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Well met brothers and sisters, may the blessings of the game be upon you! I am your humble missionary from the Church of the Game, Andy Frogman, AKA the Priest of Gamers! I said last week was challenging, but this week has brought a bunch of big news controversies, and honestly, I really don't know where to start. As I mentioned on my Facebook page, I don't want to go into the Alison Rapp debacle, and the Buttroversy is the definition of non-news. So instead I'm leaving those topics be, and we're focusing on Social advancement in the west, Korea and Bill Clinton's cat? Are we suddenly in the 90s? Sure… why not?
Ladies and gentlemen of the congregation, Let Us Play!
My Nintendo Follow-up
Back last Thursday, March 31st, Nintendo released their brand new rewards program My Nintendo. Seeing as I've already covered this topic in a previous Let Us Play article, let's give a quick look now it's finally released.
My Nintendo is the new Nintendo points and rewards program, replacing the old Club Nintendo. My Nintendo currently uses three digital currencies, that can be collected by completing "missions". Firstly you have your Gold Points which are acquired through completing missions that involve real world purchases. When you purchase a game on the Nintendo eShop, whether for WiiU or 3DS systems, using the Nintendo Network account that is linked to your My Nintendo account, you can "complete" the Gold Point missions. the higher the price of the purchase, the more Gold Points you can earn, within raged thresholds. The Terms of Service also talk about other potential methods for collecting Gold Points which may vary depending upon your country of origin. These methods include physical, in store purchases through specific retailers, physical games with additional download codes, and purchases through the Nintendo online store.
The rewards for collecting Gold Points range from decent sized discounts, on some of the more expensive games, like Wonderful 101 and Splatoon, free full game downloads, and free DLC packs.
The Platinum Points come in two forms, the standard Platinum Points and Miitomo Points. These seem to have the same value, but are accumulated differently. The standard Platinum Points are collected through completing "missions" relating to your various Nintendo accounts. After setting up a profile you will be given points for connecting your My Nintendo account to Twitter, Facebook, G+, Miiverse and Nintendo Network ID. After these have been achieved, you can collect Platinum Points on a Weekly basis, by logging in to My Nintendo, the Nintendo eShop and Nintendo Miiverse. These will net you 30 points each.
The Miitomo Platinum Points are collected by completing weekly and daily missions in the Miitomo App for Android and iOS. These points can be spent on in app purchases. Interestingly, any Miitomo Points collected on you Android device, will not be shared if you have a second account on an iOS device. However, all Miitomo points regardless of where they were collected, will be available on the My Nintendo website, where they are the same value as standard Platinum Points. This suggests that there may be more App specific currencies added in the future, such as with the Pokémon GO! app, and those too will have the same value as Platinum Points.
The rewards that can be received in exchange for both forms of Platinum Points include discounts on games, though lesser than the Gold Point counterparts, simple games like Picross, and Nintendo 3DS themes.
Overall, I'm actually rather impressed with this new system. At first I was annoyed that the points expire after six months, but then I actually did some math and realised how easy accumulating points actually was. Ignoring the Miitomo points for a moment, if you were to log in to the Nintendo eShop, Miiverse and My Nintendo pages weekly, you will accumulate 90 Plat per week. Over the course of six months (assuming four week months), that's 2,160 Platinum Points before they expire. So far the highest priced Platinum Points item, has only been 1000 Plat, meaning that you can buy the most expensive My Nintendo rewards every three months. Considering this is all for free, that's a good deal! Then assuming that you save up your Miitomo Points rather than spending them in-app, you are easily able to afford those 1000 Plat rewards on nearly a monthly basis!
Of course one downside of this new system is the fact that there are only digital goods. While of course that if Nintendo's prerogative, one thing I did love about Club Nintendo was the t-shirts, game soundtracks, and collectibles. So it's sad that there won't be any of that in the near future.
Miitomo Release
Also on March 31st, Nintendo released it's first foray into the mobile app market with Miitomo. Miitomo is a social app, similar in many way to an AR Tomodachi Life. As I've mentioned previously, I have a Windows phone, and Miitomo isn't supported on that platform. Despite that I've been keeping an eye on the news and statistics, and despite a number of articles calling Miitomo pointless, the consensus seems to be that Miitomo is a hit!
There are some teething problems and there are lots of people commenting on the App store and the Google Play store, that they can't get their download to run. My wife couldn't get the app to install, my friend Austin found his tablet stuck in a constant shut down and restart loop, before opening in safe mode and removing it from his system, and other friends, have found it to be incredibly buggy. A lot of the problems seem to stem from the device being rooted, or modified in some way, something which is common in the android using community, but no solid causes have been confirmed.
Generally speaking, you're going to want a newer device, one that hasn't been rooted or jailbreaked (jailbroken?), with plenty of room on the device's native storage, rather than using the SD card.
Based purely on the statistics, with over one million unique downloads, there only seems to be a few thousand complaints, meaning that at most there is a 1% margin where the app won't work on your device. So if you've been thinking about getting it, don't let the errors that are being reported put you off, and going back to my previous segment, think of all the platinum you can earn!
I'm still interested in Miitomo, and looking forward to Pokémon GO! so when it comes time to change up my phones, I may end up getting an Android rather than replacing my Windows Phone with another. For me, it's worth it.
Nintendo of Korea is losing money
If you cast your mind back a few years, we saw the caliber of a man in Satoru Iwata, when he took a substantial pay cut to keep the lower rung members of the Nintendo Japan company from being made redundant, when the WiiU was failing to perform in the market. Sadly for the people of the small Nintendo of Korea office, no such help was coming to them. Nothing can be done when there's no money left.
In the past four years Nintendo of Korea has seen significant losses, and this is causing Nintendo to take drastic steps in the region, including a large scale restructuring of the local branch. Out of the fifty employees at the NoK branch in Seoul, now only ten remain, including CEO Fukuda Hiroyuki. In addition, the office will no longer be located in Seoul, and has instead been moved outside of the city, where it's cheaper.
At the moment it's not know if Nintendo have any further plans to cut costs in the region, but at the moment things are looking grim.
Cats on the Hill
Dear siblings, do you remember the 90s? Bill Clinton is president of the United States of America, and the question on everyone's mind is "How do I get my kid a copy of Socks the Cat for the Super NES this Christmas?" Don't recall that? Don't worry you wouldn't be the only one. You hate the politicization of video games? Then check this out!
In 1993, in response to Bill Clinton winning the Presidential election, Kaneko USA decided that they were going to make a game for the SNES and Sega Genesis, which would put you in the shoes (or socks if you will) of Bill Clinton's real life pet cat, Socks, in a platforming adventure game, as he makes his way through various US locations, to get to the White House and his Presidential parent Bill Clinton, that nuke control codes have been stolen by republicans. No seriously, that was the basic gist of the game. While it wasn't strictly going state that the enemies were republicans, it included "corrupt politicians" as enemies, and stage bosses that were parodies of former republican presidents, Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush, among others, with a plan to blow up the world.
Yeah. This was a thing!
Well. It was nearly a thing, and it could yet be a thing. The development of "Socks Rocks The Hill" got as far as marketing and promotional materials being made and in some cases distributed, before Kaneko closed it's US branch in the Summer of 1994, cancelling all games that were in development. This is where stories get a little confusing. Some claim that the game was nearly complete, while others like director of product development Jeff Hill, said in an interview with Evan G., "The game was nowhere near complete — and development was stopped at least six months before Kaneko closed the US office."
Some stories indicate that there may have been pressure to cancel the game, because of Nintendo's disinterest in the game, due to their known policies at the time that prohibited politically or propaganda driven games. Despite this Ellen Foug told Evan G. "[Nintendo] liked the idea; they liked the game. Everyone did."
Kinda flies int he face of the fact the game was never released, but you make up your own minds on this.
Skip ahead eighteen years, and a prototype copy of the game surfaces and is snatched up by Tom Curtain, for, as he puts it, the price of "a decent used car". Then just last year in 2015, Curtain was able to acquire the trademark for the game, and now, with a team around him, he intends to set up a Kickstarter in the coming year, to get the game finished, and distributed. Though to be fair the game looks pretty polished in a short video that was posted to YouTube as proof of it's existence. He has been criticised since releasing the video with angry gamers claiming that he has hoarded the game for himself, and posted the video to rub it in peoples faces. Quite surprisingly this game has quite the cult following. Others have criticised his decision to kickstart it's distribution rather than dropping the files online. To which Curtain replied "The game deserves a real release: A box, a manual, a physical cartridge that you can plug in. People have been waiting 20 years to play this game; I feel like that's the right way to do it."
