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Its Autumn and that means Christmas is officially on the way (sorry to you Christmas haters out there), but that ALSO means Coast have launched their fabulous new AW15 collections *squeal*. I had a play around with the new Roccobella dress (which may I add, is truly beautiful) and decided to create two totally different looks.
The first, is a classic look with heels and a small clutch which would be perfect for a prom, a party or even a fancy Christmas do! I love the detailing on this dress as it means you don't necessarily have to wear accessories, it can look simple and classy without. Not to mention the beautiful flowing skirt – my weakness!
I then decided to try making this dress slightly more edgy by pairing it with my trusty Doc Marten boots, not necessarily your 'go to' footwear with a dress like this but dare to be different eh? I love the retro punk edge they bring. I also teamed this with a black leather jacket from H&M because here in the UK you can't be without a jacket – Ever. I actually love how this outfit ended up as I think mixing classic pieces with retro pieces can blend two different eras together and makes an outfit just that bit more interesting.


Some people just lack confidence that they can change. They feel that their problems are either too difficult or too deep, or they are disappointed with the approaches they already tried. Even more often, they are inclined to lose motivation if a dramatic change does not occur in a month or two; sometimes they are even aware that they did not really invest much effort into self-improvement, or that they did not practice the things they learned.
Very often, people practice exercises and techniques irregularly, e.g., just a few times in a week. After a few months, they usually decide that they are not satisfied with the results, as if the results can come just from theoretical knowledge of a method. On the other hand, people who really invest effort into using newly learned skills, sometimes expect too large a change in a short period of time, and if this does not happen, their motivation quickly diminishes.
One of the most important things I can say about personal development is: give yourself time! Emotional problems are often created at the very beginning of our lives, when the personality is still developing, and then are usually reinforced for decades. From a neurological point of view, repeated behaviors – including repetitive thinking patterns – create neurological connections, which consequently make it easier to keep on repeating the same thinking habits. It takes time and perseverance for new neurological links to be shaped and new habits of thinking adopted.
As when losing weight or learning new skills – playing a musical instrument, combat skills, creative writing or anything else, if you set a target date just few weeks or months ahead, not only will you be dissatisfied with the results but also with the process itself. Premature deadlines create pressure and feelings of failure and insufficiency, and – as with rapid diets – you soon return to old habits and old problems. It is much wiser to give yourself six months, a year or two, or more, depending on the problem, and to establish a regular routine. Create habits that are easier to maintain, perhaps even enjoy – for extended periods, even for a lifetime.
While working with clients, I noticed that change is especially difficult for people whose parents did not want them to be born. They did not experience basic acceptance or welcome into this world, thus the very foundations of their self-image can be negative.
Similarly, some parents are disappointed with the gender of their child. Such children often carry feelings of rejection and guilt, not because of their behavior, which could be changed, but because of who they are. Such people need to practice extended and intense support and love for themselves, to change these deeply imprinted images.
My experience in working individually with such people is that they usually notice big changes in toxic beliefs, or to emotions like guilt, anger or fear in specific contexts. However, for existential goals, like significant changes in personality, work or partnership, they need to change many deep convictions and emotional reactions – not just a few, as people usually hope. People with difficult pasts built such complexes during repeated trauma and unhealthy relationships. Healing requires more intense work.
A woman I will call Laura worked with me on her partnership issues, like feeling hurt by some details of her partner's behavior, occasional jealousy, suffering in times of separation etc. At first, we met twice a month, and later once a month. In the meantime, she worked alone with guided exercises.
Very soon, she started to notice increased self-confidence and no longer felt dependent on her partner's behavior. After a while, she started feeling less interested to continue that relationship, as she felt that her important wishes and needs were not fulfilled. Still, she decided not to force a break up, but to stay in the relationship as long as she felt a need for it, using that time to work on every emotional problem that would come out.
As time passed, she would often tell me that attraction was diminishing and that she was no longer sure how long her relationship might last. Soon after, she met another man with whom she was able to create a relationship that she describes as true intimacy and partnership, everyday magic, an experience that is almost hard to believe.
This is a beautiful – and realistic! – example of what can be achieved through long-term continuous work and sincerity to yourself. This approach requires more time and effort than some "magic pill" methods, but in this way problems can be resolved at their roots, on the level of causes and not effects – just like losing weight cannot be achieved with lotions and pills, but by changing unhealthy habits.
Permanent and significant results come through a combination of working with causes of issues, developing new levels of consciousness and perception, creating new emotional experiences and practicing new habits in everyday situations.
Some people tell me that their starting positions are far more difficult and complicated than most. They expect that I might have trouble understanding them, since I don't know exactly how they feel. If I talk about my current self, it is true that I have a positive attitude about myself. However, when I started working on my personal development, this was not true. When I look back at my past, I would say that my history was rather average, if I compare myself to other people. (Some people hardly believe me when I tell them how I perceived myself when I was a teenager.) However, my challenges motivated me to grow and learn. Considering that you are reading this article now, this is probably true for you, too.
Human psychological structures change slowly; most people need a sense of continuity, gradual transition from the known to the unknown, instead of dramatic changes. Some people consciously fear change, although many more people carry this fear on an unconscious level.
Our personalities consist of many parts, often called sub-personalities. Some of them are more and some less active, and some are hidden most of the time. Those parts of us also need time to reorganize and adjust to change. Some of them might resist change due to a fear of "ego-death", a fear that the current personality might be damaged or destroyed. For a similar reason – fear of losing the sense of identity we are used to – we might be afraid of spiritual experiences and intense intimacy with others.
I have tried and tested many personal development techniques and met quite a few people doing the same. In spite of all promises and glorious marketing, I do not know anyone who achieved a dramatic change in a short time. Sometimes external circumstances change or temporary ecstatic states are achieved, but our basic sense of who we are in this world changes at a much slower pace.
People I worked with often tell me that their lives have fundamentally changed, but never after a few days or even weeks. Yet when they look back and remember the way they felt months before, they see significant changes. This goal is achievable, very inspiring and motivating, if we were not so used to our consumer society, with everything in instant packages, and if we were willing to invest our time and effort into personal change. Instead, most people try to use external means to achieve inner changes. Character development can only be achieved through effort and experience.
From time to time, "leaps" in improvement are possible, including important positive changes within short periods of time, but those are, in my opinion, the results of previous efforts which created the conditions for subsequent changes.
Sometimes, true and full confrontation with an external situation can bring many liberating insights and changes in perspective, so that some emotional problems may spontaneously heal and with them any need to create similar situations. For example, I have experienced that if I said aloud my opinion to people whose reactions I feared, I felt enormous relief and freedom to speak up. However, to do that, I needed to be aware of my emotions, true to myself and I needed to learn how to better react to external challenges. Thus, this kind of healing is also a result of long-term effort.
Results come easier and faster when we work with our unpleasant emotions before confronting real-life situations, but one without the other is not enough. Healing emotional patterns without checking the results in real life, or trying to change external circumstances without changing the deep beliefs that originally helped creating them, will rarely provide lasting results.
As with losing weight, accepting the fact that we cannot be liberated of our imperfections overnight is a key to true freedom. Just like in choosing a profession or a hobby, it is important to find satisfaction in the chosen method of personal development itself, not only in the result. It is an opportunity to practice enjoying the present moment and to love ourselves the way we are.


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Each 20"x20" Pillow is machine pieced using all naturally hand dyed (by me) fabric with the exception of an occasional scrap of denim, cyanotype or vintage fabric. The casing is lined with muslin for durability and finished with a envelope fold on back.
Please contact me for orders as each pillow is different and made to order.


