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Is a monthly magazine addressed to the Saudi family in particular, and Arabic in general. The magazine is published on the 1st of each calendar month and deals with all social, environmental, health, cultural, aesthetic, artistic, tourism, domestic, economic and recreational issues. "Secrets of diet and beauty" occupies a special position in the Arab family, because of its important topics, in addition to the use of the most competent doctors and experts in the world in the field of diet and beauty more...
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Al-Hijaz International Refereed Journal for Islamic & Arabic Studies : Have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. People of Hejaz, who feel particularly connected to the holy places of Mecca and Medina, have probably the most strongly articulated identity of any regional grouping in Saudi Arabia. more...
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ALBILAD Newspaper
Al Bilad is a daily, broadsheet-sized Arabic newspaper covering local and international news, politics, business and sport. It was first published in 1932 . more...
Al Eqtisadiah is an Arabic language daily newspaper with an exclusive focus on economic and business news and analysis. The newspaper provides news coverage as well as research, analysis and commentary on domestic, regional and international economic and business-related events. The newspaper complements its coverage of regional business and economic news with translated extracts from major international business publications, including the Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, INSEAD, and Frankfurter. The newspaper primarily targets professionals, investors, academics, and senior government employees in the Kingdom and the GCC. more...
Dar-Aleom
"Daraleom to the press, printing and publishing" a distinguished place among her sisters press institutions in the Kingdom, which has the patronage of the state represented by the Ministry of Information, come and newspaper today published by this house within a successful media system in the Kingdom. This newspaper has started her career with the issuance of press enterprise system in 1383 when a group of dedicated men thought the issuance of the newspaper in the region, where The first issue on 20 Shawwal 1384 AH corresponding to February 21, 1965 AD was issued once a week, eight pages, then turned to newspaper bi-weekly starting of No. 164, and the date of 2 November 1385 March 24, 1966. Then I started to published three times a week from No. 514, date 19 Rajab 1391 AH corresponding to September 8, 1971 m twelve pages. Then turned into a daily newspaper from No. 1320, and the date 29 Rajab 1398 AH corresponding to June 4, 1978 m and exceeding forty pages and annexes unique specialized daily and weekly newspapers characterized the between. He assumed the presidency of the Board of Directors Sheikh / Hamad Al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him), where the house has seen a series of advanced achievements culminated in the transfer of administrative and translation devices to the new house is equipped with all modern facilities and equipment for the production of the press building. Then he came after him HE Mr. / Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al-Zamil (may Allah have mercy on him), and chaired its Board of Directors currently HE Eng / Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Hugail. Sheikh / Abdul Aziz, the Turkish (the mercy of God) was the first general manager of the house, and after that came Dr / Omar Zawawi then Sheikh / Hamad Al Adha (the mercy of God), where he was Director-General and Chairman of the Board, and Professor / Assistant Akherisa, then Mr. / Saleh Al Humaidan It is the current general manager of the house. The editorial leadership was as follows: 1 Mr. / Hussein Khaznadar - the first editor of 2 Professor / Professor Hassan Matroudi 3/4 Mohammad Bazei Professor / Professor Khalil Fezia 5/6 Shazam Mohammed Professor / Professor Mohammed Ajeean 7/8 Professor Muhammad Ali / Othman Al-Omair 9 Professor / Professor Khalil Fezia 10/11 in favor of Azzaz Professor / Professor Atiq Alkhmas 12/13 Khalil Fezia Professor / Professor Sultan Bazei 14/15 Atiq Alkhmas Professor / Professor Mohammed Aloeil 16 / Abdulwahab Al-Fayez - editor currently has worked in this newspaper and in the periods varying number of Arab writers of them Palestinian poet and novelist Mohammed al-Qaisi Karim Sabawi, writer and critic Mr. Abdulaziz please debate, and writer in favor of the need of Tunisia, and media Bouaanani of Morocco Mohammed, and others. more...
Al-Madina Newspaper
Al Madina is a daily Arabic newspaper covering news, politics, business and sport. It was first published in 1936. The newspaper includes a weekly arts supplement, Alarbaa, on Wednesdays, and a weekly religious supplement, Alresalah, on Fridays. more...
Al Riyadh Newspaper
The first daily newspaper that was published in Arabic in the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first issue was published on 01/01/1385 AH corresponding to 11/5/1965 AD with a limited number of pages. But it continued to develop until it reached a daily publication of 52 pages, 32 pages of which are colored pages. Its issues reached 80 - 100 pages and the advertising space exceeded (3) * million cm / column a year and currently occupies center stage in terms of distribution rates, readership and advertising space in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is edited by a group of elite writers and editors, and it is the first Saudi publication that registers a growth rate of (100%) in Saudizing editorial jobs. more...
Sayidaty Magazine
Sayidaty a weekly magazine, social, women's, considered since it was issued in London in 1981, Journal of Arab women and their families, and described through opinion polls and media experts and women's bodies, it is the magazine of Arab women first, due to the spread of the broad and evolution, which benefited from the latest technological methods, and commitment in the same time, the ethics of society in general and the Arab Gulf society in particular. more...
Saudi Research & Publishing Company
The Company Established in 1972, it has become today one of the most important publishing companies in the Arab world. In 1975, it issued Arab News, the first Saudi English daily newspaper.Since then, the company's publication list has been continuously growing. Today it comprises 15 publications all of which are leading in their fields inside and outside the Arab world. The diversified company publications have managed to reach all Arab and foreign readers. It also prorides a wealth of various subject matters besides being a reliable source of information which meets needs and tastes of all indviduals. The Company publiches the fullowing daily newspapers: Asharq AL- Awsat,AL-Eqtissadia, AL-Riyadia,Arab News,Urdu News and Malialam News. Weekly magazines published by the Company are: AL-Majalla,Sayyidati, Basem and Urdu Mag. Monthly magazines are: AL- Rajul, AL-Jamila and Hia. more...
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia (SJA)
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia (SJA) is official publication of the Saudi Anaesthetic Association. It publishes peer reviewed original articles and highlights the current advances in anaesthesia and related sciences. It is also to encourage and stimulate associated scientific research and communication between hospitals and universities in Saudi Arabia, the Arab countries and the rest of the World. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository. The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of manuscripts and even for color reproduction of photographs. more...
Al-Khazindar Co.
Al-Khazindar Co. has altogether 17 branches in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These 17 branches are mainly for Books and Distribution Divisions. Al-Khazindar Co. has three Main branches for Medical and Scientific Divisions namely Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar. Around 200 members are working in Khazindar Co. The Marketing trust of Al Khazindar Company is centered on the group General Manager and Divisional Managers who are supported by highly qualified and professional sales and engineering staff with many years of experience in the market place. Thus our customers, the Doctors, Scientists and Engineers, our trading partners and principals can be assured that with Al Khazindar Co., they have professional and confident representation, available to discuss and meet their demands. With the technical background and knowledge's to fulfill any requirements, and provide the most close and personal attention at all times. The Medical and Scientific Division head office located in Riyadh, commenced business with a leading German medical equipment distribution and supply company in 1967, to distribute scientific and technical supplies. Al Khazindar Company is now exclusive representative in Saudi Arabia for some of the worlds leading manufacturers of surgical and scientific products, ophthalmic instrumentation and supplies, surgical microscopy and laboratory microscopy, ICU Units like Anesthesia Machines, Lung Ventilators and Patient Monitors. The company is dedicated to precision and quality at the best possible cost to our clients, accomplished through its Sales and Engineering professionals. Al Khazindar's portfolio of successfully completed projects in both the governmental and private sectors is second to none and includes such prestigious hospitals as the King Faisal Specialist and Research Hospital Riyadh and Jeddah, the Saudi German Hospital Group, King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital Riyadh to name a few. We are confident that as sole distributor of some of the worlds leading manufacturers for quality instrumentation for specialist surgery in Saudi Arabia. Al Khazindar can provide through their principals, the customers preferred instrument. We represent the world leaders in technological innovation. more...
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ASAIL | MLA 2020 CFPs!
The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures invites submissions for a guaranteed panel on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) to be presented at the 2020 MLA Convention taking place 9-12 January 2020 in Seattle, Washington.
We invite submissions on literatures concerning Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Including, but not limited to, writings on the following related topics: National Day of Awareness for MMIWG, Women's Memorial March, Highway of Tears, Canadian National Inquiry, Washington State House Bill 2951, Annual Indigenous Women's Candlelight Memorial Vigil in Seattle, Anna Mae Aquash, REDress Project, the 2017 film Wind River, the Who Killed Alberta Williams? podcast, the community-based art installation Walking with Our Sisters, Sisters in Spirit Vigils, the play Big Green Sky, #AmINext or #idlenomore or other social media outlets, and/or additional MMIWG literatures.
Please send 300-word abstracts, brief (1-2 pp.) CVs, and AV requests to Brian J Twenter (University of Minnesota Morris) and Laura De Vos (University of Washington) at btwenter@morris.umn.edu and lmdevos@uw.edu by 27 March 2019.
Presenters must be members of the Modern Languages Association by 7 April 2019. This is a guaranteed panel, the session proposal will be accepted, and selected panelists will be informed before 1 April 2019. Information on membership is available on the MLA website: https://www.mla.org/.
The members of the Native American Literature Symposium and the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures boards are excited to announce the recipients and nominees of the 2019 Beatrice Medicine Published Monograph and Essay Awards and the Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories.
FarIna King. The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century. University Press of Kansas.
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert. Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American. University Press of Kansas.
Tai Edwards. Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power. University Press of Kansas.
Thomas Biolsi. Power and Progress on the Prairie: Governing People on Rosebud Reservation. University of Minnesota Press.
Adam Spry. Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism. SUNY Press.
Kirby Brown. Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970. University of Oklahoma Press.
Darnella Davis. Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era. University of New Mexico Press.
Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas. Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today. Thrums Books.
Timothy Cochrane. Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade. University of Minnesota Press.
Jessica Mehta. Drag Me Through the Mess. Unsolicited Press.
Congratulations to all the nominees and to the recipients of these awards!
The field of American Indian literature includes poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction, critical theory, cultural theory, history, and all forms of story in the shape of comics, movies, videos and games. Tell us what makes you think, answers your questions, or asks for response and revision. What are you reading, watching, playing, scrolling through? Studies in American Indian Literatures welcomes reviews of scholarly and creative works relevant to the field of American Indian literature. Reviews should be at least 500 words and no longer than 1000 words. To submit a review contact SAIL Review Editors, Margaret Noodin (noodin@uwm.edu) and Jeremy Carnes (jcarnes@uwm.edu).
The members of the Native American Literature Symposium board are excited to announce the winners of the 2017 Beatrice Medicine Published Monograph and Essay Awards and the Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories.
The 2017 winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award for Published Academic Essay is Jan Johnson for her essay "'We Were All at Wounded Knee': The Engaged Resistance of Folk and Rock in the Red Power Era" from the collection Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop edited by Jeff Bergland, Jan Johnson, and Kimberli Lee (University of Arizona Press).
The 2017 winner of the Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories is Delphine Red Shirt for her book George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition (University of Nebraska Press).


