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Evangel University honored with BBB TORCH Award
Published on Oct 21, 2020 by Paul K. Logsdon
One of six recognized in 2020 by Better Business Bureau
President Carol Taylor holds the TORCH Award, with KOLR-10 news anchor David Oliver, Dr. Michael Kolstad, V.P. for university advancement, and Stephanie Garland, BBB Springfield Regional Director. // PHOTO BY Paul K. Logsdon
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving Eastern & Southwest Missouri & Southern Illinois honored six Ozarks businesses, including Evangel University, with TORCH Awards on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
BBB TORCH Awards recognize companies committed to exceptional service and high ethics, according to Stephanie Garland, BBB Springfield Regional Director.
"These organizations have truly joined BBB's mission of advancing marketplace trust in an exemplary way, particularly in this extraordinary year. They are role models for other businesses in the community," she said.
Evangel President Carol Taylor responded, "The BBB serves a vital role in the southwest Missouri community. We are proud to be a member and honored to receive the 2020 Torch Award."
Winners were recognized during surprise ceremonies at their offices coordinated by BBB and KOLR10. This year, news anchor David Oliver helped present the awards on-location, outdoors, due to guidelines related to COVID-19.
In its presentation of the TORCH Award, the BBB highlighted the school's strong commitment to community service.
"From the beginning, Evangel University has had a focus on the integration of faith, learning and life," says Dr. Michael Kolstad, vice president for university advancement. Evangel University, established in 1955, is a private university in Springfield with a student body of just over 2,000.
In a partnership with the Springfield-based international aid organization, Convoy of Hope, Evangel has developed The Center for Compassion through which all students are provided opportunities to engage in compassionate service and research.
Each academic year is started with a community service day, which sets the tone and shows the way for incoming freshmen. Last school year, more than 82,000 hours were provided to the Springfield community via volunteer service, internships, practicums and student teaching.
President Carol Taylor and V.P. Dr. Michael Kolstad with the celebratory balloons. // PHOTO BY Paul K. Logsdon
Highlighted examples of community service
• Students start their Evangel career with a time of service.
https://www.evangel.edu/press_releases/service-convoy-weller/
• Evangel provides new hoodies to every student and employee at Weller Elementary School; leftover funds paid off student lunch bills.
https://www.evangel.edu/press_releases/hoodies-to-weller-students-employees-dec-9/
• Evangel and Achieve of SW Missouri partner to serve the needs of individuals with disabilities.
https://www.evangel.edu/press_releases/eu-achieve-of-southwest-missouri/
• The Center for Compassion partners with Teen Challenge USA for research and education efforts.
https://www.evangel.edu/press_releases/center-for-compassion-adult-teen-challenge-usa-survey/
• Dr. Gordon Pace receives state honor for decades of service to public education.
https://www.evangel.edu/press_releases/dr-gordon-pace-honored-masa/
The BBB TORCH Award. // PHOTO BY Paul K. Logsdon
Additional 2020 TORCH Award winners
The other five companies in the Ozarks, recognized by the BBB for their commitment to exceptional business ethics and customer satisfaction, for 2020 are:
ADsmith Marketing and Advertising, a full-service advertising agency in Springfield, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. "ADsmith operates on a rule of complete transparency with both staff and clients to bolster confidence and ensure internal and client relationships remain healthy," says owner Angela Smith.
Ollis/Akers/Arney Insurance & Business Advisors is a Springfield-based insurance agency and business consulting firm first founded in 1885. "As a 100% employee-owned company, every employee-owner has a vested interest in the success of the organization, and a high ethical standard is a critical part of that," says Tammy Johnson, director of marketing and community relations.
Ozarks Elder Law is a Springfield-based law firm focused on estate planning and other legal needs of older people. During COVID-19, its staff created thousands of face masks that it donated within the community. Owner and managing attorney Lori Rook says the firm is built on "preservation, protection and peace of mind."
Rick's Automotive, celebrating 40 years in business, is a full-service auto repair, tire and lube shop in Springfield. They were honored this year because their employees served thousands of ambulances keeping first responders on the roads so they can help people during this pandemic. Company president Rick Hughlett says his shop "firmly believes itself to be a business that gives back."
SS&B Heating & Cooling, Inc. is a Springfield-based heating and cooling company with more than 50 years in business. "Our philosophy is that Springfield deserves to have a good business that people can trust to do the right thing every time," says owner and president Jeremy Grisham.
BBB is a nonprofit, business-supported organization that sets and upholds high standards for fair and honest business behavior. BBB services to consumers are free of charge.
BBB provides objective advice, free BBB Business Profiles on more than 5.3 million companies, 11,000 charity reviews, dispute resolution services, alerts and educational information on topics affecting marketplace trust. Please visit bbb.org for more information.
Evangel University, with the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS), is a comprehensive Christian university committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to serve the church and society globally.
Evangel and AGTS serve more than 2,100 students from all 50 states and numerous foreign countries, offering 70 undergraduate majors and 19 master's and doctoral degrees.


