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WORCESTER, Mass. - Two players reached double-figures to lead the Worcester State University basketball team to a 77-32 victory over Mount Holyoke College in non-conference action on Tuesday. The Lancers move to 2-1 on the young season, while the Lyons are now 0-3.
Worcester State saw Kate Suprenant recorded a game-high 14 points, adding a high of five assists, along with a steal, a block and two rebounds. Kaitlyn Berkel chipped in with a double-double of 11 points and 11 rebounds, while Sam Maglione came off the bench to add nine points. The Lancers also saw Brittany Herring post a game-best three blocks.
For the Lyons, junior captain Katlyn Grover had eight points, while senior guard Leah Hodges had six points with three rebounds and a steal. Sophomore forward Annika Brooks came off the bench to record six points and a squad-high eight rebounds with three assists, while classmate and fellow forward Mikayla McEwen had five points.
The home team held a 20-9 lead after the opening quarter, but the Lyons battled back with jumpers coming from Hodges and McEwen to cut the deficit to 35-15 in the second quarter. Despite the momentum, the Lancers continued to roll, closing out the frame with a 42-16 lead at the half.
In the third quarter, a pair of free throws from sophomore forward GraceAnne Woods, along with a jumper from Hodges helped move the WSU advantage to just 65-25 to end the frame. The final quarter saw Grover nail a trey, while Brooks sank a layup, but it was as close as the Lyons could get.
Mount Holyoke returns to action on Friday when it competes in the USJ Tip-Off Tournament. The Lyons will face the host BlueJays of Saint Joseph at 6pm. The winner advances to Saturday's 2pm championship game, while the loser will play in the 12pm consolation contest. Worcester State is also in action on Friday at the Hunter College Tournament where they will face Denison at 7pm.


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Warlock's Cross, the latest entry to the Main Doctor Who range at Big Finish has the tough job of wrapping up a few things. First is the overall UNIT arc, starting with The Helliax Rift and continuing with Hour of the Cybermen, Warlock's Cross has the job of wrapping that story up. Next is that it ties in with the Seventh Doctor's final stories in continuity terms and the third and final element is that Steve Lyons brings back the character of Elizabeth Klein. How the story deals with those three elements though is certainly an interesting story.
Written by Steve Lyons, the author of a few of my favourite Big Finish audios, I had high hopes towards Warlock's Cross. But did the overall story live up to my expectations and hype? Well, yes and no. There is no doubt that Lyons is one of Big Finish's strongest writers to have ever graced the audio format. Son of the Dragon is a masterpiece for example, so was Colditz and the Klein trilogy of A Thousand Tiny Wings, Survival of the Fittest and The Architects of History. There is no doubt he is a strong writer but Warlock's Cross didn't reach the highs of those stories I've mentioned above.
I doubt that little of that is down to the actual writing. I think I was expecting a different story. With a title like Warlock's Cross, I was expecting something a little more spooky than we got. Perhaps that was the biggest disappointment for me, the title made me imagine the storyline was going to be something different.
But let's talk about the storyline we did get because there is plenty of praise to go around. Lyons does a terrific job at wrapping up the UNIT storyline. Each story has come with a different commander and this story sees Colonel McKenna trying to stop the secrets of UNIT from becoming public knowledge. McKenna is certainly the nastiest out of the three different commanders we've had so far but this only helps to reinforce the idea that this UNIT is miles away from the cosy days with the Brigadier, Yates and Benton.
We also see the return of Daniel Hopkins, the Doctor's friend in The Helliax Rift and then enemy in Hour of the Cybermen. Lyon's utilises his character nicely, having him play an important part of the story, instead of him just being there. I'll get on to my thoughts of Hopkins in this story later but I was impressed by Lyons' use of the character throughout.
Lyon's had previously created Klein so it is always nice when she gets a chance to come back which isn't often enough for me. He has such a handle on her character that during the opening moments, he manages to recreate the same vibes from her she had in Colditz, A Thousand Tiny Wings and Survival of the Fittest. You aren't sure if you can trust her or not. I really like that about character and that's why I wish Big Finish would use her more often.
Perhaps the weakest element of the plot here is how sombre it can become. Normally, this isn't a bad thing but for some reason, those sombre moments bring the proceedings to a stand-still. However, that is more a problem with the direction rather than the writing side of things.
Warlock's Cross does, however, boast some terrific performances to go alongside the pretty decent storyline. Sylvester McCoy is excellent in the role as the Seventh Doctor and he really lets us know his Doctor is nearing the end of his life. His performance is a lot more sombre, sort of along the lines of Tom Baker's performance in his last season on screen. He isn't the same game-player that he was with Ace, Hex and Mel but there is still some hints of his duplicitous nature lingering in the dialogue. McCoy really devours the script, even if the rolling of his 'R's' can get a little grating at times.
Tracey Childs is just fantastic as Elizabeth Klein. I doubt in 2001 when Colditz was released that she would have known that over a decade later, she would still be playing the same character. Klein is certainly a special character in the Doctor Who mythos. Having originated in a timeline that was erased, she managed to keep her memories of that time and then manipulated the Doctor into restoring it later down the line, when he believed she had changed. Wiping her memories completely, the Doctor left her on Earth as UNIT's scientific advisor where he occasionally checks up on her.
What I loved about her character here is that Lyon's plant's seeds of doubt about her nature long before the true villain is revealed. Childs' really runs with this idea and it was glorious to think that the old Klein had come back. There was a nice moment when the new Klein hears her old persona talking to her in the head which might be a plot thread that Lyons will pick up somewhere down the line. It would be a mistake for Big Finish to leave Klein there, I would love a new trilogy with her as the companion, but for now, I suppose we have to console ourselves that there will be stories we don't experience where the Umbrella Man comes to visit her.
Daniel Hopkins returns for a third and final time as this UNIT trilogy wraps itself up. Once again played by Blake Harrison, Hopkins is a man who has lost everything. He had lost so much last time we heard from him, he had sided and aided the Cybermen. Here, he is a man imprisoned, willing to do whatever to be released. Lyons' use of his character is excellent, planting the idea that his treachery might have come from further back from the fire that killed his family. But for some reason, Harrison doesn't seem to do such a good job here. There are moments when he is so quiet that you can't hear what he is saying and times when he sounds incredibly bored. I liked Hopkins when he first appeared and his inclusion in Hour of Cybermen proved to be shocking. But Harrison sadly sounds like he's given up. Whether that was intentional or not, I don't know but he sounds like he can't be bothered here. And that is unfortunate because he was such a good character.
