I recently headed down to Oare in Devon to do some more decorative painting and faux finishes. I usually head down around once a year and it's always a pleasure. The manor house is beautiful as is the countryside around. This time my main jobs were to transform a couple of fireplaces, creating a faux stone and trompe l'oeil effect on one and a 'shabby chic' and patinated gold effect on the other.
The clients wanted this fireplace to feel lighter and brighter – covering the dark slate and painting the surround to match the existing shabby chic mirror. The room is opulent to say the least so the key here was to create an aged finish that looked rustic but also elegant and classy.
(1) First I fully mask off the whole area with 1200 lining paper, 3M edge lock tape, bin bags and Dulux low tack masking tape.
(2) I then cleaned everything with a sugar soap solution and sanded everything with 180 grit abranet pads.
(3) Next I applied the all important wax barrier for the distressed effect – in this instance I used using ordinary tea -lights.
(4) On then it was on to the primer – two coats of Zinsser Bin 123 primer, both rollered and brushed on.
At this stage most painted furniture or kitchens looks really pretty naff and this was no exception 🙂 It really brought out all the areas that needed attention, highlighting cracks, splits in the wood and areas that had previously been repaired or cobbled together. It must have been a hundred years old and had obviously had an interesting life.
(5) Once filled it was time to tint some matt emulsion (I tend to use Dulux trade), using the colours in the mirror as my guide. To the white emulsion I added lamp black and yellow ochre pigment with a hint of burnt umber for warmth.
(7) The first stage of the 'shabby chic' finish was to sand back certain areas. Having added the wax barrier earlier the paint came away easily in the places I wanted it too – creating a rustic effect that was stylised but looked natural at the same time.
(8) The second stage is the all important and brilliantly fun glazing. Using the colours of the mirror as my reference I mixed paynes grey, yellow ochre and cadmium orange pigment with Winsor and Newtons Liquin. This part of the process was about about building up the layers and enhancing the natural curves and shape of the fireplace. For this type of glazing I tend to set about it organically, applying the glaze, playing about, seeing which areas work with less glaze and which with more – it's all about balance.
I like to build up my glazes, one layer at a time as it brings more depth of colour and allows you to get some beautiful patination. In the end I applied three layers of the same glaze, tinkering and wiping away until I got the look I wanted.
I really enjoyed this project so I hope you've enjoyed reading all about it – Happy Painting!


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Q: create dataset from one column csv file where data are separated by spaces I have a csv file with one column, I want to split this column to many columns so I get a real dataset
data
02/01/19         11 725001                   ADWYA                     4,7          4,7        4,8           4,8        4,8        4,8        4,8              4296          5    20620,8
02/01/19         11 340005                   AMEN BANK                27,8         27,8       27,8         27,75      27,75       27,5       27,8               261          9    7240,06
02/01/19         11 730001                   ARTES                    6,27         6,27       6,27          6,28       6,28       6,27       6,29              2532          4   15924,09
02/01/19         11 714001                   ASSAD                    7,79          7,8       7,79          8,02       8,02       7,78       8,02             14878         62  118592,33
02/01/19         11 360035                   ATB                      3,76         3,66       3,76          3,65       3,65       3,65       3,87               533         13    1948,72
02/01/19         11 774001                   ATELIER MEUBLE INT       4,18         4,18       4,18           4,2        4,2       4,15        4,2               848          8    3530,24
02/01/19         11 470010                   ATL                      2,69         2,69       2,65          2,63       2,63       2,61       2,65              3403         11    9005,19
02/01/19         11 160015                   ATTIJARI BANK              41           41       41,9            41         41         41         42              9242         44  379252,01
02/01/19         11 661001                   ATTIJARI LEASING        16,59        16,59       16,1          16,1       16,1       16,1       16,1               366          9     5892,6

The separation between data in each row is specific number of spaces
So I tried this:
import pandas as pd

df['date'] = df.data.str.split('         ').str[0]
df['rest1'] = df.data.str.split('         ').str[-1]

but didn't work.
Expected output:
date             c1 c2                       c3                        c4   ...
02/01/19         11 725001                   ADWYA                     4,7          4,7        4,8           4,8        4,8        4,8        4,8              4296          5    20620,8
02/01/19         11 340005                   AMEN BANK                27,8         27,8       27,8         27,75      27,75       27,5       27,8               261          9    7240,06
02/01/19         11 730001                   ARTES                    6,27         6,27       6,27          6,28       6,28       6,27       6,29              2532          4   15924,09
02/01/19         11 714001                   ASSAD                    7,79          7,8       7,79          8,02       8,02       7,78       8,02             14878         62  118592,33
02/01/19         11 360035                   ATB                      3,76         3,66       3,76          3,65       3,65       3,65       3,87               533         13    1948,72
02/01/19         11 774001                   ATELIER MEUBLE INT       4,18         4,18       4,18           4,2        4,2       4,15        4,2               848          8    3530,24
02/01/19         11 470010                   ATL                      2,69         2,69       2,65          2,63       2,63       2,61       2,65              3403         11    9005,19
02/01/19         11 160015                   ATTIJARI BANK              41           41       41,9            41         41         41         42              9242         44  379252,01
02/01/19         11 661001                   ATTIJARI LEASING        16,59        16,59       16,1          16,1       16,1       16,1       16,1               366          9     5892,6
#c1, c2, c3.. are columns names
#data on c3 may contains 1 space

A: Pandas support regex split, \s+ will match 1 or more spaces and split on it:
df['data'].str.split(r'\s+')

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Meuse is a  replenishment oiler (, PCE) of the French Navy. Constructed by the Brest Arsenal in Brest, France, the vessel was launched on 2 December 1978 and entered service in 1980. The tanker served on several overseas operations, often operating with France's aircraft carriers in a support role. Meuse was taken out of service on 16 December 2015.

Development and design

In French service, the first two  tankers were called Pétrolier Ravitailleur d'Escadre (PRE, "fleet replenishment oiler"). The first two ships were built to a similar design with different capabilities of the following three. Meuse, the second vessel of the class, had a superstructure that was one deck higher than , the lead ship of the class. The first two ships carry two cranes abaft the bridge.

Meuse has a standard displacement of  and  at full load. The oiler is  long overall and  between perpendiculars with a beam of  and a draught of  empty and  at full load. Meuse is powered by two SEMT Pielstick 16 PC2.5 V 400 diesel engines turning two LIPS controllable pitch propellers rated at . The vessel has a maximum speed of , a maximum sustained speed of  and a range of  at .

They have two dual solid/liquid underway transfer stations per side and can replenish two ships per side and one astern. Of those four stations, two of them are SYTAR () stations. The ship initially had capacity for  of fuel oil,  of diesel fuel,  of JP-5 aviation fuel,  of distilled water,  of provisions,  of munitions and  of spare parts. These numbers change with the needs of the fleet.

The Durance-class tankers all mount a flight deck over the stern and a hangar. The ships utilise Aérospatiale Alouette III and Westland Lynx helicopters but are capable of operating larger ones from their flight deck. For defence, Meuse initially mounted one Bofors 40 mm/L60 anti-aircraft (AA) gun in a single gun turret and two single-mounted /70 calibre Mk. 10 Mod 23 AA guns. The ship is equipped with two DRBN 34 navigational radars, a Telegon HF/DF system, Thales DR-2000 intercept radar and an SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy system. The armament was later altered by removing the 20 mm guns and adding four  M2 Browning machine guns and three launchers for Simbad Mistral surface-to-air missiles. The ship has a complement of 163 and is capable of accommodating 45 personnel.

Construction and career
The second tanker of the Durance class was laid down on 2 June 1977 at the Brest Arsenal in Brest, France. She was launched on 2 December 1978 and given the pennant number A 607. Meuse was commissioned into the French Navy on 8 August 1980 or 21 November 1980. The Durance-class ships were assigned to the Force d'action navale (FAR, "Naval Action Force") after entering service and based at Toulon.

Meuse participated in Opération Olifant in 1983–1984 off Lebanon with the aircraft carriers  and . She was deployed in Opération Daguet, the French contribution to the Gulf War in 1991. She participated in Opération Trident in 1999 with Foch supporting Kosovo. Meuse took part in Mission Héraclès in 2001 with the aircraft carrier  as part of the War in Afghanistan. As part of Opération Agapanthe the tanker operated off India in 2010–2011 with Charles de Gaulle and again with the aircraft carrier in Opération Harmattan in 2011. Meuse was assigned to Opération Chammal in January 2015 with Charles de Gaulle. She was decommissioned on 16 December 2015.

