Sudan and South Sudan delegations to Addis Ababa negotiations have reached a complete agreement, under the auspices of the AUHIP, on the issue of oil and transit fees, says statement issued by Sudans negotiating team.
The statement added that the agreement includes two parts: one part provides for a 3-year interim period and the second part deals with oil transit fees.
The delegation expressed hope that the agreement would pave the way for a comprehensive settlement of the remaining issues.
The statement pointed out that the figures published by newspapers regarding transit fees are inaccurate.
The delegations wrapped up a difficult round of talks that continued for three weeks during which a range of issues including security, oil, border, Abyei territory, buffer zone, withdrawal of forces, halt of support and harboring rebel movements were discussed as well as the need for disengagement between South Sudan and divisions nine and ten in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States.
The two parties reached reasonable understandings on oil, spokesperson of Sudans negotiating team, Dr. Mutrif Siddiq, said but did not elaborate about the amount of fees.
The agreement does not meet the aspirations of both parties but its implementation would start once security challenges were addressed after the Eid holiday, he said.
On Saturday, AUHIP Chair Thabo Mbeki said Sudan and South Sudan agreed to end their differences over oil and would discuss resumption of oil exports. What remain to be discussed is the date when oil companies should be alerted to get ready to resume oil output and export, he added.
According to Mbeki, the issue of joint border between the two countries would be tackled next month by President Al Bashir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir Mayardit.
"We have informed the two parties that the final status of Abyei territory would be discussed by the upcoming summit meeting between President Al Bashir and President Kiir" Mbeki said, adding "The AU asked the two parties to resolve remaining controversial issues by 22 September".
Meanwhile, Mbeki broke the news of another agreement between Sudan, AU, UN and the League of Arab State on delivery of aid to South Kordofan and Blue Nile States.
"An agreement is reached with the Sudanese Government with regard to delivery of humanitarian assistances to the Blue Nile and South Kordofan States which means a breakthrough is achieved on this dossier" Mbeki said.
New York, NY, August 06, 2012 ?(PR.com)? The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Daimon E. Geopfert, National Leader, Security and Privacy Consulting, McGladrey LLP, will speak at a 2-hour webcast entitled ?Legal Series: Your Company Has Been Cyber Hacked! Strategies for Dealing With the Fallout LIVE Webcast.? This event is scheduled for September 20, 2012 from 12pm-2pm (ET).
About Daimon E. Geopfert
Daimon Geopfert is a director with the technology risk advisory services group at McGladrey LLP. He specializes in penetration testing, vulnerability and risk management, security monitoring, incident response, digital forensics and investigations, and compliance frameworks within heavily regulated industries. Daimon has over 17 years of experience in a wide array of information security disciplines. He serves as the firm?s national leader for the security and privacy practice, responsible for the development of the firm?s overall strategy related to security and privacy services and applicable methodologies, tool kits and engagement documentation.
Daimon is a regular presenter for organizations such as Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), InfraGard, the Certified Fraud Examiners and SC Magazine?s World Congress. He has been quoted in a variety of publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Kansas City Business Journal.
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The Knowledge Group is assembling a panel of distinguished thought leaders, professionals and key regulators to help management teams learn the latest best practices and policies for cyber security. The speakers will present their expert opinions in a two-hour Live webcast discussing the following key issues.
? FBI new measures, such as embedding agents with police departments across Eastern Europe, including Estonia, Romania and Ukraine ? Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board- their role and functions ? FCC ? Small Biz Cyber Planner ? The NIH Information Security and Privacy Training Courses ? Up to the minute regulatory updates.
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What makes Paris look like Paris? Carnegie Mellon software finds stylistic corePublic release date: 7-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Byron Spice bspice@cs.cmu.edu 412-268-9068 Carnegie Mellon University
Visual data mining of Google Street View identifies cities' distinctive details
PITTSBURGHParis is one of those cities that has a look all its own, something that goes beyond landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and INRIA/Ecole Normale Suprieure in Paris have developed visual data mining software that can automatically detect these sometimes subtle features, such as street signs, streetlamps and balcony railings, that give Paris and other cities a distinctive look.
The software analyzed more than 250 million visual elements gleaned from 40,000 Google Street View images of Paris, London, New York, Barcelona and eight other cities to find those that were both frequent and could be used to discriminate one city from the others. This yielded sets of geo-informative visual elements unique to each city, such as cast-iron balconies in Paris, fire escapes in New York City and bay windows in San Francisco.
The discovered visual elements can be useful for a variety of computational geography tasks. Examples include mapping architectural correspondences and influences within and across cities, or finding representative elements at different geo-spatial scales such as a continent, a city, or a specific neighborhood.
