The European Standard (NEN-EN 12464-1) states that there must be sufficient light at places where products are stored and in most cases assumes an average light level of 100 to 150 lux. But is this sufficient in your warehouse, where, for example, forklift truck drivers have to read labels on racks above 6m height? And should the light be on all day long if there are hardly any activities in places?
What does better vision mean? We have put 5 points in a row that are of great importance in the lighting of storages and warehouse lighting.
Enough light level; In our opinion, the light level expressed in a lux value at floor level is not that interesting. It is important that space, where storage work takes place, is functionally illuminated. In positioning paths, order pickers must be able to quickly see where the products they need are located. This means that not only the floor but especially the sides of the shelves must be well lit. However, the tops of the rack do not have to be so well lit. For this combination of light requirements, we have very intelligent lighting solutions that we would like to inform you about.
As high as possible evenness; The light image over the entire work floor, as well as the vertical surface of shelves, should be as evenly illuminated as possible. This improves visibility and ensures that products and/or labels are quickly recognized. A high (vertical) uniformity also ensures the avoidance of errors and creates better working conditions.
We recommend an evenness (Emin / Egem) of at least 0.4 for factory halls.
The correct light color (CRI); The color reproduction of the light source, without exception, is this LED, which is of great importance for light quality. If the LEDs used are not of the highest quality, this leads to fatigue among employees and therefore more mistakes and unsafe working conditions. The LEDs must have the correct Color Rendering Index and that means a CRI of more than 80 (Ra> 80) for production work.
The correct color temperature; The color temperature, expressed in Kelvin, is also important. This is mainly about the experience of light. Color temperature says something about whether there is "warm" or "cool" light. Research has shown that with warm light, more melatonin (sleep hormone) is produced in the brain. This makes people sleepy. A cooler color temperature, more in the direction of daylight, makes people more awake and therefore more alert. We recommend a color temperature of around 5000K in warehouses and other storages.
Prevent shadow effect; It is extremely annoying for warehouse employees when the warehouse lighting is not well organized and if they have to work in their own shadow. This can easily happen if you, for example, block the light at height with a forklift truck. This slows down the work and promotes the making of mistakes. We have lighting solutions for warehouses with which shading is limited to the minimum.
Would u like to know more about dynamic lighting? contact us!
It often occurs in storages and warehouses that work is not being done in a part of the hall for long periods. In that case, we always recommend using a dynamic lighting solution. This also applies if there is a lot of daylighting through roof windows or windows. By the use of motion and daylight sensors, the luminaires can be controlled in such a way that they always bring the desired light level.
In orientation paths where no one is coming, the light can simply be completely switched off. At the moment that a person or machine enters the path, the light of the warehouse lighting goes directly to full strength. If the sensor detects that there is no movement after some time, the light can gradually dim back to zero. This results in a considerable extra saving in the consumption of electricity.
The same applies to areas with a lot of daylight. Sensors control the luminaires to burn until the desired light level is reached. Under a daylight dome, it may be that the light is completely off, while it is burning at full strength in a dark corner of the building.
Would you like to know more about our lighting solutions?
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Q: How can I display the version number in git for the hash value of a tag? I am working on the PowerShell right now and would like to display the version and if possible the description of a tag from which I get the hash value. By version I mean something like 55.1.
How can I do this on the PowerShell?
I thank you already for help

A: You could either:

*

*define an alias for git

*or install Posh-Git, which will with tab completion support for common git commands.

In both cases, you will be able to type:
git show-ref --tags

To list tags version and their sha
Or, for a given commit SHA:
git log --oneline --decorate --tags --no-walk -1 <SHA>

Or, as suggested, with git 2.7+:
git for-each-ref --points-at <commit> --format '%(refname)'
git branch --points-at <commit>
git tag --points-at <commit>

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Wedding Invitation is a beautiful video template about your wedding. Its main function is to tell in detail about the upcoming event. The template will greatly facilitate your organisation of the wedding and will inform guests about all the details. Wedding Invitation includes next items: basic information of the invitation (a name of the bride and groom, a date of the wedding, a venue and a time), a transportation, a dress code for men and women, a wedding menu, a accommodation, a program of the evening (timeline) and music playlist . Wedding Invitation is your magic wand!


The field of uses for print services and related products has narrowed somewhat in recent years – after all, it's the digital age. This doesn't mean you won't find a market for your offerings. It does, however, involve creating new types of relationships with your customers. You have to become a problem-solver, someone who is ready to step in and deal with any issues that arise. A product can be phased out, but a truly helpful partner is much harder to discard.
There are some quirks to today's sales process that may not be immediately obvious, and they reflect both the best use of your time and how customers today consider their options. The main theme you need to be aware of is using your time ideally. You only have so many hours in the day to chase down new contracts, and when this process goes poorly, the results will tell the tale. You need to ensure that every process you undertake has value.
One of the most important ideas behind connecting with your clients is one that may seem to go against your natural sales instincts: Printing Impressions contributor Bill Farquharson explained that, sometimes, a sale simply isn't going to happen, and it's time to leave the negotiating table. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't be diligent and follow through on any potential use for your products and services, but sometimes what you're offering isn't what the customer needs, or the reception is so chilly that continuing to pursue the sale is a waste of time.
What you're looking for is a strong connection between your business and the client's needs. This is the crux of the print industry today. Alternately, some organizations will have no need for what you're selling. Farquharson gave the example of a round peg and a square hole. If there is no match, and the prospect is unresponsive to your suggestions and sales pitches, there's probably no middle ground to be had. It's time to move on and pursue another opportunity.
To avoid getting into the above mindset too early in the process, your default sales posture should come from a place of optimism. A first failed attempt to make a sale can be due to poor timing. Maybe the client will purchase from you someday, and there's a good case to follow-up. Farquharson specified that it's when you are being diligent and following up that you'll be able to tell which prospects are likely to someday blossom into customers and which aren't. Once you've zeroed in on firms in the latter group, it's time to let them go. Your time is finite, and if you aren't even getting token responses to your marketing queries, there's likely nothing to be had there.
Another important hint for sales time usage comes from WhatTheyThink's Jennifer Matt. Last year, she remarked upon the state of today's buyers. She explained that these consumers are working with a different set of tools and expectations than their predecessors. Access to online resources means they may know plenty about your services before they even begin engaging with you one-on-one. They're eager to move quickly through the sales process and take advantage of self-service features.
This means it's worth spending time ensuring the company has strong search engine optimization and good content on social media and customer-generated review sites such as Yelp. It may seem tough to step away from the direct sales process to work on more open-ended projects such as social media posting, but these are technically early stages of the customer journey. Matt emphasized that potential clients today can make it through most steps of the sales process before they ever speak to you at all.
There is some loss of control involved in the current sales process. You aren't always taking the initiative, and some of the information about your company's reputation won't come from you directly. As long as you accept that the change is taking place, however, and commit time and effort to processes that suit the new state of affairs, your company is still well placed to capture new contracts. Trying to stick to the old-fashioned sales script is pitching to a market that no longer exists, and not worth your effort.
The printing industry is sometimes viewed as an outdated field – don't let that perception control the way you market your products and services. Put your time into ventures that suit the way customers buy today, and you'll be better positioned to succeed. Sometimes, there's no way to make a sale, and you should be unafraid to drop that line of inquiry. At other times, a day may be better spent preparing online resources than chasing a client contact directly. That's also fine. Scoring great contracts for your printing business means accurately reading the needs of the market and playing to them.


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'''
@author Ben DeMott
@file shapely_radius_plot.py

In this example we will perform an area/radius search.

