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The Internet Classics Archive | Nicias by Plutarch
Nicias was a younger man, yet was in some reputation even whilst Pericles lived; so much so as to have been his colleague in the office of general, and to have held command by himself more than once.
Nicias, because of his experience, was looked upon as the fitter for the employment, and his wariness with the bravery of Alcibiades, and the easy temper of Lamachus, all compounded together, promised such security, that he did but confirm the resolution.
Nicias had no wish for a sea-fight, but said it was mere folly for them, when Demosthenes was coming in all haste with so great a fleet and fresh forces to their succour, to engage the enemy with a less number of ships and ill provided.
classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/nicias.html (6837 words)
Nicias - The Slave of Fear
Nicias thought that this show of force might win some allies, but all it did was dishearten the Athenians still more, and delay changed the attitude of the enemy from dread to contempt.
Nicias argued that Syracuse would soon give in because the Syracusans would be deserted by their allies and the food and water in the city would run out.
Nicias did his share of the labor and tried in all ways he could think of to raise the spirits of his men by showing them a good example of a man undaunted by misfortune.
www.e-classics.com /nicias.htm (4564 words)
The Baldwin Project: Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Alfred J. Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Nicias further commemorated the occasion by consecrating a brazen palm-tree to Apollo, and by buying, at the cost of 10,000 drachmæ, a piece of land, the rent of which was to be expended in sacrifices and feasts, on the condition that prayers should [6] be offered up for the founder.
Nicias now devised and put in practice a sufficiently ingenious stratagem, which would not, however, have been possible but for the discreditable fact that there was scarcely a Greek community in which some citizens might not be found who were ready to play [54] the traitor to serve a party end.
Nicias was no Napoleon, and was wholly unequal to the conduct of the great enterprise which was forced upon him, but there were occasions on which he would not have failed so disastrously as he did if he had had full command of his mental and bodily energies.
www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=church&book=nicias&story=statesman (22371 words)
Nicias on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alcibiades was soon recalled, and Lamachus died, leaving the expedition in Nicias's care.
Nicias vacillated in his policies in the siege.
The Athenian fleet and expedition were shortly overwhelmed by the Syracusans, and Nicias was captured in a hasty retreat on land and subsequently executed.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nicias.asp (311 words)
NICIAS - LoveToKnow Article on NICIAS
In 421 he took a prominent part in the arrangement of the " Peace of Nicias," which terminated the iirst decade of the Peloponnesian War (q.v.).
He now entered with varying success upon a period of rivalry with Alcibiades, the details of which are largely matters of conjecture.
NICIAS, son of Nicomedes, an Attic painter of the 4th century B.C. Pliny (xxxv.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NI/NICIAS.htm (446 words)
Peace of Nicias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty that was signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in 421 BC, ending the first half of the Peloponnesian War.
The negotiations were begun by Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, and the Athenian general Nicias.
The Athenian representatives were Lampon, Isthmonicus, Nicias, Laches, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon, Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates, Leon,, and Demosthenes.
www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Peace_of_Nicias (403 words)
The Baldwin Project: Our Young Folks' Plutarch by Rosalie Kaufman
Nicias worked for peace even after the decree for war was passed, but he worked in vain, and he was appointed to command with Lamachus and Alcibiades.
Of course Nicias obeyed, because he was too pious and superstitious to do otherwise, so he gave up all thought of war, and passed his time in prayer and sacrifices, while the enemy took possession of the walls and forts, and filled the harbor with their vessels.
Nicias was more to be pitied than any one, for not only was he ill and suffering bodily, but he had to bear the disgrace of defeat after having hoped for honor and success.
www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=kaufman&book=plutarch&story=nicias (2401 words)
Nicias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the first 10 years of the conflict, Nicias proved his ability as a leader of offensive expeditions and in 421 negotiated the Peace of Nicias and an alliance with Sparta.
The recall of Alcibiades and the death of Lamachus left Nicias, although ill, in sole charge of the siege of Syracuse.
Nicias asked to be relieved of his command, but instead reinforcements under Demosthenes arrived early in 413.
www.kat.gr /kat/history/Greek/Gn/Nicias.htm (226 words)
Laches or Courage Plato 380 BC Part One Translated by Benjamin Jowett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Laches: Certainly, Nicias; and I quite approve of the remark which Lysimachus made about his own father and the father of Melesias, and which is applicable, not only to them, but to us, and to every one who is occupied with public affairs.
Nicias: I have no objection, Socrates; and my opinion is that the acquirement of this art is in many ways useful to young men.
Nicias: I see very clearly, Lysimachus, that you have only known Socrates' father, and have no acquaintance with Socrates himself: at least, you can only have known him when he was a child, and may have met him among his fellow wardsmen, in company with his father, at a sacrifice, or at some other gathering.
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SparkNotes: Laches: Part Two (181d–184c)
Nicias argues that it is to the advantage of youth to practice any art that gives them bodily exercise rather than rest.
In this section, Laches and Nicias each gives his own expert opinion on what he thinks is the right thing for Lysimachus and Melesias to do with their children.
Furthermore, Nicias re-emphasizes the connection between knowledge and experience by insisting that his knowledge of the men who practice the art of fighting in armor is based on his own experience of such men in battle.
www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/laches/section2.rhtml (858 words)
Plato : Laches : Laches, or Courage.
NICIAS: I have been thinking, Socrates, that you and Laches are not defining courage in the right way; for you have forgotten an excellent saying which I have heard from your own lips.
NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge of that which inspires fear or confidence in war, or in anything.
And I hope, Nicias, that you will tell us whether these animals, which we all admit to be courageous, are really wiser than mankind; or whether you will have the boldness, in the face of universal opinion, to deny their courage.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.2084/sec.2 (6807 words)
Leaders and Battles: Nicias,
In 421 B.C. desiring peace with Sparta, he was vital in the Peace of Nicias that terminated the first decade of the Peloponnesian War.
When Alcibiades urged the expedition to Syracuse, although Nicias discouraged it, he was appointed co-commander along with Alcibiades and Lamachus.
Nicias soon found himself sole commander after Alcibiades was recalled and Lamachus died.
www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayLeader.cfm?PID=5374 (113 words)
Nicias - Plutarch's Lives
Nicias, in opposing the voting of this expedition, and neither being puffed up with hopes, nor transported with the honor of his high command so as to modify his judgment, showed himself a man of virtue and constancy.
Nicias had no wish for a sea-fight, but said it was mere folly for them, when Demosthenes was coming in all haste with so great a fleet and fresh forces to their succor, to engage the enemy with a less number of ships and ill provided.
At these words, and at the sight of Nicias, Gylippus was somewhat troubled, for he was sensible that the Lacedæmonians had received good offices from Nicias in the late treaty; and he thought it would be a great and glorious thing for him to carry off the chief commanders of the Athenians alive.
www.constitution.org /rom/plutarch/nicias.htm (6827 words)
Schola Great Books 1 Class Forum
Nicias' awe of the gods can be seen in the way that he sponsored and ran a religious event at Delos.
Plutarch says that "the ceremonies which Nicias organized at Delos have gone down in history both as acts of devotion to the god and as demonstrations of lavish public generosity." Nicias probably had secondary motives to running the ceremony so lavishly; he wanted public opinion in favor of himself.
Nicias and his men were shaken by the eclipse and regarded it as a sign from the gods.
www.network54.com /Forum/post?forumid=108873&messageid=1111196952 (620 words)
Nicias may be a puzzle as a leader, but even he has his moments to shine; and this passage tells of one of those times.
Luckily for Nicias, this time he ends up on the right side of their favor...but as the beginning of this passage warns, he is also about to come up against a problem named Alcibiades.
Nicias, at first, is not in a hurry to return to Athens where he will face scorn and probably punishment; but increasing illness among his men and fresh support for the Syracusans change his mind as well.
www.amblesideonline.org /Nicias.shtml (3902 words)
Plato: Laches (excerpt)
NICIAS: Well, for some time I have been thinking, Socrates, that you two are not defining courage in the right way; for you are not acting upon an admirable remark which I have formerly heard you make.
NICIAS: No, it seems to me, Socrates, that Laches wants to have it proved that I am talking nonsense, because he was proved [195b] a moment ago to be in the same case himself.
NICIAS: I am not referring to you, Laches, so do not be fiightened: for I grant that you, and Lamachus also, are wise, since you are courageous, and I say the same of numerous other Athenians.
praxeology.net /laches.htm (3745 words)
King Nicias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rev: King in armour, holding a palm of victory in his left hand, and making a gesture of benediction with his right hand, similar to the Buddhist vitarka mudra.
Kharoshti legend MAHARAJA TRATARASA NIKIASA "Saviour King Nicias".
Nicias (reigned c.90-85 BCE) was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the Paropamisadae.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Niciuas (164 words)
Plutarch, Nicias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(2) In the meantime Nicias was briskly attacked, both by sea and land; in the beginning he had the disadvantage on the water, but in the end repulsed and sunk many galleys of the enemy.
(4) Nicias had no wish for a sea-fight, but said it was mere folly for them, when Demosthenes was coming in all haste with so great a fleet and fresh forces to their succour, to engage the enemy with a less number of ships and ill provided.
But Hermocrates, of his own head, put a trick upon Nicias, and sent some of his companions to him, (2) who pretended they came from those that were wont to hold secret intelligence with him, and advised him not to stir that night, the Syracusans having laid ambushes and beset the ways.
www.ucalgary.ca /~vandersp/Courses/texts/plutarch/plutnici.html (7032 words)
Classical Period - Politics - Nicias
Nicias, a moderate, opposed the policies of the radical democrats.
He was opposed to the ambitious plans of Alcibiades to send an expeditionary corps to Sicily, but despite his objections, he was elected alongside Alcibiades and Lamachus general of the expedition.
Thucydides, despite partially defending Nicias' policies and underlining his dedication to the city, imputed the Athenian disaster to a great extent onto the inadequacy of his military leadership.
www.fhw.gr /chronos/05/en/politics/440nicias.html (205 words)
Available online at http://classics.mit.edu//Plutarch/nicias.html Nicias By Plutarch (legendary, died 413 B.C.E.) Translated by John Dryden CRASSUS, in my opinion, may most properly be set against Nicias, and the Parthian disaster compared with that in Sicily.
However, all these may be merely other instances of the same happy taste that makes him correct the diction of Philistus, and abuse Plato and Aristotle.
However, at this time he had good-fortune, and in conjunction with Demosthenes, conducted the enterprise so well that, within the time he had limited, he carried captive to Athens all the Spartans that had not fallen in battle.
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The Internet Classics Archive | The Comparison of Crassus with Nicias by Plutarch
But Crassus is very generally blamed for his changeableness in his friendships and enmities, for his unfaithfulness, and his mean and underhand proceedings; since he himself could not deny that to compass the consulship he hired men to lay violent hands upon Domitius and Cato.
Yet Nicias, by his connivance, raised Cleon, a fellow remarkable for nothing but his loud voice and brazen face, to the command of an army.
He frequently defeated the enemy in battle, and was on the very point of capturing Syracuse; nor should he bear the whole blame of the disaster, which may fairly be ascribed in part to his want of health and to the jealousy entertained of him at home.
classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/crasus_n.html (1020 words)
NICIAS The best thing we can do for the moment is to throw ourselves at the feet of the statue of some god.
NICIAS There's nothing wrong with that, and we might ask them to show us by their manner, whether our facts and actions are to their liking.
NICIAS Bless me! I fear this Good Genius will be but a very Bad Genius for me. (He goes into the house.) DEMOSTHENES And I'll set the flagon near me, that I may moisten my wit to invent some brilliant notion.
history.boisestate.edu /westciv/grecult/knights.txt (10894 words)
After the Peace of Nicias
Although the Peace of Nicias had been signed, it comes as no surprise that the years after 421 witnessed a continuation of the war with diplomatic means.
In fact, it would be easy for them to make the coalition fall to pieces: if they attacked one of its Peloponnesian members, the Athenians were forced to choose between either their Spartan alliance (which meant abandoning its allies), or supporting Argos, Mantinea, and Elis, and risking an open war with Sparta in the Peloponnese.
As it turned out, Athens, frustrated by the Spartan unwillingness to carry out the terms of the Peace of Nicias, preferred the second alternative, and when the young Spartan king Agis II marched to the north, the Athenians supported their fellow-democrats.
www.livius.org /pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/intermezzo.html (565 words)
The Peace of Nicias
In March 421, the Peace of Nicias was signed, which marked the end of the Archidamian War.
Sparta had gone to war to put an end to Athenian supremacy but the Delian League was still alive; moreover, at Sphacteria it had become clear that Sparta was not invincible.
For the Athenians: Lampon, Isthmonicus, Nicias, Laches, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon, Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates, Leon, Lamachus, and Demosthenes.
www.livius.org /pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/war_t04.html (1733 words)
Nicias: A Card-based Encryption Algorithm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Nicias, the deck is always made up of alternating red and fl cards, with a red card on top.
Probably it would be best to have two decks each, one for encryption and one for decryption, since if both parties try to encrypt simultaneously with the same deck, it would be a pain to sort it out.
Nicias (the algorithm) may not help you out of any philosophical difficulties, but it may be able to make plaintext out of your ciphertext.
abridgegame.org /personal/Nicias.html (2338 words)
But two clever and mischievous slaves (Demosthenes and Nicias) have hatched a plot to put their own man in power, and thus to run the city, themselves, by using him as their front.
NICIAS enters the house and returns almost immediately with a bottle.
NICIAS enters the house and returns at once.
www.sammustafa.com /WorldReadings/knights.html (1488 words)
NICIAS (SON OF NICOMEDES) - LoveToKnow Article on NICIAS (SON OF NICOMEDES) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Pan-European burden of asthma revealed
Data from the REALISE™ survey highlight a high incidence of recent exacerbations, even among patients whose asthma is controlled according to clinical guidelines.1
Worryingly, many patients continue to cope with their symptoms rather than consider these as indicators of a continuing problem that should be addressed.2 With approximately one in 25 people across Europe affected by asthma3,4 and around 15,000 people dying due to the condition each year, five respiratory experts highlight the published findings as a reality check and encourage healthcare professionals to renew their focus on standardised assessment of asthma symptoms and lifestyle limitations.
The REcognise Asthma and LInk to Symptoms and Experience (REALISE) survey provides the largest pan-European data on incidence of exacerbations and symptoms, levels of Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA)-defined control, as well as insights into patient attitudes.1
The survey highlights that 45% of respondents had uncontrolled and 35% partially controlled asthma according to the GINA criteria, although more than two-thirds of patients did not recognise this and did not consider their asthma as serious.1
According to REALISE, many patients accept the lifestyle limitations their asthma brings without considering their symptoms as an important health matter that could be better managed and prevented.1 Almost half (44%) of respondents reported having used oral steroids for asthma in the previous 12 months, with over 40% having used their reliever three or more times in the previous week.1 The findings also show that 56% of those respondents who thought their asthma was controlled continued to experience symptoms that interfered with normal activities,1 with 53% waking at night due to asthma in the week prior to the survey.1
Professor David Price, University of Aberdeen, and lead author of the REALISE publication explains: "Asthma remains a major problem and our research comes as a reality check. Even those patients considered controlled continue to be at risk of exacerbations. We need to refocus on what matters: accurately assessing asthma in clinical practice and improving patients' understanding of what effective disease management means for their day-to-day life."
He continues: "We have an armoury of clinical guidelines, treatments and resources at hand, and when combined with a clear understanding of what makes our patients tick, we can produce much better outcomes for all involved."
The REALISE findings highlight a disconnect between patients' perceptions of control and guideline-defined control,1 suggesting a need for healthcare professionals to better understand individual patient attitudes towards asthma to build a shared language that supports effective disease management. Of all REALISE respondents, 82% said they do not want to be labelled as sick, 62% believe they are not like other people with asthma and 43% ignore their asthma to feel normal and fit in. These findings are further supported by patients' attitudes towards their inhaler, with two out of five respondents considering it a nuisance and 26% reporting to feel embarrassed about using it.1 Overall, 33% of all REALISE respondents preferred managing their asthma themselves rather than seeking their doctor's advice,2 with 33% using the internet and social media for information about managing their condition.2
Monica Fletcher, Chair of the European Lung Foundation, Chief Executive of Education for Health and co-author of the REALISE publication, adds: "Patients have normalised their asthma so we need to dig deeper in consultations. Our research signposts that understanding patients' attitudes towards asthma is a key component of successful asthma management. We know there is a disconnect between how patients think about control and the pre-defined level of symptom control that healthcare professionals are aiming for. We need to close this gap to curb the impact of the disease."
The REALISE survey was sponsored by Mundipharma, which is committed to collaborating with the asthma community to discover new perspectives on asthma management with the goal of improving the lives of people with the condition.
Price D, et al. Asthma control and management in 8,000 European patients: the REcognise Asthma and LInk to Symptoms and Experience (REALISE) survey. NPJ Prim Care Respir Med 2014;24:14009.
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The last thing players want is to give their coach a headache but Wests Tigers winger Mahe Fonua has been happy to do that and is now reaping the rewards with his NRL recall.
The Melbourne junior played 50 NRL games for the Storm from 2012-15 before venturing off to dominate in the English Super League for Hull F.C, capturing two Challenge Cup titles.
Signed in the off-season by the Tigers on a two-year deal, Fonua spent the first seven rounds in the club's Intrust Super Premiership side before getting the call to start on the wing in Sunday's 24-22 loss to Parramatta.
''When you play reserve grade you try and make as much noise as you can to give the head coach a headache when selecting the team,'' the 25-year-old said.
''It took me eight games to get into grade and I was every happy to get the opportunity. It was good to finally get a run with this team and this club seeing it's my first year here.
''It's been a while since I played NRL and it was good to brush some cobwebs off and get back into the swing of things.
Fonua believes his three-year stint with Hull F.C allowed him to develop his game and return to Australia with more to offer as a player.
The Tigers were happy to provide him with an opportunity to get back into the NRL.
''I moved over when I was only 22 and still fairly young, so getting the chance to play top league over there gives you confidence playing week in week out, and just that little bit more experience [playing in] the Challenge Cup game," Fonua said.
Tigers coach Ivan Cleary says he was happy with the outside backs' effort on Sunday despite the loss and is pleased to have players like Fonua who are determined to be selected in first grade.
''I thought he had a pretty good impact, he was pretty strong throughout the game," Cleary said.


