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Q: periodic executions with tkinter I have written a messaging program and I have hit a problem when testing it.
If I want to send messages at different time intervals, say 100, 200 and 300 milliseconds the program takes the first time and applies it to all messages, but if I include the after within a loop it sends the messages at varying speeds from 3 to 419 ms?
Could someone advise how I can apply different waiting times to different messages?
global running
        i_ref = 0
        items = self.Translist.curselection()

        for i in items:
           i_ref = int(i)
           if(int(transList[i_ref].tTimer) <= 0):
               pass
           else:
               if running == 0:
                   self.retrans = self.window.after(transList[i_ref].tTimer, self.Enter)
                   self.TranButton.config(state = 'disabled')
               else:
                   running = 0
                   self.window.after_cancel(self.retrans)

           system('echo "%s %s 0x%s %d 0x%s 0x%s 0x%s 0x%s 0x%s 0x%s 0x%s 0x%s" >/dev/pcan33' %
                (transList[i_ref].msgType,
                transList[i_ref].canType,
                transList[i_ref].canID,
                int(transList[i_ref].DLC),
                transList[i_ref].tData0,
                transList[i_ref].tData1,
                transList[i_ref].tData2,
                transList[i_ref].tData3,
                transList[i_ref].tData4,
                transList[i_ref].tData5,
                transList[i_ref].tData6,
                transList[i_ref].tData7))

This is the function code so far, it is called via button press.

A: after only guarantees to run something sometime after the given time, not exactly at the interval specified. If you specify 100ms, it could be 100ms, it could be 101 or 200 or anything else. It is not a real time, high resolution timer. In a system with a light load, it's usually pretty close.
Remember that tkinter runs in a single thread and can only done one thing at a time. If you schedule something 100ms in the future, and then you start running code that takes 200ms to finish, the timer can't run anything until that code is finished, so even if you request 100ms, it will be 200ms or more since it has to wait for the other code to finish.


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ExxonMobil's climate fraud case finally goes to trial
"This will only be the second climate-change case ever to go to trial in the United States."
Alexandra Jacobo
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ExxonMobile, the United States' largest fossil fuel company, goes to trial this week over accusations that the company lied to investors about the cost of climate change on the business.
"This will only be the second climate-change case ever to go to trial in the United States," said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.
Exxon is accused by the New York attorney general of misleading investors, using two sets of numbers when assigning an internal price to carbon that modeled how government regulation might affect business. One set of numbers the company used in presentations to their investors while another set of numbers was used in internal documents, essentially skewing the estimations of potential returns on investment.
"Exxon in effect erected a Potemkin village to create the illusion that it had fully considered the risks of future climate change regulation and had factored those risks into its business operations," the lawsuit states. "As a result of Exxon's fraud, the company was exposed to far greater risk from climate change regulations than investors were led to believe." A defeat could also lesson Exxon's reputation with the public.
Although many journalists point out that any sort of fine against the company would be "a drop in the bucket" a guilty verdict could "send a signal to companies that New York intends hold them accountable for climate change, including their disclosure of the potential risks."
On Monday, a team of researchers released a new report detailing the fossil fuel industry's decades-long campaign of deception, aimed at hoodwinking the American public.
Once again connecting the fossil fuel industry with the tobacco industry's efforts to mislead the American public into thinking cigarettes were safe, the report shows how "the fossil fuel industry has subjected the American public to a well-funded, well-orchestrated disinformation campaign about the reality and severity of human-caused climate change."
The well-timed report also "explores the techniques used to mislead the American public about climate change, and outlines ways of inoculating against disinformation." You can read it here.
In August, Exxon was accused of trying to discourage witnesses from testifying against them in the case. The company was accused of intimidating witnesses by making them disclose all contact they've had with experts and environmental groups. Environmental groups refused to back down, however, declaring "we won't be intimidated."
ExxonMobil is after us again. @NewYorkStateAG is currently suing them for fraud.
Now, ExxonMobil is attempting to intimidate witnesses from testifying by making them disclose all contact they've had with 350. #exxonknew #MakeThemPayhttps://t.co/Artfvfev8z
— 350 dot org (@350) August 8, 2019
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On the Gulf of Saint Tropez, Sainte-Maxime is a popular destination for holidaymakers staying in the Var. The town became a renowned resort in the late 19th century from which the city has retained a unique architecture which is very prominent in its casino building. It is nice to discover the charms of the city by walking along its narrow streets or in the alleys of the covered market.


