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Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City
TRODITIES
Overall budget € 2 442 399,99
THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
Periodic Reporting for period 4 - TRODITIES (Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City)
Yiwu, a city of 2 million in China's commercially vibrant Zhejiang province, is known by traders from countries including Afghanistan and Syria, Ukraine and Mexico, and the UK and Russia as the world's hub for the wholesale of 'small commodities'. Despite the clear insights into globalisation and the significance of trade for forging relations between cultures offered by a study of a modern trading node such as Yiwu, the city has yet to be the focus of sustained research. 'Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities' (TRODITIES) is an integrated comparative programme of research that will provide new empirical data and comparative analysis on the global trade in low-grade Chinese-made commodities. Its focus is on the ways in which transnational trading activities are conducted in the cosmopolitan and dynamic city of Yiwu. This project's in-depth investigation of Yiwu, and its connections to the wider world through networks and flows of people, commodities, and knowledge, will yield ground-breaking perspectives on the precise ways in which trade facilitates the simultaneous exchange of commodities, practices, ideas, and identities. The project is multi-sited and interdisciplinary, engaging researchers and theoretical approaches in anthropology, area studies, business studies, and history.
There is growing recognition in the social sciences of the importance of commodity trade and traders to so-called 'bottom-up forms of globalization' (Mathews, Lins Ribeiro, and Alba Vega 2012). Furthermore, scholarship in this vein and across a range of disciplines has explored the shifting nature of China's relations to the world (e.g. Laruelle and Peyrouse 2012). Much rarer, however, are empirical accounts of the ways in which China's relations with the wider world are mediated through the lived experiences of commercial personnel (merchants, traders, financiers, and businesspeople) from diverse backgrounds who travel to and reside in China in order to procure commodities for export and sale. Those studies that do exist tend to focus on old and established imperial centres of circulation and commerce such as Hong Kong (Matthews 2011; Constable 2014). Work exploring increasingly international trading centres in mainland China document the significance of trade and trading communities to economic globalisation yet lose sight of the broader social, cultural, and intellectually interactive dimensions of these processes, and of the role that particular commodities play in them (e.g. Bodomo 2012; Haugen 2011; Li Zhang 2008; Lyons et al. 2008; Yang Yang 2012). Historians of China and the so-called Silk Road, by contrast, have debated the significance of global trade routes not only to economic expansion and the development of capitalism but also for cultural and technological innovation (e.g. Lewis 2009; Perdue 2005; Westad 2012). The Silk Road and other trading routes that connected China to the wider world between the seventh and fourteenth centuries propelled cultural innovation through forging contacts between cultural regions, and allowing the circulation of people, technologies, and artefacts (Hall et al. 2009).
The project has four overarching objectives:
Aim 1: To provide a comparative and connective investigation of the global commodity trade in low-grade goods.
Yiwu is one of the world's most important sites for the wholesale purchase of low-grade commodities (Pliez 2012). Traders from all over the world, especially Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, travel to Yiwu to provision goods and export these to the markets in which they work. A focused study of Yiwu and the trading communities, networks, and individuals that operate in the city offers therefore an unprecedented opportunity for a pioneering and truly global investigation of the geographies, practices, and communities that make-up the global commodity trade in low-grade goods. The data gathered will be analysed in relation to historical studies of comparable trading nodes.
Aim 2: To provide high-quality comparative analysis of the social groups, cultural influences, and historical legacies that inform the practices of global commodity traders.
Locales such as Yiwu foster and force different kinds of traders to interact, compete, and form relations with one another. The city is a commercial node for the world's trade networks: South Asian, Slavic, Chinese, Middle Eastern, African, and Central Asian trading communities are all embedded within the city's dynamics. In Yiwu, highly 'modern' and formalised money transfer methods also co-exist with those of older historic pedigree, such as the Islamic 'hawala' system, that today are classified as 'informal'. The project will explore the relations between 'peripheral' and 'dominant' capitalists, and those who trade for 'survival' and for capital accumulation. Doing so will offer insights into the interactive relations between a multiplicity of forms of modern capitalism. The project will open up new models for understanding modern trade both as an economic practice and a mode of inter-cultural exchange.
Aim 3: To provide new empirical data on, and analysis of, the forms of trust, social relations, moral work, and modes of accounting, risk management, and security calculation that are critical to the global commodity trade.
Social scientists working in various disciplines have long distinguished between older 'bazaar' economies and newer 'market economies' (e.g. Geertz 1978; Ray 1995). Such distinctions between older and newer forms of bazaars and markets tend to represent trust as being a resource that is of little relevance to competitive and modern economic forms. This project will launch a comparative analysis of the significance of trust to modern global trading practices. How is trust created, dissipated, and broken down in the relationships that traders fashion in Yiwu, and sustained or otherwise when they are no longer present in the city? Rather than seeking to unearth abstract conceptions of trust held by commodity traders, this project will investigate the types of practices on which traders embark in order to ascertain the trustworthiness of others. It will document and explore the multiple languages of trust (verbal, ritual, and behavioural) that are known and deployed by international traders in Yiwu, the steps that traders take to generate such languages, which are mutually intelligible across cultural, linguistic, and other boundaries, and the circumstances in which difficulties of translation across such boundaries come to the fore.
Aim 4: To assess the significance of differing types of commodities in shaping the nature of the networks, communities, and practices implicated with them.
Yiwu is a trading centre for commodities made for daily use; these might include items ranging from nail clippers, lavatory brushes, toys, and umbrellas to car spare parts, kitchenware, stationery, cosmetics, and blankets. As a result of their being mass produced, such commodities are frequently treated by scholars and wider publics as 'invading the world', and being corrosive of sociality, the environment, the lives and identities of workers, and also of a range of types of locale that have been transformed by the emergence of modern, globalised trade routes, including industrial towns and historic trading nodes. Yet treating both these commodities and those who trade in them as lacking in wider social and affective significance overlooks the multi-dimensional ways in which low-grade commodities are received, consumed, and evaluated in different contexts. By collecting empirical data on the supply chains and social lives of a carefully selected range of low-grade commodities, the project will open up lines of enquiry that move beyond moral panics associated with Chinese commodities. Instead, it will ask empirically grounded questions about the relationship between traders and the commodities in which they deal, thereby generating theoretical insights into the role that traders play in converting the value of commodities and in transforming the nature of local and global social and cultural styles.
TRODITIES aims to bring together an integrated understanding of: (i) the social groups active in such trading practices and the types of sociality and trust-based relations they create and deploy; (ii) the specific effects that commodities have on such forms of trade and the contexts they are affecting; and (iii) the socio-economic dynamics of trading nodes and cities, and their relations (political, economic, and cultural) to one another and to the polities and nation-states within whose realms they exist. In doing so, the project will generate significant findings concerning major trends and developments in the global commodity trade. We can expect that the project will make a powerful impact on the cross-cutting fields of capitalism, global economy and connectivity, and morality.
1. ASSEMBLY OF THE TEAM: During the first three months of the reporting period, the PI assembled the research team, oversaw the establishment of two project websites and appointed Team Members and POSTDOCS named on the application. During this period, there were two minor departures from the plan laid out in the proposal. A named POSTDOC was not able to join the project (having been employed elsewhere): the PI recruited, selected and appointed a new POSTDOC with the relevant qualifications. The POSTDOC joined the project on May 1, 2016. A further POSTDOC delayed their joining the project until month 12. The POSTDOC was included in all pre-fieldwork training and preparation activities and therefore there was no delay in commencing work on taking up appointment (August 1st, 2016).
2. ACADEMIC MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS: The project team has held five meetings since the project launch. An Ethics and Security Workshop was held at the University of Sussex on 26th – 27th November 2015. Project members deliberated on ethical issues relating to the project; the PI to coached members of the team on issues relating to security and ethics. A launch meeting was held on May 25 2016 at Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College (China): the project's aims and goals were conveyed to local officials, as well as to project partners in China (Yiwu and Commercial College and China International Electronic Commerce Centre). A result of the meeting was official approval for the project from Yiwu's municipal authorities. An end of Phase 1 milestone workshop was held at University of Copenhagen on 20th Jan 2017 at which team members reported on their fieldwork activities. A workshop was organised in relationship to the project's findings regarding relations between West and East Asia and held at the University of Sussex on May 16th, 2017. A workshop was held at the University of Cambridge on 23rd February 2018. It addressed the importance of the family and collective and individual reputation to the activities of Yiwu trading networks.
3. PARTNERSHIPS: The project has developed close relationships with a range of institutions in order to facilitate fieldwork and to ensure that the project extend its intellectual reach as wide as possible. Two institutions in China (The Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College and the China International Electronic Commerce Centre) were recruited as the projects partners in China through MoUs with The School of Global Studies (University of Sussex). Additionally, the PI initiated and signed MoUs with the Koc University Asia Centre (Istanbul) and has consulted with leading academics in relevant disciplines at The European University (St Petersburg), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, The Afghanistan Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Asia Research Institute/Middle East Institute (National University of Singapore). Finally, with a view to forming a long-lasting consortium of universities engaged with activities relating to the project, the PI initiated an ERASMUS exchange agreement between the University of Copenhagen Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. The PI has also secured funding for an Inter-Asia Research Dynamics Network in order to further extend intellectual and research engagements relating to the project: the partner institutions of this network include (Koc University Asia Centre, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore, and the Afghanistan Institute of Strategic Studies). Several scholars have also joined the network as associated academics.
4. FIELDWORK: All team members whose time is accounted for by the project have conducted either intensive fieldwork in Yiwu, China or in the city's connected outposts. In several cases individual researchers have conducted fieldwork in both types of locale. PI (Professor Magnus Marsden) conducted fieldwork in China for 4.5 months, where he set up project links and conducted intensive research with traders from Afghanistan, while also interviewing merchants from across West and South Asia. Dr Diana Ibanez Tirado (POSTDOC 3) conducted a total of 7.5 months of research in China, focusing on traders from Central Asia (especially Tajikistan) but also interacting with individuals from Latin America and Iran. Dr Paul Anderson (TM2) spent 3 months conducting fieldwork in Yiwu during which time he interviewed traders from the Arab world (especially Syria and Yemen). Dr Rui (TM1) has made four visits to Yiwu and Beijing, interviewing local government officials and local entrepreneurs about Yiwu's development as an international trade city. Dr Saheira Sha (POSTDOC4) spent 8 months conducting fieldwork in Yiwu, interviewing traders from Xinjiang, and the city's Hui Muslims, as well as Chinese women married to foreign (mostly Muslim) traders. Dr Skvirskaja ([POSTDOC1) has conducted fieldwork in China (1 month). Professor Filippo Osella (TM4) conducted 50 days of research in Yiwu, interviewing owners and employees of transport/trading companies from India.
TMs and POSTDOCS have also conducted fieldwork in Yiwu's commercial outposts. The PI conducted 2 months of fieldwork in Ukraine, 2 months fieldwork in Afghanistan, 24 days of fieldwork in Saudi Arabia, 7 weeks of fieldwork in Turkey, and 2 weeks of fieldwork in Pakistan, focusing mostly on traders of Afghan background. Dr Diana Ibanez Tirado conducted 1 month of fieldwork in Tajikistan working with Central Asian traders; she also conducted 2 weeks fieldwork in Turkey focusing on traders from Iran. Dr Marina Marouda (POSTDOC2) has conducted 7 months of fieldwork on Vietnamese money agents in Ukraine and Poland. Vera Skvirskaja (POSTDOC1) has made two research visits to markets in Russia in which commodities purchased in Yiwu are sold; she has also conducted 50 days of research in markets in Georgia over the course of three visits. Professor Caroline Humphrey conducted a week of field research in Odessa, Ukraine.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: The PI has presented the project and its findings internationally, e.g. The European University (St Petersburg), Koc University (Istanbul), Yale University, Hanyang University (Seoul), National University of Singapore (Asia Research Institute and Middle East Institute), The Graduate Institute (Geneva), Freie University (Berlin), Humboldt University (Berlin), New York University (Shanghai), Lahore University of Management Studies (Lahore). The PI and other team members have attended events which aim to disseminate the project beyond the academy: e.g. conferences organised by The Afghanistan Institute of Strategic Studies in Herat, Afghanistan, as well as a launch event at the Yiwu Commercial and Industrial College to which government policy makers and academics were invited. Further team members (e.g. Dr Diana Ibanez Tirado, Dr Paul Anderson, Dr Marina Marouda, and Dr Vera Skvirskaja) have given presentations on the project to the general public, including events in Cambridge and London attended by children from more than thirty different secondary schools. Project members have contributed individual pieces to a blog (hosted on the University of Copenhagen TRODITIES website); Professor Marsden has also written several pieces about the project for other online sites, notably the Hurst and Co. Publisher's blog page. The project has also received attention in the international media, including a report in the leading UK newspaper, The Observer (14th January 2017). Professor Marsden has also contributed articles and interviews to the BBC Persian website and its daily news programme. Photographic exhibitions have been displayed at the University of Sussex (Dr Ibanez Tirado), University of Cambridge (Dr Ibanez Tirado), and the University of Copenhagen (Dr Ibanez Tirado and Dr Skrvskaja).
PUBLICATIONS: Thus far the project has published a Special Issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 'Everyday Diplomacy: Insights from Ethnography' (project publications include a co-authored Introduction to the Special Issue, and two research papers by project team members). A second Special Issue for the journal History and Anthropology (comprising an introduction and five research articles by members of the project) has been accepted for publication. A third Special Issue (comprising an introductory article and three research articles by project team members) has been submitted to the Journal of Eurasian Studies. Professor Marsden has published three further research articles from his fieldwork from the project, as well as a jointly authored book chapter (with Dr Ibanez Tirado). A proposal for a fourth Themed Section has been submitted to the journal, Focaal.
Over the course of the past 2.5 years, the project has made important progress in its aims to contribute thematically and empirically to major fields of investigation, including the historically-informed study of migration to China, inter-Asian dynamics, globalisation-from-below, as well as capitalism, trade and inter-cultural exchange more generally.
Yiwu – Empirical study of an International trade city
The project is making excellent progress in terms of its overarching aim to deliver an empirically rich analysis of Yiwu city and its role in the international trade in low-grade commodities. Having conducted intensive fieldwork with communities in the city from Russia, Ukraine, the Central Asian Republics, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, and Turkey, as well as with Chinese traders who are based in the city, the assembled team is developing a unique and multi-perspectival understanding of the functioning and dynamics of this hitherto poorly understood global city. While it has been tempting for scholars to treat Yiwu as a one-dimensional space of commerce – a 'global super-market' – the project's team has come to recognise that both foreign traders and local entrepreneurs emphasise the role that their work and effort has contributed in shaping Yiwu's development and place in China and the wider world today. This finding points more broadly to the way in which the forms of global capitalism on display in Yiwu are embedded in a specific locale and the activities of the networks found there, rather than simple arising one-dimensionally from a universal maximising search for profit. For example, the project has revealed that the entrepreneurial networks active in Yiwu depend for their vitality on access to the labour of migrants and aspiring traders displaced from zones of conflict and instability elsewhere in Asia, for whom ideals of mobility, endurance and masculinity are as important as profit in their conceptualisations of trade and the kinds of future that trading in China offers them.
International migration in China to incorporate relations to commercial networks
A further critical area of scholarship to which the project contributes concerns the study of international migration to China. An expanding body of literature has documented the increasingly important role that migration to China is having in various parts of the world, especially the Global South. The findings of TRODITIES bring new insights to this body of work by addressing not only the experiences of migrants in China or their negotiations with Chinese legal systems. The project addresses, rather, the specific nature of the commercial practices of international migrants in China, as well as the modes through which they create and sustain transnational ties not only with their home countries but also with the various parts of the world in which they work. Although the TRODITIES project focuses on networks of traders that connect Yiwu to other Asian settings (especially in West and Central Asia, and Eurasia), the data collected also demonstrates that many such networks cut-across and connect Asian sub-regions, while also extending to settings beyond them, especially in Europe, the Americas and Africa. A focus on such trading networks is leading the project to theorise the connections and disconnections between different parts of Asia and the world beyond. Theoretically, this has resulted in an empirical critique of 'methodological nationalism' and a call for the development of geographic categories and scales that better reflect the geographical imaginations and experiences of the project's research participants. An especially insightful category for example is 'West Asia': this geographical scale makes possible an analytical focus on connections between East and West Asia and also opens up post-soviet Eurasia to comparative and connective scholarship. Such analytical themes and empirical studies were severely constrained in earlier scholarship as a result of the bounded notion of the Middle East.
Typologies of diasporas and trading networks
The findings of the project collected thus far indicate that a major contribution is likely to be made to inter-disciplinary attempts to typify and analyse trading diasporas and networks. Much literature across anthropology and history distinguishes rather rigidly between different types of trading diasporas and networks on the basis of the nature of their collective activities (e.g. labour versus business), the forms of mobility important in their initial emergence (e.g. forced or commercially motivated), and the extent to which they do or do not coalesce around collective cultural or political projects . Data gathered by the TRODITIES team suggest that such typifications over-simplify the dynamics of trading diasporas and networks by under-emphasising the role played by circulation across such categories. The project findings reveal, for example, the ways in which individuals shift from status-to-status during the course of their lives, (e.g. from labourer to trader to refugee to trader), suggesting the need for a shift in conceptual emphasis away from the stage-by-stage development of trading disasporas and networks and onto the role played by multi-activity in attempts to understand their durability. The project findings also complicate some of the dominant trends in the wider sociological and anthropological literature on trust, in which trust is often conceptualised as an abstract universal value embedded in particular solidary forms of sociality and cultural frameworks that structure shared expectations of moral behaviour. Rather than appealing to abstract notions of trust and solidarity, the data gathered by the project team suggests that the phenomenon these categories are adduced to explain – the durability of networks – is better accounted for ethnographically by paying attention to the complex ways in which traders manage the relations between fields of economic, familial and political power. A focus for future analysis will be on the ways in which individuals and families make decisions at particular temporal junctures about various aspects of their lives, including marriage and kinship, financial and business commitments, as well as modes of interacting with politics.
Historical approaches to 'globalisation from below'
A growing body of work has explored in recent years a phenomenon that is increasingly referred to as 'globalisation from below'. This body of work has analysed the importance of non-elite and often informal forms of mobility and trade to the globalisation of economy and society in the context of late capitalism. Data gathered by TRODITIES project is making an important contribution to this literature, especially because of the emphasis that the data gathered by team members places on the need to historicise the activities of the groups and sites important to contemporary forms of 'globalisation from below'. Project data on specific trading networks and the nodes in which these operate demonstrate that far from there having been a decisive historical break between earlier forms of long distance trade and those visible in Yiwu today, powerful resemblances across historical make meaningful comparison analytically productive. Furthermore, the specific communities active in Yiwu are frequently from regions of the world that have long played acritical role in inter-Asian commercial dynamics and processes of cultural exchange more generally. By bringing in-depth ethnographic material on poorly understood 'mobile societies' into conversation with comparative historical analysis, TRODITIES is challenging the notion that globalisation-from-below is above all a product of neo-liberalism. More generally, the project also challenges the notion that particular expressions of capitalism (mercantile, industrial, neo-liberal) replace one another in a sequential manner. Instead, the project findings provocatively suggest the need for deeper understanding of the ways in which economic forms are reiterated across time and space. Finally, at the empirical level TRODITIES is also producing a detailed picture of how different parts of Asia are incorporated and excluded from wider commercial dynamics.
Anthropologists and scholars of cultural diversity more generally have taken varying positions in relationship to the extent to which the contested category of cosmopolitanism is helpful for the analysis of cultural complexity. The TRODITIES project results is bringing fresh insights to these debates principally through recognition of and theoretical reflection on the ways in which the international traders being explored during the course of the research identify themselves as being cosmopolitan and consciously hold onto powerful models of what this means for them and the wider societies to which they belong. The models of cosmopolitanism carried by the traders under study partly arise out of these peoples' immediate activities: transregional mobility and the inhabiting of sites of inter-cultural exchange such as Yiwu encourages them to identify themselves within the broader field of humanity. Yet the traders are also involved in converting such loose forms of 'actually existing cosmopolitanism' to specific types of political project, including those relating to Islam and being Muslim and others that emphasise the status of particular nation-states as being of historic and civilizational significance to humankind.


