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Kaspersky is one of the top and most commonly used antiviruses but did you know that Kaspersky is far beyond being an antivirus.
Kaspersky Lab, the world's largest independent security software company extends its product from the endpoint to your servers and gateways, and the unique integrated design approach means you can secure and control all your physical, virtual and mobile devices from a single central management console, whatever the size of your infrastructure.
Kaspersky boasts a comprehensive list of technologies, from encryption and mobile device management to patch management and license inventories. All work seamlessly together, supported by the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network, to give customers the world-class protection they need to combat ever more sophisticated and diverse cyber threats.
This means that with Kaspersky you can range from an antivirus to file storage, patch management, license management among so many others as you find out below in the article but first let's get to know a little bit more of Kaspersky and its security platform
One console
Kaspersky products are designed so that, from one 'single pane of glass', the administrator can view and manage the entire security scene — virtual machines, physical and mobile devices alike.
One platform
The same programmers working from the same codebase have developed technologies that talk together and work together. The result is stability, integrated policies, useful reporting and intuitive tools thus one platform.
One cost
All Kaspersky products and tools are from one vendor, delivered in one installation — so you don't have to go through a new budgeting and justification process every time to bring your security risks in line with your business objectives.
Kaspersky Lab delivered the industry's first Security Platform, built from the ground up, making it easy for IT administrators to see, control and protect their world.
Kaspersky Lab avails its customers with a number of technologies which involve different solutionss for customers are Core, Select Advanced and Total. All these are subscribed for annually.
Kaspersky Lab offers its customers service to control their security from the base lab where by everything is monitored at the Security center.
As you can see from the table below, different solutions within the different technologies thus making the IT administrators work easy.
So next time you think about Kaspersky remember that there is a lot more than an antivirus in the Kaspersky lab products.
Next time you think of Kaspersky I bet you'll think of more than it being an antivirus but a security platform with another wide range of solutions available to make your IT infrastructure easier.
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Say you're one of the world's foremost performance-art troupes and one of the most visually striking ensembles to hit a stage in the past decade. What's the next step? For Blue Man Group, it's an audio project called The Complex, a percussion-heavy document of an oft-neglected aspect of the company. "The music has always been a part of the show," explains Eric Gebow, a Blue Man on the national tour, which comes to Cleveland this week. "But I think the [stage] show takes the record to a whole other level. It carries through what the songs are getting at."
With a revolving assemblage of 30 Blue Men and 50 musicians, the group has wowed New York and Las Vegas audiences for more than 10 years. Now it's on the road for the first time. "It's a very visual show," Gebow says. "It's such a big learning process for us. We're throwing ourselves into this rock-and-roll world, which has always been an element of the theatrical shows."
While it's somewhat of an understatement to say that something is lost in the translation from stage to stereo, The Complex's instrumental tracks -- with their jittery rhythms and snapping percussive hits -- hint at the power of the stage show. The album's guest singers range from tolerable (Dave Matthews) to annoying (Esthero). Complex warblers Tracy Bonham and Venus Hum are on the road with Blue Man.
"This [tour] is something different for us," Gebow says. "We're setting up and tearing down this big production every night. What's interesting, exciting, and scary at the same time is that we're getting people at the show who are familiar with the theatrical shows. Then we have a group of people who really don't know Blue Man. You can really feel the mix of different expectations." Blue Man Group is at the CSU Convocation Center (2000 Prospect Avenue) at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets are $32.50 and $42.50, available by calling 216-241-5555. -- Michael Gallucci
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos have made four albums, but nobody knew about them until Norah Jones recorded Harris's "Don't Know Why." Their latest, The Secret Sun, features the same hushed and intimate sound that guided Jones's Come Away With Me to a Grammy sweep. (Harris, who wrote five of Come Away's songs and played guitar on it, also won for Song of the Year.) It's a little jazzy, a little folky, a little bit country, and totally comforting. Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos are at the Beachland Tavern (15711 Waterloo Road) at 9 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $8; call 216-383-1124. -- Michael Gallucci
Soaking Up Sheryl
Because Sheryl Crow is so good at making summer singles -- "All I Wanna Do" in 1994, "Soak Up the Sun" last year -- the outdoor setting for her Sunday show oughta work in her favor. She's an old-fashioned classic rocker at heart, writing songs about life's most essential things -- namely, love and fun -- and singing them like they're the most important things in her world. She's a bit overexposed these days, singing duets with anyone who asks, but her catalog is a hearty one. Crow plays Cain Park (Superior Avenue and Lee Road in Cleveland Heights) at 8 p.m. Singer-songwriter Joe Firstman opens. Tickets are $46 to $49.50. Call 216-241-5555 for more information. -- Michael Gallucci
Made in Brazil
Dance Brazil (right) has been called martial arts with an African beat. The 26-year-old troupe spreads an Afro-Brazilian cultural message through a series of lively dance moves set to African music. Last year, it showcased a traditional stick dance in Sugar Cane Fields: Male dancers flaunted their agility by swinging machetes, while women chanted in African dialects. Founder Jelon Vieira says the group fuses aspects of many cultures, including hip-hop. Dance Brazil performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at Cain Park, at the corner of Superior and Lee roads in Cleveland Heights. Tickets are $14 to $21. Call 216-241-5555 for more information. -- Cris Glaser

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Using Apps to Overcome Writer's Block
I just tried out this tool on a website called Write or Die (http://writeordie.com/) as I have been trying to get over some writer's block I've been experiencing lately. I took the challenge to write 500 words in less than 15 minutes. Write or Die features a "consequence mode" that kicks in whenever your writing slows down or you pause a bit too long; the consequences can be severe. As I furiously typed and just let the words flow I felt like I was being chased! Seriously.
