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Preparation before traveling Europe
First of all congratulations for your smart decision to travel one of the best places in the world. Europe would be an ideal place for an explorer or let's say a voyager in an adventurous mood. Before tipping on the preparation, one needs to ensure certain aspects before going to Europe. Lets see a bit of a background for the land of dreams.
Most of the Europe is full of Ultra modern and high-tech cities and exotic destinations. Further more, Europe is divided into two sections. Countries that's a part of the European Union and the countries which are not in the E.U. The Europe has been focusing a lot on the tourism and travelers so there's nothing that would disappoint you.
Preparations before traveling Europe
1.1 Plan your trip
• There is a lot that awaits you in the Europe so the first and the foremost thing one should do is to think about what exactly your taste is like and what would fancy you more: would it be sleepless and enthusiastic countries like U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands Or rich cultured, full of beautiful countryside, mountains, valleys and nature possessed places like Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Rome, Greece and more?
• Well, even though most of the countries are a mixture of all and amazing in their own ways, if you are going there for the first time then a travel maker or tourism companies could be more prolific. They design your trip and know what people like because they are in the business for long, unless you are an explorer who likes to make his own way. Also, traveling on your own may be a bit cheaper, but there are pros and cons.
• Most people buy the tickets online because sometimes it's cheaper and you don't have to wait in queues or telephone. The best time to book a ticket is actually two three months before you want to go that could save you a lot.
• A Schengen visa could probably be another good option, as it includes most of the European countries and you could enter those countries on a single stamp visa, except the U.K. and some other countries, which are not yet on that visa.
• Once you are done with your tickets, the second most important thing is to work out your money. There is a common currency for E.U. known as Euros and it could be used in all countries under E.U. Countries like England has Pounds as the currency but you can still work out with Euro.
• It is highly advisable that you carry along traveler's cheque which is replaceable by its company or bank, just in case you lose them and are easily exchangeable for cash when needed. But, you should also carry some cash which comes in handy when you just arrive at the airport or hotels. A credit card could also be carried along for it is convenient and usable almost everywhere.
• Hopping continents while moving around could be weary and in first place you are out there to enjoy and not sweat.
• Europe is cold most of the times so don't forget to carry a jumper or a jacket.
• In few countries rain is uncertain to a rain jacket might come in handy.
• Always stuff your important documents in a small carry bag or a money belt that sticks around your waist. Also, learn how to stash your money.
• Well just pack the right things and avoid stuffing needless things and you are all set to go.
• Last but not the least, always reach the airport early at least two hours before the flight departure time.
• I wish you all a happy and a safe journey.
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Imagine a political party.
Its public face is a single, easily identifiable figure who receives considerable media exposure and is regarded as having a genius for self-promotion, while somehow avoiding the scrutiny that more mainstream politicians face. Despite the fact that our public face is a seasoned and accomplished professional politician, the party seeks to position itself as being outside the political mainstream, confronting a political establishment that has lost its touch. But the party itself is riven, fissiparous and indisciplined – its elected representatives, wherever they have gained anything resembling power, have proved to be incapable of wielding it credibly. It is riven by defections and splits and vicious in-fighting, especially where those members have been recruited from other, perhaps more mainstream political traditions. It lacks any sort of discipline, and has become a place on which mavericks park their soap-boxes. Their elected representatives in local government in particular have a reputation for not sticking the course and for embarrassing, self-indulgent grandstanding. Some of its most vociferous and destructive members have been won elections almost by accident, in the teeth of expectation. Ultimately, it is a party that resents discipline and has developed a fine contempt for the heavy lifting of democratic politics, preferring a sort of inward-looking self-indulgence even while it makes sweeping – and often unsupported – statements about the world and how it must change.
In the current climate, that description is likely to call Nigel Farage and UKIP to mind. But not exclusively. If you live in Bradford, it could be Respect; in Brighton and Hove, the Green Party. And, although the opinion polls disagree on exactly how big UKIP's vote will be, it's clear that they're going to attract some pretty substantial support in the European Elections later this week.
Of course in part this is a vote for a "none of the above" party in an election that many people seem to think does not matter; European Elections traditionally attract low turnouts and high fringe party votes, which revert to the main parties at a General Election. But there is a deeper issue, one of confidence in the political system as a whole, and it's worth unpacking it a bit – because the UKIP surge, if that is what it proves to be, is a an expression of a real despair and disengagement with the processes of politics. UKIP may not be the answer, but the question matters.
The most dangerous thing about fringe politics is that it harnesses discontent with the existing political system while letting it off the hook. Farage claims to be a political outsider – curious for someone who has been an elected Parliamentarian for longer than Cameron, Clegg or Ed Miliband – but notoriously styles himself as Margaret Thatcher's true heir. Get behind the populist anti-European and anti-immigration rhetoric and UKIP is a party of the hard economic Right – a party dedicated to flat taxes, taking away women's working place rights, and privatisation of the NHS to an extent that even Cameron dare not countenance. UKIP is a party that harnesses economic discontent, offering the illusion of radicalism while ensuring that the existing order would have absolutely nothing to fear from its policies. The causes of the economic discontent that fuels UKIP are nothing to do with Europe and immigration – the serious evidence shows that both have created jobs and prosperity – but lie in the economic ideology that, at its heart, UKIP defends.
