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"Words can change the world – and create entirely new ones." – Jenny Gates
all about words
Jenny has been writing stories, songs, poems and articles since age 10. She is currently putting together a collection of all her writing, and working on several plays and a screenplay.
She is a co-author of three scientific catalogues, a community correspondent with Canstar Metro (Winnipeg), and actively pursuing playwriting, scriptwriting, and other literary projects.
She has also written a number of songs that form part of the repertoire of Up From Down Under.
on the shelf
Jenny writes both fiction and non-fiction books and short stories. She is currently working on several novels for adults and children, and her upcoming book (expected to be launched in early 2018) represents a collection of all her writings. She is also the co-author of several scientific catalogues, and the ghostwriter for "Crushed Ice – In pursuit of a Canadian Professional Hockey League".
on the stage
An emerging playwright, Jenny has written two short shots – "Busted" was staged in November 2016, and "Laid to Rest" – and one full-length play – "The Last Resort" – which explore the lives and circumstances of seniors. She is currently developing a series of plays along similar lines, and has other plays in the works that are inspired by her personal and professional experiences. A proficient speaker, Jenny is inspired by the lives and stories of others, as well as her own observations, experiences and ideas. A talented musician, Jenny played in various bands and piano bars down under, has written several songs, and is half of music duo Up From Down Under with Winnipeg didgeridoo player Gerry Gordon.
on the screen
Jenny is trying her hand at scriptwriting with the adaptation of a fiction novel for the big screen. As well, she is writing a short film based on one of her stories.
Jenny has an eclectic and varied career with the spoken and written word. In Australia, she co-authored several scientific catalogues and wrote stories and articles. In Canada, she worked as an editor, writer and researcher at Intergroup Consultants in Winnipeg (2 years), and was editor for several newsletters that focused on a variety of interests – nature, outdoor activities, teen newcomers, and a community club (31 years combined).
Jenny's substantive editing skills have opened the door to opportunities to write for stage and screen. Speeches, plays and screenplays are her vehicles of choice for sharing stories about the human condition, the worlds in which we live, and the challenges of everyday life.
For more information about her many writing projects, contact Jenny today.
Wordsmith and keen promoter, with thanks for brilliant editing.Bill Leiss
Having Jenny edit my manuscript was like getting a masterclass in writing. She has such an ability to translate the narrative into a visual.Lois Henderson


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At the Premier Palace Hotel's Fitness club, you can renew your strength and to feel internal harmony.
Our health complex includes VIP sauna, Finnish sauna, Turkish bath, a solarium, gym full of the latest equipment, an aerobics room, and massage rooms. But what merits the most attention is our swimming pool with its glass dome, counterflow system, water amusements, and hydro-massage installations. Right next to the pool in our Fitness Club is the Laguna Fitness Bar, where you can try vitamin cocktails and our fitness menu.
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Our trainers are masters of sport and athletes who are active in international competitions. They are constantly improving their qualifications by attending conventions and seminars. All of them work with individualized training programs.
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Ghali is a young Italian rapper beloved by my students. He usually wears colorful jackets, shirts and suits and we realized a collection of suits for him working on patterns. First we created in pairs some patterns, with different techniques and colors. After that we cut out the suit's shape from the photocopy of the singer in order to create a window. The picture has been pasted on the drawing … [Read more...]
A suit for Ghali
Drawing a face with a single line
Students of grade 6th have drawn some very original faces. As you can see these faces are made with a single line , without lifting the hand from the paper. This activity is similar to the portrait inspired by Dubuffet, made with our eyes closed. In this work our eyes were opened because the aim of this work is to create a face with a single line overcoming the stereotype that art is connected … [Read more...]
Drawing bottles with parallel lines
With this drawing you can create a three-dimensional visual effect just with parallel lines. Students of Grade 6th have drawn these bottles with felt-tip pens, choosing a sequence of three or four colours and repeating it to complete the bottle. The background has been drew with the same technique but with different colours. We start drawing five or six bottles with a pencil on a drawing paper; … [Read more...]
Drawing about me
The Art lessons for this school year in the 6th Grade classes, follow the CLIL methodology (Content and Language Integrated Learning). To start I devised a lesson plan aimed at welcoming the new students. First I introduced myself with a video about me and the subject I teach. For this purpose I created a video with Adobe Spark, an integrated suite of storytelling applications for the iPad, … [Read more...]
Design a wall clock
We've already designed a chair and a table lamp in some previous lessons, and this time we deal with a new object: we have to design a wall clock, taking its specific functions into consideration before drawing it. In the grade 8th classes we discussed about the origin and evolution of design and we analysed the functional features of a wall clock. Some elements, as the position of hours and the … [Read more...]
Vortex of textures
A colored vortex of graphic textures have been created here by students of 6th grade, to test their creativity. Here we have the instructions to follow in order to realize this drawing with felt-tip pens: - on a square drawing paper draw a central point with a pencil. You don't need to measure, you can trust your eyes! - from this central point draw eight curved lines, bended toward right. The … [Read more...]
Mountains made up of lines
Lines can depict any shape; they can create tridimensional effects and give the perception of movement. I did this drawing with 6th grade students, in order to create a mountain landscape using just lines. Putting lines near each other, you can create the perception of threedimensional volume and our eyes see undulations, protuberances and hillside indentations. We started the drawing with the … [Read more...]


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Noticias y opinión
EMV hack may be overstated
Infection may have triggered Blue Screens of Death
Adobe takes Android out for some AIR
Cevisama 2010: Últimas innovaciones en materia de optimización
La feria tuvo lugar del 9 al 12 de febrero en Feria Valencia
Rethinking networking
Today, data traveling over the Internet are much like crates of oranges traveling the interstates in the back of a truck. The data are loaded in at one end, unloaded at the other, and nothing much happens to them in between.
Novatel Wireless mostrará su MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot SMB y aplicaciones de consumo
Facebook Could Transform Mobile Phones
With more users accessing social networking sites from mobile phones, Facebook could redefine communications by issuing its own smartphone
OmniPerception teams up with BAE Systems to conduct research into biometric recognition technology
PyCharm: IDE para Python y Django
Retrasos en Debian 6.0
Facebook, ahora accesible vía Jabber/XMPP
MWC 2010: Breakthrough for mobile television
Android Phones Are Focus of New VirtualLogix Software
VirtualLogix's newest release, VLX MH4.0, will make it easier for vendors and OEMS to pair multiple operating systems on consumer-focused mobile phones particularly those running Google's Android.
