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Whether it is in the context of the conflicts in east Ukraine or in the Central African Republic (CAR), observers are quick to denounce imperialistic behaviors on both sides.
For instance, European and US leaders accuse Russia of imperialism in Crimea and the eastern region of Ukrainian, where pro-Russian rebels are taking over buildings and other ares, while Russia says that Westerners forcing their views on the rest of the world is akin to cultural imperialism.
In a similar fashion, a few African observers accuse France of imperialism for its military interventions in the conflicts in Mali and the CAR.
Each superpower seems set on accusing one another of being imperialist, but what does that actually mean?
A survey of the concept
Nowadays, imperialism usually refers to cultural imperialism, when a country imposes an ideology or a way of life onto other countries. As such, the concept is a sensitive one and is not to be used lightly.
On the Global Voices website, the word imperialism appeared 200 times between 2008 and 2014, and all continents have mentioned the subject at least once.
Worldwide, Google Trends' search statistics on imperialism give the following results:
And here are the words most frequently associated with imperialism:
In French, Google Trends shows that unsurprisingly, searches about imperialism are related to news items from Europe. The most popular news headlines on imperialism in recent years are:
- The French Press Denouncing German Imperialism [fr] in Europe in 2012
- Questions About Whether We Are Seeing the End of U.S. Imperialism [fr]
- The Struggle Against Imperialism in Africa [fr]
It also appears that among French-speaking cities, the residents of Dakar, Senegal are the most intrigued by the question of imperialism:
Imperialism according to region
Accusations of imperialism have recently been flung back and forth in reference to Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine. European media have discussed at length Russia's interference in the country following the country's ouster of former President Viktor Yanukovych and the successful referendum in Crimea to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
Quentin Baker, the co-founder of the Association for the Promotion of Territorial Cooperation in Northern Europe, warns against a simplistic read of the situation in the region as pro-European versus pro-Russian ideology [fr]:
La révolution actuelle n'a pas été initiée par des questions de politiques étrangères mais bien par des motifs internes. Il s'agit d'une opposition entre un large spectre de la société et un gouvernement kleptocratique, corrompu et abusif. Ce n'est pas l'est contre l'ouest et Monsieur Ianoukovitch n'est pas coupable d'amitié avec le Kremlin mais bien d'abus de pouvoir.
The current revolution has not been ignited by foreign policy issues but by domestic motives. It is an opposition between a civil society and a plutocratic government, corrupt and abusive. It's not east versus west, and Mr. Yanukovych is not guilty of being friendly with the Kremlin but first and foremost of abuse of power.
Observers in other parts of the word have denounced the hypocrisy of condemning the imperialism of Russia [fr] while ignoring Western imperialism elsewhere. Make no mistake, Russia's behavior smacks of imperialism, but Crimea's desire to maintain a privileged relationship with Russia is undeniable and cannot be ignored.
In the Central African Republic, the intervention by French military forces was desired by many. It succeeded in slowing down the violence, but the intervention seems stuck in a complicated situation in which no one is blameless in the continuation of the conflict.
Jean Batou, a blogger from Bangui at Contretemps, explains why the French intervention is fraught with chances for mission creep [fr], or the expansion of a mission's original goals:
Rien ne serait plus trompeur que d'envisager l'impérialisme français en Afrique au seul prisme de ses « chasses gardées postcoloniales », même s'il est par ailleurs prématuré de pronostiquer l'extinction de la Françafrique. Les autorités hexagonales ont ainsi commandité pas moins de trois volumineux documents sur les perspectives stratégiques de la France en Afrique. Le plus récent des trois annonce clairement la couleur : « L'Etat français doit mettre au cœur de sa politique économique le soutien à la relation d'affaires du secteur privé et assumer pleinement l'existence de ses intérêts sur le continent africain »
Do not make the mistake of seeing French imperialism in Africa through the prism of its "privileged post-colonial network" alone, even though it would be also premature to say that the era of Françafrique is over. French authorities have commissioned no less than three detailed reports on the strategic outlook for France in Africa. The newest of three clearly says it all: "The French government must put the heart of its economic policy in supporting the business relationship of the private sector in Africa and fully assume the existence of its interests on the African continent"
The military intervention in Mali already raised many questions from observers, like this one from Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France [fr], a UN expert and head of the Frantz Fanon Foundation:
Il s'agit de profiter de la déliquescence d'Etats sous domination continue depuis les indépendances pour réintroduire directement une présence militaire camouflée derrière des armées locales dont nul n'ignore l'insigne faiblesse. Dans ce jeu géostratégique, le Mali devient otage d'une volonté des Etats impérialistes et de leurs soutiens.
It seems to me that France is taking advantage of collapsing states that have been under continued domination since their independence. France can reintroduce its armed forces behind the front of local armies, which are famously weak. In this game of world politics, Mali has become hostage of the will of imperialist states and their alleged support.
Malian author Aminata Traoré agreed with that analysis [fr], and added:
Aujourd'hui la militarisation pour le contrôle des ressources de l'Afrique fait parti de l'agenda. Ce qui se passe aujourd'hui au Mali est l'illustration d'une nouvelle étape de la politique de mainmise sur les ressources du continent, notamment les ressources énergétiques, sans lesquelles la sortie de crise, la croissance et la compétitivité ne sont pas envisageables par l'Occident.
Today, militarization of the region in order to control resources in Africa is part of the agenda [of superpowers]. What is happening today in Mali is an illustration of a new stage of political control over the continent's resources, including energy resources. Without these resources, the economic recovery, growth and competitiveness of the west is just wishful thinking.
All the analyses of imperialism seem to forget an important driving factor in these events: whether in Crimea, the CAR or Mali, a non-negligible part of the population have benefited directly from foreign military interventions in these regions. After all, as the well-known Gerald Seymour phrase explained, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".
In today's world politics, we may have the 2.0 version of that phase: One man's imperialist might very well be another man's freedom fighter.


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Homecoming 2011
CSI alumni, students, staff, and faculty had the chance to enjoy a new tradition October 1, 2011--the College's first-ever Homecoming. Fortunately, the rain that was forecast for most of the day held off until later in the afternoon, so visitors were able to enjoy the full slate of events that were planned for the day. Photos by Bill Higgins and Ken Bach.Read More
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This guide is intended to help you install NetBSD on the SIMH VAX emulator.
netbsd-boot containing the following:
load -r /usr/pkg/share/simh/ka655x.bin set cpu 64m set rq0 ra92 at rq0 netbsd.dsk set rq1 cdrom at rq1 /path/to/vaxcd.iso at xq0 name-of-network-interface-on-host boot cpuThis will configure a emulated MicroVAX 3900 with an RA92 disk (/dev/ra0*), and the CD image as an RRD42 CD-Rom (/dev/racd0* or /dev/ra1*). See the SIMH documentation for other options
/usr/pkg/bin/simh-vax netbsd-boot
boot dua1:
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the emulator
set rq1 cdrom" and "
at rq1 /path/to/vaxcd.iso" lines from
netbsd-boot as you no longer need the install CD image. Alternatively you can leave them in case you ever want to re-install
/usr/pkg/bin/simh-vax netbsd-boot
boot dua0:
If you are interested in helping this document cover other NetBSD ports, or have any other comments or suggestions, please contact Lars Brinkhoff <email@example.com>, or the NetBSD WWW group.
The initial version of this HOW-TO was written by Lars Brinkhoff. Some of the information in this page was derived from an email sent by Mirian Crzig Lennox .


