The Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) is a multi-stakeholder platform for public policy on the internet and its impact on society. The 8th APrIGF will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 26 to 29 July 2017. It is co-hosted by Chulalongkorn University, the country's first university, and National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, the country's telecommunication regulator, with supports from local, regional, and global partners.
The conference program will consist of three parts: the pre-event meetings, the core conference, and the Youth IGF Camp.
Making All Voices Count partners, Foundation for Media Alternatives, will be presenting a panel discussion based on their work in the Philippines on Evolving an Open e-Governance Index for Networked Societies. They will discuss a proposed index of measuring an "open" eGovernance based on the following dimensions: meshed eGovernment; e-participation; digital inclusion; use of ICTs by civil society; enabling environment.


What happens when you watch one of your favorit show and hear an epic quote like this ? Of course you want to picture it. Then you realize that you got your son a Lego set with everything you need . Then you take the picture.
First, the show is The Big Bang Theory. What, you never watched the Big Bang Theory ? Well then, just get the The Complete First Season for a start. This is a great sitcom about a group of 4 geeky and socially awkward friends and their neighbor, a waitress and aspiring actress with less intellectual skills but far better social skills and common sense. Well, that was in the first season, since then they socialized a little (one even got married…).
Bernadette: Well, what if Hulk picked up Thor while Thor is holding the hammer?
Bernadette: Then by the transitive property of picking things up Hulk picked up the hammer.
As I wanted to illustrate the quote, the picture must focus on the idea: Hulk picking up Thor as Thor holds the Hammer. I didn't wanted other things to interfere, so I choose a simple white background. With real people, you take this photo in a studio with a background. With toys, you use a lightbox. But I didn't have one, this is just a piece of white paper. I used two flash to have 2 light sources.
As this illustrate a quote, I couldn't just post the picture. I had to add the quote. And as this does illustrate Comic books characters, what about turning it into a cartoon ? To do so, I used the app Halftone. Yes, the image was partially processed on an iPad. At the end, I have a picture which is either a photo and a cartoon.
For this picture, my actors are toys. Soon, I'll publish a post about toy photography, but I can say that Toys are great to express some creativity. I can't afford a model dressed up in Hulk and another in Thor. But I can… borrow my kid's Hulk and Thor toys. There is another challenge then: trying to get some emotion from those inanimate objects. The advantage is that you have all the time you want to take your picture. Can you imagine, as an actor, being hold like this for minutes or hours ?
This entry was posted in Photography and tagged Big Bang Theory, Cartoon, Comic, Hulk, Lego, Thor, Toy Photography on May 17, 2013 by Darko Stankovski.


The HBO show is heading for the Ozarks.
Season 3 of True Detective is officially a go – and it's heading to the Ozarks.
HBO confirmed late Thursday that the next installment of the high-profile detective series will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks. A mystery will deepen over decades and play out in three separate time periods.
After an acclaimed kickoff season starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, set in Louisiana, True Detective stumbled in its Los Angeles-set Season 2, taking a critical beating.
For Season 3, creator Nic Pizzolatto will be the sole writer of the series, said HBO, with the exception of episode 4 which he co-wrote with David Milch (Deadwood).
It was previously announced that Mahershala Ali, just off his Oscar win for Moonlight, will star. But the announcement revealed that Ali will play the lead role of Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.
"I'm tremendously thrilled to be working with artists at the level of Mahershala" and executive producer Jeremy Saulnier, said Pizzolatto in a statement. "I hope the material can do justice to their talents, and we're all very excited to tell this story."


