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"This 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartment is located in Sosua (Puerto Plata province - Dominican Republic), with a size of approximately 600 sqf. The residence has a shared pool, is walking distance to the beach and is steps from all amenities (restaurants, shops, clubs, bars etc.)
Main features include:
- Fully furnished and equipped: all linen and towels are provided, along with a starter kit of consumables (soap, water, toilet paper etc.)
- Television / Cable TV
- Wi-Fi internet
- Air conditioning, Fans
- Terrace / Balcony
- Tropical garden
- Backup generator
- 24/7 security
- Many units available in this residence (please contact us if you have a large group, or any particular preference in terms of floor number, beds size etc.)
A few house rules:
- The residence is guest-friendly, you can invite anybody anytime (without any additional fee).
- Pets are allowed.
- Smoking is only allowed in the outside areas.
The rental rate includes all charges except electricity. Housekeeping and other optional services (chef, driver, car rental etc.) can be arranged upon request. Rates vary according to seasons and the duration of your stay: discounts are possible for long-term rentals and last-minute bookings. Also, only a small down payment is required to confirm the booking, and the balance can be paid upon check-in!"


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Jennifer Maia was presented the Invicta FC flyweight title prior to weigh-ins for Invicta FC 19 earlier this week.
Friday night, she went out and earned the belt, scoring a decision over Roxanne Modafferi in the main event. The entire card aired live on UFC Fight Pass.
Invicta FC officials stripped Barb Honchak of the belt and presented it to Maia, who was the interim champion, on Thursday.
In the co-main event, Ayaka Hamasaki remained atomweight champion with a second round TKO over Jinh Yu Frey.
Complete results can be found below:
Jennifer Maia def. Roxanne Modafferi via split decision (47-48, 48-47, 49-46) to remain Invicta FC flyweight champion
Ayaka Hamasaki def. Jinh Yu Frey via TKO (doctor's stoppage) at 4:38 of Round 2 to remain Invicta FC atomweight champion
Irene Aldana def. Faith Van Duin via TKO (strikes) at 4:57 of Round 1
Kaline Medeiros def. Manjit Kolekar via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Kal Holliday def. Tiffany Van Soest via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:08 of Round 2
Julia Jones def. Stephanie Skinner via submission (armbar) at 2:38 of Round 1
Amber Leibrock def. Amy Coleman via TKO (knees) at 3:15 of Round 1
Sunna Ranveig Davidsdottir def. Ashley Greenway via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

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Back in July, my nine-year-old friend Ella and I had a gallery show at hot*pop here in Milwaukee. It was the sequel to our first show four years ago— dwella vs. Ella: A Pretty Good Art Show. Naturally, we titled it dwella vs. Ella 2: A Pretty Good Sequel To A Pretty Good Art Show. We are nothing if not wordsmiths.
The premise for this one was to take the first 25 days of July 2012, and do one drawing each day about that day. We'd then hang our drawings side by side to see how similar our lives are. What did I learn? That Ella lives a far more interesting life than I do.
You can see all 50 drawings in a Facebook album I've posted here.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Long Way Home
(PICTURE: Sunset in Phuket on our first night.)
Huyen and I decided that instead of flying directly to America, we would continue our honeymoon. You see, it was basically the same price to fly one-way from Hanoi to NY as it was to do a couple of one way flights to some places we had never been. Originally, we had planned on doing two weeks in Sri Lanka, two weeks in India and then two weeks in France. However, getting visas was a pain in the butt so we decided to just go to India. While booking our flight there, we saw some super cheap flights on Air Asia that we could pass up. Basically for both of us to fly from Hanoi to Bangkok, Bangkok to Phuket, Phuket to Bangkok and Bangkok to Kolkata cost us less than $450. We had absolutely no intention of going to Phuket until a deal flashed on my computer screen as we booked our plans. It cost us about $50 each to fly round trip to the island.
As I hit the purchase button on Air Asia's website, I started to immediately have second thoughts. I didn't know much about Phuket but the things I had heard all were not so good. Mainly, I read/heard that Phuket was now just an island of 4 and 5 star resorts and not a place for backpackers. And yes, I'm 32 and still consider myself a backpacker. As I see it, travelers fall into two categories:
Category 1: People who can only take 1-2 week vacations a year and want to spend every moment in luxury.
Category 2: People who have lots of time on their hands and don't mind sacrificing luxury to be able to travel for months to years.
In total, Huyen and I will have been traveling for more than 3 months when we land in the USA. Considering that we don't have jobs, we thought it would be wise to pinch a few pennies along the way. And hence, my nervousness going to Phuket where supposedly nothing is cheap...
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Applying to the Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs
Students planning to attend in Fall 2019 may begin submitting applications for admission based on dates indicated on the DNP Consortia websites. The deadlines to submit an application for admission may vary by CSU campus.
- First, complete the Graduate Application on Cal State Apply.
- Visit the appropriate website for details on program-specific admission requirements, including letters of recommendation, transcripts and exam scores:
How many students will be admitted each year?
Contact the individual CSU DNP program for information on how many students the program admits for each of its cohorts.
Will there be a distance education/online option?
The joint Fresno-San José program is planned as an online offering. The joint CSU Fullerton-Long Beach-Los Angeles program uses a traditional classroom instructional design, with a limited number of online courses.
Financial Assistance Information: Overview
Various types of financial aid may be available to graduate students who qualify and demonstrate a need for these resources. Financial aid programs— which come in a variety of forms such as grants, scholarships, and loan programs—are available to assist students in meeting their educational expenses. Interested DNP students should contact the Office of Financial Aid at their lead campus for information about financial assistance available to students enrolled in DNP programs. Each campus Office of Financial Aid is responsible for advising students about financial aid opportunities and for administering funds made available by federal and state governments, the individual CSU campus, and by private sources.
Information about policies and regulations governing financial assistance programs is available through the Office of Financial Aid. Because of limited funding, application deadlines for financial assistance are critical. DNP students should check with their home campus Financial Aid Office for application deadlines.
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DNP students may wish to consider applying for the Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program. The program provides student loans to a limited number of individuals pursuing full-time doctoral degrees at accredited universities throughout the United States. After participants receive their doctoral degrees and obtain a qualifying instructional position in the CSU, a portion of the loan from this program may be forgiven every year. Information about this loan program can be found on the CDIP website.


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I confess I've been quite distracted lately. Oh the stresses of a house move! Piles of cookbooks, scattered on the carpet, and a disconcerting realisation of just how much bakeware I own. Driving hours down motorways, finding a parking spot in a maze of "permit-holder only" streets. Knowing I won't be getting my own until reams of paperwork have been filled, signed and stamped.
This is one of the last things I baked before the move.
A sheet of vanilla-scented shortcrust pastry, forgotten in the freezer. A jar of nutella, sneaky spoonfuls taken out. Clotted cream, left behind from scone-making. Toasted hazelnuts, waiting in a glass jar.
Let's say this was a success story in the use of leftover ingredients again.
The tart is a riff on a bakewell tart, but nutella takes the place of jam, and I've made a vanilla scented sponge using clotted cream in the place of butter. Fact: clotted cream is a fab butter substitute, and no softening required! Next time I think I would add ground hazelnuts to the cake batter for even more hazelnutty flavour, and drizzle some melted chocolate over the top.
Nutella and Clotted Cream Tart
- shortcrust pastry to line 25cm tart tin
- 2 tbsp nutella
- 120g clotted cream
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 125g self raising flour
- hazelnuts, to decorate
Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Line the tart tin with shortcrust pastry and bake for around 20 minutes until lightly coloured. Spread the base of the tart with nutella and set to one side.
Beat the clotted cream, sugar, eggs, vanilla and flour together into a smooth batter. Spoon over the nutella and smooth the surface. Decorate the top with hazelnuts. Bake for 25 minutes or until the top is springy. Leave to cool and serve warm or cold.
Lots of goodbyes this week and adieus to friends, family, faithful running routes, local cats and the garden! I'll be back.


text: Since its inception in Tokyo in 2008, Japanese label Ambush has been dubbed one of the hottest jewellery brands on the planet. Creative duo Verbal and Yoon are the minds behind the brand, bringing their avant-garde, ultra-creative and powerful aesthetics to a line of Ambush rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings and more. For the Ambush rings collection, expect to find a host of bold, head-turning knuckledusters and cocktail rings in rainbow-bright enamel and glimmering gold-toned brass. Look out for label's signature pop art-inspired POW motif 'an unmistakable sign of in-the-know style.