Notes

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References

External links

 History of Meuse at netmarine.net

1978 ships
Durance-class tankers
Ships built in France

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Two teachers who are charged with cutting the hair of a Grade 6 student without her consent have been released on bail after being arrested and produced before court.
The incident took place at a school located in the Kandy District. Two teachers attached to a school in Kandy had cut the hair of a student without her consent on May 8.
The parents of the student who suffered this incident had lodged a complaint with the Wattegama Police on the same day stating that two teachers had cut their daughter's hair without her consent.
According to the police, the two teachers were arrested on Monday and produced before the Teldeniya Magistrate's Court. They were later released on two sureties of Rs.25,000 each.


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Encouraging charitable giving under the Giving Pledge
Do you feel inspired by the philanthropy of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet when it comes to making a charitable donation? Every donation, no matter how big or small, really counts.
This article considers how the examples set by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are changing the world, and how donations can be made tax efficiently.
The giving pledge – what's it all about?
Bill Gates was recently named the world's most admired man according to a YouGov poll. The Microsoft founder is one of the world's most successful businessman, and also one of the most generous when it comes to giving to charity. Forbes magazine places him as one of the US' top philanthropists, second only to Warren Buffet.
Buffet and Gates have both used their influence to promote philanthropy in recent years by setting up the Giving Pledge. The Pledge is a list of billionaires who have committed to give over half of their wealth to charitable causes. The Giving Pledge started with 40 signatories in the United States in 2010. There are now 175 billionaires on the list from 22 countries. It has also been signed by business leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg, Lord Sainsbury and Richard Branson.
Scottish business leaders have also signed the Pledge including the founder of The Wood Group, Sir Ian Wood. Sir Wood is a trustee of his own charitable foundation, The Wood Foundation. The foundation works with 45,000 smallholder tea farmers in Tanzania and Rwanda and to tackle childhood poverty in Scotland. The Wood Foundation has already committed £9.1 million to programmes helping young people in Scotland.
Speaking about the Pledge Gates commented: "It's exciting to see how serious and energetic people are about philanthropy, and this truly applies at all levels of giving...People are inherently generous and they want to make a difference."
Bill Gates set up his own charitable foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in 2000. It has so far spent $13 billion helping to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics. It appears to be working, helping to reduce malaria deaths by 60 percent and new HIV infections from 3 million to 1.9 million by 2015.
How can we maximise our donations?
For those who are not billionaires, we can still help to make a difference. There are many tax breaks that may be available to you if you want to make a charitable donation allowing you to maximise the impact of your donation.
For example, there is no Capital Gains Tax (CGT) due on gifts of shares, land, property or other assets to charity. The value of the gift in the charity's hands will be the actual value at the date of the gift. There will be no CGT payable by the donor, even if the gifted asset had significantly grown in value and would otherwise have been liable to CGT if it had been disposed of in some other way.
Charities can also reclaim Income Tax from any donations they receive under gift aid, which will increase the value of the donation by 25%. For higher or additional rate tax payers, charitable giving under gift aid also benefits you directly. Those paying income tax at 40% can claim back £25 for every £100 donated and those paying income tax at 45% can claim back £31 for every £100 donated. For further information on the new Scottish rates of income tax, view our recent article here. This can be claimed by individuals directly through Self Assessment, or can be passed onto the charity itself at the discretion of the donor.
So, perhaps its time to think about giving back in some way by making a charitable donation. It doesn't matter how you give, whether it's in the form of cash, goods or property. Gift aid especially will benefit both the charity and the donor, if the donor qualifies for gift aid.
Go on, be inspired and give it a go!
For more information on this topic, contact
Victoria Simpson
victoria.simpson@andersonstrathern.co.uk
Charities & Third Sector
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Foreign Direct Investment to India decreased to $40 billion last year $44 billion in 2016 while outflows from India, the main source of investment in South Asia, more than doubled, according to a new trade report by the UN.
According to the World Investment Report 2018 by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) global foreign direct investment flows fell by 23 per cent in 2017, to $1.43 trillion from $1.87 trillion in 2016. "Downward pressure on FDI and the slowdown in global value chains are a major concern for policymakers worldwide, and especially in developing countries," UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi said.
FDI to India decreased from $44 billion in 2016 to $40 billion in 2017. But outflows from India, the main source of FDI in South Asia, more than doubled to $11 billion, the report said.
The report cited India's state-owned oil and gas company ONGC's active investment in foreign assets in recent years. After acquiring a 26 per cent stake in Vankorneft, an affiliate of Russia's national oil company Rosneft PJSC, in 2016, ONGC bought a 15 per cent stake in an offshore field in Namibia from Tullow Oil in 2017.
By the end of 2017, ONGC had 39 projects in 18 countries, producing 285,000 barrels of oil and oil-equivalent gas per day, the report said.
The report said that cross-border merger and acquisitions sales for India rose from $8billion to $23 billion driven by a few large deals in extractive and technology related industries.
Singapore's Petrol Complex, owned by Russia's Rosneftegaz acquired a 49 per cent stake of Essar Oil Ltd, the second largest privately owned Indian oil company, for $13 billion.
An investor group, including American e-commerce compnay eBay, technology giant Microsoft Corporation and China's multinational investment holding conglomerate Tencent Holdings acquired a stake in Flipkart Internet for $1.4 billion, and Soft Bank acquired a 20 per cent stake in One97 Communications, the parent of digital payments leader Paytm, for $1.4 billion.
The report said that globally, the net cross-border M&A purchases of transition-economy MNEs rebounded from $809 million in 2016 to almost $14 billion in 2017, due to two large transactions, incliding Rosneft acquiring a 49 per cent share in Essar Oil in India for close to $13 billion (through its Singapore affiliate, Petrol Complex).
Developing-economy investors from China and South Africa, followed by Singapore, India and Hong Kong (China), are among the top 10 investors in Africa.
The report said that financial uncertainty caused by "significant risks" to global trade is responsible for a sharp fall in international investment flows which could hurt developing countries the most.
Developed economies saw the biggest drop in FDI flows in 2017 at 37 per cent, to $712 billion but this was to some extent expected, after a spike in 2016. More concerning is the "lack of (FDI) recovery" among developing economies last year, since FDI is the "largest external source" of finance for developing countries, at around 40 per cent, UNCTAD said.
Looking ahead, global FDI is forecast to see a "marginal" 10 per cent increase by the end of this year, the report said. It notes that this is "below the average", looking back at the past decade and is linked to "significant" risks and "policy uncertainty", associated with "broadening" trade tensions around the world.
US tax reforms approved by Congress this year are also likely to affect future global investment decisions, the report adds. On another key indicator - greenfield investment - which signals how confident parent companies are about building operations in a new region or country - the UN report noted a 14 per cent drop.
UNCTAD's survey shows that modern industrial policies are increasingly diverse and complex, addressing new imperatives, such as GVC integration and upgrading, the knowledge economy, build-up of sectors linked to the Sustainable Development Goals and competitive positioning for the new industrial revolution.
"The new industrial revolution is already affecting cross-border investment patterns. Investment policies must adapt as part of new industrial development strategies," Kituyi said.


Richard Franklin is perhaps best remembered by many Saint Mary's alumni as a former Captain of the Saint Mary's University football team and Chief of the Campus Police. His teachers will remember voting him Alpha Sigma Nu in the Jesuit Honors Society, before his graduation in 1969 with Bachelor of Commerce degree. Franklin went on to graduate studies in business and has had a career spanning a diverse range of challenges. He was a senior executive with the Seven-Up Company for ten years, he has held senior positions with Head Sport, Coors Brewing Company and Reebok International, and more recently has worked in the telecommunications and information technology field. He was a Senior Vice President for Telecommunications Inc., a major United States firm that runs cable and communications networks, and in February 1999 was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer for the Halifax-based Information Technology Institute (ITI). ITI has campuses across Canada and is now establishing schools across the United States, with an expansion plan of four schools per year.
Richard Franklin serves on numerous community and youth oriented voluntary agencies. He is married with one daughter.