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Molloy is the director behind Tile's Lost Panda and Westpac's Help When it Matters, both films supercharged with emotion. He has also made four Apple ads in the last eighteen months, the latest, The Surprise, its three-minute Christmas commercial, combining a very real, very relatable sub-story about the family stresses at Christmas (spiked with a warming touch of humour) and a delightfully fresh version of the aspirational "what our products can do" sub-story that the brand launched first in 2013 with Misunderstood. Its 25+ million views on YouTube alone in two weeks suggest that the ad has stood out even in this year's pre-Christmas ad crowd.
"Four very different ads for one brand, with the same overarching aim, is quite a feat," noted Exit Films executive producer, Leah Churchill-Brown. Exit represents Molloy in Australia and New Zealand.
So is winning Apple's trust and making it in the US.
Molloy spoke to The Stable about all of this and more:
The Stable: "His visual style coupled with his viscerally engaging sensibilities distinguishes his voice as a director." [Creative Masters, Ideas On Design] That's a flowery way of saying that emotion is your thing. Is it?
Mark Molloy: I always try to have an honesty in my work and make ads that are memorable and strike a chord with the general public. That guides everything. In my career, I seem to have gone between more visual and more emotional films, on occasion with some humour, but all my work seems to have those same underlying sensibilities to it. The thing I like most is working with actors, so I'm definitely drawn to the more emotional work, but I love doing it all. I don't think I really prefer one or the other, but the emotional jobs are all about the performance and I guess that's where I'm the happiest.
TS: Four ads for Apple. You must be doing something that works well there.
MM: By now I've developed a really good relationship with Apple which is great for having freedom and for getting work. It's a great client to work with. Always with Apple the product is so important, and integrating the product is vital, showing how the world revolves around it. I'm always really cognisant of that.
They've all been very different processes. Each time Apple came to me with a simple goal, "We want you to make a short film for us that shows how the world revolves around our products." Homework started with a poem and we crafted a story around it.
After Homework, Apple came to me with a very open brief for Underdogs – a short film featuring all the Apple products, which we hadn't done before. We wanted to do something very different – a group of people doing an assignment at work wasn't the most exciting scenario, but we dove into the characters and had fun with that.
As with Homework, I got to sit down with the guys at Apple and we wrote it together, which is very cool. By the Christmas campaign, I'd developed a relationship with Apple and they came to me again. They had a script in mind, which I evolved. It was more in the page than the other ones and it came from a more emotional place because of its Christmas timing.
With each of the films, the first thing was to nail down the tone. With the Christmas one we knew we wanted it to be emotional. With Homework, we just wanted to have fun with it, to dive into the kids' minds. And with Underdogs we wanted to have a real charm to it and get into the characters. The fourth film, which will be out early next year is different again.
TS: Do you have a preferred way of working?
MM: If I look back at all the work I've done that I like, the best process is when I'm called in early and get to develop ideas together. I find that's when the best work comes. I've been lucky enough to do this a lot. The last few jobs especially have had a really collaborative approach. I think when everyone puts their minds together that's when the creative outcome flourishes.
TS: It's not easy to conquer the US?
MM: I don't feel that I've conquered it, but it definitely took a while to adapt to the market here and to be able to produce good work.
In the first two years, I was shooting a lot of work which was then taken along a process that, when it got to the end, I felt it had kind of lost the spirit of what it was meant to be. But over time, I've been able to adapt the system more to how I like to work, which is more the Australian and UK model in which the director is really involved. One thing I've learned, though, is to build a great team around me, where I have control as much as I can within the structure here. It's about learning when to give my opinion and when not to, what's important and what's not important and how to navigate my way through the US system. It takes time. It's a very, very different system and it's much harder to do good work here but there's a lot of great creative work here so you have to find a way. I feel as though, in the last few years, I've understood how to work through it so I'm happy at the end.
I try not to work in the US way – do the job and then have little or no input in what happens. I have a bit of a deal when I do a job. I do the first cut and show them that and sit with them. I'm very upfront at the start that I want to be involved the whole way through, including post and music. I find it hard to just walk away, especially when I know the job's going to be good. The other difference is trying to understand the mentality on jobs here and knowing how to manipulate it to get to what you want. There's a lot more bullshit here than in Australia, I think. But there's always some sort of shit on every job. It's just how much of it and where it is that makes the difference.
TS: What do you think are your three best campaigns?
MM: First, I think, is a Samsung surf job that I really loved. I'm a surfer and I got to travel all around the world filming surfers, like Kelly Slater in Fiji. That's about the best that a job is going to get for me and I was really happy with the result. Plus, it really helped my reel, especially over here.
It's hard to choose between the Apple films, but I think the Underdogs spot probably comes out on top of these. It's what happens when you get a group of really great actors together and let them work with you to bring a story to life. That spot could have been many different things but when you get great acting and their chemistry together and get to play with the structure of the film, something great happens. I guess too, it was more comedic and playful, which was a really nice change for me.
There's a very old TAC one that I still love. But I think I'll count the Apple Christmas spot as my third. Again, it's about working with great actors. Australian actor Alexandra Schepisi is the mum in the film. I've worked with her multiple times and she is amazing. Plus it was really fun to make a Christmas ad that didn't pull on the expected Christmas emotions and clichés.
TS: What about working with Exit?
MM: I've been at Exit for-e-ver. I started there as a young director and it was responsible for helping me to be where I am today. I learned so much. The thing about Exit that I've never experienced anywhere else is that it's a group of directors feeding off each other and inspiring each other, asking questions and sharing ideas. There is such a spirit of filmmaking there. I'm about to embark on my first feature film and having been able to work with and learn from directors like Garth [Davis] and Glendyn [Ivin] has been a huge advantage. I've worked in production companies throughout the world and I've never seen that anywhere else. It's a really fertile ground for filmmaking. I'd like to work more in Australia. I'm still Australian even though I've been over here for a few years.
View Mark Molloy's reel here.
For enquiries about working with Molloy contact Leah Churchill-Brown on leah@exit.com.au or +61 2 8755 3755
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Has the 2011 Corn Crop Been Rationed?
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17 April 2012, at 5:45am
US - Corn prices declined substantially over the past week. May and December 2012 futures have declined by $.26 and $.22, respectively, following the release of the USDA's WASDE report on 10 April, writes Darrel Good.
Recent weakness in old crop prices started with the USDA's unchanged forecast of year-ending stocks of 801 million bushels. Following the smaller-than-expected estimate of 1 March stocks revealed on 30 March, the market had anticipated that the April WASDE report would contain a larger forecast of feed and residual use and a smaller forecast of ending stocks. Additional price weakness has been attributed to weakness in the financial markets associated with a slowdown in the Chinese economy and concerns about the Spanish debt as well as prospects for increased corn acreage in China. New crop prices continue to reflect the larger-than-expected planting intentions revealed on 30 March, an early start to the planting season, and the recent improvement in soil moisture conditions in a large part of the Corn Belt.
With prospects for relatively small ending stocks, it is important to continue to monitor the rate of corn consumption to confirm that the necessary rationing is occurring. In the Feed Outlook report released on 12 April, the USDA estimated feed and residual use of corn during the first half of the marketing year at 3.39 billion bushels, 238 million less than during the same period last year. The entire decline was in the first quarter of the year. Use in the first half of the year represents 73.7 per cent of the projected use of 4.6 billion bushels for the year. That per centage is large by historic standards, but less than the very unusual 75.7 per cent of a year ago. To reach the projection for the year, use during the last half of the year needs to be 46 million bushels larger than that of a year ago. On the surface, a year-over-year increase in feed and residual use from March through August seems unlikely given the reduction in broiler production that is occurring, expectations for fewer cattle on feed this summer, expectations of increased wheat feeding this summer, and perhaps a bit more August harvested corn in the South. However, estimated feed and residual use of corn was unusually small during the last half of the 2010-11 marketing year. Many continue to believe that use was underestimated during that period due to an overestimate of 1 September 2011 stocks. Considerable uncertainty about the on-going rate of feed and residual use will continue until the 1 June stocks estimate is released on 30 June.
The USDA also maintained the projection of marketing year corn exports at 1.7 billion bushels. That forecast is 135 million bushels, or 6.7 per cent less than exports of a year ago. Through 5 April, cumulative export inspections, adjusted by Census Bureau export estimates through February this year and March last year, were 6.9 per cent less than the total of a year ago. To reach the USDA projection, exports during the last 21 weeks of the year need to total 703 million bushels. As of 5 April, the USDA reported unshipped export sales of 408 million bushels. New sales need to average about 14 million bushels per week in order for sales to reach 1.7 billion bushels. For the 5 weeks ended 5 April, new sales average 29.9 million bushels per week. It appears that sales are on track to reach, or slightly exceed, the USDA projection. The rate of shipments, however, needs to increase by about 5 million bushels per week from the most recent 5-week average pace of about 28.2 million bushels.
The use of corn for ethanol and co-product production during the current year is forecast by the USDA at 5 billion bushels, 21 million less than used last year. Use during the first half of the year was estimated to be 81 million larger than use of a year ago. To reach the projection for the year, use during the last half of the year needs to be 4.1 per cent less than that of a year ago. For the 5 week period ended on 6 April 2012, ethanol production was estimated to be 1.5 per cent less than in the same period last year. While the pace of ethanol production has slowed, it is above that needed to reach the projected level of corn use for the year.
While futures prices have decline over the past week, basis levels remain generally strong and the May/July futures inversion has increased. These relationships suggest on-going tightness in stocks and/or a slow rate of movement relative to the pace of consumption. While evidence about the pace of consumption is mixed, expect corn prices to remain under pressure until there is convincing evidence that the necessary rationing has not occurred or concerns about 2012 production develop.
- You can view the WASDE report by clicking here.