The Green Party is a more complex animal; it claims to be a party of the left in opposition to austerity and to what it often calls "neoliberalism", and there's no doubt that Caroline Lucas has become one of the most audible anti-austerity voices in the UK political scene. But. as I've argued before, the Green Party's political methods can be deeply Thatcherite and consumerist. To give just one example, at an open data meeting in Brighton last week, Alex Philips, a local Green councillor and second candidate on the Greens' South East list, argued that there should be no state restriction on online trolling or on the availability of internet porn while welcoming the growth of the Pirate Party: a position that sits uneasily with Caroline Lucas' "No to page 3" campaign as well as being an approach that sees the issue squarely from the point of view from the "customer" rather than those exploited in producing the content; a consumerism and hostility to the state that is neoliberal to its core. It's just one example of the inconsistencies within the Green Party between its socialist, its "deep green" and social libertarian wings; such conflicts may not matter in a part of protest but cannot be wished away in office. At one level the Greens' hostility to the whip is a "get out of jail" card for a party which – as events in Brighton have shown – resents being held to account to the point where the local Green MP avoids mentioning her party on her election literature. UKIP and the Green Party may be as far apart as it is possible to get in terms of ideological positioning – but in terms of political method it's not difficult to see why the Green Party has been described as UKIP for affluent liberals, its structurelessness and method meaning that its practice mirrors rater than challenges existing hierarchies, especially of class and gender.
It's in this kind of politics that fringe politics reveals that, at heart, it's deeply apolitical: it is an expression of a reluctance to engage, to get one's hands dirty with the sheer messiness of serious electoral politics, which involves complex and sometimes painful trade-offs and compromises, and taking responsibility for the outcome. It flatters to deceive; it talks about changing politics from the outside, except in practice it's deflecting scrutiny away from the insiders. It lacks intent and seriousness, and is often deeply simplistic in the face of the complex. It's all about grandstanding and individualism, and falls apart in the face of the collective effort that's necessary to effect real change. It's about protest, not government – and in the case of UKIP capturing that protest in support of power rather than speaking truth to it.
One of the things that led me into the Labour Party was the question of how far you can effect real change outside the mainstream political system; and coming to the conclusion that, actually, you can't do very much. It's a real issue because, freed of responsibility, fringe parties are invariably able to talk a good talk, but their fringe status means they can influence little; even in more pluralistic electoral systems than we have in the UK fringe parties are required to undertake the horse-trading of coalition. The simple fact is that all substantial social and economic change in Britain has been effected from within the mainstream party system – and the only exception in the last two centuries is the rise of the Labour Party in the early years of the twentieth century, reflecting both social change and the intellectual bankruptcy of nineteenth-century individualistic Liberalism faced with the complexities of twentieth-century society.
Of course it's nowhere near as simple as simply joining up with a mainstream party. The main parties must take much of the responsibility for the current crisis of democratic legitimacy – in particular the way in which, as a whole, the political "class" has become more homogenous and increasingly willing to take forward narratives that are simply not grounded in people's experience – or, more precisely, to rationalise away aspects of that experience, and reinterpret them within an ungrounded and ideological frame. The narrative around "benefit scroungers" and immigration is one example of that, in the way in which it ignores the daily experience of millions who have been marginalised from mainstream political debate. Labour has to reconnect with the people who have traditionally looked to it to speak on their behalf. And as parties on the fringes gain support, it's worth remembering that Beveridge and Keynes argued for political intervention in markets and generous social security provision in the shadow of the rise of Fascism in Europe, understanding that economic and political inclusion was essential to a stable democracy. At one level, UKIP is the revolt of people who were promised that the state would be on their side from the cradle to the grave, and whose daily lives are testimony to the erosion of that vision. The anger is real and justified, even if the solutions UKIP proposes are not, and unless we understand that we haven't understood UKIP.
The point is not to condemn people who vote UKIP, but to understand their concerns – which I believe to be rooted in economic insecurity and uncertainty – and to respond in a grounded way; and to understand how the politics of the fringe is actually a bulwark against change. People are angry and disillusioned with our political system, and it is not difficult to see why; the political class has looked increasingly remote and self-absorbed. Mainstream parties must engage with the people they claim to represent, especially those they have left behind, and for Labour that means being grounded in the real experiences of people under austerity; UKIP – and to a lesser extent the Green Party – are a reminder that if we're serious about change, we just don't have the luxury of opting out. And at heart, whether on the left or the right, the method that unites fringe parties is more important than the ideological issues that divide them.

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I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I did, fascinating.
Today is the 116th birthday of the namesake of this website: Waldina! She is my mother's mother's mother. On my 18th birthday, I received a card with $20 and a handwritten note that read: "Vote Democrat." The world is a better place because she was in it.
NAME: Waldina Maria Asplund Anderson Swanbeck
OCCUPATION: Matriarch, Activist
BIRTH DATE: July 22, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH: Munsola, Finland
DATE OF DEATH: May 25, 1989
PLACE OF DEATH: Aberdeen, Washington
Waldina Maria Asplund was born on July 22, 1901. She married Alfred Liljkvist Anderson on November 28, 1917. They had three children in 14 years. She died on May 25, 1989, in Aberdeen, Washington, at the age of 87.
ARRIVAL: 1916 at age 15.
MARRIAGE: She married Alfred Liljkvist Anderson on November 28, 1917, when she was 16 years old, he was 31.
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A new bill going through Congress wants to stop "bad people from using Tor. It not only provides a safe haven for online activists and whistle-blowers for people in oppressed countries, but also for criminals, drug users, and pedophiles.
The people behind the Tor project aren't known for taking too kindly to oppressive, intrusive, surveillance minded governments. To go even further beyond the paranoid thoughts that government funding already compromises Tor, we take into consideration the Snowden incident that revealed that Tor is in fact, one of the only tools that still has the NSA baffled in most situations.
With all that being said, it comes as no surprise that Congress may be secretly fighting against the state funding of Tor. The latest State Dept. appropriations bill is snaking its way silently through Congress references to stopping circumvention technologies from being used by bad people. How this is possible, I have no idea. I just came up with three flaws in my head, and can only imagine what readers are thinking themselves.
It's been suggested that this broadly applies to encryption. The bill however, seems to be directed upon Tor itself. A senate report on the appropriations discussed funding related to internet freedom, which is what Tor was created, and still used for today. It seems now though, Congress wants to try to limit what the State Dept. can do with its funds, which includes finding ways to stop those with bad intentions from using Tor.
