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BTH Catholic College Expansion Consultation Summary

The consultation evening was attended by 57 people. We received 140 written comments in total.

Out of the 140 comments received:

  • 99 were positive about the need for the additional buildings and expressed a preference for an option.
  • 81 preferred option 3 – building on open space off Urban Road / Welman Way
  • 19 preferred option 2 – building on the existing site in two blocks
  • 12 preferred option 1 – building on the existing site in one block

A number of common themes were expressed by those in favour and those against the proposal.

Consultees in favour of the proposal appreciated the lack of space on the existing site and were against the loss of the main external pupil recreation area and bus waiting area. Pupils were keen on the proposal with least disruption to their studies and residents could see option 3 would be least disruptive to residents in the surrounding roads.

Consultees against the proposal were opposed to the school exceeding their capacity, were opposed to the loss of public open space if the option 3 was chosen, but by far the most concern was raised over the current and future traffic and congestion issues faced by residents due to parent parking, school buses and Sports Academy parking. Residents expressly mentioned the recent sale of Balmoral Car Park which has added to the issues.

Confirmed location

Since the consultation closed on 5 February, Executive Members and Senior Council Officers have considered all the consultation responses and the pros and cons of each location option. After much deliberation it is felt that although Option 3 ticked many boxes, there are legal complexities which create risk that could seriously impact the programme if pursued. Therefore only an onsite option is considered realistically deliverable. The design team is now working on an onsite solution which will be made available at a further consultation evening prior to the submission of a planning application in the next month or so.

Frequently asked questions

The following frequently asked questions and comments have been responded to;

School drop off traffic and parking

Residents’ concerns were around parents parking on surrounding roads often blocking resident’s access to their properties.

Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College has a high number of students who walk or use public transport to travel to school (currently 86%), therefore the number of car journeys made by parents is lower than at most other schools. However, the school are well aware of the issues raised by residents and as part of their Green Flag Eco Schools Plan, they are actively looking to reduce the number of car journeys which will improve the situation as well as reducing the litter on the school site and in surrounding areas.

Depending upon where the building is located during the design phase, the design team will look to see what traffic mitigation measures can be put in place through potential Traffic Regulation Orders to minimise the impact on residents during construction. The design team have already started discussions with the Highways team to look at improving the current situation with the potential for; zig zags, signage, double yellow lines, parking restrictions, one way systems etc. We would look to support highways works after the construction phase.

School buses

Residents were concerned that on site options would involve moving school bus pick up and drop off onto the surrounding roads which would increase traffic at busy times.

The design team are working to contain bus drop off and pickups within the site as far as possible but final plans will be available at the next informal consultation / information evening.

Parking for Sports Academy

Residents had issues with users of the Sports Academy parking on Oakfield Street for several hours instead of using the school car park.

The school and Council have been working with residents to improve the situation since the sale of Balmoral Car Park. The Highways team have installed signage around the area to direct visiting teams to the Sports Academy Parking and the school will make explicit the parking arrangement and improve the signage across the site to guide visitors from the car park to the pitch.

Loss of pupil recreational spaces

Many residents, parents and pupils were concerned over the loss of the two basketball courts if the on-site options were chosen.

The design team will work to re-locate these elsewhere within the site. Final plans will be made available at the next meeting.

Construction work

There were many questions around the construction work and how this would be managed.

These questions will be answered at the second consultation / information evening prior to submission of the planning application when the location of the new block has been finalised and designed and construction methods are outlined. The contractors will then work closely with the school to minimise disruption to school activities and congestion on surrounding roads.

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Climate Change Is Responsible for 37% of Heat Deaths

The climate crisis leaves more people vulnerable to heat waves than ever before.

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New York City has a 44.2% rate of climate-caused heat deaths, according to a new study.

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Heat waves are one of the most dangerous kinds of extreme weather events, and several studies have warned that they will become even deadlier as the climate warms.

Now, a first-of-its-kind study published in Nature Climate Change reveals that this prediction has already come true. Temperatures inflamed by the climate crisis have killed more people in the last three decades than would have died if we had never started pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, to a significant degree.

“One of three deaths due to heat can be attributed to the human activities driving climate change,” study first author Dr. Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, from the University of Bern, tells Treehugger in an email.

Excess Deaths

The new study marks the first “large-scale, systematic effort to quantify the heat-related human health impacts that have already occurred due to climate change,” as the study authors put it.

The researchers, from the University of Bern and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), used data from 732 locations in 43 countries in order to conduct what is known as a “detection and attribution study,” according to an LSHTM press release.

This is a kind of study that works to isolate certain impacts—in this case, deaths caused by temperatures higher than the ideal for human health in a certain location—and link them to changes in climate or weather.

“We estimated heat-related mortality in two climate scenarios—under current conditions or removing the anthropogenic activity—and computed the difference, considering this the contribution of the human activities to climate change,” Vicedo-Cabrera tells Treehugger.

The results told the researchers that around 37% of the excess heat deaths during the summers between 1991 and 2018 could be directly attributed to human-caused climate change. This impact was felt on every continent, though some regions and cities were more impacted than others. Regionally, Central and South America were the most impacted, followed by South East Asia.

The researchers were also able to determine the annual number and overall percentage of climate-caused heat deaths for several major cities:

  1. Santiago, Chile: 136 extra deaths per year, or 44.3% of the total
  2. Athens: 189 extra deaths, or 26.1%
  3. Rome: 172 extra deaths, or 32%
  4. Tokyo: 156 extra deaths, or 35.6%
  5. Madrid: 177 extra deaths, or 31.9%
  6. Bangkok: 146 extra deaths, or 53.4%
  7. London: 82 extra deaths, or 33.6%
  8. New York City: 141 extra deaths, or 44.2%
  9. Ho Chi Minh City: 137 extra deaths, or 48.5%

However, while the study could pinpoint differing impacts across regions and cities, it did not examine why those differences occurred.