I can completely understand his perspective. This is a piece of gaming history, as absurd as it is, and it really does deserve to be treated with the respect that comes with that. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get back a niche game that has been lost for twenty years, and to hear that it's going to get a full physical copy release on a SNES cartridge, is just spectacular!
DSi Ware Shop to close in 2017
Are you one of the people who bought the Nintendo DSi? Are you someone who still plays their DSi? If so I have some bad news for you. As of March 31st, 2017 Nintendo will be closing down the DSi Ware shop, meaning that if you own a DSi, and it still has games on it that have not been transferred to a 3DS system, NEVER delete those games! As the service will not be available after that date to allow them to be re-downloaded.
For 3DS users I'm glad to say that the DSi Ware section of the eShop will remain open, so anyone who has already transferred their games and data to a 3DS Nintendo Network account, your games are safe.
There's not been a lot of information regarding this shut down, except for the date, however, it's assumed that this will also affect transfers from the DSi to 3DS systems, so please be sure to transfer your data to a new 3DS system before March of next year, if you are thinking of doing so.
And Finally…
Thank you brothers and sisters for joining me again today. My apologies for the late update again this week, we're just starting a new update system on Badly.Productions that I'm taking care of, and on top of that if you've been keeping up with my current personal status, with the sleeping and my health, things are currently pretty tough. If you haven't and you want to keep up with my more regular postings on various social media platforms, I welcome you to like my Facebook Page, or follow me on Twitter.
If you liked what you read here, please check out some of my other articles, they shouldn't be too hard to find here on Badly.Productions, and if you want to support me and my continued ecclesiastical efforts, I do have a Patreon, and anything you can spare would be much appreciated.
Lastly, I'll leave you with this awesome infographic that Amazon has been using to promote the new Legend of Zelda releases, Twilight Princess HD and Hyrule Warriors Legends.
Thank you all once again dear sibling.
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Bruce Feiler is one American determined to find meaning in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq—and he does it in one of the most dangerous places on earth. As a follow-up to his Walking the Bible (2002), Feiler returns to the Middle East to answer the question: "Is religion merely tearing us apart, or can it help bring us together?" Where God Was Born is the product of his search.
Secularism, he says, has proved incapable of bringing peace to the world, as the millions killed in the 20th century attest. Fundamentalism, however, has given way to those who promote religious war. As a travel writer with a heart and soul for the lifeblood of other lands, Feiler guides readers through the volatile countries of Israel, Iraq and Iran, which for most Americans remain an enigma.
Readers will find Feiler a trustworthy and honest guide through the 400 pages of his book. Throughout his journey he consults the Bible and finds reliable sources who can elaborate on the history, archeology, language and architecture of places that have been the center of religion, values, morality and civilization itself. The bibliographic final pages, called "Words of Peace and Truth," also provide readers with a host of reading materials that Feiler has used to research this book.
Like the Old Testament, Feiler's book is divided into three sections: the land, the exile and the Diaspora. Through the stories of selected warriors, kings and prophets, readers learn about the Jews' ever-evolving identity and their relationship to a God who is determined to be one with his people, even when they try to separate themselves from him. Joshua conquers the land of Canaan and establishes a kingdom for the Jews, the legacy of Abraham. Saul, David and Solomon reign as Israel's kings, but eventually the Israelites are conquered by Nebuchadnezzar and exiled to Babylon. Enter the prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Ezra and Micah.
"You can't understand religion today without understanding the prophets," says Feiler as he corrects the common misconception that the prophets were fortune-tellers. Messengers of God, the prophets preach that faithfulness to the Lord requires righteous living and repentance in return for God's promise of protection of the people and forgiveness for their sins. However, the twist in this story is that this call for morality is addressed not just to the Jews but to all people.
Feiler illustrates this by connecting the story of Jonah and the whale to the saving of the Assyrian city of Nineveh. Both are spared because they repent their sins. This extension of morality to non-Jews is made possible because the Jews were not living on their own lands but as exiles in the exotic, cosmopolitan Babylon, a city that represented "the next evolution in the development of intricate urban societies." Judaism flowers during the exile, just as it does during the Diaspora under the great Persian king, Cyrus, who ushers in a radical era of peace by bringing unity in diversity. "It's not that Diaspora is necessarily good, it's that Diaspora works if there are certain conditions under which the Jews are able to live in peaceful coexistence."
Feiler's visit to Iraq is especially intriguing. He risks his own life to go to this 7,000-year-old, war-ravaged country in order to visit Ur (Abraham's hometown), Babylon and Mesopotamia, site of the Garden of Eden. He learns about the Western world's continuing narrative about Eden as a refuge. Even our U.S. presidents have recalled the power of this imaginary place, where humanity was closest to God.
Feiler's obvious love of life elicits hope in his readers; and like the prophets he loves, Feiler encourages readers to believe that even the troubles of our day can be a pathway to God. As Imam al-Ubaidy of Baghdad recognizes: "We need to find our principles—peace, love, justice, and tolerance. We need to realize the future belongs to God, not to us."
Do not hesitate to read this book. Enjoy the beauty of its prose and ponder its messages about the region as a way to improve your understanding about the Middle East and help you reconcile the conflicts among the three great religions. You may also want to use this book to begin a meaningful dialogue about Sept. 11, the war in Iraq—and now, the catastrophic floods of the U.S. Gulf coast. Or join others in the dialogue through Feiler's Web site salon, www.brucefeiler.com.
The Middle East is truly a holy land and a place that does not just touch people, but seizes them by the scruff of the neck. Where God Was Born is a guidebook that allows that to happen.

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Friday, September 2, 2011
I'm in Love With My Kindle
I've read a lot of great books this month, including Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and Cannibal Nights by Kiana Davenport. Both really fantastic books, and both available on Kindle. Having a Kindle has really changed my reading habits, and I find that I'm reading more, and also browsing more for great books. I've purchased some duds, but for the most part, I've been really happy with my downloads.
Amazon makes lots of suggestions based on my purchase history, and I've found that they are usually right on the money when it comes to my likes and dislikes. Recently, I was on Amazon and a suggestion popped up for Music, (I've purchased a lot of CDs lately) and I found a great new artist called Washed Out. The music is electronic, but very chill. Even the music genre is called "Chillwave" which I'd never heard of before, even though I've been listening to electronica for years. I went ahead and downloaded all their albums from the iTunes store. Now I'm listening to the newest record, Within and Without, while I'm relaxing and writing. It's great. And I never would have found out about them without Amazon.
That's all for now, I'll post again as soon as I have more information about the next edition.
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February 19, 2016 11:30 ET
Government of Canada supports the inclusion of Agora de la danse, Tangente and the Ecole de danse contemporaine de Montreal in the future Wilder Espace Danse Building
MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Feb. 19, 2016) - Department of Canadian Heritage
The Honorable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage, today announced a total of $2,650,000 in funding to help Agora de la danse, Tangente and the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal relocate to the Wilder Building in the heart of Montréal's Quartier des spectacles.
This funding, provided by the Government of Canada through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, will be used for renovations and to acquire specialized equipment for this new space devoted to dance.
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"Our government is pleased to support the creators and performers of the world of dance, who will benefit from a work space that reflects what they are: innovative and inspiring. The Wilder Building in the Place des Festivals will offer them exceptional visibility."
-The Honorable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage
"Artists will soon breathe life into these new state-of-the-art facilities, and make Wilder Espace Danse a hotbed of creation in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles."
-Florence Junca-Adenot, Chair of the Board of Directors, Agora de la danse
"This financial support from Canadian Heritage is making it possible to add the final touch to a key project to promote and showcase contemporary dance, to the delight of emerging artists, artisans and their audiences."
-Stéphane Labbé, Executive Director, Tangente
"This Canadian Heritage funding is a great boost for a key project that will do wonders for the vitality of the dance community. This support will also help sustain excellence in training future leaders in the performing arts."
-Daniel Denis, Chair of the Board of Directors, École de danse contemporaine de Montréal
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Another day in Barbarian-land.
