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I don't want to be a hoosier (long-term resident of Indiana) right now. Those of you who know me will understand that I'm not talking about the regional identifier so much as I'm talking about the attitude of a Hoosier during these less than pleasant winter months. Let me clarify. "Hoosiers" seem to be reborn with every winter weather event. No matter that we live in a bio region which experiences the full gamut of seasons, it still seems like every single winter "hoosiers" live it for the first time. They complain about the cold when it's 30 degrees. They complain about 1/2 an inch of snow that disappears by mid-afternoon. They complain about single digit wind chills and storm the grocery store shelves whenever a newscaster even mentions the possibility of flurries. THOSE Hoosiers I can't stand. Spineless wimps that spend maybe a cumulative 5 minutes a day out in any sort of adverse weather condition. The way they complain though, you'd think they were homeless and lived outdoors, chopping their own wood and catching mice and moles for sustenance. So yeah, I don't want to be one of THOSE Hoosiers. THOSE aren't the Hoosiers of Hickory High and John Mellencamp. Those are the Hoosiers of Dan Quayle and Jim Jones. Spineless wimps.
So yeah, forgive me for saying this and don't revoke my mid-west status, but DAMN THIS WEATHER. I'm almost broken. I'm sure it has something to do with going out to run a minimum of 10 miles in it everyday, some days kicking down 20 miles and others knocking out some serious speed workouts on snow and ice. The sort of mental effort it takes to not only get out in the stuff, but to also perform in can really wear on a person, ya know? Personally, I love adverse weather. I love being active in it no matter the conditions, even if it's just to spite those that cower under overcast skies. I make the most of any situation, no matter how "bad" it may be perceived. I'm in it to win it, no matter what. But hey, I'm only human. I have my breaking points. And I'm starting to hit mine.
Maybe it was the relatively warm few days we had a couple weeks ago where I could go out in shorts for a few days straight or maybe it's just the latest dumping of snow, slush, ice and cold winds that is really cutting through my thick outer shell, quite literally. But damn, when I have to get up at 6 in the morning, when it's nearly pitch dark, and put down 20 miles, 15 of them sequentially faster than the last, and have to do it in wind chill temperatures of 1 degree….well, that just gets old. The mind starts playing tricks on you. Hell, just the other day I entertained the idea of finding a treadmill to do my speed workout on. Can you believe that? A treadmill?!! What's happening to me!?
And here we are in February, pretty much still the beginning of February, which means a full month of potentially bitterly cold winds, snow and ice. We are certainly not out of the worst of it yet. Add to this mental weight that one must overcome to run in these conditions, my daily 8 hour job which currently has me fighting a continuous freeze/thaw/freeze/thaw cycle that seems to be tearing our building apart at the seams….of which it is my responsibility to keep the whole thing together, and I'm basically DONE with winter. Really, I'm ready for it to be over. I want one full blast of sun to evaporate any residual ice and temperatures that hover in the 30's. That's it, for the entire rest of this month, that's all I want.
Although it's difficult, I still try to look on the bright side of this overcast scenario. I really have no choice. It's not like I'm going to stop running, so SOMETHING has to get me through. For instance, the single digit temperatures really put the 30 degree temperatures in perspective and when you couple that with sunny skies, it feels damn near like spring. I don't even hesitate to throw on the most revealing of running shorts when temperatures soar into the balmy 30's. And when that happens, your legs feel loose and free and you can seemingly run for days. It's really wonderful and gives a small taste of what is to come around the corner.
And what is to come around the corner are those days where I can come home shirtless and absolutely dripping with sweat, leaving butt marks on the dry porch cement. God I love those days. I'll take sweltering, breath-sucking humidity over bitter, finger breaking cold any day. I'll find the joy in both of them, yes, but if given the choice I'll take the former without hesitation.
Then there is that necessary egotistical component. I know it's too early to post what has become something of a blogging tradition for me…but it's fitting. And be sure, I'll post this again next month. This, my friends, is the winning haiku from the Runners World haiku contest from a couple years back. I've never forgotten it, and it still gets me through some painfully cold winter runs.
Fairweather runners
Emerge like they own the place
I ran all winter
See you out there not so bright and early tomorrow. It's gonna be cold and we're gonna be running fast.


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The season of PSL and Maple Pecan Lattes is arriving soon, that is why coffee shops are preparing their fall menu, and coffee lovers can't wait to grab their favorite coffee for the season.
Last year the big coffee chain Starbucks had released their PSL on September 1, and this year according to Bussiness Insider Starbucks will be debuting their fall menu earlier than usual and will be launching on August 28. The most awaited fall menu will consist of the beloved PSL, as well as the Salted Caramel Mocha and the Teavana Pumpkin Spice Chai Tea Latte.
The big coffee chain also shared to Bussiness Insider that there will be three fall coffee drinks to watch out to be included on their menu. These are, Espresso-Mocha Cordusio, the Cold Foam Dark Cocoa Nitro and the Iced, and Maple Pecan Latte with Cold Foam, that will be launching on September 6.
However, Dunkin Donuts announced on their recent press release, last Wednesday that their full fall lineup will launch August 27, and they will be launching one day ahead to Starbucks.
So, a lot of coffee lovers are rejoicing for this double treat for the season where they get their favorite fall drinks earlier this year.
Dunkin Donuts will still be having the classic favorites PSL and MPL coffees, and they will be debuting their new fall treats Maple Cream Cheese Spread and the Apple Crisp Donut.
Aside from the new DD fall menu coffee drinks, they are also bringing their customers' favorite fall donuts back to their menus, such as the Pumpkin Donut and Pumpkin Muffin. To see their full list check it here.
All of the said fall menu from Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts seems like satisfying, and we cannot wait to try them all.

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What is AI and why should we use it in our investments
In the simplest of terms, artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Yet, the form of artificial intelligence we are accustomed to via our day-to-day interactions with technology – with our cell phones, our computers, via Facebook, Siri, or with image recognition on self-driving cars, etc. – isn't the kind of machine intelligence society has become obsessed about (Health, 2018).
General AI – the form of intellect found in humans, "a flexible form of intelligence capable of learning how to carry out vastly different tasks" (Health, 2018) – is the kind of machine intelligence we express so much anxiety about. It is the kind of AI depicted in movies. It is HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), or Ava from Ex-Machina (2014), or even replicants from the original Blade Runner (1982). In other words, advancements in the AI sector reify the anxiety that has perpetually existed around machines, that same anxiety which has also been conveyed throughout Hollywood movies for many decades.
Why is AI often associated with dystopian futures?
