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Short Stays
If you already registered on the accommodation portal, login before completing the booking process.
If you are a new user, please register before completing a booking request.
Casual accommodation is available on campus in the Residential System should you need accommodation for a short time.
Bookings are processed closer to the relevant period.
Once your booking is processed, you will be sent an email with details about your allocated Residence and an invoice for payment.
Payment is required within 7 days of the invoice being sent, or if your booking is last minute, prior to arrival.
Rates are per night, single occupancy (dual occupancy not available). There is a minimum stay of 2 consecutive nights.
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Accompanying Children
Parents are urged, if possible, to make alternative arrangements for the accommodation of their children as the college premises are generally unsuitable for family-style accommodation as rooms contain a single bed only. Parents must be responsible for the supervision of their children at all times and under no circumstances must children be left on college premises without adult supervision.
Baby up to 12 months - free
1 year to 10 years - $25 per night
Last Minute Bookings
The Residential Administration Office is not open after hours, public holidays or on weekends. If you are wanting to book accommodation less than 3 days in advance please contact the UNE Residential Services Office on 02 6773 3370 between 9.00 am - 4.00 pm from Monday to Friday to check availability.
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If you need to cancel or amend a booking you have already made, please complete the Cancellation or Amendment form through AskUNE.
The following cancellation fees apply to full or part cancellations of bookings:
At least three working days notice given - no cancellation fee
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Last Activity: 04-06-2009 05:30 PM
About Me
- About ZerK
- Biography
- Lanky kid with wacky hair, obsessed with guitars, car designer/BTCC driver wannabe and general nutter.
- Location
- Durham, UK
- Interests
- cars, and anything fast, computers, motorsport, racing simulations, guitars, music.
- Occupation
- boot camp (some people call it 'school'), and uh.. that's about it really :)
- Country Flag
- United Kingdom
- Cheers,
"We used to come down, doing about 180mph. We take off over the bridge and change down to 4th gear in the air. Go through the righthander with the car drifting, and let it swing out through the lefthander and then slide out to the wall, where we simply stopped it with a flick of the wrists"
-Vic Elford, on Maison Blanche in a Porsche 917
UCP's Most Hardcore Armchair BTCC Fan & Anthony Reid Supporter
- Cheers,

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Q:"Why is my Bluetooth not working? My iPhone will not recognize any Bluetooth devices. How do I fix this?" – Fred from Apple Discussion
iPhone or iPad users who run iOS 11 or iOS 12, alternatively updates its iOS version to a new version, likely get stuck with Bluetooth issue, such as Bluetooth not showing up on iPhone or iPad, Bluetooth won't turn on, Bluetooth suddenly disconnecting, Bluetooth won't connect after iOS upgrade, Bluetooth connection always drops and Bluetooth can't recognize Bluetooth devices as Fred reported. You may have been obsessed with this Bluetooth not working problem for a long time and still on the way to look for effective solutions. Now good chance comes. You can follow available ways to fix it soon.
1. Enable/Disable Bluetooth
Note: You can go to "Settings" > "Bluetooth" to enable the switcher if there is no way to totally close Bluetooth as well as WIFI on Control Center (iOS 11/12).
2. Forget All Paired Device and Match Again
3. Restore iDevice or Reset All Settings
Note: Remember to back up iPhone or iPad in advance as this solution may easily wipe current iOS data.


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Reportedly, a princess from Saudi Arabia alleged that there was a theft of jewels worth 800,000 euros from her suite at the Ritz hotel in Paris. The princess whose name has not been revealed stated that the jewels were taken on Friday afternoon. However, there were no signs that the room had been broken into. The woman told prosecutors that the belongings were not left in the room's safe and were just kept beside her bed. As confirmed by a legal source, an investigation has been opened up by France's anti-organized crime brigade and more details are being awaited. Reportedly, an official from the Ritz hotel has declined to comment on the issue, but this would be the second heist from the Paris hotel, as in January, earlier this year, armed men burst in the lobby of the hotel, and stole millions of dollars worth necklaces and other jewelry from display cases. Although all the jewels were eventually recovered, the police managed to catch three of them inside the premises, while the two others managed to escape.
Read: Kim Kardashian Writes 'Thinking About You', Gaurav Gera Says 'Main Bhi Didi'
The area near the hotel is filled with a dozen of luxury shops and boutiques and armed thefts are not uncommon. Earlier, in 2017, a man was able to substitute two diamonds with fake ones in a jewellery store. The rings were worth 5.5 million euros. In October 2016, the reality television star Kim Kadarshian was a victim of a robbery, just 10 minutes walk from the Ritz Hotel, wherein millions of dollars worth her jewelry was stolen. Just before the robber, Kim had posted a picture of her £3.5 million pound ring. As per reports, the criminals entered the premises posing to be police officials. They also held Kim at gunpoint and fled the scenes after helping themselves with millions of euros. Ever since these incidents, the police officials have made sure to keep an eye on the street, but this has hardly done anything to deter the determined robbers in the area.
Read: President Donald Trump Praises Kim Kardsashian And Kanye West


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Online panel >> Quality control
1. What experience does your company have in providing online samples for market research?
Q survey was found in China in 2005 as a information technology company, we created our online panel and soon became the largest panelists in China, we developed technology, our panel are managed and hosted on our own system. By now, we successfully set up nearly 1million panelists in our activity website :www.1diaocha.com. we also executed three thousand online fieldwork projects for the global market and research agencies.
Our goal is dedicate to do the quickly and quality survey in China and set up the panelists in foreigh country to expand our business in global .
2. Please describe and explain the type(s) of online sample sources from which you get respondents. Are these databases? Actively managed research panels? Direct marketing lists? Social networks? Web intercept (also known as river) samples?
1) We recruit via online and offline ,we have an activity website ,our members click the key words in searching website just like Baidu and Google .we make advertisements in the internet sites to recruitment in after they can login 1diaocha website and do the registration questionnaire to became our members ,it will reward for the registers, the other way is members recommendation ,we will reward them whom recommend others to became members in our websites.
2) After registration and double check after we send check information via SMS, personal information or the profile information will be check half past year later, even update within one year.
3) project management teams only send email invitations to surveys,any other type of email communication is avoided in order to prevent confusion and respondent bias.
3. If you provide samples from more than one source: How are the different sample sources blended together to ensure validity? How can this be replicated over time to provide reliability? How do you deal with the possibility of duplication of respondents across sources?
QQsurvey uses samples from other providers only when due to external circumstances ,incidence rate becames lower than estimated ,preventing the full coverage of samples with our own resources.a
person can become a QQsurvey panel member by invitation only,so Multi-panel membership is avoided.
Finally ,we have Ip and cookie control .
4. Are your sample source(s) used solely for market research? If not, what other purposes are they used for?
QQsurvey panels are only used for market research ,our panel members exclusively receive invitations to market research surveys .
