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Linklaters hosted the most recent "Meet the Female Arbitrators" event, aimed at the financial services community, in conjunction with The Pledge. In a speed-dating-esque format, female arbitrators each sat at an individual table with attendees moving between the tables to talk to the arbitrators about their experiences and expertise. The event was joined by some very distinguished women, including Dame Elizabeth Gloster, and feedback from the attendees was very positive. Teresa Laboucarié-Polak (Partner in Linklaters' International Arbitration Practice) delivered the opening remarks and it was a fun and inspiring evening. (London, UK)
The Pledge was promoted at the inaugural Africa Arbitration Academy hosted by Freshfields in London. The day began with an opening address delivered by Sylvia Noury and Stephanie Mbonu, following by sessions on investment treaty arbitration (presented by Natalie Sheehan and Ella Davies), construction disputes in Africa (presented by Bryan Dayton and Mohamed Eid) and annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards (presented by Gisele Stephens-Chu and Maxence Rivoire). The day concluded with a mentoring session with Prof Dr Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Mrs Funke Adekoya, SAN during which various issues were discussed including improving the visibility of African arbitrators on the world stage, tackling diversity, and improving local judicial support for domestic and international arbitration across Africa. (London, UK)
The Finland Arbitration Institute (FAI) hosted the 15th IFCAI Biennial Conference in Helsinki. The IFCAI Biennial Conference is an international arbitration conference arranged biennially by the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI). The conference is hosted in turns by arbitral institutions that are IFCAI members. Currently, IFCAI consists of 52 member organisations worldwide. (Helsinki, Finland)
The Pledge celebrated its third anniversary with a Diversity Drinks Reception during London International Disputes Week at Vinson & Elkins, supported by ArbitralWomen and FTI Consulting. Pledge founder and co-chair of the Steering Committee, Sylvia Noury, spoke about the progress of the Pledge to date, including the promising statistics so far for 2018, and the future aims of the Pledge, including raising awareness of the Pledge among corporates.
Diversity Drinks Reception supported by the Pledge and ArbitralWomen during LIDW. (London, UK)
Panel discussion on the art of advocacy in international arbitration hosted by Baker McKenzie, ICDR Young & International (ICDR Y&I) and Young ArbitralWomen Practitioners (YAWP). (New York, USA)
We were a supporting organisation at a conference on adjudication and arbitration being held at the Scottish Arbitration Centre, Edinburgh. (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Burford Capital LLC hosted the official UK launch of The Equity Project, supported by ArbitralWomen, at Somerset House, London. The Equity Project is a ground-breaking initiative designed to help close the gender gap in law by providing an economic incentive for change through a $50 million pool of capital earmarked for financing commercial litigation matters led by women. (London, UK)
ArbitralWomen hosted a Gala Dinner in New York City to celebrate the ArbitralWomen Jubilee and the launch of the ArbitralWomen Diversity Toolkit™ with Keynote by India Johnson (CEO of American Arbitration Association). The Gala also celebrated the launch of the Women Pioneers in Dispute Resolution, 2d edition. The Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge was pleased to be an organisation sponsor of this event. (New York, USA)
ArbitralWomen held a full-day diversity conference hosted by the American Arbitration Association for the launch of the AW Diversity Toolkit™. Led by esteemed panelists, discussions included: (i) identifying unconscious bias, how it impacts arbitration and arbitrators; (ii) the business case and moral case for diversity in international arbitration; (iii) not just a women's issue – who is affected by unconscious bias and how; (iv) what institutions, corporations and organizations can do to increase diversity; (v) diversity by inclusiveness; and (vi) practical ways to recognize and deal with unconscious bias – pitfalls and how to overcome them. The Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge was pleased to be an organisation sponsor of this conference. (New York, USA)
Cleary Gottlieb, ArbitralWomen, and the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge co-hosted an event on diversity, inclusion, and the challenges and opportunities for arbitration, featuring commentary and insights from diversity consultants and in-house and outside counsel. (New York, USA)
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria Branch held its annual conference and gala night at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, with over 600 attendees. In her welcome address, Steering Committee member Doyin Rhodes-Vivour, of Doyin Rhodes-Vivour & Co., spoke about efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in the arbitration community, and encouraged participants to visit the diversity stand present at the conference and take the Pledge.
Norton Rose Fulbright Shipping Arbitration Pledge networking evening. The event continued Norton Rose Fulbright's Arbitration Pledge series, and commenced with a speed networking roundtable where attendees had the opportunity to meet with a number of female shipping arbitrators.
Pledge and ArbitralWomen hosted breakfast in Salvador, with panel discussions on gender differences in relationships of professional subordination, and unconscious bias in the appointment of arbitrators.
An Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge breakfast on the recognition and enforcement of awards was organized as part of the 2nd ICC Ecuador ADR Week. Speakers included Flávia Bittar Neves of Flávia Bittar Sociedade de Advogados in Belo Horizonte, Vanessa Augirre of Andrade Aguirre Abogados in Quito, and Claudia Frutos-Peterson of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP in Washington DC, who is also a Pledge Steering Committee member and Washington, DC representative on the Pledge Latin America Committee. The moderator was Javier Robalino of Ferrere Abogados in Quito, who is a Pledge Steering Committee member and Ecuador representative on the Pledge Latin America Committee. Kathy Ibarra of Freshfields in New York live-tweeted the panel. (Quito, Ecuador)
HFW, Quadrant and 20 Essex Street hosted an Arbitration Pledge event, facilitating the introduction of female commodities arbitrators to those law firms likely to appoint them. It was the second in a series of 'Meet Female Arbitrator' events. The first focussed on IA, the next will focus on the shipping sector.
The Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge hosted another Quantum Experts Seminar Series, sponsored by Debevoise & Plimpton and ArbitralWomen, on 14 June 2018 at 4 Place de L'Opera, 75002 Paris. The discussion topic was Valuation fundamentals in the context of loss assessment, and was led by Battine Edwards (Deloitte) and Delphine Sztermer (Accuracy).
The Câmara de Arbitragem e Mediação da Federação das Indústrias do Paraná (CAMFIEP) hosted an event to formalize its signing of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge. The signing ceremony was followed by a discussion on the ethics challenges in arbritation (Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil).
The Pledge had an exhibition stand at the 7th Helsinki International Arbitration Day held in the Finnish capital and the topic of the day was 'Shaping the Future of International Arbitration'. The seminar gathered leading international arbitration experts from Finland and around the world to discuss the future of international arbitration and how dispute resolution can be tailored to continue to meet the users' expectations of speed, efficiency and technology.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer hosted GAR's Who's Who Legal Future Leaders: Arbitration Conference, at its London office on 9 May 2018. The Pledge had an exhibition space and signatories were collected at the event. The first session of the conference included a fireside chat with leading arbitrator and Steering Committee member Juliet Blanch, who spoke about future trends in arbitration, including the need to strive for greater diversity (of all kinds) in arbitration. The event was co-chaired by Pledge signatory and Freshfields Counsel, Leilah Bruton.
The 6th ICC MENA Conference was held in Dubai on 6-8 May 2018, where the Pledge hosted an exhibition space, and a significant number of new signatories were collected from amongst attendees. (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
On April 27, the Peruvian Arbitration Institute hosted a panel discussion in Lima, on the Evaluation of Diversity in International Arbitration in light of the Second Anniversary of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge. Lupe López moderated the panel which addressed, among other things, the impact of diversity on the legitimacy and acceptance of arbitration as a method of dispute resolution, the main actors responsible for ensuring greater diversity and recent efforts undertaken in Latin America to bring about equal representation in arbitration. The other panelists were Claudia Benavides (Baker McKenzie Colombia, Partner), Lucía Olavarría (Ministry of Energy and Mining in Peru, Advisor), and Javier Robalino (Ferrere Abogados Ecuador, Partner). A team consisting of Lupe López, Rafael Sánchez Ríos, Kathy Ibarra, and Rosina Muller Bernar assisted with organizing the panel discussion.
The Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand held an event to celebrate its commitment to ensure equal representation and opportunity in dispute resolution. Pledge Steering committee co-chair Wendy Miles QC addressed attendees. (Wellington, New Zealand)
The International Bar Association's 8th World Women Lawyers' Conference was held in London, and featured a Pledge exhibition space where Pledge signatures were collected and information about the Pledge initiative was distributed to attendees. (London, UK)
Paris Arbitration Week, Diversité dans l'arbitrage – par où commence le changement? 4 Boulevard du Palais, 75001 Paris (Paris, France)
ERA Pledge Quantum Experts Seminar Series Debevoise & Plimpton, 4 Place de l'Opéra, 75002 Paris. (Paris, France)
The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) Academic Council and the American Society of International Law (ASIL) held their annual half-day conference in Washington, DC, and this year's theme was "Diversity and Inclusion in International Law." Conference attendees included noteworthy arbitrators, representatives of various arbitral institutions, private practitioners, third-party funders, and students. A number of conference participants – approximately 75% of whom were women – shared their thoughts on the Pledge initiative, and keynote speaker Lucy Reed as well as panelist Lucy Greenwood and conference co-chair Caroline Richard, were among those who actively encouraged all attendees to sign the Pledge. The conference organizers generously provided a Pledge exhibition space near the general registration area, and Pledge signatures were collected throughout the event.
The NYU International Law Society hosted a panel discussion on the Past, Present, and Future of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge. Among many points of discussion, the panelists addressed the history of women in arbitration and the Pledge, what do institutions and firms do to fulfill their commitment to the Pledge, and goals for the future. Panelists include Steering Committee members Mirèze Phillipe (ICC Paris, Special Counsel) and Noiana Marigo (Freshfields, Partner), as well as Giovanna Micheli (ICDR, Director), Dana C. MacGrath (Sidley Austin LLP, Counsel), Christina L. Beharry (Foley Hoag LLP, Counsel), Ulyana Bardyn (Dentons US LLP, Senior Managing Associate), Elliot Friedman (Freshfields, Partner), Rafael Carlos del Rosal Carmona (ICDR, International Case Counsel), Preeti Bhagnani (White & Case LLP, Associate), and Lupe López (Freshfields, Senior Associate). The discussion was live-tweeted from the Pledge's twitter account (@ERAPledge), signatures were collected, and a reception followed.
ArbitralWomen and the Chartered Institution of Arbitrators organised a conference on Promoting Gender Diversity in Arbitration in Africa, at which Pledge Steering Committee member Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour gave the key note address. Members of the ERA Pledge Nigeria Subcommittee were also in attendance. (Nairobi, Kenya)
