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Selection of the most amazing festivals around the world, like the Rio carnival, the Burning man or Oktoberfest that are already popular worldwide but we have some new festivals we recommend you should see before you die.
Oktoberfest is the world's largest fair held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is a 16-day festival running from late September to the first weekend in October
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Burning Man festival is where humans go to shed themselves of the conventions of society. If you want a break from the ordinary and can actually party 24/7, then head to the deserts of Nevada. Black Rock city Aug. 25 – Sept. 1 (for 2014)
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Bangladesh Women won the both ODI against Pak women last year in Bangladesh. Pak women & Ban Women, both team meet each other five times and PAK women won three while BAN won won two.
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"The Employer Job (PRSI) Incentive Scheme will help employers to create jobs and get people back to work" said An Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD today (20th June 2010).
Launching the new scheme, An Taoiseach said
"The Incentive Scheme for creating jobs will save an employer in the region of €3,000 from the annual cost of employing an additional worker. In this way the scheme will make it easier for employers to make the decision in favour of creating new jobs and play a significant role in re-establishing people in the workforce."
An Taoiseach also stated that the measure is being deliberately targeted at those who have been unemployed for six months or more. An Taoiseach said "The proportion of people who return to employment after a short period out of work remains relatively high. However, after 6 months on the Live Register there is a danger that people will drift into long-term unemployment and welfare dependency. For this reason the scheme will only be available for new employees who have been unemployed for 6 months or more."
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"If you have created a new job in 2010 and employed a person who had been unemployed for 6 months or more, then you should now apply for an exemption. If your application is approved you will not have to pay employer's PRSI for 12 months forward from the approval date."
Minister Ó Cuív added "We would hope that this initiative will support the creation of several thousand jobs. However, it is difficult to predict the level of take-up for a scheme of this nature. We will closely monitor the performance of the scheme over the coming months with a view to maximising the number of new jobs created."
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O'Keeffe TD, said: "The Employer PRSI Incentive Scheme, on which I have been working with my Government colleagues, will be a direct stimulus for the real economy by saving employers money and shifting the balance in favour of job creation.
This scheme is another Government measure to tackle unemployment by cutting business input costs and incentivising employers to take workers off the Live Register as Ireland emerges from recession and our economy begins to recover."
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This scheme exempts the employer from paying their share of PRSI for 12 months – the 8.5% or 10.75% charge. On this basis, if weekly pay in relation to a qualifying job is €600 the employer will save €64.50 per week (600 x 10.75%) or €3,354 in a full year. Under the scheme employee PRSI is payable as normal.
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Virginia Lovaton, aka Vigi, specializes in helping women who are over 40 look trendy and stylish.
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I Hope my fellow bloggers and readers are doing great with your family, friends and anyone that are related to you, one way or other.
I am writing this post to share my smile and happiness at the turn of the century.
I started blogging three years ago when I was in second year. Whatever thoughts come in my mind I try to pen down in black and white. The journey is tough, tough and blank most of the time. It is a difficult path strewn with slippery wet leaves.
I write about anything I want and the assigned topics. These are two opposite instructions for me and the common reaction to both – a big blank. I don't have enough past experiences that I'll pour upon. I don't have gift to get mesmerize by the enthralling beauty of nature and forecast the futile future. Even then I keep my blog up to date.
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Third European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN) 2014
1-3 September 2014
Budapest, Hungary
Message from the General Chair
The organizing committee is delighted to welcome you to the Third European Workshop on Software Defined Networks in Budapest, Hungary, from 1-3 September 2014.
Software Defined Networking is undoubtedly one of the chief trends in the ICT area. Standardization is actively ongoing in the Open Networking Forum (ONF), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) (e.g., I2RS, freshly formed Service Function Chaining (SFC) workgroup or recent initiatives to form VNFPool), while the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) just released several group specifications on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). On top of the several existing open-source SDN controllers, OpenDaylight reached significant momentum last year and arrived to its first official release in February 2014.
Despite the hype, the majority of the presentations and press releases from industry still are on the level of proofs of concept, and a number of architectural issues still have to be solved before a widespread introduction of SDN and NFV. EWSDN took this into account and added this year for the first time a demo and poster session, which reflects the increasing maturity of SDN, while still discussing architectural options in the paper sessions. In addition, we added two tutorials, one organized by and presenting results of the ALIEN FP7 EU project, and one hands-on tutorial that deals with the practical issue of migrating to SDN in existing networks.
We also welcome the co-located workshop of the 2nd EU-China workshop within the FIRE initiative. One goal of the workshop is to bring together industry and academia on the topics of SDN; in particular the workshop will feature a number of keynotes from industry.
We hope to continue the lively discussions we had during the first two editions of EWSDN here in Budapest. Have fun!
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Message from the Program Chairs
After the first two editions of EWSDN, this workshop has consolidated itself a place in the landscape of workshops and conferences in the still quickly growing area of software-defined networking. This has materialized in a number of submissions to this workshop that allowed us do a quality-based selection process. In concrete numbers, we have received 69 submissions, out of which we accepted 33, with somewhat higher acceptance ratios for demos and posters than for regular papers. Also topic-wise, we saw interesting results from the review process: The lion share of submissions as well as accepted papers pertained to the "Architecture" topic range. On the other hand, the applications topic also saw a lot of submissions (third place among all topics), but here the acceptance ratio was rather low. It will be interesting to see in future years whether this will stabilize or whether we will see a trend from more conceptual, architectural work towards more applications-oriented work, and whether this will be appreciated by the future program committees.
Regionally, EWSDN is still dominated by European submissions and European authors. Non-European submissions mostly came from (in decreasing order) the US, Korea, Brazil, and Japan.
The review process resulted in a mix of traditional papers as well as posters and demonstrations; in addition, we invited submissions for position papers that were intended to be less technically detailed but to give bigger-picture considerations. We shall see at the conference whether this experiment with such a paper format resonated with the authors and the audience. In addition, we are very pleased to be able to present several keynote addresses from distinguished speakers: Adrian Farrel, Igor Faynberg and Gabriele Galimberti. We are confident that these keynotes will give good input and feedback form an industrial perspective to the discussions at the conference.
We hope that our audience will enjoy the program and that they will leave Budapest invigorated and refreshed with new ideas.
