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Noonie Kantiya, a tourist originally from Thailand, stretches out on the Ledge of the Skydeck at Willis Tower, a favorite of visitors to Chicago. (Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune)
Zeineb Houki sprawled out on the Willis Tower Skydeck, her hand propped under her head as if she were sunbathing, with just a pane of thick glass separating her and the street 1,353 feet below.
Her daughter, Naz Houki, stuck a tentative toe out onto The Ledge last week before pulling back with a little shriek.
"Oh, my gosh!" she said. "How do you do this?"
Zeineb Houki, 65, and her husband, Zein Houki, 72, had traveled to Chicago from their hometown of Rabat, Morocco, for a weeklong visit to see their daughter graduate and to take in the city — and they are exactly the type of people Chicago tourism officials want to lure in 2012.
The Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau is taking an aggressive approach to increasing the number of visitors to Chicago with the start of a regional television and online campaign and plans to open several overseas offices. It goes into 2012 buoyed by the anticipation of the city's hosting of the G-8 and NATO summits in May, as well as by numbers showing that hotel bookings for next year are up.
That optimism marks a turnaround from just a couple of years ago, when the total number of visitors to Chicago fell significantly, to 39.2 million visitors in 2010 from a prerecession 46.3 million in 2007.
Chicago also lags a number of other major U.S. cities when it comes to international visitors, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, with 1.1 million overseas visitors in 2010, or 4.3 percent of all international visitors to the United States. That places it 10th in overseas tourists, behind cities like Las Vegas and Boston as well as New York, which led all U.S. cities with 8.5 million, or 32.1 percent, of all international visitors.
"They're coming to Chicago, and they're transferring to other cities," said Don Welsh, CEO and president of the tourism bureau. "What's going to make them stay is some very proactive marketing, talking about all there is to do in Chicago and the region."
A bulk of that marketing consists of opening international offices, which means contracting with general sales agents to work with tour operators, media, travel agents and airlines in specific countries. In September, the bureau brought in a sales agent in England called Hills Balfour. The United Kingdom supplies the most overseas visitors to Chicago, but the number dropped 22 percent, to 158,000, in 2010 from 203,000 in 2009. The goal for 2012, said Warren Wilkinson, the bureau's senior vice president and marketing of communications, is to recapture that 22 percent.
Jonathan Sloan, managing director at Hills Balfour, said Chicago's competitive hotel rates, nonstop flights from the United Kingdom (there are nine daily) and "the fact that city has been undervisited over the last few years from the U.K." should create demand from British visitors.
One of those visitors, Juliette Smith, of Nottingham, England, said all she knew about Chicago before her 10-day visit this month is that "it's the Windy City, and it's freezing, and Al Capone lived here." Looking out over the city's vastness from the Willis Tower Skydeck last week, Smith called the city "wonderful. There are lots of bright lights. … And your lake is, like, insane. It's like half the size of my country. It's mental."
Randy Stancik, a vice president at U.S. Equities Realty and the general manager of Willis Tower, said international tourists like Smith are "incredibly important. When they go home, they can tap a whole market. Can I go and reach her wherever she lives? No, I need her to be my evangelist."
The bureau, meanwhile, is doing its part to help. Overall, it will allocate about $750,000 of its $17.8 million annual operating budget to international marketing, Welsh said, compared with about $300,000 in years past.
In January, the bureau will open an office in Mexico City, and then in Toronto in the spring of 2012. (Meghan Risch, spokeswoman for the bureau, said it ran offices in Mexico and Canada from 2001 to 2004.) By 2013, the bureau plans on having offices in Brazil, India, Germany and Japan. It's an effort to catch up to the marketing efforts of cities such as New York, which operates 18 international offices.
Laurence Geller, president and CEO of Strategic Hotels & Resorts, which owns the InterContinental Chicago and Fairmont Chicago, said that "what's happening with the marketing of the city is right for the first time in a long time."
Geller, who's from England but lives in Chicago and sits on the bureau's board, adds that the fiscal crisis in Europe should not detract from the city's marketing strategy.
"If the banks are down in Europe, we're going to have a lousy year, but I don't worry about it for the long term," he said. "We have to spend with the long term in mind, consistently and boldly."


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Premier Foods, the owner of brands including Mr Kipling and Bisto, swung to a £135.6m pre-tax loss from profits of £4.4m last year on the back of charges associated with its turnaround plan.
The food business also reported that post-tax losses widened from £46.7m to £92.7m for the 52 weeks to April 4 due to a £83.9m impairment charge which has weighed on the company following its decision to restructure the business and hive off its Mr Kipling cake brand into a separate Sweet Treats division.
Despite the loss, the results met City expectations and analysts were cheered by Premier Foods reporting a 14pc increase in revenues to £964.3m and £131m of trading profits for the period.
