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Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. will spend $17 million over the next two years to collect more of the hazardous air pollutants that come from its Frenchtown pulp mill.
In a presentation Thursday to the Missoula Air Pollution Control Board, the mill's senior environmental engineer said the project comes in response to new so-called "cluster rules" adopted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and aimed at reducing emissions of 189 hazardous air pollutants.
The rules limit both wastewater discharges and air emissions; thus, the "cluster" designation. They also target specific industries - pulp and paper mills, oil refineries and aluminum factories, for example, said engineer Leif Griffin. Deadline for compliance: April 15, 2001.
At the Frenchtown mill, Griffin said the primary hazardous air pollutant is methanol, a byproduct of cooking wood. Methanol accounts for 78 percent of the toxic chemicals released by the mill.
To comply with the new wastewater limits, Smurfit-Stone decided - this past February - to close its bleach plant. "It is shut down now, and the corporation has no plans to operate it again," Griffin said. "We are in compliance for the wastewater end of the rules."
Smurfit-Stone used bleach to produce white linerboard for the outside lining of specialty cardboard boxes - for computers, pizza and fruit. All of the mill's 700,000 yearly tons of linerboard is now brown.
To comply with the air emission limits, the mill will install 17,000 feet of piping and two pieces of equipment: a steam stripper that collects and treats methanol and other "foul condensate," and a thermal oxidizer that removes - by burning them - 98 percent of the hazardous air pollutants from non-condensable or odorous gases.
"We will collect 15,000 pounds of methanol per day," Griffin said. "As a result, we anticipate some significant reduction in the amount of emissions we will report on the annual toxic release inventory. And we anticipate less odor coming from the plant."
Air Pollution Control Board members were so impressed with Smurfit-Stone's plans that they unanimously approved a resolution commending the company for its pollution-control effort. A similar resolution was adopted recently by the local Air Quality Advisory Council.
"We are really excited about this project," said Ed Scott, environmental manager at the Frenchtown mill. "It represents something very positive not only for the mill, but for our community. We are very happy the board agrees with us that this is a positive project."
A second round of cluster rules will limit the mill's metals and particulate emissions, and will go into effect on April 15, 2006.
Griffin said the company's research on those rules is still "very preliminary," and early cost estimates are sketchy - in the range of $5 million to $6 million.
The first, $17 million project is in the design stage, with selection of a general contractor expected within the next three weeks, Griffin said. Equipment purchases will begin this summer.