The introduction of any new medium – call it technology – in our society has continuously forced us to ponder the pros and cons of its introduction into traditional ways of doing things: which at the same time, was and remains totally necessary. In the 60s, communication theorist Marshall McLuhann coined the sentence "the medium is the message", meaning that the message conveyed by the medium itself – or the technology (ex. the printing press, the railway, a light bulb, a car) – had nothing to do with the particular function of that so called medium. The message, in McLuhann's idea, is rather about how something completely voided of its concrete function, of meaning, can challenge existing boundaries already established. It is about how this new technology – and its so called message – can transgress the rules of the present, by providing different avenues for the future.
In other words, how does technology change the present?
AI does not have a precise message, but still provides a different experience about the way we are involved with science and technology, the way the medical industry was able to progress, the way we now handle our investments, and so on. AI does not change what we know about the world, but rather helps us redefine the way we live our lives in the present, the way we can perform outside of what we already know. Can we therefore say that AI is the message?
What are some applications of artificial intelligence in our society?
Ai can definitely help to sharpen our skills, which can consequently challenge existing definitions of what it means to be human – since it allows us to go beyond what we have been capable of achieving so far. On a positive note, AI can be helpful with the understanding of emotions via image recognition, and has the capacity to communicate in different languages via chatbot for instance. AI is also widely used with automated vehicle and can assist park a car, or even independently land an airplane.
With so many different possibilities at hand, the question we might now ask is what kind of usage should we really make of AI?
Should we let AI take control over some of our human tasks and become an omniscient machine that tells us what to do? Should AI – as a machine that looks and acts human, be helping us with our house chores? Or, should we rather use AI algorithms as a machine crunching numbers, in order to find the best way to sell us goods on Google or Amazon, based on our search history?
How Aidvisors use AI?
At Aidvisors, we have made a clear decision. We have estimated that it was more rewarding to use AI in order to enhance human capacities. That is to say, we consider AI as a useful artificial skill under constant development, which can help to the improvement of investments, while at the same time considering people's needs.
Aidvisors provides AI-assistance for investors under the form of counselling, in order to help create safe and profitable portfolios. Artificial intelligence is at the center of our offering, which relies on predictive analytics and deep learning to protect investments against market crashes. We want people to know that investing with AI can ameliorate their performances in the stock market.
With the help of our customizable platform, we aim to democratize access to AI technology, by demonstrating that although AI can take multiple shapes, be labelled as Siri or Alexa, or categorized as narrow or general, and used under so many different circumstances; AI is not a specific machine, but rather remains an accessible medium with endless possibilities, which can be adapted to your stock portfolios.
- http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-ai-everything-you-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertadams/2017/01/10/10-powerful-examples-of-artificial-intelligence-in-use-today/#49409188420d
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertadams/2016/03/25/is-artificial-intelligence-dangerous/#6ed2872a358b
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media


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It is going to be huge and historic event !
Tickets for individual events are now available on De Balie's website. Please publicise the event far and wide. Please note, there will also be tickets for the full one- or two-days available soon.
Full programme can be found below:
11:00: A Conversation on Women's Dissent with Inna Shevchenko, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasrin and Zineb El Razoui. Music by Shelley Segal. Protest Art by Victoria Guggenheim.
14:00: Touching the Holy Subject with Nadia El Fani, Saif Ul Malook and Sarah Haider. Music by Veedu Vidz.
16:00: Comedy, the Sacred and Islamophobia with Shabana Rehman, Ali Rizvi and Armin Nabavi.
19:00: Separation of Religion from the State with Afsana Lachaux, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Homa Arjomand and Marieme Helie Lucas.
21:00: Women against Gods with Gita Sahgal, Houzan Mahmoud, Ibtissame Betty Lachgar, Mineke Schipper and Rana Ahmad. Performance by Atoosa Farahmand.
10:00: Film Screening Neither Allah Nor Master by Nadia El Fani followed by a conversation with Hind Bariaz, Ismail Mohamed, Karrar Al Asfoor, Wissam Charafeddine and Zara Kay.
12:00: Film Screening No Longer without You by Nazmiyeh Oral followed by a conversation with Cemal Knudsen Yucel, Fauzia Ilyas, Mimzy Vidz, Omar Makram, Zehra Pala and Sohail Ahmad.
16:00: On Identity with Kenan Malik, Harris Sultan, Jimmy Bangash, Rahila Gupta and Yasmin Rehman. Poetry by Halima Salat.
20:00: Neither Silenced nor Abused with Maryam Namazie, Mohamed Hisham, Muhammed Syed, Rishvin Ismath, Sadia Hameed and Sami Abdullah. Music by Shelley Segal. Poetry by Halima Salat.
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text: British Film Producer Elliott Lester's Nightingale had its' world premier at LAFF on Thursday night. The film was voted as a LAFF Favourite by the mainstream media in the run-up to the festival. Nightingale screened as part of the Muse section which highlights movies set in, filmed in and inspired by Los Angeles. The film stars multi award-winning David Oyelowo … Continue reading


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Mango-growers around the world – including those in the UAE – could be helped in their efforts to combat a disease that threatens to ravage their crops through new research produced by a team at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU).
A study by researchers at the Al Ain institution's Department of Biology has analyzed new ways of detecting and tackling a fungus that leads to mango dieback - a serious blight that can destroy orchards within weeks or even days of infection – that may also reduce dependence on potentially harmful chemicals.
While the disease has yet to be reported in the UAE, its symptoms have been seen, and the increase in the number of mango trees in the country – as well as the popularity of the fruit among the Emirati community – led the UAEU team to identify fungicide treatments which they conclude can work as part of an "integrated disease management" (IDM) program that does not solely rely on chemical agents.
The now-published research was conducted by the research team leader Dr. Synan AbuQamar along with his group: Dr Khaled El-Tarabily, Dr Esam Eldin Saeed, Dr Rabah Iratni, and the students Arjun Sham, and Ayah AbuZarqa, UAEU's Department of Biology, and Khawla Al-Shurafa and Tahra Al-Naqbi of the UAE's Ministry of Climate Change and Environment. In their paper, they explained that worldwide mango production – including in countries such as India, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, and Nigeria – has been affected by diseases that affect all parts of the trees the fruit grows on, reducing its yield and quality.
Their paper outlined how a fungus called Lasiodiplodia theobromae is the chief cause in mango dieback, causing twigs and branches to dry and plants to wilt, saying: "Commonly, once the symptoms of decline or widespread dieback are evident, it is difficult to stop or reverse the progress of disease – in general, dieback is one of the deadly diseases of mango, which causes serious damage to the tree and its productivity.