I managed to complete the 500 word challenge (everything you write doesn't count BTW) in about 13 minutes but, HOLY SHIT!, am I hyper engaged right now! I've been writing non-stop now for an additional 20 minutes.
That feeling of being chased because of the countdown timer and the need to keep writing to avoid consequence was effective! Despite everything that was going on around me (the sound of 2 different childrens videos blaring from iPads, my daughters carrying on and 3 new private message notifications via Facebook sounding on my phone) I managed to stay focused.
"Please, Write or Die, stop with those awful noises and turn my screen white again – that blood-red color is horrific!"
"Then start typing, boy!"
I can't wait to use that tool again, but this next time my plan is to have a more poignant topic picked out ahead of time.
It is proven that making it a habit to just sit down to write (writing about anything at all) you will become more productive. So, if you are trying to build your "writing muscles" or overcome writer's block, this is the tool for you.
Hahahaha. I need something to calm down now!
Want to know what I furiously banged out, unprepared and completely ad lib? This (uncut and unedited) bit of literary genius[sic] ensued:
Sitting down to write can be a daunting experience for anyone that does not write regularly. There are so many things to write about but who really cares about the subject you've selected? What does one write about and how does that positively affect what you really want to do with your time? Holy smokes! This screen turns an awful shade of red if you slow down much! I suppose that is a great way to get you writing again if you dislike the color.
So, back to the topic. I'd really like to write more often but the problem is avoiding the distractions like my daughters, my wife and, of course, fucking Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and that silly metric that haunts my life called Klout!
Perhaps just picking a topic and digging in with a tool like Write or Die 2 is an effective way to "get shit done?"
I should ask a few other writers what they think about this site or if they've used Write or Die to positive effect. I'm afraid that instead of actually becoming a productive author [again] I will instead get PTSD from the shock of the consequences that appear if I am not writing fast enough!
That would suck!
At this point I've written 308 words of my 500 word goal and have 9 minutes and 20 seconds left! Time is flying by but I have to believe that I've written way more than 249 words at this point.
I wonder if being put under the gun like this is better than buying a software application that would just block me from accessing the offending websites? Would I, instead, find other websites to replace them in my avoidance of getting anything done?
Which really brings me to the crux of my writing problem: Am I too easily distracted or am I actively avoiding being productive?
Of course, this raises other more serious questions like, "What am I afraid of?" or "How awesome would my life be if I actually committed to focusing on the several promising projects I have in front of me right now?"
Shit! What am I avoiding??? (If, of course, I am avoiding anything at all.)
Now, I have 136 words left to complete in under 4 minutes and 30 seconds. This doesn't look promising but I will press on in this attempt to beat the clock.
I am a winner like that.
I can do this!
God, I sound like a self help guru but I must trudge forward and continue to kick ass or the consequence engine of Write or Die might start removing all of the vowels from this diatribe; a complete "disenvowlement"!
How evil!!!
Fifty four words left and two minutes and thirty seconds left!
I did learn something new here, however, if I spell out my numbers I actually get credit for them whereas when I was just typing the number I would not!
Damn it!
I am getting close and it feels like I am being chased!
Finished with one minute and 30 seconds left!
Whew. I made it.


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Who does Bruce Willis owe a favor? After Setup, the superstar delves into this mind-numbing, slow moving, Tarantino knock-off with zero original flavors. The box art claims Catch .44 is in the tradition of Reservoir Dogs and Usual Suspects, which is only slightly misleading. Name dropping what the movie is knocking off is right, insinuating this is anywhere near those pieces a travesty.
Catch .44 doesn't go anywhere or do anything, finding it sufficient to book-end its narrative because it's the "in" thing to do, piecing it together with long stretches of inane dialogue routines. Despite Bruce Willis hogging the cover art, it's three females in the lead, headed by Malin Akerman. They're criminally bound sisters, traveling to a small quaint diner as they stop for such thrilling activities as refueling.
Money is in their eyes, a job involving a stash of cocaine coming down the line from front man Mel (Willis). The sisters bicker and whine, distinctive personalities stating that they need to disagree to maintain an identity. Otherwise, they're three hot women driving a car, something director Aaron Harvey has no trouble focusing on.
So much of Catch .44 feels wasted, extended dialogue never carrying the charm, wit, or story telling ability of what it's trying to emulate. A traffic stop between the girls and Forest Whitaker is agonizing, the growing awkwardness effective for nothing other than reaching feature length. Never mind the blatant continuity grievance as Whitaker is wearing the uniform of a cop he shot in the head, not a single drop of blood staining the cotton.
Guns keep pointing at the screen or at other characters, impressive that anyone can keep such a lenghty firm grip under such intense pressure. Catch .44 is determined to eke out whatever tension it can build without knowing when to quit. A three-way stand-off can only go so far before the repetition and the, "who thought that accent was a good idea for Whitaker?" concept runs on fumes.
