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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Here's his plan to fix it.
Monday, November 25, 2019 1:09 pm Monday, November 25, 2019 22 Comments
"I wanted the web to serve humanity. It's not too late to live up to that promise," Tim Berners-Lee writes in an Op-Ed for The New York Times:
I had hoped that 30 years from its creation, we would be using the web foremost for the purpose of serving humanity. Projects like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the world of open source software are the kinds of constructive tools that I hoped would flow from the web.
However, the reality is much more complex. Communities are being ripped apart as prejudice, hate and disinformation are peddled online. Scammers use the web to steal identities, stalkers use it to harass and intimidate their victims, and bad actors subvert democracy using clever digital tactics.
The web needs radical intervention from all those who have power over its future: governments that can legislate and regulate; companies that design products; civil society groups and activists who hold the powerful to account; and every single web user who interacts with others online.
We have to overcome the stalemate that has characterized previous attempts to solve the problems facing the web. Governments must stop blaming platforms for inaction, and companies must become more constructive in shaping future regulation — not just opposing it.
I'm introducing a new approach to overcome that stalemate — the Contract for the Web.
MacDailyNews Take: The "Contract for the Web" contains nine principles, three each for governments, companies, and citizens. Apple is conspicuously not listed among its many supporters which include: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, DuckDuckGo, the EFF, the World Wide Web Foundation, and many more. Find out more at: https://contractfortheweb.org
Monday, November 25, 2019 at 1:15 pm
Hmmm…. he used to say that he just wanted an easy way to share research papers at CERN. I guess that could serve humanity.
Tim Berners-Lee offers a reasonable voluntary declaration but he might as well call it the "Paris Climate Accord". There will always be some outlier who decides that his selfish short-term profit is more important than long term impact on everyone else.
It is shocking that Apple is too lazy to show up to support Berners-Lee. The US ad agency tech giants that will sign it, we all know, will not honor it. There is no penalty for being a 2-faced company online. Look at Facebook, profiting from known lies is the entire history of the company. Twitter: it's a gloried gossip rag that allows anyone to say anything with no repercussions for their lies. Under the pretense of "free speech", internet giants have profited billions. This won't even slow them down.
The problem with the wild west WWW model isn't just that there are no rules. There is no judge. The internet has basically evolved into a data theft/marketing engine with the same psychotic indicators that plague civilization today: Wherever profit is involved and there is no judge, the truth is the first victim. Because the web is international, there is no Supreme Court or real set of rules to exterminate liars. Until that happens, it will only get worse.
The internet, and with it many societies, has devolved back into tribalism. You can now regularly read in forums all over the place nonstop BS from people saying that their tribe is the only true patriot, the other party is [insert nonsensical blatant lie/label here]. There is no attempt whatsoever to agree on pragmatic solutions we all face. We all know that the best long-term good would be to curb the unfettered power of online liars. But no, western companies knowingly profit from the lies so the biggest loudest most outrageous liars "win". Or at least they claim to do so.
Google and other undemocratic institutions assume the role of ultimate knowledge bank and therefore ultimate arbiter of truth, but they won't stop hosting the lies, money is too good. So for decades slimy actors like Facebook, Google, and even worse outfits especially on the authoritarian strongman side of the political spectrum have profited by telling everyone whatever is most lucrative, not what is true.
The extreme right dittoheads repeat literal Russian propaganda claiming that democratic institutions are now the "deep state" and therefore cannot be trusted even after their misinformation has been pointed out to them. When experts testify under oath to what is true, the partisan idiots will instead choose to believe the tweets of a political hack who is too chicken $hit to honor the subpoena that was lawfully issued to him.
The extreme right wing media outlets, protected by constitutional rights to spew FUD, have attempted to throw all non-extremist mainstream press under the bus. Well folks, when you take away moderates (the "mainstream"), all you have are crackpots at the extremes. Anyone who tells you that MSM is evil has no rational argument why the moderate is wrong or bad. They are simply paid talking heads pushing for extremist tribal motives.
Advertising and propaganda all work the same way: from the small kernel of truth, you have to hide all other facets of an issue and spin the few points that you think will convince the gullible to believe your shtick. Hence instead of simply showing the whole truth and nothing but the truth to the people, the guilty and corrupt coin all kinds of sophisticated cons. You've heard at rally chants everything from "lock her up", which the current POTUS is too inept to do…. to reciting nonsensical legal-sounding terms ("no collusion") when at least 11 counts of Obstruction of Justice were found… to lying repeatedly as if Prid Quo Quo FOR PERSONAL GAIN wasn't explicitly forbidden in the Constitution that the Orange Chosen One has never bothered to read. To the guilty officeholders , it's not a crime if you are too inept to succeed in pulling off the crime. If you bombard the public long enough with narratives, they will assume that their tribe's lies represent the whole truth. Dissenters (who by the way have the rights to dissent in most modern democracies thanks to constitutional rights to free speech and so on) thus have two options: Spin the other way, or produce undeniable facts that every reasonable person can agree to.
But that doesn't exist anymore. Internet giants aren't interested in moderating anything, they are geared to maximize profit by any means necessary. The POTUS and his cult are not reasonable, they actually believed the online Russian lies. There is no internet authority that everyone can agree on. So democracy in America, like truth on the internet, is being actively killed by people who place party and personal golf resort income above the truth and long-term good of all.
One should want a sensible, moderate, rational, tech-savvy person like Tim Berners-Lee for President. Instead the Russian propaganda and lies have enabled gullible people to elect a con man who thinks coal is the future and trade wars are easy to win. He could prove that he hasn't broken emoluments clauses by simply releasing his tax returns, but he won't. Instead he plays propaganda games. He could hold real press conferences instead of yelling at the press underneath a roaring helicopter and retweeting conspiracy theories, but he's not interested in leading all the people. He could stop golfing and start working with congress to reform laws, but he's only interested in obstructing justice and lying to the public about his true motives for all that he does (personal power and wealth maximization). The Con doesn't work for you. He's just like Zuckerberg — a fscking parasite telling people lies they want to hear and profiting off every little lie.
This post encapsulates why normal people hate leftists. Self-righteous, control freaks who think the world belongs to them. The problem is that President Trump is NOT the right-wing radical the fake news and the libtards present him to be. As a boomer he is unable to recognize that communists can't be reasoned with, they need to be crushed.
The fact that you can't recognize the prior post as a coming from a pro-defense, anti-offense/nationbuilding, highly fiscally conservative, socially moderate independent speaks volumes about you. If you believe in law and order, I suggest you start by enforcing the Constitution even when it exposes your partisan corruption. Is there anyone left in the GOP that has actually read the Constitution?
How do you propose that a foreign sovereignty with nuclear weapons be crushed? Would that be similar to tweeting praises of the North Korean leader?
Let's consider what fearless leader says about Russia and its dictator:
Oct 2007: " Look at Putin—what he's doing with Russia—I mean, you know, what's going on over there. I mean this guy has done—whether you like him or don't like him—he's doing a great job." Apparently invading Crimea, Ukraine, and the middle east through soft and proxy wars are noble in Trump's mind.
June 18, 2013: "Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow – if so, will he become my new best friend?" This coming from an associate of Epstein who had a reputation of wandering into the pageant dressing room while the ladies were changing, and has been accused of unwanted groping by dozens of women.
March 24, 2014: "I believe Putin will continue to re-build the Russian Empire"
Dec 2015: " I've always felt fine about Putin. He's a strong leader, he's a powerful leader. … He's actually got popularity within his country." Well that's all that matters then. Ethics and morality don't matter as long as people salute Dear Leader.
And so it continued at least 80 times throughout the election rallies, all variations on the theme that Trump thinks he would have a good relationship with Putin. Actually, depending on the audience, Trump claimed alternately that he became good friends with Putin during the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, or that they merely exchanged gifts, or that Putin has always been "very nice" to him, or that "I have no relationship with him other than he called me a genius."
Feb 6, 2017 When Bill O'Reilly confronted Trump about his nonstop praise of Putin, calling Putin a killer, Trump The Apologist said "There are a lot of killers," Trump says. "Do you think our country is so innocent? Do you think our country is so innocent?"
July 2017: In an unprecedented and unpresidential move, Trump met with Putin in Helsinki with no one present but an interpreter, who was not allowed to keep notes. In public, standing beside the Russian president, says that he can't say whether Putin or the US intelligence apparatus is to be believed. When asked if he believed US Intelligence that proved Russian meddling, Trump claimed "I don't see any reason why it would be." Later he attempted to roll back his undermining of US Intelligence services by claiming that online propaganda campaigns could be some fat guy in a basement somewhere. Never mind that US intelligence services have been able to identify the very buildings where Putin's online hackers have been employed, and FaceFuck has belatedly deleted millions of Russian accounts.
In the run up to the 2018 midterm election, in direct contrast to statements by Secretary of Homeland Security Nielsen, Trump claimed in an interview with CNBC that he did not believe Russia was actively targeting the USA. Intelligence services found that in all 50 states, active hacking attempts had been tried.
The USA has literally been under cyber warfare for the last 3 years and the
current POTUS thinks it's all a big hoax, his buddy Putin would never deceive anyone. But the same POTUS thinks that a washed up ex-lawyer needed to clean up those evil corrupt anti-Russian people in Ukraine. So the story goes, top effort went there by presidential prerogative, as if there wasn't enough work for legitimate corruption busters to do in D.C. Suuuuuuuuure.
GoeB
Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 5:55 pm
Well said, Nick.
I no longer waste my time reading voluminous political FICTION…
TxUser
"Communists can't be reasoned with, they need to be crushed."
Is that how the President deals with Ivana, Melania, and his in-laws?
Friday, November 29, 2019 at 10:53 am
Lying FAKE conservative, Yuge meh…
Friday, November 29, 2019 at 1:18 pm
Lying? Are you denying that two of the three Mrs. Trumps were raised in Communist countries by fathers who were Party officials? Are you sure they didn't participate with their friends in Party-sponsored youth organizations? I am not suggesting that they have had Communist connections since the Iron Curtain fell, only that Mr. Trump does not seem to have much trouble reasoning with them, rather than crushing them. Then again, Ivana might disagree (as might Marla).
The moment you go off the rails with "The extreme right wing media outlets, protected by constitutional rights to spew FUD, have attempted to throw all non-extremist mainstream press under the bus," you've lost all credibility. The fact that you think there is a Non-extremist mainstream press demonstrates the level of your ignorance. The fact is that all media thrives on extremism. Including your vaunted mainstream press. It's how they make money. There was always an extremism/hysteria-generating element in the press/news conglomerates (e.g. Hearst's yellow journalism), but with the advent of the internet, with its instant analytics and click counting, the modern journalism business model is now built on BS. All you have to do is read news with a bit of intellectual honesty and look for second/third confirmations (that aren't merely echoes of the original AP or Reuters item) to see how the agenda of choice is propagated. I do all of this, going all the back to source documents where possible, to access the veracity of news producers, and there are very few that don't get tripped up on their own biases. You want to point the finger at FUD generators, you'd better start taking a more objective look at the "non-extremist" mainstream press, 'cause they are guilty as hell. The only way out of the current situation is to NOT accept anything you hear/read. Call the sloppy/biased journalists/editors/publishers when you see it, regardless of how it reflects on your candidate/party/cause. Demand truth. Seek truth from multiple sources. Don't be an echo chamber for your new outlet of choice; I guarantee you that they are only telling you part of the full story. That goes for Right or Left.
In lieu of actually presenting evidence to bolster your own argument, you attempt to undermine my credibility. You say "The fact that you think there is a Non-extremist mainstream press demonstrates the level of your ignorance."
So everything you read is extremist screed? Please seek psychological help, Sparky.
We all know that bias exists in everything. Problem is, we see formerly principled institutions selling out on a regular basis. The GOP being the the most obvious casualty. In order to wind up the paranoia on the shrinking conservative base, the GOP has pushed off the deep end in an attempt to remain relevant. Never mind the fact that they are no longer fiscally responsible, diplomatic, free-trade, or anything else past Republicans attempted to be. Now the party uses the cult of strongman-wannabe personality as a figurehead for bassackward policies that are wasteful and unproductive.
But this is not news.
Side example: You get a Christian conservative to swear to honor the Bible. And you can then get that same conservative to believe that traditional prison is appropriate penalty for a given crime. So far, no problems. But now if prisons cost too much, and that same conservative is anti-tax, then prison budgets drop, and the number of policemen per prisoner drops — often outsourced to 3rd party contractors with lax state oversight. What happens when the ratio of prisoners to guards becomes extreme? It is proven time and again: The guards will adopt extreme and unjust measures to retain authority because they are under constant fear of a large prisoner population. Classic slaveholder mentality. But no matter how humane the Christian conservative was with his hand on the Bible, good luck getting him to see that prisoner abuse could ever actually happen, or that any human rights violations could possibly occur. Only a commie lefty criminal would EVER suggest such a thing.
Why does a Christian lose his Christianity as we get into modern dilemmas that aren't deeply discussed in the Bible? Because that Christian self-selects the entire line of dogma from one partisan platform rather than using his god-given brain to think through the complex issues we face today.
Stop buying the propaganda from any one source especially when that source can't issue anything more than 240 characters at a time. Read opposing viewpoints and weigh the objective evidence for yourself.
Extremely well said, Spark. Excellent advice for partisans that practice exactly what they accuse the rest of the world of and they don't recognize their own foolishness…
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 3:58 pm
Learn how to express your thoughts in concise manner.
C.O.D.
Horse shit. He claims he dreamed of OPEN use of the internet. Now that it has happened and it's full of things he disagrees with, or dislikes, he wants it regulated and censored. Prototypical leftist. GFY, Timmy.
The best thing about the Internet is, everyone has a voice.
The worst thing about the Internet is, everyone has a voice.
1transvaluation
The major problem with today's internet is not that everyone has a voice, it is that the big search engines and social media sites manipulate the search results based on the operators personal beliefs, instead of it being an open free exchange of voices, the voices are being stifled based on personal bias'.
Over forty years ago, I was dating an archivist, back when her degree was still a Master of Library Science and not a Master of Information Science. She claimed that the real rulers of the world were archivists and library cataloguers. Without them, the people with fancy titles like President, Premier, Chairman, and General could have all the information in the world in their possession, but could never find any of it when they needed it. Our university library of some 10 million volumes would be completely worthless without its catalogue (on index cards in those days), since it would take so long to look anything up that you would no longer need the information by the time you found it.
Thanks to the internet giving everyone a voice, there is the equivalent of far more—orders of magnitude more—than just 10 million printed books' worth of information available to everyone. Without indexers like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, nobody could ever find more than an infinitesimal fraction of that information. It is simply not possible for someone to avoid curation because the uncurated internet would be even worse than a library of 10 million books shelved in random order with no volume indexes.
I just tried a Google search for "search engines," and got 434,000,000 results in 0.6 seconds. I don't have to spend the next decade looking at all of them for the information I want because search engines do not provide an uncurated list of matches, but one that is ordered by relevance as predicted by a computer algorithm. In the case of Google (and to a lesser extent Bing), the algorithm incorporates your prior search history to predict what you personally might find relevant. In theory, DuckDuckGo avoids using your history and just orders the list in the order its algorithm predicts that the average user would find relevant. Either way, the priority order is just a guess at what you actually want to see.
You cannot avoid somebody else's bias because the algorithm has to make assumptions about what you find relevant and those assumptions will inevitably be biased towards what the person who developed the algorithm finds relevant. That might mean the most popular answer, or the answer most linked to by academia, or the one most often quoted by the mainstream, leftist, or alt-right media. It might mean something that no human being will ever know because the algorithm that orders the search results was developed by an "artificial intelligence" using machine learning.
The big search engines got to be big because the order in which they deliver their results is closer than their competitors to what most questioners actually want. If most people were not happier with their Google results than the results from DuckDuckGo or Bing, Google would not have an 88.61% market share. Splitting up Google would only be a temporary solution because the daughter company best at pleasing customers would rise to the top, the same way that Southwestern Bell became the New AT&T.
Yes indeed, so very true. The facts are conservative voices are trampled and censored like never before and the freak show left most ridiculous antics are celebrated. Totally upside down….
trondude
In the words of the orange monkey "It's all fake news"
Racist insult we can feel the HATE. At least you are correct regarding "fake news"…
applecynic
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 7:52 am
It's not racist friend, he's voluntarily orange.
Or do you mean towards the monkey?
Yes, but the orange is gone now. I never thought anything substantial about it in the first place. Partisan petty.
"The monkey" ended Howard Cosell's career…
costakcpcCosta K
If you want to fix the web you have to fix humanity.
Tags: Contract for the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web


