Establishing a solid business credit history is essential when you're applying for a business loan. It can also open doors to partnerships and better deals on purchases.
While you may already have good habits when it comes to your personal credit, there's more involved when it comes to effectively monitoring, updating and maintaining good business credit.
These tips can help you develop and manage this important part of your business.
The three major organizations that monitor business credit — Experian, Equifax®, and Dun & Bradstreet — all offer slightly different perspectives on your company. Generally, suppliers look to Dun & Bradstreet for reports that emphasize how you interact with vendors. Lenders often leverage data from Experian and Equifax for guidance on a company's creditworthiness; Equifax reports collect data from the collection of small business lenders known as the Small Business Finance Exchange, among other sources, while Experian collects information on your history with both vendors and lenders.
Keep in mind that while you have some control over who sees your personal credit score, your business credit report can be viewed by anyone for a fee. For example, companies you may want to work with can access your score before deciding to do business with you.
While individuals build their personal credit score any time they take out credit, you may have to be more proactive to register your business with credit bureaus. Start by getting a Data Universal Numbering System (D-U-N-S®) number, a 9-digit identifier that Dun & Bradstreet uses to start a business credit history. Apply for credit with lenders that supply data to these two agencies to build your Experian and Equifax reports. Be sure to apply for credit and put all company expenses in your business's name. Open a business bank account to pay company bills and strive to keep business and personal finances separate at every turn so that you can build a strong credit history for your company.
The key to a solid credit history starts with buying goods and paying your invoices promptly. You may also need to make sure the bureaus are aware of your best performance. For instance, while thousands of companies, including Home Depot, Staples, and UPS, do automatically report their B2B customers' credit account payments to the credit bureaus, most business suppliers and vendors do not. Ask all your vendors if they report to the agencies; if they do not, politely ask them to do so. Experian's website provides a template letter that helps you make a request.
If you think you need additional funds for your business, and feel confident you can make payments on time, applying for and repaying a modest-sized loan is another way to demonstrate your ability to manage debt. This payment history will reflect well on you when you are ready to borrow for a more significant investment in your business.
Once your business starts building a credit report, check your profile to be sure it correctly states your length of time in business, how many employees you have and your Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code. Read your report carefully and look for errors or outdated information that may be hurting your score, such as old unpaid bills or incorrectly recorded defaults. Check back about once a quarter to ensure that no bad information has crept into your report.
Each of the bureaus has a process for correcting inaccuracies or disputing information. Expect to provide an explanation for the error and documentation that backs your claim. In some cases, you may have to request the bureau open up an investigation to solve a problem. For example, if a supplier has erroneously claimed you were late in making payments, you may not be able to tell who made the complaint, as reporting agencies often keep that information hidden.
Keeping your credit score high is a matter of good financial habits: Make your payments on time, keep your information up to date and keep balances on your accounts below the credit limit.
A high business credit score can give you a significant boost when you're applying for a business loan or looking to build partnerships, so it's worth the time and effort to keep that number up.
Find out ways that Lending Club can help your business grow.
For further business articles, navigate here.


