At a European Parliament meeting in 2013 this MEP showed great courage and insight as the entire room had to listen to the burning truth about why the whole banking system is one big scam. He really does deserve a standing ovation after this speech. Many of you will hear his words and feel his passion but how many of us will actually take a stand and try to make a difference. How long will we let the banks rob us?
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Trump admitted to meeting Putin years ago, but now says G20 was the first time
By Jill Colvin	The Associated Press
WATCH ABOVE: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin address media at G20 summit in Hamburg
WASHINGTON — Had Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin ever met before Friday's highly anticipated encounter on the sidelines of an international summit in Germany?
Both men now say the answer is no.
But that wasn't always the case.
Trump has offered contradictory descriptions regarding his relationship and contact with the Russian leader. A look back at some of Trump's words on the subject:
WATCH: G20: Trump, Putin share warm handshake in 1st meeting of world leaders
Trump was asked whether he had a relationship with Putin in a 2013 interview with NBC taped in Moscow ahead of that year's Miss Universe pageant.
"I do have a relationship, and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today," said Trump, who used to own the beauty contest. "He's probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and I'm sure he's going to be seeing it in some form. But I do have a relationship with him."
READ MORE: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin meet face to face at G20 summit
Late-night night host David Letterman asked Trump during a 2013 interview whether he had a relationship with Russia ahead of the Miss Universe pageant.
"Well I've done a lot of business with the Russians," Trump said, before being asked whether he'd met Putin personally.
"He's a tough guy. I met him once," said Trump.
During a May, 2014 speech in front of the National Press Club, Trump described having been in Moscow recently, "and I spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin, who could not have been nicer."
READ MORE: U.S.-Russia secret ties allegations nothing but 'hysteria': Putin
In a 2015 interview with conservative talk-radio host Michael Savage, Trump was asked again point-blank whether he'd ever met Putin.
"Yes," Trump said. "One time, yes. Long time ago."
"Got along with him great, by the way," Trump added.
Trump said he'd met numerous Russian leaders when he'd been in Moscow for the pageant.
"I got to know so many of the Russian leaders and the top, top people in Russia," he said.
READ MORE: G20 protests: Why the international summit attracts so much anger
Trump's story began to change during the campaign. At a Republican primary debate in November 2015, Trump said he'd gotten to know Putin "very well" during a joint television appearance.
"I got to know him very well because we were both on "60 Minutes;" we were stablemates," Trump said, adding that they'd done "very well that night."
Trump and Putin had appeared on the same episode of the news program, but Trump's segment had been taped in New York; Putin's in Russia.
WATCH: Greenpeace anti-Trump protest float raises eyebrows in Hamburg
By 2016, Trump's story had changed completely. At a July, 2016 press conference, at the height of the general election campaign, Trump denied ever having met the Russian leader.
"I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is," he told reporters in Florida. "He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said, 'Thank you very much' to the newspaper, and that was the end of it. I never met Putin."
"Never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me," Trump added.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 7.
Carlos Barria/Reuters
The story became even more confusing when ABC's George Stephanopoulos tried to make sense of Trump's contradictory statements, in a July 2016 interview on ABC's "This Week."
"I have no relationship with him. I don't – I've never met him," Trump said. Asked why he'd said otherwise, Trump said it was because Putin had "said nice things about me over the years."
But Stephanopoulos kept on pressing, leading to the following exchange:
STEPHANOPOULOS: "Yet you said for three years, '13, '14 and '15, that you did have a relationship with him."
TRUMP: "No, look, what – what do you call a relationship? I mean he treats me…"
STEPHANOPOULOS: "I'm asking you."
TRUMP: "with great respect. I have no relationship with Putin. I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him."
STEPHANOPOULOS: "You would know if you did."
TRUMP: "I think so."
STEPHANOPOULOS: "I mean if he…"
TRUMP: "Yes, I think so. So I've – I don't think I've ever met him. I mean if he's in the same room or something. But I don't think so."
READ MORE: Trump and Putin meeting: Touchy topics the two leaders could discuss
STEPHANOPOULOS: "I just want to clear this up, because you did say on three different occasions you had a relationship with him. Now you say there is not."
TRUMP: "Well, I don't know what it means by having a relationship. I mean he was saying very good things about me, but I don't have a relationship with him. I didn't meet him. I haven't spent time with him. I didn't have dinner with him. I didn't go hiking with him. I don't know – and I wouldn't know him from Adam except I see his picture and I would know what he looks like."
Putin has denied meeting Trump.
"We didn't have any relationship at all," he told NBC's Megyn Kelly in a June interview through a translator. "There was a time when he used to come to Moscow. But you know, I never met with him."

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The Great Exhibition 1851
Posted on 9 October 2012 by beckybendylegs
Ticket to the Great Exhibition (http://www.theiet.org)
Victorian style is easy to describe: one imagines highly decorative objects, elaborate detailed wallpapers, intricately carved furniture, and beautiful paintings and sculpture. Every day objects were valued for their decoration rather than their utility. The picture is of wealth, opulence, quality, intricacy, and imperialism. Where did this image come from? Could the Great Exhibition be said to have influenced the art of the decades that followed, even up to the decades of the early twentieth century?
The Great Exhibition of the Works of all Nations (or the Crystal Palace Exhibition) took place in the newly constructed Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It consisted of around 100,000 objects that spanned a distance of around 10 miles. Over 15,000 contributors took part in the exhibition, around half of which were British. Six million people visited the exhibition, including, notably Charles Darwin, Samuel Colt, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Caroll, George Eliot and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
The exhibition, described by Sir Gill Hornby as "a walloping great glass thing in a park filled with luxury goods", took just nine months to come to fruition from initial plans to grand opening.
Exhibitors came mainly from Britain and her imperial colonies such as New Zealand, Australia, and India. Other countries took part such as the United States, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France and Switzerland.
Nations on display (http://www.stanford.edu/)
Exhibits included Stevenson's hydraulic press for lifting metal tubes over a bridge in Bangor, carpets from Axminster, a printing machine that could produce 5,000 copies of a pamphlet an hour, a folding piano, 'tangible ink' for the blind and early bicycles. Also on show were the Jacquard loom, an envelope machine, tools, kitchen appliances and steel-making displays. In addition visitors could view the Koh-i-Noor, the world's biggest diamond of the time, which ironically was regarded as a bit of a disappointment despite drawing great crowds.
The exhibition was divided into a number of areas depicting the history of art and architecture which ranged from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance, as well as exhibits from industry and the natural world. Large-scale concerts were held in the building's massive arched Centre Transept, which also contained the world's biggest organ. Within the Centre Transept a circus was held and this was the scene of amazing feats by well-known artists such as the tightrope walker Blondin. National exhibitions were also staged within the Palace, including the world's first aeronautical exhibition (held in 1868) and the first national motor show, in addition to cat, dog and pigeon shows; and honey, flower and other shows.
The Palace roof (www.bl.uk)
Prince Albert, with the help of Henry Cole and members of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce, came up with the idea of the Great Exhibition (sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition) to celebrate Britain's achievements in innovation and triumphs of engineering. On many counts, however, contrary to popular belief, the exhibition's planners saw the event rather than as a way to show off Britain's achievements, but to help identify and remedy Britain's shortcomings. It was the end of the Industrial Revolution and the era of greater empirical expansion. While Britain stood as the world's foremost industrial power by 1850, the foundations of this strength were not always obvious. The idea was to show the world the fruits of Britain's expanded economic power at the end of the industrial age in the hope that it would encourage further expansion and development in the new era of free trade and liberalism. It was to be the first in a series of World's Fairs that ran throughout the century. At that time Britain was going through a period of relative peace and austerity. The exhibition was to be a display of grandeur on a massive scale. The culture of the Victorian middle classes connected manufactured goods in abundance with ideas about progress, both intellectual and social, and industry was seen as the key to the success of a civilization. The exhibition was a way to focus the nation's eyes on the decorative and industrial arts. It fired the popular imagination and had repercussions for the art and craft world.
The Crystal Palace (www.wikipeadia.com)
'It is a wonderful place – vast, strange, new and impossible to describe' Charlotte Brontë The Brontes' Life and Letters, by Clement Shorter (1907).
The Great Exhibition is regarded now as the epitome of the grandeur of the Victorian Age and High Victorian design. It was the first international exhibition of manufactured products of its size and was hugely influential on the development of a multitude of different areas of society including art and design, education, international trade and relations, and tourism.
The building itself, designed by Joseph Paxton, attracted a lot of attention with its use of great expanses of glass and its unique use of wrought iron and cast iron. It epitomised industry and progress, as well as grandeur. It was a metaphor for Britain's hopes for the maintenance of her leading role in the industrial world. The building was moved after the exhibition to an area in London renamed Crystal Palace. It was, however, destroyed by fire in 1936.
