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The complexity of the problems related to the local, regional and global environments, resource use and sustainability may challenge the future development of human societies. Our generation and future ones, however, have to address these issues using all available approaches as well as to develop innovative approaches to create a comprehensive, integrated understanding, that can deliver reliable information for adaptation and mitigation policy. The demand for timely assessment of vulnerabilities in the climate system and in global ecosystem services, in support to policy will continue to grow, and the research community will face the challenge and commensurate opportunity to respond to such needs in a timely and effective manner.
The foundation of a virtual research institute between Beijing University in China and the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, a joint research laboratory of CEA, CNRS and UVSQ in France will address the challenge of quantifying and understanding the key interactions and in the Earth System between biogeochemical cycles, the physical climate system and human induced changes. The prime focus of the virtual institute in its early development phase will be the study of regional and global feedback loops between the terrestrial carbon cycle, atmospheric composition changes and climate variability and trends. The approach will rely on process based numerical models, empirical models and analysis of past and present Earth Observations.
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Why Platform Changes Are A Bigger Deal Than GDPR
by Allison Schiff // Monday, September 21st, 2020 – 12:35 am
Today's column is written by Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It's part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger's editorial team.
The ad industry is facing a pair of interrelated existential threats: government regulation and policy changes coming from Google and Apple.
Putting aside the fact that the writing has been clearly on the wall, and largely ignored, for years, these threats have transformed from disquieting specs on the horizon (that's not tech standards-related wordplay) into looming realities.
But it's the moves being made by the platforms, rather than privacy regulations, that pose the larger and more immediate challenge to the digital advertising community.
When a law is passed, the sky doesn't immediately fall, because laws need to be enforced and clarified. Regulators, which are often underfunded, understaffed and time-constrained, take on the former, and the court system handles the latter.
A regular cadence of enforcement actions and court cases helps to interpret the law as it's put into practice, and companies also have the opportunity to argue their case.
This is a slow and necessary process.
More than two years after the General Data Protection Regulation went into effect, for example, there's still debate about exactly what counts as explicit consent, which is not actually defined in the statute itself.
Ambiguity in the law doesn't mean companies don't need to prepare themselves to comply, but data protection authorities appreciate and take into consideration when businesses make a good faith effort, even if it falls short.
Not so with the platforms, which can and do flip a switch to make a change. Google and Apple can make decisions on the fly, and the millions of companies that rely on their platforms just have to roll with them.
On the positive side, technology companies can move to quickly quash bad-faith workarounds and product laggards to get with the program.
But a policy change from Google, Apple or any large platform with arguably dominant market share has the potential to rock an industry. Just look at the IDFA kerfuffle.
During its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple made a blink-and-you'll-miss-it announcement about the future of the IDFA sandwiched between all of the usual hardware and software-related razzle-dazzle you get at an Apple event. Cool, you can turn on your car with an iPhone. Apple Pencil for iPad can transform your handwriting into text. And, oh yeah, the IDFA will become opt-in with iOS 14. But hey, check out these surround-sound AirPods.
Two privacy managers at Apple spent about two minutes out of a nearly two-hour event glossing over features that have the potential to upend the $80 billion app install market.
But the platforms aren't immune to external pressure.
There was an outcry at the tight deadline Apple gave developers to adopt its AppTransparency Framework, and so rather than pushing it through as part of the recent iOS 14 release as planned, Apple announced a delay until early next year to give developers more time to prepare.
And there you go: Apple as a privacy company can make unilateral decisions. The IDFA – and the reprieve – are both Apple's to give.
By the same token, there's theoretically nothing stopping Google from deciding to implement the proposals within its Privacy Sandbox without further discussion at the World Wide Web Consortium where these proposed standards are currently being debated (other than ad community mutiny and the threat of antitrust scrutiny, of course).
In early August, the Google software engineer behind TURTLEDOVE wrote on GitHub that Google would be "very willing to explore" the ideas set forth in Criteo's SPARROW proposal, which is a response to TURTLEDOVE that suggests the creation of a trusted gatekeeper outside of the browser that would serve as a clearing house of sorts for auctions and personal data.
While it's good news that Google seems somewhat open to discussion, it's clear what the power dynamic is here.
As James Rosewell, CEO and co-founder of device detection company 51Degrees put it to me recently: "The king has listened to your plea and is prepared to speak with you further."
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As you're probably aware, the primary standard for consent under the GDPR is unambiguous, not explicit. Explicit consent is required for a relatively small number of instances such as "special categories" of personal data and transfer of data to third countries.

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All species in the Elaeagnaceae examined are nodulated only by Frankia strains belonging to phylogenetic Cluster 3 . Sequencing of 16S rRNA genes and DNA-DNA hybridization have indicated that isolated strains are diverse within the confines of Cluster 3 (Fernandez, et al., 1989; Huguet, et al., 2001; Nazaret, et al., 1989), although Cluster 3 16S rRNA gene sequences from the field reveals that some strains or strain groups are cosmopolitan (Clawson, et al., 1998; Nalin et al., 1997). Identical partial 16S rDNA gene sequences have been derived from E. angustifolia and Myrica pensylvanica nodules from Connecticut, an E. pungens in Hamilton, New Zealand, and Discaria trinervis, Talguenea quinquenervia,Trevoa trinervis and an unidentified Elaeagnus in Chile (Clawson, et al., 1998). The same sequence belongs to a major group of strains in France (Ea1-2, HR27-14) (Jamann, et al., 1992). This finding probably reflects the conserved nature of the DNA region that was sequenced but it does suggest that a related group of elaeagnus strains is widely distributed in nature. One study that looked at the distribution of elaeagnus strains in a soil column yielded seven PCR-RFLP profiles of DNA from nodules induced by trapping experiments. Six corresponded to previously identified genomic species and the seventh was unique. Thus, a relatively high diversity was found in the samples but it was within the bounds of the diversity of strains known to infect the plants (Nalin, et al., 1997).
In Europe, Elaeagnus spp. have been recently introduced but Hippophae rhamnoides was present throughout Europe during all stages of the late glaciation and probably helped maintain the populations of Cluster 3 frankiae (Jamann, et al., 1992). The same situation holds for North America where most Elaeagnus species are introduced and universally nodulated. The native Shepherdia is infected by a wide variety of Cluster 3 frankiae that most likely also infect introduced Elaeagnus spp. (Huguet, et al., 2001).


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Juan de los Santos, a former undercover cop from Paraguay, once ready to take down the biggest drug cartel in Latin America, has lost everything; his wife and kids brutally murdered on a cold dark night and with them, his will to live. Juan, himself didn't survive unscathed; on that cold night he took two bullets, one still in his heart, the other one damaging a part of his brain, cursing him sporadic amnesia. In an internal and external struggle with his own demons, Juan must defeat incredible odds to save innocent people. Sleepless, and afflicted by treacherous nightmares of that night, he is willing to take any job to alleviate his suffering.
Genre : Action, Drama
Actors : Amin Joseph, Ashleigh Hubbard, Carlotta Elektra Bosch, Celso Franco, Christian Rodrigo, Danny Trejo, Estella Warren, Hector Echavarria, Patrick Kilpatrick, Rob Fuller, Robert Miano
Director : Hector Echavarria
Country : USA
Keywords: Drug Lord Sin salida
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
After the appearance of a new Gojira (Godzilla), the Japanese government builds a robotic Godzilla from the bones of the original monster that attacked Tokyo in 1954 to stop the beast.
Genre: Action, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
The Christmas Heart
The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman (Ty Wood), a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann (Teri Polo) and Mike (Paul Essiembre) anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother (Tess Harper) is in anguish at her own son's bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force [Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam] gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness [Savin Phillip].
Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
Hot on the trails of Sheath and Exile, Ghost-Spider teams up with the rest of the Secret Warriors to bring down the villains for good.
Genre: Action, Animation
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Mr. Arkadin
Orson Welles's "Mr. Arkadin" tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over the editing to others. Following two Spanish-dubbed versions, released in Madrid in March 1955, the first English-language version was released in London in August 1955 as "Confidential Report" but was never released in the US. The fourth version, called "the Corinth version", was discovered in 1961 and was released in the US in 1962. Finally, in 2006, "the Criterion edit" was released; likely to remain the one closest to Welles' intentions.
Country: France, Spain, Switzerland
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
Dorothy Mills
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder…
Country: France, Ireland
Killer Assistant
A magazine editor's life and career, simultaneously begin to unravel, after she takes on a new assistant, with secret motives of his own.


