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This course is taught by Tim Wright the artist and tutor who worked as the Painting Consultant on the film Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh and starring Timothy Spall as JMW Turner the great British painters.
Tim's chief responsibly was to teach Timothy Spall to paint in preparation for his role as the great artist and was on hand on the film set to help him create the painting scenes for the movie. Tim also taught the other actors who played artists in the film.
Tim teaches this course with specific reference to Turner's late watercolours. You will look at landscape and how Turner employed his mature technique to express place and atmosphere. Tim will help you investigate and experiment with the possibilities of watercolour and develop paintings from sketches and studies.


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Is this official Disney resort a hotel or a zoo? Maybe it's both? Is such a thing even possible? Yes, as you know, all things are possible once Imagineers get involved. Here are six reasons to stay at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge…including the obvious one!
During the mid-1990s, the Decade of Disney included an emphasis on architecture. One of the high points of this era was the construction of Disney's Wilderness Lodge, a rustic setting with a majestic lobby. The designer for this gorgeous project was Peter Dominick of Urban Design Group.
When Disney chose to add a companion resort to their new theme park, Disney's Animal Kingdom, they re-hired Dominick. He again emphasized a gorgeous group setting as part of the project. The output is the lobby of Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, arguably the most serene place at Walt Disney World.
My admiration for The Walt Disney Company is unmistakable. Even I tend to take their greatness for granted on occasion, though. They've done the impossible so many times that customers expect it of them. At this area of Walt Disney World, however, Disney's greatest achievement is on display.
At Animal Kingdom, Imagineers have done something that Walt Disney himself had desired. They have combined a theme park with a zoo. As I always say, the animals are the residents while the park guests are the visitors.
Not content with their sublime accomplishment, park officials chose to extend the premise. They built an entire resort around the same concept. When you stay in certain rooms at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, you get an inimitable view as a special bonus. Gazelles, giraffes, ostriches, wildebeests, and zebras are among the different species that wander the hotel grounds.
Simply stated, the animals at this resort are more than enough reason to book a hotel room here. You'll never experience anything like it again in your life. The idea is that the hotel mimics an African savannah, where your living quarters are in the natural habitat of several different species. It's…the absolute best.
Animal Kingdom Lodge is something of an oddity in the Disney resort lineup. This campus features two distinct hotels, Jambo House and Kidani Village. Each of these hotels is standalone, with 300 villas at Kidani Village and 1,007 rooms and villas at Jambo House. You can't go wrong with either hotel, as they have their own distinct amenities.
At Kidani Village, Samawati Spring Pool is a phenomenal, kid-friendly pool with a massive waterslide. You can watch video of it here. I would describe the pool as somewhere between a main resort pool and a quiet pool in terms of size and guest traffic. I will add that I find Kidani a bit noisier and more active than Jambo House, although I've had others tell me exactly the opposite. So, it's a matter of opinion.
The point is that Samawati Springs Pool is plenty nice enough to use as a home base when you want to spend the afternoon at the pool. It's just not as good as the one at Jambo House.
I've previously named Uzima Springs Pool as one of the best three pools at Walt Disney World. It's certainly among the most spacious at 234,980 gallons of water. The only knock on it is that it's a haven for children, meaning that the chlorine has to work overtime. Then again, it's Walt Disney World. What could you possibly expect?
The one that most Disney fans agree is true involves Animal Kingdom's cuisine. It's a destination location for foodies due to the exotic flavors available in the various themed lands. Whether you love Asian, African, or Pandoran (?) food, you're golden at Animal Kingdom.
By extension, the same is true at Animal Kingdom Lodge. Legitimately several of the best Disney resort restaurants are hosted here. Declaring one of them as the best is likely to start a riot among Disney fans, so I'll just group them together.
I've pointed out that The Mara offers one of the best resort breakfasts at Walt Disney World. I'm also an evangelist about the food at Boma, starting with the breads and finishing with the glorious Zebra Domes, quite possibly the tastiest of all Disney treats. Sanaa is Kidani Village's answer to Boma, with both restaurants having their admirers. Finally, Jiko – The Cooking Place is the Signature Dining experience at the resort, signifying that's the most exquisite of all possible meals.
Folks, when you're hungry, Animal Kingdom Lodge is the place to go. I'm not just saying that for people staying at the resort. My family visits here every trip, even when we're guests at a different Disney resort. The food is otherworldly.
Beyond the animals, the best part of a stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge is its location. Given the name, you've sussed out that it's close to Disney's Animal Kingdom, the newest themed gate at Walt Disney World. This park opened in 1998, and the nearby resort opened to the public in 2001.
For many years, the logistics of Animal Kingdom Lodge were nice but not hugely beneficial. After all, Animal Kingdom was always neck-and-neck with Disney's Hollywood Studios as the least trafficked of the four Disney parks. The two newest additions fell far behind the originals, Magic Kingdom and Epcot, in terms of daily traffic.
In 2017, the situation changed. Disney introduced the public to Pandora – The World of Avatar. Park traffic immediately increased 25 percent, an almost incomprehensible surge in attendance. Animal Kingdom not only soared ahead of Hollywood Studios but even surpassed Epcot, too!
Yes, Epcot's 2017 attendance increased from 11.7 million to 12.2 million. Despite the impressive growth, it got passed by Animal Kingdom. That park gained 1.7 million from 10.8 million to 12.5 million. All of that traffic is due to Pandora, currently the most technologically advanced and immersive theme park in the world.
Guests at Animal Kingdom Lodge are only a five-minute drive away from the park, which means that they're always 15 minutes away from Pandora! Who wouldn't want to stay close to the best themed land in the world right now?
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This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through March 23)
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Racing Against China, US Reveals Details of $500 Million Supercomputer
Don Clark | The New York Times
"Lab officials predict it will be the first American machine to reach a milestone called 'exascale' performance, surpassing a quintillion calculations per second. That's roughly seven times the speed rating of the most powerful system built to date, or 1,000 times faster than the first 'petascale' systems that began arriving in 2008."
Scientists Grow 'Mini-Brain on the Move' That Can Contract Muscle
Hannah Devlin | The Guardian
"The lentil-sized grey blob of human brain cells were seen to spontaneously send out tendril-like connections to link up with the spinal cord and muscle tissue, which was taken from a mouse. The muscles were then seen to visibly contract under the control of the so-called brain organoid."
Short Film Created in Unreal Engine Showcases a Photorealistic World
Kris Holt | Engadget
"Quixel captured more than 1,000 scans in Iceland to help it create the gorgeous short, so the team didn't have to create assets itself. Games, visual effects and architectural visualization artists worked on the project to highlight the capabilities of Unreal across a number of industries."
A 'Halo Drive' Could Accelerate Interstellar Spacecraft to Close to the Speed of Light
Emerging Technology from the arXiv | MIT Technology Review
"…a sufficiently advanced civilization could travel at relativistic speeds from one part of the galaxy to another by hopping from one black-hole binary system to another. …The Milky Way contains around 10 billion binary black-hole systems. But Kipping points out that there are likely to be just a limited number of trajectories that link them together, so these interstellar highways are likely to be valuable regions."
Finally! A DNA Computer That Can Actually Be Reprogrammed
Daniel Oberhaus | Wired
"According to Erik Winfree, a computer scientist at Caltech and a co-author of the paper, molecular algorithms leverage the natural information processing capacity baked into DNA, but rather than letting nature take the reins, he says, 'computation controls the growth process.'i"
Moral Technology
Paula Boddington | Aeon
"AI's ability to manipulate and process vast amounts of data might push us into giving undue or sole prominence to data-driven approaches to identifying and solving problems. This might lead to uniformity of thinking, even in cases where there are reasons to aspire to variety of thought and approach. It might also eclipse other factors and, in doing so, distort not just our thinking, but our values."
With AI and DNA, Massive Attack Are Hacking a New Kind of Music
Stephen Armstrong | Wired
"AI remixes, DNA archiving, AR concerts. It's been 20 years since Mezzanine and Massive Attack's experiment is still running."
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My daughter, Ashley, just got a new iPad for her senior year at the University of Colorado. She loves Boulder, her sorority, Alpha Phi, and her school. Her love of iPad falls in there somewhere too and I wanted to give her something to make it pretty for her and remind her of our little road trip together last week moving her back to Boulder from California and into her new apartment.
Why not some iPad wallpaper!? Yes, good idea. Well there's a difference between iPads so I needed to look up the specs to find out just how to make these wallpaper photographs for ultimate quality on her and her friend's iPads. It turns out that the original iPad has the same screen resolution as the iPad 2. Those images would need to be 1024 by 768 at a resolution of 132 pixels per inch. The New iPad has four times as many pixels because of it's retina screen so it's resolution is 2048 by 1536 pixels and the resolution is twice as high, or 264 pixels per inch. That results is a pretty large image and would be called iPad wallpaper HD. You only need to know all this info if you want to make some iPad wallpaper from some of your own images.
Ralphie the buffalo is the school mascot of the University of Colorado. He's so lovable and there is a beautiful statue of him sitting in the plaza in front of the CU stadium. Ashley and I took a break from shopping at Costco, emptying her storage unit, grocery shopping and moving everything into her new apartment to run out at the end of the day to grab a photo of Ralphie and also the shot above of the Flatirons. Both these photos are wonderful remembrances of the good times at Boulder and I hope that any student at CU with an iPad will help himself or herself to these free iPad wallpapers.
Making wallpaper for the iPad is not an exact science, like it is when making wallpaper for a desktop or laptop monitor. Who can guess why that is? Yes, Johnny!!! You're right, it's because the iPad ROTATES! Photographs are not made to be rotated randomly. Photographers are very intentional in cropping images to optimally express the essence of the image. If you take a beautiful image made to be viewed in landscape mode and rotate it 90 degrees, it's going to look… not quite as the artist intended.
These FREE iPad wallpaper photographs you can download today are both in landscape mode. Most of my work is oriented this way, however, I'm looking through my past work now so I can supplement my FREE iPad wallpaper offering with portrait mode images so everybody has something pretty no matter which way you roll.
I love your picture of the Flatirons. I'm looking to start a Church in Boulder, Colorado in the next 1 1/2 and I wanted to see how much it would cost to maybe use this photo as the backdrop of our Logo and material? When I saw this picture…..it captures everything I love about Boulder. You took a phenomenal shot!!! Have a blessed day!!
Thank you Mark and I'll email you about licensing it. Cheers!
Great foto of the flatirons. Do you sell it in high resolution so i can get it printed out on acril glass in large format.