The guest cast is quite strong too. Russ Bain and Tom Milligan are good in their respective roles of Gregory Lord and Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Price. Milligan as Gregory Lord was actually a really enjoyable performance. It was a shame that the Doctor couldn't have kept Gregory on as a companion but things conspire in this story to keep that from happening. Still, they have some nice scenes together during the first two episodes.
Richard Gibson is excellent as Colonel McKenna. His character is someone you really want to hate, but there are moments when you find yourself rooting for him. Gibson is excellent at this role and I do hope we get to hear more from him if there are any future UNIT stories. Genevieve Gaunt is also enjoyable as Linda Maxwell, even if I did spend the whole story wondering if she was in some of the other stories. Her storyline certainly implies so but I'll be damned if I could remember! Still, the pair makes some intriguing characters and it would be nice to hear more from them in the future.
Overall, Warlock's Cross is a bit of a mixed bag for me. I've no doubt that this is a story which will have its fans and when I come to listen to again in a few years time, I might even be one of them. But for now, I would have to say that it isn't Steve Lyon's strongest script but it is still an enjoyable enough way of spending two hours. It is far from being the worst Big Finish story of all time. It is a story though that boasts some strong performances, especially from McCoy and Childs who I really wish would get a new series of adventures together. Come on Big Finish, your bringing back Mags with McCoy lets make a new trilogy for these two too!
Warlock's Cross brings UNIT's new trilogy to a close and while it a little weaker than the previous two instalments, it is still a strong entry into the Big Finish world of Doctor Who and continues to show why they should hold the rights to produce these audio adventures for decades to come!

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...the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) Satellite, NOAA's second next generation operational polar-orbiting satellite, planned to launch in 2017. JPSS-1 will follow the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite to maintain continuity of weather and environmental observations. The final contract was signed on June 19, 2012, with Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems of El Segundo, California, for the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) contract was signed with Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems in April, 2012. NASA completed the JPSS-1 Spacecraft and the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite instrument contract with Ball Aerospace in 2011. The contract to Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems for the JPSS Ground System was also completed in 2011, as was the Crosstrack Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument contract with ITT Exelis.
These instruments form the backbone of space-based observations used for weather forecasting, and environmental and climate monitoring. The ATMS and CrIS instruments onboard JPSS-1 will be used as input for numerical weather prediction models, essential for weather forecasts beyond three days. The JPSS-1 VIIRS instrument will provide imagery that is essential for monitoring severe weather in areas like Alaska and for detecting and tracking volcanic ash and wildfires. It will also gather data on a wide range of Earth's properties, including the atmosphere, clouds, radiation budget, clear-air land and water surfaces, and sea surface temperature.
The instrument contracts include work to build the instruments for the JPSS-1 mission while also providing support services for units previously launched on the Suomi NPP mission in October 2011. All the instruments on NPP have been activated and are operating nominally. For example, preliminary data is being released to aid forecasters and researchers, including images of fires in Southwest Wyoming and Southeast Idaho.
The JPSS program is the restructured civilian portion of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program and this step represents the final action to transition the instrument contracts to NASA. The contracts are managed by the JPSS program. Data and imagery obtained from JPSS will increase the timeliness, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of NOAA's public warnings and forecasts of weather and climate events, reducing the potential loss of human life and property. NOAA is responsible for the JPSS program with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, procuring and integrating the system elements.


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19th Century French Bronze Mandolin Player on Marble Base. Signed 'Arolle'. Circa 1885-1900.
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This girl. She is so full of light. She of course has her cranky, whiny moments, but mostly she is happy and bright and I love her all the more for it.
I wanted to try out some of the patterns from the Sew Fab Pattern Bundle (affiliate link), so I started with these two gems.
The Bimma Sweater (reg price $7.95) and Fancy Pants Leggings (reg price $9.00) are both super fast and easy patterns. I was especially pleased with how well they fit my skinny girl. Don't they look great on her?
I sewed up the Bimma in a size 5 (she usually wears 5T right now) and it fits her perfectly. Most of the sweater is made from this rad knit from my favorite local fabric shop, Sew to Speak. It was 50% off in the shop on the day I went in, so major score there. The brown around the cuff and waistband are from a random old t-shirt in my to-be-cut-up pile.
I sewed up the cowl neck option (other options include a hood or a shawl collar) and I love the way it drapes. It's cozy, almost like wearing a scarf that won't fall off, but it doesn't get in the way while she's moves and plays. I think we all need to start a petition for this pattern to come in women's sizes. I want one real bad.
And just because I always want to know what things look like from the back, here's a back view for you. :)
The bottom half of this outfit are the Fancy Pants Leggings. Can I just tell you how much I'm in love with these little pants? Let me tell you why...


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Incident management in the GDPR world
The GDPR's 72 hour mandatory Breach Notification places new restrictions or requirements on how an incident should be managed and reported. The 72 hours deadline for the first time puts a timer on incident management and especially those that result in an actual breach of personal data. From working with many major organisations, helping to produce, test, embed and deal with cybersecurity incidents, I know the 72 hour breach notification will be a shocking surprise. Many find it difficult to differentiate between a security event and an incident when to escalate who to escalate to, how to communicate, what to communicate. A breach invariably is a crisis-inducing event, the last thing you would want to do is to work out all the above in the midst of a major incident.
In my co-authored book Cyber Resilience Best Practices for AXELOS, I talked about the fact that it is no longer good enough to prevent incidents; organisations must also be prepared to be resilient to them. Incidents and breaches are inevitable fact of digital business.
This is why you should plan ahead and build your incident management strategy, plan and processes and be prepared for the inevitable breach.
GDPR 72 Hours Breach Notification
The 72 hours mandatory breach reporting for Data controllers is going to be challenging for many organisations. Whereas, Controllers have up to 72 hours to report the breach, Processors, must inform the Controller, without undue delay.
