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What sort of complaints are investigated?
Through the Act and the Council's Mandate and Roles Document, the Council has authority to investigate complaints about accredited organizations, safety codes officers, permit issuers, and master electricians.
What sort of complaints are not investigated?
The Council does not have a mandate to investigate complaints about tradespersons, contractual or fee disputes between property owners and contractors, development permits issued under the Municipal Government Act, or other issues that fall outside the scope of the Safety Codes Act.
Any complaint investigation that is currently pending litigation, in litigation, or the subject of an appeal to the Safety Codes Council may be placed on hold until a decision is reached in either process.
Not all disputes are best settled through the investigation process. Complaints dealing with imminent danger should be taken to the authority having jurisdiction, usually your municipality. If you are unsure where to direct your complaint, please contact us at 780.413.0099.
What happens after I submit the complaint form and supporting documents?
After the Council receives all relevant documentation, the information is reviewed by the complaint investigator and the investigator will ask any follow up questions he or she may have. The investigator will request a written statement and schedule an interview.
I discovered an unsafe situation, what do I do?
In situations requiring immediate attention the Council complaint process may not be the best avenue for the concern. In most cases the authority having jurisdiction is a municipality. If you are not sure who to direct your complaint to, please contact us at 780.413.0099 to be directed to appropriate resources.
What does the Council do with the information collected from the investigation?
The recording and analyzing of the types of complaints and the outcomes may be reviewed by the Council to provide information for improvements on efficiency and service delivery. All information collected is in compliance with FOIP. The Council may share information collected through the complaint process with Alberta Municipal Affairs.
Is the complaint confidential?
The Council cannot guarantee that the information you provide, or information that is obtained through other parties during the course of the investigation, will remain confidential. Respondents to the complaint are provided with information obtained during the investigation.
What happens after an investigation is complete?
The Council will communicate the outcome of the complaint through a written decision. The actions taken will be tailored to each case and take into account any statutory requirements.
What's the difference between filing an appeal and filing a complaint?
The Safety Codes Council complaint procedure applies to the conduct, performance, or competency of an organization or individual having authority, powers, or duties under the Safety Codes Act.
In contrast, the appeal process applies to orders, refusals, suspensions and cancellations.
For example, if you feel an SCO overlooked something or acted unprofessionally during an inspection, you may wish to file a complaint. If you were refused a permit and wish to take up this issue, you would appeal the refusal.
I'm unhappy with the quality of work done by a contractor or tradesperson. Can I file a complaint with the Safety Codes Council?
No, our complaints investigations deal only with people or organizations that have authority, powers, or duties under the Safety Codes Act and its regulations. This includes, but is not limited to:
Safety codes officers (SCOs)
Permit issuers
Accredited municipalities
Accredited corporations
Accredited agencies
Accredited Regional Services Commissions
A contractor or tradesperson did poor quality work, and the inspecting SCO didn't tell me.
Do I have grounds for a complaint?
No. When an SCO performs an inspection, his or her job is to determine whether the work being inspected meets the intent of the applicable code. The codes are there to provide an acceptable level of safety only, not quality. The safety codes officials are not responsible for quality control of construction or installation outside of the safety codes aspects defined in the applicable codes.
The SCO who inspected my property didn't inspect some part of it, such as the roof
or sprinkler system.
Safety codes officers are not on site the entire time construction is being undertaken. While they do inspect, they may not inspect every aspect every time. Some specific installations such as sprinkler systems are also the responsibility of professionals such as engineers and qualified or certified installers. While the safety codes officer may not have looked at such an installation on site, the documented review of the other professionals is obtained. The Quality Management Plan of the organization that employs the safety codes officer outlines the types of things that must be inspected along with the inspection frequency.
I disagree with a fee charged to me by an accredited organization. Can this be resolved by
filing a complaint?
No, the Council has no jurisdiction or influence over contracts, fees, or fee disputes. In addition, the Council does not award monetary damages or compel payment of monies at the end of an investigation.
What sets the standards for inspections and permits?
The standards are set by the Safety Codes Council. The Council has adopted a model Quality Management Plan (QMP) which every accredited organization must meet or exceed. The QMP states the requirements surrounding permits, plans reviews, site inspections, and inspection requirements. Requirements vary according to type of organization (municipality or corporation) and which discipline the work in question falls under.