At some point in our lives we will find ourselves moving home and trying to settle into a new property. This can be a bit of a daunting experience. After all, you'll find yourself waking up in a completely new place, in an entirely new location, and surrounded by unfamiliar people. When you're in this situation, housewarming gifts can really cheer you up and put a smile on your face, making the whole experience seem a little more positive. So, if you have some loved ones who are in this situation, you might want to treat them how you'd like to be treated and either take a little gift around or have one delivered to them. However, rather than the standard bottle of wine or bunch of flowers, you should consider getting them something a little bit different. After all, they're probably going to be swamped with these items from other well-meaning loved ones. So, here are a few different ideas to get you started on the right foot!
Perhaps the easiest thing to send to a friend's new home is a housewarming card. This is simple and most gift shops will have a wide array for you to pick from. It literally takes a few moments to write an endearing message inside and pop it in the post, so there's no excuse not to! Just make sure that you definitely have the right address and to time it to arrive once they are definitely in the house. After all, you don't want it getting there early and the previous residents to throw it to one side not recognising the name on the envelope.
It's nice to have something coming through the post other than bills, especially when you're in a new property. So why not sign your loved one up for a subscription service. This will ensure that there's at least one positive piece of correspondence coming through their letterbox once every single month. Now, you can go for standard magazine subscriptions as long as you have a good idea of what your friend likes to read and that they aren't already signed up (nobody wants two copies of the same publication after all). However, there are other options out there on the market. No matter what the person you're buying for is interested in, there will be something to meet their tastes and preferences. For booklovers, there are literary subscriptions that see a book posted monthly. For tea fanatics, you can have a range of specialist tea bags sent in pretty little boxes. If your pal is obsessed with their pet, you can get dog or cat subscription boxes that are filled with treats and toys for their beloved four legged friend.
Walls can often appear a little plain and empty when you first move into a property, so turn the blank space into a potential canvas by offering different pieces of wall art to your loved ones when they first move in. Not only will this make a dull space a little more vibrant, but you can offer something that will add a personal touch to your friend's space too. Panoramic canvas prints turn special scenic moments into full size features that compliment any space. Alternatively, you might want to find out a replica print of one of their favourite pieces of classical or modern art – whether this may be Van Gogh, Picasso, Klimt, or Monet. Take time and care to pick out a frame that goes well with the colours of the piece and the style of the strokes. This will allow them to hang it straight away, rather than the print being tucked away, crumpled, and forgotten about, as framing gets put off. There are also plenty of prints offered by small, independent artists of all sorts – from comics to illustrations. It's always great to support a local or relatively unrecognised artist. A final option is to have a specialist portrait made, perhaps of their pet. This adds a real personal touch to the gift!
As we start to get a little older, you'll often find that people are moving into a new house because they're planning on hearing the pitter patter of little feet in the near future or they already have a little one on the way. So, you can make their housewarming gift something a little more appropriate for their needs. Pregnancy pillows can prove to be a cute additional piece for their interior design, as well as serving a more practical purpose. Posture isn't something that the average person tends to take into account. Either we have good posture ingrained in how we sit and stand naturally, or we completely neglect it and stand, sit, and lie exactly as we please. However, during pregnancy, the balance of a pregnant person's body will be offset by their bump and much more of their weight will be placed on their front, which puts more pressure on their back, which can result in pulls, aches, and pains. Pregnancy pillows are specially shaped pillows that can be used to make lying down or sitting a more comfortable experience by supporting different parts of the pregnant person's body. They should sit on chairs with good back support and use the pregnancy pillow by placing it near the lumbar of their back for additional support as and when they need it. When sleeping, they should (of course) avoid sleeping on their stomach (which would be dangerous and uncomfortable) or on their back (which puts more stress on their heart, especially during the third trimester) but can use the pillow to support their head while they sleep on their side.
These are just a few different ideas to get your imagination whirring and inspire you a little. While your friend may find themselves in an uncomfortable situation when they first move in, these little bits and bobs can distract them and bring some joy and comfort to their situation!
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I remember when the planes hit the building.
I was young, 10 years old, back when mornings were dedicated to cartoons, afternoons to Oprah and evenings to the five o'clock news, which came on in the middle of dinner.
My mom came up to me as I sat at our kitchen table, three houses ago, to ask if I was alright, if I had any questions.
What do you ask, at 10? What do you notice changing? Eight years older, even five, would have made a difference. But the truth is that in 2001, I was too young and too busy being a kid to recognize anything about the world that would soon be left behind. I don't remember not having to take your shoes off at the airport. The terms 'war on terror,' 'homeland security' and Al-Qaeda, nation-building and freedom fighting, have always been around. The world post-9/11 is a different world, one that holds a lot of fear for things we barely understand.
I have a lot of questions now.
My last book of 2014 was Hassan Abbas' The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier, and as the title suggests, the book looks at the Taliban's resurgence in a country that's hosted Canada's longest war, after decades of other conflicts.
It was a gripping read in the way my hands wouldn't let go and the way my thoughts were caught in rapt attention.
It starts with the Soviet invasion, and a detailed background on Pakistan's deeply rooted tribal customs. Start to finish from start to present, the book offers an overview of the economic, social, political, religious and ideological contexts that birthed the Taliban, brought it to its political 'death' and are now allowing for its return.
Abbas argues many factors plagued the international intervention in Afghanistan and its subsequent nation-building strategy, or lack thereof. Being too central in focus, not attending to educational or economic needs, conflicting strategies and the existence warlords in the forgotten rural corners of the country were, in part and in combination, to blame.
Add those to his points that democracy relies on rule of law, and that it's incredibly difficult to piece together a country its neighbours want to tear apart, and you begin to realize the depth of what has been a terribly long and hellish situation.
Pakistan's India concerns, the influx and influence of Saudi dollars, the intricate tribal rivalries that pre-date anyone able to tell you that they saw how they started, are all covered in The Taliban Revival. In these ways, Abbas argues, lie the biggest threats to recreating a vibrant, democratic Afghanistan. In understanding them, lie its biggest opportunities.
The war is not over. With its military mission closed, Canada has committed itself to aiding the battle for human rights and democracy. Advancing the rights of Afghan women and girls, and advancing the country's rule of law, democracy and security are the priorities between now and 2017. It's a commitment that also comes with $227 million in development assistance, and $330 million to help sustain the Afghan National Security Forces.
If only one lesson can be drawn from Abbas' book, it should be that context is absolutely everything. And despite (or perhaps because of) years of training, aid and intervention, at the onset of 2015, 'absolutely everything' is delicate for Afghanistan.


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Music Review: Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - 'Going Back Home'
The early 1960s saw the rise of an incredible number of blues based rock and roll bands in of all places the British Isles. The Animals, Led Zepplin, The Yardbirds, The Kinks and The Rolling Stones (yes they started off as a blues band - listen to their early albums) were just a few of those whose careers were shaped by the blues. While most of them went on to become part of the music establishment, at the time their music was considered rebellious and dangerous by the establishment. They also entrenched their style of music into British pop culture.
No matter what was being played on the popular music stations or rising high in the charts, the blues seemed to always be hanging around the fringes ready to raise its head when people wanted to hear something a little more rebellious than what was normally available. So when four guys from Canvey Island, about thirty mile east of London up the Thames River in England, decided to form Dr Feelgood, the band who impressed everyone from Johnny Rotten to Richard Hell with their rawness and intensity, they looked to the blues and R&B for their inspiration.
The creative force behind Dr. Feelgood for their formative years was guitarist and primary songwriter Wilko Johnson. While Johnson left the band soon after their fourth album, he's never left the style of music he played with them behind. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012, he's been grabbing at as many opportunities as possible to make and record the music he loves while he can. (His doctors told him he was only going to make it until October 2013 - but he's defied all their predictions and is still performing)
One of the projects he's undertaken was teaming up with Who frontman Roger Daltrey to record an album of ten Johnson penned, and one cover, R&B/blues/rock and roll songs called Going Back Home. Released on the Chess record label in the UK the disc is being issued in North America by Universal Music Enterprises. While it might appear the two are a generation apart as Daltrey and The Who were part of the early 1960s British rock scene, and Johnson the early 70s, they both share a love for what they call British R&B.
Lyrically speaking none of Johnson's songs are going to change the world or even probably change your life. However, that's not the point of this music. The songs on this disc are about things we can all relate to, whether we want to admit it or not. While it might be a bit odd to hear these two veterans of the rock wars singing songs about being young and irresponsible, when it comes down to it, isn't that what rock and roll should be about? A celebration of everything the supposed adult world looks down upon.
The disc's opening and title track is a perfect example. The music is rollicking, I defy anyone with any soul in their body to resist the urge to dance while listening to it, while the lyrics are a celebration of the ups and downs of a irresponsible life. "I wanna live the way I like,/Sleep all the morning, go out and get my fun at night./Things ain't like that here,/Working just to keep my payments clear." Bemoaning having to actually work to do the things you want to do might not seem overly rebellious to some, but considering the fact Britain is the home of the Protestant Work Ethic, this type of attitude would make Margret Thatcher spin in her grave.
For those of you who are wondering how Daltrey sounds after all these years, as far as I'm concerned his voice sounds better then it ever has. Of course that could be my own personal bias as I've never been one for the rock and roll vocal pyrotechnics he used to engage in during his younger years. However, on this recording his voice is a wonderful growl full of expressive twists and turns which is perfect for the material. Listening to this disc you swear he was born to sing this music as he not only sounds great he has the right attitude to express the sentiments behind the words. The tough kid from the streets who once sang "I hope I die before I get old" is still alive and well and giving the establishment a two finger salute.
The band accompanying the two front men are the perfect match to the music as well. They are the perfect combination of sounding like they could go off the rails at any moment while at the same time being incredibly tight. It helps that Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Dylan Howe (drums) are Johnson's regular rhythm section, but Mick Talbot on piano and Hammond Organ and Steve Weston on harmonica are equally at ease with the music and the rest of the band. Weston especially is incredible. His harmonica playing is the perfect accompaniment to Daltrey's voice, providing an amazing counterpoint to his growls without ever overwhelming him.
Of course Johnson is Johnson. His guitar is the motor driving each and every song. Whether he's chugging along in the background playing rhythm or delivering short choppy leads, his playing is a lesson in the old adage of less is more. He gets more out of what he does in a few seconds than most rock gods can get out of a ten minute solo. There's an intensity to his playing (and his stage presence) that few to this day can match. The ten original songs he's penned for this album, match his playing style, as at first listen they seem to be simplicity in themselves, but you gradually realize there's a lot more to them they you first thought.
Going Back Home is a wonderful and imaginative collaboration from two men who've never lost their love for rock and roll. Even their choice of a cover, Bob Dylan's "Won't You Please Crawl Out Your Window" from his Highway 61 Revisitedalbum, is inspired. They've turned it into a wonderful, rollicking R&B song which fits the mood of the track perfectly. In some ways you can almost imagine Dylan recording it this way, as that could easily be Al Kooper on the organ or members of The Band providing the bass, drums and guitar. However, just because the disc looks to the past occasionally, there's no way you can call this an exercise in nostalgia. This album is a timely reminder of how the soul of rock and roll is still rebellion.
(Article originally published at Blogcritics.org as Music Review: Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home)
(Originally posted April 2014)


