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|2 Oct 2007
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|17 Dec 2002
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|17 Dec 2002
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|Sundararajan Varadarajan
|Original Assignee
|Electronic Data Systems Corporation
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This description relates to searching for concepts in stored free-form data, and more particularly to navigating among concepts in a data storage system.
In virtually any large enterprise, there is an enormous amount of stored information, predominantly in the form of text. The amount of free-form or unstructured text data is typically very large when compared with structured data in databases. For example, free-form text data, on average, accounts for about 80% of the stored information and can frequently double every year. Structured data, on the other hand, accounts for only about 20% of the stored data. Much of the free-form text information, particularly in organizations such as legal, supply chain, human resources (HR), and the like, is contained in numerous large documents. Comprehending the terms and semantics to, for example, locate concepts of interest within a document requires a painstaking effort. Although electronic storage of documents simplifies the process of browsing through documents, it is difficult and time-consuming to browse through large volumes of text to understand and quickly locate the key semantic concepts of interest.
Most word processing software provides a mechanism for searching for individual terms but does not enable extraction of key semantic concepts from a large document. Recent advances in information extraction and text-mining technologies, however, provide mechanisms for extracting key semantic concepts. For example, one such text-mining engine that can extract semantic concepts is produced by ClearForest. Another example is APR Corporation's Smart Logik product.
Techniques are provided for navigating among semantic concepts in large documents or other data records. These techniques use the output of a concept extraction engine to identify positional relationships among various concepts in a free-form data object. Concept instances can be highlighted, and links can be created among the concepts so that a user can navigate from one concept instance to a next/previous concept instance representing another or the same concept. In addition, links can be created so that a user can jump to a particular concept instance from a table of concepts. The user may also be able to select which concepts, from a list of concepts, are highlighted and/or have associated links. In one implementation, the techniques are implemented on a computer or web browser to allow a user to navigate among textual concepts in one or more large documents. In other implementations, the techniques may facilitate navigation among concepts in one or more voice recordings.
Unlike simple search engines, these techniques allow users to search or navigate among linguistic and semantic concepts within documents and provide the user with the flexibility to look at a variety of different highlighted concepts in one pass. In addition, unlike other text-mining tools, the user can navigate between each occurrence or concept instance and the successive or preceding occurrences of the same concept and can jump to a specific occurrence of any of the various concepts. Prior text-mining tools are designed primarily for browsing through the text-mining results of many small documents such as news articles, in which each document is likely to be only one page long and can be presented in its entirety on a screen. Such tools, when used with large documents (e.g., a legal contract that is tens of pages long), the user must scroll through the entire text to find occurrences of interest, which is a manually intensive, time-consuming, and error-prone process. The described techniques, on the other hand, address the navigation and location issue when performing semantic concept browsing in large documents by providing intuitive links embedded into the document.
In one general aspect, navigation among concepts in a free-form data object is facilitated by identifying concepts in a free-form data object. Each concept is presumed to have at least one concept instance. A concept-navigable structure for the free-form data object is generated from the identified concepts, such that the concept-navigable structure includes links for navigating among concept instances.
Implementations may include one or more of the following features. For example, each concept may be identified using semantic rules and/or linguistic rules. The free-form data object may also include at least one text-based document or at least one voice recording. The concept navigable structure may be generated by embedding the links within the free-form data object to allow navigation among adjacent concept instances and/or nearest associated concept instances (i.e., concept instances associated with the same concept). The concept-navigable structure can also be generated by sorting the concept instances according to position within the free-form data object to form a first sorted list, generating links between adjacent concept instances in the first sorted list, sorting the concept instances by concept to form a second sorted list, and generating links between concept instances in the second sorted list that are associated with the same concept. A table of concepts organized by concept and having links to each concept instance may be generated. A list of concepts associated with the free-form data object may be displayed, a user selection of at least one concept from the list of concepts may be received, and the concept instances corresponding to the user-selected concepts may be highlighted. The links may then facilitate navigation among the concept instances that correspond to the user-selected concepts.
In another general aspect, a concept navigation system includes a concept parser operable to receive concept instance data for concepts that are extracted from a free-form data object. The concept parser identifies a sequential relationship among concept instances and among concept instances associated with the same concept. A concept-navigable document structure generated by the concept parser contains navigation links for navigating among concept instances within the free-form data object.
Implementations of the system may include one or more of the following features. For example, the concept-navigable document structure may be accessible by a browser to allow a user to navigate among concept instances within the free-form data object. The concept-navigable document structure may also include navigation links for navigating from a current concept instance to a next or a previous concept instance or to a next or a previous associated concept instance (i.e., a concept instance associated with the same concept as the current concept instance). The concept-navigable document structure may include a table of concepts having links to each concept instance. The links may comprise pointers to anchor data associated with each concept instance. The concept parser may also be operable to receive concept instance data within an extensible markup language (XML) document, with the XML document identifying a location, length, and concept name for each concept instance. The XML document may be generated by a concept extraction tool.
In yet another general aspect, a computer-readable storage medium may store instructions for facilitating navigation among concepts in a free-form data object. A computer operating in accordance with the instructions may be operable to receive concept instance data relating to concepts within a free-form data object and to identify anchor data associated with each concept instance. Using the concept instance data, the computer may also generate links between each concept instance and a previous/next concept instance, if any, within the free-form data object. The links may comprise a pointer to the anchor data associated with the previous concept instance and the next concept instance. Finally, the computer may by operable to embed the links within the free-form data object to produce a concept-navigable document structure.
Implementations may include one or more of the following features. For example, the computer operating in accordance with the instructions may be further operable to generate additional links between each concept instance and any previous/next concept instance within the free-form data object that is associated with the same concept, and embed the additional links within the free-form data object. The computer may also be operable to generate a table of concepts listing the concepts and including links to each concept instance. The computer may be further operable to display the concept-navigable document to a user and enable the user to navigate among the concept instances using the links, the additional links, and the table of concept links.
