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Claims based Authentication and Authorization: The Guide
Eugenio announced yesterday the kickoff of a new guide from patterns & practices in which I'm collaborating: Claims based Authentication & Authorization Guide.
This is not a new topic as Eugenio suggests in his blog, but it's getting more and more attention because:
- Technology is more mature, hence it's easier to implement claim-based identity
- Enterprises are failing to control the amount of different identity repositories, leading to higher provisioning/deprovisioning costs, security problems, etc.
- End users want simpler user experiences and less passwords
- The cloud makes all these even more challenging
We started with this project a couple of weeks ago planning the content. The approach we decided to use was heavily driven by scenarios (aka zero bulls**t). We used the visual metaphor of a tube map with scenarios being the stations separated in two main lines:
- The blue one, the Enterprise track approaches the federated identity problem from the point of view of a company with many applications that wants to implement SSO and Federation. The main stations are SSO (within the enterprise), Federation (with partners), SOAP Web Services (and flow of identity across services), SSO with a third party cloud app and some variations like: what if the company decides to host an application on the cloud (namely Windows Azure); or what if the company needs to integrate with an application that talks SAML protocol (i.e. Salesforce, Google Apps)
- The yellow one, ISV track on the other hand tackle the problem from the perspective of an ISV that wants to offer an application as a service (think about Salesforce or Dynamics CRM Online as the canonical examples). In this track we start by explaining how to implement federated identity for a cloud application. Then we show how to automate federation to on board new customers. We also show things like exposing a REST API and how that plays with claims; how to integrate with LiveID (or OpenID) for small customers that don't have an Identity Provider in place; and we end up explaining how to do auditing/billing with claims.
I'm very proud and excited about being part of such a great team including: Dominick Baier, Vittorio Bertocci, Keith Brown, David Hill and Eugenio Pace. I'm sure that something great will come up from this team, the board of reviewers and the community that will help to prioritize and keep the focus!


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Recent reports on Professor Bogomoletz' ACS serum for improving tissue resistance and prolonging life (TIME, Jan. 17) left many questions (on dosage, duration of treatment, etc.) unanswered. From Moscow last week came some of the answers:
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Trump's Expected Policy Changes Help Propel Biotechs to New Heights
It would stand to reason that the demise of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would pressure the value of health care stocks, but that's not the case with two biotech majors, Amgen and Illumina, according to a report from The Motley Fool. Shares of both companies have surged since the November presidential election.
While drug-makers in general applaud President Trump's appointment of industry-friendly Dr. Scott Gottlieb as the next FDA commissioner, Amgen in particular stands to gain from Gottlieb's stance on accelerating and simplifying the approval process for biosimilars and complex generics, columnist Cory Renauer notes.
Earlier this year, the FDA greenlighted Amgen's biosimilar version of the world's best-selling drug, Humira (adalimumab, AbbVie)––and more products are coming down the pipeline. Amgen also has biosimilar candidates that reference Avastin (bevacizumab, Genentech); Remicade (infliximab, Janssen Biotech); Rituxan (rituximab, Biogen/Genentech); and Herceptin (trastuzumab, Genentech) in late-stage clinical trials. Combined, these four branded drugs generated more than $26 billion in sales last year.
Because of their complexity, biosimilars generally command prices of approximately 70% of the branded versions they reference, Renauer says. Therefore, any FDA policy changes that speed Amgen's products to the U.S. market could significantly boost the company's bottom line.
Illumina, Inc., a leading manufacturer of DNA-sequencing equipment, is another biotech company that has been doing well since the election. The company's shares soared after it unveiled a cost-reducing technological breakthrough that makes whole human genome sequencing so cheap, it could spark another exponential rise in demand, according to Renauer.
Although Illumina's good fortune has little to do with the Trump administration's health care policies, the possibility of sweeping tax reform has helped. Last year, the company reported a profit of approximately $428 million, after setting aside $133 million for Uncle Sam. Amgen also has approximately $750 million in cash stored overseas. If President Trump can deliver on his promises to lower the U.S. corporate tax rate and allow companies to repatriate their international cash balances without incurring a huge bill from Washington, it would do wonders for the company's bottom line, Renauer predicts.
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Cycling video
At the beginning of February I packed up my bike, Whistler, and headed for London and then on to a plane head for Vietnam. There, luckily Whistler arrived in one piece and I met up with a great crowd of folk for a cycling holiday that would take us from Saigon (Ho Chi Min City) through the Mekong delta and then up to Cambodia and from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, finishing with the spectacular temples that include Angkor Wat. This video is made up of sereval clips I took whilst cycling. The first three are from Vietnam and then we head into Cambodia, first along some busy roads out of the capital and then along more rural roads and finally through the South and North gates of Angkor Thom. The sound is just what I picked up a dn rather than put a tune over it I decided that just the vague clips of the bike and the strains of music as we came past a festival were more atmospheric.