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP hosted a networking event, co-sponsored by ArbitralWomen, entitled "Improving Diversity in International Arbitration". The event began with a female-only networking session, followed by a debate (that was open to all) where a panel of speakers addressed ways to improve gender, regional and generational diversity. Pledge Steering Committee member, Juliet Blanch, spoke about the Pledge and provided updates to the attendees. (London, England)
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The 21st Annual IBA Arbitration Day held in Buenos Aires featured a Pledge exhibition space next to the registration area and Pledge signatures were collected. Julio César Rivera, an Argentine representative of the Latin America Committee for the Pledge, Laura Piedrahita Abella, and their firm Rivera & Asociados helped organise the promotion of the Pledge. (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP held their inaugural Women in Arbitration event, co-hosted by the Pledge. An important theme of the evening involved raising the profile of female arbitrators and building networks between arbitrators and practitioners. Attendees included arbitrators, arbitral institutions, in-house lawyers, private practitioners, barristers, commercial and industry representatives, third-party funders, insurers, experts and more. The event was co-hosted by Marie Kelly and Sherina Petit, both partners in the dispute resolution team at Norton Rose Fulbright. Both Marie and Sherina encouraged all the attendees to actively appoint, and suggest to their colleagues to consider appointing, female arbitrators. The event was very well attended with familiar faces like Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof, Clare Ambrose, and the driving forces of The Pledge: Sylvia Noury, Wendy Miles, Juliet Blanch, and Claire Bamber amongst others. (London, England)
The Pledge was promoted at the 3rd EFILA Annual Conference on Parallel States' Obligations in Investor-State Arbitration, where over 100 participants discussed current issues within investment arbitration. The programme covered a range of issues, including the participation of non-disputing parties in arbitral proceedings and regulatory issues in international investment law. A keynote speech was given by the Honourable Charles N. Brower who discussed the planned Investment Court System. Sherina Petit and Annette Magnusson, members of the Pledge Steering Committee, spoke at the event and welcomed EFILA's support of the Pledge. EFILA's work to further the objectives of the Pledge were apparent at the conference, as approximately 50% of the speakers were female. (London, England)
During the conference "Dialogues between the Judicial Branch and Arbitration" (Diálogos entre la Rama Judicial y el Arbitraje) the Youth Arbitration Network of the Arbitration and Conciliation Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá (Red de Arbitraje Juvenil del Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliación de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá) organized a Pledge exhibition space where signatures were collected. Pledge supporter Camilo Narváez López introduced the Pledge to the approximately 400 attendees. In doing so, he fulfilled the 6th Pledge New Year's Resolution: I will talk about having signed the Pledge at my next speaking engagement at an arbitration event, and, where possible, make the Pledge available to sign at the event. (Bogota, Colombia)
18–19 January 2018
The Pledge was an organizational supporter of the 5TH ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration. Approximately 50% of the conference speakers were women. The Pledge promoted the initiative from an exhibition space where signatures were collected. Pledge Founder and Conference Co-Chair Sylvia Noury was present to give remarks on the initiative. Jacyln Masters provided support as a Pledge volunteer. (Houston, Texas, USA)
The first meeting of the Young International Arbitration Practitioners of New York was dedicated to the Pledge. Dana MacGrath, Counsel at Sidley Austin in New York, spoke to participants about the Pledge. The event was hosted at the offices of Herbert Smith Freehills. (New York, New York, USA)
The American Society of International Law hosted a Women in Arbitration Panel which included Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler (Levy, Kaufmann-Kohler, Partner, Professor of Law at the University of Geneva, Director of LL.M in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS)) Claudia Frutos-Peterson (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle, Partner), Gonzalo Flores (ICSID, Deputy Secretary General), Anne Marie Whitesell (Georgetown University Law Center, Professor of Law, LL.M Program and Faculty Director, Program on International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution), Terra Gearhart-Serna (U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, Attorney-Adviser), and moderated by Tracy Roosevelt (Foley Hoag LLP, Associate). Washington, DC representatives of the Pledge, Claudia Frutos-Peterson and Gonzalo Flores spoke about the Pledge, while a Freshfields team consisting of Jessica Moscoso, Kathy Ibarra, Justin Simeone, and Robert Williams live-tweeted the lively discussion. Participants wore Pledge badges and the Pledge was available for signing. (Washington, DC, USA)
The ERA Pledge was delighted to have a presence at the 32nd Annual Freshfields Arbitration Lecture 2017, held in association with the School of International Arbitration, Centre of Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London, and attended by over 400 members of the international arbitration community. The lecture was delivered by the Rt Hon Lady Justice Gloster DBE, an English Court of Appeal judge and the first female judge to be appointed as head of the English Commercial Court. She presented a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between the courts and arbitration.
ERA Pledge representatives Natalie Sheehan, Stephanie Mbonu, Leonie Beyrle and Roopa Mathews ran a Pledge exhibition stand to continue to raise awareness of, and encourage engagement with, the Pledge. Event attendees (including members of the judiciary, arbitrators, arbitration practitioners, academics and representatives of leading arbitral institutions and law firms) signalled their support by wearing the official Pledge Badge on their nametags. Following new signatures at the event, the Pledge reached almost 2,500 signatories. Thank you to everyone who supported the Pledge at the event. (London, England)
The Pledge was promoted during the Fordham International Arbitration Conference with an exhibition space to collect signatures. During the ArbitralWomen breakfast panel "The Impact of Gender in International Arbitration Advocacy: Does it Make a Difference?", speakers Lorraine Brennan, Pledge Steering Committee member Mirèze Philippe, and Rashda Rana SC, as well as moderator Dana MacGrath, wore the Pledge Badge on their nametags as a symbol of their support for the initiative. The panel also referenced the Pledge and encouraged attendees to sign the Pledge. Lupe López and Kathy Ibarra live-tweeted the breakfast panel from the Twitter account of the Pledge (@ERAPledge). (New York, New York, USA)
ICC Canada considered issues of gender diversity in its meeting on 11 November 2017. ERA Pledge Steering Committee member, Caroline Richard, presented on the Pledge. (Montréal, Canada)
Brazil representative of the Latin America Subcommittee Ana Carolina Weber introduced the Pledge / ArbitralWomen breakfast panel on "Expertise: a woman's no man's land?", part of the 15th ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration. The session was well-attended by both men and women. Lupe López and Kathy Ibarra live-tweeted the panel from the Twitter account of the Pledge (@ERAPledge). (Miami, Florida, USA)
Miami representatives of the Latin America Subcommittee Cristina Cárdenas and Harout Samra organized a Pledge cocktail hosted by Reed Smith. Many attendees of the 15th ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration and Latin America Subcommittee members were present. (Miami, Florida, USA)
The presence of the Pledge during the 15th ICC Miami Conference on International Arbitration was a tremendous success. As an organizational supporter of the conference, it was a wonderful opportunity to promote the Pledge, connect with fellow Latin America Subcommittee representatives, and collaborate on this important initiative. Lupe López and Kathy Ibarra managed the Pledge exhibition space, where 12% of the nearly 600 conference attendees signed the Pledge. People not only discussed the Pledge but "wore" the Pledge by adding the Pledge Badge to their nametags. Participants also snapped instant, Polaroid-style photos of Pledge supporters and collected them on the board, where the photos grew exponentially. The Latin America Subcommittee representatives of the Pledge helped grow interest at the table, especially Ana Carolina Weber (Brazil), Claudia Benavides Galvis (Colombia), Dyalá Jiménez (Costa Rica), Gabriela Álvarez-Ávila, (Mexico), Katherine González Arrocha (Panama), Cristina López (Panama), Sandra González (Uruguay), and Diana Droulers (Venezuela). (Miami, Florida, USA)
During the 7th Central American Convention of Arbitration Centers which took place in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, Pledge representatives from Panama, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic promoted gender equality in arbitration through talks and a Pledge stall. (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic)
The ERA Pledge was successfully launched in Nigeria at the Lagos Osun Hall, Transcorp Hilton hotel, Abuja. The event, hosted by Mrs Doyin Rhodes-Vivour, was well-attended by distinguished members of the Judiciary (including Justices of the Supreme Court, Justices of the Court of Appeal, Judges of High Courts and Customary Court of Appeal); representatives of international, regional and domestic arbitral institutions; prominent arbitration practitioners; arbitration users; in-house counsel; academia and other stakeholders in the arbitral community. The Director General of the LCIA, Dr. Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof, was also in attendance. Representatives of the stakeholders were invited to make comments on the ERA Pledge during dinner: Hon. Justice Mary U. Peter-Odili JSC CFR of the Supreme Court of Nigeria; Chief Bayo Ojo SAN CON, founder of International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, Abuja (ICAMA); Lise Bosman, Senior Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration & Executive Director, ICCA; Mr. Babatunde Fagbohunlu SAN, the Chairman of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre (LACIAC) and Mrs. Sola Adegbonmire, member of the Nigerian Sub-committee on the ERA Pledge. The Launch event was sponsored by Doyin Rhodes-Vivour & Co, George Etomi & Partners, Aluko & Oyebode, Kayode Sofola & Associates (K. S. Legal), Sofunde Osakwe Ogundipe & Belgore, Janada International Center for Arbitration and supported by members of the Nigerian Subcommittee. (Abuja, Nigeria)
The Young Arbitration Network of the Center for Arbitration and Conciliation of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá hosted a talk about Latin American lawyers in international arbitration, with a special focus on the profile and representation of female arbitration practitioners. (Bogotá, Colombia)
Freshfields hosted a Women's Breakfast Event at 25Hours Hotel in Vienna, Austria. The panel was moderated by Niamh Leinwather (Principal Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and included Francesca Mazza (Secretary General of the German Institute of Arbitration), Ulrike Gantenberg (Partner, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf), Jennifer Younan (Partner, Shearman & Sterling, Paris) and Nathalie Berthier-Ortmann (Leadership Executive Coach). Thank you to these truly inspiring women and all of our attendees for making the event such a success! (Vienna, Austria)
The Third Seminar in the ERA Pledge Quantum Experts Seminar Series on the subject of "Valuations using the income and market approaches"
The Second Seminar in the ERA Pledge Quantum Experts Seminar Series on the topic of "Valuation basics"
ArbitralWomen and Brazilian Pledge representatives organised a Pledge breakfast, which was attended by more than 50 people, as part of the national congress of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee. (Brazil)
The Arbitration and Mediation Center of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (AMCHAM), ArbitralWomen and Brazilian Pledge representatives jointly organised a breakfast where academics, arbitrators, arbitration practitioners and in-house counsel discussed "the ERA Pledge – inspiring experiences and next steps". (Brazil)
The First Seminar in the ERA Pledge Quantum Experts Seminar Series on "Understanding and Deciphering Accounts and the Assessment of Damages in 'but for' Scenarios"
A Pledge one-year anniversary aperitivo was held in Italy. (Rome, Italy)