"…the committee requires that spend plans submitted by the Department of State and BBG pursuant to section 7078(c) of the act include a description of safeguards to ensure that circumvention technologies are not used for illicit purposes, such as coordinating terrorist activities or online sexual exploitation of children," the report reads.
In the full version of the bill, the section notes that the funding may be used for internet freedom, only after measures are taken to stop "bad people" from using these tools.
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Tor has been developed to provide the best privacy tools for people using the internet, and it appears this is a way of attacking Tor from Congress. One could argue this as being a way to cut funding from the State Dept. to Tor. If this isn't changed, a lot of the funds Tor uses to develop beyond its previous self, won't be available.


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Veterans Day 2006
While I've never supported the war, I have always supported our men and women who voluntarily give their lives for service to our country. As our troops return home from this latest conflict, let all of us remember to extend a hand, thank them for their service and make sure that our government provides for them as they should. For those who've been mentally or physically wounded, these wounds heal slowly, but the scars and memories will last a lifetime. And... for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, we thank you and your families for your commitment and dedication.
November 11, or what has come to be known as Veterans Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor Armistice Day - the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislature that was passed in 1938, November 11 was "dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day.' As such, this new legal holiday honored World War I veterans.
In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, November 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.
In 1968, the Uniforms Holiday Bill ensured three-day weekends for Federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. Under this bill, Veterans Day was moved to the last Monday of October. Many states did not agree with this decision and continued to celebrate the holiday on its original date. The first Veterans Day under the new law was observed with much confusion on October 25, 1971.
Finally on September 20, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed a law which returned the annual observance of Veterans Day to its original date of November 11, beginning in 1978. Since then, the Veterans Day holiday has been observed on November 11.
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This Question is What Made Anukreethy Made Miss India
Dreams, no one can explain where do we get it from. It doesn't look who we are, doesn't discriminate in poor or rich. But what matters, is how far can you, how now can you chase your dreams.
But, what happens when no one is there to support you. Your situation is working against your dream. Do you fight? Or do you give in?
Those who give in never gets to see what their life could have been, but then there are those who are ruthless in chasing their dreams. The same story of pursuing dreams against all the odds, has brought us a new miss India.
Anukreethy Vyas (19) was proudly crowned as Miss India 2018 yesterday night. The whole nation was proud after her prestigious win.
This 19-year-old girl belongs to Tamil Nadu, India, and she truly deserved to win.
In a competition like this, all the contestants are asked a question, based on their answer they get selected and crowned.
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The judges asked her, "Who is a better teacher in life – success or failure?". Anukreethy's answer won hearts.
"I would say failure is a better teacher because when you get continuous success in life, you will feel content at a point and your growth will stop. But when you get failures continuously, the soul will have the fire, and you will keep working hard until you reach the goal. It's always been a failure in my life that took me to this position – from a village-based place, from all the struggle, I am here. Not even a single person was there to support me other than my mother, and I feel only the failures, the criticism I have gone through have brought me up as a confident and independent woman in this society. And experience is always the best teacher, and that is what I can tell you. So keep trying. Though the failures might haunt you, success will wish you. (sic)"
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The incredible success of the Web has resulted in unprecedented interest from business and hence unprecedented pressure on the architecture, via the ABC. Business requirements have begun to dominate Web architecture. Business-to-business and business-to-consumer Web sites have fueled most of the innovation in Web-based software.
The original conception of the Web was as a web of documents, in keeping with its hypertext roots. E-commerce, however, views the Web as a web of data, and these different views have led to some tensions. For example, "pushing" data to a user is difficult; the most common technique for updating data is to reload it at specified periods rather than to rely on the change of data to force a screen update. Another is the back button on a browser, which in certain circumstances may result in stale data being displayed on a screen.
The new requirements of e-commerce are stringent and quite different from the original requirements presented in Section 13.2:
High performance. A popular Web site will typically have tens of millions of "hits" per day, and users expect low latency from it. Customers will not tolerate the site simply refusing their requests.
High availability. E-commerce sites are expected to be available "24/7." They never close, so must have minimal downtime?perhaps a few minutes per year.
Scalability. As Web sites grow in popularity, their processing capacity must be able to similarly grow, to both expand the amount of data they can manage and maintain acceptable levels of customer service.
Security. Users must be assured that any sensitive information they send across the Web is secure from snooping. Operators of Web sites must be assured that their system is secure from attack (stealing or modifying data, rendering data unusable by flooding it with requests, crashing it, etc.).
Modifiability. E-commerce Web sites change frequently, in many cases daily, and so their content must be very simple to change.
The architectural solution to these requirements is more about system architecture than simply software architecture. The components that populate the system come from the commercial marketplace: Web servers and Web clients of course, but also databases, security servers, application servers, proxy servers, transaction servers, and so forth.
A typical reference architecture for a modern e-commerce system is shown in Figure 13.6. The browser/user interaction function is usually fulfilled by a Web browser (but it could be a kiosk, a legacy system with a Web connection, or some other Web-enabled device). The business rules and applications function is typically fulfilled by application servers and transaction servers. The data services layer is typically fulfilled by a modern database, although connections to legacy systems and legacy databases are also quite common. This scheme is often referred to as an n-tier architecture (here, n = 3). A tier is a partitioning of functionality that may be allocated to a separate physical machine.
A typical implementation of an e-commerce system architecture consists of a number of tiers, each consisting of a coherent grouping of software (typically customized commercial components) and hardware. Such a configuration is given in Figure 13.7, which shows how software is allocated to hardware.
The figure is annotated with the functional elements from Figure 13.6 to reinforce the notion that a single function in the reference architecture may map to multiple tiers in a typical e-commerce architecture. The two parts of Figure 13.5 occur here as elementary components: the Web browsers (clients) and the Web servers, respectively, reflecting the evolution toward component-based systems in which the internal component structure is less relevant.