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Experience a taste of India on this
outstanding introductory tour of
the country’s most famous sights.
Exploring the Golden Triangle, this
journey combines imperial Delhi with
the legendary Taj Mahal at Agra and a
3-night stay in a former royal hunting
lodge near the pink city of Jaipur.
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Overnight flight from
London to Delhi with Virgin Atlantic / Jet
Arrive in Delhi in the morning
and transfer to the Eros Hotel (or similar) for 1
night. Afternoon tour of Old Delhi, including the
Red Fort, Jama Masjid mosque and Raj Ghat. (N)
Morning tour of New Delhi,
including India Gate and the former viceregal
residence, both fine examples of British
imperial architecture. Continue to the tomb of
the Mughal emperor Humayun and the Qutb
Minar tower. Afternoon drive to Agra and stay
for 2 nights at The Gateway Hotel Agra (or
Early morning visit to the
Taj Mahal, arriving in time for sunrise. After
breakfast, visit the tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah
and Agra Fort. This evening, visit Mehtab
Bagh, a 400-year-old Mughal garden on the
banks of the Yamuna, to see the sun set over
the Taj Mahal. (B)
Morning drive to the
deserted sandstone city of Fatehpur Sikri.
Continue to the former royal retreat of the
rulers of Jaipur, The Gateway Hotel Ramgarh
Lodge (or similar), for 3 nights. (B, D)
After breakfast, visit the
ancient palace of Amber Fort and then the
City Palace in the afternoon, home of the
present maharaja. (B, D)
A day at leisure to relax, explore
Jaipur’s many bazaars or take an optional tour of
the ghost town of Bhangarh. (B, D)
Drive to Delhi via the
exquisite palace at Samode, an impressive
blend of Rajput and Mughal architecture.
Following a sightseeing tour and lunch
(optional), continue to Delhi. Stay overnight at
the Eros Hotel (or similar). (B)
Morning transfer to the
airport. Fly to London with Virgin Atlantic / Jet
(B) = Breakfast, (L) = Lunch, (D) = Dinner, (N) = No Meals
Typically based in 4- and 5-star
This was once the favourite hunting
retreat of the maharaja of Jaipur. Built in
the late 1930s, the lodge, set in the forested
Aravalli hills, exudes an air of history.
All 14 rooms and suites are a seamless
blend of history and contemporary
style, and overlook either the mountains
or the lush landscaped gardens.
In the heart of south Delhi's prosperous business district, the Eros Hotel managed by Hilton (InterContinental Eros) offers magnificent views of the Lotus Temple and has 224 guestrooms. Facilities include 24-hour room service, 24-hour broadband connectivity, and a 24-hour business centre to name just a few. There are five dining options and, when it comes to recreation, there is an outdoor pool and a nine-hole putting...
The Gateway Hotel Fatehabad Road Agra (previously the Taj View) has 100 rooms, some of which have views of the Taj Mahal, which is located only 1 kilometre from the hotel. Facilities include 2 restaurants serving a range of Indian, Continental and Chinese cuisine, and a swimming pool and...
Built in the late 1930s, The Gateway Hotel Ramgarh Lodge Jaipur (previously Ramgarh Lodge) was once the favourite hunting retreat of the Maharaja of Jaipur. Located around 40 km from Jaipur, this rustic lodge set in the forested Aravalli exudes an air of history. The lodge was converted into a hotel in the late 1980s and is now managed by the Taj group of hotels. All 13 rooms and suites are spacious, comfortably furnished, combine history with contemporary style and overlook either the rugged Aravalli Mountains or the landscaped gardens. Other facilities include a dining room with a colonial atmosphere, outdoor swimming pool and tennis...
Located in Connaught Place, Delhi's prime business and shopping district, The LaLiT New Delhi is only minutes away from cultural attractions, shopping malls, government offices and trade fair grounds. The hotel has 460 guests rooms including 47 designer suites located in an exclusive atrium tower, all with modern amenities. Dining on offer is an array of Indian, Chinese, and Mediterranean cuisine. Other facilities at this hotel include a fitness club and outdoor swimming...
Regional air connections are available from within the UK. Please contact your travel consultant for current prices from your nearest city.
We can also arrange flights from overseas, simply give us a call to find out more.
If you choose to take the tour without flights arranged through Cox & Kings, please contact one of our travel consultants prior to booking the flights to ensure that you are aware of the tour timings and all the implications of not booking through us. We strongly advise you not to book flights independently of Cox & Kings if significant charges would apply in case of cancellation.
Flight details may be subject to change prior to departure.
The former Portuguese colony of Goa, India’s
smallest state, is a perfect place to relax as it
offers long stretches of beautiful beaches lined
with palm trees, world heritage architecture and
rich flora and fauna. Stay 4 nights at the Alila
Diwa in south Goa, inspired by traditional Goan
design and set amid lush paddies leading to
the Arabian Sea. The Majorda beach is about
10 minutes’ walk from the hotel and the hotel
operates regular tuk-tuk shuttles to and from the
beach. Return to London via Mumbai.
Leave the group this
morning and fly to Goa. Transfer to the Alila
Diwa Goa for 4 nights. (B)
At leisure or take optional
Morning flight to Mumbai
(Bombay) and connect with the international
flight to London with Jet Airways. (B)
Please call 020 7873 5000 for more information or to make a booking.
The Kathmandu valley has a rich cultural
heritage and offers magnificent views of
Fly from Delhi to
Kathmandu and transfer to the Soaltee
Crowne Plaza / Dwarika’s Hotel* for 2 nights.
Afternoon tour of Kathmandu, including
Durbar Square and Swayambhunath. (B)
Morning at leisure.
Afternoon visit to Bodhnath. Continue to the
eastern bank of the Bagmati river for a view of
Pashupatinath Temple. (B)
Transfer to Bhaktapur,
Nepal’s most traditional medieval city. Continue
to Nagarkot and stay overnight at the Club
Himalaya. Afternoon at leisure. (B)
view of sunrise over the Himalaya (weather
permitting). Transfer to Kathmandu and stay
overnight at Soaltee Crowne Plaza / Dwarika’s
Hotel*. Afternoon at leisure. (B)
Fly to London, via Delhi,
with Jet Airways. (B)
The characterful Dwarika’s Hotel may be booked, subject to
availability, for a supplement from £80 pppn
(twin) or from £160 pppn (single).
Ranthambore is a beautiful wildlife reserve,
home to tigers, sambars, panthers, marsh
crocodiles, sloth bears and leopards.
Take a half-day drive
from Jaipur to Ranthambore and transfer to
the Dev Vilas (or similar) for 2 nights. (B, D)
Early morning and late
afternoon drives to search for tigers. (B, L, D)
Morning wildlife viewing.
Afternoon return by train to Delhi. On arrival,
transfer to The Claridges (or similar) for 1
Fly to London with Jet
Airways / Virgin Atlantic. (B)
1 Jan – 31 May & 1 Oct – 31
Dec. The reopening of the park on 1 October
is subject to weather conditions.
Drive to Udaipur and stay 2 nights at the
traditional Fateh Prakash Palace* , inspired
by the many grand palaces dotted around
Rajasthan. Udaipur, arguably the most
picturesque city in Rajasthan, is set on the
shores of Lake Pichola and surrounded by hills.
Its winding streets are filled with people in
colourful costumes, merchant houses and shops.
Drive to Udaipur for a
2-night stay at the Chunda Palace (or similar). (B)
Morning tour of the City
Palace and Jagdish temple. (B)
Transfer to the airport
and fly to Delhi to connect with the Virgin
Atlantic flight to London. (B)
The Taj Lake Palace hotel may be booked, subject to availability,
at a supplement from £175 pppn (twin) or
from £300 pppn (single).
Varanasi, regarded as one of the oldest living
cities in the world, is set on the riverbanks of the
sacred Ganges. For Hindus, it is believed that
bathing in the river will purge all sins.
A dawn boat trip along the ghats reveals an
intoxicating blend of incense, chimes and
people going about their morning rituals.
The town is also recognised among Buddhists
because Sarnath, the town where Buddha gave
his first sermon after enlightenment, is only a
short drive away.
Morning flight to
Varanasi. Stay at The Gateway Hotel Ganges
Varanasi (or similar) for 2 nights. Afternoon
tour of Sarnath, the site of Buddha’s first
sermon. This evening visit the Dasaswamedh
Ghats to witness the fascinating Ganga Aarti
Early morning boat ride on
the Ganges. Later this morning visit the Chunar
Fort and the Ramnagar Fort. (B)
Fly to Delhi and stay
overnight at the Radisson Blu Dwarka (or
Fly to London with Virgin
This tour can be booked / reserved online by clicking on one of the coloured links below.
The first sight of the Taj Mahal was a really magical experience.Mrs Sally-Ann Hart
The ordinary people of India were an inspiration in themselves with their poise, dignity and friendliness in difficult living conditions.Mr Robin Ross
The local guide (Arvind) really made this tour memorable. His local knowledge was as one would hope - very good - but it was the extent to which he went beyond this that made such a difference. He gave us a lot of insights into Indian life, social habits and history.Mrs Suzanne Cosgrave
There were almost too many highlights to single out just one. However, I would have to include the first sight of the Taj Mahal in any shortlist. There were so many other wondrous buildings. We also greatly enjoyed the trip to the local village in Jaipur as it gave us a better insight as to how the rural community live.Mrs Gwendoline Wilkins
The observatory in Jaipur - I could have spent all day there. Once I had figured out how things worked, I was staggered by the beautiful simplicity and also complexity of the various pieces. Amazing.Mr Brian Snell
The Taj Mahal was fantastic, the people in India were overwhelming, they made me feel very humble.Mr David Bonham
The Nepal extension was fantastic and awe inspiring, especially Kathmandu and Baktapur.Mrs Lily Lindsey
It was all amazing. The guide was excellent and everything was organized so well it was seamless.Mrs Felicity Kelly
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Smooth dark chocolate with a salty-sweet kick of hand-harvested sea salt from the isle of Skye. Handmade and packaged in Ocelot Chocolate's micro-factory in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Ethically sourced organic bean to bar chocolate
- 70g bar weight
- Suitable for vegans and plastic-free
- Handmade in Scotland
- See our full chocolate collection
- Vegan Friendly, Gluten Free, Palm Oil Free
- Please note: We cannot ship chocolate or food items to the USA
Ingredients: Cocoa mass, raw unrefined cane sugar, cocoa butter, sea salt (1%).
Ocelot Chocolate is a small business, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is owned and run by Matt and Ish. In 2013, two weeks after getting married, they started making chocolate in the back kitchen of their apartment, which they sold at local farmers markets. Five years on they have a small factory and an amazing little team!
Their chocolate supplier works tirelessly to ensure that the cocoa farmers are given the fair trade and resources to enable them to focus on producing healthy, high-quality cocoa and that they are able to not only look after their own families but also protect the environment and communities around them.
In order to produce the beans needed to make chocolate, these farmers nurture the trees, handpick the cocoa pods, and separate the beans for fermenting. After a carefully controlled fermentation process, the cocoa beans are sun-dried to retain their natural qualities. The beans are then hand-peeled, before further processing into nibs, paste, butter and powder. Ocelot uses a combination of couverture and also cocoa nibs which they then grind in their factory - we buy both of these products from an organic 'bean-to-bar' producer.
The chocolate with a cocoa percentage of 70%, is made from beans which are grown in Virunga National park - Africa's oldest nature reserve, and the home of the last Mountain Gorillas. There, the farmers are actively working to protect the gorillas and this precious habitat, and the beans that are produced reflect this wondrously diverse region, creating chocolate with the rich and tart flavours of dark fruits, earthy forest floor and smoky tobacco.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Right off the farm, one Kansas teenager found a job at a foundry.
Timothy Britt said it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and they were making huge rollers that were being used on missile silos.
That’s what Britt said motivated him to sign up for the Air Force.
On most days you’ll find Britt working at Four Seasons Dry Cleaners.
It’s a much different job than the one he enlisted to do more than sixty years ago.
“When I got into basic training, I realized this is a whole different type of world that I was in,” Air Force Veteran Timothy Britt said.
Britt said there was quite the fleet of B-52’s and many other aircraft for the corrosion control guys.
“I had never seen a spray gun, I mean, I milk cows and I threw bails of hay, and that is all I did,” Britt said.
He did learn quickly the importance of a respirator.
“Then I noticed, that my eyelids were sticking together and I was having trouble breathing and my skin felt funny, so I came out of there and they were all out there laughing at me,” Britt said.”
He said despite the jokes, the Airman took protecting the aircraft and crews very seriously.
“To protect them, in case we did have to go and launch missiles and drop bombs with nuclear stuff in it, and so the airman would be protected, up until they did their mission,” Britt said.
Life has slowed down some for Britt, but he remains on a mission.
“It didn’t look right, I felt uneasy about it,” Britt said.
One day while making his rounds, Britt even found a suicide note in the pocket of a JROTC uniform.
“I had tears in my eyes, because I didn’t do it to get one of these things,” Britt said.
Britt was talking about the award he received for coming forward, but says that’s not the real reward.
“They got him some counseling and he is doing fine,” Britt said. “I think he is already graduated, and most of the kids who go through this ROTC program end up in the Army, with a career.”
He said when the students come in the Dry Cleaners he is always encouraging them to get jobs in the military, that they can someday use in the civilian world.
“It makes me feel like I am part of the program, when really all I am doing is doing my job,” Britt said.
He said he is so encouraged by the discipline and drive of some of the students.
“You see something in a person, that you know they have a chance, to go out into the world and that’s what our country needs,” Britt said.
Britt’s father was a sailor, before signing up for the Air Force.
He was born during his time in the Air Force, so he is actually an Air Force baby and veteran.
He said he remembers going on to base as a child and hearing the roar of aircraft engines.
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A large Time Warner outage is impacting internet users throughout California.
Thousands of subscribers have taken to twitter to express their frustration. Many are indicating that the problem is affecting Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Inland Empire. As of 7:30 p.m., no related terms have made the site’s list of trending topics for Los Angeles, though the outage appears to have started around 6 p.m.
NBCLA contacted a Time Warner Cable customer service representative who said the service interruption is affecting “almost everyone from California.”


