As the debate over the right to be forgotten continues, many criminal lawyers have found themselves in the position of dealing with concerns from clients that stories about them remain on the Internet even if their legal matter goes in their favour.
'The stigma of just being charged is sometimes a punishment in and of itself,' says Maureen Salama.
"Once it's up there, it's up there," says Maureen Salama, an associate at Brauti Thorning Zibarras LLP, of the lingering media stories about initial charges against clients.
With media outlets generally refusing to remove stories, clients can feel the impact for a long time, she notes. "I think the concern is that media outlets lose a lot of interest in these stories," says Salama, noting the media may report on the initial charges in a sexual assault case, for example, but not follow it through to trial or the ultimate resolution.
"By the time we get to a trial in those situations, it could be years later," she says.
"This is something that's going to constantly come up for them in their personal lives, their professional lives," she adds, citing a client who has told her every person he asks out on a date quickly learns about his case through a Google search. "He was just devastated and he couldn't believe it," she says.
The question, then, becomes what remedies do clients have. It turns out they don't have a lot of options, says Salama. In many cases, the main solution is to get the media outlet to run an update on the outcome of the case. That means finding all of the stories that have run and contacting the various editors involved. It also means getting the various documents such as a copy of the certified information showing the withdrawn charges.
"You as the person in that situation have to go to great lengths to get that done," says Salama, noting her role as counsel primarily involves helping track down the information for the client to take to the media outlet. The result, she notes, is often a short story detailing the outcome and still linking back to the original article. Many media outlets will also link the original article to the new one, she points out.
But for other lawyers, there may be merit in the idea of having some legal remedy to enforce the removal of stories. "I think we need a new tort or some way of requiring Google to remove articles that are no longer relevant or continue to cause damage," says David Jewitt of Ottawa's Jewitt McLuckie & Associates.
Jewitt had a client, real estate agent Gillian Burnside, who was subject to what she calls a "nightmare" of publicity when media stories, based on leaked information, cast a shadow on her involvement in an RCMP effort to lease premises for a covert security project. An article in the Ottawa Citizen in 2011 followed earlier stories that linked Burnside's then-boyfriend, an RCMP superintendent, to an allegedly fraudulent $3-million lease agreement. They included allegations his "realtor girlfriend" had benefited from a $70,000 commission.
In October, the RCMP issued a public apology to Burnside following a settlement between the parties. "The RCMP hereby offers a public apology for any damages caused to Ms. Burnside's personal and professional reputation as a result of the publicity garnered after an unknown source provided RCMP information to the media about her acting on behalf of the RCMP in a 2009 real estate transaction.
The RCMP apologies to the plaintiff for any damage caused to her reputation.
"What happened after that newspaper story came out has been a nightmare. The article and associated negative comments spread on news sites and blogs across the Internet," said Burnside, who couldn't defend herself at the time due to her real estate agreement with the RCMP.
The case wasn't a criminal one as the investigation into Burnside and her former partner resulted in no charges with all internal RCMP proceedings dismissed as well. According to Jewitt, the case followed a bit of a different path from other matters in that they took issue with the RCMP when they sued the force for negligent investigation and the leak rather than targeting the media outlets. Once they settled and got the apology, they then engaged the media in a campaign to get the new information out there.
"It seemed to work," says Jewitt, who notes he was "delighted with the outcome" given that the updated stories with the apology have largely replaced and rank ahead on Google of the older ones with the original allegations.
But for media lawyer Brian MacLeod Rogers, the idea of a right to be forgotten, something Europe is dealing with now following a high-profile European Court of Justice case earlier this year, isn't something Canada should consider. "I'm watching it with great interest and concern. I think what Google is being forced to do in Europe is quite problematic," he says of the current process underway in which the company is dealing with thousands of requests to delete links.
As MacLeod Rogers sees it, the issue reflects the conflict between the European focus on privacy rights and the common law's emphasis on the public interest. "I think we do take a different approach here and I think we should," he says.
"I think the whole issue of unpublishing stories and correcting stories and the need for some people to try and get rid of stuff in their past will only come to be more and more important," he adds.


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Jim Lobe (born January 4, 1949) is an American journalist and the Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service.[1]
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In 1970, Lobe graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts). He received his Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.[citation needed]
Journalist[edit]
Lobe has served as the Washington D.C. correspondent and Bureau Chief of Inter Press Service (IPS)[2] from 1980 to 1985, and again from 1989 to the present. Since 2001, Lobe has served on the Foreign Policy in Focus Board of Advisors.[citation needed]
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After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Inter Press Service released its analysis that said the perpetrators were most likely homegrown militia and pointed to the end date of feds' Waco siege against the Branch Davidians and the attack of a federal building. At the time, competitors were looking at Middle East terrorists. Lobe said IPS had scooped its media competitors on the point by 48 hours.[1]
Lobe covered the ties between the post-9/11 agenda pursued by the Bush administration and the recommendations of the neoconservative-led Project for the New American Century.[3]
Lobe, Jim and Oliveri, Adele; eds. (2003) I Nuovi Rivoluzionari: Il Pensiero dei Neoconservatori Americani. Milan: Feltrinelli. (Co-editor)
Feffer, John; ed. (2003) Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11. New York: Seven Stories Press. (Contributor)
Ackerman, S., Arkin, W., Marthoz, J., Wery, M.; eds., (2004) Les Etats-Unis a Contre-Courant: Critiques Americaines a L'Egard d'une Politique Etrangere Unilateraliste. Brussels: GRIP. (Contributor)
^ a b Freedland, Jonathan (1995). "Tiny Agency Beat Goliaths with Oklahoma Blast's Davidian Link". The Guardian (UK).
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^ Floyd, Chris (April 29, 2003). "Global Eye". The St. Petersburg Times (Highbeam (subscription database)). Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
Jim Lobe's blog Lobelog.com
Interview by Jonathan Holmes for the ABC public affairs program Four Corners on 17 February 2003
Lobe on "What is neo-conservative anyway?", Asia Times (August 13, 2003)
Appearances on C-SPAN
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Panaewa Rainforest Zoo & Gardens - Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii
Pictures and visitor info from a trip to the Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo & Gardens located in Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii.
The Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo & Gardens is a totally free attraction situated in Hilo on the "wet" east side of the Big Island of Hawaii.
Hilo City receives about 130 inches of rain per year, which has helped create the lush green foliage and colorful flowers that surround the animal habitats.
The unique geographical location of the Panaewa Zoo lends it the title of "the only natural tropical rainforest zoo in the United States".
To reach the Panaewa Zoo using a GPS unit, enter 800 Stainback Hwy, Hilo, HI 96720 as the address. It is located a few miles south of Hilo and the airport off Hwy 11.
For more information via phone, contact the zoo staff at (808) 959-7224. Visitors are welcome daily from 9 AM to 4 PM.
A few of the 150 animals that reside on the 12 acres at the Panaewa Zoo include a white bengal tiger, cotton top tamarin monkeys, capuchins, Asian forest tortoises, toucans, parrots, macaws, white-faced whistling tree ducks, a crowned crane, vultures, binturongs, tropical squirrels, two toed sloths, lemurs, turtles, gallinules, feral goat, geese, Nigerian dwarf goats, llama, mini zebu, Kona nightingales, bearded dragon, green iguanas, black swans, axis deer, and giant anteaters.
The white bengal tiger, named Namaste, is fed every day at 3:30. His daily meal includes three whole chickens, ten pounds of meat, ground up bones and various vitamins.
Children will love the petting zoo at the Panaewa Zoo that takes places every Saturday from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM. There is also a butterfly garden located near the entrance to the zoo.
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This section contains some important knowledge information/ product produced by other ENVIS Centre in area of flora and fauna conservation in India and also some important facts/ information contributed by the ENVIS Website Users working in area of wildlife conservation.
Eco-products literally means earth-friendly or not harmful to the environment. With so many products claiming to be green or environment friendly, it is difficult to know what really constitutes an eco friendly product these days. Whether they are called green products, eco-products, sustainable products or environmentally responsible products, these eco products cause minimal harm to people and the environment. The production and/or consumption of these products have a minimal impact on the environment. Although there are no universal certifications or standards to deem a product as eco-friendly, but there is a number of Eco labeling organizations that have certifications to help us in our search.
In India Centre for Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment & Forest has launched the eco-labelling scheme known as `Ecomark' in 1991 for easy identification of environment-friendly products to increase the consumer awareness.
Established as Imperial Forest Research Institute in 1906, Forest Research Institute (FRI) Dehradun, is a premier institution under the Indian Council of Forest Research and Education (ICFRE). Styled in Greeko Roman Architecture by C.G. Blomfield, the main building is a National Heritage which was inaugurated in 1929The Institute's history is vertually synonymous with the evolution and development of scientific forestry, not only in India, but over the entire Indian sub-continent. Set in a lush green estate spread over 450 hectares, with the outer Himalaya forming its back drop, the Institute's main building is an impressive edifice, marrying Greco-Roman and Colonial styles of architecture, with a plinth area of 2.5 equipped laboratories,library, herbarium, arboreta, printing press and experimental field areas for conducting forestry research, quite in keeping with the best of its kind anywhere in the world. Its museums, in addition to being a valuable source of scientific information, are a major attraction for tourists.
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered species of wild fauna and flora) is an international treaty aimed to regulate and monitor the international trade in selected species of plants and animals to ensure that it does not endanger the survival of populations in the wild.
International trade in wild animals and plants is worth billions of dollars. The trade varies from live animals and plants to an array of products derived from them. Levels of exploitation of some plant species are high and the trade in them, together with habitat loss, depleted them close to extinction.
As the trade in wild animals and plants takes place across the borders, the effort to regulate it requires international cooperation. CITES was conceived in the spirit of such cooperation. The representatives of 80 countries agreed to the Convention in Washington DC, U.S.A. on 3rd March 1973 and on 1st July 1975 CITES entered in force. Today there are 175 countries that are parties to CITES. CITES accords varying degrees of protection to ca 5,000 species of animals and 29,000 species of plants which are traded as live specimens or as dried or preserved material.
This center is a State Government Centre functioning under Environment Department, Goveronment of Maharahtra, Mumbai.