There was interest in having the Study of Texture original afghan converted to a shawl. So I put my thinking cap on and created a shawl. This ended up morphing into a demand to have the Study of Texture Poncho. Cora Morrison, a fellow crocheter, took up the challenge to create one.
With collaboration, Cora re-wrote the instructions for the Crochet Study of Texture Poncho as a one piece unit. You could have done two shawls and sewed them together. She wanted a one piece unit instead.
Cora spent several weeks perfecting the pattern to the best of our her ability to match my original intention. Her and I worked together to do our best to correct as much as we saw. So if you find an error, it's not for a lack of trying.
Cora used 5 balls of Bernat POP yarn. Using 5 mm / H Hook.
Click the picture to go to the pattern.
Love the end result! Such a cozy poncho and looks fantastic! I did notice that in Round 41 the second corner says 2hdc, chain 2, 2 hdc. The first corner is 1 hdc. I went with the 1 hdc, chain 2, 1 hdc in order to make Round 42 fit.
This is a gorgeous poncho! Thank you so much for making this pattern available to us.
Just getting started and so excited to crochet this beautiful poncho! Have not crocheted anything like this before, do I turn after each row or continue crocheting onto the next row. If continuing, how (in row 3) do I "dc 1 same corner sp". Many thanks for your help.
The pattern will not download. It keeps saying download unsuccessful.
I'm unable to duplicate the same result. If you email me, I can email it back. send me an email at [email protected] Just remind me I promised to do this as I don't usually email patterns.
I got it to work on my laptop! Yay! I have got to row 47 and am so stuck. I am still new to reading patterns. I have posted in your Facebook group for help with rows 45 and 46. I think if I post again people will get mad at me. I need some help. I tried to do my own diagram but that didn't work.
New revision of this pattern has been provided today.
Great! Thank you for always helping us.
There definitely is a problem with Row 24.
I had the guest designer go through Row 24. She's been helping people behind the scenes. She's been providing a rough draft of where the stitches go. So she's helped Daniel provide a diagram to show where they are going. It seems to be solving the issues for this row. See new revision of this pattern that i have posted. The only revision is the diagram added.
I love this pattern and was doing great until Row 24. I don't understand at all what to do with the first statement to "DC right over the chain 3 from row 23 capturing it underneath the 3 dc sts". DC where? In all of the first 3 dcbp from row 23? How is the chain captured underneath? Also, is there not another DC in the corner space after the chain 3? Then, there are shells. I did the study of texture Afghan and checked that video for help, but it's different from this description—there are no shells in the row after the dcbp row. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I'm aving the some problem. Did you get an answer?
I will send this design back to Cora for review.
Thank you, Mikey. I finally figured it out and was able to complete it.
Can you explain this row 24. I am also not understanding.
I am not sure if my previous request has gone through for assistance, so, please excuse me if this is duplicate. I am also stuck on row 24. Can I get some clarification on this row? I appreciate any and all help. BTW< I am enjoying this pattern, very engaging.
I also do not understand what to do here and the new pattern hasn't helped. I've tried watching the video for the blanket but that's different in this area. I was cruising right along until I got here. I don't understand what to do. Is there a video for this?
Thank you so much Cora for adapting this pattern. And thank you Mikey for allowing her to share it with us. It's beautiful and I can't wait to make one. I been waiting for the perfect poncho pattern as I have yarn I been hoarding. Now I found my pattern. You guys rock!
Click GET PATTERN or click the name in the article. It takes you to the downloadable PDF.
Beautiful Poncho. Want the Pattern. Is it available somewhere?
Click either GET PATTERN button or the name of the poncho in the article. They go to a downloadable PDF.
How would you teach or advise on tension? I am finding out just how important it really is.
I have ben searching high and low for the perfect poncho to make my sister! This! Is! It! Beautiful!


