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Silence filled the room as I painfully watched my mother take her final breaths. During the seventy-four years that my mother lived, she always gave untiringly to me and to others. I feel blessed to have been so fortunate, for my mother was always my greatest supporter, an endless fountain of encouragement.
As the reality of my loss enveloped me on that cool January night, it was a Saturday, the 8th, the year 2005 was still brand new. Up until this point, 2005 seem filled with endless possibilities. That did not possible anymore as indescribable anguish filled my heart as I felt that my emotional wounds would never heal; meanwhile, deep with I knew that my mother would want me, would expect that I would continue to pursue "good works."
It has been nine years, and of course I still miss my mother tremendously, but I get a spiritual message, some special gift from the heavens above on her birthday: the first year after her transition, I was featured in AOL Black Voices, and I won two tickets to Brazil. The second year, I got a call from Essence Magazine and asked to provide expert feedback about career and workforce development strategies. The next year there was a call from a Black Enterprise reporter, who I have never met, who continues to contact me to this day as she writes for a variety of publications. I am showered with so much goodness, it would fill page after page. In fact, daily I find myself abundantly blessed beyond my wildest dreams, and I know my mother is still watching over me.
While I sat there filled with despair listening to my mother gasping for air, I was also humbled by the knowledge that someone had loved me so unconditionally. My mother forever stood firmly beside me as I weathered storms wrought from poor choices, self-discovery and defining life lessons. I am fully aware that this is not always the case when it comes to mothers and their children.
While witnessing her spirit leave that hospital room, I pondered the mysteries of mothers and their children. I considered the full implications of this connection. I could not help but wonder if most people fully understand how necessary it is to find peace when it comes to the woman who gave them life. Coming to terms with the mother love in your life is fundamental to ultimately becoming comfortable with yourself, critical to being able to give and receive love.
Your own evolution as a person will surely be stunted until you face all aspects of your relationship with your mother. Even in the best relationships some form of turmoil can exist. Failing to address and accepting these matters is a mistake. Refusing to do the work necessary to deal with your distress is not a good choice. You cannot thrive carrying this kind of unresolved emotional baggage around for years. It is difficult for both men and women to focus on their possibilities when he or she feels limited by family circumstances. Unresolved anger and nagging hurt steal dreams and shatter lives. In fact, one can end up virtually immobilized for years if mother dilemmas are not resolved. In fact, your attitude about "mother" influences you one way or another for a lifetime.
You see it does not matter whether your mother abandoned or adored you. It does not matter whether she championed your dreams or channeled her own sorrow into your life. It does not really matter if she demonstrated her love daily or only gave you doses of affection when she was able to put her own agony aside.
No matter how tumultuous or terrific your relationship is with your mother, no matter if you never knew your mother, little does it matter that you somehow always feel that your mother has made no effort to understand who you are, coming to grips and accepting both the good and bad truths about your relationship with your mother is a key which can unlock your capacity to form healthy relationships throughout your life.
Until you are able to realize that even though your mother may have given you her all, or perhaps at the other end of the spectrum, she gives you little or nothing; neither of these realities guarantee nor limit who or what you can become. Until you accept that maybe your mother did the best that she could, that she is loving you the best that she can, or that your mother relates to you as she was taught, you will remain caught up in a sea of turmoil that hampers your overall ability to relate and love.
Every person's perception of mother love colors his or her view of the world and our self-definition. Depending upon your experiences, you may learn to be caring, giving, compassionate and empathetic; or you may learn bitterness, distrust, helplessness and manipulation. This is why taking the time to learn about your mother's life is so important. This information will help you to better understand the choices she made, her personality, her ability to communicate and display affection, the number of sacrifices she endured.
Bearing all of this in mind, move quickly to resolve anger and unfinished business where your mother is concerned. Heal your emotional wounds, and if necessary, find ways to forgive your mother even if she has not given you the kind of love and support you craved, or if for some reason she has been unable to be a mother to you. When it comes to your mother, choose to open your heart to the best of your ability. Focus on being thankful for the gift of life that she gave you, even if that is all your mother has ever given to you. If you already have an excellent relationship with your mother, treasure it and let your mother know just how much she means to you.
No matter your personal situation, when it comes to your mother, you do not want to have any regrets. Remember, in a split second, things can change and you do not want to spend time laboring over "I should have," when your time and talents need to be focused on your "I wills." Honor your mother and your life no matter the circumstances. This attitude will bring you a tremendous amount of peace, and an outpouring of blessings will come your way for choosing to focus on the positive instead of dwelling on the negative.
Mothers are not always right, but your mother will always be the woman that gave you the gift of life. In spite of her imperfections, her absence in your life, her human failings, or her inability to meet your emotional needs, none of those things can keep you from soaring to great heights unless you choose to embrace that attitude as your own. Seek to come to terms with your mother love, because by doing so, you can earnestly become the person that you were destined to be.
I am the daughter of Lovie Pauline Neal Davis. She was a school teacher for 38 years, a compassionate servant leader, a Soror of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, a member of The Links, Inc., a giver, a doer, and a woman of faith. Every day I strive to honor her legacy. Thinking of you this Mother's Day, and still missing your physical presence in my world each day, but without question feeling your spiritual presence in countless ways!
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Courage comes in all forms and in a variety of fashions; for courage is overcoming your fear of something, and forcing yourself to try to do the very thing that causes a great deal of trepidation.
We have all come face to face with a moment in time, an activity or a task that provoked strong feelings of inner turmoil, discomfort and strife. At that precise moment, we had to make a decision; will I give into my fear or will I force myself to grow; will I seek to expand my personal experiences, will I choose to push forward.
It can take courage to sing that solo at church, or make that presentation at work. It can take courage to share your honest feeling with a family member, a friend or even your mate. It can take courage to go to the doctor when you suspect that you are not well. It can take courage to acknowledge your own personal truths. It can take courage to hop onto an amusement park ride, or to change a habit that is stifling your personal growth. After a failed relationship, for some people, courage is needed before they are able to allow themselves to get involved with someone else again.
Courage can be an extremely allusive thing, because often one experience, an attitude or a personal belief can stand in the way of our pursuit of the things that we want.
We all harbor our dreams deep with our souls. Sometime we reflect on our dreams and for a few minutes we allow ourselves to think about how things can be. On other occasions, we keep them tucked away so that our dreams cannot intrude on what we are doing; after all we are simply too busy living life to be inconvenienced by our dreams. When that is the case, clearly we have not yet learned that until we follow the urging of hearts, we will be filled with discontent and longing. In the end, there is little comfort in settling, nothing gained when we succumb to what a dear friend calls the "dat-a-do syndrome" also known as "that will do."
Finding the courage to live your dreams, while frightening, can actually turn out to be liberating. When you discover the lifework that you want to pursue, the business you want to start or embrace whatever your dream might be, your life will become so much more fulfilling that you will ask yourself, "Why did I wait so long to pursue something that truly interested me?" Too often, we allow fear, the comments of others, or our own negative self-talk keep us from stepping out and trying to achieve what our spirits are urging us to do, from being our authentic self.
You can nurture greater personal courage by raising your conscious level and by confronting your inner most fears. Others ways to develop more courage are learning to be yourself in all situations that may confront you, by refusing to dwell on failure as a possibility, by planning and working to be prepared for situations, by developing an optimistic attitude, and be getting more in touch with your spirit.