Founded in 1885, Gruppo Montenegro is a leading Italian spirits and food manufacturer. The Group's brands have developed into icons of the "Made in Italy" label with strong brand equity and significant cultural relevance: Amaro Montenegro, Vecchia Romagna and others.
Icons of the "Made in Italy" label, our brands are the result of the constant pursuit of excellence, respect for tradition and attention to product quality and sustainability, all values that have defined Gruppo Montenegro since its foundation.
Thanks to a robust national and international distribution network, today the Group's brands continue to be true ambassadors of Italian culture and tradition in over 70 countries around the world.


It is extremely common for people who intentionally shop at small businesses to be doing so to circulate money within their own community. However, it is just as common for people to shop with small businesses because the business owner has taken the time to build a trusting relationship with their customers. As a small business owner, there are a lot of small things you can do in order to turn a shopper into a regular customer.
One cue from big business that can increase your customer's loyalty is to learn helpful information about your customer. Create an email list and send out newsletters every week. You can also build a website, a blog, and create a social media profile. Encourage your customers to tell you more about themselves, so that you can offer customized products and special discounts to them. Also, send customized thank you notes to them when they make a purchase.
The easier it is for customers to contact you, the more likely they will be to purchase from you. Provide your contact information on your website, blog, and social media profile. In addition to Twitter, your business should have an Instagram and a Facebook account as well. It might even be a good idea to hire a social media manager to handle your social media profiles for you. They can respond to messages and keep the profiles active.
One of the best ways to figure out how to treat your customers is to spend a little time in their shoes. Go to other stores and take on the role of "the customer". After you get home, sit down and think about what you liked and didn't like about the experience. Were there things you wish the business had done differently or better to improve your experience? You can apply what you learn to your own place of business.
Don't be shy about having a conversation with your customer. Something as small as saying hello and goodbye will mean the world to them. Encourage your employees to ask how your customer's day has been and if the customer was able to find everything he/she needed. A little friendly conversation will go a long way.
As you can see, being social, friendly, and putting yourself in the customers' shoes are the keys to getting customers to like your small business enough to come back for a second shopping trip.
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With brutal inefficiency, this past year showed us who we are—an unintelligent, un-serious people. To examine one tiny piece of this puzzle, consider a letter the New York Times chose to publish this Monday.
The letter, composed in perfect good faith, responded to an editorial about impending health care reform. What will happen, the writer asked, if a new, Republican Congress simply repeals the whole thing?
LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES (12/28/09): What I don't find anticipated or predicted is what will happen to any health care legislation actually passed if and when the balance of power shifts toward the right, which may occur as soon as the next election.
When the majority party changes, its first actions seem to involve undoing the most radical changes enacted by the opposition. What happens if the newly elected Congress in November pushes through a vote to nullify the whole health reform bill, if it is passed?
Is there a precedent? Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid quickly come to mind as having stood the test of time.
To state what is blindingly obvious, President Obama would veto such a repeal. Since it takes a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress to override a president's veto, there is simply no chance that a newly elected Congress would be able to "nullify" any health reform bill.
Obama would veto such an attempt! Presumably, the writer hadn't considered this point. That said, why on earth would a New York Times editor decide to put this letter in print? On Monday morning, many readers of the Times began to worry about this reader's question. It's hard to know why a newspaper would want to float this concern, since the answer to the writer's concern is so blindingly obvious.
That said, might we pose our own question here? Is it possible that this New York Times editor, like this Times reader, didn't know what would happen next?
As a news professional, you'd have to be ginormously clueless to be stumped by that letter's question. But has there ever been a year when the cluelessness of the professional press corps became so ginormously clear? In this past year, the press corps' pseudo-discussion of health care has been a tribute to human frailty. And alas! When it comes to framing a serious discussion, the liberal world has performed just as poorly as the mainstream press corps has done.
When it comes to policy matters, we're stupid and ugly and nobody likes us! Has there ever been a year when these facts became quite so clear?
Next week, we'll review the past year's discussion of health care, building upon a recent re-reading of T. R. Reid's The Healing of America. (We'll also suggest what progressives should do—if they want to build intelligent frameworks for future health care reform.) But, just as a general matter, how poorly does the "press corps" reason? In the two mornings since we've returned from Maine, we've been stunned by the silly work on the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
People! It's all about feelings! Feelings draw the reader in! They make blood rush through the veins! Meanwhile, in the New York Times, Maureen Dowd is back to calling Obama "Barry"—and in her obsessive gender-kook way, she can't help mentioning the "oddly feminine-looking underpants" of last week's thwarted bomber.
No, a nation can't survive with kooks like Dowd at the top of the heap, defining the parameters of its public discussions.
We've often asked why our academic elites didn't speak up in the past several decades, challenging the ludicrous work on display in the mainstream "press corps." On December 7, the New York Times finally gave us our answer.
In this "Opinionator" post, Stanley Fish discussed Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Like us, he thought the book was "very well done." (We pause here so liberals can cry: But she didn't write it herself!) But good God! "Autobiographers cannot lie," Fish absurdly says in his piece, thereby answering our question.
Stanley Fish is a very famous academic. He was writing in our leading newspaper. An elite which churns such nonsense straight from the top will never rescue our lives.
Some of you will search for ways in which Fish's ludicrous claim can be "right." Our heartfelt advice: Abandon your search. Worry about your failed culture.
THE DECADE OF WHAT DIFFERENCE: Since we've all agreed that a decade is ending, we thought we would identify same.
What's ending is The Decade of Bush. Less pithily stated, we've reached the end of an embarrassing era: The Decade of What Difference Could It Possibly Make.
"What Difference Could It Possibly Make?" So the nation's pundits asked all though the last year of the previous decade, all through the first year of this decade. Candidate Gore or Candidate Bush? "What Difference Could It Possibly Make?" the nation's savants asked.
Somehow, they had convinced themselves of the "what difference" hypothesis. And for the record, we're talking about the mainstream press and its "liberal" pundits, not about Fox or Rush or Drudge. At this site, we consider the "liberal" pundit Frank Rich to be the dumbest man of the past several decades. In March 2000, at the start of this decade, Rich captured the prevailing mood of his low-IQ cohort.
RICH (3/11/00): I knew the presidential race had lapsed into a coma when I found myself gravitating toward Katie Couric's televised colonoscopy on the "Today" show instead of the usual chattering political heads on cable. Ms. Couric's selfless efforts on behalf of cancer prevention were not only more inspiring than the focus-group-tested nostrums prescribed by the surviving candidates, Al (Fighting for Us) Gore and George W. (Uniter Not a Divider) Bush, but also more entertaining.
Whatever happened to Americans' supposed hunger for authenticity and straight talk as an antidote to Bill Clinton? Wasn't that supposed to carry us through the whole election year? Well, as Gilda Radner's Emily Litella used to say, Never mind.
Eight months to go—but hey, who's counting?—and we're stranded with two establishment, tightly scripted, often robotic candidates who are about as different from one another as J. Crew and Banana Republic. Both are wealthy, Ivy-League-educated boomers who took safe paths through the Vietnam War, whose career advancement was greased by their dads, who advertise their intimacy with Jesus, who reek of smarmy soft money and who will do anything to win, whether it be Mr. Gore's lying about his own Congressional voting record in a debate or Mr. Bush's heartless exploitation of women's fears of breast cancer in a scurrilous attack ad.
In the true Clinton manner, both are also chameleons, ready to don new guises in a flash—from Mr. Gore's down-home wardrobe to Mr. Bush's last-minute emergence as a champion of campaign finance reform, patients' rights and clean air. The substantive disputes between the men are, in truth, minimal in a prosperous post-cold-war era when both parties aspire to Rockefeller Republicanism (literally so in that each standard-bearer is the prince of a brand-name American dynasty). If this is going to be a campaign about issues, it may all come down to the environment, gun control, Roe v. Wade and, most of all, who's least likely to screw up the economy, stupid.
Since you asked us, we will answer. No, we humans can't get dumber. What Difference Could It Possibly Make? That's the question Rich asked this day, and in subsequent columns. (Candidate Bush was Banana Republic—and Candidate Gore was J. Crew!) But in fairness, it wasn't just Rich who was pushing this silly, too-cool-for-school outlook. Such "thinking" pervaded our mainstream press corps as this gruesome decade began. It's stunning to see what the mainstream press corps' "liberal" pundits were saying seven months later, in October 2000, as history neared. And no, it wasn't just Rich. It was Herbert, and King, and Jonathan Alter—and it was Lawrence O'Donnell. It was Cokie and Sam, clowning hard. Needless to say, it was Dowd.
These people probably voted for Gore. But they called him a liar right to the end, helping us choose The Banana Republic in the place of J. Crew.
What difference could it possibly make? A decade later, sane people have learned.
What difference could it possibly make? The pundit and press corps expressed this outlook in another way during this decade.
In 1998, they had devoted a solid year to their obsession with Bill Clinton's shorts. In 1999 and 2000, they extended their angry obsession about Miss Lewinsky, punishing Gore for the troubling matter. (He hadn't condemned Clinton strongly enough.) In 2001, they staged a dim-witted revival; they spent the summer inventing "evidence" to suggest that Gary Condit may have murdered Chandra Levy, the (former) intern with whom he'd been lustily getting it on.
Both Clintons, of course, had been murderers too. Our upper-end opinion leaders were able to follow such narratives.
The brain-dead chatter about Gary Condit extended through the evening of September 10, 2001. The next day, our savants dropped the topic; they swore that all would be different. But soon, they were back to their greatest love—the culture of inane pseudo-discussion. Indeed: You can tune in Keith tonight, to watch tape of Carrie and Sarah!
What difference could it make if it's Gore or Bush? What difference could it make if we clown after viewers? What difference could it make if we dumb liberals down? The decade which ends tomorrow evening was built around such questions.
Absent aggressive intervention, the decade which starts the day after that will rest on that same foundation. Joan Walsh, it's all up to you!