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Washington and Lee football ready for year two under Garrett LeRose
Generals finished 5-4 last season and are hungry for more wins
LEXINGTON, Va. – It's year two for head coach Garrett LeRose at Washington and Lee University. The Generals went 5-4 in 2018 during a year of change.
Now they turn the page in 2019, establishing expectations of accountability and most importantly, energy.
"I think we're really excited to be down to the details now. This group we have coming up now is excited and motivated by what we learned last year," LeRose said. "I think that consistency that we've established through our offseason has allowed us to be more consistent with what we are bringing to the table this year."
One thing that remains the same is the Generals' run offense, capitalized by big men up front.
"Our talented guys in the backfield, [I'm] so impressed with them. They work incredibly hard, a lot of great young guys," center Kyle Perel said. "So when we're able to move as a unit together and they're able to do their job, it makes us look really good."
Washington and Lee also led the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) in scoring defense in 2018, something the secondary is looking to continue.
"One thing that's changed is that from a defensive perspective, we've gotten a lot more athletic in all positions all throughout," cornerback Matthew Dodson said. "We've gotten a lot smarter, so as our schemes begin to develop, we begin fine-tuning things, start finding the different weak spots, and start communicating better with the coaches."
The energy and accountability was at an all-time high Saturday in the first day of pads.
"We have to hold all of each other accountable and make sure that we're running around and being more physical," Dodson said. "That's something the coaches saw towards the end of last year. We started fading away, our energy, towards the end of games, so we want to make sure we keep that up all throughout the season this year."
"Every single day, we try to bring the intensity, bring the heat. We love the energy. We just focus on making sure we can still get what we need to in practice," linebacker Logan Brand said.
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Exiled in Exarchia
by Simon Jones, 15 February 2017
The plaque commemorating the death of the teenager which caused the 2008 protests.
The Exarchia district slouches up the Athenian hillsides, twenty minutes' walk from Syntagma Square, seat of government in the heart of Athens. Occasionally it stirs, exploding in violence and protest at a variety of injustices: some new, others perennial. Exarchia is a political and artistic hub in a country asphyxiated by demands from distant politicians at the behest of banks. Its inhabitants are a band of anarchists, refugees, artists and others, whose lives and philosophies are entwined in a decades-old tradition of non-conformism in a deeply conservative country with proud leftist tendencies.
VOX, at the edge of Exarchia Square, was for years a cinema of some repute. Since a refit in 2012, it has been occupied by an anarchist group; its café-bar sells beers, teas and frappe coffees and gives the proceeds to 'the movement', as one barman called it. There are free medical clinics in a room off the main level, and a mezzanine with a bookstore and reading area. The colour scheme is neutral, enlivened by anarchist flags and murals, some elegantly painted, others stencilled. By day the music is Janis Joplin, Grime artists from London and European pop; by night it's Greek punk and rock, with lyrics glorifying anarchism and extolling action.
Above the bar is a framed, oversized black and white photograph. A man, old enough to have social credibility, young enough to be contemptuous of it, occupies the foreground — mouth covered by a scarf, ears open, hammer in one hand, the other raised in a fist. An anarchist icon, he stands apart from the crowd coursing along a street with, on one side, Milanese terraces, on the other a pall of smoke. It is 17 April 1975, and the street is Via Mancini. Near the photograph is the cash drawer, one of the few in Athens from which receipts are never dispensed and the only one I saw containing condoms. On the other side of the photograph is a calendar; the November picture is of a hooded figure, silhouetted against tear gas, hurtling a rock towards unknown assailants — it could be Tokyo, Seattle or Athens. Around the walls there are stickers and flags from a multitude of countries, groups nobody could be expected to have heard of had they not met their members personally.
Forty years later and in a different country, the man in the photo still holds pride of place in an anarchist centre in perhaps the most focussed political area of its kind in the developed world. Its streets are narrow and the buildings, with grey balconies and unobtrusive awnings, ensure that any sound can be heard by a listener careful enough to take note — conversations, arguments, cars' movements. Squats are common, usually announced by flags or posters draped across their facades, occupied by disparate groups. Their names — Zaimi 11, Notara 26, Themistokleou 52 — reference their street name and number, no other information is requested or supplied. Sometimes a poster forbids photography, often the ground floor windows are blocked and occasionally someone in black slips from behind a heavy gate and vanishes into a street, with a brief but friendly smile in the direction of someone they notice, or a look of purpose.
Some of the squats are involved in refugee support. One such project is City Plaza, a former hotel occupied last year and organised today by a group of anarchists. Around 420 refugees live in the rooms; breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided. Christian, a Slovenian chef in his thirties, moved to Greece to become involved in refugee support. He set up the kitchen when the project began. In the hotel's café-bar he explains how it is run. All refugees can contribute. Children can be cared for in City Plaza or can be registered in local schools at parents' discretion: some view the service as a welcome transitory point, others stay for longer periods, and many return if attempts to move on fail. Not all refugees are penniless; in many cases logistics are more pressing than finance. Christian points out that for those without finances or connections, the only option is a speculative approach to the EU's vastly oversubscribed resettlement programme, which carries the risk of rejection, then deportation. All adult refugees who can are expected to contribute five hours work per week. Activities include translation, cooking, cleaning, teaching and administrative duties. Security, too, is a critical activity, organised in six-hour shifts. Twice in the past few months there have been arson attacks, and according to Christian and others the police response has been virtually non-existent. As he put it, 'at night we are most vulnerable — I believe if the fascists had the chance they would burn us all alive.'
Start of the protests
Mistrust and overt hostility towards the police is not a new phenomenon. On 6 December 2008 amidst daily protests against the emergent economic crisis, two police officers became involved in a verbal argument with a group of teenagers in Exarchia. One shot and killed Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15; the second officer was an accomplice. Rioting began instantly and spread, first throughout Athens and then more widely across Greece. Dozens of properties were destroyed in the first night of a month of rioting, which set the tone for anarchist involvement in the development of the Greek economic crisis. Confrontations between police and residents were a regular occurrence, including armed assaults on police convoys and patrols, which were seen in the popular imagination as a direct challenge to the validity of the Greek state, something the Exarchian anarchists relished.
In recent history anarchists in Greece have never posed a substantive challenge to the state. When the 2008 crisis began and the scale of corruption in dealings between the government and foreign lenders was exposed, few people looked to anarchism, or to Exarchia, as harbingers of social change. However the struggle between the established state and the rabble just to the north of their headquarters was poignant. Police brutality, a symptom of governmental excess in the lives of many Greeks, had been exposed in a new, chilling light as the state faced its greatest challenge since the emergence of the military dictatorship in the 1960s. There to fight its excesses were bands of anarchists. The revival of this dynastic struggle at a time of new danger captivated many, albeit in a dynamic which has become familiar since: the limits of state authority, the ramifications of a boy's murder and the merits of activist philosophy were subsumed into media stories of violence in Exarchia — a place where this kind of thing is to be expected.
The economic crisis in Greece can be seen in many ways, but the common view in Exarchia is that it illustrates simply the inevitable ends of neoliberalism and social democracy — schools of thought that are indistinguishable in the minds of many in the district. Before Greece began using the euro in 2002, it failed a series of measures established by the European Central Bank, designed to assess a prospective member's economy and how it would affect the currency as a whole. This showed major, systemic flaws which, according to the eurozone's own guidelines, presented critical issues for the prospective member. The government signed secret deals with Goldman Sachs to reconfigure their accounts and give the appearance of them owing less debt than they did. One headache was cured with the Goldman deal costing around $800m, and other rules were bent by bankers in Frankfurt and politicians elsewhere, who welcomed their new partner enthusiastically.
Athens went on to host an Olympic Games in a dazzling, purpose-built architectural complex and criticism waned, until the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis in the US affected banks in Europe, which had invested heavily in debt which now proved toxic, and the Greek debt — or rather, the public amount — became a far less tenable investment prospect than it had been. Shortly after the 2009 election, the prime minister announced that the Greek deficit would be more than double its estimates and it became clear that the economy would collapse without emergency assistance. A bailout was agreed by the centre-left PASOK party, which proved to be its death knell, before voters gambled on a centre-right party, New Democracy, who were destroyed by their acquiescence with the Troika's wishes. For years, the obviousness of it all was tedious to politically-minded Exarchians — a string of calamities tragic for their proximity, but the natural end of neoliberalism. The combination of centrism and neoliberal politics, with its toxic amalgam of democracy and debt, was bound to end this way, the thinking went.
Then came SYRIZA, a coalition of radical leftist parties who promised a renegotiation of Greece's bailout terms and threatened to withdraw from the eurozone if this was not accomplished. With a crushing landslide in the January 2015 election, they won the clearest mandate since the crisis seven years earlier. That made politicians across Europe sit up and take notice — it was not a question of if SYRIZA and the Troika would come to blows, but when; and the possibility of a radical realignment of European politics moved to the foreground. Alexis Tsipras, the youthful tieless prime minister, appointed Yanis Varoufakis — a respected economics professor, motorbike enthusiast and disdainer of suits — to be his finance minister and lead negotiations with the Troika.
The European tour that followed garnered popular support across the continent, but did little to inspire anarchists in Exarchia, who already had all they wanted — themselves. But might there be something at Syntagma Square worth believing in? Wrong question. As one VOX volunteer put it, 'I mean maybe, but they're still social democrats — leftwing, maybe, but look, man, I'm an anarchist — I don't need that.'
The politics of debt
SYRIZA's time in office has demonstrated the futility of the democratic process better than any anarchist leaflet could, were any produced. The months between SYRIZA's electoral victory and confrontation with the Troika were some of the most febrile in recent political history. But in the end Tsipras opted to conform to what people in Exarchia consider the exact neoliberal paradigm of a nation state — the politics of debt. Even with a popular mandate won in a referendum to abandon the eurozone, he followed suit with the centrists before him and signed a new deal on austerity. He then called a general election (which SYRIZA won handsomely with no other palatable alternatives) and joined the pantheon of spent forces with titles but few legislative prospects. Today there is a sense throughout Greece that the political process has failed utterly and that there is no point in interacting with it at all — any belief in an organised political alternative has fallen away.
All this might make you think anarchism has never been stronger in Greece, with its emphasis on individuals and the downtrodden, and blunt disavowal of anything resembling mainstream politics or its tendency towards optics. This is not the case. One VOX volunteer tells a story about Rumi, who frequents the bar, attending a protest with her anarchist comrade: 'Man, you can't bring a pitbull to a protest: 15 guys and a pitbull: it looks rightwing!' Why not, asks the other, 'It's not a pitbull, it's Rumi.' Another volunteer is quick to point out that while Exarchia might be viewed from the outside as the base of Greek anarchism, that does not imply consistency of action, or any kind of collective plotting. Suggesting a political campaign of anarchism beyond demonstrations would quickly be entangled in systems which have been rich pickings for neoliberals, and fascists before them.
'Timing is everything — sometimes you can capitalise on things, other times not', said one volunteer, correcting the confusion at the heart of capitalism — that serendipity has anything to do with willpower. Christian at City Plaza shrugs when asked if there is a network of anarchist support for refugees — there is, but only inasmuch as some anarchists know other anarchists, who offer support to each other's endeavours where possible. Freedom from the constraints of party organisation means freedom of one's time to organise, however circumstances, or preferences, dictate. In the anarchists' telling, at a time when SYRIZA accepts cash in return for acting as the EU's watchtower in southern Europe, and the communist KKE hold dogmatic meetings to examine core Marxist texts for a solution to human suffering, anarchists in Athens and across Greece have mobilised to organise practical support for refugees.
State within a state?
