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Reuters: Iraq's government has released more than 300 prisoners held under anti-terrorism laws as a goodwill gesture to try to appease Sunni Muslim demonstrators who are staging protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq's government has released more than 300 prisoners held under anti-terrorism laws as a goodwill gesture to try to appease Sunni Muslim demonstrators who are staging protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Three weeks of demonstrations, mainly in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, have evolved into a tough challenge for the Shi'ite premier, increasing worries that Iraq could slide back into the sectarian confrontation of its recent past.
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Top 10 Retirement Tips – Special 16 page guideDownload Free GuideOfficials said a ministerial committee had freed 335 detainees whose jail terms had ended or whose cases had been dismissed for lack of evidence. Sunni leaders say security forces use terrorism laws to unfairly target their sect.
Dozens of prisoners in yellow Iraqi correctional department uniforms waited surrounded by guards as women in traditional robes and old men tried to catch a glance of detainees to see whether relatives were among those released.
"In name of the Iraqi State, I apologise to those who were arrested and jailed and were later proven to be innocent," said Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Shahristani, a senior Iraqi Shi'ite figure heading the committee.
Detainee releases are just one demand from Sunni protesters. Many are also calling for Maliki to step down, an end to a campaign to track down former members of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party, and for an amnesty law
Thousands of protesters are still camped out in Anbar, once the home of al-Qaeda's campaign against U.S. troops in Iraq, where they have blocked a main road to Jordan and Syria near the Sunni heartland city of Ramadi.
"This is not enough. We didn't ask for a gesture or a gift for the people. We want to give people their rights," said Jaber al-Jaberi, a lawmaker from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya block.
The turmoil erupted in late December after officials arrested members of a Sunni finance minister's security team on terrorism charges. Authorities denied that the case was political, but Sunni leaders rejected the arrests as part of a crackdown on their community.
A year after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, tension between Shi'ites and Sunnis is still raw. Thousands were killed in several years of sectarian violence that erupted shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 to oust Sunni strongman Saddam.
Many Iraqi Sunnis feel they have been sidelined by the country's Shi'ite majority leaders and the country's government, split among Shi'ite, Sunni and ethnic Kurds, is deadlocked over how to share power.
The protests are compounding worries about a sectarian confrontation igniting in Iraq which, along with the conflict in neighbouring Syria, would deepen a regional confrontation between Shi'ite Iran and Sunni Arab Gulf states.
More hardline Sunni leaders in Iraq view the war between mostly Sunni rebels in Syria and President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran, as an opportunity to strengthen their own position should Assad fall and a Sunni government come to power.
(Writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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Two technologies have dominated the projector market in recent years: LCD and DLP, but there's a further pretender to the throne in the form of Sony's SXRD technology. Thus far, the market hasn't been too affected due to the high-end nature of this Sony alternative. While £3,500 is hardly loose change, it opens up the product to a considerably larger market.
The stats look great for the 'Pearl', as this model is dubbed. It's got two HDMI inputs and comes up to 'full' HD scratch with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 along with a rated contrast ratio of 15,000:1 - so good on paper, it's almost laughable.
It can also take 1080p feeds and comes with a 200W Ultra High Pressure lamp that offers 900 ANSI Lumens of claimed brightness. While this is powerful, it's worth putting in perspective.
Fortunately, any shortcomings appear to be non-existent in the company of its peers here. Our first viewing experience - of King Kong - was marked by the absence of all we thought bad about projection pictures, whether LCD chickenwire or the unwanted rainbow and motion problems of DLP.
Left to look at things we did want to see, we were thoroughly drawn in and engaged. The extra resolution sharpened up the detail like twisting a manual lens an extra degree closer to the full picture.
We didn't see every grain of sand on the beach but we can't do that with our real eyes - what we did see more clearly was an extra layer of difference, whether on faces, rolling tide or jungle that was not the invention of your viewing equipment but the detail we'd only seen as a relatively blurred mush from regular SD sources.
The massive contrast ratio is partly achievable due to its dynamic iris system but while the dark scenes were impressive in their gradations of blackness, the Pearl wasn't short of brightness.
Other than a few minor dots crawling around the odd surge of brightness in the picture, the only other negative we could dredge up is that as this is calibrated for HD its standard-def pics can't take advantage of the really clever stuff.


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Hello everyone, today I am going to talk to you about what traveling means to me and how vital it is in my life. I am sure most of us love to travel and go away from civilization and reality once in a while. I am here to tell you about what it means to me and how it has shaped my life. Traveling is one of the most incredible things of life. You get to see different parts of the world, form your own opinion, give it your rating, and each travel story is an experience in itself. Last night I was talking amongst friends on my travel experiences and giving them my expertise. One person has never been on a cruise ship before and has never cruised and so I introduced her to a new world full of cruising and traveling. I must have been talking for over half an hour. It is a passion of mine and I love talking to people about travel. She said that you are an expert. I was just happy and moved by what she said to me. It is amazing what traveling can do for you. It makes you feel more independent in a way, it gives you that push into the world to get out of the city once in a while and just explore the world before your eyes. Its one of the greatest pleasures of life. I am so happy to have experienced it all, and I will continue into my journey. I am creating a new blog all about traveling and everything else Which will launch at the end of January, 2013. I am so excited about the experience to help others in all forms of travel. People told me why don't you become a travel consultant? Although I would love to but, this is my way of travel consultation. I will not have it as career, but people tell me otherwise.
They said Talin you would be incredible on it and you have so much knowledge than a travel agent does. They said its true, you know so much more than a travel agent does. When I heard this, I said no way, they said yes way. I love it, but I just love consulting people online and personally, but not as a job/career path. I like exploring and traveling has shaped me and my outlook on life. I have seen things and I have been to villages and countries where they are not doing so well, and they don't make much money. Like Cuba one persons salary of the month is like 15-20 pesos, and the food they get is measured by the government, and so much more. I saw this happening years and years ago when I went to Cuba for the first time back in the 90's. It gives me time to appreciate what I have and everything I have with grocery stores that are easily reached, good clean water to drink and so much more. I am thankful for everything I have here. I have seen the way people live, and one persons house is like 300-400 square feet, and some homes are like tool sheds and 4 people live in it. They also haven't even seen a plane or the airport, and when we showed them the airplane and pictures of them and everything, they were so surprised and they were amazed at it. This is also one of the reasons why I love traveling. I meet all different types of people, different cultures, and people of every walks of life. I love it.
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Hi, Beverly here today to share a quick and easy scrapbook layout done with three different Hampton Art stamp sets. I've always loved butterflies and even consider myself a "collector" (of butterfly rubber stamps).
I got my first hanging basket of Trailing Angelonia this summer and was thrilled to see butterflies "hanging out" with it. So not only is the plant beautiful, it is useful for attracting butterflies (and hummingbirds) as well.
Stamps -- Hampton Art (IC0226 for Arrow, IC0162 for Tag and
SC0525 for Butterfly)
Ink Pad -- Clearsnap, Inc. (Colorbox Archival Dye in Wicked Black)
Patterned Paper -- KI Memories (KI10062 Flutter Lovely/Ruffle)
Alphabet Stickers -- Glitz Design
Pearls -- Queen & Company
Baker's Twine -- The Twinery
Misc. -- Black and White Cardstock
1. Trim patterned butterfly paper to create border. Adhere down
left side of page.
2. Stamp arrows with black ink on white cardstock. Trim and adhere to
top and bottom.
3. Adhere photo between arrows.
4. Create title by mounting alphabet stickers on black cardstock and then
white cardstock. Adhere above and below photo.
5. Stamp tag image with black ink on white cardstock. Trim closely and
tie baker's twine bow at end. Do journaling on tag. Adhere to lower
right corner of photo.
6. Stamp three butterfly images with black ink on white cardstock. Trim
each and adhere as shown. Adhere three pearls on each stamped
Designer: Beverly Sizemore
Hello my crafty friends…it's Beverly today to share three cards. You know how each year you say you are going to make Christmas cards BEFORE the holiday rush. Yep, I say it every year too. J So don't faint when you see these cards because I actually did it this year! It's easy to get a head start when you have pretty holiday images to work with like these from Hampton Art. I kept the cards simple so it would not be "work" to reproduce several of them at a time. So fa la la, get your stamps and inks out and get to work! Just think how glad you will be when Christmas rolls around.
Stamps -- Hampton Art (PS0460A Snowflake Wreath and
PS0716 Merry Christmas)
Ink Pad -- Clearsnap, Inc. (Watermark)
Embossing Powder -- Clearsnap, Inc. (White)
Circle Diecuts -- Sizzix Framelits
Twine -- Jillibean Soup (jbr442 navy and white)
Foam Tape -- Scotch/3M
Cardstock -- Navy and white
Pearls -- Recollections
INSTRUCTIONS: Heat emboss wreath image and sentiment on navy cardstock with embossing powder. Trim each as shown and mount on white cardstock. Wrap twine around top of wreath and tie bow. Mount with foam tape to larger white cardstock die-cut circle. Adhere white pearls on wreath.
Adhere to top center of navy card base. Adhere sentiment below wreath.
Designer: Beverly Sizemore
Stamps -- Hampton Art (PS0670 Music and PS0721 Santa)
Ink Pads-- Clearsnap, Inc. (Stephanie Barnard Colorbox in
Strawberry and Spearmint)
Cardstock -- Diecuts With A View (The Evergreen Stack)
Circle Diecut -- Sizzix Framelits
Baker's Twine -- The Twinery
Jewel Swirls -- Recollections
Foam Tape -- Scotch/3M
INSTRUCTIONS: Stamp Santa image and music image with red ink on white cardstock. Trim Santa shape into circle using Sizzix Framelit die and trim music image. Mount music on green and then red patterned foil cardstock. Create banners from foil patterned cardstock. Adhere images as shown. Secure baker's twine and baker's twine bow on card base and Santa image. Adhere rhinestone swirls to banners.
Designer: Beverly Sizemore
Stamps -- Hampton Art (PS0465A Santa and PS0718 Sentiment)
Ink Pads -- Clearsnap, Inc. (Stephanie Barnard Colorbox in
Strawberry and Spearmint)
Jewels -- Recollections
Cardstock -- Diecuts With A View
Patterned Cardstock -- Diecuts With A View (The Evergreen Stack)
Circle Diecuts -- Sizzix Framelits
Foam Tape -- Scotch/3M
Trim two shades of green cardstock and patterned dot cardsock for your card base. Stamp Santa image once with strawberry ink and twice with spearmint ink on diecut circles. Adhere down left side of card base. Stamp sentiment once with strawberry ink and once with spearmint ink. Trim and mount to base with foam tape. Adhere jewels between sentiments.
Designer: Beverly Sizemore