Willis will drop in for one of his two scenes to finish it off, winding the film down with a sluggish cowboy story that has no rich subtext to speak of. Calling is surface level is being kind, speaking down to an audience that prefers to spend years analyzing each word. Well, at least when Tarantino does it right. [xrr rating=2/5 label=Movie]
There's more to look at with this transfer than just pretty faces, a digital source producing extensively sharp, crisp results. The Red One MX will issue substantial black levels to a movie desperate for them. Much of the flick will take place during nighttime exteriors or strip club interiors, necessitating the shadow detail-preserving blacks.
Even under the lightly lit conditions, the definition spark will remain. Facial detail, excusing any focal softness, is exceptionally rendered. Intensity is supposed to be derived from a constant need to shoot in close, offering opportunity the source and this Anchor Bay encode has no trouble capturing. Medium shots perform equally well, even with a bit of inconsistency. Willis seems mostly shot through a filter or is partially digitally smoothed over.
Color schemes depart miles from each other, the diner casting a sickly glow to the flesh tones to the point of giving them a neon overcast. A strip club paints everyone in a blue tone, and natural daylight brings forth a lightly saturated, pleasing color selection. Each scene is draped with a distinctive palette for better or worse, none of them terribly detrimental.
Aliasing seems to be sole downfall of a likely down convert, cars and other objects with fine lines breaking up or shimmering during camera pans. Distractions are miniscule. The source is free from noise or any visible compression, offering an imperfection-free facade that can live on the clarity of digital. [xrr rating=4/5 label=Video]
Chances are the first five minutes will put the viewer to sleep making a shotgun blast at the seven minute marker the wake-up call. It rips through the low-end with a hearty burst and the highs capture the echo as is pings off the barren diner walls. Replays are just as intense, slowly bringing in additional firepower for more opportunities to show off.
Stereos are split to the sides extensively, keeping dialogue moving out of the center when visuals need it to. Cars pass and the soundtrack loves maintaining a presence. Guitar riffs are heard front to back, always natural. While mixed a little low, there's a firmly maintained soundstage at work that's better than the material itself. [xrr rating=4/5 label=Audio]
One extra is offered, a commentary from writer/director Aaron Harvey and editor Richard Byard. [xrr rating=1/5 label=Extras]
Full disclosure: This Blu-ray was provided to us for review. This has not affected the editorial process. For more information on how we handle review material, please visit our about us page to learn more.
3 thoughts on "Catch .44 Review"
It's eke out, not eek out.
Fixed. Thanks.
Never made to the end, I'm ashamed to admit I lost an hour of my life watching this crap.


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Seeking new insights into who your markets and customers are, what they really want, and how best to reach and engage them requires thinking in new boxes. A "box," in our definition, is a belief, concept, working hypothesis, or other mental model you use to interpret the world in front of you. True creativity requires you and your company to constantly doubt your current boxes and eventually replace them with new ones. In an ever-changing environment, no idea is good forever.
The brain's hardwiring will tend to lead you and your organization to hold on to tired assumptions and constraints. You're likely to be seduced by a natural bias toward ideas that confirm, rather than contradict, your current way of seeing things.
Henry Ford famously failed to heed even obvious market signals (and insistent colleagues) suggesting that customers were evolving to want different styles and colors after the phenomenal success of his simple all-black Model T. In the 1970s and 1980s, executives at Hindustan Lever Limited assumed that customers for laundry detergent in India were primarily affluent individuals willing to pay for Surf; they didn't notice that Nirma, a low-cost competitor, appealed to a growing segment of lower-income customers who hadn't used any detergent before.
As you seek to understand your organization's customers and market, stay open to multiple interpretations of the data you collect. There are different plausible segmentations of any customer group, many legitimate ways to break down the market, and multiple ways of perceiving the underlying desires of your customers.
Consider listing and then challenging your most fundamental beliefs about your customers and markets. Who do you currently think of as your most loyal customers? Ask bold questions that take you and your colleagues outside of your comfort zone. If you are one of the world's largest designers and retailers of lingerie, what if 10 years from now, 95 percent of your customers were men? If you lead the world's most popular online search engine—think Google—what if, just 10 years from now, most of your customers were looking to you instead for driverless cars?
The first step to practical creativity is challenging some of your existing boxes. If you manage this, then you can arrive at a very successful new box simply by changing the way you think about your customers, your competitors, or your own company.
This commentary was originally published in The Economist Group's Lean back marketing blog.


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Where is the Artist: Affective Labour in Live Performance
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Sarah Rodigari
A paper on affective labour in contemporary art practice and global presentation.
Since the advent of the solo performance artist in the 1970s, the notion of performance has continued to evolve beyond the use of the artist's own body as the sole medium. The body as gesture has come to play an increasing role in audience activation, through which the relationship between artist and viewer has grown increasingly complex. When an artist is no longer the central agent of their own work, but operates through a range of individuals, communities and surrogatese, questions of authorship, instrumentality, ethics, labour and representation come to the fore.
In 2014, Arts House in Melbourne presented their first sustainable performance programme Going Nowhere. The event explored how artists, communities and audiences can sustainably generate international creative experiences without getting on a plane. Based in Sydney, and working with London artist Joshua Sofaer between 2012 and 2014, the performance Reach Out Touch Faith was developed for this programme. Considering Australia's tyranny of distance and cultural fear of missing out, Reach Out Touch Faith addresses the presence of the live body in performance and its relationship to audience – how do you create a work without travelling when the artist's presence is supposedly so crucial to the live art?
Through the writings of Shannon Jackson, Dorothea Von Hantelmann and a close reading of Reach Out Touch Faith and Going Nowhere, this paper considers the complexity of outsourcing authenticity in the expanded field performance.


