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Internship: Secure Integration of Internet of Things- M/F JobApply now »
Date: Aug 10, 2019
City: Mougins, 06, FR
Company: SAP
Requisition ID: 201131
Work Area: Software-Research
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Student
Employment Type: Limited Full Time
SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That's why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.
SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it's the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people's lives.
SAP's security vision is built on 5 ideals to secure business: Defendable Application, Zero-Knowledge, Zero-Vulnerability, Security by Default, and Transparency.
SAP's security research group lays the foundation for realising the vision: The 30+ researchers of the Security Research unit focus on security engineering (e.g., the automation of the secure software development lifecycle), secure business execution (e.g., business process security and security in cloud-based business applications) and secure operations (e.g., secure maintenance and support of complex and heterogeneous cloud IT landscapes).
Security Research proposes a 6-month internship in its Sophia-Antipolis offices (Mougins, France).
This internship is based in the SAP Labs France Research Lab, in Sophia-Antipolis. The work will be performed in the context of the Research Program "Security & Trust" and deals with secure integration of Internet of Things with SAP HANA applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow to 50 billion connected devices and $14.4 trillion in value at stake until 2020. SAP is exploiting this trend and centers its IoT development on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform IoT Service.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as one of the most ground breaking and game-changing evolutions of operational and information technology in modern times. More and more enterprises are nowadays aiming to connect both new and legacy physical assets to their system landscapes in order to capture the data from these assets, generate insights and derive value out of the latter. This requires to retrofit existing physical assets in order to leverage them as part of the (connected) physical (IoT) infrastructure.
A major part of this growing number of "things" (devices) is expected to be low-powered, i.e., devices which are restricted to consume only very little energy to operate (and therefore to communicate). This has numerous consequences in practice; for instance, one cannot expect these devices to hold an active link but rather to communicate on-demand only. To this effect, these devices will have to communicate not only with a reduced packet size, but to embrace both a higher latency and a lower throughput at run-time. This takes us to the concept of Low-Power Connectivity, materialized as Low-Powered Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) or Low-Power Networks (LPNs). LPNs offer an economically viable option to physically deploy new sensors along with the necessary communications infrastructure in order to generate, transport and ingest data coming from any type of asset. This means that part of the great potential of the LPNs rely on the cost effectiveness of retrofitting old assets with new (low-power) sensors and (low-power) connectivity, making this type of approach the first choice when targeting legacy assets and landscapes.
However, even if the connectivity is achieved, security is often an equally important requirement- in particular end-to-end data protection from the devices (i.e. the first end) all the way to the backend applications (i.e. the second end). The involvement of multiple actors in an IoT scenario (e.g. device, network, platform, application, professional services providers, etc) together with LPN constraints makes the fulfillment of an end-to-end data protection (i.e. confidentiality and integrity) a challenging endeavor. Nevertheless, the integration of IoT with business applications raises several security challenges: confidentiality and integrity of IoT information, secure device and software management.
The goal of this internship is thus to assess different industry scenarios, identify associated security requirements. In a second phase, the candidate will have to implement a Proof of Concept demonstrating a security solution on a selected scenario.
We expect that 80% of time will be dedicated to development and 20% to research activities.
- University Level: Last year of MSc in Computer Science or beyond
- XSJS (SAP HANA language), C, Java
- Experience on Internet of Things and embedded systems
- Fluency in English (working language)
- Abilities in organizing meeting and contacting people
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Capacity to write documents in English, ability to synthesize
Over the past 45 years, SAP has grown to become the world's leading provider of business software solutions. With 12 million users, 96,400 installations, and more than 1,500 partners, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's third-largest independent software supplier, overall. SAP solutions help enterprises of all sizes around the world to improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP group includes subsidiaries in over 180 countries and employs more than 84 000 people.
Security Research at SAP Labs France, Sophia Antipolis
Based at SAP Labs France Mougins, Security Research Sophia-Antipolis addresses the upcoming security needs, focusing on increased automation of the security life cycle and on providing innovative solutions for the security challenges in networked businesses, including cloud, services and mobile.
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Spoil your partner with a romantic break in a charming cottage.
Nature, tranquility and the landscape of Berguedá, the perfect combination for romantic cottage breaks.
2 nights (Friday and Saturday) for 2 people:
- Holiday Cottage El Niu: 300€
- Holiday Cottage El Refugi: 320€
A bottle of cava and box of chocolates will be awaiting you to start your perfect romantic weekend.
* Offer valid from the 1st of April til the 30th of June 2014.
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LEGO Cafe Corner was released in 2007. It is from the LEGO Advanced Models theme and contains 2056 pieces.
LEGO 10182 - Cafe Corner is the smallest LEGO Advanced Models set in 2007.
The set MSRP is $139.9, which brings the price/brick to be $0.0680. It has the highest price per brick compared to other sets with the same theme in 2007.
This LEGO set currently has a current market value of $1,829.60, which is 1,207.79% above the MSRP.
The price per brick for LEGO 10182 - Cafe Corner is $0.0680.
This chart shows the Price Per Brick comparison between LEGO Cafe Corner and other 2007 LEGO Advanced Models sets.
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On November 29,2010 I had the pleasure of attending one of THE most phenomenal concerts EVER! That's right, I'm talking about Raheem DeVaughn LIVE at BB Kings. Radio Rah took full control of the stage and had every lady in the audience in a trance as he swayed, swooned, and crooned, his way into the ears, minds, hearts and (if I may be so blunt) loins of them all. His performance included songs from his "Love and War Masterpeace" album as well as favorites from his previous albums. He even pulled out a few tricks from his bag, performing hit classics such as Marvin Gaye's, "Let's Get It On". Every note that escaped from this man's lips grew fingers and gently stroked the melodic fancies of everyone in the crowd. Women with lust filled eyes and sweat popping off of their brows stared at him with the most ravenous "jump off of this stage and you're all mine" looks as if they were mentally engaging in sessions of lovemaking with Mr. DeVaughn to his very own music while those men who attended solo stood by giving a head nod and skillfully plotted on which one of the 368 King's trance induced fans they were going to try to get their hands on that night.
Since pictures speak louder than words, here are a few for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
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I find it difficult to swallow pills. Is there an alternative?
Herbal pills are available that come in smaller sizes which make it easier to swallow. Herbal medicine can also be taken in the form of powders or granules which you can simply mix the recommended dosage with warm water to provide an instant herbal tea. At your consultation, you will have the opportunity to discuss your preferences in the administration of Chinese herbal medicine with Lily.


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Eating and Praying
Thursday morning I woke up early to eat breakfast and go to a class at the Yoga Barn. I've been looking forward to going to the Yoga Barn for weeks. This place is awesome. If you feel you're in need of some R&R, reflection, getting in touch with your zen side, etc- you should go spend a week at the Yoga Barn. My teacher, who was probably the third American I've met since being in Asia, was exactly what you would expect a yoga teacher in Bali to be like. No makeup, flawless tan glowing skin, wild wavy hair (that she obviously did not put up for the class) and perfectly toned everything. She is basically a walking advertisement to move to Bali and teach yoga. Her ultimate message in the 90 minute class was 'focus on the reflection because the reflection is you.' I'm still not really sure what that means but it seems to be working for her. Am I still talking about my yoga teacher? Awkward...sorry. The class was excellent though. I would have loved to go back if I had more time in Ubud.
Post yoga, I wandered down near the Monkey Forest, considered going in, then someone there told me that the monkeys sometimes jump on you which seemed terrifying, so I kept walking. They also told me that sometimes the monkeys steal your sunglasses. No thanks. There are actually monkeys just walking around the streets though so I figured just seeing them was enough. I did some more exploring around the rice paddies and down a few more streets in Ubud.
My goal of the morning was to get in as much physical activity as possible so that I would be prepared to fully relax for the 90 minute massage I booked at the Four Seasons (my birthday present to me!). I had several people tell me to go check out the Four Seasons in Ubud so I fully expected it to be a beautiful hotel. It really was spectacular though. I've never seen anything like it. I tried my best to take as many pictures so that I could really do it justice. This is now very close to the top of places I need to stay before I die....it should be at the top of yours as well. Needless to say, my massage was incredible, just what the doctor ordered. I really wanted to milk this experience for all it was worth so I came prepared with everything to shower, change, etc so I could stay for a post massage cocktail. Excellent planning on my part, if I do say so myself. I opted for the Sayan Hendricks and tonic.
Anyone surprised by the amount of cocktails and sugary drinks I've consumed since being here? Ya, me too. The one thing Asia, more specifically Bali, does not do well is wine. I actually went to a restaurant in Ubud because they were written up to be the only wine bar in Bali with an extensive selection of wines. They had two Bogle wines by the glass on the menu...don't get me started. I've just come to terms with the fact that I must embrace the fruity cocktail for the next few weeks (until Paris..yay!).
Dinner on Thursday night was at Cafe Havana- another opportunity for a fruity cocktail, alas! I had a small dinner, a mojito, watched some salsa dancing and called it a night.