Occasionally there are events that disrupt even this disparate social fabric. During the summer an Egyptian man, Habibi, was shot in broad daylight by assassins who fled the scene on a motorbike. Weeks earlier, the victim was alleged, in a post on an anarchist website which claimed responsibility for the slaying in the name of the 'Armed Militia Groups', to have subjected Exarchian citizens to intimidation, drug-dealing and other indignities. The tipping point was identified as a 'murderous assault' on three anarchists at the VOX centre; and so, in the authors' thinking, his execution was justified in the name of community safety. The murder of someone whose authority came from criminality was a departure in an area historically averse to killing police officers, let alone civilians. The claim of responsibility attracted condemnation in a post on another anarchist news website that decried the action as a betrayal of antiauthoritarian values, which anarchists ought to rebuke. Events like this are exactly why political anarchism lives in individual moments. The killing cannot elicit sympathy from other anarchists anymore than it could condemnation — how could individuals renounce the actions of a group they do not know?
At the corner of Valtetsiou and Ippokratus stands a member of the 'special guards', stun-grenade lodged in his bulletproof vest, gun holstered. Next to him is an armoured riot van — a bus, really — which has evidently seen action over the course of its service. One anarchist I spoke with said that in previous administrations the police would not hesitate to harass and attack Exarchians or protestors. Nowadays they mostly stick to the corner, but people know that 'if there is trouble here the cops will get involved.' Opinion is divided as to whether Exarchia really qualifies as a state within a state, as some proclaim. Level heads among them are conscious that this is not the case: the bins get collected (and lorries attacked), police have a presence, there are schools. Culturally the district is distinct, but its anarchic qualities are relative, not absolute.
On a windy afternoon at the end of November a roving mass of pigeons scavenge their way across the dusty brick triangle of Exarchia Square. Occasionally a strong gust blows them, and the dust, to the other side of the square where a row of small bakeries and restaurants form a boundary. The other side has larger bars and restaurants, and the third a series of small shops and off-licenses. The centrepiece is an inadvertent history of the area: a grubby lamppost rises from a cast-iron sculpture of three cherubs, one daubed in pink paint; and this stands on a marble slab, barely visible beneath fragments of posters, graffiti and scorch marks. The marble slabs of the base have been repurposed as weapons in the riots. Beyond it, a boy in his 20s leaves his own group to remonstrate with a taller man. There's some shouting and pushing, then the boy appears to leave it alone; but he returns with a folded deckchair and throws it at the man, whose friends begin to take more of an interest. He accuses the man of being a cop. Maybe 20 seconds elapse between him picking up the chair and being beaten to the floor — and in that time a dozen anarchists materialise and watch silently, without any particular allegiance.
A woman with long brown hair and blue-rimmed glasses, without any obvious political leanings, interrupts the spectacle to ask if I would be interested in meeting an Exarchian whose work has been making waves. Christina is the business partner of George Pappas, an energetic man in his 40s whose curly greying hair and dangling cigarette and frequent references to Burroughs, Nietzsche, Pollok and Plato summon up another Exarchian demographic — artists. We speak in the doorway of what was once a gallery space. Pappas works across several media: cubist renderings of nudes, poetry, others besides. He points out the paradox Exarchia's artists operate within: while the district is politically antithetical to the system, the Greek art scene, as he sees it, expects artists to seek patronage and systemic admiration, rather than recognising their individuality or difference. Pappas says his work demonstrates essential form across the media he works in; he is exasperated that those around him cannot do the same: 'The government does not support us' he says, but 'artists need somewhere to create, to collaborate.' Instead they are too busy seeking the patronage of a system that does not care about art. 'Why can't they see? Civilisation is their greatest product' — citing an often repeated argument among western liberals that perhaps a response to the Greek crisis would be to go all-in on tourism rather than debt relief or banking reform. Where can artists collaborate in Exarchia? 'I don't know, really — I work in isolation.'
Christina seems more concerned with practicalities, while Pappas talks of the importance of Platonic forms. She is a social worker, unemployed due to the crisis, and has lived all her life around Athens, much of it in Exarchia. She has seen the neighbourhood change. One of her passions is the villas which line some of the streets in a variety of architectural styles; often they collapse through neglect and get replaced with nondescript concrete blocks. Christina and Pappas are politically removed from anything that could be called anarchism and more aware than many Exarchians of the contradictions implied by the district's reputation for being difficult, yet beholden to what neighbours call 'the system' for any advancement. Still, Christina says it's a good district: Navarinou park, a green space occupying the end of a block, has a park, with outdoor cultural events. And there's no antagonism between anarchists and artists.
Perhaps the most obvious intersection of the artistic and the political is the National University of Technical Arts, whose architecture campus faces 28 October, an arterial road which divides Exarchia from the Omonia district. The buildings facing the prospect are imposing, neo-classical landmarks which suggest an extension of the city's grand National Archaeological Museum. There is a group of students off the main courtyard, next to a blackboard with floor plans and an aerial photograph of the campus covered in post-its. Students are invited to give their views on the campus layout, from Facebook access to the more philosophical. Chief among them, explains one student, is the opening of the main gate to the courtyard which would otherwise be open to October 26 Street. Sheepishly, with the impression of someone who has invited criticism she already understood but can do nothing about, she explains that the gate will probably remain closed 'you know, the riots. They say it's security.' Which they? 'The university.' The riots she refers to are part of the folklore not just of Exarchia, but Greece. In February 1973, less than a year before it fell, Greece's military dictatorship faced intense protests from students and other segments of Greek society. Opposition to the junta was by no means limited to the anarchist movement, but on university campuses it was groups from the leftist diaspora which took the lead in organising opposition to the junta.
From violent protest to a shrug
One evening near where a plaque marks the spot of Alexandros Grigoropoulos's murder in 2008, two anarchists sat down to discuss the state of their movement in Greece. Effie and Guido have the intensity and amiability that would mark them as leaders in any movement. Both came to anarchism through teenage communist phases, a common route. The conversation wandered from future plans to the annual riots, which commemorate Grigoropoulos's death. There are rumours that there would be three days of riots, but they are unconvinced: 'six hours, maybe' according to Effie, though Guido, who has divided his time between Greece and Italy since 2011 when he left secondary school, says 'rioting is unproductive'. Theory is another barren land for anarchists, he laments, pointing out that anarchism is especially limited in its thinking: 'There's nothing for the modern world. We're stuck on Kropotkin.' That summarises another of the essential contradictions of anarchist existence: the dichotomy between action and reflection.
Effie suggests that the SYRIZA government's relative laxity in policing might just be a way of starving the movement of the fuel it needs to grow: both she and Guido point out the symbiosis between anarchism and the actions of the state. 'Talk to the old generation, in their 40s,' says Guido, 'and they tell you they thought the movement would die out before 2008 happened. People left, it was really bad.' The function of protests like the December 6 riots is two-fold; to remind people the anarchists are still present, and show that physical protest is possible even in the face of abstractions like debt, on which the mainstream systems are based. Planning beyond the immediate quickly comes in for criticism — not the dogmatic Marxist theory one might find at a communist KKE rally, but a subtle mistrust, a gentle reminder that the system is so comprehensive it taints all but the most wildly disrupted futures.
On 17 April 1975, in Milan, the man in the photograph at the VOX bar had taken to the streets to protest the fascist murder of a student, Claudio Viralli. The protest was one of the innumerable fragments which make up the 'years of lead', a period of violent fighting between Italian leftists and the state — Guido called it 'the highlight of our struggle'. By the end of a day in which violence overwhelmed the city, another student, Giannino Zibecchi, had been crushed to death by an armoured police vehicle. Though the man pictured at VOX was not the victim, it seemed important to ask what he might have witnessed over the course of his life. The years of lead saw violent political action, general strikes and a mass outpouring of leftist sentiment. Ultimately the government prevailed, even after prime minister Aldo Moro was murdered (by a leftist faction which managed to abduct and hold him for over a month). Did the man in the photograph live to see the rise of Berlusconi, or the imprisonment of Antonio Negri, one of the philosophical leaders of the 1970s, who then renounced violence and re-emerged as a leading light of Marxist philosophy in the 21st century? What would he make of Guido, the newest generation of Italian anarchist, lamenting the continued failure of anarchism to overthrow its opponents? One answer, for many in Exarchia, is that of Guido. A shrug, but not a change in conversation.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is based in Glasgow and reports from the Middle East, former Soviet Union and UK.
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And now, the best use of that "Super Powers" logo ever.
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So you may remember my brief lamentation regarding my girlfriend not spotting any copies of Swamp Thing during her most recent trip to Mexico. To assuage my despair, longtime reader, and resident of Spain, John P. informed me that he had an item or two that might be of interest. And one internationally-shipped package later, BEHOLD:
That is Super Powers #6, a digest-sized comic published in Portugal in 1987. It reprints, in color, issues #29-#31 of Saga of the Swamp Thing from 1984, comprising Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch's Arcane trilogy. Leaves out the annual that wraps up the storyline, however.
That's okay, though, as the comic does feature fan art:
That wasn't bad, I thought. (And before you ask, no, it's not autographed…that signature is printed on the page.
This next item is the newest of the bunch that John P. was good enough to send – this is the first issue of the New 52 Swamp Thing series, as issued in Spain:
It's a squarebound book, presenting the first four issues (and cover images) of the Scott Snyder/Yanick Paquette/et al. series, on nice slick paper with no ads (except some house ads inside the covers).
Here's an earlier La Cosa Del Pantano , dating from 1988:
It's 48 pages, staplebound, also adless save for house ads and a couple of pages of editorial matter at the back. It reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 (1984), with Moore, Bissette and Totleben's revision of Swampy's origin, followed by the first chapter of the Nukeface story from issue #35 (1985).
The fourth and final item John P. sent me was another digest from Portugal, Batman Ano Um #1 (1987):
It reprints, as you might have guessed, or perhaps divined by looking at the scan above, the first chapter of "Batman: Year One" by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, and has as its back-up story the Moore and Shawn McManus story from Saga of the Swamp Thing #28:
There's also a Marv Wolfman/Don Newton Vigilante story in there, too. An interesting mix of material, I thought. Also of note, there's a one-page of biography for Batman's cocreator Bob Kane…and another biography on the facing page for the usually-overlooked Bill Finger.
The Portuguese comics also include this ad for the publisher's Hulk comic:
…also featuring Sub-Mariner and Rom.
Since my Portuguese is a little rusty, I typed part of this ad into the ol' Google translator to see what they were saying about our Incredible friend:
"The hate comes up – Hulk loses control
"With terrible nightmares that lead to irreversible abyss of madness, Hulk becomes a savage monster that brutally destroys everything in its path. Read this fantastic story. And much more!"
Also: "Rom the Space Knight" is okay, "Rom, o Cavaleiro do Espaço" is fantástico.
Anyway, a big thanks to John P. for sending these my way. They're great, and I really appreciate them! The Swamp Thing Shrine grows ever larger.
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ROM THE FANTASTICO!!!!
Just a quick correction, those comics in Portuguese were actually published in Brazil, not Portugal, we just imported them from there back in the day.
And yeah, those digests had such a weird mix of comics sometimes, made for a lot of eclectic fans in both countries!
Seeing these got me thinking about Swamp Thing's teeth. What are they made of? Does he ever use them, or are they just for looks? How does he keep them so white?
Mike, I think I'm gonna need an extensive article about Swamp Thing's teeth.
swamp mark says:
If you say it in a deep spooky voice,"La Cosa Del Pantano" sounds way more badass than "Swamp Thing".
There's one of those "reliable rumours" going around that Snyder is leaving Swampy to work on his new Superman series.Can't blame him,I guess,but I was hoping to see more than one storyline from him.Twenty issues of Rot and he's gone.Ah,well.Wouldn't it be sweet if they replaced him with Len Wein?And then got Wrightson to do the Annual?I'm getting too worked up again.Sorry.Time for a relaxing mudbath.
J.W.Rollins says:
I think Swamp Thing should wear that Super Powers emblem on his forehead all the time. It suits him.
Giancarlo Lima says:
The translation of the Hulk ad is spot on, the issue in question is a reprint of Hulk #300, so you can see how his rage coming back is an special event.
Darren H says:
So in that Super Powers #6, Abby dies at the end. End of story. What a bummer.
What does that translate to, "The Thing of the Swamp"…?
Also: Awesome.
John Parker says:
How interesting ! I had no idea those digests were printed in Brazil. Glad you enjoyed all the items,Mike and it was nice to see them highlighted here.