Gavin Darby, who joined Premier Foods as chief executive two years ago, has tried to “liberate the business from its past” and steered the group through a £1.1bn refinancing package which included a £353mcash call last year. The restructuring plan, which also saw the company hand control of its Hovis bread brand to America’s Gore’s group, is beginning to pay off and the group has reduced its pension deficit from £603m.3m to £211.8m during the past year.
“The strategy I inherited was to chip away at the situation with bit by bit asset sales but the board agreed that a big bang move was needed and it has proved to be the right decision”, Mr Darby said.
Premier Foods was thrust into the spotlight when it was threatened with action by the former Business Secretary Vince Cable last year after it emerged that it had asked suppliers for cash or face losing business.
Mr Darby said that supplier incident had been part of the group’s efforts to reduce the number of products it made and the number of suppliers - including mobile, travel and catering companies - from 2,388 to 1,230.
The Premier Foods boss said that the supplier complaints came at the end of a year-long process. “There was only really one bump at the end of the road where we had about three to five examples where we were a bit , in my view, clumsy about the way in which we handled it", he said.
Mr Darby said that as soon as the allegations came to light Premier Foods ended the programme and it has since commissioned an independent poll of its smaller suppliers to address complaints.
The business said it would continue to double its spend on product innovation and marketing after raising its advertising budget by 86pc to £8m last year to capture shopper’s interest. The group has recently launched a range of gel-like fresh herbs and stir- fry sauces after the success of its Bisto gravy pods.
“There is plenty to applaud here,” Martin Deboo at Jefferies said. “The top line is improving. Profit expectations are now being delivered against, after increased marketing. Debt is falling. The pension deficit is a reducing burden, at least in accounting terms, and now rising discount rates should assist further.”
Meanwhile, rival food supplier Greencore, reported a 3.2pc rise in group revenues to £639.8m for the six months to March 27, 2015. The business, which supplies Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda, hit headlines last year after saying it would have to recruit workers from Hungary as Brits didn't want to do the job.
Greencore also reported a jump in pre-tax profits from £8m to £26.3m and a lift in earnings per share by 8.6pc to 7.6p during the half year.
The business said that its sandwich, sushi and salads business - which makes up over 40pc of group revenues - grew by 7pc during the period. Greencore added that supermarket's convenience stores remained the biggest growth driver of the business, while new product lines at a Northampton facility were also lifting the business.
Patrick Coveney, chief executive, said that the business had ironed out the teething problems of its US expansion plan and would oon open a new facility in Rhode Island that would allow the business provide fresh produce to the New York market. Mr Coveney said that the US food-to-go market was dominated by hot snack options and a ham and cheese Panini was the company’s best seller Stateside.

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Single top-quark productioncross-section at the LHC in ATLAS
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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Published online: 29 April 2014
Measurements of the single top-quark production cross-sections with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are presented. Results of measurements of single top-quark production in the t- and Wt-channel, as well as the determination of the CKM matrix element |Vtb| are shown. Further, the separate measurement of the top- and antitop-quark t-channel production cross-section and the ratio of the two are presented, and several searches for exotic processes in single top-quark production are discussed. The latter include results from searches for flavour changing neutral currents, extra heavy charged gauge bosons (W′), excited quarks, and searches for anomalous CP-violating couplings in the Wtb vertex.
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it. (Wikipedia)
Hindsight bias is tricky for us humans/investors because it is so pervasive. Tim Richards at the Psy-Fi Blog writes:
Hindsight bias is virtually impossible to eradicate. It’s not something you can build defences against, learn new tricks and find ways of overcoming – it seems to be something absolutely fundamental to the whole human experience. Yet it can cause investor overconfidence in a very nasty way – if an investor continues to believe that they’re doing OK when they’re not then they won’t adjust their behaviour to improve.
Hindsight bias is one of the reasons that keeps investors from keeping and maintaining a well-diversified portfolio. Corey Hoffstein at the Newfound Research Blog writes:
Viewed with the benefit of hindsight, diversification will always disappoint. To judge the outcome of diversification after the fog of uncertainty has lifted, however, misses the point: diversification provides us the incredibly important ability to admit we don’t know. We can be vaguely right instead of precisely wrong. Constant disappointment, then, might be the greatest indicator that we are well diversified.
One way to combat hindsight bias is to keep a diary. Keeping a diary is a common recommendation for traders and investors alike. Journals can be, as Richards notes, a reference for our future selves as we revisit earlier decisions. In the very least they provide us with the real-time decision points that led to a successful (or unsuccessful) investment.
Thinking big picture, journaling can be more than a guidepost to revisit from time to time. Journals can actually serve a loftier purpose. As Brett Steenbarger at Forbes writes:
Journaling is thinking aloud; it makes us conscious of our internal dialogues. In no small measure, journals are tools for mindfulness. They make us more self-aware and they make us more aware of our highest ideals. That is the most powerful reason of all for keeping a journal.