Researchers will present their findings Aug. 9 at SIGGRAPH 2012, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Alexei Efros, associate professor of robotics and computer science at CMU, noted that although finding patterns in very large databases so-called Big Data mining is widely used, it has so far been limited to text or numerical data. "Visual Data is much more difficult, so the field of visual data mining is still in its infancy, but I believe it holds a lot of promise. Our data mining technique was able to go through millions of image patches automatically something that no human would be patient enough to do," said Efros, who collaborated with colleagues including Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor of robotics, and Carl Doersch, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Machine Learning Department. "In the long run, we wish to automatically build a digital visual atlas of not only architectural but also natural geo-informative features for the entire planet."
For this study, the researchers started with 25,000 randomly selected visual elements from city images gathered from Google Street View. A machine learning program then analyzed these visual elements to determine which details made them different from similar visual elements in other cities. After several iterations, the software identified the top-scoring patches for identifying a city. For Paris, those patches corresponded to doors, balconies, windows with railings, street signs (the shape and color of the signs, not the street names on the signs), and special Parisian lampposts. It had more trouble identifying geo-informative elements for U.S. cities, which the researches attributed to the relative lack of stylistic coherence in American cities with their melting pot of styles and influences.
"We let the data speak for itself," said Gupta, noting the entire process is automated, yet produces a set of images that convey a better stylistic feel for a city than a set of random images.
Doersch said this process requires a significant amount of computing time, keeping 150 processors working overnight. By comparison, art directors for the 2007 Pixar movie "Ratatouille" spent a week running around Paris taking photos so they could capture the look and feel of Paris in their computer model of the city.
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More information, including a video, is available on the project web site, http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/whatMakesParis/.
In addition to Efros, Gupta and Doersch, the research team included Saurabh Singh, a former research assistant in the Robotics Institute, and Josef Sivic, a researcher at INRIA / Ecole Normale Suprieure.
About Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon (www.cmu.edu) is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia, Europe and Mexico. The university is in the midst of "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.
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What makes Paris look like Paris? Carnegie Mellon software finds stylistic corePublic release date: 7-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Byron Spice bspice@cs.cmu.edu 412-268-9068 Carnegie Mellon University
Visual data mining of Google Street View identifies cities' distinctive details
PITTSBURGHParis is one of those cities that has a look all its own, something that goes beyond landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and INRIA/Ecole Normale Suprieure in Paris have developed visual data mining software that can automatically detect these sometimes subtle features, such as street signs, streetlamps and balcony railings, that give Paris and other cities a distinctive look.
The software analyzed more than 250 million visual elements gleaned from 40,000 Google Street View images of Paris, London, New York, Barcelona and eight other cities to find those that were both frequent and could be used to discriminate one city from the others. This yielded sets of geo-informative visual elements unique to each city, such as cast-iron balconies in Paris, fire escapes in New York City and bay windows in San Francisco.
The discovered visual elements can be useful for a variety of computational geography tasks. Examples include mapping architectural correspondences and influences within and across cities, or finding representative elements at different geo-spatial scales such as a continent, a city, or a specific neighborhood.
Researchers will present their findings Aug. 9 at SIGGRAPH 2012, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Alexei Efros, associate professor of robotics and computer science at CMU, noted that although finding patterns in very large databases so-called Big Data mining is widely used, it has so far been limited to text or numerical data. "Visual Data is much more difficult, so the field of visual data mining is still in its infancy, but I believe it holds a lot of promise. Our data mining technique was able to go through millions of image patches automatically something that no human would be patient enough to do," said Efros, who collaborated with colleagues including Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor of robotics, and Carl Doersch, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Machine Learning Department. "In the long run, we wish to automatically build a digital visual atlas of not only architectural but also natural geo-informative features for the entire planet."
For this study, the researchers started with 25,000 randomly selected visual elements from city images gathered from Google Street View. A machine learning program then analyzed these visual elements to determine which details made them different from similar visual elements in other cities. After several iterations, the software identified the top-scoring patches for identifying a city. For Paris, those patches corresponded to doors, balconies, windows with railings, street signs (the shape and color of the signs, not the street names on the signs), and special Parisian lampposts. It had more trouble identifying geo-informative elements for U.S. cities, which the researches attributed to the relative lack of stylistic coherence in American cities with their melting pot of styles and influences.
"We let the data speak for itself," said Gupta, noting the entire process is automated, yet produces a set of images that convey a better stylistic feel for a city than a set of random images.
Doersch said this process requires a significant amount of computing time, keeping 150 processors working overnight. By comparison, art directors for the 2007 Pixar movie "Ratatouille" spent a week running around Paris taking photos so they could capture the look and feel of Paris in their computer model of the city.
