title: Recaping this years ava festival 22974359

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- 16 Jun 23
With acts like Central Cee, Goldie, Eliza Rose and more, this year's AVA Festival at Titanic Slipways, hosted in partnership with Output Belfast, was "electric."
Finishing up its ninth year running, this past AVA Festival (the Audio Visual Arts Festival) in Northern Ireland played host to a plethora of artists and over ten thousand eager, music-loving fans. Hosted at Titanic Slipways in partnership with Output Belfast, it was more than a success - it was an experience few will forget.
With that in mind, AVA Founder Sarah McBriar joyously exclaimed "That's a wrap!" before delving into a few closing remarks about the festival.
"AVA Festival Belfast, 2023, shone brightly under the sunshine and sunsets across our site at the Titanic Slipways. We played host across the weekend to 10,000 attendees, 70+ artists, and media, along with the BBC & Boiler Room broadcasting two of our stages. I want to thank all of the staff, artists, volunteers, partners, sponsors, suppliers, community and those who danced with us this year. The atmosphere was electric, with many artist debuts and guests, making it a special year.'
While AVA's mainstage saw the likes of Central Cee and Peggy Gou perform at the festival for the first Friday, both delivering killer sets, DJ EZ and Goldie grace the same stage Saturday. It was another perfect night, especially when AVA festival professionals Sally C and Or:la, two artists who have long since had a special history with the festival since it's beginnings nine years ago, make their return to finish off the night.
The rest of AVA's stages at Titanic Slipways saw no less action. The Boiler Room was lucky enough to see Eliza Rose, Interplanetary Criminal, DJ Heartstring, Kettama, and Marion Hawkes of Ponyhawke.
Pump House, hoseted by EMBY and SPFDJ among others, saw Overmono and For Those I Love, Hector Oakes, Swoose, Kessler perform, while the Grasses Stage showcased Northern Irish talent, like Jordan Nocturne, Holly Lester, Inside Moves and more in collaboration with BBC Northern Ireland.
Representing BBC Radio Ulster, Rory McConnell added that they were "delighted to be able to bring an exclusive four hour live broadcast from AVA festival last weekend."
"Electronic music has always been about pushing boundaries, and having a world-class event showcasing global superstars alongside emerging local talent on our doorstep is something for us all to be excited about. It has been great working with the AVA team.
BBC's coverage of the event is available across the UK and on the BBC Sounds app.
Sign up for AVA's 2024 festival here:
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tier: polar

shelf: civic-law

title: Chapel hill

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tier: cub

shelf: science-engineering

title: Samsung galaxy z fold 5 vs galaxy z fold 4 spider man meme

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When it comes to comparing Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, it’s easy to draw a parallel to the famous Spider-Man meme where two Spider-Men point at each other. The two devices are so similar, yet there are critical differences that set them apart and make the newer model shine. Let’s dive deep into the specifics to understand what makes the Galaxy Z Fold 5 a worthy successor to the Galaxy Z Fold 4.
Design and Build Quality
At a first glance, both the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and the Galaxy Z Fold 4 appear remarkably similar. Both phones retain the book-like form factor with a large folding display. However, the devil is in the details. The Galaxy Z Fold 5 boasts a lighter and more refined body, featuring thinner bezels and a more durable hinge mechanism. Samsung has made incremental yet meaningful improvements to the overall build quality.
These changes aim to provide a more premium feel while ensuring long-term reliability. The Galaxy Z Fold 5’s hinge is engineered for a smoother opening and closing experience. On the other hand, the Galaxy Z Fold 4, while robust, doesn’t quite hit the same level of refinement.
The display quality in both devices is top-notch, featuring Dynamic AMOLED 2X panels. The Galaxy Z Fold 5, however, manages to edge out its predecessor with slightly improved color accuracy and brightness levels. Additionally, the new phone introduces an adaptive refresh rate that maximizes battery efficiency without compromising on the visual experience.
This makes multimedia consumption and gaming even more immersive on the Galaxy Z Fold 5. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 is no slouch in this department but doesn’t feature the same adaptive refresh rate, making it less efficient but still highly effective for general usage.
Performance and Software Upgrades
Performance-wise, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 surpasses the Galaxy Z Fold 4 by incorporating the latest chipset. The enhanced Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor in the Galaxy Z Fold 5 ensures faster app loading times, buttery-smooth multitasking, and an overall snappier experience. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 runs on the Snapdragon 888, which, while powerful, does not match the processing prowess of the newer model.
On the software front, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 benefits from One UI 5, featuring an array of new functionalities and optimizations. For instance:
- Enhanced multitasking abilities with drag-and-drop functionality.
- Improved S-Pen capabilities for note-taking and sketching.
- Advanced AI-driven battery management for better power usage.
The Galaxy Z Fold 4, although still receiving updates, doesn’t incorporate these latest software optimizations, making it slightly less feature-rich in comparison.
Both the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 4 sport impressive camera setups, but the Galaxy Z Fold 5 steps up the game with upgraded sensor technology and software improvements. The foldable camera module in the new model offers better low-light performance, faster autofocus, and enhanced image stabilization.
This translates to clearer, sharper photos and videos, making the Galaxy Z Fold 5 a better choice for mobile photography and video recording. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 still performs admirably in most conditions but falls short when compared directly to the latest sensor capabilities of its successor.
Battery Life and Charging
The battery life in both models offers all-day performance, but the Galaxy Z Fold 5 has the upper hand with improved power efficiency due to the adaptive refresh rate and more advanced battery management features. The new model also supports faster charging, allowing users to get back to full power more quickly.
Users of the Galaxy Z Fold 4 may find themselves needing to be more cautious about battery usage. The older model does support fast charging, but it’s not as efficient as what the Galaxy Z Fold 5 offers.
While both the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 4 share a striking similarity, the newer model comes with a host of upgrades that make it a more enticing option. From a refined design to better performance and enhanced camera capabilities, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 stands out as the superior choice. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 remains a fantastic device, but for those looking for the latest and greatest, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 is the way to go.
- Is the Galaxy Z Fold 5 more expensive than the Galaxy Z Fold 4?
Yes, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 commands a higher price due to its upgraded features and improvements. - Can I use the same accessories for both devices?
Generally, yes. Most accessories like cases and chargers are compatible, but it’s always advisable to check specific compatibility. - How significant are the performance differences between the two models?
The Galaxy Z Fold 5 features a significantly better processor, offering faster and more efficient performance compared to the Galaxy Z Fold 4. - Are there any major changes in battery life?
Both models offer robust battery life, but the Galaxy Z Fold 5 features improved battery efficiency, slightly extending its daily usage capacity. - What are the new software features in the Galaxy Z Fold 5?
The Galaxy Z Fold 5 comes with One UI 5, featuring enhanced multitasking, improved S-Pen functionality, and advanced battery management.