The details of one or more implementations are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features will be apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims.
Like reference symbols in the various drawings indicate like elements.
A concept navigation routine is used to enable user-friendly navigation of semantic concepts that are identified by a concept extraction engine. Initially, a concept extraction engine is used to identify semantic concepts in a document. In particular, the locations of different concepts that are contained within the document are extracted by the concept extraction engine. The output of the concept extraction engine is parsed to generate a concept-navigable document structure. A user can then easily navigate among concepts in the concept-navigable document structure using a web browser. Although one implementation enables navigation among concepts in a textual document, it should be understood that the routine can be used to navigate among concepts in other types of electronically stored data, such as recorded voice data.
In one implementation, the output of the concept extraction engine 110 is formatted as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document, that contains the concept names and the location of the corresponding matching text within the original document. The elements of a representative XML document and their respective features are shown in Table 1 below. Depending on the type of concept extraction engine 110 used, the output may need to be transformed into a format similar to the described XML document. Other formats may also be used.
Contains the entire
contents of the
original document
Contains information
about concepts
Concept X,
There will be one such
None required.
Concept Y,
element for every
Attributes as
. . .
concept instance in the
mentioned contain
original document. This
numerical values.
element contains the
following location
attributes at the
Start Position Offset
Each of the sub-elements 235 and 250 represents a concept instance. A particular concept 115 (e.g., TermofAgreement) may have multiple instances within a particular document 105. Different instances of the same concept 115 use identical start-tags and end-tags but have different locations and potentially different lengths. For example, the TermofAgreement sub-element 250 could be preceded within the Concepts element 220 of the XML document 200 by another TermofAgreement sub-element having a start-tag and an end-tag that are identical to the illustrated TermofAgreement start-tag 255 and TermofAgreement end-tag 260 but having different offset and length attribute values.
Referring again to
The anchor text for each concept instance is preceded and followed by one or more links that are embedded within the concept-navigable document structure. These links allow a user 140 to navigate among concept instances in a convenient and user-friendly manner. For example, the "Termination" concept instance 320 is preceded by a previous concept instance link 325 (represented by "
The previous concept link 330 and the next concept link 340 cause the display to jump to the anchor text associated with the previous or next concept instance of any concept type, which can be a concept instance of the same or a different type. For example, if a user 140 is viewing the Termination concept instance 320 and selects the next concept link 340, the display will jump to the "Assignment" concept instance 345, which is the next concept instance within the document 105. The first concept instance generally will not include a previous concept link 330, and the last concept instance generally will not include a next concept link 340.
The "Assignment" concept instance 345 does not include an associated previous concept instance link or an associated next concept instance link 335, which indicates that there are no other "Assignment" concept instances within the document 105. The "Assignment" concept instance 345 does include, however, a previous concept link 350 and a next concept link 355.
The illustrated portion of the "Supplier Reporting" concept instance 360 is preceded by a previous concept link 365. Depending on what types of concept instances, if any, are present in the document subsequent to the "Supplier Reporting" concept instance 360, the "Supplier Reporting" concept instance 360 could be followed by: (1) a next concept instance link and a next concept link (i.e., if the document includes another "Supplier Reporting" concept instance); (2) a next concept link (i.e., if the document does not include another "Supplier Reporting" concept instance but does include at least one concept instance of another type); or (3) no other links (i.e., if the "Supplier Reporting" concept instance 360 is the last concept instance in the document).
In one implementation, the interactive display 300 may provide some indication of the concept name (e.g., "Assignment", "Termination", and the like) when a cursor is moved over the anchor text. This indication may be provided, for example, in a pop-up window or in an information toolbar of the display 300. The anchor text for the various concept instances may be simultaneously highlighted so that a user can quickly locate multiple different concepts. In this case, adjacent concept instances may be highlighted in different colors to easily distinguish between the different concept instances. Alternatively, the concept instances may be highlighted one at a time based on which concept instance is currently selected. In addition, instead of embedding links within the text displayed in the document display window 305, implementations could include jump to next/previous navigation buttons in a toolbar of the display 300. In this case, the currently-selected concept instance may be highlighted in a different color than other concept instances. Another possible feature is to allow the user 140 to right click with a mouse in a specified region (e.g., on highlighted text) to bring up a menu with a list of concept names and instance numbers.
The concept selection window 310 may allow a user to select which concepts/concept instances are highlighted, displayed with links, and/or listed in the table of concepts window 315. The table of concepts window 315 displays a table of concepts. The table of concepts is similar to a table of contents except that, instead of the contents being described by sections and sub-sections, the contents are listed by semantic concept names, and each listed concept has associated links to each of the concept instances. In the illustrated example, each link is represented by a number designating an occurrence of the concept. Thus, the number "1" below a concept name represents a link to the first instance of that concept, while the number "2" would represent a link to the second instance of that concept. In response to selection of one of the links, the display jumps to the concept instance associated with the link.
In one implementation, when the concept navigation system 120 receives a request from a user to initiate a concept navigation routine, a user-selected concepts file name (i.e., an XML document name) is provided to the concept navigation system 120 through the ASP page. The user may also provide a list of concept names that are of interest by selecting certain concepts. If no list of concept names is provided, the concept navigation system 120 may assume that all concept names and instances are to be displayed. Based on these inputs, the concept navigation system 120 generates several outputs that are sent back to the ASP page. The outputs of the concept navigation system 120 include a list of all concepts in the document 105 and the selected concepts within the list. This list may appear in the concept selection window 310 of the display with the selected concepts highlighted. The concept navigation system 120 also outputs the table of concepts, which appears in the table of concepts window 315 as a list of selected concept names and the instance numbers for each selected concept with links to the anchor content in the document. Finally, the concept navigation system 120 outputs the document content with the embedded links and anchors.
