After selling TOA Technologies in 2014 to Oracle in one of the biggest VC-backed deals for an Ohio tech company, Brisker has just raised $10 million to build Mezu, a mobile payment app that seeks to mimic the transactional ease of cash.
Working with some familiar faces from his TOA days, Brisker self-funded the project until this month, when Mezu announced it had received funding from Draper Triangle Ventures, JumpStart Inc., Draper Associates, Ohio Innovation Fund and North Coast Angel Fund.
Draper Triangle was a recurrent investor in TOA, contributing from the Series A round through the Series E round. Brisker turned to the Pittsburgh-based VC firm for his new venture largely because of trust and familiarity.
In our Deal of the Week, we look at how Brisker leveraged his success and relationships at TOA to get Mezu up and running.
Draper Triangle Managing Partner Mike Stubler has known Brisker since 2004. Stubler invested in TOA in 2005 and was on TOA's board for nine years until its sale to Oracle. He says the decision to invest in Mezu is driven by the idea, the opportunity and his faith in Brisker.
TOA was, by all accounts, a big success. The field service management software that scheduled "time of arrival" for work in the field grew to nearly 600 employees with customers in 30 countries. It raised $100 million over 10 years before being acquired for an undisclosed amount.
Brisker acknowledges that coming into the market having a big success behind him helps.
Still, as with TOA, Brisker will need to raise a lot of money if Mezu is to succeed.
"Ultimately, software is an incredibly profitable business, but along the way, it loses a lot of money and it ultimately makes a lot of money for people," he says.
Stubler sees the person-to-person digital payment space as relatively nascent, with lots of people still having yet to adopt payment technologies. He says Mezu's focus on anonymity and its eventual capability to transfer payments between currency types gives it an edge among its competition.
"It's a huge market opportunity that's still pretty much in its infancy, we believe," he says.
Mezu might be thinking about raising money, but it's not worried about generating revenue, which Brisker expects will happen in part through partnerships with businesses and nonprofits, as well as from credit card fees. Instead, the focus is on drawing in users from across the globe with a strong product and great customer experience.
It's also looking to grow in Cleveland. Brisker says Ohio City, where he lives and hopes to base Mezu, has the potential to become a tech hub.
Irad Carmi, TOA's co-founder, now sits on Mezu's board.
Of the current 27-person crew, he says other familiar names have carried over to the new venture.
With the pieces falling into place, Brisker says he's hoping to create a success story in Cleveland. And he'll draw from the many lessons he learned at TOA to do so.
SAN FRANCISCO, Thu Sep 6, 2012 – The federal judge overseeing a major lawsuit over smartphone technology between Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. has quietly ended his examination of those companies' relationships with paid bloggers and other commentators.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco had shocked the legal and blogging communities on Aug. 7 by demanding names of "print or Internet authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers" on the companies' payrolls.
The judge at the time expressed concern that payments might have influenced writings about the case. Legal experts questioned the breadth of the order, including whether it could violate the writers' First Amendment free speech rights.
He also said no commentaries had influenced his rulings in the case, other than "any treatise or article" he cited expressly.
Alsup has not revealed what prompted his Aug. 7 order.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mon Jun 4, 2012 – Lawyers for Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. will face off in court on Monday for opening statements in a bitter lawsuit over Oracle's decision to end support for HP's Itanium-based servers.
The trial, in which HP seeks up to $4 billion in damages, comes just days after Oracle lost a separate high stakes case against Google over smartphone technology.
Top personalities from both Oracle and HP – such as Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison, President Mark Hurd and HP board member Ann Livermore – could take the stand.
Intel Corp. is not a party in the lawsuit, though its CEO Paul Otellini might also testify.
Oracle decided to stop developing software for use with Itanium last year, saying Intel made it clear that the chip was nearing the end of its life and that Intel was shifting its focus to its x86 microprocessor.
But HP argues that Oracle and HP had agreed that support for Itanium would continue, without which the HP equipment using the chip would become obsolete.
SAN FRANCISCO, Wed May 23, 2012 – Google Inc.'s Android mobile platform has not infringed Oracle's patents, a California jury decided in a high stakes trial fought by the two Silicon Valley giants over smartphone technology.
The verdict was delivered on Wednesday in a San Francisco federal court, and confirmed by a Google spokesman. An Oracle attorney declined to comment on the decision.
Because the same jury could not unanimously agree on the copyright allegations earlier in the case, the latest verdict on patents effectively puts an indefinite hold on Oracle's quest for damages. Oracle at one point was seeking roughly $1 billion in damages.
The jury found earlier that Oracle had proven copyright infringement for parts of Java. But the jury could not unanimously agree on whether Google could fairly use that material.
Oracle sued Google in August 2010, saying Android infringes on its intellectual property rights to the Java programming language. Google says it does not violate Oracle's patents and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java, an "open-source" or publicly available software language.
Without a finding against Google on that fair use question, Oracle cannot recover damages on the bulk of its copyright claims.
SAN FRANCISCO, Fri Apr 13, 2012 – Oracle Corp is set to go to trial next week against Google Inc in a high-stakes dispute over smartphone technology, the biggest case in what is shaping up to be an intense year in court for the enterprise software giant.
Jury selection is set for Monday in San Francisco federal court. Oracle claims Google's Android operating system tramples on its intellectual property rights to the Java programming language. Google says it doesn't violate Oracle's patents, and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java.
The case is the first of four big tech trials involving Oracle scheduled for the next few months – three in Northern California, and one in Nevada.
The others include one set for the end of May against Hewlett-Packard over the Itanium microprocessor, a retrial against SAP AG in June over alleged copyright infringement, and another copyright case against smaller competitor Rimini Street expected later in the year.
Fighting so many court battles back-to-back could be distracting for Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison and other top executives, not to mention costly, as legal fees pile up.
Yet, observers say it's not surprising that Oracle would be so aggressive in court, pointing to Ellison's reputation as unyielding. He once sued the city of San Jose — and won — when it tried to impose a curfew on his private jet.
And while risky, Oracle's strategy could pay off if it succeeds in winning damages at trial, particularly in the Google case given the growing market for Android-powered devices.
An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment about how the multiple trials impact top management.
SAN FRANCISCO, Tue Mar 26, 2012 – U.S. tech giants Hewlett Packard and Oracle (ORCL.O) on Monday both sought pretrial wins in their bitter legal battle over whether Oracle can end support for Itanium, a heavy-duty microprocessor.
Oracle decided to discontinue support last year, saying Intel Corp. made it clear that the chip was nearing the end of its life and that Intel was shifting its focus to its x86 microprocessor.
Oracle has countersued, accusing HP of false advertising for failing to disclose the terms of its contract with Intel.
Relations between HP and Oracle deteriorated rapidly when Oracle quickly hired Hurd after he left HP in 2010 amid questions about his relationship with a female contractor, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison publicly criticizing HP's handling of the matter.
HP later filed a trade secrets lawsuit against Hurd related to the Oracle hire and although that was soon settled, the firms' mutual acrimony only got worse when HP later hired Ellison's arch-rival Leo Apotheker as CEO. Apotheker was replaced by Meg Whitman last September.
Seeking judgment before the trial which is scheduled to start May 31, HP argued on Monday at the time of the Hurd settlement, Oracle General Counsel Dorian Daley had said the deal meant that the companies "would continue to work together" as they had.
Oracle argued in its filing that Daley never intended the Hurd agreement to be anything more than a symbolic statement, as opposed to a legal commitment.
"We don't believe, nor do we think HP really believes, that a settlement agreement relating to Mark Hurd's employment could possibly obligate Oracle to write new software for a platform that is clearly (at the) end of life," Oracle attorney Dan Wall said in a statement.
A hearing on both companies' requests is scheduled for April 30.
BOSTON, Wed Mar 21, 2012 – Oracle Corp. beat Wall Street's earnings estimates as new software sales came in at the high end of the company's forecast, offsetting a sharp drop in hardware revenue.
The software maker's stock rose 1.5 percent after the news, in sharp contrast to the sell-off three months ago when its second-quarter profit missed analysts' forecasts for the first time in a decade.
Oracle estimated that new software sales this quarter will range from a 2 percent drop to growth of as much as 8 percent, translating into $3.6 billion to almost $4 billion. The midpoint of that forecast, of 3 percent growth, is a sharp drop from the 19 percent increase in the fourth quarter of last year.
Yet Oracle Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz suggested on a conference call that the outlook may not be so grim. She said she had been "somewhat conservative" in calculating that forecast.
Still, shares in the company run by billionaire Larry Ellison pared half of the gains made earlier in the extended trading session. They had rallied 3 percent shortly after it posted earnings that beat Wall Street's lowered expectations.
BOSTON, Fri Mar 16, 2012 – Oracle Corp. may soon run out of excuses to feed Wall Street.
But growing evidence suggests the company is suffering due to challenges that have nothing to do with the macro economy: mounting competition from traditional foe SAP, the loss of a key IT partner in Hewlett Packard, and a hardware business that is becoming a thorn in its side.
The company's bread-and-butter database business – Oracle is the world's biggest maker of database software – may face off against competition from a re-energized SAP before the end of this year. And Oracle's highly touted new generation of business management software, released in 2011 after years of delays in development, has been slow to take off.
While this is happening in a still-shaky tech-spending environment, Oracle's rivals do not seem to be feeling the same pinch. SAP, International Business Machines Corp., alesforce.com and VMware recently released relatively strong results and bullish outlooks, causing investors to question whether something is amiss at Oracle.
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. ― Oracle Corp's. earnings fell short of Wall Street's forecasts for the first time in a decade as software and hardware sales sputtered, sending its shares down more than 10 percent and stoking fears a global recession will hurt tech spending.
The rare slip-up by the world's No. 3 software maker raised questions about the health of the technology sector as many companies in the industry gear up to close deals before the end of 2011.
Oracle joins a growing list of companies, including some of technology's biggest and oldest names, whose results and earnings forecasts have raised alarm bells about worsening business conditions.
They include Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., Red Hat, Intel Corp., Texas Instruments and NetApp. Shares of HP and Dell were down about 1 percent in after-hours trade, while two of Oracle's fiercest rivals in the software world, Salesforce.com Inc and Germany's SAP, were down 2 percent to 4 percent.
Oracle was among the first major technology companies to report results for the quarter spanning November, offering the latest snapshot of the state of worldwide IT spending.
The results were disappointing across the board. The company missed targets on profit as well as hardware and software sales, and offered weak current-quarter forecasts.
Oracle played down the long-term impact of the miss, blaming increased scrutiny of technology investments by cautious customers.
Some clients began requiring that purchases be approved by more senior executives than in recent years, prolonging the time it took to close sales, Oracle President and Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz said in a conference call.
That prevented the software maker from securing some deals during the crucial closing weeks of the quarter, she said, adding that Oracle has adjusted its forecasts to accommodate a lengthier approval process and expects results to be "significantly better" in the current period.
Yet analysts warned that the heightened scrutiny may be a symptom of a more serious issue: that businesses are cutting back on tech spending.