We will create a bunch of points in a 2d coordinate system and then we will
create a circle or a perimeter.  The we will do a search for any points that
are within the circles perimeter!  :) :) :)

'''

import random, os, sys, time, numpy
from shapely import *
from shapely.geometry import Point

filename = 'radius_search.png'
numberOfPoints = 1000
gridWidth = 10000
gridHeight = 10000
shapePoints = []

circleRadius = random.randint(500, 1500)
circleX = random.randint(0, gridWidth)
circleY = random.randint(0, gridHeight)

sCircle = Point(circleX, circleY)
sCircle = sCircle.buffer(circleRadius, 16)

pointList = []
for i in range(numberOfPoints):
	x = random.randint(0, gridWidth)
	y = random.randint(0, gridHeight)
	pointList.append((x, y))
	iPoint = Point(x, y)
	iPoint.idx = i # set our custom attribute. (if this doesnt work I have other ways)
	shapePoints.append(iPoint)

matchingPoints = []
searchBench = time.time()
for idx, point in enumerate(shapePoints):
	if sCircle.contains(point):
		matchingPoints.append(idx)

searchBench = time.time() - searchBench

print "There were %d points within the circle [%d, %d] - r[%d]\n" % (len(matchingPoints), circleX, circleY, circleRadius)
print "Calculation Took %s seconds for %s points" % (searchBench, numberOfPoints)
print "Saving Graph to %s" % (filename)

#_-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# DRAW A REPRESENTATION OF THE LOGIC ABOVE:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg') # Do NOT attempt to open X11 instance
from pylab import *
from matplotlib.patches import Circle
import matplotlib.pyplot as pyplot

matplotlib.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 2

pyplot.axis([0, gridWidth, 0, gridHeight])
pyplot.grid(True)
# Setting the axis labels.
pyplot.xlabel('X Space')
pyplot.ylabel('Y Space')

#Give the plot a title
pyplot.title('Radius Search Plot Using Shapely (%d Points)' % (numberOfPoints))

# Draw the collision circle/boundary
cir = Circle((circleX, circleY), radius=circleRadius, fc='b')
cir.set_alpha(0.4)
pyplot.gca().add_patch(cir)

for idx, point in enumerate(pointList):
	style = 'go'
	iAlpha = 0.4
	if(idx in matchingPoints):
		style = 'ro'
		iAlpha = 1
	pyplot.plot(point[0], point[1], style, linewidth=1, markersize=3, alpha=iAlpha)

pyplot.savefig(os.getcwd()+'/'+str(filename))

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*File includes | Grasshopper script and the Rhino model.
in able to make this script work, make sure you have "Weaverbird" plug-in installed.
in able to make this script work, make sure you have "Tree8" plug-in installed.


More than 400 people were rescued yesterday from the Norman Atlantic, the ferry boat on fire in the middle of the Adriatic sea, between Italy and Albania. Here below the images from the stage about the rescue operation, with a particular focus on the action videos, thanks to the italian Aeronautica Militare and Guardia Costiera.
Italian officials say they cannot be certain how many people are still missing from the Norman Atlantic ferry off Corfu, with evacuation complete.One man died trying to escape the ship, which was on a night journey from Greece to Italy, and a further nine bodies were later found. Survivors have described "scenes from hell" as order broke down aboard the ferry ahead of the rescue. They gave accounts of passengers trampling over and hitting each other to be the first in line to be taken to safety.


With the release of its ScanSnap fi-5110EOX document-scanning device, Fujitsu Canada Inc. of Mississauga, Ont., is trying to convey to the market that paper does not necessarily lead to inefficiency at the office.
at PFU Systems, a company owned by Fujitsu, technology advancements including the wide distribution of electronic content through the worldwide Web and low cost distributed printing technologies have generated more paper utilization in the office than ever before.
Hoye added that contrary to widely held belief that paper is somehow at the root of all productivity and efficiency problems, businesses are now beginning to understand that paper can serve a very important role in the flow of ideas and information around the office.
He added that companies could take steps to reduce its paper consumption by simply making fewer photocopies and implementing a document archive system.
This is where resellers come in. Hay said Fujitsu is encouraging its reseller network to do more consulting in the area of document archiving using the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) format.
Typical document archiving solutions require a database and a network that can support not only the database, but also scanning devices such as the SnapScan. On top of that, resellers must educate the customer on a new business process, Hay said.
The SnapScan has margin potential of around 15 per cent, but resellers can earn more by implementing a document archival system, Hay said.
He added that these types of sales have a six month sales cycle.
Besides debunking the paperless office theory, Hay added there are other more compelling reasons for resellers to start pushing document archival systems such as new regulatory compliance laws that came out of the Enron and several other accounting scandals in 2003 and for disaster recovery.
""From and disaster recovery standpoint many people remember all those documents flying around New York during 9/11,"" Hay said.
CitiBank, for example, had an office across from the World Trade Center and they managed to recover their documents within two days because they implement a document archival system, Hay said.
The SnapScan has a new form factor and is capable of handling 15 pages per minute. It comes with higher optical resolution and one button functionality that automatically coverts paper documents and even photos into PDF. The unit's feeder tray accepts portrait documents as well as business cards and can detect if they are colour or in landscape and saves them as such in PDF.
Priced at just under $700, the ScanSnap has full duplexing capability. Fujitsu is also offering a $75 end user rebate to all Canadian ScanSnap customers through September 3, 2004.


The procedure on how to mount USB drive on Kali Linux is no different from any other Linux distribution. Kali Linux was used by this guide to provide you with simple to follow steps on how to mount USB drive on Linux.
Privileged access to your Kali Linux system will be required.
Privileged access to your Kali Linux installation or Live system is required.
The objective is to install SSH ( secure shell ) service on Kali Linux.
The following article will illustrate some of the common ways on how to determine a local and public IP address on Kali Linux.
Perhaps the simplest way on how to determine your Local and Public IP address is by using your web browser. Follow this link to view your Local and Public IP address instantly on your web browser. This page was specifically created for the purpose to promptly help our readers with this kind information.
The objective is to change or fake an original network card's hardware MAC address. The following article will show how to change MAC address using macchanger on Kali Linux.
Privileged access to you Kali Linux system.
First, let's see how we can use macchanger to change network card's hardware MAC address to a random address. We can start by investigating our current MAC address of eg eth0 network interface. To do this we execute macchanger with an option -s and an argument eth0.


The distinctive and essential shape of Angle has been designed to resemble the simple geometry of a Cartesian axes x', y' that meets in a center. The two carbon segments create a minimalistic design suitable for enriching a dinner table, a sofa, an office desk or a conference room. This statement floor lamp by Pamio Design has a shiny black finish structure while the base is in a matte black painted steel. The light source takes a unique approach to illuminating the space: the head houses an adjustable ring featuring 180 high-efficiency, micro LEDs with a voltage of 24 V, 1000 lumens and color temperature of 3000K. The power consumption is around 20W.


The icons that I've created for a website of mine are starting to become a little disjointed in size and styling. I"m wanting to spend some time creating a standardized icon set. I'm most concerned about the approach in creating a size that can be used throughout the site either big or small.
Question: What is the best size to create an icon set used for Web? 24x24 and 30x30 seem to be common as they're standards for Material design and iOS Design. So I could pick one of those; however, those can be pretty large for system icons (e.g. help icon).
Does one typically design 1 size (say 24x24) and then resize where necessary depending on the application? Say a large help icon vs a small help icon in a menu, for example, both based on the same 24x24 original icon.
I've seen 1 singular set of icons come in sizes of 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48 to cover a whole range of different sizes. Is something like this common practice? Where those don't divide into each other equally one would need to adjust the icon where necessary so that it precisely falls on the pixel grid and results in crisp lines across all sizes.
I'm curious how others in the web design community approach icon design used for the web.
Edit: forgot to add that I'm designing these in Sketch so in vector format, and to clarify my question is not so much as best practices of designing the actual icon but more on a standard size (canvas size of the icon if you will) of the set.
You should design in a vector based environment so that your master designs are resolution independent. That way you can export them at any resolution that makes sense now as well as any that become relevant in the future. Even better, stay in the vector domain (i.e. SVG) so that pixels don't rule the design process.
You may need to have a set of rules to work to such as minimum line weights so that everything works nicely at different sizes and in different resolutions, but you can establish these with a little experimentation.
Also, you may need to have variants for small, medium and large (for instance) with different levels of detail, but keeping everything as vectors makes this much easier to manage.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged website-design icon best-practice or ask your own question.
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Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to be included on UK census
While this valuable data will be gathered across the UK in the upcoming census, Ireland's 2021 census will not include similar questions.
Top News 19 October, 2020 . Written by Katie Donohoe.
The Office for National Statistics in the UK has announced that they will include questions concerning gender identity and sexual orientation in the upcoming England and Wales census.
Answers to the questions, which will be voluntary and for people aged 16 or over, will be used "help build a clearer picture for policy-makers and service providers."
"Without robust data on the size of the LGBT population at a national and local level, decision-makers are operating in a vacuum, unaware of the extent and nature of disadvantage which LGBT people may be experiencing in terms of educational outcomes, employment, and housing", Iain Bell, the ONS deputy national statistician, told the Observer.
Previously, data on sexual orientation has been gathered at regional levels across the UK but this will be the first time the data will be collected by a census in England and Wales.
Scotland will conduct a separate census in 2022 which will also include questions regarding gender identity and sexual orientation.
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency also plan to include questions on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time in their 2021 census.
In Ireland, LGBTQ+ advocates and groups have called on the Government to include sexual orientation and gender identity on the Census 2021 to "provide an honest view of Irish society" and correct a "historic wrong".
BeLonG To and TENI made submissions for the inclusion of more options under the heading of gender identity including non-binary and BeLonG To also called for the inclusion of a question on sexual orientation with options including gay, straight, queer or other.
The current Irish census includes one question about gender, which asks 'what is your sex?' with the only options being 'male' or 'female'.
Following a public consultation in 2017, the Central Statistics Office decided that questions sexual orientation and gender identity will not appear on the 2021 Census.
They added that they will reconsider adding such questions ahead of the 2026 Census.
#Census
#gender identity
#sexual orientation
19 October, 2020 . Written by Katie Donohoe.
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English: Iburi Province (胆振国 Iburi-no kuni), also called Ifuri, was a old province of Japan on the island of Hokkaido. The history of the province started in 1869 and ended in 1882.
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Dr. Nyíri Antal (Szentes, 1907. március 9. – Szeged, 2000. december 13.) nyelvész, tanszékvezető egyetemi tanár, kandidátus, a nyelvészeti tudományok doktora. Szerteágazó kutatási tevékenységet fejtett ki a magyar nyelvészet több területén.

