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Ponder2 combines a general-purpose, distributed object management system with a Domain Service, Obligation Policy Interpreter, Command Interpreter and Authorisation Enforcement. The Domain Service provides an hierarchical structure for managing objects. The Obligation Policy Interpreter handles Event, Condition, Action rules (ECA). The Command Interpreter accepts a set of commands, compiled from a high-level language called PonderTalk, via a number of communications interfaces which may perform invocations on a ManagedObject registered in the Domain Service. The Authorisation Enforcement caters for both positive and negative authorisation policies, provides the ability to specify fine grained authorisations for every object and implements domain nesting algorithms for conflict resolution.
Ponder is the name of a policy specification language developed at Imperial College over a number of years. A set of tools and services were developed for the specification, analysis and enforcement of these policies. Thus, the name Ponder became associated not only with the language but with the entire toolkit. Ponder2 is a significant re-design and re-implementation of Ponder. Although some of the underlying concepts bear similarity to the basic constructs of Ponder the entire framework has been re-done. In contrast to the previous version, which was designed for general network and systems management, Ponder2 has been designed as an entirely extensible framework that can be used at different levels of scale from small, embedded devices to complex services and Virtual Organisations.
Ponder2 has been realised with financial support from several sponsors.
The following documents will assist you in downloading, installing and running Ponder2.
Ponder2Overview A brief, high level, overview of Ponder2
Installation and Running Guide How to get Ponder2 and start it
Using Ponder2 How to write and send commands to Ponder2
Using Ponder2 with Eclipse How to configure Eclipse for use with Ponder2
PonderTalk The complete language reference
Writing Your Own Managed Objects Guide to using Java with Ponder2
Ponder2 Policies Descriptions of the policy types supported by Ponder2
Ponder2 Events How to define and create events for Policies
Ponder2 Authorisation Description with examples of authorisation constraints
The Ponder2 Shell How to interact with Ponder2
Ponder2 Communications How Ponder2 uses objects from another Ponder2 instantiation
Ponder2 External Communications How to interface Ponder2 to other applications
Ponder2 XML How to parse XML using PonderTalk
Ponder2 Internals A description of the inner workings of Ponder2
Ponder2 Tutorial Complete, self-contained runtime files and tutorial with examples
Glossary Explanation of some of the terms used in this site
To Do Notes for future changes/fixes
API Documentation
These documents are give detailed documentation of the PonderTalk interface to the standard Ponder2 Managed Objects in PonderDoc format and to the internal Java classes in JavaDoc format.
Managed Object Documentation Command documentation for Ponder2's core Managed Objects
Ponder2 Java API Documentation Full internal documentation for Ponder2
Ponder2-Based Systems
TrPonder A Teleo-Reactive support system using the Ponder2 SMC and Ponder2 Managed Objects
P2Android - Android integration
There are several downloads with different configurations of Ponder2 available.
This software is made available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
The following documents contain the current tutorial for learning about Ponder2 by yourself. There are also copies of presentation tutorials given at various conferences in the past.
Ponder2 Tutorial (Zip file) Complete, self-contained, runtime files and tutorial with examples
(superseded) UK-Ubinet Workshop (July 2006) Ponder2.zip SMCTutorialSlides1up.pdf
(superseded) Internal DSE tutorial (Nov 2005) 200511 SMC_Tutorial.zip 200511SMC-AnIntroduction.pdf 200511SMCDocumentation.pdf
Contact Information
This site and the Ponder2 software have been created and are maintained by Dr Kevin Twidle.
For information regarding Ponder2 please email <ponder2 AT doc DOT ic DOT ac DOT uk>.


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How to Find the Best Business School
You are in the workplace and you find that you are working hard for average pay, but you don't feel that you're advancing or learning new things; you feel that you are stagnating and are losing your touch on things, or that you are not as fast and as adept, or even as up-to-date on trends as you once were. You are in your final months as an undergraduate, and you have a fairly vague idea of where you want to be in the future: running a business or being part of one, and earning more money thanks to your knowledge and education. In either case, you may want to look for a business school to help you out and make you achieve your dreams – but what are the best business schools?
Despite all the lists and compiled school summaries that you will find both online and offline, the best business schools are really those that will help you succeed in the line of business that you want to get into. There are many different business schools out there with many different specialties, so if you are looking for the best business school to go to as you want to advance your career, or get into the workplace, you will need to know what exactly it is that you want first. Are you going to be doing accounting and auditing? Will you be running a business, managing people, hiring people, handing out salaries or wages, or overseeing processes?
Once you know what it is that you want to do, then you can pick out the best business school for you. True, there are the top tier business schools such as Wharton and Harvard, but consider other smaller business schools that might not be as well known, but are experienced in teaching the business aspects that you want to know more about. In particular, if you can find information on alumni of the school, see if their interests and credentials match yours. You might also want to check if the business school to which you are applying is accredited, as this can be an important benchmark of school and curriculum integrity.
You may also want to consider either a live classroom or distance education as the mode of instruction. If you opt for the live classroom, you will have the convenience of really going back to school and not having a headache over the computer programs and computer-based texts that distance education schools will employ. On the other hand, a distance education program will allow you to go to school even while you are based at home, or while you are still on the job, so that you do not have to go through the inconvenience of having to actually return to school. Look for schools that offer the mode of instruction that you need.
Moreover, look for school that will offer you financial and job assistance. You can have scholarships or even fellowships to go to business schools, and often, the best business schools receive a lot of funding that will be shunted into their scholarship or fellowship program. Once you graduate, some schools will also offer you job hunting assistance, and others, as they are allied with companies, will actually give you placement.
These are only a few things to watch out for as you look for the best business schools. For more information, look for these schools online, and start planning your future in detail. Once you know what you want, you can find the best business school for you.

