Gardner & Thomas - Turn To Try Next up on the mighty Hooj label, following from the impressive 2 disc release of Blackwatch's 'I'm Here', sees Dave Gardner team up with Blackwatch man Michael Thomas and New York vocalist Emmanuel. 'Turn to Try' is the result, and it comes with two mixes from the duo as well as a very welcome Red Jerry mix.
On the a-side we have the Full Vocal Mix. Tough intricate drum patterns are the major feature of this track early on. Emmanuel's dark and moody vocals then take the front seat as subtle strings and a baseline help the track take direction. The 2nd half of the track see a subtle melody/synth conclude the first of two mixes from Gardner & Thomas.
On the b-side the duo provide the Danceteria Mix. From the word go this is a lively affair. The drums aren't as stuttered as the Vocal mix and the tearing baseline really gives this mix a dirtier outlook. The vocals in this mix do not stand out as much due to the musical activity and beautiful nature of the drum patterns.
Also on the b-side is the fantastic Red Jerry Mix. A standard 4/4 drum pattern is the go here but the strength in this mix lies in Red Jerry's trademark funky baseline and twisted psychedelic melodies. The vocal gains extra strength in Red Jerry's happy environment, and its hard to not like this mix. It may be a bit too cute for some but this mix really add's strength to this release.
On the whole, another solid release from Hooj. 3 mixes included to cover the tough, quirky and cuter styles. Another release worthy of a look in.


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5-Year-Old Girl Severely Shocked By Metal Pole in Beijing Mall
By Yuzhou Hu, Jun 24, 14:43
A 5-year-old girl was severely shocked after touching a metal pole in a shopping mall in Beijing, The Independent reports.
The tragedy took place on June 1 at Beijing Parkview Green shopping mall in Chaoyang district. When the child, named Qiqi, grabbed the metal pole with both hands, she suddenly started convulsing and fell to the ground.
Image via The Beijing News
"At first I thought she was merely playing with me," the little girl's mom recalled. "A few seconds later I realized that something was wrong." Worried about her daughter's condition, she quickly took the child to a nearby hospital. Thankfully, the girl survived and only suffered electric burns.
In addition to minor injuries, the girl has also experienced enormous mental distress. "She couldn't fall asleep until midnight," described her mom. "She even had a fever three times in one week for no reason."
When Qiqi's mom confronted with the mall about the accident, the staff insisted that there were no safety risks at all and even provided an inspection report to prove their statement. However, further examination showed that the mall had no grounding protection, which was the main cause of Qiqi's electrocution.
Qiqi's mom demanded a compensation of RMB30,000 (USD4,367). However, the request was refused by the mall. "Our contractor should take all the blame," the deputy manager of the mall said.
Disappointed by the attitude of the mall, Qiqi's mom said she will go to court to sort it out. "It's not just about my girl," she said. "I hope other parents will take this seriously and beware of potential safety risks."
[Cover image via The Beijing News]
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Blue Peter developed from a high school group in Markham, Ontario in 1978 but its audience had remained small through three ·releases between 1980 and 1982. Don't Walk Past appeared on the group's 1983 release Falling (Ready Records. LR034). but was remixed and re-recorded for a revved-up EP later In the year called Version ( Ready Records, ER 040).
Both FALLING and Version were supervised by British pop producer, Steve Nye, who had handled recordings for XTC, Roxy Music and Japan.
"We weren't too impressed with the mastering of Falling" said Wardman, who explained the group went back into Toronto's Sounds Interchange studio with engineer, Kevin Doyle, and mixed alternative takes of Don't Walk Past with newly recorded tracks to come up with essentially a new version of the song.
The thickened bass and percussive precision of the four songs on Version pleased the band: "Now we essentially use Version as a taking-off point for the live shows," said Wardman. "We cut It hotter, it was more representative of what we were trying to do on Falling."
The next step on Blue Peter's road to success was releasing a video of Don't Walk Past. The band chose Robert F Quartly, whose Champagne Producttons has done. work for other Canadian rock acts like Platinum ·Blonde and Sherry Kean. In November, the band got a big boost when the video was added to MTV's rotation. That happened even though Blue Peter records aren't distributed in the United States.
Wardman hopes that situation will change this year.
MAYBE THE BEST thing about Blue Peter's future ls Wardman's age - at 24 he's one of the band's senior members.
There's time for change. but don't judge Blue Peter by its youthfulness. The group has plenty of experience behind it: "We made all the mistakes we could make." Wardman said. "Twice the group has had management hassles," he said. "We were losing money and credibility. The money wasn't ending up In the right pockets."
The group also walked out on Ready Records after Its initial release. Radio Silence. It spent a year without a record contract before coming back to Ready.
"We've spent a year paying off bad debts," Wardman said, thankful for Version's commercial success, and the future seems rosier now.
Wardman and singer Paul Humphrey formed Blue Peter out of high school but there have been several personnel changes over the years, The band added a keyboard player for Falling, Jason Sniderman.
"Before we were basically a power trio with a singer" said Wardman. "Now we're more melodic, smother. The keyboards and guitars split the harmonies.
The live sound is more refined, he said, a far cry from the Blue Peter that last visited Windsor in 1980: "I'd rather forget that." said Wardman. "We had awful equipment and after the show we had trouble getting paid."
Anchoring the new Blue Peter are bassist Rick Joudrey and percussionist Owen Tennyson. Tennyson's percussive effects, coupled with Snlderman's Linn drum sounds, make the EP a great dance record.


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Banksy Working To Turn Former Jail Into Arts Center
Wednesday, December 8th 2021, 8:23 am
Could a former jail become an arts center thanks to Banksy?
The anonymous street artist painted the wall of Reading Prison, which has been unoccupied for the past eight years.
The image of an escaping convict is typical of Banky's humor.
Now that the Ministry of Justice wants to sell the building, Banksy has offered to sell the stencil used for the artwork to prevent housing developers from buying the prison.
Instead, it would become an arts center.
The sale of the stencil could raise an estimated 10 million pounds and boost the offer put in by the local council.
But the ministry says that the deadline for bids had passed.
"I think it's criminal. I think it's a conversation that needs to be entertained. This was a place of dark, harsh correctment, and we're looking to turn it into a place of opportunity, creativity and freedom and fun," says Toby Davies, Artistic director, Rabble Theatre.
The man featured on the wall is said to resemble Oscar Wilde, the famous British writer, who was housed here for two years in the late 1890s after his affair with another man was exposed.
It's one of the first times that Banksy's tools have been offered for sale, providing a window into the artist's mind and creative process.
CBS News Could a former jail become an arts center thanks to Banksy?


