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Topics on this page: HHS Web Guiding Principles | HHS Web Governance | Management Structure | Responsibilities | Qualities & Qualifications
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Website exists to empower our citizens, our business and service partners, and our employees. It does so by providing information, services, and work processes. Furthermore, the Website provides opportunities for effective, efficient, and timely involvement in their government so they can improve their lives, solve their problems, and accomplish their objectives. The Department's Web presence plays an integral role in the overall HHS communications and outreach strategy.
The HHS Website is the Department's primary public interface. Its pages are a fundamental part of every Department program. Collectively, these pages lay the foundation for the Department's outreach program. The site conveys and amplifies the Department's mission, goals, and work. It provides both opportunity and obligation to present timely information, data, and interpretation to a globe-spanning audience. Increasingly, the HHS Website is the interactive tool-of-choice for the delivery of Department services to its many publics.
HHS web governance principles maximize the creative use of people, policy, and processes to manage short- and long-range goals, provide clarity, and resolve conflict across the Department. These principles give a framework for seeing clear web management priorities and responsibilities. They also help to identify and allocate necessary resources, promote Department-wide standards for best practices, and recognize and support the Department's Web community.
HHS Web Guiding Principles
- The HHS brands embody the Department's promise to the public. The HHS Web experience builds and connects those brands.
- The organizational structure of the Department is transparent to the site visitor.
- The HHS Web site is the Department's primary communications and educational outreach medium. The Web site communicates a full array of mission-centered information, including general information, program actions and activities, data, research, regulations, and educational materials.
- The HHS Web site is a holistic information resource that results from active collaboration across traditional intra- and inter-division boundaries. Such ongoing collaboration, facilitated by technology, takes place without regard to organizational or personal ego.
- The core responsibility of all Operating and Staff Divisions is to uphold the integrity and quality of Web content and communications to accomplish the overarching mission, work, and goals of the Department.
- The Department is committed to meeting site visitors' expectations that content is up-to-date. Outdated content and repetitive content is reduced and ultimately eliminated.
- HHS embraces the principles of e-government and encourages aggressive use of the Web to allow and encourage the electronic conduct of Department business.
- The HHS Web site is committed to meeting and/or exceeding all applicable legal, ethical, accessibility, privacy, records retention, and security standards.
HHS Web Governance
- HHS manages its Web activities through a representational, federated structure encompassing the Operating Divisions and the Office of the Secretary, with centralized guidance and support. This model will be mirrored at division levels.
- The foundation of Web governance rests in a collegial environment, broad engagement, and the active exchange of ideas and best practices.
- HHS recognizes that a supportive, creative working environment is vital to achieving and sustaining the goals established for the Department's Web site. Web governance supports and promotes visionary thinking, change, and innovation.
- Ensuring quality content is a core responsibility of all Operating and Staff Divisions and is integral to the accomplishment and communication of both their and the Department's work and mission.
- Consistency is a primary goal spanning the entire Departmental Web site, encompassing templates, navigation designs and terms, and content organization to the greatest extent possible.
- The needs of the public drive Web design and content. Content is engaging, easy to find, up-to-date, and presented with sufficient context.
- In meeting the public interest, the HHS Web site supports all major announcements, new initiatives, and topics in the public arena with relevant Web content.
- The HHS Web site pledges to address the growing informational needs of a multi-lingual, multi-cultural population. The Web site also focuses on meeting the changing needs of an aging society.
- HHS values visitor interaction and ensures timely and accurate responses to Department Web communications
Management Structure
The HHS Departmental Web site shall be managed through a Digital Council.
- The Council reports, through ASPA, to the Secretary
- Each Operating Division (Division) shall have two Representatives on the Council (two seats)
- OS to be considered as one Division
- Division Representation should balance Content and Infrastructure (technology and applications) responsibilities and experience
- Representatives shall be named by the Division Assistant Secretary
- Each seat shall have one vote
- Each Representative may have one designated proxy
- Seats represent all agencies/offices within Division plus topical sites for which Division has lead
- The ASPA/DCD Director (or designee) shall chair the Council
- The OCIO shall have a non-voting Representative on the Council
- Divisions are encouraged but not required to emulate this structure for managing and communicating their internal governance
- Council may form committees as needed
- ASPA/DCD staff shall provide logistical support to the Digital Council including maintenance of inter/intranet presence
- 75% constitutes quorum
- 75% of quorum must be physically present (except virtual meetings)
- Alternates permitted
- Non-voting delegates encouraged to attend and participate
- Issues are to be decided by consensus; chair may call for vote; passage requires majority of full Council (not quorum)
- Committees may be formed/structured at the Council's discretion
Responsibilities of the Digital Council shall include:
- Establish and implement "One Department; One Web" concept
- Determine Web policy, standards and guidance
- Crisis and emergency response Web coordination
- Foster Web-based delivery of Department services
- Enhance efficiency through cross-department synergy
- Foster communication across Web Community
- Recommend enterprise applications
- Implement enterprise applications
- Create and disseminate base of shared knowledge
- Foster consistent Web presence
- Establish Web site inventory
- Advise on domain issues
- Foster establishment of Department-wide Web community
Responsibilities of the Representatives for Content shall include:
- Coordinates content organization
- Within Division
- Across Department
- Content liaison with DCD
- Facilitates adherence to policy/standards
- Identifies strategic content needs
- Represents Division on Digital Council
Responsibilities of Web Representatives for Infrastructure shall include:
- Coordinate implementation of applications
- Oversees adherence to technical policy/standards
- Identifies and advises on current and future enterprise-wide application needs
- Represents Division on Digital Council
Qualities & Qualifications
Qualities and qualifications of Web Representatives shall include:
- Web communications leader
- Conversant with Departmental and Divisional mission, policies and messages
- Stature and access within Division
- Able to work collaboratively across HHS
- Availability and commitment (time to do the job)
- Content
- Ability to see inter-relationship of content
- Able to communicate to general audience
- Infrastructure
- Ability to recommend creative infrastructure solutions
- Conversant on emerging technologies and media
Adopted March 15, 2007
Related Links
If you would like to be notified of the next HHS Digital Council meeting, contact us with your email from the HHS Family of agencies.


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The Shade Tree Commission is charged with maintaining a healthy and safe community forest resource.
Good management of our community forest will improve our air and water quality, reduce energy costs, increase property values, improve the health of our residents, and beautifies our Borough. The Shade Tree Commission enforces the Borough's tree removal and tree replacement Ordinances.
Monthly meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of the month at 7pm at the Stanhope Municipal Building.

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Afghan Biographies
Anosh, Khairullah Anush Anoosh
Name | Anosh, Khairullah Anush Anoosh |
Ethnic backgr. | Uzbek |
Date of birth | 1958 |
Function/Grade | Ex Governor |
History and Biodata |
2. Previous Functions of Khairullah Anosh Anoosh:
3. Biodata: After the passing university entry exam (Kankor), in 1977 he joined in Literature & Human Sciences faculty of Kabul University, in 1980, Anosh successfully graduated from the above mentioned faculty. Khairullah Anosh Anush Annoosh is a member of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Junbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan).