5. How do you source groups that may be hard to reach on the internet?
Thanks to our multisource recruitment method, it's have panel introduction with incentives . We close agreements with local internet in different provinces . invite those members to be our panels .it were not possible to recruit them online we also third part phone –to web or other recruitment method.
6. If, on a particular project, you need to supplement your sample(s) with sample(s) from other providers, how do you select those partners? Is it your policy to notify a client in advance when using a third party provider?
Following the guidelines based on :
1) Quality (reliable of the data obtained by the suppliers ,methods used in its creation and panel management are most important .
2) Delivery (Feasibility to achieve big samples in the request countries )
3) Price
4) Speed and Reliable
5) Capability
7. What steps do you take to achieve a representative sample of the target population?
Samples is recruit in a random way among the panellists who satisfy the requirements to participate in the project. This is made in proportion to the quotas of the project.
Yes ,the overall demographic distribution of our panels does not represent the general population of the country ,QQsurvey panel profile is adapted to the local demand of market research in China. it is possible to draw representatives samples of the national population by combining age ,gender ,region,education,and other sociodemographic criteria.
8. Do you employ a survey router?
9. If you use a router: Please describe the allocation process within your router. How do you decide which surveys might be considered for a respondent? On what priority basis are respondents allocated to surveys?
For difficult projects the panelist will access the questionnaire if the socio-demographic profile (age ,gender ,region ….)is the required and none of the relevant quotas has been fulfilled .
10. If you use a router: What measures do you take to guard against, or mitigate, any bias arising from employing a router? How do you measure and report any bias?
11. If you use a router: Who in your company sets the parameters of the router? Is it a dedicated team or individual project managers?
12. What profiling data is held on respondents? How is it done? How does this differ across sample sources? How is it kept up-to-date? If no relevant profiling data is held, how are low incidence projects dealt with?
Upon register ,we ask for compulsory basic sociodemographic information(personal data ,gender ,age .etc ) ,through our profiling surveys we add household demographics ,employment and company size etc .this is updated annually. And collected additional information .
13. Please describe your survey invitation process. What is the proposition that people are offered to take part in individual surveys? What information about the project itself is given in the process? Apart from direct invitations to specific surveys (or to a router), what other means of invitation to surveys are respondents exposed to? You should note that not all invitations to participate take the form of emails.
Email invitation:
No survey topic
No communication on survey length or amount of the incentives in order to avoid bias .
14. Please describe the incentives that respondents are offered for taking part in your surveys. How does this differ by sample source, by interview length, by respondent characteristics?
Members of QQsurvey receive redeemable points for every survey they complete ,also for those where they are screened or filtered out .points are exchanged by Alipay or different gifts .
15. What information about a project do you need in order to give an accurate estimate of feasibility using your own resources?
To give the accurate estimated viability we need :
1) Number of completes required.
2) Quotas
3) Field work time
4) Detailed information of the project specification.
16. Do you measure respondent satisfaction? Is this information made available to clients?
No methods to measure the respondent satisfaction are the evolution of the response rates,the number of gifts exchange etc .
17. What information do you provide to debrief your client after the project has finished?
1 questionnaire
2 samples introduction
3 FW time
4 data format
5 Response rate and incentive rate
6 policy
18. Who is responsible for data quality checks? If it is you, do you have in place procedures to reduce or eliminate undesired within survey behaviours, such as (a) random responding, (b) Illogical or inconsistent responding, (c) overuse of item non-response (e.g. "Don't Know") or (d) speeding (too rapid survey completion)? Please describe these procedures.
The project manager is the data quality responsible ,control is performed on the following aspects :
Checking and consisting sex and age data request in survey and registraction. Monitor the time required to complete the survey . Checking the answers in open questions and answer time
19. How often can the same individual be contacted to take part in a survey within a specified period whether they respond to the contact or not? How does this vary across your sample sources?
A panelist can't receive more than three survey invitation every 5days ,the average invitations during 2013 was 3 each 15days .
20. How often can the same individual take part in a survey within a specified period? How does this vary across your sample sources? How do you manage this within categories and/or time periods?
they can take part in a survey within 5days .we try to send the invitations to those panellists who are not very active.
21. Do you maintain individual level data such as recent participation history, date of entry, source, etc., on your survey respondents? Are you able to supply your client with a project analysis of such individual level data?
Following ESOMAR specifications, QQsurvey collects individual data information and analysis panels behaviour to improve its incentive standard, provide the confidential data to our clients, includes quality answer data etc,. Monitoring the data collection.
22. Do you have a confirmation of respondent identity procedure? Do you have procedures to detect fraudulent respondents? Please describe these procedures as they are implemented at sample source registration and/or at the point of entry to a survey or router. If you offer B2B samples what are the procedures there, if any?
Context: Confirmation of identity can increase quality by decreasing multiple entries, fraudulent panellists etc.
Yes, panel numbers with inconsistent data in the data fields(name, address, E-mail etc.) They will not be invited until identification confirmed. We use control via cookies and IP to ensure that different panels, don't access from same computer. There are no difference between consumers or business samples.
23. Please describe the 'opt-in for market research' processes for all your online sample sources.
Context: The opt-in process indicates the respondents' relationship with the sample source provider. The market generally makes a distinction between single and double opt-in. Double opt-in refers to the process by which a check is made to confirm that the person joining a panel or database wishes to be a member and understands what to expect (in advance of participating in an actual survey for a paying client).
The internet users are invited to join the panel only required the personal data, E-mail and password. Our terms conditions and privacy policy will be together with incentive for join the panel. After registration users resave a confirmation E-mail with a link, double opt-in for the join the panel. The personal cellphone number and address to detect duplications.
24. Please provide a link to your Privacy Policy. How is your Privacy Policy provided to your respondents?
QQsurvey privacy policy follows ESOMAR indication, and uses data protection in China, we reach security level which includes personal data. All our panellists must accept general terms and privacy policy, in order to complete registration.
25. Please describe the measures you take to ensure data protection and data security.
Our data base hosted in high security facilities in China ,also set up high security password.
26. What practices do you follow to decide whether online research should be used to present commercially sensitive client data or materials to survey respondents?
No 100% reliable method to protect confidential client material .QQsurvey use the following security actions :
Avoid survey's print
Warning messages
27. Are you certified to any specific quality system? If so, which one(s)?
Follow ISO 26362
28. Do you conduct online surveys with children and young people? If so, do you adhere to the standards that ESOMAR provides? What other rules or standards, for example COPPA in the United States, do you comply with?
QQsurvey allows the registration of people under 18years old only with their parental consent . Uaually ,for youth study ,we often target their parents instead of themselves .
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Please visit our Lost Pets page.
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Want to foster a pet?
Get more information on our Volunteer page or email our foster coordinator - firstname.lastname@example.com
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Email our adoption team - firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to include the pet's name, impound number (5 digits or 9 digits starting with an A) and where you saw him/her.
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News for UB's valued alumni/ae. (see all topics)
The annual Felix Smith Scholarship for part-time students will continue in perpetuity.