Remember, you only get one life, so why not choose to spend it happily doing the things that you enjoy. Be courageous and persist until you achieve your life goals and your personal dreams. Follow your heart and listen to your soul. You truly owe it to yourself to use the talents divinely bestowed upon you in a positive fashion doing things that bring you immense joy. When you think about it, don't you really want to become the person you were destined to become?
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Leongatha - Opportunities Mon,Fri & Sat Truck Jockey & Storeman
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Our dedicated team at the Leongatha store is seeking a volunteer Truck Jockey and Storeman on Monday's, Friday's and Saturday's who enjoys keeping busy, loves building relationships and spending time outside on the road. You will be physically fit, reliable and available to volunteer a couple of days per week. This is a opportunity to utilise your skills in a role that contributes positively to your community.
You will be a friendly and welcoming presence and will thrive on delivering outstanding customer service.
More specifically you will have:
- The ability to positively engage with all walks of life
- Excellent communication skills
- A "Can do" proactive attitude and positive team spirit
- Be able to lift items up to but no more then 25kgs
- Be an organised, responsible and reliable individual
In return we offer:
- gain experience in a respected national not-for-profit organisation
- make a difference within a supportive and busy working environment
- be part of a team helping to make a difference to the community
About us:
The St Vincent de Paul Society aspires to be recognised as a caring Catholic charity offering 'a hand up' to people in need. We do this by respecting their dignity, sharing our hope and encouraging them to take control of their destiny by providing practical support, advocacy and friendship. The Society is one of the most recognised and highly regarded charitable organisations that has been providing support to Victorians for 160 years. We operate over 100 retail shops throughout Victoria, commonly called "Vinnies" that raise much needed funds to support those who are vulnerable in the community.
Vinnies is more than a retail store
If making a difference is important to you and you're ready to contribute positively to your local community we can't wait to hear from you!
Please note that prior to engaging in any Volunteer activity with the St Vincent de Paul Society some checks are required. These will include a National Criminal History Check and current Working with Children Check and may also include reference checking and a medical (applicable for Driver and Jockey roles only).
A full Position Description is available by clicking here
St Vincent de Paul Society is proactive in protecting children
We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences.
We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions.

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Asset: Open Software Repository and Distributed Online Learning Framework
The goal of the FERARI project is to build a framework that allows for efficient and timely processing of Big Data streams. This framework includes a distributed complex event processing (CEP) engine, a Query Planner that dynamically optimizes the CEP engine to the current data distribution and a distributed online learning framework. These components are tied together by a powerful, modular and elastic architecture. This architecture strictly separates the components of the FERARI framework from the underlying distributed computation system. The framework can be adapted to any Big Data streaming platform by exchanging its runtime adaption; after a careful evaluation of existing Big Data streaming platforms we found Apache's STORM to be the best fitting platform and implemented the runtime adaption accordingly. The framework has been released as open source (available at https://bitbucket.org/sbothe-iais/ferari).
The open source release of our framework allows anyone from the scientific community to people form the industry to explore and use it. Since we provide docker containers for the software, it can be easily installed on any machine, from a personal computer to a cluster or cloud system.
To further facilitate getting involved with the framework, we provide a guide that explains its installation and usage in simple steps, as well as a running example. The software allows users to set up high-performance, communication-efficient distributed stream processing systems by plugging together the provided building blocks – including algorithms based on the in-situ method (see 4.2.1 for a description of this method and the algorithms).
The open source release also includes the distributed online learning framework, which is also implemented as a building block within the architecture. It can be used to set up large distributed machine learning systems for providing real-time services on distributed, dynamic data streams.
The employed novel communication-efficient distributed online learning algorithms are based on scientific publication at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECMLPKDD) and the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Currently, most machine learning on Big Data is performed on distributed batches of data. In contrast, the FERARI approach enables real-time learning on Big streaming Data. Thus, the learning framework has potential for substantial impact since it allows scaling learning applications to data volumes and velocities generated by machine-to-machine interaction (M2M) and the Internet of Things.
Asset: In-situ Monitoring Technologies
Modern information systems are inherently distributed. In many cases, such as telecommunication systems, content management systems, and financial systems, data is processed in physically distributed locations. Even when data is processed at a central location, modern data centres are comprised of thousands (or even tens of thousands) of computation and storage units, which in practice process data in a distributed manner.
Consequently, monitoring the data processed by these systems to detect in real-time global events of interest is becoming increasingly challenging. This challenge is clearly evident in the FERARI use cases. The first use case deals with telecom fraud. Fraudsters exploit the distributed nature of telecom systems to devise ever more sophisticated methods of fraud. The second use case is system health monitoring, which consists of the real-time detection of abnormal performance of system components so that they can be serviced before they fail, and thus enhance the availability and robustness of the system while reducing costs.
The central goal of the FERARI project is to preform most of the processing of distributed data in a local manner, and thus detect complex patterns of interest (e.g. fraudulent activity or abnormal performance) without collecting data to a centralized location. This technology is referred to as in-situ processing. The FERARI project has introduced several novel innovations in the application of in-situ methods to real-world applications.
The innovations introduced by FERARI to in-situ processing are within the geometric monitoring framework[1], which enables defining complex events by applying an arbitrary function to data from distributed sources. Geometric monitoring solutions enable breaking up such monitoring tasks into individual constraints on the data generated at the local sites. The idea is that as long as none of the local constraints are violated, it is guaranteed that the global event of interest has not occurred.
Distributing the detection among the local sites reduces time delays and bottle necks associated with collecting data to a central location, and thus enables detecting such events in real-time. A major drawback of geometric monitoring, however, is that applying the types of constraints proposed thus far may be very demanding in terms of computational resources at the local sites.
The first innovation introduced by FERARI is a novel type of local constraint for geometric monitoring, known as convex bounds. While existing methods for determining local constraints rely on solutions to complex optimization problems, convex bounds employ functional analysis methods for selecting a convex function that bounds the function used to define the event of interest. While specifying such bounds for a given function may require some mathematical expertise, once it has been specified, applying the bound on data in run-time is very efficient. In addition, while this has not been the original motivation, empirical evidence has shown that these constraints are also very efficient in the sense that they produce very small number of false negatives (i.e. instances where that constraints were violated but the global event has not occurred) in comparison to existing methods.
A second innovation introduced by FERARI is the adaptation of geometric monitoring methods to dynamic large-scale industrial settings. So far, geometric monitoring has been applied in laboratory settings as part of academic research. Using geometric monitoring in an industrial production environment requires extending the method with several non-trivial adaptation.
Laboratory setups assume that the number of sites participating in the monitoring task is fixed and known in advance. Typically the algorithms are run on at most several hundred sites. Applying the method to a distributed counting task over CDR records produced by the cell towers of a telecom provider, as described in Deliverable D3.2, involves running the monitoring task on over 18,000 cell towers. Additionally, the set of active subscribers in not known in advance, and every subscriber interacts only with a small subset of these cell towers.
The efficient application of geometric monitoring in this case required extending the monitoring framework to simultaneously run concurrent monitoring tasks for an unknown and dynamic set of subscribers. Furthermore the local constraints were modified to support a different and dynamic set of sites for each subscriber.
[1] Sharfman, Izchak, Assaf Schuster, and Daniel Keren. "A geometric approach to monitoring threshold functions over distributed data streams." ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) 32.4 (2007): 23.
