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Shifting behavior for a changing climate 2014
Proposal: Lay the foundation for change in the minds and hands of the future
Lay the foundation for change in the minds and hands of the future by ak1013
What kids learn at school gets shared at home and in social media. Inspire our youth, see change spread at warp speed!
Creating change on a global scale is a tremendous challenge to implement. Many individuals have the sentiment that their small contributions have no impact globally, so why even bother? Most have grown accustomed to their current lifestyle. With so many emails to check, TV shows to watch, news to catch, who has time to even contemplate simple changes that can make a big difference in our environment? There is one way to change the culture - start with our youth!
The children in our school systems are developing, forming their own opinions, creating their own culture to live within. Efforts to change overall cultural behavior must start with encouraging young students and demonstrating to them simple and fun environmentally friendly activities. Many school buildings have flat roofs - why not add a rooftop garden? We'll increase the thermal insulation, reducing heating loads in the winter and cooling loads in summer, while providing an educational opportunity on ecology, nutrition, plant biology, etc. Lessons learned in the classroom can come alive outdoors. Develop projects within the science curriculum to manage water use at schools. Simple rain recovery systems can be designed by students and implemented, reusing rain for non-potable water within the building. Discuss energy efficiency initiatives with students and let their imagination run wild with story writing or art depicting the future world. Track and monitor energy use within each classroom; create school wide competitions for which class uses the least energy (open windows for passive ventilation, reduce use of lights, turn off computers when not in use).
Any activities that engage the students and let them be creative will be shared with mom and dad. They'll bring the classroom home and change our world, one home at a time. As they enter college and embark on their own careers, they'll already have the foundation, ideas, and motivation to lead our world in the right direction!
Category of the action
Changing public perceptions on climate change
Adjust school curriculums to focus on engaging environmentally friendly activities to teach our youth habits that will spread to change the world.
Develop rooftop gardens in support of classroom lessons on ecology, ecosystems, plant biology, thermal insulation, HVAC/Building loads
School wide competitions for the most energy efficient class (measure and track energy usage from heating/cooling, lights, computers; implement scientific method by first establishing a baseline early in the school year, then experiment with keeping certain lights off, or computers off when not in use. What is the difference? How much energy was saved?)
Another school competition for classroom with the least waste disposal and most recycling. How much paper can be conserved? How many materials can be re-used?
Have students design and manage rain water collection systems. What uses of non-potable water can they think of? Washing chalk board, watering roof top garden, watering school yards/playgrounds, etc. Can their systems utilize materials already on the school premises?
Let students' imagination run wild with story writing or depictions in art of what the future holds. How would they change the world? What will our power generation look like (wind mills, turbines, nuclear power plants)?
Create a student project for them to implement an environmentally friendly change at home. Have them track progress for a month.
There are plenty of ideas, many more than I've expressed here. The key is to engage students with fun activities where they learn and develop environmentally friendly habits. When sharing at home, or with social media, their ideas and lessons learned will spread, creating a lasting and sustainable change in our world.
Who will take these actions?
Schools - set the curriculum
Students - share what they've learned and the habits they've developed at home and with friends
Parents - Support children, take what children learn at school and let them implement ideas at home
Corporate businesses - years from now, when students enter the workforce, accept their new ideas and enthusiasm to bring a new environmentally friendly culture to the corporate workforce
Where will these actions be taken?
Any school system
How much will emissions be reduced or sequestered vs. business as usual levels?
Residential buildings account for about 10% of GHG emissions. Over years, the behavioral change is difficult to quantify the reduction in emissions without further research. Once ideas start spreading at homes, those ideas can continue to spread to offices and have a larger impact.
What are other key benefits?
Our children are our future. Cleaning the environment won't affect the current workforce as much as it will affect future generations. Instilling the foundations for environmentally friendly habits within our youth is the key to create widespread change in our culture. Foundations from the classroom will spread to the home, and from the classroom and home to our colleges, and from colleges, the young, motivated graduates will bring the foundations to the workforce.
What are the proposal's costs?
The cost is minimal. Many classroom initiatives can be implemented with just a change in curriculum. Some minimal material costs may be necessary for a garden or to start monitoring classroom energy usage. Many upfront costs will be budget neutral from energy savings.
Short term - Implement revised curriculums in classrooms. Students will begin sharing at home and reducing residential energy use and implementing environmentally friendly ideas.
Medium term - Students who have grown within an environmentally friendly culture will graduate from college, and bring their foundations to the workforce.
Long term - All generations have a new culture of energy efficiency and environmentally friendly conscience. There are few obstacles (social/political) to implementing new ideas to improve our planet.
Related proposals
http://epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources/commercialresidential.html
At this point, this proposal is an idea with little research. A quick google search found the following similar ideas:
http://www.gardeningwithkids.org/the-growing-classroom.html
https://www.teachervision.com/environmental-education/teaching-methods/63270.html
Lay the foundation for change in the minds and hands of the future
By: Ari Katz
Contest: Shifting behavior for a changing climate 2014
How can we shift perceptions, values, norms, and attitudes to inspire individuals and institutions to take action on climate change?

