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To understand this...
www.tomsguide.com/us/net-neutrality-free-speech,news-18792.html
FCC Advances Plan that Threatens Net Neutrality
(Related) You should read this.. (Very cool graphic, by the way)
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/net-neutrality-free-speech,news-18792.html
5 Freedoms You'll Lose Without Net Neutrality
(Related) He doesn't need to.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/net-neutralitys-little-known-hero-antonin-scalia/361315/
Antonin Scalia Totally Gets Net Neutrality
Interesting stunt, but would this make the algorithm liable for its bad recommendations?
Algorithm appointed board director
A venture capital firm has appointed a computer algorithm to its board of directors.
The program - called Vital - will vote on whether to invest in a specific company or not.
The firm it will be working for - Deep Knowledge Ventures - focuses on drugs for age-related diseases.
It said that Vital would make its recommendations by sifting through large amounts of data.
In a global market, it is important to say "We work in your language!" That is far easier than saying, "You need to learn English." Look next for tools that will translate spoken words, not just written words – much more difficult application.
http://www.fashiontimes.com/articles/7126/20140517/google-buys-word-lens-translation-app-enhance-translate.htm
Google Buys Word Lens Translation App to Enhance Google Translate
Perspective. In todays global market, if your start-up makes you a millionaire, you are a failure? "Billion is the new Million?"
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Pinterest-valued-at-5-billion-after-latest-5484966.php
Pinterest valued at $5 billion after latest funding round
Pinterest Inc. raised $200 million in a funding round that gives the San Francisco online-scrapbook startup a $5 billion valuation, up from $3.8 billion seven months ago.
The money came from existing investors, including SV Angel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Fidelity Investments, Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Valiant Capital Partners. The new round brings the total raised to $764 million, Pinterest said.
The funding for Pinterest, which has yet to start generating significant sales, is part of a spate of fundraisings at multibillion-dollar valuations.
Uber Technologies Inc., the San Francisco car-service startup is seeking to join the $10 billion-plus club.
… Room-sharing service Airbnb Inc. and online storage service Dropbox Inc. were valued at $10 billion after recent fundraising, while Palantir Technologies Inc. sought at least a $9 billion value last year.
By contrast, the median market capitalization for technology companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is about $16 billion.
I took Economics years and years ago, but one thing I do remember is that artificial minimums or maximums are not a good idea. If you could solve income inequality by legislation, why not go all the way and make the minimum wage $500 per hour ($1,000,000 per year) – then everyone would be rich and no one would have to work! Utopia!
http://www.kwch.com/Where-could-you-get-25-minimum-wage/26013846
Where could you get $25 minimum wage?
… Labor unions have been campaigning for months to win public backing for a minimum hourly wage of 22 Swiss francs, or nearly $25.
The Swiss government and business leaders have warned that the initiative would destroy jobs, hurt lower skilled employees and make it harder for young people and others to enter the workforce.
"The proposed statutory minimum wage would be the highest in the world, by some margin," the Swiss economics ministry said in a statement. "Consequently, those who would suffer most from the initiative are those it is supposed to benefit."
… Based on a World Bank conversion rate, 22 francs per hour would be equivalent to roughly $17.60 in the United States once the difference in cost of living is taken into account. That would put Switzerland comfortably at the top of the international minimum wage league.
Only Germany would come close to paying similar rates. Europe's biggest economy will introduce a national minimum wage next year for the first time, at 8.50 euros an hour. That's worth about $15 in the U.S.
I suspect my students could learn something by reading this!
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-youre-using-web-wrong-avoid-frustration-embarrassment/
5 Ways You're Using The Web Wrong: Avoid Frustration & Embarrassment
… Here at MakeUseOf, we've offered a number of etiquette guides for things like BitTorrent, using emails and forums, and even Facebook etiquette. In this general mini-guide, the focus will be more about the issues and problems that Internet newcomers commonly face, and how to avoid or deal with them.
Understanding Advertising
Understanding Fake Websites
Downloading Free Apps
Free Software Crapware And Free Trials
For my I-Students... (I just list a few)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ios-apps-sale-17-may-print-printer-free/
iOS Apps on Sale for 17 May: Print To Any Printer for Free
KAYAK Pro ($0.99, now free)
travel app, free, for a week.
Recordium Mini ($2.99, now free)
a smart little voice recorder app
PrintCentral for iPhone ($4.99, now free)
print to virtually any wireless printer
When does "Hey, That's a good idea!" translate into "If we don't do this, Class Actions will be a slam dunk?" (Is there a service for the little guys?)
http://www.securityweek.com/retailers-share-cyber-threat-intelligence-through-new-retail-isac
Retailers Share Cyber Attack Data Through New Retail-ISAC
… Officially launched on Wednesday by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC) is an independent organization that operates the Retail Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Retail-ISAC).
… Retailers are also sharing anonymized information with the U.S. government via RILA partnerships with federal agencies such as the DHS, the FBI and the United States Secret Service, RILA said.
According to the Association, R-CISC will also provide training and education and research resources for retailers.
Shakespeare said, "The first thing we do, let's automate all the lawyers!"
http://www.bespacific.com/machine-intelligence-will-transform-role-lawyers-delivery-legal-service/
How Machine Intelligence Will Transform the Role of Lawyers in the Delivery of Legal Service
McGinnis, John O. and Pearce, Russell G., The Great Disruption: How Machine Intelligence Will Transform the Role of Lawyers in the Delivery of Legal Services (May 13, 2014). Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-17; 82 Fordham Law Review 3041 (2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2436937
"This Article argues that machines are coming to disrupt the legal profession and that bar regulation cannot stop them. Part I describes the relentless growth of computer power in hardware, software, and data collection capacity. This Part emphasizes that machine intelligence is not a one-time event that lawyers will have to accommodate. Instead, it is an accelerating force that will invade an ever-larger territory and exercise a more firm dominion over this larger area. We then describe five areas in which machine intelligence will provide services or factors of production currently provided by lawyers: discovery, legal search, document generation, brief generation, and prediction of case outcomes. Superstars and specialists in fast changing areas of the law will prosper — and litigators and counselors will continue to profit — but the future of the journeyman lawyer is insecure. Part II discusses how these developments may create unprecedented competitive pressures in many areas of lawyering. This Part further shows that bar regulation will be unable to stop such competition. The legal ethics rules permit, and indeed where necessary for lawyers to provide competent representation, require lawyers to employ machine intelligence. Even though unauthorized practice of law statutes on their face prohibit nonlawyers' use of machine intelligence to provide legal services to consumers, these laws have failed, and are likely to continue to fail, to limit the delivery of legal services through machine intelligence. As a result, we expect an age of unparalleled innovation in legal services and reject the view of commentators who worry that bar regulations are a significant stumbling block to technological innovation in legal practice. Indeed, in the long run, the role of machine intelligence in providing legal services will speed the erosion of lawyers' monopoly on delivering legal services and will advantage consumers and society by making legal services more transparent and affordable."