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Amazing "Little Printer" by BergCloud
The guys at BERG are just amazing. No wonder they came up with an amazing product.
Here's what's important…
1. Printers are the most boring things around-(we worked on Epson and know the challenges) these guys managed to make one that's cool
2. It's cool because it has personality- "little printer" shifts it from a inanimate object to something personal and cute
3. It's cool because the form factor plays with our conception and expectations of a printer
4. Small is the way to go because it matches and fits with our other devices- it's a printer that doesn't look out of place with our mobile devices and it looks like we can take it wherever we go
5. It recognizes and demonstrates to us that we might have things on our mobile devices that warrant printing- smart user understanding
6. HP dominates the business and has spent millions trying to make printers cool and they have failed every single time
7. Anyone can have an idea, but not everyone brings them to life
8. You need to bring it to life in a clever way- Berg's film is great and agencies should have no problem doing this part
9. If you can dream it up- why not make it real? There's nothing stopping you from dreaming up a product, bringing it to life and selling it- why not make your own products? (via influxinsights)
Why Amazon Keeps Spending Billions On Amazon R&D
In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explains why his company continues to re-invest in technology.
Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks … walk into certain Amazon meetings, and you may momentarily think you've stumbled into a computer science lecture.
Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and you'll find few patterns that we don't apply at Amazon. We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. And while many of our systems are based on the latest in computer science research, this often hasn't been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to advance research in directions that no academic had yet taken. Many of the problems we face have no textbook solutions, and so we — happily — invent new approaches…Read full article.
All the effort we put into technology might not matter that much if we kept technology off to the side in some sort of R&D department, but we don't take that approach. Technology infuses all of our teams, all of our processes, our decision-making, and our approach to innovation in each of our businesses. It is deeply integrated into everything we do.
Mirror – Beautiful Interactive Music Video Wins Gold
Mirror, an interactive follow up to Sour's Award-winning "Hibi No Niero, has been awarded gold for media innovation and non-broadcast media at the Art Directors Club global awards in New York. The music video for Japanese band Sour's "Mirror" track, best viewed in Chrome or Safari, pulls in video from users' webcam, Twitter and Facebook accounts. The song 'Utsushi Kagami' (Mirror) sings about the fact that everything and everyone around you is a mirror that reflects yourself. You can find who you are in the reflection of others. (via InspirationRoom).
Filming was produced by directors Masashi Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu andSaqoosha.
$5227 was raised through 63 backers at Kickstarter. Those who pledged $30 or more received a promotional flyer signed by the members of SOUR, and a first look at the video prior to the release. $50 or more earned an mp3 of the new track 'Mirror'. $100 or more earned the right to a name on the music video credit list under Special Thanks. $200 or more earned entry as special guest to the SOUR album release concert in Tokyo on December 19. $500 or more was recognised with a special SOUR T shirt & Eco bag. $1000 or more earned free video concept work from Masashi Kawamura.
The Internet And How It Effects Our Brain
An experiment of UCLA professor Gary Small showed that web surfers brain activity is far more extensive. Particular in areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with problem solving and decision-making.
Small concluded, "the current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicate, but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains."
When we go online we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, distract thinking and superficial learning. The Internet is turning us into shallower thinkers and changing the structure of our brain.
In the 1980's people thought the introduction of hyperlinks would strenghten critical thinking, enable us to switch easily between different viewpoints – a technology of liberation.
But because it disrupts concentration it weakens comprehension. A study from 1989 showed that readers tended just to click around and could not remember what they had and had not read.
People, who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read hyperlinked text. It took the hypertext readers longer to read the document and found it confusing.
Whenever a link appears, your brain has at least make the choice not to click, which is itself distracting.
And more recent research suggests that links surrounded by images, videos, and advertisements could be even worse.
In a study text-only viewers answered significantly more questions correctly. They found the presentation more interesting, more educational, more understandable, and more enjoyable.
It's single-minded and we can transfer information into our long-term memory that is essential to the creation of knowledge and wisdom.
While reading the information is flowing into our working memory. When the load exceeds, we are unable to retain the information or to draw connections with other memories. We can't translate the new material into conceptual knowledge.
Numerous studies show that we read faster as we go online.
Problem is that many different kinds of media coming at us simultaneously.
Office workers often glance at their inbox 30 to 40 times an hour. And every time we shift our attention, the brain has to reorient itself. Increasing the likelihood that we'll overlook or misinterpret important information.
But we want to be interrupted. Each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. The neverending stream of new information also plays to our natural tendency to overemphasize the immediate. we crave the new even when we know it's trivial.
We accept the loss of concentration, focus, and fragmentation of our attention. We rarely stop to think that it might actually make more sense just to tune it all out.
Web browsing strengthens brain functions related to fast-paced problem-solving, particular when it requires spotting patterns in a welter of data. But it would be a serious mistake to conclude the Web is making us smarter.
Patricia Greenfield explains "every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others. The development of visual-spatial skills is weakening deep processing."
"By including the use of a new medium, we end up with a different brain. As we multitask online, we are training our brain to pay attention to the crap" (Michael Merzenich, pioneer of the field of neuroplasticity)
The problem is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of thought.
In a metaphorical sense, we are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. We seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.
First thoughts after reading:
1) That's what I like about the iPad. You are focused on one thing. There is no multitasking. That seems to me is a benefit and big advantage. It forces you to stick to one task.
2) Do not stop reading books!
3) Blogs and tweets repeat the same knowledge. Makes sense, so we have more chances to take the information in.
4) What is with people who will grow up just reading online sources and don't know text without hyperlinks at all?
5) I will continue reading both, offline/ linear and online/ hyperlinked
6) Everyone has the choice, that skimming is not your dominant mode of thought.
(adapted from The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, discussed in Wired 6/2010.)
Related Articles
- Is the Internet Making us Stupid? (voanews.com)
- How Internet habits can change the brain (nst.com.my)
- A Writer Who Questions the Wisdom of Teaching With Technology (chronicle.com)
- Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (seattlepi.com)


