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How to Defeat Terrorism and Defend Freedom ─ Europe after the Paris Attacks
We are living in extremely turbulent times. Never in the past decades has the old adagio 'the EU is now at the crossroads' been so true. Nothing seems certain any longer, everything can happen: a suspension of Schengen, the fall of the euro, a major war conducted by a EU country, a terrorist lockdown at the heart of Europe. We are all understandably confused.
By Camino Mortera-Martinez
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It was as if they had chosen this day on purpose: the weather certainly could not have been much grimmer, when on 7 January 2015 French brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi broke into the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and killed twelve people. The infamous Parisian 'grisaille' (greyness), which descends over the city every winter, served as the perfect backdrop for what turned out to be every security service's worst nightmare: with two fugitives on the run, another attack was unravelling at a Jewish store in the South West of the city. Amedy Coulibaly, also a French citizen, killed four people during the siege. The day before, he had killed a policewoman. The whole of Europe held its breath. For three days, nobody knew what would happen next. European citizens took to the streets, used the social media – and whatever other means they had – on a massive scale to express their anger and, for a while, everybody was Charlie. Leaders of all around the world gathered in Paris for an unprecedented demonstration against terrorism. The European Council declared that the EU should offer a united front against terrorism and announced far-reaching measures.
And then, slowly, we all began to forget. Other of the many crises haunting the European Union took centre stage (2015 arguably being one of the most eventful years in the history of the EU) and Europeans accordingly turned their attention to refugees, Greece, the eurozone. But terrorism and the terrorist threat were not going away anytime soon. Paris, again, served as the stage for a tragic reminder: that terrorists strike when we least expect them to. On Friday November 13th 2015, almost ten months after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Paris' Stade de France, killing one passer-by. Simultaneously, gunmen attacked four restaurants and cafés in the city's trendy 10th district, killing 39 people and injuring many others. A suicide bomber detonated a vest inside another café, injuring 15 people. Only fifteen minutes later, heavily armed terrorists opened fire inside Paris' Bataclan concert hall, killing 89. In total, 129 people died and 352 were injured. François Hollande, France's president, declared that his country was 'at war' with the Islamic State, the terrorist organisation behind both the Charlie Hebdo and the November attacks. His government immediately declared the state of emergency, suspending some civil liberties and procedural rights. France invoked, for the first time, the 'mutual defence' clause contained in the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 42.7), asking all EU Member States to support France in its fight against Islamic terrorism. A week after the Paris attacks, Belgian authorities raised the country's emergency level to the maximum: according to the Belgian government, there was strong evidence that a similar attack was being planned to hit Belgian soil. They were also concerned with the whereabouts of one of the Paris shooters, Salam Abdeslam, who was thought to be hiding in Brussels. Belgium activated the protocol for imminent terrorist attacks and Brussels, the country's capital, was placed under a general lockdown for four consecutive days. Metros and schools closed, and citizens were advised to reduce their activities outside their homes to a minimum. For several days, soldiers and police determined the sight of an otherwise almost deserted city centre. The city fell into a state of fear, disbelief and shock, with many people wondering whether all this display of power was really necessary.
The Charlie Hebdo slaughter was an attack on the freedom of expression. The November attacks, a blow on the Western lifestyle, on France's renowned joie de vivre. The subsequent events in Brussels only contributed to a general feeling that Europe is playing into the hands of terrorists, by cutting down the very core civil liberties that make up the continent's values. In these uncertain times, Europe needs to be strong, but cool-headed. It needs to use all the tools at its disposal to fight against terrorism, without giving in to panic. And that is the most difficult thing of all: how to fight terrorism and defend freedom.
What is new about the new form of terrorism?
Terrorism is nothing new in Europe. From Italy's Red Brigades to Spain's ETA, European nations are used to deal with the threat of politically-motivated attacks. But terrorism ─ in Europe and worldwide ─ has changed rapidly over the last few decades, and can no longer be restricted within the borders of the nation state. National groups gave way to a new, more scary way of terrorism which was officially inaugurated with the 9/11 attacks. This form of terrorism is new because it is inspired by religion, global and multi-targeted. It is scarier because, unlike their predecessors, the new terrorists do not fear death. They actually consider it as a reward. Someone who does not mind dying has, by definition, nothing to lose and this makes him or her a very dangerous enemy to fight. Mostly, this new terrorism is inspired by Islam. The most powerful amongst the many groups carrying out attacks was al Qaeda, a terrorist group co-founded in the late 1980's by Osama bin Laden, initially to fight the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. After the spectacular take down of the World Trade Centre in New York, al Qaeda turned towards Europe. In 2004, the group bombed four trains in Madrid, killing 193 people. In 2005, terrorists detonated three bombs in the London Underground and one in a London bus. There were 52 casualties.
The attacks in Madrid and London were amongst the worst in the history of the EU and triggered a series of legal and policy responses. The US on its part engaged in its very own 'War on Terror', a war that would forever redefine the premises of 'ius belli' (the law of war): for the first time in history, a country was fighting an undefined enemy on an indefinite territory. The 'War on Terror' was, by definition, not bound by any idea of time or space. In May 2011, a team of US Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The death of bin Laden and the weakening of al Qaeda's leadership structures gave way to a 'new new terrorism': without its spiritual leader, the top-down approach of al-Qaeda morphed into much less organised actions, often conducted by relatively isolated individuals ─ such as the Kouachi brothers. Bin Laden's death also contributed to the strengthening of rebellious and dissident organisations, previously affiliated to al Qaeda. The most notorious of these is the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The Islamic State (Daesh, in its Arabic acronym) displays an unprecedented command of social media and the Internet. Media-savvy IS knows that life in 2015 cannot be understood without the Internet. And neither can wars. All of which explains why a terrorist group whose main aim is to re-instate a 1,500 year-old rule is so enthusiastic about Facebook.
And so the West needs to confront a new threat: Western nationals (Europeans, Americans or Australians) who, for one reason or another, adhere to the jihadist cause and travel to fight in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan or Somalia. They may, or may not, later return to their homelands. There are also the 'jihadi brides': women (mostly young) who travel to conflict zones lured by the prospect of marrying a 'hero' (this is IS' communication machine at its best – the 'soldiers' offered to these women have the allure of a rock star and nothing to envy to the likes of Justin Bieber or One Direction). Lone wolves, foreign fighters and returnees are enough of a risk for any country. But risks multiply in Europe: terrorists, like any other EU citizen, enjoy freedom of movement. And they are certainly using it. In May 2014, French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche killed four people at the Brussels' Jewish museum. He later tried to flee to France and was arrested in Marseille, where he had arrived after having taken a bus from Amsterdam via Brussels. The Kouachi brothers had acquired their arsenal of weapons in Brussels and then brought them to France. Coulibaly's wife reportedly flew to Syria via Madrid, without being stopped. The terrorists involved in the Paris attacks of November 13th were later discovered to be French and Belgian citizens, and the massacre was allegedly organised by Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud, killed two days later in a police raid in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. Abaaoud is thought to have been travelling back and forth from the Schengen area to Syria without being detected. Of the eight terrorists carrying out the attacks, seven died and one, Salah Abdeslam, fled, allegedly to Belgium and from there to Syria. And the target of Danish-born terrorist Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, who killed three people in February 2015 in Copenhagen, was a Swedish artist.
What can the European Union and its Member States do to fight terrorism?
There is simply no option for Europe: the EU needs to adopt a common approach to terrorism in order to prevent that terrorists travel more freely than law enforcement does. There are, of course, limits to what the European Union can do to fight terrorism. The EU is not a sovereign state and has restricted competences in the security field. But Member States are starting to realise that they need to agree on some common policies at European level, if they want to combat a globalised network of terrorists.
Societies organise themselves on the basis of a set of rules – the law – that departs from the simple premise of trading some individual rights in favour of a common good. Because we live in a society, we cannot simply do whatever we want. Criminal laws seek to punish individual behaviour threatening other individuals (like murder) or the society as a whole (like drug dealing). In this social pact, the state plays a privileged role by which it can exercise 'force' to prevent, or punish, actions that societies consider as criminal. So, the practical implementation of criminal law will, almost invariably, result in some degree of restriction to civil liberties. Counter-terrorism is, arguably, the most liberty-restricting part of criminal law. Terrorism is a form of political violence, directed not at an individual (personal casualties are the means through which terrorists seek to attain their end goal), but at the state. Terrorism is also a very spectacular form of crime, since its objective is, precisely, to terrorise and coerce citizens. The state, as the target of terrorists, feels entitled to take repressive measures against the terrorists and scared citizens agree to that for the sake of public security. Counter-terrorist laws and policies are often a mine field where the state risks to go beyond its powers in order to prevent attacks and pursue terrorists.
There is a clear trade-off between security and civil liberties, and every sovereign state needs to pick a side. Often, this choice depends heavily on the country's history and experience. Countries struck by terrorism in the past such as the UK or Spain have rather restrictive laws in place and their citizens tend to be more lenient towards the security policy of the state. Others, like Germany, still hold bitter memories of a past when the state was omnipresent and knew everything; as such, Germans attach great importance to individual liberties, as a way to content the state.
Our world is now more connected than ever. Some refer to the Internet as 'the sixth continent', because physical space is no longer an absolute measure. We can now meet people, buy things and work, all without leaving our house. Nearly everybody has a smartphone, an email address and a Facebook account. Personal data has become the new currency of trade. Almost without realising, our whole life is out there for everybody – from Google to the NSA – to see. So it is no wonder that, amongst the extensive catalogue of civil liberties protected by the law, 21st century citizens attach a particular importance to the right to privacy. The booming of the Internet also means that whatever we say now has the potential of reaching thousands, millions of people. The online world provides the ultimate platform for freedom of expression and has rendered possible things that were unthinkable only some years ago. The Arab Spring owes very much to online activists. Whistle blowers, dissidents and people living under oppressive regimes can use the 'Darknet' (a lesser-known part of the web deploying technologies that conceal the users' identity) to circumvent censorship. But the Internet is a two-sided coin: the bad guys can use it, too. Indeed, the 'Darknet' is home to some of the world's worst criminals (including child abusers and drug dealers); terrorist groups use social media and other channels to disseminate propaganda and recruit 'fighters'; like everybody else, criminals use phones, emails, social media to go about their business. So, in its quest for security, the state is confronted with the dilemma of deciding when (and how) is it proportional to intrude into people's lives, and to limit their freedom of expression. In 2015, security must be balanced, first and foremost, against privacy and free speech.
The balance between security and civil liberties
The balance between security and civil liberties is a delicate one. Sovereign states often struggle to find the equilibrium point. Things become even more difficult when it is a club of countries that needs to take this decision. This is precisely what is happening in the European Union right now. The EU cannot tip-toe around the question of security versus civil liberties any longer: the Lisbon Treaty made security issues a matter of EU law (before, it was up to Member States to decide; now, both the European Commission and the Parliament have a say); and new forms of organised crime and terrorism require a co-ordinated response at EU level. The EU is now fully part of the security/civil liberties game and, like any other player, it needs to choose a side.
There are few places in the world where the trade-off between security and civil liberties materialises as clearly as in Brussels: ever since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force, the European Parliament and the Council have been quarrelling about security. A casual observer may be led to think that the Council represents the security side of things, while the Parliament is fiercely fighting for citizens' liberties. The reality is much more complex, especially if we throw the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) into the mix. For the past five years, security has become one of the most conflictual policy areas in the EU, not least because of civil liberties concerns (mostly related to privacy). In 2010, the European Parliament rejected a EU/US agreement to transfer financial data to track terrorist activities (the TFTP agreement ─ which was eventually adopted a year later). It took five years for the Parliament and the Council to agree on a system for EU countries to share data on passengers flying into, or out, the EU (the Passenger Name Records ─PNR─ directive). The CJEU annulled, in 2014, a directive (sponsored by the UK) requiring telecommunication providers to retain customer data for a period of six months to two years (the data retention directive). More recently, the Parliament has struck down a EU/US agreement for the transfer of commercial data (the Safe Harbour agreement). The latest ruling is a direct consequence of the controversial revelations of Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the US' National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden leaked to the press documents showing that the NSA had engaged in surveillance programmes that extended to Europe. Needless to say, the European Parliament was not happy about that and asked the European Commission to revise the Safe Harbour agreement, a self-certification system that allows American companies to transfer data of European citizens to the US. While the Commission was working its diplomatic channels to address the Parliament's concerns, Max Schrems, an Austrian law student, went first to the Irish courts and then to the CJEU to try and stop Facebook transferring his data to servers located in the US – on the basis that, after Snowden, America could no longer be considered as a country that offered an adequate level of protection to personal data, as EU law requires.
On the other side of the spectrum, European governments (which make up the Council) are more concerned than ever about security, and want to be able to read people's letters and listen to people's calls, to put it in the words of British Prime Minister David Cameron. In the 21st century, that means being able to break encryption codes or even banning encryption all together. Governments across the EU (France and the Netherlands, for example) are adopting laws that grant law enforcement authorities ample powers to fight against terrorism, including the use of surveillance techniques. Some in national governments and in the Council believe that, in view of the extraordinary terrorist menace, there are few options left to the state than to become a sort of omniscient Big Brother, aware at all moment of what its citizens do and think. France's current state of emergency is the latest example of this tendency towards a 'super-securitisation' of the state.
Neither what the Parliament nor what the EU governments are doing is necessarily right. Nor should the EU or its Member States engage in a futile 'War on Terror' à la George W. Bush; yet they should not disregard the growing threat of terrorism and the utility of security measures. It is the role of the state and, by extension, of the EU to keep its citizens safe; but in doing so, it may not ignore civil rights. Governments may not adopt security measures without thinking on the impact they will have on people's daily lives. That is why the control of democratically elected institutions, such as the European Parliament, is so important. Unfortunately the current arrangements are not necessarily the best to ensure that there is, indeed, a proper democratic oversight of counter-terrorism laws and policies. The gridlock in security measures compromises the safety of 500 million Europeans. And the actual concerns of EU citizens get diluted in endless fights while the EU decides whether or not it wants to be a serious security actor. So, nobody wins.
Is borderless Europe at risk?