shelf: software-docs

title: Understanding cloud sql maintenance how long does it take

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Imagine never needing to patch your database ever again. If you’ve had to previously take down your production database to update its operating system, you know patching can be quite the chore. Cloud SQL users happily cross this burden off their to-do list, since Cloud SQL manages routine database maintenance for them. But what all is included in maintenance, and how long does maintenance take to complete?
In Part 1 of this blog series, I introduced how maintenance fits together with other Cloud SQL system updates to keep users’ instances running optimally. In Part 2 of this series, I’ll be going into more detail about what changes are included in Cloud SQL maintenance, how long it lasts, and how we’ve designed maintenance to minimize application downtime.
What changes are made during Cloud SQL maintenance?
Maintenance events are software rollouts that update a Cloud SQL instance’s operating system and the database engine. Cloud SQL performs maintenance to ensure that our users’ databases are reliable, secure, performant, and up-to-date with the latest features. Through maintenance, we deliver new Cloud SQL features, database version upgrades, and operating system patches.
Cloud SQL features.In order to launch new features like IAM database authentication and database auditing, we update the database engine and install new plugins to the database.Database version upgrades. The database software providers that develop MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server deploy new releases several times a year. With each new minor version comes bug fixes, security patches, performance enhancements, and new database features. Users can check these out by reviewing the MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server release notes. We upgrade Cloud SQL instances to the most recent minor version shortly after release, so that our users benefit from running the latest database engine.Operating system patches. We continuously monitor for newly identified security vulnerabilities in the VM operating system. Upon discovery, we patch the operating system to protect customers from new exploits
These updates require us to disconnect the database instance temporarily. While maintenance is crucial for ensuring applications run smoothly, we understand that nobody likes service disruption. We typically bundle these improvements together and schedule maintenance once every few months.
How long is the database down during maintenance?
As of August 2021, the typical period of connectivity loss for a database instance is:
PostgreSQL – 30 seconds or less
MySQL – 60 seconds or less
SQL Server – 120 seconds or less
If you’ve been self-managing databases and performing maintenance using rolling updates across a cluster, you may be used to even faster numbers than what is available today in database-as-a-service. We are always working to bring Cloud SQL maintenance downtime closer towards zero, and this year we completed a redesign of our maintenance workflow to significantly reduce maintenance downtime. Maintenance downtime is on average 80% shorter than it was 12 months ago. For MySQL and PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL’s average maintenance downtime is now shorter than that of Amazon RDS and Azure Database, according to figures published in online documentation as of August 2021.”
What happens during maintenance downtime?
To understand why maintenance incurs downtime, you need to understand Cloud SQL’s maintenance workflow. Cloud SQL utilizes a shared disk failover workflow for maintenance that largely resembles our automatic failover workflow for highly available instances. In short, we set up an updated database with the new software, stop the original database, start up the updated database, and then switch over the disk and static IP to the updated database.
Let’s do a walkthrough with some visuals. In the pre-maintenance state (see below diagram), the client communicates to the original VM through a static IP address. The data is stored on a persistent disk that is attached to the original VM. In this example, the Cloud SQL instance has high availability configured, which means that another VM is on standby to take over in the event of an unplanned outage. The Cloud SQL instance is serving traffic to the application.
In Step 1, as shown below, we set up an updated VM with the latest database engine and OS software. The updated VM gets fully up and running, apart from the database engine which hasn’t yet started. For highly available instances, we also set up a new standby VM as well. Note that the updated VM is set up in the same zone as the original VM, so that the Cloud SQL instance will communicate to the application from the same zone after maintenance as it did before maintenance.
By installing the software update on another VM while the Cloud SQL instance is still serving traffic to the application, we substantially shorten the total downtime.
In Step 2, we gracefully shut down the database engine on the original VM. The database engine needs to be shut down so that the disk can be detached from the original VM and attached to the updated VM. Before shutting down, the database engine waits for a few seconds for ongoing transactions to be committed and existing connections to drain out. After that, any open transactions or long-running transactions are rolled back. During this process, the database stops accepting new connections and existing connections are dropped. Step 2 is when the instance first becomes unavailable and maintenance downtime begins.
In Step 3, the disk is detached from the original VM and attached to the updated VM. The static IP address is reconfigured to point to the updated VM as well. This ensures that the IP address the application used before maintenance remains the same after maintenance too. Note that the database cache is cycled out with the original VM, meaning that the database cache is effectively cleared during maintenance.
In Step 4, the updated database engine is started up on the now-attached disk. Using a single disk ensures that all transactions written to the instance prior to maintenance are still present on the updated instance after maintenance. In the event that any incomplete transactions didn’t finish rolling back during database engine shutdown, the database engine automatically goes through crash recovery in order to ensure that the database is restored to a usable state. Note that crash recovery means that downtime is higher for instances experiencing high activity when maintenance begins.
Upon the completion of Step 4, the Cloud SQL instance is once again available to accept connections and back to serving traffic to the application.
To the application, apart from the updated software, the Cloud SQL instance looks the same. The application still connects to the Cloud SQL instance using the same static IP address, and the updated VM is running in the same zone as the original VM. All data written to the original database is preserved.
Hopefully, these diagrams explain why maintenance still incurs some downtime, even after our improvements. We still invest in making maintenance even faster. To stay current with our latest maintenance downtime numbers, check out our documentation.
What are Cloud SQL users doing to reduce impact from maintenance even further? Stay tuned for Part 3, where we will cover how users optimize for maintenance by utilizing Cloud SQL maintenance settings and designing their applications to be resilient to maintenance.
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shelf: health

title: Advanced stage breast cancer diagnoses account for 65 of breast cancer cases in the philippines

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Approximately 65% of breast cancer instances in the Philippines are identified in the advanced or late stages due to insufficient treatment and delayed detection.
Among Filipinos, the five-year relative survival rate for breast cancer is a mere 44.4%. The Philippine Cancer Society highlighted that breast cancer is the leading cancer in terms of both new cases and fatalities, not only in the local context but also on a global scale. The statistics reveal 27,163 new cases annually, resulting in 9,906 deaths each year for both genders.
Women who have an increased risk of developing breast cancer include those who experienced early menstruation (before the age of 12) and had late menopause (beyond the age of 55). It could also affect those who did not have children or breastfeed. They could also have a family history of the disease, have a history of lymphoma, used birth control pills without proper control, or have undergone hormone replacement therapy.
Warning Signs of Breast Cancer
Warning signs of breast cancer can vary among individuals. Still, some common signs and symptoms include changes in breast size or shape, skin dimpling or puckering. It can also emerge as an itchy, scaly sore or rash on the nipple, nipple retraction, sudden nipple discharge, and persistent, localised pain.
Stigma About Breast Cancer
Breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the most common cancer, according to GLOBOCAN 2020 statistics. It has its share of stigma-related attributes often related to treatment.
Dr. Edgar Christian S. Cuaresma FPCP, FPSMO, head of oncology at the Dr. Paulino J. Garcia Memorial Research and Medical Center in Cabanatuan City, gave insights about the stigma of breast cancer in the Philippines. He stated that cancer stigma is prevalent. It serves as a significant barrier that affects a patient’s perception of disease awareness, which is often negative and undesirable. Discussing cancer proves to be highly challenging and stands as the primary reason why patients struggle to dispel the stigma that nurtures fear and a lack of understanding about this life-changing chronic illness.
“Surgery can lead to some form of disfigurement in breast cancer when one breast is removed. Hence, there is an impaired body image for some patients. Some women feel incomplete, inferior, and less desirable because a physical part is removed. Some women feel that they are being avoided because of the disease. Also, for some part, they experience discrimination from others as some people think that cancer is a communicable disease.
Besides the physical harm, some patients develop negative feelings from what they read and know about the disease. Lack of acceptance of the disease, feelings of shame, and low self-esteem are some of the negative feelings that change the self-concept of the individual after the cancer diagnosis,” he added.
A Doctor’s Word of Guidance
Dr Cuaresma also stressed the significance of early cancer detection, highlighting that the Philippines currently has stronger cancer screening recommendations. This will help people recognise that early detection indeed saves lives. Additionally, it is important for people to realise that cancer is no longer a disease of restraint, as it becomes treatable when detected early.
He also expressed his role in improving breast cancer awareness in the country. He stated, “At present, I can see that more and more cancer patients are becoming empowered. Empowerment is defined as a process that helps people gain control over their own lives and increases their capacity to act on issues that they define as important.”
“As a medical oncologist, I need to help patients break down the stigma by communicating effectively with them and teaching them that talking about their disease is not difficult. Empowerment is more than raising awareness about the disease. It is standing up for them to take action and get involved in the process,” he said.
Together We Stand
Breast cancer remains a prevalent threat globally. This is especially serious in the Philippines, where diagnosis often comes in the advanced or late stages. With better guidance and disease awareness, detection can be made earlier so that action can be taken. TOGETHER, LET’S FIGHT BREAST CANCER!” encouraged Dr Cuaresma.