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Q: Dynamical system with three equations How can I study bifurcations in a dynamical system consisting of $\frac{dx}{dt},\frac{dy}{dt},\frac{dz}{dt}$? The system depends on two parameters, and I want to find the bifurcation curves and, then, to plot these curves in a $(a,b)$-plane, the plane of the parameters $a$ and $b$.

A: Here's how to find the places where the fixed points bifurcate.  First find the equilibria of the system by finding for each $(a,b)$ all values of $(x,y,z)$ with $F(x,y,z) = 0$, where the ODE is $\frac {d}{dt} (x,y,z) = F(x,y,z)$.  Then find the eigenvalues of the linearisation $DF$ at these equilibria.  For each equilibrium these eigenvalues may depend on $a,b$ -- you can find the bifurcation curves by finding the values of $(a,b)$ at which the eigenvalues cross the imaginary axis, which corresponds to the fixed point changing stability from stable to unstable, or vice versa.
There are other sorts of bifurcations that may occur, but these are the simplest.

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The cost to insure Vietnam's debt against default soared to its highest level in 17 months as international lenders wait for the state-run shipping company to make a US$60 million loan repayment due today.
Credit-default swaps on Vietnam government debt were quoted at 295 basis points as of 1:18 p.m. in Singapore, according to Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. That's the highest since July 17, 2009, prices from data provider CMA show.
Moody's Investors Service cut the Southeast Asian nation's credit rating to B1 from Ba3 on Dec. 15 citing the risk of a balance of payments crisis, and highlighted "debt distress" at Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, known as Vinashin.
The company, which the government says had debt of about VND86 trillion ($4.4 billion) as of June, won't be able to make the loan repayment because of a lack of funds, Chairman Nguyen Ngoc Su told the Vietnam Economic Forum website last week.
Credit-default swaps pay the buyer face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, less the value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a swap protecting $10 million of debt. The contracts closed at 287 basis points on Dec. 17, capping their biggest weekly rise since Aug. 27, CMA prices show.
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The International Monetary Fund this month said Vietnam needs a "coherent package" of measures including higher interest rates to re-establish monetary policy credibility and slow inflation.
Vinashin's near collapse indicates a "systemic failure" in regulators' supervision of state-owned companies, according to the Asian Development Bank.
Vinashin hired Credit Suisse Group AG to help it organize a $600 million, seven-year loan in December 2008. A lender steering committee, comprising representatives from the Swiss bank, Standard Chartered Plc and hedge fund Elliott Advisors Ltd., has been established to negotiate with the company.
KPMG LLP was appointed to provide advice and support to Vinashin while law firm Allen & Overy LLP was hired by the lender group as legal advisers.
Edward Middleton, the Hong Kong-based KPMG partner in charge of restructuring services, declined to comment in an e- mailed response to questions. David Kidd, a partner at Allen & Overy, also declined to comment.
Vinashin representatives weren't immediately available by phone today. Credit Suisse Hong Kong-based spokesman Adam Harper and a public relations firm representing Elliott Advisors both declined to comment.