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Seeing triple: National Triplet Convention comes to Virginia Beach
The convention has been held at different locations around the U.S. But this is the first time the group is in Virginia Beach.
Author: Dana Smith
Published: 1:56 PM EDT July 14, 2019
Updated: 7:18 PM EDT July 14, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Triplets from across the country came to Virginia Beach this weekend for the National Triplet Convention.
The convention has been held at different locations around the US. But this is the first time the group is in Virginia Beach.
The convention's director Kim Jones said it's a way for triplet families to connect.
"People in generally when they see triplets, especially identical triplets, there's usually a triple take and they ask: Oh, are those three twins? And it's like no, that would be six children," Jones said.
She's the mother of 23-year-old triplets — Kahlil, Ahmad, and Malik — who have grown to become mentors to many of the younger siblings at the convention.
"Being triplets is pretty cool. You always have your squad with you," Ahmad said.
"Yesterday we had a conversation about growing up as triplets. What it's like. Some of the stuff that's not so fun, some of the good stuff."
Families spent the weekend exploring the boardwalk, taking photos at the famed Neptune Statue.
Triplets from across the country came to Virginia Beach this weekend for the National Triplet Convention.
Dana Smith
Children and teens do activities like scavenger hunts while the adults can attend parenting workshops.
"It's a busy house, we had a lot of fun, it's a lot of love," Jones said. "Three times the love, three times the fun, and three times the expenses!"