Many areas of culture were influenced by the Great Exhibition, including fiction. Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll were most certainly affected by what they saw there and the culture of the time, as seen in their later work. For example with Lewis Carroll it is reasonable to conclude some of his later work might have been influenced by exposure to oriental culture.
It could be argued that the association the Great Exhibition fostered in the popular imagination of progress and wealth with vast open spaces gave birth to the concept of the modern department store. This started in Paris with the opening of Bon Marché in 1869, which was followed soon by Wanamakers in Philadelphia, Macy's in New York, and eventually Selfridges in London.
The influence the Great Exhibition had on design was multifaceted. The Great Exhibition demonstrated the transformation of ordinary 'goods' to a state beyond mere utility. For example the iron rocking chair designed possibly by Peter Cooper, produced by R.W. Winfield & Co., Birmingham.
Rocking chair, c.1850 (www.designboom.com)
Many of London's greatest designers were influenced by the things they saw at the Great Exhibition. Christopher Dresser, who was later to become a very influential British household designer of the era, was very much impressed by the huge array of oriental designs he found at the exhibition. Dresser designed wall coverings and fabric and he was one of the first designers to design stylish patterns not only for the wealthy but also for the new middle classes of society. These designs included exotic influences from China, India and southeast Asia
Design for central ornament of a ceiling, Christopher Dresser (New York Public Library, http://www.victorianweb.org)
Edward William Godwin, another British designer, took much from the Great Exhibition. Godwin was interested in Japanese prints and he developed an Anglo-Japanese style of interior design that was to become extremely popular. These designs were very sought after by homeowners in Britain, and the trend for intricate exotic patterning lasted throughout much of the 20th century.
Large Syringa, Edward William Godwin (The Fine Art Society, http://www.victorianweb.org)
The work of artists such as Godwin show how British design standards could incorporate influences from overseas and still remain British in their cultural identity.
The influence of the Great Exhibition on the design and art of printed matter was enormous and can be seen by the
proliferation of illustrated catalogues, colour illustrations in series form, and sheet music, Christmas cards, note cards and the like after the early 1850s.
However, despite this the organizers expressed disappointment in the result claiming that public taste had in fact been little improved or that new standards of design had been adopted. Charles Dickens actually poked fun at government efforts to impose standards of taste in Hard Times which was serialised in 1854. In this work he defends freedom of choice as something that is more important than issues of 'good taste' as regarded by the majority.
Exhibits on display (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
Could it be said that the exhibition fostered a rather narrow set of values in terms of Victorian design, one based on imperialism, opulence and austerity, which contravened in some ways the organisers' liberal and freedom of thought beliefs? In fact British creativity and individuality in art and design flourished despite, rather than because of, the Great Exhibition of the Work of all Nations.
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Raizman, David (2003) History of Modern Design, Lawrence King Publishing Limited, London, pp. 51-55
My Time Machine, www.mytimemachine.co.uk/greatexhibition.htm [last accessed 8 October 2012]
Victorian Station, http://www.victorianstation.com/palace.html [last accessed 8 October 2012]
John Kemper (23/05/2000) Standard University, http://www.stanford.edu/group/ww1/spring2000/exhibition/start.html [last accessed 8 October 2012]
The Victoria and Albert Museum website, http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/the-great-exhibition/ [last accessed 8 October 2012]
United Essays, http://www.unitedessays.com/essays/0683/exhibition.html [last accessed 8 October 2012]
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Three SLA troopers seriously injured in claymore attack in Vavuniya
[TamilNet, Friday, 08 December 2006, 09:29 GMT]
Unidentified persons triggered a claymore device Friday around 7:50 a.m at Asikulam area in Vavniya, seriously injuring 3 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers who were on their way to fetch water from a well close to the Asikulam SLA camp, Vavuniya police said. The injured troopers were rushed to Vavuniya military hospital.
The police said that there were two claymore devices fixed together but only one of them had exploded.
The SLA opened fire following the blast but whether anyone was hurt is not known, the residents of the area said.


The Walter Collective is a transdisciplinary group that met in 2014 during Haptic InterFace in Hong Kong. Over the course of two intensive weeks The Walter Collective conceived, designed and developed BIOdress (v1) a sensor networking prototype.
v1 The BIOdress connects the wearer with the environment and surrounding context by reacting and changing in accordance with the ambient conditions. The dress responds to three particulars; (i) particulate levels (dust), (ii) air quality, and (iii) organic matter EMG readings. As fugitive dust emitted by unstable or disturbed surfaces is detected in the air, the BIOdress changes colour, as the air quality deteriorates the shoulder pleats expand and contract, breathing, in response to this condition. Faster breathing equates to poorer air quality, to the point of exhaustion (this reaction will stop). Finally, EMG readings from the plant cause the leaves of the BIOdress to move and respond to its energy, wavering back and forth synergistically with the plant.
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Dispositive Environments_ [video] Cecille R. Hunt Gallery St. Louis, Missouri 24 March - 21 April, 2017.
Haptic Interface [prototype], AVA Gallery Hong Kong, December, 2014.


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Restrictive Convenants: Noncompete, Nonsolicitation, Nondisclosure Agreements
George C. Hlavac, Esq., and Edward J. Easterly, Esq.
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Many employers require new—and current—employees to execute agreements that contain restrictive covenants. Employers require such agreements to protect their customer relationships, confidential information and trade secrets, intellectual property, and general business interests. While employers do have legitimate business interests to protect, employees should be aware of what rights they are signing away when they execute such a document: The "I didn't know that was wrong" excuse will likely not work when trying to defend against a claim for breach of such an agreement.
The increased use of social media has thrown another wrench into the mechanics of restrictive covenants.
As an initial matter, there are a few common types of restrictive covenants. These include noncompete, nonsolicitation, nondisclosure, and intellectual property provisions. While each type of provision protects different and specific business rights, it is important to note that states also have different laws that interpret how such provisions are enforced or their validity. Additionally, the increased use of social media has thrown another wrench into the mechanics of restrictive covenants. Moreover, the restrictive covenant "rules" apply to individuals regardless of whether they are paid employees or interns, paid and unpaid. As such, all applicants should be mindful of what agreements they are signing at the commencement of employment.
Noncompete agreements limit an individual's ability to perform work in his or her chosen profession for a certain period of time. In this regard, a noncompete restricts former employees from working for competitors or defined groups of competitors in a specific geographic area for a defined time period. Employers require employees to sign noncompete agreements to protect corporate assets, such as trade secrets, proprietary information, and goodwill.
Each state has different laws that pertain to noncompete agreements, and they can differ significantly. For example, in Pennsylvania, a noncompete agreement has to be supported by adequate consideration and be reasonable in both temporal and geographic scope. In this case, a noncompete agreement that is signed at the commencement of employment provides "adequate consideration." However, a noncompete agreement that is signed a year after an individual commences employment without receiving any additional benefit is likely to be deemed to have no consideration and, therefore, is unenforceable. This may vary depending on the state, and what constitutes "adequate consideration" may differ.
With regard to temporal and geographic scope, courts look to what is reasonable to protect the employer's legitimate business interests. In most cases, a two-year noncompete agreement is deemed reasonable. For the geographic scope, however, there is no set standard. For example, if an individual works as a salesperson and has a territory of the East Coast, then a noncompete agreement that prohibits that person for working for a competitor on the East Coast may be reasonable, whereas a noncompete that prohibits that same person from working anywhere in the United States would likely be overly broad and unenforceable.
There are some states that have very strong limitations on noncompete agreements. California, for example, essentially prohibits the use of noncompete agreements for employees and has laws that indicate that such agreements are invalid and unenforceable. Other jurisdictions where noncompetes are unenforceable or enforced in limited situations only include Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Colorado.
In addition to general statewide prohibitions on noncompete agreements, there are some professions that restrict the use of noncompete agreements. Noncompetes are generally not enforceable against attorneys because of ethical prohibitions on preventing clients from retaining the attorney of their choice. Additionally, many states limit the enforceability of noncompetes in the medical profession. For example, in Pennsylvania, noncompete agreements with physicians are only enforceable if there is adequate medical coverage remaining if the agreement is enforced. Colorado, Texas, Connecticut, and Rhode Island all have similar laws that limit the enforceability of physician noncompete agreements.
The financial sector has further restrictions on noncompete agreements beyond those that may be imposed by an individual state. Under Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which governs the financial sector, a noncompete agreement is unenforceable if it prevents customers from continuing to use the services of their registered representative of their choice.
Nonsolicitation agreements prohibit former employees (or interns) from soliciting customers or clients of their former employer for a competitor.
Regardless of the industry an individual is in, his or her position with the company is also important when determining the enforceability of a noncompete agreement. If a company makes every employee, from the CFO to the janitor, execute the same noncompete agreement, the ability to enforce such an agreement may be impacted. This is due to the fact that courts will generally hesitate to enforce a noncompete agreement for lower-level employees unless such employees have access to confidential information or the agreement is needed to protect other legitimate business interests.