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Graciousness
When I think of people who seem to embody mindfulness, something they share in common is the quality of graciousness. There is a sense of fluidity and grace to how they engage with the world – they're not barging through the day lost in self-centred pre-occupations. They allow space for people around them and don't use up all the oxygen in the room. At the same time, they interact with a sense of presence, not hiding behind false modesty.
Graciousness could be described as 'good manners with a heart' – there is a sense of courtesy, but also warmth and care. One of the many meanings of mindfulness, of course, is to be 'mindful' of someone else's needs, to treat them with respect and consideration. What comes through is an attitude of caring both for others and also oneself.
We get a sense of someone's character when they are gracious under pressure, such as a sportsperson who is gracious in defeat, or someone who has been on hold for forty minutes and still manages to be reasonably polite to the person on the other end of the phone. Many a first date has probably been ruined when something went wrong with the meal and the dinner companion was rude to the waiter. It is challenging to be gracious when we're exhausted, hungry or very stressed. Yet some people seem to manage it, and we can all be grateful for them when life gets chaotic.
To graciously acknowledge a mistake and make amends; to concede someone else is right and you were wrong; to look out for another passenger after the plane has been sitting on the tarmac for seven hours without moving – all these small moments have a ripple effect into wider society. None of us gets it perfect all the time, and even the Dalai Lama admits to being grumpy occasionally. To me, it feels more like an underlying mindset than a particular formula for how to behave in given situations.
At a deeper level, graciousness can be about how we approach life – whether with a sense of grace and flow, or else with the mentality that life is a battle we have to power our way through. There may be times for standing one's ground and not yielding – but most of the time, an attitude of openness and goodwill is likely to be more productive, and allows a greater sense of possibility for ourselves and for those we interact with.
Mindfulness practice idea:
It is difficult to feel gracious when we're rushing around. Take a moment to slow down and notice someone who is being gracious – perhaps giving up their seat on the train, offering a friendly smile in the shops, or showing a willingness to gracefully compromise for the greater good. Notice the sense of expansiveness in that interaction, and how it feels in your body.
(This reflection was first published in 2019. From February, new content will once again be published on the first of each month. With best wishes for a happy and healthy 2022 – Anja Tanhane)