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RSpec.describe 'hyrax/users/show.html.erb', type: :view do
  let(:join_date) { 5.days.ago }
  let(:ability) { double(current_user: current_user) }
  let(:user) { stub_model(User, user_key: 'cam156', created_at: join_date) }
  let(:presenter) { Hyrax::UserProfilePresenter.new(user, ability) }
  let(:current_user) { stub_model(User, user_key: 'mjg') }

  before do
    allow(view).to receive(:signed_in?).and_return(true)
    allow(view).to receive(:current_user).and_return(current_user)
    allow(view).to receive(:can?).and_return(true)
    allow(view).to receive(:number_of_collections).and_return(0)
    allow(view).to receive(:number_of_works).and_return(0)
    allow(presenter).to receive(:trophies).and_return([])
    assign(:user, user)
    assign(:presenter, presenter)
  end

  it "draws 3 tabs" do
    render
    page = Capybara::Node::Simple.new(rendered)
    expect(page).to have_selector("ul#myTab.nav.nav-tabs > li > a[href='#contributions']")
    expect(page).to have_selector("ul#myTab.nav.nav-tabs > li > a[href='#activity_log']")
    expect(page).to have_selector(".tab-content > div#contributions.tab-pane")
    expect(page).to have_selector(".tab-content > div#activity_log.tab-pane")
  end

  it "has the vitals" do
    render
    expect(rendered).to match(/Joined on #{join_date.strftime("%b %d, %Y")}/)
  end

  context "with trophy" do
    let(:trophy_presenter) { Hyrax::TrophyPresenter.new(solr_document) }
    let(:solr_document) do
      SolrDocument.new(id: 'abc123',
                       has_model_ssim: 'GenericWork',
                       thumbnail_path_ss: '/foo/bar.png')
    end

    before do
      allow(view).to receive(:blacklight_config).and_return(CatalogController.blacklight_config)
      allow(view).to receive(:session_tracking_params).and_return({})
      allow(presenter).to receive(:trophies).and_return([trophy_presenter])
    end

    it "has trophy" do
      render
      page = Capybara::Node::Simple.new(rendered)
      expect(page).to have_selector(".tab-content > div#contributions.tab-pane")
      expect(page).to have_selector("#trophyrow_#{solr_document.id}")
    end
  end
end

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The Frances Taylor Eizenstat '65 Undergraduate Israel Travel Grants are competitive grants of $2,500 each, awarded to undergraduates from any Brandeis department pursuing academic or career interests in Israel.
The program was established in 2013 in memory of Frances Taylor Eizenstat '65, a Brandeis alumna who first visited Israel through the Brandeis Hiatt program in 1963.
This wide-reaching grant covers academic pursuits in science and business, as well as social sciences, humanities and arts. It was created to provide impetus for undergraduates to travel to Israel to learn Hebrew, intern in social justice projects, NGOs, Israeli companies and laboratories, participate in research projects from archaeology to contemporary issues, engage in professional training, or join academic programs such as Brandeis study abroad.
1. Personal statement - An essay explaining your interest and background in pursuing the particular program, ulpan, or work internship. Please be clear about your motivation and goals, and how you expect this experience will contribute to your studies or career.
2. Offer letter from sponsoring institution - A formal letter, on their stationary, from an institution, company, or NGO in Israel that has accepted your application and notes the duration of the program and your responsibilities.
3. Letters of recommendation - Two recommendations to be emailed directly to us; one from a Brandeis faculty member and one from another person who can attest to your character. Kindly have them email the references to scis@brandeis.edu and note "Eizenstat Reference" and your name in the subject line.
5. Dates of travel - Travel can be during summer break, or over an academic semester or year.
6. Budget - Indicate how the grant money will be used.
Grantees will submit two written or video blog posts during their time in Israel along with photos, and a final report in the fall following their travel. This will be accompanied by a public event for the campus community where they can describe and take questions about their experience. They may be asked to provide advice for newer undergraduates looking to apply in future years. Before traveling, grantees must participate in a pre-travel orientation given by the Hiatt Center or Brandeis Study Abroad office.
This grant is not meant to support general travel or Birthright trips to Israel.
Brandeis undergraduates in good academic standing, in any Brandeis department. Preference will be given to projects and programs of a semester or longer, though projects of 3 weeks or more may be considered. Travel must be completed before graduation.
The deadline for receipt of applications is March 30.
A Schusterman Center committee will select the grant recipients and notify them in writing of their award within 30 days of the deadline. Recipients must notify the Schusterman Center of their acceptance within 10 days of winning the award. We will conform to accepted university practice in issuing the grant funds.