When Bill and Hillary Clinton married in 1975, a friend gave them a trip to Haiti for their honeymoon. The Washington Post reported: "Since that honeymoon vacation, the Caribbean island nation has held a life-long allure for the couple, a place they found at once desperate and enchanting, pulling at their emotions throughout his presidency and in her maiden year as secretary of state." Haiti's president at the time was Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, and Hillary and Bill fell in love with a country living under a dictator and his tonton macoute death squad.
Bill Clinton helped found the Democratic Leadership Council in 1985, formed as a conservative counter to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition campaign of 1984, which more pro-business Democrats saw as a threat. Running as a "New Democrat," Clinton became president in 1992 after 12 years of "Reaganomics," philosophically part of the global economic movement called "neo-liberalism," a policy of privatization and free trade that was transforming the global economy.
Instead of trying to brake or reverse Reaganomics, Clinton vigorously pursued Reagan-Bush policies, aligning with Republicans to push U.S. participation in both NAFTA and the World Trade Organization (WTO) through a resistant Democrat-controlled Congress. He also signed the Republican-sponsored bill to overturn the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which had separated commercial banking from investment banking. The destruction of that firewall fueled the Wall Street gambling-created economic bubble that burst in the housing mortgage crisis of 2008-2009.
Clinton finally had to confront some of the consequences of his actions. "We made a devil's bargain," Clinton apologized at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2010. He apologized for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported U.S. rice, subsidized by our government, during his time in office. Neo-liberal policy prevented Haiti's government from subsidizing its own rice farmers, and they could not compete, wiping out Haitian rice farming and seriously damaging Haiti's ability to be self-sufficient.
Clinton testified: "Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year or so when we started rethinking it, that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era.
What he did not explain is that after Haitians stop producing rice to feed themselves, under neo-liberal gospel, they're supposed to instead produce mangos and other tropical foods to export to Northern countries. Thus they become dependent on cutthroat global markets to earn the hard currency foreign exchange necessary to buy imported food, which can now be sold at monopoly prices because there is no domestic competition.
By the time Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to office in 1994 after the first coup against him in 1990, "Miami rice" had already flooded Haiti's markets. However, the Aristide government resisted enormous pressure to privatize other Haitian government-owned businesses, and Clinton made sure Aristide would not serve the full five-year term to which he was elected, despite demands from the majority of Haitians who wanted Aristide to complete five full years in office, making up for the almost four years spent in exile after the coup.
As a result of the destruction of the rice crop, Haitian farmers and their families who could no longer afford to farm flooded into Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, to look for work. Many of them were among the hundreds of thousands of dead and injured in the catastrophic earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010.
The global community responded with incredible generosity after the quake, donating or pledging almost $10 billion. The Red Cross raised $488 million, World Vision $265.3 million (by 2015), Catholic Relief $159 million, Partners in Health more than $81 million, the Clinton Bush fund $52.6 million, the Clinton Foundation $36 million, and on and on. One hundred eighty charities raised money in the name of Haiti earthquake relief, yet Haiti remains as poor as ever, with the poverty rate in 2012 at 58.5 percent and in rural areas at 74.9 percent.
In "Haiti: Seven places where the earthquake money did and did not go," Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas note: "The largest single recipient of U.S. earthquake money was the U.S. government. The same holds true for donations by other countries.
"Right after the earthquake, the U.S. allocated $379 million in aid and sent in 5,000 troops. The Associated Press discovered that of the $379 million in initial U.S. money promised for Haiti, most was not really money going directly, or in some cases even indirectly, to Haiti. They documented in January 2010 that 33 cents of each of these U.S. dollars for Haiti was actually given directly back to the U.S. to reimburse ourselves for sending in our military. Forty-two cents of each dollar went to private and public non-governmental organizations like Save the Children, the U.N. World Food Program and the Pan American Health Organization. Hardly any went directly to Haitians or their government.
"The overall $1.6 billion allocated for relief by the U.S. was spent much the same way, according to an August 2010 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Office" – reimbursed to the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, to USAID disaster assistance, to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security and so on.
International assistance followed the same pattern. After the earthquake, the U.S. ambassador to Haiti wrote an email saying, "The gold rush is on," and indeed it was. For everyone but Haitians.
Instead of building infrastructure and providing aid to those most in need, Haiti's international rulers continue their same old neo-liberal formula of promoting tourism, sweatshops, natural resource extraction, and cash crop exports. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton promoted this very policy, demonstrated particularly in the imposition of Michel Martelly as president.
In January, 2011, at the height of the Egyptian Arab Spring revolution, Clinton flew to Port-au-Prince to demand that Martelly be named one of the two runoff candidates, although he was not announced originally by the Electoral Council as one of the two top vote getters.
After the earthquake, the U.S. ambassador to Haiti wrote an email saying, "The gold rush is on," and indeed it was. For everyone but Haitians.
Despite a voter boycott, with fewer than 20 percent of the electorate voting, Martelly was announced the winner of the "runoff," and the results were accepted by the international community. The results have been catastrophic for the Haitian majority, as Martelly appointed Duvalierists throughout his administration and has sanctioned privatization, repression, death squads, corruption, illegally appointed judges and illegal changes to the Constitution, while bringing a particularly greedy and arrogant entourage into his government.
His administration has granted mineral concessions with no accountability and cut down the only forest on the island of Ile a Vache, displacing hundreds of peasant families, to build a tourist resort.
"At least seven hotels are under construction or are in the planning stage in Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas, raising hopes that thousands of investors will soon fill their air-conditioned rooms looking to build factories and tourist infrastructure that will help Haiti bounce back from a 2010 earthquake," according to USA Today. The Clinton Bush fund invested $2 million of earthquake money in the new luxury Royal Oasis Hotel.
The Clinton Foundation invested earthquake money in the Caracol Northern Industrial Park, with Korean apparel manufacturer Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd., known for its sweatshops, as the anchor tenant. Sae-A makes clothes for Walmart, Gap and other retailers.
Haitians call neo-liberalism Plan Lanmó, the "Death Plan," because of the social and economic devastation caused by neo-liberal policies – the forced opening of markets to U.S. goods, sweatshop wages, the plundering of natural resources, austerity budget programs and the privatization of state owned enterprises.
This pattern is not new so much as a continuation of the same policies used to rule over Haiti since the people's successful 1804 revolution to overthrow slavery and drive out the French. The former slave owning countries, in particular France and the United States, have operated ever since to prevent any true democratic form of government that would benefit the majority of Haitians and limit in any way U.S. and French business interests.
"Humanitarian agencies, NGOs, private contractors and other non-state service providers have received 99 percent of [earthquake] relief aid – less than 1 percent of aid in the immediate aftermath of the quake went to public institutions or to the government," the article reports, with emphasis.
NGOs first entered Haiti shortly after World War II but became a flood in the 1980s, propelled by global neo-liberal economic ideology, changes in tax laws that allowed the mushrooming of foundations as tax dodge havens, and the desire to avert aid money away from the famously kleptocratic regime of Baby Doc Duvalier.
One goal of neo-liberalism is to starve governments of the money necessary to provide social services, so those services, like education, healthcare, water and even prisons, become privatized. Public assets, theoretically available to all who need them, get sold to corporations, and then only those with money get served. Once governments can no longer fund services, NGOs leap in to try to do the job, but with a hitch.
A democratically elected government will work to serve the needs of the people that elected it, whereas NGOs fulfill the agendas of those who fund them and are not necessarily accountable to the people they serve. While NGOs may seem benign, they actually help to destabilize social services, undermine governments and ultimately increase poverty.
One goal of neo-liberalism is to starve governments of the money necessary to provide social services, so those services, like education, healthcare, water and even prisons, become privatized.
Since foundations and governments in the Global North are primary funders of the NGOs that operate in the Global South, the goals of NGOs may not be the same as the goals of governments – particularly in Haiti, where 67 percent of Haitian voters elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide president in 1990 with a mandate to develop institutions to support the majority of Haitians, instead of international investors.
Big NGOs operate as big businesses, with the same goals, methods and views, but their "profits" come from the "alleviation" of people's suffering. In other words, NGOs exist as a result of suffering and they need that suffering to thrive and persist.
Each NGO has its own staff, its own office, own agenda, and own Haitian "partners." They raise money in the name of Haiti, but they control that money, and they decide how to spend it, not Haitians. After the earthquake, not only did little money go to the Haitian government or institutions, many meetings about aid distribution excluded Haitians or were conducted in languages other than Haitian kreyol.
The cholera epidemic provides possibly the most explicit example of how Plan Lanmó is the "death plan." Cholera was introduced into Haiti by the waste dumped into the Artibonite River by Nepalese soldiers serving in the U.N. MINUSTAH army, which has occupied Haiti since the U.S., Canada, and French-sponsored coup against democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004.
Conservative estimates show that as of Aug. 30, 2014, 8,592 people had died from the disease and 706,089, 6 percent of the population, had been made sick because of water contaminated by sewage. At first the U.N. denied its role in introducing cholera; then, when a French scientist proved it, the U.N. refused to spend the necessary money to create or coordinate the creation of a sanitation system that would eliminate it.
The Pro Publica report says, "When a cholera epidemic raged through Haiti nine months after the quake, the biggest part of the Red Cross' response — a plan to distribute soap and oral rehydration salts — was crippled by "internal issues that go unaddressed," wrote the director of the Haiti program in her May 2011 memorandum.
It took four years after the introduction of cholera for the international community to hold a donor conference to raise funds for the cholera response. Of the $2.2 billion needed for an eradication program, only $50 million has been pledged.
So there you have it. When Haiti needs coordinated planning to create a massive infrastructure project, there is no entity capable of leading it. A competent government is the most obvious answer, but the Haitian government has been so neo-liberalized, privatized, defunded, imposed and corrupted that it has neither the will nor the capacity to carry out such a task.
The U.N. occupation army created the catastrophe, but a U.S. judge has ruled that the U.N. has legal immunity from any lawsuits by Haitians. There's been no hearing of the case in Haitian courts.
The Red Cross distributes soap. Many governments, NGOs and church organizations initiate programs, most well intentioned and staffed by well-intentioned people, but their efforts are not coordinated, and none of them yet get to the root need – a modern sanitation system.
Almost all aid decisions are made – and the aid administered – by non-Haitians. When Haitians twice elected a government that actually worked to benefit the majority of its people, the U.S. government and Haitian elites twice orchestrated coups to overthrow it, and the U.S. is the primary funder of a U.N. occupation army which suppresses those calling for its restoration.
This system of outside control of Haiti – replacing government with foreign aid, NGOs and consultants – has totally failed most Haitians. Finally, Martelly and the Electoral Council called a parliamentary election for Aug. 9 and a presidential election for Oct. 25.
Former President Aristide's party, Fanmi Lavalas, will be running candidates for the first time since 2000. Repression and exclusion chicanery by forces allied with Martelly have already begun.
The Aug. 9 parliamentary elections have been widely denounced. Election day was marred by acts of voter suppression by Martelly's PHTK party and two others affiliated with the Martelly-Paul government. Live radio interviews from many areas of Haiti reported violent acts by heavily armed individuals identified with PHTK against poll watchers and voters. These included the takeover and closure of polling stations, ballot stuffing and destruction of ballots already cast.
There were widespread reports of authorized poll watchers and voters denied access to polling stations while poll watchers from PHTK and allied parties were given free access. These are but the most recent of the repressive actions of the continuing 2004 coup d'état and occupation.
It's time for Haitians to be able to choose their own government and for the international community to respect and support their choice.
Charlie Hinton is a member of the Haiti Action Committee, www.haitisolidarity.net. He may be reached at lifewish@lmi.net.
Having just finished reading Dady Chery's new book, "We Have Dared to Be Free," this article holds few revelations for me, but it is a welcome summary of the situation in Haiti and how the US and UN are continuing their racist colonialist agenda. Should the US economy collapse, economies like Haiti's all over the world will regain the possibility to thrive. To wish for the death of my own country's economy may seem counterintuitive, but this is a small planet and the US and the UN are among the most destructive forces on it. One thing for sure, whether Hillary or someone else becomes the next US President, US policy towards Haiti, like the murders of Blacks in the US, will not change. The Haitians have the right idea, withholding their votes in corrupt elections, but too many people in the US fail to understand that corrupt elections can never bring about change.
great read. Very insightful & informative. thank you Charlie Hinton.