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On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter
On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter (2014)
Rated PG for perilous action, some crashes and brief language
| Glenn Kenny
You might have heard of the 1971 doc "On Any Sunday," produced by avid motorcycle guy Steve McQueen and directed by Bruce Brown, who'd made his name prior to it with groundbreaking movies about surfing, particularly 1964's "The Endless Summer." But did you know that "Sunday" was kind of the start of a franchise? "On Any Sunday 2" followed in 1981. In 2000, Bruce Brown's son Dana, who has also made his own surfing movie, 2003's "Step Into Liquid" (Dana's also behind some "Summer" sequels, but let's not get too confusing), made "On Any Sunday Revisited," followed by a making-of on the first picture, "On Any Sunday: Motocross, Malcolm and More," and now Dana presents "The Next Chapter."
My recollection of the first "On Any Sunday" movie is less of the movie itself than of an impression of the audience that embraced it: workaday American men who looked at biking as a form of unalienated leisure, an exhilarating escape. A measure of how the world has changed is given the viewer in this movie's opening presentation logos: a welder works on a bike in a sparkling garage, while a little girl cavorts about; the logo "Red Bull Media House" manifests itself in 3D, followed by the logo of Freeride Entertainment; we're then informed, in this garage, that what follows is "Supported By Skullcandy." (Later in the movie, a motorcyclist executes a stunt from a Park City, Utah, ski jump, and vaults over another Skullcandy logo.) The machines of escape are now lifestyle appurtenances.
What follows is all handsomely shot and not without some general interest—but the movie's only really going to play for you if motorcycles and those who ride them are subjects to which you're somewhat sympathetic. Dana Brown himself supplies the narration, and it's a welter of sub-MTV style advertisements for itself; this is a story, Brown announces, "that defies stereotypes," which usually means that it rearranges a particular set of stereotypes to make it seem as if it's defying stereotypes. I mean, don't get me wrong, the stuff about the deaf female motorcyclist Ashley Fiolek is interesting and somewhat touching, but to this viewer it would have been even more so had I not been assured about how surprised I was going to be right at the outset. The classic rock soundtrack choices don't exactly "defy" anything themselves, either.
Forgive me: what I really wanted this film to explain are the (excuse my French) a-holes you find in some urban areas who think it's acceptable to rev their machines at ear-splitting volume at stop lights for no good reason. What's their story? Do they have any kind of rationale that makes any kind of sense aside from the conclusion I've already made about such characters? Brown declines to venture into this area. In other respects, however, he delivers a clean and concise report on The Wide World Of Motorcycling in the 21st Century, and also delivers some memorable imagery, particularly at the Bonneville Salt Flats and in Southeast Asia.