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Why are South China Sea tensions rising?
By Vaudine England
BBC News, Bangkok
duration 3 September 2010
image captionThe US has increased military and diplomatic ties with Vietnam in recent months
Imagine an exchange of fire between Chinese and Vietnamese navies in the South China Sea.
Or just an accidental bump between Chinese and American warships, as high-stakes manoeuvring gets out of hand.
Or the arrest by China's navy of hundreds, not just dozens, of Vietnamese fishermen in disputed waters, sparking US voices to support Hanoi against Beijing - or the other way around.
Fanciful scenarios? Certainly.
But the impact of a conflict over a storm-tossed and otherwise unremarkable stretch of water south of China and bordered by most South East Asian states would be far-reaching.
The shipping of Middle Eastern oil to Japan would be at risk, north-east Asian economies could stall, trade between China and South East Asia could be blocked in tit-for-tat recriminations and much more if the world's two biggest powers became locked in combat.
On alert
That is why a discernible ramping-up of tension has excited the analyst community that watches the South China Sea issue.
When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Hanoi in July, she aligned the US firmly with South East Asia's approach to overlapping claims in the South China Sea.
She said: "The United States supports a collaborative diplomatic process by all claimants for resolving the various territorial disputes without coercion. We oppose the use or threat of force by any claimant."
In response, China has described the South China Sea as a "core interest", complained of "encirclement" and lambasted unwarranted interference by the US in matters that do not concern it.
A series of moves by the various players has brought the region to a point where "the status quo is not sustainable", says Ian Storey, fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
There has been a "change of tone" and concerns in the region have "increased markedly", he says.
Carl Thayer, a professor of politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, concurs.
China has "undertaken provocative actions to underscore its national security concerns. Chinese actions have resulted in growing friction with Vietnam and have spilled over to affect US strategic interests.
"The United States has responded by asserting its right to freedom of navigation and has moved to develop a strategic partnership with Vietnam," he says.
That is not how China sees it, of course.
It was already angry about the activities of US military vessels in China's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) which it says are not "innocent", as required by the rules governing such behaviour.
Sovereignty over the entire South China Sea is the bigger issue, however, not only because of suspected, albeit unproven, deposits of oil and gas.
image captionBoth China and the US have increased naval drills in the Asian region
More important is the fisheries industry and the vital issue of freedom for trade through some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world - 80% of China's energy imports pass through these waters.
Back in 2002, China and the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) signed a Declaration of Conduct on how to tackle the disputes.
But in scores of meetings since, they have failed to act on specified confidence-building measures which could implement the declaration.
A China-Asean working group on the Declaration of Conduct has met only four times since 2004 but could meet a second time this year.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is also scheduled to attend the first-ever meeting of Asean defence ministers - China is invited but is haggling over whether to attend - set for October.
Some analysts hope these meetings will help work towards a real code of conduct in the seas - but there remains a fundamental divergence in approach between China and Asean.
Although China has been happy to regulate economic relations with Asean as a bloc - touting the success of the China-Asean Free Trade Area (Cafta) in place since the beginning of 2010 - it wants to handle political issues differently.
It has consistently said sovereignty disputes should be tackled bilaterally, between China and each individual claimant country.
Asean members are unwilling to take that approach, knowing it weakens them in talks with a power that is now crucial to almost all their economies.
'Coercive diplomacy'
While the big powers, the US and China, battle it out with more bellicose rhetoric and a series of competing military exercises around the region, key countries within Asean are watching warily.
With Vietnam as chair of Asean this year, the issue of the South China Sea has come to the fore and a new level of consensus has been reached within Asean.
"South East Asians were, and continue to be, fully aware of both the inherent promises and dangers that China presents, whose traditional symbol is after all a dragon," notes Indonesia's Dewi Fortuna Anwar, research professor at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
"During the Cold War, China was regarded as an unmitigated threat. Today, however, Asean believes that the best course of dealing with China, with its vast economic potential and growing military might, is to engage and integrate it fully into the regional order," she wrote in The Jakarta Post.
The experts are agreed that the balance of power in East Asia is shifting.
"Twenty years ago, no-one was in the position to enforce any claims. Now China has the wherewithal to pursue more coercive diplomacy - so it can't go on like this," says Ian Storey.
"As the PLA grows in strength, South East Asians have become more aware of the gap between rhetoric and reality. As a result, China's platitudes are wearing thin."
More than ever, the dangers of failing to engage in a more serious search for peaceful arrangements are clear.
Who's right in South China Sea spat?
US and Vietnam stage joint naval activities
China air force exercises 'carry message'
Talks on South China Sea disputes
Vietnam to buy Russian submarines
Asean - Association of South East Asian Nations
Shangri-La Dialogue
Chinese Foreign Ministry