Many of the Shabbat zemirot contain an acrostic of the (part of the) author's name, usually using a letter of his name at the start of each verse. For example, Y-ah Ribon has the name Yisra'el; Yom Ze Leyisra'el is Yitzhak; Akdamut has a long acrsotic at it's end, part of which spells Me'ir b'Rebbi Yitzhak.
I'm unaware if this technique was common in general (non-Jewish) poetic writing during that era. Is this unique or more frequently done in Jewish poetry? Why was this done? Was there a specific reason for embedding the author's name in this fashion, rather than just, say, putting a "signature" or some other ID so people will know who composed the piyut / zemer?
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Greece: "Beyond right and wrong" by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
Inter Arma received and translated:
"I don't believe in rights. Life, which is all a manifestation of incoherent forces, unknown and unknowable, rejects the human artificiality of the right. Rights were born when life was taken away from us. Indeed, originally, humanity had no rights. It lived and that was everything. Today, instead, there are thousands of rights; one could accurately say that everything which we have lost we call a right. I know that I live and that I desire to live. It is most difficult to put this desire into action. I am surrounded by a humanity that wants what everyone else wants. My isolated affirmation is a most serious crime. Laws and morals, in competition, intimidate and persuade me. The "blonde rabbi" [I.e., Christ or Christian values.-translator] has triumphed. One prays, one implores, one curses, but one does not dare. Cowardice, caressed by Christianity, creates morality, and this justifies baseness and begets renunciation. […] "Society, on the other hand, modest and clean in appearance, but horribly infected with gangrene throughout its body, makes me vomit, fills me with horror and loathing, kills me." How I envy the great Bonnot! "Il me faut vivre ma vie!" * / "It is necessary that I live my life"" Bruno Filippi
(An Italian anarcho-nihilist who was charged with several armed attacks and was killed by a bomb he carried, on September 7th, 1919, when trying to place it at the "Nobles Club", headquarters of the wealthiest Italian businessmen)
Beyond the right and the wrong…
For Anarchy
The most important and nicest things are spoken in the simplest way. Today, though, the reality of our lives is far from simple. So, we often note that the more complicated the words (and boring, at the same time) that "specialists" of political delivery and the "revolutionary" rhetoric alchemists use, the more uninvited their oversimplifications are. The theorist "rebels" construe the world through the tyranny of their "obvious truths". Their whole rhetorical calcification and their wooden words, that lulls to sleep through their undeviating dogmatism, comes to transfer "social revolution" to an oversimplified version of the eternal fight between the "good" people and the "bad" state, between the "right" and the "wrong" fairytale.
But if things were that simple, why hasn't this fairytale, for centuries, come to an end, with the triumph of the "good" and for all of us to "live happily ever after"?
Especially today, when power is not centralist and abstracted to the king's throne, but, it is spread inside the transparent social factory, both our anarchist words and our actions ought to deepen more and tear up the "religious" missals and the aphorisms of the "good" and "bad" and "right" and "wrong" which lack depth.
Power is not just unfair, bad and malicious, and it is not something which by being 'denounced', even violently, will withdraw for the rebels' rights to be recognised.
Power is a social relationship, a social hierarchical organization model, a way of life management.
In addition to its directorates and its officials, it owns its own preachers, its mentors, its advisers, its jesters, its armed defendants of course, its loyal followers, even its inside objectors – usurpers…
It's not just a "bad oligarchic elite" it is an intricate system of relations that defines our everyday lives.
We know, of course, that if you cut the snake's head, the rest of the body, after a few convulsions, stops… Power, however, has proven to be more like a Hydra.
This is why, while our armed targeting gathers its firepower on the heads of the managers of power and their uniformed mercenaries, our words seek to blow up the social relationships that give rise to power. Let's keep in mind that the phrase "no one is indispensable" goes for power as well. If we don't hit both the heart of the beast (armed attacks against the officials of the power) and the veins of the social machine (criticism and rejection of the submissive mindset), then, maybe, soon, after every attack of ours, we will hear "the king is dead, long live the new king". Because unless slaves, even when they revolt, deeply renounce the mindset of submission, they will soon wish to crown their new king, next to the corpse of the former.
This is why the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, FAI/IRF and the "political" groups in affinity, that form the stripe of black anarchy, both in the proclamations following our attacks, and in our texts, use heretic, provocative words, that do not comply with the traditions of the revolutionary automatism of the dipole "good – bad", "fair – unfair"… We always have the sledgehammer of rudeness available, in order to shatter the window of the good and innocent society and highlight its guilty silence and frustrating passivity.
Of course, through our criticism we do not aim to build the crystal tower of the "revolutionary" self-admiration. This is why we detest the conceit and the arrogance that we sometimes find in our circles, by people who are alternative artists of nothing, not anarchists of praxis.
Our aim is to disassemble the stereotypes and the prevailing morality that poison our lives, through the small and large representations of informal power (family, school, work, relationships).
Our way is a challenge and not a political politeness that caresses the ears of the repressed ones audience, most of whom don't even bother to read a proclamation. An inconvenient truth is more inelegant but it is also more liberating than a pleasant lie…
So, it's not enough to talk about the "rights" of the repressed ones, the proletarians, the "people"…
First of all, the "fair" and the "unfair" is a moral subjectivity of the impression of reality. There's no such thing as an objective scale that defines what's right and what's wrong.
Power and the capitalistic management of it, along with the armed enforcement of their truth, they have their own think tanks, their own arguments, their own culture, their own civilization, their own suggestions of a way of life. Power does not dominate only supported by the power of its arms' barrels, but also by its persuasion and its propaganda.
This is why anyone who makes the mistake to talk about the "rights" of the many, will have to be careful because the interpretation of the "right" as a quantitative measurement unit, will not… prove them right. The right of the many is often the right of the viewers, the consumers, the voters'… The anarchist struggle is not about counting participation, nor does it have to do with the majority's right. It is something much bigger than the conflict between the "right" and "wrong"… It is a constant war between different values, a war that bisects society in two parts. One part is the world of anarchy and the other part is the world of power and organized tedium.
In this conflict, several people, who are excluded from the privileges of power, poor and oppressed, stand shoulder to shoulder with their elite rulers' interests. The mass is usually fond of the mediocre, the immobility of habit, the rigidity of prudence and afraid of the new, the radical, the unknown of insurrection.
The bureaucratic sector inside the official anarchism and its communist components use the rhetoric of the "common good" and the "justness of the oppressed ones", thinking there is a conscious proletarian class, which will turn into the basic ingredient of a "social revolution", as long as it has its ears caressed.
We, for our part, want to set the conditions for the creation of a confrontational anarchist affinity between groups, cells and individuals, which are willing to transfer the experience of rupture with the existent immediately, here and now.
This way, a dangerous enemy in the heart of the beast can be formed, aiming at the diffusion of anarchy.
For this to happen, we have to make the conflict with authority permanent, to create a short circuit in the neurons of the system, to exploit and expand the contradictions of society, to provoke social peace, to qualitatively deepen anarchist thought and aggressively upgrade anarchist action, to challenge law and order. To overcome the moral denunciation of the injustices of authority and to prepare the war against it by promoting the new anarchist urban guerrilla.
Here follows the strategic matter between the moral impeachment of the system and the continuous attack. The biggest part of the anarchist milieu in Greece is usually navigating through the maelstrom of events resulting from short circuits of authority. Occasional demonstrations and sometimes conflicts in an anti-war demonstration, student marches, strikes.
The recent three-year "drought" of social mobilizations caused the "drought" of violent clashes in the streets of the metropolis.
The people didn't take the streets and anarchists were insufficient in creating their own autonomous collective violent actions. This is the result of a conscious and subconscious (because of a habit) strategy, which presents anarchists as the violent reflex of "the sense of justice" of the masses. There is, namely, a certain timidity for the anarchist attack to be organized and expressed autonomously without moral coverage from the masses. In fact, of course, there is no moral cover in large social protests either, as the mass of protesters is a diverse crowd, from which, some believe in peaceful protest, others are professional walkers and members of unions and parties, others are angry and want to clash, others operate as internal repression, others are not members of some group… The issue is that the strategy of social counter-violence as a moral justification – response of the oppressed, is not defined by us, at a time when authority can set alternative questions and the answers of the masses can come, not as a rupture, but as consent to them.
So, by waiting for the next social explosion, the next rally, the next big march, we abandon our ideas and actions to luck. But even when the social tension takes place, in order for us to get lost in the riots, we look like stowaways who jump in the last car of the train, a train that others drive on different tracks from ours. Even if we derail the train it will soon return on its rails.
Obviously, in no case do we advocate our absence from the field of metropolitan riots whose context we do not define (student rallies, anti-war mobilizations, large marches), in the name of a supposed anarchist purity. Within these mobilizations we can organize attacks against cops, burn banks, destroy cameras, expropriate shops, break the peace in the metropolis.
All these are intense and pleasant moments that, however, when not accompanied by a wider anarchist plan, end up staying isolated moments and beautiful memories, that just wait for the next march to be repeated. They lose the overall perspective and the potential to sharpen the attack and to make the tension in our lives permanent. This is the result of not only the lack of operational planning, but mainly of overall perception.
The notion of moral vindication of social counter-violence solely in response to systemic anomalies (violence of cops, racist attitudes, employers' "arbitrariness", harsh laws etc) incorporates the denouncement of the system (even with violent forms) and prevents the passage from the defensive counter-violence, to the aggressive continuous challenge of anarchist urban guerrilla.
We, on our part, want to articulate and organize a proposal of continuous attack, a complete anarchist plan, an insurrection that does not stop when the masses withdraw from their protests, but continues to feed from its fires, to grow big and to be diffused…
We feel like the hands of our clock have stopped in the moment of attack. We do not now need neither a cause, nor the moral justification. We know that the ugliness of this world is only repealed when one acts.
Our proposal is to create an informal network of anarchist cells that will promote the continuous attack against authority and society.
Many anarchists fear the word "organization" in the way Christians fear the devil.
Others misunderstand and confuse the meaning of organization with bureaucratic fossils of Marxist centralized organizations, central committees, hierarchies, simple members, constipated rules, obligatory moral guidelines, statutes and enlightened vanguardism… Others prefer the alternative ways, sureness, adventurism and safety of an anarchist lifestyle, rather than an organized anarchy and a dangerous internal enemy that attacks without looking for pretexts as the causes are more than enough…
Some will hastily become indignant, saying that organization kills spontaneity, individuality and desires…
Let's say, however, what we mean by "anarchist organization"… Anarchist organization is the living mental and physical coordination of a group of comrades, in order to carry out a certain plan. The more complete that plan is, the more comprehensive is the relationship of the group's comrades, while the commitment and consistency have as a measure, the power of desires to achieve the plan and not the discipline of a military duty. Each comrade is unique and independent within the group and through the collective life and action of the cell, discovers and releases more of themselves. There is no membership card, but only the individual desire to take part in something genuinely collective.
Of course, organization is not an end in itself, it is the means to get where we want. This means that an anarchist organization, an anarchist cell, must keep its procedure under constant review, to develop its relations, to upgrade its actions, to sharpen its theory, so that it comes closer to the purpose of its formation.
It is only logical that within an anarchist group come up tensions, contradictions, anger and even potential departures. This is because every human relationship is confrontational, sometimes at the level of evolution and sometimes at the level of rupture.
The sure thing is that the existence of informal anarchist organizations and direct action cells fuels anarchist violence against authority.
Every anarchist group is a living outbreak of war against the system. Through discussion, friction and composition within a group of comrades, anarchist action evolves, the threat of an organized internal enemy becomes permanent, the means of attack are upgraded, thought gets sharpened and the plan of the destruction of authority and the social machine is promoted.
We know no team can develop those associations of strength in order to decapitate the beast of authority and its products by itself. Nevertheless, even so, the comrades of the group, through their action, free themselves from the conventions of a world that wants us to be spectators of our lives. But if we want to maximize our action, satisfying more and more our desires, we can try to create informal coordinations of individuals, groups and affinity cells which promote the anarchist urban guerrilla. The creation of such a coordination is not subject, in any case, to the crucible of the quantitative centralism, which crushes the autonomy of each one of us. We are not interested in creating a central super-structure which will cause the creation of central committees and informal hierarchies. We are simply talking about coordinating groups and people looking towards the same direction. We are talking about the coordination of desires that become more dangerous when they are communicated and shared by accomplices.
The basic agreement within such an organization is the desire not to be in a moment of truce with the enemy. Without, therefore, waiting for a favorable wind of social change to act, we decide to arm ourselves and turn our lives into a confrontational reality now. So we do not limit ourselves to the anniversal symbolism (this does not mean that we are absent from the days of wrath and vengeance in memory of our dead), we do not expect fixed appointments, waiting for the state to get out of line causing the people to demonstrate, nor are we satisfied by opportunistic street fights with cops, in order to pretend that we've executed our "duty" to the struggle.
This does not make us arrogant to devalue everything from the balcony of an ideological purity. On the contrary, it makes us more prepared to throw ourselves in those battles that we will choose, even in intermediate social struggles, which we think are of interest (i.e. student occupations) without being disoriented by the circumstances.
The compass of organized expression points steadily towards the the intensification of the attack and the diffusion of our theory. The words "anarcho-nihilism", "black anarchy", "anarchist terrorism" are truly dangerous, when tested in the heat of battle.
The constant challenging of the enemy through autonomous guerrilla strikes (using the fan of the diversity of means, but with the constant desire of upgrading to armed guerrilla) and organized aggressive intervention to intermediate social struggles are part of the anarchist war. We say again, that the effectiveness of the strategy will not be measured by the figures of participation.
We want to create the possibilities of acting with people who feel stifled in the social cages imposed on them by authority and want to rebel… Our joy is great in any such new meeting with new comrades who bear the sign of complicity. No matter their numbers… What is important is that the effort is worth it…
"I am not led by the will of the masses. Nor do I mourn for the sorrows of the people. I never accepted the fate of the slave that was prepared for me, I didn't speak their language, nor imitated their look. I refused to be with the many. My demons never sleep… I always long for the unsatisfied. And when they set fire to the foundations of society, they don't daydream on the ashes. They are seeking wildly for the next scarecrow of authority to surrender it to the stake. They do not get comfortable, nor do they rest, they want war with everything that haunts our lives.
They say that whoever loves debris, also loves statues. My demons live in the debris because nobody can hide there. The material of which each of us is made, is revealed there. You will find me among them, where the battle is raging"…
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – FAI/IRF
*From the known "defense" of the French illegalist Jules Bonnot.
[Translation corrected by the comrades of 325 project]
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The final UK LAN event of the year has arrived with the 56th iteration of Multiplay's Insomnia Series being hosted for the first time at the Birmingham NEC. As you will already know we recently announced the return of Somprasert "s0m" Haddow to the UK CS scene debuting for MnM alongside quiver, vertiGo, Benkofk and mortism.
Joe "luster" Asquith will be standing in for Tom "vertiGo" Rockliffe for Friday.
For More information about the tournament click here.
For a more detailed look at groups and seedings please view the following article.
The team has been seeded 7th due to strong competition from teams present and the uncertainty that the reshuffling of the team brings. The team aims to place highly in the CS:GO tournament however the road to such a placing will be very challenging. Why? For many reasons, first and foremost two European teams are attending this iSeries, former players from Team Roccat and OnlineBOTS.
Nothing more need be said about players from Team Roccat. However OnlineBOTS is a mix team containing a few players from United Estonia's line-up who are current champions of the ESL UK Premiership, how much this translates will depend upon the overall team's experience. But there is no doubt that OnlineBOTS will definitely pose a challenge. On top of the visitors from Europe there are other top teams attending the event , CAZ esports (who qualified for SLTV), Team Infused, CeX and FM eSports (former Choke Gaming lineup). With the large presence of such talented teams there is sure to be many tense and close games with the top places definitely open to anyone.
Be sure to check back here for the team's progress in the CS:GO tournament as well as an inside perspective of i56.
[Update 18:23 GMT ] MnM have taken their first win in the group stages against Aerox eSports with 16 rounds to 5.
[Update 18:41 GMT ]Currently GOTV isn't available so matches can't be watched outside of the streams. We'll post any information we have regarding this issue.
[Update 18:56 GMT ] MnM are going into their second game of the group stages against LANdslide.
[Update 18:56 GMT ] MnM win their second (Vs. LANdslide) and third game (Vs. cLn).
[Update 21:23 GMT ] MnM win their fourth game against Klaus_Hugo 16 rounds against 2 on de_cache.