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A couple of months ago, I came across an article in my local paper entitled, American "Allergy" to Global Warming, Why?"
The article asked why so many Americans remain in denial about climate change when such a great amount of scientific evidence exists that indicates it is our reality. The article reviews some of the scientific evidence and asks why there continues to be little motivation for changing our consumption and production practices that appear to contribute to global warming. The writer notes how the support for and against addressing climate change has become part of the political divide, making it difficult to discuss as a public conversation.
In listening to the Republican candidates' debates, climate change has not been part of the conversation. Will President Barack Obama consider it dangerous territory when we move into debates between the two presidential candidates? If so, a great opportunity to bring this conversation to Americans across the country will be lost.
What was missing from the article was much perspective on why we are not all willing to embrace the greatest challenge of our time. One lens to look at this "allergy" to global warming is through Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey's work, framed as immunity to change.
Kegan and Lahey provide a map to help understand why people often develop an immunity to change. The map provides a way to identify and discuss what an individual or organization is visibly committed to in terms of values, goals, and actions. Granted there is a great divide in values and beliefs about aspects of American culture, but I would imagine that every American can agree that we want our children and grandchildren to live in an environment that supports life as we know it. We need to identify and find the common values and commitments that enable us, as Americans, to stand on common ground and move forward from there to develop shared goals toward a sustainable future.
The framework asks individuals and organizations to identify and discuss what they are not doing to support their commitments or what they are doing, instead, that keep them from realizing their commitments. While there has been a tremendous social movement toward creating a sustainable world, it is hard to determine if we are anywhere close to a tipping point, where the forces driving society toward sustainability will influence and lessen those resisting it. I believe we still have a lot of work to do at the individual, community, organization, and societal level. The awareness of the need for change has greatly increased, but we need to assess what we are not doing or doing instead that keeps us from living our commitments. What we are not doing is having a national conversation on what changes we need to make to address climate change and create a sustainable future.
The framework also asks individuals and organizations to identify their competing commitments. What is getting in the way of making the needed or desired changes? One that is clearly present for many Americans, families, and organizations is the need to manage within limited financial means. While it is hard to think about making changes with limited resources, thinking systemically might enable us to see that what we thought was a competing commitment, actually can support us toward our goal. To recognize those opportunities might require insight into the "big assumptions" that hold us.
As Kegan and Lahey note, big assumptions often show up in the judgments and generalizations that drive our actions. They are assumptions we don't question, and often are not even aware are keeping us stuck. When assumptions go unquestioned, they keep us from seeing possibilities for change.
Getting back to the American allergy to global warming described in the article, one can imagine that a big assumption of those anticipating major effects of climate change, is that NOW is the time when we have to make changes regardless of our limited resources. While a big assumption of others may be that climate change will happen regardless of what we do, or that it is not as important as creating jobs or lowering the deficit.
Working with these different assumptions requires an on-going conversation—one that acknowledges the different assumptions and considers the possible effects of them. Systems thinking can help connect the dots and support the possibility that taking action to address climate change can create jobs and strengthen the economy. One of the laws of systems thinking is that cause and effect are not closely related in time. It is hard for people to see that the assumptions, patterns of behavior, and structures that led up to both the environmental and economic crises are not the same ones that will support us in addressing these two important areas for change. We cannot continue to do what we have always done and expect different results. We need new thinking; new ways of living and working; new social, organizational, and economic structures to move us toward a sustainable future. To overcome this "allergy" to global warming and immunity to change, we need to raise the levels of awareness, talk about the need to change, and bring our big assumptions into conversations that can stimulate new action.
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Even as the European Union attempts to tighten privacy laws, law-enforcement interests have won a battle in Germany: a new law forces communications service providers there to once again make data about their customers' communications available to police.
On Friday morning, the German parliament approved a law requiring ISPs and mobile and fixed telecommunications operators to retain communications metadata for up to ten weeks.
The country has had an on-again, off-again affair with telecommunications data retention, first introducing a law requiring it in 2008 to comply with a European Union directive.
The German Federal Constitutional Court overturned that law in March 2010 after finding it conflicted with Germany's privacy laws, prompting the European Commission to take the country to court in May 2012 to enforce the directive.
In April 2014, it was the turn of the EU's highest court, the Court of Justice of the EU, to overturn the directive itself on the grounds that it, too, interfered with fundamental privacy rights.
The CJEU has also just overturned the so-called Safe Harbor agreement between the Commission and U.S. authorities on the transfer of private personal data to the U.S. because the agreement did not provide Europeans with sufficient privacy protection from U.S. law enforcement.
The CJEU's and the Constitutional Court's previous decisions didn't discourage German lawmakers from reintroducing the requirement for service providers to conserve the connection data of all their customers, though.
There's a ten-week limit for information about who called whom and when, which IP addresses were attributed to whom and when, and who sent SMS text messages to whom. A four-week limit applies to the location from which an SMS was sent. The content of communications is not stored, and email is exempt from the law.
The German parliament plans to review the law once there is sufficient statistical information about its effectiveness in reducing crime.


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Home to three Pistons titles, the Palace of Auburn Hills demolished
One of Michigan's most beloved sports and entertainment venues was turned into rubble on Saturday with a series of controlled explosions.
The shell and roof of the Palace of Auburn Hills, which was home to three championship Detroit Pistons teams and three Detroit Shock teams and played host to some of the world's biggest musical acts during its nearly 30-year run, crumbled to the ground following a series explosive pops.
Here's the implosion of The Palace of Auburn Hills. Started at 8 a.m. on the dot and ended in a matter of seconds, leaving a cloud of dust pic.twitter.com/su0q1zrrhy— Omari Sankofa II (@omarisankofa) July 11, 2020
The rest of the arena had already been removed.
The Palace, which opened in 1988, held more than 22,000 people for NBA games and up to 23,000 for concerts and other shows, according to nba.com.
After the Pistons relocated in 2017 to downtown Detroit, the arena about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest of the city continued to host concerts and music events, the last in September 2017 by rocker Bob Seger.
It also became the second suburban Detroit arena that found little real use after its main sports tenant took its games back to the city.
The Detroit Lions played at the nearby Pontiac Silverdome from 1975-2001 before moving to Ford Field in Detroit. The Pistons also called the Silverdome home for a decade before The Palace opened.
The Silverdome was taken down with a partial implosion in 2017.
William Hall, a project manager for Schostak Brothers & Co., told the Oakland Press of Pontiac that the Palace site should be cleared of debris by the end of the year.
A new mixed-use development project is planned for the site.
"There have been some companies we've already talked to about possible development of the property," Hall said. "I would say we've had conversations with at least half-a-dozen people. This property is very interesting and for a lot of businesses, its proximity is very attractive."


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Toronto Maple Leafs will try to win for the first time this month on the road as they battle the rival Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre.
The Maple Leafs have not claimed a victory as the visiting team since Oct. 30 in Calgary, going 0-3-3 away from Toronto since. That includes a pair of post- regulation setbacks on their current three-game swing as the Leafs dropped a shootout in Pittsburgh on Wednesday before getting dealt a 3-2 overtime defeat on Friday in Buffalo.
James Reimer made 26 saves before getting beat by Christian Ehrhoff on a long wrist shot 38 seconds into the bonus frame. Phil Kessel scored the 199th goal of his career and Nikolai Kulemin also tallied.
Toronto got off 10 shots in the third period and had a chance to go ahead late when James van Riemsdyk had a shorthanded breakaway with 30 seconds to play. However, Buffalo's Matt D'Agostini prevented van Riemsdyk from getting a shot off thanks to a diving backcheck, though van Riemsdyk was surprised nothing was called.
"Usually when you're in all alone and you get your legs taken out from under you, you expect something, especially when the calls have been what they were," said van Riemsdyk of the play. "We can't use officiating as an excuse. We've got to find ways to be better."
Looking to snap their six-game road skid, the Maple Leafs have won three straight and six of their past seven games in Montreal. That includes a season-opening 4-3 victory on Oct. 1.
Reimer made 34 saves, but could give way tonight to Jonathan Bernier, who has lost both of his previous starts versus the Habs while allowing six goals on 60 shots.
Montreal has lost four of its past six versus Toronto overall and had a four- game winning streak snapped last night with a 3-2 shootout setback to the Washington Capitals.
Peter Budaj made 24 saves through overtime, but saw the Caps' Mikhail Grabovski sneak a puck between his pads after faking a shot in the fourth round of the shootout. Tomas Plekanec, who scored and had an assist in regulation, then had his chance poke-checked away.
Danny Briere also scored for the Canadiens, who are 6-1-2 in their last nine games.
"I thought we were the team that dictated the game in the third (period). I thought we played well enough to win the game, so I'm disappointed that we came up short, but I believe our effort was there and when you go to a shootout, you never know. We found a way to score two goals but it was not good enough," Canadiens coach Michel Therrien said.
Carey Price should start tonight for the Habs and dipped below .500 in his career versus the Maple Leafs when he allowed four goals on 38 shots in the Oct. 1 loss. He is 11-12-1 lifetime in this series with a 2.69 goals against average and three shutouts.