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I was jogging one Saturday morning at well known West L A park. I was jogging kind of fast almost sprinting when I came up on woman jogging slower than me. I almost ran into her as I was running. She moved out of my way I slowed down and apologized for being rude. That's when I realized she was a former gurl friend of mine. We laughed when we recognized each other. Her name was Tiffany and she looked awesome, real hot body. We hugged and I asked her what she was doing and if she was involved? I got a no answer. So I took a chance and asked her for a drink that night, she agreed We chatted for a bit longer, and we said we would meet up later at a bar we both liked. I got home and was so excited about later on. Tiffany was real sexy and we had good time dating, Lots of Hot sex. Im a bottom I found out during our dating time together and she fucked me good. Ive been with other Trans babes and Ive done my share of Topping but I always preferred being fucked. Well when I met up with Tiffany we talked about the fun times together, and wondered why we split up. After a few rum & cokes for me and white wine for her. She suggested we go back to her place. I readily agreed. I was turned on by Tiffany. She was 5'10 hispanic and slim. Tiffany was dressed in a nice knee length skirt and tight blouse, holding back some delicious c cup breasts.She also had nice 6 in. uncut cock. Which I remembered that I loved to suck on. We got a cab and went to her apartment. We made out in the backseat and I whispered that I missed her and wanted her bad. She bit my ear and said Im going to fuck you. To make a long erotic story short. We barely got into her place before we were taking off our clothes. She got on her knees and pulled down my pants and underwear and went to work on my already rock hard dick. My cock is shaved clean and I'm just average length. I'm not circumcised like Tiff. She sucked my dick and played with my foreskin. I was going to jizz so I stopped her and asked her for my turn on her..
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Fresno >> Corning resident Haylee Noyes won a state championship over the weekend at the USA Wrestling Kids Folkstyle State at Selland Arena.
Haylee, an 11-year-old fifth-grader, won the division for 60-pound novice girls on Saturday.
Haylee has been wrestling for about three years. She competes for the Corning Police Activities League and is coached by Luis Hernandez.
Haylee attends Woodson Elementary School in Corning.


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I purchased this under the assumption that I would be able to change the styles and colors, am I able too? It seems this comes with no additional options past what was offered in the trial?
Is there a way to edit the text on the top in the sections where it says PCI, etc by the header menu?
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About Indez Design
Indez Design Consultants is and international design studio which was established in Singapore by Kerwayne Berry in 1993. Indez specializes in the design of hospitality, residential and commercial projects.
The design team emphasizes research, strong space planning and attention to detail in tailoring its work to each individual client's needs and objectives. Indez believes that the client is an integral part of the design team. The value of the client's input, teamed with Indez's creativity and functional approach to design, is the basis of their successful projects.
Indez prides itself on its hands-on approach and its history of building long term relationships, which is evident from the extensive list of repeat clients.
Laurence Howell – Director
BA. Interior Design, Member Interior Design Confederation of Singapore – MIDCS
Laurence is an Australian born designer who has been living and working in Singapore for over ten years. He has been a Director of and run the operations of Indez Design Consultants since 2001.
Heading a team of young, creative designers, he oversees the design studio located in the heart of Singapore. With over 15 years of extensive knowledge in both commercial and private projects, he works closely with each client to successfully create and implement designs that emphasize the unique qualities of each project and client. His timeless and personalized designs have resulted in successful signature projects such as, Reel Cinemas, The Scarlet Hotel, The Time Place and Kuali The Asian Kitchen.
He has also applied his design experience and knowledge to the creation of interior design branding, in developing roll – out design packages for such international brands such as The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, California Pizza Kitchen, and Tony Roma's. He has also developed the design concepts for the group of retail stores The Time Place and Intime luxury brand watch boutiques in Indonesia.
He is currently putting emphasis on developing new commissions from clients in the areas of hospitality and luxury residential work to further enhance and build the presence of Indez Design Consultants corporate profile both in Singapore and the Asian Region.


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Join us for the sixth annual Dyke Day at Barnsdall Art Park!
It will be another magical day of sun, fun, music, and community.
Saturday June 8, noon - sunset
Barnsdall Art Park
(Hollywood Blvd just west of Vermont Ave)
- DJs all day long
- good stuff for kids
- games for everyone
- tables for community organizations
- a gorgeous public green space with a view of the hills, the Hollywood sign and the Observatory
**Tarot readings by the witchy super-smartness of Tarotscopes by MW


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Tai Chi is a gentle form of exercise that can help maintain strength, flexibility, and balance. Participation is not limited to patients with arthritis.
Our Tai Chi for Arthritis is an 8-week session that meets twice a week. Each class includes a series of warm-up exercises and basic movements. Participants are encouraged to practice Tai Chi on a daily basis. It is recommended that participants discuss with their provider prior to participation.
One of the best features of Tai Chi is that it can be adapted to fit just about any fitness level making it generally safe for all ages. The gentle flowing low-impact movements are easy on your joints if you have arthritis. It can increase your flexibility and improve your balance, reducing your risk of falls.
When learned correctly and performed regularly, Tai Chi can be a positive part of an overall approach to improving your health. The benefits of Tai Chi may include:
- Decreased stress, anxiety and depression
- Improved mood
- Improved aerobic capacity
- Increased energy and stamina
- Improved flexibility, balance and agility
- Improved muscle strength and definition
Cost is $45.00 for 16 classes (unless otherwise noted). Financial assistance is available upon request. Registration is required. Participants agree to commit to attending the 8-week session (16 classes).
Tai Chi for Arthritis is taught by a certified instructor trained and credentialed by the Tai Chi for Health Institute.


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The "Democrats lost everything under Obama" shtick is getting old. The Democrats have much less political capital now in part because they SPENT IT on saving the economy, revolutionizing the healthcare system, reforming the world of finance, ensuring marriage equality and doing many other good things. As long as we can safeguard these gains, we can weather the temporary loss of power.
- The White House is covering up whatever went on with Michael Flynn. I hope they all go to prison.
- Sarah Kendzior has been writing a lot about dictators. Read how Ivanka and Jared fit into the whole kleptocracy.
Adult children of authoritarians are useful in three ways: first, they tend to be trustworthy confidants in regimes rife with paranoia, as corrupt authoritarian states usually are. Second, they are excellent vessels for laundering money, creating enough distance that assets stolen from the state are harder to track. Third, they tend to have a warmer public profile which offsets the brutality of the dictator by distracting the population with pictures of their happy families or glamorous lifestyle.
- We all know that medieval Europeans used spices to make rotten meat taste better, right? Well, not really. Learn about food myths.