text: Clay Hamilton 12 Mar 2014 The annual State of the University address, including some fabulous news for the arts and humanities. And the announcement of Santa Clara 2020, a new vision for the University. Santa Clara University President Michael Engh, S.J., began his annual State of the University address on Feb. 19 by citing some wisdom as to what makes a "perfect" president—from having many "number one" priorities to having skin as tough as a rhino's. Amid a reality of competing priorities, Fr. Engh took as the organizing principle of his look at the University's accomplishments and trajectory "The What, the How, and the Where To." THE WHAT: BUILDING FOR THE ARTS Read a transcript of the complete State of the University address or watch a video of the entire event. And explore Santa Clara 2020. A great piece of news: Ed Dowd '72 made a gift of $12 million toward construction of the Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building. The new building will be on Franklin Street—which, thanks to a gift of $500,000 by Peggy Bradshaw '72 and her husband, Richard, will be transformed into a pedestrian mall. Also, the Jesuit Community of Santa Clara has given more than $500,000 to endow a center for the arts and humanities. Professor Emeritus Victor Vari taught students and has given a love of Italian language and culture to Santa Clara students for more than six decades. Now he and wife Julia Botto Vari have given $8 million to support the arts and humanities. You'll see their names emblazoned on the newly named Victor B. and Julia Botto Vari Hall. Grazie! THE HOW: MOVING FORWARD At the center of President Engh's discussion of "how we have faced issues" was the concept of shared governance at SCU—a topic of concern to faculty and staff in recent months. In October 2013 Fr. Engh announced that the University's health care plans would no longer cover abortions that were not deemed medically necessary. The decision sparked heated debate, including questions about the decision-making process, and it brought into focus some of the toughest questions about what it means to be a Jesuit and Catholic university at the beginning of the 21st century. (That is a topic that Santa Clara Magazine, recognizing the importance of modeling thoughtful discourse, will tackle in greater depth in the months to come.) Since October, Fr. Engh said, "I have learned a great deal about shared governance and how it has been lived at Santa Clara." He promised a renewal of commitment to the process. "We shall move forward, not alone or isolated, but in partnership," he said, "and, as we have worked through past differences, together we can—and shall—do so again." THE WHERE TO: SANTA CLARA 2020 The highlight of the president's speech came with the unveiling of Santa Clara 2020, a new Integrated Strategic Plan that provides concrete objectives to realize six strategic goals for the University: ➊ Imparting a transformational Jesuit education ➋ Fashioning a more humane, just, and sustainable world ➌ Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in service of humanity ➍ Advancing contemporary theological studies, education, and ministry ➎ Increasing diversity, access, and affordability ➏ Enhancing Santa Clara's reputation and national visibility The integrated plan brings into focus ideas first outlined in the 2011 Strategic Plan, coordinating them with plans for enrollment and facilities to bring greater clarity to how the University will emphasize "the distinctive and transformative educational experience that is the hallmark of Santa Clara University," Fr. Engh said. "We shall leverage our values and expand our impact in the lives of our students for the benefit of our world." Story updated on May 8, 2014 to note that Peggy Bradshaw '72 and her husband, Richard, donated $500,000 for a new pedestrian mall on Franklin Street. —Ed. Share


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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the "new journalism." Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. "I thought he was a very nice gentleman," he says of Herb Clutter. "Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers' flight, Capote's account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
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I added this to my Nexus blog Saturday, but I think it bears repeating here as it explains my feeling about the whole Cult of Apple/Cult of Jobs thing....
Elizabeth Spiers looks into the psychology behind the Apple fanatic's fixation with the company and its leader:
I blame Steve Jobs [for] seduced me into buying his sleek machines, even if their delicate organs seem to fail with alarming regularity, like the beautiful consumptive heroines in Victorian novels.
Steve--we'll call him Steve because he seems like a first-name-basis kind of guy--is the human incarnation of the average Apple product: He's good-looking, he overpromises, and he's notoriously temperamental. He evokes the feel-good indie populism synonymous with the company's brand and manages to retain a solid reputation as a creative person while managing a $118 billion business.
The image is, of course, a facade. The dollar-a-year salaryman has been rewarded with at least one corporate jet.
We forgive Steve in a way that we won't [Bill] Gates. We do this because outward appearances are important to us, and the products are a reflection of how we think of ourselves. Apple products are stylish and innovative. (We're stylish and innovative!) We love Steve for the same reason. He's creative and he seems appealingly antiestablishment. (We're creative and antiestablishment!)
I think this hits it on the
head. What's interesting, of course, is that the bad parts of Mr. Jobs'
personality--his prickly defensiveness whenever one suggests that an
Apple product is lacking in some way, for example--seem to ooze down to
the fanatics as well, as if by osmosis. You can see it in their
vitriolic emails and their rabid and sometimes illogical defenses of
the company in online forums. As the saying goes, they are a minority,
but they are a very loud minority.
Anyway. Though I like Apple's products quite a bit in general, one of my regular criticisms is that Steve--er, ah Apple--always choose style over functionality. You can go too far in the other direction, of course (HP anyone?) but I think there needs to be a middle ground. One example: Many MacBook/MacBook Pro users would really appreciate and frequently use a multi-format card reader built right into their machines. But Jobs will have none of that: Such a port would be an ugly gaping hole in the side of these sculpted masterpieces, and there's already two USB ports, so if you need such a thing, you can just figure it out yourself. But I would point to the Lenovo ThinkPad line--specifically the T61 I'm currently using--as the current apex of this compromise between style and substance. The T61 has a wonderful built-in media card (or not, your choice) and yet manages to be quite stylish. In fact, most people would agree that the ThinkPads are the most elegant notebooks around. Because they are.
Maybe I'm just a tad too practical to completely embrace the Apple Way--or the "Tao of Steve," as Spiers accurately calls this intriguing lifestyle choice. I would absolutely choose functionality over style any time--my Motorola Q beats the iPhone hands down on this point--but do appreciate elegant form factors. Is there a middle ground in the PC or electronics industries? Lenovo? Sony? I'm honestly not sure. But I suppose if there were, few people would be fanatical about it. Curious.


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This is a weird one: Google has just slapped Cyanogen, maker of the biggest and most successful Android ROM mod around, with a cease-and-desist letter. But Google's reasoning doesn't make any sense, and we're wondering what their game is.
See, Google's cease-and-desist specifically states that Cyanogen should stop passing around Google's closed-source apps like Google Maps, Google Talk and Gmail, because those are only supposed to be used on Google Experience Android devices like the G1 and MyTouch 3G. That makes sense, except for one thing: Cyanogen only works on the exact devices those closed-source apps were designed for, like, well, the G1 and MyTouch 3G. So what's the point of trying to stop Cyanogen?
Engadget suggests that maybe Google just wants to discourage rooting of their devices in general, which seems awfully contrary to the Android open-source philosophy. Truth is, we have no idea why Google would want to stop a thriving and well-received modder, but Cyanogen says he's trying to open up some communication with the big G, so hopefully we'll get an explanation soon. [Android and Me via Engadget]


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A Guy Named Joe put Van Johnson on the Hollywood map, but it was a role that he almost didn't live to play. Shortly into production Johnson was in a terrible automobile accident that crushed part of his forehead and nearly killed him. The studio wanted to replace him, but Spencer Tracy, who was a top MGM star at that time, threatened to walk out if they didn't wait for Johnson's recovery. Tracy and MGM reached a compromise where the studio would push the shooting schedule back several months to accommodate Johnson. In return, Tracy and director Victor Fleming agreed to stop giving co-star Irene Dunne a hard time on the set. Apparently Tracy and Fleming had taken an instant disliking to Dunne and teased her relentlessly, sometimes driving her to tears. Dunne later recalled A Guy Named Joe as a difficult shoot full of tension before Johnson's accident. She heard rumors of being removed from the picture altogether before she, her co-star and the director worked things out. While Johnson recuperated in the hospital with a metal plate in his head, Tracy and Dunne used the time to re-shoot several scenes since earlier rushes showed their visible tension onscreen. Van Johnson, who went on to become a big MGM star, remained forever grateful to Spencer Tracy for influencing the studio to wait for him to complete the picture. "Without Tracy," he later stated in an interview, "my career could have ended then and there." Ironically, it was Johnson's injuries sustained on this movie that prevented him from serving in the real World War II, leaving him to rise to fame during the 1940s in the absence of many of Hollywood's established leading men. For Irene Dunne, who was already obligated to work on her next picture The White Cliffs of Dover(1944), the delayed filming schedule of A Guy Named Joe meant working double duty as an actress on both.
Despite its production problems, A Guy Named Joe became one of the most popular movies of 1943 and was nominated for a Best Writing Academy Award. Special effects wizard A. Arnold Gillespie showcases his talent with impressive WW II visual effects, and he went on to win Academy Awards for his work on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo(1944) and Ben-Hur(1959). The movie also briefly features Esther Williams in one of her first movie roles before she became MGM's first musical swimming star.
Dunne and Tracy never worked together again in a movie, but Tracy and Van Johnson remained lifelong friends. Director Steven Spielberg's love of this wartime fantasy inspired him to remake the film in 1989 as Always with Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and Brad Johnson as the romantic triangle and Audrey Hepburn in her last film role as the heavenly angel who brings pilot Dreyfuss back to earth.
Producer: Everett Riskin
Director: Victor Fleming
Screenplay: David Boehm (story), Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (adaptation), Chandler Sprague (story), Dalton Trumbo
Cinematography: George J. Folsey (as George Folsey), Karl Freund
Costume Design: Irene
Film Editing: Frank Sullivan
Original Music: Alberto Colombo (uncredited), Herbert Stothart
Principal Cast: Spencer Tracy (Pete Sandidge), Irene Dunne (Dorinda Durston), Van Johnson (Ted Randall), Ward Bond (Al Yackey), James Gleason (Lt. Col. W.D. 'Nails' Kilpatrick).