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I have just returned from two weeks in Asia where I was exploring new avenues for tourism. I came a cross many ideas but one initiative has caught my attention: Ms Alecs (for Alexandra) offers personalized and private guided tours of Hong Kong.
Why did I like her initiative ? Let me first tell you that I lived in Hong Kong for two years and that I was fortunate to work with local colleagues who took me to the four corners of the state city. Being curious myself I explored some other avenues. Thus when western friends came to visit I had gradually designed a tour for them and made sure they would see both the essential and the unusual in a relatively short time (usually 3 to 4 days). For the critics, Hong Kong is just a big polluted city, for the ones who love Hong Kong it is a city full of treasures and mysteries.
"Ms Alecs tours" does just that, she will bring you the essential and the mysteries. When I opened her website (www.msalecs.com) I was immediately struck by the tasteful choice of illustration provided by Robert Lorette. She could have used photographs, but the illustrations introduce that element of mystery that one should have when discovering Hong Kong as the city is not always what it looks like.
Then when I browsed over her program I found many of the items that I liked sharing with my guests: Dragon's back trail and lunch in Shek O or a market tour in Sheung Wan. The very exclusive Dragon's Garden is on her list too; this fabulous private garden located in the new territories was used as a decor in parts of the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun" in 1974.
Be a "Tai Tai" or a "Tai Pan" for a day is another fun part of her program, while I am not sure of what is the full content of the later :-). In any case, reading through her program clearly tells me that "Ms Alecs" is well connected and will make you enjoy the city. If you are a foreigner you might as well follow her steps and save yourself the reading of books who will only scratch the surface of Hong Kong and will not provide you the same emotions.
Again check her website www.msalecs.com and enjoy it.
we need tour guided just for one day its on october 20, 2013. can you help me?


