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Leading Print Solutions Provider, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Standardizes Operations on Red Hat's Middleware Solutions
Heidelberg reduced costs by migrating its web application platform and building a customer information portal on JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
RALEIGH, N.C. - 2009年 9月 22日 —
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), the world's leading solution provider for the print media industry, built an interactive customer portal, www.MyHeidelberg.com, using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform to create an interactive site to enhance its customer relationships and provide a unified global brand presence. With the successful portal project, Heidelberg has since migrated its proprietary application platform to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, in order to reduce costs, and increase the performance of its web applications.
Based in Heidelberg, Germany, with development and production sites in seven countries and around 250 sales offices across the globe, the company supports around 200,000 customers worldwide. The company develops and produces precision printing presses that produce high volume items such as brochures, magazines, folding carton boxes and product labels. Heidelberg's printing products and software enable its customers to print high volumes, quickly at high quality and in color at an affordable price and convert the printed material into the desired format.
Heidelberg launched a corporate-wide web initiative to develop a strategic architecture and customer-centric web portal, to strengthen customer relationships, consolidate information and services, provide easier access to information, and increase revenues through improved communications with customers.
"In addition to the JBoss platforms, we evaluated proprietary and open source solutions, but we selected JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform on the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform due to its ability to deliver an agile, reusable framework. Coupled with the benefits of open source, this solution helped us to reduce costs and eliminate the risk of vendor lock-in," said Mathias Berg, Director, Global Web Systems at Heidelberg. "Although we had limited open source experience, we were confident in our decision due to JBoss' established technology platform, the highly regarded enterprise support, and the expertise of Red Hat Consulting."
The new customer portal integrated seamlessly into Heidelberg's existing platform and offered flexibility and reliability to adapt the local websites to the respective market requirements. The scalable solution is equipped for steadily increasing numbers of users, which initially tallied more than 5,500 registered users and has been growing monthly by approximately 5 to 10 percent.
"Previously, we had a solid web presence for our customers, but it was more of an online brochure and lacked interactivity," said Berg. "The MyHeidelberg.com portal, based on JBoss' portal platform, creates a true value-add for our customers. With more and more customers actively consuming information online, we needed to offer a powerful and feature-rich web presence that would provide our customers with a single online destination for all of their needs. MyHeidelberg.com provides a centralized web portal with tailored information for each customer with one gateway, one URL, one password, and one login."
At an early stage of the customer portal project, Heidelberg made the decision to work with Red Hat Consulting in order to facilitate knowledge transfer, have a closer relationship with JBoss, and to have access to the engineers and developers behind the open source technology.
Heidelberg's use of JBoss for its customer portal and web application server has resulted in improved customer web presence with a central portal, reduced costs, excellent support and continuous advancements of its portal software and has eliminated issues resulting from vendor lock-in.
"All over the world, the name Heidelberg is synonymous with state-of-the art technology, top quality, and closeness to the customer.We set the benchmark high for ourselves and we expect the same level of quality from all of our vendors," said Michael Neff, chief information officer at Heidelberg. "JBoss absolutely delivered all we needed, by providing high availability, performance and scalability. Due to the business model, we realized significant cost savings, faster ROI, and freedom from vendor lock-in."
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And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work. He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital. ...
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"You shall have no other gods before Me. "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,read more. Bible Scripture Wall Art
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From the very first verse of Scripture, God reveals himself as the Creator, an Artist. Everything within the universe is a magnificent element of the Great Artist's masterpiece. As works of art created in God's own image (Gen 1:27), people are endowed with the ability to create as well. We can choose to join the Master Artist by being artists ourselves. Christian Canvas Art
The Bible is full of encouraging scriptures that are such a blessing to read and memorize. Here are ten of my favorite scripture quotes for encouragement. Feel free to share these with others as these encouraging Bible verses will brighten anyone's day. The Scriptures used are filled with hope, comfort and inspiration. These famous Bible quotes are from the Old and New Testament. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold. He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.read more. Bible Scripture Wall Art
The Lord said to Moses, "See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
"Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded." And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do." ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.read more.
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"Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. ... Christian Canvas Art
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"See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: ... Christian Art and Gifts
Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold.
The Bible is full of encouraging scriptures that are such a blessing to read and memorize. Here are ten of my favorite scripture quotes for encouragement. Feel free to share these with others as these encouraging Bible verses will brighten anyone's day. The Scriptures used are filled with hope, comfort and inspiration. These famous Bible quotes are from the Old and New Testament. Christian Canvas Art
and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, the woven garments as well, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, with which to carry on their priesthood; the anointing oil also, and the fragrant incense for the holy place, they are to make them according to all that I have commanded you." The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 'Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
2 Chronicles 2:14 ESV The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father. Christian Canvas Art
So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. So also he made for the entrance of the nave four-sided doorposts of olive wood and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door turned on pivots, and the two leaves of the other door turned on pivots. He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the engraved work. Christian Canvas Art
Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.read more. Bible Scripture Wall Art
It is inappropriate to simply accept a piece of biblical art without discernment. All art portrays the artist's faith and spirituality (because we are spiritual beings), so all art is in some way flawed (because humans are flawed). Though biblical art can help us to see more clearly what a passage is communicating, it is the Scriptures, as God's Word, that are the ultimate authority.
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2 Chronicles 2:14 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses. And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there. (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. ... Bible Scripture Wall Art

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Antrim Castle Gardens has once again been transformed into an Enchanted Winter Wonderland just in time for Christmas.
This year's event is being billed as bigger and better than ever before, with a dazzling array of attractions sure to entice the whole family along.
This year's star attraction will be the brand new, 'Antrim Eye' – a 40m Ferris Wheel from where you can star gaze over Antrim and beyond.
As well as that you can enjoy the stunning light installations, Christmas Train, Festive Fayre, Wonderland Wood, Enchanted Entrance and much more.
The event runs from December 9 to 19 at Antrim Castle Gardens.
Tickets can be booked online via the website, children under 2 are FREE, children aged 2-16 £1, Over 16s £2.


