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Six Degrees PR is known for its consulting approach, counseling C-Suite clients on challenges across the communications spectrum. Six Degrees has extensive public relations, public affairs, crisis management and digital media experience and delivers content and integrated marketing campaigns through subsidiary Alphabet Consulting.
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WPP's Cohn & Wolfe to acquire majority stake in Six Degrees PR and Alphabet Consulting
In Advertising | September 29, 2015 Rishi Seth and Zacharia James become group CEOs, leading the Cohn & Wolfe Six Degrees team of 70 professionals across Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru, and report to Donna Imperato. Six Degrees' CE, Karan Punia, becomes CEO of the new company, reporting to Seth and James. Brand communications agency Cohn & Wolfe will acquire a majority stake in full-service public relations agency Six Degrees PR and its content and integrated marketing subsidiary Alphabet Consulting with offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Part of an aggressive growth plan in the region, the deal builds on Cohn & Wolfe's Mumbai and Delhi offerings and solidifies the agency's Asia-Pacific presence by growing its footprint in the region to 11 offices. Cohn & Wolfe Six Degrees is well-poised to deliver integrated marketing solutions to regional companies, as well as multinational clients looking to expand in India. Founded in 2009, Six Degrees is known for its consulting approach and claims to counsel C-Suite clients on challenges across the communication spectrum. Six Degrees has public relations, public affairs, crisis management and digital media experience and delivers content and integrated marketing campaigns through its subsidiary Alphabet Consulting. "India is a strategic priority for Cohn & Wolfe, and Six Degrees has the entrepreneurial culture, seasoned talent and drive to succeed that will help us capitalise on the tremendous opportunity for growth here. The agency's presence in Bengaluru - the country's technology hub - and its work in technology, finance and corporate, complement the Cohn & Wolfe India team's extensive lifestyle and consumer experience," says Donna Imperato, chief executive officer, Cohn & Wolfe. "We believe that Cohn & Wolfe is the best partner for the culture, passion and energy of Six Degrees and Alphabet Consulting. We are excited to start this new journey to make a bigger play for growth through integrated marketing services," comments Rishi Seth, co-founder, Six Degrees. "Our measure of success is having built a reputation for being amongst the most respected PR firms in India. Alignment to a global agency with strong people orientation and methodologies is the next logical step in our journey. We believe Cohn & Wolfe will provide us the required impetus to build on our success, stay relevant to our people's aspirations and become a global partner to our clients with a full-service offering," adds Zacharia James, co-founder, Six Degrees. Cohn & Wolfe, which opened offices in Delhi and Mumbai in 2012, represents clients across a range of industries and is particularly known for its travel and tourism practice. Cohn & Wolfe India claims to have doubled its revenues in 2014 with key clients including Austrian Airlines, Cleartrip, Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, RCI, Ruckus Wireless, Swiss International Air Lines and Wyndham Hotel Group. Cohn & Wolfe's existing business will become part of Cohn & Wolfe Six Degrees. Six Degrees represents clients across multiple sectors including technology, travel, infrastructure, manufacturing, finance, aviation, hospitality and entertainment. Its current clients include regional and multinational companies such as Amadeus, Cushman & Wakefield, Dalmia Bharat Group, Hughes, Ingersoll Rand and Nokia. Post the acquisition, Seth and James become group CEOs, leading the Cohn & Wolfe Six Degrees team of 70 professionals across Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru, and report to Imperato. Six Degrees' CEO, Karan Punia, becomes CEO of the new company, reporting to Seth and James. With a creative network of more than 1,200 employees in over 50 offices across North America, EMEA and Asia, Cohn & Wolfe has been named 'Best Place to Work' by The Holmes Report, PRWeek and PRNews. It is part of WPP Group (Nasdaq: WPPGY).
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Is this woman happy ... or possessed?
Religion is playing an unintended role in yoga recently. It's the question at the heart of an ongoing trial in Encinitas, California, where a group of parents have objected to yoga as a part of the public school curriculum. We'll have to wait until later this month, when the trial reconvenes, to find out if a judge will side with those who believe yoga is indeed a religious practice or a secular activity meant to foster good health. In the meantime, though, a candidate in Virginia is getting a lot of attention for his views on yoga and religion.
"When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana ... The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself ... [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it or deciding to, but no one can be a child of God without making a decision to surrender to him. Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled with something you probably do not want."
This isn't the first time that someone from the Christian faith has gotten media attention for making similar claims. In January, conservative Christian leader Tony Perkins opposed the military's yoga program, calling it a "wacky substitute" for religion, while last September a Catholic priest in England banned yoga because he believed it is not compatible with Catholic beliefs.


Let's start with the stats. Data from over 2 billion news and media websites, revealed that 55% of people spend less than 15 seconds on the page that they click on.
In the digital age, where we're used to getting information in fewer than 140 characters, this trend is here to stay.
Come to terms with the fact that majority of the people who visit the page won't read past the second line.
Adapt and innovate to the new ways people are acquiring information and adjust their content accordingly.
The most significant change in how we consume content comes down to engagement. The traditional scenario of journalists writing and readers consuming has been challenged. We are so used to waking up and checking notifications on our phones, iPads, laptops or whatever else; with texts, emails, tweets, Instagram posts, Facebook news and so on. As a result, a so-called 'survival of the fittest' situation occurs, where only the most engaging content will reach the audience. Readers no longer want to read heaps of information in the form of what can appear as an essay or monologue, they want to engage with the content, making them feel like they're part of a conversation. Hence, the lengthy twitter feeds on trending topics each day, that's people contributing to a wider discussion and interacting with other living beings.
Some publishers and news outlets have made this change and can be seen to be increasingly active on social media. For example, the UK based newspapers such as The Daily Mail, The Telegraph as well as the news broadcaster Sky News have started presenting the content of articles in a series of interactive formats. This is done through short videos, minimal textual content, think polls and quizzes. People are likely to spend an average of 3-4 minutes per visit. Inevitably, this is more encouraging than the abysmal few seconds spent reading a few lines of a written article.
Much of what happens on the web is driven by impressions, which is focused solely on getting as many clicks as possible on published articles. Of course, this is not a particularly meaningful way of measuring the quality of your content, as readers may just spend a second viewing your content. The overall purpose of getting information to the readers is hence defeated. If the quality of the content is compromised for the sake of impressions, the writers are required to produce content on what is trending, you can be sure that eventually, the quality will deaerate. So, making your content interactive, to the point and quick does not mean it has to be about something that doesn't resonate with your personal or brand values.
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Q: "Unable to cast object from ... to ... " WCF Callback Since yesterday I've got a brain screwing bug. I have a WCF client and a net.tcp hosted WCF service that worked fine for weeks. Then after some minor changes, all of the sudden the service crashes on IServiceCallBack callback = OperationContext.Current.GetCallbackChannel<IServiceCallBack>() calls, throwing a "Unable to cast..." Excpetion.
Wherever I don't need callback, everything work fine.
It's just like the service doesn't recognize the callback anymore.
I saw this could happen when VS has several version of the same assemblies in cache, so I went to C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ProjectAssemblies and removed all files.
With no sucess, since the bugs keep happening.
I even tried, old backups of my solution that worked fine, and now they just crashes the same way.
I'm now totally clueless about this issue.
Any help would be very appreciated.

A: I've fixed my problem, I actually had 2 WCF look-alike services with look-alike urls and I was using the wrong one (one withouth any callback at all).
I have no idea why my older backups seemed to work beforehand though.

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I am thrilled to announce that I have been commissioned by Mike Newman and Tim Rathbone to write a piece for violin and cello. I have had the good fortune of working with these two amazing players before as part of Khymerikal on Star Songs. The piece will be premiered towards the end of this year – watch this space for more details, and check out some of the sketches below. You can listen to Star Songs here, and find out more about it by watching this video.


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Erlach Abbey or St. Johannsen Abbey (, otherwise Abtei St. Johannsen) was a Benedictine monastery in Gals, Canton of Bern, Switzerland.

It was founded between 1093 and 1103 by Kuno, Count of Fenis and Bishop of Lausanne, on land that was then an island in the river Thielle. After Kuno's death, the abbey church was completed by his brother, Burchard, bishop of Basel. The new monastery was settled by monks from Saint Blaise Abbey. The Vogtei, initially the property of the Counts of Fenis, passed from them to the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau, and from them at the end of the 14th century to the city of Bern, which in took over the domain of Erlach in 1474, definitively acquiring it in 1476.

