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You probably wouldn't expect a hit song to be the central to a distracted driving story, but unfortunately that was exactly the case recently when a 32-year-old woman was killed after she drove her car head-on into a truck. Apparently the woman was posting something to Facebook about the song "Happy" by Pharrell Williams while she was driving.

The Facebook post was timestamped at 8:33 a.m. and the police got an emergency call about the fatal car accident at 8:34 a.m. It is believed that the woman's decision to post to Facebook caused her to lose control of her vehicle and cause the crash. The driver of the other vehicle was not hurt in the wreck.

While that may be the only uplifting aspect of the entire incident, this story is a very unfortunate reminder about the dangers of distracted driving. Taking out your cellphone and using it to send text messages, take photos, update social media profiles or even just to make a phone call is a reckless decision, and that choice dramatically increases your chances of getting into a car accident.

Distracted drivers are everywhere nowadays. It's upsetting how often you can drive down Nebraska freeways and see a vehicle that is swaying in its lane -- and when you drive past it, you see a driver looking down at his or her lap for an extended period, probably because there's a cellphone there and they are typing away. It's dangerous and negligent, and those who cause such accidents can be subject to a civil lawsuit by victims of any accident they cause.

Source: WGHP, "Woman posts about 'Happy' song on Facebook seconds before fatal Business 85 crash," Lindsey Eaton, April 25, 2014

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Gabriele Haslinger – Former solo dancer at the Vienna State Opera, Ballet master/educationalist/teacher/coach

 “When one door closes, another, much wider one opens.”

Gabriele Haslinger was 6 years old when she was accepted at the prestigious ballet school of the Vienna State Opera, 14 when she received her employment contract to the Vienna State Opera Ballet and 21 when Rudolf Nureyev (Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer, 1938 – 1993) specifically chose her of all ensemble members as his partner for a series of roles – at a time, when she had not even reached her soloist status yet. This was followed by dance partners like Sir Anthony Dowell CBE (retired British ballet dancer, former artistic director of the Royal Ballet), Kevin Haigen (American ballet dancer and educationalist) or Michael Birkmeyer (Austrian ballet dancer and choreographer) to name just a few. Gabriele was acclaimed for her virtuosity and elegance and for making the most technically demanding roles seem effortless and gracious. Little did she know that at the age of only 27, she would have to retire from her active stage career.

Untimely endings, the proverbial ‘closing doors’, were not uncommon in the life of Gabriele Haslinger, be it in her professional life or in her personal endeavours. Whenever there would have come the moment to finally enjoy the fruits of her efforts, she was actually not given an awful lot of time to glory in her achievements. Two failed marriages and a premature ending of her stage career as a ballet dancer are the most painful life events Gabriele had to experience. And yet she is convinced: “Ultimately, adversity has allowed me to have a more colourful, more diverse life.”

How did it all start? How did you get to ballet?

When it all started, I had never heard of ballet before. My parents had an inn, and I would intuitively begin to dance when the music box started to play. It was pure pleasure of movement, so my parents thought I would enjoy attending a dancing school for kids, which I did from the age of 3. At some point – I was then 6 years old -, my father heard that the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera was recruiting new students and suggested I should give it a go and attend the auditions.

I remember the day of the entrance exam as if it was yesterday: crowds of delicate girls with their beautiful tutus, already looking like little ballerinas – and then there was me in my bathing suit and plimsolls. I genuinely felt like the Ugly Duckling. And yet: after having been tested for suppleness, motional talent and musical sense, I was accepted, and a whole new world opened up. I can really say that my life actually happened to me.

Why the incredibly early retirement from your active stage career?

I was still part of the Corps de ballet – the ’background dancers’ if you will -, when Rudolf Nureyev requested me for “The Flower Festival in Genzano”, “Don Quixote”, and other ballets. From then on, solo parts were my ‘new normal’ in addition to my duties as member of the Corps de ballet and some half-soloistic roles. This made my workload more than intense, and as much as I enjoyed it, it started to take its toll on my body. The first signs of degeneration of my tendons became noticeable, and once the problems started, it was getting harder and harder to keep my top form or to get back into form after an injury. However, I saw this as ‘my time’, ‘my moment’ – just like an athlete would see the Olympic Games. And the Olympic Games are not the moment to give up …

As a result, for a couple of years – I had then already been promoted to soloist -, my everyday reality was characterised by injuries, surgeries, plaster casts, cortisone treatments and rehabilitation programmes. It was a circle of despair and hope, resumption of training and return to the stage – until the next troubles, the next series of treatment, the next mandatory break. I underwent not less than 14 surgeries which left their marks and made me vulnerable to accidents – among others, a rupture of my Achilles tendon in the middle of “Swan Lake”, on stage.