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#2460: Carly Onion-Router Killers – Mabus 8(a) Women in Marine Corps Middle – Hotel Serco's Death-Pool Pope
1. AD ASSERTS THAT CARLY FIORINA'S HP ASSOCIATES ARE FIRING HP MENTORS TO STOP THEM EXPOSING HP'S USE OF THE NAVY'S ONION ROUTER (TOR) IN PROTÉGÉE KILLING and long-range assassination betting.
2. AD ASSERTS THAT NAVY SECRETARY RAYMOND MABUS HAS PUT 8(A) WOMEN-OWNED COMPANIES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NAVY / MARINE CORPS INTRANET (NMCI) for ad-hoc high-value-target hits if opportunities occur.
3. AD ASSERTS THAT SERCO HAS USED CARLY'S TOR TO SET UP DEATH POOL SUITES SO [9/11?] HOTEL GUESTS CAN KILL THE POPE if they have enough 8(a) women to read scripts, spin news and remove evidence of a contract hit.
United States Marine Field McConnell (https://abeldanger.blogspot.com/2010/01/field-mcconnell-bio.html) is writing an e-book "Shaking Hands With the Devil's Clocks" and invites readers to e-mail him images (examples below) for a proof by contradiction of the three assertions above.
"Pope Francis picks Ground Zero for interfaith healing
By Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service
Published: Wednesday, Sept. 23 2015 7:50 p.m. MDT
Updated: 3 hours ago
Bryan R. Smith, AP
Much of Catholic America is excited about Pope Francis' first visit to the United States — and so are many American Muslims.
This story is part of the Deseret News National Edition, which focuses on the issues that resonate with American families.
Much of Catholic America is excited about Pope Francis' first visit to the United States — and so are many American Muslims.
Francis' visit, said Imam Sayyid M. Syeed, "is even more important for Muslims than it is for Catholics."
How so?
A pope 1,000 years ago exhorted Christians to launch the First Crusade against Muslims, explained Syeed, of the Islamic Society of North America. Now, he continued, there is a pope who wants to destroy hatred the world over, a pope who named himself for a 13th-century saint who counseled Christians to cease their violence against Muslims.
"This pope," the imam said, "is our pope."
On Sept. 25, the fourth day of the pope's six-day American tour, an interfaith service at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum will reinforce the idea that Francis is a father to more than just Catholics. In a young papacy defined by his acts of humility, calls for mercy and concern for the poor, Francis has won over many who live firmly in other faiths.
Outside the museum, Francis will meet with relatives of those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Inside, with representatives from a spectrum of religions, he will take part in an interfaith service.
The setting of the ceremony, a museum built to bear witness to a deep national wound, invokes multiple tragedies for many Muslim Americans: the horrific act committed against their country, but also the wave of Islamophobia that began to roll across the nation even before the dust from the demolished towers had settled.
"Through the prism of this regretful, treacherous, indefensible and barbaric act," said Imam Abdullah Antepli, "Islam as a religion and Muslims as a people entered many people's consciousness for the first time."
But Ground Zero is a fitting place for the pope to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Muslims, continued Antepli, because he so obviously loves them.
A striking picture of Francis, taken shortly after his elevation to pope in 2013, showed him washing the feet of an imprisoned Muslim woman — an interfaith twist on a Holy Thursday tradition.
"I am a very faithful Muslim. I love my religion," said Antepli. "But for the first time I see a faith figure from a religion other than my own, and I am filled with holy envy, for how much I admire and respect him."
These sorts of reactions to Francis from non-Catholics do not surprise papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, who explains that the pope has little interest in conventional interfaith dialogue.
"He's convinced that theologically, God is made present by what he calls the 'culture of encounter,'" said Ivereigh. "It's the way you build a relationship of deep trust with another person. You're not trying to convert them. It is genuinely a relationship of trust.
"Then God will use that, it becomes a vehicle," Ivereigh continued. "You create space for the Holy Spirit to act. And in his conviction is that it is the Holy Spirit that unites people, whether they are of the same faith or not."
Many Jews felt that way about Francis long before he became pope.
In his native Argentina, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis stood close by the Jews of that city. He was the first public figure to sign a petition calling for justice in the 1992 and 1994 bombings of the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish community center, which killed 116 and injured hundreds.
He forged a tight friendship with Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka — the two co-authored a book and co-hosted a television program — and now the rabbi frequently visits his friend at the Vatican."
"ISIS assassination plot against Pope Francis – Pontif begs 'please make it painless'
POPE Francis has said he has accepted that he may be assassinated – but has asked God to make sure it doesn't hurt too much as he is "a real wimp"
By HANNAH ROBERTS, ROME
PUBLISHED: 16:40, Tue, Mar 10, 2015 | UPDATED: 04:50, Sun, Mar 15, 2015
Francis said that if fanatics want to kill him, it is "God's will."
He said: "Life is in God's hands. I have said to the Lord, 'You take care of me. But if it is your will that I die or something happens to me, I ask you only one favour: that it doesn't hurt. Because I am a real wimp when it comes to physical pain.'"
The pope, who was a nightclub bouncer before beginning seminary studies, made the comments in an interview with Buenos Aires favela tabloid La Carcova News in which inhabitants of the shantytown Villa La Carcova collectively came up with the questions.
The parish priest of the extremely poor area is Jose Maria Di Paola, or Father Pepe, described as "the spiritual son of Francis."
For months, there have been threats against Pope Francis by the ISIS militants, who call him the "bearer of false truth."
I am a real wimp when it comes to physical pain
Former nightclub bouncer Pope Francis
In January an assassination plot to kill Francis by detonating a bomb in Manila was reportedly thwarted by the Philippines military, although this was denied by the Vatican.
Former Special Action Force (SAF) commander Getulio Napeñas testified before the Philippine senate that the Philippines National Police had received information that Southeast Asian Jihadist terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiya, planned to set off a bomb near the papal convoy.
Italian prosecutors have also warned that the Mafia have considered a lethal strike on Francis."
"Here's why Everybody hates Raymond (Mabus)
The Marine Corps recently released the summary of results of its Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force, a nine-month study to "better understand all aspects of gender integration while setting the conditions for successful policy implementation." The study was the first step in implementing the order of former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to open combat roles to women across the Department of Defense.
The results were not kind to the gender integrated unit in the study. Against the all-male combat units, the gender-integrated were outperformed in 69% of tasks evaluated, which the Marine Corps says were "basic infantry tasks."
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, an outspoken proponent of gender integration in combat roles throughout all branches of the military, decried the results of the tests, implying the Marine Corps was biased toward women in the first place and that the results may be skewed because of it. He repeatedly denounced the conduct of the test on multiple occasions.
Mabus told the City Club of Cleveland "one of my concerns about it was, we didn't do a very good job of screening people before the volunteering. One of the things that came out of this was there were no standards, zero, for most of these jobs. You just assumed that if somebody went through boot camp, a man went through boot camp, that they could do it."
In an interview on NPR, Mabus said, "It started out with a fairly large component of the men thinking this is not a good idea and women will never be able to do this. When you start out with that mindset you're almost presupposing the outcome."
Results found women were more than twice as likely to be injured and ultimately compromise a unit's combat effectiveness, Mabus said, were an "extrapolation based on injury rates, and I'm not sure that's right."
But Mabus is getting an earful from all sides. Enlisted Marines who took part in the exercise, male and female alike, had strong words for the Navy Secretary.
Sgt. Joe Frommling was a Marine monitor during the experiment. "What Mabus said went completely against what the command was saying the whole time," he told the Washington Post.
"They said, 'Hey, no matter what your opinion is, go out there and give it your best and let the chips fall where they may.'" The same article quoted a female Marine, Sgt. Danielle Beck, who was insulted by Mabus' saying the women probably should have had a "higher bar to cross" to join the task force.
"Every day we were training," said Beck. "We didn't know what we were going to expect when we got to Twenty-nine Palms, but the training that we did do got us physically ready and mentally in the mind-set for what were going to do."
