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WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg to Keynote Flagship Joomla! Conference
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2013) - Joomla, one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced that Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of open source CMS WordPress, will give a keynote speech at the Joomla World Conference. Joomla's flagship annual conference runs November 8-10, 2013 in Boston at Harvard University's Joseph B. Martin Conference Center. Mullenweg is scheduled to give the conference's closing keynote on Sunday, November 10.
Joomla and WordPress are the world's two most utilized content management systems. According to independent analysis, more than 23 percent of all websites leverage the two content management systems combined.
"We're excited to have Matt share his experiences because collaboration not only in the Joomla community but among open source projects is essential," said Paul Orwig, president of Open Source Matters, a non-profit created to provide organization, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. "The more ideas we have flowing between open source tools means the more powerful and usable they will be; ultimately making the digital world a better place."
Mullenweg is one of many high-profile open source and web design personalities including Ethan Marcotte, named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the 100 most creative people in business, who will take the stage at the Joomla World Conference 2013. For more details about the Joomla World Conference, go to conference.joomla.org.
About Joomla! Joomla is one of the world's most popular software packages used to build, organize, manage and publish content for websites, blogs, Intranets and mobile applications. With more than 3 percent of the Web running on Joomla, the free open source content management system (CMS) powers the web presence of hundreds of thousands of small businesses, governments, non-profits and large organizations worldwide like Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's and Sony. The award-winning CMS is led by an international community of more than a half million active contributors, helping the most inexperienced user to seasoned web developer make their digital visions a reality. Joomla's power and extensibility has resulted in its software being downloaded more than 40 million times.
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WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg to Keynote Flagship Joomla! Conference
Six Letter Word
Noon, Friday, Oct. 4, Lon Chaney Theatre(screens with Mad Ship); 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 5, City Auditorium
For a short film whose first line is "I don't do anal," Six Letter Word is remarkably sweet and limitedly edgy. The title refers both to a boy's fixation with crossword puzzles and the autism responsible for it.
Writer/director Lisanne Sartor, who made the $25,000 movie for her final student project at the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, notes in some press materials that the film was inspired by her own experiences coming to terms with her older son's autism. That said, she's quick to point out that she's "not the unlikely mom in the film."
That would be Zoe, played by an adept Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce and Demi), who in order to support her autistic child, Jax, performs sex work. In the opening scene, she meets Pete (an also-solid Josh Braaten), who just wants someone to hold while falling asleep.
Then she surprisingly re-meets Pete, as he's a school therapist to whom her mother Marilyn insists Jax be taken for a diagnosis. That's where she hears that Jax "doesn't need fixing, he needs help adapting."
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Which pretty much sums up each character in the film, as tensions play out between the family members and between Zoe and Pete, thankfully not in any predicted sentimental or sappy way.
Sartor makes no side judgment on Zoe's profession (hence the opening line), avoiding a pitfall digression. More so, she keeps the focus on what a mother is willing to do for a child, as well as on the affliction itself. It's a tight 16 minutes of student-level filmmaking with some mid-level Hollywood actors contributing weight.
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Sri Lanka: Question raised on truth of Navi Pillay statement
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 October 2013, 00:59 GMT] UN Human Rights chief Ms Navanetham Pillay, in a press interview in Colombo towards the end of her recent visit to the island, has said that no one she had met there used the word genocide. TamilNet comes to know that there were specific instances in which responsible civil society members meeting her had told her about genocide in the island, using the very word genocide in English. Ms Navi Pillay held her civil society meetings under Chatham House rules. In Vanni she told people that they could whisper in her ear. Has she misused such conditions to suppress what had actually been told to her, in order to shield an imperial design that accommodates genocide by the Agent State? Why should she hide the fact that the island Tamils in deed spoke to her on genocide, asks the civil society in the island.
Ms. Navi Pillay gave an exclusive interview to Easwaran Rutnam, the editor of Colombo Gazzette, on 31 August.
The Tamil Diaspora tends to often raise the issue that there is genocide taking place in Sri Lanka. During your visit have you seen something to that effect or is it an exaggeration, asked Mr Rutnam.
Navi Pillay replied: Well nobody used that word to me; not in authorities or civil society. Genocide is particularly a legal word. I [inaudible] people since I was judge on the genocide tribunal to say that there has to be proof of an intent to destroy in whole or in part a nation, a group. This is what happened in Rwanda. That is a clear case of genocide. However its not for me to judge. Its only after proper investigations the judges, based on the evidence, can conclude whether and what crimes were committed.
At least two respectable civil society members who met Navi Pillay have told her in clear terms that what had taken place was genocide and what is taking place after the war in 2009 is structural genocide committed on the nation of Eezham Tamils, TamilNet learns this week from first hand sources in the island.
If the former international judge, who has investigated Rwanda and has found it a clear case of genocide, now as the UN human rights chief chooses to suppress even submissions on genocide by Eezham Tamils in the island, then that itself is a matter for investigation, commented civil society circles in the island.
Washington and New Delhi that architected the war and the aftermath in the island do not concede that the Sinhala State has committed genocide and is committing structural genocide.
The upper layer of Tamils being pro-imperial is the obstacle to the Tamil struggle for liberation and self-determination, Tamil political analysts say.
If Ms Navi Pillay thinks that genocide in the island has to be proved through proper investigations why shouldnt she call for it now itself, rather than waiting for the end results to prove irrefutable, but then irredeemable genocide, ask civil society circles.
Ms Navi Pillay's predecessor Ms Louise Arbour went as the chief of the International Crisis Group (ICG), after her tenure in the UN. The ICG, under her leadership was in the forefront in denying the genocide committed on Eezham Tamils. At a later stage, when world public criticism was mounting on, the ICG came out with a similar statement like that of the present statement of Ms Navi Pillay that genocide has to be proved by legal means as though it is somebody else's job and not of their concern.
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PRESS DIGEST- British Business – Oct 2
Oct 2 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The Times
PROFIT IS NOT A DIRTY WORD, SAYS CAMERON
Profit is not a dirty word, David Cameron will say today, as he mounts a passionate defence of big business.
ROYAL MAIL SET TO DEBUT AT 340P, SAY BOOKMAKERS
Spread-betting firms operating a so-called grey market in Royal Mail shares - a bet on what the price will be at the close of its debut day's trading on Friday week - were indicating last night that the shares could hit 340 pence.
The Telegraph
REGULATORS TO HAVE POWER TO EJECT BANK BOSSES UNDER STRESS TEST PLANS Bank bosses could be ejected by regulators if they fail to bullet-proof their companies against economic shocks.
The Guardian
BANKERS FACE JAIL TERM FOR 'RECKLESS MISCONDUCT' Government's proposed new offence could mean term of up to seven years, although reform bill not expected until 2014.
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