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What's in Windows Server 2012 R2 for small businesses
By Mary Branscombe 2013-10-07T22:30:00.279Z Business software
All that R2 can bring to your biz
Using remote client on an Android tablet and running Windows desktop software
The new version of Windows Server is shipping soon, and it combines solid improvements to key features like storage, virtualisation and high availability so your server systems can keep running, with much wider support for users who want to connect to your business systems with iOS or Android as well as with Windows or Windows RT devices.
This is Microsoft acknowledging that we're using much more than PCs to get work done these days, but still giving IT admins options for controlling access and protecting information.
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These connections use the new remote access role in Windows Server 2012 R2; this gives you a way of letting iOS, Android, Windows RT and even Windows 8.1 users do a workplace join instead of joining your Active Directory.
The first level of this gives you a record of which devices are connecting to your systems and lets you publish web apps through the Web application proxy so only your users get access; the second level lets you control settings on those devices – not as many as with Group Policy.
Windows Server 2012 R2 lets you control and monitor all the devices connecting to your systems, iOS and Android as well as Windows and RT
Of course, much of the software your business uses are probably Windows programs rather than Web apps. For the first time, Microsoft is now creating official remote desktop clients for iOS, Android and Mac OS X (they will be in the relevant app stores by the end of October).
You'll need to have remote access client access licenses for all your users, but this cuts out at least one of the steps for supporting multiple platforms. (This is definitely Microsoft thinking about other platforms; if you need to run Linux in a virtual machine, R2 has far more features to make that work well, including dynamic memory and being able to back up VMs without pausing them.)
The iOS remote client gives you the Windows keyboard keys you need
If you need access to files from your server while you're travelling, without a remote connection, the new Work Folders feature will sync a folder from a share on the office file server – and update it with your changed documents, without you having to connect via VPN. When Windows Server 2012 R2 ships that will work with Windows 8.1; in the first half of 2014, Microsoft will release clients for Windows 7 and iOS (Windows 8 users will need to upgrade to Windows 8.1).
Work folders still isn't a replacement for offline files, because it syncs the whole file when something changes, not just the changes, and it tries to sync the whole folder on the file server. It does know when there are too many files to fit on your device and it won't try to copy them all, but at least in this version, you can't pick and choose the files you want to sync unless you're prepared to put them in a separate folder (admins can pick one specific folder inside your home directory on the server as the one that syncs, but that means thinking about the folder structure more than most people want).
Shortcuts and gestures for Windows on your iPad using the new remote client for Windows Server 2012 R2
Talking to the work folders team at Microsoft, they're aware of the issues – and of the fact that Microsoft has multiple sync options with offline files, work folders and SkyDrive Pro. As future Windows Server updates arrive, selective sync is high on their list of improvements – but we're not expecting the next version of Windows Server to arrive as quickly as R2 did.
Adding Azure to Server
The release version of Windows Server 2012 R2 looks very much like the preview; what's changed is the quality of the code underneath it, which seems smoother and snappier. It's impressive how much Microsoft has added to Windows Server in just a year, without any drop in quality.
The speed of development for Windows Azure is helping here. And the influence of Azure is visible, not just in the Azure Pack – which lets a company or a hosting service bundle up resources like storage, memory and the ability to run virtual machines into a portal that looks just like Azure, so you can set up a Linux VM or a WordPress site on a Windows Server system exactly the way you would on Azure – but in the blurring of the lines between what's in Server and what's a service.
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PyCon 2014 has a record-setting percentage of women speakers, at 33%, up from last year's record-setting 20%. The talk schedule has been announced, and tutorial signups are open.
Many provocative social questions can be answered with data, and datasets are more available than ever. Start working with it here. First we'll download and visualize one data set from the World Bank Indicators page together, using Matplotlib. Then you'll have time on your own to pick another data set from any online source and plot that. At the end every person/pair will share what they found.
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When people hear of matplotlib, they think rudimentary graphs that will need to be touched up in photoshop. This tutorial aims to teach attendees how to exploit the functionality provided by various matplotlib libraries to create professional looking data visualizations.
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Let's Learn Twisted is a short 3-hour tutorial covering the basics of writing a Twisted Python client-server application using Twisted Python's Factory and Endpoint APIs to construct a peer-to-peer chat and RPC network.
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Swanswell believes that encouraging parents to talk with their children about alcohol is a step in the right direction to tackle alcohol misuse.
The national charity, which wants to achieve a society free from problem alcohol and drug misuse, is responding to news today that Staffordshire County Council is launching a campaign to encourage parents to talk with their children about alcohol.
The campaign, spread over several weeks, will provide encouragement, tips and advice on how parents can approach the topic of alcohol with their children.


New York's insurance regulator issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization's primary insurance broker, a person familiar with the matter said. It came just days after President Donald Trump's former personal attorney testified to Congress that the president's company sometimes misrepresented the value of its assets to insurance companies.
The subpoena, from New York's Department of Financial Services, asks Aon for details about its relationship with the Trump Organization and Trump himself, the person said. There's no indication that Aon, which often works as an intermediary between insurance companies and businesses seeking policies, is suspected of any wrongdoing.
An Aon spokeswoman, Donna Mirandola, confirmed the DFS subpoena and said the company intended to cooperate, but declined to identify whether the subpoena involved the Trump Organization. A DFS spokeswoman, Ciara Marangas, declined to comment. News of the subpoena was reported earlier by the New York Times.
The former Trump personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, told the House Oversight Committee last week that the Trump Organization had sometimes inflated the value of its assets in representations to insurance companies in order to reduce its premiums.
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Notes: The bone-in chicken for this recipe is hacked into pieces to allow for quick frying. To prepare the chicken pieces, first follow the Serious Eats method for breaking down a whole chicken for 8 pieces. Separate wings from legs. Follow instructions in step 1 for the final breakdown. Har cheong is Chinese fermented shrimp paste. It can be found in your local Asian market. I used Lee Kum Kee shrimp paste sauce, which is slightly different than the blocks of belachan, as it's aroma is much more pungent and has the consistency of pudding. Chili sauce can also be purchased in your local Asian market.
Break chicken down into the following portions: each leg cut into 2 pieces, each thigh cut into 3 pieces, wing tip separated from wing drumette, each bone-in breast cut into 4 pieces total (see note).
Whisk har cheong, 1/4 cup water, sugar, and oyster sauce until smooth. Add chicken pieces to bowl and toss to coat thoroughly. Cover and chill for 3 hours, stirring occasionally to evenly marinate chicken.
Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat to 375°F. Adjust heat to maintain temperature.
Working in batches, remove chicken pieces from shrimp paste mixture and pat lightly with paper towels. Dredge well in cornstarch. Cook until chicken is golden and cooked through (160°F for white meat, 165°F for dark), 4 to 6 minutes. Remove chicken with slotted spoon and transfer to paper towel lined plate.
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A couple who were camping in the woods near Denver, Colorado made a very sad discovery when they stumbled upon a plastic bag that had been dumped in the forest. Now police are involved in finding who left the bag there — as it was filled with nine newborn puppies, just hours old, who were left to die.
