Flash PMI data reveals slowing growth momentum in Europe. Flash manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) figures released last week showed fading growth momentum in Europe with broad Europe (52.1) and Germany (52.3) both falling about a point below prior levels and the consensus expectations. After hitting a 2018 low in July, Japan has recovered with a reading of 53.1. The U.S. PMI (55.9) has moved higher since August, and is the only major region to sit above its 2018 starting point. Despite slowing momentum in Europe, all regions remain in expansionary territory (above 50). Services PMI data trended in a similar direction as Germany and broad Europe saw larger decreases from the prior month while the U.S. pressed higher.
Robust earnings growth fails to calm equity market jitters. Following a heavy week of earnings reports, 240 S&P 500 companies (48%) have reported results.8 Aggregate earnings growth (23.4%) and revenue growth (8.7%) on a year-over-year (y/y) basis remain ahead of consensus expectations.9 We believe mixed earnings reports from some large technology companies failed to provide support to the major U.S. equity indices.
Apple and Facebook to report earnings. In addition to these tech behemoths, companies from a wide variety of sectors will report earnings throughout the week. Companies include Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/B), Coca Cola (KO), General Electric (GE), Starbucks (SBUX) and Pfizer (PFE). Chevron (CVX) and Exxon Mobil (XOM) will conclude this week's earnings reports on Friday.
U.S. jobs report expected to show continued strength. We expect the jobs added figure is to improve over September's hurricane-dampened figure of 134k to 193k. Our analysis suggests the unemployment rate will remain at about 3.7% and wage inflation as measured by average hourly earnings should to stabilize at approximately 2.8% y/y. In addition, the Federal Reserve's (the Fed) preferred inflation measure, the core personal consumption expenditures index, will be released on Monday. We expect the measure to remain unchanged at 2.0% y/y, which would be largely in line with levels observed over the last six months and serve as another data point for the Fed to assess as it continues to work towards gradually raising interest rates.
No expectations for monetary policy change at BOJ meeting. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will conclude its October meeting on Wednesday and we don't anticipate a change in monetary policy. The increase in consumption tax planned for 2019 along with inflation well below target is likely to keep the BOJ on its current path of keeping policy accommodative over the near-to-medium term.
1) Bloomberg, MSCI World Index return 15Oct2018 – 19Oct2018.
2) Bloomberg, MSCI U.S. Equities IMI Index returns 22Oct2018 – 26Oct2018.
3) Bloomberg, MSCI World Index returns, Bloomberg, MSCI Emerging Market Equities Index return 22Oct2018 – 26Oct2018.
4) Bloomberg, MSCI U.S. Equities IMI Index returns, Bloomberg, MSCI ex-U.S. Equities IMI Index returns 02Jant2018 – 26Oct2018.
5) Bloomberg, MSCI U.S. Equities IMI Index returns, Bloomberg High Yield return data 02Jan2018 – 26Oct2018.
6) European Central Bank (ECB) Press Release, Monetary Policy Decisions, 25Oct2018.


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Alibaba and Microsoft: A meeting of minds
Amazon, eBay and Alibaba 'making it easy' for counterfeiters
Alibaba chairman says counterfeits are 'better quality' than originals
IP infringement in China: dispelling the 'Wild West' myth
In January, Microsoft and Alibaba Group teamed up to tackle counterfeits on the Chinese company's various platforms. TBO assesses the agreement and asks whether it will result in a significant reduction in fakes.
The term memorandum of understanding (MOU) doesn't exactly evoke excitement.
When considering what it might entail, the mind could wander to images of pages and pages of legal jargon with very little substance.
But an MOU signed by Microsoft and Alibaba Group in January this year could change that perception. The players are among the biggest in their respective industries.
Alibaba is China's biggest online e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) services. Its platforms include Taobao and Tmall.
Microsoft is one of the world's biggest computer software companies, known for products including the Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office, and the Internet Explorer web browser. Its Xbox game console is one of its flagship products.
When TBO first reported on Alibaba and Microsoft putting pen to paper, the companies claimed the agreement would help consumers to avoid goods ripping off Microsoft products, and that both companies would coordinate on action against counterfeiters and collaborate on raising awareness.
The finer details of the deal mean Alibaba will remove suspicious listings from its Taobao and Tmall platforms, provided it has received a notification from Microsoft first.
The two companies also hope to expand their programme to educate Chinese consumers about the risk of pirated software.
Neither Alibaba nor Microsoft responded to a request for comment on the MOU, but on the Alizila website, which features news and commentary on Alibaba, Ni Liang, senior director of security operations at Alibaba, was quoted as saying that it is "constantly working with partners and stakeholders" to enhance intellectual property protection and tackle counterfeiting.
"Microsoft has been a great partner on this front, and we believe that this agreement will go toward building an orderly e-commerce environment where consumers' interests are best protected," Liang added.
Tim Cranton, Microsoft's associate general counsel, said in a statement after the announcement of the MOU that Microsoft was "committed to protecting customers from downloading or purchasing non-genuine software".
Wider details of the MOU, such as a proposed timescale for achieving results or specific projects the pair will carry out, are not known at this stage, but there is a feeling among IP practitioners that the deal could have a positive effect.
Gareth Dickson, an associate at law firm Cooley in London, says agreements such as this "help focus parties' minds" on the issues facing them.
"They reveal a lot about what each party is thinking on the issues, and they send a message to the public at large about how seriously they take them."
He adds: "When parties have a meeting of minds on matters of importance to them, good things can happen."
"Tmall shops that are operated by brand owners and reliably sell legitimate goods have done a lot to increase Chinese consumers' confidence in buying goods online"
Joshua Mandell, a senior associate at law firm Rouse in Beijing, is also hopeful.
"Anything that makes it easier for a right owner to remove offers for counterfeits from B2C/C2C sites is bound to be helpful," he tells TBO.
But, referring to Alibaba and Microsoft's pledge to remove counterfeit products from the sites, Mandell adds that in the past right owners have sometimes had difficulty in efficiently establishing that goods on offer on online platforms were definitely counterfeit.
"An unreasonably low price was considered insufficient," Mandell explains. "In some cases, samples had to be purchased from counterfeit sellers, or other preliminary evidence had to be gathered. This can be quite labour-intensive and that undermines the effectiveness of a take-down programme when hundreds or thousands of offers are involved."
Legal moves
Dickson says the MOU should not be considered as a way of both companies "giving up on the law" to develop their own remedies, but rather a way of emphasising the existing attitudes toward IP and a need to tackle counterfeits.
"Legal redress against sellers of unauthorised software is clearly an important part of the MOU," Dickson says.
"The fact that Alipay (Alibaba Group's online payment service) will offer guidance to consumers about obtaining compensation emphasises again the importance of, and need for, education in the battle against counterfeiting," he adds.
Alibaba and Microsoft are no strangers to working together on these types of initiatives. In 2013 Microsoft launched a flagship virtual store on Tmall in order to promote genuine Microsoft products.
But this time, Mandell says, there are new benefits.
"First, Microsoft will be better able to have offers for counterfeit goods removed once sellers post them. Second, consumers will be better able to get their money back and address the security concerns that pirate software carries."
Mandell adds that practices that are already on the rise, for example the sharing of information on sellers of counterfeit goods with right owners and authorities, and refunding money to consumers who have been duped, will also help to decrease the profits of people selling counterfeits on mainstream sites.
Discount days
In recent times, Alibaba has been implicated in the sale of counterfeit goods in China.
In December 2014, TBO reported that China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) said that more than 10% of products available on e-commerce websites, including Alibaba.com and its subsidiaries, on a renowned online shopping day were found to be counterfeit.
The SAIC said that 10.6% of products it sampled on November 11, known in China as Single's Day—a day which has seen sharp increases in online shopping due to the amount of discount deals being marketed—were counterfeit or sub-standard.
In November, TBO also reported that a Chinese government department, the Office of the National Leading Group for Combating IPR Infringement and Counterfeits, was set to tighten up its anti-counterfeiting efforts following a boom in online shopping.
Chai Haitao, deputy director at the office, which is part of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), said that increasing cross-border online trade meant "new approaches were needed" to stop the flow of counterfeit goods.
Even further back, in 2013, Alibaba entered into an agreement similar to the Microsoft MOU with French fashion brand Louis Vuitton.
Mandell is quick to praise the efforts that Alibaba and its various platforms have made in recent times.
"Alibaba recently reported some figures on their consumer protection and anti-counterfeiting efforts," Mandell says, referring to Alibaba's announcement in December 2014 that it had spent RMB 1 billion ($160.7 million, based on exchange rates at the time) fighting counterfeits from January 2013 to November 2014.
Mandell adds: "Tmall shops that are operated by brand owners and reliably sell legitimate goods have done a lot to increase Chinese consumers' confidence in buying goods online, especially higher value goods. This creates a very lucrative, growing market, and one that benefits everyone involved."
It is not known whether the MOU with Microsoft is a direct result of the MOC's earlier pledge to tackle counterfeits, but Dickson says the deal could be seen as a stepping stone for industry-wide cooperation on fakes.
"If two major players in the digital economy can demonstrate that this type of cooperation can be mutually beneficial, then there is every reason to believe others will see the incentive to cooperate in a similar manner," he says.
Could an agreement like this really lead to a significant reduction in counterfeit Microsoft products?
While it may have an immediate impact and kick others into action, Dickson is not optimistic about the MOU's ability to permanently banish counterfeits.
"As long as it remains profitable for counterfeiters to sell unauthorised goods online, they will devise new ways, or use new locations, to get around whatever measures right owners adopt to protect their IP," he says.
Mandell adds that counterfeits "exist on online shopping sites because they exist in the real world marketplace", not the other way around. "For right owners, this can turn into an endless game of 'whack-a-mole'," he says.
As with the early days of any agreement in which the parties pledge to make a big difference, excitement and speculation on what may happen are building.
There could be two possible outcomes to the MOU.
It could be hailed as another step towards China's efforts to cast aside its somewhat fading image as a Mecca for counterfeits and to establish itself as a safe environment for right owners.
Alternatively, it could simply fall by the wayside as counterfeiters wise up to the methods employed and seek other means of getting their fake products online.
How the companies react to and deal with forthcoming challenges will be a key indicator of whether the agreement can work in the long term. The challenge then will be to encourage other major players to follow suit.
Microsoft, Alibaba, Tmall, online counterfeiting