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>> > semantically meaningful nonterminals than just types.
>> int type in Java, so there is no need to explicitly re-declare it.
>> That is Java is silent on this bound type in its syntax.
> anything about the members of String at the site where String is mentioned.
on the list or annotation on the char elements.


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namespace _12.Google
{
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Text;

    public class Person
    {
        private string name;
        private Company company;
        private Car car;
        private List<Parent> parents;
        private List<Child> children;
        private List<Pokemon> pokemons;

        public Person(string name)
        {
            this.name = name;
            this.parents = new List<Parent>();
            this.children = new List<Child>();
            this.pokemons = new List<Pokemon>();
            this.company = new Company();
            this.car = new Car();
        }

        public string Name
        {
            get { return this.name; }
        }

        public Company Company
        {
            get { return this.company; }
            set { this.company = value; }
        }

        public Car Car
        {
            get { return this.car; }
            set { this.car = value; }
        }

        public List<Parent> Parents
        {
            get { return this.parents; }
            set { this.parents = value; }
        }

        public List<Child> Children
        {
            get { return this.children; }
        }

        public List<Pokemon> Pokemons
        {
            get { return this.pokemons; }
        }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            sb.AppendLine(this.name);
            sb.AppendLine("Company:");

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.Company.CompanyName))
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"{this.Company.CompanyName} {this.Company.Department} {this.Company.Salary:f2}");
            }

            sb.AppendLine("Car:");

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.Car.Model))
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"{this.Car.Model} {this.Car.Speed}");
            }

            sb.AppendLine("Pokemon:");

            foreach (var pokemon in this.Pokemons)
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"{pokemon.Name} {pokemon.Type}");
            }

            sb.AppendLine("Parents:");

            foreach (var parent in this.Parents)
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"{parent.Name} {parent.Birthday}");
            }

            sb.AppendLine("Children:");

            foreach (var child in this.Children)
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"{child.Name} {child.Birthday}");
            }

            return sb.ToString();
        }
    }
}

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French biochimist, living in Brazil . I took photography as a hobby in 2003 . Since then I have found a style painting bodies and integrating them in natural scenarios, always working with natural light in an attempt to speak about our need to care more for our planet.


What are widgets ? widgets are a box with any content from the site, trends, friends posts, groups posts, the whole site activity, just photos, just your stuff etc etc the list goes on. All can be set on different privacy settings 'Add widget button' on dashboard, profile page and as admin of groups.
What are widgets ? widgets are a box with any content from the site, trends, friends posts, groups posts, the whole site activity, just photos, just your stuff etc etc the list goes on.
'Add widget button' on dashboard, profile page and as admin of groups.


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package com.google.devtools.build.java.turbine.javac;

import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.common.jimfs.Configuration;
import com.google.common.jimfs.Jimfs;
import com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.javac.plugins.dependency.StrictJavaDepsPlugin;
import com.google.devtools.build.java.turbine.javac.JavacTurbineCompileResult.Status;
import com.sun.source.util.JavacTask;
import com.sun.tools.javac.api.ClientCodeWrapper.Trusted;
import com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTool;
import com.sun.tools.javac.file.CacheFSInfo;
import com.sun.tools.javac.file.JavacFileManager;
import com.sun.tools.javac.util.Context;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
import java.nio.file.FileSystem;
import java.nio.file.FileVisitResult;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.SimpleFileVisitor;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import javax.tools.Diagnostic;
import javax.tools.JavaFileObject;
import javax.tools.StandardLocation;

/** Performs a javac-based turbine compilation given a {@link JavacTurbineCompileRequest}. */
public class JavacTurbineCompiler {

  static JavacTurbineCompileResult compile(JavacTurbineCompileRequest request) throws IOException {

    Map<String, byte[]> files = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    Status status;
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    ImmutableList.Builder<FormattedDiagnostic> diagnostics = ImmutableList.builder();
    Context context = new Context();

    try (PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw)) {
      setupContext(context, request.strictJavaDepsPlugin(), request.transitivePlugin());
      CacheFSInfo.preRegister(context);
      try (FileSystem fs = Jimfs.newFileSystem(Configuration.forCurrentPlatform());
          JavacFileManager fm = new ClassloaderMaskingFileManager()) {
        JavacTask task =
            JavacTool.create()
                .getTask(
                    pw,
                    fm,
                    diagnostic -> diagnostics.add(formatDiagnostic(diagnostic)),
                    request.javacOptions(),
                    /* classes= */ ImmutableList.of(),
                    fm.getJavaFileObjectsFromPaths(request.sources()),
                    context);