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By Claire Cain Miller
Parenthood in the United States has become much more demanding than it used to be. Over just a couple of generations, parents have greatly increased the amount of time, attention and money they put into raising children. Mothers who work outside the home spend just as much time tending their children as stay-at-home mothers did in the 1970s.
The amount of money parents spend on children, which used to peak when they were in high school, is now highest when they are under 6 and over 18.
Renee Sentilles enrolled her son, Isaac, in lessons beginning when he was an infant. Even now that he's 12, she rarely has him out of sight when he is home.
"I read all the childcare books," said Sentilles, a professor in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. "I enrolled him in piano at 5. I took him to soccer practices at 4. We tried track; we did all the swimming lessons, martial arts. I did everything. Of course I did."
While this kind of intensive parenting — constantly teaching and monitoring children — has been the norm for upper-middle-class parents since the 1990s, new research shows that people across class divides now consider it the best way to raise children, even if they don't have the resources to enact it.
There are signs of a backlash, led by so-called free-range parents, but social scientists say the relentlessness of modern-day parenting has a powerful motivation: economic anxiety. For the first time, it's as likely as not that American children will be less prosperous than their parents.
For parents, giving children the best start in life has come to mean doing everything they can to ensure that their children can climb to a higher class, or at least not fall out of the one they were born into.
Helicopter parenting
But it also stokes economic anxiety. "Intensive parenting is a way for especially affluent white mothers to make sure their children are maintaining their advantaged position in society," said Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at Indiana University.
Stacey Jones raised her two sons, now in their 20s, as a single mother in a working-class, mostly black neighbourhood in Stone Mountain, Georgia. She said she and other parents tried hard to give their children opportunities by finding affordable options: municipal sports leagues instead of travelling club teams and school band instead of private music lessons.
The time parents spend in the presence of their children has not changed much, but parents today spend more of it doing hands-on child care. Time spent on activities like reading to children, taking them to lessons and helping with homework has increased the most. Today, mothers spend nearly five hours a week on that, compared with 1 hour 45 minutes hours in 1975 — and they worry it's not enough. Parents' leisure time is much more likely to be spent with their children than it used to be. While fathers have recently increased their time spent with children, mothers still spend significantly more.
The new trappings of intensive parenting are largely fixtures of white, upper-middle-class American culture, but researchers say the expectations have permeated all corners of society, whether or not parents can achieve them. It starts in utero, when mothers are told to avoid cold cuts and coffee, lest they harm the baby. Then: video baby monitors. Homemade baby food. Sugar-free birthday cake. Toddler music classes. Breast-feeding exclusively.
At the same time, there has been little increase in support for working parents, like paid parental leave, subsidised child care or flexible schedules, and there are fewer informal neighbourhood networks of at-home parents because more mothers are working.
Intensive parenting
Parenthood is more hands-off in many other countries. In Tokyo, children start riding the subway alone by first grade, and in Paris, they spend afternoons unaccompanied at playgrounds. Intensive parenting has gained popularity in England and Australia, but it has distinctly American roots — reflecting a view of child rearing as an individual, not societal, task.
Americans are having fewer children, so they have more time and money to invest in each one. But investment gaps between parents of differing incomes wasn't so large. As a college degree became increasingly necessary to earn a middle-class wage and as admissions grew more competitive, parents began spending significantly more time on child care, found Valerie Ramey and Garey Ramey, economists at the University of California, San Diego.
Parents also began spending more money on their children for things like preschools and enrichment activities, Sabino Kornrich, a sociologist at Emory University, showed in two recent papers. Rich parents have more to spend, but the share of income that poor parents spend on their children has also grown.
In states with the largest gaps between the rich and the poor, rich parents spend an even larger share of their incomes on things like lessons and private school, found Danny Schneider, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues in a May paper. Parents in the middle 50 per cent of incomes have also increased their spending. "Lower socioeconomic status parents haven't been able to keep up," he said.
Besides having less money, they have less access to the informal conversations in which parents exchange information with other parents like them.
This is common for middle-class black mothers, found Dawn Dow, a sociologist at the University of Maryland. "They're making decisions to protect their kids from early experiences of racism," Dow said. "It's a different host of concerns that are equally intensive."
There has been a growing movement against the relentlessness of modern-day parenting. Psychologists and others have raised alarms about children's high levels of stress and dependence on their parents. Research has shown that children with hyper-involved parents have more anxiety and less satisfaction with life, and that when children play unsupervised, they build social skills, emotional maturity and executive function.
Parents, particularly mothers, feel stress, exhaustion and guilt at the demands of parenting this way, especially while holding a job.
American time use diaries show that the time women spend parenting comes at the expense of sleep, time alone with their partners and friends, leisure time and housework. Some pause their careers or choose not to have children. Others, like Sentilles, live in a state of anxiety. She doesn't want to hover, she said. But trying to oversee homework, limit screen time and attend to Isaac's needs, she feels no choice.
"At any given moment, everything could just fall apart," she said.
"On the one hand, I love my work," she said. "But the way it's structured in this country, where there's not really child care and there's this sense that something is wrong with you if you aren't with your children every second when you're not at work? It isn't what I think feminists thought they were signing up for." —New York Times
(Claire Cain Miller is a correspondent for The Times, where she writes about gender, families and the future of work for The Upshot, a Times site for analysis of policy and economics. )


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The Thai Smile
No matter where you go or who you visit you will almost certainly be greeted with a warm smile, except, that is, by immigration officials!!!
In most Western countries, when you smile it means you're conveying a sense happiness or contentment. So, does this mean that all Thai's are happy or is there more to the Thai smile than meets the eye?
The Thai smile or "Yim" is complex function and can have many different meanings. It might convey pleasure or happiness, but, Thai's also smile when they feel negative emotions, such as confusion, anxiety and even anger!!!
Understandably, this can be confusing to foreign visitors and particularly those in the early stages of a relationship with a Thai person!!!! But, thankfully it does get easier to read the situation, the more time you spend in Thailand or in the company of Thai people.
In Thai culture, avoiding conflict, saving face and maintaning a social balance are fundamentally important. When you start to understand this aspect of the culture, you begin to see why Thai people smile even in situations that might be perceived as negative. If you try to understand the Thai smile, it will give you a fascinating insight into the Thai psyche.
I don't pretend to know all the subtleties of the Thai smile. However, in the following paragraphs I have listed some of my observations to try and give you a better idea of the true meaning behind the smile!!!
1) The "I'm very sorry for the mistake smile".
This is a very common occurence and you will often see it from service staff!!! For example, if you're in a restaurant and your waitress has brought you the wrong meal or when your airline loses your luggage!!!!
This can often cause anger and resentment among tourists who may think their problem isn't being taken seriously, when all the Thai person is trying to do, is apologise to you!!!!
2) The "I don't understand what you mean smile".
This often happens just after "I'm very sorry for the mistake" smile. For example your waitress has failed to understand what you have actually ordered for a second time!!!
It can further compound the sense of anger felt by the tourist who thinks they have made a very simple request and the Thai person is not making an effort to understand!!!!
But do remember that with this smile they are asking for your patience and understanding!!!!
3) The "please don't get angry with me smile".
For example, if you are in a bar and a Thai person bumps into to and spills your drink. They will quickly smile to express their regret and to offer you an apology.
However, this can easily be misinterpreted by Westerners. If you're in a pub in England and someone grins at you like a buffoon after spilling a drink down you're shirt, there is every liklihood that a fight will ensue!!!!
4) The "I'm incredibly shy or embarrassed smile".
This is a smile you will often see among children, youngsters or people who feel awkward in social sitautions.
School children might give you this smile if you ask them to stand up and talk in front of the class and I have also seen this smile when complimenting someone!!!!
This may also occur, for example, to take the awkwardness out of an embarassing situation!!!
If you fall over, a Thai person will smile, not because they are laughing at you, but to stop you from feeling silly!!!!
5) The "I'm going to fecking kill you smile".
You will see this smile, for example, if you have been in a road traffic accident and you argue with the Thai driver, causing them to lose face.
Thai people have incredible self-control and are extremely non-confrontational but even the most laid back person has their breaking point!!! Believe me, you don't want to be anywhere near a Thai person when they fly into an uncontrollable rage!!!
If you see this smile, you must leave quickly and not inflame the situation further!!!
6) The "I'm about to completely fleece you and you don't even realise smile"
This smile can be seen anywhere a financial transaction is going to take place and believe me you will pick up on this very quickly!!!
7) The "Mai Pen Rai or that's life smile".
This smile is very easy to understand and is used in tragic, difficult or trying circumstances.
The dog died, never mind, smile!!!! I've just contracted malaria, never mind, smile!!!! The wife is leaving and taking the house, never mind, smile.......I think you get the gyst of this one!!!!
An excellent website, on this very interesting topic, can be accessed by clicking the following link.......


