(Portland, OR) Tracing the historic steps of six-year-old Ruby Bridges to desegregate public schools in New Orleans in 1960, composer Darrell Grant's "Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite" for jazz ensemble and choir makes its Gulf Coast premiere June 22 at 10 pm at New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center as part of the 2017 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly. Grant, who will appear on piano and keyboard will be joined by music director Reverend Jason Shelton of First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville who also wrote the choral arrangements for the piece. Shelton and Grant have assembled an all-star cast of talent for the concert: drummer Brian Blade, saxophonist Rahsaan Barber, bassist Clark Sommers, cellist Cremaine "That Cello Guy" Booker, vocalist Marilyn T. Keller, and guitarist Davy Mooney to be backed by the choirs of First UU of Nashville and All Souls of Washington DC (led by Jen Hayman), totalling more than sixty voices, with Tony "Majic" Jackson narrating.The concert, which takes place at the convention center's Great Hall, is free and open to the public. The concert is made possible with the support of First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, TN, All Souls Unitarian Church of Washington, DC, and First Unitarian Church of Portland, OR. Complete details of the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly can be found here.
"I've never been to New Orleans, the Crescent City, the birthplace of jazz. I've never been to New Orleans, but I'll be there in four weeks to perform a piece dedicated to those who marched, prayed, sat-in, and stood up to injustice, who willingly put their bodies on the line, on the bridges, on the streets, in the churches, in the face of violence and brutality, so that I and my descendants could rise.
I'm going to New Orleans to revisit a painful history and to celebrate the heroes who lived it. I'm going to pay homage to the courage of a six-year-old girl who had the nerve to pray for those who hated her – who proudly walked past a screaming mob into her moment in history and did so with a grace that serves as an example to us all. I'm humbled by the opportunity to follow in her footsteps – to lift my voice for justice and to stand for beloved community.
The resulting multi-movement piece for eight instrumentalists, vocalist, and narrator is a powerful and poignant ode to social justice. Drawing on gospel and spiritual traditions as well as jazz and chamber music and weaving music and spoken word to illustrate an emotional portrait of a dramatic time in US history.
Some movements, like the tranquil "Summer 1959," and "The Cheerleaders"—which depicts the vociferous racism that the six-year-old Ruby encountered as she traversed the route to the William Frantz Elementary School—portray specific incidents. Others like "Hold My Hand" written from the perspective of Ruby' mother and the piece's triumphant finale "We Rise" capture the emotions behind the story.
Grant worked with the Portland-based director and co-founder of the August Wilson Red Door Project Kevin Jones to develop the part of the Narrator, who provides critical context on the historical and racial climate surrounding Bridge's story. The musical movements are framed with speeches from historic figures like W.E.B. Dubois and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., poems, newspaper articles, Supreme Court rulings, and the words of Ruby Bridges herself. More at https://www.darrellgrant.com/ruby-bridges-jazz-suite.
Since his 1988 appearance in vocalist Betty Carter's trio, pianist and composer Darrell Grant has built an international reputation performing with jazz luminaries Frank Morgan, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes, Brian Blade, and Esperanza Spalding. He has toured as a bandleader and solo artist in the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe. He has released seven critically-acclaimed albums as a leader, including Black Art--selected as one of 1994's top ten jazz CDs by the New York Times.
In 2012, Grant was one of 12 composers awarded a Doris Duke Jazz New Works Grant by Chamber Music America. The resulting work "The Territory" premiered at Chamber Music Northwest and has been performed at The DiMenna Center in New York City, and the Portland Jazz Festival. Grant was inducted into the Jazz Society of Oregon Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2011, he was the first recipient of the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize in the Arts from Portland State University, where he is a Professor of Music and directs the Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute. He has been featured on National Public Radio and is a recipient of a 2015 Individual Artist Grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. He was named the 2017 Jazz Hero of Portland, Oregon by the Jazz Journalist Association for his work on behalf of the jazz community. More at www.darrellgrant.com.
The Reverend Jason Shelton is a composer, arranger, conductor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, workshop and retreat leader, and Associate Minister for Music at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, which he has served since 1998. He holds a BA in Classics from Saint Meinrad College – a Catholic seminary in Indiana. From there Jason went on to spend three years as a Franciscan brother in Chicago. Those formative years had a deep impact on Jason's personal and spiritual understanding, but ultimately proved to be a less-than-perfect vehicle for his continuing journey.
At a friend's invitation, Jason visited the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville in the spring of 1998. He felt an instant connection there, and he was hired as Director of Music that summer. In his time at First UU, Jason has been exploring how a Unitarian Universalist ministry of music might come to life both in the congregation and the larger community. In the spring of 2003, he completed an M. Div. from Vanderbilt Divinity School and was ordained to the Unitarian Universalist ministry in May of 2004. In 2008 the church called Jason as Associate Minister for Music, a role which calls forth not only his musical gifts but also those of the preacher, teacher and pastoral counselor that have been interwoven into his calling to the ministry all along.
In his ministry, Jason starts with the premise that "what we sing is who we are." As a composer, conductor, and songleader he is fluent in a wide variety of styles, a quality he feels is important as a musical and spiritual discipline. He believes that we live in a world where our diversity can be celebrated, where the musics of many peoples intertwine and offer new possibilities for the sonic expression of our deepest values and commitments.
He has served on the board of directors for the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network and was the first chair of its professional development initiative. He was also a member of the UUA's New Hymn Resource Commission which created Singing the Journey, a supplement to its current hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition. Jason's first major work, Sources: A Unitarian Universalist Cantata, was composed in 2006 and has been performed nearly 20 times around the U.S. He has conducted choirs at numerous district and national gatherings and was the music director for the 2012 Service of the Living Tradition at the UUA General Assembly in Phoenix, AZ. He is also Artistic Director of The Portara Ensemble, a professional choral ensemble based in Nashville, TN.


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Bill insists Comey, 'angry white men' made Hillary lose
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Former President Bill Clinton is blaming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey and "angry white men" for his wife, Hillary Clinton's, loss to her Republican rival for the presidency, the now President-elect Donald Trump.
After multi-state recounts, attempted re-maneuvering of Electoral College votes and accusations that Russia hacked into the Internet and turned the election so that Trump won, the former president of the United States is still not taking his wife's defeat to her GOP challenger well.
Comey did it …
As little hope remains for Hillary Clinton to steal back the election due to the aforementioned efforts, her husband has taken to blaming Comey's reopening of the FBI investigation — into her private email server scandal – for losing to Trump in his November upset.