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Jon Leibowitz
For the comedian born Jonathan Leibowitz, see Jon Stewart.
Chair of the Federal Trade Commission
September 3, 2004 – February 15, 2013
William Kovacic
Edith Ramirez
Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
Jonathan David Leibowitz
(1958-06-17) June 17, 1958 (age 63)
Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Ruth Marcus
University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA)
New York University (JD)
Jonathan David Leibowitz (born June 17, 1958) is an American attorney who served under President Barack Obama as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2009 to 2013. Leibowitz was appointed to the commission in 2004, and resigned concurrently with his position as FTC Chair in 2013. Prior to joining the FTC, Leibowitz served as a lobbyist on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) where he was Vice President for Congressional Affairs from 2000 to 2004.
Prior to this, Leibowitz served in a variety of roles on Capitol Hill, including as a counsel to the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee in the office of Senator Herb Kohl. From 1984 to 1986, Leibowitz was an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C.[1] Since leaving the FTC, Leibowitz helped found the "21st Century Privacy Coalition", which lobbied in favor of legislation signed by President Donald Trump that repealed Obama-era regulations on internet privacy rules.[2][3] In 2021, he was appointed to the position of Senior Counsel in the Maryland Attorney General's office.[4]
3 Federal Trade Commission
3.1 Consumer protection
3.3 Internet, telecommunications and technology
3.4 Advertising and marketing to children
3.6 Enforcement
4 21st Century Privacy Coaltiion
4.1 Internet privacy repeal
Leibowitz grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, where he attended Dwight Morrow High School. During his childhood, he developed a reputation as a "smart kid who didn't flaunt his intelligence, and who was friends with everyone".[5]
Leibowitz attended the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1980 with a bachelor's degree (B.A.) in American History. After completing his undergraduate education, Leibowitz enrolled in the New York University School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) in 1984. As of 2009, Leibowitz is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.[1]
In 1986, Leibowitz joined the staff of Senator Paul Simon (D-IL). In 1989, Leibowitz became chief counsel for Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), serving in the position until 2000. While serving in Kohl's office, Leibowitz additionally worked in the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice from 1991 to 1994, and as chief counsel to the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Technology from 1995 to 1996. Additionally, he served as Democratic chief counsel and staff director for the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee from 1997 to 2000.[6]
Federal Trade Commission[edit]
In 2004, President George W. Bush appointed Leibowitz to serve as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), replacing Mozelle W. Thompson.[7] Leibowitz was sworn in to the position on September 3, 2004, and on March 2, 2009 was chosen to serve as FTC Chair by President Barack Obama. In 2012, U.S. Senate confirmed Leibowitz's appointment for a second term. Leibowitz resigned as both chair and as a member of the FTC on February 15, 2013.[1]
Consumer protection[edit]
During Leibowitz's tenure as chair, the FTC filed more than 40 law enforcement actions to stop scams that prey on consumers suffering from the economic downturn, such as foreclosure "rescue" and mortgage modification schemes, phony debt-reduction and credit-repair services, bogus government grant opportunities, job scams, and get-rich quick frauds.[8] In one of the largest judgments imposed in an FTC case—and one of the few major judgments against companies responsible for the Great Recession—Countrywide settled for $108 million with the FTC in June 2010 for collecting excessive fees from borrowers who were struggling to keep their homes.[9] In 2011, the FTC mailed 450,177 refund checks to homeowners who were allegedly overcharged by Countrywide.[10]
Healthcare[edit]
Leibowitz was active in preserving competition in the health care and pharmaceutical sectors. He criticized of "pay-for-delay" settlements in the pharmaceutical industry. The Commission aggressively worked at stopping pay-for-delay patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry. These are deals in which a brand-name drug firm pays its potential generic drug rival to prevent price competition in the market.[11] As Leibowitz explained, the practice results not only in windfalls for both companies—sometimes of more than a billion dollars—but also in higher drug prices for consumers.[12] Leibowitz has published articles on this issue and advocates bringing cases against firms that engage in these practices.[13]
An FTC study released in October 2011 revealed that some pharmaceutical companies continued to engage in pay-for-delay deals in FY 2011. The findings prompted Leibowitz to ask Congress' "Super Committee" to restrict these deals, stating that it could help reduce the deficit and lower the nation's healthcare costs.[14]
Internet, telecommunications and technology[edit]
During Leibowitz's tenure, the agency focused on promoting consumer protection, competition and innovation in technology sectors, through both policy initiatives and law enforcement. As FTC Chair, Leibowitz brought a number of high-profile privacy cases against Google, Facebook and other high profile technology companies for violating consumer privacy as well as major antitrust cases against multiple pharmaceutical companies for engaging in sweetheart "pay-for-delay" deals in which brand pharma companies paid generic competitors to stay out of the market.[15]
The agency released a preliminary staff report December 1, 2010 titled, Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers. With regard to consumer's online privacy, Leibowitz stated: "The FTC wants to help ensure that the growing, changing, thriving information marketplace is built on a framework that promotes privacy, transparency, business innovation and consumer choice. We believe that's what most Americans want as well."[16]
Also, the FTC proposed revisions to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule in September 2011 and sought public comments. Leibowitz said the revisions were in response to the rapid changes in technology. "We want to ensure that the COPPA Rule is effective in helping parents protect their children online, without unnecessarily burdening online businesses. We look forward to the continuing thoughtful input from industry, children's advocates, and other stakeholders as we work to update the Rule."[17]
During an October 2011 speech about protecting online consumer privacy while ensuring an internet that generates the free content, Leibowitz coined the term "cyberazzi." Leibowitz explained the term, stating "[a] host of invisible cyberazzi – cookies and other data catchers – follow us as we browse, reporting our every stop and action to marketing firms that, in turn, collect an astonishingly complete profile of online behavior," said Leibowitz.[18]
Under Leibowitz, the FTC settled in 2010 with Intel to restore competition and innovation that was lost as a result of Intel's alleged anticompetitive actions.[19] In May 2010, the FTC closed its high-profile investigation of Google's proposed acquisition of AdMob, concluding it was unlikely to harm competition in the mobile advertising market, citing Apple's move to launch a competing mobile ad network.[20]
Leibowitz urged the Commission to "name names" of advertisers who paid to advertise through so-called nuisance adware, software that displays or downloads advertisements on consumers' computers without their consent.[21] Leibowitz has also advocated for balanced "Net Neutrality" rules and for the right of municipalities to offer broadband to consumers free from restrictive state laws.[22]
Advertising and marketing to children[edit]
Leibowitz has called for strong industry self-regulatory initiatives to help combat childhood obesity and ensure that only healthier foods and beverages are marketed to America's children.[23] He has also advocated continued review of entertainment industry marketing practices to prevent children from being exposed to inappropriate content. The Commission has completed five reports on this topic since 2000.[24]
Energy[edit]
As FTC chair, Leibowitz was involved in efforts to rein in concentration in the oil industry. In 2011, Leibowitz stated that "[the FTC's] report spells out the factors that determine what consumers pay at the pump, and why gas prices seem to 'rocket up' but feather down."[25] Leibowitz was the one commissioner to dissent on a 2007 FTC Report on Spring/Summer 2006 Nationwide Gasoline Price Increases, which found that the increase could be explained by market forces.[26]
Leibowitz suggested that the plausible explanation for the increase in gasoline prices, that the Commission found, was not necessarily the only explanation. "The question you ask determines the answer you get," he wrote, "whatever theoretical justifications exist don't exclude the real world threat that there was profiteering at the expense of consumers."[27] Similarly, in an earlier report investigating accusations of price gouging by oil companies after Hurricane Katrina, Leibowitz wrote separately to note that a handful of refiners studied displayed "troubling" conduct.[28]
Enforcement[edit]
Leibowitz advocated for re-invigorated enforcement of the FTC Act as a way to stop anticompetitive behavior that can no longer be reached under prevailing judicial interpretation of the antitrust laws. Leibowitz argued that in founding the FTC, "Congress intended to create an agency with authority that extended beyond the limits of the Sherman Antitrust Act."[29] Leibowitz has supported the use of Section 5 of the FTC Act ("unfair methods of competition") beyond the Sherman Act in standard setting cases,[30] in a case involving a failed agreement to fix prices,[31] and in other areas where companies behaved unscrupulously. With Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch (a Republican) and Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour (an Independent), Leibowitz repudiated a 2008 Department of Justice Report on monopolization, saying that DoJ's approach placed "a thumb on the scales in favor of firms with monopoly or near-monopoly power and against other equally significant stakeholders."[32]
21st Century Privacy Coaltiion[edit]
Leibowitz is also founding Co-Chair of the "21st Century Privacy Coalition," a coalition of telecommunications companies and trade associations[33] focused on relaxing federal privacy laws.[34] The 21st Century Privacy Coalition aims to help companies escape regulations on how they have to handle customer data.[3]
Leibowitz formerly served as co-chair of the 21st Century Privacy Coalition, a group that has advocated for a strong federal privacy law to protect American consumers, but has also been criticized for trying to loosen regulations on how companies have to protect consumer's sensitive information.[3]
Internet privacy repeal[edit]
The 21st Century Coalition and Leibowitz were strong advocates behind April 2017 legislation passed by President Trump that repealed many of the Obama-era regulations on internet privacy, allowing ISPs to sell its users' data.[2][3] Though Leibowitz did not support that Trump-supported repeal, he did tell CNN that the bill's effects on privacy are overblown and called complaints "hyper-partisan hyperbole," criticizing both sides of the Net Neutrality Debate.[35][2] Leibowitz justified his position by claiming that the law would allow a new set of rules for the entire industry.[35]
He is married to journalist Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post.[36] The couple have two daughters; Emma and Julia.[37] In June 2013, Leibowitz joined the Washington D.C. office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.[38]
Recognition[edit]
Bloomberg Businessweek named Leibowitz a "Power Broker" in 2011.[39] Leibowitz's "sound bite", a featured quote from all honorees, was "Despite some good actors, self-regulation of privacy … is not working adequately for American consumers. We deserve far better from the companies we entrust our data to."
List of former FTC commissioners
^ a b c "Federal Trade Commission- Commissioners". Archived from the original on 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
^ a b c Ariel Edwards-Levy (April 5, 2017). "Even Trump Voters Hate This Bill He Just Signed". Huffington Post. Washington, DC. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
^ a b c d BRENDAN SASSO (11 May 2015). "The 'Privacy Coalition' That Wants to Trim Data Regulations for Telecom Giants". Retrieved 11 May 2015.
^ "Former FTC Chair Jon Leibowitz to Join Office of Attorney General" (PDF). Maryland Attorney General. October 14, 2021.
^ Diduch, Mary. "FTC chairman returns home to Bergen" Archived 2012-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Record (Bergen County), June 20, 2012. Accessed June 21, 2012. "When Jon Leibowitz was growing up in Englewood, his friends and classmates at Dwight Morrow High School knew him as smart kid who didn't flaunt his intelligence, and who was friends with everyone. Few could have imagined he would end up running the Federal Trade Commission, a powerful federal agency with more than 1,000 employees."
^ "AllGov - Officials". www.allgov.com. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
^ "Jon Leibowitz Sworn in as FTC Commissioner". Federal Trade Commission. 2004-09-03. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
^ "FTC Cracks Down on Con Artists Who Target Jobless Americans," February 17, 2010, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/02/bottomdollar.shtm Accessed 3/3/11.
^ "Countrywide Will Pay $108 Million for Overcharging Struggling Homeowners; Loan Servicer Inflated Fees, Mishandled Loans of Borrowers in Bankruptcy," June 07, 2010, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/06/countrywide.shtm Accessed: 3/3/11.
^ "FTC Returns Nearly $108 Million to 450,000 Homeowners Overcharged by Countrywide for Loan Servicing Fees," July 20, 2011, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://ftc.gov/opa/2011/07/countrwide.shtm Archived 2012-07-11 at archive.today Accessed: 10/27/11.
^ Leibowitz, Jon. Statement to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Anticompetitive Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Benefits of a Legislative Solution, Hearing, January 17, 2007. Available at: http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/leibowitz/070117anticompetitivepatentsettlements_senate.pdf Accessed: 11/4/08
^ George, Jon (March 17, 2006). "Hurdles Ahead for Cephalon". Philadelphia Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
^ Leibowitz, Jon (February 25, 2008). "This Pill Not to be Taken with Competition: How Collusion is Keeping Generic Drugs off the Shelves". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
^ "FTC Study Finds that in FY 2011, Pharmaceutical Industry Continued to Make Numerous Business Deals that Delay Consumers' Access to Lower-Cost Generic Drugs," October 25, 2011, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/10/mma.shtm Accessed: 10/25/11.
^ Wyatt, Edward (1 February 2013). "After Adding Online Privacy Protections, F.T.C. Chief Resigns". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ "FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report, Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers," December 1, 2010, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/12/privacyreport.shtm Accessed 3/3/11.
^ "FTC Seeks Comment on Proposed Revisions to Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule," September 15, 2011, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://ftc.gov/opa/2011/09/coppa.shtm Accessed 10/27/11.
^ References: "Websites leak more info than they know: study," October 2011, Today Tech, MSNBC, Available: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44865669/ns/today-today_tech/t/websites-leak-more-info-most-know-study/#.TpWeu2rd5Bk[permanent dead link] Accessed: 10/11/11. Leibowitz, Jon. "Online and Overexposed: Consumer Privacy, the FTC, and the Rise of the Cyberazzi." Oct. 11, 2011. Available: http://ftc.gov/speeches/leibowitz/111011pressclubremarks.pdf Accessed: 10/11/11.
^ "FTC Settles Charges of Anticompetitive Conduct Against Intel," August 4, 2010, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/intel.shtm Accessed 3/3/11.
^ "FTC Closes its Investigation of Google AdMob Deal," May 12, 2010, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/05/ggladmob.shtm Accessed 3/3/11.
^ Teinowitz, Ira. "FTC to Point Finger of Shame at Adware Users; Commissioner Threatens to Out Marketers Passing Content Without Consent," Advertising Age, Dec. 5, 2005.
^ Leibowitz, Jon. (2007, February). Navigating Between Dystopian Worlds on Network Neutrality: With Misery and Wretchedness on Each Side, Can We Find a Third Way? Speech presented at Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy Workshop, Washington, DC. Available: http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/leibowitz/070213Navigating_Between_Dystopian_Worlds.pdf Accessed 11/4/08.
^ Urken, Ross Kenneth. "FTC Commissioner Tackles Ads for Kids: Official Leads Charge for Food, Drink Firms to Regulate Themselves," The Wall Street Journal, Aug 20, 2008. Available: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121918447343654701 Accessed 11/4/08
^ "FTC Issues Report on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children," Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Apr. 12, 2007. Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/04/marketingviolence.shtm Accessed 11/4/08.
^ "FTC Issues New Report on Gasoline Prices and the Petroleum Industry," September 1, 2011, Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/09/gasprices.shtm Accessed: 10/27/11.
^ "FTC, Antitrust Division Send Report to President on Factors Explaining National Average Price Increases During Spring and Summer of 2006," Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Aug. 30, 2007. Available: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/08/gasprice.shtm Accessed 11/4/08.
