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November 18, 2011
For my next look at post graduate GIS programs in Canada, I examine that of the British Columbia Institute of Technology located in Burnaby. BCIT offers an Advanced Diploma in GIS that is designed for those with a university or college degree in a related discipline. BCIT offers the program to students on a full-time or part-time basis. This is a challenging program that will give you much of the technical knowledge you need to help set yourself apart in todays job market.
The BCIT GIS Advanced Diploma program puts a strong emphasis on computer programming. I spoke with the Program Head, Sheila Churchill, and she elaborated on this aspect of the coursework, We want our graduates to not only be very skilled in customization and creating applications, but creating web applications as well. Students learn GIS as they apply to Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP among others. Thus, you will need to know about programming concepts and design before enrolling, though not necessarily familiar with any of the above languages in particular.
It should be noted that BCIT has admitted strong candidates whom did not have significant programming experience. In these cases, staff directed the potential applicants toward online programming tutorials to ensure they could gain basic programming fundamentals and to see if they would enjoy the programming aspect of the GIS courses. Churchill stated that there have been several cases of students that came to the program with little programming knowledge, yet progressed onward to be very successful in the program. Students also use the web to present materials and thus need to know how to use HTML and an HTML editor before beginning courses. Students also find it highly beneficial to brush up on high-school math skills before classes begin.
In addition to the emphasis on programming, the BCIT program will give you an understanding in GIS as it relates to database structure, remote sensing, cartography as well as spatial analysis relating to both environmental and business applications. Students get hands-on experience with the latest ESRI and Autodesk GIS software and you will also be exposed to IT, management and organization issues as they relate to GIS. All your work culminates with a project/practicum course to gain real-world experience with a GIS employer.
Applicants must have completed a university degree, BC associates degree or have a diploma of technology before entering the program. Applicants with an international degree will need to submit for a full evaluation of credentials. In applying, students will also need to provide a resume and write a letter explaining their interest in the program and how they will prepare for the challenges it will bring. This is because the program is highly intensive with 30 hours per week in labs and lectures and a further 20 to 30 hours per week in coursework.
I was hoping to speak with a graduate of the BCIT Advanced Diploma program to inquire how the program can enhance ones career prospects. I was lucky to connect with Laura McGarvie, a GIS Data Management Specialist at Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission in California (PSMFC). McGarvie got her degree in Geology at UBC. She explained to me how a geologist got into marine biology intermixed with a year or so at BCIT: When I finished my geology degree in 2001 the price of commodities was down and Bre-X had really weakened confidence in Canadian mining companies. Because of this there was no work for new geologists. I ended up working as a fisheries observer with Archipelago Marine Research. I stayed in this line of work until I returned to BCIT. I mention this because my combination of education and work experience was what prompted me to go to BCIT and pursue GIS. Because I didn't have a biology degree I felt I couldn't advance my career in fisheries. And because I had no geology experience and my degree was kind of stale I felt as though my career as a geologist was going nowhere. I saw GIS as an avenue to get back into geology or to further my fisheries career. It definitely accomplished both.
McGarvie believes that the BCIT emphasis on programming was integral to her success: I was very impressed with the BCIT GIS program. I think BCIT really knows how to engage their students and get them to be very dedicated to their education. In my opinion the best thing about the BCIT GIS program is that it teaches students some really great programming and database skills on top of the basic GIS skills you would expect to gain. At my current job it is these additional skills that have set me apart from the other GIS staff and helped me to excel. The programming and database skills that the GIS program gave me allowed me to not only be much more efficient with my GIS work but opened me to other job opportunities.
McGarvie also found BCITs relationship with employers for the final project/practicum to be extremely valuable because she was able to combine her newfound GIS skills with her degree discipline: Another great thing about the BCIT GIS program is the project/practicum. This is a great way to give the students experience and to hopefully place them directly into a job when they graduate. My practicum was with a gold exploration company. I was able to secure this practicum because I had a geology degree. When I graduated there was a lot of demand for GIS professionals with a geology background (I suspect there still is). I got really lucky and was hired by the gold exploration company two weeks into my practicum. I stayed with this gold exploration company for 9 months and spent two months in Nunavut which was quite an experience!
After nine months with the exploration firm, McGarvie realized that she preferred fisheries work. Despite the horrible economic situation in California, she believes her GIS skills continue to make her stand out: At the end of December my main contract that brought me to California is coming to an end. Of the three people employed by this contract I am the only person who will maintain employment with PSMFC. I believe that my ability to stay employed is a direct result of the database and programming skills that I have on top of my GIS skills. So I am very thankful that the BCIT GIS program teaches a variety of subjects in addition to GIS (and does a great job at doing so).
So clearly, if you have the drive to succeed in an intense GIS program, BCIT can help to move your career to another level. But what does the program cost? Tuition for the full year program is $5,421.48. Books are estimated to cost around $500 to $600. If youd prefer to tackle the program on a part-time basis, tuition is charged at $600 per course. One must complete 20 courses to complete the BCIT Advanced Diploma program.
It should be noted that BCIT offers several GIS programs. They offer many of their introductory level GIS courses to people that are just looking to gain a working knowledge of how to use GIS applications by taking one or two courses. BCIT also offers a Bachelor of Technology Degree in GIS, aimed at students who, when they enter the program, have an Associate Degree or a Diploma of Technology and do not yet have a Bachelor's Degree. The B.Tech in GIS consists of the same technical courses as the Advanced Diploma. As well, to earn the degree, the student must complete additional Management and Liberal Arts credits, and also complete six months of employment in the GIS field. Furthermore, in the fall of 2012, the Advanced Diploma program will be offered in its entirety online through distance learning.


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→ Transcript of Marnie Warner's interview.
Marnie Warner, one of four co-authors of the Open and Affirming Resolution in the United Church of Christ, was a key strategist in the passage of Open and Affirming in the Massachusetts Conference and at the 1985 General Synod. Marnie (Margaret) was born in Bethel, Connecticut, in 1950 and baptized in First Congregational Church of Bethel that later joined the UCC. She faithfully attended Sunday School, went to summer camp at Silver Lake Conference Center in Sharon, Conn., and was part of Pilgrim Fellowship. Marnie was the fifth generation to attend this church. She remembers her great-aunt Minnie Carter who was sent from the church as a missionary to Inanda School for Girls in South Africa for forty years. Marnie visited there in 1995. Marnie studied at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to get her Masters degree in Library Science at Simmons College in Boston.
Marnie in first grade While attending Simmons, Marnie became involved at Church of the Covenant (COTC) and became Clerk of Council in 1977. In the early 1980's, Marnie served on the Metropolitan Boston Association's Committee on Ministry. She was chosen as a delegate from the Massachusetts Conference to the 1983 and 1985 General Synods which is where the Opening and Affirming story unfolds (and is told in this interview). Following that time, Marnie continued to give her time to Conference activities including chairing a search committee for two associate conference ministers and chairing the annual conference program committee. During the 1990's, Marnie developed a workshop on Making Meetings Work that she taught and trained others to teach at churches throughout the Massachusetts Conference.
At COTC, Marnie was on the Board of Deacons, Membership Development Committee and Covenant News. Being a Deacon during the 1980s was challenging as COTC shepherded many gay men through their journey with AIDS. From 1989-1992, Marnie was part of the Committee to Renew the Covenant that successfully raised $1.3 million from church members, foundations and corporations to renovate the church and create space for non-profits.
Church activist after General Synod 1985Marnie met rose ann olmstead at COTC and they grew to know each other through a COTC project, Casa Myrna Vazquez, one of the first shelters for women experiencing domestic violence. In 1981, rosi became a minister at COTC and served the congregation for twenty-two years. In 1991, rosi and Marnie took time to travel cross country by bicycle. They both pedaled all 5,250 miles with Cycle America. After over two decades as partners, Marnie and rosi were legally married in Massachusetts at Church of the Covenant in May 2004.
Marnie with partner rosiThroughout Marnie's career as a law librarian, she worked to make the law accessible to anyone needing legal information. She held jobs in a law firm and at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners setting up law libraries in prisons. Since 1980 she has worked for the Trial Court overseeing and developing the services of 17 public law libraries that serve the Court, the legal community and the public. Recently she has been involved in Access to Justice.
If you asked Marnie what was most exciting about her life, she would answer that "I had the opportunity to experience many firsts in my life–in all of my professional jobs, I was the first person to hold the position; I was a catalyst in Opening and Affirming and had a front row seat to an amazing journey; and was able to legally marry my partner."
(This biographical statement written by Mark Bowman from information provided by Marnie Warner.)
Biography Date: February, 2014
Warner, Marnie
"Marnie Warner | Oral History", LGBTQ Religious Archives Network, accessed July 13, 2024, https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/oral-histories/marnie-warner.