Finally, it is imperative that the person signing the agreement reads and understands what he or she is executing. Even if a noncompete agreement is ultimately deemed unenforceable, it may require legal action to get to that result. As such, understanding the terms and possibly negotiating a more favorable (or entire elimination) of such a provision is generally in the best interest of the employee or applicant prior to execution.
Nonsolicitation agreements are similar to—but not nearly as restrictive as—noncompete agreements.
Nonsolicitation agreements prohibit former employees (or interns) from soliciting customers or clients of their former employer for a competitor. Nonsolicitation provisions may also prohibit former employees from attempting to "pirate" or take away employees of the former employer for other competing business.
As a general matter, nonsolicitation provisions are much easier to enforce from an employer perspective than are noncompete agreements. While there are exceptions, such as California, if an employer drafts a limited nonsolicitation agreement that protects actual or prospective customers that a former employee (or intern) had contact with while employed, it will generally be deemed enforceable. In this regard, the definition of "customer" and "prospective customer" must be clearly defined and the temporal scope must be limited, e.g., the scope of the agreement is two years.
There are looser restrictions for nonsolicitations because courts are generally agreeable to allowing an employer a period of time to retain its customers. However, as noted, there are exceptions to that general rule. Nonsolicitation agreements are generally invalid for lawyers, physicians, or individuals in the financial field if they prohibit people from choosing their profession of choice. Accordingly, while nonsolicitations are given more latitude from the legal perspective, there are still limitations.
Regardless, as with noncompetes, applicants should be mindful of what they are signing at the commencement of employment. While not as restrictive as a noncompete agreement, a nonsolicitation agreement may still have an impact on an individual's ability to obtain other employment. As such, it is recommended that applicants thoroughly read and understand who is covered by the nonsolicitation prior to execution.
Nondisclosure Agreements and Intellectual Property Agreements
A nondisclosure agreement prohibits an employee or intern from disclosing an organization's confidential and/or proprietary information to third parties during both the tenure of employment and after termination. The individual agrees that he or she will not reveal anything the company considers confidential, such as customer lists, research, and development plans.
Unlike other forms of restrictive covenants, a nondisclosure agreement does not restrict an individual's ability to obtain work upon the termination of employment, but merely protects an employer's proprietary information. In this regard, a nondisclosure agreement will provide a definition of "confidential information" and indicate that the employee is not permitted to disclose such information to any third parties. Nondisclosure agreements are generally enforceable provided that there is a specific definition of what constitutes confidential information. Additionally, nondisclosure agreements generally do not have a temporal limit and are enforceable in perpetuity provided the information remains "confidential" to the former employer and does not become public knowledge.
Intellectual property agreements limit an employee's ability to maintain ownership of inventions and ideas while working for an employer. In this regard, employees essentially sign over their rights to inventions or ideas if they were created using an employer's confidential information or as part of an employee's position with a company. Such agreements, however, can be overly broad and expand to areas outside of what should be protected. Accordingly, it is imperative that individuals carefully read over such provisions prior to execution, as failing to do so may cost the individual more than a job in the future—it may cost him or her rights to an invention.
The Social Media Impact
The significantly increased use of social media has changed the way employers (and courts) have handled restrictive covenant issues, specifically noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements.
Social media has increased the potential for violations of nonsolicitation agreements.
As noted above, most states have rules that provide that noncompete agreements must be reasonable in geographic scope. As such, most courts have viewed restrictive covenants that lacked any geographic restrictions as overly broad and unreasonable, and, therefore, unenforceable. With the use of social media and web-based companies, courts have expanded their view on the "limitless boundary" noncompete agreements. In this regard, some courts have allowed such broad geographic restrictions, provided the employer can show that there is a reasonable business interest in such language. For example, an employee uses social media to solicit customers on behalf of her employer and therefore does not have a geographic boundary.
In addition to expanded scopes of noncompete agreements, social media has increased the potential for violations of nonsolicitation agreements. Is it a violation of a nonsolicitation agreement to be "friends" with someone on social media, or to connect with him or her on LinkedIn? It all depends on the agreement and the actions of the former employee. Many employers are now specifically including limitations on post-employment social media activity in their agreements to address any potential issues. Even if such language is not specifically included, courts have indicated that an individual's actions on social media can rise to a violation of a restrictive covenant.
By way of example, if a former employee "targets" former or prospective customers using social media, it has been construed as a violation of a nonsolicitation agreement. Conversely, if a former employee merely announces a new position and is not actively "soliciting" former customers or prospects, it may not be a violation of the restrictive covenant.
While courts sort out all of the new issues that arise as a consequence of the "Wild West" nature of social media, it is key that individuals understand what they can and cannot do. The individual who is bound by a restrictive covenant should be mindful of what he or she posts on social media and the manner in which he/she connects with former or prospective customers. Failure to do so could result in legal action.
Steps to Take Before Signing
Regardless of the type of restrictive covenant agreement an individual is presented with, the steps before signing such an agreement are the same.
The individual should carefully read and understand the agreement and have someone with expertise in the field do the same.
If it is believed that the agreement is overly broad, the individual should do everything he/she can to negotiate better terms.
If the employer is not willing to change a term, it is then up to the applicant to determine if the job is worth the restrictions that will come if, and when, the position comes to an end. Sometimes, the "juice" is not worth the future "squeeze."
Note from KU Engineering Career Center – in addition to the suggested steps above, consider asking about any restrictive covenants before signing the job offer and have them reviewed by KU Legal Services for Students. For example, during the offer discussion process, ask "I know many companies have noncompete and confidentiality types of agreements that employees sign when they actually start work – is it possible to get a copy of those now?"
George Hlavac, Esq., and Edward Easterly, Esq., are attorneys in the labor and employment law department at Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A.
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Cisco to acquire ...
Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Acacia Communications.
The two companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Cisco has agreed to acquire existing supplier, Acacia, which designs and manufactures high-speed, optical interconnect technologies for webscale companies, service providers, and data centre operators.
Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will acquire Acacia for $70.00 per share in cash, or approximately $2.6 billion on a fully diluted basis, net of cash and marketable securities.
The move comes as innovation across software, silicon and optics fuels Cisco's initiative to make networks smarter, simpler and more secure. It currently offers a portfolio of optical systems that address performance, power, and cost requirements. The addition of Acacia's technology will enrich this portfolio, allowing the growing number of customers transitioning from chassis-based systems to pluggable technology to simplify operations and reduce network complexities.
Once the transaction has closed, Acacia employees will join Cisco's Optical Systems and Optics business within the networking and security business under David Goeckeler, executive vice president and general manager of Cisco's networking and security business.
Goeckeler, commented: 'With the explosion of bandwidth in the multi-cloud era, optical interconnect technologies are becoming increasingly strategic. The acquisition of Acacia will allow us to build on the strength of our switching, routing and optical networking portfolio to address our customers' most demanding requirements.'
Raj Shanmugaraj, president and chief executive officer at Acacia added: 'Coherent technology has been a game-changer for optical networking and continues to evolve with the deployment of pluggable coherent optics. Upon close, Cisco and Acacia will continue to serve and support existing Acacia customers. By integrating Acacia technology into Cisco's networking portfolio, we believe we can accelerate the trend toward coherent technology and pluggable solutions while accommodating a larger footprint of customers worldwide.'
The acquisition is expected to close during the second half of Cisco's FY2020, subject to customary closing conditions and required regulatory approvals.
Cisco also completed the $660 million acquisition of semiconductor company, Luxtera earlier this year.
Acacia Communications
Extreme's Aerohive acquisition to add cloud management and edge capabilities
Ekinops OTN acquisition to triple optical sales in five years
Altice Europe closes sale of SFR FTTH stake
Mergers and Acquisitions, FTTH
Kaiam's UK and Europe operations acquired by Broadex Technologies
Mellanox acquired by Nvidia in $6.9 billion agreement
Collaboration to offer fibre opportunities in Cambridgeshire, UK
FTTH in Europe
A joint venture has been launched between the University of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire County Council to open up new opportunities for full-fibre networks.
Optical communications professionals - let us know what's bothering you!
Fibre Systems is looking for manufacturers/vendors, planners, installers, integrators, operators and academics to help shape the topics we cover.
Project gains funding for semiconductor fabrication processes
A project designed to scale-up novel compound semiconductor device fabrication processes has received European funding.
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Openreach has chosen OFS to help with its fibre deployment in MDUs, which can pose a challenge for installers.


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Zachary's conservative, straight-laced image is nothing like the Zachary of the 1880s and 1890s, which had a Wild West reputation and six barrooms along Main Street.