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Donor Remorse, Giver Remorse: I Wish I Never Made Such a Large Gift to Charity
Does your nonprofit make donors regret their generosity? Here's how to avoid donor remorse.
By MissionBox DoubleTake | Updated on June 6, 2019
What nonprofits should consider when dealing with a regretful donor
Kathryn Engelhardt-Cronk, MissionBox co-founder and CEO, is joined by executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living in St. Paul, Minnesota, Jesse Bethke Gomez, for the MissionBox DoubleTake — a column that offers opinions about the peskier aspects of working in the nonprofit sector. The opinions offered here are based on the authors' personal nonprofit experience and may not reflect the opinions of MissionBox, Inc. These opinions should not be considered legal advice or used as a substitute for professional legal consultation. MissionBox readers are invited to submit alternative responses, which may be published here as well.
I made a large gift to charity in honor of a loved one. Why didn't I receive adequate acknowledgement for such a sizable donation?
I inherited a generous amount of money from my lovely grandmother. She cared deeply about animal welfare and fostered many rescue dogs and cats throughout her life.
I decided to give what for me was a large donation — $25,000, in her name. I selected a national charity that rescues abused animals. I felt this would be a wonderful tribute to my grandmother's memory.
After a perfunctory thank you letter and a two-minute call from a fundraising staff member, I have never heard from this charity again! I don't expect a thousand thanks, but I do expect to be kept abreast of the impact of my donation. And they misspelled my grandmother's name in their formulaic thank you letter.
In retrospect, I should have given the dollars to a smaller, local group — my gift might have made a bigger difference and would hopefully have been more appreciated.
Well, the joke is on the national charity. I planned to give three gifts over the course of three years, but that's no longer going to happen. I'll look at other charities for ways to honor my grandmother.
Jesse says ...
Your generosity is so wonderful! The heart of what makes the nonprofit sector work is philanthropy — a word that harks back to the ancient world of Greece, which translated essentially means a love for humanity.
Your generosity can be a game changer for that particular nonprofit organization. As a chief executive officer in the nonprofit sector for over 20 years, some of the most defining moments for me have come from the input from donors. It means the world to the executive director of a nonprofit organization to learn of how a donor feels about their experience of donating to the organization. A nonprofit organization truly thrives when they nurture a culture of philanthropy.
Please consider contacting the chief executive officer of the nonprofit organization and explaining to them how you came to decide to make this most important contribution to their organization. It is so important that the chief executive officer, who by the way is also the chief fundraising officer, learns of your experience. For that particular organization, your feedback can help them become donor-centric and attentive to people who give to their cause. More importantly, it will help the organization recommit themselves to a culture of philanthropy and show their heartfelt gratitude to you, and your grandmother, for this act of care.
From all of us who are deeply committed to the greater good, thank you for your generosity, care and for asking this great question too!
Kathryn says ...
What you are experiencing is called donor remorse. It's commonly a result of a perceived lack of appreciation on the recipient's part.
You are correct to say it is unrealistic to expect endless warm platitudes related to your gift, no matter how generous. However, it is the charity's obligation to express profound gratitude and personal thanks for your shared dedication to their mission. Apparently, this nonprofit was aware that the gift was intended as an act of remembrance of your grandmother. And while mistakes happen, a seemingly small item such as correctly spelling her name felt understandably important to you and should have been immediately corrected, with apologies.
Some people feel that philanthropic giving can be more rewarding when your gift pulls you closer to your community. It can be more difficult to foster this experience when you give to a large, national charity, but is not necessarily always the case. Many national, international and local charities dedicate themselves to you as a donor and make every effort to celebrate your generosity.
Case in point: my family recently created an endowment to support Holocaust relic preservation and educational programs of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. None of us live in Washington, D.C. and most of my family members are not Jewish. The fine folks at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, nonetheless, have gone out of their way to both ceremoniously and personally express their appreciation and gratitude in ways that my family can look to with pride for generations to come. They also keep us updated on the museum's important work and the impact of our gift.
Since your experience with a large charity was not positive, try giving next year's gift to a smaller, regional nonprofit and let them know of your unhappiness with your previous giving experience. And don't just give dollars! Get involved, as much as your time allows, as a volunteer or visitor, in the ongoing work of your chosen nonprofit.
Thanks for being the type of person who wants to give back and thanks to your grandmother for her long-standing kindness to animals at risk.
The opinions offered here are based on the author's personal nonprofit experience and may not reflect the opinions of MissionBox, Inc. These opinions should not be considered legal advice or used as a substitute for professional legal consultation. MissionBox readers are invited to submit alternative responses, which may be published here as well.
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The Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow, England is operated by the Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT), a charity based just north of Ingrow (West) railway station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire.  Founded in 1965, it became a registered charity in 1981 and opened in 1990.

The Trust has provided railway carriages for over 70 films and television programmes.

Two of the steam locomotives owned by VCT - "Sir Berkeley" and "Bellerophon" have visited railways in the Netherlands. "Bellerophon" has also visited Belgium.  "Sir Berkeley" is on loan to the Middleton Railway, Leeds. A third locomotive, Lord Mayor, an 0-4-0 saddle tank steam locomotive is on static display in the museum.

The VCT Collection

Carriages
The Vintage Carriages Trust owns the following carriages:
 Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway four-wheeled tri-composite no. 176, built 1876
 Midland Railway composite no. 357, built 1886
 Great Northern Railway brake third no. 589, built 1888
 Great Northern Railway brake composite no. 2856, built 1898
 Metropolitan Railway brake third no. 427, built 1910
 Metropolitan Railway third no. 465, built 1919
 Metropolitan Railway first no. 509, built 1923
 Southern Railway brake third no. 3554, built 1924
 British Railways Bulleid design third no. 1469, built 1950

Road vehicles
Until early 2008, the museum was also home to a 1948 Scammell "mechanical horse", on loan from Tate & Lyle. This lorry attracted media attention in July 2002 when the museum received a speeding ticket, from Greater Manchester Police, claiming that the three-wheel vehicle had been caught speeding at 44 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone – when in fact it has a maximum speed of only 18 mph. (It was a case of mistaken identity: a Belgian car with the same number plate has been caught on camera in Bolton).  Museum bosses were pleased to be able to show CCTV footage in its defence – at the time of the incident it was in pieces in the Museum's workshops.

After a lengthy restoration into LNER blue livery, the mechanical horse and a matching trailer left Ingrow for pastures new in June 2008.