"In the UAE, typical symptoms of dieback disease have been observed and are yet to develop to an epidemic phase, causing fast-spreading death to mango orchards in a short period of time – about two months after the initial infection. Therefore, there is an urgent need for appropriate and cost-effective research to properly manage this disease."
The team studied diseased trees in the Kuwaitat area of Al Ain, conducting laboratory experiments on them, and also testing the impact of the fungus that leads to the disease on freshly-bought mangos and mango seedlings. They then tested three fungicides under test-tube and greenhouse conditions and in the field, discovering that one in particular – known as Cidely® Top – was the best candidate as an effective treatment against the mango-attacking fungus.
"The implementation of IDM programs which combine cultural, chemical, and biological approaches are highly recommended to control mango dieback, reduce cost, and improve production efficiency," said Dr. AbuQamar. "Despite its negative impact on the environment and human health, the use of chemicals continues to be the major strategy to lessen the menace of crop diseases.
"Our study reports fungicide treatments against L. theobromae as an effective and reliable approach to reducing the economic losses associated with mango dieback disease. Growers in the UAE and other mango-producing countries experiencing this damaging disease are expected to directly benefit from the outcome of this study, and future physiological and molecular analyses will shed more light on dieback disease and its causal agent, which will ultimately lead to the development of effective IDM strategies to manage this disease."
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With its irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, eye-popping fashions and outrageous dance, SHOUT! The Mod Musical takes audiences back to the music, style and freedom of the 1960s, featuring terrific new arrangements of some of the biggest hits of all time. Traveling in time from 1960 to 1970, SHOUT! chronicles the lives of five young women coming of age and redefining themselves during those glorious days that made England swing.
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Phillip George (Creator) West End/Off-Broadway: West End Forbidden Broadway, Meneir Chocolate Factory, Missed Connections (The Ohio Theatre), Shout! The Mod Musical, Forbidden Broadway Alive and Kicking, Forbidden Hollywood, Lost in Utopia (HERE Theatre), Whoop-Dee-Doo (Drama Desk Award, Best Musical Revue), The Road to Qatar (YorkTheatre Company), Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act, Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back, Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey(Drama Desk Award, Best Musical Revue), When Pigs Fly (as Assoc. Director to Mark Waldrop), Miss Pretty Hard (Dance Theater Workshop), Forbidden Broadway 1988–93. London: Kean (nominated for Evening Standard Award, Best Musical), Forbidden Broadway (The Albery), Shout!, Frankly Scarlett; Listen to the Wind, Much Revue About Nothing, Forbidden Broadway, The Famous Five, The Arcadians). Regionally: Forum (5th Ave Theatre, Seattle), Best Little Whorehouse, Footloose, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Annie Get Your Gun, California Suite, American Waltz, Spontaneous Combustion, Vital Components, The Secret Garden (Paper Mill). As a playwright he is currently hard at work on Thrilling Pulp and The Wheels of Chance.
David Lowenstein (Creator) is the co-creator of SHOUT!, THE MOD MUSICAL, which ran in London, off- Broadway, on the Norwegian Cruise Lines, and plays in regional theaters across the country. Off-Broadway, David's choreography has been featured in the Drama Desk award-winning HOWARD CRABTREE'S WHOOP-DEE-DOO!, ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, ANYTHING COLE, and SING FOR YOUR SUPPER. Regionally David directed DAMN YANKEES, directed/choreographed THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL and MY MOTHER'S LESBIAN JEWISH WICCAN WEDDING, for The Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival/Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. He staged THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS at the Gateway Playhouse, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE at Syracuse Stage, as well as numerous productions in summer stock. On television he staged Vanessa Williams' "Christmas Special" for ABC. David directed BERLIN TO BROADWAY, SUEUSSICAL!, KISS ME KATE, and OKLAHOMA! for SU DRAMA and choreographed LUCKY STIFF and I LOVE YOU BECAUSE. David is Artist in Residence at Cazenovia College where he directed/choreographed SWEET CHARITY, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, OLIVER, SEUSSICAL, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, BYE, BYE BIRDIE. GREASE, THE LARAMIE PROJECT, YOU'RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (SALT Award – Director of the Year), DEAD MAN WALKING, CHICAGO, GODSPELL, and OUR TOWN. As a performer he has been part of 7 original Broadway casts and several off-Broadway, national touring, and regional productions. He has taught audition technique and theater dance for CAP 21/NYU and Le Moyne College. David is a full time Professor of Practice in the Musical Theater Program of Syracuse University's Drama Department. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor of fine arts degree in musical theater from Syracuse University.
Thom Currie has enjoyed a 25+ year career as an actor, director, playwright, dramaturg and producer. Born in New York and raised in France, Thom has appeared on stage on both sides of the Atlantic, performing in cities such as Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Brussels. Since settling in Toronto, Thom has worked steadily in theatre, film and television, both in English and in French. Thom has worked in theatres across Canada, including Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Stage West (Calgary and Mississauga), Theatre In The Park, The Georgian Theatre Festival, The Showboat Festival Theatre In The Round and Magnus Theatre, among many others.
Thom's directing credits include over 90 productions, including BANG BANG, The Rocky Horror Show, We Will Rock You, The River, Bed and Breakfast, Monty Python's SPAMalot, Of Human Bondage, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Back In 59 They're Playing Our Song, Mending Fences, 2 Across, Mama's Country Record Collection, Peter Pan, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, Sexy Laundry, Urinetown, Crazy For You, A Bench In The Sun, Looking, and Sitting Pretty, in addition to over 50 productions for young audiences.
Thom has served as Artistic Director at several professional theatres across Canada. He is currently Artistic Director of Magnus Theatre in Thunder Bay, ON, the only professional theatre between Sudbury and Winnipeg. Previous to this, Thom was Artistic Director of the Stephenville Theatre Festival (NL), Managing Artistic Director at The Showboat Festival Theatre In The Round (ON), Artistic Director of The Georgian Theatre Festival (ON) and Founding Artistic Director of ReallyLittleTheatre (INTL).
In addition to writing the jukebox musicals Back In 59, Mama's Country Record Collection and POP! Goes The Sixties, Thom has written 15 musicals for young audiences, which have been performed across North America and Europe. His rock opera for young audiences, Rock 'N' Fables, has the distinction of having the most in-school performances of any musical in Canadian Theatre history. Thom is the recipient of the Vision TV Over The Fence Award for his television adaptation of his play, The Wish.
Thom has also lectured at University of Toronto, Seneca College and Ryerson University, and has worked as an adjudicator, educator and workshop leader across Canada.