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Louis Enrique thinks Robert Moreno quit because of him
Louis Enrique officially comes back to Spain, as the manager of the Spanish National team. He resigned from this post in June 2019, due to his daughter's (Xana) medical emergency. Unfortunately, Xana passed away due to bone cancer in August.
Louis Enrique met the press and shares his opinion.
Louis Enrique feeling he comes back home
" I feel like I come back home. It's a special day for me and my family. I am a person who usually steers clear of controversy but today I feel obliged to give an explanation because this is about someone I worked with for many years."
Louis Enrique thinks Moreno loses his job because of him
"I'm the only reason why he (Moreno) is not in my staff. The fall-out comes from a meeting and I understood that he wanted to take charge of the team in the Euros and then go back to being my No 2 afterwards.
" And, in that moment, I try to put myself in the other person's shoes. I understand that he wanted to take the opportunity of his life. I understand that he is ambitious and that's a quality to admire but, for me, that's also disloyal and for me, that is a defect.
" I understand his position but I don't share it and I would not have done that. I said I wanted to come back. I then called every member of my staff asking for their opinion."
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Home Articles & Opinions	FBI's Nigerian Fraudsters: Penalty for violating zoning arrangements?
FBI's Nigerian Fraudsters: Penalty for violating zoning arrangements?
written by Our Reporter August 29, 2019
Jideofor Adibe
The recent news that the United States' Department of Justice has indicted 80 individuals, 78 of whom are Nigerians, (mostly Igbo), for email scam and money laundering scheme of about $3bn, has expectedly led to the ethnicization of the issue. I had a very light-hearted chat on the issue with a friend who 'theorized' that the Igbo indicted by the FBI might have brought the whole thing on themselves by their decision to violate an assumed 'zoning formula' among those who operate from the other side of the moral divide. According to my friend, criminally minded people who want to operate outside the 'zoning formula' must lie low, be agents for the big guys in the zone because if they want to dominate the market, they will be denied protection of the 'zonal leaders'. According to this purported zoning arrangement, drug trafficking and fake drugs are zoned to the Igbos; Internet fraud of all forms (Yahoo-yahoo boys, romance scam, credit card fraud) is zoned to the Yoruba, religious fanaticism and terrorism is zoned to the core North, militancy is zoned to the Niger Delta while prostitution abroad is zoned to Edo State.
It was a hilarious and light-hearted way of looking at a rather serious matter. And as if to validate my friend's hypothesis of a subsisting zoning arrangement among the people who operate from the other side of the moral divide, a day after our discussion, a list of 23 Nigerians allegedly awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia suddenly began trending – most likely to counter the trending story that the Igbos give the country a bad name through their crimes. The list was made up of exclusively Yoruba and Muslim names (that could be either Yoruba or the North). I remembered my discussion with my friend at the Sports Club the previous day: if drug trafficking is dominated by the Igbo, why was no Igbo name on the list of those allegedly awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia? Again if internet fraud is a Yoruba thing, why are there no Yoruba names on the FBI list of sophisticated internet scam? May be my friend's thesis needs further investigation.
The above may be on the lighter side but the controversy triggered by the FBI list revealed a number of issues:
One, I am always amused when the different ethnic factions of our keyboard warriors pretend that they or their nationality is an epitome of moral rectitude and achievements while others are assumed not to measure up. While the different ethnic, religious and regional factions of our keyboard warriors could be a nuisance, it is also clear that they do play roles in keeping the country together (or better holding it to the precipice) by ensuring that no one narrative is allowed to dominate the political space. We saw this clearly in the competitive trending of #IgboYahooBoys and #YorubaDrugDealers after the FBI story broke out. Various umbrella sociocultural organizations – Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Afenifere, Arewa Consultative Groups and PANDEF play similar roles through their countervailing functions and competitive grandstanding. Perhaps this may be one of the reasons some unruly and extremist groups are tolerated by mainstream members of their ethnic and regional groups. In fact when the story of the FBI list broke out, another friend from the South-west, sent to me a supposed press release from Ohanaeze condemning the FBI list "for not reflecting federal character".
Two, in an article I published in this column on January 18 2018 entitled, 'Fulani herdsmen and the logic of false consensus', I discussed how occasions such as the FBI list are always used by various ethnic groups in the country as an excuse to gang up against one ethnic group, which would be profiled as the real 'trouble with Nigeria' or the reason the country has not yet sent a man to the moon. As I wrote:
"Many adults can remember the 'class idiot' in their primary and secondary school days. Virtually every class had its own 'idiot' – someone who was always the butt of jokes for either being an academic or social misfit or both. Ironically whenever the 'class idiot' decided to quit the school, another idiot would quickly be invented to replace him as the butt of jokes. The new class idiot would mostly likely be one of the victimizers of the former class idiot.
"We can use this class idiot theory to explain the profiling of the Fulani ethnic group in the light of the justified national outrage against the barbarous murder of many Nigerians in Benue State by herdsmen. In moments of such outrage there is often a tendency to forge a consensus that the country has found the solution to its political problems or rather the ethnic group responsible for why the country has not been able to transition into a proper nation-state.
"Whenever one ethnic group becomes fingered as the problem, the others unite against it – as in the class idiot case. But as always, that consensus is fleeting and the alliance that underpins it, brittle. It is like a special purpose vehicle (SPV) which allows the pretentious 'super patriotic' groups to vent in the open those spleens we reserve for one another in hush-hush tones or behind closed doors."
Since the renewed herdsmen crisis, the Fulanis have been on the receiving end, sometimes dangerously so, as the others ganged up in a false consensus that the 'trouble with Nigeria' has now been identified. The FBI list of fraudsters therefore provided a big reprieve for the Fulanis. There was a brief attempt to pin the 'problem of the country' on Yoruba, when after Sowore was arrested for planning a #RevolutionNow protest, some groups from the North began claiming that the Yoruba were planning to topple the government of Muhammadu Buhari.