Lawyer, specialising in public international law, associated with the Polish Institute of International Affairs since 2000. Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. In 2002-2012 managing editor of the "Polish Diplomatic Review". From 2016 member of the editorial board of the renewed PPD. In 2008, served as an advisor to the Polish delegation at the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly. In 2010-2013 had been representing PISM in the Commission on International Humanitarian Law. From 2013 associated with the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding. Since 2016 he is a duty editor of "Bulletin PISM".


Put aside now your notions of the arrow of time, of time the independent variable, of time the dependent variable. Look beyond irreversible processes that point to the uni-directional nature of this arrow of time, or to its illusory nature when it comes to deterministic equations which work equally well when time runs forward or backwards. Forget matters of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years and so on, which are but human notions for the counting of time. Think not about the linear view of time, with its chronological ordering of events, both natural and human. All these things are but the product of the rational mind, of objective thought, of which there is already far too much!
I invite you instead to enter a different world, one of artistic making, where the subjective is important, and where time can be bent by creative will, and in doing so becomes not any of the above, but something profoundly different – a product of the imagination, from which flows a simple question, and on this turns the beginnings of ideas for technologies and processes far beyond the limiting horizons of the obvious and distracting pretty pebbles of time, lying, so to speak, on the seashore, while a greater ocean of truth remains unseen.
Time you see, in this world that I created – in a work of fiction called Moments in Time, being a novel about time, and that which is timeless and that which is not – can be seen in a different way. In this strange book you will find, if one cares to look closely and explore the messages hidden there, that time is always, a single moment in time, in which all other moments in time, past and future, co-exist in this one time that is known as the present for the person who is experiencing that moment. And from this comes the simple question to which I referred: how would our view of the world change, if we could create a technology and processes that would make such a subjective understanding of time, a human understanding of time, where past, present and future co-exist, a reality to share with others?
Before I answer this question, which in effect will also explain why we should do this and its importance, I want to mention the process by which I came to this subjective understanding of time.
I spent over ten years writing Moments in Time, and did very little research about time, for this was not to be a book of facts and knowledge, but a work of the imagination. In creating my imaginary world, which is in no way connected to science fiction, I did something that few, if any one, has done before – I lived for an extended period, in my imagination, in two times separated by over 250 years, for this is the storyline. And the tale is not one enabled by a time machine, the act of human creation so much seen in time related fiction, but by the universe itself behaving counter to what modern science believes – yes your eyes do not deceive you, I am saying believes.
This imaginative process, this act of creation, is a key point that I want to address. Elsewhere in this consultation (under ideas for new topics) there is a proposal presented of art being used in ICT research. There was a FET Open project (a CSA), known as FET-ART, that addressed this issue, and spoke of co-creation, where artists and technologists work together, and artists participate in research projects. What I have briefly presented above is an example of artistic expression being used in ICT research, with this note being one result – a proposal for a new research topic. But this is not the outcome of co-creation, but of creation that results when two (possibly more!) areas of quite contrasting knowledge and skills co-exist in one mind.
So it was not the process of background research (which I have already told you was quite small) that I undertook for the book that led me to this subjective understanding of time, but the act of artistic creation itself. This resulted in new insights and new knowledge about time, as it is experienced subjectively by humans. This process has a name: it is called art practice as research, or art as research, or creative arts enquiry. It uses the artistic process, whether that be painting, dance, music composition, creative writing (like writing a weird novel about time), etc., as a means of producing new knowledge. And I cannot stress here enough, the importance of the subjective nature of the knowledge, for this also relates to the common misunderstanding that science is entirely based on the rational and objective, which it most definitely is not!
Here I just quote from the work of another writer, one of the most outstanding thinkers and artists of the 20th century, Arthur Koestler (who was also a physicist by education), who studied the matter of scientific (and artistic) creativity in depth, and said in his book The Act of Creation: "Here, then, is the apparent paradox. A branch of knowledge which operates predominantly with abstract symbols, whose entire rationale and credo are objectivity, verifiability, logicality, turns out to be dependent upon mental processes which are subjective, irrational, and verifiable only after the event." This will of course sit uncomfortably with those whose self-image is one of being rational, objective, and evidence-based. More about this follows shortly.
The power of art practice as research is that it links to subjectivity and makes it explicit, and this leads to strange notions and questions which are essential to the creative process (be it scientific, technological, artistic, etc.), which in turn links to the more objective work that follows as a result. Art practice as research however is not primarily a matter of co-creation, nor even a question of interdisciplinary research, but mainly one of transdisciplinary working, which has profound implications for Global Systems Science, about which I will say more, later. I suspect that Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries would have known what I am talking about, but many modern (fragmented) minds, often only knowing a lot about very little, and having been subjected to the legacy of the Age of Enlightenment, do not. Instead they usually believe in dualities and the need for co-creation, and hence do not understand that there is a unity of opposites (in this case of art and science) – or put another way, a oneness in that which many people now see as being separate and different.
Now back to the matter of this question I posed, which I here remind you was: how would our view of the world change, if we could create a technology and processes that would make such a subjective understanding of time, a human understanding of time, where past, present and future co-exist, a reality to share with others? I can tell you that, as a result of the experience of constructing in my imagination and living in a rather strange world where all time co-exists at a single moment in time, has brought about a radical transformation in the way that I see the world, for I now look and see time at work, and, as a result, also see many things that others are blind to.
Here I introduce to you the topic of Behavioural Agriculture, which very likely you will not have heard of, for the book that I am writing on this has not yet been published. The topic is the product of transcending disciplines, of unifying many opposites, and bringing knowledge, both subjective and objective, and from quite dissimilar domains, together, to form a very different perspective on agriculture – one based on behaviour set in the context of time, past, present and future, all co-existing in a single moment in time.
One of these dissimilar domains is cognitive psychology, the same research in fact that Behavioural Economics is founded on, hence the name Behavioural Agriculture, only in this case there is more than just cognitive psychology and macro economics in play, but also philosophy of science; agronomy; biology; history; genetics; ecology and much more … This however is another story.
What is important are the findings from research in cognitive psychology, that people, all people (scientists included), make decisions based on cognitive biases. These biases are acquired over time and they lead people to make many mistakes, but people often do not recognise these mistakes or the reasons for them, and they actually engage in the delusion that what they are doing is rational, objective, … But worse still, is the finding that this is in our genes, and for very good evolutionary reasons, but which no longer apply. Thus what was once an asset for survival has now become a potential liability, for it leads humans to make serious mistakes, and this has profound implications for all sorts of processes – Global Systems Science, the way science is conducted, the development of policy, the design of future agricultural systems, the development of sustainable economies, the redesign of financial systems... The list is quite long! See also how time makes its appearance here.
In the case of agriculture, the cognitive biases at work today took hold about 10,000 years ago. These were significantly reinforced in the 1950s and 1960s, resulting in rigid mental frameworks that lead people today – scientists, technologists, engineers, policymakers and others – to do that which is no longer fit for purpose, but which they regard as been objective, rational, evidence-based, etc. But they cannot see this, for they do not know or understand that which is timeless and that which is not. This has serious and dangerous implications in the longer term (future time) for humanity, but if we could bring time past and future to bear in the present, to make the cognitive biases visible, along with subjective matters such as values and beliefs, we could instead make a different future. This is also part of the storyline in Moments in Time.
And just as one can refer to Behavioural Agriculture, one can also speak about Behavioural Global Systems Science. To what extent is Global Systems Science just the past presenting itself as the future, because it brings with it, that which is no longer relevant, and that which does not recognise cognitive bias and human delusions? How much of Global Systems Science is founded on the misunderstanding that science is only about the rational, the objective and the logical, because it is based on self-image and misunderstandings rather than what science really is?