YRT offers security, customer assistance and fare enforcement services through the YRT Transit Enforcement and Security team.
Consisting of Special Constables and Fare Media Inspectors, Transit Enforcement and Security travels the YRT system to monitor the correct use of fares and compliance with Viva's proof-of-payment system. They also monitor behaviour on YRT vehicles and properties to ensure the safety, security and comfort of all customers. Special Constables have the powers of a Peace Officer to enforce the Criminal Code of Canada and other related federal statutes on YRT and affiliated properties within the Regional Municipality of York and the City of Toronto.
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Transit Enforcement and Security staff make random checks to ensure the correct use of fares and compliance with Viva's proof-of-payment system. Customers without valid fares may be subject to a fine or criminal charge as set out by The Regional Municipality of York bylaws and the Criminal Code of Canada.
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The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) is part of a thriving intellectual community of scholars and academics at UBD, with a special orientation towards the critical analyses and examination of policies and governance.
Outstanding, motivated, and credible professionals from within Brunei and around the globe are encouraged to apply.
The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) is part of a thriving intellectual community of scholars and academics at UBD, with a special orientation towards the critical analyses and examination of policies and governance. In today's world, we are confronted with the realities of a multitude of challenges that affect communities and individuals within various contexts, social and political environments. At IPS, we attempt to unpack these challenges, and sensitise our scholars to reframe their thinking in ways that will enable them to address fundamental questions related to how different levels of the policy community and stakeholders can best approach policy issues.
A focus on policy planning and formulation, analysis and evaluation, and most importantly, the implementation of policies, is crucial to the way teaching and learning are conducted at IPS. Students are exposed to various frameworks, methods, and tools used in various developmental settings, tasks, and situations, to help them explore both historical and contemporary issues in governance and policy design. Emphasis is also placed on a comparative perspective specifically in relation to economic globalisation, sustainability, environmental crises, political, and governmental studies within a global context.
IPS vision is to be recognised amongst the world's leading providers of educational services in the field of public policy and management, with specific reference to Islamic Governance, Energy and Environmental Policy and Management.
The strategic goals of IPS are:
to strengthen the research capacity through active contribution to the development of public policy research and publications and advance progressive ideas through a range of projects in key issue areas (Research);
to increase the size and impact of graduate programmes by providing efficient and effective method of delivery with a sustained, high-impact educational experience and practices (Teaching and Learning);
to raise the reputation of IPS as a strong and innovative contributor to knowledge and the professional development of public managers at both national and international levels (Internationalisation); and
to provide high quality training (including conference, workshop and seminar) in policy arenas with emphasis on the development of skills, knowledge and attitudes (Services).
Master of Public Policy and Management (MPPM)
The MPPM is a flagship programme at IPS that combines a period of time spent at the UBD campus as well as a semester at one of the following world-renowned partner policy schools in the United States of America:
McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
The total duration of this course is twelve months, which is broken down as follows:
First Semester: Normally commences in August, at the UBD campus, with an exam period between November and December.
Second Semester: The USA Semester. Students are advised earlier on to declare their choice of policy school, and will then work with the Graduate Studies Coordinator of IPS for study and travel arrangements. In the US, students will have a chance to conduct a one-week study visit to Washington, D.C. where they will meet with people from key policy-making institutions, including the House of Congress, policy think tanks, and non-profit organizations.
Summer Semester: Typically spans June to July, at the UBD campus. Students returning from the USA will sit for two core intensive modules and work vigorously on their Public Policy Analysis Project, where they will make their final presentations to an audience of professionals and members of the academic community. Examination commences in July.
The MPPM currently specialises in an important niche area that is uniquely found at UBD. This area of studies, Islamic Governance, is our contribution towards the contemporary discourse on what constitutes 'good governance', from an Islamic perspective. Students will explore the theological, juristic, and cultural notions and values surrounding the concept. At IPS, emphasis is not just placed on qualitative assessments of issues, but also empirical evidence and the quantification of Islamic Governance.
Outstanding young professionals both from Brunei Darussalam and abroad with relevant experience and a keen desire to learn from a distinguished international group of professionals.
Normally an Upper Second Class Bachelor's Degree in a relevant discipline from the Universiti Brunei Darussalam or a university recognised by the Senate of the UBD with at least 5 years relevant working experience.
A Lower Second Class Bachelor's Degree holder with at least 5 years relevant working experience will also be considered for entry.
A minimum English qualification of GCE 'O' Level Credit 6 or IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL 550 is required.
Also, a minimum Mathematics qualification of GCE 'O' Level Credit 6 or one "pass" in a subsequent level mathematics subject is essential.
Full-Time: 12 months
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Founded in 2017, Deep East Texas Security (DETSEC) is a collective of IT professionals, information security (INFOSEC) practitioners, students and enthusiasts. We recognize the important role technology plays in almost all endeavors and the need for us to acquire and foster the skills to help protect and preserve privacy and digital services. DETSEC welcomes all public and private businesses, schools, government organizations, hospitals, students etc. to our meetings to learn the latest cybersecurity information.
DETSEC members recognize that cyber threats transcend politics. All members are united by an interest in INFOSEC, our members come from a variety of backgrounds and therefore have different IT skills and abilities. No one will be flamed, shamed or trolled by a fellow member for any reason. All members will foster friendships and promote teamwork. Information will be shared freely so long as it does not violate the law, regulation, a company policy or disclose sensitive, confidential or private information. We pledge to use cybersecurity awareness to leave our communities and industries safer than we found them.
Our meetings are held at noon on the last Thursday of the month at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital. The meeting format is a lunch and learn. Eight dollars cash is required to offset the cost of the meal.