Freshfields hosted a Pledge breakfast with Alfredo Cuadra, President of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC), and Adriana Polonia, Director of CIAC, to discuss the arbitral institution and the Pledge. (New York, USA)
Pledge lunch on the "Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge: A commitment to find equal opportunities in arbitration" (Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge: Un compromiso a buscar igualdad de oportunidades para mujeres en arbitraje), organized by Bolivian representative for the Latin America Subcommittee Lindsay Sykes, Ferrere, and Guevara y Gutiérrez SC (La Paz, Bolivia)
Event introducing the Pledge with the ICC Mexico Commission on Arbitration and ADR. (Mexico)
The ERA Pledge celebrated its first anniversary with a drinks reception at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's London offices following GAR Live London 2017. The international arbitration community celebrated the Pledge's success to date, having reached over 1,800 signatories around the world, including support from arbitral institutions, law firms, practitioners and academics. Pledge Steering Committee Co-Chair Wendy Miles QC of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP delivered the keynote speech, noting that, while progress has been made, signing up to the Pledge was just the first step in taking concrete action to achieve equal representation; we each need to "live the Pledge" in our daily work. (London, England)
On 27 April 2017, as part of Paris arbitration week, a roundtable discussion at the Palais de Justice in Paris considered diversity in arbitration, during which Dominique Attias, the Vice-Batonnière of the Paris Bar, signed the ERA Pledge on behalf of the Paris Bar. (Paris, France)
At the XLVI Meeting of the Directors of the Inter-American Commission on Commercial Arbitration (Comisión Interamericana de Arbitraje Comercial) (CIAC) Alfredo Cuadra signed the Pledge in his capacity as the President of the Directors on behalf of CIAC. Other attendees also signed the Pledge. Latin America Subcommittee members from Chile, Macarena Letelier, and Nicaragua, Noelia Espinales, were present to support the Pledge. (Managua, Nicaragua)
Mexican representatives of the Latin America Subcommittee Gabriela Alvarez Avila and Luis Enrique Graham discussed the Pledge during a session of the ICC Mexico Commission on Arbitration and ADR. (Mexico)
Noelia Espinales y Fabiola Urbina Sotomayor, Nicaraguan representatives of the Latin America Subcommittee, presented the Pledge to arbitrators and mediators at the annual cocktail reception hosted by the Center on Mediation and Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Services of Nicaragua (Centro de Mediación y Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio y Servicios de Nicaragua). Alfredo Cuadra signed the Pledge in his capacity as Director on behalf of the institution. Other attendees also signed the Pledge. (Nicaragua)
Colombia representatives of the Latin America Subcommittee Claudia Benavides and Luis Alfredo Barragán, and the Center of Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá (Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliación de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá) sponsored a breakfast dedicated to the Pledge. Steering Committee Co-Chair Wendy Miles was present to introduce the Pledge, provide updates, and gather feedback from the group as to next steps in Colombia and Latin America. (Bogotá, Colombia)
On International Women's Day, a Pledge breakfast was held to discuss women in arbitration in Ecuador, the role of women in the public sector, and gender parity in arbitration. Organizers included Latin America Subcommittee members from Ecuador, Javier Robalino, and from Panama, Katherine González Arrocha; the Center of Arbitration and Mediation of the Quito Chamber of Commerce (Centro de Arbitraje y Mediación de la Cámara de Comercio); and the ICC. The breakfast was part of the X Conference on International Arbitration (X Conferencia de Arbitraje Internacional). (Quito, Ecuador)
Latin America Subcommittee representatives from Costa Rica, Carolina Muñoz and Dyalá Jiménez, and from Nicaragua, Noelia Espinales, presented the Pledge and encouraged attendees to get involved while ICC Costa Rica promoted the Pledge during the Eighth Annual Costa Rican International Arbitration Congress (VIII Congreso de Arbitraje Internacional). (Costa Rica)
Cocktail reception held by ICC Panama and the Banking Commission (Comisión Bancaria) and sponsored by LOVILL Latamlex for the forum "Impact of Financial Crimes In International Trade and the Launching for Latin America of the ICC Arbitration Commission Report" (Impacto de los Delitos Financieros en el Comercio Internacional). During the cocktail reception, Panama representative of the Latin America Subcommittee Cristina López introduced the Pledge and collected signatures. (Panama)
Breakfast to launch the Pledge in the Dominican Republic and to discuss the long path toward inclusion for women. The breakfast was organized by Latin America Subcommittee for the Pledge representatives in the Dominican Republic Fabiola Medina and Marcos Peña, and sponsored by the firms Medina Garrigó Abogados and Headrick. They also circulated the Pledge to the Arbitration Center (Centro de Arbitraje) and the Arbitration Center of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Committee in the Dominican Republic. (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Noelia Espinales and Fabiola Urbina Sotomayor, Nicaraguan members of the Latin America Subcommittee for the Pledge, met with the President and others of the Center on Mediation and Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Services of Nicaragua (Centro de Mediación y Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio y Servicios de Nicaragua) to present the Pledge. (Nicaragua)
The Ecuador Chapter of the ICC hosted a Pledge lunch. The Director for The Americas, ICC International Court of Arbitration & ADR and Latin America Subcommittee representative for Panama, Katherine González Arrocha, presented on new policies of the ICC Court. Freshfields partner and Pledge Steering Committee member Noiana Marigo joined via videoconference to introduce the group to the Pledge. (Quito, Ecuador)
A dinner was held at Hollard Villa Arcadia, Johannesburg to mark the South African launch of the Pledge. The Hon. Madam Justice Saldulker was the guest speaker. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The launch of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge, a call for the international arbitration community to commit to increase, on an equal opportunity basis, the number of women appointed as arbitrators, hosted by Freshfields. (London, England)
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Spoiler alert: Noah (Dominic West) and Alison (Ruth Wilson) continue their relationship — the one that began as the titular extramarital affair during the first season of the 2015 Golden Globe winner for best TV drama — in Season 2.
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* Consequences is the major theme of the season, as time passed hasn't eased the hurt Noah and Alison caused their loved ones. We also find out a little bit down the road that the passion of the early days of the affair is one thing, but the actual day-to-day living with it isn't nearly as sexy (and, with a moody Noah, sometimes is just downright unpleasant). Noah and Helen's children are, unsurprisingly, taking the news of their parents' impending divorce the hardest, and his interaction with youngest son Trevor in the premiere is a total heartbreaker.
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* Noah has gotten a giant advance for his book, and it's a boost to his ego, but his editor isn't so happy with the direction of the autobiographical tome's ending… which means he's not ready to cut a check yet for a financially-strapped Noah.
* The show continues to play with time jumps, and in the overall timeline, someone's in jail, and someone is a new mama.
* Noah and Helen go to a mediator to try to make their divorce as smooth as possible, and the initial meeting with Jeremy the mediator is shown from their two, very differing perspectives. It's a clever, insightful use of the show's trademark perspectives device, and even more compelling since Jeremy is played by the fantastic Jeremy Shamos, aka Better Call Saul's Craig Kettleman.
* There are several twists in the premiere (see "jail" and "new mama" above), but one of the most jarring surprises comes with the reveal of a new, and very graphic, relationship that will shed more light on Noah and Helen's history.
Watch full episodes from Season 1 of The Affair: Episode 1 and Episode 2
The Affair Season 2 premieres on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 10 p.m. on Showtime.
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Former presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton unite on 'Celebrating America' inauguration special: 'We're at our best when we're all moving in the same direction'
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Host Tom Hanks proclaimed, "When our former presidents unite like that, much of the rest of the world must marvel at what America is, at what Americans can do."
Interestingly, the folks at Fox had been trying to get this star to compete on 'The Masked Singer' for several seasons.
"Everything is new and better," Chrissy Teigen shared of her newfound sobriety.
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The former "That '70s Show" star faces a civil lawsuit in the same matter. He's denied any wrongdoing.
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"This is not a political statement. This is a statement of unity," the country star said this week.
In the early aughts, Kenny Ortega had directed a string of "Ally McBeal" and "Gilmore Girls" episodes, but what he really wanted was to return to making movies. So he asked his agents to keep an eye out for a TV movie, something "under the radar" that would allow him to quietly flex his filmmaking […]
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LAWRENCE – Two years after it was filmed in this area and after a year of kudos on the film-festival circuit, the dramatic film "The Tree" is set to live on as an advocacy tool for the compassionate treatment of older people.
Department of Theatre Lecturer Laura Kirk co-stars in the film and takes associate producer credit as well. In it, she plays Marge McMillan, the neighbor of the film's 88-year-old protagonist, Dorothy Thorp, played by veteran Kansas City actress Joicie Appell.
Kirk and her real-life husband, fellow actor Paul Fellers, play Thorp's neighbors. They function in the story much as the protagonist's adult children would – if she had any around – expressing concern that the elderly woman is about to undertake a solo road trip that serves as the story's main dramatic action.
Without giving away the plot, Kirk said "The Tree" can serve as an impetus to family discussions about how to deal with the effects of aging.
"We don't have these conversations until it's a crisis, until it's almost too late," Kirk said. "You don't take away the car keys before someone crashes into the store because she hit the gas instead of the brakes.
Kirk's acting credits include 2016's "American Honey" with Shia LaBeouf and Kevin Willmott's 2009 "The Only Good Indian" with Wes Studi. She has a co-starring role as well in the 2015 film "Parallel Chords," a family drama set in the world of classical music, playing at 7:45 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at the Kansas City Film Festival.
"The Tree" was directed by Stephen Wallace Pruitt and co-written by Pruitt and his wife, Mary Settle Pruitt. Stephen Wallace Pruitt is a professor and chair of business and finance at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Other Kansas City-area actors featured in the film include Kip Niven, who played Phog Allen in Willmott's 2014 film "Jayhawkers," and Scott Cordes.
Kirk said she received associate producer credit on "The Tree" for her work in connecting the filmmakers with officials of the Lawrence-based nonprofit Kansas Advocates for Better Care and for her help in promoting the film in various other ways.
Laura Meyer Pfeifer, director of development and outreach for KABC, said she is working on a series of showings of "The Tree" as part of her outreach efforts.
The Free State Festival will present a special showing of "The Tree" at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at Liberty Hall. Kirk, Fellers, Appell and the Pruitts will all take part in a Q&A afterward. For ticket information, visit www.libertyhall.net.
"The Tree" is also available for purchase directly from the filmmakers at thetreemotionpicture.com.
Photos: Laura Kirk (above) co-stars in 'The Tree' as a concerned neighbor of the elderly woman played by Joicie Appell. Photos courtesy the filmmakers.