Here perhaps one can see the importance of time past, and of creating a technology that brings time past into the present, for it can be said that time reveals the patterns in life, the trail that is often unknowingly followed, and provides the vantage point from which understanding begins to emerge, which casts past events in a different light, pointing towards a path that could be followed in the future. And time is important to the future as well, because, for example, one of most fundamental principles (if one can call it such) of sustainability, is that we should not do today, that which leaves an unwanted legacy for future generations. We are in our own time dealing with unwanted legacies created by previous generations – but we are doing exactly the same ourselves, and leaving unwanted legacies for our children, with the added danger that what we create today will overwhelm them. Is it not time to change?
This is one of the core messages to be found in Moments in Time. And it could be that Global Systems Science will provide the means of changing behaviour and exposing the delusions that lie behind our current self-inflicted woes. You will also find these woes depicted in the novel, in the form of the unintended and unforeseen consequences of the actions of the central character who, being an icon of the modern world, an industrial age engineer, strangely finds that he fits into 1750 with great ease! See here the creative act at work, where through the means of the imagination and the subjective, that which is timeless and that which is not is explored.
However, for Global Systems Science to become a means of changing behaviour, the potential that lies within Global Systems Science has to be recognised, and this involves moving beyond thinking of this as a means of supporting policymaking, and to re-conceiving it as a more advanced way of doing science, which of course also involves policymaking, but which also involves undertaking scientific research, and, potentially designing completely different systems than those that exist today.
So instead of carrying on with a science based on a reductionist and mechanistic world-view, which creates many problems, we could re-invent science. Instead of working with the agricultural system that exists today, and adding new bits here and there to supposedly make it more sustainable, we could reinvent it completely. Instead of working with global financial markets as they exist today, trying to make them more stable and less damaging, by changing policies, we could reinvent these systems completely. And this, if you have not already realised, is exactly what we need to do. But you will not so easily recognise this if you do not know that which is timeless and that which is not! And to reinvent one needs creativity, thus once again we are back to matter of subjectivity which is an essential aspect of creation.
What I am proposing is a radical rethink of Global Systems Science, which involves bringing time and behaviour to the fore, and also laying to rest this obsession with the rational and the objective and embracing also the subjective, the irrational, the qualitative, with an accompanying reconsideration of what constitutes so-called evidence. It is also necessary to move beyond the now standard call for an interdisciplinary approach, and to embrace transciplinarity – transcending largely artificial disciplinary boundaries, reassembling knowledge in a different way, and moving beyond dualities.
Koestler is right, and this is another reason why we need to bring artists into research, into FET, into Global Systems Science. And note too, this is the second time I have questioned the legacy of this thing called the Age of Enlightenment. The importance of understanding that which is timeless and that which is not cannot be stressed enough. It comes back to time once again! And if you think that questioning the Age of Enlightenment is out of bounds, think again, for slowly people are beginning to realise that its legacy has become a liability. We need to re-thinking the whole basis upon which our culture is based (see DG CONNECT's Onlife Initiative https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-manifesto), and this is another reason to work with artists, for this is something many of them do as a matter of course. This is why they are so central to the President Barroso's New Narrative for Europe initiative. And their conclusion is that Europe needs a new renaissance. We do indeed! Time for Time within the context of FET Proactive is a very necessary part of this, for it could bring to this new renaissance, the disruptive ideas and technologies that will allow more people to understand just how tyrannical the past is in determining our thinking about the future.
And on this note I also mention Charles Handy, a leading business thinker from the 1980s and 1990s. Handy wrote in his book Beyond Certainty, that when discontinuities occur as a consequence of structural changes in the business environment, the past becomes no guide to the future. These discontinuities can render assumptions and practices invalid and inappropriate. This then makes extrapolating into the future based on the past, an exercise of little value. When discontinuities are present, the success stories of yesterday can have little relevance to the problems of tomorrow. In fact, according to Handy "these success stories might even be damaging since the world, at every level, has to be reinvented to some extent." In another book, The Age of Unreason, Handy strongly argued that in times of structural change, one should not be taking note of what is reasonable, but should be listening to those who seem to be saying unreasonable things.
We are living through times of massive structural change – in society, in business, in technology, in peoples' behaviour, in the nature of being human, in human civilisation. So it is time to say what seem to be unreasonable things. We need to bring time into our discussions and begin to recognise that which is timeless and that which is not.
As for the creation of a technology that brings time, past and future, into the present, this is something that I have reflected upon as part of the continuing process of using the novel Moments in Time as act of research and knowledge creation. Elsewhere in the consultation (under ideas for new topics), a number of people mention the importance of art and artists, and also observe that technological development work is being undertaken by artists (see no duality!), and they are right – some artists are technology developers and they are also researchers. These types of artists should be integrated into the ICT programme, and FET Proactive is one of the most obvious places for them to be, because of the transformational potential that they create, and their interest in questioning that which others just accept (like the notion of so called big data) and offering different perspectives that may in turn lead to new ideas.
One of the inputs provided on the topic of ICT and Art, suggests a number of research topics, which include: technologies for uncertainty and technologies for a non-human perspective. These are the kinds of ideas that need to be explored and developed further in this context of Time for Time. I could myself add another one: big data considered not as something to be mastered and controlled, but something to be addressed in a time context: past, present and future.
In my novel I provide a metaphor for the technologies that bring the golden threads of time past and future, into the present, and for experiencing the resulting complex tapestry that this merging creates. I called it the Time House, an architectural construction being "… a house built by two different builders; one working on the physical features, shaping it within the bounds of what is physically possible to meet the needs of those who will live there and make it their home, and the other, unseen, forming it into that which I will, in due course reveal." Thus, one can conceive of an architectural construct, a physical space, where people (by which I mean scientists, policymakers, members of the public, and many others) come to understand … that which is timeless and that which is not, and also what the future might become because of thoughtless decisions in the present that are masquerading as being based on the rational and objective, and so on and so forth. The potential needs to be further explored.
And the new enlightenment goes like this: people have characteristics and behaviours determined by genes and social conditioning (acquisition of paradigms!), and we need a technology that brings this to our attention, so that we can make better decisions, with one of these decisions being, that it is we who will take decisions and not computers. Moreover, to replace the human-computer comparability paradigm mentioned above, this new enlightenment should be developing a different model – one based on human-computer complementarity, which is a topic much in need of development. And as for causality, this too should be reconsidered, for people should not be regarded as machines, subject to cause and effect. Instead we need to be looking at meaning and purpose, and other aspects which define humans and which differentiate them from machines. There is evidently much to reformulate!
However, we live in challenging economic times, where budgets are tight, and there is little money to explore new topics. So in response to this constraint I ask: why not explore new topics through existing ones; specifically Global Systems Science? By expanding the scope of this existing FET Proactive topic it would be possible also to begin to develop several new areas: Time for Time, Art in ICT and FET Research, and Behavioural Agriculture, while at the same time developing the field of Global Systems Science, making it in effect, wider in scope, which is also an answer to the question posed in this consultation about whether the scope of Global Systems Science is too wide or too narrow – it is most definitely too narrow.
So, to conclude, it is without doubt Time for Time. But is also a time for a different approach to science through an expanded understanding of the scope of Global Systems Science. And it is time to move beyond the legacy of the Age of Enlightenment. It is time for a new renaissance, a new enlightenment, and this means that it is time for art, and it is time for behaviour, and much more.
And as a footnote, I here add, with the benefit of the passage of time, that the above shows just how much DG CONNECT, with their notions of creativity deficits, to be corrected through the non-creative ones (the technologists) collaborating with the creative ones (the artists), are, out-of-time.