Róbert Szabó, Holger Karl
Technical Program Committee Chairs
Gold Sponsor
Technical Co-sponsors
1 September 2014
09:00 ALIEN tutorial on advanced technologies in OpenFlow networks
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote
The Role of PCE in an SDN World
Adrian Farrel, Old Dog Consulting & Routing Area Director IETF
15:00 Break
15:30 Technical Session 1: Data Paths
Robert Szabó, Ericsson
Supporting Fine-Grained Network Functions through Intel DPDK
Ivano Cerrato, Mauro Annarumma and Fulvio Risso
Programmable Abstraction of Datapath
Damian Parniewicz, Bartosz Belter, Artur Binczewski, Krzysztof Dombek, Artur Juszczyk, Łukasz Ogrodowczyk, Maciej Stroiński and Iwo Olszewski
OSHI - Open Source Hybrid IP/SDN networking (and its emulation on Mininet and on distributed SDN testbeds)
Stefano Salsano, Pier Luigi Ventre, Luca Prete, Giuseppe Siracusano, Matteo Gerola and Elio Salvadori
A Datapath-centric Virtualization Mechanism for OpenFlow Networks
Roberto Doriguzzi Corin, Elio Salvadori, Matteo Gerola, Marc Sune and Hagen Woesner
2 September 2014
09:00 Keynote
NFV Security: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Igor Faynberg, Alcatel-Lucent
10:00 Technical Session 2: Technology
Hagen Woesner, BISDN
Wildcard Compression of Inter-Domain Routing Tables for OpenFlow-based Software-Defined Networking
Wolfgang Braun and Michael Menth
Pushing Software Defined Networking to the access
Richard Clegg, Jason Spencer, Raul Landa, Manoj Thakur and Miguel Rio
Integrating complex legacy systems under OpenFlow control: The DOCSIS use case
Victor Fuentes, Jon Matias, Alaitz Mendiola, Maider Huarte, Juanjo Unzilla and Eduardo Jacob
11:30 Break
12:00 Gold Sponsor Address
András Császár, Ericsson Research
12:15 Position Papers
Kostas Pentikousis, EICT
Reactive Logic in Software-Defined Networking: Accounting for the Limitations of the Switches
Roberto Bifulco and Maurizio Dusi
On the benefits of RAN virtualisation in C-RAN based mobile networks
Alex Dawson, Frankie Garcia and Mahesh Marina
Software-Defined Network Service Chaining
Jeremias Blendin, Julius Rückert, Nicolai Leymann, Georg Schyguda and David Hausheer
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Demo/Poster session (Teaser slides)
Balázs Sonkoly, BME
16:00 Break
16:30 Technical Session 3: System Views
Andreas Gladisch, DTAG
ForCES Applicability to SDN-enhanced NFV
Evangelos Haleplidis, Damascene Joachimpillai, Jamal Hadi Salim, Diego Lopez, Jason Martin, Kostas Pentikousis, Spyros Denazis and Odysseas Koufopavlou
Implementing Quality of Service for the Software Defined Networking Enabled Future Internet
Sachin Sharma, Dimitri Staessens, Didier Colle, David Palma, Joao Goncalves, Ricardo Figueiredo, Donal Morris, Mario Pickavet and Piet Demeester
Unifying the Programmability of Cloud and Carrier Infrastructure
Pontus Sköldström, Balazs Sonkoly, András Gulyás, Felicián Németh, Mario Kind, Fritz-Joachim Westphal, Wolfgang John, Jokin Garay, Eduardo Jacob, Janos Elek, Dávid Jocha, Robert Szabó, Wouter Tavernier, George Agapiou, Antonio Manzalini, Matthias Rost, Nadi Sarrar and Stefan Schmid
3 September 2014
09:00 Keynote
From Transport SDN to ML agnostic SDN: How
Gabriele Maria Galimberti, Cisco
10:00 Technical Session 4: Resilience & Domains
Eduardo Jacob, EHU
Fast Recovery in Software-Defined Networks
Niels van Adrichem, Benjamin van Asten and Fernando Kuipers
AutoVFlow: Autonomous Virtualization for Wide-area OpenFlow Networks
Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai, Shuji Ishii and Shinji Shimojo
On the Design of Practical Fault-Tolerant SDN Controllers
Fábio Botelho, Alysson Bessani, Fernando Ramos and Paulo Ferreira
11:30 Break
12:00 Technical Session 5: Security
Stefan Schmid, TU-Berlin
FlowNAC: Flow-based Network Access Control
Jon Matias, Jokin Garay, Alaitz Mendiola, Nerea Toledo and Eduardo Jacob
Leveraging SDN for Efficient Anomaly Detection and Mitigation on Legacy Networks
Kostas Giotis, Georgios Androulidakis and Vasilis Maglaris
C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN Experimental Facilities
Umar Toseef, Adel Zaalouk, Tom Rothe, Matthew Broadbent and Kostas Pentikousis
14:30 in parallel
A Hands-on Approach to Hybrid SDN deployment and operations
EU-China FIRE Workshop on Automatic Future Internet Standardization on SDN, NFV & IPv6 Impacts
CityFlow - Results from the CityFlow Project
Adam Carter, Donal Morris, Sachin Sharma, Luís Cordeiro, Ricardo Figueiredo and João Gonçalves
MAPPER: a Mobile Application Personal Policy Enforcement Router for Enterprise Networks
Amadeo Sapio, Yong Liao, Mario Baldi, Gyan Ranjan, Fulvio Risso, Alok Tongaonkar, Rubé Torres and Antonio Nucci
Demonstrating a Distributed and Version-agnostic OpenFlow Slicing Mechanism
Daniel Depaoli, Roberto Doriguzzi Corin, Matteo Gerola and Elio Salvadori
User-specific Network Service Functions in an SDN-enabled Network Node
Fulvio Risso, Ivano Cerrato, Alex Palesandro, Tobias Jungel, Marc Sune and Hagen Woesner
Demonstration of SDN-Based Optical Network Virtualization and Multidomain Service Orchestration
Thomas Szyrkowiec, Achim Autenrieth, Jörg-Peter Elbers, Wolfgang Kellerer, Pawel Kaczmarek, Victor López, L. Contreras, O. Gonzalez de Dios, J. P. Fernádez-Palacios, Raul Muñoz, Ricard Vilalta, Ramon Casellas, R. Martiñez, A. Mayoral, M. Channegowda, Shuping Peng, R. Nejabati and D. Simeonidou
Software-Defined Network Service Chaining
Julius Rückert, Jeremias Blendin, Nicolai Leymann, Georg Schyguda and David Hausheer
Multi-layered Service Orchestration in a Multi-Domain Network Environment
Attila Csoma, Balá Sonkoly, Levente Csikor, Felicián Németh, András Gulyás, Dávid Jocha, János Elek, Wouter Tavernier and Sahel Sahhaf
RAON: Recursive Abstraction of OpenFlow Networks
Sae Hyong Park, Byungjoon Lee, Jaeho You, Jisoo Shin, Taehong Kim and Sunhee Yang
Hardware Abstraction Layer as an SDN-Enabler for non-OpenFlow Network Equipment
Bartosz Belter, Damian Parniewicz, Łukasz Ogrodowczyk, Artur Binczewski, Maciej Stroiński, Victor Fuentes, Jon Matias, Maider Huarte and Eduardo Jacob
Leading the OFELIA Facility Beyond OpenFlow 1.0 Experimentations
Michele Santuari, Roberto Doriguzzi Corin, Matteo Gerola, Elio Salvadori, Umar Toseef, Adel Zaalouk, Krzysztof Dombek, Damian Parniewicz, Ali Hammad, Mehdi Rashidi-Fard, Eduardo Jacob and Jon Matias
A High-Performance IO Engine for SDN Controllers
Sae Hyong Park, Byungjoon Lee, Jisoo Shin and Sunhee Yang
An OpenFlow Implementation for Network Processors
Marc Suñe, Victor Alvarez, Tobias Jungel, Umar Toseef and Kostas Pentikousis
The QueuePusher: Enabling Queue Management in OpenFlow
David Palma, Joao Goncalves, Bruno Sousa, Luis Cordeiro, Paulo Simoes, Sachin Sharma and Dimitri Staessens
OFLOPS-Turbo: Testing the Next-Generation OpenFlow Switch
Charalampos Rotsos, Gianni Antichi, Marc Bruyere, Philippe Owezarski and Andrew W. Moore
ALIEN Tutorial on advanced technologies in OpenFlow networks