Julia Cameron author of The Artist’s Way and The Miracle of Morning Pages has been an advocate for what she calls “Morning Pages” for some time now. Morning pages are a ritual by which you write out early in the morning three pages of whatever crosses your mind at the time. Adherents to Morning Pages are quite vocal in their support. Oliver Burkeman at The Guardian writes:
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised at how powerful Morning Pages proved, from day one, at calming anxieties, producing insights and resolving dilemmas. After all, the psychological benefits of externalising thoughts via journalling are well-established. And that bleary-eyed morning time has been shown to be associated with more creative thinking: with the brain’s inhibitory processes still weak, “A-ha!” moments come more readily.
In short we cannot become better investors, writers or people without some conscious process to make the internal external. Investing, including diversification, is by its nature a disappointment machine. There is always something to regret in hindsight. The challenge therefore is to use journals to help us learn from our past and then safely leave the past there where it belongs.

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Like all succulents, Huernia zebrina does not like it wet so watering the right amount at the right time is crucial. During the growing season, starting in April or May and throughout the summer, it needs watering when the soil feels dry when you put your finger into the top inch.
Also to know is, how often does a lifesaver cactus bloom?
The Lifesaver cactus bloom appears around October and stay around until March. Up to 1.4 inches (3.5 cm) in diameter, the star-shaped flowers have a distinct, liver-colored raised ring or annulus at the center.
Hereof, how do you propagate Huernia zebrina? How to Propagate Huernia Cactus
- In the spring, cut a healthy stem near the base.
- Allow the cutting to dry overnight.
- Dip the tip of the stem in rooting hormone powder.
- Plant the cutting in a cactus mix or regular potting soil with pumice.
- Water sparingly until the cutting takes root.
Also know, how do you propagate a lifesaver plant?
How do you get a lifesaver plant to bloom?
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Starfish Sansevieria ‘Boncel’ plants are rare but worth searching for. They are a more compact hybrid of Sansevieria cylindrica, or snake plant, a more common succulent. The plant has fan-shaped, light green foliage with dark green concentric circles from the top to the bottom of the leaf.
Lifesaver plants can produce amazing 5-pointed, star-like blooms with zebra stripes and a thickened center that resembles a root beer flavored Lifesaver. If this isn’t enough to intrigue you, they have fascinating 4-sided stems with soft teeth along the edges.
Fairy castle cactus care is easiest in winter when you can cut in half the amount of water the plant receives. Fertilize with a good cactus fertilizer in spring when growth resumes. Feed monthly or with irrigation in a dilution that is half strength. Suspend the feeding in winter.
Watering your cactus too often can be a problem. If you keep the soil too wet you can see a yellow shade developing on your succulent. This is a sign of stress, and the plant can’t live in such moist conditions. Your cactus should be watered only when the soil is fully dry.
Growing Starfish Flowers from Cuttings
Remove a 3- to 4-inch (75 to 10 cm.) section of stem and let the cut end callus. Put the cut end into peat which has been lightly moistened. Place the potted cutting in low light and keep the soil just damp, but not too moist or it will rot.
Watering: Wait for the soil to dry completely between waterings. Water sparingly at all times and very little during the winter. Wait for the stems to shrivel a bit in wintertime before watering lightly. Soil: As with most succulents, Stapelia plants like light, airy, well-drained soil.
They’re easy to propagate from stem cuttings
Just cut or snap off a mature stem, let it air-dry in bright light for several days to allow the cut end to callous over to prevent too much water from entering the stem when planted. Plant the cutting in your favourite fast-draining mix.
Leaves can turn yellow from watering issues. Overwatering and underwatering can both cause the leaves to turn yellow. Pay attention to other things that are going on with your plant. If the plant is well watered and the leaves are turning yellow, feel mushy and swollen, the plant is being overwatered.
Is Coral Cactus a cactus? No, Coral Cactus is not really a cactus but is actually two succulents joined together to create one beautiful coral-looking plant, which has a lot of names, like candelabra plant, the crested candelabra plant, crested euphorbia, and crested elkhorn.

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And while we are solidly in left brain mode, here the explanation of Toyota’s brake override. You can start on a steep hill, even brake with your left foot, says Toyota. Let their presser speak for itself:
The brake override feature is designed to be unobtrusive in normal driving conditions. It is designed to manage vehicle acceleration caused by interference with the accelerator pedal and is otherwise undetectable under normal driving conditions.
Using the accelerator pedal position sensors, brake light switch circuitry, and the vehicle speed sensors, this intuitive and intelligent extra measure of confidence helps ensure that vehicles can be controlled in the event that the accelerator pedal is trapped.
When the vehicle throttle is opened beyond the idle position, at speeds greater than five miles per hour and then the brakes are firmly applied for longer than one-half second, the override feature will reduce engine output to the idle position, allowing greater braking performance. If the brake pedal is then released and the engine speed does not return to normal operation, the vehicle should be brought to a stop with brake override, the engine shut off and the vehicle evaluated by a Toyota dealer.
The feature has sophisticated control logic intended to eliminate undesirable or inappropriate activation and is designed to be imperceptible. In certain driving conditions, unnecessary activation of brake override would create an inconvenient or even unsafe situation.