Asset: ProtonOnStorm
According to Gartner [1][2][3][4] and [5], two forms of stream processing software have emerged in the past 15 years. The first were CEP systems that are general purpose development and runtime tools that are used by developers to build custom, event-processing applications without having to re-implement the core algorithms for handling event streams; as they provide the necessary building blocks to build the event driven applications. Modern commercial CEP platform products even include adapters to integrate with event sources, development and testing tools, dashboard and alerting tools, and administration tools. More recently the second form — distributed stream computing platforms (DSCPs) such as Amazon Web Services Kinesis[1] and open source offerings including Apache Samza[2], Spark[3] and Storm[4] — was developed. DSCPs are general-purpose platforms without full native CEP analytic functions and associated accessories, but they are highly scalable and extensible and usually offer an open programming model, so developers can add the logic to address many kinds of stream processing applications, including some CEP solutions. Therefore, they are not considered "real" complex event processing platforms. Specially, Apache open source projects (Storm, Spark, and recently Samza) have gained a fair amount of attention and interest ([5], [6]) and these may well mature into commercial offerings in future and/or get embedded in existing commercial product sets. DSCPs are designed to cope with Big Data requirements making them an essential component in any organization infrastructure.
Today, there are already some implementations that take advantage of the pattern recognition capability of CEP systems along with the scalability capabilities that offer DSCPs, and offer a holistic architecture. ProtonOnStom is one example.
IBM partner has implemented its open source complex event processing research tool IBM PROactive Technology ONline (PROTON) on top of Storm in the scope of the FP7 EU FERARI project, thus making it a distributed and scalable CEP engine. ProtonOnStorm has been released to open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The source code along with manuals can be accessed at[5].
ProtonOnStorm is currently applied in two other EU projects for different purposes: in SPEEDD (FP7) is extended to cope with certain aspects of uncertainty while in Psymbiosys (H2020) is applied to different scenarios of manufacturing intelligence that use IoT devices. Both projects deal with Big Data.
ProtonOnStorm programming model serves as basis for the optimization plans that are done in the scope of the project. The derived events out of the system in the form of fraud alerts feed the dashboard of the project.
ProtonOnStorm is the underlying CEP engine in FERARI demo that has been accepted for SIGMOD16 and will be shown also as invited demo in DEBS16
[1] http://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
[2] http://samza.incubator.apache.org/
[3] http://spark.apache.org/streaming/
[5] https://github.com/ishkin/Proton/
Asset: The Event Model (TEM)
The Event Model (TEM) provides a new way to model, develop, validate, maintain, and implement event-driven applications. In TEM, the event derivation logic is expressed through a high-level declarative language through a collection of normalized tables (Excel spreadsheet like fashion). These tables can be validated and transformed into code generation. TEM is based on a set of well-defined principles and building blocks, and does not require substantial programming skills, therefore target to non-technical people.
This idea has already been successfully proven in the domain of business rules by The Decision Model (TDM) [8][8][6] . TDM groups the rules into natural logical groups to create a structure that makes the model relatively simple to understand, communicate, and manage.
The Event Model follows the Model Driven Engineering approach and can be classified as a CIM (Computation Independent Model), providing independence in the physical data representation, and omitting details which are obvious to the designer. This model can be directly translated into an execution model (PSM – Platform Specific Model in the Model Driven Architecture terminology) through an intermediate generic representation (PIM – Platform Independent Model). In the course of the first two years in FERARI, we have developed the CIM model for functional and non-functional requirements of event driven applications. In the third year we plan to articulate the translation of TEM (the CIM) into an event processing network (PIM). The event processing network can then be converted into a JSON file and eventually to a running application (PSM).
During the first two years in the FERARI project we extended the basic model we had and completed all the functional aspects as well as the non-functional requirements. The work until now has been theoretical and reported through FERARI WP4 deliverables[1]. The model parts for the functional requirements are described in the paper: A Model Driven Approach for Event Processing Applications accepted for DEBS16.
[1] Available at: http://www.ferari-project.eu/key-deliverables/
Asset: CEP optimizer
The asset, namely the FERARI CEP optimizer, is being developed within WP5. Its design principles and current implementation details were reported in Deliverable D5.2. In FERARI, we aim at designing solutions capable of scaling at a planetary level, thus retaining the potential of being applicable to arbitrarily large businesses and data volumes. Since in vast scale applications (event) data of interest are produced or collected at remote sources; they need to be combined to respond to global application inquiries. In this context, collecting voluminous data at a central computing point (termed site/cloud) first and then processing them is infeasible because such a solution would abuse the available network resources of the underlying infrastructure and would cause a bottleneck at that central point. Data of interest arriving at multiple, potentially geographically dispersed, sites should be efficiently processed in-situ (if possible) first and then wisely combined at an inter-cloud level to provide holistic results to final stakeholders. Efficiency in such a setting calls for reduced communication to avoid congested network links among sites without affecting the timely delivery of notifications and application reports. The above goals are in the core of our CEP optimizer which produces execution plans for application queries that orchestrate site interactions in a way that both ensures:
- a) optimal network utilization and b) compliance with application Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements related to the time horizon, from the occurrence of interesting situations, in which corresponding reports should be made available to end users.
Our algorithms and design principles are generic enough to support a wide range of application query functionality. They can be employed on top of any CEP Engine being selected as the software responsible for intra-cloud data processing and query execution at the site level. Therefore, our approach can be fostered as a paradigm for any similar implementation irrespectively of the CEP Engine or specific application demands.
Having clarified that, in the context of FERARI, the currently developed software is built to support – in terms of application query operators and respective functionality – IBM Proactive Technology Online (Proton) CEP Engine and in particular its streaming cloud extension, namely ProtonOnStorm. This is not too great a restriction as Proton and ProtonOnStorm are open source platforms with an already important user base, as will be explained below. Moreover, the TEM specification which is another important FERARI asset for letting business users express inquiries in a declarative way (details see above), can be mapped to an Event Processing Network (EPN) conceptualization which is supported by ProtonOnStorm at the technical level.
Therefore, the TEM specification is commutatively supported by our approach. In addition, the CEP optimizer outcomes incorporate and exploit the FERARI assets related to in situ processing at the site level.
The CEP optimizer, as a FERARI asset, has already been pushed to the scientific community by publishing corresponding results – in close collaboration with the rest of the FERARI consortium – in the top database conference and the most well esteemed conference within the event processing community:
FERARI: A Prototype for Complex Event Processing over Streaming Multi-cloud Platforms,
- Flouris, V. Manikaki, N. Giatrakos, A. Deligiannakis, M. Garofalakis, M. Mock, S. Bothe, I. Skarbovsky, F. Fournier, T. Krizan, M. Stajcer, J. Yom-Tov, T. Curin
in: SIGMOD, 2016 (accepted – to appear).
Complex Event Processing over Streaming Multi-cloud Platforms – The FERARI Approach,
- Flouris, V. Manikaki, N. Giatrakos, A. Deligiannakis, M. Garofalakis, M. Mock, S. Bothe, I. Skarbovsky, F. Fournier, T. Krizan, M. Stajcer, J. Yom-Tov, M. Volarevic
in: DEBS, 2016 (invited submission – under review).