Iskolái
Régi szentesi szántóvető, iparos családban született. Apja, Nyíri Antal kovácsmester, anyja Balog Szabó Mária.

Alapfokú tanulmányait szülővárosában a Református Népiskolában végezte, a Horváth Mihály Reálgimnáziumban érettségizett (1926). Érdeklődése a humán tárgyak, elsősorban a magyar nyelv és irodalom felé fordult, melyet gimnáziumi tanárai Zolnay Dezső, Molecz Béla és Bárdos Rezső alapoztak meg. A szentesi gimnáziumból került Szegedre, ahol a Ferenc József Tudományegyetem magyar-német szakos hallgatójaként kezdte meg tanulmányait. A kezdetektől nagy hatással volt rá a kor jeles nyelvészprofesszora, Mészöly Gedeon. Kiváló tanulmányi eredményeit igazolja, hogy ösztöndíjasként előbb Münchenben (1927/28), majd Bécsben a Collégium Hungaricumban tanulhatott (1929/30). A tanári szakvizsgát 1932-ben tette le.

Munkahelyei, tudományos munkássága
Első munkahelye Újszegeden a Vakok Intézetében volt, ahol étkezés és szállás fejében felügyelő tanárként dolgozott. 1933-ban szerzett bölcsészdoktori címet. Disszertációját a középkori domonkosok magyar nyelvemlékeit tartalmazó ún. Winkler-kódex nyelvészeti kérdéseiről írta. Dr. Pais Dezső akadémikus szerint a "A Winkler Kódex hangtana és szótana című kötet az egyik legalaposabb kódextanulmányunk, főképpen pontos szójegyzékével."

1934 őszétől Csurgón a Csokonai Gimnáziumban tanított magyar és német nyelvet, irodalmat és bölcseletet. Ekkor kezdte gyűjteni Szenna és környékének népnyelvi adatait, s ezt A zselicségi Szenna és vidéke magyar nyelvjárása (1939) című dolgozatában adta közre. Az előszót a híres szegedi nyelvész-tanár, Horger Antal írta, Pais Dezső akadémikus a Magyar Nyelv című tudományos folyóirat hasábjain méltatta: "... nemcsak mint gondos gyűjtőmunka tartozik nyelvjárástudományunk értékei közé, hanem feldolgozásként is jóval a szokványos színvonal fölé emelkedik, többek közt a benne foglalt jelentéstani fejtegetések révén."

A második bécsi döntés (1942) után professzora, Mészöly Gedeon hívására érkezett Kolozsvárra, ahol a Bolyai Egyetem gyakorlógimnáziumában helyezkedett el, mellette az egyetemen heti 2 órában a Nyelvemlékek című kollégiumot vezette. 1944 nyarán családjával (feleségével és két gyermekével) visszaköltözött Szentesre, ahol néhány hónapot egykori gimnáziumában tanított. Itt folytatta az évekkel korábban megkezdett gyűjtését, mely A kihaló szentesi víziélet néprajzi és népnyelvi maradványai (1948) című kötetében látott napvilágot. Ez az írása hosszú időn át a néprajz szakos egyetemi hallgatók kötelező olvasmánya volt. Szülővárosához való ragaszkodása mutatkozik Szentes nyelvi sajátosságait és nyelvjárásait bemutató egyéb írásaiban is.

1945-ben Békéscsabára költözött, ahol a helyi evangélikus gimnázium tanára lett. A helyi könyvtárban került közeli barátságba Féja Géza íróval. 1947 augusztusában a szegedi Baross Gábor Gimnáziumban kapott állást. 1950-ben a Pedagógiai Főiskola Magyar Nyelvészeti Tanszékének vezetője lett. Két jegyzetet írt: A mellérendelő mondatok és Szókincs címmel. 1952 őszén került a Szegedi Egyetem Magyar Nyelvészeti Tanszékére, ahol 1955-től 1977-ig a Nyelvészeti Tanszék vezetője volt.

Pályafutása során mintegy 150 szóetimológiával és magyar nyelvtörténettel foglalkozó tanulmánya jelent meg. Vezetésével és a tanszéki kollégák közreműködésével készült el 1971-ben a Müncheni Kódex 1466-ból című kötet, mely az első magyar bibliafordítás kritikai szövegkiadása, de nevéhez fűződik a Müncheni Kódex magyar-latin szótára (1993) is. Színvonalas írásai és előadásai révén a 20. század második felében a magyar nyelvésztársadalom kiemelkedő szakemberévé vált. Életművéért 1989-ben elnyerte a nyelvtudomány doktora címet.

Vélemények Nyíri Antalról
A történeti kutatások mellett nyelvműveléssel és nyelvhelyességgel is foglalkozott. Egykori tanítványa, később munkatársa, dr. Szabó József egyetemi tanár írja visszaemlékezésében: "Nemcsak a magyar nyelvészet jövőjéért aggódott, hanem a pontatlan megfogalmazástól a durva, trágár beszédig minden olyan jelenség terjedése miatt is, ami elszürkíti, rossz irányba viszi a mindennapi nyelvhasználatot."

Nyolcvan éves születésnapja alkalmából a Magyar Nyelv hasábjain dr. Hajdú Péter akadémikus méltatta munkásságát: "Ő a totális és univerzális magyar nyelvészet művelője. Alig van a magyar nyelvészetnek olyan ága, amelyhez ne volna köze. … A műgond, a tiszta stílus, a tárgyszerű anyagfeltárás és értékelés olyan erények, melyeket ilyen színvonalon kevesen tudtak felmutatni. ...  A szegedi Bölcsészkar legnagyobb hatású és tekintélyű professzorai közé emelkedett."

Dr. Szűcs Judit néprajzkutató, mint tanítvány emlékezett egykori professzorára: "Soha nem kényszerítette rám véleményét, nem oktatott ki és nem szabta meg, hogyan döntsek ... de példát adott a természetes viselkedésre, őszinte véleménynyilvánításra, a szülőföld szeretetére.  ... A magyar nyelvészet oktatása közben, szakdolgozókkal, nyelvészekkel, néprajzosokkal foglalkozva – köztük az én munkámat is irányítva, segítve –, tárgyszerűségre, az adatok tiszteletére, a gondolatok egyszerű, világos kifejezésére és a szakma szenvedélyes szeretetére nevelt."

Szabó Józsefné főiskolai tanár is elismeréssel nyilatkozott egykori kollégájáról: "Nyíri Antal professzor a főiskolán töltött két év alatt két jegyzetet írt, amelyet aztán sok évig használtak az oktatásban. Az egyik jegyzet a mellérendelő mondatok, a másik pedig a Szókincs című. Szívéhez talán közelebb állt az utóbbi jegyzet, melyben külön fejezetet szentelt a magyar szólások tanulságainak. Ily módon igyekezett kialakítani a hallgatók nyelvtörténeti szemléletét. A főiskolánkon töltött két év során folytatta a nyelvemlékek vizsgálatát. Ezekre az évekre esik a had és a szer szavak szófejtése és magyarázata. Munkáira jellemző az alaposság, a nyelvi adatok néprajzi és művelődéstörténeti hátterének részletes, sokoldalú feltárása, fejtegetéseinek világos, logikus gondolatmenete."