shelf: finance

title: Mercateo displays solid growth in 2020 after a challenging year for b2b markets

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The Mercateo Group supported companies across Europe in their business continuity efforts by ensuring supply for indirect procurement. This in turn fostered growth for Mercateo, with sales increasing by 9% to €343 million and net revenue rising 7% to reach €43 million.
Revenue in 2020 up 9% despite weak B2B environment; sales in Q4 up 19% year-on-year
With B2B markets hit by volatility, Mercateo finds strong demand for its platform services as a source of transparency and resilience
Mercateo Unite platform model leads to growing market share accompanied by steady profitability
In response to the pandemic’s impact on the B2B sector, Mercateo acted swiftly to support the market. In close cooperation with suppliers and manufacturers who had lost their usual distribution channels due to lockdown, Mercateo created digital campaigns to provide much-sought supply visibility and channel diversity. Its market information service B2B Radar evolved into a B2B knowledge and experience hub where market specialists share data, insights and perspectives with the community.
The outbreak of Covid-19 also accelerated the implementation of Mercateo’s Unite platform model. The interplay between Mercateo’s B2B marketplace and Unite’s B2B network strengthened transparency and stability on the market. As well as opening up a whole new world of prequalified suppliers to Mercateo users, buyers benefited from further streamlined accounting services provided by the Unite platform. Unite Financial Services was expanded in 2020 with the foundation of Unite Financial Services Global GmbH and Unite Financial Services Schweiz GmbH, enabling the company to develop the range of financial services provided by Unite.
The pandemic speeded up some internal changes at Mercateo that, in line with its digital business model, were already in the pipeline. For one thing, Mercateo virtualised its complete working environment within Q1 2020. This also paved the way for employing remote workers, allowing Mercateo to expand its recruiting base to candidates all over the world. And despite a tendency throughout the economy to cut back on trainees, Mercateo actually increased its trainee recruitment.
In 2020, the head offices of both the parent company Mercateo Beteiligungsholding AG and its subsidiary Unite Network AG were relocated from Munich to Leipzig. Building work commenced on its new headquarters in central Leipzig. Incidentally, although 2020 was Mercateo’s twentieth anniversary, its birthday festivities inevitably had to be postponed.
“We’d been looking forward to celebrating our twentieth anniversary in 2020. As it turned out, the year proved memorable in another way. I think we did an amazing job in supporting the market throughout these challenging times,” said Peter Ledermann, in charge of Finance and HR on Mercateo’s board. “In fact, these challenges strengthened our strategic initiatives. We are building our B2B platform for the needs of an increasingly volatile world, and in 2020 we all learned how important that agenda is. In 2021, although we hope to see the end of the pandemic, digitalisation and the vital sustainability goals continue to set the pace. We’ll focus on this agenda and maintain the fast-paced adaptation that we learned during this tough but hugely significant year.”


shelf: education

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What should Students Write in the Dissertation Introduction?
Dissertation • December 9, 2009
How to Make Your Dissertation Introduction More Appealing
Students write dissertations at the universities. The main constituents of the dissertation are the dissertation introduction, the main body that includes few paragraphs and sub-paragraphs, the conclusion and the bibliography.
So as you see that the first chapter of the dissertation is the introduction. For some students it’s difficult to write introduction because it’s the first stage for what will be in the main body. That’s why it’s very important to write a good beginning as it may influence the following paragraphs of the dissertation. If you don’t know how to start or what exactly put into your dissertation introduction ask your instructor to help you with it. In the introduction you should answer the following questions: if there is a problem, what kind of problem it is, why it should be solved, what are the main aims and goals of your dissertation, if there will be any contribution to your dissertation topic from your research, what methods you are going to use to solve the given problem. In the introduction you may also state objectives of your research.
To make the process of writing the dissertation easier you may also divide the introduction into several sections. In the first section write a statement of dissertation problem. Here you should point out why your research is important to the subject field. And think in what way you can fill in the research gaps. In the second section give some background information about the dissertation subject. Here you should write what other scientists think concerning this question, what is already discovered and what is still unknown. But don’t overload your introduction with dissertation study theory and don’t go into great details as you will review it in more details in the main body. In the third section give a discussion about the importance of your study. And in the last section give a description about other dissertation chapters so the reader could know what you are going to lay out in the main body.
If you are done with your dissertation, make a proofreading. Check the dissertation introduction once again. There shouldn’t be any grammatical or spelling mistakes and misprints. Pay attention to the language you use, all sentences should be written in scientific style and grammatically well-formed. Using slang or too personal sentences will create a bad impression on the readers and the person who will check your dissertation.
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Written by Yerin Kirishiki
I have a Doctorate degree in History and have been working previously as an independent journalist for world-known publications. Today, I enjoy working on dissertations and research papers, as it helps me keep up with trending topics and the latest news.