References

External links
 Vintage Carriages Trust website
 Filming credits
 Scammell "Mechanical Horse" at Ingrow, including photo

Museums in the City of Bradford
Transport in the City of Bradford
Railway museums in England
Buildings and structures in Keighley
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

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Museum of protestant history in La Rochelle
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This museum was funded in 1931 by the pastor Samuel Eynard and entirely renovated in 1995. It is now installed in rooms near the temple looking out onto an inner garden. There is a large collection of documents, engravings and various objects which tell us about protestant history in Aunis and Saintonge.
La Rochelle was an important centre for Protestantism
La Rochelle (17), temple: former Récollet church © Musée Rochelais d'Histoire Protestante
Through this collection we can trace the life of protestants in La Rochelle and Saintonge from the XVIth century up to the present day. There are :
Old maps of La Rochelle ;
Souvenirs of the Siege (1627-1628) ;
Portraits ;
Méreaux (tokens permitting communion participation) ;
A folding pulpit and communion chalice from the "Désert" ;
Photographs and manuscripts.
There are some very interesting and rare exhibits, china dishes made by Bernard Palissy or his followers, the insignia of the Gueux de Mer, who came to offer their support to the corsairs from La Rochelle during the wars of religion, the insignia worn by the followers of the duc de Guise during the Saint Barthélemy massacre, the portrait of a lady who was probably Catherine de Partenay, the duchess of Rohan, a tapestry depicting the Ten Commandments, dated 1779.
There is also small library containing many XVIIth and XVIIIth century books, bibles in every European language published in the XIXth century, and some recent documents about French Protestantism and the countries of Refuge.
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Favorite Texas grocer bags top 10 spot on global Best Places to Work list
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H-E-B bags a top 10 spot on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list.
Photo courtesy of H-E-B
Amid a list of some of the world's most notable tech companies, airlines, and mega-brands, Texas' favorite grocer is the cream of the crop, at least according to its workers.
Online job search company Glassdoor recently released the results of its 13th annual Employees' Choice Awards, highlighting the best places to work in the U.S., Canada, the UK, France, and Germany, with San Antonio-based H-E-B claiming the No. 10 spot in the category of best 100 workplaces with 1,000 or more employees.
The 100 Best Places to Work list is compiled based on anonymous employee reviews about workers' jobs, work environment, and their employer, and ranks companies on their overall rating during the past year on a five-point scale. H-E-B received an overall rating of 4.4, barely lower than the 4.6 rating No. 1-ranked Bain & Company received, with employee reviews calling H-E-B "awesome" and referencing "good hours" and "good pay."
H-E-B's current ranking on the 100 Best Places to Work list represents its highest Glassdoor spot, though the grocer has consistently ranked within Glassdoor's top 30 best workplaces since 2014, and even ranked No. 18 on the correlating employee-driven list of Best Places to Interview, in 2017.
And while powerhouse brands like Google, Microsoft, Delta Air Lines, Lululemon, and In-N-Out Burger fill out the list's top 10 alongside H-E-B, it is noteworthy that the grocer ranked higher on the best workplaces list than giants like Facebook (No. 11), LinkedIn (No. 13), Mastercard (No. 28), Apple (No. 31), and Trader Joe's (No. 35).
The grocer is no stranger to accolades. In fact, the company was recently named Grocer of the Year by industry publication Grocery Dive, in part for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a point echoed by the Glassdoor award. That response included the commitment to keep employees safe at its more than 400 stores by implementing a range of social-distancing, sanitation, and masking efforts.
"COVID-19 is in the driver's seat and every employer has been impacted. This year's winning employers have proven, according to employees, that even during extraordinary times, they'll rise to the challenge to support their people," Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong says in a release. "A mission-driven culture, transparent leadership, and career opportunities are always hallmarks of Best Places to Work winners. This year, we also see exceptional employers who have prioritized the health, safety, and well-being of their employees. My congratulations go to all of this year's outstanding Employees' Choice Award winners."
Other Texas companies landing on Glassdoor's employee-chosen 100 Best Places to Work list include Dallas-based Southwest Airlines (No. 21), Austin-based Keller Williams (No. 33), Dallas-based Texas Instruments (No. 38), and Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center (No. 90).
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WhatsApp Desktop App Gains Support for Voice and Video Calls
Thursday March 4, 2021 1:05 am PST by Tim Hardwick
WhatsApp is today updating its desktop app for Mac and PC with voice and video calling support, the company announced.
Like WhatsApp's mobile app, voice and video calls on the desktop equivalent are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring only the people conversing have access to the contents of a call.
WhatsApp has been in the process of testing the new desktop call functions over the last few months, so today marks the full rollout of what were previously only experimental features accessible by a select few.
As it stands, one important difference on desktop from the mobile experience is that it isn't yet possible to participate in group calls. Only one-to-one calling is currently supported, although WhatsApp says it intends to add group voice and video calling to desktop in the future.
To use the new video and voice calling features on WhatsApp Desktop, users need to have a mobile WhatsApp account. To learn how to set up WhatsApp on your Mac, be sure to check out our step-by-step guide.
[ 42 comments ]
ashleykaryl
Hmm, end-to-end encryption, but with Facebook's privacy policy I am wondering to which end.
The Samurai
Still no iPad version...
pavvel
Who cares? WhatsApp is making me vomit with their back tracking, we love the customer and your privacy drivel.
Nordichund
Good for WhatsApp, another attempt to close the gate before all the sheep escape.
Wordman
No thanks, Mr Zuckerberg.
Suckfest 9001
Meh at least it works on all desktop platforms instead of just Macs. Still deleted my account anyway


It would need a small bulb, and a small bulb holder, and care would have to be taken to make sure that, although small, there was still enough room for the wiring and to change the bulb. I did some scouting around online and found some E12 bulbs with a 40 mm bulb diameter, and some E12 bulb holders for not a lot of money. Now that I had a tiny bulb and bulb holder, the fun work could begin.
The lamp is constructed from two halves. Each half has a pocket which, when the halves are brought together, creates a void space inside the base of the lamp to hide the electronics.
WARNING: This project uses mains electricity! Household mains supplies can kill if misused! Make sure you're comfortable and understand working with household mains supply before attempting this project.
DISCLAIMER: For this project I used my CNC router. I understand that not everyone has access to such machines, however, there is no reason this project can't be completed with other tools. If you can cut circles and route out a pocket, you're all set!
The wood I used was already planed quite well so I didn't need to do anything more to flatten it. It is important to make sure that at least one side is flat as you don't want any gaps when you glue the halves together.
For this project I used my CNC router to cut the two halves of the lamp. The SVG file I used is attached to this project and I used MakerCAM.com to generate the g-code needed for the machine. Anyone using a CNC router will likely have their own methods and techniques for operations and will just require the files, but for interest, I used a 3 mm, 4-flute tool at a speed of 1000 mm/min and cut depth of 1 mm per pass.
The pockets are 15 mm deep which is 3/4 of the total thickness of my material.
The next step was to create a hole for the bulb holder to sit in. This was done by first holding the bulb holder upside down and halfway over one of the lamp halves, as shown in the photo. I then used a pencil to draw a semi-circle around the half of the holder over the wood. That might sound confusing so check the photo to see what I mean.
Once I had my mark, I used a Dremel fitted with a sanding drum to sand away the wood until it matched the mark. This was done for both halves of the lamp so that when the two halves were brought together there was a round hole in the inside wall of the lamp.
This is where the bulb holder will sit so make sure it fits nicely in, while holding the two lamp halves together.
The next step was to wire the lamp up. The first thing I did was a slight modification to the bulb holder. I cut away a small section of holder to allow the wires to come out sideways, this reduced the stress on them and allowed the bulb holder to sit further down in the base, as shown in the photo.
The two wires from the bulb holder were wired to a terminal block. The bulb holder and terminal block assembly was then held in one half of the lamp to asses the fit. Once I was happy with their position I marked an area that could be drilled through to make a hole for the mains wire to come through.This hole is also shown in the photo.
The mains wire was fed through the small hole on the back of the lamp and wired to to terminal block. Filament bulbs are not polarised so it does not matter which way the wires are connected, however, it is always good practice to use the convention; black to negative (UK Neutral, blue wire) and red to positive (UK Live, brown). Lastly, I used a cable tie to secure the mains wire and prevent it from being pulled out of the lamp.
It's a good idea to test your lamp now to make sure it's wired correctly, as once it's glued in, there is not much that can be done to fix a problem. Be careful and keep your hands away from connections during the test.
Once the lamp is all wired up, I glued the components in place using a hot glue gun. The bulb holder was glued down and the terminal block was glued in the space next to it. Next, I glued the two halves of the lamp together with wood glue and clamped the whole thing up nice and tight. I left it overnight to dry before removing the clamps and sanding the work to a smooth finish. I used a little bit of masking tape to cover the bulb holder to prevent dust getting stuck in there while sanding.
And there we have it! The ring lamp is complete! If you decide to make your own ring lamp I would love to hear about your experiences and ways the process could perhaps be made simpler :D I hope you enjoyed reading!
Where did you get the wood? It looks like floor segments. How thick are they?