The University at Buffalo today launches a fundraising campaign that is the largest in university history and the largest in the history of the State University of New York system.
The free April 14th event includes a documentary screening, demos, lunch and a conversation with female founders of local tech firms.
Ferric Contrast, Neurovascular Diagnostics and Sunny Clean Water have each won awards of about $225,000.
The beloved critter will be guest star of the UB geology department's annual Groundhog Day cookout.
Hon. Barbara Howe, former New York State Surrogate Judge for Erie County, will receive the UB School of Law's 2018 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award.
From developing a pneumonia vaccine to desalinating water with the sun, here are some highlights from a year of discovery.
Rodney M. Grabowski, a highly accomplished fundraising executive with more than 25 years of experience, has been named UB vice president for philanthropy and alumni engagement.
Competition is part of a weeklong series of events hosted by Blackstone LaunchPad at UB.
Vaccine under development provides the "most comprehensive coverage" to date and alleviates antimicrobial concerns, new study finds.
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Many of your know I recently came back from my yearly yoga retreat followed by a 7 day mono-diet cleanse. My particular cleanse was designed by the amazing Camina Gillotti – an angelic Ayurvedic consultant who splits her time between the Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas (https://www.sivanandabahamas.org/) and her practice in Santa Rosa, California (not a bad life!) Check her out at: www.caminagillotti.com. She is available via Skype as well.
As a healthcare practitioner myself, I often need someone to reinforce what I tell so many of my patients. Camina was able to do all that for me and suggested a 7-day mono-diet cleanse when I returned. I have to say, it's been awhile since I had done a cleanse, and the benefits are endless.
What is a mono-diet?
I often recommend a mono-diet for clients struggling with digestive disturbance, anxiety, unexplained immune disorders and a variety of other reasons. A mono-diet can vary in its specific goals based on the disease pattern, but essentially, we want to take any increased stress off of the digestive and nervous system – bringing the body into greater balance and alignment.
Decreased digestive stress
In Chinese medicine, the Earth element is largely associated with the digestive system and the organs of the Spleen and Stomach. The Stomach is responsible for what we take into the body and why, while the Spleen transports these nutrients to the other organ systems. A mono-diet brings our awareness to the specific foods we are eating, enabling the stomach and body to function with greater conscious awareness. Conscious awareness is integral to any healing process.
Increased Energy
One of Camina's rules that I found most challenging was no eating past 7 pm. This has now become my favorite rule. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the 'rest and digest' functions of the body. The more room we can give the organs to do these functions appropriately and easily, the greater ease the body has in decreasing stress levels and increasing energy.
Increased Mental Clarity
Simply, with improvements in nutrient processing, better sleep, and an optimally functioning nervous system, the brain functions better. Camina also included essential fats and in fact, required me to have at least 4 tablespoons of oil or high quality ghee daily (yes butter on a cleanse!). High-quality fats are essential to healthy nerve, brain and hormonal function, keeping the body running smoothly.
The Challenge: Honoring the Emotional Body
By making a strict schedule and taking the guesswork out of meal planning, we are able to break unhealthy patterns called ' habitual' eating. 'Habitual' eating is eating we do out of stress, emotional coping or learned pleasure. By consciously eating, the mind and the body are better able to cope with stress with greater awareness. This honors not only the physical body but the emotional body as well.
We must remember that Food is the means by which we re-CREATE the world as ourselves.
Next Steps
Interested in a customized cleanse appropriate for your constitution this spring season? Contact the office to see how Chinese medicine can help to detoxify your system, bring more awareness to your physical and emotional body, and support your conscious growth.
- Catherine Craig L.Ac.


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ROK the Rockies
2019 Schedule
Round #1: April 28
Round #2: May 19
Round #3: June 16
Round #4: July 21
Round #5: August 18
Round #6: September 22
ROK the Rockies is owned and operated by ROK Cup Promotions. The series will offer all nine ROK classes, utilizing Vortex Engines and Bridgestone tires following the standard ROK Cup USA rule set. Official Vortex ROK and Bridgestone Tire suppliers for the Rocky Mountain Region are Performance Kartsport and SBR Motorsports Park, whom both will be offering sales and service of these products for series competitors.
The 2019 season will include six races with one drop event, with all events run at SBR Motorsports Park in Calhan, CO. Championship points are based on driver's best five finishing results. Awards will include free entry to ROK Cup USA's ROK the RIO event to all class champions, including entry, race tires, fuel and oil.


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Component Packaging
Show some love for your board game by keeping your pieces organized and your box clean. Providing players with component bags makes them less likely to loose pieces (open your Mouse Trap board game for proof) and provides protection.
Of course, bags work even better when paired with organizing inserts.
Choose from three bag materials: plastic bag, faux velvet, or linen.


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In Hadoop 2.6 a fundamental feature was introduced that did not get much attention but will play an important role moving forward – the Credential API. Looking ahead the Credential Management Framework (CMF) will play an important role for the pluggable token authentication framework, column encryption in ORC files, or the transparent data encryption. But not only future components but applications build for Hadoop can benefit from it. Continue reading "Hadoop Credential API"
Category: Hadoop Security
Installing HttpFS Gateway on a Kerberized Cluster
HttpFS gateway is the preferred way of accessing the Hadoop filesystem using HTTP clients like curl. Additionally it can be used from from the hadoop fs command line tool ultimately being a replacement for the hftp protocol. HttpFS, unlike HDFS Proxy, has full support for all file operations with additional support for authentication. Given it's stateless protocol it is ideal to scale out Hadoop filesystem access using HTTP clients.
In this post I would like to show how to install and setup a HttpFS gateway on a secure and kerberized cluster. By providing some troubleshooting topics, this post should also help you, when running into problems while installing the gateway. Continue reading "Installing HttpFS Gateway on a Kerberized Cluster"
Securing Your Datalake With Apache Argus – Part 1
Apache Argus, the Apache open source project, with it's comprehensive security offering for today's Hadoop installations is likely to become an important cornerstone of modern enterprise BigData architectures. It's by today already quite sophisticate compared to other product offerings.
Key aspects of Argus are the Administration, Authorization, and Audit Logging covering most security demands. In the future we might even see Data Protection (encryption) as well.
Argus consists of four major components that tied together build a secure layer around your Hadoop installation. Within Argus it is the Administration Portal, a web application, that is capable of managing and accessing the Audit Server and Policy Manager, also two important components of Apache Argus. At the client side or a the Hadoop services like the HiveServer2 or the NameNode Argus installs specific agents that encapsulate requests based on the policies specified.
A key aspect of Argus is, that the clients don't have to request the Policy Server on every single client call, but are updated in a certain interval. This improves the scalability and also ensures that clients continue working even when the Policy Server is down.
Let's go ahead an install a most recent version of Apache Argus using the HDP Sandbox 2.1. By installing the Policy Manager, Hive, and HDFS Agent you should have a pretty good idea of how Argus operates and a pretty solid environment to test specific use cases.