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Alec Rash is a 6-foot-6 right-hander with the kind of talent that makes professional baseball scouts salivate.
The Philadelphia Phillies used their second-round pick in last year's draft on Rash, but the 19-year-old pitcher isn't honing his skills in the minor leagues this spring. Instead, he's a freshman for the Missouri Tigers.
Rash is a poster child for how Major League Baseball's new collective bargaining agreement is already starting to impact the college game.
With new limitations on how much teams can spend on prep stars, it appears more will be heading to college instead of the minor leagues.
In November 2011, the CBA capped the amount of money each organization could spend in the first 10 rounds of the draft. In the first draft under the new rules, the number of high school players rated among Baseball America's top 200 draft-eligible prospects went unsigned or undrafted increased slightly to 35, up from 26 in the 2011 draft.
Of those 35 unsigned or undrafted players, 33 are now playing Division I college baseball. The numbers might increase after the 2013 draft in June.
"It's already had an impact," Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin said of the CBA. "What you're seeing is the kids who are drafted from round five or after, I think you're seeing more of those kids show up in school."
Rash, the highest-drafted high school player not to sign a pro contract last year, said the Phillies didn't offer the $750,000 signing bonus he sought. He was the 95th overall selection, and the slot value for that spot was $500,000. Rash enrolled at Missouri instead and is 2-1 with a 3.43 ERA and 19 strikeouts in 21 innings.
He said he probably would have turned pro directly out of high school under the old agreement.
The cap "really makes it difficult for teams to be able to just go out and throw money at someone," Rash said. "They have to play more of a game with it. They have to really be smart with their money. Before the new CBA, they could just throw money at someone and make that decision for them."
LSU shortstop Alex Bregman is another player tearing up college fields and not the minors.
He was considered a potential first-round draft pick before breaking a finger his senior year at Albuquerque (N.M.) Academy. After getting picked by the Boston Red Sox in the 29th round, Bregman went to LSU and is batting .444 with 41 runs scored and 35 RBIs in 34 games.
The Tigers (32-2) are off to the best start in school history, thanks in part to Bregman's presence.
"I think in the old rules, they probably would have still taken a flyer on him — maybe not in the first round — but they would have watched him all summer and then they would have had a chance to give him a couple of million dollars in August before school started, and he probably would have signed," LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. "Because of the new rules, he ends up coming to school, where he's been leading our team."
Tennessee has played 17 true freshmen this season, the most of any Division I team. The list of Tennessee freshmen includes shortstop A.J. Simcox and outfielder Vincent Jackson, who were rated by Baseball America among the nation's top 200 draft-eligible prospects last year.
Before MLB's latest collective bargaining agreement, teams could offer an unlimited amount of money to players they drafted.
Now MLB assigns a slot value to every pick in each year's draft — which in 2012 ranged from $7.2 million for the No. 1 overall pick to $125,000 at the end of the 10th round. A team's total allotment is the sum of the slot value of all of its selections in the first 10 rounds.
A team can spend its allotment as it sees fit, going above or under slot value for an individual pick if it desires. But if a team goes above the overall threshold, it must pay a luxury tax. Any players selected after the 10th round of the draft can be signed for up to $100,000 without counting toward a team's cap.
Miami Marlins scouting director Stan Meek said the draft's rule changes are more restrictive, but can be a positive for pro organizations because it streamlines the negotiating process.
"It makes for a more honest discussion and it certainly makes us do our homework with prospects," Meek said. "We have to get a good understanding of how much it's going to take for a player to sign because we don't have as much wiggle room. It's brought a little more realism to everything."
Meek said he expects the new rules will help the college game because good prospects who aren't considered elite — ones that might be slotted from the sixth to 10th round — would be more likely to go to school because the hope for a large signing bonus isn't as feasible.
Major League Baseball's slot value for a sixth-round pick in the 2012 draft ranged from about $200,000 to $250,000. That's not necessarily an enticing amount for a player who has a scholarship on the table and could potentially improve his draft position after a good college career.
Still, LSU's Mainieri pointed out the rules also can work to college baseball's detriment.
Mainieri signed outfielder Hayden Jennings last year and didn't expect him to get drafted in the first 20 rounds. Jennings instead went to the Washington Nationals in the sixth round and never played for LSU. Mainieri said Jennings signed with the Nationals for $100,000, well below slot value.
"Basically what was happening was Washington was drafting a player they knew they could sign for under slot to save them money they could probably put into one of their higher picks," Mainieri said. "We ended up losing a player there that we did not expect to lose. It happens in both directions."


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Chinese students' interest in foreign business schools has risen sharply in the past five years, especially among women, new data show.
The Graduate Management Admission Council, a nonprofit educational organization of leading graduate business schools and owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test, said Chinese GMAT takers almost tripled in the past five years, from 48,664 to 126,090.
The test is the only standardized exam for graduate business and management programs worldwide.
Growth has been driven by female students and those younger than 25, who are largely interested in specialized master's programs outside China.
"The high percentage of females taking the GMAT is unique to China," said Julia Herries, Asia-Pacific regional director for the GMAC.
"Most Chinese women taking the exam are considering a specialized master's degree, such as in accounting and finance.
"Given the rapid economic development in China, there is significant demand for these skills, and many young women view a career in finance and accounting as providing a stable future," she said.
In the 2011 testing period, which ended in June, 64 percent of Chinese examinees were female, compared with 57 percent globally and 61 percent in US.
A 24-year-old Beijing examinee surnamed Fang told China Daily that she took the exam for a bright future in France.
Fang learned French in college and stayed in France for a year on an exchange program. Then she returned to China and found a job in a State-owned company.
"Although the work is stable and the pay is good, I still think I, as a women, should focus more on my career when I am still young, because it would be harder for me to do so after getting married," Fang said.
Fang will take the exam in July, and send the scores to business schools in France.
"We are committed to supporting the growing number of Chinese students pursuing graduate management education every year, whether they desire to pursue this at home in China or overseas, by providing them with the information they need to choose their course of study," Herries said.
"The significance of the Asian impact on management education is real," said Dave Wilson, president and chief executive of the GMAC.
"The flows of graduate management students to, from and within the region have positive benefits for Asian firms as well as multinational companies that operate there."
Programs in Asia saw a 63 percent increase in the number of GMAT scores received from test takers over the past five years.
Some of the top study destinations for Asian citizens are India, Britain, Singapore and Canada.
In June, a new test will replace the old GMAT, which some education analysts said would make the exam easier for Chinese students.
However, Herries said the goal in developing the next-generation GMAT is not to make the test harder or easier, but to make it better.
"Today's businesses and organizations demand managers who can make sound decisions, discern patterns, and combine verbal and quantitative reasoning to solve problems," she said.
"The skills being tested by the new 'integrated reasoning' section were identified in a survey of 740 management faculties worldwide as important for today's incoming students."
The quantitative and verbal sections in the GMAT will remain the same. The writing assessment will be streamlined from two 30-minute essays to one argument-analysis essay.
"Chinese students, who perform well in the GMAT, are likely to continue to perform well with the addition of the 'integrated reasoning' section," Herries said.


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New collection of articles explores the science, application, and regulation of genetically modified insects for disease control
Author: Renata Santillan
The current issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases presents a new collection of articles on the use of genetically modified (GM) insects for controlling some of the most widespread infectious diseases. Articles from across the PLoS journals describe the technological advances these tools represent, the regulatory framework, and the societal dialogue that is necessary for their wide-scale application for disease control.
Diseases transmitted by insects form a huge burden on human and animal populations. Insect control has historically been one of many strategies for control of diseases such as dengue, malaria, and sleeping sickness. The debate on whether GM insects could be used for disease control began as soon as transgenic insects were first produced in the 1980's. Since then several experimental releases of GM insects have taken place. These trials show promise for limiting the spread of many vector-borne diseases (most notably Dengue fever). Articles in this collection showcase different aspects of this new technology including development, environmental impact, and regulation. Public discussion of the science and application of GM insects is necessary as new developments bring potential wide releases closer to a reality.
In an Editorial, Drs. Michael J Lehane (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) and Serap Aksoy (Yale School of Public Health) state that GM insects "may provide great promise for new means of controlling diseases with a devastating impact on people's lives. If so, then public acceptance is likely to be a key issue in their implementation." With many countries considering open field trials of GM insects, a Viewpoint by Guy Reeves et al. examines the regulation process of the first 3 countries that have had field trials of GM insects. Commentary by John Mumford highlights that both national and international regulations are required due to factors regarding each country's individual environmental risk to GM insects. In a commentary from an industry perspective, Luke Alphey and Camilla Beech argue that "the agencies tasked to regulate GM insects have appropriately taken a cautious, thorough approach that allows progress towards realisation of the substantial benefits GM insect technology could potentially provide, while rigorously protecting the public and environment."
The articles in this collection highlight many different points of view surrounding the research into GM insects. As the recent history of GM insect development demonstrates, public discussion is necessary as scientists continue to research GM insect technologies to control some of the world's most devastating diseases.