For Blogger's Quilt Festival this year, I thought I'd link up my Juicy Fruit quilt and my Something New Sampler Quilt (post found here).
My Juicy Fruit quilt is a pattern I wrote for the summer issue of Fat Quarterly and it just screams summertime to me!
My friend had mentioned to me how he loves the feel of an old quilt - soft and heavy. He really emphasized the weight of a quilt...but I realized that none of my quilts felt like that! I knew what he was talking about, too; my mom's old quilt is really heavy and it feels so comfortable to snuggle under. So I used two layers of a nice thick 80/20 Hobbs batting. Holy cow, that was hard to push around in my 8.5" throat space!!
It wasn't just difficult because it was thick - but also because this is a large quilt to begin with: 80" x 80". It fits on a full size bed. But now it's the nice heavy weight I was looking for.
The two layers of quilt really gives some great definition to the quilting. I used a whole pile of orange and yellow threads and quilted intersecting lines.
To make the quilting look even chunkier, I used some pearl cotton 8 (tutorial on how to quilt with this thick thread here).
I'm not usually much of an orange person, but this quilt has been awesome to have at the house - it really warms up the colder days!


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DIANA ROSS IN TALKS WITH MARK RONSON FOR NEW ALBUM
by admin | Jun 26, 2019 | Music News
Diana Ross might be tapping top pop producer Mark Ronson to head up her next album. Billboard reported that on Monday night (June 24th) during the Q&A portion of her TD Toronto Jazz Festival concert, the former-Supreme told the crowd: "I'm getting ready to go in the studio and do another album and I want to do songs from where I am at, at this point in time in my life because I feel so incredibly grateful and appreciative of you. . . I don't want to sing the blues. I want to sing songs that really speak to. . . my life, and optimism, and positive (sic)."
She went on to say, "So I met with this really incredible producer. His name is Mark Ronson. And he is such a doll. He's so humble. I said, 'How do you feel after winning an Academy Award?' And he went, 'Next.' He's ready to go to work. He's lovely, lovely."
Mark Ronson won the best original song Oscar for "Shallow," which he co-wrote with Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt, and Anthony Rossomando. Ronson -- the stepson of Foreigner's Mick Jones -- is best known for his work with Bruno Mars, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Miley Cyrus, Queens Of The Stones Age, Rufus Wainwright, and Paul McCartney, among many others.
Diana Ross told us that while on the road, she goes to great lengths to preserve her voice for each night's performance: "If I have to do interviews all day and then think I'm going to get on the stage and do a two-hour show, it's hard. Y'know I try to steam my throat (and) y'know take care of my throat, but talking is just as hard as singing."
Diana Ross performs tonight (June 26th) at Lancaster, Pennsylvania's American Music Theatre.
AUDIO: DIANA ROSS ON TAKING CARE OF HER VOICE


