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Privacy Policy
Last Revised: 9 April 2018
1. Background
Interact Learning Pty Ltd ABN 20 095 674 28 & Flexible Learning Network Limited trading as Kineo (we, us, our) provides elearning training and compliance services to corporate and government Clients across Asia Pacific and the United Kingdom. In providing these services, we collect, use and disclose personal information. Personal information means information or an opinion, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is either identified or reasonably identifiable.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise handle personal information. It also tells you how you can ask to access and correct the personal information we hold about you or complain about a suspected privacy breach.
We are required to comply with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act), Data Protection Act 1998 in UK. The APPs regulate the manner in which personal information is handled. We are also required to comply with more specific privacy legislation in some circumstances, such as applicable State and Territory health privacy legislation, the Spam Act 2003 (Cth) and the Do Not Call Register Act 2006 (Cth).
2. What types of information do we collect?
2.1 Personal Information
The type of personal information that we collect and hold about you depends on the type of dealings that you have with us. If we need to identify you or verify your identity, we may collect your name, gender, date of birth, driver's licence and/or passport details, student ID number, username, password, security question and answer. If we need to communicate with you, we may collect your email, residential and postal addresses and telephone numbers. If you apply to enrol in a training course or otherwise access our services, we may collect details of your employment and employer (or, if you are a contractor, your head contractor), training and compliance history, qualifications, banking and payment details.
To help us improve our services, we may collect your responses to surveys and details about how, when and why you access our services.
If you apply for a job with us, we will collect the information you include in your application.
2.2 Sensitive information
Sensitive information is personal information such as health information and information about racial or ethnic origin that is generally afforded a higher level of privacy protection.
We only collect sensitive information where it is reasonably necessary for our business functions and you have consented, or we are required to do so by law.
2.3 Information other than personal information ("non-personal information")
When you visit our website, some of the information that is collected about your visit is not personal information, because it does not reveal your identity. We use this information to help us improve our services. We may aggregate this information for our own statistical purposes. Provided that it remains anonymous, we may disclose that aggregated information to third parties or publish it for marketing or research purposes.
Site visit information
We may record your server address, the date, time and duration of your visit, search terms you used, the pages you viewed, any documents you downloaded and the type of device, browser and operating system you used.
We use technologies on the Site to collect information that helps us improve your online experience. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies, which include cookies, pixels, web beacons, and gifs, collectively as "cookies." This policy explains the different types of cookies used on the Site and how you can control them. We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please take a look at the "Last Revised" legend above to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Site.
By using the Site, you agree that we can store and access cookies as described in this policy.
We hope that this policy helps you understand, and feel more confident about, our use of cookies. If you have any further queries, please contact us.
For more information about our use of cookies, see our Cookie Policy.
3. How do we collect personal information?
3.1 Methods of collection
We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means as required by the Privacy Act. We will also collect personal information directly from you where this is reasonable and practicable. We collect personal information in a number of ways, including:
- directly from you in person, over the phone, through written communications (either on paper or electronic) or by you completing forms or answering questions on our websites;
- from third parties, including your employer, (or, if you are a contractor, your head contractor), direct marketing database providers, government agencies, our related companies and your authorised representatives;
- from our own records of your use of our services.
3.2 Collection noticesWhere we collect personal information directly from you, we will take reasonable steps to notify you of certain matters in a collection notice. We will do this at or before the time of collection, or as soon as practicable afterwards.
Collection notices provide more specific information than this Privacy Policy in relation to particular collections of personal information. The terms of this Privacy Policy are subject to any specific provisions contained in collection notices and in the terms and conditions of particular offers, products and services. We encourage you to read those provisions carefully.
Where we collect information about you from your authorised representative, we will take reasonable steps to make sure that you are made aware of the collection.
If you provide to us personal information about someone else (as their authorised representative), we rely on you to inform them that you are providing their personal information to us and to advise them that they can be contacted for further information.
4. Why do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
4.1 General
The main purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information are:
- to identify you and verify your identity;
- to communicate with you about our services;
- to provide our services to you, including:
- facilitating your enrolment in online training;
- facilitating your access to online training materials;
- verifying and validating your compliance history;
- facilitating your communications with others via our website; and
- obtaining payment for our services;
- for purposes required or authorised by or under law;
- to help us improve our services;
- for any other purposes that you have consented to.
4.2 Direct marketing
Where we have your express or implied consent, or where we are otherwise permitted by law, we may use your personal information to send you information about the services we offer, as well as other information. We may send this information by mail, email, SMS and telephone.
Opting out
You can opt out of receiving these communications at any time, in the following ways:
- if you have an online account via our website, you can update your communications preferences by logging in to your account and following the instructions on our website;
- contact us (see section 10 below) and tell us;
- use the unsubscribe facility that we include in our commercial electronic messages (i.e., email or SMS) to opt out of receiving those messages.
5. To whom do we disclose your personal information?
We may disclose your personal information to any of the organisations that we deal with in the ordinary administration of our business for the purposes set out in section 4 above, including:
- your employer, (or, if you are a contractor, your head contractor);
- financial institutions;
- our service delivery partners, including:
- information technology service providers (including cloud services providers);
- mailing houses, postal, freight and courier service providers;
- printers and distributors of client communications;
- external business advisers (such as recruitment advisers, auditors and lawyers).
In each case, we may disclose personal information to the service provider and the service provider may in turn provide us with personal information collected from you.
We may de-identify and aggregate the personal information of you and others for our own statistical purposes. Provided that it remains permanently de-identified, we may disclose that aggregated information to third parties or publish it for marketing or research purposes.
If you apply for a job with us, we may discuss your application with your nominated referees.
If you have an online account via our website, you can access and change your privacy settings by logging in to your account and following the instructions on our website. Depending on the privacy settings that you chose, some of the personal information in your user profile may be disclosed to other users.
If you post comments or otherwise communicate publicly with other users via our website, any information about yourself that you include in the communication may be stored on the website and accessed by other users. For this reason, we encourage you to use discretion when deciding whether to post any information that can be used to identify you.
6. Cross border disclosure of personal information
It is our current policy not to disclose personal information to third parties located overseas.
If we change our policy at some time in the future, we will comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act that apply to cross border disclosures of personal information and this Privacy Policy will be amended accordingly.
7. Data quality and security
7.1 General
We hold personal information in a number of ways, including in electronic databases, email contact lists, and in paper files held in secure premises. Paper files may also be archived offsite in secure facilities. We take reasonable steps to:
- make sure that the personal information that we collect, use and disclose is accurate, up to date and complete and (in the case of use and disclosure) relevant;
- protect the personal information that we hold from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure;
- destroy or permanently de-identify personal information that is no longer needed for any purpose that is permitted by the APPs.
7.2 Security
The steps we take to secure the personal information we hold include ICT security (such as encryption, firewalls, anti-virus software and login and password protection), secure office access, personnel security and training and workplace policies.
Payment security
We process payments using PayPal and online technologies. All transactions processed by us meet industry security standards to ensure payment details are protected.
Website security
While we strive to protect the personal information and privacy of users of our website, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you disclose online and you disclose that information at your own risk. If you are concerned about sending your information over the internet, you can contact us by telephone or post (see section 10 below).
You can also help to protect the privacy of your personal information by maintaining the confidentiality of your account (including your password), and by ensuring that you log out of your account on our website when you have finished using it. In addition, if you become aware of any security breach, please let us know as soon as possible.