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How CoinTribe is eyeing disbursal of Rs 600 Cr to small businesses by 2019
By Tarush Bhalla
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Online lending platform CoinTribe has raised $3 million in pre-Series A and the 90-member team is aiming to build a loan book size of Rs 600 crore by the end of the fiscal year 2018.
It's not every day that management consultants leave well-cushioned jobs to start up.
But 41-year-old Amit Sachdev and 33-year-old Rohit Lohia were keen to bridge the financing gap in small and medium enterprises.
An IIM- Lucknow and IIT Varanasi graduate, Amit had been a career strategy consultant throughout. At Boston Consulting Group he advised banks, NBFCs, as well as Asset Management Companies on issues involving business strategy, transformation, digital strategy, operational improvements, and risk management. Rohit worked as a Project Leader at BCG before enterprising with a vertical e-commerce portal, IndiaInMyBag, which focused on creating a platform for weavers and artisans engaged in traditional craft in 2013.
Founders of CoinTribe (L to R): Manish Chaudhari, Amit Sachdev and Rohit Lohia
Explaining their concept over a call, Amit says,
"There is still a huge gap in the SME unsecured loan segment. There are three private banks, which haven't entered this unsecured segment. A platform like ours tying up with them means introducing new banking capital to this space."
Conceived in May 2015, their enterprise, CoinTribe, is a loan marketplace focused sharply on Micro-Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The model facilitates not just loan or lead generation for banks, but also assesses a customer's credit risk through proprietary underwriting engines and provides suitable suggestions.
The startup looks at mainly providing standardised business loans. The company's website does mention personal loans, but that's not a focus area. However, the founders claim they have banking partnerships to cater to requests raised on the platform. CoinTribe has tied up with six NBFCs and banks to give out loans to businesses.
Creating their own niche
Unlike most players, CoinTribe doesn't want to become a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC). Players like CapitalFloat and InCred - with NBFC licenses – are operating presently with a similar marketplace model.
But why is CoinTribe staying away from the NBFC route?
Because being an NBFC not just allows entities to be flexible to deploy their own capital, but also results in higher commissions from loans disbursed.
Amit bets on the fact that NBFCs might be looking at higher commissions because their cost of raising lending capital is significantly higher.
Citing figures, he says the cost of raising capital is 6-7 percent for loan marketplaces like CoinTribe while it can be as high as 12-15 percent for NBFCs (like CapitalFloat).
This makes the total interest at which the loan is borrowed extremely high, acting as a barrier rather than enabler.
Including all costs of operations, predictive NPAs (non-performing assets) and margins, CoinTribe gives unsecured business loans at interest rates ranging from 16 to 21 percent. But the average interest rate by portfolio is 19 percent.
The founding duo states that their platform has facilitated disbursal of loans worth more than Rs 225 crores while claiming to be deploying loans worth Rs 35 crores every month.
CoinTribe presently claims to have an active loan book of Rs 75-80 crore, and the company receives revenues in two different ways. The first is through commissions received on every loan deployed. This can range between 4 to 6 percent for every loan deployed. They also gain from banks and other financial institutions that use CoinTribe's underwriting algorithms to validate the credit worthiness of customers. A fee of Rs 2,000 per application underwritten is charged.
Tracing the CoinTribe evolution
The firm has mapped their evolution across three stages.
The founders explain the first stage - between 2015 and July 2016 - was to design the right underwriting algorithm and build a robust backend.
The second stage kickstarted from August 2016 and included working with a small set of lending partners in long and short-term dealer financing.
At present, the firm claims to be in the growth, or third stage, where the objective is to scale up. The focus for CoinTribe at present is to see lead generations from the top 15 to 20 cities and go beyond that.
The Gurgaon-based firm has a strong presence in Delhi-NCR area and is now active in Mumbai.
CoinTribe is now also looking at exclusive partnerships with aggregators such as classified listing platforms for access to more customers.
The team at CoinTribe
What's up next for CoinTribe?
In the coming fiscal, the startup plans to introduce newer products on the platform. This includes short-term loans, starting from one to 12 months. Apart from dealer loans, the firm will also enter the vendor financing space, personalising products according to their needs.
The 90-member CoinTribe team is confident of building a loan book size of Rs 600 crore by the end of fiscal year 2018, and reaching Rs 13,000 crore by the end of FY 22 for long term loans.
In 2016, the company raised a pre-Series A round of $3 million from Puneet Dalmia, Managing Director, Dalmia Bharat Group, who also served a sounding board for the founders before they started the business.
But Amit and Rohit aren't the only co-founders of CoinTribe. A few months after starting up, they were joined by Manish Chaudhari, 39, now co-founder and Chief Risk Officer of the company.
Amit states, "We met more than 18 senior people who were managing risk in various organisations before we finally ran into Manish. He was the perfect fit for our business."
Manish brings to the table 14 years of experience in credit underwriting and portfolio risk management, and has worked with ICICI Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, GE Money and Cholamandalam Finance.
Multiple models in lending space
Apart from the NBFC lending startups mentioned above, there are a host of lending startups and NBFCs operating in the country. The lending space has multiple models, including lead generators like BankBazaar and NBFCs like LendingKart. According to YourStory Research, in 2016, lending startups raised $343 million in funding.
CoinTribe competes directly with Kalaari-funded financial marketplace Rubique, but the founders claim their underwriting capabilities set them apart.
With multiple other players in the playing field, the distribution network for banks and other financial lending institutions is getting stronger. But it may well be a double-edged sword. In the race to get everyone in on the lending game (from businesses to blue-collar workers), these startups might also build up irrecoverable loans for financial entities.
In FY 2018, CoinTribe plans a push to create strong partnerships that will help reach more SMEs effectively.
The founders are "cautious in their portfolio growth and continue to believe that long-term success in SME lending will come from good risk assessment".
Website: www.cointribe.com
Kalaari Capital
Rubique
CoinTribe
Puneet Dalmia
Dalmia Bharat Group
Amit Sachdev
Rohit Lohia
Manish Chaudhari