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Q: Get-ADGroupmember with two Groups I have two AD groups and would like to extract their member. I can run the script if I specify one group. When I put a second group it is impossible for me to generate two different reports. Can you help me?
$ADGroup= "Group_Test","Group_Test_ABC"
$Group = Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $ADGroup | ? {$_.objectclass -eq "user"}
$Path = "C:\Temp\$ADGroup $((Get-Date).ToString("(yyyy-MM-dd)")).xlsx"

$Result =
foreach ($User in $Group) {
    Get-ADUser -Identity $User -Properties * | Select @{n='ADGROUP NAME';e={$ADGroup}}, @{n="DisplayName";e={$_.DisplayName}}, @{n='SamAccountName';e={$_.SamAccountName}}, @{n='UPN';e={$_.UserPrincipalName}}
}

$Result | Export-Excel -Path $Path

A: Get-ADGroupMember only takes one group as input, if you need to query more than one you would need to loop over the groups:
$ADGroup = "Group_Test", "Group_Test_ABC"
$result = foreach($group in $ADGroup)
{
    $members = Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $group | Where-Object {
        $_.objectclass -eq "user"
    }

    foreach($member in $members)
    {
        $user = Get-ADUser $member -Properties DisplayName

        [pscustomobject]@{
            'ADGROUP NAME'    = $group
            DisplayName       = $user.DisplayName
            SamAccountName    = $user.SamAccountName
            UserPrincipalName = $user.UserPrincipalName
        }
    }
}

$Path = "C:\Temp\$ADGroup $((Get-Date).ToString("(yyyy-MM-dd)")).xlsx"
$Result | Export-Excel -Path $Path

There is a different alternative to above approach, more efficient one but it would only find those users that exists on the current Domain, if there were members (users) on different Domains this would not find them.
$result = foreach($group in $ADGroup)
{
    $thisGroup = Get-ADGroup $group
    $splat = @{
        LDAPFilter = "(memberOf=$($thisGroup.DistinguishedName))"
        Properties = 'DisplayName'
    }
    $users = Get-ADUser @splat
    foreach($user in $users)
    {
        [pscustomobject]@{
            'ADGROUP NAME'    = $thisGroup.SamAccountName
            DisplayName       = $user.DisplayName
            SamAccountName    = $user.SamAccountName
            UserPrincipalName = $user.UserPrincipalName
        }
    }
}


MetaLab's design philosophy is pretty simple: We build excellent user experiences. That's it. Our philosophy is 5 words long. It's shorter than some Starbucks drink orders.
User research is at the crux of our design process. We believe you can't build a good product if you don't know who you're designing for. Call us design-led or research-led. We wouldn't mind. We like words with hyphens. But that hyphenated list is missing that very important word in our 5-word philosophy: user.
Our goal is to make useful, valuable, and beautiful products. That's how you delight people and exceed your business goals. And to do all that, we have to know a lot about the people who'll fall in love with your product.
The more the designer knows about the user, the better the product will be.
When you're building a chair just for you, one data point (your opinion) really matters. When you're building millions of the same chair to sell to millions of people, it makes sense to get a few more data points.
So who does the UX research at MetaLab?
Well, our research team does. It only makes sense. It's in our title. But wherever possible, designers take part in research, too. Designers play an integral part—even if it isn't explicitly in their title. Designers sit in on interviews and sometimes moderate user tests.
And although researchers and the designers do the lion's share of the research work (with researchers doing the mother lion's share—again research is in our name), every team member touches research. Including clients.
Research is not a solo effort.
So how and when do you do UX research at Metalab?
Honestly, there's no time in a product's lifecycle that you shouldn't be researching.
You should start with it and launch with it. And keep testing in production. It's like voting. Do it early and often.
We start our research at the discovery phase at MetaLab. But that's just the beginning.
What is this industry all about?
Who is this client really? And how can we help them meet their goals?
We dive into a lot of different spaces with a lot of cool clients. From fintech to fast food, we're often the fresh eyes our clients need to see the forest and the trees. We come in with no preconceived notions, so we can leave with a great product.
At this time, researchers are soaking up everything they can from stakeholders, articles, books, and anything available that relates to our design problem at hand. Plus, we're creating assumption maps with the team. We're building a strong foundation for the way ahead.
After discovery, there is still research to do. Researchers dive into user experience, interviewing, testing, surveying. Designers continue checking what's out there in the industry with direct and indirect competitors. They're finding what's great and what's not-so-great. The goal is to find holes we can fill with awesome features and useful products.
The researcher creates the research plan and the whole team piles on to review and refine it. Every team member is part of the final research plan, even clients. A developer may need a different question answered than a content person who may need a different question answered than the client. All team members need to understand what the user wants and who the user is.
What does research touch during the design planning?
Research touches everything. Before designers pick up a pen or open their laptops to start sketching and prototyping, they need to know what features to work on.
At MetaLab we create actionable research. We don't make decks that sit locked in a vault like a treasure in an Indiana Jones movie. Our research tells us what features the product needs to have and how important those features are. It's important to us that our clients go to market with an MVP. Not too bloated to be overwhelming or unsustainable, not too lean to be useless.
Our research creates a scoped and validated feature set. Once we have our prioritized feature set, our designers can open their laptops to sketch.
So we've started wireframes and Hi-Fi design, how does research help now?
Now it's time for some user testing! At the wireframe stage, our designers are focused on product flow and function. They create sketches we user test to answer some higher level questions. We test our designs to make sure they're accomplishing what they're meant to, are usable, and provide value.
We test 1-2 times on wireframes and often 1-2 more when the designs are more polished, at the Hi-Fi state. And Hi-Fi, cornily enough, is a time for high fives. Watching users fall in love with your product can feel like you won the Superbowl. Although… no one has dumped icy Gatorade on a researcher at MetaLab. Yet.
After launch, there's more research isn't there?
You got it. The future of a product is a researcher's ongoing responsibility. We're there to help prioritize new features and to A/B test features in production.
We've told you everything we do. It's not a secret. We're no more afraid of sharing this information than a Michelin-starred chef would be worried to tell you the ingredients of their flan. Because it's not just the ingredients. It's how you do it, the years of experience, the know-how to tell you that your flan will sink if you take it out of the oven too soon.
We've shipped more than 172 products. We make a pretty great metaphorical flan.
And we're constantly refining—we learn more from every project.
Our advice to you: build for the user, keep things scoped, and design collaboratively.
You can only do this with research.