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An ER fanfic that takes place following the "Bishop Stewart" Arc
From the moment he had walked through the doors of the ER, Luka had not stopped running. A 6 car pileup had thrust him into the middle of a series of traumas that had kept him occupied for several hours, and where on any other evening he might have minded, tonight he welcomed them. As he finally got the driver of the vehicle that had initiated it stable enough to send him off to surgery he was ready for a breather. He'd just started for the Doctor's Lounge to grab a cup of coffee when he found himself cornered for an incoming GSW.
He had hoped for the chance to talk to Abby at some point before her shift ended, but he had yet to see her. Maybe he could ask one of the nurses if they had seen her. He found his mind wandering, drifting to how he'd left things with her, what was she thinking right now? "Dr. Kovac?" Lydia's voice drew him out of his thoughts and back to the man on the table in front of him...
45 minutes later he resigned himself to the futility of their attempts and with a frown he handed the paddles back to her. "Hold compressions." He watched the monitors grimly for a moment then moved his gaze to the clock. "Time of death...2:56." He took the offered chart and signed his name to the bottom of it before handing it back... only vaguely hearing the "He didn't stand a chance, " that was offered in consolation. "I know..."He agreed as he pulled the bloody gloves, then gown off and tossed them aside. "Is the family in chairs?" At the nod he headed for the door, pushing his way through, readying himself mentally for what was to come. He set his jaw as he entered the room...looking across the expectant faces as he stopped.
"Mrs. Gardner?" He watched the people sitting there for some sign of recognition, then as a woman nodded he approached her. "My name is Dr. Kovac, I treated your husband. Are you here with anyone Mrs. Gardner?" He asked the question quietly, hoping to give her some privacy despite all the people.. The woman nodded, "My daughter, she went down the hall for coffee, how is Daniel? He only ran to the store for some cigarettes...he wanted a pack...he was supposed to have quit..." The woman was rambling, filling the silence with trivial information as if that might prevent hearing what she somehow knew was coming. "Mrs. Gardner, your husband's injuries were quite severe." He slid his hands in his pockets as he spoke, aware that every eye in the room was on him now. "We did everything we could, but there was too much damage...Mrs. Gardner, I'm sorry, we couldn't save him, your husband died."
He heard the anguished cry that broke from her and the second that followed the sound of something hitting the floor behind him, a moment before a younger woman folded the older into her arms and lowered her to a chair. "Is there anyone that I can call for you?" He hated this part of the job, no matter how hard he had worked to save the man, the family would always feel he had somehow not done enough. "No, thank you," The daughter shook her head, then moved her attention back to the sobbing woman besides her. "Mrs. Gardner, would you like to see your husband before we take him downstairs?" Both women looked over at him, mirrored nods saying what words could not. "Follow me then..when you get to the room you'll see a lot of tubes..." As they rose and he walked them back, he began to describe the scene they would face....
Informing family members of a patient's death was always difficult and his time with the Gardner's had only served to accentuate that. As he finished his final notes on the man's death Luka wanted nothing more then to find a quiet room alone to finish out him shift. Sleep itself was not an option so instead he grabbed the stack of charts he still had to review. Where to go? He rubbed his eyes wearily as he first cast his eyes to the door of the Doctor's Lounge, and then to the board...the suture room was empty, that would work. Dropping his hand he grabbed the pile of charts and made his way down the hall, willing himself invisible as he passed each trauma room until he reached the end. Juggling the charts he pushed the door open then slipped inside, hoping to find the solace he needed.
Dropping the stack on the gurney he pulled the nearby stool over and sat. The day shift would be arriving soon, the thought registered for no real reason as he rubbed his fingertips into his eyes before reaching for the top one Releasing a weary breath he flipped it open and bracing his head with his hand, he began to read. Male...24... presented with broken..he skimmed the notes for anything thatseemed unclear, then added comments where needed before signing off on it. If someone were to ask him two days from now, could he even attempt to put a face to all of these? He frowned at the thought then flipped the cover closed before laying it aside and reaching for the next. Margaret Becker...64...complains of shortness of breath...10 minutes later he was asleep.
His lungs screamed as he ran...and as he zigzagged across the field, dodging bullets and debris, all that mattered was reaching the wall and getting over it. Watch where you're going. He shielded his face as a bullet striking nearby sent a spray of gravel up towards him. Get to the wall. He found he had to keep reminding himself of the main objective as he barely avoided the bricks and rubble of bombed out buildings that had once been home to people no longer there. He almost made it. He released an audible groan as a barb of the wire bit into his hand as he grabbed it. Too late to stop...he hoisted himself up and threw his leg over the top wire. The memory of the next few minutes played through his mind in slow motion, he felt the bullet rip into his thigh, the momentum so strong that it easily carried him over the top and to the other side.
"Dr. Kovac...paramedics are on their way in...drunk with a head lac." Malik's voice brought an abrupt halt to the memory and Luka jerked his head up with the suddenness of it. "3 minutes out...can you take it?" Wiping his hand across his face, Luka nodded as he turned to face him. "Sure, let me finish this chart and I'll meet you in the bay." As Malik closed the door he looked back at the chart that still lay open in front of him, he didn't even remember reading it. Without fully admitting it he knew he needed a few more minutes to draw the rest of his thoughts away from the dream. Dropping his eyes back to the chart he began again and as he read his hand absentmindedly massaged his thigh. As he realized it he pulled it away and stood..scrawling his name on the chart and closing it as if it were the reason for the action. He forced the lingering images of the dream aside and scooped the charts up then headed for the door.
"How far out now?" He asked as he joined those outside after dropping the charts at the Nurse's Station. Wrapping his arms around himself in concession to the morning's chill, he shifted his gazetowardsthe street. "Should have grabbed your coat Dr. Kovac.." Malik said with a grin...as he tightened his own around him. Whatever reply he was about to give was forgotten as the ambulance backed in and the two men immediately pulled the doors open, listening to the paramedics as they tried to update them over the drunk's protests as they wheeled him into Exam 1.
"Sir, you'll have to be quiet," Luka tried to access the man as he fought the hold the paramedics and Malik had on him.."Get your hands off me." The man tried to push him away as he wiped some of the blood away to allow himself to get a better look at the wound. "Sir," Luka took a deep breath and tightened his jaw as he fought to keep his temper under control. "I have to see how bad it is," He leaned in again to look just as the man brought an elbow up...
<Croatian>"Son of a bitch..." Luka clasped a hand to his face as he staggered back against the blow...his eyes watering with the intensity of it. "Haldol...5 mg.." He waved off the resident who had moved to his side then stepped back in to help Malik restrain the man. "You're going to get a blackeye from that one..." Malik assessed optimistically as he handed the syringe across the table. "Great...just what I needed to finish the night." He commented icily as he jabbed the needle into the drunk's upper arm. Passing the used needle off he stepped back so they could tie restraints on the man.
As he watched them his hand moved to cover the swelling bruise on his cheekbone. "I'll order films, but I don't think it's going to need more then stitches." Malik nodded..."Go get some ice for that..I can watch him until they come for him." Knowing he was right Luka nodded, then moved to the drawers and pulled one of the gel bags. After smashing the vile inside he grabbed the man's chart and headed back to the Nurse's Station.
"Luka, let me see it." At the sound of his name he opened his eyes and lowered the pack. Kerry...she wasn't due on until...what time was it? He started to rub his fingers into the bruise only to have her grab his hand to stop him. "Let me see how bad it is." He sucked air through his teeth, unable to withhold the wince as she gently probed along his cheekbone. "Nothing broken...how's your vision?" He wanted to wave her off...he should have been able to tell that the man might do something. "How many fingers, Luka?" Kerry had moved to stand in front of him, once more trying to get his attention on her. "Luka, how many fingers?" She asked as she held them a short distance from his face. "3...I can see fine...I just have a headache" He brought the gel pack up to cover his face again, unable to hold back the irritation at his own carelessness. "You should get a cat scan done." He shook his head at the request. "I don't need a cat scan." Weaver frowned at him then let her eyes settle on him. "Fine, take something for the headache and go home...call me later and let me know how you feel so I know if I need to schedule someone to take your shift." Luka lowered the gel pack again. "Don't start Luka...your shift is done..go home."
He wasn't ready to go home...that was the thought that lingered as he stood and walked into the Doctor's Lounge to put his coat away and grab his bag. His head was throbbing, but that wasn't it...or was it? He hung his stethoscope and lab coat on the hook before pulling the peacoat out and slipping it on. As he caught sight of his reflection in the mirror he might have been looking at a stranger. It wasn't the darkening bruise though that caused the reaction...it was his eyes, he closed the door, unable to look at himself anymore. He'd seen the look they held before...he knew what it meant. The ghosts were getting too close again and he had to find somewhere to escape from them...


This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Originally a French lawyer, Georges Anquetil was also a journalist and publisher who was well known for unorthodox methods and anarchist leanings. Early in his legal career he wrote under the name "Georges Evil." His career in journalism began at the French Mail around 1914 after he was disbarred. After that he tried to launch various newspapers over the years mostly focusing on political satire though he was not very successful except for Le Grand Guignol, which ran for about eight years. We have an issue from 1925 in the collection where the cover appears to give their opinion of where various types of Evian water originate. Any type of scandal, especially political, was Anquetil's bread and butter for Le Grand Guignol.
This appetite for scandal was also true for most of Anquetil's self publishing endeavors. One that we discovered in the collection is La maitresse légitime : essai sur le mariage polygamique de demain. It loosely translates to Legitimate Mistress : Essay on polygamous marriage tomorrow which was essentially an attack on monogamy. It was hugely controversial and consequently sold a lot of copies.
Another scandalous book deeply rooted in satire was Satan conduit le bal : roman pamphlétaire et philosophique des moeurs du temps which reads as Satan leads the ball. It is set in France during the early 20th-century during the government of Poincare where Anquetil's criticism spares no from socialist to nationalist. He associates the names of prominent French figures with extreme scenes of debauchery in order to indicate that France was being led to ruin by those that governed it. Georges Clemenceau, an early French prime minister is described as a "whoremonger" who brought victory in WWI and prostitution. Antonin Dubost, president of the Senate, is found dead in a notorious brothel in which he was a regular customer, supposedly poisoned by police. All three of these publications can be found in Widener's collection.
Le grand guignol. Paris : Hachette.
La maitresse légitime : essai sur le mariage polygamique de demain. Georges-Anquetil ; préface de Victor Margueritte. Paris : Les Editions Georges-Anquetil, 1926.
Satan conduit le bal : roman pamphlétaire et philosophique des moeurs du temps / Georges Anquetil. Paris : Les Editions Georges-Anquetil, 1925.