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Evington, VA
ZIP code 24550 is located in southern Virginia and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has a slightly less than average population density.
The people living in ZIP code 24550 are primarily white. The number of middle aged adults is extremely large while the number of people in their late 20s to early 40s is extremely large. There are also a slightly less than average number of single adults and a slightly higher than average number of single parents. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 24550 ZIP code is slightly higher than average compared to other areas of the country.
111 people per sq mi
Male 223 229 277 244 203 189 186 243 258 286 304 242 229 160 124 92 43 33
Female 194 206 267 244 182 205 198 250 271 304 331 265 248 166 131 111 78 42
Total 417 435 544 488 385 394 384 493 529 590 635 507 477 326 255 203 121 75
Under 5 223 194 417
5-9 229 206 435
10-14 277 267 544
75-79 92 111 203
80-84 43 78 121
85 Plus 33 42 75
3,565 49%
Owner 28 241 439 591 504 321 213 43
Renter 41 106 99 114 60 42 17 9
Total 69 347 538 705 564 363 230 52
35-44 439 99 538
85 Plus 43 9 52
Male 45 40 52 46 46 45 42 50 46 50 58 55 58 56 67 58 40 49 30 47
Female 37 30 36 45 41 40 41 45 39 54 52 47 53 61 50 68 43 40 43 33
Total 82 70 88 91 87 85 83 95 85 104 110 102 111 117 117 126 83 89 73 80
ZIP code 24550 has a small percentage of vacancies.
The majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 24550 were primarily built in the 1990s or the 2000s. Looking at 24550 real estate data, the median home value of $156,700 is slightly less than average compared to the rest of the country. It is also slightly less than average compared to nearby ZIP codes. 24550 could be an area to look for cheap housing compared to surrounding areas. Rentals in 24550 are most commonly 3+ bedrooms. The rent for 3+ bedrooms is normally $1,000+/month including utilities. 2 bedrooms are also common and rent for $750-$999/month. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 24550 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.
For more information, see Timberlake, VA real estate.
7,258 100%
The median household income of $51,980 is compared to the rest of the country. It is also compared to nearby ZIP codes. So 24550 is likely to be one of the nicer parts of town with a more affluent demographic.
As with most parts of the country, vehicles are the most common form of transportation to places of employment. In most parts of the country, the majority of commuters get to work in under half an hour. A slightly higher than average number of commuters in 24550 can expect to fall in that range. It is very uncommon, compared to the rest of the US, for employees to have to travel more than 45 minutes to their place of employment.
The population has a much higher percentage of people with low education levels (less than high school) than normal. Despite the lower high school graduation rates, the area has some of the highest percentages of people who attended college of any ZIP.
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NWR Issue r31
Exquisitely Rough: Outsiders, Social Class, and the Iceberg of London Publishing
Earlier this year, the Arts Council England awarded me a £10,000 grant to start writing my first book. I celebrated by spending the day crying, cwtched up with my dogs, deep in a corner of the sofa. I'd never applied for anything like that before, and I'd gouge out my eyes before having the audacity to call myself an artist. I was overwhelmed. I am still overwhelmed. I keep expecting a phone call saying they've made a mistake; that this sort of thing isn't for the likes of me.
Most of the funding was for wages replacement for me to take four months off work. The remainder was for 'development activities', the most expensive of which, at £750, was a five-day writing course at one of London's most prestigious publishing houses. Including return train travel, an Airbnb in the publisher's plush neighbourhood, and basic subsistence (I cooked pasta- or bean-based meals every night, took a sandwich to class every day), the five days ended up costing more than my usual monthly income. Still, I reasoned, it would be worth it; when else would I be able to afford such a thing?
I was born in Pontypridd, raised near Bridgend, and now live in Weston-super-Mare; I'm accustomed to feeling out of place in uber-posh neighbourhoods (just ask the panel at my catastrophic Cambridge interview). So my unease, when I emerged from the tube station into a neighbourhood of leafy squares, blue English Heritage plaques and imposing old buildings, wasn't entirely unexpected.
Get your shit together, I told myself, shakily lighting a roll-up and steeling my butterflying stomach. You're here to learn.
And learn I did – albeit not what I'd expected.
Our Esteemed Teacher is a well-to-do bohemian woman with glittering eyes and a stack of published books under her belt. She gives us writing exercises and homework, which we spend much of the class time reading aloud. Most of my contributions are from my memoir-in-progress, particularly my teenage years, when I was struggling to come to terms with my sexuality and mental ill-health while being bullied for both.
'I just love how exquisitely rough the world you're describing is,' Our Esteemed Teacher says, beaming, after I read a vignette about my friends and I getting queer-bashed in Bridgend. My straight, wealthy classmates nod their agreement, smiling.
The most eccentric of these classmates is Mr Millionaire, a septuagenarian with crumpled clothes, who nonetheless exudes the kind of unchecked confidence only old money can buy. Unlike the women on the course, who apologise profusely and espouse multiple disclaimers before reading their work, Mr Millionaire reads out 1,000-word pieces when we've been instructed to write one hundred – and Our Esteemed Teacher doesn't interrupt him. With a punnet of plums in his mouth, he relentlessly namedrops famous people, tells anecdotes about his multiple trips around the world, and muses over his latest plan: to fly a light aircraft around the Statue of Liberty.
On the other side of Our Esteemed Teacher is a tall, slim, deeply English academic who reminds me of Hugh Grant. He has floppy brown hair, matches his socks to his shirt, and uses his black-framed glasses to punctuate the air when making a point.
One afternoon, our teacher is discussing a book called The Examined Life.
'Ah, "the unexamined life is not worth living,"' says my next-door neighbour, a holistic health practitioner.
'Aristotle!' Hugh Grant says triumphantly, as if this were a bougie pub quiz.
Pretty sure it was Socrates, I think but don't say; I'm not 100% sure, and honestly, who cares?
When I look up after reading my work, he often catches my eye. His forehead is deeply furrowed, and he's chewing on an arm of his glasses; the overall effect is that of Hugh Grant playing a concerned therapist.
I know that look. Pity. He pities me.
The irony is that, growing up, I was more advantaged than many kids at my school. Dad had a good job for most of my childhood and has done exceptionally well for himself. His father was a lorry driver, his mother a maid, and he left school at fourteen; Dad's a classic example of working-class boy done good, working his way up, back when that was a possibility. Mum taught music at a comprehensive school in the Valleys by day and piano to snotty kids at home by night. I always had dinner money in my pocket and clothes on my back. More than that: I learned to swim; to play the piano; even to ride horses, for fuck's sakes.
I now have a Master's degree and a decidedly middle-class job. I'm self-employed and childfree, so I often work until I have enough money for the essentials, then take the rest of the month off to write. I recently bought a house with my girlfriend. I'm white. I'm able-bodied. Sure, I'm a bit mental, but who isn't? And, unlike many, I can afford therapy.
But apparently, the basics of my personal history – being born in the Valleys; going to a comprehensive school in Bridgend; being queer; experiencing mental ill-health – just these facts, which seem pretty standard to me (if this were a game of bingo, all my friends would be shouting 'house'), are enough to mark me an outsider in the heady world of London publishing. I dread to think how anyone who grew up on a council estate, or in care, or on the breadline, would've experienced that classroom.
Not that they ever would have, of course, because who can afford to take a week off work and spend £750 on a writing course? And, given the cost, what did I expect?
I'll tell you what I didn't expect. Our Esteemed Teacher to call the world I depicted 'exquisitely rough'. My classmates to look worried or shocked or like I was speaking a different language whenever I piped up. The gnawing suspicion that I was the token, and that I was offering up my life for the entertainment – or worse, pity – of the more privileged.