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More breezy Spring seating – have you seen this unusual contemporary lace print Gatsby armchair from John Lewis? It reminds me of a high street version of something Marcel Wanders might create…
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System Components and Menus
When left-clicking the Designer Ring and the Waypoints, a blue menu will pop-up with the menu items described below.
Designer Ring Menu
You have the option of changing the channel on the HUD to a channel you have configured in your movers using the @user_channel parameter (see Movers). Edit the "channel" notecard inside the HUD and enter the channel number, save and close. This is useful when using multiple movers on different channels. You would need to wear a HUD for each channel configured.


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IndiSpire Topic - What does happiness mean to you? Do you go looking for happiness? #Happiness
Look everything around for what makes you happy
Look back and know the moments that made you happy
Look Inside and find what Happiness is
To me it is
A gloomy-red sunset
A cup of ginger tea
A passionate novel !
Scooty long drives
A day-time movie in Hall !
To have a soulful talk
And spend time with loved one...
Happiness to me is an Attitude, you can wear it daily, and good if you do.
And truly, I don't go looking for it, because I believe its not a Thing placed Outside, it is something you Create. That is why, some people choose to be Happy regardless of any obstacle and problems.
What happiness is for you -
Reply in one word, a sentence, a couplet or in a few lines. Based on memory or fiction, whatever , but plunge in Happiness and you would just love it.

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Boosting Multifamily Energy Savings Through Lighting Control Settings
By reducing the off-delay interval to 30 seconds, a building owner can see energy savings of more than 75%.
Advocates of energy efficiency all lament the split incentive that discourages conservation investments in rental housing. [continue reading]
In some circles, 1996 will be remembered not so much for the summer Olympics, but for an event that occurs even less often-a multifamily energy conference. [continue reading]
The heat wave in Chicago last summer created a great deal of human discomfort and, by many estimates, caused over 500 deaths in three days. The overwhelming majority of these deaths occurred in buildings with indoor conditions that were reported as stifling. [continue reading]
In 1997, Maytag will offer an efficient small refrigerator to utilities and public housing authorities who purchase them through a national procurement initiative. [continue reading]
Energy auditors cringe when they see open windows cooling off overheated apartments on cold days. By preventing apartment overheating, thermostatic radiator valves (TRVs) can cost-effectively reduce space heating energy use, according to a recent study in New York City. [continue reading]
The different types of windows homeowners might consider may include wood, vinyl, and fiberglass. Most people think that wood is ...
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Mumbai Mirror has published a blind item about an actor who has become arrogant thanks to his new found superstardom.
Everybody who knows him speaks of him as a polite & well behaved individual. So it is shocking to hear that this actor is letting success go to his head. He is pure dynamite on screen. He is a natural when it comes to action movies, thanks to his physique & fighting skills. That explains why his movies are such massive hits(click here to read more)
Celebs often say that people change their behaviour towards them once they achieve superstardom. It is possible that the actor is just feeling shy to speak to his co-stars or just isn’t fond of them. His recent box office success may have nothing to do with it
WE didn’t think success would go to the head of this good boy-gone-great star so soon. Only a few months ago, he would plead with journalists interviewing him to be kind, as he was sincere and hardworking and hoping for a big hit. Now that his film has achieved blockbuster status, he sings a different tune. His newfound arrogance is especially seen on the sets of his new bigticket film. His two co-stars complain he doesn’t even talk to them on the sets.
Good Boy: Tiger Shroff
Co-stars: Tara Sutaria & Ananya Pandey
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A team of district administration caught a doctor identified as Dr Rajeev Bhatia for conducting ultrasounds from an unregistered centre after which an FIR was lodged against the doctor and he was arrested. The doctor was running this centre at 4/8 Marla by the name of Bhatia Diagnostic. He has been sent to 2-day remand by a local court.
Te team was keeping an eye on the ultrasound centre and on Sept. 2 a probe was carried out against the centre and the allegations of running the centre without registration were found to be true. His Form F also had several lacunae. He was booked under PCPNDT Act. This is the third time the doctor has been booked for such violations. He had been sentenced to 3 yrs’ prison earlier but had got a stay from the HC where the matter is sub-judice.

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For positively reinforcing Germany's image
Thu, 07/10/21, 18:36
FC Bayern receives honorary 'German Football Ambassador Award 2021'
FC Bayern Munich has received the honorary 'German Football Ambassador Award 2021'. The award ceremony took place on Wednesday evening this week at Deutsche Telekom's representative office in Berlin.
Since 2002, the German Football Ambassador Association has been honouring German football coaches, players and football organisations that contribute or have contributed in a special way to Germany's positive image abroad through their commitment and conduct. The prize is sponsored by the Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut, kicker sports magazine, Telekom and the Sky TV channel, among others. Previous award winners include Jürgen Klopp, Dettmar Cramer, Holger Obermann, Rudi Gutendorf and Leon Goretzka/Joshua Kimmich.
FC Bayern was honoured for an outstanding sporting 2020, in which the team won six titles, including the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup, which was held in the same season. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge accepted the award on behalf of FC Bayern and thanked the players and the coaching team. Rummenigge was CEO of FC Bayern in 2020 and handed over the role to Oliver Kahn in the summer of 2021.
"As a club team, FC Bayern Munich stands for football made in Germany - and does it all over the world," the jury's statement read. "Due to its successes, the club has enjoyed an enormous appeal abroad for decades and ensures a positive image of Germany in the world of football." But it is not only the successes on the pitch that are impressive. FC Bayern has a social commitment that contributes significantly to the image of a first-class club. In his laudatory speech, Dietmar Hamann, a football expert for Sky and a former FC Bayern player himself, highlighted FC Bayern's sustainable approach, both economically and socially.
"On behalf of FC Bayern, I would like to thank the jury of the 'German Football Ambassador'" said FC Bayern CEO Oliver Kahn. "We are very pleased to have been honoured for the combination of sporting success and social commitment. Economic, ecological and social sustainability are central tasks for our society that have to be redefined time and again, and we will continue to do this as we have done in the past."
The 'German Football Ambassador Public Award 2021' was presented to Germany player Kai Havertz of Chelsea, while coach Uli Stielike received the 'German Football Ambassador 2021' award.
At the beginning of the month, CEO Oliver Kahn presented FC Bayern's new mission statement:


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The unique and unpolluted beaches available at the Mediterranean coastal bank shine out as the prominent locations for the individuals making a holiday plan. Such beaches, which are popular places for both the domestic and foreign tourists, stand out with their natural beauties. Here are 5 distinguished spots for the individuals who wish to see the perfect match of a coastal band in the arms of an endless deep blue sea and nature:
The Kaputas Beach, located at Kalkan in the district of Kas of Antalya city, is a locality that is famous for its almost-blinding beautiful scenery, in particular when viewed from heights. Kaputas, which becomes an extremely distinguished beach thanks to its crystal clear aqua, topographic structure sheltered on both sides, the texture originating at the point where the ice-cold waters coming from the deep canyon at the back join the sea, is also a grade 1 natural site area. The turquoise sea, meeting with the crystalline pebbles, makes this place more distinguished.
Phaselis Beaches with a distance of 12 km to the district of Kemer of Antalya city, is one of the popular places for the individuals favoring such kind of locations, thanks to its pure sea as well as its ancient ruins and also its texture that remains still natural. The three differential beaches, located at the three natural harbors of the Phaselis ancient city, add a distinct richness for the region. In particular, the Southern harbor beach is the largest and the most popular beach of Phaselis among the beaches at the Northern harbor, the Southern harbor and the Central harbor. The Southern harbor beach, which is one of the first choices of the campers, offers the endless peace of being communed with the nature to the holiday makers.
The Northern harbor beach is the second largest beach next to the ancient city. It is an intensely exclusive area for the individuals who like the beaches with the pebbles. The clear sea and the tranquil water add a distinct particularity and tranquility for this location.
The Central harbor beach is the smallest beach of Phaselis. Since the Central harbor is surrounded with round-shaped trees and rocks encircling it, you will feel like you are in a pool while swimming here. The sea water temperature in this area is some degrees higher than those at other locations.
The beach, named after Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, is located in front of the Alanya Damlatas Cave. This beach with blue flag resembles a pool surrounded with rocks. According to the story, Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, and Antonius, the Roman Emperor were meeting here. This beach is characterized by its glassy clear and unpolluted sea. In fact, the fish in a depth of 5 meters can be easily seen when you swim by wearing underwater goggles.
Andrea Doria Bay:
The Andrea Doria Bay, located within the borders of the district of Finike of Antalya, is a bay with a unique beauty and a popular place also for the caretta carrettas. This place can be accessed by the recreational crafts. This area is also known as the Beacon (Radyofor) Bay. The Bay, named after the Genoese Admiral Andrea Doria, is a locality ideal for not only swimming in the chilly blue water but also enjoying the scenery that pleases the eyes.
The Olympus Beach, located between the districts of Kemer and Kumluca on the western side of the city center of Antalya, is one of the most popular places for the individuals, who prefer a natural, tranquil and peaceful holiday spots, thanks to its pure sea, green and untouched nature, landscape and the topography extending to Cirali.