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REvil ransomware to blame for UnitingCare Queensland's April attack
qld • May 9, 2021
After revealing late last month it had fallen victim to a cyber incident, UnitingCare Queensland has now named REvil/Sodin as the gang behind the attack.
The organisation, which provides aged care, disability supports, health care, and crisis response services throughout the state, suffered the attack on Sunday, 25 April 2021.
In a statement issued a few days later, UnitingCare said its systems were still hurting. On Wednesday, it said some of the organisation's systems have since been inaccessible.
The organisation also pointed the blame at REvil/Sodin as the source of the attack.
"We can confirm that the external group claiming responsibility for this incident has identified themselves as REvil/Sodin," it said.
"With the assistance of leading experts and advisors, we are conducting a thorough investigation into whether patient, client, resident or employee information has been breached.
"This investigation is continuing and we will continue to keep the people we care for updated in this regard, in addition to employees, regulators, and other stakeholders."
The REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware gang has been active for quite a while, dwarfing any other similar ransomware operations. Run as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), the REvil gang rents its ransomware strain to other criminal groups.
The figure demanded of UnitingCare has not been disclosed, but it was reported in March that Taiwanese giant Acer was struck by REvil ransomware, with the culprits demanding $50 million from the company.
"Since the incident occurred, as part of our business continuity plan, back-up and downtime procedures have been in place to ensure continuity of our clinical and care services, and these procedures have been working very well," UnitingCare said.
It said at this point in time, there is no evidence that the health and safety of its patients, residents, or clients has been in any way compromised as a result of the attack.
"As soon as we became aware of the incident, we engaged the support of leading external technical and forensic advisors. We also notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre of the incident and are continuing to work closely with them to investigate it," UnitingCare added.
"Since the outset of the incident, we have been in pro-active regular contact with all relevant regulatory and government departments."
Last year, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued an alert to aged care and healthcare providers, notifying them of recent ransomware campaigns targeting the sector.
"Cybercriminals view the aged care and healthcare sectors as lucrative targets for ransomware attacks," the ACSC wrote. "This is because of the sensitive personal and medical information they hold, and how critical this information is to maintaining operations and patient care. A significant ransomware attack against a hospital or aged care facility would have a major impact."
Data breach notification to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner became mandatory under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme in February 2018.
Since the mandate, the private health sector has been the most affected sector. The latest NDB report shows no change, with health accounting for 123 of the total 519 notifications in the six months to December 2020.
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Reigniting Democracy
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Civil War battle series volume 6.
Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland House, c2001.
Although Stonewall Jackson was dead, Confederate morale was never higher. The victory at Chancellorsville had come against overwhelming odds, and the Southerners savored the sight of the Union army in retreat. In less than a year's time, the Federals had been pushed back from the outskirts of Richmond and now virtually out of Virginia.
Thus begins Gettysburg, the newest addition to The Civil War Battle Series, the Brannon family saga that has been praised as robust, detail-rich and well-paced...equal parts pathos and accuracy"" (Publishers Weekly) and ""fraught with passion, tension, and tenderness"" (Booklist).
Will and Mac, the two eldest Brannon sons, are in the ranks of the Stonewall Brigade and Jeb Stuart's cavalry. A short bivouac allows them to visit the family farm for some rest and recuperation from the fighting. Almost as soon as Will rejoins his company, Jackson's former corps marches up the Shenandoah Valley, sweeping the Union troops out of Winchester. A natural route to the North lies open, and Lee's army heads in that direction.
The eventual clash known as the battle of Gettysburg occupies the rest of the book. Will, who is involved from the first day, is kept in the thick of the combat around Culp's Hill and the right side of the Union line. Mac arrives on the evening of the second day, and he sees action with the Southern cavalry at Hanover. Both are swallowed up in the melee of the fighting, and neither emerges unscathed.
Bruised and bleeding, the Confederate army stumbles back into Virginia, leaving a fourth of their number behind on the Pennsylvania ground. News of the defeat and the huge number of casualties spreads quickly. Like thousands of families acrossthe South, the Brannon clan in Culpeper County anxiously awaits word of the fates of two sons.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 -- Fiction.
Reasoner, J. (2001). Gettysburg. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House.
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Hypespotting V - April 2nd/3rd at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.
With three weeks left to go until the Capcom Pro Tour event Hypespotting, our fighting game division has been boosted by the capture of Cobelcog. Cobelcog is a Cammy specialist and one of Ireland's top Street Fighter players. I've always held the Irish FGC in high regard as it has produced some excellent players. The likes of Hound, Azza, Stevo and many others. It's a signing I'm delighted with as I have enjoyed his gameplay from SF4.
Easily the most difficult Cammy player I have faced, Cobelcog is a player I believe is incredibly underrated. However with the introduction of SFV, and streaming options on the PS4, the wider community have been able to witness his capabilities. Along with tearing through the leaderboards online, Cobelcog won Random Select Ireland's Road to Hypespotting qualifier to secure his position at the event. I'm incredibly interested to see how he performs and believe he has the potential to make a real impact on the event.
The Versus Scotland staff have done a tremendous job with the Hypespotting series as it grows from strength to strength. Last year some of the entrants included world warriors MCZ Mago, MCZ Tokido, RZR Xian, RB Luffy, FA Ryan Hart and PxP Problem X. It is hosting a whopping 14 double elimination tournaments with games including SFV, The King of Fighters XIII and Super Smash Bros for WiiU. The event truly hosts a unique atmosphere with intense matches along with a more casual, but equally entertaining, pub quiz. I would encourage everyone to attend this event as it's hands down my favourite Fighting Game event of the year.
Another player who has excelled at SFV is our very own Brian who placed second at MBA's SFV Launch event. In the process he secured qualification for one of the big SFV tournaments at Insomnia and is now the second Scot, alongside Bigfool, to qualify. He's looking deadly with Chun Li and has caused me many struggles in all the games we have played! I'm very much looking forward to seeing Brian defend the country on home soil and I know he, and other Scots, are more than capable of getting into the mix in the latter stages of the tournament.
Zain also achieved a strong 5th place finish at MBA's SFV Launch event. I'm keen to see how he does with Vega as it's a character I quite enjoy watching due to his playstyle and strategy. In addition he has continued to secure top 2 placing at his Local Electronic Dojo events (shoutouts to Justin!). Therefore he can go into the event with confidence that he's continuing to improve and develop nicely.
Infexious has been a little more quiet on the SF front, only picking up SFV very recently. I heard from a little birdie who he may be using though, and it's character that suits him to the ground. I haven't had the chance to witness any footage from himself yet but I know he will pick the game up quickly and I know he's going to hit the ground running or diving in V..
Everyone wanting to register or know more about Hypespotting you can by hitting this link www.hypespotting.co.uk. I guarantee you will be kicking yourself if you aren't able to attend as the environment is one to remember.
That's all for our Rize Fighters roundup. Be sure to follow the team on twitter @Infexiousdc @Cobelcog @Zain__23 @BTM_Brian and @Thesquared2.