Marine Sgt. Maj. Justin LeHew, who was one of Marine Corps Training and Education Command top enlisted leaders for the experiment and a key figure in its implementation, wrote on his Facebook page Mabus' comments are "counter to the interests of national security and unfair to the women who participated in this study. No one went in to this with the mentality that we did not want this to succeed no Marine, regardless of gender, would do that."
LeHew's comment carries some weight. He is known as "The Hero of Nasiriyah." He received the Navy Cross for risking his life under heavy enemy fire to evacuate four soldiers and recover nine dead and wounded Marines following a 2003 ambush in Iraq. Since then many Marines "dished" about their experiences in the task force.
There has not yet been a response from the Marine Corps about Mabus' remarks. When asked, the Marine Corps Headquarters Public Affairs Office said "obviously, the Marine Corps is not going to have a public policy dispute with the Secretary of the Navy."
But someone in Congress is eager to pick a fight with Mabus, however.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a former Marine officer and Iraq veteran, released a statement last Tuesday saying "Secretary Mabus is quickly proving that he's a political hack … Mabus is not only insulting the Marine Corps as an institution, but he's essentially telling Marines that their experience and judgment doesn't matter." Hunter then called for Mabus to resign.
The office of the Navy Secretary has not commented on individual statements, but previously said the Secretary's comments 'stand on their own.'"
"Increasing peer privacy
In a method for increasing peer privacy, a path for information is formed from a provider to a requestor through a plurality of peers in response to a received request for the information. Each peer of the plurality of peers receives a respective set-up message comprising of a predetermined label and an identity of a next peer for the information. The information is transferred over the path in a message, where the message comprises a message label configured to determine a next peer according to the path in response to the message label matching the previously received predetermined label.
Publication number: US7865715 B2
Publication type: Grant
Application number: US 10/084,499
Publication date: Jan 4, 2011
Filing date: Feb 28, 2002
Priority date: Feb 28, 2002
Fee status: Paid
Also published as: US20030163683
Inventors: Zhichen Xu, Li Xiao
Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Export Citation: BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
Patent Citations (6), Non-Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (2),Classifications (6), Legal Events (4
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet"
"HP broadened our definition of a minority business in 2009. The main category of businesses our supplier diversity program supports are minority-owned, woman-owned, veteran-owned and small businesses. For the first time, we have included lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender-owned (LBGT-owned) businesses in the definition. Through our new sponsorship of, and collaboration with, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), we will maintain a pipeline of potential LBGT-owned suppliers. In 2009, we also increased our sponsorship of women-owned businesses."
"Behind Carly Fiorina's 30,000 HP layoffs
By David Goldman @DavidGoldmanCNN
Fiorina says Steve Jobs had sympathy when she was fired
It's hard to run for president when your name is synonymous with massive layoffs.
The No. 1 criticism lofted at Carly Fiorina is that she oversaw the disastrous 2002 Compaq merger, leading to some 30,000 layoffs at Hewlett-Packard during her tenure as CEO.
Fiorina has tried to spin the layoffs, saying they were the result of bad timing that coincided with the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000.
She has also noted — correctly — that despite bruising layoffs, she hired more people than she fired. HP and Compaq had a combined 148,100 employees just before she was hired in 1999, and 150,000 by the time she was fired in 2005.
Still, along the way, the cuts were painful.
2000: Voluntary Buyouts
Fiorina was named CEO in July 1999 and eight months later, in March 2000, HP offered 2,500 employees a voluntary buyout package. 1,300 employees accepted the offer.
2001: Furloughs and Job Cuts
In 2001, Fiorina asked employees to volunteer to take furloughs, hoping that the unpaid time off would stave off further job cuts. HP said the 80,000 who volunteered to take the furloughs saved the company $130 million. But many of those people ended up getting laid off anyway.
Later in 2001, HP laid off 7,500 employees. The tech bubble had burst sending many countries into a recession. People weren't buying as many computers, and HP needed to cut costs to save money.
2002 and 2003: More furloughs and job cuts
In 2002, HP asked employees to once again take furloughs over the Christmas break. HP was hardly alone: Dell and Gateway (remember Gateway?) also furloughed their employees. Unlike its competitors, HP allowed its employees to use accrued vacation time.
But HP remained the biggest job-cutter. The company also laid off 8,600 more employees in 2002.
In 2003, HP laid off another 9,000 employees.
In all, the terminations cost HP 26,400 jobs. And that doesn't include that five months after Fiorina left in February 2005, HP announced another 15,200 job cuts.
For sure, HP was not alone in cutting jobs during the dot-com bust. Many tech companies went out of business.
And the job cuts did help HP save money through a particularly difficult time in the tech industry. Of the $3 billion a year HP said the merger helped save in "cost synergies," $2 billion of the annual savings were attributed to layoffs and plant shutdowns.
But Fiorina made a huge gamble in acquiring Compaq — and it didn't work, sending HP into a tailspin it is still trying to climb out of.
HP has announced more than 100,000 job cuts since Fiorina left. And current CEO Meg Whitman is now spinning off the PC unit that Fiorina created with the Compaq merger.
When Fiorina was fired, she took home a $21.4 million severance package, which included $50,000 for career counseling. (Shareholders later sued, saying she got too big of a golden parachute)."
"Tor Isn't A Child Porn Enthusiast's Best Friend, No Matter What The DOJ Claims
from the willful-distortion-of-facts dept
Anything that makes law enforcement's job slightly more difficult is swiftly turned into a pariah. And usually the worst kind of pariah: a child molester.
Apple and Google both announced encryption-by-default going forward on their mobile phone operating systems. Law enforcement officials swiftly gathered to talk loudly about all of the dead and molested children that would result from this decision.
The same goes for Tor. The use of Tor can obscure criminal activity — by hiding the perpetrator and the activity itself. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to use Tor (like many internet services and platforms hoovering up tons of data themselves), but because it makes chasing "bad guys" a little harder, it too must go.
The best way for government agencies to get rid of something they don't like is legislation. When a law enforcement official says something like the following, they're not hoping to sway the intelligent and informed members of the public. They're saying it to sway those who can actually do something about it: tech-clueless legislators and those who vote for them.
At the State of the Net conference in Washington on Tuesday, US assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell discussed what she described as the dangers of encryption and cryptographic anonymity tools like Tor, and how those tools can hamper law enforcement…
"Tor obviously was created with good intentions, but it's a huge problem for law enforcement," Caldwell said in comments reported by Motherboard and confirmed to me by others who attended the conference. "We understand 80 percent of traffic on the Tor network involves child pornography."
That's a scary number. And it's not even close to accurate.
Wired's Andy Greenberg explains how Caldwell took a statistic from Tor research and twisted it to further the government's agenda.
[A] Department of Justice flack said Caldwell was citing a University of Portsmouth study WIRED covered in December. He included a link to our story. But I made clear at the time that the study claimed 80 percent of traffic to Tor hidden services related to child pornography, not 80 percent of all Tor traffic.
Which is a big difference. "Hidden services" is not just another term for "Tor traffic." Caldwell conflated the two to further the DOJ's push for the end of anything that presents an obstacle to easy access.
The real number is much lower. Greenberg says that most Tor traffic doesn't route to darknet sites. Only about 1.5% of Tor traffic accesses hidden services, and 80% of 1.5% is a number that wouldn't even trouble the most tech-addled Congressperson or the retirement community that repeatedly votes him or her back into office.
At most, a little over 1% of Tor traffic is related to child pornography. That very low number would seem resistant to improvement. How much money and effort should be thrown at 1% of a service in limited use? The answer would appear to be "not very much," but that doesn't tear down Tor's walls or approve budget requests. So, "80% of all Tor traffic" it is, according to the DOJ.
And that 1.2% may even be overstating it. NickM at the Tor Project Blog points out how some hidden service traffic may over-represent the number of people actually searching for certain illicit goods.
A Tor client makes a hidden service directory request the first time it visits a hidden service that it has not been to in a while. (If you spend hours at one hidden service, you make about 1 hidden service directory request. But if you spend 1 second each at 100 hidden services, you make about 100 requests.) Therefore, obsessive users who visit many sites in a session account for many more of the requests that this study measures than users who visit a smaller number of sites with equal frequency…
The greater the number of distinct hidden services a person visits, and the less reliable those sites are, the more hidden service directory requests they will trigger.