How did you handle these setbacks?

I guess, I did not ‘classify’ them as setbacks in the first place. My question was never “Why me?”. My first question would instinctively be: “What can I do now?” And then: “What can I do to get back on stage?” I try to focus on the positive, my accomplishments and successes – and not the things I missed out on. It needed some time to acquire this viewpoint, and I also had my low moments. However, I’ve found that I can mobilise enormous strength reserves when I think I’m completely devastated. When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up.

Another very important aspect is to be surrounded by people who honestly care about you – as a person, a human being, not only as “the dancer” – or whatever it is that you are doing. I had the enormous blessing to have such people around me: family, friends, teachers, colleagues. Those whose first question would not be “When will you resume your training?” but “How are you feeling?”.

What was the driving force in your life, the characteristic that kept you going?

One of my main motivations was certainly not to disappoint but to fulfill the supposed expectations of others: those of my parents, my teachers, the audience. What helped me was discipline and a certain rigour against myself. It was only later in life that I learned to listen to my own needs and to simply enjoy more.

You eventually changed to the teaching side of ballet. How has your life changed from stage dance to instructing?

It has changed immensely. Above all, because I had the feeling that I had not been able to enjoy my own career long enough. Also, because I did not get to choose; I simply was not fit for an active stage career anymore. It felt as if my purpose, my identity, my routine had been taken from me. In my beginnings as a ballet teacher and coach, I very much bemoaned my fate. These young ballet students did what I still wanted to do myself: being on stage, being a dancer and sharing my passion and talent with the world. And although I never let them feel my reservation, it took me a long time to take pleasure in teaching and sharing my knowledge and know-how with those who would then be successful on stage. Today, I see it as an absolute privilege to accompany and coach these young talents. And I genuinely enjoy the part that I as a ballet master am able to play in their success.

I retired my second career as a ballet educationalist at the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera in 2014 after 27 years to enjoy more freedom and flexibility in my activities – and also to escape the enormous pressure I put on myself. Since then, I have continued to teach. At ballet academies, conservatories, in workshops and private lessons. Beautiful things come to me – among others the participation in ballet competitions as a jury member -, and I am enchanted by the requests and chances I get, giving me a sense of purpose, a feeling of being needed and appreciated.

If you had to tell your life in form of a ballet or a dance – which one would it be?

Without a doubt „La Serenade” by George Balanchine to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, which happens to be my favourite ballet. There is no predetermined story line, which allows for dreaming and imagination. For me, it embodies every feeling you can possibly have; the beautiful music flows and carries you like waves, up and down, just as in life. I see a lot of analogies to my own story.

Would you say that dance is a ‘universal language’?

Absolutely. I would even say, dance unites cultures. In dance and music, there are no borders or barriers, regardless of one’s language, origin or social background. For these reasons alone I would always promote dance. I always found it fascinating to watch students coming from all corners of the world interact and communicate through dance. They don’t look at what separates them, they focus on what unites them. In ballet, words are translated into movements, and everyone has their own lyrics. They don’t need their language to express feelings – they can use dance to say it all.

When you look back at your career – how do you see all those blows of fate today?

Had my career continued in an ideal way, I would certainly have enjoyed more dancing, more wonderful moments on stage, more opening nights, “Swan Lakes” and “Nutcrackers” – and extended my career as long as I possibly could. And yet ultimately, my injuries have forced me to explore other routes and allowed me to experience new territory. I would even go so far as to say that I would probably have missed the moment to have children (editor’s note: Gabriele has two adult sons), had everything gone according to the ‘world of ballet’. So, for sure, my setbacks have given me a lot of gifts and made me the person I am today.

And I know, after all, I am a darling of fortune!

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Courier fraudsters dupe 28 victims out of more than £127,000 in Avon and Somerset

Throughout January Avon and Somerset Police have been supporting a national campaign to raise awareness of courier fraud.

A three week campaign led by the National Economic Crime Centre was a combination of awareness raising and enforcement activity and is the first phase of activity to combat fraud.

All 43 forces in England and Wales have been supporting January’s Operation Radium.

Nationally since November 44 people have been arrested on suspicion of courier fraud. Over the past two years there have been more than 3000 victims of courier fraud reported nationally with losses believed to be around £12m.

Figures released by the City of London Police – the national lead force for fraud and the co-ordinators of Operation Radium – have revealed that 28 people in the Avon and Somerset force area reported being a victim of courier fraud in 2019.  This amounted to an estimated £127,224 in losses.

Nationally, victims are predominantly over 60 years of age with the most targeted demographic being females aged between 80 and 89 years.