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Hefty patch adds a slew of features.
Gran Turismo 6, the sixth installment in Polyphony's long running series of authentic racing sim games, hit the PlayStation 3 last holiday season even as PlayStation 4 was launching. Polyphony has been exemplary in supporting the game since its launch, however, and today, they released a new update for the title, which brings us to version 1.07.
The new update includes a new BMW Vision Gran Turismo, additional features in the Open Lobby and new features that have been added to Replay and Watch Race modes. The full list of everything that this rather extensive update adds to the game is provided below, in Polyphony's official patch notes:
Additional features in the Open Lobby
New features added to Replay and Watch Race modes
Polyphony is apparently hard at work bringing a version of GT6 to the PS4, though these remain unsubstantiated rumors. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more info either way.
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Low-vol strategies reflect how investors' mentalities have changed since 2008. Fiona Rintoul looks at a fund market that is hard to uniformly categorise and finds good performance.
"In Russia, we have a proverb," says Alexei Jourovski, head of equities at Unigestion. "Every new thing is a well-forgotten old thing. This applies to low volatility investing."
Low volatility may be in vogue at the moment, as investors caught in turbulent and unpredictable waters grab at anything passing that looks like it might float, but it is far from new. For Jourovski, it simply continues what Warren Buffett said about money management: don't lose money. For others, it is an idea that has been around for decades; it just didn't light up many rooms prior to the 2008 global financial crisis.
"There's usually not a lot of interest in low volatility investing in up markets," says John Calamos, chief executive at Calamos Investments. "Now everybody is trying to figure out a way to cope with the uncertainty in the market environment. low volatility investing is not a new idea but too often it's positioned as something new."
Illinois-based Calamos Investments has been running low volatility portfolios pretty much since John Calamos set the company up in 1977. Its two main strategies are now available in Europe in Ucits wrappers.
There is a burgeoning range of low volatility funds and indices in a market segment that can get confusing. On the index side, MSCI, Standard & Poor's and FTSE now all have low volatility indices – and they're all just a little bit different.
What the indices have in common is that they were launched within the past five years and are designed to deal with a world where sustained bull markets are not the norm. (Although it's worth noting that the first MSCI minimum volatility indices were launched in April 2008, before the collapse of Lehman Brothers.)
"In the 1980s and 1990s, people used to sit down to decide what equity returns would be the next year; that has utterly changed," says Carl Beckley, a managing director at FTSE. "If you take your view of returns out of the picture, what are you left with? One factor is volatility."
Beckley discerns a performance benefit in low volatility stocks – although he emphasises that performance is not the point of the FTSE Minimum Variance indices. Their function is to reduce a portfolio's overall volatility.
"Over longer time periods, such as five to ten years, low volatility stocks outperform," he says.
This suggests the conventional wisdom that you get more return for more risk doesn't always hold good – a view that Pim van Vliet, senior portfolio manager at Robeco, would endorse. He started to look at the risk/return relationship over the long term when he was doing his PhD. Previous academic research had shown that low beta stocks have higher risk-adjusted returns. He checked this over an 80-year timespan and discovered that what he calls the low-risk anomaly persisted over time.
"It works in all decades," he says. "Only when the markets really go up, say by 15%, do low volatility portfolios lag. It's a great anomaly, and we started to exploit it with success."
The low-risk anomaly underpins the investment approach applied to the Robeco Global Conservative Equities and Robeco European Conservative Equities funds.
In turbulent markets, the funds have found favour with investors with assets under management rising from under €2 billion two years ago to €5 billion currently.
"Performance-wise we are on top," says van Vliet. "In the end it's about the best return per unit of risk."
The downside, of course, is that ordinarily the performance of low volatility funds lags when there is a bull market. "You enjoy the party less," says van Vliet. "The price you pay for low volatility is relative risk. It can be painful."
The danger then is that investors fly the coop. Interestingly, although low volatility funds did well when markets were rising in the first quarter of 2013, Lipper figures for the sector show outflows in January and February.
It is hard to draw wide-ranging conclusions from these figures, however, as Lipper does not have a category for low volatility funds. Figures are based on funds with the words "low volatility" in their names and under-represent the sector.
This highlights another problem with low volatility investing. How do you define it? Most low volatility funds and indices aim to reduce volatility by about 30%. Beyond that, as van Vliet puts it, "It's like value investing. The devil is in the detail."
In the UK, this problem has been exacerbated by the Retail Distribution Review (RDR). This has led to the launch of funds with specific risk profiles. They are designed to plug the advice gap created by the transition from commission-based to fee-based financial advice, but while some target a specific volatility level, others target a specific return. This, according to Nick Smith, head of retail sales (ex-Germany) at Allianz Global Investors, is a problem.
"One of the downside of these strategies is the lack of clarity we have seen in the market place in positioning these kinds of products," he says.
"Some of the funds that are filling this space specifically target a volatility level rather than a return. These funds are much more likely to stay in their risk profile over the long term. However, other funds are receiving risk profiles, but are targeting a return rather than a volatility. This means they could change risk profile, forcing advisers to re-advise and potentially alter client portfolios."
Allianz Global Investors' own offering in this sector is the Allianz Risk Master fund range. These are risk-rated, multi-asset funds that aim to deliver returns within four defined volatility bands. They invest mainly in ETFs and physical bonds, with some exposure to absolute return strategies.
In other words, they have very little in common with actively managed equity funds such as the Robeco Conservative Equity funds, the Unigestion funds and the Calamos emerging markets fund, or with a convertible bond fund such as the Calamos Global Convertible Opportunities fund. How, then, are we to assess the low volatility investment sector?
It is not really possible to make many generalisations. Low volatility, minimum variance, target volatility: call it what you will, this sector – if it can even be called that – covers a wide range of tools, objectives and philosophies. Furthermore, simply targetting low volatility does not a world-beating portfolio (or index) make.
Jourovski is not alone in pointing out the limitations of assessing stocks only according to their volatility. "Risk is a complex animal," he says. "There are plenty of cases where volatility goes down but the qualitative risk goes up. For us, volatility is just one risk indicator."
Another obvious problem is that were everyone to invest in low volatility stocks, their price would go up. Therefore including valuation in the model is important, although it does depend on your goal. If your goal is to lower volatility rather than to achieve good long-term returns by investing in low volatility assets, then you might not mind if the stocks become expensive.
"Would the stocks become more expensive? Yes," says Beckley. "But would they become more volatile?"
What does tend to unite all these strategies is a belief in the long term and a certain sobriety of approach. Low volatility investing is the antithesis of chasing hot stocks.
Calamos Investments is "looking carefully" at a long/short strategy.
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Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland's premier symphonic composers. Born in Lwow in 1932, he studied at the Higher School of Music in Katowice with piano master W. Markiewiczowna and composition tutor B. Woytowicz. He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, which he considers his second home. Kilar has been awarded numerous international prizes for composition, among them the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award of Boston in 1960, the Jurzykowski Foundation of New York in 1983, and in his native Poland, the State Award Grade 1 in 1980, the awards of the Minister of Culture in 1967 and 1976, and in 1975, the Award of the Polish Association of Composers.
Kilar's most important compositions include A Short Overture, Symphony for Strings, Il Sinfonia Concertante for Piano and Orchestra, Riff 62, A Prelude and a Christmas Carol, Solenne for 67 Performers, Upstairs-Downstairs, Krzesany, Koscielec 1909, Grey Mist, Orawa, Victoria, Exodus, Choralvorspiel, Angelus.
Referring to John Cage as "the Pope of modern music", Kilar has also been strongly influenced by both classical compositions and indigenous Polish folk music. His works have been performed by several major international symphony orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. For the past 30 years, he has also been composing music for films in Europe, working on numerous projects with directors Krzysztof Zanussi, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Roman Polanski.