Organized by Bartosz Belter (PSNC), Kostas Pentikousis (EICT), Marc Suñé (BISDN) and Eduardo Jacob (UPV/EHU)
Hardware Abstraction Layer in practice
Software Defined Networking (SDN) capitalizes on splitting the data and control planes and offers new opportunities for network control and management. In short, a controller that sits in the Network Operation System layer takes global decisions about the data plane traffic control. Although the OpenFlow protocol is now widely considered for communication between a logically centralized controller and network devices, many network devices do not support it natively, be that due to the nature of the forwarding paradigm or because of legacy reasons: OpenFlow was designed for wired Ethernet and does not support, e.g., circuit-switched and wireless platforms. The Hardware Abstraction Layer, defined and developed within the FP7 ALIEN project, is an experimentally-verified concept for describing network device capabilities and controlling the forwarding behavior of all OpenFlow and non-OpenFlow capable hardware throughout a network. This tutorial will provide a detailed overview of the ALIEN HAL. Once the HAL is introduced and discussed, the project experts will explain how to use the project outcomes to develop their own OpenFlow stack for non-OpenFlow equipment. During the tutorial, the lessons learned from implementing the ALIEN stack on a variety of hardware will be presented, providing ample room for further interactive discussions between the experts in the panel and the audience.
Network Management in SDN-based networks
The management of SDN-based networks is still considered as an important research domain, not fully covered by traditional models of current network management practices. During this tutorial the audience will learn about the new approach towards virtualization of SDN networks, which overcomes the well-known issues of FlowVisor. Additionally, during this session the certificate-based AAA framework for SDN networks will be explained in detail, providing both, an implementation-driven approach for a short deployment cycle in current facilities, but also outlining a credible migration path which is currently pursued actively in the project.
Target audience
The tutorial is mainly aimed at network engineers and networked software developers from research and academia, SME and industry targeting the SDN market. The tutorial is complemented by a set of comprehensive demonstrations scheduled to the second day of EWSDN 2014, including the use of proof-of-concept prototypes as stand-alone applications or validated services over OFELIA, the European OpenFlow SDN experimental facility designed, implemented and maintained through FIRE.
Tutorial Outline
Introduction to SDN experimental facilities in Europe: OFELIA and ALIEN
The ALIEN HAL architecture, implementation & lessons learned
- Octeon
- EZappliance
Network Management in SDN-based networks
- New approach towards virtualization
- AAA Framework
Experimentation experience and results
Summary & Conclusions
Download the ALIEN tutorial PDF
A Hands-on approach to hybrid SDN deployment and operations
Organized by Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin/Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany), Dan Levin (BadPacket Industries, Germany); Fabian Schaffert (BadPacket Industries, Germany)
14:30 - 14:50 Introduction to Hybrid SDN Operations
We will present a longitudinal survey using illustrative slides which describe different academic and industrial approaches to plan and incrementally deploy and operate hybrid Software Defined Networks. We will examine the following questions: Assuming we are given an existing enterprise network, how does one introduce SDN capable devices (or make use of existing ones) and how should they be made to interact with the existing IP Routers and Ethernet Switches? What are the technical and operational challenges of introducing the SDN control interface into an existing network? We include 4 brief case studies from industry and academia demonstrating the objectives for hybrid SDN deployment and the challenges toward realizing them.
14:50 - 16:00 Introduction to Panopticon + Hands-on Exercise 1
16:00 - 16:10 Break
16:10 - 17:10 Panopticon Subnet Mobility Use Case + Hands-on Exercise 2
Panopticon: We begin by introducing our architecture and methodology for planning, deploying, and operating a hybrid SDN in the enterprise network context. We will provide virtual machines to individual participants — which will be used to demonstrate and explore concepts of Panopticon. Participants will require at a bare minimum a modern web browser (Firefox, Chrome, or Safari): Participants may optionally utilize an ssh client to interact directly with our VMs Participants will be presented with a simple, emulated network topology running in mininet on the provided VMs. Participants will have the ability to interact with this topology through our web application interface to explore different design parameters and trade-offs inherent to the Panopticon architecture. Participants will be able to try different SDN switch deployment strategies and observe the consequences for Ethernet switch VLAN consumption, path diversity, fault tolerance properties, flow table state consumption, and policy expression Participants will conduct an experiment which demonstrates how Panopticon interacts with existing legacy control protocols such as STP to infer network topology and path cost metrics in the hybrid SDN.
Participants will build upon the architectural foundations of Panopticon to solve a specific operational problem: Subnet Mobility. A brief background will be provided to compare and contrast of existing approaches to subnet mobility including Loc+ID separation and mapping schemes, L2 Tunneling, L3 Tunneling, MPLS. Participants will explore a use-case for managing IP Subnet mobility in the context of a network using a simple static IP Routing scheme. Using the RYU controller framework, boiler-plate python code will be provided to implement a proof-of-concept controller, and participants will be guided through the task of completely implementing the IP subnet mobility manager. Participants will demonstrate the ability to dynamically migrate hosts from within a single organizational unit across subnet boundaries.
17:10 - 17:20 Content Review + Wrap-up and Q/A
Workshop on Autonomic Future Internet standardization and SDN, NFV & IPv6 impacts
By Philippe Cousin (Eglobalmark, France)
The objective of this 2nd EU-China FIRE European workshop is to discuss global status of Autonomic Future Internet Standardisation as well as presenting Experimental Platforms (i.e. FIRE facilities), which could be used, on these topics by researchers in EU, China and worldwide.
The workshop is organised by the FP7 EU CHINA FIRE project (www.euchina-fire.eu) which is only facilitating these important discussions on Future Internet at worldwide level.