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Cyber Security Industry News
[January 14, 2020]
Cygilant Simplifies Visibility Into Cloud-Based Resources and Activities
Cygilant, leading Cybersecurity Agency and provider of Security-as-a-Service to mid-sized organizations, today highlighted recent additions to its SecureVue Cloud Platform. SecureVue Cloud enables clients to quickly gain comprehensive visibility into their cloud-based operations, making it easier to identify potential problems and make needed changes.
Most organizations today utilize a combination of traditional IT and cloud-based services. With a majority of data being used and stored outside of the office network perimeter, it has become more important than ever for IT teams to have full visibility into their cloud-based resources, including all access controls, configurations and data usage. Cygilant's SecureVue Cloud Platform empowers mid-sized organizations with the enterprise-class visibility and control they need - and does so in a simple and affordable way.
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"In the past, it has proven difficult for organizations using a mix of on-premise and cloud solutions to gain real access and control - and feel secure. Recentl, however, cloud vendors have made a lot of progress by having audit logs and events available through APIs," said Kevin Landt, vice president of product management at Cygilant. "Here at Cygilant, we have been making heavy investments in integrating with these data sources to ensure our customers have full visibility into all of their cloud-based resources at any given time."
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Echálaz (Etxalatz en euskera) es una localidad española de la Comunidad Foral de Navarra perteneciente al municipio del Valle de Egüés. Su población en  fue de  habitantes (INE).