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Introduction. The IBM Digital Library Demonstration included two interrelated features: (1) a very high resolution digital camera and (2) an associated database for managing the stored files. The project is described in more detail in a final report.
Initial Capture Images. The IBM activity created very high resolution images of selected pictorial items from the collection, as well as documents of special significance or those presenting special challenges in reproduction. The first step in the production process was the IBM-Research-developed Pro/3000 Scanner and an IBM PS/2 workstation, equipped with the IBM-Research-developed PISA95 scanning application. The Pro/3000 is an overhead device, occupying the position that a film camera might occupy on a copy stand. The PISA95 application supports a two-display configuration that allows the user to control the program on one display, while presenting high-quality images on a second monitor. The Pro/3000 had been previously used to digitize materials in the Andrew Wyeth Collection, and in the collections of the Vatican Library and the National Gallery of Art.
The Pro/3000 scanner produced archival quality, high resolution color images from negatives and from reflective media in the collection. It is based on an IBM-proprietary charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging sensor chip that provides exceptional 12-bit dynamic range and superior noise performance. The system employs special colormetric filters that enable the camera to capture a broader spectrum of colors than most digital scanners. Typical scanners have color sensitivities that cater to known color emphases of photographic emulsions but may not be equally sensitive to the full range of colors found in nature or works of art. In order to prevent color contamination, the Pro/3000 must be used in a room with black walls and ceiling.
The CCD sensor moves across the image plane internally. This eliminates the need to move the camera or the media being scanned. The Pro/3000's digital camera is supported by a motorized column. A bellows is used to focus the digital camera. Because of the limited height of the column, the largest original that can be scanned is 45 by 60 cm. The system lighting employs dichroic filters that reflect heat away from the objects being scanned. A special book holder has several protective features, including hand control over pressure applied to pages.
The capture images have spatial resolutions that range as high as 3072x4000 pixels. As the images are captured, they have a tonal resolution of 12 bits per pixel in each color channel (red, green, and blue), or 36 bits per pixel overall. After review, the images are saved as uncompressed 8-bit-per-channel (24 bit) files. The image format includes certain elements unique to this IBM system; the file contains a TIFF header. The images range in size from 5 to 21 megabytes.
The PISA application works with the Pro/3000 to capture monochrome or color images. Its user interface displays both the proper digital camera height and the bellows position for proper focus for a number of sizes of originals, helping the scanner operator to more quickly position and focus the digital camera when the size of the original is changes. PISA also includes a utility that records the lighting pattern produced by the illumination. In the process of creating a scanned image PISA uses this information to correct the image, so that it appears as it would if the illumination were spatially uniform. PISA also includes a utility to analyze the scan of a color-calibrated test chart and determine the color characteristics of the scanner on the basis of that analysis. In the process of producing a scanned image, PISA uses this information to correct the colors of the scanned image so that they will appear correct.
Very large items, e.g. billboard sheets, were captured in segments. A typical sheet, for example, might be captured in a set of four to nine images, to be concatenated in later stage of the process.
Image capture was carried out by a pair of Library of Congress staff members. The items to be scanned were brought to the room, removed from their housings (an acid-free storage folder and, in some cases, a mylar sleeve) and placed on the camera stand. If the new item to be scanned differed in size or reflectivity from its predecessor, one of the operators would adjust the camera's height, framing, and focus. Next the 12-bit-per-channel exposure was made and reviewed, and data was entered in the database. Then the system automatically reduced the tonal depth to 8-bits-per-channel and the file was saved on the capture workstation's hard disk and the original item was returned to its housing. In a separate process, batches of saved images were transmitted to a server via a local area network.
Including setup, review, and recording to media, each grayscale exposure took about 2 minutes while color exposures took about 8 minutes. A typical work session lasted for about 6 hours and saw the capture of 80-90 images. Scanning was carried out on a part-time basis from December 1995 to January 1997. During that period, 3,000 images were captured.
Derivative images. After being saved to a server, the initial-capture images were processed to produce an archival image and a set of additional images to serve access needs. The derivative images were produced in a batch mode by Library of Congress staff members using IBM's Comit95 software. Approximately 300 archival images constituted a batch; the process ran unattended. Each batch required about 8 hours to process, including the time-consuming movement of the source images over the local area network and a visual check of all thumbnails.
The archival image is more or less of a copy of the initial capture, regularized to eliminate the special IBM features.
Some of the database fields contain data needed to manage the storage of the digital files, the type of information sometimes called "administrative and structural metadata." Other fields contain descriptive information about the particular image begin captured. Multi-page documents were captured one page at a time; the descriptive information, therefore, was recorded at the "page" level.
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The syllabus for Architectural Aptitude Test (AAT) is bifurcated into following parts:
Freehand drawing
Geometrical drawing
Three-dimensional perception
Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity
Architectural awareness
Freehand drawing: This would comprise of simple drawing depicting the total object in its right form and proportion, surface texture, relative location and details of its component parts in appropriate scale. Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory
Geometrical drawing: Exercises in geometrical drawing containing lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles etc. Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders etc.
Three-dimensional perception: Understanding and appreciation of three-dimensional forms with building elements, colour, volume and orientation. Visualization through structuring objects in memory
Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity: Composition exercise with given elements. Context mapping. Creativity check through innovative uncommon test with familiar objects.Sense of colour grouping or application
Architectural awareness: General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations – both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain


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Officially, America's relations Pakistan's military and intelligence services were in a tailspin in August. Furious at having been kept in the dark ahead of the Americans' May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, Pakistan's military had kept U.S. investigators out of the place until it was scrubbed for evidence and had refused them access to bin Laden's wives for some time. And the Pakistanis had outed the CIA's Islamabad station chief, putting his life at risk. Meanwhile, back in America, fears were rising over possible al Qaeda attacks on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.
But in the shadows, far from the public rancor, Pakistani-U.S. cooperation quietly continued. In Quetta, the Taliban's capital in exile, U.S. intelligence was monitoring the cellphone of the presumed planner of any Qaeda anniversary attacks, Younis al-Mauritani, the group's newly named external operations chief. The Americans' tracking data—signals intelligence, or sigint, as it's known in the profession—was being shared in real time with the local branch of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps. When his exact location was discovered, the Pakistanis smashed through the doors of his safe house and grabbed him along with two deputies.
Soon he was hundreds of miles away, at a special detention center in Punjab province, under intensive interrogation by a pro-U.S. faction of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. The Americans began getting regular reports on potential threats connected to the anniversary. CIA officials were even given an "unofficial" visit to question Mauritani directly.
Many in the U.S. government regarded the capture as a crowning achievement of a decade-long, multibillion-dollar effort to build a secret network of Pakistani security forces, intelligence operatives, counterterrorism fighters, and detention centers. Its objective had been to create a friendlier, more trustworthy alternative to Pakistan's military and intelligence services.
Now, however, just three months after Mauritani's capture, the partnership is facing its most dire challenge. Relations between the two countries have been rocked by back-to-back incidents. First came what the media are calling "memogate," in which President Asif Ali Zardari's administration is accused of plotting with the U.S. to replace the leadership of Pakistan's military and intelligence services. And then, on Thanksgiving weekend, a NATO helicopter reported being fired upon by a Pakistani military outpost near the Afghanistan border. The chopper returned fire, killing two dozen Pakistani soldiers.
The reaction inside Pakistan has been white hot, and current and former U.S. intelligence officials tell The Daily Beast they worry the CIA's alternate security network will be the ultimate casualty. If that happens, America could be left blind to future threats emanating from Pakistan, and the task of rounding up or killing high-value Qaeda remnants could become more difficult, if not impossible.
"We've been trying desperately for the last 10 years to build elements of Pakistani society and its national security bureaucracy to support U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region," says Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, a former manager at the National Counterterrorism Center. "This latest incident is a major test of that strategy."
Former CIA director Mike Hayden says he has feared such an outcome for years as he watched U.S.-Pakistani relations drifting apart. "The space where American perceptions of strategic interests and Pakistani perceptions of strategic interests overlap has been diminishing," he says.
In recent years, the relationship was kept afloat largely by the efforts of one man: Adm. Mike Mullen. Before his retirement as Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman this September, he maintained a personal friendship with his Pakistani counterpart, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. At tense moments for the two countries, such as the arrest of CIA contractor Raymond Davis for killing two armed men in Lahore this past January, Mullen would be sent to smooth things over with Pakistan's Army chief. One U.S. intelligence officer who works on Pakistan refers to Mullen as "the Kayani whisperer": a man with a special knack for quietly and discreetly influencing Kayani at crucial points.
