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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) – A federal courthouse blocks from the World Trade Center site in Manhattan is getting a $10.4 million security boost, more than a decade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks proved the need for it.
Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska announced the plans Monday, saying a 4,500- square-foot glass and steel structure where court officers can screen people for weapons and explosives outside the building was a commonsense solution to a problem that seemed obvious after terrorists hijacked two planes and demolished the 110-story twin towers.
"Preliminary plans were drawn, but the project was never funded, despite the fact that some of the highest profile, most dangerous terrorist cases in the country are resolved in this court, mere blocks from ground zero," she told a news conference attended by numerous judges and security personnel.
She said New York Congressional representatives drew attention to the issue before the General Services Administration "scoured the country" for money left from completed or cancelled projects that could be spent on the pavilion.
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"New York is still the No. 1 terror target in the United States, if not the world," U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said.
U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the improvement was "essential modernization." He added: "We have to be very careful about security for a long time to come."
Construction is scheduled to start this fall and be completed in April 2015.
The courthouse opened in the mid-1990s. It's next to a federal courthouse that was built in the 1930s and was recently refurbished. Several terrorism trials in the courthouses have resulted in more than two dozen convictions.
The announcement came just two months before the 20-year anniversary of the start of the first World Trade Center bombing trial stemming from the February 1993 attack that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 others. Four men convicted at trial are serving life sentences.
Other major trials have resulted in the convictions of terrorists charged in a plot to bomb five New York City landmarks including the United Nations, defendants accused of plotting to blow up 12 U.S. airliners over the Far East and men charged in the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 that resulted in 224 deaths, including 12 Americans.
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The Anachronism Of Today's Patent And Copyright Laws
from the time-to-rethink-them deptGlyn Moody points us to an interesting post from South African lawyer Andrew Rens discussing how copyright and patent laws are strange legal anachronisms, with little actual basis, similar to the tradition of lawyers in British Commonwealth countries having to wear black robes to court:
In an important but too often overlooked essay entitled 'Intellectual Property Institutions and Panda's Thumbs' economist Paul David likened intellectual property arrangements to the thumb of the Giant Panda. The "thumb" is not a digit at all but an enlarged sesamoid bone which does enable panda's to grasp but is mechanically limited and inefficient. David explains that copyright and patent are not carefully calibrated mechanisms for encouraging innovation in modern economies but as ill-suited contraptions. Patents and copyright have been developed from the privilegi granted by mercantilist cities in Renaissance Italy, and letters-patent wielded in patronage politics by putative absolute monarchs. The result David notes is that copyright and patent are "a mixture of the intended and unintended consequences of an undirected historical process on which the the varied interests of many parties, acting at different points (some widely separated in time and space) have left an enduring mark."I'd never heard of the Paul David essay, so I looked it up and you can download a copy online (unfortunately, it's a Microsoft Word doc). It's a worthwhile read:
Contemporary discourse on the "Knowledge Economy" often suggests that patent and copyright are unquestioningly appropriate amongst Moore's Law, network effects, cDNA and nanobots. Its worth asking though whether they make any more sense than African lawyers sweltering in black robes, suits and ties in stifling (non air conditioned) court rooms.
In short, with regard to the major structural features of the institutions of intellectual property protection, one might as well accept that modern economic analysis offers little basis for resisting the conclusion that the industrial societies of the West remain "prisoners" of our particular history. It is all too easy to miss that main message by allowing oneself to be carried away with the style of intricate economic analysis characteristic of the modern literature devoted to the problem of the optimum length and scope of patent protection, or the optimum degree to which copyright should be enforced; and especially with the efforts to be more conclusive, and construct "positive" theories exposing the economic rationales of this or that particular aspect of present-day legal institutions. By focusing selectively upon specific and arresting features of the structure of protections afforded to intellectual property, and pointing to their putatively favorable consequences for social efficiency in resource allocation, a misleading impression can be conveyed that the law in this area is susceptible to easy and rapid reshaping for the purposes of enhancing economic welfare.The paper goes into the history of patent laws, and how they were initially driven for a very different purpose -- mainly for certain countries to get access to the knowledge of other countries. That is, they would entice people with knowledge of certain industries in other countries to move, and in exchange they'd give them a monopoly. It also explains that the whole claim that early patents were about "disclosing" ideas is a "social contrivance" by modern patent system supporters -- not realizing any of the early efforts at "disclosure" were solely for countries to get inventions from other countries "disclosed" so local industries could be built up. But the key point is that our modern patent system is really just a continuation and modification of those earlier systems, with the claims that it's about encouraging innovation also being a later whitewashing of history to make them acceptable in modern society. The lack of any economic evidence that these laws actually encourage innovation is pretty problematic for patent system supporters.