The abbey was secularised between 1528 and 1529. The nave of the abbey church was demolished, but the choir and transept remained to be used for grain storage. These structures were demolished in 1961 after they had become unsafe, but the choir was rebuilt between 1970 and 1971. The other buildings remained standing, and in the 19th century were put to various industrial uses, until in 1883 the Canton of Bern bought the site back and turned it into a prison. Since 1978, it has served as an adjustment centre for young men.

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Securities and Exchange Commission v. Zouvas
Securities and Exchange Commission, Plaintiff,
Luke C. Zouvas, et al., Defendants.
Honorable Steven P. Logan United States District Judge.
Before the Court is Plaintiff SEC's (the "SEC") Partial Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 145)[1]; Defendant Larson, Jorgenson, and Schipretts' Response (Doc. 163), [2] Defendant Robb's Response (Doc. 177), [3] and Defendant Zouvas's Response (Doc. 179)[4]; and Plaintiff's Reply to Defendants Larson, Jorgenson, and Schiprett (Doc. 171), [5]Plaintiff's Reply to Defendant Robb (Doc. 181), and Plaintiff's Reply to Defendant Zouvas (Doc. 182).[6]
Also before the Court is Defendant Larson, Jorgenson, and Schipretts' Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 153), [7] the SEC's Response (Doc. 159), [8] and Defendant Larson, Jorgenson, and Schipretts' Reply (Doc. 173).[9]
I. BACKGROUND[10]
Israeli accountant, Asher Zwebner ("Zwebner"), organized Crown Dynamics ("Crown"), a shell company. At the time of Crown's initial public offering ("IPO"), Amir Rehavi ("Rehavi") and Chanah Zehavi ("Zehavi") were Crown's sole director and officer. Following a 3-for-1 split stock before the IPO, Crown's original subscription consisted of 7.5 million free-trading shares (the "Free-Trading Shares"), which various Israeli residents held (the "Israeli Subscribers"), and 9 million restricted shares (the "Restricted Shares"), which were held by Rehavi and Zehavi. In Fall 2011, Defendant Zouvas was approached by Defendant Larson to conduct due diligence on Crown on behalf of Airware Labs. Corporation ("Airware"), a company who wanted assistance in reverse merging Crown into a publicly-traded corporation. Defendant Zouvas conducted due diligence on Crown, which consisted of reviewing various documents.
Ultimately, the merger with Airware fell through, and a potential reverse merger with Steven Aninye ("Aninye") and his company, Zorah, LLC ("Zorah"), came to fruition.[11] Defendant Robb recommended a reverse merger, and Larson suggested Crown.[12]Larson asked Zouvas to handle the formalities. Because Zouvas had just performed due diligence on Crown for the merger with Airware, he did not conduct due diligence on Crown for its potential merger with Zorah. Eventually, the parties settled on terms, and Larson loaned $300, 000 to Aninye so he could purchase shares.[13] Once the funds from Larson were deposited into Zouvas's trust account-on behalf of Aninye-Zouvas sent $231, 127 of the $300, 000 to Israeli bank accounts held by Zwebner and Caroline Adler "("Adler"). Zwebner told Zouvas that Adler would distribute the funds to the Israeli Subscribers.
With the reverse merger complete, Larson and Robb asked Zouvas to transfer the Free-Trading Shares from the Israeli Subscribers and to the investor group, which included Jorgenson and Schiprett.[14] In so doing, Jorgenson and Schiprett acquired 1, 312, 500 shares. Zouvas also received shares in Crown, in exchange for his legal services, from an Israeli Subscriber, Shira Mizrahi. Larson did not know Mizrahi. Jorgenson and Schiprett subsequently sought to deposit their shares in a brokerage account, and upon request for verification of payment, Zouvas confirmed that he had received the consideration for the shares from Jorgenson and Schiprett and had remitted it to the Israeli Subscribers.
Larson eventually hired the Ritman Agency ("Ritman") to engage in a 90-day marketing campaign for Crown. Larson was the point of contact for Ritman and would review and edit materials provided to him by Ritman. Similarly, Robb prepared press releases. Ultimately, the Ritman campaign resulted in 83, 760 shares being purchased by Ritman's broker network.
II. STANDARD OF REVIEW
A court must grant summary judgment "if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a); see also Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23 (1986). Material facts are those facts "that might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law." Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248 (1986). A genuine dispute of material fact arises if "the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party." Id. In other words, where different inferences can be drawn, summary judgment is inappropriate. Boulder Oro Valley LLC v. Home Depot USA Inc., No. CV-17-00453-TUC-DCB, 2019 WL 2106419, at *1 (D. Ariz. Mar. 26, 2019) (quoting Sankovich v. Life Ins. Co. of North Am., 638 F.2d 136, 140 (9th Cir. 1981)).
The party moving for summary judgment bears the initial burden of informing the court of the basis for its motion and identifying those portions of the record, together with affidavits, which it believes demonstrate the absence of a genuine issue of material fact. Celotex, 477 U.S. at 323. If the movant is able to do so, the burden then shifts to the non-movant who "must do more than simply show that there is some metaphysical doubt as to the material facts, " and, instead, must "come forward with 'specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.'" Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 586-87 (1986).
A. The SEC's Partial Motion for Summary Judgment
The SEC argues that Defendants are liable for scheming to defraud under Section 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act, 15 U.S.C. section 77q(a)(3), because their actions "demonstrate their negligent involvement in a scheme to manipulate the market for Crown stock." (Doc. 145 at 8.)
Section 17(a)(3) Discussion
a. Defendant Zouvas
As to Defendant Zouvas, the SEC argues that Zouvas failed in his due diligence duties. (Doc. 145 at 9.) It argues that Zouvas should have verified that the Israeli Subscribers were in fact legitimate investors, should have inquired into whether Zwebner was authorized to act on their behalf, and should have verified the various documents' authenticities. (Doc. 145 at 9, 11-12; Doc. 171 at 9-10.) It further argues that Zouvas was "not justified in relying on the signature guarantees affixed to the stock certificates" and that he "should have known he could not rely on the SEC's declaration of effectiveness of Crown's Form S-1." (Doc. 145 at 10; Doc. 171 at 6-7.) Therefore, the SEC argues that "it was Zouvas' negligence at the outset that substantially assisted the other Defendants in this case." (Doc. 145 at 10, 12.)
Zouvas argues that he made a reasonable determination not to track down the Israeli Subscribers based on the information provided to him by Zwebner. (Doc. 179 at 3.) He argues that the SEC's expert on the standard of care for attorneys does not take away the negligence claim from the jury. (Doc. 179 at 3.) He argues that, in fact, the SEC's own expert admitted that attorneys are given leeway in their due diligence duties, and, thus, based on these facts-which show a slue of documentation supporting the reasonable inference that Zwebner was the Israeli Subscribers' agent and that the documentation was legitimate-a jury could easily find that he acted reasonably under the circumstances when he reviewed the documentation. (Doc. 179 at 4-5.)
b. Defendants Larson, Jorgenson, and Schiprett
As to Defendants Larson, Jorgenson, and Schiprett, the SEC argues that Jorgenson and Schiprett were negligent in:
"(i) selling Crown shares that were not lawfully paid for; (ii) sending their brokerage an attestation letter saying they had paid the consideration for the shares; (iii) investing in Crown without realizing there was no active market for the stock; (iv) not knowing they were part of an investor group that controlled the entire supply of Crown's free-trading stock; and (v) selling Crown stock into a market that was primed and inflated by Larson's and Robb's marketing efforts."
(Doc. 171 at 10-11.)
Defendants Schiprett and Jorgenson argue that the SEC has not provided any evidence to support its claims that Schiprett and Jorgenson were negligent because their actions were proper and legal. (Doc. 163 at 2.) They argue that there is no duty under the securities laws that (1) requires an investor to research a company before it invests in its stock or (2) that an investor may not buy stock in a company where the market is new, and the investor will be buying all or a majority of the shares. (Doc. 163 at 2-4.) They also argue that it was perfectly proper for them to rely upon "investment advice of a knowledgeable [and long-time] friend." (Doc. 163 at 2, 4.) They argue that they did, indeed, buy and acquire Crown stock "because Larson recommended that they do so." (Doc. 163 at 3.) They argue that "There is nothing negligent - or in any other way wrongful - about any of that." (Doc. 163 at 3.)
As to Larson, the SEC argues that he was negligent in:
"(i) directing Zouvas to disburse the free-trading shares to Jorgenson, Schiprett, and the investor group; (ii) advising Jorgenson and Schiprett when and how to sell the stock, and actually selling Jorgenson's shares for him; (iii) funding the Ritman Campaign with information he should have known was misleading, while knowing that Aninye desperately needed capital in order to make Crown the success Ritman was telling the market it would be; and (iv) engaging in wash trades to give the market the impression there was interest in the stock."
(Doc. 171 at 11.)
Larson argues that directing and advising Jorgenson and Schiprett to buy and sell Crown shares was completely legitimate. (Doc. 163 at 4.) He argues that he was not the person who recommended the reverse merger with Zorah; rather, he simply "suggested that Crown was a viable vehicle to effect the merger after Aninye had decided to proceed with it." (Doc. 163 at 4.) He argues that his actions regarding the Ritman campaign were proper because there is ample evidence supporting the conclusion that he believed the Ritman campaign's materials were accurate and that he was justified in relying upon Aninye's financial forecast of Crown. (Doc. 163 at 5-6.) He argues that he engaged Ritman for the purpose of encouraging investor interest in Crown stock, which is a legitimate and normal practice. (Doc. 163 at 4.) He further argues that he was not negligent in "making a market for the stock" because "selling shares into a new trading market (or recommending that somebody else do so) is neither negligent not wrongful." (Doc. 163 at 6.) As to wash trades, he argues that he engaged in no such thing and, instead, "placed small buy orders in excess of the number of shares available on offer." (Doc. 163 at 7.) He argues that, in any event, the SEC has not provided any evidence to suggest that the number of shares he traded was sufficient to "create the appearance of a larger market." (Doc. 163 at 7.)
c. Defendant Robb
The SEC argues that Robb was negligent in being intimately involved in the division of Crown shares, approving and submitting press releases knowing that Aninye needed capital, and because Robb was responsible for the press releases' accuracy. (Doc. 145; Doc 181.) Specifically, it argues that Robb facilitated Crown's reverse merger with Zorah and the distribution of stock. (Doc. 145 at 10.) The SEC also argues that Robb's and Larson's "investors" acquired Crown's Free-Trading Shares without paying for them. (Doc. 145 at 12.) It further argues that Robb "primed Crown for sale by inflating the stock price." (Doc. 145 at 14.)
Defendant Robb argues that he did nothing wrong and that his involvement with Crown was perfectly legitimate. (Doc. 177 at 1.) Specifically, he argues that, though he did speak with Larson regarding Zorah, he did not have any agreement with Aninye to divide Crown shares as result of the merger nor did he have any involvement in negotiations for the sale of Crown stock with the investors he "introduced" to Crown. (Doc. 177 at 2.) He argues that there is no evidence to support the accusation that he directed Crown shares to be transferred from the Israeli Subscribers to the investors he introduced to Crown. (Doc. 177 at 3.) He also argues that he believes the shares were, in fact, purchased by the investors from the Israeli Subscribers, noting that "Zouvas took care of the sale of stock." (Doc. 177 at 3.) Regarding the Ritman campaign, he argues that he sought the advice of Zouvas, through Larson, to make sure the campaign "was legal and compliant with securities laws." (Doc. 177 at 3.) Robb also argues that, to the extent anyone is "at fault for any press releases with incorrect information in them, " the fault is attributable to Aninye. (Doc. 177 at 3.) He argues that any information he received for the press releases came from Aninye and that Aninye "always authorized the content and the dissemination of all press releases issued by Crown." (Doc. 177 at 3.) Further, he argues that he cannot be held accountable for knowing Crown was "in desperate need of capital" because Robb "was not involved in the business operations of the company." (Doc. 177 at 4.)
2. Section 17(a)(3) Analysis
a. Failure to Comply/Objections
The SEC argues that the Court should strike various statements of fact-or admit them-in Defendant Larson, Schiprett, Jorgenson, and Zouvas' Controverting Statement of Facts because they did not comply with Local Rules 7.2(m)(2) and 56.1(b). (Doc. 171 at 6-7; Doc. 182 at 5.) The SEC further argues that it has cured two technical defects, pointed out by Defendants Larson, Schiprett, and Jorgenson regarding its Exhibit 33 and Mr. Cangiano's and Mr. Robbin's expert disclosure reports; thus, arguing the Court is now able to review those documents. (Doc. 171 at 7-8.) Moreover, the SEC argues that the Court should overrule Defendant Larson, Schiprett, and Jorgensons' objections as to the other exhibits it mentions in their Response because the documents had already been authenticated "during the depositions that took place in this matter." (Doc. 171 at 7, citing Doc. 172 ¶¶ 7-28.) Lastly, Defendants Larson, Jorgenson, and Schiprett argue that the Court should disregard certain sections in Mr. Cangiano's report because they are "impermissible generalization[s] not tailored to the facts of ...

