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This is the TV PILOT TAPING of Women's Extreme Wrestling FIRST-EVER live event show from THE BOATHOUSE in Norfolk, VA, that was used to get WEW on to PAY PER VIEW.
-This video has never been released as is, in full live event format-
-This is the first time and probably last time it will be available-
-This video may be removed at ANY time, WITHOUT notice-
This studio edit is from deep in our archives, and is THE full live show edit of the hard camera only of the debut pilot taping for WEW Women's Extreme Wrestling. There is nothing that could be done to remove the lower banner "Women's Extreme Wrestling Pilot Taping", except to maybe stretch the picture, which would effect the look of the video overall, but then heads and legs would be cut off the screen at times. We have kept this video pretty much intact, with minimal, to no editing to showcase the authenticity and feel of the video.
Please note that this video has never been released AS IS, a direct cut of the entire live event. Edited matches were used on Pay Per View, and even GLOOW TV, but never in this full form.
The video starts prior to the show, as the crowd pans the room and catches the excited fans at ringside. This is their (people in the South) first time they get to experience the girls of GLOOW / DWOW down south. This should be fun. The camera guys are getting set with various shots of the audience, as they are amped up and ready to go. There was a jump cut to more audience shots, as the start of the show nears. This goes (audience shots) on for the next few minutes, so if you'd like to jump to the actual start of the event, head to the 7:48 minute mark.
We see some of the GLOOW staff making their way to ringside to set up the bell, and chairs for announcer / time keeper. It's crazy to think that the Boathouse, a wooden building, is going to allow for a flaming tables match, to what we know of today.
Right around the 7:48 mark, the show officially starts, as music hits, the fog and lights start going, and the crowd comes alive. At the 8:45 mark, boos start to rain down around the Boathouse as ring announcer JEFFREY J. JAMES makes his way to center ring. He asks the fans a few questions, which they replied wildly to. He then informs the fans that this is a national television taping debut for Women's Extreme Wrestling.
JEFFREY J. JAMES (GLOOW'S TV Announcer) introduces the referee DINA MARIE from Los Angeles, California. DINA is a fitness model, and has appeared in magazines. This black haired beauty has an incredible body, and the fans, of course lover her!
Do you smell what the Rock is cooking? The fans groan at first, but as THE SMOKE appears you can hear some laughter and chuckles in the crowd. THE SMOKE looks like he is on his game and is ready for a big night. The laughter quickly turned into the fans booing at him. Another portion of the fans break out into a "Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!" chant. THE SMOKE rips off a few lines from THE ROCK, and the crowd is loving it / or hating it. They then start a very loud "Asshole" chant for him.
Here come THE MAE GIRLS! JEANIE MAE is introduced, as ELLE MAE leads the way to the ring. Inside the ring, the girls corner the ring announcer, and ELLE MAE is having her way him, abusing his head and neck.
WILDFIRE (aka ECW's PRODIGETTE) aka ANGEL ORSINI (aka THE FULL BREASTED ITALIAN) climbs to the top of the turnbuckle and spits fire. AGAIN, crazy to think she is spitting fire into the air (high) and the place is made of wood. SMH. As WILDFIRE makes her way into the ring, ELLE MAE spits water at her, and she gets enraged.
THERE IS NO COMMENTARY ON THIS VIDEO. This is a pre-production edit we guess.
We will NOT be providing move-by-move, or play-by-play of the matches here. Download the entire show and watch for yourself. This is a very entertaining full live event.
Prior to the match getting started, the fans break out the tried and true, "we want tits" chants. DINA MARE, the referee, checks both competitors for illegal objects. ELLE MAE is now ringside.
MATCH: JEANIE MAE w/ELLE MAE vs WILDFIRE w/DINA MARIE as referee.
Some highlights... Both wrestlers are pros, and work the independent scene at this point of their career. THE SMOKE whacks JEANIE MAE with a steel chair shot. WILDFIRE goes for a power bomb, and collapsed getting JEANIE up.
WILDFIRE calls for the mic, and issues a challenge for a hardcore flaming tables match tonight, as JAZZ her scheduled opponent is not in the building.
Two men from the back with a ladder are in the ring, as it looks like they are installing something into the rafters here at the Boathouse. As one of the guys climb the ladder, a woman's pleasuring apparatus is exposed to which the fans react to loudly.
The ring announcer states, it's now time for the "Stairway to Ecstasy" match, as he points at the object hanging above the ring. He announces the rules as the first contestant to retrieve the object, wins the match.
As the referee is being announced, TAI WEED starts to make her entrance… right before someone told her that she wasn't out yet, and that the music was for the ref SHEENA. That's 36DD SHEENA who oil wrestled GI HO at Tuxedo Junction that one time.
TAI WEED makes her ring entrance around the ring, and the fans are loving from TAI! She's wearing "almost' her traditional ring gear, with black leather chaps, top, and red shorts underneath (not black thong)? TAI performs some in ring dance to the fans approval.
PUSSY WILLOW is announced next, as 2 Live Crew blares from the sound system. The short, very busty blonde is brandishing a Singapore cane as she enters the ring and blast TAI in the back. TAI falls to the mat, and PUSSY WILLOW is canning the poor girl repeatedly.
MATCH: "Stairway to Ecstasy" TAI WEED vs PUSSY WILLOW w/SHEENA as referee.
Some highlights... This match started out crazy, and got even crazier as the girls spent a good amount of time fighting in the audience. Back in the ring, TAI grabs the steel stop sign to be used in their match, and eventually PUSSY WILLOW brings in and sets up the ladder for someone to ascend to the ceiling to grab the prize, if you will. The fans break out in a chant of "grab that dick" chants.
While we are waiting for the ring to be cleared of some of the last items used in that match, SHEENA nonchalantly flashes the crowd her chest, to which she found an overwhelming positive response. She also does it again before start of the next segment as well. Not the best angle to see it all thought :(
JEFFREY J. JAMES announces TARA (aka DARLENE) next to a mixed response. She gets on the mic and voices her displeasure for the fans and her opponent.
CANDIE is announced next, as the fans love her! She is wearing her traditional black sports bra and purple sequined pants.
SHEENA checks both girls for illegal objects, the fans love this of course.
MATCH: TARA (aka DARLENE) vs CANDIE w/SHEENA as referee
DINA MARIE makes her way back to the ring. A now fan favorite!
ELLE MAE w/JEANIE MAE is introduced, and the fans here don't seem to like ELLE too much.
G.I. HO is announced to thunderous applause and cheering. GI HO is high-fiving, and hugging the fans at ringside.
In the ring, ELLE MAE is ready for action as the two enemies get into verbal exchange that see ELLE MAE throwing her water at GI HO, as the two start to shove each other, before being separated. GI HO is looking incredibly hot in her traditional ring attire. DINA MARIE pats down GI HO, and the crowd eats this up. Then GI HO reverses it, and puts DINA in the corner and start to feel her up —we mean check for objects. DINA MARIE, then goes to check ELLE MAE. ELLE tries to get sexy, but DINA finds food stuffed in her pockets!? DINA MARIE then strips out of her booty shorts, and will ref the match in a thong and ref shirt —to GI HO's liking… to everyones liking!
MATCH: ELLE MAE w/JEANIE MAE vs GI HO w/DINA MARIE as the referee.
Highlights... GI HO did hit two top rope jumps, one in ring, and one to the outside. We also see ELLE MAE deliver a STINKFACE in this segment as well.
Intermission is announced.
This video is the master from the hard camera. We see a test tone for production, with color bars, then back to the main ring shot, as we see the production staff make their way out to ringside set to start the next part of the event. Lights dim, smoke, and music start, and the second half of the event is now underway.
JEFFREY J. JAMES makes his way to the ring, and receives "you suck d*&k" chants —which JEFF doesn't take kindly to and steps back into the corner until it stops. He then introduces SHEENA as the ref for the first match, BUT ELLE MAE and JEANIE MAE come to the ring instead.