^ Leibowitz, Jon. "Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz Regarding the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division Report on Spring/Summer 2006 Nationwide Gasoline Price Increases," Aug. 30, 2007. Available: http://www.ftc.gov/reports/gasprices06/P010401Gas06dissent.pdf Accessed 11/4/08.
^ Leibowitz, Jon. "Concurring Statement of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Commission's Report, 'Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases,'" May 22, 2006. Available: http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/leibowitz/060518LeibowitzStatementReGasolineInvestigation.pdf Accessed 11/4/08.
^ Leibowitz, Jon. (2008, October). "Tales from the Crypt." Episodes '08 and '09: The Return of Section 5 ("Unfair Methods of Competition are Hereby Declared Unlawful"). Speech presented at Federal Trade Commission Workshop: Section 5 of the FTC Act as a Competition Statute, Washington, DC. Available: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2008-11-04. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Accessed 11/4/08.
^ Leibowitz, Jon. "Concurring Opinion of Commissioner Jon Leibowitz in the Matter of Rambus, Inc.," Aug 2, 2006. Available: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2008-11-04. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Accessed 11/4/08; "Statement of the Federal Trade Commission In the Matter of Negotiated Data Solutions LLC," Jan 23, 2008. Available: http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0510094/080122statement.pdf Accessed 11/4/08.
^ In re Valassis Communications, Inc. (FTC File No. 051 008)(Mar. 16, 2006). Available: http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0510008/0510008c4160ValassisDecisionandOrder.pdf Accessed 11/4/08.
^ "Another Thumb on the Scales," Editorial, The New York Times, Nov. 1, 2008. Available: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01sat2.html Accessed 11/4/08.
^ "Telecom Firms Form Privacy coalition," http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/telecom-firms-form-privacy-coalition-150783
^ "Telecommunication Industry Lobbies To Relax Privacy Rules," http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f871e792-05b3-11e3-8ed5-00144feab7de.html#axzz3HUH3X8zi
^ a b Jackie Wattles (April 5, 2017). "Former FTC chief: Privacy fears are 'hyper-partisan hyperbole'". CNN. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
^ Marcus, Ruth (December 5, 2011). "Gloria Cain, the human political prop". The Washington Post.
^ "- NOMINATIONS TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
^ "Davis Polk Welcomes Former FTC Chair Jon Leibowitz, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2014-10-29. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "The Power Brokers," 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek, Available: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2011-03-03. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Accessed: 3/3/11.
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OFB Corporatisation - How Effective will it be
By Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar (Retd)
Post- independence the defence industry followed the Nehruvian philosophy on the lines of the Russian model, which treated the defence sector as a strategic sector as totally under the government with no involvement of the private sector.
The first Ordnance factory came up in Ishapur in the year 1801 under the aegis of the British East India Company producing assault rifles and its kind. During the ten years of 1955-1965, most of the Ordnance factories came up.
Most of these factories came up in areas which got dictated by political concerns rather than based on strategic or technological considerations. Even today we are making the same mistakes by locating defence corridors in constituencies on political lines.
Ordnance Factory Board
The OFB was largely a manufacturing hub for military hardware, indigenisation, transfer of technology and maintenance of War Wastage Reserve Capacity. It was a blend of old and state of art technology for example the new ordnance factories which came up in Nalanda (Ammunition and Explosives) and Korwa (Weapons/equipment) are fairly modernised. Today we have 41 ordnance factories and 32 other related establishments which cater for proofing, research and development etc.
The OFB functions on indents placed by the armed forces for its war wastage and training requirements. Indents for ammunition are based on a five-year roll-on plan based on our requirements for 40 days intense requirement which presently has been capped to 20 days intense requirement. The vehicle spares, armoured vehicles, clothing etc are based on yearly indents based on target fixation meeting between OFB and the users held every year.
As per the latest reports on the Standing Committee for Defence 2020, the present OFB capacity is limited to Rs 17000 cr(including GST) per year worth of orders. The present value of orders range between Rs 900 cr to Rs 1200 cr. The OFB spent a meagre Rs 5600 cr in the last five years on modernisation related to new machinery, renewals and works. Its expenditure on research and development has been again a pittance i.e., 0.5 per cent of its overall budget as also the value of exports averaging just Rs 200 cr per year.
The major achievements of the OFB over the years have been the manufacture of the Artillery 155 mm Dhanush gun. An order of 114 guns was placed by the Indian Army in April 2019 and so far, 12 guns have been supplied. Another important milestone has been the up-gunning of 130 mm medium gun to 155mm.
The Indian Army has placed an indent for 300 guns. The OFB have also developed a prototype for a new air defense gun. It has recently manufactured the electronic fuzes 155 mm which were deficient over the years. The area where not much headway has been made is developing ECC clothing for high altitude i.e. in excess of 18000 ft and temperatures of minus 40 degrees Celsius.
The Seven New Entities
It may be worthwhile to carry out an analysis of existing industrial base of OFB to bring forth certain important deductions which would contribute immensely to set the road map for corporatisation of the existing entities which have been put into seven segments namely as under: -
Ser No
No of Ord Fy
Location Spread (States)
Munitions India Ltd
Amn/Expl
Armd Vehs Nigam Ltd
Vehicles/Spares
Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Ltd
SA/Artillery Guns
Troops Comfort India Ltd
Yantra India
Ancilliary
Indian Optel Ltd
Electronics/NVD
Gliders India Ltd
Why Corporatisation
The need to bring in a change of mind set was felt as early as in the 1990's wherein there were complaints relating to poor quality, delays in supplies, lack of technology absorption as well as accidents taking place on a regular basis. We had the TKA Nair Committee in 2000, Vijay Kelkar Committee in 2006 and Raman Puri Committee in 2016. However, it was the present Government under PM Modi which broke the shackles and announced the implementation for Corporatisation of OFB. Hence w.e.f. from I Oct 2021, OFB ceases to exist.
The corporatisation is likely to bring in a different organisation culture which would be based on a greater accountability and responsibility. We would now be open to competition, have a mechanism for price delivery, an incentive for those who perform and be subject to contract negotiation and fulfilment. It's a welcome step towards a forward thinking and KPMG has been co-opted as a consulting firm to see through the implementation of the process.
Case Study to Understand Important Issues Involved
Taking an assumption that all SOPs, procedures, policies etc have been put in place, lets understand through a case study the important issues which would require a focussed approach. A case has been built up on "The Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Ltd". This company has an existing turnover of Rs 1500 crores and it produces carbines, medium calibre guns, rocket launchers, rifles, pistols, barrels, revolvers, LMG, MMG and so on.
Its work force strength is 17000 and is located in eight divisions i.e. Jabalpur(Gun Carriage), Ishapur(Rifles), Kanpur(Field guns, small arms etc. There are three divisions in Kanpur), Cossipore(Guns and Shells), Dumdum(Ordnance) and Korwa(Assault Rifle). As is evident these eight divisions are located in four different states and hence supply chain management and command and control of processes will pose a serious challenge.
The ancillaries i.e raw materials and spares required will also need to be transported from only Jabalpur, Ishapur and Dumdum as no ancilliary units are located at Kanpur, Cossipore and Korwa.
The Korwa ordnance factory is presently underutilised, there are issues relating to the design function, overheads, pricing, upgradation of machinery and a cyclic order mechanism which would ensure continuous flow of orders.
Strategic Insights into Corporatisation
It would be imperative to do an analysis on the strategic insights of corporatisation, taking each entity into consideration in order to set up a future road map.
It should be presumed after due interaction with the defence services that the overall demand pattern on ordnance factories would be around Rs 11500 cr for the next five years. Therefore, it could be safely presumed that the capacities of some of the entities would remain underutilised. This would largely be on account of the re-prioritisation of the defence budget due to the state of our overall economy since almost 95 per cent of the revenue of these entities are dependent on the government budget, as also a committed liability of USD 220 billion on imports.
This would impact the pricing mechanism and result in increase of prices as well as would affect the overall turnover.
Artillery Group
This would largely depend upon the capability to ramp up the production of the Dhanush medium gun to 48 guns/annum. There would be a requirement to develop private vendors on priority.Need to renegotiate "Sarang" up-gunning contract. This would provide a revenue of almost Rs 800 cr annually.
Small Arms Group
This would sustain itself as 5.56 INSAS would be getting replaced by Indo-Russian Rifles Pvt Ltd with AK-203 rifles. Will also optimise Rifle factories at Ishapur and Korwa.
There would be a requirement to explore alternate markets like MHA, Assam Rifles, Police etc with demand for Excalibur rifles, sniper rifles, 5,56 mm carbines, 7.62 mm Trichy assault rifle and so on.
Two groups may struggle as they face the brunt of disruption of existing mutual synergies and supply chains, caused by splitting the organisation into 7 Group.
Optel India Limited
This entity will be under a serious threat due to the disruption of the supply chain. Its old customer such as Armoured Vehicles Nigam Ltd constitute almost over 90 per cent on orders, would not go for a global tender. It would be difficult to import due to IP issues and would need time to explore alternate markets. Therefore, there would be a requirement of hand holding for almost three years as there are no alternate markets available.
Yantra India Ltd
It is largely dependent on small arms/artillery/tank ammunition, its orders for mainly shell casing, cartridge cases, packing material etc largely meant for Munitions India Ltd. Over 90 per cent of its earnings are inter factory demands out of which 80 per cent are from Munitions India Ltd. There would be a need of a price preference clause of around 15per cent or hand holding for a period of three years. Further it doesn't have factories located at Avadi, Ambernath, Medak and Jabalpur which would contribute to supply chain issues.
The Government has already announced the phasing out of clothing to the tune of more than 200 items through procurement by a global tender. This would seriously impact the sustenance of this entity. A cut in about 25per cent manpower is envisaged as well as diversification into parachutes.
Armed Vehicles Nigam Ltd
Its present turnover is 2500 crores. This is likely to increase by 6 per cent in the next five years. It has its order book full from existing orders for 'A' vehicles for the next five years. There are also perspective orders for the stallion vehicles, LPTA, Mine Protection vehicles from the MHA which would contribute almost Rs 800 cr per annum.
Munitions India Group
Its present turnover is 4400 crores. It is likely to grow around 8 per cent per annum for the next five years. It needs to diversify in other areas.
Gliders India Group
A yearly growth of about 8per cent is envisaged. It is in a monopoly sector and can aim for improvement in technology.
Contrary to the popular belief, corporatisation will lead to an increase in prices. In the past, OFB was functioning on a 'No Profit No Loss' basis supplying at 'actual cost of production', but with additional overheads. Now they will operate under corporate pressures, where cost of maintaining working capital and R&D costs will have to be taken into consideration and added to the cost of production. Besides a reduced demand due to a reduced budget will create its own pressures in some cases.
The anticipated benefits of defence corporatisation can often be more than outweighed by unanticipated outcomes. It Must focus on economies of scale. Production of some ammunition items for example 14.5mmAPI/APIT, 130mm HE and 105mm HESH were at risk of being stopped as demands were erratic and therefore continued production of such items made it financially unviable for the new corporates. In addition, if requirement of select ammunition is reduced to 20-25per cent of previous demand levels for a considerable time, then it will be difficult to suddenly enhance production.
A related point was the requirement of maintaining a "surge capacity", which has been stated as one of the aims of corporatisation. As a corporate entity with commercial accounting, cost of maintaining war reserve capacity is again financially unviable. If a surge capacity is to be maintained, there is a requirement of additional funds for infrastructure and wages for the surplus man power.
The Vehicles and Opto Electronics Groups as well as the Troops Comfort Group will face challenges related to demand, IP and contractual issues, since critical components were still imported and thus could not get clearances from OEMs, in spite of an existing demand for the end products. It would be prudent to commence measures to find a solution here with foreign OEMs at an appropriate level, as this is bound to reduce exports by a considerable degree. Further, removal of offset obligations from G2G deals also reduced export opportunities and may be reinstated.
Keeping external factors aside, the need of the hour is an inculcation of self-belief, self-esteem and confidence and removing apprehensions amongst the work force of the ordnance factories.
Two issues need resolution by the government: One, status of the officers and workers after the initial period of two years for which the government has agreed to extend the existing terms and conditions of their employment.
Two, clarifying apprehensions about golden handshake or side stepping offers to other ministries/departments/government organisations. Moreover, the existing surplus manpower is not capable of performing functions like finance, and marketing and will require personnel with experience from other PSUs/DPSUs.
The Government is confronted with serious challenges which need to be taken up in the right earnest to be able to even get a wink towards "Atmanirbhayata".
*Author is an Indian army veteran. Views expressed here are personal.
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REVIEW: Measure for Measure at Cambridge Arts Theatre - Still chance to catch this entertaining production
Sarah Cliss
Published: 11:18 AM February 12, 2016 Updated: 9:39 PM October 31, 2020
Measure for Measure at Cambridge Arts Theatre - Credit: Archant
Like Shakespeare but are fed-up with the usual suspects - Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and so on? - Then the Cambridge Arts Theatre is the place for you this week.
That is where you will watch and be enthralled by The Marlowe Society's production of Measure for Measure - sometimes referred to as Shakespeare's forgotten play and considered to be 'difficult' by others.
Having studied it for A-level - 35 years ago - this was the first time I have ever seen it staged and what a find.
As anyone who has ever been 'forced' to study anything for an exam is likely to agree the fun is often lost.
But watching this dark comedy - and it is dark - performed definitely put the laughs back in the play for me.
The cast, which was woman heavy - more females than the bard originally intended for this tale of morality, temptation and corruption - raised many a laugh out loud moment with their performances.
Leading the laughter charge was Aoife Kennan whose portrayal of the normally male Pompey stole the show with her rambunctious and infectious performance.
Tom Beaven (Lucio) and Raphael Wakefield (Elbow) were not far behind.
For those not familiar ,with this particular play it is set in a vice filled Vienna where the Duke (Mark Milligan) decides enough is enough and puts the aptly named Angelo (Marco Young) in charge of cleaning up the city.
Exit the Duke, who in typical Shakespeare-style decides to disguise himself and return to watch what happens next.
Angelo - a morally upright man - declares all brothels should be 'plucked' down while invoking a forgotten law about licentious behaviour, which sees Claudio (Zak Ghazi-Torbati) arrested and facing the death penalty for getting his girlfriend pregnant.
Lucio and his friends shocked by the turn of events seeks out Claudio's sister Isabella (Alexandra Wetherell), a novice nun, to plead for her brother's life.
The pretty and virtuous nun proves too much of a temptation for Angelo who makes her an offer she can refuse - her virginity for her brother's life.
She rejects the deal, but the Duke - prowling Vienna in the guise of a monk - gets involved and sets in motion a plot to unveil Angelo's less angelic side, and save Claudio, using the desperate Marianna (Sasha Brooks) - Angelo's former fiancee.
Director Tom Littler does an excellent job keeping the action flowing with simple set changes and by retaining characters on stage even when they are not involved in the action. He draws some very fine performances from the whole cast.
Mark Milligan's slightly effeminate Duke particularly shines giving the character a fervour you can almost touch at times while Alexandra Wetherell's Isabella is convincingly angst-ridden over her inability to save her brother.
Measure for Measure runs at Cambridge Arts Theatre until tomorrow Saturday. See cambridgeartstheatre.com for tickets.


