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    From the first time you set foot in Leeds you will be amazed at the vibrancy and energy that flows throughout this modern Northern city. With a world famous university, a young population and an exciting rage of cafes, restaurants and nightlife, Leeds is a city that welcomes you with open arms and immerses you into its local population and culture.

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One of England’s great cities, Leeds has grown from its industrial past into a city reinventing itself for the 21st century.

With a rich Victorian heritage and an easily walkable compact city centre offering an irresistible mixture of old and new provides an ideal environment for exploration, which coupled with amazing attractions, some of the best shopping in the UK and an outstanding range of galleries, means there’s plenty for visitors to sink their teeth into.

Leeds boasts many visitor attractions, many of which offer free entry.

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The Royal Armouries, Britain’s national museum of arms and armour and Keeper of the history of the Tower of London, features more than 75,000 items from around the world. And the Thackray Museum of medicine, located in one of the most impressive Victorian buildings in Leeds, is another popular attraction.

The Henry Moore Institute is an award-winning exhibition venue on the Headrow in the city centre’s cultural hub. It is a modern extension to the City Art Gallery, which houses a fine collection of work by 19th and 20th century British artists, including Turner, Spencer and Constable.

One Yorkshire location that inspired Turner is Kirkstall Abbey. Set in a park on the banks of the river Aire, this is one of the most complete examples of a medieval Cistercian Abbey in Britain. Across the road is the Abbey House museum, which recreates Victorian Leeds and gives an insight into monastery life.

Housed in what was once the world’s largest woollen mill, the Leeds Industrial Museum tells the story of manufacturing in the area, exploring the often harsh conditions in the textile, printing, engineering and locomotive industries for which the area is famous.

Known as the ‘Knightsbridge of the north’, Leeds is famous for shopping.

The centre of the city has largely been pedestrianised making it easy to get around. The Victoria Quarter, home to more than 70 major designer brands, is a restoration of the old Victorian arcades blended with new features, including a magnificent stained glass roof and three stunning mosaic floor panels.

For a more authentic experience, nearby Kirkgate Market, birth place of the Marks and Spencer Empire, is one of Europe’s largest indoor markets, with traders that go back generations, offering everything from food and drink to flowers, fashion, hardware and haberdashery.

Leeds has a large student population so there is plenty of nightlife with a range of pubs, clubs, bars, and live music venues.

The Leeds Arena, which opened in 2013, has become a popular venue for indoor sports, live music and other events. And Roundhay Park, one of the largest city parks in Europe with over 700 acres of parkland, lakes, woodland and gardens, is also a venue for major concerts.Sport lovers can catch a football match at Elland Road the home of Leeds United or watch cricket or rugby at Headingley Stadium, home to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

And Leeds is also well-served for theatres: home to four outstanding theatres, it is one of the only cities outside of London to boast its own opera house and ballet company; Opera North and Northern Ballet.  Whether it’s a musical at The Grand, ballet at West Yorkshire Playhouse, comedy at the Carriageworks or the charming City Varieties Music Hall or a world famous super star at the first direct Arena; there is a show for everyone.

Leeds is surrounded by beautiful easy-to-reach countryside.

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Go walking in the Yorkshire Dales, the Peak District or visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, an open air gallery featuring works by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. Take a trip to Bronte Country at Haworth, Fountains Abbey, or stately homes such as Temple Newsam and Harewood House; a magnificent 18th Century property with gardens landscaped by Capability Brown.

Leeds presents a diverse calendar of festivals featuring music, international film, food and drink.

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Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero believes Pep Guardiola was right to drop him for their Champions League clash against Barcelona at the Nou Camp. The Argentine star was surprisingly named on the bench for the game in Catalonia but Aguero has insisted he has no qualms with the manager's decision.

Ageuro, 28, revealed he felt like a "bad player" after he missed a penalty while playing for Argentina in a World Cup qualifier in October. The striker, who suffered a calf injury a few days before the qualifier, subsequently found himself on the bench for matches against Everton and Barcelona.

"Being there, the mind is always different, you are thinking of something else," he told Argentine newspaper Ole about the circumstances surrounding his omission against Barcelona. "I arrived at Manchester and I wasn't well so I didn't start against Everton. Pep and I talked about it, that when you come with something in your head, it influences you in the game."

Aguero missed a penalty against the Toffees before he again found himself on the bench for the Barcelona match. Since then, though, he has been restored to Guardiola's first-choice side and is upbeat about his current situation.

"In the end I came on and I missed the penalty again. It was a week to forget," Aguero confessed. "But luckily afterwards everything changed. I could reverse it."

Guardiola's decision to drop Aguero for the crunch clash as the Nou Camp led to speculation that he does not feature in the Spaniard's long-term plans at City. Guardiola, though, has insisted that is not the case.

"When Sergio decides to leave City it will be his decision," the ex-Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager told reporters, as quoted by The Guardian. "Next time you write this, that he is not in my plans, you can call me or Simon [Heggie, City press officer] – you may not have my number but you can call Simon - and we can explain what is the truth."


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The applicant must make a minimum investment of €500,000 in real estate in Portugal to qualify for the Golden Residence Permit (reduced to a minimum of €400,000 if located in a low density area*).

Alternatively, the applicant may invest €350,000 in properties and their renovation (reduced to a minimum of €280,000 if located in a low density area*), subject to the properties:

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“Low density areas” are the NUTS 3 regions having less than 100 inhabitants per square kilometre or a per capita GDP of less than 75% of the national average.

In practice, this seems to apply to the whole of Portugal with the exception of the coastal areas south of the River Lima and north of the River Sado.

The map opposite (which you can click to enlarge) shows the area that does not qualify as “low density” according to the most recent data supplied by INE, the national statistics institute (2013/2014).