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The Path to Distributed Publishing (Part 1)
The way people have found content on the internet has gone through some very clear phases. Understanding our history is vital to understanding the present and being able to anticipate the available paths of the present into the future.
Should we talk about AOL?
The internet's first phase of consumer addiction started with text only terminal programs like Lynx, the pre-image internet of pure text hyperlinks. People learned to publish HTML files and how hyperlinks worked. It was the first raw layer of the internet that everything else is still built on top of.
As quickly as it developed, attempts were made to help other people find what had been created. Yahoo! became a winner by quickly organizing a very broad taxonomy for roughly "everything," and by giving human editors simple software to choose links for each category as Mosaic emerged (images on web pages!). Yahoo!'s efforts paid off and they became the central rainmaker.
A relatively small attempt at logical taxonomy was put together, and human category editors became the key path to content on the internet. If you didn't know who the category editor was for your space, you found a way to get to know them. Getting key placements in those categories could change a business dramatically.
Yahoo! categories.Source: http://bit.ly/2aR6Zef
As the open web sprawled, Google emerged to organize the world's information. In a very short time, the tiny informational reach of the human category editors was made irrelevant. We learned not only how to search, but an industry developed in the years after to optimize for better distribution in this new world order. The SEO industry became massive as it controlled the new lifeblood of content to its path to an audience.
At Huffington Post, where I was CTO, we built software to help teach writers how that universe worked, and how to make small changes to the way they put stories together to win. They told the same story, but they also learned to think about how humanity at large searched, and then how to become a top three result in that search. Google was the undisputed rainmaker, and companies like HuffPost that figured out SEO learned how to drink under a waterfall. Those who learned to build around the new rules of this landscape won constantly.
The Huffington Post home page, July 2009.From the Wayback Machine: http://bit.ly/2b4d1oF
The new phase changes the landscape completely once again and radically displaces Google. We are well past the beginning of this phase — the new paradigm is now much stronger and more powerful. Facebook has organized the world's information in a way that Google could never have been able to. Facebook has rendered Google's search technology as irrelevant as Google did Yahoo's categories. What was built into the very core of Facebook was essentially an AI agent for each one of us. It was crude ten years ago compared to what it is now, but it worked.
While Facebook's core positioning is social, the data and software they possess contains all the clues for nearly 2 billion people's interests. And every minute it learns more. Google's tech was focused only on the content that was being created. Facebook's tech sees beyond that to the person reading and sharing that story. The vital leap from Like to Reactions seems to be successfully completed, so the complexity and texture of the data becomes even more effective.
The hyperlinked, interests-based profile.From Mashable: http://on.mash.to/2b4dUxm
The shift to mobile has finalized our relationship with search. We expect content to come to us now, and it does. It isn't just our friends that Facebook has learned from — through Pages, Facebook has learned about our interests as well. Oddly enough, it is sort of a return to human category editors — but this time, instead of a few thousand, there are 85 million and growing daily. Winning on social today often takes the type of awareness and relationship building with other humans leading key categories like it did in the Yahoo! era. But it has to be conducted at a scale that can only be possible through technology. As the interest graphs of social networks have established a clear ownership of the path to content for consumers, a new industry is evolving.
It's called Social Media Optimization (SMO), and it goes beyond learning how to publish into networks to understanding how to optimize for distribution on these networks. Facebook's core offering to solve that problem has been very useful tools to pay for reach. But the core product that we all grew to love Facebook for, and is the single pillar of its success, is in the main column, not the ad slots.
That same single column of UX exists, in a way, as massively parallel universes — different content for each of us. The new waterfall is quite a bit bigger than anything we've ever seen before. When a single piece of content starts to find itself showing even in a tiny percent of the waterfall, a new company worth hundreds of millions can bloom from that in a very short time.
Map of Facebook Live broadcasts (Giphy).From Product Hunt: http://bit.ly/2aR8DfF
The role of Social Media Optimization will be to help people understand how to adapt to this new world as it evolves. One of the most significant core landscape shifts to understand in order to be able to optimize at all is the shift to distributed publishing.
The Google era pushed traffic to the open web. The core business metrics always included page views and unique visitors. Every optimization in this website-centric framework was to act as a funnel to the website. The landscape shift leaves those that stick to what they learned in the Google/website era in a very bad position. The reason this change is happening is because people are tired of clicking from that super-fast Facebook native app to a browser app to load a web page. We all flinch before clicking a link now. This is because we've seen what it's like to get content on the app.
The slideshow became the listicle, and then became the readable video. And the readable video has very long legs. It's a slideshow with no clicks needed, and a listicle without the scroll. It's lazy, it moves fast, and I don't need to hear it. And it plays right there without going anywhere. Instant Articles also keep people inside of Facebook where they prefer to be. Snapchat's emergence offers even less hope for the open web. Like Instagram, Snapchat is thriving by rendering links out unnecessary.
Instagram Stories, 2016. From TechCrunch: http://tcrn.ch/2aR9NrS
Distributed publishing is the solution for this new paradigm. It is one of the first steps of Social Media Optimization. It means publishing fully packaged content to every medium possible. Publishing teasers to stories is simply not enough — the entire story has to be consumable without leaving the platform and medium it's published to. This changes even how we think about email, where people again would rather just read more in their native Gmail app than click through to get more out.
So, let's take a look at how this shift affects what we know today. Check out The Path to Distributed Publishing (Part 2): What It Means for Websites + Tech.