The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a counterinsurgency program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War.
The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the civilian infrastructure supporting the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) insurgency. The major two components of the program were Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) and regional interrogation centers. PRUs would kill suspected VC, and terrorize and capture civilians who were thought to have information on VC activities. These civilians were then taken to the interrogation centers where they were tortured in an attempt to gain intelligence on VC activities in the area.[1] Few of the prisoners survived -- most of them were tortured to death, and those that survived the torture sessions were generally killed afterwards.[2] The information extracted at the centers was then given to military commanders, who would use it to task the PRU with further capture and assassination missions.[1]
The program was in operation between 1965 and 1972, and similar efforts existed both before and after that period. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had "neutralized" 81,740 suspected NLF supporters, of whom 26,369 were killed.[3]
A Viet Cong prisoner awaiting interrogation by U.S. troops, following the Tet Offensive of 1968
Common methods of torture used at the interrogation centers included:
"Rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock ('the Bell Telephone Hour') rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the 'water treatment'; the 'airplane' in which the prisoner's arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners."[9]
Military intelligence officer K. Milton Osborne witnessed the following use of torture:
"The use of the insertion of the 6-inch dowel into the canal of one of my detainee's ears, and the tapping through the brain until dead. The starvation to death (in a cage), of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages ... The use of electronic gear such as sealed telephones attached to ... both the women's vaginas and men's testicles [to] shock them into submission."[10]
Targeted killings
Lieutenant Vincent Okamoto, an intelligence-liaison officer for the Phoenix Program for two months in 1968 and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross said the following:[11][12]
" The problem was, how do you find the people on the blacklist? It's not like you had their address and telephone number. The normal procedure would be to go into a village and just grab someone and say, 'Where's Nguyen so-and-so?' Half the time the people were so afraid they would not say anything. Then a Phoenix team would take the informant, put a sandbag over his head, poke out two holes so he could see, put commo wire around his neck like a long leash, and walk him through the village and say, 'When we go by Nguyen's house scratch your head.' Then that night Phoenix would come back, knock on the door, and say, 'April Fool, mother#er.' Whoever answered the door would get wasted. As far as they were concerned whoever answered was a Communist, including family members. Sometimes they'd come back to camp with ears to prove that they killed people.
After Phoenix Program abuses began receiving negative publicity, the program was officially shut down. However, another program of a similar nature, code-named "F-6", was initiated as Phoenix was phased out.
Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor, also known as Plan Cóndor, Portuguese: Operação Condor), was a campaign of political repression and terror involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America. The program aimed to eradicate alleged socialist and communist influence and ideas and to control active or potential opposition movements against the participating governments.[1]
Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor is highly disputed. It is estimated that a minimum of 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Condor,[2] possibly more.[3][4][5] Condor's key members were the governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. The United States provided technical support and supplied military aid to the participants until at least 1978, with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles.[6]
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
All nice and good...
No comment on THESE beheadings?
I know from your posting history that you have a woody against the US/West by pointing out the faults of others [Which it should but] while ignoring these heinous action seems like a pretty obvious ploy....
Just an observation
AND Still some here support these guys.
This is the type of action that many Afghans themselves hate and why the majority do not support the return of the Taliban to power. They also want the US/West out as well. The average Afghans are stuck between a rock and hard place.edit on 31-8-2012 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, his severed head placed near his body to send a warning to police, said provincial governor spokesman[american puppet] Jawid Faisal.
The brother of the boy, neither of whom were named by officials, was a member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a U.S.-trained militia charged with making Afghans in Taliban strongholds, like Kandahar, feel more secure[lol, good job], Faisal said.
"It's a Taliban warning to the ALP and to others who support the government," Faisal [self-servicingly]said of the killing, which happened in Kandahar's Panjwai district.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf denied the group was involved.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
This is the type of action that many Afghans themselves hate
Separately, a 6-year-old girl was beheaded in eastern Kapisa province on Thursday, said provincial police chief Abdul Hamed.
"We are not sure if she was beheaded by her family or the Taliban, but we know the Taliban control the area," Hamed said of the killing in Jalukhil village. He added that he could not send investigators to the area out of fears for their safety.
The murders follow the shooting or beheading of 17 young revelers attending a party in southern Helmand province this week, which officials said[how convinient] was the work of the Taliban, a charge the group also denied.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
All nice and good...
No comment on THESE beheadings?
I know from your posting history that you have a woody against the US/West by pointing out the faults of others [Which it should but] while ignoring these heinous action seems like a pretty obvious ploy....
Just an observation
Originally posted by nenothtu
reply to post by all2human
Beheaded a couple of KIDS to "send a message" to the POLICE?
Chicken-# sons of bitches. What happened to the good old days when a man would engage the guys he was pissed off at? Oh, right... that doesn't apply when cowardice is at play....
So who wants to "negotiate" with the Taliban again? I GOT yer damned "negotiation"... it's hangin' right here..
Chicken-# sons of bitches.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Another sign, that humanity will NEVER change.
This is the type of action that many Afghans themselves hate and why the majority do not support the return of the Taliban to power. They also want the US/West out as well. The average Afghans are stuck between a rock and hard place.
Originally posted by sonnny1
reply to post by Ophiuchus 13
Well, I pray for a quicker response time, on the separation bit..........
Tired of all the hate.
Originally posted by nenothtu
reply to post by all2human
Beheaded a couple of KIDS to "send a message" to the POLICE?
Chicken-# sons of bitches. What happened to the good old days when a man would engage the guys he was pissed off at? Oh, right... that doesn't apply when cowardice is at play....
Originally posted by jcarpenter
Ah ..... like the chicken# cowardice at play when missile drones slaughter civilians wholesale? Or would that be the chicken# cowardice involved in contaminating large swaths of the middle east with DU? Or could it be the chicken# cowardice involved in NorthCom's massive "wargames" over American cities?
It sounds to me like you are a victim of our USDA Grade A propaganda.


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Galaţi, German Galatz, city, capital of Galaţi judeţ (county), southeastern Romania. An inland port about 120 miles (190 km) northeast of Bucharest, it is situated on an eminence among the marshes at the confluence of the Danube and Siret rivers, on the southwestern shore of Lake Brateş.
By the beginning of the 15th century a fishing village, referred to as "the village of Galaţi," was documented; a century later, there was a reference to Schela Galaţi (schela being an old word for the place where ships are moored for loading and unloading). The port was important for the Turks, who occupied it from the early 16th century until 1829. Its rapid 19th-century development was stimulated by the adoption of free-port status from 1837 to 1883. Owing to the intensive rebuilding effort since World War II, Galaţi has large areas of modern buildings.
Galaţi is a centre of culture. The University of Galaţi was founded in 1948. The city has theatres, as well as museums of modern art, history, and natural science. Among historic buildings is the fortified Precista Church (15th century).
The city is one of the chief ports for Romanian imports and the leading exporter of timber. The country's largest shipyard is at Galaţi. Industries include metalworking and the production of chemicals, textiles, building materials, and foodstuffs. In the 1970s Romania's largest ironworks and steelworks were completed there. Pop. (2007 est.) 293,523.