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Der FK Slawija-Masyr (, /FK Slawija-Mosyr) ist ein Fußballverein aus der belarussischen Stadt Masyr. Der belarussische Meister von 1996 und 2000 spielt in der Saison 2015 in der Wyschejschaja Liha, der höchsten Spielklasse des Landes.

Geschichte
Der Fußballklub wurde 1987 unter dem Namen Palesse Masyr gegründet. Nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion 1992 spielte der Verein zunächst in der Pershaya Liha, der zweithöchsten Fußballklasse in Belarus. 1995 gelang dann der Aufstieg in die Wyschejschaja Liha. Im gleichen Jahr erfolgte eine Umbenennung in MPKZ (Mosyrskij Promyschlenno-Kommertscheskij Zentr), drei Jahre später in Slavija Masyr. In der obersten Liga wurde der Verein in der Saison 1996 auf Anhieb Vizemeister, ein Jahr später gewann er seinen ersten Meistertitel. Eine weitere Vizemeisterschaft 1999 und eine Meisterschaft 2000 folgen. Darüber hinaus konnte zweimal, 1996 und 2000, der nationale Pokal gewonnen werden, zwei weitere Male erreichte die Mannschaft das Pokalendspiel.

In der Qualifikation zur UEFA Champions League 1997/98 und zur UEFA Champions League 2001/02 erreichte der Verein jeweils die zweite Runde. 1997 konnte der moldawische Meister Constructorul Chișinău bezwungen werden, ehe man gegen Olympiakos Piräus ausschied. 2001 setzte sich die Mannschaft gegen den färöischen Meister VB Vágur durch und scheiterte anschließend an Inter Bratislava. Im Europapokal der Pokalsieger 1996/97 erfolgte das Aus bereits in der ersten Qualifikationsrunde gegen KR Reykjavík. Auch bei seinen beiden Auftritten im UEFA-Pokal schied der Verein jeweils in der ersten Qualifikationsrunde aus, 1997 gegen Dinamo Tiflis und 2000 gegen Maccabi Haifa.

Nach dem zweiten Meistertitel 2000 ging es für Slawija Masyr bergab. In der Liga belegte die Mannschaft nur noch hintere Plätze und stieg nach einem 14. Platz 2005 nach zehn Jahren Erstklassigkeit in die zweitklassige Pershaya Liha ab. Nach dieser sportlich wie wirtschaftlich erfolglosen Saison fusionierte der Verein Anfang 2006 mit ZLiN Homel zu FK Masyr-ZLiN auf materieller Grundlage des nun offiziell aufgelösten Slawija Masyr. 2007 spielte der Klub unter dem Namen FK Masyr, seit 2008 trägt er den Namen FK Slawija-Masyr. 2009 konnte sich der Verein erst durch einen Sieg in einem Entscheidungsspiel um den Abstieg vor dem Absturz in die Drittklassigkeit retten.

2006 wurde Orange-Schwarz zu den offiziellen Vereinsfarben ernannt. Seit 2007 tritt die Mannschaft wieder in den ehemaligen Farben von Slawija Masyr Rot-Schwarz auf.

Vereinsnamen
 1987 – Palesse Masyr
 1995–1998 – MPKZ
 1998–2005 – Slawija Masyr
 2006 – FK Masyr-ZLiN (nach Fusion mit dem Klub ZLiN Homel)
 2007 – FK Masyr
 2008 – FK Slawija-Masyr

Stadion
Die Heimspiele des Klubs finden im Junaztwa-Stadion (Stadion der Jugend) in Masyr statt, welches 5300 Zuschauern Platz bietet.

Erfolge
 Belarussische Fußballmeisterschaft
 Meister (2): 1996, 2000
 Vizemeister (2): 1995, 1999
 Belarussischer Fußballpokal
 Sieger (2): 1996, 2000
 Finalist (2): 1999, 2001

Statistiken und Tabellen

Belarussische Meisterschaft

Europapokalbilanz

Einzelnachweise

Belarussischer Fußballverein
Sport (Masyr)
FK Slawija-Masyr

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Experience Korea with the AYFN's Korea Experience Program. This program is open to students and learners desiring a short-term immersion program in Korean language and Korean culture. With the goal of increasing foreign students' understanding of The Republic of South Korea, The AYFN Exchange Academy and Seongbuk Global Cultural Village are offering an invaluable Korean learning cultural immersion program. The program combines Korean language training with daily activities and cultural excursions to enhance the Korean experience. This entails a program which is specifically designed to offer Korean classes for students/youth from ages 14-25 as well as a chance for these students to gain a cultural understanding of Korea. This will be done through both visiting famous Seoul attractions and partaking in typical cultural activities such as experiencing Korean tradition (wear handbook), making your own Korean dumplings or learning about traditional Korean Calligraphy. Our aim is to inspire the students to open their minds to other cultures and recognize the importance of language learning at the same time. We want the students to end their trip by leaving with a better knowledge of Korea and a firm basis of the Korea language. During the program, students will take public transport (Bus, Metro, subway train) to deepen understand about Korean way of life and be like a local.
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Johannes Ernst Born, auch Johann Ernst Born, (* 20. Dezember 1884 in Niederfähre bei Meißen; † 1958) war ein deutscher Bildhauer.

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Born studierte von 1903 bis 1906 in Dresden an der Königlich Sächsischen Kunstgewerbeschule bei Karl Groß, danach von 1907 bis 1908 an der Dresdner Kunstakademie bei Georg Wrba. Er wirkte als Bildhauer in Dresden, wo er später selbst an der Kunstgewerbeschule unterrichtete.

1942, 1943 und 1944 war Born mit insgesamt fünf Werken auf der Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellung in München vertreten

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg lebte und arbeitete Born in der Oberpfalz.