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Mobile BPM is Not An Option. It's a Necessity.
Mobile BPM will play an increasingly important role in the relationship between businesses, customers and external partners. Consumers want mobile apps. As a group they download more than 11,000 iPhone apps, send 168 million emails and make 700,000 Facebook posts—in one minute. Businesses need to make sure apps align with their business processes.
Mobile apps require new architectural patterns and must support differing devices. Let's take a quick look at some integration and data type technologies, and Oracle products that form a cohesive mobile solution.
1. SOAP ("Simple Object Access Protocol") — This is the workhorse of existing SOA infrastructures and can be a single solution to heterogeneous interconnectivity issues. SOAP defines a standard communication protocol specification for XML-based message exchange. It can use various transport protocols such as HTTP, SMTP and JMS. It requires far less plumbing than REST for things like transactions, security, coordination, addressing, and trust. However, change control can be problematic due to the complexity of SOAP interfaces. Even though these features add weight to SOAP, it is highly useful when publishing an interface to the outside world because of the formal contract that it utilizes.
2. XML ("Extensible Markup Language")—This is the request / response format within SOAP interfaces. It's benefit is that it's both human-readable and machine-readable. Even though it's verbose and harder to change it has a formal structure and can validate content.
3. REST ("Representational State Transfer") — simple, lightweight and stateless. It can return multiple data types and has bandwidth advantages over SOAP. However, since there is no standard it can be misused by developers. Roy Fielding, the inventor of REST, described it this way: REST's client–server separation of concerns simplifies component implementation, reduces the complexity of connector semantics, improves the effectiveness of performance tuning, and increases the scalability of pure server components. Layered system constraints allow intermediaries—proxies, gateways, and firewalls—to be introduced at various points in the communication without changing the interfaces between components, thus allowing them to assist in communication translation or improve performance via large-scale, shared caching. REST enables intermediate processing by constraining messages to be self-descriptive: interaction is stateless between requests, standard methods and media types are used to indicate semantics and exchange information, and responses explicitly indicate cacheability.
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Family Bond
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Two boys met and fell in love with each other in their high school days. It has been 13 years since they first met… The two live in different places. Nagisa has left for Australia after breaking up with Shun. Nagisa got married with a woman and has a child, but they have difficulties to conti...
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He is coming back... It's the year 2020, and just as the entire nation of Japan finishes playing host to the Tokyo Olympic games, the economy suddenly spirals downward at breakneck speed. Inflation soars, public safety crumbles, and the federal government finds itself on the verge of insolvency, ...
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This is a story about a married couple, "Mr. & Mrs. Hikita" who have been having difficulty with fertility treatments for several years. The couple had enjoyed their life like an adventure, so they have never thought about having a baby (like an ordinary life). One day, the young wife just said, ...
本気のしるし
Kuzumichi Tsuji is a "Good man" who has a good reputation for his work. He has casual relations with two women in his workplace, however, he feels kind of bore for dull days without excitement. He has never fallen in love with someone from the bottom of his heart. One day, he meets a mysterious ...
Welcome to a restaurant exclusively for assassins: the Diner. Its owner is a highly proficient killer, and so are its customers... Kanako Oba is all alone, and thinks her life can't get any worse...until she applies for a dubious part-time job on a whim, and is instantly torn from her mundane e...
Almost a Miracle
町田くんの世界
A new type of main character, who is both extremely ordinary and universally lovable. Machida is unlike any protagonist you've seen before. He's dull, he wears glasses, and he has no distinguishing features. His only talent is his ability to love everyone, unconditionally. However, as he gets to...
THE FABLE
Your slightly offbeat neighbor might actually be an assassin on vacation. As his nickname implies, the Fable is an enigmatic assassin who terrorizes the underworld. The overworked assassin gets an order from his boss. "Live the life of a normal man for one year. Kill anyone during your vacation...
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
居眠り磐音
This samurai has virtues that many of us have forgotten. Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao who he was going to m...
12人の死にたい子供たち
12 teenagers show up at an abandoned hospital. As prescribed, they enter the building, open safe containing, take one of numbered tags from 1 to 12, and head to a "designated place". None of them have ever met before, but all of them in despair with their lives and come up with one common goal: to e...
50 First Kisses
Daisuke works as a tour guide in Hawaii, has difficulties having commitment issues in relationship. One day, he meets Rui at a café and instantly falls in love with her. Daisuke goes back to meet Rui at the same place following day, but she doesn't seem to remember him. It turns out Rui suffers from...
こんな夜更けにバナナかよ 愛しき実話
Yasuaki Shikano, 34. Suffering from muscular dystrophy, wheelchair user. Self-centered, talkative, overly free-spirited! But everybody loves this man who lives life to the fullest— A true story of laughter and tears. Shikano lives in Sapporo, suffers from muscular dystrophy, wheelchair user. T...
Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions! -Take On Me-
映画 中二病でも恋がしたい! -Take On Me-
중2병이라도 사랑이 하고 싶어!
Rikka is 18 and in the last year of high school. But she still acts like she's in puberty. It's spring break and high school seniors are looking ahead to their college entrance exams. Rikka Takanashi and her boyfriend, Yuta Togashi, have been an item for a long time and live together, but their re...
マーマレード・ボーイ
Real love is not always sweet. ■ INTRODUCTION Marmalade Boy, a best-selling comic series with 10 million copies in print, will be made into a live-action movie. Loved by numerous fans around the world for many years, it was adapted into a TV anime series (76 episodes) in 1994 and a theatrical an...
The long-awaited new film by Director Mamoru Hosoda! Journeys through time from a small yard – a story about family and life that connects the past and the future. A small house with a small tree in a small yard in the corner of a city somewhere. Kun, a spoiled little boy, has a new baby sister. E...
NO MATTER HOW MUCH MY MOM HATES ME
母さんがどんなに僕を嫌いでも
This is a true story based on a boy's relationship with his mother. The drama follows the boy's story of how he takes back his mother's love. After making new friends, he tries to face his mother and tell her how much he loves her while he looks back on his miserable past. 友達からも親からも愛されたことがない青年が...
3D彼女 リアルガール
The Beauty falls in love with Otaku Boy!? ■ INTRODUCTION Two teens who live in completely different worlds - a pretty girl who "has a life" and an anime-loving otaku with no romantic experience - fall in love. What will happen to their sincere, true love? ■ STORY Iroha Igarashi, the pretties...
The Crimes That Bind
祈りの幕が下りる時
기도의 막이 내릴때
A woman is found strangled to death in an apartment in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. The victim is Michiko Oshitani, a resident of Shiga Prefecture who worked for a home cleaning company. What's more, the occupant of the apartment where the murder took place, Mutsuo Koshikawa, has gone missing. Matsum...
The Longest Photo in The World
世界でいちばん長い写真
This is a story based on a teenager boy's high school life. Hironobu is a shy boy and he lacks passion in his life. One day, he finds a unique and odd camera in his grandfather's second-hand shop. The fact is that camera can make the longest panorama photo in the world! Then he starts a project ...
Ancien and the Magic Tablet
Why am I snoozing all the time? I keep having this dream... Kokone Morikawa lives with her father in Okayama Prefecture. She's a typical high school senior with no special talents except one: she can fall asleep anytime, anywhere. Recently she's been having a series of strange dreams. Her fath...
DESTINY: The Tale of Kamakura
DESTINY 鎌倉ものがたり
What does "destiny" really mean? When young Akiko marries mystery author Masakazu Isshiki and moves in with him in Kamakura, her way of life becomes a constant source of amazement. A simple stroll through the streets brings her into contact with supernatural creatures such as spirits, goblins,...
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
죠죠의 기묘한 모험:다이아몬드는 부서지지 않는다
There's something bizarre about this town... Morioh, a picturesque seaside town. In this deceptively peaceful-looking locale, strange deaths and other peculiar incidents begin occurring one after another... Morioh is home to high school student Josuke Higashikata. Although he has the outward...
Memoirs of a Murderer
A serial murder cold case Then a man speaks out... "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm the murderer." 5 lives were gruesomely taken in a shocking serial murder case in 1995. The statute of limitations expired without the killer being apprehended. 22 years later he resurfaces sensationally at ...
My Brother Loves Me Too Much
兄に愛されすぎて困ってます
Setoka is a high-school student who got dumped by twelve boys. Her big brother, Haruka looks like a delinquent youth, but he cares for Setoka so much. Setoka doesn't know that they are not blood-related. One day, Setoka starts to get guys' attention, but her big brother Haruka tries to interfere ev...
先生!、、、好きになってもいいですか?
선생님!
Hibiki is an awkward, 17-year-old high school sophomore who hasn't known romance. But she's about to fall in love for the very first time. With whom? A man who isn't great with words, but compassionate about his students. It's her history teacher, Mr. Ito. "Is it okay if I fall for you?" Hib...
Psychic Kusuo
All I want is to lead a normal life. But underneath lurks unimaginable psychic powers... It's the start of the annual cultural festival that brings a disastrous whirlwind of love and friendship! An extravaganza that will crack you up and blow you away! ■ Introduction A super popular manga seri...
Tremble All You Want
勝手にふるえてろ
Finally, a real romance appears in her life full of secret, unrequited love. Wavering between two "boyfriends", she tackles her ruthless reality in this non-stop romantic comedy. Romantic comedy film adaptation of the same-named novel by author Risa WATAYA tells the story of a heroine who is terr...
Fantastic Girls
でーれーガールズ
Original story by Maha Harada "Fantastic Girls, Okayama, 1980" (Shodensha). In 1980, Ayuko (Mio Yuki) is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn't have any friends. She can only rely on her boyfriend Hideho who is a college student. Ayuko secretly draws a romance ...
ALL ROUND APPRAISER Q - The Eyes of Mona Lisa -
万能鑑定士Q - モナ・リザの瞳 -
만능감정사Q
In 2014, after an absence of 40 years, the world's greatest artistic treasure, the Mona Lisa, again pays a visit to Japan. Asahina, the museum's Asia Director, is assigned the task of strengthening its guard against the constant threat that the famous painting will be stolen. He recommends the brill...