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Bipartisan road to the dark side
By Phil Gasper
Issue #61: Critical Thinking
Democrats are complicit in the Bush administration's attack on human rights and civil liberties
AT THE beginning of August, the first war crimes prosecution against a foreign national by the U.S. since the Nuremburg trials at the end of the Second World War came to an end with Salim Hamdan being convicted of providing "material support for terrorism." The trial, held before a military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay, was an embarrassment. The Military Commissions Act—passed by wide margins in both houses of Congress in October 2006—permitted the tribunal to allow hearsay as evidence and to deny the defendant basic constitutional protections, including the right against self-incrimination.
Worse, although the tribunal was supposedly not allowed to use testimony obtained by torture, it was permitted to use "coerced testimony," provided the presiding judge ruled it to be "reliable" and "in the interests of justice." Before the proceedings began, the trial judge, Navy captain Keith Allred, admitted that Hamdan had been the victim of "various types of coercive treatment," and he ruled out statements that Hamdan made during two interrogations in Afghanistan, because of the abusive treatment he had received. In one of them, the interrogators "repeatedly tied him up, put a bag over his head and knocked him to the ground." But Allred permitted other statements Hamdan made in Afghanistan and after his transfer to Guantánamo, even though there was overwhelming evidence that these were also extracted in "highly coercive environments and conditions."
A psychological examination of Hamdan conducted before the trial revealed that, as a result of prolonged solitary confinement, he "met diagnostic criteria for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depression" and was suffering from "nightmares, intrusive thoughts, memories and images, amnesia for details of traumatic events, lack of future orientation, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, poor concentration and memory, exaggerated startle responses and hypervigilance." During his interrogations at Guantánamo, Hamdan was sexually humiliated and repeatedly moved from one cell to another for fifty days in order to prevent him from sleeping for more than short periods.
Amazingly, however, despite the rigged proceedings, the jury of six military officers rejected the government's main charge that Hamdan was a top-level al-Qaeda operative who helped plan the 9/11 attacks, and accepted the fact that he was merely one of several hired drivers used by Osama bin Laden, who had no knowledge that the attacks were going to take place. One juror later told the Associated Press (AP) that Hamdan, who testified that he stayed in the job because he needed it to support his family, "was just misled and the victim of circumstance." According to the juror, "it was generally our opinion that he made some bad mistakes in his life that led him down a path that turned out to be a bad one. Once he was in it, I don't see that it was that easy to get out."
The fact that the U.S. government chose to prosecute such a minor figure as a war criminal revealed the petty vindictiveness of the whole proceedings. As one of Hamdan's lawyers, Joseph McMillan, pointed out, the charge of providing "material support" could be leveled at thousands of people, including "the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker." If the man who drove bin Laden's car is guilty, why not the person who changed its oil or replaced its spark plugs? It never crossed anyone's mind at Nuremburg that Adolf Hitler's driver should be charged with war crimes.
The jury seems to have understood this, because it handed down a relatively minor sentence that would permit Hamdan to be released by the end of the year. But for the Bush administration the proceedings were "heads we win, tails you lose." Even if Hamdan had been found not guilty on all counts, it reserves the right to continue holding him as an "enemy combatant" for the duration of the "war on terror"—in other words, potentially decades. "After all the effort that we put in to get somebody a fair trial … and then to say no matter what we did it didn't matter—I don't see that as a positive step," said the juror interviewed by the AP.
The Hamdan trial is just the tip of the iceberg of the Bush administration's attacks on human rights and civil liberties. In her recent book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer reveals the huge extent of the abuses. "I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world, the United States does not torture," George Bush told the nation in September 2006. "It's against our laws and it's against our values." But last year, a secret report from the Red Cross concluded that interrogation methods used by the CIA, including waterboarding, are "categorically" torture, and that the treatment of numerous prisoners "constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted."
Mayer discloses that in 2002, a CIA analyst warned the Bush administration that as many as a third of the hundreds of detainees at Guantánamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake. But David Addington, then Dick Cheney's legal counsel (and now his chief of staff), dismissed the report: "The president has determined that they are ALL enemy combatants. We are not going to revisit it." Mayer notes, however, that "the top military commander at Guantánamo at the time, Major Gen. Michael Dunlavey, not only agreed with the [CIA] assessment but suggested that an even higher percentage of detentions—up to half—were in error. Later, an academic study by Seton Hall University Law School concluded that 55 percent of detainees had never engaged in hostile acts against the United States, and only 8 percent had any association with al-Qaeda."
According to Mayer in an interview on Democracy Now!, "One detainee was there because he had been a teacher of somebody and given them a bad grade, and the person that he'd flunked pointed him out as a terrorist and he was rounded up." In the same interview, Mayer responded to Bush's claim that interrogation procedures used by the CIA "were designed to be safe":
[T]here were people killed in this program, and one of them was an Iraqi—former Iraqi military figure named Manadel al-Jamadi, who was completely healthy the night that he was picked up by the U.S. military and the CIA. By the morning...he was dead. And according to the coroner's report, while he was being interrogated, in particular by the CIA, he was hung in a position that the coroner described as being crucified, and he suffocated. He died. He had broken ribs. He couldn't breathe…in that position.
So was it safe? It certainly wasn't safe for Manadel al-Jamadi. There were a number of other homicides that have been investigated by the CIA and passed on to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. Nothing has ever come of them.
Mayer reports that by 2006 members of the Bush administration were seriously concerned that they might one day be prosecuted for sanctioning the CIA torture program. For that reason, they wrote into the Military Commissions Act immunity for the past use of interrogation methods that violated U.S. law. Meanwhile they had little to fear in terms of being held accountable by Congress, even after the Democrats regained the majority later that year, since key figures in the Democratic leadership were already complicit with the administration's actions. Last year the Washington Post revealed that leading Democrats knew about waterboarding and other techniques very early on:
For more than an hour [in September 2002], [a] bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
According to the Post there were about 30 of these private briefings, which in addition to Pelosi included Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and then-Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). "Individual lawmaker' recollections of the early briefings varied dramatically, but officials present during the meetings described the reaction as mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support."
Leading Democrats have also been complicit with the Bush administration's illegal program of monitoring the private telephone conversations of vast numbers of Americans. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), originally passed by Congress in 1978 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, was intended to stop the government spying on its own citizens, unless a court specifically granted a warrant. The law also specifically made it a crime for the telecom companies to participate in illegal surveillance.
But in 2001 when the National Security Agency (NSA) asked them to, in effect, spy on their customers, nearly all the major telecoms (with the exception of Qwest), eager to continue receiving government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, readily agreed. Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald notes that, "Numerous key Democrats in Congress—including [Jay] Rockefeller and [Jane] Harman—were told that Bush had ordered the NSA to spy on Americans without warrants and outside of FISA. None of them did anything to stop it." After the New York Times revealed the program's existence in 2005, Harman even suggested that the newspaper should be criminally prosecuted for publishing its report (which it had actually delayed for a year at the request of White House officials).
Since then, the Bush administration aimed to change the law to make it easier to spy on U.S. citizens and to give immunity to the telecom companies for their past illegal actions. During the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama announced that he would personally filibuster any such bill in the U.S. Senate. But in early July, as part of his shift to the right after securing the nomination, Obama voted for a revised FISA that sailed through Congress and gave Bush everything that he wanted. "With their vote," wrote Greenwald, "the Democratic-led Congress has covered-up years of deliberate surveillance crimes by the Bush administration and the telecom industry, and has dramatically advanced a full-scale attack on the rule of law in this country."
Bush administration surveillance of U.S. citizens goes far beyond the program exposed by the New York Times. More than 400,000 people are on the government's no-fly list and the NSA is reported to use a state-of-the-art database system called "Main Core" to gather information on people it categorizes as security threats. Who are these people? According to a recent article in Radar magazine, "8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect … [who] could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and even detention."
Spying programs at the federal level have spawned counterparts at the state and local level, which effectively treat opposition to government policies as illegitimate acts. In July, for example, the ACLU revealed that the Maryland State Police carried out clandestine surveillance of various political groups, including the anti-war group Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore and the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, for over a year from 2005 to 2006. The Washington Post reported that one long-time peace activist "was singled out by the undercover agents and entered into a 'Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area' database. His entry indicates a 'Primary Crime' of 'Terrorism-anti-government' and a 'Secondary Crime' of 'Terrorism-Anti-War Protesters.'"
But unlike the Congressional Democrats, activists in Maryland have launched a vigorous campaign to demand accountability and full disclosure of the extent of the monitoring. Civil liberties in the U.S. have never been the gift of political elites, but have been the result of movements from below demanding and fighting for them. It will take the reinvigoration of those movements to roll back the attacks on our rights no matter who is in the White House after November.