The problem of the EU is that it still has not decided which threats to take seriously and how to deal with them. It is also still unsure of how to manage international partners in the fight against terrorism, such as the US. There is a clear case for the EU to become stronger in the security field: as terrorism becomes more supranational, so should the measures to combat it. A single passenger name record system, for example, will be more efficient than 28 different ones. Having a harmonised approach to terrorist offences across the EU will help the work of law enforcement and judicial bodies alike. The EU should not offer 'safe havens' to criminals, and it should not be easier for a terrorist to attack Prague than Berlin. But the EU may not sacrifice civil liberties in the name of security. All the institutions involved in the decision-making process should strive to protect the fundamental rights and values the EU is so proud of. This is more than a moral requirement: after all, the EU bases its foreign policy strategy on its 'soft power' as a global exporter of democracy and human rights.
After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, some European governments panicked and called for re-introducing systematic passport checks within the Schengen area. This was worrying back then, but it is even more so almost a year after, in light of the latest attacks and the current refugee crisis. The EU's inability to deal with a massive inflow of refugees has translated in what could very well become a serious Schengen crisis. Member States are building fences, halting international traffic and temporary reinstalling border controls. The idea of a borderless Europe, one of the main pillars of the European project, is now put into question ─ something that would have been unthinkable only some years ago. But building walls in Europe is not the answer; neither to the refugee crisis nor to the threat of international terrorism. In a globalised, interconnected world, no walls, physical or otherwise, will stop people (migrants, refugees and criminals alike) from moving from one place to another. The EU should not think that by heightening the walls of 'Fortress Europe', it will achieve much. Instead, it needs to focus on using some of the tools already at hand and on exploring other ways to address both the phenomenon of migration and that of organised crime.
For example, national governments could make a better use of the Schengen Information System (SIS II), the EU's database to facilitate border control and law enforcement. The Schengen Borders Code (the law that governs Schengen) allows national authorities to perform checks on 'random' samples of passengers, or passengers whom they consider a threat, within Schengen's internal borders. These checks mainly consist of interrogating national and European databases (the SIS II, most importantly) to verify the identity of the person and whether or not they have committed a crime or may be considered as suspicious. The problem is, as the European Commission has rightly warned, that not all Member States are making full use of the SIS II database. National authorities can input information ('alerts') on people, to signal, for example, that a person is wanted for a criminal offence, that a document has been stolen, or that law enforcement considers a person as suspicious. But Member States are not consistently inputting this information, notably with regards to alerts or suspicious or potentially dangerous people. This is very much linked to the reticence of national authorities to share intelligence information with all other EU countries. When it comes to intelligence, EU countries still prefer to operate on bilateral basis, rather than pooling information at the European level, mainly because of a lack of trust. But, with this approach, countries are missing the potential of EU-level databases to fight trans-national organised crime, and turning to more radical solutions, like the imposition of border controls, instead. It should not be possible for anybody to smuggle firearms between two European countries (as the Kouachi brothers did); to travel, un-noticed, from one Member State to another, after having committed or being linked to a crime (as Salah Abdeslam or Amedy Coulibaly's wife did); or to get in and out Schengen at will, even after having been branded as the brain behind several disrupted terrorist plots in Europe (as Abaaoud claimed to be doing constantly). And one does not even need to think about terrorists to see the benefits of a more co-ordinated approach as is shown by the following example: in August 2014, Alice Gross, a 14-year-old English schoolgirl, was killed in London, allegedly by Arnis Zalkalns, a Latvian citizen. Zalkalns, who had been convicted in Latvia for murdering his wife in 1997, travelled to the UK, without British authorities even knowing that he had been charged with a very serious crime back in his homeland. Cases like this could be prevented if European databases were used more efficiently.
The fight against IS and the trade-off between security and privacy
The Islamic State has a very simple strategy: it wants us all to think it is fighting with a religious purpose, so that it can legitimise its cause and reduce the world to a perverse confrontation of 'them against us', Christians versus Muslims. In reality, IS fights for power, money and geopolitical interests. What IS ultimately wants is revenge. All this has little to do with religion, and the sooner Europe understands this, the better it will be able to respond to the threat. A confrontational rhetoric has the danger of deepening already serious divisions in Europe's society. Nothing will please IS more than to fuel their cause by accusing the West to be 'anti-Muslim'. So populists are playing the terrorists' game, by implying that all Muslims are terrorists, and that the EU has an 'Islamisation problem'. In reality, many of Europe's 'foreign fighters' know very little about religion. They should be deprived of their religious glorification and be painted as what they really are: petty criminals that have evolved into major criminals. To avoid the risk of spreading hate and racism across the EU, we need to distinguish between Muslims and the bad guys who claim to be defending Muslims. And nothing helps more to do that than knowing who the bad guys are and what they are up to. Because most of them have criminal records, European authorities could be on alert when they travel, notably to conflict zones like Syria, or when they try to go to another Member State. But, for that, governments need to start inputting information of the people they know are, or are in the process to become, the bad guys into the SIS II. In technical jargon, that is called 'Article 36 alerts'.
All these examples show that the use of data (and databases) is of the utmost importance to fight terrorism and other forms of serious crime. This is almost a given in our highly-interconnected world. But the utility of data should not serve to justify just anything. The EU and its Member States should learn to distinguish which measures are useful and can be accepted by the citizens as part of the trade-off between security and civil liberties, and which ones are just too much. Among the former category, schemes such as the EU passage name record (PNR) or the Schengen Information System (SIS) are very valuable tools that have proved to help disrupting criminal activity. Within the latter category, on the other hand, national governments should not aim at a total ban of privacy-friendly technologies such as encryption.
Encryption is a technology that allows companies to encode users' data so that only the intended recipients can access it. Users' privacy can also be protected through the use of technologies facilitating anonymity, used to mask identities and digital tracks. Encryption and anonymity are not only useful for protecting privacy: they play a very important role in empowering individuals or communities to circumvent censorship in totalitarian states – the 'Darknet' helps the politically prosecuted to reach out to the world and to organise themselves, although – as said before – it is also used by heavy criminals. Encryption and anonymity are to the digital world what the right to private communications was to the analogic one: if to open a letter addressed to me, or to listen to a conversation I may be having in my living room, the state needs a judicial warrant, why should things be different in the online world? Should the state be able, by default, to open my emails and listen to my Skype calls? It should not. There are very good reasons why law enforcement authorities should be able to use data to track and trace criminals. But they should always do so through channels that allow the citizen to understand, and contest, if necessary, the use of their data. In the same manner that the police cannot enter my house or open my correspondence without a judge allowing them to, state authorities should also require the approval of a judge to snoop into my electronic communications (with the potential exception of emergency situations such as the one experienced by France after the November attacks).
In the great trade-off between security and privacy, activists have found an interesting, if slightly unexpected, ally in US giant Internet companies. It is only logical: after the Snowden revelations, many citizens, in Europe and elsewhere, began to mistrust the use that US American online services providers made of their data, and this endangered the business model of these companies, whose core revenue comes from exploiting people's data. So Sillicon Valley started pushing for an absolute right to encrypt their users' communications, in a bid to gain people's trust back. Some of them (such as Apple) have gone as far as to implement encryption codes that they cannot breach themselves – data on the latest version of the company's best-selling iPhone is encrypted in a way that cannot be breached by anybody (not even by Apple itself, not even if requested to by law enforcement authorities). A blanket ban on encryption is a mistake, but so is codifying data in a way that governments cannot access it, not even when a judge believes it is necessary to stop, or prosecute, a criminal. The former option amounts to telling the citizens that they will never be able to enjoy privacy in so far as they use electronic devices – which, in 2015, is pretty much all the time; the latter option would put the government in a disadvantageous position vis-à-vis terrorists and other criminals, who could enjoy the benefits of the Internet (not least, a global reach) without ever having to worry about getting caught.
We are living in extremely turbulent times. Never in the past decades has the old adagio 'the EU is now at the crossroads' been so true. Nothing seems certain any longer, everything can happen: a suspension of Schengen, the fall of the euro, a major war conducted by a EU country, a terrorist lockdown at the heart of Europe. We are all understandably confused. We are all rather scared. But that is no reason to take overhasty measures and legislate for the short term. The EU is a champion of human rights and a place where many people want to live. It should continue being so. And Europe has very good structures in place that can be used to fight the new wave of terrorism without eroding the values that underpin the Union. To the question how to defeat terrorism and defend freedom there is only one answer: by being calm, strategic and looking at the long term. This used to be the sole responsibility of the Member States. It is now the EU's responsibility too. And it should live up to it.
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The paper aims to analyze the attitudes to German language in the Lithuanian public discourse. Texts written on this topic and chosen for the analysis appeared in two news portals – the national news portal delfi.lt and the regional news portal kaunodiena.lt. The database covers the period from 1 January 2011 to 1 March 2017; it consists of 82 articles from both news portals. For studying the image of German, the present study applies the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis taking into account different argumentation strategies for learning or not learning German as a foreign language as well as main topical priorities. The general attitudes towards countries can serve as an important foundation for motivation to language learning, so the analysis starts with the discussion of the specifics attributed to Germany and German-speaking countries (effectiveness governing the world, sympathy, economic success, and reliability). The analysis of the selected texts confirms that the image of Germany in Lithuania is quite positive: Germany, especially on delfi.lt, is presented as a target country for qualified Lithuanian experts, as an economically stable country having a large degree of political and cultural influence in the world. Regarding the status of German, the analyzed texts reveal a more ambiguous picture: on the one hand, it is stated that German is not popular in Lithuania, on the other hand it is emphasized that the popularity of the German language is increasing. The argumentation scheme for learning German consists of several argumentation lines: German is represented as a commodity in such domains as a professional career in Germany, in dealing with bilateral business relations, and to some extent in building a professional career in one's home country and upholding cultural relations.
The central aim of my research is to investigate the third language learning processes of L1 Hungarian high-school learners learning L2 English and L3 German. More specifically, I aim at revealing to what extent Hungarian learners rely on their knowledge of their L1 and L2 as well as on the learning strategies they have developed while learning their L2.
The article deals with the comparison of key terminology in the field of copyright in the Polish, English, Japanese and German languages. The research material consists of copyright acts binding in Poland, Great Britain, the United States of America, Japan and Germany. The terminology has been compared in order to reveal similarities and differences in the meaning. Firstly, statutory terms from the Polish, English (British and American), German and Japanese acts will be presented and discussed. Also, a list of functional equivalents (Polish, English, German and Japanese) will be presented. The task was to search for functional equivalents, and if there is partial equivalence or no equivalence, an equivalent was provided according to techniques of providing equivalents for non-equivalent terms (c.f. Kłos, Matulewska, Nowak-Korcz 2007). They were made in such a way that equivalents will correspond with the reality of the laws in the above mentioned languages. The terms have been extracted with the usage of AntConc (corpus linguistics software). The method of analysis of comparable texts has been applied as well as the one based on three categories of equivalence by Šarčević (1997): "near equivalence", "partial equivalence" and "non-equivalence". Special attention has been paid to system-bound terminology existing in those five legal systems. To sum up, it should be borne in mind that the copyright law has been unified almost world-wide. As a result many countries have adopted similar or almost identical principles in this respect. Therefore, there is a significant convergence of meanings of analysed copyright terms with only slight differences resulting from deeply ingrained local and national legal traditions.
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International market integration means that assets of equal risk provide the same expected returns across integrated markets. This means fewer opportunities for risk diversification if the markets are integrated. It is also believed that stock market indices of integrated markets move together over the long run with the possibility of short-run divergence. There is considerable academic research on the benefits of international diversification. Investors who buy stocks in domestic as well in foreign markets seek to reduce risk through international diversification. The risk reduction takes place if the various markets are not perfectly correlated. The increasing correlation among markets during and after the crises has restricted the scope for international diversification.
International stock market linkages are the subject of extensive research due to rapid capital flows between countries because of financial deregulation, lower transaction and information costs, and the potential benefits from international diversification. Most stock markets in the world tend to move together, in the same direction, implying positive correlation. In and after crises they tend to move together even more strongly. Thus, this paper aims to research if there are any diversification opportunities by spreading out investments across developed and underdeveloped capital markets.
This research attempts to examine the scope of international diversification between German and Bosnian equity markets during the 6-year period from 2006 to 2011. We test the hypothesis of whether there are any risk diversification possibilities by spreading out the investments between German and Bosnian equity markets. In order to determine the mean-variance efficiency of portfolios we use the method of convex (quadratic and linear) programming. The hypothesis is tested with the Markowitz portfolio optimization method using our own software.
The results of this research might enhance the efficiency of portfolio management for both types of capital market under analysis, and prove especially useful for institutional investors such as investment funds.
This paper presents the results of an empirical study designed to map German language proficiency among students at Czech universities of business and management. The results of this empirical survey can be summarised as follows. First, the ability of students at Czech universities of business and management to communicate in German is poor, and exceeds the general German language proficiency of the Czech population only to an insignificant extent. Second, the school environment (the opportunity to learn the language, compulsory subject, language study motivation) has a decisive influence on the respondents' ability to communicate in German. Third, nearly three-quarters of the respondents perceive German as a language that is very or rather important for their profession and career growth. Fourth, almost two-thirds of the respondents consider the role played by a university of business and management in the improvement of German language proficiency rather or very important. In conclusion, the study proposes directions for the potential development of the national educational system in the area of German language proficiency of university graduates in business and management in the Czech Republic, with an emphasis on the concept of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). We believe that the survey results are also very important from the point of view of enterprises operating in the Czech Republic because of the very close economic relations between the Czech Republic and German-speaking countries.


