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AkzoNobel N.V, BASF SE, PPG Industries Inc., Valspar (U.S.), Sherwin-Williams Co. Ltd, DuPont Co, NOROO Paints & Coatings, Asian Paints, Burke Industrial Coatings, Industrial Nanotech, Inc., among others are some of the prominent players at the forefront of competition in the Global Industrial Coating Market and are profiled in MRFR Analysis.
Industrial Coating Market – Overview
The Global Protective Coating Market is estimated reach the mark of USD 25 billion by the end of 2023, which is estimated to expand at over 9.5% of CAGR. This is more likely to favor growth of the market during the forecast period. Rapid industrialization in emerging economies such as India, South Korea, Brazil, and China is expected to drive demand for the product during the years to follow. In addition to this, increasing demand for solvent free coatings over issue of harmful VOC's and steadily growing demand from marine, oil & gas, and automotive industry is anticipated to provide impetus to the Global Industrial Coatings Market. Among other applications, automotive refinish and automotive OEMs are dominating the market due to increasing need to provide safety against wear and tear.
Industrial Coating Market – Competitive Landscape
The Global Industrial Coatings is a mature market, which is mainly driven by major end use industries such as automotive OEMs, marine coatings, protective & maintenance coatings, coil coatings, packaging coatings, along with the growing demand from transportation sector. The market has significant presence of tier 1 companies, yet majority of the market shares are held by AkzoNobel N.V, BASF SE, PPG Industries Inc., Asian Paints, and Axalta Coatings Systems are the substantial manufacturers in this market. Almost all of these key market players are adopting the merger & acquisition and regional expansion of their business as a main growth tactics to strengthen their market position and acquire significant share in the global market.
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November 27, 2018- AkzoNobel, a Dutch multinational company which engages in development and production of paints and performance coatings and also specialty chemicals, has gave their nod to acquire the business of V.Powdertech Co., Ltd. the business of V.Powdertech Co., Ltd. is the leading powder coatings manufacturers based in Thailand. This move by AkzoNobel came after anticipated growth of industrial market in Thailand. The new technologies and services of V.Powdertech Co., Ltd complemented the global technology portfolio and business of AkzoNobel such as Industrial and automotive coatings.
August 4, 2017- Chinese subsidiary of PPG Industries, PPG Zhangjiagang has announced expansion of its industrial, automotive and packaging coatings production lines. This development is most likely to make the world's largest coating production line. At present the largest coating production base is PPG Paints, another subsidy located in Tianjin, China.
June 6, 2017- The U.S. based leading industrial coatings company Axalta Coating Systems has acquired the Spencer Coatings Group, which is a leading manufacturer of high performance industrial coatings for heavy-duty equipment, general industrial, oil and gas, and glass coatings segments. This has added into Axalta's portfolio of Performance Coatings for industrial customers. According to Axalta, they will utilize Spencer's products and people to serve existing customers in the U.K. and expand into new geographies.
February 1, 2017- The U.S. based leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings Axalta Coatings Systems entered into an acquisition agreement with Century Industrial Coatings. One of the leading manufacturer of high performance industrial coatings fo steel, rail cars, and oil & gas Century Industrial Coatings is based in the U.S, which is renowned for its performance and environmental compliance.
December 15, 2016- TheDutch paints and coatings, and specialty chemicals company, AkzoNobel has successfully acquired the global industrial chemicals business of BASF SE. This business unit of BASF SE comprised of domestic appliances, construction, commercial transport, and wind energy. According to the terms of an agreement the transaction includes patents and trademarks, relevant technologies, as well as two manufacturing plants in the United Kingdom and South Africa.This acquisition has added into strength of AkzoNobel in the global industrial coatings market.
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George Jones' 'Choices' Still Breaks Our Hearts Today
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Released months after his drunk driving accident in 1999, George Jones is still breaking our hearts today with his beautiful song, "Choices".
The song was originally written by Billy Yates and Rob Lyons, where Yates even recorded it for his own album in 1997. However, the song didn't truly reach country music heights until May 8, 1999 when George Jones covered it and released it on his album, Cold Hard Truth.
With lyrics already powerful, they took on a new meaning when you consider the drunk driving accident that Jones was involved in only two months before the single was released. The music video that followed it, also, highlighted through personal photos, the wild and hard lifestyle Jones was then paying for, literally.
He won the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, and was soon asked by the Country Music Association to play a changed version for the awards show. However, Jones refused to sing anything but the original version and did not perform it. Alan Jackson, in protest of the CMA decision and in reverence of his forever idol Jones, played part of the song in protest during his own performance.
Let's look back on Jones singing "Choices" in the video below.

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Given the heightened alarm of some New York official, this, I imagine, is what the news from this coming summer will look like.
"Those who call for opting out really want New York to opt out of information that can help parents and teachers understand how well their students are doing," said Jeanne Beattie, a state Education Department spokeswoman.
Summer vacation is supposed to be a time of camps, family vacations and growth experiences for students and their families. But the massive opt out movement of last April has led to a confusing collapse of summer traditions.
Back in April, Jeanne Beattie, a state education department spokeswoman said "Those who call for opting out really want New York to opt out of information that can help parents and teachers understand how well their students are doing." Now in July, she has reportedly issued another statement -- "I told you so."
Evelyn Topdraggle of East Bestwig, NY, explains how opting out turned into a vacation nightmare.
"My daughter did not take the Common Core tests in April," said the working mom. "Consequently, when the year ended, I had no idea how she had done. Usually we reward our children with some fun outings to the City in July, but I suddenly realized that I have no idea whether my daughter deserves a reward or not."
Bob Wobble of Upper Wangdoodle, NY, echoes her sentiments. "Since my son didn't take the test, I have no information about how he is doing in his education. I have no idea how well he is doing. I have not been able to decide whether to ground him or to raise his allowance."
Some opt outers report family stress because of the lack of information from the tests whose results will not be reported for another two months. Said Keisha Tripsocket of Dumonde, NY, "I do not know whether to be angry or loving with my daughter. Did she do great, or terrible? Without the information from the tests, I don't know whether I should be affectionate or stern with her."
999 families report having made some serious mistakes with these summer months. Says Flerd Wadley of Boughgidie, NY:
We played it safe and enrolled our son in a summer remedial reading program. It cost us a bunch of extra money and we gave up some extras for the summer. One day I come home and find out he's read an entire stack of Charles Dickens and Toni Morrison. Damn kid could read all along! I sure wish I'd had him take that test so I had known.
Summer camps report declined enrollment as 999 families across the state are paralyzed, lacking even the most fundamental knowledge of how their students are growing and achieving educationally.
Not all families have been stumped. Said Tessa McNoodle of Vistaville, NY:
I was really confused at first since we opted out. But then I just talked to my child's teachers, paid attention to her homework and tests, looked at her report card, spent time with her, paid attention to her and used my brain and common sense and was able to figure it out. I'm pretty sure that when those Common Core test scores eventually come out, they won't tell me anything I don't already know.
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Island Images – Black and White
While on Salt Spring Island on Canada's west coast for a plein air painting workshop, I took some time to engage my photographic interests. In previous posts I have shared some of the colorful abstract photos. In this post I concentrate on black and white photos. This set of photos were taken on September 11, 2012 – a "free" day that I had before the painting workshop began. I spent this day, walking about with my camera – specifically I retraced by steps through a favorite part of the island that I had come to know from a visit in November 2007.
With my hiking boots and a backpack full of camera gear I headed down Beddis Road for my destinations at Beddis Beach and Cusheon Creek [map].
The hike down Beddis Road was almost 10K and with very frequent stops for photos, progress was slow – but I had the whole day, so was in no hurry. I was frequently changing lens and camera settings – sometimes capturing a very specific object or scene and at other times more interested in capturing an abstract feeling. Some of these images were captured with he intention of the photo being the final product and others were captured to use a references for future paintings.
It took the better part of two hours until I arrived at Beddis Beach but what a welcome sight. The beach was quiet, the tide low and the water cool but acceptable enough to wade in (up to my ankles).
From Beddis Beach it was a few hundred meters (south and west) further, to the trail entrance dropping down into the lush, green and quiet Cusheon Creek valley.