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Ásgeir shares the Origins of new song "Lazy Giants": Stream
Taken from the Icelandic folktronica artist's new album, Bury the Moon.
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Australian radio station Triple J releases Like a Version covers album featuring Bon Iver, Tame Impala, and more
The compilation drops on September 29th, but you can stream covers from Tame Impala and CHVRCHES now.
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Corporate Reputation Analysis at Scale
25/August/2021
Corporate Reputation Marketing and Advertising Industry
ESG Reptrak reputation analysis
The rationale for Corporate Reputation Analysis Automation
We live in an age where news stories are no longer a primary, but an added concern for businesses trying to build and maintain a strong reputation. Individual experiences are reaching a global audience in a matter of minutes, thanks to the internet, which has made way for an immense volume of spontaneous and real-time information. There is no doubt that companies have to navigate the voices of traditional and contemporary media sources, both of whom contribute significantly to their social standing. Reputation crises can spark at any moment, and traditional reputational audits can not help to mitigate them. Consequently, it is more important than ever before to keep track of reputation in real-time.
The MeaningCloud Corporate Reputation Analysis API is a new service that enables companies to take advantage of social networking platforms, forums, blogs, surveys, and news sources in a bid to do just that. While we have been running a service in this field since 2011, our new API employs a distinct approach to tackle the task of Corporate Reputation analysis.
Reputation management fundamentals
The MeaningCloud Reputation API uses a categorization scheme based on the work by Charles Fombrun and Cees van Riel. In 1999, they founded The Reputation Institute (now, The RepTrak Company™), the world's leading reputation data and insights company. In collaboration with Harris Interactive, The Reputation Institute developed Reputation Quotient (RQ) in 1999, replaced in 2005 by the RepTrak® model.
The RepTrak Company™ has become highly esteemed on a global scale for its publication of reports on corporations' reputation (as well as countries and cities). Furthermore, it has developed models that have provided companies with the autonomy to qualify their reputation in a meaningful way. It is important to note that other well-known frameworks do exist. The MERCO Indexes, for instance, are particularly renowned in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and across Latin America for their "multi-stakeholder methodology, composed of six evaluations and more than twenty information sources". MERCO has been analyzing reputation since the year 2000.
To analyze Corporate Reputation in a piece of text, we follow the seven dimensions proposed in the foundational work of this field, globally considered to be the most important drivers of reputation:
Both a company that actively strives and one who is idle in their efforts to be environmentally responsible, ensuring they support good causes and positively influence society, are equally susceptible to a change in their reputational outlook.
A company needs to be open and transparent, ethical and fair in order to boost its reputation.
Innovative companies are market leaders and adapt quickly to change generally have a better social standing.
Suppose a company has inspiring/motivating leaders who display personal integrity, competence and knowledge, effective communication, and a clear vision for the future. They are likely to have a positive effect on the company's repute.
A measure of determining how profitable a company is, whether they exceed expectations and have solid prospects for the future. All of which are qualities of a reputable company.
High-quality products/services that meet customer needs and are fully backed by the company undoubtedly contribute to a company's social status.
A company must reward employees fairly, show genuine concern for them, and respect diversity to maintain a good reputation.
Our new Corporate Reputation API
The MeaningCloudReputation API is now available in 57 languages. The core processing is carried out in English. For other languages, the source text is translated first with the MeaningCloud Machine Translation API. For example, a user can throw an API request with a text in German. He/she can specify the source language (if known) as a parameter in the call or select "autodetect" to let our algorithms discover the source language, translate it into English (if needed), and carry out the reputation analysis on the translated text.
The MeaningCloud Corporate Reputation API goes beyond the automatic discovery of a mention related to a particular dimension in a Corporate Reputation model:
It first detects the language of the text under analysis and translates it into English if needed.
It disambiguates the mentions of entities in the text. Users can extend the (vast) resources updated daily in the platform with new companies via user dictionaries.
It discriminates the reputation dimensions evoked in the text.
It analyzes each dimension's polarity (positive, negative, neutral, or non-existent) in a reputational context.
It attaches the pair dimension/polarity to one of the entities mentioned in the text or to a declared default entity.
Tools for PR, communication, marketing, and social listening companies
MeaningCloud is just a tech company specialized in Natural Language Processing. We do not collect information over the internet to assess the reputation of companies. Instead, we build the technology that permits third parties to develop and leverage NLP technology to provide actionable insights into:
The overall perception of the company.
The impact that news and social media content have on the company's reputation.
The areas of the company requiring special attention.
The areas of the company making a good impression.
Third companies that are mentioned jointly and how their respective reputations compare.
The limits of the technology
As always with NLP solutions, and despite our continuous efforts, this API cannot be entirely free from errors or biases coming from different sources:
Our interpretation of the dimensions of reputation, that we know through the widely available literature on this subject.
Limitations in our algorithms for linguistic analysis and translation models.
Lack of adaptation to a particular domain or industry. Our general-purpose API can be improved to interpret reputational aspects more precisely when analyzing companies in a particular industry: utilities, finance, retail, telecom, healthcare, etc.
Our Corporate Reputation API derives from:
Our experience in customer feedback analysis, using the same basis as our Voice of the Customer analysis models.
The version of the API for Spanish, which has been public since 2012 (at textalytics.com until 2015 and at meaningcloud.com since then.)
Free Corporate Reputation Analysis
Our API is now published in beta version. For now, the pricing is the same as for other premium APIs: one request (or credit) is charged per 125 words or fraction. Two credits if translation is required. However, temporarily, there is no need to pay a flat fee for usage, as is the case for our Voice of the Customer/Employee APIs.
Follow this link to learn more about our Corporate Reputation API.
Furthermore, remember that you can test the API extensively, analyzing up to 20,000 texts for free per month, just by registering at meaningcloud.com.
To be completely transparent about our credentials, we have to make it clear that:
MeaningCloud has no link with The RepTrak Company™.
We are not endorsed by The RepTrak Company™ in any way.
We do not claim to be implementing any model by The RepTrak Company™.
An excellent source of information about this field is the journal Corporate Reputation Review. Launched in 1997, it publishes empirical and conceptual research on reputation management and closely related fields, such as strategic/corporate communication, corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication, corporate identity, and organizational identity.
Fombrun, C. and Shanley, M., 1990. What's in a name? Reputation building and corporate strategy. Academy of management Journal, 33(2), pp.233-258.
Fombrun, C. and Van Riel, C., 1997. The reputational landscape. Corporate reputation review, pp.1-16.
Fombrun, C.J., Gardberg, N.A. and Sever, J.M., 2000. The Reputation Quotient SM: A multi-stakeholder measure of corporate reputation. Journal of brand management, 7(4), pp.241-255.
Fombrun, C.J., Van Riel, C.B. and Van Riel, C., 2004. Fame & fortune: How successful companies build winning reputations. FT press.
Ponzi, L.J., Fombrun, C.J. and Gardberg, N.A., 2011. RepTrak™ pulse: Conceptualizing and validating a short-form measure of corporate reputation. Corporate reputation review, 14(1), pp.15-35.
Fombrun, C.J., Ponzi, L.J. and Newburry, W., 2015. Stakeholder tracking and analysis: The RepTrak® system for measuring corporate reputation. Corporate reputation review, 18(1), pp.3-24.
Pallarés Renau, M. y López Font, L., 2017. Merco y RepTrak Pulse: Comparación cualitativa de atributos, variables y públicos, Icono 14, volumen 15 (2), pp. 190-219.
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Full IAB taxonomy for content classification now available
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The surge of content marketing, based on the creation and distribution of valuable content, is a reality. The objective is no longer solely to advertise but to engage and offer valuable experiences to the market as well. In this context, precision in content classification is becoming essential. And that's why we implemented a new automatic content classifier according to the full IAB taxonomy.
Therefore, since including tier 3 of the content taxonomy to the categorization categories of our IAB model last year, we have chosen to complement it by providing the complete ontology. In line with the Content Taxonomy, published in 2017 and updated in 2020 by the IAB Tech Lab (Interactive Advertising Bureau), this classification includes the remaining 60 categories that make up tier 4. A total categorization of over 698 categories, hierarchized into four tiers, is thus, offered. We have kept the unique identifier that IAB assigns to each one of its categories, as well as their name, through which its parent categories can be found.
A Quick Introduction to Brand Monitoring and Brand Protection
Brand Monitoring Marketing and Advertising Industry
brand protection Digital Risk Protection DRP
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a guest post by David Bitton, Product Manager at Webhose.io]
Organizations should never underestimate the power of their brand. What starts out as a name, logo, vision, mission statement, website, and perhaps a few employees start to form an organization's identity. As an organization grows, all of these key parts evolve over time to help customers identify the brand.
But a brand is more than its identity. A brand should evoke emotion from its customers – ideally a positive one – creating brand loyalty and repeat purchases of its goods or products. Loyal customers also refer the brand to friends, family, and acquaintances.
In today's digital age, building and maintaining a strong brand is so important that brand monitoring plays a crucial role in organizations' marketing strategy. However, with the rise of the dark web, brand monitoring has evolved to now include Digital Risk Protection. DRP protects the brand's digital assets from various malicious actors intent on causing the brand and its reputation significant damage.
Accuracy measures in Sentiment Analysis: the Precision of MeaningCloud's Technology
12/January/2021
Research Sentiment Analysis
Accuracy Measures of Commercial Sentiment Analysis APIs
Our clients frequently ask, "what's the precision of MeaningCloud technology?" How does it compare with other commercial competitors and with state-of-the-art technology? And they demand precise numbers.
That's not an easy question to answer. Even when there are milliards of research studies on this issue. For the sake of simplicity, let's concentrate on the well-studied scenario of accuracy measures in Sentiment Analysis. Continue reading →
IAB Taxonomy Level 3 now available in our Deep Categorization API
04/November/2020
APIs Categorization Content Industry Deep Semantic Analytics Market intelligence Marketing and Advertising Industry Publishing Industry Releases
Digital marketing is becoming a fundamental pillar, by leaps and bounds, in the business plans of practically every business model. Methods are being refined and the search for the connection between brand and user is expected to become increasingly more precise: a related advertisement is no longer sufficient, now the advertisement must appear at the right time and in the right place. This is where categorization proves to be an exceedingly useful tool.
That is why, at MeaningCloud, we have improved our IAB categorization model in English, that is integrated in our Deep Categorization API:
Adding a third level of content taxonomy to the hierarchy of categories (IAB Taxonomy Level 3).
Improving the precision of pre-existing categories.
Including the unique identifiers defined by IAB itself for each of the categories.
Use of Text Analytics in Marketing Research
31/October/2020
Market intelligence Marketing and Advertising Industry
With this post, we start a series dedicated to the use of our Text Analytics technology in the field of R&D in different sectors. This post is dedicated to the use of Text Analytics in Marketing Research. First of all, we would like to thank the researchers who have selected our services (within a wide range of competitors) as a basis for their research or innovation projects.
The applications of Text Analytics in marketing are countless. That is why more and more companies are using these tools, starting with giants like Nielsen or TNS. Text analysis driven by natural language processing (NLP) is helping to transform digital marketing strategies. There are several uses for it in the company: evaluating marketing impact, optimizing customer service and SEO, making the most of influencer marketing, and significantly improving social listening. We will elaborate on this last topic in a future post.
Scale and optimize your Market Intelligence processes with text analytics
10/July/2020
Competing in the 21st century requires a 360º vision of our markets (customers, competitors, suppliers, technologies, regulation). Market Intelligence is becoming increasingly important; but, its dependence on manual processes, that are not very scalable, renders its application in decision making difficult. Deep text analytics allows for more scalable and actionable Market Intelligence.
Market Intelligence: benefits and limitations
Market Intelligence consists of collecting information about a certain market in a broad sense (i.e. its customers, competitors, partners and supply chain, investors, economic, legal and technological environment…) to extract actionable insights that can be used for strategic decision-making.
Recorded webinar: Deep Text Analytics for More Scalable and Valuable Market Intelligence
25/June/2020
Deep Semantic Analytics Market intelligence
Thank you for your interest in our webinar "Use Deep Text Analytics to Achieve More Scalable and Valuable Market Intelligence" held on June 23rd.
We explained how deep text analytics automatically understand detailed Market Intelligence information and enable applications that enable you to identify business opportunities and capture value from your market much more effectively.
In the session we covered these items:
Introduction to Market Intelligence
Benefits and limitations
Applying deep text analytics
Integrating multiple sources
Discovering business opportunities
Understanding our customers in depth
Analyzing the environment
Detecting signs of growth
Interested? Here you have the presentation and the recording of the webinar.
(También presentamos este webinar en español. Tenéis la grabación aquí.)
Leverage Text Analytics to Boost your Market Intelligence (webinar)
Market Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence are essential for the survival and progress of companies. Nevertheless, to perform them with the essential quality- and speed-requirements involves analyzing an extreme volume and variety of information sources: social comments, news, legislation, scientific articles, patents and various external websites.
In many cases this requires a handcrafted process of manually reviewing content to extract the elements of information that really serve to make strategic decisions. A process that does not scale, is inefficient and expensive.
Deep text analysis allows us to optimize and accelerate the process, not only by detecting mentions of companies or brands and categorizing content thematically, but also by automatically extracting meaningful sematic relationships between topics, discovering new emerging issues and summarizing documents to make the use of that wealth of content faster and more efficient.
Obtain deep customer insights with MeaningCloud
Customer Experience Intention Analysis Sentiment Analysis Vertical Packs Voice of the Customer (VoC)
Companies need to analyze the feedback that customers provide to them through a variety of unstructured channels: surveys, interviews, contact center, social media. However, the text analytics solutions available are limited to a shallow analysis of the feedback. In this post we show you how to use deep analytics to get a complete picture of customer opinions, perceptions, emotions and intentions.
Companies need to become customer-focused in order to understand the needs and opinions of their customers and thus, define the proverbial "segment of 1". This forces us to implement Voice of Customer (VoC) analysis initiatives that go far beyond the typical periodic satisfaction survey with numerical scores, to look for new sources of insights.
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import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;