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AISTD Dip CDE
HEAD OF BALLET,
MODERN & TAP
Sarah trained at the Royal Academy of Dance for 3 years, having secured one of the few places on their world class teacher training course. She graduated in 1995 with the College Teaching Diploma and was also awarded a Licentiateship of the Royal Academy of Dance.
Sarah took over The South West School of Dance in 1998 and the school has grown and thrived under her leadership to become one of the foremost dance schools in the South West.
Alongside her teaching as Principal of the South West School of Dance, Sarah has produced and directed 10 whole school dance shows at Strode Theatre and has produced 3 full scale award-winning musicals.
Sarah is a fully registered and qualified teacher of the RAD, ISTD and iD Dance Company and is a qualified aerobics teacher. In 2017 she became a certified teacher in Progressing Ballet Technique.
Miss Harriet Durston
HEAD OF MUSICAL THEATRE, ACRO & JAZZ
Harriet has been teaching at The South West School of Dance since 2012. She is a registered teacher with the ISTD (Ballet, Tap and Modern) and the IDTA (Musical Theatre) as well as being a certified Acrobatics Arts teacher.
Harriet studied at the Bristol College of Dancing with top ISTD examiners and teachers who trained at the Royal Ballet School.
She has a wide background of performing, having taken part in many productions in the South West. She has a great deal of experience in choreographing musicals both for The South West School of Dance and other local societies and has been a key member of the creative teams for our award winning productions of Cats and Barnum.
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Miss Sarah Neale
RAD RTS
HEAD OF CONTEMPORARY
& FESTIVAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Sarah has been teaching at The South West School of Dance since 2009 and is a fully registered and qualified teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance and iD Dance Company.
After gaining a first class honours degree in Dance at Bath Spa University, Sarah was commissioned to write the dance curriculum for Bristol Lower Grammar School which is still being implemented today. She also lectured and taught at several settings within the South West.
Sarah has worked professionally with Precarious Physical Theatre and Multimedia Company and Vex Dance Theatre on their national tours as well as with New Pantomime Productions.
Sarah has choreographed and directed many local musicals and pantomimes, including Cats (Best Director, 2015), Barnum and Seussical the Musical (Best Youth Production, 2009). She has also choreographed for the BBC for a televised Children in Need Project.
Miss Lisa Winter
Lisa studied Performing Arts at City of Bath College falling in love with Street Dance at this time.
She went into the fitness industry for five years, qualifying as a personal trainer and children's fitness instructor. At the same time she became a street dance teacher through the STTC and began teaching at The South West School of Dance.
After three and a half years Lisa stepped away from teaching dance to focus on starting a family and completing her degree.
Six years later we are delighted to welcome Lisa back to teach our Commercial classes.
Miss Teresa Barlow
Nicky has a degree in Drama & Theatre Studies and worked in the television industry in London for five years.
She has been teaching Speech & Drama at Wells Cathedral School since 2008 and started teaching at The South West School of Dance in 2015.
Nicky works with students individually to prepare them for Trinity exams in Speech & Drama and any auditions they may have in the pipeline.
Teresa is a professional musician and teacher who also co-founded and runs a professional theatre production company.
Since 2015 she has produced 25 shows all over the UK for which she has created the sound design and music composition.
Teresa has worked as a musician on the West End such as The King & I and Fame. Her Musical Director credits include: A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest on national tours and professional pantomimes for New Pantomime Productions.
Teresa has worked extensively in TV for the BBC and Sky Drama and she works regularly with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as an arranger and pianist for their 'Voices' choir.
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Q: How to print character just after a particular character in a string using bash I have a string like
abc def 0/1 dls dl 9/0 1//o