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Internet access in Morocco is, for the most part, open and unrestricted. ONI testing revealed that Morocco no longer filters a majority of sites in favor of independence of the Western Sahara, which were previously blocked; however, a small number of blogging platforms and anonymizers were found to be blocked. The filtration regime is not comprehensive, that is to say, similar content can be found on other Web sites that are not blocked. On the other hand, Morocco has started to prosecute Internet users and bloggers for their online activities and writings.
Note: a previous version of this profile is available at Morocco, 2006-2007.
Voice and Accountability (scale of 0-5) 1.7
EIU Democracy Index (out of 167 countries) 120
The ascension of King Mohammed VI to the throne in 1999 marked the end of the "Years of Lead," a period of state repression under his father, King Hassan II.1 Despite the taboos broken and journalistic hopes raised since then, the nation's media continues to face harassment, censorship, prosecution, hefty fines and jail time for "offending" the king, the monarchy, the nation, territorial integrity (particularly in respect to the Western Sahara), God, or Islam.2 Examples include the shutting down of a weekly Arabic newspaper, prohibiting media coverage of trials and demonstrations, restricting the movement of the press and blocking certain websites.3 Reporters Without Borders ranked Morocco 122nd out of 173 countries in their 2008 press freedom index.4
Morocco faces two major issues that inform its actions regarding the press and human rights in general: the status of Western Sahara and terrorism. As to the first issue, Morocco has vied with the Polisario Front for control of Western Sahara ever since Spain pulled out of the region in 1976.5 Morocco asserts a historical claim on the region,6 while the Polisario Front asserts the right of self-determination.7 After decades of fighting, both sides agreed to a UN-sponsored ceasefire in 1991 that required an eventual referendum on independence in the region.8 As of yet, this referendum has not been held.9 Despite the ceasefire, reports of overzealous suppression of peaceful resistance to Moroccan rule persist.10 Journalism on the subject has been restricted as well.11
As to the second issue, terrorism, Casablanca was the site of a major terrorist attack in May 2003 when suicide bombers detonated five bombs targeting a Jewish community center, a Spanish restaurant and social club, a hotel, and the Belgian consulate.12 An anti-terrorism law which was passed soon after the attacks placed further restrictions on the press.13
Internet in Morocco
Even though the Internet was first introduced in Morocco in 1995,14 the Moroccan Ministry of Industry, Trade and New Technologies stated in April 2008 that as few as 3.4 percent of the population had a computer, only 2,000 Moroccan schools were equipped with ICT, and only 10 companies engaged in e-commerce.15 The Ministry, describing these numbers as "alarming," announced that it had devised a short-term priority plan of action to promote competition in the ICT field.16 The International Telecommunication Union estimated the 2008 Internet penetration rate at 32 percent,17 and an October 2007 UNDP survey indicated that Internet usage in the region as a whole has remained low due to low incomes, high costs, and a lack of interesting content.18
Statistics from the National Telecoms Regulation Agency (ANRT) in 2007 reflected the impact of deregulation of the telecom market with double-digit growth for the information and communications technology (ICT) segments on the whole. High-speed (ADSL) Internet services alone sparked unprecedented growth in Morocco's Internet market, which grew from 168,000 subscribers in June 2005 to 480,000 in June 2007 – an increase of 220 percent. The country's three providers – Maroc Télécom, Méditel and Wana – also launched 3G Internet services with speeds of over 3 MB in the country's major cities for USD73 per month.19
Maroc Télécom, the largest Internet service provider (ISP) in Morocco, offers wholesale services to other ISPs, following the Reference Access Offer approved by the Morocco's telecom regulatory body, the National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ANRT), in October 2006.20 Maroc Télécom is a 53 percent subsidiary of European telecom giant Vivendi International and owns 51 percent of the historical telecommunications operators of Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Gabon.21
ICT growth was largely dominated by a 553 percent increase in 3G Internet services provided between June 2007 and June 2008. In fact, 3G Internet services accounted for 24 percent of the total market share, compared with 74 percent for ADSL broadband Internet. Maroc Télécom held a 76 percent market share in 3G Internet services, relative newcomer Wana with 18 percent, and Méditel with 4 percent. With regard to Internet use overall, the number of subscribers exceeded 650,000 – a 37 percent increase from June 2007.22
The ANRT expects that the telecoms industry's share of the country's gross domestic product will grow from the current 7 percent to 10 percent in 2010.23 The kingdom also set up its first fund to promote innovation in IT as part of a larger plan to create more than 30,000 new direct job opportunities in ICT industries.24
In 2006, Morocco's existing blogosphere grew exponentially due to cheaper Internet access, ADSL availability, and the greater availability of Arabic-language blogging platforms such as Maktoob and Jeeran. In 2006, a local platform called Blogs Jahiz was created,25 adding to popular existing platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress, Skyblogs, and those previously mentioned. As of 2008, the local blogosphere was estimated to contain around 30,000 blogs.26
Though in Morocco the Internet is largely free of filtering, bloggers and forum participants generally avoid "red line" topics such as the Western Sahara, defamation of the royal authority, and defamation of Islam.27 Still, bloggers in the kingdom state that they are free to discuss almost anything.28
Current laws criminalize criticizing the monarchy or Morocco's claim to Western Sahara.29 The anti-terrorism bill that was passed following suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 grants the government sweeping legal power to arrest journalists or to filter Web sites that are deemed to "disrupt public order by intimidation, force, violence, fear or terror."30 In recent years, the Moroccan government appears have grown increasingly proactive about shutting down newspapers and imprisoning reporters; in January 2007, Morocco's only monthly magazine written in local dialect was ordered shut down for two months after publishing jokes about Islam and a reporter and editor were given three-year suspended prison sentences.31 Also in 2007, a journalist was forced to resign as managing editor of a weekly newspaper to prevent the newspaper being forced to pay an impossibly large amount in damages in a libel suit.32
