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Relative Intensity Noise
Acronym: RIN
Definition: noise of the optical intensity (or actually power), normalized to its average value
More general term: intensity noise
German: relatives Intensitätsrauschen
Categories: laser devices and laser physics, fluctuations and noise
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In the context of intensity noise (optical power fluctuations) of a laser, it is common to specify the relative intensity noise (RIN), which is the power noise normalized to the average power level. The optical power of the laser can be considered to be
with an average value and a fluctuating quantity δP with zero mean value. The relative intensity is then δP divided by the average power; in the following, that quantity is called I. The relative intensity noise can be specified in different ways; a common way is to statistically describe it with a one-sided power spectral density (PSD):
which depends on the noise frequency f. It is essentially the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function of the normalized power fluctuations, and can be measured e.g. with a photodiode and an electronic spectrum analyzer.
The factor of 2 in the formula above applies to a one-sided PSD as usually used in the engineering disciplines, and would be missing in variants using two-sided PSDs. The units of the RIN PSD are Hz−1, but it is common to specify 10 times the logarithm (to base 10) of that quantity in dBc/Hz (see also: decibel).
The PSD may also be integrated over an interval [f1, f2] of noise frequencies to obtain a root mean square (r.m.s.) value of relative intensity noise
which is then often specified in percent.
Note that it is not sensible to specify relative intensity noise in percent (e.g. as ±0.5%) without clarifying whether this means an r.m.s. value or something else. See the article on noise specifications for more such details.
Figure 1: Simulated relative intensity noise spectrum of a 1064-nm Nd:YAG laser with 100 mW average output power. The shot noise level of −174 dBc/Hz is reached above 5 MHz. There is also a pronounced peak from relaxation oscillations, and excess noise at low frequencies introduced by the pump source.
RIN from Shot Noise
It might be expected that the amount of RIN of a laser beam will remain constant when the beam is subject to linear attenuation. This is not true, however, when the RIN is limited by shot noise. In that case, the RIN is given by
As an example, a 1-mW laser beam at 1064 nm with intensity noise at the shot noise limit has a RIN of 3.73 × 10−16 Hz−1 or −154 dBc/Hz.
That PSD is independent of noise frequency (white noise), and it increases with decreasing average power. This can be understood as the introduction of additional quantum noise in the attenuation process.
Quantum-limited RIN measurements should be done by detecting the entire laser power e.g. with a photodiode, while minimizing the influence of excess noise (e.g. thermal noise) from the electronics. For high power levels, it can be challenging to find a sufficiently fast photodetector with high power handling capability, while electronic noise issues are more critical at low power levels.
Questions and Comments from Users
What is the difference between frequency noise and relative intensity noise?
Answer from the author:
Frequency noise is noise of the instantaneous frequency, which in optics means noise of the optical frequency. That is related to phase noise.
How to normalize the intensity fluctuations of a HeNe laser, measured with a photodiode?
This simply means that you divide the fluctuating power by the average power, obtaining a dimensionless quantity fluctuating around 1. You can then further process that, for example estimate the power spectral density.
How to convert RIN data with 1/sqrt(Hz) unit into a result with % units?
Multiply it with the square root of the detection bandwidth, and with 100 to get percent. The fluctuations of power will of course not fully remain within that percent value, but often go somewhat beyond it.
Is RIN the inverse of a signal to noise ratio (SNR)? In this case, the units of 1/RIN are Hz. What would that physically mean? You can multiply RIN by the bandwidth of the detector to get % fluctuation from the average signal. Is there any use for 1/RIN? Is that the bandwidth that gives 100% fluctuation?
The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a ratio, i.e., a dimensionless quantity, and can therefore not be identified with anything having units of Hz. It is usually used in the context of signals, and a continuous-wave laser beam would normally not be considered as a signal.
Further, note that RIN can be quantitatively specified in different ways, one of them being a power spectral density. That has units of 1/Hz, and you get a dimensionless quantity by multiplying it with a noise bandwidth. If you then consider the constant power as a "signal" (somewhat odd), you may identify that product with the inverse SNR.
How do I measure the reference DC voltage for the RIN Measurement? I have the following setup for the RIN measurement of a 50-MHz oscillator:
Laser → ND filter → lens → photodetector → 50 Ohm resistor → low pass filter (<10 MHz) → DC block → voltage amplifier → spectrum analyzer.
So for the DC measurement should I measure it after the photodetector directly with a 50 Ohm termination or should I measure it after the voltage amplifier (with DC Block removed from the setup) and divide the final DC voltage with the amplification factor of the voltage amplifier?
It is often not so easy to measure the corresponding DC part, because you usually cannot feed that through the high-gain amplifier. Indeed, one possibility would be to measure the DC voltage drop at a resistor.
Another way of getting the RIN calibrated relative to the short noise level is to use a homodyne detection measurement setup, containing a 50:50 beam splitter two photodiodes with high quantum efficiency, and circuits to get the sum and the differences of the photocurrents. The sum current gives you the actual noise (when a correction according to the finite quantum efficiency is applied), while the difference current gives you the shot noise level.
To calculate the RIN from shot noise: let us assume that we have to reduce the power of the laser beam via a neutral density filter to avoid saturation of the detector. For the light power P, do I need to enter the actual power of the laser source (e.g. 200 mW) or the power after passing through the filter (e.g. 1 mW)? The latter would correspond to the actual power that hits the detector.
The latter is correct – the power which actually hits the detector. Attenuation leads to higher RIN from shot noise.
Is there a mistake? 2 *h *nu/P has units of seconds. So in your calculations how did you end up with units of dBc/Hz?
Seconds are the same as inverse Hertz, and the dBc part is not a real dimension – just indicating that you use that logarithmic processing.
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The body of Matthew Cemer, who had North Central Florida ties, was found in the water.
The body of a 19-year-old man was recovered Sunday morning from a canal that connects to Big Lake Santa Fe by the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.
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That was a strange period in US pop history right after disco. Like right around '80-'81. Everything on the radio was so smoothed out, and adult contemporary. It was also kind of an oddly chaste/clean era. I'm too young to really remember the AM/Yacht rock 70's but I find it hard to fathom that there was a wimpier era in pop music than '80-'81.
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I'd say it went beyond '81. It's funny you should bring this up because I happened to hear I.G.Y. by Donald Fagen for the first time in probably 20 years yesterday and holy crap is that a smooth-jamz snooze-fest.
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That's my thing with Radiohead. It's not that I find it so unpleasurable to listen to, it's that it's just so easy for me to drift off into doing something else.
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La estación de Chevaleret es una estación de la línea 6 del metro de París situada en el XIII distrito de la ciudad.