Both the blog post above and the original paper it's based on are excellent reads.
Of course, when you then put it into context with this other article, by Stefan Larsson noting that copyright suffers from a path dependency, wherein historical choices lock us into future paths, it makes things even clearer. Choices made hundreds of years ago for very different reasons have more or less "locked" us into today's laws, even though nearly all of the economic research refutes the idea that either of the laws as put in place today function to serve the official purposes behind them. Yet, all of the legacy infrastructure built up around them -- and the massive industries that benefit greatly from the laws -- means that getting out of that path dependency is seen as a non-starter to many, despite the massive social and economic costs.
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There are three things you can count on: Death, taxes, and Daisenryaku Perfect: Ruler of the Battlefield being delayed.
A real Japanese game studio with a real office and real desks and real computers is developing this absolutely crappy-looking game. The game is slated to be released on the Xbox 360 and the PS3 for ¥7140 (US$91) — that's real money!
The game has been delayed a mind-boggling number of times: It was delayed in May 2011 and pushed to the fall. It didn't make that release, and then it was supposed to be out this April. Then it was delayed to this winter.
And now? Now it's been pushed back to this spring, once again to "further improve the game's quality". There's reason to worry about quality, however: When Daisenryaku was released on the PSP, it was so buggy that the game was deemed unplayable.
Okay, maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe graphics aren't everything. Maybe not having a buggy game isn't everything. Maybe releasing the actual game isn't everything, either. Maybe.
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We don't typically spend too much time looking at mainstream movie or book reviews, but I thought the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review was worth looking at. For one, it's written by Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times. For another, the Review has this curious note from "the editors":
Through the years, The New York Times's coverage of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican has received sharp criticism from practicing Catholics -- including the past eight years that Bill Keller has been the paper's executive editor. Yet Keller, who wrote this week's cover review of "Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy," by John Julius Norwich, was raised within the fold.
"My parents took their faith very seriously -- especially my mother, who had the fervor of a convert (from Episcopalian)," Keller recalled in an e-mail. "My brothers and I had nuns and priests as our teachers through high school, and I look back on that education with real gratitude. I'm now what my friend Dan Barry calls a 'collapsed Catholic' -- beyond lapsed -- but you never really extricate yourself from your upbringing."
I love that "Yet" in the first paragraph. Why "yet"? I mean, the next paragraph explains that he's "beyond lapsed" to "collapsed." If being raised in the faith is supposed to mean something about how the coverage can't be unfair, what is collapsing from it supposed to mean?
And then we read the first paragraph of the review:
John Julius Norwich makes a point of saying in the introduction to his history of the popes that he is "no scholar" and that he is "an agnostic Protestant." The first point means that while he will be scrupulous with his copious research, he feels no obligation to unearth new revelations or concoct revisionist theories. The second means that he has "no ax to grind." In short, his only agenda is to tell us the story.
Since when does being "an agnostic Protestant" mean that ipso facto one wouldn't have an ax to grind against the Roman Catholic Church or the papacy? But also, how does this relate to the editors note? Are we to presume that Keller does have an ax to grind since he's a "collapsed" Catholic? I know he's acted contrary to the faith in which he was raised (he and his wife aborted a son, for instance). Is that playing a role in The Times' coverage of the Catholic Church? And then, there's this famous Keller column -- "Is the Pope Catholic?"
Here's the thing: This review is not up to snuff. Many folks across the Catholic spectrum are talking about problems with the review and its uncritical look at the book in question. For instance, the book author gives quite a bit of time to a fictional incident of a female pope -- a full chapter. Keller gives another couple hundred words in his short review over to discussion of this fictional character.
The review is stunningly uncritical. I actually laughed out loud at Keller's kicker -- simply a quote from the book:
"It is now well over half a century since progressive Catholics have longed to see their church bring itself into the modern age," he writes. "With the accession of every succeeding pontiff they have raised their hopes that some progress might be made on the leading issues of the day -- on homosexuality, on contraception, on the ordination of women priests. And each time they have been disappointed."
Wow. It's almost like the author has the same
lack of an ax to grind as The Times, doesn't it? Brilliant reviewer choice there, editors.