The Governor of Samangan, Khairullah Anosh, confirms that the former insurgent and his group have been given back some of their weapons and will be recruited into the ranks of the newly-formed Afghan Local Police (ALP) in Dara-ye Soof. This contradicts the official policy to recruit only individuals and not groups into the A.L.P. and to allow local elders to introduce candidates for the jobs - principles that have been laid down in order to alleviate fears that dubious people might be recruited into the ALP.(20110426) The head of the Provincial Council 2009, Dr. Zia said, "Governor Anosh is a weak person and is also a sick person. He is an ineffective leader for the government and for Samangan province."
Two people were killed and eight others were injured following violent protests against Governor Khairullah Anosh in northern Samangan province of Afghanistan on 20131231.The protesters were calling on the provincial governor to resign from his position, and had gathered near government compound when the incident took place. The protesters accuse provincial governor, Khairullah Batash for being involved in corruption along with a number of the local government officials. An Afghan senator along with his armed supporters were also among the protesters, who attacked the governor's office. Demonstration against Khairullah Batash started a week ago, and hundreds of Samangan residents took to the streets and called for his immediate resignation.(20131231) Ziauddin Zia, the provincial council head, claimed the governor's bodyguards and police had inflicted casualties on protesters in Aibak. The protest was peaceful but Anush´s guards recently shot dead two protestors and wounded 13 others police opened fire, he said, adding the governor was involved in administrative corruption. Mohammad Faizi, member of a Meshrano Jirga team that returned from Samangan to Kabul 201403 said the protest had been peaceful and its participants neither turned violent nor damaged public property, while exercising their constitutional right. Protestors had shown lawmakers documentary evidence of the governor's involvement in administrative and moral corruption. They demanded Anosh's sacking and prosecution.(20140104)
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By Terry Dillman
Record-high whole season price; outlook good for next season
Oregon's Dungeness crab fishermen logged another good year
in terms of market value. The season ended August 14th with an estimated
harvest of about 14.2 million pounds and to-the-boat value of $42 million,
according to preliminary figures from the Oregon Department of Agriculture and
Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission (ODCC).
"The real story for this year is the overall average price
for the whole season," said Nick Furman, the ODCC executive director.
The season began with the highest opening price ever at
$2.30 per pound and ended with the highest overall value ever: a record-high
to-the-boat price of $2.95 per pound. In 2011, 21.2 million pounds of Dungeness
crabs netted an overall value of $49 million for Oregon crabbers based on the
season average of $2.30 per pound, placing the fishery in the top 20 of
Oregon's commodities.
Usually, the opening price is set for a short period, then
the market takes over. This year, through negotiations mediated by the Oregon
Department of Agriculture (ODA), fishermen's associations and processors
settled on the highest-ever opening price $2.30 per pound, a deal reached by
agreeing to lock in that price for the first 22 days of the season rather the
usual three days.
Demand for live crab in Asia, particularly China, rose
higher than ever this season, with live market buyers offering as much as $1.20
more per pound than the negotiated price. Furman said fishermen never really
know how high the demand for live crab in Asia might be, and since live buyers
purchase far fewer crabs than processing plants, they are not a part of the
opening price negotiations.
The crabbing associations have negotiated opening price with
processing plants under ODA's mediation for the past nine years in an attempt
to smooth out the bargaining process and get the season off and running without
crabbers striking to protest what they might consider as refusal by processors
to pay a fair price.
Dungeness crabs are a major part of the Pacific Northwest's
seafood heritage, with commercial fishermen harvesting them along the Pacific
coast since the late 1800s. They range from central California to the Gulf of
The ocean crab season along the Oregon coast begins December
1st and continues through August 14th. Peak harvest occurs during the first
eight weeks of the season, with up to 75 percent of the annual production
landed during that time. Effort traditionally decreases in the spring as
fishermen gear up for other coastal fisheries, but fresh crab is available
throughout the summer as a small number of boats fish until the August closure.
The Dungeness crab fishery is naturally cyclical, depending
on ocean conditions, and crabbers say they expect a drop-off in landings after
a boom.
Dungeness crab is the most valuable "single-species" fishery
in Oregon. "Ex-vessel" value fluctuates yearly, based on the size of the
harvest and prevailing market conditions. During the most recent 10-year
period, Furman said the "to-the-boat" value ranged from $5 million to $49
million dollars.
Total production for the entire region (California to
Alaska) averages 42.5 million pounds annually.
The average Oregon catch is just above 10 million pounds.
According to the ODCC, harvests have fluctuated from a low of 3.2 million
pounds to record levels from 2003 to 2006, peaking at the 33.6 million pounds
in 2004, followed by 27.5 million pounds in 2005, valued at $44.6 million.
Furman said those harvests point to "healthy stocks and a sustainable
In 2006, the catch dropped by almost half to 15.1 million
pounds worth $32.9 million. Crabbers hauled 12.3 million pounds of Dungeness
crabs values at $29.3 million into Oregon ports in 2007, and 13 million pounds
in 2008.
The flow of crabs from pots to docks to markets hinges on
bringing in most of the annual catch during the first two months. The surge
helps processors, who depend on volume to feed hungry holiday markets.
Opening price is vital to the crabbers' livelihoods.
Crabbers remain "at the mercy of" the markets, because they harvest a natural
resource. Natural cycles make crab populations boom and bust, and Furman said
historically high landings are both good and bad. Successive years of high
yields flood the market, pinching prices and leading to holdover inventories.
Fewer crabs, more money summed up the 2010-2011 season as
the 325-boat Oregon fleet hauled in 21.2 million pounds of the state's official
crustacean – the fourth largest catch on record, exceeding 20 million pounds
for the fifth time in the past decade.
"The real story was the landed value of the catch," said
Furman. "Strong demand in the marketplace pushed boat prices up, so although
fishermen caught fewer crabs, they made more money."
The to-the-boat harvest value reached almost $49 million,
making it the second most valuable Oregon crab season in history. Associated
processing activity upped the economic impact for the state's coastal
communities from Astoria to Brookings to more than $100 million.
Analysts say strong marketing and promotion efforts have
heightened the image of Dungeness crab, creating demand that is transforming it
from primarily a regional favorite to a more nationwide appeal in restaurants
and other seafood outlets, including supermarket chains. An industry marketing
partnership with the ODA focuses on promoting Dungeness crab in as many key
markets as possible, including the international marketplace.
Oregon leads the way in Dungeness production, with harvested
crabs sold live, whole fresh or frozen, or as picked meat, legs and sections.
Products are shipped around the world, although the United States remains the
main market.
That is changing, Furman said, in part due to certification
by the Marine Stewardship Council as the only one of the West Coast Dungeness
crab fisheries (Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, British Columbia) to
receive the designation for its good management practices, sustainable harvest
methods and neutral environmental impacts. The certification, he noted, opened
up additional marketplace opportunities for what is already the state's most
valuable fishery, due to the growing trend among the retail, food service and
restaurant trade to offer products from sustainable fisheries certified by an
independent entity using a proven scientific process.