import com.rhomobile.rhodes.RhoConf;

//Android 1.5
class AndroidFunctionality03 extends AndroidFunctionality02 implements AndroidFunctionality {

    public void applyWebSettings(WebView view) {
        super.applyWebSettings(view);
        WebSettings settings = view.getSettings();
        if (RhoConf.getBool("enable_screen_zoom")) {
            settings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
        } else {
            settings.setBuiltInZoomControls(false);
        }
    }
}

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Q: Android, Threads - handlers/asynctask Am a noob learning Android via a book and for threading I see there are 3 main ways that are explained in the book:

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*Handlers via messaging

*Handlers via post

*Asynctask

All 3 seem good, my question is:
Is there a specific time when you use one of the above? Or is it personal preference?
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If its not personal preference, please give me an example as to when you would use one if not the other (even a link would be appreciated)
Because I am planning on having multiple threads running (eg, one for total app running time, one for time before answer is selected etc in the app, one for moving the background image etc) and want to know which to choose. I can do the functionality of what I want using either of these 3 methods so am confused as to why there are 3 when it can be done with either one.
Thanks!

A: Handler is a very basic way that allows you to execute some code on a different thread, typically UI thread. It does not tell you how to run your threads and you are free to do whatever you want in that respect. I would choose handleMessage approach if you have explicit messaging. That is you need to have some data sent and received. If you just need to do something, you can use Runnable. However, both methods are usable and a choice often would be result of a preference.
AsyncTask is higher level concept that uses handlers under the hood. If you use it, you will not have to deal with threads yourself. Your asynchronous code will be executed via thread pool and controlled by the framework. You will have two methods that allow you to execute code on UI thread (onPostExecute and onProgressUpdate).
In a nutshell, choose AsyncTask for most things that you do with multiple threads it will absolve you of a need to deal with thread management yourself. If you must have your own threads only then use handlers. Note however, that there are other cases when you have to use handlers. For example, with Messenger. Also I had cases when using onProgressUpdate is not sufficient. In this case I would use handler as well from doInBackground.

A: AsynTasks are probably the best fit for complex tasks, like when you would need a lot of processing and lot of message passing. You could achieve them through Handlers as well, but personally speaking, you code gets a little messy that way.

A: Handler: Bound to the thread that created it. Queue/Enqueue's tasks in the message queue. When it enqueues a message, it hands it to another thread than the one that created it. Think of it as an agent to the thread. It takes care of requests sent to it and delegates them accordingly.
Post/Messaging: As explained above, it's just the handler posting (queueing) or messaging (enqueueing).
Asynctask: Is a thread that mainly is for small tasks that need to be done in the background and update the UI dependent on their progress (think loading bar, or a download; UI being updated with that progress).