In the ring ELLE MAE is trying to talk but the fans are chanting "fat bitch, fat bitch…". SHEENA has now appeared at the top of the stage ramp, and she has done a costume change. Both girls (ELLE & JEANIE) try to say something on the mic, but it's hard to hear, and the fans didn't make it easy for them .
Lights black out, and Enter Sandman starts to blare out of the speakers. Looks like SANDMAN from ECW type of entrance, but as the lights come back on we see professional midget wrester, and former WWE & Wrestlemania star SANDBOY aka LITTLE LOUIE dressed in his jeans, blue shirt, and suspenders, but also smoking a cigarette, a Singapore cane, and a beer. LOUIE spits beer like a fountain, instead of spraying the crowd like that former ECW champion. The fans are loving LITTLE LOUIE's entrance!
LITTLE LOUIE retrieves a ladder from the back, and posts it up at ringside. He ascends the steps to almost the top, where he drinks and then spits beer onto the fans, then smashes the plastic cup on his head. Funny stuff. LOUIE, like the SANDMAN, uses all 8 minutes of the song to get to and in the ring.
Once in the ring, LITTLE LOUIE hits ELLE MAE in the ass hard with the cane, and then when chased by her, he runs to the boobs of SHEENA by stuffing his head in between them. The crowd is eating LOUIE up!
MATCH: Intergender Handicap Match JEANIE MAE w/ELLE MAE vs SANDBOY aka LITTLE LOUIE w/SHEENA as the referee.
It's announced the next contest is a SPECIAL EVENING GOWN MATCH, where the loser is the one stripped down to her bra and panties. Originally, this match stipulation was going to be the loser is stripped totally nude —but WEW caused to be the focus of the local community because of this, causing an uproar with the venue, thus WEW management changing match down to a Bra & Panties Evening Gown Match. Oh and the two participants for this match are adult film stars; KITTEN and REBECCA WILD. Honestly, it doesn't matter who wins or loses, as long as we get a decent catfight, and someone's dress is ripped off!
KITTEN is out first and she is a light skinned black girl with a full chest. She is wearing a leopard print evening gown, with a net see-through top, thong, and heels. She keeps sticking her extremely, long tongue out. The crowd absolutely loves her!
REBECCA WILD appears at the entranceway, and removes her heels before coming down the ramp. This sexy, and very spunky blonde heads around the ring saying hello to all her fans.
Before action starts, THE ROCK's theme song plays, the booing from the fans rain down as they know THE SMOKE is coming out. THE SMOKE makes himself apart of this contest, as KITTEN gets all cozy with THE SMOKE, and REBECCA WILD gets jealous.
Next up is the advertised meeting between KITTEN vs REBECCA WILD in a "Evening Gown/Bra & Panties match".
MICHAEL FLAYMER, a member of the WEW staff, and also is in the alternative lifestyle comes to ring and tells the world that the SMOKE may have been with the girls last night, but he woke up with him that morning. The place loses it.
Both girls ambush SMOKE as each has their hands grabbing his junk, as he tumbles to the mat, KITTEN jumps on top of him and starts roughing him up, while REBECCA is at ringside throwing in some weapons like a trash can lid, a crutch, and more. These girls just start dishing out all kinds of punishment to THE SMOKE. See video for all the action.
JEFFREY J. JAMES is back in the ring and runs down the stipulations for the main event "Flaming Tables Match".
PLAYBOY COLLEGE CO-ED HEATHER FAITH is introduced and the crowd is alive loving what they see. It seems HEATHER FAITH is out to answer WILDFIRE's challenge for the Flaming Tables match.
Music hits immediately after HEATHER FAITH called out WILDFIRE. WF comes to the ring hot, and fast. She is furious that this is her challenger, and has no problem voicing it.
MATCH: PLAYBOY COLLEGE CO-ED HEATHER FAITH vs WILDFIRE w/DINA MARIE as referee.
During this "match" WILDFIRE is just tossing FAITH around by her hair. After a few minutes, music hits and JAZZ (ECW / WWE) hits the ring, and goes right to town on WILDFIRE.
MATCH: "Flaming Tables Match" WILDFIRE vs JAZZ with DINA MARIE as referee.
There is a lot of great women's wrestling action during this match up with these two professionals. They have battled for years, and now they are pulling out all the stops. In the ring, out of the ring, on the front row ticket holders laps, in the crowd —it doesn't matter where these two will stop at nothing as one of these women will be going through a TABLE ON FIRE!!!
Things don't go as planned it seems, as STEVE "THE SOUNDGUY" hits the ring, and someone is going through that f'n table...
The Boathouse (Norfolk, VA)
Running Time: 1 hour and 58 minutes
Resolution: 320x240
File Type: m4v (mp4)
File Size: ??? mbs
Additional notes: No announcers or commentary, except from the live taping's. Single stationary camera angle (that does zoom in and out, and pans left and right)
The DANGEROUS WOMEN OF WRESTLING are unlike anything else ever offered on TV, PAY PER VIEW, and THE INTERNET.
Forget professional wrestling as you know it --you have never seen anything like this before! The Dangerous Women of Wrestling presents hot and sexy women's pro wrestling, with extreme stunts, featuring a truly dysfunctional cast of wrestlers, strippers, midgets, handicap, and disgruntled staffers. The Dangerous Women of Wrestling is purely the wildest and craziest wrestling show ever created. This is definitely not your father's wrestling show!
Experience life, and enjoy some Dangerous Women of Wrestling.


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(KSL News) Around 250 people had a chance to eat breakfast with Santa today and help him give to some local children.
The goal of the event was to raise money so children with autism can attend school.
At the event, families were not only treated with breakfast, but also pictures with Santa and the movie "Cheaper by the Dozen." The number of children born with autism is on the rise. Now one in 165 kids are born with it.
Sondra Hurst/ Adminstrator, Clear Horizons Academy: "IT takes a lot of money, a lot of time, and a lot of effort to help these kids learn, and it's not an easy thing. So we need as much money and help as we can get, so they can do the very best that they can in life."
Brent Wood/ President, Hurst Wood Education Foundation: "We're educating children this year from four to seven. We hope each year to be able to raise one grade, so that school will continue to expand."
One hundred percent of the money raised today goes to benefit the Hurst-Wood Education Foundation.

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If you were hoping that talk of birthdays and cake fails were over, I'm sorry to disappoint.
Today is the big par-tay for the twinions.
As I started planning, shopping, committing to two dinosaur cakes, my anxiety levels rocket through the roof, I consciously stopped myself.
Life's stressful enough as it is, right?
For the twin ion's birthday afternoon last week, we decided to go for celebratory fish n chips down the bay. It was a perfect summer's afternoon. As Mr Surfer and I watched our munchkins squeal with delight as they plunged into the cool ocean water, we reminded ourselves of what was really important about turning four.
It wasn't the extravagant presents or fretting over what theme the party should be.
Squishing toes through the warm sand, watching in awe as your feet sink and disappear as the gentle waves wash over them.
It's the simple joys of being a kid; the exhilaration of discovering anything, everything and everywhere.
Chasing pesky seagulls, giggling helplessly as you pretend to also soar through the clear, blue sky with them.
Letting your untapped imagination and innocence collide, swerve through the esplanade, joining the gentle ocean breeze.
Here's to a relaxing, fun-filled party. Here's to celebrating with family and friends, sharing some laughs along the way.
Remembering that it's just about the seagulls. Those crazy gulls.
What're you up to this Sunday?


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From the Secondary Sport Coordinator
From the Secondary Sport Coordinator
Term 4 sport
Term 4 sport kicked off last week for our basketball, volleyball, touch football, water polo and tennis teams. It was great to see so many students out at trainings and games. A particular highlight for the week was our middle years water polo team winning their first game against Loreto College (9-6). A big thank you to all the parents and spectators that came out to support our girls. Stay tuned for more Term 4 sport updates via the SEQTA sport portal and the fortnightly newsletter.
Parents and caregivers are asked to advise the Sport Coordinator if your daughter cannot play or train on a specific day by texting or calling the sport phone (0447 937 709). Alternatively, you can email me at [email protected].