13:00–14:00 Session 1: Welcome Messages and Brief status on Standardization on SDN, NFV, Autonomic Future Internet and IPv6 as well as importance of FIRE / Experimental platforms
- About European Commission FIRE activities, and about the need for research projects to adopt Standards for Future Internet experiment platform Federation
Nikolaos Isaris, EC DG CONNECT, Deputy head of unit , FIRE
- About the need for research projects to adopt emerging standards and contribute to Standards for Autonomic Future Internet Dr. Ranganai Chaparadza (AMC, SDN and NFV Standardization Expert & Advisor)
14:00–15:40 Session 2: Contributing to Unified Standards for AMC, SDN and NFV
Presenters: Dr Ranganai Chaparadza, PhD; and Tayeb Ben Meriem, PhD; PDTN representative & presenter Session Chair: Dr. Ranganai Chaparadza, IPv6 Forum, ETSI AFI.
Scope of Session:
- Latest status on SDN and NFV standardization and link to other areas
- ETSI : Patrick Guillemin, ETSI
- View of Telecom Operator including link to IPv6. Christian Jacquenet, Orange
- NFV PoC (Proof of Concept)
- View from China: Huang Yan, Ruije
Dr Ranganai Chaparadza, IPv6 Forum, ETSI AFI.
- Tutorial: Instantiation of the ETSI AFI GANA Reference Model onto the PDTN Architecture to create an Autonomicity – Enabled PDTN architecture
Introducing instruments that enable experts from various groups (cross-SDO) and Research Communities to work together on harmonization of frameworks corresponding to all the key emerging paradigms collectively
Tayeb Ben Meriem, Directeur R&D Orange France Telecom
15:45–16:45 Session 3: Experimental Platforms for Autonomic Future Internet and needs/possibilities for Federation
Session Chair: Philippe Cousin, Project Manager of the EU-China FIRE Project.
Scope of Session:
- EU offers on FIRE/Experimental Platforms for Autonomic Future Internet, SDN, NFV (including report on NFV Proof of Concept):
Hagen Woesner, Ofelia
Spyros Denasis, Patras Platform for Experimentation University of Patras
- Fed4Fire specifications for federation
Florian Schreiner, FOKUS
- China offers for experimental platforms, use of fed4fire specs:
Gaogang Xie, China Academy of Sciences
- Other example of cooperation with China : Mediasense , infrastructures and support for ultralow latency communication for realtime massive and scalable IoT
Theo Kanter, University Stockholm
16:30–17:30 Session 4: Panel Session on Complementarities of AMC, SDN, NFV and IPv6, as Enablers for 5G; and Discussion on How Research Projects can contribute to new Standardization activities Session Chair: Dr. Ranganai Chaparadza (AMC, SDN and NFV Standardization Expert & Advisor)
Scope of Session:
- Complementarities of AMC, SDN, NFV and IPv6, as Enablers for 5G
- Discussion on How Research Projects can contributed to Standardization activities on Unified Standards for AMC, SDN and NFV paradigms, and Network Resilience, Recovery and Autonomic Fault and Security Management
- Needs for Standards for global federation of experimental platforms and issues related to it
All presenters + Yan Zen, China Ministry of Education, IIU (Internet Innovation Union) Representative from CATR, BII
The 3rd European Workshop on Software-Defined Networks will be held from 1-3 September 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.
Venue of the workshop is the Danubius Hotel Gellért
Szent Gellért tér 1.
1111 Budapest
Phone: +36-1-889-5500
E-Mail: email@example.com
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Workshop Chair
|Hagen Woesner
|EICT, Germany
Industrial Track Chair
|Diego R. Lopez
|Telefonica I+D, Spain
Publicity Chair
|Stefan Schmid
|TU Berlin / Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany
|Pontus Sköldström
|Acreo AB, Sweden
Workshop Operations Chair and Web Chair
|Mario Druse
|EICT, Germany
Local Organizing Chair
|Valéria Molnár
|BME, Hungary
Demo and Exhibition Chair
|Balázs Sonkoly
|BME, Hungary
Steering Committee
|Andreas Gladisch
|Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
|Holger Karl
|University Paderborn, Germany
|Diego R. Lopez
|Telefonica I+D, Spain
|Kostas Pentikousis
|EICT, Germany
|Elio Salvadori
|CREATE-NET, Italy
|Stefano Salsano
|Univ. Tor Vergata, Italy
|Róbert Szabó
|Ericsson Research, Hungary
|Hagen Woesner
|BISDN, Germany
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
|Holger Karl
|University Paderborn, Germany
|Róbert Szabó
|Ericsson, Hungary
Technical Program Committee
|Rui Aguiar
|Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
|Achim Authenrieth
|ADVA Optical Networking, Germany
|Siamak Azodolmolky
|GWDG, Germany
|Leonardo Bergesio
|i2CAT Foundation, Spain
|Dean Bogdanovic
|Juniper Networks, USA
|Marco Canini
|Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
|Ramon Casellas
|CTTC, Spain
|Nicola Ciulli
|Nextworks, Italy
|Richard Clegg
|University College London, UK
|Didier Colle
|Ghent University, Belgium
|Daniel Corujo
|Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
|Panagiotis Demestichas
|University of Piraeus, Greece
|Alisa Devlic
|Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden
|Peter Feil
|Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany
|Panagiotis Georgopoulos
|ETH Zurich, Switzerland
|Stefano Giordano
|University of Pisa, Italy
|Eduardo Jacob
|University of the Basque Country, Spain
|Wolfgang John
|Ericsson Research, Sweden
|Pawel Kaczmarek
|Kostas Katrinis
|IBM, Ireland
|Eiji Kawai
|NICT, Japan
|Eric Keller
|University of Colorado, USA
|Wolfgang Kellerer
|Technische Universität München, Germany
|Daniel King
|Lancaster University, UK
|Teemu Koponen
|VMware, USA
|Marc Körner
|TU Berlin, Germany
|Dejan Kostic
|Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
|Diego R. Lopez
|Telefónica I+D, Spain
|Dante Malagrino
|Embrane, USA
|Antonio Manzalini
|Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
|Jon Matias
|University of the Basque Country, Spain
|Ruben Merz
|Swisscom, Switzerland
|Saverio Niccolini
|NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
|Kostas Pentikousis
|EICT, Germany
|Luca Prete
|Consortium Garr, Italy
|Nicholas Race
|Lancaster University, UK
|Costin Raiciu
|University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
|Robert Raszuk
|Roberto Riggio
|CREATE-NET, Italy
|Christian Esteve
University of Campinas, Brazil
|Charalampos Rotsos
|University of Cambridge, UK
|Kostas Tsagkaris
|University of Piraeus, Greece
|Elio Salvadori
|CREATE-NET, Italy
|Stefano Salsano
|Univ. Tor Vergata, Italy
|Stefan Schmid
|TU Berlin / Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany
|Pontus Sköldström
|Acreo AB, Sweden
|Georgios Smaragdakis
|TU Berlin / Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany
|Bill Snow
|ON.Lab, USA
|Balázs Sonkoly
|BME, Hungary
|Marc Sune
|BISDN, Germany
|Attila Takacs
|Ericsson, Hungary
|Kostas Tsagkaris
|University of Piraeus, Greece
|Zoltan Turanyi
|Ericsson, Hungary
|Steve Uhlig
|TU Berlin / Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany
|Hagen Woesner
|BISDN, Germany


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ABE Token
ABE is shaping the crypto-model for the mobility ecosystem. A transport-focused reward platform to power new business models in the transportation sector.