According to court documents, two MS-13 gang members are accused of killing a 16-year-old boy who was "just walking down the street" in Houston.
The teen was allegedly shot to death on December 16 by Melvin Josue Salvador, 18, and Celso Onelio Sandoval, 25 in America's fourth-largest city.
The victim, Edwin Triguerus, was shot while walking to a man who was sitting in a four-door Acura, according to authorities. The teen survived for two days in the hospital in critical condition before he died.
After leaving Triguerus for dead, Salvador and Sandoval committed an aggravated robbery, according to court documents. Both alleged murderers are in custody in the Harris County Jail and charged with murder.
"Here tonight are two fathers and two mothers: Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens. Their two teenage daughters -- Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens -- were close friends on Long Island. But in September 2016, on the eve of Nisa's 16th Birthday, such a happy time it should have been, neither of them came home. These two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown. Six members of the savage MS-13 gang have been charged with Kayla and Nisa's murders. Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied alien minors—and wound up in Kayla and Nisa's high school."
Sadly, Evelyn Rodriguez was run over and killed while maintaining a road-side memorial for her daughter. On November 30, the woman who killed Rodriguez, Annmarie Drago, 58, was charged with negligant homicide.
Houston police believe others may have been involved in the shooting. If you have information call Houston Police Department homicide at 713-308-3600 or Houston Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.