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Get nagging reminders and timers with Due App
by Marc A. Kastner | May 11, 2018 (original) May 11, 2018 (updated) | Review for Utilities | timers reminders tasks tools
There is an important document to hand in, so you create a reminder for it. Unfortunately, it pops up once, while you do something different, and there is goes. Next, it is already to late, as it got forgotten or buried below other notifications.
Due is an app which tries to solve this and similar issues. Despite its generic and hard-to-Google name, it tries to find its own niche. It focuses solely on ways to literally remind you: With nagging repeating reminders every few minutes, customization for alerts, and more.
I take a look at this app to see in which niche it fits and why you should consider dropping your money on it.
iOS version | Mac version
Price: $9.99 (Mac) / $4.99 (iOS)
Platforms: iPhone iPad Mac Apple Watch
Version: 2.6.1 (iOS), 1.5.1 (Mac)
Niche app for reminders and timers
The app Due combines reminders and timers. Now, both these things are already preinstalled on your iPhone or iPad, so why need another app for that? Well, Due gives them additional advanced features.
The reminders app is very simplistic, and can not compete with GTD applications or task management suites. Due is similar, as it does not try to compete with task management suites. Rather: It tries to be its own category in reminders with flexible notifications and customizations.
In the following, I first look at the app itself, what features it provides and how these can be customized. After looking at each platform, I give my thoughts on use-cases for this kind of app.
Due has flat pricing for both platforms. On iOS, it is an one-time purchase for $4.99, while on Mac, it will cost you $9.99.
There are no in-app purchases or premium subscription. The iOS version is universal and comes for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch with a single purchase. The Mac version, well, comes for the Mac. Each version works independently, but can connect through syncing.
Actually, the current version is internally the version two, as new features have been added over time. From version 1 to version 2, there was a paid upgrade, but previous users could upgrade for a discount. Presumably, it will be similar, if there's a version 3.
The app can be summarized by doing exactly two things: reminders and timers. Both these can do much more, than the built-in alternatives of the operating system.
Other than that, Due can't do much, but it does not even try to. With simplicity, it tries to fit into the niche of these two features.
Reminders in Due do exactly that. Remind. They are glorified notifications, and not much more than that. And Due does not do much to stretch this simplicity.
But, it comes with a number of handy tools. A reminder can be auto snoozed, similar to an alarm clock. Then, it will come back after a short period of time, if not completed.
The number of re-occurrences and the time interval between each notification can also be specified. From a nagging every 5 minutes to a solid hourly kind reminder, the reminder can be set individually to ones needs.
It can also be set to repeating. This is not snoozing, but rather an interval for this reminder to re-appear after completion. This could be something like daily, weekly or monthly.
For example, a reminder is set to every Friday at 15:00, with an auto-snooze of 15 minutes. It will remind you at 15:00, 15:15, 15:30, 15:45. Then, you decide to complete this reminder. It will stop reminding you at 16:00, as it is complete. However, it will re-appear and start nagging you from 15:00 next Friday, again.
The alert can be set individually - that, for example, means, which kind of sound it would make when doing its notification. There is a large list with preset sounds in different length (from 1-5 seconds single sounds, up to 30 second melodies.)
Other than similar apps for task management or to-do list, Due comes without any categories, tagging, or similar features to structure reminders. Every reminder stands on its own. There are no separate reminder lists or alike.
If a reminder is ticked off, it gets moved to the log. The log is an archive of everything in the past, like an archive. Similar to the rest of the app, it is rather simplistic.
Old tasks are sorted by their completion date. There is also a search function. With a swipe, an old task can be either deleted, or recycled. If recycled, it can quickly be re-scheduled to a new date in the future.
The second feature of Due is the timers tab. Again, it does what is says, and not much more: Timers.
You can set up presets for different timers. Other than in the built-in clock app of iOS, it would be possible to have a 7 minute pasta timer, a 25 minute power nap timer, and a 2 hour baking timer.
These appear as multiple entries inside the app. With a single click or swipe, each timer can be activated. Other than the built-in clock app, Due can also run multiple timers at once.
After a timer is done, it will do its standard alarm sound. There are many alert sound choices to choose from. Inheriting from the reminders functionality of Due, the timers also support auto-snooze. Then, the alerting sound would re-appear every minutes after the timer is done, until it is deactivated by hand.
Due supports sync, which is handy if using the application on multiple devices. It can be set up to either sync via iCloud or via Dropbox.
I think, in legacy versions Dropbox and iCloud used to have slightly different supported features. In the current version, both seem to work identically.
I set up each method for testing, but could not really figure out any substantial difference. The set-up process for each is straight forward. If set up on multiple devices using the same Dropbox/iCloud account, it will proceed to automatically sync all changes between all devices.
In my experience when mostly using iCloud sync, the sync has been reliable and very fast. Newly created reminders pop up on other devices after seconds. Even the timers are on sync, so if a timer is started on one device, it will show up running on all other devices.
One word of warning here: If having set up Due with notifications on multiple devices, the alerts of both reminders and timers will pop up on all devices at once. This includes the auto snoozing. A nagging every 5 minutes auto-snooze can get really nagging if it pops up at four devices at once. You have been warned.
If syncing Due to multiple devices, it might be advisable to turn off notifications on some of them, or to adjust the auto-snooze intervals to something more reasonable.
After covering all main features of Due, lets quickly look at the app itself.
This section will not really tell you that much more, except some platform dependent differences, but is mostly about showing you more screenshots of the different Due apps in action.