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Our new Disruption by Blockchain series aims to highlight companies that are leveraging the incredible potential of blockchain technology to disrupt and revolutionize their industry. Through one on one interviews, we'll speak directly with industry leaders to cut beyond the hype and get directly to the heart of practical use cases and examples of how it will change the world, one industry at a time.
The following is an interview we recently had with Joe Markham, Founder and CEO of Block66.
1. As Founder and CEO of Block66, what inspired you to create a blockchain-powered platform for the mortgage?
JM: Throughout my career as a broker, I've consistently managed multiple sets of clients at the same time. I've worked with big banks along with mortgage-specific lenders, MIC (Mortgage Investment Corps), and individual private lenders. One thing I've noticed from working with so many people is that each person has their own unique set of needs while lenders have numerous product and lending criteria.
Because of that, I understand how challenging it is to balance the demands of clients with that of borrowers. Moreover, the situation is even worse when those demands are being asked on paper or over the phone, which results in a tedious, paper-driven, time-consuming mortgage process that constantly includes new rates, rules, and regulations to follow.
Based on the difficulties I experienced, I wanted to create a technology that would solve these major pain points and innovate the mortgage industry as a whole. This led to the development of Block66, which is a blockchain-powered platform that will bring a new sense of ease to brokers, borrowers, lenders and all participating in the mortgage process.
2. What pain points does Block66 hope to solve on a day-to-day basis for mortgage brokers?
JM: Block66 will solve a number of issues. However, the biggest problem our blockchain solution will resolve is mortgage fraud. This is a top concern for the industry—but our platform will decrease mortgage fraud by pulling applicants' information (i.e. pay stubs, tax document, credit information, etc.) directly from the source and storing it on the blockchain. Not only will this prevent applicants from attempting to lie on their mortgage applications, but it will also help brokers verify borrowers' information to ensure everything is correct before any funds are released.
Besides mitigating mortgage fraud, Block66 ends the paper-driven, time-consuming application process that's been plaguing the mortgage industry. It usually takes 30-45 days for a borrower to get their mortgage approved and funded—the various steps, criteria, and people involved make this process incredibly slow. And things get worse when the process is driven by paper. Block66, however, will make the approval and funding process more efficient by providing a blockchain-powered platform that gives everyone insight into where an application stands and what information is still needed from the borrower. Essentially, Block66 will be the one stop shop for borrowers, brokers, and everyone else involved.
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- An increase in transparency: With a blockchain-powered solution, it'll be easy and possible for everyone in the mortgage process to check the status of an application, see available products, review the criteria to receive those products, and a get a high-level overview of the approved mortgage compared to others made available to the client. While the mortgage industry has run on paper-driven processes and face-to-face communication, Block66 will transform the approval and funding process by bringing visibility and transparency.
- A viable audit trail: Block66 will also act as a mortgage hub that pulls and stores borrowers' bank information, pays stubs, tax documents, and other relevant documents. This will result in an immutable audit trail that brokers and lenders can follow to avoid high underwriting costs and the back-and-forth it takes to verify a borrower's claims. This will also be beneficial for borrowers because they won't have to wait long periods of time to get their mortgage funded.
- A decrease in mortgage fraud: Writing and submitting fraudulent information in support of your mortgage application is the easiest thing for borrowers to do. Every day, there's a new story about this being reported. However, Block66 will put an end to mortgage fraud by pulling and storing borrowers' information directly from the source, making documents safe, secure, and immutable.
4. What are the top 3 trends in the mortgage industry that you see gaining traction by the end of 2018?
- Technology adoption: There is a growing demand from current and potential home owners to be able to complete the entire mortgage transaction online or on mobile. A complete digital transaction will be ushered in by Block66.
- Increased regulation: Since the 2008 mortgage crisis, regulation and guidelines have continued to become more rigid and strict. Lenders are more risk averse—but they are also trying to find solutions to cater to the entire mortgage market. This will bring on more underwriting policies and guidelines, making it harder for brokers, bankers, and underwriters to efficiently place a mortgage in the best mortgage product.
- HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit) and refinancing: Home values are continuing to increase or have already reached all-time highs. As a result, more home owners will consider staying in their homes to leverage the equity within their home and pay off debt, pay for education, or renovate. As this demand grows, borrowers will be seeking a fast, efficient and secure method of accessing this built up equity.


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Preparing for a career as a Yorktown Physical Therapist
Physical therapy can be a very rewarding and fulfilling occupation; on the other hand, there are various considerations that should be made prior to commencing a venture into the position. While it is intriguing and difficult, the path to become a physical therapist can be a daunting one with numerous difficulties. We prepared this piece to supply you some insight into the measures needed to become a physical therapist.
Steps to become a physical therapist in Yorktown VA
1. Grasp The Career
People who have lost critical functions of their body may seek a physical therapist to assist them to recoup the lost systems. This could be because of injury or disability. There are numerous tasks and difficulties that a physical therapist may confront. It is necessary to take these into consideration.
As a physical therapist you may work with people dealing with extreme medical conditions such as Parkinson's Disease, and head or spinal chord injuries. These conditions call for very specialized therapy. To work with these individuals, it is essential to possess the skill to address the various aspects of the challenging therapy on a long term basis.
2. Acquire College Admission Information
Though it is possible to become a physical therapy assistant and advance from this position using a Bachelor's degree, it is recommended that one secure a postgraduate degree in a medical field. This academic background is crucial. You won't have success without it. This applies even more so to the field of neurology which requires intimate expertise of more complicated conditions.
Make sure to acquire admission info from Yorktown VA schools early in the process!
3. On The Job Experience
Field experience can't be emphasized enough as an essential detail to achieving a job in the physical therapy industry. While you will need to complete your post graduate residency, you may need to consider volunteer work at rehab centers throughout your undergraduate study. If the rehabilitation clinic specializes in neurological therapy, you can achieve even higher knowledge for use in the future in your career. Hours achieved through this form of volunteer work will be attributed to your post graduate residency.
4. Gain Mentorship
Identifying someone experienced as a physical therapist is mosting likely to be very beneficial to your success in graduate school. The knowledge and insight a coach can supply is priceless. This information will ready you for what to expect as a physical therapist.
5. Get Certified By Your Virginia As A Physical Therapist
Getting your state certification is one of the last steps to becoming a physical therapist. Every state will provide a distinct physical therapy certification exam you will be required to take before you have the opportunity to practice. The tests are conducted by an association of physical therapists. In fact, one can only practice as a licensed therapist once licensed in a minimum of two separate states. While this does make the process more difficult, it also makes your abilities more unique and important in the marketplace.