Based on Ethereum, the ABE Token will be used for transactions within the ecosystem.
The ABE Platform handles creation and management of reward and redemption system between individuals and partners, creating an ecosystem where tokens are earned and used against mobility related products or services
The ABE Platform also empowers "data owners" (individuals, organizations and even IoT devices – any source of data to control the privacy of the data they share, whilst receiving value from future profits of its use in return – in the form of ABE Tokens.
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The ABE Platform offerings are almost similar to that of collecting reward points for your supermarket shopping, but on a much larger scale, with flexible controls and a renumeration with far greater utility.


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As cloning and mapping of both the mouse and human genomes began in earnest during the 1980s, two important evolutionary facts became clear. First, nearly all human genes have homologs in the mouse and vice versa. Second, not only are the genes themselves conserved, but so is their order to a certain extent along the chromosome. In 1984, Nadeau and Taylor used linkage data obtained from 83 loci that had been mapped in both species to estimate the average length of conserved autosomal segments as 8.2 cM in the mouse (Nadeau, 1984). In 1993, the same analysis was performed on linkage data obtained from 917 homologous loci mapped in both species to yield an average conserved chromosomal length of 8.8 cM which is not significantly different from the earlier estimate. 104 The major evolutionary implication of this result is that approximately 150 major rearrangements have occurred along the human or mouse lines as they diverged from a common ancestor that existed 65 million years ago.
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The technique of in situ hybridization was conceived of by Gall and Pardue (1969) and John and his colleagues (1969). These workers demonstrated that the DNA within preparations of chromosomes attached to microscope slides could be denatured in a gentle manner so as not to disrupt the overall morphology of the chromosomes themselves. Target sequences within these chromosomes are then available for hybridization to labeled nucleic acid probes. Thus, in situ hybridization allows the mapping of cloned DNA sequences to specific chromosomal sites that can be visualized directly by light microscopy.
In early work, probes were labeled with radioactive isotopes and target sequences were identified by autoradiography. This method of labeling and detection limited both the sensitivity of the technique and its resolution (Lawrence, 1990). In particular, the original protocol only allowed the detection of tandemly repeated sequences such as the ribosomal genes and satellite DNA. By 1981, however, investigators had optimized the in situ protocol for use in mapping single copy mammalian sequences (Harper et al., 1981), and in 1984, an improved method was developed for better resolution of chromosome banding patterns (Cannizzarro and Emanuel, 1984). Nevertheless, the technique was still not ideal because with single-copy radioactive probes, localization could not be determined within the chromosomes of a single cell; instead, it was necessary to perform a statistical analysis of silver grain distributions in 50-100 sets of metaphase chromosomes.
Two critical changes in the protocol now allow the detection of single-copy sequences and their high-resolution mapping through the direct observation of single chromosomes. The first change was in the nature of the label; with the substitution of fluorescent tags for radioactive ones, the physical resolution of the hybridization site was dramatically improved. The modified in situ protocol that utilizes fluorescent tags is referred to as FISH (for fluorescent in situ hybridization). The second change was in the nature of the hybridization cocktail. With the inclusion of a large excess of unlabeled total genomic DNA, it is possible to block dispersed repetitive sequences present in essentially every genomic region larger than a few kilobases in length from hybridization to their targets throughout the genome. This allows the use of whole-phage or cosmid clones as probes leading to a substantial increase in signal strength which will be proportional to the length of single-copy DNA in the clone. With these major changes in the protocol and other optimizations, it is now possible to use in situ hybridization to visualize the map position of any cloned locus within single chromosomes from any mammalian species (Lawrence, 1990; Trask, 1991).
Although in situ hybridization has played a pivotal role in the construction of the human gene map, its role in mouse gene mapping has been more limited for several reasons. First, a certain amount of specialized training and experience is required to perform this protocol, and thus, it is often not an option for independent investigators in the absence of a collaboration. Second, in humans, classical linkage analysis is not easily performed, and thus, alternative methods for human mapping are much more important. Third, whereas the human karyotype is highly amenable to direct cytogenetic analysis chromosomes come in a variety of shapes and sizes and staining techniques yield excellent banding resolution the mouse karyotype is a cytologist's nightmare. All 20 chromosomes have the same shape with only a single visible arm and a centromere that appears to lie at one end (see Figure 5.1). A continuum of chromosome lengths makes the identification of individual chromosomes more difficult, and finally, banding patterns are much less distinct and more difficult to resolve.
In the past, in situ hybridization had the advantage that it did not require the existence of variants between parental strains for mapping to be accomplished. However, with the advent of new methods for the detection of polymorphism discussed in Chapter 8, it has become possible to quickly identify DNA variants at essentially all cloned loci. Consequently, in situ hybridization is now used most often only for specific experimental problems such as those that described below.
The power of in situ hybridization lies in the fact that it allows the direct localization of DNA sequences relative to all visible cytological landmarks such as centromeres, telomeres, and rearrangement breakpoints in aberrant chromosomes. In some instances, it will be important to localize a DNA marker relative to one or more of these landmarks. For example, an investigator may have a DNA marker that maps to the beginning or end of a linkage map associated with a particular chromosome. In situ hybridization can be used to determine how close to the centromere or telomere the DNA marker actually is (in physical terms); this information can serve to establish the size of the chromosomal region that is not contained within the associated linkage map. In another example, an investigator may have a DNA clone, from either a wild-type or mutant animal, that is believed to extend across a cytologically visible inversion or translocation breakpoint. If the clone was derived from a wild-type genome, the in situ results would show hybridization to two sites in the rearranged karyotype.
As discussed in Section 7.3.2, in situ hybridization is also useful in the special case of mapping transgene insertion sites. The same DNA construct that was originally injected into the embryo can often be used directly as a probe. In another instance, in situ hybridization can be combined with classical linkage analysis using the M. spretus backcross system to follow the segregation of centromeres from one parental chromosome or the other as described in Section 9.1.2 (Matsuda and Chapman, 1991; Matsuda et al., 1993). Finally, in situ hybridization is useful in experiments aimed at questions that go beyond the simple mapping of genes. For example, the technology has revealed the unexpected finding that both LINE and SINE sequences are non-randomly distributed among bands and interband regions of all chromosomes as described in Section 5.4.4.
The ability to derive long-term cultures of mammalian cells was perfected during the 1950s. Cell cultures provided important experimental material for early biochemists and molecular biologists interested in molecules and processes that occur within mammalian cells, but they were of little use to geneticists since somatic cell genomes remain essentially unchanged during continual renewal through mitotic division. This situation changed dramatically during the early 1960s when investigators discovered and developed methods for the induction of cell fusion in culture (Ephrussi and Weiss, 1969).
