Almost all of the top hundred cryptocurrencies are making gains. EOS has risen the most, having hopped up from $3.70 to 4.14% since 23:00 GMT last night. It has now pushed past its 200-day moving average, a bullish sign.
Another big winner is Cardano (ADA), which recently rejoined the top-ten, replacing TRON (TRX). ADA is currently trading 10% above where it was on Tuesday.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is also seeing strong growth, and coins are trading for $10 more than they did at this time yesterday. Stellar Lumens (XLM) is up by roughly 6%.
Other major tokens are showing more limited growth. Litecoin (LTC) is up by 4%, while Binance Coin (BNB) and Ether (ETH) have increased by 3.5% from yesterday. XRP gained slightly less, rising by only 2.7%.
Bitcoin (BTC) is up by 3% and broke past the $4,000 price boundary for the third time in a month. It was trading at $4,072 by press time, but it is not out of the woods yet. Any market correction will likely take BTC back below the boundary again.
Some investors are holding back their excitement, and wonder if this could be yet another example of price manipulation. Following the recent Bitwise report, which found that only ten crypto exchanges accurately report their trading volumes, there's a concern that some exchanges are inflating their volume – a practice known as wash trading – to suit their own ends.


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Should This Guy Play Han Solo in a 'Star Wars' Spin-Off Movie?
Should This Guy Play Han Solo in a Star Wars Spin-Off Movie?
/han-solo-and-boba-fett-to-get-stand-alone-star-wars-movies/Earier this week, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Disney and Lucasfilm were working on a series of one shot movies that would be based on popular preexisting characters in the Star Wars universe, and that these movies would launch alongside Star Wars: Episode VII and the new trilogy that is being shepherded by director J.J. Abrams.
Rumored to be in the works is an Untitled Star Wars Han Solo Spin-Off and an Untitled Star Wars Boba Fett Spin-Off. While Boba Fett wears a helmet most of the time, no one is concerned about the casting of this iconic character, especially since Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett and father to Boba in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 3D is old enough, and ready to take on the role. It's Han Solo that has everyone worried. There has been much speculation as to who might play him, with actors like Zac Efron and Joseph Gordon-Levitt being thrown around. Harrison Ford was a relative unknown when he originated the part of Han in 1977, and a lot of people would like to see another unknown take the part.
Enter Anthony Ingruber, who has auditioned for the role via Youtube. We have his video, and the kid definitely evokes a young Harrison Ford/Han Solo. He may need some acting lessons before stepping on set, but that hasn't ever stopped anyone from being in a Star Wars movie before (we're looking at you, Jake Lloyd). If anything, this video proves that there is a Han Solo out there somewhere. If not this guy, then maybe someone else can pull it off. Take a look at his audition and let us know what you think.
Topics: Star Wars, Force Awakens, Rogue One, Solo
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using System.Linq;
using Typeset.Domain.FrontMatter;

namespace Typeset.Web.Extensions
{
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    {
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            try
            {
                var extension = Path.GetExtension(path);
                extension = extension.ToLower();

                switch (extension)
                {
                    case ".jpg":
                    case ".jpeg":
                        mimeType = "image/jpg";
                        break;
                    case ".gif":
                        mimeType = "image/gif";
                        break;
                    case ".png":
                        mimeType = "image/png";
                        break;
                    case ".ico":
                        mimeType = "image/x-icon";
                        break;
                    case ".css":
                        mimeType = "text/css";
                        break;
                    case ".js":
                        mimeType = "text/javascript";
                        break;
                    case ".htm":
                    case ".html":
                        mimeType = "text/html";
                        break;
                    case ".txt":
                        mimeType = "text/plain";
                        break;
                    default:
                        if(FrontMatterParser.IsFrontMatterExtension(extension))
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                            mimeType = "text/plain";
                        }
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            return mimeType;
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It was a cold day out on Island Beach State Park, I was looking for fascinating shapes in the sand and snow created by the winter winds. I walked for a few hours when I came across this scene. I made the photograph and then spent a lot of time burning and dodging as well as increasing the contrast to achieve what I wanted. This photograph reminds me of an aerial view of places where freshwater basins drain into the ocean or where glacial run off in mountains occurs. I decided too late to leave it unnamed, and as such, I feel many immediately see what it is just because of the title. Think about what else it looks like without keeping the title in mind, what do you see?


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Q: Wildcard path proxy to Google Cloud Run I have two cloud run services (Next.js and API server) and I want to serve them through a single endpoint.
I want requests to /api to be forwarded to API service and all other other requests (/*) to be forwarded to Next.js server.
Cloud Run documentation suggests that I use Endpoint but it does not seem to support wildcard paths.
What are the possible alternatives?

A: Google API Gateway supports different wildcards, I'using Google Functions as backend, but that shouldn't make a different when using the GW with Google Run.
My scenario:

*

*/ should route to the /index.html

*/assets should route to the /assets/any-file-here.png

*/logo-256.png should route to the /logo-256.png

*/endpoint-1 should route only to the API, but hosted on another function

*/endpoint-2/some-param should route only to the API, hosted on the same function as the assets

With this configuration everything get's routed liked wanted, using Double Wildcard Matching.
It doesn't matter that the wildcard is before specific routes, this is handled correctly by the gateway.
{
    "swagger": "2.0",
    "info": {
        "version": "0.0.1",
        "title": "Some API w/ Assets"
    },
    "paths": {
        "/": {
            "get": {
                "summary": "home",
                "operationId": "home",
                "parameters": [],
                "x-google-backend": {
                    "address": "https://THE-GOOGLE-RUN-OR-FUNCTION",
                    "path_translation": "CONSTANT_ADDRESS"
                },
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "Home"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/{files=**}": {
            "get": {
                "summary": "assets",
                "operationId": "assets",
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "in": "path",
                        "name": "files",
                        "type": "string",
                        "required": true
                    }
                ],
                "x-google-backend": {
                    "address": "https://THE-GOOGLE-RUN-OR-FUNCTION",
                    "path_translation": "APPEND_PATH_TO_ADDRESS"
                },
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "assets"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/endpoint-1": {
            "get": {
                "summary": "Some pure backend api",
                "operationId": "ep1",
                "x-google-backend": {
                    "address": "https://SOME-OTHER-GOOGLE-RUN-OR-FUNCTION",
                    "path_translation": "APPEND_PATH_TO_ADDRESS"
                },
                "parameters": [],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "result values"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/endpoint-2/{some_param}": {
            "get": {
                "summary": "Some pure backend API with path param",
                "operationId": "ep2",
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "in": "path",
                        "name": "some_param",
                        "type": "string",
                        "required": true
                    }
                ],
                "x-google-backend": {
                    "address": "https://THE-GOOGLE-RUN-OR-FUNCTION",
                    "path_translation": "APPEND_PATH_TO_ADDRESS"
                },
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "result values"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

But with this setup, your page won't be that fast, I recommend adding Google Load Balancer with Google CDN before your API gateway when you are serving files.