Students can access a weekly schedule on Mondays outlining the details for their sport for the week via SEQTA. This will include any changes or extra details regarding game and trainings. Students are expected to read this every week so they are fully informed. All information will be communicated via email, student bulletin and SEQTA so students must regularly check these.
How do I find information about sport?
As a parent/caregiver:
- Log into SEQTA Engage
- Click on the portals tab from the left-hand-side menu
- Select 'Term 4 Sport'
As a student:
- Visit SEQTA Learn
- Click on the portals tab from the left-hand-side menu
- Select 'Term 4 Sport'
- Your scheduled training will also appear in your SEQTA timetable
Congratulations to the Year 5/6 SAPSASA Basketball Team who finished equal 3rd in the State-wide Large Schools Basketball Finals last week! An incredible effort by the team to make the semi-finals! Go SAC!
Sporting Spotlight!
Congratulations to Year 8 student, Emma who recently competed in the Oceania Championships for Artistic Free Skating in Whanganui, New Zealand from 29th of September till the 3rd of October. This was Emma's first time representing Australia in this competition, and she won gold in the Ladies Cadet Freeskating event! This is an amazing achievement and shows Emma's determined approach to her sport both in and outside of school.
The De Pasquale sisters, Layla & Capri, were also busy over the school holidays competing in state competitions for their respective sports. Year 7 student Capri was part of the Under 13s State Hockey Team, who competed in Tasmania. Year 10 student Layla competed in Queensland in the Under 16s State Water Polo Team. Year 8 student, Alexia Cordera was also part of this team. A big congratulations to these students for representing our state at such a high level. We can't wait to see what the future holds for them as young athletes!


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This coming holiday weekend has special significance, since my birthday is one week from today. That is, September 4th.
This weekend also promises to be very busy. Friends in from out of town, family, and several events, some of which may be happening concurrently. I'm beginning to get overwhelmed.
hmm…haven't changed much. Check out the rockin' sunglasses. hah!
4 thoughts on "The day of labor"
That sweatshirt kicks ass! Yes I just said ass on your blog. But when I was in 4th grade I had this purple sweatshirt with penguins and writing utensils on it. Rather, penguins HOLDING writing utensils. I loved that sweatshirt so much. Then the "popular" girls said "Hey Lacey, we liiiike your sweatshirt…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" And it was then that I knew I would always be a nerd. Because I still liked the sweatshirt DESPITE knowing it was really unfashionable.
And that is my story.
Yo, I would wear those glasses now…
Can you say SUPAH CUTE? Nerd to nerd. Seriously.
OMGoodness, This pic adorable it totally reminds me of how I use to look when I was a kid. It ranged from lacey dresses with a matching headband to totally funny looking sweaters and lightup gym shoes. Omg do you remember the sweat pants with attached shorts sown into them. I had a pair of those lollll!!!
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Brookfield's $12.8 Billion Origin Bid Rejected by Investors
(Bloomberg) -- Origin Energy Ltd. rejected a A$19.1 billion ($12.8 billion) Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.-led takeover, after the fund's yearlong pursuit of a utility that's vital to Australia's energy transition.
About 69% of ballots cast by investors were in support of the deal, below the required threshold of three-quarters of the votes, Origin said Monday in a statement, following a shareholder meeting.
The utility will "focus on delivering on our strategic priorities, accelerating investment in cleaner energy and storage and pursuing our ambition to lead the energy transition," Origin Chairman Scott Perkins said in the statement.
Origin's largest investor AustralianSuper, which holds about 17% of the company, had opposed the offer as too low, effectively blocking the prospects for an acquisition. The intervention by Australia's largest pension fund showcased an increasingly assertive approach from managers of the country's A$3.5 trillion retirement savings pool.
"The value and future value of Origin is better in the hands of members and other shareholders rather than a private equity consortium seeking to make a quick return," AustralianSuper said in a statement.
Origin's shares fell 3.9% to A$7.86 Monday, before trading was halted ahead of the vote.
Brookfield and EIG Global Energy Partners, which made a first offer in November last year, revised their proposal last month and the deal value was A$9.39 a share, based on Wednesday's exchange rate, Origin said last week.
Origin's board had supported the proposal, though last week rebuffed a suggested alternative transaction under which Brookfield would pay A$12.3 billion for the company's energy generation and retailing business in the event of an unsuccessful takeover vote.
"Brookfield will evaluate its next steps, if any, with respect to Origin," the Canada-based investment fund said in a statement. Executives have flagged Brookfield, which planned to acquire Origin using its Global Transition Fund, won't return with any immediate new offer and intends to review the implications from new Australian energy policy.
Australia last month announced plans to expand its efforts to lure clean energy investment amid concerns deployments are not happening fast enough. Investment in renewables in the country fell close to a record low in the third quarter, according to BloombergNEF.
The rejection of Brookfield's plan threatens to slow Australia's attempts to accelerate the addition of solar and wind farms as aging coal-fired plants are shuttered. Brookfield had pledged to invest as much as A$30 billion over 10 years in Origin and to more than triple the utility's planned clean energy generation capacity.
AustralianSuper is open to providing capital to assist Origin's transition, the fund said in its statement, reiterating an earlier pledge.
"There's going to be no shortage of opportunities for co-investment alongside Origin through the transition, so we would welcome that from all parties — the cheaper the cost of capital the better," Perkins said.
(Updates with final vote results, Brookfield comment from second paragraph.)
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5 December 2022
A former Royal High School Bath student, Becca Hardcastle, is putting on a Christmas concert to raise money for Action for M.E. and the ME Association.
The concert is virtual and will be taking place via 'Zoom' on Saturday 17th December at 3:00pm. Becca will be joined by another Royal High Alumna, Izzy Pinder and many other friends, who will also be performing. Tickets are £3 from Eventbrite and all of the money raised from ticket sales will be donated to the two charities.
Becca who is 21 years old has had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) since she was 15 and is passionate about supporting these two charities. She came up with the idea of the concert as a great way to get into the Christmas spirit without having to leave the house but the timing is also fitting as this time of year is extremely tough for many people with M.E. Many people with disabilities, chronic illnesses or energy limiting conditions are more likely than most to feel the negative repercussions of the cold.
Becca said: "I know from experience that living with M.E. especially when you're young can have a massive impact on your life. It can be extremely hard doing simple everyday things that most people take for granted like going to school or even spending time with your family and friends.
"I've always loved singing and I used to perform in concerts at school before I got M.E. and I love fundraising, so I thought this would be the perfect way to combine the two. I would love to see you there in support of two incredible charities which are close to my heart and hope it will be an afternoon filled with Christmas spirit, fun and some good music!"
The concert will be on Zoom on Saturday 17 December at 3pm.
Tickets are £3 and all proceeds will be split between Action for M.E. and the M.E. Association. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sing-for-me-at-christmas-tickets-391276146487


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Publication Date: January 2009
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Chad Stone
Research Area: Economics; Labor
Keywords: Job creation; Low-income families; Economic stimulus
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
In negotiations over the forthcoming economic recovery package, some policymakers have argued that various measures aimed at low- and moderate-income families would serve a "safety net" function but that the package should focus more heavily on creating jobs. This argument reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the current economic situation and of how economic stimulus works. Some of the proposals that policymakers apparently think of as job creators would actually preserve or create many fewer jobs than other proposals directed at families with low or moderate incomes or unemployed workers.


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Efforts urged to create favorable press environment Updated: 2008-03-13
(BEIJING, March 13) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Thursday urged foreign press members to do their part to create a favorable news coverage environment in China.
To honor its commitment in the bid for the right to host the Olympic Games, the Chinese government started on January 1, 2007 to implement the "Regulations On Reporting Activities in China by Foreign Journalists During the Beijing Olympic Games and the Preparatory Period."
With a serious attitude toward the implementation of the Regulations, concerned government agencies and local governments have made great efforts to earnestly carry them out. "Any unbiased journalist will feel that a freer press coverage environment is available to foreign journalists now and they enjoy more facilities and services in China today," Qin said at a regular press conference?