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 um 1910: plastischer Schmuck des Grabmals der Familie Küchenmeister auf dem Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz, Wehlener Straße (Gesamtplanung von den Architekten Beyrich und Richter; erhalten)
 1910–1911: Wettbewerbsentwurf für ein König-Albert-Denkmal am Lauenturm in Bautzen (unter den drei prämierten Arbeiten, ausgeführt jedoch nach Entwurf von Walter Hauschild)
 1920: Kriegerdenkmal für die Opfer des I. Weltkrieges (1914–1918) auf dem evangelischen Friedhof in Großröhrsdorf
 1921: Kriegerdenkmal für die Gefallenen des Reserve-Jäger-Bataillons Nr. 26 in Freiberg
 1923: Tuchmacherbrunnen auf dem Rathenauplatz in Forst (Lausitz)Der Brunnen entstand anlässlich des Neubaus der Langen Brücke über die Lausitzer Neiße und der Neugestaltung der beiden angrenzenden Plätze durch den Forster Stadtbaurat Rudolf Kühn.
 1925: Bauplastik am Verwaltungsgebäude der Allgemeinen Ortskrankenkasse in Forst, Promenade 9 (Architekt: Rudolf Kühn; heute als Rathaus genutzt)
 1928: Reliefs aus Klinkerformsteinen nach Motiven der Brüder Grimm am Wohngebäude "Märchenhaus" in Finsterwalde, Friedrich-Hebbel-Straße 16–22 (gemeinsam mit den Bildhauern Paul Wachs und Paul Lindau; Architekt: Karl Dassel)
 vor 1930: Kriegerdenkmal 1914–18 in Cossebaude
 vor 1930: Kriegerdenkmal 1914–18 in Skassa
 vor 1930: Kriegerdenkmal 1914–18 in Pulsnitz
 1932: Gedenkstein für Max Gross in Altenberg (Erzgebirge)
 1936: Bronzefigur Jüngling mit Flügelrad vor dem Verwaltungsgebäude der Reichsbahndirektion Dresden, Wiener Straße 5b (Architekt: Richard Spröggel)
 1936: Gedenktafel für Carl Gustav Carus an dessen Sterbehaus in Dresden, Carusstraße 18
 1942: Plastik Speerwerferin, ausgestellt auf der Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellung 1942
 1943: Plastiken Jüngling mit Falken und Erwachen, ausgestellt auf der Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellung 1943
 1944: Plastiken Büste des Malers Paul Groß und Stehender Knabe, ausgestellt auf der Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellung 1944
 1954: Skulptur des Hl. Florian, heute vor dem Historischen Feuerwehrmuseum in Neu Tramm

Literatur
 Willy Oskar Dreßler: Dresslers Kunsthandbuch, 9. Ausgabe, Band 2. Curtius, Berlin 1930, S. 108.

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I am selling my beautiful wedding dress. I received so many compliments, and it was so easy and comfortable to wear. It's not your usual white dress (which I loved about it) but it's also not pink as it may seem in photos. The actual color is champagne silver. Dress was originally $5,200! Only wore once for 3 hours (changed into another dress for the dinner/party) and has since been professionally dry cleaned and ready for someone else to enjoy. Perfect for someone who is 5'3-5'9 in height, about 105-125lbs and 32C- 34C cup size. My heels were 4.5 inches high.
This ball gown features a v-neck neckline with a natural waist in satin and beautiful crystal beaded embroidery. It has a chapel train. It's a Danielle Caprese gown. It is exclusive to Kleinfeld Bridal. Dress was purchased directly at the store in NYC.


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Oscar Mercado not satisfied with last year's success: 'I'm still hungry to get better'
Updated: Feb. 06, 2020, 3:37 p.m. |
Published: Feb. 06, 2020, 3:01 p.m.
Oscar Mercado is preparing to contribute every day in the Indians lineup for 2020.Getty Images
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Despite a rookie season that saw him emerge as an everyday option for the Cleveland Indians outfield, Oscar Mercado says he's not allowing himself to become complacent.
"At the end of the day I know that I'm still hungry to get better," Mercado said.
The 25-year-old spent his offseason the same way he did prior to spring training in 2019, traveling to Cleveland to perfect his swing with Indians hitting analysts and working to increase his strength. The same things that led to success after he was promoted to the big leagues back on May 14.
It's a different scenario now, Mercado says, knowing that he has almost a full season under his belt.
"Going into this spring it's going to be the same way," he said. "Prove what I can do and work on my strength and go into the season feeling good and healthy."
With nine outfielders on the 40-man roster, Mercado said he is ready to play wherever manager Terry Francona puts him, and that he wants to contribute in the lineup every day.
"I'm fortunate enough to play behind a manager whose track record speaks for itself," Mercado said. "He knows what he's doing and I trust him. He's going to do what's best for the team and I'm going to be accepting of that."
Mercado views the outfield competition at spring training as a positive for the team and for himself. "All nine guys are there for a reason and we're all capable of helping the team," he said. "We know that and we're going to compete to make each other better."
Meanwhile, Francona said Mercado has earned the opportunity to play every day based on the way he handled the ups and downs of his rookie season.
"He's going to play somewhere, you can bet on that," Francona said. "Is that every day in center field? Is it sometimes in center field? That's what we have to figure out. But we know we have an everyday player and we're excited."
Mercado led American League rookies in stolen bases (15) and runs scored (70) and finished third in hits (118) and tied for third in doubles (25). His best month at the plate was June, batting .318 with eight doubles, a triple, three home runs and 13 RBI in 26 games. He struggled for a period in early July, before rebounding after the All-Star break to hit .315 in the final 19 games of the month.
Mercado said making adjustments is part of the game. He said players, just like teams, win with effort. And even when the result isn't what they want, if the effort is there, good things will happen. Once he learned to accept both sides of that equation, his career took off.
"I know I'm not going to be perfect, but I can strive to be and make the cold spells shorter and the good hot streaks longer," Mercado said.
Francona says that approach means Mercado can get even better moving forward.
"He was learning the league last year and there were times that you could tell the league was learning him," Francona said. "But he always made and adjustment and he always kind of came back with a vengeance."
Francona said Mercado weathered a few storms in 2019, including a tough 10-day stretch around the All-Star Break. But not every rookie is going to step right in and rip through the league the way Francisco Lindor did back in 2015.
"It's nice to see a kid that doesn't back down," Francona said. "You get punched in the stomach, but you keep coming and find a way to fight back."
Mercado says his motivation will be to prove himself every year, whether it's 2020 or seven years down the road.
"I want the changes that happen in my career to always be positive, and I always want to be able to adjust," he said. "It's all about getting better and doing things that will make me a better player to help this team."
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Calc presently has a default set of 5 cell styles most of which are not very useful.
During a survey that was run about improving Calc months ago ( http://user-prompt.com/how-do-you-want-libreoffice-calcs-toolbar-configured/ ), one of the most asked feature improvements requested was for better usage of styles, but this cant be achieved without a good set of default styles.
This issue was briefly discussed on redmine ( https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/493 ) so i've opened this bug report to have a record in bugzilla and also link to a google docs spreadsheet which i've begun working on regarding this issue with others.
This file and additional ones related to this topic can be found in this google docs folder.
So the design team just agreed that the "Calc default styles proposal" is what we would like to see as the default styles in Calc.
I feel pretty good about the outcome, I think it looks nice and functional.
CCing markus on this bug, as he said he would implement this once the design team had finalized a styles xml file, we we have just completed.
At the beginning of the month, moggi asked me to provide a list of all possible cell formatting features that maybe used, as he would need to implement them in orcus ( https://gitlab.com/orcus/orcus/blob/master/README.md ), as all he had presently implemented was for the current set of styles we've provided ( font properties, background fill, borders ). This was the list i provided to him.
Moggi has stated to me today that unfortunately he doesnt have enough time to implement this in 5.1, so he's postponed this for 5.2.
Moggi said to me a few months ago that he doesnt have time to implement this feature within Orcus, which would then make the feature available within Calc, so he had setup a GSoC idea for the work which he would mentor if a student took up the task.
A GSoC student took on the project and it was completed. Moggi stated that he has to fix some test failures and then we can begin integrating the cell styles in.
Jaskaran Singh committed a patch related to this issue.
I suppose this can be considered closed. Please improve the text in the 5.3 release notes about the feature.
I suggest that the border of style "Note" be changed to 0.75 pt. Currently it's 0.06pt as I can see in the source code of the commit message.
Borders below 0.75pt are showing dashed when save as xlsx, because of the bug as discussed in bug 79787.
Notes border thickness was changed and hyperlink cell style was added.


