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Our date at Chili's last week was quite nice. I compared their mango margarita to Red Robin's… and Red Robin wins. We just had FUN being together. We didn't talk about anything super important, we just enjoyed being out, and we enjoyed each others company.
We needed to go to Walmart I wanted to go to Walmart to get some nail polish (the gel polish I mentioned), so I checked out some Walmart coupons earlier in the day. GUYS. I was flabbergasted to find coupons for our my razor blades, my deodorant, Josh's deodorant, and Aaron's body wash. Since these are things we are always going to have to buy, and we are running low on most of them, it made sense to go ahead and get them and we saved $9 in the process. So… that was awesome.
Since that was almost a week ago, some summaries….
. My mom gave me a cake decorating kit for Christmas, but because of my fitness kick I haven't wanted to make baked goods… because we will consume them in massive quantities and wave good-bye to progress. I used this recipe for Vanilla Cupcakes and Icing this past weekend to celebrate my in-laws 25th wedding anniversary! First, decorating was so fun, and second the cupcakes were just so good.
. Egg casserole, which I need to make again and tweak some. It's my mom's recipe, it just took longer to bake than I anticipated.
. Zero progress on my crochet. Well, that's not true… I made a lot of progress and realized that it looked like a trapezoid so I destroyed it. That was a serious blow… but I will rebuild..
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. At work. Monday morning, I got recognized in our little meeting because a customer remarked to my boss about how helpful I was. It was a huge encouragement to me because I didn't treat this customer any differently… so it spoke to me that I am doing a good job. I am also seriously on top of our billings– and I'm doing a lot independently which is huge. AIA documents don't scare me anymore… I even think they are fun.
. Making plans for the next few weeks… between Growth Group, nursery, a blogger get-together, babysitting, providing the GG meal, traveling, packing for Disney… I'm a little overwhelmed but also excited.
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I love you so much. See you tonight!


[Anglican Communion News Service] Students from Anglican schools throughout the province of Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia have prayed through the night as part of a 24-hour vigil for the refugees streaming out from Syria across Europe, and into camps in Jordan and Lebanon.
The event has been given the name ASPiRe – Anglican Schools Praying for Refugees – and is being supported by a Facebook page.
Students took turns, an hour at a time, "to pray for Syrians fleeing the hell that has engulfed their homeland," a provincial spokesman said. The students began their prayer-work at 3pm local time on 15 October and kept the vigil through the night, stopping at 3pm local time on Friday 16 October.
"Hundreds of them are taking part," the spokesman said. "Dilworth, for example, had more than 100 of its students, across its three Auckland campuses, keeping vigil between 3am and 6am this morning, and more than 100 boarders at King's College took part, too.
The students used a variety of prayer techniques, including praying in silence, in sing together, and in intercession. They have prayer-walked, lit candles, and they have written letters and cards of support to kids their own age who've been swept up in the Syrian maelstrom.
"Anne van Gend, the director of the Anglican Schools Office in the Province, has undertaken to gather up those heart-warming messages and have them distributed by an aid organisation which is working in the refugee camps in Jordan.
The students have also used their allotted times to compose "prayer chains" – prayers written on interlinked loops of card – which will soon be strung around Wellington's Cathedral of St Paul.
"It is so inspiring and encouraging to see this support from our schools," the Archbishop of New Zealand, the Most Revd Philip Richardson, said. "As a church we are working hard to demonstrate to our government that as a country we can take many more refugees than the small number currently agreed to.
"I doubt that any one of these remarkable young [people] would disagree with you," he said. "The point of prayer is, firstly, to change the person praying.


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Q: RabbitMQ: Why don't channels reopen after a reconnection? After my app loses connection to the RabbitMQ Server, I see in the log
ERROR ... o.s.a.r.c.CachingConnectionFactory : Channel shutdown: connection error

And then when my app reconnects to RabbitMQ Server, I see in the log
INFO ...  Created new connection: SimpleConnection@7d9717bc [delegate=amqp://******]

However when the app reconnects to RabbitMQ Server, The channels are not reopened, in the RabbitMQ Admin Console, I can see in the 'Channels' tab that there aren't any.
In the RabbitMQ Server log after the reconnection:
=INFO REPORT==== 13-Jul-2017::10:33:39 ===
accepting AMQP connection (*.*.*.*:* -> *.*.*.*:5672)

=INFO REPORT==== 13-Jul-2017::10:33:39 ===
Connection (*.*.*.*:* -> *.*.*.*:5672) has
a client-provided name: rabbitConnectionFactory#1

=INFO REPORT==== 13-Jul-2017::10:33:39 ===
connection (*.*.*.*:* -> *.*.*.*:5672 -
rabbitConnectionFactory#1): user '***' authenticated and granted access to vhost '***'

I'm using Spring Boot 1.5.3 and spring-boot-starter-amqp
It looks like Spring AMQP 1.7 disables the rabbitmq client's 'enableAutomaticRecovery', and uses it's own recovery mechanism
The 4.0.x client enables automatic recovery by default; while compatible with this feature, Spring AMQP has its own recovery mechanisms and the client recovery feature generally isn't needed. It is recommended to disable amqp-client automatic recovery, to avoid getting AutoRecoverConnectionNotCurrentlyOpenException s when the broker is available, but the connection has not yet recovered. Starting with version 1.7.1, Spring AMQP disables it unless you explicitly create your own RabbitMQ connection factory and provide it to the CachingConnectionFactory. RabbitMQ ConnectionFactory instances created by the RabbitConnectionFactoryBean will also have the option disabled by default.
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the issue.
Note that if I shutdown my app and restart it, it behaves as expected.

A: Spring AMQP turns off the automaticRecovery by default:
private static com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory newRabbitConnectionFactory() {
    com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory();
    connectionFactory.setAutomaticRecoveryEnabled(false);
    return connectionFactory;
}

You can turn it on via RabbitConnectionFactoryBean:
/**
 * Set to true to enable amqp-client automatic recovery. Note: Spring AMQP
 * implements its own connection recovery and this is generally not needed.
 * @param automaticRecoveryEnabled true to enable.
 * @since 1.7.1
 */
public void setAutomaticRecoveryEnabled(boolean automaticRecoveryEnabled) {
    this.connectionFactory.setAutomaticRecoveryEnabled(automaticRecoveryEnabled);
}

The Spring AMQP out-of-the-box automatic recovery is good for the listener container, but I guess you deal with RabbitTemplate. So, consider to switch it on: http://docs.spring.io/spring-amqp/reference/html/_reference.html#auto-recovery