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The main villa is laid out on one level and has three bedrooms: one double and two twin rooms. One of the bedrooms has it's own ensuite bathroom and two have their own small balconies.
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Keanna Macinnes (photo by Ian MacNicol for Scottish Swimming)
Less than three months after having surgery to remove her appendix, Keanna Macinnes looked to be well on the way to recovery, with victory in the 200m butterfly on the final day of action from the Scottish Winter Short Course Meet in Edinburgh.
Following a strong heat swim, Macinnes (University of Stirling), was in the centre lane, however, it was Ciara Schlosshan (Edinburgh University) who took the race out from the front but little separated the two. Macinnes timed her charge to perfection and with a strong final turn, moved ahead, taking the touch in 2:08.30. Schlosshan was second in 2:09.31 with Yasmin Perry, University of Aberdeen Performance, coming home for third in 2:11.58.
Macinnes said of her performance,
"I'm quite happy with that. I'm not fully back to proper training yet and this morning was a really good swim as well, which is unusual for me!
"I had appendicitis during just before match 3 of ISL in Naples and had surgery when I was out there. I have just done a slow build back into training and I'm not quite there yet, but I do feel that was a very good swim.
"Aside from the appendicitis, ISL was a really enjoyable experience. I was part of Tokyo Frog Kings and I particularly liked the whole team ethos and getting to know people from other cultures. And it all really went towards wanting to race fast for your team and I think I definitely had some very good swims for the team."
Speaking about the season ahead and the prospect of more international competitions, Macinnes said,
"I do think I'm far more settled in, compared to when I was doing age group training. There's a lot more science behind my training now and I feel I understand more what's going to be happening, and I'm more experienced around race strategy so it is a bit less unpredictable than it might have been a few years ago. I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do."
Edinburgh University's Kara Hanlon secured a brace of breaststroke golds, winning the 100m event in a new personal best time of 1:06.63. Her Edinburgh team-mate, Erin Robertson, was second in 1:08.47, while University of Stirling's Anna Morgan was third in 1:09.34.
Hanlon said of her performance,
"I had a bit of a wonky second turn there, but I pulled it back and ended up with a PB, which was nice, as the last time I PB'd in the event was back here in 2019. I'm pretty chuffed."
Speaking about the work she has to put in for short course, she said,
"The best part of my swimming, is my actual swimming which is why long course suits me better. I'm not that big an athlete so I don't carry too much momentum coming in off the dive as other people, but I'm trying to work on my dives and turns as much as possible and get as little resistance as I can coming off those walls. It's something that I'm just going to have to keep working at. But, as long as I'm putting out consistently first places, and pushing myself out in front and away from the rest of the field, the more confident I become and that can only be a good thing.
Edinburgh's Stephen Clegg rounded off a very successful weekend breaking more S12 world record times in the 100m butterfly (55.37) and 100m backstroke (57.32). Clegg said of his form,
"I'm really pleased. I always come into a meet expecting high standards from myself. Training has been really relaxed with my coaches Mat and Chris being really good with me coming out of Tokyo. My focus is to make sure that I'm getting back to enjoying swimming, enjoying training which I really have been of late, and that's translating into the competition pool.
"It's hard to say but Tokyo was a disappointment overall because I went there to win a specific race and I fell short of that by a very small margin. It was quite difficult to come back at first and that's where my coach has been really good with me. I'm not focussed too much on the butterfly, just because mentally I need a bit of a break from it. But I'm still staying fit, and still staying in touch with swimming, working a lot more technically than anything else, and mental head space plays much more an important part in the competition pool than some people realise."
In other events, Callum Melville (Nova Centurion) broke his second British Junior Record of the Meet finishing in a time of 2:12.89 for 200m breaststroke. Yesterday he broke the record in the 100m event posting a time of 1:00.47. Angus Allison (University of Stirling) secured the medley double winning the 200m IM, while Edinburgh University's Nick Quinn swam his last competitive race in the 200m breaststroke final, where he finished second behind fellow countryman Uiseann Cooke.
Full results can be found on the Swim Scotland website.
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The Scottish Winter Short Course Meet is taking place at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh between 10th – 12th December.
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My work is an invitation to begin a visual dialogue with the viewer. To me painting is a form of language that gives shape to a space for contemplative engagement. It is meant to initiate an exchange with the viewer seeking a deeper examination of its content towards a renewed perception.
The imagery is abstract and reductive in nature – a play of line, space and sometimes color.
Munira Naqui was born in Chittagong, a small town on the coast of Bay of Bengal, which is now Bangladesh. She left Bangladesh in 1974 to attend Moscow State University where she studied Economics. She came to United States in 1982. Maine has been home to her since 1993. Munira attended the University of Pennsylvania and workshops and classes at Maine of College of Art Continuing Studies programs.
She has been painting all her life. The last 15 years have been dedicated to a full time painting practice. She uses encaustic a combination of beeswax and tree resin as her primary medium with oil and graphite on wood or aluminum panels.
She lives and works in Portland, Maine, USA.


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On Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 at 7 pm, Nobel-prize winner Dr. John Mather, the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, will give a free, illustrated, non-technical talk on: "Cosmic Instability: How a Smooth Early Universe Grew into Everyone You Know."
Foothill College and Bay Area nonprofit Dream Volunteers have partnered again on the Guatemala Teachers Corp for winter and spring 2021.
Even before the pandemic, housing was a big concern for our student veterans at Foothill College.
"Planet 9 from Outer Space: Searching for a Distant Planet in our Solar System," streams live via YouTube on Nov. 11.
Foothill Alum Joins Art History Faculty
Cynthia Brannvall earned her A.A. in Humanities at Foothill College.


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Q: Laravel OrderBy Relationship count with pagination I have many projects and each has many orders, some completed, some not.
I want to order them by the amount of completed orders like this:
$products = $products->orderBy(function($product) {
    return $product->orders->where('status', 2)->count();
})->paginate(15);

I know the order call doesn't work like this but this is the best was show the problem. SortBy doesn't work because I want to use pagination.

A: Finally found a good solution for the problem:
$products = $products->join('orders', function ($join) {
                        $join->on('orders.product_id', '=', 'products.id')
                            ->where('orders.status', '=', 2);
                    })
                    ->groupBy('products.id')
                    ->orderBy('count', $order)
                    ->select((['products.*', DB::raw('COUNT(orders.product_id) as count')]))->paginate(50);

A: Try this if it works:
    $categories = Prodcuts::with(array('orders' => function($query) {
       $query->select(DB::raw('SELECT * count(status) WHERE status = 2 as count'))
        $query->orderBy('MAX(count)')
     }))->paginate(15);

    return View::make('products.index', compact('categories'));

Note: This is not tested.

A: From 5.2 on wards you can use the withCount for counting relationship result.
In this case the
$products = $products->withCount(['orders' => function ($query) {
    $query->where('status', 2);
}]);

Reference : https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/eloquent-relationships

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Pongal: Amazon Prime to premiere 'Kaashmora'; stream 'Kabali' & 'Theri'
12 Jan, 2017 - 04:29 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: The festival of Pongal brings families and loved ones together for grand celebrations which involve shopping and gorging on yummylicious food. But now, Amazon Prime Video gives you another reason to celebrate Pongal with your entire family.
Amazon Prime Video has invited all with family to experience the best in Tamil entertainment by watching the latest Tamil movie blockbusters exclusively on its platform. The platform will air the world digital premiere of Kaashmora starring Karthi and Nayantara, before its TV release. Also watch political satire Joker, Rajinikanth starrer Kabali and Theri starring Vijay and Amy Jackson.
Kaashmora is a Tamil supernatural comedy fantasy film written and directed by Gokul. It revolves around Kaashmora and his family who live by cheating people in the name of black magic and dark spirits. One day, a PhD research student Yamini joins Kaashmora, only to gather evidence and expose him to the public.
Joker is a political satire which criticizes the present political absurdities. Mannar (protagonist), a villager, who declares himself as the Indian president protests against the government for absurdities. On a trial, he reveals his past. Everyone sees him as a joker, and the audience is questioned at the end.
Kabali, a revolutionary who fights for the betterment of his people in a foreign land, is falsely implicated and thrown behind bars. When he returns after his prison term, he starts a search for his wife and ends up confronting those who were the reason behind his miseries. What follows is a tale of revenge, emotion and payback. As a movie mounted on a huge scale, it truly brings a larger-than-life and much loved superstar to the streaming audiences.
In Theri, when an honest cop, Vijay Kumar's family is ruthlessly slaughtered by a politician and his aides, he decides to change his identity and commits his life to bringing up his daughter in a serene atmosphere. But, when some events compromise his identity, he does what he must to save his daughter and avenge the death of his family.
Amazon Prime already offers unlimited free one-day and two-day delivery to over 100 cities on eligible items from India's largest selection of products, 30 minutes early access for members on top deals and more benefits for an unparalleled shopping experience.
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Delhi HC on WhatsApp privacy: 'It's voluntary, user can delete it'
KOLKATA: Amid the controversy surrounding WhatsApp's updated privacy policy, the Delhi high court has remarked that it is a voluntary app and one can choose not to use the platform. The court was responding to a petition filed against the Facebook-owned messaging app following changes to its terms...
OTT summit Vidnet returns with first virtual edition
KOLKATA: Indiantelevision.com's flagship OTT summit Vidnet is back with its latest edition. Like other large industry summits in the post-pandemic era, Vidnet is also going virtual this year. Contiloe has come on board as the supporting partner, Bitmovin and Pallycon are the technology partners;...
Two senior Zee5 executives step down
KOLKATA: Rajneel Kumar and Jay Pandya, two senior executives at Zee5, have put down their papers. Kumar joined Zee5 in 2018 as head - expansion projects & head of products, and was entrusted with expanding the consumer offering to increase users and revenue by building new business verticals...
WhatsApp delays its privacy policy update
WhatsApp is having an extremely eventful start to 2021. It began with a massive furore over its new privacy policy that was set to be implemented from 8 February this year. The overwhelming criticism has forced the messaging app to take a step back and in the latest development, it has delayed the...
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Guest column: How OTT platforms can keep customer churn at bay
The breakneck speed of OTT growth currently underway across the globe, improvements in internet speeds, and the addition of improved technology have been advantageous for millions of users to gain access to content on the go.
Shemaroo's Ibaadat app gets a revamp
With everything going digital in 2020 combined with the lockdown in most countries, going to the Masjid was tough. Shemaroo came up with a solution for that – the Ibaadat app.
KOLKATA: Times Internet has appointed Puneet Tripathi as programmatic strategic planning & solutions head. He took on his new role in December 2020. Prior to this, Tripathi was associated with Alibaba group as monetisation strategy & programmatic director. His experience spans over 17 years...
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Petition filed challenging WhatsApp privacy policy
KOLKATA: In the wake of controversy over its updated privacy policy, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is facing legal suit in India. The new policy verges on user surveillance and threatens India's security, a petition filed against the messenger said. After a brief hearing today, the matter...