Google Plugging Privacy Holes in Google Buzz, Eyeing Stand-alone Version
Google said it is plugging more privacy flaws in Google Buzz and is mulling a version of the social service that is not integrated with Gmail. Google told Business Insider it is working on two more controls with regard to Google Reader, which along with Twitter, Flickr and YouTube connects with Buzz. These came in response to an angry blogger who found her personal info was made accessible to an abusive ex-husband through the connection between Buzz and Google Reader. Google is also considering a version of Google Buzz that does not run in Gmail, according to Search Engine Land.
Opera Mini Mobile Browser Boasts 50 Million Users
Opera Software says its Opera Mini mobile browser now has 50 million active users. In 2009, Opera overtook Apple\'s Safari browser for the iPhone as the world\'s most popular mobile Web browser, according to StatCounter. Now Opera is preparing to show off its Mini browser for the iPhone at Mobile World Congress.
Growth in emerging markets will sustain Symbian
Encryption Pioneers Win Hamming Medal
Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie, and Ralph Merkle honored for public key cryptography
The Java 7 Features Bound to Make Developers More Productive
Samsung y Vodafone lanzan Blue Earth, un móvil multitáctil y ecológico
Hasta el momento existían móviles respetuosos con el medio ambiente, pero el nuevo Blue Earth de Samsung va un paso más allá, ya que su compromiso con éste se refleja desde su fabricación hasta que llega a manos del usuario.
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NOTTINGHAM, 12th September, 2016 - JLL's Nottingham office agency team has acquired a new regional office for one of the UK's largest housing companies. Doncaster-based Keepmoat, which generated £1.1bn revenue in its last financial year, instructed the agents to identify an office of c10,000 sq ft, between J26 of the M1 to the north, and J24 to the south. JLL's Ravinder Cheema says several options were shortlisted, before Wilson Bowden's Nottingham Business Park was identified as the optimum location. "Keepmoat is a major long-term player in the housing sector, so it was important to find not just the right space, but the right setting too," he said. JLL were instructed due to their strong track record in tenant representation acquisitions across the East Midlands for a multitude of clients. Rav commented: "Having been instructed by Keepmoat and gaining a detailed understanding of their requirements, we were quickly able to identify options for them both on and off market. and support Keepmoat throughout the process, protecting their interests on lease terms and obligations. "We were also able to utilise other specialist teams within JLL to assist where required, ensuring a smooth and successful transition in to the building. However, one of the challenges of the acquisition was identifying high quality Grade A space. "A lack of any new build continues to be a challenge in the city centre and there is no sign of significant new space coming forward in the short term. We would expect future lettings to be dominated by refurbs or out-of-town deals, and because supply is so tight, each deal will put further upward pressure on rents." Keepmoat regional director, Andy Mason, commented: "We're thrilled with our new Nottingham location which we feel will enhance Keepmoat's operations across the area as we look to expand and bring more high quality homes to the region." "We have just announced the completion of our 3000th home across the Midlands in six years and with new homes already being built in areas such as Nottingham, Shirebrook, Coalville, Gedling, Tibshelf and Northampton, the East Midlands is a key area of expansion with the combined Midlands business looking to build 1000 homes a year by 2019" "Expansion also increases our ability to implement a variety of employment initiatives in the area for local communities in the East Midlands. For example, our Kick-Start programme gives college students and unemployed local people the opportunity to undertake practical work experience, with the potential to gain an apprenticeship with Keepmoat. The new office provides a perfect place for our apprentices and staff to undertake the necessary training programmes."
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Abiding: as an individual
This week we continue our series on Abiding by looking at how we might 'abide' as an individual. You can read previous posts on this subject here and here.
Abiding for me is about being before doing. It's about being pruned back to the essentials of who I am so that I can connect with who God is.
It's about coming back to the God whose name is 'I AM', connecting with His character and hearing His voice. It's about being reminded of what God has done and how that reflects who he is. Abiding is about celebrating His goodness in the previous season, reflecting honestly on its challenges and seeing that He was always there. It's retreating into the safe harbour of His person and allowing His word (written and spoken) to build into the wind that will move me forward into the next adventure.
It's a place of rest, retreat and re-creation of everything that He says I am. It's about reminding myself of what God has already said about me. It's about taking the time and making the space to reflect on what He has done and grown in my character over the previous season. It's about listening for His right-now word in my life. And it's also about working out what He's saying over me for the next season.
Abiding is not a stand-alone time, disconnected from the rest of life. In the winter there are always remnants of the previous season (the autumn leaves lying on the ground) and signs of the season to come (the lightening days, the green shoots that hint of spring).. In the same way, abiding is always about looking back and looking forward. It's about making space to store up the already-won fruit and allowing seeds to be planted for the next crop.
But how do I do this? What does it actually look like for me?
Being before doing doesn't mean doing nothing! It means doing those things that express who I am – the gifts, skills, and passions that God has given me. For me, it's things like sitting in coffee shops, walking round a park, cooking, and hanging out with friends. Doing the things I enjoy, the things which come naturally to me, often helps me let my guard down. As I stop striving to get things done or achieve certain goals, I relax – and that's when I open up to God.
Abiding also doesn't have to mean 'in a room on your own.' The degree to which that is helpful will depend on how introverted/extroverted you are. As an extrovert, part of abiding is learning the discipline of being with God on my own, learning to be comfortable with myself. However, I also need the life that comes from being with others.
The people that God has put around me can be so helpful in helping me reconnect with who I am – reminding me of what God has said, asking me questions to help me dig deeper, talking over the previous season and pointing out what God has done, mourning over the disappointments, celebrating the successes, and helping me see what He's saying for the future.
There does need to be an intention to it though – a choosing to make the time and space for this, without the need to rush on to the next thing and the next thing. It means I can linger over a coffee if God is revealing something to me as I talk with a friend. Or that I can push myself to climb that next hill and learn something about how God is calling me to persevere, without worrying about being late back. Or that I can take the time to express the creativity I've been given by a creator God by experimenting in the kitchen, without stressing about how successful the end result is.
I'm really looking forward to making some time to abide over the next month or so and seeing what God says and does in me. What about you? Will you be abiding? How will you be connecting with God's character and who He says you are?
Pip Martin lives in Sheffield and works for 3dm UK as Operations Manager. She has led several Missional Communities with a heart for internationals.
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Advice columnist and relationship expert Matt Whyman answers:
Some cancers and treatments may affect the way you look. Even temporary changes, such as hair loss during chemotherapy, can be tough to deal with. We're talking about the impact on your body image, which is the way you see yourself, and how it makes you feel.
Find out what to expect
Start by talking to a member of your care team, not just about possible changes to your appearance but the emotional impact too.
