Want to have your garment customised with your own personal club badge? At Live4soccer we give you the option to have your garments embroidered. Regardless of size, complexity or colour variations, each embroidered badge costs the low price of £3.50 per shirt.
Embroidery is a longer lasting and more durable customisation than that off vinyl printing. It is a commonly used method when applying club badges as embroidery offers great detail and gives an aesthetically pleasing look. Furthermore the badge is directly sticthed into the shirt, meaning no further sewing is necessary upon receiving the item.
If you do decide to order any embroidery from us. Be sure to send as an image of your badge to artwork@live4soccer.co.uk as soon as you've placed the order. This speeds up the rate at which we can process your order and get the finished goods to you.
Vinyl printing is a solid high quality print, ideal for large and simple text or logos. This is why we use it for printing team numbers and initials onto garmants. We offer a wide array of colour variations when it comes to initials. As for numbers, we would recommend printing these in either white or black in order to suit the style of the jersey. Each print costs £2.50 regardless of size or colour.
Should you decide to place an order with us, we will send you a customisation sheet shortly after you place your order. If you fill this in to clarify which numbers and/or intials you would like on each garment and send this back to us at artwork@live4soccer.co.uk. We can then begin to process the order and get the goods to you as quickly as possible.
In addition to numbers and initials, we can also print sponsors logos. The process is completed in the same way as the numbers and intitials through the use of vinyl which gives a crisp and bold finish. The price per sponsors logo can vary depending on its compexity. For more information on prices, please look here.
Once you've placed your order with us we will need to obtain your sponsors logo. This can be sent to us at artwork@live4soccer.co.uk. We would recomend you send us this as soon as possible, as it allows us to speed up the rate at which we can deliver the good to you.
Standard lead time for personalisation is from 5-15 days dependant on how much customisation you have requested. Please note this is just an apporximation and during busy periods this may take longer.


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Inpatient alcohol and drug rehabilitation in St. Gabriel, AB. is a treatment choice ideal in case you need health-related treatment in the course of rehab or clients with considerable substance abuse histories. People will experience both mental and physical dependence to alcohol and drugs even after a brief amount of time, so inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation in St. Gabriel is considered the most beneficial rehab option in almost all instances. Due to dependence and addiction, people will usually struggle to recover using the minimal services available from outpatient treatment programs in St. Gabriel, Louisiana where drugs and alcohol are still readily available when they leave the outpatient center. In addition, men and women in treatment who take part in outpatient rehabilitation as opposed to inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation in St. Gabriel remain prone to damaging influences and situations which can get in the way of their process of recovery. If an individual lives with an abusive partner or continues to maintain relationships which involve drug use, any rehabilitation activities in outpatient treatment will be in vain. That is why in-patient drug and alcohol rehab in St. Gabriel, AB. will generate more beneficial outcomes that can prove lasting in contrast to an outpatient drug treatment program where benefits could be very minimal and acute.
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A young teenage boy was shot and killed by a masked gunman in front of his family while working outside his home in Georgia. Brayan Zavala, 13, from Willow Lane, Riverdale was fixing a lawnmower with his father and brother in the family's front yard on Thursday night when a person wearing a ski mask approached him.According […]
A young teenage boy was shot and killed by a masked gunman in front of his family while working outside his home in Georgia.
Brayan Zavala, 13, from Willow Lane, Riverdale was fixing a lawnmower with his father and brother in the family's front yard on Thursday night when a person wearing a ski mask approached him.
According to reports, a dark coloured Chevrolet slowly pulled up at around 9pm on October 15.
The killer got out of the car, took out a shotgun and shot Brayan in the face without saying a word.
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From Forest to Pharmacy: Analytics Enables Holistic Healing
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Pharmaceutical companies normally make money when you're sick. One uses analytics and holistic healing to keep you healthy.
Years ago, a young man named Victor Siaulys and his friends were kicking a soccer ball around a beach in Brazil, when one of them twisted his knee. As the knee began to swell, one of the men picked a handful of verbena leaves from bushes along the beach, wrapped them in a piece of cloth soaked in alcohol and created a makeshift bandage. Growing up near native fishing communities in Brazil's Atlantic Forest where age old folk medicine is still practiced, he was familiar with the impressive antioxidant performance of this unassuming little herb.
Not long afterwards he and two friends decided to buy a small laboratory founded by Dr. Philipe Aché. Their dream was to produce drugs that would bring health and wellness to people, improving lives and fostering longevity with quality. Today, their company Aché is one of the largest pharmaceutical laboratories in Brazil.
From the beginning, the founders expressed their pride in being a national company by developing the best medicines for the health and needs of Brazilians. When the anti-inflammatory Acheflan was launched 39 years ago, it was the first fully developed phytomedicine in Brazil, using the extract of Cordia Verbenacea to treat chronic tendonitis and muscular pain.
"The Brazilian biodiversity law was passed in 2015 to protect this country's incredibly diverse genetic heritage and the associated traditional knowledge of local communities," explains Paulo Nigro, CEO at Aché. "The law seeks to facilitate private sector access to this heritage, such as traditional seeds or medicinal plants, for commercial purposes. At Aché we are deeply committed to the ethical conduct of our business. With the new law, we will be able to invest heavily in research and exploration together with local communities. After the commercial launch of a product, one percent of the net revenue will go to the communities to ensure sustainable handling of plants."
Aché started off as a traditional pharmaceutical company. What sets them apart is their early adoption of digital tools and platforms to run their business efficiently. Every penny saved is invested in research and innovation that benefits patients. "We are keenly aware of the high cost of medication," says Paulo.