We will now discuss each of the elements in Figure 13.7, along with the qualities that each helps to achieve.
An end user typically initiates a request for information by interacting with a Web browser. Modern Web browsers support user interface modifiability in a wide variety of ways, the most obvious of which has not changed from the inception of the Web: The user interface that the browser supports is not hardwired but it is specified via HTML. At least, it used to be. Nowadays there are many other technologies for creating sophisticated user interfaces. XML, Flash, ActiveX, and Java applets are just a few of the methods by which the standard palette of Web interactors (graphics and hot spots) are widened to provide fully programmable interactive interfaces via browsers.
Once the user has submitted a request, it must be transmitted to a target Web site. This transmission may be via HTTP or, for sensitive information such as credit card or identification numbers, HTTPS (HTTP Secure). HTTPS uses Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer as a subprotocol underneath HTTP. It uses a different port (443 instead of the standard port 80 that HTTP uses) to request TCP/IP services in an encrypted form. SSL uses a 128-bit public/private key pair to encrypt the data, and this level of encryption is considered adequate for the exchange of small amounts of commercial information in short transactions.
Requests from individual browsers may first arrive at a proxy server, which exists to improve the performance of the Web-based system. These servers cache frequently accessed Web pages so that users may retrieve them without having to access the Web site. (Caches carry out the tactic of "multiple copies.") They are typically located close to the users, often on the same network, so they save a tremendous amount of both communication and computation resources. Proxy servers are also used by companies that want to restrict their employees' access to certain Web sites. In this case the proxy server is acting somewhat like a firewall.
Requests from the browser (or proxy server) then arrive at a router, located on the e-commerce provider's network, that may include a firewall for security. (Alternately the router may pass HTTP requests on to a separate firewall.) The router may implement network address translation (NAT), which translates an externally visible IP address into an internal IP address. The IP address for any return traffic from the Web server is translated so that it appears to have originated from the externally visible site, not from the internal IP address. NAT is one of the techniques used in load balancing, as we will discuss shortly.
The purpose of the firewall is to prevent unauthorized information flows or accesses from the outside world, an example of the "limit access" tactic. There are several types of firewall, the most common being packet filters and application proxies. Packet filters examine the TCP and IP headers of each incoming packet and, if any bad behavior is detected (such as an attempt to connect via an unauthorized port or to send nonconforming file types), the packet is rejected. Packet filter firewalls are appropriate for Web-based communication because they examine each packet in isolation?there is no attempt to maintain a history of previous communication.
Application proxy firewalls are, as their name suggests, application specific. They typically understand application protocols and hence can filter traffic based on known patterns of behavior. An application proxy may, for example, refuse an HTTP response unless an HTTP request was recently sent to that site. These firewalls can be much slower than packet filter firewalls because they rely on keeping a certain amount of history information on hand and their processing tends to be more complex.
A load-balancing component is an integral part of any important e-commerce Web site, because it supports performance, scalability, and availability. The job of the load balancer is to distribute the "load"?incoming HTTP and HTTPS requests?among a pool of computers running Web servers. (Recall from Chapter 5 that load balancing follows from the tactic of "introducing physical concurrency.") The load balancer may simply (and transparently) redirect the request to another computer, or it may respond to the Web client and instruct it to redirect the request to a different server. While this redirection is transparent to the end user, it results in an additional roundtrip of communication.
In choosing which computer to redirect the traffic to, the load balancer may select in a round-robin fashion, or its choices may be based on known processing or load characteristics of each computer to which it is connected. Because the load balancer is acting as a proxy for the pool of computers, we can add to that pool without changing any external interface. In this way the load balancer supports performance scalability, known as horizontal scaling (adding more instances of a given resource).
In addition, the load balancer may monitor the liveness of each of its computers and, if one of them goes down, simply redirect traffic to the others in the pool. In this way it supports availability.
Next the HTTP or HTTPS request reaches the Web server. Early Web servers, such as those described in Figure 13.5, were typically single threaded. Modern versions are multithreaded, utilizing a pool of threads, each of which can be dispatched to handle an incoming request. A multithreaded server is less susceptible to bottlenecks (and hence long latency) when a number of long-running HTTP or HTTPS requests (such as credit card validations) arrive because other threads in the pool are still available to serve incoming requests. This is the performance tactic of "introduce concurrency."
Vertical scaling (adding more powerful instances of a given resource) can be accomplished by replacing existing servers with more powerful machines that will run more threads simultaneously.
Upon analyzing the request, the Web server will send it to an application server that can respond, typically using the services of a database to do so.
Chapter 16 will discuss Enterprise JavaBeans, a modern implementation approach for Web servers.
From the Web server the request is forwarded to an application server. "Application server" is a broad (some would say ill-defined) term for a class of applications that run in the "middle" of the n-tier architecture?business rules and applications. These servers implement business logic and connectivity, which dictate how clients and servers interact. The trend toward application servers has allowed significant portions of functionality to be moved from old-style "fat" clients into the middle tier. Also, they have allowed databases to concentrate on the storage, retrieval, and analysis of data without worrying about precisely how that data will be used.
Application servers at the low end typically offer an integrated development environment (IDE) and runtime server. IDEs support a programming model, such as COM (or, more recently, .NET), CORBA, or J2EE (discussed in Chapter 16). Many application servers also support a set of commonly used services for quickly creating business and e-commerce applications, such as billing, inventory, work flow, and customer relations management. At the upper end in terms of cost, complexity, and functionality are transaction processing and transaction monitoring. Transaction monitors and processors interact with databases and manage tasks like distributed transactions (including combining data from multiple sources), queuing, transaction integrity, and workload balancing (much like the load balancer mentioned earlier).