Raymond A. Schroth at America (the Catholic weekly) writes that he's a huge fan of The New York Times. And I think he's telling the truth because he even has kind words to say about Maureen Dowd.
He praises the newspaper for its tough coverage of the church. And then he asks "By what standards of journalism excellence, of book-review ethics, of scholarly common sense, did the New York Times Book Review editor select Bill Keller to review John Julius Norwich's Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy?":
From my experience as book review editor of Commonweal in the 1970s, my several reviews on religious topics for the Times Book Review (under Harvey Shapiro), and 30 years writing for the National Catholic Reporter and other publications, I recall that the reviewer should be well informed on the book's topic, preferably should have published on it already and, at least in some way, have a perspective that enables him to know more than the author. He should also be reasonably free of bias--or confess that bias in a way that lets him keep his credibility.
Since Keller has claimed the mantle of "collapsed Catholic" (albeit failing to explain why or whether he has been secretly studying church history), the review suffers, Schroth writes. Then he notes that Keller must not know many modern Catholics since he thinks they're ignorant of the mixed bag history of the papacy. He lists a few good books of recent vintage on the topic and names several reviewers who would do a much better review than Keller. Finally:
Why Keller was chosen remains a mystery. Maybe he volunteered and, who says no to the top editor? Maybe the book editor thought it would be fun? And if you consider an uninterrupted list of Papal sins fun, it's fun. Meanwhile Keller has not hurt the church. He's hurt the Times.
Note the way other reviewers handled the book. Eamon Duffy (Irish Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge) in the Times U.K.:
The Popes is an entertaining book which tells some good stories and embraces a large historical sweep. But its overall effect is curiously trivializing. The papacy depicted here is in the end unintelligible.
John Cornwell, controversial author of "Hitler's Pope" is even critical in Financial Times:
Norwich tells us that because he is an "agnostic Protestant" he brings "objectivity" to his subject. That's like Tony Benn penning an "objective" history of the Tory party. And he has steered, he goes on, "well clear of theology", which sounds like military history with no mention of a war. His interest is political and cultural, he maintains. Hence he fails to address the overarching significance of ecclesiology – the theological study of the spiritual role of "Vicar of Christ" as the ultimate foundation of Catholic unity and authority.
And Michael Pye, a general historian but one who has spent his career in journalism, has a lengthy review. From The Scotsman:
As entertainment, as a book of cues to find out more, The Popes is sharp, fun and wonderfully energetic through its many, many pages. The history, though, is in the archives still.
Keller does not come off well by comparison. So again, why was he chosen for this review? It was a rather odd unforced error. This cover story for the Book Review could have been brilliant. Instead it was rather embarrassing and only served to give easy fodder to Catholic critics of The Times.


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Motivating Your Football Players through Smart Coaching
Here are some coaching guidelines to help motivate your football players to give their best efforts, not get discouraged, and become the best they can be on the playing field:
Stay calm. Don't distract your players by running up and down the sidelines, yelling instructions at them.
Encourage players to give it their all at all times — regardless of the score.
While correcting errors, use words that boost confidence and reinforce positive thoughts. For example, instead of saying, "Don't fumble," say, "Hold onto the ball."
Convey instructions in a calm manner and tone.
Give kids the freedom to make mistakes, and coach effort over skills. Boost productivity by providing constant encouragement.
During timeouts, relay positive information to your team.
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Wolverton enters her seventh season at the helm of the Green Terror.
In her debut campaign, she guided a team of mostly freshmen to seven victories. She mentored two of the conference's top hitters and was one of just two teams with multiple hitters in the top 12 individually.
A year later, Wolverton led the squad to a 19-9 season, earning Centennial Conference (CC) and ECAC tournament berths with only freshmen and sophomores on the roster. She earned conference Coach of the Year honors after the campaign, once again mentoring two of the CC's top hitters to all-conference honors.
In 2014, Wolverton once again guided her Green Terror squad to a 19-win campaign and ECAC tournament appearance. Her squad posted the second-best hitting percentage in the conference.
In 2015, she guided the squad to the program's first conference tournament title and first championship since 1999. Her team turned in a 21-8 record and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1989.
The two-time CC Coach of the Year became just the second person to win a CC title as both a player and a coach. In six years on the sideline, she has guided the Green Terror to three conference tournament appearances and three ECAC tournament appearances in addition to the 2015 NCAA bid.
Prior to taking over at McDaniel, she spent the previous two seasons as the head volleyball coach at Sewanee: The University of the South.