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Katherine McNamara's Dream Superpower Isn't One You Hear Very Often
And quite frankly, it's one the world could really use.
If being busy is a good thing, Katherine McNamara is living her best life. On top of appearing on the hit show Shadowhunters—the third season of which premieres this March—she's also back on the big screen, reprising her role as Sonya in Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Then there's that budding singing career to talk about, and the fact that McNamara is constantly on the lookout to learn something new (no real surprise there—she *did* graduate high school at 14). And when we ask what else she's got on the list? "To learn another language or how to properly cook," she responds. You know, simple things...at least compared to hanging on a wire during a fight scene, which she tells us she did yesterday.
Yep, Kat's got a lot on her schedule, so why not get right into it? Ahead, the multi-hyphenate tells us a bit about her new film, what we can expect after Shadowhunter's crazy season-two finale, and why she can't wait to look back on both projects 30 years from now.
Can you tell us a bit about Maze Runner: The Death Cure?
"It was a very interesting, full-circle moment for me coming back after shooting two seasons of Shadowhunters, seeing these guys again, and still, even after two years, feel like it was coming home and coming back together with family. It was nice to kind of regroup and celebrate what everyone's been doing. Maze Runner itself… It was nice to finish up that story and get closure with those characters, and to revisit that world one more time with everyone. Including the director, Wes Ball, who I think is brilliant. Every single person in the cast has so many irons in the fire and so many exciting things coming from them, I just know it's going to be one of those films I look back on in 30 years and [say], 'Wow! Look at where all of us went from that project, and how cool that we all had that moment together, in such a beautiful place like South Africa!' There are always those projects that you see you now looking back on and go, 'Oh my God! I had no idea those 10 people worked together! Their careers went in 10 different directions, and yet they were all amazingly successful!' I feel like Shadowhunters and Maze Runner will be those in the coming decade."
Speaking of Shadowhunters, what can we expect in season three?
"The show is really settled into itself now, and all of the elements are gelled together, and these characters have developed to a point now where you can explore new sides of the relationships—especially seeing how season two ended with Valentine being killed and everything kind of coming to a close. It almost gives them a clean slate and a fresh start at finding whatever the new obstacles are going to be, and seeing how the fallout of the finale affects all of the characters going forward."
Does the cast hang out a lot outside of the show?
"Definitely! All the time! Because we are in Toronto shooting, we're away from our families and friends, and I have to say this group has become a family to me. It's amazing because all of us are so different and come from so many different backgrounds that we all learn from each other. We're comfortable now to a point where there's kind of no real guard and no real pretext when it comes to discussions. I like being able to work with and have a community of people that are so open, and intelligent, and just generally kind to be around."
Is sci-fi your favorite genre to work in?
"It was purely coincidental that I've ended up in this sort of sci-fi, young adult fiction phase! But I love it! There's something about immersing yourself in a mythical world that's really wonderful, and sort of learning what the new rules are. One of my favorite things about being an actor is the fact that it allows me to completely transform myself and insert myself into as many different lives and worlds as I can. It's sort of a life goal for me to do at least one project in every genre. I value a good period piece. I'd love to do a horror film. I'd love to go into the Marvel world and do more of the classic superhero space. I'm dying to do a drama that is just a bunch of people sitting in rooms, talking about human psychosis and how humanity works—something simple, and dark, and dramatic. I'd love to do comedy again. Theater as well. Live theater is how I started, and that's one of my favorite things—every time I go to New York and see a Broadway show, I just want to jump onstage. But that's the great thing about having a creative career and about being an actress; the job is never the same. You're always learning, and growing, and proving yourself."
If you could have a superpower in real life, what would it be?
"I'd want to have power that heals. I feel like that's one that a lot of people don't think [of] immediately. Personally, I'm a bit clumsy. I fall a lot and trip over things. I could use it for the bruises I get, but also I think there's something so magical about helping others as your superpower and being able to heal and help with little things. It's small problems that ultimately add up to big ones."
And you're a singer as well?
"My first single was released in the finale episode of Shadowhunters, but music is something I've been working on for a long time, whenever I have time between projects. In every other aspect in my life I'm playing characters, but music is my chance to let a little piece of my heart, creatively, into the world. I'm very excited for people to hear more, and there's more coming very soon."
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The Climate Baby Dilemma
Deciding whether to have a child is an emotionally fraught and deeply personal process. Deciding amid increasingly dire warnings about the climate makes it even more paralyzing. The Climate Baby Dilemma is a documentary charting the growing number of young people either refusing to bring a child into an increasingly unstable world or struggling with the ethics of whether they should or not. As the conversation about intimacy and climate change heats up, we meet activists, journalists, parents and prospective parents, ethicists and scientists to unpack this growing trend.
World Premiere – Friday Nov 25, 2022 at 9pm on CBC / CBCGEM


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Gay, William, "1991 Announcements," Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1991).
CPP President. Duane Cady has been elected CPP President for 1991. He succeeds James Sterba, who served in 1990.
Papers for October Conference. The fourth annual conference of CPP will be held in Knoxville October 25-27, 1991. Our host is the Univ. of Tennessee, with Sheldon Cohen in charge of local arrangements. For the first time we have a theme, namely, Nationalism and Militarism in Regional Conflicts. Henry Shue of Cornell University's Prog. on Ethics and Public Life, and tentatively Michael Klare, Assoc. Prof. of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, will be our invited speakers. Papers on aspects of the conf. theme are preferred, but other war and peace issues are not excluded. Papers, limited to 20 minutes reading time, can be submitted in duplicate to Laurence Bove (Walsh College, 2020 Easton St., N.E., N. Canton, OH 44720) by July 1st.