8. How can you access and correct your personal information?
You can request access to the personal information that we hold about you and request corrections by contacting our Privacy Officer (see section 10 below).
If you have an online account via our website, you can access and change some of your personal information by logging in to your account and following the instructions on our website.
9. Complaints
If you have a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer (see section 10 below).
Our Privacy Officer will endeavour in the first instance to deal with your complaint and take any steps necessary to resolve the matter within a week.
If your complaint can't be resolved at first instance, we will ask you to complete a Privacy Complaint Form.
Complaints process
We will endeavour to acknowledge receipt of the Privacy Complaint Form within 5 business days of receiving it and to complete our investigation into your complaint in a timely manner.
In most cases, we expect that complaints will be investigated and a response provided within 30 days of receipt of the Privacy Complaint Form. If our investigation may take longer, we will let you know.
If you are unhappy with our response, you can refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner or, in some instances, other regulatory bodies, such as the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
10. Further information
Please contact us if you have any queries about the personal information that we hold about you or the way we handle that personal information. Our contact details for privacy queries are set out below.
Privacy Officer
Interact Learning Pty Ltd (Kineo)
Mail: P.O. Box 6815 Halifax Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, -Australia
Email: For online enquiries you can contact us.
Telephone: +61 1300 303 318
11. Changes to this Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version will be posted on our website and a copy may be obtained from our Privacy Officer.


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Netanyahu, Benjamin
Benjamin Netanyahu (bēn´yəmēn´ nĕtənyä´hōō), 1949–, Israeli diplomat and politician, prime minister of Israel (1996–99, 2009–), b. Tel Aviv. A member of the conservative Likud party, the self-assured Netanyahu, known universally in Israel as
attended high school in the United States, where his father was a history professor. He was an officer in an elite Israeli commando unit from 1967 to 1972 and later studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.Sc. 1974, M.Sc. 1976). Returning to Israel in 1978, he became active in politics and served as Israel's UN representative (1984–88). First elected to Israel's parliament in 1988, he became deputy foreign minister (1988–91) and deputy prime minister (1991–92). During this period he earned a reputation for American-style media savvy.
As leader (1993–99) of the Likud party, Netanyahu was largely responsible for engineering its return to political power after its 1992 electoral defeat. An opponent of the peace policies espoused by Israel's Labor government, he was criticized for cultivating Jewish extremist support after the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Narrowly elected in May, 1996, he became Israel's youngest prime minister, promising a tough stance on terrorism. His tenure was marked by difficult peace talks with the Palestinians. Corruption scandals in his cabinet and strong reactions to his personality contributed to his May, 1999, loss to One Israel (Labor) party leader Ehud Barak. Subsequently, Netanyahu served under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as foreign minister (2002–3) and as finance minister (2003–5), but resigned and unsuccessfully challenged (2005) Sharon for the Likud leadership when Israel withdrew its settlers and forces from the Gaza Strip. When Sharon subsequently left Likud, Netanyahu became party leader; the party did poorly in the 2006 elections. A better showing in the 2009 elections enabled him to become prime minister of a largely right-wing coalition government in Apr., 2009; the centrist Kadima party joined the coalition in 2012. Despite Likud alliance loses, he remained prime minister after the 2013 elections, this time heading a center-right coalition, but the government only lasted until Dec., 2014. New elections in 2015 resulted in a Likud plurality, and Netanyahu formed a largely right-wing coalition government in May.

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A Paisley Christmas
What's Christmas all about for country music star Brad Paisley and his young family?
He's a great person to ask. After all, Paisley, who's married to actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley and has two sons – Huck, age 3, and Jasper, age 1 — titled the first song he wrote, when he was just 12 years old, "Born on Christmas Day".
Paisley took time out to answer our Christmas questions by email.
Where will you celebrate Christmas this year?
At our home in Tennessee.
What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
Playing with all of the new toys my boys will get.
What's your favorite part of the holiday season?
Lighting fires in the fireplace with all of my family and friends near.
What gift are you going to buy for your wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley?
I don't want to ruin the surprise by having it posted here! And besides, I don't know.
What gift are you hoping to get this year?
My two front teeth.
What's the best Christmas present you ever got?
The guitar my papaw gave me for Christmas when I was 8—it changed my life.
[Paisley's "papaw" is his maternal grandfather.]
What's your favorite Christmas song?
Silent Night…it's a timeless melody.


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Thomson was executive director of the Woodhaven Business Improvement District and Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation, as well as president of the 102nd Precinct Community Council. She sat on Community Board 9 for over 25 years, and she was also a board member of the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association for nearly 30.
She was also a longtime columnist for this newspaper, bringing you the latest news and developments in Woodhaven. Have I left anything out?
It's very likely I have, and that goes to show you just how much Maria Thomson was involved in - and how much of herself she put into - this community. And though her loss is felt on a neighborhood-wide level, it is even a greater loss for her husband Robert and daughter Alena.
And so, in appreciation of her many years of work on behalf of Woodhaven, the corner of Forest Parkway and Jamaica Avenue will be co-named "Maria Thomson Way." The sign will be unveiled in a public ceremony at the intersection at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 10.
Assemblyman Mike Miller had the pleasure of working with Thomson over the past decade. He told me that "Maria was always a strong voice for Woodhaven. Maria spent most of her life fighting for the Woodhaven community to preserve and protect our quality of life, and Maria made everyone aware of issues and actions that would affect Woodhaven.
"I'm happy that Forest Parkway and Jamaica Avenue is being renamed Maria Thomson Way because in Woodhaven, it was Maria Thomson's way!" he added.
State Senator Joseph Addabbo also worked with Maria for many years.
"Maria has left such an everlasting mark on Woodhaven, that I'll always believe she'll be with us forever," he told me. "Whenever we need to do some work in Woodhaven, we should call upon the Maria Thomson inside of us to provide the inspiration and motivation to get the job done."
Councilman Eric Ulrich has worked with Thomson ever since taking office in 2009.
"Maria Thomson embodied the very best of Woodhaven," he said. "She was dedicated, caring and always willing to serve her community. That is why it is appropriate that we rename a street in her honor."
Although Bob Holden is new to the City Council, as a civic leader he was well aware of Thomson and is happy to be part of the ceremony dedicating a street in her name.
"Maria Thomson was one of a kind," he said. "Her dedication to the community and pure selflessness is unmatched today. She is sorely missed, and her work will continue to impact all for years to come."
"When a problem arose, she always knew who to call to get it solved," said Stephen Forte, president of the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association. "She was a champion for Woodhaven."
With that in mind, the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association will be honoring Thomson at their 47th annual gala on Friday, October 26. At thegala, which takes place at Roma View Fine Catering (160-05 Cross Bay Boulevard), Maria Thomson will be inducted into the WRBA's Hall of Fame.
Adult tickets (12 and older) are $70, and tickets for children over five are $35. Tickets include a full buffet dinner with soda, beer, and wine. The event kicks off at 7 p.m. and ends at 11 p.m. To purchase tickets, call the WRBA at (718) 296-3735.