Művei

 A Winkler Kódex hangtana és szótana (1933)
 A zselicségi Szenna és vidéke magyar nyelvjárása (1939)
 A kihaló szentesi víziélet néprajzi és népnyelvi maradványai (1948)
 A mellérendelő mondatok (1950)
 Szókincs (1951)
 Müncheni Kódex 1466-ból (1971)
 Müncheni Kódex magyar-latin szótára (1993)
 Szófejtések és nyelvtörténeti tanulmányok (2004)

Kitüntetései

 Klebelsberg Kunó emlékérem (1942)
 A Felsőoktatás Kiváló Dolgozója (1953)
 Munka Érdemrend (1960)
 Oktatásügy Kiváló Dolgozója (1971)
 Honismeretért emlékérem (1974)
 Munka Érdemrend arany fokozata (1977)
 Révai Miklós-díj (1997)
 Szentes város díszpolgára (1997)

Tagságai
 Magyar Nyelvtudományi Társaság tagja, a szegedi csoport elnöke
 Finnugor Társaság
 Az MTA Magyar Nyelvészeti Bizottságának tagja
 Magyar Nyelv szerkesztőbizottsági tag
 Néprajz és Nyelvtudomány c. sorozat társszerkesztője
 Csongrád Megyei Honismereti Bizottság elnöke.

Róla szóló irodalom
 Dr. Pais Dezső: Nyíri Antal üdvözlése = Magyar Nyelv 1969
 Dr. Hajdú Péter: Nyíri Antal köszöntése 80. születésnapján = Magyar Nyelv 1988
 Nyíri Antal kilencvenéves (Szerk.: Büky László) Szeged, JATE, 1997
 Nyíri Antal. Magyar Nyelvész Pályaképek és Önvallomások 37. (Sorozatszerk.: Bolla Kálmán) Budapest, ELTE, 1999
 Nyíri Antal emlékére (Szerk.: Kis-Rácz Antalné, Zsiros Katalin) Szentes, 2007
 Dr. Szabó József: Nyíri Antalra emlékezve születésének 100. évfordulóján = Honismeret 2007. 2. sz.
 Labádi Lajos: Szentes város díszpolgárai, 1881–2007. Szentes Város Önkormányzata, 2008
 Pedagógusok arcképcsarnoka. 12. kötet. Debrecen, Karácsony Sándor Pedagógiai Egyesület, 2013
 Nyíri Antal; szerk. Módos Péter, Pávics Krisztina; ELTE Fonetikai Tanszék, Budapest, 1999 (Magyar nyelvész pályaképek és önvallomások)
 Nagy szegedi nyelvészek, egyéniségek; szerk. Tóth Szergej, B. Székely Gábor, Galgóczi László; Generalia, Szeged, 2005 (A XII. Magyar Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Kongresszus kiadványai)

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The hoped-for expansion of the streetcar route to UMKC on Main Street has prompted a new apartment proposal for a vacant lot at 3260 Main, just south of downtown near the Linwood intersection.
FFV partnership, a Kansas City-based development entity, wants to build a five-story apartment building with 82 market-rate units along the proposed streetcar route.
It would include one level of underground parking with 70 spaces for cars and 30 bicycle spaces as well as 7,710 square-feet of commercial space on the first floor.
The project received its initial approvals this week when the Land Clearance Redevelopment Authority approved a blight designation necessary to qualify for tax incentives.
Bob Mayer, president of MR Capital Advisors, said the developers decided to move forward with their plan because of the streetcar extension proposal.
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The streetcar project however, still has significant challenges.
City voters approved a petition resolution in August that requires any further city funding for a streetcar expansion to receive citywide approval. The legality of that resolution has been questioned however, and the City Council can vote to override it.
The streetcar expansion also would require substantial federal funding, a source that's become more uncertain in Washington with the current administration.
The proposed 82-unit apartment project would be built on a vacant lot once occupied by an auto body shop.
The proposed apartment project at 3260 Main would be built on a half-acre site previously occupied by an auto body shop that was demolished in 2013. The property currently has an assessed value of $120,000. The developer will be seeking a 10-year, 70 percent property tax abatement.
The plan calls for 58 one-bedroom, and 24 two-bedroom units with monthly rents ranging from $800- to $1,000 per month including parking. The development is close to a 80-unit modular apartment project built recently by Mac Properties at 3435 Main.
The FFV proposal is scheduled to be reviewed by the City Plan Commission on Oct. 17.
"Ideally, we want to break ground in January and have the project completed by the end of 2018," Mayer said.
If streetcar isn't expanded, there is a chance MAX could become free to ride.


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31 August 2016 – Although slavery was officially abolished long ago in the Americas, its residue can still be felt today. In order to combat the sometimes harmful legacies, it is important to learn the true nature of what happened, correct misconceptions and hold frank discussions on how to move forward. Those were some of the issues discussed today at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Participants were gathered for a lecture event entitled "Resistance to and the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade", which was hosted by the Department of Public Information's Remember Slavery Programme and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
Opening remarks were delivered by Ramu Damodaran, Officer-in-Charge of the Department's Outreach Division, who said, "As we reflect on the impact that the institution of slavery has had on society, we can see that much work has to be done to heal the scars". He also highlighted ongoing racism and inequalities experienced by people of colour, as well as their struggle for recognition and justice.
Also speaking was Marie Paule Roudil, Director of the Liaison Office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in New York. She noted that the fight against racism and discrimination needed to start with the teaching of respect and tolerance. She added that it was necessary to share the common history of all humanity – including its most tragic chapters. In that regard, she highlighted the unique potential of cinema to foster such understanding.
During her keynote presentation, Natasha Lightfoot, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, drew attention to numerous examples of resistance to slavery, stressing that such efforts "indicated unyielding desires for freedom" and contributed to anti-slavery debates in the past. In that context, she maintained that "slaves were the authors of the abolition". She also drew connections between the Haitian revolution, slavery in the United States and the conditions faced by people of colour in the Americas today.
The lecture sparked a number of questions. In response to one on reparations, Professor Lightfoot responded that all aspects of public life had been touched by slavery, so she believed that this wrong should be repaired. "It has gone on far too long without an acknowledgement", she said. When asked what an apology by a country that had been involved in slavery would be worth without reparations, she indicated that, while it would certainly be welcome, it would not be nearly enough.
Replying to another question about how youth could be inspired to seek awareness of the true nature and legacy of slavery, Ms. Lightfoot stressed that it was critical to talk about such issues and share real stories. She also underscored the importance of using the term "enslaved peoples" as opposed to just "slaves" in order to remember the victims' humanity and not fall into the trap of thinking of them as goods that were bought and sold.
This event was part of a lecture series being held across the United States from 21 August to 30 October 2016. The knowledge- and community-building initiative – which brought together the United Nations, the American Library Association, Fox Searchlight Pictures and BazanED – aimed to examine the lasting effects of the injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. It was inspired by Nate Parker's film The Birth of a Nation, and commemorated the duration of the history-changing slave rebellion launched by the film's subject, Nat Turner, on 21 August 1831. In addition to marking the 185th anniversary of Turner's rebellion, it was also tied to the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, observed annually by UNESCO on 23 August.
UNESCO's Slave Route project was launched in 1994 and aims to contribute to a better understanding of the causes, forms of operation, stakes and consequences of slavery in the world; highlight the global transformations and cultural interactions that have resulted from this history; and contribute to a culture of peace by promoting reflection on cultural pluralism, intercultural dialogue and the construction of new identities and citizenships.
Watch the archived webcast of the lecture.