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Can I get into Saint Benedict? The school has a 81% acceptance rate. Last year, 1,614 out of 2,003 applicants were admitted making College of Saint Benedict an easy school to get into with a very good chance of acceptance assuming you meet the requirements. Academically, it has challenging requirements for admission test scores, generally admitting students who score in the top 40 percent. College of Saint Benedict typically accepts and attracts "B+" average high school students. Only 32% of those admitted chose to enroll in the school. Most incoming freshmen graduated in the top quarter of their high school class.
What are the SAT requirements for students to be admitted to College of Saint Benedict?
College of Saint Benedict typically requires applicants to be in the top 43 percent of SAT test takers. The school consistently takes SAT composite scores down to 1090 on a 1600 scale, below which admission should be considered a reach. We estimate some students could be accepted with SAT's as low as 990. The estimated average SAT composite for admitted freshman is 1190 out of 1600. 7 percent of applicants submit SAT scores to the school. Note: SAT scores presented on this page have been adjusted upwards per the College Board's concordance tables for test takers after March 2016.
What are the ACT requirements for prospective students to get into Saint Benedict?
Admission data indicates that Saint Benedict regularly accepts students with ACT's of 22 and above. Successful applicants typically send ACT scores in the top 37 percent nationally. We estimate the school accepting minimum ACT composite scores around 19 in some instances. Prospective students submitting an ACT composite of 25 or higher should be in the upper half of applicants - and students with a 28 and above have very competitive chances. Scoring well on the ACT is very important as 95 percent of applicants submit ACT scores to College of Saint Benedict.
You will need very good grades in high school to get into College of Saint Benedict. The average high school GPA of the admitted freshman class at College of Saint Benedict was 3.67 on the 4.0 scale indicating that primarily B+ students are accepted and ultimately attend. If your high school grades are above the average 3.67 GPA, you have a very good chance of being admitted as Saint Benedict accepts 81% of all applicants.
70% of College of Saint Benedict freshman were in the top twenty five percent of their high school graduating class.
What are the requirements for admission to College of Saint Benedict and what considerations affect admission decisions?
Primary data source, U.S. Department of Education https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=174747 IPEDS survey data for College of Saint Benedict.
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I am looking to remove the swirl flaps and clean my EGR valve on the weekend but have a couple of questions regarding removing the front strut bar as per below.
Does anyone have the torque values for these? Plus do i need to buy new M8 bolts and washer when removing and re-attaching.


Finally, because it does not limit over-lawyering.
Such criticism is sometimes justified in the opinion of the author and, if one accepts it, this is not to be against arbitration, but on the contrary is a necessary preamble to efforts to improve it.
It is suggested that substantial improvements are available.
First, the practice of party-appointed arbitrators should be abandoned. This tribute to the rule of symmetry (each party appoints an arbitrator) may and does affect the process, because it inserts voices in the deliberation room, each of which frequently supports the views of its appointor.
One would not accept in court proceedings that each party appoint one of the three judges who form a panel. The same must apply to arbitration.
Second, since the majority of disputes are of middle size, three arbitrators involve too high a cost. A sole arbitrator, like a sole judge in the first instance of court proceedings, is generally sufficient and would likely reduce the costs of the proceeding by about 60%.
Arbitrators do not always give priority to their duty to serve the parties. It is submitted that any other priority (such as a wish to be aggrandized in some way) is not in line with the legitimate expectations of the parties that the arbitrator possesses a good balance and does his/her best to understand them.
One way in which a real spirit of service is expressed is to create a constructive and informal dialogue with the parties rather than being distant and cold.
The arbitrator should not forget that one of the parties (the one that prevails in the end) is entitled to a quick decision.
A quick decision does not mean a decision made in a rush, but a decision should not be considered over several years, nor should the drafting of an award take a couple of years.
The arbitrator must not think that he can do what he likes, but rather that he has a duty to proceed with expedition.
A major reason for over-lawyering may be the concern of counsel that his client does not blame him for failing to raise all possible – and impossible – arguments. If one wishes to avoid this, a stipulation as to procedure, time and costs may have to be entered into at the same time as the arbitration agreement.
Such stipulation may include prohibiting arguments that have no serious grounds, prohibiting repetitive motions as well as any delaying tactics, and providing for sanctions against a party that breaches such stipulation, even if (in the end) it is successful on other grounds.
errors in the assessment of the evidence.
No one would accept such lack of review in court proceedings and there is no reason why this should be imposed in arbitration, which – in order to exist – must not only be different from but even better than court proceedings.
The American reply to this was first an attempt to allow vacatur of an award for manifest disregard of the law, following the dictum in Wilko v. Swan. It was followed by an attempt at contractual expansion of judicial review, which has now been buried by the Supreme Court in Hall Street v. Mattel, a result which has been supported by an extremely authoritative voice.
These brave replies share a tendency to seek some redress from state courts rather than through the arbitrator.
This issue has been the object of a strong debate between a great construction lawyer, Ian Duncan Wallace from London, and a great conflicts professor, Pierre Mayer from Paris.
The construction lawyer has argued that state courts retain the power to review awards, while the law professor's powerful reply to this proposition is that if the merits of the dispute are to be decided in the end by a State court, then arbitration becomes simply a prelude to court proceedings and will be less useful.
Professor Smit has worked out an interesting solution, consisting of the possibility that the arbitration rules provide that, after the arbitrator has made the award, the parties ask him to review and to correct it and that he be authorized to do so.
This would be a new solution, which is based on the premise that the arbitrator is capable of admitting and correcting his/her possible errors.
Another intra-arbitral review consisting of a review by an appellate arbitral tribunal has been advocated by this writer many years ago as a result of his courses on international arbitration at the University of Padua. This could be instituted in the many countries which do not prevent a review of the award by an appellate arbitral tribunal.
Such proceedings are necessarily required to be well organized, under adequate arbitration rules, including the appointment of a panel of three arbitrators (all selected by the arbitral institution) and a decision within a precise length of time, such as six months.
This solution has been opposed on various grounds, such as its duration and the costs. As to duration, if the first instance of arbitration must be decided within one year, the two degrees will last one and a half years, or a maximum two years, which time wise is not a bad result compared to present international commercial arbitration. As to costs, a sole arbitrator in the first instance and three in the appellate proceedings do not increase substantially the cost of an original panel of three.
The review by the appellate arbitral tribunal may, and in my opinion should be, a full de novo review of the merits; evidence may then be heard afresh, if deemed necessary.
The European Arbitral Centre was founded as a legal entity in 1959 in Strasbourg, France by several bar associations and other professional bodies, such as the Chamber of Commerce of Strasbourg, its stock exchange and other official bodies under the patronage of the Council of Europe, of which its carries the colors.
The rules of the European Court of Arbitration provide, in addition to a full de novo review, that the loser in the first instance arbitration obtain leave to appeal from this arbitral institution and, in order to obtain it, must deposit the amount awarded by the first arbitrator with the Registrar of the arbitral institution or provide a guarantee on demand to be issued by a prime bank selected by the Registrar. The result is that, if the appellate arbitral tribunal confirms the first award, the very day of this second award the money goes into the pockets of the winner.
instead of becoming the first step in the long path to try to obtain its enforceability and then its enforcement.
The loser is not deprived of the right to challenge the appellate award before state courts, but its having paid the amount required by the appellate arbitral tribunal should considerably reduce those challenges that have mainly tactical purposes.
Challenges to the first award should be excluded when the award has been appealed to the appellate arbitral tribunal. In the absence of such a provision, the possible challenge proceedings may be stayed by the state court.
One might compare arbitration to some electronic products, which have seen a first generation, a second generation, a third generation and so on.
First generation arbitration involves a time when old, wise and highly respected figures were appointed as arbitrators. Their decisions were rarely questioned.
We live in the second generation of arbitration, where a large number of arbitrators are appointed, some of whom do not have that standing and whose appointment and decision are frequently challenged.
It is suggested that the arbitration which has been outlined above might be seen as a third generation of arbitration.
The great Italian writer on politics Machiavelli, said that he who makes a new proposal will have against him nearly everybody, each having his own reasons but they will be united by the common wish to oppose it. Although this writer is aware of this tendency, he hopes that these reflections will contribute to the continuous improvement of arbitration, which those who have arbitration at heart, certainly advocate.
Chartered Arbitrator, President of the European Court of Arbitration, Advocate admitted in Italy and Paris (Associate member of a set of barristers chambers in London).
Mauro Rubino-Sammartano & Mark Kantor, Is Full Armor Absolutely Necessary to the Arbitration Process?, 17AM. REV. INT'L ARB. 615 (2006).
Hall Street Associates v. Mattel Inc., 128 S.Ct. 1396 (2008).
Hans Smit, Contractual Modification of the Scope of Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards, 8 AM. REV. INT'L ARB. 147 (1997).
I.N. Duncan Wallace, Control by the Courts: A Plea for More, Not Less, 6. ARB. INT'L 253, 266 (1990).
Pierre Mayer, Seeking the Middle Ground of Court Control: A Reply to I.N. Duncan Wallace, 7 ARB. INT'L 311 (1991).
Hans Smit, Contractual Modification of the Arbitral Process, 113 PENN ST. L. REV. 995 (2009).
MAURO RUBINO-SAMMARTANO, L'ARBITRATO INTERNAZIONALE (1989); MAURO RUBINO-SAMMARTANO, INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: LAW AND PRACTICE (2d ed. 2001) and in various articles.
Such as France, Germany, England and Wales, Spain, Germany, and the U.S.
MACHIAVELLI, IL PRINCIPE (THE PRINCE), written in Florence in the XV century.