The islands of Madeira and Azores are also excluded from the “low density areas”.

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SINGAPORE – JUNE 17, 2003 – Financial Insights, an IDC Company, today announced it is further expanding its technology research and advisory services into Asia/Pacific, strengthening its global research with enhanced local coverage on the financial services market in Asia/Pacific. Financial Insights has appointed IDC analyst Douglas Jaffe as research manager to lead its Asia/Pacific research and advisory services in Singapore and released a new report exploring wealth management in Asia/Pacific.

Douglas Jaffe has extensive experience working in the Asia/Pacific financial services market, having worked closely with banks, vendors, regulatory authorities and government bodies. Mr. Jaffe’s expertise extends across numerous financial services areas, including channel strategies, Internet banking, ePayments, CRM, IT investment opportunities and wealth management.

Financial Insights' new report on wealth management is the first in a series of reports about the development of wealth management services in Asia/Pacific. In the report, titled "Wealth Management in Asia/Pacific: Emerging Strategic Models," analysts Jaffe and Shaw Lively highlight the emergence of two delivery models – one that leverages the Internet and another that is primarily advisor-centric.

"Financial Insights is committed to providing our financial services clients not just global perspectives, but valuable regional perspectives on the technology issues impacting them today," said Michon Schenck, COO, Financial Insights. "Our recent expansion into Canada – and now Asia/Pacific with the appointment of a locally-based industry expert like Douglas Jaffe – significantly strengthens our ability to deliver the most comprehensive research within the financial services industry to help them succeed."

In addition to the new report on wealth management, Financial Insights has published several other research reports specific to the Asia/Pacific region, including many authored by Mr. Jaffe at IDC. Recent reports include:

"Dual-Interface Smart Cards: An Opening for Banks in Europe and Asia-Pacific?" – explores how dual-interface cards may give banks access to the contactless smart card market.

"How Should Local Banks Compete in the SME Sector" – looks at opportunities for banks in Asia Pacific to expand their presence in the SME Sector.

"Asia/Pacific ATM Trends" – looks at automated teller machine (ATM) trends in Asia Pacific within the broader retail banking environment.

"Asia/Pacific Internet Banking Forecast" – offers forecasts on Internet banking growth and comparisons across eight key markets in Asia Pacific.

Launched in January following IDC’s acquisition of Meridien Research in November 2002, Financial Insights offers comprehensive technology research and advisory services across the financial service industry, including:

Retail Financial Services – Led by Bill Bradway, co-founder of Meridien Research who has over 30 years of financial services experience as a consultant/researcher and a bank executive, the Retail Financial Services practice provides research and consulting services across four areas: Payment, Channels, Customer Strategies and Wealth Management. Core segments include legacy systems, core processing, technology convergence and custom

Capital Markets – Led by Deborah Williams, co-founder of Meridien Research and a well-known global expert in risk management technology,the Capital Markets practice advises clients on all aspects of risk management and trading technologies. Extensive coverage includes credit, market and operational risk, the electronic trading market and buy-side technologies. Core segments include market data, back office applications, portfolio management and technology convergence.

Corporate Banking – Also led by Deborah Williams, the Corporate Banking practice provides research and advisory services on treasury management, wholesale payments, trade finance and small business banking. Core segments include commercial lending, transaction processing and secure data delivery.

Earlier this month, Financial Insights appointed James Sharp to lead its Canadian research efforts. An Introductory briefing was recently held in Toronto to announce the regional service.

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Why Is New Zealand Experiencing Powerful Earthquakes At The Moment?

The epicenter of the 7.8M quake, along with the intensity of the seismic waves radiating outwards. USGS

A subduction zone-style earthquake is what was thought to cause the tsunami that struck the eastern coastline, as only this type of fault – where one slides down over another – can move so much water as to cause a tsunami.

Waves reached a height of 2 meters (6.6 feet). For comparison, the tsunami that hit Japan’s eastern seaboard in 2011 were up to 39 meters (128 feet), so things could have been far worse.

The event took place across an area of about 12,000 square kilometers (4,633 square miles), and was felt particularly strongly in Christchurch – still recovering from the devastating 2011 event – and Wellington.

“I was on the third level of my flat when I felt the earthquake,” Dr Manda Safavi, a scientific advisor to the Environmental Protection Authority in Wellington, told IFLScience. Describing the “continuous aftershocks,” she said that “this has been the longest twenty-four hours of my life.”

Some unfortunate cows were stranded after the primary earthquake caused a few landslides. Associated Press via YouTube

Destroying plenty of infrastructure, and even cutting off the town of Kaikoura through landslides, it was the most powerful quake in the region since 1929. Disconcertingly, the location of the earthquake may mean that the danger will not be over for some time.

“Because of the complexity of this plate boundary region, strain is being accommodated on many different structures of varying orientations, making it possible that more than one fault may be activated in this earthquake sequence,” the USGS said in a statement.

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Disturbing video footage of what appears to be a public flogging in southern city of Bushehr, in which a young man lying flat face down on a sort of bedframe emerged on March 2.

According to eyewitnesses, not only the young victim, but the commuters including children were brutalized and degraded by the experience.

A bystander says: “For the first time in my life I witnessed such a scene. I’m sorry for the kids that they were going through and were scared seeing the scene. I was surprised how they take off a man’s clothes in the city square while the same officers would warn men against wearing shorts in the summer!”

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Loonie sinks to three-year low against US dollar

The Canadian dollar has weakened today despite signs of labour market improvement, as the currency continues to be hampered by worries over economic growth and low inflation.

By mid-afternoon in New York, USD/CAD had risen 0.06%, heading for a third successive weekly gain, and after going as high as 1.0709 earlier in the session, the weakest the Canadian dollar has been against its US counterpart since the first half of 2010.