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Riders on the Wolf
'We need other, stranger ways of talking: the midnight language of loss and longing, the subtle language of twilight, the raw language of the wolf hour before dawn'. The climate crisis cannot be grasped by data alone. Dougald Hine reviews two books that delve into the kind of lexicon and attention demanded in an age of catastrophe.
is co-author of the Dark Mountain manifesto and was at the core of the project for a decade. Originally from the northeast of England, he now lives in central Sweden. He writes the essay series and podcast Notes From Underground and is slowly creating a school called HOME.
Riders on the Storm: the climate crisis and the survival of being, AlastairMcIntosh (Birlinn)
Wolferland, Martin Shaw (Cista Mystica)
A girl in a yellow raincoat sits in the street outside the Swedish parliament. A professor at the University of Cumbria has had enough, after 20 years in the world of Corporate Social Responsibility, and writes a paper setting out how he really feels about the mess we're in. In New York, a journalist assembles findings from the fat tail of climate science scenarios, concluding that much of the Earth could be uninhabitable by the end of this century, and his article spreads across the internet like nothing he's written before. Activists declare a rebellion against the government of the United Kingdom and bring central London to a standstill.
The two books that I will be reviewing here – written by long standing friends of the Dark Mountain Project – would not have come about, if it weren't for the new climate movements that erupted in the second half of 2018. Their timing is apt; even without the intervention of a global pandemic, it's likely that two years in, the early fires of Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes would be burning lower. It's in the nature of social movements: there is a rhythm of rise and fall, fire and ashes, and what has marked these latest movements as a rupture from the climate activism that went before is a willingness to see the worth in ashes, in grief, in the voice that comes from a place beyond hope.
If that's where we are – if it's time for the kind of reflection in which we ask ourselves which parts of what we've seen in the past two years are worth taking with us, and which parts to leave behind – then these books from Alastair McIntosh and Martin Shaw are good medicine for that work. Not least because they start from somewhere else, away from the frontline of activism.
A man goes alone into a Devon forest. He takes a different route each day, bashing his way through brambles and thorns, to sit at the foot of a hazel tree. He goes to call to the forest and listen for a response. He does this for 101 days, a ritual on a mythic timescale. On an island in the Outer Hebrides, a group of elders gathers in the ruin of a house. Over an open fire, they steam blue-shelled mussels fished up from the nearby sea loch. Half the group comes from the island, the other half from far-off Papua. One of the locals starts to tell a story, about loss and displacement, the violence of colonialism and the Clearances – and about a daughter of the island, whose family lived in a black house like the one in whose ruins they sit, who went away across the seas, and whose son now occupies the White House.
This is where we meet them, Shaw and McIntosh: these are the coordinates from which they ask us to start a journey into 'the climate crisis and the survival of being', as the subtitle of Riders on the Storm has it. In the case of Wolferland, out of the many 'climate change books' I've read, I can't think of one which speaks so little about the subject, yet gets so close to it. Shaw's gift is to use the dark reflective shield of myth to approach matter so monstrous that, if looked on directly, it would turn something in us to stone.
Shaw's gift is to use the dark reflective shield of myth to approach matter so monstrous that, if looked on directly, it would turn something in us to stone.
Those familiar with Shaw's storytelling, on the page or in the flesh, will find plenty of it here: the 18 'calling songs' that show up on his journey through the winter darkness include tales from Russia, Ireland and Crete, alongside stranger material, riddles, maxims and sayings out of the Dark Ages. Yet the stories are told in a different mode, narrated by one or more of the characters within them, and their voices carry the bitter aftertaste of experience: they tell of the ways we screw up and screw each other up, our capacity for brutal stupidity and the sheer cost of life. There is a wolfish impatience with softness in the way Shaw writes, with no time for the manners of the village or the court. Another etiquette rules here; its claws are sharp, its warnings blunt.
At one of the turns in the book, several weeks into his daily vigils, Shaw has a strong dream of Doggerland, the once-inhabited territory at the bottom of what is now the North Sea, known to us through the strange discoveries of trawlermen who brought up mammoth bones and antler tools in their nets. This leads to a dark, prophetic vision of a time of rising tides, spat out in stinging words:
Your offerings didn't work, your sympathetic magics, your fith-fath, your fucking nothing. Shamans gabbled and shook, swine were slaughtered and tied upside down to pines and fuck all helped, waters rose and Big Mama Earth, lovely old Gaia, took everything you ever loved away and buried it under the waters.
The climate movements of the past two years have been marked by a darkness of vision that exceeds the terms in which activism has talked about climate change before. McIntosh writes about the 'prophetic' voice of Greta Thunberg telling the world's leaders: 'I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic.' It's a long way from the tone struck by Al Gore and the other leading voices during the last major wave of public attention around global warming, more than a decade earlier.
For many of those engaged in or affected by these movements, the encounter with the dark matter of climate change has resembled an initiation, a liminal experience, a crossing of a threshold. This is the experience of encountering what we know and what we have grounds to fear about climate change, not as a problem to be solved or managed, but as an unfolding reality that calls us into question, that rips away our stories of who we are, where history is headed, what kind of world this is. There's much in this that resembles (and, in some cases, draws on) the work Dark Mountain has done over the years, though it's taking place on a different scale, in the glare of a level of media attention this project has mostly been spared. There are also differences, especially in the ways of dealing with climate science.
Several chapters of Riders on the Storm are taken up with a summary of the state of scientific knowledge about climate change, as represented by the most recent reports of the IPCC. Thorough and readable, McIntosh dwells on this material because of his concern over the ways in which climate science is being used or exceeded by some of the prominent voices within the current movements. He spells this out in a chapter which offers varying degrees of criticism of Jem Bendell, the author of the Deep Adaptation paper, and Roger Hallam and Rupert Read, both influential figures within Extinction Rebellion. 'The tension,' McIntosh writes, 'is between science and multiplying up its extreme ends of likelihood in ways that are tantamount to pseudoscience'. As it happens, this tension came to a head while Riders on the Storm was on its way to press, with an exchange of articles on openDemocracy that began with a critique of the Deep Adaptation paper and the movement it has sparked.
This is tricky territory, because there are questions about climate change which climate science cannot answer. To take one example: do we find ourselves in this mess because of a piece of bad luck with atmospheric chemistry, or is it the result of a way of approaching the world that would always have brought us to grief, by one means or another, even if the climate system had proved more tolerant of industrial carbon emissions? The urge to 'unite behind the science' might sound reasonable, but consider its resonances for indigenous scholars and activists whose communities have been subject to legal discrimination, skull-measuring, forced sterilisation, the theft of human remains and sacred objects, all justified by the needs and theories of Western science, not many generations ago. None of this is an argument for the denial or rejection of scientific knowledge, but it suggests that science belongs within a wider conversation, rather than the rest of us falling in silently behind it.
Five years ago this autumn, I invited Martin Shaw to Stockholm to launch the Dark Mountain Workshop, a year-long project with the Swedish national theatre to investigate the roles of art under the shadow of climate change. This was to be a journey to the underworld, and among the gleanings I returned with was a conviction about the need for different languages. Most of the public talk about a thing like climate change takes place in a daylight language, an arm's-length language of facts and figures and strategies. We need this language, no question; it's just that, on its own, it's not enough. We need other, stranger ways of talking, too: the midnight language of loss and longing, the subtle language of twilight, the raw language of the wolf hour before dawn.
Part of the power of these new climate movements has been their ability to draw on other languages, often coming from practices of performance and ritual. I think of the unforgettable presence of the Red Rebel Brigade within Extinction Rebellion, to take just one example. The strange, dark languages and images woven through these movements speak to parts of us that don't show up when addressed with charts or slogans. Where this can tip into confusion is when the distinction between languages is lost and those whose role it is to speak in daylight terms are called out for not striking a sufficiently prophetic tone. The careful, cautious voice in which scientists tend to speak is not a personal or collective failure, a lack of nerve or a lack of honesty; it belongs to the activity of science and its in-built limits. To speak of a theme such as 'the survival of being' requires us to go beyond the part of the story which science can tell, not by curating our own alternative arrangement of scientific facts, but starting from a recognition that something will always be missing from a description of the world that speaks in terms of facts alone. Moving between climate science, poetry, cultural psychology, radical history, spirituality and community building, McIntosh exemplifies the weave of languages it will take to hold the weight and mystery of climate change, not as scientific theory and evidence alone, but as an unfolding reality, reshaping what it means to be human and to be part of a living planet.
McIntosh exemplifies the weave of languages it will take to hold the weight and mystery of climate change, not as scientific theory and evidence alone, but as an unfolding reality
This is initiatory work and initiation involves getting broken. Far more than in earlier waves of climate activism, these recent movements have been led by people who are visibly and articulately living out what it means to be at a breaking point, to find a power in the cracking apart of old hopes and expectations. Their example gives others permission to experience and speak about their own sense of breakage. And if it's true that Extinction Rebellion has been a disproportionately white and middle class movement, what marks it out from the Transition Towns movement – which had similar demographic and geographic roots – is the effect of a night in the cells, which has taken on the quality of an initiatory vigil for many whose previous lives had never brought them into contact with the criminal justice system.
But initiation is about more than getting broken; it's about having a chance of mending, and this requires not only fellow initiates to model the process, but elders capable of holding the frame and retelling the story of your experience back to you. In different ways, both these books offer some of the eldership that's called for. It's there in McIntosh's weaving of the story that leads through clearance and collapse to the hollowness of consumption, but then beyond it into community and the re-embedding of meaning. It's there, too, in Shaw's journey through the darkness of winter. In the wolf hour of the all-night vigil that ends his 101 days of ritual, a thin thread of language comes to him, offering an onward path. It's not a matter of happy endings, bright lights at the end of tunnels; it's that we are in the company of writers who have sat long enough in the dark for their eyes to adjust and their ears to become attentive to the echoes between the outer and the inner worlds. Even in the underworld, they retain – as Shaw has put it – a 'responsiveness to wonder', a willingness 'to entertain possibility' and 'to deepen'. That is the stance to which they invite us, the invitation waiting for us in the pages of these books.
* Martin Shaw, Alastair McIntosh and Vanessa Andreotti of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective will be guests in 'Homeward Bound: The Climate Sessions', a four-week series of live online events hosted by Dougald Hine. The series begins on Sunday, 15th November and booking is through the website for a school called HOME.
Dark Mountain: Issue 17
The Spring 2020 issue brings together essays. stories, poetry and artwork creating a new culture of restoration.
Twelve Characters in Search of an Apocalypse
Andrew Boyd
From the archive we bring you Andrew Boyd's apocalyptic voices from Issue 11
From Our BooksFrom the ArchiveIssue 11
Enter: Thunder, Fire, Smoke and Relearning New Languages
Sara Jolena Wolcott M.Div
2nd September, 2020
As lightning strikes California and the ancient forests burn, Sara Jolena Walcott gives a searing report on the re-forming of Earth and the urgent work of decolonisation.
Place & TimeUnder the Canopy
A Sea Journey on Foot
Monique Besten
Walking artist Monique Besten tells the story of a 55-day walk to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris in 2015, excerpted from a piece originally published in Dark Mountain: Issue 9.
Akshay Ahuja
Akshay Ahuja interviews the writer and activist, Charles Eisenstein about how we might navigate a radical shift in our inner and outer worlds.
12 Years and a Piano
Sarah Nicolls
9th April, 2020
Innovative pianist and composer, Sarah Nicolls .introduces her 'inside out' piano and new recital-story about climate change, '12 Years'