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Looking to buy a new Homebuy or Open Market home? You've come to the right place.
We work with small and large builders to build stunning new homes, in desirable locations, designed with the customer in mind. You will usually find our homes located in the beautiful local authority area of Monmouthshire, but we have recently expanded our geographical boundary for outright sales to the equally stunning Powys.
We are the trading subsidiary of Monmouthshire Housing Association and their appointed selling agent for the Homebuy scheme, operated in conjunction with Monmouthshire County Council.
This is our beautiful new housing collection of fourteen, high quality three and four bedroom houses located in the historic village of Llangynidr, with the breathtaking backdrop of the Brecon Beacons. Built in partnership with Edenstone Homes.
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We are delighted to be able to offer people unable to afford to buy a home outright on the open market, the opportunity to buy a new property through the Welsh Assembly Government's popular 'Homebuy' scheme, also known as 'shared equity'.
So how does shared equity work?
Shared equity tends to be mainly available on new developments, so keep an eye on this website to see what we are selling and what is in the pipeline.
Purchasers can obtain a mortgage for as little as 50%, up to a max of 70% of the total value of a property, although it depends on what you can afford. We will then loan you the remaining percentage to buy the property.
With shared equity there is no monthly rent to be paid (not to be confused with shared ownership), this means your monthly payments are substantially less than if you bought the property outright.
The property will be 100% in your ownership, you just pay the loan back, based on the value of your property at the time of resale.
Getting on the property ladder continues to be a massive problem in the Monmouthshire CC area, so the shared equity scheme is a really affordable way to take that initial step, which is why it's so popular.
You will need to pass eligibility and affordability assessments and be able to obtain a mortgage.
I have seen a property I like, so what do I do next?
Firstly you need to register on the Homesearch register here (not the usual way to buy a home we know, but it will only take 5 minutes of your time). Give us a call and we can talk you through the whole process.
If you have any questions about how the scheme works, or are interested in a property, please give Sarah or Hayley a call on 0333 207 9000.
We also advertise our homes on social media, so make sure you follow us on @CapselLtd and @CapselWales !


Celelalte Cuvinte meaning The other words is one of the living legends from my country with 30 years career and some excellent albums released across the years. The were loved by anybody intrested in more then mainstream music from that period being influenced by bands as Rush or even Led Zeppelin but with a typical romanian feel to it added. Those were really hard for bands here in Romania included them, but with all that they manage to release some great albums. The second album from them named simply II from 1989 is a great sincere album with clear direction towards Rush music. Very good is the voice of Calin Pop, very meaningful and with heart and soul. The guitar parts are aswell great, the druming is consstent and very busy and here and there some sporadicaly keyboards added in the mix to give a certain elaborated atmosphere. All pieces stands as good, not a weak moment here like forte onesNu-mi da tot într-o zi, Piriul or Iarna from bonus track make from this album a worthy affair. 3.5 stars, solid yet unoticed outside my country.
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Dr. Abe Hardoon is an Internal Medicine physician, Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Abe Hardoon has been practicing in the Suntree area of Melbourne since 1996. He started Suntree Internal Medicine in September 2002. In June 2015, Suntree Internal Medicine moved to the new facility at Brevard Medical City.
Dr. Scott Hardoon is an Internal Medicine physician, Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Gary J. Hardoon is an Internal Medicine Physician, Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Edwin Chan was originally from the Central Florida area and was raised here for most of his life. His pursuit of medicine started in his teenage years when he met the Hardoon family. Dr. Abe Hardoon encouraged him to attend medical school and also served as a mentor during his path to become a physician.
As a family medicine practitioner, Dr Bhatt's primary priority is to earn the trust and respect of her patients. She enjoys engaging with her patients and being their partner in their healthcare choices and to help overcome any personal challenges.
Dr. Keefe moved to Brevard County in 2010 to solidify her practice as Family Medicine Physician. She is passionate about taking care of her patients with ailments ranging from the simple cold or skin rash, to serious chronic diseases and unidentified or undiagnosed illnesses.
Shannon is a board certified advanced registered nurse practitioner specializing in family practice.
Dawn has been a nurse since 2006 and has extensive experience in family practice, interventional pain management, and women's health.
Jennifer is a board certified advanced registered nurse practitioner specializing in family practice, woman's health, integrative medicine, thyroid and bio-identical hormone replacement.
Nikka is a board certified Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in adult health. She has experience in primary care, general surgery, vascular surgery, dermatology and wound care.


VF TackCoat is a brush, rag, or spray applied product for "waking up" existing polyurea to accept a new coat of polyurea, or other applied coating systems. Especially useful for the tie-in coat on extended or delayed jobs. Simply apply a light coat to the surface of existing polyurea, lightly scrub in, and allow to flash off. Top coat with next layer of polyurea within 1 hour. Eliminates the need for hand sanding in some situations.
Bonding new polyurea to old polyurea.


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import mock
import unittest

from yardstick.benchmark.scenarios.networking import vtc_throughput_noisy

class VtcThroughputNoisyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        scenario = dict()
        scenario['options'] = dict()
        scenario['options']['default_net_name'] = ''
        scenario['options']['default_subnet_name'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vlan_net_1_name'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vlan_subnet_1_name'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vlan_net_2_name'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vlan_subnet_2_name'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vnic_type'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vtc_flavor'] = ''
        scenario['options']['packet_size'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vlan_sender'] = ''
        scenario['options']['vlan_receiver'] = ''
        scenario['options']['num_of_neighbours'] = '1'
        scenario['options']['amount_of_ram'] = '1G'
        scenario['options']['number_of_cores'] = '1'

        self.vt = vtc_throughput_noisy.VtcThroughputNoisy(scenario, '')

    def test_run_for_success(self):
        result = {}
        self.vt.run(result)

def main():
    unittest.main()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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RI surpasses 4,100 COVID-19 cases, 13 more people die
Daniel Hollingworth, ,
PROVIDENCE, RI (WLNE)- The Rhode Island Department of Health announced Friday that 13 more Rhode Island residents have died from COVID-19, and 366 more people tested positive.
That brings the state to 118 deaths and 4,177 cumulative COVID-19 cases.
There are currently 252 people in the hospital with COVID-19 which is an increase of 7 people from the data reported yesterday.
62 of those people are in the ICU and 43 of them are currently on ventilators.
Providence has the most cases with 1,093, with Pawtucket second at 380 cases.
Raimondo began her Friday address with a note of hope. Even as the state's numbers continue to climb, the governor insisted residents efforts at social distancing were helping to flatten the curve.
"Here's what I know," Raimondo said. "It's not going to last forever. It's absolutely not going to last forever."
Raimondo sounded a cautiously optimistic note as she remarked that the state could start seeing a return to "the business of getting back to normal" in a matter of weeks. The governor stressed that reopening the economy would be incremental, and some precautions could be in place for the next year, or until effective treatments and a vaccine are in place.
The governor announced a partnership with Beacon Mutual Insurance Company that will allow front line healthcare workers to file for expedited workers' compensation "under the presumption that the contracted the virus in the course of doing their job."
This benefit is in addition to the other emergency benefits guaranteed by state and federal funds, the governor said.
Raimondo sounded a note of encouragement as she displayed the chart introduced yesterday showing two possible projections for hospitalizations over the next three weeks. The governor said Rhode Island was in good shape to meet the required number of hospital beds, with field hospitals in Providence and Cranston coming online soon to meet added capacity at the state's hospitals.
Hospital capacity has increased by 250 percent, Raimondo said.
The governor acknowledged the efforts of 3,300 additional healthcare workers that signed up to work through the RI Responds website.
On the subject of personal protective equipment, the governor said the state was aiming for a 30-day supply statewide. While currently falling short of that goal, Raimondo said the stockpile of gowns, face shields, and masks was growing, with the help of donations from businesses and civic groups.
Raimondo acknowledged the struggles for PPE faced by frontline healthcare workers, who are forced to reuse equipment, sometimes with less than ideal sterilization methods.
"You are truly the heroes in this fight," Raimondo said. "Continue to be brave."
Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, head of the Rhode Island Department of Health, outlined steps that the department was taking to increase protective measures for residents of the state's nursing homes.
Alexander-Scott announced the formation of "strike teams" that will provide on-site testing for staff and residents.
The teams will also ensure that the homes adequate protective gear and are following isolation and quarantine protocols.
Alexander-Scott described a "cyclical testing strategy"– giving tests to staff andresidents every seven to 10 days– regardless of weather they were displaying symptoms or not.
The increased testing should provide more information on how the virus is spreading, and what additional measures are needed to control an outbreak.
©WLNE-TV/ABC 6 2020
Categories: Coronavirus, News, Rhode Island


