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NASA Vets Say WeWork's Creator Awards Gave Their Company a Launch Pad
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Founders of Re:3D Needed Funding to Help Make their Innovative Printer a Reality
When Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, Texas, Samantha Snabes knew that her company would take a hit. All the components that Re:3D uses to construct its three-dimensional printers could not reach the assembly line.
But Re:3D, based in Austin and Houston, had just won big at the Austin Creator Awards. The competition, sponsored by WeWork, funds forward-thinking companies. Her company took home $180,000, which helped it keep the lights on during a tough time.
"When you're a startup, something like this could bankrupt you," says Snabes. "Our company could have died, but because of WeWork, we flourished."
It wasn't the only crisis they weathered. After the company established a base in Puerto Rico, the island suffered a one-two punch from hurricanes Irma and Maria. Because of the Creator Awards, they were able to continue their work in the community.
What does Re:3D do? It builds the Gigabot: an industrial-size 3D printer that's smartly designed, easy to use, and — most importantly — affordable. It's now used in more than 50 countries around the world.
The company has a great pedigree. Snabes comes from NASA Johnson Space Center, where she worked for the Open Innovation Program. That's where she met Matthew Fiedler, who would eventually become her co-founder. The two shared an interest in social entrepreneurship, feeling strongly that making a profit and helping people were not mutually exclusive ideas.
"Our team and the people that mentored us put people on the moon and built the Saturn 5, so you can't say that this can't be solved—but it does take money."
Re:3D has been growing at a rapid clip, so much so that they are cutting the ribbon on a new factory in Houston. The Creator Awards helped make that a reality.
"We took a gamble that we could find a way to make it happen," says Snabes. "We had been up against our capacity for a while, and we had to trust that we would find a way to fund it."
The company is making good on its goal of doing good in the world. For every 100 Gigabots it sells, the company donates one to a local organization dedicated to improving their community.
And the company is constantly improving its product.
"We've got a prototype that shows it can be done," says Fiedler. "Now it's about getting the job done. In 12 to 16 months we'll have the final product on the market."
Noting the work Re:3D is doing to change the world, the judges at the Creator Awards Global Finals gave it the top prize of $1 million. Snabes, overcome with emotion, fell to her knees and threw her arms up in the air.
"When we won at the Creator Awards, it completely changed our trajectory," says Snabes. "And winning at the finals — there's just no end to what we can do."


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Unfortunate: Appeals Court Revives Misguided Rosetta Stone Lawsuit Against Google
from the can't-we-get-this-straight-already?!? deptThere have been a number of silly lawsuits against Google for the fact that companies can buy AdWords ads based on trademarked terms. These lawsuits are problematic on a few different levels. First, using trademarked keywords to trigger ads isn't infringement. It's a perfectly reasonable use. In the same way that a supermarket often places coupons for certain brands/products near competing products, advertising competitors is perfectly reasonable. Second, even if there is trademark infringement, it should be limited to the advertiser itself, not to Google, who is merely the platform. Even though a few courts had more or less said this in the past, software company Rosetta Stone decided to sue anyway back in 2009. The lawsuit was dumped pretty quickly, with the court getting the big questions right (though it went a little weird on some of the finer points).
Rosetta Stone appealed, and basically got every company who hates Google to join in on the fun. Not only that, but Rosetta Stone even used its loss as a reason to support SOPA's predecessor, COICA, saying that Google is "the gateway for criminals into America."
No, I'm not joking. Rosetta Stone literally said the fact that Google allows competitors to put up ads based on trademarked keywords makes it the (not "a", but "the") "gateway for criminals into America."
Unfortunately, rather than give the company the slap down it deserves, it appears that a somewhat confused appeals court is reviving the case and sending it back to the lower court to reconsider. The reasoning in this 7th Circuit ruling is extremely troubling on a variety of levels.
Quite amazingly, the court actually suggests that there's a possibility that Google is guilty of direct infringement of Rosetta Stone's trademarks. This makes no sense. Even if you somehow twisted things to make Google liable in some manner or another, the only possible liability has to be for secondary liability, because it's not the one directly making use of the trademarks in the first place. It's providing the platform and the advertisers are using the marks. This is pretty basic stuff, and it makes you wonder the technical literacy of the appeals court panel (or why they presume to judge a case where they clearly don't understand what they're talking about).
Another bizarre point is on the question of "intent." The court accepts much of Rosetta Stone's argument that because Google changed its policy over time to allow greater usage of trademarked terms, that it had intent to infringe. While that is one possible interpretation, there are much more sensible explanations that aren't so nefarious. Google stopped allowing the use of trademarked terms early on because it was a waste of time and resources to fight stupid lawsuits like this one. As it continued to grow, it realized that there was no legal reason why it shouldn't allow such uses, and it changed its policies. And, of course, it then gets hit with a stupid lawsuit... and the court seems to use the fact that Google changed its policy as potential evidence that it "intended to cause confusion"? That makes no sense at all. Google knows damn well that if it "intends to cause confusion" that it's going to lose a trademark lawsuit. Why would it ever do that? The company made clear that it expected to get sued, but it was doing this because it believed the law was on its side. It's quite a twist to claim "intent" to "cause confusion" based on that.
Next, the appeals court accepts as evidence of confusion, Rosetta Stone finding some guy who was confused by a counterfeit reseller's site and bought a counterfeit version of their software. Note that the guy was not confused by Google, but by the third party site. The lower court smartly rejected this as anecdotal and properly pointed out that the confusion arose not from Google, but from the other site. But the appeals court rejects that argument and says that the testimony is valid.
After that, the court also moves on to the question of contributory (rather than direct infringement) and bizarrely argues that the reasonable standard set forth in the famous Tiffany v. eBay case cannot be applied at the summary judgment level. This was the ruling that found that eBay was not guilty of contributory trademark infringement for counterfeit goods sold on eBay, in part because eBay made reasonable efforts to remove the infringing content when it became aware of it. This is a reasonable standard, and one that it makes sense to use in this case also, as the lower court did. However, the appeals court basically says that this standard can really only be used after a costly and wasteful trial, even if the court could get around all that by noting the obvious fact that the service provider is a good actor in getting rid of infringing works when it learns of them.
Things get equally troubling when we get down to the question of trademark dilution. The lower court rejected Rosetta Stone's arguments here on a few factors, but the appeals court sends that back too. Specifically, the lower court pointed out that there was no dilution because Google wasn't using the Rosetta Stone trademarks to identify its own (different) products, thus there was no dilution. This is the correct interpretation of the law, because the entire point of the (very new) concept of "dilution" in trademark law is that it can't be used to "dilute" the value of the trademark by applying it to different products. Here, no one is claiming that Google is making use of Rosetta Stone's marks to impart the value of that mark on something different. So the lower court got that right... but the appeals court gets confused and denies this reasoning, instead saying that this is really a "fair use" discussion, which can only be used as a defense, rather than a proactive argument at the summary judgment stage. Once again, that's batty. It only encourages long, drawn-out, wasteful and useless trials where none are needed.
The court did accept some of the more minor arguments of the lower court, but sent back all of the major issues. Hopefully the district court does a full trial and still comes to the same (correct and reasonable) conclusion, but in the meantime, they have to waste time and resources on a silly trial that was properly dumped in the first place.