Paul DiLascia (1959 – 3 September 2008) was an American software developer, author, web developer, and editor of the Microsoft Systems Journal column C/C++ Q+A.
A bug! A bug! Isn't it just so satisfying to discover bugs in other people's programs? Especially people from Microsoft. I don't know why, it's probably some kind of Freudian code-envy thing.
OK, I admit it. I'm like you.
...your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).
..your two-year-old could've done that with one thumb in her mouth.
If you're totally confused, don't worry, it means your brain is functioning normally.
Well bowl me over and turn me into a pumpkin! Scrape me off the pavement and fetch my asbestos anti-flame suit, quick!
We've use a number of different adjectives to describe Span, but "cool" has never been one of them.
You can't expect me to do everything.
Does that remind you of anything? No? Give up?
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Q: Custom module data returning successfully but not displaying I have a custom module in file help.js, the function name there is getfriends(req,res,next,user). The user is whose friends I want to get.
for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) {
  for (var j = 0; j < docs.length; j++) {
    if (docs[j].user1 == users[i].username) {
      if (docs[j].user1 != req.body.user) {
        friends.push(users[i]);
      }
    } else if (docs[j].user2 == users[i].username) {
      if (docs[j].user2 != req.body.user) {
        friends.push(users[i]);
      }
    }
  }

