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Singing marathon by Saffron Walden youth choir raises £450 for mayor's charity
Sam Tonkin
From left, SignuptoSing's choir administrator Steph Green, musical director Janet Wheeler, mayor of Saffron Walden Keith Eden and treasurer of SignuptoSing Amanda Shaw. - Credit: Archant
A SEVEN-HOUR singing marathon by a Saffron Walden youth choir has helped raise more than £450 in support of disabled children.
SignuptoSing, made up of youngsters aged 8-18 from the surrounding area, performed in the town hall last month – with special guest Cllr Keith Eden, the mayor of Saffron Walden, in attendance.
Money raised was donated to the mayor's chosen charity for his year in office, Saffron Walden Opportunity Playgroup.
The playgroup, which meets every Wednesday morning in term time at the United Reformed Church Hall in Abbey Lane, is for children up to the age of five with special needs, their parents or carers and under school age siblings.
Cllr Eden said it had been a "fantastic event".
"It was a wonderful evening and an incredible display of singing stamina! To see kids raising money for other young kids was magical and I hope SignuptoSing will put on a similar performance in the near future," he told the Reporter.
Choir administrator Steph Green thanked everyone who made the event a success.
She said: "This was a real community event but it could not have been done without the help of members of the Saffron Walden Choral Society, parents of children who sing in the SignuptoSing youth choir and the Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company."


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Q: How to add a button a UIView() So I have
let verticalViewOne = UIView()

I want to add the following button to this view
 /* Station */
        DRN1Button.tintColor = .systemPink
        DRN1Button.frame.size = CGSize(width: 200.0, height: 200.0)
        DRN1Button.setImage(UIImage(named: "DRN1.jpg"), for: UIControl.State(rawValue: UIControl.State.RawValue(play)))
        //playButton.imageView?.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
        DRN1Button.contentVerticalAlignment = .fill
        DRN1Button.contentHorizontalAlignment = .fill
        DRN1Button.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
        DRN1Button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(playdrn1), for: .touchUpInside)
        DRN1Button.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

       // self.view.addSubview(playButton)
        verticalStackView.addSubview(DRN1Button)

My question is how do I go about this?
as this code
verticalStackView.addSubview(DRN1Button)

brings an error that crashes the app.
NOTE: the button is  override func viewDidLoad() { while the verticalStackView is set in
 func setupHierachy(){
        view.addSubview(containerStackView)
        view.addSubview(verticalStackView)

        verticalStackView.addArrangedSubview(verticalViewOne)
        //verticalStackView.addArrangedSubview(DRN1Button)
        containerStackView.addArrangedSubview(verticalStackView)
    }

Error am getting is
Thread 1: Exception: "Unable to activate constraint with anchors <NSLayoutYAxisAnchor:0x281f52640 \"UIButton:0x10540ba90.centerY\"> and <NSLayoutYAxisAnchor:0x281f52680 \"UIView:0x10530ea40.centerY\"> because they have no common ancestor.  Does the constraint or its anchors reference items in different view hierarchies?  That's illegal."

full code.
//
//  ViewController.swift
//  1life.radio
//
//  Created by Russell Harrower on 19/3/20.
//  Copyright © 2020 Russell Harrower. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit
import AVKit
import Network
import Kingfisher

struct Nowplayng: Decodable{
    let data: [Data]
}

struct Data: Decodable{
    let track: [Trackinfo]
}
struct Trackinfo: Decodable {
    let title: String
    let artist: String
    let imageurl: String
}

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    let uuid = UIDevice.current.identifierForVendor?.uuidString
    let playButton = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y:0, width: 100, height: 100))
    let DRN1Button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y:0, width: 100, height: 48))
    var play = 0;
    var npinfo = "https://api.drn1.com.au/station/1lifeRadio/playing"
    var currentstation = "";
    var timer = Timer()

    /* V VIEWS */
    let containerStackView = UIStackView()

    let verticalStackView = UIStackView()
    let verticalViewOne = UIView()
    let verticalViewTwo = UIView()
    let verticalViewThree = UIView()

    /* END V VIEWS */

    var isPlaying = false {
        didSet {
            self.playButton.setImage(UIImage(systemName: self.isPlaying ? "play.circle" : "pause.circle"), for: UIControl.State(rawValue: UIControl.State.RawValue(play)))
            //self.isPlaying ? MusicPlayer.shared.startBackgroundMusic() : MusicPlayer.shared.stopBackgroundMusic()
            self.isPlaying ? MusicPlayer.shared.stopBackgroundMusic() : MusicPlayer.shared.startBackgroundMusic(url: currentstation)
        }
    }
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        setupViews()
        setupHierachy()
        setlayout()
        currentstation = "http://stream.radiomedia.com.au:8015/stream?uuid=\(self.uuid ?? "")"
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
        MusicPlayer.shared.startBackgroundMusic(url: "http://stream.radiomedia.com.au:8015/stream?uuid=\(self.uuid ?? "")")
        playButton.tintColor = .systemPink
        playButton.frame.size = CGSize(width: 200.0, height: 200.0)
        playButton.setImage(UIImage(systemName: "pause.circle"), for: UIControl.State(rawValue: UIControl.State.RawValue(play)))
        //playButton.imageView?.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
        playButton.contentVerticalAlignment = .fill
        playButton.contentHorizontalAlignment = .fill
        playButton.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
        playButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(buttonAction), for: .touchUpInside)
        playButton.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        self.view.addSubview(playButton)
        //verticalViewOne.addSubview(DRN1Button)

        NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
            playButton.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerYAnchor),
            playButton.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerXAnchor),
            playButton.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor, constant: -208),
            //playButton.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor, constant: 12),
            //playButton.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor, constant: -12),
            playButton.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.widthAnchor, multiplier: 0.2),
            playButton.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.widthAnchor, multiplier: 0.2),

           /* DRN1Button.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerYAnchor),
            DRN1Button.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerXAnchor),
            DRN1Button.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor, constant: 0),
            //playButton.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor, constant: 12),
            //playButton.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor, constant: -12),
            DRN1Button.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.widthAnchor, multiplier: 0.2),
            DRN1Button.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.widthAnchor, multiplier: 0.2)*/
        ])

        self.artist.textAlignment = .center
        self.song.textAlignment = .center

        nowplaying()
        scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval()

    }

    func setupViews(){
        verticalStackView.axis = .vertical
        verticalStackView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = true
        verticalStackView.distribution = .fillEqually

        verticalViewOne.backgroundColor = .red
        containerStackView.backgroundColor = .green

        containerStackView.axis = .vertical
        containerStackView.spacing = 15
        containerStackView.distribution = .fillEqually
    }

    func setupHierachy(){
        view.addSubview(containerStackView)
        view.addSubview(verticalStackView)

        verticalStackView.addArrangedSubview(verticalViewOne)
        //verticalStackView.addArrangedSubview(DRN1Button)
        containerStackView.addArrangedSubview(verticalStackView)

    }

    func setlayout(){
        containerStackView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        containerStackView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        containerStackView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.heightAnchor, multiplier: 0.2).isActive = true
        containerStackView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.leadingAnchor).isActive = true
        containerStackView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.trailingAnchor).isActive = true
    }

    @objc func appDidLaunch() {
              #if targetEnvironment(simulator)
                  /*
                 if you don't set up remote controls, the AVPlayer from
                 AVPlayerController will immediately create default remote controls
                 otherwise your simulator will not show the controls.
                 */

            self.isPlaying = false
            self.playButton.setImage(UIImage(systemName: "pause.circle"), for: UIControl.State(rawValue: UIControl.State.RawValue(play)))
                MusicPlayer.shared.startBackgroundMusic(url: "http://stream.radiomedia.com.au:8015/stream?uuid=\(uuid ?? "")")

              #else

             //  MusicPlayer.shared.setupRemoteTransportControls()
               // more custom controls set up