text: We all know how huge floral prints have been for summer this year. In fact, they are arguably the most dominant trend of the season. And let me tell you, they are here to stay! I am in New York again previewing the collections for Resort 2013, and floral prints are everywhere! You name it – dresses, pants, tops – they are all covered in flowers! After seeing multiple collections, I think the print is done the best at Erdem. The collection features some of the most gorgeous printed dresses that I have ever seen. The price point is very high, but you can find some great versions for a reasonable price almost anywhere you go. If you are going to invest in one thing for summer, make it floral print! It will look fresh for both this summer and next. Definitely worth opening up your wallet for!


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Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babiš faces a serious conflict of interest which could put strain on the Czech Republic's cooperation with the EU, according to German MEP Ingeborg Grässle. The Christian Democrat European deputy, who is in Prague to review the Czech Republic's use of EU funds, has also called on Czech lawmakers to investigate rampant abuse of EU money.
Porcelain is one of the country's traditional export articles and the famous Bohemia blue-onion tableware, produced in Dubí ever since 1885 has found its way to 90 countries the world over. Like most Czech producers the Czech porcelain joint stock company in Dubí felt the crunch of the global economic crisis, hitting a low point in 2010, but now it appears to be over the worst and is once again showing a healthy profit.
Czech police, the special task force for uncovering financial crime, customs police, and the finance ministry's experts tracking criminal funds have given details how a two year probe has broken up a sophisticated multinational gang which shipped in and sold hundreds of millions of untaxed motor fuel with the state losing out on billions of crowns as a result.
The domestic bus manufacturer Iveco Czech Republic, based in Výsoké Mýto, has a good reason to be satisfied, revealing this week the firm boosted sales by 20, percent last year to 13.35 billion crowns, with profits increasing by almost 10 percent to 1.04 billion. The news was confirmed by the firm's director, Pavel Pachovský, this week.
Overshadowed by the events in Ukraine, European heads of government are nonetheless meeting in Brussels with a view to hammering out an energy and climate change policy until 2030. A head on collision between countries backing an ambitious deal on several fronts and those, like the Czech Republic, calling for a more cautious and simplified approach looks like making any deal impossible.
Plans for US-based e-commerce giant Amazon to build a second distribution centre on the outskirts of the Czech Republic's second city, Brno, appear to have been thwarted. Other Czech sites are also being offered while Slovakia is also trying to land the investment and the estimated 2000 jobs going with it.
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In spite of paying lip service to the principle of equality, the Czech Republic has seen an increasing trend in recent years towards the rich getting richer at the expense of the rest. Tax systems have got more regressive with the scope for distributive spending reduced amid fiscal constraints. Now even the IMF is warning that increased inequality is not a good recipe for growth.


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Under the FCPA "foreign official" is defined, as relevant to this point, as "any officer or employee of a foreign government or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, or of a public international organization ...".
Under the U.K. Bribery Act the operative term is "foreign public official" defined, as relevant to this post, as "an individual who - exercises a public function - (i) for or on behalf of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, or (ii) for any public agency or public enterprise of that country or territory ...".
During a recent Securities Docket's webcast "The Impact of the UK Bribery Act on U.S. Companies," Vivian Robinson QC (General Counsel of the UK's Serious Fraud Office) was asked a question (submitted by me) about officials of so-called state-owned or controlled enterprises ("SOE"). To listen to the Q&A (see here around the 1 hour mark), better yet Bruce Carton (moderator of the event) summarized the Q&A's (here) including the SOE Q&A.
Q: Recognizing that the Bribery Act does not just apply to payments made to "foreign public officials," under the Bribery Act will employees of General Motors or American International Group be deemed "foreign public officials" because the U.S. government owns, either a majority stake or significant stake, in the companies? What standards will the SFO use as to the general issue of alleged so-called state-owned or state-controlled companies?
A: We don't think the Act is directed to people of that sort. We are not regarding employees of a state-owned company as falling in the ambit of Section 6. People can rest assured that is not what we are looking at at all.... Also, such people would not likely have a sufficient connection with the UK.
As I noted in a recent post (here) 60% of corporate FCPA enforcement actions in 2010 and 66% in 2009 involved (in whole or in part) SOE employees.
The DOJ and the SFO are literally separated by an ocean.
The agencies' views on whether SOE employees are "foreign officials" or "foreign public officials" also appears to be an ocean apart.
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In the aftermath of her failed relationship, Debbie (Elise Wilson) is trying work out where it all went wrong when she finds herself dwelling on the sex-ed lessons she received from Mr Robnoskis back in Year Six. Comparing periods to puppies who occasionally pee on the floor, he inadvertently taught her that sex is about procreation and anatomical gyrations rather than open communication or sexual pleasure. And so she takes herself on a journey to unpack everything it is that she knows about the birds and the bees.
Cookies and Cream is a fun little play about the sex-education, both formal and informal, that we receive in our formative years and how that comes to shape the nature of our sexual relationships as we transition into adulthood. The show leans hard into the awkwardness of millennial-era teenage sexuality – the Blue Light Discos, YouTube makeout tutorials, Cosmo sex tips, and being made to demonstrate the enshrouding of an unripe banana with a Durex condom – in order to wring plenty of laughs from the snappy script.
Cookies and Cream is also brought to life thanks to well-realised performances, naturalistic writing, and excellent production values. The cast works incredibly well to recreate the inherent goofiness of adolescence and the excited jitters of sex and dating. I was particularly impressed with Christopher Moro's ensemble performances: his complete transitions from Travis 'heart-throb' Meyers, to Debbie's footy-obsessive big-brother Ricky, to the dorky vice principal, were an absolute delight.
The message is a solid one: understanding and communication are paramount in establishing healthy sexual relationships, and that we do children a massive disservice when we fail to educate them properly on the wherefores of sexuality, anatomy, birth control and sexual health. But I was a bit surprised that the play didn't make much attempt to explore issues of coercion, deception or assault. Sexual danger, in Cookies and Cream, is the possibility of your partner disclosing an asphyxiation kink in the middle of the deed, rather than over cupcakes beforehand, but there's a lack of any examination of the erosion of consent that can occur in the midst of an otherwise healthy tryst.
This 'cuming of age' tale is lively and cleverly-realised with lots of pitch-perfect absurdist touches and imaginative scenes of outright silliness. The tale would undoubtedly find an excellent reception with high-schoolers and teenagers, who would be scandalised by the masturbation scenes, but it's also just as entertaining and outrageous for the older crowd. It's just a shame that, as Mr Robnoskis skirts around the topic of sexual pleasure, this show skirts around the topic of sexual consent.