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Big booze
I've been doing a lot of campaigning this year to expose the alcohol industry and their attempts to frame the debate around alcohol abuse and to help shape legislation. Contribute a comment as part of article below on new industry funded report.
Industry group criticised over plan for drink
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/industry-group-criticised-over-plan-for-drink-355478.html
A controversial Diageo-funded alcohol awareness campaign has been criticised for not recommending a ban on alcohol sponsorship of sport.
After a 10-month research and consultation period, the Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign's report recommends a new, national Foundation to Reduce Alcohol Misuse to achieve a "generational shift" in drinking culture that will deliver a 30% reduction in alcohol misuse by 2025.
The independent foundation would run for 10 years and be chaired by a government appointee. Its remit would be to co-ordinate public services, health groups, industry, education institutions, and others to implement a wide-ranging set of recommendations focused on changing behaviours and attitudes towards alcohol.
The report also advocates an inter-generational approach to cultural education, and school alcohol education from primary level up to university.
It also calls for more support services to allow parents and peers to take a leading role in the fight against out-of-control drinking. The campaign has been widely criticised since its inception amid claims it is a "smokescreen" to take the political focus away from wider legal reforms around minimum pricing, marketing, alcohol promotion and alcohol availability.
Chair of the campaign and Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay defended the report's decision not to call for a ban on alcohol sponsorship of sports saying health experts "were divided" about the effectiveness of such a measure
"I want to see the link broken between sport and alcohol. I don't want to see it happen at the expense of sport. I don't want to see it cause a crisis overnight. I think it's something that can only be done reasonably quickly. It is noteworthy, however, that neither the Minister nor the Oireachtas Committee [on Health and Children] has come out in favour of an outright overnight ban," he said.
However, independent senator and former Children's Rights Alliance chief executive Jillian van Turnhout said that, in 2012 and 2015, the Health and Children Committee members supported a ban on alcohol advertising of sports.
She said she had predicted that the report would focus on the "catchphrase" of education as a tactic to delay the introduction of effective legislation.
"The report is disappointing but not surprising. Education is the catchphrase of the drinks industry as it was of the tobacco industry. The reality is while education is fine, it doesn't change people's behaviour. What we need is legislation around pricing and the promoting and marketing of alcohol," she said.
Social campaigner and founder of youth organisation SpunOut.ie Ruairí McKiernan questioned the recommendation for a new foundation, considering there are already plans to relaunch the drinks industry-funded DrinkAware.
"It will be interesting to see what the link is between this and the plans for industry-funded organisation DrinkAware to relaunch. In April the HSE stated that there should be no role for the industry in public health awareness as there is a clear conflict of interest."
"The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill will soon go before the Dáil and it will be worth watching to see how health minister Leo Varadkar responds to the continual efforts by industry to frame the debate and prevent meaningful change," he said.