Paulo believes that radical innovation begins with a clean slate. The challenge doesn't end when a patient is diagnosed. The medication must be available where and when it is needed. Making sure the meds are always on the shelf in drugstores is one of the supply chain challenges Aché is solving by simplifying processes.
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People are living much longer lives than before. The question is: what quality of life will they have?
"Our vision is not treatment but prevention," says Paulo. "We are collecting and analyzing data from our 6 million users to create programs for healthy lifestyles. We need to reach all stakeholders in a very complex ecosystem comprising doctors, hospitals, patients, manufacturers of wearables and devices, and researchers. With the help of analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, we can provide doctors with personalized data for preventive prescriptions that reward health not illness."
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According to Paulo Nigro, environmental catastrophes like the Bento Rodrigues dam disaster usually happen when systems are pushed to the limit. "Integrity and ethics are intrinsic to good business," he says. "If I make a non-ethical decision, it puts the entire company at risk."
Ache was the first company in the pharmaceutical sector in Brazil to invest in sustainable extraction from Brazilian biodiversity and to adopt ISO certification. The company has comprehensive programs for recycling or treating contaminated materials, waste, and water. And although Aché is a private company, they publish their financial results and are a pioneer in this space.
Business that generates and shares value with society inevitably leads to sustainable practices that improve people's lives. Aché's business begins with a purpose, and in this case, it's even poetic:
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Natural disasters cost Ca Mau province over 43 million USD
Drought, rains, inundation and landslides have cost Ca Mau province an estimated $43 million from the outset of the year, according to the provincial steering committee on natural disaster prevention, search and rescue.
More than 20,800 households faced a lack of fresh water due to drought (Photo: VNA)
More than 20,800 households faced a lack of fresh water due to drought, while 43,583 hectares of forest dried up and carried high risk of forest fire. Heavy rains and thunderstorms damaged 859 houses, 35,638 hectares of rice, over 578 hectares of other crops, 408 hectares of orchards, and more than 20,500 hectares of aquaculture.
Hundreds of kilometres of roads were damaged by inundation caused by torrential rains and high tides, while frequent erosions are taking place along 105 km of the coastline, with the most critical sections of Da Bac drainage- Moi canal and Moi canal- Tieu Dua.
Furthermore, five were killed at sea due to natural disasters, and two are still missing.
Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Le Quan ordered competent authorities to give timely support for locals to recover production, keep close watch on weather developments, and proactively take measures to mitigate impacts of natural disasters.
The provincial steering committee has asked the Government to provide financial support for the province to settle consequences of erosion, and the National Committee for Disaster Response and Search and Rescue to help the locality with search and rescue equipment like long-range communication device and power generator./.VNA
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Vietnam promotes and protects human rights in Covid-19 epidemic
SOCIETYicon 27/12/2020
The efforts of the Vietnamese Government during the Covid-19 epidemic is vivid evidence of the responsibility to protect and support vulnerable groups in the realization of human rights according to UPR recommendations.
A special flight to guarantee citizens' right to life
The campaign to move Vietnamese citizens out of Hubei (China), the world's corona virus epicenter in early February is a proof of the policy of putting people in the highest position,
Building a specialized monitoring agency to increase effectiveness in ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities
It is necessary to have a specialized monitoring agency to ensure the rights of ethnic minorities.
Law on Support for and Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas should be issued
It is necessary to pass the promulgation and implementation of the "Law on Support for and Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas"
The government accepts economic damage to guarantee the right to health care for everyone
Despite many difficulties, in order to protect people's health, the Government plans to both self produce and import Covid-19 vaccine in order to vaccinate every citizen.
Human rights viewed from illegal sales of personal information
Illegally holding, trading, or transferring personal information of another person without authorization is infringement of privacy - one of the fundamental rights of human rights.
After 5 years, our country is really better, all people enjoy development results
After implementing the five-year social-economic development plan (2015-2020), the country's situation is really better than ever, with high economic growth rate,
Human rights considerations: Dialogue and cooperation are the only effective way
Vietnam does not support resolutions on human rights in a particular country but believes that dialogue and cooperation are an effective way to consider human rights issues, not criticize each other or pressuring, politicizing human rights.
Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW: A progressive resolution promoting the right to social security
Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW, issued on May 23, 2018 of the Party Central Committee, is considered to have the contents of reforming the social insurance policy progressively,
Despite difficulties, Vietnam constantly promotes the right to social security
The 2013 Constitution of the State of Vietnam recognizes citizens' rights to social security in Article 34. Accordingly, citizens are ensured in terms of social welfare.
Accepting economic losses, protecting people's lives at all costs
On the basis of the humanistic point of view of "not letting anyone behind", by specific actions, ensuring human rights, the campaign against Covid-19 pandemic of Vietnam is an outstanding success, becoming a bright spot in the world.
Vietnam - a typical case of integrating human rights protection
Chairman of the Mary Robison Foundation said that Vietnam is a typical case of integrating human rights issues, including the promotion of gender equality in climate change response policies.
Achievements in ensuring human rights, the premise for Vietnam's positions at international forums
The outstanding results in the international arena, with the most typical one is being elected as the Non-Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council, have confirmed the new stature of the Vietnamese State.
Ministry of Information and Communications strives to contribute to protecting children's rights in cyberspace
Building a child protection network in the cyberspace will connect agencies, organizations and businesses together, forming a harmonious process to prevent, detect, intervene and handle acts of child abuse in the Internet environment.
Vietnam - a responsible member of international human rights conventions
Through international cooperation activities on human rights, Vietnam has played an increasingly important role and actively contributed to the building of common values of human rights in the region and the world.