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Past and Future

The new study builds on a larger body of work that has been published by the Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) Collaborative Research Network in an attempt to understand the relationship between health, climate, and other environmental problems like air pollution.

When it comes to the group’s previous work on climate, health, and heat, most of it has focused on the future. A 2017 study published in The Lancet Planetary Health found that heat-related deaths would increase through the end of 2100 if humans continue to emit greenhouse-gas emissions at high levels. A 2018 study published in Climatic Change found that limiting global warming to the Paris agreement goal of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels would prevent “large increases” in heat-related deaths around the world.

But the most recent study, co-author, MCC coordinator and LSHTM professor Antonio Gasparrini tells Treehugger, “provides another layer of perspective.”

“You don’t have to wait until . . . 2050 to see these effects,” Gasparrini says. “They are already here.”

For Gasparrini, Vicedo-Cabrera and their team, this is not an excuse to throw in the towel on fighting climate change. Just the opposite, in fact. Gasparrini argues that the future death toll could be much higher if nothing is done to combat the climate crisis.

“It underlines the importance of acting quickly on preventing these impacts,” he says.

How to Act

When it comes to action, Gasparrini calls for two types of policies:

  1. Mitigation
  2. Adaptation

Mitigation means reducing emissions by decreasing consumption or switching to cleaner sources of energy. Adaptation means understanding what factors make some populations more vulnerable to heat waves than others and working to counteract them.

Because of feedback loops, a certain amount of warming is inevitable in the next few decades even if emissions are immediately reduced. Because of this, it is important to understand which factors, such as socio-economic status, infrastructure or behavior, put people at greater risk during heat waves.

“The idea is to try to understand these mechanisms a bit better in order to shape ...policies that can be effective in decreasing the risk for a given climate,” Gasparrini explains.

Currently, more research needs to be done to understand which interventions would save the most lives. Air conditioning is effective, but is counterproductive when it comes to mitigating climate change. Other changes could include improving insulation or increasing tree cover in cities.

“It’s still an active area of research,” Gasparrini says.

View Article Sources
  1. "Heat Waves." World Health Organization.

  2. Vicedo-Cabrera, A. M., et al. "The Burden of Heat-Related Mortality Attributable to Recent Human-Induced Climate Change." Nature Climate Change, vol. 11, no. 6, 2021, pp. 492-500., doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01058-x

  3. "Global warming already responsible for one in three heat-related deaths." London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2021.

  4. Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana Maria, et al. "Temperature-Related Mortality Impacts Under and Beyond Paris Agreement Climate Change Scenarios." Climatic Change, vol. 150, no. 3-4, 2018, pp. 391-402., doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2274-3


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How to Fix “Windows Setup Could Not Configure Windows to Run on this Computer’s Hardware” Error

There are many errors appear while installing or upgrading Windows to the latest version of Windows 10. We have discussed many of them and provide all the possible solutions or workarounds. In this guide, we will try to fix Windows setup could not configure to run on this computer’s hardware error.

This error won’t allow you to install Windows 10 on your PC. This Windows 10 error appears when you try to run Windows setup for installation and then setup will stop the installation with this error message. It means something wrong with the configurations of your computer.

Fix Error “Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer’s hardware”

You must check first if your computer support Windows 10. For this, you need to match your machines hardware’s specs first with Microsoft Windows 10 requirements.

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  • Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or System on a Chip (SoC)
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  • Graphics card: Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
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  • Internet Connection: Internet connectivity is necessary to perform updates and to download and take advantage of some features. Windows 10 Pro in S mode, Windows 10 Pro Education in S mode, Windows 10 Education in S mode, and Windows 10 Enterprise in S mode require an internet connection during the initial device setup (Out of Box Experience or OOBE), as well as either a Microsoft account (MSA) or Azure Activity Directory (AAD) account. Switching a device out of Windows 10 in S mode also requires internet connectivity. Learn more about S mode here.

Method 2: Command Prompt Tweak to run manually msoobe.exe

When you get the error on Windows 10 setup screen, press SHIFT and F10 key from your computer keyboard. This will open a command prompt at the Windows setup screen.

In the command prompt type, the following command mentioned below and then hit enter.

CD C:\windows\system32\oobe

After that, simply type “msoobe” and hit enter again. Now check to see the problem is solved or not.

Method 3: Update your Windows drivers

To update your Windows drivers, Open settings from the notification panel and then click on Update & Security. Now click on Check for updates, it will take time and all of your computer’s drivers will be updated to latest available version automatically.

Method 4: Clean install Windows 10

If you do the above steps and still facing this error and really want to install the latest Windows version then you may consider clean install Windows 10. If you face another kind of error while upgrading to Windows 10 May update 2019 version 1903, let us know through comments below and we will try to solve your error.

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Reviewed February 28, 2020 via mobile

From all the fancy, trendy cafes, we’ve chosen this authentic place to have our breakfasts in. The old fashioned atmosphere, freshly baked, just from the oven, pastries, and a very good coffee made us wanting to walk several minutes every morning to get there for...breakfast. Ladies who are working in Jegbufe are nice and friendly even though are less smiley and they’ve done their best speaking English and understand the customer. Btw the price is also almost old fashioned and far from touristyMore

Date of visit: February 2020
Reviewed February 24, 2020

We had some great cakes here, on Valentine's day. The cakes were both beautifully presented, but most importantly - tasted amazing.

Date of visit: February 2020
Reviewed January 29, 2020 via mobile

I highly not recommend. The quality of the service was awful, don’t expect to have a smile from the employees and don’t expect them to make an effort to understand/talk with you. The worst part was when the two employees were talking hungarian in front...of me meanwhile I was talking to them. What a disrespect. When you work in a shop located in a European capital, please at least make an effort to communicate with the tourists which are your main customers. To finish the « sajtos » were dry and tasteless.More

Date of visit: January 2020
Reviewed November 19, 2019

Nice and friendly place to get a breakfast . You can find a different cakes and typical desserts. A good cappuccino and honest price .