He breaks this down later with a hypothetical situation. 1000 people use Tor to access chat rooms while 10 conspiracy theorists use it to dig for information. Chat users may only log in once or twice a day and hang out at the same handful of venues. The ten conspiracy theorists may visit dozens of sites looking for more crazy, while entering and exiting multiple times. To an outside observer, this activity would appear to indicate that 10 conspiracy theorists make up a larger portion of Tor traffic than 1000 chat room users.
Child porn, like regular porn, is generally not one-stop shopping, unlike a favorite chatroom. Multiple site visits and multiple entrances/exits would inflate the percentage of child porn-related traffic relative to the (observable) whole.
Users who use it for obsessive behavior that spans multiple unreliable hidden services will be far overrepresented in the count of hidden service directory requests than users who use it for activities done less frequently and across fewer services. So any comparison of hidden service directory request counts will say more about the behavioral differences of different types of users than about their relative numbers, or the amount of traffic they generated.
In addition, law enforcement and anti-child porn agencies' own investigative efforts could very well be adding to this 1.2% figure.
Also, a very large number of hidden service directory requests are probably not made by humans! See bug 13287: We don't know what's up with that. Could this be caused by some kind of anti-abuse organization running an automated scanning tool?
So, there's a good chance that the non-scary 1.2% number is too high. Sure, the ideal would be 0.0% but law enforcement agencies should actually be pleasantly surprised the number is so low, rather than misquoting stats to make it appear as though anonymization services are child porn enthusiasts' playgrounds.
It isn't just child porn the government is after. There's a whole host of darkweb activities it wants to indict people for. But child porn "sells" better than drugs or prostitution or even the US's latest public enemy no. 1: terrorism. The number the DOJ is using to sell its attack on Tor is blatantly false, as anyone with a minimal amount of Google skills would quickly discover. But the DOJ doesn't care whether you or I believe it. It only needs enough people in Washington DC to believe it. The DOJ doesn't speak to the citizens. It only speaks to those who can assist it in stripping away what minimal personal data-shielding options we have left."
"Super Serco bulldozes ahead
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 23:00 GMT, 1 September 2004
SERCO has come a long way since the 1960s when it ran the 'four-minute warning' system [a dial-a-yield defence] to alert the nation to a ballistic missile attack.
Today its £10.3bn order book is bigger than many countries' defence budgets. It is bidding for a further £8bn worth of contracts and sees £16bn of 'opportunities'.
Profit growth is less ballistic. The first-half pre-tax surplus rose 4% to £28.1m, net profits just 1% to £18m. Stripping out goodwill, the rise was 17%, with dividends up 12.5% to 0.81p.
Serco runs the Docklands Light Railway, five UK prisons, airport radar and forest bulldozers in Florida.
Chairman Kevin Beeston said: 'We have virtually no debt and more than 600 contracts.'
The shares, 672p four years ago, rose 8 1/4p to 207 1/4p, valuing Serco at £880m or nearly 17 times earnings.
Michael Morris, at broker Arbuthnot, says they are 'a play on UK government spend' which is rising fast."
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"A dead pool, also known as a death pool, is a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die. Sometimes it is a bet where money is involved.[1] The combination of dead or death, and betting pool, refers to such a gambling arrangement.[clarification needed]
In the early 20th century, death pools were popular in dangerous sports such as motorsport, for example the first edition of the Indianapolis 500.[2]
A typical modern dead pool might have players pick out celebrities who they think will die within the year. Most games start on January 1, and run for 12 months although there are some variations on game length and timing.[citation needed]
In 2000, website Fucked Company claimed to be a "dot-com dead pool" which invited users to predict the next Internet startups to fail during that era's dot com bust.[3] The site itself folded in 2007 after a long history as a target for strategic lawsuits against public participation by companies.[4]"
"Claim 1 — Trump: Fiorina's management of HP "led to the destruction of the company"
There were a lot of sparks between the two CEOs on stage — Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump. Trump went after Fiorina's record as a business executive, especially the five years she spent as head of Hewlett-Packard about a decade ago:
"Today, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, they fired another 25- or 30,000 people, saying we still haven't recovered from the catastrophe. When Carly says the revenues went up, that's because she bought Compaq, it was a terrible deal, and it really led to the destruction of the company. Now one other company before that was Lucent. Carly was at Lucent before that. And Lucent turned out to be a catastrophe also. So I'll only say this — she can't run any of my companies."
Fiorina's track record at HP was certainly controversial. The company cut about 30,000 jobs during her tenure, and when Fiorina herself was fired in 2005, she got a severance package worth more than $20 million.
The merger with Compaq also put her at odds with some people at HP, including the son of the founder, Walter Hewlett. In her defense, Fiorina notes that her tenure was a wrenching time for the whole industry — the tech bubble had just burst, and while HP continues to struggle, many other iconic companies from that period went out of business altogether.
As Fiorina noted during the debate, she's won the endorsement of a former HP board member, who says they were wrong to get rid of her."
"The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) was a United States Department of the Navy program which provides a vast majority of information technology services for the entire Department, including the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
On October 6, 2000, the NMCI contract was awarded to Electronic Data Systems (EDS), now HP Enterprise Services (HP).[11] Secretary of the Navy Gordon England summed up the Navy's IT Environment prior to the commencement of NMCI: "We basically had 28 separate commands budgeting, developing, licensing, and operating IT autonomously. It was inefficient and from the larger Department perspective, produced results that were far from optimal."[12]
NMCI consolidated roughly 6,000 networks—some of which could not e-mail, let alone collaborate with each other—into a single integrated and secure IT environment. HP updated more than 100,000 desktop and laptop PCs in 2007.[13] The program also consolidated an ad hoc network of more than 8,000 applications to 500 in four years and 15,003 logistics and readiness systems to 2,759 over a two-year period.[14]
Sub-contractors to HP include:
Apple Inc., Cisco, Dell, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Sun Micro systems, and Symantec[15]
Harris Corporation (which acquired Multimax formerly known as Netco Government Services and WAM! NET), which provided enterprise network infrastructure design and support until its contract expired in 2014.[16]
Verizon, which provides wide area network (WAN) connectivity.
HP also provides the security services once provided by Raytheon.
HP also has worked with more than 400 [8(a)] small businesses, with 5 percent for small disadvantaged businesses, 5 percent for women-owned small businesses and 1.5 percent for HUBZone small businesses. Since its inception, NMCI has exceeded the minimum 40% small business objective set for the contract.[17]
NMCI quickly suffered some widely publicized setbacks, including rollout delays that caused HP financial losses.[18] Today, NMCI is described in documents from the Navy's Chief Information Officer as "the core enterprise network for Navy and Marine Corps forces in the United States and Japan, providing secure access to integrated voice, video and data communications."[19]
In 2009 NMCI became the first network to deploy the Global Address List (GAL), a multiservice address list that increases interoperability by enabling Navy and Marine Corps users to access the Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Enterprise Directory Services (JEDS) contact list.[20]
Additional improvements to network performance are also underway with the deployment of the Network Operations Common Operating Picture (NetOps COP). The tool helps provide enhanced situational awareness via increased information sharing and collaboration to commanders by giving them a common picture of network performance. Commanders can see scheduled maintenance tasks and other issues impacting the network, giving them the option to defer work that might affect the flow of critical information from the battlefield.[21]
Work in 2008 has increased NMCI's ability to respond to security issues and the program was the first network to implement fully the Department of Defense information assurance standards in both classified and unclassified environments. Among the enhancements were the deployment of Websense content filtering, an information assurance tool designed to inspect and block inbound Web traffic containing malicious code with little impact to the user. According to NMCI public affairs, "Websense allows the Network Operational Commands to set a tailored blocking policy by content such as gambling, hate speech or adult content, rather than blocking specific sites or URLs only. This allows the network operators to block sites much more efficiently and outsources the fight against the growing amount of inappropriate content."[22]
According to the Navy, Websense enables users to block or unblock sites, based on emerging and/or dynamic threats. The NMCI blocking policy is determined by various operational commands, such as the Naval Network Warfare Command, and enforced by the Global Network Operations Center, based in Norfolk. Blocked sites are redirected to a notification page which then links to a page on NMCI's homeport Web site. On this site, a user can submit a request that a site be unblocked in order to support mission requirements.[22]
In addition, NMCI is upgrading existing servers with Bluecoat proxy servers, which provides better capacity and traffic management functions. According to NMCI's own data, a few users account for the majority of NMCI's bandwidth usage, mostly attributed to streaming internet radio and video. New servers will allow bandwidth usage monitoring, down to a command or user level.[22]
The security upgrades have been well received by the Navy. On March 31, 2009, Rear Admiral (Ret.) John A. Gauss, Acquisition Director for the NGEN System Program Office (SPO) said during a press conference that "NMCI is the most secure network within the Navy."[23]
The Navy and HP measure end user satisfaction through a series of quarterly satisfaction surveys. End user satisfaction has steadily improved, reaching a high of nearly 86% in February 2008, as compared to 80% in December 2006. This is largely due to the upgrade of nearly 112,000 desktop and laptop computers in 2007, and a combination of network enhancements that are improving speed and reliability. HP is on track to upgrade another 120,000 seats in 2008 at Navy and Marine Corps bases in the US and Asia.[3]
Working in tandem with the technology refresh are the virtualization efforts on the network. NMCI is on track to move from 2,700 servers down to roughly 300. The efforts are expected to save more than $1.6 million per year in electricity costs.[24] Additionally, the decrease in the number of servers being refreshed will lower the cost of updating the equipment, leading to a potential savings of at least $1.5 million over four years.[25]
A highlight of the Navy's virtualization efforts was its win of InfoWorld's 2009 Green 15 Award, which honors 15 companies and/or organizations for their green IT projects.[26] Ted Samson, Senior Analyst for InfoWorld said of the honorees, "This year's Green 15 winners demonstrate, once again, that green IT projects can be a win-win proposition. These organizations have not only helped the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preserving trees, and keeping e-waste out of landfills. They've also reaped measurable business benefits, such as significantly lower electricity bills, fewer hardware refreshes, and postponed data center-expansion projects — along with gains in efficiency and productivity."