Statistics Canada announced today that the unemployment rate remained at 6.9% in November, its lowest since 2008, while 21,600 jobs were added to Canadian payrolls, up from 13,200 in October and much higher than had been expected. Many of these new jobs were part-time positions, however, with only 1400 full-time jobs added.

The 203,000 increase in US payrolls last month points to an ongoing trend of improvements in the US economy, which should rub off on Canada, as the US is its biggest trading partner.

The Loonie is under pressure though because of concerns over slowing inflation and lack of growth in exports, which have become an issue of focus ever since the Bank of Canada dropped its reference to a need for tightening from its October rate announcement.

The central bank noted in its latest announcement on Wednesday that non-commodity exports continue to disappoint, business investment is slower than anticipated and inflation has moved away from the BOC’s target.

The BOC previously maintained a tightening bias in order to combat elevated household imbalances. Crucially, in its latest statement, the central bank admitted the risks associated with these household imbalances have not materially changed, but it considers the risk of lower inflation to be even greater.

This suggests Canadian monetary policy is unlikely to be swayed by changes in the labour market until we see inflation begin to move back up towards target again.

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Chinese trade balance boosts material names

Asia has been in consolidation mode today, as opposed to displaying continuation of the recent range expansion.

Economic data has been fairly light on the ground today, although the Westpac consumer confidence report in Australia was on the weak side and took some very modest wind out of the AUD’s intra-day sails.

Naturally, efficient market hypothesis suggests markets should be forward-looking, and when you see the spread blow out in the survey between current conditions and expectations to the widest since June 2000, it doesn’t paint a particularly optimistic picture.

Flows around the AUD were fairly lifeless around the Westpac confidence print, but it came alive after China’s January trade balance print blew expectations away. AUD/USD rallied to 0.9062 and looks set to test 0.9079 in the short-term (as I highlighted yesterday).

I suggested looking at EUR/AUD shorts yesterday and that continues to work. The Chinese trade data was super strong, with exports growing 10.6% against expectations of 0.1% and imports growing 10%. This will clearly please the China bulls and certainly isn’t thematic of an economy which is rapidly trying to rebalance and is 23% above the average gain in exports since 2012.

China is rallying modestly today despite the strong trade figures and the fact that JP Morgan put out a note saying they expect a 15-20% bounce in the Chinese market (MSCI China) over the coming weeks.

The rationale the bank gave was premised largely on seasonal factors such as the traditional strength seen in official manufacturing PMI around March and April, and the fact that China’s market is trading on a forward price earnings ratio of 8x (which many are saying is now cheaper than the Turkish market). We’ll have to see how this transcends as this is an index that has been ‘cheap’ for some time. Our Asia-based clients have been fairly sanguine on markets such as the Hang Seng and H-shares of late, however that may change if we see a stronger underlying trend in the mainland markets.

ASX being buoyed by material names

The ASX 200 has been buoyed by gains in the materials space, although the moves in the majority of banks have helped. CSL reported soft revenues and, like I’m sure we’ll see throughout earnings season, if a company is priced for perfection you need to deliver something impressive or the weak longs will take profits.

CBA delivered a strong result, and after spiking to A$76.92, reversed hard. To be fair, this was expected given the hourly chart was so overbought; with the 10-period RSI hitting 88. The failure to close above the 61.8% retracement of the January to February sell-off at A$76.07 has been noted, but shorting bank stocks has been a painful trade for many over the last couple of years. With fair levels of earnings growth, improving bad debts, a strong yield and good short-term trend, this is a name that will be bought on dips, especially with traders likely to buy before it goes ex-dividend on February 17.

BLD and OZL have been the big gainers today and for OZL the result was strong (relative to expectations), however you have to think the upside is capped by the fact they have a limited mine life.

European markets should see a fairly flat open, with US futures doing very little from the cash close. Consolidation looks to be the order the day, although there are a number of companies due to report including Tullow Oil, ING, Total and Societe Generale.

There is very little data due and the highlight will fall on European industrial production, and more importantly, the Bank of England Quarterly Inflation report. Fixed income and currencies traders will be keen to learn whether there are any tweaks to the bank’s forward guidance with regards to the trigger for putting up interest rates.

Traders keen to look out for tweaks to forward guidance from Mark Carney

There is a varied playbook around the various outcomes likely to be detailed from the BoE and the different moves which could transcend in the gilt market, while moves in short sterling futures and sterling itself will be interesting, and the chance of an outright move to a new threshold guidance of 6.5% seems unlikely. A view I feel seems realistic would be to change guidance in-line with the Fed; whereby rates will stay low even if the unemployment rate drops through the threshold or rates are staying low for a long period. Clearly there is still slack in the UK economy and similar to Japan, earnings are still far too low, relative to the level of inflation, and certainly too low to deal with a central bank hiking interest rates.

Traders should also keep an eye on narrative from Fed members Richard Fisher, Jeffery Lacker and James Bullard. However, until we see a new round of US data the market seems fairly au fait with the Fed’s stance, as Janet Yellen and the raft of recent speakers all seem to have fairly shared views with regards to taper and there hasn’t been one Fed speaker who has deviated too far from the mainstream.

This is positive for markets, however, trade today in the US will be interesting given the S&P 500 found strong selling at the 76.4% retracement of 6.1% sell-off in January. If the index clears this level new highs should be seen.

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ASX 200 rallies on rate cut expectations

The price action in equities remains choppy, with investors continuing to react to headline risk out of Europe, US economic data and corporate earnings.

Source: Bloomberg

There were some fairly constructive comments out of Europe with the European Parliament President insisting leaders want to keep Greece in the eurozone. It seems investors are looking at Greece from a glass half-full perspective for a change.