The iOS application is a universal app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Each version is mostly identical and adjusted for the respective form factor of that platform. The app looks pretty gorgeous on all iOS platform, in a layout which underlines its simplicity.
As I already talked about what the app can do in detail. Here some remarks of what the app can not do:
There is no home-screen widget to activate timers. There is, however, a force-touch menu on the iPhone.
There is no support for Siri integration in iOS 11, so you won't be able to directly add new tasks or timers via Siri. There is, however, an auto-import option from the Reminders app. Therefore, you could use Siri to dictate a task to the Reminders app, which would be imported into Due on the next launch.
There are quite a few settings available. For example, for customizing defaults of new reminders, defaults for quick-access times, changing the behavior of how the auto-snoozing works, and so on.
There is API support for searching and adding new reminders via x-callback-urls. Thus, it also comes with integration into automation tools like Workflow. Unfortunately, for some reason, it is not possible to add or start timers via this.
Here some more impressions of the iPhone app, of which most of the screenshots in this article were taken from:
The iPad app looks pretty similar, just adjusted for size, here in case of the 12.9 inch iPad:
The Apple Watch app is a small highlight. One can browse both reminders and timers on the Watch. It also supports scribble for creating new reminders on the Watch, if anyone got the patience to do that. If not, there are presets for some common reminders.
It is possible to start multiple timers on the Watch, which makes it a great tool for starting preset timers while cooking, etc.
The application for Mac works pretty much the same as on iOS. As the Mac does not come with a built-in timers app, this feature might be a handy addition.
Both reminders and timers work the same as on the mobile apps, which they can also sync with.
In contrast to the iOS application, which feels modern and gorgeous, the Mac apps feels a bit, rusty. The design looks a bit old-fashioned and could receive some update. Other than that, it does its work.
This criticism, by the way, does not mean, that the Mac version is outdated. As a matter of fact, both the iOS and the Mac version seem to usually be updated at the same time.
There are quite a bit less customization options for Mac, than they are for iOS. But, everything crucial is there.
In the following, I discuss some use-cases, where I think that Due can excel and find its own niche.
Complementary to to-do lists
Many task management or to-do list applications focus on managing and structuring to-do lists, and they are very great at that. However, the notification abilities often come short. There is a single notification whenever something is due.
In contrast, it is often helpful to get reminded at other times: Maybe a couple of hours before something is due, or just generally repeated times in advance to be sure not to forget a due deadline.
Here, the application Due can find its own niche: It can provide fine granular notifications which support other applications. Whether it is an appointment, a calendar entry, a to-do list entry, using the reminders functionality of Due can work in addition to the management inside the other app.
Using the API or auto-import from the Apple Reminders app, it would be possible to automate the process of adding reminders to Due, whenever you add something to another app (for example, using Workflow.)
Replacing built-in reminders app / built-in timers
The Due app works as a great alternative to the built-in reminders app with just more fine granularity. Even if you do not need full-fledged task management for your daily needs, the additional settings give some extra functionality without adding too much extra weight.
Similarly, the timers functionality of Due just hit the sweet spot in the way the built upon the iOS timers functionality. The iOS timers are very limited, as you can only run one timer at once.
Due extends that, by not only allowing to run multiple timers at once, but being able to create preset timers for different use-cases, so you can activate them with one swipe.
If being an Apple Watch user: the Apple Watch companion app can even start these preset timers on the watch.
The application Due specializes on exactly two things: Reminders and Timers. Both pre-installed in iOS, so why getting another app?
With Due, both reminders and timers get more features, more customizations. The app will remind you of important things, up to the point of nagging about them every couple of minutes. Notifications can be snoozed, but re-appear (too) soon, like an annoying alarm clock.
Both these tools get you to your goal: In case of an alarm clock, getting you to wake up. In case of Due, getting you to do your task.
Timers get the same benefits. They can be customized in more detail. You can have multiple different timers at once, and have them activated at a single swipe. There can even be two timers actively running at the same time.
Due as a tool really works as a supplement to other tools, and it is great at that. I left out a dedicated Future wishes section in this review, as I think the tool just works in its niche, without many new features needed.
If there are two things, which might need updating: The first is the looks and feels of the Mac application, which seems outdated, in special in contrast to the gorgeous iOS application. The second point would be the missing support for iOS 11 features like Siri integration.
In summary, Due is a great productivity utility which works in addition to traditional task management.
Nagging notifications with many repeating and snoozing abilities.
Fine granular settings for reminders and timers.
Being able to have multiple timers at once.
Works as a great supplement to other systems, because it is light weight.
For standalone task management, it does not bring much on its own.
No iOS 11 support for Siri import.
Mac application has somewhat outdated layout, mostly in contrast to the gorgeous iOS app.
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McDonald's opened its first-ever net-zero emissions branch in the U.K.
McDonald's opened its first-ever net-zero emissions branch in the U.K. YPulse research shows climate change is a high priority for young consumers, and in the U.S., climate anxiety is impacting the purchases they make and the brands they support. In an effort to respond to these concerns, McDonald's has committed to slashing carbon emissions and becoming entirely carbon neutral across the world by 2050—and by 2040 in the U.K. and Ireland. Its new location, which will act as a blueprint for future franchises, has built sustainability into its core—literally. The restaurant is largely composed of recycled materials, and the walls are insulated using British sheep's wool. In its day-to-day operations, the shop is powered by two wind turbines and 92 square-meters of solar panels. Plus, there's a biodiversity garden and nature trail on-site. (The Independent)