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Celoxis is an all-in-one solution, which means that it provides a single interface not only for your project tasks but also for managing issues, risks, bugs, change requests and project approvals and other workflows. We call them Apps in Celoxis.
By default, we provide 6 apps, namely
- Bug
- Issue
- To Do
- Risk
- Change Request
- Project Approval
Among these, 3 are already enabled in your account:
- Bug
- Issue
- To Do
To enable the other apps:
- Go to the Administration page.
- Scroll down to the Custom Apps section.
- Click on Apps.
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YONKERS, NY, Thursday, July 31, 2014-New York Sire Stakes continued downstate Thursday night, with Yonkers Raceway hosting the month-ending $200,900 Jim Meagher Pace for 2-year-old colts and geldings. The quintet of races honored the memory of the Raceway' long-time corporate controller, with his family making winner's circle presentations.
Here's the skinny...
First ($39,900) division-Odds-on Southwind Masimo (Pat Lachance, $3.80), starting from post position No. 4, rolled from second-over in 1:56.1. Oneisalonelynumber (Jim Morrill Jr.) cut the mile and beaten a length-a-quarter. Play the Field (Yannick Gingras) was third.
The winner, a son of Bettor's Delight trained by Lachance for co-owners Hudson Standardbred and Conrad Leber, is now 2-for-2. Exacta...$10.80, triple (three wagering faves in order) ...$40.40
"He can settle, and once he gets going, he does kick in late," Lachance said.
Second ($39,900) division-Bet You (Gingras, $2.70) fooled very few from post No. 6, going the distance in 1:56.4. We Think Alike (Jordan Stratton) was a best-of-rest second, with Maurice (Lachance) third.
The winner, another son of Bettor's Delight trained by Jimmy Takter for co-owners Christina Takter, John & Jim Fielding and Joyce McClelland, broke his maiden in his third career start. Exacta...$11.20, triple $6.
"(Bet You) was ready early," Gingras-who baby-raced him three times-said, "I could have tucked third, but then I'd have to come first-up, so I just drove on."
Third ($40,600) division-With 1-5 support going to the previously-perfect, pole-sitting Freedomformysoul (Morrill Jr.), it was second choice Cartoon Daddy (Gingras, $13)-from post No. 4--patrolling the pocket to Rockntouch (Brett Miller). He then ripped out of same to win by a couple of lengths in a life-best/night's-fastest 1:53.4.
Lone Survivor (Eric Carlson) was second, with K Ryan Bluechip (Brian Sears) third and Berkley (Scott Zeron) fourth.
As for Freedomformysoul, he was rank behind the gate, broke, rushed to catch the field, raced first-up, tired and eventually left the course. Nearly $8,500 of the $9,350 in the show pool went down with him.
The winner, a son of Art Major co-owned (as Burke Racing) by (trainer) Ron Burke and Joe DiScala Jr., is now 3-for-4 this season. He rebounded from an odds-on break of his own in the final of the Lawrence B. Sheppard Pace. Exacta...$157, triple...$476, superfecta...$7,614.
"Tonight was the first time I've driven him, but I've raced against him and I know he has the talent," Gingras said.
Fourth ($39,900) division-Americanprimetime (Tyler Buter, $4.60), 13-10 here after a 78-1 win at Monticello, made one decisive move here. From post No. 2, he brushed to the lead at the quarter, then stormed home by 2¾ lengths in a life-best 1:55.2. Betting Exchange (Morrill Jr.) was second, with Suchasenseofhumor (Gingras) third.
The winner, a homebred son of American Ideal owned by Rock&Roll Stable and trained by Rick Dane, has won two of his three first-season starts. Exacta...$26.60, triple...$56.50.
"After he made the lead, he was just looking around for a horse to race," Buter said.
Fifth ($40,600) division-Prices finished first and second, with Azorean Art (Morrill Jr., $40.60), from post No. 6, prevailing from second-over in a maiden-breaking 1:57.3. Nobettorplacetobe (Aaron Byron) was a pocket second at 45-1, with K-Rock (Gingras third). Sicily (Sears) faded to fourth at just-over even money. Exacta...$797, triple...$1,838, superfecta...$35,595 (base $2 payout).
The winner, an Art Major colt, is trained by Jimmy Takter for co-owners Christina Takter, Brixton Medical Ab, Hatfield Stables and Lothlorien.
New York Sire Stakes continue Monday night, with $221,000 Joe Goldstein Trot (3-year-old fillies).
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CMW offers insights from the long and distinguished career of industry leader, ICC Sydney CEO and Director Convention Centres, AEG Ogden, Geoff Donaghy
How did you arrive in the events/hospitality industry and what were your first roles?
I began my career as a teacher and I loved it. However, I didn't see it as my life long career. I moved to Cairns, which was in the midst of its early and exciting days in tourism where the city was developing its own international airport, new hotels and resorts, and was also in the middle of world heritage listing the Great Barrier Reef and tropical rainforest. I worked my way up to CEO for the city's Regional Development Bureau. During this time, we lobbied for a convention centre for the city. It became obvious to me that cities with a vision to reap the rewards from business events needed to have the infrastructure to do so. Our bid was successful and I was asked to manage the venue, and I have been in the industry ever since.
Which projects have tested you most?
All venue openings are challenging, however the most testing was the Suncorp Stadium project I oversaw in Brisbane. With the football season having already started, there was a huge desire to get the venue open as quickly as possible. We took possession of the building on a Thursday evening and had 52,000 fans walking through the gates for a successful event on Sunday. This involved conditioning the expectations of politicians and patrons, and was only achieved through an extraordinary team effort.
In my later career, opening ICC Sydney in 2016 also had its challenging moments – because of the size, changes and flexibility offered by the new integrated venue and the fact that the city had been without a convention centre for three years, so the expectations were immense. However, we had a terrific team that kept the city and our clients engaged throughout the build process and an opportunity to recreate our destiny with industry leading culinary, marketing and teambuilding strategies.
When the new ICC Sydney project was launched and you took on the CEO role, how did it effect your broader work for AEG Ogden.
My group role within AEG Ogden involves identifying and assisting with new Asia Pacific projects, recruiting the best possible team and being a resource of support and guidance.
The two most important things when segmenting time are delegation, which involves trust in your people and permission to fail, and prioritisation, by only doing the things that really need to be done.
With the ICC Sydney marking its second anniversary, what have been the landmark moments/events and what has surprised you most about the project?
During our first two years of operation we have delivered some truly world class and industry leading events. From the ASEAN-Australia Summit in March earlier this year, which included security for 11 heads of state and attracted over 200 international media to hosting the hugely successful Sibos 2018, where we welcomed more than 7,600 guests for a complex multi-day conference.
The acceptance by the business events industry and local communities of such a major project has been overwhelmingly positive, which is not so much a surprise but rather the result of meticulous planning and preparation.
I've long been a believer that being entrusted to deliver major city assets conveys both obligation and opportunity. The obligation is first and foremost to run them as efficiently and professionally as possible, but also to ensure the wide range of benefits that they create is shared broadly.
The opportunity is to gather a family of advocates from within the local community that benefit from our success while enriching the events we secure.
Where has the wider global meetings industry made big strides and which areas does it need to concentrate more on developing?
The 'beyond tourism' concept and philosophy, which was established in Australia, has been embraced by so many destinations across the world. The benefits of our major facilities and the events that we attract is not just about the economic impact, although we welcome their spend, which is four times that of a leisure tourist, it is the contribution to the knowledge economy and the lasting impacts events can leave in a city. I believe venues and events will continue to focus on this path.
Tell us about the thinking behind your Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan at ICC Sydney.
We see our RAP as an avenue through which we can celebrate and acknowledge the cultures and heritage of Australia's First People. It allows us the opportunity to build on the work we have already done, including developing pre-employment programmes for hospitality students with TAFE NSW Eora College, engaging with Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council to connect events with Welcome to Country services, and introducing a dedicated First Australians stream within our Event Legacy Programme and within our workplace diversity and inclusion strategy.
While building an inclusive venue and providing authentic experiences for clients and delegates, we're looking for economic opportunities and career pathways for Australia's First Nations people and businesses and learning a lot along the way.
What goals do you still have in the industry?
There is still the potential in a number of countries for a well-designed and operated facility, and I look forward to being involved with AEG Ogden in those markets.
The greatest level of satisfaction I ever get out of any project is creating a team from within and outside our industry, and seeing them come together with a common purpose of establishing the best venue operation possible. As long as I remain in the industry, this will be my greatest goal.
How do you relax when clocking off from the professional life?
Music, reading and cooking are my three favourite forms of relaxation. My musical taste runs from Beethoven and Mahler to B.B. King and Muddy Waters. I have always been an avid collector of music and still have some very rare vinyl pressings but the advent of technology, such as Spotify, has changed that fundamentally. I always pick my music to either suit or create a particular mood.
Something that I don't get to do as much as I would like to is reading. I'm an avid book collector, although I am well prepared with a full library for when I retire, although that is still some years away.
From a young age I learnt cooking skill from my Italian Nona and my Mum. I've also picked up a great love for Asian cuisine from my extensive travels to the region. This is where I also developed my love for seeking out local food markets when I travel to new destinations.
And, finally, a tip from an Aussie on handling jet lag? How do you mitigate the effects of the long-haul travel you do?
Jetlag is always a lottery, sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. My personal techniques involve setting watches on destination time, even on the way to the airport, so that you switch on mentally to that time zone, and relaxing as much as possible on flights with good music and a good book. I like to use flight time as valuable thinking time where I can minimise my digital connectivity, which is something senior executives have very little time to do.