Filed Under: adwords, competition, trademark
Companies: google, rosetta stone

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Audubon Birds Stained Glass Coloring Book
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The beautifully executed images in this splendid collection will delight bird lovers and coloring book fans alike. Colorists will learn to identify 16 different species as they color accurately rendered designs based on ornithological masterpieces created by the great nature illustrator John James Audubon. Printed on transparent paper, handsome boldly-outlined illustrations depict the cedar waxwing, mountain quail, greater flamingo, northern cardinal, bald eagle, red-shouldered hawk, wild turkey, western tanager, Carolina parakeet, great blue heron, whooping crane, and others. Bring these beautiful illustrations to life by coloring them with crayons, felt tip pens or other media, then place them in a window or near another light source for dazzling stained glass effects. A guide to the plates is included. Paperback, 16 pages.
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The 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship comprises a qualifying group stage and play-off round to determine which seven teams join hosts Denmark in the final tournament.
Qualifying group stage
The group stage is played between March 2009 and September 2010. Teams are drawn into ten groups – two of six teams and eight of five – and play each other on a home and away basis. The ten group winners and four runners-up with the best record against the teams first, third, fourth and fifth in their sections advance to the play-offs.
Play-off matches are played according to the knockout system, with each team playing each opponent home and away between 8 and 12 October 2010. The team which scores the greater aggregate of goals qualifies for the next round, with away goals, extra time and then penalties used to determine the winner in the event of a draw.
Final tournament
The final tournament takes place from 11 to 25 June 2011 and comprises the seven play-off winners and Denmark, who qualify automatically as hosts. The eight teams are split into two groups of four. Each team plays each other once in their group with the winners and runners-up advancing to the semi-finals where the winner of Group A plays the Group B runner-up and vice-versa. The winners advance to the final.
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LIU Post is one of the most beautiful, historic and scholarly settings in the country. Our 307-acre campus is located on the north shore of Long Island, in the Village of Brookville, which is ranked among the most desirable communities in America. The Campus is just 50 minutes from the corporate and entertainment capital of the world, New York City. LIU Post offers more than 260 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs to 8,700 students from every part of the world. Our academic programs carry elite accreditations, signifying they meet the highest standards of quality.
LIU Post faculty members possess impeccable credentials, with 90 percent holding a doctoral degree or the highest equivalent degree in their field. They will engage and inspire you to achieve your personal best. Classes average only 20 students. LIU Post's internship and cooperative education program is nationally recognized, and the Campus is an arts and cultural mecca featuring the world-renowned Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. LIU Post's 550 student-athletes compete at the NCAA Division II-level in 15 varsity sports. Our extensive financial aid and scholarship program ensures that all students have access to an excellent private education.
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text: Should You Have A Will or Trust? December 11, 2015 09:42 AM For most farms with substantial assets, trusts offer more flexibility than wills. Trusts might offer farmers more control In the end, estate planning is ultimately about how your assets are distributed to your heirs. Bonus Content Legacy Project webinar on wills and trusts But the end can sometimes be a long time in coming, and there can be numerous bumps in the road. So while a will can direct to whom you want your property distributed, a revocable trust offers you more flexibility and control during your life's journey, says Matt Tavrides, a Florida attorney with more than 20 years of estate planning experience. Wills and trusts are really nothing more than a set of instructions on how you want your assets distributed. "The real difference is how they work," Tavrides says. "Wills don't work when you're alive and well or when you become mentally disabled. They only work when you die. "In the event of a disability and you only have a will, a judge will appoint a guardian. The judge decides who is in charge of you and your stuff," he says. People often forget—or don't even want to think about—that mental incapacitation can precede death by months, even years, and are not only due to old age, but also accident or illness. And yet your operation must go on if your family is to have income. Trusts can work through all phases of your life. With a trust, control of your property is transferred to you and your trustee. If you become mentally disabled, there is no need for a court-appointed guardian because you have already decided ahead of time who will be in control of both you and your property. "A trust is all about retention of control," Tavrides says. For young farmers, their biggest assets are often their children. And if Dad, Mom or both become mentally disabled or die, the biggest question is how the kids will be provided for. "The best way to do that is with a trust," Tavrides says. Trusts will also allow you to avoid probate costs at your death. Each state's laws are different in what they require, but in general, probate can cost your estate 3% to 5% of its value. Attorney fees are often the largest portion of these costs. In an estate worth $1 million, that means probate will often cost from $30,000 to $50,000, and that does not include estate taxes. Trusts don't require the estate to go through the probate process because the issues that are resolved by probate are already taken care of in the trust, Tavrides says. But even with a trust, there still is an administrative process that the trust goes through at death that involves attorney costs. "The difference is that the trust administration fees are less than probate costs," he adds. Tavrides does concede there are occasions when a will may provide sufficient legal coverage. "If there is a modest asset base, a trust might not make sense from a financial standpoint," he says. "But I cannot think of a situation where a will is superior to a trust. Again, control is the most important point." Back to news


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I love my adopted homeland. But first, as an exchange student in Massachusetts, I learned to love chocolate-chip cookies and brownies. And I gained twenty pounds.
My love affair with America had begun with my love of the English language; we met at the lycée (junior high and high school) when I turned eleven. English was my favorite class after French literature, and I simply adored my English teacher. He had never been abroad but spoke English without a French accent or even a British one. He had learned it during World War II, when he found himself in a POW camp with a high school teacher from Weston, Massachusetts (I suspect they had long hours to practice). Without knowing whether they'd make it out alive, they decided that if they did, they would start an exchange program for high school seniors. Each year, one student from the United States would come to our town and one of us would go to Weston. The exchange continues to this day, and the competition is keen.
During my last year at the lycée, I had good enough grades to apply, but I wasn't interested. With dreams of becoming an English teacher or professor, I was eager to start undergraduate studies at the local university. And at eighteen, naturally I had also convinced myself I was madly in love with a boy in my town. He was the handsomest though admittedly not the brightest boy around, the coqueluche (the darling) of all the girls. I couldn't dream of parting from him, so I didn't even think of applying for Weston. But in the schoolyard, between classes, there was hardly another topic of conversation. Among my friends, the odds-on favorite to go was Monique; she wanted it so badly, and besides, she was the best in our class, a fact not lost on the selection committee, which was chaired by my English teacher and included among its distinguished ranks PTA members, other teachers, the mayor, and the local Catholic priest, balanced by the Protestant minister. But on the Monday morning when the announcement was expected, the only thing announced was that no decision had been made.
At home that Thursday morning (those days, there was no school on Thursdays but half days on Saturday), my English teacher appeared at the door. He had come to see my mother, which seemed rather strange, considering my good grades. As soon as he left, with a big, satisfied smile but not a word to me except hello, my mother called me. Something was très important.
The selection committee had not found a suitable candidate. When I asked about Monique, my mother tried to explain something not easily fathomed at my age: My friend had everything going for her, but her parents were Communists, and that would not fly in America. The committee had debated at great length (it was a small town, where everybody was fully informed about everybody else), but they could not escape concluding that a daughter of Communists could never represent France!