In 2006, the NMCI program office was criticized for its annual customer-satisfaction surveys. Officials refuse to release the raw data, leading to accusations that their conclusions are overly sunny. One NMCI director, Rear Admiral James B. Godwin III, said releasing the results would challenge the "integrity of our data."
The Department of the Navy has shown no desire to scale back or cancel the program. On 24 March 2006 the Navy exercised its three-year, $3 billion option to extend the contract through September 2010.[1]
In April 2006, users began to log on with Common Access Cards (CACs), a smartcard-based logon system called the Cryptographic Log On (CLO). In October 2008, NMCI's prime contractor HP posted a set of procedures so Apple Mac users can access NMCI's public-facing Web services, such as the e-mail and calendar functions, using their CAC readers with their Macs. The workaround also works with other Defense Department CAC-enabled networks.[27] Alternatively, NMCI and all other CAC-authenicated DoD websites may be accessed using LPS-Public.
After early challenges, the Navy is pleased with the performance and security of the NMCI network. According to Capt. Tim Holland, program manager for the Navy's Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN), "NMCI is very robust today—we have good security with it, very good performance."[19] In an interview the DoN CIO Robert J. Carey stated, "The plan is that NGEN will be in place before the NMCI contract expires because it is not a renewable contract. According to the Navy, NMCI will serve as the baseline from which it will transition to NGEN.[19]
The Navy's confidence in NMCI today marks a significant turnaround from the challenges cited in the GAO's report of December 2006. The report states that " NMCI has not met its two strategic goals—to provide information superiority and to foster innovation via interoperability and shared services." The document also goes on to evaluate HP's performance, "GAO's analysis of available performance data, however, showed that the Navy had met only 3 of 20 performance targets (15 percent) associated with the program's goals and nine related performance categories."
In contrast are the more recent comments from Vice Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., deputy chief of naval operations for communication networks (OPNAV N-6) and deputy chief information officer, Department of the Navy. "I believe that NMCI in 2008 is achieving much of what we had hoped NMCI would achieve. It's leveled the playing field for security. It's allowed us to do things like push security patches that go through the whole enterprise that's on NMCI. If you look at NMCI historically, it was probably the first step for the Navy to move into what was then called Joint Vision 2010 and now is Joint Vision 2020. It's actually done that, and it's moving the Navy toward the U.S. Defense Department's goal of information superiority. So, I see a lot of good things with NMCI."[28]
NMCI works today and it continues to improve as user needs evolve and technology opportunities arise. During the final two years of the contract, technology initiatives included new hardware, applications, and services to support the Navy and Marine Corps' advanced IT needs. HP will install more than 110,000 new laptops and desktops, and will push more upgrades to improve end-users' IT capabilities through upgraded machine capacity, new operating systems, and new service lines.[3]
"Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE[2] (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a British mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.
.. Life before the war[edit]
Stirling was born at his family's ancestral home, Keir Housein the parish of Lecropt, Perthshire. He was the son of Brigadier General Archibald Stirling, of Keir, and Margaret Fraser, daughter of Simon Fraser, the Lord Lovat, (a descendant of Charles II, King of Scots). His cousin was Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and his grandparents were Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet and Lady Anna Maria Leslie-Melville. Raised in the Roman Catholic faith of his mother, he was educated at the Benedictine Ampleforth College and Trinity College, Cambridge. A tall and athletic figure (he was 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall). He was training to climb Mount Everest when World War II broke out.
In North Africa, in the fifteen months before Stirling's capture, the SAS had destroyed over 250 aircraft on the ground, dozens of supply dumps, wrecked railways and telecommunications, and had put hundreds of enemy vehicles out of action. Field Marshal Montgomery described Stirling as "mad, quite mad" but admitted that men like Stirling were needed in time of war. According to John Aspinal, Stirling reputedly personally strangled 41 men.[5]
Private military company[edit]
Worried that Britain was losing its power after the war, Stirling organised deals to provide British weapons and military personnel to other countries, like Saudi Arabia, for various privatised foreign policy operations.[5] Along with several associates, Stirling formed Watchguard International Ltd, formerly with offices in Sloane Street (where the Chelsea Hotel later opened) before moving to South Audley Street in Mayfair.
Business was chiefly with the Gulf States. He was linked, along with Denys Rowley, to a failed attempt to the overthrow Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 1970 or 1971. Stirling was the founder of private military company KAS International, also known as KAS Enterprises.[6]
Watchguard International Ltd was a private military company, registered in Jersey in 1965 by Stirling and John Woodhouse. Woodhouse's first assignment was to go to Yemen to report on the state of the royalist forces when a cease-fire was declared. At the same time Stirling was cultivating his contacts in the Iranian government and exploring the chances of obtaining work in Africa. The company operated in Zambia and in Sierra Leone, providing training teams and advising on security matters, but its founders' maverick ways of doing business caused its eventual downfall. Woodhouse resigned as Director of Operations after a series of disagreements and Stirling ceased to take an active part in 1972.[7]
Great Britain 75[edit]
In mid-1970s Great Britain, Stirling became increasingly worried that an "undemocratic event" would occur and decided to take action. He created an organisation called Great Britain 75 and recruited members from the aristocratic clubs in Mayfair; mainly ex-military men (often former SAS members). The plan was simple. Should civil unrest result in the breakdown of normal Government operations, they would take over its running. He describes this in detail in an interview from 1974, part of which is present in Adam Curtis's documentary "The Mayfair Set", episode 1: "Who Pays Wins".[5]
In August 1974, before Stirling was ready to go public with GB75, the pacifist magazine Peace News obtained and published his plans, and eventually Stirling – dismayed by the right-wing character of many of those seeking to join GB75 – abandoned the scheme.[citation needed]"
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Israel and Turkey have both held their first political consultations in seven years after the two sides reached an agreement to normalize their ties in June 2016. Umit Yalcin who is the Turkish Foreign Undersecretary and his counter part Yuval Rotem, held a meeting in Ankara on Wednesday to discuss bilateral ties and regional developments.
In a report issued by the Israeli media last month, Ankara and Tel Aviv were drafting a road map to promote their co-operation in different areas. The reports indicate that the two sides were expected to upgrade a free trade agreement and the lifting of visa procedures.
The other key issues on the agenda included the crisis in Syria, where the two countries have long been supporting the Takfiri militants that operate against the Damascus government. Sometime last June, Tel Aviv and Ankara struck an agreement that seeks to restore bilateral diplomatic ties that had been severed over a raid that was conducted by the Israeli commando claiming 10 Gaza Strip-bound Turkish humanitarian aid workers back in 2010.
