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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 2 3 II. JURISDICTION AND VENUE ................................................................................. 8 4 III. PARTIES .................................................................................................................... 9 5 A. Plaintiffs .......................................................................................................... 9 6 B. Defendants ....................................................................................................... 9 7 IV. FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS ................................................................................... 17 8 A. Alphabet’s Reputation as a “Good” Company is Key to Recruiting Valuable Employees and Collecting the User Data that Powers Its 9 Products ......................................................................................................... 17 10 B. Defendants Breached their Fiduciary Duties by Protecting and Rewarding Male Harassers ............................................................................ 19 11 1. The Board Has Allowed a Culture Hostile to Women to Fester 12 for Years ............................................................................................. 19 13 a) Sex Discrimination in Pay and Promotions: ........................... 20 14 b) Sex Stereotyping and Sexual Harassment: .............................. 23 15 2. The New York Times Reveals the Board’s Pattern -
The Uber Board Deliberates: Is Good Governance Worth the Firing of an Entrepreneurial Founder? by BRUCE KOGUT *
ID#190414 CU242 PUBLISHED ON MAY 13, 2019 The Uber Board Deliberates: Is Good Governance Worth the Firing of an Entrepreneurial Founder? BY BRUCE KOGUT * Introduction Uber Technologies, the privately held ride-sharing service and logistics platform, suffered a series of PR crises during 2017 that culminated in the resignation of Travis Kalanick, cofounder and longtime CEO. Kalanick was an acclaimed entrepreneur, building Uber from its local San Francisco roots to a worldwide enterprise in eight years, but he was also a habitual rule- breaker. 1 In an effort to put the recent past behind the company, the directors of Uber scheduled a board meeting for October 3, 2017, to vote on critical proposals from new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that were focused essentially on one question: How should Uber be governed now that Kalanick had stepped down as CEO? Under Kalanick, Uber had grown to an estimated $69 billion in value by 2017, though plagued by scandal. The firm was accused of price gouging, false advertising, illegal operations, IP theft, sexual harassment cover-ups, and more.2 As Uber’s legal and PR turmoil increased, Kalanick was forced to resign as CEO, while retaining his directorship position on the nine- member board. His June 2017 resignation was hoped to calm the uproar, but it instead increased investor uncertainty. Some of the firm’s venture capital shareholders (VCs) marked down their Uber holdings by 15% (Vanguard, Principal Financial), while others raised the valuation by 10% (BlackRock).3 To restore Uber’s reputation and stabilize investor confidence, the board in August 2017 unanimously elected Dara Khosrowshahi as Uber’s next CEO. -
Smartphone-Based Vehicle Telematics — a Ten-Year Anniversary Johan Wahlstrom,¨ Isaac Skog, Member, IEEE, and Peter Handel,¨ Senior Member, IEEE
Internet of Things Telematics Vehicle Telematics Smartphone-based Vehicle Telematics Smartphone-based Vehicle Telematics — A Ten-Year Anniversary Johan Wahlstrom,¨ Isaac Skog, Member, IEEE, and Peter Handel,¨ Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—Just like it has irrevocably reshaped social life, Estimated market value: the fast growth of smartphone ownership is now beginning to revolutionize the driving experience and change how we think 263 about automotive insurance, vehicle safety systems, and traffic Internet of Things research. This paper summarizes the first ten years of research in smartphone-based vehicle telematics, with a focus on user- 138 friendly implementations and the challenges that arise due to Telematics the mobility of the smartphone. Notable academic and industrial projects are reviewed, and system aspects related to sensors, Vehicle Telematics 45 energy consumption, cloud computing, vehicular ad hoc net- [Billion