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New research shows how light can control electrical properties of graphene |
(Nanowerk News) New research published today ("Non-Volatile Photochemical Gating of an Epitaxial Graphene/Polymer Heterostructure"), shows how light can be used to control the electrical properties of graphene, paving the way for graphene-based optoelectronic devices and highly sensitive sensors. | |
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded for research into graphene, recognising its potential for many applications in modern life, from high-speed electronics to touchscreen technology. The UK's National Physical Laboratory, along with a team of international scientists, have further developed our understanding of graphene by showing that when this remarkable material is combined with particular polymers, its electrical properties can be precisely controlled by light and exploited in a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The polymers keep memory of light and therefore the graphene device retains its modified properties until the memory is erased by heating. | |
A light-sensitive graphene/polymer heterostructure | |
Light-modified graphene chips have already been used at NPL in ultra-precision experiments to measure the quantum of the electrical resistance. | |
In the future, similar polymers could be used to effectively 'translate' information from their surroundings and influence how graphene behaves. This effect could be exploited to develop robust reliable sensors for smoke, poisonous gases, or any targeted molecule. | |
Graphene is an extraordinary two-dimensional material made of a single atomic layer of carbon atoms. It is the thinnest material known to man, and yet is one of the strongest ever tested. | |
Graphene does not have volume, only surface – its entire structure is exposed to its environment, and responds to any molecule that touches it. This makes it in principle a very exciting material for super-sensors capable of detecting single molecules of toxic gases. Polymers can make graphene respond to specific molecules and ignore all others at the same time, which also protects it from contamination. | |
The research team included scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (UK), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of California Berkeley (USA), Linköping University (Sweden) and Lancaster University (UK). |
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One of many things my parents did right was consistently praying out loud with me as a child. They made Jesus the center of our family.
Paul & Janet Sanders are nothing short of the world's greatest parents. God brought them together many years ago not knowing that they would raise a boy and nurture him into manhood. Along the way the boy began to respect his parents and notice all the things that they had done right. His parents loved him, took him to church, encouraged, supported and gave lessons of wisdom. Unconditional love came in many forms, and it started at a young age. Often, it was in the form of a firm hand on his backside when he was disobedient, or a pat on the back when he succeeded. Regardless of the circumstance, his parents loved him with a love like Christ's. His parents took him to church, two, sometimes three days a week, where he learned about eternal life in Christ. His father was there to walk with him down the aisle as a sign of support for his son's public profession of faith. At the same time, his mother cried tears of joy knowing that life with her son would not end at death.
As the boy matured there were many obstacles that seemed to block his path. Both mother and father were there to offer words of wisdom gained from past experiences. The boy would soon learn that his best asset was his parents, and the knowledge they wished to bestow upon him was priceless. Several years later it came time for the boy to leave his parents and start his own family. Once again, both parents were there to support and stand by their son as he took the final steps into adulthood.
The boy that matured into a man, relished the fact that he had two godly parents who raised him to the best of their ability, holding nothing back and trusting God. I am that boy who will spend the rest of his life trying to model what my parents did right.
Looking back, I can now see so many things my parents did right. At the time I didn't understand them or think they were being fair, but now I see so much love and discipline in the way I was brought up. Sometimes tough love is the best kind of love.
My parents set many rules with the intent to protect my purity. Some of the rules I thought were crazy and too over protective but I thank God for those rules now. I was not allowed to have boys over when my parents were not home. This was so that I would not be faced with sexual pressure. When I spent the night at a friend's house my mom would call the other mother to make sure I was really staying there. I hated this rule but it kept me accountable. My parents were open about sex and make sure I knew what consequences it could lead to. Although my parents knew that they could not prevent my decisions or keep me in a bubble, they did a great job at trying to protect me.
Education was never a question in my house. I had to make A's and B's or I would be grounded until my grades improved. I was not allowed to go out on a school night unless it was a school function. I had to have all my homework done before I could watch television or use the phone. My parents would never accept any grade that was below my potential. My parents would always ask me about homework and they knew when I had a test. They always made sure I studied and had my homework complete. Since I was an athlete, I always had to get progress reports signed which kept my parents very involved in my grades. When it came to college, they never put a limit on where I could go. They allowed it be my decision, which made me enjoy my time spent in college.
Financial responsibility was something I learned early. I began babysitting and doing chores for money when I was about 13. My parents always provided all the necessary things (and then some) but my social life was up to me. I started a real job when I was 15 and I had to give my mom half of every paycheck so she could put it in my savings account for me. I thought it was unfair at the time but after a few years of saving I was able to buy books and pay for my living expenses my first year or two in college. I also paid for my college through student loans, which made me appreciate my education much more. Although I am no financial expert, my parents taught me the value of money and I should be responsible with it. They never put too much financial responsibility on me and they never let me do without but through it all I appreciated what I had.
When I was growing up, my parents allowed me to try any activity I wanted. Whether it was ballet, gymnastics, soccer, softball, or basketball. I was very fortunate to have parents who attended every game (my dad was the coach), every gymnastics meet, and every dance recital. When I was ready to give up one for the other they, allowed me to do it. I feel like it made me a well-rounded kid. No matter the activity, my parents supported me and they always proved to be my biggest fans.
Church has always been a part of my life but there was never any push to have a personal relationship with Christ. I accepted Christ into my life when I was 24 years old. My parents saw the change in my life and supported me finding a church home. Although my decision to be baptized this year was not completely understood (because I was baptized as a baby) my parents eventually accepted it. I know it was difficult for them but they still supported me. This was one of the biggest decisions I have ever made, so having their support, whether they understood why or not, made all the difference in the world. I pray that one day my parents will have an intimate relationship with the Lord so they will know just how much they are loved.
I am not a perfect person and I was a very difficult kid at times, but through all my fits, moods, emotions, stages, and decisions, my parents always showed their love for me. My parents did not keep a record of all my wrongs or never loved me any differently. Parenting is a tough job, but through all the rules, tough love, and setting a good example, parents can really impact their children's lives. I have been blessed with two very strong and loving parents. I just hope I am as good of a parent as they are. I wonder if they know how great they are?
People have often asked me, "What did your parents do that made all four of you girls turn out so well?" It is a funny question to me because growing up, we didn't focus on how well my parents were parenting us and keep score or grade them on some kind of scale. To my knowledge, we just lived a fairly normal life, with two very loving and godly parents that passed on that love to their four girls. I am the third girl in the family and was always thrown in the middle of our family life. I watched as my sisters went through school, boyfriends, heartaches, discipline from mom and dad, friendships and sports, just to name a few. I followed a lot of what they did but always knew that whatever I did, I would always receive love from my mom and dad. Mom and Dad were busy keeping up with our four hectic schedules but I never felt neglected or unimportant to them.
If I have to answer the direct question regarding what they did right, I'm blessed to say, "Many things!" First, I always felt loved unconditionally from both my mom and my dad. They showed me they loved me by supporting me in whatever it was I wanted to do. They set boundaries about what I could and could not do, but within those boundaries, they gave me the freedom to make my own choices, good or bad. They would give advice when they thought it was appropriate, but at times, would give me the ability to even make a wrong choice. I was very stubborn, so after being allowed to make a wrong choice, I would then value their opinion even more and would begin to understand why I had made the wrong decision. Today, I am extremely grateful for the freedom as well as the direction they gave me!
Second, they included me in their lives. I didn't feel like they were just a part what was happening in my life, they let me in on theirs. I felt secure being with adults at a young age because they allowed us to be with their adult friends and we enjoyed being with them. I believe being involved in their lives enabled me to learn a lot about people and relationships at a very young age. We also had fun being together and we loved to make each other laugh! We had many serious times and talks, but we could always make each other laugh and loved to do practical jokes!
Lastly, they pointed me to the person of Jesus Christ! They were not "preachy" to me or my sisters. Instead, they lived a life that showed me God's perfect love and His amazing grace for me as a sinner. When we were younger, they would rarely let us spend the night with a friend on a Saturday night, because Sunday morning, we went to church as a family! When I came down in the mornings, my mom almost always had made my lunch and had her coffee cup and her Bible open and was already reading God's Word for the day. My dad and I are night owls, so I would usually be up late and find him still downstairs. He would often be reading his Bible and highlighting half of the page. Many nights, we would share an oreo cookie and a glass of milk on the kitchen counter and he would love to share with me what he was reading or what he would teach to his Sunday school class the next day. Dad has a passion for God's Word and he wants people to experience that same thirst for our Heavenly Father so they could experience a personal and intimate relationship with Him.
My parents prayed in the driveway for us before we left to go back to college after a weekend at home. They would go and be there for our family and friends that had a loss or needed to be encouraged. They would invite the sacker from the the grocery store to have Thanksgiving with our family. They made time for people, just like Jesus did and they showed me how to love those around me in the same way. To this very day, they reach out to people to whom many others would not. They loved right where people were and not because of who they were. Even though my parent's lives and marriage have been blessed, I am even more grateful to have seen them go through tough times and see how God loved them and how they continued to love each other through whatever storm may have come their way. I truly believe that it was their authentic relationship with God that allowed me to come the Lord at such an early age. Through them modeling God's love and grace, I did not stray far from God and He has protected and blessed my life for 33 years!
What an opportunity we have as parents to cultivate a perfect love relationship between parent and child as well as a relationship of our child with our Savior, Jesus Christ! As my dad still says to this very day, "Seize the day!" They certainly did as parents and now I'm trying to do the same for my children! There is no higher calling! What a joy it is! Praise God for "what they did right" only through Jesus Christ.
A few years ago as Mom was visiting with one of her close friends about motherhood, the friend complimented her by saying, "Claire, you don't just love your children; you genuinely like them! Most people naturally love their children, but some people have a hard time actually liking them."
Feeling liked by Mom and Dad. The simple, yet profound comment has played repeatedly in my head as I often reflect on the last 28 years as the fourth daughter of Oscar and Claire Turner.
What did liking your children look like in the Turner household? First, there was mutual respect. When it came to discipline, Mom or Dad would sit me down and explain why they didn't approve of what I did, or why it required punishment. Then, they would give me the opportunity to explain the reasons for my behavior or actions. Bottom line: there was two-way communication. Whether or not a punishment was given, my voice was heard; therefore, I felt like Mom and Dad respected my opinion. Now, whether they agreed with it or not, is a different story.
Secondly, my parents wanted to be around us as often as they could. Our time wasn't forced or uncomfortable, but fun and enjoyable. They made time for us, but set healthy boundaries when they needed time alone. When Mom and Dad invited company over to the house, they didn't point us to our room and shut the door. They included us in their time of fellowship, which helped us learn how to relate to and enjoy outsiders and adults. They genuinely liked having us around.
Lastly, Mom and Dad liked us so much that their ultimate goal as parents was to daily encourage us to walk in Truth. They spoke biblical wisdom into most decisions and situations we experienced. They spoke truth in love; they modeled godliness, mercy, and unconditional love. Since the birth of their first daughter in 1963, my parents have had "no greater joy than to hear that their children are walking in the Truth". Forty years later, all 4 daughters are walking in truth, primarily because Mom and Dad walked along side us, providing the confidence and support to "walk" alone with Christ on the remainder of our Journeys. To sum up what my parents did right; they LED, they LOVED, they LIKED.
As a 30-year-old adult who has a close relationship with my parents, I can point to several things looking back that I think they "did right" in raising me. To start, there was the family dinner. There was never any question that our entire family would sit down to dinner together every night. It was an important stage for staying involved in each other's lives, tackling hard issues, celebrating and even disciplining. This is a great habit I intend to continue.
Consistency is another big one. My parents were extremely consistent in their behavior, and in their discipline of us. We went to church every Sunday, no questions asked. Their beliefs, rules and disciplines were unwavering. I may not have liked it as a 15-year-old trying to push the limits, but I sure appreciate it now. The great thing is, they also knew when to bend. Somehow they found a healthy balance between discipline and the happiness of their children.
From an early age, my parents taught me the importance of respecting my elders, and particularly my grandparents. "Yes, ma'am and No, ma'am" were staples of my vocabulary. But surely the most important thing I learned from my parents was their unashamed love for Jesus Christ. This is one thing I never doubted for a second, because it was part of their lives, woven into their personalities. And now I have the joy of growing in our faith together. Thanks, Mom and Dad!
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Wibu-Systems joins the Trusted Computing Group to leverage Trusted Platform Modules as secure licensing elements
Karlsruhe, Germany – April 12, 2016 -To further ramp up the versatility that characterizes its flagship technology, Wibu-Systems is joining the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and offering CodeMeter as a secure licensing platform for all TPM users to monetize their business.
As part of this, Wibu-Systems is also expanding its hardware compatibility lineup to include support for Trusted Platform Modules (TPM). CodeMeter features ever growing support on multiple fronts: an unparalleled range of hardware platforms, including PCs, mobile devices, embedded systems, PLCs, and microcontrollers, a matchless lineup of secure elements that spans across dongles, memory cards, TPMs, cloud, and software-based repositories, and full integration with all major operating systems used in offices and industrial environments.
Attackers often use reverse engineering to find software vulnerabilities which they can exploit to create counterfeit products and steal sensitive data or tamper with for sabotage and espionage purposes. With embedded systems, this can lead to serious and dangerous hacks, as recent attacks on safety-critical automotive components have shown. Wibu-Systems CodeMeter creates secured code and licenses that can be bound to a secure element in the target system, ensuring that the code and the licensed features are only used on that system. License creation and deployment can be seamlessly integrated into existing business processes, such as ERP systems or e-commerce platforms. This mechanism opens up com¬pletely new business models, such as feature upselling and time-based or pay-per-use licenses, for the IoT and other intelligent devices.
"Our goal is to broaden the support for secure elements in all connected devices; the support of TCG specifications will streamline software licensing to all TPM 2.0 users, enabling new business opportunities, and propelling secure software monetization in the IoT world. CodeMeter, which was recently named SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award finalist for Best Content Rights & Entitlement Solution, integrates perfectly with the existing architecture and offers new revenue streams with lean integration and a small footprint", says Oliver Winzenried, CEO and co-founder of Wibu-Systems.
"TCG welcomes the contributions of Wibu-Systems and its support for the TPM with its CodeMeter solutions," said Mark Schiller, Trusted Computing Group executive director. "The ability to protect code and intellectual property is a key benefit of using the TPM in many enterprise, embedded and Internet of Things environments."
TCG is a not-for-profit organization, formed to develop, define, and promote open, vendor-neutral, global industry standards, supporting a hardware-based root of trust for interoperable trusted computing platforms, including embedded systems and the IoT. Its industry standard (ISO) TPM specifications are estimated to secure billions of endpoints, and other TCG specifications for secure networks and self-encrypting drives are implemented widely in products by thousands of manufacturers.
Wibu-Systems already offered a demonstration of "IP Protection and Flexible Licensing Applied to TPM Connected Devices" at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco as part of the TCG "Securing the Internet of Things with Trusted Computing" initiative. The next showcase opportunity can be enjoyed this week at the SAE World Congress, where TCG members will demonstrate solutions for automotive and Internet of Things security at the TechHub on April 14th. In both cases, Wibu-Systems has chosen an Infineon OPTIGATM TPM to show how to protect software integrity against cyber violations and safeguard the intellectual property of businesses.
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Standards-based Trusted Computing technologies developed by TCG members now are deployed in enterprise systems, storage systems, networks, embedded systems, and mobile devices and can help secure cloud computing and virtualized systems.
Trusted Computing Group announced that its TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) Library Specification was approved as a formal international standard under ISO/IEC (the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission). TCG has 90+ specifications and guidance documents to help build a trusted computing environment.