Where are the dogs in southern African literature? The short answer is: everywhere, if you keep looking. Few texts centralise them, but they appear everywhere in the corners of people's lives: pets walking alongside, strays in the alleys, accompanying policemen, at the dog shows, outhunting, guarding gates. There are also the related canids— jackals, hyenas, wolves—making real and symbolic appearances. Dogs have always been with us, friends and foes in equal measure.
This is the first collection of studies on dogs in southern African literatures. The essays range across many dogs' roles: as guides and guards, as victims and threats. They appear in thrillers and short stories. Their complex relations with colonialism and indigeneity are explored, in novels and poetry, in English as well as Shona and Afrikaans. Comparative perspectives are opened up in articles treating French and Russian parallels. This volume aims to start a serious conversation about, and acknowledgement of, the important place dogs have in our society.
Dan Wylie teaches English at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He has published three books on the Zulu leader Shaka (Savage Delight: White Myths of Shaka, Myth of Iron: Shaka in History, both UKZN Press, and Shaka (Jacana)); a memoir; Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War (UKZN Press); and several volumes of poetry. The Road Out won the Olive Schreiner and Ingrid Jonker prizes. Most recently, he has concentrated on Zimbabwean literature and on ecological concerns in literature. He founded the annual Literature & Ecology Colloquium in 2004, and edited the collection of essays, Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa (Cambridge Scholars Press). He has edited a volume of essays, No Other World: The Life-work of Don Maclennan (PrintMatters) and Don Maclennan: Collected Poems (Printmatters, 2012). His latest publications are Elephant and Crocodile, both in the Reaktion Books Animals series, and Slow Fires (poems with etchings by Roxandra Britz; Fourthwall Books).
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This is a very old photo of Digmoor School, from my Gran's collection.
This is one of the oldest photos in my collection, and shows my great grandmother Polly Whittle (left) and her sister. Polly was born in 1871, so I guess this photo was taken in about 1876. Polly attended Digmoor school, (though this is not a school photo.) Polly went on to become Mrs Watkinson, who ran the Watkinsons shop at Tawd Bridge. Polly would have been attending Digmoor school during the 1870s to 1880s. Does anyone know the date when the school was started?
My Gran told me that in those days when they were having school photos taken, the students were permitted to bring along their younger siblings to have them included in the photo, so that is why there are a couple of toddlers and a baby in the photo.
This photo recently came into my possession from my Nana Coulshed's collection. It is definitely at Digmoor School again, but what the occasion was, I do not know. It seems like there must have been some sort of working bee with the local ladies all in their pinnies, and then two very important ladies in the centre – not wearing pinnies but very stylish hats instead. They must have been important visitors, I think. I wish I knew the story behind it. My Nana, Mrs Coulshed, is fourth from the right on the back row, but I do not know the names of any of the other ladies.
Finally, another view of the school that was sent to us after we came to Australia. It would have been taken in the early sixties. There is also one of those street lights which had to be turned on by the one armed lamplighter!
Please support the new "Who's who" blog gallery by clicking on the image to enlarge, as in all galleries. On recognizing any of the numbered individuals in any of the photos, add names with the relavent number in the comments box below.
My great aunt Sally Johnstone, nee Watkinson. She was quite a well known character, born in Tawd Bridge. She was completely deaf, but never handicapped by this at all. She was the best lipreader I have ever known and could also speak very well, and nothing ever stopped her from enjoying life. She is seen here at the door of her house in Tawd Bridge holding one of her great-nephews.
When my family and I emigrated to Australia, Aunty Sally was always a regular letter writer and kept us well informed of all the local goings on. She loved to go out and take photos of anyone and anything, so she sent us a lot of nice photos over the years. Some of these have already appeared on this website in other galleries, but I am going to post some here as well.
The following photos were all taken in the early 1960s.
Three of my former school friends from Dogmoor School, Sheila Bennett, Valerie Taylor and Betty Davis. Very stylish teenagers in the early 1960s.
Tawd Bridge in the snow. The lady on the right is Lizzie Arnold, but I am not sure who the other two are. Maybe someone will comment and remind me!


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Design Manager A feature activated in SharePoint publishing sites or team sites with publishing enabled that is used to import and manage site branding assets and export them to a design package. Use Design Manager to import branding assets created in other tools, such as Adobe PhotoShop or Adobe DreamWeaver, into SharePoint.
SharePoint Designer is not available for use with OneDrive for Business or SharePoint team sites where publishing is not enabled.
Root web The first web inside a site collection. The root web is also sometimes referred to as the Web Application Root.
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If you applied composed looks to a site before you applied custom branding, the design package will include files with .themedcss and .themedpng file extensions. To apply the branding assets in a design package to a SharePoint site, export the design package and use the remote provisioning pattern to apply the contents of the design package.
SharePoint includes the APIs that you can use to work with design packages. If you're using either SSOM, CSOM, or JSOM, you can use the DesignPackage or DesignPackageInfo classes.
The following example shows how to use the Design Package APIs in the remote provisioning pattern to apply the contents of design packages to a SharePoint site.
This code was designed for use with publishing sites. Although it is possible to use the Design Packages API to apply branding to team sites that have the publishing feature enabled, this can introduce long-term support issues.
// Use TokenHelper to get the client context and Title property.
// on the host web.
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For example, use the SP.Publishing.DesignPackage.install Method (sp.publishing) or DesignPackage.Install method to install the design package on the site, as shown in the following example.
The DesignPackageInfo class specifies metadata that describe the contents of the design package to be installed. Use the Uninstall method to uninstall the design package from the site, as shown in the following example.
If you need to brand a team site with the publishing feature enabled, or a publishing site on SharePoint Online, you can use the ExportEnterprise or the ExportSmallBusiness method to export design packages for site templates to the Solution Gallery. Use the ExportSmallBusiness method with the small business site template, and use the ExportEnterprise method for all other site templates, as shown in the following example.
When you use the ExportSmallBusiness method, you can include the search configuration in the design package, as shown in the following example. Note that all design package methods operate at the level of the site collection. The name of the design package is represented by the string packageName.
The tools you can use to brand a SharePoint Online site depend on your SharePoint Online edition and the type of site you want to build. The Small Business edition, for example, includes one team site and one public site. It does not include a publishing site. You can use the Site Builder add-in in SharePoint Online to customize public site branding.
The Enterprise edition includes a team site collection at the root web application for the domain that does not include publishing. It does not include a public site. Use Design Manager to manage SharePoint site branding elements for the publishing site in the SharePoint Online Enterprise edition.