There was also some encouraging data out of Europe which some construed as showing that the region is seeing economic conditions bottom. Additionally, another central bank, this time the Danish, took some action and cut its deposit rate by 15 basis points. This theme of central banks taking action is set to remain the key theme this year and there is growing attention on the Reserve Bank of Australia which meets next week.

US data continues to steam ahead and with unemployment claims dropping to a 15-year low, it is not a surprise the Fed upgraded its language on jobs.

AUD/USD slumps to 2009 levels

AUD/USD continues to head south as the market aggressively reprices rate cut expectations. This week has been topsy-turvy in the swaps market and the drastic shift through the CPI data this week has left many astounded. The swaps market has now shot up to a 69% probability for a cut and this is also being reflected in the AUD’s price action. AUD/USD dropped to $0.7720 and is approaching July 2009 lows at $0.7700. The momentum is overwhelmingly to the downside and the RSI has dropped deep into oversold territory. Due to the fact the pair is already oversold, traders are likely to be looking to sell the pair into strength.

There are no major local releases between today and Tuesday that could significantly shift rate expectations. On the calendar today we have PPI and private sector credit due out. Monday brings commodity prices data but this is already quite well documented given resource companies have reported achieved prices and trade balance numbers have shown details of trade by commodity. China releases manufacturing PMI numbers on Sunday and we are bound to see markets react to this on Monday.

Solid January performance

Ahead of the open we are calling the ASX 200 up 0.7% at 5607. The last time we traded above 5600 was back in September last year and therefore this is quite a milestone. Additionally it would mean we’ve had a fairly solid start to the year with a 2.9% gain for January.

Needless to say, rate cut expectations have been a big driver of the gains we’ve seen this week and we tend to see a ‘buy the rumour sell the fact’ affair when it comes to these situations. As a result, even if we do get a rate cut on Tuesday, the RBA would have to give a strong indication of further cuts in order to keep the momentum going I feel.

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Application of Social Presence Principles to CSCL Design for Quality Interactions

Application of Social Presence Principles to CSCL Design for Quality Interactions

Masanori Yamada (Kanazawa University, Japan) and Yoshiko Goda (Kumamoto University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0137-6.ch003

Social presence is a key approach to activating interactions in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), but its approaches, definitions, and evaluations have not been coherently presented in previous research. This chapter provides practical suggestions and implications regarding CSCL to help motivate social interactions among students and ensure effective and attractive learning. Three major approaches and focuses are discussed first: features of communication media (e.g., Short, et al., 1976); interaction and the learner’s perception of interaction (e.g., Gunawardena & Zittle, 1997; Tu & McIssac, 2002); and learner’s ability (e.g., Garrison, et al., 2000; Garrison & Anderson, 2003). Integration and refinement of the central concepts are then illustrated. Conditions to establish social presence are introduced, using three steps for both individuals and groups: expression, perception, and recognition, which are all applicable to CSCL design. Media features are also explored as determinant factors when promoting social presence in a learning community.
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A trust relationship among members is generally an important factor contributing to smooth communication in a community or group. This is true for communities within the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) As ICT advances and the pedagogical paradigm shifts from teacher-oriented to learner-oriented, interest has grown in using computer networks and social media for collaborative learning. This approach is called Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL).

CSCL is defined as a collaborative learning environment based on a social constructivist approach (Vygotsky, 1978), in which learning is regarded as cognitive change promoted by interaction and activities among group members (King, 2007). Goldman, Digiano, and Chorost (2009) point out the potential of ICT applications to create powerful learning environments that support distributed, interactive, collaborative and constructive learning and learning assessment. Learners benefit from collaborative learning using social media, because electronic collaboration tools provide them with opportunities to solicit and share knowledge while developing common ground or intersubjectivity with their peers and teachers (Hara, Bonk, & Angeli, 2000).

Successful CSCL requires quality interactions; quality interactions need social interaction to establish a group culture, and an exchange of experiences as a foundation for knowledge production (Reneland-Forsman & Ahlbäck, 2007). One of common concerns in CSCL is how to support learners’ social interactions, (i.e., how to best activate collaborations in a learning community). Social presence, an approach intended to resolve this concern, focuses on quality interactions using CSCL structures as a framework.

Social presence is a concept related to one’s perceptions of oneself and others, and to social interactions in a community which could promote a trust relationship and play an important role in promoting CSCL. Social presence was originally defined as the “degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and the consequent salience of the interpersonal relationship” (Short, et al., 1976). Social presence seems to increase the learners’ satisfaction with learning (Gunawardena & Zittle, 1997) and with social interactions, which are the foundation of social learning (Tu, 2000). Garrison and Anderson (2003) redefined social presence as “the ability of participants in a community of inquiry to project themselves socially and emotionally, as ‘real’ people, through the medium of communication being used” and introduced the indicators of social presence such as “self-disclosure” and “quoting from other’s messages.” Social presence is also related to cognitive skills. When social presence is established, cognitive presence, a condition of higher-order thinking and learning, is enhanced and sustained (Garrison & Anderson, 2003). However, there is no consistent agreement on concepts and approaches to social presence among researchers. This is due to the broad diversity of social media, including social software such as Facebook, and Twitter, and to the many mobile devices now available. Further, new research methodology and data analysis methods related to social networks have been introduced, and possible ICT applications to educational settings have been widely expanded in response to research findings and the implications of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) associated with CSCL.

This chapter introduces social presence theory as a framework for the design and application of social software for learning, and organizes conditions to promote social presence in the use of social software in educational settings. The intent is to identify major issues of existing social presence theories and to refine concepts of social presence in ICT learning environments, taking currently available social media tools into consideration. We wish to discuss essential conditions and approaches which foster the establishment of social presence for collaborative learning. This work is intended to help instructional designers and developers refer to the conditions and technologies that promote social presence for quality interactions in CSCL.

