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Princess Cruises Announces 2018-2019 Americas Season
Offerings Include the Largest Princess Ship Ever to Sail to Mexico and the California Coast, New Itineraries, More Weekend Departures in the Caribbean, More Getaways from the West Coast, and Longer Port Stays
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (May 22, 2017) – Princess Cruises has announced its 2018-2019 Americas cruise itineraries including sailings to the Caribbean, Panama Canal, Mexico, Hawaii, the California Coast, and Alaska. On sale today, the upcoming season includes 12 ships, sailing to over 70 destinations on more than 40 unique itineraries on 250 departures from six North American homeports.
Four of the 12 ships - Royal Princess, Regal Princess, Caribbean Princess and Island Princess - will be OCEAN Medallion enabled for this fall 2018-spring 2019 season. Guests will experience the highly anticipated, wearable device powered by a first-of-its-kind interactive technology platform within the One Cruise Experience Access Network™ (O·C·E·A·N™), making possible a new level of personalization that delivers an enhanced guest experience not previously available in the global vacation industry.
Americas program highlights of the upcoming 2018-2019 season include:
The debut of Royal Princess on the West Coast as the cruise line's largest ship ever to sail to Mexico.
Two new seven-day Pacific Coast itineraries featuring 7-day roundtrip departures from Seattle along the California Coast and 7-day roundtrip San Francisco to British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.
Largest offering of 5-day Cabo San Lucas Getaways with nine all including overnight stays in the most popular port of Mexico.
An expanded program of our Caribbean 7-day itineraries, now with departures on both Saturdays and Sundays.
Returning season of three ways to see the Panama Canal – from the East Coast, from the West Coast or Ocean to Ocean.
More sailings to Alaska roundtrip from Los Angeles with Ruby Princess and Star Princess both sailing on a 12-day itinerary in April 2019.
MORE ASHORE evening stays will be offered on select itineraries in the Caribbean, California and Hawaii, including Aruba, Curacao, St. Thomas, Cozumel, San Francisco, San Diego, Long Beach and Honolulu - and overnight stays in Cabo San Lucas on the 5- and 10-day voyages from Los Angeles.
UNESCO World Cruise Heritage Site opportunities offered, including the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park in St. Kitts, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from Hilo, Casco Viejo in Panama City and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska.
"Our 2018-19 Americas season brings local cultures and iconic destinations to our guests with award-winning itinerary options from six homeports in the United States," said Jan Swartz, Princess Cruises president. "And, once on board, they can relax and unwind and let our warm and welcoming crew ensure they have an incredible cruise vacation and 'come back new.'"
There are five ships sailing four unique itineraries on over 35 departures to five destinations on five-, seven-, or 10-day voyages from Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Royal Princess debuts sailing from Los Angeles as the largest Princess ship to sail the Mexican Riviera on a series of seven-day Mexican Riviera cruises. The ever-popular Mexican Riviera voyages return, and are available as seven-day cruises from Los Angeles visiting the ports of Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán and Cabo San Lucas, or as 10-day voyages from San Francisco with the added port of Manzanillo.
The 10-day Baja Peninsula & Sea of Cortez cruise returns on Star Princess, sailing from Los Angeles to the ports of La Paz, Loreto, Puerto Vallarta with an overnight stay in Cabo San Lucas.
Princess Cruises is offering more 5-day Cabo San Lucas Getaways than ever which include MORE ASHORE evening stays in Cabo San Lucas on Emerald Princess and Star Princess.
This season offers eight ships, sailing 12 unique itineraries on over 25 departures to more than 10 destinations on voyages of one to 10 days from Seattle, Los Angeles, Vancouver, B.C. and San Francisco.
Royal Princess will sail for the first time along the California Coast from Los Angeles to Vancouver, B.C. on a seven-day Pacific California Coast visiting San Diego, Seattle and San Francisco for a MORE ASHORE evening and overnight.
Ruby Princess sails a brand new seven-day Northern California Coast voyage sailing roundtrip from Seattle with stops in Monterey, Astoria, and MORE ASHORE late evening stays in San Francisco and Victoria, B.C.
Also new for 2018 is a seven-day Pacific Northwest Coast cruise on Grand Princess sailing roundtrip from San Francisco visiting Astoria, Vancouver, B.C. , Victoria, B.C. and a More Ashore late evening stay in Seattle.
The Classic California Coast sailings return with seven-day voyages roundtrip from Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as a 10-day voyage from Vancouver. Star Princess and Emerald Princess will also sail on select four-day West Coast Getaway voyages from Los Angeles including Santa Barbara or Catalina Island as well as Ensenada, Mexico.
MORE ASHORE longer evening stays are featured on every call to San Francisco on these Coastal itineraries.
With five ships sailing 12 unique itineraries on over 120 departures to more than 35 destinations on voyages of seven to 20 days from Ft. Lauderdale and New York, guests can enjoy the best of the Caribbean with Princess Cruises.
The newly renovated Caribbean Princess sails 14-day Circle Caribbean voyages cruising roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale, including visits to Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Aruba, Curacao, Antigua, St. Thomas, Amber Cove and St. Kitts. Guests can choose a special sailing spanning both Christmas and New Year's Day.
Small ship Pacific Princess sails a holiday 14-day Caribbean Connoisseur voyage, visiting islands not typically included on other Caribbean itineraries, for an off-the-beaten path exploration including St. Barthelemy, Iles Des Saintes (maiden call), Grenadines, Tobago, and Virgin Gorda.
Crown Princess returns to the popular 10-day Southern Caribbean Medley and 10-day Eastern Caribbean Voyager which can be combined for a 20-day vacation. Seven-day Eastern Caribbean voyages will be offered on Regal Princess, Royal Princess and Caribbean Princess with the choice of Saturday and Sunday departures. Royal Princess and Caribbean Princess will also offer a new 7-day Caribbean Explorer itinerary on select dates visiting San Juan, Amber Cove, Grand Turk and a stop at our private beach resort Princess Cays.
Regal Princess, Royal Princess and Caribbean Princess will all offer seven-day Western Caribbean voyages departing on Saturday or Sunday all visiting Grand Cayman and Cozumel, with two itinerary options including Roatan and Belize City or Jamaica (Falmouth) and Princess Cays.
Ports of calls with MORE ASHORE evening calls include Barbados, St Thomas, Aruba, St. Maarten and Curacao.
There are four ships sailing seven unique itineraries on more than 35 departures to over 30 destinations on voyages of 10 to 22 days from Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver – offering three ways to see the region – roundtrip from the East Coast, roundtrip from the West Coast, or Ocean to Ocean.
Caribbean Princess and Island Princess both offer a transit through the locks and a day of scenic cruising through Gatun Lake from the Atlantic Ocean roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale on 10-day Panama Canal with Costa Rica & Caribbean voyages. Caribbean Princess will sail via the expanded Agua Clara locks while Island Princess transits the historic Gatun locks.
Coral Princess, Island Princess and Pacific Princess all sail 15-day Panama Canal - Ocean to Ocean cruises with a full transit through all three sets of the historic locks – Gatun, Pedro Miguel and Miraflores Locks.
Coral Princess sails roundtrip from Los Angeles for transits through the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks for a 19-day Panama Canal Pacific Adventure.
Hawaiian Islands and Tahiti
Guests have a choice of four ships, sailing four unique itineraries on over 20 departures to 10 destinations on voyages of 15 or 28 days from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver.
Every 15-day Hawaiian Islands departure includes the four most popular islands - Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the big island of Hawaii, with roundtrip departures from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. Every voyage features a MORE ASHORE evening stay in Honolulu.
Emerald Princess and Star Princess will sail on two 28-day departures to Hawaii, Tahiti & Samoa in fall and spring roundtrip from Los Angeles. Both departures feature MORE ASHORE in Honolulu and Tahiti (Papeete).
Alaska - 12-day Alaska Inside Passage – Roundtrip Los Angeles
Returning due to popular demand, Ruby Princess and Star Princess will sail on 12-day Inside Passage Alaska sailings roundtrip from Los Angeles in April 2019. Port calls include Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, and Victoria, B.C. with scenic cruising of Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Additional information about Princess Cruises is available through a professional travel agent, by calling 1-800-PRINCESS, or by visiting the company's website at princess.com.
About Princess Cruises:
One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess Cruises is a global cruise line and tour company operating a fleet of 18 modern cruise ships renowned for their innovative design and wide array of choices in dining, entertainment and amenities, all provided with the experience of exceptional customer service. A recognized leader in worldwide cruising, Princess carries 2 million guests each year to more than 360 destinations around the globe on more than 150 itineraries ranging in length from three to 111 days. The company is part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE:CUK).
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عنوان انگلیسی Beneficial Effects of Post-biotics on Food Products and its Effect on Human Health: a Critical Review
The human intestinal microbiota is a collection of microorganisms that reside in the gastrointestinal tract and there is a direct link between the presence of beneficial microbiota and the development of immune function, the nervous system and the host metabolic pathways. Probiotics are known to be non-pathogenic microorganisms that, if taken in sufficient amounts, can have health effects. Therefore, consumption of foods or supplements containing post-biotic compounds is one of the most important strategies to balance the microbiota and to improve the health of the host. Evidence suggests that post-biotics do not require survival compared to their parent probiotic cells and can produce health-like effects similar to probiotics. Also, the production and use of post-biotics is safer, more stable and more cost-effective. Post-biotics have biological activity, including immune modulating, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-cancer activity. Clinical studies also confirm the efficacy of probiotics as an effective factor in improving the treatment of a wide range of diseases such as ulcerative colitis, acute infectious diarrhea, antibiotic resistant diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, necrotic enteritis, liver disorders, and gastrointestinal cancers. In this study, a review of the concept of post-biotics and classification of post-biotics has been done based on type and chemical composition and physiological activities and promising effects on prevention or improvement in treatment methods as well as delaying spoilage and increasing shelf life in food products.
کلیدواژه‌های انگلیسی مقاله Functional food,Probiotic,Postbiotic,safety,health
نویسندگان مقاله | Mohadeseh Pirhadi
Department of Environmental Health, Food Safety Division, Faculty of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
| Mahsa Alikord Alikord
| Masoud Aman mohammadi
Student Research Committee, Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Nutrition Science and Food Technology, Nutritional and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| Nabi Shariatifar
Department of Environmental Health, Food Safety Division, Faculty of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
نشانی اینترنتی http://pbp.medilam.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-91-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1
موضوعات مقاله منتشر شده Bioactive Compounds
نوع مقاله منتشر شده کاربردی