The concept instance data for the selected concepts is sorted by position (step 420). In other words, the data associated with each concept instance is sorted in a sequence of increasing "Offset" values. The sorted concept instance list is then processed to generate links between adjacent or sequential concept instances. A corresponding anchor name may be assigned as the concept name followed by the instance number (e.g., Assignment 1). For each concept instance, the text associated with the previous concept instance and the next concept instance in the sorted list is identified and associated with the appropriate link (i.e., ≦ or ≧). This processing allows the concept navigation system 120 to jump to the correct text whenever the previous concept link 330 or the next concept link 340 is selected. The previous concept instance and the next concept instance are respectively identified as the concept instance in the previous and the next record in the sorted list. The previous concept link 330 associated with the first concept instance in the sorted list and the next concept link 340 associated with the last concept instance are assigned a null value to indicate that no previous or next concept instance exists. Preferably, no link indication (i.e., ≦ or ≧) is displayed when the associated link has a null value. Finally, the processing involves determining the necessary HTML text required for highlighting the anchor text with a particular color.
After all of the links between adjacent concept instances are generated, the concept instance data is sorted first by concept name and then by concept instance position (step 430). For example, the concept instance date may be sorted alphabetically by concept name and then in a sequence of increasing "Offset" values for concept instances with the same concept name. This second sorted concept instance list is then processed to generate links among concept instances with the same concept name (step 435). For each concept instance, the text associated with the previous concept instance and the next concept instance having the same concept name are identified and associated with the appropriate link (i.e.,
Next, the table of concepts is generated for the selected concepts (step 440). The table of concepts represents a list of the various concept names with one or more links to the corresponding anchor text. For each concept instance, the target of the link in the table of concepts is computed as the anchor text that corresponds to the anchor name. The concept names may be listed alphabetically or in the order in which the concepts first appear in the document, and the instance numbers may be listed as links. Finally, the links, anchors, and font text are embedded into the Original Document element 205 of the XML document 200 at the appropriate locations (step 445). These locations are determined by parsing the XML document object model to retrieve the original document text and then looping through each record in the concept data recordset to insert the HTML text at the appropriate locations.
Instead of using the concept navigation system 120 in connection with isolated documents, the system 120 can also be used in connection with a collection of documents. Referring again to
In another implementation, the concept parser 125 can receive multiple XML documents 200 each corresponding to one of the documents 105 in the collection of documents. The concept parser 125 generates, from the multiple XML documents 200, a concept-navigable document structure 130 as described above (i.e., containing the text, concepts, and appropriate links associated with the entire collection of documents 105) or a sequence of linked concept-navigable document structures 130 such that each document structure 130 is linked to at least one other document structure 130 in the sequence. For example, the last concept instance in a particular document structure 130 may contain a pointer or link to the next document structure 130 in the sequence. Similarly, the last concept instance in a particular document structure may also contain a link or pointer to the next document structure 130 in the sequence that contains a concept instance associated with the same concept. Regardless of which implementation is used, the concept navigation system 120 can facilitate navigating among concepts in a collection of documents.
A number of implementations have been described. Nevertheless, it will be understood that various modifications may be made. For example, instead of navigating among concepts in an electronically stored text-based document, the techniques may be used to navigate among concepts in voice storage systems. Accordingly, other implementations are within the scope of the following claims.
Dim reqXMLFile
Dim reqEventList
Dim conParse
Dim xmlFile
Dim fullEventList
reqXMLFile = Request.QueryString("XMLFile")
reqEventList = Request.QueryString("eventList")
if(reqXMLFile = " ") then reqXMLFile = "test.xml" else reqXMLFile =
replace(reqXMLFile, " "," ")
xmlFile = Server.MapPath(reqXMLFile)
Set conParse = Server.CreateObject("conParse17.ConceptParser")
call conParse.ProcessXMLDocument(xmlFile,reqEventList)
fullEventList = conParse.FullEventList
<SCRIPT language="Javascript">
function getSelectedEvents( )
var esl = document.frmEventSelection.eventSelectionList;
var r=" ";
for (var i = 0; i < esl.options.length; i++)
r = r + esl.options[i].value +";";
function updateEvents_onclick( ) {
document.frmEventSelection.action = "contents3.asp?XMLFile=" +
document.frmEventSelection.xmlFileName.value.replace(" "," ") +
"&eventList=" + getSelectedEvents( );
document.frmEventSelection.submit( );
<style type="text/css">
overflow: scroll
<style type="text/css">
overflow: scroll
Response.Write("<TABLE border1=1 width""900"" height=""500"">"
& vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <CAPTION><B> Concept Browsing
</B></CAPTION>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <TR>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <TD width=""150"" HEIGHT=""100"" VALIGN="
"TOP"">" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <FORM name=""frmEventSelection"" METHOD="
"POST"">Select Terms:<BR>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <SELECT NAME=""eventSelectionList"
" MULTIPLE SIZE=4 >" & vbcrlf)
Dim curEventList
Dim curEvent
Dim curEventPos
Dim isSelected
Dim selectedText
curEventList = fullEventList
curEventPos = InStr(curEventList,";")
do while curEventPos > 0
curEvent = Left(curEventList, curEventPos−1)
isSelected = (reqEventList = " ") or (InStr(reqEventList,curEvent &
";") > 0)
if isSelected then selectedText = "SELECTED " else selectedText = " "
Response.Write(" <OPTION " & selectedText & "VALUE=" &
chr(34) & curEvent & chr(34) & ">" & curEvent & "</OPTION>" &
curEventList = Mid(curEventList, curEventPos + 1)
curEventPos = InStr(curEventList,";")
Response.Write(" </SELECT>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <INPUT TYPE=""BUTTON"" NAME="
"UpdateEventList""VALUE=""Update Terms!"" onClick="
"updateEvents_onclick( )"">" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <INPUT TYPE=""HIDDEN"" NAME="
"xmlFileName"" VALUE=" & " " & reqXMLFile & " " & ">" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" </FORM>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" </TD>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <TD VALIGN=""TOP"" ROWSPAN=""2"
" width=""700"" height=""500""WRAP="=SOFT""><div class="
"contents"">" & conParse.Contents & "</div></TD>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" </TR>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <TR>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write(" <TD VALIGN=""TOP"" width=""280"" HEIGHT="
"380"" ><div class=""toc""><div ALIGN=""CENTER"
"><B>Terms</B></div>" & conParse.TOC & "</div></TD>" &
Response.Write(" </TR>" & vbcrlf)
Response.Write("</TABLE>" & vbcrlf)
Set conParse = Nothing
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Fascinating Street Art
This art is truly amazing. Edgar Mueller draws these images with chalk and makes them appear 3D. Most of these he completed in one day, but there are a few that took up to 5 days and several assistants to finish. I love how the passerbys jump in on the fun and put them selves[…]

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Not long ago, the former Opera CEO has developed a new internet browser called Vivaldi. It is based on Chromium and has Speed Dial shortcuts, supports gestures and keyboard shortcuts, has customization options.