dollars] works, and human-machine interfaces are examined. Moreover, we highlight the differences between traditional and smartphone- Smartphone-based based automotive navigation, and survey the state-of-the-art Vehicle Telematics By 2020 By 2019 in smartphone-based transportation mode classification, driver classification, and road condition monitoring. Future advances are expected to be driven by improvements in sensor technology, evidence of the societal benefits of current implementations, and the establishment of industry standards for sensor fusion and Fig. 1. A Venn diagram illustrating the relation between the internet of things, telematics, vehicle telematics, and smartphone-based vehicle telemat- driver assessment. ics. Predicted market values are $263 billion (internet of things, by 2020) [2], Index Terms—Smartphones, internet-of-things, telematics, ve- $138 billion (telematics, by 2020) [7], and $45 billion (vehicle telematics, by hicle navigation, usage-based-insurance, driver classification. -
Astrophysics in 2006 3
ASTROPHYSICS IN 2006 Virginia Trimble1, Markus J. Aschwanden2, and Carl J. Hansen3 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, Las Cumbres Observatory, Santa Barbara, CA: ([email protected]) 2 Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Organization ADBS, Building 252, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304: ([email protected]) 3 JILA, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309: ([email protected]) Received ... : accepted ... Abstract. The fastest pulsar and the slowest nova; the oldest galaxies and the youngest stars; the weirdest life forms and the commonest dwarfs; the highest energy particles and the lowest energy photons. These were some of the extremes of Astrophysics 2006. We attempt also to bring you updates on things of which there is currently only one (habitable planets, the Sun, and the universe) and others of which there are always many, like meteors and molecules, black holes and binaries. Keywords: cosmology: general, galaxies: general, ISM: general, stars: general, Sun: gen- eral, planets and satellites: general, astrobiology CONTENTS 1. Introduction 6 1.1 Up 6 1.2 Down 9 1.3 Around 10 2. Solar Physics 12 2.1 The solar interior 12 2.1.1 From neutrinos to neutralinos 12 2.1.2 Global helioseismology 12 2.1.3 Local helioseismology 12 2.1.4 Tachocline structure 13 arXiv:0705.1730v1 [astro-ph] 11 May 2007 2.1.5 Dynamo models 14 2.2 Photosphere 15 2.2.1 Solar radius and rotation 15 2.2.2 Distribution of magnetic fields 15 2.2.3 Magnetic flux emergence rate 15 2.2.4 Photospheric motion of magnetic fields 16 2.2.5 Faculae production 16 2.2.6 The photospheric boundary of magnetic fields 17 2.2.7 Flare prediction from photospheric fields 17 c 2008 Springer Science + Business Media. -
Jewish Experience on Film an American Overview
Jewish Experience on Film An American Overview by JOEL ROSENBERG ± OR ONE FAMILIAR WITH THE long history of Jewish sacred texts, it is fair to characterize film as the quintessential profane text. Being tied as it is to the life of industrial science and production, it is the first truly posttraditional art medium — a creature of gears and bolts, of lenses and transparencies, of drives and brakes and projected light, a creature whose life substance is spreadshot onto a vast ocean of screen to display another kind of life entirely: the images of human beings; stories; purported history; myth; philosophy; social conflict; politics; love; war; belief. Movies seem to take place in a domain between matter and spirit, but are, in a sense, dependent on both. Like the Golem — the artificial anthropoid of Jewish folklore, a creature always yearning to rise or reach out beyond its own materiality — film is a machine truly made in the human image: a late-born child of human culture that manifests an inherently stubborn and rebellious nature. It is a being that has suffered, as it were, all the neuroses of its mostly 20th-century rise and flourishing and has shared in all the century's treach- eries. It is in this context above all that we must consider the problematic subject of Jewish experience on film. In academic research, the field of film studies has now blossomed into a richly elaborate body of criticism and theory, although its reigning schools of thought — at present, heavily influenced by Marxism, Lacanian psycho- analysis, and various flavors of deconstruction — have often preferred the fashionable habit of reasoning by decree in place of genuine observation and analysis. -