I want to take 0 and 1 (the characters just after and before the first / in the string) into two variables, say $NUM1 and $NUM2, and do some further logic on them.

A: Using just shell parameter expansion:
$ str='abc def 0/1 dls dl 9/0 1//o'
$ num1=${str%%/*}    # Remove first "/" and everything after it
$ echo "$num1"
abc def 0
$ num1=${num1##* }   # Remove last space and everything before it
$ echo "$num1"
0
$ num2=${str#*/}     # Remove first "/" and everything before it
$ echo "$num2"
1 dls dl 9/0 1//o
$ num2=${num2%% *}   # Remove first space and everything after it
$ echo "$num2"
1

#, ##, % and %% have to be used carefully here. A single repetition removes the shortest match of the pattern following, and the double usage removes the longest pattern match.

Alternatively, after the first expansion, you just want the first or last character of the string, which can be solved with substring expansion:
$ echo "$num1"
abc def 0
$ echo "${num1:(-1)}"  # Extract last character
0
$ echo "$num2"
1 dls dl 9/0 1//o
$ echo "${num2:0:1}"   # Extract first character
1

Negative indices requires at least Bash 4.2. For older Bash versions, we can use
echo "${num1:${#num1}-1}"

And finally, we could use Bash regular expressions, as demonstrated in glenn jackman's answer.