Historia
La estación fue abierta el 1 de marzo de 1909 como parte de la línea 2 sur, una línea que poco después pasaría a ser la línea 5 y finalmente la 6.

La estación debe su nombre la calle du Chevaleret, una antigua calle que ya existía a principios del siglo XVII y que seguramente deba su nombre al dueño de los terrenos sobre los cuales fue construida.

Descripción

Se compone de dos andenes laterales de 75 metros de longitud y de dos vías.

Chevaleret es otra de las muchas estaciones aéreas de la línea ya que se encuentra sobre un largo viaducto.  Está reguardada por un clásico tejado en pico de dos vertientes cuyo tramo central, el situado sobre las vías es transparente. Un entramado de vigas y columnas de acero apoyadas en las paredes de la estación sostienen toda la estructura. Las paredes, por su parte, están revestidas de azulejos blancos biselados.

La iluminación corre a cargo del modelo new néons exterieur, una versión renovada de la iluminación antes empleada en las estaciones exteriores. Los puntos de luz, con forma de cilindro, se ubican bajo la viga principal que soporta el techo en cada andén.

La señalización por su parte, usa la moderna tipografía Parisine donde el nombre de la estación aparece en letras blancas sobre un panel metálico de color azul. Por último, los asientos, son individualizados y de tipo Motte.

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Before & after: An abandoned farmhouse reinvigorated
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How many of us dream of giving it all up for a more peaceful and stripped-back country lifestyle? Forgetting the stresses of city life, and opting for a slower, more harmonious day-to-day existence? For one Polish couple this was exactly the case, as they decided to make their dream of a rural life together a reality. After finding this run-down farmhouse in the picturesque region of Podlasie in central Poland, they decided to make this their new project and restore the house to its former glory. With the help of Ynox, the decaying home has been completely turned around, going from abandoned to highly enviable. Let's see the restoration project from start to finish.
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After: an elegant terrace
Now the front entrance welcomes in friends and family with open arms, and offers a small terrace to enjoy life's simple pleasures in peace and quiet. What was once a fragile structure is now a robust house of new timber and brick.
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Cavasteron est un genre d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Zodariidae.

Distribution
Les espèces de ce genre sont endémiques d'Australie.

Liste des espèces
Selon  :
 Cavasteron agelenoides Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron atriceps Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron crassicalcar Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron exquisitum Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron guttulatum Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron index Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron lacertae Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron margaretae Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron martini Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron mjoebergi Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron tenuicalcar Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
 Cavasteron triunguis Baehr & Jocqué, 2000

Publication originale
 Baehr & Jocqué, 2000 : Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae). The new genera Cavasteron and Minasteron. Records of the Western Australian Museum, ,  (texte intégral).

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DON'T BE SCARED. IT'S JUST ADDITION.
This is nothing new – I have seen dozens of posts and articles that add up the cost of going to a sporting event. But, if I'm remembering correctly… none for Australia. And since I want to talk about competition in the sports industry, we need to know about money.
Last weekend I was in Melbourne (which was lovely… AND FREEZING) which meant I went to an AFL game. Shout outs to boyfriend, Kelly and Col who came, too! And here is the breakdown of what we spent (approximately – I don't count pennies).
Now, tickets were pretty cheap. I'll give you that.
But we also have to factor in the anarchy of public transport to the game, and the fact that everyone basically froze to death during the game (our fault, but still – that temperature displayed on the big screen was a LIE!), and the opportunity cost (you remember when we talked about that, right?). In this case the opportunity cost was a nap – the people we were with earlier that day (shout out to Nomes and Lucy!) got to go home and rest before dinner while we did not – which made us (or at least me) more irritable later that night. It also meant not spending time with Nomes and her boyfriend, who we all wanted to get to know better, and it meant that Kelly missed her train and, as a result, had to stick around for couple extra hours because of a cancelled train.
See what I meant about opportunity cost?
In the next post in this series… we'll consider competition. Because there's a lot of it.


Care to celebrate summer in a brand new pair of obnoxiously awesome sunnies? I've been coveting some reflective aviators all spring, and I finally ordered these crazy shades from ASOS last week after I saw Rose rockin' them on her blog. (She looks amazing, right?) I thought if I got these sunglasses, I'd look as glamorous as she does. And I was on the right track except for one minor problem: aviators look ridiculous on me. I do not now (nor will I ever) have a head compatible with tear drop shaped lenses. I figured that would be the case, but it was worth a shot.
Anyway, instead of sending these babies back to ASOS, I'm going to give them to one of you readers because they deserve to be worn, and I know for a fact they'll look so much cooler on you than they do on me.
4. If you win, and these don't look good on you either, you're required to give them to someone they do look awesome on.
P.S. This post was not sponsored by ASOS or anyone else. I bought these glasses with my own money, and I've decided to give them away as a token of my appreciation that you take time out of your busy day to spend a few minutes looking at my blog.
P.P.S. A little obsessed with sunglasses? In dire need of a place to keep them all straight? Check out my sunglasses organization DIY project!