              #endif
    }

    @objc func playdrn1(sender:UIButton!){
        currentstation = "http://stream.radiomedia.com.au:8003/stream?uuid=\(uuid ?? "")"
        MusicPlayer.shared.startBackgroundMusic(url: "http://stream.radiomedia.com.au:8003/stream?uuid=\(uuid ?? "")")
       npinfo = "https://api.drn1.com.au/station/DRN1/playing"
    }

    @objc func buttonAction(sender: UIButton!) {
        print(self.isPlaying)
        self.isPlaying = !self.isPlaying
      }

    @IBOutlet var imageurl: UIImageView!
    @IBOutlet var artist: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet var song: UILabel!

    func scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval(){
        // Scheduling timer to Call the function "updateCounting" with the interval of 1 seconds
        timer = Timer.scheduledTimer(timeInterval: 30, target: self, selector: #selector(self.nowplaying), userInfo: nil, repeats: true)
    }

    @objc func nowplaying(){
               let jsonURLString = npinfo
               guard let feedurl = URL(string: jsonURLString) else { return }

               URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: feedurl) { (data,response,err)
                       in

               guard let data = data else { return }

               do{
               let nowplaying = try JSONDecoder().decode(Nowplayng.self, from: data)
                //print(nowplaying.data.first?.track.first?.artist as Any)
                nowplaying.data.forEach {_ in

                 DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    self.artist.text = nowplaying.data.first?.track.first?.artist
                    self.song.text = nowplaying.data.first?.track.first?.title
                 }

                if var strUrl = nowplaying.data.first?.track.first?.imageurl {
                        strUrl = strUrl.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: .urlQueryAllowed)!

                    DispatchQueue.main.sync {
                     let processor = DownsamplingImageProcessor(size: self.imageurl.bounds.size)
                         |> RoundCornerImageProcessor(cornerRadius: 20)
                     self.imageurl.kf.indicatorType = .activity
                     self.imageurl.kf.setImage(
                         with: URL(string: strUrl),
                         placeholder: UIImage(named: "placeholderImage"),
                         options: [
                             .processor(processor),
                             .scaleFactor(UIScreen.main.scale),
                             .transition(.fade(1)),
                             .cacheSerializer(FormatIndicatedCacheSerializer.png),
                             .cacheOriginalImage
                         ])
                     {
                         result in
                         switch result {
                         case .success(let value):
                             print("Task done for: \(value.source.url?.absoluteString ?? "")")
                         case .failure(let error):
                             print("Job failed: \(error.localizedDescription)")
                         }
                     }
                     }
     //                        self.imageurl.kf.setImage(with: URL(string: strUrl), placeholder: nil)
                             //MusicPlayer.shared.nowplaying(artist:  $0.track.artist, song: $0.track.title, cover:strUrl)
                            // MusicPlayer.shared.getArtBoard(artist: $0.track.artist, song: $0.track.title, cover:strUrl)
                     }

             }

             }catch let jsonErr{
                     print("error json ", jsonErr)
             }

            }.resume()
           }

}

A: First off, the line:
verticalStackView.addSubview(DRN1Button)

crashes because you are attempting to add a subview to stackView, you're supposed to do addArrangedSubview.

For the crash:

Thread 1: Exception: "Unable to activate constraint with anchors
<NSLayoutYAxisAnchor:0x281f52640 "UIButton:0x10540ba90.centerY"> and
<NSLayoutYAxisAnchor:0x281f52680 "UIView:0x10530ea40.centerY">
because they have no common ancestor.  Does the constraint or its
anchors reference items in different view hierarchies?  That's
illegal."

You have it already.
DRN1Button.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerYAnchor)

Your DRN1Button has no common ancestor with your self.view. This can mean that you haven't added your DRN1Button to a view, or most probably the line above, can't be done. While your button is in a stackview but you are setting its centerYAnchor equal to your self.view.

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Q: `static_assert` on `std::initializer_list::size` in a function In my unit tests, I want a quick and (cleanish) dirty way to assign values to a static-size C-array from an initializer_list. I'm not a complete beast, so I want to static_assert that the sizes are the same. I wrote a helper function set_array to do this:
template <typename T, std::size_t N>
constexpr void set_array(T (&x)[N], std::initializer_list<T>&& list) {
  assert(list.size() == N); // why can't I static_assert in C++17?
  for (std::size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
    x[i] = list.begin()[i];
}

with the intention of using it as set_array(foo, {1, 2, 3, 4}); with foo declared like int foo[4].
I'm using C++17, so std std::initializer_list<T>::size is constexpr, but as soon as I pass the list through a function call, I lose the privilege of treating it as constexpr since I can't constrain the function parameters to be constexpr.
This feels like it should have a simple solution that I'm not seeing. Sure, I could imagine some perverse metaprogramming games I could play to encode the size in a type, but this is a simple little helper that's supposed to make things clean and readable, and I don't want to go nuts.
Question: Is there a simple solution, or should I just live with the runtime assert? (Yes, I know that if I'm given a simple solution, I'm going to feel stupid for not having seen it myself.) Think I'm going about it the wrong way? That's fine, I'm open to suggestions and appreciate the criticism.
Details:
For completeness, here is the compiler error and version info. In Clang version 8.0.0-3 (That comes with Ubuntu clang-8) I get:
error: static_assert expression is not an
      integral constant expression
  static_assert(list.size() == N);
                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And with GCC 8.3.0 I get a similar error, additionally telling me that list is not a constant expression.

A: Arguments to functions are not constants.
This is legal in C++:
void foo( bool which ) {
  std::initializer_list<int> a = {1,2,3};
  std::initializer_list<int> b = {1,2,3,4};
  int x[4];
  std::initializer_list<int> c = which?a:b;
  set_array(x, c);
}

try this:
template<class T>
struct block_deduction_t{using type=T;};
template<class T>
using block_deduction = typename block_deduction_t<T>::type;

template <typename T, std::size_t N>
constexpr void set_array(T (&x)[N], block_deduction<T const(&)[N]> list) {
   for (std::size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
      x[i] = list[i];
}

now this permits you to omit trailing elements, but they will be zero-initialized.
Live example.
Then again, this solution:
template <typename T, std::size_t N>
constexpr void set_array(T (&x)[N], T const(&list)[N]) {
   for (std::size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
      x[i] = list[i];
}

actually blocks under-sized right hand sides.  So might be better.
Syntax exactly matches yours.
If you want a pretty error message, and for the right hand types to be converted to match the left hand side types:
template <typename T, std::size_t N, std::size_t M>
constexpr void set_array(T (&x)[N], block_deduction<T> const(&list)[M]) {
   static_assert(M==N, "wrong number of elements");
   for (std::size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
      x[i] = list[i];
}

there are many variants.

A: The reason this fails even though size is constexpr is because list is not a constexpr variable so any member function calls on it will also not be constexpr.
All is not lost though.  What you can do is use a std::array instead of a std::initializer_list which lets you even get rid of the static_assert like:
template <typename T, std::size_t N>
constexpr void set_array(T (&x)[N], std::array<T, N>&& list) {
  for (std::size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
    x[i] = list[i];
}

int main()
{
    int arr[4];
    set_array(arr, {1,2,3,4});
    std::cout << arr[3];
}

If you tried using
set_array(arr, {1,2,3,4,5});

then you would get a compiler error like
main.cpp:12:16: note: candidate function [with T = int, N = 4] not viable: cannot convert initializer list argument to 'std::array<int, 4UL>'
constexpr void set_array(T (&x)[N], std::array<T, N>&& list) {