Three, the FBI fraud list also revealed a shocking prevalence of 'bleaching complex' in the country. Some Igbos in feigned or genuinely righteous indignation tried to distance themselves from what my friend Fred Nwabufo inappropriately called 'Igbo Culture of Criminality' (You have Igbo criminals, not 'Igbo culture of criminality since no culture expressly extols crime ). No reasonable person will support crime of any sort. But it is no excuse for some people to try to bury their heads in shame or even deny their ethnic identity – just because some people from their ethnic in-group were indicted for committing crimes. In this context, while I am not a fan of Festus Kenyamo's politics, I fully admire the response of the newly appointed Minister of State for Niger Delta,over his alleged close ties with one of those on the FBI fraud list, Jerry Elo Ikogho. Kenyamo was reported by the Sunday Independent as saying:
"We were born together in the same town at Ughelli in Delta State. His parents and my parents are close friends up till tomorrow. We were both raised in the Jehovah Witness' sect. It is a whole family union". He was further quoted to have described what happened to his friend as "very unfortunate because he is not from that kind of family. He is a homeboy. He grew up and did his youth service in Nigeria. I used to stay with him when I first came to Abuja. He is my brother and friend, though I am just a month older than him. Anybody can be in trouble. I am praying for him. If he has valid explanations I will help him legally. I can't run away from him."
While Kenyamo proudly stood by his friend- and wanted to hear his own side of the story first, some, in the light of the FBI revelation were almost denying their Igbo identity with the hope that they would be excluded from the collective tarring that followed the FBI revelation. It is only a sign of 'bleaching complex' (another name for inferiority complex). The truth is that even without those on the list 'spoiling' the names of Nigerians, your identity as a Black person (and all that the name connotes in the Western world) also spoils the name of the country. And that Black identity itself was spoiled by centuries of slavery, begging bowl syndrome by our leaders and inferior-rating of Africans by colonial anthropologists and by books like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899).
Four, what the FBI list, the purported Saudi Arabia list of 23 Nigerians awaiting to be executed, and the profiling of the Fulani remind us, is that there is a 'banality of crime' in the country (to rephrase the German American philosopher, Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' phrase). And it truly reflects the federal character. Consequently it will be nice to see the various sociocultural and separatist groups in the country to also look at some of the internal contradictions in their ethnic homeland because the limitations imposed by such contradictions may be more debilitating than those inherent in interactions with other groups or the 'injustices' they inveigh against.
Email: pcjadibe@yahoo.com
Twitter: @JideoforAdibe
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Most people think cryptocurrency will be accepted on buses by 2025
Cryptocurrency is a mystery to many people, yet 55% of respondents to a survey expect shops and buses to accept digital money in seven years' time
Karl Flinders, Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly
Published: 14 Mar 2018 9:24
More than half of people think cryptocurrency will be accepted in shops and on buses by 2025, with one in five already banking some digital currency.
A study of 2,000 people by lending platform Lendingblock revealed that most think cryptocurrency is here to stay, with 55% expecting shops and buses to accept it in seven years' time. Just over 20% of respondents said they either own or have owned cryptocurrency.
One-fifth of respondents said they were certain cryptocurrency is a good investment, and 56% said they might be tempted to obtain some in the future. One-third (32%) of people said better security would make them more likely to buy cryptocurrencies.
As the popularity and value of cryptocurrencies have increased, so has cyber crime activity aimed at cashing in on this trend, mainly in the form cryptocurrency mining malware. According to a report from NTT Security, about 12,000 monero mining malware samples dating back to March 2015 have been identified by researchers at the company's Global Threat Intelligence Center (GTIC).
In the Lendingblock study, 28% of respondents said they would be more tempted by cryptocurrency if there were better apps for buying and selling it, and 23% said government backing would encourage then to invest. Only 10% said they would never buy cryptocurrencies in any circumstances.
"In spite of much-discussed uncertainty about cryptocurrency, the public is sure that it is here to stay," said Lendingblock CEO Steve Swain. "Cryptocurrency is a maturing market, and this is exactly what we would expect to see happening at this time as we move from early adopters to more mainstream awareness and use."
Swain welcomed the recent government announcement of an inquiry into cryptocurrency. "Before we get there, cryptocurrency needs to be made safe, and that is why we welcome the UK government's recently announced inquiry into investments," he said.
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MPs are taking a close look at the potential opportunities and risks associated with the UK adoption of cryptocurrencies and the technology that underpins them.
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Researchers have uncovered further evidence that cyber criminals are cashing in on the popularity of cryptocurrencies, with the discovery of a global cryptocurrency-mining botnet.
In February, parliament's Treasury committee said it was looking at the opportunities and risks associated with digital currency and how technologies such as blockchain would affect the finance sector.
The inquiry will assess how the government and financial services regulators such as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England can create an environment to protect consumers without holding back innovation.
Meanwhile, Bank of England governor Mark Carney wants cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin to be brought into line with the regulated financial markets.
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SEC Advises Brokers, Investors on Risks of Hacking and Other "Cyber" Attacks
"Cybersecurity" is a major issue that affects many large, publicly traded companies. Recently Anthem, Inc., the nation's second-largest health insurer, reported a major breach of its security. Hackers managed to acquire personal data—Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, addresses, et cetera—on millions of Anthem customers. This attack comes just a couple weeks after President Obama announced his support for new legislation that would require companies "to inform consumers of a data breach within 30 days of discovery."
For its part, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued a pair of cybersecurity-related documents to investors and companies. In a "Risk Alert" published by the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), the agency discussed its survey of over 100 registered brokers and investment advisers regarding their own cybersecurity policies. Most of those surveyed said they had "written information security policies," and conducted "periodic audits" to ensure compliance.
But just having written policies are not enough. OCIE noted less than a third of brokers surveyed—and only about 1 out of 10 investment advisers—had procedures in place "to determine whether they are responsible for client losses associated with cyber incidents." And in fact, most of the firms surveyed said they had suffered cyber-attacks, either directly or through an affiliated vendor.