Date of visit: November 2019
Reviewed November 2, 2019

A coffee and cake shop close to Parisi Udvar hotel. The cheapest Cappuccino I had in Budapest yet one of the better ones.

Date of visit: September 2019
Reviewed October 20, 2019

this is not the real original old Jégbüfé. The original was in the parisi udvar building. This is just a fake, gloomy and anonymous place without any piece of the past

Date of visit: October 2019
Reviewed September 21, 2019 via mobile

Had a huge cheese croissant and very good lemon raisin Danish with a cappuccino for less than $5 Canadian! No tea unfortunately, but a nice way to start the day

Date of visit: September 2019
Reviewed September 11, 2019 via mobile

Unfortunately the quality of both the service and the food has reduced dramatically over the past 10 years. I used to come for the nostalgia, but not anymore. The bathroom is dirty, and on my last visit I found a long hair baked into my...cinnamon swirl. You’d better choose one of the new places in the area.More

Date of visit: September 2019
Reviewed September 5, 2019 via mobile

We had just arrived on Budapest and whilst walking we saw Jegbufe and decided to have some sweets and coffee. I must say that it was really good and highly recommended.

Date of visit: September 2019
Reviewed July 5, 2019

We came here for a quick breakfast, as the place was just across the small street of our Parisi Udvar hotel. The first thing you notice is that the place mostly serves locals, which is a good indication for us - the place is anything...but fancy. It's been around for almost 70 years - first it was located within the Parisi Udvar center, but after the center was bought and renovated as a luxury hotel, the café moved here, some 10 meters away from its previous location. We had coffees, freshly squeezed orange juice and several pastries. We loved it and returned the next morning for more. Prices are ridiculously low - 2 coffees, 2 orange juices and 2 cakes cost less than 10USD. The bad reviews about this place are absolutely laughable - people entering a simple local shop and expecting the Ritz. Recommended for a quick coffee and cake in the morning.More

Date of visit: June 2019
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Of course it’s a question of taste, but it had only terrible taste. Cake too doughy, fillings watery and bland taste. Couldn’t even make coffee. The only thing nice about the place I’d the way it looked out side, trying to... More
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Trump Throws Gasoline on the Climate Change Fire

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Last week, the White House released its proposal for the 2018 budget, which the Donald Trump administration claims is focused on deficit reduction. Among the many suggestions that could trigger opposition from Congress is the administration’s proposal to sell off half of the oil stored within the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).

The SPR was built over 40 years ago as a response to the 1973-1974 oil embargo, which OPEC launched in retaliation for America's support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Described by the U.S. Department of Energy as the world’s largest supply of emergency petroleum reserves, these underground salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico can store up to 713.5 million barrels of oil.

The White House proposed selling about half of the reserve’s crude oil holdings over the next decade, which would total about 270 million barrels. Two of the Gulf storage sites would eventually be closed, a move that would shrink the SPR’s maximum capacity to 260 million barrels.

The Trump administration estimates the sale would generate $500 million in revenues next year and $16.6 billion over the next decade, which it says would help reduce the U.S. federal budget deficit. And as U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Michael Mulvaney told the White House press corps last week, the U.S. won't need those reserves after the administration's plans to boost domestic production reduce the risk of being subjected to future oil shocks.

The administration faces several roadblocks to this massive sell-off. First, as Catherine Traywick and Jennifer Dlouhy of Bloomberg pointed out, the U.S. government by law must maintain a reserve of 450 million barrels. In addition, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has an agreement with its member countries, including the U.S., to maintain a 90-day emergency supply of oil.

Furthermore, despite the promise shown by electric vehicles, the reality is that oil is still integral to the American energy portfolio. Plenty of politicians, who have been spooked in the past by high oil prices after Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 commodities boom and the 2011 Arab Spring, will be eager to score political points and urge the Trump administration not to be lulled into a false sense of security over the three-year slump in oil prices. Then there is the question whether the $16.6 billion in deficit reduction is really worth it: The federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2017 is projected to reach $559 billion.

The energy industry, which includes companies that benefit from their sales to the SPR, will also have their say. Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), a group that supports an “all-of-the-above” energy policy, has warned that such a budget move could actually increase the risk that the U.S. economy would be exposed to international oil market disruption and could actually harm long-term energy security.

“While we’ve been lulled into a false sense of complacency by the current period of relatively low oil prices, disruptions and volatility in the oil market are alive and well,” Robbie Diamond, CEO of SAFE, said in a public statement. “The SPR is America’s only formal short-term line of defense against oil supply disruptions and price spikes.”

Of course, there is also the environmental impact that this oil could have it if were released and sold on the markets. Using the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions calculator, the amount of oil the Trump administration wishes to sell off would generate 116.1 million tons of carbon dioxide -- the equivalent of adding over 10 million cars to America’s roads for a year.

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“Carsten Bohn was a pilllar of the first wave of German Rock bands. He drummed for the ‘City Preachers’ (1969) , then for ‘Frumpy’ (1970-1972) before creating in 1973, the band ‘Dennis’, named after his son, with ‘Frumpy’ bandmate Thomas Kretschmer. The band’s headquarters was an old village school outside of Hamburg, where the band lived and rehearsed with often-changing line-ups including Manfred Rürup (‘Tommorrow’s Gift’) and Michael Kops on keyboards, Thomas Kretschmer (Ex-Frumpy) on guitar, Klaus Briest (‘Xhol’) and Hans Hartmann on bass, Willi Pape (‘Thirsty Moon’) on sax and flute, Olaf Cassalich (‘Ougenweide’) on percussion and Carsten Bohn on drums & percussion. The music itself was based on collective improvisation, with either a rockier edge or a jazzier feeling, depending on the musicians, recalling ‘Thirsty Moon’ or ‘Tommorrow’s Gift’… The record is highly recommended.”