Call for Papers. William Gay is seeking papers for a joint American-Soviet volume on philosophical reflections for the 21st century. The perspective is social political philosophy, with an emphasis upon issues of war and peace. Seven North American essays will be included along with seven Soviet essays. The coeditors are William Gay for Concerned Philosophers for Peace and Tatjana Alekseeva for the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow. Both an English (Rowman & Littlefield) and a Russian (Politizdat) edition will be published by 1993.
Essays may be submitted on any of the following topics: Post-Perestroika Ethical Views of Nuclear War and Deterrence; Political Realism, Morality, and the Future of the Nation-State; Nonviolent Alternatives to War; Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy in the 21st Century; Feminist Views on Conflict and International Relations; Peace and Justice from a North-South Perspective; and Ethics and Environmental Concerns. All American essays will be selected by blind review. The text should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages. Papers are to be sent in duplicate to William Gay (Department of Philosophy, UNC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223).
Longwood Series. You should have received an announcement of the publication of the papers of CPP's second annual conference in 1989. The book was issued in October by Longwood Academic in Wakefield, NH under the title of In the Interest of Peace: A Spectrum of Philosophical Views, eds., K. Klein and J. Kunkel. Longwood has recently agreed to publish a series of volumes consisting of selections from future CPP conferences. Kenneth Klein has been named the General Editor for this series. The next volume will be the 1990 Notre Dame papers which are currently being selected and edited by Duane Cady and Richard Werner. This volume is expected to be out in the fall.
Nominations for CPP Officers. If you know someone who might like to serve as a CPP officer during the coming years please submit her or his name to Joseph Kunkel. The office of President is an annual position. The Executive Secretary is a three-year term beginning in 1992. And the two representatives from each of the three APA divisions overlap with two-year terms. Concerned Philosophers for Peace can only be vibrant with your continued support.
CPP Meeting at Central Division of APA. CPP will conduct two sessions in Private Dining Room no. 6 of the Palmer House in Chicago on April 24, 1991. From 7:15 to 8:15, John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) will speak on the topic "Why We Will Miss the Cold War" and from 8:30 to 9:30, a panel composed of Tomis Kapitan (Eastern Carolina University),Robert Holmes (University of Rochester), and R. Paul Churchill (George Washington University) will address the topic "War and Peace Issues in the Middle East." A CPP business meeting will follow from 9:45 to 10:15.


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A customer becomes your customer. Because you are ready to help via various channels.
Customers call, write, text, email & chat with you when they need help.
And there you are: a calm rock in the surf, a beacon of knowledge and friendliness.
Sometimes you call to follow up. Until your customer is a satisfied customer.
You do this with handy tools and methods that we have fine-tuned for you.
KitchenAid is specialized in kitchen appliances for private and industrial use. You probably know the colourful appliances!
Customers sometimes have questions about their products. Questions of residential customers vary from administrative to technical or even culinary.
Providing customers with advice tailored to their needs.
You work from Monday to Friday between 9 am and 6 pm. If you take Turkish calls, you work between 7 am and 6 pm.
The project is open on all holidays except for Christmas, New Year's day and Easter Monday.
Good to know: timetables are communicated at least 3 weeks in advance.
You will work in Berchem, or from your home workplace after 6 months.
Your first language is Swedish. On top of that you are fluent in English
You live in Belgium and are allowed to work here.
Active listening and customer orientation.
Ability to handle stress and work well in a team.
Quick to learn, procedure-oriented and multitasking.
Handling administration well and writing without spelling mistakes.
Making suggestions to the customer for a better or more complete service.
Working with a computer fluently.
We expect a lot of talent from you. Fortunately, you get a lot in return: not just a job, but a really cool job in a large but close and collegial team.
The opportunity to learn and grow in your role every day thanks to continuous coaching, feedback and training. We can also make use of a wide range of e-learning modules that help you in your personal and professional development.
A WEngage contract with a competitive salary supplemented by meal vouchers after 3 months.
Are you good at the job? Then there are growth opportunities to other functions and/or projects.
Start date: 31/07/2023 or 11/09/2023
Together we work on your onboarding, so that you can get the hang of the job. The first weeks, we focus on call systems, customer systems, working methods & procedures. It is logical that you will be in the office every day these first weeks. Once you are ready for work, a familiarization period follows with intensive guidance. You will also be in the office during this period, so that we can provide you with optimum support. Once this milestone has been successfully passed, you can also work from home, in line with the agreements made..


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Seminar: Neural Mechanisms of Active Sensing by Dr.Ismail Uyanik (Postdoctoral Research Associate in Johns Hopkins University)
Date and Time: Thursday March 29th, 2018, at 15:30
Location: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center, SC106
System identification on sensorimotor pathways is pivotal for understanding biological movement and control. However, the innate challenge in understanding sensorimotor systems is that they are operating in a dynamic closed-loop, where the motor output stimulates its own sensory receptors, which provide feedback for the subsequent motor output. Despite the proven existence of this behavior, known as active sensing, the neural mechanisms underlying the active sensing behavior remain surprisingly unclear due to inherent challenges in identification of sensorimotor systems. This talk covers our efforts on exploring the neural mechanisms of active sensing behavior on an electric fish, the glass knifefish, by performing system identification through systematic locomotion and neurophysiology experiments.