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Water bosses have asked people not to flush unwanted Yorkshire puddings down the toilet after the roast dinner favourite blocked a sewer.
Anglian Water posted two pictures of the floury, eggy mixture blocking drains in Ipswich.
It joked: "We're sure even our friends at Yorkshire Water wouldn't welcome this sight!"
One of the photos shows a slab of Yorkshire pudding batter covering a drain, while the other shows a surprisingly intact pudding in someone's gloved hand.
The company added: "Somebody dumped a load of Yorkshire puddings in an Ipswich sewer.
"Please don't treat sewers as bins. Avoid blocked pipes and compost your food waste!"
Only the "3 Ps" should be flushed down the loo - pee, poo and paper - the company says on its website.
It adds that 80% of sewer blockages are avoidable and are caused by "unflushables".
Consequent problems include "sewer flooding of homes and environmental pollution, which is distressing (and) costly to put right", it says.


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TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp., will invest an additional $689 million in a research and development venture in China as it aims to expand in the world's largest car market.
The automaker will build test tracks to aid development of environmental technologies in China, it said in an e-mailed statement Friday. The research and development facilities will open in 2013.
As governments worldwide roll out new fuel-economy standards, Toyota, maker of the Prius hybrid, is introducing its technology for fuel-efficient cars worldwide. The carmaker sees hybrid technology as key for the future success of the automotive industry, Katsuaki Watanabe, a Toyota adviser and former chief executive officer, said Oct. 11 in Chengdu, China.
Toyota initially invested $234 million when the venture with China FAW Group Corp. and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. was established in November 2010, according to the statement.
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SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea's Samsung Electronics ranks as the most reputable technology company in the United States, a report showed Sunday, on the back of its strong products and services appealing to American consumers.
Samsung, the world's largest smartphone maker, has topped such tech peers as Microsoft, Google and Intel in terms of products and services, citizenship and governance, according to the report by U.S.-based corporate appraiser Reputation Institute. Samsung ranked eighth last year.
Hewlett-Packard placed second, followed by Microsoft, Google and SAP. Rounding out the top 10 were Intel, NCR, Adobe Systems, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Salesforce.com.
Apple, the biggest market-cap company and Samsung's archrival, slipped two notches to rank 21st.
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I found FSI function with F280049M's data sheet.
What kind of product does FSI connect to?
Which application would be best for using FSI?
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In reply to Gautam Iyer:
Hello Sasaki and Gautam,
FSI, or Fast Serial Interface (no extra creative marketing points being awarded for this name), originated as a solution for higher bandwidth digital communication across the air gap, or hot-side to cold-side and vice versa, in high voltage systems such as those used in industrial drives and digital power applications. In particular, the goals also included lowering the total cost of (reinforced) isolation associated with spanning the air gap as well as making the silicon cost impact small as well. So, we needed to be serial and stay with standard LVCMOS IO buffers (not more expensive LVDS buffers, for example). See the Venn diagram below comparing FSI to some of the other options.
FSI achieves the top clock rate of 50MHz for LVCMOS IO and can take as few as two pins, CLK and Data, in each direction. FSI is also dual-data rate. It latches the data on both the rising and falling clock edges making the raw transmit bandwidth 100Mbps and the raw receive bandwidth 100 Mbps as well.
The configuration of 2 signals in each direction that also requires reinforced isolation is addressed perfectly by another TI component, the ISO7842. A single SOIC16 packaged ISO7842 is all that is needed to isolate the 100 Mbps FSI signals up to 8000 Vpk and carries reinforced isolation certifications according to VDE, CSA, CQC, and TUV. This single chip when using FSI can replace the cost of multiple isolation devices while saving significant board space and also reducing the PCB routing and voltage plane definition challenges associated with mixed-plane, high voltage PCB designs.
We do believe that the F28004x MCU family will find its way into many hot-side sensing and control applications where it will need to communicate with a cold side MCU or MPU (on the cold-side due to the need to have its communications interface circuits, Ethernet, CAN, etc. isolated from the high voltage power electronics/supplies).
The FSI can also serve well for direct high-speed, low pin-count, chip-to-chip communications when both devices exist on the same voltage plane, too. You could imagine two F28004x devices side by side using FSI to share data (for comparison?) very quickly between each other.
As to the devices that can "talk" FSI, well today that is limited to the F280045 and F280049 from C2000. But you can expect to see it on future C2000 devices as well as possible support from other "cold-side" processors as well. Sorry, I can't give more details than that here.
Please note that FSI is available with a few different pin mux options depending upon the package type (64 QFP sampling today). You can learn more about FSI at Section 5.11.7 in the F28004x datasheet and Section 26 of the Technical Reference Manual.
Let me know what your ideas are for how you could apply this new technology in your systems!
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Brian Fortman
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In reply to Brian Fortman:
Hi Brian-san,
Thank you for useful information.
It seems interesting to connect directly with Sitara corresponding to industrial buses.
I'm looking forward to new information in the future.
Thanks for the detailed description Brian!
Brian FortmanLet me know what your ideas are for how you could apply this new technology in your systems!
As of now I use eCAN for inter-C2000 communication - between 2-3 C2000 mcus for sharing critical data. FSI does make sense with the speed it has to offer, low pin count and no extra hardware required (apart from ISO).
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Timing couldn't have been more perfect for our trip to Paws On Pelham. Not only was it mine and my husband's 1st wedding anniversary but we were able to drop off our little foster pup Marlie to her new forever home on our way! I'm not gonna lie, I cried on the way, during and after we dropped Marlie off. We got her when she was about 10 weeks old and had her for a solid month. She is deaf and partially blind so she was a challenging pup to have around. She had this insanely loud, high pitch cry that she would scream anytime she was awake and couldn't tell you were near her so in some ways we were ready for her to move on… But she had so many other great features that made up for the loud cry and I knew I was gonna miss spending my days with her.
Paws On Pelham was the perfect distraction for us, it was so nice to be able to go on a fun adventure immediately after saying goodbye to Marlie. We brought Jax and Jasper with us and thankfully they were such good and patient boys on the long drive there. It was a 4+1/2 hour drive from our house in Maine to POP in Newport, RH and lets just say we were all thrilled to finally arrive and get out of the car!
The wonderful Inn keeper Allison, went above and beyond for us- I really can't say enough nice things about her, she made us all feel so welcomed and the pups couldn't get enough of her! After we got settled in we took the boys for a walk into town. Newport has such an awesome atmosphere and we couldn't get enough of it! We couldn't walk more than a few yards before someone wanted to meet and pet our dogs. Some people even took their photos with them! It was so great to see how dog friendly Newport is. I mean there is even a long list of dog friendly business's in the area on the other side of the 'do not disturb' sign for your door at the inn. We spent the rest of the evening feeding then walking the dogs before we ordered ourselves some dinner to eat back at the inn.