Finally, the request for service arrives at the database, where it is converted into an instruction to add, modify, or retrieve information. Modern database architectures share many of the qualities of the entire e-commerce system presented in Figure 13.7. They frequently use internal replication for performance, scalability, and high availability. They may use caching for faster performance.


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By Gregory Hale
When it comes to safety technology is key, but users should not get caught up in the bells and whistles of the latest and greatest offerings. Rather, they should make smart choices and understand their safety vision.
"Technology is a tool and we as humans have to decide how to use those tools," said Luis Duran, product marketing manager for safety systems at ABB during his Wednesday talk entitled "Human factors and their impact on plant safety," during the ABB Automation & Power World 2015 in Houston. "Plants have changed and technology has changed. Technology has been in the process industry for a long time. We can't be caught up in the flashiness of it."
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Duran said there were $20 billion in annual losses in the process industry with 80 percent of that being preventable and, additionally, operating errors make up 42 percent, or $6.7 billion of that total.
He was then able to categorized two types of human errors, purely human errors and human errors that technology can address.
Purely human elements are:
• Organizational change
• Safety culture and blame
• Staffing levels
• Fatigue
• Communications and shift handover
Human factors that technology can address:
• Ergonomics
• Alarm handling
• Training
• Maintenance errors
• Compliance with safety critical procedures
That is where the safety vision thing comes in.
"Organizations with a vigorous safety culture are in a more secure position to avoid accidents," Duran said.
In the end, it all comes down to risk management and "what risk we are willing to accept," he said. If a company has a safety culture and a safety vision they would create a statement of culture, a framework to live the vision, communication of that vision, verification of the effectiveness and a risk management strategy.
When looking at the technologies that can support the human element, Duran said ergonomics need to be efficient and motivating. The display design needs to have fast detection and eliminate any disturbances. Alarm handling needs to allow for continuous analysis to avoid nuisance alarms and help the operator focus on important events in the process.
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Duran said it has been almost 10 years since the Texas City BP refinery explosion and that was a perfect case where the human factor ended up playing a big role in the blast.
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Wellcome Collection, London, March – May 2011
Born Today aims to provide views of what it is like to be born now. Through a series of four programmed discussions from March to May at Wellcome Collection, London, it will tackle key issues concerning childbirth in the areas of medicine, society, culture and the arts. The series, curated by Thereza Wells, will include the participation of medics and midwives, anthropologists and artists, to bring together a collage of viewpoints from across the globe.
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10 March 2011
How we are born depends dramatically on where we are born. In the UK most women give birth in hospitals, but globally home births are the norm. Giving birth in the West is relatively safe, whereas in low-income countries it is often life-threatening. Why is this?
Speakers: Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; Professor Sheila Kitzinger, social anthropologist of birth and author of 23 books on childbirth; Professor Cathy Warwick, General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives.
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17 March 2011
Caesarean sections were originally undertaken when the life of the baby or mother was at threat. Today a Caesarean section can be carried out as much for convenience as for safety. Are we taking the dramatic intervention involved in a C-section too lightly, and should they be curtailed?
Speakers: Mr. Jonathan Brooks, obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon at Portland Hospital, London; Professor Michael Stark, developer of a simplified caesarean section technique and President of the New European Surgical Academy (NESA); Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, psychoanalyst and social psychologist specialising in reproductive issues. Anna Freud Centre, University College London.
Describing Birth
28 April 2011
The representation of childbirth in the arts had for many centuries been confined to religious paintings and medical treatises. In the 20th century, this changed, as artists and writers began to explore the subject in more personal ways. This event will uncover the ways childbirth has been described and documented by artists, writers and photographers.
Speakers: Catherine Bailey, model, wife of David Bailey, mother of three, Jill Dawson, writer and editor of an anthology on childbirth in literature; Nancy Durrell McKenna, photographer, documentary film maker, and founder and director of Safe Hands for Mothers and Fay Weldon, CBE, novelist playwright and screenwriter.
Ritualising Birth
5 May 2011
Giving birth is an event rich in ritual. Here in the West it is often overlooked, perhaps because the great majority of births take place in hospital. This event will explore not only Western birth rituals, but also those from other cultures, how they are perceived when they are brought here and what we can learn from them.
Speakers: Mavis Kirkham, Emeritus Professor of Midwifery, Sheffield Hallam University; Comfort Momoh, midwife, founder of the African Well Woman Clinic, and campaigner for the abolition of the practice of female genital mutilation; Dr Gowri Motha, obstetrician and creator of the 'Gentle Birth Method.'
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There is a linked event taking place in Cambridge on 7 May, organized by Dr. Francoise Barbira Freedman, Medical Anthropologist, University of Cambridge. For more information click here.
Also in Cambridge there will be an installation of childbirth related contemporary art curated by Thereza Wells which will open at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge on 7 May.


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Didn't you know it? Of course, I had to build a section for frequently asked questions to answer so many of those good and 'good' questions I receive almost everyday. As most of you could probably expect, they were mostly repetitive. (As you may have read elsewhere on this site, this is my main motivation for putting up a wicca section to begin with. I babble a bit like this in the beginning of all the pages, if you haven't noticed, but it's just my thing.
Q. What is FAQ?
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Q. What is Wicca?
A. As much as Trancendentalism is a philosophy, Wicca is the interpretive Earth-based (or Nature/Natural) religion to which this sub-site is dedicated. (WWWebster says: a religion influenced by pre-Christian beliefs and practises of western Europe that affirms the existence of supernatural power (as magic) and of both male and female deities who inhere in nature, and that emphasizes ritual observance of seasonal and life cycles .) Contrary to popular media portrayal, Wicca is not all about spells, chants, and rituals. For some, it is a way to get in touch with their inner selves. For others, it is a way to get in touch (or keep in touch) with Mother Nature. Wicca is not Satanism or Devil-Worship that some Christian propaganda states (some of which is left over from the time of the Crusades). Some of that propaganda (and I insist on using this word) had been used during the Salem Witchhunt Trials and earlier in an effort to make converts. (Similar theological arguments have been used against Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.)