In this part we'll only install the Policy Manager of Argus synced together with our OpenLdap installation for user and group management. We will use our kerberized HDP Sandbox throughout this post. Continue reading "Securing Your Datalake With Apache Argus – Part 1"
Kerberized Hadoop Cluster – A Sandbox Example
The groundwork of any secure system installation is a strong authentication. It is the process of verifying the identity of a user by comparing known factors. Factors can be:
- Shared Knowledge
A password or the answer to a question. It's the most common and not seldom the only factor used by computer systems today.
- Biometric Attributes
For example fingerprints or iris pattern
- Items One Possess
A Smart Card or phone. Phone is probably one of the most common factors in use today aside a shared knowledge.
A system that takes more than one factor into account for authentication is also know as a multi-factor authentication system. Knowing the identity of a user up to a specific certainty can not be overestimated.
All other components of a save environment, like Authorization, Audit, Data Protection, and Administration, heavily rely on a strong authentication. Authorization or Auditing only make sense if the identity of a user can not be compromised. In Hadoop today there exist solution for nearly all aspects of enterprise grade security layers, especially with the event of Apache Argus. Continue reading "Kerberized Hadoop Cluster – A Sandbox Example"
Apache Knox: A Hadoop Bastion
Lately a lot of effort went into making Hadoop setups more secure for enterprise ready installations. With Apache Knox comes a connecting strap for your cluster that acts like a bastion server shielding direct access to your nodes. Knox is stateless and can therefor easily scale horizontally with the obvious limitation of also just supporting stateless protocols. Knox provides the following functionality:
- Authentication
Users and groups can be managed using LDAP or Active Directory
- Federation/SSO
Knox uses HTTP header based identity federation
- Authorization
Authorization is mainly supported on service level through access control lists (ACL)
- Auditing
Access through Knox is audited for
Here we are going to explore the necessary steps for a Knox setup. In this setup the authentication process is going through a LDAP directory service running on the same node as Knox while separated from the Hadoop cluster. Knox comes with an embedded Apache Directory for demo purposes. You can also read here on how to setup a secure OpenLDAP. Knox LDAP service can be started like this:
cd {KNOX_HOME} bin/ldap.sh start
Here we are going to explorer necessary steps to setup Apache Know for your environment. Continue reading "Apache Knox: A Hadoop Bastion"
Hadoop Security: 10 Resources To Get You Started
As Hadoop emerges into the center of todays enterprise data architecture, security becomes a critical requirement. This can be witnessed by the most recent acquisitions of leading Hadoop vendors and also by the numerous projects centered around security that have been launched or are getting more traction recently.
Here are 10 resources to get you started about the topic:
- Hadoop Security Design (2009 White Paper)
- Hadoop Security Design? – Just Add Kerberos? Really?(Black Hat 2010)
- Hadoop Poses a Big Data Security Risk: 10 Reasons Why
- Apache Knox – A gateway for Hadoop clusters
- Apache Argus
- Project Rhino
- Protegrity Big Data Protector
- Dataguise for Hadoop
- Secure JDBC and ODBC Clients' Access to HiveServer2
- InfoSphere Optim Data Masking


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Italian police have made more than 100 arrests in anti-Mafia operations in two regions of the country, Al Jazeera reports.
One operation targeted the 'Ndrangheta mob based in Calabria and the other took place in Rome, making it the largest Mafia bust in the capital.
Europol will conduct an investigation into football match fixing by Russian organized crime groups, The Moscow Times reports.
In early February, Europol uncovered an Asian organized crime syndicate that operated a system of football match-fixing. The discovery has caused investigators to look into 680 football games around the world, 380 of them in Europe, and including the World Cup and European cup matches.
Anna Callaghan
Global warming. Climate change. Clean energy. Sustainability. Those topics have become buzzwords as the global community becomes more concerned with protecting the environment.
By Stevan Dojčinović, Bojana Jovanović and Christoph Zotter
Story in Serbian language.
Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić's national security advisor has maintained contact with major organized crime figures since before 2008 when he entered government.
An internal government intelligence report shows that Ivica Toncev's ties to organized crime were known to the prime minister. Yet, despite that knowledge and warnings from diplomats of several major countries, Toncev gained in power and responsibility.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Center for Investigative Reporting in Serbia (CINS) was given access to a leaked report titled "Information on activities and contacts of Ivica Tončev" dating from mid-2012.
Daniele Ozzimo, a former member of the Rome city council, was sentenced yesterday with five others for their part in the 'Mafia Capitale' corruption scandal, according to Repubblica.
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Managing the expectations of others and pressures of society
If you could do anything in the world, what would you do? If you could chase any dream, what would it be? Now let's hear why you're not pursuing it, because chances are, you're not.
The thought of following our dreams can be absolutely terrifying. So much so that many never even try. But why? There are endless reasons, and the one we rely on most is a financial one. Maybe you're buried in debt – school loans, medical bills, etc - and it would be irresponsible to take a financial risk. Or perhaps you have a medical condition that costs thousands of dollars each year, hindering you from investing in an idea or going a month without pay or benefits.
Unfortunately, there will almost always be financial gamble involved when taking a risk, but chances are the real reason you're not chasing your dream has to do with other's expectations of you, real or perceived.
"She said I couldn't do it."
"He'd think I'm dumb if I tried."
and, of course,
"What will they think if I FAIL?!"
We've all heard other people say these things, if not thought them ourselves. But are they meaningful expectations or pressures we put on ourselves? Managing these thoughts along with what we've been told and the expectations of others can be challenging. Especially when the ideas and expectations come from sources we respect, like family. Those around us can be valuable sources of knowledge and advice, even when it's not what you want to hear, so considering the opinions of those close to you is important. But ultimately it's up to you to decide what's best for you.
"Honor thy father, but make your own decisions."
- Paulo Cohelo
Society and culture add yet another source of pressure.
Growing up in the Humble Midwest taught me values and principles I'll forever be grateful for, but the general expectation for one's life is as follows:
1. Graduate high school
2. Go to college
3. Get married
4. Have kids
All in that order and before you're 30.
Now, there's absolutely nothing wrong with taking that path so long as you are happy and fulfilled. But for those who don't feel that lifestyle is for them, many still feel the pressure to follow suit.
I've always tended the "push" the rules, but I've also never been able to fully commit to my dreams. Though I graduated high school early and moved across the country to pursue wakeboarding at 17, I still chose to go to college and received a degree in finance, something I wasn't passionate about but figured was a "safe" choice. After graduating, I immediately took a job in commercial real estate, knowing I couldn't handle a corporate desk job but also feeling the need for a "back up plan" for my creative endeavors. I attended school and started in real estate simultaneous to pursuing wakeboarding and opportunities in TV and writing. Though my intent was to leverage the instability of a career in the entertainment industry, I wound up half in and half out of all my pursuits and thus couldn't excel in any of them!