  if (i == users.length-1) {
    console.log("friends",friends); //it displays my desired result and so I think the return is successfull
    return(friends);
  }
}

Now where I receive the data, I do this and data is not being displayed.
console.log(Help.getfriends(req,res,next,req.session.user));

I have tried doing :-
somevar = Help.getfriends(req,res,next,req.session.user);
console.log(somevar);

The module is being called, it is displaying perfect result. Please guide me how to get the data properly from the custom module.
Also, above I have done,
var Help = require('./help');

A: Your function is asynchronous.
When you console.log(...) <== there is no result yet.
So i'ts expected that you console.log undefined.
More info about nodejs asyncronous nature.

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Гуаира () — муниципалитет в Бразилии, входит в штат Сан-Паулу. Составная часть мезорегиона Рибейран-Прету. Входит в экономико-статистический микрорегион Сан-Жоакин-да-Барра. Население составляет 37 226 человек на 2006 год. Занимает площадь 1 258,671 км². Плотность населения — 29,6 чел./км².

Праздник города — 18 мая.

История
Город основан 26 ноября 1908 года.

Статистика
 Валовой внутренний продукт на 2003 составляет 614.729.177,00 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Валовой внутренний продукт на душу населения на 2003 составляет 17.063,49 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Индекс развития человеческого потенциала на 2000 составляет 0,822 (данные: Программа развития ООН).

География
Климат местности: субтропический. В соответствии с классификацией Кёппена, климат относится к категории Cfb.

Муниципалитеты штата Сан-Паулу

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Hey hey hey everybody. A few days after my return from the magical (I can't find any word that matches better – you will find out why soon) three day trip to the countryside around Berlin with Zalando as a guest of their #ZalandoSummerHouse I am finally ready to share the first photos taken around the endless pocket of land of "Schloss Herzfelde" – the castle that turned out to be our accommodation. Since the latest post here has already been a lifestyle post with loads of pictures from our Portugal week, I chose to share an outfit first instead of already revealing all the photos I took of the castle and its surrounding. No worries, those pictures will also be online very soon and you will see why the word "magical" was the only right one to chose in the first sentence.
So here we go with a typical outfit I wear on lazy days when I want to feel super relaxed and cozy but also want to look chic in some way. Boyfriend jeans are always my first choice if I am in the mood for this kind of lazy dressing, paired with a striped top and a chic white blazer I am ready for pretty much everything to come up during the day. And you are right if you are now wondering about the shoes, I must admit I used to walk around in my comfy Chanel espadrilles all day but then switched into these super cool new in booties for taking these photos (such a cheater I am – but at least honest).
Hope to see you again here on The Fashion Fraction within the next days to show and tell you more about the Zalando Summer House and all the other inspiring bloggers.
Ich habe mich gerade ein wenig in deinen Blog verguckt.
Würde mich freuen, wenn du mir und meinem Blog mal wieder einen Besuch abstatten würdest. Ich schaue bei dir definitiv wieder vorbei!
sehr hübsches outfit – steht dir total gut. aber in den schuhen muss man erstmal gehen können.
Ich bin so in die Schuhe vernarrrt Michèle, tolle Fotos!
Woooow die Location ist wirklich ein Traum und dein Outfit genauso :) Wunderwunderschön!!
Love your outfit! Cute blazer.
Love your outfit and the shoes are so gorgeous!
Man, these boots ( gorgeous, gorgeous boots!) look absolutely fantastic combined with the wrecked jeans! So original.
Wow stunning pics! These shoes are Gorgeous! U are so amazing!
Whaoouuuuu I loooooove your shoes !! Amazing !
With your jeans, it's perfect !! I'm fan !
You look pretty and stylish! Well done!
Love this look! The shoes are so unique, really nice!
Great outfit, love the mix of prints!
Loving this look.. especially those BOOTS!
The shoes are too cool!
Wow, that look is totally different to all our other looks! Don't ask me why… Love how you wear your hair here. The shoes and the jeans are awesome!
Was für tolle Bilder und natürlich super schöne ausgefallene Schuhe! Freu mich schon auf mehr, was für ein tolles Projekt!
Tolles Outfit und schöne Bilder !
What an amazing look. I like how you took what could have been a very simple look & (not stepped) but punched it up a hot pair of shoes. This look is stunning.
Das Outfit ist so schön, dass ich gar nicht aufhören kann zu gucken :))) Du siehst so toll aus und die Bilder sind so klasse!
Lovely outfit! Those jeans are so cool!
Gorgeous pics! The shoes are so cool, and the outfit in whole looks great!
Mir gefällt das Design deines Blogs echt super!
Die Schuhe bei diesem Look sin der Hammer. Alles stimmig!
Wow…loving those boots…outfit is so simple but so stylish!!!
Wow those heels are the coolest ever!
I am so in love with your heels! Amazing!!!
Ohhhh die Schuhe sind so geil!
Los botines son lo más!
Incredible outfit! Your shoes are so unique and your blazer is such a classic piece!
Cool and chic jacket and denim mix!
Those shoes!!! So cool. Love your hair like this btw!


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Touched By God
In a soul-lifting collection that resounds with joy, today's black gospel superstars tell how the Lord has changed their lives, shaped their music — and led them to triumph over life's most incredible trials. Dr. Bobby Jones, host of Black Entertainment Television's Bobby Jones Gospel and Video Gospel, joins nineteen acclaimed gospel performers whose personal stories, like the healing, hopeful music they were called to sing, are celebrations of God's glory.
Kirk Franklin reveals how it took the violent death of his close friend for God to reach out and touch him, and turn him from a gang-banger to a minister for Christ.
John P. Kee affirms that God saved him from drugs and the fast-money lifestyle of the streets.
Shirley Caesar remembers how she fell apart when her mother died, and how the Lord helped put the pieces of her life back together.
Given only a few months to live by his doctors, blind minister and gospel star Rev. James Moore praises God for a different kind of prognosis that keeps him singing to this very day.
Gospel matriarch Albertina Walker's testimony affirms her God-given stamina in a harsh world that has tried to knock her down more than once.
Dottie Peoples describes an encounter with an angel that took her out of nightclubs and returned her to singing gospel music in church.
As rousing as a gospel choir in full swing, these and other inspiring accounts of hope and transformation confirm the power of music and faith — and will stir the hearts of those looking to strengthen their own ties with the Lord.


The days on which projects are planned manually and intuitively are over. Project processes are becoming increasingly more complex and customers' demands are constantly increasing. On top of that, one has to deal with the ever increasing price war on the markets. It is time to increase efficiency within the company and ensure competitiveness.
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Housing is a health issue. There's an inextricable link between health and housing, yet millions of low-income Americans have little choice about where they live. Inadequate and sub-standard housing can worsen—or even cause—significant health problems, contributing to a debilitating cycle of ill health, economic hardship and disadvantage passed from generation to generation.
Nearly 40 million people in the U.S. are living in poverty and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates half a million men, women and children experience homelessness on any given night. Poor housing conditions are associated with a wide range of health problems including higher rates of infectious disease, chronic illnesses and injury. Children are particularly vulnerable, as exposure to environmental hazards like mold and lead can lead to asthma, delayed childhood development and health problems later in life.
Housing instability also leads to higher healthcare costs: People experiencing homelessness more frequently visit the emergency room and are five times more likely to be admitted to the hospital. They also stay in the hospital for up to four days longer, at a cost of $2,000 to $4,000 a day.
There is a growing recognition that addressing housing and other social factors significantly impact a person's overall health and well-being, and can save healthcare dollars. In Massachusetts, for example, a community initiative to address chronic homelessness run by the state's Medicaid program saves $12,000 in annual per-person healthcare costs – an amount that far exceeds the cost of the program itself. Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are also making strides, going beyond their traditional roles to build the foundation of good health through addressing housing instability.
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The thanksgiving retablo (exvoto) pictures are generally ordered from artists to reward the saint for a miracle, which happened to people or their families. It is often gratitude for the healing, salvation from shipwreck, that everything is going well with work. But someone thanks that his mother-in-law has finally left, that her husband has not caught her lover, for adding friends on Facebook.
Thank-you retablos are the most sought after in Mexico. There Catholic tradition and customs of the Indians (they also dedicated thanksgiving images to the gods) have been combines. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were passionate collectors of retablos. Frida herself painted retablos. Once she came across an exvoto with a picture of an accident similar to the one which she got injured in. Frida added an inscription with the date and some details to the picture.
The three obligatory elements of the retablo are: the picture of an event, situation, portrait of the Saint, a descriptive text and gratitude for divine intervention.
I admit that it was very unexpectedly to see pictorial work in the genre of clay votive tablets in Sasha's workshop in Kotor.
Figurative painting today is almost always disappointing, but not these works: they are eye-catching, visually refreshing, intriguing.
They are conceptual and naïve, professional and direct at the same time. Sasha is a personality and her taste, cultural awareness and her view of the world are read in her paintings.
Having seen them, I felt some kind of «Deja vu», but in a very positive sense of the word!
Votive tablets occur constantly in Catholic parts of Switzerland, in Italy. There are people and lives behind them. And every time while looking at the scenes and reading the texts -for what and how the giver thanked God – you feel as if you sank in the well of history. Sasha's paintings are dedicated to the stories of our days, not less curious than incidents of the past centuries, and it is not less interesting to look at them.