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Q: How to flag a hacker with Device Check How can I flag an abuser and potential hacker's device, given the fact that it can only be done if the device sends a token?
We can wait for the user to send a request containing the token, until then act natural so the user won't suspect, then flag the device.
But it is a possible scenario where we spot a bad user, but the user stops the iOS app from sending any token.
How can we flag this user's device?

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This set of web pages is a synthesis of materials produced by Louisa Bradtmiller, Deborah Gross, Kirsten Menking, and Cindy Shellito at the 2010 workshop on Developing Student Understanding on Complex Systems in the Geosciences. Additional background information comes from workshop discussions.
STELLA model of Arthur Few's carbon cycle model that recreates the Keeling curve. Image from a STELLA systems modeling teaching activity.
Teaching systems thinking presents a number of pedagogical challenges. The behavior of complex systems is different, in unexpected ways, from the linear causal relationships most students are accustomed to working with. Computer models allow students to explore non-linear relationships, feedback loops, and other characteristics of complex systems, by illustrating the results of such complex relationships in the form of model output. In addition, many complex systems operate on spatial and temporal scales that are impossible to observe directly. Computer models offer the opportunity to explore such systems: to investigate the relationships between variables, to measure the sensitivity of the system to changes in one or more variables, to consider the long-term impacts of changes in system inputs. Thus, computer modeling offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching and learning about complex systems.
Your choice of learning goals for your students will determine what use of computer modeling will be most effective. For example, which is most important to you: that your students understand the Earth's climate system, or that they understand why scientists use computer models to make predictions about climate change? Both are valid learning goals, but your use of computer models may differ depending on which is your primary goal.
Describe the situation to be modeled in words. This could include a discussion of initial conditions, boundary conditions, etc.
Create a logic diagram to develop the conceptual framework for the model.
If applicable, discuss equations that describe the model. Introduce dependent and independent variables and their relationship to one another.
Use box-modeling software (see resources for using specific software packages below) to develop a model of the situation.
Hypothesize about the outcomes of different scenarios. For example, what would happen if an inflow or outflow were to increase or decrease?
Run the model and ask students to compare the results to their hypothesized outcomes.
Begin by demonstrating this process for a couple of simple examples, then move on to having students develop their own models, if that is one of your goals for them.
You can scaffold learning by using models first as an analytical tool for understanding specific concepts. When students have a firm grasp of those concepts, use this as a foundation for understanding the process of modeling (see discussion points below). Using this process iteratively, you can ultimately develop your students' understanding of complex systems, as well as their abilities to evaluate the relationship between models and reality and to evaluate the quality of models.
It is impossible to actually validate models. Why is that so?
Does this mean we can't use models for prediction?
Why doesn't it include everything?
What are the differences between the output from your model and real data?
Errors or uncertainty in the real-world data?
Is this model too simple? If so, what other processes or reservoirs should it include?
Would this system be better modeled using a different technique?
Find ways to assess your students' understanding, whether of the process of modeling or of the complex system(s) they are modeling. Focus on assessing students' progress toward your stated learning goals.
Your choice of software package will depend on what aspects of complex behavior are most important to you.
Aggregate models such as STELLA help students recognize a fundamental distinction between a system's elements that characterize the state of the system at a particular time ("stocks") and those that control conditions of change ("flows"). Such models utilize concepts of negative and positive feedback, where the reinforcing/weakening of the stocks and flows relation is described as a closed loop of causality. On the other hand, they do not model dynamic systems at the level of the individual components of the system. So, for example, a flock of birds can be treated as a fluid (describable also by the Navier-Stokes equations), while ignoring the individual birds and their short-range interactions. The mutual interactions of components and emergent properties are not recognized as such but are instead translated into positive or negative feedback at the system macro-level. If feedback loops are more important to you than emergent properties, STELLA is an excellent choice.
In contrast, agent based modeling programs such as NetLogo do not describe the system by feedback loops, but explicitly allow for modeling of the emergence of phenomena by transition from lower to higher system levels. This helps students to develop the ability to distinguish between micro and macro levels of analysis and recognize the macro system properties and their functions. If emergent behavior is more important to you than feedback loops, NetLogo is an excellent choice.
If you are modeling the Earth's climate system, consider using the modeling package EdGCM, which runs the NASA/GISS Model II global climate model.
Additional examples using STELLA, NetLogo, Mathematica, and EdGCM are linked from the pages below.


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L'AO Sporting Athènes () est un club grec de basket-ball basé à Athènes dans le quartier d'Áno Patíssia, évoluant en Division A1 et possédant le plus beau palmarès féminin du championnat de Grèce. Il s'agit d'une section du club omnisports du Sporting Athènes, fondé en 1936.

Historique

Le Sporting est le club le plus titré du basket-ball féminin grec, avec 21 titres de champion de Grèce. Pendant la période 1976-1999, l'équipe remporta 20 fois le championnat et remporta son dernier championnat en 2004.

Sur la scène continentale, le Sporting participa deux fois à la Finale à quatre de l'Euroligue, en 1991 et 1992.

Palmarès
International
 Participation à la Finale à quatre de l'Euroligue : 1991, 1992
National
 Champion de Grèce (21) : 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de Grèce (3) : 1996, 1999, 2005