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Tiger of the Week Tiger of the Week: First-time Novelist Lili Anolik '00
By Mary Hui '17
Published in the April 22, 2015 Issue
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Lili Anolik '00 has just published her debut novel, Dark Rooms. It is a story of "sex and murder and glamour set at a New England prep school," as she describes it. Both a mystery and a coming-of-age story, Anolik wanted to write something that was "heavy on mood and atmospherics … sly and seductive … spooky, and [has] a fairy tale quality."
The novel was six years in the making. "The writing process was pretty brutal," Anolik said. "I loved writing the book but it definitely wasn't a snap."
Anolik was an English major and tennis player at Princeton, and wrote for The Daily Princetonian her senior year. Princeton, she said, "was hugely influential on my taste and sensibility." She recalls the many great and inspiring teachers she had — Laura Quinney on film noir, Larry Danson on Shakespeare, Michael Cadden on Irish drama — but also the slow, agonizing process of churning out papers. "I used to spend forever on my papers when I was an undergraduate — was just completely anal retentive and obsessive about them," she said.
As a contributing editor now at Vanity Fair (a "contributing editor" is actually someone who writes regularly for a publication; it doesn't involve any editing), Anolik works on profiles and cover stories regularly.
"I think writing for Vanity Fair is the best job in the world. Not only does the magazine give its writers space, it's respectful of voice. Meaning they don't mess with your prose!" she said.
The May issue will feature Anolik's cover story on the actress Sofia Vergara, and she is currently working on a story for the September issue "on a party held for Andy Warhol on an underground railway platform 50 years ago that was also the first public showing of video art."
"Cover stories are tricky because it's so easy for them turn out gossip-y or kiss-up-y," Anolik said. "You want the writing to have energy and snap — to be sensationalist and pulp propulsive and fun to read — but you also want to take the humanist approach to your subject, to always be intelligent and feeling. The ideal I aspire to is Jean Renoir crossed with Quentin Tarantino."
Meanwhile, Anolik recently sold proposal for a book on Eve Babitz ("the intrepid author and unofficial muse and midwife to L.A.'s 1960s nascent modern art scene," as the Los Angeles Time calls her) and the non-show business side of Hollywood, and is also ghostwriting a young adult book for Random House. And with two "wild little guys" — aged 5-months and 2-years — to take care of, Anolik is definitely keeping herself busy.
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There is an article in last week's Inner West Courier about Ian Moss, Cold Chisel guitarist & Annandale resident, "saddened by the loss of an 80-year-old tree he dubbed the "queen of the block" in Pritchard Lane after it was poisoned & had to be cut down last week." The 28-metre (91.8 feet) Eucalypt was growing in the back garden of a nearby property so someone had to sneak in to someone else's private property to poison the tree. I find this appalling & slightly scary. Imagine not knowing who of your neighbours poisoned your tree. I imagine it would erode any trust or friendship.
According to the article in the Inner West Courier, vandalism to trees has been growing in the Inner West. The article was also posted on FaceBook, which is where I saw it. After leaving a comment I received the following reply.
"According to Marrickville Council there have been 9 requests to Council to investigate reports of tree poisoning in the last 12 months. There have been 19 requests to Council to investigate reports of tree poisoning in the 12 months prior. Marrickville Council also said it does not consider tree poisoning to be a major issue in the area. I thank the Inner West Courier for sharing this information.
I was shocked when I read this. How can Marrickville Council not consider the poisoning of 28 trees across Marrickville LGA to be a major issue? Is it because they think the numbers are low or because they have greater issues regarding trees to deal with?
How many other trees were poisoned, but not reported? Quite a few people will not be prepared to report on their neighbour. I am presuming that the 28 trees poisoned were large trees. Large trees can be worth thousands of dollars to Councils in green infrastructure. Many Councils consider trees to be major assets & even give them a dollar value.
When people refer to the 'Leafy Suburbs,' they are connecting an environment that has a significant green canopy to big money & financial affluence. People with money like to live in areas that are beautiful & trees provide this. Areas with few trees are regarded as poorer, less desirable places to live. Any real estate agent will say the same thing.
Taking this into consideration & the fact that it takes decades for a tree to grow to a significant size & provide the most use to the community & the environment in terms of stormwater uptake, erosion management, carbon sequestration, pollution capture, oxygen production & other things, how can the loss of any tree by vandalism not be regarded as a major issue? Any tree lost is a loss to the community. Some mature trees do have to go because of disease & decline, but a healthy tree to be secretly poisoned is unnecessary loss caused solely by the selfishness of one to another.
Ian Moss is grieving for a tree that was not on his property. He could only see the tree. This shows that people connect to trees in the street, in the gardens of others & on the horizon. If you are like me you will have favourite trees that you always look at when you drive past even thought the tree is far away from your home. In this house we often say that we are almost home because of the trees that we pass. The vandal did not improve things for anyone else, but themselves.
Back in February 2011 Waverley Council took a man to court because they could prove that he vandalized a tree. He received a hefty $19,000 fine. I can bet that almost everyone in Waverley LGA knows that they take on a huge risk if they damage trees. This is the same for Leichhardt LGA where a friend repeatedly says, "You wouldn't get permission to remove that tree here." Yet, here in Marrickville LGA, by Council's own admission, 95% of requests to remove a tree are processed with a tick, even when it is significant, historic streetscape & habitat for a critically endangered native animal. In Leichhardt LGA trees are not removed if they drop branches. They often are in Marrickville LGA.
On 2nd September 2010 a news item in the Toronto Star titled 'Tree-lined streets not worth the cost, arborists say' caused a bit of an uproar on the net amongst people interested in trees. The article was discussing the problem of street trees in Toronto. For me it was a good read in that it showed me that problems with the management of street trees are happening elsewhere & that trees in Marrickville LGA generally get a better time of it than those in Toronto.
Well the first question I had was, "What happened to their roots?" but this was not answered in the article. I've watched a street tree planted here by Marrickville Council staff & all the roots were planted along with the tree. The tree is still growing & didn't go into shock even though it is in a concreted space, under an awning & the said tree lost a number of its branches.
Here is a very big difference. Street trees in Toronto are cared for & watered for 2 years. Here they are watered once a week for 12 weeks. I know for a fact Marrickville Council would be overjoyed if residents & business owners helped by watering the street tree outside.
Toronto Tree Managers would prefer to plant trees in the city's ravines as they mostly survive there. Although they see street trees as a waste of taxpayer's money, they acknowledge that the streets would be bare without them.
Now they are trying to deal with the problem by establishing maintenance plans over a 10-year period that includes pruning. As well as watering the street trees regularly they feed them with compost tea (so easy to do) & mulch.
Meanwhile scientists, planners & engineers gathered for the National Tree Symposium at Adelaide University. They were discussing the latest methods to increase the urban tree canopy, including methods to direct stormwater to street trees rather than the age-old loss of this water down drains.
Perhaps it's the weather. Toronto has lashings of snow, while most of Australia bakes & it is getting worse. Last summer there were many heat-related deaths in Adelaide & Melbourne. There is justified fear that summer heat-related deaths will happen again or develop into the norm because of increased temperatures due to global warming. Tree & urban planning specialists know we need to increase the canopy as fast as we can & importantly we need to maintain it.
That street trees are only expected to last 5-10-15 years in modern-day tree management is to my mind crazy. It's crazy because with a few simple changes, street trees can live for decades. We have many examples of old trees living happily across Australian cities, including throughout Marrickville LGA.
It costs money to buy trees, to plant them & to chop them down. I've said before trees are the only infrastructure Council has that increases in value. We need to let them grow not only for the beauty they bring, but also because trees drop the need for power use (especially cooling), their shade lengthens the life of footpaths & roads & they have a major psychological effect on human happiness amongst many other things. I will write about ideas that experts have to help street trees live longer in another post.
I have discovered 2 new examples of tree vandalism, one in Petersham & one in Marrickville. Council recently planted a number of new street trees in Railway Street Petersham. Two of these trees have been snapped in half. One has been sticky-taped together by a kind person who is probably hoping it will graft together. A couple of residents came out to speak to me & pointed out the damage. They are concerned that Council won't replace the trees.
The other is a Tuckaroo in Myrtle Street Marrickville that has been growing for 2-3 3-4 years. It has 2 main branches & one has been snapped off. The site of the tree on the side of the road with no footpath & pedestrians as rare as hen's teeth indicates it was done maliciously & not an accident.
I recently read a report from a Tree Manager of an American Council who, when disputing the power company's right to remove a tree, said "It is 26 years of deficit you will be creating here." I have not read or heard anyone refer to tree loss in this way before. What he means is, it took 26 years for that particular tree to grow & to remove it means a loss of 26 years.
It's the same for all the tree vandalism done by mischievous people & careless truck drivers. Removing trees is easy. Replacing trees is easy. Growing is not so easy as urban trees have to overcome many obstacles to survive.
The saplings in Railway Street Petersham haven't been growing long, but it may take Council a long time to replace them. The young tree in Myrtle Avenue has been growing for 3-4 years. Now it is destroyed. That's a 3-4 year deficit. Makes sense to me.
In Melbourne, they are talking about how their 100-year-old trees are "an extremely valuable asset" while Marrickville Council talks about our older trees as "senescent" & past their time. You may remember earlier this year Marrickville Council put up a plan before the Councillors to remove many of the old trees over the next 5 years. The designated amount was 1,000 trees to be removed per year for 5 years targeting senescent trees. Thankfully the Councillors did not accept this Tree Strategy Issues Paper, but it was a close call & a revised Paper will be returning for consideration soon.
tree like that closer to home along the beachfront at Brighton-le-Sands. A few of the tall pines had substantial holes in their trunks. Rather than chopping them down, Rockdale Council had the rot treated & the hole cemented allowing the tree to remain stable & continue to live for the benefit of the community. I would imagine those trees are heritage listed.
When I was a child, it was quite common for a Tree Surgeon (as Arborists were called then), to be employed to save trees on private property. I remember watching them scrapping out the hole, using chemicals to stop the disease & filling the hole with cement, just like a dentist fills dental caries. I saw trees bolted together if they had a split in their trunk & other such things that seem to be out of vogue today. Nowadays, the simplest intervention seems to be to cut the tree down saying "everything has to die." True, but many tree species live far longer than what we are led to believe. Melbourne is proof of this.
crossed. Already around the municipality there are trees dying. Some of them were stunners that now stand brown & present a danger of falling, damaging property & perhaps a risk to life. I find it sad as many of these tree deaths could have been averted if they had been watered.
Another article in the same vein that may be of interest says Adelaide City Council is considering putting a dollar value on its trees following in the footsteps of Melbourne. This may lead to developers being required to compensate for the trees they say they need to chop down by planting trees to that dollar value. So if trees are valued at $100,000, they will be required to plant trees to that value. I'm hoping it may bring business to those tree companies who are skilled at large tree relocation. Relocation costs may actually be cheaper than paying for the trees that would be lost if chopped down.
This beautiful tree-lined walk along the Cooks River offers respite from the city's hectic life. The tall trees which make this section special.