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text: Contrasting Modes in Paradise LostKathleen M. SwaimDetailsDescriptionBefore and After the Fall explores for the first time that radically different principles and epistemologies that govern the unfallen and fallen universes in Paradise Lost. From Kathleen Swaim's detailed examinations of the visits and instructions of the angelic messengers Raphael and Michael emerges a new understanding of the contrasting psychological and spiritual conditions before and after the fall. The book presents an in-depth comparison of the pedagogy, logic, poetics, and faculty psychology of the two archangels within the context of Milton's prose works, in particular his textbook The Art of Logic, his pamphlet Of Education, and his theological treatise Christian Doctrine. Because Milton deliberately deployed Raphael and Michael for purposes of such contrast, Swaim's thorough examination of the content and intent of these two major characters the six books of Paradise Lost in which they appear enables her to provide new perspectives on the whole epic's design and themes. Reviews"The fullest, the most scholarly, and the most literary examination of Paradise Lost as an epic mediated by the contrasting styles of two angelic persona that one could desire. Professor Swaim has done fundamental and useful research in both Ramist logic and faculty psychology, and has shown beautifully how Milton applies them to create the stylistic contrasts appropriate to the Fall."—Mary Ann Radzinowicz, Cornell University AuthorProfessor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Kathleen Swaim has written some two dozen essays on Milton, one of which won the Milton Society's Hanford Prize for the best essay on Milton in 1984. She is author of A Concordance to Milton's English Poetry and A Reading of "Gulliver's Travels." Related Subjects: Cultural StudiesLiterary Studies and Print Culture


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Al Ahram Weekly 28.05.2009 (Egypt)
"Arabs are notoriously over sensitive to criticism when it comes from fellow Arabs," Nehad Selaiha reports back from the first Arab Theatre Festival in Cairo". The festival, which was started by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi (himself a playwright), produced little of artistic merit, but it did provoke some fascinating discussions. After the Tunisian play "Cinema" for example: "Now Arabs, and especially Tunisians, generally resent the fact that while Egyptian colloquial Arabic is understood everywhere in the Arab world, thanks to the popularity of Egyptian movies and television drama, very few Egyptians understand the local versions of Arabic spoken in many Arab countries. Unwittingly, the Egyptian critics saddled with discussing the Tunisian 'Cinema' touched this sore point, declaring at the outset that they could not understand the Tunisian dialect and, therefore, could not make head or tail of the play, then asking the director to explain what it was all about. Naturally, the Tunisian director was deeply offended, and said so without much ceremony. He accused the Egyptian critics and public of being smug and lazy and acting superior, not taking the trouble to learn how other Arabs speak. ... When one of the critics suggested that in future editions of the festival all performances should be in classical Arabic to make them accessible to all Arabs and that he would propose this to the head of the festival, the Tunisians nearly hit the roof."
Rania Khallaf welcomes the initiative for a Palestinian Holocaust Memorial Museum (PHMM). Until the funds are raised to build it, however, it will be limited to an online presence. The initiative is a reaction to a statement by Israeli politician Matan Vilnai, who threatened the Palestinians in Gaza with a "Shoah". "As a reaction to this provocative statement, the idea of creating a Palestinian Holocaust Memorial Museum, modelled on the Jewish Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, was put forward in March 2008. Provoked by Vilnai's words, Dalia Youssef, a young journalist and political activist, decided to promote the idea of the museum in order to draw attention to Israel's crimes against the Palestinians. 'Because we do not have the means to establish such a museum in real life, I decided to build it on the Internet,' Youssef said. 'We have endless resources in terms of documents and pictures drawing attention to the Palestinian victims of Israel's war against them, and so I thought, why not make use of them? The PHMM is dedicated to all the civilians who lost their lives during the attacks on Palestine." (No doubt there will also be a wing for the victims of suicide bombers in Israel).
Observer 31.05.2009 (UK)
Rachel Cooke met with Cairo dentist, author, Alaa Al Aswany, who was in London to promote a new collection of short stories. Aswany's novels "The Yacoubian Building" and "Chicago" have proved so successful that his publishers are now also bringing out earlier books that were banned by the censors. Alaa Al Aswani is a fierce critic of Egypt's repressive regime and is active in the opposition movement. "Has fame made him safer? 'I cannot compare what has happened to me with what has happened to some of my friends and comrades who have been tortured and beaten. What has happened to me - banning me from attending the premiere of 'The Yacoubian Building' - is negligible in comparison. But, in any case, writing and fear are absolutely contradictory. Writing is an expression against fear.' He remains convinced that democracy is coming to Egypt and that the rest of the Arab world will then use it as a model. 'I am telling you, it is not far away. I can't tell you a particular date but we are prepared.'"
Polityka 29.05.2009 (Poland)
Twenty years after the June 4 elections in Poland, no one wants to celebrate this day any more, write Mariusz Janicki and Wieslaw Wladyka (here in German). The country is "polarised between two view points" regarding the events which lead to the country's peaceful revolution. And so June 4 is fading date in the national calendar. "We know that the system changed, that the Poles brought about something great, a peaceful revolution. And that an entire generation abandoned Comecon for the EU. We moved from the age of Polonez cars and little choice about what to put on our plates, to the free market and a continent without borders. But the sceptics, critics, grumblers and locals with grievances and grudges about injustices to the people are seeing to it that June 4 1989 no longer stands tall, but fades in the background and ceases to move people. ... It's as if we don't like our victory any more, as if we think there's something suspicious about it. Martyrly spectacles, on the other hand, are thriving - celebrations of uprisings, demonstrations and wars that were bloodily suppressed."
The New Statesman 28.05.2009 (UK)
The journalist Isabel Hilton traces the protest movement against official policy in China since 1919. Things are relatively quiet today, she cites the researcher Minxin Pei as saying, because the party learnt valuable lessons from the uprising in 1989. "Authoritarianism, therefore, was essential to the party maintaining control. The party also recognised, Minxin argues, that its rule was vulnerable if it was not broadly supported by elite groups - the professionals and the intelligentsia - and therefore it adopted a strategy of co-option. Party membership among students has grown; intellectuals are appointed to well-rewarded government posts. The intellectuals and students who were at the forefront of demands for political reform throughout the 20th century have become noticeably less prominent since 1989. For now, those who call for political reform - or even ask that China respect its own constitution, as the Charter 08 group did last year - are in a small minority."
Further articles: Keith Gessen recommends Orwell's essays from the forties. "Because we, too, live in a time when truth is disappearing from the world, and doing so in just the way Orwell worried it would: through language."
Die Weltwoche 28.05.2009 (Switzerland)
At least two fakes will be on show at the Van Gogh exhibition in Art Museum in Basel, "Jardin a Auvers" and "Le jardin de Daubigny", claims art historian Matthias Arnold, and then presents his case in detail. It is not the first time that Van Gogh fakes have been hung in a major art institution. And there is always an art dealer close at hand. This time it is Zurich art dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, "the true initiator and organiser of the current Van Gogh exhibition in Basel. His name crops up all over the catalogue. The Swiss publishers are confident that in Feilchenfeldt - one of their co-owners - they have a 'leading Van Gogh expert at their side'. In fact Walter Feilchenfeldt has continually been referred to as a 'Van Gogh expert' of late, not only in his own words and those of his colleages, but also in official statements by the Van Gogh museum. But just how independent is this man?"
The Nation 15.06.2009 (USA)
Public discussion of the events that took place on Tiananmen Square is still banned by the Chinese government 20 years later, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom. "China's rulers have instead combined rigidity about Tiananmen with startling flexibility on other fronts. To minimize the likelihood of a recurrence of 1989 and avoid succumbing to what some Chinese leaders call the 'Polish disease' (a Solidarity-like movement), the party has encouraged consumerism (many youths can now buy those Nikes), pulled back from micromanaging campus life (today's students have much more personal freedom than their predecessors) and tried to leap ahead and steer new outbursts of nationalism. It has also treated different kinds of protests in varying ways, using draconian measures to stop any struggle that seems highly organized or that could link people of different classes but showing leniency toward some single-class, single-locale actions. And while dissidents have found exciting uses for new technologies like the Internet and text-messaging, the regime has also proved adept at using these media to discourage protests, disseminate its own interpretations of events and get supporters onto the streets."
Odra 01.05.2009 (Poland)
This year the cultural magazine Odra is awarding its prize to the Polish-Jewish-Danish writer Janina Katz. The author and translator of Polish literature into Danish left the country in the chaos of the events following the "Polish 1968" (a year of student protests and widespread anti-Semitic purges by the government). "Janina Katz's novel 'Pucka' is one of the few books to address the complex and still undigested era of the People's Republic. 'Pucka' is almost unique in the precision and directness with which it addresses the controversial issues of our post-war history, and without self-censorship," writes Mieczyslaw Orski.
The magazine also takes a sweeping look at music, art and lifestyle in the 1960s and 70s, to coincide with the publication of Kamil Sipowicz's book documenting the hippies in Socialist Poland. The artist and musician uses a wide range of sources â among them interviews with his peers â to describe the dying throes of the movement in a rather surreal environment. "These two worlds were separated by a huge divide: rebellious youth on one side, a society of slaves on the other, manipulated by a degenerate establishment," writes Jacek Dobrowolski. In this tension ridden and neurotic country, a hippy's smile was enough to provoke aggression on several fronts. A highly commendable book, writes the critic (another veteran hippy), that, sadly, is rather sloppily researched and edited."