A: This is best addressed through the usage of Firebase hosting since they have a tutorial to do just this.
Hope you find this useful

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Graphene detector to improve night-vision goggles, chemical analysis tools and airport body scanners
(Nanowerk News) Graphene – an atom-thick sheet of carbon – has been touted as a new wonder material: it is stronger than steel and conducts electricity better than copper.
In the journal Nature Nanotechnology ("Sensitive room-temperature terahertz detection via the photothermoelectric effect in graphene"), my colleagues and I show how graphene can be used to build a detector of long wavelength (far infrared or terahertz) light that is as sensitive as any existing detector, but far smaller and more than a million times faster. The detector could improve night-vision goggles, chemical analysis tools and airport body scanners.
But before I go into the research, I'd like to talk about how we get from the discovery of a new wonder material such as graphene to new technologies that are useful.
As a researcher working on new materials, I am constantly asked "what is it good for?" To answer this, the first thing we researchers often try is to imagine the new material as a replacement for an existing one in an existing technology.
The problem with that approach is that any existing technology has a lot of momentum. For example, consider computer processors. The electrons in graphene move about 70 times faster than those in silicon (used in most computer processors today) under the same conditions, so graphene could arguably be used to make faster computer chips.
But it's not that simple. There are many reasons we use silicon besides the speed at which electrons travel – it readily forms a strong oxide coating and it is easy to dope, to name a couple. And changing to a radically different material would mean throwing away all the infrastructure used to make silicon chips that was developed at enormous expense over the past several decades.
So a better question — though much more difficult to answer — is to ask what a new material might enable us to do that no other material has before. The answers to that question don't always come immediately, and sometimes they come serendipitously.
A walk-through of some of the research in the Fuhrer laboratory.
Two layers are better than one
One property of graphene that interested me was that bilayer graphene (two layers stacked one on another) has a bandgap — the basic property of a semiconductor — that can be tuned by applying an electric field to the material.
I teamed up with researchers at the University of Maryland to try to measure this bandgap using infrared light, since infrared photons have energies which are similar to bilayer graphene's bandgap. When we measured the conductance of our bilayer graphene under infrared illumination, we found that it changed much more than we expected.
In fact, the change in conductance in our graphene was greater than that of the commercial silicon photodetector we were using to measure the power of our infrared beam! For some reason, our graphene was an excellent photodetector.
We knew enough about graphene to figure out what was happening. When the electrons in graphene absorb light, they heat up. In most materials, the electrons quickly lose energy to vibrations of the atoms, which we sense as heat.
But in graphene this process of heat loss is very inefficient, which gives graphene its extraordinarily high electrical conductivity. What we realised is that bilayer graphene with a bandgap has a conductance that varies strongly with electron temperature, allowing us to read out the change in electron temperature caused by the light heating the electrons.
A graphene photothermoelectric detector. The active area of the device is a 0.5 mm by 0.5 mm square which consists of strips of graphene contacted by partially overlapping gold and chromium electrodes. (Image: Michael Fuhrer)
Such a device is called a "hot electron bolometer" and bilayer graphene makes a very good one. We published our result in the journal Nature Nanotechnology in 2012 ("Dual-gated bilayer graphene hot-electron bolometer"), and several research groups are interested in developing graphene bolometers as exquisitely sensitive cryogenic detectors for use in radio astronomy.
Unfortunately, the bolometric effect only works well at low temperature, where bilayer graphene's resistance changes strongly with temperature. But we knew from our measurements that hot electron effects should be important in graphene at room temperature.
Our team designed a device which could measure the hot electrons at room temperature, using an effect called thermoelectricity. Our first graphene photothermoelectric detectors were comparable in sensitivity to the best available room-temperature detectors of light in the far infrared, or terahertz, regime of the electromagnetic spectrum, and we saw room for orders of magnitude improvements in sensitivity with new designs.
Interestingly, our devices were more than a million times faster than those detectors, and it's these results we publish today, once again in Nature Nanotechnology.
Graphene shows us the light
Detection of infrared and terahertz light has numerous uses, from chemical analysis to night-vision goggles to body scanners used in airport security.
But since an ultra-fast, sensitive terahertz detector had never been considered a possibility before, it's hard to say where our devices might be applied.
Our detector could be used to speed up chemical analysis techniques such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, or FTIR.
Because the graphene detector is easily microfabricated, we envision arrays of detector pixels suitable for imaging, which could lead to inexpensive infrared cameras or night-vision goggles.
Our calculations show that the hot electron photothermoelectric effect can be an efficient means of gathering energy from light. Perhaps our devices could be used to gather the infrared light escaping the Earth into the night sky, and turn it into electricity. Maybe they will be used for something that we haven't even thought of yet.
But had we never set out to investigate a new material simply for the sake of understanding how it works, we never would have discovered these new answers to the question, "what is it good for?"
Source: By Michael Fuhrer, Professor of Physics at Monash University, via The Conversation


Speaking at a Harpers round table held in Manchester last week John Dammone, owner of Salvo's Restaurant and Salumeria in Leeds, warned there is no way back from the discount culture once caught up in the cycle.
"Promotions such as two-for-one meals offered by the likes of Groupon are incredibly strong at the moment, but can also be quite harmful to business."
Dammone said he offered lunch for £5 through the Times a few years ago, which was very successful at attracting new customers but didn't have a lasting effect. He said those consumers that do come spend as little money as possible. "They didn't trade up by being upsold, drank water, and never came back once the offer was finished. I lost money and learned my lesson."
On the retail side Slurp used a Groupon offer last November. Chief executive Dr Jeremy Howard said "the jury was still out" regarding its success. It sold 4,000 vouchers in 10 hours. "Some customers did seem overly focused on the voucher's 'discount' aspect. But we did also acquire a large number of customers who spent well over the minimum threshold and have become loyal and valuable Slurpers," said Howard.
Alexxio Muccio, manager of Manchester's Twisted Med restaurant currently has a two-for-one offer via Groupon and said it is useful to promote the new restaurant, but that longterm use can be harmful. "It is very easy to fall into a trap, it can ruin a business. You have to be clever and know how to utilise it. We are currently making £7 per person on up-sell without compromising on quality."
A spokesman for Groupon said it was "committed to building long-term relationships with partners and will always try to make sure every offer is a satisfying experience to partners as well as customers".


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Q: Json paring with Recycler view Here I am trying to display the name and price of the test.
and I'm taking a recycler view to do the same using the JET Parsing GET method.
But I'm not getting anything in my business and showing myself black there.
here is my code
please help me find the solution.
Model class
        public class TestListsModel {

        public String test_price;

        public String testlist_id;

        public String test_name;
    }

This is my Adapter:
public class AdapterTestList  extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {

        private Context context;
        private LayoutInflater inflater;
        List<TestListsModel> data= Collections.emptyList();
        TestListsModel current;
        int currentPos=0;

        // create constructor to innitilize context and data sent from MainActivity
        public AdapterTestList(Context context, List<TestListsModel> data){
            this.context=context;
            inflater= LayoutInflater.from(context);
            this.data=data;
        }

        // Inflate the layout when viewholder created
        @Override
        public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
            View view=inflater.inflate(R.layout.test_list_row, parent,false);
            MyHolder holder=new MyHolder(view);
            return holder;
        }

        // Bind data
        @Override
        public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {

            // Get current position of item in recyclerview to bind data and assign values from list
            MyHolder myHolder= (MyHolder) holder;
            TestListsModel current=data.get(position);
            myHolder.testName.setText(current.test_name);
            myHolder.testPrice.setText( current.test_price);

            // load image into imageview using glide
           /* Glide.with(context).load("http://192.168.1.7/test/images/" + current.fishImage)
                    .placeholder(R.drawable.ic_img_error)
                    .error(R.drawable.ic_img_error)
                    .into(myHolder.ivFish);*/

        }

        // return total item from List
        @Override
        public int getItemCount() {
            return data.size();
        }

        class MyHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder{

            TextView testName;
            TextView testPrice;

            // create constructor to get widget reference
            public MyHolder(View itemView) {
                super(itemView);

                testName = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.test_name);
                testPrice = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.price_name);

            }

        }

    }

This is my Activity Class:
public class HealthServicesActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {

            SharePreferenceManager<LoginModel> sharePreferenceManager;

            // CONNECTION_TIMEOUT and READ_TIMEOUT are in milliseconds
            public static final int CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 10000;
            public static final int READ_TIMEOUT = 15000;
            private RecyclerView testListRecylerView;
            private AdapterTestList mAdapter;