Efforts of the whole socio-political system to "Leaving no one behind"
For any political regime, social security in general, social insurance and health insurance policies in particular are also considered an important foundation for a country's economic development and socio-political stability.
Vietnam listed among countries with high Human Development Index for the first time
Human rights or human development is a central issue in the development process in Vietnam.
Human Rights achievements: Impressive communications from direct to online mode
In addition to communication methods such as writing articles, activities of agencies and organizations, the propaganda of human rights is also implemented through the organization of photo exhibitions and advanced IT applications.
Impressive model of friendly bookcase at Ngoc Ly detention center
The fact has proven that converting and making changes in awareness is the best way of education. It will awaken the germ of goodness which is inherent and latent in each human being.
The role of journalists is indispensable for protection of human rights
The media plays the role of an essential means of communication in social life, the mouthpiece of the Party's agencies, the State, political and social organizations, the forum of the people.
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For sheer quality and variety of cases, civil law chambers 5 Essex Court is hard to beat. It is particularly well known for its police law work, which throws up a range of fascinating issues, and also specialises in public inquiries, inquests, employment, public and administrative law, and personal injury and clinical negligence. It's supportive and encouraging to pupils and juniors. What's more, it won Legal Cheek's Best Chambers for Training 2018.
One pupil says they "can count on one hand the days I have been bored. Members of chambers are regularly involved in the most high-profile and newsworthy cases at the cutting-edge of the law". And such cases "aren't just reserved for the QCs in Chambers: junior members of chambers are frequently instructed in such matters".
Impressively, 5 Essex Court scores A*s for training, work and social life in the Legal Cheek Junior Barrister Survey 2018-19. Former pupils are particularly complimentary about its "excellent" in-house advocacy training course, where pupils benefit from the tuition of "Inner Temple advocacy guru" Master Alastair Hodge. "Proper feedback" is given on each piece of work undertaken, while chambers pays for external training courses as well as providing a "talks programme specifically designed for our pupils and junior tenants on key legal topics and more practical things like marketing and tax issues".
The training regime "is widely recognised as being second to none". One former pupil recalls: "My supervisors were amazing—true leaders in their field and with endless patience to answer all my questions." What's more, juniors have "attended the Florida Bar Association civil advocacy course, which provides the opportunity to see how American lawyers run jury trials and gives an amazing opportunity for (free) foreign travel".
The IT facilities are good, the reception and main conference room "look pretty swish" following a refurbishment and the rest of the building is "very pleasant" if "a bit more Premier Inn than The Ritz behind the scenes". There is genuine affection for the place. It's an old, listed building in Temple and members like that the "rooms have character" rather than being "super-swanky-shiny" and some "would not change it for the world".
"There's no pomp and circumstance" at 5 Essex Court, says John Goss, who studied law as a postgrad at Nottingham Law School after serving as a Royal Engineer officer in the British Army for six years, some of which was spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Having turned his energies to training for the bar, Goss joined 5 Essex Court as a pupil in 2015. "It's a genuinely unstuffy, open and informal chambers," he adds.
This is despite the fact that the work is high profile and not for the faint-hearted. In the second four months of his pupillage, Goss was working on one of the inquests to come out of four deaths at the Army's Deepcut barracks in Camberley in the late 1990s. "I would do a first draft of something and then my supervisor, Francesca Whitelaw, would look at it. So at a very early stage, I had a real sense of contributing to what chambers was doing," he recalls.
In case that is not training enough, 5 Essex Court is lucky to have Alastair Hodge who teaches advocacy and is an Honorary Professor at Nottingham Law School: "There is no formal training course but we all take a bit of time out during pupillage to do sessions with him and get some feedback from a real master," says Goss. In addition, there are talks from various members of chambers.
Goss's first case was doing minicab licence renewals where Transport for London had decided not to renew a driver's minicab licence: "It was coalface experience: you have to do closing submissions, you have to able to think on your feet," he remembers.
Now Goss, whose first degree was in Classics at Cambridge University, from where he graduated in 2006, is working on another Deepcut inquest, this time on the death of Sean Benton whose family has reopened the matter.
So what advice would he give to someone who wanted to apply for pupillage at 5 Essex Court? "You must have a good understanding of the sort of work we do and demonstrate that you would be really interested in doing our type of work," he responds. "Yes it's police law but it's not only police law, we do central government work, there is a real range. Also, it's the defendant side of public law and you need to understand that you have to be sensitive to client's needs and appreciate the statutory duties they are under".


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HOTELS & TOURISM | Staff Reporter, Singapore
Published: 10 May 19
Ascendas Hospitality Trust's FY2018/2019 NPI slipped 2.3% to $87.23m
Lower contribution from its Australia hotels hit yearly income.
Ascendas Hospitality Trust (A-HTRUST) ended FY2018/2019 on a dismal note after its net property income (NPI) dipped 2.3% YoY from $87.23m in FY2017/2018 to $85.22m, an announcement revealed. Revenue also fell 6.3% YoY to $190.46m from $203.26m.
Distributable income for the financial year inched up 3.4% YoY to $68.5m from $66.2m, whilst distribution per stapled security (DPS) also rose 2.9% YoY to $0.0603 from $0.0586. This was attributed to full quarter contribution from its five hotels acquired during the year, lower net finance costs, and partial distribution of the proceeds from the divestment of two hotels in Beijing.