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SA 8000 – Corporate Social Responsibility
La D'Angelo Antonio srl operates in compliance with the requirements of the SA 8000 standard, known as "Corporate Social Responsibility" issued by RINA, for all business activities and subject to authorization by the National Waste Registry:
Collection, transport and disposal of urban, special and non-hazardous waste
Waste brokerage
Environmental remediation even in a confined environment
Environmental consultancy
Road haulage of goods for third parties
Ecological emergency intervention
Post closure landfill management.
Pursuing a policy of strict compliance with the laws and regulations applicable to its activities and also adopts the principle of highest integrity even where the laws lend themselves to permissive applications or interpretations.
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SA 8000:2014 Certificate
ISO 37001 – Prevention of Corruption
The D'Angelo Antonio srl has adopted a new management system for its organization, in order to obtain a new certification for the prevention of corruption according to the dictates of the international standard ISO 37001. The company fully feels the commitment to guarantee actions and conduct based exclusively on criteria of transparency, correctness and moral integrity, which prevent any attempt at corruption.
The Management of D'Angelo Antonio srl adopts a firm and absolute prohibition approach against any form of corruption at all levels of the organization.
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ISO 45001: 2018 – Safety and Health in the Workplace
D'Angelo pursues a policy which, in addition to fully satisfying the requirements for the protection of the environment and natural resources, ensures the health and safety of workers as an integral part of its development process, in respect and in harmony with the principles enshrined in EU and national rules in this regard, identifying the dangers to the activities and assessing their risks in advance, adopting solutions capable of preventing accidents and professional pathologies, and in any case minimizing, as far as technically possible and economically compatible, their possibility of occurrence.
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Welcome back to the Disney Parks Moms Panel! You're asking about one of my favorite traditions while setting sail with Captain Mickey and his friends. I love collecting ornaments from our voyages aboard Disney Cruise Line. I make sure one of my souvenirs each voyage is an ornament for our Christmas tree commemorating the cruise! Each ornament usually has the cruise itinerary on it, but sometimes it's an ornament with Mickey and Minnie dressed in their finest cruisewear or a miniature version of our ship!
In my experience, there hasn't been a Cast Member onboard the Disney Wonder personalizing ornaments during our cruise. With that being said, I'd love to share with you what I've done in the past in order to have my Disney Cruise Line ornaments personalized!
I wanted to personalize the ornament purchased during my son's first voyage aboard Disney Cruise Line. I bought an ornament during the cruise, saved the receipt, and brought the ornament along with us during our next Walt Disney World Resort vacation. I went to the Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe located in Magic Kingdom Park in Liberty Square and explained to them that I had purchased this ornament onboard our most recent Disney Cruise and asked if I could have it personalized with his name and our sail date. The ornament was finished by the end of the day and I walked out of Magic Kingdom Park with a beautiful, personalized ornament! To this day, it's one of my favorite ornaments on the tree!
Trish, I can't guarantee that bringing an ornament purchased aboard Disney Cruise Line (with the receipt) to Walt Disney World Resort will result in it getting personalized; however, I've been able to have it done in the past, so it's definitely worth a try the next time you visit Walt Disney World Resort after your upcoming voyage!
On 9/13/2017 Kelly from WI Asked: Going to be going on a Disney Cruise for the first time in March/April. I 'just' saw Disney gift cards at the store. How do they work ? I heard that some are better to get than others ?


On Sunday, May 7th, joint security forces demolished the Sudanese Church of Christ, 22 km south of Khartoum. The destruction resulted in numerous severe damages in the building itself and its properties, rendering the church in need of reconstruction.
Demas Morgan, the legal advisor to the Sudanese Church of Christ, located in the Soba sub-district, confirmed that around 1:30 PM on Sunday, the joint security forces commenced destroying the church without any prior warning, starting with the outermost wall of the building. In addition, two offices were partially destructed as well as the prayer altar.
Morgan suggests that this order must have stemmed from the city's Land Ownership Department, but he counters, that in such cases, legal warnings and wall markings should be issued and placed – which did not occur.
He contacted authorities in the Supreme Council of Advocacy and Guidance to get more of an insight on the incident, and was told the destruction was not legal – he was asked to write a letter outlining the entire act that took place, and the amount of losses. The letter is currently being drafted by the Church Committee and will be submitted as soon as possible.
Interestingly enough, a mosque less than 100 m west of the church – which erected in its current location in 1989 – was built in November, and it is not being subjected to any similar acts of destruction. Out of 13 churches, the Sudanese Church of Christ remains the only one in the district of Soba – after a demolishment spree followed the secession of South Sudan in July of 2011.
This church in particular acts as a valuable sanctuary to the hundreds of Christians living in Soba; while they belong to other dominions of Christianity, they still attend due to the scarcity of churches in their area.
Most members of the church perform their Sunday prayers at the beginning of each month in the main church in Khartoumm, particularly in the Mayo district. Since they were not present, authorities proceeded to destruct the church in that time. The two members who were present at the time were detained for two hours.
Despite the arbitrary actions of discrimination, members have been performing their prayers since Sunday evening in the churchyard, Morgan states.