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The open beta for Relic Entertainment's Company of Heroes 2 is officially open for business. It will launch a little later today and run until June 18th giving fans a two week competitive and co-op multiplayer taster. Six of the RTS sequel's maps will be made available, with the first 45 levels of the game's progression and bulletin system. All unlocks earned will carry over if COH2 is purchased within 60 days.
Red Star Edition announced for Company of Heroes 2
Relic has announced the Red Star Edition of Company of Heroes 2, which among other bonuses will include the original Company of Heroes with both the Tales of Valor and Opposing Fronts expansions.
Company of Heroes straight to DVD film out February 26th
While THQ may not be a company of anything anymore, the Company of Heroes movie they signed off on is fighting the good fight against those Atom bomb building Germans. It's going straight to disc. The movie stars Tom Sizemore, Vinnie Jones, and Neal McDonough. The Company of Heroes IP is now owned by SEGA as they bought it and Relic Entertainment during the THQ auction.
Farrell "heartened" majority of THQ studios and IPs "continue under new ownership"
Brian Farrell and Jason Rubin have discussed a little about the closing moments of publisher THQ, of which both were leading executives. Farrell does "sincerely regret this outcome" for those out of work. Rubin adds that he was brought in to "help turn this ship around," and while disappointed never everyone was saved, he echoes Farrell in being grateful for those that were snapped up.
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I had the honor and pleasure of attending the RFK Human Rights Award ceremony last night, hosted by President Obama and Mrs. Obama at the White House, where Magodonga Mahlangu and Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were recipients of the annual award. I can sum it up in one word: wow. I laughed, I cried, I was disappointed the toilet paper did not have the presidential seal.
In President Obama's words:
And that may be Magodonga's greatest achievement — that she has given the women of Zimbabwe each other. That she has given people who long for peace and justice each other. That she has given them a voice they can only have collectively-and a strength that they can only have together. They are a force to be reckoned with.
I attended in the capacity as nominator of WOZA for the award. Amnesty International works closely with WOZA and they are a special focus case for action here in the US. It was a team effort putting together the information requested by the RFK staff, but it was an easy sell convincing them that Magodonga and WOZA deserved the award. These women redefine inspiring.
The stats regarding the number of times the members of WOZA have been beaten, tortured, arrested, abducted, killed in the course of their non-violent struggle for social justice are easy to find; the President discusses it in his speech and Jenni Williams paid tribute last night to some of their fallen members. But these women are more than a collection of facts and figures. These women find joy in life and are not bitter despite every reason to be. These women worry about their families when they are separated and far away; either because they are traveling internationally to advocate for their organization, or their families have fled the country for safety or to seek medical treatment they can't receive in Zimbabwe or they voluntarily relocate themselves in order to further the work of WOZA. And not just their immediate, genetic families that garner their concern and devotion but their larger family of WOZA and MOZA (Men of Zimbabwe Arise) members as well.
These women do not see Zimbabwe as it is-a place of desperate hunger, ravaging illness, decimated education, healthcare, infrastructure and a place of endemic, institutionalized violence. The women I know, and the women I want you to know, see Zimbabwe as what it CAN be-a place of freedom, a place of justice, a place that once again feeds its own citizens, a place of free and fair elections, a place where their children are educated and people do not die of preventable and treatable diseases, a place where women can sing and dance in the street and hold their government accountable for its misdeeds without fear of abuse. Magodonga, Jenni and all the members of WOZA and MOZA are dedicated to a better Zimbabwe and this award acknowledges those efforts.
So to Magi, Jenni, Trust, all the members of WOZA and MOZA, I salute you on this achievement. I thank you for letting me share last night with you and witness your duly deserved accolades. I look forward to continuing to help you achieve your future. I am humbled to know you and call you friend. (I also apologize that despite my best efforts you still struggled to find a good cup of tea during your visit.)
Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams return to court of December 7, 2009 facing politically motivated charges of disturbing the peace. Please take action and urge the the Zimbabwe government to drop all charges.