Turkey has already appointed an envoy to Israel while Israel is drafting roadmap for closer ties. Ankara initially reacted with fury as it suspended its military ties with Israel and expelled the Israeli envoy from Ankara over Tel Aviv's refusal to apologize for the killings.
As pointed out in the agreement, it's evident that Ankara settled for just an apology and compensations to the victims of the incident, Turkey also promised not to hold Israeli individuals liable for the assault, they also backed down from the earlier demands that Tel Aviv lift its siege of Gaza.
There was also a ruling by a court in Turkey that dropped the litigation against four Israeli military officials sought by complainants concerning the attack. Arrest warrants were also waived by the court against the Israelis, Gabi Ashkenazi, the regime's former military chief of staff was also among the Israelis.


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United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Litigation Release No. 18215 / July 7, 2003
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Benjamin Franklin Cook et al. #3-99CV05701-R, USDC, NDTX (Dallas Division)
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on June 25, 2003, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted ex parte emergency relief, including expansion of an existing Receivership and a freeze over additional assets in SEC v. Benjamin Franklin Cook [3-99CV05701-R, USDC, NDTX (Dallas Division)]]. The additional emergency relief permitted the Commission and the North Carolina Securities Division, on the same day, to conduct a joint action aimed at halting an alleged ongoing fraudulent scheme, securing evidence and assets for the reimbursement of defrauded investors, and obtaining the arrest of the alleged perpetrators, Robert Burr and Daniel Burr, two brothers residing in Wilmington, North Carolina. Robert Burr, 40, was arrested and charged with six counts of felony securities fraud and two counts of felony obtaining property by false pretenses. His brother, Daniel Burr, 53, was arrested and charged with two counts of obtaining property by false pretense.
Burr and a company he controlled, Cornerstone Management, L.L.P., are both already subject to judgments in excess of $4 million in the Dennel matter. These judgments arise from Burr's participation in the Dennel Finance Limited fraud, a Ponzi scheme master-minded by Phoenix, Arizona resident Benjamin Franklin Cook ("Cook"). The Dennel scheme, which centered around the offer and sale of non-existent prime bank securities, bilked investors of approximately $46 million before the Commission halted it in March 1999 through an emergency action in District Court.
On June 22, 2000, District Court Judge Jerry Buchmeyer of the Northern District of Texas granted the request of the Commission and the Court-appoint Receiver to place in receivership all assets of Burr and several entities he had created to conceal funds and property obtained through the Dennel scheme. As a result of this Receivership Order, the Receiver seized a house and other assets owned or controlled by Burr. Recently, however, the Commission and Receiver learned that Burr had continued his unlawful conduct through the subsequent offer and sale of fraudulent investments similar to those offered and sold by Dennel. Moreover, it appeared that Burr and others were again misappropriating funds and accumulating assets, including homes and automobiles, in the names of various entities controlled by Burr, family members and associates.
On June 25, 2003, Judge Buchmeyer granted a freeze of assets obtained as a consequence of Burr's additional fraudulent conduct and expanded the Receivership to include new entities created by Burr and other persons involved in the additional fraud. On the same day, while the Receiver seized real estate, vehicles and other property accumulated by Burr and others, agents of the North Carolina Securities Division arrested Burr and his brother and served search warrants at the homes of Robert and Daniel Burr.
In addition to the charges brought by North Carolina, Burr still faces sentencing in connection with criminal charges brought against him by state of Arizona for his participation in the Dennel scheme. Burr pled guilty to two counts of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices and agreed to make $4.9 million in restitution in the Arizona case.
Burr was also briefly incarcerated in Seagoville Federal Detention Center in Seagoville, Texas, based on an order of contempt issued in the Commission's action. The Commission and Receiver have since discovered that Burr was apparently perpetrating a $5 million fraudulent transaction during the period of his incarceration in federal prison.
Lit. Releases 16089 (March 17, 1999), 16112 (April 14, 1999); 16341 (October 25, 1999), 16538 (May 4, 2000), 16849 (January 2, 2001), 16863 (January 19, 2001).


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Pictured above (L to R): Stacy Williams, Office Manager; Cappi Arneson, VP/Agent; Lisa Foster; and Hal Foster, President.
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IPO Report: PRA Health Sciences (PRAH)Francis Gaskins Follow |
PRA Health Sciences (PRAH) is one of the world's leading global contract research organizations (CROs) by revenue, providing outsourced clinical development services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. It is based in Raleigh, NC.
Nine other new companies are scheduled for the week of Nov. 10, 2014. The full IPO calendar is available at IPOpremium.
Manager, Joint-managers: Jefferies, Citigroup, KKR, UBS Investment Bank, Credit Suisse, and Wells Fargo Securities
Co-managers: Baird and William Blair
End of lockup (180 days): Tuesday, May 12, 2015
End of 40-day quiet period: Tuesday, December 23, 2014
PRAH scheduled a $400 million IPO with a market capitalization of $1.2 billion at a price range midpoint of $21.50 for Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 on Nasdaq.
PRA Health Sciences IPO Report
PRAH is one of the world's leading global contract research organizations, or CROs, by revenue, providing outsourced clinical development services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
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PRAH is one of the world's leading global contract research organizations, or CROs, by revenue, providing outsourced clinical development services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
PRAH believes it is one of a select group of CROs with the expertise and capability to conduct clinical trials across all major therapeutic areas on a global basis.
PRAH has therapeutic expertise in areas that are among the largest in pharmaceutical development, including oncology, central nervous system, inflammation and infectious diseases.
PRAH believes it provides its clients with one of the most flexible clinical development service offerings, which includes both traditional, project-based Phase I through Phase IV services as well as embedded and functional outsourcing services.
PRAH believes it further differentiates itself from its competitors through its investments in medical informatics and clinical technologies designed to enhance efficiencies, improve study predictability and provide better transparency for its clients throughout their clinical development processes.
PRAH is one of the largest CROs in the world by revenue, focused on executing clinical trials on a global basis. PRAH's global clinical development platform includes more than 75 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and the Middle East and more than 10,000 employees worldwide. Since 2000, PRAH has performed approximately 2,300 clinical trials worldwide, it has worked on more than 100 marketed drugs across several therapeutic areas and conducted the pivotal or supportive trials that led to FDA, or international regulatory approval, of more than 45 drugs.
PRAH is focused on further expansion into high growth, emerging markets, which is demonstrated by the formation of its 2012 joint venture with WuXi AppTec (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., or WuXi, a CRO managing clinical trials in Asia, and its 2013 acquisition of ClinStar, LLC, or ClinStar, a CRO managing clinical research trials in Eastern Europe.
PRAH believes it is a leader in the transformation of the CRO engagement model via its flexible clinical development service offerings, which include embedded and functional outsourcing services in addition to traditional, project-based clinical trial services.
September 2013 Acquisition
In September 2013, PRAH completed the acquisition of ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services, or RPS, a global CRO providing clinical development services primarily to large pharmaceutical companies, which provides a highly complementary fit with PRAH's historical focus on biotechnology and small- to mid-sized pharmaceutical companies.
RPS, now known as PRAH's Strategic Solutions offerings, provides Embedded Solutions™ and functional outsourcing services in which PRAH's teams are fully integrated within the client's internal clinical development operations and are responsible for managing functions across the entire breadth of the client's drug development pipeline.
PRAH believes that its Strategic Solutions offerings represent an innovative alternative to the traditional, project-based approach and allow its clients to maintain greater control over their clinical development processes.
PRAH's flexible clinical development service offerings expand its addressable market beyond the traditional outsourced clinical development market to include the clinical development spending that biopharmaceutical companies historically have retained in-house.
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PRAH does not own any patent registrations, applications, or licenses. PRAH does maintain and protect trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary information regarding many of its business processes and related systems.
PRAH also holds various federal trademark registrations and pending applications, including PRA Health Sciences® (including a design) PRA® (including a design) and PRA International®.
PRAH competes primarily with other full-service CROs and in-house research and development departments of pharmaceutical and established biotech companies.
PRAH's principal traditional CRO competitors are Covance Inc., ICON plc, INC Research, Inc., PAREXEL International Corporation, Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC, Quintiles Transnational Corp. and inVentiv Health Inc.