Normal diploid cells from all species of mammals carry approximately the same amount of DNA in their nucleus (twice the haploid amount of 3,000 mb). Thus, after fusion between any two mammalian cells, the hybrid cell nucleus becomes, in effect, tetraploid, with a genome that is twice the normal size. The enlarged genomes of hybrid cells are inherently unstable. Presumably, the increased requirement for DNA replication acts to slow down the rate of cell division, and as a consequence, cells that lose chromosomes during mitotic segregation will divide more quickly and outgrow those cells that maintain a larger genome content. Eventually, after many events of this type, cells can reach a relatively stable genome size that is close to that normally found in diploid mammalian cells. For reasons that are not understood, hybrids formed between particular combinations of species will preferentially eliminate chromosomes from just one of the parental lines. In hybrids formed between mouse cells and either hamster or human cells, mouse chromosomes will be eliminated in a relatively random manner. This process has allowed the derivation and characterization of a number of somatic cell hybrid lines that stably maintain only one or a few mouse chromosomes.
The field of somatic cell genetics had its heyday in the 1970s and early 1980s when it provided the predominant methodology for mapping loci albeit, often to the resolution of whole chromosomes. The major tools for gene detection in this era (before the recombinant DNA revolution was in full gear) were species-specific assays for various housekeeping enzymes. Somatic cell geneticists could type each member of a panel of hybrid cells for the presence of a particular enzyme and then use karyotypic analysis to demonstrate concordance with a particular chromosome. In a strictly formal sense, this type of analysis is analogous to classical two-locus linkage studies studies with one marker being the enzymatic activity and the other marker being the particular chromosome that contains the gene encoding the enzyme.
The somatic cell hybrid approach has always been more important to human geneticists than to mouse geneticists. This is because well-established somatic cell hybrid lines with one or a few mouse chromosomes are relatively rare compared to the large number of well-characterized hybrid lines with individual human chromosomes. There are several reasons for this state of affairs. First, the power of mouse linkage mapping has always been so great that somatic cell hybrid lines were never considered to be essential tools. Second, most mouse/hamster hybrid lines are chromosomally unstable and must be recharacterized each time they are grown in culture. With the difficulty of performing karyotypic analysis on mouse chromosomes, most investigators have shied away from this approach in the past. However, with alternative PCR-based methods for characterizing the chromosomal content of hybrids (Abbott, 1992), this problem may have been overcome so that the derivation of new hybrids for special situations may no longer be as formidable as it once was.
The use of somatic cell hybrid panels as a general approach to gene mapping has now been superseded by in situ hybridization which resolves map positions to chromosome bands rather than whole chromosomes and, of course, classical linkage analysis. However, there are two special cases where somatic cell hybrid lines can provide unique tools for mouse geneticists. First, their DNA can be used as a source of material for the rapid derivation of panels of DNA markers to saturate particular chromosomes or subchromosomal regions as described in Section 8.4.4 (Herman et al., 1991; Simmler et al., 1991). Second, their DNA can also be used for the rapid screening of new clones obtained from other sources for their presence in a particular interval of interest as described in Section 7.3.3. This can be accomplished with the use of duplicate blots containing just three lanes of restriction digested and fractionated DNA from: (1) the somatic cell hybrid line containing the chromosome of interest; (2) mouse tissue (a positive control); and (3) the host cell line without mouse chromosomes (a negative control). Each blot can be subjected to repeated probing with different potential markers. A negative result allows one to discard a particular probe immediately; a positive result can be followed-up by higher resolution linkage analysis.
In 1990, Cox, Meyers, and their colleagues described a novel technique for determining gene order and distance which is as highly resolving as traditional linkage analysis but does not depend upon breeding. The approach used has similarities to, as well as differences from, both recombinational mapping and physical mapping. Radiation hybrid mapping was originally developed for use with the human genome, but with appropriate starting material and a sufficient number of chromosome-specific DNA markers, it can be used in the analysis of any species (Cox et al., 1990).
The starting material is a somatic cell hybrid line that contains only the chromosome of interest within a host background derived from another species. As indicated above, a common host species used for mouse chromosomes is the hamster. A well-established, stable hamster cell hybrid line containing a single mouse chromosome can be subjected to irradiation with X-rays that shatter each chromosome into multiple fragments. The irradiated cells are then placed together with pure hamster cells under conditions that promote fusion. Approximately 100 new hybrid clones are recovered that contain fragments of the mouse chromosome present in the original hybrid line. Finally, each of these lines are analyzed for the presence of various DNA markers that had been mapped previously into the chromosomal region of interest.
The order and distance of loci from each other can be determined according to the premise that X-rays will break the chromosome at random locations. Thus, the closer two loci are together, the less likely it is that a break will occur between them. If two loci are side by side, they will either both be present or both be absent from all 100 cells with 100% concordance. If two loci are at opposite ends of the chromosome, there will still be cells that have neither or both, but there will also be a large number that have only one or the other. (A cell can carry both loci even if the frequency of breakage between the two is 100% since it is possible for a hybrid cell to pick-up more than one chromosomal fragment.) As the probability of chromosome breakage varies between 0% and 100% for various pairs of loci under analysis, the fraction of hybrid cells that carry both loci will vary from 100% down to a control value obtained for unlinked loci. Thus, by typing each of the "radiation hybrid cells" in the set of 100 for a series of DNA markers, it becomes possible to construct a linkage map that is highly analogous to traditional recombinational maps.
It is possible to obtain linkage maps at different levels of resolution through the use of different intensities of radiation to break chromosomes. For example, with high levels of radiation that break chromosomes once every 100 kb, on average, one could map loci from 10 kb to 500 kb; with lower levels of radiation, mapping could be performed over a window from 500 kb to 5 mb.
The analogy to classical recombination mapping is striking in that a determination of linkage distance in both cases is based on the probability with which chromosomes will break followed either by recombination (in the classical case) or by segregation upon cell fusion (in the radiation hybrid case). In both cases, linkage distances are determined by counting the ratio of offspring (pups or cells) that do or do not carry particular sets of DNA markers (alleles or genes). However, linkage distances obtained through radiation hybrid analysis are much more likely to be indicative of actual physical distances.
Although radiation hybrid analysis has provided a crucial tool for genetic analysis in humans, once again, it has not been as widely used by the mouse community because classical linkage analysis is so much more powerful. Nevertheless, the resolution of this protocol has been validated in a study of the region of mouse chromosome 2 surrounding the agouti locus (Ollmann et al., 1992). In this study, the radiation hybrid map that was obtained corresponded exactly with that predicted from linkage analysis, with a level of resolution that was approximately 40-fold higher. Thus, radiation hybrid mapping could serve to fill in the gap between linkage maps and physical maps, especially in "cold" regions between hotspots where distantly spaced markers cannot be separated by recombination (Section 7.2.3).