shelf: home-craft

title: Coffee on the wall thread919

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Ponder upon this man in need. He enters the coffee shop without having to lower his self-esteem he has no need to ask for a free cup of coffee without asking or knowing about the one who is giving this cup of coffee to him. he only looked at the wall, placed an order for himself, enjoyed his coffee and left.
I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice, the city of lights and water. As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat on an empty table beside us.
He called the waiter and placed his order saying, Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall. We heard this order with rather interest and observed that he was served with one cup of coffee but he paid for two. As soon as he left, the waiter pasted a piece of paper on the wall saying A Cup of Coffee.
While we were still there, two other men entered and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but paid for three and left. This time also, the waiter did the same; he pasted a piece of paper on the wall saying, A Cup of Coffee.
It seemed that this gesture was a norm at this place. However, it was something unique and perplexing for us. Since we had nothing to do with the matter, we finished our coffee, paid the bill and left.
After a few days, we again had a chance to go to this coffee shop. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man entered. The way this man was dressed did not match the standard nor the atmosphere of this coffee shop.
Poverty was evident from the looks on his face. As he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, one cup of coffee from the wall. The waiter served coffee to this man with the customary respect and dignity.
The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were amazed to watch all this when the waiter took off a piece of paper from the wall and threw it in the dust bin.
Now it was no surprise for us the matter was very clear. The great respect for the needy shown by the inhabitants of this town welled up our eyes with tears.
Coffee is not a need of our society neither a necessity of life for us. The point to note is that when we take pleasure in any blessing, maybe we also need to think about those people who appreciate that specific blessing as much as we do but they cannot afford to have it.
Note the character of this waiter, who is playing a consistent and generous role to get the communication going between the affording and the needy with a smile on his face.
Ponder upon this man in need. He enters the coffee shop without having to lower his self-esteem he has no need to ask for a free cup of coffee without asking or knowing about the one who is giving this cup of coffee to him he only looked at the wall, placed an order for himself, enjoyed his coffee and left.
When we analyze this story, along with the other characters, we need to remember the role played by the wall that reflects the generosity and care of the dwellers of this town.


shelf: history-culture

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Brendan Gleeson’s son adds more Irish flavor to ‘Harry Potter’: Read more
I confess to knowing less than zero about the Harry Potter craze, but for all you maniacs out there, an Irish actor who plays the character of Seamus Finnegan in the Harry movies claims that the clamor to get a hold of a script to the upcoming film was so intense, his copy of it had to be moved from his home in County Kildare to a safe house.
Devon Murray, 20, told Ireland’s Evening Herald that there were several robbery attempts at his family home, so the film’s head honchos had to take action to ensure secrecy.
"It just wasn't safe to keep it there, as there was so much hype surrounding the new storylines, so they now use a safe house for the script," he said.
“Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price” will open around the world in July. Some questions, though – isn’t the film supposed to be based on the book of the same name? Following that line of logic, why would anyone want to rob a script when the book tells all the secrets? (These are quite possibly stupid questions, given our lack of Harry insight, but we’re just wondering . . . )
Murray, who also appeared in other Harry movies, enjoys doing the publicity rounds that come with each launch.
"It's more when I go to America that they go mad for anyone connected with the movie. It was also crazy when we did a promotional tour in Japan, I must have shook hands with about two million people during that trip alone, it was mental," he says.
Harry star Daniel Radcliffe, Murray says, is cool as a cucumber, despite the fame he’s garnered from the film franchise.
“He's totally wired," Murray says. "He's a great man to go for a night out with as he loves partying and is up for anything."
“Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” also co-stars another Irish actress, Evanna Lynch, who plays Luna Lovegood.


title: 100 nj personal injury playing copyright music illegal

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Last month Villari's Lakeside Restaurant and Bar in the Sicklerville, a restaurant in Gloucester Township, NJ lost a lawsuit by default (Villari did not show up to court). A few years ago Villari’s was sued by Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) for playing copyright protected music tunes on a karaoke machine.
BMI is a non-profit international organization that claims to be the largest music rights organization in the US. BMI monitors music that is played publically at clubs, dance halls, in elevators, by bands, etc. BMI’s goal is to help ensure that the royalty fees are paid to songwriters, composers and music publishers that own the songs each and every time a song is played in these establishments. As explained on BMI’s website, https://www.bmi.com/, “You can’t play music publicly without one [a music license]. Copyright laws require music users to get permission from songwriters and composers who can charge a fee before their music is played publicly, which then allows them to continue to create music,”.
Over the past five years BMI settled at least 25 lawsuits in the Tampa Bay area with reported settlements ranging from $10,000 to over $60,000. Although Villari’s did not show up in court a federal judge in Camden ruled in favor of BMI and ordered Villari’s to pay $56,100. The court determined this amount because there were 17 songs that were copyright protected and the amount per song awarded was $3,300 totally to the $56,100. The court documents indicate that the annual fee that Villari's would have paid was $6,500 per year. Besides the judgment of $56,100 the judge also ordered that Villari’s pay the plaintiff’s, BMI, attorney fees.
BMI maintains that if you play songs in your establishment that break music licensing laws you can be sued. They maintain that this includes songs and music from your personal devices such as phones or iPods; or play purchased songs from CDs or MP3s; or stream songs from Spotify or Pandora; or have live performers that play covers; or broadcasts sound from TV programs, you need to pay a license fee. BMI makes it clear that you are not protected from a potential lawsuit because you are claiming ignorance to the law and breaking music licensing laws.
The national advocacy group Fairness in Music Licensing Coalition (FMLC), http://www.musicfairness.org/, claim to be the only group exclusively advocating to promote the interest of organizations and small businesses impacted by the current unfair process of determining music licensing fees. FMLC, believe that BMI and other performing rights organizations need to be reined in and that copyright laws should be changed so that they are more transparent, simpler and fairer for small businesses especially in the hospitality industry. FMLC state that the Copyright Act allows companies such as BMI to take advantage of small business owners and the Copyright Act is not achieving its original intended purpose and that a reasonable solution to the current unfair music licensing fee system can be achieved.


title: Hyundai motor and ineos sign mou on hydrogen

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Hyundai Motor and chemicals company INEOS have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore together new opportunities in the hydrogen economy, including the possibility of a hydrogen fuel-cell system in the INEOS Grenadier SUV that is under development.
The companies said opportunities include the production and supply of hydrogen as well as new hydrogen applications, technologies and business models.
Both companies will initially seek to facilitate public and private sector projects focused on the development of a hydrogen value chain in Europe.
The agreement also includes the evaluation of Hyundai's proprietary fuel cell system for the recently announced INEOS Grenadier SUV vehicle. This cooperation represents an important step in INEOS' efforts to diversify its powertrain options at an early stage.
Hyundai's proprietary modular fuel cell system, which evaluation vehicles will use, is already in the Hyundai NEXO SUV. The world's first dedicated hydrogen-powered SUV has the longest driving range among hydrogen-powered vehicles in the market. Hyundai is one of leading company in the field of fuel cell technology having started the world's first mass production of fuel cell electric vehicles in 2013.
"INEOS' move into the development of a fuel cell electric vehicle and hydrogen ecosystem marks yet another milestone towards sustainable and clean transportation," said Saehoon Kim, Senior Vice President and Head of Fuel Cell Center at Hyundai Motor Company. "Hyundai believes this will provide an important low-carbon option across a wide range of sectors. We also hope our decades-long expertise in hydrogen fuel cell work in synergy with INEOS' expertise in field of chemistry to realize the mass production of green hydrogen and fuel cells for the Grenadier."
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By GlobalDataPeter Williams Technology Director INEOS, said: "The agreement between INEOS and Hyundai presents both companies with new opportunities to extend a leading role in the clean hydrogen economy. Evaluating new production processes, technology and applications, combined with our existing capabilities puts us in a unique position to meet emerging demand for affordable, low-carbon energy sources and the needs of demanding 4×4 owners in the future."
INEOS recently launched a new business to develop and build clean hydrogen capacity across Europe in support of the drive towards a zero-carbon future. The company currently produces 300,000 tons of hydrogen a year mainly as a by-product from its chemical manufacturing operations.
Through its subsidiary INOVYN, INEOS is Europe's largest existing operator of electrolysis, the critical technology that uses renewable energy to produce hydrogen for power generation, transportation and industrial use. Its experience in storage and handling of hydrogen combined with its established know-how in electrolysis technology, puts INEOS in a unique position to drive progress towards a carbon-free future based on hydrogen.
In 2018, Hyundai Motor Group announced its mid- to long-term roadmap, Fuel Cell Vision 2030, to increase annual production of hydrogen fuel cell systems to 700,000 units by 2030.
See also: INEOS Automotive unveils Grenadier 4×4