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“This Dutch group was one of the earliest Continental European progressive rock bands… Acid rock elements are clearly present in their first albums from the end of 1960’s, and PINK FLOYD’s “Saucerful of Secrets” album has surely been an innovator for them, like to so many other spaced out groups. Their music isn’t an exact copy of their innovator’s sound though, as there is a wide spectrum of different styles merged to the band’s music in custom of psychedelia’s artistic freedom. The overall feeling of the band’s early music is nonrelaxed but not very aggressive, probably pleasing the fans of music describings a cosmic journey within one’s mind… Their mostly instrumental music grew to a larger scope containing strong musical elements.”


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“Modern evangelicalism has surrendered to the world, excused it, explained it, adopted it and imitated it. Young preachers imitate people in the world with a good deal more energy than they imitate the holy saints of God.” A. W. Tozer, Sermon: This Thing Called Christendom.

If this is still true today, then it is necessarily more widespread and potent. No wonder that professing Christians have rejected the spiritual perspective and struggle so vehemently to preserve their comfort zones in the world system. In one breath they will talk about heaven, and in the next breath they reveal entanglement in the affairs of the world system.

They declare that we are in the last days, and then behave as if that period is a long way off.

They claim that the Lord Jesus Christ could come at any moment, and then muddy themselves to prolong the judgment of this jaded world.

They complain about the apostasy of Christianity, and then accept the doctrine and worldview of hirelings and heretics.

They testify about being ready to go to heaven, and then imbibe nearly every flesh-feeding offering of the world system.

They want to be identified with the Remnant, but attack the ones who remain loyal to their commitment to God not to intentionally stain their souls.

They talk about loving the lost, but hurl insults and other verbal abuse at fellow Believers over disagreements.

They say they are followers of Christ, but are greatly susceptible to transference of the spirits of carnally compromised leaders.

They sing, “I surrender all” or something like it, but have never done so and have no intention of doing it.

They claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but have a familiarity with the spirit of the world that produces a mixture.

They entered a covenant with God, but have accepted an agreement with the world system. That agreement is, “Don’t hinder my religion and I will not hinder your wickedness.”

The Holy Spirit departs such “temples”. When we can no longer blush at sin, become outraged (prolonged) at injustice, fear God and eschew wickedness, regard people with love unfeigned, desire holiness (it’s not a dirty word) to the extent that we hate our sin, and value righteousness and godliness more than all the wealth of the world, all comfort, all honor, and all else, we have not attained. Like the Apostle Paul, we must press on (Philippians 3:12). There is no plateau to remain on. There is no detour to drink from the sewer springs of the world system. The path is straight, narrow, and designed so to prevent deny it destination from the ones who love themselves and the world more than they love God. If loving and wanting to be like Christ is unacceptable in Christianity, then righteousness is held captive to culture.

Christ was not suggesting how we should live when He said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.” That is a difficult and consuming challenge, but that is why it is a goal and the flesh despises it. I would expect such a goal from Almighty God. A goal that involves a meager commitment and minor effort is not a goal—it is a compromise.


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Monday, September 25, 2017

NBtM: The Bridesmaid's Checklist by K.T. Castle

The Bridesmaid's Checklist
by K.T. Castle

GENRE:   Contemporary (New Adult) Romance

Kassandra is a single, independent woman who prides herself on her own success. But when she’s asked by her best friend Laura to be the Maid of Honor in her wedding, Kassandra finds herself questioning her lifestyle. Helping Laura plan the wedding is no problem—she’s done it before for all their other friends. The first time was a blast, the second super fun, but doing it without receiving any help from the rest of the girls gets old really fast.

The whole event kicks off with the worst kind of surprise when Kassandra discovers who her friend's fiancé really is, and she's torn between supporting Laura's future happiness and hiding the deeply buried, intimate past she shares with the groom-to-be. Struggling to be the bigger person and do all the hard work on her own, Kassandra finds surprising comfort in Josh, the best man in the wedding and someone she's been avoiding for years. He's charming, thoughtful, handsome, and the worst kind of womanizer, but she just can't seem to stay away. All the while, Kassandra can't help wondering if the wedding could be any more cliché—until she finds unexpected ways to change things up a bit.

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“Why are you here, Josh?” I couldn't hold back my curiosity any longer.

“What do you mean?”

He seemed completely caught off guard by my direct question, and I had to remind myself that he couldn’t see inside my head. I really didn’t know what I wanted to hear, but Edward’s words kept coming back to me. Maybe Josh only wanted to sleep with me, nothing else—although it seemed like a lot of trouble for only a night of pleasure.

“Do you really only care about getting into my pants?” I asked, bordering somewhere between a pleading glance and a glare.

Josh seemed to relax a bit before he answered me. “You know I do. But not in the way that moron phrased it. I don’t want you thinking about it like that.”

“You have no idea what I’m thinking,” I quipped.

“I don’t,” Josh said quietly. “I wish I had a clue.” Then he stepped closer to me and tilted his head. “And obviously you don’t know how I feel about you, either.”

“Then explain it to me.” I didn’t try to back away from him this time.

This time he looked at me with different eyes. I didn’t see myself broken in them anymore.

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K.T.  Castle  is  an  author/artist  on  a  quest  to  find  the  words,  forms,  and  colors  to materialize    the    worlds    and    people    of    her imagination.    She    never    saw    herself    as    an incurable romantic, but lately, that's what she finds herself musing about.  Love  is  found  everywhere, regardless  if  it  comes  from  a  nice  person,  an ass — mundane or even vampire. When  she's  not  busy with  work,  in  front  of  a computer  placing  many  thoughts  in  order,  she makes her best to be creative or relax with a good book and a snack. Some of her favorite characters are Sookie, Rule and Shaw, Bella, Edward, Clary, Jace, Wrath, Hollywood, Blaire, Woods, Ethan, the Sleeping Beauty, and Ariel.
Get to know her more on her social media pages.
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The Bridesmaid’s Checklist Series
Laura’s Wedding
Marisol’s Wedding

Interview with K.T. Castle
Hello!!! Thanks for having me over again, T.
I’m excited about going on tour for the first time, specially because I get to meet great new people :)

Where do you get inspiration for your stories?
To be really honest, I can get inspiration from many different sources. Probably the biggest way of getting inspired is by observing everything around me. I’m one of those people that enjoys looking at the world around me, and, if there’s something that catches my eye, I like to create a “background story” of what I believe it’s happening.