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Mr. Zabner first began practicing law in Michigan in 1975, was admitted to practice in California in 1988, and in Florida in 1993. He remains an active member of the Bar in all three states. He is a Contributing Author to Love, Money, Control: Reinventing Estate Planning (Quantum Press, Denver and Chicago, 2004), and a Co-Author of The Family Limited Partnership Compendium: A Planning System and Reference for Attorneys (Wealth Enhancement Strategies, San Antonio, TX, 1995).
He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell since 1999, click on the AV graphic to the left to view video.
Mr. Zabner received his Juris Doctor degree in 1974 from Michigan State University College of Law (formerly Detroit College of Law), and his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1975, the State Bar of California in 1988, and to the Florida Bar in 1993.
Mr. Zabner is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trusts, and Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization.
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Mr. Zabner has served as a lecturer in business law in the area of wills, trusts, and estates and estate and gift taxes at the university level and has instructed CPAs, CFPs and other attorneys providing continuing legal and professional education to those professions.
Jeffrey M. Zabner is a Contributing Author to Love, Money, Control: Reinventing Estate Planning (Quantum Press, 2004); Co-Author of The Family Limited Partnership Compendium: a Planning and Reference for Attorneys (Wealth Enhancement Strategies, San Antonio, Texas, 1995), and Author of Incentive Estate Planning: Transferring Wealth Without Spoiling the Kids, published in the journal Personal Financial Planning, 1993.
Mr. Zabner is a member of the State Bars of California, Florida, and Michigan, and a member of the Real Property, Probate, and Estate Planning sections of each of those State Bar Associations as well as of the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the National Committee on Planned Giving, and of the Ventura County Planned Giving Roundtable. He is a Co-founder of Wealth Counsel, LLC, a national legal education provider (www.WealthCounsel.com) and is past President of the original Conejo Valley Estate Counselors Forum, Westlake Village, California.
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Q: Titanium Appcelerator - Save GPS track I'd like to save a GPS track in an app made with Titanium (Android for the moment), but I don't know how to do it.
My goal would be to track the position of the user every 5 seconds and save it in the phone (in a JSON file, I think, would be the better solution). I want it to function both in background, and if the phone has no network.
And once the phone has network, I want to synchronize the file to the server.
Is it possible ?
For the moment, I just put a basic function (from appcelerator doc) with a setInterval ... but the position is always the same, even if I'm moving.
Here is my code :
function save(){
    setInterval(function(){
        if (Ti.Geolocation.locationServicesEnabled) {
            Titanium.Geolocation.purpose = 'Get Current Location';
            Titanium.Geolocation.distanceFilter = 1 ;
            Titanium.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(e) {
                if (e.error) {
                    Ti.API.error('Error: ' + e.error);
                } else {
                    Ti.API.info(e.coords.altitude);
                    Ti.API.info(e.coords.heading);
                    Ti.API.info(e.coords.latitude);
                    Ti.API.info(e.coords.longitude);
                    Ti.API.info(e.coords.speed);

                    alert('LAT : '+e.coords.latitude+' LONG : '+e.coords.longitude+' SPEED : '+e.coords.speed+' ALT : '+e.coords.altitude);
                }
            });
        } else {
            alert('Please enable location services');
        }

    }, 5000);
}

save_button.addEventListener('click', function(){

    save();

});

I don't really know how to do that properly. If some people can help me ... :)
Thanks a lot :)

A: if you want to track gps position it's be better if you set an eventListener
Ti.Geolocation.addEventListener('location', function(e){
    //same response returned by Titanium.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition()
});
the sensitivity of the listener can be adjust like this
Ti.Geolocation.Android.manualMode = true;

function androidProviderConfig(provider) {
    var providerGps = Ti.Geolocation.Android.createLocationProvider({
        name : provider,
        minUpdateDistance : 100,
        //minUpdateTime: 60
    });
    Ti.Geolocation.Android.addLocationProvider(providerGps);
    var gpsRule = Ti.Geolocation.Android.createLocationRule({
        provider : provider,
        accuracy : 50,
        maxAge : 20 * 60 * 1000, // 1h
        minAge : 10 * 1000 // 10 seconde
    });
    Ti.Geolocation.Android.addLocationRule(gpsRule);
}

//androidProviderConfig(Ti.Geolocation.PROVIDER_NETWORK);
//or
androidProviderConfig(Ti.Geolocation.PROVIDER_GPS);
Ti.Geolocation.addEventListener('location', function(e){/*your callback*/});


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Person Wounded in Officer-Involved Shooting in Glendora
By City News Service Sep 6, 2019
GLENDORA (CNS) - A suspect was fatally wounded today in an officer- involved shooting as police responded to an armed robbery at a Glendora jewelry store.
Officers responded about 12:15 p.m. to a call of an armed takeover robbery at a jewelry store in the 700 block of West Route 66, according to Glendora Police Department Cpl. Zach Houser.
``Responding officers arrived and detained a female in a waiting vehicle; she was later arrested,'' according to a statement from police. ``The area was contained as officers began searching for two suspects ... (who) witnesses described as being armed with handguns. One suspect was located in the area of Route 66 and Forestdale Avenue and an officer-involved shooting occurred.''
The suspect, identified only as a man, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was assisting in the shooting investigation.
That dead man's name and age were not immediately available. A witness told ABC7 at the scene that authorities were performing CPR on the suspect before he was taken to a hospital.
Officers were continuing to search for the second suspect, described as a thin male with short dreadlocks. His head was shaved on the sides and he was wearing a black hoodie or white shirt and blue jeans.
NBC4 reported from the scene that robbery occurred at Lamas Jewelry, formerly known as Jewelry Mine.
Nearby Stanton Elementary School was placed on lockdown as a precaution, according to the Glendora Unified School District. Students were being taken by bus to a parking lot on the south side of Citrus College Stadium to be reunited with parents and guardians.
Azusa Pacific University's Office of University Relations was also locked down, with staff told the shelter in place.
Route 66 was closed between Barranca and Grand avenues following the shooting.
No officers were injured.


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April 23, 2015 / 12:57 PM / 5 years ago
Southwest Airlines earnings nearly triple in first quarter
Jeffrey Dastin
A Southwest Airlines jet comes in to land at Lindbergh Field in San Diego, California February 25, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake
(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N) on Thursday said its first-quarter profit nearly tripled but forecast a decline in unit revenue for April.
The airline reported net income of $453 million, or 66 cents a share, compared with the analysts' average estimate of 65 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Demand was strong, Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly said in a news release, adding that traffic from Southwest's new Dallas routes increased 145.5 percent from a year ago.
However, the low-cost carrier expects about a 2 percent decline in passenger unit revenue in April. Kelly cited an "exceptional and above-trend performance" in last year's second quarter.
Southwest said it expected to pay $2.00 per gallon for jet fuel this quarter and forecast a 1 percent to 2 percent decline in unit costs, excluding fuel and special charges.
The Dallas company forecast a 5 percent rise in available seat miles, a measure of capacity, for 2016. Any further growth would be "modest," Kelly said.
Southwest plans to complete its $1 billion stock buyback program in May with the purchase of the last $80 million in shares authorized. It said it paid $81 million in dividends and repurchased $300 million in stock last quarter.
Shares of Southwest were up 1.5 percent at $42.85 in trading before the market opened.
Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in New York, Editing by Franklin Paul and Lisa Von Ahn