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Sundered Earth was one of the first names that came to mind when I was brainstorming ideas for a name for my multigenre post-apocalyptic campaign setting, but the planet wasn't really broken or split apart so "sundered" was more or less a misnomer. After jotting down a bunch of those ideas and consulting both a thesaurus and a dictionary, I finally settled on Spectrum Shock. Using the most common definitions for these words doesn't seem to make sense, but with an eye for less-often-used meanings, one can see their relevance to a multigenre post-apocalyptic setting.
Quite appropriate after all, in my humble opinion.
- Spectrum: a broad sequence or range of related qualities, ideas, or activities
- Shock: a violent collision or impact
Quite appropriate after all, in my humble opinion.


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The researchers suggest that the supplement — made from extracts of a wild herb and a tropical fruit rind — may be a safe and effective aid for dealing with excess body weight and obesity, which affect more than 60 percent of adults in the United States.
Two clinical trials involving the supplement were conducted at Alluri Sitarama Raju Academy of Medical Sciences in India. Results from both trials combined are reported in the June issue of the Journal of Medicinal Food, while results from just the second of the two trials appears in the May issue of the journal Obesity.
Data analysis and study communication was led by Judith Stern, distinguished professor of nutrition and internal medicine at UC Davis.
"The results from our study are promising, and we did not see significant side effects with this supplement extract," Stern said. "This was a short-term study, and we don't know what happens in the long run; along with a diet and exercise program, the results may be even greater," she said.
Stern noted that study results indicate that the herbal supplement may cause these positive effects by interfering with the formation and storage of fatty compounds in the body.
The two studies included a total of 95 subjects, many of whom were considered obese according to their body mass index — a measurement based on a person's weight and height and used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.
During each clinical trial, participants in the test group received twice daily a 400-mg capsule containing the herbal mix. That mix was made from extracts of the aromatic annual plant Sphaeranthus indicus, a member of the aster and daisy family, and the rind of the tropical fruit Garcinia mangostana, commonly called mangosteen. Both plants have long been valued as having medicinal properties in Ayurvedic medicine — an ancient system of medicine that originated in India.
Participants in the control group for the two trials received placebo capsules rather than the herbal supplement. All participants in the study also were provided with three meals totaling 2,000 kcal per day, and each of the participants walked for 30 minutes five days per week.
At the end of each eight-week trial, the researchers found that participants who had taken the herbal supplement lost significantly more weight than did the control-group participants, who had not taken the supplement.
In the combined clinical outcomes reported in the Journal of Medicinal Food, the test-group participants with the supplement had lost an average of 5.2 kg (11 lbs. 7 oz.) by the end of eight weeks compared to the control group participants' loss of an average of 1.5 kg (3 lbs. 5 oz.) The supplemented group also had an average decrease in waist circumference of 11.9 cm (about 4.75 inches) compared to the control group's average decrease in waist circumference of 6 cm (about 2.5 inches).
In the clinical trial published in the journal Obesity, participants taking the supplement lost an average of 5.1 kg (11 lbs. 3 oz.) compared to the control group's loss of an average of 1.3 kg (2 lbs. 15 oz.). The supplemented group also had an average decrease in waist circumference of 11.8 cm (4.5 inches) compared to the control group's average decrease in waist circumference of 6.4 cm (about 2.5 inches).
The researchers also noted that in both clinical trials, the study participants receiving the herbal supplement experienced significant reduction in their blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.
Consumption of the herbal supplement did not to appear to be linked to any negative health effects in any either clinical study, the researchers said.
Collaborating with Stern were: Jan Peerson of UC Davis' Department of Nutrition and Program in International and Community Nutrition; Artatrana T. Mishra of Nagarjuna Hospitals, Vijayawada, India; Venkata Sadasiva Rao Mathukumali of the Alluri Sitarama Raju Academy of Medical Sciences, Eluru, India; and Poorna Rajeswari Konda, Suraksha Healtlh Village, Vijayawada, India.
Funding for the studies was provided by two grants from InterHealth Neutraceuticals Inc. of Benicia, Calif.
About UC Davis
For more than 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has more than 33,000 students, more than 2,500 faculty and more than 21,000 staff, an annual research budget of nearly $750 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges — Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science. It also houses six professional schools — Education, Law, Management, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.
Media contact(s):
- Judith Stern, Departments of Nutrition and Internal Medicine, (530) 752-6575, [email protected] (She also can be reached on cell at (925) 285-8951.)
- Pat Bailey, UC Davis News Service, (530) 752-9843, [email protected]


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In this investigation, you are challenged to make mobile phone numbers which are easy to remember. What happens if you make a sequence adding 2 each time?
Compare the numbers of particular tiles in one or all of these three designs, inspired by the floor tiles of a church in Cambridge.
Susie took cherries out of a bowl by following a certain pattern. How many cherries had there been in the bowl to start with if she was left with 14 single ones?
We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
If there is a ring of six chairs and thirty children must either sit on a chair or stand behind one, how many children will be behind each chair?
Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.
These alphabet bricks are painted in a special way. A is on one brick, B on two bricks, and so on. How many bricks will be painted by the time they have got to other letters of the alphabet?
Find the next two dominoes in these sequences.
Katie and Will have some balloons. Will's balloon burst at exactly the same size as Katie's at the beginning of a puff. How many puffs had Will done before his balloon burst?
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Investigate and explain the patterns that you see from recording just the units digits of numbers in the times tables.
Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?
In this investigation, we look at Pascal's Triangle in a slightly different way - rotated and with the top line of ones taken off.
Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?
Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of 3 dominoes?
These grids are filled according to some rules - can you complete them?
Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?
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Barack Hussein Obama's unlawful acts
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A growing list of crimes committed by the Obama Administration that violate current U.S. laws.
| Any government that willfully violates the rule of law and encroaches on the rights of the people ceases to be a legitimate government.
-Thomas Jefferson
- Lying under oath.
- The government's bailout of American International Group (AIG) is sharia-compliant, in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause.[1]
- Illegally seized control of GM and Chrysler without proper authorization from Congress.[2]
- Undermined the Second Amendment with Operation Choke Point
- Fired whistle-blower Gerald Walpin for doing his job as Inspector-General that investigates corruption, waste, and fraud in government programs.[3][4][5]
- Promoting abortion in Kenya with the use of taxpayer money.[6][7]
- Giving $900 million in aid to a designated terror organization in Gaza.[8][9][10][11]
- Mandates universal healthcare program forcing Americans to pay or go to jail.
- Collecting data on fellow Americans who oppose healthcare reform with firstname.lastname@example.com [12][13]
- Bribing officials for their votes on healthcare.
- Deceitfully presenting paid spokesmen as independent impartial supporters of Obamacare, at least one instance of a fake doctor.[14][15]
- Issuing Obamacare waivers [16]
- Judge Roger Vinson declared the individual mandate of ObamaCare to be unconstitutional, nullifying the entire law. Obama ignores the ruling.
- Placing the U.S. Census Bureau under the supervision of the White House Chief of Staff, by law the Department of Commerce.
- Obama's Justice Department Attorney General Eric Holder is complicit in smuggling weapons,[17] Obama signed off on funding [18]
- Manipulating jobs by hiring and rehiring Census workers.
- Giving enemy combatants American rights.
- Creating false districts and assigning stimulus funds to those districts.