Generally speaking, he noted, the Regulations have been carried out well since they were put into force, and the move was commended by the international community, including foreign governments and media. However, there were some problems, Qin said, explaining that it takes time to carry out the Regulations in depth as conditions vary in different places in view of the country's vast territory and big population. On the other hand, some foreign journalists need to rethink profoundly about their behaviors. Many cases of resistance to press coverage were caused by violations of the Regulations by some journalists, or their insistence for interviews against the interviewees' will.
In violating journalistic ethics, Qin said, some media members even distorted facts and fabricated stories. "So both of us need to do our best to efficiently carry out the Regulations with an aim at improving press conditions in China and making news coverage acceptable to more organizations," Qin added.
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The Nine Network Australia and FOXTEL today announced they had jointly secured the exclusive broadcast rights (terrestrial TV, subscription TV, Mobile and internet) from the International Olympic Committee for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
The landmark deal will see Nine and FOXTEL partner to deliver Australians the most comprehensive coverage of the winter and summer Olympics ever seen on free-to-air and subscription television.
The Nine/FOXTEL deal includes live rights for free-to-air, HD Channel programming and subscription television, as well as internet and mobile rights.
Nine Network Australia Chief Executive Officer David Gyngell said the bid for the Olympic broadcasting was another step in a process to take Nine back to its position as the leading free-toair broadcaster in Australia.
"The bid for the Olympic rights underscores the longer term commitment to the Network and the preparedness to invest in content."
Mr Gyngell said the coverage on Nine would be comprehensive and exciting.
"We believe the London Olympics will be a great event – London is a solid cultural fit with our viewing audiences and will achieve strong ratings particularly with the historical links in sporting and cultural terms between Australia and the United Kingdom.
"We believe winning the rights to broadcast the Olympics sends a powerful message that Nine is on the way back," he added.
PBL Media Chief Executive Officer Ian Law said: "The bid for the Olympics had the strong support of the board as it demonstrated the longer term approach being taken to rebuild Nine across arrange of demographic groups.
"It clearly demonstrates a commitment to the business – both in terms of its people and content,"he said.
FOXTEL Chief Executive Kim Williams AM said: "FOXTEL will compliment Nine's comprehensive free-to air coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics by delivering our subscribers an expanded coverage that will provide an unparalleled choice of whole live strands of Olympic competition and an entirely new viewing experience fitting for the finest of all international sports events.
"Not only will FOXTEL provide dedicated extra channels, we will broadcast many elements of our coverage in high definition, which together with the FOXTEL iQ disc drive set-top units, FOXTEL Mobile and Broadband will give our subscribers the ultimate control, choice and personalisation of how they watch, share and celebrate the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics."
The bid for the Olympics was lodged in Lausanne by David Gyngell, Jeffrey Browne and Gary Fenton from Nine, and Kim Williams and Peter Campbell from FOXTEL.
Full details on how the Nine/FOXTEL partnership and programming offer will operate will be released progressively leading into the marketing of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010.
AUDIO GRABS: Broadcast quality audio grabs of FOXTEL Chief Executive, Kim Williams will be available at www.mediagame.com.au.
Further information: Arabella Gibson Nine Network Australia Director of Corporate Communications (02) 9282 8884
Brendon Moo FOXTEL Senior Executive Publicity (02) 9813 7390
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Ankota COO, Sara Moore, has created a few initiatives to spark conversations about community in the home care industry.
Among other efforts, she created AHomeCareCommunity.com to provide a place online for folks in home care to share ideas, offer Best Practices and resources, and to promote events. She has also started "Monday Moore Mantras." She recently sent an email introducing this initiative, to Ankota customers, but I thought it would be helpful to share some of her Mantras here as well:
I want to share a personal story with you. A story about how Covid-19 has personally affected my family. I started thinking about this while working on a community project called
A Home Care Community, a space designed to share thoughts and best practices about home care.
Our newly updated Covid-19 resource page (that you can find
here), also inspired me to tell my story. While this story is personal, it speaks to the challenges that the home care community faces daily and will continue to face. So here we go…
A Story to Share
On May 1, my dad lost his battle to Covid-19. April 13th he went to the local hospital in Southern Illinois and by the end of the day he was moved to a large hospital in St. Louis, MO. They were monitoring his breathing – breathing that he described as pieces of glass in his chest. The next evening he went on a ventilator, after a few weeks of unwavering hope from my mother, brother and I, my dad lost his battle.
During these long, treacherous weeks of my dad's hospitalization, some of our seemingly biggest concerns were what would dad's recovery look like after the prolonged use of the ventilator and the long term effects of the virus we learn more about daily.
The questions we didn't get answers to, were, what is the road for his muscles to recover? What assisted devises would he be on short term/long term? Would my mom be able to take care of him on her own or would he need to be in a rehab facility? We personally didn't get the opportunity to answer these questions, but the home care community that I am part of will be deeply involved with these answers.
My family's story is not unique and unfortunately more and more families will experience the same story as Covid-19 continues to develop. I have spent the last several months struggling to understand my dad's fate with Covid-19. To be honest, it has incapacitated me for a while – conversations about him happen daily, but reality never sets in. I may never fully comprehend the outcome, but I'm now ready to end my silence.
I do not have the solution to what home care will look like in the post-Covid era. A step towards the solution, however, is to fully understand the problem and the ramifications. If we have been preparing to support the large Baby Boom generation for general home care needs with a limited pool of caregivers before the pandemic, how are we going to support this same problem with the challenges brought upon by Covid?
The growth opportunities of home care has been a passion of mine for the last several years. The pre-Covid opportunities were large, but the current and post-Covid needs will escalate the home care industry. What questions are you facing as a home care agency? How will you provide support for "recovered" Covid patients? How will this effect your Adult Day Centers, your general home care, your ability to provide enough care?
My team and I have built a platform for the home care community to engage together. To discuss things such as:
– What changes have you made since the onset of Covid?
– What changes are you still implementing?
– What additional technology is needed?
– How does this effect your staff?
– How does this effect your client's care?
The questions are overwhelming, but it's time to make sure we are prepared to answer the difficult questions in order to find the solutions needed.
Please join me in conversations of how we tackle Covid-19 as Home Care agencies, both now and in the future.
Today's Call to Action
Check out
A Home Care Community and if you feel inspired, become a member! The conversation pages are for you as well. Dig into previous conversations or start your own. You can also share your solutions to the questions listed above in
this conversation.
Also, please
Save the Date:
September 28th at noon EST for our upcoming webinar featuring Home Care experts who will share how to save on office expenses.
With hope and gratitude,
Sara Moore, Chief Operating Officer
Ankota provides software to improve the delivery of care outside the hospital, focusing on efficiency and care coordination. Ankota's primary focus is on Care Transitions for Readmission avoidance and on management of Private Duty non-medical home care. To learn more, please visit www.ankota.com or contact us.


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ASU is hosting the 100 Year EdTech Project Design Summit, leveraging its online education expertise to shape the future of EdTech and classrooms through collaborative discussions and innovative offerings.
A discussion centered on the multifaceted role of modern CIOs, covering strategic communication and the adoption of AI and multi-cloud.
Establishing a strong working relationship between the CISO and the CIO is crucial for the overall success and security of a company, writes Kenny Mullican.
Rubrik CIO Ajay Sabhlok defined the importance of data-driven insights, and the role of the CIO and CDO in extracting and implementing them.
A look at AI's influence on CIOs, their evolving roles, and the cultural shift towards innovation in business transformation and employee empowerment.
Companies are recognizing the limitations of centralized AI and are leveraging advances in networking, algorithms, and edge computing to run AI workloads closer to where they're most needed.
Learn how Specialized Bicycle Components achieved tech-driven growth and innovation through its Oracle partnership.
Copilots bring AI functionality to everyday enterprise applications. Discover three use cases where they're poised to make a difference, and risks to keep in mind.