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What Binds A Nation of Immigrants Together?
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My father would sometimes tell the story of the day he became a citizen of the United States of America.
He had one suit, a blue one, and on the day he became a citizen, he wore that suit to federal court in downtown Chicago. All men wore suits to court in the early '60s, not just lawyers or politicians.
But he wasn't an attorney or a politician.
He was an immigrant waiter at the Hilton Hotel, with a wife and three young boys, trying to start a grocery business with his brother.
And in court, the judge in his black robe asked my father this question:
If you become a citizen of the United States, would you bear arms against your former nation?
As a reporter, I've witnessed other citizenship ceremonies, the families proud and happy, immigrants with their flags, and I haven't heard that question asked of others.
So that question could have been an isolated one, merely the whim of that particular judge. But my father didn't lie, and the pain on his face the first time he told me the story was his testimony.
His English wasn't the best then, but he clearly understood the question.
Would he fight against the country he'd bled for to protect? Would he kill those of his fatherland, if America asked it of him?
He'd spent 10 years in war, carrying a rifle in the Greek army in World War II, fighting Mussolini, then the Germans and through the occupation. And after the Germans left, there was a hate-filled and bloody civil war with the communists. Terrible sins were committed on all sides, not just army versus army, but family against family.
So that question from the judge wasn't some dry academic exercise. And his answer was wet with blood and pain and quite fresh in his mind.
Friends dead in the snows of Albania and the hunger up there, and later came the German tanks and the German boots and the executions in villages. After that there was blood everywhere, in that horrible ferocity that consumes a nation during civil war.
Of course, he didn't tell it to us that way. He didn't tell the judge about it. All he'd say was, "I was thinking of everything that happened."
We had to piece things together ourselves over time, from scraps of stories we'd learned, because he didn't like to talk about the war.
"And the judge asked me this, and I looked at him and I said 'Yes your honor.' I will fight.
"Because I wanted to be an American," he said. "Because I wanted you to be an American, so no other country could come in here and step on your belly."
There was a brief catch in his voice once, when he first told me. We were alone in the car, driving home from our store. But I was a little kid and didn't understand why he smoked and looked out the window and said nothing after that.
It wasn't one of the favorites in the anthology of family stories to tell and tell again around the Sunday dinner table. There were others we thought were much more dramatic and entertaining.
Like the time the horse fell into the well. Or the time the family mule, Truman -- a big headed white Missouri mule named after an American president -- collapsed on the street of our village.
Truman lay there hours as if dead until my grandmother said the prayers to remove the evil eye. Then Truman, mean faced and a biter, bolted to his feet and trotted to his shed.
And the story of the bandit great-great uncle, Sofianos, who loved a girl of our village and was killed by the federal police. That was one of our favorites.
The one of the citizenship was a difficult one, and as children we didn't know why.
Still, my brothers and I would try to imagine that other place in our father's mind, that place where an invading army could plant their boots on our bellies. Yet we couldn't imagine it. We had no frame of reference. We were born Americans.
And becoming American became a religion for us then. The Pledge of Allegiance that we said in school wasn't just words. "The Star-Spangled Banner" wasn't just an old song we had to sing.
These were the secular rites of melting pot America, binding us together, all of us, the native born, the immigrant, and the children of new citizens, with one foot in the new country, one foot in the old.
We know patriotism is often used by cynical masters of war to goad the people into battle.
And that wealthy and spoiled NFL players refusing to stand during the anthem -- on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- is another kind of goad, a political one.
But doesn't a nation of immigrants from every land need something to bind it, to reinforce our obligations to our country and to each other as citizens?
So what is that common thread? I held it once, but I don't see it now.
Instead we break in pieces; economically, politically, ethnically. We're angry, we bicker and we go our separate ways.


VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Vancouver plans to tax its vacant homes by the end of the year, the city's mayor said on Wednesday, announcing the second government move in as many months to address foreign investments that officials say have helped drive up home prices.
The tax on the city's 10,800 known empty homes will increase costs for foreign buyers and owners who have helped make the west coast city Canada's most expensive property market. It could also send investors elsewhere.
The measure will push absent homeowners to rent out their properties, easing the unaffordability crisis that is plaguing the city's housing market, Mayor Gregor Robertson told a news conference.
Last month the province of British Columbia, which includes Vancouver, imposed a 15 percent property transfer tax on foreign real estate buyers, cooling some parts of what remains Canada's most expensive housing market. The move has also led to speculation that foreign buyers, mostly from mainland China, will shift to other markets.
A voter backlash against foreign investors in Vancouver, where prices have risen 249 percent since 2005, has put pressure on both the city and provincial government to reduce demand.
Robertson said the tax, which targets properties left empty or underutilized, would be levied through self-declaration, audit, and compliance measures. For example, owners will have to prove they or tenants occupy the homes for a minimum number of days a year.
The annual tax rate had not yet been decided, but had been proposed at between 0.5 percent and 2 percent of the property's assessed property value, the mayor said. If the tax is collected on just 5 percent of the nearly 11,000 empty homes, it would raise C$2 million in annual revenue, he said.
More than 90 percent of detached homes in Vancouver are worth more than C$1 million ($780,000), compared with 19 percent a decade ago, according to a study released in June.
Vancouver prices rose 1.7 percent in August from July, even as the 15 percent tax on foreign buyers took effect, and were up 25.8 percent on the year, according to the Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index released on Wednesday.


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Coaching conversations: what makes a good coach?
What makes a good coach? As practitioners, how do we gauge the effectiveness of our work with people? And what is the difference between a good coach and a great coach?
As I read through Sally Brown's cover feature in this issue, the latest in her Coaching Conversations series, it occurred to me that two key themes were emerging: the practice and process of enquiry and that of inquiry. Many of the contributors stress the importance of acquiring regular client feedback, of keeping up to date with developments in the field, and of working within a recognised ethical framework – an outward, externally focused method of professional development. However, what also struck me was an equal emphasis on the need for reflective practice – through supervision, and/or peer support, through creative practices such as journaling, and a regular self-care practice – an inward, internally focused method of personal self-development, attending to ourselves as practitioners and as human beings. This practice of inquiry seems particularly relevant when we are going through a period of change or transition in our life and work – perhaps we are changing how we practise, and with whom, or we have identified a particular pattern emerging in our work that we wish to change. Perhaps we are noticing a change in the kind of clients we are attracting, or we feel a desire to work in a different way. Karyn Prentice and Elaine Patterson offer up a model for this kind of self-reflective inquiry, 'the compass rose' – a map for literally and metaphorically moving through an exploratory process that embraces both the internal and the external, and connects 'our soul with our role': our inner life, roots and values with the bigger picture and our higher purpose; and our ways of being with our ways of doing.
Last year, I took a sabbatical from my own private coaching practice, as I was feeling called to work more integratively, and I found my practice was naturally evolving in other areas. At times, I have found myself not practising at all, which has caused questions of identity to surface – if I am not working directly with clients, then what is my role? Regular supervision throughout this process has helped me to stay 'in the work', and I realise that it is through the continual process of inquiry – through meaningful conversations, and attending to my own creative and personal development throughout this period of change and transition – that I am able to retain my sense of self and my identity as a practitioner, even when I am not practising. I see an interesting parallel here with Jane Moffett's article on the role that coaching can play in supporting working women who have taken a maternity break from the workplace. Drawing on her own recent research with a group of working mothers, she explains how a coaching intervention helped these women integrate their pre- and post-baby identities – their identities as professional working women and as mothers, defined as 'ego' and 'soul' identities – into one cohesive whole.
Issues of identity, change and transition also surface in our fourth feature, in which a counsellor-turned-coach and a coach-turning-counsellor compare notes on their respective journeys. Catherine Noel and Tim Jones, who work for the same organisation, take a break from work and invite us to share in their ensuing conversation, exploring what resides in the 'here and now' of the space between them. Tim and Catherine would also be interested to hear from you – can you relate to any of their experiences? If you are going through a process of retraining or changing how you practise, do get involved in the conversation – you can contact Tim or Catherine directly or get in touch with me at the usual address below.
Reading through these contributions, I feel honoured to be in the company of people who demonstrate such unwavering commitment to continual reflection and inquiry, and by our refusal to live an unexamined life. I look forward to facilitating this and other conversations in the future.
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Benjamin L. Harrison (born July 23, 1928) is a former United States Army officer who contributed to the tactics of modern airmobile warfare involving the integration of helicopters with infantry and armor forces for both rapid deployment and subsequent support.  General Harrison was an early advocate, theorist and practitioner of these tactics, commonly referred to as "air assault." They are analogous to the revolutionary use of armor and air support with infantry in blitzkrieg warfare in early World War II, and are critical to modern military doctrine as practiced in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

General Harrison developed basic principles and practices of "vertical envelopment" theory in the years following the Korean War to take advantage of the developments in rotary wing aircraft during the period between World War II and the Vietnam War. He was able to put those principles into practice in Vietnam, first as a combat aviation battalion commander and later as an infantry brigade commander in the 101st Airborne Division, one of the pioneer airmobile divisions, and expanded them as an advisor to commanding generals of the South Vietnamese 1st Division and the Vietnamese Airborne Division during Operation Lam Son 719.