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Netflix unveils Latin America service in Brazil
(AP) -- Netflix launched its movie and TV streaming service in Brazil on Monday, the beachhead for a push into Latin America that is seen as key to the company's continued growth after recent setbacks in the United States.
Netflix Inc. says it plans to expand into 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean soon, the online movie rental company's largest international expansion yet.
"What Netflix seeks to do is connect the world to provide the world's content to the world's citizens," CEO Reed Hastings said as he inaugurated the service in Brazil on Monday.
Netflix will add service to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on Wednesday, then will expand to Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean within a week.
The move brings challenges not seen in Netflix's core markets, the U.S. and Canada.
Broadband internet reaches a far smaller percentage of homes in Latin America than in the United States, and speeds are slower. Piracy of movies is among the most widespread on the planet, meaning many consumers can pick up a DVD or CD of the latest films for less than a dollar. Also, Netflix has little brand recognition in the region, and in the case of Brazil it already faces a homegrown competitor.
"This just won't work in Ecuador or Costa Rica or even Mexico as it has in the U.S.," said analyst Michael Pachter of Webbush Securities. "It's going to depend on how many households have broadband access and what the quality of the content will be like."
Only 20 percent of Brazil's 42 million Internet users have a connection speed above 500 kilobytes per second, according to a May report from Ibope Nielsen Online. A speed of around 800 kilobytes per second is the minimum required to stream movies online.
Netflix subscribers across the region will be able to watch TV shows and movies streamed on a wide range of gadgets. Foreign and domestic content will be offered in Brazil, with some titles dubbed in Portuguese, Spanish or English, and people will also be able to opt for subtitling.
The service in Brazil will cost 14.99 reals per month (about $9), and new subscribers will get the first month for free.
In the U.S., a streaming subscription costs $8 a month and customers can pay slightly more to get DVDs in the mail. As in Canada, Netflix's service in Latin America will be streaming-only, with no DVD option. Netflix's streaming library in the U.S. is about one-fifth the size of the 100,000 selections in the DVD section.
Hastings declined to say how many movie and TV titles would be available to Latin American consumers. He also would not say how much the company has invested in the venture.
The company based in Los Gatos, California, is working on broadening its international reach as its service it launched in 2007 in the U.S. becomes more ubiquitous and as it faces new pressures. As of March, Netflix had 22.8 million subscribers in the U.S., about 34,000 more than the number of households subscribing to Comcast Corp.'s cable-TV service.
The company is trying to pacify subscribers incensed about a price increase of as much as 60 percent on plans that bundle Internet video with DVD rentals.
It's also scrambling to fill a potentially big void in its video library that will be created in March if it loses the rights to stream movies and TV shows from Starz Entertainment, part of Liberty Media Corp.
Netflix had been trying to renew the Starz deal, which included recently released movies from Walt Disney Co.'s various studios, only to have the talks collapse last week when Starz announced that it wouldn't renew a contract that allows Netflix to stream recently released movies and TV shows online under the $30 million annual deal.
Those developments have raised fears that Netflix might lose subscribers in the U.S., and that has driven down the company's stock price by about 25 percent, wiping out about $4 billion in shareholder wealth since the price increases were announced in July.
Anti-piracy advocates hope that Netflix's entry into Latin America may provide a market-based solution to the rampant infringement of intellectual property rights in the region, ranked by many watchdog groups as the worst in the world.
Kelsey Zahourek, director of the Washington-based watchdog group Property Rights Alliance, hopes Netflix can change consumer habits in Latin America.
"If you give consumers a fairly inexpensive choice to get all the movies they want for a fairly inexpensive prices, it's going to bring down piracy rates," she said. "Increasing enforcement along with changing consumer habits can go a long way in reducing piracy."
Hastings said the use of peer-to-peer sharing networks to spread pirated movies in Canada has declined since Netflix entered that market, but he was doubtful the service alone was the answer.
"We're not going to eliminate piracy with Netflix, but you can make a dent," he said.
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03-Jan-2004 -- We had a wonderful trip to Libya organized by African Adventures with 14 people on 7 off-road cars. Great landscapes and a lot of sand but even a particularly cold weather. In the night it reached even minus 4°C. We really recommend Libya to people that like desert. Unfortunately we couldn't find any Confluence in Libya (would have been the first one for this country!). But Athos, going back to Libya in March, has promised to get the first Confluence of this country!
Instead, we reached this point in Tunisia coming back from our Libyan trip. This Confluence is exactly beside the Road Nr. 1 going North-South by the sea. We were Athos and Antonella (from Switzerland) and Lorenzo (from Italy). The picture showing South was taken up the bridge to show the landscape from there.


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Jiminy - Reuters has a long profile of George Zimmerman and we learn in the lead that he got his gun permit and gun because a neighbor wouldn't control his large, menacing pit bull:
(Reuters) - A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009.
The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain. The second time, Big Boi frightened his mother-in-law's dog. Zimmerman called Seminole County Animal Services and bought pepper spray. The third time he saw the dog on the loose, he called again. An officer came to the house, county records show.
"Don't use pepper spray," he told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. "It'll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter second for the dog to jump you," he said.
"Get a gun."
That November, the Zimmermans completed firearms training at a local lodge and received concealed-weapons gun permits. In early December, another source close to them told Reuters, the couple bought a pair of guns. George picked a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun, a popular, lightweight weapon.
Oh, man - if only the First Dog Diner had been around in September 2009. We can hear him now - "If I had a dog it would look like Big Boi and Big Boi would look like dinner."
The real juice in the story is a bit later, where Reuters describes the crime wave that had vexed the Retreat at Twin Lakes. Two snippets:
Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account.
"Let's talk about the elephant in the room. I'm black, OK?" the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. "There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood," she said. "That's why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin."
And one of the burglaries was unusually upsetting:
At least eight burglaries were reported within Twin Lakes in the 14 months prior to the Trayvon Martin shooting, according to the Sanford Police Department. Yet in a series of interviews, Twin Lakes residents said dozens of reports of attempted break-ins and would-be burglars casing homes had created an atmosphere of growing fear in the neighborhood.
But it was the August incursion into the home of Olivia Bertalan that really troubled the neighborhood, particularly Zimmerman. Shellie was home most days, taking online courses towards certification as a registered nurse.
On August 3, Bertalan was at home with her infant son while her husband, Michael, was at work. She watched from a downstairs window, she said, as two black men repeatedly rang her doorbell and then entered through a sliding door at the back of the house. She ran upstairs, locked herself inside the boy's bedroom, and called a police dispatcher, whispering frantically.
"I said, 'What am I supposed to do? I hear them coming up the stairs!'" she told Reuters. Bertalan tried to coo her crying child into silence and armed herself with a pair of rusty scissors.
Police arrived just as the burglars - who had been trying to disconnect the couple's television - fled out a back door. Shellie Zimmerman saw a black male teen running through her backyard and reported it to police.
After police left Bertalan, George Zimmerman arrived at the front door in a shirt and tie, she said. He gave her his contact numbers on an index card and invited her to visit his wife if she ever felt unsafe. He returned later and gave her a stronger lock to bolster the sliding door that had been forced open.
"He was so mellow and calm, very helpful and very, very sweet," she said last week. "We didn't really know George at first, but after the break-in we talked to him on a daily basis. People were freaked out. It wasn't just George calling police ... we were calling police at least once a week."
I guess he didn't come off as an annoying contol freak at that moment.
This is the second recent 'new perspective' story from Reuters. Obviously, this might have been more helpful in easing our national blood pressure had it been run last March, but hey.
I will add that I read about the home invasion back when the City of Sanford had more of their police reports online. The prosecutor asked to have them taken down; they live online, but where? In the Google Cache, of course, and now also here: TwinLakesBurglaryReports; the home invasion is p. 13.
The Tampa Bay Times wrote about a neighborhood in transition battered by falling home prices and crime back on March 25. I do not think the Tampa Bay Times crime stat jibes with the Reuters numbers, but here we go:
For the first two months of this year, at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, the Sanford police logged 51 calls for service. Half were just people requesting information. The others included eight burglaries, two bike thefts and three simple assaults.
UPDATE: Here is the Miami Herald from March 17, with help from DizzyMissL:
The answer may lie in police records, which show that 50 suspicious-person reports were called in to police in the past year at Twin Lakes. There were eight burglaries, nine thefts and one other shooting in the year prior to Trayvon's death.
In all, police had been called to the 260-unit complex 402 times from Jan. 1, 2011 to Feb. 26, 2012.