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More information, including a video, is available on the project web site, http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/whatMakesParis/.
In addition to Efros, Gupta and Doersch, the research team included Saurabh Singh, a former research assistant in the Robotics Institute, and Josef Sivic, a researcher at INRIA / Ecole Normale Suprieure.
About Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon (www.cmu.edu) is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia, Europe and Mexico. The university is in the midst of "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.
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We understand, you missed the Olympics and baseball and some very sad football news, mostly because of Lollapalooza. Just because you don?t have time for sports, doesn?t mean you can?t listen to hours and hours of Red Hot Chili Peppers live, does it? It doesn?t. Still, don?t sweat it. VICE has the latest nuggets from this past week covered. If it?s not in here, it?s at a poetry slam.
Olympics: - Michael Phelps?has retired from Olympic competition?as the?most decorated athlete?in the history of the games, beating?some old commie woman?who used to wrestle or something. Everyone likes to?shit on Phelps?for being a square, but what do they expect? He?s an Olympian! He lives at the pool. What, do you want him to curate an All Tomorrow?s Parties? Jesus, get over yourselves.
-The US Olympic basketball team?had a scare?by almost losing to Lithuania on Saturday. Luckily, LeBron James saved the day and they won. It?s a good thing America loves LeBron, right?
- A bunch of badminton teams?threw their round-robin games?so that they?d receive more favorable seeds when important action started. This?isn?t a big deal?basketball teams do it all the time?but it was a bad look, and fans were booing and so on and so forth. The IOC freaked the fuck out and bounced those teams from competition. Good riddance! Will this happen again when Brazil and Spain play in men?s hoops? Winner plays the US, and no one wants that.
- Some dude?opened a brothel?so he could pay for his Olympic training.
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My notes on ?The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur??by Mike Michalowicz
This book had excellent structure, but I?ve only made notes on the sections I found most interesting, so you might find these notes jump around a bit.
Launching Businesses
I loved entrepreneurialism. I could talk about business all day, read every magazine, attend every seminar, and still my thirst would not be quenched. It took me a few years to figure out what was sitting right under my nose the entire time: That I loved launching businesses.
Once I came to the realization that it is the birthing and maturing of a business that I love, I knew the path my future would follow.
Passion is the Starting Point
What would you volunteer to do simply because of your love for it?
What activities bring you the most happiness, energy and satisfaction?
What makes you lose track of time, complete tasks almost effortlessly and come out even more energized?
When you are talking with friends, what is the one subject you can just go on and on and on about, to the point they are rolling their eyes?
Answer these questions and you?ve found your heart?s desire. And when you have found your insatiable thirst, your passion, you will have taken the most important step to launching a company that will excel.
What if building your business made you feel emotionally satisfied, totally happy?
What if your business made a difference?
What if you woke up every morning excited to work?
What if people loved your company?
What if the world heralded what you did and happily consumed what you had to offer?
There is no question about it. If you aren?t passionate about your vocation, you will have a real tough time sustaining a start up, let alone living through the dark days.
And if you aren?t passionate about what you do, someone else who is passionate about it is going to kick your ass into next Sunday.
Your long-term success requires a growing number of customers, consistent cash flow and your ability to outmanoeuvre the competition every step of the way.
Checklist Before Diving In
Before you dive in with your heart, first dive in with your head and make sure you can say a resounding YES to each one of these questions:
Can you make significant money doing this? Meaning, is it realistic that this business will bring in enough bacon for you to cover all your expenses AND stash A LOT away into savings?
Can you make money consistently? Meaning, is it realistic that this new venture will yield a regular, predictable, and growing flow of cash into the company?
Can it be started with little or no money?
Do you want to be an entrepreneur instead of a freelancer? If you want to be a freelancer, you are simply an employee without a boss. A freelancer focuses on mastering the craft, while an entrepreneur focuses on building the systems that support the craft.
Do you want to consume this product/service desperately, but can?t find it? If you do, you ARE the focus group.
Do you know people who aren?t friends and have the same interests as you? Do they also really want this product/service and they can?t find it either?
Is this business consistent with your values? For example, frugal types would be better off starting the next Old Navy rather than the next Polo.
Are people polarized on your concept? Meaning, do some people think it is a great idea and others think it stinks? Polarizing people is a major key to success because it brings about recognition from both sides. The side that hates you talks about it, and the side that loves you defends you. See how polarizing concepts get both sides talking about your business?
Is your business a one-shot, make-or-break deal, or can it be flexible and change as it grows. You may not get it perfectly right on the first go and may discover new things about yourself.