Just reminding my students that stockholders can get management's attention – even if they can't force the changes they want.
http://wallstreetpit.com/104041-chipotle-stockholders-overwhelmingly-reject-executive-pay-plan-cmg/
Chipotle Stockholders Overwhelmingly Reject Executive Pay Plan – CMG
… During the Mexican food chain's annual meeting in Denver, a stunning 77 percent of shareholders voted against ratifying the current executive compensation plan that had awarded more than $300 million to its founder Steve Ells and his co-chief, Montgomery F. Moran, in recent years.
The vote against the company-backed "say-on-pay" proposal, while advisory and non-binding, was the most profound shareholder rejection of any measures this year.
Chipotle is taking the rebuke "very seriously," according to spokesman Chris Arnold.
It's bad enough that my students can tweet such earth shattering news as, "Spilled coffee on my homework." Now I have to watch the clean-up live as it happens? Some potential for Privacy violation?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/is-adding-live-video-moblis-last-throw-of-the-photo-app-dice/
Is Adding Live Video Mobli's Last Throw Of The Photo App Dice?
Mobli, the social-mobile photo and video-sharing app which competes with Instagram and the like, has a major update out today that adds one, single important new feature: live broadcast streaming. The question is, will this be enough to attract the attention of the millions sharing images on Instagram and, now, WhatsApp?
CNN may have it right.. Business opportunity: Phoney Google Glasses, look cool for only $15!
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-glass-explorer-program-finally-opens-to-public/
Google Glass Explorer program finally opens to public
After many months of hype, now anyone can pay $1,500 to be threatened by surly Luddite pub patrons.
Good news! Now that Google Glass has become something of a punch line or a pariah, and word is out that the markup on the cost of building each unit could be as high as 1,000 percent, the beta program to test out the wearable augmented-reality display is finally open to the public.
Serious about Privacy?
California Court of Appeals Creates New Argument for Protecting Anonymous Online Speech
Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen writes:
In a decision issued today, the California Second District Court of Appeal has created an additional way for anonymous speakers, and for web operators who host anonymous comments, to protect the right to speak anonymously. Instead of invoking the First Amendment as courts in other states, and indeed other appellate courts in California have done, the Court of Appeal reversed an order compelling the identification of an anonymous speaker because the discovery order violated the state constitutional right of privacy.
Read more on Public Citizen.
Not so serious about Privacy.
Police No Longer Need Warrants To Search Cars In Pennsylvania
Cherri Gregg reports:
A recent ruling from Pennsylvania's highest court could have a big impact on your privacy rights during a car stop.
Pennsylvania traditionally provided broader privacy protection than the US Constitution. For decades, police in the Commonwealth had to get obtain warrant from a judge before they could do a car search unless time was of the essence or the evidence could be lost or destroyed. But now, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's 4 to 2 decision in Commonwealth v. Gary changes the rule.
"There'll be lesser protection of privacy in Pennsylvania," says Dave Rudovsky, a professor at Penn Law school and a civil rights attorney.
Read more on CBS Philly.
Perhaps we should require that anything connected to the Internet be painted orange or have a flashing light.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248349/An_Internet_of_Things_prediction_for_2025_with_caveats
An Internet of Things prediction for 2025 -- with caveats
A massive survey by the Pew Research Center about the Internet of Things in 2025 is very optimistic about the future of the technology. But even though the report seemingly tramples on IoT skeptics, its responses are filled with questions, doubts and caveats.
Some 1,600 people in the technology industry, academia, consulting, law and others with expertise on this issue were surveyed, and 83% agreed that the Internet of Things, embedded and wearable computing, will "have widespread and beneficial effects" by 2025. (Report PDF)
Someone thinks Google Glass is useful.
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/google-glass-given-to-all-medical-students-at-uc-irvine-223771.html
Google Glass given to all medical students at UC Irvine
My students will be elated?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game-news/10832750/Flappy-Bird-to-return-to-App-Store-in-August.html
Flappy Bird to return to App Store in August
Perspective. My Computer Security students will not be surprised. NOTE: Imagine how the volumes will increase as the Internet of Things is fully implemented...
http://www.securityweek.com/enterprises-generate-10000-security-events-day-average-report
Enterprises Generate 10,000 Security Events Per Day on Average: Report
According to a new report provided by threat protection vendor Damballa, the devices in an average company's network are generating an average of 10,000 security events per day, with the most active generating roughly 150,000 events per day.
Compiled from analysis of 50% of North American ISP Internet traffic and 33% of mobile traffic, along with large volumes of traffic from global ISPs and enterprise customers, the report found that large, globally dispersed enterprises were averaging 97 active infected devices per day and leaking an aggregate average of more than 10GB of data per day.
"Such figures illustrate how daunting it is for security staff to manually trawl through mountains of alerts in order to discover which (if any) constitute a real and present threat," the Damballa explained in its Q1 2014 State of Infections Report (PDF).
… According to a recent jobs study from Burning Glass Technologies, demand for cyber-security professionals remained high in 2013. Burning Glass identified 209,749 national postings for cyber-security jobs in 2013, and determined that the average salary for a cyber-security posting was $93,028, according to the report, which was compiled by reviewing job postings across 32,000 online sites daily.
(Related) (You can download a PDF version free.)
http://www.bespacific.com/nexus-cybersecurity-public-policy/
At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy
"We depend on information and information technology (IT) to make many of our day-to-day tasks easier and more convenient. Computers play key roles in transportation, health care, banking, and energy. Businesses use IT for payroll and accounting, inventory and sales, and research and development. Modern military forces use weapons that are increasingly coordinated through computer-based networks. Cybersecurity is vital to protecting all of these functions. Cyberspace is vulnerable to a broad spectrum of hackers, criminals, terrorists, and state actors. Working in cyberspace, these malevolent actors can steal money, intellectual property, or classified information; impersonate law-abiding parties for their own purposes; damage important data; or deny the availability of normally accessible services. Cybersecurity issues arise because of three factors taken together – the presence of malevolent actors in cyberspace, societal reliance on IT for many important functions, and the presence of vulnerabilities in IT systems. What steps can policy makers take to protect our government, businesses, and the public from those would take advantage of system vulnerabilities? At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy offers a wealth of information on practical measures, technical and nontechnical challenges, and potential policy responses. According to this report, cybersecurity is a never-ending battle; threats will evolve as adversaries adopt new tools and techniques to compromise security. Cybersecurity is therefore an ongoing process that needs to evolve as new threats are identified. At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy is a call for action to make cybersecurity a public safety priority. For a number of years, the cybersecurity issue has received increasing public attention; however, most policy focus has been on the short-term costs of improving systems. In its explanation of the fundamentals of cybersecurity and the discussion of potential policy responses, this book will be a resource for policy makers, cybersecurity and IT professionals, and anyone who wants to understand threats to cyberspace."