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Cambodian prince cozies up to PM in political comeback
PHNOM PENH–Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who was ousted as Cambodia's prime minister by a bloody coup in 1997, launched his latest political comeback Monday, pledging an alliance with the man who toppled him. The link between royalist supporters of 71-year-old Ranariddh and current strongman premier Hun Sen is likely to complicate the political scene in coming years for the opposition party of Sam Rainsy. Ranariddh, son of the beloved late monarch Norodom Sihanouk and half-brother of the current king, said he was resuming leadership of the Funcinpec party founded by his father in order to work with the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP). ��Prime Minister Hun Sen told the king that he supports my return to Funcinpec,�� the prince, who was prime minister from 1993 to 1997, told reporters. ��Funcinpec will join hands with the CPP to maintain the sustainable development of Cambodia,�� he said, adding his aim was to reunite royalists with the ruling party to ��eliminate poverty�� in the kingdom. While less revered than his father, the politically ambitious Ranariddh remains popular, although his reputation has been battered in recent years by allegations of corruption. He was pardoned in 2008 over a conviction for fraud which saw him ejected from the Funcinpec party. He twice re-entered politics under the banner of his own Norodom Ranariddh Party, but both forays were short-lived and in 2012 he stepped down voluntarily, with senior royalists seeing him as a divisive figure. Ranariddh announced another comeback to politics in March last year by founding a new Community of the Royalist People Party. On Monday he said this party would now be folded into Funcinpec, which he would formally take over on Jan. 19. Analyst Carl Thayer, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia, said that while Funcinpec was no longer a major political player �X it failed to win a single seat in 2013 elections �X the prince's return could be ��a move to open up a third front�� in Cambodian politics. His comeback could prove a distraction to Rainsy's Cambodia National Rescue Party, which is trying to wrest parliamentary concessions from Hun Sen as it builds its base towards elections in 2018. ��By allowing him back, Sam Rainsy will be distracted and has to respond,�� Thayer said, adding Hun Sen's endorsement of the prince's return shows the strongman is still very much in charge.
Hun Sen, 62, a former Khmer Rouge cadre who defected and oversaw Cambodia's rise from the ashes of war, has ruled for nearly three decades and vowed to continue until he is 74.


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I followed my brother through the drive thru at the burger joint. It is not that we had a car, we were not even old enough to drive. It is that they never allowed my roller blades inside, or as my brother liked to call them, "pussy boots." He skateboarded, wore baggy jeans, a chain wallet, and could make armies tremble by the mere mention of his older-brotherness, at least in my eyes. He always got two double cheeseburgers and I would do the same. My 11-year-old 80-pound frame struggled to keep up with my brother's imposing figure complete with budding beard, and digestion was always a process. I gained weight and we looked more like brothers than ever before.
This was back when I lived for supermarket hotdogs with fake cheese miraculously melded into the middle. I lived for white bread. After days of playing basketball with friends, three point contests and buzzer beaters, after we had designed t-shirts with sidewalk chalk for our beloved Sports Club USA and talked about building a score board to rest next to the hoop on the back of my garage, after I finally got hungry, I ran inside, took two pieces of the fantastically fluffy substance, removed the crust, made a tight ball and shoved the dense nutritionally void mass into my mouth and returned to the cement court. I never wanted dinner then, not only because my ball of bread was expanding in my stomach, but also dinner tasted. It tasted of food. It tasted of salt and pepper and spice and protein. All of these concepts were foreign and undesirable. I expressed my patriotism and American spirit by eating food so processed that it would survive any unjust war in which we engaged. Either that or it was just simpler my way.
My brother ate meat almost exclusively. He was employed by Plunkette Furniture as a stock boy moving furniture and the animal protein fit his carthorse after-school job. As his shoulders grew wider and his forearms more assertive, his hunger for meat grew exponentially. I tended toward the bun. He tended toward the burger. Hence the shock that ensued when he announced casually at the dinner table over taco bell that he was becoming vegetarian. "No more meat," he said. By then, his skateboards and baggy jeans had been replaced by a poet's pen and a vintage sport coat. The vegetarianism fit. My parents, supportive as ever, applauded my brother's decision and immediately my mom starting conceiving recipes, which was no easy task, as my brother did not particularly like vegetables, or fruits, or grains, or legumes.
We would wrestle as brothers do. He was always stronger. He gave me a black eye once at his new apartment. It was an accident and he was quick to begin doting. He offered me ice but he had none. I asked for a steak and we both laughed and he put a frozen pizza on my face. The swelling went down and that is when I coined the term, "pizzatarian."
A pizzatarian is a vegetarian who subsides on cheese and boca burgers, chick'n patties and tortilla chips. When he wants to feel that he has eaten especially healthy, he has a cookies-and-cream protein bar and a chocolate peanut butter smoothie with a boost of some chemical powder with a name like vitaburst.
Being the little brother I am, though, I eventually followed suit. My days of being happily drunk on simple carbohydrates were over as thoughts of B-12 deficiencies crept into my consciousness. Vegetarianism caused us both to think more about food. We started cooking. I calculated food miles and read about pesticides and endocrine disruptors. I scared myself into eating only local and organic. My brother, now working at an Italian risotorante, would watch as the chefs would prepare eggplant parmesan and caprese salads. A bowl full of spinach was not yet his idea of deliciousness, but steps were taken away from processed soy.
Yet for some reason I still wore the pussy boots, even in the kitchen. He would make falafel from scratch. I would make saffron risotto. He perfected pad-thai. I brought out an artichoke dip in a home-baked sourdough bread bowl. Recipe books were a thing of the past as our own artful concoctions came out of the oven. Vegetarian Thanksgiving became a competition; his golden mashed potatoes against my rosemary pumpkin soup.
We ate out differently as well. I chose raw restaurants where none of the food is cooked above 107 degrees and you can order a side of enzymes. My brother, after learning some Spanish from the chefs at the ristorante, knew where to find the perfect burrito. When he moved out, his favorite burrito corner spot was a deciding factor. He moved into the Puerto Rican neighborhood.
I moved to Paris.
I learned about how to describe the bouquet of a glass of wine and how it may or may not be long-in-the-mouth and do so in French. My brother knew what mix of oils made the perfect homemade French fry. He spoke Chicago street Spanish. I spoke 19th century poet French.
To this day whenever I make a dish with a reduction or an infused foam, my brother still asks me in front of my family, in front of whoever my girlfriend is at the time, if it is a good time for me to come out to mom and dad. I do not know when knowledge of truffle oil and what years provided a good grape harvest became immediately demasculating but if it is, I will wear the pussy boots because chicks dig 'em.
I do know that I could cook my brother out of the kitchen and that he would say the same about me. I know that I would have more than just a pizza to offer him for his eye after a bar fight but I have no idea who is more likely to get into one. I see the conversation leading up to his brawl being over a woman or some insult directed toward a friend. I see mine as an off hand comment by some Frenchmen about the faults in the American educational system. His would be over beer and mine would be over a bottle of Absinthe.