Courier fraud is where fraudsters call someone, pretending to be a police officer or bank official, warning that there are corrupt bank staff, intent on stealing their money, and ask for their help.  Typically, the caller then tells the victim to withdraw a sum of money and a courier is sent to collect it.
The ultimate aim of this call is to trick them into handing over money or their bank details.

Common techniques used by the fraudsters include telling the victim to withdraw large sums of cash or go and buy high value items. Sometimes they instruct the victim to leave their bank cards in an envelope somewhere safe. In all cases, a ‘courier’ will then come and pick up the cash, expensive item or envelope, on behalf of the police or bank. They will often come to the victim’s home address.

Last year a taxi driver in North Somerset thwarted a courier fraud incident when he became suspicious when taking a woman to the bank. His taxi had been pre-booked – allegedly by the woman’s relative – but after the taxi driver discovered the woman was planning to withdraw a large sum of money when she got to the bank, he became suspicious.

He alerted bank officials who advised the police and the large cash withdrawal was stopped.

Our message is – don’t discuss your finances with anyone who calls you out of the blue, even if they claim to be a police officer or a representative from a bank fraud department..

If you know someone who may be vulnerable to this type of offence, please speak to them and share our crime prevention tips and remind them of the threat from telephone fraudsters.

People who receive a call on their landline and are asked to contact their local police station or bank to verify the caller’s details ideally need to put the receiver down and not touch it for five minutes, just in case the fraudster has kept the line open. Ensure you have a dialling tone before re-using. Ideally use another phone such as a mobile phone or a neighbour’s phone and use 101 to verify the call.

We would also appeal to taxi drivers who are asked to collect parcels – especially from elderly – to be vigilant and contact us if they are suspicious.

DS Louise Sinclair of Avon and Somerset Police’s Complex Crime Unit said: “Victims of courier fraud tend to be elderly, living alone and trusting of the police and other official organisations.

“It is important we all play our part in protecting these vulnerable members of our community, informing them this type of crime is happening and encouraging them to report any attempts of courier fraud – successful or not – to Action Fraud and the police.

“As a force we have been happy to support Operation Radium and will continue to do all we can to create a hostile environment for would-be fraudsters,” she said.


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Avantes is redefining miniature spectrometers with the next-generation of AvaSpec-Mini spectroscopy instruments. The AvaSpec-Mini is known for packing the power of a full-size spectrometer into a package roughly the size of a deck of cards. It has long been the preferred choice for use in applications where small size cannot sacrifice results, including hand-held OEM integrations.

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The photonics industry was dominated by charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors for almost 20 years. However, some popular front illuminated CCD detectors have been made obsolete by several leading manufacturers which ultimately accelerated the pace for alternative developments. In the past few years, new developments in CMOS have seen this technology develop into a better replacement for CCD.

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Up on the rooftops of the Loew’s Hotel in Midtown Atlanta, you’ll find an inviting, urban spot to relax while you’re waiting for a cooking class to begin. We love outfitting the Grilling Terrace with some of our favorite outdoor furniture pieces. This space needs to accommodate big crowds, so we created two long banquet tables with four of Suzanne Kasler’s Orleans Table, stacked end to end, and our West Hampton Stackable Teak Chairs.

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Across from our dining space are several lounge areas to keep guests comfortable while they’re being served treats from the grill. Our Sutton Sofa is supremely comfortable, so it only seemed natural to use this collection on the Grilling Terrace.

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We were inspired by the incredible walls of glass in this space, which constantly reflects the sky, and all of the bright green foliage on the deck. Navy and green accents seemed like the perfect fit!

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Outdoor rugs are a great way to create cozy, enclosed spaces, especially on an expansive deck, which is why we used three different large outdoor rugs on this terrace. Our Sicilian Coral Rug has such a fun pattern and worked perfectly with our color scheme.

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If you’re signed up to take a cooking class, we’ve created some comfortable seating areas for you to enjoy while you’re waiting in the pre-function area. We used a color palette of navy, coral, and chartreuse in our accents but kept the upholstered pieces in classic neutrals like our Talbot Gray fabric (which is super durable and stain resistant in case you’re eating or drinking!)

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No room is complete without a touch of glamour, which is why we brought in our Elsie Coffee Tables, used side-by-side in this space. The antiqued glass tops means its easy to clean if you spill!

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Our second seating area brought a little more drama. We used another Graham Sofa, this time in Talbot Gray, with two Viceroy Chairs on each side. One fun way to shake up the look of the space is to use two different fabrics on the chairs. We used our Mila Citron on the two Viceroy Chairs on the left and Queens Velvet Chartreuse for the Viceroy Chairs on the right.

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VILNIUS – The Lithuanian army's decision to buy six American Black Hawk helicopters from the US administration, and not directly from the producing company, Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky, was determined by finances and the technology needs, says Sigitas Dzekunskas, director of the country's Defense Materiel Agency under the Ministry of National Defense.