         @Override
            protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                setContentView(R.layout.activity_health_services);
                ButterKnife.bind(this);

                sharePreferenceManager = new SharePreferenceManager<>(getApplicationContext());

                dayTimeDisplay();

                new AsyncLogin().execute();
            }

 private class AsyncLogin extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {
        //ProgressDialog pdLoading = new ProgressDialog(getApplicationContext());
        HttpURLConnection conn;
        URL url = null;

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();

            //this method will be running on UI thread
          /*  pdLoading.setMessage("\tLoading...");
            pdLoading.setCancelable(false);
            pdLoading.show();*/

        }

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            try {

                String url_test="http://192.168.1.80/aoplnew/api/users/gettestlist/"+sharePreferenceManager.getUserLoginData(LoginModel.class).getResult().getCenterId();
                // Enter URL address where your json file resides
                // Even you can make call to php file which returns json data
                //url = new URL("http://192.168.1.7/test/example.json");
                url = new URL(url_test);

            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
                return e.toString();
            }
            try {

                // Setup HttpURLConnection class to send and receive data from php and mysql
                conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                conn.setReadTimeout(READ_TIMEOUT);
                conn.setConnectTimeout(CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
                conn.setRequestMethod("GET");

                // setDoOutput to true as we recieve data from json file
                conn.setDoOutput(true);

            } catch (IOException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
                return e1.toString();
            }

            try {

                int response_code = conn.getResponseCode();

                // Check if successful connection made
                if (response_code == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {

                    // Read data sent from server
                    InputStream input = conn.getInputStream();
                    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
                    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
                    String line;

                    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                        result.append(line);
                    }

                    // Pass data to onPostExecute method
                    return (result.toString());

                } else {

                    return ("[]");
                }

            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                return e.toString();
            } finally {
                conn.disconnect();
            }

        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {

            //this method will be running on UI thread

            //pdLoading.dismiss();
            List<TestListsModel> data=new ArrayList<>();

            //pdLoading.dismiss();
            try {

                JSONArray jArray = new JSONArray(result);

                // Extract data from json and store into ArrayList as class objects
                for(int i=0;i<jArray.length();i++){
                    JSONObject json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
                    TestListsModel testData = new TestListsModel();
                    testData.testlist_id= json_data.getString("testlist_id");
                    testData.test_name= json_data.getString("test_name");
                    testData.test_price= json_data.getString("test_price");

                    data.add(testData);
                }

                // Setup and Handover data to recyclerview
                testListRecylerView = (RecyclerView)findViewById(R.id.test_list_recycler_view);
                mAdapter = new AdapterTestList(HealthServicesActivity.this, data);
                testListRecylerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
                testListRecylerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(HealthServicesActivity.this));

            } catch (JSONException e) {
                Toast.makeText(HealthServicesActivity.this, e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }

        }

    }
}

Thanks in advance for any answer!

A: You need to set the setLayoutManager before the setting the adapter like below. In your code, you have setAdapter() before the setLayoutManager therefore your adapter not set properly.
Refer this for the further explanation https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/recyclerview
    testListRecylerView = (RecyclerView)findViewById(R.id.test_list_recycler_view);

    mAdapter =  new AdapterTestList(HealthServicesActivity.this, data);
    /**
     * SET THE LAYOUT MANAGER BEFORE SETTING THE ADAPTER
     */

    RecyclerView.LayoutManager mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(HealthServicesActivity.this);
    testListRecylerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
    testListRecylerView.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());

     /**
      * AND THAN SET THE ADAPTER
      */

    testListRecylerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);


The cultural model we have is failing, David Anderson, the president of the Museums Association and director of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, told an audience at a Wallace Collection event, A Future for the past?
"What one doesn't have at the moment is any sense that there is a coming together of strategy and policy in England, or even an aspiration [to bring them together]," he said.
"There is an urgent need for additional funding for local and regional museums, not in five years but now. There is a need for devolution of funding decisions in England outside the metropolis. There is a need for a national cultural strategy, not just for museums but for culture as a whole, that completely rethinks what our purpose and contribution can be.
"Nineteenth century ideas of what a museum is are no longer fit for purpose in the 21st century. We need to have the courage to challenge the present model, to speak about the need for change, and to actually to change it.
Christoph Vogtherr, the director of the Wallace Collection, warned that funding cuts were risking museum work in the UK. The cuts were a risk to infrastructure, in-house knowledge, scholarly quality and impartiality, and access opportunities for wider society, he said.
He warned of a "strong move towards privatisation", citing English Heritage as a "test-run for what we are all faced with… privatisation of a public entity with a payoff at the beginning and then the guarantee that no further regular state money will come in".
Vogtherr said he had received a letter from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) stating that it would work with arms-length bodies to explore financing models that were "less reliant on grant-in-aid".
There are many towns and cities that simply do not have the resource to be able to continue to sustain their cultural activities, said Anderson. Austerity is "killing local museums", he added, and there is a risk that in five years time much of the locally funded culture sector will have shrunk dramatically.
Robert Hewison, a cultural historian and associate of think-tank Demos, said that the sector should expect further cuts to DCMS funding to national museums and the arts council. Grant-in-aid to national museums had fallen by 7% in cash terms, he said, but their overall income had risen by 18.8%, and the trustees of at least one national museum had discussed reintroducing charges.
Income at local authority museums had fallen by £5m since 2009, he said, and those museums were "hanging on by their fingernails".
Maria Balshaw, the director of the Whitworth and Manchester City Galleries, said Manchester Art Gallery had had 50% less funding over the past five years, but the museum was "twice as busy" and had had a bounce in visitors after the reopening of the Whitworth earlier this year.
I am really frightened for the future of local authority museums. In order to be seen to be positive and "on board" with their authorities' challenges, directors are having to promise to deliver the same services for less, redirecting staff from core roles into increased income generation, and placing increased pressure on all staff. I agree with David Anderson that there needs to be a good hard look at the funding model for museums, and realism about what they can achieve. Public expectations of museums are now very high and museums are rightly very popular. It would be criminal to waste that strategic advantage.
In fairness to English Heritage (most of its people anyway), I wouldn't say their split was full-on privatisation. That doesn't mean it will work for either side - the professional services side or the property - but the model is clearly the National Trust rather than some private outfit. They desperately want the volunteers and the bequests. I don't know what the new constitution of English Heritage (the properties) will be, but it should be something like the inalienable NT. Meanwhile I'm seriously worried about the professional services side. Proposals to charge for development advice will simply mean the vandals will ignore them while the good guys (my sector, of course) won't be able to afford to pay.


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Uniwersytet Europy Południowo-Wschodniej (mac. Универзитет на Југо источна Европа, alb. Universitetit të Evropës Juglindore) – prywatna szkoła wyższa w Tetovie w Macedonii.

UEPW został założony w marcu 2001 jako instytucja prywatna z udziałem rządu Macedonii, utrzymująca się z własnych dochodów i z pomocy zagranicznych sponsorów. Jednym z celów utworzenia UEPW było ułatwienie mniejszości albańskiej dostępu do wyższego wykształcenia. Zgodnie z tym UEPW ma charakter albański – większość nauczycieli i 76% studentów to Albańczycy, językiem wykładowym jest przede wszystkim albański. W 2007 roku na UEPW studiowało 5,9 tys. studentów, a pracowało 300 nauczycieli akademickich. UEPW dzieli się na pięć wydziałów:
 prawa (Правен Факултет , Fakulteti Juridik),
 zarządzania przedsiębiorstwami (Бизнис Администрација, Administrimi i Biznesit),
 administracji publicznej (Јавна Администрација, Administrata Publike),
 komunikacji i technologii (Факултет за Комуникациски Науки и Технологии, Shkencat dhe Teknologjitë e Komunikimit),
 pedagogiczny (Педагошки Факултет, Fakulteti pedagogjik).