With the recent spate of late reporting, some up to four years late and involving millions of records. Organisations are still getting it wrong. How will companies cope with being transparent and reporting within 72 hours or even without undue delay within those 72 hours, they will have to investigate, resolve and come up with a tactical communications plan for affected data subjects and the Supervisory Authority. Seventy-two hours is not much but it cannot be used as an excuse to stop the notification. GDPR allows for a delay but this will have to be justified. An example I can think of is where law enforcement has advised you not to disclose the information to anyone, including the Supervisory Authority.
You will need to make an important decision between reporting an incident and also investigating and recovering. Not reporting a breach is no longer an option and a failure is likely to bring down the wrath of the Supervisory Authority (ICO in the UK) and the offended consumers themselves and thus affecting the very same reputation that organisations obfuscate to protect.
When is a breach not a breach?
Well, when it does not endanger the data subject's privacy. Before reporting a breach organisations will want to be absolutely clear that:
- It is an actual breach of personal data.
- The data was not encrypted
- The data was not otherwise protected – e.g. pseudonymised or anonymised etc.
- The breach would result in a high risk for the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
Only then you have to report the breach to the Supervisory Authority.
Okay, now that we have established what and when a breach needs to be reported. Lets look at what preparation is needed to be able to answer the above questions and what to do if there's a reportable personal data breach.
Well, to begin with, you need to be able identify, record, escalate and report a breach. All these steps point to a tried and tested incident management plan and a process that includes personal data breach notification.
Incident management plan and process
Here is an opportunity to revisit your incident management plan and process to make them fit for purpose. If you don't have one then write, test and communicate an incident management plan. Ensure your Processors have done the same and are able to identify and report to you (the Controller) without delay as required by the GDPR in order for you to be able to meet your 72 hour reporting obligations.
If you have a plan, then you most probably will need to update:
- the timers and trigger escalation points to include the DPO and the Data Controller.
- the reporting to include the Supervisory Authority and the Data Subject
You will need to train people to communicate and seek advice where and when they need to. You will need to communicate but also negotiate with the Supervisory Authority on what information about the breach you can and should release. You need to hold on to certain information because 72 hours may not be sufficient time to close down complex incident. The incident could still be active and under investigation, therefore, you have to still consider what information you can release. Seek advice from the Supervisory Authority, be transparent with them. They are not here to just take your 4% global turnover away. They are more likely to be amenable if you are open and transparent with them.
So when does the Breach Notification clock start?
The clock starts from the point you have declared it as a personal data breach. Therefore, it is essential that you make the correct call and keep to the timings.
We have a breach, what do we do now?
Once a breach has been identified for sure, the clock will start ticking. You will want to document this point and the rationale behind declaring it as a personal data breach. This is where you would want to put your breach notification action plan into action. Starting with escalating to your:
- Data Controller,
- Processor (if involved),
- The DPO,
- Head of Legal
- Communications and PR department
A good communication plan is essential to control the fall-out. Oh, please don't put your hapless CEO in front of the camera with an old CRT monitor in the background, even if it doesn't belong to you! More later on this.
You will need to keep a record of each step of your incident investigation. Documented and time-stamped so that it can be produced as evidence if required. When a decision has been made that the incident has resulted in personal data breach you need to be prepared to notify the Supervisory Authority if required.
How do you meet the 72 hours notice?
The way I design processes is to walk back from the Notification point to the breach identification point, allocating time-slots to each action that needs to be carried out and the elapsed time.
In these intervening 72 hours you should:
- Identify your escalation points and inform all your internal escalation points.
- Update your documentation, plans, templates, press release etc.
- Recover from the incident and put in mitigations.
- Prepare or refine a short-term communication plan for media, Supervisory Authority and the Data Subjects.
If possible a medium and long-term plan to deal with any queries, action plan for dealing with the aftermath of the breach, designed based on the type, nature and impact of the breach. The plans should have input from Legal, Communications, DPO, Cyber Security, Data Controller and if any Data Processors involved in the breach.
Plan to inform the Data Subject
You will of course not only need to inform the Supervisory Authority but according to Article 34 also the Data Subjects "without undue delay", unless the Supervisory Authority is convinced that the data was adequately protected, e.g. encrypted. Other extenuating circumstances such as if there are large number of subjects impacted may provide a reason not to inform the subjects.
You may have noticed a slight contradiction here as Article 33 states you do not have to report to the Supervisory Authority if the data was encrypted, here Article 34 is saying you have to convince the Supervisory Authority if do not want to inform the data subject of the breach.
Anyway, you should also plan to inform the data subject if you are informing the Supervisory Authority. You would not want them to find out from the ICO website or the media.
What do you need to tell the Data Subject?
You only need to inform the data subject if the there is likely to adversely impact their privacy as a result of the data breach.
This means you must carry out a risk assessment of what the likely impact will be. However, if you have previously carried out a DPIA, then you should already know what the impact would do. This is the whole rationale behind DPIA. It's all making sense now, right?
In order to do this, you will need to be in possession of the full facts. The scale and nature of the breach, what data was exposed, what is the likelihood of exploitation of this data and what the impact it would have on the subject if it was exploited. The impact could be:
- Financial (e.g. loss of money, credit scoring form identity theft).
- Physical (e.g. physical danger of harm).
- Psychological (distress from reputational damage, the disclosure of confidential information such as medical illness or sexual orientation).
There may be other factors involved depending on what type of data was disclosed. Suffice to say, you will need to get this right and I would suspect most organisations would err on the side of reporting to be safe. Unless you are absolutely clear that there will be no privacy impact then the advice would be to inform the impacted data subjects without undue delay.
Why without undue delay? So that they can protect themselves from exploitation such as phishing scams, physical attacks etc. Please document any rationale and the process taken to reach these decisions.
How and what should you communicate?
As mentioned above, the GDPR does not require that you should contact each data subject directly. Depending on the size of the breach, it may not be possible "without undue delay" to contact everyone. For example, the Yahoo breach involved well over a billion records. It would not have been feasible to contact each and every one of them separately.
An initial approach may be to publish something on your website, social media or the general media followed by a more detail direct communication. On other occasions, it may be easier to contact small groups of individuals directly by email or letters. Indeed in certain circumstances, you may need to contact them in confidence, in advance of the news breaking.
Communication to subjects should detail:
- The nature of the breach.