According to senior social work practitioner Urvashi Tripathi it can be a challenge but help is available. "It can take some time to adjust," she says, "Social workers and nurses at your hospital can support you with your body image, and link you to resources to help you look and feel better."
Remind yourself that you're still the same person on the inside, something that can never change.
Talk about your concerns
If your boyfriend has your best interests at heart he'll recognise your concerns and seek to reassure you.
Raise the issue with a view to putting your mind at ease. This could help you relax in his company and allow your personality to shine, the most important thing you can offer any relationship.
Lucia, a 25-year-old who's had cancer, also advises talking to your boyfriend. She said, "I'm sure he'll remind you that he likes you for yourself, and he's not going to reject you because of something that is out of your control. Everyone is different and it's important to remember that you might not experience all of the changes that you've been told about. It could be that your appearance will return to the way it was before, when your treatment is finished."
Look good feel better
Clinical psychologist Kate Hancock says:"Look Good Feel Better events can boost your confidence, and if hair loss is a problem, your care team may be able to help you find a wig made from real hair."
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Lancaster University's Computing Department (since August 2010 the School of Computing and Communications - SCC) has grown into one of the preeminent computer science departments in the UK with a team of over 120 full and part-time researchers and a portfolio of nearly 50 ongoing UK and EU funded research projects. Lancaster has established a world-wide reputation in many areas within the Internet domain ranging from router, protocol and service research to higher level aspects related to Quality of Experience and HCI. Further, Lancaster has also been pioneering in mobile IP, and resilient and secure communication infrastructures and services. In the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, 100% of the Computing Department's research has been considered to be of international quality and emerges in the top ten in the country overall for research quality. There is also a tradition of active technology transfer direct to industry; Lancaster has long received direct funding from numerous leading IT and telecommunications companies including Agilent, BT Labs, Microsoft, Orange, Cisco, France Telecom, Telekom Austria, Lucent and Intel. Further, members of the
Computing Department have been active in International Standardisation bodies such as ISO, ITU-T, EBU and SMPTE.
The Department of Management Science at Lancaster University has one of the largest operational research and systems teaching staff numbers in the UK, with an outstanding research and publishing record. It is organized in three main subject areas – operational research, operations management and information systems. The Department is one of eight in the Lancaster University Management School in which 75% of research activity has been assessed as world leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and in which 95% of research is at least of international standing.


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The official site of Quebec's National Assembly. Includes lists of current members, a tour of the building, and current Parliamentary proceedings.
CCLP - Committee to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion
Advises the Government of Québec on the actions implemented under the National Strategy to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion.
Elections Quebec
Information about voting rights, elections, political financing and electoral representation at both the municipal and provincial levels.
Official site of the Government of Québec, with information about how to immigrate and procedures for getting settled in the province.
Jean Charest, Premier
Official site featuring information about the province, its government, and services for individuals and business.
Le Protecteur du Citoyen
The Public Protector's office monitors and corrects negligence, errors, injustices, or unfair treatment by departments and agencies of the Québec government.
Ministry of Natural Resources
Manages Québec's land mass. Includes geographic and land ownership data for the province and services provided by the Ministry.
Ministère des Relations Internationales
Conducts the Government of Québec's international involvement, with a view to promoting and defending Québec's interests and values. Contains information about the minister and the ministry, Québec's international policy and initiatives, as well as about La Francophonie, the international organization of countries with French-speaking populations.
Offences and Fines Office
The Bureau processes statements of offence and complaints pertaining to most penal laws of Québec. Presents its operating plan, annual reports and methods of payment including online.
Office Québécois de la Langue Française
The English part of the site contains information about the language laws in Quebec. The French part also contains help for those seeking correct terminology in French.
Regie des rentes du Quebec
Administers the Quebec Pension Plan, and increases public awareness for good financial planning for retirement. Lists their services, structure and annual reports.
Secrétariat aux Affaires Autochtones
Manages relations and partnerships between aboriginal people, the government, and the general public. Provides information about development funding, agreements, and activities of the organization.
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The Government-owned corporation responsible for the trade of alcoholic beverages in Quebec through a retail network and through online shopping on the site.
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Agency responsible for housing policy and programs in Québec and is also responsible for the largest social housing inventory in the province.
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A service to help citizens to solve their disputes with the government in several sectors of activity. Includes application forms and describes the process, rules and offers documentation of the Tribunal's decisions.
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Bratton's return is quiet big deal
March 25, 2002
There were no pipers from the Emerald Society. No news conference. Not even a formal announcement.
Bill Bratton's return to One Police Plaza to attend his first Compstat crime strategy meeting since he was fired as police commissioner six years ago went unheralded.
But make no mistake.
In an institution where symbols reveal more than language, Bratton's return to observe the program he founded, and which now symbolizes the department's crime-fighting successes, marks a turn in NYPD history.
An effusive Bratton said in a telephone interview that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was "very gracious" in allowing him to accompany a group of British law enforcement officials to the Compstat session in the eighth-floor command center.
"Ray is someone I have the utmost respect for," Bratton said. "Ray doesn't feel threatened by other people. He is comfortable with himself. He has nothing to fear from me."
Kelly, a disciplined man, said only that he acted out of "professional courtesy." Bratton and Kelly share bitter common ground. Both were fired by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who later dismissed each man's accomplishments.
For the past eight years, Kelly, who Giuliani dismissed in 1994, has held a grudge against Bratton over what he felt were Bratton's usurpation of his job and his successes. An example: Kelly's crackdown on squeegee men in late 1993, for which Bratton and Giuliani took credit.
In response, Bratton aides have maintained through the years that Kelly's anger was misplaced and should have been directed at Giuliani.
Bratton revolutionized the job of police commissioner by turning himself into a celebrity, further rankling traditionalists like Kelly. Bratton also brought innovation to the department, not the least of which was the Compstat program, begun by his top aide, the late Jack Maple.
Compstat - notable for Maple's in-your-face grilling of top commanders on their crime strategies - drew national and international attention.
Yet after Giuliani dismissed Bratton in 1996, his successor, Howard Safir - whom Giuliani termed "the greatest police commissioner in the history of the city" - took the unprecedented step in law enforcement circles of publicly disparaging Bratton, calling him "some airport cop from Boston."
He also banned Bratton from a Compstat convention attended by national law enforcement figures and open to the public at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Giuliani, meanwhile, tried to appropriate Maple's Compstat legacy, sitting in the first row of Maple's funeral service at St. Patrick's Cathedral last year and delivering a eulogy.
Kelly, meanwhile, got back at Bratton by endorsing Michael Bloomberg for mayor, while Bratton backed the hapless Mark Green.