Asset: Data Masking Algorithms
The open source data masking framework has potential to be exploited in the industry as well as in the scientific domain. Within data masking framework three main concepts can be identified as exploitable.
First is Test data management which can be used to produce test data. Data masking users can make sure employees don't do something wrong with corporate data, like making private data sets public, or moving production data to insecure test environments. In reality, masking data for testing and sharing is almost a trivial subset of the full customer requirement.
The real goal is administration of the entire data security lifecycle – including locating, moving, managing, and masking data. The mature version of today's simpler use case is a set of enterprise data management capabilities which control the flow of data to and from hundreds of different databases or flat files. This capability answers many of the most basic security questions we hear customers ask, such as "Where is my sensitive data?" "Who is using it?" and "How can we effectively reduce the risks to that information?".
Compliance is the second concept and major reason stated by users as reason they need masking products. Unlike most of today's emerging security technologies, Early customers came specifically from finance, but adoption is well distributed across different segments, including particularly retail, telecomm, health care, energy, education, and government. The diversity of customer requirements makes it difficult to pinpoint any one regulatory concern that stands out from the rest. During discussions we hear about all the usual suspects – including PCI, NERC, GLBA, FERPA, HIPAA, and in some cases multiple requirements at the same time. These days we hear about masking being deployed as a more generic control – in form of protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), health records, and general customer records, among other concerns; but we no longer see every company focused on only one specific regulation or requirement. Now masking is perceived as addressing a general need to avoid unwanted data access, or to reduce exposure as part of an overall compliance posture.
Third concept is Production Database Protection: While replacement of sensitive data – specifically through ETL style deployments – is by far the dominant model, it is not the only way to protect data in a database. At some firms protection of the production database is the primary goal for masking, with test data secondary. Masking can do both, which makes it attractive in these scenarios. Production data generally cannot be fully removed, so this model redirects requests to masked data where possible.
Within masking solution many masking methods can be used for data obfuscation such as: data shuffling, data substitution, randomizing, nullifying and encryption.
Asset: Fraud Detection and System Health Monitoring Use Case
FERARI architecture has been successfully adapted to work with data used in fraud detection in HT, namely CDRs and alarms currently in use by HT in order to detect fraud and also, the FERARI architecture has been adapted to process data related to network equipment in use by HT. Additionally, GUI has been created to enable users to monitor data processing and data drilldown. As such, final FERARI architecture should enable easy integration in the fraud detection process in HT.
Asset: Smart City Rijeka with IoT and Big Data
A smart city is a concept which integrates multiple information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in a secure way to manage a city's assets. City's assets include, but are not limited to, transportation systems, waste management, water management, safety systems, local departments information systems and other community services, and data management as well. Idea of the Smart city Rijeka project is to made traditional networks and services more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies, with emphasizes on Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data, to improve quality of life of Rijeka's citizens and for the benefit of its businesses.
Technological lead of the Smart City Rijeka project is Ericsson Nikola Tesla. Hrvatski Telekom is major and most important partner. Along with Hrvatski Telekom, there are dozens of other partners on the project, mostly small to medium companies with good reputation and great understanding of local economy, and few faculties and other educational institutions.
Under the umbrella of Smarty City Rijeka, there are 8 interdependent projects as follows:
- Smart Platforms
- 4D Intelligent infrastructure
- Smart Transport and Mobility
- IoT
- Big Data Services
- Tourism
- Energy Efficiency
- Smart Economy
Hrvatski Telekom is project lead for 5. Big Data Services and takes part in other projects as a partner providing consultancy services, business or technological support.
Scope of the fifth project is development of portal and mobile apps with various data sets and analysis for citizens, public institutions and business subjects in City of Rijeka. HT wants to build and develop Big Data Advanced analytics competencies and provide services for Smart City.
Idea is to connect to various data sources from private and public sectors, perform various analysis and make data sets and results of analysis available for citizens and business subjects which operate in the City of Rijeka. Big Data technology and tools play vital role in the project since there is huge amount of data to be processed and analysed. Substantial amount of data will require real time or near real time processing. Also, sources of data are very heterogeneous and data has to be systematized, unified and adjusted for further use. Big Data system will connect to various sensors spread throughout the City of Rijeka. Ericsson Nikola Tesla is developing Internet of Things (IoT) platform which will serve as a backbone for the sensors. Sensors will be integrated in traffic lights, traffic signs, public transportation vehicles, phone booths and will measure intensity of traffic, quality of air, pollution etc. Data lake will store the data and advanced analytics will be applied to pair the data from the various sources and build knowledge, make conclusions and predictions on different subjects such as route optimization and mobility, public safety, innovative pricing models for marketing agencies and advertisers based on crowd and target group movements etc. IoT platform will be operated in cloud provided by Hrvatski Telekom. Hrvatski Telekom will also provide billing, provisioning, storage back-up and fault management for the IoT platform. IoT platform with its inputs and outputs is described in picture below. Magenta (pink/purple) boxes represent services directly provided by Hrvatski Telekom.
Data privacy and security are also the important topics to be addressed. For that purpose Hrvatski Telekom developed Trust Center as a key enabler for data pseudo anonymization and anonymization. All personal data processed and analysed in use case has to be pseudo anonymized.
To obtain pseudo anonymization, data streams from various sources have to go through the Trust Center before landing in Data Lake.
Asset: FERARI Architecture in Call Anomaly Detection
Big Data platform developed by T-Mobile Poland (TMPL) enabled HT to pilot implement smart network monitoring in order to detect anomalies in call performance and indirectly affect customer experience.
The pilot project revolved around "silent" calls. HT is struggling with customer complaints for the last several months with no successful problem resolution. There are only few systems capable of decoding speech and allowing analysis of "silent" calls and their implementation requires very big investment. TMPL Big Data platform uses heuristic approach based on analysis of user behaviour.
Input data requirements for this use case were also anonymized CDRs from the whole network. A total of 70 million call records were analysed. Analysis was executed on Teradata Aster discovery platform.
Analysis showed that there is significant number of "silent" call events in HT network. There is a trend based increase of "silent" calls in given cells which can predict network quality disturbances and can predict some of them. Day based peaks can indicate network problems.
The project discovered a lot of cells with significant daily average number of "silent" calls which require additional analysis. Location based reports showed differences in "silent" calls per region in Croatia.
Trial conclusions:
- TMPL trial results show valuable information about silent calls affected cells (high level view);
- Detailed analysis (daily trends and peaks, per day and per cell) could be provided further, assuming project is set up;
- Next steps in optimization can be undertaken already; and
- Based on trial results, more detailed analysis and other use cases would be beneficial to HT.
Additional processing of the data concluded that affected cells spread all over the territory and that femto cells, tunnels, cities, coast are more affected (drop calls combined). Due to this it could be beneficial to implement FERARI architecture in order to handle this data spread, i.e. information from all the cells in the country.
These potential use cases should be able to handle a vast amount of data (CDRs, network information, etc.) and therefore it should be beneficial to implement FERARI architecture to handle these types of events in a fast and efficient manner.


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opening address
Rupaleem Bhuyan
Associate Professor
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
University of Toronto
Rupaleem Bhuyan is an Associate Professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Since 1991, Dr. Bhuyan has been part of the anti-violence movement in North America as a peer-rape prevention educator, domestic violence and sexual assault advocate, community educator and community-based researcher. She has worked closely with indigenous, immigrant and refugee communities with a commitment to anti-oppressive and decolonizing community organizing and advocacy.