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We were given enormous support by Councilman Joe Buscaino's office and by the LA Department of Water & Power, who used the event to announce 6 new car chargers scheduled for installation in the community in the next 2 months. Crucial participation came from Downey Nissan and Anaheim Pre-Owned Cars. Neighborhood youth showed high interest.
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Posted by Aman Singh in CSR, ESG, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainability
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I recently participated in The Guardian's year-end predictions and analysis series. While there were lots of themes and issues to pick from, I decided to focus on five. Here's an excerpt:
The next phase of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, fittingly termed the Sustainable Development Goals, shift priorities from insular goals like reducing poverty and increasing hygiene to more inclusive and integrated ones that push for systemic change like the rule of law, dignity and prosperity for all. The implications are significant.
And business is being called on to provide active support for the first time. This presents an unprecedented opportunity to tie businesses' growth to their communities and the environment. For the first time, capitalists are welcome and actively needed at the table. This marks a key acknowledgement that determining our path forward as an interconnected economy will require the tensile strength of every single sector.
So how do you make sure your business is syncing its growth plan with the new UN goals? How do you get past the loftiness and map the real changes that are needed against the trajectory of your business plan?
You'll want to start by investing in some scenario planning.
You can read the full article on The Guardian.
And while I wasn't able to respond to the comments that flew in before the commenting period ended – yes, I really did shut down my electronics this holiday! – I'd like to continue the conversations here. So if you agree or don't, have a question or a solution, please do respond. As I promised in the piece, my mantra is clear:
Tell the whole story, help our executives and leaders connect the dots, identify the context, and empower stakeholders through knowledge. When I started writing about these issues, I committed to connecting the dots. Always.
A decade later, that hasn't changed.
And remember, joy is contagious. But so is skepticism. Stay clear. Steer carefully – and lead gracefully – onwards.
Wishing you a happy and productive 2015.
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Earlier this year, TriplePundit's Nick Aster and I chatted with the Heineken team to discuss what "Brewing a Better Future" meant for the company. It coincided with the release of its latest CSR Report and the chat, which began with a selfie of the Heineken team, was both engaging and active.
It also revealed an area that deserved more digging than we could get to in the allotted hour: the company's sourcing practices.
So we decided to team up with the experts for Round 2! This time we'll chat with Heineken's sustainability leadership team including:
Michael Dickstein (MD) – Director, Global Sustainable Development
Paul Stanger (PS) – Local Sourcing Director, Africa & Middle East Region
Edwin Zuidema (EZ) – Global Category Director, Raw Materials
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When two adversaries decide to cut across their divides to work together toward a bigger cause, chances are there's a story – or two – to be told, learned from and examined for replicable tips.
Five years ago, Greenpeace launched a nationwide campaign aptly titled #Kleercut to invoke consumer products giant Kimberly-Clark to reexamine its fiber sourcing standards. K-C responded by inviting Greenpeace to a meeting.
What emerged from a series of meetings that followed that initial, tense meet up was a collaborative framework that has shifted K-C's sourcing standards and helped offer both organizations a tangible way to move forward on protecting and conserving forests worldwide.
Today, K-C reports a significant increase in its FSC-certified fiber use and notes higher sales across its Kleenex and Scott tissue brands.
Marking their "wood" anniversary, K-C's Sustainability Strategy Leader Peggy Ward along with Greenpeace's Richard Brooks and Rolf Skar, decided to participate in a live Twitter chat facilitated by TriplePundit's Nick Aster and me on August 5, 2014.
The questions were flying in even before we started keeping the panelists busy through the hour and more: from a behind-the-scenes story about how the two began collaborating five years ago to the future of alternative fibers and how the organizations are working on connecting consumers with sustainability, we covered a lot of ground.
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As ICRS Launches UK's First Professional Body for Sustainability Professionals, Questions About its Efficacy
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With the launch of its first professional body, has sustainability lost its edge? >> Interesting albeit controversial take by Guardian Sustainable Business' Jo Confino.
Does the sustainability sector need one more professional accreditation?
As you'll see from the comments section, the opinion on that is divided down the middle. And while we all probably have also an opinion to add depending on our background, longevity of work in the sector and where we stand on the idealism scale, the discussion reminded me of my first "CSR workshop."
Conducted by the Center for Sustainability & Excellence [CSE] group and certified by the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment [IEMA], the workshop had all the telltale signs of a robust professional certificate curriculum.
From comparing the leaders vs. the laggards in "CSR practices," the emerging trends in CSR reporting and the regional differences in how corporations were interpreting "corporate social responsibility," to writing a CSR plan for my company that encompassed sustainability factors as well as social and economic goals, the curriculum was rigorous and gave me a lot of information to process and use for years to come.
It also gave me a moniker – CSR-P – that I have used over the years to indicate that I am a CSR Professional.
Did it invite curiosity? Often.
Did it help explain my credentials and experience more credibly? Sometimes.
More importantly, the workshop made me think. It made me dive into research. It taught me materiality and helped me sift between greenwashing, whitewashing and the many other labels of our sector. And it also opened up a path for me that otherwise would have remained superfluous and intangible in definition.
But back to Jo's article: Do we need one more professional accreditation?
But as the sector grows, divides, integrates and subsumes within organizations, we do need groups/associations to allow sustainability professionals to learn from each other's challenges, share best practices and grow the cadre of professionals integrating CSR and sustainability into their skill sets and mindsets.
And if this critical mass of influencers and practitioners can then influence other professionals – HR, Accounting, Technology, Finance, etc. – to shift their thinking and modus operandi to align with our mutual goal of preparing ourselves to coexist in a shared / new / circular / no waste [pick your preference] economy, that would be a win.
Not only for the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability but for our entire sector.
Thoughts? Leave a comment or connect with me @AmanSinghCSR.
Careers in CSR: Networking Your Way To Success
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I met PwC Canada's James Temple at a roundtable of CSR and sustainability leaders brought together by Edelman in Minneapolis in 2011 to discuss how they planned on moving forward on their commitments and what roadblocks they saw ahead.
I was the chosen facilitator for the hour and luckily for me, I got to ask all the questions!
The conversation was busy, high level and revealed a lot about the challenges these practitioners were facing as they worked to change the systems within their multinational corporations. While the roundtable was operated under Chatham House rules, the relationships that were formed that day continue to flourish.
Longevity is a true asset in this sector – and James has continued to be a wonderful resource and a much-needed mentor for those looking to pursue a career in the CSR field – critical as generations turnover across our workforce and expectations and mindsets on corporate social responsibility shift globally. He recently also facilitated a webinar to explore some of the latest trends in building a career in CSR. I asked him to pen some highlights and top tips for readers and here's what he had to say:
I recently hosted a webinar focused on exploring trends and insights about building a career in corporate responsibility as part of what's become a semi-annual conversation between hundreds of prospective practitioners and sector trailblazers.
As practitioners in a field that continues to transform, the conversation was dominated by the importance of networking and how to best leverage relationships toward pursuing a meaningful career. Joining me for the discussion were Paul Klein, president and founder of Impakt; Jerilynn Daniels, senior manager of community investment and marketing at RBC; Alex Daprato, partnership marketing associate at TrojanOne; and PwC Canada's Sustainability Manager Klaudia Olejnik.
After a quick review of the CSR industry, we switched to discussing our panelists' respective careers. Specifically, how they got there, if they would recommend breaking into the field today or if integrating a CSR mindset into any role is the way to go – and what they felt some of the key capabilities were that would help set an emerging leader up for success.
We also ran a live Twitter stream to help with on-the-spot responses from across the globe. Most of the questions focused on how to transcend the passion behind the industry to a sustainable career focused on embedding and implementing a complex change management strategy.
And how do we do this in a way that facilitates breaking into an increasingly complex field?
What struck me most was a single word: enough.
Too many times we focus on trying to be everything to everyone, but how can we understand corporate cultures in a way that doesn't become overwhelming and can be communicated effectively? Could this be a building block to create the foundation for a career in CSR?