- Willful failure to enforce immigration laws.[19]
- Willful failure to enforce Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) law.[20]
- Violating federal law prohibiting the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes.[21][22]
- Violation of tax codes by releasing private tax details to the public when attacking Koch Industries.[23][24]
- Targeting an American citizen for assassination, violating rights and without due process of the law.[25]
- Offered Congressman Joe Sestak a federal job in exchange for his withdrawal from the primary against incumbent U.S. Senator Arlen Specter.[26]
- Obama Administration is imposing a de facto ban on deep water drilling despite Federal Judge Martin Feldman holding Obama in contempt.[27]
- Committing U.S. Forces to combat operations without congressional authorization.
- Ignoring law as specified by the War Powers Resolution.[28]
- Barack Hussein Obama signs 2011 legislation that included the elimination of nine "czars". He decides to ignore the law regarding czars.[29]
- Created a taxpayer-funded position, Director of Progressive Media & Online Response, to promote Obama's incumbent candidacy, in violation of the Hatch Act.
- Obama films campaign ad in White House in violation of FEC laws.[30]
- Obama defying federal law by continuing to fund ACORN.[31]
- Democrat donors, with Obama administration ties, secured a $500 million loan for solar firm Solyndra that went bankrupt in yet another corruption scandal.
- Collecting data on fellow Americans with the Obama campaign website AttackWatch.com.
- White House violates federal law regarding the 2011 Department of Defense appropriations bill by holding bilateral talks with the Chinese government.[32]
See also
- Obamagate timeline 2009-2015
- Obamagate timeline 2016 election year
- Russiagate timeline 2017
- Russiagate timeline 2018
- Obama's second term agenda
- Operation Fast and Furious
- Libyan uprising 2011
- Project Cassandra
- Obama war crimes
- Pigford
- JobsGate
- ↑ AIG bailout alleged to aid sharia-compliance, One News Now, June 11, 2010
- ↑ A violation of the 5th Amendment regarding due process and fair compensation
- ↑ Gerald Walpin speaks the inside story of the AmeriCorps firing, Washingtonexaminer.com
- ↑ Obama fires watchdog who barked at his crony Rush Limbaugh calls action illegal, WND.com, June 13, 2009
- ↑ Gerald Walpin is Not Afraid, RushLimbaugh.com, June 18, 2009
- ↑ White House Backs Kenyan Constitution Allowing Abortion, FOX News, July 6, 2010
- ↑ GOP Lawmaker Blasts White House for $23M Spent on Kenya Constitution Vote,FOXNews, July 21, 2010
- ↑ A violate of section 301c of the Foreign Assistance Act.
- ↑ The Gaza Aid Package: Time to Rethink U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Palestinians, Heritage.org, March 9, 2009
- ↑ Barack Obama announces $400m aid package to Gaza and West Bank, Guardian.uk, June 9, 2010
- ↑ Visiting journalist finds Hamas is stealing Gaza's aid, Israel Today, September 22, 2010
- ↑ White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say, August 7, 2009
- ↑ White House Actions Might Be Unlawful, RedState.com, August 5, 2009
- ↑ Health care event attendee lied about being doctor, Houston Chronicle, August 13, 2009
- ↑ Roxana Mayer Invited to Town Hall by Obama Organizer Who Sported Che Guevara Poster at Obama Campaign Office, Patterco's, August 14, 2009
- ↑ Are Health-Care Waivers Unconstitutional?, National Review, February 8, 2011
- ↑ https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/03/eveningnews/main20039031.shtml
- ↑ Someone in Congress knew about Gunrunner, and Obama signed funding for it into law, pajamas media, July 7, 2011
- ↑ Arizona Immigration Law Author: Failure to Enforce Law Impeachable Offense, Newsmax, August 5, 2010
- ↑ Fowler, Geoffrey A. and Perez, Evan. "Shift on Gay-Marriage Law Will Affect Array of Policies." Wall Street Journal, February 25, 2011. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703905404576164840666335146.html
- ↑ Scathing Congress report slams Obama's 'covert, criminal activity, WND.com, August 16, 2010
- ↑ Signs of a Failed Stimulus, GOP Oversight and Reform
- ↑ Koch Industries Lawyer to White House: How Did You Get Our Tax Information?, Week Standard, September 20, 2010
- ↑ Obama Use of Foe's Tax Records Reviewed, Newsmax, October 6, 2010
- ↑ Judge Throws Out Challenge to Targeted Assassination, ABC News, December 7, 2010
- ↑ see: Jobsgate
- ↑ An Illegal Drilling Ban, Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2011
- ↑ Lawmakers Demand Explanation From White House as Libya War Deadline Arrives, Fox News, May 20, 2011
- ↑ Obama Keeps 'Czars' Despite Budget Deal That Eliminated Them, Fox News, April 16, 2011
- ↑ Report: Obama Films Campaign Ad In White House, Possibly Violating FEC Laws?, Real Clear Politics, June 27, 2011
- ↑ Obama Gives New Grant to ACORN; Did He Violate Federal Law?, Spectator.org, July 1, 2011
- ↑ GAO: With China dialogues, WH violated law, Washington Examiner, October 25, 2011


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It is rather bizarre.
Gosh. I'm only a university professor of biology, not AGuyWhosYoutubeChannelGetsMillionsOfViews with a high school diploma, but I thought the key ingredients for speciation were reproductive isolation and subsequent divergence by drift and/or selection. Not "race", which is a sociologically loaded term that is poorly connected to any legitimate scientific concepts. Does this guy really think that humanity is poised for branching into 3 or 5 or 7 or 63 (or whatever the current tally of 'races' is nowadays) species? Is the unit of any potential speciation event in our future likely to be what we label as 'race'?
Does anyone know who AGuyWhosYoutubeChannelGetsMillionsOfViews actually is? I'd love to watch some of his videos. I'm sure they're…
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Apple's rules for its developers are a bit conservative. While Android may have free reign over all kinds of offensive apps, Apple doesn't want video games to be controversial or sexy.
From Apple's guidelines, according to VentureBeat:
We view apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical app. It can get complicated, but we have decided to not allow certain kinds of content in the App Store.
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Essentially, Apple is saying if you want to be controversial or political then you should develop that content until it's a book. Games are not the place for politics, religion or sex. It's also one of the reasons it rejected "Endgame: Syria" a game that violated the guidelines because it targeted "a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity." Because the game took place in Syria and based on the current civil war, Apple found it was too much of a political hot potato.
"I feel that the form of media should be irrelevant, and it's the content that counts," Endgame: Syria lead designer Tomas Rawlings told VentureBeat. "Games, films, apps, comics, music, and books should all be held to the same standard. To suggest that there is an invisible line that says it's OK to say something in a book but not in a game? That feels wrong to me."
Part of the problem is that games are viewed as frivolous, shallow entertainment, while books and pieces of art can be imbued with politics and controversy. Until games start tackling some serious issues on a regular basis, developers may find that their games will be considered trivial and be rejected from Apple unless they stay inoffensive and cliched.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On Saturday, the Tennessee State football team will play in its first postseason game since 1999 when the squad travels to Butler for the opening round of the NCAA Division I Football Championship.
The Tigers were off for the first time all season last weekend, giving them a chance to get some of their banged up players healthy.
Redshirt junior quarterback Michael German is one who benefited from the extra rest, and he is cleared to participate against the Bulldogs.
German, who has only played in five contests this year, has completed 45-of-78 passes for 725 yards and 11 touchdowns. The Pompano Beach, Fla. native has also not thrown an interception all year.