In 2007, authorities stated they would seek to reform the press law, but they have continued to imprison journalists, seize newspapers and block Web site access.33 Though the king has sought to improve his image abroad, he has continued to curb the country's independent media. Under strong regime pressure, judges have regularly convicted a steady stream of dissidents under the press law for reporting on taboo topics such as the monarchy, the army, Islam and independence for the Western Sahara.34 For this reason, an increasing number of journalists have thought it best to self-censor to avoid any problems.35 Government authorities have worked with journalists and editors' unions to redraft the press law, but were not inclined to decriminalize many of the chief press offenses that authorized imprisonment of journalists, so efforts failed and no revised draft was submitted to parliament.36
The current press law has been used to suppress outspoken online writers. For example, in September 2008, Moroccan blogger and journalist Mohamed Erraji was convicted under article 41 of the Moroccan press law of "disrespect for the king" in an article for Moroccan Arabic-language news website Hespress (http://hespress.com) and was sentenced to pay a fine of approximately USD630 and serve two years in prison.37 Later in the month, however, an appeals court overturned the blogger's conviction on the grounds of procedural irregularities, citing that the initial hearing took place only twelve days after charges were filed, when the law calls for a minimum of fifteen days.38
Information related to the independence movement in the Western Sahara continues to be a sensitive issue. When the video sharing Web site YouTube became inaccessible in May 2007 via the state-controlled Maroc Telecom, some Internet users believed the site was blocked because video clips that were critical of Morocco's actions in Western Sahara were posted to the site. Maroc Telecom, however, said a technical glitch was responsible for the site's inaccessibility.39
Political decisions are also believed to have been behind clampdowns on media coverage. For example, in May 2008, the ANRT advised the Rabat bureau of Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel that the frequency it used for broadcasting a daily news program that had been covering events in the Maghreb for over eighteen months was being withdrawn because of "technical and legal problems."40 The sudden and vague nature of the decision, however, suggested that the decision had political motivations.41
A February 2008 arrest of an Internet user led many to believe that Moroccan authorities do practice Internet surveillance. The Moroccan user, Fouad Mourtada, was arrested by plain-clothes police and sentenced to three years in prison for creating a false profile of the King's brother on the social networking Web site Facebook.42 This case marked the first conviction in the country for an online offense and shocked the blogging community. It also raised questions as to how the police identified the Internet user and whether his IP addressed was tracked.43 Mourtada was released 43 days later as the result of a royal pardon issued on the occasion of the Prophet Mohammed's birthday.44
Restrictions on freedom of expression have extended to the Internet in recent years. The government has blocked access to Web sites run by Islamist opposition groups and a few Web-based anonymizers, but it has lifted the ban on a few previously blocked Web sites that advocate for the independence of Western Sahara.
ONI carried out testing of Moroccan Internet service on the principal Internet provider, Maroc Telecom, and the ISP Morocco Trade and Development Services (MTDS). Test results in 2008-2009 found that sites that promote the independence of Western Sahara that were previously blocked have been unblocked. These include the Web site Sahara Occidental (http://www.sahara-occidental.com) and the Web sites for the Union of Sahrawi Journalists and Writers (www.upes.org) and the Association of Families of Sahrawi Prisoners and Disappeared (www.afapredesa.org).
Previous ONI tests found the same trend; more pro-independence Western Sahara Web sites are becoming accessible. Similarly, the Web site of an Islamist opposition movement, Justice and Spirituality, (http://www.aljamaa.info) was found accessible.
Blogging platform LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com), however, continues to be blocked. Also blocked are the Web-based anonymizers www.anonymizer.com and the circumvention tool www.multiproxy.org.
Of all of the Web sites tested containing GLBT-related content, only one was found to be blocked (http://www.kelma.org), apparently because the site has a special section for the Maghreb region at http://www.kelma.org/kelmaghreb.htm.
ONI confirmed through technical tests that access to the Web site of Sheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al-Maghraoui (Maghrawi.net) was blocked on September 30, 2008, just a few days after the Moroccan authorities announced plans to shut down his Qur'anic schools and close down a Web site on which the Sheikh decreed that the marriage of nine-year-old girls is allowed by Islam, a decree that was considered in Morocco to legitimize pedophilia.45
Morocco's Internet filtration regime is relatively light and focuses on a few blog sites, a few highly visible anonymizers, and for a brief period, the video sharing Web site YouTube. Sites advocating for the independence of the Western Saharan are no longer inaccessible. The issues Morocco faces in Western Sahara's push for independence, the specter of terrorism, and the protection of the royal family and Islam from defamation have led Morocco to crack down on free speech and the press, but have not led it to significantly censor the Internet. As Internet users can access blocked material on other accessible sites, it is clear that Morocco's filtration regime is not comprehensive. Relative to the region, Moroccan Internet access is relatively free, but the fact that the authorities have started to prosecute online writers indicates limited tolerance to users' online activities.
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2. Reporters Without Borders, "Morocco - Annual Report 2007," http://www.rsf.org/country-43.php3?id_mot=147.
4. Reporters Without Borders, "Astronomic damages award against leading Arabic-language daily upheld on appeal," October 30, 2008, http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29152.
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27. Reporters Without Borders, "Morocco," February 7, 2008, http://www.rsf.org/Morocco.html.
29. Committee to Protect Journalists, "Attacks on the Press in 2006: Morocco," http://www.cpj.org/attacks06/mideast06/mor06.html.
30. Human Rights Watch, "Background: The State of Human Rights in Morocco," November 2005, http://hrw.org/reports/2005/morocco1105/4.htm ; Mohammad Ibahrine, "Morocco: Internet making censorship obsolete," Arab Reform Bulletin 3 (7): September 2005, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/ibrahine1.pdf.
31. Richard Hamilton, "Laughter, freedom, and religion in Morocco," BBC News, January 13, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6256131....
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42. Reporters Without Borders, "Royal pardon for Internet user, condemned to three years of jail for creating spoof Facebook profile for prince," March 19, 2008, http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25900.
45. "Schools advocating child marriage shut down," The Sydney Morning Herald, September 26, 2008, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/09/26/1222217468223.html.