'Caged' marks a first for the Arrow comic, as this story is told entirely from the perspective of John Diggle. Our story focuses upon Ollie as he enters into a secret biannual cage fight. One of the people on The List, who fights under the unlikely nickname of Deathride, lives in total seclusion and only comes out twice a year to defend his champion title. The only shot Ollie has at getting close to the man is to fight in the tournament himself - a move which Diggle recognizes as patently idiotic until he realizes that Ollie's desire to fight is not entirely due to his father's dying wish.
Sadly, the plot of this issue is strictly by-the-numbers. If you've seen any movie based around an important martial arts tournament, you've seen this one. Ben Sokolowski and Moira Kirland just make the story readable by showing us the action from Diggle's point of view, but only just. We can only assume that this story takes place sometime before Muse of Fire because Diggle's astonishment that Ollie would rather fight it out in the arena rather than pay off Deathride's manager for his address seems somewhat naive of the man who saw through Ollie's motivations in wanting to "save" Helena Bertinelli.
Thankfully, the artwork by Eric Nguyen makes up for the lackluster plot. Smooth and stylized, Nguyen captures the essence of the characters from the show and does a fine job of depicting the martial arts action. Indeed, many panels look as if they might have been stills taken from a modern fighting Anime.
Bottom Line: You can skip this issue of Arrow if you're not into martial arts. But if you can stomach a lackluster story for some good artwork or are enough of a Digg fan to want to see a story told from his POV, give this one a shot.


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package parsecmd

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/url"

	"github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-cli/parsecli"
	"github.com/facebookgo/stackerr"
	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

type rollbackCmd struct {
	ReleaseName string
}

type rollbackInfo struct {
	ReleaseName string `json:"releaseName,omitEmpty"`
}

func (r *rollbackCmd) run(e *parsecli.Env, c *parsecli.Context) error {
	var req rollbackInfo
	message := "previous release"
	if r.ReleaseName != "" {
		message = r.ReleaseName
		req.ReleaseName = r.ReleaseName
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(e.Out, "Rolling back to %s\n", message)

	var response rollbackInfo
	if _, err := e.ParseAPIClient.Post(&url.URL{Path: "deploy"},
		&req, &response); err != nil {
		return stackerr.Newf("Rollback failed with %s", stackerr.Wrap(err))
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(e.Out, "Rolled back to version %s\n", response.ReleaseName)
	return nil
}

func NewRollbackCmd(e *parsecli.Env) *cobra.Command {
	r := rollbackCmd{}
	cmd := &cobra.Command{
		Use:   "rollback [app]",
		Short: "Rolls back the version for the given app",
		Long:  "Rolls back the version for the given app.",
		Run:   parsecli.RunWithClient(e, r.run),
	}
	cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&r.ReleaseName, "release", "r", r.ReleaseName,
		"Provides an optional release to rollback to. If no release is provided, rolls back to the previous release.")
	return cmd
}