Deputies were called to the scene after the campers found the puppies in an open plastic trash bag. Sadly, two of the puppies were already dead when the bag was found, with veterinarians saying the whole litter would have died had they not been discovered.
The Sheriff's Animal Control deputies rushed the puppies to the Divide Creek Animal Hospital for care and the newborn dogs were put in warm towels and placed under a surgical lamp in an attempt to boost their body temperatures. They were also bottle-fed formula every two hours.
While it was hoped the story would have a happier ending, unfortunately, only two of the puppies from the litter survived.
In the state of Colorado, the abandonment of an animal is a Class 1 Misdemeanor and carries a minimum fine of $500 and up to six months of jail time. Police say that the charges could be made for each of the nine puppies, with the fine reaching $4,500 or more.
If the two puppies survive, they will be placed in foster care and be available for adoption later.


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This alone will give you the potential to make changes in your future situations that can lead you in different directions and help you gain control over your outcomes.
When we take control over our emotions, actions and thought processes we feel strong and confident. When we wait and allow others to make choices for us, or worse let the consequences of inaction dictate the way our future will go, we become anxious and steadily lose confidence.
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"Buy pullback" - if the close price is above 100-day SMA, Stiffness is at or above 90, SPY's 100-day EMA is rising, and short-term RSI turns up from below 40.
To change system's behavior from "buy high" to "buy on pullback", drag synonymous slider at the bottom of Wealth-Lab's main workspace. In accordance with the article, entering when the short-term RSI turns up from a pullback in established trend is believed to be more efficient.
Figure 1 illustrates typical trades on a chart of GoodYear.
As the current abnormal bullish market has started 9 years ago, we weren't convinced by author's choice of 10 years of latest data. Our backtest with 5% equity per position on a sample of historic Dow 30 stocks as of 1/1/2000 spans the 10-year range up until 1/1/2010. In addition to a vibrant recovery, this includes two bear markets. The buy-on-pullback version finished with the net profit beating Buy&Hold's (49% vs. ~17%, after commissions). More so, with significantly lower risk (maximum drawdown -13% vs. -59.3%) and market exposure (39.2% vs. 100%).
Figure 2 highlights system's weakness: it can lose to Buy&Hold in strong bull markets.
On a closing note, make sure to load enough historical data to run this backtest. Indicators like EMA (used as the broad market direction condition) require a fair amount of seed data (here: three times the 100-bar EMA period) to stabilize their calculation before they can be used reliably in a trading system.


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Free personal attack alarms and bottle stops, to prevent drinks being tampered with, are available across the Rushmoor, Hart and Basingstoke and Deane, Hart areas this Christmas in a bid to make sure everyone stays safe.
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In this paper, we first obtain the sub-Laplacian comparison theorem in a complete noncompact pseudohermitian manifold of vanishing torsion (i.e., Sasakian manifold). Second, we derive the subgradient estimate for positive pseudoharmonic functions in a complete noncompact pseudohermitian manifold which satisfies the CR sub-Laplacian comparison property. It functions as the CR analog of Yau's gradient estimate. As a consequence, we have the natural CR analog of Liouville-type theorems in a complete noncompact Sasakian manifold of nonnegative pseudohermitian Ricci curvature tensors.
Shu-Cheng Chang, Ting-Jung Kuo, and Chien Lin—research supported in part by the MOST of Taiwan.
This article was updated to correct Eq. 3.7.
A correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-018-0062-y.
The authors warmly thank the referee for his/her useful remarks and questions that have greatly helped to improve the paper. S.-C. Chang would like to express his gratitude to S.-T. Yau for the inspiration, C.-S. Lin for constant encouragement and supports, and J.-P. Wang for his inspiration on sub-Laplacian comparison geometry. Part of the project was done during J. Tie's visits to Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences (TIMS) and he would like to thank TIMS for support.


Arthur John Stacey was a long serving member of the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers having been elected in 1934. He learnt to ring at Padworth, Berkshire when he was thirteen or fourteen years of age and apart from ringing he also became a Churchwarden. In 1940 he went into the Royal Berkshire Regiment serving in Africa and Italy and was demobbed in 1947. He then returned to Padworth.
The Funeral Service at St Mary's, Thatcham was well attended by family, friends and bell ringers. Also in attendance was the Oxford Diocesan Guild Master who placed the Guild Banner in a prominent position at the front of the church. The service was conducted by the Revd Pat Jones. Half-muffled ringing took place before the service and a quarter peal was rung afterwards by a band consisting of present and past members of the tower. Another quarter peal was rung on 7th April of St Clement's Caters and also the Tuesday peal band dedicated their peal of 5040 Argyll Surprise Royal on 16th April to Arthur's memory.
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The Disconnected: 2/3 of SMEs haven't considered the impact……..
By Neil Trim on June 23, 2021
………of the Openreach Analogue and ISDN Switch Off will have on their remote workers
Survey by Spitfire Network Services Ltd highlights lack of preparedness amongst SMEs ahead of the Openreach Analogue and ISDN Switch Off-
66% of SMEs surveyed hadn't considered how employees working remotely could be affected-
Spitfire Network Services Ltd, a provider of telecoms and IP engineering solutions to UK businesses, today revealed data that showed two thirds (66%) of UK SMEs haven't considered how the Openreach Analogue and ISDN Switch Off will affect employees working remotely.
For those businesses that are aware, the focus has been on the services delivered to office and static locations. However, the upcoming replacement of legacy services will also cause disruption to hybrid and remote workers.
By 2025, the last elements of Openreach's analogue and ISDN network will be turned off as an all-IP network replaces these legacy services. Openreach will be switching off services at each exchange in turn. The first stage is to announce a "stop sell" date for each exchange. After this date no new affected services can be ordered and changes to existing services, no matter how minor, cannot be made. There are already over 200 exchanges that will be in the Stop Sell phase by January 2022. A list of the exchanges currently identified as Stop Sell can be found here.
Dominic Norton, Sales Director, Spitfire Network Services Ltd, commented: "With the pandemic shifting the way businesses operate in terms of remote working, it's quite concerning to see that these workers could be severely disrupted yet businesses don't actually know how and when."
"This survey has been a real eye opener. Clearly there is a long way to go, so once again our message is really to take action now and avoid disruption further down the line. If you're a business that will have people remote working long term, this is as important to you as it is to office-based companies," added Norton.
In total, 400 respondents were surveyed throughout March 2021 as part of the 'Switch On to Switch Off' survey conducted by Spitfire Network Services Ltd.
For more information about Spitfire Network Services Ltd, visit www.spitfire.co.uk. Spitfire Network Services has created a dedicated portal to provide guidance on the Switch Off here.
About Spitfire Network Services Ltd
Spitfire has been providing business internet and telecoms services from our central London offices for more than 30 years.
With an emphasis on engineering skills and customer service, we aim to build long-term business relationships with our clients – delivering innovative, award-winning solutions and significant cost savings. This approach has seen Spitfire grow from a modest start-up to a business with more than £26m turnover and over 100 staff.