In Q4, NPI edged up 4.1% YoY to $22.9m from $22m, whilst revenue slid 1.4% YoY from $49.7m to $49m. Distributable income for the quarter increased 3.5% YoY to $20.1m from $19.5m, whilst DPS grew 2.9% YoY to reach $0.0177 from $0.0172.
The firm attributed the weak yearly performance to lower contribution from its Australia portfolio and unfavourable foreign exchange movement in AUD. However, the absence of earnings from its China portfolio was predominantly recovered through new assets acquired throughout the year.
A decrease in NPI of $1.9m in Australia was attributable to lower contribution of the Australia assets ($1.2m) and unfavourable foreign exchange movement ($700,000).
"Our Sydney hotels continue to face competitive market condition. Although the Sydney hotels managed to maintain a healthy average occupancy rate, the performance was affected by a reduction in room rates," the firm explained. "Stronger demand for residential conference drove overall performance for Pullman & Mercure Melbourne Albert Park and NPI grew against last year, whilst Pullman & Mercure Brisbane King George Square managed to increase room revenue and NPI through occupancy growth."
Also read: Quarz Capital urges merger between Ascendas Hospitality Trust and Ascott Residence Trust
Park Hotel Clarke Quay in Singapore experienced weaker demand from transient and corporate segments in Q4 FY2018/2019. In addition, there was also the absence of Singapore Airshow, a biennial event, that was held in February 2018, the firm highlighted.
Given the challenges it faced in its key markets, A-HTRUST was able to break into the Seoul market with the acquisition of Splaisir Dongdaemun and Ibis Insadong in May 2018 and December 2018, respectively.
According to CEO Tan Juay Hiang, following the divestment and acquisitions A-HTRUST had undertaken in FY2018/19, 13 of the 14 hotels in the portfolio are freehold properties as at 31 March 2019. "As a result of these acquisitions, portfolio valuation grew by 11.5% YoY to $1.8b as at 31 March 2019," he revealed.
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165. ваздухопловна база (165. вб) била је ваздухопловна база Ратног ваздухопловства и противваздушне одбране (РВ и ПВО) Југословенске народне армије. Формирана је марта 1953. од 75. 103. и 165. ваздухопловно-техничког батаљона (втб) на аеродрому Скопски Петровац. У фебруару 1992. услед повлачења ЈНА из Македоније, база је премештена на аеродром Поникве.

По трансформацији остатака Југословенске народне армије у Војску Југославије потчињена је директно команди Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздушна одбрана Војске Југославије. 1993. године препотчињена је Ваздухопловном корпусу. Расформирана је 1997. године.

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Током свог постојања, 165. ваздухопловна база је била у саставу:
 39. ваздухопловне дивизије (1953.—1959.)
 3. ваздухопловна команде (1959.—1964.)
 1. ваздухопловног корпуса (1964.—1986.)
 3. корпуса РВ и ПВО (1986.—1992.)
 1. корпуса РВ и ПВО (1992.)
 Команде РВ и ПВО Војске Југославије (1992.—1993.)
 Ваздухопловног корпуса (1993.—1997.)

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 Никола Живковић
 Арсен Тодоров
 Милан Ђорђевић
 Бошко Радивојевић
 Васо Радуловић
 Петар Ефремовски
 Љубен Димитровски
 Милош Александрић
 Љубомир Јаничић
 Момир Дашић

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SOUND LION RECORDS
MAMA DON'T GIVE UP VIDEO
ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE
Lewis K. Antwi
Ex-Cop/Federal Agent Joins SLR's Campaign to Raise Awareness to Addiction & Opioids
Charles Frelix was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, IL and is where Charles received most of his musical influence. At a very young age, he learned how to read percussion music and play by ear, which eventually landed him on different bands and shows. Whilst in Chicago, Charles found his lifelong passion, Juvenile Justice to which he gained a master's degree in Criminal Justice and another in Leadership. He also worked in law enforcement as protection for the U.S Department of Energy, as police officer, and as a federal correctional officer. He also served in the U.S Navy as a Fleet Marine Force Hospital Corpsman (FMF). Mr. Frelix completed his undergraduate education at Governors State University and masters degrees at Grand Canyon University.
He currently serves as a Special Advisor to SLR's addiction and opioid awareness campaign and was featured in the " Mama Don't Give Up" music video. The campaign is officially scheduled to commence on March 27, 2020 using the song title "Mama Don't Give Up". The song written by Lewis Kofi Nana Antwi (Nana Kottens) provides inspiration, hope and motivation to individuals and families struggling with addiction. After the initial release, the campaign will continue throughout the year with different versions featuring various groups and musicians around the world.
Addiction is a disease of the brain, not lack of will. As a society, as one nation and as one global body lets support our loved ones struggling with the disease.
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2010 — Jack E. Parow, professor of bachelor's and master's degree Fire Science courses at Anna Maria College, has been chosen as the incoming president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). The group, representing more than 1.2 million firefighters and emergency responders, was formed in 1873 as a forum for members to exchange ideas and uncover the latest products, services, and training resources available to first responders.
A 35-year fire service veteran, Professor Parow began his career at a fire department in North Reading, Massachusetts, and eventually rose to his current position as chief of the fire department in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, a position he has held since 1994. Throughout his career, Chief Parow has been active in the IAFC as well as numerous other firefighters' associations. In his spare time, Chief Parow is an avid marathon and triathlon participant and has clocked five runs in the Boston Marathon. He also coaches his local high school hockey team and is a certified USA hockey referee.
One of many professors at Anna Maria College from the ranks of active firefighters, Chief Parow teaches courses in both the Bachelor of Arts in Fire Science Administration degree program and the Master of Public Administration with a specialization in Fire Science Management program. His participation is part of AMC's effort to provide Fire Science students a wealth of real-world experience and insight to complement a cutting-edge curriculum.