Hi! I'm Meredith Moore, the author of I AM HER REVENGE and FIONA.
I love lattes, unwieldy stacks of books, and the Scottish Highlands.
I write dark and twisty books about secrets and gaslighting and first love.
I'm constantly trying to decide if I should get a dog or not.
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BIO: Michelle Levy hails from Denver, Colorado and now lives in Los Angeles, California, where she works as a casting director for film and television, casting for such projects as Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Bruce Almighty, and more. Not After Everything is her debut novel. Visit Michelle online at michellelevybooks.com, on twitter: @m_levy, on Facebook: michellelevybooks, and on Instagram: @michellelevy.
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She sets her water bottle on the small table and takes mine out of my hands setting it next to hers. She's smiling at me in that way that makes me practically lose my footing. I desperately need to undo the top button of my shirt or I might pass out.
She takes my hands and moves them away from my neck, and she slowly unbuttons the top button for me while staring deep into my eyes. Then she moves to the next. And the next. Never losing eye contact. It's so hot. Once the whole shirt is unbuttoned she brushes her hands up my bare chest and pushes the shirt off my shoulders. She kisses my neck, then my shoulder, then my chest, then my stomach. Her lips are so soft and hot where they brush my skin. I can feel them on my skin long after they've already moved on to the next spot. She kisses her way back up my chest while her hands unfasten my belt.
When my pants hit the floor, I take her hands and place them at her sides. I slowly slide my hands up her arms skimming her skin with the tips of my fingers. One hand comes to rest behind her neck and with the other I brush my thumb across her lips. Her eyes flutter shut. I lean in and kiss her just next to her mouth. Then I brush my lips right beneath her ear. She melts into me as I kiss her neck. The jasmine scent of her practically makes me drunk.
I push her hair out of the way of her zipper. I allow my lips to linger on that spot under her ear that drives her crazy while I slowly unzip her dress.
Her breathing picks up, as does mine.
I trace my fingertips up her back following the line of the zipper—she's not wearing a bra and I almost forget to pace myself—and then I pull the straps down over her shoulders and the dress falls to the floor.
I slowly kiss every inch of her neck working my way to her mouth. When my lips finally meet hers, my hands drift down her body. She moans against my mouth. It's such a turn on that I can affect her this way.
She curls her hands in my hair and our kissing deepens. I take it all in—the arch of her back, the seductive smoothness of her skin, the taste and urgency of her lips, the cadence of her breathing—savoring every single sensation.
I want to screen capture this moment and live in it forever.
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92 Responses to Spring 2016 YA Scavenger Hunt!
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i love asia – specifically korea and japan!
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New Zealand. I have never been there, but have read about it, and many shows have been filmed there. It has breath taking landscapes!
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John and Lesley Gallagher are the owners of Cherry Top Farmstay, a property situated in Lilydale, approximately 150km east of Wynyard, Tasmania. The property is a wildlife sanctuary, residence and small farm, and also provides a range of eco-friendly accommodation in the form of a farmstay. John and Lesley intend to continue utilizing the property for these purposes, with future plans to collaborate with charity organisations and develop a "not for profit" status.
The property covers approximately 5.5 hectares on mixed grassland interspersed with orchards and agricultural land. Native trees such as eucalypts are also found throughout the property. The property features several small dams.
Wildlife found on the property includes eastern barred bandicoots (Perameles gunnii) and Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles (Aquila audax fleayi).
At Cherry Top Farm Stay conservation is about consciousness. The simple dream of taking food from the trees found traction for us in Tasmania. Dams created and trees planted, a habitation of birds soon followed. We have witnessed a transformation, a world away from the former cow and greyhound enterprise occupying the spot last century. We now enjoy the fruits of tried and tested experiments in making a living from a small piece of land.
Inspired by horticulturalists such as Mollison, Coleman and the Henderson Brothers, we seek alternative systems that avoid those things that do harm: veganic, permaculture, deep ecology, slow food, seasonal, traditional and ethical. We literally L.O.V.E. working here: Lilydale Organic Vegetable Enterprises and our Cottage, Villa and Pod sustain our projects and are the core 'business'. Such a lifestyle brings into focus daily the frailty and vulnerability of the natural world around us.
Joining forces with the Wildlife Land Trust and their Sanctuaries You Can Stay program involves us in a confirmation of the importance of conservation and the natural world. This is a source of inspiration every day. Our future course plans to 'nut out' ways of growing small farms like this which we believe significantly contribute to the health of the wider community; a symbiotic relationship between ecology and economy.
Guests can take a guided farm walk, take in the country air and forage for food; collecting hazelnuts and getting to work cracking them on a repurposed 19th Century corn crusher, a survivor of our industrial heritage. The Chinese geese are taking the place of the mower and reducing our dependence on fossil fuel—a couple of years ago we swapped our car for an e-bike and our advocacy now extends to cycle tourism. This and our meat-free plant based diet fit us into a broader definition of a sanctuary. We are so glad we are giving it a go. With future generations in mind, we are encouraged to engage positively with agriculture which is, after all, the root of all wealth. Visit www.cherrytopfarmstay.weebly.com for more information.