        Path classes = fs.getPath("classes");
        Files.createDirectories(classes);
        Path sources = fs.getPath("sources");
        Files.createDirectories(sources);

        fm.setContext(context);
        fm.setLocationFromPaths(StandardLocation.SOURCE_PATH, Collections.<Path>emptyList());
        fm.setLocationFromPaths(StandardLocation.CLASS_PATH, request.classPath());
        // The bootclasspath may legitimately be empty if --release is being used.
        Collection<Path> bootClassPath = request.bootClassPath();
        if (!bootClassPath.isEmpty()) {
          fm.setLocationFromPaths(StandardLocation.PLATFORM_CLASS_PATH, bootClassPath);
        }
        fm.setLocationFromPaths(
            StandardLocation.ANNOTATION_PROCESSOR_PATH, request.processorClassPath());
        fm.setLocationFromPaths(StandardLocation.CLASS_OUTPUT, ImmutableList.of(classes));
        fm.setLocationFromPaths(StandardLocation.SOURCE_OUTPUT, ImmutableList.of(sources));

        status = task.call() ? Status.OK : Status.ERROR;

        // collect class output
        Files.walkFileTree(
            classes,
            new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
              @Override
              public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path path, BasicFileAttributes attrs)
                  throws IOException {
                // use `/` as the directory separator for jar paths, even on Windows
                String name = Joiner.on('/').join(classes.relativize(path));
                files.put(name, Files.readAllBytes(path));
                return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
              }
            });

      } catch (Throwable t) {
        t.printStackTrace(pw);
        status = Status.ERROR;
      }
    }

    return new JavacTurbineCompileResult(
        ImmutableMap.copyOf(files), status, sw.toString(), diagnostics.build(), context);
  }

  private static FormattedDiagnostic formatDiagnostic(
      Diagnostic<? extends JavaFileObject> diagnostic) {
    StringBuilder message = new StringBuilder();
    if (diagnostic.getSource() != null) {
      message.append(diagnostic.getSource().getName());
      if (diagnostic.getLineNumber() != -1) {
        message.append(':').append(diagnostic.getLineNumber());
      }
      message.append(": ");
    }
    message.append(diagnostic.getKind().toString().toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault()));
    message.append(": ").append(diagnostic.getMessage(Locale.getDefault()));
    return new FormattedDiagnostic(diagnostic, message.toString());
  }

  /** Mask the annotation processor classpath to avoid version skew. */
  @Trusted
  private static class ClassloaderMaskingFileManager extends JavacFileManager {

    private static Context getContext() {
      Context context = new Context();
      CacheFSInfo.preRegister(context);
      return context;
    }

    public ClassloaderMaskingFileManager() {
      super(getContext(), false, UTF_8);
    }

    @Override
    protected ClassLoader getClassLoader(URL[] urls) {
      return new URLClassLoader(
          urls,
          new ClassLoader(null) {
            @Override
            protected Class<?> findClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
              Class<?> c = Class.forName(name);
              if (name.startsWith("com.sun.source.") || name.startsWith("com.sun.tools.")) {
                return c;
              }
              if (c.getClassLoader() == null
                  || Objects.equals(getClassLoaderName(c.getClassLoader()), "platform")) {
                return c;
              }
              throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
            }
          });
    }
  }

  // TODO(cushon): remove this use of reflection if Java 9 is released.
  private static String getClassLoaderName(ClassLoader classLoader) {
    Method method;
    try {
      method = ClassLoader.class.getMethod("getName");
    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
      // ClassLoader#getName doesn't exist in JDK 8 and earlier.
      return null;
    }
    try {
      return (String) method.invoke(classLoader, new Object[] {});
    } catch (ReflectiveOperationException e) {
      throw new LinkageError(e.getMessage(), e);
    }
  }

  static void setupContext(
      Context context, @Nullable StrictJavaDepsPlugin sjd, JavacTransitive transitive) {
    JavacTurbineJavaCompiler.preRegister(context, sjd, transitive);
  }
}