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Daily Agenda 5
Government Presents 2016 Budget Proposal
The government, on Thursday, presented a draft of the 2016 state budget, in which revenue is planned in the amount of 114.9 billion kuna, while expenditure should reach 122.4 billion kuna. The deficit is planned in the amount of 7.5 billion kuna, or 2.2 percent of GDP. If six extra-budgetary funds and local government budgets are included, the deficit of the general government increases to 9.2 billion kuna, or 2.7 percent of GDP according to national methodology. According to EU methodology ESA 2010, the budget deficit will also stay below 3 percent of GDP. "We had two very successful weeks, but let's keep working," said Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković. The government based the budget on estimates that GDP would increase by two percent this year, after it grew by 1.6 percent last year. Total expenditure amounts to 122.4 billion kuna, which is 3.8 billion kuna more than in 2015. On the expenditure side, the government had to deal with an automatic increase in the amount of 2.5 billion kuna due to increased contribution to the EU budget, interest rates costs, participation in financing of EU projects, incentives for newborns, and an increase in the pension bill. Savings are planned in material expenditures (260 million kuna), subsidies (550 million), grants (300 million), transfers to citizens and households (560 million), other expenses (550 million), and procurement of non-financial assets (280 million). As far as subsidies are concerned, changes are expected in the transport sector, while agriculture should not see any major changes. The wage bill does not include funds for the six percent increase demanded by the public sector trade unions, but only for a regular annual increase of 0.5 percent per year of service. According to projections, the budget deficit in 2017 should fall to 2 percent, and in 2018 to 1.8 percent of GDP. Finance Minister Marić pointed out that the government expected the stabilisation of public debt this year, as well as its reduction in the coming years.
Budget 2016: Winners and Losers
Government departments which will receive less money than last year include: Finance Ministry (6.9 billion kuna or 15.6 percent less than last year), Defence Ministry (372 million kuna; 8.5 percent), Ministry of Labour and Pension System (102 million kuna; 0.2 percent), Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports (158.1 million kuna; 1.1 percent): Justice Ministry (135.3 million kuna; 5.6 percent), Veterans Affairs Ministry (34 million kuna; 3.5 percent), Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (89.9 million kuna; 13 percent), Tourism Ministry (31.1 million kuna; 15.4 percent). Departments which will this year receive more money than last year include: Health Ministry (1.3 billion kuna or 17 percent more than last year), Interior Ministry (307.6 million kuna; 6.5 percent), Entrepreneurship Ministry (378 million kuna; 44.2 percent), Economy Ministry (359.8 million kuna; 24.2 percent), Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection (312.2 million kuna; 32.5 percent), Ministry of Agriculture (245.3 million kuna; 3.7 percent), Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport, and Infrastructure (277.6 million kuna; 4.8 percent). The budget of the Office of the President has been reduced by 6.1 percent to 38.6 million kuna. The budget of the Cabinet Office has been increased by 4.2 percent to 291.3 million kuna.Image
Tourism Minister Is Not Worried With Budget Cuts in His Ministry
The reduction of the Tourism Ministry budget should not affect the tourist season, said Tourism Minister Anton Kliman. According to the 2016 budget, the Tourism Ministry budget will be reduced from 202 million kuna in 2015 to 171 million kuna this year. "The budget is what it is, and we have to share the fate of the entire country," said Kliman noting that the activities of the Ministry are not in question. "We will definitely meet the challenges that lie ahead and improve our position in the market," he stressed.
Government to Cut Subsidies for High School Student Transportation
In the 2016 budget, the government proposed a reduction of state subsidies for the transportation of high school students who travel to school by public transport, said the Minister of Science, Education, and Sports Predrag Šustar. The share of the state in co-financing of transportation will be reduced from 75 to 50 percent, while vulnerable groups will retain full funding. This will save the budget 94 million kuna a year. Šustar announced that, starting from the next school year, transportation subsidies will be means tested.
Members of Parliament React To 2016 Budget Proposal
Branko Grčić (SDP) said that, at first glance, the 2016 budget does not contain any major changes on the revenue and expenditure side in relation to 2015. "We took a quick look at the budget and in fact there are no major changes compared to what we did last year," said Grčić. He pointed out that some new expenditure had been compensated for by saving on other items, but that at the moment it was not clear how these savings would be achieved. "There are savings in social transfers, and I wonder how they will do it. There will be changes to various laws and reductions in subsidies to the economy, which can further slow down economic growth," said Grčić. Milorad Pupovac (SDSS) said that, if someone thinks they can suppress minorities by reducing funding for minority institutions, that that was not going to happen. Pupovac is president of the Serbian National Council, whose budgetary allocation has been reduced from 7.5 million kuna to 1.8 million kuna. Miodrag Demo (BM 365), Chairman of the Committee on War Veterans, said he would not allow a decrease in the budget for Veterans Affairs Ministry. Ivan Lovrinović (MOST) said that the first year in office is the most important year for reforms. "I do not like statements that we need to borrow more money. MOST has said that it would not go down that road. But I cannot say anything with certainty until we discuss every budgetary item in Parliament." Asked if the current budget proposal could be changed in Parliament, Lovrinović said: "Why not? If there are good reasons, we will certainly accept what is reasonable. Anybody can borrow money and spend it. MOST will insist on rationalisation and big savings." He said that he believed he had the support of all 15 MPs from MOST.
Analysts: No Reforms Visible in the 2016 Budget
Analysts say that the 2016 budget is not a reform budget, so they expect real reforms to be presented in the government's economic programme, which the European Commission will evaluate in May, and in the next budget for 2017. The government expects GDP to grow by around two percent this year, but analysts are more cautious. "I think that this assessment is very optimistic, because it is based on a forecast of an increase in both domestic and foreign demand," said Hrvoje Stojić, Director of the Economic Research Department of Hypo Alpe Adria Bank. Stojić said that the government should have demonstrated more courage, political willingness and execute some cuts on the expenditure side. "But, if the 'price' for freezing the wage bill and social transfers is to avoid the risk of an increase in public sector wages by six percent, then we can say that the expenditure side of the budget, given the short deadline, has been set prudently," said Stojić. Economic analyst Damir Novotny is not satisfied with the 2016 budget because he believes that this is just a continuation of bad practices from the previous 15 years. He said that the budget should have incorporated some of the recommendations of the European Commission. "There are mild savings visible, but there is no real shift in the approach to the budget," said Novotny. "We have completely clear and detailed recommendations from the Commission which should have been followed, but this budget does not show this," said Novotny.
Croatian Employers Association and Croatian Chamber of Economy Comment on the Budget
The Croatian Employers Association (HUP) believes that the primary focus in the budget was deficit reduction and the slowing down of further growth of public debt. They believe the biggest risk for the budget is the projected rate of economic growth, noting that significant savings are possible only with implementation of reforms. "The savings which were achieved in this budget were made on the principle 'cut everywhere by a little bit', so it is likely that these were the maximum savings which could be achieved," said the CEO of HUP Davor Majetić. The Croatian Chamber of Economy (HGK) said that the 2016 budget was the first systematic step towards fiscal consolidation. "On the revenue side of the budget there are no significant changes, while on the expenditure side there are some shifts which are still not enough," said HGK. "We consider these planned savings only as a starting point for further reform measures that will enable more efficient and cheaper functioning of the state, and open the possibility of changes on the revenue side of the budget in order to relieve entrepreneurs and stimulate employment, investment, and economic growth."
Association of Croatian Trade Unions against the Budget Proposal
The Association of Croatian Trade Unions believes that the 2016 budget proposal is yet another budget which brings cuts and sacrifices, suppresses the growth of production, consumption, and national economy, and represents the continuation of policies pursued by the previous government. President of the Association Vilim Ribić said that in the budget there are no reforms concerning public companies, no cuts where they should have been made, and no reforms of state agencies. Why should there be any reforms when there are teachers, scientists, nurses, and doctors who can bear the brunt of any savings, asked Ribić and added that projections for the following three years, which see salaries for public services be kept frozen, are completely beyond reason.
Government Proposes Dismissal of the Council for Electronic Media
The government rejected the report on the activities of the Council for Electronic Media and the Agency for Electronic Media in 2014. It proposed to Parliament to dismiss all members of the Council due to serious flaws in the execution of their legal obligations. Culture Minister Zlatko Hasanbegović said that the report was not complete and that the Council and the Agency had not met their legal obligations. The Council for Electronic Media responded that it had continually warned Croatian Radio Television (HRT) about its legal obligations, in particular about the need to keep separate accounting procedures for revenues and expenses incurred through public broadcasting and commercial activities. Croatian Journalists' Association (HND) said that the governments' decision was a new step towards full political control of the media. HND assessed this as yet another in a series of moves which confirm that the authorities do not treat the media as one of the foundations of a democratic society but rather as spoils of war.
OSCE Representative "Seriously Concerned" for Media Freedoms in Croatia
Dunja Mijatović, representative of the OSCE for media freedoms, on Thursday expressed "serious concern" for the freedom of media and independent regulatory bodies in Croatia, after the recent dismissal of the Director General of Croatian Radio Television and the proposed dismissal of members of the Council for Electronic Media. "These decisions cause grave concern for the overall state of media freedoms in the country," said Mijatović. "I beseech the authorities to take urgent measures to stop this trend and to do everything in order to preserve the independence of public television and the regulatory body," she added.
Veteran's Protest Leader Becomes a Candidate for Veterans Minister
Đuro Glogoški, the leader of the ongoing veteran's protests, has confirmed that he is one of the candidates to become the new Minister for Veterans Affairs. He has already met with the Prime Minister. "We had an honest meeting. I am ready again to make sacrifices for Croatian veterans and for the better future of the Croatian people and the Croatian state," said Glogoški. When asked whose support he had, Glogoški answered that he was supported by "many veterans who have passed through the protest tent and by many veterans' associations." "I also believe I am supported by a large part of the Croatian people who recognise what Croatian veterans did during the war." After meeting with war veterans on Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced that he would choose the next Minister by the end of this week, or early next week at the latest.