When you're spread thin, it's tough to shine.
I've been very fortunate to have had many amazing experiences traveling the world thanks to opportunities in the TV, film, and action sports industries, and real estate has helped pay the bills, but I've never allowed myself to fully commit to my creative dreams. I've always kept one foot in my "safety plan", prolonging many of my creative projects and prohibiting me to fulfill my potential.
Don't get me wrong, being responsible for one's self should always be a top priority. Yours truly has some serious medical bills to pay year after year, and I've always taken pride in being self-sufficient. But one also has a duty to at least give themselves a chance at fulfilling their dreams. In order to do so you need to be all in. And that's okay, so long as you're prepared to take responsibility for the consequences should things not go as planned.
We can all come up with countless excuses for not doing something, myself included. The funny thing is that when I think about it, what's held me back most isn't what I've been told, it's what I've been telling myself.
In recent months, I've pushed myself to manage the perceived expectations that hold me back. I've tried to pinpoint the sources of my hesitation and focus on my own voice versus what others tell me or what I think they'd tell me if I told them my dreams. Oftentimes what we assume people's expectations are is actually competently different than reality.
My friend, mentor, and all around badass, Mike Smith, recently published his first book, Legacy Vs Likes (get it here), and in Chapter 4 he talks about the pressures we feel:
"What's the excuse bouncing around inside your brain telling you not to try? Whose voice is in your head making you doubt yourself? Is it a parent, a bully, a boyfriend or girlfriend? We all have that voice we allow to tell us we can't do something, and too often, we let that outside voice become our own."
– CH 4, 'Legacy Vs. Likes'
To allow ourselves to go "all in", we have to separate our own voice from those of the people around us and the pressures we feel from society.
I'm not encouraging a single mom of four to bet the mortgage on an unrealistic dream, but if you're willing to work your ass off, deal with the consequences of the outcome (good or bad), and are so passionate about something you can feel it in your bones, I say you gotta give 'er. No one wants to die wondering.
So, let's try this again: If you could follow any dream, what would it be? And no matter what you've been told, taught, or encouraged to do or not to do, what are you telling yourself?
"If you do what's safe your entire life, who will you become?"
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Without George is a New York City based band formed by singer/guitarist Mark Spellman and guitarist Johnny Holleran in their native West of Ireland.
Having released their debut LP "Without George" featuring 11 original tracks in 2008 the band toured extensively in Ireland & Europe, including support slots with Blondie, Irish acts The Stunning, The Sawdoctors and BellX1 before relocating to NYC in 2011.
Without George's next release the EP "What Was On My Mind At The Time", recorded in 2014, in Brooklyn NY, is the 1st to feature NYC based musicians Steve Kortyka, Tristan McCoppin & Steven Spellman supplementing the Irish duo on 5 original compositions with their talents on Saxophone, Bass & Drums respectively.
Vocalists and guitarists, Mark Spellman & Johnny Holleran, billed as Without George, perform both in an acoustic duo setting and in any variety of acoustic & electric line-ups, throughout the North East US. The group are based between NYC and the PA Lehigh Valley region, performing weekly in both markets.
Born from the ashes of local super group Smoked Out, Without George were formed in Cong, Co. Mayo in 2003 when former Tom Noones, Mark & Johnny, together with bassist Damian Mullin, successfully auditioned drummer & guru Chris Green. Holing up in the Loft at Gortnaclassa, the group spent the next year developing their jamming & songwriting skills while performing enough to fund their now out of print EP in the summer of 2005.
That autumn saw the 1st of many line up changes as Without George were reunited with Dave Concannon (Smoked Out, Tom Noones) on drums, vocals & acoustic guitar as Chris spent a year away to continue his studies. Also around this time, the lads relocated their Friday night acoustic show from Eyre Square to Dominic St. & were joined full time by friend and mentor Stephen Monaghan on guitar & vocals as Monroe's Tavern played host to this 5 piece lineup most every week since, while the group continued to tour Ireland & Western Europe from Donegal to Cork, Amsterdam to Brighton & Galway City to Dublin Town.
2007 saw the group record their debut album "Without George" with producer Andy Reynolds at his Ceol Nua studios in Spiddal, Co Galway. While Stephen's contribution was limited to vocals on 2 tracks, due to the formation of his group This Nachez, the remaining 4 members cut 11 high energy tracks which perfectly encapsulate the band's direction at that time, but which hinted at things to come. Joined on 1 track each by friends and collaborators, Geoff Ward on saxophone & Pete Berrill on Trumpet, Without George also had the pleasure of re welcoming Chris to the fold as a guest percussionist just as he took over the acoustic slot at Monroe's on djembe, where he continues to play Friday nights with Stephen & a few other Without George alumni.
The following couple years found Without George gigging intensely, sometimes aided by Geoff & Pete & with Stephen an ever present on stage. Highlights of this era include the opening of Eyre Square celebration show, playing The Salty Dog Stage at the Electric Picnic, supporting the legendary Blondie at the Galway Arts Festival and headlining the closing night of the Tuam Arts Festival " Earwig", while still finding time for multiple support slots to The Saw Doctors, Bell X1 and The Stunning and a succession of brief headlining tours around the country. An afternoon spent with Síle on TG4 brought the band to an unexpected wider and younger audience while previous appearences on popular internet video site, Balcony TV have stirred interest as far as San Francisco, with one promoter begging for a St. Patricks Day visit in 2009.
Following the retirement of Damian & under the shadow of Dave's forthcoming emigration to Italy, the band embarked on their infamous New York tour of March 09 with a new line up featuring 'Nachez bass player Dave Donoghue & Chris back behind the kit. The group would continue with this line up for the year's gigs and the recording of the band's sophomore effort featuring many of the tracks that are still performed to this day.
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Here's where Singapore Airlines is planning to fly non-stop to next
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) created aviation history on Oct 11, 2018, when it flew its longest flight, also the world's longest.
The non-stop 19-hour journey to New York from the Southeast Asian island of Singapore effectively overtook Qatar's 17.5-hour Auckland to Doha route.
Lots were planned and done to ensure passengers' comfort, including the 67 Business Class seat and 94 Premium Economy Class seat configuration which allows for more room and cooking up an in-flight wellness itinerary with health experts, nutritionists, and chefs.
Now, the airline is planning to fly to another destination non-stop.
On Sept 3, 2019, SIA will debut its non-stop Singapore-Seattle flights, making Seattle the fifth US city route for the airline's route network and the fourth to be served non-stop from Singapore – when new flights are introduced next year.
The inaugural SQ28 flight will leave Singapore every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 9.25 a.m. local time and arrive in Seattle on the same day at 9.05 a.m. local time.
The return SQ27 flight will depart Seattle at 10.40 a.m. local time every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday and arrive in Singapore the following day at 5.30 p.m.