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Suspense crime, Digital Desk : Wheat is a fundamental part of diets around the world, found in everything from bread and pasta to cereals and sauces. But for individuals with a wheat allergy, consuming this common grain can trigger a significant and uncomfortable immune system response. It's crucial to distinguish a true wheat allergy from celiac disease (an autoimmune disorder) and gluten sensitivity (which causes discomfort without an allergic reaction).
A wheat allergy occurs when your body's immune system overreacts to proteins found in wheat, leading to a range of symptoms that can appear within minutes to a few hours after consumption. Recognizing these signs is the first step toward proper diagnosis and management. Here are four key symptom areas to watch for.
1. Skin Reactions
One of the most common signs of a wheat allergy manifests on the skin. The body's immune response can cause inflammation, leading to symptoms like:
Hives, which are itchy, raised red welts.
A red, itchy skin rash (atopic dermatitis or eczema).
Swelling of the lips, face, tongue, or throat.
These skin issues are a clear signal that your body is having an allergic reaction to something it has ingested.
2. Digestive Distress
While also a symptom of other conditions, digestive problems are a hallmark of a wheat allergy. When the immune system attacks the wheat proteins in your digestive tract, it can cause significant discomfort, including:
Nausea and vomiting.
Stomach cramps and sharp abdominal pain.
These symptoms often occur relatively quickly after eating a wheat-containing product.
3. Respiratory Symptoms
An allergic reaction to wheat can also impact your respiratory system, mirroring the symptoms of hay fever. This happens when the immune response causes inflammation in your airways. Watch for:
Sneezing and a runny or stuffy nose.
Watery, itchy eyes.
Wheezing, coughing, or difficulty breathing.
A feeling of tightness in the chest.
4. Anaphylaxis: The Most Severe Reaction
In some cases, a wheat allergy can trigger anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction that requires immediate medical attention. Anaphylaxis affects the entire body and can be fatal if not treated. Its symptoms include:
Severe difficulty breathing due to swelling of the throat.
A sharp drop in blood pressure, leading to dizziness or fainting.
A rapid pulse.
Confusion and loss of consciousness.
If you suspect a wheat allergy, it is essential to consult a healthcare professional or an allergist for proper testing and diagnosis. Self-diagnosing and unnecessarily eliminating wheat can lead to nutritional deficiencies.


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Section 1: Opening New Horizons
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Accessed via a private gated driveway that offers generous off-street parking for multiple vehicles, the property is surrounded by beautifully landscaped gardens, featuring a variety of mature trees, shrubs, lawns, and paved seating areas—perfect for relaxing or entertaining.
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One of the cool side benefits that I hadn’t anticipated when I started my Patreon but should have, is that I would get the chance to develop relationships with artists that I had not met before. Julia Lundman is one such artist. She has been part of my mentorship tier for the last month. Many of you may know her and her work already, but in case you don’t, I felt like I had to share!
I think her work stands for itself. You can spend A LOT of time going through her Instagram account. Julia combines a wonderful sense of design with some exceptional drawing and painting skills.
Julia grew up in the military and lived in various places but the last few years of her high school experience were spent in Chicago. She went to the American Academy of Art in downtown Chicago. She has been working since then with over 25 years of commercial experience as an animator and in games.
She worked as a traditional animator in commercials, independent films, as a background designer, painter, storyboard clean up and providing art direction on everything that needed strong color and lighting. she moved to San Francisco in 2000 and worked for a variety of clients like EA, Zynga, Disney Interactive and various roles, eventually as an Art Director.
She has also illustrated books for Random House Little Golden Books. In short, she has worn a lot of different hats and has significant experience. Upon learning this, I was surprised that I hadn’t heard of her before but she has only recently started to work independently.
I can relate to working inside of a company and feeling like you are hidden from the world. It happens. It’s important to do personal work and reach out to this wonderful community. Fortunately, that’s exactly what Julia is doing now.
She is on a bit of a hiatus while she develops her own paintings and stories that have been buzzing around in her head throughout her career. She now starts the day in her sketchbook and then moves into finished works usually in oils or gouache. She treats the sketchbook time as “sacred” and has seen it fuel the development of her work.
Here are her words about her own work:
I am primarily interested in subjects connected to ancient ways of thinking about the land and the
folklore traditions that helped make sense of the landscape and animals that live there. I love
medieval art and am constantly in awe of illuminated manuscripts, patterns and decorative ornament
designs that came out of that tradition.
I look forward to seeing where Julia’s career takes her next. I think that she will have a real impact on fantasy illustration.
I purchased one of her Inktober drawings (the image below) and it is more beautiful in person than a photo can capture. There is so much story in one simple image.
Check out these wonderful gouache studies!
Check out the painting below. Scroll to the second slide, it’s a video that shows off the gold leafing.
View this post on Instagram“Spring Bloom”, oil and gold leaf, 12×12. I loved working on this painting and hope to do a few more dryads throughout the seasons next year. For this one I wanted to work on something that was happy and bright. Eventually I will gild the outer frame with gold leaf, too. The reflections on gold leaf are challenging when photographing, so I thought I’d show a quick video clip. #oilpainting #painting #art #fantasyartist #illustrators
Julia is incredibly versatile, but I think that she is at her best realizing the visions of her own imagination. Keep it up, Julia! I can’t wait to see what you do next!