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I was presented with a new twist on the same theme yesterday. I live in a condo where we have a group of separate garages, little "car condos" if you will. I have it mainly to keep my bikes to work on and to store the car in really bad weather during the winter. I was puttering around working on my son's bike when a neighbor was walking past and asked me how the "bike shop" was doing. I didn't get it at first, and responded that they were all doing really well with the good weather, I was looking forward to getting this project finished so I could clear out some of the old stuff I didn't need. He looked a little surprised and asked if I wasn't selling the bikes I worked on. I guess that's a reasonable question to somebody who sees this:
when they walked by. "Oh, God NO!" I said, "these are all ours."
"You really use all these?" he said.
I explained that there were three, my Trek roadie, Byron the townie and the Hunq for touring/off road riding that I use on a regular basis. I pointed out my son's campus bike and the mixte was being built as a faster version for him.
He said he was really impressed, he had assumed I was building them for sale since I had so many.
There we go again, like the friends who laughed uproariously when I mentioned having 5 bikes,
he had no concept of actually using a bike, it had to be a recreation, or a business.
His world was rocked a little, but he did ask advice to get his own Bianchi hybrid serviced in the area.
I was quick to steer him to a local LBS before he asked me to work on it.
I'm going to be off for a couple of days to travel to the Riv Rally East, in Cumberland, Md where a group of us with a similar brand of insanity will spend the weekend riding the Gap and CO trails through mountains.
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well yeah, I'm satisfied with the first 8 blah blah got the rest as gifts too
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well yeah, I'm satisfied with the first 8 blah blah got the rest as gifts too
I imagine there will be a limited-edition physical release of all seasons, at the proper end of the series, with S18 to the last season being thrown together with impromptu menus and minimal features, just to round out the series and have a comprehensive and interesting collector's item for fans.
Always happy to meet new fans of The Simpsons. I'm especially interested in the dubs of the show, the German dub in particular.
Incidentally, there's someone on Boards and Rec also named Lance Uppcercut. That's not me.... that is to say, that is not the same person.
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i seriously doubt that. if we get anything it will be a complete series set that no rational human being would buy
but anyway, as someone mentioned already, fox is pushing hard for FXX to be successful. it's why they put their most popular FX sitcoms at the time (always sunny, the league) onto a channel that wasn't widely available at all. it's why they finally syndicated the simpsons and made it available online, and it's why they won't sell DVDs for a while (more incentive for people to want FXX, so more incentive for cable providers to provide it). this isn't new for fox either. they have multiple sports channels that 99% of people wouldn't give a fuck about but that fox gets included on cable packages by leveraging stuff people actually do care about. it's why cable costs so much and it's bullshit. i can't wait for the whole cable empire to implode and for there to be a real a la carte option out there.
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eh it was pretty good.
I'll never try to be mildly amusing ever again
Here is a picture of a recent commentary recording.
Who can name the people in the picture?
Back is Jean and Silverman. The two at the front-left are Gammill and Long.
Instead of replying to this DVD thread that will never come out, why not just make a season 18 commentary thread and continue on with a season 19 commentary thread.
Because this one is just fine and there's no need to clutter the forum with unnecessary threads.
Favorite and least favorite by season
1. Life on the Fast Lane Homers Night Out 2. Bart Gets an F Dead Putting Society 3. Homer at the Bat Like Father, Like Clown 4. Brother From the Same Planet Krusty Gets Kancelled 5. Cape Feare Lady Bouviers Lover 6. Homer Badman Another Simpsons Clip Show 7. King-Size Homer Lisa the Iconoclast 8. Homers Enemy The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase 9. Bart Carny The Trouble With Trillions 10. Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo Homer Simpson in: Kidney Trouble 11. Guess Whos Coming to Criticize Dinner? Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder 12. HOMЯ Tennis the Menace 13. Tales From the Public Domain She of Little Faith 14. The Dad Who Knew Too Little Helter Shelter 15. I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot Bart-Mangled Banner 16. A Star is Torn On a Clear Day I Cant See My Sister 17. My Fair Laddy Bonfire of the Manatees 18. The Haw-Hawed Couple You Kent Always Say What You Want 19. Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind All About Lisa 20. Gone Maggie Gone The Good, the Sad and the Drugly 21. The Bob Next Door The Color Yellow 22. Donnie Fatso Love is a Many Strangled Thing 23. The Falcon and the Dohman A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again 24. Hardly Kirk-ing Moonshine River 25. The War of Art What to Expect When Barts Expecting 26. Sky Police Lets Go Fly a Coot 27. Halloween of Horror Lisa With an S 28. There Will Be Buds Moho House 29. Springfield Splendor Throw Grampa From the Dane 30. Daddicus Finch I Want You (Shes So Heavy) 31. Thanksgiving of Horror Warrin Priests (Part Two)
Somebody stàrt a season 18 commentary thread.
It might come out by another company like KOTH....
KOTH stopped coming out because the DVDs had piss sales. simpsons is done because DVDs are becoming defunct in the mainstream. companies are still releasing them, but they're a lot less popular, especially with TV shows. it doesn't help that the simpsons DVDs use expensive packaging and come with a lot of special features. if they are eventually released then you can be sure most, if not all of this stuff will be gone
The Simpsons - Are the sales really that bad? No, they aren't
66,000 is good, not poor
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For those of you hoping for good news, we're sorry, instead you'll find the op-ed piece below.
Al Jean, showrunner on The Simpsons made news back in April when he tweeted that they wouldn't release any more seasons of the show on DVD or Blu-ray. At the time that didn't make sense to us, so we went digging and guess what? It still doesn't make sense.
The Simpsons wrapped their 26th season in May, and have amassed a huge following over the years. Fans want to own the show on DVD, and Fox has released seasons 1-17, and season 20 on the format, starting in 2001 with the release of season 1. There's a gap between seasons 17 and 20 because Fox released season 20 on DVD and BD shortly after it aired in 2010, and they haven't gone back to fill in the hole, and it appears they never would.
It's no secret that DVD sales have dropped off, with many turning to streaming formats (also, because most of the good stuff has already been released), but it's a bit shocking that sales of The Simpsons would get to the point where they can't be released. The past few years has seen the rise of "Manufacture-on-Demand" (MOD) releases for shows that aren't popular enough for pressed discs, but still have enough of a following to turn a profit for the studios. Fox has released a number of shows on the MOD format, using it for shows that weren't as successful as they had hoped, but still want to release for fans. This is definitely an avenue that they could explore for The Simpsons, but they really shouldn't have to.
The fact is, The Simpsons DVDs are selling well enough that they should continue to be released on DVD. Season 17, which was released on December 2, 2014 has sold 55,032 copies on DVD, and 11,421 copies on Blu-ray according to Videoscan numbers (week ending July 12), and that's just for North America (don't forget The Simpsons is a global brand). I asked a studio representative at another company what he thought of those numbers and his response was "We would kill to have titles that sold like that." Yes, those numbers are approximately half of the sales of season 16, but the numbers are still excellent given the market today. I think there's more to this story than "sales numbers are poor." Maybe their sales expectations are too high and they would rather make no money off DVD sales than less money.
Something isn't adding up here because 66,000+ units of a show shouldn't be considered "poor sales." Fox, or Gracie films (whichever controls the DVD releases) should release this on DVD, release it as a MOD title, or they should license it to a third party; apparently there are companies willing to kill for those numbers.
If someone from the show wants to reach out and correct any of this information, we'd be more than happy to include it here.
Taken from: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sim...#ixzz3hK3HV8HX
This DVD/blu-ray saga has been so fucking weird. The series was touted as the best selling TV show on DVD back in the day, I even have DVD inserts to prove it. While I totally understand that sales declined once the golden era was released, the latter teen seasons were still pulling good numbers. My only guesses are:
• FXX and Simpsons World somehow was the sole reason, not due to it cutting into sales, but a contract stipulation stated that FOX Home Entertainment and other third party companies could not release any more titles. This, I feel, is the most likely. Yeah, it sounds shady as fuck, but it would make the most sense.
• FOX got greedy, they wanted seasons 16+ to sell closer to seasons 1-10. Even though the numbers were good, they were not up to FOX's lofty (and unreasonable) expectations.
• The price of DVD production cost too much. Not the discs, but the fully animated menus, the original art, the double sided panorama on the DVD boxes. Honestly, if production cost was the issue, I would have been totally cool with static menus and stripped down cases with the usual plastic box and a slipcover.
It boggles my mind still that FOX ceased production when lesser shows have enjoyed MOD DVD releases. Let's not kid ourselves, modern Simpsons on MOD DVD would sell just as well, if not better than, most of FOX's other MOD titles.
It only looks worse when Al admits this is the first time he has seen the numbers, makes me truly think it was some FXX contract stipulation. If not, then why not go the MOD DVD route or give another company the contract to release seasons 18+? Doesn't FOX want money?
so they're probably gonna end up releasing the rest of the series anyway huh? how unexciting
I feel like fox just stopped releasing them because they want people to watch the reruns on fxx, instead of buying the dvd. I am currently in the process of making seasons 18 and 19 on dvd for myself, designing even cover art and disc art, and menus, screw live tv.
The Commentaries are really what i want...... The DVD's were nice and mu collection seems " Incomplete" but i assumed this would happen based on the volume of seasons and the changing media landscape
dumb that they stopped making dvds
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If the Simpsons ends at season 30, and there is a large DVDs set, that would cost lots of money. At LEAST each season would be $10, so that is already $300, but If each season is $30, that's $900, which is a lot. Also, if they just release one large boxset, people who own 1-17 and 20 already would have to buy them again just to get seasons 18, 19, and 21+
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Parrikar blames 'wrong translation' in his reply to EC
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was sent a notice by Election Commission for allegedly "abetting the offence of bribery during electoral process" in Goa has puportedly told the poll panel that his words were wrongly translated, informed sources said.
On January 29, while addressing a gathering in North Goa, Parrikar said: "...Now also someone will give you Rs 1,000... We give Rs 1,500 every month. After five years, 1,500 will become 90,000 and this will also increase."
"Today, take from anyone Rs 2,000 and vote for them... There is no problem if somebody roams around by taking Rs 500 but just vote for the Lotus."
Parrikar was speaking in Konkani language, and was reported by the District Electoral Officer of North Goa.
The EC had sent a notice to Parrikar and sought his explanation by February 3.
Informed sources in the poll panel said Parrikar in his reply said what he meant to say was changed due to incorrect translation from Konkani to English.
The EC is "examining" Parrikar's reply and would decide further action in due time, the source said.
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Has anyone ever created an SQL report in UCCX to get the skill configuration per agent?
Not sure about SQL, but if you have recent version of CCX you can use the API and access skill info per agent with the following GET, and then parse the XML with some programming i.e Python, etc.
Thank you Chris
when I run this command, I'm getting error "Unable to start ManagerManagerImpl. Command failed". Are you familiar with this?
Here's the simple version of the query:
admin:run uccx sql db_cra select s.skillname from skill s
Unable to start ManagerManagerImpl
Command failed.
You're hitting a bug where a file (MMIStart.txt) on CCX is either missing or has the wrong permissions. You'll have to open a TAC case to fix that.
Not sure if it's the same bug, but here's the file in question if you wanted to reference a bug ID when contacting TAC: CSCuq99787.
Not sure what version of CCX you're running, but I've seen that same error message on CCX 10.5, 10.6, & 11.0.