There are benefits to being a large contributor to Presidential campaigns beyond "civic pride."
http://www.bespacific.com/epic-obtains-letter-concerning-justice-department-non-investigation-google-street-view/
EPIC Obtains Letter Concerning DOJ Non-Investigation of Google Street View
"Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, EPIC has obtained the closing letter from the Department of Justice to Google attorneys in the Street View matter. The letter briefly mentions Google's interception and collection of private Wi-Fi communications across the United States over several years. The disclosure of the activity occurred after a European data protection authority discovered that Google's "Street View" vehicles also captured private Wi-Fi data. More than 12 countries subsequently investigated Google's programs, and at least 9 countries found Google guilty of violating their laws. The letter from the DOJ states that US officials were aware that Google's "equipment collected 'payload' data, including contents of e-mail and Internet addresses typed by users," but the Department "decided not to seek charges" against Google for violating the Wiretap Act. The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a federal court's decision to allow a class action lawsuit against Google to move forward for wiretap violations stemming from the Street View program. For more information, see EPIC: Investigations of Google Street View and EPIC: Joffe v. Google."
Don't we model this stuff? Would it have been cheaper to raise the bottom of the tax brackets? (i.e. No tax due if you earn less than "X" – and adjust "X" for inflation.) Probably wouldn't allow the bureaucrats to add thousands of new employees...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/05/13/irs-paid-least-improper-tax-credits/hY8eXIz9dxfK3wE8IC68xN/story.html
IRS paid $13b in bogus credits, inspector says
The Internal Revenue Service paid more than $13 billion in tax credits last year to people who may not have qualified, a government investigator said Tuesday.
The agency's inspector general issued a report Tuesday saying the improper payments for the Earned Income Tax Credits program were between $13.3 billion and $15.6 billion. That's about a quarter of all EITC payments, which are supposed to go to low-income working families.
… Using IRS statistics, the inspector general's report provided an estimated range of improper EITC payments from 2003 through 2013. The report says the IRS paid out at least $124.1 billion in improper payments during the period, and perhaps as much as $148.2 billion.
This might help our students...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-websites-blogs-can-teach-social-media/
Learn Everything About Social Media From These 4 Websites & Blogs
Having a Facebook account in the 21st century is almost like having a landline in the 80s. An accepted, ordinary part of everyday life. There's even a phrase to describe those who have grown up in this wonderful, wired era: digital natives. But even though most people can craft a status update, few actually possess a detailed, intimate knowledge of how social media works.
… Whatever your circumstances, you need to check out these four blogs and websites. They'll turn you into a better social media user, guaranteed.
For my Computer Forensics students?
Foto Forensics
http://www.fotoforensics.com/
– is a free web site intended to provide budding researchers a sample of what can be done with digital photo forensics. Using algorithms, researchers can determine if a picture is real or computer graphics, if it was modified, and even how it was modified. Following the disclosure of these algorithms, many people began recreating them. "Foto Forensics" is one of them.
For my students. If nothing else, this has some potential for gaming...
Drop Messages
http://www.dropmessages.com/
– lets you leave messages in locations for your friends to discover. When your friends reach the location where you have sent a Drop, they will receive your message, like a virtual sticky note. Set an Upcoming Location to tell your friends where you are headed, so they can leave Drops for you to discover when you arrive. Drop is a whole new way to stay connected.
A tie-in to my "How to Lie with Statistics" lecture. Perfect timing.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/world/europe/ukraine-cnn-poll/
Ukraine favors Europe over Russia, new CNN poll finds
… Two out of three (67%) people in Ukraine approve of economic sanctions against Russia, while one out of three (29%) disapproves, the poll by ComRes for CNN found.
Ukrainians tend to see Russian President Vladimir Putin as dangerous and a strong leader, while they consider U.S. President Barack Obama friendly.
More than half (56%) said they felt a stronger sense of loyalty to Europe than to Russia, while 19% said they felt more loyal to Russia and 22% said neither. Three percent said they didn't know.
… The findings, by the London-based agency ComRes for CNN, come from a nationally representative telephone poll of 1,000 Ukrainians conducted by telephone in Russian and Ukrainian from May 7-11. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Things and stuff. Security gets more generic as we "progress."
http://www.securityweek.com/massive-challenge-securing-internet-things
The Massive Challenge of Securing the Internet of Things
If the buzz last year was all about software defined networking (SDN), this year's buzz is about the Internet of Things – everyday devices that are IP-enabled, can communicate over the Internet and can transmit what may be very confidential and important data. In fact, according to data from Cisco, there are now more "things" connected to the Internet than there are people on Earth, and these "things" are not just smartphones and tablets. For example, a Dutch startup, Sparked, is using wireless sensors on cattle so that when one of them is sick or pregnant, it sends a message to the farmer.
… Massive number of devices means massive ways to target an organization - Gartner estimates that the number of IP-enabled devices will reach 26 billion while IDC projects 212 billion installed devices by the end of 2020. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s chairwoman, in a conference on the Internet of Things last year, predicted 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020.
How specific must the "request" be? "Delete document 806-b" or "Delete stuff related to my bankruptcy?"
'Right to be forgotten': EU court rules Google must amend results on request
Alan Travis and Charles Arthur report the stunning ruling:
A European court has backed the "right to be forgotten" and said Google must delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results when a member of the public requests it.
The test case ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.
Read more on The Guardian.
This is huge.
In technical terms the ruling establishes that a search engine such as Google must be regarded as a "data controller" under the data protection laws in those EU countries where it establishes a branch to promote and sell advertising.
(Related) How would this judge request removal of data?
Monroe County judge David Audlin steps down, laments 'invasion of my privacy' after hookup site reveal
Cammy Clark reports:
Judge David Audlin was serving as Monroe County's chief circuit judge in late April when he announced via an open letter to friends and colleagues that he was retiring with four years left in his second six-year term.
The well-respected Audlin, 56, who was elected in 2006 and again in 2012, did not give a reason at the time for his sudden and unexpected departure from his $145,000-per-year judgeship with the 16th Judicial Circuit Court.
On Friday, his last day as a judge, Audlin said his voluntary decision was based on an "inappropriate invasion of my privacy."
Read more on Miami Herald.
Interesting enough to watch?
Upcoming on PBS: United States of Secrets
From PBS:
How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? In United States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government's massive and controversial secret surveillance program—and the lengths they went to trying to keep it hidden from the public.
Part one, from Michael Kirk (League of Denial, Bush's War), goes inside Washington to piece together the secret political history of "The Program," which began in the wake of September 11 and continues today—even after the revelations of its existence by Edward Snowden.
Then, in part two, Martin Smith (The Untouchables, To Catch a Trader) explores the secret relationship between Silicon Valley and the National Security Agency: How have the government and tech companies worked together to gather and warehouse your data? Part political thriller and part spy novel, United States of Secrets is FRONTLINE's definitive history of domestic surveillance in a post-9/11 world.
Stuff you can use.
ICO turns teacher with hit-list of top data breach weaknesses
John E. Dunn reports:
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is burnishing its credentials as a centre of best practice by publishing a hit-list of the top security weaknesses it says are the root cause of many of the data breaches it investigates.
Protecting Personal Data in Online Services: Learning from the Mistakes of Others serves as an outline of the top issues, each of which is accompanied by an analysis with recommendations on remediation. The ICO doesn't order the security vulnerabilities in terms of their seriousness, but some are so basic the point is that simple failings are often the most accommodating to attackers.