Geografía
Está situado al norte del Valle de Egüés al que se accede desde la NA-150. Dista de Pamplona 12 km.

Véase también
 Valle de Egüés
 Navarra

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Echalaz - Valle de Egüés - Página web municipal

Localidades del Valle de Egüés

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Taser used to break up teen brawl
Dale Carruthers, QMI Agency
LONDON, Ont. - A teenager is in hospital and a group of high school students are threatening a protest against police after an officer used a Taser to break up a brawl in London, Ont., on Thursday.
The clash between two young men around noon was captured on a cellphone video reviewed by QMI Agency and later posted to YouTube.
The images show one combatant hitting the other with a chair, when an officer on foot hurries in from the street and shoots a dart from a Taser stun gun at a young man wearing jeans and a black shirt.
From the video, it appears the two boys had separated when the officer approached.
The crowd gasps in horror as the Taser's prongs appear to hit the young man in the face. He falls to the ground and is motionless for nearly one minute.
"You shot him in the head. You never even asked him," screams another male on the video.
The officer didn't give any warning before using his stun gun, said witness Vivian Greening.
"He just pulled out the Taser and shot him," she said. "They didn't even try to talk to the kids (or) yell at the kids."
Student Cody Hill, 17, who was in the crowd watching the fight, also said the cop Tasered the boy without warning.
It's not clear from the amateur video, with its imperfect audio, whether the officer gave a warning.
The onlookers spilled onto the street to watch the fight, many of them students at nearby H.B. Beal Secondary School.
Hill and a group of friends say they plan to hold a protest on Monday to decry the police response.
Police confirmed a 17-year-old who was Tasered was taken to hospital and another boy is in custody, but wouldn't comment if the officer issued a warning before using the stun gun.
"Our investigation is unfolding," said Const. Dennis Rivest. "There's a number of people that need to be interviewed right now and we still have a lot of work that we have to do to complete this investigation."
The boy's injuries aren't life-threatening, police said.
"And we're going to wait before any further comment on the situation."
Canadian researcher Andrew Podgorski, who studied stun guns for the Canadian government, said youth are more at risk of injury and death from being hit with a Taser's 50,000-volt jolt.
"The younger you are, the more susceptible you are," said Podgorski. "Younger people are generally . . . smaller in size."
One in 1,000 people who get Tasered die, said Podgorski, adding those under the influence of drugs and alcohol are more likely to die.
According to use-of-force statistics, London police used stun guns 28 times in 2010.
In 2004, Londoner Peter Lamonday, 33, died shortly after being Tasered by police at a convenience store.
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Pocket Twos - Casino Answers!
Pocket deuces, or ducks, in poker parlance, are the weakest of the pocket pairs. While high pocket pairs are good starting hands, low and medium pocket pairs require some finesse to play properly. Very small pairs are particularly difficult, since they always flop bottom pair. That said, the allure of flopping a set is hard to pass up. This article will cover the best way to play pocket twos.
The strength of these hands, however, lies in their ability to flop the disguised monster: a set, which easily improves to a full house if the board pairs. For this reason, you should play these hands in certain profitable situations.
The first situation is when you are first in the pot. In this case, you can typically enter the pot for a raise. Since you will often take down the pot uncontested with a bet on the flop, this is a semi-bluff raise aimed at stealing the blinds.
You can also play pairs if someone has raised before you and you are both deep-stacked. If you have more than twenty-five times the size of his raise, for example, he raises to $3 and you both have $75 or more, you can call with pocket deuces for the chance to flop a set. Sets have good implied odds against opponents who will put their stack in the middle with overpairs, top two pair, and strong draws like a flush draw.
You can play small pairs when you are very short-stacked as well. If you have under 10 big blinds, you can't go wrong putting your money in with small pocket pairs, especially if you are raising all in, not calling. If you don't plan on going all-in with them, you are better off folding when you are low on chips as the odds aren't in your favor otherwise.
You can play small pairs when you are playing heads-up poker. In this case, you only have to beat one opponent, and a lone pair is a favorite to do that.
In any of these situations, your goal is to flop a set and extract the most money from your opponent that you can. If he is an aggressive player, your set is often strong enough that you can slowplay it. If he is a calling station or a suspicious player, three large bets can trap a top pair type hand. Even against strong regulars, you will often stack your opponent if he flops a strong, but still second-best, hand.
What are the odds of getting pocket twos?
The odds of getting dealt a pocket pair in poker are 16-to-1, but the odds for a specific pairs (twos, aces, kings) is 220-to-1. That's pretty long odds so knowing how to play the pocket twos is very important in poker. The odds of then flopping a set with pocket twos is 7-to-1. So, there is definitely value in sticking in the hand with these as long as the pot and your position make it worth your while.


With a story about grass, snow, and a sheep, "Fuller House" star Candace Cameron Bure perfectly summed up our sinfulness and God's righteousness.
Speaking with Liberty's senior vice president for spiritual development, David Nasser, Cameron Bure said she didn't grow up in a religious home, but was introduced to church when she was 12 years old, when her parents were having marital problems.
As for whether "Fuller House" will be renewed for another season, Cameron Bure told students to stay tuned, noting there could be news about the Netflix series as soon as next week.