But the friendship soured in Mullen's final days. The four-star admiral accused the ISI of supporting direct attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan by the Haqqani network, a deadly faction and support network for the Afghan Taliban, according to most accounts. The accusation left a shocked Kayani insisting to the Pakistani media that his old friend was simply misinformed. But things had been unraveling ever since the Davis shooting. The CIA contractor was one of numerous U.S. operatives who worked with elements of the U.S.-aligned shadow forces in Pakistan to target and apprehend terrorists—Pakistan, after all, was the country where bin Laden had been living unmolested for years. Before the shooting, current and recently retired U.S. intelligence officials say, the pro-American shadow network in Pakistan was capturing on average one Qaeda suspect a month. Still, those captures were seldom cleared through the chain of command of the ISI or the Pakistani military, and since the Davis incident the job has gotten much harder and riskier, U.S. officials say.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, America got valuable assistance from the military under Pakistan's then-president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. (It was Musharraf who handpicked Kayani as his replacement as Army chief shortly before stepping down from the presidency in August 2008.) Musharraf's support enabled the Americans to bring a number of major Qaeda fugitives to justice, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
But Pakistan's cooperation gradually petered out as Qaeda-instigated insurgencies erupted around the country, particularly in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the wild mountain region along the Afghan border. Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers were killed before Musharraf finally caved in and signed peace deals with FATA warlords in 2006 and 2007, effectively creating a sanctuary where al Qaeda's leadership could regroup.
America's current partnership with the Frontier Corps dates back to the summer of 2008, when U.S. special forces began frequent cross-border raids into the FATA. (Before 2008 such raids were rare.) Since then the corps has helped target senior Taliban and Qaeda leaders for drone strikes, in addition to helping capture senior Qaeda operatives such as Mauritani and providing security for the Shamsi drone base, the headquarters of the CIA's Pakistan drone operations. This is risky work as well. On Sept. 8, two suicide bombers killed 23 people at the home of Farrukh Shahzad, the deputy commander of the Baluchistan Frontier Corps that captured Mauritani.
Within the ISI, America's most reliable ally has been the spy service's division known as the T Wing. It was created largely from scratch in 2006 and 2007, after the Americans mostly gave up trying to work with the ISI's uncooperative leadership. U.S. officials say their hope was that the T Wing, which conducted Mauritani's interrogation, might help to offset the pernicious influence of the ISI's S Wing, the division in charge of managing the Pakistani government's relationship with Islamic extremist groups such as the Kashmiri separatist Lashkar-e-Taiba and Afghanistan's Taliban. According to the same officials, America also has embraced and funded units connected to Pakistan's Interior Ministry, particularly in the corruption-ridden megalopolis of Karachi, where the local police are not considered reliable counterterrorism partners.
Over the past 10 years, Pakistan has received more than $20 billion in public U.S. funding for military and economic assistance. Washington's secret subsidy of Pakistan's intelligence and military could be much higher. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, called attention to the CIA's extensive secret funding during a recent Republican debate. "The money that we are spending right now is primarily intelligence money to Pakistan," she declared. "It is helping the United States. Whatever our action is, it must ultimately be about helping the United States and our sovereignty, our safety, and our security."
That's not as easy as it may sound. It's been necessary to pick and choose which elements of Pakistan's security apparatus America should engage with, says Mark Lowenthal, a former House Intelligence Committee staff director and former CIA assistant director for analysis. "We do this because of the nature of the Pakistani state," he says. "If it was a coherent government, then when we made a deal with the president or the prime minister, you would know as the orders come down the line they would be obeyed." Nevertheless, he says, "That is not the nature of Pakistan. You have all these competing power centers. We are not doing this because we are trying to be too clever by half, we are doing this because this is the nature of the state we are dealing with."
The death of two dozen Pakistani soldiers has made that challenge tougher than ever. "As bad as the U.S.-Pakistan relationship is now, it's only likely to get worse," says Bruce Riedel, a former senior CIA official and one of the co-authors of President Obama's initial Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. So far, however, no one on either side knows what else to do but keep on.


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Legal Notices and General Terms of Use
Influence4You website's editor is the Company Influence4You, a simplified stock corporation capitalized at €24.800. The head office is located at 9, Rue du Moulin des Bruyères, 92400 Courbevoie, France, registered at Nanterre RCS under number 481317261. Their intra-community VAT number is FR95 481 317 261.
The website's publishing manager is Mr. Stéphane BOUILLET, CEO of the company.
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Any comments, suggestions or complaint can be submitted through the online contact form of the website.
The following General Conditions of Use define the conditions of use of Influence4You's proposed services, available at https://www.influence4you.com.
By confirming its registration, the User declares he or she has read and agrees, without reservation, with the General Terms of Use.General Terms of Use
"Application", "Platform", "Tool": a website reachable at www.influence4you.com and/or any others link the Company could add, or any mobile app upon which the service is available.
"Brief": specifications from the Brand / Agency during campaign creation in order to present and explain what is expected from the Influencer as part of the collaboration.
"User": a natural or legal person registered as an Influencer, a Brand representative, or an Agency representative on the platform.
"Brand", "Advertiser": a company that offers a marketing campaign on behalf of its own brand, its services or its products through the Influence4You platform.
"Agency": a company (advertising, communication, public relations agency, etc.) that offers a marketing campaign on behalf of its clients (advertisers), through the Influence4You platform.
"Campaign", "Influence campaign": any communication campaign offered to users by a Brand or an Agency based on the rules defined by the Brand / the Agency and the society.
"Client": a Brand or Agency that subscribes to the Company services.
"Influencer": a natural or legal person (if company status) that is active on social networks and registered to the service, who collaborates with a Brand or Agency on an influence campaign through the Influence4You platform.
"Social Network": social network(s) (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) on which Influencers have an account and have the ability to promote influence campaigns.
"Account": a user's personal data associated to the use of the Company services.
"Service": services and features offered by the Company.
"Influence4You", "Us", "Company": stands for the Company INFLUENCE4YOU, a simplified stock corporation capitalized at €24.800, with its head office located at 9, Rue du Moulin des Bruyères, 92400 Courbevoie, France, registered at the Nanterre RCS under the number 481317261.
Article 1: Purpose of the Services
The Company offers influencers the ability to monetize their social networks' audience by collaborating with Brands and Agencies through the Influence4You platform.
In return for publication on one (or several) social network(s) via Influence4You, the User obtains either an amount of money or reward points according to Article 4 specified terms. Only "Product Testing" campaigns are not remunerated (neither points or money), since Influencers receive products to test for free.
Article 2: Service Access and Subscription
Service subscription is restricted to users that are legally authorized based on Articles 1123 and 1124 of the Civil French Code.
Service subscription is made during account creation on the platform. Throughout their subscription, Influencers are asked to fill out their profile and interests, so that targeted campaigns are suggested to them. They are also asked to connect their social networks to the platform.
Brands and Agencies are asked to fill out their profile and their financial details (except for the "Testing" offer) in order to pay for the campaigns created and the monthly subscription fees (if applicable).
Service use is submitted to the User for validation upon account creation. The Company reserves the right to deny User access or to restrict it. Influencers application to campaigns might be restricted to a minimum audience per social network.
The service is offered 24/7 apart from casual interruption periods required for service maintenance. The service is available in several languages as shown on the platform.
Article 3: Service Description
Article 3.1: Campaign Content
Influencers get campaign recommendations based on their profile, areas of interest and Brand / Agency specific requirements.
Campaigns include information such as: a description, key information to share with the audience (URL, keywords, images, etc.) defined by the Brand / Agency, suggested remuneration, and social network(s) used. Most Campaigns require Brand / Agency approval. In that case, Influencers apply through their platform interface and the Brand / Agency sends them an approval or a rejection message based on their decision.
Article 3.2: Influencers' Promotional Posts Content
Influencers have to participate to campaigns they were accepted on. They have to publish from the Platform, on the Social Network determined by the Brand / Agency, a promotional post that contains at least the Campaign key information detailed in the brief. They are invited to personalize their promotional posts content as much as they want. The post has to be "public", which means visible to anyone, even the non-followers of the Social Network in question.
A promotional post published on Social Network has to be clearly identified as advertising according to Influencers applicable laws in their country of residence. The post has to state the natural or legal person for whom the Campaign was made. Influencers can track their number of clicks and any feedback on their post at any time.
During subscription, Influencers commit to respecting the good conduct charter provided on the platform, which bans any cheating system that might enable them to fraudulently earn points or money. If the Company is aware of any suspicious activity, Influencers take the risk to have a part or all of their remuneration cancelled and to be banned from the platform.