Our room was a cute spacious suite with a living room, bedroom and bathroom. The living room had a keurig coffee maker and a mini fridge AND both rooms had a tv in it! It was a pretty awesome. The next morning we got up and went downstairs to the Grab & Go Cafe where Allison made us the most delicious breakfast! She even asked us if there were any dietary restrictions she needed to know about when we checked in.
After breakfast, we decided to go on an adventure to help tire the pups out before trying to take some photos at the inn. We drove just a little ways to the perfect spot- the Newport Cliff Walk! We had the perfect fall weather to go with the perfect ocean view and it was a great way for us all to get some exercise in and have fun at the same time! We spent way more time there than expected because we literally couldn't walk more than a few yards before someone wanted to stop us and talk or say hi to the dogs. We didn't mind though, it was a great socializing experience for the pups (and us) and it was fun meeting other dog crazy people!
When we got back to Paws On Pelham, we went around the Inn taking photos with the pups. We started on the RUFFtop Deck and worked our way down to the back patio. The whole place was so quiet and peaceful, even on the front porch. We were all pretty tired by the time I was done snapping photos so we went back to our room and I edited photos while everyone else was napping.
We all had so much fun and didn't want to leave the next morning. Allison made us another delicious breakfast that we took on the road with us since we had such a long trip home. We left this dog friendly inn thinking that it really has the PERFECT name! Paws On Pelham is 100% worth the drive-no matter where you are coming from! We would highly recommend to anyone who loves to travel with their best friend- their dog.
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Martin Maritsch and Kevin Winter (Area Knowledge Discovery) participated in a Student Challenge organized by the HiPEAC (European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) consortium. On the topic 'AI for Humanity', they submitted their work with the title 'Mining Call Detail Records to understand Cross-border Refugee Movements', which was accepted by the jury for presentation at the Computing Systems Week Spring 2019 in Edinburgh.
In their work, the two researchers describe how they want to use telecommunication data to estimate parameters that should help to understand refugee movements. For example, based on the anonymized telephone behaviour of a large number of individuals, it should be determined, how refugees behave on their way and how fast they move. Furthermore, models could be built based on the historical data which are capable of estimating conflict probabilities for specific crisis regions in real-time.
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Two Out Of Three For Danigree
Dec 17, 2017
Honest performer Danigree made it two wins from his last three runs when proving a class above his rivals in a BM64 event at Horsham on Sunday - the five-year-old cruising home to a 1 1/4 length victory.
Well fancied having caught the eye with a strong finish after getting back from a tricky wide gate at his previous outing, Danigree was well handled by his regular rider Jarrod Fry who eased him back off a fast start from another awkward barrier.
Edging a bit closer to the leaders from the 600m, Danigree hooked out wide into the clear approaching the turn - travelling so well at the time that his ears were pricked! Hitting the lead at around the 100m, he quickly put ground on his rivals.
"He is racing in great form," Mitchell enthused.
"He has improved a bit this preparation and is much more relaxed about his racing."
"And he was aided by Horsham being prepared so that horses could get their toe in."
The winner of four of his 14 starts, the son of consistent stallion Danerich is raced by happy owners Chris Daniel, Jack Kelly and J Plowman.
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VIDEO: 50ft Waves Batter Cornish Coast
Published by the Pirate FM News Team at 11:03am 8th February 2014. (Updated at 2:11pm 8th February 2014)
Cornwall is being battered by another storm, prompting fears some creaking flood defences may not last the weekend.
Waves are now so big off the Cornish coast - one of the buoys that measures their size has gone offline.
Others are reporting swell up to fifty feet high.
Coastguards call the swell "phenomenal" and are urging us to stay clear of the coast.
Officials were worried it could be enough to smash through shattered sea defences, but this lunchtime's high tides came and went without major incident.
Engineers have been shoring up defences in Penzance and Seaton and are standing by in places like Bude.
A spokesperson for the Met Office said: "Winds will increase from the southwest during the course of Saturday with severe gales affecting coastal districts, bringing gusts of 60-70 mph and isolated 80 mph at the most exposed locations within the Amber warning area. Large waves are also expected to affect southwest facing coasts. Further inland, gusts of 50-60 mph are likely.
"The public should be prepared for disruption to transport and locally to power supplies, particularly when combined with the impacts of heavy rainfall."
Villagers in the south east Cornwall village are waiting to see if the iconic Clock Tower will survive another battering.
It has already been condemned, but needs to survive the weekend so repair work can begin.
Local councillor George Truebody: "We need to get through the next 48 hours and then assess the situation. Structural engineers have been in and we're awaiting a report straight back from them."
A spokesperson for Cornwall Council said: "Crews from Highways and Environment service have been at the site of all the key risk areas since earlier this morning carrying out inspections of the sea defences which had previously suffered damage from the storms.
"With high tide now past, there have been no reports of significant coastal flooding. So far all the temporary repairs at harbours and other coastal defences appear to be holding and the areas have not suffered any further damage.
"The temporary repairs carried out at the Clock Tower at Kingsand also appear to be holding and there has been no further damage at Seaton or in the Penzance and Newlyn Green areas where the rock armour and other temporary defences are holding. Crews from Cormac are still on site carrying out repairs.
"The temporary repairs are also holding at Fistral in Newquay and at the area around the Blue Reef Aquarium. Crews will remain on standby in all the key areas throughout the afternoon and into the evening.
"There were reports of minor over topping of the waves at Porthleven, with the police having to close some access roads because of the large number of people wanting to travel to the area to look at the waves. All the agencies continue to advise people to stay away from areas which could be at risk.
"There have also been reports of some people driving past road closed signs – particularly at St Mawes and at the road between Five Lanes and Altarnun where the road has been closed because of a fallen tree. The police and Highways have appealed to people not to ignore road closed signs as they are putting themselves at risk."
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The video treatment of Erykah Badu's new single, "Honey" debut online last night.
Set in a record store, the neo-soul singer goes through racks of music and recreates the cover art of artists like Eric B and Rakim, Diana Ross, Grace Jones, Minnie Riperton, Chaka Khan, Nas, The Beatles, John Lennon and Yoko, Ohio Players, and LaBelle her way.
Miss Badu even does a tribute of her baby daddy Andre Benjamin. Chris Robinson did a fabulous job of directing this creative music video.
Badu's new album, "New Amerykah" is due out February 26th.