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Melody from Brisbane, Studying Chemical Engineering
As a first year it's a big responsibility to take up to produce a production that has over 50 people in it, but it's one of the best experiences I've ever had of leadership and responsibility, and the fact that college provides these opportunities for first years I think is really great.
Melody's Experience:
I'm Melody and I'm from Brisbane and I study Chemical Engineering and I'm in first year of New College.
I had two cousins who came to New College and they were like, "you should stay at a college on campus"...I looked at the other colleges and I kind of realised that New College was quite a bit cheaper than the other colleges and it still provided the same utilities, if not more than the other colleges so it seemed like the perfect option and the community here has made university so amazing.
When I moved out of home I was a seventeen year old young girl and my parents were obviously terrified for me moving out by myself and having to live by myself, but moving to college I felt a lot safer, especially since this is a Christian college. Even though I'm not particularly Christian, there's a lot of the Christian values - of making sure that everyone's welcome, making sure there's no judgement and everybody feels like they can belong to a community… and I think my parents saw that and they were like, "she'll be right!"
So we have this thing called O'Week, which is the week before university when you arrive. It's just one of the most fun weeks I've experienced in my life. It's just full on socialising... and what made O'Week go really well is the O'Week leaders organised an amazing week and really made us feel welcomed into college and this guy [Adithya] was actually my O'Week leader this year so he probably has a lot to say about that.
So there's a student team here at college called the New College Student Association Executive Team and they're basically in charge of controlling student life at college and so they run social events, sport events, community service events or just fun events around the college. They make college so lively and so fun. Every week there's something on.
One good thing that college provides is that they provide a huge range of sports for you to be able to play. Even though I'm quite bad at sports, everybody makes sure that I still have a turn on the field. I'm still having fun.
Revue is basically a huge production college puts on every year. As a first year it's a big responsibility to take up to produce a production that has over 50 people in it, but it's one of the best experiences I've ever had of leadership and responsibility, and the fact that college provides these opportunities for first years, I think is really great...
[In] coming here to college we've all been thrown in here, mixed up and you just some of the greatest friends here and I know these bonds last a long time. Even 10 years on from college, a lot of people get married to people they meet in college, so it just shows…you make very strong relationships in college…and that it is something that lasts a lot longer after college happens.