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To qualify for the iZEV program, a passenger car must have a base MSRP of less than $55,000. Other vehicles, such as pickups, SUVs, and minivans, need base MSRPs of less than $60,000. If someone purchases or leases a new all-electric model, a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, or a plug-in hybrid with an electric range greater than 50 kilometres, the incentive for the customer could be up to $5,000. Those who purchase or lease shorter-range plug-in hybrids could receive up to $2,500. These incentives are applied at the point of sale so people can enjoy their savings immediately.
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A PHEV is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. It uses an electric motor as well as a gas engine. A PHEV can be charged at home or a public charging station like an electric model. However, it can also run on gasoline. Depending on the situation, these vehicles often switch seamlessly between the electric motor and engine. The term "ZEV" stands for a zero-emission vehicle. ZEVs include all-electric models and those that run on hydrogen fuel cells. While PHEVs aren't technically zero-emission vehicles since they have gasoline engines, they still qualify for incentives under the iZEV program.
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Because a hybrid vehicle has an electric motor that it can rely on, it uses less gas than a traditional vehicle. Many prefer to stick with hybrids because they're accustomed to going to the gas station and like this system's flexibility. They'll always be able to fill up, no matter where they travel, which brings added confidence to every road trip. Some hybrids can run exclusively on electric energy for short periods, allowing fewer emissions to be released.
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An all-electric vehicle, also known as an EV, runs exclusively on electric power. It can be charged at home or a public charging station. Many drivers love the idea of saying goodbye to the gas station for good. This could be because of environmental concerns or financial ones. As we all know, gas costs can add up over time when you use a traditional engine. Since there's no engine on an electric model, it won't need its oil changed, fuel filters replaced, or spark plugs swapped out for new ones.
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Chelsea boss Antonio Conte is not sure whether his side are still haunted by last season's 10th place finish following the club's 2-1 defeat to Liverpool on Friday.
Goals from Dejan Lovren and Jordan Henderson were enough to give Jurgen Klopp's side all three points, despite Diego Costa pulling one back in the second half.
Chelsea, who won maximum points from their first three Premier League games, have stuttered in their last two, picking up just one point.
After winning the league comfortably in 2014-15, Chelsea surprised football fans all over the world last season, picking up only 50 points.
'I don't know if they are still affected by last season but, I repeat, when you finish the season in 10th place, something strange is there.
'It's not natural. It's not simple. When you finish in 10th place, it means that you have to work very hard to improve to make sure you don't repeat the bad season. We must feel the danger in every single moment of the game.
'I think that this season, the manager, the players, all the people who work for Chelsea must take their responsibility.
Chelsea fell behind in the 17th minute at Stamford Bridge, after Lovren was left unmarked at the back post and allowed to slot the ball past Thibaut Courtois.
Liverpool then doubled their lead through a Henderson screamer from 33 yards in the 36th minute, leaving Courtois with no chance.
Costa gave Chelsea some hope in the 61st minute after prodding the ball past Simon Mignolet and avoiding a desperate James Milner on the line.
However, defeat for Chelsea leaves them in third place on 10 points, having played one extra game and Conte will be hoping Chelsea can prove they have moved on from last season's failings.
The Blues' opponents don't get any easier as their next league fixture is against Arsenal at the Emirates on September 24.


Graduates will be able to demonstrate basic music and music technology skills and gain further abilities and knowledge to improve their educational and employment pathway.
The programme recognises the importance of applying core capabilities such as confidence, basic knowledge and skills, as well as literacy and numeracy, in a range of familiar music contexts.
Formal English language entry criteria are not applicable for this Level 2 programme, however students should be proficient in the English language (both written and spoken).
Achieved all of the graduate outcomes in the graduate profile showing competence to a minimum of 60 credits in accordance with the programme schedule for the New Zealand Certificate in Foundation Skills (Level 2) programme.
The student will normally be expected to complete the New Zealand Certificate in Foundation Skills (Level 2) programme full-time over 19 tutorial weeks or part-time over two years.
Classes are held Monday to Friday, 9.00am-4.00pm at SIT's Downtown Campus (Don St, Invercargill).


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Q: Semantics of turning list into string Many programming languages, including Python, support an operation like this:
", ".join(["1","2","3"])

which returns the string
"1, 2, 3"

I understand that this is the case, but I don't understand the design decision behind it - surely it would be more semantically valid to perform the join operation on the list, like so:
["1","2","3"].join(", ")

If anyone could explain the design decision and shed some light on it I'd appreciate it.
Edit: It looks like Javascript has the join method on the list; if anyone has examples for which convention particular languages follow, feel free to comment/answer about the choice in that particular language too.

A: For python, there are a few arguments against it.  First, if it is a string method that accepts an arbitrary iterable, then you only need to support the join method on string objects and it automagically works with anything iterable.  Otherwise, custom iterable objects would also need to support a join method, etc. etc.
consider:
", ".join(["1","2","3"])
", ".join(("1","2","3"))
", ".join(str(x) for x in xrange(1,4))
", ".join({'1':None,'2':None,'3':None})
", ".join({'1','2','3'})  #set literal syntax -- python2.7+
", ".join("123")

6 different types all supported very simply by a single method (and I've only touched builtin types).
Second, you can only join a list if everything in it is a basestring type.  It seems silly to provide a method on a list which would raise an exception if you used it on a list with the wrong contents -- At least, the API here seems somewhat tricky (to me).  Of course, you could argue that list.remove can raise an exception if called with the wrong arguments.  And that's true -- But that in general you're only removing a single item.  It operates on a lower level than join should.  Of course, this argument is weaker than the first one I proposed, so if you don't like it, just fall back on argument 1.


Bergquist's article continues with statements from a Wisconsin DNR spokesperson, then follows it with a typical reminder of the consensus (a.k.a. groupthink) from the United Nation's agenda-supporting, report-writing entity called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-IPCC (a political body, not a scientific one).
I'm looking forward to more changes like this in the not-so-distant future.
There are over 60,000 miles of ocean volcanic rift emissions and 1500 above water volcanic emissions which most likely account for over 95% of the carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere that no one has measured their total output; leaving humanities outputs at less than 5%; most likely less than 1%. Geology Professor Ian Plimer has pointed this out for anyone interested. And the Heartland Institute books: Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming and the book Climate Change Revisited also cover this information ignored by too many supposed mainstream scientists.
information on climate change or does not factor it into their models.


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Common Name: broadleaf arrowhead
Type: Herbaceous perennial
Native Range: Eastern and central North America
Zone: 5 to 10
Bloom Time: July to September
Bloom Description: White
Water: Wet
Maintenance: Medium
Suggested Use: Water Plant, Naturalize, Rain Garden
Flower: Showy
Winter hardy to USDA Zones 5-10. Needs full sun for best flowering. Set out plants, tubers or runners in spring in mud at the margins of a pond or in containers in a water garden, either along the shore or in up to 6-12" of water. Seed may be sown in spring or fall. Seed may also be collected and sown in containers resting in dishes of shallow water. Plants will naturalize by rhizomes and self-seeding. Promptly deadhead spent flowers to prevent any unwanted self-seeding.
Sagittaria latifolia, commonly called arrowhead, duck potato or wapato, is a vigorous, deciduous, marginal aquatic perennial that typically grows 1-4' tall. It is noted for its arrowhead-shaped leaves and three-petaled white flowers in whorls of three. It commonly grows submerged in shallow water or out of water on wet muddy banks. It is native to sloughs, swamps, marshes and margins of streams and ponds throughout North America including Missouri. Each plant produces leaves and flowers on separate stalks. Leaves can be quite variable in size. Emersed leaves (to 12" long) are typically broadly sagittate (arrowhead-shaped). Submerged leaves are often much narrower (linear to ovate). Three-petaled white flowers appear in whorls of three atop stalks rising to 4' tall. Male flowers have bushy yellow center stamens and female flowers have mounded green centers. Plants bloom freely from July to September. The common names of duck potato and wapato are in reference to the enlarged rounded starchy golfball-sized tubers that form at the ends of underground plant runners (rhizomes). When dislodged from the mud, these tubers will float to the surface. They are edible, and may be boiled or baked and eaten as a potato-like food. Native Americans harvested and consumed these tubers, which in some areas were known as wapato. The tubers are also an important food source for waterfowl, hence the name duck potato. Seeds are attractive to many water birds. Arrowhead is commonly used in pond restorations.
Genus name comes from the Latin word sagitta meaning an arrow for the form of the leaves.
No serious insect or disease problems. Watch for spider mites and aphids.
Water or bog gardens. Pond edges.