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Getting back together - Does love work the second time around?
Very often the love is still the same, only anger/hurt/etc has died down if you're seriously considering getting back together. However, in the time you were apart, maybe you broke some old habits, etc. However it's really easy to revert back to them when back with the same partner.
Here is a horror story I witnessed I was out a few weeks ago and saw this scene and was STUNNED! There was a guy in his mid 30's on date with a girl in early twenties. She looked like a stripper and was continuously talking on a cell phone and ignoring her date. He came up and tried to get her to suddenly remember manners and she cussed at him. (``why'rrrre yewwwww f'ing with me?" in a drunken slurr) Nice! This scene can certainly make an ex- look more appealing!
There's another aspect. Very often when people are apart and get back together there are remnants of hurt from other partners dating other people. Though it makes no sense to feel this way, some may feel the other person is now ``used goods".
Since relationships are directly related to interactions between two people, (change one person and you'll get a different result every time) you can pretty much bet that most of the issues that drove you to part the first time will reappear the second. I personally do not think it works out the second time around.


Ha, this did bring back memories. I have done this. I think I have tried to grow about everything that has a seed in it that I consume plus sweet potato, celery, pineapple etc... So goes winter entertainment.
Lisa ~ I knew it! I've not tried everything you have, Lisa, but one I would like to try is a pineapple from the cut-off top of one. Did you get another pineapple when you did it?
Sounds like fun and I just so happen to have bought an avocado this week...my fav. I will have to give this a try again!
I don't remember trying to grow an avocado from seed but I still feel guilty about not trying to do so every time I throw one out. Thanks for the reminder to try it sometime.
Yep, definitely remember growing these from a pit back in the day. I actually tried it a few times recently, with no growth. I wondered if the avocados had perhaps been treated to slow ripening, and maybe that sterilized the seed?
Thanks for the post. I will try growing avocado in our yard.