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Birds as keys to biodiversity
Taking flight: Prof Morné du Plessis at the launch of the DST Centre of Excellence in Birds as Keys to Biodiversity Conservation at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute.
The second of two Centres of Excellence was formally opened at UCT last week.
The DST Centre of Excellence in Birds as Keys to Biodiversity Conservation at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, headed by Professor Morné du Plessis, was formally launched in the Niven Library.
It will build on the institute's 45 years of ornithological research experience in the Afrotropics, and on the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, focusing on understanding present-day patterns of biodiversity, and on predicting and managing the human impacts which can lead to biodiversity loss.
Centres of Excellence are hubs of cutting-edge research and innovation devoted to disciplines spanning health, the natural, physical and social sciences, and technology. These centres are funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and administered by the National Research Foundation.
UCT is hosting two of the six centres announced recently. The other Centre of Excellence in Catalysis, led by Professor Jack Fletcher, was launched earlier this month. The remaining four centres are Invasion Biology (University of Stellenbosch); Strong Materials (University of Witwatersrand); Biomedical TB Research (Universities of Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch) and Tree Health Biotechnology (University of Pretoria).
The prestigious centres, which integrate smaller and related research initiatives into single programmes, come with substantial funding, up to R50-million over 10 years. This will underwrite strategic research projects that will accelerate innovation and research as well as human capacity-building through education and training.
At the launch last Tuesday, Du Plessis said 10-year funding was "virtually unheard of" and would allow the centre to move from research into the realm of discovery. He said the centre would focus on two key areas, namely understanding and maintaining biodiversity.
Departments that host DST Centres of Excellence will attract sought-after projects and the pick of top-flight postgraduate students, bringing the country's capacity and research outputs in these disciplines on par with the best in the world.
The DST Centres of Excellence have five main mandates. These are to: develop research and create and advance new knowledge; provide access to a highly-developed pool of knowledge; provide and maintain databases; promote knowledge sharing and transfer; and collaborate actively with reputable individuals, groups and institutions.
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Justin Timberlake Announces "The Man Of The Woods" Tour | Kicks Off March 13th, 2018 – WATCH VIDEO!
Justin Timberlake Announces "The Man Of The Woods Tour"
American Express Presale Begins Wednesday, January 10; General On Sale Begins Tuesday, January 16
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Global superstar Justin Timberlake announced today that he will make his highly anticipated return to the stage with The Man Of The Woods Tour. Produced by Live Nation Global Touring, Wright Entertainment Group, LBI Entertainment & Tennman Touring, the North American outing will kick off March 13 in Toronto and stop in 27 cities, ending in his hometown of Memphis on May 30.
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AND TRAIN'S CO-HEADLINE SUMMER 2018 TOUR
Up and coming singer and pianist Kandace Springs has announced that she will be opening for multi-platinum and award-winning artists Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train along their co-headline North American summer tour, which kicks off May 1 in Sacramento, CA and wraps August 11 in Seattle, WA.
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As per usual the Le Web startup competition has been showcasing a smorgasbord of Europe's hottest startups this week, and three stood out for the judges. But out of Easysize, Naturalcycles and Jukedeck, it was Jukedeck that won the top prize in the end.
London-based JukeDeck has received a small seed funding round for its platform which literally composes original music based on a user's settings, giving video creators, games developers and other users a simple way of sourcing music. This might be based on the actions inside a video or a game, without any human intervention. The idea is that it's "responsive music software". It doesn't use loops, but writes the music note by note, as a composer would.
This means it can, say its makers, create an unlimited amount of unique, copyright-free music, and users can choose the music's style and what should happen in the music at various points. The first market will be for user-generated videos. The idea here is not to compete with human composers but to produce machine-made music that is listenable and eventually malleable by real musicians.
Easysize is a service for online shops to decrease the number of returns of wrongly sized clothes by allowing shops to communicate the correct size to customers in the first place. The only thing a shop needs is to add a brand size, and the Easysize brand conversion tool will con- vert it to the desired brand size. Online-shops can the tool directly via the API. Easysize has raised a small seed round so far and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Natural Cycles is an app that informs a woman when they are most likely to get pregnant and, as well as when they are least likely to, so it can be used as a sort of natural contraceptive. It tracks a woman's period cycle, finds the correct ovulation and provides them with a menstrual/fertility calendar. You wake up in the morning, take your temperature and enter that data into the app. NaturalCycles then returns a red or a green day depending on whether there is a risk of pregnancy or not. According to them a green day is 99.9 percent safe. During red days, NaturalCycles recommends the use of condoms. The app is mainly aimed at women in stable relationships, but if you are single, you can still use NaturalCycles for your just monitoring your personal health. All this said, the founders still recommend the use condoms regardless of the 'colour of the day' to help prevent, yes you guessed it, sexually transmitted diseases.