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My initial plans to include Heads Up festival within the future culture post changed after seeing NOW IS TIME TO SAY NOTHING. I really want to tell you the multilayered story of how the installation made me feel and what impact the festival has on people.
NOW IT IS TIME TO SAY NOTHING by Caroline Williams and Reem Karssli is a 60 minute long interactive video installation, that also requires viewers participation.
Reem Karssli is a Syrian film-maker who witnessed Syrian conflict living in Damascus. Caroline suggests to connect with a group of young Londoners via Skype and talk about her life and work. It turns into a four year long collaboration and the end product is a powerful 60 minute long experience. There are no words that I could type here to give justice to the work, it is something to be experienced.
The idea behind the installation is to question and challenge the armchair passivity. The installation starts with a circle of comfortable armchairs and a small, old fashioned television in front of each chair. The viewer puts on headphones and delve into the armchair for the unknown.
Throughout the installation there are various stages where you are asked to get up and get together with other viewers. Again to challenge a perception of emotional safe space that you save for yourself when most vulnerable.
Over the years I have seen a few contemporary art installations, exhibitions, cultural experiences, but never before I felt speechless and emotionally shattered at the end. I needed a few moments to be able to look up and discuss what I have seen, but as soon as the words crossed my lips, tears started choking my throat.
The moment during installation where your hand was inches away from the screen and you felt the static nipping your fingers was the only thing I could imagine visually as a photograph.
The rest was an experience to be felt with every inch of your body, every brain cell.
My mind was in a state of confusion. The most powerful part was the young niece expressing her hopelessness, interviewed by Reem. I wished at that very moment that I could show that part of footage to the evil that is behind the Syrian conflict. Tie him/her/group of to the chair and make him/her/them watch it over and over again until he/her/they can't see the screen and hear a word. I was upset and angry. The other moment that I will not forget was the falling snow and dancing in a circle with myself. I embraced the moment and it took me to my own experiences in the past. It was beautiful and sad at the same time.
"I'm tearing up even now recalling the image of a young girl, Reem's sister I think, carefully folding and refolding a red shirt, packing it away into a suitcase in a cramped bedroom. She is clearly traumatised, she breaks down, her words escaping her mouth faster and faster, until becoming a cry of despair. She says that she would rather die than face the daily, monotonous torture of being trapped inside by the threat of the bombs falling outside.
Today nearly a week after of seeing the installation nothing has changed in my life. I still watch television occasionally from my sofa or bed, I hear news, watch documentaries and allow everything pass quietly as I am too busy to live my own reality. But there is this lingering shame and feeling of helplessness that I am not part of the global concern about the conflicts that happen around the world or social issues in my own community/city. I question if small actions and good causes can make up for the ignorance? Or if everything is just too big to grasp and I need to focus on my own life and family?
I can definitely say that Now It Is Time To Say Nothing is the most important contemporary art I have ever seen.
Heads Up festival is a very special festival – a mixture of theatre, contemporary art and installations that makes you think, question, imagine and explore. For the third time I had the honours to photograph the events and I am so thankful for the opportunity.
Thanks to E52 team and artists involved for amazing feedback.
Did you had a chance to see any of the events? What are your thoughts?
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Thanks for quoting me Anete in your post. I have thought about it and talked to others about the nature of the different instructions, the ones who danced in the middle, the instruction to huddle.


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Šimon Drugda is a PhD Candidate at the University of Copenhagen Centre for Comparative and European Legal Studies (CECS).
POSTS BY Šimon Drugda
The People v Their Representatives
On July 7, 2021, the Slovak Constitutional Court found a referendum initiative on a snap election unconstitutional. The case presented the Court with an unresolved question, whether the people can remove their elected representatives from office ahead of time. The Court's answer was a qualified no. When people resort to direct democracy tools, the Court found, they are not only bound by explicit subject-matter restrictions on the use of referenda but also implicit norms under the doctrine of the material core. The people have a great power to make or unmake constitutional law but cannot breach it in an irregular use of a referendum. Continue reading >>
On Collision Course with the Material Core of the Slovak Constitution
Last week on Tuesday, the Constitutional Committee of the Slovak Parliament discussed the most extraordinary subject in a meeting attended by a most extraordinary guest. The Committee was reviewing a draft constitutional amendment on judicial reform that would, among other things, take away the power of the Constitutional Court to review constitutional amendments. At the meeting, the Minister of Justice and MPs discussed potential benefits and drawbacks of stripping the Court of the jurisdiction to review constitutional amendments, with the President of the Court seated next to them. The proposal represents the last escalation in the conflict about who has the final word on the contents of the Constitution. Continue reading >>
Slavomíra Henčeková, Šimon Drugda
Slovakia: Change of Government under COVID-19 Emergency
The Slovak experience with the COVID-19 pandemic has been affected by the fact that the outbreak took place at the time of a change in government. The new government, because of its relative inexperience and populist tendencies, has committed mistakes, often amounting to an infringement of citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms, especially the freedom of movement. Continue reading >>