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Mayor allegedly assaulted at polling booth
Cumberland Mayor Steve Christou was allegedly assaulted outside a polling booth on Saturday. Picture: AAP IMAGE / Angelo Velardo.
A western Sydney mayor was allegedly assaulted outside a polling booth on Saturday in an ugly postscript to the NSW council elections.
Police have charged a 29-year-old man after he allegedly assaulted Cumberland Mayor Steve Christou outside a Merryland school.
Officers were called to Fowler Road School around 5pm after reports of an alleged assault.
Video of the incident posted online shows Mr Christou, in an orange shirt, in a heated verbal and physical altercation with a man in a white shirt and grey shorts.
Mr Christou was allegedly assaulted before bystanders intervened to break up the incident.
Cumberland Mayor Steve Christou (orange shirt) was allegedly assaulted at Fowler Road School at Merrylands. Picture: Supplied.
NSW Police said that it has been alleged that Mr Christou was threatened and assaulted before the man left the scene.
A 29-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night at a Merrylands business before he was taken to Granville Police Station and charged with common assault.
He will appear in Fairfield Local Court next month.
Steve Christou was allegedly assaulted outside a western Sydney polling booth. Picture: Monique Harmer.
In a statement, Mr Christou thanked all the people concerned about his welfare after the incident.
"I am recovering at home and doing well," he said.
"As this incident is under police investigation, I am unable to comment further on this matter, however, I will say that yesterday, we saw the ugly side of politics."
He said it was a sad indictment on politics in Australia.
"I did not know this person and did nothing to antagonise him. There is never any justification for violence and people should respect each other's views.
"This is not the Australia I know and love. I look forward to the police findings."
Meanwhile, City of Sydney Mayor Clover Moore is set to be returned for a fifth term despite suffering a big swing against her.
Moore has led the council for 17 years and on Saturday attracted 43.6 per cent of the vote.
City of Sydney Lord Mayor is on track to be returned for a fifth term after local council elections. Picture: Darren Leigh Roberts
She was returned despite suffering a 14.2 per cent swing against her, with independent Yvonne Weldon picking up 16.1 per cent of the vote.
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Japanese Language New Site Design
My name is Paweł, I'm a product designer at Stack Exchange. I'm super happy for you, because the process of graduation is about to be concluded! Congratulations to all of you!
Updated Design — May 30th 2016
Thank you all for your feedback. It's been good lesson for me and I really appreciate it. At Stack Exchange the community is the most important. Decisions we usually make (whether it's design related or some new feature) sometimes are not understandable enough but we're sure they are right. But sometimes we're just wrong. We make mistakes but we're also trying very hard to fix them and avoid those mistakes in future.
Apparently, there were some elements in the design proposal that you, Community, didn't like. This is why we pitch designs before implementing them - we want to know your opinion and we want to make it as good as possible, trying to find sweet spot between what we think stands best for community design and your expectations.
We went through all your comments, most of them were about logo sign and some icons used in layout. We've updated it slightly, hoping this gonna fit much better. We can't make ALL of you happy, because it's simply impossible.
Anyway, let's start with logo because that was the biggest discussion point so far. Here's new logo - we've updated JP symbol (which wasn't obvious for everyone) to the one proposed in other topic — it was the most upvoted proposal so we decided to use it.
Another issue was about icons. Actually symbols we used in few places. So we updated few of them according to your tips:
we've replaced 'Ask Question' icon with origami symbol. We've also thought about other symbols you've proposed, but this particular origami symbol is simple enough to be readable and reconizable at small sizes like the one we have
upvote/downvote symbols were replaced with piece of pattern proposed by @broccoli forest.
star icon was also replaced by onmyouji pentagram, also proposed by @broccoli forest (thanks!). we were also considering origami shuriken symbol, but we decided it's not obvious enough for what it stands for.
increased contrast for tags.
Now things that we decided to keep as they were:
color scheme - there was a sugguestion to update it but it was very subjective (colors are usually subjective) and we really liked gentle colors palette we've picked so it stays as it is.
blockquote styling - this is something we're trying to keep consistent across whole network so it has to stay as it is.
badges - there was a proposal to use some other symbol for badges, however the one you proposed has a lot of tiny details that are hardly visible on small sizes. and we are techincally limited by the size of badge.
Updated Designs
Question view
Updated SWAG proposals
Old post / design...
The new design comes with a few perks. It will give you your own unique theme that reflects your topic, culture & community. This will help brand your site as unique, even while you share common elements with other sites that show you are part of a bigger Stack Exchange family.
To see rest of the old post, go to revisions history.
discussion design
PawełPaweł
I am so sorry, I appreciate your work but honestly the nuance of Japan is far from enough in the current design. – Money Oriented Programmer May 25 '16 at 4:49
Thank you for the updates! :-) I like all of them! – snailcar♦ May 30 '16 at 11:26
Is the font that reads "JAPANESE LANGUAGE" definitive? You already left a comment on the answer here, but I think that this old answer is also relevant. I think from discussion here and in chat this is the biggest issue that remains with the design. The current font makes the site look like a very cheesy site for Japan aficionados, even though a third of our users are native speakers (and readers!). – Earthliŋ♦ May 30 '16 at 20:11
I especially like the new logo. It looks neater, simpler, and is very clearly Japanese. – Blavius May 31 '16 at 15:37
Some people have suggested the あ could be moved very slightly up and to the right. What do you think? – snailcar♦ Jun 1 '16 at 2:10
@snailplane i think it's centered vertically and horizontally, but will double check that once I export all assets etc. Thanks for reporting. – Paweł Jun 1 '16 at 5:09
where can i buy that swag. after i buy my Neptunia Plushies i want to buy some of those notebooks and shirts – Memor-X Jun 1 '16 at 12:27
This looks lovely. Thank you for taking the time to integrate feedback into your final design! – Leslie P. Jun 2 '16 at 13:47
Is making the main and meta site similar in background colour intentional? I thought that the main site would be (a deeper) blue – Flaw♦ Nov 25 '16 at 19:04
This post is outdated as it only contains information with respect to the
old design draft. It remains here just for referential purposes.
I know G-cam is already mentioning the logo:
But I just want to state more directly that
I don't really get the logo -- as in it's taking me minutes of staring at it to decipher that there's a J and P sharing the vertical | and the P's horizontal bit extends well over into the J.
It doesn't seem very Japanese stylistically.
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This post is outdated as it only contains wishlist for the old design draft. It remains here just for referential purpose.
The overall design is wonderful, but my worry is about those accessories: logo, icon, vignette on the left of "Ask question", upvote/downvote buttons etc.
Maybe because I'm not well informed on traditional Japanese design materials, they generally don't give me particularly Japanese impression (the "Ask question" vignette actually resembles the Rising Sun medal, but I have no idea why it is here).
Following are my impromptu thoughts:
Reorganized propositions:
Priority matters
the icon may be better off using a kana syllable, that both learners and native speakers can easily recognize
the logo would look steadier with, for example, more standard typography accompanied by an equivalent Japanese line
"Ask question" vignette seems of little contextual association, best be replaced
basically, you can ask other native speakers around here about use of various symbols, because sometimes they could look really out of place in Japanese eyes
Other possible enhancements / remarks
the fav star could be something like onmyouji pentagram if had to be a star, or put the "Ask question" mark there?
could the background of blockquote area be some subtle patterns like the overall background?
it could be interesting if the check mark would look like Japanese seals, but the problem is that they are usually red
the coin badge looks very nice and witty!
UPDATE: @Earthliŋ suggested to me that up/down buttons might be folded origami, is it true? If so, maybe you should tweak them so that they look like folded paper, while doing this may make the design less clean and flat.
UPDATE: I have a feeling that yabane pattern would fit up/down buttons.
UPDATE: @Earthliŋ also proposed that "Ask question" vignette could be an origami crane.
UPDATE: In talking about origami, how about using origami shuriken somewhere?
There is also an old discussion "New Logo for Japanese Language & Usage", though I'm not sure how much can be taken.
broccoli forestbroccoli forest
The Imperial Seal as suggested by @Earthliŋ in an Answer below as a possibility for the badge design would work quite naturally for the ask question vignette (although as I think about it, I'm not entirely sure why it is a star in the first place...). There are plenty of clan symbols from the muromachi era that could work well too. Just throwing it out there, – G-Cam May 25 '16 at 2:35
SUDDENLY REALIZED
If you take away some lines and round the corner a bit:
it perfectly looks like katakana ア and still is superimposed J and P!
Or could be like this, I guess more clearly recognizable as JP.
(Sorry for unprofessional collaging, I know it.)
Please make the tags easier to see. They're too low contrast right now:
As you already know, standard accessibility guidelines call for a higher minimum contrast than you're using in your designs. I don't think there's any good reason to make a site intentionally less accessible.
Color contrast checker: http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=a3a6b4&bcolor=ffffff
Related discussion on Puzzling.SE: https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4726/14295
snailcar♦snailcar
Thank you for the beautiful design. I really like it, especially the color scheme, the subtle pattern and the coin-shaped icons. The subtle pattern makes me feel happy, because it looks like a variation of a Japanese traditional pattern called Shippou Tsunagi (七宝つなぎ) which is a good-luck pattern meaning happiness (everyone-satisfied-and-no-trouble kind of happiness 円満) and harmony (調和).
There is one thing which might not be a good choice for this community— the shape of あ.
A correct shape of あ is something like this.
あ is written this way, and the parts A and B in the image above should exist in a correct shape of あ. The あ in the logo doesn't have the A part.
The part A or B or both in あ glyph are omitted in many cool or cute Japanese fonts. Those あs are recognizable to people who are familiar with Japanese language, so they are okay to be used in various situations. But, this is Japanese Language Stack Exchange. I think that using a correct shape of あ would be better, or more appropriate than using a variation of あ in this case. A variation is a part of language, so some people might welcome it if it's cool. However, there are at least two benefits to use a correct あ for the logo.
It will not make beginners confused and helps them be familiar with a correct hiragana shape.
It makes this website look more reliable.
I know that most of high-quality Japanese fonts are very expensive and not available to be used for creating a logo. However, fortunately, there are some free fonts.