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Congress will soon vote on H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act of 2019. If passed, the bill will provide immediate relief for millions of individuals who have lived and worked legally in the United States for years, sometimes decades. These are people who are important fixtures in their communities, who often have children who are U.S. citizens, and who are either unable to return to their country of birth or have almost no connection to it at all. Now is the time to speak up on behalf of your neighbors and the country you want to see. We urge you to contact your representatives in Congress and let them know you support Dreamers and recipients of Temporary Protected Status.
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Drummond Reed, Managing Director, Respect Network Corp.
Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D., Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Kynetx
The Live Web Series sets forth a vision for the future of the Internet and our interactions on it. This paper is the second paper in that series. This paper builds on the previous paper, From Personal Computers to Personal Clouds: The Advent of the Cloud OS. We strongly recommended that you read it first. Future papers in this series will build upon the ideas presented here to show how personal clouds form a foundation for richer and more satisfying online applications and experiences.
The personal cloud—a cloud-based virtual computer controlled by an individual—is looking as inevitable as the personal computer was in the 1980’s. But while new applications like spreadsheets and word processors drove the adoption of personal computers, it will be new communications capabilities that drive the adoption of personal clouds. Links between personal clouds—called a personal channel—can simplify, automate, filter, and protect communications in ways that have never been possible before. Personal channels combine the best features of email with the best features of social networks while eliminating key drawbacks of both. They will also introduce new levels of security, privacy, and control over personal data that will enable trusted relationship management between people and organizations everywhere.
Introduction: The Power of Connecting
Benefit #1: Access Control and Volume Control
Benefit #2: Lifetime Portability—Channels Never Break
Benefit #3: Secure Delivery
Benefit #4: Simple, Standardized, Contextual Authentication
Benefit #5: Scalable Trust with Contextual Reputation
Benefit #6: Automated Event Processing
Benefit #7: Intelligent Filtering and Organization
Benefit #8: Intelligent Notification
Benefit #9: Automatic Data Exchange
Benefit #10: Rich Sharing
Finding Out More
The Social Web has shown us the power of connecting. Facebook has friends, LinkedIn has connections, and Twitter has followers. And between them they now connect well over a billion people—at least one-sixth of the planet.
These connections form a graph of relationships that are often called “the social graph”. Each connection also forms a communications channel, although the capabilities of these channels vary widely between the various networks.
But all of these networks have one thing in common: they are proprietary. Despite all the money and time invested in creating APIs to access them, interoperation and extension is difficult, brittle, and in some cases actually a violation of the network’s terms of service.
The natural progression of the Internet will be to develop a unified, interoperable relationship network based on open standards. This is what happened with the Internet itself in the 1970’s, with email in the 1980’s, and with the Web in the 1990’s. In each case, the network effects unleashed by the emergence of a general-purpose, open standard network completely disrupted the highly dominant players of the time. Just think what email did to proprietary email networks like MCI & Compuserve or the Web did to AOL.
In the case of the Social Web, the rise of the personal cloud will lead the transformation from proprietary social networks to a general-purpose, open standard relationship network. Personal clouds represent a new computing paradigm for individuals and are described in detail in our paper From Personal Computers to Personal Clouds.
In this paper, we describe a key reason personal clouds will be so disruptive: they enable a breakthrough new form of communications connection—the personal channel. We will cover:
When they first appeared in the early 1980’s, personal computers were powerful tools in their own right. That changed in the 90’s with the emergence of widespread network connectivity. Nowadays, a PC that’s not connected to the Internet is non-functional for many of the tasks that people perform every day (e.g., email, web browsing, social networking). To test that assumption, just try turning off the network on your computer for a day. And of course, the very newest personal computer—the smartphone—makes connectivity the very foundation of the platform.
Even more so than personal computers, personal clouds are only interesting when they are connected. The connection between two personal clouds—or between a personal cloud and anything else it is connected to—is called a personal channel. The network of people and organizations linked via personal channels is called a relationship network.
On an open standard relationship network, the attributes, permissions, and capabilities of a relationship are standardized and extensible. Every relationship is a link. A link may be a simple one-way (asymmetric) subscriber relationship that does not require involvement of the second party, or it may be a stronger two-way (symmetric) relationship in which both parties may act as publishers and subscribers.
In either case, when data and messages can flow in one or both directions across a link, it is a channel. The control each party has over the channel—the terms and conditions to which they agree about how it will work—is called a link contract. Figure 1 shows two personal clouds connected via a channel controlled with a link contract. Note that both parties store a copy of the same link contract just like they would a paper contract.
Figure 1: Every personal channel is controlled by a link contract.
Like email, personal channels all speak the same protocol, forming a point-to-point network between personal clouds. However, unlike an email server, whose sole function is usually email processing, a personal cloud is more like a general-purpose computer in the cloud, i.e., it has an operating system that runs applications, processes events, and manages data on behalf of and under the direct control of its owner. So personal channels can be much smarter communications links than ordinary email or text messaging. For example:
In sum, personal channels on an open-standard relationship web can be dramatically more useful to individuals and businesses than ordinary email or Web connections. The following sections explain the ten major benefits of personal channels over other forms of communication and data sharing, in particular email and social networks.
Internet email is the most widely used electronic messaging system on the planet and yet an estimated 80% of all email traffic is spam. How did we end up in this position? How could the vast majority of traffic in our most heavily used messaging network be junk mail?
The answer is simple: trust was not in scope when the SMTP email protocol was developed. In other words, trust was not an issue when the Internet was much smaller. Most of the server administrators knew each other, or at least knew each other’s institutions, and they never imagined a day when the Internet would be so large that spammers could hide in all its dark corners and constantly dodge enforcement in an endless game of whack-a-mole.
SMTP’s most glaring weakness and the most important reason spam exists is because email is a single-channel network. You have one email address and anyone who has it can send you a message. The second reason is that email is opt-out—your address permits uncontrolled access by default. That means it’s the recipient’s job to filter out messages she doesn’t want.
Personal channels reverse both assumptions. First, a relationship network is a multi-channel network. In this respect, it functions more like a social network. For example, on Facebook, each relationship in your social graph is like a channel. When you friend someone, you’ve essentially opened a symmetric channel between your Facebook account and theirs. By virtue of that link, you can post on their wall and they can post on yours. No link, no post. If someone keeps posting things you don’t like, you can sever the link—close the channel—and they can no longer use it to contact you.
Personal channels work the same way except:
This latter capability gives personal channels volume control. Rather than only being “on” or “off” (subscribe or unsubscribe), you have the option to “tune” a channel to the type and volume of messages you want. Don’t want every update coming over your son’s lacrosse team channel? Tune it to get only game time notifications and parental updates.
Personal channels are also opt-in, i.e., controlled access by default. This means no one can open a personal channel with you without your permission. Nor can they even send you an offer of a new channel unless it passes your trust filters (for more on this, see Benefit #5—Scalable Trust with Contextual Reputation.)
So unlike email, where economic incentives drive the generation of spam no matter how great the cost to everyone else on the network, a well-designed relationship network will give every member of the network the controls they need to maximize signal and minimize noise.
A second key limitation of both email and social networks is that many addresses are not portable—if you change service providers, all your relationships break.
The same used to be true of telephone numbers, but with the ascendance of mobile phones, the need for telephone number portability could no longer be repressed. In the United States, LNP (Local Number Portability) was mandated by the FCC in 1996.
In fact Internet email has actually always had a solution for email portability: registering your own domain name and administering it to maintain continuity of service when you change email service providers. But not many users are savvy enough to take advantage of this option.
Unfortunately the same option is not available to users of the major social networks—the social graph and data you create with one provider is not portable to others.
On an open-standard relationship network, where every user maintains the data and relationships in his/her own personal cloud, address portability must be built-in from the outset. Users shouldn’t be asked to accept the risk of having their personal cloud locked up with a single provider for life. Users must be able to move their personal cloud to a different provider (or to self-host it) without breaking any links in the same way that users can switch banks without losing their money.
Furthermore, portable addresses for personal channels have enormous benefits: for the first time ever, there is no reason for a relationship to break just because a party moves or changes service providers. The only time a relationship link ever needs to be severed is when one or both parties no longer want it.
Another key limitation of Internet email is that it is unsecure. Numerous attempts to establish high-security, trusted email have been made, and there are thousands of proprietary solutions. But there are simply too many email servers and accounts in the world—by one estimate over 3 billion—to do a “forklift upgrade” of the entire network.
Messaging via centralized social networks is similarly insecure, if only because the social network itself has access to all the data. This is why social networks are not used to share banking statements, finance data, or medical records.
By contrast, personal channels on a relationship network can offer secure cloud-to-cloud delivery of messages and data. The precise levels of security depend on the trust framework(s) under which the parties are operating. For example, a trust framework could mandate that a minimum of HTTPS must be used for authentication and confidentiality across all personal channels subject to that framework. As shown in Figure 2, this would set a minimum “hardness” for all channels on the network.
Figure 2: Link contracts can harden the security requirements as needed for any particular channel.
Even better, link contracts may be used to specify additional security requirements that may apply only to specific channels, specific messages, or specific data. For example, extended validation certificates and message-level 1024-bit encryption may be required for transmission of credit card data or confidential documents. Personal cloud providers who are not able to meet these requirements will not be able to service clients who need this level of security protection. This turns security (and privacy) into a market-driven race-to-the-top rather than a never-ending lowest-common-denominator battle over standards.
The most common form of Internet authentication today is email address verification. The standard technique is called “closed loop verification” because you give your email address to a website, it sends you a verification email, and then you “close the loop” by clicking on the link to verify that you control the address.
However in the past few years, social logins from Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. have rapidly gained in popularity because:
Initially, each social network had its own proprietary social login API. Now they are moving towards open standards such as OAuth and OpenID Connect. However these standards only control the connection protocols. The social networking services you are connecting to still remain proprietary. This leaves users and Web sites with two choices:
Personal channels represent a third way: using a personal login via the user’s personal cloud. These provide all the benefits of a social login without any of the compromises. And with a relationship network that supports personal cloud portability, users are never locked-in.
Personal logins have several additional advantages:
Trust at scale is a challenge for any network. For example, as discussed in Benefit #1, Internet email is beset by spam today because trust was not in scope when the protocol was developed.
By contrast, the major social networks have done a relatively good job of enforcing trust because they maintain a central point of control and can use arbitrary authority to suspend accounts or remove users from the network. Facebook uses the graph of real relationships to provide valuable feedback about account authenticity.
This is not an option for an open standard relationship network where there is no single point of control. Rather, trust mechanisms must be baked into the DNA of the network using one or more trust frameworks to which the members of the network have agreed.
One such framework is already in use: the Respect Trust Framework, which won the Privacy Award at the 2011 European Identity Conference. The key innovation of the Respect Trust Framework is that it treats the entire relationship network, called the Respect Network, as a peer-to-peer (p2p) reputation network. Each personal channel represents a connection between two members of the network. For any connection, either party may give the other a positive reputation vote—called a vouch—on one or more tags representing contexts where that trust has been earned.
Figure 3 is an example of a reputation card for one of the authors of this paper, showing the vouch count for each of six contextual tags.
Figure 3: An example of a contextual reputation card using the Respect Trust Framework.