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Initially, the project is intended to focus on the demand side of the NML, thus looking at the main areas of concern resulting from the impact of a continuous use of digital devices and services. In the later stage, the project will deal with the supply side, reviewing what educational institutions have done to accommodate or to struggle with NML characteristics, expectations and needs. The New Millennium Learners project also includes an activity on ICT and Initial Teacher Training.
Publication: Connected Minds - In all OECD countries, digital media and connectedness are integral to the lives of today's learners. This book contributes to the debate about the effects of technology attachment and connectedness on today's learners, and their expectations about teaching.
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- 29 May, 2010 00:31
The continuing saga of Google's wireless snooping and the maelstrom it's generated won't end anytime soon. Peeved government officials in both Europe and the U.S. are pressing Google for more details on how the search company's Street View cars managed to cull personal data from Wi-Fi networks that weren't password-protected.
Google, in a May 17 blog post, owned up to the gaffe, which it called an accident. Despite the firm's mea culpa, a US District Court in Portland, Oregon on Monday ordered Google to turn over two copies of the data it collected from open Wi-Fi networks in the United States. And at least four lawsuits in California, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington D.C. have been filed by people accusing Google of violating their privacy, Reuters reports.
You May Be Next
The tech-savvy among us may be tempted to sneer at naïve folk who use unprotected wireless networks. Indeed, it's probably fair to say that Google's Wi-Fi victims should've known better. But don't get too cocky. Wireless-eavesdropping technology is growing more sophisticated, and unaware business users could easily fall victim to clever snoops.
After all, maybe you're not as savvy as you thing. Have you ever used public-access Wi-Fi, maybe to fire off a quick email or handle another business-related chore--but didn't bother to take any security precautions? Most likely the answer is "yes," even though you know the risks.
Even if you're working from a coffee shop with password-protected Wi-Fi, you're still not safe from eavesdroppers. Why? Because other wireless users in the café are using the same password as you, and they can see your traffic if they want to.
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To thwart email snoops, use a Webmail service that has HTTPS (an encrypted connection) for your entire mail session. This is important because nearly all Webmail systems, with the exception of Gmail and most likely your company's Webmail client, use HTTPS only for logins, a practice that allows other users on the wireless network to read your email.
If your company provides a virtual private network (VPN)--an encrypted data highway back to the office--be sure to use it when you're at a free or subscription Wi-Fi hotspot.
Even with these precautions, you're never 100-percent safe on a wireless network. Recent university research shows that snoops may soon be able to use a malware program called a "bugbot" to hijack your cell phone's mic and listen to your conversations via a nearby laptop or mobile phone. And while cell phone malware is still relatively rare, it's growing rapidly.
For more information on how to secure your wireless activities, read: "How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi" by Steven Andrés; and "Bugnets Could Spy on You via Mobile Devices" by Robert Vamosi.
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1-6 Infantry evaluates maneuver capabilities of motorcycles, ATVs during NIE 13.1
November 26, 2012
By Lt. Col. Deanna Bague
DONA ANA RANGE, N.M. (Nov. 26, 2012) -- Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, are evaluating how motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles can help the maneuverability of Soldiers during reconnaissance missions conducted in scenarios during Network Integration Evaluation 13.1.
Soldiers from 2-1 AD provide immediate feedback that allows U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, to assess concepts, identify implications, and enables Army Test and Evaluation Command to assess the technical performance of materiel technologies.
Capt. William Branch, a commander for C Company, 1-6 Inf., said as far as warfighting functions are concerned, the use of motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles, or ATVs, addresses the maneuver side of the house because they allow the dismounted Soldier to get from point A to point B without any kind of fatigue.
"It leaves him ready to take the fight to the enemy when he finally gets to his location," said Branch. "It also allows for him to move stealthily through the battlefield in the event that he is establishing an [observation post] as maybe a scout -- he can infiltrate inside and outside enemy lines using his motorcycle and not be very visible audibly to the enemy."
Soldiers said the motorcycles and ATVs are an integrated base defense mobility package that allows them to conduct reconnaissance and patrols around their perimeter to make sure it is safe.
"Once we have identified targets and have collaborated those with the systems that we have, we're able to use the motorcycles and ATVs to go out and make contact with that enemy," said Branch.
Pfc. Joshua Doster, a tanker with 1-6 Inf, who is one of the Soldiers testing the motor vehicles, said he feels the motorcycles and ATVs will increase the range of tasks Soldiers can perform in the area of scouting missions and area reconnaissance.
"Just being a smaller vehicle [it is] able to move under cover without the noise and the profile of a lot of these larger vehicles that we've been using," said Doster.
Branch said the integrated base defense system is in Afghanistan but it's not integrated with motorcycles and ATVs.
"The work that we're doing here at the NIE is allowing for us to aid the Soldiers that are in Afghanistan," said Branch. "This is allowing us to establish a baseline for our tactics, techniques and standard operating procedures for how we employ these systems in a testing environment such as this one so that we can forward it to Soldiers that are in Afghanistan and allow them to be successful in their operations."
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EMMET COUNTY, Mich. -- A dog is being hailed a hero after he rescued his owner who became paralyzed when he slipped and fell in the snow.
Around 10:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve, Bob was watching football when he decided to run outside and get a log for his fireplace, WPBN reports. When he got outside, he slipped and fell, breaking his neck.
Not able to move, Bob laid in the snow for nearly 20 hours. As temperatures dipped to the mid-20s, his golden retriever, Kelsey, stayed by his side -- licking his face to keep him warm.
"She kept barking for help but never left my side," he said. "She kept me warm and alert. I knew I had to persevere through this and that it was my choice to stay alive."
On New Year's Day, Bob's neighbor found him and called 911.
When he arrived at the hospital, he had a core body temperature less than 70 degrees, the station reports. The doctor also performed surgery for decompression of his spinal cord and stabilization. The surgery was deemed successful.
"I am so thankful for my two heroes," Bob said. "Kelsey kept me warm, alert, and never stopped barking for help. Dr. Colen saved my life and ability to move. They are truly heroes and I will be eternally grateful."