A: Check out Needle and you can forget Handlers and Asynctasks. Needle is an open-source, simple but powerful multithreading library for Android. With it you can say things like:
Needle.onMainThread().execute(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        // e.g. change one of the views
    }
});

or
Needle.onBackgroundThread().execute(new UiRelatedTask<Integer>() {
    @Override
    protected Integer doWork() {
        int result = 1+2;
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    protected void thenDoUiRelatedWork(Integer result) {
        mSomeTextView.setText("result: " + result);
    }
});

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*very simple API

*fixed thread pool size

*customizable thread pool size

*supports UI interaction ("do work and then use result on UI thread")

*android 1.5+

*behaves the same on all platform versions

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/ZsoltSafrany/needle

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London Irish Choose Concern as Charity for Another Season
by Barry01 • September 23, 2013 • Business • Comments (0) • 950
Former Ulster rugby player and London Irish fly half, Ian Humphreys, says he's delighted that his team have chosen international humanitarian organisation, Concern Worldwide, as their charity of the year for the second season running.
Since the launch of the partnership last year, London Irish have helped Concern raise over £3,000 at their home games, which has gone to fight hunger in 26 of the world's poorest countries.
31-year old Humphreys, who joined London Irish from Ulster said: "I've known of Concern since I was in school and after finding out even more about their efforts in tackling hunger over the past year. I'm very happy that we have chosen Concern as our charity partner for another year."
Concern's Executive Director, Ballymena born Rose Caldwell said: "We're thrilled that London Irish has decided to partner with us for another season.
"One in eight people go hungry every day and this limits everything for them. They are starved of hope and opportunity. But the funds raised by the loyal London Irish supporters are helping us to change this and to work with communities to make long-lasing improvements in their lives."
London Irish chief executive Andy Martin said: "We are delighted to be working with Concern for a second year.
"It was fantastic to see our supporters giving so generously last season to such a worthy cause. Concern is working tirelessly as an organisation to tackle poverty and hunger in the poorest parts of the world and we are happy to be supporting this effort."
The renewal of the partnership between Concern and London Irish will be marked at London Irish's game against Exeter Chiefs at the Madejski stadium on the 21st September where Concern volunteers will be asking game-goers to dig deep and give what they can to the charity.
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La deportazione è la privazione dei diritti civili e politici di uno o più individui e il trasferimento coatto e forzato verso un luogo di detenzione diverso dalla propria patria.<ref>Treccani, deportazione</ref>Dizionario Hoepli, deportazione

Si differenzia dal confino e dall'esilio principalmente perché si tratta in genere di una misura attuata su larga scala e su base razziale, etnica, politica o religiosa, e poiché al trasferimento segue una restrizione della libertà personale, i lavori forzati o la reclusione, mentre il confino è più propriamente solo l'obbligo di risiedere in una determinata località e l'esilio è il mero divieto di soggiornare nel territorio nazionale.

 Inquadramento giuridico
La deportazione è stata talora qualificata fra le sanzioni o fra le pene accessorie del diritto penale, specie in ordinamenti o regimi illiberali. Sebbene non sia più prevista dalla maggioranza degli ordinamenti moderni, in particolare dopo lo Statuto di Roma che la qualifica come crimine, ebbe storicamente una certa diffusione anche in grandi stati europei.

In età romana la deportazione, evoluzione della interditio aquae et ignis, si scontava generalmente su un'isola (deportatio in insulam), in Sardegna oppure in qualche isola dell'Egeo e, in periodo imperiale, in Asia o in Africa. La damnatio ad metalla era in pratica una deportazione nelle miniere, ove il recluso era tenuto ai lavori forzati.

Nel 1540 si ebbe in Francia la prima deportazione a fini di colonizzazione, con l'invio di alcuni detenuti in Canada.

Nel XVIII e nel XIX secolo questa pena fu oggetto di nutrite discussioni e di qualche applicazione in Inghilterra (ove fra coloro che la proponevano vi fu anche Jeremy Bentham) e di nuovo in Francia, dove, abolitala nel 1802, fu reintrodotta nel 1810 destinando i reclusi per talune fattispecie di reato alla Caienna ed in Algeria, ov'erano del resto poi tenuti ai lavori forzati (in questo caso prendeva il nome di transportation''). Nel 1885 fu in pratica sostituita dalla relegazione. L'Inghilterra prima del 1730 aveva invece deportato in gran numero verso l'America criminali ed oppositori politici, e verso la metà dell'Ottocento l'istituto fu più volte riproposto.

In Italia fu proposta nel 1865 come misura alternativa alla pena capitale e fu oggetto nel 1874 del progetto Vigliani, che la prevedeva per i condannati a pene detentive superiori ai dieci anni e per gli ergastolani; il progetto prevedeva il trasferimento in un'isola al di fuori del Mediterraneo.

Dal 1998, in seguito allo Statuto di Roma, i 139 stati aderenti annoverano la deportazione fra i crimini contro l'umanità.

Deportazioni di massa
Indipendentemente dalla qualificazione giuridica, la deportazione è stata applicata in varie fasi della storia umana come strumento di controllo sociale o politico, misura di polizia, provvedimento di lotta etnica, ed è spesso stata una componente dello sfruttamento della schiavitù.

Fra le maggiori deportazioni di gruppi etnici o sociali, o comunque di masse più o meno numerose di individui, nel corso del tempo si registrano:
 Deportazione di 292.000 fra cittadini e schiavi, da parte di Khosrau I, Re sasanide di Persia, per popolare l'appena creata città di Ctesifonte (nel 542).
 Deportazione degli israeliti del Regno di Israele da parte degli Assiri
 Deportazione degli ebrei della Giudea da parte dei Babilonesi (Esilio babilonese)
 Deportazione degli ebrei della Giudea da parte dei Romani
 Deportazione degli indiani rom della media valle del Gange (Uttar Pradesh) da parte dei Turchi Ghaznavidi (c.d. "Migrazione dei Rom", XI secolo)
 Deportazione degli ebrei della Spagna (31 luglio 1492, Decreto dell'Alhambra)
 Espulsione dei moriscos (1609-1614)
 Deportazione degli africani verso le colonie (XVII, XVIII e XIX secolo, Tratta atlantica degli schiavi africani)
 Deportazione degli nativi americani verso le riserve indiane o in Canada
 Deportazione degli acadiani da parte dei Britannici, fra il 1755 e il 1763
 Deportazione dei garifuna (afro-amerindi) dall'isola di Saint Vincent verso l'America Centrale (1796)
 Deportazione degli oppositori politici alla Rivoluzione francese, verso Sinnamary e Counanama, nella Guyana francese (1797, regime del Direttorio)
 Deportazione dei "comunardi", dirigenti dell'insurrezione di Parigi dopo la Guerra franco-prussiana, verso la Nuova Caledonia e la Guyana
 Deportazione degli herero da parte dei tedeschi, 1904
 Deportazione delle popolazioni italiane del Trentino durante la prima guerra mondiale (esodo dei trentini)
 Deportazione degli individui di nazionalità od origine messicana (circa 2 milioni di persone), da parte degli Stati Uniti, verso il Messico stesso (anni trenta)
 Deportazione dei tedeschi del Volga, da parte dell'Unione Sovietica, verso il Kazakistan (1941)
 Deportazione dei ceceni, al termine dell'insurrezione cecena, verso il Kazakistan (1944 - Operazione Lentil)
 Deportazione degli abitanti dell'atollo di Bikini, nel 1946, verso l'isola di Rongerik (per consentire esperimenti nucleari statunitensi)
 Dopo la divisione dell'India del 1947, si verificarono notevoli flussi migratori fra i territori di India, Pakistan e Bangladesh; questi flussi (stimati in circa 17.900.000 persone trasferite) sono stati da più parti definiti "deportazioni"
 Deportazione degli individui di etnia messicana da parte degli Stati Uniti verso il Messico (Operazione Wetback, 1954)
 Deportazione degli ilois dell'isola di Diego Garcia, nel 1966, da parte del governo britannico, per l'insediamento di una base navale statunitense

La deportazione per genocidio

Nel XX secolo la deportazione è stata utilizzata anche come strumento per la perpetrazione di genocidi.

Fra il 1915 e il 1916 l'Impero ottomano deportò circa 1.200.000 Armeni, uccidendone centinaia di migliaia; gli eventi sono noti come Genocidio armeno.

A partire dal 1939, la Germania nazista operò numerose deportazioni ai danni di diversi gruppi etnici, religiosi e sociali; queste ebbero per effetto l'esecuzione di un genocidio di proporzioni senza precedenti, con diversi milioni di morti, noto come "Olocausto".