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Journal #74 - Mike Pepi - Asynchronous! On the Sublime Administration of the Everyday
Journal #74
Journal #74 - June 2016
Mike Pepi
Asynchronous! On the Sublime Administration of the Everyday
A cold pail of water passes through a line of workers, sloshing from hand to hand. Another follows behind it. And another. To coordinate this bucket brigade, the line of busy hands moves according to a fixed rhythm, each movement synchronized like a metronome. The analogy illustrates the primary principle of synchronous processing: no matter the speed of a single movement, the pace of the chain may not exceed the time it takes the slowest transfer to complete. This familiar scene is the basic unit of Fordism—an assembly line of exchanges locked in linear progression. One thing at a time. One thing after another. All you can really do is speed it up.
This dictatorship of synchrony—from clocked computer chips to supply chains and back again—hamstrings productivity and constrains the marketplace. For the designers of scalable systems, it represents the ultimate barrier to progress. To break through this barrier, engineers dream of the asynchronous: a vision of the world where the bucket brigade stops following the tick of the metronome. In the event that one worker finishes passing their bucket early, they can accept the next from anywhere along the line. Instead of waiting for the second worker to pass their bucket, the third takes it directly from the first, or from a different line entirely. Work flows to available resources, regardless of where these resources are located in the traditional sequence. At first, the line becomes chaotic. But suddenly, the light accelerates past the heavy. Soon we have an asynchronous system and a new transaction can begin without waiting in line.
Inside every computer is a microprocessor ticking back and forth about a billion times a second. This tick organizes each transmission, signaling to the operating system when one process has completed and when the next can begin. Just as the bucket brigade's linear rhythm constrains the movement of the water, so too do synchronous computer chips limit the performance of our fastest information transmissions. At Sun Microsystems in the 1990s, Ivan Sutherland and Jo Ebergen used the bucket brigade metaphor to explain the advantages of their experimental research into asynchronous chip design. When computer chips become asynchronous, "actions can start as soon as the prerequisite actions are done, without waiting for the next tick of the clock."1 But in the early days of computing, the market pressure for a straightforward, reliable solution meant that synchronous chip design, which was simpler, won out over the grander, theoretical plans for asynchronous computing. The processor that runs your MacBook is synchronous and clocked, running at about 2.7 GHz. Despite intense research, truly asynchronous chips took years to get out of the lab—and even then their commercial use was limited.
A photograph of Amazon's dash buttons promotes the automatic consumer goods ordering service.
But something funny happened on the way out of R&D. Asynchronous processing hasn't simply left the lab and entered our devices and networks. Instead, the asynchronous principle—that complex systems should be designed to allow tasks to run independently as resources become dynamically available—has moved outwards from the chip to the server, from the server to the data center, from the data center to the workplace, and from the workplace to the city. Asynchronous processing has emerged as a new ideal, and it is increasingly being applied in fields as diverse as software design, biomedical engineering, and labor-force management.
No discussion of the contemporary can ignore the present drive to process more and more of society's moving parts in the fashion of an asynchronous bucket brigade. If today's lifeworld distinguishes itself by the ubiquity of computing in all its various forms, then the expansion of the asynchronous principle represents a fundamental shift. This expansion requires not just the datafication of everyday life, but a significant reformation of the social relations that grew around the modes of exchange proper to the pre-asynchronous era—what we might call linear information capitalism. With the introduction of asynchrony, these relations appear as so many bonds to be burst when the buckets begin arriving from everywhere, heralding the addition of a spatial dimension to what had, until now, been simply temporal sequences. As with all such arrivals, the asynchronous is initially apprehended in terms of the previous era, and so its borders remain frustratingly concealed behind inherited ideas about the individual's relationship to their labor, the market, and the state. How can we begin to uncover the contours of the new asynchronous present?
Beyond the Chip
It all started with hardware. Asynchronous systems were initially designed to transcend the material constraints of computer processors. Without an asynchronous architecture, clock-speed optimization would always be fundamentally capped by the physical limits of computing. Every speed increase of synchronous, clocked chips only produced diminishing returns. To go any faster, the governing clock would have to be replaced.
The next obstacle was energy consumption. Because the "clock" is always running, synchronous systems do not adequately distribute energy according to demand. In principle, an asynchronous architecture lets the system rest when no jobs require processing. This is illustrated in the example of the asynchronous bucket brigade: if there's no bucket coming down the line, the workers need not move at all. Breaking the clock means transcending a system's built-in ceiling while reassigning fixed resources more efficiently—a goal shared by engineers and capital alike.
Affordable, just-in-time computing is a commercial example of a large-scale asynchronous process. Cloud-computing storage services like Amazon Web Services apportion their server space among clients who pay through an on-demand model. The basic principle of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is that you only pay for what you use. When your allocated space adjusts in real-time with your demands, you eliminate the pitfalls of predicting how much storage a project might demand, accelerating growth and reducing risk.
The asynchronous principle operates in software, too. A new set of asynchronous programming languages use what is sometimes called a "non-blocking schema," where a task starts firing even if others tasks that are lined up before it haven't completed. Instead of going line by line, the component jobs run "all at once." Consumer products have followed suit. The most popular products use the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to make asynchronous production possible. Google Docs has quickly surpassed the local storage of Microsoft Word because many parties can edit simultaneously. Like the workers on the asynchronous bucket brigade, a line of code or a collaborating editor can start doing work as soon as it is ready.
The "sharing economy"—in which underused resources are rented via peer-to-peer transactions—is a means by which asynchronous processes have been introduced into the consumer marketplace. Asynchronous capitals do not require that resources be committed to a fixed sequence. The "hardware" of any given business process has come to be viewed like the physical limitations of computing; thus hotels, which are time-consuming and expensive to build, are now a drag on hospitality companies trying to compete with Airbnb, just as the requirement to have an official medallion is a drag on taxi drivers fighting for their livelihood against Uber drivers. No matter how efficient processes become, if they contain synchronous components in a blocking schema, they eventually create friction and are unable to compete, at the level of accumulation, with the asynchronous organization of information, labor, and capital.
While asynchronous processing is the latest in a long line of techno-determinist fetishes, the asynchronous principle remains agnostic to any one mediating technology. From software startups to shoe companies, asynchronous processes are introduced when the immediate payoff of piecemeal execution appears to outweigh the advantages of performing tasks in a specified order. Despite these universalist ambitions, the promised increase in efficiency does not always materialize. Though the evangelicals might imply otherwise, only under certain circumstances are asynchronous methods more efficient than linear ones: namely, when the cost of each individual action has been driven down exponentially, making it feasible to spend exactly zero resources prioritizing the order of their execution.
Software can aid in bringing about asynchrony, but human capital frequently stands in the way. Paying the absolute minimum for labor—long the goal of supply-chain optimization and just-in-time manufacturing—can now be achieved through the asynchronous assembly of social interactions or physical labor. The impulse driving the multitasking web surfer, who spends their day in front of so many open and idle tabs, can be harnessed to the real labor behind dinner reservations, transportation, or apartment maintenance. A user who makes no upfront investment, who is free to leave at any moment, has little incentive to order their actions. This everyday arbitrage of simultaneity is already embedded in our cultural logic and encouraged by the design of our interfaces. But the labor that would meet this demand must follow suit. In order to participate in this frenetic and ever-present auction, the laborer must remove themselves from the linear chain that once defined their market position.
We have dreamed about the revolutionary potential of self-organization for generations, but the apparent harmony between asynchrony and anarcho-syndicalism, libertarianism, or horizontalism obscures the extent to which an engineer's fantasy has become management's best friend. The decentralization achieved by asynchrony is different from the political ideal of decentralization. From the perspective of the individual worker, asynchrony doesn't remove authority as much as displace it. A non-blocking schema allows orders to pour in from everywhere, but they're still orders. The absence of a linear sequence means paying labor for only the time it works, and not a second longer; work need not be synchronized with the arbitrary designations of work days, licenses, or any other ordinal mechanism that produces artificial scarcity. You can work anytime you want, but there's no wage if you're at rest. And when you're at rest, demand will still be processed, perhaps by another worker who is faster and less expensive. The result: lower labor costs and higher profit. Nor is asynchrony simply flat. It is very interested in hierarchy—let the fast move faster and the slow drag down only themselves.
The new asynchronous regime optimizes coordination at the expense of that which is coordinated. Any newfound autonomy applies only to the system itself. This is why, although asynchrony has established itself at the level of infrastructure, its most substantive expressions will be political. A critical history of the aspiration to asynchrony is necessary to separate utopian visions from a real politics that accounts for the new socio-technical capacities of the asynchronous.
The Société booth at Frieze New York 2016 featured a collaboration between Sean Raspet and Soylent, the drink brand. Image courtesy of Société.
Sublime Administration
Asynchronous capitalism is already a rallying cry for Silicon Valley. Venture capital firms are heeding the call, investing in a "platform economy" that promises to transform any job, project, or endeavor that can be represented as a "unit of work" in an asynchronous system. J. P. Morgan calls it "unbundling a job into discrete tasks" and has joined other investors in funding the platform economy to the tune of $9.4 billion since 2010. Not only will platform companies reap the financial benefit of massive growth; they also stand to play an outsize role in reshaping the distribution of goods and services once provided by the state.
The extent to which the platform economy replaces this infrastructure will be a battle waged in public. But the internal governance of platform companies is a private affair, first and foremost a matter for management methodologies and open-floor plans. A new breed of such methodologies has emerged, viewing labor as little more than a problem of human-platform engineering. These management philosophies have been encapsulated in a kind of shorthand notation: "agile," "lean," "open source," "holacracy." These labels—which are half brand, half method—signify the various efforts to extend asynchronous systems to human resources, each time wrapped in the promise to distribute employee authority in the name of autonomy and productivity.
In "agile" project management, teams work on incremental iterations in highly visible and simultaneous cycles. In the scrum—agile's signature form—team members communicate to rapidly remove blockers, organize sprints, and collaboratively squash known issues as they occur. This approach can also be found in open-source software development, which, following Eric Raymond's famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar, should be run more like a bazaar—a babbling, participatory community in which many hands make light work through concurrent collaboration—than a cathedral, where a closed team toils in isolation, adding one new section at a time.2 After the rise of cloud storage and instant communication protocols, the new networked age of software development doesn't require the sort of restrictive physical rituals of the white-collar office. It follows that open-sourcing the code itself allows for asynchronous production anywhere on a network. This method has come to replace a local, sequestered practice of shipping software that, not unlike the sequential bucket brigade, was restrictive, blocking, and expensive.