Bill Clinton vented his blame game on Comey when he ran into the editor of a paper while shopping in a Westchester town at a local bookstore …
"James Comey cost her the election," Bill Clinton insisted when speaking with the editor of the Bedford-Pund Ridge Record Review.
Even though the scandal over Hillary Clinton using her email server to transmit confidential and sensitive national security information had been raging for quite some time during the entire course of her presidential campaign, Comey decided to reopen it just weeks out from the presidential election.
It is argued that the FBI director decided to reopen the investigation after coming under fire for prematurely closing probe this summer – despite the fact that tens of thousands of mismanaged emails were uncovered from her four years of service as secretary of state during President Barack Obama's first term.
The former aspiring "first man" implied that the timing of Comey's reopening of the email investigation hindered his wife from winning – despite the fact that the head of the FBI promptly called the probe to a close once again before the election took place.
Bringing race into it …
Bill Clinton also took the opportunity during his run-in at the bookstore to fuel the racial divide – that was widened by his wife during her presidential campaign – by accusing Trump of catering to disgruntled Caucasian males to win the election.
The former Democratic commander-in-chief took a jab at Trump when the editor asked whether he thought that the president-elect was smart [in being able to steal the election away from his wife].
"He doesn't know much," the former Arkansas governor asserted. "One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him."
This was a particularly touchy topic for Bill Clinton because he tried to warn his wife that she could lose the election if she evaded campaigning to gain the votes of white males.
"[Bill] Clinton had reportedly been the sole voice urging the Clinton campaign to focus on white, working class Americans, and was the only one to stump for his wife among these voters," Townhall reported.
Despite his insistence that the Hillary campaign needed to divert some of its attention from catering to feminist, LGBT, black, Hispanic, environmentalist and Muslim voters – and concentrate on campaigning to embrace the votes of white males – his wife and her advisers paid little heed.
"According to reports, Clinton's campaign ignored Bill's advice – telling him they weren't worth their time or effort," Townhall's Leah Barkoukis informed. "Big mistake …"
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grdfft will take the 2−D forward Fast Fourier Transform and perform one or more mathematical operations in the frequency domain before transforming back to the space domain. An option is provided to scale the data before writing the new values to an output file. The horizontal dimensions of the grid are assumed to be in meters. Geographical grids may be used by specifying the −fg option that scales degrees to meters. If you have grids with dimensions in km, you could change this to meters using grdedit or scale the output with grdmath.
2−D binary grid file to be operated on. (See GRID FILE FORMATS below). For cross−spectral operations, also give the second grid file ingrd2.
Specify the name of the output grid file or the 1−D spectrum table (see −E). (See GRID FILE FORMATS below).
Estimate power spectrum in the radial direction [r]. Place x or y immediately after −E to compute the spectrum in the x or y direction instead. No grid file is created. If one grid is given then f (i.e., frequency or wave number), power[f], and 1 standard deviation in power[f] are written to the file set by −G [stdout]. If two grids are given we write f and 8 quantities: Xpower[f], Ypower[f], coherent power[f], noise power[f], phase[f], admittance[f], gain[f], coherency[f]. Each quantity is followed by its own 1−std dev error estimate, hence the output is 17 columns wide. Give +w to write wavelength instead of frequency, and if your grid is geographic you may further append k to scale wavelengths from meter [Default] to km. Finally, the spectrum is obtained by summing over several frequencies. Append +n to normalize so that the mean spectral values per frequency are reported instead.
Filter the data. Place x or y immediately after −F to filter x or y direction only; default is isotropic [r]. Choose between a cosine−tapered band−pass, a Gaussian band−pass filter, or a Butterworth band−pass filter.
Specify four wavelengths lc/lp/hp/hc in correct units (see −fg) to design a bandpass filter: wavelengths greater than lc or less than hc will be cut, wavelengths greater than lp and less than hp will be passed, and wavelengths in between will be cosine−tapered. E.g., −F1000000/250000/50000/10000 −fg will bandpass, cutting wavelengths > 1000 km and < 10 km, passing wavelengths between 250 km and 50 km. To make a highpass or lowpass filter, give hyphens (−) for hp/hc or lc/lp. E.g., −Fx−/−/50/10 will lowpass x, passing wavelengths > 50 and rejecting wavelengths < 10. −Fy1000/250/−/− will highpass y, passing wavelengths < 250 and rejecting wavelengths > 1000.
Append lo/hi, the two wavelengths in correct units (see −fg) to design a bandpass filter. At the given wavelengths the Gaussian filter weights will be 0.5. To make a highpass or lowpass filter, give a hyphen (−) for the hi or lo wavelength, respectively. E.g., −F−/30 will lowpass the data using a Gaussian filter with half−weight at 30, while −F400/− will highpass the data.
Append lo/hi/order, the two wavelengths in correct units (see −fg) and the filter order (an integer) to design a bandpass filter. At the given cut−off wavelengths the Butterworth filter weights will be 0.707 (i.e., the power spectrum will therefore be reduced by 0.5). To make a highpass or lowpass filter, give a hyphen (−) for the hi or lo wavelength, respectively. E.g., −F−/30/2 will lowpass the data using a 2nd−order Butterworth filter, with half−weight at 30, while −F400/−/2 will highpass the data.
Filename for output netCDF grid file OR 1−D data table (see −E). This is optional for −E (spectrum written to stdout) but mandatory for all other options that require a grid output.
−Na lets the FFT select dimensions yielding the most accurate result.
−Nf will force the FFT to use the actual dimensions of the data.
−Nm lets the FFT select dimensions using the least work memory.
−Nr lets the FFT select dimensions yielding the most rapid calculation.
−Ns will present a list of optional dimensions, then exit.
−Nnx/ny will do FFT on array size nx/ny (must be >= grid file size). Default chooses dimensions >= data which optimize speed and accuracy of FFT. If FFT dimensions > grid file dimensions, data are extended and tapered to zero.
+d: Detrend data, i.e. remove best−fitting linear trend [Default].
Control writing of temporary results: For detailed investigation you can write the intermediate grid being passed to the forward FFT; this is likely to have been detrended, extended by point−symmetry along all edges, and tapered. Append +w[suffix] from which output file name(s) will be created (i.e., ingrid_prefix.ext) [tapered], where ext is your file extension. Finally, you may save the complex grid produced by the forward FFT by appending +z. By default we write the real and imaginary components to ingrid_real.ext and ingrid_imag.ext. Append p to save instead the polar form of magnitude and phase to files ingrid_mag.ext and ingrid_phase.ext.
Geographic grids (dimensions of longitude, latitude) will be converted to meters via a "Flat Earth" approximation using the current ellipsoid parameters.
Print a short message about the syntax of the command, then exits (NOTE: on Windows just use −).