OCIE identified "malware and fraudulent emails" as the most common form of cyber-attack. About half of those surveyed said they had received false emails from individuals purporting to be clients. Brokers reported losses of upwards of $75,000, requiring restitution to affected clients. Several firms claimed these losses were the result of employees not following existing written cyber-security policies.
Protecting Yourself from Cyber Attacks
Cybersecurity is not just a broker responsibility, however. In a second publication, the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy advised investors to take better care in protecting their online brokerage accounts. Many of the SEC's tips are common sense but nonetheless bear repeating in light of ongoing cybersecurity threats.
First and foremost, the SEC said anyone with an online brokerage account should use a "strong" password that is changed on a regular basis. The SEC said a good password has "eight or more characters that include symbols, numbers, and both capital and lowercase letters." Investors should also avoid using the same password for different brokerage accounts. Ideally, investors should also take advantage of "two-step verification," a common cybersecurity mechanism now employed by many brokerages. A two-step process includes not just a password, but also requires an additional code sent to an investor's email account or smartphone.
Other SEC cybersecurity tips include exercising caution when accessing your account over a wi-fi connection, especially those in public places like airports or coffee shops; avoiding the use of any public computers, such as those at libraries, to access your account; and regularly checking your brokerage statements to ensure nobody has made any unauthorized or suspicious transaction.
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Officer and gunner, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1840
This unit always had several companies posted in Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1840 for example, officers and men wearing the uniforms shown could be seen in Halifax, St. John's (Newfoundland), St. John (New Brunswick), Quebec, Montreal, Chambly, Drummondville, Kingston and Toronto with detachments in smaller towns and outlying forts.
Corporal, Royal 22e Régiment, Italy, 1943
During the summers in southern Italy, the Canadians wore tropical uniforms like the rest of the British 8th Army. This reconstruction by Ron Volstad shows a corporal of the Royal 22e Régiment, the only Francophone regular infantry regiment in the Canadian army during the war. The unit saw its first action of the war during the landings in Sicily in 1943. Note the famous red patch of the 1st Canadian Division on the upper shoulder. This formation badge dates from the First World War. (Canadian Department of National Defence)
Interpreter, Indian Department, 1812-1815
Officers and interpreters of the British Indian Department in Canada were often found in action with warriors during the War of 1812, the most famous instance being possibly at Beaver Dams in June 1813. At that time, the department's uniform scarlet was faced with green. Interpreters, not being commisioned officers, did not have epaulettes. Reconstruction by Ron Volstad. (Canadian Department of National Defence)
Grenadier of the régiment de Guyenne (left) and a corporal from the régiment de Béarn (right), circa 1756.
These men wear the special Canadian version of their regimental uniform, made to specifications of the Ministère de la Marine (the Ministry of the Navy - responsible for French colonies). At left is a grenadier of the Régiment de Guyenne. His moustache marks him as a member of the elite grenadier company, since other French soldiers of the period had to be cleanshaven. His uniform looks much like the European pattern, save for the lack of collar to his grey-white. The Canadian uniform of the régiment de Béarn showed more changes. It had blue cuffs and waistcoat, pewter buttons, and silver lace - very distinct from the red collar, cuffs and waistcoat, brass buttons, and gold lace worn in Europe. The corporal of the régiment de Béarn (right) wears loops of silver lace on his cuffs as a mark of his rank. Reconstruction by Eugène Lelièpvre. (Parks Canada)
Private Charles Traveller, 70th (the Surrey) Regiment of Foot, 1841
This self-portrait of Charles Traveller, a soldier of the 70th (the Surrey) Regiment of Foot, is one of the few known paintings by a common soldier of the era. Traveller, shown accompanied by his dog, painted the picture in Laprairie in 1841. At the rear, from left to right: the soldiers' barracks (resembling a barn), the officers' barracks (resembling a villa), the light infantry and grenadier companies of the 70th in ranks, the guardhouse and the regimental band. Traveller wears the winter dress uniform of a private of the light company of the 70th. (Parks Canada)
Drummer, Compagnies franches de la Marine, New France, 1755-1760
This drummer of the Compagnies franches wears the livery of the king of France, with its distinctive lace - crimson with an embroidered white chain pattern. Drummers were often distinctively dressed to make them easy to spot in the heat of battle. This was because the only practical way of transmitting orders to a large group of men before the perfection of portable radios was by means of distinctive drum beats. Officers had to be able to find a drummer quickly, even in a confused mass of soldiers, hence the special uniform. Reconstruction by Eugène Lelièpvre. (Parks Canada)
Officer with regimental colour, 9th (the East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot, 1814
The 1st battalion of the 9th (the East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot was sent from the Duke of Wellington's victorious army in Spain to serve in Canada during 1814-1815. This was not the first time in the country for the regiment, which had been part of Burgoyne's army during the American Revolutionary War. This contemporary illustration shows an officer with the regimental colour (in the regiment's yellow facing colour). The 183 centimetre square colour itself is partially furled to make it easier to carry. Accompanying the officer is a colour-sergeant armed with a spontoon. The rank was created in 1813 as the senior non-commissioned officer in an infantry company. These men had a special duty of protecting the colours in action, and were distinguished with a special rank badge worn on the right arm.
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It has been confirmed that Super Smash Bros. will run at a silky smooth 60 frames per second on Nintendo 3DS, even when stereoscopic 3D is active.
The handheld iteration also boasts a new mode called "Smash Run", in which four players have five minutes to explore a dungeon, defeat enemies plucked from a variety of games, and secure themselves items and power-ups to strengthen their chosen fighter. Once such time has elapsed, all four fighters will enter a battle arena with whatever they have gathered.
That can see speed, jump, attack, special attack, items usage and defense improved, meaning that it's certainly worthwhile to seek out as many as you can. You'll also see players wandering through the stage around you, although it is important to prioritise discovering power-ups over pummelling them for now. Sakurai likened the rules to Kirby Air Ride's City Trial mode, although now spun in an entirely different way.
Super Smash Bros. releases on 3DS in summer this year.