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Why Civil Resistance Works: Unarmed Conflict in the Past and Future
October 1, 2013
Between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as violent insurgencies. In this talk, Chenoweth will review the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discuss the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st century. She will draw from her book (co-authored with Maria Stephan) Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, which recently won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. The book argues that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to involvement, information, and commitment, leading to enhanced resilience, improved tactical flexibility, increased opportunity for civic disruption, and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters. Moreover, nonviolent resistance movements tend to usher in more durable and internally peaceful democracies.
Erica Chenoweth is Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and an Associate Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Norway (PRIO). Together with Maria J. Stephan of the U.S. State Department, she is the winner of the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Their book, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict also won the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, in recognition of the best book on government, politics, or international affairs published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year. While teaching at Wesleyan University, Chenoweth was the 2010 recipient of the Carol A. Baker Memorial Prize for excellence in junior faculty research and teaching. She has also held visiting appointments at Harvard, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Maryland. She is currently the co-chair of the Academic Advisory Board at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Chenoweth is also the co-author of Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict with Adria Lawrence of Yale University, and is working on her next book, Why Democracy Encourages Terrorism, which explores the underlying reasons why terrorism is so common in democratic countries. She has published over a dozen articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. Chenoweth presents her research all over the world at various academic conferences, government workshops, and international governmental organizations. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. She co-hosts the award-winning blog Political Violence @ a Glance, hosts a blog called Rational Insurgent, and has been an occasional blogger at The Monkey Cage and Duck of Minerva. Chenoweth holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in political science from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in political science and German from the University of Dayton.


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My primary monitor uses a resolution of 1920 x 1080. I've just compared two folders containing 50,000 files, where most of them needed updating on the dest. With the Synchronize It! window opened only just enough to view one line of files,
the scanning process took 20 seconds. When opened to "normal" size (showing 32 lines of files), the scanning process took over 80 seconds. The speed of the drives were around 50MB/sec and 111 MB/sec. When the SSD is involved (530 MB/sec), the difference is even more pronounced.
1. The mouse pointer is flickering between normal and wait states at least hundreds of times. This wasn't the case with V3.2. I have no idea whether this slows things down and even why V3.5 does this, but in any case it's annoying.
2. There is little point in updating the Synchronize It! window for each of 50,000 files. The only reason for viewing during a scan is to get feedback right? Well, any refresh happening more than a couple of times per second is redundant, as humans simply cannot read that fast. One way to handle this is to monitor real time in the scan loop, and skip any window refresh that's closer than say 100ms of the most recent, plus a forced refresh at completion of scan. If purists enjoy seeing blurred text fly past then add an option. Personally, I'd rather just do what I need to do and then move onto the next task.
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If you always thought of world-class professional wrestlers as too big to care, think again. Pro Wrestling Superstar Vito LoGrasso does more charity and volunteer work, especially for children, than most of us will do in a lifetime. From mentoring and teaching young athletes, to fundraising for firefighters and the military, to remembering an old friend in need, Vito has either done it all or wants to try.
"I never turn away anyone with a cause," says the Former WCW Hardcore Champion. "Whether it is visiting children in the hospital at University Community Hospital or helping out wrestling at a Charity Fundraiser Event, I am there."
Vito says he has been inspired partially by past legends of the sport and on the big screen, like Actor and Comedian Bob Hope. Hope supported the military and veterans. "I want to use my celebrity status to help people any way I can," says the former superstar of ECW, WWE, TNA, and WCW. "I wish more celebrities would do the same."
Vito also knows what it's like to be poor, growing up on the streets of Brooklyn, so he identifies with those in need. Also known as "Skull Von Krush" and "Big Vito", Vito doesn't just help, but goes above and beyond. When Big Vito teaches wrestling or personal training, he makes sure that physical excellence is not the only thing he teaches. "I teach them the total package," Vito says, explaining that mental, interpersonal, and spiritual strength is just as important as physical. "I want the kids to be well rounded."
And the big wrestler with the big heart still isn't too big to laugh at himself. Not afraid to take on a different kind of challenge, he'll squeeze into a sexy woman's dress and dance to "All My Single Ladies". "The kids love it," Vito stated. "I feel like the pied piper. Everyone from grandparents, teenagers, adults are on the floor laughing with me." Called one of the most "underrated sports entertainers", what reward does Big Vito get for daring to do what few men ever would?
"The best thing in the world is just seeing the joy in people's faces," he says. "People think that I have the best life ever, but I have struggles and hard times just like everyone else," Vito says. "The important thing is to not let it knock you down and never let anyone tell you that you can't do anything.", added Vito. "I've accomplished my goals, and I want everyone to know that if I can't do it, they sure can or at least try their best."