The browser is built on three branches: technical preview, which is the most unstable version, beta, which is the one that receives features from the TP branch and stable, which is created for mass usage.
Recently, Vivaldi 1.0 (stable) has been released, bringing interesting changes.
Main features:
- Support for stacking tabs and saving tabs for a later browsing session
- It has an integrated Notes tool, a feature that permits the users to take screenshots of the visited pages and quick commands
- Built-in keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures, for better productivity
- It is highly customizable, supports Chrome extensions, and lets you organize your bookmarks
Installation instructions:
The Vivaldi website the latest Vivaldi versions as deb packages, so installing the browser should not be difficult. Just download the deb package matching your system's architecture (i386/i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64/x86_64 for 64 bit systems) and install it via the default package manager. I prefer gdebi over dpkg due to the fact that it also handles dependencies.
How to install Vivaldi Stable on 32 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian and other systems using DEB packages:
$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/stable/vivaldi-stable_1.0.435.40-1_i386.deb -O vivaldi-stable_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-stable_i386.deb
How to install Vivaldi Stable on 64 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian and other systems using DEB packages:
$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/stable/vivaldi-stable_1.0.435.40-1_amd64.deb -O vivaldi-stable_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-stable_amd64.deb
Optional, to remove vivaldi, open a terminal and type:
$ sudo apt-get remove vivaldi*


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Confetti Stuffed Bell Peppers
Recipe by ratherbeswimmin
From Desperation Dinners. Cooked in the microwave.
Top Review by tangiblethings
A terrific recipe that's been saved to my 'microwave' recipe file! I had leftover stuffing, so I'll probably alter the recipe in future for 6 peppers instead of the 4 peppers the recipe calls for...I also like a little more rice in my stuffed peppers, so I'll probably up the amount for future use...I will also 'nuke' the peppers a little less longer in future, as my micro is 1000W and they ended up cooked a little too much...I highly recommend this recipe for those who'd like stuffed peppers, but don't have the time! Thank you for posting this recipe!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 medium green bell peppers
- 1 lb ground round
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1⁄2-1 teaspoon garlic powder
- black pepper, to taste
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
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- Slice off the top of each bell pepper; use a spoon to scoop out the seeds and membranes.
- Put the peppers, open side up, in an 8-inch square casserole dish that has a lid.
- Pour 2 cups of water into the casserole (do not get any water inside the pepper cavities).
- Microwave the peppers, covered, on HIGH, for about 5 minutes or until the peppers are crisp-tender.
- Place a large nonstick skillet over high heat--let skillet get heated.
- Add in ground beef and chopped onion; cook until meat is browned, stir and break up meat as you cook.
- Add in the corn, rice, and tomatoes; stir to combine.
- Add in the worcestershire sauce, basil, garlic, powder, and pepper to taste.
- Stir and cook about 2 minutes or until the corn and rice are heated through.
- Stir in 2/3 cup cheddar cheese and remove from heat.
- Remove peppers from dish using a slotted spoon; drain off any water.
- Pour all water out of the dish.
- Fill the peppers with stuffing and return them to the casserole dish.
- Spoon any remaining stuffing around the peppers.
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese over all.
- Microwave the peppers, uncovered, on high, for about 1 minute or until the cheese melts.


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(Reuters) - A violation found during an inspection of an emergency preparedness exercise at the Wolf Creek Nuclear plant near Burlington, Kansas last year was of low to moderate safety significance, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said on Wednesday.
The NRC issued a "white" category at the plant for the violation, related to an error in software used to assess offsite radiation levels during an emergency.
"The NRC evaluates regulatory performance at commercial nuclear plants with a color-coded process that classifies inspection findings as green, white, yellow or red in order of increasing safety significance," the agency said.
The regulatory body said it would determine the appropriate level of oversight required at the plant in light of the violation.
The 1,175-megawatt plant is operated by the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp.
Reporting by Arpan Varghese in Bangalore; Editing by Bernard Orr


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Venus plays WTT for Washington Kastles and keeps the winning streak alive
Her hairstyle flashed with a touch of Olympic flair and as the night progressed, it appeared that Venus Williams's game was progressing there too.
With red and blue streaks in her braided locks, Williams led the Washington Kastles to an easy 25-8 win over the visiting Kansas City Explorers for their 26th straight World Team Tennis victory. It was the first time this season that the Kastles won all five matches.
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Of course. There are many men who bemoan their single-hood. Let them get laid so they can shut up. The government turns a profit from it and can start paying off the debt that we owe. Legalizing marijuana would helps as well as taxing the rich the APPROPRIATE taxes instead of forcing that burden onto the middle class.62|40|0
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RIM Gets Clearance To Sell BlackBerrys In China The road from Waterloo to Beijing has been a long, eight-year journey for Research in Motion that has finally come to an end. The maker of BlackBerry smartphones recently received permission to sell the devices to corporate customers in China. The move
iPhone Sells Out Across U.S. Despite a serious number of iPhone haters out there (and man are you guys a vocal bunch), it looks like the number of iPhone fans (iPhans?) has spoken loud and clear. The Apple web site is reporting that only two retail stores (one in Oregon, one is Pennsylvania) have any stock left of the device.