For example, the brake override feature does not operate if the brake pedal is depressed before the accelerator pedal. This logic allows for vehicles starting on a steep a hill to safely accelerate without rolling backwards, otherwise known as a hill start.
Toyota engineers have carefully calibrated the system control logic to prevent the system from interfering with efforts to free a vehicle by rocking it to gain traction in snow or mud. Since some drivers prefer to brake with the left foot, the system also recognizes this as an intentional action by the driver and will allow the accelerator to function normally.
[ED: Please note that only 72% of Toyota’s current model line is capable of being re-flashed for this software “fix”. The rest would require changes to the vehicles’ hardware. Toyota has not suggested that those vehicles will receive any fix of this kind]


Video: Lea Michele Performs 'Cannonball' on 'The X Factor' Finale
Lea Michele appeared on "The X Factor (US)" finale on Thursday, December 19 to perform her brand new single called "Cannonball". The 27-year-old singer looked gorgeous in a black jacket and a pair of leather pants.
The "Glee" star wowed the crowd with both her look and her voice. She was joined by several backing vocalists on the stage as she belted out the powerful ballad about leaving the past and starting anew.
Penned by Australian singer/songwriter Sia Furler, "Cannonball" is the lead cut off Michele's debut album. The record entitled "Louder" is set to hit stores in March next year. Michele is currently readying a music video for the track.
Michele wasn't the only performer on the singing competition. British boyband One Direction pleased fans with a live performance of "Midnight Memories", the title track of their latest chart-topping album "Midnight Memories".
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The Spring ArtWalk is an evening of art and music hosted by businesses throughout downtown Maynard.
Enjoy activities, exhibits and musical performances as you stroll along the streets in heart of the Maynard Cultural District. Artists from ArtSpace Maynard will give demonstrations, exhibit and sell their work at Memorial Park and the Maynard High School Jazz Ensemble will perform in front of the Sesquicentennial Mural in Naylor Court. The Maynard Community Gardeners will offer collaging with flowers.
Participating businesses include: UFO ArtSpace; Raspberry Beret; Explore Pathways to Wellness; Kind Goods; Inspired Bliss;6 Bridges Gallery; Metrowest Kung Fu; Hair by Michelle @ VV’s Hair Studio; Sugar Snap; Amory’s Tomb; LOOK Optical; Azucar; El Huipil; Bull Spit Brewing Company and more!

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David9391308 got their new web page design by running a design contest:
website design for Legal Practice Network
Check out David9391308's Web page design contest…
Attorney & Law
Connects lawyers and law firms in Australia that need work done to lawyers who can help them.
Ideally to be a clean and simple site with clear guide as to what action someone should take next. Envisage large buttons to eg 'register to provide legal assistance' and 'submit a project' with some simple explanatory text.
1] Home Briefly describe who website is for and how it works; have buttons allowing visitors to register for assistance or to register as assistance providers. Show latest news and articles on blog/news section. In due course show important messages/icons representing media coverage and possibly free PDF report download. 2] About Standard About page 3] News This section for news and how-to articles, case studies etc once service is live. (no Contact page - contact details to appear at the foot of all pages)
What to avoid
Needs to be a smart. Clean modern looking site + needs to not be cluttered.
We need this site to be designed to work on the Wordpress platform.
A$899 Bronze package
Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Web page design starts at $799.
Full copyright with production-ready files for digital and/or print.
It all began with a design brief.
A quick, interactive guide helped them understand their design style and captured exactly what they needed in their web page design.
Designers across the globe delivered design magic.
David9391308 collaborated with designers to refine their ideas
When design entries come in, you can rate them so designers know what you’re looking for in your logo design.
99designs has great collaboration tools so you can pinpoint and capture your ideas
And then… they selected a winner!
Kolya, is an outstanding designer and always a pleasure to work with. Love the way that he really thinks about the "interface design" for what makes the most sense to the "user" interacting with the website. We keep having him do more and more work for us and highly recommend him!
Along the way, they met lots of talented designers…
We think contests are a super fun way to get design.
Recently completed contests:
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Law firm. Intended to offer an exclusive, tailored legal service to high net worth clientele. Looking for a logo to inst
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This is a tutorial on how to install different themes and stuffs for jailbroken phones! 🙂
First, you need to have iFile that can be found on cydia and Winterboard that can also be found on Cydia.
For keyboards, you need to have Color Keyboards (also from Cydia)
and BiteSMS (also from Cydia) for Popup messages.
First you have to unzip/unarchive the file that you have downloaded from different themers.
Then, copy the unzip file and go to mobile/Library/Keyboard/ColorKeyboard/Themes and paste
the file there. Then go to settings and activate the keyboard you want in the Color Keyboard then save.
Unzip the file and copy it to var/stash/themes then paste.
Then go to mobile/Library/Caches and erase ALL the bsbg files that you will find there!
Then go to settings, and activate the theme on winterboard then respring.