The 60h stamp issued by the Emirate of Dubai to commemorate 60 years of postal service depicts the motor ship Sirdhana.
The Sirdhana was built in 1947 by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson for the British India Steam Navigation Company. Displacing 8,608 gross tons she had a length overall of 425' with a breadth of 62.7'.


This exemption is only available if the property is not let out during any part of the year minus any benefit derived from it .
If the assessee has more than 1 house which is self occupied, then he can choose only one such house to claim this exemption.
The assesse can also claim deduction of interest on housing loan of Rs.30000 / 200000 as explained below .
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namespace ToDoListBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use ToDoListBundle\Form\Type\TaskType;
use ToDoListBundle\Entity\Task;

class TaskController extends Controller implements TaskInterface
{
    public function getTasksAction($idList)
    {
        $manager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $tasks = $manager->getRepository('ToDoListBundle:Task')->findByTaskslist($idList);
        $taskList = $manager->getRepository('ToDoListBundle:Taskslist')->find($idList);
        $content = $this->get('templating')->render('ToDoListBundle:Task:index.html.twig', ['tasks' => $tasks, 'taskList' => $taskList]);

        return new Response($content);
    }

    public function addTaskAction(Request $request, $idList)
    {
        $task = new Task();
        $form = $this->createForm(new TaskType(), $task);
        $form->handleRequest($request);
        if ($form->isValid()) {
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            $taskList = $manager->getRepository('ToDoListBundle:Taskslist')->find($idList);
            $task->setStatus(0);
            $task->setTaskslist($taskList);
            $manager->persist($task);
            $manager->flush();

            return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('todolist_tasks', ['idList' => $idList]));
        }
        $content = $this->get('templating')->render('ToDoListBundle:Task:addTaskForm.html.twig', ['form' => $form->createView()]);

        return new Response($content);
    }

    public function editTaskAction(Request $request, $idList, $idTask)
    {
        $manager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $task = $manager->getRepository('ToDoListBundle:Task')->find($idTask);
        if (empty($task)) {
            throw $this->createNotFoundException('La tâche ' . $idTask . ' n\'existe pas');
        }
        $form = $this->createForm(new TaskType(true), $task);
        $form->handleRequest($request);
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            $manager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $manager->flush();

            return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('todolist_tasks', ['idList' => $idList]));
        }
        $content = $this->get('templating')->render('ToDoListBundle:Task:editTaskForm.html.twig', ['form' => $form->createView()]);

        return new Response($content);
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    public function validateTaskAction($idList, $idTask)
    {
        $manager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $task = $manager->getRepository('ToDoListBundle:Task')->find($idTask);
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            throw $this->createNotFoundException('La tâche ' . $idTask . ' n\'existe pas');
        }
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            $task->setStatus(0);
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    public function deleteTaskAction(Request $request)
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        $manager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $task = $manager->getRepository('ToDoListBundle:Task')->find($idTask);
        if (empty($task)) {
            throw $this->createNotFoundException('La tâche ' . $idTask . ' n\'existe pas');
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    }
}

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Biografia
Era il figlio del Maggiore Generale Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker, e di sua moglie, Karen Agathe Falck. Era il fratello di Carl Bødtker, nipote di Ragnvald Bødtker e un cugino di secondo grado di Sigurd Bødtker e di Eyvind Bødtker.

Nel 1914 sposò Louise Beer. Nel 1921 sposò Ingeborg Beer, sorella della prima moglie. Entrambe le mogli erano nipoti di Anders Beer.

Carriera
Bødtker è stato manager per la Norsk Investment dal 1917 al 1923 e per la Andresens Bank nel 1919, e dal 1920 della Forretningsbanken. Nel 1923 iniziò a lavorare nel settore bancario.

Fu un appassionato collezionista d'arte e raccolse un certo numero di dipinti, di artisti come Reidar Aulie, JC Dahl, Kai Fjell, Per Krohg e Edvard Munch. Della sua vasta collezione di arte moderna, otto dei dipinti sono stati testamentaria donati alla Galleria Nazionale.

Fu membro del consiglio del Teatro Nazionale per molti anni. Durante l'occupazione della Norvegia da parte della Germania nazista nel 1940, siccome il consiglio del Teatro Nazionale non rispettava le indicazioni del governo nazista, Bødtker, insieme ai membri del consiglio Harald Grieg e Francis Bull, venne arrestato nel 1941 e venne deportato in un campo di concentramento dall'agosto 1941 al luglio 1944.

Onorificenze

Onorificenze norvegesi

Onorificenze straniere

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Cavalieri dell'Ordine reale norvegese di Sant'Olav
Commendatori dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico
Commendatori dell'Ordine del Dannebrog
Commendatori dell'Ordine della Stella Polare

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Delegates will have a chance to get to know each other and discuss any topics or challenges that will be useful for training purposes.
Business partnering is one of the most complex areas in HR and many organisations struggle to make it work effectively. This often provides HR with difficulty in developing the strategic role the discipline deserves and that our businesses require. Making business partnering work starts with understanding what it involves, and particularly what it looks like in practice, as well as its unique features in any one specific organisation.
Business partnering is fundamentally about understanding business needs and aligning HR activities and outcomes with these needs so that everything we do in HR is aligned with these business requirements.
HR has access to a broad range of levers which can be used to improve the effectiveness and alignment of people and the organisation in meeting business needs. These include traditional HR processes, organisation design and development interventions, leadership development and communication, and increasingly workplace design and the digital workspace, in partnership with colleagues in Real Estate and IT.
Measurement and analytics play critical roles in business partnering, enabling HR to monitor progress against plan, helping to identify new insights, and bringing new opportunities to the business, reducing the perception of HR as an order taker.
HR transformation should not just be done to modernise or increase the efficiency of HR but should be deeply connected to the requirements of the people and organisation strategy. Strategic HRBPs need to be able to develop their own roles, skills and the effectiveness of the function to optimise delivery of the people and business strategy.
The core to many HR transformations is changing the structure of the HR function, often moving from a team of HR generalists to the three-legged stool of centres of excellence, a service centre and embedded 'Business Partners'. However, to work effectively, the structure of HR needs to follow the logic of the business, and not just be dictated by a standard model.
This course covers all the topics delegates need to understand to stack the odds of success for HR Business Partnering considerably in their favour. However, strategic HR is about prioritisation. Each HR practitioner and organisation needs to decide for themselves where to make, and start, change. Delegates will be guided to identify and share key actions to take away and start implementing back in their workplaces.