Early years and education
Benjamin Leslie Harrison was born one of two children of Dr. Ben L. Harrison, MD, and Ruth Blackshare Harrison in the rural community of Trumann, in the northeastern corner of Arkansas on July 23, 1928. Ben's father died in 1938 when Ben was 10. An excellent student, Ben was able to transfer to Arkansas State College while still a junior in high school. He subsequently transferred to the University of Mississippi as a sophomore in 1945.

Early in 1946, six months before his 18th birthday, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming a Regular Army sergeant first class at age 19. He completed airborne training as the enlisted honor graduate of the class. Upon completion of his enlistment, he returned to the University of Mississippi, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1951, majoring in psychology. He had remained in the enlisted Army Reserve, was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry as Distinguished Military Graduate in 1951 and volunteered for active duty to serve as a military personnel psychologist.

Harrison married Carolyn Algee, in September 1951. They had two children together.

In addition to his undergraduate degree, Harrison earned graduate degrees while studying off duty in the Army. He graduated with an MA in Counseling and Education Psychology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1963; received an MBA from Auburn University in 1969, and attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1971. He also attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College and the Air War College.

Military service
Early in his initial assignment as a Military Personnel Psychologist, Harrison requested transfer back to his original branch of service, the infantry. He was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment where he was chosen to be aide de camp to Brig Gen A. S. Newman. Moving with General Newman as his aide to Fort Benning, he later was assigned to the Operations Department of the Infantry School and taught Tactics.

His subsequent assignments included the 5th Infantry Division in Germany which GYROSCOPE'd to Fort Ord, CA, where he commanded a rifle company. His B Co, 2nd Infantry Regiment, was selected by the Division Commander as the most outstanding company in the Division.

While a student in the Infantry Advanced Course at Fort Benning, he was selected for flight school and in April 1958 he received his flight wings and graduated at the head of his class (and was subsequently to graduate first in his class at instrument school). Following his training, he took command of the Aviation Detachment in the 2d Infantry Battalion Combat Team in Iceland and put his instrument training to almost daily use.

From Iceland, Captain Harrison was selected to attend the Command and General Staff College(CGSC). After graduation, he was assigned to the faculty of the CGSC.

On the recommendation of the U.S. Army Tactical Mobility Requirements Board, the former 11th Airborne Division was reactivated as the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) in the mid-1960s to become a light infantry division and the first of the major army units to explore and develop the airmobility concept. With Harrison's enthusiastic approval, his "stabilized" tour at CGSC was ended with a transfer to Ft Benning to become the chief evaluator of all Air Cavalry and Mohawk units during, contributing significantly to the development and testing of the air mobility concepts. At the conclusion of the evaluation period, the 11th was converted to the 1st Air Cavalry division and deployed to Vietnam.

After the Air Assault tests, Major Harrison was selected to attend the Armed Forces Staff College with subsequent assignment and promotion to lieutenant colonel, as the "ground guy" in the Southeast Asia Division of J-5, CINCPAC Headquarters, Hawaii. After six months in this joint assignment, Major General George P. Seneff, commanding officer of the 1st Aviation Brigade, USARV, requested Harrison's assignment to command a combat aviation battalion.

In Vietnam, Colonel Harrison was given command of the 10th Combat Aviation Battalion during his first tour of duty, in 1966-67. (He was the only officer to command a separate combat aviation battalion for a full year during the entire Vietnam War). Continuing his commitment to the airmobility concept in his leadership and training emphasis, the battalion's combat operations involved night operations and instrument flying. After Vietnam, he was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) in Robert McNamara's four-officer Training Division where he conducted a study of operational flight training for fighter pilots in the Navy, Air force and Marines. A one-year tour in OSD and then to the Air War College, promotion to colonel, and back to Washington as Chief of the Doctrine Division in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development.

At the request of Maj Gen John Wright, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, and after only one year in the Pentagon, Harrison returned to Vietnam in 1970, where he commanded the 3d Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile).

The 101st was the only full-strength division in Vietnam at this time, although not at full Table of Organization and Equipment (TO&E) strength. As such and strategically located in the northern portion of South Vietnam near the DMZ, the A Shau Valley and Laos, the 101st was selected to conduct the only offensive campaign launched by General Creighton Abrams, COMUSMACV in 1970, with the mission of destroying as much of the stocks and bases of the North Vietnamese Army in this area as a "final" major assist to the Vietnamization of the war process as all US combat troops were withdrawing from Vietnam. The 3rd Brigade was selected to lead this offensive by establishing a base near the Ashau from which attacks could be launched. From the start of planning, the then brigade commander, Col Bill Bradley and his Operations Officer, Maj Tex Turner, requested significant augmentation of the brigade to operate in this area. None was provided. From the very beginning, this supposed offensive operation, turned into a defensive operation for the 3rd Brigade ending in a siege of Firebase Ripcord 1-23 Jul 1970 by the entire 324B Division, NVA, supported by 304B Division, NVA.

Col Harrison took command of the 3rd Brigade on 23 Jun and during the first 69 days of his command, the 3rd Bde conducted:
 16 battalion sized combat air assaults to multiple landing zones.
 15 battalion sized aerial extractions from multiple pickup zones.
 Several new Fire Support Bases were opened and a number of older bases were closed.

In an interview with Maj Gen Chu Phong Doi, Commander of the 324B Division in 2004 in Cao Bang, Vietnam, he admitted to then Maj Gen (Ret) Harrison that he had suffered the loss of eight of his nine infantry battalions. Thousands of his support troops were also lost.

American losses, though comparatively small in numbers, were heavy with 250 KIA from 12 March to 23 July. The battle was marked by truly extraordinary bravery in combat with the award of five Distinguished Service Crosses and three awards of the Medal of Honor during this campaign to troopers and leaders of the 3rd Brigade.

After completion of his assignment with the 3rd Brigade, he became the Senior Advisor to the commanding general of the ARVN 1st Infantry Division, during the incursions into Laos for Operation Lam Son 719. He worked closely with Vietnamese combat commanders to develop airmobile skills and experience as the war transitioned to a totally Vietnamese struggle. In his two combat tours in Vietnam, Harrison flew hundreds of helicopter missions, accumulating a total of 1842 combat flying hours out of a total military flight history of over 5,000 hours.

Following that assignment, Harrison directed the (Triple Capacity) testing at Fort Hood, Texas which resulted in the demise of the TRICAP Division concept and the subsequent formation of the 6th Cavalry Brigade (Air Combat).

Upon promotion to brigadier general in July 1973, for three years he was the academic and administrative head of the Command and General Staff College. One of his lasting contributions at the College was to consolidate all Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) constructive simulations and create a family of technologically based realistic battle simulations from platoon through corps level.

From August 1976 to August 1977, Harrison was the Deputy Commanding General of Fort Rucker, Alabama and of the Army Aviation Center located there. He was supposed to become the commanding general, but Army Chief of Staff General Bernie Rogers and TRADOC Commander Gen Bill Depuy pulled him back to Washington to design and conduct a review of officer education and professional development. The one year (RETO) created the Combined Arms and Services Staff School (CAS3) and the system of Military Qualifications Standards for officers and soldiers and placed Branch Proponency (including MOS specifications) with the Commandants of the Branch Schools.

Major General Harrison retired from the US Army after 28 years of commissioned service as an infantryman, aviator and educator. Harrison's assignment at the time of his retirement was commander of the Soldier Support Center and Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. In this position he directed studies on unit cohesion and decentralization of personnel management that have had a major impact on today's personnel policies and replacement system.

In 1982, the TRADOC commander asked Harrison, then retired, to be the senior aviator of a group of four officers tasked to review Army Aviation. This four-month study effort resulted in the creation of Aviation as a separate combat arms branch and the centralization of all aviation doctrine, materiel and training development at Fort Rucker.

Post-military career
After his retirement from the Army, Harrison was president of a holding company with small manufacturing plants and real estate properties. He continued to do specialized command studies as a consultant on defense matters and leadership development. He was a certified trainer and adjunct staff member of the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership for 17 years. He and his partner, Dr. George Peabody, conducted 38 leader development programs for the CIA at the "Farm."