In this lesson, we are going to look at the differences between writing a business email and writing a business letter. We are going to concentrate on how to write a business letter. We will focus on the layout, content and common expressions used. At the end of the lesson, you will write your own business letter incorporating new knowledge. Let´s begin!
How much and what do you know?
A. Look at the following statements and decide whether they are True or False. Correct the False statements.
1) Emails are more popular than letters in today's business world.
2) Sending letters is cheaper than writing emails.
3) The language found in emails and letters is the same.
4) Emails are generally shorter than letters.
5) The structure of an email and a letter is the same.
B. Why do you think emails are more common than letters in todays business world? Write 3 reasons.
Here is some advice to help you write a business letter. Read the advice and then answer the questions.
Plan what you are going to write before you start writing. Know why you are writing and how you want the addressee react to your letter.
When you are writing, make your letter look professional. Use the correct format for writing business letters. When you start, make sure you include your own address and the name and address of the person you are writing to.
Try to use uncomplicated language and keep your sentences short. A complicated letter which is difficult to read will not give the right impression.
Keep your ideas in clear paragraphs. Ideally one idea per paragraph. Always start your letter stating why you are writing, then develop your letter and eventually end the letter stating what you expect the addressee to do.
Once you have finished your letter, always re-read it and check for any spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors.
B. Here a list ofthe most common business letters which are written in the business world. Put them into the correct categories.
C. The following business letter has been mixed up. Look at the picture, in the boxes below enter the correct letter order.
E. What is the purpose of the each paragraph in the letter? Use your imagination.
I booked tickets for my boss and three of his VIP clients to see the production of the women in Pinkon Thursday 15th December. The main reason we chose this production was because of the excellent reviews that it had received in the Production Weekly magazine.
However, unfortunately, my boss´s VIP clients were unable to make it to London on the 26th December due to the closure of Heathrow airport. As a result, my boss's VIP clients did not get to see the performance that they had thoroughly been looking forward to seeing.
When I went to the theatre on the day of the performance, I explained the unfortunate situation to the Box Offce, and they said were unable to do anything with the tickets. For this reason I am writing to you. I enclose the tickets which they were unable to use, with the hope that we can exchange them for tickets to view the production on another date.
My boss's VIP clients are hoping: to return on Wednesday 4th February and we would love for them to have the opportunity to see the fantastic production. Could you please tell me if this would be a possibility?
Put the expressions into the correct columns.


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El paquete hebdomadaire est une sorte de panier informatique de contenus audiovisuels et Internet piratés qui est vendu « sous le manteau » auprès de la population de Cuba.

Présentation
À Cuba, Internet n'est pas accessible à tous et quand c'est le cas il est très lent. El paquete permet aux Cubains de recevoir les informations américaines, de la musique et des divertissements.

Environ la moitié de la population cubaine, soit cinq millions de Cubains, l'utilise chaque semaine, ce «paquet» de contenus culturels.

Références

Communication à Cuba
Économie à Cuba

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This week the Great Western Futures Super Camp USHL Goalie of the Week is Ben Kraws of the Tri-City Storm. Kraws stopped all but one of the shots he faced against the Omaha Lancers on Saturday before stopping 29 of 31 attempts against the Fargo Force on Sunday to help the Muskies earn two key wins and keep their place in the last Clark Cup Playoffs spot in the West. This is Brink's second Player of the week honor (October 30th, 2018).
Prior to playing in the USHL, Ben Kraws' youth hockey experience spanned both Detroit and Buffalo. A Cranbury, NJ native, Kraws (18) played for Little Caesars of the High Performance Hockey League and for the Buffalo Jr. Sabres of the Tier One Elite Hockey League and the Ontario Junior Hockey League. Ben has committed to play for Enrico Blasi at Miami University in 2019.


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Barthélemy Des Bosses, né le  à Chaineux près de Liège (alors dans le Duché de Limbourg) et décédé le  à Cologne) est un prêtre jésuite belge, philosophe. Il fut ami de Leibniz avec qui il entretiendra une longue correspondance.

Biographie
Des Bosses est déjà maître ès arts lorsqu'il entre dans la Compagnie de Jésus, en 1686. Après son noviciat il retourne à l'université de Cologne où il obtient son doctorat en théologie. Il enseigne philosophie et mathématiques au collège de Hildensheim. Il est ensuite professeur de théologie morale et dogmatique à Cologne, où il devient doyen de la faculté, un poste prestigieux.

Des Bosses est surtout connu pour sa traduction en latin des Essais de Théodicée de Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leur rencontre date de 1705 et donne l'occasion à une volumineuse correspondance poursuivie jusqu'à la mort de Leibniz en 1716. La traduction parut en 1719, et fit connaître le philosophe et mathématicien au-delà des milieux intellectuels allemands.

Des Bosses meurt à Cologne le .

Bibliographie
La correspondance entre Des Bosses et Leibniz est conservée à la bibliothèque nationale de Paris; une édition latin/anglais: The Leibniz - Des Bosses Correspondence, translated by B. Look and D. Rutherford, Yale 2007.
de CERTEAU, Michel: La 'Clavis Lycaei' du Père Barthélemy Des Bosses dans 'Archives de philosophie', vol.29, 1966.
COENS, Maurice: Leibnitz a-t-il voulu publier deux de ses œuvres chez un éditeur liégeois?, dans Recueil d'études bollandiennes, Brxelles, 1963, 369-375.
MATHIEU, V.: Leibnitz et Des Bosses (1706-1716), Turin, 1960.

Liens externes

Des Bosses, Barthelemy
Bosses
Naissance en août 1668
Décès en avril 1738
Décès à Cologne
Décès dans la ville libre de Cologne
Décès à 69 ans


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Here you can find all the components that can be used on aalto.fi. This component is Lead text. Lead text is a short introduction for the article shown in the beginning.
Quotes can be used to highlight a sentence that someone has said. The sentence needs to be short, max 120 characters with spacings. A quote can include an image. Below are examples of quotes with and without an image.
Highlight components can be used similarly to quotes to emphasise a short text piece or a sentence (max 120 characters with spacings). Highlights have two theme options: Blue and Yellow. Below are examples of both themes. Kindly note, that the Highlight component is not to be used for titles or sub-titles. This, because your content won't be included in searches and, therefore, wont' reach the targeted audiences. The search engines favour the set formattings: Heading 1 (i.e. the main title), Heading 2, and Heading 3.
This is a highlight component with theme yellow.
Listing is a text component where you can add titles/categories and add information about them. The component has two display modes: accordion and double column. Accordion is a type of menu where the user can click the categories opening up more information on the topic. Double column shows all the information straight without clicking in two columns, the title/category on the left and text on the right. You can edit the titles of the items, the descriptions, the links and link texts. Below is an example of listing with two items in both display modes (listing, double column). The items can include the basic formatting.
The description of the accordion element.
The description for the second item.
The description of the listing element.
Image with text component presents a specific content in an engaging way.
In services, Image with text has two Media placements: Media on right and Media on left. Below is an example of both. It is recommended to use both placements if you use multiple of these components.
This is the Image with text component with Media placement: Media on right.
This component can include the basic formatting described above.
This is the Image with text component with Media placement: Media on left.
Single image can be used to add an image between text paragraphs. Single image does not include text paragraphs, only the image and a caption (if wanted).
In article pages, images have three size options: Large, Medium and Extra Large. The image below represents the difference between the sizes.
Media gallery component is a set of images grouped into a gallery. It includes a description of the gallery and each of the images can have a caption. An example of a gallery is below.
This a description for the Media Gallery component. It can include the basic text formatting.
Media Slider can be used to present multiple images or text pieces around a specific topic. Sliders include a description of the component on the left (for example H2 heading, normal text with links) and the picture/information slider on the right – content can be swiped via arrows.
Sliders have three possible display modes: small, medium and large. The S version automatically formats the picture into a round shape whereas the M version surrounds the picture with a round shape. The L version doesn't format the pictures to a round shape.
This is a Slider component with a Display mode: Small. It can include the basic formatting described above.
This is a Slider component with Display mode Medium. It can include the basic formatting described above.
This is a Slider component with Display mode Large. It can include the basic formatting described above.
Video clip component integrates a video from an external or internal source to the article.
Video clips look like the video below.
Manual liftups can be used to display several links to HUBs and content pages. It includes a description of the content and a set of links. Manual liftups have three possible display modes: small, medium and accordion.
The small display should be used for links that might not have an image and mainly need to display the title. The medium display is for links with images, also showing a summary text. The accordion is for links with long summaries that need to be displayed. In manual liftups, the accordion display is different from the listing version in adding images next to the title.
Below are examples of all three of these.
Select from components "Add content: automatic news liftup"
If you look at the example below, you see that e.g. this automatic news liftup shows only news articles related to "Collaboration" HUB, i.e. this automatic liftup shows only news articles that were tagged "Relates to" Collaboration HUB.
Select from components "Add content: automatic events liftup"
At last, click on "Save"
Social media component includes a title, a text piece and external URLs to social media channels. You can edit the title and text to fit your page. Example below.
Horizontal divider can be used to separate two text paragraphs with a horizontal line. Below is an example of a horizontal divider.
Quicklinks can be used to offer the most relevant links on the page. The component includes titles for the links and a small description. In addition, you can add an image for the links.
In Quicklinks, always use 3 links, the component won't work with less or more. Only use this component once per page. Below, you can find an example of Quicklinks component.
The icons (small yellow images) can be found at aalto.fi. Find the best icon for your need: add image to your quicklink item – you'll find all icon options by typing: "icon". There are currently 30 different icons.
Single liftups present another internal website through the main image and lead text. Single liftups have three possible display modes: small, medium and large. Below are examples of these.
This can be used if you want to add research outputs on your page, for example a research group's outputs.
HUB description presents the HUB with a text piece and an image. It can have two sizes: medium and large. This component is only used in HUBs. The image below presents the two size options.
Hero magazine is used only as main image on aalto.fi front page and landing pages for the Aalto schools.
Keep the title engaging and short.
Research group: how to create and how you can add your research group members to a page by creating an automatic feed?