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Dear Master Coach: At what point does the thick line between coaching and therapy get thin?
I know. This one comes up a lot in the minds and hearts of conscientious professional coaches.
Since I am both a Master Certified Coach and (still) a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (it was hard to get, ok?), I have some opinions about the "thickness of the line."
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NATO ambassadors visit Afghanistan, reaffirming commitment: 'This is a no-win game for Taliban'
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AT News Report-KABUL: General Curtis Scaparrotti, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, as well as ambassadors from Resolute Support framework nations, visited RS service members and met with senior leaders February 23-24 to discuss the mission and reiterate NATO's commitment to lasting security in Afghanistan, the RS said in a statement on Saturday.
The Permanent Representatives to NATO from Germany (Ambassador Hans-Dieter Lucas); Italy (Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero); Turkey (Ambassador Mehmet Fatih Ceylan); and the United States (Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison) and Gen. Scaparrotti met with Gen. John Nicholson, Resolute Support commander; NATO's Senior Civilian Representative, Ambassador Cornelius Zimmermann; as well as officials from the National Unity Government of Afghanistan and Afghan military and police leaders. The visitors learned of progress in training, advising, and assisting the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and the Afghan government's commitment to securing Afghanistan and building a future for all Afghans.
"We are not going to stand by and let Afghanistan be driven with violence again," said Ambassador Hutchison. "So we hope that the Taliban will see that this is a no-win game for them unless they come to the table and become part of something that would make Afghanistan stronger.
"We have 29 allies who are speaking with one voice that peace in Afghanistan is a goal that will protect Afghans and it will protect Europe. It will protect America and Canada. Our North Atlantic Alliance is firm on this subject," Hutchison added.
Germany, Italy, Turkey, and the United States are RS framework nations, meaning they lead train, advise and assist efforts in the regional Resolute Support commands. They also represent some of the largest troop contributors to Resolute Support and the former International Security Assistance Force. Afghan Security Forces took over the lead for combat operations from ISAF in January, 2015, and RS became exclusively a TAA mission.
In 2017, Afghan Security Forces denied the Taliban any of their stated battlefield objectives—preventing them from capturing a single provincial capital—and have continued to pressure insurgents across the country throughout the winter.
"What we are seeing is a lowering of ambition of the Taliban," said Gen. Nicholson. "Following the announcement of the U.S. South Asia Policy, the enemy made another decision to lower their ambition again and resort to terrorist attacks and to avoid the kind of fights where they have lost so heavily. So this exposes the hypocrisy of the Taliban, who every year talk about the desire to decrease civilian casualties and now are directly targeting civilians and taking credit for it."
Gen. Scaparrotti and the ambassadors also visited Train, Advise, Assist Commands North, West, and Capital. German-led TAAC-N in Mazar-e-Sharif includes 21 allied and partner nations and works closely with Afghan partners from the 209th Afghan National Army Corps, and the 707th and 808th Afghan National Police Zone. Italian-led TAAC-W in Herat advises Afghan partners from the ANA 207th Corps and 606th ANP Zone. Turkish-led TAAC-C advises Afghan forces securing Kabul, including the 111th Capital Division and Kabul City Police Center.
"Afghan Security Forces continue to improve their expertise and capabilities day-by-day," said Gen. Scaparrotti. "NATO remains committed to supporting them as they develop their capabilities, strengthen command and control, and prepare the next generation of military leaders."
At the NATO Summit in Warsaw, 2016, NATO Allies and Resolute Support operational partners committed to sustain the NATO-led Resolute Support, to continue national contributions to the financial sustainment of the Afghan security forces, and to strengthen the Enduring Partnership between NATO and Afghanistan through political dialogue and practical cooperation.
At their meeting in November 2017, Defence Ministers from NATO Allies and Resolute Support operational partners committed to increase the strength of the Resolute Support Mission from around 13,000 to around 16,000 troops; they also confirmed they will continue to fund the Afghan Security Forces until at least 2020.
In July, 2018, a NATO Summit will be held in Brussels where heads of state and government from NATO Allies are expected to reaffirm NATO's continued commitment to Afghanistan.
NATO's support to the Afghan Security Forces and institutions is key to supporting the implementation of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's roadmap to further develop the Afghan security forces and institutions. The roadmap, unveiled by the Afghan National Unity Government in early 2017, outlines a plan for securing and maintaining control of 80% of the population, as well as committing to continuing reforms on good governance within the Afghan security apparatus.
"We are in a win-win situation if we, all together, concentrate on protecting stability to this country," said Ambassador Zimmermann. "A stable Afghanistan will be to the benefit of each and every player in this region — this needs to be understood — that ultimately a peaceful and stable Afghanistan will be to the betterment of us all."
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PACK EXPO International Sells Out
PMMI(www.pmmi.org), owner and producer of the PACK EXPO trade shows, announces that PACK EXPO International 2012 (October 28-31; McCormick Place, Chicago), has sold out of exhibit space.
"The sold out status of PACK EXPO speaks volumes to its value as a showcase for the packaging and processing industries," says Charles D. Yuska, president & CEO, PMMI. "With space completely gone three months out, the show has surpassed even our expectations."
PACK EXPO International 2012 will be the largest edition of the show since 2002, with a record 1,800 plus exhibitors showing off the latest in packaging and processing innovation across more than 1.1 million net square feet of exhibit space.
With all of the packaging and processing technology on display, the customer-centric focus of the show will ensure attendees can make the most of their time on the show floor.
"With new and returning industry pavilions and lounges, partnerships with innovators like Material ConneXions and Mintel, and industry expertise across the show floor and in the conference halls, PACK EXPO International 2012 will be an event that highlights all the best these industries have to offer," Yuska adds.
In addition to lounges dedicated to the beverage, baking and snack, confectionery and pharmaceutical industries, the show will feature expertise from the National Confectioners Association (NCA), the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC), the International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT), and several chapters of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE).
PACK EXPO 2012 will also see the return of the PACK EXPO Lecture Series, with comedian and pundit Dennis Miller and commentator James Carville taking the stage on Sunday, Oct. 28.
"The discussion between Carville and Miller promises to be not only engaging and entertaining, but particularly relevant in this election year," Yuska says. "We're looking forward to a great event."
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Nokia N8 available from October 15
Written by James Middleton
06 October 2010 @ 15:31
Keen to get the message out, Finnish handset giant Nokia said Wednesday that its forthcoming flagship device – the N8 – will be available to purchase in stores on October 22.
The unit will also be available for online order and immediate delivery from October 15. In the UK the handset will be available from the Carphone Warehouse, O2, Orange, Phones4u, T-Mobile, Tesco Phone Shops, Three Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone for £429 SIM free or on contract from £30 per month.
Based on the Symbian ^3 platform, the N8 is spearheading the company's renewed assault on the smartphone sector, with the highest number of online pre-orders in the company's history. But Nokia has been hit by news of delays – the N8 was supposed to be out a month earlier – and shaken by recent management changes.
Newly installed Nokia chief Stephen Elop took the reins at the firm at the end of September amid news of delays to shipments of the N8, following the departure of Olli Pekka Kallasvuo and the resignation of Anssi Vanjoki, head of the handsets division.
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Alex Park	06/10/2010 @ 4:03 pm
Hi, just been informed by Nokia that the only N8's available on the 15th will be the grey, silver and green versions with the blue and orange to follow later
David	09/10/2010 @ 10:47 pm
I want my MTV !
NJ	06/10/2010 @ 6:50 pm
I preordered my Orange N8 on 8th Sept via the Nokia website – I received an email today informing me that it should be dispatched by 14th Oct.
vismark	06/10/2010 @ 7:52 pm
will it be available also here in saudi arabia on the 15th?
connie	07/10/2010 @ 1:54 am
Does anyone know when the Nokia N8 will be released in Australia and who will have it?
Trimbo	07/10/2010 @ 10:31 pm
Looks good – anyone writing some apps?
Phones4YourBusiness	11/10/2010 @ 10:52 am
So is this basically their answer to the iphone? I don't know what it is but every competitor to the iPhone I review, it's just not worthy to be classed as it.
Now don't get me wrong, I know there are a lot of phone where the specifications out way that of the iPhone but the way it's used is just unmatchable.
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Cherry manages the day-to-day workflow of the Philippines team, helping define and oversee the implementation of strategic priorities.
Prior to her work with BGA, Cherry was a lecturer in the departments of International Studies and Political Science at De La Salle University. She was appointed program director for the American Studies Program and eventually became the vice chair of the International Studies Department.
Cherry obtained her academic training from De La Salle University and the University of the Philippines, earning an undergraduate degree in political science and a master's degree in international studies, respectively. She was a recipient of the Senator Matsunaga Memorial Scholarship Award from the Asia Pacific Exchange University of Hawaii and she received a grant from the U.S. Information Services' International Visitors program.