With his wife developing serious heart problems in 1995, he fully retired.

Awards and honors
During his military career, General Harrison was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Silver Star, two awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross, two awards of the Legion of Merit, the Soldier's Medal, forty awards of the Air Medal, the Combat Infantryman Badge and numerous other US and foreign decorations. For his contributions to military aviation he was selected as a member of the U.S. Army Aviation Hall of Fame in 1992, and is an inductee in the University of Mississippi Army ROTC Hall of Fame and Honorary Colonel of the Third Aviation Regiment. Harrison has been listed in Who's Who in America since 1981. He was elected National President of the Army Aviation Association of America, President of the Army Aviation Museum Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Army Aviation Hall of Fame. He was awarded the General J.K. Davis Award, at the University of Mississippi for outstanding service in the defense of liberty as a member of the Armed Forces. In 2011, the Vietnamese-American community and the Thu Duc Fellowship (alumni group of the ARVN military academy) recognized him for his defense of Vietnam, and in 2012 he was designated a Distinguished Member of the Regiment by the 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment.

Open publications
Harrison was a prolific writer on military doctrine and management.  Among his writings are:

 "Awesome, Mean: Now What Do We Do with the APACHE", ARMY, January 1988
 "Five Keys to Becoming a Successful Manager", ARMY, September 1988
 "Which PLATOON?", movie review in various publications
 "Aviation: A Branch Decision Revisited", ARMY, January 1991
 "The A-10: A Gift the Army Can't Afford", ARMY, July 1991
 "AirLand Battle-Future and the Aviation Brigade", Army Aviation, July 31, 1991
 "From the Hills West of Hue: A Cautionary Tale", ARMY, July 1993
 "Leaders or Managers?", selected for publication by ARMY
 "Simulating the "New World Disorder" ARMY, August 1994
 "Vietnam and the Information Age" ARMY, July 1995
 "Changing the Division Structure – Ask the Right Questions First", ARMY, July 1997
 "Aviation: A Branch Decision Revisited-Again", ARMY, April 2000
 "Battle Tests Prove the APACHE Highly Survivable", ARMY Aviation, September 2003

In addition, he authored a significant number of restricted military readings and management studies.

Following the publication of Keith Nolen's account of the battle of FB Ripcord ("Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970" by Keith W. Nolan, Presidio Press, 2000), General Harrison wrote a book of the battle from the North Vietnamese perspective entitled, "Hell On A Hill Top', published in November 2004. This book was based both on documents from each side of the Vietnam War and on information received on several trips to Vietnam to meet with former North Vietnamese military leaders, including his opposite number in the Ripcord Campaign.