The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear a case that will have a significant impact on how medical malpractice lawsuits are handled in the Commonwealth. At the heart of the case is whether a jury should be instructed that an "error in judgment" does not constitute negligence/medical malpractice.
In the case being heard by the Pennsylvania high court involves an infant who underwent multiple treatments for gastroesophageal reflux in 2001. After several appointments with the defendant pediatrician and no physical improvement in the infant, the parents brought the child to the emergency room. The infant was in severe respiratory distress, and the child died soon after. The autopsy revealed the cause of death as diffuse viral myocarditis, a viral infection of the heart.
The parents sued the pediatrician for medical malpractice. At the medical malpractice trial, the jury was instructed that "a mere error in judgment" does not constitute negligence/medical malpractice. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant pediatrician.
In this second case, the jury also rendered a verdict in defense of the defendant physician. The plaintiffs appealed their medical malpractice case, and the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed the lower court's ruling, remarking that the original judge should not have given the "error in judgment" instruction to the jury. This opened grounds for appeal in the first case.
Now the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is expected to decide which lower court's ruling is proper. Should juries be instructed that "a mere error in judgment" does not constitute medical malpractice? Or does that instruction confuse juries when contemplating whether a physician's conduct is within the standard of care. The ruling will have significant bearing on how medical malpractice cases are presented in Pennsylvania in the future.
This entry was posted in Malpractice Insurance News and tagged Pennsylvania on June 19, 2012 by Michael Matray.