Bloomberg then reappointed Kelly, the first man to become commissioner twice.
In his new official photograph, which hangs in virtually every office at One Police Plaza, Kelly has an eye half-closed, an eyebrow raised and a half-smile or smirk that some people interpret as saying, "Bet you thought I'd never be back."
The March 1 prisoner was a black man, Kaisheem Powell, arrested for drug possession by a white lieutenant, George Jackman. Powell bit Jackman during the arrest.
In front of the desk sergeant and other officers, Jackman gave the then-handcuffed Powell a shot to the head with his fist.
Powell requested hospital treatment. Department procedure calls for the Emergency Medical Service to be called in such circumstances. But when EMS arrived, Powell said he did not want to go to the hospital, although he refused to sign a waiver saying he was not injured. EMS left him at the precinct.
Here's where the comparison to the Louima incident changes, though.
Within an hour of the incident, two investigators from the Internal Affairs Bureau arrived, alerted by an anonymous telephone call believed to be from an officer who witnessed Jackman striking Powell.
Powell was subsequently indicted for drug possession with intent to sell.
Jackman was placed on modified assignment for striking a handcuffed prisoner and faces potential department charges. Officers are said to be cooperating with the investigation.
Proceeds to help Police Foundation recoup $3,000 it spent on 29 more busts of the former commissioner, all of which are languishing at the foundation's Park Avenue headquarters. Send bids to this column's e-mail address.
Warning: Busts' market value appears uncertain. Not even Police Museum seems interested. Executive Director Ninfa Segarra says artifacts must be approved by police commissioner.
"No comment," says Kelly.
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In This Issue
Briefly Noted
Internet Content on the TV
Diagnosing Broadband Problems--How Do Consumers Cope?
Heard on the Net
News about People and Companies Influencing The Broadband Home
People News
Jonathan Barzilay has joined Qualcomms MediaFLO USA mobile TV subsidiary as SVP of programming and advertising and Matt Milne is becoming their SVP of sales and marketing. Barzilay was previously at CBS Interactive and Milne was at ViewSonic. ( www.mediaflo.com )
Duncan Campbell has been named Vice President, Business Development, at ICTV. He most recently was general manager and head of United States operations for Two Way TV. ( www.ictv.com )
Steven L. Elfman has been hired by Sprint Nextel, effective May 4, to the new position of President - Network Operations and Wholesale. Elfman was previously President and COO at Motricity. ( www.sprintnextel.com )
Jason Gaedtke has joined Joost as CTO. Previously, Gaedtke was at CableLabs which he joined from Comcast Interactive group. Gaedtke reports to Matt Zelesko, Joost's SVP of engineering who was also from Comcast Interactive Media. Additionally, Gabo Mendoza, also previously at Comcast Interactive Group, has jointed Joost as user experience lead. ( www.joost.com )
Kashif Haq has been named strategic execution officer, a newly created position, at Bright House Networks. The new position expands his previous role as Bright House SVP of broadband technology and services. ( www.brighthouse.com )
David Rubinstein has been appointed VP of media sales at ExpoTV. He was previously with Yahoo! ( www.expotv.com )
Josh Silverman has been named CEO of Skype. He was previously CEO of Shopping.com, another eBay company. ( www.skype.com )
Company News
DESCA, a Latin American provider of network solutions and system integration services, is purchasing 100 percent of Transistemas, an Argentine network solution provider and system integrator. The acquisition will extend DESCA's direct presence in Latin America from Mexico to Argentina. ( www.desca.com ) ( www.transistemas.com.ar )
Entropic Communications has acquired the assets of Vativ Technologies, a privately-held fabless semiconductor company, for $5.9 million. Entropic has hired 17 employees from Vativ, including 15 engineers. ( www.entropic.com ) ( www.vativ.com )
EXFO, a major provider of portable test and measurement solutions for telecommunications, has agreed to acquire Brix Networks for US $28.5 million in cash plus additional earn-outs based on bookings. EXFO recently also acquired VOIP test specialist Navtel Communications for C$11.0 million in cash. ( www.exfo.com ) ( www.brixnet.com )
Icera, a UK-based chip start-up founded in 2002, is buying Sirific Wireless, a Texas-based CMOS RF transceiver startup. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ( www.icerasemi.com ) ( www.sirific.com )
Liberty Media has acquired an additional 78.3 million shares of DirecTV stock, raising Libertys stake to 48% of DirecTV's outstanding shares. ( www.libertymedia.com ) ( www.directv.com )
Akimbo has raised $4 million in new funding and added Thomas Frank as new president and CEO. Frank was previously COO of RealNetworks. ( www.akimbo.com )
Aperto Networks has secured $20 million of new equity funding. ( www.apertonet.com )
iControl Networks announced the close of $15.5 million in Series B funding, which will extend its solutions into the security and broadband marketplace. ( www.icontrol.com )
SiBEAM, a fabless semiconductor developer of high-speed wireless communications platforms, announced the closing of $40 million in Series C funding. ( www.sibeam.com )
TidalTV Inc. has raised a $15 million Series A financing. ( www.tidaltv.com )
Tzero Technologies, a provider of ultra wideband (UWB) technology, has raised $18 million in its third round of funding. ( www.tzti.com )
Ubiquisys, a provider of femtocells, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding, including a contribution from the T-Mobile Venture fund. ( www.ubiquisys.com )
Wisair, a maker of ultra-wideband chips, has secured $24 million in Series D financing. ( www.wisair.com )
Zensys has secured an investment of undisclosed amount from Panasonic's venture group. ( www.zen-sys.com )
Other News
Hulu, an online video service, announced the public launch of its Web site which allows U.S. consumers to watch a large selection of free TV shows, movies, and more in high-quality. Hulu also announced new content partnerships with Warner Bros. Television Group, Lionsgate, NBA, NHL and more. ( www.hulu.com )
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in collaboration with Apple announced the launch of the "iFund" with $100 million in venture capital to invest in companies developing applications and services for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. ( www.kpcb.com ) ( www.apple.com )
NextWave Wireless, a provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, announced a strategic agreement with Alcatel-Lucent to develop WiMAX broadcast solutions for mobile operators. Alcatel-Lucent will integrate NextWave's MXtv technology into their WiMAX solutions portfolio. ( www.nextwave.com ) ( www.alcatel-lucent.com )
Qualcomm has announced that the radio spectrum it won in a recent government auction will be used to double the capacity of its MediaFLO USA mobile television service on both coasts. On the West coast, they will be able to double offerings from Orange County, Calif., to Northern California; on the East coast, they can do so from New Hampshire to Maryland. MediaFLO will have 12 megahertz of bandwidth in those areas, compared with 6 megahertz in the rest of the country. ( www.qualcomm.com )( www.mediaflo.com )
Scientific Atlanta is no more. Cisco has phased out the name, which is now officially Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group. ( www.scientificatlanta.com ) ( www.cisco.com )
Ireland's Smart Telecom will be soft-launching its anticipated IPTV service, according to siliconrepublic.com. It is planning its DSL-based multichannel IPTV service in the 37 unbundled exchanges in which it currently offers broadband and plans to purchase an MPEG 4 IPTV headend and middleware solution from Thomson. ( www.smarttelecom.ie ) ( www.siliconrepublic.com )
India's giant Tata Communications is rolling out a large WiMAX network with Telsima Corporation. Initially it will provide broadband access and content services to enterprise and residential customers in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin, Chandigarh, and Kolkata. ( www.tatacommunications.com ) ( www.telsima.com )
Briefly Noted: Updates, Observations and Trends
Each month, we collect miscellaneous happenings, studies, trends or observations you might have missed. This month's briefs focus on WiMAX news, iTunes Store passes Wal-Mart, updated FTTH statistics, the FCC's broadband definition, the UK digital transition and more.