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A part-time fishing guide from East Texas had quite the catch Sunday.
Bubba Bedre of Elkhart was fishing in the Trinity River when he felt a heavy pull on his line. What he thought was a log turned out to be a massive alligator gar, KDFW-TV (Channel 4) reported.
"We can safely say that it was between 230 and 250 pounds," Bedre told the station.
The record for the largest alligator gar is a 279-pounder caught in the Rio Grande, according to the station. In May, a man caught a 264-pound gar in another part of the Trinity.
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The fisherman did not want to say where he reeled in his big catch, only that he was on the Trinity between Palestine and Dallas.
Texas Parks and Wildlife said the alligator gar's population has decreased in recent years. Bedre, a self-proclaimed "alligator gar whisper," said he doesn't want the decline to accelerate because of him.
"I get lots of people that follow me around wherever I go," Bedre told KDFW. "It's getting worse and worse every year. If I put exactly where I was at, then there'd be 20 boats there tomorrow."
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Contact Center to World: Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Guest Blog by Dan Miller, Lead Analyst and Founder at Opus Research
A popular meme on Twitter and in the blogosphere states that the growth of digital commerce and messaging networks is eclipsing the need for live contact center agents to assist prospects and customers. And these contact centers, which are configured historically as the windowless rooms with rows and rows of agent workstations and "butts in seats," are squarely in the technological crosshairs. They're forced to circle the wagons as the bulk of conversations between brands and their customers migrate to bots and other forms of intelligent assistants or artificial intelligence (AI).
On closer look, don't be fooled. Artificial Intelligence is fueling new life for contact centers and the resources that inform agents and IVRs, alike.
Yes, the ranks of digital denizens are growing. Two billion new smartphones will be sold around the world this year, placing them in the purses or pockets of nearly 5 billion people. And social messaging and digital commerce platforms like WeChat, WhatsAPP and Facebook Messenger each laid claim to user populations of more than 1 billion earlier this year. Meanwhile, the number of individuals installing and using smart speakers zoomed past 50 million by mid-2018, placing them among the fastest growing examples of intelligent digital endpoints in all history. The proliferation of these devices and the applications and activities they support is a testimony to the fact that customers' lives are already digital.
Businesses, especially global brands, are scrambling to keep up.
Companies who run existing customer interaction infrastructure don't want to believe this shift is happening. The purpose of "going digital" is to give a customer or prospect the ability to communicate with their brands of choice, through their device of choice and at the time (or times) they choose. While this is perceived to be an existential threat to contact centers, especially among the much sought after 18- to 34-year-old crowd, using your voice to talk to an agent in a contact center holds its own as the number of choices shoots up—from six to nine and soon 11, according to 2017 findings from Dimension Data. System integrators and vendors also confirm these numbers.
A 2016 Opus Research survey shows that customers, on average, used 3.5 different channels to complete digital shopping or customer support tasks. The phone figured into 70% of interactions with brands. Dimension Data assesses this number is declining, with the phone accounting for nearly 55% of the mix of customer contacts. And while respondents to the Dimension Data survey would prefer that figure be as low as one-third, empirical observations reflect steady growth in the number of minutes that people spend on voice channels in conversations with live agents.
Serving the Customers' Moments of Truth
Brands are finding that their customers seek live agents at a "moment of truth." They have searched the web or queried a chatbot and are ready to take action. Both customer service and sales representatives, in this context, are brand ambassadors who are expected to provide correct, personalized answers quickly. This translates into driving a multichannel, ongoing conversation toward a positive outcome for the customer. And that leads to improved business outcomes as measured by relevant KPIs.
Now, artificial intelligence (AI), particularly predictive analytics, natural language understanding and machine learning technologies, are being used to assist both customers and agents. Collectively, these technologies allow contact center infrastructure providers like Genesys to help companies leverage the big data they already have, such as interaction history, journey context, personalized information from CRM systems, and unstructured input from chat transcripts and call recordings. All of this is grist for the mill that informs conversations and speeds successful outcomes.
Genesys Predictive Routing takes a white box approach, allowing companies to use data they have already compiled on customers, agents, and outcomes. It then uses a predictive model to evaluate each interaction and match it with the best agent to drive desired business results.
Forms of "intelligent routing" or "precision routing" have been offered to contact center operators for at least a decade, but AI changes the game. Coupled with machine learning, AI parses through the complex web of customer interaction and agent data to identify the relationships that drive successful outcomes, fulfilling on the long-standing promise of matching the most appropriate agent to the task at hand. It also can be used to prompt agents, or virtual agents, with the right answers and recommendations consistently and at scale.
Artificial Intelligence's Moment of Truth: Supporting Business Outcomes
Contact centers once struggled to be viewed as cost centers by enterprise decision makers. Yet, according to Opus Research, those same decision makers continue to invest in AI for the contact center to improve the customer experience (measured in customer satisfaction scores and Net Promoter Scores). And, to a greater degree, they have a measurable effect on top-line results, reflected in customer loyalty (churn reduction), direct sales and agent productivity.
What comes through loud and clear is this: AI provides the business with the ability to understand the relationships that drive desired results, and then continuously learn and improve. They now the tools to deliver successful business results by offering accurate and correct answers, or recommendations at scale. And demonstrably provided tools and reports that directly affect profitability by predicting outcomes—positive or negative.
These resources are empowering leaders to transform their contact centers from a necessary expense to a strategic vehicle for customer acquisition, retention, and growth. And they're establishing a customer interaction platform that provides accurate answers across the enterprise, regardless of whether the resource is digital or human.
The next step for contact centers and business leaders is to adopt models, methods, practices, and metrics that concentrate on business outcomes, in addition to improved customer experience, rather than old-guard KPIs.
To learn more, watch the Genesys on-demand webinar, Technology Insights: How AI is Driving a New Era in Customer Engagement.
Also check out the educational resource kit for predictive routing.
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This year, the CFA reached more than 340,000 prospective franchisees
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At the CFA, we are incredibly proud of the rock-solid franchisor-franchisee relationships that have been forged, in part, by the comprehensive range of lead generation tools that we provide to all of our members. Whether it's through the pages of this magazine, online, or in person, the CFA is a proven source for quality franchise leads.
Through trade shows, publications, e-blasts, the LookForAFranchise.ca website, and other lead-generating tools, we've reached more than 340,000 prospective franchisees this year. Here, we highlight a trio of franchisees who have realized their entrepreneurial goals and found the right franchise fit with the help of the CFA membership base comprised of key members of Canada's franchising industry.
Kevin McEachern, 3rd Degree Training | Actual Nutrition
A simple Google search in the middle of the night was all it took for Kevin McEachern to begin a career in an industry he loved. Having recently been laid off from his job in the hospitality sector, McEachern was in search of the next big thing and thought franchising would be right up his alley.
"I've always been fascinated with small business ownership," McEachern says. "When I started researching the franchise business model, I became even more enamored with the concept. Use an established model, mitigate risks, and ease myself into owning a business with a template already in place – it just seemed like the best way to go."
Bored one night while channel surfing, McEachern picked up his phone and Googled 'nutrition franchises in Canada.' One of the first results was the Canadian Franchise Association's online franchise directory, LookforaFranchise.ca. In a matter of seconds McEachern was on the site looking at nutrition franchises expanding in the country. That's when he came across 3rd Degree Training | Actual Nutrition.
Founded by Steve Collette in 2008, the Atlantic Canada franchise offers members seeking to improve their health a wide-range of fitness programs led by certified trainers.
Coupled with a health program where nutrition fundamentals are taught and tailored to each individual's needs by Registered Dietitians and Certified Nutritionists, the growing franchise has attracted Canadians throughout Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
A health enthusiast himself, McEachern was drawn to the franchise for several reasons. Not only did it combine his passion for fitness and nutrition, but making a financial investment in the business was a feasible option.
"After you do some franchise research you realize you need a lot of free cash just for an initial investment," he says. "3rd Degree's franchise fees were not as cost prohibitive as I thought they would be. I realized that going into business with them would be very doable for me and that's what got me from Point A to Point B."
For McEachern, this meant going from a passive prospective franchisee to an active one. He completed the Information Request Form on 3rd Degree's listing page to obtain additional information directly from the franchisor.
"I just typed in my info and pressed submit," McEachern says. "I didn't know what to expect but it took five minutes of my time. The next day I got an e-mail from Steve and we started having regular and serious conversations about me opening my own centre."
Fast-forward to February 2017 and McEachern was opening his first location in Saint John, New Brunswick, joining the emerging franchise system as the sixth franchisee. And if you ask him why he decided to reach out to the franchise via LookforaFranchise.ca, he'll tell you it all came down to reputation.
"If I had just gone directly to 3rd Degree's website, I would have had to trust that their information was factual," he says. "When you show up on a third party site like the CFA's, you know they are legitimate. LookforaFranchise.ca gave me the feeling that this franchise was a reputable brand, and that first impression was worth everything!"
Pascal Quindipan, Gorilla Property Services
Sometimes the road to franchise success is long and winding. But for many, like Gorilla Property Services franchisee Pascal Quindipan, even with a few bumps along the way, in the end it's all worth it.
"I'm in a position where now I get to finally run my own hours and days. I get time to spend with my family."
And that wasn't always the case.
Taking a trip down memory lane, Pascal recalls where his journey all began: "I was in sales and worked nights for a number of years", he lamented "Then at Telus I held a variety of positions, working my way up to management, before starting my own business."
But as any startup owners will tell you, launching a business from scratch is fraught with risk.
And no one knows this better than Pascal. Just three years after opening the business he spent a considerable amount of time building, it all crumbled, taking down his dream of business ownership with it too.
"I took a couple of years off after that. I went back into communications and started selling insurance."
For all intents and purposes, his move into business ownership seemed like a setback, a move in the wrong direction.
Until, that is, he attended the CFA's Franchise Canada Show.
Passion refueled, dream reignited, he set off for the Franchise Canada Show in Vancouver, but this time he decided not to go it alone. With a ticket to Canada's most credible franchise exhibition in hand, Pascal wanted to start a business for himself but by no means by himself.
"I started looking around for a franchise opportunity and ended up meeting Mike Mutsaerts [Director of Franchise Development] from Gorilla Property Services."
It was the turning point for Pascal; just three months later, he successfully achieved his dream of business ownership.
Celebrating a hard-earned milestone, a year has passed since Pascal found success as a Gorilla Property Services franchisee.
Now a typical day for the Richmond, B.C. native can include anything from driving to a new site, working on a client's property (while enjoying the beautiful weather), or managing a team of eager trainees.
It's a business he couldn't be happier to be a part of not only because it's low-cost compared to other franchise investments but because he can benefit from being part of a system and drop off any mental baggage that comes with starting a business at the door.
"It's not like I have to open the business, grow and go through that painful phase. Being in a franchise, it's already up and running and the support from head office is already there."
Today, Pascal not only gets to be his own boss, he gets the freedom to be with the ones he loves the most. And while the journey was by no means easy, it's clear that franchising can provide a path to success that, in the end, makes it all worth it.
Malika Rezgani, Lice Squad.com
Malika Rezgani was working in a medical office in downtown Toronto when she decided to do some light reading during one of her downtimes. A rehab support worker at the time, Rezgani always dreamed of opening her own business via franchising, but with her busy schedule, could never find the right time to explore the opportunities available to her.
As fate would have it, the clinic where Rezgani worked subscribed to Franchise Canada.
"For me, starting my franchising career began by simply picking up the magazine and reading it," she reflects.
Though franchising was always at the back of her mind, Rezgani's interest in the business model resurfaced after reading an article on Lice Squad.com Founder & CEO, Dawn Mucci.
Mucci founded Lice Squad.com in 2001 after she recognized a growing number of concerned parents were in search of safe and chemical-free solutions to remove their children's head lice. Today, Lice Squad.com clinics can be found across the country, offering families natural and eco-friendly lice removal products and services.
Promising a stress free – and even fun – experience, Lice Squad.com consultants and franchisees do more than remove the pesky bugs. Education is a key aspect of the business, as Mucci and her franchise partners have made it a priority to equip clients and the public with lice removal and prevention knowledge.
Rezgani was immediately impressed with the unique business model and its projected growth. More importantly, she knew a career with the franchise would be a perfect fit with her personal and professional qualities.
"As a Lice Squad.com franchisee, you interact with people every day," Rezgani says. "You're not just going through the process of removing lice, you're responsible for providing emotional support to clients who are stressed about their situation. I was conducting similar work as a support worker, so I knew I would be happy working with the franchise."
Today, Rezgani is a multi-unit franchisee with Lice Squad.com, having opened her first clinic in February 2017 covering the Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario regions. Only a few months later, her second location opened in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Rezgani's life as a small business owner has given her the freedom to manage her career independently while continuing her passion for working with people. And she says she can thank her on-a-whim decision to pick up Franchise Canada for all of it.
"Without Franchise Canada and the CFA I don't know if I would have made the step towards franchising. I probably never would have discovered Lice Squad.com!"
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Why kids need protein — how milk can help
Family Features,
Making sure kids eat nutritious meals is often a parent's top priority. Moms know good nutrition is essential for their child's health, since developing and maintaining healthy habits as a kid can lead to lifelong benefits.
That's why it's important to make sure kids get enough protein. Not only that, but it's also important kids choose good-for-you protein foods, like milk. In addition to being a good source of high-quality protein, milk offers eight other essential nutrients, including calcium, vitamin D and potassium, which are three of the four nutrients most Americans – including children – are most likely missing in their diets.
Fuel work and play with a low-carb lifestyle