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TMCA's Outstanding Credentialed Mediator for 2020--John P. Palmer
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TMCA's Outstanding Credentialed Mediator for 2020
This award recognizes past and current TMCA Credentialed mediators in Texas who exemplify the finest qualities one could expect of an outstanding mediator who adheres to the highest level of ethics, and who is dedicated to making extraordinary contributions to the promotion of quality mediation throughout Texas.
These qualities are recognized in leadership, professionalism, and friendship. We find all of these and more in John Palmer.
John is a leader of the highest quality. Leadership is a responsibility. It requires the ability to communicate and establish rapport under a variety of circumstances and to focus, listen, and act upon what one learns. John is a motivator who has the distinct ability to dialog with others whereby they feel as if he is an old friend not just a new acquaintance. He lets you realize that he is interested and committed to the conversation regardless of the topic. John's method of stimulating and motivating conversation is a beautiful trait. John has always unselfishly sought to improve his surroundings. These skills make John an effective leader and he has brought those skills abilities to his work in mediation. John's leadership in mediation has extended to every mediator organization in Texas, and the influence of his leadership has left its mark in this State and well beyond. His contributions to the field of mediation and the work that we do are truly timeless.
John is the consummate professional. He is a step above. He touches you with his sincerity and enthusiasm and inspires others to commit their energy to improving their environment. John is blessed with a state of mind dedicated to assisting others in achieving their goals. He shares the expectations of others through gifted conversation and then helps to motivate them toward achieving their goals. He is a person who has devoted his life to making his surroundings better, whether people, organizations, or mediation in general. John's dedication to the enhancement of the mediation profession and his work to promote the quality of mediation in Texas pre-dates his appointment in the 1990s to the original credentialing committee, which ultimately became TMCA. To know John Palmer is to know the consummate professional.
John is a friend beyond all friends. With John, friendship is an essential part of his life born with unique style of conversation. He is a committed listener and truly focuses on the other party. He makes lasting friendships by showing his commitment to others. Once he establishes a relationship with someone it is there for life. The bond of companionship is conversation and with it John makes lasting friendships. He perks interest by engaging in a true participatory conversation that allows others to shine. In law, mediation, and life John embodies the highest ethics. John is a true friend to this profession.
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Puddletown – wieś w Anglii, w hrabstwie Dorset, w dystrykcie (unitary authority) Dorset. Leży 9 km na północny wschód od miasta Dorchester i 177 km na południowy zachód od Londynu. Miejscowość liczy 1177 mieszkańców.

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Scarbro Construction, who won the tender to construct the UoA Faculty of Engineering Structures Hall (Building 906), along with dedicated suppliers such as Firth, have invested more than a year in getting this unique building completed for occupation by the engineering department.
The four-storeyed concrete and steel facility houses the largest seismic testing facility in Australasia and will form part of the UoA's Newmarket campus.
"This project is unique to New Zealand and is a huge step up from the original facility that the University had, so it was important that we investigated and researched the build ability," said Michael Cairns, Project Manager for Scarbro Construction. "We worked with Australian firm Kane Construction who built a similar facility at Melbourne's Swinburne University in 2011. This allowed us to discuss and compare building methodologies which imparted further confidence that our approach was comparable."
The facility was built as two separate buildings converging only on the top floor to become a unified structure. For Cairns this enabled ease of management as two separate teams worked concurrently on what was treated as two projects for the majority of the build.
Concrete is the key ingredient in the build so Scarbro and Firth stuck with the tried and true mixes used on the ASB Building. "Why change what isn't broken," said Peter.
Due to the intricacies of the project four sample sections for each of the strong wall and the floor were poured to ensure that they got the formula and the method just right and to iron out any issues. The requirement to have 722 sleeves – cast the full depth of the slab – in the 255m2, 600mm thick strong floor meant that getting the sample sections right was imperative to the success of the project.
But it was the strong wall cells that were the test for Michael and his team. The core of each cell of the strong walls and floor is accessible via a small enclave through which researchers can crawl to adjust or attach bolts. A portion of the strong wall works in conjunction with the testing hall's shake table.
The structural testing walls reach nine metres. This allows capacity, for buildings up to three storeys, to be earthquake assessed. Steel sleeves cast within these concrete strong walls and floor allow for fixings to hold the test structures in position.
The other side of the building consists mainly of office and teaching spaces. On the ground floor there is a timber conditioning room, a fog room, and there are timber workshop areas adjacent to the testing hall. Level 4 at this stage will be left vacant for future development.
To complete the look the building is wrapped in a combination of unitised curtain wall glazing, precast panels and accoya timber vertical shiplap cladding.
"There is 1664m3 of concrete in this structure all poured insitu, including the walls," explains Gavin. "With a considerable amount of form work used, the pours were quite involved for Scarbro. We did everything we could to assist them. We have worked with them for years so we know them and they know us. It's more of a collaboration than a supplier-customer relationship. It works well."
"It was a very involved project," adds Peter. "Michael lived and breathed this project for over a year. It means we can look at this project and be very pleased with the outcome. I am very proud of my team and very happy with the finished structure."
The engineering department of the UoA started moving into the state-of-the art facility in mid February.
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Inventing the Job of President
Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
Ellen Browning Scripps
Passing the Torch
Tiger in the Office
Inside the Fed
Following Oil
Serial Innovators
Changing on the Job
Change the Way You Lead Change
Leadership Strategies that REALLY work
David Herold and Donald Fedor
Narrated by Wayne Shepherd
Book published by Stanford University Press
Change is never a stepwise or easily prescribed process. Rather, it is messy and complicated, and its outcomes are easily swayed by a host of factors. In this context, leaders need to develop and utilize realistic frameworks for organizational change. They need to implement a holistic change model that defines and justifies the proposed change, and takes account of both the abilities of those who will be asked to lead and carry out the change, and the context in which the change is to occur.
To develop such a model, Herold and Fedor examined more than 300 changes and interviewed over 8,000 individuals who lived through them. They then reality-tested their model by bouncing their ideas off hundreds of managers who were living change on a day-to-day basis. Those ideas are collected in this practical book, which will be of use to anyone who is likely to lead change initiatives in almost any organizational environment—from executives, to consultants, to management students.
David Herold is Professor Emeritus in the College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Donald Fedor is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the College of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
"This book presents a refreshingly realistic viewpoint of organizational change—what it's like, what it takes, how many diverse players are involved—and argues that each change journey has the potential to be unique. What the book is really about is how most observers' mental models (or published models) of organizational change are overly simplistic. I could not agree more with its basic points."
—Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School
"Unlike other books on change, Change the Way You Lead Change points out the complexities and subtleties required to make meaningful changes in today's business environment. The "Change Framework" model provides a construct for formulating change and monitoring its progress—and demonstrates the skills critical to the success of a change leader. I recommend this book to anyone who may be called upon to act as a change agent."
—William H. Anderson, Principal, Prudential Financial
"In a world replete with easy answers and facile slogans, this book recognizes that changing organizations is a complex, difficult business, and offers a practical model and some very useful examples and applications that will help the reader to beat the odds."
—Steve Kerr, Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs and former Head of Training and Development, Goldman Sachs and General Electric