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Cashless Debit Card Trial Update
QCOSS is committed to staying engaged with people in the Hinkler community (Bundaberg and Hervey) as the federal government's Cashless Debit Card Trial (CDCT) commences from 29 January 2019. While we remain steadfastly opposed to the CDCT for any community, we will continue to support the community by providing people affected by the trial with information about the rollout and their participation in the trial process.
We have confirmed the criteria has not changed for CDCT since the pre-notification letters were sent out in December to potential CDCT participants. Letters were sent to people who were eligible at that point in time. These people will remain eligible unless their circumstances have changed. People will not receive any further letter if they are no longer eligible (but will likely already know if their circumstances have substantially changed). Such circumstances could include (but is not limited to) people obtaining paid work or having moved out of the trial site before the deadline in December.
From 29 January the first of the confirmation letters will be sent out from DHS (Centrelink), and then separate letters from Indue followed by the Indue Card itself. These will not be done all at once, they will be done in a series of geographical tranches starting with Bundaberg. It is likely that the tranches will progress rapidly unless there are technical problems.
The Department of Social Services have advised that there are representatives located in the Hervey Bay and Bundaberg Centrelink Service Centres to assist anyone who has any questions or concerns about the card. These provide a 'shop-front' resource for those affected, or potentially affected by the trial. Further information is available on the Department of Social Services website here.
Late last year, QCOSS launched the CDCT survey to target people in the region to hear their views on the trial. We now have over 115 responses to our Hinkler CDCT survey with over 75 per cent of respondents saying they are opposed to the CDCT in its current compulsory form.
A significant majority of those identifying as individuals (around 88 per cent) have responded to the survey, as opposed to organisation representatives. So far, 51 per cent of those surveyed are expecting family or friends to be on the CDCT, with 34 per cent of service respondents' expecting to have clients in scope for the CDCT. Over half (62 per cent) of the respondents provided additional qualitative feedback.
Once the survey closes at the end of the month, QCOSS will provide a thorough breakdown of the results. If you are from the Hinkler region and you would like to participate in the survey, please contact Senior Policy Officer Rodney Holmes on (07) 3004 6930 or email [email protected].
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It could happen here: How China's social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities
Cory Doctorow 1:50 pm Thu Feb 22, 2018
Adam Greenfield (previously) is one of the best thinkers when it comes to the social consequences of ubiquitous computing and smart cities; he's the latest contributor Ian Bogost's special series on "smart cities" for The Atlantic (previously: Bruce Sterling, Molly Sauter).
Greenfield writes about China's "Citizen Scores", a rapidly growing system of social control that marries your credit report, internet usage, location data, snitching by your peers, and other factors (like your perceived "sincerity") to determine whether you can borrow money, use high-speed transport, get a job, or rent an apartment.
This system — still in its early days, but aggressively pushed by the Chinese authorities and relentlessly executed by China's tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba — is already changing the nature of urban life in China. The system is opaque and it's impossible for someone to know whether they've been denied something as a form of punishment, or what triggered that punishment, inspiring a kind of high-tech paranoiac Kafkaism.
There's nothing about Citizen Scores that makes it inherently Chinese. Western cities have implemented secret, wide-ranging mass surveillance, from CCTV to license-plate cameras to Stingray cell-site simulators. What's more, western nations have happily adopted China's internet surveillance and control tactics, from blocking order to mass internet surveillance to the creation of astroturf armies to push the state agenda.
And China got the idea of Citizen Scores from western credit bureaus, like Equifax, which operates with such impunity that even leaking the sensitive data of virtually every adult American has no real consequences.
The Chinese-Western feedback loop involves each worsening the other's worst ideas, lather-rinse-repeating in the most dystopian of fashion. China's social control is just neoliberal capitalism's social control, plus ten years.
As private enterprise takes an increasingly prominent role in the creation and management of ostensibly public urban space, as neo-authoritarianism spreads unchecked, and as pervasive technology weaves itself ever more intimately into all the sites and relations of contemporary life, all of the material conditions are right for Chinese-style social credit to spread on other ground. Consider what Sidewalk Labs' neighborhood-scale intervention in Toronto implies—or the start-up Citymapper's experiments with privatized mass transit in London, or even Tinder's control over access to the pool of potential romantic partners in cities around the world—and it's easy to imagine a network of commercial partners commanding all the choke points of urban life. The freedoms that were once figured as a matter of "the right to the city" would become contingent on algorithmically determined certification of good conduct.
It would be remarkably easy to achieve. It's just a matter of making explicit the determinations that already go into credit scores—of binding together the data brokerages that even now siphon up public records, social-media profiles, web searches, and similar digital traces of life here in the West, and making our rights and privileges as city dwellers and citizens contingent on what they infer from our behavior. Unless this tendency is contested and defeated now, what has unfolded in China since 2014 might become an early preview of the way order is achieved and maintained in the cities of the 21st century.
China's Dystopian Tech Could Be Contagious [Adam Greenfield/The Atlantic]
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Italian mafia fugitive caught in Spain after he appeared on Google Street View
After 20 years on the lam, convicted murderer and mafia Gioacchino Gammino of Italy was arrested last month in Galapagar, Spain after police spotted him in a Google Street View photo. Gammino was standing outside a fruit and vegetable store he had opened under a fake name. They confirmed his identity by comparing that photo… READ THE REST
Phone-sized Faraday bags tested
Many products promise to completely isolate phones from the rest of the electromagnetic world—Faraday cages for your gadgets. As Matt Blaze points out, modern cellphones rarely stop talking completely, even when they're supposedly turned off or in "Airplane" mode. He put three commercial pouches and three DIY ones to the test. At least in the… READ THE REST
Did you know that you are being watched in movie theaters?
If you think lights out at the movies means the coast is clear, think again. At least some movie theaters are on the lookout with cameras and vision night goggles. TikToker @.no1headache, who appears to be working at a movie theater in the video below, shows us what we show them when sitting and staring… READ THE REST