Print an extensive usage (help) message, including the explanation of any module−specific option (but not the GMT common options), then exits.
If the grid does not have meter as the horizontal unit, append +uunit to the input file name to convert from the specified unit to meter. If your grid is geographic, convert distances to meters by supplying −fg instead.
By default, the power spectrum returned by −E simply sums the contributions from frequencies that are part of the output frequency. For x− or y−spectra this means summing the power across the other frequency dimension, while for the radial spectrum it means summing up power within each annulus of width delta_q, the radial frequency (q) spacing. A consequence of this summing is that the radial spectrum of a white noise process will give a linear radial power spectrum that is proportional to q. Appending n will instead compute the mean power per output frequency and in this case the white noise process will have a white radial spectrum as well.


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Visual Glide Slope Indicator or Visual Glideslope Indicator (VGSI) is a ground device that uses lights to assist a pilot in landing an airplane at an airport.  The lights define a vertical approach path during the final approach to a runway and can help the pilot determine if the airplane is too high or too low for an optimum landing.

There are several different types of VGSIs:

 Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI)
 Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI)
 Pulsating Visual Approach Slope Indicator (PVASI)
 Three-color Visual Approach Slope Indicator (T-VASI)
 Helicopter Approach Path Indicator (HAPI)

In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration includes VGSI information in its Airport/Facility Directory publication.  The VGSI, if installed, is listed immediately after each runway and is coded to indicate the type and specific implementation.  For example,  Chicago Executive Airport (KPWK) located in Wheeling, IL has runway 16.  In the A/FD, after runway 16 is listed "PAPI(P4L)" which is a PAPI of four (4) identical light units placed on left side of runway.  The various VGSI codes and their descriptions can be found in the "VISUAL GLIDESLOPE INDICATORS" section of the A/FD's directory legend.

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Sucioperro have fun in a field in the video for 'To Nothing' (dir. Stuart Breadner) which is taken from their forthcoming album, Fused, which is released on September 3rd.
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Place of Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was the 35th (1961-1963) President of the United States.
Kennedy was the youngest person so far to be elected U.S. president (although Theodore Roosevelt was some months younger when he became president upon William McKinley's death), and the first (and as yet only) Roman Catholic president. He beat Richard Nixon, Vice President in the previous administration, in a famous, closely-contested presidential election in 1960. Theodore H. White's 1961 book about that election campaign, The Making of the President 1960, was not only a national best-seller but was also used as a supplementary text in high school and college courses in U. S. government and history.
For various reasons, Kennedy was, during the time he served, perhaps the most popular president in U.S. history. He was a handsome, photogenic man who seemed open and accessible, and his administration marked a notable increase in direct media exposure of the president to the public at large, through television broadcasts from the Oval Office, televised press conferences, and numerous photo spreads in popular magazines. The "charisma" Kennedy and his family projected led to the figurative designation of "Camelot" for his administration. His glamorous wife "Jackie" was as newsworthy as he was, and the way they handled personal tragedies, especially the death of their newborn son Patrick Bouvier Kennedy in August 1963, enhanced their public image.
The house where Kennedy was born in Brookline (in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area) is now a National Historic Site, open to the public.[1] Kennedy served in the US Navy in World War II., and while he was captain of a PT Boat that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean, he sustained a back injury that plagued him for the remainder of his life, exacerbating a disease the public did not learn of until long after his death. (In May 2002 a National Geographic expedition found what is believed to be the wreckage of that PT-109 in the Solomon Islands [2]) For his book Profiles in Courage, published in 1956 while he was serving in the US Senate, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Information released after his death leaves no doubt that he had at least one, and probably several extramarital affairs while in office, including liaisons in the White House. Such things were not then considered fit for publication, and in Kennedy's case, they were never publicly discussed.
Kennedy was president for only about 1,000 days. This brief tenure was marked by such notable events as the acceleration of the United States' role in the space race, the beginning of the escalation of the American role in the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba; these events aggravated the Cold War with the USSR. He appointed his brother Robert F. Kennedy to his Cabinet as Attorney General.
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald, apprehended for the crime, was himself fatally shot by Jack Ruby before he could be formally charged or brought to trial. Four days after Kennedy & Oswald were killed, President Lyndon Johnson created the Warren Commission. A year later, the Commission reported that Lee Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy. They also reported that there was no conspiracy at work in the Kennedy assassination. In 1967, Jim Garrison, a New Orleans district attorney, investigated and brought to trial a local citizen, Clay Shaw, on a charge of conspiracy in the Kennedy case. Shaw was later found not guilty in 1969. In the late 1970's, the House Select Committee on Assassinations found that Kennedy died as a result of a conspiracy. Their finding was based on some dictabelt recordings made by the Dallas police on the day of the assassination that may have recorded the sounds of gunfire. To this day, various third parties have investigated the assassination, comimg up with various theories and solutions to the crime.
On March 14, 1967 Kennedy's body was moved to a permanent burial place an memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Kennedy's life and the subseqent conspiracy theories surrounding his death have been the inspiration for many films. Recent ones include Nigel Turner's 1988 mini series The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Oliver Stone's 1991 blockbuster, JFK, and 1993's JFK: Reckless Youth, which looked at Kennedy's early years.
Kennedy was the most recent Democratic president to push for income tax cuts to improve the economy. He was also the most recent Northern Democrat to win the Presidency.
In November of 2002 long secret medical records were made public, revealing Kennedy's physical ailments were more severe than previously thought. He was in constant pain from fractured vertebrae despite multiple medications, in addition to suffering from severe digestive problems and Addison's disease. Kennedy would get multiple injections of procaine before press conferences in order to appear healthy.
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Titan Medical Inc. - TMD.v
Titan Medical Inc. - TMD.v is developing the SPORT™ (Single Port Orifice Robotic Technology) Surgical System for use in minimally invasive surgery ("MIS") that is expected to be commercially available in 2015.
Titan's robotic surgical system is being designed to expand robotic surgery into areas that are currently underserviced. Currently, the most common medical procedures for which robotic systems are used are hysterectomies and prostatectomies.
On November 11, 2013 the company released News
"Titan Medical Inc. ("Titan" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:TMD)(OTCQX:TITXF) announced today that it recently started tissue testing that has been highly successful in assessing and measuring the functionality of the Single Port Orifice Robotic Technology SPORT™ Surgical System. The purpose of tissue testing is to undertake a sequence of tests with refinements and improvements after each test, leading ultimately to the finalized fully-functional SPORT™ Surgical System. Tissue testing constitutes the first major milestone on Titan's pathway to commercialization.