Freshman Ronald Butler has filled in admirably for German this season, completing 130-of-223 passes for 1343 yards, 12 scores and only four picks.
However, the offense has not been the same when German is forced to miss. TSU is 4-3 in such contests and only scored an average of 18.4 points per game. With German, TSU is 5-0 and averaging 42.2 points.
The Tigers could use the points, but the Big Blue defense has been dominant this season, only allowing 278.9 yards per contest. TSU also sits inside the top ten in third down conversion defense (1st), tackles for loss (5th), passing efficiency defense (6th), scoring defense (6th) and rushing defense (9th).
The stellar play of the unit starts upfront where the Tigers boast a defensive line that consists of four players who have recorded at least four sacks on the year. Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year Anthony Bass is first on the squad with 10, which ranks him tied for seventh nationally. Senior, and fellow First Team All-OVC'er, Antonio Harper plays at the defensive end spot, and is fourth on the team with 44 stops and tied for second with 11 tackles for loss.
The Tigers will need to continue to play well on defense on Saturday when they take on Butler (9-3) who won the Pioneer Football League for the second consecutive time.
Butler will be the first PFL team to participate in the playoffs, benefiting from a defense that currently ranks seventh nationally with 30 takeaways in 2013 and the squad has a +0.9 per game turnover margin, which is 10th in the FCS. Senior Sean Grady leads the squad with four interceptions on the year.
Offensively, senior quarterback Matt Lancaster is averaging 239.9 passing yards per game and has 19 passing and 12 rushing touchdowns this season. Senior tailback Trae Hester was the only PFL rusher to average over 100 yards per game this season, finishing the season with 1,311 yards and 13 scores.
TSU has never faced Butler, but is 1-3 all-time in the Playoffs (and an additional 1-2 in years vacated). This will also be the second time that Tennessee State has played 13 games in one season.
The winner of Saturday's game will meet Eastern Illinois on Dec. 7.
TSU will kickoff at Butler at 12 p.m. CT, and fans can watch the game on ESPN3.


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Nevertheless, Five Red Herrings was a blip in what has otherwise been a strong year for mysteries, which make up a full third of the year's reading. This is down largely to two series--the Holmes canon, which I revisited for the first time since my teens (you can see my thoughts on the various novels and story collections at my Storify account), and Sayers's Peter Wimsey novels. I've read (and in some cases reread) the novels featuring Wimsey's love interest and fellow detective Harriet Vane, but this was my first time through the solo novels, which I am reading in order. With the obvious exception of Five Red Herrings, it's turning out to be a delightful experience, with Wimsey shining on his own as both a character and a detective (though the classist and occasionally sexist aspects of the novels can be hard to take).
Otherwise, it was a quiet year for genre reading. Aside from the mysteries, most of the books I read were either literary or historical fiction. I tend to seesaw between the two extremes as my year-end reviews point out to me how I've neglected a particular corner of my reading, so expect a stronger genre year in 2015 (and anyway, there are quite a few genre novels I'm planning to read in the coming weeks as I gear up for Hugo nominations). Something else that I'd like to focus on in 2015 is reviewing the books I read, which I've neglected terribly this year--though I planned to do so several times, I don't think I've written a single full-length book review this year. Next year, I'd like to not only get back to that, but maybe change up the format of reviews on this blog a little. Instead of concentrating my shorter book reviews into recent reading roundups, I'm thinking of posting them as I go in individual blog posts (I might do the same thing for film reviews as well). I don't know if that's a format that will suit me--I think I've nailed my colors rather firmly to the long review--but it's worth experimenting with. At any rate, my reading resolution for 2015 is the same as every year's, and the same, I think, as every book blogger's--to read more, and more widely, and to blog more about what I read.
For the last few hours of 2014, however, here are my best reads of the year, in alphabetical order of the author's surname:
- Spin by Nina Allan
I'm very much looking forward to Allan's debut novel The Race, which is sitting in my TBR stack, and a great deal of that expectation is rooted in the exceptional quality of this 2013 novella (which deserved a lot more awards attention than it got). Allan's prose is spare and her story is low-key, but with those deceptively simple tools she constructs an elaborate alternate world, in which religion and government are subtly but powerfully different, and magic is real but heavily regulated. The story of a young artist struggling with a difficult family history and her nascent magical powers is woven into the myth of Arachne in ways that are delightful and thought-provoking, but an equal pleasure is Allan's handling of the seemingly mundane topic of an artist discovering her voice and style. The fact that the heroine is engaged in the traditionally feminine (and thus frequently delegitimized) field of textile arts only makes the seriousness with which Allan depicts her process more enjoyable.
- Longbourn by Jo Baker
I had no idea what it expect from this book, and yet it's lingered with me through the year. The concept seems gimmicky and calculating--Pride and Prejudice retold from the perspective of the Bennetts' servants--but not only does Longbourn tells its own story, into which the original novel intrudes only occasionally, but it uses its central concept for a lot more than just a refreshing perspective shift. Through her heroines--the thoughtful, searching maid-of-all-work Sarah, and the level-headed but loving housekeeper Mrs. Hill--Baker explores not only the life of a Regency servant, but the effect that class has on women's roles in that era, and on the limitations and expectations placed on them. The final encounter between Sarah and Elizabeth Bennett is devastating for what it reveals about the two women's choice between freedom and security, and for the value that is placed (and often not placed) on their work. Far from repeating Pride and Prejudice, Longbourn uses its outline to make its own statement, and is all the more powerful for it.
- Versailles by Kathryn Davis
I read several books this year by Davis, an author of quasi-slipstreamy literary fiction whose dense, impressionistic prose shifts time, place, and point of view at a moment's notice. Versailles--a short novel about Marie Antoinette--is the one that has stuck with me. As much about the palace and its history as it is about its heroine, the novel switches from her point of view to potted histories of the palace, to interludes with her servants and courtiers. Amazingly given its slight size, both the character and the place emerge as fully-formed creations, and Antoinette in particular is sympathetic and interesting (though perhaps a little too prone to self-justification). It often feels as if historical fiction is too beholden to realism, too conventionally structured and plotted. Versailles is a rare and welcome instance of an author experimenting within that form, and it yields great results.
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A bit of a cheat, since this isn't a book that I read for the first time in 2014, but as my return to Hill House revealed, the first time I read this book it went completely over my head. In my mid-or-late teens, I expected a haunted house story to have, well, ghosts, and preferably an explanation for them. I wasn't able to understand that what makes The Haunting of Hill House so scary is the house's unknowability, and even more than that, the hauntings that the ghost-hunter protagonists--and particularly the troubled, childish heroine Eleanor--bring with them when they come to stay. The second time around, I feel as if I've discovered this novel for the first time, and am kicking myself for not revisiting it sooner. It seems as if, in recent years, Hill House's star has dimmed a little in favor of Jackson's other and equally magnificent novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle--perhaps because its conventions have been recycled by works like House of Leaves, whereas Castle remains utterly unique. I think it may be time for a rediscovery--I'm sure I'm not the only one who needed to be reminded of what a sharp, tense, frightening novel this is.
- HHhH by Laurent Binet - At once a nonfiction account of the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, a fictionalization of it, and a meditation about the gap between the two, this novel (?) is surprisingly readable and entertaining for such an odd experiment (and such a grim topic).