By the 1930s, things had changed dramatically, and the Baton Rouge and New Orleans newspapers were lauding Zachary as a great place for families to settle.
Along the way, Zachary has had many interesting and colorful Mayors among other leaders. The vast majority have been honest businessmen who simply gave of themselves for four or eight years to serve in city government with little thought of personal gain.
But we have had our share of controversies, tragedies, and interesting characters. The first Mayor was Thomas E. McHugh (1889-1891). Just 100 years later his descendant, also named Tom Ed McHugh was our Metro Councilman and later Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish.
Mayor H. K. Farrar (1891) was granted a leave of absence by the town's Board of Trustees (the City Council) shortly after being elected. The leave of absence was for 30 days, but the Mayor was suffering from a serious illness, probably tuberculosis, and soon died, never returning to the job.
Another early Mayor, A. W. Converse (1892-1899) had a bit of good luck. The Trustees voted him a salary of $75 a month. Not bad in those days! However, Mayor Converse had some serious problems. When running for reelection in October 1893, he was opposed by A. W. Ratcliff and the two candidates ended up in a 41-41 tie. The matter was somehow settled and Mayor Converse stayed in office. Unfortunately, the minutes of the Board of Trustees, all of which are preserved at the Zachary Archives, show that the Mayor was absent for the board meeting on March 27, 1899. The entry says, "Mayor A. W. Converse absent (deceased)." Apparently, the Mayor made a citizen angry over a financial affair, and the citizen shot and killed him.
Over the years, the Loudon family seems to have had a lock in the Mayor's Office. James Bogan Loudon became Mayor upon the death of Mayor Converse. Two months later J. M. Loudon became Mayor. Mayor J. M. Loudon resigned as Mayor in 1900 but was back in the office in 1902 and resigned again. In 1915, R. E. Loudon was elected Mayor and supposedly served until 1920. In 1920, J. B. Loudon became the Mayor and served until 1930. He was the last Loudon to serve as Mayor.
Three long-serving Mayors were P. P. Kennedy, who served from 1903 to 1915, Marshall Bond, who served from 1932 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1948, and Mayor Stanley N. "Slim" Noble, who served from 1948 until 1966. Noble's salary was a whopping $250 a month.
In 1966, Zachary elected its first Republican Mayor, Jack L. Breaux, who was quite popular — popular enough to help break down some racial barriers during the integration of the school system. Jack Breaux was, in fact, one of the first Republican elected officials in Louisiana and one of the first Republican Mayors in Louisiana since Reconstruction.
Jessie Pendergest III served for a few months as Mayor after the death of Jack Breaux.
The longest-serving and one of Zachary's most popular mayors was John Womack, who served from 1982 to 2003. John Womack was defeated by Mayor Charlene Smith. Womack passed away earlier this year, after spending the last eight retired years dedicated to community service through volunteering. Smith, who was defeated by Henry Martinez four years ago, continues to have a thriving insurance business here in Zachary. Martinez, who left office in January, continues to be part of the community through civic participation.
On January 11, 2010, Zachary native, David Amrhein ran against incumbent Henry Martinez. Amrhein won with 57% of Zachary's 10,000 registered voters. Mayor David Amrhein officially took office on January 10, 2011. He previously served as a Zachary Council member for eight years from 1999 to 2007 and led the Zachary City Council as Mayor Pro-tempore from 2003-2004. David Amrhein was part owner of a successful locally-owned family business, Amrhein and Sons Hardware, for over 30 years.
Mayor Amrhein has been a member of the Century Club, Zachary Chamber of Commerce, Zachary High School Hall of Fame Committee and Board Member and Treasurer of Zachary Youth Baseball, where he coached for numerous years. He was awarded the 2010 Zachary High Baseball Lifetime Achievement Award for "His many years of help and commitment to the Zachary Baseball Program and for his involvement and continued support." In 2014, David was the recipient of the Walter Zeller Fellowship Medal for his efforts in the Zachary community, awarded by the Kiwanis Club. Under his proven leadership, Zachary has been designated 2nd Best City to Raise a Family in Louisiana, Top 5 Best Towns for Young Families in Louisiana, Top 10 Best Towns for Families in the United States, Top 10 Safest Places to Live in Louisiana, 2018 Richest Town in Louisiana by USA Today, and has been awarded "Safest 70" Distinction from LWCC, in addition to the Zachary Youth Park being named a "Field of Excellence." David is married to Robyn Boudreaux Amrhein, and they have two children, Blake and Dustin. Dustin and his wife, Laura Kate have two sons, Jackson and Emmitt Amrhein. Mayor Amrhein presently serves on the Firefighters Retirement System Board of Trustees and the East Baton Rouge Parish Communications District Board.


We're so excited to bring you a special offer this November and December for the newly opened Bowerbird Kitchen in Richmond! Just for you – Suzie Scribbles followers and fans: You'll be able to try any item from their Kitchen menu for $10 (that's nearly 50% off some dishes!!). So what are you wanting for, get down there this weekend!
Bowerbird is Melbourne's newest premium gin destination; they've opened their doors on Richmond's busy Bridge Road and are keen to put the focus on local crafters, brewers and distilleries with a bar featuring over 50 Victorian Gins. And after a successful soft-launch, they've now released their highly-anticipated meze style menu.
Designed by Port Douglas native, Chef Kass Yates, the menu highlights a range of fresh seafood and produce and perfectly encapsulates the refined, yet casual dining that Bridge Road has been after. Favourites from the menu include the Lamb and Eggplant Meatballs, Duck Filo Cigars and the Octopus – which you get to try for just $10.
Bowerbird is a labour of love for owner (and bar man) Max, whose wife Victoria Allan designed the space for the new eatery. While not taking themselves too seriously, they're definitely serious about good food and drink and want everyone to feel welcomed like family when they visit Bowerbird. I'm not sure what else you need to tempt you!
Parking: There is limited parking nearby, but it's probably better to visit on PT anyway so you can enjoy a gin or two!
Getting here on PT: Easily reached from the 48 or 75 tram, alight at Church Street and it's just a couple of minutes walk.
Terms and Conditions: Offer is valid for 1 dish per person. Items from the kitchen menu ONLY (excludes bar menu items). Valid until 16th December 2018. Offer must be mention when ordering and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or voucher.


Mohammedan Sporting Club will be hoping to make a positive start to their campaign when they face ATK in the opening group game of the 122nd U-19 IFA Shield at Barasat Stadium on Thursday (Kick-off at 3:00 pm).
Both have very different objectives in mind for the IFA Shield and the result of this match will go some way towards deciding their chances of achieving those goals. For Mohammedan SC, the aim is simple – the eyes of coach Ananta Kumar Ghosh are firmly fixed on a place in the semifinals and three points against tournament underdogs ATK are a must.
In contrast, his ATK counterpart knows a top-four berth is likely to be out of reach for his charges and will instead be targeting at least one positive result in their IFA Shield debut, with defending champions FC Pune City and local giants East Bengal Club awaiting in the next round of fixtures.
Despite reaching the semifinals in the inaugural edition in 2015, the Young Panthers are yet to win a match in the competition. Therefore, they will be desperate to make amends for their failure in the past editions and Ghosh says his side will go into their opener against ATK with cautious confidence.
"I must make it absolutely clear that we approach the IFA Shield with humility and a lot of respect for our opponents. We know what we have to do, but there is no way we underestimate any of our opponents," he said.


One of my most favorite restaurants on the Oregon Coast is Local Ocean in Newport*. And whenever we go there, even though I know I should order something new, I get the Grilled Halibut with Swiss chard, edamame, bacon, udon noodles, ponzu sauce – because it's so good that I just can't bring myself to order anything else.
For my last International Food Bloggers Conference post, I'd like to talk about Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville, WA.
Well. Like the rest of the west, we are having a bit of a heatwave here. Which isn't that surprising I guess because it is summer, but it is still Portland, so yeah, I am honestly a bit surprised. When the weather is all hot, gross, and annoying outside, this is a great dinner option. Aside from cooking the sorghum (which you can do in the morning, when it's still cool), the only heating involved is to quickly sear the tuna.
After a short vacation (and a short blog hiatus) I am back. Hooray! And to ease back into the non-vacation existence, I've decided to ease back into the blog with an easy, tasty recipe for a great vegetable side dish.


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The station building was constructed circa 1873 on a platform that lies between standard gauge line to Afon Wen and the narrow gauge line to Rhyd Ddu and Bryngwyn
A busy scene at Dinas Junction
Sturdily built in random granite with windows, door and corners outlined in yellow brick, it survived the closure of both the narrow gauge in 1937 and the standard gauge in 1968.
Dinas Station in 1948
The site was taken over by Caernarfonshire County Council (later a Gwynedd Council Highway depot) and the building was used as an office with a lean-to added
The doors and windows were altered during its lifetime to suit the needs at the time.