Read more on TechWorld.
Food for thought, lawyer guys. Is he right?
http://e-discoveryteam.com/2014/05/11/the-importance-of-cybersecurity-to-the-legal-profession-and-outsourcing-as-a-best-practice-part-one/
The Importance of Cybersecurity to the Legal Profession and Outsourcing as a Best Practice – Part One
Cybersecurity should be job number one for all attorneys. Why? Because we handle confidential computer data, usually secret information that belongs to our clients, not us. We have an ethical duty to protect this information under Rule 1.6 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
… The threat is now increasing rapidly because there are now criminal gangs of hackers, including the Chinese government, that have targeted this ESI for theft. These bad hackers, knows as crackers, have learned that when they cannot get at a company's data directly, usually because it is too well defended, or too risky to attack, there is often a back door to this data by way of the company lawyers.
I'm confused. Is AT&T looking for TV subscribers or the Wi-Fi spectrum they own?
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/att-said-to-be-in-talks-for-directv/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
AT&T Courts Satellite TV With an Eye on Growth
AT&T is in talks to buy DirecTV for at least $50 billion, and the two sides are actively working toward an announcement, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
If completed, a deal would give AT&T, the country's second-largest wireless carrier, control of the country's largest satellite television provider, further reshaping the rapidly changing telecommunications and television industries.
… AT&T has refocused its attention on the United States market, believing it has an opportunity to expand its footprint in the pay-television business. DirecTV has about 20 million subscribers in the United States.
… But several people in the industry said they believed that the ideal target for AT&T would be not DirecTV but its main competitor, Dish Network. Dish, run by the billionaire Charles W. Ergen, has amassed a trove of spectrum that could be valuable to AT&T as it seeks to build out its wireless network.
For my students. (Infographic)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/9-ways-productive/
9 Ways To Be More Productive
Dilbert illustrates "Digital Attention Deficit Disorder"
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-05-13/
I want one! The school has a 3D printer, all I need is a good picture of my favorite law school professor! (ThatsMyFace will turn a couple of photos into a 3D rendering)
Anti-surveillance mask enables you to pass as someone else
If you are not comfortable with the surveillance cameras, an identity replacement technology that is basically a Surveillance identity prosthetic provides you a new face.
If you find all people around you having the same face like you saw of the agents in Matrix 3, then Leo Selvaggio is the one to thank.
He has designed a rubber mask with the aim to foil surveillance cameras.
… It is basically a 3D printed resin mask which has been made by using a 3D scan (of Selvaggio's face), and has been formulated by Thatsmyface.com. The mask renders both his skin tone and his features, and provides quite a realistic look. However the eyes which appears from the eye holes in the mask look a bit creepy.
You mean it's possible to get it wrong?
http://www.bespacific.com/new-llrx-unwarranted-dna-sampling-legacy-maryland-v-king/
New on LLRX – Unwarranted DNA Sampling: The Legacy of Maryland v. King
Via LLRX.com - Unwarranted DNA Sampling: The Legacy of Maryland v. King
"Criminal law expert Ken Strutin's article addresses how DNA forensics is about information, privacy and the presumption of innocence. It has become the determinant for identification, solving cold cases and exonerating the innocent. Strutin describes that at its core, it is an inestimable library of personal data. Due to the increasingly important role of Personally identifiable information (PII), courts and legislatures have been attempting to balance the interests of the individual in protecting their genetic information with the usefulness and necessity of that same data for criminal investigation. Strutin notes clearly that any DNA or forensic database is a composite of intertwined informational and legal values that pose competing and conflicting questions about the analytics (accuracy, reliability and validity) of the data and the lawfulness (constitutionality) of its gathering. His article collects recent notable decisions and scholarship appearing in the aftermath of Maryland v. King.
"Gee, we don't understand. All of the lobbyists for our big contributors told us this was the right thing to do..."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454945,00.asp
Report: FCC to Revamp Net Neutrality Rules After Backlash
Amidst backlash over his proposed net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will reportedly circulate revised rules that spell out what the agency will and will not accept from broadband providers.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the updated rules specify that the FCC will review any sort of paid prioritization deals to make sure they don't unfairly disadvantage other companies.
The draft, an FCC official told the Journal, will also ask for comment on whether such paid deals should be banned altogether. Or, if the FCC should scrap its plan and seek to reclassify broadband as a telecom service instead of an information service.
It has always been so – think about it.
Michael Hayden: "We Kill People Based on Metadata"
I have a New York Review of Books blog up today on Congress's efforts to rein in NSA spying — or at least that part of it that directly targets Americans. It starts with a remarkable admission former director of NSA and CIA Michael Hayden made in a debate I had with him last month at Johns Hopkins, in which he asserted, in response to my argument that metadata is very revealing – "We kill people based on metadata."
But the focus of the piece is Congress's effort to rein in NSA metadata collection. To many peoples' surprise, the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees this week unanimously approved an amended version of the USA Freedom Act, the bill originally introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative James Sensenbrenner. In my blog, I address whether this unprecedented bipartisan agreement should be grounds for suspicion.
(Related) ...and we can find metadata anywhere! (Serve your subpoena/warrant locally, grab data globally.)
SDNY Significantly Broadens Reach Of Warrants Under The Stored Communications Act: Forces Microsoft To Produce Customer Email On An Extraterritorial Server
I've mentioned this ruling on Pogo before, but thought some readers might appreciate this write-up by Bennett B. Borden, Andrea L. D'Ambra and Edward James Beale of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP:
On April 25, 2014 in the Southern District of New York, U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV compelled extensive production of the contents of an unnamed user's email account stored on a Microsoft server located in Dublin, Ireland.1 Memorandum and Order, In the Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain E-Mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corp., 13 Mag. 2814 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 25, 2014). This startling ruling could have a significant impact on not only the use of free email services like Hotmail and Gmail, but also all cloud-based services like Office 365, Google Apps, and even cloud providers like Amazon. If this ruling stands and is widely adopted, U.S. service providers may be compelled to produce customer's data regardless of the jurisdiction in which it physically resides.
Read more on Mondaq.
What if the phrase the government translated as "deliver a bomb" really meant "deliver a pizza?"
Criminal Defendants Should Have Chance to Review FISA Materials, EFF and ACLU Argue in Amicus Brief
Hanni Fakhoury writes:
In the 36-year existence of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the government has never disclosed classified FISA materials—the specific applications for surveillance and the factual affidavits that support the surveillance request—to a criminal defendant. That all changed in January 2014 when a federal judge in Chicago ordered the government to turn over surveillance applications and affidavits to the attorneys representing Adel Daoud, a 19 year-old accused of attempting to blow up a bar in Chicago. As the government appeals that decision to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, we've signed onto an amicus brief written by the ACLU and the ACLU of Illinois filed today that explains why Judge Sharon Coleman was right to order disclosure.
Ready, Fire, Aim" This judge gets it!