Entraîneurs successifs

Effectif actuel

Joueuses célèbres ou marquantes

Notes et références

Lien externe
  Site officiel

Sporting
Club de basket-ball à Athènes


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What's Something You're Thankful You Did This Year?
Every year for around Thanksgiving I ask people what's a something they did this year that they're thankful they did. Here's what they said.
Mayor Mako said, "It's been up and down but right now I'm kinda glad I ran for mayor. Given me a major appreciation for what some people do. A lot more prep goes into some holidays than you'd think. And sometimes it is hard. Getting people interested can be trying." I asked how because holidays are so liked. "Not everyone has the time or energy to invest." She thought the Day of Remembrance turned out pretty much the way she hoped it would. It brought people together to share stories about the past. As did Founder's Day: "Remembrance was fairly easy, just make sure people stayed on track and knew it was there. Founder's, a little harder. Some of our older folk don't show up as much any more so I had to ask a bit to get people who know them to ask them to show. We had to spread it out over two days due to scheduling concenrs."
Rakasti said she was thankful "my friend Princess Kiree invited me to come to this world. So I did. I'm glad I did. People are friendly for the most part. I've found some that are adventurous like I am. I love that. I've made three or four lovely friends. Life is about friendship. And not getting eaten by sharks. I'm just suggesting that if you get eaten by sharks you can't do much else after that."
Princess NovaSquirrel couldn't think of a lot right away. "For the lack of things I've actually done, I have met a lot of nice people. Keeps me coming back every day." I asked who was someone she was thankful she met. "I'm thankful for Claude because he's a good friend and he's always there to talk to."
Rielle wrote out how she's "thankful for having people who love me" but couldn't think of something she was thankful she'd done. Nova the toy also said "I'm thankful for good friends like you and Rielle. Oh and I met Rielle this year too." And they both said about how they were "happy to see another toy" (Nova) because there's "not many like us around anymore" (Rielle).
Bleu said "I'm thankful for getting out more and exploring. And trying out more transformations." When he was exploring, "I discovered an ancient starship adrift in space several months ago. I picked up a faint signal from it on my ship's long-range sensors." His ship is called the Pleiades, but he couldn't use it right then because he's a merperson and it doesn't have water tanks.
Claude said he was thankful for "Making games, and writing stories. Visiting with family, too." He said it was a very personal game and didn't want to say a lot about it. The story was different some. He said, "I wrote a SpinDizzy fanfic. It's [about] Kantuck…She's been trying to write the story of how she got here, so I figured it would be helpful to do the other side."
Gwen said, "It might sound corny, but I'm plenty thankful I found this place. Beats the heck out of the humdrum routine back home, and I'm on my way to building my own ship! Not a bad year, all told." I asked how she found here. "Chased a phantom com-signal right through some spacetime whatsit, got blasted by some skybears and POW!, landed right in the park fountain. [The skybears] must've been lurking in a cloudbank or something. Hit me with some kind of ray. The signal's popped up a couple of times since then, but haven't seen a sign of those bears." Bleu said the skybears "[sound] like some angry Care Bears." Gwen said, "They were up in the clouds, that's all I know."
Casandro said, "I've recently found an old videorecording I did more than 15 years ago. I made it at school back then. [It's] mostly random stuff." He didn't remember what he made it for, though. He found it because "It was at my parents place where I store my video tapes." And he'd seen it before but "I didn't take much note of it. Didn't bother popping it into a VCR."
J.P. said he was thankful he found his first apartment. "I've got nice roommates, and got a digital piano for the living room. And there's a balcony, which is great for playing with my ham radio or peering at the stars. Not sure if [the telescope's] as fancy [as Mote's]. Just one my parents had in the attic, from a science museum gift shop. But hey, it's a free telescope, and the Moon looks quite detailed through it. I've also got a set of binoculars." He hasn't seen the bunny in the moon. And his roommates aren't any kind of tree creatures either. "As far as I know they're humans."
Jaxen said he was thankful that "I set a new personal record this year. I hiked 27.4 miles in a single day. That was quite the experience, and I'm glad I didn't give up." He went across three mountains, "started high, went down, then up, then down, then ended high." He hikes a lot, usually but not always over mountains. This time it was for a charity event along with a lot of other people. "The event will occur again next year, and I plan on being there. I just don't know if I'll be able to complete that distance again when the time comes."
I'm sorry if I missed you when I was asking what people were thankful they did. If you want to answer please make a comment here or tell me when you can.
Tags: Bleu, casandro, claude, Gwen, j.p., jaxen, Mako, Nova, NovaSquirrel, Rakasti, Rielle, thanksgiving
Happenings at the Idylwild Woods
Why everyone should run for mayor at least once, one fur's perspective.


November 3, 2007 was the American Homebrewers Association's (AHA) Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day; on this day more than 1,900 participants brewed 1,970 gallons of beer at 152 sites worldwide. Over 550 new homebrewers learned to brew this year on Teach A Friend to Homebrew Day. The AHA celebrates brewing and encourages new brewers to enjoy the hobby of homebrewing through Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day every year on the first Saturday in November.
For why, we don't know. Lots of people wrote in saying they wanted to see Beer School there. Thus the new page. All of you Facebook, umm, bookers(?) can add us as a Fan.
How fun is it going to be to superpoke beers to everyone. Way cheaper then sending all ya' all beers for reals.
Magnolia Pub & Brewery is celebrating it's 10th year on Monday, November 5 at the Great American Music Hall! Doors open at 7:30PM.
More than 100 judges labored for three days to evaluate 2,793 beers and pick the best entries and top breweries for this year's Great American Beer Festival. A total of 222 medals were awarded in 75 beer style categories and top breweries and brewers were designated based on the total number of medals won. The five top awards recognize small, medium and large breweries and small and large brewpubs.
Go to Great American Beer Festival.com for a complete list of winners.
The Brewing Network has posted a Preview of what you can expect from the Great American Beer Festival that is just around the corner. The Preview MP3 contains interviews with the founders, talks about event happenings, and has words from brewers and other event attendees. This is a "must listen" segment for anyone heading to Denver.
Link to the GABF Preview. Be sure to listen to Beer School's take on attending beer fest called Surviving a Beer Festival.
all the news fit to drink.