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Tough Senate Bill Takes Aim at Iran
With tension between Jerusalem and Washington on the rise over the preferred policy for dealing with Iran, supporters of Israel are urging lawmakers to back a resolution moving the goalposts in this debate closer to the views of Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
A proposed Senate resolution, supported by the pro-Israel lobby, would shift America's red line in dealing with Iran from preventing the Islamic Republic's acquisition of nuclear weapons to stopping it before it achieves "nuclear capabilities." Authors of the resolution believe that it is the only way to ensure that Iran ceases to be a threat to the region.
Opponents see it as moving America too close to a declaration of war.
The resolution, now gaining signatures in the Senate, will be the legislative centerpiece of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as it convenes for its annual Washington conference, to take place in early March. The conference is expected to serve as the key arena for discussing American-Israeli differences over Iran as it hosts President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Republican presidential candidates at a time when experts believe that Israel is nearing a decision on whether or not to launch a military strike.
The Senate resolution, co-sponsored by South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, Independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman and Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, was officially rolled out February 16 after weeks of debate over its language.
The resolution, which is nonbinding, urges the president "to reaffirm the unacceptability of an Iran with nuclear-weapons capability and oppose any policy that would rely on containment as an option in response to the Iranian nuclear threat." Co-sponsors of the resolution argued that it was merely giving weight to a commitment already made by Obama when he spoke out against allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons capabilities.
"The purpose of this resolution," Graham said in a February 16 Capitol Hill press conference, "is to say to the world, to our citizens and to the president, 'We agree with you, and we have your back, Mr. President.'"
While nuances in the new Senate resolution may seem minor, they could potentially change the way the United States acts in regard to the Iranian nuclear issue. Iran has been continuing its work to enrich uranium as part of a military nuclear program, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. But it has not yet reached a point of acquiring nuclear weapons. The point of achieving nuclear capabilities, however, is not clear-cut, and Iran may have already passed it. In that case, the Senate resolution could be understood as a call for immediate action against Iran.
"It is a standard that in my opinion is more real and perhaps in some senses higher than saying 'The red line is when they actually have nuclear weapons,'" said Lieberman, who explained that in his opinion, achieving nuclear capability means having the components to produce a nuclear weapon.
But critics argue that the definition of "nuclear capability" is vague and that it points to top American intelligence and military officials who stated that Iran has not yet made a decision to use its nuclear capability for building atomic bombs. "This Senate resolution is essentially shrinking the space available for the administration to conduct diplomacy," said Joel Rubin, policy and government director at the Ploughshares Fund, an organization focusing on nuclear nonproliferation. According to Rubin, if the administration adopts the policy suggested by the Senate, it will likely have to turn to a military option.
Israel had urged the United States to view achieving nuclear capabilities as a red line. In a meeting of the American-Israeli strategic dialogue teams in late 2011, a joint statement used for the first time the term "nuclear capability." The term, however, has not yet been adopted by the administration as an official policy.
"We don't see Iran as having pure intentions," an Israeli official said. "If they'll have the capability, they will be able to break out whenever they decide."
The Non-Proliferation Treaty does not prevent member states from developing nonmilitary nuclear capabilities as long as they keep their programs transparent and adhere to the treaty's rules. Iran has argued that it therefore has the right to continue its nuclear activity, but the United States has made it clear that since Iran has not complied with NPT requirements, it should not be automatically granted the right to peaceful nuclear activity allowed under the treaty.
A bipartisan slate of 32 co-sponsors has already signed on to the Senate resolution, and its supporters believe that the number will grow significantly in the run-up to AIPAC's annual policy conference, which will begin on March 4. But in order to achieve Democratic support for the bill, authors were already forced to compromise, and the resolution underwent several changes in order to water down what was seen as too hawkish language. A clause stating that it is "within the power and capabilities of the United States government" to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear capabilities was deleted after Democrats argued that it resembled an authorization for use of force. At the request of some Democratic senators, a sentence was added to mention diplomatic efforts as a means of reaching the goal. Still, several key Democrats from the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees have yet to sign on.
In an attempt to highlight diplomacy and make clear that war was not a preferred solution, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Republican Walter Jones of North Carolina began circulating a letter in the House of Representatives, calling on the administration to do everything in its power to avoid war. "We're not saying we should take military options off the table, we're saying we should try to negotiate before bombs start flying," Ellison said in a February 17 interview with the Forward. "We need to talk until we reach the conclusion that it cannot be solved, but I believe we can reach an agreement."
The letter is backed by dovish Jewish groups Americans for Peace Now and J Street, which also worked to try and change the language of the Senate resolution introduced by senators Graham, Lieberman and Casey. "It has been a long time since we tried negotiating with Iran, and it will be foolish not to use this tool," said Dylan Williams, director of government affairs at J Street.
But attention will turn in the coming weeks to other voices on this issue. AIPAC intends to have delegates participating in its annual conference lobby for the Senate resolution when they meet with their representatives on Capitol Hill. The conference is scheduled to take place at a time described by analysts as critical for Israel's attempt to block Iran's nuclear program. Israel, according to reports, is contemplating carrying out an attack possibly as early as this spring, and the United States faces a narrow window of opportunity to dissuade Israel from taking this route. Until now, AIPAC has been careful not to be seen as beating the war drums and has maintained an official position of supporting the Obama administration's effort to first try and resolve the crisis diplomatically.
Contact Nathan Guttman at [email protected]