It's important for kids to get protein at every meal, especially breakfast. Getting enough protein in the morning can help kids feel fuller, longer, so they can start the day off right. Beyond helping the body build and repair lean muscle, protein also impacts many different functions in growing bodies. For example, protein works together with key bone-building nutrients like calcium and vitamin D to help build healthy bones.
Each 8-ounce serving of milk provides 8 grams of high-quality, natural protein. Milk is a complete protein, which means that every glass contains a full mix of the essential amino acids our bodies need.
Without milk in their diets, it's hard for kids to get nutrients they need to grow up strong. For kids 9 and older, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend three servings of lowfat or fat free milk and milk products each day and two and a half servings daily for children ages 4 to 8.
You can feel good serving milk to your family since it's one of the original farm-to-table foods and a wholesome, naturally nutrient-rich choice. Almost all U.S. households have dairy milk in their refrigerators and kids are some of the biggest fans. According to a survey, nine out of 10 kids age 8-12 said they love to drink milk for reasons such as because it's good for them, it will help them grow and they love the taste. With nine essential nutrients in each 8-ounce glass, milk is a delicious and simple way to give kids a natural source of high-quality protein plus other nutrients they need.
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Try pairing this kid-friendly recipe for breakfast sushi with a glass of milk for a fun way to start their day with milk and protein. For more kid-friendly, nutritious recipe ideas, visit milklife.com.
2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
1/4 cup crisp rice cereal
Spread peanut butter over the outside of the banana and then roll in cereal until coated. Cut into thick slices and serve with a glass of milk.
Nutritional information per serving: 390 calories; 15 g fat; 3 g saturated fat; 5 mg cholesterol; 16 g protein; 51 g carbohydrates; 5 g fiber; 290 mg sodium; 305 mg calcium (30% of daily value). Nutrition figures based on including an 8-ounce glass of fat free milk.
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The HSR reviews progress in the health sector and makes recommendations regarding policies and programs for the coming five years and beyond. Under the Government of Indonesia's stewardship, the HSR will help facilitate the country's continued leadership towards Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goal agenda.
The report provides a comparative measure of public expenditure on child protection across and within countries over time. Studies estimate expenditure at the central level, Central Java, East Java and South Sulawesi. Total expenditure on child protection is estimated at 0.027% of the central government budget and 0.1% of all government spending in Central Java.
In 2017 UNICEF partnered with 10 government ministries, over 80 civil society organizations and 25 youth networks. Together, we reached over 35 million children, and 20,000 midwives. We worked with these partners to generate evidence, provide technical advice and build capacity to assist the Government, so that together, we can protect the rights of each and every child in Indonesia.
Evidence generation - to inform policies and support achievement of results for children - is at the heart of the partnership between the Government of Indonesia and UNICEF. This new bi-annual newsletter features key publications supported by UNICEF Indonesia in the first half of 2018.
91% of the world's population lives in areas where outdoor particle pollution levels are higher than guidelines established by WHO.
Read UNICEF and Vital Strategies' briefing on the threat air pollution poses to children's health in Indonesia here.
A unique and in-depth assessment of child poverty in Indonesia, providing estimates of monetary child poverty as well as factors influencing living standards. It examines mobility and poverty transitions and analyses multidimensional measures of child well-being. It reviews the role of social protection in tackling income insecurity, simulating the cost and impact of universal child grants.
The SDG provincial briefs on children were jointly developed by Bappenas and UNICEF for each of Indonesia's 34 provinces. These briefs aim to support evidence-based planning and reporting on the SDGs at subnational level, with a focus on children. The briefs synthesize baseline data (from 2015) on children at province level for selected priority SDG indicators through simple data visualizations.
This paper explores drivers of female child marriage in Indonesia, based on a secondary analysis of the 2012 Demographic Health Survey and Adolescent Reproductive Health Survey. The results find that poverty is strongly associated with high prevalence, in both rural and urban areas. Education, urban location and wealth are protective factors.
A systematic review: This systematic review of over 500 research studies and publications finds that, despite an overall lack of quality data, childhood sexual violence is a significant problem experienced by both boys and girls at home and school settings in Indonesia. Adolescent girls are particularly at risk by partners. Girls and boys are at risk of violence in schools by peers and adults.
Early Grade Literacy in Tanah Papua, midline study. The main objectives of the Midline study were to collect Midline data and information in the six districts of Papua & West Papua using similar tools from the baseline study, and then analyze and compare the changes in outcomes against the key program indicators with the baseline data.
This report presents the perspectives of adolescent girls and boys on factors influencing their choices and behaviours in eating, drinking and physical activity in Klaten, Central Java and West Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat.
2016: Perspectives of People Affected by Haze from Peatland and Forest Fires "Now no fire, no haze, but also no rice for people"
This Reality Check Approach (RCA) study was carried out in September 2016. The study was intended to gather insights on the perspectives of people affected by peatland and forest fires. The findings help to shed light on current land clearing practices, risk awareness, coping strategies and accountability measures for people, in particular children, living in in haze- affected areas.
The paper includes a new analysis that reveals nearly 17 million babies under the age of one worldwide live in areas where air pollution is at least six times higher than international limits, causing them to breathe toxic air and potentially putting their brain development at risk. More than three-quarters of these young children – 12 million – live in South Asia.
The review of promising practices in adolescent programming in Indonesia provides key recommendations and a practical toolkit to identify effective strategies which can contribute towards achieving better outcomes for adolescents as they move towards adulthood.
The purpose of the research is to contribute towards the development of an evidence-based set of criteria for what constitutes a 'promising practice' in adolescent programming in Indonesia. It is the starting point for identification of effective strategies which can contribute towards improvements in outcomes for adolescents as they move towards adulthood.
This study examines marriage dispensation requests at religious courts in three districts (Tuban, Bogor, Mamuju), in order to understand how exceptions to the 1974 Marriage Law, are processed.
In 2016, UNICEF Indonesia officially launched its new five-year Country Programme 2016-2020. Our work focuses on supporting the Government of Indonesia and partners to help children realize their full potential. The report highlights where successful advocacy, technical and policy advice have led to policy reform at the national level.
Papua and West Papua are among Indonesia's poorest and least literate provinces. UNICEF has led an ambitious initiative to assess the challenges and opportunities for boosting low literacy rates among young learners in both provinces. Click to read more.
This evaluation aims to answer key questions related to UNICEF's engagement in the decentralization process in Indonesia, particularly in regards to the equitable fulfillment of child rights. Report. Part 2.
This evaluation, which is summative in character, aimed to offer recommendations to inform future planning to address the ongoing HIV and AIDS situation among young people through the Education Sector and Non-formal Education Sector in Papua and West Papua. Report. Part 2.
This formative evaluation is the first assessment of UNICEF's systems building approach (SBA) in the region, designed to analyse whether and in what ways UNICEF's child protection programme has been informed by systems thinking. Read here.
Building back better: Lessons learned from the response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami in terms of long-term development, disaster risk reduction and resilience building in Aceh, Indonesia. Read here.
Access to HIV Services for Young Key Affected Populations in Indonesia. Read here.
The Significance of Child Protection Systems: Key Findings from a Strategic Mapping Exercise in six provinces of Indonesia. Read here.
To read more about progresses and lessons learned from the 10 years of tsunami emergency responses, and rehabilitation and recovery efforts in Aceh, please click here.
This set of Fact Sheets serve as information and advocacy papers on the various subjects related to child protection in Indonesia.
This Advocacy Brief serves as information and advocacy tool on the critical subject of addressing the needs of adolescents and youth in Papua and West Papua. Read.
This report deliberates the multiple dimensions of poverty and disparities faced by children in Indonesia, and advocates for poverty reduction policies and programmes that are more child-focused. Read.
This newsletter presents 5 articles derived from 20 policy papers that were presented and discussed in the research seminar on Child Education Policy. Read.
This set of Issue Briefs serve as information and advocacy papers on the critical subject of attaining the MDGs for children in Indonesia.
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constructor(
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getResult(){
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          provide: SomeOtherService,
          useValue: {
            doSomething: jest.fn(),
            doNothing: jest.fn()
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        }
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describe('getSubscriptionDetails', () => {
    it('should return chargebee ', async () => {
      const price = await service.getResult()
      expect(true).toBe(true)
    })
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Facebook Oversight Board picks the first batch of cases for review, adds additional matter from India
Facebook's Oversight Board (OSB), an independent body set up to review moderation decisions by the company, chose 6 cases to review in the first week of December, 2020 from over 20,000 cases that were referred to it following the opening of user appeals in October 20, 2018. Five of the cases being considered by the OSB were referred via user appeals while the sixth arose from a reference by Facebook. A couple of days after announcing the first batch of cases, the OSB added an additional case for consideration from India. It involves a photo posted on a Facebook group with Hindi text describing the drawing a sword from its scabbard in response to "infidels" criticizing the prophet. The photo also included a logo with the words "Indian Muslims" in English. The accompanying text, also in English, includes hashtags calling President Emmanuel Macron of France "the devil" and calling for the boycott of French products.
Streaming platforms and online news portals brought under the purview of the I&B Ministry
The Cabinet Secretariat issued a notification on November 11, 2020 granting the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting authority over streaming platforms and online news portals. Simply put, this means that platforms such as Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime, etc. will now be under the jurisdiction of the I&B Ministry. While the I&B Ministry cannot regulate these platforms without specific laws being passed towards that end, the notification signals the intent of the government to bring out a regulatory code in the near future. Such a move was expected after Amit Khare, the Secretary of the I&B Ministry, expressed the Ministry's intent to bring content streamed over OTT platforms under its purview. The online content sector, unlike radio, cinema and television, has till now remained free of censorship. In August 2020, more than a dozen OTT platforms operating in India such as Netflix, Zee5, Voot, Jio, SonyLiv, etc. had signed a self-regulation code aimed at empowering consumers with tools to assist them in making informed choice with regard to viewing decisions for them and their families but the I&B Ministry had refused to support the same.
Posted on August 19, 2020 December 20, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here.
SC moves to dismiss PIL implicating Jio's liability in RCom's AGR dues
Jio was recently made a party in a matter regarding adjusted gross revenue (AGR case) between companies in India and the Department of the Telecommunications and other telecom companies in India. The issue was regarding investigation into whether telcos like RCom, Videocon and Aircel wanted to evade paying their dues to the DoT by filing for insolvency. The DoT had decided that Jio was to be made liable for the 31000 crore AGR dues that RCom owed to the Department, since Jio was using RCom's airwaves as evidenced by a 2016 spectrum sharing agreement. Jio sought to prove that the spectrum was simply leased and that they didn't have any exclusive use of the spectrum. They further argued that spectrum sharing agreements do not assume a sharing of liabilities for DoT's AGR dues.
Posted on August 7, 2020 December 20, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR
Union Consumer Affairs Minster issues E-Commerce Rules to shift the focus onto consumer protection
In an increasingly globalised world, major retail companies like Amazon have reached even the most inaccessible places. The consumers that are exposed to e-commerce companies can only be protected in the presence of increased accountability. The newly issued E-Commerce Rules set up a Central Consumer Protection Authority to police companies that violate consumer rights. Misleading ads and unfair trade practices are prevented as e-retailers have to mandatorily disclose return, refund, warranty, exchange, guarantee, delivery and grievance redressal details. Henceforth, prices of products cannot be manipulated to produce unreasonable profits for companies. These rules apply to retailers either registered in India or abroad.
Posted on July 20, 2020 December 20, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR
PIL filed seeking identities of content moderation officers
Former RSS ideologue K N Govindacharya filed a public-interest litigation in the High Court of Delhi to prompt Google, Twitter and Facebook to disclose identities of designated content moderation officers on the basis of the Information Technology Rules. In response, Google submitted that the officers worked with government authorities to remove illegal content. Govindacharya claimed that without disclosure of the officers' identities, no mechanisms to enforce obligations could not be adequately instituted. However, Google responded by stating that revealing the identities of officers would jeopardize their capacity to work efficiently with the government, as they would be exposed to public scrutiny and criticism.
India bans 59 Chinese Apps including Tik-Tok
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced in a press release on 29th June that it had invoked its powers under section 69A of the Information Technology Act to ban 59 Chinese applications. The Indian government cited 'raging concerns on aspects relating to data security and safeguarding the privacy of 130 crore Indians' as reasons behind the ban. The move comes after a border skirmish with China resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers. Regardless of the cybersecurity concerns cited in the press release, speculation remains rife over whether the ban was a retaliatory measure in light of the worsening geopolitical situation between India and China. India is a huge market for Chinese apps, particularly for the video-sharing platform Tik-Tok which had previously been banned in February 2019 for encouraging the spread of pornography and 'cultural degradation'. The ban was ultimately lifted after assurances by Tik-Tok that it had the tools to censor explicit content. The current ban has been called a purely political decision and criticised for its procedural impropriety and its excessive restriction on dissemination of online content.
Posted on July 1, 2020 December 20, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. [Ed Note: This newsletter has been prepared by Dhananjay Dhonchak and Sanchit Khandelwal]
Paytm approaches Delhi HC alleging lack of action by telecom companies against phishing
Paytm has knocked the doors of the Delhi High Court complaining that the telecom operators are not taking action against fraudsters carrying out phishing activities under Paytm's name. The petitioner has claimed that its users are being duped using unsolicited commercial communications (UCC) in the form of SMS or voice calls made over telecom companies' networks.
Posted on June 10, 2020 December 20, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR
Australian Court rules that media companies are liable for defamatory user comments
Posted on May 14, 2020 December 20, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR
Private firm blocked from buying ".org" domain
Posted on May 9, 2020 December 20, 2020 by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR
Aarogya Setu raises serious privacy concerns