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Kingsley Schools Work to Heal Following Student Suicides
"We're a very small, tight-knit community. We all know each other, we know each other's kids."
The Kingsley community working together after a third student committed suicide.
Now reaching out to students, teachers, and parents.
This weekend, Kingsley held a funeral for an eighth grader, the third teenager to take their own life since last summer.
While the community is reeling, the school district is working hard on resources for both kids and adults.
"If somebody reaches out to you for help or if something doesn't seem right to you, it probably isn't. Stay with that kid to make sure they get the help they need," says Kingsley superintendent Keith Smith.
Kingsley lost an eighth, ninth, and 10th grader: three student suicides in the last nine months.
"We had more kids than ever take advantage of counseling, 55. In one regard it's good that kids are reaching out to get the help. But this last week has really been focused on counseling staff and kids and helping them work through the grieving process," Smith said.
For all the focus that's on the kids, and rightly so, the parents and teachers may be having a hard time too.
"Inside, teachers are really struggling because they were so close to these kids. And some of them, some feel like they went above and beyond to make really deep connections. They feel like what did I do wrong or what else could have I been doing," said interim middle school principal, Pamela Alfieri.
Parents are encouraged to talk with their kids in age-appropriate ways, and should check in on their kids' social media. A post was shared with 9&10 News on an app that allows users to send messages anonymously, suggesting that whoever received it should be the "4th suicide".
"In terms of dealing with kids there's probably nothing good that's going to come out of allowing people to communicate with you anonymously. If a child feels this is still their only option or a way to solve a problem clearly there's more we can be doing," Smith said.
Smith says the district is working on a series of assemblies, guest speakers, classroom lessons, and even a movie night with a nationwide group on suicide prevention.
"That's really the challenge is there's not really a one size fits all curriculum in terms of giving kids different skills and coping skills," he said.
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GroovyTek takes a personalized approach anchored in respect and patience to help folks become confident navigating personal technology independently and on their own terms.
GroovyTek is looking to connect with DU faculty and students on the following projects:
- Program Evaluation: We would like to evaluate our consulting model and workshops for efficacy and reach with our clients.
- Curriculum Development/Internship: We would like to explore the potential of developing a mentorship program between college-aged students and older generations who need help using personal technology.
- Creative Works: We would like to partner with DU Faculty/Student teams who see a need for our services either internally or externally with community groups you engage with.


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We are still dispatching all items as quickly as possible. Orders containing food, health & safety, and other essential products will be prioritized.
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We have BigFix clients installed on multiple non-resistent linux Servers.
these servers are regularly decommisoned and reinstalled the next day or some days later.
The network/server name remains identical, but due to a new deployment, the agent ID is different.
The result is a new server in BigFix and new instances discovered in BigFix inventory or ILMT.
The old server is manually removed from the BigFix database and the new server is processed as usual, with new instances.
This means a lot of additional manual processing.
is there a way to prevent this process?
Can we assign a identical agent-Id to a new installed agent, and how do we do this?
Or is there another procedure to prevent this from happening?
Any help is appreciated.
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Ed Brown 1911 Grip 5" Two-Piece Guide Rod, Stainless
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Ed Brown products are used by enthusiasts and professionals around the world, from discriminating collectors of fine firearms, to executives who can afford the best, to elite military operators whose lives depend upon their equipment. Two-piece guide rods are preferred for standard 5″ guns because they will disassemble much easier. Will drop-in to all 1911 types with correct slide length using a 5" barrel.


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Middle School Auditions
- Saturday, January 11, 2020
- Saturday, January 18, 2020 (Snow Date)
Middle Creek High School
123 Middle Creek Park Ave.
Apex, NC 27539
$10.00 per audition; $10.00 per school and/or division. The Postmark Deadline for Audition Fees and Registration Form is Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Late registrations will not be accepted. Please print the registration form confirmation page and send a copy with your payments to:
Tony Powell
Mills Park Middle School
441 Mills Park Drive
Cary, NC 27519
Make checks out to: ECDBA
Procedural Instructions
You will find all information regarding the audition included in the East Central District Bandmasters Association All-District Audition Procedures Handbook. Be sure to read through the entire document for information pertaining to:
- specifics duties and responsibilities of chair person, sight host, and judging captains
- director and student eligibility
- registration procedures (Change for 2010-2011: There will be NO late registrations and/or day-of registrations accepted)
- audition regulations
- day of director and student check-in procedures
- student audition and judging procedures
- student runner responsibilities
- band placement
- sample score sheets
- rubrics for scoring procedures
MS 2019-2020 All District Solos
Middle School Audition Scales – Revised 5/2015 to reflect order of 4ths starting on G-Concert through Db Concert
- Scales must be played in order they are posted above (update 5/2015).
- Scales must be memorized. (update 9/2015)
- Scales must be performed in 3 minutes or less. (update 9/2015)
- Students will have 45 seconds for their sight reading performance.
- All directors and judges must register immediately upon arrival at the auditions. At that time, you will be asked to present your current NAfME membership card. Check to see when your membership expires. It is your responsibility to make sure your membership is current. If your NAfME membership is not current, your students will not be allowed to audition. Additionally, all directors are expected to complete the on-line registration for ECDBA membership.
- Every director is expected to participate in judging, in the scoring room, or other duties as assigned. If you do not plan on participating your students will not be allowed to audition.
Click link -> MS All District Audition Registration (TWO different submit buttons, Director AND Student Registration, make sure you get both done please)
Registration due December 11, 2019
Middle School Auditions Co-Chairs:
Tony Powell
Mills Park MS
Middle School Site Host:
Andy Weiss
Middle Creek HS
123 Middle Creek Park Ave.
Apex, NC 27539


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The 1586A Super-DAQ is the most accurate and flexible temperature data acquisition system on the market. It scans and records temperature, dc voltage, dc current, and resistance for up to 40 input channels and scan speeds as fast as 10 channels per second. The Super-DAQ can be configured for use as a multi-channel data logger in the factory or as a precision reference thermometer for benchtop sensor calibration in the lab.
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State officials say the fungal disease called Rapid 'Ōhi'a Death is continuing to threaten native 'ōhi'a trees on the Big Island. 'Ōhi'a covers about 865,000 acres statewide. Recent surveys show the disease has now impacted nearly 50,000 acres on the Big Island, an increase of a little more than a third from earlier this year.
But the new data reveals the disease has not spread to other islands. J.B. Friday, an extension forester with the University of Hawai'i, remained optimistic about containing the disease.
"The spread on the Big Island happened before we knew what was going on," said Friday, who emphasized that this was the first time the disease had been found in 'ōhi'a. "So it spread quite widely before we knew what was going on."
"We continue to test possible trees from other islands. We've tested dozens of samples so far," he said, explaining that none had come up positive for Rapid 'Ōhi'a Death. "But if one does turn up positive, we'll be implementing measures to stop it from spreading from there."
'Ōhi'a is critical to Hawai'i's native ecosystem, especially the island's water source. It also provides habitat for native birds and species. The tree and its blossom, 'ōhi'a lehua, is also culturally important to Native Hawaiians.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources plans to continue aerial surveys twice a year across the state. Last year the state Department of Agriculture issues a temporary quarantine rule, banning interisland transport of the wood without a permit. The DOA is now deciding whether to make that rule permanent.
A video on Rapid 'Ōhi'a Death from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources:
Rapid Ohia Death Statewide Survey Results from Hawaii DLNR on Vimeo.