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Art Beat sheds some light on the Tamara Kostianovsky exhibit at Fuller Craft Museum
Don Wilkinson
"Floor Burger" is an iconic soft sculpture. Sometimes referred to as "Giant Hamburger," it was constructed by the legendary pop artist Claes Oldenburg in 1962. Made from painted canvas and stuffed with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, it is large enough to serve as a Poconos honeymoon bed. A bright green slice of pickle sits atop it, big enough to be a pillow.
A perfect medium rare pink simulation of a beef burger sits in the middle of a seemingly crispy golden bun. It's wonderfully kitschy and quintessentially "American." It evokes a sense of fun.
The soft sculpture of artist Tamara Kostianovsky is none of those things. It's somber and it deals with subject matter that many Americans prefer not to think about. It evokes a sense of revulsion.
Yet there is a common thread running between Oldenburg and Kostianovsky beyond the use of like media. Oldenburg is about the old school diner and the remembrance of the aroma of a perfect simple happy meal. Kostianovsky is about the industrial abattoir and the knowledge of the stench of a perfectly gutted cow carcass.
In her mid-career survey exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum, Kostianovsky, without flinching, finger-wagging or mercy, reminds visitors that the meat we eat was not created out of whole cloth.
But through her utilization of discarded clothing, upholstery fabric and other materials, imaginatively formed, stitched and dyed, there is no escaping the reality that that tasty burger- or pork tenderloin or lamb chop- was once a part of a living breathing creature.
Kostianovsky's soft sculptures seek to offer "carnal knowledge', but not of the type that Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel sought in the 1971 film of that name. It's about desire but not lust. It is about the want, perhaps the outdated primal need, to consume the flesh of animals.
"Bound" features two not-easily identifiable segments of fabric-meat, best left to the purview and experience of slaughterhouse workers, butchers and five star chefs. The cloth sacks dangle from meathooks, the other end suspended from spikes mounted to the wall.
"Venus" works on a disturbingly visceral level. Using fabric that has been carefully slit, stitched and otherwise manipulated, Kostianovsky manages to suggest torn flesh, the remnants of a rib cage, and a thick line of white fat.
The sculptures displayed go well beyond commentary on the industrial meat production business, as the artist investigates the many-faceted relationships between the body (human and animal), sanctioned violence and the landscape.
In fact, roughly a third of the exhibition are soft-sculpture renderings of segments of trees, no longer lush with life but reduced to stumps, branches and sticks. Produced with pastel colored fabrics, there is a series of "slices", mounted to the wall and plays with the idea of counting the rings, that signify the age of the tree prior to its felling.
It connects back to the meat business, and suggests the wide scale deforestation that occurs across the globe in order to increase cattle grazing ground in an attempt to satisfy the insatiable consumption of beef.
The deforestation leads to the displacement and or/deaths of millions of avian species as well. Part of Kostianovsky's exhibition depicts geese, pheasants and other game birds, done with her faux taxidermy, trussed up and hanging from hooks or a coarse length of rope. All in all, it feels somewhat apocalyptic.
Kostianovsky's work is thought-provoking, mildly shocking and exquisite. Certainly see it. And that night, you might feel the need to just have a nice three bean salad.
"Tamara Kostianovsky: Savage Legacy" is on display at the Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton until Aug. 22.


Federal Court throws out N.C. congressional map before election….
A federal court struck down North Carolina's congressional map Monday, calling it an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and throwing the state's House elections into uncertainty just 10 weeks before Election Day.
It is unusual for courts to throw out a political map so close to an election — but district court judges wrote that the case "presents unusual circumstances." The Supreme Court vacated a similar decision earlier this year, ordering the district court to retry the case in the wake of the Supreme Court's Gill v. Whitford ruling.
A three-judge panel ultimately returned the same decision, finding that Republican state legislators had violated the First Amendment and the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when they drew congressional lines that favored their party. Ten of the state's 13 House districts are held by Republicans, despite the state's political competitiveness…..