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Deep value investing
Benjamin Graham, who is regarded as the father of value investing, believed that a stock could generate above average returns when it traded below its long-term fundamental value.
The larger the discount the stock enjoys over its intrinsic value, the higher the probability it will beat overall market returns.
Graham has developed several approaches in computing the intrinsic value of a stock and one of these is the net current asset value method, commonly known as the "net-net strategy."
This approach, which Graham successfully tested in the early 1930s few years after the Great Depression, requires investing in stocks that are priced at least 67 percent of a firm's underlying current assets net of all liabilities.
For example, if the sum of a company's cash, accounts receivable and inventory is computed at P100 a share and the sum of its current liabilities and long-term debt is P70 a share, the difference between the two, which is P30 per share, shall be called net current asset value.
If the market price of the stock is trading at least one-third of the net current asset value, which in this case is P10 a share, it simply means the company is priced at its liquidation value while giving away its fixed assets and others for free.
Graham believed there was no reason for a stock to trade continuously at this huge discount so there was a very good chance the stock would recover strongly in due time.
But in a market where share prices have fallen significantly this year, like in the Philippines, how applicable is this strategy?
Let's examine this strategy by screening the potential value stocks from 2015 at yearend prices. During that time, the PSE Index was also on a downward trend, having lost a total of 15 percent of its value eight months ago.
Following the criterion of the net-net strategy, only four of the more than 300 stocks yielded at least 67 percent discount to net current asset value.
They were Apollo Global, which had 96 percent discount; San Miguel Purefoods, 88 percent; Panasonic, 88 percent and Concrete Aggregate B, 79 percent.
Assuming you bought all these stocks and held them for two years, your portfolio would have generated a median return of 258 percent at end of 2017, outperforming the PSE Index, which rose by 23 percent.
While the net-net strategy generated excess returns over time as shown by historical performance, bear in mind that the reason why these stocks traded at a huge discount was their poor growth outlook, problematic profitability, or illiquid shares in the market.
In a way, we can say net-net stocks can be highly speculative and risky. The only fundamental reason that makes them attractive is the value potential that they offer in case of liquidation.
Not all net-net stocks share the same characteristics. Some may have profitable businesses while others may be holding assets with no reliable sources of income.
Let's say we put more weight on cash assets by assuming that a liquidating company will be able to collect only 75 percent of its accounts receivable and sell 50 percent of its inventories.
Applying these haircuts to the net-net criterion using the same historical data in 2015, the result would yield only one stock, Panasonic, which offered 84 percent discount to market price.
This stock went on to generate cumulative returns of 130 percent by end of 2017 but has since corrected from profit taking during the market downtrend.
If we use the net-net strategy at current prices with same haircuts, we will again have Panasonic at 79 percent discount. So will history repeat itself?
Value investing can be lucrative but may be risky, too. The only way to manage this risk, as Graham said, is to avoid overpaying a stock no matter how attractive it is by having a comfortable margin of safety.
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Prior to the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the largest oil spill in U.S. History was occurring drip by drip over decades (EPA estimates more than 30 million gallons of crude and petro-chemicals) underneath the streets in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Here are some news stories (two videos and one recent newspaper article) about the spill and its very slow cleanup.
Brooklyn Paper: Is the Exxon payout too small?
Less than a week after the state reached a historic $25-million settlement with ExxonMobil, forcing the company to finish cleaning up the Greenpoint oil spill, residents are questioning whether those funds will go far enough to repair six decades of pollution. "It's small," said Greenpoint resident Mike Hofmann. "They made $11.5 billion in one quarter a few years ago and we get $25 million? That's crazy." The largest environmental settlement in state history, announced by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Nov. 18, abruptly ended a six-year legal battle between environmental groups, public officials and ExxonMobil over responsibility for cleaning up an estimated 17 million gallons of oil that leached into 55 acres of Greenpoint soil and groundwater for half a century.