- The likely consequences of the breach.
- Advice to the subject on how they can safeguard or mitigate any likely impact damage themselves.
- The contact details of the DPO.
However, it is advisable that organisations go well beyond their legal and fiduciary duty to limit reputational damage. This may include details of what remediation has been taken by the controller to limit the damage, a hotline for advice and reporting of any loss or damage, any goodwill payments such as free credit referencing/monitoring services and regular updates and support.
Author : Moyn Uddin GDPR-P, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, ISO27001 LA, TOGAF – is a certified GDPR and Cybersecurity practitioner. He as a security practitioner has written, tested, embedded many incident management plans and process and dealt with many incidents and data breaches. He is also the co-author of RESILIA – Cyber Resilience Best Practices from AXLEOS, published in 2014 and the author of the accompanying Pocketbook. He is also the lead author of the Cyber Resilience Best Practices training course for ITpreneuers
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Tsubasa OVA 2
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We haven't been releasing much lately, but now we finally have something for your viewing pleasure! It's Tsubasa Chronicle OVA ep 2! I for one know this will be a good watch after seeing the first part! Better quality version to come later
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Making Layers
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Revision as of 14:04, 9 June 2006 by 184.108.40.206 (Talk)
This is the beginning of an attempt to try to document a process so people that have GeoTIFF's can produce and maybe even serve up data for WorldWind. If you have any insights or info please add on.
Things We Know We Know
- WW's tiling scheme.
- Formula to go from Lat/Long to WW tile numbers.
- Nowak has a C program that uses GDAL to do this and he has another progam that packs them up so you dont have to manage zillions of files + a little PHP script to extract the correct tile from the image pyramid.
- News Flash! : Nowak released source code to DSTile (the Tiler) and TilePack (packs up tiles into a image pyramid so you dont have zillion of files) as Open Source (BSD licensed)
- What if you were to call dstile dynamically from inside WorldWind? Urobots talks about how to do this in his blog.
- Lucians OnEarth code for Apache to 'sniff' WorldWind requests, pass the request off to WMS (if needed) and cache the tiles if they are not already cached Download
Things We Know We Don't Know
- How does altitude relate to a level in a layer being displayed?
- How does <TileSize> and <Level0TileDegrees> affect #1?
- When do you know when to 'stop'? (ie. how do you know you are at 1:1)
- Even though L0TD == 2.25, how do we get larger tiles when viewing the whole earth?
Some answers came here
The Procedure for Making (As Far As I understand It Right Now)
- Obtain a georeferenced geotiff and reproject it to EPSG:4326. (or reproject with 'gdalwarp' in step 3 as you go along)(note: for those crusty-brained barnacle heads, ESPG:4326 = WGS84, and NAD83 is supposedly generally equivalent- check to verify before you take my word for it, though)
- Get the bounds of the GTiff.
- Take the lower left bounds and round to the nearest multiple of L0TD for lat and lon.
- Extract a L0TD sized chunk of the GeoTIFF starting at the coordinates of #3..
- Resample the chunk to <TileSize>(scale it to 512x512px or whatever tilesize you pick) and convert to image format of choice.
- Place it in the correct directory and rename the tile according to the naming formula. <insert naming formula here>
- Iterate in L0TD sized chunks over the entire TIFF till you have covered the upper and right side bounds.
- Divide L0TD by 2, and start over with #3
- Stop when you are at 1:1 scale (ie your L0TD sized chunk is less than <TileSize> in one of the dimensions.


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IB learner profile in the library
The library team pleased to show you our new "Learner Profile" sunflower that describes the ten attributes and their meanings. Through the lens of the profile students develop internationally-minded, lifelong learning skills. The sunflower shows the learner attributes as they can be expressed in our library. The sunflower was chosen because of the many sunflowers that are grown in the fields around the school each year. Each petal of our sunflower comes off so we can talk with classes about particular profile attributes. Thanks to Mrs Lumsden who created our sunflower.


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While her first two books focused on Thoroughbred racehorses, the latest, Standardbred Old Friends, focuses on the distinctly American breed that evolved from a horse that carried the family to church, raced at the county fair and now competes world-wide at a trot and pace. The book, at $30, is ready for pre-order now at www.harnessmuseum.com.
Standardbred Old Friends portrays 43 horses, from age 19 to 37, most of them multimillionaire world record holders with Hall of Fame membership, but some of more modest distinction, occupied as show horses, in law enforcement or hardworking, blue collar performers. With writer Ellen Harvey telling the rich tales of horses from Sweden to southern California, from Maine to Florida, Livingston has captured images of horses whose achievements are now decades past, but whose memories will last a lifetime.
The collaboration, ready for shipment in June, grew from a 2008 Hoof Beats magazine article featuring ten champion Standardbreds over the age of 20. The article, with Livingston's photos and Harvey's stories, won top honors for journalism at the 2009 World Trotting Conference in Norway.
In 2012, the two started a trek of nearly 10,000 miles to capture the lives of nearly four dozen horses whose commercial worth is long gone, but who are cherished ever still. The book's 153 photos and 43 stories were gleaned from thousands of photos and 150 interviews.
Standardbred Old Friends looks at the lives of 43 horses like North American and European superstar Mack Lobell, now 30, at his home along the shores of Lake Malaren in southern Sweden, 2004 horse of the Year Cam's Card Shark at historic Hanover Shoe Farm in central Pennsylvania and mother-daughter Hall of Famers Country Kay Sue and CR Kay Suzie among the live oaks at their home in central Florida.
The senior "old friend," 37-year-old Waco Hanover, was depicted against the deep snow of his home in the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains. An autumn sunset in the tide pools of Maine's Popham Beach State Park was the setting for Dreamy Starlet and McKeever Hanover, a pair with 297 races over 13 years, with 4 foals between them, now in their 20s, but active in the show ring and hunt field.
For a video sample of the photos in the book and a look at the making of Standardbred Old Friends, featuring 30-year-old champion Standardbred roadster Autobahn at Cane Run Farm in Kentucky, click here. Cover images are attached; Mack Lobell on the front, Dreamy Starlet and Elizabeth Tewksbury on the back.
For more information on Barbara Livingston's work, as well as her earlier books, Saratoga, Four Seasons of Racing and Horses in Living Color, click here.