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How not to let connected comms take over your work-life balance
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FREIDA HECHT not only manages to take care of her own 11 children, but she also helps many others, especially special-needs children of all ages, through her organization Circle of Friends.
Hecht, a rabbi's wife who lives near
Westport, Connecticut, says, "As a com-
munity activist and educator, I noticed
that children with special needs and their
families are mostly isolated within the
community. These children never get
invited to birthday parties, have play dates
or are included in group sports. Having a
child with special needs creates an invisi-
ble barrier. It's lonely and painful."
It began as a desire to help one little
Costco members doing
their part to help make the
world a better place
MEMBERCONNECTION
RYAN KERRIGAN is introducing underprivileged and at-risk teenagers in the Pacific Northwest to outdoor adventures only miles from their homes but a world away from their daily lives.
The Costco member is the founder and executive director of Peak 7 Adventures ( peak7.org), a faith-based nonprofit that provides opportunities for Washington and Oregon youths to explore wilderness through backpacking, whitewater rafting and mountaineering adventure trips that also build belief in their own self-worth and abilities.
"We utilize the adversity the outdoors naturally has to teach kids that adversity used well can lead to a lot of growth. We try to make challenges that are achievable," says Kerrigan, noting wilderness activities foster teamwork, trust and self-confidence.
While Peak 7 is an outdoor ministry,
Kerrigan points out that faith is "why we
are doing what we are doing. It is not
exactly what we do. We work with
non-Christian groups as well."
Kerrigan, who has a degree in parks,
recreation and tourism management,
founded Peak 7 in 2006, a year after the
software company he had been working for
relocated. Rather than leave Spokane,
Kerrigan intertwined his wilderness skills,
faith and love of working with youths to
form an outdoor adventure company. His
goal was to expose teens to the wonders of
nature, just as he had experienced them
with his father, a Navy surgeon who also
spent nine years as a medical missionary.
Since 2006, Peak 7 has grown to
include regional offices in Seattle and
central Oregon and has served more than
20,000 youths. In 2016, a record-setting
4,000 young people participated in trips.
John Tibbetts, teen program specialist for
the Tacoma (Washington) Rescue
Mission, has witnessed firsthand
the impact of Peak 7 programs on
teens living in the mission's
emergency shelter and transi-
tory housing facility.
"The opportunity kids receive on these trips is the gift of not having to worry about what's going on back home," the Costco member says. "They are just able to be kids. They are able to learn and grow with their peers. It's an opportunity to do something that is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most people."
—Andrea Downing Peck
Peak 7 Adventures offers youths the opportunity to explore the outdoors, through mountain climbing, whitewater rafting, backpacking and more.
Creating a circle
OUR DIGITAL EDITIONS
Click here to watch Peak 7 founder Ryan Kerrigan talk about his nonpro;t. (See page 14 for details.)
P H OT OS C OU R TE S Y O F PE AK 7 A D V EN T U RE S


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Old and antique maps of Eastern Canada for sale. Our authentic Eastern Canada map inventory features antique maps of Canada from the period of New France, the Hudson Bay Company, and early exploration by mapmakers such as Champlain. Our map inventory typically includes antique and vintage city views and plans of Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto, as well as maps of Ontario, Upper and Lower Canada, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Vintage pictorial maps of Eastern Canada are also for sale.
(Confidential Diplomatic Map) Colton's New...
G.W. & C.B. Colton
(Confidential Diplomatic Map) Colton's New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Id.
New York / 1871
Outline Color
Negotiating Better US Fishing Rights in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Rare separately published map of northeastern Canada, which illustrated an American Government memorandum entitled Confidential Memorandum For The Use of The Commissioners on the Part of the United States in the American-British Joint High Commission, Washington, 1871.
The map was used to illustrate the section of this confidential memorandum that described the fishing rights which were established between the US and British Dominions in by the Treaty of 1818, as thereafter modified between the two countries, and concluded with a review of the points which the diplomats would press to obtain better fishing rights for American Fisherman.
As noted on the map:
The United States have renounced the liberty to take, dry, or cure fish within three marine miles of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of the British Dominions in America, not including in the above limits; but the privileges is reserved to American Fisherman to enter such bays or harbors for the purpose of shelter and repairing damages there, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever, under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent them from taking, drying, or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges reserved to them.
Color coding shows the fishing rights of the Americans and French under current treaties.
The memorandum ends with the following suggested remedies:
It is suggested that this class of questions may be adjusted, either-
I. By agreeing upon the terms upon which the whole of the reserved fishing-grounds may be thrown open to American fishermen, which might be accompanied with a repeal of the obnoxious laws, and the abrogation of the disputed reservation as to ports, harbors, &c., &c.; or, failing that-
II. By agreeing upon the construction of the disputed renunciation; upon the principles upon which a line should be run by a joint commission to exhibit the territory from which the American fishermen are to be excluded; and by repealing the obnoxious laws, and agreeing upon the measures to be taken for enforcing the colonial rights, the penalties to be inflicted for a forfeiture of the same, and a mixed tribunal to enforce the same. It may also be well to consider whether it should be further agreed that the fish taken in the waters open to both nations shall be admitted free of duty into the United States and the British North American Colonies.
In addition to the authorities hereinbefore cited, there is in the archives of the Department of State a copious and well-arranged memoir upon the subject of the fisheries, by Richard D. Cutts, esq., of the Coast Survey, which will be placed at the disposal of the commissioners.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the ..., Part 2, Volume 3; Part 3, p. 277 to 288. (1874).
G.W. & C.B. Colton Biography
G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.
Antique Maps / North America / Canada / Eastern Canada
[Halifax and Fredericton] Barraks und Markthaus in Frederikton New Brunswick | Ansicht von Halifax, von Darmouth Cove
Interesting pair of views of Halifax, Nova Scotia and Fredericton, New Brunswick, which appeared in a rare travel guide by Traugott Bromme in 1842.
Plan de la Baye de Chibouctou nommee par les Anglois Halifax . . . 1763 (inset Plan of Halifax)
Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France Ou Du Canada . . . 1755
Nice example of the Homann Heirs edition of Bellin's map of New England and Eastern Canada.
[Manuscript Map of Ross Expedition to King William Island and Boothia Peninsula with additional reference to George Back's 1833-34 Expedition]
Dutch language manuscript map of Boothia Felix, King William's Island and the surrounding waters, based upon the discoveries of Sir John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross between 1829 to 1832 and with an additional note suggesting knowledge of George Back's expedition of 1833-34 in search of the Great Slave Lake.
A Chart of the Coast of America from New found Land to Cape Cod By John Seller, John Colson, William Fisher, James Atkinson, and to John Thornton
"The first sea chart of [New England and] the Maritimes published in England." - Burden II (#444)
Price: $ 22,500.00
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
Striking full color example of this marvelous map of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.