SIA is planning to increase the initial three times a week flight frequency in October 2019, with flight SQ28 and flight SQ27 operating every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
An Airbus A350-900 aircraft will be used on the route, fitted with 42 Business Class, 24 Premium Economy Class, and 187 Economy Class seats.
Seattle is one of the fastest growing cities in the US, with a strong and diverse economy.
It is home to the headquarters of a large number of major US corporations, and the city is a popular venue for start-up businesses.
Seattle also ranks highly for job growth and has a steadily increasing population.
Known affectionately as the "Emerald City," Seattle is also a popular tourist destination, famous for its lush evergreen forests and parks, vibrant arts and cultural scene as well as the gateway for cruises to Alaska.
"Our new non-stop flights to Seattle are another demonstration of our commitment to expand our operations in the important US market and grow our network reach," SIA CEO Goh Choon Phong said in a statement.
"The new services will also further strengthen the Singapore hub by providing customers faster and more convenient connectivity from key markets such as Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australasia to North America," he added.
Singapore Airlines will operate 53 flights per week to the US by December 2018, including 27 non-stop Singapore-US services. With the introduction of the new Seattle flights next year, total US frequency will increase to 57 flights per week.
Tickets for the Singapore-Seattle flight will be made available for sale progressively from Nov 7, 2018, through the various distribution channels.
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Imagine you are visiting an old space station with friends and just as you arrive, it is hit by a meteorite.
You have 60 minutes to fix the station before it crashes.
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Return of the Rancher
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Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date: May 2007
Duration: 8 hours 15 minutes
The wounded outlaw blurted out the warning to range boss Jim Seton, and Seton knew that if he wasn't careful, the man's words would prove true; Doug Walters' men were out for his blood. After five years in prison, Seton dared to return to the hostile town he called home - and within shooting range of the one man who would pay a fortune to see him dead. Then, within twenty-four hours, Walters' cut-throats came after Seton with the promise of big money in their eyes, murder in their hearts - and blazing Colts in their hands. But Seton was all man and a yard wide - smart enough and tough enough to take on these hombres and anything worse north of the Rio Grande - and win.


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Interbrand, a leading consultant which operates Brandchannel.com (the world's only online exchange about branding), recently released a report on the 100 best brands of 2015. Presenting the 100 best global brands, Jez Frampton, Global CEO of Interbrand, commented, The Age of You began with an age-old truth: people want to be in control of their lives and, specifically, to personally design the life they want to live. And people are using brands to do it because brands are the vehicles through which things happen. As data and technology have helped optimize every experience, as GAFA brands (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) have changed the definition of service and connectivity, as people have gained access to greater and more nuanced choices, our expectations have been fundamentally retrained. Brands are now expected to move at the speed of people's demands—at the speed of their lives.
What are the hallmarks of the 100 best global brands?
Brands across all categories are not only adopting innovative technologies but also embracing holistic change in order to become stronger, faster and more agile, shared Paola Norambuena, Chief Content Officer at Interbrand.
Clarity of strategy and focus on structure clarity is one of the hallmarks and a source of brands' strength. In order to be coherent, efficient, and meet consumer expectations, top-performing brands lean on an ambitious vision that shapes both behaviors and structures.
Relentless customer-centricity is another core value that created cross-industry leaders like Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Many other brands are evolving by developing design-led strategies that place customers at the core.
Tech-powered personalization enabled top brands across all industries to build unprecedented, personal experiences.
Clarity, customer-centricity and using technology to power personal experiences are all hallmarks of the brands that have made the most impressive improvements this year. Each company proved that there is no universal template of a great brand.
Companies across 17 industries are represented in the 100 best brands list: automotive, media, technology, sporting goods, luxury, apparel, FMCG, beverages, financial services, retail, transportation, alcohol, electronics, business services, diversified, restaurants and energy.
Financial services companies represent 12% of the 100 best global brands, taking the third place. The least represented are companies in the energy sector, sporting goods, restaurants industry, transportation retail and business services.
Interestingly, automotive and technology industries have the most number of companies among the 100 best global brands—15% and 13% respectively. Among companies representing the financial services industry that made it to the list are industry giants like American Express, JPMorgan, HSBC, Citi, Goldman Sachs, AXA, Allianz, Morgan Stanley and others. American Express leads the valuation race with almost $19 billion at the table.
The 13 technology brands in this year's Best Global Brands report represent more than a third (33.5%) of the $1.7 trillion total, making technology this year's leading sector by value. Even though counted in technology, today's tech companies have gone beyond the traditional understanding of the technology, entering the financial services industry. Introducing financial services, tech giants blurred the lines dividing the sectors and demonstrated the ability to change and adapt to behavioral and market trends.
Altogether, companies from the financial services industry are worth more than $111 billion while automotive leads with more than $234 billion in value. The highest growth among FS companies was demonstrated by MasterCard (+17%). HSBC, on the contrary, had an 11% fall. PayPal is the new entrant that has expanded the presence of FinTech companies'.
Traditional FS companies didn't take any of the top 10 positions, with technology, automotive, retail and business services companies leading the ranking. With the launch of Apple Pay, Apple can be now called a FinTech giant. As expected, the company took the gold in the listing, with Google and Coca-Cola behind. The distinction between tech giants and financial services companies is getting less vivid over time as companies start invading traditional banking giants' space with innovative solutions. Microsoft, for example, is actively involved in FinTech with a variety of initiatives. IBM is intensively working on self-learning AI machine Watson, which can revolutionize the financial advising sector. Google's Wallet takes the tech giant across the border, enabling almost instant bank account transactions.
Companies that demonstrated the highest growth in value are led by Facebook, which now can also be counted among FinTech giants (+54%) since it expanded opportunities for e-commerce and adding a money transfer function. This year's fastest risers—Apple (+43%), Facebook (+54%), Amazon (+29%), and Adobe (+17%)—are brands that have evolved around their users. Being user-centric, these brands were able to grow their audiences quickly and evolve their products and services according to the demand and market opportunities. Tremendous difference in the growth pace of traditional financial industry players and tech giants in favor of the last ones demonstrate the shift of control in the market, where technology leads the game.
Top technology companies demonstrated an outstanding ability to explore new opportunities and expand their services. What's particularly interesting is the fact that leading tech companies are getting their hands dirty in financial services industry. Finance and retail brands are placing their bets on technology brands' mobile payment solutions (Ex: Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, etc.). The trend demonstrated opportunities and the advantages tech giants have with an innovative approach to banking, transactions and other FS'.


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The Gear Hold Job/
Thanks to @cerigg for this art piece!
The Mighty Nein accepted two missions involving the Gear Hold Prison in Hupperdook. We'll break down what they are and the moving pieces to keep in mind.
Mission 1: Destroy Clef Tinkertop's malfunctioning automaton.
Mission 2: Break Glinda and Wallace Schuster out of prison.
Thanks to @OrcBarbies for this art piece!