At Sewanee, she was instrumental in building a team that had just eight wins in the three seasons before her arrival in Tennessee. In 2011, she brought in eight freshmen – the biggest recruiting class in program history – and quadrupled her win total, recording the program's most victories in 10 years. Three of her players were named to all-tournament teams during the 2011 season, tripling the total from the previous year.
A Lancaster, Pa., native, Wolverton was a standout volleyball and soccer player at Hempfield High School before playing volleyball collegiately at CC-rival Gettysburg. In 2010, she was inducted into the Hempfield Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Treatment with antibiotics frees sugars used by pathogens
By Brooke Napier
We have tiny visitors that have taken advantage of their evolutionary squatting rights throughout our bodies; these microbes make up our microbiome. Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg best defined the human microbiome as "the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space".
This means we have 3 distinct types of microorganisms sharing our bodies with us:
1) The Commensals: Commensalism is relationship between two organisms where one benefits without affecting the other, derived from the English work commensal meaning "eating at the same table".
2) The Symbionts: This is a clear mutualistic relationship, both parties are benefiting, both parties are happiest. We provide love to our microbiome, they provide love back to us (and by love I mean nutrients and protection from harm).
3) The Pathogens: These are the microbes that cause disease. The main distinguishing factor of a pathogen vs. a commensal is that a pathogen causes harm to the host.
Maintaining the perfect balance of all 3 of these microbe-types is essential for the equilibrium of the microbiome. An altered microbiome has been linked to depression, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, autism, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and many other negative aspects of being human that we have yet to link.
We know one sure-fire way to disrupt the gut microbiome is to treat a human with oral antibiotics. Yes, the cure for most bacterial infection is to wipe out your entire ecological masterpiece you've worked on for decades in your gut.
Essentially, your commensals and symbionts work together to protect you from the potential harm that can be caused by the pathogens. We don't understand fully how the protection works, but we do know that the presence of commensals and symbionts are essential for keeping the pathogens at bay.
One hypothesis is that your commensals and symbionts are creating a literal barrier between you and the pathogens, and if you wipe out this barrier with antibiotics that is when the scary pathogens take over.
In fact, oral antibiotic use is one of the leading risk factors for the disease associated with Salmonella ssp. and Clostridium difficile (C diff).
In most cases, Salmonella spp. causes salmonellosis (or food poisoning) and typhoid fever, whereas C. difficile causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). In more severe cases Salmonella spp. can cause sepsis and C. difficile can cause "pseudomembranous colitis", a severe inflammation of the colon.
But back to our story! The key is to keep these pathogens quiet and happy, and if oral treatment with antibiotics disrupts the microbiome barrier that leads to these pathogens causing disease and harm…
What is it about the disruption of the microbiome by antibiotics that benefits the proliferation of the pathogens?
Turns out, sugar availability is at an all-time high for these pathogens when the microbiome is disturbed, specifically an increase in sialic acid (yum!) and fucose (yummier!).
The mammalian host is nutrient diverse and rich, allowing for microbial populations to snuggle up and settle in – however the intestinal microbial community (or the microbiota) is composed of trillions of bacterial cells, making nutrient availability a little more stringent for those invaders that try to squat in the gut.
Alteration of the microbiome leads to an alteration of the carbohydrate availability in your gut – and the pathogens that are now rattled by the disruption of the microbiome now have unlimited food.
More sugar = more replication = more disease
Think of Salmonella spp. and C. difficile as Scrooge McDuck rolling around in his pile of money.
Katherine Ng in Justin Sonnenburg's lab at Stanford University found that during oral treatment of antibiotics there is a spike in microbiota-liberated sugars that can then be taken up and eaten by our protagonists, Salmonella spp. and C. difficile to increase their replication and disease in the gut.
Specifically, Salmonella spp. are utilizing the liberated sialic acids and fucose from disturbed commensals in the gut after antibiotic treatment, and C. difficile is utilizing the the sialic acids liberated by the same commensals.
Interestingly, when you delete these catabolic pathways (metabolic pathways in the bacteria that are used to break down molecules into smaller units for energy) in Salmonella spp. where it can no longer use sialic acid and fucose as carbon sources, it can no longer replicate and cause disease to the same levels in antibiotic-treated mice.
Not only that! When you have a mouse with a microbiome that cannot produce sialic acid, therefore it reduces free sialic acid levels, C. difficile no longer causes disease to the same levels after treatment with antibiotics. No free sugars? No good for our protagonists!