A promotional post cannot be a misleading or disguised advertisement; it has to be visible by anyone for the definitive calculation of the payment. The post content cannot harm the Brand and has to be related to the Campaign influencers were accepted on. It cannot encourage conducting any action that has no connection to the Campaign.
For CPC (cost-per-click) campaigns, only social media clicks that are relevant to the Campaign and generated from the targeted country(ies) will be recorded. Consequently, the followings will not be taken into consideration: duplicate clicks, automated clicks generated by a person, a robot, a program or any similar device, including clicks from the IP address or computer of the Influencer, clicks requested by the Influencer through payment or misleading statement or inquiries inviting a Social Network user to click on a promotional post or to achieve others actions, clicks related to a significant number of activities as describe above, clicks to pages that are no longer visible at the time of payment.
Regarding videos, the Brand (or product) has to be highlighted at the beginning of the video and for an adequate duration to explain the product features. The Brand is free to judge if the presentation time is long enough.
Terms of use of the Influence4You platform for influencers
What is a credit?
All influencers can apply to unpaid campaigns on the platform and therefore collaborate with these brands. To ensure that the collaboration goes smoothly influencers will be awarded 5 credit points to use on the platform.
How does the credit point system work?
To apply to an unpaid campaign or a campaign involving a voucher an influencer must use up one of their credit points and are limited to 5 applications at one time (5 applications = 5 credit points). Paid campaigns do not require you to use credit points.
A credit point is put back into your account according to the following conditions:
– The influencer is refused from a campaign
– The influencer cancels his application before being accepted by the brand
– The influencer correctly carries out his post respecting the brief conditions of the campaign
A credit point is not put back into your account according to the following conditions:
– The influencer leaves the campaign after being accepted by the brand
– The influencer did not carry out his/her post before the deadline defined in the brief
Article 3.3: Campaign Ending
A Campaign arrives at its end for Influencers when: the due date is reached, in the case of a Campaign created with a due date by the Brand / Agency, and/or when the maximum budget allocated to a Campaign is reached.
Article 4: Payment
Article 4.1: Influencers' Payment Terms
Depending on the Campaign, payments can be based on: the post itself and/or clicks on the dedicated link shared onto the designated social networks and/or social media engagement (e.g. likes, comment, shares) and/or the number of followers on the designated social network and/or the average number of views on the designated social network.
A maximum remuneration can be defined by the Brand / Agency for each Influencer and for each Campaign. Any promotional post or click made after the maximum payment has been reached and/or after the end of the campaign will not be taken into consideration for the Influencer payment. In the event of a technical issue or incident, the Company will do its best to fix the issue promptly. Likewise, in the event of an obvious mistake, the Company will have the right to fix the issue even if it negatively impacts the Influencer's remuneration in a 30 days delay after the mistake occurrence.
The payment calculation takes the campaign brief into consideration. The Brand / Agency will determine the final payment based on the percentage of the brief that was respected in the promotional post. Depending on the Campaign the payment can be earned in cash or in points to redeem gift cards. For cash payment, Euro is the currency used. As soon as the threshold of 30 euros is reached, Influencers can request their money. To receive it, Influencers have to send their invoice through the platform. The invoice has to respect the legal requirements in effect. Payments will be made within 30 days by bank transfer or cheque.
If applicable, Influencers will have to pay the VAT and any tax obligations to the related administration.
Influencers that have not logged into the service for more than one year will have their account deleted and any payment due will be lost.
Influencers agree to keep any promotional post generated via the platform for a minimum of 30 days. If the post is deleted before this 30-day delay, the Brand / Agency has the right to request cancellation of the payment.
Article 4.2: Brands / Agencies Payment Terms
To make sure Influencers are paid on time, the Brand / Agency agrees to register a valid credit card number when creating their first Campaign. Except for testing campaigns that are entirely free and that do not require a credit card number. A €10 debit will occur during the payment method validation, and will be added to the Brand / Agency balance and deducted from the total amount of the first campaign.
Any incorrect payment information or malfunction of the payment method added by the Brand / Agency on Influence4You will lead to judicial proceeding risks and damages payment to the Company.
Article 5: Users Obligations, Liabilities, and Guarantees
Article 5.1: Influencers Obligations
Article 5.1.1: User obligation on offered services harmony
Influencers agree to have received all the necessary information to register to the platform knowingly. Company softwares are known to be available to Influencers as is, without any adjustment measures. They are related to standard software systems that will not meet all Influencers specific needs.
Therefore, Influencers have to verify whether the offered services fit their needs and should take any required measure.
Article 5.1.2: Influencers obligations regarding promotional post content
Influencers commit to:
− Passing on at least and strictly key information in their posts;
− Making their posts public (visible to anyone);
− Creating content that corresponds to the Campaign Brief;
− Not putting online, sharing, or communicating content that is in any way: obscene, defamatory, abusing, threatening, related to child pornography, approving of a war crime or a crime against humanity, provoking to terrorist act, violating a person's privacy and/or unlawful in any manner, or with a deceptive nature or related to a disguised ad (in accordance with articles L.121-1 and 121-1-1 of the Consumer Code);
− Not harming the Brand / Agency and the Company's image, brands, services and products;
Not using the Brand / Agency nor the Company and their distinguishing features (name, slogan, logo, image) under circumstances other than the ones defined by the Brand / Agency or outside from the Campaign.
Influencers admit they only have a precarious right of use of the brand during the Campaign and not a business brand license. The right of use is no longer valid as soon as the Campaign is over.
Influencers commit not to:
− Encourage social network users to make any action that is not related to the Campaign in their promotional post;
− Boost clicks via any financial incentive or based on a false statement or a request inviting social network users to click on a promotional post or any other actions;
− Spam their own social networks with repeated and identical promotional posts;
− Launch automated scripts or programs, including robot softwares or any program prone to submitting multiple requests per second to a server or to complicate or hamper the functioning and the performance of the service or the application untimely;
− Modify or create derivatives of the service;
− Create electronic links towards the service or put basic outline or mirrors of some applications on any other servers or wireless or Internet-based device;
− Put online or share content or behave in a manner which will: lead to an interruption, be a hamper, destroy or more commonly disturb the Service working or which will allow a non-authorized access to the Service, including by using computer virus, insidious code line, file or program;
− Proceed to reverse engineer method in order to design or build a competing product or service using the same features, functions or images;
− Have any fraudulent behaviour by trying to bypass the normal functioning and the Service's rules;
− Steal someone's identity by any means including by using their social networks;
− Replicate, copy, sell or do any commercial use (including the right to information) of the entire or a part of the Service.
Influencers commit to:
− Respect people's privacy and the private nature of the information given;
− Always provide accurate, sincere and proper data and personal nature information and update their data and information as soon as it is required to keep them exact, complete and up to date;
Respect the entire legal and statutory directives in effect; especially the ones related to law #78-17 of January 6th, 1978 related to computing, files, and freedom.
Influencers commit to keep any promotional post related to the platform during a minimum of 30 days. If a Brand / Agency notices that the post has been removed from social networks before the 30-day delay, they have the right to ask for payment cancellation.
Article 5.2: Influencers Liabilities
Article 5.2.1: Influencers liabilities towards social media
Influencers are responsible for their Social Network accounts' use: whether it is for the connexion to the Service or for promotional posts publication.
Any post with an offensive nature, transmitting a misogynist, sexist, sexual, homophobic, racist, xenophobic message or glorifying rape will be deleted automatically from the platform and will not be eligible for payment. Campaign participation will then be cancelled if the post is not modified or deleted quickly.
Article 5.2.2: Influencer liabilities regarding the publication of promotional posts
Any use of the Service or online upload of a promotional post through social networks will be considered done by the Influencer even in the case of a password loss or a password given to another person by the Influencer.
Influencers admit that: publishing a promotional post on their Social Networks and personal pages is considered as a service delivery for which they receive payment. The Company does not practice any subordinate relationship with them. In the event of failure to comply with the following legal notices, general terms of use, laws and valid regulations, their liability will be engaged.
Article 5.2.3: Influencer liabilities in case of misleading advertising
Influencers clearly recognize that publishing a misleading advertisement expose them to a 2-year imprisonment and a 300 000 euros fine condemnation, based on Article L.213-1 of the Consumer Code.
Article 5.3: Influencers Guarantees
Consequently, Influencers guarantee: Promotional Posts content is and will always stay consistent with the present Legal Notices and General Terms of use, Social Networks terms and conditions, and applicable laws and regulations; the Company counters any remedy or action (including legal fees) from a third party, particularly internet users following the Company's service use, violation of these Legal Notices and General Terms of use, and any contractual documents, or more widely an law violation; the Company counters any prejudicial acts Influencers might commit via social networks including in the event of non-implementation of contractual obligations towards a specific network.