"This sets the Oregon Dungeness brand apart from all other
Dungeness in the marketplace," Furman said. "Oregon has been harvesting
Dungeness crab for over a century. Landings this past decade have been off the
charts and nature continues to provide us with healthy stocks."
But he is also fully aware of the fishery's natural ups and
downs, and providing an outlook for the next season, the start of which is only
four months away, is iffy.
The impact of the live crab market in Asia is a potential
"It's hard to say," Furman noted. "If demand continues to be
strong, and Asia continues to want live Dungeness crab, it would bode well.
Historically, prices and markets are like a pendulum – when it swings high, it
typically swings back, and when it does, it typically comes crashing back."
Much, of course, depends on production and harvest levels –
known in marketing circles as supply and demand. If production is down, it
generally drives up the price. Harvest dropped from 21.2 million pounds in 2011
to 14.2 million in 2012, but this year's haul is still well above the average
of 10 to 12 million pounds. And the 2011 harvest was a bit less than the 2010
haul of 23 million pounds.
Furman said the fishery has gone through "some phenomenal
harvests" during the past decade, in which the fishery was "really at a peak"
with an average haul of 18.6 million pounds.
"At this point, it's hard to tell whether we're going back
up or back down," he concluded. "This last decade threw us off our cycle as we
know it and put us in uncharted territory as far as highs and lows."
Furman said crabbers would consider 2012 "a good season,"
and would like to see a repeat in 2013.
Terry Dillman can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award SILVER qualifying / BRONZE training, practice and qualifying
- Durata: 3 Zile (aprox.)
- Locatie: Auckland
- Cod produs: DOE OP
Auckland is one of the world's most unique sea kayaking locations. It is a region of exceptional natural beauty, volcanic islands, sandy beaches and is abundant with wildlife. The sheltered waters of the gulf make it a kayaker's paradise
and are waiting to be discovered.
We have been paddling in the Hauraki Gulf for 16 years and have a some exceptional locations to run these journeys through depending on the weather.
This is subject to change based on the weather forecast, groups ability and experience. More information is available on request and discussed at the planning meeting.
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In a stunning display of greenwashing and ignorance, a U.S. branch of Toshiba has proclaimed October 23 National No-Print Day.
LONDON, Mai. 24, 2010 (RISI) - Well, it looks like we have stepped on a hornets' nest.
The technological boom poses a potential threat for the pulp and paper industry in that, globally, more people are turning to digital media rather than newsprint. Pulp and paper producer Sappi is responding to this threat with its own initiatives.
Which is greener, getting news online or reading a newspaper? For environmental expert and activist Sarah Westervelt, the obvious answer is the printed newspaper.
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By Chris Cook, Deputy Editor, PPI Pulp & Paper Week, RISI
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2009 - At a speech in Barcelona the other day, World Association of Newspapers (WAN) president Gavin O'Reilly had an upbeat message for newspaper executives from more than 50 countries who had come to exchange ideas on business strategies for the future.
It is increasingly popular to bash the use of paper. The industry is an easy target as everyone uses paper and the presentation of the industry is laughable (think Dunder Mifflin on The Office).
Despite the many environmentally friendly actions taken by the paper, printing and publishing industries, little is known of these efforts due to a self-inflicted inability to publicize them. Unlike the auto or fuel industries, we don't spend any money as an industry on effective green promotion.


text: Comparative Public Policy provides the first truly systematic and comprehensive account of the transformation of the post-war state in the advanced countries of the Western world. The author generates new research findings which show how the economic, social and political changes of the post-war era have reshaped modern public policy across the OECD region. Francis G. Castles examines the growth of big government and the emergence of the modern welfare state and identifies ways in which the role of the state has impacted on labor markets and such personal issues as home ownership, fertility and divorce. He explains why the trajectory of policy transformation has varied from country to country, with immediate post-war policy laggards sometimes becoming leaders, and erstwhile policy pioneers on occasions stagnating. This innovative book presents a wealth of background data and a huge range of new findings, covering 12 policy areas in 21 advanced industrialized countries over a period of more than three decades. Comparative Public Policy is essential reading for students and scholars who wish to understand the dynamics of contemporary social and political development.


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The double cone blender is used to produce homogeneous solid-solid mixture. Mixing is a common process step in the manufacture of products for industries such as food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, chemical, detergents, fertilizers and plastics.
Examples of materials or substances mixed in this way include pharmaceutical granules, semolina flour, seeds, starch, coffee beans and ground coffee, cocoa, chocolate flakes or granules, powdered milk, baby food, preparations to make dehydrated soups and creams, leaf waxes, detergent granules, soap flakes, artificial fertilizers, plastic in powder, ground or pellet form, fibreglass, etc.


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Built in 1916, the 513 ton South Coaster came to rest in this location in December 1943 during a severe winter storm. At the time, she had been chartered by the Admiralty to carry coal to Exmouth.
She is highly visible from the main railway line running down to the West Country, but difficult to access at all but the lowest of tides.


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Razorfish Case Study
Razorfish, a digital advertising and marketing firm, segments users and customers based on the collection and analysis of non-personally identifiable data from browsing sessions. Doing so requires applying data mining methods across historical click streams to identify effective segmentation and categorization algorithms and techniques. These click streams are generated when a visitor navigates a web site or catalog, leaving behind patterns that can indicate a user's interests. Algorithms are then implemented on systems that can batch execute at the appropriate scale against current data sets ranging in size from dozens of Gigabytes to Terabytes. The algorithms are also customized on a client-by-client basis to observe online/offline sales and customer loyalty data. Results of the analysis are loaded into ad-serving and cross-selling systems that in turn deliver the segmentation results in real time.
With our implementation of Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Cascading, there was no upfront investment in hardware, no hardware procurement delay, and no additional operations staff was hired. We completed development and testing of our first client project in six weeks. Our process is completely automated."
Mark Taylor
Director, Razorfish
The Challenge
A common issue Razorfish has found with customer segmentation is the need to process gigantic click stream data sets. These large data sets are often the result of holiday shopping traffic on a retail website, or sudden dramatic growth on the data network of a media or social networking site. Building in-house infrastructure to analyze these click stream datasets requires investment in expensive "headroom" to handle peak demand. Without the expensive computing resources, Razorfish risks losing clients that require Razorfish to have sufficient resources at hand during critical moments. In addition, applications that can't scale to handle increasingly large datasets can cause delays in identifying and applying algorithms that could drive additional revenue. As the sample data set grows (i.e. more users, more pages, more clicks), fewer applications are available that can handle the load and provide a timely response. Meanwhile, as the number of clients that utilize targeted advertising grows, access to on-demand compute and storage resources becomes a requirement. It was thus imperative for Razorfish to implement customer segmentation algorithms in a way that could be applied and executed independently of the scale of the incoming data and supporting infrastructure.