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Home Car News Tesla Sues Top Gear
Tesla Sues Top Gear
Chris Wevers
Top Gear is praised by many, but the show has also received much criticism for its content and comments made by presenters. Just one month ago the Mexican ambassador in the UK demanded an apology when the presenters of the BBC show mocked the Mexican Mastretta sports car on account of it being designed in Mexico. Now Top Gear is being sued by Tesla.
The seventh episode of the twelfth season featured a test with the Tesla Roadster. Apparently the electric sports car failed to fulfill its promises. After dramatically slowing down on the track, the car was seen being pushed into a garage to await charging. Presenter Jeremy Clarkson concluded: "It's just a shame that in the real world it doesn't seem to work."
Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles claims that Top Gear faked the test with their car. According to Tesla, the episode that aired contained lies and misinformation about the Roadster's performance, behavior and reliability. The Californian company accuses Top Gear of defamation and malicious falsehood, for example, the allegations that the brakes had also failed were false. Tesla claims Top Gear 'intentionally and/or recklessly, grossly misled potential purchasers of the Roadsters'. Its reputation 'has been severely damaged', it added.
Tesla became aware of the staged scenes when the UK director of sales and marketing saw two scripts before the car had even been driven. The electrical sports car manufacturer says it was forced to act:
We have repeatedly complained about the inaccuracies and have asked the BBC to correct them, but they ignored us. The BBC's conduct has given us no choice but to sue them and clear up their lies.
Tesla even made a special website for this issue, where the people can read the background of this case and the complaints. For those interested, you can read Tesla's lawsuit here.
What do you think, has Top Gear gone too far?
[Via the Daily Mail]
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j0rmage 30th March 2011 At 3:49 pm
Yes they have. Many times. It can easily be seen in their show that they fake stuff. Okey it is an entertainment show but damnit… that's just goin too far
Dave 30th March 2011 At 4:06 pm
If there's anything for Top Gear to take away from this situation, it's to not review American cars anymore. Anything negative said and it's a lawsuit.
John 30th March 2011 At 4:39 pm
I like Top Gear. Go away Tesla. It's a car show that complains about every car…even Ferrari's. Cry me a river.
Authority Figure 30th March 2011 At 5:10 pm
Dave and John seem to be missing the point. A car manufacturer found scripts that not only describe what the TV show hosts are going to say, but also what the drivers and mechanics on the show will "reveal" about the show – BEFORE the show is taped.
Top Gear, while not Consumer Reports, is supposed to be a legitimate car tester that does so in an entertaining manner. Its the expectation of the audience and the company that lends cars for testing that the depiction of the cars behavior be accurate, unbiased, and unscripted.
Everyone likes Top Gear. That's not the point. Top Gear reviews cars from a variety of companies, including America. That's not the point. The point is that Top Gear decided to create an imaginary flaw in a car which is built by a company that is currently negotiating contracts with several multi-national companies and at least one government. What if this scripted show resulted in Tesla losing its $100 million + funding from the U.S. Gov't? Or causes an exodus of millionaire investors? Just so you could chuckle a little before you went to sleep. That's wildly irresponsible.
And for the record, Tesla has employees in Maidenhead, UK. So this incident could create troubles for British job holders. If you live in Germany, be advised that Tesla manufacturers parts for Daimler. So misinformation could impact your job as well.
This is completely unacceptable. In recent years I've found more and more reasons to mistrust Top Gear.
gearhead 30th March 2011 At 5:49 pm
i don't think they went too far, the video was reasonable and wasn't offensive at all.
The fox 30th March 2011 At 6:12 pm
Authority Figure … very well said. It is very irresponsible of Top Gear.
@Authority Figure: You're making assumptions. It says they saw a script, it doesn't say they read the script.
The first time I watched this was when it came out…when I wrote that comment, I didn't watch the youtube video. Well, after watching the video…all I got to say is WOW. I made a mistake. Tesla suing Top Gear is even MORE ridiculous then I thought. He makes maybe 1 or 2 bad comments and an ending sentence that was a little obnoxious…THEN he says it beats a 911 GT3. Yes, I know he then says it's completely irrelevant but who races an electric powered car…
My point is that there are numerous of other Top Gear episodes that bash other cars that cost more than the Tesla and that is a bigger international company. Even though Top Gear has a script, I'm sure they have broken it in the past with other cars, and I'm sure Tesla knew what was coming. Top Gear complains about most of their cars they, and they do over exaggerate. Tesla's fault in my opinion.
Nobody has to agree with me or tell me I'm wrong…I probably am, but that's just my two cents.
Yes Dave. And its not an assumptive for you say that reviewing American cars will result in lawsuits – especially when the company in question has UK employees – and an international investor base.
Look – a company said a script exists prior to shooting. If that script contained inaccuracies about the building process, technology or capability of the car – and you run with the script anyway, you're liable out of the gates. Now if that script called for the car stalling or described "problems" that would only occur during a test drive, then we're beyond liable. They've engaged in wanton misinformation to sell advertising spots.
If you know anything about Tesla, they are damn good at what they do. Some very large and reputable companies, like Daimler, have are using Tesla's tech to create new products. Its goes beyond "under going tests". A world of engineers are looking at Tesla. Engineers aren't saying "they are getting there". They are saying "Wow. Tesla made production electric cars feasible." So much so, that people got worried when Tesla starting suing Fisker and others for copying its tech.
Most importantly, Tesla indicates that the mechanical breakdowns to their car were faked. That items described as broken or having failed, which were in fact operational. Now this isn't opinion. Either it broke or it didn't. Perhaps it "had to break" because of the "script"?
Top Gear isn't supposed to be an episode of "Celebrity Apprentice" or "Miami Housewives".
Luke 30th March 2011 At 6:54 pm
Sorry but that's just typical american behavior. I remember the TG Episode where the guys were in San Francisco with three muscle cars and Dodge didn't want to give them the Challenger, because they told the truth "…and decided not to lend us one [car] because we are always horrid about their cars."
If the cars are rubbish and lets be honest, most american cars are below european standards talking about build quality and so on, TG has the right to tell it. And seriously I'm not sure if they were lying about the Tesla. It's a fact that battery powered cars never worked properly.
Suing everybody just make me laugh harder at the USA.
chris 30th March 2011 At 7:00 pm
how do we know the tesla's didn't actually break? until it is proven that top gear faked the reliability issues tesla should hold off on the accusations. and dont reply with bullshit like a car manufacturer found scripts without including names and how they somehow randomly found these scripts. top gear does fake stuff to make it interesting and if this is faked yes its going to far but we shouldnt be so sure so quickly. cars do break.
Turboman 30th March 2011 At 7:17 pm
Everyone knows that this show is only there to entertain no one should take their tests seriously.
I didn't hear BMW shouting that the test of the X6 harmed the reputation of BMW. (YOu know the test in which the car couldn't get up the hills)
I still would buy a Tesla if they would be cheaper so that one can afford it as a 3rd car.
lenov 30th March 2011 At 7:30 pm
what i don't understand is that if Tesla found the scripts before the car had been tested, why did they continue with the testing? why did'nt they back out? any company who think that their image will be damaged by anything try avoiding it. it makes no sense that they start suing Top Gear now. This is what makes me think Tesla is being stupid with the accusations.
kris_vd 30th March 2011 At 7:33 pm
@Authority Figure, you seem to know a bit about business and lawsuits, but you don't have a clue about tv shows. How they make the script, how the shot the scenes, how and when in the proces of making the show they record the narrator voice. But this is insignificant. The main thing here is that this that you read and you think is the TG's script, well it's not. This is description of the Tesla's test drive. I did a bit searching and I couldn't find show's script anywhere. I'm completely impartial about this case, but I watch TG from many, many years now and I've never seen faking failures in the show. Yes, they exaggerate and they stage some scenes, but never vehicle's failure. The Caparo T1 broke down several time during the test, Aston-Martin Vantage broke a clutch and many other failures, but nobody sued them. When said thatthe trip computer in Audi R8 V10 doesn't work, they corect themselves later and they said that the mistake is theirs and the computer works. So I know this, TG doesn't fake failures and when they are wrong about some, they let as know about that. So imo Tesla is going to lose this badly.
bobryt 30th March 2011 At 7:43 pm
how they could offend our polish Polonez?!?!?!?! I sue them!!!! ;]
embarrassed American 30th March 2011 At 7:46 pm
Authority Figure: Top Gear is about entertainment, it is NOT supposed to be a "legitimate car tester" as you suggested. They have never made that claim, in fact they constantly celebrate the fact that they are purely an ENTERTAINMENT program.
If you want unbiassed factual buyer's information, get a consumer reports subscription.
Times like this, I'm embarrassed to be American. The American obsession with sueing is ridiculous. We should be ashamed.
Carry-on TOP GEAR!!!
rayman89 30th March 2011 At 8:02 pm
……………………yeah, good luck
Joxes 30th March 2011 At 8:14 pm
Tesla is a piece of crap. Top Gear review is very accurate (unfortunately for Tesla)…
Carry on Jeremy !!!!!!!!
Shawn 30th March 2011 At 9:16 pm
Top gear is a car review program. its only recently that they have made a mockery of it and turned it into entertainment.
and there is no doubt they fake most shit on it.
i remember the hummer vs range rover episode "and the hummer seems to have just stopped" yes because it does that. its about time the BBC got what it deserves.
them british aye, if its not british car, its not good. if the same tesla car was made in the UK. he would have praised it as the best car in the world
avalancher 30th March 2011 At 9:56 pm
Why did nobody else complained after so long ? Because all other electric car reviews say the same thing: the mileage is grossly overstated and everything runs very hot on the highway.
Only Tesla can't stand this truth.
Authority Figure 31st March 2011 At 12:50 am
Interesting conversation. I continue to be amazed by how cowtailed people become when they develop an affinity for a product. Whether it be a car or a TV show. I also grow very weary of the "shut up American" strategy employed by some.
(For the record, if you believe that you know something about all Americans because you know something about our government – then you really should invest some time in cultural immersion. I confess not all, but many of us, are just as disgusted with the actions of our politicos as you are, so save us from the rhetoric and easy punchlines and let's talk about Tesla and Top Gear, rather than the country of origin of each commenter.)
My points stand and are reinforced by some of your comments. Many of you suggest the show has degenerated into something less than authentic – which is problematic since it is the on-air representative of a magazine that vies to be seen as a genuine car tester.
Yes, we all have to wait for all the evidence to be presented. But many of us have already stated incidences where we know already, for a fact, that tests or scenarios have been faked. Does this mean everything is fake? No. Does this mean everything Tesla says is automatically true? No. But it means its reasonable to assume there is some truth.
That said, I would like to say "yes" I do know a lot about business. I've been an entrepreneur for over a decade and most of my peers are as well. Wit that said, Dodge is a crappy car company (to the gentleman that brought that up) but they have way less to lose than Tesla, which is on the verge of testing Toyota's preeminence in the world of electric cars. If you follow the market you know how much is at stake and you know they HAVE to be litigious when it threatens their investment or consumer confidence – especially if they believe the information being shared is being package for shock value rather than education.
So we will see. In the meantime, Top Gear looks a bit irresponsible. As to the fellow that asks "why didn't they pull out" the reply is simple – Every car show and magazine always lists the companies that pull out, which is almost worst because you're left looking amateurish, guilty or fearful of discovery.
I'm sure Tesla would rather settle through mediation, but I hope it goes to court. I'd like to see what we can learn about the production of Top Gear. (Why did someone mention that they couldn't find scripts online?? What show posts scripts online buddy? lol)
John 31st March 2011 At 1:27 am
This is my last few comments: If anything, that episode amazed me that an electric car has the potential to do 0-60 in 3.9. I was astonished that the specs were 200miles before losing electricity(I think that;s what Jeremy said, I'm not watching the video again). But honestly…WHO is going to buy an electric car for a little over $100,000? A lot of viewers that watch Top Gear, as Jeremy says, are "petrol heads." I like Top Gear, and I like what they do. I love cars, and the entertainment is awesome. Personally, with 100 grand, I would get a ZR1, which gets like 5mpg on the track. I would never buy the Tesla, and I'm sure people who just watch the show for entertainment aren't going to spend $100,000 on an electric car. I don't even think those rich oil middle eastern princes would even waste their money on the Tesla. Oops, are they going to sue me for saying that? (was a joke…the Tesla was a good idea…but the price for the ELECTRIC car is outrageous).
Sorry to get a little off topic..
I also see where Authority Figure is coming from. He's obviously a very smart man and knows his stuff. That is why I'm not going to try to compete with him about this subject because he knows more than me business wise lol.
All I got to say is, TOP GEAR IS AWESOME!
Ben 31st March 2011 At 3:10 am
I think 'authority figure' has an obligation to disclose whether he/she has an 'interest' in vigorously defending Tesla.
These manufacturers submit their cars to TG knowing well in advance what type of show TG is and the format used to review cars (good or bad). Tesla's plan was to leverage commercial advantage through international exposure on TG, but cried fowl when they couldn't control the outcome with glowing reviews.
For instance, if you've ever watched TG episodes on Alfa Romeo and Lancia, they usually raise (and mock) the reliability of these cars. However they also mention that these manufacturers have produced some of the boldest, most inspiring and courageous productions/designs in automotive history.
No one is perfect and Tesla's lawyers are doing more to damage Tesla's reputation than TG could ever managed to.
Joe 31st March 2011 At 8:31 am
If they are an entertainment program like you say, why did they apply for a documentry visa when first coming to the US?
Mike 7th April 2011 At 9:59 pm
Where's the essence of a car show if they're dishonest and don't tell the truth. Some things must be said !!
Ryan 28th May 2011 At 2:37 pm
I LOVE TOP GEAR (UK) It's one of my favorite "entertainment" shows on television today! They make fun of every manufacturer out there and clearly don't give a crap as they do so, and they shouldn't because it's HILARIOUS! Think about all the commercials that bash each other's products left and right (ex: cell phone companies, cable companies, CAR COMPANIES)
Chris Field 10th February 2014 At 4:44 pm
If this car is fucking great then why is it not sold at every dealer in the US.
I AGREE WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT. Sorry if your mad about the truth, build something worthy of praise and we will praise it, until them it is a P.O.S.