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State Treasurer Michael L. Fitzgerald recently awarded nine College Savings Iowa accounts, over $22,000 in total prizes, to finish College Savings Iowa's 20-Year Celebration. Iowans across the state with children and grandchildren under the age of 18, were encouraged to sign up for the celebration giveaway. Four entrants were awarded $5,000 accounts and five entrants were awarded $529 accounts. The nine winners ranged from 18 months old to 17 years old, representing communities from all over the entire state.
"I was extremely happy and encouraged to see so many Iowans participate in our 20-Year Celebration giveaway," stated Fitzgerald. "Our goal for College Savings Iowa is to encourage families to start saving early for their loved one's higher educational expenses. This celebration was to help spread the word of savings with College Savings Iowa."
College Savings Iowa attended various events across the state this past September and October to help spread the message about the growth of College Savings Iowa over the past 20 years while also looking towards the future and getting more families involved. While learning about the plan, families were able to register for the 20-Year Celebration giveaway.
College Savings Iowa is now celebrating the holiday season with another giveaway. All Iowa families with a child or grandchild under 18 years old can visit Iowa529Contest.com to register for their chance to win a $1,000 College Savings Iowa giveaway account. This giveaway is open from December 1 through December 31 and a current College Savings Iowa account is not required to enter.
Opening a College Savings Iowa account is simple. With as little as $25 and ten minutes anyone can start investing on behalf of a child. To learn more about College Savings Iowa, please visit collegesavingsiowa.com or call 1-888-672-9116. You can also connect with College Savings Iowa on Facebook and Twitter (Iowa529Plan) to learn about upcoming events and giveaways.


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Chocolate Cards (Poulain Orange)
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7 French cards of La Fontaine fables from Chocolat Poulain Orange. 2½" x slightly more than 4". Imp. A. Norgeu, Paris. $28 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, March, '01.
These small portrait-formatted cards command "Exigez Chocolat Poulain Orange" at the top in brown against a green background and then comment "C'est le meilleur." Just beneath is a circular illustration in full color. Beneath that is a brown-on-green design and sometimes a (long) fable title. Two elements finish the downward movement of the card: from six to fifteen lines of the fable and, in the bottom right, a card number. Four of the seven cards present "L'Homme qui court après la Fortune et l'Homme qui l'attend dans son Lit." They are numbered 1, 4, 5, and 6. Two others present "Le Savetier et le Financier" and are numbered 3 and 6. The final card presents The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse and is numbered 1. I presume that there were six in each set. How many sets might have existed? The two illustrations on one card allow for some good effects, as when The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse #1 shows in the larger colored circle a pair of humans--city and country dwellers, to judge from their clothing--but presents the mice in the lower design. Again, the first view of the differing friends shows them together inside a building, while the design shows a stagecoach ready to leave. The backs of the cards are uniform in picturing a can of Cacao Poulain and praising its contents. These cards are identical in design with those in a set I list under Norgeu; the latter cards lack mention of Poulain.


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Bill Lombardi of PowerSphyr breaks down how paradigm-busting technologies such as artificial intelligence can build up your business.
There is a lot of energy and momentum around the uses to which artificial intelligence and analytics can be deployed to enhance business operational processes. But if you're not a data scientist, it may be a little challenging to know what can be really achieved versus what may be merely hype or conjecture.
To help promote greater clarity on this topic, we reached out to Bill Lombardi, the recently named chief information officer for PowerSphyr, a company which provides wireless battery charging and comprehensive battery system solutions. Bill has over twenty years of industry experience in the design and implementation of integrated advanced analytic and artificial intelligence solutions across industries. Prior to joining PowerSphyr, Bill served as a Global Sales and Delivery Executive for the IBM Watson AI Global Center of Competence, in which he led client cross-functional teams through user-centered design and value creation.
"Imagine the quality of customer experience when human agents focus on complex issues and are provisioned for success with intelligent virtual agents of their own that 'listen' to the conversation and proactively serve up best candidates for response. This effectively allows humans to use AI to create a panel of agents who become overnight product and process 'experts' with accurate and personable responses that enable them to help address the most challenging of customers."
– Bill Lombardi, PowerSphyr
ANSWERS: How do you see AI playing into predictive business analytics and forecasting, particularly in the near future? How can you use natural language processing and image recognition and those things to help with your business analytics if you're a business owner?
BILL LOMBARDI: There are a lot of ways, and it touches what I call the entire value chain. If you think of it, most organizations are in the marketplace doing much of the same basic activities. They either buy or harvest product in some raw form, and that could even be information. Then there's some element of manufacturing, assembly or massaging into a finished good or final product. They then market and distribute their finished product, and sell it for profit, right? In today's digitized marketplace, business now has an efficient opportunity to "sense and respond" to the end-customer experience on a personal level, closing the loop. The ability to efficiently validate and respond to the customer experience at an individual level typically only occurred when a customer had a complaint. While complaints still exist, companies can now begin to understand the "silent attrition" that occurs when a customer simply defects to a competitor with no notice, as well as to respond to those customers who were "delighted" with their experience – opening doors to revenue generating up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
When you close the sale and capture that consumer you typically know who they are. They've either filled out a warranty card, they happen to be a loyal shopper (if you're a retailer), or they gave you that information in advance. You can now start to attach attributes of interest to that individual – attributes of behavior with elements that are afforded to you openly by that individual, say on a community website or when they speak out in the public space of social media.
ANSWERS: Do you think companies and organizations are going to find themselves at a point where they're going to have to have greater dataset sharing in order to push AI development faster?
LOMBARDI: Really, it's a bit of the Wild West out there right now. You've got a lot of well-intended companies looking for that next gold mine. Over the last 10 years or so, just staying within the practical business analytics sphere for consumer demand forecasting new product innovation, there were different types of companies starting to form. Some of them are very niche-focused, algorithmically driven entities that don't own their own data. They're partnering with companies to use their data or have access to public information that is consumable in some form.
They're rapidly testing what I call "for purpose solutions," such as the capability to automate a contact center. The Pareto Principle for contact centers is pretty real – 80% of call volume typically represents 20% of the typical problems, and most of these are simple questions that have prescribed answer sets, which are turned into Frequently Asked Questions. These 80% of calls are being deflected more and more to an efficient "Virtual Agent" or chat bot, freeing up contact center agents to handle the more complex, nested issues and questions they are best equipped for. In addition, these contact center agents are increasingly being provided with "intelligent" support systems that "listen" to the customer and serve up candidate responses based on analysis of customer history, cross referencing databases for fraud assessment, etc.
Over my career I have witnessed businesses willing to spend heavily on R&D, Efficient Supply Chain, and Trade and Marketing support to win in the marketing funnel battle, only to fall short when it comes to providing empathic and personal customer service to customers following purchase. Imagine the quality of customer experience when human agents focus on complex issues and are provisioned for success with intelligent virtual agents of their own that "listen" to the conversation and proactively serve up best candidates for response. This effectively allows humans to use AI to create a panel of agents who become overnight product and process "experts" with accurate and personable responses that enable them to help address the most challenging of customers.
ANSWERS: How do you see AI and similar technologies impacting the human capital needs and business strategies of companies in the coming decade?
LOMBARDI: There are two points of view on that. One I'll call the employee point of view, and the other the industry point of view. When I say industry, I don't mean necessarily just business leaders, but the drivers of those leaders, which is Wall Street. What does Wall Street represent? In many ways, it represents our workers' investment in their own futures, with retirement planning and investment strategies. We create this business cycle ourselves as a society and oftentimes are unaware of who's driving the bus.
The conveniences that citizens achieve through advances in technology come in many ways and at some greater expense. That greater expense may be displacement of workers. I would like to think that it actually improves the qualities of work for those who are flexible and willing to come along for the ride. Retraining and staying up on new technologies and staying competitive yourself, taking self-responsibility for your own future and your value in this new world involving rapid advances in technology, not only prepares us for the new jobs that are evolving, but make us more aware of when technology may not be designed and suited to our best interests.
For example, I had the privilege of working with graduate students at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs earlier this year. With the Capstone team, we identified five applications of AI in detail: autonomous vehicles, autonomous weapons, financial risk pricing, customer recommendations and healthcare diagnostics as well as contrasting views of AI regulation across the U.S., EU, Japan and China.
What we saw from this research is that despite AI's popularity, many people (including policymakers) fundamentally misunderstand and mischaracterize AI's potential. There is clear need for vendors to address the consumer perception gap and work together to shape public opinion through transparency and proactive outreach. Now, I'm not saying organizations have to wait to develop and deploy AI advances until the public is fully on board with how it works. However, by not doing so will likely result in lower adoption rates and sales projections communicated to the investment communities.
There needs to be a collective industry effort to coordinate and communicate greater transparency and understanding around the personal data and dimensions collected and how they are used to provide the benefit that end users experience. Why? According to one of the studies reviewed for the project, a surprising statistic for the U.S. was cited, which if I recall correctly indicated that only about 30% of the U.S. general population was even aware that their personal information (culled from search engine queries, location information, social media, government records, website engagement, purchase behavior, music curation, etc.) is being actively mined to create "for purpose" consumer level profiles.
With the right dimensions, consumer profiling data can then provide very detailed dimensions on personality attributes and psychological composition that provide marketers with a rather intimate look at an individual's emotive triggers and predispositions, and use those to provide targeted communications. In the right hands, companies use this data to enrich and personalize the consumer experience. In the hands of bad actors, however, this data may be used to target and recruit "at risk" individuals into extremist groups, perpetrate fraud, change elections, etc. A result is that it's forcing "good actors" to address the challenge of creating transparency and establishing trust with its consumer base.
My concern with recent developments in the commercial AI marketplace is that companies are moving fast, providing agile releases of minimum viable solutions that rely on personal consumer data without fully vetting security and weighing in the "business risk" that comes with cybersecurity breaches. In 2018, that changed with the implementation of the European GDPR regulations which hold businesses accountable for permissible use of customer data and assignment of power to individuals as stewards of their own data. This is a social experiment that Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers plan to watch carefully.
In contrast to AI, think about the advent of scientific breakthroughs in pharma, and what it takes to bring a drug to market in the United States. My understanding from colleagues in that industry is there is a very robust regulatory review process, including testing, validation, peer reviews, etc., and that it can take up to 10 years to bring a new drug from concept to market. The rationale is to protect the public from unintended consequences.
Now contrast that to the AI scenario where fundamentally anyone, anywhere can design and launch an activated "Virtual Agent" to comb and dialog with users, collect private data for a targeted business purpose, or (in the case of a "bad actor") to initiate malicious activity. In the U.S. we have governing organizations to target and remove "bad actors" in the drug market; however, it is unclear what is being considered as a plan to protect the American public from "bad actors" online.
I believe there is a public safety need for educating our digital society with guidelines around proper communication decorum on social media, helping them to understand how their direct communication (image, chat, etc.) and observable behaviors (i.e. web navigation, keyword search) can fall into the wrong hands. Data abuse can be misused to direct communications to reinforce or change the way people think, feel, buy or even vote.
Given the low turnout rates for the voting public in the U.S., just getting someone out to vote with an emotive message is huge. Now consider if that message is skewed or hinders a population from going to the polls because maybe they believe press reports they're receiving that could be malicious and fake; maybe it suggests that their candidate has already secured the vote and is elected, and they are led to feel that breaking away from the routine of their day for an hour to go to the polls is just not necessary.
There is a lot for society to think about as we move forward. Until we build that trust level with organizations that bring products to market, with their ability to securitize our information, I think we will see a litmus test bellwether piece of legislation begin to unfold in the next year. I'm excited to see what changes that will bring.
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In our new series, AI Experts, we interview thought leaders from a variety of disciplines — including technology executives, academics, robotics experts and policymakers — on what we might expect as the days race forward towards our AI tomorrow.