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Santiago, Chile, August 12, 2013 - Los Pelambres Mining (MLP), located in the Chilean region of Coquimbo, became one of the first companies in the country to incorporate collaboration over smartphones as a productivity tool for its employees within the mining environment. The company, part of the wider Antofagasta Minerals Group, is one of the five largest mining companies in the world.
Thanks to the Cisco Jabber™ application, tools such as email, voice, presence and videoconferencing are now possible in locations lacking 3G coverage, even at altitudes of 3,500 meters (about 11,500 feet), where the Los Pelambres mine is located.
"The solution consists of enabling a Wi-Fi network, in addition to the existing one, in three critical points of the transport, fluid and dam management operation (Estación Disipadora 0, Punto Bajo Camisas and Punto Bajo Quelén). From these distant points, the supervisors extend their offices in a virtual way, being able to collaborate in ways that were not possible before," said Juan Carlos Pulgar, senior engineer of Operation and Services Support, Los Pelambres Mining Co.
According to Francisco Bastías, a senior engineer of the Information Technology Department of the mining company, "at Pelambres we are convinced that innovation will thrive by providing the ability to collaborate across a variety of devices and in social spaces (physical and virtual) which encourage the exchange of ideas among people, and that is why it is important to integrate state-of-the-art technology in a simple way that connects people and facilitates decision making."
Sergio Torres, mining account manager from Cisco Chile, said: "Today's technology allows people from any place, at any time and from any device to be connected, from a bank, an airport or a working place distant from any urban point. In a working environment with complicated conditions such as altitude, humidity, dust and vibration, the requirements are different. Extending the carpeted office environment to the interior of a mining tunnel requires communications of an excellent level, ruggedized wireless devices, and versatile and user-friendly solutions where availability, operating continuity and security are essential to the customers. These form the pillars of the Cisco Connected Mine product strategy."
"Cisco is working to enable the mining industry to be more productive through the use of technology. Our main competitive advantage is that we are able to offer a solution for end-to-end communication to our customers. This chain starts at the corporate end of a mining company but can end at the outdoor sensors for environmental monitoring."
About Los Pelambres Mining Company
Los Pelambres Mining Company is located at an altitude of 3,500 meters, with average temperatures of minus 3 degrees C. The company employs approximately 5,500 people, 61% originating from the region of Coquimbo. The vision of integrating equipment from different brands and models is framed within a project called "Conecta2", awarded at the CETIUC 2011 conference.
"Minera Los Pelambres is a reservoir located in the Andes Mountains in the town of Salamanca, Coquimbo Region, Chile. The company is 60% Chilean capital through Antofagasta Minerals group and 40% in Japanese consortium consisting of Nippon Investment LP & Mitsubishi and Marubeni LP Holding BV. The mine produces copper and molybdenum concentrate.
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Size: 16 x 20 inches (external mat), 10 x 13.50 inches (internal size)
Printer: K. Van Leeuwen
I love typography and posters that put typography front and centre - like this Dutch letterpress sheet that we have had professionally matted.
Printed in Amsterdam in 1907 by G. Schreuders, this book (Letterboek poor den Teekenaarena Ambachtsman Door K. Van Leeuwen) and the sheets from it, are a delight for anyone who likes traditional fonts.
We've matted about 40 different sheets (all listed here) and I think they would look lovely either in pairs, sets, or dozens. Instant design for any room in your home or office!