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Vassilios S. Verykios (University of Thessaly, Greece)
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The enormous expansion of data collection and storage facilities has created an unprecedented increase in the need for data analysis and processing power. Data mining has long been the catalyst for automated and sophisticated data analysis and interrogation. Recent advances in data mining and knowledge discovery have generated controversial impact in both scientific and technological arenas. On the one hand, data mining is capable of analyzing vast amounts of information within a minimum amount of time, an analysis that has exceeded the expectations of even the most imaginative scientists of the last decade. On the other hand, the excessive processing power of intelligent algorithms which is brought with this new research area puts at risk sensitive and confidential information that resides in large and distributed data stores.

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Hasan Gürkan (İstanbul Arel University, Turkey)
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This study aims to analyse how immigrants become estranged with each other and their own culture together with migration. The sampling of this study consists of film Nachtreise/Night Traveling, 2002 by Kenan Kiliç. This fictional 63 min.-film focuses on a social reality which is named as alienation. This film shows the immigrants' situation and hopelessness as distinct from the other films (by Umut Dag and Hüseyin Tabak). The film by Kenan Kiliç presents immigrants' alienation in their post-migration processes and emphasizes the phenomenon of not belonging to their own culture. The film departs from a binary opposition and makes a reference on one hand to people's alienation and their relations, and consequently to the power, center-periphery relations while referring to social problems such as immigration, moving up into a higher class, financial troubles and unemployment on the other hand. It is clearly from this research that as a result of migration, consumerism, technology and the culture generated by a new society, immigrants become estranged with each other and the society.
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness1 is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates from 1951 to 1961. Though Richard Yates’s first collection of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, is hard to come by, the mere mention of its title is enough to produce quick, affirmative nods from a whole generation of readers. It has become something of a cult book, evoking in one’s memory a series of poignant glimpses into the people’s lives. The stories stand up well to a later reading (Tower, 1981). The present study firstly discusses the novel since it deals with the sadness, solitude, and alienation in the lives of immigrants.

The topic of this study is migration and alienation. Migration can be defined as the process of leaving one country, region or place of residence to settle in another. In other words, migration is a process of social change where an individual, alone or accompanied by others, because of one or more reasons of economic betterment, political upheaval, education or other purposes, leaves one geographical area for prolonged stay or permanent settlement in another geographical area (Bhugra & Bhui, 2001).

It is possible to say that migration is not only a transnational process but is also rural–urban. Any such process involves not only leaving social networks behind but also includes experiencing at first a sense of loss, dislocation, alienation and isolation, which will lead to processes of acculturation. A series of factors in the environment combined with levels of stress, the ability to deal with stress, and the ability to root oneself according to one’s personality traits, will produce either a sense of settling down or a sense of feeling isolated and alienated.

The duration of this settlement varies, however, in line with its main objective the present paper focuses on the individuals who relocate either semi-permanently or permanently to another country and examines a film on migration and alienation, Nachtreise/Night Traveling, by Turkish director Kenan Kılıç. The film is used as a sample in this study. As known film as one of the forms of mass media is also seen as something that has an impact on the audience. The cultural message in every film helps film–makers bring forward certain messages intended to be delivered to the film audience. Therefore, the film is not only elevated as an aspect of art but most important; it is also the medium of conveying effective messages that can be propagated among the society. The film should not be seen from the perspective of art only. The film is a medium of communication for educating the society by conveying a certain message to the public. Moreover, Jowett and Linton (1985: 16) confirmed that the study of film is not just a study of art but the perspective of the film also acts as a mass communication, playing a role as a mass-mediated culture in society.

The film tells the stories about the people who try to live as foreign-born regulars live on the edge of society. The majority are not Austrian citizens, are unemployed and have no financial resources. Their lives hover between legality and illegality, between surviving and wasting away. For a small group of native Turks, this existence represents a transitory phase which will eventually lead to a better life. One of them, Cemo, is unable to carry on in the face of this contradiction between hope and reality. This film is a story that the immigrants, coming from Turkey to Austria, try to survive without a visa, getting a job and a legal status.

Geyer and Heinz (1992) explains alienation as denoting a social or psychological estrangement of individuals from their environment and ultimately from themselves. This estrangement can manifest itself in a variety of ways: as a feeling of powerlessness or lack of agency due to external, often institutional constraints; as a lack of purpose in life caused by the instability of meaning in the social domain; as social exclusion or rebellion against established social norms; and finally, as a decentring and fragmentation of the self, characteristic of late capitalist society.

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Create-Small-Business-BudgetNot having a small-business budget is like driving blindfolded. Sure, you might not have hit any bumps in the road yet. However, to really see where you are, where you’re going, and how your business is performing, you need a detailed, accurate, frequently updated budget. With it, you can watch the scale tipping between income and expenses, make judgment calls on what should be cut, and determine success.

Many small-business owners choose to create a year-long budget. But remember that the more granular you get, the easier it is to find losses and mistakes. As accounting professionals, we know that there are many extraneous details in small-business budgeting. However, here, we’ve listed some basic tips on how to create a business budget:

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The first step in creating a business budget is developing a long, accurate list of business expenses. These expenses can (and should) be organized in two major groups: fixed expenses and variable expenses. Fixed expenses tend to stay the same from month to month or at least change very little. These include operational expenses, such as utility bills, rent, insurance, and loan payments. Variable expenses are different. They tend to fluctuate based on the production output. For instance, if Sally were to sell more cupcakes during July, she’d have bought more flour, a variable expense.