Standardbred Old Friends can be purchased from the Harness Racing Museum or by calling 845-294-6330. To contact Ellen Harvey, email oldfriendsbook@hotmail or call 732-616-6092.
The horses included in the book are:
Armbro Feather
Cam's Card Shark
Country Kay Sue and CR Kay Suzie
Dreamy Starlet and McKeever Hanover
Dust Devil
Flat Foot Fluzy
Giant Victory
Hi IQ
Hot Lead
Incredible K
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Jo Jo Geronimo/Jupiter
Keystone Wallis
Lady Ashlee Ann
Larks Crown
Lilting Laughter
Mack Lobell
Matt's Scooter
Miss Easy
Moni Maker
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NL Loren
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Stacey's Echo
Staying Together
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Town Sweetheart
Victory Tilly
Waco Hanover
Western Dreamer
White Birch Mares: Three Mile Island, Town Pro, World Order
Winky's Gill
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The U.K. deputy prime minister said on Thursday that any solution to the euro zone crisis must not lead to some member states dictating terms to other European nations—such as the U.K.—that are outside the currency union.
U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg issued a stark warning to European leaders that further European fiscal integration must not lead to euro zone members dictating policy to those that remain outside of the currency union.
Clegg spoke before the Eastern Partnership Summit in Warsaw, which brought together Europe's leaders to discuss entry into the European Union of six former Soviet states. Clegg said that any change in governance structure of the European Union "must not lead to a weaker and divisive Europe."
The speech comes after German parliament voted on Thursday morning to extend the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) in order to cope with further potential financial shocks in Europe. The EFSF is a vehicle financed by euro zone members, created in May of last year, that's designed to provide financial assistance to euro zone states suffering economic difficulty.
Clegg, who is a former member of the European Parliament, told leaders that the British government understands and even supports the case for further fiscal integration.
"Like everyone, our immediate concern is that decisions are taken quickly. The world is impatient. The markets are desperate for signs of leadership and the euro zone does not have time on its side," he said, according to a transcript of the speech posted to the deputy prime minister office's web site.
But he also warned that the current crisis threatens to rupture and derail the entire European project, and the solution cannot lead to some member states dictating terms to the rest.
"While the U.K. has chosen not to join the euro, we respect the decisions taken by its members to support it. But we cannot accept arrangements that would privilege the euro zone as a decision-making body over the European Council," he said. "It would not be right for the euro zone to take decisions that bind the rest of the EU. Above all, it cannot act against the interests of those who are not members. Any decision that affects the 27 must always be taken by the 27."
The deputy prime minister's speech came a day after he held a meeting with U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Prime Minister David Cameron; UK leaders have been hardening some of their language toward EU leaders.
The British government is becoming increasingly frustrated with a lack of clear leadership on the euro zone debt crisis.
The prime minister was one of six G20 leaders to sign an open letterto the French president last week calling for a resolution to the crisis.
Meanwhile, George Osborne told the House of Commons during a recalled session of parliament in August: "I have said many times before that the euro zone countries need to accept the remorseless logic of monetary union that leads from a single currency to greater fiscal integration."
"Many people made exactly this argument more than a decade ago as a reason for Britain staying out of the single currency—and thank God we did," Osbourne said at the time.
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With the Concept A Sedan at Auto Shanghai Mercedes-Benz is providing an outlook of the next generation of compact vehicles and a potential, new body type.
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"Our Concept A Sedan shows, that the time of creases is over, say Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer Daimler AG. With its perfect proportions and a sensual treatment of surfaces with reduced lines, it is the next milestone of Sensual Purity and has the potential to introduce a new design era."
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In the few hours leading up to the Thunder's series win, Thunder Alley was on fire just as the team was.
Lindsay Nowlin says, "I'm a huge Thunder fan! I'm just excited!"
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But the pre-game celebrations weren't without nerves.
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In January 1961 Donald Menzel wrote to his cousin, M. H. Bruckman, "I am proudest of the observatories that I have built in the West." The first of those facilities, a solar observatory, was founded in 1940 in Colorado and later came to be known as the High Altitude Observatory. The second one, also a solar observatory, was founded a dozen years later at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico. The third facility, however, established at Fort Davis, Texas, was the Harvard Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Although Menzel was primarily a theoretical astrophysicist, renowned for his studies of the solar chromosphere, he was also an entrepreneur who had a talent for developing observatories and coping with numerous setbacks in funding and staffing. Where many others would have failed, Menzel succeeded in mentoring colleagues and finding sources of financial support. This paper will draw primarily on letters and other materials in the Harvard University Archives.
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Second general meeting of the ELiTES collaboration. The ELiTES project is an European-Japanese collaboration, supported by the European Commission under FP7-People, focused on the cryogenic technologies for the future gravitational wave detectors and observatories: KAGRA and ET. The progresses of the GW projects, the status of the ELiTES collaboration and the future activities were discussed. The session of the 4th of December was hosted by the Delegation of the European Union to Japan. The second day was in the Sanjo Conference Hall in Hongo Campus of University of Tokyo. Click here to see these sites in a map.
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Paula D'Arcy will be offering a retreat at Bethany in Antigonish. Spiritual Invitations of the Second Half of Life. Please see www.themarthas.com for more information. Sister Claire MacNeil, CSM, informs us there is room for more registrations.
Brooklyn is a delightful story, set in the fifties. It's about a "good" Irish girl, and it touches on homesickness, making one's own choices, learning newness. It's about "home" and what that really means.
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|Chapter 26.
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|Contributions to an Archer MSA
|Publication 969, Health Savings Accounts and Other Tax-Favored Health Plans.
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|Expenses from the rental of personal property
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|Certain required repayments of supplemental unemployment benefits (sub-pay)
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|Foreign housing costs
|Chapter 4 of Publication 54, Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad.
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|Contributions by certain chaplains to Internal Revenue Code section 403(b) plans
|Publication 517, Social Security and Other Information for Members of the Clergy and Religious Workers.
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I had a good run tonight. I tried a few things with my hip and they worked out well.
First, I used a heating pad on low heat on it for 15 minutes before I left in order to get the hip muscles loosened up. Then, I started out running slowly, letting my body warm up. Next, I ran with traffic so that my left leg wasn't always on the down side of the road. It worked. I felt a few twinges here and there that I would lump in the same category as the rest of the twinges I feel during any run, but overall it was a good run.