A: You can use bash regular expressions, which populate the BASH_REMATCH array with the captured subexpressions:
if [[ $a =~ (.)/(.) ]]; then
  num1=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
  num2=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
fi
echo $num1 $num2

0 1

Don't get into the habit of using ALL_CAPS_VARNAMES: one day you'll accidentally write PATH=/my/path and then wonder why your script is broken. Leave upper case variables for the shell & OS

A: You can use sed to parse the line with regex to extract the numbers:
NUM1=$(echo 'abc def 0/1 dls dl 9/0 1//o' | sed 's@[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)/[0-9]*.*@\1@')
NUM2=$(echo 'abc def 0/1 dls dl 9/0 1//o' | sed 's@[^0-9]*[0-9]*/\([0-9]*\).*@\1@')
echo $NUM1
0
echo $NUM2
1

A: I assume you are implicitly separating characters based on spaces.  So you want the characters from the space to the first '/' and from the first '/' to the next space.  I would probably use sed:
echo "abc def 0/1 dls dl 9/0 1//o" | sed -r 's%^[^/]* ([^ ]*)/([^ ]*) .*%\1 \2%'

But note this won't work if there are no spaces preceding the first '/'.  You may wish to have another pattern for that case.

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Annotation: THIS ARTICLE PROVIDES EVALUATION STANDARDS IN TERMS OF RELATIONSHIPS OF SUBJECTS TO OTHERS AS EXPRESSED BY THEM IN PERCEPTIONS ACTED OUT IN THE SETTING OF INSTITUTIONAL PSYCHODRAMA SESSIONS.
Abstract: THE OBJECT OF THIS STUDY WAS TO WORK OUT PRACTICAL APPRAISAL STANDARDS FOR THE CONTENT OF PERSONAL EXPRESSION BY YOUTHS PARTICIPATING IN INSTITUTIONALLY CONDUCTED PSYCHODRAMA AND FOR VARIATION AND CHANGE IN SUCH CONTENT. DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES OBSERVED IN SUBJECT BEHAVIOR IN THERAPY SESSIONS AND GUIDED AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE ACTUAL PSYCHODRAMA ACTION WERE ALSO TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AS SIGNIFICANT FACTORS. A DETAILED SCALING WAS WORKED OUT ON THE BASIS OF FOUR MAIN BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION CRITERIA: (1) ATTITUDES INCLUDING COOPERATION AND RECEPTIVITY TOWARD THOSE PERCEIVED AS COMPANION FIGURES IN ONE'S LIFE, SUCH AS FRIENDS, FELLOW OFFENDERS, AND CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS, (2) SIMILAR ATTITUDES TOWARD THOSE PERCEIVED AS PRIMARY CHARACTERS IN ONE'S LIFE, SUCH AS FELLOW PRISONERS, LOVERS, AND PARENTS, (3) ATTITUDES OF RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD THOSE SEEN AS AUTHORITY FIGURES IN ONE'S LIFE, SUCH AS FATHER, TEACHER, AND POLICEMAN, AS WELL AS AWARENESS OF ONE'S OWN RESPONSIBILLITIES TOWARDS MEMBERS OF THE FIRST TWO GROUPS, (4) SUCH ATTITUDES AS CAPABILITY OF INDEPENDENT ACTION AND ACCEPTANCE OF CRITICISM WITH REGARD TO MEMBERS OF THE FIRST THREE GROUPS. ATTITUDES OF COOPERATION AND RECEPTIVITY TOWARD COMPANION FIGURES AND ATTITUDES OF RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD THOSE PERCEIVED AS AUTHORITY FIGURES WERE FOUND TO BE THE MOST APPLICABLE CRITERIA. DETAILED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES ARE APPENDED IN THE FORM OF NOTES. --IN JAPANESE.


text:
package compiler

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/go-on/lib/html/element"
	"github.com/go-on/lib/misc/replacer"
)

func mkPhHandler(e *element.Element, key string, buf *bytes.Buffer) (phdl []*placeholderHandler) {
	phdl = []*placeholderHandler{}
	element.Pre(e, buf)

	// fmt.Printf("checking %s\n", e.Tag())

	if len(e.Children) == 0 || element.Is(e, element.SelfClosing) {
		// fmt.Printf("no children\n")
		element.Post(e, buf)
		return
	}

	// fmt.Printf("no children %d\n", len(e.Children))
	for i, in := range e.Children {
		// fmt.Printf("children %T\n", in)
		switch ch := in.(type) {
		case *element.Element:
			phdl = append(
				phdl,
				mkPhHandler(ch, fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", key, i), buf)...,
			)
		case http.Handler:
			// fmt.Printf("is http.Handler: %T\n", ch)
			pha := replacer.Placeholder(fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", key, i))
			phdl = append(phdl, &placeholderHandler{pha, ch})
			buf.WriteString(pha.String())
		default:
			buf.WriteString(in.String())
		}
	}

	element.Post(e, buf)
	return
}

type placeholderHandler struct {
	replacer.Placeholder
	http.Handler
}

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Prison ministry is important because it meets some people at their greatest time of need with the message of forgiveness while offering the necessary components for change. Prison ministry also helps to reduce the number of re-offenders. But Francis Chan believes that even more fruit is produced from prison ministry in developing more pastors and Christian leaders. In this article we see why Francis thinks as he does.
Author and preacher Francis Chan, who recently encouraged hundreds of men inside the walls of Valley State Prison in California with a message of God's transformative power, shares in a new video why he loves and encourages others to participate in prison ministry.
"My interest in prison ministry started, I think, when I started to study the Word a little bit more deeply, and understood the types of people God typically chooses," says Chan, the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, Calif., in a video posted on the website of the Prison Fellowship.
"They are not the people the world would typically choose to do great things," adds Chan, the founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College and author of the best-selling book, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God.
Prison ministry is extremely important and Francis Chan makes some good points. If you are near a prison and this type of ministry interests you, find out more about it and how you can get involved. Find God's people wherever they are and help them by giving them a step up.


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La Buse de Patagonie (Buteo ventralis) est une espèce de buse. Le terme buse est le nom vernaculaire donné à certains  de la famille des Accipitridae.

Répartition
Cette espèce se trouve au Chili et en Argentine.

Voir aussi

Liens externes

Accipitridae
Faune originaire du Chili
Faune originaire d'Argentine
Faune endémique de Patagonie
Oiseau de Patagonie