What if we took these mice that had a microbiome that does not produce sialic acid and we fed them sialic acid in their diet (nom nom), then we treated the mice with antibiotics = C. difficile reigns again!
It looks like that usually, when the microbiome is happy, it's eating all the free sialic acid and fucose and not saving any for the pathogens, which keeps the pathogens at a minimum and less of a nuisance – however, upon antibiotic treatment the microbiome is disturbed, which breaks down the wall of commensal/symbionts blocking pathogens from using these sugars… therefore the pathogens are eating good, replicating, and eventually cause disease.
Pathogens, always the opportunists.
How can we use this information for good?
Can we use this insight for new therapeutic approaches to preventing diseases caused by antibiotic-associated pathogens?
During treatment with oral antibiotics what if modulated diet to decrease sialic acid and fucose? Decreasing the availability for pathogens in the gut?
What if we could give a probiotic that was deficient in sialic acid and fucose production, therefore it would be established in the gut and if/when antibiotic are used and disturb the microbiome there would be minimal free sialic acid and fucose because there was none to begin with?
What if we designed an inhibitor that blocked sialic acid and fucose catabolism pathways in the pathogens? Therefore, when antibiotics are used and disrupt the microbiome allowing for pathogens like Salmonella spp. and C. difficile to replicate – we treat with this inhibitor of sialic acid/fucose catabolism, essentially the pathogens could then pick up the sialic acid and fucose from the environment but they couldn't use is for energy. No energy = no replication = no disease.
Those are just a few of my ideas. What about you?
If you're into submitting your own microbiome to be tested and analyzed AND contribute to science go here:
Ng KM, Ferreyra JA, Higginbottom SK, Lynch JB, Kashyap PC, Gopinath S, Naidu N, Choudhury B, Weimer BC, Monack DM, & Sonnenburg JL (2013). Microbiota-liberated host sugars facilitate post-antibiotic expansion of enteric pathogens. Nature PMID: 23995682


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Forget Ken Block, his 600-horsepower Fiesta and San Francisco. That guy's old news. This insanely reckless Saudi Arabian driver is the future of Gymkhana.
Compared to this, Ken's videos are downright boring. They lack the element of danger that comes with drifting your car on public roads, in heavy traffic, and often around other motorists. Professional driver on a closed course? Yawn. The people want to see ludicrous irresponsibility that endangers lives. Hagwalah is the future.
The only problem with this video (besides its awful quality) is that it leaves so many questions unanswered. Who is this driver? Where did he obtain his combination of skill and/or luck? Is he really driving an Aveo? Who's the guy hanging out the back? And why has he not been chased down and assaulted by other drivers?
Do not try this at home. You might lose your head... or your arm


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The use of the website is the sole responsibility of the user. Such responsibility shall extend to the use, on the part of the user or any third party, of any passwords or similar codes assigned for accessing the website or any of its services. Notwithstanding the above, 101bedrijfskleding reserves the right to refuse, at any time and without prior notification, access to the portal for any users who breach these general conditions or the specific conditions applicable in each case.
Privacy statement
101bedrijfskleding respects your privacy. We wish to make use of the personal identification information that you provide us with in order to serve your needs better. "Personal identification information" is information that enables us to identify you, such as your email address, name, title and address. We use the personal identification information in order to personalize your experience on our website and to service you better through product purchases, technical support and/or customer service.
101bedrijfskleding' policy on the use of the personal identification information supplied to us or collected via users' visits to www.101bedrijfskleding.nl covers the following areas:
Notice and Disclosure
This Online Privacy Statement is made available in order to make users aware of how we collect and use personal identification information:
We collect the following information on visitors to our website: domain name, name, information on the web pages accessed, information given by you on a voluntary basis, such as survey information, email address, or site registrations, information related to products purchased and information about your business.
Your data will only be managed and shared by companies belonging to the Mid Ocean Group, some of which are located in countries where no law concerning personal data is in force. We do not make personal identification information available to third parties, except to the extent requested by law enforcement agencies in the event of a criminal investigation or suspected illegal activity pursuant to a valid court order or subpoena.
From time to time, we use customer information for new unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to enable you to opt out of these new uses. We will also post the policy changes on our site to notify you of these modifications and enable you to opt out of these new uses if you so desire. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our site periodically.
New users have the choice to opt out of having their personal identification information provided in the registration process for any purpose unrelated to the purpose for which the information was provided to us. You may also communicate to us that your personal identification information should not be used for additional purposes.
You can always exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion and objection before the corresponding 101bedrijfskleding Company.