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July 8, 2013 — A Jesuit heritage tour of Argentina and Paraguay will follow the footsteps of Jesuits from the early 1600s through the present day — including the first Jesuit pope in his hometown. Sponsored by the California Province Jesuits, participants have the chance to immerse themselves in South America's rich Jesuit history.
Jesuit Father John Mossi, from the California Province, and Argentinian Jesuit Father Michael Petty will lead pilgrims on the cultural and spiritual journey from February 17 to March 2, 2014. The tour will begin in Córdoba, Argentina, where a group of Jesuits missioned from Spain arrived in 1599 and created a center of learning.
From there, the journey continues to the Jesuit Reductions in Posadas, on the border of Paraguay. The Jesuits in the 17th century built the famous Jesuit Reductions, indigenous cities of culture, education, food production and religious evangelization in the jungle areas of today's Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil and Uruguay. These thriving cities were one of the most ambitious creations of Catholic missionary activity, according to Fr. Mossi.
"They were renowned for their architecture, systems of government and flourishing community life that empowered the indigenous peoples," explains Fr. Mossi. "As European governments saw the slave trade as a means of profit and commerce, the Reductions became sources of exploitations. The Jesuits kept moving the Reductions deeper into the jungles in order to protect them. Eventually, the creation of the Reductions and protection of native people was interpreted as subversive action instigated by the Jesuits and became another element of the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773."
The tour will end in Buenos Aires, and while it was planned before Pope Francis was elected, the schedule is being updated to explore his connections to his native city.
"Fr. Petty, our local Jesuit guide, is an Argentinian who knows Pope Francis. He's working to include sites and churches Pope Francis frequented in Buenos Aires," says Fr. Mossi.
Fr. Mossi believes participants will come away with a sense of Jesuit missionary spirituality, history and culture in South America. He expects a group of about 25 people, including many who have participated in previous Jesuit pilgrimages sponsored by the California Province.Joe Naylor, assistant for advancement and communications for the California Province, has been on Jesuit pilgrimages to Europe and China and says that the groups bond from their Jesuit connections. He's already looking forward to next year's trip.
"A highlight of the pilgrimage will be visiting the religious sites where our new Jesuit pope celebrated the Mass. These pilgrimages provide not only an insight to the rich legacy of St. Ignatius and the traditions of the Jesuits, but also a more global view of our Jesuit ministries," Naylor said.
To learn more about the Jesuit Reductions Tour, visit www.jesuitscalifornia.org/argentina.


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In this picture, I'm standing in the middle of a main road in my town. Looks like the middle of a forest, doesn't it?
As thankful as I am that we made it out with minimal damage to our home, a generator, and nice warm fireplace, my heart is breaking for The Jersey Shore and New York City. It's eerie to see places where I grew up and become very familiar with (Ocean City, NJ and Battery Park in NYC particularly!) being completely destroyed. I also want to thank all of my readers/friends from other parts of the country and abroad for checking in on me!
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On 14 July, the two convivia of Oldenburg and Ostfriesland (together, they make up the bit of north-west Germany which lies between Bremen and the Dutch border) got together for a summer evening of food, drink music and conversation at the home and workplace of Lothar Kotzias, a local winemaker and wine-dealer. All his wine is certified organic, and you may browse all the details of the Weindiele (if, of course, you read German).
It seemed a good reason to explore this part of Europe, so two of us (Iain and Mary) booked up, spent a day driving to the end of the Netherlands (staying at the excellent Herberg Bellingwolde), and then meandered over to Westerstede for the event.
The photo gallery tells the story of the evening, but we must thank England Preserves and Boston Sausage for their flag-carrier status: the Germans just couldn't get enough of the piccalilli, pear/date/ale and green tomato chutneys, and quince jelly, either to go with the equally eagerly devoured haslet or to attend the star of the evening, a Düppele Weideschwein pig which was roasted whole (and eaten in its entirety). Other local delicacies on show for tasting included beef salami, Bunte Bentheimer ham and rose-petal sorbet.
The hosts have written up the evening's activities in the Oldenburg convivium's annals - again, I'm afraid it's only in German. But they do have pictures of their own, and you might even spot a Londoner or two!
It was a very pleasant evening (and night - we stayed in one of the holiday apartments right by the musicians' stage), and we must thank Lothar and Birgit for their hospitality, Scott Haslett - no relation to the Lincolnshire meat - for organising our attendance, and all the members of the two convivia for being so friendly to a couple of interlopers.


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We love shining a light on Norway because it is one of the most stunning countries you are ever likely to visit. You could start in Oslo as we showed with our 27 photos from there but to really experience this magical country you need to get out into the countryside. We've not seen a better example of highlighting the country than this incredibly special timelapse video. You really have to make it your business to check our Norway as soon as possible!
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We've spent the last weekend watching the Sochi Paralympics from our couches, beds and on the move – we're hooked! As you enjoy this year's Winter Paralympics from whichever screen is your favorite, we wanted to take a look back the incredible broadcast coverage record that was set by the Winter Olympics. While it's no surprise that there's now more content that ever, and that viewing is more "multiscreened" than ever, the numbers are huge!
The year's Winter Olympics garnered 42,000 hours of television coverage, versus 32,000 in Vancouver in 2010, and the digital component sets a whopping record of 60,000 hours – against 25,000 hours for Vancouver. The International Olympic Committee has also highlighted that with 230 digital destinations supporting this year's Games – which can be broken down into 155 website and 75 applications – there has a shift away from traditional fixed screens to more mobile devices, although people are often flicking between the two.
Even Timmo Lumme, managing director of Olympic television and marketing, is talking about the move to multiscreen, noting that "it is interesting that we are not just seeing people stay on mobile. It is a tendency that the smaller screen is becoming the first screen, but people are coming back to use the big screen as a first screen and then redeploying the smaller screen as the second screen."
We recently blogged in more detail about how televised sports about to change, and what ARRIS is doing to ensure that service providers can deliver the world's biggest sporting events your way.
What are you doing differently in this exciting new era of sports viewing, and how are you watching the Paralympics? Let us know in the comments below.


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PLOUFFE, THERE IT IS: Funny lady and Dallas Observer contributor Andrea Grimes calls David Plouffe "the Red Bull that gave America wings," the best quip we've heard to answer the "Kool-Aid" grumbling so popular this time last year. The former campaign manager for Barack Obama signs his book, The Audacity to Win, at Angelika Dallas, 6PM.
SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND: If local singer songwriters are your thing, you'll dig Songwriters in the Round at Opening Bell Coffee from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Hosted by Becky Middleton, 3-5 artists play with audience discussions, questions are welcomed! $5 is the suggested donation.
HAPPY EFFICIENT HOLIDAYS: Have you heard about Mockingbird Station's "Get Gifted" campaign? Discounts at shops like Skateboarding Supply and Francesca's are offered from 5-9PM each weeknight now until December 18. All's you've got to do is mention the program at these retailers -- the property anticipates the parking crunch by letting free valet service -- and get those 'bows ready before the good stuff is picked over.