WiMAX Update
Here are a few of the recent WiMAX news items.
iTunes Beats Wal-Mart
Apple announced that the iTunes Store surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US, based on data from the NPD Group. iTunes has over 50 million customers, has sold over four billion songs and features a music catalog of over six million songs. ( www.itunes.com )
Updated FTTH statistics for North America
Michael Render of market researcher RVA Associates recently presented updated fiber-to-the-home statistics for North America at a FTTH Council Webinar. As of March 2008, there were almost 3 million FTTH connected homes. These homes are unevenly distributed: areas covered by Verizon and Tier 3 ILECs are approaching 6% connected by fiber; areas covered by AT&T, Qwest, and Tier 2 ILECs have only about one tenth that penetration. Of the fiber connected homes, over half are subscribing to video services. ( www.rvallc.com )
US FCC changes broadband calculation rules
The Federal Communications Commission has finally adopted new data collection and reporting practices to more accurately determine broadband penetration in the U.S. Broadband speeds are now defined as beginning at 768 kbps rather than the old baseline of 200 kbps. Service providers must also organize data based on their different speed tiers and must calculate broadband penetration by census blocks, rather than zip code. ( www.fcc.gov )
UK Digital Transition Nears 90% of Main TV Sets
UK regulator Ofcom's Digital Television Progress Report indicates that the number of UK homes with digital TV on their main set reached 22.2 million, or 86.7 percent of homes, at the end of 2007. Full digital switchover is planned for 2012. Those digital subscribers are comprised of customers from Digital terrestrial TV service Freeview, digital satellite TV service BSkyB, and digital cable TV. ( www.ofcom.org.uk )
South Africa has Exceeded One Million Broadband Subscribers
MoneyWeb South Africa reports broadband subscriber numbers in that country have passed the one million mark. The largest provider is Telkom, with 420,000 subscribers for its ADSL service, with Vodacom gaining ground at 370,000 registered HSDPA users. ADSL and HSDPA users account for over 90% of all South African broadband subscribers, with the other 10% accounted for by fixed wireless access. Broadband penetration of only 2%, compared to the OECD average of 18.8%, leaves lots of headroom for growth.
After Wireless Networks Can Wire-free Power Be Far Behind?
EE Times reports that Israeli startup Powermat and Denpeki Kaihatsu KK, a Japanese developer of construction products, have teamed to develop and install wireless energy capability in surfaces including walls, floors and ceilings. Powermat claims that its technology makes it possible for electronic devices to be used without the need for socket-based or battery-based power. Using principles of magnetic induction, Powermat's technology transmits electrical power via an ultra thin mat embedded in or overlaid on a work surface or wall, to portable electronic devices placed randomly anywhere on the surface. ( www.eetimes.eu ) ( www.pwrmat.com )
The Name Game
If Scrabble has become old hat for you, perhaps you'd like to join the new word game -- inventing names for new technology companies. Here are some of the more recent ones that have already been taken: Quanta, OoVoo, Hulu and TwonkyVision.
Internet Content on the TV: Let Us Count the Ways
It seems like a simple question. A friend who knows you work with the Internet and computers says: "I'd like to connect my PC to my TV. How should I do it?" What do you say?
There are a bewildering number of ways to do this, so you first have to find out what our friend actually wants. Does she want to watch Internet content like You Tube or an old episode of Miami Vice on the TV? Does she want to play a DVD on the PC and show it on her big screen TV? Does she want to use her PC-based PVR, such as Windows Media Center, to deliver content to a TV located in another room? Does she have other things in mind? Maybe it's some combination of these. Or maybe she's asking because she has heard it can be done and thinks "it" might be cool.
With answers to these questions, we could point her toward a solution that will do what she wants. To clarify the choices, we created a decision tree detailing the various things people might want to do and some of the solutions available for doing them.
But even the narrower question of watching Internet video on the TV screen presents a lot of choices. For starters, she could use her PC to access the Internet, or could access Internet video without a PC.
Using a PC to access the Internet
A PC seems like the most natural way to access Internet video. If your friend is interested in Internet content on the TV, she probably already has a PC with a broadband Internet connection.
But how does she get the Internet video from her PC to her TV? There are several choices:
If she chooses to use one of these boxes (Extender or other), she'll have many choices of how to connect the box to the TV, depending on the box outputs and the TV inputs (HDMI would be best). She'll also have many choices of networking technologies to connect the PC to the box. Most boxes support Ethernet and some "flavor" of Wi-Fi (802.11n would be best); others may include HomePlug A/V, MoCA or other powerline or coaxial networking. For help in connecting a Media Center Extender to her TV, you could point her to a "how to" video Connecting Windows Media Center to your TV.
Connecting to the Internet without a PC
If all she wants to do is watch Internet video on the TV, she doesn't have to use a PC. Instead, she could
Either of these requires choosing a networking connection to the home network, and the auxiliary boxes require choosing a connection between the box and the TV.
You might want to tell your friend that this approach could lead to problems in the future. Internet content is targeted to the capabilities of PCs, and evolves quite rapidly. PCs provide a very flexible platform; new formats come along all the time and are downloaded into the Web browser. Will a networked TV or a stand-alone box provide similar capability for growth? Maybe this doesn't matter that much for an auxiliary box--if it's cheap enough, she can always get a new one when it runs out of steam--but it could be a serious consideration for a large plasma TV.