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Self-Publishing after Porn Scandal
By Alyssa DelPrete
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With the rise of eBooks has come another trend that has been considered a threat to the publishing industry: self-publishing. It's not too difficult to discover the source of intimidation for traditional publishers. After all, what could be a more dismal prospect than writers and authors being able to completely overlook and set aside traditional publishers and publish their works on their own. But, it's not quite that simple. Considering the recent eBook porn scandal, forcing eBook sellers such as Kobo, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble to re-evaluate their screening methods for self-published books, it's clear that the self-publishing process has its flaws.
These retailers, who did have screening processes in place in order to monitor the content being sold on their sites, recently discovered that a number of pornographic self-published titles were appearing right next to children's books when a keyword as innocent as "daddy" was searched on their site. eBooks with subjects such as incest, rape, and bestiality were readily available for sale on their sites. The problem was that there were no measures in place to check the revisions made to an author's work once the title was actually published, and as a result, these retailers now must go back and clean up their stock. They are also faced with the issue of how best to screen the content available on their sites after they have been published. Not only is the issue of censorship being considered, but the credibility of self-publishing has taken a hit.
This scandal will certainly not decimate the self-publishing movement, or even a fraction of it. These sites will alter their screening processes and regain their integrity, and self-publishing will go on. But I think an event like this shows that, ultimately, traditional publishing still has more reliability and authority than self-publishing. It's possible to find a diamond in the rough when going through self-published works, but it's much easier to go directly to a book that has been traditionally published and is much more likely to be of better quality.
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I'm a legal recruiter. On April 4, Equal Pay Day, I found myself thinking about some of the things that I have learned from the many extraordinary female candidates I've worked with over the years. I realized that the lessons I've drawn from their stories all tend to fall within three themes. What follows are three mantras you can repeat to yourself in order to benefit from their experiences.
I recently had a conversation with a total superstar: on paper, and in person, she was simply outstanding. Yet despite her academic and professional accomplishments, she confided that she often feels inadequate and that she can't believe it when she is recognized for her excellent work.
How many of us have a little voice in our head, telling us that we are not good enough? In my experience, this self-doubt is far more widespread than you might expect.
Many call this strange, self-defeating mentality the "Impostor Syndrome" (most recently Sheryl Sandberg — the COO of Facebook — used this term in her book Lean In).
So what is the cure for Impostor Syndrome? Start simply: if you step back and look at your situation objectively and take a deep breath, you will discover that you ARE good enough. How do I know? Here is my evidence: you wouldn't have been hired and kept on if you couldn't do the work. You wouldn't have been entrusted with plum assignments, promotions, and bonuses if you weren't worthy.
The next time you hear that nasty little questioning voice, try drowning it out with the facts. Remind yourself of your professional successes: that difficult problem you worked through, the client whose bacon you saved, your accolades and awards. Replace negative illusions with positive reality.
Listen to me: you are not a fraud. You deserve what you have achieved. Do not misinterpret the fact that you are facing challenges as evidence that you do not have what it takes to overcome those challenges.
Not long ago, one of my candidates gave notice to her employer after deciding to accept a job offer she was genuinely excited about.
Let's be very clear: comments like these are manipulative, obnoxious, and condescending. I have no hesitation at all in telling you to completely ignore advice coming from people who benefit from your NOT going through with a career decision you've made. Trust your thought process. Trust your judgment. Trust that you are an intelligent person who knows what you want and go for it!
She was the best candidate for the job.
Her compensation requirements were not unreasonable.
There was less risk in drawing a line in the sand because she didn't need to leave her current employer.
My candidate got considerably more than the initial offer because she asked. It is as simple as that.
Know the market parameters for the job.
Ask others in your field what they can share about comparables.
Be realistic about what the market rate is for your role.
Ask yourself if you can afford to potentially lose the offer.
Once you enter negotiations, pay close attention to how the decision-makers respond to your request. Do they sound open-minded or were they turned off? Once you have done your homework, if you are confident that you are worth more money, don't let fear keep you from asking for more.
I hope you recognize your worth in the workplace. I wish you success and happiness. If you would like to talk to me about how to move forward in your legal career or if you are in the market for a great lawyer, please send me an InMail so we can set up a time to talk.
How Long Will My Law Firm Search Take?
While in-house searches are notorious for taking their own sweet time, law firm searches, in comparison, move at lightning speed. Two rounds and you're done, right? Not always. If you are looking to lateral as an associate, your search could be completed from start to finish in a matter of weeks. However, if you are a Counsel or Partner, expect your search to take many weeks or months. This time is necessary in considering a major career decision – take it! Luckily, you don't have to figure it all out on your own.
I recently worked with a Partner who had her first lunch with a top-tier law firm in September 2016. Seven months later, after many in-person meetings and conference calls, she received an offer. A Counsel I just placed first interviewed with his new firm in November 2016 and was given an offer in April 2017. In my experience, neither of these situations is unusual. In both instances, my candidates needed patience and stamina. I was happy to advise them throughout their long searches.
Moving law firms when you are a Counsel or Partner takes time for a number of reasons. Candidates will interview with many or all Partners in the related law firm department. You will also need to be vetted by members of the firm's senior management committee. If you are being considered by a large firm, you might also travel to meet decision makers in offices around the US or the world. All of this happens while you (most likely) have a full time job to handle. It's not easy to juggle so many demands on your time. However, it is also to your benefit to spend as much time as possible with a firm you are considering joining. You should know who your future Partners are and what they will be like to work with. A good recruiter will help manage the interview process so that it runs as smoothly as possible and will take into account the demands of your current position.
If you have come to the conclusion that it is time for you to change law firms, prepare yourself for the time commitment you will be making. Take a deep breath and acknowledge that while moving at a senior level won't likely happen quickly, if you are willing to invest the time, hopefully you will have the opportunity to join a firm that enables you to truly advance your legal career. If you would like to talk to me about how I might be able to help with your search, please call me at 212-328-6183.
I wish there were an easy answer. Even associates at top firms can find it challenging to land a fantastic in-house opportunity. However, I can share a few general resume tips based on feedback from our corporate clients that will help you write your best resume and hopefully get that first interview.
And here's another tip: I am currently working on a number of excellent in-house opportunities.
If you are considering making a move and one of these jobs sounds like a good fit for you and your experience, I'd love to hear from you!
Please send me an email at jdemasi@cmwsearch.com or send me an InMail via LinkedIn, so we can set up a time to talk.
Recruiting is a relationship business. In my experience, the best headhunters are like great matchmakers because they personally know the individuals involved and understand what will make a happy union.
Love at First Sight. That karmic connection when candidate and client have a meeting of the minds. While this may not lead to a permanent match, when the skill set and personalities just fit, it is a great place to start.
You Only Need One Groom/Bride. There are advantages to having more than one finalist for a job or in landing multiple offers, but in the end, you only need one great match.
Be Yourself. As a candidate you should put your best foot forward in an interview, but you also need to be genuine. Don't pretend to be a formal, buttoned-up personality if you aren't. Long-term career happiness comes from having a job where you can be successful by being yourself.
Don't forget the personal, relationship aspect to your job search or hiring. I hope that these three points will help guide your search. If you would like to talk to me about how to move forward in your legal career or if you are in the market for a great lawyer, please send me an email at jdemasi@cmwsearch.com or send me an InMail via LinkedIn, so we can set up a time to talk. Happy Valentine's Day!
The holidays are over. The champagne has been drunk. Most law firms have paid out their year-end bonuses. Now what? Whether you typically are a New Year's Resolution maker or not, I'd like to suggest that you make one work-related, shall we call it, After-Bonus Resolution, for 2017.
Your resolution can be made whether you are happy or unhappy in your current job. Regardless, following through on an After-Bonus Resolution can move you closer to your long-term professional goals.
Improve your LinkedIn profile. It is one of the first places a potential employer looks to learn more about you.
Revise your resume and deal sheet. Update these documents so that they are ready to go when a great opportunity comes up.
Attend a networking event. Whether it's through the Bar Association, your college or law school, it's always a good idea to expand your contacts.
Call a recruiter. Introduce yourself and ask them to keep you in mind for future opportunities. You never know when your dream job will open up!
I hope these suggestions have inspired you to make an After Bonus Resolution. Proactively taking even simple steps makes us feel more in control of our work life. If you would like to talk to me about how to move forward in your legal career, please send me an email at jdemasi@cmwsearch.com or send me an InMail via LinkedIn, so we can set up a time to talk.
Happy New Year and good luck with your After-Bonus Resolutions!