My teacher had proposed me as an alternative, and the other members had agreed. But since I had not even applied, he had to come and persuade my parents to let me go. My overadoring father, who would never have condoned my running away for a year, was not home. Perhaps my teacher was counting on this fact; but in any event, he managed to sell the idea to my mother. The real work then fell to her, because she had to persuade not only my father, but me as well. Not that she was without her own misgivings about seeing me go, but Mamie was always wise and farsighted; and she usually got her way. I was terribly anxious about what Monique would say, but once word got out, she was first to declare what a fine ambassador I would make. Apparently, Communist families were quite open and practical about such matters, and she had already been given to understand that family ideology had made her a dark horse from the start.
And so I went. It was a wonderful year—one of the best of my adolescence—and it certainly changed the course of my entire life. To a young French girl, Weston, a wealthy Boston suburb, seemed an American dream—green, manicured, spread out, with huge gorgeous homes and well-to-do, well-schooled families. There was tennis, horseback riding, swimming pools, golf, and two or three cars per family—a far, far cry from any town in eastern France, then or now. The time was so full of new, unimagined things, but finally too rich, and I don't mean demographically. For all the priceless new friends and experiences I was embracing, something else altogether, something sinister, was slowly taking shape. Almost before I could notice, it had turned into fifteen pounds, more or less . . . and quite probably more. It was August, my last month before the return voyage to France. I was in Nantucket with one of my adoptive families when I suffered the first blow: I caught a reflection of myself in a bathing suit. My American mother, who had perhaps been through something like this before with another daughter, instinctively registered my distress. A good seamstress, she bought a bolt of the most lovely linen and made me a summer shift. It seemed to solve the problem but really only bought me a little time.
In my final American weeks, I had become very sad at the thought of leaving all my new pals and relations, but I was also quite apprehensive of what my French friends and family would say at the sight of the new me. I had never mentioned the weight gain in letters and somehow managed to send photos showing me only from the waist up.
The moment of truth was approaching.
My father brought my brother with him to Le Havre to collect me. I was traveling on the SS Rotterdam. The ocean liner was still the transatlantic standard preferred by many French people in the late 1960s. With me was the new American exchange student from Weston, who would be spending the year in our town.
Since he had not seen me for a whole year, I expected my father, who always wore his heart on his face, would embarrass me, bounding up the gangway for the first hug and kiss. But when I spied the diminutive French man in his familiar beret—yes, a beret—he looked stunned. As I approached, now a little hesitantly, he just stared at me, and as we came near, after a few seconds that seemed endless, there in front of my brother and my American shipmate, all he could manage to say to his cherished little girl come home was, "Tu ressembles à un sac de patates" ("You look like a sack of potatoes"). Some things don't sound any prettier in French. I knew what he had in mind: not a market-size sack, but one of the big, 150-pound burlap affairs that are delivered to grocery stores and restaurants! Fortunately the girl from Weston spoke little French, else she would have had a troubling first impression of French family life.
At age nineteen, I could not have imagined anything more hurtful, and to this day the sting has not been topped. But my father was not being mean. True, tact was never his strength; and the teenage girl's hypersensitivity about weight and looks wasn't yet the proverbial pothole every parent today knows to steer around. The devastating welcome sprang more than anything from his having been caught off guard. Still, it was more than I could take. I was at once sad, furious, vexed, and helpless. At the time, I could not even measure the impact.
On our way home to eastern France, we stopped in Paris for a few days, just to show my friend from Weston the City of Light, but my inexorable grumpiness made everyone eager to hit the road again. I ruined Paris for all of us. I was a mess.
The coming months were bitter and awkward. I didn't want anyone to see me, but everyone wanted to greet l'Américaine. My mother understood right away not only how and why I had gained the weight, but also how I felt. She treaded lightly, avoiding the unavoidable topic, perhaps particularly because I had soon given her something more dire to worry about.
Having seen a bit of the world, I had lost my taste for attending the local university. I now wanted to study languages in a Grande École (like an Ivy League school) in Paris and, on top of that, to take a literary track at the Sorbonne at the same time. It was unusual and really an insane workload. My parents were not at all keen on the idea of Paris: if I got in (hardly a given, as the competition is legendary), it was going to be a big emotional and financial sacrifice to have me three and a half hours from home. So I had to campaign hard, but thanks in part to the obvious persistence of my raw nerves, in the end they let me go back to Paris for the famously grueling entrance exam. I passed, and in late September I moved to Paris. My parents always wanted the best for me.
By All Saints' Day (November 1), I had gained another five pounds, and by Christmas, five more still. At five feet three, I was now overweight by any standard, and nothing I owned fit, not even my American mother's summer shift. I had two flannel ones—same design, but roomier—made to cover up my lumpiness. I told the dressmaker to hurry and hated myself every minute of the day. More and more, my father's faux pas at Le Havre seemed justified. Those were blurry days of crying myself to sleep and zipping past all mirrors. It may not seem so strange an experience for a nineteen-year-old, but none of my French girlfriends was going through it.
Then something of a Yuletide miracle occurred. Or perhaps I should say, Dr. Miracle, who showed up thanks to my mamie. Over the long holiday break, she asked the family physician, Dr. Meyer, to pay a call. She did this most discreetly, careful not to bruise me further. Dr. Meyer had watched me grow up, and he was the kindest gentleman on earth. He assured me that getting back in shape would be really easy and just a matter of a few "old French tricks." By Easter, he promised, I'd be almost back to my old self, and certainly by the end of the school year in June I'd be ready to wear my old bathing suit, the one I'd packed for America. As in a fairy tale, it was going to be our secret. (No use boring anyone else with the particulars of our plan, he said.) And the weight would go away much faster than it came. Sounded great to me. Of course, I wanted to put my faith in Dr. Meyer, and fortunately, there didn't seem to be many options at the time.
For the next three weeks, I was to keep a diary of everything I ate. This is a strategy that will sound familiar from some American diet programs, such as Weight Watchers. I was to record not only what and how much, but also when and where. There was no calorie counting, not that I could have done that. The stated purpose was simply for him to gauge the nutritional value of what I was eating (it was the first time I ever heard the word). Since nothing more was asked of me, I was only too happy to comply. This is the first thing you should do, too.
Dr. Meyer demanded no great precision in measurement. Just estimate, he said, stipulating "a portion" as the only unit of quantity and roughly equal to a medium-size apple. In America, where the greatest enemy of balanced eating is ever bigger portions, I suggest a little more precision. Here's where the small kitchen scale comes in. (Bread, which sometimes comes in huge slices here, might be more easily weighed than compared with an apple, which seems bigger here, too!)
Three weeks later, I was home again for the weekend. Just before noon, Dr. Miracle, distingué, gray templed, made his second house call. He also stayed for lunch. Afterward, reviewing my diary, he immediately identified a pattern utterly obvious to him but hiding somehow from me, as I blithely recorded every crumb I put in my mouth. On the walk between school and the room I was renting in the Seventh Arrondissement, there were no fewer than sixteen pastry shops. Without my having much noticed, my meals were more and more revolving around pastry. As I was living in Paris, my family could not know this, so when I came home, my mother naturally prepared my favorites, unaware I was eating extra desserts on the sly, even under her roof.