CROs compete on the basis of a number of factors, including reliability, past performance, expertise and experience in specific therapeutic areas, scope of service offerings, strengths in various geographic markets, technological capabilities, ability to manage large scale global clinical trials, and price.
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PRAH expects to receive $343 million from its IPO and use it for the following:
to redeem $150.0 million aggregate principal amount of its Senior Notes for an amount equal to 109.5% of their face value, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the redemption date, to repay approximately $165.0 million of borrowings under the Senior Secured Term Loan Facility and for general corporate purposes. To the extent that PRAH's net proceeds from this offering are greater than or less than $343.0 million, PRAH expects to increase or decrease the repayment of borrowings under the Senior Secured Term Loan Facility accordingly.
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Take the time bending mechanics of indie sensation Braid. Cross them with the gung ho action of Contra. Slap in some sick Atari 5200 graphics. Then take the frying pan from the "this is your brain on drugs" campaign and clobber your temporal lobe with it. And then you got Super Time Force Ultra for PS4!
Super Time Force Ultra | Mechanics
STFU is a run & gun (well mostly gun–sometimes boomerangs, electricity and mexibeam) action extravaganza that is light hearted as well as crazy. You are part of a special force that can time travel and shoot stuff. Although it's a one player game, you can time travel through the parts of the level to even the odds by teaming up with your other team members or even an earlier version of yourself. You might save a life and gain a power up from teaming up. When you finish a level, you get a replay to see your team in action. Each major level has a one minute time limit, but with power ups and time travel, they will seem infinitely longer. Your only limit in the game other than needing to beat the time is that you can only travel back in time 30 times per level. This will only pose an issue a few times you play the game.
Super Time Force Ultra | Team
Every time period you travel to will have some unlockable characters that might join your team. Sir Galahad from The Order 1886 will throw some lightning bolts the bad guys' way, and the skateboarding dinosaur kid, well he will certainly do something, too. Your time travel commander is the epitome of a quick wit, emphasizing the power of time travel and industrial strength sarcasm. There are 19 characters total, with tons of Sony characters thrown in.
Super Time Force Ultra | Settings
The environments in STFU are fun, interactive, and very atmospheric–even to a pixelated graphical level of detail. The absurd missions will have you fight a huge poop monster, as well as dancing around on flying cars like Korbin Dallas from The Fifth Element. The levels have style and humor that you should just enjoy while you are along for the ride.
Super Time Force Ultra | Review
With its furious jokes and the time travel rules of Spaceballs, you can't go wrong when you have a commander in your corner that knows the future and tells you what to do while wearing two eye patches.
Super Time Force Ultra
3.5 out of 5


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If you think that Tequila Party and Somos Republicans founder Dee Dee Garcia Blase has sailed into the sunset, think again. With the historic Arizona recall of SB1070 architect Russell Pearce last week, Garcia Blase, who is now the former head of Somos Republicans, was quick to offer a statement about the Pearce victory from the Somos Republicans page. Here is the text of the statement:
Statement from Immediate Past President and Foundress — DeeDee Garcia Blase
The Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal." I believe the Creator has heard the cries of the immigrants, the weak, the poor and the defenseless. I feel it very strongly. I'm just a mere instrument led by my heart, and there have been several instruments in ARIZONA where all have contributed to the ousting of an evil dictator (Russell Pearce). Now that we have the Arizona blueprint model — we will apply the success to the rest of the nation. The arc of justice bends in favor of DREAM Act kids, the defenseless, the weak and the poor. Imagine how those Arizona instruments have led to the "National Instruments" and the network of national leaders learning and following suit. The seeds are planted, we are starting to see the growth, and I see it all coming together in this vision. I hope we see the harvest soon, because that harvest will save this nation's economy and the elderly. The combined love of all from diverse backgrounds is what we need that will eek us on by. The United States is powerful through UNITY and not divisiveness. May we learn to never put partisan politics before what is in the best interest of our nation.
Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind. — Ronald Reagan
The statement has raised some concerns from the hundreds of grassroots Arizona and national activists who had been focusing on removing Pearce for years. So, Garcia Blase —whose Tequila Party named was deemed "silly" by both this web page and its thousands of readers— is back. And people are talking.
This Sunday on The Lou Show, a webcast political show based in Arizona, the topic of Garcia Blase was front and center.
Roundtable discussion about Dee Dee Blase . . .
with Christina (Activist in NYC), Oso Negro (Los Brown Berets, Texas),
and Professor Stephen A. Nuno (Hispanic Politics)


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Model: Miller Ropax / RBH-2232
Rope Access Harness in Standard Webbing with Mating Leg Buckles. Complies to EN361, EN358 & EN813.
Sizes: S/M (1014434), L/XL (1014435)
The Miller ROPAX suspended working harness is a new full body harness for rope access and rescue. The new design combines excellent suspension comfort with freedom of movement and increased productivity and safety at height. It offers a price competitive solution for a wide range of activities.
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THE family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler have told of their torment after her killer Levi Bellfield gave details of his crimes.
Bellfield repeatedly raped, tortured and murdered 13-year-old Milly, her family said in a statement after he admitted the crime.
He was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for murder, but had never admitted killing her.
Last month Surrey Police revealed he admitted what he did during an investigation into whether he had an accomplice. They arrested then released a man. Bellfield, who was a car clamper in Chichester in 2004, told police of her final 14 hours.


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Oral statement to Parliament
Sky: 21st Century Fox Takeover Bid - answer to urgent question 20 Dec 2016
Answer to Ed Miliband MP asking the the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to make a statement on the timetable of, and the approach of the Government to, 21st Century Fox's bid to take over Sky now that the bid has been agreed, and whether the Government plan to refer the bid to the competition authorities.
As hon. and right hon. Members know, Sky plc announced on Friday 9 December that it had received an approach from 21st Century Fox Inc. to acquire the 61% of shares in Sky plc that it does not already own. The Minister for Digital and Culture, my right hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock), made a statement on 12 December about the proposed bid and the process that would need to be followed. I recognise that this is an issue of significant interest to the public and that it has raised a lot of interest in Parliament, as well as being a significant issue for the parties concerned. It is very important I make it clear that the role I will play in this process is a quasi-judicial one. As the Secretary of State, I am able to intervene in certain media mergers on public interest grounds, as set out in the Enterprise Act 2002. Government guidance on the operation of the public interest merger provisions under the Act gives an indication of how the intervention regime will operate in practice and of the approach I will aim to take. The most important concern for me is that the integrity of the process is upheld. The guidance makes it clear that I will aim to take an initial decision on whether to intervene on public interest grounds within 10 working days of formal notification of the merger to the relevant competition authority.
No such formal notification has yet been made. Unless and until a formal notification is made to the relevant competition authority, I will not be taking any decisions in relation to the bid. It is for the parties formally to notify the relevant competition authorities. It is at that point that I will need to consider whether any of the public interests specified in the legislation merit an intervention. My decision on whether or not to intervene will be a quasi-judicial one, and it is important that I am able to act independently and that the process is scrupulously fair and impartial. Given that, it would be inappropriate for me to comment further on this proposed bid at this point if the integrity of the process is to be protected and everyone's interests are to be treated fairly.
What I can say is that I understand the significant public and parliamentary interest in this matter, and I do not for a minute underestimate it. This is also clearly a significant issue for the parties to the bid. It is therefore crucial that the integrity of the process is protected. I will not be making any further comment on the process or the merits of the bid today, but I can confirm that this matter is being treated with the utmost seriousness and that, should the parties formally notify the bid to the relevant competition authorities, I will act in line with the relevant legislation, the guidance and the quasi-judicial principles.


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By: Ashley Knox
Living in the UK, VS2PCG tournaments are hard to come by as they're usually monthly affairs held at local game stores with prizes pretty limited to the size of the tournament. I've mostly stopped Magic: the Gathering (outside of modern) so an opportunity to play in a large tournament is something I'm really interested in. You can imagine how happy I was when I discovered we were getting a $2.5K in 6 weeks time along with a weekend full of win a boxes just after Aliens drops on us
Currently I'm lacking some information as to whether Aliens will be legal for the event but I'm happy either way. The Aliens set is looking great with what could be the first faction that is actually good at team attacking from early on given the Swarm and Legion mechanic. Previously the biggest problem for decks that needed to team attack was holes in their curve, Captain America just didn't have a playable three cost and similar to She-Hulk had the problem where you couldn't play an SC with the same name as your MC for reasons other than power ups. Readers familiar with my last article will know that I'm actually a huge fan of team attacking and that was one of my main draws to the Luke Cage deck.