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Clare County Council and Ennis 2040 DAC are inviting residents and stakeholders in Ennis and the wider county to come along to public engagement drop-in events for the proposed Abbey Street Car Park development in Ennis.
Dates have been scheduled to allow members of the public to view in person the proposed development plans which have been worked on for the past 12 months. The plans can also be viewed on the Ennis 2040 (www.ennis2040.ie ) and Clare County Council (www.clarecoco.ie) web sites.
Information boards will also be available in the foyer of Clare County Council from February 6th until February 9th. The public will be able to provide feedback on the plans on Clare County Council’s Have Your Say portal from 29th January 2024.
Information for the public consultation events
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Tues 30th January 2024 | 15:00 – 19:00 | Templegate Hotel |
Weds 31st January 2024 | 18:00 – 20:00 | Community Centre, Barefield |
Thurs 1st February 2024 | 19:00 – 21:00 | Clarecastle National School |
Kevin Corrigan, COO of Ennis 2040 DAC, said “We are delighted to be able to show the public the considerable progress we have made over the last 12 months in developing the concept for the Abbey Street Car Park site. We are looking forward to sharing these exciting plans for the future economic development of the town.”
Pat Dowling, CE, Clare County Council, said “Our vision for Ennis is to strengthen its role as a key regional economic driver and major tourist destination in the Mid-West through the expansion and diversification of its economic offering. The Abbey Street Car Park development is a special project which has the potential to set the standard for brownfield development in County Towns. We welcome feedback from members of the public and hope they will attend one of the drop-in events.”
About the Abbey Street Car Park project
The Abbey Street Car Park development project is part of the Ennis 2040 Economic and Spatial Strategy and is integrated into the Clare County Development Plan 2023 to 2029, both of which aim to deliver a range of necessary developments to make Ennis a better place to live, work, visit and invest in.
The core objectives are to future proof the town centre by encouraging investment, creating employment, diversifying Ennis’ retail offering while also accommodating attractive public spaces that will enhance and complement the town centre as a destination for residents and visitors.
The proposed building will consist of a large retail space at ground and first floor levels together with office accommodation on the upper floors carefully designed to respect and integrate with the existing architecture of Ennis. A raised river walkway is also proposed along the northern edge of the building to provide views of the River Fergus as well as substantial space for recreation and leisure.


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The holy grail of data work is putting data science into production. But without an extensive data engineering background, you might not know how to build a production data system. In this post, I'll show how you can turn a machine learning model into a production data app by laying out the high-level system design of a simple Reddit analytics tool.
Reddit is a serious place for serious people, but sometimes subreddits become corrupted by miscreants who spread useless banter. To avoid such unpleasantries, we want to build a web app that can advise us of the seriousness of different subreddits.
For our project, we’ll use machine learning to score the seriousness of every individual Reddit post. We’ll aggregate the scores by subreddit and time, and we’ll expose the insights via an API that we can integrate with a frontend. We want our insights to update in near real-time so we’re reasonably up-to-date with the latest posts.
So we’re clear on what the system should do, here’s the API interface:
: Returns a) a subreddit’s posts and their seriousness scores, b) an all-time seriousness score, and c) hourly seriousness scores for the last week -
: Returns all subreddits we track and the all-time seriousness score for each
Let’s dive in.
To start, we want to extract posts from Reddit and write it into our own storage system. Our storage system will have two components: a message queue and a database.
- Message queue: We’ll use a message queue to both store and enrich data in real-time. We’ll use RabbitMQ to keep things simple.
- Database: We’ll use a database to permanently store and serve the data. Our API server will get its data from here. We’ll use Postgres, the do-it-all relational data store.
With our storage system in place (in theory), let’s write the first scripts of our data pipeline.
Reddit scraper: This script polls the Reddit API every second and writes new posts to a
topic in our message queue. -
consumer: This script reads data from theposts
topic and inserts it into our Postgres database.
We need a way to deploy and run our code in production. We like to do that with a CI/CD pipeline and a Kubernetes cluster.
- CI/CD pipeline: On every git commit, we’ll build our code as a Docker container, push it to a container registry, and deploy it to Kubernetes. GitHub Actions makes this easy to set up.
- Kubernetes cluster: Kubernetes is a platform for running containerized code. Kubernetes can also store our database and Reddit credentials, and inject them into our containers.
We’ll use a cloud provider to provision the message queue, database and Kubernetes cluster. We prefer managed services when they’re available, so we won’t deploy the message queue or database directly on Kubernetes.
Here’s a diagram of what our system looks like so far:
Once all this is up and running, we need to validate that the data is flowing. An easy way to do that is to connect to our Postgres database and run a few SQL queries to check that new posts are continually added. When everything looks good, we’re ready to move on.
Now that we have the raw data in Postgres, we’re ready to develop our moneymaker, the seriousness scoring model. For this example, we’ll keep things simple and use a Jupyter notebook that pulls historical posts from the Postgres database.
- Jupyter notebook: Inside the notebook, we label some training data, train and assess our model, and save the model to a file. Then our production code will be able to load the file to make inferences.
Note that there are other ways to train a machine learning model. Fancy “MLaaS'' and “MLOps” tools can help you continuously train, monitor and deploy models. If you want to integrate with one of these tools, you’ll likely connect your database to enable training, and you’ll ping an API to make an inference.
Here’s our system augmented with our ML development environment:
Now it’s time to build the workers that will apply the model to new posts, and write out the resulting seriousness scores. That’s two different scripts:
enrichment. This script consumes the Redditposts
topic, applies the predictive model, and writes the data back to another topicposts-scores
, which will contain post IDs and seriousness scores. -
consumer. This script reads data from theposts-scores
topic and inserts them into (a separate table in) our Postgres database.
Next up, we want to aggregate our results by subreddit and time. We’ll use dbt, which allows us to schedule periodic SQL queries. We’ll schedule two aggregating queries:
Roll up new scores: We’ll run this query every five minutes. On every run, it’ll calculate the mean scores of new posts and save the results to a table
in Postgres. -
Compute total score: This is a heavier query, so we’ll only run it once a day. It will compute each subreddit’s total seriousness score (across all time) and save the results to a table
With that, we have all the data that we want for our app available in Postgres. Here’s what the system looks like now:
Our last step is creating the interfaces for accessing our Reddit insights. We need to set up a backend API server and write our frontend code.
API server. The API server will fetch the insights from Postgres and serve the results to the frontend. It’ll implement the routes we specified in the introduction. We’ll build the API server in Python using the FastAPI framework.
Frontend client. The frontend will contain tables and charts for viewing and searching the insights. We’ll implement it with React and use a fancy charting library like Recharts.
Deploy the API server and frontend code to Kubernetes, and we have ourselves a full stack analytics application! Here’s what the final design looks like:
Our Reddit analytics app is now ready to share with the world (at least on paper). We’ve set up a full stack that spans data ingest, model training, real-time predictions and aggregations, and a frontend to explore the results. It’s also a reasonably future proof setup. We can do more real-time enrichment thanks to the message queue, and we can do more aggregations thanks to dbt.
But the system does have its limitations. For scalability, we’re limited by the throughput of Postgres and RabbitMQ. For latency, we’re limited by the batched nature of dbt. To improve, we could add BigQuery as a data warehouse, use Kafka as our message queue, and add Flink as a real-time stream processor, but these powerful systems also come at the cost of greater complexity.
While there are always different tools you can use for the same job, this data system design is fairly standard. I hope it gives you perspective on what it takes to build a live analytics-centric web application.