NORTH CAROLINA -- The government shutdown is over, but the political fallout resulting from the impasse may not be.
The budget fight takes center stage in a series of political ads released by Majority Forward, a Democratic nonprofit.
Among them is North Carolina's Sen. Thom Tillis, who is up for re-election in November 2020.
Throughout the shutdown fight, Tillis routinely defended the President. He also voted for the bill the president preferred to end the shutdown.
The budget fight takes center stage in a series of political ads released by Majority Forward, a Democratic nonprofit. The Washington Post reports the group launched the ads in the middle of the budget stalemate, targeting a handful of potentially vulnerable Republican senators.
"It's the longest government shutdown in history," the ad begins, with ominous music playing underneath. The ad then makes mention of the impact the shutdown may have had on natural disaster relief in North Carolina, before taking aim at the Tar Heel State's junior senator by name.
Todd Belt, a professor at The George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management, says the ad highlights the "very difficult spot" Tillis is in ahead of 2020.
Belt says Tillis will have to balance shoring up the president's conservative base while also appealing to moderates. Go too far in one direction, he says, and it could spell trouble.
"We'll probably see a large turnout, especially if Democrats are dissatisfied with the Trump presidency and so that could put him in a vulnerable position," Belt said.
"I actually think the president recognizes right now a lot of the pressure is on him, which is why I appreciate him staying steadfast," Tillis said in an interview in the middle of the shutdown impasse.
When asked to respond to the ad, which paints Tillis as toeing the party line, the senator instead labeled himself as a moderate. He emphasized his desire to see a deal on DACA, which was the focus of his recent op-ed in The Hill newspaper.
"All I really care about is the message I convey to the people of North Carolina, that I'm being reasonable, I'm trying to be centrist on issues that matter to North Carolinians," Tillis said.
So will this shutdown's toll be forgotten more than a year from now when people go to the polls?