A car that combines luxury, performance, and technology sounds like the ideal vehicle. The 2018 Mazda6 does just that and its newly available turbocharged engine give drivers a thrilling experience. The 2018 Mazda6 is the best model so far after receiving a new engine option and a sharp redesign.
But does it stack up well against others? One of the ways we determine the prestige of a vehicle is by comparing it to similar vehicles in its class. Here, we are putting the 2018 Mazda6 up against the 2018 Kia Optima. For fairness' sake, we are just going to feature information about the base models of each vehicle in our chart below.
Despite the base model's slightly smaller price tag, the Mazda6 comes with numerous technologies that the base Kia Optima doesn't. In addition to the features in the table above, the Mazda6 comes standard with MAZDA CONNECT™ infotainment, a unique system that is not available on any other automaker's vehicles. However, what has garnered the car so much notoriety is its new turbocharged engine option. The lowest two trim levels, the Sport and Touring, come fitted with a 187-horsepower SKYACTIV®-G 2.5-liter DOHC 16-valve 4-cylinder engine with VVT and Cylinder Deactivation. While that is certainly enough power to put some hair on your chest, the Grand Touring, Grand Touring Reserve, and Signature all come with something new. These models feature a 250-horsepower, SKYACTIV®-G 2.5-liter Dynamic Pressure Turbo DOHC 16-valve 4-cylinder with VVT. As far as the Mazda lineup goes, you won't find a better engine option.
Come down to Matt Castrucci Mazda and check out the 2018 Mazda6 for yourself and see why it has been praised since it debuted. Our team will go over everything else you need to know and we can even conduct more model comparisons if you wish.


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Sofie Bæk Andersen (born 15 January 1994) is a female Danish handball player who plays for Silkeborg-Voel KFUM.

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Self manage or contract out?
Just as a start I'm not selling anything!!, I know every phone call that opens with the words this is a sales call normally, but all I am looking for is feedback.
My personal background is in the mortgage & financial services industry. Working for a clearing bank "prime lender" prior to 'M' day. Then moving into commercial and property development financing in the mid 00's. I have now moved into a totally separate area of commercial financing.
# A full quotation at enquiry stage to include everything up to handing the keys back to be rented or sold.
We have had the relevant experience of full project management recently, completing two developments on time and on budget.
ie, the two lads I have the plastering business with, after a full day on site are in Knutsford now (22:40) helping another plasterer to get a house finished.
The recent experience I have of sourcing jobs has been mostly internet advertising (organic) all within the local area.
Thanks for taking the time to read this thread; please could you give me some feedback on the following questions?
Do you manage the development yourself or use a site manager?
What can I do to be appealing to developers?
If you were looking for a new contractor, where would you look?
Who recommended a contractor to you initially?
What would be the best type of pricing? To break down each individual aspect or price for the whole job?
Are there any things that put you off taking up a quotation?


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US demand for hydrogen may quadruple by 2050: NREL
16 November 2020 Keiron Greenhalgh
Demand for hydrogen in the US could reach as much as 41 million mt/year by 2050, a four-fold increase compared with the present, according to a recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report.
That forecast eyes green hydrogen riding the recent wave of enthusiasm for the technology, with the prognostication based on assumptions related to research and development-driven reductions in the cost of low-temperature electrolysis (LTE) and financial incentives for LTE. Green hydrogen is produced via electrolysis from renewable or other zero-emissions power sources.
Such a situation would, according to NREL estimates, reduce US petroleum use by 15%, whereby 12 million mt/year of hydrogen would fuel 18% of cars and 26% of light-duty trucks, with a further 5 million mt/year fueling 22% of the medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fleet.
In addition, LTE could boost renewable power generation deployment and utilization, according to the study.
"When LTE contributes to hydrogen production in our scenarios, the capacity of renewable energy generation technologies increases because of additional demand for [low-cost, dispatch-constrained electricity or LCE]. In addition, utilization of renewable electricity generators increases, because generation that exceeds the non-LTE load would be curtailed without the LTE," it said.
The NREL reference scenario, meanwhile, has a US hydrogen market size of 22 million mt/year. That forecast is based on the current status of hydrogen technologies and expected hydrogen demand growth across all sectors. It is based on US Energy Information Administration natural gas prices and electrolysis costs and all of the production being "grey hydrogen" via steam methane reformation.
However, the report estimates a "serviceable" demand total of 106 million mt/year across nine applications by the middle of the 21st century, about 11 times larger than 2015 US on-purpose hydrogen production of 10 million mt/year of hydrogen, which was used primarily for oil refining and ammonia production.
The hydrogen demand for those two applications is expected to grow, owing to the need to refine heavier crude oils and increased demand for fertilizer.
According to the analysis, almost half of the potential market would be for industrial processes, including synthetic hydrocarbon production (14 million mt/year), metals refining (12 million mt/year), oil refining (7 million mt/year), ammonia production (4 million mt/year) and biofuels production (9 million mt/year).
Fuel cell electric vehicles would account for over a quarter of the serviceable consumption at 29 million mt/year.
The remainder would be used to support other energy systems in the form of seasonal electricity storage (15 million mt/year) and injection into the natural gas system (16 million mt/year).
All the expected demand could be produced from only 15% of the annual technical potential of electricity from combined US onshore and offshore wind resources, assuming other domestic uses of wind resource continued at 2017 level, NREL said.
The report admits there could be other uses too - and therefore further upside. NREL said analysis showed that if drivers outside the scope of the study increased demand for non-petroleum fuel, hydrogen injection into the gas system and seasonal electricity storage, the market size in the LCE scenario could more than double to 94 million mt/year.
The NREL report was commissioned as part of "H2@Scale," a US Department of Energy initiative led by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Technologies Office.
The same day the report came out, 8 October - designated "National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day" - a coalition of major US and multi-national companies issued a call to arms to politicians and other executives to embrace the use of hydrogen and the possibilities for the US in the sector.
"The US is uniquely positioned to build a world-leading hydrogen economy," according to the coalition. "The US has the abundant, low-cost primary energy sources needed to produce low-carbon hydrogen. For electrolytic hydrogen, the country has ample renewable and low-carbon electricity resources, including wind, solar, hydropower, and nuclear."
The companies laid out how and why they believe demand will grow and what the US has to lose if it fails to engage the spirit of American enterprise and can-do attitude politicians - especially those stumping for votes - are apt to cite.
It also touts the sector's prospects for the creation of well-paid jobs, a particularly attractive pitch after the spike in unemployment in recent months due to the coronavirus pandemic
Hydrogen could help meet 14% of US energy demand by 2050, the equivalent of more than 2,468 TWh or 8.4 billion MMBtu per year, according to the roadmap, which was co-ordinated by the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association.
"Today, the hydrogen industry as well as the US are at a crossroads as the country's energy future is determined," the coalition said. "Companies are grappling with decarbonization, preservation of natural resources, aging infrastructure, energy storage, an evolving regulatory landscape and new customer demands. The resiliency and reliability of our energy system are growing concerns.
"A vibrant hydrogen industry would maintain US energy leadership and security, create jobs, significantly reduce carbon emissions and support economic growth," it said. "The time to boost support for hydrogen is now. Decisions and investments made now will have long-term impact. Moreover, many energy infrastructure decisions take a long time to implement.
"Investment is needed to lay the groundwork for hydrogen solutions. Capital is required to build foundational hydrogen infrastructure and companies need the right incentives to invest in low-carbon hydrogen solutions. Regulatory barriers and appropriate codes and standards need to be addressed to enable large-scale commercialization and a robust, reliable supply chain," according to the coalition.
By 2030, the hydrogen economy in the US could generate an estimated $140 billion/year in revenue and support 700,000 total jobs across the hydrogen value chain, it said, citing US Department of Energy data. By 2050, it could drive growth by generating about $750 billion/year in revenue and a cumulative 3.4 million jobs, it added.
The coalition even foresees hydrogen enabling a "competitive nuclear industry," it said, at a time when plants have been shutting in numbers unprecedented since the first commercial power reactors were built - largely as a result of low electricity prices.
Hydrogen would also enable smoother integration of low-carbon power resources, according to the study. "Grid-connected electrolyzers that produce hydrogen could provide a significant source of flexibility for intermittent renewables, providing long-duration storage solutions that are complementary to short-duration battery solutions," it said, adding "they can provide additional load for low-carbon power sources like renewable and nuclear power."
Posted 16 November 2020 by Keiron Greenhalgh, Editor, Energy and Natural Resources Group, IHS Markit