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Hospital admissions for drug-related mental and behavioural disorders fall by 12 per cent in a year
New NHS Digital data show that the hospital admissions2 for drug-related mental and behavioural disorders dropped by 12 per cent in a year, from 8,621 in 2015/16 to 7,545 in 2016/17. Admissions are still 12 per cent higher than 2006/07 when they totalled 6,743.
NHS Digital must be credited as the source of this information.
The report, Statistics on Drugs Misuse, England 2018, is an annual compendium of figures on drugs misuse in England, including hospital admissions, deaths and prevalence of drug use.
New figures from the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset in the report show that:
Around a third of patients (33 per cent) admitted for drug-related mental and behavioural disorders fell into the 25 to 34 age group, with the next largest being the 35 to 44 age group (26 per cent).
Around three in four (74 per cent) patients admitted were male
Liverpool local authority had the highest rate of admissions, with 54 per 100,000 population, followed by Hull (51 per 100,000 population)3
The report also shows that:
Hospital admissions with a primary diagnosis of poisoning by illicit drugs are highest in the 25 to 34 age group (3,232), followed by the 35 to 44 age group (2,958).
The number of deaths from drug misuse registered in England and Wales during 20164 shows that:
There were 2,593 registered deaths, a five per cent increase on 2015 (2,479 registered deaths) and at the highest level since comparable records began in 1993 (831 registered deaths)
Eighty per cent of these were due to accidental poisoning
Sixty-one per cent of the registered deaths were for people aged between 30 and 49.
Males made up 73 per cent of the registered deaths.
Prevalence5 data for adults covering England and Wales for 2016/17 shows that:
8.5 per cent of adults aged 16 to 59 have taken an illicit drug in the year prior to the survey. This is similar to the 2015/16 figure (8.4 per cent) and significantly lower than in 2006/07 (10.1 per cent).
For 16 to 24 year olds, this figure rises to 19.2 per cent which again, is similar to last year (18.0 per cent) and significantly lower than a decade ago (24.2 per cent)
Cannabis was the most commonly used drug, with 6.6 per cent of adults aged 16 to 59 having taken it in the year prior to the survey.
New psychoactive substances (legal highs) were taken by 0.4 per cent of adults aged 16 to 59 and 1.2 per cent of adults aged between 16 and 24.
Prevalence data for children in England is also available in the report, which showed that cannabis was the most popular drug with 8 per cent of 11 to 15 year olds saying they had tried it in the year prior. This figure is derived from the 'smoking, drinking and drug use among young people, 2016' survey.
Statistics on drug misuse, England 2018
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3. Figures are not available for the local authority with the lowest rate of admissions. Rates based on between 1 and 5 admissions are suppressed in order to avoid individuals being identified, while other rates in the same region are also sometimes suppressed to avoid users being able to calculate the previously suppressed rates by reference to regional totals.
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Rothschild's And The Holy Grail Bloodline Of Illuminati Kabbalists
July 31, 2010: David Livingstone / Illuminati Conspiracy Archive – August 22, 2005
Jacob Rothschild, the current head of the Rothschild dynasty, has intermarried with the Sinclair family, forging an important alliance between the head family of the Illuminati, and the supposed descendants of the Grail family.
As has been popularized recently by Dan Brown in the Da Vinci Code, or before him by the Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the Stuarts of Scotland are supposedly descended from King Arthur and Jesus Christ. These families are of course not descended from Jesus. The idea is preposterous. But they are related to the Holy Grail, and they are not Christians, but Kabbalists.
In reality, they, like all the aristocratic bloodlines that form the core of the Illuminati, are descended from Guillaume de Gellone of the eighth century AD. Guillaume's father was Rabbi Makhir, among the Exilarchs who ruled the Jews in Baghdad, who was sent West after a dispute over the successorship. In France, he took the name Theodoric, married Alda, the aunt of Charlemagne, and was appointed "King of the Jews" in the region of the Languedoc, with his capital the city of Narbonne.
Narbonne then became the heartland of the Medieval Kabbalah. The Kabbalists of Narbonne seem to have been responsible for instigating the Crusades, in order to retrieve sacred texts that had been buried there, but which had been unaccessible because of first the rule of the Romans, and then the Muslims. Once Jerusalem was conquered, a Kabbalistic order of knights known as the Templars conducted excavations, and discovered the text of the Sepher ha Bahir , which revived the lost mystical tradition, and set off the cultural revolution of the Medieval Kabbalah.
Another aspect of the penetration of these Kabbalistic ideas was the heresy of the Cathars. The Cathar foothold was in the region of Tolouse, the bastion of the descendants of Guillaume, also known as the family of the Guilhemids, several of whom were ardent defenders of the heresy. However, the Cathars have been idealized by numerous Illuminati propagandists as having been innocent victims of Church persecutions, but the Cathars rejected the God of the Bible, in favour of the worship of Lucifer and practiced witchcraft. It was the Cathars who influenced the heretical aspects of the Templars, for which the order was disbanded in 1307.
Part of this Kabbalistic revolution was the legends of the Holy Grail, which included Cathar and Templar themes, and formulated in the region of Aquitaine, another stronghold of the Guilhemids. The Holy Grail, or San Greal, should have been translated as Sang Real, or Royal Blood, because it referred to the sacred bloodline that supposedly issued from Guillaume de Gellone, and ultimately King David, but which in reality, was understood to represent the descendants of the Fallen Angels, and their leader, Lucifer.
The Sinclairs were descendants of Guillaume de Gellone, through his great-great-granddaughter, Poppa of Bavaria, who married the Viking leader, Rollo Ragnvaldsson. Among Rollo's descendants was William the Conqueror of Normandy. The Sinclairs, or St. Clair, were given various other castles around France. However, they all went to England with the Conqueror. One Sinclair, though, named William, did not like the Conqueror, so with some other discontented barons, he went to Scotland and placed himself in the service of King Malcolm III of Scotland.
Malcolm III King of Scotland was the father of David I "the Saint" King of Scotland. In 1128, soon after the Council of Troyes, Hugh de Payens, the Templars' first Grand Master, met with King David I of Scotland. King David later surrounded himself with Templars, and appointed them as "the Guardians of his morals by day and night".
David married the grand-daughter of Lambert II, the brother of Godefroi de Bouillon, leader of the first crusade, and the sister of William the Conqueror. Godefroi's younger brother, Eustace III, married David's sister, Mary Scots. Their daughter married Stephen I King of England, the son Adela de Normandie, the daughter of William the Conqueror. Adela's brother, Henry I King of England, married David's sister, Editha of Scotland. Their daughter, Mathilda Empress of England, married Geoffrey V, Comte d'Anjou, whose son Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine.
King David granted Hugues and his knights the lands of Balantrodoch, by the Firth of Forth, but now renamed Temple, near the site of Rosslyn. And, legend has it that, when the Templars came under trial, their leader, de Molay, arranged for the Templars to return to Scotland, where they assisted Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn.
Robert the Bruce claimed the Scottish throne as a great-great-great-great grandson of David. Walter Stewart, the sixth High Steward of Scotland, also played an important part in the Battle of Bannockburn. Walter Stewart then married Majory, daughter of Robert the Bruce, and their son Robert II of Scotland was heir to the House of Bruce; he eventually inherited the Scottish throne after his uncle David II of Scotland died.
In Scotland, the Templars served Robert the Bruce as members of the Scots Guard, of which two prominent families were those of the Stuarts and the Sinclairs. Henry Sinclair was a supporter of Robert the Bruce, and one of his descendants, William Sinclair, designed Rosslyn Chapel, a church in the village of Roslin, replete with occult symbolism, and believed to be one of the sites where the Grail might be buried. Finally, the Sinclairs became the Hereditary Grand Masters of the Masons of Scotland.
After Queen Elizabeth died without an heir, she was succeeded by the son of Mary Queen of Scots, James Stewart I of England, also known as King James. It is for this reason that the Freemasons of the eighteenth century conspired to back the Stuart cause, after their last monarch, James II Stuart, King of England, was deposed, and replaced by William of Orange. The Stuart cause then became the essence of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, which regarded the Stuarts as the inheritors of the Templars, who had rescued the secret tradition of the East, otherwise known as the Kabbalah.
Since the late eighteenth century, however, the Illuminati have come under the leadership of the Rothschild family. The founder of the dynasty, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, ordered his sons to marry only their first cousins, continuing the careful intermarrying practiced by their predecessors. However, the first exception was Hannah, the daughter of Amschel Mayer's son, the notorious Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who married the Rt. Hon. Henry Fitzroy, a direct descendant of Charles II Stuart King of England, the father of James II.
More recently, however, is the great-great-great grandson of Nathan Mayer, Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, who married Mary Serena Dunn. The mother of Mary Serena was Lady Mary Sybil St. Clair-Erskine, who was the daughter of James Francis Harry St. Clair-Erskine, 5th Earl of Rosslyn.
Jacob Rothschild is the current head of the UK Rothschild family, having inherited the fourth baronetcy from his father, Victor, an eminent zoologist, and sometime MI5 agent and friend of KGB agents Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess. Jacob resigned from the family's bank NM Rothschilds in 1980, run by his cousin Evelyn, and started RIT Capital Partners. He is chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild foundation, which built and gave the Knesset government buildings and the Supreme Court to Israel, and chairs the Jewish Policy Research, dedicated to promoting issues affecting Jews worldwide. Yad Hanadiv was also responsible for building and granting the Knesset government buildings, and the Supreme Court of Israel, which prominently features Masonic symbolism and the pyramid and all-seeing eye of the Illuminati.
Jacob Rothschild was a close personal friend of the Princess Diana, and maintains strong personal and business links with Henry Kissinger. He knows Rupert Murdoch well, having been friends since the Australian newspaper proprietor first came to the UK in the 1960s. His country estate has been a regular venue for visiting heads of state including Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Margaret Thatcher received French President François Mitterrand there at a summit in 1990. He hosted the European Economic Round Table conference in 2002, attended by such figures as James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, Nicky Oppenheimer, Warren Buffet and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: And earlier this month both Murdoch and Schwarzenegger gave keynote addresses to the Bohemian Grove attended regularly by Kissinger and the global elite… – SJH
Schwarzenegger, Murdoch Give Keynote Speeches At The Bohemian Grove
http://www.infowars.com/schwarzenegger-murdoch-give-keynote-speeches-at-the-bohemian-grove/
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True knowledge of history is knowing which way to tack in a tempest in order to stay on course and avoid the rocks into safe harbor. It is essential…
– SJH
Steven John Hibbs
Hmm, and how does this knowledge allow you to do that? And what would you consider a 'safe harbor'? Do you feel that the information concerning the leadership of these groups is the most pertinent, or is there some other knowledge that is also important?
Thank you for your sharing.
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Those are three very good questions that you've posed…
– "Do you feel that the information concerning the leadership of these groups is the most pertinent, or is there some other knowledge that is also important?"
Recognizing who the real enemy is and then understanding their modus operandi is vital in order to know why certain events take place throughout history, such as wars and economic calamities, and who is ultimately behind them…
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." – Sun Tzu (6th Century BC)
– "…[A]nd how does this knowledge allow you to do that?"
By having this knowledge, one can see through the façade of deception and focus on the root of the problem, thus avoiding the pitfalls of the elite's 'divide and conquer' and 'order out of chaos' Hegelian Dialectic methodology such as orchestrated race or religious wars among the people that do nothing but profit those creating the chaos and leave the rest either dead or in despair…
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it." – JFK (Address to ANPA 1961)
– "And what would you consider a 'safe harbor'?"
This is more of a spiritual analogy. But it is where the Light of Truth pierces through the darkness and exposes these occult secret societies for who they really are, and what their stated agenda is… Death, money, power, control, and dominance to bring about a New World Order for their ultimate master, Lucifer…
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." – Matthew 6:22-24 KJV
Hope that was useful…