How did you do research for your book?
Google and Pinterest are my allies.
I begin by creating a new Presentation on Google Slides, and as I go brainstorming, I write down questions and ideas that I need to clarify. Such as, what were they wearing? Where do they live? And I start Googling for answers.
I also have different Pinterest boards with sources and ideas. Now I’m a bit smarter about how I save everything that catches my eye. I have a board call “Inspiration” for those things I find interesting even if I don’t know how I’ll be using them.
Feel free to visit my Pinterest page and look at my boards :)

Do you have another profession besides writing?
Yes, I do.
I’ve been working in Education for the last eleven years. First as a teacher, I taught mainly English Language Arts (Reading/Literature, Spelling and Grammar) anywhere from sixth to tenth grade. Some years I even taught Math, Science and French.
Some years later I was offered a position to coordinate Pre-K and Kindergarten levels up to second grade. I interacted with parents, teachers and students. We had children as little as eighteen months. I have only love and respect for all those little children.
For the last four years I’ve been working as the assistant principal of the school. I’ve never imagined myself in this position but I enjoy it immensely. I get to work with all school departments and have a wonderful team of coordinators that work along with me to the benefit of all our students.

If you could go back in time, where would you go?
It is difficult to choose a certain part of my life and go back, since that would mean that I have to leave my present aside. Besides working at a school I have a beautiful family that consists of my husband, my teenager boy and my schnauzer pup. It’s hard to choose anything else but them, even if I do miss my kid as a baby from time to time ;)

What I would love to do, is to visit all the places I used to live and have my family visit. On my late teens I had the opportunity to live in Taiwan for almost two years. I loved the island and the family I created for myself there. It is actually there that I started my career as a teacher.

Then I lived and work for Walt Disney World in Orlando in my early twenties. I had so much fun and made many good friends. Visiting Disney is soon going to become a reality, since I’m visiting Orlando with my family in January next year. I’m so excited to show my family the place I once lived and work.

What is your next project?
There’s plenty of ideas I have for new books to write, but I have to say that The Bridesmaid’s Checklist series immediately comes to mind. Books 1 and 2, Laura’s and Marisol’s Wedding, are already published. I would love for you to read them and contact me after you do. It’s always nice to read what others have to say about my writing. The third book of the series, Natalie’s Wedding, is in hands of my editor and it should be published in early 2017. I also have plans to write two more books to finish the series, Denise and Kassandra need to have their wedding too.

And there’s also many projects aside from the BCL series. I have a paranormal romance that I wish I can publish soon. I also have some new ideas for contemporary and new adult romance… and who know, maybe one then I’ll even write some young adult books :). Then there’s also translations, I have spanish rough drafts for Laura’s Wedding and Blood Lust (my paranormal romance).

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Alternate questions:
1. What is your favorite part of this book and why?
Wow, my favorite part. I have to say it is the engagement party.
Kassandra has been planning Laura’s Wedding since day one without much support of the rest of her friends. Even if she’d like their help, she is also proud of everything she does on her own. But when the engagement party arrives and she goes to the place to check that everything is okay, she has a major meltdown because so much is wrong she can’t even get her head in order.
Kassie isn’t the kind of girl who asks for help easily, so having her call out on her friends wasn’t easy for her. It was even more difficult for her to hear that they’re all busy and they can’t attend to her SOS. But she does receive help, and it’s from the least expected person.
The reason I chose this scene is because you see Kassandra and Josh interacting freely for the first time, it's when Kassie realizes that she can count on him for real. And I love that even if everything that was wrong was set right by them both, there’s still situations that Kassie doesn’t expect when it comes to him.

2. If you could spend time with a character from your book whom would it be? And what would you do during that day?
I guess it would depend on the kind of day I wanted to have :)
If Josh and I were single, I would definitely go on a date with him. He’s simply such a nice guy!! Not to mention that he’s smoking hot. He’s fun to be with and has great conversation skills. We could probably go have dinner in Santa Monica and then enjoy the sunset and a walk down the beach.

If I wanted to have a girls night out, I would definitely call Natalie. She’s the sweetest girl in the universe. She always thinks of the needs of the people around her and does her best to accommodate them. There’s always this aura of happiness around her. We would definitely go shopping, have lunch somewhere nice, and end the day at her place with a nice conversation over some wine.

Here are some pictures of my Fantasy Cast for BCL3.

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3. If you could have been the author of any book ever written, which book would you choose?
Now this list is long!!!
There’s so many good authors out there.
I wish I was as creative as Cassandra Clare. I absolutely adore the world she created for the Mortal Instruments and the Shadow Hunters. I love her books and how she brought to life so many great characters.
Then there’s also someone else I admire as a person and a writer, and that’s Jay Crownover. First of all, I have the biggest crush on her characters, I’m in love with like half of the boys in her series The Marked Men and Saints of Denver. Her stories are so real to me; I feel as if I know the characters she’s created and they’re people I would love to meet in real life. I’m one of her biggest fans, I follow her everywhere on the internet and hope to meet her in person one of these days.

4. Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
Part and part.
The name of the characters are based on some of my best friends in junior high. Laura, Marisol, Denise and Natalie are people that were part of my life and I wish I could see more often. They know about the book and that I “borrowed” their names. But their personalities are nothing like those of my characters.
I’ve been fortunate to meet many different people throughout my life, and I’ve hand picked traits from them to create my characters. But, sometimes those girls surprise me when I think I have them figured out.