I searched and picked 8 free fonts which contain correct-shaped あ. They are licensed under SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 or IPA Font License Agreement v1.0, so anyone can use those fonts to create a logo, for free.
IPAex Gothic / IPAexゴシック
IPAex Mincho / iPAex明朝
IPA Font License Agreement v1.0
Yasashisa Antique / やさしさアンチック
Yasashisa Gothic / やさしさゴシック
FLOPDESIGN / フロップデザインフォント
Source Han Sans / 源ノ角ゴシック
(source-han-sans-1.004R / OTF / Japanese folder)
SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
Gen Jyuu Gothic / 源柔ゴシック
GenEi LateMin / 源暎ラテミン
(I wish I could find a cool brush-style Japanese free font, but high-quality brush-style Japanese fonts are all expensive and not allowing users to use it to create a logo.)
If this community would think that using a variation of あ, instead of correct あ, is fine for the logo, I'll accept the fact and stop thinking about this matter. But if someone would think this is a matter, there are at least 8 Japanese fonts available to create a logo.
I'm really excited about the new great design to be implemented, and just hope it show correct information about Japanese language.
HiruneDiverHiruneDiver
Thank you for reporting this (I need to learn some Japanese now!) and work you did researching fonts! Really appreciate it. I will try to pick something and update logo. I prefer regular shapes rather than brush-like, because general styling of new design is around simple lines and shapes. – Paweł Jun 1 '16 at 5:25
+1, it spared me from another post. FWIW the current あ seems to be accessibility kana variant of ヒラギノ角ゴ typeface: designpocket.jp/dl_font_category/detail.aspx?bid=12363 – broccoli forest Jun 1 '16 at 7:32
btw, how about Oradano明朝? asahi-net.or.jp/~sd5a-ucd/freefonts/Oradano-Mincho It's not a brush font but looks very retro. – broccoli forest Jun 1 '16 at 7:33
The glyph design of Oradano明朝 is interesting, but unfortunately, its あ is not in a correct shape, so the font may not be a good choice for this community's logo. Personally, I like the retro taste, though. – HiruneDiver Jun 2 '16 at 0:00
The way "Japanese Language" is written at the top seems off stylistically to me.
I took it that part of the design is supposed to find inspiration from Japanese calligraphy or something like that, but ...
the A's having the horizontal lines extend past the diagonal lines seems off, because the vertical lines are drawn first and it would be weird to start the horizontal line to the left.
The E's also have the same issue.
I agree to this to an extent as well. If you were to ask me what the typography reminds me of I'd be more prone to say something like native American. Note that I have absolutely no knowledge of Native American culture or lettering. – ssb May 25 '16 at 3:42
We'd like to keep this font for logo, including extending lines for A & E — i feel like calling this an "issue" is a little bit too much :). It's just matter of styling and taste. But I'm glad you posted this feedback. – Paweł May 25 '16 at 7:11
@Paweł Unfortunately the community thinks the biggest problem lies in the logo and icon. Conveying "elegance of Japanese writing systems" through Latin letters is a worse idea than you might think. We're not saying your aesthetics is bad, only the design isn't quite on the right way to inspire serious learners and native speakers. We fear lest this site is viewed as another pseudo-Japonism promoter because of its signature symbol. Though we don't have much graduated sites involves non-Latin-alphabet language, it may be good to see how Mi Yodeya handles it. – broccoli forest May 25 '16 at 14:10
When this style of faux-Oriental style English script font was discussed a few years ago, the community of the day was overwhelmingly against it too (19 votes as of counting) – cypher May 26 '16 at 0:05
I'm quite pleased with the design and have nothing at all negative to say about it. I'd also like to point out that the font seems different which I think is a welcome change.
Could you please elaborate on the site logo?
I can sort of see a J and a P superimposed but was wondering if the extra lines have meaning beyond just aesthetics.
G-CamG-Cam
This is aesthetic, and its also inspired by handwritten kanji characters. I like the way that characters can blur together in handwriting, and wanted to digitally recreate this organic effect by making the characters bleed together, as they often do in handwriting. It feels more natural and organic, even though the characters are digitally created. – Paweł May 24 '16 at 13:38
I couldn't figure out what the logo was supposed to be. It doesn't look obviously Japanese to me, and I couldn't tell it was supposed to say "JP" (is that what it says?). – snailcar♦ May 24 '16 at 14:05
I think it's a nice logo aesthetically, but I have to echo the sentiment that just looking at it out of context I'd have no idea at all that it represented Japanese language – ssb May 25 '16 at 1:24
Overall, I think the design looks quite nice :-)
I'd like to see a different icon/logo for the site. Have you considered ento's suggestion, something based on the hiragana character あ? That would be instantly recognizable as Japanese, even to students who are just starting to learn the language.
I appreciate your earnest consideration and hard work to improve the design, which has made the look and feel much nicer and apposite. But I have to say that many people, including me, feel the logotype (the text next to the icon) is the last serious problem in this design.
If you allow me to explain how I feel about it in my own word, it's like: I have nothing really to say about the aesthetic feature of the font, and I actually admire the perfection of the artistic work, such as subtlety of the curves in "S" or the flavorful shape of "E". I'd happily say it'd be a great job — if only the text said "BAMBOO BIKE" or "ORGANIC CAFE", or perhaps "BROCCOLI FOREST". But when I'm told it represents "JAPANESE LANGUAGE", I cannot help but think "Really?", much more when it's seemingly intended to "convey the linear elegance of Japanese writing systems".
Suppose I were a Japanese designer who were assigned to an upcoming English-learning forum website, and I thought, English is a language widely spoken in the world, so much universal as numbers, thus I should make it look as digital and geometric as possible, yes, let's use a dot matrix font or a 7-segment font for the title logo! And you must be frowned; "universal" atmosphere in Latin letters is usually expressed by fonts like Helvetica or Univers, and you could hardly be more geometric than these kind of typefaces. Why? But my fonts are far more strikingly impressive than them! — It's just because I'm not really familiar with Latin letters. That's why I think the logo text is only for who doesn't know Japanese language at all, rather than who has tried to seriously learn aught of its real aspect.
Let's look at the brand logo of a Japanese whisky. What do you get from the alphabet letters? It gives me impressions of stability, tradition, establishment, authenticity, and a hint of 19th-century flavor... so does the brush kanji. They look so different, but have similar connotations. I don't dare teaching fish swimming, but I think we can say that between the idea and its crystallized image there are a lot of entanglement with context, convention, expectation etc. you should consider during drawing a design. It's not that as if you add sugar and everything suddenly becomes delicious. If you think the example above too far-fetched, you can have more standard one.
I have no idea how European people perceive, but I can guarantee that the two lines of Japanese and English are parallel in nuances within each writing system. Now, if you tweak the shape making the bottom line look more like the top, does it look neater with Japanese? Probably no, it'd end up in a fairly standard Japanese and somewhat exotic Latin letters deviates from standard. It's a common trap you're likely to fall into, that the harder you try to make it look "Japanese", the less the reader who knows both Alphabet and Japanese deems it "Japanese". Of course the most skillful designers would think out how to imitate body and soul of another writing system enough to convince most people, but generally it's a very, very hard task. Although we do place great hope on your designers to achieve the ideal, it doesn't seem to me very successful at the current state. I rather think it's expedient that use a font represents, say, "elegance" in ordinary context of Alphabet, then put some Japanese decorations on it.
Early Christmas! Great news, the site looks really nice.
One question, though (if I may): what was the idea behind the badge-design?
How about a design reminiscent of the kiku no gomon (Imperial Seal / national emblem), which appears for example on Japanese passports. Maybe like this
Earthliŋ♦Earthliŋ
I think the proposed badge design that Pawel came up with is the "mon" (文) coin used in the Tokugawa Era. I also would prefer the Imperial Seal but question the visibility of the small grooves around the perimeter when scaled down. The detail might be too fine... – G-Cam May 24 '16 at 12:38
@G-Cam is right - this is inspired by the "mon" coin. Chose it because it has a unique shape and can be viewed at small sizes. – Paweł May 24 '16 at 13:37
I'd suggest that the logo might be better as a stylized version of the character 和, which represents Japan and the idea of 'Japan-ness' in a much clearer way.
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I don't like the color scheme. I can't phrase it well because I'm not a designer, but it feels more "heavy" and "pressuring" than what we have now. The colors are darker and all of them are "strange" (e.g. not the bright blues\reds\greens that you usually see in basic looking websites), which makes me feel uncomfortable. The round font on your pictures also looks unpleasant compared to what we have now (Arial?) to me, but maybe that's a browser thing and not a part of the design.
Unless there is a way for a user to revert back to the standard design, this change will most likely make me visit the site less often.
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I found the colour scheme really subtle, in that I did not really even notice a change from what we have now. When the post starts with a selection of five dark colours, I expected the design to not have so much white and light grey. – oals May 24 '16 at 18:10
Starting feedback with "I don't like" seems kinda like very subjective opinion :). I really appreciate this feedback and everyone's else but we're probably not able to make everyone happy (even if we'd like to). We're still considering other feedback and making some subtle changes but I can tell you already that it is very unlikely we will change colors and font. – Paweł May 25 '16 at 7:05
@Paweł Personally I really like the color scheme, so you have at least one fan there. – ssb May 25 '16 at 10:03
Well, today I learned that there IS a userscript to force the default style: meta.stackexchange.com/a/275804 So I've got nothing to complain about now. Have fun with the new design guys, I think it's cool that most people seem to like it. – kuchitsu May 25 '16 at 18:28
I'm glad you'll be sticking around :-) I personally like the color scheme overall, although it has some low contrast elements (which SE is really fond of lately), which are poor for accessibility. In particular, the tags are hard to see. – snailcar♦ May 25 '16 at 23:01
@Pawel One concern is all the gray colors in your screenshot make it hard to tell if this is the meta site or the main site. Many other sites have vivid colors on the main site and grayscale on meta to tell them apart easy. You have a nice blue pattern at the top of your post, but I don't see it used anywhere (aside from button colors)? – Troyen Jun 3 '16 at 21:01
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Q: How can I prevent ExtJS 4.2.1 from processing the totalProperty on a PUT request? We are using ExtJS 4.2.1 and Spring MVC / Data-Rest.  Anyway, the data-rest will return the following structure on a successful GET request:
{
    content: [ ... objects .... ],
    links: [ ... list of rel links ... ],
    page: {
        size: 25,
        totalElements: 4,
        totalPages: 1,
        number: 1
    }
}