Business intelligence tools need reports that can vary depending on the industry. That's part of why we focus on providing expertise in the freight business through logistics. The types of things we need in logistics are very different than what we need in say, health care, for example.
We specialize in business intelligence tools for logistics. Some of the things are generic. One example is customer trending. It's helpful to track a customer's trending in their payment as well as their payment volume with you. You would want to know if they usually pay you within 30 days and now they're paying you within 45 days. Or if their payment frequency changes. These are things that would apply to any customer across any industry.
When we start talking about freight, we want to look at the trends of how much volume the customer is moving with us. We would not only see whether the customer's volume is increasing or decreasing. We would see inside the freight too. We need to be a little more intelligent about that and look at seasonality.
We know that a lot of our customers ship in during their peak seasons. This could mean that this particular customer specializes in a product that is used during the summer. They may be selling beach products or watercraft products. Well, those guys will need to work with us a lot more during the months of February and March. This is to ensure that the products are in the stores at the right time. For a customer who sells a product that is popular on Christmas, we start working on that around September or October.
This industry experience adds tremendous value to the things we need to understand in our BI tools. It helps us specialize and fine tune our business intelligence offerings. It enhances our business intelligence capabilities in the industries that we work with.
One area we work in for example is when you buy a new business intelligence platform. It could be the Microsoft BI Portal, the one that comes empty. It comes with nothing in it. You have some canned reports that you can put in there and show, but they're not industry specific. So working with an industry-specific provider gives you a leg up. We like to say that a blank business tool is like hiring a newborn infant to work at your company. There's is a lot of learning and inputting intelligence to figure that out.
The other option is that you bring in somebody who already has that expertise. This is like hiring somebody who's college-educated. They don't know everything that you need to do for your business, but they know the industry. They know how to do most of the important things already. So you're coming out of the box on day one ready to hit the ground running. Then you refine that learning and refine those tools to make it exactly what you need. You bring that college education to a master's degree or to a doctorate.
Business intelligence tools can save a tremendous amount of human hours. A lot of times, it improves your ability to keep your people focused on the important jobs that they need to do. Here's an example. We don't want to have people spending a lot of time looking up information and data to try to figure out what data means. It's a lot better to use a business intelligence tool or AI platform like Tai.
Tools like these can show your users important information when they need it. This happens instead of having them go look for it. It lets them be a lot more efficient, effective, and productive. These are all things that we want to focus on. We want our users, our people that are using our system, our employees, to be good at what they do. We don't want them spending all their time doing data entry. You don't need that. We don't want them spending a lot of time doing simple tasks or tasks that we can automate.
We want our users and employees to spend time building relationships with customers. We want them to talk to our customer and ask them what's going on. This means they ask them how we can help make their day better, how we can help provide value to our end customers. We want to provide the right business intelligence tools and the contextual information to our staff and to your organization's staff. This allows those staff members to be more productive. It lets them ask better questions and provide better services to your customers.
As technology has progressed, being cloud-based becomes more and more of a key topic that we deal with. As we move along, the trend in technology is cloud-based for sure. What does it mean to be cloud-based? Cloud-based is such a common term, used in so many different ways. But there are some very specific ways that being cloud-based can help to run your business.
For example, as a freight company and a logistics provider, we want you to focus on the part you're good at. You can focus on logistics. We want you to focus on finding carriers that are the best fit for your customer. We want you to focus on building a strong customer relationship. I don't want you to focus on setting up your virtual machine environment so that your server is running all day. We don't want you to spend time setting up Cloudflare for security. We don't want you spending a lot of time going and trying to figure out how to set up an SSL certificate.
Those are all things that we can let somebody else handle so you can focus on your core business. You can let a cloud-based system focus on what they're good at. It handles the technology piece in the case that I mentioned. Let us focus on those SSL certificates. Let us focus on setting up and managing VMs and restarting our servers for Windows updates. Moreover, as a freight provider, you can focus on freight services. Or as a logistics third-party provider, you focus on helping your customer understand freight.
You can't expect your customer to understand how SIA compares to New England Motor Freight. Or SIA compared to working with Estes. We don't expect the end shipper to understand all the differences. But we still like to provide it so that you know that. It then puts your customers' trust in you with that information. They would trust you to put their freight on the right carrier. They would know to look to you to provide the right type of freight services for them and for their specific needs.
So that's what being cloud-based offers to you. As a freight broker, we'll take care of that. That's what we're good at. It matters to us to understand the right type of VM. We know whether your environment should be running on Linux or Windows. We know whether we should be running a Mongo database or a relational database.
These are all things that you can let your cloud service provider deal with and manage and do well. Because it's what we deal with every day. As a freight broker, your customers should rely on you to do what you do well. That means finding the right carriers, building that relationship, and managing their freight.


Ampfab Herbarium Cabinets have an extremely fine build tolerance to ensure a complete seal which precludes the ingress of dust, water, light and undesirable organisms.
Stainless steel slide and hide vents at the top and bottom of each Dryer Cabinet plus an external temperature and humidity reader come as standard on these climate controlled cabinets.
All our herbarium storage units have the facility for complete removal of all or some of the shelves allowing variable storage heights and great versatility.
Herbarium cabinets designed and manufactured in the UK by Ampfab are built and fitted out to extremely high standards: being designed and manufactured specifically for the permanent storage and protection of botanical specimens and plant materials for a minimum of fifty years; they are a fully welded steel construction.
Bespoke sizes can be manufactured.
Shipping can be arranged to most countries.
Ampfab design and manufacture all herbarium storage cabinets in the UK and offer an expert consultation and design service to museums and art galleries for the storage of curios and specimens.
Clients of this service benefit from all the knowledge and skills the Ampfab Team has built up from providing behind the scenes temperature controlled storage cabinets to almost all the Museums and Art Galleries in the UK.
Ampfab can manufacture Herbarium Cabinets to custom sizes to fit any available storage area: helping you protect your plant collection in sealed herbarium storage cabinets is one of the things we do best.
Double wall welded construction in 1.2mm mild steel.
Three point locking handles with vertical lock rods.
LD45 Plastazote door seals attached with 3M 415 adhesive.
Polyester powder coated in a wide range of colours and finishes.
At least three heavy gauge, lift off hinges per door to ease removal of drawers.
Stainless steel slide and hide vents for air circulation if required.
Clear acrylic specimen label holder attached by magnetic strip.
Nominally 2100mm high x 740mm wide x 500mm deep.
26 compartments with removable shelves.
Compartment size 450mm deep x 320mm wide x 155 mm high.
Nominally 2100mm high x 1400mm wide x 500mm deep.
52 compartments and three central dividers.
Compartment size 450mm deep x 320mm wide x 155mm high.
Nominally 2100mm high x 920mm wide x 460mm deep.
Fitted with a heater dryer unit and a temperature and humidity gauge fitted in the door; externally visible.
4 fully adjustable shelves with punched sheet for optimum airflow.


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Q: Taking a specific data with MySQL, Group by I want to take most frequently entered datas in last 1 day.
Here is my code:
SELECT tag_id, time,
COUNT(tag_id) AS value_occurrence
FROM   tag_rel
GROUP BY tag_id
HAVING time > '$yesterday'
ORDER BY value_occurrence DESC LIMIT 10

Code is working but it has a problem:
I wanna take between  july 22 and 23.
id| tag_id     | time       |
1 | football   | 22,5 july  |
2 | basketball | 22,5 july  |
3 | football   |  22,5 july |
4 | football   |  21 july   |

I want to take first three rows and order them by their frequency.
ex:
1- football
2- basketball
But my code is not taking "football". It just shows "basketball". Because  additionally "football" has a time value which is smaller than 22 july.
How can solve it?

A: The correct query for what you want would use where, not having:
SELECT tag_id, MAX(time) as maxtime,
       COUNT(tag_id) AS value_occurrence
FROM   tag_rel
WHERE time > '$yesterday'
GROUP BY tag_id
ORDER BY value_occurrence DESC
LIMIT 10;

Otherwise, there is an arbitrary value used for time, both in the select and the having clause.