The panelists suggested that when thinking about who to talk to and what to ask, great networkers should remember that the CSR field is broad and diverse, and that practitioner experiences will be dependent on a variety of factors, including age, maturity of the organization that they are working for, geographic location, cultural norms and industry, just to name just a few. And framing good questions will be key to helping uncover the right information to inform decisions about a career in CSR and the tools needed to succeed.
From the hour-long conversation that featured numerous questions from an active audience, here are three recommendations to help enhance the networking experience:
Brainstorm CSR related scenarios through open-ended questions
Great networkers focus on asking strong, open-ended questions during an informational interview and look for ways to create a knowledge exchange that's mutually beneficial. When meeting with established CSR professionals, panelists recommended spending time working through scenarios or situational examples to compare diverse perspectives and ideas.
Build a rapport that highlights genuine authenticity
Use networking time to build a rapport. Try to highlight a deep understanding about social issues, examples of continuous adaptation, or the ability to synthesize complex information in a way that can be re-communicated across diverse arrays of stakeholder groups.
Use a shared language and keep the conversation focused around value creation for both people
In CSR, business language can be technical and complex.
Get back to basics, keep things clear and concise and remember to talk within the confines of a person's role. Don't overwhelm your mentor with general questions about how to change the world – they probably don't know how (none of us do)! Instead, share complementary ideas that allow you to learn from each other.
Remember that curiosity is the name of the game, and you've got to check your ego at the door: CSR is a profession, not a persona. Let good communication skills guide your networking conversations, don't let your passion to be a change-maker get in the way, and follow-up with those you've met to thank them for their time.
Combined, this might sound pretty basic but it's the art of synthesizing complexity that will set you apart – and will make sure people remember you for your tact and talent.
About James Temple:
James Temple is the Director of Corporate Responsibility for PwC Canada and has a dual role leading the PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada Foundation. In this capacity, James provides oversight to the Canadian Firm's internal Corporate Responsibility strategy, representing the ways PwC integrates good social, environmental and economic values into its business operations.
#RaytheonCSR: Addressing the STEM Crisis, Empowering Veterans, Contextualizing Sustainability
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Last week I facilitated a Twitter chat in partnership with Nick Aster at TriplePundit on how defense and aerospace behemoth Raytheon contextualizes corporate social responsibility [CSR]. On the podium answering questions was VP for Corporate Affairs and Communications Pam Wickham [@PamWickham1].
The conversation, which saw 147 participants and generated over five million impressions, traversed through a number of topics and invited many interesting questions from the audience.
Some of the questions:
How does the defense company associate itself with being a "green" company?
How is the company leveraging its reach and footprint to address the growing decline in students pursuing science, technology, engineering and math [STEM] subjects?
How is it expanding its social responsibility efforts to reach a global audience?
What were Raytheon's priorities for its $29M budget for operational sustainability?
Why doesn't the company disclose its recruitment/retention numbers on women – and how does it attract a diverse workforce without this disclosure?
Does the company see sustainability as a competitive advantage?
While we weren't able to get to all the questions in the hour, Wickham was prompt and enthusiastic with her responses. Grab the recap on Storify and stay tuned for more.
Climate Denial, Chauvinism and Making Integrated Reports Readable: SAP, BSR and CDP Respond
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In a recent conversation with SAP's Sustainability Chief Peter Graf about the company's second Integrated Report, the conundrum between sustainability goals and economic growth kept coming up. Were the two diametrically opposed? Was the 'conundrum' a red herring as Henk Campher recently put it?
Working with the SAP team, we decided to turn it into a live discussion. And along with Graf, BSR CEO Aron Cramer, CDP's Executive Director Nigel Topping and our partner Triple Pundit, we took to Twitter. For one hour, we discussed the trials and tribulations of pursuing sustainability featuring 232 participants contributing 1,388 tweets and over nine million impressions.
But as is often the case, our panelists were not able to respond to all the questions in the hour. Here then are their responses to all the questions we were unable to answer – some questions have been modified for grammatical purposes.
How does a company reconcile a clear need in the realm of sustainability when it's not a $$$ win for the company? What mechanisms can be used to overcome this barrier? [from @bradzarnett, @beltwits,@thesustoolkit]
Nigel Topping: "Ultimately sustainability issues are business issues and thus addressing them must change the value story. If it changes the story short term you get a P+L benefit, if long-term then through enhanced quality of earnings, talent retention, market share or some other metric, which can also be converted into an economic measure.
"Sometimes this is easy – reducing energy waste saves money so the GHG reduction may just be sustainability icing on the cake. But this same action may be making the company more resilient in the face of likely regulation. Remember that value creation is part science part art."
Aron Cramer: ""As things stand today, market structures and incentives don't make it easy for companies to make the long-term investments that are often needed to work towards sustainability. We all know that for publicly traded companies, markets often push decisions towards the short-term. As such, emerging efforts to redefine financial success with more attention to long term value, such as integrated reporting, are crucial."
Peter Graf: "If company itself has no economic reason to do so then the only levers I know of are consumer/customer pressure, public pressure or legislative pressure. If those are applied, then what seemed like an 'externality' again becomes revenue and cost relevant."
Most companies see CSR as taxation without representation. What can companies do to circumvent this view and start acting now? [from @Odyamvid]
Topping: "Companies who see CSR in this way are most likely right! And at the same time leaving value on the table precisely because they are stuck in a mindset, which starts with the assumption that CSR is nothing to do with business. We really do need to see the back of woolly CSR initiatives where no one knows why they exist. There must be a value creation story – it could be direct via resource efficiency or risk mitigation or it could be indirect via brand value enhancement, talent retention, building capacity early to respond to expected consumer trends.
"If you can't find those plausible stories, which you can tell with conviction to your front line staff, then best just to save your money – you are creating a bigger risk by acting in-authentically. Shareholders can rightly criticize you for wasting their money and NGOs can rightly criticize you for not taking issues seriously."
Cramer: "This reflects an outdated and discredited understanding of CSR. Indeed, sustainability is about aligning strategy with changing operating conditions and not "taxation." That said, there are issues where companies should be more active in promoting public policy frameworks that create the right kinds of incentives. One great example has to do with supply chain labor issues, on which governments have de facto outsourced the responsibility to enforce labor laws to the private sector."
Graf: "CSR needs to be perfectly aligned with the strategy and how the company creates value. At SAP we focus on education and entrepreneurship in our CSR projects, because they help us drive long-term success as a business. If CSR is not focused on this type of shared value (value to the company and value to society), then it is only a brand building exercise with little substance."
How can a corporation reconcile short-term needs of shareholders and longer-term sustainability objectives? [from @greengageEnv]
Graf: "Short and long-term value creation do not need to be in conflict. In essence, it's a balancing act, like always in business. For example, companies have always balanced investments into the future and current revenues to manage their margin."
Topping: "Companies need a portfolio of innovation to address different time cycles of the dynamics which exist in markets."
What role do business leaders have regarding climate denialism by other businesses like the stand taken by the U.S. Chamber? [from @kayakmediatweet]
Topping: "Very few business leaders are climate deniers. Even if they don't believe the science, they have to respond to the growing level of regulation (22% of global emissions are now subject to a price). Leaders have a responsibility to see major change coming and to get out ahead of it, but not too far ahead!
"Climate change is rewriting the rules in many industries – just look at Tesla outselling BMW in California and with a market cap half of General Motor's already! Leaders also have a responsibility to manage risk. As Bob Litterman, former Chief Risk Officer at Goldman Sachs keeps reminding us – there is an inevitability about the coming price signal on carbon and the less a company is prepared the harder it will be hit. This is already starting to play out in the oil and gas sector with investors pushing dividend returns instead of risky exploration expenditure."
Cramer: "Businesses very often see further out than governments do. Businesses also like to innovate. Organized business associations, more often than not, take a lowest common denominator approach that is in fact inconsistent with business interests. Leading companies should use their voice to call for smart regulation and then innovate and compete to succeed. There is a huge opportunity for just such efforts in the run-up to COP-21 in Paris in late 2015: the business voice should be heard, and if it is, companies will help lead the way to low carbon prosperity. Leaders recognize the importance of this step."
Graf: "I have personally never used climate change as part of the business case for any sustainability project. Not at SAP. Not with customers. Unless you're in an industry that depends on climate to be stable (e.g., agriculture), the much better way to argue is the cost of energy, and not the implications and risk of climate change. Energy cost is something I have to deal with today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. There's zero argument around the probability around that."