About the speaker:
Ismail Uyanik is a postdoctoral researcher in Laboratory of Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in May 2017. Throughout his Ph.D. studies at Bilkent, he worked on developing model-based and data-driven system identification methods for the analysis and control of legged locomotion. He also received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the same department in June 2009 and August 2011, respectively. His current research focuses on discovering the principles of animal locomotion by developing novel techniques in the areas of system identification theory, computational neuroscience and robotics. He is also a recipient of Aselsan Ph.D. Fellowship, which recognizes and supports academic excellence in Aselsan's prominent research areas.


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James Tynion IV: Oh yeah. This project is like a fanboy dream come true, and being able to put such iconic characters like the Turtles in front of Batman. But yeah, this is a crazy situation, but Batman is familiar with crazy situations. But all of the sudden having a bunch of teenage turtles running around Gotham City is a situation he was not anticipating in any way.
Nrama: Let's back up to how this project came together. You said it was a dream come true. How did it come about?
Tynion: From what I understand, this is something that's been a dream project on all fronts — like, Nickelodeon has the rights to the Turtles, IDW does the Turtles comic books and DC has Batman. These days everyone's a fan of the Turtles. This has been an institution in comics and the pop culture world for, literally, my entire lifetime. DC had some other crossovers with the Star Trek property at IDW, and that opened the door to conversations about this crossover. So the conversation started, and DC and IDW signed off. I remember I was at C2E2 this year when I got the email from Jim Chadwick at DC asking if this was something that I would be at all interested in. I was completely floored, because the idea of this crossover is, like, it's too good to be true. And it's a first. Back in the '90s, there were lots of different comic crossovers from lots of different properties, during that era, but this is a crossover that has never happened before.
And it's also very natural. When you look at the Turtles, their roots — their comic book roots in particular — they come very much from Frank Miller, and Batman of the modern era comes very much from Frank Miller. The Turtles were a bit crazier expression of that. But there is a natural core center that you can take them back to, which is that — you know, Batman is also a ninja. Batman was trained in a very similar way to these Turtles. Also, Batman has a huge legacy of working with young, teenage heroes, and trying to shape them to become something better. So it was a very natural fit.
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Annual Meeting
Enduring Aristotle's Dialectic: The Discipline of Non-Contradiction
Valuing in Games and Life
Distorted Memories Cause Problems for Locke's Self-Same Theory of Personal Identity
The Form of Experience: The Transcendental Analogy
Entities, Concepts, and Propositions: A Computational Approach
On Ideas As Such: Short Commentary on a Selection from The Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Dialectic
Strong AI Theorists Fail to Account for Human Experience
Reid Against the Theory of Ideas
Connative Terms, Common Natures, and Intuitive and Abstract Cognition
Augustine's City of God Book XIX.3-18, 24-8
The Logic and Validity of Emotional Appeal in Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory
The Ontology of Causality in Aristotle
What is a Language Game?
Complementarity: Content, Context and Critique
What Does Searle Say About Performatives?
Discourse on Metaphysics
Lenin v Freud on War and Aggression
The Moral Worth of Happiness
The Bias of Impartialism
Barthes and Beauvoir on Stasis and History
Kafka v Zamyatin on Oppression and Tyranny
Between Instinct and Habit: The Role of Dispositions in Moral Decision-Making
Virtue as the Mean
Instinct and Habit: Connections between Nietzschean and Aristotelian Acquired Dispositions
The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction: A Critique And An Alternative Hypothesis
Putting the Sex Back into Gender: A Tentative Theory Of Femininity And Sexuality
Representationalism and Perceptual Error
Can Kant's Ethics Survive His Metaphysics?
Aristotle on Responsibility
The Problem of Self-Referentiality in Marx's Historical Materialism
Kant's Copernican Turn
Affirmative Action and Sexual Favors
The Danger of Animal Rights
Is Altruism Benevolent?
The Roots of Dictatorship and Freedom
Undermining Ethics through Duty
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ISIS again touts French and other foreign suicide bombers
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, a former al Qaeda affiliate that operates in Iraq and Syria, has yet again released propaganda praising foreign suicide bombers. The ISIS has eulogized another Frenchman as well as a Jordanian who each served as suicide bombers in Baghdad.
The ISIS' "Baghdad Division posted the communiqué on its Twitter account on May 23, 2014, one day after the attacks," the SITE Intelligence Group, which obtained and translated the statement, noted. More from SITE:
On May 22, the account published pictures of the two suicide bombers, Abu Usama al Firansi and Abu Bakr al Urduni, and brief descriptions of their operations. The French fighter detonated his explosive vest amidst a gathering of Iraqi soldiers in al-Mashahdah, and the Jordanian struck with his explosives-laden vehicle on a headquarters of the Iraqi army in al-Niba'ee, after which other fighters stormed the building. In addition to these bombings, the ISIL claimed nine other attacks in al-Mashahdah and al-Niba'ee, striking Iraqi army headquarters and vehicles.
Abu Usama al Firansi is the second Frenchman identified by the ISIS as executing a suicide attack in Iraq in the past month. The ISIS' Ninewa Division recently said that another French bomber, Abu al Qa'qa' al-Firansi, executed a suicide attack in northern Iraq, but the details of his attack have not been released.