Dr. Bhuyan is currently the principal investigator for the Migrant Mothers Project, a participatory action research project that works with a network of anti-violence against women organizations, legal advocates, and immigrant women in Toronto. This project builds upon Dr. Bhuyan's previous research that examines how violence against women service providers respond to women with different types of immigration status: a) in women's shelters in Toronto (2009-2010), b) in sexual assault and relationship violence programs across Kansas (2007-2008), and within community based organizations that support South Asian immigrants in different regions of the United States (2005-2006).
Dr. Bhuyan has authored and contributed to numerous publications that appear in a range of journals including: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare and The Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. She has also authored book chapters in Goldring, Luin and Patricia Landolt (2013)(Eds). Producing and negotiating non-citizenship: Precarious legal status in Canada; Lettie Lockhart and Fran Davis (2010) (Eds) Domestic violence: Intersectionality and culturally competent practice ; and Shamita Das Dasgupta (2007) (Ed.) Body Evidence: Intimate Violence against South Asian Women in America.


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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Oommen Chandy: Life in the fast lane
By Shevlin Sebastian
When former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy arrives forty-five minutes late for a 3 p.m. interview at the Ernakulam MLA's Guest House, he has the decency to apologise. "I got stuck on the South overbridge," he says. "Road repairs are going on and the police were releasing vehicles a few at a time from both sides."
Chandy turns to K. Babu, the Tripunithara MLA and asks, "Why is work being done on a Sunday?" Babu replies, "The roads have to be repaired." Chandy says, "It could have done it at night, instead of inconveniencing the people."
Chandy heads for the dining room, splashes his face with water at the wash basin and sits down for lunch at 4 p.m. As he tucks into rice, sambhar and avial, the interview begins. Twenty minutes later, lunch is over and Chandy has to rush off, to Koratty, for a felicitation function in honour of Congress worker Augustine Paul who has spent more than 30 years at the panchayat level.
My interview is only half complete. Babu says, "Why don't you come along to Koratty? You can do the interview in the car. Anyway, I am returning to Ernakulam."
And so I take up the offer, and sit wedged between Chandy and Babu in the backseat of a Mitsubishi Lancer. But this former Chief Minister does not use a police escort nor is the red beacon on the roof of the car been switched on. So, in essence, we are traveling incognito.
Soon, Chandy tells me a story. He had gone to Dubai in 2005 and asked to see some of the worst labour camps. "I saw the living conditions and felt devastated," he says. "Our cows lived in a better way. That was how bad it was. I could not go into the bathroom. And these Malayali boys who lived there were so smart and intelligent."
His face looks sad as he says, "I realised I was at fault. I was a public figure. I was a chief minister and I just could not do anything to prevent this people from working in this situation. I took the blame for it." Chandy got in touch with the Dubai government and ensured a marked improvement in the situation.
When we reach the United Club at Managalassery, Chandy is soon surrounded by white-shirted Congressmen as he is led to the stage.
Incidentally, Chandy's schedule for the day went like this: A 9.30 a.m. start from his home at Puthupally. First stop: Changanacherry. Then to Kottayam, back to Puthupally for a condolence call, on to Poonjar, Ernakulam, Koratty, and onwards to Kodungalloor. From there he would be going to the Nedumbassery airport to take the night flight to Thiruvananthapuram.
Babu says, "A politician has no family life. On holidays they work harder, because there are so many functions to attend."
It's a high price to pay for power, prestige and privilege.
(The New Indian Express, Kerala)
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Nothing says summer theatre in Chicago quite like seeing some Shakespeare in the parks. Shakespeare All-Stars oblige this time-honored tradition with a lean, accessible production of Romeo and Juliet. Minimally staged at a park smartly chosen for its incidental acoustics--buildings surround three sides of Gross Park, one of two performance locations--director Sam Cheeseman's production condenses the five act tragedy into 75-minutes, an ideal runtime for an outdoor event.
Romeo and Juliet As Current as Ever
The heart of this production rests in the tale of two star-crossed lovers. Romeo (P. Tyler Nielsen) falls for Juliet (LaKecia Harris) at a masked ball, and all seems promising until he learns of her parentage. Juliet's family, the Capulets, are bitter enemies of anyone claiming lineage to the Montagues. Despite this conflict, the lovers marry in secret, a decision with tragic repercussions. At a time when politics and divisiveness seem to infiltrate every aspect of our lives, the themes of Romeo and Juliet ring as clearly as ever. Cheesman's ensemble of eight gamely switch between characters throughout the piece to portray different members of each family, although this reviewer couldn't help but notice the scope of the feud feeling a bit slighter with a smaller cast.
Shakespeare All-Stars Brings Shakespeare to Life
When it comes to Shakespeare's language, the actors in Shakespeare All-Stars' production do wonderfully. As Romeo, Nielsen captures a charm and eagerness which is complemented by the youth and growing assertiveness of Harris' Juliet. Other standouts include Julian Stroop as Mercutio and Arin Mulvaney as Nurse. Stroop's "Queen Mab" speech is a particularly strong moment in this production. Adding to Romeo and Juliet's engaging staging are several well-choreographed sword fights by Emily Shimskey and live music performed by Joe Sergio as the Friar. Each of these elements heightens the stakes and adds emotional color to the piece, filling out the story in the absence of a set. Overall, for families enthusiastic about the Bard and Chicago's warm weather, Romeo and Juliet is a worthwhile event to attend.
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TUF tonight, other crap
Dude...Josh Koscheck is either the world's worst douchebag, or the TUF editors are made of some kind of evil jelly. He comes off as more of a douche than ever. The whole Kos-Medic "drama" is retarded beyond belief.
The fight was relatively boring. That Stevens character...hopefully he either gets in a good camp and actually learns how to fight before the Finale show (if he's invited after two losses), or he gives up and just starts brawling, because he's definitely not a major-leaguer at the moment. Are any of these kids other than maybe Jonathan Brookins? I know it's hard to judge watching this shitty show, and guys often turn out different afterwards (Cole Miller, Gray Maynard, Georges Roop and Sotiropolous spring to mind) but damn, son, this gang of fighters seems pretty half-assed. Moreso than the England vs USA season (remember that abortion?).
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Newton's draft response to the 'charta volans' of 29 July 1713
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After Mr Leibnitz had in two Letters \directed to the Secretary of ye R. Society {illeg}/ complained of Mr Keil & the R. Society had appointed a Committee to {illeg} search out old records Letters & papers relating to thi|e| complaint & |to| report their opinion thereupon & ordered the Letters & Papers with the Report of their Committee to be published, & the sa{illeg} the same was published in Jan. 16|7|1 & in August following there was printed somewhere in Germany the following Libel without the name of the Author Publisher Printer or place where the same was printed
29. July 1713
L....us nunc Viennæ —— genti imputari debet.
Concerning this {illeg} Libell it is to be observed that it was set on foot by Mr Leibnitz himself. For {illeg} it represents Cum ipse [Leibnitius] per occupationes diversas rem nunc discutere n{illeg}|o|n satis posset, ad judicium primarij Mathematici & harum rerum peritissimi & a partium studio alieni recurrendum sibi putavit. Id vero omnibus excussis ita pronunciavit literis 7 Junij 1713 datis [ad Leibnitsium] datis: &c. And by this articice {sic} the judgment of a nameless Mathematician is set up in opposition to the judgment of ye Committee of ye 2 It is to be observed that Mr Leibnitz sent this Letter of that pretended Mathematician to R. So Committee of ye R. Society.