In the last two weeks, the protocols in the first two tests were implemented and the goals were successfully attained. Two more tests are planned before the end of this year. During the next nine months, iterative testing and fine tuning of all the components of the SPORT™ Surgical System will take place.
The testing is being led by Dr. Dennis Fowler who is responsible for clinical affairs and Titan's process for obtaining regulatory approval. Dr. Fowler is working closely with the Clinical and Regulatory department of Ximedica, Titan's development partner of record, in solidifying Titan's regulatory strategy for obtaining permission to market the SPORT™ Surgical System from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and for obtaining CE Mark from the European Union.
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PolyMet Mining Corp - POM.t
PolyMet Mining Corp - POM.t is advancing the flagship NorthMet copper-nickel-precious metals project.
The NorthMet Project is located in the established Mesabi Iron Range mining district in northeastern Minnesota.
On November 6, 2013 the company released News
"PolyMet Mining Corp. ("PolyMet" or the "Company") TSX: POM; NYSE MKT: PLM – The publication of a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement will wait two more weeks as a result of the three-week federal government shutdown, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced in a news release today (http://news.dnr.state.mn.us/).
As a result, the document will be available for public review on Dec. 6, 2013 when it will be published in the Federal Register. It will then be published in the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board Monitor Dec. 9, 2013. The original publication date was Nov. 22, 2013.
"We're taking this short delay in stride," said Jon Cherry, president and CEO. "We look forward to this long-awaited comprehensive environmental review being published and made available for public review and comment."
He said publication of the SDEIS is the culmination of nearly four years of work by scientists and engineers to improve the design and complete the analysis and technical studies for the proposed mine as requested by the state and federal government agencies co-leading the review. It marks a major milestone in the project's development.
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The Chloe Diamond is a brilliant-cut diamond, weighing 84.37 carats, bought by Georges Marciano, the founder of clothing company Guess Inc. Marciano named the stone "the Chloe Diamond" after his then 12-year-old daughter.
The diamond sold for $16.2 Million at Sotheby's Geneva in 2007.
In November 2012, Christie's sold the cushion-shaped, colourless, 76.02-carat Archduke Joseph Diamond for $21.5 million.
A 14.23 carat diamond, named The Perfect Pink, sold for $23,165,968 in November 2010 to an anonymous buyer after an intense bidding war with four others.
Christie's says only 18 diamonds bigger than 10 carats and showing a distinct pure pink colour have ever gone on the block in 244 years of auction history.
The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is a cushion-cut fancy deep grayish blue diamond weighing 35.56 carats. It sold at auction in December 2008 for $24.3m
The diamond originates from the Indian kingdom of Golkonda. It's rumored that King Philip IV of Spain purchased the jewel and included it in the dowry of his teenage daughter, Margaret Teresa, in 1664.
On 15 May 2013 Christie's auctioned the "Winston Legacy" in Geneva for $ 26.7m. A pear-shaped perfect diamond weighing 101.73 carats, this sensational gemstone is not only one of the largest pear-shaped diamonds known to date, it is also one of the world's most perfect diamonds: a D colour, Type IIA Flawless gem.
The rough stone weighed 236 carats when it was extracted from the Jwaneng mine (DeBeers) in Botswana and required 21 months to polish.
The Orange - Christie's Geneva sold the largest fancy vivid orange diamond ever offered at auction, weighing 14.82 carats, for a record $35.5m or $2.4 million per carat.
The sale set a world record price per carat for any diamond sold at auction, as well as a world record price for an orange diamond. It is the 4rd most expensive diamond ever sold at auction. Christie's said: "Time and again, a stone will appear on the market that is truly a miracle of nature. The 14.82-carat orange diamond is one such a stone, a rare gem, which will perhaps only be seen once in a lifetime.
The Princie Pink is a cushion-cut 34.65 carats and is one of the finest and largest of its kind.
The stone can be traced back to the ancient diamond mines of India. The diamond was sold at auction in 1960 where it brought a price of 46,000 pounds sterling (approximately $69,588 in today's currency).
The stone sold for $ 39m in April, 2013.
The Graff Pink is a vivid pink, round-cornered rectangular step-cut diamond weighing 24.78 carats, set between shield-shaped diamond shoulders, in platinum.
It sold on November 10, 2010 for $ 46.2m
The 59.6-carat Pink Star diamond lived up to its hype by selling for a world record price of approximately $83.4 million at Sotheby's Geneva Magnificent Jewels sale Wednesday.
When introducing the internally flawless fancy pink vivid diamond, David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby's Jewellery Division in Europe and the Middle East, called it "one of the most remarkable gems to ever appear at auction."
Sotheby's David Bennett says the diamond belongs in "the ranks of the earth's greatest natural treasures." He said "it was very rare to have vivid pink diamonds weighing only five carats, this 59.60 carat stone is simply off any scale." It is over twice the size of the 24.78-carat "Graff Pink" diamond that set the world auction record for $46.2m.
The gem, which was mined by De Beers in Africa in 1999, has received the highest possible colour and clarity rating from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). It weighed 132.5 carats in the rough, and was cut and polished over a period of two years by Steinmetz Diamonds.
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Written By: Remy Lai
Narrated By: Remy Hii
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
A poignant, laugh-out-loud middle-grade novel--adapted for audio--about an eleven-year-old boy's immigration experience, his annoying little brother, and their cake-baking hijinks! Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang!
Recipient of FIVE starred reviews!
'Pie in the Sky is like enjoying a decadent cake . . . heartwarming and rib-tickling.' -Terri Libenson, bestselling author of Invisible Emmie
When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao.
To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away. The only problem is his mother has laid down one major rule: the brothers are not to use the oven while she's at work. As Jingwen and Yanghao bake elaborate cakes, they'll have to cook up elaborate excuses to keep the cake making a secret from Mama.
Remy Lai's hilarious, moving middle-grade debut, with its pitch-perfect writing, makes for a scrumptious audiobook adaptation. It will appeal to fans of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham's Real Friends, Kelly Yang's Front Desk, and Jerry Craft's New Kid.
* 'The humor [is] akin to that of Jeff Kinney's popular 'Wimpy Kid' series . . . the perfect mixture of funny and emotionally resonant.' --School Library Journal, starred review
by Remy Lai
This title is due for release on December 17, 2019.
This title is due for release on December 17, 2019


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Au Moyen Âge, Tetbury est un centre important d'échange de laine et de fil des Cotswold. C'est à cette époque que fut fondée la course annuelle toujours en vigueur actuellement, nommée Tetbury Woolsack Races pendant laquelle les participants portent un sac de 60 livres de laine au sommet d'une colline.

Personnalités
Mark Phillips (1948-), champion olympique d'équitation, époux de la princesse Anne, est né à Tetbury.