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UN: Russian forces killed hundreds of civilians early in Ukraine war
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In the early days of the war, Russian forces were responsible for the vast majority of rights violations including the death of more than 400 civilians, a new report by the United Nations says.
Ukrainian children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko was killed by the Russian troops during the Russian occupation of Izium in the Kharkiv region. (AP)
Russian forces have killed at least 441 civilians in the early days of Moscow's incursion into Ukraine, the United Nations human rights office said, documenting attacks in dozens of towns and summary executions that it said might be war crimes.
The actual number of victims in the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions was likely to be much higher, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a report on Wednesday looking into the war's start on February 24 until early April, when Russian forces withdrew from the three areas.
"The acts in question were committed by Russian armed forces in control of these areas and led to the deaths of 441 civilians (341 men, 72 women, 20 boys and 8 girls)," the report said.
"There are strong indications that the summary executions documented in the report constitute the war crime of wilful killing," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement.
Through the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), OHCHR gathered evidence from 102 towns and villages.
The Russian foreign and defence ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
READ MORE: About 13000 Ukraine soldiers killed in war with Russia
Documented rights violations
Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in what it calls a "special military operation" to disarm its neighbour and remove dangerous nationalists from power. Ukraine and its Western allies call the attack an unprovoked land grab.
Overall in the war through December 4, the OHCHR said it had counted 6,702 civilian deaths, and that its monitoring includes violations by all parties.
The scope of the new report was limited to the Russian-controlled areas during the first days of the fighting because of "the prevalence of allegations of killings of civilians in these three regions", and OHCHR's ability to verify and document deaths thereafter Russian forces pulled out.
A UN commission concluded in October that Russian forces were responsible for the vast majority of rights violations in the early days of the war.
Many of the bodies documented in the new report bore signs that the victims might have been intentionally killed, the report found.
As of the end of October, OHCHR was still trying to corroborate an additional 198 alleged killings of civilians in the three regions at the time.
Some areas took the brunt of the killings, the report found, such as the town of Bucha near the capital Kiev, which was under the control of Russian troops from March 5 until March 30.
OHCHR said it had documented the killings of 73 civilians in Bucha and was in the process of corroborating another 105 cases.
READ MORE: Multiple fatalities after attack on civilian convoy in south Ukraine
Summary executions
A stated objective of the report is to help victims by documenting the casualties and trying to bring perpetrators to justice. It analysed 100 of the killings in detail.
It classified 57 of those as summary executions, 30 of which were of people in detention, while 27 were victims executed on the spot.
In the other 43 cases, civilians were killed while moving within or between settlements on foot or by bicycle, car or van.
"Most victims were targeted while commuting to work, delivering food to others, visiting neighbours or relatives, or while attempting to flee the hostilities," it said.
READ MORE: Russian shelling leaves over a dozen dead in Ukraine's Kharkiv
Source: TRTWorld and agencies
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Posted on June 29, 2018 by Delaware Gazette
Voting machine bill goes to Kasich
Delaware County Board of Elections team members set up 100 voting machines at a time for testing and loading of ballots before each election cycle. The bipartisan team is composed of one Republican and one Democratic who work together making sure the machines are ready for election day. Pictured working diligently to make sure the county has a fair and honest election are, left to right, Richard Helwig, John Rybke, Terri Cramlet and Christina Voise.
D. Anthony Botkin | The Gazette
An Ohio Senate bill giving the secretary of state the authority to request up to $114.5 million in state funds for the individual counties to upgrade to the next generation of voting equipment only waits on Governor John Kasich's signature to become law.
The timing of the funds is advanced enough to allow counties the chance to have personnel trained and the bugs worked before the 2020 presidential election.
Senate Bill 135, sponsored by Senator Frank LaRose (R-Hudson), received concurrence Wednesday from the Senate after passing the House Thursday, June 7 with a vote of 87-0. The bill was co-sponsored by both Delaware County representatives Rick Carfagna, R-Genoa Township (68th District) and Andrew Brenner, R-Powell (67th District).
The bill, introduced in the Senate, was passed by Senators 32-1 on April 11. The single vote against the bill was cast by Sen. Kris Jordan, R-Ostrander.
"With today's concurrence vote in the Ohio Senate, Senate Bill 135 has cleared its final legislative checkpoint and is now headed for the Governor's desk. I commend Senate President Obhof, Speaker Smith, and Senator LaRose for their leadership on this matter and for working to ensure that Ohio's 88 counties have new election technology in place well ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election," said Secretary of State Jon Husted Wednesday after the concurrence was granted by the Senate.
"I look forward to working with the county boards to purchase and implement new voting machines once the Governor signs this legislation," Husted added.
The bill authorizes the secretary of state the ability to request up to $104.5 million in funds from the state's Office of Budget and Management for reimbursement to counties who purchase election equipment. Each county will be given a base amount pending on the total number of registered voters to help with the cost of the new equipment.
The bill's formula for allocations to the counties: 0-19,999 registered voters will be given the base amount of $205,000; those with 20,000-99,999 registered voters will be given the base amount of $250,000; counties with 100,000 or more registered voters will be given $406,000.
The bill also allows the appropriation of up to $10 million from the state's general revenue fund for reimbursement to counties who had purchased or leased equipment after Jan. 1, 2014 and doesn't exceed the county's set allocation.
According to the Ohio Legislative Service Commission's Bill Analysis, once the base allocations are distributed among the counties, the remainder of the $104.5 million is to be divided up by the secretary of state and distributed to the counties.
"If the secretary disbursed $30 million to counties in the form of base allocations, the Secretary could divide the remaining $74.5 million in authorized obligation proceeds by the number of registered voters in the state as of July 1, 2017, to determine a per-voter amount. The Secretary then could allocate an amount to each county equal to the number of registered voters in the county times the per-voter amount," as stated in the analysis.
Delaware County Board of Elections Karla Herron, director, has stated recently that the county currently has approximately 138,000 registered voters, which would allow for the base allotment of $406,000 for the purchase of new machines in Delaware County.
However, Herron gives an estimate of $4 million to replace the board's machines. She said the board is looking at two companies approved by the state to purchase machines from.
"Both voting machine companies said they will offer the best and lowest price across the board," she said. "The companies we are looking at are Election Systems and Software, and RBM who have a hybrid touch screen close to what we currently have."
Herron said there has been a lot of work put in over the last five years looking at upgrading machines. She said concerns have grown over the current machines that were "deployed during the 2006 midterm primary elections."
"There are points of failure starting to happen," she reported to the board of elections in May 2017. "They're not making the current machines, and we can only get refurbished machines."
Herron said the machines were purchased with federal dollars through the Help America Vote Act in 2005 at a cost of $115 million and that the board has plans to replace all of the old machines.
https://www.delgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2018/06/web1_DSC_1161.jpgDelaware County Board of Elections team members set up 100 voting machines at a time for testing and loading of ballots before each election cycle. The bipartisan team is composed of one Republican and one Democratic who work together making sure the machines are ready for election day. Pictured working diligently to make sure the county has a fair and honest election are, left to right, Richard Helwig, John Rybke, Terri Cramlet and Christina Voise. D. Anthony Botkin | The Gazette
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Candy Cigarette, 1989 from the series Immediate Family © Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian gallery
Sensitive, thoughtful, intense, pragmatic, rebellious and tranquil, may be some of the words associated with photographical genius Sally Mann especially after visiting her debut solo-exhibition, 'The Family and the Land' at The Photographers' Gallery.
Sally Mann is not only an amazingly strong, intelligent and quick witted woman she also possesses a flourishing and long spanning career as an American photographer whose style is of an almost socio-documentary capacity. Mann draws on the world around her, focusing on inspiring moments in the family and the broad landscape all captured over the period of three decades from 1984-2005.
The well-known notion, 'Family is where the heart is', quite literally is brought to life with Mann's innocent portrayals of her three children – Emmett, Jessie and Virginia. Large, close-up portraits of her children's faces that form part of the series entitled 'What Remains' – almost a commemoration of the living – occupy the ground floor of the gallery. The process of using a long exposure combined with the archaic wet-collodion techniques (an early photography method using a glass plate coated with chemicals) aids the desired speckled and 'flawed' surface that Mann is so fond of.
Journey on up, and one not to miss, is the continual video on the landing, 'What Remains: The life and Work of Sally Mann'. Yes, possibly 80mins is a long time to perch on chairs but the film is an insightful look into Sally Mann's home surroundings and it is utterly riveting to witness Mann immersed in the thoroughness of what she loves, her family and her work.
Gallery 2 showcases Mann's most prominent work, 'Immediate Family (1984–94)' which not only attracted a lot of speculation and criticism at the time due to the raw and unedited nature of the exposure of her children naked or partially naked yet also propelled her to international acclaim. Mann managed to encapsulate all the fun and frivolity attached to childhood showing the three siblings playing and swimming in the surrounds of their farmhouse in Lexington, Virginia. The close relationship between mother and child is fascinating and emotionally enables you to transport yourself to a time once lost. Mann followed 'Immediate Family' by focusing on the land itself in her series 'Deep South (1996–98)'. Exploring natural forms, she discovered an old tree with protruding roots twisting across the barren floor almost creating the illusions of bones harking metaphorically back to the American Civil War. Using antique cameras and processes the imperfections accentuates the sense of age creating a hauntingly beautiful depiction of the world post war.
It is the stories behind Mann's continual inspiration for her projects that anchors all the meaning of her work. After an unexpected police chase unraveled onto the families deep South homestead, Mann began to explore the taboo subject of death and what remains when we are gone. This concept led her to visit the Forensic Anthropology Center in Tennessee, where human decomposition is studied in a variety of outdoor settings in order to asses and photograph the course by which a body is absorbed into the land. Initially the subject in question would sound quite shocking yet Mann as always approaches her subjects in a dignified and sensitive manner and in fact produces images which are an unusually captivating education, encouraging us to reflect upon our own mortality and place within nature's order.
Although the flow of the exhibition is somewhat interrupted with the few flights of stairs in-between the prospect of what is to come for next autumn from The Photographers' Gallery is one of promise. With a complete renovation of their newly relocated central site in Ramillies Street, renowned architects O'Donnell & Tuomey are let loose on the space and the final unveiling will be in 2011.
Sally Mann: The Family and the Land is now in its last few weeks so if you haven't seen it…
The Photographers' Gallery, 16 – 18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Open Tuesday – Sunday
18 June – 19 September 2010
Words by Zara King
Scarred Tree, 1996 from the series Deep South © Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian gallery
At Warm Springs, 1991 from the series Immediate Family © Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian gallery
Virginia #42, 2004 from the series Faces © Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian gallery
Charity auction for The Photographers' Gallery
To coincide with The Photographers' Gallery's 40th anniversary, they are holding a Charity Auction. Prints by Helmut Newton, Corinne Day, Martin Parr, Sally Mann
James Turrell at the Gagosian Gallery
James Turrell's explorations of the myriad possibilities of using light as a medium of perception is legendary. At the Gagosian Gallery until the 10th December
Damien Hirst | The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011
The Gagosian Gallery opens a worldwide exhibition of 25 years of spot paintings by Damien Hirst in NYC, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva and Hong Kong
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HomeEconomyIndia gives in to US pressure, fully stops import of Iran oil
India gives in to US pressure, fully stops import of Iran oil
Indian decision comes amid pressure from the Trump administration, which had called on India and 7 other countries to stop the import of Iranian crude.
Nayanima Basu
Mahua Venkatesh
9 May, 2019 06:03 pm IST
Although Iran is a key ally for India, it has reduced oil imports significantly over the past few years | Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg
New Delhi: India has completely stopped the import of oil from Iran under pressure from the US, multiple sources have told ThePrint. New Delhi is, however, negotiating with Washington to allow it to procure pending shipments for which contracts have already been signed with Iran.
India's decision is in adherence with a directive from the Trump administration, which called for New Delhi to end to all its import of crude and petroleum products from Tehran.
India and seven other countries that rely on Iran for their energy needs were granted a six-month waiver by the US last November after Washington walked out of the nuclear deal and imposed multiple sanctions on the Rouhani regime, particularly over crude exports that are the mainstay of the Iranian economy.
The deadline for the so-called waiver, also called the Significant Reduction Exemption (SRE), expired on 2 May, according to official sources.
"We have some slack for shipments on the high seas or where contracts were already concluded for offtake, so we are negotiating with the US to at least allow those to go through," said an official who is involved in the talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official said the discussions are going on with the US government but nothing positive has yet come out of the talks.
According to another official from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, however, India is hopeful that the existing contracts and orders that were already placed with Iran will not be halted.
While Iran, which continues to rely on oil sales to run its economy, has been under sanctions for several years, India has always found a way to manoeuvre around them. This, however, is the first time that India has completely stopped procuring oil from the country, sources added.
Also read: Iran steps away from parts of 2015 nuclear deal
Oil on the way
Sources said that at present, two vessels loaded in April with 4 million barrels of crude from Iran are expected to reach India this month. Of these, one is expected to reach the Paradip port in Odisha and the other Kochi in Kerala.
The official from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas added that India had been taking steps to reduce its imports from Iran since the US walked out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
New Delhi has considerably reduced its oil imports from Iran over the last six months.
India has been Iran's second largest customer after China. New Delhi imports 80 per cent of its crude oil requirements and Iran accounts for 13 per cent of these imports, according to the oil ministry.
But between January and April this year, crude imports from Iran have gone down by over 40 per cent. In April, India's imports from Iran dropped by 57 per cent compared to the corresponding month in the previous year, according to data by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCIS).
Consumption, however, is rising. In 2018-19, India's total oil consumption was 211.6 million metric tonnes compared to 206.2 MMT in the previous year — an increase of 2.7 per cent, according to official data.
US to 'make up' for Iran
While the Modi government has downplayed the adverse impact of its decision of not procuring oil from Iran, sources said this will impact supplies going forward.
Sources added that the US is taking all steps to make up for the supply shortage that India may face due to the absence of Iranian oil. The US is now pushing India to increase its purchase of shale oil.
This was among the main agenda for which Alice Wells, US principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, visited India last month before the waiver expired. Washington is presently also undertaking measures to keep the international prices of crude under control.
India, meanwhile, is also looking at Saudi Arabia and UAE to come to its rescue.
There appears to be some positive news on that front. "We have always assured India that UAE is ready to cover any shortfall in its oil imports," UAE Ambassador to India, Ahmed Al Banna, told ThePrint. "We have stood beside them in the past as well when there were embargos on Iran. We are working with our Indian partners closely."
According to oil ministry data, Iraq is the top supplier of crude to India followed by Saudi Arabia. Iran remains the third largest supplier of oil despite a reduction in inbound shipment. Besides these three, UAE and Venezuela have also supplied a large chunk of India's crude requirements.
Sources said an increased amount of imports are likely from Saudi Arabia from June. But the quantum has not been decided yet as all these issues will be clearer once a new government takes charge.
Also read: Inside India's barrel of concerns: US sanctions, alternative to Iran oil and good old ties
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Rohit Chandavarker 9 May, 2019 At 7:03 pm
The complete halt to Iranian oil imports was expected. Though India has been assured of alternate sources, the loss will be felt due to favourable terms on Iranian oil imports. One presumes that India negotiated a deal with US over the operations of Chabahar port since there is no fallout yet over Chabahar. One believes that when the INSTEX payments system of the EU becomes operational, India could restart imports. Another key gamechanger would be the creation of buyers club. China's representative had visited Delhi last month on this issue. Were a buyers group created, the entire oil scenario could drastically change with OPEC losing its stranglehold over oil. Hence, one hopes this disruption is transient.
ashok 9 May, 2019 At 6:21 pm
It will not end with banning the export of Iranian oil. The United States is spoiling for war, no more justified than the invasion of Iraq. President Xi spoke to King Salman, who sometimes overrides his impetuous son's hasty decisions. Trying to deal with the malaise at source. Perhaps India could speak to " Friend Bibi ". The looming conflict would hurt India very deeply, starting with the disruption of the oil market, already near $80.
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DJ Mark Brickman has a passion for deep, soulful house music. Influenced by the early sounds of Danny Tenaglia and local Miami – South Beach residents, Mark produced his first mixed compilation entitled Essential South Beach back in 2001. After almost 12 years, the Essential South Beach (ESB) mixes are heard by approximately 10,000 subscribers globally.
In 2003, Mark Brickman held residences at the Hotel Astor and Pearl Lounge in South Beach , as well as the Uber popular Rumi Lounge. He also traveled extensively throughout Florida, San Juan, PR and the Midwestern United States where he played alongside Miami trance DJ, Edgar V. In 2011 Mark Brickman began producing original cuts and remixes on Independent Label : RaMBunktious Records (Miami) which he co-founded.
2013 has been a stellar year for DJ Mark Brickman. Numerous singles have seen top 40 chart positions in Music Week magazine and DMC Magazines "Buzz Chart". Re mixers have included: Sonny Wharton (Skint, Whartone), Juan Kidd (Defected, Toolroom, Weirdo), So Called Scumbags (Skint, Grin), Jay-J (Shifted) and numerous others. After 12 years of spinning and creating house music, this veteran DJ and producer shows no signs of stopping.
Currently, DJ Mark Brickman spends his time in Miami Beach.