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Dollar General store being built in Lake Andes
LAKE ANDES--A national business chain is putting roots down in Lake Andes, and will provide job opportunities for six to 10 people in the area. Construction for a Dollar General began recently and, based on the current construction timeline, door...
By Caitlynn Peetz
LAKE ANDES-A national business chain is putting roots down in Lake Andes, and will provide job opportunities for six to 10 people in the area.
Construction for a Dollar General began recently and, based on the current construction timeline, doors are expected to open with a grand opening ceremony in late summer, around mid-August, according to Crystal Ghassemi, a public relations representative for Dollar General. She said the timeline could change, based on the continuing progress of construction.
The store will be located at 239 S. Park Ave.
When choosing store locations, Ghassemi said, the company looks for places it can offer customers an "easy and convenient" shopping experience, noting the company's stores generally serve customers within a three- to five-mile radius. She said demographic trends, competitive factors, traffic patterns and community concerns are also taken into consideration.
"We are excited about our upcoming store," Ghassemi said.
The store will offer national and private brands of food, seasonal items, apparel, health and beauty products and more, with approximately 25 percent of their selection priced at $1 or less.
Moreover, Dollar General could provide more opportunities for the community than just shopping.
Ghassemi said the company is "deeply involved" in the communities it serves, through the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, which awards approximately $12 million annually to nonprofit organizations, schools and libraries within a 20-mile radius of a Dollar General store. The funds are intended to support adult, family, summer and youth literacy programs. Since its inception in 1993, the foundation has awarded more than $100 million in grants, helping nearly six million individuals pursue literacy education, which includes learning to read and speak English or get their GED.
Online applications can be found at www.dollargeneral.com/careers .


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Warnock peut faire référence à :

Patronyme
 Craig Warnock (1970-), acteur britannique ;
 John Warnock (1940-), informaticien américain ;
 Mary Warnock (1924-2019), philosophe britannique ;
 Neil Warnock (1948-), footballeur et entraîneur anglais ;
 Raphael Warnock (1969-), pasteur et homme politique américain ;
 Stephen Warnock (1981-), footballeur anglais.

Prénom
 John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (1955-), criminel américain.

Voir aussi
 Dilemme de Warnock

Homonymie de patronyme

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Here were are day 2 post surgery. Jaxson had a pretty uneventful night and his mommas slept like logs!! he was having minor issues keeping his blood pressure up overnight and required a couple small fluid boluses to fix the problem.
This morning when we arrived at the hospital Jaxson was just starting to wake up as all of his sedation meds were decreased in hopes of extubating. Chest x-ray showed small collapse of the left top lung so doctors decided to keep him intubated for 1 more day and let him recover.
This morning was rough for him. Jaxson was awake all morning, squirming around and just very agitated. We were unable to settle him and it seemed like the medications weren't touching him. I think because his sedation was turned off they were playing a little bit of a catch up game to get him settled again. Finally around noon and some increase and change in his meds Jaxson finally settled and has been resting comfortable since.
We were so impressed with how good he looked yesterday. The pictures that we saw of babies who just had the same surgery looked so swollen and sick. Well needless to say Jaxson was not the exception to this rule. This morning the swelling started and he is looking like our little puffy boy (which is completely normal for cardiac surgery babies!!) here is Jaxson day 2….
There are no anticipated changes happening for the remainder of today so this should be his only health update for the day.
Alex and I are looking forward to going out for a nice dinner tonight because IT'S HER BIRTHDAY!!! What a memorable birthday 😛 I wish we were able to celebrate a bit better but we will have to make up for it when we get home. So we will do the best we can with what we got, and we will find a nice pub to settle in for the night. We will be back to the hospital bright and early tomorrow and fingers crossed they can extubate as planned!!
Awwww….little man! Hoping for a speedy recovery and happy belated birthday Alex! Thinking of you all!


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Current: Artist: Noah Rose
Artist(s): Noah Rose
Title: Museum of Interconnected Events
Location: Great Western Greenway, Medium: sculpture installation
Date: 2014,
Noah Rose's work for Changing Tracks, 'The Museum of Interconnected Events' was a sculptural installation along the Vies Verdes/ Greenways, a small museum exploring connections between the three countries through a series of historical investigations connected to the former railways.
The museum comprises a series of 'event cabinets' which use a common sculptural form but are clad with a 'shell' of local materials.  The cabinets explore themes such as Migration & Exile, hidden personal histories of journeys, transformation of raw materials and the lives of people whose livelihood depended on these processes, the persistence of memory and the connection between language and cultural identity.


Moon&Stars: live music and plenty of charm.
Special event trains on selected dates for the return journey to German-speaking Switzerland.
Culinary and musical high points.
The most popular festival in Ticino is also the most attractive one in Switzerland. Locarno's Piazza Grande is the perfect backdrop for enjoying an unforgettable summer evening with first-class live music.
Every year, international and national artists offer stirring concerts for all music lovers. And there is even more: the "Food & Music Street" between Piazza Grande and Lago Maggiore is a paradise for gourmets. More than 20 food trucks indulge festival visitors with all manner of cuisine, and you can also enjoy refreshing drinks at the numerous bars. Selected musicians play free shows too at the "Piazza Piccola" – and these take place each day.
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Outward journey: to Locarno station, according to the route description on the online timetable.
The Piazza Grande is around 500 m from Locarno station.
Event ticket: price information and online purchase from the event organiser.


PERFECT GIFT FOR KIDS AND BEGINNERS!
Peanut Prodigy's Step-by-Step Drawing Book for Kids is a fun way for your child to learn to draw and enhance motor skills!
Each illustration page is equipped with two different pictures that are numbered with a blank corresponding page to begin practicing! Our book includes various illustrations, such as animals, plants, and methods of transportation.
Helpful Tip: Start off by drawing lightly, so you can easily erase. Follow the steps to complete your picture and once it is done, add your own unique details OR color it in to make it POP!
This coloring book for children is great for young artists. The drawings are easy to do and detailed enough to challenge the children. There are step-by-step guides to follow making creating each drawing that easier. Plus, it gives the kids space to practice within the book.