2 It is to be observed that this Let Mr Leibnitz sent this Letter of ye pretended Mathematician to his correspondent to be published. For he that published {illeg}|it| wrote that Mr Mr Leibnitz being at \nunc/ Viennæ Austriæ agens ob distantiam locorum nondum vidit libellum in Anglia nuper editum (i.e. Commercium Epistolicum) & gave an account of Mr Leibnit{illeg}|z|'s referring the matte{r} to ye judgment of a primary Mathematician: things wch he could not know without keeping a correspondence wth Mr Leibnitz.
3 The names of the great Mathematician & of the publisher are therefore known to Mr Leibnitz, & since they were imployed by him he is answerable for the whole {illeg} untill he produces their names; {illeg} & if he refuses to produce their names he {illeg} will deserve to be reputed the author of {illeg} what has been published by his means, |the Libel| especially since the style is {illeg} tho pretended to be written by {illeg}|o|ther {illeg} nameless authors. For ye style is not unlike that of Mr Leibnitz. And the reflexions wherewith Mr Newton {illeg} is treated {illeg} are in pursuance of the designe {illeg} of Mr Leibnitz in his expressed in his two Letters to the Secretary of the R. Society, where he declien{illeg}|e|d a dispute {illeg} wth Mr Keil & pressed {illeg} appealed to j|t|he judgment of Mr Newton in order to pick a quarrel with him.
After this Libel had been dispersed in Germany & some other places it was sent to ye Hague with \a paper of/ Remarques upon it to be published in the Journal Lite{illeg}|r|aire. And the Remarques were as follows The author of ye Remarques tells us tha |The Remarques were upon the differences pretended to be between Mr Newton {illeg}|&| {illeg} {illeg}|M|r Leibnitz. The author of the Remarques| pursues the designe of Mr Leibnitz declining to meddle wth Mr Keil & calling the above {illeg} dispute \representing the dispute to be/ between Mr Newton Leibnitz & Mr Keil Newton. He tells us that Mr Leibnitz had not yet seen the {illeg} Commercium Epistolicum {illeg} that he was still had not yet sent his complaint \reasons/ to the R. Society {illeg} in England as being superfluous in a cause \beleiving the matter sufficiently evident/ so just; \with other/ things wch were known only to Mr Leibnitz himself & those to whom he communicated them. And therefore the Author of these Remarks is {illeg} also known to Mr Leibnitz \& might copy from his Letters, or be Mr Leibnitz himself./ {illeg} The Remarques are as follows.
Let this note be in the Margin. Mr Leibnitz wrote to ye Society to condemn Mr & Mr Leibnitz in complaining \hath/ authorized the Society to leave the matter between \them/ & obliged himself to produce his reasons {illeg} least his complaint should go for a calumny \be deemed a calumny./ [make him liable to be censured by the Society as guilty of calumny.] [Yet \{And then}/ Mr Leibnitz in his second Letter to ye Society condemned calls it unjust to expect that he should defend against {illeg} defend his candor against Mr Keil, & has not prod still refuses \declines/ to give his reasons & thereby has authorised ye Society to look upon his complaint as a calumny] However \And yet/ the Society hath hitherto only ordered the ancient letters & papers & the report of their Committee upon them to be published.] And yet when Mr Leibnitz wrote an answ Keill answered Mr Leibnitz \Keil/ wrote an answer to ye {illeg} accusation \first Letter of/ /accusation,\ Mr Leibnitz instead of justifying his accusation \producing his self his reasons/ wrote back that that {sic} no just man would expect that he at so great an age & after so many documents of his life should justify \def{illeg}|e|nd/ his candor {illeg}. That is he called it injustice to expect that he should give his reasons. But the Society who might have refused to give his reasons \& insisted upon his candor alone/. But the Society hath not yet censured him for this. They have only ordered the an{illeg}|c|ient Letters & papers & the Report of their Committee to be published.Keil wthout a hearing. The Society hath equal authority over them both.


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The Tigers are still in search of their first win of the season posting a 0-3 overall record, 0-2 in the Ohio Valley Conference. The women are led by number one seed Meagan Haynes (0-3) and senior Dania Lofton (1-2) while coming off a 7-0 loss to Murray State last Thursday.
UTM women's team (5-4, 1-0 OVC) snapped a two-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Fla. on March 10th. They are led by Ernestine Koornhof (4-4) and are 24-29 (.453) overall in singles competition with a .654 (17-9) average in doubles competition.
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The Basel Institute welcomes Jersey's decision to become a donor to the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR)
The decision that Jersey shall become a core donor to the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) for a three-year period has been signed by Jersey's Treasury Minister on Friday 11 May 2018. With this decision, Jersey joins Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in supporting the implementation of ICAR's Operational Strategy which has been developed jointly with ICAR's donors and partner countries.
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First, take a long view. About every half century since the late 19th century the United States has wavered between a generally open borders approach to a restriction-ist approach. Passage of immigration reform in 1965 began an era of relatively open borders. Today's fiercely restriction-ist rhetoric, in the long view, arrives about on time.
But the country has never been of one mind on welcoming a lot of the foreign-born. Historically, both major parties had been sundered by internal divisions over immigration policy. That has changed, since the mid 2000s, when sentiment began to seriously separate Republicans from Democrats.
The Trump victory put someone into the White House that was eager to use a box of matches.
It became apparent during 2017 that President Trump intended to use the immigration issue as his main theme running up to the November 2018 elections. It also become apparent that he was not interested in comprehensive immigration reform legislation, or for that matter, any major initiative by Congress, especially one that was bipartisan. He wanted to control the topic through his own rhetoric and by executive branch initiatives.
The Trump rhetoric is impossible to miss. His administrative initiatives, not as much, because they often involve bureaucratic processes and policies that are impenetrable except to immigration insiders. These insiders can point to more than a dozen policy changes, even before considering what may be happening on the Mexican border.
Trump was on seemingly solid political ground for taking a hard restriction-ist approach. Republicans are predisposed to be angry about immigration for two reasons.
First, they are far more pessimistic about the value of immigration then the Democrats. In the past ten years, the Democrats' view of immigration as strengthening the country has shot up from about 50% to the high 70s. Republican sentiment for this notion has remained flat at about 35%. This divergence, which began to appear during the George W. Bush administration, appears to lock the parties into opposite fixed positions.
The other reason for Republican receptivity on the immigration issue is that they are far more likely than Democrats to be riled up about illegal immigration, and also about crime. The first words spoken by Trump as a candidate merged the two issues.
The libertarian-leaning Cato Institute concluded from 2014 data that legal immigrants had a rate of incarceration that that 31% of that of native-born Americans, and that illegal immigrants had a rate that was 56% of that of natives.
This evidence to the contrary, Trump has shown all along a proclivity to equate illegal immigration with crime as if they were the same thing. In a poll, 80% of Democrats say that the crackdown on illegal immigration is bad and 81% of Republicans say it is good. Trump likely perceives that Democrats are vulnerable in part because Democrats have a hard time addressing the matter of the 11 million unauthorized persons in the country.