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Scientists have found evidence that wastewater injection induced a record-setting quake in Oklahoma two years ago. How big can a man-made earthquake get, and will we see more of them in the future?
The short answer is that scientists don't really know yet, but it's possible that fluid injection could cause some big ones on very rare occasions. "We don't see any reason that there should be any upper limit for an earthquake that is induced," says Bill Ellsworth, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who wasn't involved in the new study.
As with natural earthquakes, most man-made earthquakes have been small to moderate in size, and most are felt only by seismometers. Larger quakes are orders of magnitude rarer than small quakes. For example, for every 1000 magnitude-1.0 earthquakes that occur, expect to see 100 magnitude-2.0s, 10 magnitude-3.0s, just 1 magnitude-4.0, and so on. And just as with natural earthquakes, the strength of the induced earthquake depends on the size of the nearby fault and the amount of stress acting on it. Some faults just don't have the capacity to cause big earthquakes, whether natural or induced.
How do Humans Trigger Earthquakes?
Faults have two major kinds of stressors: shear stress, which makes two plates slide past each other along the fault line, and normal stress, which pushes the two plates together. Usually the normal stress keeps the fault from moving sideways. But when a fluid is injected into the ground, as in Prague, that can reduce the normal stress and make it easier for the fault to slip sideways. It's as if if you have a tall stack of books on a table, Ellsworth says: If you take half the books away, it's easier to slide the stack across the table.
"Water increases the fluid pressure in pores of rocks, which acts against the pressure across the fault," says Geoffrey Abers, a Columbia University geologist and one of the new study's authors. "By increasing the fluid pressure, you're decreasing the strength of the fault."
A similar mechanism may be behind earthquakes induced by large water reservoirs. In those instances, the artificial lake behind a dam causes water to seep into the pore spaces in the ground. In 1967, India's Koyna Dam caused a 6.5 earthquake that killed 177 people, injured more than 2000, and left 50,000 homeless. Unprecedented seasonal fluctuations in water level behind a dam in Oroville, Calif., are believed to be behind the magnitude-6.1 earthquake that occurred there in 1975.
Extracting a fluid from the ground can also contribute to triggering a quake. "Think about filling a balloon with water and burying it at the beach," Ellsworth says. "If you let the water out, the sand will collapse inward." Similarly, when humans remove large amounts of oil and natural gas from the ground, it can put additional stress on a fault line. "In this case it may be the shear stresses that are being increased, rather than normal stresses," Ellsworth says.
Take the example of the Gazli gas field in Uzbekistan, thought to be located in a seismically inactive area when drilling began in 1962. As drillers removed the natural gas, the pressure in the gas field dropped from 1030 psi in 1962 to 515 psi in 1976, then down to 218 psi in 1985. Meanwhile, three large magnitude-7.0 earthquakes struck: two in 1976 and one in 1984. Each quake had an epicenter within 12 miles of Gazli and caused a surface uplift of some 31 inches. Because the quakes occurred in Soviet-era Uzbekistan, information about the exact locations, magnitudes, and causes are not available. However, a report by the National Research Council concludes that "observations of crustal uplift and the proximity of these large earthquakes to the Gazli gas field in a previously seismically quiet region strongly suggest that they were induced by hydrocarbon extraction." Extraction of oil is believed to have caused at least three big earthquakes in California, with magnitudes of 5.9, 6.1, and 6.5.
Some people worry that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking'Äîwherein high-pressure fluids are used to crack through rock layers to extract oil and natural gas'Äîwill lead to an increased risk of earthquakes. However, the National Research Council report points out that there are tens of thousands of hydrofracking wells in existence today, and there has only been one case in which a "felt" tremor was linked to fracking. That was a 2.3 earthquake in Blackpool, England, in 2011, which didn't cause any significant damage. Although scientists have known since the 1920s that humans trigger earthquakes, experts caution that it's not always easy to determine whether a specific event was induced.
Are Human Activities Making Quakes More Common?
Human activities have been linked to increased earthquake frequencies in certain areas. For instance, researchers have shown a strong correlation between the volume of fluid injected into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal well and the frequency of earthquakes in that area.
Geothermal-energy sites can also induce many earthquakes, possibly due to pressure, heat, and volume changes. The Geysers in California is the largest geothermal field in the U.S., generating 725 megawatts of electricity using steam from deep within the earth. Before The Geysers began operating in 1960, seismic activity was low in the area. Now the area experiences hundreds of earthquakes per year. Researchers have found correlations between the volume of steam production and the number of earthquakes in the region. In addition, as the area of the steam wells increased over the years, so did the spatial distribution of earthquakes.
Whether or not human activity is increasing the magnitude of earthquakes, however, is more of a gray area. When it comes to injection wells, evidence suggests that earthquake magnitudes rise along with the volume of injected wastewater, and possibly injection pressure and rate of injection as well, according to a statement from the Department of Interior.
The vast majority of earthquakes caused by The Geysers are considered to be microseismic events—too small for humans to feel. However, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory note that magnitude-4.0 earthquakes, which can cause minor damage, seem to be increasing in frequency.
The new study says that though earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater are rare east of the Rockies, scientists have observed an 11-fold increase between 2008 and 2011, compared with 1976 through 2007. But the increase hasn't been tied to human activity. "We do not really know what is causing this increase, but it is remarkable," Abers says. "It is reasonable that at least some may be natural."
Read more: How Big Could a Man-Made Earthquake Get? – Popular Mechanics