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Consider a simple uni-substrate enzyme that follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics. When the enzyme catalyzed reaction was carried out in the presence of $10$ nM concentration of an inhibitor, there was no change in the maximal velocity. However. the slope of the Lineweaver-Burk plot increased $3$-fold. The dissociation constant for the enzyme-inhibitor complex (in nM) is ____________
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First order deactivation rate constants for soluble and immobilized amyloglucosidase enzyme are $0.03 \text{ min}^{-1}$ and $0.005 \text{ min}^{-1}$, respectively. The ratio of half-life of the immobilized enzyme to that of the soluble enzyme is (rounded off to the nearest integer) ___________
In a chemostat, the feed flow rate and culture volume are $100$ ml/h and $1.0$ L, respectively. With glucose as substrate, the values of $\mu_{\text{max}}$ and $K_s$ are $0.2 \: h^{-1}$ and $1 \: g/L$, respectively. For a glucose concentration of $10 \: g/L$ in the feed, the effluent substrate concentration (in $g/L$) is _______
A rod shaped bacterium has a length of $2 \: \mu m$, diameter of $1 \mu m$ and density the same as that of water. If proteins constitute $15 \%$ of the cell mass and the average protein has a mass of $50$ kDa, the number of proteins in the cell is __________ ($1$ Da $= 1.6 \times 10^{-24}$g)
Yeast converts glucose to ethanol and carbon dioxide by glycolysis as per the following reaction: $C_6H_{12}O_6 \to 2C_2H_5OH + 2CO_2$Assuming complete conversion, the amount of ethanol produced (in $g$) from $200 \: g$ of glucose is (up to two decimal places) ____________
Which of the following are true with regard to anaerobic respiration in bacteria? The final electron acceptor is an inorganic substance other than molecular oxygen The number of ATP molecules produced per glucose molecule is more than that produced in aerobic respiration The number of ATP ... phosphorylation is used to generate ATP P and S only Q and S only P and R only P, Q and S only
Which of the following are true with regard to anaerobic respiration in bacteria? The final electron acceptor is an inorganic substance other than molecular oxygen The number of ATP molecules produced per glucose molecule is more than that produced in aerobic respiration The number of ATP molecules ... phosphorylation is used to generate ATP P and S only Q and S only P and R only P, Q and S only


Enterprise State Community College, located in Enterprise, Alabama, offers a broad-spectrum college experience. The school offers a well-rounded campus life, highly rated academics, intercollegiate athletic programs, and much more. Students have the option of completing a four-year degree or stepping out to a public four-year college or university after taking prerequisite courses. The college offers many financial assistance packages, as well as a fast-track programs designed to help students get onto their chosen career path in record time.
This is an accredited community college that takes students of all types, including first-time students, transfer students, international students, and more. High school students also have the chance to participate in a program where they can earn dual credits by taking college courses.
This college offers two associate degrees, in both the division of arts and sciences and the division of applied sciences. Degrees are offered in the fields of aviation maintenance and avionics, business, computer information science, emergency medical training, English, foreign language, communications, fine arts, mathematics, physical education and health recreation, science, and social science.
Like most two-year degrees, those offered here are fully accredited and transferrable, enabling students to build on their education either at Enterprise or at another college or university whenever they so choose.
Enterprise offers many non-traditional programs in addition to its two and four-year degree programs. The school offers free adult education courses in select counties; these include career readiness certification, English classes, and more, all of which are offered during the day as well as in the evenings.
The college offers non-degree programs to the community in several areas, including computer programming, child development, criminal justice, medical transcription, and more. This college also provides an online portal for those in the army who want to continue their education.
STARS, which stands for "Statewide Transfer & Articulation Reporting System," is a web-accessible system that provides guidance and direction for prospective transfer students in the State of Alabama. STARS enables students working on two-year degrees the ability to get a transfer agreement for the major of their choosing. It also provides a guide to help them navigate their courses and prevent any potential lost credits when the time for transfer arises.
If the student's application is approved, they will be notified via the mail with an acceptance letter. If the student will be sending in transcripts, they must be sure to do so as soon as possible – if a prospective student is utilizing the FAFSA, no financial aid can be processed until transcripts have been received and reviewed.
ESCC makes financial assistance available for students that need help paying for tuition, fees, books and other related school expenses during their time at this school. Financial aid is made available via federal grants, academic grants, family education loans, state funding, and more. Most scholarships are awarded at the beginning of March, so early application for funding is recommended. The primary paperwork used by the Financial Aid staff in determining eligibility for financial aid is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. Most financial aid is awarded on the basis of financial need; however, many scholarships are awarded based on academic achievement, technical merit, artistic and performance ability, athletic skills,or leadership or character-based qualities.
Scholarship applicants must submit all paperwork in early March of the year they are making application. Students who have more than 40 semester or 60 quarter hours of credit toward an associate degree or certificate will not be able to be considered for scholarships. An official high school transcript will be needed for consideration, as well as, completion of any scholarship-specific materials. Students are encouraged to have taken either the SAT or ACT tests (or both), as they can help provide an edge in the selection process.
Ranks 5899th for the average student loan amount.
All games and matches are played based on the rules of the National Junior College Athletic Association and the Alabama Junior College Conference. Athletic eligibility is determined by these organizations and by the school itself.
Also offered to its students are intramural sports, allowing those who are not involved in the college teams to still remain active and participate in competitive arenas. Participation is voluntary, although the college does strongly encourage students to take part in intramural activities. The college also offers students access to a comprehensive Wellness Center, which provides any help and support needed to develop a plan that promotes total health and wellness for each individual student. To partake in the benefits of the wellness program, students need to enroll in the wellness course, where they will receive health assessments evaluating major components of fitness; as well as an analysis of health risks, nutrition, body composition, flexibility, aerobic fitness, weight, blood pressure, and strength.
Several different opportunities are offered for students to help them make the most out of their educational experience. Guidance services, student support services, career services, a learning resource center, and more help make the student experience one that is well rounded, forward focused, and easy to understand. Students also have access to career testing tools that are designed to help them find their vocational path easily.
Title III, a federally funded grant program focused on boosting education nationwide, is available as well. The grant provides programming, technology, and staff improvements to be implemented to further develop the campus and improve services for students. This five-year project represents an effort to improve student retention and encourage all students to graduate and accomplish their goals.
Ranks 2664th for the average full-time faculty salary.
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Are you a student, SME or institution working in the Blue Bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea Region?
Join the first-ever Baltic Blue Bioeconomy Hackathon
as a student, mentor or expert!
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Please note that due to the increasing COVID-19 measures across Europe, the Baltic Blue Bioeconomy Hackathon has unfortunately been postponed until further notice. The event is still expected to still take place at a later date in 2020. If you would like to attend the Hackathon on a new date, please express your interest through filling in the registration form and we will keep you updated. Thank you for your understanding.
The SUBMARINER Network is organising the first-ever Baltic Blue Bioeconomy Hackathon to collect innovative and creative ideas to promote, accelerate and shape the future of the Blue Bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea Region. As part of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Blue Platform project, we are inviting students, companies, authorities and other actors active in the Baltic Blue Bioeconomy to join us at the beautiful marine station of Kristineberg, Sweden in 2020!
Submit a challenge
Register a a mentor or expert
Between 5 to 10 student teams, consisting of a minimum of 5 students each, will buckle down for 48 hours to develop their innovative solution to one of the 4 challenges presented below. The teams should be multi-disciplinary, gender-balanced and represent the Baltic Sea Region. During the 48 hours, the teams will be supported by one mentor per team, and have access to a panel of experts that they can call on for advice and suggestions to improve their solutions. The teams will be judged by a panel of experts on a range of indicators, including creativity, possibility for implementation and consideration of whole value chains. You can register as an indivdual or with a formed team.
The Hackathon should lead to new solutions, but not only technical. We are hoping to generate a bunch of new, innovative ideas and to form new networks, partnerships and collaborations!
Location: Kristineberg Marine Station, 45178 Fiskebäckskil, Sweden
How to get there? Travel to Gothenburg Airport - from which a free bus transfer will be organised on the evening of Friday 3 April or alternatively on the morning of Saturday 4 April.
The four challenges below focus on realising products, processes, technologies and solutions to improve the circularity, reusability or sustainability of a company - and/or address wider challenges or opportunities in the Baltic Blue Bioeconomy. You are invited to submit concrete challenges fitting under one of the themes.
Influencing consumer habits
What you can do with non-commercial marine resources for the food industry? How can the Baltic consumer be convinced to eat more aquaculture, mussels and algae products? What about 'scary' seafood, by-catch or side-streams? How may we generally improve the reputation of the Baltic Blue Bioeconomy to consumers?
How to utilise non-commercial marine resources for the food industry?
From seaweed, from aqualture - realising a low or even zero-waste economy - what can be realised with the parts that are not immediately used for production; focus on foods and non-foods?
Harvesting and processing technologies
Drying technologies seaweed; mussel production - separating the shells from the meat; reducing the negative environmental impacts of bioeconomy sectors; realising multi-use in the Baltic Blue Bioeconomy
How to decrease negative environmental impacts from marine resources production?
Multi-use; upscaling; cumulative impacts assessments
Why join as a mentor or expert?
Joining the Hackathon as a mentor means that you will be on-site during a full weekend in 2020. You will lead one of the teams participating in the Hackathon that chose to work on a challenge most related to your topic - and give them all-round advice.
Creative ideas for solving company challenges
Why join as a student?
Cash prize
Trainings (storytelling, pitching, business development)
Free accommodation at the Kristineberg Marine Station in Sweden for the weekend of 4-5 April 2020
Getting to know other creative students
If you would like to be involved in the organisation of the Hackathon and are keen to further develop the Baltic Blue Bioeconomy - there are opportunities to join the Hackathon as a sponsor. Contact us to learn more!
Download the Hackathon flyer
Contact Lisa Simone de Grunt to join the Hackathon as a sponsor: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