Unzip the file then copy to var/stash/Themes then paste and activate it in the

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I've tried changing the job settings to run 32 bit, still doing the same. I don't think OLEDB 12.0 is installed. Can't install it as admin/security guy is off, and their very strict on security.
I created the job to pull the data from an Excel sheet, load it to a table and create the job in the agent.
Another interesting thing that happened was on another server I had same issue, however changing it to run 32 bit worked, why not on this server?
Any thoughts on how to get it to run much appreciated.


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Documenting your GDPR compliance can be tough, but a little guidance and access to documentation templates can make things much easier.
The documentation process is one of the most important parts of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance. What you write dictates the way you approach security and privacy, and any mistakes will set you up for failure when those documents are called upon.
Our focus in this blog is organisations’ data breach notification procedure. The GDPR stresses that there is plenty you can do after a security incident has occurred to mitigate the damage and restore any reputational damage that the breach might cause, so it’s vital that appropriate guidelines are in place.
What is a personal data breach?
A data breach is any event in which the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information is compromised. Data doesn’t only need to be stolen to be breached; it might also have been lost, altered, corrupted or accidentally disclosed.
Data breaches can happen to any kind of information, but the GDPR is concerned only with personal data. The Regulation defines this as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person”. In other words, any information that is clearly about a particular person.
This might be someone’s name, ID number, online identifier, etc., or a combination of details that can be pieced together to establish somebody’s identity.
When do you need to report breaches?
Personal data breaches that “pose a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural living persons” need to be reported to the DPC (Data Protection Commission).
This refers to the possibility of affected individuals facing economic or social damage, such as discrimination, reputational damage or financial losses.
A clear-cut example of this would be a cyber attack in which individuals’ names, email addresses and/or physical addresses are compromised. With access to this information, a crook could attempt identity fraud or conduct a more personalised attack, like a phishing scam.
Another example would be a compromise that affects an individuals’ privacy. This would be the case when, say, an organisation accidentally shares someone’s medical status, political affiliations or other fact that they may not want publicly known.
By contrast, an incident that’s simply inconvenient, like the loss of anonymised or pseudonymous data, would not need to be reported.
Whether you are required to notify or not, the GDPR mandates that you keep a record of all personal data breaches.
This make the response process a little simpler, as your initial response will be the same regardless of whether the breach needs to be reported.
How long do you have to report a breach?
Organisations must report a breach within 72 hours of discovery.
The GDPR acknowledges that it will be hard to produce the necessary information within this timeframe, so you aren’t expected to provide comprehensive details. However, there are set guidelines on what you should work towards in that time, which we explain below.
What should a data breach notification include?
When reporting a breach, you need to provide the following information:
- Situational analysis: Provide as much context as possible, including the initial damage (what happened), how it affected your organisation (what went wrong) and what caused it (how it happened).
- Assessment of affected data: Ascertain the categories of personal data and the number of records concerned.
- Description of the impact: Describe the consequences of the breach for affected parties. This will depend on the information that was compromised.
- Report on staff training and awareness: If the breach was a result of human error, did the employee(s) involved receive data protection training in the past two years? Provide details of your staff awareness training programme.
- Preventive measures and actions: What measures did you have in place before the breach to prevent incidents like this from occurring? What steps have you taken, or plan to take, to mitigate the damage?
- Oversight: Provide the contact details of your DPO (data protection officer) or the person responsible for data protection.
How to prepare for a data breach
Organisations can do a lot of the work involved in data breach response in advance by documenting their plan of action. This explains how each step will be completed and who is responsible for each action, as well as contact details for those who need to be notified.
Here’s an example of what that document might look like:
This is an extract from our GDPR Toolkit, which sets out the scope of the procedure, responsibilities and the steps that the organisation must take to notify everybody involved, including the data controller, supervisory authority and data subjects.
- A complete set of easy-to-use and customisable documentation templates (including a personal data breach notification procedure) that will save you time and money;
- Helpful dashboards and project tools to ensure complete GDPR coverage;
- Guidance from expert GDPR practitioners; and
- Two licences for our GDPR Staff Awareness E-learning Course.
A version of this blog was originally published on 5 November 2018.

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Wednesday is election day in Winnipeg and across Manitoba, and candidates have made their final pitches to voters. It’s now up to the public to decide who will govern at the municipal level in this province. People will, no doubt, be very interested in the outcome of various races in hotly contested wards or the plebiscite on the future of the Portage and Main intersection.
Meanwhile, over on CBC Television, it’s Chocolate Week!
That’s right, Chocolate Week. On The Great Canadian Baking Show. At 8 p.m., when the polls close on election night.