Writing classes are just the tiniest tip of the looming, centuries-old iceberg of privilege in publishing – an iceberg that's proving glacial-slow to melt. In February, The Bookseller published the results of a survey of 1,167 people working in publishing. Nearly 80% of working-class respondents felt their background had adversely affected their career, and nearly half had experienced class-based prejudice or discrimination. Over 90% of all respondents thought the industry's London-centrism made it hard for working-class people to break into it. Almost all publishing internships – usually unpaid but nigh-on essential to get into the industry – are based in London, and therefore are only suitable for those who can afford to work for free in the notoriously expensive capital. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, in January, another major survey reported that 35% of publishing professionals grew up in south-east England. Just 1.4% were Welsh.
All of this is important, because these are the people commissioning and publishing books (and designing and teaching on writing courses). The further an editor is from the author's world, the less likely they are to relate to it. Is this one of the reasons why working-class authors are underrepresented in publishing? Is it why, conversely, some editors' hunger for books that portray 'gritty' lives – in all their exquisite roughness – comes across as fetishising, patronising, tokenising?
Either way, the lack of books portraying underrepresented lives is bad news for both writers and readers. As CS Lewis said: 'We read to know we are not alone.' We also read to see our own problems reflected – and, hopefully, resolved – on the page. This can only happen when literature (and therefore publishing) reflects the diversity of human experience.
Some working-class respondents to The Bookseller survey reported being singled out because of their accents. Such incidents, along with a lack of confidence to 'network' (shudder) and the industry's nepotism, made them feel out of place in London publishing. This leads us to an important point: class might be primarily about money, but that's not where it ends. It's also about confidence. It's about contacts. It's about whether your family is into the arts. Whether your town has any cultural offerings. It's about access: having books in your house, or being able to borrow them from a library (remember those?). It's about whether you feel entitled – whether you've been made to feel entitled – to a 'creative life'. Whether you know what that means.
These factors congeal to inform whether pursuing writing, or any other artform, is even on your menu of things you could possibly do. And even if you manage to jump all those barriers, you then need to make your own way in a world that neither understands nor welcomes the likes of you.
The odds are stacked.
The iceberg is titanic.
The struggle is real.
On the last day of the course we discuss the Booker Prize-winning novel, Milkman, which is narrated by a teenage girl and set in Belfast during the Troubles. In the book's acknowledgements section, author Anna Burns thanks the Department of Work and Pensions, her local food bank, and a housing charity for enabling her to write the book.
A blonde GP, who has a Master's in Creative Writing, says she found the voice of Milkman's narrator too sardonic for the darkness of the material. Personally, I found the book's humour hilarious; my copy is tan and crispy-edged from a couple of tea-snorting incidents.
'But she's describing some serious mental health problems,' the Doctor says, 'yet she's so sarcastic; it was such a difficult tone; I found it really upsetting.'
Flashback to being eleven years old, hanging out at the beach with my best friend Emily. We are taking the piss out of each other relentlessly, the way everyone around us did. We think we are hilarious. We're also showing off a bit in front of a tourist girl we've met, who seems deeply confused by our interactions.
'You're horrid to her,' Tourist Girl says in a plummy Home Counties accent. Emily and I explode into giggles. It becomes an in-joke for months after. We repeat it constantly – 'You're horrid to harrr' – imitating her accent, her naïve earnestness.
'I think it's probably a class thing,' I say to the Doctor now, 'that sort of humour.' She blinks slowly. In her face I see a fleeting impression of Tourist Girl, confused at how darkness could be acceptable, let alone funny, let alone a sign of affection.
Señora Basque, a Londoner who lived in the Basque Country for years, steps in to say she found the community there very similar to that depicted in Milkman. She is writing a book about her disgruntlement with the Basque people, their alleged distrust of 'outsiders', their dogged insistence on using their own language.
'Yes, it's a weird language, isn't it, all those zeds and exes,' says Our Esteemed Teacher. She suggests Señora Basque 'draw a parallel' between the attitudes of the Basque people and their landscape; locked into tightknit valleys between all those mountains, how could they not become a bit insular?
The class knows I was born in the south Wales Valleys, but Our Esteemed Teacher does not 'draw a parallel' between the landscape – geographical, political, emotional – of my birthplace and that of the Basque Country. Nothing is mentioned about either region's oppression at the hands of their colonial neighbour; the reasons they've had to fight to preserve their native cultures and 'weird' languages; the historical evidence base informing any lingering distrust of outsiders.
I wonder aloud (it's the last day of the course, so frankly, fuck it) whether it's a bit politically questionable for a middle-class Englishwoman to criticise the Basque people without a full consideration of their history. Our Esteemed Teacher carefully steers the conversation back to Milkman. Anna Burns is critical of her insular Belfast community, she says; Señora Basque is merely doing the same sort of thing.
'But Anna Burns is from Belfast,' I say. 'It's different. It's like how you can criticise your own family but nobody else can.'
'I disagree,' says Our Esteemed Teacher. 'Only outsiders can see a place clearly.'
I was in two minds about writing this essay, and was in two minds about sending it out. I could do without being blackballed by the publishing world, and I was raised to be grateful and polite – you don't bite the hand that feeds. I know I've been outrageously lucky to get this funding. It's not just luck, though; it's regional privilege. Weston-super-Mare is hardly a hotbed of that, but it is in England; Arts Council Wales' equivalent fund grants individuals a maximum of £5,000 – half of what I've been handed just over the bridge.
But I'm sick of being silent. If writers from outside publishing's privileged London bubble are ever going to get our voices heard, we need to be our own microphones – and to amplify the voices of others like us.
And working-class writers with a platform are doing just that. Kit de Waal used part of her advance from her first novel to set up a scholarship for working-class writers on Birkbeck's creative writing MA; her edited anthology, Common People, is due out in May. Kerry Hudson, Scottish author of Lowborn, an acclaimed memoir about growing up in Britain's poorest towns, is organising Breakthrough Festival this year for working-class writers. Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant anthology, recently launched the Good Literary Agency in Bristol to represent underrepresented writers. Publishers and writing centres are offering scholarships for writing courses, and literary prizes are popping up for working-class writers only. Wales, of course – like Scotland and Ireland – has its own publishing ecosystem; one that, perhaps inevitably, seems to welcome working-class writers more warmly than London's publishing iceberg.
In the rarefied world of the arts, purists sometimes argue that politics shouldn't come into Literature. But who can afford to make that distinction? Not the outsiders. We can see the iceberg too clearly. And we know the only way to melt it is by lighting – in Celeste Ng's words – little fires everywhere.
Hannah Austin was born and raised in south Wales. For her sins, she has eloped to England, and now lives in Weston-super-Mare with her girlfriend and two gorgeous dogs. She works as a freelance editor, specialising in social justice, social policy and the social sciences. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in publications including the Guardian, Mslexia, The Moth, Aesthetica and Planet: The Welsh Internationalist. She is using her Arts Council England grant to write her first book: a mental health memoir largely set in south Wales. Find her online at @HAustinEditor, HannahAustinWriter.
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import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileName;
import org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.GenericFileName;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * Tests https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-793.
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 * See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-810.
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public class FtpFileNameParserTestCase {