Q. Um, what's Trancendentalism?
A. Trancendentalism is a philosophy which in and of itself is not defined. It stresses the difference between "reason" and "understanding" and insists that the classification that we, as humans, perform on our world is a superficial attempt to understand. Most Trancendentalist philosophers would agree that all things are one (i.e. everything is part of everything else) and should not be divided into neat little categories. It is well associated with many of the great people of the 19th century such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, among others. (Some of you are saying "this has very little to do with Wicca" but when you think about it, there are many parallels.)
Q. What is a Sabbat?
A. A Sabbat is a Wiccan holiday of which there are eight. Click here for more information.
Q. What's the difference between a pentacle and a pentagram?
A. A pentagram is simply a five pointed star. A pentacle is an inscribed pentagram. See here: (The one on the left is a pentagram, on the right, a pentacle.)
By the way, this is NOT a Satanic symbol, for those who don't know better. That would be upside down, with two points up. Right side up, it represents a person with outstreched arms, mind over matter. Upside down, it is matter over mind.
Q. What's up with the different spelling of magic(k)?
A. Some people use the "k" to distance this type of nature-based magick from the showbiz optical illusion stuff. Some use it to emphasize that witchcraft is in fact a religion. Some people use it because it looks cool. There's also other spellings too: majick, maj'k, maj'c, among others.
Q. What is the difference between black magick and white magick?
A. To answer this honestly, I must say there is no difference. Magick is magick. The differentiation comes into how you use it. Did you learn to fight like a tiger to defend yourself or to attack someone? A deed is only as good as its intention. Whether magick is black or white is up to the user.
Q. What is the difference between a witch, a wiccan, and a pagan?
A. Generally speaking, "pagan" refers to any person who is not Christian, Jewish, or Islamic. That is a very general term that includes Buddhism, Hinduism, all Native American religions, and of course, wicca, the Craft of the Wise, the Old Religion, and the systems of GrecoRoman mythology, and folklore from all over the world. A Wiccan is a believer of wicca. Not all wiccans are active practitioners--some are "philosophers," or so to speak. Some wiccans are witches. (Is this understandable? Witches generally are wiccans, but not all wiccans are witches.) Witchcraft comes from an old word: wiccae craeft or Craft of the Wise, according to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary.
Q. How did you come to be involved with wicca?
A. A friend and I were discussing some philosophy (and ethics) when he mentioned "an it harm none" and I asked what it meant. He told me to do a search for "wicca" to find out, which I did, but I had never heard of the word. I had actually been looking into witchcraft in 7th grade, but had not come across wicca (or perhaps I had and not looked further... either way, my search was not in the net). The Hawai'ian concept of Mana was especially interesting. After reading a few sites about wicca (and this was several years ago already), I wanted to find out more, and so I turned to books, etc. From that time forth, I had begun incorporating wiccan ideas into my beliefs.
Q. Will you teach me?
A. I'm afraid I would not be able to do that. There are too many people asking, and that is the main problem. Of course, if you live within 15 miles of me, I may consider. The most I would be able to teach, however, is probably some meditation techniques, and I'm always open to discuss questions and ideas by email. Long distance teaching has a tendency to be difficult and ineffective in my experience.
Q. Do you recommend any books?
A. Yes, of course. Please read the Recommended Reading page. If you would like to name a few books to put on there, feel free to let me know what they are. Learning is a life-long process, and there will always be new books up whenever I update it.
Q. How do I start?
A. Reread (or just read) my advice to newbies. Go to your nearest bookstore or library and read all your brain can handle. If you still have questions, come to me, but I won't do your research for you. That, you'll have to do yourself. I'll try my best to answer your questions, but just to let you know, I don't have time to read all my mail.


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Bodybuilding can be an incredibly fulfilling hobby, yet if you don't reach your goals it can be testing. It seems that whether we want to bulk up or lose fat, our bodies often stubbornly resist such changes. However if you keep pushing and make work hard to locate the best techniques, you can make ongoing progress. In this article we'll be exploring some bodybuilding tips that will help you reach the next level of your training.
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Jul 11
Your Family's Approach To Fitness Should Be For Life
Jul 04
How to Find Ab Workouts that Totally Work
There are all sorts of opinions about ab workouts, which ones are the most effective, how often they should be done, whether you should do old fashioned exercises or whether it is better to use a machine. No matter which approach you decide to take, you need to make sure your view of fitness is holistic you need to exercise your entire body. This will actually help your abdominal area as well, because you'll be burning calories and toning all your muscle groups. Here are some of the ab workouts that lots of fitness experts advocate doing.
Jun 20
Jogging Your Way To Health and Happiness
The list of benefits from jogging (or running if you like) is long and very impressive to say the least. You can run almost anywhere there is ground – grass, hills, pavement, sidewalk, dirt, whatever. Today we're offering a couple of sound pieces of running advice, and you really should remember them so you'll get the most out of your exercise.
Jun 12
Health And Fitness – Fact And Fiction
For years you've been performing the same exercises and now imagine your frustration if you found out you'd been doing them wrong. Think about the person who gets injured because of incorrect form and information. These real considerations happen all the time. You need to be sure you're getting your information from experts and credible sources for this reason. Your health and soundness of body depends on it because the world is rampant with bad information in so many areas. The following is some solid information on health and fitness.
Jun 10
Weight Loss Benefits Provided By Cardiovascular Fitness
If you are trying to lose weight, you may realize how very difficult this can be. A popular diet, the calorie controlled variety, is attempted by many people. Diet solutions can range from the popular meal replacement programs, questionable pill regimens, and other products that promise to help you lose weight. To lose weight, everyone needs to have a cardiovascular program incorporated into whatever dietary or weight loss program they happen to be participating in. Fitness programs, when properly integrated, can help keep the fat off and maintain your trim figure as you diet.