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With the opening of the polling stations in hours not days now, I have been reflecting on how the political candidates have been targeting me in Richmond Park and North Kingston. As the photograph above shows I have been bombarded with a range of leaflets over the last few weeks, and from all the candidates, as I am sure most of you have. This tactic is very much a traditional marketing approach, but what else could the parties have done, using alternative marketing channels, to influence my vote?
I am aware that some of the parties have also knocked on our door, but I have been away working for the last few weeks, and in any case the visits have mainly been during the daytime and so would have missed me. Doorstep politics is used, as I understand it, to target marginal wards. So I guess there is some logic to continuing this - but there are other ways that the parties could have used their limited resources in more effective channels. We are after all in the digital age!
Saying that, I have received personalised mailings from the Conservative and Lib Dem candidates, the former due to the fact that I joined Zac Goldsmiths email list to follow what he was up to, as my existing MP. I have also received emails from the LibDem candidate. These two parties are effectively the only runners in my area - so I guess the other parties may just not bother, but are they missing a trick?
I am fairly active on social media but I have not been "reached" by any of the political parties on this channel. This is somewhat surprising as we have seen how whole movements of political change have been started and co-ordinated through this platform.
Anyhow maybe all of this is academic, as do people really change their mind at the last minute?
In my view the the parties, like brands and services, would be better working on their longer term brand and loyalty building, rather than just relying on short-term tactical interventions.
So in answer to my own question, "would smarter marketing affect the election result?" I would probably say "yes" but maybe not this time round!
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When I told people that I was going to get the coach from London to Folkestone, to visit my parents, the reaction was generally one of surprise. First I was asked if I was feeling okay and then I was reminded that "coaches are for old people and students". I was even offered the use of a Lexus for three days by some well meaning relatives.
Now to be fair for the last 30 years or so I have always driven down to the coast, but I decided that I would give the coach a chance, and at £5 for a single journey it seemed like an attractive alternative - at least financially!
So how did the coach fair? Well I was promised leather seats, wifi (on some journeys) a toilet and an electrical charge point for my gadgets. Unfortunately only the first of these was actually available. However I did have some additional items thrown in that were not really journey enhancing, including pigeons at Victoria coach station and a 15 minute delay. On the positive side the booking process online was seamless, the driver was both courteous and helpful (even loading and unloading baggage for those of us brave enough to be separated from our possessions). Time-wise the driver did manage to catch up a few minutes but at just under three hours from our scheduled departure I decided to check out the competition for the return journey.
So here I am sitting on the hi-speed train and I only have 55 minutes to write this blog - a huge saving of over two hours in terms of journey time! This is a major plus but obviously comes at a cost financially - after online booking fees it's a shade under £30 for a super off-peak single. Also there's still no sign of wifi or an electrical socket and I'm not up for looking for a toilet for fear of losing my table seat.
So I will revert to driving for my next visit, especially as my wife will be with me and so the car will once again win on time and price. A shame really as I'm sure that more people would use "public transport" more for leisure trips if it better met customer needs in terms of price, time and additional services.
How about train journeys at coach prices? Now that would be interesting!
Can robots provide better customer service?
As I sat in the audience at Somerset House last weekend (#startup2015), listening to three former Apprentices, I reflected on the last series and wondered what I had actually learnt.
First to speak was Melody Hossaini, who managed to overcome the fact that her slides had not been loaded into the presentation, and so had to speak from her notes. Nonetheless she gave a very passionate speech about "believing in yourself". Lesson 1, young people not only have lots of energy, they often have supreme confidence. Nothing seems to faze them, even failure. They just find another way!
Solomon Ahktar was next, having arrived late and in the most ridiculous trousers, which to be fair he did apologise for. All that Solomon had on him was his famous mobile phone, on which he had tapped in a few prompts. He gave a short and meandering speech which was punctuated with humour, pausing to pose for the camera whenever anyone raised their mobile phone. But it was clear that this man is an ideas man and someone who is not afraid to look foolish in communicating his ideas - hence the trousers I suppose. Lesson 2, we should never be afraid to suggest new ideas or ways of doing things. I'm sure most of us realise that for every 10 ideas only one has to count to make a big difference.
Finally, it was the charming Felipe Alviar-Baquero. Now in my mind he was the true winner of the last series. He didn't disappoint either. His advice to the many start-up business entrepreneurs present was delivered in a very calm and collective manner. It was both inspiring and sensible. Lesson 3, the best candidate can often be overlooked but will always continue to shine through.
Fans and customers - the perfect recipe for success!
Is it a bus stop queue? Are they fans or customers?
I've started reading the book "Fans Not Customers" by Vernon Hill, the founder of Metro Bank UK and Commerce Bancorp in America. The basic principle is that competitive edge comes down to service and if customers become fans then they will help create yet more fans. So far, this formula has worked magnificently for Vernon, with year on year growth in the banking sector, at a time when other banks are struggling.
So I decided to visit my local Metro bank in Kingston upon Thames and what a refreshing experience it turned out to be, more on that later.
It also got me thinking about some of the other "brands" I had experienced in the last few days. Now I am a big fan of Graham Norton and I was absolutely delighted to see the live recording of his show last week with guest stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Timothy Spall, Miranda and Maroon 5. Once inside the studio the experience was a joy, the show ran like clockwork, Norton was superb, funny, extremely slick and professional. However the pre-show experience was very poor by comparison. Despite having pre-registered for tickets we still had to queue for 90 minutes and even then we were lucky to get in. We were also fortunate in that it was both warm and dry. The process can at best be compared to a poorly run raffle at a village fete. It actually included a man shouting out ticket numbers and colours in an inaudible fashion! So while I remain a "fan" of Graham Norton and a "customer" of his show, I am unlikely to recommend others go through the same experience.
So back to the Metro Bank tour that we were treated too today. All the staff were refreshingly helpful, we were greeted in a large open reception that looked more like a hotel than a branch. We were told that we could open an account within 15 minutes and that we would walk away with our debit card. We were shown the vaults, offered the free use of a meeting room and a customer toilet! I am most definitely a fan and will probably be a customer very soon.
As we walked home it started to rain and we passed what we thought was a queue of people at a bus stop. It turned out to be a queue of parents who had driven their children to an entrance exam at a top performing school. I wondered how Metro Bank would treat these potential "customers". Surely they wouldn't expect customers of their bank to queue outside in the rain.
Now we could all learn something from that approach!
I received an interesting and "special" email from the charming Martin Lewis this week. Special, in that it warned that the email was being sent out very carefully, as "telling 9m people at once risks putting a strain on the UK ticket system". Interesting, in that finally there was some good news for the consumer in terms of getting cheaper train tickets. Initially I enjoyed reading that the new TicketySplit tool "takes on the ridiculous train ticket pricing anomaly that means buying two separate tickets sometimes costs less. It can save some regular travellers £1,000s".
But I then got to thinking, why was there a need at all for such a tool, surely it should already be easy to buy the best value tickets, through existing channels! But here is the very genesis of what is wrong with the current fares and ticketing system. The increased competition of the rail operating industry has created a complex system of ticketing that no longer makes sense to the consumer. It seems that rather than competing on train service reliability and punctuality, train operators are competing on price and how to make the whole process of ticket purchase confusing. How many times have you sat on a train and wondered how much the person opposite you paid for their journey? Worse still why is it that people with the best bargains repeatedly broadcast this news to the rest of the carriage!
Maybe we should ask the lovely people at the BBC to do a "BBC Price of Transport study" to follow up on their highly interesting "BBC Sport's Price of Football study" (launched today). Not only would we know how much a pie costs at White Hart Lane or AFC Wimbledon (where sadly they either do not have pies or refuse to reveal their prices), but we could also know how much it costs to get to all the football grounds by all the various options. But then again there is now at least Tickety Split!
50 and never too old for new tricks?
I was at a 50th birthday "wild hog" celebration last week, golfing at Celtic Manor, home of the Ryder Cup in 2010. Things certainly got off to a "wild" start, as in the excitement of meeting up, we somehow managed to tip a whole jug of hot coffee over the birthday boy. Rather than worrying about any burn damage to his leg, his main concern was whether the coffee stain made it look like he had "shat himself", not the best look for someone just turning fifty!
Anyhow, the inevitable reminiscing that occurs at events such as these, got me thinking about how things have changed since I started working. It is hard to imagine now, looking back, how businesses functioned without digital technology such as computers and smart phones. Gone are the typing pools, the handwritten messages, and the rabbit warren like offices.
I was also, recently, at an Enterprise Nation event for small businesses hosted at Microsoft's smart and shiny offices in Victoria (London). At this event, amongst other things, we were given an excellent book by Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer for Microsoft UK, entitled "The Rise of Humans - How to outsmart the digital deluge". The theme of the book is all about the need to take back control from this digital development.
Although my favourite part, of the book, was actually the reference to Charles Handy's five elements for a great portfolio career, which also shows how work, or more precisely careers, are changing.
According to Handy, success is achieved by getting the right balance between: paid work (your day job); fee work (for specific products or services); gift work (e.g. charity or community work); home work (family time) and finally study work (learning and development time).
So far I have managed to achieve four out of these five, since setting up my own business www.pamah.org in 2012.
Anyhow, for the record, on the golf trip, we stayed up drinking in the hotel bar to way gone 11pm, and we didn't complain that much on the whole trip, apart from our demise on the golf course. Wild hogs indeed!
At the height of rush hour the gates to the Tube are closed at Victoria as too many people try to enter the system.
My first experience, for nearly two years, of rush hour commuting into London, co-incided with Sir Peter Hendy stating that "London Public Transport Will Cause Riots If It Doesn't Improve". (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/22/london-public-transport_n_5859770.html) So what had gone so wrong? Or had I just forgotten how bad it was getting? As you can imagine, I approached my early morning journey with some trepidation.
I decided to walk to the train station, rather than fight my way onto a bus already laden heavy with school children. Rioting with school children thus neatly avoided!
My time waiting for the train was spent wondering whether I would get a seat near the window, to provide some ventilation on a particularly muggy September morning. In the end I was already too late for a seat and had to stand for the entire journey. As we left each subsequent station, the train got fuller and fuller, and the temperature began to rise accordingly. I once read that each person emits the same heat as a light bulb while travelling on a train, but the man opposite me was certainly emitting more than this, after the girl in-between us accidentally spilt coffee all over his newspaper and grey trousers! This little incident didn't cause a riot either thankfully, but it did serve to remind me about the time I once sneezed a trail of snot onto the overcoat of a man sitting next to me - luckily he took it very well in the circumstances, although I had to get off at the next station to avoid further embarrassment, even though it wasn't my stop!
So, as the train steadily filled up, I tried to work out what was different and why a riot was being predicted. I noticed that there were more bearded men than before, that people still dressed in drab grey outfits, that nobody communicated other than to shout out things that station staff used to say, "can you all move down a bit please". And then it struck me! There was just more people per se! And these people were still all travelling en-masse at the same time of the day. So what about those "soft" demand management tools, such as encouraging businesses to stagger hours of working? What about the predicted rise of people working from home? After all, hadn't these measures worked so well for the 2012 Games?
I travelled home at 15:30, had a choice of seats, had room to balance my tablet, coffee and newspaper and as a result, had no stress, compared to my morning commute.
So my suggestion? Well it's radical, but still "soft" and involves the use of one of the founding members of the marketing mix 4 P's - price! Until fares are adjusted significantly to make the differential between peak and inter-peak travel a real option, I think people will continue to fight it out for a seat (or a standing space). You can increase capacity ("hard" measure) and that will make a difference in the short-term, but I firmly believe that a more radical approach is required, to get people to change their travel behaviour. People may then be rioting at their businesses, fighting to get them to change their working hours so they can change their travel times, rather than rioting on the transport system. So, I also predict a riot, but hopefully one that starts to solve the problem and change the way people behave!
A local (my Dad) standing outside "Something & Son - Amusefood. Fish, chips and mushy peas - staple meal of Folkestone's amusement arcades. This experiment places the whole cycle of production, cooking, eating and recycling waste on one school site". Folkestone Triennial 2014. 30th August - 2 November.
I left Folkestone in 1981, but have been back regularly to visit family ever since. My most recent visit, however, was to experience the Folkestone Triennial, now in its' third season. Folkestone like many other seaside towns has been struggling since the Victorian days to re-establish an identity. The loss of domestic tourists ripped the heart out of many towns like Folkestone, and it has taken a long time for most of them to re-act to the drop in tourism income and the inevitable and sad rise in unemployment. Folkestone looked like it would benefit from the opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994, but apart from job creation, not to be overlooked, the tunnel merely established Folkestone as the place that millions of people passed through (a bit like me when visiting my family). There was also the loss of an area of countryside to contend with, a lovely area where I used to play freely as a child. Again the high speed rail link promises to bring more wealth to the seaside town, especially with the drift of people leaving London for cheaper housing, albeit with fast commutes back to the capital for employment. But at least they will be spending some of their cash in Folkestone.
But what of the identity of Folkestone? What of the vision for the town? What is its' USP? (unique selling point) in marketing jargon. Well that's where the Triennial comes in, as part, as I understand it, of a master-plan led by the former Saga chief Rodger De Haan. Now there is a reason to visit Folkestone again, to appreciate and debate art. But that is only the start of it. Like re-branding a product or indeed person (after all isn't that what the popular culture of celebrity TV show is all about) it is vital that the target market (sorry more marketing jargon) get to see and sample the new offering and in doing so the opportunity to see the bigger picture. In the case of Folkestone, the Triennial opens the door for people to see the wider potential of the town, as it embarks on a major regeneration programme, with art and culture at its' centre - not forgetting references to the past e.g. good old fish and chips! It must be working as people such as Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin and Mark Sargeant are now part of the Folkestone message, there are reviews in the London Evening Standard about the triennial and the trendy new restaurants, such as Rock Salt. Even people at my golf club, back in Surrey, are aware of the gold buried in the sand as part of the Triennial.
So while the locals look a bit confused about some of the art pieces, and some even debate the point of it all, I say well done to the organisers of the Triennial and to Roger De Haan for sticking to a master plan - great art, great town plan and fantastic marketing. Lookout here comes Folkestone!
While travelling recently through South East Asia, what struck me most in countries like Laos and Cambodia, was that while the poverty and lack of wealth was clear to see, you could nearly always get a good WiFi reception. This was true if you were in a small city like Phnom Penh and even a tiny village off the Mekong River. This is not always the case in developed countries and certainly not true of London. Try, for instance, maintaining a link while travelling on public transport. The minute you go underground, you lose the signal on the Tube, there is very little Wifi on buses and mainline trains. The only place you can get a decent signal, other than in the offices or public buildings, are the coffee shops, but you have to wait for one of the many students to finish their never ending bottles of water, before you can get a seat to plonk down your flat white and iPad!
So this got me thinking, with the announcement earlier this week, that Apple is finally getting into wearable tech, with the launch of the Apple Watch some time in 2015. How ironic that the Apple Watch will probably work best in countries like Laos, where the locals can least afford them! Although, I wonder how long will it be before you can buy a fake Apple Watch in the stalls of many of the markets in South East Asia?
Meanwhile, back in London, everyone (including me) will be eager to be seen to be wearing the new tech, while dashing into coffee shops to check their messages!