He's mostly known for his defensive exploits. In fact, if you had to choose the crowning individual moment of his career, you'd probably have to say it was handling Dwight Howard so effectively in last season's playoffs.
So how, then, is Kendrick Perkins the fourth-best shooter in Celtics' history? That's right, the "offensively challenged" Perkins is not the fourth-best shooter on this year's team, or the fourth-best shooter in his immediate family, or the fourth-best shooter who scowls 450 times per game, but the fourth-best shooter in the entire history of the proud Boston Celtics franchise.
Perkins, now fourth in the NBA with a .644 shooting percentage, has a career .550 field-goal percentage that is fourth in Celtics history, trailing only Cedric Maxwell (.559), Kevin McHale (.554) and Parish (.552).
With Tuesday's 21-point, 9-for-10 performance, his high water mark for the season, Perkins has shot 33-for-41 over his last six games.
First off, let me say that Perkins is first in the NBA with his .644 shooting percentage, not fourth. Now that doing my second job as editor of the Herald is over, let me explain how Perk, despite entering the league with all the offensive talent of DeSagana Diop, has managed to become such an efficient scorer.
The most important reason is Perk's willingness to do the dirty work. A lot of players, especially straight-out-of-high-school players like Perk, come into the NBA thinking they are going to light the league on fire, and try to do a lot more than they're capable of.
Not Perk. Just about from day one, he's been content to handle his role of rebounding and defending. He realized that he isn't the most gifted scorer ever -- not as talented as his former teammate Al Jefferson, for instance -- and decided to focus on the other aspects of the game, the parts he was better suited for. Showing maturation far beyond his years, Perk settled into his niche as a low-post presence who didn't need the ball in his hands to be effective.
Surprisingly, it was Perk's willingness to focus on the other aspects of his game that allowed him to be such an efficient scorer. For the first several years of his career, Perk never forced the issue down low, only looking to score when A) he had a mismatch, or B) he was so wide open and so close to the basket he had no choice. Otherwise, Perkins was fine with letting his more skilled teammates do the scoring, while he focused on the other, sometimes more important, areas of the game.
Along the lines of Perk's work ethic, here's my favorite Perk story ever: After Perkins got married this summer, he declined a honeymoon because he didn't want to miss any more workouts. (Note: It's actually true.) Can you imagine telling your new wife, "Sorry, honey, but I have decided against a honeymoon. I know you have probably looked forward to your honeymoon your whole life, but I'd rather lift weights and practice my jump hooks."? I know I can't. I'm sorry guys, but if I were an NBA player getting married, I'd still be going on my honeymoon. My training regimen could wait a few days.
But Perk thought differently. He just wanted to get back to work, back to honing his craft. He's worked on his game every year he's been in the league and, while he's still more than willing to do the dirty work, Perk is now capable of being the C's leading scorer on some nights. He won't remind anybody of Kareem in the post -- and, in Boston, that might be a good thing -- but Perk understands his abilities and gets the most out of them.
Do you want to know something funny about Perk being the fourth-best shooter in C's history?
He's probably more proud of the job he did on Dwight Howard.