How Do I Know What Needs Attention? We may have access to terabytes of information and tools to help sift through it, but where do you start? There is a great deal of material in the industry about BI facilitating better decision-making, but very little about the actual process. The economist Herbert Simon, who wrote on this extensively, divided decision making into steps, starting with problem solving:
Top 8 iPhone Videos Reveal Apple's Inside Secrets, More Maybe you can't get ahold of an iPhone, because 700,000 customers got in line ahead of you. Or perhaps you don't want one, put off by the hefty price tag and lack of a hard keyboard. Still, you're curious, right? So join me in viewing the following collection of videos, which reveal not only the detailed innards of the iPhone, but also--yes, it's a Conan O'Brien parody--how the iPhone can double-duty as an electric shaver with a Web interface.
July Fourth Is Time To Hail America's Tech Heroes Independence Day typically revolves around fireworks, beaches, and picnics, with a little patriotism thrown in for good measure. It strikes me that nothing affirms the truth about the freedoms we enjoy more than the realization that the vast majority of technological innovations we enjoy--from radio and television to computers and the Internet--came to us by way of talented Americans, people who weren't always recognized in their own time for the heroes they were. So let's honor them this July F
We Still Need Net Neutrality Legislation We haven't heard much about net neutrality legislation lately. That could be because the current Congress might actually be able to pass it, and opponents like AT&T and Verizon are laying low, spreading lobbying money, and trying to wait out that shocking possibility. That makes the Federal Trade Commission's anti-net neutrality announcement last week even more puzzling. Was it intended as a warning from the Bush administration to Congress to back off, or was it yet another shake of the money tr
Google Gets Green(er) Google's been busy with a lot of environmental initiatives lately: The company just completed its 1.6 megawatt photovoltaic system, enabling it to power 1/3 of its corporate headquarters using solar energy.
The iPhone Makes Watching Video More Like Reading A Book The novelist John Irving made that observation years ago about the VCR, and each generation of video technology brings watching and reading closer together, making video more private and more under the user's control.
SAP Admits Reaching Inside Oracle Jar About two months ago, I wrote a commentary on Oracle's lawsuit accusing SAP of extensive illegal downloads confidential material from Oracle Support. Today, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann admitted to "inappropriate downloads." Unfortunately, the candor is probably a little late in coming, and this is likely to be the beginning rather than the end for SAP's troubles.
The iPhone Is Actually Pretty Inexpensive Most of the press about the iPhone talks about its high price. Even my iPhone review describes it as pricey. But if you actually think about all the things it can do, it's a bargain.
Cognitive Dissonance: Gartner and Open Source Gartner has announced an Open Source Summit for this coming fall. The summit will bring together, on the one hand, an analyst firm known for authoritative pronouncements on all things IT, and on the other, a disruptive model for software development that is, at its core, anti-authoritarian. How will the Gartner summit bridge two conflicting world views?
Research: 65 Million Users To Adopt UMA By 2012 According to a new report from ABI Research, at least seven handset makers have Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)-enabled handsets on the market and network operators are itching to deploy the technology. Just last week T-Mobile launched its UMA-powered T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service. With the number of UMA
Nokia To Make Touch Screen Devices? There was some confusion a couple of weeks ago about the future of Nokia and touch screen technology. In the end, Nokia CTO Tero Ojanpera made a public statement that, "Optical sensors and touch will be the next big things." Backing up that claim is news that Nokia has licensed Immersion Corporation's VibeTonz tactile feedback technology.
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Universal iTunes Dispute Spotlights Better Ways To Sell Online Music It's shaping up as a good news, bad news kind of week for Steve Jobs. On the plus side, he's launched the most popular modestly featured smartphone ever. (I can't say I was surprised that the iPhone we were ogling at my office today feels heavier than my trusty BlackBerry.) In contrast, it couldn't have come as good news that the world's biggest record company, which has been selling its songs through the only online music store that matters, finally told Jobs to take the metaphorical gun away f
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Data Governance v0.9? I spent a couple days at the Data Governance conference in San Francisco last week, not as a speaker, but strictly as a listener. What I really wanted to get out of the three days was a deeper understanding of this concept of governance, what it means and how it works. I admit, I cringe at the word "governance," because it reeks of IT control and restrictions, something we've clearly had enough of for the past few decades...
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IBM Releases 'Viper 2' Beta for DB2 9 Customer and partner testing of the next release of the DB2 9 database began last week as IBM unveiled the beta version of what's code named "Viper 2." The update is said to offer enhanced security and workload management features including automated fail over for high availability, greater flexibility and granularity in security, auditing and access control, and simplified memory management.


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I'm going to make this with just ordinary, not grilled corn. It sounds really, really good. From Food Network Canada.
Pasta Salad with Grilled Corn and Jalapenos
* 4 jalapeno chilies
* 8 medium tomatoes
* 3 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano (45ml)
* 3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil (45ml)
* 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro (45ml)
* 1/3 cup green (hulled) pumpkin seeds (80ml)
* 4 ears fresh corn shucked and silks removed
* 1 large white onion, cut in ½-inch thick rounds
* Olive oil for drizzling
* Salt and pepper to taste
* 4 cloves garlic minced
* 1 teaspoon ground cumin (5ml)
* 1/4 cup olive oil (60ml)
* 11 oz short pasta such as penne (453g)
* 1 1/2 cups crumbled feta cheese (250 ml)
* Garnish: fresh cilantro leaves
1. Lay corn, jalapenos and onion on baking sheet. Drizzle vegetables with 1 tablespoon of oil, and season with salt and pepper.
2. Preheat the barbecue to medium high heat on one side and medium low heat on the other side. Oil the grill and add the onions to the medium low side of the grill. Place the corn and jalapenos to the medium high heat side of the grill. Grill onions to char approximately 5 to 8 minutes. Grill the corn and jalapenos to char for about 2-3 minutes turning to prevent burning. Remove vegetables from grill and transfer to a bowl, cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour up to overnight.