Karamarko: Brkić Is the Only Candidate for Veterans Minister
HDZ president and First Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Karamarko said that Milijan Brkić was the only HDZ candidate for the Minister for Veterans Affairs. He added that MOST had agreed to a party division among Ministries and that the Prime Minister might have made a mistake when he invited the veterans' associations to nominate their own candidates. "It was maybe a mistake, maybe not, maybe the Prime Minister was talking about HDZ members. We respect all candidates, they are our friends, but I say this: HDZ has one candidate," said Karamarko. When asked whether that meant that MPs from HDZ would not vote for a candidate who would be chosen by the Prime Minister, Karamarko replied that it was only natural they would support just their own candidate.
Prime Minister Comments on Speculation about Divisions in Government
Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković dismissed speculation about divisions and discord in the government, adding that there is an open dialogue, and also unity on important issues such as the adoption of the state budget and the implementation of reforms. He dismissed speculation that he was obstructing the HDZ candidate for Minister for Veterans Affairs, Milijan Brkić, saying that he met with Brkić two days ago, but adding that the decision on the new Minister was a process which required time. "He is a candidate, but I think that in every democracy it is vital that we have several candidates, and in the end we can choose the best person. This is, in my opinion, just a process. I hope that we will make a decision quite soon," said Orešković in an interview with Croatian Radio Television.
Parliament Discusses Implementation of Constitutional Law on National Minorities
The right to bilingualism, access to the media, and representation in government bodies are areas in which national minorities had the most problems, said Members of Parliament on Thursday during a Parliamentary debate on the implementation of the Constitutional Law on National Minorities in 2014. For many years, there have been similar problems in the exercise of some minority rights, including the use of their language and script, it was concluded during a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities, which asked the government to propose to Parliament within 90 days amendments to the Law on the Use of Minority Languages and Scripts, in accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court made in August 2014.
Government Publishes Plan to Address Macroeconomic Imbalances
The government has announced a plan that should address macroeconomic imbalances and includes a series of reforms and measures, as well as deadlines for their implementation. The economic programme of the government involves efforts in two key areas: the stabilisation of public debt, and structural measures. The government states that the stabilisation of public debt is based on a three-point approach through fiscal consolidation, activation of unused state property, and economic recovery stimulation. The government will focus its priorities on the programme for structural reforms, primarily in areas of public finance management, healthcare system, labour market, public administration system, investment climate, and use of EU funds.
Transport Minister Speaks About EBRD Loan for HAC
Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport, and Infrastructure Oleg Butković said that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) loan to Hrvatske Autoceste (HAC) will create room for strong restructuring of the company in order to become more stable and efficient. At its session on Thursday, the government decided to initiate negotiations in order to receive an EBRD loan worth 250 million euros, of which 200 million euros would be used for this year's repayment commitments, while 50 million euros would be spent on the restructuring of HAC. This year's obligations of HAC amount to 580 million euros, and Butković said that part of this amount will be paid with this loan which would have a favourable interest rate.
Raiffeisen Group Denies It Caused Financial Damage to 100,000 Croatian Citizens
Raiffeisen Group has denied claims by Ivica Marković from the RBA Victims initiative that it caused financial damage to 100,000 citizens of Croatia. It said that Croatian citizens in Austria were approved a total of 3,000 loans, worth an estimated 260 million euros. "The figure of 100,000 clients reported in the media has no basis in actual facts. Unfortunately, despite all efforts to resolve the situation in the best way possible for all parties involved, a certain group of people led by individuals with private interests constantly spreads inaccurate information," said the Group in a statement. It added that, in the case of non-payment, citizens' debts could increase significantly in accordance with Austrian laws. "These are Austrian loans given to Croatian citizens, so Austrian law is applied. The calculation of interest on late payments is the same as for Austrian citizens, where failure to pay is an exception rather than a rule," the statement said.
Unions to Start Negotiations with Government about Salary Increase on 21 March
President of the Association of Croatian Trade Unions Vilim Ribić said that the negotiations with the government about a 6% increase in wages for the public and civil services will begin on 21 March. He noted that funds for the increase have not been provided in the new budget, although the employees have the right to the increase starting on 1 January. "We are being responsible and we want to solve this serious problem which the government has not approached in a serious way," said Ribić. He welcomed the attendance of Prime Minister Orešković at the session of the Economic and Social Council, but added that the Prime Minister's agility, energy, and vision cannot be successful if there is no social dialogue on issues such as the budget. Ribić expressed his astonishment with the appointment of Davor Huić, a former journalist and co-founder of the Lipa Taxpayers Association, as a special advisor to the Prime Minister, because he considers him to be a "neoliberal Taliban" who wrote pamphlets against unions. He is convinced that Orešković did not know whom he appointed, or he would not had said that the unions are an important partner to government.
Reforms Can Best Be Seen Towards the Poor – They Will Get Less
Ivanka Toma analyses the 2016 budget (published in Jutarnji List on 11 March 2016).
All those who were waiting for the budget to see what kind of policies the government would pursue have found out that the new government has no reforms planned and no vision for economic development. It is visible that the optimism of the Prime Minister and Finance Minister is based on the same indicators which Zoran Milanović used in his election campaign. Actually, most of the budget looks like the former government wrote it itself. All the projects are just a continuation of the projects initiated by former Ministers. Finance Minister Marić says that salaries and pensions will not be cut, but he forgot to say that there would be cuts for those who have the least. When you see some of the items in the budget, even Milanović seems like a social democrat. All this shows us that the policies of the new government will not be favourable towards workers and the poor.
Government Dismisses Customs Administration Director
In a closed session, the government on Thursday dismissed Zlatko Grabar as Assistant Finance Minister and Director of Customs Administration, announced the government. Grabar was appointed to the post in February 2012 by the previous government.
HDZ Secretary General Denies He Told Anyone to Leave Croatia
HDZ secretary general Milijan Brkić said that he had not told anyone to "leave Croatia," especially not because that someone was a Serb, adding that the so-called "ethno-businessmen," who use their ethnicity to promote their political and material interests, do not have a monopoly on the "Serbian cause" and that they cannot speak on behalf of all Croatian citizens of Serbian nationality. Brkić was referring to the controversy caused by his statements about Milorad Pupovac, president of the Serbian National Council. Pupovac replied on Thursday that he would "return all labels back to sender," because "they might help him become a member of the government."
Parliamentary Committee on National Security Rejects Intelligence Reports
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Interior Affairs and National Security Ranko Ostojić (SDP) said that on Thursday the committee rejected reports by the Military Security and Intelligence Agency and the Office of the National Security Council on actions taken related to possible violations of law and protection of human rights. Ostojić told reporters that there were no dissenting opinions among the committee members. Most members of the committee abstained or were against the reports, he added.
Government Rejects Demand to Provide Written Report by Lawyers Consulted in the Crnoja Case
The government on Thursday rejected a demand by Member of Parliament Peđa Grbin (SDP) to provide a written opinion of legal experts who were hired to assess the case of the former Minister for Veterans Affairs Mijo Crnoja, adding that the MP had already received a clear answer that the legal experts were hired to provide an oral opinion and that there was no need for a written opinion. "This response is a proof that First Deputy Prime Minister Karamarko lied when he stepped in front of reporters and said that he had a document about whether Crnoja was guilty or not," said Grbin.
Student Dormitory in Varaždin to Be Built Using EU Funds
More than 141 million kuna has been allocated from EU funds for the construction of the new building of the Student Dormitory in Varaždin, and this is the first European money for the construction of a new student dormitory in Croatia, said the director of the Varaždin Student Centre Nenad Milijaš at the presentation of the project. The new student dormitory will be located within the university campus, and it will have 600 beds in 243 rooms on five floors. The construction is expected to be completed during the 2017/2018 academic year.
Daily Agenda – Friday
Parliament will continue its second session. It will debate the Report on the Implementation of the National Strategy and Action Plan on Combating Drug Abuse in 2014.
SDP will hold a press conference in Parliament on the topic "Draft of the 2016 Budget". Speakers will include MPs Branko Grčić, Boris Lalovac, and Milanka Opačić.
The Centre for Peace Studies and a group of economists will hold a press conference "Assessment and Prospects of the Budget and Fiscal Policy in Croatia". Speakers will include economists Hrvoje Šimović, Hrvoje Mačkić, and Valentina Vučković and Sandra Benčić from the Centre for Peace Studies.
The Dobrodošli (Welcome) and Are You Syrious? initiatives will organise a protest against the closure of the Balkan refugee route.
Preporod Union will hold a press conference on the topic "Parents and Teachers Are the Biggest Losers of the 2016 Education Budget" and will analyse the Education Ministry budget for this year.
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Great article and beautiful photos. My kids are grown and gone, but some of my mother quilt lingers on.
I think that Parental Guilt is one of those things that probably sticks with us forever, even when it's not doing us any good.
In teaching Childbirth Classes, I've talked to hundreds of parents about becoming the parent they want to be, and even when we're looking at what our own parents did that either worked or didn't, I always go back to the fact that most people do the best they can with the tools and information they have. When looking at how we might want to do things differently, it's not about blame, but more about just trying to learn as we go, and do our own best with the kids we have.
I am free of Mothers guilt and proud of it!
I do suffer from Fathers guilt now and then.
But my mother told me to stop complaining about such things.
Ha~ I suppose parental guilt is not limited to mothers then. I think your mother had some wise advice :-) We should all quit complaining and go enjoy our families..