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There are some really good games in AC so here we go. That is annoying for all players. Heavy action when I was there. Not a game I would recommend.
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Mexico was well represented at this year's European Mathematical Olympiad.
Seventeen-year-old Ana Paula Jiménez Díaz took home the gold, Mexico's second gold in the history of the competition, while her teammates Nuria Sydykova y Karla Rebeca both took home silver, and Nathalia del Carmen Jasso Vera earned an honorable mention.
The team of young Mexicanas celebrated their wins wearing traditional huipiles and mariachi sombreros.
The European Mathematical Olympiad is an event that encourages young women to participate in mathematics. The international competition, which this year took place in Ukraine and hosted teams from 50 countries, recognizes participants for their creative problem-solving abilities, not mere memorization, reports SinEmbargo.
Congratulations to these mujeres representing their país with pride; no doubt they have bright futures ahead.


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AMDETUR Celebrates its 30th Anniversary during the 31st Annual Convention and 27th Expo
October 20, 2017 October 17, 2017 J. Michael Martinez 816 Views AMDETUR, Apple Leisure Group, arda, CVOA, Interval International, JAMPRO, Provac-Grupo Posadas, rci, Travel Smart VIP Vacations, Unlimited Vacation Club
As part of the celebrations commemorating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Mexican Resort Development Association (AMDETUR), in a unique and historic event, at full capacity and in a spirit of camaraderie, the organization held its 31st annual Convention, its 27th annual Expo entitled "Three Decades Transforming Tourism in Mexico" and the Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit Marketing and Sales Forum entitled "Awakening and Transcending." The Association of Tourism Timeshare Developers and Promoters (ADEPROTUR), is not only one of AMDETUR's founders, but has been fundamental to the timeshare and vacation ownership industry's development in the Puerto Vallarta-Riviera Nayarit region. Its support in the organization, operation and logistics of this great event made this year's conference one of the most successful on record.
The opening ceremonies of this groundbreaking event were attended by Mexico's Secretary of Tourism, Enrique De la Madrid Cordero, who told those present that tourism in our country is a policy for fighting poverty. He noted that the three top vacation ownership countries in the world–the United States, Mexico and Canada–are a sign of how important it is to this region. He urged entrepreneurs to work together to show how this region is destined for global competitiveness based on its natural and human resources. We must all work together to build a better country, he said, because "together we can achieve more and together we are worth more." He acknowledged the presence and involvement of international associations like the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), the Cooperative Association of Resort Exchangers (C.A.R.E), the Canadian Vacation Ownership Association (CVOA), and the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), an agency of the Jamaican government's Ministry of Economic Growth and Jobs.
Jorge Herrera Rivadeneyra, Chairman of the Board of Directors of AMDETUR
Jorge Herrera Rivadeneyra, Chairman of the Board of Directors of AMDETUR, recounted how AMDETUR has gradually positioned itself as a leading organization in Mexico over the past three decades, propelled by the dedication and commitment of the 16 people who have chaired the organization since its founding. "Each and every one of these," he said, "has faced challenges in defending the interests of our industry." He recognized the support of resort owners, local associations and authorities, with special mention of the current head of the Federal Consumer Protection Agency, Rafael Ochoa, and his work with the Senate Committee and Trade and Industrial Promotion on drafting the new Federal Consumer Protection Law. In drafting this legislation, Mr. Ochoa was able to maintain the 5-business-day cancellation period and avoid obligating timeshare companies to enter a new Public Registry, similar to what pawnbrokers must do. AMDETUR, he added, will continue to work in a united, inclusive manner to achieve each and every one of the goals it has set for itself.
Ricardo Montaudon Corry, Chairman of the Board and CEO of RCI Latin America, included speakers Pablo González Carbonell, Chairman of the Board of Royal Holiday; Fernando González Corona, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Villa; Ernesto Coppel Kelly, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Pueblo Bonito and Kemil Assad Rizk Aziz, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Royal Resorts.
Pioneers: Evolution of a Vision
One of the main panels was "Pioneers: Evolution of a Vision," which was moderated by Ricardo Montaudon Corry, Chairman of the Board and CEO of RCI Latin America, included speakers Pablo González Carbonell, Chairman of the Board of Royal Holiday; Fernando González Corona, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Villa; Ernesto Coppel Kelly, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Pueblo Bonito and Kemil Assad Rizk Aziz, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Royal Resorts. Panelists spoke about the evolution and transformation of the Vacation Ownership Industry. They recalled that when it first came to Mexico, it began with the fixed unit, followed by the introduction of the floating unit. One interesting fact they mentioned was that Mexico is the second leading country in the world in terms of sales, basically because of the leader, the United States, is a larger economy, but in proportional terms, thanks to its innovation and value, Mexico is actually number one. The panelists agreed that over more than 30 years the industry has worked hard to position itself as one of outstanding quality, both in products and in services, in addition to the fact that consumer satisfaction is the most important thing for the industry to work at top capacity.
Gerardo Rioseco Orihuela, Vice President of Provac-Grupo Posadas, involved panelists like Alejandro Zozaya, President of Apple Leisure Group; Alejandro Martín, CEO of Palladium Travel Club; Luis Lara González, CEO of Travel Smart VIP Vacations; and Marcos Agostini, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Commercial Development at Interval International
New Focuses on the Vacation Ownership Industry
The panel on "New Focuses on the Vacation Ownership Industry," sponsored by Concord and moderated by Gerardo Rioseco Orihuela, Vice President of Provac-Grupo Posadas, involved panelists like Alejandro Zozaya, President of Apple Leisure Group; Alejandro Martín, CEO of Palladium Travel Club; Luis Lara González, CEO of Travel Smart VIP Vacations; and Marcos Agostini, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Commercial Development at Interval International. These professionals argued that the vacation ownership product has evolved because today's clients have different needs, so companies have been adapting themselves to what their customers require. They also said that the floating-week project has been very successful in terms of sales, and that companies must reinvent themselves with benefits and products that can add more value to the sales process.
2017 "Golden Palm" awards
GALA DINNER, RECOGNITIONS, AND GOLDEN PALM AWARDS
The first day of activities was topped off by a spectacular Gala Dinner, where recognitions were presented to local associations, to executives with an outstanding track record in the industry, and resort developers who have shaped the industry from its beginnings. Special mention should be made of the fact that, for the first time in AMDETUR's history, this year's convention included the presentation of the 2017 "Golden Palm" awards, recognizing major companies whose initiatives and programs promote the development and growth of the Timeshare and Vacation Ownership Industry.