The modern CIO must prioritize co-creation, establish themselves as part of the business, be curious, and have a strong ability to listen.
By providing a data-driven perspective on existing processes and enriching this understanding with AI, process mining can reveal customer experience inefficiencies and recommend improvements.
Process mining enables CIOs to proactively find inefficiencies that are creating the biggest bottlenecks. Microsoft has added Minit process mining technology to its Power Automate platform.
Which generative AI tool is best for improving productivity? CIO Kenny Mullican puts ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard to the test.
A CIO has to appreciate the breadth of integrated functionality offered by ServiceNow, which has increased significantly over time, Wayne Sadin says.
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Safety glass is a general term that refers to all glass that can meet safety standard requirements.
This type of glass is not broken by violent vibration or impact, even if it is broken, it is not easy to hurt people. Used for doors and windows of automobiles, airplanes and special buildings, etc.
Generally speaking, safety glass mainly refers to the following types of glass:
- Tempered Glass
Tempered glass is also called Toughened glass. when Tempered glass is broken, crumble into small granular chunks of similar size instead of jagged shards. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury. This type of glass has High Strength and Heat Stability.
- Laminated Glass
Laminated glass is composed of two or more pieces of glass with one or more layers of organic polymer inter layer film between them. After a special high-temperature pre-pressing (or vacuum) and high-temperature and high-pressure process, the glass and the inter layer are made permanent. It's a type of Composite glass.
- Bullet-proof Glass
It's a type of composite glass that is made of tempered glass, chemically reinforced glass, wire (mesh) glass, and high-strength organic materials (such as oriented plexiglass, polycarbonate, etc.), and laminated technology. According to different requirements, different materials can be selected to form different composite structures to achieve the performance of resisting bullet shooting generally used in buildings and border observation posts with special bulletproof or anti-theft requirements.
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Fire-proof glass refers to a kind of transparent gel condensed between two pieces of glass. The gel decomposes and absorbs a lot of heat when it encounters high temperatures. So the glass can be kept from breaking temporarily and prevent the spread of fire. It is generally used for fire partitions or fire escapes in buildings. In addition, glass hollow bricks and wire (mesh) glass also have a certain fire prevention effect.
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Wire mesh glass is also called wire glass. This type of Glass is in which metal wires (mesh) are embedded during rolling molding. When the glass is broken, its fragments are still hanging on the wire (mesh) without falling. In case of fire, it can prevent the flame from spreading in a short time, delay the expansion of the fire, and can be used as the window and smoke partition of the fire-proof building.
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Patents Assigned to Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Patent number: 10579246Abstract: An information device having a touch-sensitive panel for displaying an operating screen having a scrolled display region is provided. The information device includes sets of data classified into at least three groups arranged in accordance with a predetermined order; a list display control portion for displaying, in the scrolled display region, a data list in which the sets of data classified into any one of the groups are listed; a scroll control portion for, when the data list is displayed, scrolling through the data list in accordance with touch operation of touching a position in the scrolled display region; and a support display control portion for displaying, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, icons in a manner to appear in the predetermined order on the operating screen along one direction. The icons function as indicators corresponding to groups that are a part of the three groups.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Yoichi Kurumasa, Kenichi Komaba, Masao Hosono, Takuya Okada
Patent number: 10237427Abstract: An image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises a detection part for detecting a state change of a hardware operating member in an operation part of the image forming apparatus and a transmitting part for transmitting screen control information in accordance with the state change detected by the detection part to the remote operation apparatus. The remote operation apparatus comprises a display part for displaying a simulated image representing the detection part of the image forming apparatus, a receiving part for receiving the screen control information, and a display control part for changing a first image which is the simulated image displayed on the display part before the state change into a second image which is the simulated image in which the state change is reflected, in response to a receipt of the screen control information.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kazuya Anezaki, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Shuji Yoneda, Hidetaka Iwai, Takeshi Maekawa, Junichi Hase
Patent number: 10228843Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display for displaying operational information for executing image processing, an operation unit for giving an input instruction in association with a display region appearing on the display, and a controller for controlling the display in accordance with the input instruction on the operation unit. The controller is configured to determine whether an input instruction of a flick operation is given through the operation unit in association with a prescribed display region appearing on the display. If it is determined that the input instruction of the flick operation is given, the controller is configured to enlarge a range of the prescribed display region in which the input instruction is allowed, and to display the enlarged display region on the display.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yoichi Kurumasa, Kenichi Sawada, Masahiro Imamura, Atsushi Tomita, Tetsuya Tokumoto, Ryosuke Nishimura, Takatsugu Kuno
Patent number: 10114326Abstract: Image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a paper transport unit, a paper position measuring unit, a deviation compensating unit in preparation to image forming, a control unit for controlling the image formation and the deviation compensation, wherein the control unit includes a function that receives the results measured by the paper position measuring unit and compensates the deviation of the paper in accordance with the measured results, wherein, the control unit shifts the paper toward a predetermined position in the direction across the paper transporting direction and shift the image forming position in the main scanning direction in accordance with the predetermined position of the paper, wherein, the control unit decides the predetermined position so that the image area based on the image forming position being shifted does not go out of the range of the image formable area.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Takashi Yamashita
Patent number: 9994058Abstract: The book binding device includes a section for forming a cut in the end side of a conveyed sheet, a control section for controlling the section for forming a cut, and a selection section for selecting each sheet for the presence/absence of a cut to be formed by the section for forming a cut, wherein the control section controls the formation of a cut by the section for forming a cut based on the presence/absence of the formation of a cut selected by the selection section, and then the mixture of sheets in which cuts are formed and sheets in which cuts are not formed are bundled and bound to complete a booklet.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Kiyoshi Hata
Patent number: 9900450Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processing portion, a storage portion, and a touch pad. The processing portion is adapted to accept input of a value for a prescribed processing condition for an image forming job. The storage portion is adapted to store the value accepted by the processing portion. The touch pad is adapted to accept a touch operation. The processing portion updates the value stored in the storage portion based on a manner of change in touch position resulting from a second touch operation on the touch pad while a first touch operation in a prescribed region of the touch pad continues.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Jiro Goto, Takashi Oikawa
Patent number: 9785103Abstract: An image forming system including plural image forming apparatuses, being tandemly-arranged, and forming an image while assigning an area of a recording sheet, wherein each individual image forming apparatus including a display section which is configured to display various information and a control section which is configured to detect connecting positions of each individual image forming apparatus in the image forming system, and to control each individual display section to display a typical information based on detected results.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Masayuki Yasukaga
Patent number: 9762760Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a display that displays a first screen including one or more than one first key for setting a mode to execute a function of the apparatus, and then, if one of the first keys is pressed, displays a second screen including one or more than one second key, which is a lower-class screen under the pressed first key; and a customizing portion that hides at least one of the first and the second keys on the first screen, according to a user operation, and wherein if a user changes to non-display, the setting of at least one of the first keys on the first screen, while there exists a second key preliminarily prohibited from being hidden, on the second screen that is a lower-class screen under the first key to be hidden according to the changed setting, the customizing portion doesn't hide the first key.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Tsumoru Matsuura, Eiichi Yoshida, Takatsugu Kuno, Kenichi Komaba, Taketoshi Yamahata
Patent number: 9740291Abstract: A presentation system includes the following: a reception unit that receives a start instruction to start a presentation, a detection unit that starts detecting a gesture of a presenter in response to the start instruction, and a control unit that controls an operation for distributing presentation material, based on a detail of detection of the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Takeshi Morikawa, Kaitaku Ozawa, Takeshi Minami, Daisuke Sakiyama, Kazuya Anezaki
Patent number: 9710200Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with the following functional portions: a printable/unprintable determination portion that determines whether or not a print job can be executed based on any of a plurality of conditions specified by a user; and a first printing process portion that executes, if it has been determined that the print job can be executed based on any of the plurality of conditions, the print job based on any of executable conditions among the plurality of conditions, the executable conditions being conditions based on which the print job can be executed.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Kouichi Tomita