5. What made you want to become a writer?
It wasn’t something that I planned of becoming. Creativity has always been a big part of my life, mainly in painting and drawing. I would have expected to become an artist. Writing wasn’t even in my peripheral vision, but in many ways I’ve always written. I started writing short stories and comic books when I was younger, of course the art and cover were a big part of the process.
Then, when I was teaching junior high and read Twilight to see what my students were up to, I was fascinated with the book and I remembered how nice it was to read. Somehow, while I was studying and started my family, I forgot how much I enjoyed reading when I was younger. After reading many different books there was a little voice telling me that I had many stories to tell and why not give it a try. This was close to nine years ago, and since then I’ve finished writing 4 book (2 published) and have 4 other stories that I’ve started writing.

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Thanks for giving me the time and space to share a little something about me. I had lots of fun answering your questions and hope to visit again soon.

K.T. Castle will award paperback copies of The Bridesmaid's Checklist Series and a $10 Amazon GC (US/Mexico only) to one randomly selected commenter and digital copies of The Bridesmaid's Checklist Series and a $10 Amazon GC (international) to a second randomly selected commenter.   In addition, a randomly drawn host will receive a signed copy of The Bridesmaid's Checklist: Laura's Wedding (US/Mexico only -- a digital copy will be substituted for international winners) and a $10 Amazon GC.

  1. congrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)

  2. Thank you for having me over, T!
    Hope you all have a great day.

    I'm at work, so I'll check for comments as often as I can. I know you guys aren't shy, so I'm looking forward to answer all your questions :)

    1. My pleasure. Best wishes to you and your book.

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    1. Thanks for visiting, Victoria!!
      Have a great week :)

  4. What is your favorite book of all time? Thanks for the giveaway. I hope that I win. Bernie W BWallace1980(at)hotmail(d0t)com

    1. Hi, Joseph!

      I have plenty favorite books, today I'm going with Twilight, hehe. How about you?

      Best of luck!

  5. Hello! I enjoy reading this post <3

    1. I'm glad you liked it, Susanti.
      Thanks for stopping by :)

  6. the books look great. thanks for hosting.

  7. I have enjoyed following this tour and look forward to checking out this book!


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Monday, February 27, 2012

Patterson: "I'm Not Going to Listen to These Cutthroat, Throw-’Em-Under-the-Bus Politicians From Phoenix"

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State Rep. Daniel Patterson called us to deny the accusations that he hit his now ex-girlfriend and campaign manager, Georgette Escobar, saying she has serious mental problems and a history of felonies—and is trying to blackmail him.

He also said he will not step down from the Legislature, despite calls from his own party’s leadership and executive director to quietly go away. Patterson said the calls for him to resign are premature, and that the truth will vindicate him—though he may leave the party.

“This is lynch-mob type of politics that we see from Phoenix, and I’m not going to listen to these cutthroat throw-em-under-the-bus politicians from Phoenix,” he said. “I’m responsive to my constituents in Tucson. Period. … I’m not going to be blackmailed out of office.”

“I may become an independent,” he added.

He said he called the cops when he and Escobar got into an argument on Friday after she had told him about her history of mental illness and crime. She freaked out and hit him “at least 30 times” before the cops arrived, he said.

He said he was not cited or arrested and has not yet been served with a restraining order, though he admits to dodging service, because he said Escobar threatened to change the locks on his house after she had the order.

He speculated that the bruises she displayed to reporters today were self-inflicted, and said that the cops didn’t see any marks on her Friday.

Escobar is making allegations that are similar to those made by Patterson's ex-wife, Jeneiene Schaffer, two years ago. Patterson said that's because Escobar saw what Schaffer did and is following her example.

He said that he hasn’t made the best choices with women.

“I know I’m going to be much, much more careful with who I associate with in the future,” he said.

He said Escobar claims he owes her “thousands of dollars” and has hinted that if he would pay up, these allegations wouldn’t have become public. He said he doesn’t owe her money, and his position as a politician made him an easy target.

“People wonder why good people don’t go into politics," Patterson said. "It’s because of attacks like this.”

Patterson said he worries about his own safety and the safety of his daughter, and doesn’t want any contact with Escobar.

“I don’t feel safe around this woman. I think she’s a threat; she’s threatened me before. She’s blackmailing me,” he said.

As for the dog, Jake, Patterson said the pet belongs to both of them, and he just wants it to be safe. (When the Tucson Weekly interviewed Escobar this morning, she produced a document to show that the dog was registered in her name.)

“I’m happy to work something out with the dog. I just wanted to make sure he had someplace safe to be right now,” he said.

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The Quintessential Middleman: Sometimes It’s Good to Be the Go-Between

Too frequently the word “middleman” is used as a pejorative, describing someone who not only brings buyers and sellers together but also has the tendency to be an opportunistic interloper.

Look no further than the occasional GEICO car insurance commercial, bedding ad or any number of local siding, online flower and buy-direct prescription eyeglass and contact lens pitches for examples.

But there are times when it’s essential for someone with the right qualifications to enter the middle ground between parties to make a transaction happen. Sean Doherty sees his company Wurl doing just that in the connected TV marketplace.

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A co-founder and CEO of Wurl, Doherty says his B2B network, which interconnects video producers, video services and advertisers, is mending what has proven to be a fragmented market, enabling video producers to reach a bigger footprint with their ad-supported content and advertisers to buy audiences for their commercials at scale.

In this interview, Doherty discusses how Wurl is removing the friction that has plagued connected-TV channels, content producers and advertisers; the way the parties to these transactions have responded over the past year to its offer; and how every new player who connects only strengthens the overall network.

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TV Technology:What is Wurl out to accomplish?

Sean Doherty: We operate a B2B network that interconnects three different constituencies: video producers, video services and advertisers.

The sea change that our company is based on is this migration of viewers from legacy pay TV to connected TV. It’s hard to get everyone to agree on exactly what the numbers are but it seems like there is something like 25% or 30% of television living room viewing time now that is accomplished through internet connected devices, replacing normally what would have been pay TV. We think more than half of TV viewing time will migrate to this viewing platform in the next five years.

TVT:That looks like a big opportunity.

