure of request/response is the same for all 7 marketplaces.
I submit GTIN to a MainForm's TEdit box and the app posts 7 RESTful requests to the marketplaces and returns XML responses for all of them.
My idea is to wrap each request in a separate thread, but I am really concerned by the performance issues. Normaly I perform 1 request in 3-5 seconds.
Each thread is created in a for statement and initalizes TIdHTTP object, makes a request, gets an XML-response, parses it and ships it back to the MainForm.
When the job is done each thread needs to be terminated (or paused?)
If the thread completely terminates, then it must perform the same initialization routine on a next request. I find it relatively slow, assuming 7 thread initializations at a time.
However, if the thread is paused it merely resides in memory, has all its factories initialized and is ready to accept next requests.
How do I leave the thread operationally terminated, but still completely initialized? I assume, if TIdHTTP and XML-parsing objects stay alive in a paused thead, they will act much faster on the next request. Does it have any sense?

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Man Utd target Alvaro Morata scores beauty for Spain – was Jose Mourinho watching?
MANCHESTER UNITED target Alvaro Morata showed his worth with a fine goal for Spain last night.
The 24-year-old has already been the subject of a £52.4m bid from the Red Devils, according to Sky Italia.
And Spanish publication Deportes Cuatro claim the talented forward is keen to join up with Red Devils boss Jose Mourinho again after the pair worked together at the Bernabeu.
But Morata may have increased his price tag after salvaging a draw for his country against Colombia yesterday (June 7).
The friendly was tightly poised at 2-1 to the South Americans – after an early goal from David Silva was cancelled out by Edwin Cardona before Radamel Falcao put his side ahead.
With just over three minutes remaining of regular time, the ball was fizzed into the box.
Morata managed to get in front of the defender with a brilliant run before expertly heading it into the bottom right.
It proved to be the final goal in the thrilling match.
Another of Mourinho's reported targets was on display last night, with Morata's Real Madrid teammate James Rodriguez turning out for Colombia.
The playmaker is believed to be "frustrated" at the La Liga giants, according to Colombia boss Jose Pekereman and could leave this summer.