Patent number: 9705860Abstract: A device administration apparatus includes an apparatus information obtainer that obtains via a network, apparatus information stored in a device, a judger that judges whether or not the device is an administration object based on the obtained apparatus information, and an administrator that administers use of the device, if the judger judges that the device is an administration object.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Takayuki Doui
Patent number: 9659018Abstract: An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) is a file name producing apparatus that produces a file name of an image. The MFP selects a candidate character string, which is a file name candidate and in which a head character is a space, from the character strings extracted from the image. The MFP deletes the space that is the head character of the candidate character string, or changes all the characters constituting the candidate character string to other characters. The MFP produces the character string, which is corrected by the deletion or the change, as the file name of the image. Therefore, the proper file name can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Takuya Kawano
Patent number: 9661173Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: a receiver which receives facsimile or print data file in a page description language, from an information processing apparatus; a spooler which stores the facsimile or print data file received therefrom, on the spooler itself; a converter which converts the facsimile or print data file stored on the spooler, to an image data format; a job generator which generates a job based on the obtained image data file; a facsimile transmitter; a printer; and a job controller which instructs the facsimile transmitter or the printer to perform facsimile transmission or printing according to the generated job, respectively. And the converter selects the facsimile or print data file among those stored on the spooler, based on the state of the printer and the state of the facsimile transmitter, before converting the facsimile or print data file to an image data format.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Tomoyuki Atsumi, Kaoru Fukuoka, Shin Ohba, Eiichi Narimatsu, Tomohide Tatara
Patent number: 9639514Abstract: Provided is an information browsing apparatus provided with a display section on which display surface a touch panel to detect contact of an object is disposed. The information browsing apparatus is capable of displaying a document in a first display form where the entire display section is configured with a single region, and in a second display form where the display section is divided into a plurality of regions and provided with a data processing section. In case handwriting information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, thereafter when the display from is changed to the first display form, the data display section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which is judged that the hand written information belongs to the region thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Masayuki Inoue, Tetsuhiro Shibata, Keiichiro Hyodo
Patent number: 9641713Abstract: A power-saving mode deactivation apparatus for performing communication via a communication network with specific processing apparatuses for particular processing is provided. The power-saving mode deactivation apparatus includes a storage portion for storing therein a deactivation method for deactivating a power-saving mode of each of the specific processing apparatuses; a detection portion for detecting that particular processing data for the particular processing is not delivered to, among the specific processing apparatuses, a destination specific processing apparatus of the particular processing data, and a deactivation portion for performing, when the detection portion detects that the particular processing data is not delivered to the destination specific processing apparatus, deactivation processing for deactivating a power-saving mode of the destination specific processing apparatus based on the deactivation method, stored in the storage portion, for the destination specific processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Atsushi Ohshima, Keisuke Teramoto, Masami Yamada, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Hiroaki Kubo
Patent number: 9633194Abstract: Disclosed is an authentication system including: an electronic apparatus; and a remote operating device to remotely operate the electronic apparatus, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises a main controller to control the electronic apparatus and a sub-controller to control the electronic apparatus independently from the main controller; and wherein in case that the remote operating device accesses to the electronic apparatus, after the main controller carries out a first user authentication, the sub-controller carries out a second user authentication.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Tadashi Suzue
Patent number: 9578084Abstract: An information processing system comprises a user terminal and an information processing device. A remote operation screen image for remotely operating the information processing device is displayed with the user terminal so that the information processing device is operated by remote control via the user terminal. The information processing device includes: a screen image controlling part for receiving operation information from the user terminal; a contents determining part for determining if contents accessed by a browser are internal contents of the information processing device when the operation information is a process request requiring start up of the browser; and a browser controlling part for starting up a first browser on the information processing device when the internal contents are to be accessed, and sending a browser start up instruction to cause start up of a second browser installed on the user terminal when external contents are to be accessed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Daisuke Sakiyama, Masami Yamada, Atsushi Ohshima, Keisuke Teramoto, Atsushi Tamura, Yukina Hisada
Patent number: 9578198Abstract: An application cooperation system includes an instruction screen display control portion which causes a browsing portion to display a scan instruction screen, a scan control portion which stores image data output from a document reading portion, an external screen receiving portion which receives an external screen including an external control command from the external server for storage, an internal screen generating portion which generates an internal screen including an internal control command and an image data displaying area, an integrated screen generating portion which generates an integrated screen by combining the internal and external screens for output to the internal server portion, and a location information notification portion which obtains the integrated screen's network address from the internal server portion for output to the external server.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Ryoji Bando
Patent number: 9558434Abstract: A remote operation system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus has an operation input part including a touch panel and a hardware key and a transmission part for transmitting synthesizable area information indicating a synthesizable area in a candidate screen (first screen) of the remote operation screen to the remote operation apparatus. The first screen is a screen including a touch panel area and a hardware key area, and the synthesizable area is defined in the synthesizable area information as an area not including a hardware key image. The remote operation apparatus generates a second screen by synthesizing an additional image to be added to the first screen into the synthesizable area of the first screen on the basis of the synthesizable area information and displays the second screen on the display part as the remote operation screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Junichi Hase, Manabu Furukawa, Nobuhiro Mishima, Masaya Hashimoto, Akihiro Torigoshi
Patent number: 9552488Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that receives data for an authentication print job from an external terminal connected thereto via a network, receives a user authentication request from a user, and executes the job when the user authentication is successfully performed. The image forming apparatus comprises: a display unit; and a display control unit displaying information related to an amount of time expected to be required for the execution of the job on the display unit when the user authentication is successfully performed prior to completion of the reception of the data for the job.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Takao Kurohata


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GirlFight is back with a vengeance and ready for action.
Following the success of the first charity boxing event for Nellie's Women's Shelter in March, the second installment of the all-female fight card will feature six bouts of K-1 Thai Boxing on Dec 9 at the Great Hall on Queen St W.
The first event, hosted by Pink Mafia, raised more than $6,000 for programming for women and children, and organizers hope the second installment will be even more successful.
"We're hoping to raise over [$10,000] this time," says Pink Mafia Don, and Xtra's own Xposed columnist, Anna von Frances, who says she was first inspired to raise funds for Nellie's after she visited to learn more about their work. "The second I walked into the shelter I was sold. There was no way I was going to walk out of there without doing something."
Meeting people who lived and stayed in the space forced von Frances to challenge her own stereotypes. "A lot of them are really normal women, just like you and I, who just happen to be in a rough spot," she says. "It really touched me."
Von Frances had already been itching to plan a women's fight card that would be fun and glamorous. "I wanted it to be fun for people who'd never been to a fight or weren't part of fight culture," she says.
Ducking the trend of hosting amateur fights in over-lit environments with stale beer, GirlFight will feature raffle prizes from sponsors Puma, Heineken and Sudbury 99. And with the Great Hall's vintage stage and hipster vibe, von Frances expects the night to be "beyond Thunderdome."
"I don't want foxy boxing . . . I want real fights, real chicks, so people come out and are like, . . . 'That was the best fight I ever saw,' and the fact that they're girls is nothing,'" she says.
With those goals, it made sense to direct the money from women empowering themselves through sport to women who had been victimized. "I was kind of like, wow, if I could give this confidence to the people who need it the most . . . these are perfect together."
Wendy Sung-Aad, development manager of Nellie's, likes the juxtaposition — women in combat sport supporting women dealing with hardship. "We've seen firsthand how being physically able to defend yourself can really change the position of women who have been marginalized.
"Instead of seeing women as victims," she says, seeing them challenging each other and physically displaying strength is "great."
The event will be hosted by Hook Up Muay Thai and MCed by mixed martial arts fighter Robin Black. All proceeds from the evening will go to help build a new shelter for Nellie's.
The Toronto shelter provides emergency care for women and children and is the largest women's shelter in the city, with 36 beds and three cribs.
Nellie's has begun planning for a new house to meet growing demand.
The shelter offers support to queer women and their children who are fleeing violence or dealing with poverty and homelessness.