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NMC pilots fitness to practise emotional support service
Mimi Launder
A new confidential support service for nurses and midwives involved in fitness to practice has been announced by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
A new confidential support service for nurses and midwives facing a complaint around their fitness to practise has been announced by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
The 12-month pilot launched on World Mental Health Day yesterday (10 October) offers advice on any aspect of the fitness to practise process – such as the investigation, public hearing or events leading up to the referral.
The support service, called the Careline, can signpost nurses and midwives to other appropriate health or wellbeing services that can help with their individual needs.
Careline is operated by an independent provider and will be free to access, anonymously if preferred, either over Freephone, LiveChat or email 24 hours a day.
Careline staff are experienced in handling sensitive topics, though NMC staff will remain the direct point of contact for all case-specific enquiries.
Meanwhile, new guidance is being designed by the NMC to help nurses and midwives demonstrate they are fit to practise if a complaint is made against them. This might include reflecting on what went wrong and undertaking extra training.
Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, chief executive and registrar at the NMC, said that the Careline is an 'important step forward in truly humanising how we operate'.
She continued: 'Less than one percent of around 700,000 professionals on our register are engaged in our fitness to practise procedures, but we know that it can have a profound effect on those that are.
'The impact on someone's physical and mental wellbeing as a result of being under such scrutiny mustn't go unrecognised.'
Dame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary at the RCN, said: 'For any registrant, going through fitness to practise can be a stressful and traumatising experience and we are pleased to see the NMC develop a pilot which could offer extra assistance to those who get referred to the regulator.
'By offering support with the emotional impact of being investigated, Careline, alongside the RCN's own dedicated member legal advice and support services, can ensure that the wellbeing and mental health of all registrants is put front and centre.'
Suzanne Tyler, executive director of services to members at the Royal College of Midwives, said: 'Whilst only a small number of midwives find themselves in a fitness to practise procedure, for those involved it can be a very worrying process and have an impact on their mental and physical health.
'The Careline will enhance the key support for midwives provided by the RCM when its members are going through this process.'
Last year, the NMC launched a public support service for members of the public who raise concerns about nurses and midwives.
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This article originally appeared in the April 2013 issue of In Business Magazine. Reprinted with permission.
It is never too early to start thinking about intellectual property protection. Keeping a conscious eye on these assets is a critical part of a business's success. Business owners are likely to face the following key issues during the early stages of their enterprises.
Many business owners mistakenly believe that a company name is synonymous with a trademark. A trade name is the legal name of a business entity, which appears on the articles of incorporation or bylaws filed with a secretary of state's office (e.g., The Coca-Cola Company.) A trademark, however, is a word or design or a combination thereof that serves as a source identifier of a particular product or service (e.g., Coke®). Companies do not own trademark rights in a name simply because they registered it as part of their business name.
Great care should be taken when selecting a trademark. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website allows viewers to search for existing trademarks. A clear search, however, doesn't necessarily mean that the desired name is available. As trademark rights are acquired through use of the mark, companies should consider conducting a comprehensive trademark search in order to uncover not only marks filed with the USPTO but any uses of the mark.
A trademark attorney can help interpret the search report and provide an opinion on the availability and infringement risks associated with the adoption of the mark. While a business owner may feel the cost of a comprehensive search does not fit the budget, it may be a worthwhile investment. Neglecting this step could result in a legal dispute that could mandate pulling products from shelves, rebranding and becoming embroiled in a lawsuit facing damages.
If a company wishes to prevent competitors from using its trademark, it should seek a federal registration for it. Trademark applications can be filed online with the USPTO, and applicants do not need an attorney to do so, although legal advice may help a business avoid several pitfalls. A federal registration generally gives its owner exclusive rights to use the trademark throughout the country with the goods and services covered in the registration. By not seeking trademark protection, a company runs the risk of someone else adopting its brand, which could diminish the mark's value and the company's ability to use it.
It is not uncommon for companies to incorporate text and images found on the Internet onto their own websites. Just because something is available on the Web, however, doesn't mean it can be freely used. Companies should make sure the content displayed on their websites does not infringe upon third parties' rights and should seek authorization to use any materials that they don't create in-house.
Another common misstep concerns ownership of the copyright in the website itself. If a company hires a Web designer to create its website, it should ensure that the service agreement establishes that the company owns all copyrights in it. Under federal copyright law, if the agreement fails to include a provision identifying the company as the copyright owner, the author of the work (in this case the Web designer) retains ownership.
It makes little sense for a company to invest time and resources developing its intellectual property and then fail to protect it. With many other forms of IP to keep in mind (patents, trade secrets, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, to name a few), it's worth considering a preliminary consultation with an attorney. This can help businesses identify which items merit consideration, saving them money and avoiding problems along the way.