"Lean" management methodology takes the "test and learn" ethos latent in the provisional nature of agile and open source to its logical conclusion. In recent years, lean management has stressed experimentation and rapid customer feedback to optimize the outcome of each new movement. A manager schooled in lean methodology ships a product to market prematurely, monitors results of split tests, and "pivots" accordingly. Lean's extreme reliance on preemptive action and real-time feedback could not exist in a linear bucket brigade, since no lean manager would set up a structure that lacks a contingency plan for its abrupt dissolution.
"Holacracy," which is perhaps the most extreme and putatively emancipatory of all the new methodologies, attempts a total rewiring of the manager-employee relationship. Its name derives from the Greek word holon, meaning a part which is simultaneously a whole. True to form, its foundational tenet is a relinquishing of authority, replacing managers with self-governing circles comprised of each department's component tasks.3 As in lean, this design empowers dynamic "human sensors" to identify tensions and enact change from any position in the organization. Appeals to the ideal engineering environment of the human body are central. Holacracy founder Brian Robertson asks: "How can we reshape a company into an evolutionary organism—one that can sense and adapt and learn and integrate?"4
On their face, these management methods rid the workplace of blocking schemas, foster spontaneous, data-driven collaboration, and build organizations with a responsive and collapsible pseudo-structure that can be dissolved on demand. Each of these forms attempts what we might call sublime administration. Increasingly, they rule the shop floor, but their aspiration is the town square.
To overcome the political nature of their autonomous subjects, sublime administration must paradoxically erect a baroque set of protocols that are hyperfocused on distributed autonomy and asynchronous assembly. This is all done under the guise of empowerment and individual choice. But the sum total of this framework creates value at the expense of the subjects it administers. In its most extreme forms, sublime administration purports to administer a (human) resource that it fundamentally feels it would be better off without. The mechanics of sublime administration trade not in the employee's innate human capacities, but in the ability to confront and remove the bottlenecks created by such capacities.
It is no coincidence that the tactics of sublime administration are increasingly deployed in the fields of software automation and large-scale market disintermediation. Like asynchronous systems, sublime administration seeks to unlock the surplus profit yielded by a passive mediation of interactions, which proliferate without the constraint of the queue. Under sublime administration, parties to an exchange are removed from the jaws of time and liberated from locked resources. Its frequent appeals to the worker as a mini-entrepreneur, able to produce at a pace unrestricted by a sclerotic hierarchy tied to outdated modes of production, reduces the bucket brigade to ruins. If your guess is as good as mine, then a productive dissolution is always just around the corner.
In sublime administration, management acknowledges its own inability to define an organization's optimal route, which is why it distributes incremental authority across the organization. Management's ignorance about the most profitable direction for the company is evident in the way its decision-making apparatus privileges future information over the events of the present. Sublime management is speculative and deeply skeptical of all things recently accumulated. It is quick to discard the past, unless the past can be used to construct an anticipatory model.
In the social order that follows, everyone works on their own, self-directed and requiring little investment of resources by superiors. But this "free-for-all" is always facilitated by the platform that most successfully executes the processes themselves. Asynchronous processes achieve the appearance of autopoiesis for what is in fact a hardened marketplace. Running such a platform is the ultimate goal of sublime administration: to maintain power while not appearing to seek it.
No Shifts, No Boss, No Limits
To understand the totalizing vision of the asynchronous we need look no further than a video advertisement from Uber. Entitled Bits and Atoms, the video purports to reveal the company's grand récit. It begins by dividing the known world into the two eponymous building blocks, and goes on to assert that the bit has changed communication and business in less than seventy years' time. The bit represents Uber's technology—it is "complex, precise, and advanced. But when it's expressed, it's effortless, and refined." The atom is far older, but much more impressive—it is "responsible for everything—from the BLT, to moms everywhere, to New York City." The rest of the video depicts the city of the future, a platform utopia of benevolent and frictionless people-first mobility.
While Uber's Bits and Atoms makes titular reference to the technology that is integral to the company's business model, Uber's true innovation has been a political reformation of the economy. While Uber's app relies on widely available protocols and devices, its competitive advantage derives from the company's innovative and asynchronous organization of its contingent labor force. A slogan Uber pitches to prospective drivers crystalizes this central fact: "No shifts, no boss, no limits." Uber's asynchrony removes the governing clock, facilitating an army of entrepreneurs who suddenly need not wait in line.
The bucket brigade, too, uses technology. And its metronome principle likewise enhances the performance of the total system. But the bucket brigade's synchronous structure, its technology (buckets), and the humans that mediate its transactions are all balanced in their contingency. The unbundling of the client and the (now precarious) service provider is only tenable if the mediating platform can continue to maintain an asynchronous state. Under this framework the human element quickly becomes an obstacle.
Fueled by speculative capital, Uber's asynchrony aims for growth rather than stability. It privileges the potential redistributions of the future over the social continuities of the present. In Bits and Atoms, Uber stakes a claim to asynchrony's expression of harmony, purpose, and spirit—the very elements that commonly figure into human judgment, both moral and aesthetic. The work of Bits and Atoms, then, is to redefine the structures of human activity according to the logic of the asynchronous process.
Uber's video manifesto ends with a rosy tautology: Uber creates "industries that serve people, and not the other way around." The asynchronist erects a socio-technical system that enjoins people into competitive transactions, and yet Uber contrasts its monopolistic platform with an imaginary inverse scenario where "people serve industries." In effect, Uber is arguing that it serves its users and employees alike. This turn of phrase really attempts to inaugurate a new political logic that privileges one type of circulation over another. Nestled within this logic can be found the impact of the asynchronous on aesthetics, understood here in Rancière's terms, where aesthetics is the "distribution of the sensible" responsible for the "conceptual coordinates and modes of visibility operative in the political domain."5 This distribution determines the forms that are available to artistic practices. Each time a linear component of the bucket brigade breaks down, we are treated to new forms of production and therefore new ways to move about the stage of society—or in Rancière's terms, new "ways of doing and making." How could the production of an asynchronous subjectivity appear without some corollary reformation of the aesthetic subject, the position from which we sense, judge, and act? Art's political interventions—or its near constant mode of articulating our relationship to society—must now contend with the new relations of our asynchronous present.
Though Uber's aspirations seem to be of a piece with the overall economy's drive toward full automation, the company's articulation of the asynchronous principle has more expansive intentions. Automation derives in part from a Taylorist drive for efficiency; but asynchrony dissolves industrial ambition altogether. To the asynchronist, even the fully automated assembly line is a cost center where the firm must still perform the labor itself. But the asynchronous platform harbors none of this risk. The asynchronous achieves the most desired effects of automation even before the hardware or software is introduced. In the perfect asynchronous system, labor almost seems to disappear from the system itself. In Bits and Atoms we see users and goods transported, but barely any drivers. Uber has made no secret of its plans to eventually deploy self-driving vehicles, or, as it hints near the video's conclusion, the "safe, efficient movement of people and things at a giant scale."
In 2015, Ford Motor Company hired Pivotal Software, a management consulting firm specializing in the agile development method, to transform their IT and software engineering department. Ford CIO Marcy Klevorn explained: "We need to iterate, take more risks, learn. That requires a different culture. Our culture is very risk averse, and rightfully so. But we need a different way of thinking of IT and the way we do business."6
A report on the partnership provided one rationale for the move:
Ford is not so much an automobile manufacturing company as a mobility and transportation company. "They're thinking beyond just cars," says Ashok Sivanand, senior product manager at Pivotal. "They're thinking about mobility and realizing they need to transform a lot more aggressively into being a software company."7
The symbolism behind Ford's reimagination as a "mobility" provider cannot be overstated: the very company that perfected and scaled the assembly line has imported the management style of software companies. "Mobility" usurps "automobiles" because asynchrony works best with platforms, not products; and sublime administration focuses on building infrastructures for abstract activities, not giving life to activities themselves.
Mike Pepi is a writer living in New York. He runs Cloud-Based Institutional Critique, a New York-based reading group dealing with digital technologies and their relationship to arts institutions, organized through thepublicschool.org.
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Ivan Sutherland and Jo Ebergen, "Computers without Clocks," Scientific American, August 2002.
Eric Raymond, The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1999).
Brian Robertson, Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2015).
Ibid., 7.
Jacque Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics, trans. Gabriel Rockhill (London: Continuum, 2004), 82.
"Ford draws on Pivotal to reshape developer culture," cio.com, December 16, 2015 →
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Prague is the most Gothic city on earth – Yeah you heard it, no other city can match it by it's scary medieval Gothic architecture. Gothicism is the architectural period primarily of the Late Middle Ages in the area of the present-day Czech Republic. You see, this specific Gothic style first appeared in the Czech lands in the first half of the 13th century and was usual there until the early 16th century, that's why if you visit the old town you will feel as if you are in medieval times.
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Star Stitch Crochet Boot Cuffs CAL: Next Steps	Win Yarn to Make the Sugar Plum Hat + Cowl!
Your pair of cozy Star Stitch Boot Cuffs, designed by Janaya Chouinard, are going to be completed just in time for winter's coldest impact! After following along this month—collecting supplies, learning the star stitch, and getting excited for the final product—you now have everything you need to add this beautiful design to your wardrobe. With four different sizes and an easy crochet process, this pattern is for anyone and everyone. Enjoy!
Button Tab Placement: Using the yarn tail, sew the button tab to the inside of the boot cuff. You can use the loops on the back of the hdc stitches as a guide. Fold the tab over the top of the cuff and secure in place by sewing the button through both layers of the tab and the boot cuff.
To determine the size you need, measure around the widest part of the lower leg.
Bring the ends of the cuff together and join by slip stitching through the Back Loops of Row 32 and the corresponding stitches of the beginning chain. The top of the cuff will be worked in joined rounds; do not turn your work. Round 1 is worked in the ends of the rows.
Bring the ends of the cuff together and join by slip stitching through the Back Loops of Row 36 and the corresponding stitches of the beginning chain. The top of the cuff will be worked in joined rounds; do not turn your work. Round 1 is worked in the ends of the rows.
Bring the ends of the cuff together and join by slip stitching through the Back Loops of Row 40 and the corresponding stitches of the beginning chain. The top of the cuff will be worked in joined rounds; do not turn your work. Round 1 is worked in the ends of the rows.
Bring the ends of the cuff together and join by slip stitching through the Back Loops of Row 44 and the corresponding stitches of the beginning chain. The top of the cuff will be worked in joined rounds; do not turn your work. Round 1 is worked in the ends of the rows.
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Could you tell me what size hook is used here ?
I love this pattern but for some reason when I do the first row of the star stitch I always end on a count of 17, not entirely sure where I am going wrong?
The Star Stitch Boot Cuffs are Awesome! First I've seen in this lacy Star Stitch pattern. Just got started making them… Can't Wait Til They're Done!