Rektorem UEPW jest prof. Alajdin Abazi, prorektorami są dr Abdylmenaf Bexheti, dr Zamir Dika i dr Blerim Reka.

Uczelnie w Macedonii Północnej
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La U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, communément appelée la Securities and Exchange Commission, souvent abrégée en « la SEC », est l'organisme fédéral américain de réglementation et de contrôle des marchés financiers. C'est en quelque sorte le « gendarme de la Bourse » américain, aux fonctions généralement similaires à celles de l' que l'on rencontre dans d'autres États. Ses pouvoirs et sa composition ont été profondément remaniés par le « Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act » de 2010.

Les lois et réglementations financières qui constituent le droit des marchés financiers américain proviennent du principe que tout investisseur, institutionnel ou privé, doit avoir accès à un minimum d'informations avant d'acheter et pendant toute la durée de détention des titres.

Origine de la SEC

La SEC a été créée par application de l'article 4 du Securities Exchange Act de 1934 voté par le Congrès en réponse à la période de récession qui a suivi le grand krach boursier de 1929. Sa mise en place est l'un des piliers des grandes réformes de Roosevelt dans la banque et la finance.

La SEC est principalement instituée dans le but de faire appliquer les nouvelles lois financières, promouvoir la stabilité des marchés et surtout protéger les investisseurs des abus de sociétés relatifs aux achats et vente d'actions ainsi qu'aux informations rendues publiques.

La SEC et le Congrès américain ont défini le « délit d'initié » (insider trading) comme  (« trading on nonpublic information »).

Franklin D. Roosevelt nomme Joseph P. Kennedy, père de John F. Kennedy, premier président de la SEC en 1934.

Les six principales lois financières

La SEC a la responsabilité de faire appliquer les six principales lois financières qui régulent l'industrie financière et qui sont :

 Securities Act (1933)

Cette loi a deux objectifs principaux :

 assurer aux investisseurs la mise à disposition d'informations financières et de toute autre information significative concernant les produits financiers (actions, obligations) faisant appel public à l'épargne ;
 interdire la dissimulation, la déformation et toute autre fraude dans la vente de produits financiers.
 Securities Exchange Act (1934)

Cette loi est à l'origine de la création de la SEC et lui donne toute autorité sur l'industrie financière en matière de régulation et de supervision. Le New York Stock Exchange, l'American Stock Exchange et la National Association of Securities Dealers, qui gère le NASDAQ, sont sous la supervision de la SEC.

Cette loi identifie et interdit certains comportements sur les marchés et dote la SEC de pouvoirs disciplinaires sur les entités et les personnes qui y sont associées.

La loi donne également à la SEC, le droit d'exiger des rapports d'information périodiques de la part des sociétés faisant appel public à l'épargne.

  (1939)

Cette loi s'applique aux produits financiers de type obligations, certificats et créances proposés au public. Bien que ces produits puissent être couverts par le Securities Act de 1933, ils peuvent ne pas être ouverts au public à moins d'un accord formel entre l'émetteur des obligations et le détenteur  conforme aux exigences de ladite loi.

 Investment Company Act (1940)

Cette loi réglemente l'organisation de sociétés, tels que les fonds communs de placement, qui investissent en actions et dont leurs propres actions sont ouvertes au public. Cette loi exige notamment la publication d'informations sur le fond, ses objectifs d'investissements, sa structure et ses opérations, à destination des investisseurs publics.

 Investment Advisers Act (1940)

Cette loi réglemente la profession des conseillers en investissement. Depuis l'amendement de 1996, seuls les conseillers avec une gestion d'encours de plus de 25 millions de dollars américains ou ceux qui gèrent les encours d'une société d'investissement listée peuvent être listés auprès de la SEC.

 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002)

Cette loi vise à améliorer la responsabilité des sociétés en matière de publication d'informations financières et la lutte contre la fraude. Elle est à l'origine de la création du Public Company Accounting Oversight Board qui supervise les activités des cabinets d'audit.

Organisation de la SEC

La SEC est basée à Washington, D.C. et comporte cinq commissaires nommés par le président des États-Unis avec le conseil et le consentement du Sénat. Le mandat des commissaires est de cinq ans et l'un d'eux est remplacé le  de chaque année. Pour assurer la neutralité de la SEC, il n'y a jamais plus de trois commissaires qui appartiennent au même parti politique. Le président des États-Unis désigne le président de la SEC parmi les cinq commissaires.

La SEC dispose de quatre divisions, dix-huit bureaux et emploie environ  personnes en 2011. Elle dispose, outre son siège à Washington, de onze bureaux régionaux répartis sur le territoire des États-Unis.

Les quatre divisions sont :

 Corporation Finance

Cette division est chargée de superviser les publications réalisées par les sociétés et de l'enregistrement des transactions telles que les fusions de sociétés. Elle est également responsable du système EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) qui met à la disposition du public l'ensemble des rapports périodiques des sociétés qu'elle est par ailleurs chargée d'analyser. Elle est aussi responsable de l'interprétation de la réglementation.

 Market Regulation

Cette division supervise l'activité des organismes de bourse (tels que le NYSE), les sociétés de courtage et d'investissement et autres acteurs majeurs de la bourse.

 Investment Management

Cette division supervise et régule les  de dollars de l'industrie de la gestion d'actifs et gère les lois affectant les sociétés d'investissements et de conseil en investissement.

 Enforcement

Cette division réalise des enquêtes sur les éventuelles violations des lois, conseille la SEC et négocie les accords pour le compte de la SEC. Bien que la SEC n'a qu'autorité sur le volet civil, elle travaille en étroite relation avec les organismes pouvant agir sur le plan pénal.

Présidents de la SEC

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Jay Clayton
 Éthique appliquée
 Déontologie financière
Droit boursier
 Histoire des bourses de valeurs

Bibliographie
 Hervé Dumez et Alain Jeunemaitre, À la poursuite du crime indéfini : La SEC et le délit d'initié, in Chroniques économiques SEDEIS, , , pp. 107-112
 Ohl,D., Droit des sociétés cotées ; Lavoisier, 2005

Lien externe

New Deal
Régulateur des marchés financiers
Réglementation bancaire
Administration indépendante du gouvernement des États-Unis


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John (Johann) Bernhard Stallo (March 16, 1823 – January 6, 1900) was a German-American academic, jurist, philosopher, and ambassador.

Early life
Stallo was born in Sierhausen in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (Germany) on March 16, 1823, the son of a schoolmaster, Johann Heinrich Stallo (1797–1840) and his wife, Anna Maria Adelheid Moormann (1798–1861). Stallo studied at home and at a free, Catholic normal school at Vechta.  Because the family lacked the funds to send him to a gymnasium (secondary school), Stallo emigrated to the United States in 1839, establishing himself in Cincinnati, Ohio, not far from his uncle, the utopian socialist, Franz Joseph Stallo,, where many other family members would settle.

Career
Stallo taught German and mathematics at the newly renamed St. Xavier College (formerly a Jesuit "lyceum" called "The Atheneum") from 1841–1844. He published his first book, ABC, Spelling and Reading Book, for the German Schools of America, which apparently sold very well. He then taught mathematics and science at another Jesuit institution, St. John's College (founded in 1841, now Fordham University and not to be confused with St. John's University, New York, founded in 1870) in Fordham, New York from 1844 to 1848. At St. John's, Stallo wrote his first major work, General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature (1848). This book, which he later dismissed as 'youthful', was apparently a restatement of Hegel's philosophy of nature. In 1881, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.

Politics and law
Stallo returned to Cincinnati and was there admitted to the bar in 1849, practicing law (in the firm of Stallo and Kittridge) except for a brief stint as judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas (in Ohio, a "trial court of general jurisdiction", according to Black's Law Dictionary) (1852–1855). He was active in politics and was later known as one of the "Ohio Hegelians", who included August Willich, Moncure Daniel Conway and Peter Kaufmann.