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Ryan O. Brathwaite, newly promoted Senior Operations Officer.
The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) is pleased to announce the promotion of Ryan Brathwaite and the appointment of two new members to its staff.
Ryan O. Brathwaite, who previously held the position of Projects Officer has been promoted to the post of Senior Operations Officer (SOO). Ryan has proven to be a tremendous asset to the Association and is particularly recognised for his contribution to the BOA's marquee event, the BiiG Games.
As SOO, he will provide administrative support to the General Manager and assist with the coordination of the BOA strategic plan. Additionally, he will be responsible for the administration of the BOA's grant funding portfolio and the Athlete Funding programme.
Ryan is the holder of a Masters in Sport Administration from the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU). Before joining the BOA, he worked for Jon Tibbs Associates (JTA), a British-based sports international relations and communications agency. He also had a previous stint at the BOA, serving as the Assistant to the Director of the National Olympic Academy (NOA). The BOA is confident that his exposure with an international enterprise, along with the knowledge gained in his Masters studies, will be useful in his new position and will be an asset to the organisation.
Kendia Brathwaite, newly appointed Programme Officer.
Former Division One Volleyballer, Kendia Brathwaite has been appointed to the position of Programme Officer in the National Olympic Academy. Her academic background includes a Master of Science in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of New Brunswick, Canada and a Post Graduate Diploma from the International Olympic Academy (IOA). One of Kendia's most outstanding accomplishments was for her post-graduate diploma paper to be published in the IOA Participants' journal of 2018. Her paper was entitled The Mirror Image: The Female Athlete as A Role Model. Her duties at the NOA will include providing administrative support to the Director of the Academy. She will perform a variety of coordination and logistical tasks to support the delivery of the programmes of the Academy and the operations of the Museum.
Cofie Moore will join the BOA family as Office Attendant/ Driver. He received his secondary education at the Coleridge and Parry Secondary School and went on to receive certificates through the Skills Training Programme at the Barbados Vocational Training Board, the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity and the then Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic. His previous job assignments reflect an amalgamation of technical, academic and customer service backgrounds.
The BOA is extremely pleased to welcome these three individuals in their new roles and looks forward to their contribution to the achievement of its vision.
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Hello SHOUTsters and Miami Dolphin fans throughout the world ..
The New Year is upon us in just two weeks with the opening of the 2014 Free Agency period on March 11th .
As most are aware, the Dolphins have some of their own extremely important cogs scheduled to hit the market . Corner Back Brent Grimes comes to mind while being the likely most important piece that needs to be paid, IMMEDIATELY!
Both of the Dolphins premiere Defensive Tackles are soon to become free agents.
Paul Soliai is considered the one dimensional run stopping beast while Randy Starks is more of a get after the quarterback type of tackle and can play End also . One would have to figure that the Dolphins would pursue keeping at least one of the two studly at their craft defensive tackles ?
Here are a few other scheduled to become Dolphin free agents that can likely be lived with or without. Depending on who you ask?? Hint, Hint !!
Here is what is of most concern to the Miami Dolphins 2014 Free Agency Pursuit !
Or Non-Pursuit ? Depending on who you ask ; ) !
As all are aware. The above list includes Miami's entire 2013 starting offensive line, other than the in question premiere NFL Center Mike Pouncey ! The two Guards, Richie Incognito, and John Jerry (who is a supposed under achiever that doesn't fit the current scheme, and is also of question otherwise) are Miami Dolphin History! The two tackles ( McKinnie & Clabo )due to their mediated alliances and age are also likely to have a less than 50-50 chance of remaining in Miami !
Seems as though that other than the hors d'oeuvre necessity of the tiny yet spectacular Brent Grimes dish, this 2014 Free Agency Period should be tabbed as the "" WHERES THE BEEF "" free agency period in Miami .
The entire free agency list have been thoroughly researched (which you won't be bored to death with in this instance). REALLY, how excited can one get when reading about an offensive Line Mans Athletic Prowess ( minus video footage ), and how important is the length of ones arms, size of hands, favorite color, blah blah blah, etc, etc, if the guy has no heart?
However. With all of the researched intangibles considered, These are the most reliable, youthful with upside remaining, while already being some of the most productive prospects of the entire crop that are SCHEDULED to become free agents on March 11th .
Seeing that the Offensive Line is of most importance due to the possibility of needing FOUR STARTERS via free agency and/or the draft! That is the position that will be focused upon in this particular 2014 free agency episode!
It would be nice to get this Offensive Line thing fixed once and for all, therefore only the youthful are being considered in this piece! Though the seemingly always sought after by Fin fans are the annually injured Tackles Branden Albert (29) as well Eric Winston (30) who are once again available. They are free agents every year! Don't figure ?
Here are a few youthful, well oiled Iron Men with proven Heart, Courage, and Brains (via career starts) that might interest the Miami Dolphins.
Let us BEG that the Dolphins land one or two from below while also keeping Tackles McKinnie (34) and/or Clabo (32) in rear view mirror consideration!
Premeire Left Tackles . ( " non-boring thorough analysis " ), the Miami Dolphins absolutely need a Left Tackle, let-alone a youthful premiere left tackle !
Right Tackles . ( Analysis, Miami absolutely needs a right tackle ) !
Guards . ( Analysis, the Dolphins absolutely need two guards ) !
With the recent exodus of Offensive Line Coach Jim Turner! The new presumed to be Dolphins Offensive Line Coach is John Benton who held the same position for the Houston Texans over the previous eight seasons! Benton was hired on the same day as the new general manager Dennis Hickey! Miami may be in line for the likes of Texans FA Guard Wade Smith (32, 138 games, 98 starts, sixteen starts in each of the last four years)! Houston free agent Tackles include Ryan Harris (28, 78 games, 39 starts), and ex-Dolphin Andrew Gardner for depth purposes.
If you personally have someone of your own in mind at ANY particular position ?
PLEASE enlighten us all and/or our beloved one's, THE MIAMI DOLPHINS!!
WHO should they keep, WHO should they pursue ?
THANK YOU for an Open-Minded read, and we look forward to your angle of view !
From the highest mountain, GO SHOUT, GOFINS!!