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Draft EGI CheckIn Data Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how we, the EGI CheckIn Service ("We"), treat data by which you can be personally identified ("Personal Data") as a result of your registration for and use of the EGI e-Infrastructure ("Infrastructure").
To enable the Infrastructure to be safe and reliable for your use and to preserve your rights as a user we adhere to "The EGI Policy on the Processing of Personal Data" ("The Policy") available in the Appendix below. This Policy should also be read with reference to other Infrastructure policies available at https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SPG:Documents.
What Personal Data do We process?
We collect and process the following Personal Data to identify you, thereby enabling us to grant you access to the Infrastructure and to the services and resources provided by the Infrastructure:
- Data for User authentication
- Identifiers unique to you as released by your authentication service
- Data for registration with the EGI CheckIn service and for collaboration management
- Your name
- Your Institute
- Your e-mail address
- Data which may be used to grant you access to the services
- Home Institute, Infrastructure and User Community specific information relating to your affiliations and rights
Purposes of Processing
We process your personal data solely to grant and manage your access to the EGI CheckIn service together with services provided by the Infrastructure or by User Communities that are bound to the Infrastructure policies.
Your usage of the Infrastructure will be monitored. Records of this use, containing your Personal Data, may be shared as described below for operational, security and accounting purposes only.
Besides this processing, We will store your personal data in log files and audit archives. These logs and other records are used solely for administrative, operational, monitoring, security and dispute resolution purposes. These may be shared for security incident response purposes with other authorised participants in the academic and research distributed digital infrastructures via secured mechanisms, only for the same purposes and only as far as necessary to provide the incident response capability.
Stored where?
Accessed by whom?
Retained for how long?
The records of your use of the service(s) will be deleted or anonymised after, at latest, 18 months.
Sharing of your Personal Data with others
Your Personal Data will be shared with other authorised Infrastructure participants via secured mechanisms, only for the same purposes and only as far as necessary to manage your access to the service(s);
but only where:
- 1. The recipient has agreed to abide by The Policy; or
- 2. Doing so is likely to assist in the investigation of suspected misuse of Infrastructure resources.
Name and Contact details of Data Processor
The EGI.eu Operations Team.
email: email@example.com
Name and Contact details of the EGI CheckIn Service Data Protection Officer
You can contact our Data Protection Officer (Peter Solagna, EGI Operations, email: email@example.com ) to obtain a copy of your Personal Data, request that it is corrected in case of factual error or if you suspect that it has been misused. You can also request that we stop using your Personal Data but this will affect your access to the Infrastructure.
Appendix: The EGI Policy on the Processing of Personal Data
This policy ensures that data collected as a result of the use of the Infrastructure is processed fairly and lawfully by Infrastructure participants. Some of this data, for example that relating to user registration, monitoring and accounting contains "personal data" as defined by the European Union (EU) [R1]. The collection and processing of personal data is subject to restrictions aimed at protecting the privacy of individuals.
- Infrastructure
- The bounded collection of universities, laboratories, institutions or similar entities, which adhere to a common set of policies [R2] and together offer data processing and data storage services to End Users.
- Participant
- Any entity providing, managing, operating, supporting or coordinating one or more Infrastructure service(s).
- Personal Data
- Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person [R1].
- Processing (Processed)
- Any operation or set of operations, including collection and storage, which is performed upon Personal Data [R1].
- End User
- An individual who by virtue of their membership of a recognised research community is authorized to use Infrastructure services.
This policy covers Personal Data that is Processed as a prerequisite for or as a result of an End User's use of Infrastructure services. Examples of such Personal Data include registration information, credential identifiers and usage, accounting, security and monitoring records. This policy does not cover Personal Data relating to third parties included in datasets provided by the End User or the research community to which they belong as part of their research activity. Examples of such data are medical datasets which may contain Personal Data.
By their activity in the Infrastructure, Participants:
- a. Declare that they have read, understood and will abide by the Principles of Personal Data Processing as set out below.
- b. Declare their acknowledgment that failure to abide by these Principles may result in exclusion from the Infrastructure, and that if such failure is thought to be the result of an unlawful act or results in unlawful information disclosure, they may be reported to the relevant legal authorities.
Principles of Data Processing
i. The End User whose Personal Data is being Processed shall be treated fairly and in an open and transparent manner.
ii. Personal Data of End Users (hereinafter "Personal Data") shall be Processed only for those administrative, operational, accounting, monitoring and security purposes that are necessary for the safe and reliable operation of Infrastructure services, without prejudice to the End Users' rights under the relevant laws.
iii. Processing of Personal Data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are Processed.
iv. Personal Data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. Where Personal Data are found to be inaccurate or incomplete, having regard to the purposes for which they are Processed, they shall be rectified or purged.
v. Personal Data Processed for the purposes listed under paragraph ii above shall not be kept for longer than the period defined in a relevant Infrastructure service policy governing the type of Personal Data record being Processed (e.g. registration, monitoring or accounting) and by default shall be anonymised or purged after a period of 18 months.
vi. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised disclosure or Processing of Personal Data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, Personal Data. As a minimum, Infrastructure Participants shall:
- a. Restrict access to stored Personal Data under their control to appropriate authorised individuals;
- b. Transmit Personal Data by network or other means in a manner to prevent disclosure to unauthorised individuals;
- c. Not disclose Personal Data unless in accordance with these Principals of Personal Data Processing;
- d. Appoint at least one Data Protection Officer (DPO) with appropriate training and publish to the Infrastructure a single contact point for the DPO to which End Users or other Infrastructure Participants can report suspected breaches of this policy;
- e. Respond to suspected breaches of this Policy promptly and effectively and take the appropriate action where a breach is found to have occurred;
- f. Perform periodic audits of compliance to this Policy and make available the results of such audits to other Infrastructure Participants upon their request.
vii. Each Infrastructure service interface provided for the End User must provide, in a visible and accessible way, a Privacy Policy containing the following elements:
- a. Name and contact details of the Participant Processing Personal Data;
- b. Description of Personal Data being Processed;
- c. Purpose or purposes of Processing of Personal Data;
- d. Explanation of the rights of the End User to:
- i. Obtain a copy of their Personal Data being stored by the Participant without undue delay;
- ii. Request that any Personal Data relating to them which is shown to be incomplete or inaccurate be rectified;
- iii. Request that on compelling legitimate grounds Processing of their Personal Data should cease;
- e. The contact details of the Participant's DPO to which the End User should direct requests in relation to their rights above;
- f. Retention period of the Personal Data Processed;
- g. Reference to this Policy.
viii. Personal Data may only be transferred to or otherwise shared with individuals or organisations where the recipient
- a. has agreed to be bound by this Policy and the set of common Infrastructure policies,
- b. is part of a recognised Computer Incident Response Team framework and as part of an incident investigation to prevent active or suspected misuse of Infrastructure services,
- c. presents an appropriately enforced legal request.
[R1]: Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (DPD) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX:31995L0046
[R2]: Approved EGI Security Policies. https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SPG:Documents