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Joomla\CMS\Cache\Storage\FileStorage::_deleteFolder JFolder: :delete: Das Verzeichnis kann nicht gelöscht werden! Pfad: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\agaf-ev\cache\com_content
ARISS contact Turnhout, Belgium (update)
An International Space Station school contact has been planned for Alexander Gerst, KF5ONO, with Sint-Jozefcollege, Turnhout, Belgium.
The event is scheduled Tuesday 16 October 2018 at approximately 12:04 UTC (14:04 CEST). The conversation will be conducted in English and German.
The contact will be a direct operated by ON4NOK. The downlink signals will be audible in parts of Europe on 145.800 MHz FM.
Moreover, the event in Turnhout, Belgium will be webcast, recorded video on
http://on4nok.be/iss-contact-live-stream/
Saint-Josephcollege is a school situated in Turnhout, in the north of Belgium, in the middle of a green park with a lot of sporting facilities. It consists of 4 schools: kindergarten, 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school. The contact will be made with students of the secondary school and one pupil of the primary school.
It is a general secondary school with around 750 students (age 12-18), 45% are girls, 55% are boys. Almost 200 of these students live here during the week in the boarding school, which is also part of Saint-Joseph college.We have different directions at our school (ancient languages, modern languages, mathematics, science, economy, human sciences).
Our school prepares students for higher education, but beside the lessons, as we are a Jesuit school, we think it is very important to cultivate every student as a single person, letting them taste of all kind of new opportunities, like this contact with ISS.
Students First Names & Questions:
1. Eveliene (11): Is space beautiful or is it just empty and black?
2. Xander (12): Can you describe weightlessness?
3. Jonathan (12): I am worried about climate change. Can you see the impact of this when you look down on earth?
4. Cas (12): Was it your dream to go to space?
5. Matisal (12): If you could travel to Mars, would you do so, even if you knew you couldn't come back?
6. Franz (13): Can you make music in space, because sound can only travel in air and there is no air in space?
7. Hadrien (13): There is no running water in space. How do you supply enough water?
8. Lore (13): How many degrees Celcius is it in the space station and how many degrees is it outside?
9. Maryam (14): Which experiments do you do on ISS? Which circumstances are not possible down on earth?
10. Alyssa (13): Which experiment did you like the most?
11. Juliette (15): If you do so, how do you make oxygen in space and how do you filter CO2?
12. Alicia (15): How did you become an astronaut, or how would one, to your knowledge, go about becoming an astronaut?
13. Friso (15): What is your favourite food in space?
14. Roxanne (16): What do you do in your spare time? Can you follow news and social media?
15. Renaud (16): Do you have trouble adjusting back to earth's gravity after 6 months in space?
16. Maarten (16): What is, after months of isolation, your relation to time? How do you maintain your biological clock?
17. Lisa (17): What happens when an astronaut gets really ill in space?
18. Emma (17): Do women and men have the same physical challenges adapting to life in microgravity?
19. Bieke (17): Why is it so important to spend so much money on space travel, when we have so many problems like famine here on earth?
20. Wout (17): Wieviel Kilogramm Muskeln werden Sie ungefaehr nach Ihren Aufenthalt auf der ISS verloren haben? How many kilograms of muscles will you have lost after your stay in the ISS?
21. Pieter (17): Was ist das schoenste der Erde, das Sie aus dem Weltraum schon gesehen haben? What is the nicest part of earth you have seen in space?
About ARISS:
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, JAXA, and CSA. The US Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provide ARISS special support.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning.
The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.ariss-eu.org and https://www.amsat-on.be/hamtv-summary/.
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NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting 7:35 p.m. EDT Sunday, July 21, for the launch of its 18th agency-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station. Live coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website Sunday with prelaunch events.
NASA Awards Contract for Infrastructure Support Services
NASA has awarded eight contracts for architect-engineering services in support of the Facilities Infrastructure Division at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
NASA has awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space, Inc. of Mountain View, California, to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in low-Earth orbit. The in-space robotic manufacturing and assembly technologies could be important for America's Moon to Mars explor
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JAISAT-1 Telemetry Data Sought
Tanan Rangseeprom HS1JAN, Project Manager of the new 3U CubeSat JAISAT-1 has requested telemetry data from the 435.700 MHz beacon. JAISAT-1 launched on July 5 and carries an amateur radio 145 to 435 MHz linear transponder for SSB/CW communications. On … Continue reading →
CAS-7B to launch July 22
Alan BA1DU reports the Amateur Radio satellite CAS-7B (BP-1B) is expected to launch at 05:00 GMT on July 22, 2019 The launch vehicle Hyperbola-1 will run for 862.0206 seconds and then CAS-7B satellite will be deployed at 05:14:22.0206 GMT. CAS-7B … Continue reading →
TX Factor Show: Demonstration of QO-100 satellite operation
The TX Factor show visits the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park where Noel Matthews G8GTZ and Graham Shirville G3VZV demonstrate how to set up and operate using the amateur radio transponders on the new geostationary satellite Qatar-Oscar-100 (QO-100). Plus, … Continue reading →
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This September, there was the European School on Magnetism 2018 (ESM 2018) at Kraków in Poland. Main topic in this year was "Magnetism by lights" which is directly related to Kisung's magneto-optical Kerr effect study on antiferromagnetic materials. Thus, Kisung decided to attend ESM 2018. School program provided lecture series about basic solid-state magnetism, magnetism simulation technics and deep study on magneto-optical effects and laser-induced (de)magnetization processes.
Cheng-Wei attended the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education (ICMEd) early this summer. He found the lectures very informative and helpful. Throughout the summer school, Cheng-Wei developes better understanding of not only the concept and knowledge but also the impact of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). He also loves the lectures on active learning and prepares to apply it to his future lectures.
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Starting from today, your Amazon orders will be more expensive as Amazon has ceased the free shipping option for orders above US$125 to Singapore.
Some HardwareZone forum members realized this morning that the free shipping option under Free AmazonGlobal Saver Shipping was missing. One forum member even went to the extent of checking 10 products that used to ship to Singapore for free and none of them has the free shipping option or even ship to Singapore anymore.
It is not known at the moment whether this is a permanent move. Amazon launched Prime Now, a fast delivery service in Singapore five months ago. You can find out more about Amazon's Prime Now in our extensive article here.
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In the mean time I have to share with you my odd obsession with the Union Jack. No I've never traveled to London and no I have no specific ties to it, and I was also not obsessed with the royal wedding though I did watch it. I just simply love it and can't wait to find some how some way of using it in a room design similar to how I love cow hide rugs. Here are some pretty simple room inspirations with touches of the Union Jack in different textiles to illustrate its badness.
Tell me what you think, do you too share my love for the Union Jack or do you have a design love that you just can't get enough of?


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Gresufes é um lugar e aldeia na freguesia de Balazar no concelho da Póvoa de Varzim.

Gresufes tem origem no nome de Gresulfo, conhecido no século X, e foi paróquia até 1442, ano em que foi feita a fusão com a paróquia vizinha de Casal (Santa Eulália) para formar uma única paróquia, a de Balazar. Gresufes, como Fiães, já em Gondifelos mas vizinha de Gresufes, era pertença dos Correias de Fralães. O lugar fica quase num vale, rodeado por colinas a nascente, sul e poente.

Em Gresufes nasceu, em 1904, Alexandrina Maria da Costa, uma bem-aventurada católica beatificada pelo Papa João Paulo II.

Balazar (Póvoa de Varzim)
Lugares e bairros do Grande Porto
Lugares da Póvoa de Varzim