3. Cook pasta in a pot of salted boiling water until aldente or cooked to personal preference. Once cooked, place in colander to rinse under cold water. Shake off excess water and add to a large bowl. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and set aside.
4. Remove vegetables from refrigerator. Remove skins and seeds from jalapenos and place cleaned peppers into the bowl with the pasta. Cut corn off cob and add to the bowl. Chop white onion and quarter tomatoes and then add them to the bowl. Add basil, oregano and cilantro.
5. In a skillet toast some pumpkin seeds over low heat until lightly browned. In another non-stick skillet add oil, garlic and cumin. Cook for 3 minutes stirring with wooden spoon over medium low heat. Add to salad ingredients in bowl. Add the flavored oil, toss, season with salt and pepper, refrigerate until ready to serve.


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This workbook provides strategies to help those with ASD engage with people at home, school, work, and in the community. Using a restaurant menu as a template, it guides readers through each step of a conversation, and encourages students to think through their responses and consider the consequences of what they say and how others might react.
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I don't understand the question. You don't "get out from under" the
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might even get out from a chroot applied to Mallory's account but not
Apache's, if I understand the interplay of symlinks and chroot
This Mallory can do as follows, if e.g. he has a site under
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ln -s / /home/mallory/public_html/root
Now when Apache sees the symbolic link at
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Deny from all directive doesn't deny access to Mallory
because presumably there is a
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This year's two day conference is being held at Lake Lanier April 28-29, 2017. Jenny Calvert from our firm was selected to be a speaker on IP Litigation Strategies.
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This year's two day conference is being held at Lake Lanier April 28-29, 2017. Jenny Calvert from our firm was selected to be a speaker on IP Litigation Strategies.
A very special congratulations to Lucas Geren and Vivek Ganti who recently became partners in the firm. For more information about this important milestone, please see the firm's press release here.
All told, HKW attorneys Steve Hill and Vivek Ganti have now won ten separate IPR patent trials, leading to declarations of patent invalidity affecting ten different Kinglite patents. Three other Kinglite patents have been declared invalid in related federal court proceedings for claiming unpatentable subject matter.
The event was attended by over 100 local government officials, inventors and business executives from Jiangsu Province, all interested in innovation, IP development and risk assessment.
Using the inter partes review procedure of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, HKW clients American Megatrends, Gigabyte and Micro Star International have successfully challenged the validity of all asserted claims of eight patents. They are U.S. Patent Nos. 6,373,498, 5,987,604, 6,401,202, 6,487,656, 6,523,123, 5,732,268, 6,519,659, and 6,633,976. In the cases of IPR2015-01079, -01081, -01094, -01197, -01132, -01133, -01140, and -01141, the trial on the merits resulted in the cancellation of all instituted claims. All told, these trials resulted in the cancellation of 165 claims. Steve Hill and Vivek Ganti acted as trial counsel for the petitioners in each of the 8 trials.
HKW has been named one of the top Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) law firms in the United States in a 2015 annual report published by Docket Navigator. The list includes top law firms and corporate legal departments ranked by the number of inter partes review, covered business methods, and post grant review proceedings in 2015 in which the organization represented one of the litigants. Among Atlanta-based law firms, HKW was one of only three firms to make the list.
HKW is sponsoring the Georgia State University and Georgia Tech IP Celebration at the Fox Theatre on October 7, 2016. Intellectual property accomplishments and the people behind these accomplishments will be featured.
Steve Hill will be speaking on the topic of the new realities of U.S. patent litigation at this year's IP Business Congress of Asia in Shanghai on December 4-6, 2016. Devised for an audience of senior IP business leaders, the program for IPBC Asia 2016 reflects the challenges posed by a rapidly evolving Asian IP market. As part of a speaking faculty composed of thought leaders operating in all parts of the market, Steve and others will be exploring emerging trends and major challenges facing IP owners and their advisers, as well as suggesting solutions. For more information about this event, please visit the website here: http://bit.ly/1rtoy61
United States District Judge James Selna has determined that Plaintiff Kinglite Holdings will have to pay $1.55 million in attorneys fees and expenses of patent infringement litigation incurred by Defendants American Megatrends, Gigabyte Technologies and Micro-Star International. HKW led by Steve Hill successfully represented the Defendants in defeating claims relating to six different patents relating to BIOS technology, and then recovering their attorney fees.
HKW has been recognized as a leading global law firm for patent litigation services in the fifth edition of the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000 guidebook, recently issued for 2016.
"This is the definitive directory devoted to singling out the leading patent services providers in the world," said HKW co-founder Steve Hill. "Our diverse clients have placed great confidence in us across a full range of scientific and technical disciplines, which in turn has given our attorneys a chance to shine. We are pleased to be recognized for our efforts." The IAM Patent 1000 is a comprehensive guide to the world's leading patent professionals. IAM gathers intelligence on leading patent specialists in major jurisdictions across the globe, and the results are based on 1,500 interviews with patent attorneys, other attorneys and in-house counsel around the world.
Specifically, the guide noted:
"Nationally recognized Hill, Kertscher & Wharton represents a panoply of individuals and businesses in intricate legal matters. Its compact size ensures personal, partner-led support every step of the way. An accomplished trial lawyer with a proven record of success in multimillion-dollar brawls, Steven Hill has secured victories in more than 200 cases involving patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. Having also dispatched antitrust and franchise-related briefs with aplomb, he knows how to defend companies' intellectual property from every conceivable angle. Unfair competition claims – including PRE and Walker Process claims – as well as patent misuse and Lanham Act actions are meat and drink to seasoned litigator John North; the courtroom is his home away from home."
Hill, Kertscher & Wharton recently represented CLX Communications AB (Publ) and its U.S. subsidiaries in its acquisition of Mblox Incorporated for cash consideration of $117 million in a merger which closed on July 11, 2016. Both CLX and Mblox are among the world's largest providers of cloud-based communications services and solutions, including application-to-person (A2P) mobile messaging services.