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Posted on May 9, 2013 by Jennifer Hellickson
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"The shorter and the plainer the better." –Beatrix Potter
"Brevity is the soul of wit." – Shakespeare
Minute by minute, a dizzying amount of data is created in this content-driven world. (Don't believe me? Check out this infographic from DOMO )
And as PR folks, we're under the gun to get the message across – clearly, thoroughly and correctly on behalf of our clients.
More often than not, this takes the form of a press release, the worth and future of which has become an annual debate. (But that's another blog post entirely… For our purposes here, rather than dispute its inherent value, let's focus on a few ways in which we can improve upon the content of future announcements we're putting out into the ether).
I found a great article by Bill Stoller, The Ten Commandments of a Press Release, where he outlines his top ten "shalts" and "shalt nots." In it, he argues that "when the recipient of a release focuses only on its content — and not on its creation — the writer has succeeded."
Stoller's point is an important one: Good writing allows the reader to focus on the message versus the medium. Although we're taught to write one way growing up, I tend to think that the most effective press releases today follow these five guidelines:
- K.I.S.S. "Simple" works, but "short" is even more impactful in our content-crazed world.
- Sell the story, not your company. Yes, we know who is paying for the release, but that doesn't mean anything if no one wants to cover it, correct? Take the time to create context.
- Remember your audience. Resist the urge to use marketing speak or pepper in industry acronyms. B2B or B2C, it's doesn't matter; keep it straightforward and interesting.
- Do the legwork. Again, know your targets and how they like to receive content. Social media savvy? Try tweeting a link to the release. Very visual? Scrap the words and make an infographic with your information. Make it easy for journalists to do their job, and they may just reciprocate.
- See number one. We're following our own rules here.
Do you have any other principles for better press releases that you'd like to see added to the list? We'd love to hear your thoughts!
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"Belgium Will Become an Islamic State"
Source: Gatestone Institute
The statements of Mark Elchardus, author of a 426 page study, who linked Islam with anti-Semitism, earned him a lawsuit filed by a Muslim group, which said that his comments violated Belgium's anti-discrimination law of 2007, which forbids discrimination on the basis of "religious convictions," and Article 444 of the Belgian penal code as his statements appeared in a newspaper and were therefore repeated extensively in print. Belgian law, however, apparently did not prevent Muslims from resorting to anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
Two Muslim politicians, who just won municipal elections in Belgium's capital, Brussels, on October 14, have vowed to implement Islamic Sharia law in Belgium.
The two candidates, Lhoucine Aït Jeddig and Redouane Ahrouch, both from the fledgling Islam Party, won seats in two heavily Islamized municipalities of Brussels, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Anderlecht, respectively.
During a post-election press conference in Brussels on October 25, the two future councilors, who will be officially sworn in on December 3, said they regard their election as key to the assertion of the Muslim community in Belgium.
"We are elected Islamists but above all we are Muslims," Ahrouch said. "Islam is compatible with the laws of the Belgian people. As elected Muslims, we embrace the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. We believe Islam is a universal religion. Our presence on the town council will give us the opportunity to express ourselves," said Ahrouch, who refuses to shake hands or make eye contact with females in public.
A one-hour video of the press conference in French has been posted on YouTube. At one point in the video (0:07:40) Ahrouch, 42, says he will strive to make sure that the town council's "motions and solutions are durable and definitive and will emanate from Islam."
Ahrouch, who was sentenced to six months in prison in 2003 for the assault and battery of his disabled wife, also spends considerable time talking about ethics in politics and "respect for the other."
Elsewhere in the video (0:25:40), Aït Jeddig, 50, commends Islam as having paved the way for "the emergence of European civilization." (He makes no mention of Europe's Judeo-Christian or Greek-Roman roots.) He also insists that Islam is compatible with freedom and democracy.
The video ends with an interview of a third Islam Party candidate, Abdelhay Bakkali Tahar, 51, who did not garner enough votes to secure a seat in the district of Bruxelles Ville.
The Islam Party, which plans to field candidates in European-level elections in 2014, campaigned on three core issues: ensuring that halal meals are served in public school cafeterias, securing the official recognition of Muslim religious holidays, and pushing for a law that would legalize the wearing of Islamic headscarves in public spaces.
Ahrouch has run for political office before. In 1999, he founded a political party called "Noor: Le Parti Islamique," which promotes a 40-point program based on Islamic Sharia law. These points include, among other items: 7) abolishing interest payments [riba] in the Belgian banking sector; 10) redesigning the Belgian judiciary to comply with Islamic law; 11) restoring capital punishment; 12) prohibiting alcohol and cigarettes; 15) promoting teenage marriage; 16) segregating males and females in public spaces; 20) outlaw gambling and the lottery; and 39) creating an official Islamic alms fund [Zakat].
Ahrouch says that his ultimate goal, creating an Islamic state in Belgium based on Islamic Sharia law, has not changed.
Speaking to a reporter from Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), the public broadcasting service of the French-speaking part of Belgium, Ahrouch said: "The agenda is still the same, but our approach is different now. I think we have to sensitize people, make them understand the advantages to having Islamic people and Islamic laws. And then it will be completely natural to have Islamic laws and we will become an Islamic state."
The reporter interjected: "An Islamic State in Belgium?" Ahrouch replied: "In Belgium, of course! I am for the Sharia. Islamic law, I am for it. It is a long-term struggle that will take decades or a century, but the movement has been launched."
The rise of the Islam Party comes amid a burgeoning Muslim population in the Belgian capital. Muslims now make up one-quarter of the population of Brussels, according to a book recently published by the Catholic University of Leuven, the top Dutch-language university in Belgium.
In real terms, the number of Muslims in Brussels — where half of the number of Muslims in Belgium currently live — has reached 300,000, which means that the self-styled "Capital of Europe" is now the most Islamic city in Europe.
In practical terms, Islam mobilizes more people in Brussels than do the Roman Catholic Church, political parties or even trade unions, according to "The Iris and the Crescent," a book that is the product of more than a year of field research.
The book's author, the sociologist Felice Dassetto, predicts that Muslims will comprise the majority of the population of Brussels by 2030. In Belgium as a whole, Muslims now comprise roughly 6% of the total population, one of the highest rates in Europe. This number is expected to rise to more than 10% by 2020.
Most of the Muslims in Brussels are from Morocco (70%) and Turkey (20%), with the other 10% from Albania, Egypt, Pakistan and North Africa. They began arriving in Belgium in the 1960s as guest workers. Although the guest-worker program was cancelled in 1974, many immigrants stayed and, using family-reunification laws, brought over their families.
Today the Muslim community continues to grow through both high birth rates and marriage migration. More than 60% of Moroccan and Turkish youths marry partners from their home countries.
As in the other European countries, the Muslim population in Belgium is young. Nearly 35% of the Moroccans and Turks in the country are below 18 years of age, compared to 18% of the native Belgians.
Since 2008, the most popular name in Brussels for baby boys has been Mohammed. It is also the most popular name for baby boys in Belgium's second-largest city, Antwerp, where an estimated 40% of elementary school children are Muslim.
The growth of the Muslim population has been accompanied by an increase in violent crime which has made Brussels one of the most dangerous cities in Europe, according to an exposé produced by the ZDF German television in April 2012.
Much of the crime is being attributed to shiftless Muslim youth, especially in the Anderlecht and Molenbeek districts, where "the police have lost control."
In Molenbeek, where an estimated 25% of the population is Muslim, the growing insecurity has forced multinational companies to leave the municipality. In June 2011, for example, the American advertising agency BBDO abandoned Molenbeek after citing over 150 assaults on its staff by local youth.
In an open letter addressed to the then-mayor Philippe Moureaux, BBDO reported that each one of its employees had been the victim of crimes in Molenbeek. The letter states: "Youngsters who forcibly rob our bags. Youngsters who smash car windows. Youngsters who verbally corner us so that we become paralyzed with fear. Young people who are not afraid to even point a gun at one of our male colleagues." BBDO criticized Moureaux, a Socialist, of inaction due to his multicultural notions of political correctness.
On November 5, the Belgian Interior Ministry reported that gang rapes in the country have reached epidemic levels. It reported an average of five new cases of rapes each week involving two or more offenders, in addition to an average of 57 rapes per week involving single violators.
The rise in Muslim immigration has also contributed to an increase in anti-Semitism. Fully one-half of the Muslim students in Brussels are anti-Semitic, according to a 426-page study entitled, "Jong in Brussel" [Young in Brussels], produced by the Youth Research Platform.
In an interview with the Belgian newspaper De Morgan, Mark Elchardus, one of the authors of the report, said: "What is alarming is that you can describe half of the Muslim students as anti-Semitic, which is very high. What is worse is that those anti-Jewish feelings have nothing to do with a low educational level or social disadvantage, which is the case with racist Belgians. The anti-Semitism is theologically inspired and there is a direct link between being Muslim and having anti-Semitic feelings."
Elchardus's linking Islam of anti-Semitism earned him a lawsuit filed by Vigilance Musulmane [Muslim Vigilance], a Muslim activist group. Vigilance Musulmane said Elchardus' comments violated Belgium's anti-discrimination law of 2007, which forbids discrimination on the basis of "religious convictions." They also said his statements violated Article 444 of the Belgian penal code because they appeared in a newspaper and therefore were repeated extensively in print.
Belgian law, however, apparently did not prevent Muslims from resorting to anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism during the municipal elections in October. Yves Goldstein, a Jewish candidate for the Socialist Party in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek was singled out by Turkish political activists as "an active Zionist and enemy of Islam." This smear was echoed by a Moroccan political party called the "Equality Party," which distributed an e-mail telling voters that casting their ballots for Goldstein would be like "stabbing Palestinians in the back." The Equality Party'splatform includes removing Hamas from the Belgian government's list of terrorist groups.
"The Iris and the Crescent" matter-of-factly sums it all up: "Islam is definitely part of the reality of Brussels."
Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.