Prior to implementing Amazon Web Services (AWS), Razorfish relied on a traditional hosting environment that utilized high-cost SAN equipment for storage, a proprietary distributed log processing cluster of 30 servers, and several high-end SQL servers. In preparation for the 2009 holiday season, demand for targeted advertising increased. To support this need, Razorfish faced a potential cost of over $500,000 in additional hardware expenses, a procurement time frame of about two months, and the need for an additional senior operations/database administrator. Furthermore, due to downstream dependencies, they needed their daily processing cycle to complete within 18 hours. However, given the increased data volume, Razorfish expected their processing cycle to extend past two days for each run even after the potential investment in human and computing resources.
Why Amazon Web Services
To deal with the combination of huge datasets and custom segmentation targeting activities, coupled with price sensitive clients, Razorfish decided to move away from their rigid data infrastructure status quo. This migration helped Razorfish process vast amounts of data to handle the need for rapid scaling at both the application and infrastructure levels. Razorfish selected Ad Serving integration, AWS, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (a hosted Apache Hadoop service), Cascading, and a variety of chosen applications to power their targeted advertising system based on these benefits:
Efficient: Elastic infrastructure from AWS allows capacity to be provisioned as needed based on load, reducing cost and the risk of processing delays. Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Cascading lets Razorfish focus on application development without having to worry about time-consuming set-up, management, or tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity upon which they sit.
- Ease of integration: Amazon Elastic MapReduce with Cascading allows data processing in the cloud without any changes to the underlying algorithms.
- Flexible: Hadoop with Cascading is flexible enough to allow "agile" implementation and unit testing of sophisticated algorithms.
- Adaptable: Cascading simplifies the integration of Hadoop with external ad systems.
- Scalable: AWS infrastructure helps Razorfish reliably store and process huge (Petabytes) data sets.
The Benefits
The AWS elastic infrastructure platform allows Razorfish to manage wide variability in load by provisioning and removing capacity as needed. Mark Taylor, Program Director at Razorfish, said, "With our implementation of Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Cascading, there was no upfront investment in hardware, no hardware procurement delay, and no additional operations staff was hired. We completed development and testing of our first client project in six weeks. Our process is completely automated. Total cost of the infrastructure averages around $13,000 per month. Because of the richness of the algorithm and the flexibility of the platform to support it at scale, our first client campaign experienced a 500% increase in their return on ad spend from a similar campaign a year before."
About Razorfish
Razorfish, a digital advertising and marketing firm, segments users and customers based on the collection and analysis of non-personally identifiable data from browsing sessions.
Benefits of AWS
- No upfront hardware investment or procurement delay, and no need to hire additional operations staff
- Completed development and testing of first client project in just 6 weeks
- First client experienceed 500% increase in return on ad campaign spend
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A New 'I Do' Shoe
For a number of reasons, I tend to keep my professional involvement with weddings to a minimum. Mainly, I am not a great believer in and follower of the rules and traditions of fashion, of which weddings are steeped. However, through my (non-professional) consulting with two bride-to-be friends, I've noticed a subtle and exciting shift in certain 'I Do' details:
the shoes.
Color– The easiest way to infuse a modern spirit into your wedding style is through a bold shoe. My friend and client Kyle Decker embodies this perfectly with a hot pink peep toe heel (pictured) to compliment her traditional yet ideally understated dress. As far as color selection goes, it's a personal one. Like Kyle, I endorse hot pink and also love red, yellow and (in an homage to and twist on the tradition) blue.
Flats– Women today are nothing if not practical, and many don't want to spend their most important night hobbled by uncomfortable shoes. Additionally, as many Colorado weddings are outdoors, high heels are often impractical on grassy terrain. Ballet flats are the answer. Available in metallic gold or silver and every conceivable color, I prefer the contemporary look of patent leather and, to that end, nothing is quite like Lanvin. With flats, you'll be wearing them again so a little splurge is sensible.
Flips– For a beach[y] wedding, these are a non-negotiable, but rarely do women know how chic they look contrasted with the ethereal formality of the dress. A classic flip from J.Crew or Tory Burch is as casual as you'll want to go, while high-end lines like Prada offer can offer everything (color, comfort and contemporary) all in one.
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The Uncanny Avengers have been betrayed! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your first look inside UNCANNY AVENGERS #15 – the first chapter in the new story arc "Going Rogue". The Uncanny Avengers crash headlong into Marvel NOW! with a new jumping on point that will have you on the edge of your seat! The Uncanny Avengers – now fractured and disavowed in the wake of Civil War II, travel to Japan on a desperate mission. Captain America may have disbanded the Unity Squad but they refuse to give up the fight! The Hand has acquired the recently deceased body of Bruce Banner. Can what's left of the Avengers Unity Squad take back the remains of their fallen comrade before the Hand resurrect the Hulk for their own sinister ends? Find out as the team goes rogue in UNCANNY AVENGERS #15 – on-sale October 12th!
Written by GERRY DUGGAN
Art by PEPE LARRAZ
Cover by MEGHAN HETRICK
Teaser Variant by MIKE DEODATO (AUG160859)
Classic Variant by WHILCE PORTACIO (AUG160861)
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You're invited to an evening of...Murder Mystery at the Theatre! - Steph O'Scope
Theme: 1920s Art Deco era
You are invited to embark on an evening of intrigue, deceit and wrongdoing at the Full House Theatre.
Costume suggestion:
Fashion of the time for ladies was flapper dresses with uneven hemlines and low-heeled button-strap shoes, along with cloche hats and lots of jewellery.
For the men it was suave 1920s suits with a smart pair of spats, a straw Panama hat or boater, round metal-framed glasses, braces, and loafers.
Think the Great Gatsby, Boardwalk Empire and House of Eliott.
There is a trophy to be won for the best costume!
Can you work out whodunnit?


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August 7, 2018
We don't get much news about Western Mass in Boston. And since the population is relatively small in the largely rural western counties of the Commonwealth, it can be easy to miss significant stories. Because the scale of noteworthy happenings is naturally smaller there. Because our diminished metro news outlets have trouble covering the entire state. And because, let's be honest, Bostonians don't usually care about what happens west of, like, Brookline.
So at first glance, word of a homeless encampment out in Greenfield isn't something that would get much attention hereabouts at the best of times. But for a city with a population that fell by more than 500 people to 17,456 between the 2000 and 2010 censuses—with a median household income of $33,110, and 14 percent of residents below the poverty line—it's an important enough development to warrant a series of articles in the local press. And I think it deserves coverage here in the Hub as well.
Especially when the encampment is on the Greenfield Common, opposite the Greenfield City Hall (better known as the Town Hall prior to a recent change in nomenclature). Something unusual is definitely afoot.
It seems two local homeless people began camping on the common a couple of months ago. A number that quickly grew to 20 regular residents in as many as a dozen tents. According to the Greenfield Recorder, their "de facto spokeswoman" Madelynn Malloy "and others have said previously they are camping on the common because there is no other place that is safe for homeless residents to go and because current city law allows them to stay there day or night. There are no requirements for licenses or permits to be there and the homeless residents' actions are not considered loitering, but public assembly. The city has an ordinance prohibiting loitering, but it only applies to sidewalks."