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When Only Built 4 Cuban Linx came out in 1995, he launched a genre within rap, using coded language to describe cocaine sales. Armed with a concept, dope beats and a charismatic partner-in-crime, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon the Chef carved out a spot in Hip-Hop history for himself. Not only was the music hot, but so was the product itself: a purple cassette.
Since then, Rae has gone through ups and downs in his solo efforts, but fans know hes never lost the rhyme. So when word came out last year that he was coming full circle with a return to the essence, the rap world has been waiting and waiting.
Its been months since the buzz peaked over the upcoming Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2. Heads wanted to know if the Chef could do it again, and better yet, if he should do it.
Rae silenced all the whispers in past interviews with a firm wait and see attitude and held thirsty fans at bay with the release of his Vatican mixtapes. With the Cuban Linx 2 release date still up in the air, Wu's Chef dishes about having a classic, Hip-Hops state of affairs, and how no one in the game has come close to the level of the Wu.
AllHipHop.com: How does it feel to know that you have one of the most classic albums ever in Only Built 4 Cuban Linx?
Raekwon: Well number one, it feels good. It feels good to know that I achieved a mark that I always felt I could. But for the most part, I tend to stay humble and respect that and not be overwhelmed with the love. It just makes me stronger as an artist because I know that people watch what I put out. So its kind of a double-edged sword where its a good thing and a bad thing only because the bad thing about it is that you have to stay on that level as being one of the best, because if you dont, then whyd you make that? It keeps me on my toes.
Its like how we love gangster flicks and we feel like DeNiro need to make one more. Just give us one more, Al Pacinoand they f**k around and give us one more, in their own little way. I guess when it comes down to some of your favorites, you want that. You want them to take you there.
AllHipHop.com: Does it make you sad, for lack of a better wordcause theres no message in music anymore
Raekwon: Its f**ked up. Its there, but its being dealt with on a very wack level because people are so much into now seeing people kill each other off and dramatizing. Who dont like a fight? Thats just the where the face of Hip-Hop went and dont get me wrongyou got generations upon generations coming into the business every year. It seems like the kids are getting younger and younger and learning it now. Now you got young kids knowing how to rhyme and put words together because theyre being guided by what were talking about. So overall, its just about balance. Everything in life has to have a balance. When you giving somebody something like this, you gotta be able to be versatile and give them that. But if the people aint corresponding or the disc jockeys just dont feel like playing that, that dont necessarily mean to shoot it in the head or shoot it down or look down on somebody like their album aint the truth. You cant say that because its just about sprinkling all type of good s**t. And me being the Chef, thats my mission. I want to go down in history as a rapper that knew how to make the dance rap and the n***a that knew how to do the grimy s**t. Im a real MC and its like to me, thats what makes an MC. Because when he could go somewhere that you least expected him he could go. But now you got rap just being cosmetic now; like who talking the toughest, who got the most metaphors, who got the nice cute hook.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, its like you cant win in that kind of a situation.
Raekwon: All you can do is just be you. Thats all I try to do. I dont try to talk about something I havent witnessed or I havent experienced. When you get [to an] age like myself, it aint guaranteed you gonna make it out the hood at 25, so when you do, you start growing up as a man, your pants start coming up more, you start wearing a beltand thats all a part of growing. So I just feel like that needs to be more exercised and its so important for us to know the right people we putting in these positions to talk about certain dudes. Certain dudes, you gotta really break it down for people. Like sometimes, I might have read an article and it says, His lyrics were sharp, he still got it but RZA could have been on the track. Its like, Yo, hold up; you dealing with your own personal feelings, you not dealing with the fact that it sounds good. If its good is good. Its so sad cause a lot people really listen to certain motherf**kas that they think is really the ref like that.
AllHipHop.com: Do you think fans dont allow artists to grow?
Raekwon: Yeah, because fans are fickle. Theyll be with you one minute then turn on youthats part of the business. But I think sometimes as far myself, people werent ready for me to grow up yet and still stay with that certain hunger and thats all they wanted. When we came in, Hip-Hop was fun too. So to not be able to get that same thing they had then and then it not being fun no more, now its time to start basing your judgment on something that really, you being stubborn with it.
By my name being chefMeth told n***as on the first albumRae is the n***a thats gonna cook up that marvelous s**t, period. He aint never say Rae is the dude thats gonna stay here; he gonna cook up all type of s**t cause thats what a chef does. A chef gotta have a kitchen with all kinds of ingredients and I know that Im one of the dudes in the Wu that stand out like that. And thats only because Im around all types of individuals. Yall gotta remember the personalities of Wu-Tang. They blemish off each other. RZAs gonna come how RZAs gonna come. Rae cant never come how RZA come, but Rae could use a little bit of RZAs slang or RZA could use a little bit of Raes slang, or use GZAs and GZA uses Decks and Deck uses Ghosts. We told yall ahead of time all this s**t, but now its a new time, people dont understand why we all doing solo s**t. We said that!
So I think just the challenge alone of having a classic gives me the opportunity to go make one more. To me, all my albums are classicbut like you said, to step on what you already stepped on, it is a challenge and its a whatever. Its like both sides, but Im equipped for it. I feel like me in the game anyway, I havent given what I felt I was ready to give yall all yet. Because I been so much of a team player and thats why theres gaps in my career where you havent heard me because I had to give the other brother the opportunity to be heard. We wasnt thinking back then [92] to have nine albums all out bumpin. We didnt want to hurt each others feelings with sales; cause all that s**t just bring about egos. But in a way that was good and bad. Its two shots because its like, its your time and then people could be wanting you and then next thing you know, by you being so far away, now they aint ready to grow with you.
AllHipHop.com: You can see this in the writing
Raekwon: God bless the dead, [Old] Dirty [Bastard] used to have a dictionary. And he didnt have no problems at any time pulling it out if he felt like it, but this is way after his career of him being who he is, but act like if after a while a n***a dont come at him with a dictionary, that he not holding on to it. And we used to laugh about it and be like, Yo, you crazy n***a, you cheatin, and hed be like [on point impersonation of ODB] F**k you, n***a, n***a Im still ill, n***aI just need a wordI ran out of words! To me, even back like 15 years ago, RZA been had rhymes. He been a lyricist, but he had the passion to make music. So its like when yall hear him comeand even on this album right here, RZA didnt really go all the way in cause he felt like he didnt want to take away from the Cuban Linx s**t. But at the same time, he did go in on it. You may hear a rhyme and youll be like, Yo, thats the RZA. Somebody may be like, Where Bobby Digital at?but thats the RZA right there though.
Thats another thingwe have personalities. Like I may be Raekwon right now, but I might flash over to Lex Diamond and you wont even know. Thats how we move. We are swift and changeable. When you break the initials of Wu-Tang, its plain and simple who we are: the Witty, Unpredictable, Talented, And Natural Game. And we got natural game. Its so natural, it aint even game anymore, its just us. We could start a fire with a f**king thought, if we want to.
Im gonna be honest with you: I aint seen nobody come in the game yet on the level that we came in. Thats why its so much of a highly anticipated thing about us coming backcause you cant get that. Now you got motherf**kers assembling crews like that to try to be that [Wu-Tang], but nobody could ever be that. And Im not saying thats anybodys plan; you dont know, it might be or it might not. But Im just saying to have that solar system of dudes doing that we didnt even know that we were doing that when we did it. We didnt know we were going to be a nine-man clique until we realized, Damn, it is a lot of us on that s**t. And it was what it was, so it was like f**k thatthats how we comin. The names: Yo, my name Lex Diamond, Yeah? My name Tony Starks aka IronMan, Im the Rzathe resurrector, Im the GeniusIm the GZA, Masta Killa his name was Noodlesyou know certain names is for certain respects. MaximilonGZA. Maximilion was one of the top gangstas in one of these movies we was looking at, and he was the brains. And we always look at GZA and RZA as being our forefathers in our crew because they got the most experience.
AllHipHop.com: Right, cause they had their solo albums
Raekwon: Yeah, they did it before us. So if you cant pay the respect to those who did it before you, then you aint really giving it up right. Them dudes put a lot of influence on dudes too.
AllHipHop.com: On Enter the 36 Chambers, one of the interludes, when Method Man was breaking down every member, he said, We form like Voltron, and GZAs the head.
Raekwon: Exactly. And he didnt know he was gonna say that; he dont glorify that. But to us, thats how we look at it. Its so crazy when I think about how Meth described everybody that dayhe described all of us to the fullest.


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I must admit that, at first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like the African-American Lit class I signed up for. I had to take it because it was the only humanities class available at 9:20 on Wednesdays—long story—and I just couldn't see what black lit had to do with pre-med. But you know what? Once I started listening—really listening—to what these beautiful writers had to say, I found myself totally inspired by the incredible black men and women who suffered so much because of their skin color and the fact that they had hardly any money. And even though I know that, as a white person, I will never really have a complete understanding of the black experience, I have to say that I now have a fairly good idea why the caged bird sings.
Growing up in the affluent suburb of Sherwood Oaks, I didn't meet a lot of black people. There just weren't too many of them around. In fact, I don't think there were any at all. I used to think Sherwood Oaks High was the greatest place on earth, but since I started college, I've been exposed to so many more cultural perspectives. I've really grown as a person.
Sure, I had some super fun times at Sherwood. I'll never forget my prom night—the only word I can use to describe it is magical. But looking back, I can't believe how sheltered I was! I was so naïve! I didn't know anything about Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, or any of the other African-American writers who broadened my worldview last semester. During my entire prom, I did not once think about all the suffering blacks and their novels and poetry and personal memoirs. I didn't think for two seconds about all of the black women being raped by their fathers and brothers. Where were their magical prom nights? They didn't have any, because they were trapped in cages, singing.
Not in physical cages, but in metaphorical ones constructed by society. Like I said before, I'm not 100-percent clear on all of this. But even if I don't completely understand, at least I understand how little I used to understand. And that is totally the beginning of understanding.
Before last semester, I didn't have any black friends. I still don't, but I do have some black classmates. And if I ever meet any black people socially, I will totally be up for hanging out, now that I know where they are coming from. When I was in high school, I only knew about black people from seeing them on television. But the book versions of their lives tell you so much more about who black people truly are. Through the spiritual, soulful, and musical quality of their lyrical writing, certain universal themes transcended the cultural barrier, and I came to realize that I can totally relate.
Take, for example, Langston Hughes' famous couplet, "My motto as I live and learn is: dig and be dug in return." I understood that right away. It's like my Dad always says: "You scratch my back, and I scratch yours." One hand washes the other, you know? That's exactly the kind of philosophy that allowed my dad to become such a successful and respected CEO. It's about mutual advantage and common interest, like when two corporations merge for the benefit of both. If only we could learn to live that way as human beings, then maybe there would be no ghettos.
It really makes you think.
Other parts of the class were harder for me to grasp intuitively, and I had to struggle with them, just like the blacks had to struggle before civil rights made them equal. Like this one poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool." I knew that gangs were a big problem in certain neighborhoods—or as some members of the black community call them, "'hoods." But as a white person, it was hard for me to understand what motivates a black person to join a gang. I mean, I never left school or "lurked late" or "sang sin" or any of the things the black people do in the poem. And I certainly never "jazzed June," which I had to ask my T.A. about during discussion section. So I was a bit confused. Like, why would they "thin gin," I wondered. That would only water it down. Then I realized they were probably too poor to afford enough gin, and that just broke my heart. Because of cultural differences, I still can't relate to why they think it's so cool that they're going to die soon, but the poem spoke to me nonetheless. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got it.
Even though I'm a white pre-med student with a Tri-Delt legacy, I understood, mostly, why the caged bird sings. It sings because it longs to be free. Even though it's trapped in a cage, it refuses to be silenced. It still has hope, and it still has something beautiful to give the world. See?
I asked my boyfriend why the caged bird sings, and he said maybe it's because it likes being inside a cage, because it's lazy and too stupid to get out, which I told him right out was rude. If he'd gone through the living hell of prejudice like Maya Angelou had, I told him, then maybe he might be tired and undereducated, too. And then we broke up. After all the changes I've gone through in the past 14 weeks, I couldn't keep dating someone so insensitive.