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As I'm sure you're aware by now, my typical reading preference is romance. However, I admit to enjoying a good mystery. Until I read the excerpt from The Baker's Wife, I'd never imagined a Christian mystery.
I was hooked from the beginning…so much so that I carried The Baker's Wife, by author Erin Healy, in the car with me on the way to Life Group one Sunday evening. It's not that far to Life Group, but I couldn't quit reading.
I told my husband that, if the ending was as good as the rest of the story, I would absolutely love this book. Now you're wondering about the ending, right? It was good – not great, but not horrible either. It just didn't quite tie up the loose ends as well as I would have liked. It was realistic, though, and I truly did enjoy the book.
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In this article we will discuss about Advanced Search Form design.
Over the years many people have debated on the usefulness of having Advanced Search. While most of the concerns have been surrounding its use on websites, some people even think that Advanced Search cannot add much value even within a web application.
In my experience, Advanced Search is not something which is essential in all applications. However, if you are designing enterprise level applications like ERPs, then you just cannot ignore Advanced Search.
The very complex nature of such applications makes Advanced Search a useful feature to have.
Having said that I would recommend that you evaluate the search requirements of the application you are designing and then decide if you need to have Advanced Search.
Last time when we discussed Quick Search Form design, I said that if you need more number of fields to be displayed in your search form only then consider using the Advanced Search Form, typically more than 4-5 fields.
This is because providing Quick Search is enough for most of the interfaces. Its only when the user is not able to find something using Quick Search, he will want to use Advanced Search.
Secondly, interpreting the Advanced Search interface takes some effort on part of the user because the user now has to look through each field to understand if he needs to enter anything in that field for carrying out the search.
That is why it is essential that you carefully think through all the Search UIs and then decide where to expose the Advanced Search and where not to.
Having said that, let us quickly take a look at Advanced Search form design.
Before that let me clarify something. Some images which you will see below are quickly wireframed by me to give an idea of the concept I am trying to explain. So they are not really the prettiest looking UIs. I hope you don't mind this.
One important aspect of designing an Advanced Search form is to decide if it will be exposed by default to the user or should you first expose the Quick Search UI and then let the user open up the Advanced Search UI.
I would recommend taking the second approach. Display the Quick Search interface first and then give a way to bring up the Advanced Search interface.
Interpreting Advanced Search interface takes some effort.
You can simply provide a link on the Quick Search interface to bring up Advanced Search form or even give a button.
Expiry Date on the card.
Since the Advanced Search interface is expected to contain a number of search fields, it makes sense to provide a Clear or Reset button.
Clicking Clear button should result in clearing the values entered in all of the search fields.
This spares the trouble for the user to go and clear every field if he wants to start afresh.
You might be wondering why I didn't discuss about having the Clear button in Quick Search design article.
Well, there is no hard and fast rule that you should provide the Clear button only in Advanced Search interfaces. You can very well provide it in Quick Search interfaces also.
But since the number of attributes in a Quick Search interface are generally supposed to be less, adding the Clear button might just end up occupying UI real estate and may not add any significant value to the user.
Here, the user can select different operators depending upon the data type of the Search field.
For example, the user can search on the following criteria for a Text field: Start with, Ends with, Contains etc. While for a Number field the user can search on Equal to, Greater than, Less than etc. And for a Date field, the user can search for Before, After, Between, Equal to etc.
Giving these kinds of options may allow the users to conduct more in-depth searches.
When planning the Advanced Search interface, make it a point to expose only those set of fields which you think will be frequently used for searching.
For example say there are 20 fields which you want to expose in the Advanced Search form. But if you think only 10 will be used quite frequently then expose only those 10. And then give a way to the user to add the rest 10 attributes as and when needed.
You can do this by providing an Add Fields button as shown below.
This button can be a simple drop-list containing additional fields which can be added to the search query panel or you can invoke a dialog box containing the additional fields on clicking the Add Fields button.
I would suggest that you bring up the dialog only if the number of additional fields that can be added is more than 10.
Using the Add Fields button design helps to de-clutter the search query panel and lets the user add the search fields as needed.
I know, you will say that if you make a mistake in judging which search fields will be frequently used than the user will have to go through the trouble of adding those attributes every time before conducting the search.
This problem can be easily solved by providing a way to save the search. We will discuss about saved searches in upcoming article.
If the number of attributes which you plan to expose are more or a set of attributes make sense together, then by all means you can group then together in the Advanced Search form.
Flickr does it on its Advanced Search page.
However, I am not a big fan of this design since groping usually tends to occupy more UI space.
If you really want to group then I would recommend taking a look at how Amazon groups the search fields on its Advanced Search page.
Amazon has put the groups in the left hand navigation instead of displaying all the groups at once.
I would recommend that you take the first approach. If you display the search results on another page then the user has to keep navigating back and forth between the two pages if he doesn't find what he is looking for in the first attempt.
I know Flickr, Amazon and even Google have chosen to go with the second approach and I don't necessarily agree with that design.
Also, the first approach will come in handy when we discuss about narrowing the search results. We will do this sometime in the near future.
I hope you have now got a good idea of how to go about designing Advanced Search interfaces.
One thing that I want to point out is that all of the above design approaches which we discussed today need not be implemented together.
You can ignore the Add Fields feature if it doesn't add value to your search interface; similarly not use the Clear option if you have space constraints in your UI.
Think through the flow which you would expect the user to take and then design your search interface accordingly.
Next up, we will discuss about how to design search interfaces which will help the user to search multiple different objects from the same interface.
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Krani (; ) is a village in the Resen Municipality in North Macedonia, roughly  south of the municipal centre of Resen.

History
Krani has four known archaeological sites, two of which are from the Middle Ages, one from Late Antiquity, and one from the Hellenistic era. The latter was a fishing settlement and the two from the Middle Ages were churches.

In 1905, Arvati's population consisted of 256 Bulgarian Exarchists and 342 Albanians. There was a Bulgarian school in the village.

Demographics
Krani is inhabited by a Sunni Muslim Albanian majority and an Orthodox Macedonian minority. A small number of Albanian speaking Muslim Romani used to live in Krani and during the latter decades of the 20th century have migrated to Ohrid and Resen. In the late Ottoman period, some Bektashi Albanians, known locally as Kolonjarë, used to also reside in the village of Krani. As of the most recent national census in 2002, Krani has 416 residents, less than half of its 1961 population.