Dinas Station restored
However in 2000 with the construction of the line from Caernarfon to Dinas, thanks to the generosity of a benefactor, the building was restored to its original form.
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YOUNG campaigner Evie Russell is trying to put the brakes on motorists who speed into a Teesside sports ground.
Upset at how cars kept hurtling into Eston Recreation Ground, off the Trunk Road, Evie penned a letter to Redcar and Cleveland Council, urging action.
Evie was worried cars would knock her and her family over while out walking her Yorkshire Terrier Toby.
She was also frightened that other young children might be at risk.
Earlier this year, the council acted on Evie's concerns by erecting a 5mph speed limit sign at the park entrance.
And her school was so impressed a special assembly was held last week in which neighbourhood officers talked to the children about road safety - and the council's road safety mascot, Spike the hedgehog, even popped in.
It's a good result for Evie, eight, who attends St Margaret Clitherow RC School in St Margaret's Grove, South Bank.
Mum Marion said: "As we were walking at the rec, I said it was about time we complained about the speed of the cars and the next thing I knew, she'd written a letter.
And how does Evie feel about the sign going up?
Marion added: "She says she's glad and thinks that if people still break the speed limit, they should go to jail.
Council leader George Dunning said: "This is a lovely story of a young person in our area thinking of the welfare of others.


Do you need to write a complaint letter, but don't know where to begin? As long as you can type a few facts in a box, you can produce a simple, classy, and easy-to-read complaint letter that should get the job done.
Would you rather flesh out your own message? The site also has this handy model letter, which breaks down and labels the basic required elements of a complaint letter. There's a version that you can copy and paste and customize for your own needs as well.


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Adapting the Wheel of Time
I doubt they'll ever make the Wheel of Time into a TV series — but it's an interesting mental exercise, thinking about how they would do it. (I do this sort of thing a lot, because it makes me think differently about story structure and how to create the appropriate shape.)
Up front: no way in hell would they just film it the way they've done with Martin's books, (roughly) one book per season; that would make for fourteen seasons of TV, and even in a hypothetical scenario nobody's going to do that. Even allowing for reductions based on things like "you don't have to describe clothing when you can just show it" and "we'll go straight to the meeting between these characters, rather than spending an entire chapter setting it up," you've still got too much. Even if you go further and cut out a lot of the side viewpoints. You have to make it smaller. We'll give them seven seasons to play with: that should be enough.
The next thing is that you have to restructure it. You can't just condense the material and then film it straight through, because you've got to make sure the beats fall where they should. The end of every season needs to have something significant happening with the protagonist. I said in my discussion of writing long fantasy series that you need to hammer in some pegs for major events, and then navigate a path between them; in this case that means deciding what's happening with Rand at the end of every season, and then shifting everything else to form a good shape around that. Theoretically the same should have been true of the books, but — well. Because of the way the structure got out of control, there are several books where the actual climax of the book is in somebody else's plot strand.
Going through the series, what are his big events at the end of each book?
1. He discovers he can channel.
2. He becomes publicly identified as the Dragon Reborn.
3. He officially proclaims himself the Dragon Reborn.
4. He officially proclaims himself the Car'a'carn and gets his Aiel army.
5. He fights Rahvin.
6. He escapes captivity.
7. He fights Sammael.
8. He fights the Shaido. (I had to look this one up in my posts.)
9. He cleanses saidin.
10. He does absolutely nothing, because he gets only fifteen pages of pov in the whole book. (Looked this one up, too. It's Crossroads of Twilight, of course.)
11. He captures Semirhage, I think? Though that isn't at the end.
12. He has an epiphany that turns him into Zen Master Jesus Rand.
13. . . . I'm actually not sure, and my notes don't help.
14. He defeats the Dark One.
If I had to restructure this into seven units, I think I would do it like this:
1. Rand discovers he can channel.
4. He has a cool fight with one or more major Forsaken.
6. He has an epiphany that turns him into Zen Master Jesus Rand.
7. He defeats the Dark One.
The important thing is that those things happen; how they happen is subject to change. For example, if you're keeping the Horn of Valere as a thing, you fold that into either the first finale or the second one, since the Falme-related finale is no longer in the outline. Which Forsaken is he fighting in #4? Eh, whichever one fits best. The rest can still show up; there are probably Forsaken involved in lots of these finales. But you don't have the repetition of "and now we will have a throwdown with a Forsaken which is the only important thing going on here." If you think fans will be disappointed by losing Dumai's Wells, then fold that in; the Rand-in-a-box segment is a good setup for Rand's downhill slide.
Then you do the same thing with the other major characters. Not all of them will get a big thing every season, of course — though Mat and Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve might. For Mat, you'd probably say that in the first season he picks up the Shadar Logoth dagger and uses it at the end; second season he gets healed of that and blows the Horn of Valere at the end; third season he meets the *finn and gets his military knowledge; fourth season he forms the Band of the Red Hand and uses them in the fight; fifth season he deals with the Seanchan (even if you don't have the Bowl of Winds plot, you can still arrange for him to be in Ebou Dar); sixth season he rescues Moiraine; seventh season he fights the Last Battle. Rinse and repeat with Perrin . . . and maybe when that's done you don't have the Shaido Plot of Doom! Etc.
Obviously this loses vast quantities of stuff — but as I said, that's inevitable. It forces you to look at the whole of the story and ask, which parts of this are the most important? Not logistically important; you can elide that stuff far more than Jordan seemed to think you could. The Forsaken all have to be defeated, but a) you could skip the part where they come back from the dead and b) the less important ones can be bumped off along the way, without big, focal battles. You need the parts that are thematically important, the ones that change the world or the characters — preferably both. Once you have that, you ask yourself what's necessary to make that go (e.g. you need to introduce the Aiel in S1 or S2 so that Rand has a reason to go to the Waste in S3). Once you've filled in that, you look around and see how much room you've got left, and what shiny things you can put in to fill it.
And if you read this post, you may notice that there's a resemblance there. If you're capable of outlining a story before you write it, then what I just described is also good advice for writing fresh material as well as adapting something that already exists. But I am personally not enough of an outliner to do that, with very rare exceptions; I'm more liable to say "okay, what needs to happen in this book," and ask that question fresh every time I sit down to start a new novel. I would, however, know from the outset how many novels I was writing — and so I would pace myself accordingly. As I said before: PICK A STRUCTURE, AND STICK TO IT.
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VAT: New rules on the place of supply of services and a new procedure for VAT refunds
Two Directives, one on the place of supply of services, the other on VAT refunds, were adopted by the EU Council of Ministers on 12 February 2008. They will ensure that VAT on services will accrue to the country of consumption, and will establish a new procedure for claiming VAT refunds to ensure quicker processing. For more information see the press release (IP/08/208)
From 1 January 2010, the new rules on theplace of supply of services will mean that business-to-business supplies of services will be taxed where the customer is situated, rather than where the supplier is located. For business-to-consumer supplies of services, the place of taxation will continue to be where the supplier is established.However, in certain circumstances, the general rules for supplies both to businesses and to consumers will not be applicable and specific rules will apply to reflect the principle of taxation at the place of consumption. These exceptions concern services such as restaurant and catering services, the hiring of means of transport, cultural, sporting, scientific and educational services, and telecommunications, broadcasting and electronic services supplied to consumers. For further information see the Directive
Also from 1 January 2010, the current procedure for reimbursement of VAT incurred by EU businesses in Member States where they are not established will be replaced by a new fully electronic procedure, thereby ensuring a quicker refund to claimants. The current paper-based procedure is slow, cumbersome, and costly. It also lacks in legal certainty. The new procedure will better facilitate businesses and improve the functioning of the internal market. A new feature is that businesses will be paid interest if Member States are late making refunds. For further information see the Directive.
See also the Regulation on administrative co-operation
VAT: Clearer overview of Community VAT legislation currently in force
The essential piece of EU VAT legislation since 1 January 2007 has been Directive 2006/112/EC. That 'VAT Directive' is effectively a recast of the Sixth VAT Directive of 1977 as amended over the years. The recast brings together various provisions in a single piece of legislation. It provides a clearer overview of EU VAT legislation currently in force.
As it is usual practice, the Directive contains a correlation table providing the bridge between the provisions of the Sixth VAT Directive and those of the new Directive. This table features at the end of the Directive
VAT: Commission has proposed to authorise Romania to apply a reduced rate of VAT to certain labour-intensive services
On 28 November 2006, the European Commission issued a proposal for a Council Decision authorising Romania to apply a reduced rate of VAT to certain labour-intensive services. For further information see the proposal (COM(2006) 736
VAT: More effective and transparent simplification and anti-evasion rules.