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Andor György Ikafalvi-Dienes (born , December 18, 1913 – April 11, 1985), known as André de Dienes, was a Hungarian photographer, noted for his work with Marilyn Monroe and his nude photography.

Life
Dienes was born in Kézdivásárhely, Kingdom of Hungary, (now Târgu Secuiesc, Romania), on December 18, 1913, and left home at 15 after the suicide of his mother. Dienes travelled across Europe mostly on foot, until his arrival in Tunisia. In Tunisia he purchased his first camera, a 35mm Retina. Returning to Europe he arrived in Paris in 1933 to study art, and bought a Rolleiflex shortly after.

Dienes began work as a professional photographer for the Communist newspaper L'Humanité, and was employed by the Associated Press until 1936, when the
Parisian couturier Captain Molyneux noted his work and urged him to become a fashion photographer. In 1938 the editor of Esquire, Arnold Gingrich offered him work in New York City, and helped fund Dienes' passage to the United States. Once in the United States Dienes worked for Vogue and Life magazines as well as Esquire.

When not working as a fashion photographer Dienes travelled the USA photographing Native American culture, including the Apache, Hopi, and Navajo reservations and their inhabitants. Dissatisfied with his life as a fashion photographer in New York, Dienes moved to California in 1944, where he began to specialise in nudes and landscapes.

As well as Monroe, Dienes also photographed such notable actors as Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Russell, Anita Ekberg and Fred Astaire.

De Dienes married twice, and died of cancer on April 11, 1985, in Hollywood.

Marilyn Monroe
In 1945 Dienes met the nineteen-year-old Marilyn Monroe, then called Norma Jeane Baker, who was a model on the books of Emmeline Snively's Blue Book Model Agency.

Snively told Dienes of Norma Jeane, and suggested her for his project of photographing artistic nudes. In his memoirs Dienes described the first time he met Monroe saying "...it was as if a miracle had happened to me. Norma Jeane seemed to be like an angel. I could hardly believe it for a few moments. An earthly, sexy-looking angel! Sent expressly for me!".

His series of pin-up shots of her at Long Island's Tobay Beach, in Oyster Bay, New York became notable.

Norma Jeane had recently separated from her husband, James Dougherty and told Dienes of her wish to become an actress. Dienes suggested that they go on a road trip to photograph her in the natural landscapes, for which Dienes paid her a flat fee of $200. Dienes had earlier been present at the first meeting of Monroe and her mother in six years, and had presumptuously announced to her mother that he and Monroe were to be married. His photographs of Monroe from this trip sold widely and he made far more money from the images, and did not offer Monroe a percentage of the sales, or paid her on the profits.

Dienes next met her on Labor Day in 1946, with her new name of Marilyn Monroe, they next worked together in 1952, where he shot her at the Bel Air Hotel and 1953, where she telephoned him at 2am, and took him to a darkened street where he used his car headlights to illuminate her, taking pictures her wide-eyed and unmade up. Dienes last saw her alive in June 1961. Of their last meeting he said that "...her success was a sham, her hopes thwarted...the next day she left a bouquet outside my door: a selection of her latest photos. Smiling, radiant - utterly misleading; I little guessed that this was our last goodbye".

Legacy
In recent years, Dienes' photography has received overdue critical attention from a variety of sources. In 2002, Taschen published an 848-page two-volume monograph titled Marilyn, noting "his original, inspired style" and how Dienes "soon built up a huge portfolio of stunning photographs of the smiling brunette which helped to launch her model career and, a few years later, a film career that was to make her a legend." An exhibition, entitled "André de Dienes: Marilyn and California Girls," opened June 9, 2016 at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York City, representing the first solo show of Dienes' photography in New York in over ten years.

Published works
 The Nude. The Bodley Head, London, 1956.
 Nude Pattern. The Bodley Head, London, 1958.
 Best Nudes. The Bodley Head, London, 1962.

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References

External links
Excerpts from André de Dienes memoirs
André de Dienes at aenigma

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The JR East Japan had made a policy to build a new station, the first time in about half a century, between Shinagawa Station and Tamachi Station along the Yamanote Line.
It aimed at commencing the business by 2020 when the Tokyo Olympic Games would be held; a large-scale redevelopment would also be extended to the outskirts.
The site where JR East Japan made the policy to make a new station was at the Yamanote Line between Shinagawa Station and Tamachi Station and now it was a rail yard site.
At this site, there would be construction to reduce the rail yard and relocate it in the spring of next year to accompany the operational commencement of the direct line linkage of the Tokaido Line and Tohoku Line etc., the so called "Ueno East Capital Line". About the new station, it was expected to be provided after the rail relocation of the Keihin Tohoku and Yamanote Line. Although a concrete time for the business commencement of the new station had not been decided, JR East Japan was aiming at starting business by 2020 - Heisei 32nd year when the Tokyo Olympic Games would be held.
It would be the first time in about half a century that a new station was added to the Yamanote Line to become the 30th station since Showa 46 when the Nishinippori Station was opened.
At present it was 2.2 km between Shinagawa and Tamachi, and was the longest distance in the Yamanote Line between stations. In the past several years high rise apartments were built one after another, the expectation for building a new station was growing.
Moreover it was decided that at the former site of the rail yard large-scale redevelopment would progress further. JR East Japan would formally announce such a plan soon.
For the 2020 Olympics, Japan will continue with more infra-structure improvements.


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Trying, with dubious success, to look cool for the camera. One of the really nice things about sitting in a big-stupid-truck™ calling numbers and flipping lap cards is that you don't look nearly as fat as you really are.