A city count of last January pegged the homeless population at 39, but area charities have said the actual number is significantly higher—as they noted during the brutal cold snap at the end of 2017 when their shelters were so overwhelmed that the Salvation Army put up $1,600 to house people at Days Inn. Since that time, the Greenfield Human Rights Commission and homeless advocates have been pushing for the city to do more. Meanwhile, the encampment has put a very human and public face on the crisis, and has sparked meetings and debates in local government about how to find housing for the homeless.
Unfortunately, there seems to be at least as much concern from Mayor William Martin to get the city council to pass rules effectively banning camping on Greenfield Common as there is to find ways to house local homeless people. The latter being the obvious policy priority, if for no other reason than to relieve overwhelmed private social service agencies.
Most recently, a breakthrough of sorts—also reported in the Greenfield Recorder—happened when the city council voted to put a port-a-potty closer to the common than the one local churches previously made available. "According to the Department of Public Works, the cost of a temporary restroom is $150 a month and includes emptying it. The mayor's office said the first two months of the portable toilet would be paid for by the Interfaith Council and an unnamed local business. There is no plan currently in place for funding after the two months." The council also voted, apparently contrary to the mayor's wishes, to decrease "regulations on churches to set up temporary shelters" and open "the former Wedgewood Gardens property on Kimball Drive as a possible site for an encampment." The mayor then vowed to "attempt to find temporary housing solutions through a 'rapid re-housing team'" made up of "city officials and social service and humanitarian agencies."
Baby steps perhaps. But it would not do to underplay the difficult situation Greenfield government finds itself in. It's going to take officials time to find even a stopgap solution. Large cities like Boston aren't doing a great job of dealing with a growing homeless crisis either; so it's obviously more difficult for smaller municipalities with fewer resources to house and provide services for even a few dozen people.
Particularly when, as was pointed out in a DigBoston op-ed by Lawrence social services executive Joe D'Amore in January, many communities in Massachusetts ban people from sleeping in public spaces or even "loitering" there. Which merely shifts the burden of dealing with homelessness to more densely populated and tolerant locales with more social services like Lawrence. Or Greenfield.
Hopefully people will retain the right to sleep on the Greenfield Common overnight when needed, and the city government will cobble together some longer-term housing options for its homeless population before winter sets in.
Yet however things turns out in the largest burg in Franklin County, the situation is interesting not because it is unique… but because it is sadly commonplace. Across Massachusetts and all over America the story is the same. Despite claims of a "strong economy" from Republicans and many Democrats, homelessness is ever more persistent and ever more desperate.
To see an actual strong economy in a place like Greenfield, one has to look back to the 1950s—when the city was home to major metal-working concerns, the largest being Greenfield Tap & Die. But that plant was sold off to a larger company in 1958, and most of its jobs disappeared over decades. The city's last major manufacturing business, Lunt Silversmiths, went under in 2009 during the Great Recession.
According to the Republican, Lunt had 800 employees in 2001. And only "12 to 15" by the end. It's difficult for even larger cities to recover from that kind of blow to their job base, let alone a small city like Greenfield.
It will thus shock no one that the rise of the opiate crisis tracks closely to this decline in the city's fortunes. And it's therefore ironic in the extreme that the former Lunt plant is now home to two drug treatment facilities, Franklin Recovery Center and Northern Hope.
The opiate crisis relates directly to the homeless crisis. And both relate to the ongoing jobs crisis. Increasingly unregulated capitalism, as I often write, is clearly incapable of providing good jobs for our population. As the job base collapses, people in Greenfield, Boston, and around the nation are stuck with lousy part-time, temp, contract, independent contractor, and day labor gigs. Or with no jobs at all.
As these downwardly mobile people see their lives collapsing, they turn to opiates. Maybe because they got injured in their precarious pseudo-jobs and got put on addictive pain killers by well-meaning doctors being suckered by criminal conspiracies like oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma of nearby Stamford, Connecticut. Or maybe because they couldn't take the humiliation of no longer being able to provide for themselves and their families, and reached for the strongest, most reliable, and readily available chemical solace. And soon enough, more and more of these folks end up on the streets.
Without public jobs programs, new public housing, and cradle-to-grave public healthcare, local, state, and federal governments will not be able to fix these related crises. Even if they wanted to. Which they don't in this era of gangster capitalism. Nor will "private" charities. Many of which already rely on shrinking pools of government money to do what little they can do to stem the tide of rising poverty.
So it's critical that people in big cities like Boston—especially press and policy makers—pay careful attention to small municipalities like Greenfield. They are canaries in the coal mine of a political economic system that can only be called failing, the less it is able to provide for the growing number of people on the bottom of our societal pyramid.
As such, we ignore the Greenfields of our nation at our peril. We must act now to stop the rest of our communities, large and small, from continuing their rolling collapse. A task we can best begin by rebuilding government at all levels to focus on the human needs of all of its denizens. And stop privileging the schemes of the rich and powerful few over the livelihoods of the struggling multitude.
Townie is syndicated by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Jason Pramas is BINJ's network director, and executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. His Apparent Horizon column is winner of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia's 2018 Best Political Column award. Copyright 2018 Jason Pramas. Licensed for use by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and media outlets in its network.


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If you've ever visited the Statue of Liberty, she's no doubt loomed large above you, but gaze at the statue's pedestal and you'll find Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus." Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Here to talk with us about poems that celebrate who we are is Tess Taylor. She's a poet and teaches writing at the University of California Berkley and she joins me from Berkley now. Welcome, Tess.
TESS TAYLOR: Hi, Audie.
CORNISH: So when you think about Independence Day and America, is there a poem or poet that comes to mind?
TAYLOR: Well, it's interesting. We have a lot of iconic poems. One of them is, of course, that Emma Lazarus with her beautiful lifting the lamp beside the golden door and then there's Longfellow's listen my children and you shall hear the midnight ride of Paul Revere. And I think often of Whitman's I hear America singing the varied carols I hear and he praises all of these tradesman at their work and ends saying, each singing what belongs to him or her or no one else.
The day what belongs to the day, at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
CORNISH: And, I mean, is there really a lot of poetry devoted to American patriotism?
TAYLOR: It depends what you mean by patriotism. It's rather counterintuitive for poets to write in a sort of so-called patriotic way because it's the nature of good poetry to move towards mystery or uncertainty. If you say, I love America, you love America, maybe we're done and there's nothing to talk about. So for poets, a bigger tradition, I think, is the kind of poem that argues with America, that addresses America and in a way, that is our patriotism.
CORNISH: Give us an example of that.
TAYLOR: Well, a classic one is Allen Ginsberg's poem called "America" in which he says, America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America, $2.27 January 17th, 1956, I can't stand my own mind. America, when will we end the human war? And it's kind of a rant, almost a tirade. But what's really beautiful about it is his confidence that in being able to rant like this, he's actually belonging to America.
CORNISH: So, Tess Taylor, I can imagine that over time, this idea of what it means to be American obviously evolves, right, and especially when it comes to kind of the immigrant experience. And you flagged a poem for us called "Immigrant Picnic" which sort of speaks to this.