Is the biggest challenge for Integrated Reporting adoption around SME supply chains to ensure sustainable business? [from @mbauerc]
Topping: "No, integrated reporting will impact large listed companies primarily – and the way their integrated thinking leads to changed supply chain engagement will impact the SMEs. In many cases this will allow for disruptive innovations from the savvy small guys."
Graf: "SME's adopt more sustainable practices because their customers are expecting it from them. The push is coming from the mega-buyers like the retail giants and trickles down the supply chain from there."
Integrated reporting is great but how do you get people to read it? [from @angryafrican]
Topping: "Make it the story of your business. I hear more and more business leaders explaining how new graduates are interviewing the companies for evidence of integrated thinking, awareness of the systemic challenges faced by society and a coherent company approach that uses the power of the corporation to make good money by adding real value to society. Telling the integrated story starts at recruitment and goes all the way to analyst calls – it will need to become the same story."
Cramer: "This challenge affects ALL forms of reporting. But a more broad-minded report is likeliest to attract attention: Integrated reporting could 'save' reports."
Graf: "You need a great overarching story (one story, not many), and use video, interactive charts, etc. to make it interesting. Moreover, use social media to promote it."
When reporting on energy, carbon, GHG, how can we make it relevant and benchmarked? Standalone figures too abstract to mean much? [from @miamiaki,@jackwysocki]
Topping: "At CDP, we help companies benchmark many environmental indicators and practices against their peers – that's just good practice but of course it requires good data. Benchmarking process as well as output is important to drive learning and change – for example, what percentage of capex is committed to energy efficiency, does this get same or better payback than average? This also helps overcome any lagging perceptions that these metrics are not business-relevant."
Graf: "We always like to talk in visual explanations. Like 'SAP consumes the same amount of electricity as a 250,000 people city.' Or 'Our customers collectively emit at least one sixth of the world's man made emissions.'
How has the cloud affected our lives besides our ability to reduce environmental impact? [from @orange_harp]
Graf: "In all the ways that we all experience every day, from music, video, smartphones, millions of apps, social media, social platforms, etc."
Where do we stand on CSR across the tech industry? Is our personal info staying private? [from @mr_rosenwald]
Graf: "Let me put it this way: I am very conservative about which information I am sharing on the web. The industry is running the risk of losing customer trust. We have to work together to ensure that's not happening."
Cramer: "While attention has so far focused on tech companies, almost every business has access to personal information. Companies can look to the principles established via the Global Network Initiative to ensure that this information is treated properly."
Is part of the gender gap problem that the tech sector is too much of a chauvinistic culture? [How can we] attract women through culture change? [From @angryafrican]
Graf: "I am very proud that SAP has set a target to increase the ratio of women in management positions to 25% by 2017. We have gone up about 3.5% over the last years."
Originally written for and published on CSRwire's Commentary section Talkback on May 12, 2014.
When Sustainability Ambitions Become a Living Plan: Unilever Expands, Deepens Commitments
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Yesterday, Unilever released the latest refresh to its Sustainable Living Plan with yet another subtle headline [don't blame them for being European]: Unilever Expands Sustainable Living Ambition.
And once again it is seeking to set a mindset shift.
Besides a metrics update that started at the beginning of the month with the announcement that the company had successfully reduced the rate of diarrhea among children from 36 percent to five percent through its Lifebuoy branded handwashing campaign 'Help A Child Reach 5,' the company announced its decision to step away from calling the Plan, well, a Report.
A Plan That Is Meant to Evolve
As Chief Marketing Officer Keith Weed told me:
"The Living Plan is meant to evolve. Today, we're engaging more, we're collaborating more. We're not writing a separate report any longer. And I'm proud to say that we're moving toward an integrated report in our effort show how this is now integrated in our overall plan…why we closed down our CSR department. Sustainability [for us is] integrated, truly embedded across our value chain."
The company also hosted a live by-invitation-only event in London with 100 senior sustainability influencers to discuss the next iteration of the Plan: an expansion to include three specific social targets:
Fairness in the workplace ["We have been working with Oxfam on the condition of factory workers in our extended supply chain in Vietnam – and the lessons we have learned we're taking global, including a new sourcing policy, which makes clear basic levels of human rights that suppliers must adhere to."]
Opportunities for women ["By 2020, we want to help empower five million women. They're a key part of our international supply chain."]
Developing inclusive business ["Like our Shakti model in India"]
And a re-emphasis of what it considers its most critical challenges:
Helping combat climate change by working to eliminate deforestation, which accounts for up to 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions
Improving food security by championing sustainable agriculture, and improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers who produce 80 percent of the food in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa
Improving health and well-being by helping more than a billion people gain access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation and good hygiene habits.
The Rarity of Receiving Honest Feedback
I was catching up with Weed – who was among the initial creators of the USLP and continues to lead it across the organization today – right after the live event. And he was in a good mood. "In its early days, everyone was genuinely impressed [with the USLP] and were always polite in giving us feedback. They were probably also scared of scaring us off. But now, three years in, they're more open with their feedback," he told me.
The company is making good progress.
Besides good results from its #Iwashmyhands and #toilets4all campaigns, for example, some of the reported highlights include:
Over 75 percent of its factories have achieved zero non-hazardous waste to landfill
A new technology would reduce plastic in its Dove body wash packaging by 15 percent
Forty eight percent of agricultural raw materials are now from sustainable sources, up from 14 percent in 2010,
It completed training over 570,000 smallholder farmers and increased the number of Shakti women micro-entrepreneurs in India from 48,000 in 2012 to 65,000 in 2013
Avoided costs of €350million since 2008 in reducing raw materials and implementing eco-efficiency measures in factories on energy, water and waste
Launched compressed versions of its Sure, Dove, Vaseline deodorants across the U.K., which equal to 25 percent of CO2 savings per can.
As Weed counted off, "We've integrated USLP into our core business, brands like Lifebuoy are experiencing double-digit growth signifying that integrating sustainability in the core of your brand works, we're creating less waste, saving money, creating eco efficiencies across our value chain, and if positioned right, can have everyone involved engaged."
Demonstrating the [Sustainability] Case Internally
"But perhaps the most important highlight is that we are starting to show progress against our commitments and core belief [about integrated sustainability into our business] internally," he added.
But other challenges emerged.
"Although water usage across our manufacturing facilities was down, when you take into account our entire value chain, it actually went up as did our greenhouse gas emissions. Also scale is tough."
And the need for good partners.
"We're stepping up working with others on transformational change. We've learned a lot in the last three years. We need to work with others. For example, deforestation contributes 15 percent of GHG – we've been doing a lot of work on palm oil by ourselves. Now [we want to] expand the efforts to government and civil society so that we can get to zero net deforestation by 2020," he added.
Challenges: Finding Partners, Changing Habits
For a brand as diversified and exposed as Unilever, finding partners that share ideologies are critical as is changing consumer behavior.
Last year, we collaborated with the Unilever team on a communication strategy that told the USLP story as well as helped the company engage in critical dialogue with its diverse audience. Besides a detailed blog series penned by Sustainability Chief Gail Klintworth that took us behind the scenes and on the ground with the USLP goals – and a live Twitter chat that generated hundreds of questions – one of the toughest challenges that emerged was influencing consumer behavior.
And some things are finally starting to shift.
Like the 180 million people who now know how to wash their hands properly. Or the 55 million who now have access to safe drinking water. Or the 70 million people who have already watched/engaged with Unilever's innovative Project Sunlight.
"The point is to make sustainable living commonplace. We're an optimistic company – if you get engaged, let's work together," said Weed. "Stakeholders are telling us they felt this was very much a part of our business. People are sitting up and talking."
Numbers aside, changing habits is hard – and it remains the company's toughest challenge. "We're using everything we can from celebrities to local partners and rewards. They say it takes 30 days to change a habit. Initiatives like Project Sunlight are important because of this," he said.
Or the decision to replace current deodorants with compressed versions. "People see smaller cans and think it's not value for money," Weed offered. "But if there is any company that has the resolve to take on these challenges, it's us. We know markets, scale, know how."
Engagement, engagement and more engagement. As the marketing chief put it, "We need to engage more people to think beyond their own communities and families. It will happen."
More about the USLP Refresh here.
Originally written for and published on CSRwire's Commentary section Talkback on April 29, 2014.