Grewal Blocks Search of Google Accounts, Chides Google for Not Fighting Overbroad Warrant Applications
Julia Love reports:
A Bay Area federal judge refused to let the government search a Google email account Friday and chided the Mountain View company for not living up to its pledge to push back against sweeping requests for user data.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal of the Northern District of California denied federal prosecutors' application for a warrant for the Gmail account, finding the request overbroad and perhaps unconstitutional. The San Jose judge agreed in a six-page order that there was probable cause that the Gmail account contained evidence of theft of government funds. But he found the government had put few limits on its request, not even narrowing down a time frame for the search. "The court is … unpersuaded that the particular seize first, search second proposed here is reasonable in the Fourth Amendment sense of the word," he wrote.
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This is the same government request that was denied by U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola in D.C., and Grewal noted that it appeared the government was just court-shopping to get a better result. But it was his slap on the wrist to Google that is likely to be somewhat embarrassing for the firm:
"While Google has publicly declared that it challenges overbroad warrants, in three-plus years on the bench in the federal courthouse serving its headquarters, the undersigned has yet to see any such motion," he wrote.
Update: As I kept reading online, I found this great post by Scott Greenfield.
Dilbert illustrates the "Joy" of workplace monitoring.
http://dilbert.com/strips/2014-05-11/
Must be a British thing. Another deal this non-lawyer is having trouble understanding. You get one of these letters if the ISP "believes" you are pirating content. You have no way to respond and tell them you are gathering evidence of copyright infringement. Where did this database of "known" infringers come from? Clearly not public court records, or they would already have the data.
Deal to combat piracy in UK with 'alerts' is imminent
BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will send "educational" letters to customers believed to be downloading illegally.
… The bodies had originally suggested the letters should tell repeat infringers about possible punitive measures.
They also wanted access to a database of known illegal downloaders, opening the possibility of further legal action against individuals.
… Steve Kuncewicz, a lawyer specialising in online and internet law, said the agreement had been "watered down beyond all recognition".
… Instead, letters sent to suspected infringers must be "educational" in tone, "promoting an increase in awareness" of legal downloading services.
The rights holders have agreed to pay £750,000 towards each internet service provider (ISP) to set up the system, or 75% of the total costs, whichever is smaller.
… A record of which accounts had received alerts, and how many, will be kept on file by the ISPs for up to a year.
The rights holders will receive a monthly break down of how many alerts have been sent out, but only the ISPs will know the identities of the customers involved.
A cap for the total number of alerts that can be sent out per year has also been set.
Between the four ISPS, no more than 2.5 million alerts can be sent out.
… A maximum of four alerts - by either email or physical letter - can be sent to an individual customer account. Language will "escalate in severity" - but will not contain threats or talk of consequences for the accused users.
After four alerts, no further action will be taken by the ISPs.
What's better than a $100 computer? A cheap way to "recycle" obsolete computers.
Keepod: Can a $7 stick provide billions computer access?
… Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi aim to combat the lack of access to computers by providing what amounts to an operating-system-on-a-stick.
In six weeks, their idea managed to raise more than $40,000 (£23,750) on fundraising site Indiegogo, providing the cash to begin a campaign to offer low-cost computing to the two-thirds of the globe's population that currently has little or no access.
… It will allow old, discarded and potentially non-functional PCs to be revived, while allowing each user to have ownership of their own "personal computer" experience - with their chosen desktop layout, programs and data - at a fraction of the cost of providing a unique laptop, tablet or other machine to each person.
… The pair also brought five old laptops with their hard disks removed to the school.
As they gave each child one of the Keepod USB sticks to keep, they explained the second-hand computers would boot up directly from the flash drives.
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Jewish power, as I define it, is the power to suppress criticism of Jewish power.
This blitz attack was sparked by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to a mural back in 2012. The mural was painted by US street artist Kalen Ockerman. Apparently, at the time Corbyn defended the public display of the painting on the grounds of freedom of speech.
The Labour leader was heavily criticised by Jewish institutions for supporting a mural "depicting Jewish bankers playing Monopoly on the backs of the poor." The clumsy British media didn't do its homework and failed to actually examine the mural, but instead immediately delved into the hookedness of the noses of those alleged Jewish bankers.
Embarrassingly for them, Ockerman has came forward and identified the men he depicted in the mural. They are from left to right, "Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan, Aleister Crowley, Carnegie & Warburg." Of the six men, only Rothschild and Warburg were Jewish. In fact, Aleister Crowley was noted for his anti-Semitic views. The take home message for the BBC & Co is that maybe capitalists of all races share similar shaped noses.
If you wonder what 'systematic anti-Semitsm' means, the Jewish Chronicle provides the answer. In his speech at the protest Jonathan Arkush, the leader of the ardent Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews, cited Labour's failure to take proper action on the claims of anti-Semitism against former London mayor Ken Livingstone and other Labour Party members.
Zionists do not like Ken Livingstone. This is understandable. The man is a legendary icon of ethical thinking. Despite their protests, it is still not easy for the Labour party to expel one of its legends simply for telling the truth about Hitler's collaboration with Zionism. Maybe Arkush should just give it more time.
Arkush told the crowd that the "the Labour Party must go back to being the enemy of racists—not the refuge." Of course Corbyn doesn't have a drop of racism in his entire body, but maybe Jonathan Arkush can meet his own standards and tell us how many Blacks or Muslims are members of his own Jews-only Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Maybe the Jewish community leader could try to remember that obsession with justice is not a bad thing and also that interfering with freedom of speech can easily backfire.
It is clear why some Jews are upset by Corbyn. The Labour leader treats the Jews as ordinary people. He fails to respect their choseness and ignores their sense of exceptionalism. Perhaps he believes that Jewish politics, like all other politics, ought to be subject to criticism. And now it is clear that Corbyn's approach to Jewish politics is not acceptable to Britain's Zionist Jewish establishment.
Maidenhead Synagogue Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain told the JC that this 'anti-Semitism crisis' was Mr Corbyn's "Watergate moment." I suggest the rabbi learn some Jewish history. This tsunami of Jewish self-love and empowerment could turn into a total disaster as it has time after time in the past.
British Jewish leadership is panicking. It has declared open war against a mainstream British political party. This is far from a reasonable move and if it is intended to oppose anti-Semitsm, its effect will inevitably be the opposite. Maybe gestalt psychology offers us the tools to understand such silly behavior. Jewish history teaches us that attitudes toward Jews resemble a gestalt switch. So that, for instance, once you see Israel for what it is you just can't un-see it. Once you grasp that the Jewish State is a racist oppressive force no one will be able to uproot that perception in you. Jewish Zionists do face a growing wall of resentment. Instead of dealing with it by means of self reflection, they repeat Israel's mistake and adopt the most oppressive authoritarian agenda. They are desperately trying to turn Britain into an Orwellian dystopia.
Left open is the question of how it is possible that the Jewish elite, despite its sophistication and education, never learn from the Jewish past. How is it possible that Jews keep repeating the same mistake time after time? I guess one possible answer is that Jewishness is a form of severe blindness—and that this may be the dark side of choseness.