Article 395 of the VAT Directive (Article 27 of the Sixth VAT Directive) lready allows Member States to apply special rules derogating from the provisions of that Directive. However, the process of obtaining a derogation is cumbersome, with periodic renewals also required. As some derogations have proved successful in countering avoidance and evasion, and deal with problems common to a number of Member States, the Commission believes it to be appropriate that all Member States should be able to apply them without having to seek individual authorisations. Directive 2006/69/EC achieves this by providing a permanent harmonised alternative treatment as an option within the Sixth Directive. This gives Member States the choice over whether they need to adopt the rule but at the same time allows them to do so quickly if necessary.
The new Directive permits Member States to:
re-value certain supplies made between connected parties under clearly defined circumstances
re-value the taxable amount of worked investment gold
apply a "reverse charge" to account for VAT in a number of sectors which have proved to be difficult to control for Member States, including supplies of land and buildings, waste, and building construction, maintenance and demolition services
combat avoidance involving the use of rules on VAT Groupings and "Transfers of a going concern".
At the same time, 21 existing derogations are repealed (in one case part repealed) - either specifically or automatically by virtue of the Directive coming into force. The ability of Member States to apply for further derogations under Article 27 remains unaffected by the Directive.
Businesses should find the new situation more transparent as the alternative rules are clearly set out in the main Directive and they will not have to identify the relevant Decisions for each Member State. In addition, because Member States have flexibility in the application of the measures, the rules are capable of being targeted.
VAT: reduced rates of VAT on labour intensive services until 2010
The Council on 14 February 2006 adopted a Directive enabling Member States to apply reduced rates of value-added tax for certain labour-intensive services until 2010. Those Member States which applied a reduced rate on these services on 31 December 2005 may continue to apply the reduced rate of VAT until 31 December 2010. Those Member States which did not previously apply these reduced rates have until March 31 st to inform the Commission that they would like to introduce the measure.
This Directive, which amends Directive 77/388/EEC, extends the validity of annex K of that Directive until 31 December 2010.
In addition, it authorises Member States, once they have had the agreement of the Commission, to apply a reduced rate of VAT to supplies of district heating
Finally, the Directive invites the Commission to present, by June 2007, a report providing an assessment of the impact of reduced rates applied to locally-provided services, including restaurant services, in terms notably of job creation, economic growth and the internal market, on the basis of a study to be carried out by an independent economic think-tank.
See also: Contract Award notices
Specifications and annex attached to the invitation to tender.
The Directive is applicable from 1 January 2006. The Directive is based on a Commission proposal of July 2003.
The text of the implementing Directive is here. See the press release of the Council.


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Hungry Minds Academy in a Box : The Game That Reviews ANYTHING!
One of the most wonderful things about homeschooling is that most of us have the choice of how, when, and why we test our children. I'm not a fan of testing, especially in the elementary years. While I understand the need to testing, I don't like the pressure and stakes of testing. So what's a person supposed to do instead of the normal drill and test routine?
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2018: Hungry Minds appears to have gone out of business. Links in this post may not work.
Academy in a Box by Hungry Minds Study Games is one of the coolest games I've seen, it's actually four games in one and was designed for you and your students to review anything. ANYTHING!
Disclaimer: Affiliate links are used in this post. I received this product at no cost to facilitate my review. All opinions are my own.
Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this review to get your exclusive coupon code and enter to win a copy!
Hungry Minds Study Games is the brainchild of Kevin Munn and Stephanie Rico, teachers/tutors/social workers who worked with kids in study groups and after school programs. They make really wonderful games to help children learn and study material in a meaningful (and fun!) way.
I was so excited to get a chance to review Academy in a Box because this is right up our alley! My very first impression was "Wow, what a wonderfully constructed game!" It's rare to see such a high quality game board and packaging in an independent start-up. The game board is solid yet flexible enough for small hands to easily fold. The game pieces are sturdy cardboard with plastic holders. Each of the four games comes with its own bag to store the pieces.
What really sets Academy in a Box apart though is two very small things: individual game play instruction cards and video previews. I cannot stress enough how much easier this makes learning how to play a new game!
Let's look at the 4 games that make up Academy in a Box!
Elephants Never Forget is played like the classic memory game, making it very easy to learn and play. I can see this game being great for studying times tables, reading analog and digital clocks, upper and lower case letter matching, and foreign language!
To play: Write the material to review on a sticky note and attach to one of the question cards (or write the question on a piece of paper and use the included Sticky Tack to affix it). Write the question's answer or other related material on another sticky note and affix it to a second card. When the players find a match they place the cards on their elephant mat!
Fly Snap is a game of categories, it works very much like the TV show Jeopardy(r)! This is the perfect game to study multiplication facts, among other topics!
To play: Write the title of 1-4 categories on sticky notes and place each on one of the lily pad cards. Write questions for each category on the back of the fly cards. Players take turns selecting a category and a card. If the player answers correctly they place the fly card on their frog mat. The player with the most fly cards at the end of the game wins!
Ocean Chase is a speed game that can be played multiple ways. To start you write questions on sticky notes and place them on the game cards. Next you line up the water tiles across the table and each player will place their fish token on the 4th card. Place the whale on the first (or second or third, depending on the game) tile. Players then race to answer as many questions correctly as they can, and move between water tiles, before the whale "eats" their fish! The first fish to reach the end of the tiles wins!
Island Escape is the game my kids were drawn to the most. The game board is simply delightful, and the monkey player tokens are cute, too!
To play: Write questions/facts/review material on sticky notes and affix to the question cards. Each player selects a monkey player token and places it on the start spot on the game board. Players roll a die to advance on the game board. Players must answer a question when they land on a ? space. Correct answers result in another turn, incorrect answers end that player's turn. There are hazards in the form of spaces that ask multiple questions. The first player to finish the game board wins.
Game play was fluid and fun. The kids really enjoyed the game board, it's really fun to look at. I was worried that we wouldn't have enough game cards but it turns out we had the perfect amount for a three person game with not-very-challenging questions. In the future I will make the questions a little more challenging and possibly add in some question cards from the other games if more than two kids want to play at once.
We used Island Escape to practice mental math skills.
The Island Escape game board is very high quality and features really great artwork!
Academy in a Box comes with everything you need to get started reviewing anything!
It looks like this website is no longer around for us to purchase The Academy In A Box. 🙁 Would you happen to know a new link or even want to sell yours to me?
Oh no! Let me contact the inventor and see if they have a copy to sell you!
I would drop in to their Facebook page and message them!


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Found this while looking for something inspirational and I'm glad I did. We all need a break from materialism sometimes, to connect back to the source. 🙂 New follower!
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A proxy server provides an intermediate connection between you and the websites you want to visit. Proxy servers hide your IP address by forwarding your traffic, so that websites see requests coming from the proxy, not from you. However, the proxy server still needs to know your IP address, otherwise it would never be able to return the site's response back to you. Transparent proxies, which are just one type of proxy server, even include your information in headers for the site to see.
Extensions and plugins in your browser may also give you away with fingerprinting, and your identity (although not necessarily your IP address) are tracked almost every single time you see an advertisement. A proxy server doesn't prevent any of these tracking methods, and knowing your IP address is just one of more than a dozen ways you can be tracked online. This isn't meant to scare you, of course–a proxy server does hide your IP address at a surface level. For basic browsing privacy, hiding your IP address is sufficient, but it's important to understand that your IP address is not the only way to identify you.
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Ever since she's started talking about The Intern, it's been asked many times of actress Anne Hathaway what it was like to be Robert De Niro's boss. Even attending a press conference with acting legend De Niro is a rare thing, so when the 32 year-old Oscar winner was told that De Niro would play her intern, it was no surprise that she was not only a little excited but also more than a bit intimidated.
After all he had not only won an Oscar, but had been nominated for awards many times over, worked with the world's best directors such as Martin Scorsese, co-created a world class film festival (Tribeca) and become a major player in the development of downtown Manhattan.
Okay, so De Niro wasn't actually Hathaway's intern. In the film, he plays 70-year-old widower/retiree Ben Whitaker who becomes the intern to Hathaway's character, tech entrepreneur Jules Ostin.
However, any time you have this Oscar winner, so potent for his performances (his Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver is a benchmark for acting aficionados everywhere) taking orders from you, it causes you to take pause. Even when you're playing an online retailing superstar in director Nancy Meyer's The Intern.
The 65-year-old Meyers makes films that find clever, engaging ways to address various social issues, particularly gaps in gender relations. Over her long career as a writer, producer and director, she's applied witty and fresh turns to such matters in various big-screen successes as 1998's The Parent Trap, 2003's Something's Gotta Give, 2006's The Holiday, and 2009's It's Complicated. Along the way, this Philly native surpassed Penny Marshall as the highest-grossing female director of all time.
When the siren call goes out � that you're invited to question these three � you hope that the questions cover the concerns the film addresses: gender bias, ageism, tech ignorance, micro management, and the emotional baggage engaged when you become a business star at a young age.