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Blaine Whisenhunt, Weapon of Mass Compassion (2006), Xerox copies & paper shredder installation, ~ 12' x 12' (variable)
Now that the exhibit has ended
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Front Lines: Original
Works About War and Life
A VOX Reading Series Event with Keynote Reader Dr. Chris Cuomo
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Vets & Their Families,
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3:30: Hope Hilton Reads
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Cecelia Kane & 194 US & Int'l artists, detail from
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mixed media, dimensions variable Jim Buonaccorsi, Don't Forget to Learn,
Don't Learn to Forget , (2006-2010),
steel and cast iron, 30' x 9' x 14'
From left to right, top to bottom: Details from The Hand to Hand Project (2003-2010): 2003- 2005 - Cecelia Kane (Decatur, GA), 2006 - Ayla Ercin (Portland,OR), 2007 - Ruth Schowalter (Decatur, GA), 2008 - Rose M. Barron (Atlanta, GA), 2009 - Virginia Parker (Atlanta, GA), 2010 - Rana Alkeshali (Baghdad, Iraq)
Mission Accomplished is an exhibit of three artists' projects that focus on war's effects on society. The exhibit is timed to coincide with President Obama's promised date of withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq and is titled to allude ironically to President Bush II's infamously premature announcement.
With thousands of casualties since the initial invasion of Iraq eight years ago, with a total of 170,000 American troops in Iraq at the war's peak, with hundreds of billions of dollars spent amid overwhelming controversy, the war in Iraq has affected people everywhere.
Cecelia Kane's The Hand to Hand Project chronicles the events of the Iraq war since its inception in March 2003, when she began painting the day's headlines on stuffed white gloves, one for every day the war continued. She describes each glove as a "'rosary bead' in this on-going, meditation of war witnessing." Some express our collective horror at the violence and some depict positive outcomes, yet all reflect the role of journalism in mediating our reception of the historical events.
In January 2006 the artist decided to expand the project to include other artists—she invited each artist to take on one week of Iraq War news and depict each day's news—good or bad—on a glove or hand-related artwork. 195 artists—many well-known Atlanta artists--have contributed to the project. In its entirety, The Hand to Hand Project will be large enough to fill every wall of ATHICA seven rows deep.
The artists hail from all across America and nine countries including a U.S. soldier stationed in Baghdad, another in the Gulf of Hormuz and two refugee Iraqi girls. There will be approximately 2,000 artworks ranging in media from a few video and soundworks, to glass, photography, painted, printed, embroidered and sculptural hands. A definitive catalog of the Hand to Hand Project Catalog is available from Blurb.com.
Jim Buonaccorsi—a native of Rhode Island and resident of Farmington, GA for over 20 years—is a sculpture professor at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art who has focused his entire career on meticulously crafted works relating to war. His colossal steel and cast iron sculpture, Don't Forget to Learn, Don't Learn to Forget, is his largest to date and will debut at ATHICA after more than four years in the making. It depicts a furnace filled with metal skulls, each branded with a three-digit number on their forehead symbolizing the cold statistics of warfare. Buonaccorsi's title alludes to the repetitive motion of history and man's inability to learn from his mistakes.
Jim Buonaccorsi, Don't Forget to Learn, Don't Learn to Forget (2006-2010), steel and cast iron, 30' x 9' x 14' (Photo courtesy Katherine Holmes.)
Blaine Whisenhunt, also a sculpture professor, hails from Springfield, MO where he teaches at Drury University. His audience-participatory work, Weapon of Mass Compassion is comprised of a paper shredder and a stack of over a 100 Xerox copies of images of civilian Iraqi's, some war victims, culled from online sources,
which he invites viewers to shred throughout the exhibit's duration. This At rest, the work reminds the viewer of the consequences of war's
dehumanization and the number of civilian lives lost during battle.
Blaine Whisenhunt, Weapon of Mass Compassion (2006), Gallery view, Xerox copies and paper shredder installation, ~ 12' x 12' (variable) (Photo courtesy Katherine Holmes.)
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Cecelia Kane (Decatur, Georgia)
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Jim Buonaccorsi (Farmington, GA)
Blaine Whisenhunt (Springfield, MO)
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John Dalton Medal 2002 Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
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John Dalton Medal
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
The 2002 John Dalton Medal is awarded to Efi Foufoula-Georgiou for her outstanding contributions to the understanding of space-time precipitation variability.
Professor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou is probably one of the most remarkable personalities in Scientific Hydrology today. From Greek origin, she started her career at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, from where she obtained a Diploma in Civil Engineering. After a short period as an engineer at the River Management and Urban Planning Division of the Ministry of Public Works in Athens she decided to take to a Scientific Career and moved to the US where she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida. After a period as a Research Associate at the University of Washington she moved again, this time to the University of Minnesota, next to Iowa State University where she became an Assistant Professor and later back to Minnesota where she became an Associate Professor, Full Professor and finally Director of the highly successful St. Anthony Falls Laboratory – all within less than two decades. An impressive track record indeed, but it is her outstanding research achievements that have made her stand out among the peers. Over the years she has pioneered a new era of stochastic space-time rainfall modelling which has significantly advanced our understanding of rainfall processes over a wide range of scales. The concepts she introduced or developed have covered an immense spectrum, from traditional stochastics to wavelets and the notion of dynamic self similarity. While these contribution have been in much depth, she has been a genuine Earth Scientist at heart and used these new concepts to better understand and predict a range of other geophysical processes, from geomorphologic studies of river networks to subsurface hydrologic processes and systems. The common theme in much of this work has been to unravel scale relationships from the highly irregular patterns exhibited by most geophysical processes, and she has been tremendously successful in finding such relationships. Efi has been mainly active in the international scientific arena but has maintained and cherished her South European roots over the years, be it as an assessor for the European Commission, by contributing to EGS Meetings or as an active scientific editor of EGS's Hydrology Journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Maybe even more remarkable than her scientific achievements are her personal traits – a most thorough teacher, colleague and reviewer to many but at the same time a most charming lady! But probably the most amazing thing about her is how she manages to reconcile her professional duties with her family agendas. Clearly, Efi is one of the most outstanding role models for the next generation of Earth Scientists in Hydrology both female and male.