Nepszabadsag 30.05.2009 (Hungary)
Every year since 1998 Pecs University in Hungary has staged a philosophy conference on the life work of a contemporary philosopher. After Jacques Derrida, Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty, this May came the turn of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. Janos Boros, a philosophy professor at Pecs, and the journalist Tamas Ungar talked to Habermas about the future of Europe and his call for an European public sphere. When asked what form this public sphere might take, Habermas answered: "We should not envision the European public sphere as a pyramid cake, hierarchical, a new layer on top of the national public sphere. It should be a network of existing public spheres. The national papers and media must be open to one another so that, for example, the Germans will know what's being said about particular issues in Budapest, in Paris, Warsaw or London at the same time â and vice versa. The same newspapers and channels which today express local prejudices and perspectives, have to open their membranes to allow broader streams of information to enter and flow out again. They have to encourage their readers, listeners and viewers to put themselves in the shoes of people in other countries that have long since joined with their own in political community."
Magyar Narancs 28.05.2009 Hungary
European election campaigns are focussing on domestic issues. Many people still don't know what the EU does and why it's important to them. But this should not stop them voting, opines Balint Szlanko. "One of key things we have learned about the EU is that it is distant, out of reach and impossible to influence. The best means to bridge the gap between the rulers and the people is through voting. The European Parliament has never succeeded in bridging this gap. But we should still go and vote because the only thing connects the EU â which is otherwise so out of touch with reality â with the real world, is the Parliament â in spite of the buffoonery which frequently takes control of its halls. The unwieldy European Committee, which regularly gets lost in the labyrinths of diplomacy, and the EU Commission, which has been battling an identity crisis for a decade now, are unfit to govern. The Parliament takes the ideals of the EU more seriously than the ranks of civil servants or the member states which are often unable to see beyond provincial interests. (...) Its self assuredness, its energy stems from the very fact that it is elected. (...) The European parliament is doing a good job. So it's only fair to support it with good politicians."
Salon.eu.sk 26.05.2009 (Slovakia)
Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman devotes an article (originally printed in the Gazeta Wyborcza) to the ongoing pollution from totalitarian regimes. He criticises Slavoj Zizek for wanting to localise totalitarianism to the Gulag and Auschwitz, instead of looking "beyond the barbed wire": "It is obvious that causing suffering morally taints the perpetrator. But the victims do not get away safe and untainted either by the destruction of moral impulses and inhibitions⦠Do they wait for their chance to pay back the executioners in their own coin? Yes, but first they learn the secrets of life in which this coin is currency."
The New Republic 17.06.2009 (USA)
You couldn't describe it as a good article but its frothing vitriol does make for rather compelling reading. In "The Puffington Host", Isaac Chotiner charts the career path taken by Ariana Huffington after publishing her first books under the name of Stassinopoulos and attracting attention for her reactionary statements about feminism. "It takes a particular kind of intelligence to understand when to swim against the current and when to ride the wave." But she has remained consistent in one thing: her hatred of the press. Then comes the usual culture-clash rant about her blog, the Huffington Post :"Some tough questions must be asked also about the powerful digital interlopers. For the blogosphere and the news aggregators that dominate cyberspace are completely reliant - completely parasitic - on the very institutions they are driving to bankruptcy."
Further articles: Michael Kinsley is not satisfied with the new concept for Newsweek. Anne Applebaum reviews "Spies - The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America" (excerpt) by a collective of three authors. And Peter Green reads a new translation (excerpt) of C.P. Cavafy's poems by Daniel Mendelsohn.
Merkur 01.06.2009 (Germany)
Our concept of literature, how it is "discussed, reviewed, analysed, protected by copyright, illegally printed and parodied" is all tied to the printing press, explains Michel Caouli. But what will happen when we read books electronically? And our reading devices are able to filter out unnecessary words, or protracted descriptions of the landscape? "Using text for my own needs means that I will no longer do what scholars, critics and many ordinary readers do: I will no longer interpret the text, I will not read with the intention of understanding the author's intentions. If I watch Martin Scorsese's 'Good Fellas' without sound, opting to listen instead to a Handel aria with no consideration of the original context of this work, if I abstract adverbs from Rohinton Mistry's prose â all this is only possible if I first relieve myself of the obligation to stay true to the work. Under certain conditions (in a classroom for example, or with a scientific article) it can be interesting to determine the complex intentions of the author, but there is no reason why my use of the text should stop at that."
Prospect 01.06.2009 (UK)
The June issue focusses on the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Parag Khanna travelled several thousands of kilometres into the poorest regions to the West, near to the border with Tibet. The writer and political commentator Ian Buruma talks about returning to the country after ten years and finding it virtually unrecognisable. He discovered no spirit of resistance in the people, but pins his hopes on the dissidents who last year signed the Charta 08 for democracy and respect of human rights."
Diane Wei Lang, one of the student protesters in 1989 and now a writer living in New York, paints a similar picture. In an article about the changes of the last twenty years, she writes: "If anything, the political significance of Tiananmen outside China has grown over the years, and it is almost universally assumed that China will never be whole as a modern country until it faces up to the truth of these events. I believed this myself for years." For the past fourteen years, she has returned to her country every year. "The further it has lifted the living standards of its citizens, the more remote the memory of Tiananmen has become. The generation born since the protest are not only unaware of what really happened in 1989, they are not interested. They live in a new China. They have the freedom to speak their minds, if not in print, certainly in private. ...We in the west should not use Tiananmen as a stick with which to beat China. We should instead help the country to move forward, improve its human rights, protect its environment, further eliminate poverty and create wealth for its people and, in time, for the world. That is what will truly honour the ideals of the young protesters of 20 years ago."
Other articles deal with British education standards and "Sarko, the sex dwarf"
Le Nouvel Observateur 28.05.2009 (France)
Under the title "The pig is always to blame" French historian, Michel Pastoureau, who has written numerous histories of colours, symbols and even stripes, talks about his cultural history of the pig: "Le Cochon. Histoire d'un cousin mal aime" (Gallimard). He explains the unique love-hate relationship of human beings towards swine. "It has to do with the close biological kinship to pigs. It is not only morphologically that humans resemble pigs so closely. Which is why we use them for so many medical products (far more than apes): insulin, also the adrenal glands are used, we take bits of their skin... Doctors in Antiquity and Arabs in the Middle Ages knew things that are only being fully confirmed by modern medicine today. The insides of a pig are identical to our own! Pig organs can be transplanted into humans. With modern surgery, a sow could even carry a human embryo! I don't know what the psychological implications of having been inside the belly of a pig would be, but it's been done in Canada."
Times Literary Supplement 30.05.2009 (UK)
Jane Yager reviews historian Karl Schlögel's "Terror und Traum" an "extraordinary work of scholarship, prose and remembrance" that is dedicated to saving the victims of Stalin's attrocities from a second death, this time in Western memory. "Calling his book a 'narrative of simultaneity', Schlögel draws out harrowing ironies and concurrences" in 1937 Moscow. "The public celebration of the opening of the MoscowâVolga Canal coincided with the execution of the overseers of its construction. A popular book praising the USSR's affinities with the United States appeared at a time when individuals could be shot for real or imagined personal connections to America. While the Soviet secret police drew up their execution lists of the imagined internal enemy, a real external enemy was making its own 'to-kill' lists for Moscow â and many of the same names appear on both the Soviet and the Nazi lists. About Red Square, Schlögel writes: 'Everything converges: a ticker-tape parade and a plebiscite on killing, the atmosphere of a folk festival and the thirst for revenge, a rollicking carnival and orgies of hate. Red Square as the true arena of the year 1937: at once fairground and gallows'." Read our feature by Karl Schlögel on the fall of the Wall.
Bookforum 01.06.2009 (USA)
A bevy of new publications from the African continent prompt James Gibbons to make comparisons with the explosion of Latin American authors in the sixties. But he does draws one key distinction: "The literature of the Latin American boom was already formed within the region's own institutions and coteries before being packaged in translation and exported. The new African writing is emphatically not homegrown. Forged in the crucible of globalization, it is a literature largely of displacement and exile. Very few of [the authors] especially the younger ones, live in the countries in which they were born. Nearly all the Francophone writers have settled in France, and the typical English-language writer has an American MFA and professorship."