The data on the mother tongues of Krani's residents, according to the 2002 census, is very similar to the ethnic makeup of the village with 311 declaring Albanian their mother tongue, followed by 104 declaring Macedonian, and one declaring Serbian.

Religion
The main religions in the village are Islam and Orthodox Christianity, with 309 belonging to the former and 105 to the latter, as of the latest census. Additionally, two individuals declared Catholicism as their religion. These figures suggest that the ethnic Macedonian population is Orthodox Christian, while the Albanian population is Muslim, as is the case nationally.

Krani has two churches, the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary and the Church of St Nicholas. It also has one mosque.

Gallery

People from Krani
Ali Aliu (born 1934), writer and translator

References

Villages in Resen Municipality
Albanian communities in North Macedonia

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The "Kony2012" Meme and the Need for Cautious Skepticism
Posted by mattusmaximus on March 9, 2012
So this week the Internet basically exploded with a massively-popular viral video titled "Kony2012" by the non-governmental organization Invisible Children. Apparently, it is about a brutal Ugandan warlord, Joseph Kony, who leads the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Africa and has perpetrated horrendous crimes (think mass rape, kidnapping children and forcing them to be soldiers, and that sort of monstrous stuff) in the name of doing the sort of nasty crap that warlords do in their pursuit of power. The purpose of the video is, according to Invisible Children, to aim "to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice."
Here's the video in question; it's long (~30 minutes), but a visit to the Invisible Children website will fill you in on the basic idea behind the video.
However, while bringing scumbags like Joseph Kony to justice is no doubt a laudable goal, the fact that this video and related message seemed to spread so quickly (and uncritically, it seems) across the Internet and Twittersphere made me express some cautious skepticism about the whole thing. And it seems that my skepticism was not without some validity – check out this interesting article from Time.com on the whole "Kony2012" meme because I think it provides a bit of perspective that should be appreciated…
Why You Should Feel Awkward About the 'Kony2012′ Video
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Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, answers journalists' questions in Ri-Kwamba, southern Sudan, Nov. 12, 2006.
Most Americans began this week not knowing who Joseph Kony was. That's not surprising: most Americans begin every week not knowing a lot of things, especially about a part of the world as obscured from their vision as Uganda, the country where Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commenced a brutal insurgency in the 1980s that lingers to this day.
A viral video that took social media by storm over the past two days has seemingly changed all that. Produced by Invisible Children, a San Diego-based NGO, "Kony2012″ is a half-hour plea for Americans and global netizens to pay attention to Kony's crimes — which include abducting over 60,000 children over two decades of conflict, brutalizing them and transforming many into child soldiers — and to pressure the Obama Administration to find and capture him. Within hours of the slick production surfacing on social media, it led to #StopKony trending on Twitter, populated Facebook timelines, was publicized by Hollywood celebrities and has been viewed some 10 million times on YouTube. Suddenly, a man on virtually no Westerner's radar became the international bogeyman of the moment. …
… Yet for the video's demonstrable zeal and passion, there are some obvious problems. Others more expert in this arena have already done a bit of fact-checking: the LRA is no longer thought to be actually operating in northern Uganda, which "Kony2012″ seems to portray still as a war-ravaged flashpoint — instead, its presence has been felt mostly in disparate attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation with its own terrible history of rogue militias committing monstrous atrocities. Moreover, analysts agree that after concerted campaigns against the LRA, its numbers at this point have diminished, perhaps amounting to 250 to 300 fighters at most. Kony, shadowy and illusive, is a faded warlord on the run, with no allies or foreign friends (save perhaps, in one embarrassing moment of blustering sophistry, for American radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh.) The U.S. military's African command (AFRICOM) has deployed its assets against Kony since at least 2008— a fact that goes conveniently unmentioned in Invisible Children's video. …
… Not once in the half-hour film do we hear the name of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, whose quasi-authoritarian rule has lasted over 25 years. Arab Spring-inspired protests last year were ruthlessly suppressed and the country's opposition complains bitterly about the entrenched corruption of the Museveni state. The U.S. State Department voiced its concern over Uganda's rights record last November. Speaking to the Washington Post, Jedediah Jenkins, a member of Invisible Children, shrugs off charges that the NGO is too much in bed with the status quo in Kampala:
"There is a huge problem with political corruption in Africa. If we had the purity to say we will not partner with anyone corrupt, we couldn't partner with anyone."
So I guess the take-away from this one is pretty simple: just like with those chain emails that everyone used to get (and no doubt still does, in all likelihood), when you get a Tweet from someone about 'an amazing new video' or whatnot, perhaps it might be worthwhile to spend some time to investigate the issue before you re-Tweet. Food for thought, folks.
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Variation in cuticular colour in the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor.
The exoskeleton (cuticle) is an insects' first physical barrier to infections. The mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, displays cuticular colour variation, from black to light brown, and it was previously found that cuticular colour of T. molitor is related to their ability to resist a fungal entomopathogen. One approach we took was to examine whether selection for tan or black cuticular colour also resulted in correlated selection in haemolymph-mediated innate immune traits. Selection on cuticle colour did indeed result in a correlated increase in phenoloxidase, a key enzyme involved in cuticular hardening and darkening, but there was no effect on antibacterial activity or haemocyte number (Armitage & Siva-Jothy 2005). We also tested whether colour variation in this trait could relate to its physical nature, in terms of cuticular thickness and porosity (Evison et al. 2017), and the time course of cuticular tanning (Thompson, Armitage & Siva-Jothy 2002). We also found that lifespan and fecundity were not affected by cuticular colour, but that activating the immune system with a non-pathogenic immune challenge resulted in a shorter lifespan (Armitage et al. 2003).


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IC 400 ist eine Galaxie von der Hubble-Sequenz S im Sternbild Hase in der Nähe des Himmelsäquators. Das astronomische Objekt wurde am 21. Januar 1889 vom US-amerikanischen Astronomen Ormond Stone entdeckt.