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli jazz musician, author and political activist. His new book, "Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto," may be ordered from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.
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On 6-8 June 2019 the Department of Italian Literature, Classics, Music and Performance Studies at Sapienza University of Rome will host the international conference Rethinking the Soundscape: Musical Events and the Soundscape of Italian Cities, XVI-XIX century. This conference aims to open new perspectives on Italian urban soundscape from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth century through the study of the complex relationships between sound and space in the urban context, where different social bodies and centres of power interacted. In Italian cities sounds helped people to locate themselves in time and space, to construct their identities and to structure their interactions. Changes in sounds reflected changes in society and politics, and more in general in attitudes toward time and space.
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Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	Th	11:30 am-12:15 pm	06/07-06/28	$22.50	353145-36 3-5	Th	11:30 am-12:15 pm	07/12-08/02	$22.50	353145-37 52 HENDERSONHAPPENINGS | Spring-Summer 2018 | March-August Animals, Animals Discover the world of animals in the air, water and on land. Learn all about the animal and the letter the animal of the day begins with through worksheets, books and games. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	Th	12:15-1:00 pm	06/07-06/28	$22.50	353222-36 3-5	Th	12:15-1:00 pm	07/12-08/02	$22.50	353222-37 Kindergarten, Here I Come Your child learns basic math, reading, writing, and procedures for kindergarten in an enjoyable, safe environment. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	M,W	9:00-10:00 am	04/16-05/23	$90.00	353137-36 Kindergarten Math & Numbers Learning our numbers by writing them and beginning addition and subtraction is a great start for early math. Math and numbers are taught using worksheets and through class participation. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	Th	10:45-11:30 am	06/07-06/28	$22.50	353511-36 3-5	Th	10:45-11:30 am	07/12-08/02	$22.50	353511-37 Kindergarten Sight & Words Learning sight words using worksheets and through class participation is a valuable tool when your child is entering kindergarten. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	Th	10:00-10:45 am	06/07-06/28	$22.50	353329-36 3-5	Th	10:00-10:45 am	07/12-08/02	$22.50	353329-37 Let's Learn Our Letters Learning to write and recognize our names and letters, as well as words that start with the letter of the day, makes this class a valuable tool to help children grow and excel. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	T,Th	9:15-10:00 am	04/17-05/24	$67.50	353166-36 3-5	W	10:45-11:30 am	06/06-06/27	$22.50	353166-37 3-5	W	10:45-11:30 am	07/11-08/01	$22.50	353166-38 Messy Madness Let your child explore creativity through messy projects, science experiments and edible crafts. Kids work with glitter, Play-Doh, bubbles and anything else that is messy. We provide aprons, but wear clothes and shoes that can get messy. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	F	1:45-2:30pm	04/20-05/18	$28.13	353051-36 School Skills Children learn writing skills, how to follow directions to get classwork done, to color and paint, and to hold crayons/pencils, scissors, and glue. Class participation through show-and-tell teaches children how to speak in front of a class. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	W	12:15-1:00 pm	06/06-06/27	$22.50	353221-36 3-5	W	12:15-1:00 pm	07/11-08/01	$22.50	353221-37 Write It, Sound It Children learn to recognize letters, numbers, sounds of letters, and rhyming. The class prepares participants to write their names for reading and math. Instructor: Joyce Leehey AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-5	Th	9:15-10:00 am	06/07-06/28	$22.50	353274-36 3-5	Th	9:15-10:00 am	07/12-08/02	$22.50	353274-37 Family Storyteller This literacy program is aimed at encouraging and training parents to play a vital role in the early literacy development of their children. The program's reading and language activities are designed for families with preschoolers and beginning readers. Parent/guardian must attend with their child. Instructor: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-6	M	12:30-1:30 pm	04/16-05/21	Free	353424-36 Little Books & Little Cooks Partners in Parenting invite you to participate in a 7-week program designed for families with preschoolers to promote healthy eating, family literacy and positive parent-child interaction. Instructor: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 3-6	Th	12:30-2:00 pm	04/19-05/24	Free	353481-36 EDUCATION & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Staying Connected With Your Teen The program teaches parents and teens how to communicate more effectively and how to develop mutual trust and respect. Teens discover how they can earn more freedom and parents explore positive family management skills to reduce conflict and guide behavior. For more information, call 702-455-5295. Instructor: Clark County Department of Family Services AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 11+	Th	5:30-8:00 pm	04/19-05/24	Free	193241-36 Triple P The Triple P positive parenting program is designed to help parents with children ages 2-11 create a more stable, supportive and harmonious family. Parents learn to deal positively, consistently and decisively with problem behavior and build positive relationships with their children. For more information, call 702-455- 5835. Instructor: Clark County Department of Family Services AGE	DAY	TIME	DATE	COST	CODE 18+	T	5:30-8:00 pm	04/17-06/05	Free	193188-36 FITNESS Information on Senior Dimensions benefits can be found in the pages of this issue's Facility, Park & Trail Guide. Personal Training Proper exercise may result in improved body composition, physical performance and health outcomes. A personal trainer takes you through workouts designed to help you reach your specific goals. 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Gabby: Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, where you'll finally get real, native English conversation with your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the 'English Adventurer' and Gabby Wallace, the 'Language Angel', from Boston, USA.
Lindsay: In today's episode, you'll learn how to talk about your accomplishments and you'll get rid of a serious grammar doubt that's been driving you crazy.
Lindsay: Hey, guys. Remember your English is a Porsche and if you wanna (want to) keep tuning up your Porsche, if you wanna (want to) know all of the TOP 15 FIXES today, go straight to AllEarsEnglish.com/TOP15. And you can get that in a free e-book right away.
Lindsay: Hey, Gabby. How ya (you) doing today?
Gabby: Hey, Lindsay. I'm doing great. How are you?
Lindsay: Wonderful! I want to announce today one of our All Ears English Super Fans.
Lindsay: Today's Super Fan is Sonia Petri. Sonia is awesome! She is so active on our blog, always leaving comments on our blog, letting us know how she's using All Ears English.
Gabby: I love to see her comments, so thank you Sonia.
Lindsay: Absolutely. So, what is she actually doing to use the All Ears English Podcast? Well, she likes to pay attention to the phrasal verbs that are new for her, so that she can then start using them in her life. She also listens to our rhythm, our intonation, and the way we speak, and she tries to mirror that when she goes out into the world.
Gabby: Yeah. That's great that she's using the English and (kind of) the strategies for connecting with people that we talk about.
Gabby: Yeah. I love it. Everyone can achieve their goal. Lindsay, I wanna (want to) ask you about some things that you've achieved, actually, if that's okay.
Lindsay: That's okay. I'd be happy to talk about that.
Lindsay: (Uh-hm). And let's see what else? Well, I've started All Ears English.
Gabby: Yes! Totally, we've started All Ears English.
Lindsay: Those are my top accomplishments.
Gabby: …yeah. No, that's awesome and I love that you're talking about business, but also personal accomplishments too. Tell me something. When did you hike in Spain?