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Performance by geographical segment |
The Group operates in the construction and concessions sectors in Italy.
Italy's development prospects have become more positive and the country has resumed growth. The OECD ranked Italy as one of the Eurozone economies with the highest growth rates of the year, thanks to the improved labour market conditions and the related upturn in domestic consumption. The 2015 budget deficit decreased to 2.6% of GDP and is expected to continue this trend, mainly as a result of the economy's cyclical recovery and the lower interest rates.
GDP is forecast to grow by 1% in 2016 and 1.4% in 2017, driven mainly by household consumption. The rise in employment has temporarily slowed down while domestic spending is boosted by the increase in consumption. Investments have picked up, thus also assisting internal demand despite the lending constraints put in place by banks hindering a faster recovery.
The government has reiterated its commitment to gradual tax consolidation and a structural reform programme. In order to create the fiscal space needed to increase public investments and avoid increasing indirect taxes, as planned for 2017, the government intends to resort to the budget flexibility clause provided for by the EU while concurrently containing public spending.
The collapse in investments caused by the economic crisis, which triggered a long-term deceleration of the economy, was followed by an upturn in the production of investment goods. Together with the low recorded by the construction sector, this could herald a possible reversal in the investments cycle, although the scarce bank funding available and uncertainty about future demand continue to hold back this positive trend.
The outlook for growth is improving and Italy has continued its exit from the second recession which started in the summer of 2011 and continued until autumn 2014, just after the shorter but more intense crisis of 2008/2009. The speed of its recovery is strongly influenced by the international economic climate. The structural reform programme's positive status is assisting consolidation of long-term forecasts even though there is much ground to cover to improve the country's productivity and efficiency. Any delays in implementing its ambitious public investment programme will slow down its recovery. In addition, Brexit and renewed volatility in the Eurozone's financial markets may propagate risks and increase the cost of borrowing, which would increase the tax burden.
The order backlog for the Italian construction segment is as follows:
Residual backlog at 30 June 2016
Percentage of total
High speed/capacity
5,857.4 65.8%
8,907.2 100.0%
The following chart provides a breakdown of the order backlog by type of business:
Breakdown of the Italian construction order backlog
(Share in millions of Euros)
Residual backlog
Percentage of completion
Cociv Lot 1-6
Iricav 2
2,110.2 -
Broni - Mortara
981.5 -
Metro B
946.3 0.1%
Milan Metro Line 4
402.8 21.2%
Jonica state highway 106
Other work in Italy
High speed/capacity Milan-Railway Project
The project for the construction of this railway line was assigned to the COCIV Consortium as general contractor by RFI S.p.A. (Rete Ferroviaria Italia, formerly TAV S.p.A. - as Ferrovie dello Stato's operator) with the agreement of 16 March 1992. The project's pre-contractual stage was complicated and difficult, with developments from 1992 to 2011 on various fronts, including many disputes (more information is available in the paragraph on disputes in the section on the "Main risk factors and uncertainties").
On 11 November 2011, a rider to the agreement was signed for the assignment to the consortium of the design and construction of the Giovi third railway crossing of the high speed/capacity Milan - Genoa railway line.
The works began on 2 April 2012 and the contract is worth approximately €4,500 million.
It is split into six non-functional construction lots for a total of roughly 120 months including the pre-operating/inspection phase.
Salini Impregilo is the consortium leader with a percentage of 68.25%.
During the period, RFI activated the third construction lot 21 months behind schedule, increasing the total value of the works and activities financed and under construction to €1,634 million, €537 million higher than the active lots (1 and 2).
High speed/capacity Verona-Padua Railway Project
The IRICAV DUE Consortium is RFI's general contractor for the design and construction of the high speed/capacity Verona-Padua section as per the agreement of 15 October 1991. Its role was confirmed by the arbitration award of 23-26 May 2012, which has become definitive. Salini Impregilo's current involvement in the consortium is 34.09%. During the period and together with its partner Astaldi, Salini Impregilo communicated its interest in acquiring the stakes of Ansaldo STS of 8.12% and 8.93%, respectively. Should this acquisition go ahead (it has firstly to be approved by RFI in the next few months), Salini Impregilo's share of the consortium fund would increase to 42.21%.
In 2015, the consortium provided the customer with the definitive project drawings for the Verona-Vicenza sub-section with the bid. It also delivered the definitive project, inclusive of the related bid, for the first functional lot, the Verona-Vicenza junction.
On 23 March 2016, the Services Conference took place in the presence of the Directorate General for Railway Transport and Railway Infrastructure of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT), attended by the bodies involved in the project.
The approval process for the first functional lot will continue in the second half of 2016 and the related rider should be signed by the end of the year, allowing the consortium to start up site activities in early 2017.
The contract is worth an estimated €5 billion, of which €2.1 billion for the first functional lot, the Verona-Vicenza junction.
The Group's portfolio of concession activities in Italy mainly consists of investments in the operators still involved in developing projects and constructing the related infrastructure.
These concessions principally relate to the transport sector (motorways, metros and car parks).
The following tables show the key figures of the Italian concessions at the reporting date, broken down by business segment.
MOTORWAYS
Italy SaBroM-Broni Mortara 60.0 50 Not yet active 2010 2057
Italy (Ancona) Dorico-Porto Ancona bypass 47.0 11 Not yet active 2013 2049
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Italy (Milan) Milan Metro Line 4 9.7 15 Not yet active 2014 2045
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Andre Johnson will not play against the Carolina Panthers in Week 15 after sitting out of practice all week with a left hamstring injury.
This is the eighth game that the Texans' All-Pro wide receiver will miss this season. Jacoby Jones will start in his place.
"He'll be out, but he ran very well today," Texans coach Gary Kubiak said on Friday. "He has made a lot of progress this week, so we're very close to having Andre back on the field, so that's exciting."
Johnson missed six games with a right hamstring injury from Weeks 5-10. He injured his other hamstring on Dec. 4 in just his second game back. He said earlier this week that he would like to play in a game or two before the end of the regular season to get rid of any rust before the playoffs beign.
"I think it's important, but I also have to be smart," Kubiak said. "I would love to see him come back and play in a couple games and get some reps before we get to January, but I'm going to listen to (director of sports medicine/head athletic trainer Geoff Kaplan) Kap, I'm going to listen to Andre, because we need to make sure when he comes back, he comes back and he's here for the long haul. It'll be week to week, but we're getting close."
Right guard Mike Brisiel and cornerback Sherrick McManis also were ruled out on Friday with ankle injuries. Antoine Caldwell will start for Brisiel against the Panthers. Quintin Demps or Shiloh Keo will return kickoffs in McManis' place.
Defensive end Tim Bulman (calf), tight end Joel Dreessen (knee) and nose tackle Shaun Cody (knee) were all limited in Friday's practice and are questionable for Sunday. Cody was a new addition to the injury report on Friday.