SD: It is a big opportunity because like traditional television for both programmers and advertisers, it is the living room experience. So, it’s high-production, lots of engagement, lots of reach—all of the things that are great about television programming and advertising. Like digital, CTV (connected TV) also has very granular targeting and measurement. Behavioral data can be gathered as well.

But the problem for our customers—both the video producers and advertisers—is that it’s very fragmented—aside from Hulu and Roku, which have pretty large businesses and ad-supported video on TV.

TVT:What’s the upshot of this fragmentation?

SD: Other than those two in the United States, there’s just a lot of tiny little $25-, $50- and $100 million pockets. Many are even smaller than that, and that’s a problem for video producers because they want distribution.

They want a large footprint to receive their ad-supported video, but building connections to each of these individual video services is very expensive to do and to maintain.

TVT:What about on the ad side of the equation?

SD: The big problem for advertisers, who love the idea of connected TV inventory, is they want to buy it at scale. They want to buy it like they have bought TV for the past 40 years, and it is just practically impossible to do it.

When we first started this business, we used to hear these kinds of paradoxical statements from our customers. The video producers would say: “We’ve got plenty of inventory, but not enough ad buyers.” And the ad buyers would say: “We have plenty of demand, but not enough inventory.”

And we asked, “What’s going on here?” It turns out the problem is they are both right, but there is a scale problem in trying to put it all together.

TVT:So, how does your B2B network remedy the problem?

SD: The simple idea we had about one year ago was to create a network that would link the video producers and the video services and the advertisers, and do it in such a way that the video producers—our main customers—could launch TV channels—live, VOD and linear TV channels—via these video services and do it pretty much effortlessly.

Once they have a commercial arrangement with a video service, they just stay on our platform and turn on the channels. We also wanted to help them make money, so we wanted to enable targeted ad insertions through the distribution that we were enabling.

In the past six to eight months, we have launched three products: our Managed Channel Services to help these companies create linear program lineups and live events and schedule them; our AdSpring product, which is basically ssDAI [Server Side Dynamic Ad Insertion] and targeting product for mid-roll advertising; and then our Data Pool product, our reporting product to provide our customers with very granular reporting on people’s behavior, what they watch, for how long, what advertising they consume, impressions and beacons on the impressions.

We launched late last summer [2018], and what happened was the network just blew up.

TVT:Can you quantify the blowing up?

SD: Well, more video producers attracted more video services, and the inventories that got created on the network attracted more advertisers. Now it is growing some months, 30% to 40%. Pretty consistently for the past eight months, it has been growing at around 15% to 20% per month on just about every metric.

We are up to about 20 million monthly hours of viewing, and we are headed to more than 25 million hours.

We are hitting about 100 million unique CTV devices through the video services that are connected to our network. And about 30% to 35% of those become monthly access viewers.

TVT:Have you seen similar result on the advertising side of the equation?

SD: Our advertising demand is just taking off. As all of the streaming that happens on this network grows, it creates inventory. We now have about 450 million ad avails that we are creating each month and that will soon be closer to 500 million.

To fill that inventory, we run this AdSpring service that is sort of in the middle of every ad request.

TVT:How so?

SD: Let’s say you are watching ABC News on Samsung TV PLUS through our network. We are delivering all of the streaming to you. We receive an ad request when an ad pod is close to being inserted based on where ABC News scheduled it.

We get that ad request about 500 milliseconds in advance of when the ad is supposed to be placed, and then we route the ad request to whomever is supposed to fill it.

So, 4 to 4.5 billion times a month, an ad request goes across our network and hopefully an ad comes back and fills and gets displayed.

TVT:You’ve mentioned Roku and Samsung TV PLUS as two of the devices Wurl supports. Are you supporting others?

SD: We are constantly adding new devices to our network—whether it’s Roku or Samsung or Sinclair STIRR or Comcast [Xfinity] Flex and all of their X1 set top boxes for streaming. There are 25 to 28 million Roku devices, and some percentage of those become active users.

Those active users and the number of hours of viewing for each of those active users are increasing each month because the quality of the content on our network is increasing. With more hours of viewing, you get more ad inventory and more impressions. That all translates into a hockey stick of growth across this network of networks that we have built across all of these C-TV services.

TVT:Support for all of this ever-increasing universe of CTV devices must place quite a technical burden on Wurl.

SD: We have about 22 or 23 engineers—our whole company is 35 employees. They spend more time on what you just described than any other activity. Each platform has its own spec for what you need to deliver to them.

So Twitch has their own API for ad insertion, and Samsung has HLS with HLS ad markers. Roku has something else. Sling’s got MPEG TS with SCTE markers. Each of these guys has a 50- to 70-page spec about what you must do to deliver a live streaming channel or live event to them. So our job is to create what we call “connectors.”

TVT:I would imagine that’s a big value propositionrelieving customers and potential customers of the headaches associated with accommodating all those specs.

SD: It’s not just relieve them of the headache, but most of them can’t afford or don’t have the technical skills to do it. They just simply couldn’t do it.

We are trying to normalize this whole thing. We are like Switzerland in the center, or, maybe it’s more like the Tower of Babel—this big translation we do.