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This dream made me feel disgusting. I was in the shop I work at and my boss wass exually harrassing me. He handed me a handful of cash, my paycheck, and grabbed my arm and very quietly asked me if it was all there, or if I noticed anything missing. I said no, it was the amount it was supposed to be. Then he accused me of stealing from him and that he was going to be contacting me via his lawyer.
It was my real boss, and so vivid and realistic. The strange thing is, I have worked at my job for 9 years and my boss loves me. We have a great relationship, that I always interpreted as father-daughter. Recently, a new woman manager has started working there (within the last three years) and she has been telling me that he is a pervert and yadda yadda, so that has been onmy mind severely lately.
We were then transported into a court room, and I was screaming at the top of my lungs at him until I was shaking and crying. Then, I continued to scream but no sound was coming out of my mouth. He was sitting there silently, not looking at me. The woman manager was sitting next to me, staring and not saying a word. Then I woke up. I felt like it had all happened. I feared going into work that day.
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Jeunesse® Honored as Company of the Year in 8th Annual Golden Bridge Awards®
Por: Latinowire | 12 de Octubre 2016
LAKE MARY, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#jeunesse–Global youth enhancement company Jeunesse has recently been
selected as Company of the Year in the Consumer Products sector of the
2016 Golden Bridge Awards, receiving the prestigious Gold award.
The coveted Golden Bridge Awards program was created to recognize the
achievements and positive contributions of organizations and businesses
worldwide in every area. This annual business awards program honors the
best companies of all types and sizes in North America, Europe, the
Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America, as well as the best
products, innovations, management teams, women in business, and PR and
marketing campaigns. Organizations from around the globe are eligible to
submit nominations, including public and private, for-profit and
non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups.
Jeunesse Chief Visionary Officer, Scott Lewis commented, "It's an honor
to be named the consumer products Company of the Year by the Golden
Bridge Awards. It's been an amazing year in which Jeunesse has achieved
several important milestones. As we embark on our eighth year of
business, I am more excited than ever about what the future holds for
the company and the thousands of Distributors, customers and employees
that make up the global Jeunesse family."
Jeunesse received this important award after a year in which the company
reached a milestone $1 billion in annual sales, expanded operations to
include 4 of the top 5 direct selling markets worldwide and received
numerous accolades for company operations, executive management and
marketing efforts – including being ranked #481 on the Inc. 500 list of
fastest-growing companies in America. This award marks the seventh
Company of the Year award Jeunesse has garnered in as many years of
A complete list of Golden Bridge Awards winners is available at goldenbridgeawards.com/world/.
About Jeunesse
Jeunesse is a global direct selling company with a mission to positively
impact the world by helping people look and feel young, while empowering
them to unleash their potential. The company's exclusive skin care and
nutritional products form a comprehensive Youth Enhancement System. With
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New restaurants are popping up all over Las Cruces, it seems.
If you've been a fan of the Pepe's Chicken eateries in El Paso, you'll be glad to learn that they've finally established an outpost in Las Cruces, at 2300 N. Main St., at the corner of Main and Madrid.
Another area chain that's reached Las Cruces is Dion's Pizza. The Albuquerque-based pizzeria has opened at 3890 E. Lohman Ave.
Also branching out is El Paisano, the cafe and gift shop at 2521 Avenida de Mesilla, which has opened a second location at 16151 US Hwy. 70.
The busy East Lohman Avenue area we mentioned just a minute ago is also newly home to Villa Crema, a dessert and gelato place at 2331-B E. Lohman, and will soon be the site of another Lorenzo's, at 3911 E. Lohman, dubbed Lorenzo's Avanti.
Then there's the new Lohman Delimex, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily at 605 E. Lohman.
Not on Lohman but nonetheless new are Pepe's restaurant (no relation to Pepe's Chicken), 1405 W. Picacho, and Stimulations Espresso, 1001 E. University, near Kinko's (sorry, FedEx Kinko's).
Come December, look for Mariscos Cancun Mexican Seafood to open at 504 E. Amador Ave., formerly the site of a Chinese restaurant.
Si Italian Bistro, which we tantalized you with word of last time, is now open at 523 E. Idaho. We promise to visit and return with a full review for the February "Red or Green?," but in the meantime the buzz we hear is quite good.
On the minus side, the .com Cyber Cafe has, er, gone offline.
In Silver City, meanwhile, Shevek & Mi, 602 N. Bullard, has completely changed its menu to offer different portion sizes and more food-and-wine pairings. We try not to miss their frequent prix-fixe wine-and-food extravaganzas, so if this is anything like that—but every night!—count us in.
Tejas Barbecue, which we reviewed back in May, has abruptly closed its doors.
The Orchid Cafe at Cienega Spa, 101 N. Cooper St., is now serving lunch as well as dinner, as promised in our review in the August Desert Exposure.