The ISIS has identified 16 wilayats, or administrative areas or divisions, in territory under its control or influence in Iraq and Syria. Over the past several months, the ISIS' Baghdad, Southern, Ninewa, and Diyala divisions have all released statements that celebrated foreign suicide bombers.
The ISIS has said that suicide bombers from Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan or Pakistan, Tajikistan, the Russian Republic of Chechnya, France, and Denmark have carried out attacks for the group.
The ISIS may be attempting to highlight the international nature of the group's cadre. The ISIS began to increase the number of statements highlighting foreign suicide bombers just as its feud with al Qaeda began heating up. The ISIS and its emir, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, are attempting to portray themselves as the true standard bearers of international jihad instead of a regional terror group focused on Iraq and Syria. Publishing statements on foreign suicide bombers may be an attempt to bolster their case.
[Source: By Bill Roggio, Threat Matrix, The Long War Journal, NJ, 30May14]
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The genius snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan's new Crime novel 'Framed' is due to be released this November which has been a work in progress for the last year.
The plot for Framed focuses on a character named Frankie James who is described as a "young man with a lot on his shoulders".
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Frankie is left parentless at 15, when his mother disappears and his father banged up in prison for armed robbery.
Frankie gets in with some lowlife gangsters and inherits a snooker club in London. From here the plot is set around gangs, violence and theft.
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¶Making a hash of floating point numbers
I've always thought that hash tables were well named, because often when you see how people have used them you wonder what they were smoking at the time. Often the problem revolves around a mistaken notion that switching a binary search tree for a hashed container bestows some sort of magical constant time lookup behavior, but sometimes it's more subtle. One case has to deal with the choice of hash function.
The hash function for a hashed container converts a key to a bucket index with the intent of trying to distribute data items as evenly as possible. Given a decent distribution for input values, the hash function for an integral key can be as simple as just using the integer value itself, with the container then applying a modulus operation to wrap it within the bucket count. Anyone who's gone down this route, however, then discovers the problem of trying to do this for a key that is of floating point type. Usually the first thing they try is something like this:
size_t operator()(float value) const {
return (size_t)(value * 100);
This is unfortunately usually fairly slow due to poor performance in the float-to-int conversion. There's also the matter of slightly worse behavior around zero due to truncation toward zero instead of negative infinity.
At this point, the inclination is probably to just give up and either deal with it or use a different container. Others go "aha!" and use this hack instead:
size_t operator()(float value) const {
return (size_t)*(const unsigned int *)&value;
This code uses the bit pattern of the float as the hash value. Yeah, it's non-portable. It's also got problems with the aliasing rules of the C language. In the not so unusual case of being able to depend on a 32-bit integral type and IEEE single precision floating point, though, it's a really neat and fast trick. And, sadly, it's also wrong. If you've done this or thought about it, don't feel bad. The .NET Framework team almost made this mistake, too.
Reason after the jump.
Negative zero is the problem. For IEEE floats, positive zero and negative zero differ by only the sign bit in bit pattern, but compare equal as floats. Using the bit pattern as the hash code therefore results in an inconsistency in the hashed container where two values compare equal but have different hash codes. I've also seen people burned by this when trying to compare floats quickly with integer compares (-0 < +0) and when implementing fast float-to-int functions (floorToInt(-0) = -1).


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Here I am again, playing your mappacks.
- 44 Run >> I love this map more than I'll admit to. The gold in the tile is the only downfall to this perfect level. Userlevel'd.
- Amazing what you'll find >> Horribly disorganized map. The rocket area was terrible and the gausses were sloppy.
- Could this be my understanding? >> Played on NUMA. I hate the squeeze.
- Darkness rebound >> You must get off by adding impossible gold. As good as it looks, it needs to be acessible.
- Emotion >> Not that bad of a map. The drones are fun to dodge and the rocket covers the inside well.
- Fax rename it. >> The launchpads were a lazy addition to the map. The top section was also poorly-designed.
- Flashlight >> The gold under the oneways were the only part I didn't like. Really nice rocket area.
- Holy nights >> A very ramshackle map. The gauss corridors were fine, but the chaingun/thwumps part was too contrived.
- It's a reflex (Dana nana) >> Eww. I hated backtracking to the exit.
- jdfjsdf >> Why the hell would you include a map like this?
- Justify >> I did not like getting trapped behind the thwump. Or going back up the rocket side.
- One more time we're gonna celebrate >> the top gold was much too difficult to get. I really liked the tile structure though.
- Powerslave >> Very boring. There wasn't much I could do to route the map.
- ReReReReReverb >> Good concept, horribly executed. The laser and chaingun were too powerful and you used the oneway setup too much.
- The hit >> Not too bad for an exitless map. Fun drone paths and decent setup.
- The kids tried >> Lemme get this straight. You just take some of your maps from NUMA, throw them in a pack with other news maps, and call it a pack? That's a piss-poor way to go about it.
- The sleep is still in my eyes >> I had much too hard a time getting a good demo. The rocket area needed a bounceblock.
- This halfed-ass thing i3kej >> Name says it all.
- We gon' move 'till you need it >> Once again, the gameplay is contrived. The chainguns didn't do much, nor did the rocket.
- WX Y63X >> The two leftmost gold were unnecessary and not worth getting. You could've even added some gold to the top area.Good map otherwise.