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MOSUL, Iraq (CNA/EWTN News) — After years of darkness, hope has returned to Telekuf-Tesqopa. Located just 17 miles from Mosul, the village is rebuilding after being liberated from ISIS.
As a visible sign of the rebuilding, a giant cross was erected on a hill, marking the victory of the Christian faith against the darkness of the jihadists.
On Feb. 18, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad, Louis Sako, visited the village, where he blessed the large cross and participated in the celebration of the first Mass after two and a half years in Saint George Church.
According to the website of the Patriarchate of Babylon, the authorities and officials of the region were present at the celebration.
In his homily, Patriarch Sako said that this event is "the first spark of light shining in all the cities of the Nineveh Plain since the darkness of ISIS, which lasted almost two and a half years."
"This is our land and this is our home," he told the faithful. He also said that now is the time to regain hope and for the people to return to their towns to begin a new stage of life.
The patriarch said that Christians will thus demonstrate to the world that the forces of darkness, which wreaked havoc and ravaged their land, are ephemeral and that the Church of Christ, although it suffers, is built upon rock.
When the Mass was over, everyone went out to a hill located on the outskirts of the city. There Patriarch Sako blessed the huge cross which was raised amid fireworks and with cries of "Victory! Victory! Victory! For those who chose the faith and those who return!"
The Catholic Patriarch said that this cross will announce "to the world that this is our land, we were born here and we will die here. Our ancestors were buried in this pure land and we are going to remain to preserve them with all our might and for future generations."
"It is a sincere and great call to return and rebuild. We are joined to our land, to our future on the land of our ancestors. Here we can be proud of our history and here we can obtain the granting of all our rights," Patriarch Sako said.
Before the celebration of the Mass, a delegation came to Telekuf-Tesqopa to assess the state of damage and to thus ask for the support of international organizations for reconstruction. Saint George Church was cleaned by volunteers from the French aid organization SOS Chrétiens d'Orient. (SOS Christians of the East).
The placement of crosses has become a recurring gesture since the Iraqi Army began the offensive to recover the city of Mosul, the ISIS stronghold in Iraq.
In every village liberated on the Plain of Nineveh, Christians have made wooden crosses and have placed them on the roofs of churches and homes.
Muslims have also participated in these events. Last week, a group of Muslim youths joined those cleaning a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary located in east Mosul, liberated by the Iraqi Army.
This action is part of a campaign that seeks to remember the religious coexistence that was present in the city before the jihadists occupied it in 2014.


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Ready for the London Jazz Festival 2012?
Nothing says sophistication quite like listening to some smooth jazz over a Martini. November offers the opportunity for you to indulge in both when the London Jazz Festival begins on Friday 9th November. At venues all across London, some of the biggest names in jazz will be strutting their stuff for nine days, giving you the perfect chance to take in some of the richest culture in London.
Whether it's at the Koko Club, Hackney Empire, BBC Maida Vale studios or the 606 Club, there's no excuse not to head out in to London and take in some quality music. The venues are sometimes as iconic as the music itself. For example, Maida Vale studios have seen many of the biggest artists in music record and perform there, including The Beatles, The Clash and The White Stripes.
If you've never heard of any of the jazz performers, don't worry. Each one brings their own unique style to their performance. Whether they're covering some classic hits or writing their own, each performance is different and provides a much more intimate feel than the average gig.
And at least one name that you will probably recognise will be performing, as Macy Gray will be here alongside the David Murray Big Band at the Barbican on the final day of the festival. As well as some of Macy's hits they will also be performing a number of covers which you can listen to here: Macy Gray – Love Lockdown/Buck
With the Royal Academy of Arts and St. James Piccadilly just a short distance from DUKES London, you have no excuse not to go out and take in some of the finest jazz on offer anywhere in the world this November – all before heading back to DUKES Bar to sample one of our classic martinis.


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This classic Facts So Romantic post was originally published in June, 2013.
Take a look at a butterfly's wing, and you can learn a lesson about life. Not that it's beautiful, or fragile, or too easily appreciated only when it's fading—though all that is true, and evident in a wing.
Look very close, at the edge of a pattern, where one color turns to another. The demarcation isn't so abrupt as it seems at arm's length. It's not a line, but rather a gradient.
This is a lesson about uncertainty.
A butterfly's colors come from its scales, each a single cell, pigmented a single hue. At pattern boundaries, scales of different colors intermingle. Transitions and shading are achieved by varying the proportions of the mix. It's beautiful. It is also, in the language of molecular biology, a model for a stochastic mechanism of gene expression.
Each scale's fate is not preordained. Cells on the surface of a swallowtail's wings, for example, were not originally specialized to be yellow or blue or black. Instead they contain genes potentially capable of producing each of those pigments.
What determines the color of each butterfly scale is, in a word, chance. A molecule hits a piece of cellular machinery at just the right moment, in just the right place, and a gene produces a certain pigment. There's no guarantee it will happen. It's a matter of probability and moment-to-moment randomness. (The same probabilistic mechanism underlies the portions of the wings with solid colors, too. In those parts, molecules that trigger genes for one color are present at such high concentrations that the final color outcome is assured.)
What determines the color of each butterfly scale is, in a word, chance.
In biology, there's a tendency to conceive of randomness as noise, an accidental factor, a product of error—random genetic mutations, for example, are mistakes in a chromosome-duplicating system that's supposed to make perfect copies. Random mutations might be harmful, or insignificant, or beneficial, but they're fundamentally mistakes, a disorderly deviation from an orderly system.
What makes a butterfly's wings so remarkable isn't just that unpredictabilities underlie their colors, but that they've harnessed the probabilities.1 Randomness and uncertainty are translated into the ordered, functional patterns of a monarch or checkerspot. And in this, the butterfly's wing is not unique, but a manifestation of principles ubiquitous in biology.
Let's put on our Powers of Ten goggles and increase our magnification to where cell activity occurs, the level of so-called cellular machinery. We'll have to abandon that metaphor, though: Cells indeed contain complicated, task-performing structures, but the word "machine" is a product of the macroscopic world. We think of machines as rigidly assembled, with predefined purposes. At the cellular level, the analogy falls apart.
Out at the leading edges of theoretical and computational and experimental biology, where known and unknown meet, cellular machines have been redefined.2 The proteins of which they're made don't fold and unfold and operate according to some stepwise blueprints. Shape and function are exquisitely sensitive to infinitesimal energetic shifts, to the motion of atoms and the forces they exert.
Rather than a cellular factory, then, imagine a restaurant with a kitchen where blenders turn into convection ovens and whisks into knives when someone walks by, raising ambient temperatures by a fractional degree. Imagine that the whole kitchen is like this, that cooks and prep staff, though they move with intent, can't help but wander around—and still the seven-course meals come rolling through the doors.
Undoubtedly this metaphor has its own problems, but it gets the point across: The cellular world is an ever-fluctuating place. It's full of randomness and, when things aren't narrowly random, with uncertainty. Atoms and molecules and gradients change from moment to moment, and proteins with them.
Here one might ask where uncertainty comes from: Is it truly uncertain? Might every molecular fate be predicted, if only we knew the motions and properties of every particle in a cell? Or does quantum physics enter the equation at some level, with all its spooky uncertainties and strange probabilities shaping biology in some fundamental way?
That we don't know, and might never. It's a question too hard to study. Whatever the case, certain molecular activities are, best as we can describe them, random or probabilistic. And we know, up at the cellular level, that a cell's fate—whether an embryonic stem cell becomes specialized for service in kidney or liver, whether a blood stem cell grows up to carry oxygen or identify pathogens—is to some extent stochastic, determined by a signal that may or may not appear.
What's extraordinary, again, is that from all this uncertainty, form arises. Two identical twins, after trillions upon trillions of cell divisions, actually look the same to our eyes. Out of disorder, order—though of course having identical genomes is no guarantee of identical outcomes. Indeed, stochasticity's role in cells became evident when genetically matched yeast colonies, raised in the exact same environments, developed in very different ways.
What seems to explain that, it turns out, is variation in so-called epigenetic responses—processes that alter gene activity according to environment and circumstance, allowing organisms to change their biology in response to life's unpredictable demands. The different yeast colonies had different epigenetics; they responded to uncertainty differently. That might itself have been the product of chance, some "inherited stochastic variation," though the benefits are obvious. It's evolutionary bet-hedging, a way of increasing the adaptive possibilities for one's descendants, despite their genetic similarities.
Again we see biology using uncertainty, building on it, making it integral to life. And it's evident not only in epigenomes, but in genomes: When we look at our own, which for each of us contain some number of apparently random errors produced by copy-making glitches, we find that the errors are not randomly distributed. Mutations occur at different rates in different parts of the genome.
This isn't the same thing as saying that certain sequences tend to stick around over evolutionary time, because errors there are more likely to cause problems. Instead, the potential for a random error to occur in the first place fluctuates across the genome. At every cellular level, randomness is harnessed.
That we don't know, and might never. It's a question too hard to study.
"Life is a study in contrasts between randomness and determinism," wrote biochemists Arjun Raj and Alexander van Oudenaarden in an article entitled, "Nature, Nurture or Chance," in the journal Cell. "From the chaos of biomolecular interactions to the precise coordination of development, living organisms are able to resolve these two seemingly contradictory aspects of their internal workings."
Do these resolutions occur at even higher levels? Pattern from chance in populations, species, communities, ecologies? In our own lives? We can't look at societies or lives the way we do cells, but certainly we feel it, at some intuitive level. "I think back on the trajectory of my life, and I think: I happened to bump into this person on the train, and it led to this or that," Raj told me. "So many things are unpredictable on a long time scale, though it feels like they are predictable in the moment."
I think on my own life: My parents met on a train. My closest friends came from chance encounters in a subway station, a class, a hockey team, a writing assignment. I can't imagine my life without them, yet each of those meetings was profoundly, unsettlingly improbable. And why stop with friendships? Why not scale up to the level of the universe itself, where order and disorder interpolate in random patterns?
There, perhaps, from the perspective of God or some alien cosmologist or deep time or whatever you use to imagine inconceivable vastness, we might find order yet again. Who knows for certain; we likely never will. But we can look at a butterfly's wing and wonder.
1. The pigment-synthesizing genes that guide coloration in a butterfly's wing are an ideal model system because they're relatively simple and straightforward. That's the exception, not the rule. Most traits involve multilayered cellular and genetic relationships: networks of interactions nestled inside networks of interactions, often behaving in nonlinear ways, a whole biological nesting doll of complication. Which makes their harnessing of randomness and uncertainty all the more extraordinary.
2. There's a certain amount of uncertainty to these descriptions. It's fairer to say, some scientists who study these matters think this is happening, and the fragments of biochemical data we're able to retrieve at molecular and atomic scales inside cells match our computational models, but it's slow going.
Take, for example, the modeling of protein folding and unfolding described in this PNAS article, produced by a custom-designed, massively parallel piece of dedicated hardware that's roughly 100 times more powerful than any other machine used for this purpose. Running at full power over the course of a day, it can model a scant ten microseconds of molecular cell dynamics. Run it for 2,737 years, and you'd describe one second.
Brandon Keim is a freelance journalist who writes about science, technology, and nature. His work has appeared in Wired, Aeon, Scientific American Mind, and other publications.