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< The Devil's Walk
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About this Edition
The Devil's Walk (Broadside Version)
The Devil's Walk (Letter Version)
Headnote
Other Romantic Devils
Historical Contexts
Printing and Attempts to Circulate DW
Textual Transmission
Copy-text
Annotations for Broadside Version
Annotations for Letter Version
Critical Contexts
Reading Texts
Reading Text (Broadside)
Reading Text (Letter)
Primary Witnesses (Broadside)
All Witnesses (Broadside)
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The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Research for this hypertext edition has been conducted at the Library of Congress, the British Library, and the Public Record Office, and we are deeply grateful for their splendid collections and superb staffs. We are also grateful to Johns Hopkins University Press for permission to use material from our forthcoming letterpress edition, The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley . Research for this edition was generously supported by the Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency.
Our hypertext is the work of many hands. We are indebted to Catherine Hays and Ken Hargy of the College of Arts and Humanities Electronic Media Center, University of Maryland at College Park for help with The Devil's Walk photofacsimile image (taken from Ruth S. Granniss, A Descriptive Catalogue of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley). Lorna Ellis constructed the initial html versions of many of the documents that appear here; and Melissa Sites has contributed her skills as a formidable researcher and meticulous proofreader. Eleanor Shevlin not only secured the broadside photofacsimile, but also has worked tirelessly and proficiently in updating and constructing pages. Our friends and extraordinary colleagues at Romantic Circles, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer, have provided crucial help with the design and programming. And Michael O'Neill's exemplary work on the letter version of The Devil's Walk in the The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics Series has been quite helpful to us. Finally, closer to home, we wish to thank Helene Dworzan Reiman for her valuable contributions to our editorial work and Shawn Fraistat, who remains a constant source of technical expertise and inspiration.
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Institute for Global Health
IGH Centres
COVID-19: Engagement
Institute staff have been engaged by mainstream and specialist media, as well as by governmental and public health organisations, in order to provide expert insight for the coronavirus response.
Frontline clinical work
Along with their UCL colleagues from other departments, all 37 of IGH's clinical academics were released to work on frontline NHS duties.
These academics are applying their practical knowledge and experience to test and treat patients, not only close to our London base but nationally and internationally.
Many staff are based in London hospitals working directly with COVID-19 patients and on trials such as the Novavax vaccine trial (see our COVID-19 Research page).
Marie Francis and Julian Surey, based at the Mortimer Market Centre, teamed up with Find and Treat and NGOs early in the pandemic to visit London's homeless population and arrange accommodation in hotels. The London Joint Working Group has published a report about their activities.
The specialist nurses, who usually work on outreach screening services such as HepCare, are testing this vulnerable population for COVID-19 and ensuring they are treated and housed accordingly. In early 2021 their work was extended to include the vaccination rollout.
Strategic Input
Researchers from across our Institute have been prominent advisors and commentors, often helping to shape government policy using their expert knowledge.
DELVE (Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics)
IGH staff have been contributing as members of DELVE (Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics), a multidisciplinary group convened by the Royal Society to support a data driven approach to managing the COVID pandemic. Anne Johnson and Nigel Field (as Chair of the DELVE working group) sit on the DELVE committee.
Anne Johnson and Guy Harling were recently part of a team who wrote a wide-ranging report identifying the potential for Testing, Tracing and Isolation to help control the UK COVID-19 epidemic, as part of a wider package of interventions.
By reviewing successful programmes internationally, conducting modelling exercises and drawing on experiences from multiple academic fields, the team highlighted the importance of speed, compliance and coverage for TTI to be effective, and the need for integration with the wider response.
The DELVE group subsequently published highly influential reports on COVID-19 infection in hospitals and the impacts of school closures and plans for their reopening.
House of Lords Science and Technology Committee
Ibrahim Abubakar supports the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee as a Scientific Adviser. On 23rd July, the Committee wrote to the Prime Minister and summarised their recommendations for urgent action needed before the winter. The recommendations drew on testimony from witnesses including Anne Johnson (who is cited multiple times in the letter).
Food security and nutrition in Nepal
Naomi Saville, who is based in Kathmandu and has 25 years' experience in Nepal, is working with DFID to provide thematic advice on food security and nutrition during the country's COVID-19 response to inform programme interventions and delivery.
Naomi will be working with the Nepalese government, local partners, UNICEF, the UN World Food Programme amongst others to support efforts to maintain food and nutrition security throughout the outbreak.
SAGE International Team
Lucy Irvine is currently on secondment to the SAGE International Team, where she is synthesising international evidence and identifying innovative research for the GSCA and SAGE. Lucy is also helping to coordinate research projects at the Government Office for Science and the British Academy into the impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable populations and BAME communities.
BRCiS NGO consortium work in Somalia
Andrew Seal is working with the BRCiS NGO consortium to advise them on how to monitor the impacts of COVID-19 on their programme beneficiaries in Somalia.
Hertfordshire County Council's COVID-19 public mental heath strategy
Responding to the impact of COVID-19 on poor mental health and emotional wellbeing are a national priority. A new manual forms part of a new programme of support from Hertfordshire Growth Hub, targeting local business owners to help them support themselves and their staff during the ongoing pandemic and its pressures on business.
The work was completed in partnership with Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council and UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases. The manual has been developed by Dr Rochelle Burgess, Community Health Psychologist, UCL Institute for Global Health, Hertfordshire County Council's Behaviour Change Unit, and Tracey Muponda, Trainee Health Psychologist, University of the West of England.
Child and adolescent health policy advice
Delan Devakumar provides scientific evidence on child and adolescent health policy advice on behalf of the REACH-WELL group. Delan has also advised a group of London boroughs on their COVID strategy in respect of the increased mortality in BAME groups.
Incidence and awareness in South Africa
Guy Harling and AHRI colleagues are supporting the work of South Africa's Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in building a knowledge base around the national public's understanding of COVID-19, and its impact on their lives.
Guy is also working with AHRI on their longitudinal population surveillance to ascertain incidence of COVID-19 in a rural South African setting among residents in the AHRI surveillance area. Regular (weekly for a sub-cohort) telephone interviews with household heads will screen for symptoms of the virus and the impact of related social distancing policies on residents. Those screening positive will be followed-up for testing, referral for care if needed and contact tracing-based on government protocols.
Raising awareness of racism towards people of east and south-east Asian heritage
Lu Gram was interviewed for Yahoo! News about experiences of racism towards people of east and south-east Asian heritage. Lu and his fellow campaigners raised funds to launch End the Virus of Racism, the UK's first non-profit organisation dedicated to addressing racism faced by people of east and southeast Asian heritage.
Coronavirus: preparing for a challenging winter (an Academy of Medical Sciences report)
Anne Johnson, Guy Harling, Heather Bailey, and Nigel Field contributed to an influential report from the Academy of Medical Sciences called 'Coronavirus: preparing for a challenging winter'.
The report considered the combined challenges of a backlog of non-COVID-19 care, the disruption to the delivery of care caused by the first wave of COVID-19 and the risk of a winter influenza epidemic, in preparing for a resurgence of COVID-19.
Community Survey of the experiences of COVID-19 on people living with HIV in the UK
This survey, designed and run by the HIV community with Caroline Sabin and team, aimed to describe the impact of COVID-19 on the mental and physical health of people living with HIV, particularly those in BAME or other under-served groups, and on their ability to access appropriate HIV care services.
The survey was shared online to members of the UK-Community Advisory Board (UK-CAB), via social media and HIV support organizations across the UK.
Overall, there were 305 responses – whilst this is unlikely to be fully representative of the UK HIV cohort, the findings did highlight many areas of concern to those living with HIV and has been used to support advocacy.
Some of our COVID-19 research has also been presented to policy-makers, for instance the project on association of HIV with outcomes of COVID-19 hospitalization outcomes was submitted as evidence to SAGE.
Advice and Commentary
Multi-language pandemic parenting advice (for WHO and Unicef)
The clinical psychology team, led by Lorraine Sherr, prepared a series of documents and tips on parenting in the Covid-19 pandemic for the World Health Organization and UNICEF. The documents were translated into 51 languages.
UCL Minds podcasts
Anne Johnson and Graham Hart took part in the UCL Minds podcast series in the episode "What can we learn from the history of pandemics?" The panel discussed outbreaks through history, including HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and the Black Death in the 14th century. Anne's expertise has been called on by a wide range of media outlets, such as for this New Scientist article on lockdowns.
A subsequent episode in the series discussed the subject "How has the pandemic highlighted BAME inequalities?" and featured Delan Devakumar. Ibrahim Abubakar was a guest on the episode asking what we can learn from the African response.
Rochelle Burgess featured in the "How is it affecting our mental health?" episode and Lorraine Sherr was a guest for "How can we juggle parenting, home schooling and play?"
Commentary of government strategy
Anthony Costello was interviewed by various national media outlets including the BBC's Newsnight, Channel 4 News and The Independent regarding early measures by the UK and other national governments to prevent the spread of the virus. Tim Colbourn also provided commentary in specialist publications such as The Lancet Public Health and via mainstream media including the BBC's Jeremy Vine show (from approximately 15 minutes).
Prof Costello also gave evidence to the UK Government's Health and Social Care Committee for their inquiry into the country's management of the coronavirus outbreak.
Impact on mental health
Rochelle Burgess wrote about causes and consequences of mental health and COVID-19 for Nature magazine; "COVID-19 mental-health responses neglect social realities." Rochelle's commentary piece calls for mental health services to do more to support people during the pandemic.
Rochelle was on BBC World Service's Newshour speaking about mental health and community psychology (from 19 minutes 10 seconds).
Rochelle and Delan Devakumar sit on the Society and Mental Health COVID-19 Expert Group.
How the virus spreads via public transport
Lara Gosce's research on how influenza-type illnesses are spread on the London Underground was widely quoted in the media as the UK began to increase containment measures. Lara was interviewed by various outlets including on BBC London News.
Public advice and information in the early stages of the pandemic
Guy Harling answered listener questions on BBC Radio 5's 'Nihal Arthanayake Show' (from 16 mins 13 secs), and the next day appeared on BBC Breakfast, providing a brief overview of the epidemic and giving advice on how to minimise risk of catching the virus and spreading it to others.
Therese Hesketh took part in a debate for the Economist's weekly podcast, on the subject "What can countries do to prepare for covid-19?".
Chikwe Ihekweazu wrote for The Conversation about steps Nigeria is taking to prepare for cases of coronavirus, incorporating knowledge gathered and systems put in place following the Ebola outbreak.
Raising awareness of inequalities caused and exacerbated by the virus
IGH staff have been instrumental in ensuring the inequalities in the impact of Covid-19 are prominently featured in the UK's mainstream and academic press.
Letters and publications in The Lancet (April 2020 and June 2020) and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (June 2020) have helped to maintain nationwide focus on racism and discrimination.
Delan Devakumar spoke to LBC Radio and Euronews TV about his ethnic group research.
Please see the "Strategic Input" section above for details of End the Virus of Racism, a charity founded in response to increased racism towards people of east and south-east Asian heritage.
General advice and commentary
Many UCL staff have been interviewed by the mainstream press. The resulting articles are too numerous to list comprehensively, but a few are highlighted here:
Scientists warn Britain to step up coronavirus testing (Financial Times, quotes Tim Colbourn)
Coronavirus: Government releases official advice to protect your mental health (Yahoo! Style, quotes Rochelle Burgess; Rochelle was also interviewed for BBC World Service's Newshour talking about mental health and community psychology)
Should employers be preparing now for further waves of the Covid-19 virus? (Employee Benefits website article by Ilan Kelman)
What can Britain learn about containing Covid-19 from countries that got it right? (The Guardian, quotes Anne Johnson) Face masks could give false reassurance (The Sun, quotes Ben Killingley)