Mission 1
The Nein got involved in this mission firstly because Rissa was out of a job and spotted the travelers on their way into Hupperdook. Upon entering the Blushing Tankard Tavern, Rissa was bullied by two punk gnomes, Fitz and Ashton. They brought up her lack of employment, but also her father's experimental tinkering. After a night of debauchery, TM9 woke up to all of their coin purses gone (save Jester and Yasha, who didn't participate in the group drinking competition, The Hour of Power).
Determined to find their stolen cash and bring the perpetrators to justice, they set off to find Fitz and Ashton, and stopped along the way at Rissa's father's shop, Tinkertop Inventions. Clef, a kindly old gnome, demonstrated one of his inventions, an enchanted clockwork crossbow worth 2000 gold. He also detailed to them how he fell out of favor with the local government. He was commissioned by the Wardens of the Gear Hold Prison to make a clockwork warden. Despite his testing and confidence in its abilities, it malfunctioned in its first use. Instead of just going after the Wardens' intended targets, it attacked without consideration for what was in front of it. From how Clef described it, it's possible that it resulted in death and injury for those present. As a result, the clockwork warden was sealed away to prevent it from attacking anyone else, and Clef was issued a fine. He and Rissa are still bullied by some of the Hupperdook residents about it.
The Mighty Nein agreed to get into the prison and destroy the clockwork warden in exchange for the crossbow. In order to get into the prison, they'll have to get permission from the Wardens running it first. They're essentially offering to do the Wardens and Clef a favor, so it's a win-win situation all around, assuming they're successful.
Thanks to @Andy_Allan_Poe for this art piece!
Mission 2
After their visit to Tinkertop's Inventions, TM9 paid a visit to Ashton and Fitz's employer, Steelbringer's Forge. After intimidating them, their employer was paid to let them play detective for the day to find out who stole the Nein's money. Soon after, Jester's Locate Object spell found its target, and The Mighty Nein broke into a boarded-up butcher shop. There, they found their money, and four children: Gail, Austin, Jude, and Layla Schuster. The kids have been on their own for the last six months after their parents, Gilda and Wallace were thrown in the Gear Hold during the Tithe Collector's biannual visit due to their worship of the Changebringer. The kids have been scraping by by stealing what they can. Hupperdook residents out to party every night don't carry much coin on them, so stealing from TM9 was a terrifying boon. For their honesty and thieving talent, Beau gave the kids 20 gold.
The looming visit of the Tithe Collectors brings with it the prospect of the kids getting taken to Rexxentrum and put in an orphanage, which the Schusters aren't interested in. Fjord, revealing that he had previously lived in an orphanage, wants to give these kids a chance at being reunited with their parents, so TM9 agrees to try to break Gilda and Wallace out.
There are several complicating factors in Mission 2. The Mighty Nein have never been in this prison, nor are they familiar with the operating structure of the Wardens, or the cells, or where the Schusters might be housed. They've also never met the Schuster parents, and didn't get a physical description for them. Setting them loose without going through official channels would make them fugitives from the law, and even if they could get out of town with four children in tow, it's hard for a group of six to hide and move quickly. The penalty for breaking out of prison is likely much steeper than idol worship.
Ashton and Fitz are currently out looking for those who stole TM9's money, and haven't been informed that their services are no longer required. So long as they continue to be ineffective and don't involve the Crownsguard, there's no reason for concern. Since the Nein got to the kids first, their coin purses have been returned and there is no evidence of the Schusters' thievery at the butcher shop any more.
There is also the looming deadline of the Tithe Collectors' visit to Hupperdook to consider. They arrive every 6 months, but unannounced. While it's unlikely that they'll just happen to show up in the next 24 hours, it is a possibility. Should they do so while TM9 is out researching and in the prison, the Schusters and Kiri would be taken into government custody and sent to an orphanage in Rexxentrum. (Protect our bird daughter at all costs.)
Finally, should The Mighty Nein be witnessed aiding Gilda and Wallace in their prison break, they will become personae non gratae within the Empire, and will largely ruin their travel plans because they will potentially be put in jail. If they manage to escape, they'll officially be on the run from the law while still several days out from Shadycreek Run. They would lose their favored status in Zadash. Further, The Mighty Nein carries on them symbols of several outlawed deities (The Traveler, Moonweaver, Stormlord), and one of their members is a goblin. They also carry the Beacon (the dodecahedron), an artifact previously locked away in the Zauber Spire in Zadash that the Cerberus Assembly is surely unhappy to have lost. Even further, should they get thrown in prison, there's always the possibility of Caleb having his necklace taken from him, rendering him suddenly findable by Trent Ikithon and his people. In short, the risk involved in Mission 2 is significantly higher than defeating a destructive automaton in Mission 1.


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Obama Won't Boycott Putin Over Snowden
It looks like President Obama and Vladimir Putin will meet at the G20 after all.
After the Russian President decided to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, several outraged congressional leaders demanded that Obama stay home from the upcoming G20 summit in St. Petersburg, the (dubious) theory being that this would somehow frighten Putin into turning Snowden over to the US.
Russia has stabbed us in the back, and each day that Mr. Snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist of the knife. —Senator Chuck Schumer
But Obama announced today that he'll be attending the summit regardless, explaining to Jay Leno that the U.S. and Russia have "got to think about the future," and that "there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to cooperate more effectively than we do."
Ever since Snowden landed in Russia in June, American officials have been begging Russia to extradite him to the U.S., despite the fact that the two countries have no extradition treaty. But Putin has been content "giving wedgies and making the Obama administration eat bugs," as one commentator put it, not only refusing to extradite Snowden but granting him asylum in Russia for one year.
While Putin's decision is no doubt aggravating to U.S. officials, the White House is acting from a position of weakness in this situation, and there's little reason to think anything would be accomplished by Obama staying home.
In the meantime, some frustrated individual in a United States Senate office has found comfort in vandalizing Snowden's Wikipedia page, a tactic marginally more likely to ensure Snowden's extradition than Obama staying home from the G20 summit.


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OTHER PUBLICATIONS by JT Velikovsky
In 2017 I published a chapter in The Encyclopedia of Information Science & Technology.
It was a republication of the chapter below, on the structure of the units of (all) culture, from Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (2016), which was an Appendix to my PhD thesis. It also solves a 40-year old (previously-unsolved, LOL) problem in cultural evolution (I have a genius IQ, and was working on the problem for 20 years).
My PhD was also awarded in December 2016. The thesis is free online at:
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016). `Communication, Creativity and Consilience in Cinema: A comparative study of the top 20 Return-on-Investment (RoI) Movies and the Doxa of Screenwriting'. PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324018
See also this post: PhD Dissertation Addendum
I also have a chapter in this book: Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (2016).
The chapter is: Velikovsky, J. T. (2016). `The Holon/Parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment and the Arts', in: A. Connor & S. Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications. New York: IGI Global.
For academic purposes, the chapter is available to download, free, here.