Article 6: Company Obligations, Liabilities, and Guarantees
Article 6.1: Company Obligations
Article 6.1.1. : Company obligations on audience monetization
The purpose of the Service is to allow Influencers to monetize their audience on social networks, and Brands / Agencies to collaborate with influencers that are relevant to their brand more easily. Therefore, the Company has a best-efforts obligation.
The Company commits to: identifying and accounting for Influencers actions authorizing money or points payments; paying Influencers in accordance with the terms in Article 4.
Article 6.1.2: Company obligations on the provided service quality
The Company commits to offering necessary care and assiduity to provide a quality service, in accordance with the Company's practices.
The Company will do its best to offer a 24/7 access, except in any case of force majeure, breakdown, host failure or any essential maintenance operations to the Service running.
The Company will do its best to provide sufficient access quality, particularly when it comes to user volume progression.
Users admit that the software is part of a complex area in terms of technical computing and thus agree with any imperfection risks or unavailability of the service.
In case of absolute necessity, the Company reserves the right to suspend the Service in order to proceed to a technical maintenance or improvement intervention to ensure Service proper functioning at any time or for any duration.
Service interruption will not give the right to any compensation to users.
The Company can address emails or notifications through the platform to Users, especially to inform them about Service evolution, new Campaigns and Campaign statuses for Influencers.
Article 6.1.3: Company obligations regarding service modifications
The Company reserves the right to review the whole Service (or a part of it) at any time and without prior notice. Any changes involving user rights reduction, as part of the present General Terms of Use, will not be applied without their prior consent.
Article 6.1.4: Company obligations regarding abusive or diverted services
The Company reserves the right to set up technical barriers to restrict Promotional Post type and amount to limit potential abusive or diverted services.
The Company notifies the User that it has to collaborate with any judiciary authority duly authorized to provide the required information whether about the User itself and/or their Promotional Posts or Campaign Briefs in order to control and even eliminate information that is contrary to the current regulation.
Article 6.2: Company liabilities
Article 6.2.1: Company liabilities regarding social networks
Practical conditions for the access, supply, and use of the information and services from Social Network are ruled by Social Network themselves. The Company stays unconcerned to any contractual relationship between Influencers and Social Networks, even in the case of a relationship concluded via the Platform. In no case should the Company interfere, in any manner, in the contractual relationship between Influencers and Social Network. More specifically, the Company should not be held responsible for Promotional Posts content published by Influencers since the Company does not have any control (except for technical issue) over contents that are published by Influencers on Social Networks.
Influencers admit and agree that the usage of Internet for the following Services can be saturated and/or exchanged data through the network could be diverted by a third party. Consequently, Influencers clear the Company from liability.
Article 6.2.2: Company liabilities regarding Users
The Company will not be held responsible for any of the following reasons, but not limited to: in the event of a third party using a User's username and password nor any Service modification, suspension or interruption.
Likewise, the Company will not be held responsible for third party interferences in the communication and transmission system used by Influencers or for Service dysfunction or cessation due to negligence, failing or some actions from Influencers or third parties.
The Company cannot be held responsible, including financially, for Promotional Post loss or non-distribution due to an Internet network default or a wrong configuration of the material used to access the service, on which the Company does not have any control.
The user is aware and agrees that the whole Service (or a part of it) might be temporarily suspended, for repair works, development or maintenance reasons.
Force Majeure: The Company will not be held responsible for partial or total non-compliance with its obligations in the event of a force majeure, most notably any telecommunication network failure or blockage, insurgency, civil war, war, military operation, local or national state of emergency, fire, lightning, flood, explosion, strike, storm, due to a third party etc. Host failure is also considered as a force majeure since it is an unpredictable or unavoidable event and outside the Company control.
Either way, in case of a failure in reaching non-core contractual obligations, compensations will not be higher than payments due to Influencers or any amount they could ask for regarding the following terms of use.
Article 6.3: Company Guarantees
The Company does not grant any express or implicit guarantee regarding the Service use, particularly regarding the availability. The User is informed that the Company does not guarantee that its Service will be exempt from any failures or irregularity, neither that these failures will be repaired. The Company also doesn't guarantee the use of its Services will be without interruption or breakdown or compatible with an equipment or a particular configuration other than the ones clearly recommend by the Company.
Article 7: Service Suspension and Termination
Article 7.1: Influencer Initiative
Influencers can delete their account at any time via the Company customer service at firstname.lastname@example.com. Beforehand, Influencers have to make sure any payment order has been made. The account suppression is definitive and without delay and personal data removal occur within a maximum of one (1) month after Service cancellation. Influencers' payment rights are also deleted.
Article 7.2: Brand / Agency Initiative
In case of contract termination based on a Client's initiative, allocated Campaign budgets on the Influence4You platform will not be recoverable. Account suppression can be done at any time by contacting the Company's customer service at email@example.com
Article 7.3: Company Initiative
The Company reserves the right to suspend Service access or to terminate the User account and/or to forbid Service access if the following agreement terms are not respected. Especially the ones related to Influencers obligations and any suspected or proven fraud attempt. Consequently, Influencers will not have the right to ask for any compensation, the potential payment due to Influencers will stay earned by the Company without prejudice compensation owned by the Company.
In the event of User obligations violation, the Company reserves the right to disclose any relevant information to the law, regulations, decree or competent authority without prejudice compensation owned by the Company.
The company reserves the right to refuse any Campaign or Advertiser/Agencies that does not comply with the ethics of Influence4You and to immediately put an end to the Advertiser/Agencies subscription without a notice period given.
The Company reserves the possibility to stop Service commercialization. Users will be notified by any means and will be able to use the Application with at least a one-month notice before the Service gets definitively disrupted. During this delay, Users will have to handle all necessary measures and ask for any due payment before the Service termination date.
Service commercialization termination by the Company will not open the rights to compensation of any kind to Influencers.
Force Majeure: in compliance with Civil Code Article 1148, if contract execution or any others Company obligations regarding the following Legal Notices and General Terms of use are limited or disturbed in a force majeure event, the Company will be exempt of contractual obligation execution. The Company will be able to ask the termination of the following contract without any due compensation and by keeping any non-transferred payment benefits on the termination date.
Article 8: Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights
Article 8.1: Brands Protection
The Company's brands as well as those owned by any Social Network nor Advertiser / Agency (all referred to as "Brands") are protected according to Article L.713-1 of the Intellectual Property Code.
In compliance with Articles L. 713-2 and L. 713-3 of the Intellectual Property Code, Influencers forbid themselves (except for Brand owner authorizations) from reproducing, using, affixing one of these brands, even with adding words such as "formula, ways, system, imitation, type, method" for similar or identical products (if a confusion risk exists in the audience mind) as those related to the Brands. Influencers forbid themselves to delete or modify regularly affix brands.
Violation of these terms will lead Influencers to counterfeit judicial proceedings.
Article 8.2: Content Protection
The website content contains, without limitation, softwares, corporate identity, texts, sound documents, videos, photographs, logos, icons and any drawings appearing or available on the Application and the Service (referred to as "Content") are protected under Book I of the Intellectual Property Code in accordance with copyright and are under the Company exclusive property and/or Brands/Agencies and/or Social Networks exclusive property.
Influencers forbid themselves, without limitation, to use, reproduce, publish, represent, diffuse, adapt, translate, use to create by-product or take Service content for a different use than the one defined in the current Legal Notices and General Terms of use. Except for explicit and written authorization from the Company and/or their Advertisers partners.
Users commit not to access the Service via means other than the interface provided by the Company, except for explicit and written authorization from the Company.
Advertisers don't have rights on Influencers' posts. Advertisers can only share publications using common sharing tools provided by Influencers but do not have the right to use Influencers images or publications except with these sharing tools.
Article 9: Personal Data
Personal data that is essential for Users subscription is intended to the Company for the Service supply.
The Company collects traffic data generated when Users computer are connected to the Internet and the Application, and that, alone, does not allow the Company to identify Users. The Company collects Service connexion and usage related data for a statistic and named purposes in order to improve its Services.
The Company can proceed to posted content lecture and exclusively automated analysis, in order to account for Influencers revenues.
The Company can store "cookies" on Users' hard drive in order to save their profile and to restore their Service personalized pages when they are connected to their computer or mobile device. These little files may contain traffic data and User preferences. These are also used for advertising purposes to help the Platform suggesting adapted Campaigns to Influencers. Users can delete cookies and configure their web browser in a way that prevents cookies from being saved on their computer. Note: some features and Platform services cannot work properly if cookies are deactivated.