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M2M Workshop 2013
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The 4th ETSI M2M Workshop will examine major issues facing wide-scale M2M deployment. Machine to Machine communications is the foundation layer for our future world of smart devices, smart appliances, smart homes, smart buildings and smart cities. To unlock the potential offered by M2M, we must understand and address issues related to business models and incentives, technology choices, involvement of different industry sectors, security and data privacy. We must also understand the roles of major actors and their numerous use cases.
The workshop will take place on 6-7 November 2013 in the Congress Centre of Mandelieu, France.
Products and solutions based on ETSI's M2M standards will be showcased as of 5 November, starting at 2pm, and throughout the duration of the workshop.
The workshop will present plans for the ETSI M2M specifications as they evolve towards the work of the oneM2M Partnership Project. It will consider how to address the standardization needs of industries specializing in smart appliances, homes & buildings. M2M brings together various industries, each with its own language and set of semantics: common language and set of semantics are prerequisite to enabling interoperability and exchange of data between devices and applications. Disparate devices and applications will need to be able to make use of the functionalities of underlying transport and access networks.
Security remains of the greatest concern in the development of new business, balanced with the need to protect the privacy & rights of individuals.
The workshop will bring together experts from both public and private sectors to discuss the recent European Commission initiatives, key global M2M implementations, major technological and social challenges, as well the specific needs expressed by the city authorities and the citizens.
Target audience
The workshop is most relevant to those who have technical management responsibility in domains such as the following:
- M2M application development
- M2M service development
- M2M solution deployment
- M2M solution integration
- M2M testing
- Smart devices/appliances
- Smart buildings
- Smart cities
- Public policies and regulation related to M2M and Internet of Things
- Research on M2M and IoT
Key goals of this workshop
- Gain better understanding of the economics and business models of M2Mrollout & deployment.
- Examine how technology and innovation will enable the smarter appliances, devices, & buildings.
- Identify and discuss M2M technology trends, taking into account major industry initiatives.
- Highlight the related standardization and/or pre-standardization needs, in balance with the need for integration of multiple technologies, for interoperability & regulation.
Programme Committee
- Marylin Arndt, France Telecom, ETSI TC M2M Chairman,
- Omar Elloumi, Alcatel-Lucent
- Ray Forbes, Ericsson
- Joachim Koss, Gemalto M2M, oneM2M Vice Chairman
- Laurent Laporte, Sprint
- Patricia Martigne, Orange
- Enrico Scarrone, Telecom Italia, ETSI TC M2M Vice Chairman
- Joerg Swetina, NEC
- Laurent Velez, ETSI
- Laurent Vreck, ETSI
This is the programme of 6th November 2013. Demonstrations will be accessible during the coffee and lunch breaks.
|SESSION 1: Setting the scene
Session chair: Adrian Scrase, ETSI CTO
Adrian Scrase, ETSI CTO
|What is happening in the standards world: the global picture
Marylin Arndt, Orange, ETSI TC Smart M2M Chairwoman
|ETSI M2M Release 2
Enrico Scarrone, Telecom Italia, ETSI TC Smart M2M Vice Chairman
|oneM2M : an overview of the current status
Laurent Laporte, Sprint
|Short introduction of demonstrations
Laurent Velez ETSI
in parallel with poster sessions and demonstrations
|SESSION 2: Enabling technologies
Session Chair: Joerg Swetina, NEC
|"IP end to end" and "simple application framework" to enable M2M / IOT interoperability
Patrick Wetterwald, IPSO
|An Ontology to Semantically Annotate the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Device Measurements
Amélie Gyrard, Eurecom
|One global 3G network. One global SIM
Matt Allpress, Inmarsat
|Questions and Answers Session
in parallel with poster sessions and demonstrations
|SESSION 3 : Security
Chaired by: Dragan Vujcic, Oberthur
|Minimum security requirements for M2M gateway
Pierre Girard, Gemalto
|Security-Considerations in M2M communication
Markus Tauber, AIT
|Approaches for Smart Metering privacy and security in Europe
Willem Strabbing, ESMIG
|Questions and Answers Session
in parallel with poster sessions and demonstrations
|SESSION 4 : Connectivity
Session chair: Raymond Forbes, Ericsson
|Application of ETSI technologies for wide area network low power radio communications in the city
Olivier Hersent, Actility
|CDMA-450: a new approach for DSO's in Europe
Gilles Robichon, Alliander
|How to Reengineer the Wireless Access Protocols and Embrace Billions of M2M Devices
Petar Popovski, Aalborg University
|Developing LTE into a ubiquitous wireless WAN for M2M consumer electronics devices
Matthew Webb, Sony
|Questions and Answers Session
|Networking Cocktail
|Closure of the congress centre
This is the programme of 7th November 2013. Demonstrations will be accessible during the coffee and lunch breaks.
|SESSION 5: Standards to make things happen
Session Chair: Enrico Scarrone, Telecom Italia
|Standards for the grids to make it smart: where are we today?
Ray Forbes, LM Ericsson on Behalf of CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Smart Grid Coordination Group
|M2M and 4G/LTE Platform use in cooperation with ETSI
Claude Hary, Com4Innov
|How standards can assist in securing M2M applications
François Ennesser, Gemalto
|Questions and Answers Session
in parallel with poster sessions and demonstrations
|SESSION 6 : Technologies to make things happen
Chaired by: Omar Elloumi, Alcatel-Lucent
|OSGi based device abstraction for enabling M2M services
Dimitar Valtchev, Prosyst Software
|How Firmware-over-the-air can increase the M2M adoption
Yoram Berholtz, RedBend Software
|End2End M2M Platforms and Services
Ulrich Keuling, TINRW, Telematics Initiative
|Questions and Answers Session
in parallel with poster sessions and demonstrations
|SESSION 7: Smart city and Services
Chaired by: Patricia Martigne, Orange
|Inhouse Smart Grid
Mathias Frass, Beuth Hochshule für Technik Berlin
|HGI's work to specify a Smart Home Abstraction Layer
Lindsay Frost, on behalf of HGI
|Enabling Smart Cities through a Cognitive Management Framework for the Internet of Things
Gianmarco Baldini, JRC European Commission
|Questions and Answers Session
|15:30 Session on Industry trends for M2M
Chaired by: Omar Elloumi, Alcatel-Lucent
Review of the results of the opinion poll run during the workshop and comments on those by:
|Closing coffee
Poster sessions and demonstrations will be shown during the breaks of the event.
Demonstrations of ETSI M2M Solutions
From 5th November afternoon, throughout the entire workshop (6 and 7 November), the following demonstrations were performed:
Actility : ThingPark Store® : The first ETSI M2M Application Store and Market Place for Service Providers and Utilities
Bull SAS : Cloud based ETSI M2M architecture by Bull
Eclipse Foundation: Eclipse M2M Greenhouse Demo
Ericsson : Secure M2M Cloud Testbed Demo
Fraunhofer FOKUS and Technical University of Berlin (joint demo): From Smart Home to Smart City: M2M Prototyping Using the OpenMTC Toolkit
Gemalto: M2M Remote Provisioning System of embedded UICC
GridPocket and Sagemcom: Behavioral and home control application in ETSI M2M
IBM: IoT/M2M API Framework on connected car
Inmarsat: Remote Data monitor
InterDigital Communications LLC: A multi-vertical / multi-vendor ETSI M2M compliant end-to-end Service Delivery Platform.
LAAS-CNRS: OM2M- Open autonomic and semantic M2M platform
Orange: Identification, self-configuration and control of physical entities through a generic abstraction layer
Sierra Wireless: The connected greenhouse – an end-to-end M2M application
More information on the M2M Interoperability Demos 2013 can be requested from [email protected].
Poster Sessions
The following posters sessions took place during the coffee and lunch breaks throughout the workshop:
1. BETaaS: Building the Environment for the Things as a Service (EU FP7-ICT-2011-8 n. 317674)
Enzo Mingozzi, UNIVERSITY OF PISA
2. EU FP7 project PowerUp and beyond
Andres Caldevilla, DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH
3. PRICE PROJECT: M2M communications architecture for large-scale AMI deployments
Gregorio Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid


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The acronym SEO equates to Search Engine Optimization, which is a facet of SEM, Search Engine Marketing, but SEO is NOT SEM without PPC.
In the end we are talking about "Search", and what are we really optimizing, a search engine? Not Really.