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Sam Wilson Stands In Glory | The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
S1E6: One World, One People | Written By: Malcolm Spellman & Jeff Sawyer
Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan) | Disney +/Marvel Studios
The season finale of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was a powerful demonstration of redemption as Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) courageously takes on the arc of Captain America. (And now we're getting a Captain America 4 movie with Mackie leading!)
Throughout the season, Sam has grappled with the weight of being the successor of his friend Steve Rogers, who passed the shield to him at the end of Avengers: Endgame, influencing his decision to donate it to the Captain America museum much to the anger of an offended Bucky (Sebastian Stan).
"Maybe Steve was wrong about you. And if he was wrong about you then he was wrong about me," Bucky exclaimed.
It was until their conversation in episode 5 where Bucky has an awakening of Sam's experience and apologized, saying, "When Steve told me what he was planning I don't think either of us really understood what it felt like for a Black man to be handled the shield. How could we?"
Sam's internal battle of being "the chosen" one comes ahead when he and Bucky are forced to fight John Walker (Wyatt Russell) for the shield and Walker kills a member of the Flag Smashers in broad daylight as bystanders watched.
After Karli dies after being shot by Sharon Carter, he carries her to emergency personnel and is faced with members of the GRC, who share their gratitude for "dealing with those terrorists."
"You have to stop calling them terrorists," he said.
In the powerful scene, Wilson challenges the senator as the world watches, including Isaiah Brantley, of being a Black man carrying the mantle of Captain America in a society that doesn't deem him as worthy of it.
"I'm a Black man carrying the stars and stripes. What don't I understand? Every time I pick this thing up I know there's millions of people out there who are going to hate me for it. Even now, here, I feel it. The stares, the judgment, and there's nothing I can do to change it. Yet I'm still here. No super serum, no blonde hair, or blue eyes. The only power I have is that I believe we can do better. We can't demand that people step up and we don't meet them halfway."
"But the question is, who's in the room with you when you're making those decisions? Is it the people you're going to impact or is it just more people like you?"
Of the many people watching is Isaiah Bradley, the forgotten super-soldier, who in the comic books was the first Black Captain America. After telling Sam the traumatic 30-year experience of being jailed and experimented on, he made it clear that "they will never let a Black man be Captain America and even if they did, no self-respecting Black man would ever wanna be."
Isaiah's bitterness is yet another thing that he silently carries with him. If he stands to change the world as he has always desired, he intends to create a ripple effect where needed.
The raw emotion of standing in his glory meant recovering Isaiah's history, recognizing those who looked like him who suffered for this country with nothing to show for it.
The scene where Sam walks Isaiah and his nephew through the Captain America museum where Isaiah and the experience of his Black super soldiers. Most importantly, it was the ripple effect Sam intends to create to "change the world."
"Now they'll never forget what you did for this country. Never."
In an interview with USA Today. Mackie spoke of the significance of potentially playing a Black Captain America on the big screen.
"The idea of being the title character in a Marvel movie, there's no words to describe that, especially as a Black actor," Mackie said. "Black actors don't get those opportunities. And to have that opportunity, for all the work that I had to do, the 11 years of training, all the stuff that I had to do to get here, it would be a monumental feat."
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Marvel Entertainment
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Icing these babies has taken Christmassy-ness to a whole new level!
Mmm, strawberries… …or, er, are they hearts?
They're hearts! Christmassy in a Scandinavian kind of way. And the others are angels, if you were wondering.


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5 Unknown Facts About Chewbacca Actor Peter Mayhew and 'Star Wars' Crew Touching Tributes
Peter Mayhew, the original Chewbacca in "Star Wars" has died, at the age of 74.
Nexter.org has gathered unknown facts about the actor and celeb's heartbreaking tributes to the big loss.
RIP, legend!
Source: Getty Images
Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 74.
The cause of Mayhew's death was not immediately announced. The 7-foot-2-inch actor had mobility issues in recent years and in 2018 underwent spinal surgery.
Mayhew originated the role of Chewbacca, the Wookiee copilot of the Millennium Falcon, in the original Star Wars trilogy and returned for Episode III — Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens.
"He fought his way back from being wheelchair-bound to stand tall and portray Chewbacca once more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens," a family statement said. "He also consulted on The Last Jedi in an attempt to teach his successor."
He used his fame to support charitable work, ultimately creating the Peter Mayhew Foundation to support a variety of causes. That work will continue under the leadership of his wife, Angie. Mayhew is also survived by his three children.
Unknown facts about Peter Mayhew life
He is so tall because of Marfan syndrome
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mayhew is very tall. In fact, he stood at 7'3″ at his tallest, which is well above the average height for either English men or American men.
However, it is interesting to note that Mayhew's height isn't the result of gigantism but rather Marfan syndrome, which causes people to look tall and thin as well as a number of other potential issues. Fortunately, while Marfan syndrome happens in one out of 5,000 to 10,000 people, people with the medical condition can live a normal life with a normal life expectancy so long as they get the proper treatment.
He worked as a hospital attendant before Star Wars
According to Variety, Mayhew was first "found" by producer Charles H. Schneer while he was working as a hospital attendant in London. By the following year, he'd won the role of Chewbacca for the Star Wars series.
He has almost lost his role
Mayhew, who was 7'3 at his tallest, almost lost the role to bodybuilder George Prowse; Variety reports that George Lucas preferred Prowse, but eventually Prowse was given the role of Darth Vader, and Mayhew snagged the job that would define his career.
Mayhew was not the one who provided the famous Chewbacca noises
Rather, he is credited with giving life to the figure itself, within the expressive emotion he offered through his gaze alone, as well as through his physical movements.
He has spent a lot of time visiting children in hospitals in Chewbacca costume
Star Wars fans should be familiar with the fact that Mayhew has appeared in numerous projects in the Star Wars franchise. For example, he has been in five of the eight main installments that have been released so far.
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'Star Wars' team pay tribute
On Thursday, actor Mark Hamill — Star Wars' Luke Skywalker — tweeted his remembrance of Mayhew.
"He was the gentlest of giants-A big man with an even bigger heart who never failed to make me smile & a loyal friend who I loved dearly-I'm grateful for the memories we shared & I'm a better man for just having known him," Hamill said.
Harrison Ford, who as Han Solo often shared the screen with Mayhew, offered his condolences to Mayhew's family and applauded his contributions to the Star Warsfranchise.
"Peter Mayhew was a kind and gentle man, possessed of great dignity and noble character," Ford said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. "These aspects of his own personality, plus his wit and grace, he brought to Chewbacca. We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him. He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience."
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With the deadline for rolling all participants from the WA National Disability Insurance Scheme (WANDIS) to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) having now passed, the Australian Government and WA State Government have agreed to provide additional time for people to transfer to the nationally-delivered scheme.
The federal and state governments have acknowledged that the priority for the NDIS is a high quality planning experience for participants, including the ability to meet with an NDIS planner or Local Area Coordinator in person to discuss their needs and goals.
In a recent statement, Federal Minister for Families and Social Services, Paul Fletcher, said it was clear that additional time was required to ensure the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) had the right systems in place for people transferring across.
"The NDIS is one of the largest, most significant social and economic reforms in Australian history. This extension will allow WA's state-based NDIS participants to be appropriately supported by the NDIA and WA State Government to transfer to the nationally delivered scheme," Mr Fletcher said.
"As of 30 November 2018, more than 2,700 of WA's state-based NDIS participants have transferred to the nationally-delivered NDIS and have a funded plan in place," Mr Fletcher said.
As the rollout continues into 2019, the state government will continue to work closely with the Australian Government to make sure the NDIS meets the expectations of Western Australians with disability and their families, as well as service providers.