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Memorial Day – at times it seems we are trying to hard to forget what the day is really about. Which is rather ironic for a holiday that is all about memory.
Memorial day is in honor of those who have died while serving in the country's armed forces. Formerly known as decoration day, the holiday started after the American Civil War to commemorate all the soldiers who died in the war. The civil war, today – still remains the highest loss of lives in military action. That is nearly 2% of the total US population. A number that increased the probability, every single person was impacted, every single person knew someone who lost a life in service. Today, for as much media coverage as we have, the loss of life is tangible, but for many not personal.
Memorial Day – so sure, have the day off, attend the art festivals, the fun runs and celebrate the start of summer. But stop and consider what it means to have lost a life in service of the country. It's Memorial day so remember the reason we can have a day off to have the celebrations.


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It might be a children's rhyme, but I and every other person scheduled to ride in a parade through next Tuesday is hoping that the rain that may or may not be scheduled for Wednesday through Mardi Gras Day will dissipate like, well, like clouds in the sky.
I am in particular worried about (as it's called in my world) Muses Thursday. (I know that there are other parades on Thursday, but as a member of Muses, that's the one about which I'm concerned.)
I've ridden in the rain before, and Muses has been delayed by rain before. My sister-in-law, who now rides next to me, asked me yesterday if I'm worried about the forecast. I told her, and I'm here to tell you all, "There's no reason to be worried." There's no reason because it isn't up to us. It's up to the NOPD working with each krewe's Captain to make the best decision for the krewe, the people lined up to watch the parades and the city.
In addition – and my apologies to meteorologists ahead of time – who can tell when it's going to rain to the hour, especially in New Orleans where it might be raining in the Irish Channel but not in the Garden District, or raining in Bywater but not in Marigny?
For example, for Thursday, when you put in "70115" for your location Weather Underground has an 80 percent chance of precipitation, while The Weather Channel has only 60; the National Weather Service shows, if I can read this map correctly, around a 35 percent chance; WDSU shows a "chance" of rain; and AccuWeather has only a 14 percent chance in the evening and overnight.
So, prepare (i.e. have your krewe-approved ponchos and rain boots ready) but don't be worried. So your throws might be wet; so wet plastic bags stick to everything; so the crowds might be smaller than if it's clear and 70 degrees…so what!
Throws and humans dry, plastic bags should be recycled and the people who really want to see the parade will be there rain or shine.
This is our time to shine and party and catch things we don't need and fight for beads we don't want to store and celebrate ourselves and our city and our history. This is Carnival!


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Cool and Damp Two Months Running
October 2006 Climate Summary
New Jersey State Climatologist
Center for Environmental Prediction, Cook College/NJAES, Rutgers University
For the first time since January and February 2004, New Jersey has experienced two consecutive months with below average temperatures. Neither this past September nor October was exceptionally below average, each only 0.4° and 0.1° on the negative side, respectively. However in recent years, coolness has been the exception rather than the rule. October averaged 54.1°, making it the 48th coolest of the past 112 years of record.
Precipitation averaged 6.58" in October, some 3.07" above normal. It was the 10th wettest October since 1895. Four of the past 5 months have received above normal precipitation. However, for the year, it is an even split of 5 months above and 5 below average.
Most of the state received its first freeze in mid October. Freezing temperatures encroached closer to the coast and urban areas when even colder air arrived on the 27th and 28th. However, come month's end, the central and southern coast and city centers had yet to drop as low as 32°F.
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Also to be installed ministers of transportation, local development, supply and interior trade, electricity, communication and information technology, legal and parliamentary affairs, civil aviation, and environment
Ten Egyptian ministers are decided to be replaced in a partial cabinet reshuffle, including the interior and finance ministers, state news agency MENA reported.
The Ministry of Interior will be taken over by General Mohamed Ibrahim, who was an assistant of former minister Ahmed Gamal and head of the prison service.
The new Minister of Finance will be El-Morsi Hegazy, an economics professor at the University of Alexandria and author of several articles on Islamic banking.
Succeeding Rashad El-Metiny, who resigned as Minister of Transportation following the infamous Assiut accident that killed tens of children last November, is Hatem Abdel-Latif, an engineering professor at Ain Shams University.
Abdel-Latif is also a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which President Mohamed Morsi hails.
Two more members of the powerful Islamist group are included in the imminent ministerial appointments.
Bassem Ouda, who headed the fuel file in Morsi's 100-day plan and is the chairman of the energy committee of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, will be installed as Minister of Supply and Interior Trade.
Mohamed Ali Beshr, a Brotherhood member since 1979 and engineering professor at the University of El-Menoufia, shall be appointed as Minister of Local Development.
Beshr will replace Ahmed Zaki Abdeen, who stirred up controversy of late with a decision to close down shops across Egypt starting 10pm. The decision was never put in effect.
Engineer Ahmed Imam, who was appointed last December as assistant to ex-Minister of Electricity Mahmoud Balbaa, has been chosen to replace the latter.
Imam, who shall be tasked with preempting anticipated power outages next summer due to fuel shortages, was also the head of Cairo Electricity Production Company from 2002 to 2011.
Atef Helmi, ex-chief executive of computer technology corporation – Oracle – in Egypt, was appointed as Minister of Communication and Information Technology.
Omar Salem will become the Minister of State for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, a position he held under the interim premiership of Kamal El-Ganzouri, the predecessor of incumbent Prime Minister Hisham Qandil.
The new Minister of Civil Aviation will be Wael El-Maadawi, who was the head of Smart Aviation Company – a corporate airline operator.
Khaled Fahmy Abdel-Aal was picked to be the Minister of State for Environmental Affairs.
The ten candidates are to take oath before President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday before assuming their respective roles in Qandil's four-month-old cabinet, which consists of 35 ministries.
Late last month, Morsi commissioned Qandil to instigate the necessary ministerial changes after the government had faced a baptism of fire due to chronic economic woes and political turmoil.


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BIRMINGHAM, England, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of people have signed an online petition to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban, organizers say.
The appeal is for the international award to be given to Malala Yousufzai, the BBC reported Friday.
The teen, widely known as a campaigner for girls education in Pakistan, was shot along with two other schoolgirls on Oct. 9 by a man who boarded their van and called her by name.
After surgery in Pakistan, Malala was flown to England. Doctors at her hospital in Birmingham say she is making progress.
The other girls were less seriously wounded, officials said.
Ziauddin Yousufzai, Malala's father, said his daughter was a fitting candidate for the peace prize because "she has drawn with her sacred blood a clear line between barbarity and human civilization."
Shahida Choudhary, the British woman who started the campaign, said awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala "will send a clear message that the world is watching."