To prevent gaming attacks, especially the Sybil attack where fake accounts are used to manipulate reputations, members must progress through four escalating levels of trust (Unverified, Verified, Trusted, Trust Anchor). The highest level, Trust Anchor, requires personal verification by three other Trust Anchors. Trust Anchors serve as the administrators of any problems or complaints, much as the most experienced Wikipedia users serve as administrators for the Wikipedia community.
Not only can this trust model scale globally, as Wikipedia has, but it can also provide valuable contextual reputation metadata about every user, company, service provider, and application in the network.
Most sophisticated email users create rules that are triggered each time their inbox receives a message. These rules automate routine tasks, e.g., storing a message in a particular folder, forwarding it to another address, sending out a vacation notice, etc. The more sophisticated email user agents also know how to process specific types of email attachments. For example, they can automatically add a calendar request to your calendar, or a vCard attachment to your address book.
However, short of very customized programming, that’s the extent of the automation email client can provide. Again, this is by design: with SMTP email, messages were intended primarily for human, not machine, processing.
By contrast, with the EXP & XDI protocols, messages are designed for both human and machine processing. In technical terms, this means every message is an event, and with KRL (Kinetic Rules Language) used by EXP, developers can use event-based programming to write rich, highly customized apps for processing the messages sent and received over personal channels.
For example, rather than simply post to your calendar, a calendar request delivered over a personal channel could:
A programmable personal channel network, operating against messages designed to contain semantic data and events, can save people and companies countless hours in routine message processing and workflow tasks.
Email programs are judged by their ability to sort signal from noise so users can concentrate on the most important messages and ignore the rest. One of the reasons this is so difficult with email is because the signals are so weak. The mere fact that someone is in your address book—or that you have replied to her messages—is not a strong indication of how important that person is, let alone of the importance of any particular message from her. What’s more, the only explicit mechanism for indicating message priority in Internet email—the priority flag—was so abused when email went mainstream that it is no longer supported by most email providers.
Despite their emphasis on relationships, social networks provide only marginally better signals. The fact that you are connected to someone on Facebook or LinkedIn does not say anything about their relative importance to you. And following someone on Twitter is only a slightly stronger signal—it still does not indicate why you are following someone.
Many “influence metrics” such as Klout, Kred, and PeerIndex focus on retweets or reshares. Reshares are an explicit indication of the relevance of a specific message, and an implicit endorsement that the sender’s content is worth sharing with your own followers. In addition, with tweets, any associated hashtags may also indicate the relative importance of topics to which the message relates.
However, even if all of these signals are wrapped together, they would only be a walkie-talkie in comparison to a personal channel’s 100,000 watt transmitter. Here’s why:
The result will be a radically new notion of an inbox, where you can instantly sort messages by their urgency and importance relative to any subject, many messages are answered automatically, and all the decisions and actions you are being asked to take are queued up ready for execution.
Today, if you need to reach someone regarding a matter that is particularly urgent or important—for example being late for a scheduled lunch, you generally have no choice but to use channel escalation, i.e.:
This scenario illustrates three shortcomings of the existing options:
Personal channels can solve all three of these problems:
In short, your personal cloud acts like a personal secretary managing your notifications. For example, in Benefit #6—Automated event processing, we described receiving a calendar request. Let’s assume it is an I’m-going-to-be-late-to-our-lunch message from a friend.
So, all your lunch partner needs to know is to send an “I’m going to be 15 minutes late” message via your personal channel, and your personal cloud would take it from there, determining whether to send you an IM, text, or voice call.
With the exception of custom-programmed email workflow systems, the only form of data exchange supported by email is attachments. The fact that we are often drowning in them is a testimony to how badly we need a universal form of data sharing.
The need for better ways to share has driven adoption of social networks, as well as specialized social sharing services for photos, files, resumes, calendars, trips, parties, and so on. Each provides an easier, faster, more structured way of sharing specific types of data with specific people and groups.
But whereas email is a ubiquitous open standard, so far all of the social networks and social sharing services are proprietary systems with their own special terms of service, privacy policies, and data schemas. They are not open standards for data exchange that can be used by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. And while most have some kind of API, APIs don’t mitigate these fundamental limitations.
Better data exchange is a primary driver for adoption of an open standard relationship network. Personal channels are as adept at sending structured data between machines as they are at sending smart messages between people. In particular:
There is much more to data sharing than the mechanical function of transferring data between machines. Sharing is a social and business function that is inherently more complex than centralized, single-purpose applications can handle. No wonde so many different social sharing solutions have emerged:
And countless more. The sheer number of these—and the extraordinary market value some have achieved—suggest the power of solution that combines the ubiquity of email with the power of social sharing. This combination is called rich sharing, and it deserves a more detailed examination.
Marc Stiegler of HP Labs has written (PDF) and spoken about rich sharing, and Alan Karp has written about PubShare, a system Marc built that demonstrates rich sharing. Alan relates two stories that contrast our expectations about sharing in the physical and online worlds. The first takes place in the physical world:
In an emergency, Marc asked me to park his car in my garage. I couldn’t do it, so I asked my neighbor to do it for me and said to get the garage key from my son.
The second involves an online file sharing scenario:
In an emergency, Marc asked me to copy a file from his computer to mine. I couldn’t do it, so I asked my neighbor to do it for me and said to get access to my computer account from my son.
The second story seems ludicrous because we can’t see a reasonable way for it to work even though it closely resembles the scenario from the physical world.
Rich sharing characterizes the set of features that make human communication work in the physical world. Using this model, we can determine how to create better online communication systems. Communication systems, like email, that embody rich sharing feel natural to users and thus succeed. Systems that lack rich sharing’s features feel stilted or unwieldy and thus don’t scale the way their designers intended.
Sharing is easy and technically uninteresting in situations where the shared item is public and there’s no need to authorize access to it. Similarly workgroup-style sharing is relatively straightforward and the tools for protecting resources in workgroups such as role-based authorization control (RBAC) and access control lists (ACLs) are well understood. For purposes of contrast, let’s call unprotected and workgroup-style sharing simple sharing.
Sharing becomes much more nuanced when access to the shared item must be restricted and the players in the sharing scenario operate in independent security domains. Many real-world scenarios require rich sharing. Stiegler and Karp demonstrate why workgroup-style sharing can’t accommodate rich sharing scenarios in the papers mentioned above. We refer interested readers directly to those paper for more detailed descriptions.
Rich sharing is characterized by six key attributes:
Stiegler and Karp make a case that email succeeds because email demonstrates these six attributes. In contrast, we can easily find examples in other sharing architectures that fail to incorporate one or more of these features and thus become difficult to use as the sharing scenarios get more complicated. Today’s popular social networks and sharing services all fail to support one or more of the above attributes.
Earlier we explained that channels provide a metaprotocol for interaction. Thus they represent a way of doing things rather than a place. Rich sharing is more easily supported by ways—protocols—rather than by places. In fact, certain properties of rich sharing, such as being cross domain and recomposable, are nearly impossible to achieve using a place-based approach such as a website.
By contrast, let’s see how personal channels as we have explained them in this paper stack up on the attributes of rich sharing:
By meeting all six requirements, personal channels on an open standard relationship network can not only provide the full benefits of rich sharing, but do so at the same scale as the Internet email network or the largest proprietary social networks.
Computer systems often begin as centralized systems because such architectures are easier to build and understand. After a time, they evolve to decentralized systems as the limitations of the centralized solution become apparent. Figure 4 shows how architecture (centralized vs decentralized) and channel type (single channel vs. multi-channel) combine to create different systems. As we’ve discussed, email, a single-channel communications model, moved from a centralized to a decentralized architecture via a protocol (SMTP), creating a much richer communications platform. Similarly, we believe that multi-channel relationship systems will undergo a similar transformation as we determine how best to support protocols that provide rich sharing environments.
Figure 4: The evolution of communications.
The benefits of a decentralized relationship network built from personal clouds connected via personal channels are clear. Table 1 summarizes how email, social networks, and personal channels compare across the ten types of benefits described in this paper.
|Benefit||Social Networks||Personal Channels|
|#1 - Access and Volume Control||No||Access control only||Yes|
|#2 - Lifetime Portability||With own domain||No||Yes|
|#3 - Secure Delivery||Ad hoc||No||Yes|
|#4 - Simple, Standardized, Contextual Authentication||No||Not standard
|#5 - Scalable Trust with Contextual Reputation||No||Not contextual||Yes|
|#6- Automated Event Processing||No||No||Yes|
|#7 - Intelligent Filtering and Organization||Ad hoc||No||Yes|
|#8 - Intelligent Notification||No||No||Yes|
|#9 - Automatic Data Exchange||No||Specific data sets only||Yes|
|#10 - Rich Sharing||Yes, but labor intensive||No||Yes|
Table 1: Comparison of email, social networks, and personal channels
In this paper we’ve argued that personal channels are the proper architecture for creating distributed relationship networks built from personal clouds. Because personal channels provide a flexible, open way of sharing they can support the richness of human interaction in ways that a centralized Web site, regardless of its sophistication, never will. By combining the best features of both email and social networks, addressing key deficiencies in Internet security and privacy, and adding a powerful new layer of communications convenience and automation, personal channels are poised to be the next major step forward in both digital messaging and online relationship management.
You can discover more information about the concepts and technologies in this series from a variety of sources including Project VRM, Respect Network, Kynetx, and the blogs of the series authors (listed in the biographies below). We also point you at Doc Searls’ book The Intention Economy and Phil Windley’s book The Live Web.
If you’re interested in creating personal clouds, the Kinetic Rules Engine is open source. However, the easiest way to get started is using the online service provided by Kynetx. You can try out personal clouds and the KRL programming model for free by creating an account at Kynetx. Kynetx accounts are free and you can develop multiple applications and run them without charge for non-commercial use. Examples and documentation are available online.
The following terms are used in this paper and in our vision of the Live Web:
event—a notification or message containing data about a specific state change. Events indicate that something happened.
event-based programming—a style of programming where routines respond to event notifications. In contrast to request-response style programming, event-based programming leads to looser coupling and less semantic entanglement.
link—a connection, represented by a personal channel, between two personal clouds, whether one-way (asymmetric) or two-way (symmetric). A link is a subscriber relationship.
link contract—a data structure that specifies the terms and conditions to which two or more parties agree for a specific personal channel. Link contracts specify the nature and behavior of a channel.
personal channel—a communication link between a personal cloud and other personal clouds or network services.
personal cloud—a cloud-based virtual computer that combines event processing and personal data. Personal clouds serve as the online representative of an entity, often a person. Personal clouds have an operating system that runs applications, processes events, and manages data on behalf of and under the direct control of their owners.
relationship network—the network of people, organizations, and things linked through personal channels.
rich sharing—the set of features that characterizes the flexible nature of human communication.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Drummond Reed is co-founder and Chairman of Respect Network Corporation (RNC) and Managing Director of the Respect Network. He is co-author with Scott David, Joe Johnston, and Marc Coluccio of the Respect Trust Framework upon which RNC’s Connect.Me reputation network is based. Drummond has also served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004.
Prior to RNC, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he was a recipient of the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World. Drummond blogs on digital identity, personal data, personal clouds, and trust frameworks at http://equalsdrummond.name.
Phillip J. Windley is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kynetx. Kynetx is a personal cloud vendor, providing the underlying technology for creating, programming, and using personal event networks using KRL and semantic data interchange via XDI. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on reputation, digital identity, large-scale system design, and programming languages. Phil writes the popular Technometria blog and is a frequent contributor to various technical publications. He is also the author of the books The Live Web published by Course Technology in 2011 and Digital Identity published by O’Reilly Media in 2005.
Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on Governor Mike Leavitt’s Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home. He was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of electronic commerce tools. Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. of California, Davis in 1990.


