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Erin Gruwell is an educator and president of ‘The Freedom Writers Foundation’. When Erin landed her first job at Wilson High School in Long Beach, CA, she discovered many of her students had been written off by the education system and deemed ‘unteachable’.
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With humour and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden but influential world of brand marketing, on his quest to make a completely sponsored film about sponsorship. (And yes, onstage naming rights for this talk were sponsored too). By whom and for how much? He’ll tell you.
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What’s in a name? Something and everything. Many of us wonder what our parents were thinking when they named us but sometimes I think life has a way of showing us there’s rhyme and reason beyond even what they intended.
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“Gehan Gunasekara specialises in the areas of franchising law and information privacy law. He has published widely in these areas both locally and overseas. He has contributed to the literature on the need for the protection of whistle-blowers.
Tags: 'Law in Business and Government in New Zealand, A Most Wanted Man by Le Carre, acceptable level of living, allow others to replicate successful business model, allow the copying of drug patents without charge, better quality of life, bulk discounts a franchise system, business cloning, China, clean technlogies without charge, comicStyle, contributor to several books, developed countries, economic measures, economies of scale, expansion, Featured Content, field of Franchise Law, franchises provide the capital, Gail Penney, Gehan Gunasekara, Ideas worth spreading, India, information privacy law, internet, issue of business compliance with privacy laws, issues concerning both privacy and franchising, issues that arise when personal information is transferred from one country to another, legal issues affecting franchising, lifeStyle, main blog, member of the academic reference committee for the Review of Privacy by the Law Commission, mindStyle matters, My Life: Fidel Castro edited by Ignacio Ramonet, need for the protection of whistle-blowers, online social networking and the Internet, other universe, penneylane, penneylaneonline, per capita income, post Western financial crisis, published widely, recognition by customers of the existing network, regular commentator in national media, researched privacy issues connected with applications such as online social networking, Safety features depend on the size, scale down their own levels of consumption, specialises in the areas of franchising law, successful business model, support and training provided by the franchise head office, Ted Talk, The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, the incidence and areas of franchise litigation in New Zealand, The Law of Business Organisations, tour de force, turnStyle, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
Aram Sinnreich envisions a new internet that uses mesh networking to produce a stable, ad hoc, global wireless network in which each user is a router, server and client combined, and in which no single state or organisation can effectively censor or surveil the population on a broad scale.
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