I've been an avid reader all my life, but one book that stands out on a very personal level is "Heaven is Real", by Lynn Vincent and Todd Burpo. While the story and writing style might not be Pulitzer material, I read this right after my mother passed away and it really moved me. It gave me a strange sense of comfort that she is in a better place, and that she would be looking down on me and my children in the future (I had also just learned I was pregnant not long before that).


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Rudakowa steht für:

 Rudakowa (Vulkan), ein Vulkan in Russland

Rudakowa oder Rudakova ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Kazjaryna Rudakowa (* 1984), weißrussische Skilangläuferin
 Natalya Rudakova (* 1985), russische Schauspielerin und Model
 Wera Wiktorowna Rudakowa (* 1992), russische Hürdenläuferin

siehe auch
 Rudakow


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Doug Ford's provincial government 'sidesteps' local community, overrules Toronto on developments in West Don Lands
By Jennifer PagliaroCity Hall Bureau
Mon., Oct. 26, 2020timer5 min. read
Premier Doug Ford's provincial government has overruled city processes for three development sites in the West Don Lands, allowing condo towers as tall as 50 storeys without any public consultation or discussion with local councillors and planners.
The city's manager for community planning in the area discovered three new ministerial zoning orders from the province posted online by chance on Friday, Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam told the Star on Monday, sending city officials into emergency meetings.
Given no notice of the orders, Wong-Tam, who represents part of what's also called the Canary District, said they are all still working to figure out what they mean and why they were issued.
"The province has eroded trust, the trust in the planning process," Wong-Tam said. "I think the province has also overstepped and it's my assertion that it's an abuse of minister's zoning orders."
Ministerial zoning orders, or MZOs, are a tool that can be used by the minister of municipal affairs and housing to overrule local planning, including necessary public consultations, and designates how land can be used — including how tall buildings can be and how much residential or non-residential is allowed. It is not possible to appeal MZOs, unlike applications approved through the normal city process.
While MZOs have been used sparingly by provincial governments in the past, the new orders, all of which appear to have been posted Oct. 22, follow a trend for Ontario's PC government of employing the tool liberally. While the previous Liberal government issued MZOs just twice in the two years prior to Ford's government coming to power, the Star has reported, there were 26 issued by this government between 2018 and early October, not including the latest Toronto-area orders.
The orders concern three separate sites all owned by the province and all at different planning stages:
373 Front St. East and 90 Mill St.: A proposed three-building, mixed-use site with buildings between eight and 13 storeys, including 261 affordable housing units currently set for final approval by council this week
125R Mill Street: An application for two residential towers, 32 and 45 storeys, on top of a six-storey office and retail building with a proposed 231 affordable units still at the preliminary stages in the city planning process after being received in June 2020
153-185 Eastern Ave.: A heritage site home to the old Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company with no active development application
The MZOs, in turn, appear to permit what was applied for and agreed to by city planning officials at 373 Front St. East and 90 Mill St. with no more than three buildings at heights not to exceed 13 storeys. There have already been multiple public consultations in that case.
But there is no mention of affordable housing in the order, as is spelled out in the city planning recommendations, or the agreement planned with the development group for more than $500,000 in benefits for parkland and local streetscape improvements.
At 125R Mill St., the zoning order would appear to permit what was originally applied for with heights up to 153 metres — roughly 51 storeys. Again, there is nothing said about affordable housing or other community benefits.
And at the Foundries site, up to three buildings have been permitted, at least one of which must be an apartment building, with heights of up to 47 storeys allowed and a minimum of just 500 square metres of non-residential use required — meaning most of the site has been zoned for residential use.
The first two sites are being developed by a partnership of Dream, Kilmer Group, and Tricon Residential, who were the successful proponents of an Infrastructure Ontario bid for 99-year leases in the West Don Lands in exchange for building rental market-rate and affordable housing.
The city is providing financial incentives to the developers through Mayor John Tory's Open Door affordable housing program and the federal government is acting as the project lender.
There is no public development partner for the third site and no application yet submitted.
Wong-Tam said the MZO move "entirely sidesteps" the community process and doesn't secure any benefits for the community, such as parkland, for the other sites and that the city doesn't know the "true intentions" of the new orders, including the future for the heritage property at the Eastern Avenue site.
"The painful irony here is that the province is framing this as you can either have affordable housing or a good planning process and that is first, a false choice," said Coun. Joe Cressy, whose ward includes the 125R Mill St. site.
He said the city and the local West Don Lands community have shown they can build a livable and equitable neighbourhood in collaboration with the province.
Cressy said if the move by the province was to really build affordable housing, it would have imposed even more affordable housing instead of not ensuring any. He said the move also sets a bad precedent for future development.
"If you're a developer, why bother working with the city and the community to ensure that you're building a livable development and providing enough affordable housing if you can just call the minister and get your deal approved?"
Even though the sites are owned by the province, all development applications typically go through a city planning process, which involves public consultation, review by various city divisions, reports from city planning to community councils where the public can participate and final approval by city council as a whole.
"Our government is providing Toronto with funding and expedited approvals they need, to help them achieve their affordable housing targets," said a statement from Adam Wilson, spokesperson for Minister of Municipal Affairs Steve Clark.
"Vulnerable Ontarians need this housing now, and they can't wait for years to get an affordable place to call home — that's why these Minister's Zoning Orders were so important."
The statement said "almost" 1,000 affordable units would be expedited but did not explain how they came to that number — the two applications before council only contemplate a total of 429 affordable units. The orders themselves don't guarantee affordable housing. Wilson, in a follow-up reply, said "our government is ensuring that affordable housing is built on each site through agreements with the proponents."
In an address to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Ford said he specifically told his minister he wants to see more MZOs issued.
"We can't be waiting three, four years for approvals if people need an instant answer, they have to know when the return on their investment when they build a factory, when they can start manufacturing. They don't want to hear it's going to take three or four years of red tape, (environmental assessments) and this and that," said Ford.
The development group responded to the Star's questions on Monday. When asked if they requested the MZOs from the province, they said they are "supportive of expediting approvals for urgently needed affordable housing."
The group said they "remain committed" to building a total of 686 affordable units across all sites they are working on — which includes sites beyond the ones considered by these MZOs — as well as delivering community benefits that include public space.
With files from Noor Javed and Victoria Gibson
Jennifer Pagliaro is a Toronto-based reporter covering city hall and municipal politics for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: @jpags