So, in my proxies, I have set the totalProperty to page.totalElements.   Works great.
However, when we send a PUT request, the natural (and correct, I believe) response is to send a 204 NO CONTENT.  Now, if our totalProperty were set to something like total (not page.xxx) then it's fine.  But ExtJS is trying to parse the page.totalElements and returning an exception because page is null.
So how can I tell ExtJS to ignore the totalProperty on a PUT request?

A: Ha.  Looks like I found a work-around.  Not sure if I like it but it works.  I changed my controller as such:
return new ResponseEntity<>("OK", HttpStatus.OK);

Where as before, it was:
return new ResponseEntity(HttpStatus.OK);

ExtJS seems to not mind that.  Strange.

A: @cbmeeks, I had a similar issue in Ext.JS 4.1.3, and I posted the fix here.
/**
 * Fix for Json reader when the HTTP response is Status Code: 204 No Content and
 * at least one of the pair root/totalProperty is not a direct property of the returned json
 * http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?127585
 * @author rgralhoz
 */
Ext.data.reader.Json.override({
    createAccessor: (function () {
        var re = /[\[\.]/;

        return function (expr) {
            if (Ext.isEmpty(expr)) {
                return Ext.emptyFn;
            }
            if (Ext.isFunction(expr)) {
                return expr;
            }
            if (this.useSimpleAccessors !== true) {
                var i = String(expr).search(re);
                if (i >= 0) {
                    return Ext.functionFactory('obj',

                        'return obj' + (i > 0 ?