My Parisian pastry gluttony was wonderfully diverse. In the morning there was croissant or pain au chocolat or chouquette or tarte au sucre. Lunch was preceded by a stop at Poîlane, the famous breadmaker's shop, where I could not resist the pain aux raisins or tarte aux pommes (apple tart) or petits sablés. Next stop was at a café for the ubiquitous jambon-beurre (ham on a buttered baguette) and what remained of the Poîlane pastry with coffee. Dinner always included and sometimes simply was an éclair, Paris Brest, religieuse, or mille-feuille (curiously called a napoleon outside France), always some form of creamy, buttery sweetness. Sometimes I would even stop off for a palmier (a big puff pastry sugar-covered cookie) for my goûter (afternoon snack). As a student, I was living off things I could eat on the go. Hardly any greens were passing my lips, and my daily serving of fruit was coming from fruit tarts. I was eating this strangely lopsided fare without the slightest thought and with utter contentment—except, of course, for how I looked.
Now this was obviously not a diet I had picked up in America, where one could hardly say the streets are lined with irresistible patisseries (though then, as now, there was no shortage of tempting hot chocolate-chip cookie stands and sellers of rich ice cream, to say nothing of a mind-boggling variety of supermarket sweets made with things infinitely worse for you than cream and butter). But as I was to learn, it was my adoptive American way of eating that had gone to my head and opened me up to the dangers of this delicious Parisian minefield. For in America, I had gotten into some habits: eating standing up, not making my own food, living off whatever (n'importe quoi, as the French say), as other kids were doing. Brownies and bagels were particular hazards; we had nothing quite like them at home, so who could tell how rich they were?
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In the business world, infrastructure plays a huge role in just about every aspect of a company's operations. But when you're a global performance measurement company, you don't side-step markets simply because they're more challenging to work in. Instead, you roll up your sleeves, identify client needs and then buckle down to help them succeed.
It also doesn't hurt if you have someone like Jackie Nyanjom leading the charge.
Jackie, managing director for Nielsen East Africa, refuses to dwell on the myriad challenges within the region that many would presume insurmountable—an underdeveloped road system, the lack of centralized data sources and scattershot internet wiring. Instead, Jackie only sees opportunity, which makes her the perfect advocate, while her outgoing personality makes her a client's best friend.
"The landscape and infrastructure are very challenging—the markets in Africa are at very different levels of modernity," she says. "But Africa is the new frontier. As challenging as it is, you can't claim to be global—you can't claim to reach everybody—if you're not in Africa."
While Jackie's outlook on business in Africa is as upbeat as it is infectious, she understands that the road ahead is largely uphill. But this is where her drive to help others truly shines, as she stands firm in her belief that those who take the time to understand the market and help it grow will be rewarded in the long run—right alongside the clients she works with.
Gathering data in Africa is far from seamless. The digital evolution is underway, however, and that's having a marked impact on Nielsen Africa's ability to stay ahead of the curve. In many ways, Jackie says that not having an existing tech infrastructure was an advantage in that regard because there were no legacy hurdles to overcome once digital and mobile tech came online.
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But the evolving digital landscape hasn't fully cleared the path forward. Without the foundation of an established infrastructure, Africa remains its own microcosm with macro difficulties. The continent is a sprawling place, and Jackie's team needs more than digital and mobile connectivity to keep track of consumer purchasing habits and data usage the way other markets do.
"Getting data from the field is quite a challenge." Jackie admits. "What we need to do to collect data is very different from elsewhere. Therefore, every day and every market presents a different challenge."
But those dramatic market challenges bring out the best Jackie, and it's what sets her—and Nielsen—apart. How? By creating personal connections and deploying her immense knowledge of the region and how to succeed in its varied markets.
These people skills are crucial, and they serve as a vital connector in an ecosystem that lacks an established infrastructure. And over time, those interactions have transformed client relationships into partnerships. That's what makes Jackie a pioneer in the region. Her expertise, skill set and personality have been instrumental in building trust with a steadily growing base of clients and developing true paths to growth in the face of extraordinary headwinds.
"Over time, we grew our database of information," she explains. "As clients became interested, we moved them from having a basic understanding about Nielsen to them wanting more. And in the last 10 years that I've been around, I've watched the data—and the value of data—change quite vastly."
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Over the past decade, African markets have become more complicated and competition has increased, both of which have boosted the stakes for businesses. It's also increased the importance and relevance of the knowledge, background and data that Jackie and her Nielsen team now have at their fingertips.
Data and market knowledge aside, Jackie's people-forward persona remains her greatest asset. In fact, clients often call her for advice and perspective on topics that don't have anything to do with Nielsen services. It's that level of trust and partnership that has propelled her as a leader within Nielsen as well as within the local business community.
"Clients want to be sure that you have their back," she says. "Our clients are human beings. They want to look good in their companies, they want to succeed. So they're looking for partners who are experts in what they do and are available to them to cover their backs. We build trust and then a partnership. This is what we do as a company—we say we're there for you."
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HOOD RIVER, Ore. (June 24, 2009) – DAKINE, the leader in action sports accessories, is pleased to introduce its mobile website. A newly launched, interactive site gives users access to DAKINE goodies while on the go. Content is broken down into categories including snowboard, ski, surf, skate, bike, windsurf, kiteboard, girls and music. An abbreviated version of DAKINE's website, the mobile site, www.DAKINE.com/mobile, is compatible with most media rich-enabled cell phones.
Featured products, team riders, news sections, sponsored bands and a retail store locator round out the mobile site highlights. When connected to a high-speed wireless or 3G network users can experience optimum performance of streaming music and video clips.
Additionally, worldwide surf reports provided by Surfline.com are located within the surf, windsurf and kiteboard categories. Snow reports provided by OnTheSnow.com display conditions for North American destinations and are accessible in the ski and snowboard categories.
About DAKINE
Backed by a pro team roster that includes some of the world's top action sports athletes, DAKINE has been an industry leader in action sports accessories for thirty years. Founded in Hawaii and based in Hood River, Oregon, DAKINE offers a complete range of innovative products, including sport-specific to street-savvy backpacks, bags, travel gear and accessories for guys and girls. To view the current line of DAKINE products, log on to www.DAKINE.com.
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Of all the hurdles and agonies of traveling by air, one of the most frequent delays is simply the weather.
Any combination of atmospheric upheaval that reduces visibility or hampers an aircraft's flight has to be considered before a plane is cleared to fly. That's especially true aboard an aircraft carrier, as I saw last month in the Persian Gulf.
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Imagine that a carrier travels about 40 mph across open ocean, through all manner of global weather patterns, with multiple ships escorting it along. Imagine the deck filled with jets and helicopters all needed to fill a pressing Pentagon mission and that aside from getting them into the air and flying safely, the weather must permit them to land back on deck hours in the future.
Now imagine you're the person responsible for making all that happen without one bit of unexpected weather, and you'll understand what LCDR Tim Knapp's life is like aboard the aircraft carrier USS EISENHOWER in the Persian Gulf.
A steady stream of F-18s and Seahawk helicopters, surveillance planes, and transport craft take off and land from the carrier deck at a near constant clip during flight operations, and it can all come to a screeching halt with an advisory from Knapp in the IKE's Meteorological Office.
Knapp recently finished his Master's in Numerical Meteorological and Physical Oceanography at the Naval Post-Graduate School in Monterey, Ca. That stint included two years of some math and science most people wouldn't want to imagine, and might go a long way toward forming a certain opinion about the career officer. It might be wrong.