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The pandemic has focussed librarians' attention on copyright. WIPO has some new initiatives that affect the situation.
Posted 01 June 2020
OpenMonographs.org wants to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing.
Posted 04 December 2019
Report covers mapping of trends, actors and initiatives regarding the potential cross-border legal challenges that could be encountered in cyberspace.
Posted 29 November 2019
Almost 50,000 free to use images released.
Posted 04 November 2019
Aim is to provide links between citations and digital content.
Posted 02 November 2019
Regulator hits Google-owned site with record $170m fine.
Posted 05 September 2019
Educational publisher wants to make its learning resources digital first.
Posted 18 July 2019
Nature journals have unified their preprint sharing strategy.
Posted 21 May 2019
Global Alliance of Open Access Scholarly Communication Platforms launched at a session organised by UNESCO.
Posted 23 April 2019
Refunds made available because your books won't be.
Posted 04 April 2019
Two days of discussions about academic publishing covered China's role in OA, Plan S, value propositions, book publishing and much more. The event was not without controversy!
Posted 06 March 2019
The UK is one of the first countries to extend library lending compensation to cover e-lending.
Posted 28 February 2017
Five European research organisations call on legislators to modify current EU copyright reform proposals to future proof European research excellence.
Posted 13 January 2017
The European Court of Justice has granted French authors the right to be forgotten.
Posted 28 November 2016
Protests against another example of Spain's Gagging Laws.
Posted 15 November 2016
New company name revealed as Clarivate Analytyics.
Posted 07 October 2016
Collaboration to raise awareness of censorship.
Posted 28 September 2016
Yahoo has at last confirmed that it suffered a data breach in 2014.
Posted 23 September 2016
Lloyds of London surveyed senior leaders at almost 350 large European companies to explore their attitudes to cyber risks.
Posted 21 September 2016
The European Commission has been explaining its plans for copyright reform.
Threatened with legal action over planned sharing of data with Facebook.
Fraud costs the UK nearly £200 billion per year.
Posted 16 August 2016
Changes to rules will introduce parity with traditional telecoms companies.
How can organisations harness new tech to stay relevant and deepen relationships.
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Following the publication of a letter from the President and Vice-President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, all public acts of worship have been suspended from Friday 20th March. You can read the full letter here
Whilst we do not yet offer online live streaming of our Mass celebrations there are other churches that do.
At present Live Streaming of masses is available from different churches the nearest one we are aware of is at St Vincent's, Over Hulton. They already live stream. please follow the link to live stream services. Their website is http://stvincentsbolton.org/
Sunday mass at St Vincent's is at 10.00am.
Walsingham is also live streaming all its services – their website www.walsingham.org.uk
Further options can be found here: https://www.churchservices.tv/
Church opening times
In line with Government instructions Our Lady's and Holy Family churches will not be open for private prayer for the foreseeable future.
We will, of course, let you know when they reopen.
The Parish of Haigh, Aspull & Blackrod
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception was founded in the mid 1850's and is part of the R.C. Diocese of Salford. The Church was blessed and opened in 1858, the year of the apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes. The Church was re-ordered in the 1990's and several new stained-glass windows were installed, some made in Blackrod, and are an interesting feature of the Church.
Holy Family Parish, New Springs, was funded from Our Lady's in 1898 and in 2009 clebrated the Golden Jubilee of its Church. The community of Blackrod, Bolton, had a chapel-of-ease from 1960 to 2009 when St. Andrews Church Hall was closed.
All three areas - Haigh & Aspull, Blackrod and New Springs are now served from Our Lady's.
Rev Kevin Foulkes
48 Haigh Road
Wigan WN2 1YA
Mass Times
Holy Family
Holy Family
Holy Family
Sacrament of Reconciliation
11:30 - 12 noon
As announced
Holy Family
A Parish History ~ 1858-2018
Mr Livesey & Mr West have worked with local parishioners to produce a book about the history of our parish and school, they have kindly allowed us to reproduce an electronic version of their book, available on the Parish Page, CLICK HERE to read it.
If you would like to purchase a hard copy of the book CLICK HERE
It is a privilege and honour to write the forward to the Parish History of Our Lady's Parish, on its 160th Anniversary.
It has also been a privilege and honour, and a pleasure, to serve as Our Lady's Parish Priest since 1997 – following in the footsteps of my twenty-six predecessors.
Saint Peter writes 'He is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be living stones making a spiritual house.' (Peter 2:3-5)
We are the living stones of this Christian community – commissioned as 'missionary disciples' to be Christ's 'ambassadors' (St. Paul Cor. 5:20) in loving witness, worship and service to our community.
There have been many changes over these 160 years – in the Church, Society, Education and the design of Our Lady's Church. The priests and people of Our Lady's Parish have experienced many joyful family and Parish celebrations but also wars, peace, poverty and economic depressions, through twelve Pontificates and six Reigns – and we too are facing a challenging time for the Catholic Church. Blessed John Henry, Cardinal Newman wrote that 'To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often'.
And so, building on and celebrating our heritage – the stones of Our Lady's Church, and the 'living stones' of our dedicated, faithful and often courageous priests, parishioners and teachers in our Parish School we can face the future with confidence. We do so knowing that Jesus, Our Risen Lord, has promised to be with his Church forever. (Matthew 28:20)
I commend this publication to be read and enjoyed by everyone.
Many thanks to Phil Livesey and Neil West for their initiative to begin and to bring this book to completion and to all who have collaborated with them, with their own very interesting and often amusing memories! God bless you all.
Fr Kevin C. Foulkes