The 2015 agreement has been approved by the U.N. Security Council, therefore renegotiating it is "meaningless," Hassan Rouhani says, stressing Iran "will not be the first to drop the nuclear deal" • Missile program also non-negotiable, he says.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that the Islamic Republic will never renegotiate the nuclear agreement reached in 2015 with six world powers.
"The JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] is non-negotiable and cannot be rewritten," Rouhani said in a press conference in Tehran.
Trump recently decided to extend a waiver on nuclear sanctions that were imposed on Iran. However, the waiver must legally be renewed periodically and Trump warned that when the next deadline arrives, he will not extend the waiver. He also urged European allies and Congress to work with him to fix "the disastrous flaws" in the 2015 pact, threatening to withdraw from the deal unless the flaws are corrected.
Trump has repeatedly criticized the Iran deal – one of predecessor Barack Obama's signature foreign policy achievements – as the worst ever negotiated by the U.S.
In his remarks on Tuesday, Rouhani also rejected any negotiation over Iran's ballistic missile program.
The Islamic republic has tested several ballistic missiles in recent months, raising the ire of the West.
Western countries say the tests are a violation of the U.N. resolution enshrining the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran denies it is in violation of any U.N. resolutions.
Rouhani said on Tuesday that Iranian missiles are a matter of the country's defense and do not impose a threat upon any party.
Regarding Iran's ties with the United States, Rouhani stressed that Tehran and Washington will not have relations unless the U.S. administration changes it policies toward the Islamic republic.
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Q: How does iWork for iOS know what account to use for icloud? I saw a student selling a used iPad with the offer of including Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. They said they would wipe the device then reinstall iWork.
Wouldn't logging in associate the iWork apps with that iTunes account for icloud purposes? If not, how do these apps figure out which account to use?
If I was seing my used iOS device, I would want to be sure that my icloud account isn't on someone else's iPad. Can I be sure that this won't happen?