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Kenya – COVID-19 prompting a rise in bushmeat poaching that threatens giraffes
Date: August 24, 2020Author: somervillesustainableconservation 0 Comments
Telegraph (UK)
Simon Kipsang, wildlife ranger, with a dead giraffe which has been poached and butchered for food in the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary near Tsavo
Lockdown in Kenya has left millions unemployed and hungry. Now they are hunting endangered animals to survive. Reporting by Will Brown, Africa Correspondent. Pictures by Simon Townsley in Tsavo, Kenya
This article has an estimated read time of five minutes
In parts of Kenya, the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic has been so catastrophic that people have started to kill endangered wildlife for food.
Last week, The Telegraph trekked with rangers through the Tsavo conservation area, a region larger than Wales in southeastern Kenya, and found a Masai giraffe which had been stripped bare by poachers for bushmeat.
"They have really done a hell of a job on this one," muttered a ranger when we came across the mass of bloodied bones, organs and skinned hide. "They've even cut the meat out from in-between his ribs."
Giraffe on the Masai Mara
In life, just hours earlier, the fully grown bull would have weighed about two and a half tonnes and stood almost 20ft off the ground. Its legs would have been strong enough to kick in a lion's chest. But now there was almost nothing left.
Three to four poachers probably surrounded the giraffe at night and used flashlights and horns to stun it, like a giant rabbit in headlights. Then one would have hacked at its hamstrings with a machete to bring it down, the rangers said.
A cruel gash underneath the giraffe's neck is where they dealt the final blow.
About a tonne of meat was cut off the beast — worth an estimated $1,000 — and wheeled away on bicycles to be eaten at home and sold in local markets as beef. Even its testicles were cut off and taken, most probably to be used in a traditional Chinese remedy for erectile dysfunction.
A dead giraffe which has been poached and butchered for food in the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary near Tsavo
Much of Africa's conservation work relies on rich international tourists flying in to gawk at beasts through oversized cameras and rarely used binoculars.
Their wads of dollars bills, park fees, rich diets, and luxury 4×4 safari tours boost the local economy, create jobs for rural communities, help to pay for conservation work and disincentivise poaching.
But in late March, as the pandemic began to rage through Europe, Kenya's government all but sealed the country off from the outside world and implemented a draconian lockdown preventing travel between different regions.
Guides on the Masai Mara wait for incoming flights
Domestic tourists on the Masai Mara – there are almost no international visitors
The tourist sector — worth about 9 per cent of Kenya's GDP — was effectively wiped out overnight. Hundreds of safari lodges, which would normally rake in more than $1,000 a night per guest, laid off staff off en masse.
By late June, the country's Tourism Ministry said that the country's tourism operators had put more than 80 per cent of their staff on unpaid leave.
"I've never seen anything like it. There has been no business and no money. Even the children aren't going to school. I was not paid for months. All you could do is stay at home and eat what you can," says Peter Maithya, a hotel worker at Ngutuni Lodge in Tsavo East.
Pete Maithya, hotel worker, at the practically deserted Ngutuni Lodge, Tsavo East
"[Since the tourists left], poverty has gone up. House break-ins have gone up. Young people are stealing goats and chickens. There are a lot of school dropouts and teenage pregnancies," laments Peter Rangi, a chief in Tsavo's Marungu Ward.
Mr Rangi points towards a teenage girl sitting with three male relatives outside his ramshackle office and explains that her family have brought her to ask for his advice.
"There is nothing to eat, so the girl has gone and done bad things for money to get food for her grandfather," he says. "We are very worried about what will happen if this crisis goes on."
Erik Sagwe, the 19-year veteran Chief Ranger, in front of the "tree of snares" which holds thousands of illegal snares seized in the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary near Tsavo
Now wildlife conservationists say that commercial poaching and bushmeat hunting are surging in many parts of Kenya, as many rural communities, who have received almost no help from the government, struggle to feed themselves.
"Since April the destruction has gone up tremendously. We have reported cases of poaching in areas that have never seen incidents before," says Erik Sagwe, head ranger at Wildlife Works, a conservation company working across Tsavo.
Mr Sagwe commands a team of 100 rangers who patrol half a million acres by car, foot and gyrocopter, tracking poachers and illegal loggers. The same day they found the giraffe they also found an elephant which had been killed by a poison arrow and had its tusks hacked off, something they have not seen in two and half years.
Mr Sagwe says that they are finding new animal snares almost every day and that many people have also started to cut down protected forests in the area to make charcoal.
"People are looking for money any way they can," he adds.
The "tree of snares" which holds thousands of illegal snares seized in the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary near Tsavo
The problem is not just confined to Tsavo. In July, the Mara Elephant Project, an NGO, recorded the highest levels of illegal logging and charcoal making since it was founded and an "alarming' increase in bushmeat poaching in Kenya's Mau Forest.
"From what I've seen since the beginning of Covid, a great deal of tourism staff have been laid off, and at exactly the same there has been an increase in poaching," says Geoff Mayes, who has worked as a private safari guide across Eastern and Southern Africa for 28 years.
"Bushmeat hunting happens anyway. But there has been a significant rise across Kenya. People are resorting to dramatic measures to put food on the table. We are also hearing similar reports from Zimbabwe and Zambia," adds Mr Mayes.
Elephants, Tsavo East National Park
Kenya reopened its airspace at the beginning of this month, hoping international tourists would flock back to see the great annual migration of millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle across the plains of the Masai Mara into Tanzania. But sadly they have stayed away despite covid-secure measures having been put in place.
Ole Koile, a Masai Mara ranger in a Manchester United mask, mans a checkpoint into the park. He says that barely any cars have come in for months.
One luxury bush camp manager in the Mara told The Telegraph that many lodges were still closed and that those which have opened were operating at a 10 per cent capacity and charging a fraction of their standard rates.
Ole Koile, Ranger on the Masai Mara, wearing a Liverpool FC face mask
Constable Paul Sameri, ranger on the Masai Mara
For Sergeant Philip Kursa and Constable Paul Sameri, rangers on the Masai Mara, the dire lack of tourists is doubly bad. "When we don't have all these [tourist] cars driving everywhere, it means we have fewer eyes on the ground. It means we have to be everywhere," they say.
Back at the Tsavo, ranger Simon Kipsang slowly picks his way through the bloodied remains, bends down and gently puts his hand on the giraffe's head.
"This animal had no natural enemies," he says softly. "I feel a lot of pain."
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The Montserrat Philatelic Bureau has released a series of stamps called "St Patrick's Day Celebrations – 250 Years in Memoriam".
Official release date was March 29, 2018. The bureau had delayed announcing the stamps until they were available locally.
An information sheet on the stamps notes: "Montserrat, known as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean, is one of the few places where (since 1985) St Patrick's Day is celebrated as a National Holiday. The day became a national holiday in 1985 due to the discovery that on 17th March 1768 there was an attempted slave uprising on the island against the colonial masters. The holiday serves as memoriam of the insurrection.
"Prior to the onset of volcanic activity in 1995, this celebration was concentrated in and around the village of St Patrick's, which was located in the Southern part of the island. It has now matured into a week-long national festival held in the village of Salem where both Irish and African heritages are celebrated.
"To inaugurate the festival each year, a church service is held at the St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church. On the festival day, (March 17) a parade is held leading to the village which is created to showcase Montserrat's culture in song, dance, and music. During this time the national wear (dress & suit) as well as many different designs created from the national madras fabric or the color green are worn. Masquerades are on display dancing Quadrille to drum beat and fife music, very picturesque. In addition, traditional foods, such as our National Dish (Goat Water) and Duckna are prepared and sold. Games from yesteryear such as marbles, and zig zag zagget are also played.
Lovely stamp issue, but I wish when they are doing a special series of stamps they would use denominations that are in common use locally for mail, so that they would become familiar to those of us who live locally.