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The Adecco Group's Statement on Refugees
Adecco Group: Supporting humanitarian efforts to help refugees fleeing war in Ukraine. Group ready to offer expertise in integrating refugees in the labour market
Our colleagues in countries bordering Ukraine have been in action since the first day of the crisis, working to help our own colleagues and associates affected by the war in Ukraine. We continue to support them and their families.
In addition, our Eastern European operations are working to ease the pain of many people in this terrible crisis. For more details on the action we took during the first week of the conflict, Adecco Group CEO, Alain Dehaze has summarised our efforts, both on the ground, with multilateral organisations and the ICRC.
Our teams in Eastern Europe are building on the Group`s years-long experience in helping refugees re-enter the workforce, earn money, rebuild their lives and make a positive future for them and their families. Most recently, in the summer of 2021, we worked with Afghan people who were unexpectedly displaced.
The Adecco Group`s involvement with refugees
With a strong purpose of making the future work for everyone and - as one of the world's largest employers - we are convinced we can play a role in supporting displaced people as they seek to integrate in their new host communities and start rebuilding their lives and livelihoods. We can look back on a long track-record of integrating refugees in the labour market both by developing strategic good practice and by providing individual refugees with the necessary skills and work opportunities to thrive.
Beyond helping refugees to overcome barriers to enter the workforce, The Adecco Group campaigns for more inclusive pathways to employment worldwide. To this end we collaborate with various recognised organisations such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the European Network Against Racism's Equal@Work Platform to continuously strengthen our approach, share best practices, and to amplify our impact for the benefit of the wider society.
Examples of our track record in working with refugees
Through its global business units Adecco, LHH and AKKA & Modis and in the countries where it operates, the Adecco Group is intervening on a number of levels:
Service lines focused on the labour market integration of underrepresented groups, such as:
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In 2020, The Adecco Group also joined the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a coalition of more than 170 major companies committed to including refugees.
Raising awareness, building the understanding and sharing best practices on the labour market integration of refugees:
"Labour-market integration of resettled refugees in the European Union - Guidelines for Practitioners"
"The labour market integration of refugees – A focus on Europe"
"La realidad invisible: la integración pendiente de los migrantes en Argentina"
"Accueillir les refugies autrement? L'insertion professionnelle au coeur de l'intégration"
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Across the world, we help businesses optimise their talent, transform their workforces and build the employability of people. With more than 30,000 full time employees in 60 countries, we transform the world of work one job at a time with 3.5 million careers enabled annually. We are the world's leading talent advisory and solutions company. We are driven by a powerful purpose – making the future work for everyone. Our services help people fulfil – and exceed – their potential, building employability and connecting people with opportunities. Our solutions enable our clients to optimise their talent needs and organisational models to achieve their goals. While our advocacy and firm commitment to operating responsibly aims to build a better world of work for all.
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Living with an artist conjures up visions of attics and someone wanting to be away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life in order to put one's thoughts on canvas. That would be the ideal but for my Dad living in a two bedroom council flat in Bethnal Green there were no luxuries of space.
The flat was made up of 2 bedrooms, a scullery that consisted of a cooker, butler sink with draining board, cooker and small cupboard. This was also where we washed and Dad shaved etc. The kitchen had a fireplace with oven above it and the room was used for all other activities. Mum had to prepare our meals there and do all the cooking as there were no tops in the scullery. Like most families we had a table (which doubled up as a ping pong table when pulled out). Also there was a small bathroom and toilet, but he felt we lived in luxury compared to what others had, and also bearing in mind where the family lived previously.
THOUGHTS FROM HIS DAUGHTER
His painting was done in the Kitchen using the light from the window. He started work as a window cleaner very early every morning, leaving home before light and he returned home early in the afternoon to give himself time to paint. He went out with his rucksack which contained a collapsible easel and seat, plus his paints and he would just set himself up and paint away. This often took place on Sunday mornings and I would sometimes go with him. The time spent waiting while he sketched or painted would very often be interspersed with a series of history lessons about the East End, his family history and his life and work in Bethnal Green as a left wing agitator. Every week we would go to the library where he would only take out factual books or poetry.
His overriding philosophy in life was that we should never be ashamed of where we come from. This meant for him fighting injustice, a strict code of morality and using his art to show the poverty and conditions that existed in the slum areas. Of course, that art could also be used to showcase the glorious little bits of gardens and flower boxes, the pubs, churches and music halls that could brighten an otherwise dull day. Wherever he was, he carried a sketch book and on the front page would be a quote from or about an artist. On some drawings he would quote poetry to emphasise a point. These sketch books went to council meetings, old time dancing (which he took up later in life), holidays and whilst working, but the thing I remember most is that Mum and I were constantly being sketched. Me with my legs hanging over the furniture reading, or doing homework, Mum either cooking, having her feet soaking in water, or just having forty winks. We got so used to it that we didn't even notice, and it is only now looking back at his sketch books that memories flood back.
I would say his painting, politics and love of the East End were inseparable. He loved people who frequently called for advice and a chat. He absolutely adored my mother and it was certainly a lifelong love affair. He had a brilliant sense of humour which would often mean laughing at himself. He was a big man with a big laugh who loved life in his beloved Bethnal Green.
ALBERT'S STORY
ALBERT EDWARD
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Artist - Window Cleaner - Activist - Fireman
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I do love ornamental grasses for many reasons: they have great structure and bulk, create a sense of repetition when massed, catch the wind beautifully, provide much-needed winter interest over a long Toronto winter and as "low-maintenance" as you can expect from a perennial. They are, however, a bit tough to deal with in spring when you need to cut them back to about 4-6". Sharp tools, gloves and safety glasses are strongly advised.
This backyard garden in west-end Toronto has several large and mature clumps of Miscanthus and Calamagrostis (Maiden grass and Feather Reed Grass) which were cut back as part of the many "spring cleanups" I've performed since mid-April.
To be charitable, cutting back these ornamental grasses now represents the only real maintenance for the next 364 days. Once established, they don't need regular watering, fertilizing, deadheading and are ignored by pests and diseases. You can save this type of tender loving care for your roses, I suppose.