As was the case Monday in Ontario, when results-seeking viewers who flipped over to CBC-TV’s primetime block in search of election coverage were greeted instead by three intriguing whodunits — Murdoch Mysteries, Frankie Drake Mysteries and The Mystery of the Disappearing Commitment to a Public-Broadcasting Mandate — TV-watchers in Manitoba looking for live primetime coverage of Winnipeg’s civic election will only find what they’re looking for on privately owned CTV Winnipeg, which will air a two-hour municipal election special from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
CBC — the public broadcaster that receives in excess of $1 billion in taxpayer-supported funding annually — has decided to take a pass on televised election coverage this time around, opting instead to relegate municipal election results and analysis to its radio arm and to Facebook and other online platforms. CBC-TV will reportedly air a half-hour of election coverage at 11 p.m.
This is, in a word, shameful. It is also, in another word, boneheaded.
One might reasonably think the CBC’s mandate as Canada’s public broadcaster would include an obligation to provide, on its primary platform, public-information programming of urgent local importance– such as election coverage — in the local markets it has been tasked to serve.
The rationale for this dubious corporate decision, according to a story published in this newspaper Tuesday, lies in CBC’s “commitment to our advertisers” and the “competing priorities” that shape the TV network’s primetime schedule.
What about a commitment to viewers — most of whom, one assumes, are also taxpayers who are responsible for paying the $1.2-billion annual freight that keeps the ever-morphing CBC in business?
One might reasonably think the CBC’s mandate as Canada’s public broadcaster would include an obligation to provide, on its primary platform, public-information programming of urgent local importance — such as election coverage — in the local markets it has been tasked to serve.
The Great Canadian Baking Show, while surely a tasty televisional confection, would not qualify as urgent or public-service broadcasting, regardless of how fervently committed CBC executives might be to the show’s advertisers.
In response to questions from the Toronto Star about election-night coverage in Ontario, CBC’s head of public affairs issued a written statement that said, in part, that “In planning our election night coverage, we considered a variety of options to best address competing priorities and we know through research that audiences want the results on mobile and digital.”
Do they? Or does the CBC, in its determined effort to mutate and expand beyond traditional broadcast media and into various print-driven digital news platforms, just really need its audience to consume election information in the realms it is seeking, on the strength of billions in taxpayer dollars, to occupy?
It’s a question that relates directly to the public broadcaster’s reason for being. If the CBC’s job does not include covering elections — municipal, provincial, federal — on its traditional, signature broadcast services, then what does it include? Online comedy programming? Digital music services? Chocolate Week?
If the CBC’s job does not include covering elections– municipal, provincial, federal — on its traditional, signature broadcast services, then what does it include? Online comedy programming? Digital music services? Chocolate Week?
Look, everyone knows the media business is changing, and that traditional news reporting is under assault.
We in the newspaper busines — which is not the recipient of government largesse despite ongoing discussions about the need to support and preserve local news coverage in an increasingly challenging economic environment — are more aware than most.
Which makes the decision by the taxpayer-funded CBC all the more perplexing — the public broadcaster offloading election coverage to secondary platforms is akin to the Winnipeg Free Press stating that because it’s focused on its digital subscribership, it won’t be offering election coverage in its print edition; instead, the front page of Thursday’s printed Free Press will feature a selection of recipes — that’s right, Chocolate Day!
It should be said here that not everyone within the CBC organization is in favour of this abdication of election-night responsibility. At least three dozen staffers at CBC Ottawa signed a letter in protest of the TV network’s election-coverage pass, asking, “What does it say about our priorities as a public television broadcaster that on the one night where local politics takes centre stage, we are missing in action? How can it be that we would fail to show up for the most important moment of the four-year election cycle…?”
These are fair questions — ones that will no doubt also be asked in the darkened election-night corners of CBC Manitoba’s TV operation, and ones that should be given serious consideration when next the federal government sits down to discuss what to do with its $1.2-billion commitment to a public broadcaster whose election-night commitment is to its advertisers rather than to the TV audience it is mandated to serve.
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Oral Cancer May be Treated with Proanthocyanidins from Medicinal Plants
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Proanthocyanidins from grapeseed extract may hamper the growth of oral cancer cells, according to a recent study published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Proanthocyanidins are chemicals in the flavonoid family, naturally occurring in the seeds and skins of grapes (including red wine), pine bark, green and black tea, and berries including bilberries, cranberries, chokeberries and black currant berries. They have been shown to act as antioxidants and protect against DNA damage from tobacco, as well as to be selectively toxic to various forms of cancer cells, including breast, gastric, lung and prostate cancers. They have also been shown to retard the growth of breast, colon, oral and prostate cancers.
Researchers tested proanthocyanidins derived from grapeseed extract on cell lines of both oral and cervical cancer in the laboratory. They found that the chemical significantly slowed the growth of both cervical and oral cancers, but that the effect was greater on oral cancers. The effect was dose-dependent, meaning that larger doses of the extract led to slower cancer growth.
Because a particular strain of human papillomavirus, HPV 16, has previously been shown to drive the proliferation of oral cancer cells, the researchers also tested the extract against such accelerated cell lines. The grapeseed extract proanthocyanidins were found to significantly reduce the growth of the HPV-stimulated oral cancer cells.
In addition, the researchers reported preliminary evidence that the extract may encourage cell death among both cervical and oral cancers.