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Richard Mostyn, the minister of the Department of Highways and Public Works, speaks to a room full about the Yukon governmentճ new procurement policy on Feb. 20. (Crystal Schick/Yukon News)
Business and government leaders parse through Yukon's new procurement policy
No firm timeframe for completing the First Nations policy
Julien Gignac
Feb. 22, 2019 12:00 p.m.
Perhaps the biggest two takeaways from the Yukon government's new procurement policy are welcoming First Nations into the fold of the process and defining what makes a business.
To be considered a business currently, two stipulations, like employing Yukoners or owning property in the territory, must be met.
The updated policy says that businesses are expected to hit three of the following: be subject to territorial income tax, registered under the Business Corporations Act or the Partnership and Business Name Act, have a physical Yukon address and "a valid municipal business license, where applicable."
On Feb. 20, business and government experts were included in a panel discussion concerning the new policy. Terry Sherman, president of the Yukon Contractors' Association, was part of it.
The revamped business definition, he said, ensures companies are more cemented in the territory, calling it a "major plus."
"If you're a company, you're paying your tax in the Yukon," Sherman said. "Those tax dollars staying within our economy is a plus."
Sherman said there's a trickle-down effect at work, in that local economies will be bolstered, as well.
The new policy doesn't include hiring Yukoners like the current iteration does.
Sherman doesn't have a problem with this, calling it a limitation otherwise.
"If we had to rely on only Yukoners working in certain projects, we would have some issues," he said, noting the relatively small population of the territory.
He added that ideally people would become permanent residents of the Yukon.
"We want to build our community, we want to grow our economy," he said, "but we need people to do that."
Yukon Party interim leader Stacey Hassard said the Liberal government has "lowered the bar" when it comes to the revised business definition.
"It appears to be, under this new definition, that you can essentially be a shell company. You don't have to own land for an office or even employ a Yukoner," he said, adding that it makes it easier for southern companies to get a "foothold" in the territory.
More broadly, Hassard continues, the Liberals have broken their campaign promise of completing the procurement policy by 2018.
Hassard called it "rather bizarre" that copies of the updated policy weren't provided to the media at the press conference last week.
"I don't think that was fair to the media folks that were there."
Earlier this week, the Yukon governments announced 10 projects that have received trade exemptions worth $1 million each this year.
Speaking with reporters on Feb. 19, Richard Mostyn, the minister of highways and public works, said the money awarded is much greater than last year.
The total value is worth roughly $7.5 million; this number was about $4 million last year, according to a departmental press release.
Asked about the discrepancy, Mostyn said, "It's because we had the full spectrum of contracts to choose from as opposed to last year — it was the tail end."
Projects include the portable for Golden Horn Elementary School and bridge construction near Dawson City.
The First Nations policy will take effect later than April 1, Mostyn has said.
Subscribing First Nations are to be notified "of all publicly advertised procurements," the policy says.
The Yukon government "will conduct procurements by taking measures to ensure Indigenous peoples benefit from the provisions of trade agreements and support First Nation businesses and individuals to grow, enrich their lives and become partner in the economy," it says.
The sooner that this policy is fully implemented the better, said Catherine Harwood, assistant deputy minister with the department, who was part of the panel discussion.
"We need it, want it to be collaborative with the First Nations, so it's not a Yukon government timeline, it's a timeline for the entire working group."
Asked how the policy could work, Harwood said she wasn't at liberty — yet — to speak to specifics, but noted that the goal is to build a mutually beneficial relationship, in which capacity could be developed in First Nations and the government "fulfills its promises."
"We're addressing that right now with the technical working group," she said. "What do we want to put in it and what would that actually say, what that language would be."
Hassard said it was promised the First Nations component would be rolled out at the same time as the entire policy.
"This wasn't going to be a piecemeal project, but yet, in fact, that's exactly what it is," he said. "The Liberals, clearly, had no idea what they were talking about when they made these promises.
"They've released this policy that isn't finished. We know the rules are going to change, we just don't know how," Hassard added.
Other elements in the new policy include increasing procurement thresholds. For open tenders this means up to $101,100 for construction and services; over about $25,000 for goods; and up to $101,100 for invitational tenders, according to a summary of the changes.
Bonding is also to be made more consistent. Projects with a greater value than $1 million, for instance, will require bonding "as part of the terms of the contract," says a summary of the policy.
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Thibaut Divoux, tenured research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Bordeaux, France, is the recipient of the 2018 Metzner Early Career Award from The Society of Rheology. The award is made in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the understanding of shear-induced yielding transitions in soft glassy materials.
Thibaut received his B.Sc., M.Sc. (2005) from ENS in Paris, and his Ph.D. (2009) in physics from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. In 2009, he joined Sebastien Manneville's group in Lyon, first as a lecturer, and then as an ERC postdoctoral fellow. Over the subsequent three years he studied the shear-induced fluidization of soft repulsive glasses and investigated elastic instabilities in wormlike micelles in collaboration with M.-A. Fardin and S. Lerouge in Paris. In 2012 he joined the CNRS Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP) in Bordeaux and has been extending his work on shear-induced fluidization to a broader range of soft glassy materials.
Thibaut is a passionate and talented experimentalist who has already made a number of incisive contributions to the field of rheology. Among the 33 articles that he has published in total, 12 articles shed new light on the shear-induced yielding transition in soft glassy materials. By means of traditional rheometry coupled to multiscale observation techniques, he has established the existence of long-lived transient shear bands. Such heterogeneous flows are strongly and intrinsically coupled to wall slip and disappear over a wide range of timescales depending on the value of the applied shear rate or stress. Using Carbopol gels (for which the steady state rheology is well described by the Herschel-Bulkley relation) Thibaut showed that the fluidization process during shear startup experiments involves a transient shear-banded flow state. The lifespan of these bands can be as long as 105 seconds, and the time to reach a linear velocity profile is a robust decreasing power-law of the applied shear rate, which does not depend on the boundary conditions or the gap width, with an exponent that is only a function of the microgel properties. The same phenomenology holds true in creep experiments, and the duration of these inhomogeneous transient processes decreases as a power-law of the imposed stress. Thibaut's work, which has led to two recent reviews published in Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics and Reviews of Modern Physics, has drawn broad attention from the rheology community and triggered a tremendous amount of theoretical activity by a number of groups around the world.
More recently, Thibaut has revisited a long standing and open issue in the literature, namely that of rheological hysteresis, which primarily involves transient shear-banding and heterogeneous flows. Constitutive flow curves (i.e. measurements of shear stress vs. shear rate) in yield stress fluids are commonly generated by sweeping up or down the shear rate over a finite temporal window. For a wide spectrum of complex fluids, these up/down sweeps do not superimpose and the resulting mismatch defines a rheological hysteresis loop. Thibaut proposed a cleverly designed protocol to generate these loops and, using four very different yield-stress fluids, showed that the area enclosed inside the loop displays a robust local maximum with applied sweep rate. His work points toward a single material-dependent thixotropic time scale that grows continuously from vanishingly small values in simple yield stress fluids to very large values for thixotropic materials. It provides some of the first experimental evidence that yield stress fluids do not divide into two categories that preclude one another, but rather form a single category of time-dependent materials. In a recent collaboration with the group of Suzanne Fielding (another Metzner award winner) these experimental findings have been shown to be captured by a spatially-resolved version of a fluidity model, which can quantitatively relate the rheological hysteresis to the degree of spatial heterogeneity. In addition, Thibaut's group at CRPP has developed new test protocols for studying polymer gels, has investigated the microscopic origin underpinning empirical laws such as Basquin's law of fatigue and the Monkman-Grant relation, and has quantified the impact of solvent evaporation on the structural and mechanical properties of polymer gels.
The nomination letters emphasize Thibaut's authoritative command of the historical literature, his engaging and enthusiastic lecturing style, as well as his penchant for intricate and extended test protocols, which have helped unravel some of the complex transient phenomena that often confound simple rheological measurements. He currently pursues his research at the joint CNRS-MIT unit in Cambridge (USA), where he continues to investigate the complex transient rheology of soft polymer gels, highly-filled carbon black slurries, and pastes as well as investigating the time-evolving chemorheology of cementitious materials such as concrete.
Congratulations to Thibaut Divoux, the 2018 Metzner Early Career Awardee.
assembled by Gareth McKinley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), as appeared in Rheology Bulletin, Volume 87 Number 2, July 2018.