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LSU advances in SEC tourney with season's biggest comeback
HOOVER, Ala. —It's the SEC tournament, so not even an outbreak of Murphy's Law seemingly can deter LSU from its appointed rounds.
The Tigers won their seventh straight SEC tournament opener Tuesday night with their biggest comeback of the year, overcoming three errors and some other bizarre glove work that led to an early four-run deficit to beat South Carolina 8-6 and advance to the double-elimination portion of the tournament.
The Tigers (35-22), who are now assured of two more games in Hoover, will play Mississipi State tonight at approximately 8 p.m.
LSU will now have Eric Walker and Landon Marceaux on the mound for the Wednesday and Thursday games.
A loss Tuesday would have sent the Tigers home and might have been disastrous for LSU's' hopes of hosting an NCAA tournament regional.
It could easily come down to the Tigers and Texas A&M for a host spot, and LSU kept up with the Aggies, who beat Florida 8-7 in 11 innings in the tournament's first game Tuesday morning.
It certainly didn't look good for LSU early on.
But the Tigers bounced back from an early 5-1 deficit as Devin Fontenot pitched 4.1 innings of shut out relief while Cade Beloso went 3-for-4 with three RBIs to key the comeback.
"Really the key to the game was Devin Fontenot who came in in the third inning," LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. "He just kind of took the team and put us on his shoulders."
Fontenot, who has struggled in recent weeks while losing his job as the team's closer, struck out four while limiting the Gamecocks to just one hit over his 4.1 innings.
"He took control of the ball game and he was awesome," Mainieri said. "It gave us time to get our feet on the ground."
"Coach kind of had a talk with me," Fontenot said. "He told me I've got to go out there and act like I want to be out there and don't pitch too timid. Don't be too fine, just let it rip. That's kind of what I've been doing."
Todd Peterson pitched the final 2.2 innings for the Tigers for his third save of the season.
LSU starter Cole Henry, who was making his first start after missing the last four weekends with elbow soreness, probably deserved a better fate than giving up five runs in the second inning, when South Carolina scored all of its runs to put LSU in a 5-1 hole.
"It was very encouraging for me for next weekend," Mainieri said of Henry's outing while looking ahead to the NCAA tournament. "The most encouraging thing is he's feeling OK and he felt good."
"I thought Cole was throwing the ball extremely well. I thought we were going to play really well and then the second inning was kind of Murphy's Law."
LSU took an early 1-0 lead when shortstop Josh Smith led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run.
But in that second inning, the Gamecocks' leadoff man reached when a routine shot to second base got stuck in the webbing of Brandt Broussard's glove and the next batter reached on catcher's interference when Saul Garza's mitt was hit by a swing on an attempted pitchout.
Third baseman Hal Hughes later had an error and ...
"It snowballed and they throw up the five-spot and that isn't exactly how we had it planned," Mainieri said. "But I knew our guys wouldn't quit."
Trailing 5-1 Beloso came through with a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the second as the Tigers answered to cut the deficit to 5-3.
"Gave us some momentum," Mainieri said.
The Tigers took the lead with three runs in the fourth when Smith had an RBI single and later scored on a wild pitch, followed by Daniel Cabrera's RBI single up the middle for a 6-5 LSU advantage.
LSU added two runs in the fifth when rightfielder Antoine Duplantis and Beloso delivered RBI singles.
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November 13th-19th is the third week of NaNoWriMo*. Come join the writing fun with the RaiderWriMos here at Oakton. All our Write-Ins and Write-Ins/Workshops are held in Oakton Community College's Library Classroom, Room 2418 at the Des Plaines Campus.
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Le Rosey Charity Committee, formed by a group of committed students from classes 1 and T, aims at developing a number of humanitarian projects in different countries. Their efforts combine a mix of fundraising and personal involvement in the form of background work and on site studies conducted during humanitarian trips organised by the School. This work not only benefits the recipients of the different projects but also enhances the development of Rosey students by raising awareness of the challenges faced by those living in need. Students taking part have the unique opportunity to get involved with youths from completely different backgrounds they would otherwise not have had the opportunity to meet. Becoming aware of the challenges faced by the less privileged, they forge a new sense of shared responsibility by those with the means to implement durable change to take action whenever possible to alleviate hardships.
The Charity Committee has ongoing projects in Nepal, Tajikistan, Ghana and Mali. They have recently launched a new philanthropic initiative dedicated to supporting young women in developing countries who are exposed to serious physical and psychological damage. Three NGOs that are linked in some way to Le Rosey have been identified. The Charity Committee will be fundraising for these entities and, besides financial support, will develop working ties with these organisations to enable Rosey students to work in the field.
Le Rosey Foundation, recognising the importance of such work done by current Rosey students, has decided to assist in the fundraising effort to maximise the impact of this new initiative.
To bring your contribution to this project, please visit the "How You Can Help" Page.