The ministry announced several week ago its plans to spend 300 million euros on new Black Hawks to replace the Russian Mi-8s the Lithuanian army is using now.

In an interview with the 15min.lt news website, Dzekunskas said that when buying these helicopters, the Lithuanian army would get the whole package, including the project's management, ensured quality and direct involvement in the production of the helicopters.

"When buying from the US government, we get secured quality, price and audit when holding negotiations with the producers and supervising the production process. Specialists from the US government will be constantly directly involved in the production process, and we will receive a product that is the maximum best. Another aspect is that (…) some specific equipment used by the US army, for example, the elements of the recognition system, data bases, can be bought only from the US government. We cannot acquire that from the companies directly," Dzekunskas explained.

In his words, when planning this acquisition, Lithuania also turned to both European and American companies, including France's Airbus, Italy's Leonardo, the US-Canadian company Textron, as well as Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky, the producers of Black Hawks.

According to Dzekunskas, Black Hawks met all operation requirements set by the Lithuanian army.

"For example, we looked into the compatibility with our regional partners and neighboring countries. It was very important for us because of cooperation, joint military exercises and operations. (…) The Swedes have Black Hawk helicopters, and the Poles and Latvians are also buying them. Of course, the Americans we work with also mainly have Black Hawks. There's a huge advantage when we use the same equipment," Dzekunskas said.

In his words, the final price for the six Black Hawks will be known when the negotiations start. Lithuanian copes to sign the contract by the end of this year, and the first helicopters should be delivered in 2024.


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Regarding the Pope's visit to the Czech Republic: I commend Pope Benedict XVI for condemning communism and for illustrating, during his visit to the Czech Republic, how such systems that chase power and deny God are bound to collapse. The pope's warning has special relevance for the world's democratic governments that are increasingly becoming socialist in nature. Under the guise of freedom they seek to impose on society a culture of death that includes homosexuality, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, euthanasia and abortion.

The increasing tendency of Canada, the U.S. and European nations to repudiate their Christian roots is not, as some think, the expression of some morally superior tolerance for other cultures but rather the authorization of an absolute way of thinking and living that is radically opposed to the variety of cultures - cultures which, in the end, are dogmatically relativized.

Communist-socialist governments falsely present themselves as the authentic spokesmen for the aspirations of the people. Under such systems, every affirmation of faith or of theology is subordinated to a political criterion.

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April 16th, 2014, Moscow, Verona. Nine Russian writers had a one-week journey to Italy, arranged by Banca Intesa, the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and the non-profit Association Conoscere Eurasia.  The journey is aimed at fostering of economic and cultural relations between Russia and Italy. The travel route covered the Veneto region in the North of Italy.

The participants of the journey are writers who contributed significantly to literature, literary awards prizewinners and authors whose works were translated into Italian: Sergey Belyakov, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Andrey Volos, Maya Kucherskaya, Nina Litvinets, Evgeny Popov, Olga Slavnikova, Alexey Slapovsky, Anna Yampolskaya.

Seeking for inspiration for the future publications the Russian writers could plunge into the beauty of the Veneto region having enjoyed the sights of Verona, Venice, Vicenza, Merano, Bolzano, Sabbioneta, Mantova and the largest lake in Italy Grada at the root of Alps.

“Culture is the core of the dialogue between the nations, and it helps us to participate in the social and economic development of the country. The in-depth understanding of the role of culture in the international relations determines Banca Intesa and the Association Conoscere Eurasia to support the cultural exchange between Russia and Italy on top-level. Last year on our invitation nine Italian writes visited Russia and now the Russian writers follow this tradition of mutual exchange of expertise and creative ideas. As the destination point we chose the Veneta region which truly exposes the Italian cultural originality”, - Chairman of the Board of directors of Banca Intesa Antonio Fallico said.

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Digital Radio Figures On A High Thanks to Car Sales

Digital Radio Figures On A High Thanks to Car Sales

Almost 100,000 new vehicles have been sold with digital radios DAB+, according to the 2014 Digital Radio Report form Commercial Radio Australia (CRA).

Additionally, digital radio listening is at an all time high with 21.4% or almost 2.8 million people tuning in each week in the five metropolitan capital cities alone.

The report shows extensive growth of digital radio in vehicles, with 16 different Australian vehicle brands now offering DAB+ as either standard or an option.  The number of vehicle brands has doubled in Australia since 2013 when only eight manufacturers supported DAB+ digital radio, and progress is expected to continue with 26 vehicle manufacturers internationally offering DAB+.