Visit the IAFC Web site to learn more about the International Association of Fire Chiefs. Click here for more information about the Fire Science programs at Anna Maria College.


This article describes an approach for linking geographically distributed collections of metadata so that they are searchable as a single collection. We describe the infrastructure, which uses standard Internet protocols such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP), to distribute queries, return results, and exchange index information. We discuss the advantages of using linked collections of authoritative metadata as an alternative to using a keyword indexing search-engine for resource discovery. We examine other architectures that use metadata for resource discovery, such as Dienst/NCSTRL, the AHDS HTTP/Z39.50 Gateway, and the ROADS initiative. Finally, we discuss research issues and future directions of the project.
The Internet Scout Project [SCOUT], which is funded by the National Science Foundation and is located in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is charged with assisting the higher education community in resource discovery on the Internet. To that end, the Scout Report and subsequent subject-specific Scout Reports were developed to guide the U.S. higher education community to research-quality resources. The Scout Report Signpost [SIGNPOST] utilizes the content from the Scout Reports as the basis of a metadata collection. Signpost consists of more than 2000 cataloged Internet sites using established standards such as Library of Congress subject headings and abbreviated call letters, and emerging standards such as the Dublin Core (DC) [DC]. This searchable and browseable collection is free and freely accessible, as are all of the Internet Scout Project's services.
As well developed as both the Scout Reports and Signpost are, they cannot capture the wealth of high-quality content that is available on the Internet. An obvious next step toward increasing the usefulness of our own collection and its value to our customer base is to partner with other high-quality content providers who have developed similar collections and to develop a single, virtual collection. Project Isaac (working title) is the Internet Scout Project's latest resource discovery effort. Project Isaac involves the development of a research testbed that allows experimentation with protocols and algorithms for creating, maintaining, indexing and searching distributed collections of metadata.
Project Isaac's infrastructure uses standard Internet protocols, such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) [LDAP] and the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) [CIP] to distribute queries, return results, and exchange index or centroid information. The overall goal is to support a single-search interface to geographically distributed and independently maintained metadata collections.
Difficulty in formulating queries that are discriminatory enough to return a "reasonable" number of hits. Queries that contain common terms often return tens or hundreds of thousands of results. In information retrieval terms, search engines that rely on indexes offer poor precision -- searches return a high percentage of non-relevant documents along with the relevant ones. Users must filter the relevant resources from the non-relevant, often resulting in relevant resources being missed. A related problem is that the user is given limited discriminatory information beyond the URL of a search result. The user must explore each result to determine the applicability of the result to the query.
Lack of "quality control" of results. Many search engines try to "index the Web" without regard to the quality of the resources in the index. Therefore, even if a user enters a very specific query that returns relevant sites, some or all of the sites may be of little value because they lack authority, valid information on the subject, or currency.
To circumvent these problems, many people and organizations create handcrafted collections of Internet resources. People develop "value added summaries" of Web sites and data sets of interest. The value of these collections stems from their selectivity, documentation, and the authority of the resources included in them. Like our own Signpost, some of these collections of "third-party metadata records" classify the Internet resources using organizational methods such as Library of Congress classifications, UDC codes, or homegrown schemes. The collections often include rating systems and summaries of the content. They also usually include subject or keyword information, as well as title and authority information. This makes it possible to search the metadata with more precision than is possible when searching keyword indexes such as HotBot, Alta Vista, or InfoSeek.
Our approach -- linking relatively small, authoritative collections -- addresses both the issues of selective content and quality control. First, by searching human-applied metadata rather than machine-extracted keywords, a user should be able to formulate a more precise query that will retrieve a highly relevant result set. A user can specify that query terms appear in the title or subject fields, for example. This is analogous to searching a library's Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). You can find all items for which a person is the author rather than all items that mention the person's name anywhere within the text. Much of the power of this approach depends on the fact that the items have been cataloged. It is easy to find resources that contain the phrase "Jimmy Carter" using a search engine that indexes keywords and/or strings such as Excite or InfoSeek. But it is not as easy to find only articles written by Jimmy Carter, i.e., Jimmy Carter as author. When searching metadata, you depend on the fact that catalogers or others skilled in description issues have used the phrase "Jimmy Carter" in an author field or subject heading.
The approach, however, sacrifices breadth for quality of resources. For example, if you search for "Michael Roszkowski" in the Library of Congress OPAC you will get only a single hit. However, the same search in Alta Vista yields more than 50 hits. On the other hand, collections catalog resources, while search engines index pages [KIRRIEMUIR98], thus a single annotated resource in Signpost, SOSIG [SOSIG], or OMNI [OMNI] may describe a resource consisting of tens or hundreds of pages that might be returned as individual hits by a search engine that indexes each Web page as a distinct entity.
This combination of quality of resources and the ability to search with higher precision results in a highly useful service for our primary audience, the research and higher education community.
Isaac uses the LDAP and CIP protocols to link geographically distributed metadata collections into a single, virtual metadata collection. We are primarily interested in human-mediated, highly authoritative collections of cataloged and classified Internet resources. To the user, Isaac will appear as a single metadata collection populated with Internet resources. A user's query can run against multiple collections and return a single "hit list" or result set. The user can then view the metadata records and/or can access to the actual resources.
Isaac is a closed system. We are very interested in locating partners and working with them to make their collections available through Isaac. This is a collaborative project, but collections must be added to the system by agreement; a provider of a collection can not unilaterally add their collection to Isaac. This is an important factor in keeping the overall quality of the metadata high.