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Finland is one of those places around the world that has the depths of cultural beauty to the beautiful lush greenery of the forest to entice the people around. If you are here wondering what kind of places and activities you can indulge in while in Finland in April, the possibilities are actually rather endless. Irrespective of the kind of places you like – be it mountain, beaches or even adventure treks, Finland does have a little to offer to every single person out there.
Finland is often one of the most underappreciated places around in Europe, mainly because of the lack of tourist influx throughout the year. Visiting Finland during the month of April can actually change your notion about the place if you think that all this place is just about snow and the cultural vibe that comes off of it. From the art-filled town of Helsinki to the rich history in the Baltic Port, the possibilities are rather endless for you to explore around.
The reason why the majority of the tourists prefer visiting Finland during the month of April is mainly that of the amazing weather that lingers around during the month of the year. The weather in Finland in April is chilly but for the standards of the winter, the temperature is quite favorable. Don't even think about visiting Finland during the colder months because then you will either be sat inside the hotel or freeze yourself when you step out, especially if you are not accustomed to the extreme cold that the place experiences. April is actually an amazing time to visit, primarily because of the weather conditions.
Next on the list of discussion is how long should the trip be? If you are planning for a trip with your family, the best way to go on about it is to at least plan ahead and plan for a week to 10 days so you can enjoy every single part of the trip. It is often quite easier to miss out on certain parts of the trip thinking they are not good enough but trust us, that is exactly where you tend to miss out.
The month of April is apt for a number of outdoor activities and sightseeing one can do throughout the country of Finland. Owing to the fact that not many people visit this place that frequently, you can actually catch a break and get a good place to start off your trip with your family with a number of things to indulge in.
If you are visiting Finland with your family, the best way to indulge your kids is to take them to visit Santa Park. Help them meet Mr. and Mrs. Claus there and if you are lucky, you can even enjoy little specks of snow for that earthy feeling altogether. Located in the north of Finland, in Rovaniemi, this park is an amazing place to visit if you are someone who loves Christmas and the tales behind it. The Calligraphy school near the park is something that lets you write letters to Santa and the elves get them delivered for you. You can even see the bulk of letters that the elves get over the course of the year.
Yet another must thing to do in Finland is to visit the Siida Museum. If you wish to enrich your knowledge more about the history of Finland and the overall place altogether, visiting the Siida Museum is an absolute must. The place withholds the rich history of the Sami, otherwise known as the Laplanders of the country of Finland. This museum can give you insight into every last detail about this semi-nomadic tribe and everything that this tribe did represent back in the days. From photographic galleries to exquisite pieces of arts and architecture, you will more or less find every last bit about this tribe and the kind of impact they had on the country.
Yet another one of the amazing places around is to visit the Restaurant Aanaar while you enjoy the Finland weather in April. The restaurant is situated Inari and overlooks the beautiful sights of the Juutuanjoki's Jäniskoski Rapids. The majority and the primary reason why the majority of the people tend to flock around this restaurant is not just because of the taste but the produce they use for every single one of their dishes. Everything is fresh and locally produced.
Levi is the best ski resort to visit for a thrilling experience in Finland. However, if not skiing, sled rides and snowboarding are a couple of other activities that you can indulge in during your trip. This place is no doubt that best to enjoy the cold weather in Finland. However, it completely depends on your luck if Levi is still left with snow during April or not, but if it has, make sure you tick this off your list since this is one of the best things to do in Finland in April.
Suggested Read: This Sled Hotel In Finland Lets You Move Around For The Best Views Of Northern Lights!
This goes without saying that when visiting Finland, you'd be a fool to give up on visiting the largest sea fortress around the world. The Suomenlinna Fortress is located just a 15-minute ferry ride away from the Helsinki marketplace. It is now a UNESCO heritage site and all for the right reasons. The fortifications and the amazing architecture of the landmark is something that will definitely take your breath away. Start with the audio-visual experience to get a brief gist and then you can go on exploring the place around.
If you didn't know, the Arctic does run around Finland, making it one of the best spots to enjoy pleasant and cool weather the entire year round. If you are visiting during the month of April, chances are that you might experience the infamous Midnight Sun which is nothing short of breathtaking. Located around in Rovaniemi, this spot is one of the most famous sites that attract the maximum influx of tourists the entire year around.
It goes without saying that the Finland temperature in April makes it one of the most favorable places to visit around. While in Finland, you are definitely going to visit Helsinki and make sure to not miss out on the amazing array of Helsinki churches in there. There are three predominant churches, two being cathedrals and one of them the key landmark of the place. While there, explore around each one of them to get the best kind of experience and peace from sitting in there.
Situated on the Korkeasaari Island, this is one of the oldest zoos in the world and one of the best places to visit in Finland in April. It houses around 150 different species of fauna and 1,000 of plants, offering a splendid opportunity to all the wildlife lovers and shutterbugs out there. Bears, wolverines, reindeers, and lions are amongst the few animals that you can spot here.
The penultimate category in the article is about the kind of accommodations you can book to have a comfortable and luxurious stay while visiting Finland in April.
Experience a leisure stay at the Arctic Light hotel if you want themed rooms with amazing décor and amazing hospitality, this is the one to book. It offers a luxurious stay along with the basic amenities.
The building of Hotel Katajanokka was formerly a prison house. So, if that kind of thrills you along with international dining, this is the best option for you to enjoy a stay at Finland in April.
Finland is a cold country altogether. Even during the summer months, the cold is prevalent. The temperature around in April skirts around 2 degrees which is severely cold for people who are not accustomed to it. So, ensure that you pack accordingly to avoid any kind of issue.
Carry medicines and even keep your personal belongings safe with you.
Visiting Finland in April is nothing short of than a magical experience. The picturesque beauty of the landmarks and the surroundings make up for one of the most relaxing vacations you could ever ask for during your trip to Europe with TravelTriangle.