This is Knapp's second Navy career after spending over 11 years as a surface warfare officer on amphibious assault and coastal patrol ships, basically pulling badass missions that neither he or anyone else can talk about.
The work was a far cry from his crew's tidy office on the IKE with its decadent porthole windows, fresh hot chocolate, and basket of hard candy. But past the Jolly Ranchers and over by the door are a stack of boxes chatting it up with some very serious supercomputers back in the States.
The heart of that system sits in Monterey, processing 27 trillion meteorological possibilities per second from around the globe.
Those findings arrive at the black boxes by the door and get introduced to an algorithm that paints an image on the nearby LCD screens much like what we see on the Weather Channel, but not nearly as fancy.
Just like the Weather Channel, Knapp and his staff plot local weather two weeks in advance, taking special care in these parts to look for conditions on shore that would drive up sandstorms.
Even with all of that hardware there are limitations, and when asked if he ever gets it wrong, Knapp shrugs his shoulders and smiles, "Anything over 72 hours is a crap shoot."
And just in case anyone thought that was acceptable, he quickly adds: "But we're pretty confident at the seven to ten day mark. Especially out here," as he finishes extending his hand toward the clear blue sky over the Gulf.
Regardless of the job, or the skills sailors possess on a Navy ship, what kind of office they sit in or whether or not it lets in the sun, there is one constant among everyone I talked to onboard.
They love their job, but they miss their families with a sharpness I can almost feel.
Knapp aches for his four-year-old daughter in Virginia, but he also misses the rest of his large close-knit family — including his little sister who works at Business Insider— who he promises to see as soon as he gets home.
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Sunday Sessions
R Plus 6 / Affect Index
by Daniel Lopatin & Nate Boyce
Sunday, November 3, 2013
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 day-of starting at Noon, available for purchase in the Kiosk.
Experimental electronic musician Daniel Lopatin—known by his stage name as Oneohtrix Point Never—collaborates with artist Nate Boyce for R Plus 6 / Affect Index, a surround sound diffusion and abstract audio/visual seminar exploring the peripheral content informing Lopatin's new album R+7. It is inspired by jazz fusion harmonic analysis, Cryogenics, procedural composition/poetry and morphogenetic approaches to form amongst other subjects.
4:00 PM · R PLUS 6 — Listening Session
6:00 PM · Affect Index — Hallucinatory Lecture/Performance
This program is made possible by Pitchfork's FORMS.
Sunday Sessions is organized by Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator with Mike Skinner, Producer, and Alex Sloane, Live Programs Coordinator.
FORMS is organized by Eliza Ryan, former Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1, Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator at MoMA PS1, and Pitchfork editor Brandon Stosuy.
Nate Boyce and Daniel Lopatin. Affect Index. 2013. HD video. Courtesy the artists.
Sunday Sessions and the VW Dome at MoMA PS1 are made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.


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Please note that GATK-Lite was retired in February 2013 when version 2.4 was released. See the announcement here.
You probably know by now that GATK-Lite is a free-for-everyone and completely open-source version of the GATK (licensed under the original [MIT license]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)).
But what's in the box? What can GATK-Lite do -- or rather, what can it not do that the full version (let's call it GATK-Full) can? And what does that mean exactly, in terms of functionality, reliability and power?
To really understand the differences between GATK-Lite and GATK-Full, you need some more information on how the GATK works, and how we work to develop and improve it.
As explained here, the engine handles all the common work that's related to data access, conversion and traversal, as well as high-performance computing features. The engine is supported by an infrastructure of software libraries. If the GATK was a car, that would be the engine and chassis. What we call the *tools are attached on top of that, and they provide the various analytical and processing functionalities like variant calling and base or variant recalibration. On your car, that would be headlights, airbags and so on.
We do all our development work on a single codebase. This means that everything --the engine and all tools-- is on one common workbench. There are not different versions that we work on in parallel -- that would be crazy to manage! That's why the version numbers of GATK-Lite and GATK-Full always match: if the latest GATK-Full version is numbered 2.1-13, then the latest GATK-Lite is also numbered 2.1-13.
The most important consequence of this setup is that when we make improvements to the infrastructure and engine, the same improvements will end up in GATK Lite and in GATK Full. So for the purposes of power, speed and robustness of the GATK that is determined by the engine, there is no difference between them.
For the tools, it's a little more complicated -- but not much. When we "build" the GATK binaries (the
.jar files), we put everything from the workbench into the Full build, but we only put a subset into the Lite build. Note that this Lite subset is pretty big -- it contains all the tools that were previously available in GATK 1.x versions, and always will. We also reserve the right to add previews or not-fully-featured versions of the new tools that are in Full, at our discretion, to the Lite build.
We have a new tool that performs a brand new function (which wasn't available in GATK 1.x), and we only include it in the Full build.
Reprising the car analogy, GATK-Lite and GATK-Full are like two versions of the same car -- the basic version and the fully-equipped one. They both have the exact same engine, and most of the equipment (tools) is the same -- for example, they both have the same airbag system, and they both have headlights. But there are a few important differences:
The GATK-Full car comes with a GPS (sat-nav for our UK friends), for which the Lite car has no equivalent. You could buy a portable GPS unit from a third-party store for your Lite car, but it might not be as good, and certainly not as convenient, as the Full car's built-in one.
The underlying engine is exactly the same in both GATK-Lite and GATK-Full. Most functionalities are available in both builds, performed by the same tools. Some functionalities are available in both builds, but they are performed by different tools, and the tool in the Full build is better. New, cutting-edge functionalities are only available in the Full build, and there is no equivalent in the Lite build.
We hope this clears up some of the confusion surrounding GATK-Lite. If not, please leave a comment and we'll do our best to clarify further!


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I have been awarded with the Beautiful Site Award by my dear friend Rosie from Rosie Bakes a "Peace" of Cake. Thanks so much Rosie, you made my day!
I would like to pass this award onto the following blogs:
Erica at Oh my! Apple Pie!
Happy Cook at My Kitchen Treasures
Antonia at Food, Glorious Food!
Margaret at Kitchen Delights
Airy Fairy at Airy Fairy Cupcakes
Please pass the award on!
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Beautiful Site Award
5 comments:
- Margaret said...
Thank you so much Maria.
Congratulations on receiving the award!
- 23 September 2008 at 14:56
- Happy cook said...
You are so sweet for thinking aobut me .
Thankyou for this wonderful award
- 23 September 2008 at 14:58
- Oh my! Apple pie! said...
Thank you so much Maria!
- 23 September 2008 at 16:07
- Ivy said...
Congrats Maria, you indeed have a beautiful site.
- 24 September 2008 at 13:48
- Antonia said...
Thank you so much for this lovely award, Maria, and congratulations to you too!
- 26 September 2008 at 22:44
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Nate Johnson has Havelock on his mind, so much so that he brought the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association to the city for its 57th annual state convention this week.
Nate Johnson has Havelock on his mind, so much so that he brought the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association to the city for its 57th annual state convention this week.
He said that at last year�s state convention, discussion focused on where to have the next meeting. He said everyone looked around at each other, but he popped up and suggested Havelock.
�I had to do what a man had to do,� he said Tuesday as the convention opened at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center. �It worked out real good. Every one here is very, very happy, especially with the Holiday Inn Express and the Hampton Inn. They have supported me in this effort 150 percent.�
Johnson said the two hotels put aside 100 rooms for the attendees of the convention. About 160 members from the state�s 49 NARFE chapters are attending the event, and Johnson said they are helping the local economy.