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Open Banking is finally set to take off in 2019
2018 was supposed to be a revolutionary year for financial services consumers and businesses alike. The introduction of Open Banking – an initiative which allows customers of the UK's nine largest banks and building societies to share banking data with third parties – was touted to shake up competition in the sector, and change how customers choose their service providers.
The reality is, though, that things have taken a little longer to take off than expected. The big banks, who still lay claim to the vast majority of the banking market, have been slow to build out native Open Banking solutions. Fortunately for consumers and businesses, tech providers like TrueLayer and Bud are building out-of-the-box products that enable Open Banking to work in practice.However, with more buy-in from the banks, it's fair to say that Open Banking might have more name recognition than it does right now.
With the foundations now firmly in place, though, we think 2019 has the potential to be a transformational year for Open Banking. Figures released by the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) show that the technology was used 17.5m times in November last year, up from 13.9m in October and just 6.5m in September.
And there's clearly a growing appetite among financial services providers, too. As of January 2019, fully 84% of them now have Open Banking services either live or in development, according to law firm TLT.
We're proud that Growth Street was at the forefront of the Open Banking movement in 2018. Greg Hinch, Head of Product at Growth Street, explains that "we recently integrated Open Banking into our platform to help us understand our borrowers better. Now, we're able to access real-time data on a business's financial transactions and situation. This allows our credit and risk team to make more informed decisions when reviewing an application for a loan. We can also continue to monitor all our borrowers throughout their time with us, so we can better identify how to support them."
"We were never able to do this to such an extent before Open Banking. It makes the whole process much simpler and faster, meaning our borrowers can focus on what's important to them – getting on with business – rather than lots of admin."
"Of course, it benefits our investors, too. It means we could get new borrowers approved and available to lend to far quicker. And we're able to monitor each borrower's performance closer than ever before."
It's these kinds of innovations that have helped us to be nominated recently for two awards – Best Alternative Business Funding Provider and Best Service from a Alternative Funding Provider – at the Business Moneyfacts Awards 2019. It's great to see Growth Street recognised alongside the likes of Funding Circle, Seedrs, Funding Options, ThinCats, and Assetz Capital.
This year we will continue to innovate and push the boundaries of Open Banking. There are endless opportunities to explore how we can create a financial services industry that is transparent and puts the customer in control. We want to be right at the centre of it.
(Your capital is at risk when you lend to businesses. Lending through Growth Street Exchange Ltd is not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.)


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This blog post will focus on handling exceptions thrown by event delegates.
But first we will briefly discuss what a delegate is. If you know C or C++ it is natural to think of delegates as function pointers. Why is this handy? Let's say that I have an API that will read a list of car objects from a database and return that list to the user. Something like this:
public IEnumerable GetCars() { var cars = new List<Car>(); //Get all cars from database return cars; } public class Car { //define car properties like color, weight, brand etc. }
Nothing fancy here. Now lets say we want to let the users of our API to be able to filter the cars – for instance only return red cars. We could make a new API method to return a specific color of cars, but we really can't guess what the user would like to filter on – it would be much nicer if the user could provide us with at filter method to use. First we define what the filter shall look like, and then we use it in out API:
public delegate bool Filter(Car car); public IEnumerable GetCars(Filter filter) { var cars = new List<Car>(); //Get all cars from database and the apply filter return cars.Where(car => filter(car)); }
Now we can define and use a filter that returns red cars:
public bool CarIsRed(Car car) { return car.Color == ConsoleColor.Red; } public void useGetCars() { var filteredCars = GetCars(CarIsRed); //do sutff with cars }
But the user could supply any kind of filter he desired.
So that was delegates – what is an events?
And how is it different from a delegate?
A C# event is collection of delegates that can be called by the event. So the event itself is not a delegate but you can add delegates to it using the += operator and remove them again using the –= operator.
In the following example a timer is startet, and every second the timer calls the DoTick method. The DoTick method fires the Tick event if there are any subscribers. In our case there are two subscribers Tick and Tick2 – that will write to the console.
public class Program { private static void Main(string[] args) { var t = new Ticker(); t.Tick += t_Tick; t.Tick += t_Tick2; Console.ReadKey(); } private static void t_Tick2(object sender, EventArgs e) { Console.WriteLine("Tick2"); } private static void t_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e) { //throw new Exception("boom!!"); Console.WriteLine("Tick1"); } } public class Ticker { private Timer timer; public event EventHandler<EventArgs> Tick; public Ticker() { timer = new System.Threading.Timer(DoTick, null, 1000, 1000); } private void DoTick(object state) { if (Tick != null) Tick(this, new EventArgs()); } }
This works fine – but in the t_Tick method I have hinted at a problem. What if one of the event handlers (subscribers) throws an exception? That is the topic of the next section.
What happens if one of the event handlers throws an exception.
As the code in DoTick is written now the application will be terminated – not so nice. If you are in complete control of your application you should have normal exception handling in each event handler, so execptions aren't propagated back to the place where the event was fired from.
What if I'm not in complete control of the application?
Maybe your application has support for third party plugins and the event handlers could belong to two different plugins provided by different manufactures. One of the plugins throws an exception, and we are not interested in our application going boom! The first thing you try is to rewrite DoTick like this:
private void DoTick(object state) { try { if (Tick != null) Tick(this, new EventArgs()); } catch (Exception) { //do exception handling, log the error etc. } }
Now our application doesn't crash anymore, but what happens is that the event handlers are called one at a time, and then an event handler throws an exception, it is caught, but the rest of the event handlers will not be called, meaning that one defect event handler will ruin it for everybody else.
Instead we can use the fact that an event contains a collection of delegates and that each delegate can be invoked by calling DynamicInvoke on it:
private void DoTick(object state) { if (Tick != null) { foreach (var @delegate in Tick.GetInvocationList()) { try { @delegate.DynamicInvoke(this, new EventArgs()); } catch (Exception) { //do exception handling, log the error etc. } } } }
Now only the defect event handler will fail and every body else will be able to do their job.
I don't want to write that ugly code every time I fire an event.
Yes the code is somewhat ugly and it is quite a lot to write just so we can fire an event. I already think that having to check for null is kind of stupid, since that is what you do every time – and this is event worse. Therefore I suggest to create an extensiuo method, that works for events that use the EventHandler signature. (which is what is generally recommende, so of corse you use that for all your event handlers).
public static class Utils { public static void FireEvent<T>(this EventHandler evt, object sender, T eventArgs) { if (evt != null) { foreach (var @delegate in evt.GetInvocationList()) { try { @delegate.DynamicInvoke(sender, new EventArgs()); } catch (Exception) { //do the exception handling } } } } }
Now that we have written this code once and for all, and we can fire events like this:
private void DoTick(object state) { Tick.FireEvent(this, new EventArgs()); }
Wow, that's really nice
Yes it is – you should of corse still make sure that the error handling in the try-catch in the extension method do something appropriate like logging the error, disble the offending plug-in or whatever makes sense in your situation.