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I picked up these in San Francisco's Nike Town store: Nike Acceleration Running Capri
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The return on investment is not just afforded from these increases in efficiency and productivity, but also the stronger bond built between employee and the business. Showing your staff that their time is considered important and valuable to you further increases staff commitment and loyalty to their company.
On this page we hope to give you an idea of how we can help your business provide a targetted training approach that can improve user knowledge in a specific area, so as to have a fast return improving that area of your companys operation.
Les Harris – Les Harris Drag Racing Team
To be honest, before I met Adecs I was one of the crowd that thought "BAH! Computers! What do I need them for?"
It wasn't until I saw how a website changed our team's means of communication, and the ease at which we could spread both our knowledge, and other information we felt was important to those interested in our sport that I really started to change my mind.
These days one of the guys at Adecs constantly ribs me that he thinks I have a problem, because I can't go very many days without access to the Internet!
They have completely helped to change my view of our sport, the world and what can be achieved through good use of a computer system and website.
Les Harris Drag Racing Team
Les Harris has been racing drag bikes for quite a few years, and is very well known and respected in his sport, not only for his racing, but his technical knowledge regarding the motorcycles and racing rules.
The team has raced more then one bike under the team name at more then one time in it's history, enjoying spreading the wonders of a fast pair (of wheels that is) up and down the land.
The site we have created for him is just a start, as it will turn into a nice little technology demonstration area in the coming years, making it a deeply functional web application. However it has gathered a fairly wide following, not the least with the growth of the racing club in which they are involved, but also since having been in a few episodes of Scrapheap Challenge and some magazine photo shoots.
Hanworth Timber Company Website Project
Dated: 15 March 2010
Hanworth Timber Company is a well established business with a long family history of working in the timber trade, having been in business over 34 years.
We have worked with them to plan a phased approach to implementing a website and integrating it with their normal day to day business.
Phase one is now complete and they are currently establishing an online catalogue of their products.
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The Minxipedia
Please take note the new header to my blog.
This came about from a throwaway comment made by a young man called Starsalign in the Punternet chatroom. I had just sent him a link to an informative blog I had written on roleplay and he said that having read another how to.. article of mine my blog was like a encyclopedia, nay! A Minxipedia! I thought this was a fab new word and became determined to use it somehow.
This is how it works:
1. A girl or young woman who is considered pert, flirtatious, or impudent.
2. Obsolete A promiscuous woman.
A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field
The Greek phrase is enkuklios paideia, made up of enkuklios, "cyclical, periodic, ordinary," and paideia, "education," and meaning "general education." Copyists of Latin manuscripts took this phrase to be a single Greek word,enkuklopaedia, with the same meaning, and this spurious Greek word became the New Latin word encyclopaedia, coming into English with the sense "general course of instruction," first recorded in 1531. In New Latin the word was chosen as the title of a reference work covering all knowledge. The first such use in English is recorded in 1644.
So, I came up with this:
The blog of a young (ish) flirtatious, promiscuous woman containing work on a variety of subjects, but mainly on sex work, sex and general ramblings to educate and amuse. First used in 2013.
Oh and obviously I use the Name Minxy!
I didn't think it was worth categorising my various blog in an encyclopedia style elsewhere when anything can be easily searched for using the search tool on my website and nothing really needs to be recorded twice on the internet so I decided to rename my blog The Minxipedia.
Ta da!
And there we go Stars, you now have internet fame!
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Brethyn Blaenau was opened in 2012 when owner Rhiannon - who had been running knitting and sewing classes in Blaenau Ffestiniog for a few years - saw a need for a wool shop in the town. The Oriel Moelwyn gallery and framing shop was bought, the building was refurbished and the framing business moved from the shop into a workshop to the rear of the premises.
We stock James C Brett, Stylecraft and Sirdar yarns, together with a wide range of DMC products, cross stitch kits, knitting and crochet patterns, books, accessories and haberdashery items. We also carry a small selection of locally sourced Welsh wool.


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Book of Saints – Athanasia – 14 August
ATHANASIA (Saint) Widow. (August 14) (9th century) Her parents belonged to an ancient Greek family, and she was born in the Island of AEgina. Her first husband died on the battlefield in a war against the Saracens; but her second husband set her free by himself entering a monastery. She at first turned her own home into a convent, but, soon, desirous of greater retirement, built the Abbey of Timia, where, under the guidance of a saintly priest, she soon gathered a considerable community. Her virtues and wisdom were such that the Empress Theodora summoned her to Constantinople. There she remained seven years, but returned to die at Timia (A.D. 860).


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Global high performance alloys market is expected to reach USD 9.26 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Aerospace application dominated the high performance alloys market accounting for over 55% of global demand in 2013. Growing demand for light weight alloys in aerospace industry coupled with increasing low cost carriers resulting in higher demand for new aircrafts is expected to augment market growth.
North America was the largest regional market accounting for over 40% of global high performance alloys market demand in 2013. Increasing R&D investment aimed at use of novel high performance materials in aerospace industry is expected to help the region maintain dominance over the forecast period. In addition, favorable government initiatives including 'The National Space Policy' for promoting investment in aerospace industry is expected to augment market demand. Asia Pacific is expected to witness above average growth rates over the next six years owing to the growing aviation industry coupled with increasing demand for high durability metals in gas turbines and electrical & electronics.
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Further key findings from the study suggest:
- Global high performance alloys market demand was 1150.0 kilo tons in 2013 and is expected to exceed 1400.0 kilo tons by 2020, growing at a CAGR of over 3.0% from 2014 to 2020.
- Non-ferrous alloys were the largest product segment accounting for over 50% of global market in 2013. Non-ferrous metal alloys are expected to witness significant demand owing to the extensive use of nickel and titanium alloys in automotive and aviation industry.
- Superalloys demand is expected to witness growth at a CAGR of over 3.0% from 2014 to 2020 owing to increasing application in gas turbines and oil & gas industries.
- High performance alloys demand in gas turbine and electrical & electronics is expected to witness highest growth at a CAGR of over 3.5% from 2014 to 2020.