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- Lindeners called out leaders for politicising the activities
Regional Chairman Deron Adams, said the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council(RDC) is considering taking legal action against Regional Executive Officer(REO) Dwight John and Deputy Regional Executive Officer Seewchan along with other members of the administration for not executing the instructions of the council as it relates to Linden's Mashramani 2023 which left the commemoration committee in an embarrassing situation, revelers without food and water and the parade with one small float.
Though Lindeners turned up in their numbers on Sunday to enjoy the festival that was birthed in their hometown and that was absent for two years as a result of COVID-19, there was little to be seen in terms of floats and many were confused about the route of the proceedings. Lindeners were also disappointed that the after mash concert that was advertised, was not held. Many took to social media to express their frustration over 'the tug of war' between regional officials which mostly affected vendors and others who were expected to provide services for the event. On Monday, Adams and other elected officials of the RDC laid the blame directly at the feet of the head of the regional administration and said legal action will be taken.
The REO he said, acted in direct contravention to the lawful instruction of the council to not participate in the festivities in Georgetown and to utilize the resources budgeted for commemoration, for the celebrations in Region 10. A few days before the Linden Mashramani however, the REO wrote the chairman informing him that funding will not be approved for any unauthorized spending. The REO had also written the council informing it that he is not accountable to same and described the commemoration committee as ad-hoc. "As such as the Accounting Officer, I am required to comply with the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act where the monies appropriated by the National Assembly under 801 Regional Administration and Finance- Chart of Accounts 6291 – National and Other Events are insufficient to execute the Linden Regional Mashramani celebration 2023. Currently I would not be responsible of any unauthorized expenditures since it would be in contradiction with prudent financial management and my accounting responsibilities," the missive stated.
The elected officials however argued that the issue was not financing, as monies are still available, but that the council decided to stand its ground and end the parade at Bayroc. The REO and senior government officials argued that since Bayroc is an active construction site, the safer venue was Christianburg. In fact, efforts yesterday were made to direct the proceedings to Christianburg, but the majority of the proceedings ended at Bayroc.
When contacted, Regional Executive Officer Dwight John, said he has not paid attention to the statements made by the Regional Chairman and that all statements will be made by the Ministry of Local Government on the matter.


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Macro vs. Micro vs. Nano Time In Preparing For The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
Steven Munatones explains, "It may be a specific idiosyncrasy of open water swimmers and their coaches, but I find swimmers and open water coaches often think of time in macro terms, micro terms and nano terms."
Macro Time
For those deeply passionate about open water swimming, there is never enough time in the day to do all the training, planning, logistical organizing, acclimatizing, traveling, social media following and posting, blog reading and writing, and website design and updating for all the solo swims, relays and competitions that swimmers want to do, especially if they are also balancing family, friends and work between their swimming activities.
Swimmers and coaches often think of large blocks of time in order to plan their swims: in periods of weeks, months and years. For example, swimmers consider, "How many more months to my swim?" or "How many hours to train today?"
These macro units time seems to move slowly and are manageable because so many things (solo swims and races) are often planned out in the future.
Micro Time
In contrast, training on a daily basis seems to be packaged in smaller units.
A swimmer's world, especially those who train in a pool, is usually dictated by micro time. They ask themselves, "How fast can I swim this set [my pace]?" or "How fast can I do this set [my interval]?"
It is amazing how a swimmer's life can be dictated by this micro time, measured in seconds. The difference of 5 seconds or 3 seconds or even 1 second can seem like an impossibility to many swimmers. Think of a set of 100s on 1 minute 30 seconds versus 1:25 versus 1:20 versus 1:15 versus 1:14 or 1:13. Every little second of micro time seems to count for so much in the water during training.
Micro time certainly does not move similarly when comparing macro time at work, in school or at home. Five seconds – or even minutes at a time – can easily pass by on the commute to work or while sitting in the office or learning to a teacher in a classroom. Even lunch or your next vacation or the weekend can seem so far away. Five seconds is simply a sliver of time on land or outside of training; most times, swimmers do not even realize that sliver of time has passed.
But those same five seconds in a swimming set can be a killer – or an impossibility.
Measuring Micro Time
How swimmers measure and discuss micro time is also significantly different than consideration of macro time during on land-based lifestyles.
Swimmers and coaches look at an analog pace clock and say things like:
Let's go on the top.
Start on the bottom.
Next set on the side.
Swimmers and coaches look at a digital pace clock and say things like:
Go on the next 30.
Lane one on the next 60.
I can't make that interval.
At the same time, even if their training lives are dictated by a pace clock, swimmers often ask questions about time like:
What time is it?
How much longer [in the workout]?
How long will this [set] take?
Nano Time
This can be the difference between an Olympic gold medal and a silver medal. Thinking in nano time (or tenths or hundredths of a second) comes into play often at the end of elite competitive races. Over the last two Olympic 10K Marathon Swims, Haley Anderson lost to Éva Risztov in the Serpentine at the 2012 London Olympics, 1:57:38.2 to
1:57:38.6. Similarly, Ferry Weertman touched out Spyridon Gianniotis, 1:52:59.8 to an officially identical time of 1:52:59.8.
Time will tell how you think of it in micro or macro terms.
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Facial recognition has experienced exponential growth over the past few years thanks to its partnership with artificial intelligence. Its rise has been defined not only by extraordinarily advanced technology but also by controversy and backlash regarding privacy violation and built-in bias.
The early developers of facial recognition began growing a database of faces that would feed the machine learning mechanism by having people come in, sign a form of consent, and taking their pictures. But why rely on such a cumbersome and expensive when you've got the internet, chock full of a diverse array of images and face.
The internet now provides gargantuan amounts of data for AI-based facial recognition technologies to comprehensively understand human facial features. "For the facial recognition systems to perform as desired, and the outcomes to become increasingly accurate, training data must be diverse and offer a breadth of coverage," said IBM's John Smith, in a blog post announcing the release of the data.
But the process of obtaining data is not always kosher. IBM, for instance, recently released a collection of almost a million photos that they had taken from Flickr, a photo hosting site, and annotated with details to help build their facial recognition algorithm.
"People gave their consent to sharing their photos in a different internet ecosystem," said Meredith Whittaker, co-director of the AI Now Institute, which studies the social implications of artificial intelligence. "Now they are being unwillingly or unknowingly cast in the training of systems that could potentially be used in oppressive ways against their communities."
John Smith, though, claims that the company is committed to "protecting the privacy of individuals" and "will work with anyone who requests a URL to be removed from the dataset."
NBC News, however, found this to be a bit misleading. "IBM requires photographers to email links to photos they want removed, but the company has not publicly shared the list of Flickr users and photos included in the dataset, so there is no easy way of finding out whose photos are included," they wrote. "IBM did not respond to questions about this process."
IBM is not the lone culprit in such practices. Dozens of other companies looking to get an edge in the race towards the best facial recognition technology are skirting the lines of privacy and consent.
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Missing man found alive after 8 nights in forest
HAVELOCK, N.C. (AP) — A man who went missing in Croatan National Forest has been found alive after eight nights in the woods.The Carteret County Sheriff's Office announced Sunday that 20-year-old Joshua Clauson walked out of a wooded area near a home in Newport and the homeowner called authorities. Officials say Clauson was out for a walk May 29 with a family member when they got lost and then separated. The relative found his way out by following the sounds of passing vehicles, but officials say crews looked for Clauson from the air and on the ground for five days without success.Clauson was taken to a hospital in rough condition, but he's expected to be okay.
Infant accidentally shot during domestic dispute
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say an infant was accidentally shot during a domestic dispute in Charlotte. Multiple news outlets reported that the 1-year-old was shot in the hand Saturday during an altercation between two family members. The reports did not say how the family members were related to the child. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said the child's injury appeared to be non-life-threatening. WCNC-TV reported that one person was arrested. The child was transported to a local hospital to be treated.