In der von Stone angegebenen Position (RA 05 03 43.9, Dec -15 46 00) befindet sich jedoch nichts. Dies ist kaum überraschend, da Stone sich nicht die Mühe machte, die Deklination seines Objekts (# 209) zu messen, sondern nur die Position seines Vergleichssterns und einen Versatz in der Rektaszension angab, so dass das beobachtete Objekt etwas nördlich oder südlich der IC-Position liegen könnte. Es gibt nur zwei Galaxien in dem Bereich, beide nur ein paar Bogenminuten südlich der angegebenen Position. Wenn man sich moderne Fotografien ansieht, scheint der wahrscheinlichere Kandidat 6dFJ0503456-154909 zu sein. Wenn wir jedoch die Realitäten der visuellen Beobachtungen des späten 19. Jahrhunderts berücksichtigen, ist die oben aufgeführte Galaxie der 17. Größe mit größerer Wahrscheinlichkeit IC 400, da der Stern der 15. Größe in Kombination mit seiner geringen scheinbaren Größe eine solche Galaxie ergibt und perfekt zu Stones Beschreibung mit "16.0 Magnitude, 0.1 Arcmin" passt, während die technisch hellere, aber größere Galaxie wahrscheinlich zu schwach für ihn war, da sich ihr Licht über ein viel größeres Gebiet ausbreitet und andere Angaben gemacht worden wären. Angesichts dieser Umstände ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass einige Referenzen PGC 905996 als IC 400 und andere die andere Galaxie auflisten (in beiden Fällen jedoch in der Regel mit einer Warnung vor der erheblichen Unsicherheit der Identifizierung).

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Mrs. Terry Ann Carbone
Term Ends: 2024
Mrs. Carbone was elected to the Board of Education in 2014 and re-elected in 2019. Mrs. Carbone was re-elected to serve as President for the 2019-20 school year. She serves as a member of the MCSBA Legislative Committee and the Board's Advocacy, Brockport's Best and Budget Committees, and serves as an alternate for the Board's Policy Committee.
Mrs. Carbone received her BA, MS, and CAS from The College at Brockport. She then started her teaching career in 1969 as a Kindergarten teacher and retired in 2011 as the Superintendent of Schools for the Lockport City School District after serving as Elementary Principal, High School Principal, Director of Elementary Education, and Director of Research and Development.
Mrs. Carbone and her husband, Fred, have two children and twin grandsons. She enjoys spending time with her family and is an active volunteer in our district and community. She also participates in bridge club and enjoys yoga.
Mr. Jeffrey Harradine
Mr. Harradine was elected to the Board of Education in 2017 and has served as the Board's Vice President since 2018. He also is a member of the Board's Advocacy, Budget, Instructional and Policy Committees and is a delegate to the MCSBA Legislative Committee.
Mr. Harradine graduated from Brockport High School in 1997, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and the Band and lettered in Cross Country and Track. He went on to attend Cornell University and then Cornell Law School. Mr. Harradine has served as a confidential law clerk to federal district and appellate judges, worked for the United States Department of Justice (Civil Rights Division) and been a partner in a law firm. He is now Senior Counsel at Xerox Corporation, as well as a mediator and arbitrator. He is always happy to answer questions of Brockport students and alumni who are considering the practice of law.
Mr. Harradine is also a trustee of the Western Monroe Historical Society, a director of The Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Foundation, and is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Brockport High School Alumni Association.
In his spare time, Mr. Harradine enjoys spending time with his wife, Sarah (Class of 1998) and their three children Lucy, Lily and Andy (Classes of 2025, 2026 and 2028, respectively).
Mr. David Howlett
Mr. Howlett was elected to the Board of Education in 2015 and re-elected in 2020. He serves as a member of the Board's Audit, Brockport's Best and Policy Committees.
Mr. Howlett is a 1984 graduate of Brockport High School. He received his bachelor's degree in communications from Ithaca College, his master's in secondary social studies and is currently a teacher at the Gates-Chili High School. Mr. Howlett, his fiancée Shannon Sevor, sons Michael and Sean, step sons Max and Sam have a long history with the district. Shannon is a teacher and several of the children have graduated or will graduate from BHS.
Mr. Howlett has been a coach for 30 years and is also a 18 year member of the Freemasons. He spends his time traveling, reading and camping with his family.
Mr. Daniel Legault
Mr. Legault was elected to the Board of Education in 2016 and reelected in 2021. He serves as a member of the Board's Brockport's Best and District Safety Committees and serves as an alternate for the Board's Advocacy Committee.
Mr. Legault received his associate's degree in criminal justice. He is a retired police officer, currently works for Wegmans in Asset Protection and is a part-time officer with the East Rochester Police Department. He is also a member of the US Coast Guard Reserves with over 30 years of service. Mr. Legault and his wife, Jennifer, have two children. He enjoys spending time with his family and is an active member in our community. He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).
Mr. Robert Lewis
Mr. Lewis was elected to the Board of Education in 2018. He serves as a member of the MCSBA Labor Relations Committee and the Board's Audit Committee, and serves as an alternate for Brockport's Best and Budget Committees.
Mr. Lewis received his bachelor's degree in Statistics from the University at Buffalo. He holds an associate's degree in Computer Information Systems from Monroe Community College. He has been a resident of the Brockport School District since 2000. His wife, Margaret, and sons, Robert and Matthew, are all graduates of Brockport High School. Mr. Lewis is an active volunteer with both the Boy Scout Troop 375 and the Brockport Elks Lodge.
Mrs. Kathleen Robertson
Mrs. Robertson was elected to the Board of Education in 2014 and re-elected in 2019. She serves as a member of the MCSBA Information Exchange Committee and the Board's Audit, Budget and Policy Committees.
Mrs. Robertson holds a bachelor's and master's degree in elementary education from SUNY Geneseo. She retired from the Brockport Central School District after 25 years as an elementary teacher. Mrs. Robertson and her husband, Max, have two daughters and five grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with her family, along with gardening, cooking, baking and reading. She is also an active volunteer with Barclay Believes and Meals on Wheels.
Mr. Michael Turbeville
Mr. Turbeville was elected to the Board of Education in 2018. He serves as a member of the Board's Advocacy Committee, an alternate for the Board's Audit and District Safety Committee's and an alternate for the MCSBA Information Exchange and Labor Relations Committee's.
Mr. Turbeville holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in History and Secondary Education from The College at Brockport. He spent nearly 10 years as a high school social studies teacher. Currently, he serves a Police Officer with the Rochester Police Department. Mr. Turbeville and his wife Carrie, a teacher aide at the Hill School, have two sons, Caleb and Gabriel.