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Wednesday, 10 July, 2019, 13 : 15 PM [IST]
Thomas Cook says its open to new investments
According to Business Standard (BS), Thomas Cook India has said its funds position is strong and it is not impacted by the recent challenges in the aviation sector. The company said it's bullish about its travel and foreign exchange business and is open to new investments.
The tour operator issued a statement on Tuesday in the backdrop of financial crisis faced by rival firm Cox & Kings. Thomas Cook's stock has slipped 16 per cent from the start of the month and ended at INR 193.60 on BSE on Tuesday.
Madhavan Menon, Chairman, Thomas Cook India said the company had cash and bank balance of INR 1,058 crore on a consolidated basis as on March 31. He said the company is debt free on a standalone basis having prepaid its INR 67 crore of debentures, is seeing healthy booking growth and a turnaround in its destination management business.
"Our travel businesses have negative working capital and therefore do not require any external funding. We have witnessed a turnaround of our international destination management specialist companies during FY 2019. Additionally, during FY 2020, contribution to the profitability is expected from our recent acquisitions including Digiphoto Entertainment Imaging (DEI). Our forward booking position reflects a healthy increase of over 12 per cent," he said.
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MICROWAVE TORTURE OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE TODAY WORLD WIDE ARE BEING DISMISSED AS DELUSIONAL
As I have been writing for years this is happening to me . They keep me up all night and only let me sleep during the day to say that we are not of the day (scriptural) but of the night <--- Catholic/Chaldean church's War on drugs fraud ...it's people who do drugs and this war is a free ticket to kill all of the true believers in Jesus again as they have openly stated people die in Wars.
THIS DEVICE IS BEING INSTALLED INTO THE HUMAN BODY ATTACKED BESIDE THE BOWELS AND EMANATING FREQUENCIES THAT BURN THE VICTIMS CONTINUALLY AND CAN KILL A PERSON LEAVING NO TRACES, BUT THE PHYSICAL DEVICE, THAT THERE WAS A CRIME COMMITTED. THIS IS THE WAR ON ALL GOD'S CHILDREN TODAY CALLED THE WAR ON DRUGS WHICH WAS CALLED THE SPANISH INQUISITION WHICH SAW 50 MILLION (DOCUMENTED) AND UP TO 100 MILLION (UNDOCUMENTED) BIBLE BELIEVING CHRISTIANS KILLED BY THE POPES (PAPACY) AS THEY DEVISED THE TORTURE AND MASS MURDER AND AGAIN THEY ARE TORTURING US AS THIS IS BEING DONE TO ME (THE WEB MASTER FOR ABBASWATCHMAN.COM) BECAUSE I TRIED TO EXPOSE A MASSIVE CRIME AGAINST CANADA'S SATELLITE INDUSTRY.
This device is placed near the bowels of the victim today and is very hard to detect that the frequencies are coming form inside the body and not from outside the body as this person has suggested ... as in they are following me . They are not ! Paranoia is their best weapon to control people = Microwave (frequency) Mind control ! Our entire body is controlled through thoughts through frequencies that have been mapped called E.E.G. technologies and these Microwave frequencies come with radiation also known as WIFI radiation <-frequencies . If you lower a persons immune system you can totally control them.
Microwave torture, war crime against targeted individuals and inmates.
The lethal laser gun, a "People Cooker" used to torture and kill innocent Iraqis and innocent Targeted Individuals is now ready to aim at Los Angeles inmates, 75% of whom have committed no crime. ACLU of Southern California sent a letter to Sheriff Baca and asks the public to join it in demanding that the "Pain Ray Gun" will not be used in country jails, raising questions about why ACLU has not filed suit for planned torture and war crimes using the weapon. This weapon is lethal and is a torture weapon according to ACLU, although given the misnomer, "Non-lethal weapon."
Los Angeles County Jail is to be first of U.S. prisons to use the Assault Intervention Device (A.I.D.), a 7 ½ foot tall military grade weapon to microwave inmates, what Los Angeles Truth Movement head, Chuck Noyes identifies as a war crime. This is one of many new weapons that can be used to torture and kill Americans in Obama's authorized targeted killings of Americans program. (See: Directed Energy Weapons aimed at American targets: Learning opportunity, Examiner)
This and similar weaponry causing "intolerable heat" are used remotely on many Targeted Individuals (TIs) who have alleged for years that they are being tortured with remote weaponry, their reports dismissed by family and professionals, including their local police, most of whom call he victims "delusional."
An estimated hundreds of thousands of innocent American civilians are collateral damage in the U.S. led so-called "war on terrorism," actually a war of terror against innocent men, women and children, including America's "greatest people," Most of these targets are not in traditional prisons but suffer crippling and deadly effects of the well-hidden form of state-sponsored terrorism and targeted killings sweeping American communities, invading homes as invisible prisons targeted with high-tech weaponry. Interconnected contracted extremists keep targets under covert surveillance and assault them with weapons including Directed Energy Weapons and psychological warfare. (See: Targeted man wants investigation of corrupt 'security' program and hi-tech weapons)
Th Pain Ray is only one among an arsenal of the most feared, controversial and best hidden weapons of modern age. They are designed to incapacitate, torture and assassinate. From the Netherlands, Peter Mooring, who reports on human rights violations of the secret service and calls the new weapon a "People Cooker, writes:
Probably the most horrible consequence of these (electronic) weapons based on radio waves is that you can NOT protect yourself, your children, your loved ones anymore. You can no longer say: stay in this room, you are safe here. Attackers simply look and cook/burn through walls, with intensities that can be deadly. Police cannot protect you, security services cannot protect you. That is why these weapons must be banned, not tomorrow but NOW .
The ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) have filed a lawsuit challenging government's asserted authority for "targeted killings" of U.S. citizens far from armed conflict zones.
Why is ACLU not filing another lawsuit against Raytheon and the government for planning to commit torture and war crimes with military grade weaponry? asked Los Angeles Truth Movement coordinator, Chuck Noyes.
Noyes stated this morning, "ACLU should be filing a lawsuit against the companies and government agencies involved because this is a war crime, a military grade weapon used on Americans."
The ACLU Southern California attorney was unable to immediately answer the writer's call about this.
After the Los Angeles 911 event, Noyes plans to start "No Fry Zone," a new campaign to ban energy weapons.
ACLU of Southern California's letter to Sheriff Baca demands assurance that he will never use the high power microwave device against the inmates of Los Angeles County Jails – of whom 70% have not been convicted of a crime but are there awaiting trial or other procedures.
The public is urged to join ACLU/SC in asking Sheriff Baca not to deploy this military weapon intended to cause intolerable pain — and capable of causing lethal injury when used for crowd control — against jail inmates.
Sheriff Lee Baca unveiled this giant robot-like device noting that it will "allow us to quickly intervene without having to enter the area and without incapacitating or injuring either combatant."
Not true says the ACLU/SC Take Action Team:
"While this "Pain Ray" device was being tested by the Air Force, a miscalibration of its power settings caused five airmen in its path to suffer lasting burns, including one whose injuries were so severe that he was airlifted to an off-base burn treatment center.
"It is all the more disturbing that the use of the Pain Ray is being entrusted to the deputies of L.A. County Jail, with its long-troubled history of deputy violence, retaliation and abuse against inmates.
The ray gun shoots blasts of heat energy at prisoners that penetrate beneath the skin to the pain receptacles reports Times NewsFeed.
ACLU attorney told Associated Press that the device is "a weapon that can cause serious injury that is being put into a place where there is a long history of abuse of prisoners."
On September 2, 2010, Dupré reported:
"Since the 2001 September 11 attacks and Bush's so-called "war on terror," there was a soar in number of Targeted Individuals reporting covert assaults by black operatives, thugs, extremist cells, "stalkers." Some TIs are reporting assaults with remotely applied, military grade, lethal weaponry. These reports have been from both overseas and U.S. self-identified targets. In early August, Sharon Weinberger explained the reason for the escalated reports:
"After the attacks of September 11, the Pentagon began a shift away from its late Cold War–era 'two-war strategy,' premised on maintaining the ability to conduct two major military operations simultaneously, and began to focus instead on irregular warfare against individuals and groups." (Emphasis added; Sharon Weinberger, Black Ops: Secret Military Technology in the Age of Terrorism, August 3, 2010)"
In an exclusive interview with Targeted Individual, Robert Wood, he told the writer, "I'm not a criminal. I'm not a terrorist. I've been charged with no crime, nor am I connected to anyone who is, to my knowledge....Considering severity of these crimes, it's a wonder anyone survives at all. There is almost complete secrecy surrounding this horrendous situation." (See: Dupre, D. Human Target, Examiner, January 29, 2010)
Following that interview, Targeted Individuals from the U.S. and abroad sent a steady stream of comments and emails conveying the same that Robin Webster wrote, "Exactly. Almost word for word what has happened to me. Excellent article because it captures the both the horror and the process that a TI goes through as they gradually awake to a destiny not of their choosing."
In February, the writer reported on the The High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office co-sponsoring the partially secret 2010 Directed Energy Professional Society Directed Energy Symposium in Monterrey, California, some of which was held behind closed doors. (See: Directed Energy Weapons aimed at American targets: Learning opportunity)
Until the recent lawsuit that CCR and ACLU filed, challenging Obama's targeted killings authority, innocent civilians on the government hit-list had been publicly unrecognized by major organizations, health workers and media. (See: Dupre, D. APA's CIA torture complicity. Is American ready for the whole truth?, Examiner, August 14, 2010)
Each passing week, TIs consistently reporting remotely applied weaponry burn marks on their person and belongings plus psychological war weapon effects, appear less "delusional" than those re-victimizing them with such name-calling, even institutionalizing some of them, without investigating high-tech weaponry effects and the government programs designed to persecute, torture and kill them.
If the reader knows a Targeted Individual, rather than shun or possibly even follow secret orders against the person, the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Human Rights, reach out to hold his or her hand, listen to his or her horror stories, and stand with them. It is past time to compassionately reach out to these broken people and together, work to end the evil government persecution, torture and assassination program and its equally evil new weapons with invisible ammunition.
Copyright © 2010 Deborah Dupré. All rights reserved. This article cannot be copied, posted, emailed, or republished without author permission.


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Our remote Australian Territories is home to a place so delightful in both looks and temperament that, on the very first sighting, one's jaw does genuinely drop. With rainforest walks, natural pools and coral reefs to explore, they are a little-known gem of a destination that you need to visit. These are Aussie travel secrets Territories.
It's Australia's Galapagos: 63 per cent national park, home to birds, crabs and amazing reefs!
We were the first company to run photo tours to this stunning tropical paradise and have sold out every year since 2014!
The island's spectacular red crab migration is described by Sir David Attenborough as one of the world's top 10 natural wonders!
Our guests are unable to believe that so few people know the real Christmas Island. It's just so diverse and unspoilt – full of rare and unusual birds, incomprehensible numbers of crabs, waterfalls, turtle-nesting beaches and some of the world's best snorkelling over crystal-clear, warm, tropical reefs, with resident dolphins!
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SCNARC Research Assistant, Mr. Partha Mukherjee, successfully defended his M.S. thesis advised by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski entitled "Search Algorithms for Promotion of Novel Biomedical Research" on March 23, 2017.
Mr. Partha Mukherjee successfully defended his M.S. thesis advised by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski entitled "Search Algorithms for Promotion of Novel Biomedical Research" on March 23, 2017. The thesis contributes to a novel method for finding potential collaborators in the Synergy project and its underlying multi-layer network formed from the data in the PubMed database. This Master's thesis describes the algorithms implemented in Java to find and sort potential collaborators. The thesis validates the results of the algorithm by demonstrating that the probability of molecules which serve as research topics of two co-authors being neighbors is significantly higher then the probability of molecules chosen at random being neighbors. It is found that the former is considerably higher than the latter.
URLs: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/theses/PSM_Synergy_Thesis.pdf
Keywords: collaborators, molecules
A paper on "Evolution of the Global Risk Network Mean-Field Stability Point," by X. Niu, A. Mousawi, N. Derzsy, X. Lin, G. Korniss and B.K. Szymanski has been published in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Complex Networks Lyon, France Nov 29-Dec 1, 2017.
A paper on Building Client's Risk Profile Based on Call Detail Records by Z. Herga, C. Doyle, S. Dipple, C. Nasman, G. Korniss, B.K. Szymanski, J. Brank, J. Rupnik, and D. Mladenic has been published in Proc SiKDD, Oct. 8, 2017.
Joint Colloquium: The NeST Center and Computer Science on Finding Sources in Spreading Processes was given by Prof. Krzysztof Suchecki of Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, on Nov 14, 2017.
Dr. Konstantin Kuzmin, Researcher in the Center, advised by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski, defended today his Ph.D. thesis titled "New Approaches to Efficient Structural Analysis of Social and Biological Networks".
A paper on "Coevolution of a multilayer node-aligned network whose layers represent different social relations," by A. Bahulkar, B.K. Szymanski, K. Chen and O. Lizardo has been published in Computational Social Networks, 4:11 2017.
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski's findings are discussed in October 6th AAAS Science Magazine
A paper on "Adaptive modularity maximization via edge weighting scheme," by X. Lu, K. Kuzmin, M. Chen, and B.K. Szymanski has been published in Information Sciences, vol. 424:55-68, 2017.
The Center's Ph.D. student Konstantin Kuzmin, advised by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski, will be honored with Founders Award at this year Honors Convocation.
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski has been selected for IEEE Life Membership as Life Fellow.
A paper on "Influence of Personal Preferences on Link Dynamics in Social Networks," by A. Bahulkar, B.K. Szymanski, N. Chawla, O. Lizardo & K. Chan was published in Complexity, vol. 2017:4543563.