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All the fun of a Dostoievsky novel
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Godard is having fun here (fun is not characteristic of most of his work). He's playing the idiot of Dostoievsky's novel, a director who won't compromise his work. As he did in One plus One with the Rolling Stones, he's working with a band, Les Rita Mitsouko, as they put together the various strands of their new song. I suspect the challenge of constructing watchable material out of the recording studio chaos was the appeal for Godard.

The story is goofy; more like a Pierre Richard slapstick comedy than the intellectual films of the 60's. This must hold the record, for a Godard film, of cameo performances. The only really memorable sequence is on board a plane; with the passengers crammed in their seats and doing lots of shtick, it's a little like Duck Soup.

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Boring with an annoying cast
18 February 2018 | by jake-179See all my reviews

Let me just say upfront, I can't stand Jon Bernthal. The guy is horribly miscast in this show. I find him completely annoying. I hated him as "Shane" on TWD, and I have been annoyed by him in everything he has ever been in, especially "Fury." So, here, we are getting more of the same. He is a goofy looking person that Hollywood is trying to pass off as "Tough looking." It doesn't work and I am not buying it. Further more, who decided to cast Shohreh Aghdashloo? She is horrifying on screen, ESPECIALLY when she speaks. What is going on with her voice? I shouldn't so harsh, I am guessing that she is probably undergoing some kind of extreme steroid medication. I am sorry if she is suffering from a medical condition, but the fact is, this is a TV show and we are trying to be entertained, not distracted by her man voice. The show itself is boring. Simply boring. The characters are boring and they don't have much to do. This might as well be a show about a Marine suffering from PTSD. It doesn't have to be called "The Punisher," unless the aim of the people who create this show is to punish us, the viewers, with boredom. Don't bother with this mess. If you watch, you will just see Bernthal agonizing over the loss of his family. Boring.

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Ramsay Millar

Ramsay Millar is a globally recognized leader and mentor in the areas of closing the gaps between business and technology transformations. He is an expert in leading change and architecting business transformations that involve business architecture, enterprise architecture, business analysis and software development.

Ramsay leads, advises and mentors clients to work smarter and to improve quality and to make a real and lasting difference for business outcomes and technology outcomes.

Ramsay shares his insights by delivering workshops around the globe, offering speaking engagements and through this blog. Ramsay has been involved in successful business and IT outcomes as an early business architecture adopter in since 1989.

Learning about Business Architecture the hard way. - 2017-03-27
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I continually hear the following story from business leaders, "Our organization has recognized that our legacy IT systems are 1) expensive, 2) no longer competitive, 3) not meeting customer needs, 4) not flexible, 5) not able to integrate process and data across business silos, 6) do not provide operational metrics, business intelligence or internet capabilities."

When confronted with this perfect storm the leaders go on to make very costly mistakes by not managing information systems like any other strategic asset. For some reason, they think that buying solutions with the word enterprise in the title is all that is required. The political solution is to allow the business silos to purchase any assembly of solutions sold by enterprise vendors. But lately to my surprise I am hearing a change and a few C‐level managers are beginning to realize that ad hoc COTS solutions have caused increased costs and an increase in pain points, while countless un‐initiated keep stepping up to repeat the ad hoc solutions mistake.

If you ask the Governance, Risk and Compliance VP’s "Were you consulted about governance, risks or metrics related to these massive expenditures?" Or, "What metrics did you design before acquisition to see if these IT investments did meet the desired results?" Or, "Show us the enterprise risk management analysis?" You will be shocked to hear that these massive information system expenditures are very rarely measured, monitored or reported over time.

I call this "Learning about business architecture the hard way. Rapidly procured silo‐based enterprise solutions rarely utilize the skills of the enterprise or business architects. In my view, these organizations have now just missed a rare opportunity to leverage enterprise assets to build flexible and integrated SOA solutions for the future. Architected SOA solutions are highly cost effective and guarantee that an enterprise is on a firm footing to become a player in the next emerging economy.

Organizations need to treat Information and IT expenditures like any other business capability and bring in skilled Business Architects who understand how to leverage architecture frameworks (ie) TOGAF 9 to model the "as is" and "to be." These skilled people look for opportunities and solutions and then confidently perform migration strategy to deploy and build or buy aligned SOA solutions. Business architects are skilled business modelers who use a rigorous fact‐based language. Robust business reference models are available and used by business architects in many industries. These fact‐ based business models are usually a collection of TOGAF 9, OMG BMM, OMG SBVR, OMG UML, Erikson‐ Penker UML business patterns and other toolkits customized to meet the business needs. Without business architecture the best we may hope for is SOA silos. I am interested to hear from you on how you have mapped your SOA silos, or how you are moving to a more holistic view of business architecture to drive information and technology architectures and manage this area as a business capability.
Ramsay Millar

Who develops your Business Architecture? - 2016-11-01
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The third phase of innovation early majority for business architecture and SOA is beginning.

Recently I've read white papers on business architecture, BPM, business rules and SOA. As one of the judges for the Annual BPM Excellence Awards, I reviewed a large number of submissions from leading organizations worldwide. Every year international winners are chosen and a book published containing the papers of both winners and finalists. Last year’s papers were published in Delivering BPM Excellence.

Following my review I was left with a strong impression of the rapid growth towards transforming business models using business architecture and SOA. These diverse papers demonstrated a growing success well supported by a reputable body of consultants, best practices and tools which have risen to the challenge.

As the market, always searching for cost savings and increased revenues, realizes the stunning ROI and business benefits then we may have a new problem. Where do we find the analysts required to develop business architecture and transform business models needed to to develop aligned SOA solutions?

Who will help us to transform outmoded business models and move us toward effective service-centered business models that use customer driven business processes, agile business rules, operational metrics and business intelligence? I predict a rapidly growing shortage of skills in this field.