Scott Wharton led the team, and was joined by corporate associates Lucas Geren and Counsel McCullen on the transaction.
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United States District Judge James Selna has determined that Plaintiff Kinglite Holdings will have to pay the attorneys fees and expenses of patent infringement litigation incurred by HKW clients and Defendants American Megatrends, Gigabyte Technologies and Micro-Star International. The HKW team led by Steve Hill, John North, Martha Decker and Vivek Ganti successfully represented the Defendants in defeating claims relating to six different patents relating to BIOS technology.
HKW clients American Megatrends, Micro Star International and Giga-byte Technology have successfully petitioned the Patent Trial and Appeals Board to institute an inter partes review (IPR) challenging the validity of Kinglite Holdings' U.S. Patent No. 5,836,013 addressed to compressible BIOS. HKW lawyers Steve Hill and Vivek Ganti successfully argued the petition. This marks the thirteenth Kinglite patent that HKW has placed into IPR on behalf of these clients.
On behalf of clients American Megatrends, Micro-Star International and Giga-byte Technology, HKW has successfully argued to the United States District Court for the invalidation of the asserted claims of United States Patent Nos. 6,401,202 and 6,487,656, which are owned by Kinglite Holdings. The patents relate to the basic input/output system (BIOS) for booting the operating system of a computer. The Honorable James Selna agreed with HKW's arguments that the claims asserted are directed to subject matter that is not patentable because the claims are broad enough to cover transitory signals such as embedded carrier waves. He further agreed with HKW that the 202 Patent is invalid because it covers the abstract concept of multitasking in BIOS. This makes three Kinglite patents which the Court has invalidated in the case, along with seven other patents which the Court has dismissed for reasons such as non-infringement. Twelve of the Kinglite patents are in pending inter partes review proceedings, with two other petitions for inter partes review pending.
HKW clients American Megatrends, Giga-byte Technology, GBT USA, Micro-Star International and MSI have succeeded in obtaining an inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No. 5,937,200, which is owned by Kinglite Holdings, based on prior art which was not originally considered by the Patent Office. This is the twelfth Kinglite patent to be placed in IPR within the last year. The HKW IPR team was led by Vivek Ganti and Steve Hill.
Atlanta IP Law Firm Defeats 6 Patent Infringement Claims
The intellectual property litigation team at Hill, Kertscher & Wharton, LLP successfully defended six out of six patent infringement claims in the United States District Court for the Central District of California (full article link below).
Blake Frye and Jenny Calvert win Defense verdict in week-long jury trial in Fulton County Superior Court for clients, defeating Plaintiffs' claims of nuisance, negligence, trespass, intentional infliction of emotional distress, punitive damages and attorneys' fees.


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Individual elements of the coloration pattern of Hirudo medicinalis are described and analyzed. Longitudinal stripes on the dorsum and the distribution of dark pigment on the venter are used as the basis for the investigation. A frequency distribution of different variations of the pattern in natural populations is revealed. Frequencies of certain variations of the coloration are more similar in geographically approximate populations in comparison with distant populations. Therefore, such elements can be useful for phylogeographic analysis. There is a weak statistical association between some elements of the dorsal coloration. No reliable dependences between variants of the dorsal and ventral patterns are found. By and large the high variability of the coloration pattern of H. medicinalis is recorded. The variability is a result both of numerous variations of each element and nearly free combinations of the elements.


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Turtle Struggling to Cross the Highway
Just as a turtle must fight its way across a highway, the Joad family had to find their way across the country. Both experience many hardships and deterrents, but they eventually reach their destinations.
"I seen turtles all my life. They're always goin' someplace. They always seem to want to get there," said Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath, Page 45.
Similar to turtles, migrant workers during the Great Depression were "always goin' someplace" because they were constantly searching for food, jobs and shelter. The Joad family experienced a lot of traveling throughout the novel.
"I'm learning one thing good," she said. "Learnin' it all the time, ever' day. If you're in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help – the only ones," said Ma Joad, The Grapes of Wrath, Page 376.
There were people that set out to help others, and there were also those that went out of their way to hurt others. The poor people that had less, usually still gave more. The Joads experienced a lot of helpful people, and they were usually those that were used to needing more.
Even though money and food were scarce during this time, many people were still having children. In the novel, Rose of Sharon thought she would be able to have her baby in a new place and be able to raise him/her in the new society.
The Joad family, as well as others during the Great Depression, often hit bumps in the road that caused difficulties to reaching their destinations. Some people's cars broke down while traveling, their land was taken, people got sick and/or died, etc. Along with the difficulties they were already experiencing, these sudden changes made the Great Depression that much harder to b


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Measure would affect Native American online smoke shops.
WASHINGTON -- A largely unnoticed bill passed in the Senate last week that will have an important, negative effect on the online smoke shops belonging to Native American tribes, according to The Buffalo (N.Y.) News.
The bill would ban the shipment of cigarettes through the U.S. mails.
The legislation, which passed by a largely unnoticed voice vote in the closing moments of the Senate's 2003 session Tuesday, also includes harsh sanctions aimed at blocking online tobacco transactions, according to the news report.
Though similar legislation has not yet passed the House, Seneca merchants in New York State are concerned enough about the Senate's action that they're considering writing a letter to President Bush to complain.
Would the Senate bill end the Senecas' online businesses if it became law?
"As far as a shipment kind of thing, it would," said Joseph F. Crangle, an attorney for Seneca tobacco sellers, according to The Buffalo News.
The bill would also allow states to force private shippers such as Federal Express to either collect cigarette taxes or certify that they have been paid.
The bill makes violating reporting requirements a felony, but also allows states the option of assessing a civil penalty instead for such offenses, and reduces the threshold for cigarettes to be treated as contraband from 60,000 to 10,000.
The bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), said the bill is mainly intended to shut off the flow of contraband cigarettes sold by organized crime syndicates and even terrorist organizations. But it's also intended to cut down on all tax-free Internet sales, the news report stated.
The bill, the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act, will give states the authority to collect millions in lost state tax revenue resulting from online and other remote sales of cigarette and smokeless tobacco, said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
To Crangle, though, the bill aims at the heart of the Senecas' legal rights. He said it would violate an 1842 treaty that gives Seneca land immunity "from all taxes, and assessments for roads, highways or any other purpose."
The Senecas view that passage as meaning that "you don't have to collect someone else's taxes on their property," Crangle said.
That's what the tribe's merchants would argue in a letter to Bush -- and to federal courts if necessary, Crangle added, according to The Buffalo News.
Operators of the nation's convenience stores view things differently. They look at the bill as an attempt to stop an unfair business practice.
"What they're doing is not right," said Allison Shulman, director of government affairs at the National Association of Convenience Stores. "They're selling cheap cigarettes to kids."
Shulman said she was disappointed with one provision of the Senate bill. In order to get the bill passed quickly before the end of the session, Hatch dropped language that would have allowed states to sue Native American tribes that violate their tax obligations.
Sens. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) threatened to block the bill unless that language were dropped, arguing that it would violate the sovereignty rights of tribes nationwide.
But a similar House bill would permit states to sue tribes, and Shulman said she hopes that bill is passed and merged with the Senate bill early next year.
John Dossett, general counsel for the National Congress of American Indians, said his organization has at least one remaining concern about the Senate bill.
It includes a provision that allows states to compile lists of retailers who don't collect state taxes, and in turn tell shippers that they can't ship packages from those sellers.
"It's a backdoor way of gaining enforcement powers over Indian sellers," Dossett said.
If such a bill becomes law, it would affect the Senecas more than any other tribe in the nation. A General Accounting Office study last year found 147 cigarette Web sites nationwide, and nearly half of them were based on Seneca territory.
A federal crackdown on federal Internet sales would follow a New York State ban on the practice, which has been the subject of a lawsuit since it was passed in 2000. And it could come as the state approaches a March 1 deadline for beginning to collect taxes tied to transactions at brick-and-mortar Native American retailers.


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Etymology: Middle English mappe
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1. an implement made of absorbent material fastened to a handle and used especially for cleaning floors
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Date: 1709
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1. to use a mop on; specifically to clean or clear away by mopping <mop the floors> — often used with up <mop up the spillage> 2. to wipe as if with a mop <mopped his brow with a handkerchief> intransitive verb to clean a surface (as a floor) with a mop • mopper noun
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MONTREAL, May 15 (Reuters) - Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier Inc, the rail industry's fifth-largest signaling player by market share, expects to grow that business on higher demand for infrastructure projects, a transportation executive said on Monday.
Signaling, used to direct railway traffic, currently generates about 15 percent of Bombardier Transportation's revenues, but it has accounted for double-digit growth over the last five years, outpacing the market, division president Laurent Troger said in an interview.
Signaling is required for rail infrastructure projects which are increasingly being expanded or developed globally. They also have the potential to generate higher profits for companies than rolling stock.
"Signaling is going to grow - there is no doubt about that," he told Reuters, while speaking on the sidelines of the Global Public Transport Summit in Montreal.
Troger did not give any specific signaling growth targets for Bombardier, which competes against rivals like Germany's Siemens AG that has a larger signaling business.
Bombardier Transportation plans to grow revenues from $7.8 billion in 2016 to $10 billion in 2020, with signaling and other services to make up a larger proportion of that target, he said.
Bombardier and Siemens have been identified in media reports to be holding talks to unite the companies' rail operations, although such a tie-up would be difficult because of anti-trust concerns and questions over which company would retain control of the combined venture.
Over the past few years, all major European players have discussed mergers to better compete with Chinese rail giant CRRC which is expanding aggressively in both the United States and Europe.
Troger, who described Bombardier as an "observer" to the industry trend of consolidation, would not say whether a merger would be advantageous because of Siemens's signaling activities, and dismissed the media reports as "speculation." (Reporting By Allison Lampert; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)


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Algeria - Apply for a Temporary Work Visa
A visa is a document stating that a person is authorized to enter or leave the territory for which it was issued, subject to permission granted by the immigration official at the time of actual entry.
The authorization may be a document, but it is commonly in a form of a stamp endorsed in the applicant's passport (or passport-replacing document).
Temporary work visas are issued to foreigners who holds a contract assisting or providing services to a company or body doing business in Algeria.
Following are procedures on how to apply for a Temporary Work Visa in Algeria.
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- Fill in the Visa Application Form
- Submit form along with all the required documents.
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- A passport valid for 6 months
- Completed visa application form, three (3) copies, properly filled out and signed
- Three photographs, recent
- Certified copy of the original employment contract for a term not exceeding three months and a temporary work permit issued by the competent Algerian authority in charge of employment and a certificate under these same agency, by which the employing organization is committed to support the repatriation of foreign workers from the breakdown of the employment relationship.
Contact the Algerian Embassy in your area for any additional documents you will be asked to submit.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 9, 2016 is: hubris \HYOO-bris\ noun : exaggerated pride or self-confidence Examples: The company's failure was ultimately brought on by the hubris of its founder. "I think confidence is one of the most important qualities that you need in a leader—self-assurance. But at times confidence can shade over into arrogance and even hubris." — Doris Kearns Goodwin, speaking on The Charlie Rose Show, 12 Jan. 2016 Did you know? English picked up both the concept of hubris and the term for that particular brand of cockiness from the ancient Greeks, who considered hubris a dangerous character flaw capable of provoking the wrath of the gods. In classical Greek tragedy, hubris was often a fatal shortcoming that brought about the fall of the tragic hero. Typically, overconfidence led the hero to attempt to overstep the boundaries of human limitations and assume a godlike status, and the gods inevitably humbled the offender with a sharp reminder of his or her mortality.
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