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Lucky Cement Limited Distributes Rations Bags in 5000 Families under Prime Minister's Ehsaas Emergency Rashan Programme/Scheme
By Kazim Raza Rizvi 06-Oct-2020 06-Oct-2020 Business & Finance, Top Stories
• The company has been at the forefront to support marginalized communities of Pakistan since the Covid-19 outbreak.
• Lucky Cement Limited was also recognized as one of the top ten Most Supportive Brands of Pakistan during the current pandemic by IPSOS, a multinational market research company with headquarters in Paris, France.
• In an effort to support the communities it operates in, the Company also launched a dedicated vocational training scholarship program for the youth of District Lakki Marwat.
Pakistan: Lucky Cement Limited in partnership with the Prime Minister's Ehsaas Emergency Rashan Programme/Scheme distributes ration bags to families affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in the rural areas of District Lakki Marwat in KPK.
Under this initiative rations bags were distributed in around 5,000 families in various areas of District Lakki Marwat including Tehsil Tajori, Tehsil Landiwa, Lakki Marwat City, Tehsil Sarai Naurang and Pezu.
Since the outbreak, the Company is already at the forefront of providing support to the marginalized communities of Pakistan. Earlier, 20,000 ration bags were distributed amongst the affected families in the rural areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh. And now the Company is further expanding its muscle to support more deserving families. For its outstanding efforts the Company was also recognized as one of the top ten Most Supportive Brands of Pakistan during the current pandemic by IPSOS, a multinational market research company with headquarters in Paris, France, Lucky Cement Limited has been continuously supporting initiatives pertinent to community development, health, environment and education. The Company has also recently launched a dedicated vocational training scholarship program for the youth of District Lakki Marwat, for which it has received an outstanding turnout of more than 150 students who have applied for the program. Now the top students will be sent to a vocational training centre in Rashidabad, TandoAllahyar in Sindh and the Company will cover the boarding, lodging and training expense for the students. The initiative is an effort to empower the youth, so they can become financially independent and contribute in the economic development of the country.
In the current pandemic which has affected millions of people globally, the Company is determined to continue making efforts and actively participate for the progress of Pakistan.
Tagged 5000 Families, COVID-19, distributes, Ehsaas Emergency, IPSOS, Lucky Cement Limited, prime minister's, Rashan Programme/Scheme, Rations Bags.
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2016 Update: This year's Rocks, Raptors & Wildflowers trip will take place on Saturday, April 9. If you're interested in attending, please contact the California Raptor Center by phone at 530-752-9994 before it fills up. Here's a dispatch from last year's event along with some photos.
Rocks, Raptors and Wildflowers is a field trip that California Raptor Center hosts each spring, so long as the conditions are conducive. This year a group went out on April 4. The caravan starts at the Raptor Center and heads northwest on Highway 16 toward Clearlake. The wildflowers were wonderful this year and it was an beautiful day.
Below you'll find photos of some of the views discussed by the California Raptor Center's knowledgeable volunteers, who serve as guides for the annual trip.
Volunteers, friends and the public will again be invited to sign up for this fun springtime event the next time around.


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Title IX for Campus Conservatives
Critics Wave the Red Flag for a Socialist Parable
By Josh Gelernter
About Josh Gelernter
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Bring college Republicans out of the closest.
On American college campuses, conservatives are an ill-treated minority. They try to invite conservative speakers to campus, and the speakers are banned; two weeks ago, DePaul University banned conservative speaker and writer Ben Shapiro. Sometimes the college conservatives themselves are banned; UC Irvine banned the their college-Republicans after they invited conservative writer and speaker Milo Yiannopoulos. When schools allow the speaking engagements to proceed, they are frequently met with vicious protests — of the sort that have followed free-speech feminist Christina Hoff Sommers around the country for the last few months. Or the speakers are met with denunciations from college bigwigs, as in the recent case of a Virginia Tech students' invitation to eminent political scientist Charles Murray: VT president Tim Sands attacked Murray's "largely discredited work" — which Murray's work certainly isn't — and accused him of helping to justify racism and eugenics.
Or sometimes the attacks on campus conservatives are more direct, like cancelling conservatives' event room reservations at the last minute, refusing to find substitute rooms, or substituting rooms that are almost comically too small — as NYU did to the college Republicans when I was an undergraduate there a few years ago. Sometimes the attacks are more direct still: Just before cancelling Shapiro's appearance, DePaul banned the college Republicans' anti-abortion "Unborn Lives Matter" campaign, comparing the slogan to "a noose — a powerful symbol of violence and hatred — outside a residence hall."
DePaul, like NYU, is a private institution and is, of course, entitled to censor whatever it wants. Since it's a private institution, you would think DePaul would also be free to spend money on whatever athletic programs it chooses to. Not so, says Title IX: DePaul takes public funds, therefore it is required to adhere to certain federal guidelines.
Title IX, which has most notably been used to force schools to spend the same on female athletics as they do on male, says simply:
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
Imagine substituting the phrase "on the basis of political affiliation" to "on the basis of sex."
DePaul, or any other university that receives public money for sports or anything else, might just as well be subjected to a version of Title IX requiring equal opportunity for, and investment in, members of every political party which has, say, 15 percent support nationally (the debate threshold). Universities receiving public assistance could be instructed to make sure that the activities of both Democratic and Republican students receive equal space, money, and consideration. And all the administrative law and legal recourse that has expanded Title IX over the years could be applied to the new Title IX as well.
(Perhaps, by the same token, universities should be required to spend equally on politically left-wing and right-wing courses, to guarantee equality in the schools' curricula. Perhaps universities should be required to hire an equal number of Democratic and Republican faculty, and perhaps they should be required to have "safe spaces" for both liberal and conservative ideologies, one with coloring books and anti-Trump counseling, the other with banned books and job applications.)
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A Title IX for conservatives would be perfectly legal: The public can attach any stipulation it wants to the money it offers to private institutions; the institutions are free to either accept the stipulations or reject both the stipulations and the money. It is a purely voluntary process. That's the way Title IX works.
#related#Of course, you could say that no private university should pressured to support or proffer any ideology against its will. That's true. In fact, the government should never try to force any private institution to do anything it doesn't want to; objectionable action by private institutions should be punished by the market. But so long as the government does try to force its morality on groups of private citizens, the Right should use a new Title IX as an opportunity to a) throw a lifeline to closet campus conservatives and b) teach a valuable lesson in the folly of public subsidy.
When the Left screams blue murder, the Right can remind it of its periodic efforts to impose the "fairness doctrine" on conservative radio, mandating equal airtime for leftists. When the Left tries to repeal or overturn the new Title IX, the Right can join in by trying to repeal and overturn the old Title IX — and every other regulatory instance of behavior modification.
Either way, conservatives win.
Josh Gelernter — Josh Gelernter is a former columnist for NRO, and a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard.
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El añil basto (Baptisia tinctoria) es una especie de planta herbácea perteneciente a la familia Fabaceae que son nativas de Norteamérica especialmente en Canadá (Quebec y Ontario) y en EE. UU. en el estado de Virginia, crece en los bosques y laderas de terrenos secos de terrenos aluviales