Heel bone sneakers can make you look taller, slimmer and more attractive. Purchasing a few pairs of rearfoot sneakers shoes will even allow you to have various choices to pick from to compliment your outfit. These items are available in various colors, styles and of course, prices. High heeled sneakers comes in local stores and online stores as well. On the other hand, purchasing a pair of high heeled sneakers online can be more beneficial than getting the shoes in a local store. Why wouldn't you purchase your sneakers online?
When you have a very busy schedule, you can not afford to go to a local store anytime, simply to purchase a new set of high heel sneakers. On another hand, purchasing a new footwear online can be done anywhere and anytime you want to. As long as you are connected to the internet, you can purchase your sneakers online. It is possible to look for online stores that provide free shipping when you purchase up to a particular amount. Besides this, you can also look for those that include a return guarantee. If in case the pair of shoes you have purchased does not fit you well, you can return it in exchange for the scale that really suits you.
Purchasing a pair of high heel sneakers online gives you a lot of choices to select from. Since there are lots of online retailers out there, the selection for top heel sneakers shoes are not limited, when compared with local stores. Whenever you did not like the shoes in a certain online store, you can just go to the other online stores with ease. You do not even need to go out of your house whenever you buy sneakers online. Simply do some careful researching in popular search engines like google and you will have lots of online stores to choose from.
Locating a pair of high heel sneakers at a cost that suits your budget can be quite a lot easier online. You can also save money from buying a pair of high heel sneakers that's offered at a low cost. With this thought, you can buy a few pairs of sneakers online so that you can have various options to pick from. If you think that you can't afford the prices with the shoes in a particular online store, then you are free to head to other stores and select the one that suits your financial allowance and style. You can even search for discounts to even lower the first amount of the shoes you've chosen.
In general, purchasing a pair of high heeled sneakers shoes online lets you have various options to pick from and makes it much simpler for you to purchase the sneakers of your choosing. Aside from this, you are also given the chance to look for high heel shoes that comes at a low price. Therefore, you are able to say that buying a set of high heeled shoes online is more advantageous for you.