The Company uses Users personal data only for proper Service supply. The collected data is strictly confidential and cannot be disclosed to a third party except with explicit and written authorization from the User or in case of a judicial/administrative authority expropriation. The Company might transmit Users personal information to its subcontractor tied up by a confidentiality obligation. Subcontractors will be allowed to use the data for Service supply only.
The Company might send emails or notifications to Users to the email address specified in their account details to notify them with technical or administrative information, service improvement, campaign evolution or new campaigns suggested.
Any other potential usage of Users personal data by the Company will be done with their prior agreement. Information collected is kept during the User's subscription to the Service. In case of User cancellation following these Legal Notices and General Terms of Use, collected information will be destroyed within a maximum of one (1) month after the Service cancellation.
The Company commits to executing appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure Users personal data confidentially and safety.
In compliance with Law #78-17 from January 6th 1978 on Computing and Freedom, Users have an access, rectification, and suppression right on their own personal data either through "My Account" menu on the User interface or at email@example.com address or directly at the Company head office (9 rue du Moulin des Bruyères, 92400 Courbevoie).
Youtube API
The Platform is using the Youtube API once the User give its aggreement through the oAuth login process. The Platform respect the YouTube API Services Terms of Service. For more informations about Google Privacy Google privacy policy, click here. You can revoke the given user access on the Google Permissions page.
Article 10: Handover
The Company reserves the right, after notifying Users, to transfer their rights and obligations following the present Legal Notices and General Terms of Use and the Contract (subject to engagement from the assignee to respect the present terms).
Article 11: Applicable Rights – Dispute
The present Legal Notices and General Terms of Use, as well as relationships with the Company are ruled, interpreted and applied in compliance with the French law. In the event of a dispute in interpretation or execution of the present Contract occasion, the parties will have to proceed to an amicable arrangement prior to any justice action.
Any dispute related to the Application or Service use will depend exclusively on Paris Court of Appeals jurisdiction.
Article 12: Miscellaneous Provisions
The Company can revise these Legal Notices and General Terms of Use at any time.
In that case, the Company will notify Users by publishing the latest version of these Legal Notices and General Terms of Use on the Application and will collect Users agreements when they login to the Application. Users will have the choice to accept or terminate their Contract. If one or several terms of the Legal Notices and General Terms of Use is declared invalid, other terms will keep their efficiency and reach.


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The leaves of Moringa oleifera, or the horseradish tree, originated in the southern foothills of the Himalayas in India, near the source of the sacred Ganges. By the end of the Sumerian Empire it had spread to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Today it is widely cultivated across Africa and Central and South America, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. It has more Vitamin A and beta-carotene than carrots, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, more Vitamin C than oranges, and more potassium than bananas. The many uses for just this one species include alley cropping (biomass production), animal forage (leaves and treated seed-cake), biogas (from leaves), domestic cleaning agents (crushed leaves), blue dyes (wood), fencing (living trees), fertilizer (seed-cake), foliar nutrient (juice expressed from the leaves), green manure (from leaves), gum (from tree trunks), honey- and sugar cane juice-clarifier (powdered seeds), honey (flower nectar), medicine (all plant parts), ornamental plantings, bio-pesticide (soil incorporation of leaves to prevent seedling damping off), pulp (wood), rope (bark), tannin for tanning hides (bark and gum), and water purification (powdered seeds and charcoal).
Moringa seed oil (yield 30-40 percent by weight), also known as Ben oil, is a sweet non-sticking, non-drying oil that resists rancidity. It has been used in salads, for perfume and hair care products and as a sewing machine lubricant. The high protein seeds are eaten green, roasted, powdered, curried, or steeped for tea. Leaves, flowers, seeds, pods, roots, bark, gum, and oil have medicinal properties and have been used since the times of the Egyptians and Greeks variously as antiseptic, pain-reducer and birth control, and to treat arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, common colds, dental caries, dysentery, earaches, epilepsy, fever, headaches, herpes, hypertension, infections, joint pain, low back and kidney pain, lupus, parasites, prostate, rheumatism, scorpion-bites, skin disorders, snakebite, syphilis, thrush, toothaches, typhoid, ulcers, urinary tract infections, and vitamin or mineral deficiencies.
Moringa grows best in dry sandy soils and is especially well suited for drought areas because the tree is in full leaf at the end of the dry season when other foods are typically scarce. Propagated either from seed or by planting limb cuttings, the tree starts bearing edible pods in six to eight months.
Moringa at 1 year, now being plucked for pesto for the kitchens of the Maya Mountain Research Farm in Belize. It will grow to 30 feet in height in 7 years.
Because African villagers are familiar with it, Moringa will likely be among the quarter-million trees Trees and Life will start in each of the 90 villages in Casamance, Senegal over the next 3 years. Eventually Trees and Life will create six central tree nurseries to support the network of 60 village-managed nurseries. From each women-directed village cooperative, the organization will offer production and marketing support and micro-finance for local forestry enterprises (fruit products, bee-keeping, gum arabic, medicinal extracts, salves and decoctions, guinea fowl, etc.).
For Trees and Life the final phase will be monitoring and reporting the progress and integrating the data into the Total Cooling Project of the NASA Land Atmosphere and Resilience Initiative. As added incentive, a prize is being offered to the village whose rate of survival of the trees is strongest after 3 and 5 years, respectively. Nicolas Metro told a gathering at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen he hopes to determine the impact on temperature and hydrological cycle at the local, regional and global level. His home organization in France, Kinomé (Japanese for "the viewpoint of the tree"), is already planning the next greater scale for Trees and Life in the tropics, planting 15 billion trees over ten years.
The Kinomé plan is that eventually the villagers can be paid for the carbon sequestered by the trees and the "carbon avoided" by protection of the existing forests that would have been deforested. Ground readings taken in several forests near Casamance recorded carbon at 260 tons of CO2 per hectare, including 74 tons in above-ground biomass (30 percent) and 186 tons in the soil (70 percent). That survey provides a useful baseline from which to calculate family-managed carbon sequestration services in the future.
In 2004, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental and political activist. In the early 1970s, it became evident to Maathai that the root of most of Kenya's social problems was environmental degradation. She connected her ideas of environmental restoration to providing jobs for the unemployed by founding Envirocare, a company that employed people to plant trees. On June 5, 1977, marking World Environment Day, she led a march from downtown Nairobi to the outskirts of the city where she planted seven trees in honor of historical community leaders. This was the first "Green Belt" in what would become the Green Belt Movement. Maathai encouraged Kenyan women to start tree nurseries using heirloom native species. With money from the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Women, she was able to pay a small stipend to the women who planted seedlings and to the husbands and sons who were literate and able to keep accurate records of success rates.
Wangari Maathai's struggle, in which she was repeatedly arrested while planting trees, beaten by police and paramilitary groups, placed under house arrest, besieged in her home, and periodically forced into exile, was ultimately vindicated when, in 2002, her Rainbow Coalition defeated the ruling party of Kenya. Within her district, Maathai won 98 percent of the vote. She became Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources and founded the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya to support candidates who embodied the ideals of the Green Belt Movement.
In the 1990s, when the Green Belt movement planted 20 million trees, that seemed like a very large number. In 2006, the U.N. Environmental Program launched a "billion tree campaign" for world plantings by the end of 2007. That goal was surpassed in 2005 and had to be raised to 7 billion by the end of 2009 (one tree per person). Plantings of 6.3 billion trees were achieved, but no one knows how many of those trees actually survived. In Palestine, where Murad Al Khufash led an effort to plant olive trees under the sponsorship of a Global Village Institute trees-for-airmiles program, two years of plantings were chain-sawed to make room for Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Such experiences are not uncommon in places where the value of forests is still of far lower priority than population and commercial demands.
Still, tree planting has been gaining momentum, and a friendly rivalry has begun. Pakistan has apparently set a record for aquatic tree plantings, with volunteers wading through chest high water and knee-deep mud to plant an average of 1,800 mangroves per day, each. In a single day and without any mechanical equipment, volunteers planted 541,176 young mangroves in the Indus River Delta to best the previous Guinness World Record of 447,874 trees in a day, held by India.
Richard Garstang, head of the program, said, "We hope that tree planting competitions will become as popular as cricket matches."