One of the nation's leading authorities on early American constitutional thought, Professor Cornell is the author of two prize-winning works in American legal history. His scholarship has been widely cited by legal scholars, historians, the U.S Supreme Court and several state supreme courts. Professor Cornell has also been a leading advocate of using new media to teach history and has authored a path-breaking new American history text book, Visions of America, which uses visual materials to illustrate the competing visions that have shaped American history.
Following Professor Cornell's talk, we will open the floor to discussion. We will give particular attention to the issue of how historians can approach writing for a wider audience, especially when the topic has implications for controversial contemporary policy debates. Refreshments served.


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Sabine Spring — Trainer – Owner – Race Official
by Victoria Howard
Born in Munich, Germany, this edition's Superstar moved to the United States in 1999 and got a job working for Hall of Famer Jimmy Takter as a caretaker.
The fact that her family was not involved in harness racing didn't deter the young girl from trying something completely out of her element, and it didn't take long before Sabine Spring would excel in every sector of the industry that she went into.
"Horses have always been my love and passion, and whether it's owning, training, riding, placing retirees in forever homes, or working on the backside as a racing official, I am living out my dream and doing exactly what I always wanted to do."
So how did this German girl get involved in harness racing?
"A horse named GERMER is the one responsible that sparked my interest in being involved in harness racing. He was a trotter who came right off the track and my sister and I bought him as our riding horse. He was a goofy guy who I will never forget.
"I had many other horses in Germany, such as millionaire KANO COMFORT and Derby winner SPEEDY HARRY.
"I was fortunate to work with some really nice horses in Germany and travel across Europe to race them. Millionaire Kano Comfort and Derby Winner Speedy Harry have been two of the most outstanding trotters I've had the honor and blessing to work with.
"After working for Takter, I got a job at Joie De Vie Farm in New Jersey. It was there that I met my husband and the plan of my staying a few months in the United States turned into permanently living here.
"It was great working at the farm for I got a chance to work with some really, really good ones, such as AVA, DREAM ANGEL, EXCUSEZ MOI and TONY CHIN. We developed other nice youngsters as well.
"I've always enjoyed working with the young ones, but today I have mostly teenagers who have a lot of wisdom.
"The most prominent amongst my retirees are: champion trotter SEVRUGA, THEHEARTOFCONFUSION A (who was recently adopted out a few days ago) and multiple winners who earned several hundred thousand dollars during their racing careers; now enjoying their retirement eating green grass and exploring the trails.
"I currently have 10 retired standardbreds; the majority of which are available for adoption after transitioning into riding horses. They reside at a farm I'm leasing in Pennsylvania.
"Horses are wonderful, intelligent animals and standardbreds are exceptionally versatile. I love seeing them show the world what they are capable of doing besides racing.
"The breed is incredibly smart, willing to learn and please, level headed, and hardy.
"The mandatory retirement age for standardbreds is 15, but many retire way before that due to not being competitive enough to pay the bills, or sustaining injuries that require more time to heal then their owners can afford.
"Most trainers and owners are caring and want to be sure their horses will go to loving homes in their second careers after retired from racing. I'm often contacted by the horsemen/horsewomen to take their horse to rehab to transition them to racing so they can be adopted out.
"Over the years I've had many standardbreds who ended up at auctions and kill pens across the United States after they no longer could work on Amish farms as buggy horses. I always try my best to keep one or two and save them from that horrific trip across the borders.
"I wish I could save them all, for they all deserve another chance, but it's impossible.
"It's amazing how the horses saved from the kill pen blossom with TLC and proper nutrition. The vast majority of kill pen horses are useful for riding and driving and make exceptional family horses after they've had time to bounce back from nutrition and neglect.
"All the horses go on an adoption contract and will come back to me should their owner no longer care for the horse. Through this life-fulfilling endeavor, I have met many wonderful people and made good friends with many adopters. Seeing the horses being well cared for and happy is one of the most rewarding things in life and why I do this."
Spring makes time in her busy life to place retired racehorses into loving, forever homes. She is one of several 'angels' who place horses who can no longer race; and steers them into a new career.
Besides owning and training horses, Spring has worked as the assistant paddock judge at Harrah's Philadelphia from 2006 through 2020 and began working as assistant race secretary at Pocono Downs in February 2021.
"My job as assistant race secretary includes taking entries each day; assisting in putting together the races; taking and directing phone calls, and processing claims placed on horses in claiming races," she said.
Today, she resides in Ashley, PA with her husband and horses.
If you are interested in adopting one of these horses you can reach Sabine at dspring05@yahoo.com.
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I'm stunned and appalled. This has become out of control. Towery is obvious frightened, which is a good sign, but to have to find that out via a beating, leaves me speechless. Be safe and watch your back. Wear cameras if you can. If you're alone be ready to do FB live or Periscope to broadcast anything suspicious to the world. You are doing great work here.
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What are the very first steps to getting an EB-5 visa?
I am living in an Asian country at the moment. My family is very interested in the EB-5 program. Since we are living outside the United States, what are the very first steps we have to do to get an EB-5 visa? Also, if we want to buy a building and then build a restaurant, will the total amount of buying and building count in the $1 million requirement?
The first step is to hire an experienced EB-5 immigration attorney. Purchasing real estate without creating the requisite number of jobs will not qualify under the EB-5 program. I suggest you consult an attorney in the United States first.
The first step is to hire an experienced lawyer and choose a good project. Buying buildings alone does not create jobs.
I would arrange a consultation with an immigration attorney who has extensive experience with the EB-5 program, and who can guide you through the process of choosing or developing a project and authenticating your investment funds.
Your first step is to consult with an experienced EB-5 investment immigration attorney. You may want to retain an attorney who has a presence in your home country.
Buying and building will count, but not the purchase of land, if that is involved. You must then show that the project will create the requisite jobs over the two-year conditional period. You should first contact an attorney with expertise in the EB-5 field to guide you through the process.
You should look for and decide on what project/enterprise you wish to invest in and then see if the investment would qualify for the EB-5 visa (i.e., requisite job creation, whether the project/enterprise is located in the Targeted Employment Area (TEA), etc). Any money invested in creating/operating the enterprise that results in the requisite job creation would count toward the minimal investment amount required; however, depending on where the project/enterprise is located, you may only need to invest $500,000 instead of $1 million.


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To find out which funding(s) could also be applicable for you, consult your financial advisor prior to investing. The problem right here is that bonds and bond fund costs are near document highs as interest rates stay historically and ridiculously low. The state of capitalism in the UK is not hugely encouraging – there's a repugnance about placing money into the inventory market and what that signifies.
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Burkitt DDB creates Energizer bus-side push
Burkitt DDB has created a Christmas campaign for Energizer batteries, which will run on London's buses.
The campaign, which is called "You'd be mad to forget them", is designed to remind shoppers to stock up on batteries to avoid disappointment when they give gifts that are battery operated.
It will run on almost 20 per cent of London's buses, with weighting towards routes in shopping areas. It will break on 8 December.
The campaign is made up of six executions. One reads "Dad's nuts roasting on an open fire" along with a picture of a battery and the "You'd be mad to forget them" slogan. A second reads "Little Frank's incensed", while a third asks: "Stuffed on Christmas Day?"
The campaign was written and art directed by Steve Chetham, the agency's head of art. Media planning was handled in-house and bought through Posterscope.
David Cautley, Energizer's marketing director, said: "We continually find consumers forget batteries at this time of year with disastrous consequences.
This campaign focuses on that awful moment, which we have all had, when the children receive a present that requires an unforeseen battery. The campaign will prompt consumers to buy Energizer batteries, in a very amusing way, and so avoid disappointment."
The campaign succeeds the agency's "Are you power mad?" work. This used taxi and truck sides, as well as tactical press and sites on London Underground.