"The Amazing Race" is finally returning to the CBS line-up with the 31st season set to premiere on May 22, 2019. This edition of the race was run way back in June. The 11 teams are veterans of previous seasons of "TAR" as well as two other CBS reality competition series: "Big Brother" and "Survivor." As always, host Phil Keoghan was at the startling line in Hermosa Beach, California on June 10 to send these 22 contestants in a race around the world. The winners crossed the finish line in Detroit on July 3.
Rachel Reilly (Seasons 12, 13; TAR Seasons 20 and 24) and Elissa Slater (Season 15).


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Contempt of Court COVID
MN v SN (10540-16) [2020] ZAWCHC 157 (13 November 2020)
Court: Western Cape Division, Cape Town
Case No: 10540/16
Date heard: 2 November 2020
Delivered: 13 November 2020
Judge: Rogers, J
HEAD NOTE
Contempt of court – Where the husband breached a rule 43 order – The court recognized that the business that he worked for had experienced financial hardships due to covid – The husband did not earn a salary during some months – Despite the fact that he co-owned a fully paid house with his new partner well worth R3,5 million – It was held that he could not be expected to
force her to agree to sell a portion of the house – It was held that his contempt was not intentional and mala fide.
The wife (applicant) wanted to hold her husband (the respondent) in contempt for violating a rule 43 order that was reached by agreement between the parties. It was common cause that the husband knew about the order and its provisions. The only thing that had to be decided was whether he transgressed the order willfully and with mala fides. If not, then he could not be found in contempt. (See Fakie No v CCII Systems (Pty) Ltd 2006 (4) SA 326 (SCA) para 14.
The matter was enrolled on the urgent court roll. Nevertheless, the parties had it postponed twice by agreement even though it was ready for hearing. The respondent contended that the court ought to strike the matter off the roll for lack of urgency on that basis. The court turned down his arguments. It was held that contempt proceedings are urgent by their nature simply because the vindication of the court's authority is at stake (See Protea Holdings Ltd v Wriwt & another 1978 (3) SA 865 (W) at 868B-869A).
It was also reasoned that they are especially urgent mainly because it is often women and children who are in the care of the breached orders.
A technical argument for non-compliance with Rule 41A was also raised. This new rule calls for parties to try and mediate before coming court. The court refused the argument considering the legal representatives for the respondent did not persist on mediation throughout the exchange of the various notices. It was argued that there was a verbal agreement in which the parties consented that the husband would temporarily stop paying money for the domestic worker. A recording was made available as evidence, but the court found that the only impression drawn from the recording was that the husband was manipulative. The wife replied to his statements, spontaneously and emotionally.
Counsel for the husband also attempted to bring arguments based on set-off, as the wife owed some money to the husband's family business. But the court found that an obligation to pay maintenance in respect of a wife and children is not susceptible to set-off (See Tregonong v Tregonong 1914 WLD 93, and Hodges v Coubrough NO 1990 (3) SA 58 (D) at 65A-B). Before concluding, the court observed that the family business encountered some severe financial difficulties due to COVID.
The husband used to own interests in the family business but was compelled to dispose of
them because of extensive borrowings from the company. Recently, there were some months in which he did not get a salary at all, and in other months he received TERS payment of around R6000,00. Even though he co-owned a R3,5 million property that was completely paid with his new partner, the court found it was unrealistic to have expected him to force his partner to agree to sell a portion of the house.
In summary, it was held that the husband could not be found in contempt. The costs of the suit were reserved for determination in the divorce trial.


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Q: how can apply multiple data in php? i have my on work but still error plz help me...
if(isset($_POST['add']))
{
$id=$_POST['id'];
                $bfcp=$bfcp=$_POST['bfcp'];
                $casualwear=$_POST['casualwear'];
                $popularity=$_POST['popularity'];
                $formalwear=$_POST['formalwear'];
                $talent=$_POST['talent'];
                $questionandanswer=$_POST['questionandanswer'];
                $Total= $bfcp + $casualwear + $popularity + $formalwear + $talent + $questionandanswer;
$sql="INSERT INTO criteria (id, bfcp, casualwear, popularity, formalwear, talent, questionandanswer, Total)
values('$id','$bfcp','$casualwear','$popularity','$formalwear','$talent','$questionandanswer','$Total')
,('$id','$bfcp','$casualwear','$popularity','$formalwear','$talent','$questionandanswer','$Total')";mysql_query($sql,$conn)or die(mysql_error());

}

Plzz help me....

A: Use this
Your query was wrong.Please use below
if(isset($_POST['add']))
{
$id=$_POST['id'];
                $bfcp=$bfcp=$_POST['bfcp'];
                $casualwear=$_POST['casualwear'];
                $popularity=$_POST['popularity'];
                $formalwear=$_POST['formalwear'];
                $talent=$_POST['talent'];
                $questionandanswer=$_POST['questionandanswer'];
                $Total= $bfcp + $casualwear + $popularity + $formalwear + $talent + $questionandanswer;
$sql="INSERT INTO criteria (id, bfcp, casualwear, popularity, formalwear, talent, questionandanswer, Total)
values('$id','$bfcp','$casualwear','$popularity','$formalwear','$talent','$questionandanswer','$Total'");
mysql_query($sql,$conn)or die(mysql_error());

}

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John Pole Mayo (12 August 1822 — 23 March 1899) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

Mayo was born in August 1822 at Tankurst Park near Wotton, Surrey. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Middlesex against Surrey at The Oval in 1850. Mayo played in a further five first-class matches in 1850 and 1851, all for the Marylebone Cricket Club, playing three against the varsity sides Oxford and Cambridge, as well as a match each against Middlesex and the Surrey Club. He scored 63 runs in his six first-class matches, with a highest score of 22. Besides playing first-class cricket, Mayo also served in the British Army, having purchased the rank of ensign in the 18th Regiment of Foot. He transferred to the 74th Regiment of Foot in June 1845, at which point he was promoted to lieutenant. Mayo was also a member of the Royal Geographical Society, being elected as a fellow in May 1858. Mayo died at Notting Hill in March 1899.

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Discussion in 'iPad Tips, Help and Troubleshooting' started by Darrentaylor67, Apr 28, 2011.
I'm looking for some guidance, my wife and I both have an iPhone and a new ipad2.
I have iTunes on a laptop and have successfully synced my iPhone and iPad to my iTunes account.
My wife has a very different taste in music, apps etc and has her own iTunes account. The only access she has to iTunes on a computer is via my laptop but I can't seem to sync her phone or iPad with her iTunes account, for some reason it iTunes wants to sync my content to her devices.
Ummmm, if your wife doesn't have her own computer, where are her music and apps located?
In any case, there's two basic ways to go about this.
2. Use a single iTunes account and a single iTunes library, and make separate playlists for your music and your wife's music. You can also pick and select which apps sync with which iDevice.
A variation of this option is that you can use both accounts with the same iTunes library, but once both accounts are in the same library, as far as I know, there's no quick way to tell which app/music was bought with which account.
Personally I prefer the second method, because switching libraries is a pain, and there might be occasional apps/music that you and your wife both use, but if you are using separate accounts/libraries, you'd have to buy them twice. But you'd have to be diligent about sorting your music into playlists.


Xero is partnering with Harvest to bring time tracking and invoicing into its small-business accounting platform.
Fast-growing cloud accounting software vendor Xero is teaming up with another cloud service provider, Harvest, to bring time tracking and invoicing capabilities into its platform.
It's just the latest integration for Xero - which has already teamed up with dozens of other cloud providers that are focused on tools for small businesses.
Those connectors span a range of capabilities from customer relationship management to inventory to payroll and other specialized software. "Xero is continuing to partner with industry leaders, like Harvest, who round out our cloud-based offering with tools that make it even easier for small businesses and accounting professionals to manage their finances from anywhere, anytime," said Jamie Sutherland, president of Xero's U.S. operations.
Xero counts more than 111,000 "paying" customers and 200,000 users in 100 countries. The company's service is priced starting at $19 for sole proprietors, although it positions its $29 per month option as the best option for most small businesses.


Ever since its establishment in Romania in 2004, the Romanian Branch of the Spanos Industries had developed business solutions prioritizing to provide its customers with products and services that satisfy their needs.
Karpathia represents now the successful business outcome of a complex development process undergone by the former Spanos Industria which, in the last ten months, has worked hard to earn its new brand and to explain positive evolution to all its stakeholders.
Structural changes have been successfully implemented at each vital level of our company and in the strongest pylons of our business.
The result is a dynamic company in Romania that offers a complete range of concrete building equipment solutions, with a business focus on CIFA innovative technologies.
Working with our clients on their most challenging issues requires deep industry and functional expertise and the key to our success has been to offer expert support from a team of dedicated professionals who are able to come to the client needs, whether it is about sales or maintenance.
The compact department of Sales of equipments and original or multibrand spare parts, including an expert for concrete batching plants, along with a vivid team of technicians who are able to successfully fulfill all the clients needs by providing two mobile services at all time are making Karpathia today one of the most reliable solution for every costumer in the concrete industry in Romania.


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Capa > MARKETING CULTURAL E A LEI DE INCENTIVO À CULTURA DE SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS > Comentários do leitor > 'Roma' guides Netflix to best-ever BAFTA haul
'Roma' guides Netflix to best-ever BAFTA haul
por Duane Spina (2019-07-05)
camisetas de futbol mujer baratas -text c-gray-1" >Netflix had its best year ever at the UK's Oscars last night. The streaming service's hot favourite Roma took home four BAFTAs, out of seven nominations, including Best Picture. Netflix's only other candidate, the Coen Brothers' western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, lost out to British comedy The Favourite in the costume design category. Until yesterday, the platform had only scooped a single film BAFTA back in 2016 when Ava DuVernay's 13th won Best Documentary.
Roma also won Best Director and Best Cinematography for Alfonso Cuarón, and Best Film Not in the English Language. Amazon's Polish epic Cold War, which was also nominated in those categories along with Best Screenplay, went home empty handed. As a consolation, the film won the top award from the American Society of Cinematographers over the weekend, boosting its chances to repeat the trick at the Oscars, where it's also up for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film. Roma, meanwhile, leads the pack with 10 Academy Award nominations.
For a moment there it looked like Roma's star was waning after it lost to Green Book at the Golden Globes and the Producers Guild of America awards, but its BAFTA tally puts it back on track for Oscars glory.