It's about time I popped on here and gave you a little tour of the nursery. This is by far my favorite room in our house. It's still not quite finished in these photos (and even still), but it feels organized, clean, pretty, and cozy. I love how it's coming together.
When I first saw the ad for our house on Redfin, this room was what caught my eye. It's a tiny little room attached to our master bedroom with a wood burning brick fireplace and tons of window light. Of course, I envisioned the nursery and the ease of being able to walk 5 steps from my bed to change diapers, nurse, etc. It also makes our master bedroom feel so much bigger the rooms are separated by a giant doorway with pull shutters, making it feel like one giant room.
Our girl Dawn Photography took these newborn photos for us and I will cherish them forever. So sweet and special, even though when it was all going down I could barely function – this was one week after Ember was born and I was severely sleep deprived, battling mastitis, and healing in all the other ways which we don't need to get into… lol.
Ember is one lucky little lady to have to and Jer as parents. Her nursery is beautiful and I tip my hat to you for looking so fabulous in the newborn pics even while not feeling 100%. I have 3 (adult) children now and I'm STILL sleep deprived. God bless….
Love it! Clean, rustic, urban chic, and perfectly appointed for your little "Koukla" (Greek term of endearment meaning, beautiful baby doll).
Kinda mono-toned and sterile looking. Not even a colorful mobile over the crib? I respect it's your style.
Really beautiful. Classic. Enjoy your gorgeous daughter!
Beautiful nursery, soothing colors, love the painting of the roses.
Lucky little girl and lucky parents. Some happiness and joy.
I think the nursery is very beautiful, but the products you used are SO expensive (minus a few of them). I don't know how anyone could afford some of that stuff on a budget for a new baby. You are lucky.
Did you hang the "she is more precious than rubies" print somewhere? It was so beautiful!
A colorful mobile above the crib or a few colorful throw pillows would make such a huge difference in brightening up the room. Its very beautiful & sophisticated. Just needs a splash of color here & there.
I'd love to know where your white off the shoulder shirt is from!?
Audrey–My baby Josephine was born just before Ember, and I loved the newborn prayer you shared on IG a few months ago. You're a natural writer. I hope you'll consider writing a book of family prayers to follow up Navigator's Council!
Just gorgeous!! It looks amazing and your newborn photos are wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
What a precious nursery! We have the same diaper pail and love it 🙂 You three make a beautiful family. Our daughter, Joanna, was just born in October and we too are cherishing every day with her. God Bless!


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So you have finally decided to see what Great Lakes Charter fishing is all about! If you are spending this adventure with family, friends or business associates there are a few key factors beyond price that you should consider.
Most charters last between 5-1/2 to 10 hours so the Captain and mates (if your charter uses one) personality along with experience become very important. Can you imagine being on board with Captain Bligh? Experience and performance are top considerations. Try to determine if this is a full time career or just a part time job for the Captain. The best way to determine your compatibility with a particular charter service is to go to your local sport shows and talk with a few captains to determine if this is someone you would like to be with all day. A reference from someone you know who has used this service before is an excellent start.
If you live in the close proximity of the charter fishing fleets take a walk down the dock and see which customers are smiling when they get off a charter boat. Surprising that often its not the people who have caught the most fish who have had the best experience. This is also a good time to see how Captain and crew take care of their equipment. Is the boat clean? Most Captains will welcome you aboard even if you have no desire to go fishing.
REMEMBER the boat you choose is responsible for you safe return!
Cost is normally determined by the size of the boat and the services provided. Is there a first mate to help you and does the charter service pay his wages or does the mate work for tips only? Is the boat equipped with modern electronics and fishing tackle? Does the boat have twin engines in the event of motor failure on the water?
Once you have chosen your boat and Captain plan to be on the dock early. If you arrive late, in most cases, the Captain can't add time on as he needs to get back to the dock for his second trip. This will also give you the opportunity to get familiar with the boat and the equipment you will be using. Don't forget the camera to record the many memories of your experience on a GREAT LAKES CHARTER BOAT!


For conference delegates, often a highlight of the conference is an opportunity to dine off site at one of the many delightful Blue Mountains' Restaurants.
Or you may be planning an anniversary visit or special birthday celebration and want to remove the problem of transport.
With the range of size of the coaches available for hire, we are in a position to help you in your planning, whether it be a special occasion or conference activity. For a novelty night out, you may elect to charter one of the big red double decker buses.


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