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Japanese car-sharing service members are renting cars — but not for driving
Customers are using the cars for some odd and unexpected purposes
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/07/11/jap ... r-driving/
It points to this:
Growing number of car-sharing users don't rent cars for driving
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907040011.html
Mercedes Thieves Showed Just How Vulnerable Car-Sharing Can Be
After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 of its vehicles were stolen in one day.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ing-can-be
ReachNow car sharing and ride hailing is dead:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/07/18/r ... y-streets/
The link from https://twitter.com/reachnow/status/1151601543470362624 is dead but there's a copy at https://web.archive.org/web/20190717220 ... ice-today/.
GCC:
Canoo unveils first subscription-only EV
LA is planned to be the launch market in 2021. We'll see if they get there. More details and images in this GCR article: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/11 ... and-beyond
ABG:
Ford says Austin will get its self-driving cars in 2021
Commercial taxi service will also operate in Miami and D.C.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/25/for ... ving-cars/
Car2go pulls out of 5 North American cities casting more doubt on free-floating car-sharing's viability
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/car2go-pu ... viability/
SHARE NOW, car2go's parent company, said Friday that the service will shut down in Portland, Denver, Chicago, Austin, and Calgary. The announcement comes just a few weeks after two car-sharing services pulled out of Seattle, raising questions about the long-term viability of the service. SHARE NOW says it is still committed to operating and growing in Seattle.
^^^ Oddly enough, Getaround recently put up signs and parked four or five compact sedans (Forte/Mazda 3/GLI) at an apartment building parking lot on the next block. Seems like a good place for them, as the parking there is quite limited, and they like me are only a couple of blocks from downtown, so no need to own a car unless you need one to commute on a regular basis (or take road trips like mine where a rental would sit parked for days while you're off doing something else).
NACTO: 84M shared bike and scooter trips in US in 2018
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/1 ... nacto.html
Shared bike trips increased from 3210,000 in 2010 to 45.5 million in 2018. They only added scooters to the count in 2018, when there were 38.5M of them, making up 46% of the total.
Direct link to NACTO study:
Shared Micromobility in the U.S.: 2018
https://nacto.org/shared-micromobility-2018/
Uber loses license in London over safety, vows to appeal
Transit agency says drivers are defeating identification and security systems
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/25/ube ... on-safety/
McKinsey:
Micromobility: Industry progress, and a closer look at the case of Munich
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/aut ... d982f71ca9
Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America
Daimler and BMW, which jointly own Share Now, say they are focused on European markets
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/18/210 ... ities-date
Share Now, the car-sharing service formerly known as Car2Go, is leaving North America. Daimler and BMW, the two global automakers that share ownership of Share Now, said it would cease service on February 29th, 2020. Share Now currently operates in New York City, Montreal, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Vancouver.
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package com.palmelf.eoffice.action.archive;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
import com.palmelf.core.command.QueryFilter;
import com.palmelf.core.web.action.BaseAction;
import com.palmelf.eoffice.model.archive.ArchFlowConf;
import com.palmelf.eoffice.service.archive.ArchFlowConfService;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.List;
import javax.annotation.Resource;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

public class ArchFlowConfAction extends BaseAction {

	@Resource
	private ArchFlowConfService archFlowConfService;
	private ArchFlowConf archFlowConf;
	private Long configId;

	public Long getConfigId() {
		return this.configId;
	}

	public void setConfigId(Long configId) {
		this.configId = configId;
	}

	public ArchFlowConf getArchFlowConf() {
		return this.archFlowConf;
	}

	public void setArchFlowConf(ArchFlowConf archFlowConf) {
		this.archFlowConf = archFlowConf;
	}

	@Override
	public String list() {
		QueryFilter filter = new QueryFilter(getRequest());
		List<ArchFlowConf> list = this.archFlowConfService.getAll(filter);

		Type type = new TypeToken<List<ArchFlowConf>>() {
		}.getType();
		StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer("{success:true,'totalCounts':")
				.append(filter.getPagingBean().getTotalItems()).append(
						",result:");

		Gson gson = new Gson();
		buff.append(gson.toJson(list, type));
		buff.append("}");

		this.jsonString = buff.toString();

		return "success";
	}

	public String multiDel() {
		String[] ids = getRequest().getParameterValues("ids");
		if (ids != null) {
			for (String id : ids) {
				this.archFlowConfService.remove(new Long(id));
			}
		}

		this.jsonString = "{success:true}";

		return "success";
	}

	public String get() {
		ArchFlowConf sendFlowConf = this.archFlowConfService
				.getByFlowType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_SEND_TYPE);
		ArchFlowConf recFlowConf = this.archFlowConfService
				.getByFlowType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_REC_TYPE);
		StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("{success:true,data:");
		if (sendFlowConf != null)
			sb.append("{'sendProcessId':'" + sendFlowConf.getProcessDefId()
					+ "','sendProcessName':'" + sendFlowConf.getProcessName()
					+ "'");
		else {
			sb.append("{'sendProcessId':'','sendProcessName':''");
		}
		if (recFlowConf != null)
			sb.append(",'recProcessId':'" + recFlowConf.getProcessDefId()
					+ "','recProcessName':'" + recFlowConf.getProcessName()
					+ "'}}");
		else {
			sb.append(",'recProcessId':'','recProcessName':''}}");
		}
		setJsonString(sb.toString());
		return "success";
	}

	@Override
	public String save() {
		String sendId = getRequest().getParameter("sendProcessId");
		String sendName = getRequest().getParameter("sendProcessName");
		String recId = getRequest().getParameter("recProcessId");
		String recName = getRequest().getParameter("recProcessName");
		if ((StringUtils.isNotEmpty(sendId))
				&& (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(sendName))) {
			this.archFlowConf = this.archFlowConfService
					.getByFlowType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_SEND_TYPE);
			if (this.archFlowConf == null) {
				this.archFlowConf = new ArchFlowConf();
				this.archFlowConf.setArchType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_SEND_TYPE);
			}
			this.archFlowConf.setProcessDefId(new Long(sendId));
			this.archFlowConf.setProcessName(sendName);
			this.archFlowConfService.save(this.archFlowConf);
		}
		if ((StringUtils.isNotEmpty(recId))
				&& (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(recName))) {
			this.archFlowConf = this.archFlowConfService
					.getByFlowType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_REC_TYPE);
			if (this.archFlowConf == null) {
				this.archFlowConf = new ArchFlowConf();
				this.archFlowConf.setArchType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_REC_TYPE);
			}
			this.archFlowConf.setProcessDefId(new Long(recId));
			this.archFlowConf.setProcessName(recName);
			this.archFlowConfService.save(this.archFlowConf);
		}
		setJsonString("{success:true}");
		return "success";
	}

	public String getFlow() {
		String type = getRequest().getParameter("flowType");
		StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
		if (type.equals(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_SEND_TYPE.toString())) {
			this.archFlowConf = this.archFlowConfService
					.getByFlowType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_SEND_TYPE);
		} else {
			this.archFlowConf = this.archFlowConfService
					.getByFlowType(ArchFlowConf.ARCH_REC_TYPE);
		}
		if (this.archFlowConf != null)
			sb.append("{success:true,defId:")
					.append(this.archFlowConf.getProcessDefId())
					.append(",processName:'")
					.append(this.archFlowConf.getProcessName()).append("'}");
		else {
			sb.append("{success:false,'message':'你还没设定流程'}");
		}
		setJsonString(sb.toString());
		return "success";
	}
}