I wrote this piece over a year ago. But lately, I have a feeling that all that as changed. I feel like through completely opposite paths we are arriving at the same place. We'd get along in the kitchen now, even collaborate on a dish.
And my sister, whose food path I know even less about, but I am sure is far more interesting, involving rainforest cafés and more restaurants than I could count, to a steady diet of pints of Guinness and nothing more, but my sister, my dear dear sister, I am sure, could now cook us both into oblivion with her top chef of a boyfriend. (Who you also have to love for his ability to enjoy a fresh herbed truffled white wine reduction as much as fried oxtails and chitterlings.


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We often put our celebrities on pedestals -- sometimes to adulate, often the better to throw tomatoes at them.
It's easy to forget that they are also just normal people, putting their trousers on one leg at a time. When Jimmy Stewart lost his dog Beau he grieved just like the rest of us.
Except, being himself, he grieved with amazing grace and dignity.
Our dogs often become halo'ed angels when they pass away. But in reality they never were. They were just normal dogs, the quirky and annoying mixed in with the great.
It's good to remember them the way they were.
Here's the poem, and below is Jimmy reciting on the Tonight Show.
Written by Jimmy Stewart
He never came to
me when I would call
Unless I had a tennis ball,
Or he felt like it,
But mostly he didn't come at all.
When he was young
He never learned to heel
Or sit or stay,
He did things his way.
Discipline was
not his bag
But when you were with him things sure didn't drag.
He'd dig up a rosebush just to spite me,
And when I'd grab him, he'd turn and bite me.
He bit lots of
folks from day to day,
The delivery boy was his favorite prey.
The gas man wouldn't read our meter,
He said we owned a real man-eater.
He set the house
on fire
But the story's long to tell.
Suffice it to say that he survived
And the house survived as well.
On the evening
walks, and Gloria took him,
He was always first out the door.
The Old One and I brought up the rear
Because our bones were sore.
He would charge
up the street with Mom hanging on,
What a beautiful pair they were!
And if it was still light and the tourists were out,
They created a bit of a stir.
But every once in
a while, he would stop in his tracks
And with a frown on his face look around.
It was just to make sure that the Old One was there
And would follow him where he was bound.
We are early-to-bedders at our house--
I guess I'm the first to retire.
And as I'd leave
the room he'd look at me
And get up from his place by the fire.
He knew where the
tennis balls were upstairs,
And I'd give him one for a while.
He would push it under the bed with his nose
And I'd fish it out with a smile.
And before very
He'd tire of the ball
And be asleep in his corner
In no time at all.
And there were
nights when I'd feel him
Climb upon our bed
And lie between us,
And I'd pat his head.
And there were
nights when I'd feel this stare
And I'd wake up and he'd be sitting there
And I reach out my hand and stroke his hair.
And sometimes I'd
feel him sigh
and I think I know the reason why.
He would wake up
at night
And he would have this fear
Of the dark, of life, of lots of things,
And he'd be glad to have me near.
And now he's
And there are nights when I think I feel him
Climb upon our bed and lie between us,
And I pat his head.
And there are
nights when I think
I feel that stare
And I reach out my hand to stroke his hair,
But he's not there.
Oh, how I wish
that wasn't so,
I'll always love a dog named Beau.
This poem is from "Jimmy Stewart and His Poems," by Jimmy Stewart, a short collection of poems published by Crown Publishers, Inc. in 1989. To order this book, call the Full Circle Book Store at 1-800-683-READ. Refer to ISBN number 0-517-57382-2. It's a little illustrated hardback that costs about $12.
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U.S. International Travel Abroad Increased One Percent in October 2009 (1)
The U.S. outbound air market totaled 2.9 million in October 2009, up one percent compared to October 2008. October 2009 marks the fourth straight month of increases in U.S. air travel abroad. During the first ten months of 2009, the U.S. outbound air market has decreased four percent compared to the same period in 2008. However, it is up from an eight percent year-to-date decline in June 2009.
U.S. spending in October 2009 by U.S. travelers on passenger fares totaled $2.07 billion, down 26 percent compared to October 2008. During the first 10 months of 2009, spending by U.S. travelers on air and vessel transportation decreased 21 percent to $21.3 billion. Since passenger fare receipts (foreign travelers on U. S. carriers), declined by 14 percent for the year, the balance of trade for passenger fares increased to a $1.4 billion surplus.
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General Election 2017 – Who Promises What for Employment Law?
Next week UK voters will take to the polls in the 2017 general election. Much publicity has surrounded the parties' manifestos, but what changes do the three main parties in England intend to make to employment law?
Conservative Party
The Conservative Party claims its 'Forward Together' manifesto reflects the changing economy. Key employment law policies contained in the manifesto include:
- Guaranteeing EU workers' rights post-Brexit
- National Living Wage will continue to increase
- A review of the "gig economy"
- Introduce a new right for employees to request leave for training
- Introduce a right to request unpaid time off to care for sick relatives
- Additional rights for those returning to the workplace after being on leave to look after children or elderly relatives
- Extra powers to the Pensions Regulator to protect occupational pension schemes
- Increase the Immigration Skills Charge, which is levied on companies employing migrant workers
- Executive pay packages to be subject to annual shareholder votes.
Labour Party
The Labour Party claims its manifesto is 'For the Many, Not the Few' and sets out a 20-point plan on workers' rights. Key employment policies include:
- Employment rights currently guaranteed under EU law are protected after Brexit
- Ensure all employers recruiting workers from abroad do not undercut British workers
- Abolish employment tribunal fees
- Abolish zero-hours contracts – suggesting all employees are given some guaranteed work each week
- Introducing four new bank holidays to commemorate the four patron saints of the UK
- An end to unpaid internships
- Make all employment rights active from 'day one' and extend them to workers as well as employees
- Increase the National Living Wage to at least £10 per hour by 2020 for all workers aged over 18
- A right to trade union representation for all workers
- Increase paid paternity leave from two weeks to four weeks
- Repeal the controversial Trade Union Act 2016
Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats are seeking to 'Change Britain's Future' and achieve a sustainable economy. Their manifesto sets out the following key employment policies:
- Unilaterally guaranteeing the rights of existing EU nationals in the UK and attempting to secure the same rights for UK citizens elsewhere in the EU
- Additional paternity leave
- Make the right to flexible working, paternity and shared parental leave available from day one of employment
- Tackle the abuse of zero-hours contracts and introduce a right for workers to request a fixed-term contract
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As the Windows 7 beta download is altough available to the public but will only be available for 2.5 million downloads.
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* Processor: 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
* Memory: 1 GB of system memory
* Hard drive: 16 GB of available disk space
* Video card: Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB memory (in order to enable Aero theme)
* Drive: DVD-R/W drive
* Internet connection (to download the Beta and get updates)
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