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La Cançó (o Cançon) de Santa Fe (pronuncia occitana: , pronuncia catalana: ), in francese Chanson de sainte Foi d'Agen ed in italiano Canzone di Santa Fede, è una poesia agiografica riguardante Santa Fede di Agen, di autore anonimo, che alcuni considerano uno dei più antichi documenti e componimenti poetici scritto in un dialetto catalano o occitano. È costituita di 593 versi ottosillabi, divisa in lasse monorime, il cui numero oscilla da 45 a 55.

L'opera è tramandata da un unico testimone, un manoscritto conservato alla Biblioteca universitaria di Leida dove si eclissò a lungo a causa di un'errata collocazione, venendo riscoperto solo nel 1901 e pubblicato per la prima volta da José Leite de Vasconcelos (in lingua portoghese) nel 1902.

Epoca di composizione e origine geografica
Fu scritta da un poeta anonimo tra il 1054 e il 1076, durante il regno di Raimondo Berengario I, Conte di Barcellona.

Il luogo della sua composizione è oggetto di controversia. Potrebbe essere stata scritta nella regione intorno a Narbona, oppure provenire dal monastero di Sant Miquel de Cuixà (nel Rossiglione), laddove sono state rinvenute le reliquie pertinenti a Santa Fede o quelle di Sant Martí del Canigó. Nel Rossiglione dell'XI secolo, il nome Fede (Fides) era relativamente comune. Altri suggeriscono, tra le altre regioni, la Provenza, la Cerdagna e il Quercy.

Questione della lingua
La lingua (o il dialetto) in cui è scritto il poema è oggetto di varie ipotesi, sulle quali pesa il fatto che essa fornisce motivi di orgoglio nazionale all'indipendentismo catalano, visto che su di essa si fonda la tesi secondo cui catalano e occitano, la lingua della Francia meridionale, fossero indistinte prima del XIV secolo. Ernst Hoepffner (1926) argomenta che la lingua "non era certamente catalana". Martín de Riquer (1964) concorda sul fatto che "non si può affermare in modo indubitabile la catalanità di questo bellissimo e geniale poema". Aurelio Roncaglia (1961) suggerisce che fosse stata scritta in lingua d'oc (occitano), ma ai margini della Catalogna. Già nel 1581 Claude Fauchet credeva che essa fosse il vieil espagnol, pour le moins cathalan (antico spagnolo, se non altro almeno catalano), ma il manoscritto Fauchet derivava da quello scomparso. Fu scoperto nel 1901 tra i lavori di Ausiàs March nella biblioteca dell'Università di Leiden da José Leite de Vasconcelos. Era stato evidentemente collocato fuori posto nel 1716 in base alla sua erronea identificazione come opera  di March del 1562. Nel 1962 J. W. B. Zaal studia il manoscritto di Fauchet e, sulla base delle parole razo espanesca trovate nella Cançó, ne determina la provenienza da un'area culturale trans-pirenaica. La storia del manoscritto fornisce ancor più sostegno alla conclusione secondo cui la lingua della Cançó sia quella di un dialetto più iberico (sì da poter essere stata confusa con il catalano del tardo medioevo).