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PREGNANT BY A PAEDO
Mum-to-be, 16, discovers father of her baby is a paedophile while cleaning out his room
Lorna-May Anslow tipped off police after she spotted Joseph Johnson, 24, had been messaging a 15-year-old girl, asking her to strip for him
By HAYLEY RICHARDSON AND CHANTELLE REES
Updated: 30 Jan 2017, 16:16
A PREGNANT teenager was stunned to discover the father of her unborn baby was a paedophile as she cleaned his room.
Lorna-May Anslow, from Portsmouth, was just 16 when she met Joseph Johnson, then 21, on Facebook in May 2014.
Lorna-May Anslow was horrified when she discovered the father of her unborn child was a paedophileCredit: Medavia
After falling pregnant four months later, Lorna-May, now 19, moved into Johnson's mum's home – but her world soon came crashing down as she found out her boyfriend had been charged with having sexual activity with an underage girl.
After initially sticking by him, she broke it off when Johnson, now 24, from Feltham, was found guilty and placed on the sex offenders register.
Lorna-May Anslow met Joseph Johnson on Facebook in May 2014 when she was 16Credit: Medavia
Months later she discovered her ex was up to his old tricks, messaging teenage girls on Instagram.
Lorna-May tipped off the police and Johnson was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years.
The mum of one told how she and Johnson instantly hit it off after chatting on social media.
She recalled: "For me, it was love at first sight. As well as being gorgeous, Joseph was warm, friendly and charming.
"He was a real gentleman and treated me like a queen. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world."
Soon enough the couple became serious and just four months later, in September 2014, Lorna-May found out she was pregnant.
She explained: "Although I knew I loved Joseph, it still was a huge shock. I had been feeling unwell for a few weeks, but it didn't even cross my mind that I could be pregnant.
"I didn't know if I was ready to be a mum. Joseph was stunned too."
After deciding not to make any rash decisions, a few weeks later Lorna-May had an ectopic pregnancy scare and needed an early scan to determine if the baby was developing in her fallopian tube.
Luckily, the baby was healthy and growing normally – but the fear of losing it made Lorna-May realise she wanted to keep it.
She recalled: "I told Joseph there was no pressure and that he could be as involved as he wanted to be.
"I braced myself for his response, but unexpectedly he was over the moon that he was going to be a dad.
"I was thrilled - although I would never have forced Joseph to stay with me, deep down I didn't want to have this baby alone."
Lorna-May then moved into Johnson's mum's house so they could be together while they prepared for the baby's arrival.
She said: "We spent hours talking about what life would be like when we would be a family."
Lorna-May fell pregnant with Johnson's baby four months after they started datingCredit: Medavia
When Lorna-May was 16 weeks pregnant she decided to clean out Johnson's room while he was at football practice.
But as she was putting clothes away in his wardrobe, something caught her eye.
She explained: "There was a fat bundle of paperwork stuffed into a carrier bag. I pulled the papers out and started to look through them. What I saw made me feel sick to my stomach."
Johnson had been charged with having sexual activity with an underage girl.
The papers revealed text messages between him and a 14-year-old, dating back to a few months before Lorna-May had met him.
She admitted: "My stomach knotted tightly as I thought about what this meant for us - for the baby.
"Everything had happened so fast with Joseph - did I even know him at all?"
Angry and disgusted, Lorna-May waited until he returned from football to confront him.
Lorna-May was tidying up Johnson's bedroom when she made the grim discoveryCredit: Medavia
She told how he reassured her it was a girl he'd been seeing before he met her, telling her it was a mistake and he "didn't expect to get charged for it".
Lorna-May said: "He told me he'd been really immature back then, but that he had changed for me and the baby.
"I badly wanted to believe that he was telling the truth. But I couldn't be sure. I agreed to see how things went and tried to push the issue out of my head and focus on the baby."
When the couple discovered they were having a little girl at the 20 week scan, they were over the moon.
Lorna-May recalled: "For a few weeks, everything was perfect. We made a list of girls names we loved and as my bump grew, so did my anticipation to meet our daughter.
"But in February 2015, Joseph had to attend court.
Lorna-May agreed to support Johnson in court in February 2015Credit: Medavia
"I agreed to support him, but couldn't help feeling unsettled as we walked up the court steps.
"I didn't want to go into the courtroom, so I waited outside. When he emerged after what felt like forever, his face was white and I could tell he had been crying."
Johnson was found guilty and received a three-year community order with a five-year sexual offences prevention order. He was placed on the sex offenders register for five years.
Lorna-May said: "I felt sick. The idea that Joseph was a paedophile in the eyes of the law went around and around in my head for the following few weeks."
Eventually, in March 2015, Lorna-May decided she couldn't be with him anymore.
She explained: "I had the safety of my unborn child to think about. I didn't want to raise a child with a sex offender. I also couldn't bear the idea of him touching me."
'SICKOS' SNARED
Fifth alleged member of 'furry fetish' paedophile ring charged with dressing up as an animal and raping boy
PAEDO SNARED
Double rapist who 'tried to meet girl, 12, for sex' is jailed after being set up by paedo hunters
CAUGHT RED-HANDED
Pervert caught by paedophile vigilantes as he thought he was meeting a 14-year-old for sex
FAILED BY SYSTEM
Girl, 7, given two STIs by paedo foster parent - months after being put in care because of sex abuse at home
CHOOSE STRIFE
Piers Morgan brands Ewan McGregor a 'paedophile lover' and reveals Trainspotting star 'refused to be interviewed on GMB unless he was dropped from show'
In May 2015, after a four day labour, Lorna-May gave birth to a baby girl, Grace.
She said: "She was the most amazing thing I had ever set my eyes on.
"I vowed there and then to protect her against anything, and although I let Joseph meet her in the hospital, I made it clear I didn't want him in our lives.
"He was devastated and begged to be given another chance, but I stood firm.
"It was hard, but I was convinced it was the right thing to do."
Just a month later in June, Lorna-May's worst fears were confirmed.
Lorna-May broke it off with Johnson as she was concerned about the safety of her baby, GraceCredit: Medavia
She explained: "I was idly scrolling through Instagram when I came across a comment Joseph had left on a teenage girl's photo.
"I could tell she was under 16. He was obviously up to his old tricks again - despite already being banned from contacting girls online.
"I immediately called the police and reported him, and they approached the girl in question, who agreed to press charges."
In October 2015, thanks to Lorna-May's tip-off, Johnson was convicted for breaching his ban and handed a 12-month suspended sentence.
Lorna-May spotted Johnson had been messaging an under-age girl on InstagramCredit: Medavia
Portsmouth Crown Court heard he sent text messages to a 15-year-old girl, telling her she was 'sexy' and asking her to strip for him.
Judge Ian Pearson deemed him "a risk to adolescent girls" and gave him a sexual harm prevention order, banning him from contacting young girls online for ten years.
Johnson was also made to sign the sex offenders register for ten years.
Lorna-May has since moved on and met a new manCredit: Medavia
Meanwhile, Lorna-May has met a new man - Connor, 20 - and she and Grace are moving on with their lives.
She admitted: "I'll never forget the day I was cleaning the closet and discovered the father of my baby is a paedophile."
Earlier this month we told how Dark Justice paedophile vigilantes snared a pervert who begged a '13-year-old' to perform a sex act on a DOG then travelled 200-miles to meet her.