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Breaking the Khmer Barrier
Story By Patrick Shelso
Photos by Kevin Radley
Traveling to a Khmer village in to the province of An Giang along the border of Cambodia was filled with a burning headache that stung after the bus hit every deep pothole. The last thing I cared about at this point was experiencing a culture still intact after centuries of war and foreign conflict. All I could do was speculate about the differences between Vietnamese and Khmer people.
I felt the unfamiliar faces staring at me as the bus traveled along the dirt road leading to the Khmer village. Each moment of shared eye contact reflected similar questions about one another.
The bus stopped on the opposite side of a lonely bamboo hut hiding three Khmer women crafting garments over ancient wooden looms. As I slowly stumbled out of the van, my brain was filled with uncertainty about the place and the people we were visiting. Millimeter by millimeter the women gradually weaved together fabric filled with elaborate designs. Every thread added to the growing stretch of fabric created more life reflecting each of the women's personalities.
After learning about Khmer way of life, specifically the role of the women working in the hut, students wanted a piece of Khmer life to take home. The thought of Americans wanting a piece of their culture caused a frenzy of excitement among the women and surrounding crowd. As students bought pieces of authentic Khmer fabric modified as skirts and scarves, happiness filled the small hut. A woman lingering in the shadows behind the looms stepped forward showing the emotions felt by everyone in the hut.
I looked at her enormous smile stretching from ear to ear. Deep wrinkles and vivid eyes accented her tan, dried leathery face that looked like it had been sanded down over the past 70 years. I looked at her bright sparkling eyes and saw the young Khmer girl she once was many years ago. Her jagged, wide-gapped teeth marked with black decay exposed the years between the past and present. Her equally haggard husband proudly displayed his mouth of gold teeth framed by an oversized smile.
My throbbing headache was lost among the smiles and laughter I shared with the Khmer people. A new appreciation for their way of life was instilled in my mind as the bus rode away from the hut. As I looked out the window, the faces that looked so foreign only an hour before peered back at me with a look of understanding that replaced the questionable feelings felt before.


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Join Miss Kristen in her Budding Ballerinas class. It is the first step into the world of ballet. Dancers will be introduced to ballet positions, techniques, and vocabulary. Learning ballet fundamentals through fun activities while growing to love dance. Please be sure to sign up your child, today!
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Bitcoin is a digital currency, world's famous cryptocurrency. Who creates Bitcoin? Its answer is not that much easy. while the identity of the creature of bitcoin is still a mystery. In last of 2008, someone going from the username Satoshi Nakamoto, release a white paper to cryptography list. The 9-page paper was entitled" Bitcoin, peer-to-peer electronic cash system". That day and today, we do not know the creature, is a personality or a team work???
With pseudonym creature, bitcoin asserts itself. In the meantime, Bitcoin creates a strong impact on users of the cryptocurrencies' world.
Now, here I am going to share bitcoin price history, its origin and how its start work, and rises as a star in cryptocurrency world.
Basically, working on bitcoin concept was started in 2007. If we consider, that Satoshi Nakamoto is a legend. He starts working on this concept to provide fair and free transaction system. While he was on record as living in Japan.
August 15, 2008:
The allege originator of Bitcoin concept denies the connection with Satoshi Nakamoto. Even so, Neal Kin, Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry file an application for an encryption patent application.
A great silence…………………………
August 18, 2008:
18 August 2008, anonymousspeeches.com register a domain, named bitcoin. A site, allows users to join and do transactions. This was the birth of Bitcoin in the real world.
October 31, 2008:
Nakamoto publishes the design white paper in cryptography list. Whereas, the paper includes that the bitcoin currency is going to solve the issue of currency being copied.
January 3, 2009:
The first block was mined on January 3, 2009. It was," Block 0, the genesis block, is established at 18:15:05 GMT.
January 9, 2009:
Version 0.1 released. It includes the generation system which creates 21Million bitcoins through 2040.
January 12, 2009:
Version 0.1 of bitcoin released on this date. Compiled
with Microsoft visual studio for windows. In which, bitcoin generation system will generate 21Million bitcoin through the year 2040. In addition, at the end of this year, on 16 December 2009, 0.2 version of bitcoin released. Whereas, 0.3 version released on July 7, 2010.
0.3.13 version of bitcoin released on September 29, 2010.
A Brief Look at Bitcoin History - First Bitcoin Transaction:
First bitcoin transaction takes place between Satoshi and Hal Finney on 12 January 2009.
Born of currency exchange:
First bitcoin market established on 6 February 2010 by doing dollar as Bitcoin currency exchange.
10,000 BTC spent on pizza:
Florida programmer, Laszlo Hanyecz pay 10,000 bitcoins for pizza. That was the real-life transaction takes place in cryptography world.
Pool mins……:
On September 18, 2010, bitcoin pool mining was introduced. Furthermore, several users work together and enjoy the benefit together.
No doubt, the most important year of the bitcoin. This year, Bitcoin wrote its history. In 2013, its market capitalization reaches $1bn. China bans this technology first. But today, 80% of bitcoin transactions are processed in China and become the largest trader of Bitcoin in the world.
In 2014, first and most progressive treatment to bitcoin was held by HMRC. Who classified bitcoin as the asset or private money.
The biggest change comes from banks and industries. Most of the banks trying to change their infrastructure. Whereas, industry executives talking about Bitcoin and some of them do transactions.
Therefore, it is too early to tell you about the story of Bitcoin in 2016. It reaches heights and sometimes faces loses.
Future Prediction of Bitcoin:
As bitcoin reaches the price of gold, and compete with many more cryptocurrencies. Which makes its strength in the financial market. Looking at the Bitcoin value history, future can be easily predicted. And my prediction is that coming era is bitcoin era.


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Artist: KORPIKLAANI
Album: "KUKIJA VINYL (2LP BLACK)"
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"Richly flourishing soundscapes instead of party anthems - KORPIKLAANI deliver us depth on the highest level!"ROCK IT! (D), Philipp Raabe"With its organic vibe and peaceful melodies, »Kulkija« invites you to take a deep breath and to relax!"METALLIAN (F)
After 3 years since the last album, Finnish Folk Metal Superstars KORPIKLAANI offer their 10th album titled »Kulkija« ("Wanderer"), set for a September 7th, 2018 release.Concluding 14 (!) tracks, »Kulkija« is their longest album, but also their most natural sounding one to date. "That's what you can clearly hear. It's closer to how we sound on stage, and we'll be able to play all new songs live, that's for sure," explains Jonne. For tracking, the band members mostly used their current tour rig.And the result was definitely worth the waiting. From the first to the last tone, a unique atmosphere guides the listeners through a long journey. "It's not just a collection of songs, it's a 'real' album," states Sami. Adds Jonne, "It needed many songs to create this atmosphere, and the record's flow is really good too. You should definitely listen to »Kulkija« as a whole. The more you listen to the record, the more details you can find." Sami Perttula explains further, "We really took our time and recorded it piece by piece. All songs were also well prepared in advance and nothing needed to be arranged in the studio like sometimes before."LP (33RPM):Side A01. Neito02. Korpikuusen kyynel03. Aallon alla04. HarmajaSide B01. Kotikonnut02. Korppikalliota03. Kallon maljaSide C01. Sillanrakentaja02. Henkselipoika03. Pellervoinen04. RiemuSide D01. Kuin korpi nukkuva02. Juomamaa03. Tuttu on tieLINE-UP:Jonne Järvelä | vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, percussion, violafonTuomas Rounakari | fiddleCane | guitar, backing vocalsJarkko Aaltonen | bassSami Perttula | accordionMatson Johansson | drums


text: With an annual turnover of €98 million, Bastei Lübbe AG, which is based in Cologne, is a large, traditional and modern company in the German publishing sector. The range offered by the twelve publishers and imprints of the media concern, which was founded more than 60 years ago and is led by the Management Board - comprising of Carel Halff (Chairman), Simon Decot, Sandra Dittert and Joachim Herbst - currently has a total of around 3,600 titles from the genres fiction, non-fiction, and children's and young people's books. Top authors such as Ken Follett, Dan Brown, Jeff Kinney, Rebecca Gablé and Andreas Eschbach, together with bestsellers such as "Die Säulen der Erde" , "Sakrileg" and "Das Jesus-Video", have made Bastei Lübbe one of the market leaders in the German-speaking publishing industry.