JOURNAL of VIROLOGY VOLUME 63 * DECEMBER 1989 NUMBER 12 Arnold J
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY VOLUME 63 * DECEMBER 1989 NUMBER 12 Arnold J. Levine, Editor in Chief Robert A. Lamb Editor (1992) (1994) Northwestern University Princeton University Stephen P. Goff, Editor (1994) Evanston, Ill. Princeton, N.J. Columbia University Michael B. A. Oldstone, Editor (1993) Joan S. Brugge, Editor (1994) New York, N. Y. Scripps Clinic & Research University ofPennsylvania Peter M. Howley, Editor (1993) Foundation Philadelphia, Pa. National Cancer Institute La Jolla, Calif. Bernard N. Fields, Editor (1993) Bethesda, Md. Thomas E. Shenk, Editor (1994) Harvard Medical School Princeton University Boston, Mass. Princeton, N.J. EDITORIAL BOARD Rafi Ahmed (1991) Emanuel A. Faust (1990) Robert A. Lazzarini (1990) William S. Robinson (1989) James Alwine (1991) S. Jane Flint (1990) Jonathan Leis (1991) Bernard Roizman (1991) David Baltimore (1990) William R. Folk (1991) Myron Levine (1991) John K. Rose (1991) Amiya K. Banerjee (1990) Donald Ganem (1991) Arthur D. Levinson (1991) Naomi Rosenberg (1989) Tamar Ben-Porat (1990) Costa Georgopolous (1989) Maxine Linial (1991) Roland R. Rueckert (1991) Kenneth I. Berns (1991) Walter Gerhard (1989) David M. Livingston (1991) Norman P. Salzman (1990) Joseph B. Bolen (1991) Mary-Jane Gething (1990) Douglas R. Lowy (1989) Charles E. Samuel (1989) Michael Botchan (1989) Joseph C. Glorioso (1989) Malcohm Martin (1989) Priscilla A. Schaffer (1990) Thomas J. Braciale (1991) Larry M. Gold (1991) Robert Martin (1990) Sondra Schlesinger (1989) Dalius J. Briedis (1991) Hidesaburo Hanafusa (1989) Warren Masker (1990) Robert J. Schneider (1991) Michael J. Buchmeier (1989) John Hassell (1989) James McDougall (1990) Bart Sefton (1991) Robert Callahan (1991) William S. Hayward (1990) Thomas Merigan (1989) Bert L. -
Cïje ;Palestine #A?Ette
Cïje ;Palestine #a?ette No. 1544 THURSDAY, 26TH DECEMBER, 1946 1247 CONTENTS Page GOVERNMENT NOTICES ־ High Commissioner's Christmas Message 1249 Appointment of Consul at the French Consulate General in Jerusalem - - 1249 Appointment of Chief Magistrate to act as Relieving President of a District Court - 1249 Appointment of Registrar to act as Judge of a District Court - - 1249 Obituary - - - ... - 1249 ־ - - Appointments, etc. - 1249 ־ Lists of Graduate Nurses - - - - 1250 Adjudication of Contracts - - - - - 1251 ־ - ׳ Palestine Savings Certificates lost - - 1252 Claims for Mutilated Currency Notes - - - 1252 State Domain to be let by Auction - - - - 1252 Citation Orders - - - - - 1253 RETURNS Financial Statement at the 31st August, 1946 - - - - 1262 Statement of Assets and Liabilities at the 31st August, 1946 - - - 1264 Abstract of Estimates, 1946/47, of the Local Council of Hertseliya - - 1265 Quarantine and Infectious Diseases Summary - . - - 1266 NOTICES REGARDING COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES, BANKRUPTCIES, ETC. ... !266 SUPPLEMENT No. 2. The following subsidiary legislation is published in Supplement No. 2 which forms part of this Gazette: — Orders Nos. 27 and 28 of 1946, under the Palestine Orders in Council, 1922 to 1939, converting certain Land from the Category termed "Metrouke" into the Category . termed "Miri" - - - - - - 1507 Road Transport (Petroleum Development (Palestine) Limited) Order, 1946, under the ־ - Road Transport Rules - - - 1508 Notices under the Land (Acquisition for Public Purposes) Ordinance, 1943, regarding Acquisition -
Aagrapevine Youtube Channel
AAGrapevine YouTube Channel In 2017, the General Service Conference recommended “that AA Grapevine create a Google for Nonprofits ac- count limited to the YouTube Nonprofit Program.” AA Grapevine, Inc. is currently displaying content on the channel, consistent with AA principles and copyrights. The channel was first populated with AAWS’ engaging, Conference-approved PSA: “Doors”, an animated version of a member’s recorded story for the GV Audio Project and two behind-the-scenes clips from the plant where the magazines are printed. We have since added a timeline of the making of our Big Book as well as a discussion from one of our non-alcoholic Class A Trustees on the use of AA Grapevine in CPC (Cooperation with the profes- sional Community) work. Expansion of the AA Grapevine YouTube collection is in process, with the ultimate goal of hosting video content that may be of use or interest to members, the general public and the professional community. The first series will fall under the umbrella of “Explainer Videos” that will serve to convey useful information on various topics with the purpose of streamlining access to multi-media content. This has been launched with the release of ani- mated videos celebrating our 75 Year Anniversary in both English and Spanish. The “comments section” on the Youtube page are disabled. Please go to www.youtube.com/c/AAGrapevine to view our Youtube page. Below is a screen shot of our progress thus far. Any questions or feedback related to the AAGrapevine YouTube Channel should be sent to [email protected]. 