The researchers hailed their work as an important step in developing alternative cancer treatments. "Standard chemotherapies and radiation treatment, frequently used to treat oral cancer patients, often have harsh and severe side effects that include tissue damage and malfunction," the researchers wrote. "The discovery and validation of novel treatments and prevention strategies, lacking these harmful side effects, is one of our main short-term goals."
"This research shows that the natural medicines in berries works as an effective replacement for chemotherapy in many cancers," added consumer health advocate Mike Adams, author of the book The 7 Laws of Nutrition. "People who eat fresh, raw berries on a daily basis are greatly reducing their risk of ever being diagnosed with breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer and other forms of cancer."
"But what's really astonishing today," Adams added, "is that oncologists remain nutritionally illiterate and have zero knowledge about anti-cancer foods and herbs. Thus, millions of people are harmed each year with chemotherapy chemicals that are, in reality, long outdated and largely ineffective. The entire conventional cancer industry is a grand marketing scam that only seeks to profit from disease rather than actually curing it."
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Sorry, I meant to say that if you are running under the new flods and create
a FEP file (e.g. :create fep file, or copying worlds), you will run into
this problem. The work around is to boot under the old flods (it will handle
it fine). Don't ask me why, but it does happen.
I still don't understand. Are you saying that the problem is 2caused0
by creating FEP files for the new FLODs while running a world that was
booted using them? If so, does this imply that booting with the old
FLODs and creating files for the new ones will allow me to then run
successffully with the new ones? This would not be inconsistent with
my experience so far, although I'd have to see it work before I really
That is consistant with the explanation our CE gave me. His claim is that on
some very few machines (reason undetermined) the format of the disk is
readable with the new FLODs, however, when the FEP file system is written to
in any way (by genera when running the new Flods) the format becomes
corrupted. The session where the write occured will continue to run fine,
but the next boot will fail during clear machine.
I don't claim to either understand this or beleive it. I do know...
1) we have two identically configured 40s. One exhibits the abberant
behavior and one does not.
2) If the boards are swapped between the machines, the problem stays with
the frames, not the boards.
3) unplugging the disk that was modified by Genera when booted under the new
Flods (assuming only one) will allow the machine to come up. Also booting
under the old Flods works.
4) replacing the (faulty) disk with a new one (140 swapped for 190) was fine
until we installed the new microcode files on the disk (running under the
new flods). The next boot caused the failure. Using the old flods we could
reformat the disk. Then we used the new flods to reformat the disk again
(couldn't do this is one step because you have to run clear machine b4
loading the microcode, and we got the error). Note that this new disk was
factory formatted for 7-2, so presumably, they used the old flods.
5) we then brought the machine back up with the new flods, and tried adding
a paging file and then rebooting. It succeeded.
6) Trying to produce the failure on the other 40 didn't work.
7) Symbolics took away our 140 disk from step #4 above for further research.
8) I've heard nothing since.
Hope this helps (whew!).
Brad Miller U. Rochester Comp Sci Dept.


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Liam Neeson returns as Qi-Gon Jin Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi.
Liam Neeson returns to the Star Wars universe. when Star Wars Celebrationn Went to Anaheim, California this weekend. Lucas Film New TV series announced Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, A series featuring Nisson’s Jedi master Qi-gon Jin in Episode I and The Phantom Menace, voiced by his Irish actor. The character of Qi-Gon Jin, the master of Obi-Wan Kenobi, will appear in at least two different versions: the older version played by Neeson, and then none other than Neeson’s son, the younger version of the character. Finally the younger version of Jedi Master will appear along with the younger version of Count Duke.
A few weeks ago, the actor said that he was ready to return to SagaWhen he made it clear that he would return on the condition of “just for a movie”.
⁇ Oh, I think so, yes, yes. I think so if it’s for a movie. I’m a little dull when it comes to television, I admit, I like the big screen, you know.“, He announced.
– Star Wars (starwars) May 28, 2022
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi It is an anthology of animated shorts that follow in the footsteps of legendary characters such as Qi-Gon Jin, Ahsoka Tano and Mays Window, and will premiere. Disney + This year is in the fall.
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The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis said Monday that the United Nations will launch a fund appeal to help Lebanon fight against COVID-19, local independent newspaper Elnashra reported.
Kubis explained that the appeal will cover several priorities such as supporting Lebanon’s health ministry in its response capacity facing COVID-19, strengthening interaction among different communities, supporting good hygiene practices and providing basic assistance to the most vulnerable groups.
Kubis also noted that Syrian refugees remain among the top priorities of the United Nations.
He noted that the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) are working on plans to secure isolation locations for refugees who have symptoms of COVID-19.
Lebanon has been fighting against COVID-19 since Feb. 21 with no cases registered among refugees so far.
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The veteran actor, who unveiled the film's trailer, spoke about the biopic and his relationship with the late maestro.