- Key participants have patented technologies coupled with expertise in the field of high performance alloys resulting in market dominance. High performance alloys market is moderately consolidated with the top four companies accounting for less than 50% of the market in 2013. Key companies in the market include VSMPO, Carpenter Technology Corporation and RTI International Metals. Other companies operating in this market include Aperam, Outokumpu and Haynes International.
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For the purpose of this study, Grand View Research has segmented the high performance alloys market on the basis of product, application and region:
Global High Performance Alloys Market Product Outlook (Volume, Kilo Tons, Revenue, USD Million, 2012 – 2020)
• Non-ferrous
• Platinum
• Refractory
• Superalloys
Global High Performance Alloys Market Application Outlook (Volume, Kilo Tons, 2012 – 2020)
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Industrial Gas Turbines
• Industrial
• Oil & gas
• Electronics
• Others
Global High Performance Alloys Market Regional Outlook (Volume, Kilo Tons, 2012 – 2020)
• North America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• RoW
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A cyclist has died in a collision with a tipper truck in Vauxhall, London, on Monday morning. It's the sixth time that a cyclist has been killed on London's roads in 2014.
The 52-year-old man died at the scene as a result of injuries sustained after colliding with the lorry on Parry Street, Vauxhall, at 7am.
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The junction is one of those earmarked by Transport for London (TfL) to be revamped as part of a £300 million scheme to improve junctions for cyclists' safety.
London Cycling Campaign has renewed calls for urgent action to improve London's accident blackspots.
"The Mayor went on record in February 2014 saying he will redesign the notorious Vauxhall one-way system, along with 32 other dangerous 1960s junctions in central London, but there are currently no plans on the table, nor timetables for consultation or redevelopment," said LCC Chief Executive Ashok Sinha.
"We're calling on the Mayor to fast-track the redesign of Vauxhall one-way system, and to make the junction an exemplar of Continental best practice – showing how a well-designed junction can provide safe and direct passage for pedestrians, cyclists and motor traffic."
Last month a cyclist died on another junction that has been targeted by TfL for improvements – Elephant & Castle. That incident also involved a heavy goods vehicle.
Despite lorries only accounting for five per cent of the London's traffic, they are involved in half of the incidents resulting in death or serious injury to cyclists.
Cyclist dies on Elephant and Castle junction in London
Cyclist dies after collision with heavy goods vehicle on notorious accident blackspot


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Essence picked a winner when they chose to feature Ava DuVernay on the cover of the magazine for March 2017, just in time for Women's History Month.
The critically-acclaimed director (or "directher" as her Instagram name reminds us) is a shining example of what women, more specifically women of color, can accomplish if they strive make their passion their work. In her cover story interview, DuVernay dishes on a wide range of topics like "her Oscar-nominated documentary 13th to diversity and Array, her independent distribution company that spotlights little-known films from women and people of color," according to Essence.
She also talked about her approach to directing and what makes her unique when compared with others in her field.
"I don't have to approach film like a man would, or like anybody else I read about, because it's personal…so there's no right way or wrong way," she told the magazine, according to TheYBF. "Directors talk about their process but that doesn't have to be my process. My process is where the sets feel very familial, where I like to know my cast personally and where I value who people are more than their names…[It's important to] imbue the sets and the experience with a sense of myself, a sense of warmth, a sense of family, not shying away from the things…that make me a Black woman, and just embracing those things and letting that come out in the material itself…"
Ava's upcoming projects include A Wrinkle in Time (which made her the first woman of color to ever direct a live-action film with a $100+ million budget), the second season of her hit OWN series Queen Sugar and TV movie Battle of Versailles.
Keep an eye out for Ava's issue of Essence, which hits newsstands February 17.
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Bit by bit, the south Denver craft beer scene is growing. The latest example is the Brew on Broadway, which opened last Saturday as Englewood's only independent brewery.
A coffee shop in the morning -- serving Pablo's coffee along with pre-packaged breakfast burritos, quiches and baked goods -- the BoB turns into a brewery at 11 a.m. each day, serving English-style ales made on a seven-barrel brewing system.
See also: - Former Future Brewing will take a spot on South Broadway's Antique Row - Declaration Brewing will look to fertile tap room territory near DU in early 2014 - Grist Brewing hopes to breathe life into south Denver's craft beer scene
"I've been homebrewing for 25 years," says BoB owner Paul Webster, who has lived in Englewood for even longer. So when he ended his career as a printing paper salesman, he decided to indulge in his hobbies. "Beer and coffee are my two favorite things."
Webster currently has four beers on tap, a pale ale, an English mild, an IPA and an ESB; all of them are named for parts of Englewood history.
In addition to space for nearly one hundred people inside the taproom, the BoB also has a 1,000-square-foot patio that Webster believes "will be a winner."
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The only consistent feature in the political and economic environments worldwide is that they are constantly changing. This is precisely what prompts individuals and families to structure their assets and wealth within a jurisdiction with a more stable and dependable climate, particularly EU countries with a sound, comprehensive, and well-regulated legal framework. The challenge faced by families, then, is determining the extent to which they wish to retain control over the assets of the family.
Different jurisdictions across the globe boast an intricate and dependable trust regime pioneered by professional trustees. However, if families wish to remain to some degree involved in the management of their family wealth, they might need to look at alternative routes. All of us have a strong sense of ownership which comes from an innate feeling that we need to collect our assets and take possession of what is ours. It is very common to find clients who feel the need to retain some level of control over their assets and who are not willing to relinquish in full control over the family assets. Nevertheless, keeping in mind the protection of family wealth for future generations, ownership may not be the most sensible route. Other options include structuring ownership through holding companies, private trust companies and foundations. Many countries have opted to promulgate legislation which allows and regulates the management of family trusts via such Private Trust Companies. Two countries which offer this option are Malta and Jersey. In Malta, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) regulates the financial sector and is regarded as a medium which successfully balances flexibility and security. Jersey is also a sought-after jurisdiction for the protection of family wealth. We will now be delving into the Private Trust Company (PTC) by analysing it from both a Maltese and Jersey law perspective.