In the five years since the launch of DAB+ digital radio in metropolitan Australia, research shows consumer awareness and sales continue to outperform expectations.  Nearly 1.7 million (1.677 million) digital radio devices have been sold and when combined with the 100,000 vehicles with DAB+ and the 2.8 million people listening each week, PwC have reforecast digital radio household penetration to 23.3%.

The commercial radio industry continues to drive awareness of digital radio in the five cities with the launch of an extensive outdoor billboard and bus side campaign, plus a series of three new Father’s Day radio ads playing on 42 metropolitan radio stations.

Commercial Radio Australia chief executive officer, Joan Warner said: “Five years on Australians are embracing digital radio.  Listening to live, local radio in the car is important to our listeners and the number of vehicles sold with a DAB+ digital radio is an outstanding result, showing great support from the automotive industry in Australia.”

The 2014 Digital Radio Industry Report is the fifth report compiled by CRA and includes data from the official radio industry audience measurement survey provider, GfK, plus information from GfK’s consumer electronics market research division, market research organisation the Hoop Group, and updated tracking of household penetration forecast from PwC.

The report includes sections on why broadcast digital radio is important, consumer attitudes, progress on integration into mobile phones and an update on uptake internationally.  The key findings are:

  • Nearly 100,000 vehicles sold with DAB+ and now available in 16 Australian vehicle brands.
  • 2.8 million people or 21.4% are listening to DAB+ digital radio each week in the five state capital cities.
  • Nearly 1.2 million more people listen to DAB+ digital radio than radio on internet.
  • 1.8 million digital radio devices sold (includes the 100,000 vehicles).
  • Australian household penetration of DAB+ is tracking ahead of forecast at 23.3%

Ms Warner said: “All the radio industry – commercial and ABC and SBS – support digital radio and listeners are embracing the technology.  We are currently approaching the Federal Government to discuss commencing planning for the rollout of digital radio into regional Australia so that all Australians can receive the many benefits of digital radio.”

The new Father’s Day radio ads produced by radio specialists Eardrum, offer 30% off all Bush DAB+ digital radios at Dick Smith, plus highlight digital radio is free-to-air and includes at least 20 extra digital radio stations available in each city.

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Certificate Security in the Wild West

Self-Policing Does Not Equal Security or Best Practice

The breach at Netherlands-based DigiNotar, which is now known to have lingered for several weeks, could have been avoided. [See Certificate Breach: 3 Lessons.]

No one wants to admit the flaws in the process used by browsers to verify trust in certificate issuers like DigiNotar, VeriSign and Comodo, which in March also suffered a breach.

The more abstract you are from the Web browser to the root CA, the more people there are that can be compromised.

But the system clearly is flawed, and not just for the fundamental security gaps that the DigiNotar incident revealed. The system is flawed because it is disjointed and unregulated. In short, it's the Wild West.

DigiNotar declared bankruptcy soon after news of its breach hit the street in late August. Though recent speculation suggests DigiNotar's parent, Illinois-based Vasco Data Security, took the breach as an opportunity to close an already-struggling business unit, the bottom line is that once the trust was gone, no one was going to do business with DigiNotar.

"For a CA company, your whole business is based on issuing certificates that browsers trust," says Mike Smith, an online security expert at Akamai. "If all the browsers take the CA certificate out of their lists, then any certificate that DigiNotar signs will not be recognized by the browser. So, why would I get a certificate from you if it doesn't work anywhere?"

But here's the deeper question: Why are these browsers and CAs self-policing themselves? Should there not be some body charged with overseeing how these certificates are issued and by whom, especially when so much private and personally identifiable information about consumers, corporations and government entities is at risk?

In the DigiNotar case, an independent audit conducted by IT security firm Fox-IT determined more than 530 counterfeit certificates were issued with common names like Google, Skype, Microsoft, blog-provider Wordpress, Equifax, Mozilla, CA Thawte and WindowsUpdate. With Google and Skype, it seems logical to assume hackers tried to infiltrate Gmail e-mail accounts and even listen to calls made via Skype. And names such as and WindowsUpdate could be used to issue malicious software.

That's pretty scary, especially since browsers don't question certificates that appear to come from issuers they trust.

Here's the other problem: No one really knows how many certificate entities are out there. In the certificate space, intermediate CAs, often called registration agents, and root CAs, like DigiNotar, are listed as the official issuers of certificates and float around with equal yet divergent authority.

Intermediate CAs don't necessarily follow the same accepted best practices as root CAs. For instance, an intermediate CA could make a change or issue a certificate without notifying the root CA. And intermediates can create their own intermediates. It's truly an entangled mess, that, as Smith puts it, leads to an "abstraction of trust between the browser and the root."