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Kin Pan
Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) /
Bachelor of Laws IV
I Introduction
In this digital age, the internet is both entangling and irresistible. Its open and decentralised design carries a democratic and creative promise which has underpinned its expansion into our lives.[1] With a few careless swipes on our phone screens, we can access more information than we could ever consume, and communicate with peers across the world.[2] The internet has also revolutionised and disrupted countless industries, facilitating the emergence of new innovative technologies.
However, whilst the internet has conferred great benefits over the last two decades, progress never comes without a price. The rise of tech giants, which now exert serious power and influence over how we experience the web, has undermined the openness and freedom of the internet. Through their market power, these tech giants have bullied competitors to preserve their elite status. But this hawkish exploitation of market power has come at the cost of innovation and competition. In the end, this hurts consumers who are left subservient to these new age 'robber barons' that now control the internet.
In response to these concerning trends, this paper will explore how antitrust laws, which seek to maintain a competitive free market for the benefit of consumers, can be reformed to protect innovation in the face of domineering tech giants. In the past, these laws have sought to scrutinise power structures in the marketplace, and in particular the power of monopolists. However, as is often the case when new technologies arise, these laws have failed to remain effective in addressing the anticompetitive corporate power that tech giants now wield.
II The Closing of the Open Internet
We often forget that the internet is contingent—after all, technologies are not just "autonomous from society" but rather the product of social mechanisms.[3] The outcome of processes of technological innovation is shaped by the choices and preferences of actors that participate in these processes. As such, the notion of technological determinism is "a product of the overt and covert marketing of relevant interests".[4] Whilst technologies are often developed with a certain spirit, the influx of various powerful interests can recast the trendline of such inventions. The internet is a powerful example of this narrative. Pioneers like David Clark envisioned a digital sphere that rejected "kings, presidents and voting", believing instead in "rough consensus and running code".[5] The internet as a platform would abolish hierarchical structures and empower the citizens of the internet ('netizens') to act without coercion from powerful private interests.
That vision of an open internet has been undermined by the struggles that underpin all capitalist societies —the same struggles that have seen all other historic communications technologies, including the telephone, radio, cinema and television, succumb to the controlling embrace of corporations.[6] Companies seeking to create fortunes and build power have sought to dominate different areas of the internet. In doing so, the internet's original decentralised architecture has transformed into a minefield of "control points"—locations where those companies possess extensive power over netizens.
There are legitimate reasons for this growing concentration in power. Economies of scale mean that firms will seek to merge and/or acquire competitors in a free market. Closed platforms also tend to be simpler to use and more convenient compared to open platforms, and are therefore more attractive for most people.[7] Moreover, once certain platforms reach a critical mass, the "network effect" compels others to join in fear of missing out.[8]
For most of us, Facebook is our social media hub, Google is our search engine and Apple's iOS or Google's Android are our operating systems of choice. These are all innovative products and we gravitate towards them for that reason. However, whilst these companies have come to dominate their markets through their successful innovations, this success has also left us without credible alternatives. Whilst such monopolisation is not undesirable in itself—companies should not be punished for just being large and successful—it does leave tech giants with serious power to exploit their market position to the detriment of consumers.
The anticompetitive threat of control points cannot be understated, with evidence that tech giants exploit their market positions to benefit their private interests. For example, in 2012 prior to the launch of its online bookstore iBooks, Apple conspired with several leading publishers including Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster to raise the prices of ebooks.[9]When publisher Random House refused to join the venture, Apple blocked the publisher from launching a new app into Apple's App Store. This pressure led to Random House's eventual capitulation to Apple's plot.[10]
As tech giants use their platforms to favour their own services and undermine their competitors, the democratic and creative promise of the internet is dissolving. In the absence of competition, netizens do not have the choice of alternative products. Monopolists can therefore exploit their market positions to further their own business interests at the expense of consumer choice. Thus, the defining challenge for regulators over the coming decade is whether the internet should be allowed to continue to evolve towards a structure that amplifies power within an elite class of actors, or whether it should return to its roots in supporting individual freedom.[11]
III Control Points and Antitrust Laws
When it comes to diagnosing and treating control points on the internet, antitrust laws—known in Australia as "competition laws"—have a central role in maintaining fair competition on the internet. Whilst Western democracies are committed to the free market, it is undisputed that some commercial behaviours (like price collusion) can undermine the level of competition in the market.[12] Antitrust laws reconcile this tension by placing restraints on certain commercial activities to ensure that marketplaces maintain the level of competition required to protect consumers.
Since the inception of antitrust laws, there have been shifts in intellectual thought around the appropriate scope for government intervention in promoting competition. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, [13] the landmark competition legislation in the USA, drew on ideas of "economic structuralism".[14] Standing before his colleagues in Congress in 1890, Senator John Sherman exhorted his peers to respond to the threat of monopolies:
"If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of the necessities of life. If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade, with power to prevent competition and to fix the price of any commodity."[15]
The prevailing view of the time was that concentration in the structure of a marketplace was itself concerning because it would "promote anticompetitive forms of conduct";[16]when there are a small number of firms, the dominant actors have greater powers to collude in respect of pricing, exclude new entrants and pressure suppliers and consumers.[17] These fears led to aggressive antitrust enforcement. Armed with the Sherman Antitrust Act, the US Government pursued railroad owners, sugar producers, and oil companies throughout the following decades.
In the 1970s, however, the influential Chicago School of Economics challenged the prevailing belief that antitrust law was concerned with economic structuralism. Under this school of thought, restraining the growth of large companies would in fact prevent them from gaining the extra size required to create economies of scale and deliver flow on benefits to consumers.[18] Moreover, penalising innovative companies that had gained market share over time would amount to the provision of corporate welfare to their successful competitors.[19] To demand successful firms that had monopolised markets to share their infrastructure with competitors would diminish the returns on innovation, and thus the incentives for all firms to innovate as well.
Instead, as Robert Bork argued in The Antitrust Paradox, the role of antitrust law is to protect "consumer welfare".[20] The concerns of competition law were not the exclusion of competitors but rather the exploitation of monopolistic and oligopolistic markets to produce price effects harmful to consumers. The Chicago School's emphasis on price fixing rather than competitor exclusion has dominated intellectual thought since the 1970s. The Supreme Court of the United States has also accepted Bork's reinterpretation of the Sherman Antitrust Act as just a consumer welfare provision,[21] thus ignoring the fears of corporate power that had underpinned the drafting of the legislation.[22]
IV Reforming Antitrust Laws: An Innovation-Centred Model
Antitrust laws that focus just on consumer welfare are not suited to regulating the tech giants that now dominate the internet. Their products and services are often provided for free, meaning that there are no price effects to be examined.[23] Thus, when Google uses its search engine to prioritise results from its other business lines over competitors, consumers do not suffer a pecuniary harm.
Yet, such bias in its search results injures consumer choice. Even if that bias ensures that Google can claim the economic rewards from developing the best search engine, it also disincentivises and even excludes competitors who wish to innovate in response to Google (as should occur in a free market).[24] According to empirical research, the value of that new competitor innovation is higher on average than the innovation benefits of allowing a successful monopolist to reap the financial benefits of excluding competitors from its platform.[25] To compound this problem, dominant firms that lack competition have little incentive to innovate into the future.[26]
To remain effective in a digital age, an innovation-centred model for antitrust laws—which views the protection and promotion of innovation as the fundamental aim of competition legislation—is needed to address the challenges of market concentration on the internet.[27] Such a model would strengthen antitrust laws to target anti-competitive practices of exclusion in addition to price fixing. Rather than amounting to corporate welfare, such a reform of antitrust laws would force dominant firms to maintain their market positions through innovation rather than exclusion.[28] This model also aligns with economist Joseph Schumpeter's view that innovation is the core of economic growth.[29] If antitrust laws are premised on a commitment to the free market as the best means of delivering social benefits, then they must also be committed to the value of innovation as the driving factor behind those benefits.
To demonstrate the usefulness of an innovation model in treating control points on the internet, it is useful to explore the application of this model to situations of platform dominance and data monopolisation.
A Platform Dominance
Platform dominance occurs when an online platform becomes so large and influential that other companies require access to the platform to sell their products and services. This is an antitrust concern insofar as the platform owner seeks to exclude competitors from the platform, undermine competitors or privilege its own products on the platform. Each of these actions damages innovation.
The seminal case of United States v Microsoft Corp demonstrates concerns about the exploitation of platform dominance.[30] In this case, Microsoft was found to have exploited its dominance of the PC operating system market to bundle in its web browser Internet Explorer, undermining competitors seeking to compete in the web browser market. Yet, since the Microsoft decision in the USA, there has been a concerning lack of antitrust enforcement despite the fact that tech giants continue to exploit their platform dominance.[31]
For example, despite widespread evidence of Google's search bias towards its own business lines over competitors, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) closed their 2013 investigation into allegations of Google's search bias due to a failure to find evidence of consumer harm. According to the FTC, Google's search engine bias could be plausibly seen as a product improvement that benefited consumers:
Product design is an important dimension of competition and condemning legitimate product improvements risks harming consumers. Reasonable minds may differ as to the best way to design a search results page and the best way to allocate space among organic links, paid advertisements, and other features. And reasonable search algorithms may differ as to how best to rank any given website.[32]
But the FTC's narrow focus on consumer welfare and willingness to give Google the benefit of the doubt when it comes to search rankings ignores the threat of search bias towards innovation. Through a contrasting emphasis on innovation rather than pure consumer welfare, the European Commission arrived at the opposite conclusion to the FTC when investigating allegations of Google's search bias. In 2017, it found that Google had indeed violated antitrust rules through its search bias in promoting its own shopping comparison service over competitors. Rather than provide a better product than its competitors, Google had illegally leveraged its dominance of the search engine market to benefit its other commercial interests.
As the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, explained, Google had "denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate", and "denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation".[33] The European Commission's approach to antitrust laws thus reflects an effective application of an innovation-centred model.
Perhaps even more pernicious than instances of platform bias are situations of "forced free-riding". This describes situations where a platform owner only provides a competitor with access to that platform if a substantial benefit is conferred.[34] In 2017, Yelp accused Google of scraping photos and reviews from its own site for the benefit of Google's other services (including Shopping and Google+ Local). In response to Yelp's requests to stop this behaviour, Google provided an ultimatum: it would cease the free-riding if Yelp agreed to be removed from Google's web search index. As Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman observed, this represented "a choice between allowing Google to co-opt one's content and not competing at all".[35]
While successful companies should be able to profit from building dominant platforms, this should not extend to a right to leverage that platform dominance to exclude competition or to free-ride. Given the secret nature of the algorithms used by companies like Google and Facebook on their closed internet platforms as well as their sprawling business interests, antitrust enforcement agencies must scrutinise how platform proprietors deal with their competitors. An innovation-centred model is the most appropriate approach to antitrust enforcement as it forces tech giants to ensure that their platforms maintain a level of fair competition for the benefit of consumers.[36]
B Data Monopolisation
The historical preoccupation of antitrust with price effects means that data monopolisation has failed to attract much concern from enforcement agencies. Yet, the internet has seen an explosion in the number of "zero-price" products—these products appear free on the surface but in fact require us to incur information costs.[37] For example, when we use Facebook, we give up our personal data, something which is then commoditised and sold to advertisers. Network effects have also amplified the amount of data that tech giants hold; when platforms grow large, people feel compelled to sign up without regard to the terms contained in the user agreement. It is no secret that these user agreements are complex and often ignored. Yet, given the absence of alternative services or scope to negotiate the level of data to be shared, users are somewhat compelled to agree to the data terms of tech giants.[38]
With the proliferation and commoditisation of data online, a tech giant's access to large quantities of data can create barriers to new firms entering a marketplace. New firms lack the data required to develop competitive products.[39] Thus, data-driven strategies can be used to exclude competitors, create effective monopolies and stifle innovation. If we assume that data is "rivalrous",[40] and that people have limited amounts of data to provide to all services,[41] then access to big quantities of data is an antitrust concern—one that can be addressed effectively through an innovation-centred model to competition laws.
Given that data is indeed a dimension of market power, antitrust laws should also scrutinise deals like Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp where the transfer of personal data is perhaps the most valuable component of the transaction. Recent investigations suggest that there will be an increasing need for antitrust laws to scrutinise data transactions. In 2017, for example, the European Commission fined Facebook $122 million for providing misleading statements leading up to the deal suggesting that it would not be combining the data of WhatsApp with Facebook's data post-acquisition.[42] Such an approach from enforcement agencies that recognises the control of data as a competition concern will be required into the future under an innovation-centred model of antitrust.
V Conclusion
For the early architects of the internet, its open platform carried a democratic and creative promise unmatched in the offline world. Nevertheless, technologies are social. Over time, we have witnessed the rise of tech giants that have been responsible for remarkable innovations, but, in doing so, have restructured the internet to entrench their power and exclude competitors. Antitrust laws are a powerful tool in protecting against the online control points that these companies have built. To safeguard innovation, these laws must extend past notions of consumer welfare and address the challenges of the modern digital age—one where platform dominance and data monopolisation are shaping to be the most pressing threats towards the maintenance of a competitive marketplace that consumers deserve.
[1] Yochai Benkler, 'Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power' (2016) 145(1) Daedalus 18.
[2] Yochai Benkler, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs Over Self-interest (Crown Business, 2011).
[3] Benedetta Brevini, Public Service Broadcasting Online: A Comparative European Policy Study of PSB 2.0 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); see also David D. Clark, 'The Contingent Internet' (2016) 145(1) Daedalus 9.
[4] Raymond Williams, Towards 2000 (Penguin, 1985) 133.
[5] David Clark, 'A Cloudy Crystal Ball – Visions of the Future' in Megan Davies, Cynthia Clark and Debra Legare (eds), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Internet Engineering Task Force (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) 539, 543.
[6] Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage, 2010).
[7] Zeynep Tufekci, 'As the Pirates Become CEOs: The Closing of the Open Internet' (2016) 145(1) Daedalus 65.
[8] Ibid.
[9] John B. Kirkwood, 'Collusion to Control a Powerful Customer: Amazon, E-Books, and Antitrust Policy', 69(1) University of Miami Law Review 1.
[10] United States v Apple Inc, 952 F Supp 2d 638, 686 (D NY, 2013)
[11] Benkler, above n 1, 19.
[12] Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity (Crown Business, 2003).
[13] Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 (USA) (Fed)
[14] Lina M. Khan, 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox', 126(3) Yale Law Journal 710, 718.
[15] 21 Congressional Record 2461 (John Sherman) (1890).
[16] Khan, above n 14.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Richard A. Posner, Antitrust Law (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
[19] Ibid.
[20] Robert Bork, The Antitrust Paradox (Free Press, 1978).
[21] Reiter v Sonotone Corp, 442 US 330 (1979).
[22] Barak Orbach, 'How Antitrust Lost Its Goal' (2013) 81(5) Fordham Law Review 2253.
[23] John M. Newman, 'Antitrust in Zero-Price Markets: Foundations', (2015) 164(1) University of Pennsylvania Law Review 149.
[24] Jonathan B. Baker, 'Exclusion as a Core Competition Concern', (2012) 78(3) Antitrust Law Journal 527, 561; see also Joshua G. Hazan, 'Stop Being Evil: A Proposal for Unbiased Google Search', (2013) 111(5) Michigan Law Review 789.
[25] Jonathan B. Baker, 'Beyond Schumpeter vs. Arrow: How Antitrust Fosters Innovation', (2007) 74(3) Antitrust Law Journal 575, 583-587.
[26] Kenneth Arrow, 'Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention' in Richard Nelson (ed), The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors (Princeton University Press, 1962) 609.
[27] Tim Wu, 'Taking Innovation Seriously: Antitrust Enforcement If Innovation Mattered Most' (2012) 78(2) Antitrust Law Journal 313.
[28] Herbert Hovenkamp, 'Restraints in Innovation' (2007) 29 Cardozo Law Review 247.
[29] Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Routledge, 2013).
[30] United States v Microsoft Corp, 253 F 3d 34 (2001)
[31] Ramsi Woodcock, 'EU's Antitrust 'War' on Google and Facebook Uses Abandoned American Playbook', The Conversation (online), 14 July 2017, < http://theconversation.com/eus-antitrust-war-on-google-and-facebook-uses-abandoned-american-playbook-80659>.
[32] Federal Trade Commission, 'Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Regarding Google's Search Practices In the Matter of Google Inc. FTC File Number 111-0163' (Statement, 3 January 2013).
[33] European Commission, 'Antitrust: Commission fines Google €2.42 billion for abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service' (Press Release, IP/17/1784, 27 June 2017).
[34] Howard A. Shelanski, 'Information, Innovation, and Competition Policy for the Internet', (2013) 161 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1663, 1699.
[35] Jeremy Stoppelman, Submission to United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Right, 21 September 2011.
[36] Wu, above n 27.
[37] Newman, above n 23, 206.
[38] Frank Pasquale, 'Privacy, Antitrust, and Power', (2013) 20(4) George Mason Law Review 1009; See also Robert McLeod, 'Novel But a Long Time Coming: The Bundeskartellamt Takes on Facebook', (2016) 7(6) Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 367.
[39] Daniel Sokol & Roisin Comerford, 'Antitrust and Regulating Big Data', (2016) 23 George Mason Law Review 1129, 1143.
[40] Shelanski, above n 34, 1687.
[41] Ibid, 1689.
[42] Mark Scott, 'E.U. Fines Facebook $122 Million Over Disclosures in WhatsApp Deal', The New York Times (online), 18 May 2017, <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/technology/facebook-european-union-fine-whatsapp.html>.