Yet More Choices
The considerations are more complex if it is not just Internet video she wants to watch. She also might want to:
Each of these presents yet more options and issues for consideration.
In the face of this head-spinning menu of options and their associated implementations and choices, it's no wonder many people throw up their hands in despair. For now, they find it easier to decide to keep life simple and just leave well enough alone.
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Diagnosing Broadband Problems--How Do Consumers Cope?
During the past three months, Dave has spent a lot of time coping with one broadband problem after another, including both local networking and broadband access issues. Now that he has finally resolved most of them, we've been thinking about how consumers can possibly cope as they run into similar issues.
Wi-Fi and Cable Issues At Our Condo Complex
As we've mentioned before, we own a couple of rental vacation condos in a beachfront complex on Sanibel Island. Dave's now a member of the condo board, and because of his technical background, he's increasingly acting as the (volunteer) CTO for the complex.
The complex has a Wi-Fi network used by owners and renters. There are ten 802.11g access points (APs). Three APs form a point-to-multipoint bridge between buildings, the others are used for client access. The main AP is in the clubhouse in the center of the complex, and other APs provide coverage to condos that do not have direct line of sight to the clubhouse. The network also includes a couple of routers, each connected through a commercial cable modem for high-speed Internet access. Several administrative PCs also use one of the cable modems.
When we first rented condos in the complex, the Wi-Fi network never seemed to work very well. The signal strength was fine outside the units, but fell off very rapidly inside. It was usually unusable at the dining room table, where we liked to work. When we bought our first condo three years ago, our first action was to install our own cable modem in the unit, and we soon set up our own Wi-Fi network as well. (See the Our Broadband Condo: PC and Internet: The Starting Point page for more information.)
After Dave joined the board a year ago, he started hearing complaints about the network. Some people complained about network outages, others about performance. The network seemed to fail ever more frequently; the condo association was spending a lot on service calls; and the property manager had to keep power cycling routers, cable modems, and access points to get the network back working.
During the holidays, we spent a couple of weeks at the complex and rented two more condos for our children's families. We used our own network at our condo, but our children told us the network was failing frequently--more than once a day. It wasn't at all clear what was causing the failures, and the property manager soon asked Dave to look into the problem.
Our son-in-law Jeremy Bennett was there with his family over the holidays. Jeremy is a software architect at Aruba Networks responsible for designing and building Aruba's RFprotect line of wireless security products. He's had ten years of hands-on experience with networking and was willing to get his hands dirty helping Dave track down the root causes of the problems.
Dave set up a laptop PC with AirMagnet and pointed it out our condo window. On New Year's Day, he found nearly 100 PCs trying to access the network. There are 141 condos in the complex; with more and more people carrying laptop PCs on vacation, that didn't seem too surprising--the seven adults in our family had seven laptops in three condos.
To try to understand why the complex network was crashing, Dave and Jeremy logged into all the active devices. They found most of the firmware was out of date--several access points were still running firmware dating back to the earliest release of 802.11g. The primary router, which also served as the primary access point, was a consumer-grade device. Analyzing its log files, they found it simply could not handle the load imposed by 100 PCs trying to gain access within a day. In particular, the DHCP server in the router appeared to crash and stop handing out IP addresses once it had given out 64 addresses.
During the same week, we also observed several outages of the cable modems serving the complex and our condos. Jeremy did some research on the Web and found a way to interrogate the status of the cable modems; we soon found that most of the modems were reporting marginal downstream and upstream power levels. At our condo we were also having trouble receiving some of the digital and high-definition cable channels, so we suspected there were broader cable problems as well.
Resolving all of these issues took more than a month. Jeremy's experience with diagnosing network problems was very helpful. Dave was able to leverage his own long experience with networking (he installed his first Ethernet network in the early 1980s) and with cable modems (he ran the first consumer cable modem trial) to diagnose and solve these problems. He replaced both routers with more appropriate "industrial grade" devices, upgraded the firmware in all network devices to the most recent releases, and reconfigured the IP addressing. To bring the cable modems within specs, the cable operator replaced some of the equipment in the complex, replaced most of the cable modems, and replaced most of their cabling.
With the access points all upgraded to the latest firmware, 802.11g performance improved substantially. The network has been very stable, with no outages like those we saw several times a day when we arrived.
Lest we believed that only consumers are facing these problems, we took heart in a recent article in Network World on wireless LAN management in the enterprise. It observes that "there is little history to tap into with wireless and most performance problems are reported long after the fact, both of which make it very difficult to find or reproduce the error and stop it from happening again. Their conclusion is that network managers want "more diagnostic tools and more expert analysis built into the products..."
TiVo Problem - Debugging Ethernet
A month or so after we returned home, we found that our TiVo had stopped working. We didn't discover it had failed until the program listings suddenly disappeared, and the TiVo told us that it had not been able to connect to the TiVo network to update the listings for 30 days. We had generally been using a different DVR in the kitchen but wanted the TiVo in our bedroom to also work.
The TiVo in our bedroom is connected to our home network through a 10/100 Ethernet switch in the attic. The TiVo Series 2 does not have a built-in Ethernet port; it has several USB ports and uses an external USB-to-Ethernet adapter to provide the network connection. The lights on the attic switch looked funny; Dave tried moving the Ethernet jack to a different port and the lights didn't change, so he suspected the USB-to-Ethernet adapter wasn't working properly.
Dave disconnected the adapter, installed its drivers on one of his PCs, and used it to connect to our network. It worked like a charm for several days, so that wasn't the problem.
After scratching his head for another week, Dave climbed back into the attic, disconnected a working PC from one of the ports on the attic switch, and connected the TiVo to that port. The lights looked fine, and the TiVo immediately started working again.
Somehow, while we were away, two of the five ports on the switch had failed. Dave replaced the switch with a new one (this is the third time he's had to do this) and we were back in business.
Skype Problem - Debugging Network Performance
About a month ago, Skype suddenly stopped working properly. Skype had been getting better and better, and we had gradually come to depend on it for the majority of our phone calls--both to other Skype users (including video calls with family members) and to regular telephones (using SkypeOut). All of a sudden, we noticed that the call quality was terrible - it was hard to understand what people were saying, sentences would get clipped, and people complained that they couldn't hear us. Since this happened simultaneously to both of us, and on several different PCs, we figured the problem was probably with Skype or with our cable operator.