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Lisa Elmaleh
Lisa Elmaleh is a photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times and Harper's Magazine. She plans to return to the border in the fall to photograph again.
Frontera: Arizona Samaritans soothe dire need on migrant desert trails
A photographer and a writer join the Ajo and Tucson Samaritans to highlight the harshness of the experience of migrants who cross the U.S. border into the sprawling Sonoran Desert — where it's mostly about the water.
Frontera: Compassion has no boundaries at the US-Mexico border
In U.S. border communities, staff and volunteers at the Migrant Resource Center and similar organizations help migrants expelled from the country rest and get advice while they figure out their next step.
Frontera: Where the limits of a wall and the promise of the unknown intersect
Upon seeing Lisa Elmaleh's camera, the Catholic sisters and volunteers at migrant shelters whom Elmaleh met along the U.S.-Mexico border "understand they're being documented in a historic way."


As 2018 comes to a close, I foresee three trends based on my experience with clients. Here are business trends to keep an eye on in 2019.
For some, artificial intelligence and automation in business herald a new era of increased productivity. For others, these are a harbinger of job obsolescence and layoffs.


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Facebook Security Breach Revealed to be Worse than Thought
By Dana Nottingham October 5, 2018 at 8:07am
Have you logged out of Facebook lately? Have you changed your Facebook password? What about Instagram, Spotify or any other app you log into with your private Facebook information?
The New York Times reported that last week 90 million Facebook subscribers were forced to log out of their accounts due to an unprecedented security breach.
Facebook announced on Sept. 28 that hackers had accessed and exposed personal information of 50 million users, its largest security breach ever reported.
Hackers gained access "as if they were … the account holder themselves," Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of product management, said in a conference call related to the announcement.
The attackers accessed Facebook accounts through a bug in one of Facebook's video-uploading programs that had been introduced in June 2017, allowing them to create "access tokens," or digital keys that allow access to a user's account without the necessity of entering their name and password at each login.
As if Facebook were not enough, The Sun revealed the hackers also gained access to third-party services such as Instagram, Messenger, Tinder, Spotify and other apps that allow subscribers to use their personal Facebook credentials to access their sites, causing a potential for a chain reaction breach of personal information affecting hundreds of millions of accounts.
Even with the hackers' broad access to many sites, a Spotify spokesperson stated that none of its systems were compromised.
Facebook's integration with so many apps and websites creates a playground for hackers seeking to exploit weaknesses and vulnerabilities in social media technology, wreaking havoc on the personal information of consumers and businesses alike.
Facebook reportedly knew of a potential problem 10 days prior to its announcement of the breach. On Sept. 18, Facebook discovered what it considered unusual activity that appeared in the form of a large spike in users and launched its own investigation, but it was not until Sept. 25 that Facebook actually discovered the source of the attack and the resulting vulnerability.
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The following day, Facebook notified law enforcement, but it did not complete an actual fix of the problem until Sept. 27. Facebook finally disclosed and notified its users of the attack on Sept. 28, a full 10 days after its initial discovery of the suspicious activity.
Facebook said ¨it had fixed the vulnerabilities and notified law enforcement officials," according to The Times. "Company officials do not know the identity or the origin of the attackers, nor have they fully assessed the scope of the attack or if particular users were targeted. The investigation is still in its beginning stages.¨
Facebook said it was not aware that any foreign entity was involved in the breach, as was the case during the 2016 elections.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a conference call, "I'm glad we found this, but it definitely is an issue that this happened in the first place."
"The big fear is that hackers will have used automatic tools to harvest information from all 50 million accounts that were compromised," The Sun reported. "This means it's possible that hackers are currently sitting on photos, videos and private messages for tens of millions of people around the world. This data pool grows significantly when you add services like Tinder or Instagram into the mix."
Tech Founder Born in USSR: Facebook's Metaverse Is 'Spectacularly Stupid'; Similar Thing Was Seen in Soviet Leningrad
On the day of the announcement, a news release from Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia wasted no time calling for federal intervention:
"The news that at least 50 million Facebook users had their accounts compromised is deeply concerning. A full investigation should be swiftly conducted and made public so that we can understand more about what happened.
"Today's disclosure is a reminder about the dangers posed when a small number of companies like Facebook or the credit bureau Equifax are able to accumulate so much personal data about individual Americans without adequate security measures.
"This is another sobering indicator that Congress needs to step up and take action to protect the privacy and security of social media users. As I've said before – the era of the Wild West in social media is over."
Meanwhile, Facebook took action that made it look as though it were trying to hide reports of the break from its users, claiming that media reports of its internal security problems "look(ed) like spam to us."
Facebook is deleting and blocking posts warning people about their recent security breach. 😒 pic.twitter.com/OYiayagGCd
— 😼🐆Doomspotter (@Vigilant1000) September 28, 2018
"There's no need for anyone to change their passwords," Rosen said in a statement on Facebook. "But people who are having trouble logging back into Facebook — for example because they've forgotten their password — should visit our Help Center."
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Dana Nottingham
Dana Nottingham's writing focuses on politics, government, international relations, law, business and families. He has been a content creator for various websites, writing opinion and editorial analysis of current events and affairs and how they affect communities, families and individuals. Educated in international business and law, Dana fully understands how the world functions. He is pro-business, yet recognizes certain limitations are required to maintain the proper balance between supplier and consumer. Dana's experience include working in the district office of a member of Congress and developing and building a growing Colorado city. Dana has lived in both Mexico and Peru and speaks and writes fluent Spanish. In Colorado, he served as a substitute radio host for two of the top-rated Spanish-language radio programs in Denver and even hosted his own Spanish-language radio program.
@dananottingham
Dana Nottingham is an often humorous writer focusing on politics, government, international relations, law, business and families. He has been a content creator for various websites, writing opinion and editorial analysis of current events and affairs and how they affect communities, families and individuals.
Dana believes the future of the United States, and even the world, rests upon the strength of the family. A family, no matter its size or makeup, is both the most basic and the most important unit of government, where all education, training, support and even fun should originate.
Educated in international business and law, Dana understands how the world functions. He is pro-business, yet recognizes certain limitations are required to maintain the proper balance between supplier and consumer. Capitalism provides the best opportunity for success, growth and prosperity but certainly needs to be checked to assure that dishonest, deceitful and harmful practices do not detrimentally affect the system, the economy and the family.
Dana's law and government experience include working in the district office of a Member of Congress and developing and building a growing Colorado city. He is pro-government to the extent that he understands government is a necessary yet intrusive means to protect our lives, our liberties and our pursuits of happiness, but fully believes government (whether national, state or local) should be as small as necessary to accomplish its limited purposes.
Dana has lived in both Mexico and Peru and speaks and writes fluent Spanish. In Colorado, he served as a substitute radio host for two of the top-rated Spanish-language radio programs in Denver and even hosted his own Spanish-language radio program. He understands and supports the vital role of legal immigrants and immigration, while recognizing the failure of the United States to properly address either legal or illegal immigration. Dana advocates complete reformation (and subsequent enforcement) of our nation's immigration laws.
A classically trained pianist, Dana often accompanies local singers and groups in performances, large and small. He also performs an annual Independence Day concert, sharing his music and thoughts about the freedoms and blessings enjoyed from living in the United States.
In his spare time, Dana likes to camp, hike, waterski, watch college football and work in the yard with his five children.
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The year 2016 was an interesting one for real estate markets. A number of initiatives, like the passage of the Real Estate Regulatory Bill in March 2016, amendments to REIT guidelines in budget 2016-17 (which exempted levy of dividend distribution tax paid by SPVs to a REIT), notification of the Benami Transactions Bill in August 2016 and the announcement of the third list of smart cities in September 2016, were just some of them. 18 states ratified the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the GST Council and Secretariat was constituted.
The efforts towards incentivising affordable housing continued with budget 2016, which allowed for additional Rs 50,000 tax exemption for first-time home buyers. The most recent move, on November 8, 2016, where the government demonetised Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes, re-emphasised the government's war against black money across all sectors and especially real estate. All these initiatives set the tone for what is in store, for the sector and for the mid-income buyer/investor in 2017. A more transparent, better regulated and less cash-dominated real estate sector, holds the promise of low risk and stable returns. However, even as the sector moves towards consolidation, to cherry pick an investment in 2017, the buyer must keep in mind certain key parameters related to the asset class, geography, as well as investment horizon.


Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and the Southampton Town Police Department are seeking the public's help to identify and locate a man who presented a forged prescription at a Hampton Bays pharmacy last month.
A man entered the Stop & Shop pharmacy, located at 190 West Montauk Highway, on November 30 and presented a forged prescription in an effort to obtain prescription medication.
Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.


A lot of people set goals when they move into a new apartment. One of those goals typically is to cook more at home. There are a lot of handy things that help working in the kitchen easier. If you already have the basic utensils needed in a kitchen and you're looking to expand your kitchenware inventory, you've come to the right place! Here are the top 5 must have kitchen gadgets you need in your life, courtesy of Move For Free.
This little doodad will change the way you work in the kitchen. It's small, lightweight structure makes sharpening your knives a piece of cake. The best part? You can find this bad boy at Walmart for $8. You're welcome.
There's no point in having a top-notch knife sharpener when you don't have a knife to match. This knife is great to use on pretty much everything – produce, meats…even cutting ties with those annoying friends from high school. These knives come in an array of fun colors, and you can find them at Bed Bath and Beyond for $9.99.
Okay, so this isn't necessarily a kitchen gadget, but by George, you need them! Lunchbots are reusable, heavy-duty food containers made of stainless steel, so they're BPA-free. They come in different sizes, some providing different compartments to store your entire lunch in one container. They range in price from $19.99 to $99.90 for a variety package. You can find them at Lunchbot.com.
Cuisinart is known for making amazing kitchen products, and it doesn't disappoint with this item. The Cuisinart grinder can be used for coffee, spices and much more! This is definitely one of those tools you don't expect to love, but end up using ALL. THE. TIME. Williams-Sonoma has this beauty for $39.95.
There is a reason why every cook on the Food Network has one of these babies. The KitchenAid mixers can be used for almost everything and their design ensures durability as well as glamour. Having one of these in your kitchen takes you to full chef status and halfway to celebrity. There are different variations to the mixer that range from $249 to $449.


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Uma via de trânsito larga e arborizada, também conhecida como boulevard.

Brasil
 Alameda das Espatódeas — via urbana do bairro do Caminho das Árvores, em Salvador, estado da Bahia
 Alameda São Boaventura — via urbana de Niterói, estado do Rio de Janeiro

Chile
 Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins — principal avenida de Santiago, conhecida como La Alameda

Espanha
 Alameda de Osuna — bairro de Madrid
 Alameda (Málaga) — município da província de Málaga
 Alameda de la Sagra — município da província de Toledo
 La Alameda de Gardón — município da província de Salamanca
 Santa María de la Alameda — município da província e comunidade autónoma de Madrid
 Torres de la Alameda — município da província e comunidade autónoma de Madrid
 Alameda del Valle — município da província e comunidade autónoma de Madrid

Estados Unidos
 Alameda (Califórnia) — cidade da Califórnia
 Condado de Alameda — situado na Califórnia
 Alameda County Open — extinto torneio masculino estadunidense de golfe do circuito do PGA

Portugal
 Estação Alameda (Metropolitano de Lisboa) — estação do metro de Lisboa
 Alameda da Encarnação — situada em Lisboa
 Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques — situada em Lisboa
 Alameda das Fontainhas — situada em Porto

Outros
 MiG Alley ou Alameda dos MiGs — nome dado pelos pilotos das forças da ONU à porção norte do território da Coreia