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Soft Chi Kung (Qi Gong) for Health and Long Life
Many of us are vaguely aware of the great benefits of chi kung meditation to our health and longevity but don't really understand how it works. Here is an overview:
By its nature, chi kung (also known as qi gong or ki gung) is simple and easy yet amazingly effective.
Anyone can practice it successfully, regardless of age or fitness.
The essential requirements are a properly trained instructor and good, fresh air.
The basic chi kung system that we teach is Tong Ling (clearing and circulating) Chi Kung. The system can be learned in one month – less with intensive private tuition – but takes time to practice. However, benefits can be felt immediately.


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A lovely wedding at the Ottawa Keg Manor
Here is another lovely wedding day from this summer. It was a beautiful day, there was beautiful weather and I had the pleasure of working with a beautiful couple. I can't even begin to describe how wonderful it is to photograph couples on one of the most important days of their lives. Each and every wedding has their own special "magic". I love not knowing exactly how the day will go. I really enjoy the challenges of this, it's what sparks my creative brain. I'm constantly striving to better my work and to really capture the bride and groom as both a couple, and as individuals. I'm 110% convinced this whole process will never get old for me :-D


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Aizu Painted Candle Festival
Painted candles decorated with images of chrysanthemums, wisteria and peonies light up the winter nights during the Aizu Painted Candle Festival in western Fukushima Prefecture. The region's long, proud history of candle-making dates back over 500 years.
The craft's origins lie in the 16th century with Morinobu Ashina, the ruling lord of Aizu. He encouraged the cultivation of lacquer trees, and the area soon became Japan's leading lacquer producer, creating lacquerware from the sap and candle wax from the fruit. Aizu's unrivaled reputation for candle-making has endured through the centuries.
The tradition of painted candles grew from the region's harsh winters. For lack of fresh flowers, devoted family members paying respects to their ancestors placed painted candles on the graves, creating a unique tradition in Aizu.
Every February, thousands of beautifully decorated candles are carefully arranged at multiple locations around the city, including Tsuruga Castle and Aizu Matsudaira's Royal Garden. The flickering dance of the candlelight across new-fallen snow enchants the imagination and brings peace to the soul.