Okay, these deals aren't actually secrets, but most of you aren't aware of this little section of the website: The Wolves' Den. This is where we keep our special deals, closeout items, and things that you might be surprised to see.
For example, do you want to get some of the best night sights on the planet? Because we have Trijicon HD night sights for Glock pistols over in the Closeout section, and they're amazing.
That's not all, either. There are writer sample AlphaWolf PCCs, blem barrels, and all sorts of random goodies in there.
In fact, there are also complete guns in there, including some really screaming good deals. There's one that I have my eye on to be honest, but if someone bought it before I did I wouldn't be that mad. In fact, I think a photo of it will be the end of this post, because this gun is just so cool looking.
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July 13, 2019	19 Views by	admin
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is back at it again tonight (Sat., July 13, 2019) as UFC Fight Night 155 goes down from inside Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA. Headlining the ESPN+-streamed event is a woman's Bantamweight fight between Aspen Ladd and former UFC women's Featherweight champion Germaine de Randamie. In the co-main event, Urijah Faber ends his lengthy retirement to face Ricky Simon.
What's Hot:
After giving up her Featherweight title, Germaine de Randamie made the drop down to Bantamweight in her previous fight, defeating Raquel Pennington last November. She will look to make it two in a row when she faces up-and-coming standout, Aspen Ladd, who is undefeated in her combat career (8-0, 3-0 UFC), and has shown promise as evidenced by this beat down.
Scheduled to face Holly Holm at UFC 235, Ladd had the fight cancelled after Holly was yanked and given a title fight against Amanda Nunes a few weeks later. Ladd, meanwhile, had a rematch with Sijara Eubanks, defeating her a second time just a few months ago. While the fight against de Randamie may not bring in as many eyeballs when compared to one against Holm, it's still a big test for the 24-year old contender.
A win for either Ladd or de Randamie should net them a title fight against Amanda Nunes because at the end of the day there is simply no one left at 135 pounds, and they are the lone remaining top Bantamweight combatants with good win streaks.
After two years away from the fight game, Urijah Faber will step back into the cage in an attempt to recapture his glory days when he faces off against Ricky Simon. While Ricky doesn't have the biggest name out there, he has won eight in a row, so he is formidable.
A win over Urijah will be the biggest for Simon to date, and could catapult him into bigger and better things moving forward. For Faber, a win over the streaking-Simon could be what he needs to motivate him to stick around longer than just a couple of fights.
Whether or not he makes it to two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo is another story. Still, Faber doesn't have much to prove and is doing quite well outside of the Octagon, so you know he means it when he says he's coming back because he misses the game and is confident he can still compete at the highest level.
What's Not:
Coming off a stacked UFC 239 event, we didn't expect UFC to stack the deck again right away; but this fight card is simply lacking. While de Randamie vs Ladd is a great fight, I just don't see it good enough to carry an event. Sure, Urijah Faber is making his comeback after two years, but Ricky Simon doesn't have the name value yet that will get people to run to their phones, laptops, computer or TV to tune in.
Original Card vs Actual Card:
Sara McMann was set to face Nicco Montano, but after Sara suffered an unfortunate injury, she was bounced from the event and replaced by Julianna Pena. John Phillips was replaced by Wellington Turman after he was forced out of his scheduled fight against middleweight striker Karl Roberson. Also, Gian Villante withdrew from the card for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by John Allan, who will be facing Light Heavyweight knockout artist Mike Rodriguez.
Injuries:
Cynthia Calvillo broke her foot, forcing her out of her scheduled showdown against Livia Renata Souza, who will now face Brianna Van Buren, the former Invicta FC Strawweight champion. Late last week, Beneil Dariush suffered an injury and his main card fight against Drakkar Klose was put on ice for another day.
How The 'Prelims' Look:
You have some decent names competing on the undercard, including "Sac-Town's" own Andre Fili facing Sheymon Moraes at Featherweight. Also, Julianna Pena will make her much-awaited return to action after taking time off to give birth to her first child, when she faces former UFC women's Flyweight champion Nicco Montano. Pena's last fight saw her get submitted by current UFC women's flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko, in early 2017. Prior to that, Julianna was riding a four-fight win streak and won season 18 of the Ultimate Fighter (TUF). As for Montano, she hasn't fought since late 2017, defeating Roxanne Modaferri to win the then-vacant women's 125-pound title. After failing to defend the belt, Nicco was ultimately stripped. Now she gets the chance to prove she is worthy of a title fight by taking out Pena.
Also, Darren Elkins will look to snap his two-fight skid when he faces the always-dangerous submission ace, Ryan Hall. Hall is coming off a rather easy submission win over B.J. Penn last December, quietly winning his seventh straight. Of course, his fight against B.J. was his first in two years so it's easy to see why people forgot about how good he is.
To learn more about all of the undercard action click here and here.
New Blood:
We have several newcomers looking to make a statement inside the Octagon, including Wellington Turman, a slugger sporting a 15-2 record with four knockouts and seven submissions to his name. Granted, it's a short-notice fight for Wellington, but it's one he wasn't going to turn down. Still, Karl Roberson is a tough fight for anyone, let alone on such short notice. Karl is coming off a loss to Glover Teixeira earlier this year, so he is in a hurry to get back into the win column. Roberson has heavy hands, so if he can touch Turman, it could be a short night.
Former Invicta FC Strawweight queen Brianna Van Buren will look to make a splash in her UFC debut, as she got the call up to face Livia Renata Souza with Cynthia Calvillo hurt. It's a tough fight for both women, as Van Buren will also have to be fighting off the UFC jitters, while Souza has to deal with the change in opponent.
John Allan will look to pump some new blood into a Light Heavyweight division that is running out of contenders for Jon Jones. While Allan has a long way to go for title contention, obviously, he can start his path if he can get a win over Mike Rodriguez, who will be more than happy to engage in a striking war with the UFC rookie.
Get at a look all the "New Blood" here.
Who Needs A Win Badly:
Darren Elkins has dropped two straight after winning six in a row. Granted, the losses came against Ricardo Lamas and Alexander Volkanovski, but the fact remains that losing three in a row is not a good look for the Team Alpha Male (TAM) product. Ryan Hall is as tough as they come, though you wouldn't know it based on his cool and unassuming demeanor. It's going to be tough night for Elkins if he wants to get back in the winner's circle.
Interest Level: 5/10
It's going to be interesting to see just how Ladd recovers from a brutal weight cut against one of the biggest female 135 pounders out there who has heavy hands. If she can get through "Iron Lady," a title shot should surely await her. Plus, Urijah Faber is adamant he hasn't been on the couch since retiring two years ago, so it will be interesting to see just how he does against a very tough Simon after such a long layoff.
There is an intriguing Featherweight showdown on the main card that will see Josh Emmett take on Mirsad Bektic. Emmett is coming of a spectacular knockout win over Michael Johnson (see it), while Mirsad escaped with a split decision against Ricardo Lamas earlier this year. All in all, it's an okay night of fights which could spit out future title contenders, upsets and decent tussles.
Full Fight Card:
UFC Fight Night 155 Main Event:
135 lbs.: Germaine de Randamie vs. Aspen Ladd
UFC Fight Night 155 Main Card on ESPN+ (8 p.m. ET):
135 lbs.: Urijah Faber vs. Ricky Simon
145 lbs.: Mirsad Bektic vs. Josh Emmett
185 lbs.: Karl Roberson vs. Wellington Turman
185 lbs.: Cezar Ferreira vs. Marvin Vettori
UFC Fight Night 155 Prelims on ESPN+ (5 p.m. ET):
205 lbs.: Mike Rodriguez vs. John Allan
145 lbs.: Andre Fili vs. Sheymon Moraes
135 lbs.: Nicco Montano vs. Julianna Pena
145 lbs.: Darren Elkins vs. Ryan Hall
135 lbs.: Jonathan Martinez vs. Liu Pingyuan
115 lbs.: Livinha Souza vs. Brianna Van Buren
135 lbs.: Benito Lopez vs. Vince Morales
*Fight card, bout order and the amount of matches subject to change.
For more upcoming UFC events click here.
The UFC calendar is rolling along smoothly here in 2019, with the International Fight Week festivities having just concluded with the UFC 239 event in Las Vegas. At that...