Private Trust Companies (PTCs) are privately owned corporate trustees, acting as trustees tasked with administering the family assets in question. Such arrangements are typically chosen by High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) where company start-up costs are seen as proportionate to the benefits enjoyed by such structure. The level of control the PTC structure affords families can be regarded as the main pull factor for such clients. Essentially, PTCs are intended to strike a balance between complete detachment from the ownership of the assets and including the family in the taking of decisions involving their assets.
Members of the family usually comprise the board of directors of the PTC in question. The family is thus able to maintain a certain degree of control on its wealth since the family would be able to take decisions as to what happens to the trust.
A comparison of Malta and Jersey PTCs
Aspects of Jurisdiction and Regulation
Throughout its 15-year full EU membership, Malta has managed to offer a mirage of solutions and enjoys a stable and growing economy which does not merely rely on foreign direct investment. With its pro-active and business-friendly stance, Malta balances the attraction of investment and a high level of regulation and supervision. A civil law jurisdiction at its core, Malta has welcomed common law institutes, namely, the trust. The MFSA guidelines for Trustees of Family Trusts, which were issued in 2016, provided the regulatory clarity needed by the Maltese model.
As a Crown Dependency, Jersey enjoys almost total self-governance and autonomy and although not a member of the European Union and thus not bound by community acquis, it does enjoy a special relationship with the Union, as evidenced in Protocol 3 of the UK's 1972 Accession Treaty. This is seen mainly in Jersey's access to the common market. Having said this, the fact that laws are not codified might be perceived as a potential weakness which may lead any legal issue surrounding PTCs to become the subject of litigation, unless resolved via alternative dispute resolution.
It is essential to understand the structure of a PTC in order to opt for the most desirable system for one's family assets. In Malta PTCs need not be authorised by the MFSA but do need to be registered as Maltese companies with the Registry of Companies and with the MFSA as trustees of family trusts. Insofar as Jersey is concerned, up until the year 2000, PTCs and Trustees had to be registered with the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC). Nowadays, such companies are exempt from registering under Article 4 of the Financial Services (Jersey) Order.
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Maltese law requires that one of the PTC's executive directors or senior officers needs to take on the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) as per the Prevention of Money Laundering and Funding of Terrorism Regulations. On the other hand, the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999 explicitly excludes PTCs from its sphere of application. In other words, under Jersey law, PTCs need not have a dedicated anti-money laundering officer. Despite the fact that neither jurisdiction requires authorisation, they both require registration of PTCs. In Malta, this process falls within the purview of the MFSA, wherein in Jersey, it is the JFSC.
As we have seen, both jurisdictions have stronger and weaker elements making professional guidance essential for any family wishing to adequately protect its assets. The family's background, priorities and past experiences, coupled with their outlook at future proofing their assets are the essential elements which will duly determine the choice of jurisdiction.
Dr Priscilla Mifsud Parker is a private client lawyer who heads the Families & Wealth & Fintech practice groups within the firm. She specialises in wealth structuring and preservation for business families and high net worth individuals, corporate structure set up, relocation planning and businesses wishing to enter the FinTech industry.
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Attempts were made to stock Pacific salmon in the Great Lakes at various times starting in the late 1800's. The present salmon fishery in the Great Lakes started in Michigan's Platte River in 1966 when coho were introduced as a predatory species in hopes of the exploding alewive population. Chinook salmon were introduced a year later and the rest, as they say, is history. Here is a group of fish waiting behind the Platte River weir where some will be collected for eggs and others allowed to pass into the upper river.
Jon Ray of Mangled Fly Media recently did a short video on fly fishing for king salmon in Grand Traverse Bay. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hVH8JnDcjk


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I have parquet data, and was wondering if you have any built-in tools to import parquet.
Xcalar allows you to unleash the power of python based tools that will allow you to write your own code for importing parquet data. As a simple example, you can use pyarrow to import data. It would be good to know how your data is organized. If you can send us how you are currently working on this problem.
You can develop an Import UDF in python using pyarrow, which works on a single parquet file. Xcalar will then help you parallelize your processing massively, if you had, for instance, a hundred thousand such parquet files. You only need to write code that parses a single parquet file.
Please look at our discourse articles to see how to write UDFs. You can just search for UDF.
If you need more information about parquet, please let me know and I will be happy to help.
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A security vulnerability in the widely used Macromedia Inc. Flash player can allow an attacker to gain control over a user's PC, eEye Digital Security Inc. warned Monday.
A specially formatted Flash file can cause a header overflow in the Flash software, potentially giving an attacker control over a PC, eEye said in a security advisory. Exploiting an overflow flaw generally allows attackers to load malicious code onto a victim's system and to run that code.
To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker has to hand-edit the Flash file with a binary editor as the Flash authoring tool does not produce files that contain the vulnerability on its own, Macromedia said in a separate bulletin on its Web site at http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=23569
A corrupt Flash file could be placed on a Web site or sent to a user in an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) e-mail. The vulnerability is serious because Flash is widely used on various operating systems and because vulnerable versions of the software are delivered as part of many software packages, said eEye, based in Aliso Viejo, California.
Affected are all versions of the Macromedia Flash Player prior to version 18.104.22.168, which was released late last week to fix the issue, Macromedia said. All users are advised to upgrade to the new version, the San Francisco company said.
EEye in the past year has found numerous vulnerabilities in Macromedia's Flash software. The overflow vulnerability reported Monday is similar to a bug in the Flash player discovered in August, but with variations in the modified Flash code written by the attacker, eEye said.
The eEye advisory is at http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021216.html


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As of this writing the NASA/JPL websites are still overloaded. Trying CURIOSITY-REAR-CAM_[256px_x_256px].torrent.SwEsUb.DVDRip.XviD-aXXo.jpg instead.
This comic is a reference to the NASA Mars Rover "Curiosity" landing on Mars on 6 August 2012. NASA live-streamed the landing, but demand for the feed caused server issues. Thus, the time spent trying to download the landing images could be used as an excuse for being late for work.
The image text is a reference to torrents, which are a more resilient way to download files, due to the decentralized BitTorrent protocol, where the more people there are downloading a file, the most available it is. The name is a play on the file naming convention of release groups who name their files containing data on the file; language (SwEsUb = Swedish subtitles), source (DVDRip = Ripped from DVD), encoding (XviD = XviD codec) and group name (aXXo = aXXo, a well known DVD movie releaser).