    @Test
    public void testGenericFileName1() throws Exception {
        final String uri = "ftp://blanks:blanks@localhost/path/file_b%20lanks";
        final FileName n = FtpFileNameParser.getInstance().parseUri(null, null, uri);
        assertTrue(n instanceof GenericFileName);
        final String genericUri = n.getURI();
        assertEquals(genericUri, uri.toString());
    }

    @Test
    public void testGenericFileName2() throws Exception {
        final String uri = "ftp://b%20lanks:b%20lanks@localhost/path/file";
        final FileName n = FtpFileNameParser.getInstance().parseUri(null, null, uri);
        assertTrue(n instanceof GenericFileName);
        final String genericUri = n.getURI();
        assertEquals(genericUri, uri.toString());
    }
}

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This is the first of two posts spotlighting our Top Contributors. Read part two here. - Ed.
If you've ever asked a question about a Google product in the Google Product Help Forums or on Twitter, chances are you've encountered a Top Contributor—passionate Google product experts who enjoy sharing their knowledge with their fellow users. Last year, Top Contributors helped more than 55 million people with 30 different Google products, answering questions and providing tips.
The super users in the Top Contributor program come from 60+ different countries. Their passion for our products and willingness to help others make them a community. To showcase the faces and stories behind this group of helpful users, we asked a few Top Contributors to share a bit about themselves. This is the first of two posts—come back tomorrow to learn more.
Jo says: As a writer, editor, and all-around book enthusiast, I spend a lot of time using word-processing programs. I first discovered Google Docs when I saw a Chromebook ad on TV. I was intrigued by the idea of working in the cloud and not needing an external hard drive to backup my work.
I use Docs for both my professional and personal writing and have completed works of nonfiction as well as novels in it. As senior editorial director at Book Publishing Co., I use Docs for reviewing and editing manuscripts, writing copy, and communicating with authors and colleagues. My authors and colleagues are fascinated when we're in a document at the same time and they see me making changes. It looks like magic to them!
Helping others navigate Docs might seem like an unusual hobby, but I love it. I like exercising my brain by exploring all that an app can do. It's rewarding to answer users' questions and help them solve conundrums, especially knowing that my reply could potentially reach hundreds or even thousands of others users who visit the forum with a similar issue. The occasional "thank you" or "you saved the day" is icing on the cake.
Kojo says: I grew up in a small town in the central region of Ghana, the oldest of five children—which meant I learned how to work hard. Being the oldest meant I had to set a positive example for my siblings and cousins. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry with honors from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where I'm now a teaching and research assistant.
I first got involved with Google products as a Google Student Ambassador, a program that gives students the opportunity to be a liaison between their university and Google. During that time, I gave tutorials to anyone from first year students to senior faculty in my department, teaching them how to incorporate Google apps like Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides into their day-to-day.
When I became a teaching and research assistant, I started using Google Forms to create short quizzes and Google Groups to send assignments and notes to the students in my lab experiment groups. Those experiences inspired me to start helping out in the forums, where I specialize in Nexus and Photos—products I don't often get to use in the classroom.
I love troubleshooting issues with products because it challenges me to pinpoint issues given very little information. It not only teaches me to solve problems, but it also shows me how I can interrelate things when teaching in order to help students. My experience there inspires me to take on more challenges elsewhere. Next up: grad school.
We're always looking for people around the world who have strong Google product knowledge, a friendly attitude, and enjoy helping others. If you're interested in becoming a Top Contributor, start participating in a Google Product Forum or on social media, and let us know you're interested. Once you're helping people on a regular basis, you may be invited to become a Rising Star, the first level in the Top Contributor program.


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Q: How do I control the title of instances of a class in Python? Purely a cosmetic thing, but when I create a class in python, how do I control its instances' titles? e.g. for
class Foo():
    def __init__(self, name):
         self.name = name

I can then create an instance:
>> f = Foo('bar')
>> f
<Foo instance at 0x10ab41a28>

If I wanted that to return bar, what would I do? (In Django, you use the __unicode__ method of the class, but I've tried setting both __unicode__ and __str__ functions to return self.name, and while these work on their own, they don't affect the value of the class.)