That's just a few of the issues that The Intern tackles. For some, this comedy about a young female founder of a cool fashion e-commerce company who agrees to a program where seniors intern at her firm seems regressive in retrospect. However, whatever conclusions the film addresses, this Q&A held at the Crosby Hotel enlightened with tales of the film's backstory.
Now that it's all done and about to be out there, what do you think of the issues addressed in the film, and how they were approached here?
Nancy Meyers: Obviously it's about the concept of retirement and that it might happen to you whether or not you are ready. This film is also about somebody's desire to stay part of things and not be pushed aside. I enormously enjoyed doing all the research I did about startups; I found that whole culture so interesting. And the fact that Annie plays a woman who's the founder of a company. I was saying to somebody that when I wrote Baby Boom, it wouldn't have occurred to me to make her the boss. Now, it wouldn't have occurred to me when I was writing Annie's character to make her an employee.
I think the world has changed enough. I've been able to make movies over such a long period of time where I've examined the lives of these women who have families and children. Then I got a chance to look at the stay-at-home dad, [and] the mom who's running a company, and all that that entails. The primary thing is that I wanted to write about a friendship between two people that's, in its own way, a love story, but not a romantic one.
Anne Hathaway: Obviously, [it's about] age and gender. One of the things that Nancy's done in this movie, and that she has done throughout her career, is find things that we relate to via humor and emotion throughout our lives. She usually has a knack for getting there first, and making [such] observations. In this case, she's really got her finger on the pulse in the observations she's made about generations, and gotten there before a lot of other people.
I love that it's a movie that I feel like I can go to see with any of my friends. I have friends who are 20 years old, and friends who are 83. I can go to see [this one] with any of them. I'd love to see this movie with my parents. I don't know that we've had a movie like that in a long time, that can sort of appeal to everyone specifically, of every age, and they can find humor in it. This isn't so much of an issue in the movie, but it's just something I love about it.
Nancy Meyers: It's the value of having Ben in her life. There's a boy for her in her life.
Do you see this movie as a love letter to baby boomers, that it says, "You're not so old and irrelevant, you can use your wisdom and discipline to help another generation?"
Robert De Niro: It's her love letter to us, to our generation, [especially] to us guys of our generation. And, it's fun. I hope the movie is seen by a lot of people because it is this kind of movie. We do tend to feel that when you're a certain age, when you get older, you're less relevant in some ways, and [this movie shows] that's just not the case. Either people who are just aware and sensitive to that when they're younger realize that, and when you get there, you certainly know it. Sometimes you don't know until you get there. There's a lot of people who are there, so hopefully they'll see the movie.
Sixty years ago, actress Bette Davis called her autobiography, The Lonely Life. Was this something [that you see as] particular to successful women, wherever they are in society? Do you see it as lonely at the top for women?
Nancy Meyers: I never would've thought of that, but when you said it, I thought, "That's interesting..." But I don't know about you. Anne, but it didn't strike me as any kind of loneliness as much as... I can only write what I know, so I can also imagine that any man who would have this company would need Ben. I don't necessarily think it's because she's female. When you're taking on a big thing like that, it's [all on] you; you're a one-man or one-woman band, so I didn't [necessarily] see it as lonely. But I don't know if you felt that, [in] playing her.
Anne Hathaway: I'm so relieved to hear you say that, because I don't know how to answer that � that never occurred to me, or am I a bad actor? Did I not ask the right questions? I thought it was not because of a gender issue, but just because I think Jules is a private person, and that she's so dedicated to her company. She dreads the idea that anything in her personal life could impact on her ability to do her job and keep the company going. She doesn't really have anyone to confide in.
Then she meets Ben and their friendship develops organically. She winds up opening up to him and taking his advice because she really, really, respects him and [he gives] really sound, excellent advice. Like I said, that's not forced, it happens organically, so I just thought, like what Nancy said, she was more isolated because of her position. One of the things I love about the movie is that Jules has so much heart and she builds an incredible structure [which has] bones, but there's no connective tissue to it. Nobody at the company knows how to build connective tissue, and that's when Ben comes in. He figures out how to get everybody to connect to each other.
In this day and age, we have the tools for communication at our disposal, but we're using them in such a way that sometimes [we aren't] taking full advantage of them... Or maybe, that's taking full advantage of them, but that's just not as effective as having a one-on-one conversation. So I thought it was a great that Nancy made observations about how old school meets the new world, and each is made better because of the other.
Are you as technically challenged with computers as Ben is?
Robert De Niro: I'm a little less technically challenged, but I'm not far behind.
You're such a great mentor to Anne's character in this movie. Was there a mentor in your life who really made an impact on you?
Robert De Niro: No, I never had a mentor like that. I don't envy, but I do think that's a great thing if you are lucky enough, especially if you are in a certain untenable situation, and you have a mentor who'll change your life. They can do that. I mentored myself, in a lot of ways. It's a great thing, you know. I like to give advice to younger people if they ask me. I have at times asked people who were further on in their careers, like [director/writer] Elia Kazan or certain actors who were a generation ahead of me.
I asked them what to look out for, blah blah, because I wanted to take a shortcut in some things. I don't want to have to experience something if I don't want to � [especially] if it's going to be a negative one. So I would just get some words of advice. I do that with people if they ask me. I don't volunteer it, but I'm certainly there if somebody [asks]. I have some young friends who sometimes ask me stuff and I give it to them, my opinion of what the situation is.
What's the advice you tell young actors?
On the flip side, you've had interns when doing Tribeca Film Festival and with your production company, so what experience did you have with some of your interns? Has doing this movie made any of you appreciate your interns differently and change how you will look at them and treat them going forward?
Robert De Niro: Well, I have some interns who I now work for.
Hah, what do they tell you to do?
Robert De Niro: No, they're just very respectful, and they never forgot where they were working, so it's nice. I'm very proud of them. It's great. You know, with Tribeca, through all these years, it's a great thing.
Any other thoughts on how they're going to treat their interns?
Nancy Meyers: Well, one of my interns is in the movie. The kind of scruffy kid that sits to Bob's right, he was my intern on It's Complicated. I think unconsciously I was writing [the character with] him in mind. I wasn't fully aware of it until I emailed him one day. He said the email said, "Can you act?" just in the subject line. I didn't actually write anything in the email.
Nancy Meyers: He was pretty good, right? He's never acted before!
Anne Hathaway: I don't have an intern... because I'm not them. [referring the De Niro and Meyers] I'm not that impressive. But I was on a photo shoot recently, and I was greeted by an intern, at the top of the day when I arrived. Because of our movie, I think I went out of my way to pay her a little extra attention, ask her questions about who she was, why she was doing this, and where she wanted to go. I thought I was doing something nice, so I was like, "Um, hey, I've got a playlist ready to go, can you do me a favor? You'll be on the music, and we'll like, be in [sync], and, when I want you to play this song, you play this song, and this song," and she's like, "Of course."
But I didn't realize the sound system was like, impossible to work. Every time she was trying to it, she would like, leap from iPod to iPod � for some reason she had to do that � and every time she had to do that, it would create the most horrible screech throughout the entire sound system. Everybody hated it. So I was trying to do a nice thing for the intern, and I wound up just making everybody kind of annoyed at the sounds she was making.
So now you need to do a website for music, a peer-to-peer program.
Maybe Anne, you are now inspired to do your own e-commerce site like some of your contemporaries as Jessica Alba have done?
Anne Hathaway: No! Not yet.
Can you both speak about collaborating with Nancy and can you share what you admire about her?
Robert De Niro: Well, I'm used to doing movies that took as much time as our movie did. I'm from that generation. It just stopped at a certain point, except certain types of big-type science fiction or those types of movies. But Nancy was very specific, as far as telling � we did things in a lot of takes at times, but for good reason. She was very specific about what she wanted [us to do], and I totally got them and understand it. It was terrific.
These days, movies are done � they don't have the luxury of extremely long schedules or [high] budgets, unless you kind of just find yourself there, because you're in it and you have to finish it, and it's going to take longer than everybody hoped it would. But anyway, she was terrific, bottom line.
What was the shooting schedule? Bob said it was a long schedule � 14 weeks?
Robert De Niro: We shot for 15 weeks. About.
Nancy Meyers: About half of what I'm used to, but twice as much as a lot of movies get [these days]. So for me, I was racing on rollerblades the entire time.
Anne Hathaway: If you look at Nancy, you see this tiny, adorable woman with awesome hair. That's at least, at first glance. So I had no idea of the tenacious, uncompromising, inexhaustible powerhouse that she is. I'm so lucky that I got to work with her on this, in terms of collaboration � it's true, though. I had admired you, and now that I've made a movie with you, it's beyond [that]. When we started, we saw the character in two different ways. I wanted her to be wearing her stress more on her sleeve. Nancy wanted Jules to have it a little more together. I had this moment where I was like, "Okay, we see it different ways; am I going to feel so uncomfortable the entire time if I'm not following my instincts?"