11/2019 475 Riverside Drive, Room 1040, New York, NY 10115 | Tel. -
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The Struggle for Rights in the Gig Economy Anne Dufresne And
Anne Dufresne and Cédric Leterme APP WORKERS UNITED The struggle for rights in the gig economy © Michael Bakas EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP European Parliament, B-1047 Brussels, Belgium +32 (0)2 283 23 01 [email protected] www.left.eu January 2021 Going forward, you will see us more loudly advocate for new laws like Prop 22, which we believe strike the balance between preserving the flexibility that drivers value so much, while adding protections that all gig workers deserve …. It’s a priority for us to work with governments across the U.S. and the world to make this a reality” Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber CEO, 5 November 2020. “We have come here (in the European GA) to breathe new life into the sentiment of unity. Feeling like members of a community is what feeds into our strength, what allows us to stand up against this individualism that seems to be triumphing everywhere. It is the understanding that the root of all of our struggles is the same. This is why we have to fight together in the struggles we face, but also those facing all workers. It is only by standing shoulder to shoulder that we can feel part of this community”, IWGB Courier, at the beginning of the European GA, 25 October 2018. “The more complex the world, the more essential solidarity becomes, the harder it is to live with”. Edgar Morin, Penser l’Europe, 1987. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................7 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Part A: Context and challenges of platform work ....................................................................... 21 1. “Platform work”: what are we talking about? .................................................................... -
GV Alyve Datasheet
DATASHEET GV Alyve Cloud-based Video Stream Selection and Distribution Tool GV Alyve is a cloud-based video stream selection and distribution tool platform, empow- ering broadcasters and media organizations to manage video streaming selection across all major social media platforms and OTT applications. GV Alyve’s SaaS platform is designed to help digital teams maximize their resources, with no additional software or hardware needed to utilize its browser-based tools. With GV Alyve from Grass Valley, you can achieve the following: Native Facebook Live Integration • Increase the speed, efficiency and engagement of live streaming and social Through a partnership with Facebook, GV Alyve publishes natively to Face- media feeds book live. Through this integration, in one click you can stream to Facebook • Create engaging media channels that expand monetization opportunities Pages, Facebook Profiles, Facebook Events and Groups. You also have the with live ingest of multiple live video feeds to Facebook Live, OTT, YouTube ability to stream live to multiple designations. Native integration with other Live, Twitter and RTMP platforms platforms are coming soon (YouTube Live, Twitch, Periscope/Twitter). • Add professional graphics to your live streams • Aggregate analytics from multiple platforms in real time to correlate engage- Simple Static Graphics ment of your audience with the content delivery GV Alyve allows you to insert graphics on top of live videos. You can add, Here are some of the latest, groundbreaking features that enable creative preview and schedule when graphics show and for how long. talent to produce live content, faster in GV Alyve: Cloud Stream Management Web-based HTML 5 (Access from Anywhere) Stream virtualization allows you to stream to GV Alyve Social Stream- In a typical newsroom, speed is everything.