The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of UKIP in its appeal against the Electoral Commission's order to repay £350k donated by Alan Bown in 2006.
Alan Bown is English, he was born here and continues to live in England. Between December 2004 and February 2006 he was mysteriously removed from the electoral register and during that time he donated almost £350k to the party.
The Electoral Commission - little more than a sockpuppet for the LibLabCon - demanded the forfeiture of the full amount and UKIP appealed.
Westminster Magistrate's Court found in UKIP's favour and ruled that only £14,481 which the party accepted after being made aware that Bown wasn't on the electoral register should be repaid. The Electoral Commission appealed the decision in the High Court which ruled in favour of their political paymasters and ordered a full forfeiture.
Today's ruling by seven Lords has restored the original ruling by Westminster Magistrate's Court and UKIP will only have to repay £14,481.
The EU government has fined the UK over £150m for not putting the EU's logo on things that the EU Regional Development Fund has partly funded using UK taxes.
It's quite simple. The EU gives money to cultural and infrastructure projects all round Europe and in return the EU ring of stars logo has to be displayed prominently at the site of whatever the money has paid for and on letters, leaflets and posters to do with it to advertise the generosity of the ERDF.
Which is all well and good if it's someone else's money you're spending but the paltry amount of money the EU Regional Development Agency gives to the UK is far less than the obscene amount of money we hand over to the unaccountable, corrupt European Empire. In exchange for the EU giving us back some of our own money we are supposed to put up plaques and signs with the EU logo to show them how grateful we are and when we don't, they take more of our money in fines.
These plaques and signs are a blight. The most inappropriate one I've seen is at Blists Hill Victorian Town on the side of some restored Victorian machinery. Incidentally, the new post office they built at Blists Hill has modern rubber flooring rather than authentic wooden flooring because of EU regulations but that's a different matter.
It's about time these advertisements were removed from the sides of roads and tourist attractions, they're a blight on the landscape and a seemingly permanent reminder of our subjection by the European Empire.
It's funny but some of the things Nigel said are really quite familiar.
Why ask if you're going to ignore the answer?
The BBC has been asking members of the public what laws they would repeal in a "Great Repeal Bill" following the launch of a new website fronted by Nick Clegg asking members of the public which laws they would do away with.
I imagine that most UKIP members - and, in fact, most members of the public - would put the European Communities Act at or near the top of the list. So if leaving the EU comes out top of the wishes on this new website, we can expect the British government to start making arrangements to leave, right? After all, Cleggy says "For the first time in a long time, government is listening and we'll put the best suggestions into practice" so it's reasonable to assume that Cleggy and Cast Iron Dave are going to listen to the electorate and when it's clear that voters think leaving the EU is the best suggestion, we can expect them to do the honourable thing, yes?
Presenter: You saw some of the ideas there and you know this is a very basic straw poll but it's probably resonating with quite a few people. Will you take any notice?
Cleggy: Well I don't think we can scrap football and I don't think we can sort of get rid of Europe but look we're turning things on its head. The traditional way of doing things is that government tells people what to do, that's the old way of doing things. We're saying tell us what you don't want us to do. We've already made a big start. We're already scrapping ID cards, we're gonna scrap rules, these vetting and barring rules that were stopping people from just helping their neighbours children, we're gonna stop the fingerprinting of children in schools without parental permission. We're doing a lot of these things already but we want to hear more from people and if you go online it'll be the biggest online crowd sourcing initiative by any government ever and it'll really I think get the ball rolling to get people involved and to make people feel they're in charge as well.
Presenter: So you get ideas in but what level of support does it take then for you to do something about it? I mean if enough people said we want to get out of Europe on that site you'd have to do something about it wouldn't you?
Cleggy: No. Look, clearly as the lady said on the programme at the end of the day the government needs to decide. The key thing about this is that while ministers might be able to disagree with some of the suggestions, the suggestions will be out there.
Cleggy, like so many other politicians, seems to have forgotten that they are our servants, not the other way round. They are elected to represent our interests and run the country how we want it run. If most of us want out of the EU - and we do - then it is not for MPs to decide otherwise.


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American Horror Story: Freak Show Review: "Orphan"
(Episode 4.10)
By Ross Bonaime | December 18, 2014 | 9:40am
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In the larger scheme of the American Horror Story series, "Orphans" might very well be the most important episode so far. We've known that Pepper is the link between American Horror Story's two best seasons (Freak Show and Asylum), but with a time jump ten years into the future, and the introduction of Lily Rabe's Sister Mary Eunice, we finally get to see that yes, American Horror Story as a series is entirely connected, as Ryan Murphy recently admitted.
Now, the long term plans for this interconnectivity could end up being good, or terribly bad. Will it make seasons like Coven stronger by association, or are we going to start seeing The Gimp running around with Dandy Mott, ruining everything? This probably won't happen anytime soon, and maybe these implications aren't as important as they will be in future seasons, but as of "Orphans," the possibilities are exciting. Now, each season might have an unknown importance and more interesting implications than what we currently understand.
However, this is possibly giving the show too much credit. I doubt that there's some subtle moment (as if there's such a thing on this show) from the first season that'll have great importance later on, but this idea does bring the entire series into a whole new light.
This new development is given to us through Pepper, possibly the only character in the entire series that does not have a deceptive or cruel bone in her body. I honestly didn't expect AHS to do Pepper justice, and worried that the show could easily poke fun at, or fumble the handling of such a character, especially with an episode that focuses specifically on her. But in a season that has given us Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange and the entire cast at their best, Naomi Grossman as Pepper has truly given the greatest performance this season.
Pepper is given a beautiful arc, where she goes from being an abandoned teenager "adopted" by Elsa, and wanting to feel the normalcy of a family, to being abandoned twice more, ultimately landing her at the asylum from Season Two. Grossman is telling us so much of Pepper's story through her eyes: wonderment, heartbreak, love, pain—it's all there. Pepper, without saying more than a handful of words, gives us her intentions, her goals, and her aspirations, which is more than can be said for most of the characters (who might be speaking too much). Even by just touching her hand to her cheek, Pepper gives us one of the most powerfully emotional moments of the show. For once, American Horror Story achieves subtlety—and it looks good on the show.
We also see the beginnings of the freak show through Pepper. My only disappointment with this episode is that we didn't learn more about the other additions to the show—seeing the early days of Jimmy and Ethel Darling would have been interesting, but that's a very minor complaint.
On the more brutal side, and in order to fill the show's weekly gore quota, there's Stanley. He takes Pepper's love, Salty, and cuts off his head once he's dead, to sell. By the end of the episode, he's also negotiated the purchase of Jimmy's lobster hands for his exhibit. But the way this is handled, it gives us a point to look forward to, and gives Freak Show a clear direction to head into, rather than that feeling from other seasons, where it's just fumbling to a conclusion. We also get that with Pepper's story, seeing that Elsa has somehow made it to Hollywood, and is living a successful life on the television.
"Orphans" presents the strongest profile of a character that I can remember on the show and the result is a touching, beautiful look at one of AHS's side characters—one who is so much more than we thought. In turn, we also get the great possibilities of connected seasons, which could either complicate or add depth to this entire series. But "Orphans" also gives us a glimpse at the season's future, and how some of these character's stories might end. As this show's best season by far, all Freak Show has to do now is stick the landing.
Ross Bonaime is a D.C.-based freelance writer and regular contributor to Paste. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Frei Otto: Spanning the Future is a documentary about the incredible life and work of Frei Otto. As an architect and engineer he laid the foundation for contemporary lightweight architecture, and his ideas are still awe inspiring decades after he revealed them. This fact was cemented when he was named the 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
In one of the final interviews given before his passing, Frei Otto tells how coming of age in the years surrounding WWII influenced his work in tensile architecture. Along with Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Richard Neutra, Frei Otto was a visionary. His approach to form finding to solve structural as well as social problems is the foundation for modern architecture. Frei Otto: Spanning the Future takes architecture fans on a journey through a history of architecture that inspires the world of tomorrow.
This structure amazed onlookers and showed that tensile structures were an emerging architectural design medium.
Sails at the Federal Garden Exhibition at Kassel, 1955, where Frei Otto first gained notoriety.
Interviewed for the film in 2012.
Demonstrating inverse modeling at the IL institute at the University of Stuttgart.
Drawings for the 1955 Federal Garden Exhibition at Kassel.
Model for the Munich Olympic Stadium.
Discussing plans for the Japanese Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hannover.
Legendary American architect, futurist, and friend of Frei Otto.
The finished stadium for the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Model for the aviary at the Munich Zoo.
Talking about Frei Otto's continued influence beyond architecture and engineering.