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Miami Hurricanes' thoughts, notes, lots of reaction after win against Duke
Thoughts, postscripts and notes from UM's 40-21 victory against Duke in the Hurricanes' regular-season finale at Hard Rock Stadium:
• If this was Brad Kaaya's final home game, it was quite a way to go out. Kaaya was at his absolute best, throwing for 396 yards on 22 for 35 accuracy, including several magnificent deep balls, and breaking Ken Dorsey's record for most career passing yards by a UM quarterback.
Kaaya closed the regular season with 10 touchdowns and just one pick in four November games. His final numbers for the season: 3250 passing yards (his highest total in three seasons), 23 touchdown passes, 7 picks.
Against Duke, he threw touchdowns of 30 yards to Mark Walton (who made a terrific lunging catch), 3 yards to Stacy Coley and 76 and 58 yards to David Njoku.
"It's just a huge honor; I've had a chance to play with extraordinary players," Kaaya told WQAM's Don Bailey, reflecting on breaking the record. "Of all the seasons I've played in, this has been one of the most physically bruising. A couple of injuries I had to play through. I finished strong and did my part for this offense.
"David had a phenomenal day. They were trying to mess around with some of their coverages and disguise stuff…. [On that first touchdown, I said] to hell with their coverage."
And now looms the biggest decision of Kaaya's life: whether to turn pro.
One associate who has regular contact with Kaaya said his instinct is that Kaaya is more likely to turn pro than stay, but that is merely speculation and we are NOT reporting that Kaaya is leaving (or staying, for that matter).
Asked what his thinking is about the issue at this point, Kaaya said he doesn't know and will mull the situation and speak with those close to him. Richt and Kaaya will discuss the matter between now and the bowl game.
• Njoku has a decision, too, following a game in which he averaged an absurd 67 yards per catch (albeit on two receptions). Multiple UM sources say UM is VERY concerned that Njoku will turn pro. Mel Kiper doesn't have him listed among the top 10 tight ends in the draft, but he clearly has an NFL skill set.
"He's been a big play guy lately," Richt said.
Regarding the possibility of turning pro, Njoku said he will "focus on the bowl game now and figure it out afterward."
• Richt, afterward, on WQAM and at the stadium: "Thankful for the seniors first and foremost, how they really bought into [everything] in January. It's hard to buy into it when you're a senior. They could have fought the system. They didn't. They bought in. Thankful for them and the rest of the team, too. Been a lot of fun to coach these guys. Been a year since I knew I would be the [coach here]. It's still sinking in. I feel like I'm at home.
"I don't think we are the same old Miami, whatever that means. There was a stretch where things weren't going the way we want them to go. We challenged them at halftime. They want to be great….
"All the things you want to hear about your team, I've been hearing. How good we look, how hard we play, how it looks like we're organized.…
"The QBs in this place are amazing. We're right up there with anybody in America [with QB tradition]. [Kaaya has] always done it with team first attitude. Really appreciate that about him....
"I thought we were going to run the ball better than we did. Duke did a good job. I really felt like we could win the Coastal when the whole thing started."
He said he will begin "recruiting like mad" immediately.
• Walton, who averaged 3 yards or less in 12 of his first 16 games against Power 5 conferences, topped 4.0 yards per carry for the fourth game in a row, finishing with 13 for 60.
Walton averaged 8.9, 6.9, 6.3 and 4.6 per carry in his final four games and now has 24 TDs in 25 career games, remaining on pace to break UM's touchdown record.
What's interesting is how Gus Edwards surpassed Joe Yearby as the No. 2 back in the past couple of weeks. Edwards had 11 carries for 55 yards, Yearby just one carry for two yards.
Offensive coordinator Thomas Brown said he regrets not playing Edwards more earlier this season.
• Coley had a strong finale (9 catches for 118 yards) but also committed his 12th penalty of the season. How does a receiver commit 12 penalties in 12 games? Is this some kind of a joke?
He did finish with 58 receptions and a career-high nine touchdowns and deserves credit for that. He closed his UM career with 161 catches.
"Great to see him make plays and score TDs – last time in Hard Rock," Richt said of Coley.
After coming off the bench the past two games, Coley started ahead of Ahmmon Richards – alongside Malcolm Lewis – as Richt opted to open the game with his two senior receivers.
"What a way for Stacy to go out," Kaaya said.
• Richards, incidentally, caught 3 passes for 17 yards and finished the best freshman season by a UM receiver (ever) with 46 catches for 864 yards…. Lewis, in his UM regular-season finale, caught two for 33, and Braxton Berrios had a fabulous 38-yard catch in traffic.
• Trevor Darling, who has made 27 starts at tackle for UM before an injury earlier this month, got work at guard – something UM secretly unveiled in practice last week. Kc McDermott, a guard to start the season, opened at left tackle for the third straight game.
Darling would be an option at guard next season; LSU transfer George Brown becomes eligible and could start at tackle. And Miami Central oral commitment Navaughn Donaldson has the talent to be a Day 1 starter.
• Kaaya, on WQAM: "We got our identity as an offense as the season went on. Some were getting acclimated to operating this offense in a live game scenario. We clicked later on in the season. I think we peaked at the right time. There were times the future didn't look too great and guys didn't quit."
• Defensively, the defense stiffened after a poor start, meaning a group that could have been a liability this season instead ended up playing well in 10 of 12 games, with Virginia Tech and Notre Dame their only poor performances.
That's a credit to Manny Diaz and the defensive assistants, and admirable growth from a bunch of players – Kendrick Norton, Richard McIntosh, Corn Elder, plus all the freshmen linebackers and impressive end Joe Jackson and cornerback Malek Young, among others.
Jackson had two sacks today and finished his first regular season with 7.5. "Joe has done a fantastic job," Diaz said. "Joe has done a phenomenal job of learning what to do within the framework of the defense."
Gerald Willis deflected a pass and has given UM a very good No. 3 defensive tackle.
Diaz: "I didn't like the urgency we started the game with. I don't feel like we ran to the ball and tackled like Hurricanes defenses do. When we got going, the way we responded, getting stop after stop, [allow] the offense to take control of the game."
• One reason why UM fans can feel good about this defense staff: They've consistently shown an ability to make second-half adjustments, a criticism of the prior staff.
"Coach Diaz does a super job of telling guys what has to be corrected," Richt said.
"We made some adjustments at halftime," safety Jamal Carter said of holding Duke scoreless in the second half until a late, meaningless Duke touchdown in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter. "We see different things in the first half, come in at halftime and coaches make adjustments and go out second half and dominate."
• Though Rayshawn Jenkins had some problems early in the game, he and Jamal Carter had solid senior seasons, showing growth under Ephraim Banda and Diaz. Carter had 13 tackles today.
• Richt said senior punter Justin Vogel "will be kicking in the pros for a longtime. He's one of the best I've ever seen." Junior kicker Michael Badgley kicked a 47-yarder and is now 20 for 20 in his career from 40 to 49 yards.
• UM outgained Duke, 568-395... Attendance was announced at 57,396. That means UM sold at least 50,000 seats to every home game for the first time.
• At 8-4, UM could go bowling potentially in Jacksonville, Orlando or New York. "A five-game winning streak would lay the foundation for the future," Kaaya said.
"We've played our way into a pretty good situation," Richt said of UM's bowl situation.


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Definition of Flabbergasted is "Informal overcome with astonishment". This is what my short Trip to Taiwan (thanks to the Taiwan Cycling Federation) has left in me.
Amused by the immense mountains, by the warmth of the people, the deep blue waters of the coast line, the delicious cuisine, made me think all the way back on a 15 hours journey back to London that I am looking forward to go back to Taiwan. It is strange for me to say this due to the fact I have visited 55 countries around the world and on the way to reach 100 (sometimes in my life time),but this remote Island in the South China Sea has completely deserved the name given by the Portuguese colonies in the past to call it "Formosa", which it means beautiful island.
Night Market.
Yin Chih Wang,Adam Semple,Andy Von Bergen(Cycling Tips Australia),Craig Symons enjoying a game at the night market.
Glasses could be wear with no lenses,it is the new trend in Asia.
In Taiwan you can cycle anywhere,you can use your own bike,or take one of the city bike to move around.They are great and cheap. To all you people, I have discovered that cycling is the best way to see the world starting from the busy cities to the open empty fields.Forget the sticky public transport,the queues and the rucking( rugby terminology,Packed crowd of people) to get on them.
We got lost while training.
From scooters at the front,cycling in the middle,and airplanes at the back.
MTB star Cory Wallace and TK from Japan,next to the red spotted shirts.
Cyclist can ride all this climbs in Europe, Stelvio,Mortirolo,Zoncolan and many others that have made history in cycling, and you felt proud to achieve the top.You felt like the Pro when you reach the summit,but this KOM Taiwan Challenge up the Taroko Gorge is for real the tougher.