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The term "pura vida" is a colloquialism unique to Costa Rica.
The direct translation of pura vida is "pure life," and it is meant to express a national ethos of eternal optimism. Costa Ricans use pura vida as a means to say hello, goodbye, thank you and you're welcome – really, it is a sort of phrasing catch-all used for almost any situation. Pura vida is a persistent reminder that no matter the circumstances, life is beautiful and we're all fortunate to be enjoying the ride. In fact, uttering pura vida is such a prevalent Costa Rican trait, that most would affirm that the adage is less of a slogan and more of a lifestyle.
This perception of Costa Rica as a laissez-faire, friendly, and optimistic nation certainly bolsters its conventional reputation as a picture-perfect tourist destination. Combine this dispositional repute with the country's flush but traversable rain forest, its beautiful beaches on both the Pacific and Caribbean coastline, and its proximity to North America, and it is easy to understand Costa Rica's magnetism. Unsurprisingly, the promise of the pure life and beautiful landscape attracts nearly three million cautiously-intrepid pasty-skinned, cargo short wearing tourists annually. Most of whom are quick (again unsurprisingly) to adopt and make liberal use of the aforementioned phrase "pura vida."
With all that stated, it is important to remember that pura vida is a contextually pliable term.
In fact, for a significant portion of the many pasty-skinned tourists visiting Costa Rica each year, they are more likely to use the maxim to describe the country's vibrant sex industry than to refer to the country's beach culture.
Photo Caption: Hotel Del Rey – The most popular sex tourism hotel in the Gringo Gulch neighbourhood.
In her newly released book, Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica, Women's and Gender Studies professor, Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore presents her extensive ethnographic research on the vast and complex sex industry that exists within the neighbourhood known as Gringo Gulch in Costa Rica's capital city, San Jose.
"There are a lot of places in the world viewed as sex tourism hubs, but Costa Rica is unique for many reasons. For example, it's proximity to the U.S. and the way the country has been marketed as safe, familiar, and affordable for travelers but also as "exotic" and different has made it especially appealing to many middle class and working class men from North America interested in participating in the sex industry," said Rivers-Moore.
Professor Rivers-Moore attributes a number of factors to the booming market of sex tourism in Costa Rica. For one, the state does not regulate the exchange of money between sex worker and purchaser (though third party involvement such as managers or brothel administrators is illegal). While this lack of state intervention on the industry undeniably plays a massive role as to why sex tourists come to Costa Rica, Rivers-Moore's research ascertains that, paramount to attracting sex migrants and tourists is the broad-minded social disposition towards the scene.
"From the perspective of the tourists, the state, and the sex-workers themselves, there exists an understanding as to why everybody is there and playing the role they are playing. Each of these players is profiting from the industry in one way or another, they are all using their participation to get ahead. And the stigma that surrounds sex-work in North America, particularly the turn toward criminalizing the sale of sex in many places, including in Canada most recently, is a major motivator for sex tourists who travel to Costa Rica. They are able to participate in the industry without risk of arrest and public shaming. Stigma for them isn't a serious issue in Costa Rica, although it certainly is an issue for Costa Rican sex workers, who struggle to hide the source of their income from their families and communities."
Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore
Rivers-Moore's book actively challenges the narrative that most of us reflexively construct in our minds when presented with such a scenario – that the local sex workers of a Third World, Latin American country are being exploited and taken advantage of by privileged white, North American men.
Instead, Rivers Moore tells a more composite story of the Costa Rican sex tourism scene. "You quickly learn that we can't presume to know what exactly is being bought and what is being sold. Often the exchanges have a lot more depth than the transaction of sex for money."
"Many of the sex workers I interviewed articulated the idea that they viewed themselves also as care workers; believing they were providing a service to humbled white men who had run out of relationship options in their homeland. They took great pride in making these men feel good about themselves, and considered the caring aspects of their work (listening to men talk about their problems, making them feel attractive) was as important, if not more important, than the sex. Similarly, many of the men I met articulated that they view themselves as progressive and take a great deal of pride in treating the women they meet with respect in a culture they view as inherently misogynistic. This is a massive generalization about Costa Rican culture, of course, and one that is based on problematic assumptions and generalizations that are often pretty racist. But it's significant that sex tourists want to think about themselves as enlightened and progressive, and some of them are well versed in feminism. Barry, a tourist from Virginia who took on a second job in order to fund periodic trips to Costa Rica, found it important to emphasize 'I really appreciate them. I'm really glad they're here, for me they're a godsend. I'm sure lots of men treat them badly, but I make sure to be kind, to be respectful.'"
"Given the nature of sex tourism, there was a lot of talk from both sex workers and their clients about getting the 'girlfriend experience,' an experience that involves longer periods of time together, talking, listening, and sharing interests. This work involves quite a lot of skill, requiring patience, compassion, and empathy. For example, Virginia, a mother of two who attends secondary school at night, told me 'some of them just look for company, they pay for company. I'm very happy to listen, as long as they pay. I'll listen to it all. Cry, whatever, as long as you pay.' It is so much more complicated than just sex."
Rivers-Moore has a long standing academic relationship with Costa Rica. Prof. Rivers-Moore became interested in the country when she moved there after completing high school to spend a year learning Spanish and she was quickly enchanted with the nation's considerable charm.
It was during this time in Costa Rica that she first noticed the prevalence of male tourists, but due to the subtle nature of the sex industry, it took her some time to recognize the dynamic at play. Once she understood what was occurring, she became fascinated, and focused much of her post-secondary education and early academic career on this phenomenon. Rivers-Moore completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and upon completion of her degree, she went on to work at the University of Costa Rica, where she continued her research on a more long term basis before accepting a job at Carleton University.
This thorough Costa Rican research journey has ultimately led to the release of Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica, an ethnographic work that analyzes and decodes the mosaic of race, gender, class, government, and human need and desire in our increasingly borderless world. For Gringo Gulch, Rivers-Moore spent over a year in San José's sex tourism neighbourhood, interviewing tourists, actors of the state, and sex workers to achieve a vivid depiction of what being a player in this game is comprised of. The reader is introduced to a variety of characters from all sides who give their honest account as to why and/or how they participate in the Gringo Gulch scene, and what is taken away from it. "People sometimes assume that sex work is about villains and victims, and I think my work demonstrates that nothing could be further from the truth. It is so important to actually do empirical research and talk to people about their lives, because when we do, we find out that the sex industry is so many things simultaneously: it can be fun, it can be boring. Some people have harrowing experiences, and some find it utterly mundane. I really can't emphasize enough how important it is to listen to people's own interpretations of their lives and their experiences, without judgment."
What Rivers-Moore is able to conclude from these characters is that most involved – the sex workers, the sex tourists and workers of the state – embrace the industry for their own sake, and use it to climb a social and/or monetary ladder that likely wouldn't have been accessible to them without the existence of sex tourism.
By setting the scene in the culture of pura vida and telling us these distinctive stories of individuals (which are sometimes tragic, sometimes empowering and sometimes both), Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica is an account of a nuanced social manifestation that helps us to understand the transnational ramifications of sex tourism. On an even broader scale, Gringo Gulch is the analysis of human beings making the most of their own disparate realities in a neoliberal state.
Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica has been published by the University of Chicago Press.
Professor Megan Rivers-Moore recently hosted an event at SAW Gallery to celebrate the publication of Gringo Gulch in collaboration with POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work, Educate, and Resist) as a fundraiser for La Sala, Costa Rica's sex workers' rights organization.
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For a small town, Yackandandah is showing huge community resolve in making decisions regarding its future needs at a time when Australia is enduring full-on politicking with little vision or leadership in the face of many critical issues.
Back in 2001 when the only service station in town was proposing closure, the residents formed the Yackandandah Community Development Company (YCDCo) which bought out the business. Thriving under community-ownership, the coop now sells hardware and farm supplies, has a large solar photovoltaic array, funded in part by the local folk festival, and turns over $3 million annually. YCDCo also hands out $20,000 in local grants every year.
You can read Social Traders' Case Study of YCDCo here.
TRY was formed at the beginning of 2014 as a result of a community energy forum in Yackandandah, organised by Indigo Shire Council. It aims to achieve 'energy sovereignty' for the town by 2022 and is driven by concern over climate change, but also – as with the petrol station – by a desire to strengthen the local economy.
In February this year YHS was connected to a 90kW solar-panel system which will save the community-owned service $1 million over the next 25 years and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 115 tonnes annually – the equivalent of taking 23 cars permanently off the road.
Saving money on power while reducing pollution will alleviate threats to public health and spending less on energy means more can be spent on health care.
Improvements to air conditioning and hot water systems, as well as a broader goal to reduce waste across the health facility is currently being modelled.
TRY has raised $5000 which will be loaned for the energy efficiency improvements. Again, this loan will be repaid with savings in power bills and when paid back, will be ploughed back into other community energy programs.
TRY's Matthew Charles-Jones says they're surveying local residents and working on the grand plan, with the help of a council grant.
3 Australian towns aim to become 100 per cent renewable.
Newstead was recently awarded a $200,000 grant from the state government to develop its plan.
"The technology is the easy part. For larger-scale renewable energy schemes, however, funding remains a challenge. That means starting small and growing.
In Yackandandah, the old brick veneer community centre has set the example. With the help of a state government grant, local tradies have installed a large solar photovoltaic system, insulation, double-glazing, shading and efficient air conditioners for heating and cooling. Electricity bills have dropped by three-quarters.
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Jemeel Moondoc -Composer. Saxophonist, Conductor, Bandleader
Born in Chicago, Jemeel Moondoc moved to the East Village in 1971 after two years as a member of Cecil Taylor's Black Music Ensemble that was in residence at Antioch College. After arriving in New York City, Moondoc started composing for his Ensemble Muntu. (http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD27/PoD27Muntu.html) Over the past 40 years, Moondoc has led over 20 different ensembles and has released 25 recordings of music that he has composed for his bands of various groupings and instrumentation. Strong, early compositional influences were Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington, understanding, as did Mingus and Ellington, that the strength and power of composition lies with the individual and unique talents of the orchestra members. Moondoc also uses a technique called 'conduction,' which is an improvisational conducting technique where the conductor can guide the entire ensemble through unwritten passages. Moondoc's The Zoo Keepers House (2014, Relative Pitch label) is a five-part, 60-minute project exploring his current ideas for obtaining an improvisational freedom by composing for only transposing instruments (Little Blue Elvira for trombone, sax, trumpet, bass and drums). Yet on the same program, Moondoc attempts to reach the same freedoms by composing for keyboard along with other instruments. Jemeel will tour the project this fall in Europe. For his Jus Grew Orchestra, Jemeel composed for and conducted a 75-minute work, Live at the Visions Festival (Ayler Records, 2003) for ten pieces, and Spirit House (2001, Eremite), a work for 12 musicians that premiered and was recorded live at the University of Mass Golden Circle Theater. With his sextet (bass, drums, vibes, sax, trumpet), Jemeel composed a 60-minute program, Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys (Eremite, 2001). This music came out of Moondoc's experiences in his high school Marching Band.
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http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD27/PoD27Muntu.html
www.freejazzblog.org/2014/07/jemeel-moondoc-zookeepers-house.html
http://burningambulance.com/2014/08/22/interview-jemeel-moondoc
http://soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/2997-a-talk-with-the-zookeeper-free-jazz-legend-jemeel-moondoc-speaks.html
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Actor, TV Actor
Who is Diane Fletcher?
Diane Fletcher is an English actress.
Fletcher was born in Derby, Derbyshire. She played Nancy in Fairly Secret Army, and has appeared in other popular British television shows such as Coronation Street as Angela Hawthorne, Inspector Morse, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Within These Walls, Midsomer Murders and Heartbeat. 1971 appeared in No One Was Saved at the Royal Court Theatre schools scheme. Her first film was Roman Polanski's Macbeth. In 2007, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who spin-off audio play, The Tub Full of Cats.
In the BBC adaptation of House of Cards and its sequels To Play the King and The Final Cut, Fletcher played Elizabeth Urquhart, wife of the murderous Chief Whip of the Conservative Party and later Prime Minister Francis Urquhart. Fletcher is the mother of anthropologist Jamie Lawson, whose father is actor Denis Lawson.
"Diane Fletcher." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. Web. 15 Jan. 2021. <https://www.biographies.net/people/en/diane_fletcher>.
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The Aspen Fabric Frame System is the perfect blend of class and versatility. Available in various width and height configurations as well as single or double sided display. Setup as a floor standing display, hanging ceiling sign or hang on the wall as a poster. Optional graphics are printed on Deco display fabric including a rubber strip for an easy fit.
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If you own the newly launched Apple phones, the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max should know that these spectacular phones have the option to use two phone numbers plans. Thanks to the new eSIM and the classic nano SIM chip. This way you can count on voice plans or data in the most convenient operator.
It must be taken into account that to activate the eSIM it is necessary to have the iPhone unlocked if you want two different operator numbers. In addition to this, it is necessary that the cell phone be updated to the latest version of the iOS operating system.
The first is scanning a QR code provided by the operator. To configure the first option on your iPhone, just go to Settings. Then to Cellular Data and finally scan the QR code provided by the operator.
The second option is using the official application of the operator. Here it is enough to download the operator's app. And follow the steps to request a cellular plan that conforms to the characteristics of the Apple eSIM.
The last option is to enter the data manually. And it can be said that data can be stored more than one eSIM,. However, you can only have one active. To achieve it you must go to Settings. Then to Mobile data followed by Data plans. And finally select the plan you want to use to activate it.
Since we have the phone number of the eSIM, the following is to label the plans. You can label the numbers, either the work case and the other as personnel assigning a specific name when activating the eSIM. In this way, the iPhone will ask you to register to one as determined.
When you label as determined either the number of the eSIM or the number of the nano SIM, you can choose which operator or number will be the one to use iMessage and FaceTime. As well as the number for when you call so send a message to someone that is not in the contacts.
Using two phone numbers with the eSIM is very useful to keep separate calls, messages and data that you do not want to mix with the personal. You just have to tell the iPhone to remember which number to use.
To change the number you must enter calls and then the lead icon in the top center of the screen. There we have the options of what number to use , either for cellular data or for calls.