- The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox - A lush, beautifully written historical fantasy about the lifelong love between a 19th century French winemaker and an angel. Weird and indescribable, but utterly enchanting.
- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner - This slim volume constructs a whole fantasy world, complete with manners and conventions, within a few chapters, and the political and social drama that it sets within that world (not to mention its central love story) is instantly engaging.
- Tenth of December by George Saunders - Sharp, funny, and often extremely weird short stories. Genre readers will like Saunders's forays into that field, but his mimetic stories are equally distinct and memorable.


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From an interview with Amy Poehler in The Daily Beast:
Amy Poehler has five parenting tips: "Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers…for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces."
From an old episode of the The Rachel Maddow Show:
[T]he single, least important but most amazing thing about covering the life and times of Buddy Cianci for me was always the name of his wife. Buddy Cianci was married to a woman named Nancy Ann. Here name is Nancy Ann Cianci. Nancy Ann Cianci — the single, most awesome name in all of the names tangentially related to American political scandal ever. Nancy Ann Cianci.
From The baby name dilemma: sensible English or crazy Californian? in the Telegraph:
Why not give my first born a head start in Californian life? I'm sure when he's older and I take him and his mates Zen and Jazz out for a wheatgrass smoothie, he'd thank me for it. But what if his cruel English father one day moves him back to London? What then for poor Dove, as he tries to make friends with all the Toms and Harrys back in Blighty? Well, it's obvious, isn't it: Tom and Harry would throw bird s*** at him and then flush his head down the bog.
From a 2003 interview with Jhumpa Lahiri in the New York Times:
JG: In the new book, you explain that all Bengalis have private pet names and public "good names." But the main character in "The Namesake" is given only one name: Gogol, after the Russian writer.
JL: That happened to me. My name, Jhumpa, which is my only name now, was supposed to be my pet name. My parents tried to enroll me in school under my good name, but the teacher asked if they had anything shorter. Even now, people in India ask why I'm publishing under my pet name instead of a real name.
JG: What does Jhumpa mean?
JL: Jhumpa has no meaning. It always upset me. It's like jhuma, which refers to the sound of a child's rattle, but with a "p." In this country, you'd never name your child Rattle. I actually have two good names, Nilanjana and Sudeshna. My mother couldn't decide. All three are on the birth certificate. I never knew how to write my name.
From a live chat with Prudie of Slate:
Q. Who Is Courtney?: I've noticed that whenever you need to make up a fictional female name, you always pick "Courtney." What's up with that? Just curious!
A: I used to reflexively write, "Denise" and I once got a funny letter from a Denise asking what a Denise ever did to me. Good point that I need a name book by my computer. I like Courtney because I don't know any and it's a likely name of a person in her 20s, the way Susan is Courtney's mother, Dorothy is her grandmother, and Myrna is her great-grandmother.
…and later in the same chat:
Q. Re: Courtney: I once had a professor who would reflexively use the name "Stacy" for a generic female and then mutter, to a room full of students born in the '80s, "That's such an '80s name." The Stacys in the room—and there always was at least one—got a good laugh out of it.
A: I'll add this to my repertoire! But a quick look at a reference confirms my sense that Stacy is such a '70s name.
From an article on ostentatious baby names:
The reason is simple. If you really want your kid to be special, a name is not going to do it. Your kid is going to have to earn it. She is going to have to work hard and sacrifice. She'll have to try and fail and eventually find her place — find whatever she's good at — and then work harder to develop her talents.
It will be easier to do that if she is humble. And it will be easier for her to be humble if she doesn't have a name that makes her think she's precious and special and God's gift to the universe (such as Nevaeh, which is heaven spelled backward).
It's nobody's fault that we're screwing up kids' names — we're screwing up a lot of things. We're doing it because we're able to. We're able to because the American experiment has produced untold wealth — which shifted our focus from trying to subsist, as our parents did, to fretting over what to name our kids.
We have to knock it off, though.
From an ESPN interview with Frostee Rucker, football player:
How did you get the name Frostee?
"My pop [Len] was a DJ while he was in the military and they called him DJ Frost because they said he was cold on the spins. [They called him] Frost, Frostee all that. No matter what he named me they were going to call me Little Frost anyway, so they named me Frostee."
So Frostee is your given name?
"Yup, that's my given name."
What was it like growing up named Frostee?
"It sucked growing up really because kids at Christmas time and teachers, and me being African American, it just didn't all come together but about [the] time I came to high school it became a household name in Orange County (Calif.).
"It's just benefited [me] from then. It's always caught peoples' eye in the paper and they wanted to know more. So I don't know if I'll name my kid that if I ever have one but at the same time being unique isn't bad either."
From German Court Upholds Ban on Extra-Long Names in TIME Magazine:
The decision on which names to accept and which to reject is generally left to the local registrar, but that decision can be contested in court. And sometimes the court's ruling can seem rather arbitrary. While the names Stompie, Woodstock and Grammophon have been rejected by German courts in the past, the similarly creative parents of Speedy, Lafayette and Jazz were granted their name of choice.
(Grammophon is German for Gramophone.)
From a Slate article on Puritan names:
A wide variety of Hebrew names came into common usage beginning in 1560, when the first readily accessible English Bible was published. But by the late 16th century many Puritan communities in Southern Britain saw common names as too worldly, and opted instead to name children after virtues or with religious slogans as a way of setting the community apart from non-Puritan neighbors. Often, Puritan parents chose names that served to remind the child about sin and pain.
(The book they used as a source — Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature — is one I've referenced here on the blog a bunch of times, in posts about Acts of the Apostles, George William Frederic, Gib & Tib, Job-Rakt-Out-of-the-Asshes, Nan & Nanny, Posthumus, Robert and Tibbe.)
From an article about tennis-playing sisters Alicia "Tornado" Black and Tyra Hurricane Black:
[I]t's their mom, Gayal Black, who is behind the girls' brand-worthy names, designed to minimize comparisons with Venus and Serena Williams, and establish a unique, powerful identities for the sisters.
"I have a marketing degree…and I knew I needed to do something for them to stand out, and we thought it was cute," Gayal told ESPNW.
Tornado was born Alicia, but Gayal says the nickname came from her daughter's ferocious tennis skills as a three-year-old. "We couldn't believe how amazing she was and we knew then we had a champion. When the next one was born, we knew she could do it, too, and so her [legal] name is Tyra Hurricane."
"[Tornado didn't like her name] a few years ago. Kids tease you. But now they understand it's marketing and it's very big to say a storm blew through the US Open."
Dad Sly added that the names started as "a little joke" but "turned out to be a pretty big deal."
"Yes, Tornado and Hurricane are names for marketable athletes, but that's a big part of it nowadays, and if you can get a good, strong name, all the better."
(Found out about the Black sisters via Abby – thanks!)


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Power pointers
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30 November 2010 - Milan, Italy
Tagetik and Microsoft focus on the added value of collaboration
Joint solution enriches financial, operational processes and data analysis with advanced business communication and collaboration tools
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Intelligence, and Microsoft today hosted a round table discussion at Palazzo Mezzanotte, home of the Italian Stock Exchange. At this event, business and IT professionals had the opportunity to discuss with executives from both software vendors the importance of collaboration in performance management, corporate disclosure processes as well as Tagetik 3.0's tight integration with 'Microsoft Productivity' technologies.