A Democrat for many years, Stallo broke with this party over slavery, and supported Abraham Lincoln and the new Republican Party during the American Civil War. He helped organize the "Stallo Regiment" from the German-American community.  Stallo's becoming a Republican was all the more surprising because few Catholics did so in the 1850s.  Stallo however was a fairly Liberal Catholic and at times has been described as a free thinker.  He represented the trustees of Holy Trinity Church in their struggle to maintain control of the Church against the attempt by the Archbishop of Cincinnati to establish the Roman Catholic Canon law method of having all diocese properties held by the bishop.

The Cincinnati Bible War
Stallo argued a famous and successful case favoring separation of church and state in the Ohio public schools. In late 1869, a newly elected Cincinnati School Board decided to ban hymn-singing and Bible reading in the city's public schools. A conservative group brought suit against the Board to block the ban. Stallo, among with George Hoadly (later governor of Ohio) and Stanley Matthews (later an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), served as the school board's counsel. Stallo closed his argument by saying,

The Board nevertheless lost in a two-to-one vote of the Superior Court and was enjoined from enforcing its vote on Bible reading. Stallo's arguments on appeal to the Ohio Supreme Course led to a unanimous reversal of the lower court and reinstatement of the ban on Bible-reading in 1872.

Later political life

Stallo took part in the Liberal Republican movement of 1872. He was rewarded for his support of the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland, in 1884, by appointment as Ambassador (`Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary') to Italy (1885–1889). According to Andrew Dickson White (Autobiography), Stallo was an exemplary diplomat:

'I was most pleased with the tribute ...[ Ubaldino Peruzzi ].. paid to the American minister at Rome, Judge Stallo of Cincinnati. He declared that at a recent conference of statesmen and diplomatists, Judge Stallo had carried off all the honors—speaking with ease, as might be necessary, in Italian, French, and English, and finally drawing up a protocol in Latin.'

After Cleveland lost his first re-election campaign to Benjamin Harrison in 1888, Stallo retired to Florence, Italy and there assembled a collection of his essays written in German,  Reden, Abhandlungen und Briefe.

The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics
During the post-war period Stallo wrote his most famous work, The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics, first published in 1882. The Concepts deals with the role of 'concepts' in physical theory, arguing that they must be treated as provisional and warning of the mental traps of mistaking concepts for facts; this book represents an early example of the modern philosophy of science. It went through three American editions in Stallo's lifetime, which were simultaneously published in England. A French translation  was issued in 1884, with a foreword by Charles Friedel Among many others, the second edition was read by Bertrand Russell, who awarded it three footnotes in his An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897). Russell's footnotes brought Stallo to the attention of the German physicist Ernst Mach, who saw in Stallo a kindred philosophical and scientific spirit. Mach initiated a correspondence with Stallo, cut short by the latter's death, whereupon Mach arranged for a German translation by Hans Kleinpeter, to which Mach contributed a foreword. Die Begriffe und Theorien der Modernen Physik was published in 1901 (Barth, Leipzig) and re-issued in 1911 with a short new foreword by Kleinpeter.  This translation introduced Stallo to a German audience and helped establish The Concepts as an important contribution to the philosophy of physics.   A modern American edition, based on the 1888 edition, was edited by the American physicist and father of "operationalism", Percy Williams Bridgman (Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1960).

In Ch XIV, "Metageometrical Space in the Light of Modern Analysis Riemann's Essay," Stallo flamingly critiques Riemann's "On the Hypotheses which lie at the Base of Geometry," ending with the statement that "the analytical argument in favor of the existence, or possibility, of transcendental space is another flagrant instance of the reification of concepts."

Personal life
In 1850, Stallo was married to Helena Zimmerman (1825–1905) of Cincinnati, with whom he had ten children, five of them surviving childhood, including:

 Walter Stallo (1851–1880)
 Linda Stallo (1855–1889), who married attorney Conrad Ludwig Hotze (1839–1913) in 1882.
 Hulda Stallo (1857–1931)
 Helena Stallo (1861–1891)
 Edmund Kittredge Stallo (1864–1947), who married Laura McDonald (1870–1895) in 1889. After her death in 1895 he married Carrie May Harrington (1866–1921) in 1903. They divorced in 1912 and in 1919 he married Clarissa Aurilla Wilcox (1877–1969). They divorced in 1938.

Stallo died in Florence on January 6, 1900.

Descendants
Through his son Edmund, he was a grandfather of Helena, Princess Murat (née Helena McDonald Stallo) who married Prince Murat on 6 February 1913. and Laura, Princess Rospigliosi (née Laura McDonald Stallo), who married Prince Rospigliosi on 30 June 1914.

Works
General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature, with an Outline of Some of Its Recent Developments Among the Germans, Embracing the Philosophical Systems of Schelling and Hegel, and Oken's System of Nature.  Boston: W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1848. "General Principles" was received with great interest by the New England Transcendentalists, in particular Ralph Waldo Emerson, who referred to Stallo's book in his journals. Of interest was Stallo's argument that thought was fundamentally identical with the universe. The book was reviewed in the Massachusetts Quarterly by Theodore Parker, who called it "a grand solid book."
Reply to Prof. O.A. Brownson's lecture on non-intervention, before the Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati. A lecture delivered in Smith & Nixon's Hall, Cincinnati, February 20, 1852 Cincinnati, Pub. for the Committee, by C.A. Morgan & Co., 1852.  Refers to Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803–1876) on the uprising in Hungary in (1848–1849).
Thomas Jefferson  Cincinnati, O. : Gedruckt in der Offizin des "Pionier", 1855.
Alexander von Humboldt : eine Gedächtnissrede Cincinnati : Theobald und Theurkauf, 1859.
Minor, John D., and others. The Bible in the public schools, pp. 420. Clarke : Cincinnati, 1870. Contains the opinions and decisions of the superior court of Cincinnati, with the arguments of George Hoadley, Rufus King, Stanley Matthews, George R. Sage, William M. Ramsey, and J. B. Stallo. Cited by Monroe Bibliography of Education
The secularization of public education.  Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1870  Cited in Will Seymour Monroe Bibliography of Education, p. 134.
State Creeds and Their Modern Apostles. A Lecture Delivered in Rev. Mr. Vickers' Church, Cincinnati, on the Evening of April 3, 1870. Cincinnati: R. Clarke  1872.  (Rev. Thomas Vickers, Pres., Univ. Cincinnati, 1877–1884)
The Primary Concepts of Modern Physical Science.

The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics. New York and London, 1882; 2nd ed. 1884; 3rd ed. 1888; Cambridge, Mass., 1960.
Reden, Abhandlungen und Briefe. New York: E. Staiger, 1893.