We optimize text files, (Robots.txt), XML files, (Sitemap.xml), websites, which contain webpages which contain .html files which can contain body copy, images and videos, all CONTENT, which can be "optimized" for advantageous retrieval in a search query.
So What should you optimize? Where are the customers you want to reach in their research process?
They are on their smartphones, this is Mobile, Tablets are also mobile devices, is "optimizing" content different for Mobile and Tablet?
That depends, are they on their couch, in their car? On foot? What are the LOCAL needs of the user?
How do their purchasing and searching behaviors differ?
SEM = Organic AND Paid. – Should we buy ads on Google AdWords? Should we participate in "display" advertising? Should we attach that paid media campaign with behavioral retargeting?
Search really is Simple (notice another S?)
A Searcher either has an association with a brand or they do not. This association could either be based on previous experience with the brand or a connection to the brand on social media. I know, Social Media isn't search, this is supposed to be about search right?
Do people try and find things on social media? No. They don't, you don't, do you? Things find you, then you scroll, hit refresh and scroll again until something.. finds… YOU!
No Social isn't Search but it is CONTENT, which is what we find when we search.
And all of this decision making above about SEARCH.. is.. STRATEGY.
From the mind of @StevePlunkett
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I feel that this is true of most (all?) archivists: at one point or another something magnificent in their collections jumps out at them and they never forget it. Of course, I'm lucky enough to work in a place where I'm astounded by the collections every single day. But I do remember the first photo that caught my eye when I started working here, and that is the photo above. I now have no recollection of what we had pulled the box and folder for, but I found a slip of paper on my desk yesterday that said: "Remember MS 1255, Box 19, Folder 276, Photo E." I left myself that note so I would always remember this photo. Now I'm sharing this photo with all of you so you can enjoy it as well! And there is no moment more appropriate than today, as August is upon us and with it the end of summer, the return of students to the University of Arizona and a pick-up in users coming into the Reading Room. The information on the back of this photo reads: "Women guests at Hotel Playa de Cortes on the Gulf of California, at Guaymas, Sonora have to entertain themselves during the day, even resorting to leapfrog on the beach. The men are out on Tom Jamison's sports fishing cruisers, after sailfish and marlin and dolphin, now in season." The women in this photo are identified as Barbara Black, Joan Hugg, and Mary Kaster.
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"I can't help it. There's just something about him!"...
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The film starts with Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) reminiscing about her childhood. There was a snow globe with a penguin in it she was worried for since he was all alone. Her father, Jack (Mark Wahlberg) tells her that the penguin has a nice life, since he is stuck in a perfect world. Later that night, Jack makes love to his wife, Abigail (Rachel Weisz), next to the pile of books near their bed.
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Upstate city gets new hotel
Upstate city gets new hotel
An Upstate city is getting a new hotel.
Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander announced Tuesday morning a Hampton Inn and Suites will be built on East North 1st Street.
Alexander said the project is a $10 million dollar investment and will bring 38 jobs to the area.
The hotel will be four stories and have 100 rooms.
The groundbreaking is set for Oct. 1 and officials hope construction is complete by next fall.
Officials said this is just the first phase of a bigger project and they expect to put hundreds of people back to work.


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Here are a few quick facts to give you an overall picture of the August 2015 real estate market in Warren, NJ:
- As of September 1st, there were 105 homes for sale in Warren... including 29 new offerings during the month of August
- The average sales price: $665,089
- The lowest priced sale: $128,018
- The highest priced sale: $1,130,000
- The median sale price: $670,000
- 18 homes sold during the month of August and spent an average of 52 days on the market
- Homes sold for an average of 94.9% of their listing price
During the month of August there were 20 homes that went under contract after buyers and sellers came to a meeting of the minds on price and terms. Note: All 20 homes were listed below $2,000,000 and 16 out of 20 were below $1,000,000!
Out of the 18 homes sold in August, the most popular price range was between $500,000 and $749,999, with a whopping 10 homes sold within that category. The second most popular price range was a tie: 3 homes sold in the under $500,000 category and 3 homes sold in the $1M - $1.499M category. No homes priced at or above $1.5M were sold in August 2015.
Absorption rate is a prediction of how quickly the current unsold inventory of homes (current active listed homes) can be absorbed (sold) based on the average rate that homes sold over the previous 12 months. You can see that the < $1MM market is showing more strength than above $1MM.
The overall Warren market absorption rate for August 2015 is at 8.4 months of inventory, indicating that it will take 8.4 months on average for all of the current inventory to be absorbed (or in other words... SOLD). This month's number (8.4) reveals a a slightly favorable market for buyers, especially buyers in the market of homes listed for above $1,000,000 which is indicating a strong buyers market. On the contrary, homes $750,000 and below in Warren is a seller's market based on the guide below.
Our guide: If the absorption rate is:
- 6 months is the balanced market benchmark.
- under 6 months... it is a sellers market.
- above 6 Months... it is a buyers market.
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Foliose lichens such as the one shown on a tree trunk at the right take their name from the fact that they are vaguely similar to "foliage," or leaves. The lichen in the picture is about six inches (15 cm) across.
When foliose lichens such as the one at the left mature, reproductive "cups" form in the center. These cups, called apothecia (singular apothecium), are provided by the fungal part of the lichen, so it's no accident that they look like the fruiting structure of a sac, or cup, fungus.
At the right is another foliose lichen, this one on a tree twig. The whole picture covers an area about three inches across (8 cm). In this species, the fruiting bodies, instead of being tiny cups, appear at the curled edges of the lichen body.


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Sustainable Use of Wild Plant Resources
Ensuring the sustainable use of wild plant resources is of key importance to conservation as unsustainable collection is often a key driver in the extinction of economically valuable species.
Current Status
- China is a signatory to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) and has enacted laws to prevent the illegal trade in endangered plants. Inspection stations have been established at major ports such as Shenzen and Dalian to enforce these laws.
- Over 11,000 species are used in traditional Chinese medicine. Of the 600 plant species that are regularly used, sustainable cultivation systems have been developed for 200 species, thereby preventing their unsustainable harvesting from the wild.
- China's first organic and 'green' product certification schemes have been introduced and are being actively promoted. This currently includes over 12,868 Chinese products which have been certified as 'green'.
- Forest certification schemes, which officially verify the 'green' credentials of sustainably sourced timber, are under development.
- Several volumes of the China ethno-medicine encyclopaedia have been published, which officially catalogues the uses and preparation methods of a wide range of medicinal plants.
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Actions Planned
- Active state promotion of a wide range of sustainable agricultural practices, including organic growing.
- Building ecological criteria into new development projects, including the construction of 10,000 new 'eco-villages'.
- Commissioning a study into the scale of the international trade in wild Chinese plants.
- Initiating an aggressive crack down on illegal logging and over-exploitation of medicinal plants and timber.
- Strengthening support for the nascent development of forest certification schemes.
- Actively promoting the cultivation of useful wild plant species, to relieve the pressure of harvesting on wild plant populations, including close monitoring of the populations of plant resources in the wild.
- Systematically collecting and documenting traditional knowledge, particularly that of minority ethnic groups, as part of a broader effort to preserve traditional cultures.


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The spanish version of the wonderful female name Chelsea. Chelsita's are always positive, beautiful women who happen to maintain exquisite mansions in North Carolina. They tend to migrate to the South for an irrational fear of snow and Liberty Students.
Chelsita flew south with the ducks this year because of the installation of the snowplex on the mountain.
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Wise County Health forum meetings are always well-attended, but they might have set a record last Thursday.
By the time I walked in a couple of minutes before 9, nearly every chair was filled. Like coming in to church just before the service starts and finding only the front pew available, I found one of the few open spots close to the "head" table where Martin Woodruff would lead the meeting.
More and more people kept coming through the door of the Decatur City Hall community room, and chairs had to be pulled over as we squeezed them around the tables. Eventually, chairs began to be dragged up behind those already sitting at the table.
While most of those in attendance work in Wise County, many represented agencies that serve Wise County but are officed in other counties. As each person around the room took turns updating members of the group about the services they offer, a common theme developed.
Those who served multiple counties, and attend similar health forum meetings in neighboring counties, kept saying the same thing: they were so impressed with this group and the amount of information that was being shared. Some said it was the best health forum meeting they'd attended.
Our county should be proud of the cooperation and communication among our local healthcare stakeholders – because it is ultimately our citizens in need who benefit the most.