A: I usually define __str__ to return a string representation, and then return the string in the __repr__ method, like this:
>>> class Foo():
...     def __init__(self, name):
...          self.name = name
...     def __str__(self):
...          return '<Foo name=%s>' % self.name
...     def __repr__(self):
...          return str(self)
...
>>> f = Foo('bar')
>>> f
<Foo name=bar>

For more info, see Difference between str and repr in Python

A: Define __repr__ instead - that will sort you out.

A: In this case, it's not the problem with your class.
class Foo(object):
  def __init__(self, name):
    self.name = name
  def __str__(self):
    return self.name

>>> f = Foo()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
>>> f = Foo("bar")
>>> f
<__main__.Foo object at 0x7f2a9b9b7590>
>>> print(f)
bar

The problem is that by just typing f, you'll get the output of repr() instead of str(). If you want to change that, you'll need to define __repr__ instead of __str__ or __unicode__.
Usually, you'll be using the str() output anyways (print uses it, when coercing to string it gets used). repr() is really only used if you ask for it, like with:
>>> print("{0!r}".format(f))
<__main__.Foo object at 0x7f2a9b9b7590>

A: You're mixing up a few things,
You set the name of the class when you used Class Foo:. This created a class whose name was Foo.
Now, when you do f = Foo('bar') and then f, the interpreter handily calls your instance's __repr__ method:
>>> class Foo():
...  def __repr__(self):
...   return 'REPR'
...
>>> f = Foo()
>>>
>>> f
REPR
>>>

Long story short, use the __repr__ method if you want to control what the interpreter returns when you write f.
If you don't, the interpreter will more-or-less do it for you:
>>> class F():
...  pass
...
>>> f = F()
>>> f.__repr__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: F instance has no attribute '__repr__'
>>> repr(f)
'<__main__.F instance at 0x7f00381e2368>'