                            '.hasOwnProperty("' +
                                expr.substring(0, i) +
                                '")? obj.' + expr + ' : null' :

                            expr));
                }
            }
            return function (obj) {
                return obj[expr];
            };
        };
    }())
});

Disclaimer:
Please add this code to a fixes.js file in your project, to override Ext.Js' function. Please notice that:

*

*The fix for 4.2.1 may be the same or similar

*Once you override their function, when you upgrade Ext.Js, make sure they haven't change it, otherwise you'll loose updates on their code.


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Call for volunteers to tell "sad and costly story" behind Britain's railways
Volunteers are being sought to help to tell the "sad and costly story" behind Britain's railways by transcribing a historic railway trade union notebook from 1901-1905.
Led by historian Mike Esbester, the project aims to encourage armchair historians to give up as much time as they can on February 5 – known as 'Transcription Tuesday' – to help make the unique archive record more accessible online.
The notebook details the surprisingly common deaths of railway workers as well injuries such as cuts, concussions and amputations, and stories of workers being fired for petty theft, among other things.
In addition to recording deaths and injuries, there are records of legal cases in which the union had an interest, including workers being accused of pilfering and a libel case the union had to defend.
Dr Esbester, of the University of Portsmouth, has studied the evolution of how British authorities have tried to keep workers safe for more than a century. His current research project examines work, life and death on Britain's railways from the late 19th century to World War II.
By 1900, for every passenger hurt, nine workers were killed or injured. This was at a time when the railways were Britain's third largest employer, with about 500,000 staff. By 1913, staff numbered about 640,000, of whom 30,000 were killed or injured that year alone.
Transcription Tuesday is organised by 'Who Do You Think You Are?' magazine and is now in its third year. Volunteers don't need to sign up – they just need to 'turn up' digitally at the website, download a picture of an entry from the book, and enter details into a spreadsheet.
Dr Esbester is hoping volunteers will be able to transcribe all 2,150 entries in the book on the day.
He said: "In the early 1900s, the railways were Britain's lifeblood. But keeping the nation moving carried a high price – the death or injury of many thousands of mostly men who did the dirty work.
"So far, the book hasn't been used by researchers and we don't know what it'll contain – we're excited. The data would be a huge benefit to research and a really excellent resource for family historians and anyone interested in our railway past."
Find out more about the project and Transcription Tuesday by visiting: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
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Catawba Nation looks to the past to forge future
By Kyle O'Connor | Nov 29, 2018
The chief of the Catawba Indian Nation in Rock Hill poses this philosophical question to visitors: "What does Catawba look like in modern day?"
William "Bill" Harris wants people to envision the role that his people and its ancient culture should play in the world today.
The Catawba Indian Nation has been in the upper region of South Carolina, by most estimates, between 4,000 and 6,000 years.
"Recently we found out that they've found some pottery that dates back 8,000 years, so they actually think we've been in this region a little bit longer," Cassidy Plyler, the craft store manager of the Catawba Cultural Center, said.
The Catawba's lengthy history in the region demonstrates how a people can weather the sands of time.
But the world has changed.
As cultural assimilation and globalization push toward a unified culture, where does that leave a unique people such as the Catawba?
The Catawba suffered many blows to their population in the early decades of the United States, ranging from smallpox epidemics to voluntary emigration to join the Cherokee and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Since the last half of the century, Catawba leadership has worked tirelessly to reinforce the culture of the tribe with its estimated 3,000 remaining members.
The Catawba recently celebrated 25 years of federal recognition. It's a status that would have come a century sooner had the state of South Carolina not entered an illegal treaty with them in 1840.
The first Article in the United States Constitution establishes that all treaties with any party – foreign or domestic – need to be conducted through the federal government or, at the very least, approved by Congress. South Carolina bypassed this law and drafted its own treaty with the Catawba, barring them from becoming federally recognized and receiving federal funding until the treaty was nullified.
Because of a slew of other national crises that took higher priority with the United States Congress, the Catawba did not receive their federal recognition until a century and a half later.
However, this was not without loss of cultural identity. Historically, the tribe sacrificed its native tongue to adapt and adopt English in an effort to better relations with the early American settlers.
But a dead language does not have to stay in the grave.
Centuries later, it's being revived and taught to Catawban youth in the reservation's school.
"I think we are sort of, as I say, renaissance – bringing it back,"Harris said. "There will come a time when it will be a first language brought back to be a second language. Ours is not so much a written language as it is a recorded language, oral."
The Nation thrives in the realm of pottery, an iconic and important tradition that has stood the test of time. The area that the Catawba inhabits is rich in clay soil, the primary art supply for the elegant pottery found in the Catawban Cultural Center.
"The thing that is unique to us, especially on the Eastern seaboard, is that we have 4,000 years of it without a generational stop," Harris said.
Harris believes that preserving the past is of the utmost importance for Catawban survival. He said that trying to adapt and homogenize with the world will only set his culture up for inevitable disappearance.
"If we do not embrace what got us here and build off of that, we will truly doom ourselves," Harris said.
The home of the Catawba features many signs displaying the written Catawba language. Immersion in the language helps young members of the Catawba Nation pick up the language and perpetuate it.
Pottery has become the unofficial icon of the Catawba Nation. Chief Harris says his tribe has had 4,000 years of continuous practice with pottery.
The Catawba Indian Reservation sits just outside of Rock Hill, SC. It's nestled among clay pits, which is responsible for the Catawba's historical love of pottery.
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Kyle O'Connor is a New York-born aspiring documentarian with a passion for covering crime and politics. If there is something to be uncovered, he wants to be the one to do so and tell the world. O'Connor worked as a videographer in the marketing and communications department for the USC Darla Moore School of Business where he honed his video production abilities. After graduation, he hopes to find stories in new places and travel as much as he can. O'Connor is also considering pursuing a master's degree in criminology.


The reaction of the Spanish electorate to the bombings of 3/11/04 invites comparison with the American reaction to the events of 9/11/01. Obviously, Americans are made of sterner stuff. Actually, this should come as no surprise because Ernest Hemingway already gave us a glimmer of what appears to be Spain�s nation-wide shortage of cojones.
In For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway�s American hero, demolitions expert, Professor Robert Jordan, was tasked to stop the enemy�s advance by destroying a key bridge. But Pablo, the Spanish guerilla leader who was supposed to assist Jordan, lost his nerve. Fortunately, Pablo�s wife, Pilar, had more cojones than Pablo. Pilar took over command from her cowardly husband, and rallied the guerillas around Professor Jordan.
America�s reaction to the horrors of 9/11 is to fight and keep fighting. The Spanish reaction to the train bombings of 3/11 was to throw out the Populist Party (think Republicans) and bring in the Socialist Party (think Democrats). In other words, to stick their collective heads in the sand and hope the terrorists will leave them alone. Apparently, the Spanish do not understand that they would have been subject to terrorist attack with or without former Prime Minister Aznar�s support of the War on Terror and his government�s commitment of troops to depose Saddam Hussein.
In the wake of the 3/11 train attacks, Spain�s new socialist leader is demoralizing Spain�s 1,300 troops in the field by declaring their mission is part of a �disaster and a mistake.� This is reminiscent of the latter half of the Vietnam War when some of us were still carrying out our orders in Vietnam while the anti-war crowd at home was pulling the rug out from under us.
Mark my words that even the Saddam-loving French will be attacked by al Qaeda someday. Some Frenchmen think a show of anti-Semitism will protect them from Islamic attack. But as long as France is even nominally a Christian nation, it is marked for conversion to Islam, or destruction. I say France is only nominally Christian because the French won�t allow their movie theatres to show �The Passion of the Christ.� History suggests the French would rather convert than fight.
In addition to reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, my only other claim to any knowledge of Spain involved some stopovers at Torrejon Air Base outside Madrid, an overnight in Barcelona (where we were robbed) and a cruise down the eastern Iberian coast where we saw enough castles to centerpiece about a dozen Disney Lands. Oh. Did I mention we were robbed in Barcelona?
Thanks to Spain�s pre-3/11 support for the War on Terror and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, I was just about to forget my post-robbery pledge to never spend another Peseta in Spain. But now that the Spanish voters have waved their white flags (abundantly available in neighboring France), Spain isn�t likely to see Wonder Wife and yours truly helping their tourist economy. The same goes for Mexico. Recently when a Mexican crowd booed the U.S. Soccer Team by chanting �Osama,� Osama,� �Osama,� that ended what little desire we had to spend any money in Mexico.
The lesson just learned by al Qaeda is this: Rain pain on Spain and you can make elections go your way. So, one must wonder if the Madrid attacks of 3/11 were a test by al Qaeda to see if a similar attack on the Washington D.C. Metro system could topple President Bush on November 2, 2004?