Three Exercises
What do you stand for? What standards do you uphold in your personal life? What do you expect from yourself and others in your life? In what aspects of your life do you waffle a bit? What are the areas where you will not move a muscle? Do you need to loosen up or have more conviction?
Immutable Laws are the backbone of your company. Building on your own values and ethics, what are the Immutable Laws of your company? How do these Immutable Laws benefit you, your staff, your investors, and your customers?
What?s your Why? Why are you an entrepreneur? Why did you choose your specific industry? Why, Why, Why? Keep asking until you get to the heart of the matter.
Feeling Better?
Conventional wisdom indicates that people are motivated by the desire to increase pleasure and the need to avoid pain. I think that is too complicated.
The fact is everyone is out to feel better, and the sole purpose of your business should be to make the customer feel better.
That?s it, game over. All the bull crap aside, feeling better is all that matters.
Case Study: Dick?s Last Resort
Dick?s Last Resort restaurant in South Carolina also leads on Quality, but it sure isn?t the quality of the food. Instead, it is the Quality of the experience.
The wait staff insults guests, mocks their food orders, and forces them to wear goofy hats. It?s definitely not for people without a good sense of self-deprecating humour. But if you like that type of atmosphere, this is the highest Quality experience you can find anywhere.
How many restaurants regularly get five-star ratings on service and atmosphere when their waiters inevitably says, ?Is that all you are going to give me as a tip, you cheap bastard??
Who will kick Wikipedia?s ass?
Britannica failed to stay true to, and continually raise the bar in, its Area of Innovation.
The company was quickly surpassed by Microsoft?s Encarta CDRom, which was later made obsolete by Wikipedia.
All in the name of the same Area of Innovation: Convenience. Wikipedia raised the bar so high on Convenience (instantaneous and unlimited information) that Encarta didn?t have a chance.
It also raised the bar ridiculously high on Price (free) and Quality (it is a living file and constantly updates and improves).
I can?t wait to see who kicks Wiki?s ass. And trust me, someone will. Maybe it will be you.
Business Plan?
Traditional business training and common logic say this is your starting point for launching a company. They couldn?t be more dead wrong. Starting a company is all about serving your needs, your beliefs, and your values first.
Three documents will launch your business faster and better than any business plan. With these powerful documents, your growth will be limited only by your beliefs and focus. Trash your business plan right now because I?m about to teach you the power of three sheets (documents): Your Prosperity Plan, Quarterly Plan and Daily Metrics.
The Prosperity Plan must be all about you and what you envision to be the best, happiest, most perfect scenario for YOU.
Here are the key elements of a visceral, motivating Prosperity Plan:
Life Mission ? What is your life?s purpose?
Destiny ? Once you know your life?s mission, you need to identify your Destiny.
Area of Innovation ? lead in quality, price or convenience
Immutable Laws ? your hardwired beliefs
Community ? the people you are serving
Say No
When you are starting and growing a business, the unimportant stuff keeps creeping in ? the distractions, from reading every email every second it comes in (and clicking the send/receive button a hundred time just to check), to constant instant messaging fests, to ?working? on ?opportunities? that are not in your niche, to time-chewing meetings that don?t help anyone. You need to say, ?No? to this stuff and focus on what is important.
Another cool thing about saying, ?No? to certain people is that they become hungrier. They want what they can?t have.
For two years I served on the board of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (now called EO) and was responsible for growing the membership of our local chapter. Both years I won the award for facilitating one of the three fastest-growing chapters in the world (out of 100). For the ten years prior to that, the chapter had grown about 0.5% per year. I bumped that number up to 75% growth per year. You know what I did differently than the guy before me? I said, ?No.? I limited admission, telling prospective members they had to pass an approval process to qualify for membership. I rejected everyone the first time around, and those who were eventually accepted couldn?t wait to pay the membership fee. That is the power of saying, ?No.?
Haven?t Started Yet?
Capture your action items
Prioritise
Eliminate duplicate tasks that are similar
If it only takes two minutes do it now
Eliminate time wasting tasks
Concentrate your thoughts. Focus
Turn off email
Delegate
Commit to someone else. They?ll hold you accountable
Make it manageable. Bite sized chunks
Take a break
Go in spurts
Reward yourself
Make failure VERY painful
Stop Your Bitching, Bitch. At some point, enough is enough. If you still aren?t taking any action, you should just be embarrassed with yourself. Look in the mirror, acknowledge you have been a pathetic loser to this point, and stop the bullshit now, bitch. Get your ass in gear and starting doing it. Yes, that?s right, I called you a bitch.
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