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OpenBMC, Cisco Routers, & Abusing Exchange – Hack Naked News #205
This week, a tool that finds vulnerable robots on the internet, a new exploit that threatens over 9,000 Cisco Routers, apple turns of group FaceTime after an eavesdropping bug, wordpress sites under attack via Zero-Day in abandoned plugin, and OpenBMC caught with 'pantsdown' over a new security flaw! Jason Wood from Paladin Security joins us for expert commentary on Abusing Exchange: One API call away from Domain Admin!
- Researchers Release Tool That Finds Vulnerable Robots on the Internet – Written in Python 3, Aztarna is basically a port scanning tool with a built-in database of fingerprints for industrial routers (including Westermo, Moxa, Sierra Wireless, and eWON), and robotic technologies and components, as well as patterns that power the tool to test those devices against various known vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations. You can download the source code here: https://github.com/aliasrobotics/RSF
- New Exploit Threatens Over 9,000 Hackable Cisco RV320/RV325 Routers Worldwide – If the connectivity and security of your organization rely on Cisco RV320 or RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN routers, then you need to immediately install the latest firmware update released by the vendor last week. Cyber attackers have actively been exploiting two newly patched high-severity router vulnerabilities in the wild after a security researcher released their proof-of-concept exploit code on the Internet last weekend. The vulnerabilities in question are a command injection flaw (assigned CVE-2019-1652) and an information disclosure flaw (assigned CVE-2019-1653), a combination of which could allow a remote attacker to take full control of an affected Cisco router…Researchers from cybersecurity firm Bad Packets said they found at least 9,657 Cisco routers (6,247 RV320 and 3,410 RV325) worldwide that are vulnerable to the information disclosure vulnerability…
- OpenBMC caught with 'pantsdown' over new security flaw | ZDNet – The bug, CVE-2019-6260, has been nicknamed "pantsdown" according to Software Engineer at the IBM Linux Technology Center Stewart Smith, who published a technical write-up on the security issue…Smith says that the vulnerability lies in how the ASPEED ast2400 and ast2500 BMC implement Advanced High-performance Bus (AHB) bridges, which permit arbitrary read/write access to the BMC's physical address space from the host, or from the network if the BMC console uart is attached to a serial concentrator.In case you were wondering what the heck OpenBMC is: The OpenBMC project is a Linux Foundation collaborative open-source project whose goal is to produce an open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers Firmware Stack
- WordPress sites under attack via zero-day in abandoned plugin | ZDNet – WordPress site owners using the "Total Donations" plugin are advised to delete the plugin from their servers to prevent hackers from exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in its code and take over affected sites…Defiant (the company behind the Wordfence firewall plugin for WordPress) says that all attempts to contact the plugin's developer have been unfruitful. The developer's site appears to have gone inactive around May 2018
- Microsoft Exchange vulnerable to 'PrivExchange' zero-day | ZDNet – Microsoft Exchange 2013 and newer are vulnerable to a zero-day named "PrivExchange" that allows a remote attacker with just the credentials of a single lowly Exchange mailbox user to gain Domain Controller admin privileges with the help of a simple Python tool. According to the researcher, the zero-day isn't one single flaw, but a combination of three (default) settings and mechanisms that an attacker can abuse to escalate his access from a hacked email account to the admin of the company's internal domain controller
- Did you know? Monday was Data Privacy Day. – If you missed it, you didn't miss much. It was a day like any other day, without meaningful privacy except for those offline and unobserved by the global surveillance panopticon. The non-profit National Cybersecurity Alliance marked the occasion, observed since 2007, with a gathering of corporate privacy policy wonks at LinkedIn's San Francisco, California, headquarters. One must wonder if Facebook or Google attended….
- Apple turns off group FaceTime after discovery of eavesdropping bug – A newly discovered FaceTime bug could pose an eavesdropping problem, and Apple says it will have a fix out later this week. The bug allows iPhone users to call another device via the FaceTime video chat service and hear audio on the other end before the recipient has answered the call. That is, it can turn any iPhone into a hot mic without the user's knowledge. Make sure you turn off Facetime on all of your Apple devices, iPhones, iPads and your Apple Mac computers, instructions here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/tech/facetime-bug-how-to-deactivate-scli-intl/index.html
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Abusing Exchange: One API call away from Domain Admin
I know Paul covered this already in the news section, but I thought this issue with Exchange was worth a little bit deeper coverage for our listeners. You may find yourself being asked whether or not this affects you and what can be done. The blog post and proof of concept code were released by Dirk-jan Mollema on Jan 21. First, the issue affects the default configurations of Exchange 2013, 2016, and 2019. At this point, you can be fully patched and be vulnerable. The issue occurs due to the combination of the following:
- Exchange Servers have the WriteDacl permission in the domain
- NTLM authentication does not have signing enabled
- Exchange push subscriptions will send the NTLM credentials to workstations (any system, actually)
This means that Exchange's service account has default permissions that allow it to change account permissions in the domain.
Push subscriptions allow someone with regular credentials to subscribe to an Exchange event, such as an email being delivered so that a client is notified when something changes.
NTLM signing not being enabled has been an issue for a long time, but basically, you open yourself up to relay attacks when it's not turned on.
You can probably already start to see the issue here, but the flow goes like this:
- The attacker subscribes to an Exchange PushSubscription.
- Exchange sends a notification to the client via HTTP and sends along it's NTLM credentials for authentication. After all, it needs to prove that it really is Exchange.
- The attacker turns around and relays those credentials over to the domain controller over LDAP
- The attacker modifies their access level using Exchanges WriteDacl permissions and does what they would like.
In the researcher's code, he implemented hash dumping to prove the issue out. This is obviously something that a basic domain user cannot do on their own. However, by stringing together the chain of events that Dirk-jan has it become possible. The hash dumping is something that he implemented for POC only, so keep in mind that the impact really is that the attacker has the ability to take over your domain with these permissions. They could give their account domain admin privileges instead. Or do something else that is more stealthy.
Oddly enough, if you are still running Exchange 2010, you are not vulnerable to this because its default settings require NTLM signing. This breaks the whole process. Mitigations for the issue include:
- Enable NTLM signing
- Prevent Exchange from initiating network sessions with workstations on arbitrary ports
- Remove Exchange's high level of domain privileges.
Obviously, you want to test this out heavily before implementing. I've included links to Dirk-jan's blog post as well as a SANS ISC write up on the issue. If you've got Exchange running in your environment, you need to check this out.