Won't be surprised if Rahul Deshpande bags National award for his performance in Me Vasantrao, says Nana Patekar
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The makers of Hindustani classical singer Vasantrao Deshpande's biopic, Me Vasantrao, launched the film's trailer on Monday.
The film has been directed by Nipun Dharmadhikari and stars classical singer Rahul Deshpande as his grandfather.
Along with the film's ensemble cast, Nana Patekar was also present as a chief guest at Monday's event. During a media interaction, the veteran actor spoke about the film and his relationship with Vasantrao Deshpande.
"I have seen the film and I really loved it. Nipun and Rahul have made such a beautiful film. I don't like to praise something just for the sake of it but I'm genuinely in awe of this film now," he said.
The film also marks Rahul's acting debut in a feature film. Patekar said, "The most surprising aspect of this film for me was Rahul's performance. I have heard him sing since he was a young boy and I don't need to tell you how talented a singer he is, but after watching this film, I can say with confidence that I won't be surprised if he even wins the National award for his acting. He has done such an excellent job."
Asked about the film's music which has been composed by Rahul, Patekar replied, "Music is not my field, so I can't speak much about it, that's why I'm talking about his acting performance".
The senior actor also revealed a big secret about his connection with Vasantrao Deshpande. "I have met Vasantrao Deshpande. We even had a heartfelt conversation. Very few people know that I even played the tabla for him when he was in Mahabaleshwar. I still very clearly remember that whenever I would miss the beat, he would adjust his singing to match with my rhythm. That was such a huge thing for a young guy like me."
The film features Anita Date, Pushkaraj Chirputkar, Amey Wagh and Kaumudi Walokar.
Produced by Chandrashekhar Gokhale, Me Vasantrao is scheduled to be released on 1 April 2022.


This is the first steam powered railway engine to run on a public railway. It was designed by George Stephenson and sparked a transport revolution that transformed the lives and fortunes of people across Britain and the wider world.
James Watt’s ingenious improvements to the steam engine transformed this relatively simple technology, making it more efficient and adapting it so it could be used to turn wheels. His ideas revolutionised steam power, literally driving the industrial revolution and transforming the British landscape and the lives of its people.
Invented 200 years ago, the humble bicycle is one of the most popular and enduring innovations of all time. Relatively cheap and simple to produce, environmentally sound, easy and fun to use, great for keeping fit and available to people of all ages and from all walks of life, it is still a significant part of our lives today.
In the early 1700s, work in the textile industry was mainly hand-operated and undertaken by people skilled in crafts – such as weaving and knitting. But innovations in steam power and the design of machinery in the late 18th and early 19th century transformed manufacturing and the way people worked. Much of the new labour could be undertaken by unskilled workers in factories away from the household, quicker than ever before and for a fraction of the price. Skilled textile workers, who found their livelihoods threatened by new, labour-saving technology, responded witha series of violent protests. They became known as the Luddites.
The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. It was the first machine to be powered by steam and was largely used to pump water out of mines. Hundreds of these engines were made and used all over Britain and Europe in the 1700s. They became known simply as the Newcomen Engine and helped pave the way for the Industrial revolution.
In the 1700s, work was localised and family-orientated, largely agricultural and driven by hand and horse labour. But innovations in steam power and the design of machinery in the late 1700s and early 1800s transformed manufacturing and the way people lived and worked. In the 1820s and 30s, factors such as increasing industrialisation, poor harvests and, specifically, the introduction of the threshing machine meant farming wages were low, working conditions poor and unemployment high. Agricultural workers in the South and East of England protested in what became known as the Swing riots (or agricultural labourers’ risings).
Cotton was one of the latest textile fibres to be introduced to Britain as a raw material within a manufacturing system, but between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it rose to prominence as a cornerstone of the British economy. Cotton manufacture stimulated industrialisation, global commercial influence, and new communities of labour. This is one of five early sample books illustrating the cotton and calico designs produced by the textile industry in Salford between 1769 and 1851.
The spinning mule was invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779. It revolutionised textile production by vastly increasing the amount of cotton that could be spun at any one time. But this also meant textile manufacturers no longer needed to pay individual spinners to create spindles (wooden rods) wound with cotton thread, as just one operator could now use the machine to spin hundreds of spindles at once.
Throughout the 1800s Britain became a busy industrial nation. People migrated in increasing numbers from the countryside to towns and cities to work in new factories and mills. Working conditions were poor and dangerous, injuries from machinery were common and workers – including children as young as six – worked long hours. Overcrowding, limited diets and polluted water led to widespread disease and early death. New Lanark, a village on the River Clyde near Glasgow, was a revolutionary industrial and housing complex, combining a cotton mill with purpose-built housing, education and social care for its workers and their families. The ideas put into practice here marked the beginning of cooperative socialism.
This gilded bronze statue, known as the ‘Golden Boys’ (and also the ‘Carpet Salesmen’!) honours Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch. They are shown studying steam engine plans. Together these three revolutionised the steam engine – the technology that would literally drive the industrial revolution.