A: You can use different accounts for iCloud and the App store by logging in in Settings. For document storage the iCloud account is used.
Keeping iWork apps on an iPad you sell is probably violating the license agreement. And there will be no way to update the applications later because this would require the original iOS App Store password.


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This post describes a method to download a file using a PHP script and resume the download if the previous download was interrupted. The code here could be used while downloading a new version of a PHP application from the application author's website. Two implementation examples are provided – one using cURL and another using fsockopen.
Most cURL wrapper classes I found could handle either the PHP extension or the command line executable version of cURL. I needed a class where I could set one variable and have it switch from using the PHP cURL extension to the cURL executable without having to change the other variable of the class.


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March 06, 2013 3:12pm PT by Philiana Ng
'Supernatural' Cast Do the 'Harlem Shake' (Video)
Jared Padalecki teased it more than a week ago and now the video is finally here.
Supernatural has caught the "Harlem Shake" fever.
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles paid homage to the viral sensation by releasing a 30-second video highlighting their moves in "SupernaturalShake." It's Ackles that starts it off before a whole group of people suddenly joins in. At one point a body bag is seen busting a move.
More than a week ago, Padalecki teased to his fans on Twitter that there would be some "Harlem Shake" action coming their way soon: "Well, doin' a Harlem Shake.... And, yes, there is a camera rolling... Great..."
Earlier this month, Fox's animated series The Simpsons jumped on the bandwagon, releasing a "Harlem Shake" parody. Everyone from Jimmy Fallon to American Idol's Scotty McCreery (and yes, there was even an impromptu performance on a plane) have performed their own versions.
Supernatural airs at 9 p.m. Wednesdays on The CW.
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Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat
By CHRIS BECKER
Michael Veal
First of all, drummers are going to love this book. With so few autobiographies of drummers in print, the publication of Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat is a cause for celebration. Co-author Michael Veal, author of Fela: The Life and Times of a Musical Icon and an accomplished musician himself, brings to life the rhythm and emotional timbre of Tony Allen's speaking voice and the complex story of this singular, Lagos-born-now-expatriate musician in a first-person narrative that takes the reader through a particularly transformative time in West Africa's post-colonial history. Most importantly, the book is a hell of a lot of fun to read, although Allen's first-hand accounts of his struggles with shamanistic bandleader and Nigeria's adopted "black president" Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will piss off any musician who has had to fight to get paid for playing a gig. And Allen's chillingly matter-of-fact recollection of the aftermath of the 1977 military raid on Fela's "Kalakuta Republic" compound, a raid that involved beatings, rape, mutilation, and nearly burning the compound to the ground, is truly terrifying.
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Afrobeat, a musical genre that Veal describes as Nigeria's "sonic signature," was born out of Allen's mastery of what he describes as "a fusion of beats and patterns," including highlife, rumba, mambo, waltz-time, traditional music from Nigeria and Ghana, American R&B and funk and, not surprisingly, jazz. On Allen's first U.S. tour with Fela's band Koola Lobitos, a band that would be renamed Africa 70 upon its return to Nigeria, Allen heard and met drummer Frank Butler, who played drums with such musicians as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. Allen cites the drumming techniques he learned directly from Butler as "the final piece of the puzzle that just made everything catch on fire."
And catch on fire it did. In his vivid description of Allen's drumming on the track "Fefe Naa Efe" from Fela and Africa 70's 1973 album Gentlemen, Veal writes: "Like the great jazz drummers, (Allen) keeps a steady conversation with the other instruments, particularly the soloists...Like a great boxer, he knows when to jab with his bass drum in order to punctuate a soloist's line, when to momentarily scatter and reconsolidate the flow with a hi-hat flourish, when to stoke the tension by laying deeply into the groove, and when to break and restart that tension by interjecting a crackling snare accent on the downbeat."
The book not only reveals Allen's methodical, years-long development of a new way to play the drum kit and propel Fela's compositional and political vision, it also shows Allen never stopped developing his technique post-Fela and continues to bring "the vitality of Yoruba artistic creativity" into new and innovative creative contexts. Allen negotiated the "world beat" market of the 1980s and 90s and experimented, like many African musicians recorded during those years, with heavily electronic and dub production techniques. In recent years, Allen has recorded and performed with American, French, and British musicians from genres that may seem light years away from his highlife roots. He saves some of his highest praise in the book for Damon Albarn, formerly the lead singer and bandleader of the wildly popular British band Blur and who has collaborated with Allen on several projects. "The way Damon came into my life," says Allen, "it was kind of like it had been written...not only did this guy make a big difference in my career, but we are also very good friends."
After many years of being underpaid and under appreciated for his innovations, Allen is currently enjoying a creative renaissance. One of the most moving passages in the book comes toward the end when Allen, now in his 70s, describes how busy he is "touring all over" Europe and what drives his creative work ethic. "I still want to play something impossible," Allen writes, "something that I never played before."
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The Farming Terraces Trail is located in Mesa Verde National Park and is a quick hike (0.4 miles) and is perfect for families and people of all skill levels. The trail is best used from March until October. The trail takes approximately ~15 minute...
Hike the Spruce Canyon Trail
The Spruce Canyon trail is very well taken care of. The trail begin with a descent into Spruce Tree Canyon and then follows a stream for 3/4 of a mile before climbing a side canyon back up to the ridge. The trailhead is located on the Chapin Mesa ...
Explore Park Point in Mesa Verde National Park
The Park Point Trail is the highest point in Mesa Verde National Park, and being close to the four corners, you can see for hundreds of miles in every direction on a clear day. It's a very short walk from the car, and there are several nice lookou...
Hike the Petroglyph Point Trail
Pick up a trail brochure for information on the interpretive signs. There are some steep and narrow portions of the trail, so make sure everyone in your party is of able physical capability.
Hike the Soda Canyon Overlook Trail
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The Soda Canyon Overlook Trail is a relatively popular hike perfect for viewing Soda Canyon and Balcony House. This hike is perfect for families and people of all skill levels. Soda Canyon Overlook Trail is a 1.3 mile hike in Mesa Verde National P...
Hike the Cliff Palace Loop Trail
Tickets for this tour are $4 per person and are available at the visitor center near the entrance of the park. This tour is best taken from April to November. This hike features The milky way is often visible from the top of Mesa Verde at night. ...
Explore Mesa Top Loop
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The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Stanley Clarke to be the Air National Guard's next director, Jan. 1, 2013. Clarke will succeed Lt. Gen. Bud Wyatt, who has led the Air Guard since February 2009 and is retiring from the Air Force in January 2013 after 40 years of service. Clarke has been commander of the Continental US NORAD Region and 1st Air Force at Tyndall AFB, Fla., since August 2011. Here, he points out a feature on a Cessna 182's cockpit navigation map during a Civil Air Patrol flight from Maxwell AFB, Ala., Jan. 30, 2012.


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Siri in Apple iOS before 5.1 does not properly restrict the ability of Mail.app to handle voice commands, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the locked state via a command that forwards an active e-mail message to an arbitrary recipient.
Race condition in the Passcode Lock feature in Apple iOS before 5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended passcode requirements via a slide-to-dial gesture.
The kernel in Apple iOS before 5.1 does not properly handle debug system calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code via a crafted program.
Integer underflow in Apple iOS before 5.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (device crash) via a crafted catalog file in an HFS disk image.
WebKit, as used in Apple iOS before 5.1 and iTunes before 10.6, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted web site, a different vulnerability than other WebKit CVEs listed in APPLE-SA-2012-03-07-1 and APPLE-SA-2012-03-07-2.