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M'sian Man Receives Horrifying Cursed Package With Picture Of Him & Family
Renushara
Source: Facebook & Iluminasi
When we think about having to protect our family in Malaysia, we think about putting a roof above their heads to protect them from bad weather, we think about giving them pepper spray and self-defense classes to protect them from bad people.
What how do you protect them from the supernatural?
One man decided to put his trust in faith and religion when he received a very odd package from Pos Laju. Md Iruwan took to his Facebook page to tell the horrifying story of how he had received a picture of his family with Islamic words written all over it and the faces all crossed out. Along with the image were nails and two doll-sized replicas of bodies in the Islamic burial garb. The entire package came wrapped in a yellow cloth.
Iruwan wrote, "To whoever did this, you will later receive a response from God, as far as I know, I have no enemies. How shocked I was when I opened a package only to see this. This picture was taken off of Facebook and I know you follow me on Facebook but I will not respond to your doings. You best remember that God is more than everything."
The person who sent the curse most likely went to a witch doctor in order to prepare the contents of the package, as not just Iruwan was cursed but also his whole family.
"If anything were to happen to my family, you will answer for it, God is the fairest and most just of them all. You're trying to get my wife to separate from me and you want her to go insane and die. But you must remember, if God doesn't allow it, it won't happen," he added.
Source: Steemit
He did the smartest thing possible, which is to not retaliate and look to the good forces in the world to protect and heal from whatever may come.
"I pray to God to show me who would do this to my family. I am not afraid of death for death is inevitable for life. But I do ask that God give me long life for I have not done enough in my life, and my children are still young. Please show me the truth," he ended his posting.
It's scary to think that people who hold grudges are willing to still risk their well-being and the well-being of others by dabbling in dark practices.
We hope that Iruwan and his family is safe and sound.
Had any similar incidents? Let us know in the comments section!
Also read: Girl Takes Photo Of Herself Sitting On a Chinese Grave Because She's Tired Of Her Usual Poses
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The Duty of Utmost Good Faith
Kevin Nhan
17 Mar 2015 - Reading time 5 minutes
Claims General Insurance Insurance Broking Life and Retirement Income Reinsurance Risk Management
A HISTORY OF THE DUTY OF UTMOST GOOD FAITH
"The precise definition of the term [utmost] 'good faith' depends on the legal context in which it is used." While this quote does not appear particularly enlightening or conclusive, it is a surprisingly accurate description of the duty. As such, the duty has aptly been described as "a curious animal: arising from an indefinite source, with an undetermined content" of "considerable flexibility and versatility". Its application is guided by the "legal context in which it is used" and its scope and its operation are still largely unsettled.
At its core, the duty of utmost good faith imposes a standard for both insureds and insurers to uphold in their dealings with each other. It is closely connected to the ideals of "fair dealing, reasonableness and community standards of decency and fair dealing". However, the exact meaning of the duty is unknown, as it has not been provided an explicit definition in the ICA or in the common law. Its scope is consequently moulded by the precedents set in case law, with each case being determined on a case-by-case basis with regard to what the actions of a "reasonable person in the circumstances" would be. There has been much academic discussion in journals about the duty and its operation, but there is a tendency to "throw up a plethora of terms which can be regarded as synonyms with utmost good faith but which do not really tell us much more about it".
While the duty of utmost good faith is in force from the pre-contractual to post-contractual interactions between insureds and insurers, the focus of this discussion will be on the post-contractual dealings, which include claims lodgement and administration.
The uncertainty in the area of post-contractual breaches of the duty is in part due to the lack of litigation. This is because prior to the introduction of the ICA, a breach only allowed for avoidance of the contract from inception. This remedy was particularly redundant for the insured, as it would have the practical effect of denying indemnity. As a result, insured parties had no incentive to litigate and thus most litigation was brought forth by insurers for matters of disclosure. Since the introduction of the ICA, the duty has become an implied term in every general insurance contract in Australia. As such, a breach of the duty would allow for the innocent party to sue for damages, avoid the contract or prevent the other party from acting in a certain way.
RECENT REFORMS OF THE ICA
The recent reforms of the ICA do not alter the meaning of the duty of utmost good faith. Rather, the scope of the duty now extends to third-party beneficiaries. In addition, a breach of the duty of utmost good faith is now also a breach of the ICA. Greater powers provided for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in the reforms means that ASIC can pursue action against an insurer under the Corporations Act for a breach or breaches of the duty of utmost good faith. Under this provision, ASIC has the power to suspend or cancel an insurer's Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). The implication for insurers is that there is uncertainty surrounding ASIC's discretion as to when they will intervene. This, in combination with the existing lack of clarity about the specifics of the duty, has created a commercial environment devoid of certainty for insurers, in particular. While the purpose of the amendment was to "ensure that the regulatory framework adequately addresses claims handling service", this has not been without cost. The Treasury has recognised that due to the increased powers of ASIC, there are potential extra litigation costs to both the government and insurers.
Although there are no express provisions guiding ASIC on when to intervene, there is a suggestion that ASIC would only intervene where there has been an "egregious breach" of the duty. It would be difficult to imagine that ASIC would regularly exercise its new power, given the associated costs and its limited resources. Instead, it appears that the added discretion is to arm ASIC in instances where it wants to intervene for the public interest and set a precedent for future interactions between insureds and insurers. In saying this, until there is a set of policies to help direct ASIC, the uncertainty for insurers and insureds alike will remain.
SCOPE OF THE DUTY
While there is a significant portion of the duty that has not yet been explored by the courts, there are certain actions that have been found to be within the scope of the duty of utmost good faith. The duties imposed on the insurer generally relate to issues of either timeliness or transparency in the claims administration process. In relation to timeliness, insurers must act promptly in paying a claim or when deciding whether to accept or deny a claim. Further, insurers must investigate each claim, provide an opportunity for the insured to respond to evidence supporting a refusal of a claim and are precluded from admitting liability for their own benefit.
Moreover, the duty may extend to informing the insured where there is a probability that indemnity will be declined. As a rule of thumb, insurers should "take account of the insured's interests in exercising its discretionary powers under the policy".
The obligations placed on the insured party during claims administration are similar to those under pre-contractual disclosure. The insured must disclose all relevant information in the claims process, including information that weakens their position for indemnity.
CGU V AMP
While litigation for the CGU v AMP matter was finalised before the most recent amendments to the ICA, the judgments provide the most recent High Court authority on the duty of utmost good faith.
AMP, an authorised securities dealer, was insured by CGU under a professional indemnity policy. Under the terms of the policy, cover was extended to "claims for civil liability". Two of AMP's authorised advisors were involved in a failed investment, which resulted in a complete loss for a number of clients.
ASIC conducted an investigation on the financial advisors in question and deemed the advice and investments were unsuitable. Subsequently, AMP was placed under immense pressure by ASIC to settle the claims in an "efficient, fair and timely manner".
In response to this pressure, AMP formulated a claims management protocol and proposed it to CGU. While CGU agreed to the protocol in principle, it advised AMP to act as a prudent uninsured and reserved its rights under the policy. Following the settlement and deferred settlement of $3.2 million and $3 million respectively, CGU denied indemnity under the policy.