After looking at both the Skype client application and the online help pages, we didn't find any obvious way to isolate the problem. So we went through the "back door" and contacted Skype's PR agency, who put us in touch with our old friend Jonathan Christensen, now Skype's General Manager for Video and Audio. Jonathan listened to our description of the problem and told us how to turn on the diagnostic tools hidden in the Skype client. As we were talking with him, we could see that the jitter was on the order of 300 milliseconds and the packet loss was around 10% of packets -- both awful. Jonathan said "it's probably your router -- we've seen a lot of router problems with those symptoms." We told him our router was an "industrial grade" device that we'd never had any trouble with, and we hadn't changed anything. He suggested we look more closely.
Searching the Web, Dave found a very helpful software tool called MySpeed PC VoIP Advanced Edition. It installs on a PC, and runs a periodic test to a remote server that measures the network parameters that affect VoIP services. It confirmed Skype's measurements of packet loss and jitter, and indicated that our network setup was unacceptable for VoIP calls.
To isolate the source of the problem, we subscribed to another cable modem service, and Dave picked up and installed the second modem. When he connected the test PC directly to the second modem, MySpeed PC reported that jitter was a few milliseconds, packet loss was zero, and the network was fully suitable for VoIP. Dave then installed a spare router between the test PC and the second cable modem, and ran the test overnight, with similar results. This effectively eliminated the cable network as the source of the Skype problem.
Our home router supports VPN links to our condos in Florida, and we recently added VPN links to the routers which serve the Wi-Fi network in the complex. One of those VPN links stopped working following a cable outage at the complex, and Dave had not been able to get the link back working. Both routers kept trying to reestablish the link, but it kept failing. Skype had stopped working at home in New Jersey at about the same time as the cable failure in Florida--unlikely as it seemed, perhaps the two problems were related.
Dave finally resolved the VPN problem about a week ago. As soon as the link was stable, he reconnected the test PC to the main router and cable modem. Sure enough, MySpeed PC reported that jitter was now a few milliseconds and there was no packet loss. Skype is back working fine, just as before.
In trying to reestablish the VPN link, our home router had apparently devoted so much of its processor time that it was losing packets and creating jitter in the VoIP link. We had not noticed problems with any other applications--but unlike VoIP, they are not time-critical.
HomePlug Problem -- Debugging Intermittent Failures
In an article several issues ago, we described how we had used powerline networking to solve a problem at one of our condos--we connected a cable modem in one bedroom to a router in another bedroom using a pair of Linksys HomePlug AV adapters (see Network Problem Solving with HomePlug). Soon after the article appeared, we started having intermittent problems with the broadband connection at that condo. From the symptoms, it was very difficult to tell what was causing the problem, since it went away whenever the equipment was power cycled.
Our son-in-law Jeremy stayed at that condo with his family over the holidays. Jeremy had used HomePlug to solve a similar problem in his California home, and worked with Dave to try to isolate the problem. The cable modem was clearly operating marginally; while we were there the cable company changed some equipment and cabling, which brought the downstream and upstream signals for the cable modem well within normal specs. We hoped the problem would go away, but it didn't; the Internet connection in the condo still failed several times a week, requiring power cycling to get it back working again. We both found this very frustrating--Jeremy said "If I have a problem with Ethernet, I know how to diagnose it. If there's a problem with Wi-Fi, I know what tools to use. But I don't know how to diagnose a problem with HomePlug."
In early February, Dave stayed at the condo for most of a week, and was determined to get at the root of the problem. On the way there, he stopped at Best Buy and bought a 50 foot Ethernet cable. He strung it across the floor between the bedrooms, and connected the router and the modem together directly. The network ran for several days without a problem.
Then Dave disconnected the Ethernet cable, and connected the cable modem and the router together with an ancient set of ST&T HomePlug 1.0 adapters we had tested during the summer of 2002--we've used these for five years to connect our AudioTron digital audio player to our home network. The ST&T pair worked fine while Dave was there, so he left them running when he headed home. They're still working, with only one failure in more than two months.
So the HomePlug AV pair appeared to be the root cause of the problem. When he got back home, Dave set them up and ran a test for more than two weeks without a failure. We shipped the pair to Intellon (whose chips are used in most HomePlug devices) for analysis. They reported finding a possible hardware problem, updated the devices, and sent them back to us.
We're heading to Sanibel this weekend, and we're bringing the updated Linksys pair back with us. If they run without a problem while we're there, we'll leave them running.
How Do Consumers Cope With These Problems?
We do operate a more elaborate network than you'd find in the typical home. We have nearly a dozen PCs including two servers, several networked media devices, three DVRs, and a NAS server; these are connected with Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and HomePlug (plus whatever else we're testing). Our home network is connected with VPN to routers at our two condos, and to two routers that serve the condo complex.
Some might feel we deserve the problems we get. But Dave brings an engineering mindset and many years of debugging experience when he sets out to solve problems. He looks for tools to help him isolate problems, in order to find their root cause. Because of our industry experience and contacts, we can call in help that wouldn't be available to the typical consumer.
Many consumers run into similar problems with their cable networks and their home networking equipment. Anyone could have encountered our problems with marginal cable modems, a failing Ethernet switch, and an intermittent HomePlug AV device. Our router problem was apparently not that unusual--we would not have noticed it until Skype acted like the canary in the coal mine--failing when everything else seemed to be working.
Consumers now take high-speed Internet for granted, and install home networks to support voice and video applications. We expect more and more consumers will run into problems similar to ours. How will they cope with them? Who will they call on to fix them?
What is our industry doing to address these issues? Will service providers, retailers, equipment makers, and application providers all point their fingers at each other and say "not my problem"? Will companies that make these products provide effective built-in tools to help consumers figure out what's wrong when they don't work right? Or will someone step up and take charge and provide help?
Cable modems provide an example for how to provide useful information to consumers with a problem. Most modems have a built-in Web server and respond to an http request at the fixed address 192.168.100.1 with all the key information. But it isn't easy to figure out what the normal range is--and it's especially hard if you can't get to the Internet.
Verizon may have the best approach. Verizon is using fiber to the home (FTTH) to provide video, voice and data service, using MoCA to provide home networking, and installing a Broadband Home Router (BHR) as the central management point for all services. In his talk at the MoCA Technology Conference, Verizon's CTO and Senior VP-Technology Mark Wegleitner described "The Verizon Managed Home". He said Verizon will use this infrastructure to remotely manage all video, voice and data communications for PCs and TVs. Since Verizon is already providing the end-to-end infrastructure, it thinks FiOS customers will expect it to solve any problems--even if they're caused by customer-installed equipment and applications.
The rest of the industry should keep an eye on how well this works, and start preparing to follow the same course if it works well.
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While Hollywood copes with the writers strike, the stars grabbing most media attention these days are running for President. "Shazam!" read the Boston Herald headline after Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama snagged the Iowa caucus. Both enjoying celebrity status, I expect Oprah's backing of Obama carries more clout than "Walker, Texas Ranger" Chuck Norris' affiliation with Huckabee. Though they waved the ethanol flag in corn-growing country, it won't play the same on the Eastern Seaboard.