Recognition of Local Clubs:
Association of Quintana Roo Vacation Cubs (Asociación de Clubes Vacacionales de Quintana Roo, A.C., or ACLUVAQ)
Association of Sinaloa Vacation Clubs (Asociación de Clubes Vacacionales de Sinaloa, A.C., or COSTA PACÍFICO)
Association of Tourist Developers and operators of Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo (Asociación de Desarrolladores y Operadores Turísticos de Ixtapa y Zihuatanejo, A. C., or ADOTIZ)
Association of Tourism Timeshare Developers and Promoters (Asociación de Desarrolladores y Promotores Turísticos de Tiempo Compartido, A.C., or ADEPROTUR)
Association of Timeshare Resort Owners of Baja California Sur (Asociación Sudcaliforniana de Desarrolladores de Tiempo Compartido, A.C., or ASUDESTICO)
Twenty-year+ badges for Executives
Luis Lara González
Marcos Agostini
Thirty-year badges for Executives
Alejandro Lemus Mateos
Barry Cohen
Colette Ann Comeau
Fernando Azcona Lizárraga
Francisco Aranda Bezaury
Gabriel Oropeza Griffith
Gustavo Ripol Bermúdez
John McCarthy Sandland
Jorge Ocaranza Freyría
Luis Ángel Cantú Treviño
María de Lourdes Ayala Ochoa
Ricardo Montaudon Corry
Rosa de Jesús Lugo Dorantes
Rosario Rodríguez Rojo
Twenty-year+ badges for Resort Developers
Robert Louis Kistner
José Carlos Azcárraga Andrade
Pablo Azcárraga Andrade
Thirty-year badges for Resort Developers
Pablo González Carbonell
Abelardo Garciarce Ramírez
Ernesto Coppel Kelly
Fernando González Corona
Kemil Assad Rizk Aziz
Abelardo Vara Rivera
Armando Millet Molina
Carlos Berdegué Sacristán
Carlos Vázquez Zepeda
Daniel Chávez Morán
Navarro Redo
Eduardo Vela Ruíz
Francisco Bulnes Malo
Graziano Sovernigo
José Chapur Zahoul
Juan Vela Ruíz
Luz María Torres González
Owen Perry
Richard Sutton
Roberto Chapur Zahoul
Romárico Arroyo Marroquín
"Golden Palm" Recognitions
BEST SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVE – Royal Holiday
BEST REFERRALS PROGRAM – Posadas
BEST PRODUCT INNOVATION – Unlimited Vacation Club
BEST WELCOME PACKAGE – Solaz Los Cabos
BEST VIDEO PRODUCTION – Solaz Los Cabos
BEST MARKETING CAMPAIGN – Posadas
BEST LOYALTY PROGRAM – Interval Internationa
RECOGNITION FOR THE BEST THESIS IN THE FIRST MARKETING MASTER'S PROGRAM 2016
Mariano Fernández for his work on "Timeshare in the Age of Twitter"
The presentation of the awards was attended by Jesús Enrique Ramos Flores, Secretary of Tourism for the state of Jalisco, Álvaro Garciarce Monraz, President of the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust; Fernando González Ortega, President of the Riviera Nayarit Visitors and Conventions Office; María de Lourdes Ayala Ochoa, Chairman of the Board of ADEPROTUR, and Jorge Herrera Rivadeneyra, Chairman of the Board of AMDETUR.
"AWAKENING AND TRANSCENDING" MARKETING AND SALES FORUM
Parallel to the Convention activities, a Marketing and Sales Forum entitled "Awakening and Transcending" was held, sponsored by Mas Vacations, Resort Condominiums International and Interval International. Two well-known presenters headed up the event: Alejandra Llamas, from the marketing side, spoke of leadership, productivity, and a good workplace environment, which depends on communication capacity. On the sales side, Jeffrey Gitomer addressed issues such as personal growth, professional preparation and training in companies to take advantage of opportunities in world tourism, particularly in Mexico.
Attended by a little over 550 people, the training session was offered to promoters, sellers, coordinators, managers and directors working in strategic areas of the main timeshare and vacation ownership hotel complexes in Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit.
Interval International extended a special recognition to AMDETUR in commemoration of its 30th anniversary
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Interval International extended a special recognition to AMDETUR in commemoration of its 30th anniversary. THANK YOU, INTERVAL INTERNATIONAL!
This magnificent annual event was held on June 20, 21 and 22 in the Hotel Sheraton Buganvillas Resorts & Convention Center in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and it brought together leading personalities from the timeshare and vacation ownership industry. Resort developers like Abelardo Garciarce Ramírez, Ernesto Coppel Kelly, Fernando González Corona, Kemil Assad Rizk Aziz, Pablo González Carbonell, Pablo and José Carlos Azcárraga, Owen Perry, Gabriel Macías Dueñas and Alejandro Zozaya were all present to share their experiences with participants.
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I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! reveals derelict castle in Wales as new location
ITV's jungle reality show is swapping New South Wales in Australia… for North Wales in the UK.
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Image: 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here' will take place in a very different climate. Pic: ITV
I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here bosses have revealed the new series will be filmed in the ruins of Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales.
This year's contestants will miss out on the tropical climate of the show's previous location in Australia's New South Wales, and instead need to pull on some thermals for considerably more wet and cold climes in the UK.
Earlier this year, it was confirmed the series would be filmed in a UK castle during winter due to coronavirus travel restrictions. However, until now the location had been top secret.
Image: Gwrych Castle will be getting some famous house guests this winter
The long-running ITV show puts a group of celebrities through various "Bushtucker Trials" to win food, compete for a public vote and avoid elimination.
Last year's launch show was viewed by more than 13 million people, making it the channel's most watched programme of the year.
ITV says the format of the 20th series will stay the same, despite swapping a national park for a the ruined castle in the countryside.
The adapted show will be hosted by Ant and Dec, and broadcast live every night as normal.
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One big difference, however, is that this year's winner will be crowned king or queen of the castle - rather than the jungle.
Image: Ant and Dec will be back - minus the tropical plants. Pic: ITV
Director of Entertainment at ITV Studios, Richard Cowles, said: "The Australian jungle is such an integral part of the show, it was a big challenge to find a UK location where we could continue to deliver what viewers love about I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!
"But Gwrych will definitely do that - the castle sits in an amazing and atmospheric setting on a hillside overlooking the Irish Sea.
"While there will be plenty of changes required as we move from New South Wales in Australia to North Wales in the UK, we are really excited to see how we can adapt the format and make the castle our new home for a very special 20th series of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! this autumn."
The privately owned castle boasts turrets, towers and lookouts, and sits on a tree-lined hillside overlooking the Irish Sea.
Instead of a jungle, it offers a 250-acres of gardens and grounds for contestants to get lost in.