Following appeals in the Federal Court, the majority High Court of Australia held that the duty "is not to be equated with dishonesty only". However, there was a split judgment by the judges for other matters of the duty.
In the leading judgment of Gleeson CJ and Crennan J, it was held that utmost good faith may require insurers to act in line with "commercial standards of decency and fairness" with "due regard to the legitimate interests of an insured, as well as to its own interests". They found that a breach of the duty by the insurer does not allow the court to find the insurer liable to indemnify the insured.
Alternatively, Callinan and Heydon JJ interestingly applied an equitable principle – the doctrine of clean hands, suggesting a requirement that "a plaintiff seeking relief [must] not himself be guilty of tainted relevant conduct". Here, the justices found that AMP's conduct was in its own best interest. It wanted to mitigate the negative media coverage and appease ASIC, as it was under pressure to expeditiously settle the claims.
Further, the judges were damning of AMP's decision not to enact clause 7.8, which would have disallowed CGU from contesting the claim should a senior counsel advise the parties that the claim proceedings should not be contested. As such, they found the conduct of AMP to have "an absence of good faith".
They further concluded that even if it were found that CGU had breached its duty of utmost good faith, AMP would not have been able to seek relief, as there was "not such a degree of reciprocal good faith". As such, the justices held that in order for an innocent party to seek relief, two conditions need to be substantiated. Firstly, there must be a breach of the duty by the other party and, secondly, the plaintiff needs to have acted with "reciprocal good faith".
While the judgments in CGU v AMP are a highly persuasive authority for future cases, the position remains that consequences of a breach of the duty are still to be determined, with the judges of the High Court failing to come to an agreement about the remedies available to the court.
EXAMINING CGU V AMP OF LIGHT OF ICA AMENDMENTS
With regard to the recent amendments to the ICA, it is interesting to examine whether there would be any difference in the handling of the claim by CGU.
It is a contentious issue as to whether the conduct of CGU in the case would fall under the category of an "egregious breach", but without a set of guidelines by ASIC against which to compare their conduct, there will never be a concrete answer to this question.
It is worth noting that perhaps in the commercial environment after the changes to the ICA, CGU would have conducted itself differently even if ASIC had not intervened. CGU's delay in making its decision about indemnification may have been different given merely the threat of intervention by ASIC, as the new powers afforded to the regulatory body are so significant.
Perhaps, in future, the possibility of involvement by ASIC may be enough to shape dealings between insurers and insureds.
IMPLICATIONS FOR INSUREDS AND INSURERS
In addition to acting in a timely fashion for claims administration, insurers must be diligent in having "due regard for the interests of the insured". While there has been criticism of this approach from Justice Chesterman, there may be a practical solution for insurers. The requirement is for the insurer to have "due regard" for the insured's interests but does not give rise to a fiduciary duty whereby the insured's interests would usurp their own.
Therefore, when exercising a right, an insurer should consider the impact on the insured. Should the exercise of this right not be reliant on an ambiguous term and thus be in breach s14 of the ICA, the duty should not stop the insurer from exercising their right. However, what may be altered is the method in which the insurer manages claims.
In the example where an insurer is within their rights to refuse a claim, the duty of utmost good faith would not warrant indemnification but may require the insured to administrate the claim quickly and to provide reasons for the claim refusal. The duty's purpose is not to limit the rights of the insurer, but rather to guide their actions in
exercising those rights.
Further to the established duties of disclosure, the "clean hands" principle introduced by Callinan and Heydon JJ suggests that an insured's right to relief for a breach of the duty is contingent on their conduct. Previous to this case, there was little authority to suggest that apart from instances of non-disclosure, an insured's right to damages for a breach by the insurer may be jeopardised should "tainted relevant conduct" be found. Borrowing from equity law, the principle dictates that "he who seeks equity must do equity".
In the context of claims, this would seem to indicate that an insured cannot claim for a breach if they have not conducted themselves adequately.
However, it is for the courts to decide whether coming with "clean hands" is equivalent to acting in line with the duty of utmost good faith. It would be likely that the courts hold "clean hands" to be identical to the duty because if "clean hands" were held to a higher standard, this would in effect replace the duty for insureds by imposing a higher standard.
Therefore, the practical effect of the introduction of this equitable principle is that in instances where both parties are found to be in breach of the duty, relief is not available to either party.
While the duty of utmost good faith governs the obligations on insureds and insurers, its exact scope of operation and power are still unknown some 30 years after its introduction in the ICA. What is known is that the relationship between insurers and insureds falls somewhere between a standard commercial relationship between supplier and consumer and that of a fiduciary relationship. Therefore, there is no requirement for either party to forego Their own best interests but they must have "due regard" for the other party when asserting their rights.
The biggest uncertainty in the commercial context is ASIC's greater powers and its discretion in exercising these powers. This is especially of concern to insurers, as there is an exposure to potential intervention from ASIC every time an action regarding a breach of duty of utmost good faith arises. However, the commentary suggesting that intervention would only occur in either important cases or egregious breaches should alleviate some concerns.
There is significant room for development in the law of the duty of utmost good faith, and it will continue to form the foundation on which insurers and insureds interact with each other, including during the handling of claims.