Notes

References
Arguments against the use of the Bible in the public schools. Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1870 US-62-7; J.B. Stallo, George Hoadly, and Stanley Matthews, counsel for the defendants : in the case of John D. Minor et als.  versus the Board of Education of the City of Cincinnati et als.  in the Superior Court of Cincinnati.   (Republished as The Bible in the public schools. Arguments before the Superior Court of Cincinnati in the case of Minor v. Board of Education of Cincinnati, 1870 with the opinions of the court and the opinion on appeal of the Supreme Court of Ohio. New introd. by Robert G. McCloskey  New York, Da Capo Press, 1967)
Brumberg, Stephan F., "The Cincinnati Bible War (1869–1873) and its Impact on the Education of the City's Protestants, Catholics, and Jews" The American Jewish Archives Journal LIV Number 2 11–46.(2003)
Bridgman, P.W. "J.B. Stallo and the Critique of Classical Physics," in Men and Movements In the History of Science (Seattle, 1959).
Easton, L.D. Hegel's First American Followers: The Ohio Hegelians: John B. Stallo, Peter Kaufmann, Moncure Conway, and August Willich (Athens, Ohio, 1966).
Goetzmann, William H., ed. The American Hegelians: An Intellectual Episode in the History of Western America (New York, 1973).
Good, James A., ed. The Ohio Hegelians. 3 volumes. Bristol, UK, Thoemmes Press, 2004.
Helfman, Howard M. "The Cincinnati 'Bible War', 1869–1870". Ohio History 60:369–386.
McCormack, T.J. "John Bernhard Stallo: American Citizen, Jurist, Philosopher." Open Court 14 (1900): 276.
Michaelsen, Robert "Common Ground, Common Religion? A Case Study in Church-State Relations, Cincinnati, 1869–1870"  Church History 38(2):201–217. (1969)
Ratterman, Heinrich Armin. "John Bernhard Stallo, Deutsch-Amerikanischer Philosoph, Jurist und Staatsmann," Gesammelte Werke Bd. 12, pp. 11–55 (Cincinnati, 1911).
Strong, John V. "The Erkenntnistheoretiker's Dilemma: J.B. Stallo's Attack on Atomism in his Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics." Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (1974): 105–123.
Youmans, W.J. "Sketch of J.B. Stallo." Popular Science Monthly 34 (1888–1889): 548–555.

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Even Some First-Party Studios Don't Know What Playstation 5 Console Looks Like
By Hunter Miche Jun 11, 2020 Oct 6, 2020 Share
We're getting closer and closer to Playstation finally unveiling the new Playstation 5 to the world, but the road to get here has been rather odd, even for the developers that are making games for the console. Some of them apparently don't even know what the Playstation 5 console really looks like.
Playstation has been keeping the entire thing under fairly tight wraps for months now, despite us having previously seen what the console's developer kits look like months ago. The only hint we've gotten is a patent sketch that might not even be accurate, alongside one 4chan leak that said it looked ugly.
The only thing about the Playstation 5 that we know for sure is the console's DualSense controller, which has gotten a lot of press lately for its design (which is drastically different from its preceding Dualshocks). Unlike the Xbox Series X, there's no console to go with it.
While this sort of situation isn't that important when you take into consideration that Playstation will be unveiling the Playstation 5 console tomorrow (along with, hopefully, no small amount of games), it's still surprising that even devs don't know what the console looks like.
Even though video games aren't developed on the actual consoles themselves, hence the use of dev kits, you would think that in first-party studios developing Playstation 5 games that they would know what the actual machine looks like.
Then again, it's likely that Sony is deliberately being coy in order to contain as many leaks as possible. While this hasn't worked perfectly, the fact that there's still all of this mystery about it does at least show that it's working pretty well.
The reveal of the Playstation 5 console will be happening tomorrow, June 11, at 1 PM Pacific Time, so be sure to tune in if you want to see it and the games it will have for yourself.
Hunter Miche


The Irish Sea Marine Aggregates Initiative (IMAGIN) is a collaborative project between Ireland and Wales focused on the sustainable management of marine aggregate resources. IMAGIN was a 2-year project with a total budget of €1.1 million. IMAGIN was part funded (66%) under the Ireland/Wales Inter Regional (INTERREG) IIIA Community Initiative Programme 2000-2006. The remaining project budget was met by contributions from partner organisations (19%) and aggregate companies – CEMEX, Lagan Ltd., Kilsaran Concrete and Roadstone Ltd. (15%). The IMAGIN grouping was a collaborative partnership comprising experts in Ireland and Wales from 3rd level Institutes, State agencies and industry. The grouping included the Coastal and Marine Resources Centre – University College Cork, Marine Institute, Geological Survey of Ireland, Geoscience Wales and representatives from the aggregate companies. The overall aim of the IMAGIN project is to facilitate the evolution of a strategic framework within which the exploitation of marine aggregate resources from the Irish Sea may be sustainably managed with minimum risk of impact on marine and coastal environments, ecosystems and other marine users. IMAGIN was structured around a series of work packages, each focusing on the different aspects of the marine aggregate question. Marine aggregates can be defined as sedimentary material - sand or gravel of various grain and class sizes (grades). Extraction of marine aggregates typically involves dredging of the deposit to remove it from the seabed. Aggregates may be screened at sea before being transported to a port or wharf facility for unloading and then further processing, if required, and subsequent transportation. In common with terrestrial aggregates, sands and gravels sourced from the seabed are an important economic resource, which can contribute to the development and maintenance of infrastructure, e.g. buildings, roads and bridges. Marine aggregates are also used for beach nourishment and coastal defence purposes, the demands for which have become more pressing when set against the predicted implications of climate change, sea level rise and associated effects on low lying coastal areas. A number of countries have sought to meet the demand for aggregates by utilising sources from the seabed to replace or complement terrestrial sources. Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are primary examples of countries within Europe that have a long established practice of marine aggregate extraction, providing an alternative to sole reliance on terrestrial sources.