TAYLOR: Yeah. I liked this poem because, you know, so much about this day is about standing around at a barbeque or making a pie, these kind of joyful rituals. But, you know, even when we're doing that, we're thinking about how to belong to these larger ideas - freedom, independence, America. And I liked this poem because it seems to capture that dialogue that's going on within ourselves.
I'm just going to read the beginning for you here. "Immigrant Picnic" by Gregory Djanikian. It's 4th of July. The flags are painting the town. The plastic forks and knives are laid out like a parade and I'm grilling. I've got my apron. I've got potato salad, macaroni, relish. I've got a hat shaped like the state of Pennsylvania. I ask my father what's his pleasure and he says, hot dog, medium rare and then hamburger, sure.
What's the big difference, as if he's really asking. I put on hamburgers and hot dogs, slice up the sour pickles and Bermudas, uncap the condiments. The paper napkins are fluttering away like lost messages.
CORNISH: And it's interesting because he goes on to make jokes about the way his parents and relatives mix up American phrases, but then also to reminisce about pistachios and the Sinai, I mean, going back to his own background.
TAYLOR: Yes. He thinks about pistachios in the Sinai and then pecans in the south, the jumbled flavor of them suddenly in my mouth, wordless, confusing, crowding out everything else. So it's a poem about the way that, you know, we try to belong and the way that identity works for us.
CORNISH: Tess Taylor, thank you so much for speaking with us.
TAYLOR: It's my pleasure, Audie.
CORNISH: Tess Taylor is a poet and her book out next month is "The Forage House." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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If you work in an office, you realize that many times the Christmas season can be a less hectic and even a slack period. In most cases everyone, including recruiters, gear down and change their work patterns for the holidays. But if you're a corporate recruiting leader, December should be viewed instead as a golden opportunity. It is a prime recruiting month (along with January and June) because many employed prospects have free time to consider a new job due to their own reduced workloads.
The end of the year is also a time where many individuals are reevaluating their current work and life situation and planning for the future. You may be skeptical but in this article I provide more than 20 reasons why corporate recruiting leaders should actually ramp up recruiting during the holiday season.
The Top 20 Reasons Why December Is a Powerful Time to Recruit
This section contains a list of the top 20 most powerful reasons why December is strategically one of the most effective months to recruit.
- What better gift to give … than a great job — because it is a season of giving, recruiters should realize that they are not intruding on prospects; they are providing individuals with exciting opportunities that will change their lives. This "gift of a new job" costs the individual nothing but they and their family will get a great long-term benefit from it.
- Recruiting targets have ample free time – because many employees and even customers take time off during this month, many projects are essentially forced into suspended animation. With teammates taking time off for vacation or shopping, there is simply more slack time for individuals to look for a job and to respond to recruiter calls. There is more time for catching up on reading and learning, so top candidates may be seeing your employer branding materials for the first time during this period. Many take their unused vacation in December (because they may lose it at year's end) and as a result, they are unusually available for calls and interviews. And finally, the week between Christmas and New Year's (especially at firms that shut down during that week) is also typically a time when individuals reflect on their life and work and whether it's time to make a change. When they are off work, prospects don't need to lie to their boss in order to find time to go to an interview.
- December is the #1 "easy-excuse month" for candidates – December is the #1 easiest month to find an acceptable use to leave the office. This is because so many employees routinely leave the office for a few hours using acceptable reasons like shopping, running errands, and Christmas parties. Because bosses are so accepting of excuses, it is relatively easy for candidates to make an excuse to get out of the office for either a long lunch or a formal interview.
- There is little recruiting competition – because many corporate recruiting budgets run out in December, functions that plan poorly may literally have no money available, so they have no choice but to limit recruiting. The lull in the office and having many colleagues absent may also cause recruiters to also want to be less active. Unfortunately, many recruiting managers contribute to the "slack-off problem" by easily accepting the weak excuse that "I can't recruit because no one's in the office." Taken together this means that if your own recruiters are highly active during December, they simply won't encounter many of your competitor's recruiters actively fighting with you over top candidates.
- Smart recruiters will have more time to proactively recruit — on the positive side, the slack office atmosphere during December will give recruiters more time to catch up. Smart corporate leaders will realize that because hiring managers are not opening up new positions and there are almost no job fairs or college recruiting events scheduled during December, their recruiters will have extra time. A significant percentage of the less-desirable "active job seekers" are inactive during the holiday season, and as a result, they won't flood organizations with their resumes, emails, and calls. Taken together, this reduced volume can free up your recruiters time to search for high-quality resumes that are already in their database and to proactively seek out others using direct sourcing.
- Hiring managers are finally available – the same slack time and reduced workloads that impact employees also impact hiring managers. In most organizations during December, there are few scheduled meetings, offsites, or professional conferences to attend. And as a result, hiring managers are generally in town and in their office with few excuses to offer as to why they are not available to review candidate resumes and to interview.
- It's a great time for employee referrals – because your employees have extra time and they will likely be extremely active on social media during the holidays, it's a great opportunity to encourage them to find top quality referrals. Because employees will be shopping and going to many holiday events and parties, they are also much more likely to physically meet and interact with top prospects. Employees should be encouraged to send holiday greetings to top prospects and to use the easy communications during the season to further strengthen recruiting relationships.
- December is bonus payout time – once individuals receive their year-end bonus, they know that they can't get another bonus for a full year. This payout reduces their incentive to stay at their current firm. Also if they are disappointed with their bonus amount, the percentage of next year's salary increase, or if they feel that others who were less deserving got better pay, they now have new good reasons for beginning a job search.
- Prospects will be highly active on social media – the holiday season is a prime time to be contacting friends, online shopping, and sending pictures and greetings. Taken together this means that prospects will be frequently be online and that will make it easier for recruiters to find and communicate with top prospects. The extra free time during December will also provide individuals with opportunities to update their social media content, their LinkedIn profiles, and their resumes, so that they are ready to begin a job search.
- They will carry the mobile platform with them 24/7 — the mobile platform is always a powerful recruiting tool. However, it is even more so during the holiday season where people naturally answer calls and texts more often because they are expecting calls from family and friends. No one goes shopping without their mobile phone and many are much more likely to answer while they are traveling to the mall, when shopping, and when waiting in line. If prospects can't view every aspect of your corporate job application site and apply directly from their mobile phone, you will be missing out on a great opportunity.
- Back home travel provides a recruiting opportunity – the holiday season is a heavy travel season and many prospects will return home to visit their family. This visit may stir feelings about wanting to move home and to be closer to family. Smart recruiters will take this as an opportunity to recruit visitors while they're in the area.
- December is prime time for college recruiting – As a college professor, it is intriguing to me that few companies have realized that up to a third of college students graduate at the end of the fall semester. But few firms specifically target fall grads. In addition, during the winter break students have a great deal of free time and their minds are relatively unencumbered. As a result, college students are easy to contact and physically meet when they return home. Effective recruiting can also occur at popular college student gathering areas like ski resorts.
- It's a time that they are thinking about money – the holiday season means extensive shopping, travel, and Christmas party expenses. As a result, it is a time where many individuals think about money. If your organization pays significantly above the average, December and January provide you with an opportunity to attract those who are having money issues.