Struttura e contenuti
La Cançó è una narrazione in versi del martirio di Santa Fede ad Agen (300 circa), il suo supplizio e il castigo che colpì i suoi torturatori: Diocleziano e Massimiano. La poesia è ricalcata principalmente sull'ormai perduta Passio sanctorum Fidis et Caprisii latina, sebbene siano state identificate sette fonti latine, tra cui il De mortibus persecutorum di Lattanzio.

la studiosa Elisabeth Work la divide in due parti distinte: una convenzionale chanson de saint che dura le prime 41 lasse ed è basata sulle fonti tradizionali, e un'originale chanson de felon corrispondente alle otto lasse finali. La prima parte è eloquente e raffinata, mentre la successiva, mediocre, spesso attribuita alla frase a lei francesca, presa a indicare che il poeta stesse componendo alla maniera del lai narrativo scritto in antico francese. Il poeta stesso narra la parte finale con un'aria di disgusto appropriata al contenuto criminoso. Dappertutto, tuttavia, la sua lingua è ortograficamente, lessicalmente e ritmicamente coerente.

In base ai versi finali della sua razó (prologo), la Cançó era popolare nelle regioni di Basconia, Aragona e Guascogna dove la gente poteva affermare la sua verità:

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Bibliografia
  La canzone di Santa Fede d'Agen: poema provenzale dell'XI secolo, edizione basata sul manoscritto di Leida con fac-simile, traduzione, note e glossario di Antoine Thomas, Champion, 1925; riedizione 1974.
  La canzone di Santa Fede, Ernest Hoepffner e Prosper Alfaric, Les Belles-Lettres, 1926.
Comprende: T. 1. Fac-simile del manoscritto e testo critico. Introduzione e commenti filologici, di Ernest Hoepffner; T. 2. Traduzione in francese e fonti latine. Introduzione e commento storico di Prosper Alfaric.
  La canzone di Santa Fede: testo occitano dell'XI secolo, edito, tradotto, presentato e annotato dar Robert Lafont, Droz, 1998.

Altri progetti

Letteratura catalana
Letteratura occitana

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The London Welsh School () is a Welsh medium primary school in London, England. Welsh is the language predominantly used for all classes and activities. The school offers a bilingual education to children aged four to 11. The school also has a pre-school class for three and four-year-old children, and a baby and toddler group called  that meets on Friday mornings.

History
The London Welsh School's origins date back to Saturday morning Welsh language classes taught at the London Welsh Centre in 1955. The school was then founded in 1958 by a group of fathers who were sending their children to those language classes.

For much of its history the school was the only Welsh medium institution located outside Wales until the opening of a Welsh language school in Patagonia, Argentina. That institution, the , was opened on 6 March 2006 in  to serve the Welsh-Argentine community.

In 2000 the London Welsh School was forced to leave its home since 1961, the Welsh Chapel in Willesden Green, but then relocated to Stonebridge Park primary school in Brent. Speaking in the Houses of Parliament in June 2000, Julie Morgan MP for Cardiff North described the school as part of the general demand for Welsh language education in Wales and a lifeline for families moving temporarily to London

In 2015 the school moved to its current home Hanwell Community Centre in Hanwell, London borough of Ealing, a building with a long history as an educational setting having been home to a school attended by Charlie Chaplin between 1896 and 1898.

Recent Years
The London Welsh School has, for many years, been invited to the Houses of Parliament to take part in the St. David's Day service where the children typically perform in front of the Speaker of the House of Commons.

A number of well-known Welsh figures have sent their children to the London Welsh School over the years, including Cerys Matthews, Sean Fletcher, and Sioned Wiliam.

In 2019, the London Welsh School were winners of the  at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Cardiff Bay.

The school has been eminently successful and is one of the few places that highlights Welsh identity in London.

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AccorHotels will offset the carbon footprint of all overnight stays in the Ile-de-France region - including those at rival hotels - for the two-week duration of the Paris climate conference in December.
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Redmine provides many features out of that is SCM integration (SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs), which I going to explaing you in this blog post.
I am explaning this because, many time we do a code review for team members. Also some time we need to review a perticuler fix done for any bug. At that time it is very difficult to go through a git log.
So it will be great to use to redmine for this, were we can attach a code to feature or bug and even from git log to issue.
both above option are very easy but issue in second option. Issue if you have git server which is runnning separately. Which happens in my case.
Our git server is used by more than 30 developers were more than 13 repositories get accessed. So I don't want to distrub the development process. So I have decided to replicate git server on redmine.
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Q: Finding a word within a PDF then returning 11 characters after that word? I have my code that searches each PDF page of a PDF document that has the word Data_ID.
This is on every other page in this PDF document and the way it changes is like this:
data_id 400M549822

data_id 400M549233

ETC..
So right now my console is returning all the times it finds the string data_id but I also want it to return those characters after it...
This is what I have so far:
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Module Module1
    Class PageType
        Property Identifier As String
    End Class

    Sub Main()
        Dim direcory = "C:\Users\XBorja.RESURGENCE\Desktop\one main\"
        Dim pageTypes As New List(Of PageType)
        Dim ids = "data_id"
        Dim resultstring As String
        resultstring = Regex.Match(ids, "(?<=^.{1}).*(?=.{5}$)").Value

        Dim currentPageTypeName = "unknown"

        For Each inputfile As String In Directory.GetFiles(direcory)
            For i = 0 To ids.Length - 1
                pageTypes.Add(New PageType With {.Identifier = ids(i)})
            Next

            Dim extractor As New TextExtractor()
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputfile)
            Dim pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount()

            For i = 0 To pageCount - 1
                '        ' Find the type of the current page
                '        ' If it is not present on the page, then the last one found will be used.
                For Each pt In pageTypes
                    Console.WriteLine(resultstring)
                Next
            Next
        Next
    End Sub
End Module

The resultstring is what I was trying to use with regex but it's only counting the positions within data_id and not the ones after it.
So how would I do this so that it returns the following 10 characters (excluding space) after the word data_id ??

A: Return 11 characters include space before:
'Dim ids = "data_id 400M549822"
Dim ids = "data_id 400M549233"
Dim resultstring = Regex.Match(ids, "(?<=data_id)(\s\w{10})$").Value
Console.WriteLine(resultstring)

Output:
 400M549233

Some notes:
– ?<= = positive look behind
– \s = one space
– \w{10} = 10 word characters include A->Z, a->z, 0->9, _


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Remember! Remember M'Lynn and the kids as they travel home alone and Jeremy as he stays behind traveling 10 days later.
Remember the final weeks of the semester as we finish strong, host meals, and continue discussion that have been a year in the making.
Remember our summer schedule preparations.
Remember that we are all part of the Father's wonderful plan for creation!