Little by little, the treeplanters are growing forests. The forests are halting desertification and preserving shorelines. They are sequestering carbon in their trunks, leaves and roots, rather than the atmosphere. They are feeding a hungry population and saving wildlife at the same time. They are restoring the rain cycles and feeding springs and rivers. When we feel overwhelmed by the collapse all around us — the death song of Gaia — we would do well to remember the story of the hummingbird Wangari Mattaai tells to children:
"The story of the hummingbird is about this huge forest being consumed by a fire. All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed as they watch the forest burning and they feel very overwhelmed, very powerless, except this little hummingbird. It says, 'I'm going to do something about the fire!' So it flies to the nearest stream and takes a drop of water. It puts it on the fire, and goes up and down, up and down, up and down, as fast as it can. In the meantime all the other animals, much bigger animals like the elephant with a big trunk [that] could bring much more water, they are standing there helpless. And they are saying to the hummingbird, 'What do you think you can do? You are too little. This fire is too big. Your wings are too little and your beak is so small that you can only bring a small drop of water at a time.' But as they continue to discourage it, it turns to them without wasting any time and it tells them 'I am doing the best I can.'"


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Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano produced its second major ash plume of 2010 beginning on May 7. Unlike the response to the earlier eruption, which began on April 14, 2010, the reaction to the new plume was better informed. Aircraft were diverted as needed to avoid damage, and again some airports were closed. But across Europe, planes were not grounded altogether, in part because computer models were used to predict the spread of volcanic ash. Most air passengers completed their journeys with minimal delay.
Among the key constraints required to run volcanic plume simulation models are the height to which ash is injected into the atmosphere, and the amount and timing of ash released. The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite passed just east of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano mid-morning on May 7, 2010, and viewed its ash plume for about 600 kilometers (373 miles) downwind. From MISR's nine different angular images, the height of the ash plume can be derived, using a hyper-stereo technique that also accounts for wind-driven cloud motion during the time between image acquisitions. On the left (Figure 1) is a natural-color, nadir (directly downward) view of the scene, with the volcano itself just off the upper left corner of the image, and the main plume extending to the southeast. At right (Figure 1) is the stereo-derived plume height, which is retrieved at 1.1 kilometer (0.68 mile) horizontal resolution, and with vertical accuracy of about half a kilometer (0.3 miles), from the MINX software tool. The MINX stereo-matching process uses the level of maximum spatial contrast to determine plume height. Much of the plume resides between 4 and 6 kilometers (2.5 and 4 miles) above the ocean surface (orange and red color in the right image), but descends to the 3 kilometer (2 mile) range (yellow-green) far downwind. Note also the smaller patch of ash plume near the source, within about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) of the surface (blue in the right image), which appears to be traveling to the southwest.
The Terra satellite is in a polar orbit, crossing the equator on the dayside at about 10:30 a.m. local time. With MISR's 400 kilometer-wide (249 mile-wide) swath, it images the entire Earth about once per week, every two-to-four days at higher latitudes. Another instrument on Terra, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), has a single view but a 2,300 kilometer-wide (1,429-mile-wide) swath, offering complementary, daily coverage of the volcanic effluent. The combination of MODIS coverage and MISR plume height maps provides among the best constraints for aerosol plume evolution modeling. These data are being used in continuing studies of the Eyjafjallajökull ash plume phenomenon.
MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The MISR data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.


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"The Boss" is questioning whether President-elect Donald Trump is ready to take office.
During an interview on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast released Monday, Bruce Springsteen said he questions whether Trump "is simply competent enough to do this particular job."
Springsteen is a high-profile Democrat and appeared with Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. Springsteen says he understands how Trump got elected. He says the Republican played working class fears over a changing economy, increasing diversity and the Islamic State group.
He tells Maron that he has "felt disgust" over elections before, "but never, never the kind of fear that you feel now."
Springsteen says he plans to do his best to play a "very, very small part" in trying to ensure America maintains its ideals. [[238904721, C]]


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Tycoon Denis O'Brien has won an historic defamation case against British company Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Irish Daily Mail.
O'Brien has been awarded $200,000 at Dublin's High Court after a jury found he was defamed by an article in the paper written by columnist Paul Drury.
The case is believed to be a first in Irish legal history as honest opinion was used as the defence under new defamation laws introduced in 2009.
The jury found that Drury's article was his honest opinion but they said it was not based on fact and was not in the public interest.
The jury of six men and six women found the article was defamatory and he was entitled to damages.
Read more: Irish America stands up for Denis O'Brien and applauds loudly
The Irish Times reports that O'Brien had said the article, published on January 22nd, 2010 and shortly after an earthquake in Haiti, accused him of being a hypocrite and motivated by self-interest over his efforts to assist the relief of Haiti where his telecommunications company Digicel has substantial interests.
Attorney for the paper Oisín Quinn said the paper will appeal the result but would not seek a stay of execution on the order to pay the award because of the amount involved.
The Irish Times reports that the jury at one stage asked the judge to clarify the circumstances pertaining to aggravated, or exceptional, damages.
Quinn told the jury before they made their decision: "The right to express opinion is vital to society. This case is about the simple truth of the right to express an opinion.
"We want you to stand up for the right of someone to express his view."
Quinn told the jurors that they did not have to agree with what journalist Paul Drury said in the article, they just had to agree that he had a right to say it.
He also highlighted '10 facts' contained in the article that were 'right and true and on which former editor Drury had based his opinion.
Read more news on Irish media here
The lawyer said the article was "sarcastic, cynical, with some attempt at humour", but was obviously an opinion piece. It had drawn attention to what O'Brien was doing on Irish state television station RTÉ.
The report says he asked the jury if they thought public figures must be taken 'at face value' or could someone honestly question what they see and give their opinion.
He asked: "Wouldn't it be a sorry day if in Ireland you couldn't do that?".
O'Brien's lawyer Paul O'Higgins told the jury that much emphasis had been placed on the value of comment and 'big people being brought to book' but no comment was useful if it couldn't be trusted.
He added that while Denis O'Brien could afford to take the defamation case, most of the people hurt and damaged by newspapers could not.
He claimed no research of any kind had been done before the article was published or since and that the facts on which the article was based were not true.
He added: Therefore the defence of honest opinion must fail."


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Lost in a Pressing Crisis at the Border: Perpetual Immigration Issues
As attention centers on the thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the Texas-Mexico border, activists in the Rio Grande Valley are working hard to ensure that their ongoing campaigns continue to gain traction after the current crisis subsides.
BROWNSVILLE — After reports in March of three undocumented Honduran migrants being assaulted by a Border Patrol agent, who was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, immigration activists decided to form a group to determine whether migrants were being routinely abused.
At the same time, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas has been contributing to a yearslong effort to document possible abuses of border residents by federal agents. The group was also planning to join a multistate campaign to help border residents understand their legal rights if they were stopped by law enforcement officials while crossing back from Mexico.
But organizers say both efforts have been drowned recently by the national attention on the arrival of tens of thousands of Central Americans — including a surge of unaccompanied minors — who have crossed the border illegally.
"It's going forward, but it's overshadowed by the children," Michael Seifert, the network director of the Rio Grande Valley's Equal Voice Network, a network of community organizations, said of the residents' group that was formed after the March incident. "But it's all relevant. The big question was: If the guy hadn't killed himself, would we have ever known how much this happens?"
Those living on the border hope that the increased attention on the area will teach more people about the complexities of life here and help the region address longstanding issues that will still be here after the current crisis stops making headlines.
On the Texas side of the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge last week, ACLU members gave residents wallet-size pamphlets with information on their rights when they are stopped by law enforcement, including questioning, detention and search-and-seizure procedures.
The campaign, part of a multistate "Revitalize Not Militarize" effort and spearheaded by the Southern Border Communities Coalition, was planned before the immigration crisis.
"The idea is to address the culture of impunity that's been going on for a long time," said Brooke Lyssy, a border rights fellow with the Equal Voice Network. "This was planned by the ACLU of New Mexico, but it definitely does fall at a very intense time for border issues."
The spotlight on the border has brought other groups to South Texas, hoping to gain attention for particular immigration issues.
Last week in nearby McAllen, dozens of activists, including several who were undocumented, held a three-day vigil near a church acting as a temporary shelter for some of the migrants.
Organizers said they came to show support for the children and to call for their humane treatment, but that the situation also needed to be seen in the broader context of the debate over immigration reform.
"This is something that requires a lot of attention, something that deserves a lot of media attention," said Mario Carrillo, the communications manager for United We Dream, a coalition that advocates immigrants' rights and lobbies in support of the DREAM Act, which would create a formal path to citizenship for young people who came here as children. "But I think within that we have to remember some of the things that cause these types of crisis. When this happened, it really did solidify our point, that the system is broken, that it is something that is not sustainable."
With activism comes a risk of criticism.
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was the highest-profile activist in McAllen, supporting the migrants. But attention shifted to Vargas himself after he was detained by the Border Patrol. He was eventually released, but the incident raised questions about whether his visit was part of a larger effort to gain publicity.
Vargas insisted that he never intended to be detained when he came to South Texas.
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