Lindsay: Yeah. I hiked in Spain back in 2010.
Lindsay: Oh, you should do it, you should do it. It was an amazing opportunity.
Lindsay: …and I'm sure some of them have done it.
Gabby: Now is that something that you always wanted to do, or was kind of a spur of the moment, spontaneous decision?
Lindsay: So, no, I had just learned about it only a year before.
Gabby: Okay, and you have also hiked Mount Fuji. You've done a lot of hiking.
Lindsay: I have hiked Mount Fuji.
Lindsay: …but my friend ended up getting altitude sickness.
Lindsay: But you know what? We got through it, we got to the top, and we got back down, and we have some awesome memories to go by.
Gabby: So, I've lived in Japan a couple of times. Now my third time, but I've never hiked Mount Fuji, and that's something I would like to do too.
Lindsay: Yeah. Well how 'bout (about) you Gabby? What are some of the things that you've done in the last couple of years, that you're proud of? What are your proudest accomplishments?
Gabby: Sure. Well, one of them, of course, like you said, is that I've helped to start All Ears English. I'm very proud of having done this together. As far as other accomplishments, I've finished a triathlon. So, I did last – no earlier this year. Wow, it seems like so long ago. I almost said last year, but this summer I finished a, a triathlon, the half-Ironman.
Lindsay: That was awesome. That was so inspiring for our community here.
Gabby: Thank you! Yeah. I know we go a lot of comments on that and I loved reading and responding to those comments. So, that was great. I really appreciated hearing from everyone. Besides that, another accomplishment, (you know), just off the top of my head, I have to say that getting my, (uh), degree, actually, my, my Masters in Education. (I mean), that was about five years ago, but it was a big accomplishment, and I just, I have to say, (you know), I really believe in education, and so for me getting my degree was a big deal.
Lindsay: Awesome. So Gabby, why did you decide to get your degree in TESOL?
Gabby: Well, I love all of those subjects too. I love learning different topics, but, (you know), two reasons. I thought that taking Masters' level classes would make me a better teacher, and make me understand the English language, and how to teach it better, and it did. I believe it did. And also it's just important to have that credential. I think we all know that one reason why we go to a university is to get that degree. So, I'm, I'm happy that I did graduate, and I got my degree and so I have that credential.
Lindsay: And what about your Ironman experience?
Lindsay: …hardest part of that entire event?
Gabby: Yeah, for me the hardest part was just not thinking about how long the whole triathlon is. Even though it's a half-triathlon, it's very long and there's (there are) points in the race when your body hurts. And so my body was hurting and I couldn't bear to think, "Oh my gosh, I have 20 miles to go. It's so far." I just had to think step-by-step. I had to think, "What else can I do besides take one more step?" So, I think… Lindsay: (Um).
Gabby: …the hardest part was just dealing with the distance and not thinking about it, (you know), not… Lindsay: Yeah.
Lindsay: And did that mentality work? Did that work, when you changed your mentality, step-by-step…?
Lindsay: …put one foot in front of the other [crosstalk].
Gabby: I've learned a lot from that experience.
Lindsay: Brilliant. Yeah. Makes a lot of sense.
Lindsay: …our experiences, right Gabby.
Lindsay: Today is one of our TOP 15 FIXES to tune up your Porsche.
versus the 'simple past' like "I did something," is a point that's a big challenge. And so we had this conversation about experiences because we commonly use, (uh), the 'present perfect', "I have done something," to talk about experiences, but you'll see throughout our conversation – you might wanna (want to) replay it – that we use 'simple past' as well. So, we jump back and forth between those two tenses to talk about the past, and I know Lindsay you had a good (kind of) general tip like how to figure out when do you use that 'present perfect' tense.
Lindsay: Yes. Absolutely. So, the key here guys is – what Gabby said is really true. Remember that it's, it's – we move back and forth very smoothly between the two.
Lindsay: So, you wanna (want to) think about the context without both points, right?
Lindsay: 'Have done' and 'did'.
Lindsay: We're zooming way out, and then when I asked Gabby, "Oh, what about the Ironman? How did you finish the Ironman?" Then we zoomed back in, right?
Gabby: Yeah. I like that.
Lindsay: So, we very smoothly move between the two by zooming in and zooming out.
Lindsay: …and tell us what you've done in the past few years, and what you did yesterday, for example. Come on back to AllEarsEnglish/188.
Gabby: …you can come to AllEarsEnglish.com/189.
Lindsay: We'll see you guys there. Thanks for listening today.


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Updated on : Thursday, August 15, 2019, 9:47 PM IST
Celebrate Independence Day 2019 at this museum in Mumbai
By FPJ Web Desk
As the nation is all set to celebrate 73rd Independence Day, Mumbai appears to be abuzz with a number of events. One such event is organised at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum. From movie-screening to storytelling, the museum, the six-day long festival has something for everyone.
Free Museum Tours (August 15)
Celebrate Independence Day at the museum with free tours, film screenings and activities.
When: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm (English)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Marathi)
Bunting Activity (August 13 to 18)
What freedom means to you? Write down your messages on coloured paper and the museum will put it up on a bunting inside the museum.
When: 10 am - 5:30 pm
Patriotic Children's Film Festival (August 15)
The Museum in collaboration with Children's Film Society of India is organising movie screenings of Indian films for children. The films are educational that will encourage the kids to reflect on the world around us. The screening is for kids of 5 years and above. The entry to the screening is free and open to all with museum entry ticket.
Bal Shivaji (The Young Shivaji)
When: 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Heda Hoda (The Blind Camel)
When: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Chota Sipahi (The Little Soldier)
Storytelling Performance | Discovery of India with Folktales
Back by popular demand with new stories, 'Discovery of India with Folktales' is an amazing storytelling performance that will transport children and adults alike through the length and breadth of India with handpicked folklore from the country. The entry to the screening is free and open to all with museum entry ticket.
When: August 18, 4 pm - 5:30 pm
Age group: 4 to 12 years.
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Royals invite Homer Bailey to spring training on minor league deal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals signed veteran right-hander Homer Bailey to a minor deal Saturday that includes an invitation to big league spring training.
The 32-year-old Bailey has spent his entire 12-year career in Cincinnati, making 212 starts and going 67-77 with a 4.56 ERA. Bailey was traded from the Reds to the Dodgers in a seven-player deal in December, but he was released and became a free agent.
Bailey has thrown a pair of no-hitters, the first against Pittsburgh in September 2012 and the other against San Francisco the following July. He won 24 games over those two seasons.
He's also dealt with injuries the past few years, though, starting the season on the disabled list each year from 2015-17. Bailey made eight starts total in 2015 and 2016.
The Royals' pitchers and catchers report to Surprise, Arizona, for spring training Tuesday.


Mumbai, August 10, 2016: For the salaried employee saving tax has always been a priority. Zeta, a fin-tech start-up, is revolutionising the Employee Tax Benefit and Rewards space and is empowering companies to increase their employees' salaries by up to Rs 30,000 without increasing the CTC or increasing company costs.