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Visual Basic (VB)
Visual Basic (VB) is an event-driven programming language and environment from Microsoft that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) which allows programmers to modify code by simply dragging and dropping objects and defining their behavior and appearance. VB is derived from the BASIC programming language and is considered to be event-driven and object-oriented.
VB is intended to be easy to learn and fast to write code with; as a result, it is sometimes called a rapid application development (RAD) system and is used to prototype an application that will later be written in a more difficult but efficient language.
The last version of VB, Visual Basic 6, was released in 1998, but has since been replaced by VB .NET, Visual Basic for applications (VBA) and Visual Stuido .NET. VBA and Visual Studio are the two frameworks most commonly used today.
Visual Basic features and characteristics
VB is a GUI-based development tool that offers a faster RAD than most other programming languages. VB also features syntax that is more straightforward than other languages, a visual environment that is easy to understand and high database connectivity.
Visual Basic was designed to be a complete programming language that contained ordinary features, such as string processing and computation. The visual environment is characterized by a drag-and-drop feature which allows programmers to build a user interface that is easy to use, even for developers with minimum experience.
While these features of VB are advantageous, there are others that can have a negative effect. The VB programming environment requires a large amount of memory, both for the initial installation and to run efficiently afterwards. The graphical features of the programming tool take up a large amount of space and require a significant amount of memory.
Furthermore, Visual Basic is not useful when developing programs that require a lot of processing time, like games, and the use of VB is restricted to Microsoft operating systems (OS).
Finally, with C languages, programmers can feasibly locate and use the defined values for variable data in a computer program at declaration time. This initialization practice is something that isn't easily done with VB.
How Visual Basic is used
The structure of VB is designed to allow programmers to use the environment to write executable files (exe files). Also, using VB, developers can create programs that can be utilized as a front end to databases. VB tools can help programmers develop applications or complete software while still allowing them to modify and revise their work accordingly.
The most popular type of Visual Basic in use today is VBA. VBA is a version of Visual Basic that can be used to program Microsoft Office apps, such as Excel and PowerPoint. However, it can only be used to modify existing apps; VBA cannot be used to create new apps.
Typical users engage VBA to make repeated, everyday tasks less monotonous through the use of macros. Macros automate almost any activity -- such as performing word and data processing or generating custom charts and tables. For example, a typical user might write a macro that allows them to create and fill a spreadsheet with a single click. Computer professionals use VBA and macros in more complicated ways. Programmers will often write macros that can replicate large portions of code or define specific languages.
Businesses and organizations can use VBA to customize Excel for their unique purposes, such as pulling certain statistics or information from a spreadsheet. Businesses and organizations can also use VBA externally, or in non-Microsoft applications, by applying a technology called a component object model (COM) interface that enables commands to communicate across computer boundaries. This allows VBA to be used on an enterprise-specific application.
Benefits of Visual Basic
The BASIC programming language, which VB is derived from, is simple and easy to work with, especially when writing exe files.
However, VB becomes extremely beneficial when used with Microsoft's COM interface. The COM components can be written in various languages and then integrated using VB. Additionally, VB provides not only a programming language, but an integrated development environment (IDE) that has been written and optimized to best support RAD. This allows programmers to easily build GUIs and connect them to functions within the application.
Furthermore, the Visual Basic IDE provides views of the management of the program structure that are easy to understand.
Overall, VB enables the rapid development of Windows based applications while also assisting in the access of databases by using ActiveX data objects (ADO) while allowing programmers to use ActiveX control and various objects.
History of Visual Basic
Visual Basic was first introduced in 1991; it is considered the third generation of event-driven programming languages. Various Windows programs were developed throughout the 1990s using VB.
VB continued to evolve throughout the 1990s until Visual Basic 6 was released in 1998, which was replaced by VB .NET. However, Visual Basic for Applications, which is most commonly used today to automate Microsoft Office tasks, is highly compatible with the classic VB 6.


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MIOX Corp., a leader in safe water disinfection, announced that it has been chosen by The Artemis Project as a winner of the 2010 Top 50 Water Companies Competition. MIOX was selected by a panel of industry experts based on four criteria: technology, intellectual property and know-how, team and market potential.
"The Artemis Project's Top 50 Water Companies Competition winners have excelled in key areas of the emerging advanced water technology sector," said Laura Shenkar, principal of The Artemis Project. "We are excited to showcase these innovative companies and congratulate them for their achievements in creating solutions that will reinvent the water landscape."
"We're so pleased to be included again in this prestigious group of ground-breaking water companies," said MIOX president and CEO, Carlos Perea. "The global community continues to become more invested in the future of water, and the Artemis-recognized companies are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology that can make a difference."
The Artemis Project Top 50 winners were honored at the BlueTech Innovation Forum held at The Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco.
Source: MIOX Corp.


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ACMG guide Brodie Smith and friends set out on the infamous Bugaboos to Rogers Traverse last spring. We asked them to share some short 'n sweet tips throughout their adventures.
Here is Episode 4 - a quick reminder to rope up for glacier travel.
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"While some people question the need for a guide in a country with so few foreign tourists, this simple fact is what makes the need for a new guide so great. This is doubly true for Bangladesh, whose world reputation takes regular beatings in the foreign press when it makes the headlines for catastrophe. To all those who doubt, we now ask you to seek the reality behind the veil, to notice the color hidden in the corners, and to search the beauty hidden inside this friendly region of south Asia whose people may be short on space and material wealth, but possess hearts of infinite kindness. By looking deeper and staying for as long as you possibly can, a real picture emerges of a vibrant and diverse country whose secrets are waiting to be discovered below the surface."
- Bangladesh (Bradt Travel Guide) written by Mikey Leung and Belinda Meggitt


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Ulkar Kimya R&D Center
Ulkar Kimya R&D laboratories have been established to develop generic APIs with an academic personnel of 15 people. Activities in these laboratories include patent research, process development, analytical method development and validations of the active pharmaceutical ingredients to be developed as well as the compilation of the drug master file and scale up to commercial manufacturing. Process developments of the generic active pharmaceutical ingredient to be newly developed are designed in laboratory scale and then scaled up to pilot and commercial manufacturing, respectively. It also works with foreign partners to increase local manufacturing and reduce foreign dependence by conducting development and technology transfer projects. Another objective of these laboratories is to carry out process optimizations that will continuously increase manufacturing efficiency in order to better use the resources of our country.