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@mina Ever since I got the 2nd Pfizer vac in July I have lost weight and I eat constantly but can’t put any back on. And also lost muscle mass. Have you experienced that or insomnia and dry mouth?
I'm sorry you're going through these symptoms. I'm losing weight and muscle mass. Yes, i'm suffering from insomnia. I had dry mouth at first but it got better. Stay strong.
Here is a good interview on the footballers falling, and some honest talk, this will get me kicked off
Thanks for sharing this was an interesting watch. I wish more people in the media would stand up and question our governments.
@jennifergrnd This sounds like most of our symptoms. Don't know how many posts you have read but most of us have the symptoms for months and none of us have gotten any real answers for what is happening. I would recommend you print a few posts from here that sound similar to your situation and take it with you to your neuro appt. Early on, all doctors were rejecting the idea that theses random, weird symptoms were caused by the vaccine but hopefully your neuro has seen a few cases and will accept the possibility of vaccine injury.
The good news is that most people have symptoms diminish significantly over time and many get back to normal. Go through the posts if you have time because these symptoms are random, they come and go and change over time. I often think I'm losing my mind then I come to this forum and find many are having the same symptoms and realize the symptoms are crazy and I'm not as crazy as I thought.
Has anyone here been diagnosed with pppd? What has been your experience?
@mina thank you for your response. I was curious what your other symptoms are , if you don’t mind me asking? And what you have done? I have a page full. 😞
I have a lot of symptoms:
Burning and twitching in my lef side
Tried many supplements but still struggling
@jennifergrnd Very similar symptoms to me. I'm at the 3 month mark and significantly better. Still small tremor internally and in hands/fingers but it's going in the right direction. Anyway, I hope this gives you some encouragement.
@mina aww I’m so sorry to hear. I’m dealing with dry eyes, dry mouth. Headaches off and on, feel like I’m on a boat, restless at times, insomnia is horrible. 🙏
Sorry, i had dry mouth for 3 months but it got better with time.
Do you have GI issues?
@susanfeuerstein I hear ya! March 13, 2021 was when my health took a nosedive. I've been to numerous specialist and all test were negative. The one thing that did happen is my immune system started showing crazy high lab results indicating Lupus which I obviously don't now have nor have I ever. But I'm still living with the 24/7 feeling like I've just gotten off a rollercoaster. Never lose my balance. Just very woozy. It's almost been 1 year and that hasn't changed. It has caused me to retire a few years earlier than planned. I know for a fact it was the Pfizer vaccine. I will never get an mRNA booster. If I ever get a booster it would be the Johnson & Johnson. My journey has been very exhausting. I wish you well and hope you have a full recovery!
@deborah deborah ciao anche io sono italiana, mi sapresti dire se i tuoi sintomi sono migliorati?vedo che hai scritto ben 9 mesi fa. Io sono in questo stato da 4 mesi circa e non c'è la faccio più. E se sono migliorati mi puoi dire cosa hai utilizzato?
i'm covid negative and unvaxxed but still feel like im slowly being poisoned
@mina do you feel like your skin is super dry as well? abnormaly dry? i have similar symptoms out of nowhere, i swear it feels like we been poisoned if you google what rat poisoning or liquid k2 feels like , it is the exact same symptoms. i know that sounds far fetched but so is this who situation, and just a thought....are you in the northeast?
@mina I sometimes have burping after I eat but other then that my bowels are regular, and I eat a lot. But I am on an anti anxiety med ( I hate) to sleep, but still sleep and wake up every couple hours- Crazy!. Are you seeing any doctors? I have horrible night sweats and hot flashes . Extreme dry skin.


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By: Shawn Todd, CFP
Most of us have golfed at one point or another during our lives. It may have been once, or it may have been many times throughout the summer. No matter how often you have golfed you will always remember the feeling of a firing a shot into a bunker [when you were going for the green], or just firing a ball into the water on a par 3. It’s tough, and it really starts to take the fun out of the game.
Most of the people reading this will have also invested at one point. Your home is one of your largest investments, and you may have several other investments in your portfolio. If you’ve been doing it as long as I have, then you also will have memories of the tech wreck, the financial crisis, and the market correction during Covid.
What does golf and investing during these market corrections have in common?
A well thought out gameplan.
If we approached golf without any consideration for the inherit risks of the game, well we would just feel the consequences. We’d lose a ball here, bogey there, it would be a miserable experience. Some of us all can feel that pain. Playing the game more smartly, hitting more fairways, staying out of the bunkers, well of these efforts make for far better results.
Investing needs to be focused, and well thought out. Ensuring you understand the risks of the portfolio you are in, the timelines you have, the goals of each portfolio, and the risk of each investment in your portfolio; is incredibly important. There needs to be a well thought out plan for taxation, capital gains [this is the topic of the day – thanks to the recent budget], and a discussion of the solutions that make the most sense for each investor. Often what works for you, may not be what works for your neighbour or colleague. Like golf, we all have different risk tolerances, capability, and performance needs. You need to play your own game, and your own pace.
Unlike golf – there are some great opportunities that will enhance your experience. Portfolio management, risk management, diversification, and a deep understanding of your needs – will all allow for an exceptionally smooth ride.
Imagine golf is someone could just tap your shoulder right before you started your ill-fated swing and said – “I just wouldn’t take that shot”.
It might make the game a lot more fun.
Consider helping your investing experience by adding a professional wealth management team to help you understand your own gameplan.
My thoughts for the day.


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Campus police officers perform more functions than just administering security, according to Danny Moss, assistant police chief at UNC Asheville.
“We also do education for certain things. Like if we have a lot of larcenies from the residence hall, we’ll go and talk to the people in the residence hall about securing your property, locking your doors, which we do every year anyway,” Moss said.
According to university police, educational programs on personal safety and crime prevention are offered to students, faculty and staff throughout the year.
“University police is always researching new prevention and education methods and we partner with them frequently in and around residence halls. Even with all the technology that is available, people and the shared responsibility of community is still the most effective method, in my opinion,” said Vollie Barnwell, director of housing and student life operations.
The top three crimes committed on college campuses comprise alcohol consumption, drug use and larceny, according to Moss.
“Usually alcohol is the highest on all campuses, and that’s about the same as here,” Moss said.
Nine violations involving alcohol on UNCA’s campus occurred in September, and 18 alcohol violations at Western Carolina University, according to state crime statistics.
Western has 9,608 students, nearly triple UNCA’s student population.
“We have shown a decrease in what we call our breaking and entering of residence halls,” Moss said. “People are actually taking more responsibility for their property and locking it up.”
Larceny of unsecured property remains an issue at UNCA, according to Moss.
“People just for some reason leave their computers laying around,” Moss said.
According to UNCA’s crime log, five instances of larceny occurred in the month of September.
“I’ve heard it said by a colleague to a group of parents once that campus safety is a shared responsibility, and while our campus has been a safe campus previously, that isn’t as important as keeping it safe in the future,” Barnwell said.
Students fall victim to larceny because they don’t consider their peers to be thieves, according to Emily Baenen, a sophomore at UNCA.
“We were taking a tour of the residence halls, and the tour guide told us about how a girl got her computer stolen, but that was because she left her door open,” said Baenen, resident of Governors Hall.
All students with on-campus residency must swipe their student identification card to enter residence halls, according to Barnwell.
“In addition to electronic access control, each residence hall has a staff member who sits at the main entrance from 8 p.m. – 5 a.m. to monitor access, check in visitors and be a resource to the residential community,” Barnwell said.
According to UNCA’s annual security report, 16 instances of burglary on campus occurred in 2010, nine in 2011 and just two in 2012. Western Carolina reports 38 burglaries in 2010, 23 in 2011 and seven in 2012.
“I think UNCA is one of the safest campuses,” Baenen said. “As long as you lock your door.”
In addition to locks on the outside of suite doors in residence halls, each bedroom comes with a lock of its own, according to Barnwell.
“We are here to protect the student body and faculty and staff on campus,” Moss said.
According to Moss, campus security will increase surveillance in areas with high crime rates.
“If we have an area where we have a lot of underage drinking or marijuana use, or we have an area where a lot of cars are being broken into then we’re going to increase our patrols,” Moss said.
UNCA staff stress importance of keeping campus safe for the future
October 16, 2013