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Dr Mark Baker, chairman of the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust, said: "I'm absolutely delighted that I'm A Celebrity has chosen Gwrych Castle to be its UK location for the 2020 series.
"Gwrych Castle is a beautiful grade I listed 19th century house and a must-see destination for tourists visiting Wales.
"I'm A Celebrity being here will really help support Gwrych Castle and its ongoing restoration as well as giving the region a much-needed economic boost."
It will be Gwrych Castle's biggest media appearance to date, although former politician Michael Portillo did visit the site as part of his Great British Railway Journeys series several years ago.
I'm A Celebrity… has taken place in New South Wales, inside Murwillumbah's Springbrook National Park, since its second series in 2003.
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Australia goes on $1.4b war-footing against hackers - how NZ's response compares
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Australia is significantly ramping up its cyber defences.
Overnight, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a A$1.35 billion ($1.4b) boost for efforts to defend the country's public and private networks against hackers - such as the unnamed "sophisticated state actor" that launched a massive attack on government agencies and private businesses last month.
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The 10-year funding plan includes A$470m that will be used to create more than 500 new jobs within the Australian Signals Directorate, the agency responsible for repelling cyber attacks. That will take the agency's total staff to around 2500.
A number of commentators have blamed China for the recent, orchestrated attacks, but there have also been a number of high profile attacks on Australian targets by independent, criminal ransomware gangs, who often operate out of Eastern Europe. Companies hit have included BlueScope Steel and Toll Group.
GCSB Minister Andrew Little said malicious cyber activity was not beyond usual levels during the June 19 co-ordinated attack on Australia.
But NTT cyber security head Matthew Lord told the Herald: "The problem will be NZ organisations operating in both countries. Those organisations should prepare as the attackers could compromise a New Zealand organisation thinking it's an Australian business."
This year we've seen Toll's NZ operation hit twice as collateral damage in ransomware attacks on its Australian parent, as was Lion.
And some NZ-headquartered companies appear on hackers' radars anyway, such as the Auckland-based Fisher & Paykel Appliances, which was targetted in a ransomware attack last month. Like Lion, it says its systems are now restored, but there was a fortnight of manufacturing and supply chain chaos for both.
And despite Little's reticence to comment on what "state actor" could be behind last month's attack on Australia, in 2018, the GCSB said the Chinese government has ties to a group called APT 10 that was at the time carrying out commercial espionage in multiple countries, including New Zealand.
NZ: Modest cyber security budget increases
So what is being done on this side of the Tasman? Little's office forwarded questions to Communications Minister Kris Faafoi, who said the Government provides a range of cyber security support to individuals and organisations in New Zealand.
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Faafoi's bottom line was that security agencies are expanding their efforts and will use their security tools to defend a broader range of New Zealand organisations.
But the various cyber security budget increases he detailed were in the single-digit millions - an order of magnitude behind Australia's.
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Businesses and individuals can access advice and information through CERT (the Computer Emergency Response Team), and the Government works closely with our international counterparts to prevent and respond to cyber security incidents and address cyber crime, Faafoi said.
Cert was created in 2016 with a $22.2m budget. Faafoi points out the agency's budget was increased by $9.3m over four years (that is, by $2.3m per year) in Budget 2019.
"Also in Budget 2019, the Government allocated $8m over the next four years to help implement Cyber Security Strategy."
What has that $8m yielded so far?
"Initiatives making use of these funds will be announced as they are being implemented," Faafoi says.
Cert, headed by director Rob Pope, is a public-facing agency.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of the GSCB, provides advanced cyber defence capabilities to a cross-section of New Zealand's organisations of national significance to protect their information systems from high impact and advanced cyber-borne threats, Faafoi says.
"The NCSC is in the process of scaling up the availability of one of those defence, capabilities, Malware Free Networks, to a much broader range of organisations," Faafoi says.
The NCSC's staff are all within the GCSB's total headcount of around 500. The director-general of the GCSB, Andrew Hampton, doubles as the Government's chief information security officer (GCISO), putting him in broad charge of every Crown agency's cyber security, from MPI to your local council. The NCSC's director is Lisa Fong, recently profiled by the Herald as an emerging tech leader.
Budget 2020 included $146m over four years for the intelligence agencies that is, the domestic-focussed NZSIS and the GCSB. That works out to $36.5m per year.
An NZ intelligence community spokesman would not say how much of that annual budget is devoted to cyber security.
"To give specific amounts allocated to particular functions as that may give adversaries an indication of our capability in any one area," he said.
GCSB Minister Andrew Little. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Last year, the agency advised around 800 "customers" beyond Government agencies, including "key economic generators and niche exporters" on how to counter cyber threats.
The NCSC is best known for its Cortex - a suite of cyber defence systems to detect and disrupt attacks on "organisations of national significance" that may or not include some of our largest export earners and holders of intellectual property, such as Fonterra (the agency won't confirm or deny exactly whom it protects).
Last week's cyber attacks on Australia did not succeed in disabling any infrastructure or the theft of any data, according to initial reports.
Communications Minister Kris Faafoi. Photo / Mark Mitchell
And, as noted, the GCSB did not detect any threats out of the normal here.
But cyber attacks are costing our economy, as we've seen from the disruption caused by the Toll, Lion and F&P Appliances incidents. A report by security company Emsisoft estimates ransomware attacks have cost NZ at least $37.5m this year, while a recent NortonLifeLock survey found NZ losses to cyber crime of $108m in 2019.
GCSB says it has prevented $100m in harm
In a report delivered in February, the GCSB said: "We have continued to improve and advance our Cortex cyber-defence capabilities, which we calculate have prevented almost $100m of harm to nationally significant organisations since June 2016."
It said $27.7m in harm was prevented by Cortex last year.
The GCSB reported there were 339 cyber attacks on NZ "organisations of national significance" in 2019. Of those, 131 had "links to state-sponsored actors - the same proportion as the previous year," when there were 347 attacks.
Minimum cyber-security standards for private companies
It's clear, however, that more help is needed. Toll Group got hit in January, tightened its defences, then got hit again in May. Lion's systems were compromised despite a big-money move to SAP's Hana platform.
In Australia, Morrison has floated the idea that private firms will have to meet minimum cyber-security standards - and chip in for the cost of a regulator who would ensure compliance.
Here, GCSB Minister Little said the NCSC would continue work for free for qualifying organisations, to advise them on their own security and bring them under the umbrella of systems like Cortex.
Minimum standards, and enforcing them, don't seem to be on the table.
"During the development of the Cyber Security Strategy in 2018, consultation with the community and industry did not identify a case for regulatory measures to set cyber-security standards in the private sector," Faafoi said.