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This Data Processing Agreement ("Agreement") including the Standard Contractual Clauses forms part of the Standard Terms and Conditions of Trading ("Principal Agreement") between you, the "Customer" (the "Data Controller") and TheYachtMarket.com Limited (the "Data Processor") (together as the "Parties").
The Data Controller shall provide the Data Processor with Personal Data during the period that the Data Processor has a contractual relationship with the Data Controller.
The Data Processor agrees to fulfil its data protection obligations under this agreement for as long as the Data Processor processes Personal Data on behalf of the Data Controller.
"Data Controller" has the definition of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and all other data protection legislation that implements the GDPR in the United Kingdom.
"Data Processor" has the definition of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and all other data protection legislation that implements the GDPR in the United Kingdom.
"Personal Data" has the definition of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and all other data protection legislation that implements the GDPR in the United Kingdom.
"Sensitive Personal Data" is defined as the special categories of personal data as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and all other data protection legislation that implements the GDPR in the United Kingdom.
SUBJECT MATTER OF DATA PROCESSING
The subject matter of the processing is Personal Data (excluding Sensitive Personal Data) provided by the Data Controller to the Data Processor so that the Data Processor can fulfil their contractual obligations to the Data Controller.
The type of Personal Data which may be processed is the names, addresses, email addresses, phone number and other personally identifiable information, of the Data Controller's clients, contractors, workers, employees or any other individual for which the Data Controller collects their Personal Data.
DATA PROTECTION OBLIGATIONS
The Data Processor will comply in all respects with its respective obligations under all applicable data protection laws of the European Union or United Kingdom in relation to the management or protection of Personal Data which is being processed on the terms of this Agreement.
The Data Processor will:
use Personal Data only in so far as is necessary for the purpose of carrying out its obligations under the terms of this Agreement and any instructions from the Data Controller;
not disclose Personal Data to any third party unless specifically and expressly authorised to do so by the Data Controller;
to not sub-contract any rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Data Controller;
unless prohibited by law, notify the Data Controller immediately (and in any event within twenty-four (24) hours of becoming aware of the same) if it considers, in its reasonable opinion that it is required by any applicable data protection law to act other than in accordance with the instructions of the Data Controller;
implement and maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised and unlawful processing of Personal Data and against accidental loss and destruction of or damage to Personal Data;
comply with the Data Controller's Data Protection Policy and any rules or policies notified by the Data Controller in relation to processing Personal Data;
not make (nor instruct or permit) a third party to make a data transfer to a country outside the EEA which is not the subject of an adequacy decision of the European Commission or has appropriate safeguards in place, without the prior written consent of the Data Controller;
will provide the Data Controller with all reasonable co-operation and assistance required in relation to a data subject access request or ICO correspondence, meet its obligations with security requirements or undertake any data protection impact assessment;
notify the Data Controller promptly (and in any event within twenty-four (24) hours) upon becoming aware of any actual or suspected or threatened Personal Data breach and:
implement any measures necessary to restore the security of compromised Personal Data; and
assist the Data Controller to make any notifications to the ICO and affected data subjects;
except to the extent required by applicable data protection law, upon the termination of the contractual relationship between the Data Controller and the Data Processor, the Data Processor shall cease processing and return and/or permanently and securely destroy so that it is no longer retrievable (as directed in writing by the Data Controller) any Personal Data of the Data Controller in its possession or control;
within thirty (30) calendar days of a request from the Data Controller allow its data processing facilities, procedures and documentation to be submitted for scrutiny, inspection or audit by Data Controller (and/ or its representatives, including its appointed auditors) in order to ascertain compliance with the terms of this clause 3 and provide reasonable information, assistance and co-operation to the Data Controller and/ or, on the request of the Data Controller provide the Data Controller with written evidence of its compliance with the requirements of this clause 3.
The Data Controller will inform the Data Processor as soon as reasonably practicable of the receipt of any request for information that may include information about the Data Processor and will, when required to do so under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998 and all other applicable data protection legislation, request the Data Processor's consent to disclose information about the data subjects to whom the Personal Data of the Data Processor concerns and, in all other cases, if possible, afford the Data Processor an opportunity to make representations to the Data Controller regarding that request for information within five working days.
This Clause 3 shall survive termination of this Agreement.
Annex A – Standard Contractual Clauses
Standard Contractual Clauses for international transfers from controller to processor.
The Data Importer: TheYachtMarket.com Limited registered in England and Wales with company number 04666162.
The Data Exporter: You, the Customer.
Clause 1. Definitions
For the purposes of the Clauses:
(a) 'personal data', 'special categories of data', 'process/processing', 'controller', 'processor', 'data subject' and 'supervisory authority' shall have the same meaning as in Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data;
(b) 'the data exporter' means the controller who transfers the personal data;
(c) 'the data importer' means the processor who agrees to receive from the data exporter personal data intended for processing on his behalf after the transfer in accordance with his instructions and the terms of the Clauses and who is not subject to a third country's system ensuring adequate protection within the meaning of Article 25(1) of Directive 95/46/EC;
(d)	'the sub-processor' means any processor engaged by the data importer or by any other sub-processor of the data importer who agrees to receive from the data importer or from any other sub-processor of the data importer personal data exclusively intended for processing activities to be carried out on behalf of the data exporter after the transfer in accordance with his instructions, the terms of the Clauses and the terms of the written subcontract;
(e)	'the applicable data protection law' means the legislation protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and, in particular, their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data applicable to a data controller in the Member State in which the data exporter is established;
(f)	'technical and organisational security measures' means those measures aimed at protecting personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing.
Clause 2. Details of the transfer
The details of the transfer and in particular the special categories of personal data where applicable are specified in Appendix 1 which forms an integral part of the Clauses.
Clause 3. Third-party beneficiary clause
(1)	The data subject can enforce against the data exporter this Clause, Clause 4(b) to (i), Clause 5(a) to (e), and (g) to (j), Clause 6(1) and (2), Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 12 as third-party beneficiary.
(2)	The data subject can enforce against the data importer this Clause, Clause 5(a) to (e) and (g), Clause 6, Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 12, in cases where the data exporter has factually disappeared or has ceased to exist in law unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract or by operation of law, as a result of which it takes on the rights and obligations of the data exporter, in which case the data subject can enforce them against such entity.
(3)	The data subject can enforce against the sub-processor this Clause, Clause 5(a) to (e) and (g), Clause 6, Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 12, in cases where both the data exporter and the data importer have factually disappeared or ceased to exist in law or have become insolvent, unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract or by operation of law as a result of which it takes on the rights and obligations of the data exporter, in which case the data subject can enforce them against such entity. Such third-party liability of the sub-processor shall be limited to its own processing operations under the Clauses.
(4)	The parties do not object to a data subject being represented by an association or other body if the data subject so expressly wishes and if permitted by national law.