As a result of the first assumption, Isaac does not aim to be a generalized search service that spans the Internet. Rather, it is a targeted service that will provide access to specialized collections of Internet resources of primary interest to the research and higher education community.
Provide a useful resource discovery service that utilizes metadata.
Allow collaborators to develop, maintain, and manage their collections. Isaac provides a method to link the collections and will not subsume any of the individual collections.
Experiment with metadata standards, such as the Dublin Core, to provide a common set of attributes with which to catalog and subsequently search collections of Internet resources.
Develop a collaborative laboratory in which we can research topics of interest, such as indexing algorithms, automatic classification and categorization, alternative user interfaces, etc.
For our infrastructure, we chose to develop an architecture that was fairly simple, but it had to be open and flexible enough to allow us the ability to replace parts of the architecture for experimentation and research.
Isaac consists of three services, a metadata repository service, an index service, and a search service. Isaac relies on standard Internet protocols for all of its operations. The search interface is Web-based and uses HTTP and HTML. The metadata servers use LDAP for query processing and the storage and retrieval of index information and CIP v3 to generate and transport indexes between servers.
There are two types of Isaac installations: a full node that supports all of the services (metadata repository, index and search) and a collection node that supports only the metadata repository service. A full node requires more resources, since it stores index information from all other Isaac nodes as well as its own collection data. In addition, a full node provides the search service for users and must be running a Web server to support that service.
Collection nodes provide a simple way for partner organizations to allow their data to be searched as part of Isaac without having to devote machine resources to storing indexes and servicing users' Web queries.
The metadata repository service uses a stand-alone LDAP server to store the metadata for a collection. The service supports LDAP queries against its metadata collection. The metadata repository service can also generate indexes of the metadata and transfer the index using the CIP protocol.
The index service gathers index information from other Isaac nodes and stores the index information in the LDAP database.
The search service handles the user interface. It allows users to submit queries and returns results to the user's Web browser.
We are currently using University of Michigan's LDAP distribution [UMLDAP] as the basis for our LDAP implementation. However, the Michigan code implements LDAP version 2, so we have made local modifications to add support for LDAP v3 referrals. The Michigan code runs under many flavors of the UNIX operating system and is freely redistributable.
For indexing we have implemented the CIP v3 over a TCP/IP transport in the Perl language. We currently support the tagged index object [CIP-TAGGED] format for indexes.
We chose to use the 15 Dublin Core (DC) [DC] metadata elements as the base metadata description format for Isaac for a number of reasons. Signpost, our metadata collection, is based on the DC elements, with minor local additions and modifications. Also, DC is a simple format that is seeing increased use in multiple communities, and the limited number of fields makes it suitable for fielded searches.
The LDAP attributes [HAMILTON96] that we are using for Isaac are based on object definitions published as an Internet draft in November 1996 for expressing Dublin Core fields in LDAP and X.500.
To participate in Isaac, metadata collections need not use DC, but must have "like" fields that can be reasonably mapped to the Dublin Core elements. Isaac does allow extensions to the base DC element set to provide for richer metadata descriptions of resources.
The metadata repository service allows a collection to become part of the Isaac testbed. This service consists of a stand-alone LDAP server (SLAPD) that stores the metadata and processes queries from the search service.
The metadata repository service also can extract index information from the collection and transfer the index using the CIP protocol.
We felt that query routing, that is, using index information to "route" a query only to servers that are likely to have relevant information, provided many advantages over a "broadcast search" scheme. A recent D-Lib Magazine article[KIRRIEMUIR98] contained a good discussion of the benefits and methods of query routing. While LDAP does not incorporate the use of indexes as knowledge references directly into the protocol, neither does it preclude their use.
Isaac's index service allows "full nodes" to request index information from other Isaac nodes. The index service is built on CIP v3 clients and servers and implements the tagged index object for indexes. The tagged index object consists of a "centroid" for each indexed LDAP attribute. Index information is stored in the LDAP directory and used for generating referrals in response to LDAP queries.
Isaac's "full nodes" maintain index information from all other Isaac nodes.
The search service is Web-based. Using a browser, the user fills out a form with query information and a CGI script handles the form. The CGI script uses an LDAP client to submit the query to the local LDAP server on a "full node," and the LDAP client processes any referrals (based on the index information) before results are returned to the user.
It is possible to query Isaac using any LDAP compatible client. While this allows greater flexibility, in the future we may decide to support enhancements such as result ranking and search services not available in the current architecture, including proximity searching and phrase searching. These enhancements could require the use of LDAP protocol extensions or post-processing of the result set in a customized client.
We have implemented a simple LDAP to WHOIS++ [WHOIS++] gateway as an LDAP "backend" so that we can include collections in the Isaac testbed that are made available using the ROADS software. This gateway converts LDAP queries into WHOIS++ queries and repackages results received from WHOIS++ servers into LDAP format. Currently, this gateway is not generic in that it requires specific knowledge of the WHOIS++ templates (schema) for each target.
The application of metadata for resource discovery is not a new idea. In this section, we discuss some notable projects that have goals and/or methods similar to Isaac and have influenced the design of the Isaac system.
Dienst is an architecture and protocol for digital library services. It grew from the Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR) project, a DARPA-funded project by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, which was begun in 1992. The most visible collection currently using the Dienst protocol is NCSTRL [NCSTRL], the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library.