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Innovation Fintech
'There will be hundreds of fintech failures'
By Penny Crosman July 06, 2020, 12:05 p.m. EDT 9 Min Read
Jane Gladstone — who was named president of Promontory Interfinancial Network on Monday — has been a leader in fintech investment banking since 1993, when she created a fintech merger and acquisition and advisory practice at Morgan Stanley.
In 2005, she left to build a similar practice at the investment bank Evercore. As senior managing director leading Evercore's financial services corporate advisory business, she played a key role in several recent large deals, including the $27 billion sale of Refinitiv to the London Stock Exchange, the $40 billion sale of First Data to Fiserv and PNC Financial Services Group's recent $14 billion sale of its stake in BlackRock.
Now, Gladstone will take the lead on sales, marketing and corporate development for Promontory Interfinancial. She'll report to CEO and co-founder Mark Jacobsen.
"I think there will be hundreds of fintech failures precisely because too many companies got funded," says Jane Gladstone, president of Promontory Interfinancial Network.
Gladstone spoke to American Banker just before she started her new job and shared her views on how community banks can innovate, which fintechs will survive and which won't, and her experience as a female leader in a man's world.
You have been advising fintechs and banks on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and raising capital since before fintech was a thing. How did you know that fintech would become a big deal? Were there specific clues you saw? Did you have an intuition about it?
JANE GLADSTONE: What I saw then, and it seemed super obvious to me at the time, is financial services is a completely digital product. The financial services world makes money, which is largely digital except for cash. At some of the largest financial services companies I was advising, their tech budgets were enormous; they were often measured in the billions. The potential for disruption in a sector where the product was already digital seemed patently obvious. So I started spending my free time, which meant nights and weekends, digging in and starting to get to know some of the pioneers in the fintech sector and meeting some of these folks, for instance at E-Trade and PayPal. It became even more obvious hearing from these pioneering CEOs that this was the future.
So I never looked back, and the sector has only grown since then. Now the local cab driver knows what fintech is.
When you say this was nights and weekends, do you mean you met with these people over drinks or golf?
No. Because I had a day job, I had to kind of work two jobs in the beginning. I'm going to go for a full career without ever golfing.
Me, too. I know I'd be horrible at it. You're a close observer of banks and fintechs. Are there any mistakes that you see banks and fintechs still making today when they try to innovate?
One of the recurring mistakes that I've seen over the year is that to be a successful fintech, you need the financial services part, the tech part and the innovation part. You can't have one without the others. Where a lot of companies have stumbled is they want to reinvent all of financial services, and the innovation is there, but they forget about regulation or the way market structure works and realize that it's a lot harder to reinvent a sector that's this fast, complex and regulated. Some haven't done the work to really understand financial services.
Likewise we've seen traditional financial services companies try to compete with fintech companies and fail. The case study I've often pointed to is Citibank trying to compete with PayPal in the early days of PayPal. Citi had vast resources, much more significant than PayPal. Citi had AOL as a partner, which at the time was formidable. Citi cut price relative to PayPal, it had brand recognition and growth, and yet that was a failure that Citi ultimately shut down.
The lesson that many traditional financial institutions have had to learn over and over is it's a lot more expensive and harder to build this technology as a big financial institution with legacy technology. Many of these financial services companies have 30-year-old technology, and trying to lay new technology on top of that by definition is going to be a lot more expensive than for somebody who gets to start from a clean sheet of paper and build it from scratch.
In recruiting, we have an incredibly competitive market for programming in the U.S. and competing for that talent as a traditional bank versus a fintech that's got a lot of buzz around it is very, very hard. And so, time and again, the product is just not as good. And the customer experience is just not as good. This is one of the things that immediately drew me to the opportunity at Promontory Interfinancial Network, because PIN allows these two ecosystems to come together in a really symbiotic way.
When you think about this challenge so many community banks have now, that they've got to offer as much as possible through a mobile app, through a PC, and they don't necessarily have development talent, they maybe have one or three IT people, what do you think are the best ways for them to work with fintechs to get these advantages you're talking about? Do you think that partnerships are the best way, or being customers of fintechs?
I think if you're a small community bank without access to star developers, outsourcing is probably the way to go for building your technology. There are great platforms out there, and that's a way of giving you the benefit of scale of companies that can afford to make investments that are really hard for a small community bank.
Some banks, like Cross River and The Bancorp Bank, are happy to operate behind the scenes for fintechs and have built businesses around this. But others don't want to turn their customers over to somebody else — they want to own the customer relationship and make it stickier and stronger over time. What do you think is the answer to staying competitive for those that don't want to give that up?
First of all, they do need to make sure that their technology is competitive. That's where many will require outsourcing. Second, community banks are still great at relationships, and those will continue to matter in the local community.
Community banks have something really valuable in that they are in the community. The biggest banks are actively managing their branch footprint: They're ripping out branches in unprofitable places and adding branches to places that are more profitable. That's leaving the community banks very often the only game in town, and being local is still going to be important to a number of depositors, including municipalities and other local players who want their money to stay in the community.
Some observers have been saying for a long time that a lot of the fintechs, especially the online lenders, haven't really been tested by a crisis or a downturn and that they're due for a reckoning. We're certainly seeing this happen with OnDeck and LendingClub. What do you think of that idea? Do you think we might see some fintechs crash this year, or do you think people are being overly negative?
Any bank treasurer looking at that is thinking to themselves, I could've told you that funding was going to dry up at some point and get harder. That happens every single cycle. How many cycles have you seen where specialty finance companies see their access to the markets dry up or get constrained.
I absolutely believe that there will be fintech failures. In fact, I think there will be hundreds of fintech failures precisely because too many companies got funded. You might say there's been a bubble. There are hundreds of fintech companies that I expect will run out of money in the next year or so.
Are there specific sectors or types of fintech companies that are most at risk, in your view?
You mentioned the lenders, that's an obvious one. Anything that was happening before COVID-19 has just been accelerated by the pandemic. You see that in all sectors, not just financial services. Before COVID, we were talking about empty shopping malls and how Amazon was taking over the world. Now, after COVID, Amazon's only got stronger and the shopping malls emptier.
That's also true in fintech. For example, companies like PayPal and Stripe that are processing online payments are benefiting from the migration of cash to digital money. This is only going to accelerate with COVID. Cash had been in a kind of vegetative state and a coma for years where people were still using it. It wasn't growing, but it wasn't really shrinking. This has been the shot in the arm that contactless payments have needed in this country. It's actually become unsafe to transfer dollar bills.
Just before the pandemic started, there were stores in New York that were trying to ban cash and only accept debit and credit cards, because it could save them money to do that. And the New York attorney general established a rule that retailers have to accept cash because low-income people were unfairly disadvantaged, they couldn't necessarily afford or qualify for a bank account or a card, and they would have no way to buy what they needed. As we move toward more use of digital payments, there is a segment of the population that could get left behind. Do you have any thoughts on that?
It's an incredibly important point and I'm glad you brought it up. Philadelphia and New Jersey have similar laws that you must accept cash. It's a real problem because, sadly, as we sit here in 2020 sheltering in place, access to many things is dependent on your access to online shopping. The digital divide is a real problem. And, I do think that fintechs have done a better job at having a value proposition for the unbanked.
I know Dan Schulman, the CEO of PayPal, spends a lot of time thinking about and talking about the unbanked or underbanked, and companies like Acorns live and breathe the unbanked. But we've got to fix this digital divide. It's a big problem for our society, not just because it means people might not be able to feed themselves in a situation like this, but also, educating our children if they don't have access to online learning is a big, big problem.
You've been a woman working in a man's world for a while, and I wondered if you have any reflections on how far we've come. Do you think the financial industry is doing enough to be in harmony with this movement toward having more respect for people of color and treating all people fairly?
I think we should all feel as a sector that we need to do more. The proof is that we're talking about a lot of the same issues that we were talking about decades ago, some would say centuries ago. That's the evidence that there's a lot more work to be done and that is true for all sorts of underrepresented communities.
You asked about being a woman specifically in banking. The fact of the matter is women are still very underrepresented in the upper echelons of financial services. I've often been one of the very few women in the room. Being rare makes you more memorable, so it ups the ante on any weaknesses or shortcomings that you exhibit because you're more visible. I've always felt like I had to be twice as prepared or twice as good. ... And also, because many people in financial services just don't have extensive experience with women in power or Black people, nonbinary people, Hispanic people in power, they may assume certain things about you based on their very limited experience or even bias that might bear very little resemblance to who you actually are.
I'm hoping that this is a moment of reckoning where we'll take a big leap forward. I hope that this is the epiphany that the U.S. needed to make real progress.
Being more visible also has its advantages to women, Black people and other underrepresented communities. I always felt that when I knocked it out of the park, people were more likely to remember that, too. So there's a lot of cause for optimism right now. This is not going to get fixed overnight. We didn't get here overnight. But I do believe that we will make some real progress in financial services and in this country.
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What charged for pie the last two online orders. Did not receive item. Called store to see if refund could be provided was told by lady that answer that online orders are tricky and that she didn't believe it could be done. She requested that I call back at 8pm when another manager was there I didn't even attempt to call because the whole issues seems like it was just a bother to her. Never received a refund.
Positive: out of 5 orders, all of them were correct! Nothing left out, employees were great!
Negative:my philly cheese sandwich was soggy. Literally. Like it was placed in water! The whole bottom soaked.Cldnt eat it.
We do apologize for your experience. We hope that we can better serve you and have you as a customer in the future. Thank you for your review.
One person working front and one person working the back. The poor guy needed more help. Felt bad for him. He was so busy I ordered a dessert that took an hour or longer to get. NOT HIS FAULT. Denny's or supervisor should of had more people working. Supervisor was supposed to give me a refund but I never received it. Love the food.
I would just like to publicly apologize for the poor service you have received at our Denny's. This is unacceptable and not our standard. I will get these issues brought to managements attention immediately. If I can help you find a better resolution please feel free to email me so I can take care of these issues. We value you as a customer and would like to sincerely apologize.
Chicken Philly with hash browns. Everything was delicious! Only suggestion is that you turn one of your many empty handicap parking spots right outside the door to a Online Ordering Pick Up parking spot.
I ordered my food online. It was ready on time and I was waited on as soon as I walked in the door. The hamburger and fries tasted great. It was a really big burger.