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American Axle earnings rise 21% to $71M
The Detroit-based auto supplier reported record quarterly sales and gross profit
American Axle earnings rise 21% to $71M The Detroit-based auto supplier reported record quarterly sales and gross profit Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2atFuW3
Michael Martinez, The Detroit News Published 8:27 a.m. ET July 29, 2016
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. said Friday its second-quarter net income was $71 million, an increase of 21 percent over the $58.6 million it earned in the same quarter a year ago.(Photo: Robin Buckson / The Detroit News)Buy Photo
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. executives expect to follow a "knockout" second quarter with strong financial numbers through the remainder of 2016, despite industry fears of a plateauing sales market.
The Detroit-based auto supplier on Friday said it earned $71 million in the second quarter, an increase of 21 percent over the $58.6 million it earned in the same quarter a year ago. The improvement was attributed to to higher-than-expected production from new business with a number of automakers.
It also reported earnings per share of 90 cents a share and record sales of $1.025 billion. As a result, the supplier raised its full-year guidance on its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization margins from 15 percent to between 15 percent and 15.5 percent. It expects full-year sales of $4 billion.
"AAM's second-quarter results were highlighted by record quarterly sales and gross profit. As a result of our strong operational and financial performance in the first half of 2016, we are increasing our full-year profitability and free cash flow targets for 2016," AAM's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, David C. Dauch, said in a statement. "AAM continues to earn new business featuring our latest innovative driveline solutions and expects customer demand for our advanced technologies to fuel greater business diversification and profitable growth."
American Axle's stock rose early Friday following the announcements. It was up 5.5 percent to $17.55 a share shortly before noon.
Its optimistic forecast stands in contrast to a gloomy picture painted Thursday by executives at Ford Motor Co., who predicted slowing sales in the U.S., China and trouble in Europe would temper its own profits.
"We remain bullish on the macro trends in the near-term," Dauch said. "We're very confident of our ability to operate at robust levels."
Chris May, American Axle's chief financial officer, said its core platforms, including GM's full-size trucks, the Nissan Titan and other crossovers, continue to sell well and shield it from any slowdown in the overall retail market.
"That allows us to run very strong," he said.
During the second quarter, American Axle began a share repurchase program of 100,000 shares at an average price of $15.02. As of June 30, the supplier said it had repurchased $1.5 million worth of shares, and there was approximately $98.5 million remaining for future repurchases under the program. It expires on Dec. 31, 2018.
The company's second-quarter numbers were helped by a $1 million investment gain related to the final distribution of the Reserve Yield Plus Fund. Its adjusted EBITDA, which excludes that $1 million investment gain, totaled $164.8 million this quarter, or 16.1 percent of sales.
Last year, American Axle said it would lose 25 percent of GM's next-generation full-size truck and SUV program to provide axles and drive shafts. Dauch said Friday the supplier has now replaced 60 percent of that lost business. The effects won't be fully realized until 2020, and May said American Axle was "very confident" it would make up the entire amount of that lost business.
America Axle is expected to begin 16 new programs and product launches this year with automakers like Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Ford and Fiat Chrysler; executives on Friday said it completed about half of those launches in the first two quarters of 2016. It's working to increase its non-GM work, which currently makes up about 66 percent of its business. Executives hope GM will make up 50 percent of its business by 2020.
Its non-GM sales were $333.9 million this quarter, down from $343.1 million in the second quarter of 2015. Executives said lowered non-GM sales were due to ending a commercial vehicle program.
"This was a great, knockout quarter," May said. "Our growth trajectory ... continues to be well in line with what we would hope. We have a very favorable view for the balance of 2016."
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The Community Volunteering Council was established on November 5th 2001, setting as its objectives to serve the community and the working parents of both the community and the wider region.
Respective Councils of the wider region, as well as with the Parents' Association of the State Kindergarten. What is also noteworthy is that several events are organised in cooperation with the Parents' Association.


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Prepared and successfully prosecuted patent applications in the area of processing of biofuels produced from plants, permitting single-step modifications of biomolecules into a useful fuel source.
Prepared and prosecuted utility patent applications for the first stable plant extrachromosomal elements that can be used to greatly speed up the process of developing new plant breeds.


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Q: How do you calculate the expectation without a pdf in the context of Center limit theorem, variance Given Problem 1)

To get the variance and covariance the following steps are taken:

In the step below to calculate E[Z^2] how do we approach this without a known pdf? For completeness would finding E[cos(theta)^2] be the same set of steps? But this is different because at least we know that theta has a uniform distribution?

Maybe what I'm looking for is a trick, theorem or a property? I'm not completely sure how to fill my misunderstanding in this single step. Otherwise everything else in the problem makes complete sense.

A: $E[Z^2] = Var(Z) + E[Z]^2 = \sigma^2 + \mu^2$
The mean and variance of Z is given in the question.


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James Neville Mason (1909-1984, British)
The English actor, James Neville Mason (1909-1984) best known for his starring roles in The Desert Fox, Lolita, North by Northwest and A Star is Born, to name only a few, was an avid cat fancier. Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire into a wealthy textile family, he attended Cambridge. After graduation, he made his first stage debut in The Rascal, 1933. During WWII he registered as a conscientious objector, bringing shame to his family and his estrangement from them.
Both Mason and his first wife, Pamela loved cats and authored a book The Cats in Our Lives in 1949 in which they recount interesting anecdotes about their reportedly nine cats with names such as Toy Boy, Tribute and Whitney Thompson. The multi-talented Mason illustrated most of the book as well.
The book was such a success that they ultimately published another Favorite Cat Stories of Pamela and James Mason in 1956.
In a July 3, 1949 article in The News and Courier, Howard C. Heyn reported from the Mason's home:
However acid he may have been in pictures or in print, Mason certainly is retiring enough in home surroundings. He's polite, but apprehensive, with strangers.
The Masons' fabulous cats likewise were restrained. They wandered in and out of the drawing room but they didn't climb walls. Mason said they had nine cats, including one "guest."
He and Pamela are enthusiastic about their new book, "The Cats in Our Lives." When inquiries about their cats become too numerous, she suggests, giggling, that you read the book. Mason illustrated it, with line drawings.
Pam did impart the information that the eight Mason cats have their own room at the rear of the house, reached by an outside stairway.
When the Masons moved in, they stored the pasteboard cartons there temporarily as they unpacked them. One day they missed the cats, and started searching the house. They found all eight in the room with the private stairway.
Each cat was sitting, possessively and with considerable dignity, in its own carton. So the Masons merely furnished the room with eight fresh boxes, and considered the family installed.
Earl Wilson wrote in the Miami Daily News on January 16, 1950:
Nobody had written anything about James Mason's cats for 5 minutes, so it was up to me.
"Kitty, kitty, kitty," I purred as soon as I stepped inside Mason's enormous home, for there on the steps sat a pretty cat with pretty eyes.
The pretty kitty didn't answer, nor get up and rub my legs, because the pretty kitty was a dummy — porcelain, perhaps. But very real-looking.
Mason came in — unaccompanied by any cats (by the way, I've always found him a nice, friendly, co-operative chap) — and I asked him how he liked Hollywood by now.
I kept wondering, where were the cats? I only saw one running around the room here in this big rambling home that Buster Keaton built on a three and one-half acre plot right in Beverly Hills for Natalie Talmadge, oh, about 20 years ago.
Only one cat. I thought there'd be 15 or 20. It kept weighing on what I called my mind.
Mason was having some tea. Where were the cats? I thought this was a cattery, practically, but only one cat. Mason finally said a few silly stories about his cats have been invented by studio publicists.
"We are just people who keeps cats, that's all," Mason said.
"We have 9 cats at the moment," said attractive Mrs. Mason, who was playing with their daughter, Portland, who was named for Mrs. Fred Allen.
"And if you're fond of cats," Mason said, "You're always getting more."
"Mrs. George Sanders goes flitting off to Europe and asks if we'll take care of her cat. She comes back and sort of forgets her cat, so her cat becomes one of our cats."
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José Luis Lamadrid Prados (3 July 1930 – 3 October 2021) was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a forward for Club Necaxa and who represented Mexico in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He was also a commentator along with Fernando Marcos for TV Azteca in the 1990s.