What has happened in the past few weeks has impaired the administration's messaging on the crackdown, as it relates to the Mexican border.
The administration evidently expected that illegal border crossings would subside from the levels experienced in the past ten years. Border Patrol figures for the past few months have shown that is not the case. If one uses federal estimates of successful illegal crossings drawn on the basis of arrests, then at least 100,000 persons, and perhaps many more, will successfully enter illegally through this border during 2018. This news tarnishes the administration's image of being effective when past administrations were not.
But the main disruption to the administration's restriction-ist strategy came from its own policy to separate children from the parents arrested at the border. Whenever kids and mothers are involved as collateral damage in crackdowns, the media explodes with stories. A raid on a New Bedford, Mass, backpack manufacturing plant in 2007 prompted news stories about grief-stricken mothers. A Boston businessman paid for the bail of hundreds arrested.
More recently, in April of this year, an ICE raid on a meatpacking plant in Bean Station, Tenn., resulted in national news stories about how 600 children failed to show up at local public schools the following day.
Now it turns out that Democrats are viewed as more competent on the immigration issue than Republicans. An early June poll by the Pew Research Center revealed that 48% of persons polled said that Democrats could do a better job dealing with immigration, contrasted with 34% in favor of Republicans on managing the issue. This may mean that as long as immigration remains on the front page, as long as Trump talks about it, Democratic candidates are advantaged.
Behind the scene, bureaucratic initiatives move apace in the administration. But they are so hard to grasp by the public. Aside from rhetoric, the public face of the administration may be one of paralysis — not what the president planned.
Peter Rousmaniere is widely known throughout the workers' compensation industry, both for his writing and consulting experience. Based in the picture perfect New England town of Woodstock, VT, he is a regular on the conference circuit, and is deeply in tune with trends and developments within the industry. His passion is writing and presenting on issues largely related to immigration, and he maintains a blog on the subject at www.workingimmigrants.com.


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Sometimes you should look at the glass as half full. I got an email from James Cridland the other day. James is a British radio consultant who recently moved to Brisbane, Australia. He mentioned that 4BC, the talk station in Brisbane now has only one local presenter. The rest of the shows are networked from […]
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On July 17, 2007, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura opened the second meeting of the United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS).
According to a press release issued for the occasion, UNGIS is the interagency mechanism tasked by the UNs Chief Executive Board to coordinate the substantive policy aspects of UN implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Mr. Matsuura congratulated Mr. Touré for ITUs leadership of UNGIS during the past year and noted that UNESCO, which will be taking over the chairmanship of UNGIS, would continue to work to firmly establish UNGIS as one of the key implementation mechanisms for WSIS.
The press release also mentioned that in his introductory remarks, the director-general stated that it was crucial for the UN system to achieve a coherent follow-up to the WSIS outcomes, and that UNGIS played an important role in this regard, especially within the context of the current drive for the UN to deliver as one.
In closing, the press release stated that Mr. Matsuura encouraged UNGIS to work towards building knowledge societies where people can express themselves freely, access and use information knowledge, where cultural and linguistic diversity is seen as a richness, and where quality education is accessible to all.
Click here for the full text of the UNESCO press release.


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Privacy is something that everyone needs whether you live in the city, country, or the suburbs. No one wants strangers staring at them. Fortunately, there are a few strategies you can rely on when it comes to keeping those prying eyes off of you and your family.
Privacy in the City
Although most people living directly in a bigger city rent apartment, privacy is still a big issue. Your home's windows put you on display as soon as the sun sets. Unless you plan to leave the lights off, others will have a clear view of exactly what you are doing as well as the contents of your apartment. Rely on window treatments such as blinds, heavy drapes, or layers of curtains to block the vision of those passing by.
Privacy in the Suburbs
You need to take the same precautions when it comes to your window coverings when you live in the suburbs, but there are a few additional privacy concerns for this type of home. Suburbs are loved for their small backyards that allow families to have a little taste of the outdoors. Rely on a fencing contractor in Lake County, IL to help keep your backyard an oasis all your own.
Privacy in the Country
Living in the country offers you a certain level of privacy all on its own. Unless someone happens to drive by, you won't have a steady stream of peepers looking in on you, and other than wild animals, no one is going to bother you outside. A few no trespassing signs should do the trick.
Taking the time to ensure that you and your family can maintain their privacy feels good. It also helps to keep you safe. You don't want strangers to be able to see what you have inside of your house or in your own backyard. The little bit of time and money needed for each of these suggestions will be well worth the effort.


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Nuart is an international contemporary street and urban art festival that's been held annually in Stavanger, Norway since 2001. It is widely considered the world's leading celebration of street art, providing an annual platform for national and international artists who operate outside of the traditional art establishment. During the first week of September an invited group of street artists left their mark on the city's walls, both indoor and out, creating one of Europe's most dynamic and constantly evolving public art events.
This year Nuart invited German artist Evol to create some of his multi-layered stencil pieces, transforming electrical boxes and street fixtures into miniature architectural models. Evol is interested in depicting the urban lives of ordinary people and believes that the character and history of any space is manifest on its surface. Many of his works are narrative or suggestive of the turbulent history of Berlin, where he currently lives and works. These 'cities within cities' are rendered so precisely it is often hard to tell whether or not you're not looking at real buildings when viewing his work in photographs.
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Askew heads up first day of Indy Lights testing at COTA
Oliver Askew headed the initial day of the first Indy Lights test of 2019, heading ex-GP3 racer Julien Falchero and Ryan Norman in an Andretti Autosport 1-2-3.
As track conditions improved with 62degF ambient temperature and Cooper rubber laid down from the morning's Lights session as well as IndyCar's Firestones in the late morning, eight of the ten participating cars improved their times.
Eventually Askew worked down to a 1min54.3065sec lap – an average of 107.395mph around the 3.427-mile road course in Austin, TX., to eclipse Falchero by 0.2238sec and Norman – in his third year in Lights – by a further 0.0077sec.
Belardi Auto Racing's Zachary Claman De Melo, who made nine IndyCar starts for Dale Coyne Racing in 2018, was fourth fastest ahead of BN Racing's David Malukas.
The fourth Andretti car of Robert Megennis was sixth ahead of Juncos Racing's sole entrant, Pro Mazda (now Indy Pro 2000) champion Rinus VeeKay.
The two Carlin Racing entries of Logan Sargeant were ninth and 10th, some two seconds off the ultimate pace.
Lucas Kohl was last in the second Belardi machine after damaging his gearbox in the morning session.
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In this episode, we're speaking with Tiffany Taylor, co-owner of Love Cork Screw wine company based in Chicago.
Tiffany talks about the advantages to having multiple streams of income and how she manages her time between several businesses.
Tiffany also shares how the lifestyle brand, Love Cork Screw got started. In addition to that, she gives great tips on how to have a successful business partnership.
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- Tiffany started off her career in the Law Enforcement field.
- Love Cork Screw started almost 2 years ago.
[bctt tweet="We're learning and making the path along the way. —@LoveCorkScrew"]
- In addition to being one of the owners of Love Cork Screw, Tiffany also is a Real Estate Broker and has her own Tax Business.
- When each of the businesses were 1st started, she worried about whether or not she would get customers / clients, but soon realized that it was quite easy.
[bctt tweet="If you set yourself apart from your competition, people are going to come. —@LoveCorkScrew"]
- Tiffany met her Love Cork Screw partner by playing on flag football.