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Scrap Hate Crime Laws -- or Enforce Them
By Jack Cashill
Two events within one recent week confirm that, on the subject of hate crime, Lady Justice now routinely sheds her blindfold, checks out the race of the accused, and judges accordingly.
In that George Zimmerman looks like the kind of person who might commit a hate crime -- or at least has the name of such a person -- the investigation into his shooting of Trayvon Martin nearly two years ago remains "ongoing." So said Attorney General Eric Holder on September 30.
In that Jeremiah Hill does not look like the kind of person who might commit a hate crime -- at least by Justice Department standards -- prosecutors have all but cleared him of the same in the stabbing death of Army Spc. Tevin Geike on October 5. A review of the known facts in these two cases would make you think Zimmerman and Hill live in two different countries.
Geike was walking down Pacific Highway in Lakewood, Washington, with two Army buddies, Matthew Barnes and Brian Johnson. They were on their way to a party celebrating Geike's impending discharge from the military. All three of the men were white.
A car cruised by. The five men inside were black. "They were looking for trouble," an emotionally wrought Barnes told a Seattle KIRO-TV reporter the day after the stabbing. "They were looking for someone to attack." Barnes believed that "maybe race had something to do with it" because of what the men yelled at him and his pals. "There is a derogatory term that they use for white people," said Barnes. "It's cracker and what not. I heard that phrase repeated numerous times."
"So this is how we treat combat veterans now?" Barnes yelled at the men. The car circled back. The five men jumped out, and, according to the reporter, "One of the five men was most aggressive and stabbed Geike multiple times." The five men then hopped back in the car and sped away. Initial reporting out of Washington, like KIRO's, led with the "hate crime" angle. That did not last.
Allegedly, it was only when his buddies saw Hill covered in blood that they learned what had happened. Two of them helped Hill dispose of the knife, and they too were arrested. The other two are cooperating with the police.
When it became clear that the attackers were fellow servicemen at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Tacoma, prosecutors, with an able assist from the media, began to scrub hate from the narrative. "This was a senseless and sad murder where a soldier killed a fellow soldier for no reason," said Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist just three days after the stabbing.
Lindquist appears to have ruled out a hate crime because the two cooperating black servicemen "said race was not a motivating factor in the assault." Did he expect them to say otherwise?
According to Lindquist, someone from the vehicle did make "an unspecified racial slur towards the men on foot," but witnesses "could not recall what was actually said." If that did not provide absolution enough, "The victim's friends said that the initial slur was the only race-related language used." But Barnes, who had no reason to lie, had a very specific memory of what was said and told KIRO-TV that these slurs were "repeated numerous times."
Again according to Lindquist, four of the men got out of the car. "Once it was established that all parties were active duty soldiers," they disengaged and returned to the car except for Hill who attacked Geike. In his October 6 interview, however, Barnes appeared to have no idea that the killer was a fellow soldier. Nor did the reporter.
On October 8, after Lindquist announced the arrest, Barnes and fellow witness Brian Johnson expressed shock upon learning that Geike's killer was a soldier. "He should be shot for betraying his country and his comrades," Barnes told KIRO-TV. "He betrayed his nation," added Johnson.
If race were not the motivating factor for the attack, Lindquist offers no explanation as to what it might have been. It is possible that the military brass leaned on Lindquist to downplay the racial angle, but Lindquist, if he is like most prosecutors, would not have needed much encouragement.
The media, of course, were only too happy to change the topic. The CBS News lead on October 8 had relief written all over it. "There may have been some 'trash talk' between a car full of black soldiers and three white soldiers on foot, but race was not the main issue in the weekend stabbing death of a soldier near a large Army base in Washington State, police and prosecutors said." Phewww!
The same media that quickly purged all talk of race from the Geike killing could talk of almost nothing else in the death of Trayvon Martin. When the evidence did not support race as the motive for the shooting, the media corrupted the evidence.
In one of the two more imaginative contortions, CNN, employing its best fake science, interpreted an utterly intelligible word muttered by Zimmerman on the dispatcher call as "coons." No one dismissed it as "trash talk" or excused Zimmerman for only saying it once. Truth is, he never said "coons." The prosecution settled on "punks," but the most likely word was "cold" as in it's "f***ing cold."
In the other, NBC surgically removed an intervening dispatcher question from Zimmerman's call to have him say, "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." The Zimmermans are suing NBC for an edit that even the Washington Post described as "high editorial malpractice."
In an hour long rehash of the case this past Sunday called "Tragedy on Trial: The George Zimmerman Story," CNN mercifully dropped the "coons" trope and served up instead a race-based smoothie of half-truth and oversights. At the end of this almost criminally one-sided account, reporter David Mattingly assured the audience that the case was not over yet, that Zimmerman might still face federal civil and or criminal charges.
Although the show focused on race, Mattingly neglected to mention that that Zimmerman was an Obama supporter, that he mentored black children, that he took an active role in defending a black homeless man, that the FBI cleared him of any thought crime sixteen months ago, or the that the one reliable eyewitness fully confirmed Zimmerman's account. But, then again, why quibble with details when the subject is "hate."
Jack Cashill is the author of If I had a Son, Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman, available now on Kindle, and in hardback on October 29.