Le deportazioni verso i lager nazionalsocialisti tra il 1933 e il 1945
Già dal primo periodo dell'avvento al potere di Adolf Hitler nella Germania nazista, si cominciò a organizzare un vasto sistema di campi di concentramento per lo sterminio o lo sfruttamento schiavistico di categorie sociali o etniche non gradite al sistema di potere. Si cominciò nel 1933 con l'eliminazione fisica di malati di mente e portatori di handicap, per poi passare a zingari, omosessuali, ebrei e oppositori politici.

Il 20 gennaio 1942, le SS, i membri del Partito nazista e un certo numero di funzionari statali si riunirono durante la Conferenza di Wannsee, nei pressi di Berlino, per coordinare le deportazioni degli ebrei europei verso i centri di sterminio, sia quelli già attivi, sia quelli in costruzione nella Polonia occupata. I partecipanti alla conferenza calcolarono che la "Soluzione finale della questione ebraica" avrebbe portato alla deportazione e successiva eliminazione di undici milioni di ebrei, compresi quelli che risiedevano in paesi non sotto il controllo della Germania, come l'Irlanda, la Svezia, la Turchia e la Gran Bretagna. Il sistema poté svilupparsi grazie all'indifferenza generale sia del popolo tedesco sia delle altre nazioni, che erano almeno in parte al corrente di quanto avveniva prima in Germania e più tardi nei territori occupati dai nazisti; alcuni dei più grandi lager furono collocati proprio in territori occupati, come per esempio il campo di concentramento di Auschwitz in Polonia, o quello di Mauthausen in Austria.

Si calcola che il numero di persone uccise nei campi di sterminio si aggiri tra i dodici e i tredici milioni, di cui circa la metà erano ebrei, anche se il numero esatto non è conosciuto perché i nazisti negli fasi finali della guerra, quando possibile, distrussero gli archivi dei lager, mentre i deportati che venivano uccisi all'arrivo in un campo (bambini, anziani, ammalati, portatori di handicap), non venivano in genere nemmeno registrati.

Nei territori occupati, i nazisti poterono spesso ad avvalersi di ampie fasce di collaborazionismo locale, cosa che permise di individuare più celermente ed efficacemente gli appartenenti ai vari gruppi sociale, etnici, politici o religiosi.

In Italia, la deportazione degli ebrei verso i campi di sterminio nazisti iniziò successivamente all'armistizio dell'8 settembre 1943, e si avvalse della collaborazione dei fascisti della Repubblica di Salò che fornirono nomi e indirizzi ai nazisti e che parteciparono direttamente alle operazioni di cattura. La Repubblica di Salò gestiva inoltre diversi campi di smistamento, come quelli di Borgo San Dalmazzo, Fossoli e Bolzano, e decine di punti di raccolta e tortura noti come ville tristi, di cui manca un censimento completo.

Note

Voci correlate
 Confino
 Esilio
 Colonia penale
 Domicilio coatto
 Genocidio
 Olocausto
 Diaspora
 Crimini contro l'umanità
 Associazione nazionale ex deportati politici nei campi nazisti
 Fondazione Memoria della Deportazione

Collegamenti esterni

Esilio
Diritto penale romano
Statuto delle comunità nel diritto romano

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Ten minutes' bumpy drive from the border with Thailand, past a strip of gaudy casinos and brothels in a landscape of denuded hillsides, is a place where travellers fear to stop.
Throughout Cambodia the border town of Pailin is known — apart from its gemstones — as the last bastion of the Khmer Rouge, from where its remnants fought the Government until 1998.
The reputation is enough to send most travellers rushing through to the capital, Phnom Penh, eight hours drive away. Locals say that about 70 per cent of the area's older men were fighters and that nearly all families have links to the regime blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million of their compatriots between 1975 and 1979.
Among them are men guilty of the worst crimes of the 20th century. Yet in the past four years many who are now law-abiding farmers and traders have renounced their former leader Pol Pot as a servant of Satan; travellers today are likely to suffer nothing worse than a fervent attempt to bring them to the Lord.
Phannith Roth, a missionary who grew up half-starved in a labour camp, admitted that he was terrified when his congregation in the town of Siha-noukville begged him to go to Pailin to spread the Word.
"I was scared because there are landmines everywhere, malaria is rife and because of the Khmer Rouge, who everyone knows are cruel," he said.
Pastor Phannith said that many chose Christianity because they did not find forgiveness in Buddhism, which teaches that a soul must pay for its sins during lives to come.
I was reading a paper that Dr Elaine Storkey presented at the Theologians Task Group at Amsterdam 2000. It was on the topic of the need for dialogue with people of other faiths in the pluralistic reality of today, and how it can be so important for the mission of the church.
I was recently involved in an inter-faith broadcast with the BBC World Service. The Jewish Rabbi and Islamic Professor and I were all answering questions sent in by listeners from all over the world. The discussion was courteous, good-humoured and pleasant until one question came up. It was about how we can identify the real believer from the counterfeit. We all agreed that it was by their fruits that we could know them. Then the Rabbi told us about the enormous weight of the Law which had been given to the people of Israel, and how we would need to see some evidence of seriousness about living in accordance with God's norms and standards. The Muslim went through all the obligations to worship, the great holiness of God, the need to counter all forms of evil and infidelity, the importance of the moral law, and on and on. When it came to me, the presented changed the question. "What do Christians have to do, Dr Storkey?" I took a deep breath and explained that Christians did not have to do anything. We had to simply hold our empty hands to receive all that Christ had done for us. For we could not reach these standards of God's on our own. It was only through the grace of God in the work of Christ that we were acceptable.
The Islamic professor was horrified, and lectured me for many minutes on the way this would open the door for young people to do anything they wished. I had two attempts to reply, when the Rabbi finally came to my aid. Putting a hand on the Muslim's shoulder he said, "My dear friend, you will have to accept what she says. You and I will never understand this. We are a Jew and a Muslim. But this grace is what Christians are all about. It is what makes Christianity different from every other religion."
"Obese men less likely to commit suicide, study finds" screamed the LA Times headline. It points to a study that shows that as the BMI of a man increases, the likelihood of him being depressive and suicidal decreases. If I couldn't enjoy food, I would be suicidal too!


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Memories last longer, and it occurs for home decor. Modern people, including us, tend to think of our childhood and every moment happened. By applying the traditional home decor, we hope to bring back those memories. But in fact, the taste of these different generations are totally different. Although we call it as traditional home decor, but it has some improvements and adaptations to today's culture and behaviour.
While we are comparing the home design of the past, you may see the dark and stuffy design. But it is forgotten these days. The brand new traditional home decor has softer touch with the taupe walls. This neutral background is generally installed in the living room, completed with a pair of sofa. The sofa arrangement also should provide intimate feeling while being in conversation. The materials and colors should be considered.
Funky must be in term of modern word but we can describe it in this modern and traditional decor as well. The wall is installed with the hand-painted details, the chair is covered with traditional fabric and the living area is completed with the geometric patterned rug. The entire room can be painted by egg blue color or you just highlight them. Both of these techniques work well to boost the homey effect.
We can easily create our personal twist in each room. In the living room, mixed up the traditional wooden coffee table with modern and pop-colored sofa; in the bedroom, mixed up the imperial two-poster bed with modern furniture around.
The clor choice is the key to get this romantic vibe, such as soft pink and lavender gray tones. You can make them as the backdrop or highlight and even for the furniture. The furniture, bring back your historical look by hanging the brass chandelier.
This built-in shelving is great for space saving.
This trick is purposed for master bedroom, which needs soft and cozy feel. The furniture arrangement also should be considered. You can try to put the furniture in the center of the room so it won't block the view.
You can collect some traditional and modern prints for the bedding, curtains and rugs.
There are three shades of blue that you can choose one or mixed them up, they are turquoise, periwinkle and royal blue. The choice of blue shade will develop the energetic feeling around. This is what we need for kids' bedroom.
To get this formal touch, you can start hanging the artwork and arranging the contemporary seating. The fur print rug is a undeniable additional accessory.
As well as the formal look above, to get invited to a homey and traditional feeling, you have to put one or more vintage-inspired furniture and art. But remember don't put too many vintage arts if you don't want to create a useless finishing.