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Editorial: Energy Efficiency in Unexpected Places The Dubai Lamp
The Middle East—and especially Dubai—is known for its excesses. You visit Dubai to see the world's tallest building, indoor ski slopes, exotic cars, and huge, air-conditioned shopping malls. What you don't expect is the world's most advanced energy-efficient technologies.
That's why it is a pleasant shock to discover the world's most efficient lightbulb for sale in Dubai stores. And it's not sold anywhere else in the world. Indeed, the bulb is called the "Dubai Lamp."
Here are the facts. The Dubai Lamp is a product line of LED-based advanced lightbulbs. The largest is just 3 watts and emits 600 lumens, for an amazing efficacy of 200 lumens per watt. To appreciate the improvement in efficiency, this light draws only one-tenth of the power of its 60W incandescent ancestor—which many of us still have in our homes—while providing the same illumination. The other lamps have even lower power consumption and come in various shapes and sizes.
These lamps are made by Philips, a European company, but are available only in Dubai. I bought ten of these lamps in a big-box store while visiting Dubai. Not for my personal use—they're designed for 230 V and 50 Hz mains power—but to carry to Europe for more careful examination and testing. The government of Dubai made an exclusive agreement with Philips, basically requiring the Dubai lamp to be installed in all new buildings for several years. It's a peculiar agreement and sure to cause installation headaches, because this small family of lamps cannot possibly meet all of the common applications. I could not get the whole story on this exclusive tie-up between Philips and Dubai, and I can't explain why the lights are not available elsewhere (even at a higher, possibly unsubsidized, price). But the lamps are widely available in Dubai, being purchased, and saving energy. Dubai aims to install two million of these lamps each year, which is a lot for this small state.
There are so many questions to be asked and lessons to be learned from the Dubai Lamp. Who would have expected the world's most efficient, commercially available lightbulb to be sold first in Dubai? In fact, the United Arab Emirates—Dubai is one of seven emirates in the UAE—has undertaken several aggressive energy efficiency programs in support of its Paris climate goals. So one lesson is that efficiency innovations—technical and institutional—can appear in unexpected places. Don't just assume that the United States is ahead of everybody else. Indeed, the United States is going to join the Third World in efficiency if we don't find ways to promote these kinds of technologies and improvements in our economy.
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Learn more about the Dubai Lamp at Philips Lighting Middle East.
The Dubai Lamp also illustrates the enormous energy savings still possible through improved efficiency. If 90% reductions in lighting energy can be achieved, what's next? Cooking? Clothes washing? Desalination? With these kinds of reductions in energy demand, meeting these requirements with renewable energy becomes more widely feasible and economically attractive.
Alan Meier is Senior Executive Editor of Home Energy.
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Warriors pick up rare win in Houston
Houston, TX – Recent history showed that Houston has owned the series versus Golden State, after all, the Rockets entered Sunday's matchup having won all three games in the series this season and 17 of 19 versus Golden State.
The Warriors, though, had other plans and abruptly ended a nine-game skid in Houston by downing the Rockets, 108-78, behind Stephen Curry's 29-point and 11-assist effort and Klay Thompson's 26 points and 6-of-9 shooting from behind the arc.
Andrew Bogut had 12 points and 12 rebounds and David Lee had 10 points and 10 boards for the Warriors, who finally picked up a much-needed victory in the series, even if it wasn't as pretty as planned.
"I thought we were great," Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. "Obviously, you can play the same defense, and (the Rockets) make shots. At the end of the day, we were alert, aware, we paid attention to details, we contested shots, we protected the paint, we rebounded. It was just a thing of beauty."
James Harden scored 21 points to go along with 10 rebounds and eight assists for the Rockets, who trailed by 23 points at the break and shot below 20 percent in the first half. Jeremy Lin added 21 points as well in the setback.
Carlos Delfino's three-point play early in the fourth quarter brought the hosts within 79-69, though Golden State scored eight straight to increase its edge to 18 points, as Thompson capped off the spurt with back-to-back 3- pointers.
The late-game swing for the Warriors proved to be the difference-maker, as the Rockets quickly gave in for the rest of the contest.
"What can you say?," Lin said. "We didn't do anything right tonight, and it was just one of those nights. We can dwell on it, or we can come out and kick the crap out of the next however-many opponents we have at home."
Houston made up for a miserable first half by opening up the second half with a 26-8 flurry, capped off by Lin's lay-in with 4:40 left in the third. Still, the Rockets trailed, 62-57.
Golden State, however, headed into the fourth up 15 at 75-60, as Curry's triple with 2:11 to play created some distance for the visitors.
After a brutal first quarter, Golden State took control in the second period and led at the break, 54-31. Houston's struggles were evident, as the team shot 19.6 percent (9-of-46) in the first-half, including 2-of-16 from behind the arc.
It was not a very pretty first quarter for either team, as the Warriors held a mere 18-10 edge. Golden State shot 8-of-29 compared to Houston's 3-of-23 effort.
Game Notes
Houston is 22-10 at home this season ... Golden State is 16-20 on the road ... The Rockets shot 32.6 percent from the floor (28-of-86), including 9-of-35 from behind the arc.


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The Free Java DevRoom at FOSDEM was packed with people all day yesterday. At the beginning, Mark Reinhold (from Sun and now Oracle, the chief Java engineer) hoped to speak briefly about the new OpenJDK governance draft but faced plenty of searching questions about it – you'll not get to see though, as Mark and Joe were unable to gain permission from Oracle for their talks to be recorded. But that was the last it was mentioned the rest of the day until my talk at 6pm.
In the interim were plenty of interesting talks, most notably Mario Torres and David Fu talking about their IcedRobot project to get Android apps to run on OpenJDK (and thus on any desktop). The room was packed out and had a line of people down the hall at the end of the day to hear Stephen O'Grady speak, and I was his warm-up act with a talk looking at the lessons I learned liberating Java into OpenJDK (I've uploaded my slides), putting the governance draft into context a little. O'Grady explained – accompanied by plenty of data – how despite the rumours to the contrary and an overall decline in apparent usage around the whole web application platform tool-set, the indicators for Java as a developer language are still strong when taken in context.
In the evening, the Free Java attendees all went for a dinner sponsored by Oracle, Red Hat and Tarent – a crucial part of the annual Free Java activity and one of the main reasons it remains a strong annual community. Meeting actual people and sharing a meal with them makes it so much easier to work objectively and avoid demonising people, and Tom Marble and the organising team are to be congratulated for the work they have put in to make it all happen. FOSDEM remains the meeting point for European software freedom because of the work they and others like them contribute.
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Megan Neil
(Australian Associated Press)
The corporate regulator has signed off on new protections for small business borrowers after accepting the banking industry's more conservative definition about when they apply.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and Australian Banking Association had been locked in a dispute about the definition of a small business, and therefore how far a revised industry code and its new protections extend.
ASIC has now approved the ABA's new banking code of practice, on the condition that the small business definition is independently reviewed within 18 months of its July 2019 commencement.
ASIC said the code provided improved protections for small business borrowers and expanded the reach and impact of legal protections against unfair contract terms.
The ABA succeeded in having the code apply to small businesses with loans up to $3 million, compared to the $1 million limit under unfair contract legislation.
ASIC had favoured – and others including the small business ombudsman backed – the $5 million limit recommended by the code's independent reviewer.
ASIC said the targeted review within 18 months will test the adequacy and application of the code's small business coverage in practice and will occur well before a comprehensive three-year review.
The regulator will also collect quarterly data from the banks and financial complaints authority to monitor the extent of the code's coverage of small business.
ASIC said at the current setting of applying to small businesses who borrow up to $3 million, the code will cover the considerable majority – between 92-97 per cent depending on the bank – of businesses in Australia.
It is the first comprehensive broad-based industry code ASIC has approved.
ABA CEO Anna Bligh said the approval process was rigorous and comprehensive, with a number of changes made to satisfy ASIC requirements.
The former Queensland premier said the code represented a stronger commitment to ethical behaviour, responsible lending, greater financial protection and increased transparency.
"Customers will see real tangible benefits, including more information about changes to their accounts, delay in offering add-on insurance products and simpler contracts, with fewer conditions for small business loans."
Appearing before the banking royal commission in May, Ms Bligh said banks had to take on more risk with a small business loan and smaller lenders in particular feared a $5 million threshold would put them at a competitive disadvantage against the big four banks.
Banks were open to a trial at the $3 million threshold.
Banks with personal or small business customers will have to sign up to the new code if they want to remain ABA members.
Meanwhile, a survey by advisory group EY showed medium-sized businesses are worried about getting access to finance amid fears of a "credit crunch" as lenders react to the royal commission.