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Eagleton, Terry. Why Marx Was Right. New Haven: Yale UP, 2011. Print.
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Paul Prudhomme, American chef (born July 13, 1940, near Opelousas, La.—died Oct. 8, 2015, New Orleans, La.), introduced the United States and the world to the Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana and contributed to the advent of the regional cooking trend in high-end restaurants. His signature restaurant, K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, opened in 1979 in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The eatery drew huge crowds and attracted the attention of food writers, becoming particularly known for Prudhomme’s blackened redfish, a dish made by dredging redfish filets in butter, coating them with a mixture of herbs and cayenne pepper, and then searing them at high heat to form a black crust. Prudhomme learned to cook as a child, and shortly after having graduated from high school, he opened (1957) a hamburger stand, Big Daddy O’s Patio, in Opelousas; it lasted for less than a year. Thereafter he embarked on a career of cooking in restaurants throughout the country. In 1970 Prudhomme took a job as sous-chef in a hotel in New Orleans, and in 1975 he became the first American-born executive chef at the city’s prestigious Creole restaurant Commander’s Palace. Prudhomme began introducing Cajun dishes, based on the foods he grew up with, to the menu, and his fare drew national attention. With the phenomenal success of K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, Prudhomme became a frequent guest on TV talk and cooking shows. In addition, he published several cookbooks, notably Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen (1984), Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Cajun Magic Cookbook (1989), and The Prudhomme Family Cookbook: Old-Time Louisiana Recipes (1987), written with his brothers and sisters. In 1983 he opened a separate company, Magic Seasoning Blends, to create and sell his spice blends, rubs, and sauces. In 2012 Prudhomme was named a pioneer of American cuisine by the Culinary Institute of America.
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The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Marie Ault, Patrick Aherne and Moore Marriott.The screenplay concerns two brothers who fight over a girl, leading one to frame the other for robbery. Later, guilt-ridden, he confesses and arranges his own death.
"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by author W. W. Jacobs, first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.
Caroline Mary Aherne was an English actress, comedian and writer. She was best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton, in various roles in The Fast Show, and as Denise in The Royle Family, a series which she co-wrote. She won BAFTA awards for her work on The Mrs Merton Show and The Royle Family.
George Thomas Moore Marriott was an English character actor best remembered for the series of films he made with Will Hay. His first appearance with Hay was in the film Dandy Dick (1935), but he was a significant supporting performer in Hay's films from 1936 to 1940, and while he starred with Hay during this period he played a character called "Harbottle" that was based on a character Marriott usually played. His character Harbottle was originally created by Hay when he used the character in his "The fourth form at St. Michael's" sketches in the 1920s.
Marie Ault was a British character actress of stage and film.
Money for Speed is a 1933 British sports drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring John Loder, Ida Lupino, Cyril McLaglen and Moore Marriott. It is centered on the sport of speedway racing, which was at its peak of popularity at the time.
Up for the Cup is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Sydney Howard, Joan Wyndham, Stanley Kirk and Moore Marriott. The screenplay concerns a man who comes to London to watch the FA Cup final.
It Happened One Sunday is a 1944 British romantic comedy film directed by Karel Lamač and starring Robert Beatty, Barbara White and Marjorie Rhodes. Produced and distributed by Associated British it was shot at Welwyn Studios with sets designed by the art director William C. Andrews. The film was based on the play She Met Him One Sunday by Victor Skutezky.
Patrick de Lacy Aherne was an English film actor. He was the son of the architect William de Lacy Aherne, and the elder brother of the actor Brian Aherne. The family lived at Kings Norton.
Kitty is a 1929 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Estelle Brody and John Stuart. The film was adapted from the 1927 novel of the same name by Warwick Deeping and marked the third co-star billing of Brody and Stuart, who had previously proved a very popular screen pairing in Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1926) and Hindle Wakes (1927).
Huntingtower is a 1928 British silent adventure film, made at Cricklewood Studios. It was directed by George Pearson and starred Harry Lauder, Vera Voronina and Patrick Aherne. It was based on the 1922 novel Huntingtower by John Buchan. The film was fairly successful on its release.
Auld Lang Syne is a 1929 British musical film directed by George Pearson and starring Harry Lauder, Dorothy Boyd, and Patrick Aherne. It was originally made as a silent film, but in September 1929 sound was added. It was shot at Cricklewood Studios in Cricklewood, London.
Virginia's Husband is a 1928 British silent comedy film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Mabel Poulton, Lilian Oldland and Patrick Aherne. It was based on the play Virginia's Husband by Florence Kilpatrick, and was remade as a sound film in 1934.
King of the Castle is a 1926 British silent drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Marjorie Hume, Brian Aherne and Dawson Millward. It was based on a 1922 novel by Keble Howard, who approved the scenario and wrote some of the intertitles.
The Royal African Rifles is a 1953 American Cinecolor First World War adventure film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Louis Hayward, Veronica Hurst and Michael Pate. It is set in British East Africa but filmed on location in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. The film was the first production of Louis Hayward's production company Associated Film Artists, but Hayward's company made no other films. It was distributed by Allied Artists. The working title was The Queen’s African Rifles. In reality, there was never a military unit called “The Royal African Rifles”, although the King's African Rifles served in Africa during the war. The film was retitled Storm Over Africa in the United Kingdom.
Victory is a 1928 British silent war film directed by M.A. Wetherell and starring Moore Marriott, Walter Byron and Julie Suedo. It began filming in October 1927 and was released in March the following year. It was made at Isleworth Studios.
Carry On is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Dinah Shurey and starring Moore Marriott, Trilby Clark and Alf Goddard.
The Silver Lining is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Alan Crosland and written by Claire Corvalho and Gertrude Orr. Starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Betty Compson, John Warburton, Montagu Love, Mary Doran and Cornelius Keefe, it was released on April 16, 1932, by United Artists.
A Daughter in Revolt is a 1927 British silent comedy film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Mabel Poulton, Edward O'Neill and Lilian Oldland.
The Monkey's Paw is a 1923 British silent horror film directed by Manning Haynes and starring Moore Marriott, Marie Ault and Charles Ashton. It is an adaptation of W. W. Jacobs's 1902 short story "The Monkey's Paw". The short story was made into a 1907 one-act play by Louis N. Parker, elements of which were also incorporated into this 1923 British film by screenwriter Lydia Hayward.
Gay Old Dog is a 1935 British comedy film directed by George King and starring Edward Rigby, Moore Marriott and Ruby Miller. It was a quota quickie made at Walton Studios.