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If you have not heard Jeronimo's "The Gordian Knot" released in 2017 you are missing a perfect blend of Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Jazz & Blues. In an age where some rap music can't be understood, interpreted or viable, The Gordian Knot tackles some of the most prevalent issues in the Black community and national news while maintaining an entertainment and personal vibe.
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One of my favorite tracks on the album is his trifecta with Muva "The Creator" and the internationally known "K-Love", is Leadership. Too many quotable bars in this piece of art but Muva's, "And it's us they breed to fill these prisons for profits, straight from the projects…", K-Love's,"You still got faith in that non-violence, when you can get sprayed while you pray somewhere in South Carolina…", and Jeronimo's "If we are not equal then I am to lead you…" are a glimpse of what you can expect in a sheer mastery of intellect, history, culture, race, relevance, and verbal cuneiform.
He has risen from Chicago's concrete jungle's to build bridges in the community as Founder and CEO of Solace Souls Coalition. Every 3rd Sunday he hosts a Spoken Word Open Mic from 7pm to 10pm January through September. From October to December his team shuts down the open mic and uses their resources to ensure the homeless are prepared for winter by creating fundraising, clothing drives, and food provisioning. If anyone is deserving of a national spotlight, it's my hope that this young mans talent, drive, passion, and humility will present him to the world in grand fashion.
The album is listed as "Explicit" probably due to the use of the *N* word. I would say don't let that detour you from downloading, streaming, or listening to this album. I rate this album in Source fashion with 5 Mics. You will get a history lesson, a story of African-American plight, a rhythmic sensation of soul with Amber Whitted and Black Heaven, a relationship spell on Beast with a guest appearance by Darlin' Mikki, and you will surely get to see one of Chicago's gems of Spoken Word and Hip Hop.
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Yext throws probably the most compelling conference in digital knowledge. Heck, it's probably the best conference in New York this year. With headliners like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr. Hannah Fry, and David Blaine, there was some solid star power that captured the essence of the conference: Knowledge is Power.
On day two, we had the opportunity to present to the audience on "Data Strategy in a Privacy World," and I must say, the venue was incredible. One audience member was kind enough to share this photo:
Jay Ward was in Brussels at this time at International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners, so it was only I onstage this time. Nevertheless, the audience was engaged and, to some degree, a bit nervous. While everyone in Brussels was listening to Tim Cook chastise the Data Industrial Complex, we were talking through the real efforts and issues facing businesses in constructing data strategies that work well given the push around the world for more privacy controls and governance.
"Great talk… a little scary… but great!" was the general sentiment I received, and here's why. Being DataSmart and using a methodology to build your data strategy requires a re-alignment of your thinking. Your products, services, and internal management all must align to the understanding that data is information given (literally from the Latin; Do, Dare, Datum: [thing] given) most often by a person. This means that your business model must treat the data like personal information in many cases, where typically, Western business models have looked past this critical viewpoint.
For many businesses, the data strategy has been "keep everything" which, in theory, made sense so long as tracking the data and storing it continued to cost less and less with each new development cycle and hardware evolution. The problem now is that you can't keep every piece of data about your customers or readers or visitors without also creating a liability of protecting that data from all threats of misuse, both internal and external. The value of data is shifting from the marginal increase in revenue obtained from a source of data to the legal, regulatory, and reputational marginal risk given storage and misuse of a source of data.
Needless to say, this is a scary turn of events for many U.S. companies. While Jay was in Brussels celebrating the 40th (yes, forty years) conference on data privacy and protection in Europe, most companies in the audience at the Yext conference are just now realizing this change in valuation of their data from revenue growth to revenue risk. That's not to say they are ignorant to data protection and security, because these are some of the most sophisticated companies in the world. But I can state that moving from a "keep everything" mindset to a "what really matters" one is just beginning.
We would like to thank Yext for this excellent opportunity to speak with their audience. Further, I would point out that Yext's model of empowering companies to control the data around the world about them, is a very close harbinger of things to come in many other industries. Recall that most data privacy laws and regulations have the concept of identifying what data is held about a person so that they may update, correct, or control its use and distribution. This is exactly the model at Yext, but for business entities, not individuals.
Conferences on data management, knowledge, AI, ML, and Big Data are all dealing with privacy and the path forward. We were honored for the opportunity to engage that dialogue this year at Onward18.
*Disclosure: Christian Ward previously worked for Yext as their EVP of Data Partnerships globally.


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Infiniti has just confirmed that the teaser image released earlier is indeed the second-generation QX50 and the company has released details of the new SUV ahead of its global debut at the 2017 LA Auto Show.
The new QX50 will feature an all-new platform that promises new levels of refinement, rigidity and interior space in the compact premium SUV segment. It shares much of its design elements with its larger sibling the QX80, continuing the "Powerful Elegance" design language. Inside, Infiniti says the public can expect high-quality materials and advanced craftsmanship.
Motivation comes from Infiniti's new 2.0-litre four-cylinder VC-Turbo engine, the world's first production-ready variable compression ratio engine. The engine can alter its compression ratio anywhere between 8:1 to 14:1 for maximum performance and efficiency. Official output for the engine has not been released but engineers are looking at around 268 hp and 390 Nm of torque. The QX50 is available in either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive layout.
Infiniti has also fitted the QX50 with ProPilot semi-autonomous driving system that can autonomously accelerate, brake and steer during single-lane carriageway driving, similar to the system shared on the Nissan Serena and Leaf.
The Infiniti QX50 world premiere will take place next week with more details to follow.