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Specificationsin South Africa,Libya,Algeria,Ethiopia,Angola,Congo and Romania, we have exported and installed steel warehouse
Bos of excellent quality and most competitive price level,We have exported our steel structure projects and buildings to Africa area only:
a) North Africa:
1.Algeria :3500m2 steel workshop building
2.Libya: 2500m2 steel factory building
3.Angola: 1500m2 steel warehoue building
b)East Africa
1.Ethiopia:3000m2 steel factory building
2.Kenya: 1000m2 steel warehouse
3.Tazania :1576m2 steel warehouse building
4. Tanzania: steel structure truck repairing workshop building
c)West Africa
1.Ghana :8 steel building
2. Nigeria 4 steel structure factory building
d)Middle Africa:
1.Cameroon: 3000m2 steel workshop building
2.D.R.Congo: 1750m2 steel warehouse
e)South Africa
1.Zambia:7296m2 steel warehouse
2.Angola:16000m2 steel workshop building
3.Zimbabwe: 12000m2 steel factory building
4.Angola:4000m2 steel structure workshop building
5.Angola :4360m2 steel structure workshop building
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A.Libya,Congo,Algeria,Mozambique,Ethiopia,we design,fabricate,install
steel structure warehouse ,with 4 cranes,each 30/5mt capacity.
|B.we could deliver our engineers to supervise your installation
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|1)Different Sizes:MOQ is 10m2.length x width x eave height,roof slope
|2)Type: Single slope, double slope, muti slope; Single span, double-span, Multi-span, single floor, double floors!
|3) Base: Cement and steel foundation bolts
4) Column and beam: Material Q345(S355JR)or Q235(S235JR) steel, all bolts connection! Straight cross-section or Variable
|5) Bracing: X or V or other type bracing made from angle, round pipe,etc
|6) C or z purlin: Size from C120~C320, Z100~Z200
7) Roof and wall panel: Single colorfull corrugated steel sheet 0.326~0.8mm thick,YX28-205-820(820mm wide),
|Sandwich panel with EPS, ROCK WOOL, PU etc insulation thickness around 50mm~150mm, width 950mm or 960mm!
|8)Accessories: Semi-transparent skylight belts, Ventilators, down pipe, outer gutter, etc
|9) Surfrace: Paint or hot dip galvanize!
|10) Packing: Main steel frame without packing load in 40'OT, roof and wall panel load in 40'HQ!
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1)Live load on roof(KN/M2)
2)Wind speed(KM/H)
3)Snow load (KG/M2) if have
4)Earthquake load if have
5)Crane (if have), Crane span, crane lift height, max lift capacity, max wheel pressure
steel structure shipyard building in Indonesia
We have designed and fabricated,exported,installed steel structure shipyard building in Indonesia
The size of the building is 58m x 60m, eave height of 24.9meters tall.
The wind load is 33.3m/s,no seismic load (irrelevant because no special seismic load)
There is no door and window aside the building.
For the roof and wall cladding,we adopt 0.8mm thickness iron sheet.
For the overhead crane of steel structure shipyard building
There are four bays totally,
One (1) crane in each bay. Each crane has 2 x 35ton winches. It should be 20m to bottom of crane hook.in other words,the min lifting height is 20 meters.
All the structures to be hot dipped galvanized steel because it is near the ocean.
Thermal transmittance criteria
The buildings are designed to fulfill the following thermal transmittance criteria:
|Building component
|Maximum U-value (W/m2K)
|Exterior walls
|Skylights(smoke vents)
|Weighted average for all wall components
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Kuwait steel structure Quay/steel structure Dock Port Facilities
Kuwait steel structure Quay/steel structure Dock Port Facilities
Project Description: 550ton
Project Type: steel structure pier,steel structure Dock steel structure Tower, steel structure Service Tower, Bridges,steel Ladders, Stairs, steel structure Platform, etc
Time: May~June 2010
Location: Kuwait
Steel structure industrial workshop building of Qingdao Pohang Stainless Steel Co.,Ltd.(South-Korea funded) covers 50000square meters,
1) its structure steelwork consumption reaches more than 5000metric tons.
2) Its clear span of single span is 30 meters
3) And 30t/20t/25t hoist was installed inside the building
4) Its eave height is 28 meters.
5) There are following auxiliary steel structure industrial plant/workshop/warehouse building for the main steel structure industrial workshop building,the total building area reaches 35000 square meters,including Qingdao Puxin Stainless Steel Co.,Ltd,Qingdao Yinfeng Stainless Steel Co.,ltd.,Qingdao Hanshan Metal Co.,ltd.,Qingdao pujin Steel Deep Processing Co.,ltd.(Korea funded).
6) The building types include:
steel structure Industrial Plant/Factory
steel structure Industrial workshop
Steel warehouse /steel structure godowns
Steel structure commercial facility
Load criteria
The building is designed according to Eurocode,Icelandic National Annexes and the Icelandic Building Regulation.We have sent to the owner the load to foundations from the steel structures for each load case.
1. Permanent dead load:to be designed by us
2. Free dead load:Free dead load on the roof from installations is assumed=0.5KN/m2.
3. Crane load:the crane is 20mt crane,the load in crane specifications are characteristic loads.
4. Wind load: Vb,0= 36m/s,Terrain category = II For z=8.0 →Qp=1.80 KN/m2
External pressure coefficients is according to Eurocode
Internal pressure coefficients is assumed = -0.30/+0.20.
5. Snow load: s=1.26 x u Kn/m2,shape coefficient (u) is according to Eurocode.
6. Earthquake load:Design ground acceleration= 0.1g.
Deflection criteria:
This steel building is classified as a C-building according to the Icelandic building Regulations.Maximum deflection for building in class C is as following:
|Total load
|Variable load
|Door frames
|Window frames
|L/300 (max 8mm)
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