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How to Thrive in Both Romance and Business Four ways to balance your work and relationship.
By Lisa Evans Edited by Dan Bova
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Relationships are never easy, but being an entrepreneur presents a unique set of challenges when it comes to balancing the demands of work with the needs of a romantic partner. After entrepreneurial drive nearly broke up their seven-year marriage, Brad Feld and Amy Batchelor overcame the challenges and wrote a book about their experience. Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur (Wiley, 2013) explores the difficulties entrepreneurs and their spouses face when balancing the demands of work and romance.
"The passion, excitement, and commitment that the entrepreneur has to work are the same qualities that [they] will bring to the relationship, which seems like an advantage; but enthusiasm unbounded leads to exhaustion in both a work and relationship context," says Feld. Take these steps to improve both your business and relationship success.
Related: How to Avoid Burnout
1. Schedule together time.
Feld says setting priorities and making small schedule changes to accommodate the needs of your relationship can help strengthen your bond. Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group, never schedules high priority activities or deadlines on a Friday, as doing so is likely to create a scenario where work drifts into Friday night and even the weekend.
Feld and Batchelor are also strong proponents of monthly "life dinners" where they get out of the house and talk about the past month while setting goals for the next month. "Having a scheduled time together on the calendar can give you both something to look forward to," says Feld.
2. Stop reactive behavior.
Relationship expert Debra Macleod (www.marriagesos.com) trains executives how to manage the demands of work without losing their relationship and says in order for a partnership to be successful, entrepreneurs need to avoid reacting to every emergency. "There's a huge mental shift that needs to happen so that we learn the difference between responding to a demand for our time and reacting," says Macleod.
The next time you receive an "emergency" email during family time, ask how your reaction will impact your relationship. "Many of us assume that the relationship is a constant, that it isn't going anywhere, but that's not true," she says.
Related: How to Prevent Your Business From Ruining Your Personal Life
3. Make romance a business decision.
"Productive workers have lower stress levels," says Macleod. Think of romance as just as important to managing stress as your exercise routine or diet. "Romance is good for business because you're happy, you're clear headed [and] you have that kind of balance [that makes you more productive]," says Macleod.
4. Keep business out of your bedroom.
Transform your bedroom into a sensual escape. "Make it a place where you can go and have a retreat, and a technology-free zone," says Macleod. Put overhead lights on a dimming switch, add soft linens and extra throw pillows for increased comfort and keep the space clear of work papers and technology.
Taking a half hour before bedtime to talk, without the laptop or blackberry, is a great way to ensure you stay connected to your partner after a busy day. Be careful of your conversation topics, though. Feld and Batchelor warn the bedroom is not the place to bring up charged topics. "Your bedroom should be a sanctuary and a safe haven from the demands of the world," they say.


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· Do school districts in your county have high or low high school graduation rates?
· Are high school graduation rates in your county increasing or decreasing over time?
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· "County types: County policy type codes" – Is your county classified as a "low education" county?
· "Education: Educational attainment" – Does your county have high or low levels of educational attainment?
· "Income and poverty: Reduced price school lunch" – If your county has districts with low graduation rates, do those same districts also have high student poverty rates?
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· Look at the county rankings for your state to see how your county compares to others.
· If your district is missing high school graduation data, contact your local school district or go to your state's Department of Education website to find the rate for your district.
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Yida Refugee Camp, South Sudan – April 16, 2012
For the past 10 months, some 20,000 refugees from Sudan's conflict-ravaged Southern Kordofan State have fled across the increasingly volatile border to Yida, an isolated refugee camp just inside newly independent South Sudan.
They have escaped a terrifying campaign of aerial bombardments and ground attacks unleashed by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which has been fighting pitched battles since last June against the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) for control of Southern Kordofan.
We have been in Yida for several days and have heard many refugees describe the fear, violence and hardship that pushed them to leave their homes; to set off on foot for gruelling journeys lasting several days under eastern Africa's harsh sun and unrelenting April heat.
And still they come.
In the past week, new arrivals at Yida have increased substantially. This morning we interviewed several refugees among a group of more than 200 who have come in the past two days alone. Most have fled with their entire families – babies and young children as well as the elderly. Some spoke of particular attacks in recent weeks that propelled them to make the final and very difficult decision to leave Southern Kordofan.
But more than anything, they all spoke of mounting hunger as the final straw. One man even said that he and his family had become used to running and hiding in caves in the mountains to flee the aerial bombardment. But as he said, "we can't run away from hunger."
Another man, aged 30, has just arrived here with his two wives and eight children, his sister and her five children, and his mother and elderly grandmother. All of the children are under the age of 14.
He said that "the only place any of us want to be is home, but when your children are crying all of the time because there is nothing to eat – you have to go somewhere else.
The ongoing fighting has caused food supplies to dwindle and run out. We spoke with several farmers this morning who said that because of the constant bombing they have simply not been able to cultivate or harvest crops. And the Sudanese government has blocked international humanitarian assistance from reaching SPLA-N controlled areas of Southern Kordofan.
Desperation has led people to forage for tree bark, leaves and anything else edible to help them stay alive.
Their plight has become all the more desperate because the rainy season is approaching. Many areas will soon be submerged by the rains. Other areas will be cut-off and inaccessible.
If people are going to make it to Yida, they know that they have to come now. Refugees we spoke with told us many others will follow.
The situation has become increasingly desperate in recent weeks as the relationship between Sudan and South Sudan has deteriorated dramatically.
Disagreements over contested oil-rich areas along their troubled border have erupted into cross-border incursions, bombing sorties, occupations and inflammatory rhetoric that seem to have both governments set on full-out war.
It is just one more reason to try to reach a place of safety – before things spiral completely out of control.
Alex Neve is Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada and Khairunissa Dhala is Amnesty International's South Sudan Researcher


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The Action Plan for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Northwest Pacific Region (NOWPAP) and three Resolutions were adopted in September 1994 at the First Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) by the NOWPAP members, namely People's Republic of China, Japan, Republic of Korea, and Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as China, Japan, Korea and Russia). In order to implement NOWPAP activities related to development of effective measures for regional cooperation in marine pollution preparedness and response, it was recommended that a regional Forum be created under the NOWPAP framework.
In March 2000, the Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Region Activity Centre (MERRAC) was established in Daejeon, Korea. Based on the decision of the Fourth Forum Meeting, the name of the Forum has been changed to "NOWPAP MERRAC Focal Points Meeting (FPM)" and MERRAC serving as a secretariat for the meeting.
The Seventh NOWPAP MERRAC FPM (2004) decided to organize "Competent National Authorities (CNA) Meeting" once a year for the NOWPAP Regional Oil Spill Contingency Plan which had previously been adopted at the Eighth NOWPAP IGM (2003), in conjunction with the NOWPAP MERRAC FPM, in order to discuss the issues related to the Plan. Since then, MERRAC FPM and CNA Meetings were organized by MERRAC every year.
You can download the Meeting documents and Meeting Reports, please click here.