Recently I attended the international Building Business Capability (BBC 2011) conference. The conference is designed to help senior practitioners learn about innovative, state-of-the-art techniques from world-class practitioners. The BBC 2011 conference nearly doubled in attendance despite difficult economic times.

Those who attended BBC 2011 are the people who articulate, model and transform our organizations. They are the silent and humble business analysts who every year find many millions of dollars of revenue opportunities and operational savings. They are the quiet strategists, thinkers and analytical people who work for smart organizations that get it.

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  • The Business Analysis Forum – The official conference of International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). A cross-specialty conference for all aspects of business analysis chaired by by Kathleen Barrett, President of the IIBA.
  • The Business Rules Forum – Dedicated to Business Rules and Decisioning. Focused on how organizations can come to grips with rapid change, massive customization, and compliance in a truly scalable, traceable, manageable manner, chaired by Gladys Lam, Ronald Ross Business Rules Solutions
  • The Business Process Forum – Focused on the bottom line issue of enhancing the capability of process practitioners and business managers to better deliver improved business performance chaired by Roger Burlton, BP Trends.
  • Business Architecture Forum – Business Architecture, Business Analysis, Business Processes and Business Rules figure prominently in the Business Architecture forum co-chaired by the three amigos John Zachman, Zachman International, Ronald Ross, Roger Burlton.

I think we have found out "Where do we find the business analysts required to develop your business architecture". Now how do we find more of these highly valuable people soon?
Ramsay Millar

Thoughts on communicating Business Architecture - 2017-03-27
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Jack Welch, CEO left GE the world’s most valuable company due to his revolutionary management principles. Welch transformed GE from a manufacturing to a service centered business by embracing change and by creating a boundary-less organization with a focus on global communication. Boundary-less organizations understand that traditional boundaries between layers of management (vertical) and divisions between functional areas (horizontal) have stifled the flow of information and ideas.

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What does music and business process modeling have in common? Some of us may have seen a player piano. The songs are played automatically using a scroll of paper with punched holes. The paper role executes a sequence of notes on the piano strings(services). We don’t need to build a new piano for every new song. True agility is using BPMN scripts (constrained by business rules) to play different songs when adapting to change. Workflow diagrams may be used to execute new scenarios. No need to recode software applications for every new or changed song when adopting BPMN/SOA.

What’s the relationship between business models and business rules? Ronald Ross demonstrates a unique clarity and precision on how to speak a fact-based language of business. Check out his new book "Building Business Solutions" to learn more about factual business models. This book carefully steps from business strategy to business solution and then through business process models using externalized business rules to realize compelling business agility.

What’s the connection between Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)? Recently, the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in France predicted that enterprises that do not approach information management, in a coordinated manner, will fail in the first or second year at a rate of more than 90%. Based upon insights that EBA may solve risk (GRC) pain points we recently delivered briefings and listened to nearly forty GRC VP’s from fortune 100 companies. Our briefing was on leveraging EBA and GRC using frameworks like the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), OMG (BMM, SBVR, BPMN and UML Business Modeling) using repository tools to manage knowledge modeling, traceability and reporting. What we found was a surprising resonance using EBA/GRC and SOA to solve the risk (GRC) pain points when applied to solution architecture assets. You may wish to communicate with your GRC people.

Who may help us to model and communicate the business model? Business Analysts are now developing their capabilities because of the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) and the BABOK framework. Finally, Enterprise Business Architects are rapidly evolving their book of knowledge thanks to the Business Architecture Guild.
Ramsay Millar

The Business of Business Analysis - 2016-03-01
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How has the role of the business architect changed for the enterprise?

Enterprise Business Architecture

Business architecture practice traces back many years but practice leaders like myself are growing increasingly concerned that an open practice of business architecture is not maturing quickly enough to meet the insights of our business leaders and growing business demands.

Business enterprises, private and public, are operating in volatile times of instant communications, increasing automation, regulation changes, financial challenges, cyber security threats and demands for business flexibility. Business models are at risk. All of this is occurring against a backdrop in the US market with a shortage of 2.6 million knowledge workers. Labor analysts claim that the job of business analyst rates 11th in demand during a poor economy.

Business architecture involves "things" of interest to a business enterprise. Business architects take a holistic or systems thinking approach toward business solutions and do not throw technology at everything. Business models are very complex and multi-dimensional like (who, when, what, how, where, and why). Business architecture must address stakeholder concerns, capabilities, metrics, risk, business events, business processes, business rules and business services just to name a few.

Business architects demonstrate a unique ability to simplify and communicate terse business models. For example, I attended a talk at BBC 2012 named "Business Architecture Trends and Methods" presented by Andrew Guitarte, a gifted business architect. He shared valuable trends and methods practiced by Wells Fargo Bank.

More pragmatic books are now available "Business Architecture – A practical guide" by Whelan and Meaden. This book makes it easier to bring this important practice out of the cloud of words.

Business architecture practice is in the early adoption phase but at conferences like BA World 2012, BBC 2012 audiences are filling rooms to capacity. There is strong demand to learn more. Business architecture consultants/speakers are in high demand as I witnessed during my own presentations on "Business Architecture" at BA World 2012.

At no other time do we need to know the benefits of an open, more widely accepted business architecture practice than now. Who is developing a shared and open practice? Here are the tribes of business architecture worth watching in 2013.

Business Architecture Innovation Summit 2013 – Co-Sponsored by Object Management Group Business Architecture Special Interest Group & the Business Architecture Guild present a two-day practitioner-focused event. The Business Architecture Innovation Summit will feature business practitioners from industry and government to share stories about how they deployed business architecture in their organizations.