- The holidays are ideal for employer brand building — many years ago, Cisco pioneered holiday employer brand building through gift-wrapping events staffed by its employees at the mall. The holiday season is obviously a great opportunity to show community involvement and that your employees care, while at the same time indirectly but powerfully building your employer brand image.
- The economy will likely get a kickstart with the fiscal cliff deal – the likely solving of the fiscal cliff budget problem will give a kick start to the economy in the U.S. Smart recruiting leaders will begin recruiting right before the deal is completed, in order to get the best talent before other firms begin to ramp up their recruiting and the competition.
- December really is "the prime time" for recruiting retail and customer service – December is the very best month to recruit retail, customer-facing, and delivery employees. Since anyone who is any good in customer service is working during the December holiday period, there is literally no better time for recruiters and employees to identify the very best through their work. Provide employees with powerful referral cards to turn any positive interaction into a recruiting opportunity.
- Not everyone celebrates the holiday – many countries don't celebrate the same holidays. Even individuals from different religious groups within the U.S. don't celebrate the same holidays. This means that in many situations, you should continue your normal recruiting approach and be aware of individual differences. Countries with warmer climates during December don't always have the same intensity for this holiday.
- New fiscal year budgets are coming open — because many business calendar years start January 1, managers will know their upcoming budget and headcount in early December. This provides an opportunity for recruiters to work with managers and to get a head start on soon to be open requisitions.
- Blockers and screeners have let their guard down — although I'm not a supporter of cold calling, it's easier to get through to key prospects during December when so many receptionist and "call-blocking" jobs are staffed with temporary fill-ins. In fact, the holiday spirit makes almost everyone more willing to accept calls that they wouldn't even consider taking during normal frantic business periods.
- An opportune time to plan and to improve the function — even if you decide not to ramp up your recruiting effort during December, the slack period is an ideal time to work on your strategic recruiting plan. It's also a great time to review your year-end metrics and to implement process improvement efforts. In particular, you should focus your planning on taking advantage of the mobile platform, the LinkedIn platform, and developing predictive analytics that make it easier for recruiting to take identify and then take advantage of upcoming talent opportunities.
Final Thoughts
Most firms don't recruit heavily during this period, so naturally it's easy to for corporate leaders to follow the crowd and to also wind down their own recruiting efforts during December. Strategically however, that would be a huge mistake and a missed opportunity.
The best time to recruit is when others are idle and when the candidates are most available and receptive, and December fits that description. Seize the opportunity and take advantage of the idleness of others by beginning your winter recruiting campaign today. Recruiting is a 12-month profession. And just think how many more of your recruiting goals that will be met if you have a full 12, rather than an 11 ½-month effort!


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Summary : Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in A/52, DTS and MPEG Audio decoders Invalid memory access in AVI, ASF, Matroska (MKV) demuxers Invalid memory access in XSPF playlist parser Invalid memory access in ZIP archive decompressor Heap buffer overflow in RTMP access Date : 19 April 2010 Affected versions : VLC media player 1.0.5 down to 0.5.0 ID : VideoLAN-SA-1003 CVE references : CVE-2010-1441 through CVE-2010-1445
VLC media player suffers from various vulnerabilities when attempting to parse malformatted or overly long byte streams.
If successful, a malicious third party could crash the player instance or perhaps execute arbitrary code within the context of VLC media player.
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The user may refrain from opening files from untrusted sources.
VLC media player 1.0.6 addresses these issues and introduces further stability fixes.
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Huawei moves up on Forbes Most Valuable Brands of 2018
By Digital News Asia May 30, 2018
- Entered the list for the first time in 2017 and ranked 88th with a brand value of US$7.3 billion
- Apple came No. 1 for the eighth straight year, followed by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon
HUAWEI is the only Chinese company to feature in the annual ranking of the world's Most Valuable Brands 2018 compiled by Forbes. Huawei has been included in the list for the second consecutive year ranking 79th with a brand value of US$8.4 billion.
Huawei entered the list for the first time in 2017 and ranked 88th with a brand value of US$7.3 billion. After a year of rapid development, Huawei's brand value increased by 15% year-on-year to US$8.4 billion, and its ranking went from 88th to 79th.
Technology companies continue to dominate the list by taking the top five spots and accounting for up to 20% of the TOP100.
Apple came No. 1 for the eighth straight year, followed by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon. The TOP100 brands have come from 16 countries and regions in the world, with the largest number from the US taking 54 places, followed by 12 brands from Germany and seven brands from Japan and France respectively. Huawei is still the only Chinese brand on the list.
2017 saw Huawei achieve a rapid global development driven by the full range of its products featuring the Mate, P and Nova series. The launch of the Huawei P10 and Mate 10 series helped to raise its premium credentials and increased Huawei's influence in the high-end market. Huawei Nova 2s in turn won acclaim among younger generation for its focus on the latest fashion consumer trends.
Huawei officially launched Huawei P20 series in Paris in March 2018. With its unique and innovative Leica Triple Camera, twilight body design and AI features, Huawei P20 series has been a global sales sensation. According to IDC, Huawei market share has increased by 13.8% to 11.7%., and ranked third in the world in Q1, 2018.
Huawei's global brand awareness went up to 85% in 2017 whilst consideration of Huawei's brands among overseas consumers has gone up significantly, with a year-on-year surge of 100%. According to the IPSOS, Huawei's brand awareness, consideration, and NPS rank No.1 in the Chinese market.
Meanwhile, Huawei also performed well in other major global brand rankings. Huawei ranked 70th in Interbrand's "TOP100" most valuable brands released in September 2017, and in February 2018, Brand Finance unveiled the "Global TOP 500 Brand Values in 2018" report ranking Huawei at No. 25 with a brand value of US$38 billion.
Huawei's continuous growth in the global market and its increasing brand influence have benefited from its multi-year commitment to technology innovation and R&D investment. According to Huawei's annual report, Huawei's R&D investment for 2017 was RMB 89.7 billion, accounting for approximately 14.9% of the revenue, and the accumulated R&D expenses over the past ten years exceeded RMB 394 billion.
In terms of patents, as of Dec 31, 2017, Huawei accumulatively granted 74,307 patents, applied for 64,091 Chinese patents, and accumulated 48,758 foreign patent applications, of which more than 90% were invention patents.
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I just wanted to drop by and wish you all a very happy new year!
I am still here. Still learning how to be a mom.
As soon as I'll get the hang of it I'll work on being a mom and a working woman at the same time.
So far it isn't working for me 🙂
Not that I am complaining.
I cherish each second I spend with my Maya.
Meanwhile, I treated myself to this baby:
As soon as I heard that there is a mini version of the silhouette I had to get it. Its big brother has been on my wish for ages but I just didn't have room for it. Neither in my office nor in my budget…
The Silhouette Portrait is the perfect size for card making or for die cutting accents and journaling cards… It also takes less room than the full-size machine and costs much less.
So far I only made some Christmas cards with it:
Embarrassingly, I got it, as I thought I could finally fit this awesome machine into my very limited work place.
Guess what? I don't have room.