Sans Internet Storm Center link – Relaying Exchange's NTLM authentication to domain admin (and more)
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I'm sure glad I worked six ponies yesterday because today the weather dictated something different. Prior to this week, we were at 67% of normal for snowfall and 50% of last year. For us that means two feet instead of four, and we haven't been complaining since last year we felt like there was nothing to do but plow snow, shovel snow, or rest from doing one or the other. This year I've been enjoying having more time and good weather for ponies. Today, though, I had to say hello to winter.
We got somewhere between seven and nine inches; it's hard to say because it came in with so much wind that in places there was no new snow at all. Earlier this week, we got five inches, so we've definitely made up for lost time, which is probably a good thing since hay prices tend to be affected by snow pack. These have been the biggest storms we've had since November, which just demonstrates how mild this winter has been.
I kept thinking that the storm would blow out, and I would be able to work a pony this afternoon. But when another wind gust hit the house full of snow at 2pm, I resigned myself to the task before me that I was avoiding: house cleaning. When I finished my time running the vacuum cleaner, the sun came out and I was able to snap some photographs of snowy ponies. But by the time I put the camera away and went back out for my reward, snow had begun to fall again. Nonetheless, I jumped on Mya the Wonder Pony and rode down the driveway. She was very patient with the snow pelting us in the face.
I've probably lost my round pen. It had just gotten good footing again; we plowed it two weeks ago, and that made it very slick. About four inches of snow is perfect for footing, and I had that for about four days. But with this week's foot, we'll be back to slogging or slickness of we plow. No worries; I hear we're due another storm Saturday night, so footing will return.
The ponies, of course, have been quite opinionated all day. My stallions have been very busy running about, and my appearance with hay has been met with enthusiasm by all my hooved friends. As is unfortunately usual, the storm did finally move out at sundown. The skies have cleared, and it has dropped below zero, so the ponies will be happy to see me in a few minutes when I go out for bedtime feeding. Tomorrow is supposed to be a nice day, so I'll look forward as I go to bed to working several ponies, after I shovel a little more snow.
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Nzara is in year six at a primary school in Kwale County, Kenya. Her dream is to go all the way to secondary school and become a teacher, "so that I can ensure that my younger sister completes her education and does not get married early."
"I left school in 2012 after my father who was supporting my education became ill and passed on. My mother was left behind with six girls to take care of and it was difficult for her to support the three of us who were in school.
When my father passed on my immediate older sister got married and she joined my other sisters in married life. I think it was because she saw no hope in continuing with education and my mother accepted the dowry. I almost gave up on education, since I would be frequently sent home to collect school fees and eventually had to drop out.
When I dropped out I would take care of my younger sister, while my mother went out to look for casual labour for our survival. Sometimes I would accompany her to work and we would work in peoples' gardens, fetch water and cut firewood for them."
Build Africa is helping girls with stories just like Nzara's.
Terry Kunina is a Build Africa Project Officer working in the Kwale District of Kenya: "We are identifying young mothers who are out of school, looking at the community holistically and addressing the issues that affect girls' education.
We work with girls like Nzara to ensure that they are aware of their rights and we also aim to get community members like her parents to embrace education as a child right issue."
Because of these initiatives Nzara is now back in school and enjoying her education. "Because of a community awareness meeting, and after pleading with my mother, she approached the head teacher and told him of my intention to go back to school. I am happy since the head teacher accepted and I managed to come back to school.
I am also a member of the Girls Club, which is encouraging us to stay at school and avoid early pregnancies, which are a cause of school drop-out. Since I came back to school last year I am struggling to catch up but I am determined to get back to my top position."


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Pro bono lawyers have done fantastic work for innocence organizations all over the country -- representing clients, screening cases, writing amicus briefs, helping with corporate-governance issues, and more. But working with pro bono lawyers can be complicated, and the experience can be very different from firm to firm. They may not be experts in this area of the law, may need more supervision than anticipated, and also may have pressures about billable work that complicate their ability to meet internal deadlines. This panel will discuss how best to recruit, utilize, and supervise pro bono lawyers so you and your organization can ensure that the experience benefits your clients, your organization, and the pro bono lawyers themselves.
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The Barking Riverside London team were delighted to welcome over 1200 local residents to the second annual Barking Riverside and Thames View Community Fireworks Display on Tuesday 6th November.
Sponsored by The Careys Foundation and L&Q, the event took place at the Barking Riverside Project Office, where several local suppliers were selling burgers, chips and hot tea and coffee, and a DJ entertained the crowds before the display.
A group of Pupil Ambassadors from Riverside Primary School led the countdown for the spectacular display, which lasted for 13 minutes and was completely free for local residents.
Varsha Patel, PR, Marketing and Events Manager at Barking Riverside, comments: "We are delighted to have partnered with the Careys Foundation and L&Q to deliver our second community fireworks display and were thrilled that to have more than double the number of attendees than at our inaugural display in 2017. Community events such as Fireworks provide a brilliant opportunity for the community to get together and enjoy a fabulous evening with family and friends – and we will be hosting a programme of events for local people here on site in 2019 and beyond!"


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You always hear about the terrible twos and the trying threes but my god they have nothing on the fucking fours. There's no doubt that two and three year olds can be a handful, they can definitely throw fits with the best of them. However, what I've learned this last year is that four is what nightmares are made of.
Now don't get me wrong, there are some pretty amazing things that come with have a four year old. They can tell you what they want, they can be easier to take out in public, and they are so full of life and wonder. On the flip side of they that, they can tell you what they want and there will be hell to pay if they don't get it. They also don't have a total grip on their emotions which on some days is a recipe for disaster. I have never seen anyone hit just about every emotion until the day I told Ukiah he couldn't come with me to check the mail without pants (Am I the only one who's kid hates clothes?) He cried, got angry, finally realized he wasn't going to win the argument, put on pants and starts skipping out the door laughing like nothing had happened.
Some days are harder than others, some days I question whether or not I'm actually the most stubborn person in this house. Having a strong willed child isn't all bad at least not until they want nothing more than to argue. I swear some days he sees the inside of his room more than the rest of the house. There's a fine line between not breaking your child's strong will and not taking their shit. We need strong adults in this world but we also need them to be respectful and well mannered.
Sometimes I think it's just me and I'm just failing at this whole parenting thing. Some days I feel awful because I feel like all I've done is send him to his room or yell. Then I hop on Facebook to chat with my birth board besties and realize we're all going through the same thing, I find comfort in that.
Four isn't all bad, he's a great helper, insanely inquisitive, and unapologetically dances to beat of his own drum. He's a free spirit and I love that about him. Although I am so ready to get past this stage, I'm sure some day I will look back and miss these days. I will also use them to laugh at him when he has his own four year old. You know what they say about payback 😉