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A Chilling Post Shared by the Abusive Mother of a 9-Year-Old Girl Goes Viral Online
The 9-year-old girl recently made a dangerous escape from her abusive home through the veranda.
In light of the shocking news of how a 9-year-girl was physically abused before she escaped through the home's veranda, a chilling post that the biological mother shared last January is going viral online.
The post, which was shared with a mothers' forum online, reads as follows:
[Praise me for forgiving my eldest]
A few days ago, my eldest made 3 big mistakes…
And the victims were her father, mother, and two younger siblings…
I was so mad that I gave my eldest the silent treatment, but today, my second eldest came to me and begged me to forgive her unnie. As a result, I cried, talked to my eldest, forgave her, and made our final promise.
The two youngest must have been hurting for days…
Earlier today, I heard them telling my eldest, 'Tell mom you're sorry. You shouldn't lie…'
On top of that, they asked me to forgive her, so I feel comforted by the fact that they're growing up so well.
– Mother
The mother, who is 27 years old, and the step-father, who is 35 years old, are raising four children together, and it's been revealed that only Ms. A, who is the 9-year-old girl that was abused, has a different biological father.
Many netizens are finding this post chilling because it's also been revealed that the mother and step-father tortured their daughter in all sorts of cruel ways such as suffocating her underwater in the tub, tying her up in chains and leaving her out on the veranda, and burning the bottoms of her feet with burning metal chopsticks.
After three years of abuse, Ms. A snuck out of her balcony, ate food at her neighbor's house, and was discovered out on the streets in her pajamas.
She is currently under treatment at a hospital and is expected to be transferred to a protective facility upon her discharge.


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Animals require food for their energy and growth. But, they are not capable of making food by themselves. Therefore, they have to depend on the plant kingdom for their food and nutrition. Every animal, directly or indirectly depend on plants for their nutritional needs. However, the requirements of different components of nutrients is not in equal quantity in an animal body. Some nutrients are required in very less quantity, wherein some are required in large quantity. The nutrients, which are required in less quantity in an animal body are called micronutrients or trace elements. For example, minerals and vitamins. Micronutrients are called protective food as they provide the nutrients for the body to fight disease. The nutrients, which are required in large quantity in an animal body are called macro nutrients. For example, carbohydrates, fats, proteins and water. In this chapter, we will study about the requirement of nutrients and its utilization in animals.
Microorganisms are living organisms. They require food for energy and reproduction. Some bacteria can prepare its own food, hence, they have autotrophic mode of nutrition. Some bacteria depend on other organism for their food, therefore, they have heterotrophic mode of nutrition. For example, a well-known microorganism Amoeba is single celled found in pond water. Amoeba can change its shape and position. It has finger like structure, called pseudopodia, which is used to capture the food.
Amoeba feeds on microscopic organisms. It pushes its pseudopodia to the food particle, engulfs it and food particle is trapped in a food vacuole. Foods are digested by the digestive enzyme secretes by the vacuole. Undigested food is expelled outside by the vacuole.
There are wide varieties of microorganisms, some are useful for us, and some are not. Bacteria present in human digestive system helps in the digestion process.
They feed on food taken by us.
Amoeba feeds on which one of the following types of organism?
Amoeba feeds on microscopic organisms. Therefore, option (A) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Statement 1: AII microorganisms have autotrophs mode of nutrition.
Statement 2: All microorganisms have heterotrophs mode of nutrition.
Some microorganisms can make their own food by the process of photosynthesis, therefore, they feed on autotrophs mode of nutrition. Whereas, some microorganisms depend on others for food, hence, they feed on heterotrophs mode of nutrition. Therefore, option (C) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect..


Gee - our priest gave us a sermon on "inclusiveness".
Father - you've hit on my personal Catch 22 in your sermon - the fact that you were away from the Church and tell of it... In my oldest son's confirmation class, moderated by 4 lay couples, they told the 16-year-olds that they had all been away but reverted... which I struggled with because he took that as carte blanche to be away for a while himself... can we discuss this?


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July 30, 2013 By Tim O'Connor Leave a Comment
As golf journalist and fan, Tim O'Connor has disparaged superstar golfer Phil Mickelson as an insincere showboat for years. On Sunday, something changed.
(Originally published July 24, 2013)
I never found myself in either the love or hate Phil Mickelson camp. I just didn't like him.
For about 20 years, I've watched Phil the Thrill as a journalist and fan, My usual response was to roll my eyes at the goofy grin, the lope, the animated gestures and think something along the lines of "Oh brother, give it up."
I've been wondering about my anti-Phil stance recently, but his incredible come-from-behind victory in the Open Championship—for his fifth major championship–and the aftermath on Sunday has finally won me over.
But it's not what he did that changed my mind. That's despite my history of disdain for the Californian known as Lefty. (Even his prototypically American jock nickname irritated me.)
Carrying only a notebook, I tried to engage him a few times in a locker room or practice ground during the 1990s, but each he blew me off with a "sorry" and a thousand-mile stare. Yet, he'd stop for the guys with TV cameras. I found him to be insincere, the poster boy for disingenuous.
It's a sentiment shared by many media folks, and a key reason he made GQ's 2006 list of The Ten Most Hated Athletes. The story also said his nickname among PGA Tour players was Figjam (Fuck, I'm good—just ask me).
More recently, when he clapped for opponent Justin Rose in last fall's Ryder Cup, it just seemed…overdone. Wouldn't it have sufficed to just flash a thumbs-up?
Defending boundaries will make anyone seem like a jerk sometimes. Hell, I can be a jerk.
The family man bit always struck me as way over the top, going back to the wearing a beeper when Amy was preggers with Amanda (their first) in the 1999 U.S. Open which he lost to Payne Stewart. It just seemed overly demonstrative. Couldn't one of his peeps let him know in a heartbeat if something was up?
At tournaments, Amy—presumably with Phil's blessing—seemed to arrange the family in just the right places for the cameras to capture the family post-victory embrace.
Well, the post-victory embrace after his Open Championship win on Sunday got me. That was beautiful. The post-round TV interview was typically boyishly charming and witty. He was over-flowing with joy.
While sitting there, I became aware of my face—that for about the past five minutes I had been smiling. On Sunday night, I thought about it and I realized that my difficulty with Phil was my difficulty with me.
Underneath my exterior reserve, I want to be effusive Phil. I would love to hug my kids in public like Phil and Amy. I want to flash a radiant smile, let myself freewheel, and be utterly transparent with my emotions—from bountiful joy to grief. Be a what-you-see-is-what-you-get guy.
Ok, maybe he was a jerk to me—and other media types—about 15 years ago. Hell, maybe something was bothering him when I approached him, or he just needed to stay on a schedule. Maybe he knew the TV guys. Or something.
Defending boundaries will make anyone seem like a jerk sometimes. Hell, I can be a jerk. I can't control how others are going to react to me. Neither can Phil.
I came to realize that what I wanted for myself I saw in Phil. I took what frustrated me about myself and pasted it all over him. When I disparaged Phil, I inadvertently took a swipe at myself. Unconsciously, I went "I want to do what you do, but I don't have the courage."
Hey, Lefty. Thanks for showing me—and other men—how a man can be tough as nails when he needs to be, and go after what he wants with conviction, flash and swagger.
And thanks for being openly tender and loving. Now I see you clearly as a man unabashedly in love with his family.
If you win the U.S. Open at Pinehurst next year, I will likely blubber like your caddy Peter "Bones" Mackay did Sunday. And I'd love it.
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Tim O'Connor is a golf and life coach, an award-winning writer, Head Coach of the University of Guelph golf team and Mental Performance Coach at the ClubLink Academy at Glen Abbey. He is author of the newly released second edition of The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story. He is co-host of the Swing Thoughts podcast with Howard Glassman, and a leader in training in the ManKind Project. He gets all excited when he helps people tap into their brilliance.
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