So, certificates can be created without a check, depending on the level of the CA. "That's how this whole class of attack works," Smith says. "I go to somebody who doesn't actually check to see that the entity requesting the certificate does in fact own," for instance.

The good news is that the DigiNotar incident could lead to stricter policies regarding intermediate CAs. "Nobody really knows how many of those there are out there, and that's part of our problem," Smith says. "And nobody really knows how many of these intermediate CAs were allowed to generate additional intermediates. ... The more abstract you are from the Web browser to the root CA, the more people there are that can be compromised."

This is why some policing from a single authority, like ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, could help.

Whether that's a task ICANN or some other entity plans to take on ... well, we'll see. In the meantime, continued self-policing among browsers and root and intermediate CAs is likely the best we can expect.

Yet, with so much security and privacy on the line, is the "best" really good enough?

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The education of women and girls is the key to the future of Africa, a survivor of violent atrocities in Uganda and a former nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize insisted.

Jolly Okot-Andruville spent parts of two days telling her story—and recounting the plight of civil war-ravaged central Africa—to members of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas.

“I grew up in northern Uganda … in a strong Christian home,” Okot-Andruville said. “My father was a choirmaster, and I taught Sunday school from age 12. It was very peaceful. We could travel almost anywhere the way we wanted.”

But that peace didn’t last. Fueled by tribal and regional conflicts and intensified by government corruption, civil war broke out in Uganda in 1986.

“I was in high school, thinking about my big dream. I wanted to become manager of a big company,” she recalled. Instead, rebels captured her as she walked home from school, and they forced her to join them.

Forced to kill

“I had an AK-47” assault rifle, she said. “My ‘job’ mainly was to collect money from people, to collect food from people.” The rebels also forced their captive soldiers to kill people they knew. “That was the system they used to make you not even think of going home,” she explained.

“During the day, you were a soldier. At night, you were being raped by different commanders.”

After two years, Okot-Andruville escaped and returned to her family. The rebels targeted her father for execution, but she covered him with her body, and they did not shoot. Still, they abducted him, and she heard they scheduled him to be killed.

Two nights later, she and a cousin took their rifles and rescued him. The next night, they began walking to a Catholic mission, where they sought refuge.

Later, rebels ambushed a bus on which they were traveling. “Everyone riding on top of the bus was killed,” she reported. “My father and I survived. We were left for dead because we were soaked in (the victims’) blood.”

When the rebels linked Okot-Andruville to her father’s escape and realized the pair still were alive, they killed 21 of her cousins. “My father said he wished he had died,” she said, but she determined God spared her for a purpose.

Helping others

Okot-Andruville returned home and completed her education. She went to work for organizations whose mission is to help the weakest and most vulnerable Africans—the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, OxFam, Doctors Without Borders and InterAid International.

She gained international attention for helping found Invisible Children, an organization that helps children who also had been abducted. Many of them had been kidnapped by the infamous Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony, who started a rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army—child soldiers forced to abduct other children, whom Kony trades to the government of Sudan in exchange for weapons.

Okot-Andruville’s commitment to protect and educate children led to her nickname, “Mama Jolly,” pronounced Jo-Lee. It also earned her the Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2005. “I did not know what the Nobel Peace Prize was,” she said with a laugh.

Later, she founded WEND (Women Empowerment Network and Design) Africa, a nonprofit that helps other women who have been abducted—most of them as children—during 30 years of civil war.

Many of the women were held for 10 years or more, she said. Yet they still are young.

“Their children have no fathers,” because they are the result of repeated rapes by rebel commanders, she explained. Upon their return to Uganda, the women and children live with stigma because of the atrocities that mark their lives.

Blessed … and blessing

“I feel blessed. I went back to school. I am alive. The only scars I have are a bullet wound on my leg and a memory,” Okot-Andruville said. “For them, they have a permanent scar; they have children against their will. They are in their mid-20s and early 30s and younger. I must help them.”

She begins by teaching them to read and write, and then helping them learn a trade. Most are tailors, but they cannot compete with established tailors. So, they make bags, which she sells on frequent trips to the United States.

Okot-Andruville currently works with 13 women, “but there are hundreds” who suffer the same plight, she said.

Selection for the WEND program is need-based in a sea of need.

“I choose women by their level of vulnerability—how high their traumas are, how many children they have, and how capable they are,” she explained. “I cannot solve all the problems, but the little I can give makes a difference.”

The rehabilitation WEND provides builds on a spiritual base, she said. “We emphasize Christian values, and we let them work.” She also teaches microfinance, which empowers the women to provide for themselves when they leave the program. And in addition to making the bags, they also farm.

She also helps the women’s children get an education. School is not free in Uganda, but their bag business provides funding to place the children in schools.