Building Business Capability 2013 – The BBC 2012 Business Architecture Forum was attended by gurus like Zachmann, Burlton, Ross & Silver to name a few. I also witnessed a wide array of high caliber speakers and papers. Growing at 40% every year BBC 2013 will be better than ever.

The Open Group, TOGAF 9, has contributed strong works on business transformation and business architecture semantics helping SOA to align with and serve business architectures. Conferences and books have strong support from business and public business leaders. What will TOGAF 10 contribute going forward?

Let’s watch how these tribes collaborate and work together to develop an open business architecture practice and standards we all need.
Ramsay Millar

Is a Business Architecture Reference model necessary? - 2015-03-01
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Designing an enterprise’s SOA to work with business initiatives is a significant challenge facing SOA projects. Besides web services and SOA implementations we must consider business intelligence from business processes. SOA solutions must deliver business flexibility for rapidly changing processes, business and data rules in a coordinated manner for both people and machines.

Managing business and IT architecture models are strategic business capabilities and they need to be held directly accountable to meet strategic outcomes. Communicating models and working together is how we will be measured in order to realize the dreams of SOA of flexibility, cost savings and profits.

A business model is rewarded through attention to operational excellence. How do we get operational excellence? The service quality movement led by Edward Deming at Toyota, proven in the US by Jack Welch at GE in manufacturing and the lately in the services economy. SOA projects need to resonate with "service quality" practices. We need to explore frameworks for describing semantic business vocabulary models. The OMG Business Motivation Model (BMM) and TOGAF Business Architecture are a good beginning. We need to describe the implied semantic business model using a holistic or systems thinking approach when designing business solutions (a people and machines collaboration view) and avoid continuing SOA project failures.

Recently, I researched for this article using LinkedIn. To read all comments I urge you to join these groups. I posted my question on a number of LinkedIn forums. The most informed discussions, came from The Business Architecture Community, The Open Group, TOGAF for Architecture, and Gartner Enterprise Architecture (Xchange). Business architects wrote emphatically, "yes". I was deluged by excellent comments and in a nutshell.. Here are the main themes I read summarized as follows.

  • "Business architecture reference models provide a holistic picture first to ensure the value created through the SOA projects fits into the big picture and aligns to strategy of business operations and initiatives".
  • "I consider a business reference architecture a key model for any type of project. I use reference architecture to support SOA project as well. All SOA solution blueprints were created based on the reference architecture and used through solution architecture review (governance) process and adjusted throughout the SDLC."
  • "Yes, it is a critical component for SOA projects. Per the Open Group, the enterprise architecture (under which the business architecture is a key pillar) addresses the overall construction of the enterprise."
  • "I agree with those of you who underline the importance of traceability links joining from business capabilities toward SOA components." The TOGAF business architecture meta model needs to evolve and measure impacts of strategic changes (driver, goal, objective). Business capabilities also need to be structured and related to service level agreements (SLAs). At the implementation level we need to see direct linkage from business capabilities and SLAs that are orchestrated by business processes (people and machines).

In closing I found some of the most very good work on integrating business architecture frameworks by Birol Berkem. He recently published at What are your views and concerns?
Ramsay Millar

Acceleration without sacrificing quality - 2011-03-01
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Using best practice techniques and a full life cycle CASE tool to speed up major enterprise business architecture projects without sacricing quality.

Project managers from a major international consulting firm faced tight deadlines for creating an extremely complex public/private sector business and technology solution under very tight deadlines. This new service would provide health insurance services to state citizens, primarily using software and the internet. The business solution of this high-profile service would require seamlessly linking the online public simultaneously with several private-sector partners with real-time access to massive databases hosted in other jurisdictions. This project was under a media microscope from the day it was announced. Reputations were at stake – both for the client and for the contractors.

This case study describes in detail how skilled project managers used a combination of a carefully selected CASE tools best practice techniques, reusable reference models and rigorous team training to accelerate development of the new service. This project acceleration enabled the project team to prevail over short deadlines – building in time to test the system and make adjustments prior to a glitch free launch.
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Wednesday 19 September 2018

Yates tightens his grip on red jersey

Simon Yates of Britain waves after receiving the Red Leader shirt. Photo: AP
Simon Yates of Britain waves after receiving the Red Leader shirt. Photo: AP Sportsdesk

Britain's Simon Yates extended his La Vuelta lead with a strong showing in yesterday's individual time trial on stage 16.

Australia's Rohan Dennis won the 32km race from Santillana del Mar to Torrelavega in 37 minutes 57 seconds - 50 seconds clear of his BMC Racing team-mate Joseph Rosskopf of the United States.

Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) finished 13th, 1min 28secs behind Dennis, but crucially ahead of all bar two of his rivals for the general classification.

Dutch rider Steven Kruijswijk of LottoNL-Jumbo stormed home in fourth, 37secs ahead of Yates, and Spain's Enric Mas (QuickStep-Floors) was sixth, 25secs ahead of the Briton.

But Spain's Alejandro Valverde and Colombia's Nairo Quintana (both Movistar) conceded seven and 42secs to Yates, respectively.

The 26-year-old Bury rider, not renowned for his talent against the clock, has a strong cushion with four days of racing remaining ahead of Sunday's processional stage in the Spanish capital.

"I'm happy with my performance. I extended my lead so as far as I'm concerned it was a very good ride," Yates said. "But we have a long way to go. I'm wary of the coming stages. It's still a long road to Madrid. I'm expecting some hard days. Our rivals are still very close."

Yates now leads from Valverde by 33secs, with Kruijswijk, who had begun the day 1:29 behind, now third, 52secs adrift. Quintana dropped to fourth, 1:15 behind.

Yates can expect his advantage to come under attack in today's hilly 17th stage, the 157km route to the Balcon de Bizkaia in the Basque Country.

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