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Moreno Picks Up First Crusader Goal in Defeat to Marquette
by Paul Condry | Aug 27, 2018 | RRSN News, Soccer Blogs | 0 comments
The Valparaiso University men's soccer team incurred its first setback of the season on Sunday afternoon in Milwaukee as the Crusaders fell 3-1 to Marquette. Danny Moreno (Pasto, Columbia / Desert Mountain [Grand Canyon]) became the second Crusader in as many matches to score his first goal in a Valpo uniform by providing his team's tally.
Marquette had an early chance in the third minute, but Nacho Miras (Ubeda, Spain / Nuestra Semora del Pilar) made a diving save to keep the fixture scoreless.
The Golden Eagles struck first when Connor Alba's header deflected into the net after a nifty cross by Luka Prpa, who led last year's Marquette team with five assists. The goal came in the fifth minute and was the first allowed by the Crusaders this season.
Prpa had an opportunity to double the lead in the seventh minute, but Miras laid out for a quality deflection to notch the save.
Valpo had an opportunity in the 28th minute when a free kick led to a header shot by Matthew King (Edmonton, Alberta / Louis St. Laurent [Grand Canyon]) that rattled off the post. That started a string of Valpo chances as Rafael Mentzingen (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Bryan) and Michael Marchionna (Naperville, Ill. / Naperville Central) each got off shots that were wide of the net.
Marquette doubled the lead in the 53rd minute as Lukas Sunesson finished lower left to pick up a rebound goal after his initial shot on a breakaway was knocked free.
The Crusaders controlled more possession late in the match, and their efforts paid off as Moreno scored on a rebound that he fired off with the right foot and finished inside the right post. Jonas Engler (Illingen, Germany / Georg Kerschensteiner Scule) and Marchionna were credited with assists on the goal.
Bradford had a chance to equalize in the 78th minute, but a strong shot was turned away on a diving save by Marquette goalkeeper Luis Barraza, who sprawled toward the far left post.
Sunesson made it a brace in his collegiate debut with a breakaway in the 85th minute that expanded Marquette's lead to 3-1, which stood as the final score.
Moreno's goal was assisted by Engler and Marchionna, both of whom notched their first assists of the season.
Marchionna already has three points on the young year after totaling one over his first two collegiate seasons, while Engler gained his fourth career assist and 10th career point in the second match of his sophomore season.
The Crusaders outshot the opposition for the second straight match, this time 18-13 over the Golden Eagles (0-1). However, Marquette placed six shots on goal against Valpo's four. Each goalkeeper – Valpo's Miras and Marquette's Luis Barraza, accrued two saves.
"We knew coming in that this was a challenging game for many reasons. First and foremost, Marquette is a very good team with talented players and Coach Bennett and his staff do a good job. Playing on the road against teams like this in their season opening game is tough. It was also a very hot and humid day. We played overtime less than 48 hours ago and they didn't have a Friday game, so it was as much a test of fitness and mental toughness as it was a soccer game for us."
"While we didn't get the result we wanted, there were a lot of real positive things for us to take away from the game. We showed a lot of fight and resolve and as we started to figure out the game we really pushed them for a long stretch. We had several chances to tie it up at 2-2, including a chance that was cleared off the line, and it really felt inevitable that we'd score. The third goal broke that spell, obviously, and while we might have had an argument for an offside call, the bottom line is that our players can't stop and rely on a call to be made. It's a mental mistake that was costly."
"The early part of the season is about growing up and growing together and you need tough games and tough conditions to really test you, so if it's possible that a loss can be a good thing, I think this one will help us."
The Crusaders (1-1) will continue a stretch of four straight games in the state of Wisconsin as they participate in the University of Wisconsin Tournament next weekend. First up is a neutral site affair with Northwestern on Saturday at 5 p.m. in Madison.
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Q: Rpy2 & ggplot2: LookupError 'print.ggplot' Unhindered by any pre-existing knowledge of R, Rpy2 and ggplot2 I would never the less like to create a scatterplot of a trivial table from Python.
To set this up I've just installed:

*

*Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit

*R version 2.14.2 (from r-cran mirror)

*ggplot2 (through R> install.packages('ggplot2'))

*rpy2-2.2.5 (through easy_install)

Following this I am able to plot some example dataframes from an interactive R session using ggplot2.
However, when I merely try to import ggplot2 as I've seen in an example I found online, I get the following error:
from rpy2.robjects.lib import ggplot2
  File ".../rpy2/robjects/lib/ggplot2.py", line 23, in <module>
    class GGPlot(robjects.RObject):
  File ".../rpy2/robjects/lib/ggplot2.py", line 26, in GGPlot
    _rprint = ggplot2_env['print.ggplot']
  File ".../rpy2/robjects/environments.py", line 14, in __getitem__
    res = super(Environment, self).__getitem__(item)
LookupError: 'print.ggplot' not found

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? As I said the offending import comes from an online example, so it might well be that there is some other way I should be using gplot2 through rpy2.

For reference, and unrelated to the problem above, here's an example of the dataframe I would like to plot, once I get the import to work (should not be a problem looking at the examples). The idea is to create a scatter plot with the lengths on the x axis, the percentages on the Y axis, and the boolean is used to color the dots, whcih I would then like to save to a file (either image or pdf). Given that these requirements are very limited, alternative solutions are welcome as well.
     original.length row.retained percentage.retained
1               1875        FALSE                11.00
2               1143        FALSE                23.00
3                960        FALSE                44.00
4               1302        FALSE                66.00
5               2016        TRUE                 87.00

A: There were changes in the R package ggplot2 that broke the rpy2 layer.
Try with a recent (I just fixed this) snapshot of the "default" branch (rpy2-2.3.0-dev) for the rpy2 code on bitbucket.
Edit: rpy2-2.3.0 is a couple of months behind schedule. I just pushed a bugfix release rpy2-2.2.6 that should address the problem.

A: Although I can't help you with a fix for the import error you're seeing, there is a similar example using lattice here: lattice with rpy2.
Also, the standard R plot function accepts coloring by using the factor function (which you can feed the row.retained column. Example:
plot(original.length, percentage.retained, type="p", col=factor(row.retained))

A: Based on fucitol's answer I've instead implemented the plot using both the default plot & lattice. Here are both the implementations:
from rpy2 import robjects
#Convert to R objects
original_lengths = robjects.IntVector(original_lengths)
percentages_retained = robjects.FloatVector(percentages_retained)
row_retained = robjects.StrVector(row_retained)

#Plot using standard plot
r = robjects.r
r.plot(x=percentages_retained,
       y=original_lengths,
       col=row_retained,
       main='Title',
       xlab='Percentage retained',
       ylab='Original length',
       sub='subtitle',
       pch=18)

#Plot using lattice
from rpy2.robjects import Formula
from rpy2.robjects.packages import importr
lattice = importr('lattice')
formula = Formula('lengths ~ percentages')
formula.getenvironment()['lengths'] = original_lengths
formula.getenvironment()['percentages'] = percentages_retained

p = lattice.xyplot(formula,
                   col=row_retained,
                   main='Title',
                   xlab='Percentage retained',
                   ylab='Original length',
                   sub='subtitle',
                   pch=18)
rprint = robjects.globalenv.get("print")
rprint(p)

It's a shame I can't get ggplot2 to work, as it produces nicer graphs by default and I regard working with dataframes as more explicit. Any help in that direction is still welcome!

A: If you don't have any experience with R but with python, you can use numpy or pandas for data analysis and matplotlib for plotting.
Here is a small example how "this feels like":
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

df = pd.DataFrame({'original_length': [1875, 1143, 960, 1302, 2016],
                   'row_retained': [False, False, False, False, True],
                   'percentage_retained': [11.0, 23.0, 44.0, 66.0, 87.0]})
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.scatter(df.original_length, df.percentage_retained,
           c=np.where(df.row_retained, 'green', 'red'),
           s=np.random.randint(50, 500, 5)
           )
true_value = df[df.row_retained]
ax.annotate('This one is True',
            xy=(true_value.original_length, true_value.percentage_retained),
            xytext=(0.1, 0.001), textcoords='figure fraction',
            arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="->"))
ax.grid()
ax.set_xlabel('Original Length')
ax.set_ylabel('Precentage Retained')
ax.margins(0.04)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig('alternative.png')

pandas also has an experimental rpy2 interface.