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Desambiguações de topônimos

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I have an older home, built in 1826, with a kind of country style kitchen. This is not an eat-in kitchen and the table placed in the center is for prep work. The cabinets are all handmade wood painted white (and in need of a recoat). The stove is new, black, and is gas. It can't be moved too far since the hook-up extends out of the wall at least 8 inches. As you can see from the photos, the stove sits on a wall by itself. The wall it's on his not really painted brick, but painted paneling. The floor is new and is an interpretation of slate made by Allure. We don't have a lot of money for a full makeover and would like to work with what is here for the most part. Cabinets run the entire right side of the stove, and partially on the left side of the stove. My question is, how to tie in the stove with the rest of the kitchen in an easy way. Ultimately I would love to do it in a way that would make more counter space (my cook books and bread maker take up the whole countertop on the left and 2 spice racks, plus flour, sugar, etc. jars take up the right side). I was thinking of a way to place shelves on the top and open cabinets on the bottom? But I think that I would have to sacrifice the top and bottom cabinets on the adjacent walls? Also, I think that I would have to have a range hood over the stove? Any suggestions are welcome.
Is that a flue cover on the paneled wall? I wonder what is under the paneling? Is it brick? If it is, that may match the color swatches you have up on the wall. Maybe then some shelving up high and a hinged, fold down work shelf to the right of the stove. I'm not sure about the range hood but something keeping with the era? Old homes have so much character!
the stove that used to be here was a 70's gas stove in avocado green. it had a space heater in it on the left side which was vented through that circle above the stove. behind the faux brick is just a plaster wall (there is an attached shed/workshop on the other side). the color swatches match red and copper tones in the faux slate floor. i am trying to tie the color in somehow either with paint or a tiled back splash.
Your kitchen is so charming. If you could find two narrow vintage side tables (like the small phone tables but taller), putting either on the side of the stove would be charming and give you a tad more space to set your bread maker or spice racks. (Wouldn't really provide functional counter space.) You could even keep that backsplash neutral (the same color as walls) and use the pop of red/rust in the two tables that you set on either side. If you could find tall & narrow shelving in black wrought iron finish (or black iron & wood) like your hardware, that might be nice, depending on your rang hood. Even if you found shelving in brass or another finish, you could spray paint it with the wrought iron finish that I think Rustoleum makes. On the upper shelves you could accessorize with your red/rust and on the lower, more accessible shelves, you could put your cook books & things. Just some thoughts. I think your kitchen is adorable.
If you can get a couple of old vintage ironing boards to set up when you only need them.It will give you more space when not on use put in closet or just lean against a wall .I have a small kitchen so when I bake or I just set them up when I am canning or doing prep work ,grandkids like to use small barstools and eat there, when they are over.
What if you found a narrow island on wheels instead of the table in the middle? then you could have shelves for your cookbooks or lesser used appliances? What about a pot rack above the stove ? In the first picture on the left is a brown shelf? or is that a table? could that be changed into a cabinet or a shelving unit or a regular/small desk. then you'd have the shelves or drawers for your office type stuff? Good Luck!!! Everyone has some great ideas!!
What is under the brown counter under the window? Could you build shelf storage under that? Then find an island that has rollers with storage underneath for your appliances (bread maker..cook books...things like that. Putting anything on either side of your stove will cause the drawers/doors on your other cupboards to be useless. I would hesitate to put a shelf over your stove.....be a clutter/greasy dust catcher....I would rather see some sort of art or a clock over the stove.
Would it possible to move the white cabinet under the window and get a corner lower cabinet that would fill in the corner and extend to the stove. Could remove drawer and cabinet door of last cabinet. add counter on either side of the stove leaving open under the counter top. Add shelves to store your larger appliances and cook books. What is stored in upper cabinets? Is it possible to remove doors and store your cook books.
2 simple things I would do is get rid of the tables, both of them. I would get a base cabinet for the one under thewindow. paint it to match the cabinets you have, and top it with a piece of butcher block, or remnant stone.... the cabinet would give you more storage than the table. I would also use a different style in the center,, you need a shelf on it, space for baskets, canisters or buckets underneath for more storage. .. above that I'd put a pot rack. maybe one made from an old ladder, hung from the ceiling Chaines or rope. I'd then add a fan over the stove, shelves on both sides.. or else cabinets painted white,I would replace the centers of the door with chickenwire... since everything else is very rustic vibe.. also replace the lighting. The desk style just isn't what you need. I'd find something in a rectangle shape with several bulbs, since you have a long narrow kitchen, spray paint it matte black.. try for some undercabinet lights to help the overall function of the work areas..You could remove a few cabinet doors on the existing ones, place on the new cabinet pieces to make them look like the were part ot the original.. leaving a couple of cabinets open.. use the same hardware on all of them.. also when I say "NEW" I ment refurbished, or salvaged.....for your question regarding the stove.. an old tea cart painted white on the R side would fit. and be on wheelsfor easy access to the lower cabinets in the corners..
I have a small kitchen too. My solution was to create a U-shape kitchen and it works very well. For you, I'd install cabinets on both sides of the stove and add shelving above these. This would give you additional storage space, and give a seamless look when facing that wall. Why not invest in a small trolley-like (moveable) island? This can double up as a dining table when not used for food prep. For your existing table, why not put a vase of fresh cut flowers or a bowl of fruits on it? This little touch could transform your current table.
You have probably done it by now but I am going to put my 2 cents in anyway. This is a cheap and easy fix. I would put a piece of trim to mimic the edge of the counter across the space at counter height and paint below it black to match the stove. Above, I would paint the wall white like the cabinets and install 3 floating shelves shelves, black ones, or white if you aren't that brave. The stove must be centred on the wall for this to work. On the bottom shelf install lighting which will be hidden by the trim you edge the shelves in. I hope this makes sense to you.
For more bench space, get an Ikea butchers trolley. If you want to make it look more vintage you can paint the legs. Leave the block top as it is. You can move it out of the way so you can open your other drawers and cupboard as two legs are on wheels for mobility. It would be just the right height and size for that space beside the stove and the two shelves under it could hold more stuff too. Look out on Craig's List or ebay for a second hand one but they are not that expensive to buy and very useful. I think would go very well in this space if you paint the plain timber legs to a colour you like.
shop your local Habitat for Humanity ReStore, for a used over the stove microwave with range hood build it. it won't have to be vented out if you don't have the wall, many just vent back into the room. (not ideal but they have a carbon filter that helps) but they are made that way. you will save on budget buying used and open up some space on the counter for other things, once your microwave is off the counter. and go vertical. i think the moving island idea is great too, then you can use some downward space for storage. use high and depth, to maximize space and store what you don't use at the highest points, then use the lower spaces for daily use. contain contain contain as much as you can... and make for easy pull out work station tools. example, baking center items... then store them in upper spaces until you need them, then pull out the container with all things you need to do task, then put away. also, i saw this great idea, where you can build "drawers" under the cabinets! then put in items like flat pans, and thin items in the drawers. again, you can shop for skinny used drawers or shop ikea for hardware on a budget, or even thin drawers from them. also, i used ikea doors, that you can buy alone, and did build in between the studs in the walls, then covered them with flat ikea doors... to maximize a space in my hallway. it worked out well for my brooms. you could do the same in walls for spices etc. and not take up any more visual space in the room. you can only do it on interior walls, and ck for no wiring in wall before you cut into to get "between stud space".
Have you thought of moving your refrigerator where the stove is now? I can't see if the refrigerator is built in or just standing on the end but could a stove be worked in there? Not sure if you could open the doors/drawers with the refrigerator there but I think it would look more continuous with the bigger taller appliance there.
To be up to code and for safety reasons, you should invest in a exhaust. My suggestion would be to first center the stove on the wall. Purchase a large sheet of peg board to cover the fake brick behind the stove. You won't need a floor to ceiling piece as you will find out why below. Paint it white (or use an accent color!). Center the stove on the wall, then get hooks to hang your pots and pans and maybe some baskets on either side to hold utensils. I would then get two book shelves from a thrift shop, they would not have to be wide enough to cover the entire empty space but I would definitely get them the same height as the stove top and with possible adjustable shelves. Remember, you can always add legs of block of wood to get the desired height. Paint them in a black gloss to match stove and place on either side of the stove which will make the whole area more substantial looking. I would place your cook books inside the shelves and store whatever you use less on the bottom shelves. You could place a tile or slate to allow you some additional surface space to place hot pots or pans removed from the stove. I also suggest, if financing permits, to get a smaller, narrower center island that has shelving underneath to store more of your items.
Perhaps you could add three to four shelves running the full width of the beige painted area. Use decorative brackets. On the shelves put your small appliances, cookbooks, etc. that would free up your counter top space.
This is from 1912.....wonder how she solved her kitchen problem.
I think a couple of rolling utility carts would work for both sides of the stove, then they could easily roll out for needed access to the lower cabinets on both sides. Definitely install a vent hood and a peg board to hang utensils would be great. But, I would try to do some purging of unused or seldom use cookbooks and stuff. Larger, seldom used items could possibly stored elsewhere.


Rimegate is a castle along the Wall abandoned by the Night's Watch. It is located between Sable Hall to the west and the Long Barrow to the east.
The Lord Commander of the Night's Watch tasked Ser Olyver Bracken and Ser Raymund Mallery with restoring the crumbling Rimegate and Sable Hall, respectively, but the two former Kingsguard rebelled from the Night's Watch in 50 AC with the intention to make the castles their seats as lords. Aided by Winterfell, loyal brothers of the Night's Watch recaptured Rimegate and hanged Olyver's rebels. Lord Walton Stark beheaded Olyver with Ice.
Lord Commander Jon Snow intends to garrison the abandoned castle but does not name a commander.