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Q: I want to use sumproduct on two different tables based on 3rd Table I'm a Boy Scout Assistant Scout Master and was asked to help with a fundraiser so I'm trying to put together a Excel sheet.  I would like to use sumproduct to pull together the totals I need from two tables. My result would be in B3 in referenced pic.
Math:
(C7 * B18) + (C14 * B19)
or
(.19672 * 300)+(1 * 200)
Result of 259.02
Need
 Table 2 Dist Hours
 Table 3 Total
From
Table 1 Name = $A$3
Table 1 Name = Table 2 Name
Table 2 ID = Table 3 ID

I hope someone can help our Boy Scout Troop (me)

A: For a finite (and static) number of entries in table 3 this method of stacking error controlled lookups should produce the correct result for any name put into table 1.
=IFERROR(INDEX(C7:C14, AGGREGATE(15, 7, ROW($1:$8)/((A7:A14=A18)*(B7:B14=A3)), 1))*B18, 0)+
 IFERROR(INDEX(C7:C14, AGGREGATE(15, 7, ROW($1:$8)/((A7:A14=A19)*(B7:B14=A3)), 1))*B19, 0)

A: Try the following formula, which needs to be confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER...
=SUM(IF(B7:B14=A3,SUMIF(A18:A19,A7:A14,B18:B19)*(C7:C14)))

Adjust the ranges accordingly.

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The Oregon Army National Guard Engineer unit from Salem moved the boulder from Walling Sand and Gravel in Salem out to the cemetery. This was not an east task due to the rough terrain in the cemetery. The Bronze plaque was mounted on the boulder by Jack Jory with the assistance of other family members including Cindy Allen, John Allen, Nancy Eichstadt and John Eichstadt along with Beverlee (Jory) Koutny. A dedication ceremony was held after installation of the plaque on the boulder.


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by Catriona Troth
Sudha Bhuchar - photo by Robert Day
My Name Is... is a play by Sudha Bhuchar, currently on a short tour with the Tamasha Theatre Group.
It is based on the true story of a twelve year old Scottish/Pakistani girl who disappeared from her home on the Isle of Lewis.
When the story first exploded onto the front pages of British tabloid newspapers in 2006, it seemed like a classic tug-of-love, clash-of-cultures story – a young girl 'kidnapped' by her father and taken to Pakistan to undergo a forced marriage with an older man.
The true story was far more nuanced, as Sudha Buchar's script, drawn from many hours of interviews, reveals.
At the Platform Theatre at Central St Martins in London, a tiny stage encompasses two sitting rooms, one in Pakistan and one on the Isle of Lewis. At the back of the stage, half obscured by a gauze curtain, are the newspaper headlines that sought to force them into one or another stereotypical box. More newspaper cuttings litter the floor.
The picture that emerges is complex and layered. By allowing us to see each family member as a true individual, by allowing their stories to unfold over time, we see how the free and easy mixing of communities in the 1980s was slowly warped by events happening in the wider world. How a damaged young woman's need to belong drove her to create a version of herself as a perfect Muslim wife until, in her own words 'Suzy was gone, well and truly gone.' This is a pressure cooker created, not by the clash of cultures, but by these families and these individuals.
Bhuchar has resisted the temptation to fictionalise the story (apart from altering the names) and instead stays with the authentic voices of the three family members - father, mother and daughter – as they tell their story from different sides of the world. And those voices have extraordinary directness.
But this is not strictly 'verbatim' writing either. Bhuchar has shaped the script, interweaving the stories and letting the voices cut across each other, so that we hear two versions of the parents' first meeting, two versions of family's hajj to Mecca. At times the actors cross the invisible divide to take part in a remembered scene or speak words attributed to them by one another. At times, too, they break through a kind of 'third wall,' to address, not the audience in the theatre, but the original audience of Bhuchar and her tape recorder.
Afterwards, playwright and actors took part in a New Writing Platform discussion with the audience, looking the process of creating My Name Is... and the challenges of verbatim theatre This was first in a new series of events presented by the MA Dramatic Writing course run by University of the Arts London, to explore, discuss and share new ideas.
Bhuchar began by explaining how she was drawn to the story by an article in the Guardian, the first that attempted to reach beyond stereotypes and accusations, and how she approached the family and asked to interview them. She flew to Pakistan and spent several days with father and daughter. The daughter then persuaded the mother to see her, and she spent several more days on Lewis with her. The result was 120 pages of interview transcripts which took eight years to shape into this play.
"The technique came in layers," Bhuchar explained. "I'd never worked like this in my life! To begin with I thought that I would fictionalise the story, but nothing I wrote had the power of the original words. In the end the promise I made was that, however I shaped it, I must not make up any words"
Asked about her interview technique, Bhuchar spoke of not having her own agenda, about having empathy, about being interested in simply 'overhearing.' One of the ways she got the mother to open up was to go back to the very beginning of the story, to when the two of them met, when they had been happy together. "Usually people don't ask me that," she was told.
Of the three actors, only Kiran Sonia Sawar who plays 'Gaby/Ghazala' wanted to listen to the interview tapes to catch the nuances of the original voices. Umar Ahmed, who plays 'Farhan', grew up in Pollokshields and actually knew the father by sight. Karen Bartke who is from Glasgow but from a different background to 'Suzy', didn't want her performance to descend into mere imitation and found it easier to connect with the emotion through the scripts – something she did with incredible power.
Early this year, the cast had the chance to perform the play with mother and daughter (now back living in Scotland) in the audience – something that was terrifying but also profoundly gratifying. Seeing their parents' early lives together played out, in their own words, was particularly moving for the daughter. She told the actors afterwards that, as the youngest child, she had almost no memory of her parents being happy together.
At the end of the discussion, one of the audience members commented that he had been waiting all through it for the author to come down on one 'side' or another. Yet that never happens. By allowing each of the characters their own authentic voice, she manages to preserve a balance, so that your heart reaches out to each of them in turn.
You can read the Guardian article the first inspired Bhuchar to write the play here.
And you can read my interview with Sudha Bhuchar about her time as Artistic Director of Tamasha here.
Labels: live events, Reviews, Tamasha, theatre, verbatim theatre
LibraryCat 5 March 2015 at 21:04
You can now hear a version of Sudha Bhuchar's brilliant play, My Name Is..., on Radio 4 iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0540gzv
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This is great news! Adium, the IM of choice for most Mac users, has announced today on their blog that video/audio chat is now available on Adium via a plugin.
Now there is absolutely no other reason to use any other IM application.
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Hunter, 6-0 and 192 pounds, played two games in 2016 and four in 2017 for the Giants. He had four solo tackles, all in 2016.
On Oct. 23, 2017, the Giants waived Hunter, who has since been on the practice squads of the Jets (2017), Denver Broncos (2017-18), Buffalo Bills and Houston Texans, the latter two in 2018. He was on the Broncos' roster for the final two games of the 2017 season, but was inactive.
Hunter joined the Giants as a rookie free agent in 2016, from Oklahoma State. He was waived at the end of training camp, signed to the practice on Sept. 5, and to the active roster on Sept. 27. Hunter played in two games before he was again released and signed to the practice squad.
Hunter played three seasons at Indiana and one at Oklahoma State before entering the NFL.
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>> *and* raises an exception.
>Exception" for this type of operations.
1. Infrastructure code, which implements a protocol and provides APIs for parsing and dealing with events.  This kind of code should never contain a reactor.stop at all.
2. Application code which exits in response to a particular user event.  This kind of code should contain exactly 1 call to reactor.stop, in the handler for the user event that is the explicit stop.
3. Programs which do one operation, then stop themselves.  This kind of code should contain exactly 1 call to reactor.stop, in the final callback/errback of the Deferred representing the operation that it is run to perform.
It sounds like you are writing code of type 3.  I'm guessing you're writing a program which does one thing, then shuts itself down.  If that is the case, the "program" should be encapsulated by a Deferred, and there should be a final addBoth which waits for the program to finish when it exits.
If you *don't* structure your program this way, then you'll discover later that sometimes, you want to run your particular operation TWICE in the lifetime of the process instead of once, and you will have to deal with dozens of calls to reactor.stop littered around your application in lots of places.  Don't try to always stop the *process* when your program is complete: stop the *program* by keeping a Deferred around which represents its complete run.  That way the *driver* for the program is responsible for stopping it, and when you want to aggregate multiple runs of it, you can easily use a tool like DeferredList, or do something different in the callbacks at the end.