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Q: Selenium Troubles? I've just started working with selenium, and I followed the steps here to get started, however, when I run the example given on the page:
package org.openqa.selenium.example;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class Selenium2Example  {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
        // Notice that the remainder of the code relies on the interface,
        // not the implementation.
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        // And now use this to visit Google
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
        // Alternatively the same thing can be done like this
        // driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

        // Find the text input element by its name
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

        // Enter something to search for
        element.sendKeys("Cheese!");

        // Now submit the form. WebDriver will find the form for us from the element
        element.submit();

        // Check the title of the page
        System.out.println("Page title is: " + driver.getTitle());

        // Google's search is rendered dynamically with JavaScript.
        // Wait for the page to load, timeout after 10 seconds
        (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
            public Boolean apply(WebDriver d) {
                return d.getTitle().toLowerCase().startsWith("cheese!");
            }
        });

        // Should see: "cheese! - Google Search"
        System.out.println("Page title is: " + driver.getTitle());

        //Close the browser
        driver.quit();
    }
}

I get a bunch of compilation errors. Does anyone know what might be going on? I'm not very familiar with the system as I have just begun to use it. I followed all the instructions given on the page linked above, and the compilation errors won't go away:
Selenium2Example.java:3: error: cannot find symbol
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
                          ^
  symbol:   class By
  location: package org.openqa.selenium
Selenium2Example.java:4: error: cannot find symbol
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
                          ^
  symbol:   class WebDriver
  location: package org.openqa.selenium
Selenium2Example.java:5: error: cannot find symbol
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
                          ^
  symbol:   class WebElement
  location: package org.openqa.selenium
Selenium2Example.java:6: error: package org.openqa.selenium.firefox does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
                                  ^
Selenium2Example.java:7: error: package org.openqa.selenium.support.ui does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
                                     ^
Selenium2Example.java:8: error: package org.openqa.selenium.support.ui does not exist
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
                                     ^
Selenium2Example.java:15: error: cannot find symbol
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        ^
  symbol:   class WebDriver
  location: class Selenium2Example
Selenium2Example.java:15: error: cannot find symbol
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
                               ^
  symbol:   class FirefoxDriver
  location: class Selenium2Example
Selenium2Example.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        ^
  symbol:   class WebElement
  location: class Selenium2Example
Selenium2Example.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
                                                ^
  symbol:   variable By
  location: class Selenium2Example
Selenium2Example.java:36: error: cannot find symbol
        (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
                                                  ^
  symbol:   class ExpectedCondition
  location: class Selenium2Example
Selenium2Example.java:36: error: cannot find symbol
        (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
             ^
  symbol:   class WebDriverWait
  location: class Selenium2Example
12 errors

A: You need to add Selenium to your classpath, so either you are not compiling using Maven, or there's a configuration error in your pom file.

A: You are missing the selenium jar file in your project. You can download the jar from here http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

A: If you are using maven then add selenium dependency to your POM. If you are using ant then download selenium and add it to your classpath. just check in your project dependencies if you are able to see selenium jar files. Side Note what happens when you enter WebDriver and hit Ctrl + Space in your IDE? are you able to see intellisense pop up? if not then you have still not added selenium jar files.

A: Not sure if that's the reason, but check that you have hamcrest also in your classpath, along with the selenium libraries.

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The study — which the team carried out in a mouse model — found that stress hormones support breast cancer metastasis. The scientists also state that the stress hormone derivatives present in certain anti-inflammatory treatments could actually "disarm" chemotherapy agents.
"Intra-patient tumor heterogeneity is an obstacle to treatment," they note, "as it causes divergence in diagnostic markers between primary tumors and matched metastases that may lead to inadequate treatment." They say that new research needs to find a way to address this mismatch.
The researchers note that in metastatic tumors, a type of receptor called "glucocorticoid receptors" were very active. These receptors bind to stress hormones, including cortisol.
Researchers are gaining a better understanding about how breast cancer spreads.
The investigators also observed that when these stress hormones are highly present, they activate glucocorticoid receptors. This, they explain, triggers cancer cells' spread and supports their diversification.
Furthermore, Prof. Bentires-Alj and colleagues saw that glucocorticoid receptors also interact with synthetic derivatives of cortisol — for example, dexamethasone — which doctors use as anti-inflammatories to address some of chemotherapy's side effects.
Prof. Bentires-Alj and team also explain that by the same token, inhibiting glucocorticoid receptors could be a helpful new approach in breast cancer treatment. "Tumor heterogeneity is a serious hurdle for therapy," explains Prof. Bentires-Alj.
"These findings highlight the importance of stress management in patients — and especially those with triple-negative breast cancer. Moderate exercise and relaxation techniques have been shown to correlate with enhanced quality of life and greater survival in patients."


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Alastair Uhlig
FILM MAKER
Phenoms
A groundbreaking football documentary, I produced, filmed and directed for the Fox Network, that formed part of their marquee programming across Fox's global territories in the lead up to the World Cup 2018. Following three young footballers over the course of 2 seasons. In the world of professional football, the stakes have never been higher, as these players try and reach the elite level of their sport and qualify for the World Cup. If you would like a private viewing copy of the documentary, please email: alastairuhlig@gmail.com to request.
Phenoms Documentary
Production Company: Fulwell 73 Network: Fox
PWITS (Possession With Intent to Supply)
A short film, I produced and directed that explores the impact of street drug dealing on individuals and their communities. This film had the support of Met Police who supported the message of this film loud and clear, there is no such thing as victimless crime.
PWITS (Possesion With Intent To Supply) - Short Film
Novelist "Endz"
One of the youngest and most talented grime musicians in a generation, I shot Mercury nominated Novelist's music video "Endz". Harking back to the days Channel U and the likes of Crazy Titch's legendary video "I Can C U", "Endz" is very much a celebration of the essence of grime.
Novelist - Endz [Official Video]
SYMMETRY "STREETS OF FIRE"
I shot and directed Symmetry's official music video for "Streets of Fire". Shot in New York on Super 8.
STORMZY "THE MOMENT"
A spoken word piece from Stormzy. This was a project for Lambeth Council, with the aim to get young people talking about Safe Sex. I shot, directed and edited this video that sits on Stormzy's YouTube channel.
LATIMER PRESENTS: STORMZY - THE MOMENT
Director Showreel
A selection of work I've shot, produced and directed. The showreel showcases my strong visual style and documentary sensibility.
Alastair Uhlig Producer / Director Showreel
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You don't need to buy a new car to get a backup camera (which is life-changing, by the way), you just need $81, and a few minutes to run the wires. This model attaches to your license plate, and runs to a special rear view mirror that attaches in front of your existing mirror.
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