There's a Westworld video game coming, and while a PC management sim or quick-and-dirty console shooter may seem like the obvious adaptation options, Warner Bros. is taking a more mobile approach.
So, yeah, Fallout Shelter. Only with a more involved above-ground element, since you've got the guest section along with the subterranean management sections.
The game's not out yet, but as with most mobile launches, there are some with early access, hence the footage. You can sign up and try and get in yourself here.


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The Rise of Seapower
March 12, 2020 | yalepress | Ancient History, Economics, Political Science
Andrew Lambert—
Seapower, a distinctive socio-political response to unique circumstances, emerged in the eastern Mediterranean between 2000 and 500 BC. Sea cities evolved to service the resource demands of great land-locked powers: Egypt, Anatolia and above all Mesopotamia. Sailing ships moved timber and metals over increasing distances. Insular Tyre, the ultimate sea city, relied on the sea for security and wealth. By 1000 BC these networks were expanding westward, to Sicily, Sardinia and the Atlantic coast, to obtain scarce metals. These trades made the sea worth controlling, and they facilitated cultural exchange between traders and suppliers. Trade required a degree of security from predation, by rival states or pirates, which became core missions for sea states, and a key point of distinction between them and land states. Merchants transformed the Mediterranean, operating from cities on or near the coast, dominated by artificial harbour structures and marketplaces. Sea empires were created to control and tax trade, in order to fund maritime security. Making the sea a controlled space and legislating for exclusive state control turned predators into pirates, and dealing with this threat gave sea states internal political legitimacy. Specialist, standing navies were funded by reconstructing the state as a tax-raising, increasingly inclusive polity. The constabulary force that dealt with pirates could be expanded to deny vital sea routes to rival states. The instrument of that transformation was the trireme, the defining motif of ancient seapower. By contrast, autocratic continental empires generally ignored the economic problem of piracy, using naval power to suppress seapower states and project their military might.
While many cities and states were active at sea, dominion over the ocean was of limited strategic significance until control of the sea could be sustained. The great powers of the Bronze Age, continental land empires operating on the same land mass, settled their differences at key terrestrial communication hubs. Sea power could not be a serious strategic choice until important states were separated by significant bodies of water and navies were capable of controlling them, stopping economic activity and the movement of armies by sea. Consequently seapower identities were only suitable for small, weak states that could secure an asymmetric advantage by focusing on the sea.
The politics of sea states evolved as trade expanded. Bronze Age palace cultures were replaced by less formal structures, dominated by elite groups having 'strong mercantile interests'. Trade escaped the control of cities and states, which had to compete for a share of the taxes of an unruly offshore world. Sea culture impacted land powers, the hitherto static continental Egyptians shifting their capital north into the Nile Delta on several occasions. When Alexander the Great established a new coastal capital he emphasised Egypt's belated integration into the wider Mediterranean world. Shifting the capital back to riverine Cairo after the Arab conquest marked another significant cultural shift – from Mediterranean to Middle Eastern state. Dynamic maritime cultures prompted alphabetic writing, and reduced the regional languages to Greek, Punic, Aramaic and Latin.
Sea power became a serious strategic force in the fifth century BC, as Carthage and Athens built seapower empires, 'superbly adapted to, and successfully exploitative of, the Mediterranean's attributes and rhythms'. Both harnessed specific combinations of internal and external opportunity, while their popular government and wealth prompted a fatal combination of fear and envy in land powers. Ultimately the sequence of conflicts that stretched from Salamis in 480 to the annihilation of Carthage in 146 BC transformed the Mediterranean into a single political and economic unit, linked by sea trade, but controlled by Roman Continental Imperialism, which swept aside all rivals – by sea as well as land.
Sea-based cultures and forms of representative government overcame the opposition of larger, more populous river-based theocracies, with their unchanging cycles of flood and harvest, because they offered hope, and above all progress – both intellectual and material. People made new lives in port cities. The Greeks came to dominate the cultural dimension, transmitting their dynamic, inclusive thinking through an alphabetic language, sea trade and success in war, shaping the great western powers, Rome and Carthage. The key lay in the creation of civic political authority, and a shared 'Greek' resistance to the imposition of a Persian monoculture. At its beating heart seapower was a response to the challenge of expanding maritime trade systems in a precarious world, one that existed at the whim of vast, static continental/military cultures.
From Seapower States by Andrew Lambert. Published by Yale University Press in 2020. Reproduced with permission.
Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History at King's College London, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.