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Half of airline pilots have reported that fatigue is not taken seriously by airlines, in the first large-scale survey of pilots' perceptions of safety within the European aviation industry.
The survey was conducted by The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and EUROCONTROL, an intergovernmental organisation committed to delivering safe and efficient air traffic management performance.
Among the key findings of the work, 51 per cent of pilots surveyed reported that fatigue was not taken seriously by their airline, and 28 per cent of pilots felt that they had insufficient numbers of staff to carry out their work safely. In a further notable finding, less than 20 per cent of the pilots surveyed felt that their airline company cares about their well-being.
A total of 7,239 pilots from across European nations participated in the European pilots' perceptions of safety culture in European Aviation survey, approximately 14 per cent of Europe's total commercial pilot population, in the largest ever survey of commercial pilots on safety culture.
The results show that perceptions of safety culture are generally positive amongst pilots. The vast majority did not feel they had to take risks that made them feel uncomfortable about safety, and they indicated a high degree of confidence in their colleagues. But pilots concerns over fatigue and understaffing suggest that many feel they are being pushed too hard by their demanding schedules.
Dr Tom Reader, Associate Professor in Organisational and Social Psychology at LSE and one of the report's co-authors, said: "Pilots, airlines, and regulators need to begin a dialogue to understand what these results means for the industry. This will help to address the concerns raised by pilots, and help to identify what could be changed to maintain the positive safety culture within the industry, while ensuring that European aviation remains competitive."
Dr Anam Parand, a researcher at LSE and one of the report's co-authors, said: "This survey presents a learning opportunity for airlines, to enable the industry to build on its reputation for safety, and to work with pilots and regulators to ensure that it continues to remain a safe mode of transport in the future.
"Clearly, there is a difficulty between balancing the needs of profitability and safety. With the increasing customer demands, airlines have to work harder to get a better balance between the two, and there's always a possibility that safety could be compromised.
"While our study doesn't show any cause and effect between fatigue and accidents, the potential for fatigued pilots to impact on safety is definitely a concern and that should be addressed. There have been a few accidents where one of the primary causes was implicated to be that of fatigue."
The survey was funded by the European Commission* under the Horizon 2020 programme Future Sky Safety, in collaboration with the European Cockpit Association.
Peter Carrol, LSE Media Relations, T: 020 7955 6939, E: p.carrol@lse.ac.uk
A copy of the European pilots' perceptions of safety culture in European Aviation survey is available from Future Sky Safety.
*This research was funded from the EU's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 640597, but neither the report nor this press release necessarily reflects the views of the European Commission.
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"Maybe it's time to consider getting some help." Freestyle Digital Media has released the first official trailer for an indie film titled Reach, from first-time filmmaker Leif Rokesh. The honest high school drama is about a social awkward kid named Steven, played by Garrett Clayton (from Hairspray Live! and "The Fosters"), who is planning on killing himself. A new kid in school befriends him and provides some comfort to help him step back. Steven's new friends try to find creative ways to pull him out of his depression. The cast includes Corbin Bernsen, Jordan Doww, Joey Bragg, Johnny James Fiore, Kevin Sizemore, and Concetta Tomei. This looks alright, a bit dour and depressing, perhaps with some positivity to offer.
A socially awkward band geek, Steven Turano (Garrett Clayton), is planning on killing himself. However, when Clarence, the new quirky kid in school, befriends him, Steven's plans are sidetracked and he reaches beyond his comfort zone forming stronger relationships with his father, friends and teachers. The boys form an inseparable bond as Clarence finds creative ways to pull Steven out of his depression. Reach is directed by filmmaker Leif Rokesh, making his feature directorial debut. The screenplay is by Maria Capp, Johnny James Fiore, and Grant Harling. This first premiered at the Dances With Films Festival this year. Freestyle will release Rokesh's Reach in select US theaters + on VOD starting on October 19th this month.


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Vík ou Vík í Mýrdal é uma pequena localidade do sul da Islândia, na região de Suðurland. Está situada entre o mar e o glaciar de Mýrdalsjökull, na proximidade do vulcão Katla. Não dispõe de porto nem de atividade piscatória, mas é atravessada pela estrada circular Hringvegur. Recebe bastantes turistas. Tem cerca de 318 habitantes, e pertence à Comuna de Mýrdalshreppur. A praia de Reynisfjara, localizada no interior de Vík, é notória devido à sua areia de cor preta, que se estende por aproximadamente 5 quilómetros.

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Home roasting is about compromise.
People start roasting coffee at home for a variety of reasons. Some are simply curious and others are trying to save money.
Nearly everyone starts slow. It's easy to spend a hundred or dollars or more on green coffee and a guy can easily spend hundreds more on a Gene Café or Hottop roaster. Even with a machine as affordable as a Behmor, beans and a roaster can total over $400 before you have roasted even a single batch.
For this reason, most of us compromise and "try it out" with a small order from Sweet Marias and a popcorn popper.
Once you have taken this tiny plunge, a couple of things quickly become apparent. Drinking fresh roasted coffee quickly moves from a luxury to a necessity. That makes equipment necessary too. For me, the Behmor was the logical choice. What it lacked in features was more than made up for in affordability. It treated me well and I still like it.
As you begin to master your craft, you'll find that sharing your freshly roasted coffee is as much fun as roasting and drinking it.
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Fast trains from Manchester Airport to Glasgow take around 3 hours and 21 minutes, covering a distance of approximately 305 kilometres. There are frequent services on the rail route between Manchester Airport and Glasgow.
1. Are there direct trains from Manchester Airport to Glasgow?
Direct trains from Manchester Airport to Glasgow have been found.
We usually find around 15 direct trains on the route from Manchester Airport to Glasgow every weekday.
2. How long is the train journey from Manchester Airport to Glasgow?
The Manchester Airport to Glasgow train travel time is normally about 3 hours and 21 minutes, whatever time you make the journey.
3. What are the Manchester Airport to Glasgow train times and schedule?
On weekdays the earliest direct train to Glasgow is usually scheduled to depart Manchester Airport around 07:00 and the last train is around 21:05. At weekends the first train of the day leaves Manchester Airport around 07:00, and the last at 19:10.
What's the Manchester Airport to Glasgow train price?
The earlier you book the better, and the cheapest tickets we've found for trains from Manchester Airport to Glasgow are $20.81.
Trains departing 30 days in advance will cost around $48 while booking 7 days in advance the price is around $39. Booking on the day of travel is likely to be more expensive, so it is worth booking in advance if you can to save money.
When to book Manchester Airport to Glasgow train tickets?
Trains in the UK usually open for booking around 3 months in advance. If booking is not yet open for your dates then you can set a booking alert to receive an email on the day that the cheapest tickets are released for your journey from Manchester Airport to Glasgow by train.
Which train companies operate between Manchester Airport and Glasgow?