Here are a just a few items that were shared:
Wise Regional Health System is still working on the transition process with the community health center. The hospital hopes to begin operating the center around Oct. 1.
The Wise Regional Health System Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation has been ranked in the top 6 percent of inpatient rehabilitation facilities in the nation by the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation.
The second annual Weatherford College Wise County Health Fair is 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. For more information or to register as a vendor, call Andrea Stephens at 940-626-3283 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The forum meets at 9 a.m. the fourth Thursday of the month.
For those interested in the continuing saga of CSCOPE, the curriculum management tool used by the majority of schools in the state and in Wise County, I'll try to give a brief recap of recent events.
As of yesterday, CSCOPE is no more. It is now called the TEKS Resource System. Lesson plans are no longer featured on its website. However, a number of schools plan to continue to use previous lesson plans since the general counsel for the Texas Education Agency said the lessons are now in the public domain and are free to be used by anyone.
A tea party activist group in Llano filed a lawsuit against the local school district aimed at prohibiting the district from using CSCOPE. A district judge threw the case out, saying his court did not have jurisdiction.
At the request of at least three elected officials, a state audit will be performed on the program formerly known as CSCOPE.
State Senator Dan Patrick, who has been at the forefront of the push to eliminate CSCOPE, and Thomas Ratliff, vice chair of the State Board of Education, held a debate in Tyler last weekend. If you are interested in watching it, the video can be found at the Texas Freedom Network's website at www.tfn.org. Ratliff came prepared with numerous supporting documents for his arguments. To see those, go to www.dropbox.com and select "log in." The username is "email@example.com" and the password is "CSCOPE" (all caps).
Also, since the lesson plans are now in the public domain, the Texas Tribune obtained the complete set of CSCOPE lesson plans and published them online. An interactive feature even lets you search by subject or even key words. That resource can be found at www.texastribune.org.
If you find yourself asking, "What is CSCOPE and what is all the fuss about?" you might check out the Texas Observer story titled "Adios, Reality: Texas Culture Wars Take a Madcap Turn. How a curriculum planning tool called CSCOPE came to fixate the Texas Tea Party."
It is a well-researched, comprehensive look at CSCOPE – from how and why it was created to the backgrounds on some of the program's most vocal critics.
Be sure to click on the links provided as well, which will take you to informative supporting documents (especially copies of the emails many angry people sent to service centers around the state). You can read the story using our shortcut: wcmess.com/culturewars.


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"Bill O'Chee, Brisbane father of school-aged children, is 'outraged and disgusted' – and rightly so," FamilyVoice Australia research officer Ros Phillips said today.
"Bill's article in yesterday's Brisbane Times sounded the alarm about the federal government's 'Safe Schools' programs – in particular, the Safe Schools Hub, but also the Safe Schools Coalition. Their websites and resources can link children to the Minus18 website – which also acts as an online dating service with the potential to attract predators.
"As Bill O'Chee points out, Minus18 – which says it is 'Australia's largest network for LGBT youth' – asks users to register by answering questions such as age, sexual identity, 'outness', gender, location and preferences. They can then research profiles of other users and connect with them online.
"Carol Ronken of Bravehearts has warned that sex offenders can use the Minus18 website to target vulnerable youth."
Ros Phillips said Minus18 is promoted on the website of the Safe Schools Coalition – now operating in 362 schools across Australia, funded by $8 million from the federal government. One example from the Safe Schools Coalition website is shown above.
"I have long been concerned about the misleading and dangerous messages promoted by the Safe Schools Coalition," Ros Phillips said. "It purports to prevent bullying, but ignores the main victims (eg those with body shape or abilities different from the norm).
"Thousands of Australians have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister outlining the dangers of this program. We are calling on the federal government to defund it and divert taxpayers' money to proven programs like Choose Respect or CASSE Peaceful Schools.
"I'm sure like all of us, Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne believe our school kids deserve protection from all types of bullying."
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Executive Student Leadership Board
The Executive Student Leadership Board (ESLB) is a group of current University of South Florida Health students from all academic disciplines that have been selected to serve as official student representatives. The ESLB supports prospective, new, and current USF Health students by assisting at student engagement events, providing campus tours, and interacting with students through email or social media. The ESLB also serves as a student advisory for Shared Student Services and USF Health leadership.
Interested in applying?
The 2018-2019 ESLB application process is now open! Visit bit.ly/ESLB1819 for more information and to apply. Applications are due by July 8.
If you have questions about the organization, please reach out to Amy Phillips at firstname.lastname@example.com or Kristen Slusser at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 25, 2013
Com-Serve, a leading cell tower lease negotiating company in Georgia, announces complementary consultation services for property owners looking to enter a cell phone tower lease. Such leases are growing in popularity as mobile phone services are looking to expand their reach and their customer base by entering into cell tower leases with property owners in many areas throughout the country, including rural areas. However, according to Com-Serve tower lease negotiating expert, David Espinosa, the negotiating cell tower lease rates on existing properties should not be taken lightly by property owners.
"It's impossible to have a general idea of what a property is worth based on vague setting descriptions like 'country' or 'city,'" says Espinosa. "Every property is unique and differs in value. A professional consultant can determine what makes a particular location especially valuable (or slightly less valuable in some cases) and tell someone where they should settle in terms of compensation."
Com-Serve also stresses the importance of understanding the cons of entering into a cell phone tower lease so that these factors can be put to proper use when in negotiations. "Our consultants inform our clients of all these so one can either use them to raise the price of your property or decide whether or not it's even worth it at all," says Espinosa. "Remember: companies don't want people to know these negatives because it hurts (and might even eliminate) their profit. But at Com-Serve, we know what works and we look out for our client's concerns and benefits."
Hiring a consultant before entering into a cell phone tower lease mostly benefits the landowner looking to sign a contract with a cell tower company, and may even prevent landowners from entering into contracts with unscrupulous companies. "And those unscrupulous companies certainly exist in this industry," says Espinosa. "I can give you many examples of property owners that have entered into contracts without knowing all the details and later regretted it because they didn't read the fine print. That's the primary reason I would strongly advise seeking a professional consultant's advice before making such a serious decision."
About Com-Serve
Com-Serve was founded in 1997 in response to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It has served customers in every state and has successfully negotiated better contracts for landowners with all major cell phone carriers. Com-Serve can help individuals in every phase of the cell tower lease negotiation process, including those who have already signed contracts.


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Venture capital, banking, private equity, tech startups
Venture capital, banking, private equity, tech startups
About Tom Henderson
I cover banking and technology by day, by night and weekends I write true crime books for St. Martin's Press in New York. All the books are on famous old and recent Michigan cases -- the Warren attorney convicted of murdering his wife so he could continue his affair with the beautiful judge; the deer hunters who went missing in 1985 after getting fed to a wood chipper and then to pigs; the Northwest flight attendant who was murdered at the Hilton at Metro Airport; and the former WJZZ sports caster who was convicted of murdering his wife at a resort up north.
When in need of a break, which is most days, I can be found running with my black lab at Elmwood Cemetery or on Belle Isle. Her favorite thing is running 5K runs, mine is watching her howl in joyous delirium as she awaits the start of the race.


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From Carteret, New Jersey, USA:
My niece is overweight. Our family tends to gain weight easily. I am on a limited carbohydrate diet, which works for me. My niece needs carbohydrates when her blood sugars are low. I desperately want to help her. Is there a diet that we can follow to ensure she is getting the carbohydrates/sugar that she needs, but that will allow her to lose weight? I would even hire a consultant that would go to her home and organize the kitchen with only the things that should be in the home. I would hire a cook as well. I really want to help her. Being in high school is difficult enough, but when you have diabetes and are heavy, it's really not a lot of fun. She's becoming depressed and I want to help. Is there a published diet or someone to whom I can speak?
I would recommend that you and your niece make an appointment with a registered dietitian who specializes in diabetes meal planning. This person can individualize a meal plan for your niece that will allow for weight management and assist with obtaining optimal blood sugar control. Sometimes with insulin pump therapy, kids (and adults for that matter) gain more flexibility with meal planning and, as a result, sometimes weight gain can be a problem. This may or may not be a problem for your niece. A registered dietitian can assess this. If you have problems finding a dietitian, ask your health care provider for a referral.
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