Jun 06
Exercise Benefits that Change Your Life
When you consider physical fitness benefits, you shouldn't forget that it can be very beneficial psychologically as well as physically. The mental benefits can extend into many areas of your life, such as how your brain works and your emotions. Best of all, you may find that you feel more positive about the world in general. Describing this state of mind isn't easy, but you'll recognize it when you experience it.
May 14
Effective Bodybuilding Tactics You Can Benefit From
You might want instant success with your bodybuilding, and you will find that there are many tactics to help you, but no magic formula. You might not think you are getting anywhere, but to see gains, every single day you will need to be giving your best effort. In this article we will be showing different ways to maximize your results, because your body will respond if you are giving a consistent effort.
May 12
The Real Truth about Dieting
It's very common to start off on a diet with lots of enthusiasm, and then to quickly lose hope after a couple of weeks when the desired weight hasn't been lost. While sometimes you will luck out and get fast results but more often than not you won't be so lucky and it will take quite a lot more time and perseverance. This is why it is important to understand what truly works in terms of weight loss, no matter what kind of diet you might have decided to try.
May 07
Fundamental Fitness Techniques for a Healthy Body
Do you exercise every day? If so, efficiency is the key to doing the best work out possible. There's no single best type of exercise, as you have to consider your own body type, state of health, goals and preferences. Throughout this article, we will show you specific ways that you can improve the way that you feel and how to get the most out of your exercising routines.


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Big Finish Folly, Part 91 – Medicinal Purposes, by Robert Ross
Welcome to Edinburgh. Note, if you will, the blood-soaked cobbles near the cattle market; the noose and gibbet outside The Last Drop; the body slumped in the alley just over there; and, of course, the wonderful graveyard, replete with disinterred coffins. Now, see the house of Dr Knox – there it is! And now it isn't! What do you mean, houses aren't supposed to do that…?There's a proper heavyweight cast in this adventure for Old Sixey and Evelyn – none other than David Tennant and Leslie Philips are playing alongside the regulars, hamming it up gloriously in roles that perhaps you wouldn't expect them to play. But while they seem to be having fun, I certainly wasn't.
I don't have a problem with the historical setting, and nor do I have an issue with the idea of a time-travelling interloper, using history purely for profit (Dr Knox's cavalier approach to time travel involves flitting forwards from 1827 for canapes). That, alongside the backdrop of hardened villains Burke and Hare, should have made this play a true dark classic, to complement the direction of BF's Sixth Doctor arc over the last half dozen or so stories. But Medicinal Purposes really doesn't do it for me. Here's why.
It's the two leads. The Doctor and Evelyn. For once, they just don't ring true, and they aren't even consistent across the play. The Doctor is his fidgety self, but veers from the moral high ground to murky ambiguity as he deals with Knox. He is admiring of Burke & Hare for the good that will come of the experiments their ill deeds facilitated, but when Knox uses much the same excuse (alien virus destroying another race, Knox using 1827 as a base for his own experiments to find a cure, with "The B&H Show" as a sideline) the Doctor goes off the deep end. The Doctor tries to save Daft Jamie, while at the same time telling Evelyn that Daft Jamie can't be allowed to live. The same goes for poor Mary who is alternately feted and given short shrift. It seems the Doctor doesn't know how to act. And for each stance he takes, Evelyn adopts an opposite view. She exhorts him to leave the Tardis when he doesn't want to, only to want to return almost immediately when the Doctor becomes fascinated by the era.
The constant back and forth – and the red herring of the virus plot – is tiring. I have to admit to being relieved when it was finally over. The sole saving grace for me was Leslie Philips as Knox – a proper villain with potential for a return.


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A Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a method of procurement for social infrastructure projects and typically involves the government engaging the private sector to design, construct, finance and maintain social infrastructure, and delivery ancillary services, for a specific period.
The Tasmanian Government recognises that, when handled well, benefits can accrue to the community from involving the private sector on a competitive basis in infrastructure projects.
Tasmanian government agencies should only consider a PPP where it can be clearly established that there is sufficient scale and market appetite in Tasmania for a PPP to provide value for money to the government. Tasmanian government agencies considering a PPP should firstly contact the Shareholder Policy and Markets Branch of the Department of Treasury and Finance for further information.
Shareholder Policy and Markets BranchGPO Box 147HOBART TAS 7001Phone: 03 6166 4444Email: email@example.com


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Based in Leicestershire, a baby products manufacturer have been awarded the latest Reality Cheque for £103,000, claiming an overall amount of £446,000 across five years. The family owned business develop products for infants; prams, strollers, car seats, cots, beds and furniture make up the bulk of their sales.
With safety at the heart of all products, research and development is vital for complying with legislation in this highly regulated area to guarantee strength, safety and operational elements after the changes after scaling up prototypes. The award-winning company is specifically geared up to research international trends, including manufacturing, product demand, style and safety, priding itself on rapidly recognising trends and incorporating them into the product range.
Previous R&D tax credit claims have been a major driving force in confidence for company expansion within a competitive worldwide marketplace.


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LC Paper No. CB(1)5/98-99
This paper seeks members' agreement to the formation of 18 Legislative council Panels for the term commencing July 1998 and the arrangements for Members to join these Panels.
2. In accordance with Rule 77 of the Rules of Procedure, there shall be such number of committees, to be called Panels, as the House Committee considers appropriate and as the Council may approve. A Panel monitors and examines policy matters referred to it by a member of the Panel or by the House Committee. It also provides a forum for the exchange of views on Government policies and issues of public concern, and for the Administration to consult Members on major legislative and financial proposals before these are formally introduced into the Council or the Finance Committee. To enable Panels to monitor the wide range of Government policies effectively, each Panel normally undertakes a specific area of responsibility corresponding to that of a Bureau Secretary in the Government Secretariat.