I'd always thought that writing the novel was the longest part of the publishing process. Little did I know that publishing it would take about five times as long as writing it. Still, good things come to those who wait, and I'm proud to announce the digital release of my novel The Digital Sea.
It should also be available at the other eStores eventually, but it may take a week or so for the data to transfer. So if you're looking for it right now, the above three links should get you the format your eReader needs. Buy it now or get it for your loved one when they open up their eReader on Xmas morning.
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This is wonderful news! I loved your writing when I read your work at the Oregon novel workshop last October. Since the science fiction novel market with traditional publishers is so absurdly tight right now, I'm glad e-publishing is becoming an option so that new science fiction can get out to readers.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm looking forward to seeing your books in print or e-print soon too.
And I'm still pursuing a large publisher, but yes, you're right, it's nice to have options as a writer now. Hope to see you at another workshop or conference in the near future.
You'll sell to a traditional publisher, it's just a matter of time. Also, I've got a feeling we're about due for an upswing in the market for science fiction novels.
I won't be at the workshops in Feb. (but will be at the one in April in Oregon), but I'm sure we'll cross paths soon. I'll be at Bubonicon in NM this year, and plan to travel more often in 2012.


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Apparently, the actress fell in love with the story right away. When the script was narrated to Barbara Mori, she not only was drawn to the love story but also is quite excited to do the film because of the character and the tone of the film is completely different from 'Kites'.


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Diageo to launch Johnnie Walker in paper bottle in early 2021
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Diageo announces creation of 100% plastic free paper-based spirits bottle. Photo - Diageo
British multinational beverage alcohol company, Diageo, makers of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, and Guinness, has announced that it has created 100% plastic-free paper-based spirits bottle, made entirely from sustainably sourced wood. The bottle will debut with Johnnie Walker, the world's number one Scotch Whisky, in early 2021. London headquartered Diageo operates in more than 180 countries, including India.
Diageo & Pilot Lite launch 'Pulpex'
It comes as Diageo announces that it has launched a new partnership with Pilot Lite, a venture management company, to launch Pulpex, a new world-leading sustainable packaging technology company. Pilot Lite is a company that invests in ethical and sustainable ventures. Pulpex is a packaging technology company with a single-minded mission to deliver sustainability through renewable packaging.
To ensure that the technology can be used in every area of life, Pulpex has established a partner consortium of world-leading FMCG companies in non-competing categories, including Unilever and PepsiCo further partners expected to be announced later in the year. The consortium partners are each expecting to launch their own branded paper bottles, based on Pulpex's design and technology, in 2021.
100% plastic-free, paper-based bottles
Pulpex has developed a 'first-of-its-kind' scalable paper-based bottle designed and developed to be 100% plastic-free and expected to be fully recyclable. The bottle is made from sustainably sourced pulp to meet food-safe standards and will be fully recyclable in standard waste streams. The technology will allow brands to rethink their packaging designs, or move existing designs into paper, while not compromising on the existing quality of the product.
Ewan Andrew, chief sustainability officer, Diageo, said, "We're proud to have created this world first. We are constantly striving to push the boundaries within sustainable packaging and this bottle has the potential to be truly ground-breaking. It feels fitting that we should launch it with Johnnie Walker, a brand that has often led the way in innovation throughout its 200 years existence."
Pulpex's technology allows it to produce a variety of plastic-free, single mold bottles that can be used across a range of consumer goods. The packaging has been designed to contain a variety of liquid products and will form part of Diageo's commitment towards Goal 12 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – 'Responsible Consumption and Production'.
Richard Slater, chief R&D officer, Unilever, said, "We believe in tackling plastic waste through innovation and collaboration. We will halve our use of virgin plastic at Unilever, reducing our use of plastic packaging by more than 100,000 tons in the next five years. Joining forces to develop and test paper bottles is an incredibly exciting step forward, and we're delighted to be working together to tackle one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time."
Simon Lowden, chief sustainability officer, PepsiCo, said, "Innovative solutions and partnerships are critical to driving meaningful progress toward a circular economy. The Pulpex consortium is well positioned to deliver sustainable packaging at scale and across industries, having an impact beyond what any organization could achieve alone. We're proud to be a part of it."
Sandy Westwater, director, Pilot Lite said, "We're thrilled to be working with global brand leaders in this consortium. By working together, we can use the collective power of the brands to help minimize the environmental footprint of packaging by changing manufacturing and consumer behaviors."
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Pulpex says that as soon as the technology allows, it will be looking to introduce paper-based bottles capable of taking carbonated products. In addition, it is already working on containers capable to taking hot-fill products. Updates on these this feature as part of the wider portfolio should be available in coming months.
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French police accused of systematic violence against refugees
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French police have been accused of more than 1,000 human rights violations against refugees, it has been reported.
Four humanitarian organisations published a report called 'Police Violence in Calais: Abusive and Illegal Practices by Law Enforcement officers', says that 972 incidents were recorded over the space of a year by aid workers who formed a human rights monitoring team.
One of the most serious allegations relates to January 25, 2018, when a 16-year-old Eritrean boy lost his eye, sense of smell and hearing in one ear after French riot police fired tear gas into a crowd of refugees during an eviction of their sleeping area in Calais.
In 2017, a black man called Théo arrived at a French emergency room on Feb. 2.
He accused two French police officers of raping him with batons during an arrest. The police officers claimed that the baton somehow inserted itself after his trousers accidentally fell down.
Theo was raped by French police
While noting that the violent encounter was "very serious," the investigation by France's national police force claimed that the incident was "not a rape" because of the "unintentional character" of the penetration.
Théo said that during the attack in which they pepper sprayed him, they called him 'negro' and 'bitch'.
This new report states that the riot police fired "chemical agent grenades indiscriminately into a crowd of displaced people in [an] attempt to disperse them."
The victim says that a rubber bullet gun was fired at him 10 to 15 metres away.
"The [riot police] fired tear gas from guns and filled the sky with smoke," says a British volunteer who witnessed the incident. "I saw through the smoke a boy being carried by his friends, covered in blood. He had been hit in the eye and they had no way of getting him to hospital. His friends were crying; it was a group of minors and the boy himself was 16."
At least 124 reports of physical violence by police officers against refugees were made to volunteers. One testimony from a 21-year-old Ethiopian male on October 29, 2018 says that he was beaten by police.
"They tried to break my arms," he says. "They beat me too much." He claims he later lost consciousness
A 13-year-old boy from Afghanistan, who had been sleeping on the streets, says that he was a victim of tear-gassing and beatings by French authorities.
One pregnant woman in April 2018 says she was prevented from returning to her tent to retrieve medication after an eviction. Some refugees who were the subject of an eviction on September 6, 2018, in Dunkirk allege that police tied them up with cables and drew numbers on their bodies.
A video, seen by Al Jazeera, supposedly taken inside one of the police stations shows a number of men with their hands bound with cable ties. The man who took the video says he was rounded up along with others by riot police and national police and was then taken to a police station, which he believes was in Lille. While there, he says he was bound with plastic cable ties.
Another video given to Al Jazeera taken on the same day as the September 6 eviction shows men on a bus being taken to a police station with cable ties around their wrists.
One of the refugees stated: "We've been detained for seven hours, maybe eight I'm not sure. They weren't letting us out to go to the toilet. They actually put numbers behind our heads, on the neck so they can recognise us. So that's how they were recognising us. They were calling one by one, taking information and fingerprints."
A 27-year-old Kurdish man, who wishes to remain anonymous who was the subject of a separate eviction on October 23, says that he was taken to a Dunkirk police station and had his number written on his arm.
"A number, just like an animal you know, just like [an] animal. All of the countries all over the world, they put this just on the animal's hand, why they put this?" he says.
It has also been alleged in testimony received by Al Jazeera that during an eviction on October 23 in Grande-Synthe near Dunkirk, a woman, who was eight months pregnant, fainted after witnessing her husband being struck by police.
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Aimed at helping dealers justify their ad budgets, a proprietary digital solution designed to show just where ad dollars are going each month can match car buyers with the exact display campaign messages that initially brought them in the door.
A Texas dealer group that used the solution called DataMatch to increase the sales of a particular brand during a December campaign saw impressive results.
Performance-marketing agency MNI Targeted Media, which specializes in targeted ads, created the solution.
MNI Targeted Media's senior vice president of digital Matthew Fanelli says that a month after the launch of the Texas group's December campaign, 17 percent of the targeted brand's sales for December were attributed to the audience and the campaign delivered by the company.
This is a result of the DataMatch solution's ability to focus on marketing across a number of media properties to deliver specific audiences, Fanelli explained during a phone interview with Auto Remarketing late last month.
Fanelli said, "And the tool doesn't just necessarily deliver up a specific audience, but it delivers up that audience at the right place, at the right moment in time, in the right mindset – to complete a pre-determined desire to action."
MNI Targeted Media offers digital advertising programs that facilitate media strategy for engaging target audiences through cross-platform solutions that wield local, social, network, search, social, email and programmatic data.
The company presents its clients with a single point of contact for multi-platform, customized, demo- and geo-targeted advertising.
"They're basically getting targeted down to the IP address or their mobile device ID number, that are also shared with the dealerships," Fanelli said.
Upon completion of the sale or lease payment, dealerships pass back their sales data, including customer email addresses that can be matched with target audiences.
Fanelli explained, "We're doing a one-to-one match, to say okay, 'we know that person X was actually exposed to this based on his or her behaviors and where we served the ad'."
The company can target consumers based on the applications they have on their smartphones, their online consumption, and offline data sources, as well.
MNI Targeted Media collects data from 7,000 plus mobile apps to identify audiences based on individual's device ID and app usage, according to its website.
"Offline data sources include car registration data, lease registration data, their warranty data on their vehicle, and then delivering up those messages based on those three components," Fanelli explained.
When it comes to competing with sites that bring in leads like Cars.com or Autotrader, Fanelli stressed that this type of targeting can attract consumers who aren't shopping but may still be interested in considering their next vehicle purchase.
"I think that has been the missing link, if you will, specifically in automotive advertising," Fanelli added. "This is very much centered around how do we take that display targeting to the next level and prove its worth for individual dealerships."