Two teens shot at graduation party in Rocky Mount
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — Police say two teens were shot at a graduation party in Rocky Mount after an argument escalated into violence. WRAL-TV reports that Rocky Mount police responded to a shooting at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. A 19-year-old man was taken to UNC Nash Healthcare, where he was pronounced dead. A 17-year-old was shot in the face, then fled to a McDonald's. He was taken to Vidant Healthcare Greenville, where he was listed in critical condition. It was the second fatal shooting at a graduation party over the weekend. On Friday, an 18-year-old was fatally shot in Sanford during a graduation party in a hotel room. A 16-year-old has been charged.
Another COVID side effect: Many kids head to summer school
As the second school year disrupted by the pandemic winds down, summer school plans are taking shape around the country. An influx of federal funding included in COVID-19 rescue legislation is letting districts broaden programming and offer spots to more students than ever before. The Biden administration is requiring states to pour at least $1.2 billion into summer enrichment programs. Districts also must reserve at least 20% of the windfall to address learning loss, which could include summer school, with a focus on students who have been most affected by the shift away from in-person learning.
'Get used to me': Postmaster evokes Trump style in Biden era
WASHINGTON (AP) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is uninterested in the niceties of Washington. The wealthy longtime businessman prides himself as a problem solver ready to disrupt an unwieldy bureaucracy. He's also facing growing legal troubles. As he approaches his first anniversary at the helm of the U.S. Postal Service, DeJoy is under mounting pressure to resign. Instead he's promoting a 10-year plan to remake the service and telling critics: "Get used to me." Democrats are worried that he's purposefully undermining the post office, which is critical to the conduct of elections. While there were complaints about mail delays affecting some balloting and counting, fears of widespread electoral disruptions from DeJoy's changes mostly proved unfounded.
Merck probing discovery of noose at North Carolina plant
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A published report says pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. is investigating how a noose ended up on the campus of its plant in Durham, North Carolina. The News & Observer reports that a contractor found "a rope fashioned as a noose" at a construction project at the site, according to an email obtained by the newspaper. The email said the rope was immediately removed. Merck operates a 262-acre facility in north Durham. The email from site management said such acts will not be tolerated and anyone found responsible will be dealt with "swiftly and severely."
Trump's grievances cloud Republican agenda heading into 2022
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republicans are fighting to seize control of Congress. Just don't ask what they'd do if they win. Look no further for evidence of the GOP's muddled governing agenda than battleground North Carolina, where party leaders packed into a convention hall Saturday night to cheer former President Donald Trump. Even with a high-stakes U.S. Senate election looming, the Republicans at the event were united not by any consistent set of conservative policies or principles, but by Trump's groundless grievances about the 2020 election and his attacks against critics in both parties. In successful midterm elections of past years, Republicans scored big gains after staking out clear positions on health care, federal spending and crime.
Sheriff's deputy fired after patrol car crash, DWI charge
NEWTON, N.C. (AP) — An off-duty sheriff's deputy in North Carolina has been fired after he crashed his patrol car and was charged with driving while impaired. The Charlotte Observer reports that Catawba County Sheriff Don Brown announced the firing in a Facebook post Friday. The sheriff's post said the deputy crashed after picking up his assigned vehicle from a maintenance appointment near Newton, about 45 miles northwest of Charlotte. The sheriff did not name the deputy in his post and did not say when the crash happened. The North Carolina Highway Patrol investigated the single-car crash and filed the DWI charge.
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15.30 Kickoffs:
Wolfsburg remain winless, Leverkusen and Union Berlin earn big victories
By Peter Weis @PeterVicey
In a thoroughly entertaining set of 15:30 kickoffs, four Bundesliga footballers (Christopher Nkunku, Jeremie Frimpong, Sheraldo Becker, and Sven Michel) were able to score braces in victories for RB Leipzig, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and 1. FC Union Berlin.
Leipzig and Leverkusen were able to record their first wins of the season while Wolfsburg remain winless through four. Courtesy of a 6-1 rout of FC Schalke 04, Union Berlin currently occupy top spot in the table ahead of Bayern's match with Gladbach later this evening.
Leipzig and Leverkusen were able to record their first wins of the season while Wolfsburg remain winless through four. Courtesy of a 6-1 rout of FC Schalke 04, Union Berlin currently occupy top spot in the table ahead of Bayern's match with Gladbach later this evening.
Niko Kovac. | Photo: Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
RB trainer Tedesco made two changes to the XI that dropped last round's encounter to 1. FC Union Berlin at the Stadion An der Alten Försterei. Marcel Halstenberg replaced the error-prone Josko Gvardiol in defense. Timo Werner - revealed to have been struggling with a cold - also made way for André Silva. Peter Gulacsi was unable to recover in time from his recent adductor issues, meaning Janis Blaswich once again started between the sticks.
Wolfsburg's Kovac continued with his ongoing personnel carousel. This time there were three changes. Mattias Svanberg, Sebastiaan Bornauw, and Omar MArmoush all began the game on the bench. Ridle Baku, Maximilian Philipp, and the much-discussed Max Kruse entered the XI. Kruse worked as the ten, flanked by Philipp and Jakub Kaminski on the flanks. Absent Svanberg, Maximilian Arnold and Joshua Guilavogui paired in central midfield.
Almost immediately after kickoff, Leipzig were awarded a penalty. After video review, match official Bastian Dankert ruled that VfL defender Maxence Lacroix had handled a ball in the box. Christopher Nkunku calmly converted in the 5th to give the Saxon hosts a 1-0 lead. Tedesco's RB spent much of the duration of the first half on cruise control, with Silva and Dani Olmop narrowly missing chances to double the advantage.
Blasich had almost nothing to do throughout the opening 45 as Wolfsburg were barely able to cross the halfway line. Kovac reacted to his team's languid performance by pulling the trigger on a double change at the half. Marmoush and Felix Nmecha came on for Kaminski and Guilavogui. The second half got off to a lively starts but it was again the hosts that looked more threatening.
Nkunku might have been through were it not for a heroic tackle from Micky van de Ven in the 48th. One minute later, VfL keeper Koen Casteels had trouble with a stinging effort from Konrad Laimer. Marmoush was able to force Blaswich into his first save of the match on a quick WOB counter one minute after that. Die Wölfe began to wake up.
Marmoush, Kruse, and Lukas Nmecha were all able to get efforts off during a flurry of VfL activity just shy of the hour mark. Josip Brekalo also caused some problems shortly after Kovac introduced him in the 59th. Kovac's charges certainly made it interesting for a little while, but Leipzig were back pummeling their opponents in the final 20 minutes.
Werner was introduced late and assisted on some fine chances from Nkunku and Olmo. After a barrage of chances that pushed Leipzig's xG up near the 4.0 mark, Nkunku was able to complete his brace and seal the match by polishing off an easy rebound as the match entered injury time.
Elsewhere in the Bundesliga's 15:30 kickoffs, Wolfsburg's "company team counterparts" were able to break their four-game-losing streak. Gerardo Seoane's Leverkusen travelled to Mainz and earned a convincing 3-0 victory.Jeremie Frimpong scored two goals in quick succession near the end of the first half to give die Werkself an essentially insurmountable early lead.
Nkunku and Frimpong weren'y the only player to bag a brace win on this day. Sheraldo Becker of 1. FC Union Berlin also netted two in Union Berlin's 6-1 rout of FC Schalke 04. Sven Michel then himself scored two in the final three minutes. Urs Fischer's men temporarily move to the top of the Bundesliga table; one point ahead of Bayern München ahead of this evening's showdown with Gladbach.
Over in "sleepy Sinsheim", TSG 1899 Hoffenheim were able to eke out a 1-0 win over Augsburg in a tight physical duel that featured few chances. In a much more exciting game at Berlin's Olympiastadion, there were loads of chances in Dortmund's duel with Hertha BSC. The scoreline nevertheless remained the same as in Sinsheim, with the BVB earning a narrow 1-0 victory.
Anthony Modeste opened his Dortmund account with a headed tally that turned out to be the game winner. Supplying the assist was none other than Modeste's former 1. FC Köln teammate Salih Özcan, who also got his name on the BVB scoresheet for the first time.