It's easy to talk about Glee, Louie, Big Bang Theory, the New York Yankees, Dancing with the Stars, The Housewives of (insert city here), Celebrity Apprentice, Family Guy, Game of Thrones, and American Idol. I like them too... but those are big league programs. Major television networks decided that enough people will watch those and make them lots of money in advertising revenue. There's a reason Disney still exists. Mickey Mouse is losing more than he's earning these days but he bought ESPN, Pixar, and ABC.
Some suit in an office that overlooks the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree decides what millions of people will watch each season. It's not about entertainment. It's not about making your life better. It's not about spreading positivity. It's not about making the world a better place. It's about money. It's about that guy buying a new Jaguar and sending his kids to an expensive private school. It's about the parent company getting enough ad sales revenue. It's a distraction. It's about keeping your eyes on your TV instead of your family. It's about looking into a black screen instead of looking around you, or inside yourself. We live in a culture that is decided for us. We feel involved when we vote someone off a show but every 100,000 text messages is a million dollars for the phone company.
Choose to support local art.


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C LIT 313 A: History Of Film: 1989-Present
GLOBAL CINEMA, FILM FESTIVALS AND MEMORY
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Meeting Time:
MTWTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm
JHN 111
SLN:
Cynthia Steele
Overview of major developments in Hollywood, US Independent, and global cinema during the period 1989-2012, including new forms of realism, transnational trends, the conscious revision of cinematic traditions, the function of trauma and memory in film, and the role of international film festivals. During the first six weeks of class we will view, read essays about, and discuss twelve key films from this period; you will also write reviews of three of these films. (You may watch these films either in class on Mondays and Wednesdays, or on instant streaming.) On Tuesdays and Thursdays we will discuss the films and readings. During the last four weeks of the quarter, there will be no class. Instead, students will attend pre-screenings and screenings in the Seattle International Film Festival and will write reviews of five of the films seen; they will also write a short final reflexive essay on SIFF as a film festival. Texts: Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong, Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2011; Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeney, eds. Millenial Cinema: Memory in Global Film. London: Walllower Press, 2012; and additional essays available through Catalyst. Films: Do the Right Thing, The Piano, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, City of God, Moolaadé, Memento, Mulholland Drive, The Namesake, Pan's Labyrinth, In the Mood for Love, Oldboy, and The Kids are All Right.
Catalog Description:
Addresses the latest trends in international filmmaking typically with an emphasis on world cinema and issues of globalization and diaspora. Sometimes taught in conjunction with the Seattle International Film Festival.
Department Requirements Met:
Cinema Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts (VLPA)
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Increasingly in demand, as of 2018, Hanna Hipp's most recent operatic debuts were Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri) for Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, Beatrice (Beatrice and Benedict) for Seattle Opera, where she also sang Dorabella (Così fan tutte); Frances, Countess of Essex in Gloriana for Teatro Real in Madrid, directed by Sir David McVicar and as Clairon in Capriccio for Garsington Opera.
Hanna enjoys an exciting season of debuts in 2018/19: as Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) in Antony McDonald's new production in her return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the title role in Offenbach's Fantasio for Garsington Opera, Varvara (Katya Kabanova) in Stephen Lawless' new production for Scottish Opera, and Rossweise (Die Walküre) in concert with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Elsewhere on the concert stage, she sings her first performances of Les nuits d'été with Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, and joins both the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Hamburger Symphoniker for Beethoven's Symphony No.9, under Klaus Mäkelä and Eivind Gullberg Jensen respectively.
A former member of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House (ROH), Covent Garden, Hanna has recently returned to the ROH for an 'enchanting' Magdalene (The Daily Telegraph) in Kasper Holten's new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. Previous roles there include Emilia (Otello), and Anna in Berlioz's Les Troyens, which was also presented at the BBC Proms and released on DVD by Opus Arte.
Following her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Flora (La traviata) under Sir Mark Elder, released on DVD by Opus Arte, Hanna has maintained a strong relationship with the company returning every season since: as Ramiro (La finta giardiniera) on tour under Christopher Moulds, La chatte and L'écureuil in Laurent Pelly's acclaimed production of L'enfant et les sortilèges under Robin Ticciati, Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) under Michael Güttler and, in 2017, as Der Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) under Cornelius Meister.
Further performances include a recent debut at Dutch National Opera as the Page in Strauss' Salome under Daniele Gatti in a new staging by Ivo van Hove, Mercédès (Carmen) at Teatro alla Scala under Massimo Zanetti, and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) at both the Turku Music Festival and in a production by Sir Thomas Allen for Scottish Opera. A successful North American debut as Der Komponist for Minnesota Opera was followed by Isolier in Rossini's Le comte Ory under Giacomo Sagripanti for Seattle Opera. In concert, Hanna joined Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for L'enfant et les sortilèges under Charles Dutoit, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg for Les Troyens under John Nelson, recorded for release on Warner Classics.
Hanna has built a strong relationship with Emma Abbate; they frequently collaborate as a duo performing a varied song repertoire.
Hanna is a graduate of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio in London.