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But I love it soJust fucking trash that thing. It's breaking your heart.
But I love it soJust fucking trash that thing. It's breaking your heart.
On the story of heartbreaking cars.Bought a van, disposing of the car relatively soon. First impressions, very chill on motorway, doesn't feel fast which kinda explains the whole van man thing. Fuel tank is rediculously big compared t a car for humans. haphazard camper van project is imminent.
Thats a bollocksOn the story of heartbreaking cars.
The van had some awful problems and my mechanic basically was like 'well, i can take 2500 in repairs off you but i don't want to because i'm afraid i'll find another problem'. I owned for a total one month and ended up scrapping it at a loss of about 2100eu. Had to shelve the camper project and doing the financial wound licking now, but when someone who makes their entire living off fixing broken vehicles is recommending that you don't give them money two months before xmas, its probably best to listen.
Lucky enough i'd not got rid of the car...
Yeah hoping to go all in on one that works in a few month in time for the winter break. once burned twice as stupid.Thats a bollocks
A friend of mine bought a converted camper with the intention of taking it Cambodia. They brought it to the DOE only to be told the chassis was rusted to fuck and they couldn't drive it. They lost a load of money on it. It's sitting in a garden now as a spare room.
I had the wrong fucking bulb in it. I used a single filament when I should have used a double. Also, for some reason the engine gets really damp. A good blast of WD40 sorts it right out.Fuck it. I replaced two burnt out looking bulbs on the rear left, but the light still not working. The indicator is fine, just no brake or reverse lights. Could it be a fuse?
I know. Its insane. Its usually nearly 2 grand. Single woman, low paying job, old car.yikes. still very steep though
Wife did. Fairly straight forward, buyer signed log book & wife sent it in.Have any of you sold a car? Is it a massive ball ache? Any advice?
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text: The JM[Just Messing]/Spring Series are pieces done this spring while the weather where we live was going through the change from winter to spring to summer - days of sun and greening land, and days of intense blizzards and wind. (We now live at a high altitude in the mountains of Colorado after years in the city of Denver). "JM" stands for "just messing" - I decided to not have a theme, or a real set "meaning" when I set to making these; I just started mucking around with what materials I had in my little studio. I realized, when looking at the finished products that they ended up being about the weather and change and the season they were painted in. Sarah M Timberlake June 2, 2018


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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Consider the Birds by Debbie Blue
From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process. Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated beast in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance even as readers gain a better understanding that God s mysterious grace is sometimes most evident in His simplest of creatures.
It took me a little time to figure out whether or not I liked this unusual book, and I decided I like it a lot.
To begin with, the illustrations are lovely. Debbie Blue has believed for a long time that birds represent far more than what we see. Their amazing link to dinosaurs, being able to defy gravity and fly, and migrate for miles without reading maps and compasses is just the start. She's carefully examined a selection of birds in the light of history, mythology, science, symbolism and art and written a very enlightening book that often turns our preconceptions on their heads.
Did you know that the vulture, for example, may challenge western commercial culture's narrow definition of what is beautiful? Like me, you might have thought of them as repulsive opportunists with suitably creepy looks, yet we're challenged to see them as hovering mothers and purifying cleansers of the world. Similarly, ostriches give us lessons in self-discernment and grandiosity, while the common house sparrow may challenge us to think differently about common notions of personal significance. If God's eye is on the sparrow, why are ours always roaming around, searching for something with more prestige?
I found it quite moving to see that, despite their ancient ancestry, birds can be so vulnerable to thoughtless human activity. This in seen in the examples of pelicans, sparrows, eagles and vultures in the pages of this book. Only when they are driven to the verge of extinction in certain areas does it become evident what important ecological roles they serve.
I'd have to warn anyone who just wants a field guide about birds that this isn't what you're getting. It has just as much to say about humanity and the way we choose to live. In fact, sometimes I lost the thread, found myself deep in some philosophical observation and thought, 'How did I get here?' (For example, the chapter about quail ends up making us think about making hypocrites of our children by dictating how they ought to pray.) However, you can always trace it back to the birds. Just be prepared for lots of interesting segues you wouldn't normally expect.
Overall, even though I don't entirely agree with every point Debbie Blue makes, it's a fascinating book and I'll be reading it over again. In fact, I've ordered a copy for a family member who's a keen bird watcher and also interested in philosophy.
I received a copy of this book from Net Galley and Abingdon Press in return for an honest review.
4 stars
Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible Available at Amazon
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Journal Articles
Morley, J., Widdicks, K. and Hazas, M. (2018) Digitalisation, energy and data demand: The impact of Internet traffic on overall and peak electricity consumption. Energy Research and Social Science, 38, 128-137 (Available here)
Book Chapters
Morley, J. (2017) Technologies within and beyond practices. In Hui, A., Schatzki, T. and Shove, E. (eds) The nexus of practice: How social life hangs together. Routledge. AAM
Morley, J. (in press) Unleashing the internet: the normalisation of wireless connectivity. In Shove, E. and Trentman, F. (eds) Infrastructures in practice: the evolution of demand in networked societies. MIT Press.
Morley, J. (2018) Sustainability within HCI within society: Improvisations, interconnections and imaginations. In Hazas, M. and Nathan, L. (eds) Digital Technology and Sustainability: Engaging the Paradox. (Google Books link)
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
Hazas, M., Morley, J., Bates, O. and Friday, A. (2016) Are there limits to growth in data traffic?: On time use, data generation and speed. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing within Limits. Irvine, California: ACM, 1-5. (Available here)
Lord, C., Hazas, M., Clear, A. K., Bates, O., Whittam, R., Morley, J. & Friday, A. (2015) Demand in My Pocket: Mobile Devices and the Data Connectivity Marshalled in Support of Everyday Practice. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). New York, USA: ACM Press. (Available here)
Bates, O., Hazas, M., Friday, A., Morley, J., & Clear, A. K. (2014). Towards an holistic view of the energy and environmental impacts of domestic media and IT. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14), 1173–1182. New York, USA: ACM. (Available here)
Clear, A. K., Morley, J., Hazas, M., Friday, A., & Bates, O. (2013). Understanding adaptive thermal comfort. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing – UbiComp '13, 113–122. New York, USA: ACM. (Available here)
Clear, A. K., Hazas, M., Morley, J., Friday, A., & Bates, O. (2013). Domestic food and sustainable design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13), 2447–2456. New York, USA: ACM. (Available here)
Bates, O., Clear, A., Friday, A., Hazas, M., & Morley, J. (2012). Accounting for Energy-Reliant Services within Everyday Life at Home. In J. Kay, P. Lukowicz, H. Tokuda, P. Olivier, & A. Krüger (Eds.), Pervasive Computing (Vol 7319, pp. 107–124). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Morley, J., & Hazas, M. (2011). The significance of difference: Understanding variation in household energy consumption. In Proceedings of the 2011 eceee Summer Study, 2037–2046. (Available here)
Other Papers
Morley, J. and Robison, R.A.V. (2016) A nation of addicts? Exploring disciplinary perspectives on digital dependence. In Macrorie, R and Wade, F (eds.) Daily life, digital technologies and energy demand. Working Paper Collection. (Available here)
Macrorie, R., Kragh-Furbo, M. and Morley, J. (2016) Breaking the Code: How algorithms (re)shape everyday life. In Macrorie, R and Wade, F (eds.) Daily life, digital technologies and energy demand. Working Paper Collection. (Available here)
Blue, S., Morley, J., Marsden, G., and Shove, E. (2016) The Dynamics of Demand: methods and concepts for thinking about change. Discussion Paper for DEMAND Conference. (Available here)
Morley, J. and Lord, C. (2016) Changing Connections: Wi-Fi, Tablets and Evolving Systems of Connectivity. In Proceedings of the DEMAND Conference, April, Lancaster (Available here)
Morley, J. (2014) Interesting topics and directions for practice theories. Working paper 8 In Demanding ideas: Where theories of practice might go next. A Collection of Working Papers, Windermere, 18-20 June 2014. (Available here)