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Q: Android and Arduino bluetooth Comunication error in android code IOException I have been trying to communicate between android and arduino through bluetooth but whenever I build android it gives me this error over the "C" function and the error says

Error:(91, 22) error: unreported exception IOException; must be caught
  or declared to be thrown

please help me i am stuck
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package com.example.administrator.myapplication;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothDevice;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import java.util.Set;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import android.os.ParcelUuid;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

private static final int REQUEST_ENABLE_BT = 1;
private Button onBtn, offBtn ,listBtn ,findBtn;
private TextView text;

private Button UpBtn ,DownBtn ,LeftBtn ,RightBtn;

private BluetoothAdapter myBluetoothAdapter;
private Set<BluetoothDevice> pairedDevices;
private ListView myListView;
private ArrayAdapter<String> BTArrayAdapter;
private OutputStream outputStream;
private InputStream inStream;

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    // take an instance of BluetoothAdapter - Bluetooth radio
    myBluetoothAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
    Set<BluetoothDevice> bondedDevices = myBluetoothAdapter.getBondedDevices();

    if (myBluetoothAdapter == null) {
        onBtn.setEnabled(false);
        offBtn.setEnabled(false);
        listBtn.setEnabled(false);
        findBtn.setEnabled(false);
        UpBtn.setEnabled(false);
        DownBtn.setEnabled(false);
        LeftBtn.setEnabled(false);
        RightBtn.setEnabled(false);
        text.setText("Status: not supported");

        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Your device does not support Bluetooth",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    } else {

        if(bondedDevices.size() > 0){
            BluetoothDevice[] devices = (BluetoothDevice[]) bondedDevices.toArray();
            BluetoothDevice device = devices[0];
            ParcelUuid[] uuids = device.getUuids();
            BluetoothSocket socket = device.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(uuids[0].getUuid());
            socket.connect();
            outputStream = socket.getOutputStream();
            inStream = socket.getInputStream();
        }

        //Movement
        UpBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Upbutton);
        DownBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Downbutton);
        LeftBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Leftbutton);
        RightBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Rightbutton);

        UpBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()  {
            @Override public void onClick(View v)  {
                C(v,8) ; //error here

            }
        });

        DownBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override public void onClick(View v)  {
                C(v, 2);

            }
        });

        LeftBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v)  {
                C(v, 4);

            }
        });

        RightBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v){
                C(v,6);
            }
        });

        //.........................
        //..................
        //Normal Code
        text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
        onBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Onbutton);
        onBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                on(v);
            }
        });

        offBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Offbutton);
        offBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                off(v);
            }
        });

        listBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Listbutton);
        listBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                list(v);
            }
        });

        findBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Pairedbutton);
        findBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                find(v);
            }
        });

        myListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView1);

        // create the arrayAdapter that contains the BTDevices, and set it to the ListView
        BTArrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1);
        myListView.setAdapter(BTArrayAdapter);
    }
}

public void on(View view) {
    if (!myBluetoothAdapter.isEnabled()) {
        Intent turnOnIntent = new Intent(BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_REQUEST_ENABLE);
        startActivityForResult(turnOnIntent, REQUEST_ENABLE_BT);

        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Bluetooth turned on",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    } else {
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Bluetooth is already on",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
}

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    if (requestCode == REQUEST_ENABLE_BT) {
        if (myBluetoothAdapter.isEnabled()) {
            text.setText("Status: Enabled");
        } else {
            text.setText("Status: Disabled");
        }
    }
}

public void list(View view) {
    // get paired devices
    pairedDevices = myBluetoothAdapter.getBondedDevices();

    // put it's one to the adapter
    for (BluetoothDevice device : pairedDevices)
        BTArrayAdapter.add(device.getName() + "\n" + device.getAddress());

    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Show Paired Devices",
            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

final BroadcastReceiver bReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        String action = intent.getAction();
        // When discovery finds a device
        if (BluetoothDevice.ACTION_FOUND.equals(action)) {
            // Get the BluetoothDevice object from the Intent
            BluetoothDevice device = intent.getParcelableExtra(BluetoothDevice.EXTRA_DEVICE);
            // add the name and the MAC address of the object to the arrayAdapter
            BTArrayAdapter.add(device.getName() + "\n" + device.getAddress());
            BTArrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        }
    }
};

public void find(View view) {
    if (myBluetoothAdapter.isDiscovering()) {
        // the button is pressed when it discovers, so cancel the discovery
        myBluetoothAdapter.cancelDiscovery();
    } else {
        BTArrayAdapter.clear();
        myBluetoothAdapter.startDiscovery();

        registerReceiver(bReceiver, new IntentFilter(BluetoothDevice.ACTION_FOUND));
    }
}

public void off(View view) {
    myBluetoothAdapter.disable();
    text.setText("Status: Disconnected");

    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Bluetooth turned off",
            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

public void C (View View , float H) throws IOException{
       if(H == 8){

                outputStream.write("8".toString().getBytes());
       }
       if(H == 2){
                 outputStream.write("2".toString().getBytes());
       }
       if(H == 4){
                 outputStream.write("4".toString().getBytes());
       }
       if(H == 6){
                 outputStream.write("6".toString().getBytes());
       }

}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onDestroy();
    unregisterReceiver(bReceiver);
}

}
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A: You need to add a try/catch block:
UpBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()  {
        @Override public void onClick(View v)  {
          try{
            C(v,8) ; //error here
          } catch( IOException e) {
            // at least log it here ...
          }

        }
    });

because you cannot simply add throws Keyword to the overridden method.