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FIFA profile
José Luis Lamadrid's obituary

1930 births
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Borderland State Park is located at 259 Massapoag Ave., N. Easton. There is a $2 per car parking fee. You may also purchase and Annual Parking Pass for all the state parks and beaches for $35.
The Long Hike – Friday, Sept. 26, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hike to the hardly visited northern-most point of Borderland State Park on this 5- to 6-mile, moderately paced recreational hike. Hike to Morse Loop and enjoy a snack on the shores of the Dead Swamp Pond. Wear sturdy shoes and bring plenty of water and bug repellent, as well as a snack to eat at the pond. For adults and older children. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Reasonable accommodations available upon advance request; $2 per car parking fee. Meet at visitor center. Rain cancels.
Vintage Baseball Game - Saturday, Sept. 27, on the front lawn of the Ames Mansion, join in the presentation of an old-fashion baseball game. First game begins at 11 a.m. and the second begins at approximately 12:30 p.m. The Friends welcome back to the park the Providence Grays and the New Hampshire Granite. This is a baseball reenactment, featuring authentic uniforms, equipment, and rules from the early days of the sport. For all ages. Sponsored by Friends of Borderland and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Rain cancels.
Kids Mansion Tour – Saturday, Sept. 27, from 3:30 to 4 p.m., join the park interpreter for a mansion tour focused on families with younger kids. Explore the first floor of the mansion. This 15-minute tour will conclude with an old fashion activity behind the mansion (weather permitting). All children must be accompanied by an adult. Meet in front of the mansion. Rain or shine.
Ames Boulder Hike – Sunday, Sept. 28, at 2 p.m., join the park interpreter for a quick hike to the "million pound boulder." How did this huge boulder get here? Learn this and much more on this guided 15-minute hike. For kids and adults. Downpour cancels.
Mansion Tour: Building a Home – Sunday, Sept. 28, at 4 p.m., come get a look at the fully furnished interior of the Ames Mansion, including the ornate two-story library. On this 30-minute guided tour of the home, attendees will learn about the history of the Ames Mansion and the Ames Family. First floor only. For adults and older children. Meet in front of the Ames Mansion. Rain or shine.
Mansion Tour: The Ameses and Women's Rights – Monday, Sept. 29, 1 p.m., discover Oakes and Blanche Ames's involvement in the struggle for women's rights on this 30-minute guided tour of the first floor of the Ames Mansion. View some of her suffrage artwork and political cartoons. First floor only. Reasonable accommodations available upon advance request. For adults and older children. Meet in front of the mansion. Rain or shine.
Mansion Tour: Partners in Love & Work – Monday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. Oakes and Blanche Ames were partners in every aspect of their lives. They worked together raising a family, building a home, in Blanches' work in the suffrage movement and in Oakes botany work. No matter the task at hand, Blanche and Oakes passions were blurred together creating this true partnership. Learn about how they complimented each other in love and in their work on this 30-minute first floor tour. For adults and older children. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Meet in front of the mansion. Rain or shine.
Tennis on the Ames Mansion Court - daily, 8 a.m. to close. Play tennis on the Ames Mansion court on the back lawn of the Ames Mansion. Bring equipment. Park at the visitor center, walk to the mansion. Proceed to the right of the mansion and follow the curve of the mansion to the courts. First-come, first-served. Free; $2 per car parking fee.
Unless otherwise noted, events meet at the Lawrence Newcomb visitor center, are free of charge and open to all. No pre-registration required, unless otherwise specified. Reasonable accommodations available upon advance request. Call Park Supervisor Ellenor at 508-238-6566.


Professional wrestling, pro wrestling is wrestling done as performance art. It is different from other sports because it is a fixed sport. It is sometimes known as sports entertainment.
Like other athletes, most wrestlers train each day to maintain their physical condition. They practice for years to learn to execute moves safely while still making them look dangerous. They suffer many injuries, sometimes severe.
Professional wrestling is done as a show, like a play. Many wrestlers will wrestle in many fights, called matches. They wrestle inside a 'wrestling ring', which is a place with ropes around it. The best wrestlers can win belts, called 'championship titles', to show that they are the best.
Famous stars of the ring include "Gorgeous George" Wagner, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, André the Giant, Sting, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, Goldberg, Mick Foley, Stone Cold Steve Austin and John Cena.
The United States, Canada, Mexico, and Japan and the United Kingdom are countries that have a lot of professional wrestling events. The biggest company of professional wrestling is WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). Once a year, they have a big wrestling event called WrestleMania. Professional wrestling can be seen both in the audience of an arena or on television.
↑ "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. 13 January 2006.
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30.11.06 | Read the synopsis from England Hockey meeting on 10th November.
29.11.06 | England women lost out to a 65th minute penalty stroke against the highly rated Amsterdam HC.
27.11.06 | Slough's lead narrowed at top of Womens Premier.Beeston take over topspot in Mens Premier. Bowdon the only team left with a 100% record.
27.11.06 | Beeston's Alistair Wilson has withdrawn from the squad which is to play Holland tomorrow due to a hamstring injury.
27.11.06 | Canterbury's Natalie Seymour has been called up to the senior England squad to face Holland tomorrow.
20.11.06 | Loughborough stay out in front in Mens Premier Division. Beeston go second with their forward David Griffiths, who has endured a roller coaster ride of late, scoring again.
20.11.06 | Following Sunday Round Four ties The draw has been made for the last sixteen of the Men's Cup.


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The Secret Art Project in St Gemma's 2018 Art Festival
"Loch Knares Monster" submitted to St Gemma's 2018 Secret Art Project by Mick Burton, Continuous Line Artist.
As the open session for bidding on e-bay for the A5 size card paintings and drawings submitted to the St Gemma's Secret Art Project has now closed, I am free to say which two pictures were submitted by me. Of course, they are not single continuous lines.
The first one, above, is called "Loch Knares Monster". I used coloured pencils to produce delicate shades in the water and sky in contrast to the acrylic pen outline on the Serpent.
I have always been interested in the Loch Ness Monster, so what is wrong with turning the famous railway bridge in Knaresborough into a giant serpent. My first attempt at the monster, years ago, was to add one to a mural of Venice which had been painted all over the bathroom wall of a house I shared with several others in Leeds in the late 1960's.
Also an artist friend of mine, Bryn Glover, constructed a sculpture of "Nessie" from a motor cycle chain in 1969. He worked at Leeds General Infirmary and once used a huge pair of forceps in a sculpture of a pelican.
There had to be a train in it, particularly a steam train, but I did not feel that my favourite engine "Mallard" would be appropriate. See photograph below of Mallard crossing the Knaresborough bridge.
"Mallard on Knaresborough Viaduct" in 1987. Photograph by Jo Turner (https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/14389).
One day in the mid 1950's, when I was on holiday staying with relatives, my cousin John Simmister and myself wandered into the railway sidings in Peterborough. We saw Mallard, all be itself and so dirty that you could hardly tell that it was green. We climbed into the cab and talked about what it would be like to travel at 126 miles an hour and break the world steam record.
"Mange 2 – Rail Root North" submitted to St Gemma's 2018 Secret Art Project by Mick Burton, Continuous Line Artist.
"Mange 2 – Rail Root North" was coloured in acrylic and in a style which I hoped would be very different to my Knaresborough picture.
The HS2 railway project from London to Leeds and Manchester has been dragging on for years and I thought that I would compare that train to a streamlined pea pod. My wife Joan comes from Wakefield, which is Rhubarb Triangle country, and as she is a vegetarian I thought she may appreciate the "jokes".
Here is a clipping from this month's Yorkshire Reporter, showing that HS2 is still big news.
Yorkshire Reporter, November 2018, showing plans for Leeds Railway Station as part of the HS2 project.
Therasa May is one of the celebrities (including John Bishop and Kaiser Chiefs) who have agreed to submit a picture to the Secret Art Project, but there is probably no danger that people will think that she painted Mange 2.
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St Gemma's 40th Anniversary Arts Festival – 2018 Leeds Art Exhibition and Sale 2018
Mick Burton, continuous line drawing artist, one of 40 artists selected to exhibit in the Leeds Art and Photography Exhibition 2018 as part of the St Gemma's 40th Anniversary Arts Festival.
The 2018 Leeds Art and Photography Exhibition and Sale takes place on 26 – 29 October 2018 at The Grammar School at Leeds as part of the St Gemma's 40th Anniversary Arts Festival.
Last year there were about 170 artists exhibiting about 900 pictures and photographs. However, as it is the 40th anniversary of the charity, they have decided to give the 40 artists who have sold the most pictures in recent years the option of submitting more pictures and to specify their own presentation across two stands.
I have been fortunate enough to be invited and look forward to the exhibition.
You can check out the details on the initial website
https://events.st-gemma.co.uk/events/leedsartfestival
This also shows pictures by over 30 artists from the 2017 exhibition, including my "Leeds Olympic Lion" above.
I have also entered the "Secret Art Project" where you draw or paint on a post card and all the entries are displayed anonymously. During and for a week after the exhibition the display is on the internet so people can bid for the cards. They publicise various celebrities who St Gemma's have asked to enter a picture card to help inflate the bidding.
Of course, using my continuous line style would be a bit of a "give away" so I have used another approach. All will be revealed in a post after the event.
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