Uber hit the road with self-driving cars in San Francisco in December, but California regulators quickly hit the brakes.
In Florida, state Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, saw an opening for the Sunshine state.
Brandes, who has been advocating for laws to allow driverless cars, is correct that Florida does not require a permit to operate or test a driverless car. But that doesn’t mean people should expect to hitch an automated ride any time soon.
Keep reading from PolitiFact Florida.
(Photo: Anthony Ruvalo checks out the driverless car, Plan B, being demonstrated and on display at the Miami-Dade Government Center lobby on March 31, 2016. Al Diaz/Miami Herald)


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What Kinds of Volunteers become more motivated by Community Currency?
Influence of Perceptions of Reward on Motivation
International Journal of Community Currency Research , Volume 19 - Issue D p. 53- 61
Local communities in Japan are struggling to increase the number of participants in volunteer activities in order to revitalize local life. To maintain the enthusiasm of active volunteers and entice new volunteers, a new type of reward to increase motivation is needed. Accordingly, community currencies (hereafter, CCs) have been introduced as a reward in an attempt to provide such a source of motivation. In particular, local residents have been expected to participate in volunteer work more frequently in return for receiving CCs; however, there is no evidence yet as to whether CCs arouse their motivation to do volunteer work. In this study, we investigated whether CCs play a role in raising local residents’ motivation to do volunteer work. Our conclusion is that even some people with a no-reward orientation are likely to have their motivation raised by CCs, rather than diminished. This result shows that their perception towards CCs and cash is dramatically different though CCs have the same monetary value as cash.
|International Journal of Community Currency Research
|International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS)
Kurita, K.-. ichi ., Yoshida, M., & Miyazaki, Y. (2015). What Kinds of Volunteers become more motivated by Community Currency?. International Journal of Community Currency Research, 19(D), 53–61. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/78664


If you’re cool like me you watched “Community” last night and were hoping some stolen pen easter eggs would pop up today from the “bottle” episode. Here’s the animated gif of Troy’s lost pet monkey, Annie’s Boobs, stealing the pen at the start of the episode. Not quite Abed’s secret storyline, but still pretty awesome. Warming Glow has a whole bunch of images and gifs from last night compiled, if you’re into that sort of thing, which you should be. This show is the tits.


Michael Jackson: The Last Dance | 2008
Katie Couric and CBS News reporters cover the life and death of singer and popular culture icon Michael Jackson, reporting from the public memorial service in Los Angeles. Couric interviews Stevie Wonder, a performer at the ceremony. Lara Spencer reports on the future guardians of Jackson's children. Troy Roberts profiles individuals who journeyed to Los Angeles with the hope of getting into the memorial ceremony. Ben Tracy looks into Jackson's alleged prescription drug addiction and its possible consequences. Harold Dow investigates the fascination with celebrity deaths.