Creative ambassador and co-producer of the Nightconcert record, pianist Christian Sands leads listeners on a song-by-song journey through side B of Erroll Garner's midnight recording at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.
With a bold and grooving solo introduction, we turn to an infectious and imaginative Night And Day. The trio adds an interesting swinging mambo feel to this arrangement that must have had the audience dancing in their seats.
I absolutely love the beginning of this version of Cheek To Cheek. EG shows how adventurous and open he can be, dabbing into a variety of harmonies and moods. He doesn't stay in any one for too long, but it's thrilling to hear him embrace the avant-garde. We can also detect a nice shout-out to fellow pianist Thelonious Monk with the I Mean You quote.
With the avant-garde still in mind, this number begins in an ominous-sounding harmonic progression before segueing into a surprisingly teasing and playful moment, showcasing EG's comfort on and command of the stage. We eventually fall into a dark, heavy, walking ballad with big chords and a big attitude—one with an easy, blues-drenched groove.
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Preparing for the unexpected is an essential step in owning a successful business that can withstand obstacles. A healthy future depends on proper insurance, particularly Business Interruption Insurance to safeguard against loss in profits.
Certainly, Montana business owners should take notice,but so should any business located in a hot bed for natural disasters. Whether it's a hurricane in Florida, a tornado in Texas, or a wildfire in California, these events are anything but predictable. They can leave a trail of destruction that wreak havoc on businesses, resulting in a devastating disruption in profits.
However powerless business owners may feel because of these disasters, it's entirely possible to prepare with the proper insurance. Although commercial insurance covers the cost to rebuild or replace the property damaged by disasters, it's equally vital to purchase Business Interruption Insurance to prepare for income losses.
Don't take a chance. Another day and another earthquake – or flood, hurricane, or wildfire - could be the one that destroys your business if you don't have the necessary coverage.Talk to your broker to guarantee your business is properly insured.


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Q: cps mismatch when sending a slack message in a jenkins pipeline I am calling this function from a declarative pipeline in the post always stage:
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
import com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.NonCPS
@NonCPS
def call(){
    String path = "C:\\Users\\tests"
    String jsonFileToRead = new File(path).listFiles().findAll { it.name.endsWith(".json") }
        .sort { -it.lastModified() }?.head()
    JsonSlurper jsonSlurper = new JsonSlurper()
    Map data = jsonSlurper.parse(new File(jsonFileToRead))
    Map testResults = [:]
    int totalTests = data.results.size()
    int totalFailures = 0
    int totalSuccess = 0
    def results = []

    //Map test names and results from json file
    for (int i = 0; i < data.results.size(); i++) {
        testResults.put(i, [data['results'][i]['TestName'], data['results'][i]['result']])
    }

    //Iterate through the map and send to slack test name and results and then a summary of the total tests, failures and success
    for (test in testResults.values()){
        String testName =  test[0]
        String testResult = test[1]
        String msg = "Test: " + testName + " Result: " + testResult
        if(testResult == "fail")
        {
            totalFailures++
            println msg
            try {
                slackSend color : "danger", message: "${msg}", channel: '#somechannel'
            } catch (Throwable e) {
                error "Caught ${e.toString()}"
            }
        }
        else if(testResult == "pass")
        {
            totalSuccess++
            println msg
            try {
                slackSend color : "good", message: "${msg}", channel: '#somechannel'
            } catch (Throwable e) {
                error "Caught ${e.toString()}"
            }
        }
        else
        {
            println "Unknown test result: " + testResult
        }
    }
    def resultsSummary = "Total Tests: " + totalTests + " Total Failures: " + totalFailures + " Total Success: " + totalSuccess
    slackSend color : "good", message: "${resultsSummary}", channel: '#somechannel'
    println resultsSummary

but I keep getting this error, even though I am using the @NonCPS. I am bit confused as if I comment out the 3 lines where I call the slackSend functionality everything goes fine and I get in the console output the right messages and the pipeline finishes succesfully, but if I run it like it is I get this error even if I just try to send the summary and comment out the other 2 slackSend:
13:53:23  [Pipeline] echo
13:53:23  Test: triggers_attackMove Result: pass
13:53:23  [Pipeline] slackSend
13:53:23  Slack Send Pipeline step running, values are - baseUrl: <empty>, teamDomain: forgottenempires, channel: #test_harness_logs_phoenix, color: good, botUser: true, tokenCredentialId: Slack_bot_test, notifyCommitters: false, iconEmoji: :goose, username: Jenkins Wizard, timestamp: <empty>
13:53:23  [Pipeline] error
13:53:24  [Pipeline] }
13:53:24  [Pipeline] // script
13:53:24  Error when executing always post condition:
13:53:24  hudson.AbortException: Caught CpsCallableInvocation{methodName=slackSend, call=com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.CpsFunction@149776fc, receiver=null, arguments=[org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL$ThreadTaskImpl@25def8]}
13:53:24    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.ErrorStep$Execution.run(ErrorStep.java:64)
13:53:24    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.ErrorStep$Execution.run(ErrorStep.java:51)
13:53:24    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.SynchronousStepExecution.start(SynchronousStepExecution.java:37)
13:53:24    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeStep(DSL.java:322)
13:53:24    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:196)
enter code here
....

I tried to take the slackSend functionality to another function with the @NonCPS decorator and call it from within the function but I keep getting the same error, and honestly I am quiet lost a this point

A: slackSend is a pipeline step and as such can't be called from @NonCPS context. There are only a few exceptions like echo, that work from @NonCPS context. See Use of Pipeline steps from @NonCPS for details.
My approach in such cases is to remove @NonCPS from the function that calls the step(s) and move only the code that actually requires @NonCPS into separate @NonCPS functions. In your case that's propably just the code that uses the File and JsonSlurper classes.
Also, we need to make sure that any data returned by the @NonCPS functions is serializable. JsonSlurper returns a LazyMap that isn't. As OP commented, the easiest solution is to use JsonSlurperClassic instead, which returns a regular, serializable Map (or a List in case the root is an array).
@NonCPS
Map readData(){
    String path = "C:\\Users\\tests"
    String jsonFileToRead = new File(path).listFiles().findAll { it.name.endsWith(".json") }
        .sort { -it.lastModified() }?.head()
    def jsonSlurper = new JsonSlurperClassic()
    return jsonSlurper.parse(new File(jsonFileToRead))
}

// Note: Must not be @NonCPS because pipeline steps are called!
def call(){
    Map data = readData()
    Map testResults = [:]
    int totalTests = data.results.size()
    int totalFailures = 0
    int totalSuccess = 0
    def results = []

    //Map test names and results from json file
    for (int i = 0; i < data.results.size(); i++) {
        testResults.put(i, [data['results'][i]['TestName'], data['results'][i]['result']])
    }

    //Iterate through the map and send to slack test name and results and then a summary of the total tests, failures and success
    for (test in testResults.values()){
        String testName =  test[0]
        String testResult = test[1]
        String msg = "Test: " + testName + " Result: " + testResult
        if(testResult == "fail")
        {
            totalFailures++
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Sokmen, Bedriye, Dogukan Sokmen, Nese Ucar, Huseyin Ozkurt, and Abdulmuttalip Simsek. 2017. "The Correlation Between Biological Activity and Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging and ADC Value in Cases With Prostate Cancer". Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia 89 (4), 277-81. https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2017.4.277.