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Baseball: Leones welcome back fans with an 8-4 victory over Tabasco
Yucatán beat the Olmecas in a season opener at home on Tuesday. Photo: Leones
A night that started with a fireworks display that welcomed fans to the home-series opener ended in fireworks on the field as Alex Liddi and Sebastian Valle came in big and defeated the Olmecas.
The runs started in the bottom of the second after Walter Ibarra drove in Yadir Drake advancing Valle to second — for a 1-0 Leones lead as Jorge Flores hits a pop up to left field, allowing Valle to cross home plate and the Leones up 2-0 to end the inning.
In the bottom of the fourth, Valle hit a bases-empty home run of his own, picking up his second run of the game, over the left-field wall to increase the Leones' lead 3-0 through four innings.
Tabasco answered with their only scoring of the night in the top half of the 5th, manufacturing three runs of their own with timely hitting to tie the game. The Olmecas started the inning off with a short liner up the middle to squeeze a two base hit, followed by a long liner up the right field line for a single and a long liner double up the middle just beyond the center fielder. The very next batter sacrifice bunted the runner to third. With the score now 3-2, the next batter caught the Leones by surprise when he dragged a bunt base hit towards first sending the base runner on third across the plate to tie the game. The next batter reached first after being hit by a pitch and the Leones were finally able to get out of the inning with a well executed double play.
Liddi smashed another ball out of the park driving in two runs making the score 5-3 when Drake took the plate advancing to second on a pop fly driving in Art Charles from second. The inning ended with Valle driving in a scoring run by Drake, for a 7-3 Leones lead.
In the sixth, Jose Aguilar scored on a line drive to right by Jonny Jones, to reach the Leones' 8-4 victory.
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We're always looking for simple art activities and engaging learning opportunities for our children, aren't we?
Today, I have my friend Meri Cherry here to show us how to set up an Invitation to Create with flowers. The process works for other creative invitations as well and is an easy way to incorporate more process art activities into your home.
Thanks for having me here on The Artful Parent! Jean is a long-time friend and inspiration.
I am grateful for the opportunity to share some fantastic Process Art Activities we've been working on here in Los Angeles, including an invitation to create using flowers.
If you're a long time reader of The Artful Parent, then you are probably familiar with the term Process Art.
Process Art is art about the making and the doing part of art, rather than the finished product. I have been passionate about Process Art for a long time and talk about it pretty much all the time over at my blog, Meri Cherry.
I've become so passionate about it that I created a whole toolkit called the Process Art Toolkit, so that moms, dads, educators, caregivers, and grandparents can learn more about process art and how to easily implement it into your daily routine.
Invitations to create are mini activities you can set up for your child (set up takes only 5 minutes or so) that have great value, such as increasing fine and gross motor development, creative exploration, connection, communication, expression, and much more.
This invitation to create, called Flower Bouquets, came from a list of 15 Invitations to Create in the toolkit. Basically, you set out a tray or placemat with a bouquet of flowers, a pair of scissors and several small vases with water.
I recommend that you set this up when your children aren't around. This adds to the exciting discovery of the activity and also makes setting up a more peaceful experience for you. No need to get elaborate; a simple bouquet to start with is just fine.
You can even pick flowers or greens from your backyard if you have them this time of year. You can see a much more simple set up below.
Once your child or students notice the set up you've created, invite them to create their own flower arrangements using the tools you set out for them. They can clip the flowers, petals and stems however they choose to make their own bouquet.
You might even want to keep a paper and colored pencils or markers nearby so they can draw what they see after they arrange their bouquet!
The bouquet could be for a special room in your home or a gift for a special friend or family member. You can decide that together or let your child decide.
The important thing is that you've created something inviting and engaging for your child that they can spend time creating and making their own creative decisions about.
My girls created these bouquets for a birthday party at our home. I usually shy away from dyed flowers like this, but my girls begged when we saw them at Costco and I succumbed. Nothing wrong with an artificial rainbow bouquet every once in a while!
Besides, they had a blast making these special bouquets. They clipped and clipped until every vase in the house was full.
I hope you're feeling inspired to set out some Invitations to Create for your children or students. And if you want to learn more about Process Art, check out the Process Art Toolkit. It's filled with tons of easy to implement, super fun process based ideas for your family and students.
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Happy Holidays and thanks for reading along!
Meri is the owner of Meri Cherry Art Studio, a process based art studio for kids in Los Angeles.
Meri Cherry, yes, that's her real name, is an arts and crafts blogger at mericherry.com. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young daughters. Meri is the owner of Meri Cherry Art Studio, a process based art studio for kids in Los Angeles.


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Five Random Action Figures, Part 44!
To keep this edition of Five Random Action Figures on-brand for Cruel Summer, I will only feature figures that have some tangential tie to the season. Enjoy!
Mike, The Sewer Surfer!
This screwball Michelangelo was from a set of TMNT figures that gave our heroes intense new costumes, and even new occupations. (Raph became an astronaut, Don became a sneaky detective… you get the picture.)
Since every kid who collected TMNT toys started with the original Turtles, it made sense for Playmates to keep redressing them. To their credit, these "extra" Turtles weren't cheap cash-grabs with rudimentary facelifts. Each had a mold all its own, and they were littered with so many details that the first wave of figures seemed positively antique by comparison.
Just look at all of the little touches on Mikey. Seaweed! Baby sharks! Gnarly crabs! Hell, I've had this guy for 30 years, and I'm only now noticing the octopus on his foot.
Taco Terror
Food Fighters (1988)
The last time I brought up Food Fighters, I urged you to complete your collection in a hurry. If you didn't take my advice, you're screwed. The prices are now higher than they've ever been, with even loose, worn figures sometimes fetching over $20 each.
I'm not sure why they've suddenly become so hot, but it's not like they don't deserve the attention. Back in the late '80s, Food Fighters perfectly straddled the line between "action figures" and "gag gifts," preying on all of our sensibilities to make our worlds revolve around soldierly donuts and sentient chicken legs.
Taco Terror was one of the collection's villains, even if it's hard to accept that we're not supposed to root for a walking taco. I love his pronounced meat face, and how he uses shredded cheese for hair. Hope you win the war, Taco Terror!
Boss Nass
Star Wars: Episode I (1998)
I think the tide is turning on the Star Wars prequels. Everyone is aware of their objective flaws, but now we just kinda revel in the films' excesses.
(Notice how the prequels are memed to death these days? Seems we've given up on whatever we wanted them to be, and instead just love 'em for whatever they are. Good!)
Boss Nass is a great example. I don't recall there being much pro-Nass coverage back in the '90s, but these days, you can't mention the guy without accumulating a dozen high-fives. After all, what's not to love about a big fat frog who uses laughter as a non sequitur? Boss Nass rules.
Side note: I don't have a very critical eye when it comes to action figures — I just like what I like — but geez, the sculpt around Nass's mouth is excellent. I keep waiting for him to do that weird head-shaking thing.
Commander Waspax
Sectaurs (1984)
The Sectaurs toy line was mostly famous for its battery-operated bug puppets, but as I've mentioned in prior articles, its regular action figures were killer, too. Picture G.I. Joe, MOTU and LJN's WWF Superstars thrown in a blender with a bunch of flies.
If you weren't tipped off by the scowl, Commander Waspax was one of the bad guys. I love how he looks like the "humanoid bug" version of a classic space alien.
While certain Sectaurs toys now fetch small fortunes, loose action figures have remained criminally cheap. With any luck, you won't have to spend more than a few bucks apiece. Do it before everyone else notices!
Granok
Inhumanoids (1986)
…and speaking of semi-obscure '80s toy lines that I will never stop championing, here's another figure from the fabulous Inhumanoids collection.
Granok was the leader of the Granites, a race of benevolent rock monsters who lived underground. (I featured the "generic" Granite figure long ago, which was just a beige-colored version of Granok.)
If you only vaguely remember Inhumanoids, it's probably thanks to the line's giant monster figures, which remain the greatest symbol of the 1980s action figure boom. Still, as was the case with Sectaurs, you could find gold even underneath the top shelf. Just look at Granok's soulful gemstone eyes!
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Safran and MTU Aero Engines achieve a major step forward for the engine of the Next Generation Fighter (NGF)
The FCAS (Future Combat Air System) program takes a major step ahead: Safran Aircraft Engines and MTU Aero Engines settled the details concerning their eye-level partnership to develop the engine of the next-generation European fighter aircraft NGF.
This industrial agreement relies on the principles of the Letter Of Intent (LOI) signed between the two companies in February 2019, which specifies that Safran will take the lead in engine design and integration, and MTU Aero Engines will take the lead in engine services.
In the framework of the contractual scheme defined by France and Germany, Safran Aircraft Engines will be the prime contractor and MTU Aero Engines the main partner for the first phase of Research and Technology (Phase 1A).
The two partners also agreed on the foundation of a 50/50 joint venture that will be incorporated by the end of 2021 to manage the development, the production and the after-sales support activities of the new engine that will power the next-generation fighter aircraft (NGF).
"This agreement is a major step forward, which reflects Safran Aircraft Engines and MTU Aero Engines' willingness to ensure a strong and effective management of the program relying on a balanced partnership and clear accountabilities," stated Olivier Andriès, CEO of Safran Aircraft Engines, and Michael Schreyögg, Chief Program Officer of MTU Aero Engines. "Safran and MTU are committed to supply the Forces with an innovative engine architecture which will be a key asset of their operational performances."
Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aircraft propulsion and equipment, space and defense markets. Safran has a global presence, with more than 91,000. Safran is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange, and is part of the CAC 40 and Euro Stoxx 50 indices.
Safran Aircraft Engines designs, produces, sells, alone or in partnership, commercial and military aircraft engines offering world-class performance, reliability and environmental-friendliness. Through CFM International*, Safran Aircraft Engines is the world's leading supplier of engines for short and medium-haul commercial jets.
* CFM is a 50/50 joint company between Safran Aircraft Engines and GE
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