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This Woman Is Changing Undocumented Immigrants' Lives in Under an Hour
Meet Allegra Love, who's crisscrossing the Southwest to make sure undocumented children have a chance at a legal future in the only home they've ever known.
(Image credit: Julie Ann Grimm/Santa Fe Reporter)
By Heather Hansman published 30 March 17
Allegra Love makes quick work of changing lives. When she rides into a town like Farmington, New Mexico in her turquoise RV turned mobile legal clinic, she and her staff at the Santa Fe Dreamers Project—the outreach program she founded in 2015 to provide free representation to young undocumented immigrants—can determine if someone is eligible for legal residency and get the paperwork rolling in under an hour. Even half a day in a new town can make a big impact. "There's nothing like it in the country," Love, 36, says of the mobile clinic.
When President Donald Trump began his sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration in January, Love and her team decided to spend a lot of 2017 in the RV traveling to "remote and afraid" immigrant communities, which often lack legal resources, around New Mexico and in neighboring states. Love wants to be sure that residents who came here illegally don't lose their chance to stay, legally, because they don't have access to a lawyer. It can be simple, but it takes meeting immigrants where they are, and in the new, deportation-focused administration, it's work that's more vital and time-sensitive than ever. "You've got to think, What would need to be happening for you to leave your country? What would your neighborhood have to look like?" Love says. " I don't think Americans know the conditions people are in...for me, it was something I couldn't ethically ignore."
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It all started in 2007 when Love was teaching third grade in a bilingual classroom in Santa Fe. One day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials conducted a series of raids around the city. Love's school wasn't targeted, but the next day, only three students out of her class of 20 showed up—the rest had stayed home, worried about additional raids. Until then, Love hadn't realized how many of her students lived in fear that they or their loved ones might be deported. "Deportation is a neat legal word," Love says. "But I don't think people connect it with tearing families apart."
Love felt she had to act, so before long she quit her job and enrolled in law school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. "It seemed like the most logical thing I could do to help," she says. "Being a lawyer is cool, because all of a sudden, people listen to you in ways they didn't before."
A year after Love finished law school, in June 2012, President Barack Obama issued an executive order known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allows undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before they were 16 years old (known as "dreamers"), and who were under the age of 31 at the time the order was issued, to stay in the country and access education and employment. So, after she graduated, Love returned to Santa Fe and began processing DACA applications for students as an in-house lawyer for the school district where she had once taught. Thanks to her, Santa Fe became one of the only school districts in the country to offer aid to undocumented students, and 96 percent of the students Love represented went on to graduate from high school (compared to 65 percent of Santa Fe high school students overall). Within two years, her work had grown so popular that she took it off school grounds.
"Deportation is a neat legal word. But I don't think people connect it with tearing families apart."
The Santa Fe Dreamers Project officially began as a solo act in March 2015. Love hosted a free drop-in legal clinic at a local church one night a week and processed 100 cases in her first year. The organization, which is funded by grants and donations, has since grown to include an office in Santa Fe and a weekly clinic in Albuquerque (chosen because of the increasing demand from dreamers in Colorado and Texas), and Love was able to hire two additional bilingual attorneys. Together, they've helped 700 people gain legal status through DACA.
Since this past election, their phones have been ringing nonstop. During his campaign, Trump promised to end DACA immediately, and although that didn't happen, the president's hard-line approach to immigration so far—in January, he ordered the suspension of the admission of refugees, blocked travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations, and directed the immediate construction of a U.S.–Mexico border wall—has Love and other activists fearing the worst. At press time, the Trump administration hadn't yet said what would become of the 800,000 immigrants who have already been granted legal status under DACA if the policy is repealed, and a recent wave of ICE raids suggests a firm stance.
That's why, until DACA's fate is sealed, Love and her team will be on the road, sacrificing sleep and meals in order to help as many immigrants as they can—all because they know every case they take on has the ability to make that person's life better, safer, and more secure. One recent client is now working on a master's degree; another was able to leave an abusive relationship as a result of her new immigration status. "These [policies provide] ladders out of poverty, and that has a long-term positive impact on the whole community," Love says. "We're showing what's possible when you pull people in from the margins."
This article appears in the April issue of Marie Claire, on newsstands now.
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Q: Load ServletConfig I want to load the ServletConfig of an specific Servlet from inside a ServletContextListener.
I tried to do that from inside public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce){} using the ServletContext but the operation sce.getServletContext().getServlet("SERVLET_NAME").getServletConfig() but I can't because getServlet() of ServletContext is deprecated.
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A: As the API specification says:

As of Java Servlet API 2.1, with no direct replacement.
  This method was originally defined to retrieve a servlet from a ServletContext. In this version, this method always returns null and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API.

Alternatively, you can access getServletRegistration(String servletName) which returns a ServletRegistration. It has an API which enable you to access Init parameters and Servlet name same as ServletConfig, plus extra methods to access Servlet mappings and run-as role.

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One of the roles of your Voluntery Parish Councillors is to take on responsibility for various projects and initiatives, often as a result of feeback from you within the community. Below you will find the link to the latest version of the plan, this is also shared within the Window on Silver End and the notice board outside the Co-Op.
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Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) is inconvenient, embarrassing and often uncomfortable – not just physically, but also mentally. However one thing PFD is not, is uncommon. The encouraging news is that you don't have to suffer silence. There are many ways to manage and overcome the condition, with research suggesting that 60-70 percent of cases can be better managed or cured completely.
Below are the important facts you need to know about PFD.
It is also known that approximately one in three women who have had a baby will come to experience incontinence at some point as a result of stretched, weakened or torn pelvic muscles.
PFD is more common than you'd think. It affects 4.8 million Australians (yes, men can experience it too), yet the majority (80 percent) are women.
Yes, in fact incontinence takes on many different forms. The most common type of incontinence is stress incontinence, which is where the bladder leaks as a result of small pressure changes in the body (e.g. coughing, sneezing and jumping). Urge incontinence is the feeling of frequently need to use the bathroom, even when there is no real need, and mixed incontinence is a mixture of the two previously mentioned. Overflow incontinence is when there is a blockage in the ureter which prevents the complete emptying of the bladder.
What other factors contribute to PFD?
Certain foods, including those that case excessive urination or disrupt the digestion process can also have a negative effect on your bladder.
Ensure you undergo careful assessment: An internal pelvic examination and real time ultrasound are important tests to undergo to allow both yourself and your specialist to understand the cause of your incontinence. It is also important for the specialised health professional to undergo careful assessment of your case in order to design the most appropriate, personalised treatment plan for you.
Pelvic floor strengthening exercises: Certain exercise, which may be given to you by a specially trained physiotherapist, can help strengthen pelvic floor muscles and lead to better pelvic floor control. A common pelvic floor exercise involves intentionally stopping your urine flow midstream to gradually build bladder control.
Drink water: This may sound like strange advice, however reducing your fluid intake can irritate your bladder and cause it to fill to lower volumes. This can make you feel like you need to use the bathroom more often and lead to further damage. Drink 1.5-2 litres of water a day to allow your body to maintain overall health and wellness, including pelvic floor health.
Pelvic floor dysfunction affects many women, and is not something to be ashamed of or suffer in silence. There are many treatment options available, and with the right support from a trained specialist, you should be able to avoid and overcome many uncomfortable situations. Take charge of your body and give yourself the confidence it deserves.
A lot of info here I wasn't aware of before.
I had no idea about some of the other contributing factors!
Didn't realise it could be completely fixed! That's a relief even though I dontnhave any issues now!
I had no idea that diet could have an impact.
Sadly, I can no longer jump on the trampoline.
Surprised to learn from your article that certain medications can cause PFD…I do my PF exercises daily, doesn't matter where I am – I do them.
While l knew the first two ways I am surprised to find reducing your fluid intake can irritate your bladder and cause it to fill to lower volumes. I have never been told this before but could account for my frequent trips to the bathroom. I will try and increase my fluid intake and see if it helps me. Thank you very much.
Wonderful advice, a very motivational article. Thank you!


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PepsiCo pulls some products over Philadelphia beverage tax
By Ron Sterk
PepsiCo is pulling 2-liter bottles of its products from grocery stores in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA — New York-based PepsiCo, Inc. said it was pulling 2-liter bottles and 12-packs of its products from grocery stores in Philadelphia due to the city's beverage tax.
The 1.5c-per-oz tax, which is levied on distributors, amounts to $2.16 on a 12-pack of 12-oz cans and about $1.02 on a two-liter bottle if it is entirely passed on to consumers. The tax applies to both caloric sweetened and diet beverages, and in PepsiCo's case includes Pepsi Cola, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Lipton Iced Tea and other products.
PepsiCo said it wants to offer products and package sizes that working families can better afford. The company earlier in March said it was laying off from 80 to 100 workers at Philadelphia area distribution facilities because of the beverage tax.
Philadelphia's beverage tax has caused PepsiCo to pull 12-packs of its products from shelves in the city.
Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, who pushed for the tax that went into effect Jan. 1, 2017, said the beverage industry already was trending toward smaller container sizes before the tax was passed.
Unlike most existing or proposed soda taxes in other cities that are aimed at combatting obesity, diabetes and other health issues or increasing nutrition education, the Philadelphia tax was created for the purpose of raising revenue, according to both proponents and opponents, and was expected to generate more than $91 million annually. The tax was approved by the Philadelphia City Council in June 2016.
Boulder, Colo., and San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, Calif., all passed soda taxes last November, joining Berkeley, Calif., which passed a soda tax in 2014, and the Navajo Nation. Cook County, Ill., also has a soda tax planned, which like the Philadelphia tax, is aimed at raising revenue. Soda taxes also have been proposed in a few other cities, states and countries for implementation this year or next year. F
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