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Oldham Athletic issues thanks after arrest of fan over Adeyemi abuse
Oldham have praised Liverpool and Merseyside Police for their handling of the alleged incident of racist abuse directed at Tom Adeyemi during Friday's FA Cup tie at Anfield.
In the closing stages of the third-round tie, Adeyemi – who is on loan from Norwich – reacted angrily after hearing something shouted from the Kop and alerted referee Neil Swarbrick.
At one point he was in tears and had to be comforted by players from both sides, including Liverpool's Steven Gerrard.
On Sunday, police investigating the incident arrested a 20-year-old man from Aintree on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence. He was later released on bail.
Liverpool issued an official apology to Adeyemi, and now Latics have thanked both parties.
"The chairman and directors of Oldham would like to thank Liverpool and officers of the Merseyside Police for their concerns and painstaking efforts in investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident involving Tom Adeyemi," the statement read. "Excellent communication has been maintained and the club and player have been notified of every detail during the progress of the investigation. The professional standards applied throughout have been praiseworthy.
"The club would also like to thank the numerous fans from Liverpool and Oldham, and also those from around the country, who have sent letters of support to Tom."
Adeyemi is set to play in Saturday's League One match with Huddersfield Town.
"Tom was all right by the time they got back to the dressing room and was in for the warm down as normal on Saturday," said a source at the club.
"He'll be in the first team squad on Saturday, I would imagine, and he is in decent spirits.
"Norwich manager Paul Lambert spoke to him after the match to make sure he was OK and we have had a lot of messages of support coming in from Liverpool fans, which has been heartening.
"Tom's a placid character and I'm sure he won't let it get to him."


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The Digital Financial Innovation in the Financial Services Sector regulation is an initiative to stimulate innovation in the digital financial services ecosystem such as through crowdfunding, settlements, investment management, insurance and other categories that fall under the purview of the regulator, the OJK, which covers registration of companies as digital financial innovation operators (inovasi keuangan digital or 'IKD') who become eligible to apply to the OJK regulatory sandbox.
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Businesswoman's killers staged entry, robbery
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The house where Sirmattie Ramnaress' body was found last Saturday morning.
The persons, who killed the businesswoman at her home in Diamond Housing Scheme were known to her,and they attempted to stage a robbery, a top police official said Monday.
Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said there was no signed of forced entry into Sirmattie Ramnaress' home at 2430, 21st Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.
"The scene was staged to make it appear as a robbery then they tried to eliminate the evidence by attempting to burn the place down," said Persaud who is the Chief of Criminal Investigations (CID).
Police said the woman's body was found with injuries to the head and left hip. The house was ransacked and drenched with a flammable liquid and a storage bond at the rear of the building was destroyed by fire.
He explained that investigators uncovered evidence to make it appear as though there was forced entry through a door but the marks showed that the damage was done inside rather than outside.
Both the Guyana Police Force and the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) say they do not have any information to suggest that the woman, who lived in a heavily fortified and monitored house, had been involved in illegal activities. "We don't have anything bad about her. We normally do background checks on people," said Persaud.
Police believed that the perpetrators were known to Ramnaress, who started her business by trading in bags from the Caribbean, because they were allowed entry and subsequently entered one of her bedrooms. A neighbour has told crime sleuths that two men and two women were seen leaving in her car that was later found abandoned at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.
Among the items stolen was the recorder that captured video surveillance footage of the premises moments before and during the incident that occurred some time late Friday night or early Saturday morning.
One line of enquiry being pursued by investigators, according to the Crime Chief, was whether anyone had owed the businesswoman.
While no one has been arrested, investigators have questioned several persons including the dead woman's common-law husband of 21 years, Colin Bailey. The Crime Chief said that while investigators were inclined to accept the man's account, the probe was still very much open. "We have several lines of enquiry and no one has been eliminated," he said.
Bailey, a police sergeant based at Vigilance Police Station, has bluntly rejected assertions that he played a role in his wife's demise. "I am cooperating fully with the police. I cannot at any time contemplate killing my wife. I don't know why anyone will want to accuse me. I just believe they are trying to get at me," Bailey told reporters.
Bailey recalled being informed of Ramnaress' death Saturday morning while he had been at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on escort duty for Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro. The policeman said he had last seen her Friday when she had taken cooked food for him.
Back in June 2011, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had refused Ramnaress' importation of a quantity of fish eggs into Florida, citing inaccurate and incomplete labelling.
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This morning I had a notice for twenty-two Important Windows Updates on my old Win 7 computer. Fifteen of these updates were Security Updates for Office 2007. I thought Microsoft no longer supported Office 2007? So what's going on?
Sorry can't help you there BB, I no longer have the 2007 version of Office on any of my machines now. Could they be updates that were available before they stopped support and your machine is only just getting them for some reason?
I don't know, Joan. I frequently check for updates on this computer; in fact, several Important updates were just installed two weeks ago. But the notice for these fifteen security updates for Office 2007 just appeared this morning. Some of these updates were dated before the support stop date of 10/10/17, but several were dated afterwards. In fact, the Service Pack 3 included in the fifteen was dated 4/10/18.
When Microsoft ends the life of a package updates previous to that time are still available but there will not be new ones but there are exceptions. This was also true when Windows XP reached end of life as there were a couple updates put out later to protect against a specific attack.
How long has Office 2007 been on this system and have you recently changed from Windows Updates to Microsoft Updates?I can't say why but your case is not unique. When I installed 2007 it was quite q while before the updates came through.
Jay, I got this computer back in 2009 and I immediately installed this Office 2007 suite. The computer came with the Vista OS installed and I later upgraded to Windows 7.
As far as the update type, I read where Windows Update is a subset of Microsoft Updates. To invoke updates on this computer, I go to the "Windows Update" icon in Control panel. But since this sometimes provides updates to not only the OS but also to other Microsoft software (e.g., Office, Essentials), I guess I am actually performing Microsoft Updates.
I have no idea as to why it would take that long for them to come through unless they were previously there and something happened to make Updates think they were not present... I have no idea what would cause that.


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