1 Kelly v New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd (1996) 130 FLR 97 at 111; (1996) 9 ANZ Ins Cas 61-317; BC9600516 2 Adams v Confederation Life Insurance Co (1994) 25 CCLI (2d) 180; [1994] 6 WWR 662 (Alta QB) at 685, [68] (Mason J) 3 Kelly v New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd (1996) 130 FLR 97 at 111; (1996) 9 ANZ Ins Cas 61-317; BC9600516.3 4 Ibid 5 K Godfrey, 'The duty of utmost good faith – The great unknown of modern insurance law' (2002) 14 ILJ 3 6 F Hawke, 'Utmost Good Faith – What does it really mean?' (1994) 6(2) ILJ 94 7 'Focus: The Duty of Utmost Good Faith', Allens, Newsletter, 2001
8 R Nattrass 'Extending the unfair contract terms laws to insurance contracts: Is the duty of utmost good faith fair enough?' (2012) 23 ILJ 299 at 303 9 s13 ICA 1984 10 Ibid 11 G Pynt, 'Australian Insurance Law: A First Reference', 2nd ed, Lexusnexis, 2011 12 ss13(1) & (2) Insurance Contracts Act 1984 13 The Insurance Contracts Act – An Overview of Recent Changes and Implications for Insurers, Insureds and Brokers Should this be in single quotation marks?, Holman Webb Lawyers 14 s14A ICA 1984 15 Proposals Paper on Second Stage: Provisions other than Section 54, Consumers' Federation of Australia, 2004, at <http://icareview.treasury.gov.au/content/_download/submissions_post_proposals/CFA.pdf> (accessed 9 October 2014) 16 Insurance Contract Amendment Bill 2007, Draft Regulation Impact Statement, Commonwealth of Australia Treasury, 2007, at <http://icareview.treasury.gov.au/content/_download/draft_legislation/Draft_RIS.pdf> (accessed 9 October 2014) 17 Consumers' Federation of Australia, Submission in Response to the 'Proposals Paper on Second Stage: Provisions Other Than Section 54', June 2004, p 3 18 Moss and Anor v Sun Alliance Australia [190] 6 ANZIC 60-967 and Johnson v Australian Casualty Co [1992] 7 ANZIC 61-109 19 Beverley v Tyndall Life Insurance Company [1999] 10 ANZIC 61-453 20 Groom v Crocker [1939] 1 KB 194 21 Ensham Resources Pty Ltd v AIOI Insurance Co Ltd (2012) 295 ALR 99 22 Ibid 23 M Ellis, 'Utmost good faith: The scope and application of s 13 of the Insurance Contracts Act in the wake of CGU v AMP' (2009) 20 ILJ 92 at 108 24 CGU Insurance Ltd v AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd (2007) 235 CLR 1; 237 ALR 420; [2007] HCA 36; BC200707214 at [206] per Callinan and Heydon JJ 25 Distillers Co Biochemicals v Ajax Insurance [1974] HCA 3; (1974) 130 CLR 1 26 Case Note: CGU Limited v AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd, CBP Lawyers, 2007 27 Re Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd [1998] QSC 209 [37]-[86] 28 Godfrey, above n 5, at 3 29 RAF England v Zurich Australia Insurance Ltd (unreported, Adelaide DC, Kitchen J, 30 July 1991) 30 R Keane, 'Equity and the Laws of Trusts in the Republic of Ireland', Bloomsbury Professional, 2nd ed, 2011 Bibliography: • Kelly v New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd (1996) 130 FLR 97 at 111; (1996) 9 ANZ Ins Cas 61-317; BC9600516 • Adams v Confederation Life Insurance Co (1994) 25 CCLI (2d) 180; [1994] 6 WWR 662 (Alta QB) at 685, [68] (Mason J) •
Kelly v New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd (1996) 130 FLR 97 at 111; (1996) 9 ANZ Ins Cas 61-317; BC9600516 • K Godfrey, 'The duty of utmost good faith – The great unknown of modern insurance law' (2002) 14 ILJ 3 • F Hawke, 'Utmost Good Faith – What does it really mean?' (1994) 6(2) ILJ 94 • 'Focus: The Duty of Utmost Good Faith', Allens, Newsletter, 2001 • R Nattrass 'Extending the unfair contract terms laws to insurance contracts: Is the duty of utmost good faith fair enough?' (2012) 23 ILJ 299 at 303 • G Pynt, 'Australian Insurance Law: A First Reference', 2nd ed, Lexusnexis, 2011 • Insurance Contracts Act 1984 • The Insurance Contracts Act – An Overview of Recent Changes and Implications for Insurers, Insureds and Brokers, Holman Webb Lawyers • Proposals Paper on Second Stage: Provisions other than Section 54, Consumers' Federation of Australia, 2004, at <http://icareview.treasury.gov.au/content/_download/submissions_post_proposals/CFA.pdf> (accessed 9 October 2014) • Insurance Contract Amendment Bill 2007, Draft Regulation Impact Statement, Commonwealth of Australia Treasury, 2007, at <http://icareview.treasury.gov.au/content/_download/draft_legislation/Draft_RIS.pdf> (accessed 9 October 2014) • Consumer's Federation of Australia, Submission in Response to the 'Proposals Paper on Second Stage: Provisions Other Than Section 54', June 2004, p 3. • Moss and Anor v Sun Alliance Australia [190] 6 ANZIC 60-967 and Johnson v Australian Casualty Co [1992] 7 ANZIC 61-109 • Beverley v Tyndall Life Insurance Company [1999] 10 ANZIC 61-453 • Groom v Crocker [1939] 1 KB 194 • Ensham Resources Pty Ltd v AIOI Insurance Co Ltd (2012) 295 ALR 99 • M Ellis, 'Utmost good faith: The scope and application of s 13 of the Insurance Contracts Act in the wake of CGU v AMP' (2009) 20 ILJ 92 at 108 • CGU Insurance Ltd v AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd (2007) 235 CLR 1; 237 ALR 420; [2007] HCA 36 • BC200707214 at [206] per Callinan and Heydon JJ • Distillers Co Biochemicals v Ajax Insurance [1974] HCA 3; (1974) 130 CLR 1 • Case Note: CGU Limited v AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd, CBP Lawyers, 2007 • Re Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd [1998] QSC 209 [37]-[86] • RAF England v Zurich Australia Insurance Ltd (unreported, Adelaide DC, Ktichen J, 30 July 1991) • R Keane, 'Equity and the Laws of Trusts in the Republic of Ireland', Bloomsbury Professional, 2nd ed, 2011 • B McGivern, 'Coming to the party: The evolution of post-contractual duties of utmost good faith under the ICA' (2013) 24 ILJ 159 • C O'Neill, 'A pot of gold? The unfinished story of utmost good faith and the Insurance Contracts Act' (2008) 19 ILJ 245
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Richard Feinstein Accepts Position as the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition Director
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that Richard Feinstein, a partner at Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP, has accepted the position as Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has two primary internal organizations: (1) the Bureau of Competition, which enforces antitrust laws and (2) the Bureau of Consumer Protection, which enforces consumer protection laws. As Director of the Bureau of Competition, Mr. Feinstein will oversee the antitrust enforcement arm of the FTC and help dictate federal antitrust enforcement policy. This will be Mr. Feinstein's third "tour of duty" as an antitrust enforcer with the government. He started his career within the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and served as Assistant Director of the FTC's Health Care Shop from 1998 – 2001.
Mr. Feinstein is an excellent choice for the Bureau of Competition Director. While at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the founding partners of Kotchen & Low worked closely with Mr. Feinstein, and Daniel Kotchen reported to Mr. Feinstein at the FTC from 1998 – 2001. Mr. Feinstein is smart, experienced, fair, funny, and a terrific manager. Under Mr. Feinstein's leadership, antitrust enforcement will be fair and balanced and morale within the FTC's Bureau of Competition will be high. The one downside of his appointment is that FTC insiders and others who interact with him will have to suffer through Mr. Feinstein's ardent and vocal support of any team from Pittsburgh: the Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, and Pitt Panthers.
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Hmmm, challenging for http://www.tineye.com/ which did a great job so far!
What's not so great is the hundreds and hundreds of tumblrs and sites with my pictures published without attribution. Sigh.
Really awesome feature. Except I'm not too sure how often I'd use this — but when I do, I'm sure it'll be awesome!


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LIFE Potamo Fauna (2014-17)
Life Project (2010-13)
What is LIFE+?
Location of the area
Scientific description of the area
Objectives of the project
List of actions
LIFE Technical Office
Television and radio
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LIFE Natura Project (2010-13) - Finished
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The main objective of the project is to carry out a widespread intervention to fight, slow down and reverse the decline of species and habitats of community interest being caused by invasive species in the Natura 2000 area "Banyoles Lake". This is being done by controlling invasive species and strengthening the populations of native species (turtles, barbels and river mussels-nàiades).