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    по дисциплине ,,Программное обеспечение ЭВМ''

    \emph{Обзор литературы. Изучение методов решения задачи}
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  При сооружении ограждений зачастую решающим фактором является количество
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  Самым простым подходом является сооружение ограждение в форме такого
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  Однако, этот метод не даёт оптимальную форму ограждения.
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  \emph{Выпуклой оболочкой} множества $\mathbb{X}$ называется наименьшее
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  ,,Наименьшее множество'' здесь означает наименьший элемент по отношению к
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  Множество в аффинном пространстве называется \emph{выпуклым}, если оно
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  Существуют несколько методов (алгоритмов), позволяющих построить выпуклую
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    \item \emph{Алгоритм Джарвиса}.
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      оболочке.\cite{book4}
    \item \emph{Алгоритм Чана}.
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      Недостатком сканирования по Грэхему является необходимость сортировки
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      точек выпуклой оболочки, что в худшем случае занимает квадратичное
      время.\cite{book5}
    \item \emph{Алгоритм быстрой оболочки}.
      Использует идею быстрой сортировки Хоара.
    \item \emph{Алгоритм Киркпатрика}
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How To Get A Work Visa For Kuwait. If you are interested in relocating to Kuwait in order to find employment, you will need to know how to get a work visa for Kuwait in order to live and work legally in the country. In this article, you can find out all the information that you need to know in order to make your application go as smoothly as possible.
To be permitted to reside and work within Kuwait, overseas applicants must obtain an iqama, or residency visa. This is only possible if you have already been offered a job in Kuwait, either by a government organization or by a private company. Once you have been offered a post, your new employer can then apply for the residency visa on your behalf. Once this has been done, you will be issued with a NOC or No Objection Certificate which will entitle you to enter the country. Once you have entered the country, you will be issued with your residency visa as long as you meet the other essential criteria including the medical testing element. You can only be granted a maximum period of five years residency after which you will be required to renew your application. You will be charged a fee of KD 10 per year, however if you will be working for a government organization, your employer will pay this amount for you. If you will be working for a private company, you will need to negotiate whether you will bear the cost or whether you new employer will be prepared to cover the amount on your behalf.
If you wish to apply for a Kuwait work visa, you will require a current passport with at least three months unexpired validity on it. It will also require a minimum of one empty page to receive your visa. You will also have to send one passport photograph of yourself which meets all of the required guidelines. You will also need to supply a police clearance from your home country stating that you have a clean criminal record and that there are no restrictions on you leaving your own country of origin. You will, of course, also have to submit a completed and signed visa application form.
In order to be issued with your residency visa, you will have to pass certain medical tests to show that you have no communicable diseases. As part of this testing, you will have to have an HIV test as well as tests for Hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, syphilis, typhoid, malaria and filariasis. You will also need to have a certificate of health from a local doctor which states that you are in good physical health and that you have no contagious diseases of any sort. You will also receive a vaccination to protect you against meningitis. You will receive the results of these tests within a week, however if you are found to have any of these diseases, you will be deported out of the country. If you have a negative result in all of the tests, you will receive a letter confirming your health clearance from the Ministry of Public Health and once you have received this health clearance, you can then be issued with your residency visa.
Once you are in receipt of your residency visa, the next step is to apply for a bitaqa-almadaniyah or Kuwaiti Civil ID. You must submit your application for this within thirty days of being issued with your residency visa.
A man who has been issued with a residency visa can then apply for his spouse and dependents to join him in Kuwait, acting as their sponsor; however a woman cannot act as a sponsor on behalf of her husband.
How to Get a Work Visa for Kuwait. Expatriates must obtain security clearance and have their fingerprints taken before legally being able to reside in the country. In order to have their fingerprints registered with the authorities, applicants must have their original passport and a copy of it as well as 4 passport photographs and a letter issued by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. The necessary application form has to be completed in Arabic, however if you do not know how to do this yourself, you can hire the services of a freelance typist who can complete the form for you for a small fee. The processing of your fingerprints will take around a week after which your security clearance certificate will be issued by the Criminal Evidence Department at the Ministry of the Interior. You will need to collect your certificate in person from one of the four offices at which your fingerprints were taken.


We update our NDF Clearing Analysis.
A minimum of 17% of the market is now cleared.
Clearing volume can account for up to 30% of volumes in some currency pairs.
Uncleared Margin Rules continue to motivate clearing.
2018 has seen average monthly volumes in excess of $700bn each month.
These volumes are 80% higher than the first two months of 2017!
…and so should attract some compression activity. Open Interest has dropped by $70bn in the first week of March, so maybe this is now gaining some traction?
In terms of market share, LCH ForexClear dominates (97% of volumes were cleared at LCH in February 2018).
LCH ForexClear IM requirements as at September 2017 (so a little bit out of date). We will get fresh data for December 2017 in two weeks time.
The story looks positive for the service. Even as cleared volumes have increased dramatically, Initial Margin has stayed under control, even reducing from the peak in March 2017. I'm sure we wouldn't have seen the same evolution of IM back in the early days of SwapClear as notional amounts ballooned. Good to see the industry learning from previous experience.
29 participants (27 banks plus 2 "other").
$41m in Client Initial Margin. So Client Clearing is now a thing.
Pending any shocking revelations in the latest disclosures in two weeks, from the information available it looks like ForexClear remains predominantly a dealer-to-dealer service.
We have written at length about NDF clearing in our FX series of blogs. This is because NDF markets were particularly impacted from the introduction of Uncleared Margin Rules.
Prior to the uptake of clearing, our SDRView data products were the only way to gain transparency into these markets. With the uptake of clearing, we can now also use CCPView as an important data resource.
SDR data yielded an Average Daily Volume of $49.9bn during April 2016.
For the same month, BIS data reported an NDF ADV versus USD of $130.2bn.
BIS data further showed that the proportion of a market covered by SDR data varied from currency pair to currency pair. For example, USDBRL SDR volumes represent nearly 70% of the global market.
Generally speaking, we used to be happy to assume that our SDRView data reflected 38% of the market.
This now appears to be changing….
I wanted to estimate the clearing uptake per currency pair. The BIS survey in April 2016 was split into 5 major currency pairs, so we could compare SDR volumes versus BIS global volumes for these five currencies. (You can see the comparison to BIS data in an earlier blog here).
Clearing has grown across each individual market.
Clearing can account for nearly 30% of volumes in any given currency pair.
The minimum Clearing uptake has increased from 12% to 17% within a year.
Four of the currency pairs see more clearing in 2018 than at any previous point in time (the red dots on the sparklines are the peak values).
Only USDCNY bucks that trend, with highly variable cleared volumes compared to the market overall.
These are minimum estimates. Read on to find out why.
I found a small problem with the above analysis when I looked at the resulting Average Daily Volume for the whole market that it implied.
In April 2016, the BIS thought that the ADV for NDFs was $130bn.
In February 2018, my calibration above implies an ADV of $242bn!
Has the market really doubled in less than two years?! Very unlikely. My inflated number is because I assume none of the SDR volumes are cleared. This is inaccurate.
What proportion of the SDR is cleared? It is very tricky to say. Because NDF clearing is a post-trade process (see blog here), the trades are not executed or reported as "Cleared".
In light of which, I can only assume that we see some cleared volumes reported to SDRs. How much? The safest assumption to make is that 100% of cleared trades are reported to SDRs. We assume this isn't true, but it gives us the other side of the coin to compare to our Minimum Clearing Levels above – i.e. the Maximum Clearing Level.
Average Daily Volumes each month for the past year across all NDFs, split Cleared vs Uncleared.
The BIS April 2016 level ($130bn ADV) is shown as a dotted line for comparison.
The overall market size looks fairly reasonable using this assumption – around $150bn ADV last month.
What is interesting is that it really increases the percentage of the market that is cleared (orange line).
In March 2017, 20% of the global market was cleared.
In February 2018, 30% of the global market is now cleared! That is quite some growth.
LCH ForexClear has a 97% market share in NDF clearing.
Cleared volumes have grown by 60%+ year-on-year.
Up to 30% of volumes are now cleared.
Our CCPView and SDRView data products provide vital transparency into these markets.
Hi Chris, I'd respectfully make the case that the NDF market at large has increased to US$171bn (+31%) from the Apr 2016 to the Oct 17 period, making your +15% estimate very conservative considering that mine does not take into account the Nov 2017-Feb 2018 growth spurt.
For my estimate I used the combined NDF growth in NYC and London as BIS proxies over the same period. How much NDF growth came from Asia? I'd say a fair bit, closer to London's 44% growth than New York's 7%. It seems interdealer NDF trading was up 72% in London: white hot on USD/BRL (+122%), USD/yuan (+84%), USD/RUB (+63%), and USD/Indian rupee (+56%), and USD/BRL (+86%).
There was a pickup in buy-side NDF demand (+24%) and non-reporting dealers (+22%), so it seems the abrupt growth we are seeing in interdealer demand is not just B2C driven but trading for their own balance sheets or taking a longer view perhaps for market making purposes.
Wow, thanks Javier for one of the best researched comments we've ever received! I'll follow up with you on mail to see if we can incorporate these figures into our future estimates for market share of Clearing. Thanks again for the comment – great to see how informed our readers really are!
You bet, Chris. Happy to contribute.