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Nizar Nayyouf (né le ) est un journaliste syrien.

Rédacteur en chef du journal Sawt al-Democratiyya (La Voix de la Démocratie), publié par le Comité pour la Défense de la Liberté Démocratique en Syrie (CDF), dont il est l'un des fondateurs, et contributeur à l'hebdomadaire Al-Hurriya, il est emprisonné en 1992. Condamné à 10 ans de prison pour appartenir au CDF et diffuser de "fausses informations", confiné dans la prison militaire de Mezzeh à Damas et régulièrement torturé, sa santé devient très précaire.

En 2000, toujours incarcéré, il reçoit le Prix mondial de la liberté de la presse décerné par l'UNESCO et la Plume d'or de la liberté remise par l'AMJ pour saluer ''"ses services éclatants à la cause de la liberté de la presse".

Il est libéré en .

En , tout en restant opposé au régime syrien, il dénonce le "djihad" mené contre la Syrie par des groupes islamistes. (cf ses interventions sur le site Al haqiqa)

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Naissance en mai 1962
Journaliste syrien
Lauréat du prix mondial de la liberté de la presse
Plume d'or de la liberté
Naissance à Lattaquié
Personnalité liée à la défense des droits de l'homme en Syrie


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"Tiny Chalet" Wonder, For An Ecological Swiss Ski Vacation
by Kaylyn Mattick
(http://www.worldcrunch.com)
The Thyon tourism office rents innovative "tiny houses" to ski vacationers: 56 square feet, fun and environmentally friendly. But it's not so simple.
THYON — The doubts begin before departure: a family weekend usually means filling up the car, but a full car represents a quarter of the total volume of a "tiny house." These micro homes, which first began to spread in the United States in 2008, mean the second pair of shoes doesn't come along, nor the xylophone, the three extra blankets and board games.
We will be among the first to test the Swiss version, a "tiny chalet" that the Valais resort of Thyon has just installed on the slopes.
The tiny houses aspire to energy independence, and the sparing use of hot water — and of course, space. "This ecological housing completely aligns with the feel of the resort," notes Eric Crettaz, director of Télé-Thyon skil lift company.
The house is covered in white wood — Photo: Tiny House - Valais
The house, long and narrow and covered in white wood, is built at the top of a slope, just after the beginner hill chairlift that was first built in 1850. It is surrounded by fir trees and an impressive amount of snow. Our first exercise: have four of us enter and take off our soaked shoes on the plastic protection without dripping onto the "wood floors." Impossible, we must go two at a time.
But finally, taking a look around, an impression of comfort and conviviality emerges. Ingenuity as well, as the smallness of the location isn't necessarily apparent at first.
To the left of the glass door, the bathroom, which contains a shower, sink, a shelf and a composting toilet. Straight ahead, the mini kitchen, with a table to the right that flips up from the wall. At the back of the house is a small sofa bed, two small tables, a few compartments which hold electric candles, storage bins, board games and pamphlets on saving energy. Everything is there. Above, a loft with a double bed, fitted with two windows. In the bathroom, a corner storage.
Everything is there — Photo: Thyon Skiresort
Life is organized between drying of ski gear in the shower and the snow storm outside that we are well-protected from. All is well, cozy but no privacy. Of course, you all go to sleep and wake up at the same time. Meals are taken with two at the table, and two in living room. The small house is ideal for a couple without children, furnished with just two chairs and two pairs of slippers. For a family, it has the feel of squeezing into the space of a single hotel room, but allowing kids to be a bit more wild and playful. l "I love climbing into the room upstairs, it seems like a tree house," claims the oldest. "The shower is the problem."
Sure, with only two to three minutes of hot water at a time, you have to know how to hurry. But the preservation of the environment is at the heart of the discourse of the creators of the project, and the Thyon office of tourism offers zero-waste workshops to occupants of the tiny chalet.
Big headache for little houses
Without construction permits, the small Swiss houses generally end up in campsites. They were first dreamed about as miracle solutions to the U.S. housing crisis, to the lack of space, to the over-consumption of energy and the consumer culture in general. In Switzerland, a handful of inhabitants have chosen to live year-round in these houses of around 65 square feet. Today, nearly all register their disenchantment. It's not that a compacted life displeases them. Conversely, one said, "I got rid of a lot of possessions and I feel lighter." Another adds: "We communicate much better as a family, we have to."
Above, a loft with a double bed — Photo: Thyon Skiresort
The main problem is the legislation that surrounds the housing. The Swiss authorities demand a construction permit that is difficult to obtain. Certain towns consider these houses-on-wheels as motor homes and refuse to welcome them. Thus the owners of these tiny houses are generally relegated to campsites, although certain sites reject them on the pretext that the house has two floors. In France, the law authorizes them to plant their wheels in a garden, for three months at a time, which can be renewed.
Géraldine Imhof, a cosmetics manufacturer who uses her tiny house as a boutique studio, found a campsite for winter but will have to move soon. "It's not so easy," she said. "I'm thinking of a shipyard for the summer, since the boats will be on the water."
Pierre Imhof, who happens to share the same last name, oversees zoning and development issues for the Vaud state. "Before acquiring such housing, we recommend that those interested resolve installation issues," he says. "It is not because they are small that these accommodations should be exempt from construction permits or respecting standards. The ambiguity is in people's minds, thinking that they're buying a motor home, but want to use it like a villa."
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I recently attended the 2016 SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) info day in Walldorf, Germany. It was the 4th time this info day had been held, with over 130 customers and partners in attendance. The event is growing in popularity each year, due in a large part to the growing maturity of HCI in the marketplace. More and more customers who have SAP in their software landscape are using it to integrate with their SAP and non-SAP solutions.
One of the big changes I came to know about at the info day was that SAP have changed the name of the product to SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP), integration service. However, it is still commonly known as HCI. It is not unusual for SAP to rename their products over time. For example, Process Orchestration (PO), was formerly called Process Integration (PI) and before that Exchange Infrastructure (XI).
Two other key points from the info day were a certification program is available for HCI. The two certifications include certification scenario for PI Content: HCI-PI-CNT, and certification scenario for PI Adapter: HCI-PI-ADK. Also the first SAP HANA Cloud Integration book from SAP press is now available for purchase.
One of the advantages of using HCI is that it reduces development time by providing a lot of pre-delivered integration content in the Integration Content Hub. Partner content is also now available on the Integration Content Hub. At the info day SAP were encouraging Partners to develop our own adapters and content packages. HCI is based on the Apache Camel framework, which is an open-source integration framework that is capable of executing most common integration patterns.
Partners have the option to develop their own adapters using the Adapter Development Kit. This makes the process of developing our own adapter for HCI significantly easier than we saw in the past for PI/PO. SAP wants HCI to be able to integrate to as many applications as possible and by providing the adapter development kit it will help with the niche application technical and industry specific protocols.
For those customers that already have a large investment in PI/PO and are unsure about HCI need not worry. HCI is not PI/PO on the cloud, it's an Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS). It is a complementary offering to PI/PO rather than a replacement. There are of course some challenges in integrating cloud applications with PI where HCI would be a better fit.
For example, if a customer was thinking of moving to the cloud and required pre-packaged integration content that is only available on HCI. A customer's PI/PO system may be on an older release and does not have all the technical adapters available with the latest release. Also if a customer wanted to integrate only cloud applications then faster results would be achieved using an iPaaS tool such as HCI.
HCI is an affordable option for those customers who didn't want to invest into PI/PO. It allows you to build and have something up and running very quickly. If for example you have a business idea that requires integration, it allows you to work out very quickly if there is a market for your business idea.
There were a large number of partner presentations at this year's info day. They talked about their experiences with the product, the benefits of it and also limitations with the product. Three key areas for improvement that kept on coming up were the viewing of message payloads, transport of integration content, and extending the free trial of HCI. SAP now provides a script which you can include in your iFlows to capture message payloads (although I feel this is not well advertised, nor a long term solution) and handling integration content transports is on the roadmap for Q3 this year.
Currently SAP only offers a free 30 day trial of HCI. SAP have tried to address this problem by offering two new subscription models of HCI, Innovation Pack and Test & Demo. Both of these subscription models are for non-productive usage but at a cheaper cost of 1500 euro per year. They are however limited to 10 connections (unique endpoints) and 10 GB/Month in bandwidth.
Overall I feel that HCI has big potential but it still has some missing capabilities. This is made more obvious if like me you come back from a PI/PO background or from other iPaaS offerings in the market. However, the advantages of HCI definitely outweigh the disadvantages and once you have made the decision to adopt HCI there is no going back. When PI first came out people also compared it to other middleware products in the market and pointed out its limitations.
However, over the years more and more customers have bought it and now PI adoption is only surpassed by one other middleware platform, Microsoft BizTalk. HCI may not the best cloud middleware today but it addresses the key capabilities (especially for SAP integration) and it is only getting better with each new release.


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