Since the 1990s, the EU has subsidised natural resource conservation projects in member states with funds from LIFE, currently LIFE+ 2010-13. Through this the intention is to protect and conserve those Sites of Community Importance (SCI), now known as Special Protection Zones (ZEC), included in Natura 2000.
The Natural Area of the Lake, declared an Area of Natural Interest (PEIN) and which offers one of the most important hydrogeologic ecosystems in the Mediterranean region of the Iberian Peninsula, encompasses the Lake and the set of ponds around it.
The area has been benefitting from the Programme LIFE+ Natura through the project: Improving the Habitats and Species of Banyoles Natura 2000: A Demonstrative Project, for the period 2010-2013.
The project was awarded by the European Community to the Consortion of the Lake, with de town councils of Porqueres and Banyoles as a beneficiary. Th eproject is partnered by the Generalitat of Catalunya's Department of Environment and Housing (Autonomous government of Catalunya), the Regional Government of Girona, the Water Catalan Agency (ACA) and Aigües de Banyoles (local water company). To oversee the work and development of the project a team of people dedicated tothe project has been created.
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Martin Reiner: A grapefruit poet from military academy
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It is not often that we have a guest on Czech Books who studied at military academy, but that is the case of our guest today, the novelist, poet and publisher, Martin Reiner, from the Czech Republic's second city, Brno. We shall be looking not just at Martin's unusual literary career, but also at his home town's special relationship to poetry.
How was it that you came to study to be a soldier?
"First of all I was young. I was only fourteen when I started to study at the academy in 1978."
So, it was at the height of the Cold War.
"My mother tried to get me to the military school. She wanted me to study at university. We were a poor family. There was almost no money, and I was a younger brother. My mother wanted both of us to go to university, which even under socialism – so-called – in the former Czechoslovakia was a problem. There was one certainty about the military academy: that you will study at university, but of course it had to be an army university. We were just playing soldiers. It was not as hard as it sounds."
You ended up in jail. That was a direct consequence of being at military academy.
"There were some rules. One of them was that you needed to pay a great deal of money to get out of the army. As I said before we couldn't pay it. Then the only other way to get out was through jail."
For an eighteen-year-old boy that must have been quite traumatic, wasn't it?
"I can tell you. It was not that traumatic because it was quite similar to the circumstances in the army, which means I was quite experienced in it."
A collection of your poetry has just come out in English translation, called "No Through Road", translated by Andrew Oakland and published by Art Bureau.
Often I am strange.
I can be a kestrel,
but I don't eat mice.
Then for hours
I'll carry in my jacket pocket…
Florida State.
(River, posts, pelican take-off)
I stretch out my arm
and my twelve-fingered palm
rises famously
over the Gongga Shan.
You scatter me in the water,
drink deeply…
and spit.
"Yuck! A grapefruit poet."
So you're a grapefruit poet, with Florida State in your pocket…
"Yes, it's playing on words and playing with context. This particular poem is dedicated to a friend of mine, who is a Brno poet, Tomas Pridal. It's my generation, and this "grapefruit poet" is his way of writing poetry. So it's a very friendly message from me to him."
And this brings me to the question of Brno, your home city, and poetry, because it has a very strong poetic tradition, probably more than Prague.
"This tradition is long and very strong. I believe that one of the main reasons for the situation of Brno as a poetic capital of the Czech Republic is that poetry is an absolutely useless thing, and I quite believe that the position of Brno is good for poetry. There are not very strong pressures on people to make money, for instance, definitely less than in Prague."
Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is traditionally a land of music, of song. Do you think that this tradition of song also has some link with the poetic tradition in Moravia?
"Yes, I think so. I believe that the language in Moravia is maybe more of a kind of treasure than for people in Bohemia. You can hardly say it is a definition, but there is something in it – that people in Moravia treat the language maybe in a better way than people in the rest of the country, and it quite often results directly in poetry."
I saw you swim away,
as if writing me a note.
Your strokes, where your fingers would meet
for fleeting moments;
the tip of a pen dipping
up and down.
Your voice, then quickened breath;
wet forehead…
The fish puzzled out your movements.
And the catfish knew
that this shore-to-shore writing
kept you alive.
To the stupid tench
you were just a stain
on the rippling skirt of the water.
Martin Reiner, photo: Vilem Faltynek
You are also well known in this country as a publisher, with your publishing house Petrov in Brno, which has published a lot of Brno and Moravian writing in particular.
"Yes, but not only. I believe that maybe about 70 percent of authors of my publishing house lately came from the rest of the republic – mostly from Prague. But it's true that the poetry was mostly Moravian."
And how did you come to be a publisher?
"It happened in the early 90s. It was an extremely turbulent time. I didn't have a job, and I just asked the people around me, and suddenly there was a chance to become the editor-in-chief of the publishing house. But at the time I was not the owner of the publishing house. I was only the boss. And then things changed again. I never thought of becoming an entrepreneur. Really I felt more like a poet. It sounds funny, but it's my nature. The reason why it went the way it did – I mean that Petrov quickly became one of the most prestigious publishing houses in the country – was because I loved the work and tried to do it as best I could."
It's interesting, because under communism Czechs were known to be great book-lovers – they almost retreated into books – but since the fall of communism there has been a decline in the amount that people read. You've bucked that trend really.
"Yes, the early 90s – the first half of the 90s – was quite a romantic time. At the time we didn't feel it, but now, when you look over your shoulders you can see that the time was a very romantic time. It was the right time for publishing poetry. Unfortunately it has changed."
Do you think it has changed for the worse? Are we more cynical than we were?
"More practical, yes. There is more consumption on the minds of most people, but I think it's natural. There's nothing surprising in it. It's worse. That's it.
"Here is a poem that I wrote twenty years ago. It's one of my earliest, but I still quite like it.
OUR TIME HAS RUN OUT
The ripplings of summer
caught as ribbons in plaits.
In the morning tram
the children twitter.
Down the red avenue
time steps on the brake.
We open our hands
and rise like the phoenix.
I think that's another very Brno poem, and I know that traditionally trams have a habit of creeping into Brno poetry.
"Yes. The tram is called 'salina' in Brno. It's the only place in the world where people call it this way."
The water stays in the gutter; it's murky brown.
Nature moves it all on -
all that you came to know
as summertime.
You dare not oppose, do not raise your hand
in a gesture of defense.
You're glad the movers missed all
that the world came to call You.
It is gutless, pitiful…
But you always get like this when the water in the gutter is
murky brown.
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First Amendment Clinic Represents Reporter Suing for Access to Mariner East Pipeline Protest Records
By Law School staff January 11, 2022
Represented by Cornell Law School's First Amendment Clinic and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, freelance investigative journalist Daniel Schwartz filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania State Police on December 20, 2021, to obtain records related to the Mariner East Pipeline protests.
Schwartz seeks intervention from the Commonwealth Court to enforce a Final Determination from the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records that ordered the Pennsylvania State Police to produce certain law enforcement officers' communications.