The women in Okot-Andruville’s program have overcome their former stigma, she said. “This particular group of women I work with are considered successful, because they earn money,” she explained. “Their children go to the best schools in northern Uganda.” She makes certain the children attend schools where their background is not known, so they are not branded as the offspring of rape by rebel commanders.

While Okot-Andruville has helped 1,800 women and supported their 4,500 children in school, many more suffer, she acknowledged.

Africa needs education

“The challenge is lack of education. Women are not educated,” she said. “The reason Africa is suffering is women are not educated. Less than 1 percent of them have received education through high school. They live on less than $3 per month.”

Their poverty makes them susceptible to corrupt politicians, who buy their votes for salt and soap and whose corruption perpetuates the cycle, she stressed.

WEND’s biggest need is “to help hundreds of kids finish their education,” she said. Her dream is to found a model school that offers high-quality education for students whose parents can afford to pay. The tuition for every 10 children would provide a scholarship to support an 11th child whose family cannot afford school.

“Education is power,” Okot-Andruville said. “I have seen girls who had no shoes. They got education, and now they are doctors.”

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Ihe quality of pain can be characteristic of different etiologies. Visceral or splanchnic pain is colicky and caused by distention of a hollow viscus or stretching of a ligament. Examples include distention of the fallopian tube in ectopic pregnancy, uterine contractions in dysmenorrhea, and stretch of the round ligament with adhesions or in pregnancy. Peritoneal or somatic pain is sharp and localized to the region of inflamed tissue, as in salpingitis, appendicitis, and endometritis. Generalized peritonitis may be seen with larger degrees of inflammation, i.e., with spillage of blood, pus, or gastrointestinal (GI) contents into the peritoneal cavity.

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Small businesses are often in a position to innovate – they just need to find the time, says James Welch.

Small business owners often cite lack of time and low-quality employees for the reason that they have little time for innovation – and large companies love it.

Why do large companies love it? Because if small business owners continue to ‘not have enough time’ to innovate, then the chances of small businesses creating new products and services that challenge an industry’s status quo are greatly lessened.

While larger companies can spend great amounts on innovation departments and consultants, they still struggle to match the sheer creativity and innovative thoughts that a lack of resources and concentrated passion can muster. For myriad reasons including innovation’s great enemy, bureaucracy, the vast majority of larger companies just don’t have the makeup, urgency or desperation to become truly innovative, despite how much they may exalt how innovative they are in marketing communications. Small businesses should be taking advantage of this.

Innovation strategies or innovation behaviours?

What many large companies say internally is that they need an innovation strategy, where in reality they need to adopt innovative behaviours – and encouraging several hundred, or several thousand staff to adopt innovation behaviours is a very hard task indeed. In most cases it’s a non-starter and so an innovation team – and often consultants – are brought into the business to ‘do innovation’.

As you can imagine, a well-salaried staff in an innovation department could be a very articulate, intelligent bunch of people, but the urgency and lack of finances that can help to drive innovative thoughts is not usually present, meaning that the time to create innovative products or services is usually severely extended. This extension of time and resources can encourage leaders and staff within a large company to think that the innovation team add very little to the business and ponder just how useful an innovation team actually is.

However, a small business owner asking 2-100 staff to adopt innovation behaviours is a much easier task, of course, which is why and where small business owners should see several ways for them to take advantage of being small and nimble. In fact, ‘nimble’ is a very powerful word that is not used anywhere near enough by small businesses when pitching against larger companies – and being ‘nimble’ really comes into effect when innovating.

Innovation near misses

Within a small business, salespeople will know what the requirements and needs are of customers and potential customers, marketing staff will see that complimentary services and extra channels could be the way to greater business and engineers or those ‘on the ground’ will see ways that technology can help. Add to this the gut instinct of the small business leader and this can become a way to innovate in rapid-quick time.

But…if innovation behaviours are not encouraged by small business leaders and not adopted by staff, then many innovative thoughts and ideas by staff within a business become missed opportunities as they never meet the thoughts or ideas of others – often between people that work just a few feet away from each other.

Let’s just make clear what the last two paragraphs are saying; even in small businesses, where people work very closely with each other every day, and even socialise together outside of work, innovative ideas, without innovation behaviours being put in place by management, have a huge chance of not meeting other innovative ideas and encouragement and therefore often stay somewhere between the originator’s brain and an overlooked piece of paper.

There are genuine tragedies happening in thousands of small businesses today in the UK because there is no way to capture innovative thoughts – a lack of innovation behaviours.

Ingredients for innovation behaviours

For innovation behaviours to become commonplace, according to PwC, these ingredients are needed: the right organisational culture, strong business leadership, creativity, willingness to adapt and the ability to capture ideas.