I haven't tried embedded the PJL sequence in WSCST as you are doing, but it seems logical that it'd work.
But, I got a copy that they had modified further to also support the stapling and hole-punching capability of a newer copier/printer. This was written by Rodney Johnson from IBM, and was written in ILE C.
Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the code since it was a previous job -- but perhaps you can locate the TSPRWPR that has the stapling/punching support and start with that? Maybe someone on the list knows where to get that.
apply a WSCST with a printer initialisation string to set the mode.
does not send this code.
don't remember the specifics anymore, sorry.
mode (IBM i never printed color)... it was fairly complex.
server with LPR printing enabled.
the print job is received/identified as colour.


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AFAQ PLC Energy Recommends the Distribution of 15% Cash Dividends to Shareholders
April, 30, 2018,
The General Assembly of AFAQ PLC Energy has ratified the distribution of cash dividends to shareholders of 15%, of the par value of each share. This step had come through the eighth meeting of regular General Assembly held by the company on 29 April 2018. The consolidated company's sales and revenues reached to 23.86 million JDs, in comparison with 20.8 million JDs in 2017. The Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Muin Qadada had welcomed the shareholders at the beginning of the meeting, and thanked warmly their interest in attending the meeting, apart from participating effectively in the company's advanced process. A number of shareholders expressed their acknowledgement and gratitude for the level of cooperation and engagement, pointing out the positive aspects of the company in its operational and administrative aspects, including the importation & fuel storage operations, in addition of modernization of fleet, with the aim of becoming more efficient and effective, which is reflected in the growth of the company's profits year over year. After the discussion had been taken place on agenda, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Muin Qadada pointed out the commitment of AFAQ PLC Energy aiming at achieving the strategic objectives and tackling various issues, this step comes through its policy of expansion gas stations, where the stations operating to date 63 stations distributed throughout the Kingdom. The company has expansion plan to include to build 10 stations yearly to reach 100 by the end of 2020. The Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors added, "In conclusion, allow me to express warm thanks to our shareholders for their lasting confidence in us, and for the Board of Directors' members, the directors of the subsidiaries and all employees, for their remarkable efforts during 2016, particularly the Delegate of General Observer of Companies, asking the Almighty to guide us all for the service of our company, aiming at achieving excellence in regard of our achievement during the year 2018 under the auspices of His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein.


The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 0.75 per cent. In the press release accompanying the decision, the Bank noted that inflation in Canada continues to evolve as forecast with core inflation boosted by a lower dollar while CPI inflation remains near the bottom of the Bank's 1-3 per cent control range due to the transitory effects of lower energy prices. The Bank sees the underlying trend of inflation at 1.6 to 1.8 per cent, which is consistent with persistent slack in the economy. The Bank's outlook for economic growth remains largely unchanged from its previous forecast with expectation of a solid recovery beginning in the second quarter.
With oil prices stabilizing and core inflation firming around its 2 per cent target, a further loosening of monetary policy is becoming more unlikely. If growth recovers as the Bank forecasts over the next couple of quarters, attention will shift once again to the timing of future rate increases. While we do not expect the Bank to act on interest rates for the remainder of the year, long-term bond yields and therefore mortgage rates are likely to rise from their current lows as growth improves and the US Federal Reserve begins raising its own target rate later this year.
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by Jeffrey L. Michelman
You may have started in (or considered opening) a brick-and-mortar building selling products but soon realized that you could capture more sales with a web-based business. How does a web business change the general legal risks of the local storefront business.
Lawsuits in other Jurisdictions
E-commerce and Internet advertising for sales through a website help establish "minimum contacts" with another state to allow lawsuits within that jurisdiction. However, you may be able to control that risk through terms of use and sale for the website that would set the choice of law and venue in your state.
Enforcement of Criminal Consumer Protection Laws
Even if web sales terms control where a business can be sued on civil claims, they cannot control criminal liability. Review laws related to false advertising, product return rules, late delivery and opt out of sale rights, and labeling and packaging requirements. Pay strict attention to the laws related to contests and sweepstakes, coupons, installment sales, and product specific laws, such as those for automobile sales.
Consumer Data Protection
Traditional small business liability insurance usually does not protect you from a website designer's copyright infringement in creating your site or from some hacker's unauthorized access of customer information online, two major causes of Internet-related lawsuits.
For example, if your site collects customer names and credit card numbers through online sales, and then the website and server get hacked, federal and state penalties could apply. The list of those who might sue you is a long one: the banks that issued the credit cards; the customers; your supplier and its bank; and the insurers for each institution involved. Consider security measures and purchase liability insurance policies that cover potential loss of data.
Consumer Privacy Laws
If you collect information from minors, you must follow the federal guidelines for doing so. The FTC and state attorneys general have jurisdiction to protect any age consumer privacy rights. Consumer protection laws regarding privacy vary, and enforcers can sue and fine sites whose privacy policies are deceptive or misleading. Draft a flexible privacy policy. For example, do not use statements like "We will not share your information with any third party." There are numerous legitimate third parties with whom the site owner must share user information just to operate the site: the site's hosting company; the user's own ISP (to whom the Web pages are transmitted on their way to the user); the courier delivering any purchases; and the banks clearing credit card payments, etc. Once a policy is public, the company is bound to its terms, and any violations could be actionable.
Enforcement of the Can-Spam Act
The CAN-SPAM Act establishes the standards for the sending of commercial solicitations e-mails. One standard is to give the recipient the option to opt out of receiving future e-mails. To submit a valid opt-out request, a recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than the email address and opt-out preferences, or take steps other than sending a reply email message or visiting a single page on a website. Include simple opt-out provisions with the advertising message.
Tax Liability
In most cases, tax liability through e-commerce is limited to collecting and remitting sales tax in the state where your business is located. However, state courts have expanded instances where the online seller could be subject to state taxes. As this trend develops, you must stay current on possible tax collecting requirements for customers in another state.
Trademark Liability for Resellers
So long as the trademarked goods it sells are genuine, a web-based seller who resells trademarked goods and uses the brand name in its advertising is not liable for trademark infringement. However, a nominative fair use cannot suggest "affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by the trademark owner," i.e., you cannot call yourself an "authorized dealer" if you are not.
You cannot enforce a contract, or even sell certain products to buyers under a state's age of consent. You must include a warning and have the user verify their age before purchase of an age-restricted item. There are online services, for example, Idive, to check age for sale of alcohol or other age restricted items. Services such as BirthDateVerifier.com require the user to create an electronic affidavit verifying their age. While such technologies cannot provide complete protection from liability under all state laws, failure to use these safeguards increases exposure to civil and criminal liability.
This brief examination of some of the risks of web-based business is the tip of the iceberg. But, even the tip sank the Titanic.
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