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Take a Selfie With a Historical Figure at RIVER OF FIRE!
The Patriotic Heritage booth will have Revolutionary War-era characters available starting around 4 p.m. at the 2016 River of Fire for taking selfies!
It is possible Civil War-era and World War II-era characters will join us as well! (not finalized yet)
The Revolutionary War actors will depict militia members as well as civilians and minutemen. The Sons of the American Revolution will also participate in the opening ceremonies.
An Abraham Lincoln impersonator will speak at 4:30 on the main stage.


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I've been decorating for Christmas in bits and pieces, as I find the time. {The main thing holding me back is that all the Christmas items are in the very back of the crawl space.}
We kept our Happy Halloween garland up way too long (I won't even tell you how long) and the space above the table seemed empty without it. A Christmas garland seemed like just the thing. I was going to go to Michaels and buy a premade garland, but then I found myself in the seasonal section at Target and saw the makings of my very own garland.
Red star tinsel (something like ten feet worth), giant candy cane ornaments (although I bought the small size, not the large) and metal snowflakes. Christmas garland, here we come!
Too many pushpins, and half an hour of getting up and down off the chair later, the garland was hung!
The extra tinsel became a lovely wreath for the hall, as seen in the photo at the beginning of the post.
{My apologies for the terrible lighting in the photos}


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The reason the media wants open borders is because they're a part of a global corporate machine that profits from drugs and weapons smuggling, and from human smuggling and sex trafficking….
What about sex trafficking?
"Sex trafficking is a $99 billion a year industry."
"4.5 million people are victims of sex trafficking. The average age is 15, but 20% of sex trafficking victims are children."
And what about human smuggling?
"2.5 million people were smuggled in 2016, for an estimated profit of $7 billion."
Where does all of that profit go?
Does it all stay as billions of dollars in cash?
No. It gets laundered by global banks, and is in turn funneled to complicit politicians…
Even when the corporations get caught, they only get fined. No one goes to jail, because the politicians are on the take…
HSBC lobbying by year…
The media companies are also on the take…
The politicians are on the take…
"Clinton Foundation recieved $81 million from clients of HSBC's Swiss Money Laundering bank"
The law that separates children from smugglers was on the books since 2002. The law states how unaccompanied minors and minors being smuggled by smugglers should be detained and moved into foster parenting or kept in certified centers…
In 2014 Obama announced that they would no longer enforce the law and would allow undocumented, illegal border crossers to not be immediately deported…
Since the Obama executive branch stopped enforcing the law, child smuggling and illegal border crossings increased to emergency levels..
"The Obama administration last year initially blamed bad economies and growing gang violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala for sparking the surge, but later acknowledged that human traffickers were marketing the journey by pointing out a loophole in U.S. immigration system that requires non-Mexican children to be released into the U.S. while they await final immigration decisions. That gives them a chance to abscond and disappear into the shadows with the more than 11 million other illegal immigrants in the country."
The law, if properly applied, is to NOT separate children from families that seek asylum and cross the border LEGALLY…
"Children continue to be released to their relatives or to shelters. But since the zero-tolerance policy took effect, parents as a rule are being prosecuted."
But there has been a rise in people falsely claiming to be relatives of smuggled children…
"…a growing number of cases, illegal immigrants who aren't even related to the children are showing up and fraudulently claiming to be families.Homeland Security recorded 191 cases of children having to be separated because of fraudulent family claims during the first five months of fiscal year 2018. That already eclipses the 46 cases reported for all of 2017."
Should people crossing the border illegally not be prosecuted?
Should children being smuggled across the border illegally be put in jail with the adults that smuggled them?
How much should we encourage illegal entries when we know that they are fueling an illegal industry of human smuggling, sex trafficking and drug and gun smuggling?


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I bought this week's edition of the ESPN magazine and I was shocked when I found this full page ad. To be honest I can't wait for the Superman movie to come out and enjoy Brandon on the big screen. By the way I read an article saying that some of the pictures of Brandon on the Superman suit had to be retouched making his bulge smaller because it was too distracting..... does anybody know if this is true? That is hot!
Friday, June 09, 2006
Yes... I would like some of your milk!
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006
My beautiful Germany 2006 team - Part 1
I am not a big fan of Soccer but I do love beautiful man sweating, wearing shorts and with great legs. I can't wait to watch the games and enjoy all the male beauty.
I decided to create my own team with the men that I personally find more atractive (one per team).
First row: Carlos Bocanegra (USA), Carlos Bonet (Paraguay), Dario Simic (Croatia), Dariuz Dudka (Poland)
Second row: Freddie Ljungberg (Sweden), Gabriel Badilla (Costa Rica), Hassan Roudbaria (Iran), Hussein Sulimani (Saudi Arabia)
Third row: Jean - Paul Abalo (Togo), Kali (Angola), Keiji Tamada (Japan), Paul Ambrosi (Ecuador)
Fourth row: Andry Voronin (Ukraine), Stephen Appiah (Ghana), Timo Hildebrand (Germany), Zinedine Zidane (France)
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Unreleased Version Of Hellkrusher Wasteland To See Vinyl Release
An unreleased version of Hellkrusher Wasteland is to be released on vinyl on Sanctus Propaganda and CD release by Chaos Control
Not a lot of people know, but there are actually two recordings of "Wasteland", the first of which was scrapped for not being up to standard back in the day. The studio was shit and the guitarist was on the run from the police. The recording itself hasn't been heard outside the band apart from a few close friends and tape traders … UNTIL NOW! Fully remastered, including all original artwork and photos, much rawer, with a dirtier guitar sound as different versions of the songs that appear on the released version. This is "Wasteland Unreleased".
14 songs, 30+ minutes, all original look&feel cover and art.