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#include "common.h"

extern enum bst_result_t bst_result;
struct bt_conn *default_conn;

const struct bt_data ad[AD_SIZE] = {
	BT_DATA_BYTES(BT_DATA_FLAGS, (BT_LE_AD_GENERAL | BT_LE_AD_NO_BREDR))
};

void device_found(const bt_addr_le_t *addr, int8_t rssi, uint8_t type,
			 struct net_buf_simple *ad)
{
	char addr_str[BT_ADDR_LE_STR_LEN];
	int err;

	if (default_conn) {
		return;
	}

	/* We're only interested in connectable events */
	if (type != BT_HCI_ADV_IND && type != BT_HCI_ADV_DIRECT_IND) {
		return;
	}

	bt_addr_le_to_str(addr, addr_str, sizeof(addr_str));
	printk("Device found: %s (RSSI %d)\n", addr_str, rssi);

	/* connect only to devices in close proximity */
	if (rssi < -70) {
		FAIL("RSSI too low");
		return;
	}

	printk("Stopping scan\n");
	if (bt_le_scan_stop()) {
		FAIL("Could not stop scan");
		return;
	}

	err = bt_conn_le_create(addr, BT_CONN_LE_CREATE_CONN,
				BT_LE_CONN_PARAM_DEFAULT, &default_conn);
	if (err) {
		FAIL("Could not connect to peer: %d", err);
	}
}

void disconnected(struct bt_conn *conn, uint8_t reason)
{
	char addr[BT_ADDR_LE_STR_LEN];

	if (conn != default_conn) {
		return;
	}

	bt_addr_le_to_str(bt_conn_get_dst(conn), addr, sizeof(addr));

	printk("Disconnected: %s (reason %u)\n", addr, reason);

	bt_conn_unref(default_conn);
	default_conn = NULL;
}

void test_tick(bs_time_t HW_device_time)
{
	if (bst_result != Passed) {
		FAIL("test failed (not passed after %i seconds)\n", WAIT_SECONDS);
	}
}

void test_init(void)
{
	bst_ticker_set_next_tick_absolute(WAIT_TIME);
	bst_result = In_progress;
}


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Making connection the key to initiative's success
More from North Bay Nugget
Published on: February 22, 2013 | Last Updated: February 22, 2013 12:17 PM EST
Bruce Cowan
nbay.news@sunmedia.ca
If you can't talk to your parents or figures in authority, like police officers or school teachers, because you think they're ineffective, indifferent or just don't understand, it makes sense to encourage young people to talk to their peers for support and advice.
That appears to be the rationale behind the formation of a new peer-to-peer support initiative launched by students from all six North Bay high schools and the North Bay Police Service. The idea originated with the police, prompted by the number of calls they've responded to at area high schools, and these students have obviously bought in to the concept.
The program is aimed at helping young people talk about and deal with such issues as domestic violence, harassment, bullying and cyber-bullying in their lives.
Will it be effective? We hope so. Stories and reports of bullying and cyber-bullying, in particular, are becoming all too frequent across the country and around the world, not just here in North Bay. The most tragic recent example was Amanda Todd, the young Canadian woman who detailed her tragic experience in a video that went viral around the world. She later took her own life as a result of bullying.
As we've said before with respect to the efforts of the Drug Strategy Committee, many will question why these issues are prevalent if schools supposedly have the tools and protocols to deal with these situations. Even so, there is only so much and so far teachers, principals and police officers can go if formal complaints are lodged or pursued.
The key for this youth advisory committee initiative will be whether the students who need help actually seek out these peers. Can they make a connection to someone who may or may not have gone through a similar experience in their own life? If it's alien to them, these distressed young people may well see them as ineffective as parents or other professionals. Will they make a connection if income and family backgrounds, for example, are polar opposites?
It may well be a generalization, but if one student comes from a higher income level than another, that's already an obstacle to open discussion and empathy. And it may be wrong to assume otherwise, but how many students volunteer to be part of this kind of initiative because they've gone through it themselves?
Addicts, for instance, will tell you that it's far more constructive and beneficial for them to talk to other addicts or recovering addicts than a professional with a degree in social work or psychology sitting behind a desk who may have never taken or experimented with drugs in his or her own life. A textbook answer is still just a textbook answer, too often not based on the circumstance or reality of the moment.
We don't want to throw cold water on the idea. It's commendable and we hope it works. Any efforts to deal with these issues in our community and society in general is worth pursuing. If the student peers involved can steer those in distress in the direction they need to overcome and resolve their problems, this initiative will be a succcess.


Paul Jarvis is an author and podcaster for freelancers and entrepreneurs (He's worked for himself for 20 years, so he knows all about lasting businesses). Paul's courses—Creative Class and Chimp Essentials—have been taken by more than 13,564 paying students. His writing has been talked about by everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Arianna Huffington and clients have included, Microsoft, Danielle LaPorte, Kris Carr, Marie Forleo, Alexandra Franzen, Mercedes-Benz, Marie Forleo and Warner Music, to name a few. Paul's ideas and words have been featured in WIRED, Fast Company, Vice, USA Today and more. As a totally random aside, his photography has been seen on the hit ABC tv show, Grey's Anatomy.


I still have a little trouble understanding why the First Christians didn't get it when Jesus told them what they supposed to do about the Gospel.
How did they miss the word nations and how on earth were they going to do that if they didn't go to the nations. They eventually did, but not for some time. Peter had to be shown in a vision and the pouring out of the spirit that it was okay to baptize an Italian.
I suppose we are so far removed from the culture of that time that we can't appreciate the prejudice that Jews had toward any non-Jew. (And that is what Gentile has come to mean—non-Jew—although in Greek it was a broader term, meaning nations , including Jews.) Prejudice dies hard, as some of us are old enough to recall. So hard, in fact, that even plain instructions from Jesus couldn't erase it. Let's see how, after his vision, Peter was confronted by other believers in Jerusalem.


Abstract: The effects of hot air drying, microwave drying equipment and hot air-microwave drying on the drying characteristics and quality of camphor buds were studied by using scented buds as materials. The results showed that the comprehensive evaluation values of dry products obtained by hot air drying at 60 °C and microwave drying at 550 W were large, 0.890 and 0.884, respectively.
The optimum drying conditions for hot air-microwave combined drying are as follows: drying with hot air at 60 °C to dry water content of 0.67 kg/kg at the conversion point, and microwave drying at a later power of 330 W; under these conditions, drying the dried product The overall evaluation value was 0.972. It shows that the hot air-microwave combined drying can well maintain the quality of the camphor buds.
Toona sinensis is a traditional Chinese woody vegetable rich in calcium, VC, phosphorus, thiamine and other nutrients. Toona sinensis contains a variety of biologically active ingredients, which have anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-viral, anti-allergic, free radicals, regulate blood lipids, soften blood vessels and enhance vascular tone.
However, the camphor buds are stored at room temperature, the leaves are easy to fall off, rot, gradually fibrosis after the rain, the taste is boring, the nutritional value is greatly reduced, and finally the edible value is lost. Drying and processing the camphor buds not only maintains the original color, aroma, taste and nutrients, but also is easy to store and carry. It can be used as instant food and convenient seasoning, and has high practical value.
At present, the drying methods of fruits and vegetables mainly include hot air drying, microwave drying, vacuum freeze drying, infrared drying and combined drying. Traditional hot air drying can not meet people's demand for high quality and original ecology of food; microwave drying energy utilization rate is high, heating time is short, heating is uniform, mildew and sterilization, retaining color and nutritional value of fruits and vegetables, but there is big investment, complicated technology and difficult Master and other issues.
Combined drying has unique advantages in improving drying rate, reducing energy consumption and improving finished product quality. It is widely used in the drying of fruits and vegetables such as spinach, longan, mushroom, day lily, yacon, strawberry. At present, the drying methods of citron are mainly hot air drying, vacuum drying, microwave drying, vacuum freeze drying, etc. There is still no systematic research on the joint drying of citron.
To this end, this experiment explored the effects of hot air, microwave and its joint drying on the quality of camphor buds, aiming to determine the process parameters of the drying of camphor, seeking a joint drying method suitable for camphor, improving the quality of dried products, and providing a theoretical basis for the drying of fruits and vegetables. .