The lawsuit argues that Schwartz is entitled to access to these records, which relate to a matter of significant public interest: the Mariner East pipeline protests and the interaction of police with such protests.
"I've seen again and again in my reporting that access to public records is essential to both inform the public and hold the government accountable," Schwartz said. "It shouldn't take a lawsuit to get access."
The Pennsylvania State Police denied Schwartz access to certain records in April 2021, claiming that they did not exist. In June 2021, the Office of Open Records ordered the Pennsylvania State Police either to produce the requested records or provide an affidavit describing that it conducted an adequate search for them. Since then, the Pennsylvania State Police has failed to comply with the order.
Clinic student Steven Marzagalli took the lead in drafting the petition with supervision from attorneys at the clinic and the Reporters Committee.
"I joined Cornell's First Amendment Clinic for two reasons: the opportunity to learn from talented litigators, and to help the First Amendment bring us closer to the transparent ideals it promises," said Marzagalli. "I am grateful to our client Dan for allowing me the opportunity to help him demand this transparency from the Pennsylvania State Police."
Paula Knudsen Burke of the Reporters Committee, Associate Clinic Director Jared Carter, and Heather Murray, Managing Attorney of the Clinic's Local Journalism Project, worked with Marzagalli on the enforcement action.
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How the Blockchain Could Help Those Struggling With Addiction
Noah Rue March 19, 2019
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Drug addiction is a huge problem in the United States. From alcoholism to nicotine dependence to addiction to more serious drugs like opioids, the health implications and human/financial costs are significant. According to Regis College, deaths related to heroin overdoses increased dramatically from 2010 to 2016. By 2016, synthetic opioids took center stage in overdose deaths, with heroin trailing. The opioid crisis has reached the point where now opiate overdoses are the number one cause of death in individuals under the age of 50.
The healthcare costs of Illicit drugs alone exceed $11 billion annually, and overall costs including incarceration, crime, lost work, and productivity are $249 billion. Drug use is not just found in poor neighborhoods or among the homeless, but many middle class and wealthy Americans suffer too. Often these addictions are a result of over-prescribed narcotics or misuse of prescriptions following trauma.
The search for answers has been going on for years. From 12-step programs and addiction support groups to drugs used to ease the side effects of addiction or offer tapered dosing, many options are available. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but the solutions that are out there have some things in common:
Random Testing
Peer-to-Peer Accountability
Thanks to new advances in technology, there are new ways to implement these solutions. While there have been experiments with apps and virtual/augmented reality, one game changer is the blockchain. Thanks to new developments, the software originally designed for cryptocurrency is able to help those struggling with addiction.
To review, or for those who don't understand it, the blockchain is essentially a shared ledger stored on the computers of all parties involved in a transaction. Once a block is created, it cannot be modified or tampered with, and the system is both transparent and secure.
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If you know a recovering alcoholic, they typically do not have booze in the house, and may even request that you put yours away or lock it up when they come to visit. Still, access is hard to restrict entirely, and a lot of willpower is involved because alcohol is legal.
When dealing with illicit drugs and opioids specifically, it's a different story. Many pharmacies now do not stock the pills or lock them up if they do. Where can blockchain help? By helping to secure the pharmaceutical supply chain. There are several factors involved in this, and blockchain can help with all of them:
Prescription Abuse: The current prescription system is flawed, and while e-scripts are on the rise, it is still possible to forge prescriptions fairly easily. Using a blockchain prescription system, this can be nearly eliminated.
Production and Distribution: There is increasing pressure for companies to simply ensure that no one gets their hands on these drugs other than those who should have them, and there are gaps in the production and distribution part of the supply chain. New programs like BlockMedx has been working on an end-to-end supply system using the Ethereum platform and crypto tokens to validate transactions.
The Supply Process: Programs by Pfizer and Genentech have teamed up for the MediLedger project, an effort to use the blockchain to provide tamper-proof records of the drugs moving through the supply process, preventing counterfeit drugs from making their way into the system or for fraudulent theft.
Because of its immutable record keeping, the blockchain systems can also be used to alert doctors and pharmacists if something just does not look or feel right, and prescriptions can be easily revoked.
The principle is to keep opioids and other narcotics in the hands of those who legitimately need them and have legal prescriptions for them, and no one else. It is still important for individuals to safeguard these medications at home, but the process will make limiting illicit access easier.
While the cat's away, the mice will play. Often if no one is watching or checking on them, an addict will have a relapse. However, random testing, unless required by an employer or rehab, only works for a limited amount of time.
Enter the new app Hayver and the cryptocurrency Duitcoin, issued on the Ethereum platform. The app actually does a variety of things, but one of the most important is that it rewards users with cryptocurrency they can use to make purchases on the Hayver app. Users are selected at random to submit a urine sample using a home test kit. They must show the results to another person in their circle of support who then verified and records the results. Once the test is verified, the individual receives coin credits.
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer John M. Copenhaver M.D. told CoinJournal the idea came from his own struggle with addiction: "I had retired my medical license years earlier so I was no longer in a physician's monitoring program, meaning that I was no longer subject to random drug and alcohol screens," he told them. "I knew that physicians and pilots have a five-year recovery rate, often in the ninety percentile, and the rest of the general public, now like myself, had around a 3 percent chance of abstinence for five years."
The app is designed around the blockchain and its own coin offering to help others get that kind of accountability and support, increasing their chances of extended recovery.
What the app is not designed to do is to replace traditional 12-step programs, and Copenhaver makes that clear. While these programs are necessary, Hayver is designed to be an additional support system that provides additional peer-to-peer accountability.
Each user has what is called a circle of support, with between 5 and 20 people who help keep them accountable. These can be family members or other addicts who are there for support. The user is required to check in to the app every day, and they can see how many days they have been sober, their check-in history, and the rewards (Duitcoins) they have earned to that point.
The idea is to broaden the peer-to-peer group to those beyond a physical group in one's hometown. Of course, there is no real penalty for not checking in other than peer pressure, but if someone disappears from the group for too long, they can request that someone anonymously go check on that person.
Nearly every program will tell you that, like with any other chronic disease, daily maintenance is one of the keys to lasting recovery. The Hayver app provides that opportunity for users in a peer-to-peer environment.
Recovery never stops. No matter how many years an addict is sober, the right circumstances can send them stumbling back down the road to addiction. With more powerful drugs like opioids, the odds of relapse are even greater.
The Hayver app and others are not really about the technology and the blockchain. Those are merely modern tools they use to reach and support people. The connections made on the app through the circle of support are intended to last a lifetime. There's no expiration date on random drug testing. Dr. Copenhaver says it best: "My wife is the person I show my results to," he adds. "And the impact it has had on rebuilding trust in our relationship is priceless."
From helping to prevent wrongful access to peer-to-peer accountability and lifetime support, the blockchain helps those struggling with addiction, a welcome disruption in an area where we need all the weapons we can muster if we are to win the battle we wage against the opioid epidemic and other addictions
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