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Crytek shows off iOS tactical action game 'The Collectibles', coming later this year with MFi controller support
Crytek, the company behind CryEngine and the popular Crysis series, is planning to release a new tactical action game later this year for iOS called 'The Collectibles'. We're told the company implemented support for Apple's new MFi gaming controller framework just in time to give developers a preview of the game and new controls during a session last week at WWDC.
Developers tell us team members from Crytek's Budapest studio demoed the game on stage, which has the player command a squad of five through your typical war-torn environment. It isn't the first time Crytek has released a game for iOS devices, but it is the first time it's bringing a shooter of sorts– the genre its best known for– to the platform. There doesn't, however, seem to be any first-person shooter elements, as the title looks to be an overhead, tactical action game from the screenshots below. Expand


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Twins slugger Jim Thome clubs 600th career homer in win vs. Tigers
DETROIT -- When Jim Thome arrived at the ballpark, his pursuit of 600 home runs had been all but forgotten.
Minnesota had just traded Delmon Young to the Detroit Tigers -- the very team Thome's Twins were about to face. And besides, Thome was in the middle of a slow, injury-plagued chase for the milestone.
Then, in two innings, the 40-year-old slugger reminded everyone why he's become one of baseball's greatest power hitters.
Thome hit his 600th home run an inning after he hit No. 599 to help the Twins outslug the Tigers 9-6 on Monday night. Thome became the eighth major league player to reach 600, hitting a three-run shot off Daniel Schlereth in the seventh inning.
"Hitting home runs can be very difficult," Thome said. "You sit in bed at night and you think about how's it going to be, how are you going to do this? It goes back to trying to slow yourself down and not being too antsy, too hyped up. It's just a great night."
An inning earlier, Thome reached 599 with a two-run homer off Rick Porcello (11-8) that broke a 3-all tie.
Thome received a standing ovation from the Detroit crowd as he rounded the bases after his milestone homer. His achievement overshadowed a solo shot in the first inning by Young, who had been traded from the Twins to the Tigers earlier Monday.
"It felt good to be on board, especially against the old team," Young said. "Especially in a pennant race, you just want to score as many runs as possible. Just wanted to hurry up and get it out of the way, but I wanted to get a win."
Francisco Liriano (8-9) allowed five runs in six innings. Joe Nathan earned his 10th save.
Both of Thome's homers were hit to the opposite field. When No. 600 cleared the fence in left, Thome raised his right fist as he went around first base.
The Tigers posted a congratulatory message on the scoreboard, and the Twins came out of the dugout to greet him at home plate.
Before Monday's game, Thome hadn't homered since Aug. 4.
"When I got the first one tonight, though, I knew it was going to come quick," he said.
Thome's accomplishment capped a memorable day for these AL Central rivals. During the afternoon, the Twins traded Young to the Tigers for a minor league pitcher and a player to be named.
Young homered in his first at-bat for Detroit, and Alex Avila finished a homer shy of the cycle, but the Tigers couldn't overcome an uneven performance on the mound and in the field.
They couldn't handle Thome, either. After Jason Kubel started the sixth with a single, Thome hit a drive off Porcello an estimated 412 feet over the fence in left-center.
Ben Revere added an RBI triple later in the inning -- and was thrown out trying for an inside-the-park homer.
Avila hit an RBI triple in the bottom half, then scored on a sacrifice fly, but Thome was just getting started.
Schlereth walked two hitters and struck out two before Thome came to the plate. He took another big cut with his powerful left-handed swing and sent a towering fly to left.
"He was always one of my favorite players growing up, so if I had to be on the losing end of it, going into the record books, there's not a better guy than Jim Thome," Schlereth said. "I'm proud of the guy he is and what he means to this game. You know, there hasn't been a whole lot of talk about his 600 home runs, but there should be more talk, because that guy has been -- he is -- an outstanding player, and great for a very long time."
For a moment, it appeared Young might have a chance to make a play on the ball, but he could only watch as his former teammate's hit disappeared over the fence.
"If he had jumped and gotten that over the wall, he and I might have met up behind the stands tonight," Thome joked.
Game notes
Minnesota's Denard Span, who has been recovering from a concussion, was scratched from the lineup. ... Young finished 2 for 4. ... Detroit ace Justin Verlander (17-5) takes the mound against Minnesota's Nick Blackburn (7-9) when the teams meet again Tuesday night.
MIN Wins 2-1
Game Information
- Umpires:
- Home Plate Umpire - Bill Miller
- First Base Umpire - James Hoye
- Second Base Umpire - Phil Cuzzi
- Third Base Umpire - Tom Hallion


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Traverse City Film Festival 2013 parties have quickly become some of most highly anticipated social events of the year, where one can kick back and rub elbows with some the festival's biggest names. The Opening Night Party will launch the festival on Tuesday, July 30 from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Front Street. One of the most popular Traverse City Film Festival 2013 events, this stylish downtown celebration includes local libations and hors d'oeuvres. The Filmmaker Party, also located downtown, is on Saturday from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and is one of the week's liveliest and most star-studded events. Tickets to both parties are available through the Traverse City Film Festival 2013 box office. This year, a Sunday night closing celebration at the Open Space has been added, which will be free to the community. Bring the family and enjoy the last night of the festival.
For even more Traverse City Film Festival 2013 festivities, get involved! The Founders Party, hosted annually for sponsors at Ciccone Vineyards includes a sneak preview of one of the festival's best films, and the Volunteer Party, a bay-front gathering with plenty of food, drinks, and dancing, is often described as the most enjoyable event of the entire festival.
Founders Party
The State Theatre/Ciccone Vineyards
Sunday, 7/28, 3:30 PM The Founders Party for festival sponsors features a sneak preview of one of the festival's best films, "Kon-Tiki." Sponsors attend a pre-party screening at the State Theatre downtown, followed by a party hosted by Ciccone and Grandview Catering in one of the most beautiful spots in our area, Ciccone Vineyards and Winery. Featuring live music from The Bergamot.
Bijou Grand Debut
Bijou by the Bay
Monday, 7/29 8:00 PM
Be among the first select few to experience a film in Traverse City's new "gem" of a theater, the Bijou by the Bay. The event begins with a sneak preview of a Hollywood hit with special guests in attendance, followed by an after-party on the beach featuring music, drinks and gourmet edibles. Tickets for this fundraising event are partially tax deductible. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve your tickets.
Opening Night Party
Front Street
Tuesday, 7/30 8:30 PM Kick off the festival with a celebration of how "one great movie can change you" on Tuesday night. Front Street becomes a scene featuring local cuisine, libations and entertainment. Enjoy an evening of festivities under the sparkling lights of the State Theatre as we welcome visiting filmmakers from around the world to experience the magic of Traverse City. Featuring live music from Steven MacNeil, Jennifer Westwood and the Waycross Georgia Farmboys, Detour, and The Wild Sullys with Spicy McHaggis. Cost: $50.
Filmmaker Party
Century 21 Northland Lot
Saturday, 8/3 8:30 PM Celebrate with visiting filmmakers in the magically transformed parking lot on the corner of State and Park streets. Be one of the few to see the Founders present this year's festival awards a group of incredibly talented filmmakers. Featuring a smorgasbord of food, libations and entertainment, this star-studded party is sure to be a blast. Featuring live music from George Cole and Eurocana, Tamar and Rona, and AOK. Cost: $50
Closing Night Bash
Open Space Outdoor Cinema
Sunday, 8/4 7:00 PM End the festival on a high note by joining us for our free community party in the Open Space and stay for a special Sunday night screening of everyone's favorite fractured fairy tale, "The Princess Bride." There will be live music, games, prizes and a variety of delectable confections and sweets available for purchase. You might even catch a glimpse of yourself on the big screen. Free!
Volunteer Party
Clinch Park
Tuesday, 8/6 6:00 PM We celebrate our hard-working, amazing, generous and talented volunteers at this post-festival homespun picnic. Share stories with friends about your festival experiences and celebrate the week's success. Featuring some of the top food and beverages from our area, this party is the best way to end a magical week. Be sure to bring your SWAG Coupons to trade in for some awesome festival gear! Free for volunteers!


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