A: The problem is caused by the latest ggplot2 version which is 0.9.0. This version doesn't have the function print.ggplot() which is found in ggplot2 version 0.8.9.
I tried to tinker with the rpy2 code to make it work with the newest ggplot2 but the extend of the changes seem to be quite large.
Meanwhile, just downgrade your ggplot2 version to 0.8.9

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by Ayanna Rhindress–The Two Brothers pole carved by the Endeshaw brothers Jaalen and Gwaai will be raised tomorrow (July 16) in Jasper National Park.On Friday, the pole was in the park, completely fenced in to keep tourists at bay, while the carvers finish up their job.When the park was created in 1907, a Haida pole was taken from Old Massett, and erected in Jasper to celebrate the opening of the Grand Trunk Railway in the early 1900s. It then became a popular attraction in the park. It stood there for 94 years, decaying in the weather, losing it's beauty, and finally threatening to collapse.In 2009, the pole had to be taken down. It was brought back to Haida Gwaii last summer, and is now in Old Massett. Then, a new Haida pole was commissioned by Parks Canada. The new pole tells an ancient story about two brothers who travelled from Haida Gwaii to the Rocky Mountains. While travelling, one brother found a place that spoke to him and he decided to stay, while the other returned to Haida Gwaii. Rob Merrifield, MP for Yellowhead, will participate in the pole raising on behalf of Peter Kent, the Minister responsible for Parks Canada.Gwaai and Jaalen, the master carvers for the Two Brothers pole are just finishing carving and painting it, making sure it's ready to go up Saturday afternoon.


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Q: Remarkable/unexpected rational numbers Consider the Riemann $\zeta$ function. We know that $\zeta(2n)$ is a rational multiple of $\pi^{2n}$ (in particular is transcendental). We also know that $\zeta(3)$ is irrational, and we expect $\zeta(n)$ to be irrational (if not even transcendental) for every $n\in\mathbb{N}$, or at least I would be amazed if - say - $\zeta(5)$ turned out to be rational.

Are there known instances of rational numbers appearing where we would not have expected them?

Of course the notion of "expectation" here is very subjective, so this is a soft question just out of curiosity, since I have the feeling that usually (in my limited experience always) complicated expressions yield irrational ($\mathbb{C}-\mathbb{Q}$) numbers.
As a non-example, we have the series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty 2^{-n}=1$. A series is complicated enough (compared to say a finite arithmetic expression), but of course here we have the explicit formula for geometric series so the resulting $1$ is not really a big surprise.

A: Legrendre's Constant is the best example of this that I know. Legendre was interested in the expression
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\ln(x)-\frac{n}{\pi(n)}\right)$$ due to its relation to the (then unproven) Prime Number Theorem. In particular, if the limit exists then the prime number theorem is true. Legrendre estimated the value to be $\sim 1.08$ but the exact value turned out to be $1$! Although I don't know of any specific conjectures that it is irrational, the fact that it turns out to be exactly $1$ was highly surprising to me and I see no reason to expect it to be rational.
I would imagine that there are many examples of this in probability theory from before the Komogorov Zero-One Law was established.

A: The average distance between two randomly chosen points in the Sierpinski triangle (of side $1$) is
$$\frac{466}{885}$$
(where "distance" means the length of the shortest path between the points that lies within the Sierpinski triangle).

A: (1). If $f:[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ is continuous with $f(0)=f(1)$ and $n\in \mathbb N$ then $\exists x\in [0,1-1/n]\;(f(x)=f(x+1/n)\;).$ (The theorem of the horizontal chord.) But if $y\in (0,1)$ and $y$ is not the reciprocal of a natural number then there exists a continuous $f:[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ with $f(0)=f(1)$ such that $\forall x\in [0,1-y]\;(f(x)\ne f(x+y)\;).$
(2). In any triangle, the orthocenter $O$, the barycenter $B$, and the circumcenter $C$ not only are collinear but $OB:BC=1:2$ (Euler, 1765). If this was "obvious" or "expected" it would likely have been known about 20 centuries earlier in Greece.

A: The exponents for 2 dimensional percolation. Here you consider a two dimensional lattice where each site is going to be made black or white with some probability (this is called site percolation), or alternatively, you delete bonds between sites with some probability (this is called bond percolation). Then, what you find is that there exists a critical probability above which there will be an infinite cluster of the same color in case of site percolation, in case of bond percolation there will be an infinity large connected set of sites when the probability of choosing bonds between sites is larger than the critical probability (which is known to be exactly $\frac{1}{2}$).
One can then ask questions like how the probability that points a distance $R$ apart are on the same cluster behaves for large $R$ when the system is at the percolation threshold. This is then described by a power law, the exponent can be calculated and turns out to be a rational number. One can also consider exponents associated with the approach to the percolation threshold. E.g. the size of the largest cluster sizes will grow as you approach the critical percolation probability $p_c$ as $(p - p_c)^{-\nu}$, and one can show that $\nu = \frac{4}{3}$.


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Days Missing #3 of 5
Days Missing #3 of 5 ( Archaia – Edginton / Moder )
"September 19th, 2008. The Large Hadron Super Collider in Cern, Switzerland is about to go operational. Humanity is poised to re-create the very same conditions that resulted in the Big Bang and the birth of the universe. Physicist and Cern team member Kate Prosper notices something in one of the tests, a temporal anomaly with no reasonable scientific explanation. Meanwhile, truck driver Alain Murais would do anything to save his dying son, who is suffering from leukemia. But he's out of money, insurance and time. Kate and Alain's paths will end up on a collision course not only with one another, but also the mysterious Steward. Before the Day is over, no one will ever be the same…"
It is with a resounding "meh" that I review this latest from Archaia and Roddenberry Productions. It's a book that might be better as a trade, once all 5 issues are out, but this particular one-shot story in the series left me wanting.
The issue starts off with a scientist, Kate Prosper who works on the Hadron particle collider in Europe, on the cusp of a major breakthrough. If given the data she needs, she could unravel the secrets held withing the Big Bang. Calling in help from her estranged husband, they find that there are points in history where space and time converge. If they can understand why this happens, humans could unlock the ability to fold space-time and, conceivably, create ships that would allow is to traverse the galaxy.
Then we jump to the story of Alain Maurais. A man who has already lost his wife to cancer, and is about to lose his little boy to the same black killer. Alain's problem is that he's a just a truck driver who can't afford an experimental treatment that has a chance of saving his son.
This is where my problems play in. One is that I was never moved to feel anything for either of the main characters. Kate is on verge of the greatest discovery in mankind, and Alain is about to experience an event that should never be felt by a parent, but too often is. And I just didn't care because the writing never lead me there. It's like I was just an observer with no investment in anything that I was seeing.
The story moves to having these two characters meet. "But how would these two cross paths?" you ask. Alain, so upset that he cannot afford to save his son, sneaks his way into a top level security complex to take a sledge hammer to a billion dollar piece of equipment. It just so happens that Kate happen to be there to try and stop him. She fails, and The Steward, guy from the cover, shows up to fold time and save the day. He gives Kate a lame explanation of why he does what he does, Kate asks that The Steward save Alain's son, cut to Alain's son doing better and it's end of issue.
Um…what just happened?
That pretty much explains my experience with the whole issue. The art was pretty to look at, but the writing just fell flat.
Grade: C-, Maybe the trade will be better.
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Security issues surrounding cyber commerce and communication must surely be among the most unsettling in an age in which the world has never been more dependent on instant interconnectivity.
Hacking allegations surrounding the US election continue to cause unease; critical infrastructure.
Hacking allegations surrounding the US election continue to cause unease; critical infrastructure is in danger of becoming a target; denial of service attacks are becoming increasingly common; and even the defences of high profile names such as Yahoo, LinkedIn and Tesco have been breached.
It would be reasonable, in such a climate, to expect that the impact on the cloud-based systems which host day-to-day interactions would be dramatic.
However despite incidents which have attracted headlines in 2016 (a year in which more than two billion records were stolen) there still appears to be a strong element of trust in the integrity of the cloud. Why should this be the case? Well, over a career which has focused on migrating businesses large and small to the cloud, I have found that accessibility, flexibility, mobility, reliability and costs trump concerns about security in the vast majority of cases.
I suspect the underlying reason is that users are now comfortable with the cloud as an essential component of their communications infrastructure. Look at the billions who use cloud-hosted facilities such as Gmail and Facebook on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
It is not hard to understand why this element of trust exists. The proven benefits include disaster recovery, hot backups, scalability, data encryption, role level access and strong password policies. Another important benefit, referred to as data redundancy, is the process of having a constant backup on another server so that in the event of a catastrophe the system could shut down immediately and all the stored data would jump onto one of thousands of new servers worldwide with only limited disruption.
In recognition that we are in a rolling battle with the cyber criminals, the EU is introducing the General Data Protection Regulation in May 2018 as a result of which global companies such as NetSuite are required to be compliant with data centres for EU customers hosted within the EU.
The US also is increasingly turning the spotlight on to accountability, with organisations such as the Federal Trade Commission taking a strict line with companies for perceived security beaches or privacy failures.
In a climate of security challenges, some organisations – particularly smaller ones – may still consider self-hosting, on the grounds that data remains within their control, affording an apparent peace of mind.
But that perceived assurance comes with a cost. That cost includes the need to purchase additional hardware to scale up, data and time loss in an outage, and fees which are incurred whether or not all the resources are used.
Given that the conflict with the criminal side of the connected world is not going to cease anytime soon, it makes sense to have the best possible defences. And that, for the foreseeable future, means the cloud.