�They�ve eaten at the Carolina Grill. They�ve been over to Crabby Patty�s, and we�re just passing the money around here in Havelock trying to help out the economy,� he said. �That�s what I did it for. I�m going to be honest, �cause I love my Havelock.�
There are 67 NARFE members here in Havelock at Chapter 2211.
�Our organization is all about protecting the earned benefits of all of our federal employees, both current and retired, because we have to make sure that everything that we�ve worked for for all of those dedicated years we put in aren�t taken away from us through no fault of our own,� said Robert Allen, from Person County, who is the organization�s public relations director. �There�s strength in numbers. We have nationwide about 300,000 members of NARFE.�
In North Carolina, NARFE has about 5,500 members. The state is divided into six areas. Havelock is part of Area Six, which includes New Bern and Greenville, and has about 1,200 members.
The state convention is designed to help the organization set the agenda for advocacy of specific issues on behalf of active and retired federal employees.
�We meet here once a year so we can talk to each other, do some socializing, but also for the betterment of the national active and retired federal employees,� said Sam Crain, from Maggie Valley, president of the state federation of NARFE.
The group elected officers for the next two years, set bylaws, and looked after the needs of individual chapters during the three-day convention, which ended Thursday.
�We listen to our people to see what they want to do about their (Cost of Living Adjustment), their retirements and their health insurance. It�s all business,� Johnson said.
Crain said that Congress is constantly going after the benefits of federal employees as a way to reduce the budget. He said that is putting a heavy burden on federal employees as compared to other areas of the budget.
�Our goal is to make sure that we do our share, but we�d like to see that widen into the other areas of the country who could be sharing that portion of the deficit,� Crain said.
Locally, support extends to employees of Fleet Readiness Center East at Cherry Point, where sequestration is likely to lead to work furloughs, possibly beginning next month. Workers are facing the possibility of losing 20 percent of their paychecks for about 14 weeks during the furlough period.
�I�ve been recruiting FRC members to join us because right now as you know we�ve been having these furloughs, and while all this is going on, we�ve been fighting in Washington D.C. also and it�s been assisting FRC East, so I�ve been recruiting those members who are retiring here,� Johnson said. �We need younger people to get involved and understand what�s going to happen if they don�t get involved.
�The federal employees at FRC are in a freeze right now and they are trying to change that to a different type setup to where they won�t have to give us a raise. We�re trying to get the government not to put us at fault for the problems that they�re having in the federal government. They�re making laws up there that they are going to try to do away with the way that they have our COLAs set up, and that�s our pay raises every year or so. That�s the reason we�re fighting this issue.�


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Newtown gets a tiny piece of normal with return of athletics
NEWTOWN -- It was, as Newtown High principal Charles Dumais put it, a tiny piece of normal: Longtime rivals Newtown and Masuk, in a December South-West Conference girls basketball clash.
The Nighthawks pressed; the Panthers turned it over. The crowd was strong, but not overwhelming, plenty of seats available behind the Newtown bench. The Nighthawks' dance team performed at the half. English teacher Jay Edwards -- the voice of Newtown High athletics -- provided the play-by-play throughout the Nighthawks' 64-44 victory.
Jeremy O'Connell, the always-fiery Newtown head coach, pleaded with his team on an early third-quarter possession: "Please! Play! Defense!" he screamed, his tie flapping as he hopped along the Nighthawks sideline.
This is the way Newtown High wanted it. They wanted normalcy Wednesday, if only for an hour and a half, five days after 20 students and six faculty members were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"We got to run, we got to get our minds, our frustration out of us a little," Newtown senior Erin Kenning said. "It was just important for us to be here today."
The empty seats, one coach said, shouldn't be a surprise. People in this town are still in shock. Most don't want to leave home. If they do, they're bombarded by national media, microphones and cameras shoved in their faces at the local Stop & Shop or Mobil station.
Athletic director Gregg Simon kept the media circus at bay Wednesday, only allowing local outlets into the Hawks Nest, where the walls were blanketed with cutouts of stick figures linking arms, every so often interrupted by a "SH" for Sandy Hook. A banner -- Newtown strong -- was placed just below the scoreboard. And 26 balloons -- 20 of them white, six green, Sandy Hook Elementary's colors -- were along the sidelines.
Each was a reminder of the tragedy that took place.
"Basketball is really trivial in what is going on, and really insignificant in life," O'Connell said. "But it is a positive place where this town has seen a lot of positive things."
A tight game in the third quarter turned into a blowout, something Newtown fans and students have become accustomed to in recent years. Senior guard Cassie Ekstrom muscled through for a layup with four minutes remaining, putting the Nighthawks up 14 and prompting O'Connell to pump both fists, his signature celebration.
After the win, Newtown's first of the young season, O'Connell reminded his team, "Hey, practice from 6-8 tomorrow," part of the usual routine.
"School hasn't been normal," Kenning said. "But it's the best we can do right now."
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Hippocrates's classic pronouncement that life is short but art is long could have been coined with Edgar Allan Poe in mind. Although he died in 1849 at age 40, his literary legacy endures – not just in lugubrious stories and poems like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Annabel Lee," but in his influence on literature, including 19th-century French Romantic poetry and detective and science fiction.
Just in time for the bicentennial of Poe's January 19, 1809, birth, master biographer Peter Ackroyd – born 100 years after Poe's death – has written the brief but still amply detailed Poe: A Life Cut Short.
Ackroyd has demonstrated his adeptness at distilling masses of information with lively, full-gore biographies of such long-gone literary lights as T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, William Blake, and Thomas More. In "Poe," he provides a pared-down but rich portrait of a productive but dismal existence.
Poe dwelt, like the narrator of his poem "Eulalie," "in a world of moan" against a backdrop of "midnights dreary" not unlike that in his most famous poem, "The Raven." Ackroyd writes, "He was dogged by poverty, and cursed by lack of success.... His entire life was a series of setbacks, of disappointed hopes and thwarted ambitions."
Setbacks that started in childhood
He breathed the "air of menace and fatality" from early childhood. By the time he was three, he'd lost both parents, travelling actors, leaving him with "feelings of utter abandonment," which, along with an association of death with beauty, would become a leitmotif in his work. As an adult he would be burdened with an unfortunate inclination to seek nurture from dark-haired consumptives like his mother, even as he battled a predilection for alcohol inherited from his father.
Young Poe was fortunate to be taken in by prosperous, doting foster parents, Fanny and John Allan, who provided him with not just a middle name but also a stellar education in Virginia and England. Yet this relationship also ended badly, with Fanny's death from consumption and Poe's bitter estrangement from his foster father, who cut him off
without a cent in late adolescence.
Poe's adulthood was a constant struggle against destitution and despair, frequently exacerbated by drunken binges. Even Ackroyd's condensed account paints an exasperatingly repetitive cycle of "Nevermore!" followed by further rounds of self-destructive drinking.
In his search for "external discipline" and a source of income, Poe enlisted in the Army during his late teens and later enrolled in officers' training at West Point – both poor fits. At the same time, he was writing and publishing poems.