3. The terms of reference of a Panel are recommended by the House Committee and approved by the Council.
Setting up of 18 Panels
4. In determining the number of Panels to be proposed and the delineation of responsibilities of Panels, the Secretariat has consulted the Administration and incorporated their suggestions in the present proposal.
5. It is proposed that :
Signification of membership
6. According to Rule 77(4), the procedural rules governing the manner and timing of the signification of membership for Panels shall be decided by the House Committee. It is proposed that :
7. In order that the 18 Panels proposed could start work in mid-July 1998, it is proposed that a motion be moved at the Legislative Council meeting on 8 July 1998 seeking approval for setting up the 18 Panels and their terms of reference. If this is agreed, leave of the President to dispense with the notice of the motion under Rule 29(1) will be required.
Advice sought
8. Members are requested to endorsee the proposals described in paragraphs 4 - 7 above and to recommend to the President for waiving the notice requirement for moving the motion in relation to the formation of the Panels.
Legislative Council Secretariat
2 July 1998
Appendix I
Legislative Council Panels
Corresponding Bureau/Body
Policy Area
Education & Manpower Bureau
Labour and manpower planning matters
Recreation, Culture and Sport
Home Affairs Bureau
Matters relating to development of arts and culture, public entertainment, sport and recreation
Public Service
Civil Service Bureau
Matters relating to the civil service and Government-funded public bodies and other public service matters
Administration of Justice and Legal Services
Department of Justice
Matters relating to the administration of justice and legal services
Home Affairs
District, community and rural matters, civic education, human rights, data protection, press freedom, building management, youth and women matters
Transport Bureau
Transport matters
Housing Bureau
Private and public housing matters
Security Bureau
Independent Commission Against
Security, public order, public safety, corruption-related issues, and nationality and immigration matters
Constitutional Affairs
Constitutional Affairs Bureau
Matters relating to implementation of the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law, relations between the HKSAR Government and the Central Peoples Government and other Mainland authorities, electoral matters and district organizations
Financial Affairs
Finance Bureau
Financial Services Bureau
Financial and finance matters
Education matters
Trade and Industry
Trade and Industry Bureau
Trade and industry matters
Planning, Lands and Works
Planning, Environment &
Lands Bureau
Works Bureau
Lands, buildings and planning matters, works and water supply and Public Works Programme
Welfare Services
Health & Welfare Bureau
Welfare and rehabilitation services matters
Information Technology and Broadcasting
Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau
Matters relating to information technology, telecommunications, broadcasting, film censorship and services
Economic Services
Economic Services Bureau
Economic matters
Health Services
Medical and health services matters
Environmental Affairs
Planning, Environment and Lands Bureau
Environmental and conservation affairs


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Kilimanjaro Airports Development Company (KADCO) is a company owned by the Government of United Republic of Tanzania charged to manage and develop Kilimanjaro International Airport and its estate.
KADCO is seeking to employ competent, experienced, highly organized and self-motivated Tanzanians to fill the vacant positions described below:-
Company Secretary (KADCO/EXT/01/2016/CS)
Key Responsibilities
To provide legal advice to the management
To provide interpretation of legislation and other legal documents, with regard to appropriate implementation
In consultation with the Chairman of the Board and the Managing Director, manages meetings of the Board and its Committees and serves as Secretary to the Board and its Committees.
To draft, advice and witness legal documents such as concessions, contracts, letter of intent, MOU and agreements involving KADCO and other parties.
Custodian of company legal documents and seal.
To conduct research on legislation and other legal aspects pertaining to the company.
Liaises with the High court and courts subordinate, other institutions, Government Ministries and Departments on legal matters pertaining to KADCO.
To provide legal advice on the procurement process, including reviewing of tender documents, negotiations process and drafting of contracts involving the company.
To present KADCO in negotiations of legal documents (contract and agreement, Memorandum of understanding and other instrument).
To review the company's licenses, policies, rules, regulations and procedures consistent with the laws for uniformity and legal sufficiency.
Qualifications and Experience
Holder of a Bachelor Degree in Laws (LLB) from a recognized Institution
Should be registered Advocate of the High Court
Diploma in Airport Operations will be an added advantage.
Possession of a Masters degree in Laws (LL.M) will be an added advantage
Must have not less than seven (7) years of progressively working experience in a reputable Organization, of which three (3) years should be in supervisory position.
Must have good communication and interpersonal skills and working knowledge of ICT applications
The successful candidate may expect attractive and competitive remuneration and benefits packages consistent with KADCO scheme of service.
General Conditions;
Interested and qualified Tanzanians are advised to submit their application letter enclosing updated Curriculum Vitae (CV) bearing reliable contacts i.e. postal address, e-mail address and reliable mobile phone numbers, certified photocopy of the original academic/Professional Certificates, one recent passport size picture, birth certificate to
Managing Director,
P.O. Box 10,
KIA- Tanzania.
- Application letter, the envelope or the subject line of the email should bear the Ref. No. of the post applied. Application without Ref. No. shall not be considered.
- Testimonials, Partial transcripts and results slips will not be accepted.
- Certificates from foreign Universities/examination bodies should be verified by The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) and National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA).
- Applicants should indicate three reputable referees with their reliable contacts.
- Application letters should be written in English.
- Presenting of forged academic certificates and other incorrect information in CV shall amount to legal actions.
- Applicants with special needs/cases or disabilities are encouraged to apply and are supposed to indicate their physical status in their application letter.
- All applicants must be Tanzanians and should not be above 45 years of age.
- The application should be submitted not later than 23rd May, 2016 at 1530 local time.


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