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Packaged perfectly. Nothing was broken. Beautiful lights.
Item that arrived is exactly what I expected. bulbs are bright without being a sharp/bright white. All bulbs arrived intact and ready to assemble. Cord seems sturdy and reliable. Great product!
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I just have to compliment your shipping department and FedEx. You shipped me 13 boxes (325 bulbs) of crystal clear light bulbs. When they arrived I went through each box and I found just four bulbs broken in four different boxes, and there were spares to cover them. That is amazing to me. We will be "all lit up" for my grandson's wedding.
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Just wanted to send you a heartfelt think you for the combined shipping refund...so, Thanks!!!!!!
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Just wanted to share with you how we used your products we purchased for my sons high school graduation open house. We used your E26 commercial grade light strings with S14 clear bulbs We then ordered various sizes and color of your paper lanterns and hung them from chain. What an awesome display it turned out to be. Thank you for awesome company service and products.
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Just dropping you a note to say thank you for all of your support during this holiday program. Special thanks to Lisa for dealing with our late night "fire drills". If you are in Manhattan over the holiday season check out Kenneth Cole in Grand Central Station and also in SoHo to see an awesome display of your lights.
To whom do I owe a thanks to? I sent you a message on two (2) burnt out LED bulbs to just ask if there was a warranty on the bulbs a week ago, and just 6 days after I sent the message, I received four (4) replacement bulbs, (2 more than what I was going to claim) through a PRIORITY MAIL without any charge and without any questions. I am sure you knew you could use a regular mail, but you even paid for the priority mail to send them. This is just unexpected great customer service I ever received. I hope your customers know how committed you are in giving a great service, but they also should know that you give truly a FANTASTIC AFTER SERVICE CARE.
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I just wanted to let you know I received my extra bulbs and everything works!! I can't tell you how much I LOVE my new lights, they just look perfect! My guests will surely be wowed when they come over this weekend! I attached a photo as promised. Thanks again so much for going above and beyond-you are running an exceptional business. Happy 4th of July!
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Gender Equality Survey: More than a third think quotas are the only way to change
Posted on May 17 2012, 11:40 AM
The community needs more women leaders – and many believe that our organisations should be held to account to achieve this, a communal survey has shown.
The research, published by the JLC's Commission on Women in Jewish Leadership (CWJL), reveals a powerful call for change, with 83% of those questioned identifying a need for more women leaders. The CWJL is in the process of drafting recommendations for a final report, due in July.
Approximately one in every three men who responded to the survey was a communal lay leader as opposed to approximately one in every five women, meaning that, if our data is to be taken as representative, almost twice as many men as women fill the top posts in Jewish organisations[1].
More than half of the respondents (56%) supported the introduction of targets, which would oblige organisations to work towards having a specific number of senior posts filled by women. Quotas, a controversial measure which ensures that a certain percentage of posts are filled by women, were supported by more than a third (35%) of those surveyed. Eighty-eight per cent (and 90% of women) believe that women should be able to chair their synagogue board.
More than 1,600[2] people responded to the survey, which was conducted to understand how British Jews perceive gender equality in communal organisations, to quantify the problem and to collect opinions about and strategies for change. It was distributed to 66 Jewish communal organisations to send out to the public and the SurveyMonkey weblink was shared by hundreds of people across social media.
While three-quarters of the respondents were women, there was little difference between male and female responses – indicating that this is not solely an issue for women. The survey was, geographically and denominationally, broadly in line with the population.
Encouragingly, the survey found that an overwhelming majority of our community is volunteering. Three-quarters (75%) of our sample said they hold voluntary roles in the Jewish community and 32% said they hold one outside the community. However, the results also highlighted some key differences in the voluntary roles carried out by men and women. Across almost all sectors, there are far more women holding the position of sub-committee chair – typically a 'hands on' coordination role - than men. By contrast, men were more likely to hold the influencing, decision-making posts of organisational Chair, Vice-Chair, Trustee or Governor. This difference was most pronounced in synagogue bodies and welfare organisations. The only sector to show gender parity was that of arts and cultural organisations.
When questioned on the possible benefits of increased female leadership, 81% of men and 93% of women believed that it would lead to a wider range of role models for young people. Sixty-eight per cent of men thought that Jewish organisations would understand the community better compared with 83% of women who clearly believe this to be essential). Fifty-three per cent of men felt that Jewish organisations might be better run (compared with 68% of women).
However, several issues did divide the genders slightly. When asked what makes a leader, men were more likely than women (9% compared with 5%) to think that 'being the biggest funder' was the definition of leadership. One respondent suggested that "until meritocracy replaces the 'walletocracy', this will remain a barrier." Similarly, 7% of men, compared with just 1% of women, felt that men were 'better leaders than women', with 11% of men (compared to 6% of women) believing that women leaders 'tend to be aggressive'.
Strategies for change generated greater consensus, with 80% of respondents believing that educating school children about gender equality would have an impact. Actively recruiting women for senior roles (80%) and the development of leadership programmes (80%) were also strongly supported, with mentoring provision (77%), the setting up of networks (78%) and childcare during meetings (73%) also felt to be helpful strategies.
Commission Chair Laura Marks, founder of Mitzvah Day, suggested that the survey reflected a growing urgency for change:
It is interesting to see such strong demand for organisational change even though quotas would be an extreme solution. As a first step, we will be encouraging all our communal organisations to demonstrate their commitment to increasing the number of women into leadership positions. Research shows that companies with more women leaders are significantly more effective than those without women on their senior management teams[3] - a more gender-balanced leadership would make our community stronger. Clearly we have to address two issues: supporting women to stand up and take responsibility but also finding ways for our organisations to benefit from the talented women we have in our community
Steven Lewis, JLC Trustee supporting the Commission and Chair of Jewish Care:
This survey is a clear mandate for change. We are working, as a Commission, to develop workable proposals which will benefit our communal organisations by drawing on the wide talent pool of women. We are listening and taking this issue very seriously
Norma Brier Independent Consultant for the Voluntary Sector and previously Chief Executive of Norwood, said:
The survey indicates that the community could be so much more effective, across almost all areas, with a better balance of women in leadership roles. It is imperative that we understand why women are under-represented and take positive action to break down the barriers. The 'do nothing' alternative would leave a disastrous legacy for our children
Leonie Lewis, Director of the Jewish Volunteering Network, said:
It is fantastic to learn from the Commission survey that three-quarters of our community are involved in volunteering in various ways, but it has also shed light on some inequalities in terms of the roles held by men and women. Men are tending to hold the decision-making posts while women are operating at a more hands-on level. We need to find ways to create more balance in this respect
To view the full report of the survey findings, please click here.
Press coverage in the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish News.
[1] Using both the Commission's and also self-defined definition of leadership.
[2] The exact number of respondents is 1636: 1166 women, 396 men. The remaining 74 chose not to disclose their gender.
[3] More gender-diverse companies (defined as the top quartile companies in terms of the proportion of women on their executive committees) exceed operating results (EBIT) delivered by those companies with no women on their senior management teams by an average 56%. McKinsey & Company: Women Matter: Gender Diversity, a Corporate Performance Driver , 2007


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