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For a rundown and statements from candidates, see "The Heat Is On" site from the National League of Conservation Voters. And vote.
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This is to inform that the Council of Institute has modified the criteria for granting paper-wise exemptions to CS students on the basis of their higher qualifications as per details given below :
1. Paper 7 of Executive Programme (i.e. Industrial, Labour and General Laws) shall be exempted for LL.B. passed Students (Both three Year Degree Course and Five Year integrated Law Course);
2. The exemption under reciprocal arrangement with Institute of Cost Accountants of India will continue. i.e. following papers shall be exempted to Final examination passed student of the Institute of Cost Accountant of India :
•••>> CS Executive Programme :
i) Cost and Management Accounting ( Module1, Paper2)
ii) Tax Laws and Practices ( Module 1, Paper 4 )
iii) Company Accounts and Auditing Practices ( Module 2, Paper 5 )
•••>> CS Professional Programme :
i) Advanced Company Law and Practice ( Module 1, Paper 1 )
ii) Financial, Treasury and Forex Management (Module 2, Paper 5 )
iii) Advanced Tax Laws and Practice ( Module 3, Paper 7 )
3. No exemption shall be given on the basis of any other higher
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Issued as per decision of the council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
(Sohan Lal)
Director (Student Services)
ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries of India)
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07 September 2017
The corporate criminal offences of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion come into force on 30 September 2017. These offences attribute criminal liability to the business for the criminal acts of its employees, agents or those that provide services for or on its behalf. It applies to all businesses, wherever located, in respect of the facilitation of UK tax evasion and furthermore it applies to businesses with a UK connection in respect of the facilitation of non-UK tax evasion.
There are three stages to the offences: the criminal tax evasion by a taxpayer; the criminal facilitation of the tax evasion by an 'associated person' of the business; and the business failed to prevent its representative from committing the criminal facilitation. There is a presumption of guilt.
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The Woman Blu-ray
Starring Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Zach Rand, Carlee Baker, Shana Barry, Marcia Bennett, Frank Olsen, Lauren Petre
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Thriller in which a successful lawyer attempts to civilise the last remaining woman from a wild rural clan.
Chris Cleek (Sean Bridgers) is a well-off country lawyer, married and with a young family.
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He introduces the woman to his wife, Belle (Angela Bettis), and his children, Peggy (Lauren Ashley Carter) and Brian (Zach Rand), and encourages them to interact with her to help bring out her human side.
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Danae Elon graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1995. Her graduation film Never Again, Forever earned her a National Kodak award in cinematography as well as a Golden Spire award and a special mention at the Chicago International film festival of 1996. The film participated in many international film festivals including IDFA and Jerusalem Film Festival. After graduating from NYU she proceeded to work as a cinematographer and director both independently and for Discovery Espagnol. She photographed and produced CUT with Palestinian filmmaker Nizar Hassan, as well as directed a short film called Wild Mint. Her first feature documentary was Another Road Home in 2004, which premiered at the Tribeca film festival, and was theatrically released in the US. The film screened in many international film festivals including IDFA, LA film festival, Hot Docs and others. It was broadcast on the BBC, Al Jazeera, TV2, Channel 8, YLE and more. Her second feature documentary film Partly Private won the best NY film at the Tribeca film festival 2007. It was broadcast on ARTE France, Channel 8, Vision TV, TV Ontario and Canal V. In 2009 Danae was the recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship in Film.
Over the years she has received various grants from the Sundance Institute as well the Israeli New Foundation for film and television, the Hartley Film Foundation, the Rothschild Foundation and others.
P.S Jerusalem is her third feature length film.
Paul Cadieux is one of Canada's leading and most active film and television producers. Among numerous other awards, he has won a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for the Oscar-nominated Les Triplettes de Belleville.
In his more than three decades as a producer, co-producer, executive producer and distributor, Paul often prefers to operate out of the limelight yet has been centrally involved in dozens of major Canadian and international projects and hundreds of television episodes ranging from children's animation series to thriller feature films, romantic comedies, travel shows, reality programming, international co-productions, feature documentaries and TV series of pretty much every stripe in both English and French.
Filmmaker and editor, Sophie Farkas Bolla was born in Montréal and became involved in both visual and performing arts at a very young age. She attended Concordia University in Film Production and graduated in 2006. Soon after, she began working as a film editor while continuing to develop her own films. In 2009, she directed Chronicles by the Other, which enjoyed a good festival run and in 2012 she completed her second short entitled, Istvan and the Fur Trout, a cinematic tale about growing up and disillusionment. When monsters were Real is her third film and explores our fears from childhood. She is also writing her first feature, Nagypapa, a dramatic comedy evolving in a charming, yet particular family.
When Sophie is not working on her own projects, she is also an editor. She has edited, among others, the award winning, Antoine(2009) by Laura Bari, United States of Africa (2011) by Yanick Létourneau and L'Autisme au gré du vent (2012) by Françoise Lavoie-Pilote.
A native of Toulouse, France, Olivier Alary is a Montreal-based musician and composer. After a degree in architecture, Alary moved to London to study composition.
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Immigrant Services
Over the years, ISP has evolved into a hub in our community where immigrants can go to get their unique needs met. For the most part, we assist and provide advocacy for immigrants who are the working poor, have language and/or cultural barriers, and need assistance in accessing the community resources available in order for them to get their basic needs met. However, we do assist others as staff time is available. Direct services and/or referrals are provided to immigrant and refugee clients in order to help them gain self-sufficiency.
Services include:
- Information on understanding and accessing community resources
- Job development for Early English Language Learners
- Referrals to adult ESL classes and literacy tutoring programs
- Assistance with Department of Social Services applications and appointments
- Help with accessing healthcare and childcare
- Pre-screening for food stamps and health insurance programs
- Referrals to domestic violence prevention
The ISP director can also provide refugees with a BRIA Verification of Identity and Immigration Status letter that can be used at the Department of Motor Vehicles when applying for a license or non-driver's license identification.


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Kamal Heer - Poora Desi (Video)
Kamal Heer releases the video to the track "Poora Desi" which features brothers Manmohan Waris and Sangtar.
Punjabi Virsa is one of the most successful shows ever by any Punjabi artist, they can sell out shows anywhere they go whether its Canada, USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand or India. Punjabi Virsa 2016 is set to hit Canada this month. Kamal's recent releases have been Tera Hero and Desi Disc which were both released last year.
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