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Zero Helicopter Concept
We've always dreamed that one day we can move from one place to another without having to deal with traffic jam. How bout flying from one place to another? Take a look at Zero helicopter concept by Hector del Amo. This single person vehicle is no ordinary chopper, well it's not a private jet, but it does the job in a very cool way. We like the fact that this zero-shaped chopper looks more compact compared to mosquito helicopter but unfortunately not as portable as Libelula helicopter. Regardless, we still wish to see Zero helicopter make it into the real world.
Duck Billed Helicopter Saves Lifes
The H1 'Fugu' by Matt Bassett is a purpose built helicopter targeted at disaster relief. It has been rationalized and rethought to optimize space with a minimal yet flexible package layout, thus allowing maximum efficiency and smaller required landing areas. To put it in perspective, it carries a similar sized load to a Chinook, and is 40 feet shorter, largely due to the coaxial rotor arrangement. The intelligent Skid system is made of individual feet, which each house a sensor which enables it to negotiate uneven terrain, allowing for access to areas that would traditionally be deemed inaccessible. Surely even Daniel Simon would be impressed by this effort.
Helicopter Support Yacht
What does a person need who has a megayacht? Well that is easy: they need a tender vessel and a helicopter. The helicopter Support Yacht Independence is just the vessel to handle any job that its mother ship might need. In a collaboration with Sky Group/Monacair, the leading operator of yacht based helicopters, and Edmiston, Sterling/Scott Yacht Design have released details of their new concept. The reason for the creation of the Independence is that it has become increasingly obvious that they way in which Superyacht owners are using their ships is changing and that versatility is becoming ever more important. One of the ways these changes are being answered is the use of yacht tenders.
Halo Intersceptor Car By Philip Pauley (video)
If someone asks what this vehicle should be called, it's a sheer fun vehicle with go anywhere capacity. The brainchild of UK based concept designer, Philip Pauley, the Halo Intersceptor concept can morph into a jet, a helicopter, or a boat. All you need to do is slip on some extra parts and poof.
Rescue Transportation Vehicles Allow Quick Relief And Evacuation
Developed as a part of the "Fun Taiwan, New Design" exhibition during DMY International Design Week Berlin 2010, the "Rescue Transportation" as its name depicts is a disaster management project to aid quick evacuation and relief in emergencies. Designed by young Taiwanese designers, including Meng-Chang Lin, Yu-Min Cho, Yan-Rui Huang and Yi-Xin Huang, the new transportation project comprises a helicopter and a truck that can either be used separately or combined together for quick supply of basic stuff and transport of injured victims to and from the disaster-ridden locals. Running on turbine power, the helicopter converts surplus energy into electricity to power the truck; while on the other hand, the truck features an independent suspension to overcome the hard terrain of the affected areas.


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Miguel remembers: A woman and a child his age fully armed amongst the masculine guerrilla. He remembers that they stole their cow and ate their food, and that the leftist rebels took away his older cousins and wondered off in the jungle to new assignments like cidnappings and killings in the name of cocain and political dissidence.
The guerrilla came to Miguel's poor and severly secluded village when he was about 8. They said they came to protect the farmers and needed new recruits.
His cousins were never to return… In a protest of the absent salaries and holidays they were promised, the boys tried to run off about a year later. But the guerrilla's countermove was to kill one of the familymembers in the village… And allthough the brutal killings silenced Miguel's cousin's complaints, it raised more hatred towards the guerrilla. And as the movement got weaker, they implemented a new law to the jungle and the lawless unprotected cocain farmers in an attempt of strengthening their standing: All brothers in a family, except from the youngest ones, must be handed to the guerrilla force.
Worried about loosing his sons, Miguel's father came up with a plan to escape. And the poor family left everything they had, cattle and roof, to a life with much less.
But with eachother. And eventually they managed to build themselves up again step by step with the working labor of the whole family. Now they even have their very own little piece of land and a farmhouse in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, close to our path on the way to The Lost City. The same path that leads Miguel to the one company that arranges tours with local guides.
The now well-respected 23-year-old guide, might not be able to read and write but has still learnt some sort of Miguel-english through the tourists. And he moves in his territory as if he was one of Escobar's tigers.
And so does his family. Cause in fact, for the first time in 7 years, he also brought his father, brother, two younger cousins and his little prince charming nephew (Evan Andres) with him on the treck. This coolest little kid and I became good buddies, and everyday he moved two steps infront of me, pointing out the mysteries of the jungle.
On the last day, Miguel even gave us the honor of bringing us home to his family's farm, where Miguel's mum made us tea with leaves from the garden, and served us with the one pineapple they had.
They (and most other farmers) don't grow vegetables for export, as the vegies has to be fraught a long way with mules and cars before reaching a city, making the process allmost non-profitable. But cocain-growth and cultivation in the farmers very own cellars on the other hand, is a profitable tradition that has given farmers labor since the time of The Lost City.
And despite the Governments exhaustive efforts to track down the coca-distributors and drop devegetation chemicals (appearantly deadly for babies) on coca farms, Colombia is still the world's biggest supplier of cocaine. Allmost everywhere we laid our eyes on the trek, there were coca-plantations. In the open. We were actually allmost taken to a "cellar". But for security-reasons this part was skipped.
I was surprised how freely Miguel talked about this and other parts of his life. Our group was lucky to get to know this gentle jungleboy and his family. And through his story we understood a lot more of the country's traditions and conflicts. Thanks a lot for all your sharings Miguel!