"Officials continue to monitor the cyber-security policies of other nations including Australia."
Meanwhile, within government, Faafoi points out that the New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) sets out required information security standards, policy and guidance.
The NZISM was recently updated to tighten up protocols over when the popular but relatively low-security video chat service Zoom can and can't be used, for example.
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Commercial space transactions down 10% on-year in H1 2017: Knight Frank India
Commercial real estate transactions across top six property markets in India recorded 10% on-year decline to 18.1 million sq ft in during the first half of 2017. Supply of commercial spaces also declined 5% from a year ago to 17.9 million sq ft, showed a Knight Frank India report.
At 12%, vacancy levels were at the lowest since 2012 when it was 21%. Except for Mumbai and National Capital Region, vacancy levels were low in other cities. Vacancy levels at prime Central Business Districts in Mumbai and NCR are in single digits. The cities observed in the report include Mumbai, Bangalore, NCR, Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad.
"The commercial real estate sector has been the most dependable segment of the overall market. However, some recent geopolitical disruptions in the advanced economies had a bearing on office transactions even as the country continues to grapple with shrinking commercial real estate. But the investment environment is changing and we expect a radical difference in the office landscape on the back of institutional funds foraying into the sector," said Shishir Baijal, CMD, Knight Frank India.
Average rental values across six cities grew at 7% from a year ago during the first half of 2017. While Mumbai saw flat on-year rental growth, Hyderabad and Bengaluru experienced the strongest rental growth at 14% and 8% on-year, respectively.
Information Technology/IT-enabled Services sector witnessed a fall in share to 39% in first half of 2017 from 43% in the same period a year ago. Co-working space operators show traction with around 0.5 million sq ft taken up across Bengaluru, Pune and NCR during the period.
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After a quick trip to theaters, the popular animation 'The Croods 2: A New Age' ('The Croods: A New Age') can now be streamed on Tele Cine. The production made its exclusive debut on the platform.
The new film follows the Croods' journey in search of a new home. During the adventure, they meet a modern family with completely different customs from theirs, the Bemelhores.
The family, made up of Esperança Bemelhor (Juliana Paes / Leslie Mann), Bem Bemelhor (Rodrigo Lombardi / Peter Dinklage) and his daughter Aurora live in a completely different way from cavemen, with technological innovations and much more. of security.
The Brazilian version includes the voices of Juliana Paes and Rodrigo Lombardi.
"The Croods 2 – A New Era" is directed by Joel Crawford, who has a background in the production design of "Kung Fu Panda 3" and "Trolls".


Camille Styles editor's note: We've been talking a lot around the office lately about our increasing desire to consider where we're spending our money and who it's supporting. During this season of intense consumerism, we thought it would be a great opportunity to take a look at how we can spend our money for good, supporting the companies and issues we care about. Here to guide us today is Micha, co-founder of the MiA project. We asked her to share the inspiration behind her incredible online store, as well as the 15 American-made gifts on her list to give and receive this year. Take it away Micha!
It's easy to feel powerless amidst an epidemic. It's easy to think there will never be another day when fast fashion and throwaway items aren't the majority. But when I started The MiA (Made in America) Project, I wasn't looking for easy. I was looking for a way to alter the tides of consumption, even if it was a few people and a few habits at a time. Prior to The MiA Project, I worked with large and small companies leading marketing and creative development, so I knew my vision for MiA was not simple. While I'd never started my own company, I'd worked as a consultant for years, and I'd worked with some of the brightest, change-focused entrepreneurs out there. Helping resurrect American manufacturing, elevating American designers, and playing a part in a global consumption shift towards sustainability wasn't exactly a fun idea, it was an ambitious one.
The MiA Project is now one of the most robust and also attentively-selected made-in-America marketplaces and platforms on the web, featuring designers and makers from around the country. We create experiences surrounding made-in-America themes through storytelling, community events, a Badge of Honor, and now brick and mortar stores.
Consumption in its many forms skyrockets during the holidays. Of course you know that! This isn't a bad thing; it's an opportunity. The money you spend and the gifts you give makes you a powerhouse, and you probably don't realize it! Your purchases catalyze some of the most important issues on the planet: human rights and labor laws, sustainability, job creation or elimination, and preservation or degradation of materials. With a swipe of a card or an exchange of a bill, you send a signal of support to the people or company behind the purchase, the issues behind the purchase, and so much more. So perhaps allocate some of your holiday spends this season to independent stores, to artisans, to American-made, to local, wherever you live.


Zingfit is a handy system designed for fitness industry users. Yoga classes organizers, indoor cycling Boot camps and all similar venues can all be handled through Zingfit, as this software allows you to schedule your cycling classes, customize pricing details, and monitor website content with ease.
The feature suite is incredible, having in mind the reasonable and affordable price. Designed by a team of highly qualified engineers, Zingfit allows you to maintain a powerful online store, track payrolls, schedule appointments, and collect payments all from a single platform. To ensure security and protection, password for browsers are also given to the users enabling them with more control.
With some of the most advanced features on offer, Zingfit has built awesome customer relationships over the years, and continues to blossom as we speak.
To better engage your customers, Zingfit offers personal performance analytics. Each of your customers can see how many calories they burn, their average generated power, as well as the RPM they could spin the cycle at. Such features develop customer's interest and add value to your services.
If your club has cycles from more than one brand, you can let your customers choose the bike they want. They can reserve a particular slot through the interactive visual map of your class floor. They get to see the available spots and timings without having to click on too many links.
Just so you don't get bored of too many numbers, Zingfit has an attractive reporting and analytics interface. You can monitor attendance, marketing reports, corporate dashboards, and much more.
Collecting payments becomes a breeze with this software. You can check out recurring payments, commissions staff payroll, and administration details. There will no longer be the need to run after customers for payments, nd all unpleasant arguments and conflicts will be avoided.
A mobile web application for this software is also available. In fact, you get to customize the mobile web app the way you like to make it more business-specific. Mobile app ensures that you don't miss out on potential customers and it makes a good percentage of your total clients.
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Each company has different needs and requires a system that can be personalized for their size, kind of workers and customers, and the particular industry they are in. For these reasons, no software can proffer perfect features out-of-the-box. When you try to find a software product, first be sure what you want it for. Read some Zingfit reviews and ask yourself do you desire basic tools or do you require complex tools? Are there any industry-specific features that you are looking for? Get the answers to these questions to assist your search. There are multiple factors that you need to mull over and these include your finances, particular business requirements, your organization size, integration requirements etc. Take your time, check out a few free trials, and finally choose the system that offers all that you require to enhance your organization efficiency and productivity.
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