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Free tool helps newsrooms curate, manage effective newsletters
byEm Okrepkie
Jun 29, 2017 in Digital Journalism
Some newspaper subscribers head to their mailboxes every morning to grab the paper. Others open their inboxes and scroll through email newsletters to find stories to read.
In the age of the internet, email newsletters are yet another direct way for newsrooms to connect with their audiences. They create a more intimate relationship with subscribers, drive traffic to the main website and boost revenue.
Although beneficial, it can be a challenge for newsrooms to set aside time and resources to craft an effective newsletter. That's where the free tool Opt In can help.
What is Opt In?
Opt In assists with building a newsletter from scratch or revamping an existing one. Tamara Power-Drutis and Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz spent a year researching newsletter strategies and developing the tool for Crosscut Public Media and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. The new tool, which was released earlier this month, helps newsrooms design their newsletters in an intentional way. The guide provides recommended strategies to build one based on the skills of the people the newsroom.
"It sounds kind of overly simple, but the truth is that most newsrooms aren't being intentional in their design or their curation — especially in small, scrappy newsrooms that would have so much to gain from an effective newsletter," Power-Drutis said. "Creating an effective newsletter requires just as much expertise and insight as laying out the front page of a newspaper, but it rarely gets that kind of attention or investment."
How does Opt In help curate a newsletter?
To start, Opt In asks users a series of questions about their publication's target audience, business model and mission. From there, Opt In produces a tailor-made strategy.
"The output for this tool is a very specific playbook based on who your audience is," Power-Drutis said.
Sometimes the biggest barrier to an effective newsletter is identifying an audience. Once that is complete, the logistics are sorted out. The key to an impactful newsletter strategy is that it meets the distinct needs of its organization. The New York Times boasts 13 million subscriptions to its 50 email newsletters. theSkimm, which has an informal, conversational tone, has more than 3.5 million subscribers. Both are successful publications with drastically different audiences and tones, and their email newsletters reflect that. Opt In can help any newsroom determine the best strategy for identifying a tone and moving forward.
What are the benefits of creating a targeted email newsletter with Opt In?
Email has been a consistent form of communication since before the social media boom, and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Newsrooms can capitalize on the consistent use of email to enhance audience engagement. When the newsletters target the audience in a way that is engaging, the publication benefits.
"You spend a ton of time in your inbox, sifting through generic, annoying, and often automated email," Singh-Kurtz said. "To have something special, customized, and informative — that's worth your while."
Power-Drutis said the newsletter can be a platform in and of itself, or it can drive traffic to the main website. This increase in traffic can translate to ad revenue, which is critical for survival in many newsrooms.
An email newsletter also cuts out the noise that comes with promoting content on social media. It's a direct line between the newsroom and subscribers. Opt In is designed to strengthen that tie.
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