Meal vouchers, medical reimbursements, gift cards and asset reimbursements are four law-compliant tax-saving instruments that can help companies increase their employees' net take-home salaries by a significant amount. However, an estimated 10lakh of the four crore salaried professionals in the country benefit from such tax benefits. This lack of adoption is due to the cumbersome processes and tedious paperwork involved in filing claims and processing reimbursements for both employers and employees.
Zeta's digital platform along with its wide merchant acceptance network now makes the entire process very easy for both employers and employees.
HR Managers are connected to their employees' Zeta accounts through a web-based interface. This allows them to distribute meal vouchers, medical reimbursements and other tax saving instruments instantly, across geographical barriers, thereby helping them save up to 90 percent of operating time and resources.
Employees can access these grants and transact via the Zeta app on their smartphones or via a physical Mastercard-powered - Zeta Super Card - both of which are linked to their Zeta account.
They can use these grants at a wide number of stores and upload bills on the go, thereby doing away with the trouble of carrying bulky booklets or storing bills.
The combined effect of Zeta's solutions could result in savings of up to Rs.30,000 in taxes, annually. This amount is computed considering a 30% tax savings in each of these elements.


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Cleartrip rolls out route finding and booking service Waytogo
Rashi Varshney	31 Jul, 2013
Cleartrip Travel Services Pvt Ltd, which runs the online travel booking site Cleartrip.com, has rolled out route-planner cum ticket booking service Waytogo that enables users to find routes from point A to point B around the globe by air, road and rail. The OTA has partnered with Melbourne-based Rome2Rio to launch the service.
With the service, users can find routes such as New Delhi to Venice, or from Mumbai to Alibaug, depending on what the user searches for. We tried using the feature, and although the service is in beta as of now, it was working fine. According to the company, the service covers around 2.5 million places, 670 airlines and 600 ground transportation providers (trains, buses, local transit, ferries, etc.) across the globe.
Apart from searching for routes, users can also compare time of travel, mode of transport, as well as prices. One can also compare different routes on a map and select the cheapest or the most convenient one. And for those who are concerned about global warming, the company provides an option to choose the 'greenest' route to go to their destination with the help of an indicative 'green star rating' alongside each route.
Once a route a route is selected, users can also book their tickets from the Cleartrip site. For the services not provided directly by the company, it redirects to external sites (like redBus for bus booking) which provides the same.
NASDAQ-listed MakeMyTrip already offers a similar service called Route Planner. Travel search engine service Ixigo also offer a trip planner service. In India, Cleartrip competes with homegrown majors such as MakeMyTrip, Via, Yatra and Goibibo.com. Recently, Cleartrip started offering bus ticketing on its site. For the same, the company partnered with bus ticketing sites redBus and Travelyaari. The OTA already offers bookings for hotels, flights and trains.
(Edited by Joby Puthuparampil Johnson)
Cleartrip Waytogo


Financial institutions struggle to provide efficient and personalized management of thousands of investor portfolios. Smartleaf co-founder Gerard Michael notes, "Separate account management is typically costly, error prone, and inconsistent. While clients want both tax sensitivity and personalization, they get little of either. Many portfolios are reviewed sporadically, often just once each quarter for rebalancing." Michael and his team developed Smartleaf Portfolio Manager, with NAG optimization components, to make efficient and personalized account management possible for even the largest financial services companies responsible for thousands of client portfolios.
To differentiate themselves, financial institutions are now embracing the concept of 'open architecture' where in-house investment models can be blended with models purchased from third party investment firms. Smartleaf enables managers to choose the appropriate research models to best match client requirements for investment portfolios.
In addition, Smartleaf analyzes every account every day and generates client-specific trade recommendations that are tax, risk and expense sensitive, and that take into account any specific customization requests from the client. These trade recommendations enable account executives to provide significantly greater value to clients and show clients how their portfolios may be moved cost-effectively to their targeted composition.
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) know how specialized expertise can readily translate into advantages in highly competitive markets. In particular, Smartleaf's creators understood that time-to-market was critical and focused on developing a system that could translate modern portfolio theory, tax theory and analytics into a unified system. NAG's reputation and the comprehensive nature of the NAG Library made the selection of NAG components the obvious choice.


Self-employment in the Netherlands allows you to do what you want when you want for your career, but there are some things to keep in mind before starting a business in the Netherlands.
Being self-employed offers a sense of freedom and independence, but it also entails certain obligations and risks, such as paying taxes and VAT and keeping detailed records of your business activities.
If you would like to start a business in the Netherlands and you are not an EU or EEA national and not Swiss, you will have to comply with particular IND (Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst, the Dutch Immigration Authorities) formalities.
Starting a business requires a number of steps and key decisions. The process of creating a business plan enables you to look at your business in its entirety and for the long-term, which will help understand the impact of starting a business.
At this stage, you also need to think about issues such as a company name, permits and insurances, business location and financial planning.
Dutch law recognises various legal forms, such as a one-man business (eenmanszaak), a private limited company (BV) or a general partnership (VOF). The main difference is the liability should your enterprise take on any debt, as well as which tax regime applies. Most self-employed individuals and freelancers use the one-man business.
It is wise to obtain accurate and comprehensive advice as to which entity suits your business ideas best.
You may deduct the costs incurred for your company's business interests. Business expenses include costs that are necessary to carry out your business; all other costs are not tax deductible. If you have a receipt with VAT on it, you can reclaim the VAT you paid. This seems rather simple, but there are many exceptions and exclusions.
Costs for food, drinks, business lunches and dinners (including any tips) as well as conferences, seminars and study trips can only be deducted for 73.5%, and the VAT on these costs is not reclaimable.
If you travel by train or tram or even by taxi, the costs are deductible. For public transport, you do not need a VAT receipt. The VAT is always 6% and you can calculate it yourself.
Costs for clothing and personal care are not tax-deductible, except for work clothing. Work clothing is clothing that you can wear (almost) exclusively in the context of your business.
After you have thoroughly prepared and you are ready to start your business, many critical questions will still arise, and it can be a challenge to know where and how to find the answers – especially if you are not familiar with the Dutch regulatory business environment. Professional help is advisable so that you can invest your time in what matters most: building your company.


Trinity, founded in 1990, delivers support to organisations in the oil and gas and renewables industries in the UK, continental Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.
With extensive experience of the offshore installation, vessel and remote site marketplaces, Trinity International Services brings industry best-practice in engineering and design services to the construction of new and upgrade of existing installations.
The company, headquartered in Aberdeen has an international employee base of more than 140 people and is in the process of expanding its digital footprint with the launch of a new website.
Trinity has support offices in Norway and Singapore, and affiliate business activities in France, Brazil (Rio), Canada (Newfoundland), the US (Houston), Nigeria (Port Harcourt), Angola, and Vietnam.
It has invested in the development of upgraded systems designed to further improve its operational efficiency.
Stuart MacBride, chairman of Trinity International Services, says: "We have been through a long hard winter in terms of the service sector of the offshore industry and, at long last, we are seeing signs of spring.