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ICYMI: The Best of The Social Scholar in 2017
Traveling Down 2017 Reflection Lane
As 2017 comes to a close, I look back on the stories that inspired me to write. In case you missed it (ICYMI), there was a lot going on and The Social Scholar tried to contribute to some significant stories. Of the 20-plus posts on The Social Scholar in 2017, I picked some of my favorites. I hope you enjoy this walk down reflection lane. And, I would be so pleased to have you join me in 2018 as I commit to writing and telling more socially responsive stories. My deepest desire is that The Social Scholar will invite a movement, conversations, and actions that lead to greater equity and equality in schools, in workplaces and in everyday lives.
Here are just a few of the stories from 2017:
Black Women's Experiences in Corporate America
My friend and colleague, Dr. Cheryl Jordan, wrote a post that makes the list as one of the stories I thought represented the true spirit of The Social Scholar. In, "Ready to Make a Difference: How My Research on Black Women's Initiatives Changed Me," Dr. Jordan shares insights from her research on Black female executives in corporate America. The stories highlight how these 12 women overcame gendered racism and marginalization in the workplace with conviction and enthusiasm.
Jordan shared how listening and learning from the women's stories caused her to reflect on her own practice as a professional. She said, "One executive caused me to reflect on my courage to affect change in the organization and to speak truth to power, not only regarding gendered (everyday) racism, but also regarding my influence as a leader." How wonderful when that thing we give our attention to moves us beyond what we expected. It creates change in us so that we can help change the world. That's the story Dr. Jordan shared with The Social Scholar. Thank you, Cheryl. To read the rest of this story, click here.
This is What Democracy Looks Like
I could not not write about "The March" that is considered to be the largest march of solidarity in U.S. history. More than 3 million women and men marched for causes that matter to them. The Women's March on Washington moved me to come from behind the computer and get on my feet. It was the first protest I have ever participated in and it is still one of the things I'm most proud of in 2017.
I marched because women's rights are human rights. I marched for my deceased mother and grandmothers; and I marched for my children and grandchildren. My marching was a show of visible activism. Read more about why The Women's March on Washington should not be forgotten. Click Here.
Do We Still Need Feminism?
In my post, The Workplace Needs More Feminists, I ask if we need feminism today. After all, women vote, serve in the military, outnumber men in graduating from college, and affirmative action legislation has paved the way for more women in the workplace. I even write that sexual harassment legislation has provided legal protection for women in the workplace. That is true; however, we see that legislation doesn't tame behavior.
I make a point that not only is feminism still relevant today, we actually need more feminists. Here are some of the facts:
- Women make up the majority of the nation's poor
- Every 9 seconds in the U.S., a woman is assaulted or beaten
- Women's healthcare and women's control over their reproductive rights are constantly being debated and decided upon in a room comprised of mostly (or all) men.
- Though women are the majority of college graduates, the rise to management in slower for women than for men with comparable career investments.
The list goes on. I assert, feminism is good for business. A workplace where more men and women identify as feminists would be a workplace where equality and equity are deeply held values in the culture. Perhaps gender pay gaps and sexual harassment would finally be in our past. If you've had a negative view or even an indifferent view of feminism and its value in our society, I encourage you to read this post. Click here.
Stay in Your Lane
When Lavar Ball told reporter Kristine Leahy to "Stay in 'yo lane," it was the subject of news commentary for days. Some of the attention was simply because it was Lavar Ball. However, there were plenty of people who felt Leahy made assumptions about Ball and his relationship with his son that exposed her biases as well. Their exchange opened up the dialogue on sexism and racism, again. The phrase, "stay in 'yo lane" reminds us of historically preconceived beliefs about a person's rightful place in society.
In the article, Stay in Your Lane: Micro-aggressions and Aversive Racism Seek to Maintain the Status Quo, I delve into the tactics which unconsciously try to keep women and minorities in certain positions. I recommend education and training on unconscious bias to make people more aware of their biases and how those biases can have a cumulative effect of telling someone to "stay in your lane." To learn more about micro-aggressions and aversive racism, read this post. You'll also find a link to my full doctoral research. Click here.
Human Resource Developers: Catalysts for Equity
I am a human resource developer. This post was largely my message to fellow HRD professionals on the criticality of our roles in creating what I call Open Access Employee Development. Surely, there are programs designed for high potential employees, for executives and people leaders. But, let's not forget to also design and offer programs for the solid performers, the individual contributors, the second shift employees, the employees with disabilities, etc. We are catalysts for equity in our workplaces.
In our roles, we are often in position to decide the content, to make decisions about who gets to participate, and when and where formal learning happens. If we are not conscious constructors of employee development, we can disadvantage some employees by limiting their access to needed development experiences. This is important because employees who participate in development experiences are not only more productive, they are also advantaged in career advancement. This post implores HRD professionals to understand our role and to lead ethically in creating more access to development experiences for all employees. Sounds interesting? Read more.
Is Identity Politics to Blame for the Great Divide in America?
I say, "Hell no." Some argue that Americans have basically retreated to their "identities" and that is why we are experiencing more overt racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia. Those with that view say we have become obsessed with what separates us instead of what unites us. In the post, Identity Politics is the Scapegoat for America's Troubles," I deal with this assertion. I disagree with it. While focusing on our differences instead of our similarities can be divisive, I find that Americans are actually trying to find their way to solidarity. We still believe that diversity is our greatest strength. These two realities, celebrating differences and uniting as one do not have to be in conflict. Blaming our strife on identity politics is too easy. Actually, it's the scab covering deep and dark wounds of inequalities that have yet to heal.
I take issue with the false and long-held depiction of America as the great melting pot. No we're not and that should not be our aim. The analogy of the melting pot assumes that we put all of our differences into one enormous pot, let the contents simmer until they are barely recognizable and then, behold! We all come out indistinguishable and tasty. Nope. It's never happened and it never will. Instead, the beauty of America is that we are a country, mostly of immigrants. We come from different backgrounds, cultures, religious beliefs, and native tongues. All of those differences remain and we bring what we have to bear together because we are joined by our hearts and our love for this country. So, let's just stop with that melting pot analogy. Instead, let's make sure that even with our differences, we recognize one another as Americans, fully entitled to equity and equality under the law and in practice. I think you're going to enjoy this post. Click here.
I Came from These Beautiful People
My final post in this review is one that is deeply personal to me. It's recognizing that I am the product of my ancestors. I wish I knew them more and better. I received pictures of my great grandparents. I knew their names, but I had never seen their faces until a childhood friend sent me their pictures via Facebook. When I saw the photos I was not prepared for how deeply they would affect me. Peering into their eyes, I thought to myself, "I came from these people. I came from these beautiful people."
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
You may be familiar with the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, I tried to analyze the lives of Great Grandpa Barnabas and Great Grandma Viney by looking at their faces for hours. The eyes staring back at me communicated resilience, strength, and pride. I saw history in their eyes. They did not live lives of ease and comfort; though I'm sure they loved and cared deeply. Instead, they lived lives of tremendous struggle and change. They were born in the mid-1880's. They were children of slaves. As many strides as they dared to make, they were met with persistent opposition. Yet, they owned land, worked jobs and raised two sons who would go on to be first generation college graduates, educators and community leaders. They died in the middle of the civil rights movement. What a life they lived.
What Would My Great Grandparents Do? They Would Be Strong.
I thought to myself as I looked at Barnabas and Viney, the world hasn't changed as much as it should have since their time. Today, in the news, we hear the White Nationalists are marching again. There's resurgence in hostility and racism. Americans are protesting in the streets demanding equality for all people, while the world watches this great experiment in diversity and democracy.
I wonder what my great grandparents would say and do. But I already know. They would be strong. They would persist. That would remember their parents and the struggles they endured. They would determine to get up every day, honor their ancestors, and make a difference. I came from these people and this is my charge. I will not yield to racism. I will not adopt hopelessness. I will never lie down in defeat. I will take a stand and I will remember Barnabas and Viney. I want my great grandchildren to look within my eyes one day, whether in person or in a faded photograph and know that I was here and I cared. I came to bear fruit, to make a life, and to make a difference. If you're interested in reading more of this personal story, click here.
Believe in a Better World for Our Children and Their Children
And this is how I close 2017. Let us all reach back to remember the histories of our ancestors, to understand their journeys, and to honor their legacies. Then, let us look ahead and be intentional about our future. Let us continue to believe in a better world for our children and their children. In 2018, let us commit to taking a more active role in helping to create a more equitable and just society – in our schools, our workplaces and in our everyday lives.
If you're already a Social Scholar reader, then I ask you to take it one step further – comment, share, and bring others along. My goal in 2018 is to increase readers and nurture more activists. I urge you to select a cause that matters to you and increase your activism.
If you have never read The Social Scholar or are new to social activism, you've found a great place to start. I'm on this journey too. Let's go together.
Happy New Year.
With gratitude,
© 2017, Tonya Harris Cornileus, Ph.D.
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Before beginning, acquire basic skills using Word and Photoshop, then get on the bandwagon of being an ebook author. Instructions included to format EPUB and PDF ebooks, make marketing images, plus pricing, selling and advertising ideas. Cover illustrations included. Written by Susan Kramer, an experienced ebook author. 22 pages in PDF. 3,300 words.
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Life is a series of interconnected systems. The optimal function of one system is dependent on the optimal function of innumerable other systems; as a result, trying to optimize the function of one system without addressing all the underlying, interconnected systems won't work. Unfortunately, this is the approach taken by almost all conventional and alternative practitioners: they're trained to focus on the system(s) that are breaking down without addressing all the other related health issues at the same time.
It's like installing a great sound system in a house with a crumbling foundation. The sweet sounds will only drown out the house's creaking and groaning as the wind slowly, inevitably leads to problems that are too big to easily repair. If your floor is sagging, if your doors don't open the way they used to, if you've got cracks in your walls and a leaky basement, you're beyond the point where some supplements and and a vacation will right your ship. You're in need of a complete remodel, not just some landscaping.
An Interconnected System
Take the thyroid, for example. Thyroid physiology is otherworldly complicated stuff. In order to get the optimum amount of biologically active thyroid hormone into all the cells of the body, many systems have to be functioning at near-optimal levels. And more often then not, most of the underlying systems aren't functioning anywhere near optimal levels. And if all the interconnected systems aren't addressed and brought into a state of optimal function, the standard treatment protocol, which consists of prescribing either a synthetic or natural desiccated thyroid product, will either not work, will marginally help, and regardless will only mask the symptoms without addressing the real issues. In other words, you'll have great tunes playing while your house continues to fall into decay.
The Status Quo
This approach to healthcare is what I call the status quo. The status quo attempts to eliminate problems like high LDL cholesterol by prescribing drugs such as Lipitor. By the time your LDL is elevated, you've already developed many other health issues, and imaging that all is well because your lipid profile comes closer to "normal" range without addressing any of your underlying health issues is only lighting a bomb that has no choice but to eventually explode in the form of compounded health issues that won't be easily dealt with.
You have to deal with everything at once; it's necessary to address every health issue you have, or the weakest link between the ones you're strengthening will continue to break your chain. Healthcare today is very complicated stuff. If you're dealing with issues that you can't get to the bottom of, I'm happy to talk with you about them. Send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll discuss how we can help you strengthen every link in your chain of being.


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