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Q: How to promisify all callback-style methods in an object I am relatively new to typescript. I would like to create a generic wrapper/utility that would take an object with callback-style methods (unknown in advance) and promisify them. The specific use case is to promisify auto-generated node grpc clients.
Example type for a client using callback-style methods:
type AutogeneratedClient = {
    autogeneratedMethod(request: MethodSpecificRequestType, callback: (error: ServiceError, response: MethodSpecificResponseType) => void): ClientUnaryCall
}

I want to be able to have a generic "promisify" utility that would return an object as described by the following type:
type PromisifiedAutogeneratedClient = {
    autogeneratedMethod(request: MethodSpecificRequestType): Promise<MethodSpecificResponseType>
}

I was thinking of implementing this as a Proxy that uses the "get" trap to return a wrapper function that promisifies the original callback-based method. Problem is, I don't know how to do it with Typescript. I started looking into Mapped types, but I am still unable to make this work.
How would you solve this problem in a type-safe way?

A: I am thinking something along the lines of the following:
First, let's define some types. I do not know how gRPC generically defines its clients, so I will assume something like the one you have shown above:
type GrpcClientFn<REQ, RES> =
  (req: REQ, cb: (e: ServiceError, res: RES)  => void) => ClientUnaryCall;

Which naturally leads us to the corresponding promisifeid type:
type PromisifiedGrpcClientFn<REQ, RES> = (req: REQ) => Promise<RES>;

Now the type for a single client function "promisifier", not exactly what you want, but a stepping stone to it, and an implementation:
type Promisify<REQ, RES, F extends Function> =
  F extends GrpcClientFn<REQ, RES> ? PromisifiedGrpcClientFn<REQ, RES> : never;

function promisify<REQ, RES, FIN extends GrpcClientFn<REQ,RES>>(fin: FIN): PromisifiedGrpcClientFn<REQ, RES> {
  return function(req: REQ) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      fin(req, (error, outcome) => {
        if (error) {
          reject(error);
        } else {
          resolve(outcome);
        }
      });
    });
  }
}

This takes a gRPC-style function and promisifies it. (Stylistically, I choose to use the old-style function(a,b,c) { ... } syntax over the modern (a,b,c) => { ... } syntax in some places, to make the return type explicit.)
Ok, the hard stuff gone: now define an entire object whose values are gRPC client functions:
type GrpcClientObj = {
  [key: string]: GrpcClientFn<any, any>;
}

I wish I could do something better about the <any,any>, but I can't think of something!
Before defining the "promisified" object type, I need two helpers, to extract the request and response parameter types:
// obtain type of request parameter
type PREQ<F extends Function> =
  F extends (req: infer REQ, cb: (e: ServiceError, res: any)  => void) => ClientUnaryCall ? REQ : never;
// obtain type of response parameter
type PRES<F extends Function> =
  F extends (req: any, cb: (e: ServiceError, res: infer RES)  => void) => ClientUnaryCall ? RES : never;

At last, the type of the "promisified" object is:
type PromisifiedGrpcClientObj<T extends GrpcClientObj> = {
  [P in keyof T]: Promisify<PREQ<T[P]>, PRES<T[P]>, T[P]>;
}

And the implementation couldn't come easier:
function promisifyObj(o: GrpcClientObj): PromisifiedGrpcClientObj<GrpcClientObj> {
  return Object.keys(o).reduce((aggr, cur) => ({
    ...aggr,
    [cur]: promisify(o[cur])
  }), {} as PromisifiedGrpcClientObj<GrpcClientObj>);
}

And a Typescript playground link.
EDIT: Maybe, the following would be more appropriate - the difference is how we define the output type in relation to the input type:
function promisifyObj<GRPCO extends GrpcClientObj>(o: GRPCO): PromisifiedGrpcClientObj<GRPCO> {
  return Object.keys(o).reduce((aggr, cur) => ({
    ...aggr,
    [cur]: promisify(o[cur])
  }), {} as PromisifiedGrpcClientObj<GRPCO>);
}

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Q: stream wifi camera to android I'm trying to display the video stream from my wifi camera (SJ6 Legend) to an Android device.
When turning on the wifi from the camera and connecting to its network from my mac I can see the video stream from vlc simply by going to File -> Open Network and connecting to rtsp://MY_CAM_IP.
I then connect to the wifi from my android device and I tried using MediaPlayer or VideoView and it doesn't work.
vlc for android also doesn't display the video.
Just to make sure there is no problem playing RTSP I tried this file:
rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_175k.mov
and it works fine on vlc for android and using MediaPlayer.
I also tried a vlc for android lib, that didn't work as well...
Relevant code:
In onCreate:
SurfaceView surfaceView = (SurfaceView)
findViewById(R.id.am_surface_view);
mSurfaceHolder = surfaceView.getHolder();
mSurfaceHolder.addCallback(this);
mSurfaceHolder.setFixedSize(320, 240);

and:
/**
 * {@link MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener} interface methods
 */
@Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mediaPlayer) {
    mMediaPlayer.start();
}

/**
 * {@link SurfaceHolder.Callback} interface methods
 */
@Override
public void surfaceChanged(final SurfaceHolder holder, final int format, final int width, final int height) {}

@Override
public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder sh) {

    mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
    mMediaPlayer.setDisplay(sh);

//    Context context = getApplicationContext();
//    Map<String, String> headers = getRtspHeaders();
//    Uri source = Uri.parse(RTSP_URL);

    try {
        // Specify the IP camera's URL and auth headers.
//        mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(context, source, headers);
//        mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(context, source);
        mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(RTSP_URL); // RTSP_URL = "rtsp://MY_CAM_IP"

        // Begin the process of setting up a video stream.
        mMediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this);
        mMediaPlayer.prepareAsync();

    } catch (Exception e) {}
}

@Override
public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder sh) {
    mMediaPlayer.release();
}

Anyone can point me to some solution???
Thanks

A: It finally worked when I turned off the phones' cellular network data.
Unfortunately I need to receive the camera stream and have a network connection to send the frames received but I guess that's another question...


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NOIE Internet Trends - The Current State of Play
A growing majority of Australians use the Internet. The number of Internet subscribers rose to just over five million in the first quarter of 2003, an increase of 28% on the same period for 2001.
The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has just released a new report on online participation and activities called the Current State of Play 2003.
It describes what communities are doing with connectivity. Here's a snapshot:
Internet subscribers were made up of about 4.4 million private households and 659,000 businesses and government organisations.
In the second quarter of 2003, 55% of households had Internet access, up from 50% in the same period of 2001.
Fifty eight percent of the Australian population had immediate access to the Internet during June 2003.
Fifty nine percent of Australians aged 14 years and over used the Internet from any location (home, work or other location) at June 2003.
At June 2002, in excess of 70% of businesses with employees were online, while Internet connectivity jumped to above 80% for businesses with five or more employees and above 90% for businesses with 20 or more employees.
While Internet participation has increased across all socio-economic groups and business categories, certain groups within Australian society are still more likely to have significantly higher levels of Internet use than other socio-economic groupings.
Australians in general
Amongst Australians aged 14 years and over, during June 2003:
Internet use generally declined with age. Eight two per cent of persons aged 14-17 years reported using the Internet compared to 79% for 18-24 year olds, 71% of 25-39 year olds, 65% of 40-54 year olds and 29% of persons aged 55 years or over. However, the highest proportional increase in online participation was recorded by persons aged 55 years and over (an increase of 61% since June 2001)
Internet participation increased with levels of educational attainment. About 85% of those with a university degree accessed the Internet compared to 64% of persons with a certificate, 61% of those with upper secondary, and 40% of those with mainly primary school education.
Internet participation increased with personal incomes. About 36% of those earning between $10,000 and $14,999 used the Internet compared to 72% of those earning between $40,000 and $49,999 and 90% of those on incomes of $119,999 or above.
Persons in older families had the highest participation rate (75%) followed by young families (66%), couples (48%) and singles (34%).
E-service capability and online activities
Australians and Australian businesses in general increasingly used the Internet for a broad range of activities. However, for both groups, communication and information gathering were core to activities undertaken online.
During June 2003, amongst Australian Internet users aged 14 years and over:
The top online activities were closely related to communication and information needs. The one exception is the increasing popularity of Internet banking and financial activities which ranked third with a patronage of 37% of the Internet population 14 years and over at June 2003.
Communication (covering activities such as electronic mail, Internet telephony, use of chat rooms, etc), was the most prolific Internet activity. Seventy-five per cent of monthly Internet users 14 years and over reported the use of e-mail or other interactive and non-interactive communications in the past seven days. The lead ranking of communication activities has been evident since December 2000.
About 28% of Internet users engaged in online buying or selling related activities.
Entertainment and education related activities trailed the other main activities identified, with a following of 24% and 18% respectively.
The popularity and appeal of online government services is evident given that 36% of Internet users 18 years and over accessed such services in 2002.
If you would like an electronic copy of the full report just send us an email with NOIE Internet Trends in the subject title to probono@probonoaustralia.com.au.
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