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US Army starts electronic warfare planning and management tool development
The US Army has commenced development of the electronic warfare planning and management tool (EWPMT), which is designed to assist commanders during planning, coordination, and synchronisation of EW in the battlefield.
The US Army has commenced development of the electronic warfare planning and management tool (EWPMT), which is designed to assist commanders during planning, coordination, and synchronisation of electronic warfare (EW) in the battlefield.
Scheduled to be developed in six phases, the system has recently entered the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the lifecycle management system.
Commenting on the system, Army EW division chief colonel Jim Ekvall said the EWPMT will serve as an unprecedented software system for electronic warfare operations within the army.
"This software tool will allow soldiers to coordinate and synchronise EW operations across the electromagnetic battlefield and pave the way for the future of war fighting," Ekvall said.
"Integrated electronic warfare systems (IEWS) are the future of EW within the Army; EWPMT will allow the soldiers to have long-term, effective solutions for managing battlefield scenarios."
"EWPMT will allow the soldiers to have long-term, effective solutions for managing battlefield scenarios."
A web-based software featuring 22 separate and distinct functions, EWPMT is designed to serve as a critical component of the army's long-term plans for the IEWS family of systems.
Primarily intended to help army's electronic warfare experts de-conflict offensive, defensive, and friendly signals, the software can also integrate intelligence and terrain data to offer a common operational picture for the electromagnetic spectrum.
Capable of accessing tactical, operational, and strategic EW information, the software is expected to be used by EW officers for pre-mission planning, identification of likely threats, advising commanders, as well as predicting of the most effective EW systems.
The first set of the software tools will be evaluated in select units during the third quarter of 2015, whereas the operational induction throughout the army is expected to complete by the end of 2019.
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They confuse the Jamiroquai singer with the 'Vikings' who broke into the US Capitol, and the artist explains that he did not participate in the riots.
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Jay Kay, who is known for wearing luxurious head accessories, admitted he "loves the hat," but has denied participating in the demonstration.
The lead singer of the British band Jameroquay asked not to be confused with the "Vikings" who stormed the US Capitol building during Wednesday's demonstrations against the election results. The packing was marked Strong riots Four people were killed and dozens were injured.
Some Twitter users have noted the similarity of the topic to the artist and several have shared photos of the two for comparison. Poor Jamiroquai! What happened, man?One netizen wrote.
"The music world is bad! Another young woman wrote, "That Jamiroquai's song should have been rolled to promote his latest album."
How bad is the music world! Jamiroquai had to trade to promote his latest album! 🤦♂ pic.twitter.com/0QQaciAPE1
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"Some of you might think you saw me in Washington last night, but I'm scared I wasn't with all those nutsJay Kay explained in a video clip posted on the band's Instagram account, after he thought he was one of the characters who stormed the legislative headquarters.
The singer also admitted that he wears extravagant head accessories "I like the hat," the protesterBut he wasn't sure this was his audience, referring to the crowd of Trump supporters who caused the riots. "Stay safe, all of us," he added.
Later on, the person who appears in the form of Viking was identified as Jake Angeli, a member of a The far right movement Known as QAnon, which tends to speculate about a world order dominated by elites.
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ELLENSBURG, Wash.-Since finishing 2nd in the inaugural USA Rugby Sevens Championship, Central Washington Rugby has been waiting for another chance. The Wildcats dominated qualifying. Winning both of the Northwest Collegiate Rugby Conference (NCRC) Seven's warm-up tournaments by healthy margins. The national qualifier was held in Seattle and like the previous tournaments, CWU continued their dominance winning their third straight NCRC 7's Cup. Central received an automatic bid for winning the qualifier and will look to improve on their second place last year.
The pools have been released for the 24-team tournament and CWU has been placed in Pool C with the likes of Kutztown, Virginia, and the Texas Longhorns. The schedule has not been released as of yet, but we will keep this post updated when it is released.
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With the Star Wars fan-base more divided than it has ever been, The Mandalorian is a breath of fresh air for many fans. Not only was the first episode received well by critics and audiences alike, it spawned many memes, most of them focused on the adorable baby Yoda.
"This is a visually stunning, consistently entertaining space-spaghetti-Western serial," Richard Roeper, a Rotten Tomatoes critic said.
With the announcement of Disney+ as a streaming service and the anticipation of the show itself, some have taken extreme ways to get their The Mandalorian fill.
"You can already pirate The #Mandalorian in a wide variety of file formats, including 4K HDR #DisneyPlus," Twitter user Nicholas De Leon said.
Although the legality and morality of these methods are certainly something that can be brought into question, it's obvious the impact The Mandalorian has left is a big one.
"…The Mandalorian's surge has ended Stranger Things' 21-week reign as America's most in-demand digital exclusive series," journalist Brandon Katz said in an article on the Observer.
No matter how people choose to watch The Mandalorian, it has certainly proved itself to be a fine addition to the collection of Star Wars media.
"This is great. It looks like Star Wars. It's shot like Star Wars and it feels like Star Wars," said a review on IMDb.
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No. Probably the least original idea ever thought of. Tolkien made elves. Now let's let him have his elves.
And we can have something elves.
A seed fund is a kind of loan.
That's what I was thinking when I said different platforms.
If he wants to earn money o' course.
Although getting the best of two worlds is quite hard, I think that the free demos might help spread the world about the games.
I don't know how the ad revenue works, so please correct me if I'm wrong. A free playable demo of about 10MB to 20MB can be put on popular websites that might generate some add revenue. And, evidently, the demo itself would work as an add to the full game.
I was shocked when Craig decided to sell TPA2. And I would have preferred that TPA2 would be free (as I guess anyone else wanted, even Craig). But everyone has to make a living, and from Craig's (brief) comments, it was clear that the sales of TPA2 generated more revenue than the ad revenue from all the other TRPG games (again, please correct me if I'm wrong). Therefore, I understand Craig's choice on selling his games from now on.
Excluding minors from the market is indeed a problem. I don't really see a nice way out, other than the minors asking someone to give them the game or to buy it for them.
Another problem raised is related to the way the games are sold. Most online stores aren't (fully) trusted, at least in the country where I live. Not because they trick people but because the direct human contact is missing. The problem may be bigger in this case because we aren't buying a CD (or something else physical) - we are buying a link to be able to download. So, again, it's another layer of virtuality that may give people some discomfort on buying.
I haven't any good alternatives to the way it's done. Selling CDs will increase dramatically the costs (the CD itself with the case + shipping costs, including personnel costs). Selling on well known stores (that might benefit of higher trust from the consumers) may also reduce the margins, particularly since there might be some attempts of price squeezing.
About ads. I must say that ads annoy me (and I hate those blinking ads). So, I was happy when I found out that Firefox has Adblock Plus. As more people do what I do, the revenue of ads will be lower. Ingame ads might be an alternative, provided they aren't all over the place. I can accept a preloader ad (no blinking, please) and a couple of discrete ads in the main menu or in the high score table or in the middle of the game. More ads than that and I might feel too much pushed around and end giving up on the game.
Most people don't care about supporting the developer that much if they can cut it cheap.
Unfortunately, I think that I'm included in that category. I hope that Craig is successful but there is a (low?) limit to how much I'm willing to spend. I just hope that my bug tracking and suggestions are helpful.
If Craig's aim is really to earn money, he needs to get a reputation, and bigger fanbase,and then apply for a seed fund (which would make all the sales from TRPG games seem infinitesimal), and start hiring devs to work on the games.
Which doesn't seem to be happening.
Forgive my cynicism, but are you speaking from experience, or from a desire to play Sinister Design games for free? Ads in Flash games really weren't all that lucrative back before the recession hit, and they're certainly no better now.
I do know of a small handful of Flash game developers who are able to make a living releasing free games (Pixel Jam being a prominent example), but most free Flash developers are either in high school or college, and don't have to worry about paying rent, paying back school loans, buying food, paying for doctor's bills, and so on and so on. With Pixel Jam, the kind of games they make--short, addictive action games--are much quicker to put together and release than the kind of games I make, and they appeal to a much larger audience. In short, they're a good fit for the free Flash model. Sad to say, mine really aren't.
Maybe I'll only earn a few thousand on TSoG--maybe not. I'd certainly like to earn more than that. We'll just have to see how things go, I suppose.
I would definitely give you ten dollars if we met in person, but the current buying method is really too clunky and I don't see the point of it.
Seeing as most of your fanbase is in the younger demographics, they are likely more unwilling to pay in such a manner. Perhaps there could be an indirect paying method, such as participating on a site to earn virtual currency, with advertisers paying to be listed.
What I would really like to see if increased notification of users of the existence of this site, so it gains traffic. Freeware would be a way to increase traffic, but it isn't the only way, others would be a more integrated site, getting the word around about the site, etc.
If I were a nine-year old, what would make me interested in this site and active in the forums?
And also, if you are going to put it up for a price, make the price lower than the price to sign up for a free download site.
Rather than having users pay for the games (how much are you earning from TPA2?), you think you should get some people to advertise on the games. In order to do this, you need to make people more aware of the existence of Sinister Design. A good example is casualcollective.com (the DTD and FETD people). They restrict aspects of their games to the public, and inform the public of their website. This increases traffic, which makes ads more lucrative.
Although they do not do ads so much anymore, I think that's more of trying to promote their image of a friendly site and reducing lag on their multiplayer games than anything else, along with the fact they have a seed fund, which, to my knowledge, you do not have.
As the buying method is unstreamlined, costs money (duh), the full versions of TPA2 and TsoG seem unlikely to spread beyond a dedicated fanbase and game reviewers.
Instead of selling the games, release them to the public and advertise SinisterDesign on more popular sites. Go for a seed fund, expand your games to different platforms, and get advertisers interested.
A fun idea would be to have 'integrated ads' in the game; for example, a poster in HQ advertising a company. Because every player of the game would see it, this could potentially be a very lucrative idea.
A good indicator of how well known SinisterDesign is its forum, activity in which is anemic. I have seen little notification of the expanded versions of games on the home site, and I believe informing the general populace of this will greatly increase traffic, and then how much money you can earn from ads.
I cannot see either of the current Telepath games earning more than a few thousand USD through sale, which is something of an insult to the effort you put into it. By gaining the attention of more potential users, however, you set yourself up to make yourself better positioned to begin commercially and gain a seed fund to make game-making a full-time job.