Total and high-molecular-weight adiponectin and risk of colorectal cancer: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study.
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Quantitative trait locus analysis reveals two intragenic sites that influence O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
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Variability and regulation of O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase.
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Differential metabolism of benzo[a]pyrene and benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol by human CYP1A1 variants.
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N-nitrosation of medicinal drugs catalysed by bacteria from human saliva and gastro-intestinal tract, including Helicobacter pylori.
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1. The writings of Amos Rapoport, 1964-2000.
Milwaukee, WI : Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, c1999.
edited by Jack L. Nasar.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
New York : Anchor Books, 1990.


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Siesta Key Beach located on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in Sarasota Florida is often referred to as the best beach in the United States.
With its crystal quartz white sand and two miles of pristine coastline, it isn't hard to see why it has earned that distinction. Add to that the fact that Florida receives over three hundred days of sunshine yearly, and the temperature rarely dips below sixty and you have a formula for paradise.
The beach seems to go along forever with puffy white clouds floating aimlessly above.
Sea oats and other sea life is frequently seen on the beach and shallow waters of the gulf.
An abandoned pier highlights the northern boundary of the beach, leaving one to wonder what came here before.
The most beautiful time of the year to spend in the midwest, in particular, Indiana is in the autumn. The summer heat and rains have passed, the first frost has come and gone, the leaves have turned a golden color and winter has not yet set in.
Autumn is a time of apple cider and pumpkins. Fall festivals are plentiful where one can enjoy the crisp, clear days with beautiful blue cloudless skies and a harvest moon.
Hayrides and gathering pumpkins are a favorite pastime. The pumpkins make excellent pie and jack-0-lanterns for Halloween.
The fall foliage is at it's best in mid-October, providing a variety of colors that are pleasing to the eye. It's time to enjoy that last wiener roast around a camp fire complete with smores and hot chocolate.
Located in southeastern Indiana , about twenty-five miles from the Ohio border, Batesville lies in one of the most beautiful locations in Indiana.
Surrounded by seven reservoirs, they not only provide water to the surrounding community, but provide beauty as well.


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Q: How to Don't Repeat Yourself with Swift 2.0 enums I've got multiple enums with raw values, but I don't like having to say rawValue: every time I initialize one from a raw value, so I've supplied an alternative delegating initializer with no external label:
enum E1 : Int {
    case One, Two
    init?(_ what:Int) {
        self.init(rawValue:what)
    }
}
enum E2 : Int {
    case One, Two
    init?(_ what:Int) {
        self.init(rawValue:what)
    }
}

Very nice. I can say let e = E1(0) and the right thing happens.
Now I'd like to consolidate the repeated code. I was hoping that Swift 2.0 protocol extensions would allow me to do this - writing the init?(_ what:Int) initializer in one place and injecting / inheriting it in both enums. However, I haven't found a way that works. The problem is that the protocol extension doesn't know that the adopter will have an init(rawValue:) initializer, and I have not found a way to reassure it.
I suspect that this is because of the automagic way that the rawValue initializer comes into existence, and so probably nothing can be done. But perhaps someone has a suggestion.

A: Sounds like you're looking to extend the RawRepresentable protocol:
extension RawRepresentable {
    init?(_ what: RawValue) {
        self.init(rawValue: what)
    }
}

Any enum with a raw type automatically conforms to RawRepresentable, therefore you haven't got to make E1 or E2 conform to any extra protocols:
enum E1: Int {
    case One = 1, Two
}

enum E2: String {
    case One = "1", Two = "2"
}

let e1 = E1(1)   // .One
let e2 = E2("2") // .Two

A: I was able to get it to work, like this:
protocol P {
    var rawValue : Int {get}
    init?(rawValue: Int)
}
extension P {
    init?(_ what:Int) {
        self.init(rawValue:what)
    }
}

enum E1 : Int, P {
    case One, Two
}
enum E2 : Int, P {
    case One, Two
}

We use the regular protocol declaration to reassure the protocol extension that our adopter will have an init?(rawValue:).
[However, there is still something very odd going on. This code compiles in one of my projects, but not in another. I think it has something to do with how other code uses the P protocol; if no other code uses the P protocol, all is well, but if other code uses the P protocol, in ways that I have not precisely determined, the code fails to compile, with a mysterious error about the enum not conforming to the protocol.]

A: Dunno what can be wrong. Would be nice to have isolated case. Maybe more generic version helps?
protocol BaseRaw {
  typealias T
  var rawValue : T { get }
  init?(rawValue: T)
}

extension BaseRaw {
  init?(_ value: T) {
    self.init(rawValue: value)
  }
}

enum E1 : Int, BaseRaw {
  case One = 1
  case Two = 2
}

enum E2 : String, BaseRaw {
  case One = "1"
  case Two = "2"
}

let e = E1(1)
let e2 = E2("2")

print(e)            // Optional(E1.One)
print(e!.rawValue)  // 1
print(e2)           // Optional(E2.Two)
print(e2!.rawValue) // "2"


Competitive benchers will soon need to start stockpiling DirectX 11 hardware if they want to keep up in the stats race, as the first details of Futuremark's next version of 3DMark have started to trickle through.
A leaked photo of an MSI presentation slide recently appeared on Plaza.fi, which outlined a few tidbits of information about the new benchmark. The story has been taken down now, but we grabbed a screenshot of the offending photo, which you can see below.
Although the slide primarily concerns MSI's exposure in the benchmark, it reveals that one of the tests will be an Undersea Submarine benchmark. The slide also reveals that a sneak preview of the benchmark will be shown at Computex next week.
Interestingly, it looks as though MSI has bought a virtual billboard on the submarine in the benchmark, in much the same way as Sapphire sponsored a speedboat in 3DMark Vantage. As a part of the deal, the slide says that there will be a "3DMark 11 full version bundle in Q3", which probably means that many MSI DX11 graphics cards will come with the complete version of the new benchmark.
According to UK tech site bit-tech, the benchmark will focus purely on DirectX 10 and 11. However, this is no particular surprise, given that 3DMark Vantage also required a DirectX 10 GPU and a copy of Windows Vista to run.
Futuremark has previously hinted that some of the DirectX 11 tests will look seriously tasty. In an interview with CVG in March, Futuremark's CEO, Jukka Mäkinen, said that "our 3DMark team is working on some seriously awesome DX11 stuff."
No further details have been revealed about what's in the benchmark, but bit-tech's sources say that Futuremark plans to officially announce the benchmark on 26 May, with the full release coming later in September this year.
Although 3DMark is still a popular benchmark with overclockers and benchmarkers, the series has gained a reputation as a synthetic benchmark that's not always representative of real-world gaming.
While older versions up to 3DMark 2001 were based on the Max Payne engine, and therefore at least representative a real game engine, newer versions have been based on Futuremark's own engines, which are designed to simulate the features that should be found in future games.
However, now that Futuremark has its own games studio, producing games such as Shattered Horizon, it's quite possible that 3DMark may start to be taken as little more seriously again.
It will also be interesting to see what the benchmark includes with regards to hardware-accelerated physics. Its predecessor, 3DMark Vantage included a PhysX test, but this caused some upset when Nvidia bought Ageia, because it gave Nvidia cards an immediate, and somewhat skewed, advantage over the competition.
It may be that Futuremark has dropped the idea of a physics test from this benchmark, but it may have also worked on an OpenCL-based physics implementation that can work on both Nvidia and ATI cards.
Either way, you can be guaranteed that the benchmark will grind the current generation of DirectX 10 and 11 hardware into the ground.


What's so 'stunning' about a Republican not signing a Left-wing manifesto?
Investor's Business Daily explains the logic of President Trump not signing the so-called G7 'communique', referring to it as "an empty, far-left political document" with a summary of the document that quite clearly is 180 degrees from any GOP policy.
Any 'ally' that doesn't see the positive result Republicans have created with their tax-cut legislation in the USA, and overlooks failures of Left-wing governments elsewhere, have only themselves to blame if they're clueless on why Mr. Trump won't sign drivel.
'Stunning'? You bet…but only to an anti-Republican Left.
Those 'stunned' are hoping, as Bill Maher hopes, that a recession hits America soon.