You need to shut her own. Tell her she is crossing the line. I would cut back on visits and her feelings of entitlement over your baby. Go to the DWIL and FOO board, they have great advice.
I ran out of room...I have mentioned several times that we will ask for help when we need it. She always says this thing "Her and her Aunt and going to have the most special relationship" and so anytime my sister-in-law comes into town she insists that we all spend tons of time together. I really like my sister-in-law, but this forced timed together even puts a stress on our relationship. I want to say no, but I feel like I am being a brat, like I don't really have a good reason other than she is controlling the situation and I feel like I have to say yes! What do I do???
Have you talked with your husband about how you are feeling? You both really need to be on the same page in order to take a stand and help your MIL to realize she is overstepping her bounds (if that is how you feel). You MUST do what is best for YOUR immediate family (you, your husband & little ones). Unfortunately sometimes that means taking a stand... just be sure to be united with your husband on it.


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Mark Kelly goes shooting after testifying on gun control
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Mark Kelly, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, went shooting yesterday after testifying in favor of additional gun control at the Oregon Legislature. Kelly, a former Navy captain and former astronaut, was in Oregon to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in support of Sen. Floyd Prozanski's "universal background check" bill, SB 1551.
As we reported on Wednesday, the man who shot Gabby Giffords in 2011 purchased the gun legally after passing a background check, and so Mark Kelly's reason for testifying yesterday was more about his support of gun control in general than any relevance to the Oregon bill. In fact, Kelly acknowledged yesterday that the man who had shot his wife had passed a background check.
Kelly testified as part of a panel along with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and Donna Henderson, an Assistant Chief of Investigations at the Portland Police Bureau.
Oregon Senate Judiciary hearing on SB 1551 – February 6, 2014
(Henderson-far left, OSP bodyguard, Gov. Kitzhaber and Mark Kelly – in foreground)
Later in the day, Kelly went shooting at the Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct Range.
Portland Police Bureau tweet – Feb 6, 2014 1:32 PM
It's not the first time that Mark Kelly has participated in gun activities right after testifying in favor of gun control. Last March, Kelly purchased an AR-15 "assault rifle" and a .45 cal handgun the day after testifying before the Colorado State Senate in support of "universal background checks."
It's also not the first time that Mark Kelly has been photographed shooting. Last April, Kelly was filmed by CNN shooting his wife's Glock 9mm handgun – the same type of handgun that was used in his wife's shooting.
Mark Kelly on CNN in 2013 with his wife's Glock 9mm, the same kind of gun his wife was shot with
[h/t Bruce McCain for the PPB tweet]
UPDATE: The Portland Police Bureau removed the tweet of Mark Kelly shooting at their Central Precinct Range – sometime during the day on Friday, 2/7/2014. The "went shooting" link in the above article has been updated to show a screen shot of the tweet on http://twitter.com/PortlandPolice before it was removed.
UPDATE: Even the website for Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun control group led by former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) and her husband Mark Kelly, mentions Mark Kelly's visit to the Portland Police Department indoor firing range after testifying at the Oregon Legislature.
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Advanced Micro Devices has been losing out to Intel for a couple of years in server microprocessors. But it hopes to make a comeback with a series of new microprocessors for servers in data centers.
Today, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is introducing the latest version of its Opteron microprocessor with four computing cores. The server chip is the first to use the 45-nanometer manufacturing process that is critical to keeping up with the manufacturing might of Intel.
Of course, this AMD turnaround could run smack into the recession. Intel pre-announced lousy results today for the fourth quarter, saying that sales would now fall about 12 percent from the third quarter; previously, the company expected sales would rise 3 percent. Intel now expects $9 billion in revenues for the fourth quarter, plus or minus $300 million. It previously expected sales between $10.1 billion and $10.9 billion. Analysts were looking for $10.3 billion.
The AMD processor is code-named Shanghai and will now be known as the 2000 series and 8000 series Opteron processors. The processor speeds range from 2.3 gigahertz (which is currently the top speed for Opteron chips) to 2.7 gigahertz.
Intel will offer its own arguments as to why its code-named Nehalem processors are superior to the latest Opterons. But Steve Demski, an AMD product manager, said that AMD will continue to emphasize the performance per watt — or power efficiency — of its processors. The new chips have features such as better virtualization (the ability to run numerous types of software on one server) and range in price from $377 to $989 in 1,000-unit quantities. AMD will launch a desktop version of the chips in the first quarter.
It remains to be seen if the new Opterons will help AMD regain market share that it lost to Intel in the past two years. AMD grabbed the upper hand in servers in 2003 with the launch of the power-efficient Opteron family. But Intel struck back in 2006 with the Core 2 server chips. AMD launched its rival chip, code-named Barcelona, in 2007. But that chip had a bug and was delayed, resulting in big losses for AMD.
AMD had originally scheduled the Shanghai launch for the first quarter of 2009, but it was able to speed up the launch to today. Last week, AMD hosted a roundtable of server makers who said they would use the new chips. Included were Penguin Computing, Appro, Colfax International, Verari Systems, and Rackable Systems. Those aren't the biggest customers, but there was a day when AMD couldn't get any server makers to defend it.
John Lee of Appro said that in certain segments such as high-performance computing, AMD has remained ahead of Intel. Appro uses AMD chips in a variety of supercomputers, he said. In the last couple of years, Intel has made inroads into the product line but now AMD is more competitive, he said.
Bill Calder, a spokesman for Intel, however, said that AMD remains a generation behind Intel. He noted that AMD doesn't have a critical feature for its 45-nanometer production: high-K dielectric, which produces lower power chips. He also said that Intel chips currently hold the top six spots on the SPECPower benchmark for high performance and low power. It isn't clear if AMD will be able to beat Intel's new generation of chips, let alone Intel's current chips, based on leaked reports.
Shane Rau, an analyst at IDC, said that Shanghai represents AMD's opportunity to regain its competitive position against Intel in server processors, where customers genuinely want two legitimate suppliers to ensure fair pricing and product diversity. Intel has 85.6 percent of the server processor market in the third quarter of 2008, compared to AMD's 14.3 percent. That compares to Intel's share of 75.2 percent and AMD's 24.6 percent share in the third quarter of 2006.
Beyond competitive concerns, a more pressing problem for both AMD and Intel is the economy. Although the recession is hurting information technology sales, Demski said that big companies will pay more attention to getting more for their server purchases now.


Lt. General Francis — Operation Backbone for Soldiers who seek private medical care choices.
Lieutenant General Frank Kearney, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, retired in 2012 from the United States Army after more than 35 years of experience. His final active duty assignment was Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington D.C. where he worked with 29 different cabinet level agencies in the U.S. Government to achieve the goals of the President's Counterterrorism strategy. Currently, he works with military and corporate groups to assist in improving organizational performance through leader development. Frank also serves as a member of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) to the Secretary of Defense and is a Distinguished Faculty Member of the Joint Special Operations University.


Tough Mudder has 10 events during the year from London South West, South East, Scotland and Ireland, Yorkshire and the Midlands.
A mind-bending combination of large grassy hills, dense dark forest and quicksand-like mud means that you'll be more worried about taking your next step than the view. Book as either an individual or a team.
As an example the date for the South West event is 20th – 21st August and Yorkshire 6th – 7th August and costs £79 on the Saturday and £69 on the Sunday.
Tough Mudder is a 10-12 mile obstacle course designed to test all-around strength, stamina and teamwork. For more information https://toughmudder.co.uk/events/find-an-event.
Another company based in Wales is Invncbl. A single place is £43 and a team of 10 would cost £372. For more information follow this link http://invncbl.co.uk/.
A third company is Mud Runner and whichever you choose to go with we hope you will raise some money for ChallengeAid.
All participants are asked to raise a minimum of £250 which includes your entry fee.
None of the monies raised during any of our challenges are used for administrative purposes.


By focusing on the need of the end-users, Jotun has become one of the largest and fastest growing paint companies in the world.
Jotun has been a leading manufacturer of paint, coatings and powder coatings for more than 90 years. To be a market leader implies exploring the unknown. We have a long history of successful expansion into new markets with the first factory opening over 50 years ago in Libya. Today we operate in over 100 markets worldwide, and we will continue to grow and expand our global footprint.
Success comes with added responsibility. At Jotun we do not rest in the shadow of our success. We continuously invest in our people. The creation of talented teams gives us an unparalleled competitive advantage. We invest in innovation and R&D to be able to continuously improve our solutions and products for the future.
For decades, Jotun has also played an important and responsible role in the societies in which we are established through investments in local commitments through our work with several humanitarian organisations.