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Oculus Rift Recommended Requirements Revealed
May 16, 2015 06:18 EDT
Oculus has announced the recommended requirements for the consumer version of its virtual reality headset the Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift will require an Nvidia GTX 970 or an AMD 290 GPU and an Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater CPU for the optimal experience.
You can view the complete list below:
Oculus Rift Recommended Requirements:
NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
8GB+ RAM
Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
2x USB 3.0 ports
Windows 7 SP1 or newer
The Oculus team added:
"The goal is for all Rift games and applications to deliver a great experience on this configuration. Ultimately, we believe this will be fundamental to VR's success, as developers can optimize and tune their game for a known specification, consistently achieving presence and simplifying development."
The above are recommended requirements, so users with weaker hardware will still be able to enjoy the Oculus Rift, but perhaps with a less than optimal experience.
Oculus VR has just recently revealed that the Oculus Rift will be launching in the first quarter of 2016, and provided the first image of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift.
Since the earliest days of the Oculus Kickstarter, the Rift has been shaped by gamers, backers, developers, and enthusiasts around the world. Today, we're incredibly excited to announce that the Oculus Rift will be shipping to consumers in Q1 2016, with pre-orders later this year.
The Rift delivers on the dream of consumer VR with compelling content, a full ecosystem, and a fully-integrated hardware/software tech stack designed specifically for virtual reality. It's a system designed by a team of extremely passionate gamers, developers, and engineers to reimagine what gaming can be.
The Oculus Rift builds on the presence, immersion, and comfort of the Crescent Bay prototype with an improved tracking system that supports both seated and standing experiences, as well as a highly refined industrial design, and updated ergonomics for a more natural fit.
In the weeks ahead, we'll be revealing the details around hardware, software, input, and many of our unannounced made-for-VR games and experiences coming to the Rift. Next week, we'll share more of the technical specifications here on the Oculus blog.
Virtual reality is going to transform gaming, film, entertainment, communication, and much more. If you're interested in building a next-generation VR game or application, everything you need to start developing for the Rift is available at the Oculus Developer Center.
E3 is just around the corner — this is only the beginning.
– The Oculus Team
We will bring you any new information on the Oculus Rift as soon as it becomes available, as well as impressions from its presence at the E3 2015 event.
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The indigenous forest is the perfect place to appreciate nature and its intricately designed systems of flora and fauna, with over 200 species of birds, and age old Yellowwood trees.
Bramleigh Manor aims to popularise ideas such as organic farming, closed system growing (e.g. aquaponics), solar power, eco-friendly building, homesteading, nature conservation, and environmental awareness. Courses, training and experiences in the above mentioned ideas are on offer, as well as comfortable eco-friendly accommodation for those needing to disconnect from the world for a while and reconnect with nature.
Bramleigh Manor also offers conferencing facilities for up to 16 delegates, and accommodation for 12 delegates on site.
Bramleigh Manor has 2 charming country style guest suites that can each accommodate 2 people. Both suites offer a luxurious king size bed, full bathroom with bath & shower, tea & coffee facilities, refrigerator, safe, private entrance, undercover parking and a lovely patio. A wood burning stove in each room is ideal for keeping warm on chilly Midlands evenings; the wood provided is sustainably harvested from alien trees on the property.
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EU Parliament 'cookie' restrictions worry online media
Albrecht (r) says online media cannot expect regulators to ignore fundamental rights on privacy (Photo: Jan Albrecht)
By Nikolaj Nielsen
Brussels, 14. Nov 2017, 15:13
A top MEP working on data protection says upcoming privacy rules will trigger new business models for the ailing online media.
German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht told reporters last week that current media reliance on clicks and adverts to generate revenue has no future.
"I think you can earn better money for quality products with real money," he said on Friday (10 November).
The comments follow a widening debate surrounding e-privacy reforms, which aims to enforce and secure the confidentiality of online communications.
Some of those reforms may end up restricting online ads, with rules that seek to give people more say over how their information is being commercially exploited.
The reforms endorsed by the European Parliament prevent, among other things, the use of cookies on websites at the browser's installation. Those same cookies are a key component for advertising revenues and may allow users to be tracked online across platforms.
Albrecht maintains people are willing to pay for quality content they want, similar to the growing online music market, and that consumer rights must be protected.
"Maybe they think some of the content has been devalued because it hasn't cost anything and was only made to get clicks and therefore only targeted advertising," he said.
The question is how to create a business model to get people to spend money rather than relying on advert snooping, he says, noting context-based advertising as an alternative.
"I think the e-privacy regulation will maybe support the media industry in getting there," said Albrecht, who steered the EU's general data protection regulation through the EU parliament.
But critics like the European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA), a Brussels-based umbrella group, dispute Albrecht's argument.
They say the reforms would spell the end of free online journalism and consolidate the dominance of the few.
"The regulation will impact directly at the heart of press revenues in the digital environment," said ENPA President Carlo Perrone, last month in a statement.
Similar comments were made by the Brussels-based European Magazine Media Association.
Its president Xavier Bouckaert, in a statement last month, said the proposed default privacy settings would "prevent them from accessing freely to journalistic content".
The European Parliament as a whole endorsed the reforms in late October, meaning that they are now ready to enter talks with the Council, representing member states.
The Parliament position includes a ban on 'cookie walls', on snooping on personal devices via cookies or software updates, or tracking people without their consent. It also restricts third party access to meta-data.
Member states have yet to formulate their negotiating position.
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Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says e-privacy reforms open up new job opportunities for small businesses in Europe and asks EU lawmakers to endorse the proposal in a vote on Thursday.
The data sharing pact with the US is yet to be fully implemented, as the Americans have failed to appoint people in key positions to ensure EU citizens' personal data is protected.
Commission gives 'thumbs-up' to controversial Privacy Shield deal with US on data sharing after a year's operation - but notes room for improvement.
3. Oct 2017, 18:42
A high court judge in Ireland has asked the EU Court of Justice to deliberate on a data transfer case involving Facebook.
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Amendments to the ePrivacy regulation will damage the funding models that enable most consumers to access free content and services.
EU Commission mulls police access to encrypted apps
The European Commission has not ruled out allowing police access to encrypted services. Instead, it says a balance needs to be found to protect rights while at the same time offering some leeway to law enforcement.
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More than half a million people protested in Poland over the weekend against a recent court ruling that effectively bans abortion.
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At the very moment when an incumbent president across the Atlantic was carrying out staggering attacks on the foundations of democracy, the European Parliament obtained a historic agreement to protect the rule of law in Europe.


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Desert Raiders (Metal) - Portugal
We are Desert Raiders!!! A Metal band from the small town Soure in Coimbra, Portugal. Founded in late 2018 by Henrique Martins (drums) and Daniel Batalha (vocals and guitar), starting by doing covers of rock classics. In January 2019 Daniel Diogo joined the band as the bassist and the band started going towards a heavier sound and pursuing the objective of recording original songs. With many influences from Classic Rock, to Blues, passing by Jazz, and going all the way to Death Metal and everything in between, it might be difficult to caracterize our sound but with the love of post-apocalyptic media, like the Mad Max universe, we setled on a wasteland theme both lyrically and theme wise, so we decided to give the name of Wasteland Metal to our sound.
"Prophecy" Single Review
The track builds atmosphere in its opening as melodic passion takes center stage. The steady build continues as it glides along a more Grunge like ballad path. The track cranks up a few notches in its intensity while still maintaining that hold on its melody during the chorus. The three and a half minute mark shifts up the sound and the guitar work comes into the forefront. The guitar work is splendid and really shines bright. The chorus kicks back in to help close out the track in style.
Desert Raiders pour out pure emotion via their new single.
"Heart of the Wasteland" Single Review
The track starts off with a nice riff that builds and sets a nice melodic but heavy tone. The build up with the moody vocals and crunch of the guitars bring to the Deftones in its delivery. Around the minute and a half mark the track finally unleashes its fury upon the listener. The second verse keeps steady and heavy with its melody and crunch. The vocals and instrumentation take a turn and build a more dynamic sound around the three minute mark. The bridge features an eruption of sound along with a dash of Nu Metal. A guitar solo takes the track to new heights to help close things out on an awesome note.
Desert Raiders heave created a spectacular single that sets the Metal world ablaze.
-Interview- (4/4/21)
1. How did you get started with music and how did you develop your sound? Who thought of the name "Desert Raiders" and is there any meaning behind it?
Henrique is the most instructed from the three of us, he has a musical upbringing, his parents are musicians, and he went to the conservatory for years where he pick-up the drums, learned musical theory and a lot of other musical related things, music has always been a part of his life since he was a baby. Daniel B. started by being forced to play the guitar by his father, soon he fell in love with the instrument and he then enrolled in a folklore group to play the guitar. His uncle had a rock band which made Daniel B. even more interested in music and wanting to be in a band, then when he joined forces with Henrique, who he met through mutual friends, he started singing out of necessity. Daniel D. started by playing guitar for fun and when he met Henrique, through a friend, he was invited to a rehearsal as a bassist, something he didn't have nor knew how to play. He got one and started playing, then the band was finally complete. Our sound developed by the juncture of the different musical inspirations of the three of us, the blues and classical rock of Daniel B., the jazz and prog vibes of Henrique and the stoner, nu metal vibes of Daniel D. made the basis of the sound.
The name Desert Raiders was an idea by Daniel B. who at the time was playing the game Rage, a post-apocalyptic Mad Max like videogame. There's no big meaning around it besides sounding cool.
2. What do you want people to take away from your music?
We want mostly to give people a good time. We like to tell stories and we want our music to tell a story, we want people to use our music to escape from reality and experience different worlds...one song might not be a full story, but if you connect a bunch of our songs, a story will appear. Expect us to dabble in some deeper philosophical stuff during our discographic career but we will keep the story telling present has that is one of our objectives.
3. How would you describe your sound to the average listener?
Our sound is a mix of a lot of things, our sound is mostly a mix of prog metal, stoner metal, and nu metal but there's a lot of blues and jazz vibes on our sound. Lyrically we are all inspired by science fiction and post-apocalyptic media, we do like to touch on some other topics like philosophy, psychology, politics and religion usually by creating stories and worlds inspired by those themes. This is the reason why we gave the name of wasteland metal to our sound; we grabbed parts from our favorite genres and blended them together with a post-apocalyptic theme. Giving a name to our sound gives us freedom to keep innovating and changing our sound at will without rubbing some feathers.
4. Who are three bands you'd like to tour with?
That's a hard question…for our decision we are going to choose bands whose fan base would probably be interested in our sound. So…Mastodon, Tool and Breaking Benjamin.
5. How has Covid affected what you do as a band?
Covid has been a mixed bag for us…The pandemic made live shows completely impossible, and the restrictions have been a huge roadblock for us, we haven't been able to go to the studio much which has slowed down our current plans and made rehearsal impossible at times, but not everything has been bad, the pandemic gave us more time to perfect our ideas and it gave us new ones that we have been working on. It has helped us evolve as musicians, and as humans.
6. What's your take on the current state of Metal?
That's a hard question… Metal is getting more and more relevant because of the current world state and the pandemic gave a lot of ideas for music, which has resulted in some amazing albums both from established artist has from newcomers to the scene. On the other hand, Metal is a genre that needs live events, and with covid, that hasn't been possible. Metal is in a very good place but when live shows come back it will be even better, for everyone.
7. What's the current music scene like there in Portugal?
The music scene in Portugal at the moment is dead…covid killed live shows, there's barely any support to culture in general in the country. The only way artists can get revenue is by publishing new music. Besides that, it's impossible to make any type of money, there's no government support and every single venue and bar is closed…it's a really dicey situation. People who do any type of art fulltime are worried with how they are going to pay their bills…things are bad.
8. What's your take on the royalties that streaming services pay out to artists?
Well, it should be higher…It's getting better, and as more streaming services start popping up the better it will become. One of the worst offenders, it's Spotify, it's one of largest music streaming services and the amount they pay to artists is very small…YouTube is even worse, considering they are the biggest streaming service in the WORLD, the royalties the artists get are pretty ridiculous. The revenue from streaming services right now can't be the main revenue from music, it's not a big enough amount to make a life of, they are just a plus. Music on streaming services is more for getting fans than getting money per say, merch and concerts will stay the main money maker for a while.
9. What's next for Desert Raiders?
Our main objective is to keep on launching more music, we would like to launch our first album by the end of the year, we will see if that will be possible or not. We want to get back on stage as soon as possible and starting touring again. Expect news soon.
10. Any shoutouts?
We want to shoutout Luis Bastos aka LustSoul, he is such an amazing person to work with, we recorded our single on his studio and he mastered our songs as well. He is a great artist too if you like soul music check him out. We want to shoutout our families and friends as well, for all the massive love and support that they have been given us, and we would like to shoutout you, From The Depths Entertainment, for seeing potential in us and giving us a hand to help us grow.