Indie Screenwriting Analysis – Presentation (2012)
Velikovsky, JT, 2012, 'Independent Film/Screenplay Analysis', paper presented to The National Young Writers Festival, Newcastle, NSW,
For more see: Velikovsky's Transmedia Writing Blog at: http://on-writering.blogspot.com/
On Transmedia – Screen Education journal article
`On Transmedia' (Summer 2012), Screen Education, No 68, (in press) http://www.metromagazine.com.au/screen_ed/
Online Surveys (2012)
Velikovsky, JT, 2012, 'Field Survey: Domain Problems in Film/Screenwriting', https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdiUUVOQmgwQjhMWldVNHVoLXp6M0E6MQ
Online Agent-Based Model: The Feature Film System (2012)
Velikovsky, JT, 2012, 'Practice Theory Narratology – an online agent-based simulation model', https://dl.dropbox.com/u/55175351/An%20OUTLINE%20of%20the%20RESEARCH%20DESIGN%20for%20DCA%20-%20SSSS%20-%20Joe%20Velikovsky%20V1.doc
Transmedia Comic-Fantasy Novel (2012)
Velikovsky, JT, 2012 `A Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols', Amazon Digital Services, Inc., Sydney, (ASIN: B0074RW1O0).
Transmedia Novel website: http://am-so-as.blogspot.com.au/
Feature Film: CAUGHT INSIDE – psychological thriller (2011)
Winner, Audience Award, Sydney International Film Festival, 2010, Winner, IF Independent Film Independent Spirit Award 2010
The Feature Film Screenwriter's WorkBook (2003-2011)
When I was at film school I read all the books on screenwriting and summarized them into a page each. It has over a million downloads.
Velikovsky, JT 2011, 4th Edn., The Feature Film Screenwriter's Workbook, Lulu.com, Sydney, http://www.lulu.com/shop/joe-velikovsky/feature-screenwriters-workbook/ebook/product-15459299.html
See also:
Videogame: Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal (2007)
Velikovsky, JT, Game Designer & Writer, 'Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal', (Burbank: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment) (2007).
Augmented Reality Videogames – refereed conference paper (2005)
Avery, B, Thomas, BH, Velikovsky, JT & Piekarski, W, 2005, 'Outdoor Augmented Reality Gaming on Five Dollars a Day', paper presented to The Sixth Australasian User Interface Conference, Newcastle, NSW, http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/28020
For more details, please see my CV.
High-RoI Story/Screenplay/Movie and Transmedia Researcher
The above is (mostly) an adapted excerpt, from my doctoral thesis: "Communication, Creativity and Consilience in Cinema" (2016). It is presented here for the benefit of fellow screenwriting, filmmaking and creativity researchers. For more, see https://aftrs.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
JT Velikovsky is also a produced feature film screenwriter and million-selling transmedia writer-director-producer. He has been a professional story analyst for major film studios, film funding organizations, and for the national writer's guild. For more see: http://on-writering.blogspot.com/


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Gillingham have announced the signing of Zesh Rehman on a short-term deal until the end of the season.
The 33-year-old defender has played in all four tiers of English football, having begun his career in the Premier League with Fulham before subsequent moves to Queens Park Rangers and Bradford City.
Rehman has since spent time in the Far East, playing for Muangthong United in Thailand, Kitchee in Hong Kong and, most recently, Malaysian Super League Side Pahang FA.
"I had a chat with the head coach, I was really impressed with what he had to say, and I'm hoping I can use my experience to help the team. I've spent six years and clocked up over 200 games playing overseas, so it's good to be back in England," the Pakistani international told the club's official website.
"I'm looking forward to rolling my sleeves up and helping in the fight to move the club up the Sky Bet League One table. I watched Tuesday's draw against AFC Wimbledon and thought the boys did enough to win, so it's clear I'm joining a talented squad of players. If we all pull in the same direction and never give up, I'm sure we can get a few wins on the bounce."
Manager Adrian Pennock added: "As everybody knows, I've been after an experienced centre-back for a few weeks and I'm very pleased to get Zesh on board. He'll give us his experience and brings with him great knowledge of this division."
Rehman, who will wear the number 31 shirt at Priestfield, could make his debut against Southend United on Saturday.body check tags ::


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"Renaissance man" was a more widely used term in the past than it is now. Some folks may even have added it to their respective "trite" or "cliché" lists.
We're unashamedly pulling it out — for those who haven't cracked a dictionary since high school, it means someone with many talents or areas of knowledge — because it fits Fred Sington Jr., who died on Tuesday at age 82 and will be laid to rest today.
Sington bore a magical name in this state. His father, Fred Sr., was an All-America and Hall of Fame football player at the University of Alabama (so good he became the subject of a hit song in 1930, after the Crimson Tide won the national championship), played Major League Baseball and became a noted businessman and civic leader in Birmingham.
The younger Sington, who was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Birmingham, also played football at UA, in a career interrupted by military service (he was in the Naval Reserve and was called to active duty for two years). He was a member of Coach Paul Bryant's first Tide team in 1958.
He starred in the classroom as well as on the gridiron, earning bachelor's (business), master's (marketing) and law degrees from UA, and a Master of Labor Law degree from Cornell University. (He ultimately taught classes at Gadsden State Community College and Jacksonville State University).
He put that education to practical use as co-owner for many years of Fred Sington Sporting Goods in Gadsden, and operator of Consolidated National Life Insurance Co.
Sington used his connections as a businessman to give back to his community. His résumé contained stints as president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Alabama, Downtown Action Council, Alabama Retail Association and Alabama Aviation Council;and as vice president of the local Chamber of Commerce. He served on the Alabama Business Hall of Fame nominating committee, and was involved with the Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation, Gasdsden Education Foundation, National Aviation Transportation Association, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Alabama Regional Cancer Drive, the Northeast Alabama Heart Fund and the board of stewards at First United Methodist Church.
He transferred the skills he honed in the private sector into governmental service, spending more than a decade as executive assistant to former Mayor Steve Means before taking charge of the Gadsden Airport Authority and helping turn Northeast Alabama Regional Airport into one of the Southeast's top air facilities of its size.
He reaped recognition for his accomplishments — Spirit of Citizenship Man of the Year, the Boy Scouts Golden Eagle Man of the Year and, just this year, induction into the Gadsden-Etowah Patriots Association Hall of Honor.
Sington remained connected to the sports world, serving as a radio and television analyst for local high school and Jacksonville State University football broadcasts, being involved for many years with the Gadsden Quarterback Club and gaining membership in the Etowah County Sports and ASA Alabama Softball halls of fame.
He remained loyal to his alma mater, serving in leadership roles with the national and local UA alumni associations, the local Red Elephant Club chapter and the A-Club.
See what we mean about "many talents or areas of knowledge?" However, Mayor Sherman Guyton summed up Sington more concisely, calling him "a goodwill ambassador" who "never met a stranger."
That he was, as anyone who ever dealt with him will attest. We're fortunate that he chose Gadsden as the place to write his legacy. He's being mourned — and he'll be missed.


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