The Dienst architecture consists of four classes of services, all communicating via the Dienst protocol: a Repository Service stores digital documents, each of which has a unique name and may exist in several different formats; an Index Service searches a collection and returns a list of documents that match the query; a single, centralized Meta Service or Contact Service provides a directory of locations of all other services; and a User Interface service mediates human access to the collection.
The Dienst Index Service is the metadata search service. Dienst metadata uses the tagged, text-based markup format specified in RFC 1807, A Format for Bibliographic Records [BIBFMT], for bibliographic information. Like the Dienst protocol, this metadata format was developed as part of the CS-TR project.
The Dienst Index Service runs on each Dienst server. Queries are sent to all servers (or all servers that the user has selected) and responses are presented to the user. Users can search a Dienst collection by specifying a query with keywords in the title, author and/or abstract fields. Boolean operators can be used to combine terms. Dienst also allows a user to browse a distributed collection by author or date range.
The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) [AHDS], a UK-based service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, is developing an HTTP/Z39.50 Gateway [AHDS-GW] to allow users to query multiple collections of human-mediated metadata. The Gateway uses NISO Z39.50, a client/server protocol for information retrieval. It enables a client to search a database provided by a server, retrieve database records identified by a search, scan a term list, and sort a result set. The AHDS Gateway architecture consists of four layers: User services, service description, distributed access, and an administration database.
The user services access layer is responsible for the interface. It provides a Web-based interface to the Gateway. It also provides a contextual map of the information and services available from the Gateway. This layer also handles authentication of users.
The service description layer stores profiles of known databases, including information such as record structure, supported query types and the format in which results are returned. This layer is also responsible for converting the syntax of result-set records to a canonical format.
The distributed access layer provides support for querying multiple remote databases in parallel. It consists of a parallel query manager and multiple instances of a Z39.50 client.
Finally, the administration database manages administrative and configuration data for the Gateway. The database contains profiles that describe the addresses and capabilities of remote databases which can be searched by the Gateway (used by the service description layer) and syntax schema, which describe the record structures that may be returned by remote targets. The syntax schema are also used by the service description layer for its syntax conversion tasks.
The ROADS (Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based Services) [ROADS] initiative is a UK-based project that is part of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. The project, begun in 1995, has developed a software package of Perl modules for developing and maintaining a subject gateway, that is, a Web-accessible database of metadata records relevant to one particular subject area such as medicine or chemistry. The ROADS software (currently Version 2 is in beta test) includes a Web-based cataloging interface to add new resources to a collection, a Web-based search interface, and a number of utilities for indexing the data, verifying URLs, etc.
For distributed resource discovery, ROADS supports cross-searching subject gateways. The cross-searching capability uses the WHOIS++ protocol for queries and referrals to other servers. ROADS supports distributed indexing using the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP). The authors of the ROADS package have developed a test implementation of CIP v3.
ROADS uses Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA) templates [IAFA] as its metadata format. The templates are extensible, though sites need to be using similar templates for cross searching to be effective. There are currently more than a dozen subject gateways using ROADS. However, while the software supports the cross-searching capability, most of the sites that have implemented the ROADS software are using it to make their collections available in a stand-alone manner.
The use of query routing using knowledge references and distributed indexing.
The use of existing protocols to speed development and increase interoperability.
An extensible data model that is adaptable to evolving metadata standards.
We had decided early on that we wanted to pursue the use of query routing using knowledge references and distributed indexing. Both Dienst and Z39.50 use a broadcast search strategy, whereby a user's query is sent to a pre-selected set of servers (or all servers). Since we wanted the option of experimenting with indexing algorithms in the future, this was a significant drawback to using either of those systems.
Another factor was that we did not want to implement the system from scratch. We hoped to find freely available software that we could use as a starting point for development. There are a limited number of freely available Z39.50 implementations, and most do not support simultaneous connections to multiple servers, which is a requirement for our project.
A general issue with Dienst is that it is a complete digital library system. That is, it is geared toward collections of documents as well as metadata objects relating to those documents. We are concerned with surrogate objects as first class objects. As such, Dienst includes many facilities that we would not need, such as the ability to uniquely name a document and store it in multiple formats (such as Postscript, SGML, TIFF and ASCII).
Directories are simply databases that are tuned to respond quickly to queries, possibly at the expense of update performance. In this sense, they are a good fit with our requirements as a metadata collection that is queried frequently relative to the frequency of updates.
They are vendor-neutral, open protocols (compared to using a distributed database system which requires that all sites use software from the database vendor).
They offer inherent support for distributed operation.
They offer separation of the query protocol from the database backend.
ROADS uses the WHOIS++ directory protocol for search and indexing operations. WHOIS++ shares some of LDAP's capabilities and attributes. Both are fairly simple protocols that support fielded searches with Boolean operators and substring matching. Both let the client specify which attributes should be returned in response to a query.
We chose to use LDAP because its data model is flexible and extensible. It is based on named attribute-value pairs and allows multi-valued attributes (for example, multiple authors in an "author" field). The University of Michigan LDAP distribution also provides a defined "backend" API that makes it possible to use different database systems to hold LDAP data for a server. For example, if we find partners whose collections are stored in a relational database system, we could write or help write an LDAP backend that accepts LDAP queries and converts them to database queries, and converts the results back into LDAP format. In addition, some database vendors may supply such LDAP gateways directly.
Lastly, we chose to use LDAP because of its strong support by commercial vendors. While our code runs only under UNIX, Isaac should be able to make use of any LDAP v3 server. Such servers are now available from several vendors and can run on a variety of operating systems. So, while LDAP is more complex than WHOIS++, we felt that the benefits that it offered were sufficient to warrant its use.
There are a number of open issues that will require further work as we gain experience building a virtual collection.