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When an attractive young Middle Eastern woman contacted Saudi dissident Ali AlAhmed over Twitter last November, he was immediately suspicious.
The Associated Press was on the verge of publishing a story about how AlAhmed, who is based in the Washington area, had been targeted by hackers posing as a female journalist. Now, just two days before the article was set to go live, another young woman had sidled up to him over the internet, trying to entice him to read an article and share it online.
"They will never stop," AlAhmed wrote in a Nov. 6 message to the AP. "They think a hot girl can lure me."
The AP flagged the exchange to Canadian internet watchdog Citizen Lab, which was already helping AlAhmed deal with the hackers. Citizen Lab quickly determined that the Twitter account, purportedly belonging to an Egyptian writer named Mona A.Rahman, was part of a separate operation. In fact, she wasn't even trying to hack AlAhmed — she was trying to enlist him in an ambitious global disinformation effort linked to Tehran.
In a report published Tuesday, Citizen Lab said A.Rahman was but a small piece of a years-old, multilingual campaign aimed at seeding anti-Saudi, anti-Israel and anti-American stories across the internet. Citizen Lab, which is based at the University of Toronto's Munk School, said it believes "with moderate confidence" that the operation is aligned with Iran. The campaign is another indication of how online disinformation is being tested by countries well beyond Russia, whose interference into the 2016 U.S. presidential election was laid out in vivid detail in special prosecutor Robert Mueller's report.
"What this shows is that more and more parties are entering the disinformation game," said John Scott-Railton, a Citizen Lab researcher, "and they're constantly learning."
In London, Iranian Embassy press secretary Mohammad Mohammadi denied that his government had anything to do with digital disinformation, saying that Iran was "the biggest victim" of such campaigns and had called for international regulations to curb them. He referred further questions to the Iran's Communications Ministry, whose deputy minister did not immediately return a message Tuesday.
Scott-Railton and his colleagues ended up identifying 135 fake articles that were published as part of the campaign, which they dubbed "Endless Mayfly" because, like the short-lived insect, the bogus stories tended to disappear soon after they began to spread.
The article A.Rahman was trying to get AlAhmed to share — a claim that Israel's then-defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, had been fired for being a Russian spy — was typical: The article had startling news, it was hosted on a fake version of a Harvard University website and had a host of spelling and grammatical mistakes. Articles shared by other fake personas followed a similar pattern. They made inflammatory claims about Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States presented on lookalike versions of respected news sites.
"Ivanka Trump says its unbelievable that women cannot drive in saudi arabia," said one article posted to a site dressed up to look Foreign Policy magazine. "Saudi Arabia funds the US Mexico border Wall," said another, hosted on a site imitating The Atlantic.
The campaign seems to have been largely ineffectual — Scott-Railton noted that "most of their stories got almost no organic buzz" — but a couple did break through.
In March 2017 a fake Belgian newspaper article claiming that then-French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign was being one-third funded by Saudi money was widely shared in French ultra-nationalist circles, including by Marion Marechal, the granddaughter of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. A few months later another site mimicking a Swiss publication tricked the Reuters news agency and other outlets into publishing a false report that Saudi Arabia had written a letter to FIFA, soccer's governing body, demanding that archrival Qatar be barred from hosting the 2012 World Cup. The report was later withdrawn.
Citizen Lab said it first got wind of the suspected Iranian disinformation campaign when a British web developer debunked one of the fake articles on Reddit two years ago. The developer pointed out that the story — which suggested that British Prime Minister Theresa May was "dancing to the tune" of Saudi Arabia — had been published on a website using the URL "indepnedent," imitating the legitimate British news site, The Independent, and was linked to a network of other suspicious sites, including "bloomberq," a clone of the news agency Bloomberg. A third site, "daylisabah," was a fake version of the Turkish publication Daily Sabah.
"Did we just get an insight into a fake news operation?" the developer asked at the time.
Citizen Lab confirmed his hunch, later connecting the sites to an incident in which another Twitter user, Bina Melamed, tried to persuade Israeli journalists to share the same fake Harvard article that AlAhmed received.
When one of the reporters privately confronted Melamed about why she was pushing nonsense, the answer was unusually straightforward.
"I like challenging and controversial stories," Melamed said. "Sometimes they are fake and sometimes they are not."
Outside experts who reviewed Citizen Lab's report gave a qualified verdict. Experts at FireEye and ClearSky Cyber Security, U.S. and Israeli companies respectively, said they recognized elements of the digital disinformation from their own reporting , but ClearSky researcher Ohad Zaidenberg said he wanted to see more evidence before attributing the social media personas to the same group.
Speaking generally, he said the apparent clumsiness of the online disinformation should not be a reason to dismiss it.
"It gets better each day," he said.
Most of the personas mentioned in Citizen Lab's report — such as A.Rahman and Melamed — have been suspended. Messages left with a handful of surviving accounts — sent via Twitter and Reddit — elicited no response. Emails sent to half a dozen addresses used to register several bogus websites — including bloomberq, daylisabah, foriegnpolicy, theatlatnic and indepnedent — either weren't returned or bounced back as undeliverable.
AlAhmed said he was intrigued to hear that A.Rahman had been tied to the Iranian government. Despite knowing from the start that the whole thing was a charade, AlAhmed struck a wistful note in a recent interview about his interactions with the attractive-looking A.Rahman. At one point, she had written to him inviting him to stay at an apartment she claimed to have in London.
"A small part of me thought, 'I hope this is real,'" AlAhmed said.
He quickly made clear that he was kidding.
"I told my wife," he said.


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As part of our series on the Top 10 Burning Issues in Local Television, today's blog discusses Comscore's endeavors to bridge the divide between TV and digital. Earlier this month, during Comscore's annual Local TV Agency & Sales Conference, EVP of Local Services Steve Walsh discussed the industry's need to access integrated measurement across all screens. Let's dive deeper here.
The Need:Platform convergence is our new reality as the lines continue to blur between traditional and digital media distribution and consumption. Differences in the way each medium has historically been measured demand better alignment to make cross-platform measurement usable in the local marketplace.
Consumers today have countless options for what to watch and how to watch it. The media ecosystem is complex and fragmented, but amid this shifting landscape, traditional TV remains a powerful means to reach and engage audiences. TV is, by far, still the dominant medium for reaching consumers – but times are changing. While digital is the consumer's tool for researching purchase options, TV remains marketers' go-to medium for building brand awareness.
The obvious questions are: how can marketers increase the effectiveness of their TV budgets? how can broadcasters and agencies better understand and transact upon the unduplicated impressions and reach of their campaigns in this highly fragmented, cross-platform world we live in?
The Shift:Nexstar, NBCUniversal, Gray, Hearst and other major industry players have announced their move to an impressions-based selling currency. After 60 years of selling into a ratings-centric environment – which was fine in the pre-digital days but no longer sufficient or practical in a multi-platform, hundreds-of-channels viewing, ecosystem – the industry is shifting to a more holistic currency foundation.
As the industry makes this shift, it's important to recognize that there is still work to be done and consensus to be reached on what an "impression" is in a cross-platform world. There are household impressions, demographic impressions, campaign impressions and, arguably, content impressions. Furthermore, there has long been a disconnect between how an impression was defined on linear TV (30-60 seconds, depending on whom you're talking to), and on digital (2-3 seconds).
The whole idea of "duration weighting" comes up, too. How do you normalize the value of a 30-second spot and a 10-second pre-roll? The Media Ratings Council (MRC) recently announced some new benchmarks around all of this, but it is up to the industry to work together and agree on what is suitable for currency. As a trusted industry measurement partner, Comscore is in the center of that debate and opportunity. This is a great place for Comscore to be as our industry undergoes this foundational transition from the last 60 years to the years in front of us all.
The Way Forward:What if there was a reach-based local cross-platform measurement service?
What if such a measurement service integrated second-by-second viewing data directly from tens of millions of set-top boxes, and combined it with a digital footprint of more than 400 million digital devices?
What if this type of data were available at a local market level?
At Comscore, our massive data assets enable us to provide comprehensive, stable measurement—both cross-platform and on individual platforms—which is why Comscore is actively working on a comprehensive local cross-platform measurement service. This service will integrate our 30M linear TV household measurement footprint with our digital footprint of approximately 400 million digital devices.
Working in partnership with TV station groups, we are already reporting on nearly 100 local markets on a cross-platform basis. We are actively working with local broadcasters to ensure that all stations' content meets tagging thresholds and is capable of being measured across smartphone, desktop and tablet devices.
Data scale is key. Comscore will directly observe duplication and consumption overlap across TV, desktop and mobile devices in more than five million U.S. households. Our solution will provide the market with unparalleled insights into total local content consumption by station, as well as reach by platform.
The Takeaways:
Evolving consumer behaviors will continue to drive innovation in measurement and will also compel the industry to change the way it evaluates audiences in the buy/sell process. Comscore is proud to power this innovation, in service to broadcasters, agencies, and the marketers we serve every day.
Want to find out more about Comscore's local TV and cross-platform solutions. Click here to learn more.


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