"Collaboration plays such a crucial role in budgeting, consolidation, reporting and the financial close because it helps companies take control of these processes and not just measure results," explains Manuel Vellutini, Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik. "The main challenge for companies today is to involve the entire organization in managing and controlling business activities. By facilitating collaboration in performance measurement and management processes, they can effectively communicate goals to different operational teams throughout the organization (sales, marketing, production, internal audit, …). As a result, all business areas can work together on joint activities and make more effective decisions – regardless if they are sitting in the same office or scattered throughout the world."
"Companies need easier ways to implement their strategies and streamline decision-making processes that involve multiple functions throughout the organization," adds Marco Mattei, Vice President for Advanced Applications at Tagetik. "Especially in the case of highly pervasive activities such as planning and budgeting at strategic, corporate and operational levels, it is essential today to adopt a proactive rather than a reactive approach."
The round table also discussed the importance of collaboration in financial reporting and corporate disclosures. Since producing and communicating financial information is often a centralized, highly manual process, most companies still lack adequate controls and worklows.
"The growing gap between structured, non-structured information and reports for internal and external stakeholders often leads to less accurate data, production delays, inconsistency and a higher risk of error," explains Vellutini. "The latest software release 'Tagetik 3.0 Collaborative Disclosure Management' targets financial statement production with XBRL tagging to create a highly collaborative,transparent disclosure process that can be used standalone or as part of our unified CPM suite. Since the system gathers financial data and individual footnotes from any consolidation and ERP systems and stores information in a single repository, users can track and approve the data more easily. As a result, they can quickly produce regulatory reports – such as the U.S. SEC reports –, IAS financial statements, annual reports, board books and other documents required either by regulatory bodies or internal policies, with full XBRL support."
Following the discussion, Tagetik and Microsoft also presented their joint solution for 'Collaborative Performance Management', Tagetik 3.0 Enabled by Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010. This platform offers unparalleled capabilities for improving teamwork and communication as well as searching and sharing information with business intelligence and performance management tools to better manage and analyze financial processes. In addition to SharePoint Server, it also provides a seamless integration with Microsoft Office, SQL Analysis Services and Reporting Services as well as Microsoft Dynamics® ERP and Microsoft Dynamics® CRM software solutions.
"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 enriches the business processes and information in Tagetik 3.0 with Microsoft Dynamics data," adds Roberto Andreoli, Microsoft Dynamics Marketing Manager at Microsoft Italy. "Through its native integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, for example, companies can easily roll out collaborative and analytical CRM capabilities in one fully integrated, easy-to-use platform. This makes it easier to manage structured and unstructured data in order to support sales, marketing and customer service management processes.""The technology to drive 'collaborative performance management' is available today," concludes Vellutini. "Our job now is to show managers how collaboration and communication tools can effectively drive business performance for years to come."
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We take our business seriously, and to do so requires continual investment in not only our response vehicles and medical equipment, but most importantly, our people. It is these emergency medical technicians and paramedics that respond to you in your most difficult times, providing quality pre-hospital care as part of a team of medical professionals to care for you from your doorstep to the hospital emergency room. We are proud of what we do, and we are dedicated to serving you and our entire community.


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Editor's note: Gabriel J. Chin is the Chester H. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Arizona's Rogers College of Law. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Michigan and Yale law schools, he has written extensively about immigration, citizenship and race and law.
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- The Constitution provides that only "natural born citizens" can be president. Never has this obscure restriction been more controversial; in spite of conclusive evidence that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, "birthers" insist that he is ineligible because, they claim, he was really born in Kenya or Indonesia.
Meanwhile, because his opponent in the 2008 election, Sen. John McCain, was born in the Panama Canal Zone, some believe that he was ineligible to run.
Unfortunately, the text of the Constitution does not define natural born citizenship, and neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has weighed in on the question. This much is clear. The term "natural born citizen" was borrowed from the English concept of "natural born subject," which came from Calvin's Case, a 1608 decision.
Natural born subjects were those who owed allegiance to the king at birth under the "law of nature." The court concluded that under natural law, certain people owed duties to the king, and were entitled to his protection, even in the absence of a law passed by Parliament.
Republicans distance themselves from "birther" issue
Natural born subjects included people born in the sovereign's territory with two exceptions. First, children born to foreign diplomats were not subjects at birth; because they were protected by diplomatic immunity; they were legally outside the sovereign's control. In addition, children of foreign soldiers were not subjects; they were practically outside of the control of the king. All others born in the kingdom were natural born subjects.
The Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause, recognizing the citizenship of persons "born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," embodied the rule of Calvin's Case. In addition, given that there were U.S. citizens before 1868, when the 14th Amendment was passed, the Supreme Court held that the amendment was "declaratory" of unwritten law in force even before the amendment was passed.
Accordingly, there is agreement that "natural born citizens" include those made citizens by birth under the 14th Amendment. This means that, for example, although there have been proposals for change, the children of undocumented noncitizens born in the United States are both citizens at birth and natural born.
Also clear is that people who are not U.S. citizens at birth are not natural born, and cannot be made such after the fact. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a citizen, but a naturalized citizen, not natural born, so he can never be president.
The real controversy is whether people who are U.S. citizens at birth, but only by act of Congress rather than under the Constitution itself, are eligible to become president. One reading of Calvin's Case would mean that those born overseas are not natural born because they are not citizens by "natural law"; they are citizens only by virtue of compliance with a statute. On this view, the only natural law governing citizenship is now in the 14th Amendment, therefore, only 14th Amendment citizens are natural born.
Most scholars, including me, believe that natural born citizenship extends further, to all of those who obtain citizenship at birth by law. Calvin's Case was about subjectship, duties owed by subjects to a monarch who claimed to rule by the grace of God. U.S. citizenship, by contrast, involves membership in a political community based on democratic principles. Those born overseas are natural born citizens not because of natural law, but because Congress determined that they are naturally part of the political community.
If this argument is right, then even if Obama had been born overseas, he is still a natural born citizen, because he obtained citizenship at birth through his mother who unquestionably was a U.S. citizen.
If the current controversies about the natural born citizenship clause amount to a tempest in a teapot, that does not mean the clause is wise, or that it might not create a genuine problem in the future. For all of the Framers' wisdom, they erred in the Constitution in denying citizenship and political rights to women, African-Americans and others, and the natural born citizen clause's suspicion of naturalized citizens seems to reflect the same kind of bias.
In a symposium of distinguished constitutional scholars, the combination of unintelligibility, interference with democratic choice and suspicion of naturalized citizens made Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy and Yale Law School Dean Robert Post nominate the clause as the "stupidest" in the Constitution. They may be right; it may be that We, the People of the United States, are perfectly capable of sensibly choosing presidents. Unless there are some justifications for it that make sense in a modern, free society, it may be time to consider getting rid of the clause.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gabriel "Jack" Chin.


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As some of you might know, Google Reader is shutting down from the 1st of July and as from that date, you will lose the list of blogs you follow. I personally use Bloglovin', as most of you, but for those of you who don't, you can easily transfer the list of all the blogs you already follow so you don't miss out.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
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Denial of Service (DoS) Taxonomy
|1. A documented and orderly set of types, classifications, categorizations and/or principles that are often achieved through mechanisms including but not limited to naming, defining and/or the grouping of attributes, and which ultimately help to describe, differentiate, identify, arrange and provide contextual relationships between Denial of Service (DoS) Items, Entities or Types.