 Características
Es una planta herbácea perenne que presenta tallos erectos de entre 60 y 90 cm de altura. La raíz posee un característico color púrpura intenso y ramifica en gran cantidad de raíces secundarias. El tallo presenta numerosas ramificaciones que portan hojas trifoliadas con foliolos de hasta 2 cm de longitud y un corto peciolo que tornan a color negro cuando mueren. Presenta flores de color amarillo brilante de hasta 1,3 cm que se agrupan en racimos. Estas flores cuajan en una legumbre de 1 cm de longitud y 0,6 cm de grosor que contienen entre 1 y 4 semillas.

 Propiedades
La raíz de Baptisia tinctoria es utilizada en la etnobotánica de los pueblos nativos de Norteamérica como antiséptico, diaforético, laxante y purgativa en el tratamientos de úlceras cutáneas y de garganta, tifus y escarlatina.

 Principios activos

En extractos de esta planta se han identificado los alcaloides esparteína, citisina, n-metilcitisina y anagirina. También los fenoles baptisina, baptisol y escopoletina, los flavonoides genisteína, biocanina A, la fitoalexina maackianina y formononetina. Entre los polisacáridos presentes con actividad se conoce la presencia de proteínas arabidogalactanas.

 Toxicidad

En las partes aéreas de Baptisia tinctoria al igual que ocurre en otras especies de su género la presencia de los alcaloides citisina, N-metilcitisina y anagirina, compuestos tóxicos para el ser humano, hace que su consumo como alimento o como parte de complementos alimenticios no sea recomendable.

Su uso como planta medicinal está contraindicado en embarazadas y lactantes. La sobredosis de sus principios activos pueden causar emesis y catarsis que se asocia con mialgia, hipersalivación e inflamación gastrointestinal. En casos de sobredosis extrema puede causar fallos respiratorios por afección del sistema nervioso que puede llevar a la muerte.

 Taxonomía Baptisia tinctoria fue descrita originalmente por Carlos Linneo como Sophora tinctoria y reubicada en su género actual por Étienne Pierre Ventenat en Decas Generum Novorum 9. en 1808.

SinonimiaBaptisia gibbesii SmallPodalyria tinctoria (L.) Willd.Sophora tinctoria'' L. basónimo

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tinctoria
Plantas medicinales
Flora de Estados Unidos


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Privacy in the time of IT Cloud Services
It has become very clear that in the last couple of years, the management of personal information has built momentum and it is on everyone's minds.
The introduction of privacy and personal information protection legislation has helped stir the conversation on this direction, but the mismanagement of personal information by big players in the tech industry has firmly set that route.
The new trend of "free" services for consumers and the convenience to have information stored in the "cloud" and have it follow you wherever you go and on whatever device you have, has been a breakthrough on our approach to technology and to information management. But the biggest breakthrough or "bang for your buck" has certainly been for organizations themselves.
Cloud services available to anyone, anywhere
What was unthinkable and cost-prohibitive 15 years ago in terms of setting up an IT environment to start a business, to be competitive or to have access to cutting-edge applications that would allow organizations to provide innovative products or services, has become as easy as just making the decision to get started.
Cloud services have allowed individuals and organizations to rely on the computing power of the large providers, thus avoiding the considerable capital and operating expenses that in-house IT infrastructure requires. This set up democratizes innovation and allows just about anyone to have a seat at the table when it comes to offering products and services.
And as great as this is, one aspect that not everyone thinks about is the considerable increase in the complexity of data flows.
Data flows and the implications to privacy
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Similarly, Canada is looking to amend the Federal Privacy legislation, PIPEDA, to treat data transfers as disclosures and therefore requiring end customers to provide explicit consent when doing business with any organization. This may prove to be annoying at best and futile at worst, but it is clear that regulators are looking at data transfers very closely.
Mitigating the privacy risks of complex data flows
In this environment, companies need to work to manage the risk that these complex data flows raise. This risk is not going away, and it doesn't have an easy fix so it is important for organizations to adopt a few practices that may help with the management of said risk:
· Develop a data inventory that clearly identifies the type and sensitivity of data that is being stored on each of these systems
· Identify each of the vendors that provide these systems. Ensure that each vendor has a Data Protection or Information Sharing Agreement that clearly identifies their responsibilities - including being accountable for what their own providers do - towards the protection of personal information
· Document, as much as possible, the interfaces and data flows between one system to the next to identify vulnerability points or specific areas where breaches may occur
· Implement a detailed privacy breach response plan and ensure that you include a contact list for all your IT service providers in order to coordinate activities where necessary
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In these times where information is a commodity, using it for the benefit of the individuals that organizations serve is the best way to achieve loyalty, trust and a great reputation.
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