- The Love Cork Screw wines are currently available in over 50 locations in the Chicagoland area.
- In terms of the initial marketing, Tiffany and her partners approached several retailers and asked them to have faith in their product.
- When 1st starting out, they had to rely on fellow entrepreneurs and mentors for advice.
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- The wine label was strategically designed to attract a specific crowd of people.
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- Tiffany believes that bartering your skills / talents / products is the way to go when you're operating on a tight budget.
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- When entering into a business partnership, it is important to know that it's like a marriage.
- Compromise and communications are KEY in a partnership.
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As the New York Times reports: "If a slim, yellow envelope with a Rye, N.Y., return address lands in your mailbox this holiday season, don't throw it out. It's not junk."
"Some 1,300 such envelopes have been sent to New Yorkers around the state, containing the good news that R.I.P. Medical Debt, a New York-based nonprofit organization, has purchased their medical debt — and forgiven it."
The NYT tells the story of two women, who — in partnership with with R.I.P. — erased $1.5 million in medical debt for "hundreds of strangers."
We previously noted what a "yellow envelope" means. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported:
A yellow envelope coming to about 400 mailboxes in the Finger Lakes region holds a letter that will make the recipient very happy.
It could be the next best thing to finding out you're a Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes winner.
The envelope bears the return address of RIP Medical Debt and the letter tells the recipient that some of what the person owes a hospital, doctor or other health care provider has been wiped out. Gone. Not an issue. Don't worry about it.
The New York Times piece continues: "Last spring, Judith Jones and Carolyn Kenyon, both of Ithaca, N.Y., heard about R.I.P. Medical Debt, which purchases bundles of past-due medical bills and forgives them to help those in need. So the women decided to start a fund-raising campaign of their own to assist people with medical debt in New York."
"Over the summer months, the women raised $12,500 and sent it to the debt-forgiveness charity, which then purchased a portfolio of $1.5 million of medical debts on their behalf, for about half a penny on the dollar."
"Ms. Jones, 80, a retired chemist, and Ms. Kenyon, 70, a psychoanalyst, are members of the Finger Lakes chapter of the Campaign for New York Health, which supports universal health coverage through passage of the New York Health Act."
The story of Jones and Kenyon was also noted in the Tompkins Weekly, which writes: "Carolyn Kenyon and Judy Jones are two local activists fighting to educate the public and convince elected officials to pass the New York Health Act, legislation that would create a single-payer health care system in New York. Currently, the bill has already passed the New York State Assembly but is just a few votes shy of passing in the state senate. While looking for ways to raise awareness about health care needs in the area, Jones and Kenyon stumbled upon RIP Medical Debt, a 501(c)(3) charity that buys up medical debt portfolios, for pennies on the dollar, just to abolish it. According to the RIP Medical Debt website, '$100 can forgive $10,000 in debt.'"
For more information on the issues surrounding medical debt, please contact RIP Medical Debt.


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After a feisty encounter, Colchester United won 3-1 at Cheltenham Town 3-1 thanks to a Luke Norris brace and a Harry Pell penalty. Here's our Player Ratings from the match.
Cheltenham's energy
Since Russ Milton took caretaker charge, the endeavour in this Cheltenham side could not be questioned; in fact, in the first half, they were almost trying too hard. Ahead of Nigel Atangana, who had an excellent game in the holding role, there was three attacking midfielders and two strikers who were all trying to influence things in congested areas. The Robins were short of a touch of composure in the middle of the park to take the burden off Atangana and make them less susceptible to counter-attacks.
Norris' brace
Colchester enjoyed a two-goal lead at the break, but it was not a case of them ripping apart Cheltenham constantly – home centre-backs Johnny Mullins and Will Boyle were solid in the main. Rather, they were very clinical from dead ball scenarios. Harry Pell, returning to his old club, won a penalty off Atangana that was dispatched by Luke Norris. who bagged 14 goals for Swindon last season and took his seasonal tally to four midway through the first half. The striker, who didn't have the busiest of games in open play, completed his brace with an excellent free-kick nobody in red and white could have done anything about, followed by wild celebrations.
The Broom-inspired resurgence
For a 20-minute spell at the start of the second half, Cheltenham left winger Ryan Broom caused many problems down the left flank; Ryan Jackson needed a lot of defensive help from Pell to combat his threat. Cheltenham did get one back when Kevin Dawson drilled home from the edge of the box, but their attacking play could have done with a bit more variation. Without an attacking right-back to offer width – Jordon Forster is a conservative option – there was an overreliance on Broom, at least until Tyrone Barnett came on to offer the option for them to go direct from deep.
Pell haunts old club
Visiting centre-backs Frankie Kent, Tom Eastman and Luke Prosser handled the pressure well though; although they hadn't looked a threat going forward in the second half, they did make the game safe on 88 minutes; after Sammie Szmodics was brought down, Pell struck home from the spot. The midfielder had received some stick from Cheltenham fans who might have been unhappy about his summer switch but, to his credit, his muted celebration shows that, even if he had to make a sensible career decision, he retains respect for his former club.
Change at Cheltenham
Milton has done well to galvanize the players but, after a period of direct football under Gary Johnson, this is a Robins side in need of fresh ideas. The signs are that chairman Andy Wilcox is looking at bringing in a club legend – somebody who can get supporters onside quickly. It's important, though, that the new man has shown some managerial acumen – Jerry Gill could be a good option after showing promise in the sixth-tier with Bath City. With survival looking increasingly like it would be a good season, Cheltenham cannot afford to dawdle.
The New U's
So often, we have associated with Colchester United a club that is too loyal to it's youth-based philosophy, a team that lacks physicality and the pragmatism to adapt to the opposition. They have changed. While The U's have shown earlier in the season against Port Vale and Crewe that they can impress with smooth interplay when the situation called for it, their performance at Whaddon Road shows they have acquired the knack of winning games without necessarily playing the way they would ideally like for 90 minutes. There is a long way to go, of course, but Colchester appear to have the adaptability for a sustained top seven push.


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US SKETCH SHOW Saturday Night Live celebrated forty years with a big one-off Sunday night showcase.
Basically everyone who appeared on the show since its first broadcast was invited back to sit in the audience, perform, or take part in sketches.
We've rounded up the eight must-see moments you'll be sorry you missed.
1. Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon returned to open the show with an epic rap about SNL's history
The Dick in a Box also made an appearance.Source: Saturday Night Live/YouTube
2. Christopher Walken introduced Kanye West, but butchered his name
Come for Candy West, stay for Kayne's bizarre performance.
It was all worth it to meet this Wayne and Garth.
3. Speaking of Wayne's World, they made a comebackSource: Saturday Night Live/YouTube
4. Literally everyone who was ever famous was in the audience
How did they pick their seats? What did they all chat about? So many questions.
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Catherine Zeta Jones' expression when Michael Douglas calls himself a sexual icon. Can't.
5. Taylor Swift's unimpressed face became a new meme
6. Bradley Cooper and Betty White shared a serious smacker
7. Tina Fey, Amy Poehler AND Jane Curtin gave us the greatest weekend update of all time
It's almost TOO much. Watch the full thing here.
8. Celebrity Jeopardy made its return, with Will Ferrell and 'Justin Bieber'Source: HappenToday/YouTube