The UK plans to halt sales of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040 as experts warn that roadside pollution and soaring levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pose the largest environmental risk to public health.
The Government's new plans to tackle air pollution is focused on delivering NO2 compliance at the roadside in the shortest amount of time.
Next year, it said it will publish a comprehensive clean air strategy intended to tackle other sources of air pollution.
Research commissioned by Defra estimated that in 2012, poor air quality had a total cost of up to £2.7bn through its impact on productivity.
Due to the highly localised nature of the problem, local knowledge will be crucial in solving pollution problems in these hotspots. The government said it will require councils to produce local air quality plans which reduce nitrogen dioxide levels in the fastest possible time.
Local authorities will be able to bid for money from a new Clean Air Fund to support improvements which will reduce the need for restrictions on polluting vehicles. This could include changing road layouts, removing traffic lights and speed humps, or upgrading bus fleets.
"We are determined to deliver a green revolution in transport and reduce pollution in our towns and cities," said Chris Grayling, secretary of state for transport.
The Government is also pledging £100m towards new low emission buses and retrofitting older buses with cleaner engines as well as proposing van drivers to have the right to use heavier vehicles if they are electric or gas-powered, making it easier for businesses to opt for cleaner commercial vehicles.
James McKemey, head of customer operations at EV charging company Pod Point, congratulated the government on taking measures to address the reduction of carbon emissions.
"With the EV market showing real signs of growth, we are not just seeing the end of one chapter of our motoring history, but simultaneously witnessing the growth of a new one," he said. "One that will reduce our long-term reliance on fossil fuels, put money back in the pocket of drivers and improve the air quality for generations to come.
"But 2040 is a long time away and the environmental concerns that EVs help to address are not on hold until then."
However, a separate report suggests that UK drivers might not be quite ready to make the wholesale switch from so-called 'dirty' vehicles with the majority of UK drivers still expecting to be using fossil fuel powered vehicles for the foreseeable future.
More than two third (68 per cent) said they plan to buy a petrol-fuelled vehicle for their next purchase, while one fifth (21 per cent) expect to purchase a diesel-powered model.
Aviva's forthcoming Connected Car report also revealed that while there is an apparent appetite for vehicles powered by alternative means, industry figures suggest that the desire for hybrid and electric models may be an aspiration rather than an immediate reality for some.
Only one in 10 UK drivers plan to buy a hybrid model for their next vehicle, according to the study with just a further 2 per cent intending to purchase a fully electric vehicle as their next model.


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"The Detective Byron mystery series is one of the finest to arrive in a long time." —#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston
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"Authentic, gripping." — Joseph Wambaugh, Edgar Award-winning author of The Onion Field
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BRUCE ROBERT COFFIN
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is the award-winning author of the bestselling Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning the Director's Award, the highest award a non-agent can receive.
Winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Awards for Best Procedural and Best Investigator, and the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel, Bruce was also a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel. His short fiction appears in several anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2016.
Bruce is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He is a regular contributor to Murder Books blog.
Bruce is represented by Paula Munier at Talcott Notch Literary.
He lives and writes in Maine.
Bruce Robert Coffin © All rights reserved.


Skulls of Wolf, Polar Bear and Lion. Genuine antique print for sale.
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).
This original antique lithograph was made in 1827 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss naturalist and lithographer. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, accurately drawn and beautifully composed. This lithograph was made in the 1820s with high quality, thick, matt paper with a subtle creamy tone and slight texture. It has hand painted colors and is in excellent condition.


Sept 18, 2006 Monday morning at 11:30AM, Ping and parents said good-bye to Mr. Liu, a Chinese hero who continues his bicycle odyssey around the world in support of the Olympic sprite and world peace. Their message to him was, come back anytime and stay with us. He waved goodbye with tears in his eyes and a heart full of love for Tampa Bay, and rode his bicycle up US-301 toward Gainesville.
Thanks for dropping by and taking a look at CAAT photos.


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Whitworth theatre students collaborate with Spokane residents on May 6 community-based production at Bing Crosby Theatre
On May 6, Whitworth Assistant Professor of Theatre Brooke Kiener, her students, and Spokane residents will present a community-based theatre project, "Wizdom: Making Dollars and Sense," at 7 p.m. at the Bing Crosby Theatre in downtown Spokane. The hour-long performance will be followed by a discussion with the actors and director. Admission is free. For more information, please call (509) 777-3707.
"'Wizdom' tells the stories of real people who live and work in Spokane, and who experience discrimination and stereotyping based on perceived socio-economic distinctions," Kiener says. "It also highlights some of the economic injustices faced especially by Spokane's poor and working class citizens."
Kiener describes "Wizdom" as a parody of The Wizard of Oz. In the show, a Whitworth student named Dorothea experiences some interactions on the university's campus that cause her to begin to notice socio-economic labeling and assumptions. She falls asleep on a bench in the Loop, located at the center of campus, and wakes up in downtown Spokane, where she meets a Native American woman on the banks of the Spokane River. The woman tells Dorothea to go on a journey for wisdom. But Dorothea thinks the woman told her to search for "the Wizard" and sets off on a journey to find him. Along the way she meets Mr. Scarecrow (an unemployed man in a soup kitchen line), Mr. Tinman (the CEO of a corporation), and Ms. Lion (a working-class mom on a picket line outside of a mega-store). Together they search for the Wizard, but instead discover "the wonderful wisdom of us."
Kiener says the production is unique in that it features Whitworth students acting alongside community members who have had direct experience as low-income earners. "Wizdom" is a collaborative project with an organization called VOICES, a group of low-income citizens who do advocacy work about issues that affect low-income earners. The characters of Mr. Scarecrow, Mr. Tinman, the Good Witch, Ms. Lion and three others will be performed by VOICES members. The remaining 30 roles will be played by eight Whitworth students.
The script for "Wizdom" was written in January 2004 during a week-long institute on theatre for social justice held at Whitworth. As part of the program, two professional theatre artists from Fringe Benefits Theatre in Los Angeles facilitated a series of workshops, which were attended by more than 50 Whitworth students, faculty, and staff, as well as members from all socio-economic strata in the Spokane community. The script is made up of true stories from the institute participants about discrimination and economic injustices.
Despite completing the script eight years ago, a lack of time, money, and space prevented Whitworth from producing the show. Last August, Lynn Noland, Whitworth's director of sponsored programs and IRB administrator of academic affairs, informed Kiener that the Inland Northwest Community Foundation was offering a community strategies grant. With the Occupy protests beginning to spread across the country, Kiener says it seemed very timely to be doing a show about economic injustices.
Kiener secured the grant, which paid for the sets, costumes, and the rental of the rehearsal and performance space. The grant further allowed Kiener to reimburse the show's community participants for gas money and child care expenses. It's also allowing the cast and crew to share a meal together at the start of each rehearsal.
The production will also feature an original musical score written collaboratively by a community member with Whitworth junior Nick Kmet. The set designs were collaboratively created by the students and community members, under the direction of Whitworth's new assistant professor of theatre, Aaron Dyszelski, who specializes in set and costume design.
Community engagement through theatre is one of Kiener's areas of expertise. In 2010, she and her students created "What's in a Meal?", about local and national food sustainability. The script for "What's in a Meal?" is currently being considered for an edited anthology on food sustainability.
In 2008, Kiener and 12 Whitworth students in her community-based theatre class researched law-enforcement issues in partnership with Spokane's Center for Justice. The result was an original show, "Crossing the Line: An Investigation of the Police, Power and People," which they performed at CenterStage theatre. Kiener later published an article about "Crossing the Line" in The Journal of Religion and Theatre.
This summer, an article on the scriptwriting process for "Wizdom" will be included in a book, Setting the Stage for Social Justice (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012).
"I hope that people hear these stories with open minds and hearts, and that hearing them expands our understanding of economic realities and our compassion for people who are in need," Kiener says. "I also hope that ultimately this changes the way we interact with each other and advocate for change in our community."
Located in Spokane, Wash., Whitworth is a private liberal arts university affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The university, which has an enrollment of 3,000 students, offers 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
Jennifer Toulouse-Lee, program assistant, theatre department, Whitworth University, (509) 777-3707 or jtoulouse-lee@whitworth.edu.
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