Nancy Meyers: Oh my God.
Anne Hathaway: I don't know, I hope this movie is such a global hit because she deserves it.
Nancy Meyers: That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. Thank you so much. What makes it easy though, I have to say, is that these two actors are great people. So when you're surrounded by great people, they make you better, and allow you to express yourself all the time. They're open and, like I was saying with Bob earlier, they're safe, you know? That's all you want... That's what we all want when we make a movie, to feel safe to be ourselves and get what we need. They allowed me to do my work in a way so that it's up on the screen. The result's on the screen, what we all did every single day for that short amount of 14 weeks, that barely was there, as far as I'm concerned.
How much would you say that you enhanced each other and changed each other's lives as characters?
Robert De Niro: How did the characters influence each other in the story? Um, well, it's what it is. I mean, she learns from him, even though he's older and all that. We tend to � not disregard � but just... People [as they] are getting older, they're kind of sidelined, in a way. The point is that he's someone very important. If you stop, look and listen, he has advice that only somebody who'd been on the planet a lot longer can give. It's really that simple, so she gets that from me, and my character, and I get certain things from her. I wish I had said it more eloquently, but I guess that's it.
How would you say that this film speaks, perhaps differently, to the two audiences, the younger and the older audience?
Robert De Niro: I don't know, that's a good question. I just don't know.
Anne Hathaway: Can I pick that one up?
Anne Hathaway: (Laughs) It's a scene where a character's over at Ben's house, and they're talking, and he puts his beer on the coffee table, and Ben looks down and he goes, "Why would you put your beer next to the coaster?" I just feel like my generation laughs because we're really bad about using coasters, and Boomers laugh because it's a legit question. That's an example. So many of the jokes work both ways. They're so satisfying. So in terms of what Jules gets from Ben... you know, it took me a long time to kind of crack Jules, because I kept looking for her deep, dark secret. It turns out she's just a really wonderful person on the inside. That's actually the secret, her strength. That's what makes her a good boss, that she's a deeply decent and nice person.
The reason the story is being told about her in this moment, is that she's in a moment of unbelievable stress. She had everything she needs to navigate this moment except space and a compassionate ear. That's what Ben brings into her life, a tremendous amount of compassion. I don't know if that's a generational thing or what, but I feel like there's a lot of judgment in the world, particularly when people are in a more visible position, like Jules would be, as the CEO of a startup, where her business has grown so quickly.
There's a lot of judgment for people who are in those kinds of positions, and Ben doesn't judge her, he just observes her and opens her, gives her a safe space, [one] full of compassionate understanding. And she thrives on it. Actually, [Ben] does that to a lot of people around him. They all thrive as a result of it. It's a simple thing, but it's not something we see very often in our world. It's something that I think, if we could see more of or perhaps contribute to, we'd see a lot of really positive results.
The characters were complex and real. They have an inner life. If you sat down with them and got to know them, what questions would you like to ask them? What advice would you give them?
Robert De Niro: If I had an actual model of somebody, say hypothetically this person was a real person she was basing him on, I would just ask him a lot of questions about their everyday habits. What they think about things, just on and on. That's what I would do.
What would you want to know about your role?
Anne Hathaway: It's so hard to � honestly, because I asked all the questions. I created what she's interested in, along with Nancy, so I don't feel like I have that many questions left of her.
What advice would you give her to be happier?
Anne Hathaway: Oh, God. We're the same age, I don't know that I have any authority to give her advice, necessarily. Honestly, by the end of the movie, I'm on her side. In the beginning, you would [tell her to] make more time for [herself], but by the end of it, Jules really is doing the best she can. She's being authentic to herself and her feelings. I don't think she's a dramatic person who craves confrontation, and she's honoring that aspect of herself. By the end, she's treated herself and everyone around her with respect. Oh, I know what advice I would give her. Value your assistant more. But Ben gives her that advice so she doesn't need to hear it from me.
In some ways, this movie is both a two-way mirror and a rearview mirror; you can see the front and backside view of characters. Is there a particular time that gave you angst, that now today you look back on it and say, "Why was I so worried? Why was I so fearful?"
Nancy Meyers: Well, I have so much angst at this age. So, let me try to rewind... Doing what I do and putting yourself out there, making a movie, this is what I want to make a movie about, and wrangling all these brilliant people to go along with you, there's a lot of angst. Am I doing the right thing? Am I serving them correctly? Is the audience going to want to go see it? Then the movie comes out and it does well and I think, "What was I so worried about?" I go through that a lot. I'm trying to teach myself to just calm down about it all a little bit as I get older.
Robert De Niro: Anxiety is always there. As long as you're alive, you're going to have anxiety about something. The things that were important 15, or 20 years ago are less important today because I know that I can get the same results with certain things. It doesn't warrant as much angst or anxiety about that, how to solve that problem as I thought then, now.
Nancy Meyers: He's a really, kind of zen guy. You know? But like, on the set.
Anne Hathaway: He's a Jedi.
Nancy Meyers: There's a like, a gazillion people running around, and he's just sitting in a chair, having a little tuna sandwich, on a phone, and it's just � the world can be going by, he's got it down. He's just got it down. He's always there when you need him. By the way, I think that really helped everybody in the movie, seeing that. Because, you know, [he was] just right there, calm.
Did you cast Jules' assistant as the younger version of Ben? Because I think that that character's going to become Ben.
Nancy Meyers: You mean Andrew Rannell's character [Cameron]? Oh, that's interesting. I hadn't thought of that. Hopefully we can all become Ben.
Robert and Anne, what did you do to prepare for your dynamic in the film to establish this deep friendship?
Anne Hathaway: Bob and I did some extreme bonding at the Century 21 Mall. No... (laughs) You know, that's the funny thing. I just trusted everything was going to be okay. We didn't do anything special. Bob's an easy guy to get along with... He is, as Nancy said, incredibly zen, calm and approachable. Once I could get over the fact that I couldn't talk around him for the first three weeks, I just felt like an idiot with everything I said, once I calmed down about that, I just trusted the words.
It didn't matter how I felt, because Jules feels comfortable around Ben, and I just trusted that that was going to carry us. And Ben feels comfortable around Jules. Nancy was going to guide us, and it worked. Also, I just had a lot of film history on my side. Bob's good at having chemistry with people, so I assumed that as long as I didn't mess it up, we'd be okay.
Robert De Niro: She just said it.
Nancy, why was it important for you to explore this dynamic?
Nancy Meyers: See how zen that is? One sentence says it all. I had never written anything like that before, and so it grew as I wrote it. It grew, and became more clear to me as I was writing it. It's what really was the engine that was driving me, this relationship. I was wishing I had somebody like this, because I've been asked a couple times who mentored me. I didn't have that person.
I know people say I write "wishful filming" � well this is kind of "wishful filming." A different kind of wishful filming � wouldn't it be great to have somebody on your side at really stressful times of your life who doesn't say, "Your 45 minutes are up," you know? Like, who's really there for you.
Robert De Niro: Your 45 minutes are up, and by the way, it cost you this.
Nancy Meyers: Exactly. That's the fun thing about being a writer. You get to create scenarios that you maybe don't have in your own life.
Someone once said, "As you define your art, your art defines you." What, if anything, did each of you learn about yourself in the process of making this film?
Robert De Niro: I don't know if I learned anything about myself that I didn't know already. I had a very good time doing the film. It was just a really terrific experience.
Nancy Meyers: Well, it was different for me. The making of this film was different. I'd never been on practical sets before; I'd always been on sound stages and had walls that move, and that kind of stuff. So it was actually fun. I was scared in the beginning, but it turned out to be... There would be times where directors sit in front of a monitor, but with those Brooklyn houses, I was under the stairs, wasn't I?
Anne Hathaway: You were. You were like, in Frodo's house.
Nancy Meyers: I was. I'd get up and stay hunched over as I walked. So for me, I learned... There were new challenges, not just performance challenges, but in the way we made the movie. It was interesting. I know you want a deeper, better answer, but I learned about another way of making a movie.
Anne Hathaway: I can't explain why it happened for me on this movie, if it was my character or the dynamic or just being around Bob's zen or what, but up until now I've made a lot of my movies from a place of insecurity and neuroses and self-doubt. I just got really tired of it and decided to make one from a more positive place. To feel good about what I was doing. Embrace the unknown and not necessarily assume that if I didn't have a clear idea of how things went, that it necessarily meant it was bad. I could actually trust that the unknown could be good.
I actually had a wonderful time making this movie, and it yielded a more relaxed performance [from me]. I'm really proud of the work we all did out there � what we created. It turns out that you can make a movie without having nonstop sleepless nights.
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