Even for the cute 8″ by 8″ version…
As I installed it and made a test run I had only a mere 6″ by 6″ piece of work space left.
I am not kidding.
Luckily, I am now moving to a new place and I am going to have a dedicated craft-room/office.
I'm so excited!!!
Clearly, moving means even less time for the near future.
However, the potential… Oh, the potential…
One can only dream.
But what are first days in the new year for if not for dreaming. Right!?
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One presidential candidate said the mayor was deliberately targeted in an effort to destabilize the entire city of Kharkiv, a hub of 1.5 million people.
Armed insurgents tacitly backed by Moscow are seeking more autonomy in eastern Ukraine - and possibly even independence or annexation with Russia. Ukraine's acting government and the West have accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear Moscow could use as a pretext for an invasion.
Ratcheting up the pressure, President Barack Obama's government levied new sanctions Monday on seven Russian officials and 17 companies with links to President Vladimir Putin's inner circle. The U.S. also revoked licenses for some high-tech items that could be used by the Russian military.
In Brussels, the European Union moved Monday to add 15 more officials to its Russian sanctions list to protest Moscow's meddling in Ukraine. That decision, reached by the ambassadors to the EU's 28 nations, was being formally confirmed by the EU's governments, officials told The Associated Press.
In the eastern city of Donetsk, about 1,000 demonstrators carrying Ukrainian flags marched through the streets to hold a pro-Ukrainian rally Monday night. They were attacked by several hundred armed men shouting "Russia!"
Police attempted to hold the pro-Russia men back but then largely stood aside as dozens of protesters were battered.
Hennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, was shot in the back Monday morning while cycling on the outskirts of the city, his office said. He underwent surgery and was reported by the hospital to be in "grave but stable" condition.
Officials have not commented on who could be behind the attack on the mayor - but Kernes was a man who could have angered both sides.
Kernes' friend and former Kharkiv governor, Mykhailo Dobkin, told journalists the attackers had aimed at Kernes' heart and wanted to kill him to destabilize the city
"If you want to know my opinion, they were shooting not at Kernes, but at Kharkiv," he said.
Dobkin is among several candidates running in Ukraine's May 25 presidential election, which the interim government says Russia is trying to derail.
Kernes was a staunch opponent of the pro-West Maidan movement that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych in February and was widely viewed as the organizer who sent activists from eastern Ukraine to harass demonstrators in Kiev.
But he has softened his stance toward the new Kiev government. At a meeting of eastern Ukrainian leaders and acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk earlier this month, Kernes insisted he does not support the armed pro-Russia insurgents and backed a united Ukraine.
Kharkiv is in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russia gunmen have seized government buildings and police stations and set up roadblocks to demand greater autonomy or even annexation by Russia. But unlike the neighboring Donetsk region, Kharkiv had been largely unaffected by the insurgency - something Kernes has been credited with. Its administration building was briefly seized earlier this month but promptly cleared of pro-Russia protesters.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the attack on Kernes, along with other events, "indicates that it isn't possible to speak of any 'peaceful' pre-election campaign in Ukraine."
Elsewhere in the east, pro-Russia militants wearing masks gained another foothold, seizing a city hall building and police station in the city of Kostyantynivka, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border. The city is 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Slovyansk, a major city that has been in the hands of insurgents for more than three weeks.
After the seizure, about 15 armed men guarded the city hall building. Some posed for pictures with residents while others distributed St. George's ribbons, the symbol of the pro-Russia movement.
Moscow has repeatedly pushed for a referendum on federal autonomy in Ukraine, but Kiev and its Western allies have refused, accusing Russia of fomenting separatist sentiment to foil the May presidential vote.
However, Justice Minister Petro Petrenko said the parliament in Kiev will hold a debate Tuesday on the idea of a referendum, Interfax news agency reported.
The increasingly ruthless pro-Russia insurgency, meanwhile, is turning to an ominous new tactic: kidnapping. About 40 people are being held hostage in makeshift jails in Slovyansk - including journalists, pro-Ukraine activists and seven military observers from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ukraine's Security Service said Monday.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the capture of the military observers, demanded their immediate release and urged any U.N. members with influence to work to help end their detention.
Russia's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, called Ukraine's efforts to detain pro-Russia activists the "mass persecution of dissenters." It also said Ukraine was building large temporary detention centers to hold these prisoners.
"Those structures being constructed very much remind one of fascist concentration camps," the Russian statement said.
Nataliya Vasilyeva and Laura Mills in Moscow, Efrem Lukatsky in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sergei Grits in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine, and Julie Pace in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.


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Bahrain Mirror- Reuters: The United States is halting refueling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen, the United States and Saudi Arabia said on Friday, ending one of the most divisive aspects of U.S. assistance to the Saudi war effort.
Saudi Arabia, in a statement released by its embassy in Washington, said it had decided to request an end to U.S. aerial refueling for its operations in Yemen because it could now handle it by itself.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis backed the decision and said the U.S. government was consulted.
The move comes at a time of international outrage over the murder of U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and after Democratic and Republican lawmakers threatened to take action in Congress next week over the refueling operations.
Critics of the Saudi campaign - including Democrats who won control of the House of Representatives in elections on Tuesday - have long questioned U.S. involvement in the war, which has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than 2 million and led to widespread famine in Yemen since it began in 2015.
"I've been calling for this for over three years," said Representative Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California.
"We shouldn't be supporting coalition war crimes and I look forward to continuing to scrutinize the U.S.'s role in Yemen when we're in the majority next Congress."
Even as President Donald Trump's administration has condemned Khashoggi's murder, the White House has sought to preserve its relationship with Saudi Arabia.
A coordinated decision by Washington and Riyadh to halt the refueling could be an attempt by both countries to forestall further action by Congress.
Senators Todd Young, a Republican, and Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, had warned the Trump administration was running out of time to act.
"If the administration does not take immediate steps... we are prepared to take additional action when the Senate comes back into session," Young and Shaheen said.
Beyond refueling, the United States provides limited intelligence support to the Saudi-led coalition and sells it weaponry used in Yemen's war.
Mattis said the United States would play a continuing role to help the Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni forces minimize civilian casualties and expand humanitarian efforts.
He also suggested plans to build up Yemeni troops.
"The U.S. and the Coalition are planning to collaborate on building up legitimate Yemeni forces to defend the Yemeni people, secure their country's borders, and contribute to counter Al Qaeda and ISIS efforts in Yemen and the region," Mattis said in a statement.
Earlier this year, Mattis had defended U.S. military support to Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen, when lawmakers weighed forcing the Pentagon to end Washington's involvement.
Mattis argued that halting U.S. military support could increase civilian casualties, since U.S. refueling had given pilots more time to select their targets. He told them cutting off support could jeopardize cooperation on counter-terrorism and reduce American influence with Saudi Arabia.
Mattis also argued it would embolden the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, who have fired missiles at Saudi Arabia and targeted commercial and military vessels off Yemen's coast.
Still, a halt to refueling could by itself have little practical effect on the war. U.S. officials told Reuters only a fifth of Saudi-led coalition aircraft require in-air refueling from the United States.
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