When you sign up to be part of an email list, you will be given instructions at that time on how to remove yourself from that list.
Access to certain 101bedrijfskleding web pages requires a login and password. The use of these web pages, and the information or programs available on these sites, may be governed by a written agreement between your employer and us. We may retain your individual identification information for sales purposes.
Intellectual property
The intellectual property rights and copyrights in all software, drawings, specifications, know-how and other information (in the broadest meaning of the words) provided by or on behalf of 101bedrijfskleding rest with 101bedrijfskleding. The user may not copy any such software, drawings, specifications, know-how and other information without 101bedrijfskleding permission.
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of our site use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our information for our users and to ascertain how effective our navigational structure is in helping users to reach that information. We do not correlate this information with data about individual users, nor do we share this information with or sell it to any third parties.
If you prefer not to receive cookies on our site, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting them so that you can refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you of its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies activated to use any area of our site.
Nevertheless, 101bedrijfskleding uses session cookies (that disappear when the session is finalized) in order to offer certain on-line services to specific types of users, such as e-training examinations, access to B2B information, restricted areas, specific promotions, etc.
Business transition
In the event that we undergo a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your individual identifying information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. You will be notified by means of a prominent notice on our site for 30 days prior to a change in ownership or control of your individual identifying information.
101bedrijfskleding is not responsible in any event for any damage resulting from:
• Lack of availability, maintenance and correct functioning of the website and/or its services and content.
• Lack of usefulness, appropriateness or validity of the website and/or its services and content in the satisfaction of needs, activities or results expected from users.
• Presence of viruses or harmful software programs in site content.
• Receipt, securing, storage, diffusion or transmission of site content by users.
• The unlawful, negligent, fraudulent use, or the use contrary to these general conditions, of the website, its services and content, by the user.
• As our site may contain links to other sites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Please remember that any information that you disclose on these sites is out with our control and responsibility and may be used in any way by the third party website.
Hyperlinks from any website to www.101bedrijfskleding.nl or any of its pages are subject to the following conditions:
• Total or partial reproduction of services or content offered at www.101bedrijfskleding.nl is strictly prohibited.
• Deep-links to www.101bedrijfskleding.nl or any of its pages and the creation of browsers or border environments is prohibited.
• Under no circumstances will 101bedrijfskleding be liable for any content or service placed at the public's disposal on the web page from which the hyperlink is made, or for the information and statements included therein.
Unilateral modifications
101bedrijfskleding may modify, unilaterally and without prior notice, and at any time considered appropriate, the structure and design of the site, as well as modify or remove the services, content and access and/or use conditions.
The duration of the website services offered to users is not defined. Notwithstanding the above, 101bedrijfskleding reserves the right to interrupt, suspend or terminate the website or any of its services, in the same terms set forth in section four.
Applicable law and jurisdiction
The present General Conditions shall be governed by applicable Dutch law.
Any and all disputes will be settled by the competent court in Holland.


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Best remembered for his roles in films like 'Page 3' and Aamir Khan starrer 'Rang De Basanti,' actor Atul Kulkarni will be seen next in 'Zanjeer' remake.
'Zanjeer' an upcoming action film, is a remake of the 1973 Hindi film of the same name. The original movie had Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan in the lead.
"I would be working on 'Zanjeer' remake. The role that I play is completely new and original. It was not there in the 1973 film. Apoorva has written the role and it is really good," Atul told PTI, without divulging any further detail about his character.
"I am yet to start shooting for the film. It would begin from this month end," he said.
The highly anticipated project 'Zanjeer', directed by Apoorva Lakhia, stars southern star Ram Charan Teja and Priyanka Chopra in the lead.
The role of Sher Khan, originally played by veteran actor Pran, will be essayed by Sanjay Dutt in the remake.
Meanwhile, Atul will also be seen in Ram Gopal Varma's upcoming film based on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
The movie aims to bring every aspect of the dreadful attacks, in which 166 people were killed.
He also has K C Bokadia's film 'Dirty Politics' in hand. The film is said to be based on the infamous Bhanwari murder case.
The film features Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Jackie Shroff, Ashutosh Rana and Atul Kulkarni in pivotal roles. "I play an investigative officer in this film," Atul said.
Apart from the Hindi film projects, Atul has a Malayalam movie in hand titled '@ Andheri'.
It is the debut directorial venture of Biju Bhasker. Shot in Mumbai, the film revolves around the hopes and crisis of Mumbai Malayalees, who come to the city in search of jobs.