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|1) The Semantic Root Noun for this term is: Denial of Service (DoS)
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Bethesda Softworks Elder Scrolls V Release date 11-11-11Posted on February 24, 2011 | 1 CommentORIGINALLY POSTED 12 DECEMBER 2010 Bethesda Softworks the Elder Scrolls 5 which was originally rumored to be a direct sequel to Oblivion has officially been announced to great fanfare. The release date for Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is 11-11-11 and was announced at the Spike TV Video Game Awards. Unlike Oblivion, Elder Scrolls V Skyrim will be using a brand new engine which has been promised by Bethesda Softworks to be less buggy and a lot smoother.


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I just found the future tag on Stack Overflow.
Most questions there (now 109 non-closed) ask about events that will or will not happen in the future (relative to the time the question was asked or is read).
Most of these are either off-topic (not about programming), not constructive ("What do you think will happen?") or not a real question.
There are some legitimate questions here, about the future construct in concurrent programming, or about the
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I'm having trouble with a generic method that can accept ArrayLists of type integer and type double.
The program fails to compile because it says myList is of type "T" and i is of type "double".
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public double calculateTotals(ArrayList<T> list) { private ArrayList<T> myList = new ArrayList<T>(10); myList = list; for (double i : myList) { ....do stuff } } public static void main(String args[]) { ArrayList<Double> doubleArrayList = new ArrayList<Double>(10); ...populate array... double totals = calculateTotals(doubleArrayList); }
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"We do not condone violence against direct Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Reparations Offenders or non direct ones," in their first statement issued on the protest, Mobile Black Foot Soldier Moses Abernathy is quoted as saying. "We are compelled by the evidence in this case to believe that this 23 year old offender, whose family is believed to have once owned slaves, turned this peaceful demonstration violent."
According to the Slaves Schedules of the 1850 census, Wm. S. Miree of Perry County Alabama (Only 1 county removed from Jeffereson County Alabama – which Birmingham resides) owned a considerable number slaves.
My big brother and lifelong hero, the one and only Kyser Miree, was taken from us forever this weekend. Kyser was alone in his living room on Friday night when some human entered his home and shot him in the back of the head. My heart writhes in anguish over the senseless murder of the most peaceful and chipper man this world has ever seen.
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The honorary treasurer of the Rebuilding Fund had her eyes fixed on that. 'What is the use of thinking how a college can be different,' she seemed to say, 'when it must be a place where students are taught to obtain appointments?' 'Dream your dreams,' she seemed to add, turning, rather wearily, to the table which she was arranging for some festival, a bazaar presumably, 'but we have to face realities.'
That then was the 'reality' on which her eyes were fixed; students must be taught to earn their livings. And since that reality meant that she must rebuild her college on the same lines as the others, it followed that the college for the daughters of educated men must also make Research produce practical results which will induce bequests and donations from rich men; it must encourage competition; it must accept degrees and coloured hoods; it must accumulate great wealth; it must exclude other people from a share of its wealth; and, therefore, in 500 years or so, that college, too, must ask the same question that you, Sir, are asking now: 'How in your opinion are we to prevent war?'
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I have never really had a sweet tooth but living in France has changed this, as I am surrounded in fabulous cakes which taste as good as they look.
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Following Limited Opening Engagement, The Undefeated Goes Nationwide; Vote Online to be Sure Your Neighborhood Theater Doesn't Miss Out
Santa Monica, Calif. (June 16, 2011) In a nod to the "power of the people," movie-goers across the country now have the opportunity to vote to bring The Undefeated, which chronicles Sarah Palin's rise from obscurity to national prominence, to their local neighborhood theaters following the initial theatrical debut July 15 at select AMC theatres.
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"Digital cinema provides the perfect distribution model for The Undefeated," said Jonathan Dern, president of Cinedigm Entertainment Group. "Based on the votes we receive, we will be able to deliver the documentary – with pin point accuracy – to the markets that want it most."
Stephen K. Bannon, award-winning filmmaker, wrote and directed the film, which was produced by Victory Film Group's co-founder, Glenn Bracken Evans and Dan Fleuette. The Undefeated was independently financed by Victory Film Group and its partners.
"We are thrilled that Cinedigm and ARC Entertainment are affording the movie-going public the opportunity to speak out and have their voices heard," said Glenn Bracken Evans. "It is very exciting that we will be able to deliver this film on a big screen directly to those markets that request it. It's great that we are able to provide a 'democratic' system allowing audiences to 'vote' where they want to see a movie that celebrates the values of our American democracy."
The film includes leading prominent political commentators, such as: Mark Levin, Tammy Bruce and Andrew Breitbart as well as conservative activists: Kate Obenshein, Sonnie Johnson and Jamie Radtke. Additionally, the film features interviews with Alaskan civil servants, elected officials and advisors who were involved in Alaskan politics during Governor Palin's tenure.
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DWTS 2009 Couples Update
UPDATE: Check out the latest on Dancing with the Stars Season 8.
I previously posted my mostly sarcastic (and hopefully funny) Dancing with the Stars 2009 couples suggestions. It looks like only 2 of the couples have officially been announced. GMA had Denise Richards on the show this morning and introduced her to her partner Maks. It was kind of fun to see Denise see her partner for the first time. It was also funny that Denise and her house/family have affectionately named Maks, Maksy Pooh. This looks like it could be fun. She seems like the exact opposite of hard core Maks. I can't wait for their first confrontation.
The second couple People announced was Chuck Wicks and Julianne Hough. Imagine that!
Ok, so Chuck and Julianne being together isn't a surprise at all. Should be interesting to watch. My wife and I went to the finale of the last season of Dancing with the Stars (thanks Julianne's mom) and we had a chance to meet Chuck and Julianne backstage. It was cute to see their young love. We also were able to chat for a second with Chuck Wicks and he was super laid back and nice. We'll definitely be cheering for them both.
Here's the picture we took at last year's finale with Chuck Wicks. Let's hope he's at the finale of next year holding up the mirror ball trophy.
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MIDDLETOWN — The new Presidential Park Elementary School is going to open after spring break 2013.
MIDDLETOWN — The new Presidential Park Elementary School is going to open after spring break 2013.
District officials had previously hoped to open the new school, and move the kids who are at Chorley now into it, after winter break. However, district Superintendent Ken Eastwood said earlier this week that bad weather, problems getting some construction materials and other factors were leading to construction taking longer than expected.
The new schedule says the building will be done by the end of February, and the Chorley students will start classes in the new building on April 1. Then, Chorley will be torn down, and starting in September 2013, the new school will have about 1,200 students — twice as many as Chorley has now.
Also starting in September, all of the district's elementary schools will teach kindergarten through fifth grade. The redistricting committees that are going to decide where the students and teachers will move to are expected to be done with their work by Thanksgiving, Eastwood said.
The city is getting easements and doing site exploration work now to replace the sewer line that serves Chorley and will serve the new school, plus more than 1,000 homes in the area, said city Public Works Commissioner Jacob Tawil. Then, they will design it and send the plans to the state for approval. Tawil said he hopes to hear back by April, after which the work can be bid out.
The school district sued in 2010, when the city was trying to get them to pay for part of the cost; the suit was dismissed on appeal, but the state Education Department's stance that the district can only be required to pay for work on its property plus a connection fee hasn't changed.