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LA Film Festival 2018 – Best Of Fest 'Wrap Up' at Why So Blu?
Special thanks to all involved with LA Film Festival who facilitated seeing so many memorable movies and congrats on yet another notable year – see you all in 2019!
Written by: Jason Coleman on October 1, 2018.
Tags: American Dreamer, Banana Split, Crispin Glover, Dasha Nekrasova, False Confessions, Hannah Marks, Jim Gaffigan, Softness Of Bodies, Song Of Back And Neck, Stuntman, We Have Always Lived In The Castle.
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The Midwest May Be the Next Frontier In Marijuana Legalization
Published on November 8, 2018, By Marijuana Moment
Michigan fully legalized marijuana, Missouri voted to allow medical cannabis and Democrats picked up four gubernatorial seats in the Midwest on Tuesday. What does that say about the future of marijuana reform in the region?
With the gubernatorial wins of Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, J. B. Pritzker in Illinois, Tim Walz in Minnesota and Tony Evers in Wisconsin, the stage seems to be set for a Midwestern green revolution. Michigan became the first state in the region to legalize for adult use, but the overall political landscape bodes well for cannabis reform efforts with the new governors-elect taking their seats soon.
Illinois and Minnesota already have exiting medical cannabis systems in place. Pritzker said on Wednesday that he thinks his state should consider adult-use legalization "right away," noting the economic benefits. A system designed to expunge the criminal records of individuals who've been convicted of cannabis-related offenses is also on the table for Illinois, he said.
Governor-elect @JBPritzker wants to legalize recreational marijuana in Illinois almost immediately after being sworn in next year. He also said he will look at vacating arrest records for those who have been convicted of crimes involving marijuana. https://t.co/NESIbgSgU1 pic.twitter.com/qM889uy405
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Similarly, Whitmer said that Michigan voters have made clear that "no one should bear a lifelong record" for an offense that has since been legalized. She will be "looking into" policies to ameliorate that problem.
"A green Midwest would say [to the federal government] what we're seeing in so many other arenas," Jolene Forman, a staff attorney for the Drug Policy Alliance, told Marijuana Moment. "Marijuana is not an exclusively a leftist or libertarian issue. It's really an issue that the American public wants to see."
Historically, the Midwest hasn't been regarded as a region especially friendly toward progressive cannabis policies. But that's rapidly changing, and the results of the midterm election could signal a paradigm shift that's been a long time coming, Forman said.
For example, Walz, in Minnesota, said he wants to "replace the current failed policy with one that creates tax revenue, grows jobs, builds opportunities for Minnesotans, protects Minnesota kids, and trusts adults to make personal decisions based on their personal freedoms."
In Wisconsin, voters in 16 counties and two cities embraced various marijuana reform proposals in the form of non-binding advisory questions on Tuesday. Outgoing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walter (R) opposed full legalization and called marijuana a "gateway drug" as recently as May, but governor-elect Evers has said he wants to put a legalization question on the statewide ballot for voters to weigh in on and would support ending prohibition if they approved it. In the meantime he wants to enact decriminalization and legalize medical cannabis.
Meanwhile, voters in five Ohio cities approved local marijuana decriminalization measures.
"The Midwest, which is the heartland of America—if legalization starts to take root there, it's only a matter of time that federal law changes and that the rest of the country follows," Forman said.
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