At 27, Poe married his 14-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. He had met her when she was 9, when he moved into her mother (and his aunt) Maria Clemm's household. Ackroyd comments that their relationship was "spiritual in temper" and notes delicately, "We can only speculate that physical intimacy with his child bride, if it occurred at all, came at a subsequent date."
An entire industry could be built producing "Edgar Allan Poe Lived Here" plaques. Until Virginia's death from consumption in 1847, the Poes and Maria Clemm relocated repeatedly, scrambling between boarding houses in Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York as Poe chased literary hack work. Ackroyd dutifully tracks each move, commenting, "He never felt at home anywhere."
Poe's steadiest source of income was not from his books, which earned him barely $300 during his lifetime, but from his employment as a "Magazinist," editing and writing stories and reviews for various literary journals. Unfortunately, he held each position only until seized by the self-destructive impulse he labelled "the imp of the perverse" in an eponymous 1845 story.
Poe's reviewing credo was, "I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down." Not surprisingly, this "querulous and acerbic critic" garnered attention and enemies but few friends from his snarky reviews.
A body of writing shaped by fear
There isn't much room in Ackroyd's brief life to delve deeply into Poe's writing, but he manages to convey a strong sense of the emotional draw of his dark, sensational, morbid output, which touched on universal, deeply rooted fears.
Occasionally, Ackroyd gets carried away by his enthusiasm, dubbing Poe "the greatest prose writer of the country" – ignoring contemporaries Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, for starters – and "the greatest exponent of fantasy fiction in the English language."
Yet Ackroyd acknowledges that, however brilliant and influential in his work, Poe as a person was "permanently incomplete ... like a cuttlefish floundering in his own ink." As William Butler Yeats wrote, "Perfection of the life, or of the work." Ackroyd's short biography makes it clear which Poe achieved.
Heller McAlpin, a freelance critic in New York, is a frequent Monitor contributor.


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In July 2006, Women Living Under Muslim Laws held a week-long Plan of Action (PoA) Meeting in Dakar, Senegal. Following our last PoA Meeting (1997), this meeting aimed to update WLUML's thematic priorities, strategies and organisational structure to ensure that they match the needs, concerns and capacities of our networkers. The resulting Plan of Action document will serve as the WLUML network's guiding document for the next five years.
The 2006 WLUML PoA Meeting was the largest and most diverse of all PoA meetings, providing a unique opportunity for both established and new WLUML networkers to share their analysis and concerns, and to establish new cross-regional networking links with a diverse selection of individuals and organisations.Many of WLUML's newer active networkers are from Francophone West Africa and North Africa so, to ensure their input into the analysis and to aid two-way interaction between networkers, the 2006 Plan of Action meeting was the first WLUML PoA to provide simultaneous French/English translation.
To ensure that as many networkers as possible had the opportunity to input into WLUML's Plan of Action, a series of regional meetings (termed 'Pre-PoA Meetings') were held prior to the July PoA meeting. Participants identified the critical issues, contexts and needs faced by women in each region and proposed strategies through which WLUML, as a cross-boundary network, can address these. The pre-PoA meetings were also a means for identifying networkers most likely to actively engage with WLUML in the coming years. Reports from these regional meetings were translated into English, French and Arabic and presented by representatives invited to attend the Plan of Action meeting in Senegal.
January 2006: Bamako, Mali
The Africa Regional Pre-PoA meeting was held in Mali from 24 – 28 January 2006 and coordinated by the WLUML Regional Coordination Office in Nigeria, BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights, in collaboration with Mali based networkers, Femmes et Droits Humains. A total of 33 participants attended from 14 African countries; Morocco, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Chad, Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa, Mali, Liberia, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Kenya and Ghana, along with the WLUML ICO MENA Programme Officer. Networkers identified the continued rise of fundamentalisms, violence against women, globalisation, HIV-AIDs and reform of personal status laws as the predominant critical issues in the region.
June 2006: Colombo, Sri Lanka/Lahore, Pakistan
Meetings were held in Sri Lanka (1-4 June) and Pakistan (21-27 June). WLUML networkers from Uzbekistan, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan were invited. These meetings were coordinated by the WLUML Regional Coordination Office in Pakistan, Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Centre and by the Muslim Women's Research & Action Forum, Sri Lanka. In addition, networkers from Bangladesh developed a national analysis of Critical Issues. Concerns that were raised during these meetings included: the social implications caused by increasing Islamization and conservativeness within the region; growing poverty and unemployment, particularly among women; increased illiteracy; increased state violence and control over individuals and human rights organisations and increasing violence against women.
May 2006: Cairo, Egypt
The Middle East & North Africa Regional Pre-PoA meeting took place in Egypt on 22 – 23 May 2006. Hosted by CEWLA (The Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance) and coordinated by WLUML-ICO. A total of 22 participants attended the meeting from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen, in addition to a WLUML PIC member and the WLUML ICO MENA Programme Officer. The critical issues identified at the meeting were: the continued rise of fundamentalisms; the need for personal status law reform, violence against women and the need to lobby for adherence to international treaties, such as CEDAW.
June 2006: London, England
The UK Pre-PoA meeting was held on 30 June 2006 in London hosted by WLUML ICO. The meeting concentrated on migrant communities from a Muslim background in the UK as well as academics working on similar issues internationally and some international groups based in the UK with which WLUML networks. The meeting discussed social exclusion of people from Muslim communities in Britain, and identified critical issues, such as: the continued erosion of secular spaces and the emergence of new practices labelled 'traditional'; the debate over dress codes for Muslim schoolgirls; the absence of alternative forums to engage youth in Muslim communities; and the continued pressure for a parallel legal system for Muslims.
The WLUML exhibition, "Dress Codes and Modes: Women's dress in some Muslim communities and countries" is currently on display in Canada, under the care of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Rights & Democracy. The exhibition presents the history and politics of women's clothing in Muslim communities spanning three continents and explores both the myriad differences and similarities between dress codes and styles in Muslim communities as diverse as Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, South Asia and Turkey.
With over 250 images include paintings, drawings and photographs illustrating the wealth of diverse cultures within and across Muslim communities, the exhibition questions the very notion of a homogenous 'Muslim world.' A wealth of historical quotations and original analysis support the images in exploring the experiences of women in these varying regions and historical periods who have been subject to imposed dress codes. But throughout the exhibit, the pictures and text highlight how political control, social status, gender, fashion and personal creativity are just as much responsible for influencing a person's dress. In doing so, it shatters the notion that there is any single, uniform "Islamic" code of dress for women or men, and raises increasingly relevant questions about the political motivations that continue to give life to such notions.
The exhibition was first displayed at UBC Robson Square Campus in Vancouver before moving on to the YMCA in Montréal where it was on display throughout August. In September the exhibition will be moved to the University Environmental Design Gallery, Calgary and then finally on to Winnipeg in October.
Morocco: The Women's Caravan for Full Equality, Citizenship and Development in Rural Areas
By Najlah Atamnah of Alssiwar, a Palestinian women's group based in Haifa
Organised by Yatto, a women's group in Morocco that provides support for women victims of violence, the Caravan visited villages in South East Morocco to work with local communities on issues relating to equality, citizenship and development. With the help of local community groups the Caravan organized a number of workshops in these villages on health, environment, women's rights, human rights and family laws, etc. The Caravan also provided counselling and legal advice to women on family laws and violence against women. Yatto was linked with Alssiwar through WLUML, and invited them to participate in the Caravan in order to share their experiences with women's groups in Africa and the Middle East.