It is very hard to disagree with PwC’s ingredients and upon adoption of them, most small businesses fail at ‘capturing ideas’ more than any other. The other ingredients are quite commonplace albeit in differing quantities.

A company culture can be ‘whipped up’ by the exciting sounds made by management and key employees when talking about innovation, yet letting innovation run wild and free among employees without recording ideas, meetings, processes and prototypes can leave a staff deflated after their efforts have seemingly come to nothing – and that’s the problem with innovating – you could be creating the world’s best, or indeed worst, product, but if you don’t record your ideas, actions and processes, then no one will know either way!

Here’s the thing: large companies are good at this part (capturing ideas), but are not as good as small businesses at the other parts (actually coming up with some great ideas and having a team that can work together with passion to make them a reality).

Small businesses listen! It’s easier for a small business to learn how to capture ideas than for a larger company to build nimble, passionate teams.

And guess what? The small businesses that learn how to capture ideas make lots of money or get bought out and the larger companies that learn how to build passionate teams make lots of money too. Think of all those breakout small businesses that get bought for millions, and the large companies that continue to diversify and break new markets – this is because they have the right mix of ingredients.

Create a small business that adopts innovation behaviours

Create a small, eclectic innovation team. There have been several studies that indicate that many, if not most, innovations come from outside of an industry – or from people who do not know a particular product or competitors within a sector. This means that Jane from accounts could be the catalyst for your company’s greatest ever product. Instead of creating an innovation team of product specialists, mix the team up with people from marketing, accounts, administration, graphic design and so on.

Remove roadblocks for innovation teams. Roadblocks can come in the form of historical company rules such as stationery ordering systems, or protocols for purchasing tools (physical or web applications) – and the very worst roadblocks, people. You know the guy that always moans when he has to do something, or says things like ‘that isn’t my job’ – don’t include him in your innovation team and NEVER require things from him during an innovation project. If you think he is hard to work with in normal working practices, just wait until he knows its for the ‘stupid innovation thing’.

Just one metric – updates. Undertaking your first innovation project can be worrying. There are bills to pay and work to get done, so not having a numerical metric too adds to the worry. But persevere, and very quickly you will know whether the team assembled for the innovation project is adding great value to the company, or indeed is using it as a time to slack off. Require that one person from the innovation team is in charge of recording every meeting, idea, process, prototype and everything in between. Whilst you should not require ‘War and Peace’, bullet points will not suffice when the innovation team/project will almost certainly become a point at a board meeting or perhaps a management meeting. As innovation projects progress, you will adapt updates and include metrics that suit, but for your first few projects, just detailed text updates are suffice.

‘Quick and Dirty’ does it. An annoying (and particularly deathly) trend in many businesses is ‘analysis paralysis’. The reason why it’s so annoying is that it becomes the norm in so many businesses and they don’t see it in place as it’s happening. Several meetings per problem/issue becomes the norm and time runs much more slowly in businesses with this horrible defect. Find me one person that argues that analysis paralysis is the right way to do business. I didn’t think so.

To counteract analysis paralysis, testing things fast and cheaply should be encouraged. What something looks like, or feels like should not be of concern, especially in early testing. Something fails? Good. On to the next test. If a small business leader can incorporate quick and dirty testing where failure is not chastised but understood to be a step along the way, then, with the other behaviours listed here, innovation success is so much more closer than before.

There’s something worse than a small business that doesn’t innovate: a small business that communicates that it’s innovative but is nothing of the sort. Your small business should have the component parts for innovation success. It has entrepreneurialism, creativity, it has dedicated staff, it has concentrated passion. Add to this innovation behaviours to encourage improvement of your products, services and/or internal operations and you’ll be way in front of other businesses large and small when it comes to discovering the next innovation in your industry.

Source: James Welch is chief innovator at the Innovation Company

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Alan Mayhew and Ed Attenborough

The interview with Alan Mayhew and Ed Attenborough was carried out on 20th June 2011. The interviewer and Ed Attenborough were at the BDA Headquarters while Alan Mayhew was at home and contributed over the telephone.

Alan Mayhew trained with John McLean at the Dental School at Guy’s Hospital from 1942 – 1947 and later worked in hospital dentistry. Alan Mayhew established a maxillofacial unit by the Wessex Regional Hospital Board based in Southampton. Alan is also a past president of the BDA Hospitals Group, Chairman of the Postgraduate Medical and Dental Federation and Chairman of the BDA Wessex Branch.

Ed Attenborough is the Managing Director of Attenborough Dental and a past president of the BDTA. Ed’s father studied with Alan Mayhew and John McLean at Guy’s.

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  • Introduction of acrylic resin
  • Second World War
  • Establishing a practice
  • Porcelin jacket crowns
  • Professional achievements
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