Pharmaceutical companies are losing a special privilege on Facebook today -- the ability to block public comments on a Facebook wall.
Pharmaceutical companies are losing a special privilege on Facebook today — the ability to block public comments on a Facebook wall.
Turns out, the heavily regulated nature of their industry, and penalties for marketing materials on the Internet, resulted in very constricted and tightly controlled Facebook pages and groups from drug companies.
To alleviate these concerns, Facebook enabled drug companies to close off their walls to comments and in some cases, disallow likes, bypassing the issue of having to respond to every complaint or censor unwanted posts.
It was an exclusive right that no other companies enjoyed on Facebook. Until today. And some pharmaceutical companies are not happy about the turnabout.
For example, DailyTech notes that Pfizer has a Facebook page for patients suffering from hemophilia and multiple sclerosis. The drug giant Amgen, maker of cancer drugs like Neulasta and Vectibix, and Sanofi, maker of insulin products like Apidra and Lantus for diabetics, plan to maintain their Facebook pages despite the change in page Wall privacy.
Others, like Johnson & Johnson and AstraZenaca, have deleted or plan to delete their pages altogether. One of AstraZenaca's sites, "Take on Depression," was closed Friday after receiving more than 1,100 likes, according to the Washington Post.
We're very strongly committed to social media, but we have to make sure that the amount of time and resources spent on [monitoring it for problems] is appropriate.
Readers, what do you think of Facebook's policy change allowing comments on the walls of drug companies?


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This photoshoot was the last of five in three days on my trip to California, and I'll be honest with you, I was exhausted. That morning Bri asked if I wanted to stop by early to grab coffee with the two of them at one of their fav local spots. As soon as I arrived, I was energized by Bri and Evan. They instantly felt like old friends as we joked around and got to know one another.


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i love to art journal while traveling and limit my supplies to just colored pens and pencils..this type of random journalling is so freeing!! it is fun to let my grandkids draw in it too,,,to look back on the pages conjures up so many memories.....little novels with artful expressions....you never cease to inspire me......tnank you!
I love seeing artists's journal. Thanks for sharing a bit of yours with us !
very cool! i love seeing what other artists have in their journals. =) thank you for sharing!
beautiful pages. right up my alley! Thanks for showing us a little bit of "inside Danita".
That is one cool journal!!!!
Hello, I am fairly new to the blogging world. I am glad to have found you here. I first heard about you through the beautiful somerset magazines, and love your art! Thank you so much for sharing all that you do, it is wonderful!


This page gives some information about previous workshops, with the most recent information at the top of the list. It would be reasonable to expect that many of the links from this page will have expired by the time you read this, but I'm leaving them around in case someone wants to try and get in touch with previous workshop organisers, perhaps to find out whether more workshops are planned in the same area. Another route, of course, would be to send an enquiry to the neijia mailing list or to Mike directly.
5th and 6th: Bristol, England, hosted by Ben Milton. Cost £80; more details here.
21st and 22nd: Galway, Ireland, hosted by Niall O'Floinn (niallofloinn7@hotmail.com). Cost €130.
28th and 29th: Belfast, Northern Ireland, hosted by Petesy Burns (petesyb@yahoo.com). Cost £80.
27th and 28th: Reading, England, hosted by Karel Koskuba.
20th and 21st: Limerick, Ireland, hosted by Nick Gudge.
21st and 22nd: Bristol, England, hosted by Ben Milton.
16th: Norwich, England: short evening workshop; contact Mike Sigman for details..
14th and 15th: London, England, hosted by Karel Koskuba.
4th and 5th: Munich, Germany, hosted by Andreas Graf.
27th and 28th: Vienna, Austria, hosted by Ernst Krudl.
14th and 15th: Vancouver, BC, Canada. Internal Strength Push Hands Seminar, hosted by Lou Crockett.
7th and 8th: Philadelphia, PA, USA. Internal Strength Push Hands Seminar, hosted by Mike Jones <mwjones@pond.com>.
1st and 2nd: London, England, hosted by Karel Koskuba.
26th and 27th: Bristol, England, hosted by Ben Milton.
26th and 27th: Philadelphia, PA, USA. Advanced workshop: contact Mike Sigman directly for information on eligibility. Hosted by Mike Jones <mwjones@pond.com>.
1st and 2nd: Badford, Vermont, USA, hosted by Charles Blodgett <BLS@ConnRiver.net>.
15th and 16th: Los Angeles, California, USA, hosted by Terrence Brannon <brannon@rana.usc.edu>.
22nd and 23rd: Atlanta, Georgia, USA, hosted by Jess Bowers <jess@randomc.com>.
18th and 19th: Austin, Texas, USA, hosted by Jesse Marandino.
2nd and 3rd: Edinburgh, Scotland.
9th and 10th: Seattle, WA, USA, hosted by Frank Wong.
5th and 6th: Tempe, AZ, USA. Contact Robert Singer.
19th and 20th: Berkeley, CA, USA. Advanced workshop: contact Mike Sigman directly for information on eligibility.
26th and 27th: Bristol, England.
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The title of the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein's song from Carousel is appropriate as one walks down Main Street or Bridge Street in the Village of Catskill. The Cultivate Catskill volunteers were busy last month planting a swath of color in gardens, pots, urns and baskets. Thanks to plants purchased from Story's Nursery and Story Farms (made possible through donations from local businesses and foundations) and the help of the Department of Public Works (DPW)), we've been able to add a splash of color to the sidewalks, pocket parks and Uncle Sam's Bridge for the enjoyment of the residents and visitors to our area.
William Kent perhaps said it best with "All gardening is landscape painting." Luther Burbank went a bit further when he stated "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul." In my conversations with many people around town as we've been planting this season, there seems to be a consistent appreciation of the benefits of having an attractive downtown area. It's gratifying when we see people enjoying lunch in the parks or hear visitors exclaiming how nice everything looks. The fiberglass cats with the added flowers around town seems to be a winning combination!
That said, "a garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them." — Liberty Hyde Bailey.
We recognize, however, that everyone is busy and/or may not have the time or inclination to help us with this 'manual labor". That said, there are other ways to get involved. As you can imagine, the purchase of all the plant materials costs a significant amount of money. Cultivate Catskill hosts a variety of fundraisers (e.g. the Trunk Sales – like the one being held tomorrow) to defray these costs but we would love to do more and extend the reach of our efforts. If you would like to help, please visit our website at http://cultivatecatskill.org to learn more about our non-profit organization, mission and how you can help.
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L'adieu des bergers (The shepherds' farewell) is probably the most famous movement, often performed separately, from L'enfance du Christ. L'enfance du Christ (English: The Childhood of Christ), Opus 25, is an oratorio by the French composer Hector Berlioz, based on the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. Berlioz wrote his own words for the piece.
French Romantic composer, made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism.


Most flash drives have a lanyard thing but the drives themselves aren't exactly designed for keychains. They're cheap plastic and so one. Enter the Super Talent CKB. This flash drive is made out of metal and designed to look like a key. Sure, they're not exactly novel as the Lacie released iamaKey last year, but still, the form factor is solid and there should be more like these. No word on pricing just yet, but they're probably not going to be crazy expensive.