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A House Energy and Commerce Committee panel is readying a report expected to question whether Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin went too far in keeping FCC decisions and policymaking to a close-knit group of subordinates.
A committee official today confirmed that a report on a 10-month-long probe of Mr. Martin’s management style would likely be issued later this month, replacing what was originally planned to be a committee hearing on Mr. Martin’s management.
Since last December, the committee’s Oversight and Investigations Panel headed by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., has been examining Mr. Martin’s management in the wake of complaints, some made publicly by the cable industry and by other commissioners. Most of the public complaints were that Mr. Martin kept a tight rein on data essential to decisions — including one to expand the FCC’s oversight of cable — until the last minute, making it difficult for other commissioners and the cable industry to weigh in or rebut.
In several letters to Mr. Martin, the panel has stated that it has also heard private complaints from FCC staffers that Mr. Martin has made it difficult to do their jobs. There also have been complaints that the FCC doesn’t follow basic processes of open government, disclosing few details about items commissioners vote on before the vote is over, essentially preventing public input.
FCC commissioners commonly votes on issues without detailing what exactly they are voting on, then can take months to detail what was approved, apparently amidst post-vote maneuvering. Most government agencies detail what they are acting on either before approval or swiftly after approval.
In December House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich., in announcing the probe, said the inquiry was intended to determine whether the FCC processes “are fair, open and transparent and that they serve the public interest.”
At the time, Rep. Dingell said a number of incidents had raised his doubts about the agency.
“Given several events and proceedings over the past year, I am rapidly losing confidence that the commission has been conducting its affairs in an appropriate manner,” he said. “A trend appears to be emerging of short-circuiting procedural norms, suggesting a larger breakdown at the agency. … Commissioners are not informed of the details of draft items until it is too late to provide the necessary scrutiny and analysis.”
In January the committee, in a second letter to Mr. Martin, questioned whether the FCC’s regulatory practices were being conducted “in a fair, efficient and transparent manner.”
At the time the committee said the investigation was intended to address “a growing number of allegations … relating to management practices that affect the agency’s operation.”
In March, a third letter seeking a broad range of information about FCC policymaking asked about the reasons the FCC delayed holding some votes and making required reports to Congress.
That letter got more specific about the allegations the committee was hearing, saying they were coming “from current for former FCC employees and other sources … [relating] to management practices that may adversely affect the commission’s ability to discharge its statutory duties and to guard against waste, fraud and abuse.”
The letter said the allegations “are believed to be credible.”
That letter also asked for information about FCC directives barring staff from talking to each other and outsiders concerning FCC business. It questioned how the decision came down on which commissioner would attend a conference in Geneva, Switzerland. It also questioned how the decision to redo a 2004 FCC report that had suggested that letting consumers choose cable channels a la carte would increase costs came about and how the “peer review” of the new report with an opposite conclusion was handled.
Mr. Martin has sent the committee more than 40 boxes of documents in response and in his one public letter back to Mr. Dingell in December denied that FCC procedures had significantly changed from prior chairmen.
“Commission processes and decision-making time frames remain essentially the same as the general decision-making procedures established nearly ten years ago,” he said.
An FCC spokesman said today the agency is working with the committee.
“We continue to cooperate with the review and investigation,” said the spokesman.

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Oblivious AI, an Irish Data Privacy Start-up, Closes $1.05 million Seed Funding Round

Robert Pisarczyk, CEO and co-founder, Oblivious AI.

Oblivious AI, an Irish Data Privacy Start-up, Closes $1.05 million Seed Funding Round

Oblivious AI, an Irish data privacy start-up, today announced that it has secured $1.05 million (€900k) in an initial seed funding round. Investors in the round include, Atlantic Bridge, Act Venture Capital, Hustle Fund and a group of angel investors.

Oblivious AI has developed pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to help organisations keep sensitive data safe while creating insight opportunities for the data owners.

The NovaUCD-headquartered company, which was co-founded in 2020 by Robert Pisarczyk and Jack Fitzsimons, will use the funding to build out its core team, further develop its initial product offering, and continue to work closely with its early customer base. The company, which currently has a team of eight (8), aims to launch its technology to developers globally by the end of 2021.

Oblivious’ pioneering PETs allow companies, governments and international organisations to process data without having direct access to the underlying sensitive information, reducing risk from cyberattacks while also creating new insight opportunities for data owners.

Robert Pisarczyk, CEO and co-founder, Oblivious AI, said, “A 2015 study by consulting firm McKinsey suggested that only 1% of the world’s data is analysed and used for collaborative purposes. PETs provide a phenomenal opportunity to unlock the potential of these vast reserves of unused data.”

“Given such opportunities tech-giants such as Intel, Amazon, and Microsoft have poured hundreds of millions into developing PETs, building the underlying infrastructure that enables organisations to implement privacy safeguards at scale. However a lack of tooling means the technologies have been difficult to apply in practice and developers struggle to integrate privacy considerations into simple applications, such as web-based healthcare applications.”

“Our technology allows organisations to collaborate on sensitive data while maintaining the strictest legal, moral and ethical safeguards and provides developers with tools that they can launch with one-click from their cloud environment, significantly reducing the barrier of entry to PETs.”

Speaking about the company’s funding round Robert Pisarczyk said, “It’s terrific to have the likes of Atlantic Bridge, Act Venture Capital, Hustle Fund and our angel investors join us on our mission, as they bring far more than just their funding to the table. They are each established investors with invaluable institutional knowledge that we believe will help Oblivious AI grow into a strong and long-lasting company.”

He added, “With funding in place, our main goal is to continue to build a great team, continue to support our existing clients and publicly launch our tools for all developers to use in the coming months. We are entering into a number of new partnerships and have the best early-access users we could imagine, so it will be an exciting year ahead.”

Conor O’Sullivan, Investment Director, Atlantic Bridge, said, “Privacy enhancing technologies are fundamental to the next generation of data analytics, including enabling secure data collaboration between parties. The team at Oblivious are developing novel and differentiated tools for developers to take advantage of the state of the art in confidential sharing of information between organisations. At Atlantic Bridge we partner with exceptional founders that have unique technology and a drive to realise a big vision. We are excited to be working closely with the Oblivious team to help them deliver on their mission.”

Conor Mills, Principal at Act Venture Capital said, “PETs are a hugely exciting field of innovation that have the potential to not only transform how organisations deal with their data privacy obligations, but also unlock vast untapped revenue opportunities through increased data collaboration between parties. The Oblivious team have already proven themselves as thought leaders on a global stage and we look forward to working with them to reduce the barriers to PET adoption and place the power of PETs into the hands of developers everywhere.”

The Oblivious team collectively bring together a wealth of experience in data privacy, security and machine learning. As they build their core products, they have established themselves as a prominent figures in the field, collaborating and publishing with the likes of the United Nations, the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich.

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For further information contact Micéal Whelan, Communications and Media Relations Manager, NovaUCD, e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie.


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