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PSpice for Basic Circuit Analysis introduces readers to the fundamental uses of PSpice in support of basic circuit analysis. This book is designed so that the reader may advance rapidly to solving a variety of circuit analyses. Although the fundamental capabilities of PSpice are covered in this book, the principles can easily extend to analyze the complex electrical and electronic networks used in modern integrated circuit design today.
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When running a small, active business, use a storage or transport ute tray. Getting a tray is a great way to show your personality, increase the worth of your car, and move your items with ease, whether it’s animals, bulk shopping hauls, construction equipment, camping gear, or anything else. Mild steel is significantly heavier than aluminium. Aluminium is one of the most flexible and malleable metals, making it ideal for making Aluminium Ute trays. Aluminium’s physical and chemical qualities make it the metal for manufacturing automobile parts and building materials. A steel tray, on average, weighs nearly twice as much as a comparable aluminium tray. A dependable ute with plenty of tray capacity may improve your vehicle’s functionality and make your work easier.
There are more than 2 million small businesses in Australia. You may also utilize it as a service vehicle, driving it from where your customers or clients are, whether in a crowded metropolis, a suburban neighborhood, or the middle of nowhere. Apart from its reduced weight, another significant advantage of aluminium is its corrosion resistance. Bauxite gets used to make aluminium. But iron and carbon alloys are used to manufacture mild steel. As a result, aluminium is rust-resistant. Hail, dust, bird, and bat excretions can discolor your new metal Ute canopy, but they’re typically easy to brush away and don’t cause irreversible harm. You’ll have to wipe your canopy more frequently than usual to stay looking beautiful. If you follow the proper methods and the best metal cleaning solutions, cleaning aluminium to make it sparkle like new is simple. Here is a list of some quick pro tips to follow to ace through UTE tray maintenance,
The regular cleaning!
Clean the outside and inside of your UTE regularly, take it to places with harsh working conditions, such as mines and worksites, and load it with messy instruments and industrial equipment. Some people use an acid rinse which can be purchased in stores and is supposed to clean your aluminium canopy, and it does so, but at the expense of its structural integrity. Use a hose to give it a thorough cleaning, being careful to get rid of any dirt or debris lodged around the edges. You could also use a motor cleaner to get rid of the dust and debris accumulated.
2. Cover it up!
Both will keep your recent canopy from appearing like you haven’t washed it in a decade, whether in your workshop or under a carport. If you don’t have access to a carport, invest in one of the massive tarps meant to cover and protect automobiles from the weather. If your UTE has a cover or canopy, clean it similarly you clean your metal or coated aluminium UTE trays. Steel fiber or wired brushes should not be used for cleaning. While washing your Ute canopy, use a gentle pad in a continuous overlapping motion.
3. Pay attention to the wash
If you haven’t cleansed your Ute in a while, or it’s been out in the bush and covered in muck, it’ll need to be cleaned. So scrape away any stubborn area deposits with a gentle brush after removing any weaker material deposits with a damp sponge (using a moderate detergent wash). You may work with materials that, if left unchecked, will solidify and become harder to eliminate. It might indicate that you’ll need something more powerful to wash your canopy. Automobile waxing, for instance, is considered a cosmetic operation since it makes your car seem gleaming and fresh, but it accomplishes more than that.


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Today has been such a busy day that I'm really late in posting. Since I spent my lunch hour at Junkin Buddy's House today and I absolutely love all her displays, I thought I would dedicate White Wednesday to her. I normally will do a Halloween post and Christmas post of her house, but I wanted to go ahead and show you just a few of her things that she's collected over the years.
This isn't even a small portion of all the ironstone she has. She just has a great collection and eye I might add.
There's the little guy she bought a while back at a shop we were at. I posted about it here.
I will probably do an early Halloween post of her house since she decks it all out in the most awesome Vintage Halloween you've ever seen. Then, later in the year I'll do a Christmas post of her home. You won't want to miss these, it'll be fabulous. I've done several posts of her home in recent years, you can check them out here and here.
Stay tuned for tomorrow since I'll show my BIG REVEAL and I'll announce who won the contest. I've went ahead and turned the comments off for all the posts that I did for my big reveal. I want to thank all those that left me the funniest comments and played along.
Here's what someone will win:
Maybe I'll see you in Canton tomorrow.

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Alex & Simon of Real Housewives NYC Talk Strollers and Kids Style!ElinaMamaista
Children: François (6 ½ ) and Johan (4 ½ )
It’s no great surprise to anyone who knows miss that I never miss an episode of The Real Housewives of New York City. You can keep Atlanta, New Jersey and even Orange Country, but woe to anyone who tries to stand in the way of my Housewives NYC DVR.
What may surprise everyone, however, is that my new favorite cast members are Alex McCord any Simon van Kempen. What with Alex letting it rip this season and Simon being so Simon, it’s nice to see this Brooklyn couple coming into their own and finding their voice. And they’ve got a funny new parenting book that just came out titled Little Kids, Big City. It’s filled with hysterical chapters titles like “Does a German Shepherd Need a Birth Plan?” and “The Screaming Kid on the Plane is NOT mine! (This Time)?” and a down-to-earth attitude that is sometimes missing in this day and age of hyper parenting.
So in honor of Father’s Day, I had to interview the couple to get the scoop on their favorite kids gear, style and parenting tips.
1. What’s the best thing about being a mom and dad?
Simon: Learning wonderment again; going back in time and seeing the world through the eyes of a 1, 2, 3, then 4 year old and so on. Alex: The overwhelming love I feel for the boys, for Simon, for life in general. Having kids keeps cynicism at bay and keeps you young!
2. What’s the most shocking/surprising thing about being a mom/dad?
Simon: Sometimes I hear my Mother speaking when I speak to the boys, particularly if I am scolding them. Alex: For me the most surprising thing was that I didn’t feel more grownup or more capable or like a different person. I’m still the same person I was at 17 and 25 and 30, just now with kids. That was both incredibly liberating and surprising.
3. What is your favorite baby ride? Bugaboo Frog; we bought one in 2003 and still have it we replaced all the parts eventually but never bought another one!
4. What gift did you bring for Bethenny’s baby shower? A beautiful little dress and booties by Petit Confection as well as a basket of practical stuff like wipes, bottles and soap.
Click through for more of Alex and Simon’s favorites gear and exclusive family album…
5. What is your favorite nursery/kid’s room decor item? With two rough and tumble boys, we swear by the multicolored foam floor tiles that are easily replaced when stained and pad the floor when boys bounce off them!
6. Give us some tips for renovating a home with kids: Always have a GREEN zone where the kids can play, and keep their favorite items within easy reach. Remind them that when the work is over, they can fall in love with stuff that was packed away all over again.
7. What is your fave kids clothing line? Small Paul by Paul Frank, Petit Bateau (especially for coats) and Pura Vida. H&M for jeans; there’s no sense buying expensive jeans when boys tear holes in them at the speed of light!
8. What are your kids’ favorite toys? Well, we just asked Johan what his favorite toy was, and he said “Your iPhone.” François is partial to his night-vision goggles and toy AMP robot suit from the movie Avatar.
>>For more juicy gossip and the reality behind the reality of Alex McCord and other Housewives, click here.
>>To read the full interview, visit Mamaista.com for more talk with Alex and Simon.
Photos: Petit Confection, Small Paul, Petit Bateau

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Little Tosson pillbox (Snitter)
This concrete pillbox was built in 1940. It was part of a line of defences built to protect Northumberland against possible invasion from Germany during World War II. It is a Grade II Listed Building protected by law.
|Historical period:||Second World War (1939 to 1945)|
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2-year add-on CD has a higher rate, but it requires a $500 minimum.
Add-on CDs can be useful as a hedge against an extended low-rate environment.
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New spy shots of the second generation Porsche Cayenne, which will appear on the market at the end of next year. One of the features of the new design passenger compartment Cayenne is the presence in the center of a large touch monitor, through which a driver will manage the many functions of the car. At the same time, the usual buttons on the center console will be less.
The new Cayenne will get a little more aggressive appearance. With regard to off-road capabilities, they will be quite modest – in the German company wants to make this model more sports. According to some reports, model year 2010 road narrowed, and front and rear overhangs increase (by the way, now in Cayenne with the option of pneumatic suspension clearance may be 271 mm). What motors will be under the hood new Cayenne 2 is not yet known. But there is no doubt that this car will get diesel engines and hybrid power plant.


- On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided to proclaim 3 March, the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as World Wildlife Day, which was proposed by Thailand, to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild fauna and flora.
- The General Assembly requested the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat, in collaboration with relevant organizations of the United Nations system, to facilitate the implementation of World Wildlife Day.
- The first UN World Wildlife Day was celebrated on March 3, 2014
- The official website is http://www.wildlifeday.org/
- The official flickr page is https://www.flickr.com/photos/WorldWildlifeDay
- A dedicated World Wildlife Day Facebook page to share news and stories of the Day can be followed at: https://www.facebook.com/WorldWildlifeDay.
- The 2017 theme is "Listen to the young voices".
- This year, 2017, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) partnered to end rampant illegal wildlife trade and encourage active youth involvement in wildlife protection.
- The 2016 theme is "The future of wildlife is in our hands", with a sub-theme "The future of elephants is in our hands".
- The 2015 theme is "It’s time to get serious about wildlife crime".
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed 2,599 species, subspecies and sub-populations of critically endangered animals.
- There are also 1,975 critically endangered plants, fungi and other organisms.


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