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When the chief financial officer of Georgia's largest company looks around the world, she doesn't see an endless universe of potential Home Depot stores.
Instead, Carol Tomé sees country upon country where the home improvement retailer just doesn't belong — because of competition, demographics or simply a cultural mismatch.
"If we look around the world, there aren't very many places in the world that are very interesting" for expansion, Tomé said. "We have an obligation, first, to deploy capital in the highest returning way. We don't have an obligation to look for growth outside the U.S."
Home Depot has made several forays outside this country, but only those in North America have been successful. The $90 billion company expanded into Canada with 180 stores and Mexico with 94. But earlier this month, it announced that it was closing its seven big-box stores in China, having entered the market with 12 in 2006.
It's not the first time Home Depot has pulled out of a foreign market. In 2001, Home Depot sold four stores in Argentina and five in Chile. It entered South America in 1998.
"It's very tough growing outside your own market," Tomé said.
In addition to differences in culture, there are logistics to consider, time zones, currency rates, and a simple understanding of the calendar. Thanksgiving and its subsequent Black Friday sales do not translate into other cultures, said Mike Matacunas, CEO of The Parker Avery Group in Atlanta.
Still, Tomé said, Home Depot continues to be aware of opportunities around the globe.
Home Depot already has plans for another six stores in Mexico, and Tomé sees a market for 25 additional stores. And in Central America, Tomé said she sees the possibility for 18 to 20 stores, if Home Depot chooses to expand in that region.
While there are no plans to open any stores in Brazil in the next three years, Home Depot's current planning cycle, Tomé said it is the "most interesting" area in South America.
Brazil is a good fit for Home Depot, said Steven Kirn, executive director of the Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research at the University of Florida. But, because China and India make up such a large portion of the global population, companies like Home Depot are simply throwing away potential customers if they don't entertain the idea of operating in those markets, he said.
Tomé said the company will study India, a large market with a lot of growth and newly loosened trading restrictions, "because we should." In China, Home Depot is keeping two pilot stores open — one focused on paint and flooring, the other on its Home Decorators Collection. The company has short-term leases and specific milestones for its pilot stores in China to ensure that they are successful.
"The China market is too big to be ignored," Tomé said.
While Home Depot is experimenting with some nontraditional stores in China, Tomé said, it has learned that building stores is expensive, and Home Depot is better served by increasing sales without sinking large amounts of money into a country.
To that end, the company is trying to improve its online offerings in China. Rather than creating its own website for Chinese customers, Home Depot is effectively putting a page up in an online mall. Customers in that country don't want to watch how-to videos, or participate in remodeling forums. So, for Home Depot, it's not worth the expense to create those options, when it only wants to sell products there.
If the China model works, Tomé said, online sales may be added in other countries.
Home Depot analysts and experts in international retail say Home Depot's China closures are not surprising.
"The company's big box stores in China were never as productive as what the company initially expected, given the significant differences that exist in shopping behavior between U.S. and Chinese consumers," RBC Capital Markets analyst Scot Ciccarelli said in a research note. "Further, if the company couldn't get the stores to work during one of the biggest real estate build outs seen in the last 50 years, it is unlikely they would work in what appears to be a cooling property market in China."
When Home Depot entered China, Tomé said, there was a sense that the retailer could change Chinese shopping habits from "do-it-for-me" to "do-it-yourself." That never came to pass. In a research note, International Strategy and Investment Group analyst Greg Melich estimated the Chinese Home Depot stores did less than a third of the annual sales of stores in the U.S.
Those results show how a retailer can get it wrong when it comes to international expansion, said Robert Gregory, research director at Planet Retail in London. It has been a learning experience that Home Depot can use in its future expansion plans.
"When you try to import directly to a different market without understanding how it's different, it's sort of asking for trouble," Gregory said.
Retailers are still experimenting with the best way to expand internationally, Matacunas said.
"You don't pick up a cookie-cutter U.S. business and put it anywhere else," he said.
Gregory said several retailers that made international pushes have started to scale back, deciding instead to focus on markets where they are a top player. While at one point, the focus was on being in as many countries as possible, some retailers are learning that they're better off in some countries than others.
The global economic situation is playing a role in that, Gregory said. So is the Internet.
"It's enabling retailers to become international without having the hassle and expense of establishing store networks in lots of different markets," he said. "If it's really successful, they can add stores at a later date."
But Tomé and Home Depot see the biggest chance to increase sales in the country that already has the most stores: the U.S.
While the company will not build many new stores here, Tomé sees an opportunity to improve sales off of an existing base. In 2006, without the impact of HD Supply, which was sold the next year, Home Depot's annual sales were $79 billion. The recession caused net sales to drop to $66.2 billion in 2009.
By the end of 2011, Home Depot's sales were up to $70.4 billion. The allure of regaining the sales lost when the housing market collapsed is strong.
"It really drives a lot of our thinking, how to capture what we've lost," Tomé said. "The opportunities that are still here are the richest opportunities."


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What is a clinical trial?
Medical research studies involving people are called clinical trials. This page tells you about what clinical trials can look at, what they aim to find out and different types of trials.
Clinical trials can look at
- Risks and causes – how genetics, lifestyle and other factors can increase people's risk of cancer
- Preventing cancer – using drugs or lifestyle changes to reduce risk
- Screening – for people at higher than average risk or for the general population
- Diagnosing cancer – new tests or scans
- Treatments – new drugs or combinations of drugs, new ways of giving treatment and new types of treatment
- Controlling symptoms or side effects – new drugs or complementary therapies
- Support and information for people with cancer
The aim of clinical trials
Trials aim to find out if a new treatment or procedure
- Is safe
- Has side effects
- Works better than the currently used treatment
- Helps you feel better
New treatments have to be thoroughly tested. For example, a new drug is investigated first in the laboratory. If it looks promising, it is carefully studied in people.
Different types of trials
There are 3 main phases of clinical trials – phase 1, 2 and 3. Some trials cover more than one phase. There are also phase 4 trials. These are carried out after a drug has been licensed – they collect information about side effects, safety and the long term risks and benefits of a drug. And some trials have an earlier stage called phase 0.
Usually, a new treatment has to go through a few phase 3 clinical trials before doctors are confident enough to accept it as the new standard treatment. One good trial result could happen by chance or because a trial was not very well designed. This is not likely if several trials have the same results.
Not all clinical trials will result in new and better treatment. Some will discover that the treatment being tested does not work. Or that it has side effects that are much worse than with existing treatments. But this information is also useful for researchers and doctors, and in the end for patients.
Researchers may look at the impact a treatment has on you – for example, how often you have to travel to the hospital. Studies of impact and side effects are sometimes called quality of life studies. Most well planned trials include a quality of life study.
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Jun 21, 2013
The Brandeis Athletics 2012-13 season started with one UAA soccer title followed by a pair of deep runs into the NCAA tournament in the fall; saw the revival of a dormant program and a historic road trip in the winter; and concluded with a record-breaking burner on the basepaths and a tremendous doubles tandem in the spring. In one of the most decorated campaigns in recent memory, the Judges produced six All-Americans during the year. To honor the end of the 2012-13 campaign, here are 13 top moments from the past academic year.