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The Tyranny of Extroverts
Topics: Education, Elites
The Tyranny of Extroverts April 19, 2012 | By Robert Joustra
We now live under a kind of extrovert tyranny, says Susan Cain in her new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking. It has led to a culture of "shallow thinking, compulsory optimism, and escalating risk-taking in pursuit of success, narrowly defined." In other words, short-termism continues to win the day as extroverts amplify each other's groundless enthusiasms.
Put aside for the moment that the introvert/extrovert binary is a bit of pop psychology, fraught with reductionist silliness, leaning toward indulgent narcissism. Let's hat tip that awkward context and move straight past it: some folks just find it a lot easier to be out going and extroverted than others. The globalization of (social) media has meant that extroverts who Tweet, self-promote, hop on airplanes, hob-nob and glad hand are a step ahead. We don't have to look much further than the work of politics to know even in today's information age the good ideas aren't always the winners: it's the repetitive, attention grabbing, electable, sexy stuff that holds the day.
Sim City and its Discontents
Superheroes: the Saints of the State
All Hail the Twitterati
There is something utterly banal about this. Extroverts have always had a social upper hand, but the difference today is that that advantage, thanks to a variety of technologies and their simultaneity, now extends to almost every aspect of life. Media scholars make a long point of the fundamental shift in the election of American presidents after the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon debate, where it became necessary for an electable American president to be not only well spoken about important ideas, but photogenic. The television actually changed why we vote for candidates, and those changes were largely in favour of extroverts.
Worse, the always controversial William Pannapacker now says that tyranny has extended to one of the last refuges of the introvert: the academy. The introverted promise of the academy, in Pannapacker's judgment, is erased by pragmatic, extroverted trends in culture. Teaching has naturally always been a part of the job, but the burden of relevance and entertainment has shifted to the professor in a more profound way recently. Intellectuals are now expected to leap into conversations on immediately unfolding events, unprompted, regardless of whether they have anything of substance to contribute or not.
To an introvert, such commentary is not only an exercise in simplicity, it's an exercise in duplicity. Real content, real thought is actually lost. Political, economic, and cultural examples of that loss now abound.
The present day is obsessed with action: let's stop talking and do something, the pragmatist motto runs. And I'm political enough to know not everything can be sussed out before steps, especially urgent steps, need to be taken. But if even the ivory refuge of introverts is yielding its place in the shade to stop and have a good think, if even it must be reduced to bullet points and action items and publishing lists, we may indeed have arrived at a tyranny of extroverts.


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The need for government, organisations and individuals to articulate programmes that would encourage and support kids who are talented in different sports has been emphasised.
Popular actor and member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Elliot, said this would go a long way to making the society a better place.
Mr Elliot, who was at the closing ceremony of this year's Cowbell Football Academy Summer Camp held at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos penultimate Saturday, commended Promasidor for its commitment towards developing young sports talents, calling on other private sector players to emulate the company and show sufficient support to the growth of the country's sports.
The three-week camp, which is sponsored by Cowbell milk, the flagship brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, drew participation from young football talents between 4 and 18 years of age in different parts of Lagos and beyond.
Mr Elliot said Promasidor deserved honour for playing a lead role in the development of football talents through the sponsorship of Cowbell Football Academy.
The lawmaker, representing Surulere 1 constituency at the congress, stated that Nigeria could not grow its sports sector unless it made deliberate attempts to develop its young talents at their tender age.
"We need to realise that government cannot do everything. What is required is an enabling environment to encourage programmes such as Cowbell Football Academy. Initiatives like this do not only encourage young talents but also keep them healthy.
"I encourage other corporate organisations to emulate what Promasidor is doing. The company has been doing this for years. It deserves an award," he said.
Also at the event, Executive Chairman of Lagos State Sports Council, Dr Kweku Tandoh, noted that Nigeria could only leverage the developmental benefits of sports by taking the sector to the grassroots and the schools. He said Cowbell Football Academy had, over the years, demonstrated how young talents could be nurtured.
On his part, former President of the Athletes Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Mr Toni Urhobo, said that Nigeria had not been able to get its sports development right because it failed to pay attention to grassroots development.
"It is at the academy level that we can get the best trainers in sports. Sports is the biggest employer of labour but we must do it right. It is cheaper to invest in local academies than to source ready-made talents abroad. So, we commend Promasidor for its commitment in this regard," Mr Urhobo pointed out.
Founder of Brila FM, Mr Larry Izamoje, also called on the private sector players to support the government in sports development. He said the first 10 years of great talents are crucial to their success.
"Rather than allowing them fall prey to the vices that will destroy them in future, we should focus on catching them young and teach them the right things. What Cowbell Football Academy is currently doing will be harvested by the country in future. It will increase the fortunes of families and boost the country's foreign exchange earnings," Mr Izamoje stressed.
Earlier, Managing Director of Promasidor, Mr Anders Einarsson, had said that the company was committed to the future of Nigeria's youths through the academy and its other youth-targeted corporate social responsibilities.
Mr Einarson, who was represented by the company's Marketing Manager, Mr Abiodun Ayodeji, further said: "When we started the summer camp, our goal was to create a platform that would positively engage the youth during the long holidays and help them see life outside the walls of the school from a stimulating and rewarding perspective. We also wanted to expose the kids to the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, which is part of the brand identities of Cowbell.