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STAY WITH US AT SWEET MAPLE MOUNTAIN VIEW
About our Airbnb
Full of sunshine and personal touches Kevin and Wendy's 2 bedroom guest home is conveniently located within walking distance to the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, the Danville town green, many well loved restaurants, Marty's 1st Stop for top notch groceries and Bentley's Bakery. We will always have a basket of pancake mix and pure VT maple syrup waiting for you to enjoy! We strive for excellent communication, cleanliness, comfort and sweet extra touches.
Hard wood floors throughout and lots of light. Located right in the heart of Danville in a beautiful and quiet neighborhood. Super convenient to the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail (less than 5 minute walk!) as well as a few restaurants, churches and stores. Sleep well on our brand new luxury feel mattresses with Egyptian cotton sheets and enjoy the back deck with your morning coffee or a glass of wine. We also have a beautiful mountain view through our living room windows.
Find our kitchen fully stocked with everything you need to cook or bake. Even a new griddle to make pancakes with. We are partners of Gadapee Family Sugarhouse and each Spring we tap 8000+ trees and make pure VT maple syrup. Each guest will go home with some sweet maple!
In the Winter, ski Burke, Canon or Jay Peak. Or hop on to the VAST snowmobile trail right at Marty's store, almost next door. We highly recommend Craftsbury Outdoor Center for cross country skiing too.
We love Danville but if you have time to explore nearby we enjoy Littleton and Franconia, NH as well as Burlington, Waterbury/Stowe and Newport/Derby, VT. For longer days we are 3 hours from Boston or 2.5 hours to Montreal. Please check out our guidebook for even more local recommendations.


title: Seventeen

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Sharon Van Etten used to be one of those artists I could count on to have two or three great songs per album. Full LP doses were always a little too much for my taste – folky, lovely, but samey.
I’d still get excited about the prospect of new SVE music, because those two or three great songs were consistently spectacular. Consider “One Day” and “Peace Signs” from 2010’s Epic; “Give Out” and “Leonard” from 2012’s Tramp; “Tarifa” and “Every Time the Sun Comes Up” from 2014’s Are We There. Her cutting lyrics, fiery vocal harmonies and instincts for painting vivid emotional pictures through simple acoustic chord progressions are magical when everything clicks.
Van Etten went mostly quiet for five years after Are We There (a surprise, since “Every Time the Sun Comes Up” had given her the biggest audience of her career). She gave birth to a son, she pursued a psychology degree, and she popped up in a recurring role on Netflix’s The OA. But no new music, until a single and video for a song called “Comeback Kid” were released in support of a 2019 LP, Remind Me Tomorrow.
“Comeback Kid” is not folky-lovely-samey. For the first time, she ditched her maudlin folk vibe for synths, heavier drums, and full-on rock star delivery. The whole album was likewise a revelation – not just in terms of energy and variety of arrangements, but also stunning consistency in songwriting. All ten tracks are fantastic.
To put that another way: in my Spotify 2019 Wrapped report, nine of my ten most listened to tracks this year were Sharon Van Etten. I never expected this.
Aside from the songs being great, I find hearing Sharon’s voice in a new, more alt-rock context kind of addictive. Where she sounds mournful in a folk setting, it’s now clear she has a much broader palette available. The best point of comparison I can think of is Thom Yorke, in that they share an uninhibited, almost operatic vocal gear where they’ll attack a certain note like they’re taking a flamethrower to a mosquito.
The consensus highlight on Remind Me Tomorrow is “Seventeen.” I think they’re all highlights, but I’m not going to argue with that pick. Kyla and I saw Sharon at the Beacon Theatre toward the beginning of her tour, and after playing “Seventeen” and seeing the crowd’s reaction, she had to take a moment to compose herself. “I think that may be the first time people have stood up for my music,” she said, to more applause. “I’m still growing.”


title: A nutty trade mark dispute kraft v bega

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The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia unanimously dismissed Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC’s (Kraft) appeal of a decision entitling Bega Cheese Limited (Bega) to exclusive use of the distinctive trade dress or ‘get up’, consisting of ‘a jar with yellow lid, yellow label, blue or red peanut device (logo) and having a brown appearance when filled’ (Peanut Butter Trade Dress). A comparison of the products can be shown below.
In 2017, Bega acquired the “peanut butter business” and related assets and goodwill of Kraft’s Australian subsidiary Mondelez Australia (Foods) Ltd (Mondelez), including the Peanut Butter Trade Dress.
Following the acquisition, Bega began selling Bega-branded peanut butter products using the elements of the Peanut Butter Trade Dress.
Soon after, Kraft began to manufacture and sell a peanut butter product in Australia, also using elements of the Peanut Butter Trade Dress, under the brand “The Good Nut”.
Both Bega and Kraft argued that the other’s use of the Peanut Butter Trade Dress constituted misleading or deceptive conduct under Australian Consumer Law. Other causes of action included breach of contract and passing off.
Last year, the Federal Court at first instance determined because the Peanut Butter Trade Dress was inseparable from the goodwill of the business – it could only be assigned with the assignment of the rest of the peanut butter business. As such, Bega had exclusive use of the Peanut Butter Trade Dress when they purchased the iconic product.
In dismissing Kraft’s appeal, the Full Court confirmed the primary judge’s interpretation that, under Australian law, an unregistered trade mark may only be assigned together with the goodwill of the underlying business of which the trade mark is used.
The Full Court’s decision can be found here.
There are a number of lessons that come out of the Full Court’s judgment:
- registered and unregistered trade marks can be an important source of goodwill of a business;
- goodwill in an unregistered trade mark is inseparable from the business using it. Therefore, an unregistered trade mark in Australia may only be assigned with an assignment of the goodwill of the business in respect of which the trade mark was used;
- registration of intellectual property rights, including trade dress or get up that is commercially valuable, is imperative to enforce your rights in the marks against others;
- ensure that all licenses clearly state ownership and the scope of each parties’ right to use the intellectual property; and
- conduct due diligence when selling your assets – ensure that the transaction documents clearly set out which intellectual property rights will be sold with the business.
It’s NUT over: Appeal to the High Court
It was recently announced that Kraft has filed an application in the High Court seeking special leave to appeal the Full Court’s decision.
Our Intellectual Property team is well-placed to assist Australian businesses in protecting their intellectual property. If you have any queries about this article or trade marks generally, please get in touch.
The information contained in this document is not legal advice. It sets out matters of general opinion and should not be applied to your particular circumstances without obtaining specific legal advice as to your position, rights and obligations.
Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC v Bega Cheese Limited  FCAFC 65.
The Australian Consumer Law is contained in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).