Pharmacology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
(scheme=LCSH) Drugs -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
(scheme=LCSH) Pharmacology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Both records and services use well known, authoritative files, yet these descriptors are not equal. Cross mapping related descriptors might be one way to resolve this issue.
Currently, browsing by subject category is not implemented. Since collections in Isaac may use different subject classification schemes, providing a browsing facility is problematic. To browse resources, users must enter a very general query and browse the results.
Creating the Isaac infrastructure is only a first step toward developing a useful search service with "third party" metadata collections. In the near term, we plan to develop tools to help collaborators make their metadata available using Isaac. These tools will fall into two categories. One category is data extraction -- tools that take metadata from one source (such as a database) and load the data into an Isaac LDAP repository. The second category will be LDAP front ends to database systems, which avoid the problems of data duplication by providing a "live link" between Isaac's LDAP server and a collaborator's existing metadata store. Development priority will depend on the needs of our collaborators.
In the longer term, we plan to develop tools to aid in the creation of metadata. These tools may include capabilities such as automatically harvesting metadata embedded within Web pages for augmentation by human catalogers. We hope that the automatic harvesting of this metadata might speed the process of developing selective and descriptive catalogs of Internet resources.
Some of the embedded metadata schemes that we would hope to support for automatic harvesting include DC metadata embedded in HTML using META tags, and various metadata formats embedded within the Resource Description Framework (RDF) [RDF], including Dublin Core and Instructional Management System (IMS) [IMS] metadata schemes.
Organizations who are interested in collaborating with us in the project can contact the authors or Susan Calcari, the Internet Scout Project's director, at scal@cs.wisc.edu. We welcome the opportunity to explore the possibilities of building a useful service with collaborators. We are willing to share software and ideas and help collaborators incorporate their metadata collections into the testbed.
The Internet Scout Project provides information about the Internet to the U.S. research and education community under a grant from the National Science Foundation, number NCR-9712163. The Government has certain rights in this material. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Wisconsin-Madison or the National Science Foundation.
[HAMILTON96] Martin Hamilton, et al. Representing the Dublin Core within X.500, LDAP and CLDAP (draft-hamilton-dcxl-00.txt) (expired Internet draft).
[IAFA] Peter Deutsch, et al. Publishing Information on the Internet with Anonymous FTP (expired Internet draft).


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Occasionally we invite prestigious guest artists and instructors to run workshops.
In this course, you will be taught to understand the structure of the human head and principals of idealistic proportion.
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The Benefits of Older Parents: Ukrainian Surrogacy at Any Age
More people are becoming parents in their late 30s and 40s and are finding that there are surprising benefits in older pregnancy
The only thing lower than our 401(k)s in 2010 was our baby-making production. The U.S. birth rate hit its lowest level in decades. However, the only age group that showed an increase in birth rate was women 40 to 44, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The late-30s category also outpaced teenagers.
In an age of fertility treatments, adoption, and stepfamilies (13 percent of all adults have at least one stepchild), more parents are finding themselves in the "midlife" camp, raising children in their late 30s and 40s. Even Hollywood's A-list has gotten into the act.
Robin Gorman Newman of Great Neck, NY, became a mom through adoption at 42. "Older parents are some of the most grateful people I know," says the founder of motherhoodlater.com, a community for midlife moms. "From fertility issues to health risks, chances are their road to parenthood wasn't easy."
For Dawn Weinberger, a mom in Hillsboro, OR, who turned 39 just a couple of weeks after her daughter was born, midlife mommyhood has plenty of advantages. "We've been watching our friends raise children for fifteen years now, and having the opportunity to observe others in action and learn from them has been really helpful," says Weinberger.
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The trailer of Not Another Platform Game was released on 22 November, 2017 and it gives us a taste of what's coming next.
Not Another Platform Game is one of the projects GoManga Interactive team is currently working on.
It is a post-apocalyptic puzzle game that tells the story of Silver, a little robot, which you have to guide through the ruins of Brodstock after a war between Men and Machines has devastated it.
Will you choose to support the Fallens' rebellion or will you give up to the Steel Mallet?
In the trailer, many elements we'll find in the game will be shown.
Firstly, you'll take a first tour in the city of Brodstock at the time the Machines took control of it; then you'll also see the Factory, the Steel Mallet's headquarters, attacked by the Fallens.
In addition, the main characters of the game will be introduced: a brand new Lether, the mysterious ballad singer and Silver – the protagonist – together with his mate Buz.
Last but not least, in good NAPG style, the trailer has got a very peculiar soundtrack that will take your breath away…and this only a little taste of the whole game!


This statistic shows the expected change in the total Spring festival spending in Hong Kong in 2018 and 2019. During the survey period, around 48 percent of respondents in Hong Kong stated that they expected their expenditure during the Chinese New Year of 2019 to be more or less the same as the previous year.
You expect your spending during this Chinese New Year to [insert: increase; decrease, be almost the same; no opinion] compared to the previous year.


WINNIPEG — CAA Manitoba members have approved a proposed merger with CAA South Central Ontario.
The two automobile associations joining forces is welcome news to members, who may see a freeze or reduction in membership fees.
"Joining forces will allow us to leverage each other's resources, increase our advocacy initiatives and update the retail experience to provide better value for our members," said Mike Mager, president and CEO of CAA Manitoba.
The company will have two call centres in different locations and time zones, which is expected to help improve service delivery during peak times.
Each club will maintain its current name and market its own products and services as usual. Neither club will reduce staff as a result of the merger, which is expected to be formally completed by the end of summer.