Playing a super aggressive Aliens deck sounds sweet, being the proactive party in a new meta game is usually correct. I currently have no idea what the shape of the alien plot twists and MCs look like but hopefully the faction is deep enough to be able to slam Loyal Soldiers and just put on enough pressure to always keep your opponent on the back foot.
Given the quality of Aliens spoiled so far I can see myself playing a super synergy based mono team at the 2.5K. Currently the exo-skeleton of the deck is nearly there I'm pretty excited to see what could come next seeing as we have the following.
Adolescent Xenomorph seems a lot stronger given the Legion keyword allowing you to play eight in your deck so you could have some potentially really explosive draws where all of your team can make some pretty absurd team attacks.
Leaping Xenomorph seems great, it has very low toughness but when you need to get rid of an Electro or stun a Thanos before you go to town on the opponents board it's functionally a removal spell (WITH TWO WOUNDS!) that can really help push your game plan.
Screeching Xenomorph is an excellent curve topper that has some great synergy with the deck, I can see this really getting out of hand especially if there is a ranged attacking alien or an alien that tutors up other characters with the Swarm keyword.
Sadly a potential problem with this faction is that it could be fairly parasitic and not play well with other teams though that is pretty flavorful. Given the best plot twist is generic being a mono team could be worth it, especially as Legion and Swarm keywords both take up a lot of space in your deck. I do however think this could be a contender for taking Captain Marvel off of her premier beat-down deck status.
If however Aliens doesn't arrive in the UK and can't be legal for the event I have a back up plan, I really want to play a streamlined Dark Pheonix combo deck as that deck can just be absurd and can just go over the top of opposing strategies with a backup plan where you ramp out some chubbies and then once every 10 games you get to activate Ravager of Worlds and winning is purely academic from that point onward. I really like the style of deck and am planning on testing it a bunch before the event, even if the format isn't what we are used to just getting in a bunch of repetitions with the game and learning all of the subtleties of the game before a big tournament is great value.
One thing I haven't touched on is the human side of the Aliens set, equipment should be huge especially if the earth team compliments an existing faction or is strong enough to stand on its own as a MC utilizing older cards Though we don't know if there are any generic equipment yet which could boost any previously legal Main characters – if we got a 1 cost jet pack along the lines of Flight +0/3 & some semi-relevant ability for example I would be sticking true to form and going deep with Luke Cage. As Luke decks tend to benefit from being two faction decks this could be pretty easy to pull off and would shore up a bunch of the decks weakness' though this is pure speculation at this point.
Let me know what you think about the new set in the comments !


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Next, select the receiver of the notification. Depending on the event, this can be the related user, course instructor or course learners (3).
- on ILT session create: the users are notified when a new session is created for a course that is assigned as members. They can easily find the session by adding tags for course name, ILT name and session name.
- on ILT session registration: the instructors can be notified when a user registered to a session of an ILT event. If Instructors have registered the learners to the session, using the same event you can notify the related user.
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【Unlocking Word Meanings】
Read the following words/expressions found in today's article.
1. resolution / ˌrɛz əˈlu ʃən / (n.) – the act of solving a conflict or problem
Example: The trade between the two countries was revived after the resolution of their dispute.
2. sanction / ˈsæŋk ʃən / (n.) – punishment or penalty imposed on a country
Example: The country faced economic sanctions after disobeying international laws.
3. deal a blow / ˈdil ə bloʊ / (idiom) – to cause harm to someone or something
Example: The calamity dealt a blow to her business.
4. cripple / ˈkrɪp əl / (v.) – to weaken something
Example: The country's economy was crippled by the recession.
5. reconciliation / ˌrɛk ənˌsɪl iˈeɪ ʃən / (n.) – the act of turning former enemies into friends
Example: The signing of the new treaty marked the two countries' reconciliation.
Read the text below.
Turkey's tourism industry might rise again soon upon the resolution of the country's conflict with Russia.
In July 2016, Russian tourists entered Turkish borders for the first time in eight months, after Russia's travel ban against Turkey was finally lifted. The ban was among several economic sanctions that Russian President Vladimir Putin issued against Turkey, after a Russian aircraft was shot down by Turkish fighter jets near Turkish borders.
The economic sanctions dealt a devastating blow to Turkey's tourism, because Russia is the country's second biggest market in the industry. Shortly after the sanctions were imposed, the number of Russian tourists visiting Turkey declined by 92 percent. Aside from the ban, the Russian government also ordered its travel agencies to stop offering travel packages with destinations in Turkey. Visa-free travel between the countries was also abolished.
Aside from crippling Turkey's tourism, the sanctions also affected other aspects of the country's economy. Putin also banned importation of Turkish goods into Russia, causing exports to drop by 61.5 percent. He also prohibited the renewal of labor contracts for Turks working in Russia beyond January 1 of this year.
The travel ban was finally lifted upon the reconciliation of the two country's leaders. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued an apology for the plane-shooting incident. Erdoğan and Putin met again on June 29 for the first time after the conflict erupted.
Putin has now ordered for the sanctions against Turkey to be gradually reduced. The renewed ties with Russia is expected to bring economic growth of up to $10 billion to Turkey's economy, according to a report by investment analysts.
【Viewpoint Discussion】
Enjoy a discussion with your tutor.
Discussion A
· Do you agree with Russia's move to impose economic sanctions on Turkey? Why or why not?
· How can two countries resolve conflict without resorting to economic sanctions?
Discussion B
· How do relationships between countries affect international businesses?
· What is the importance of being able to do international trade?


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Our Health and Social Care Services need to be reformed.
No one is in any doubt about that simple statement of fact, and yet the now delayed report of the Expert Panel chaired by Prof Rafael Bengoa will be another in a long list of reform proposals – we have already had Compton, Donaldson and others. The truth is we are not short of expertise. We know what we have to do to reform the system. Yet we seem unable to do it!
Reform is inevitably complex, and it will be uncomfortable for some. The objective is to secure an improved, world-class Health and Social Care service for those who use it, using all the expertise and resources available to ensure that this is delivered free for all at point of access. It is remarkable how often this objective is ignored; but, to achieve it, we cannot stand still as demand rises and conditions become more complex.
The public should not be fooled by the narrow political focus which inevitably accompanies such reports. Headlines will doubtless again focus on potential "closures", giving the impression that experts are proposing stripping away services. Such a conclusion is wrong to the point of being dangerous.
It is frustrating that even members of the Health Committee at Stormont have not yet seen the Report in order to discuss it. This already raises suspicions of a Minister who is scared of open debate around the detail. There may be another attempt to narrow the focus of Bengoa's proposals so as to avoid actually having to implement them. Alarmingly, the Minister's focus seems already solely to be on those engaged in statutory provision of services, rather than on those actually accessing them (including the many who will do so via third-sector providers with expertise in particular areas).
There seems little reason to doubt that Bengoa's proposals will be familiar, because we will have seen many of them before. Fundamental to them, surely, will be the principle of "shift left", so that conditions are better assessed at the outset. GPs are doing an exceptional job in increasingly trying circumstances, but working alone they simply cannot be experts in everything – and thus for patient safety they will use referrals in areas where they lack direct expertise.
By broadening the scope of collaboration between GPs over wider geographical areas (and also practice nurses and other services, such as physiotherapy), initial assessment will be improved and there will be fewer referrals – reducing waiting lists and limiting the pressure on secondary care. The same principle establishes a requirement for better resourced primary care Health Centres providing better interventions locally, with only more complex conditions transferred to regional hospitals. Far from "stripping away services", such a reform of the system will see people helped more quickly and more safely, leading to better outcomes for service users.
Therefore, proper Health Reform as recommended by experts is in the obvious interest of service users – patients, carers and others. This is why debate should focus on the entirety of the proposals rather than on apparently alarmist, out-of-context headlines designed to suit politicians who do not wish to take the tough decisions.
Patients and Health professionals deserve much better than the odd sticking plaster. It is time for proper reform to relieve the pressure and deliver truly world-class outcomes for all.
• Paula Bradshaw MLA is the Alliance Assembly Member for South Belfast


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