Clause 4. Obligations of the data exporter
The data exporter agrees and warrants:
(a)	that the processing, including the transfer itself, of the personal data has been and will continue to be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the applicable data protection law (and, where applicable, has been notified to the relevant authorities of the Member State where the data exporter is established) and does not violate the relevant provisions of that State;
(b) that it has instructed and throughout the duration of the personal data-processing services will instruct the data importer to process the personal data transferred only on the data exporter's behalf and in accordance with the applicable data protection law and the Clauses;
(c) that the data importer will provide sufficient guarantees in respect of the technical and organisational security measures specified in Appendix 2 to this contract;
(d) that after assessment of the requirements of the applicable data protection law, the security measures are appropriate to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing, and that these measures ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks presented by the processing and the nature of the data to be protected having regard to the state of the art and the cost of their implementation;
(e) that it will ensure compliance with the security measures;
(f) that, if the transfer involves special categories of data, the data subject has been informed or will be informed before, or as soon as possible after, the transfer that its data could be transmitted to a third country not providing adequate protection within the meaning of Directive 95/46/EC;
(g) to forward any notification received from the data importer or any sub-processor pursuant to Clause 5(b) and Clause 8(3) to the data protection supervisory authority if the data exporter decides to continue the transfer or to lift the suspension;
(h) to make available to the data subjects upon request a copy of the Clauses, with the exception of Appendix 2, and a summary description of the security measures, as well as a copy of any contract for sub-processing services which has to be made in accordance with the Clauses, unless the Clauses or the contract contain commercial information, in which case it may remove such commercial information;
(i) that, in the event of sub-processing, the processing activity is carried out in accordance with Clause 11 by a sub-processor providing at least the same level of protection for the personal data and the rights of data subject as the data importer under the Clauses;
(j) that it will ensure compliance with Clause 4(a) to (i).
Clause 5. Obligations of the data importer
The data importer agrees and warrants:
(a)	to process the personal data only on behalf of the data exporter and in compliance with its instructions and the Clauses; if it cannot provide such compliance for whatever reasons, it agrees to inform promptly the data exporter of its inability to comply, in which case the data exporter is entitled to suspend the transfer of data and/or terminate the contract;
(b)	that it has no reason to believe that the legislation applicable to it prevents it from fulfilling the instructions received from the data exporter and its obligations under the contract and that in the event of a change in this legislation which is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the warranties and obligations provided by the Clauses, it will promptly notify the change to the data exporter as soon as it is aware, in which case the data exporter is entitled to suspend the transfer of data and/or terminate the contract;
(c)	that it has implemented the technical and organisational security measures specified in Appendix 2 before processing the personal data transferred;
(d)	that it will promptly notify the data exporter about:
(i)	any legally binding request for disclosure of the personal data by a law enforcement authority unless otherwise prohibited, such as a prohibition under criminal law to preserve the confidentiality of a law enforcement investigation;
(ii) any accidental or unauthorised access; and
(iii) any request received directly from the data subjects without responding to that request, unless it has been otherwise authorised to do so;
(e)	to deal promptly and properly with all inquiries from the data exporter relating to its processing of the personal data subject to the transfer and to abide by the advice of the supervisory authority with regard to the processing of the data transferred;
(f)	at the request of the data exporter to submit its data-processing facilities for audit of the processing activities covered by the Clauses which shall be carried out by the data exporter or an inspection body composed of independent members and in possession of the required professional qualifications bound by a duty of confidentiality, selected by the data exporter, where applicable, in agreement with the supervisory authority;
(g)	to make available to the data subject upon request a copy of the Clauses, or any existing contract for sub-processing, unless the Clauses or contract contain commercial information, in which case it may remove such commercial information, with the exception of Appendix 2 which shall be replaced by a summary description of the security measures in those cases where the data subject is unable to obtain a copy from the data exporter;
(h)	that, in the event of sub-processing, it has previously informed the data exporter and obtained its prior written consent;
(i)	that the processing services by the sub-processor will be carried out in accordance with Clause 11;
(j)	to send promptly a copy of any sub-processor agreement it concludes under the Clauses to the data exporter.
Clause 6. Liability
(1)	The parties agree that any data subject, who has suffered damage as a result of any breach of the obligations referred to in Clause 3 or in Clause 11 by any party or sub-processor is entitled to receive compensation from the data exporter for the damage suffered.
(2)	If a data subject is not able to bring a claim for compensation in accordance with paragraph 1 against the data exporter, arising out of a breach by the data importer or his sub-processor of any of their obligations referred to in Clause 3 or in Clause 11, because the data exporter has factually disappeared or ceased to exist in law or has become insolvent, the data importer agrees that the data subject may issue a claim against the data importer as if it were the data exporter, unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract of by operation of law, in which case the data subject can enforce its rights against such entity. The data importer may not rely on a breach by a sub-processor of its obligations in order to avoid its own liabilities.
(3)	If a data subject is not able to bring a claim against the data exporter or the data importer referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, arising out of a breach by the sub-processor of any of their obligations referred to in Clause 3 or in Clause 11 because both the data exporter and the data importer have factually disappeared or ceased to exist in law or have become insolvent, the sub-processor agrees that the data subject may issue a claim against the data sub-processor with regard to its own processing operations under the Clauses as if it were the data exporter or the data importer, unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter or data importer by contract or by operation of law, in which case the data subject can enforce its rights against such entity. The liability of the sub-processor shall be limited to its own processing operations under the Clauses.
Clause 7. Mediation and jurisdiction
(1)	The data importer agrees that if the data subject invokes against it third-party beneficiary rights and/or claims compensation for damages under the Clauses, the data importer will accept the decision of the data subject:
(a)	to refer the dispute to mediation, by an independent person or, where applicable, by the supervisory authority;
(b)	to refer the dispute to the courts in the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
(2)	The parties agree that the choice made by the data subject will not prejudice its substantive or procedural rights to seek remedies in accordance with other provisions of national or international law.
Clause 8. Cooperation with supervisory authorities
(1)	The data exporter agrees to deposit a copy of this contract with the supervisory authority if it so requests or if such deposit is required under the applicable data protection law.
(2)	The parties agree that the supervisory authority has the right to conduct an audit of the data importer, and of any sub-processor, which has the same scope and is subject to the same conditions as would apply to an audit of the data exporter under the applicable data protection law.
(3)	The data importer shall promptly inform the data exporter about the existence of legislation applicable to it or any sub-processor preventing the conduct of an audit of the data importer, or any sub-processor, pursuant to paragraph 2. In such a case the data exporter shall be entitled to take the measures foreseen in Clause 5(b).
Clause 9. Governing law
The Clauses shall be governed by the law of the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
Clause 10. Variation of the contract
The parties undertake not to vary or modify the Clauses. This does not preclude the parties from adding clauses on business related issues where required as long as they do not contradict the Clauses.
Clause 11. Sub-processing
(1)	The data importer shall not subcontract any of its processing operations performed on behalf of the data exporter under the Clauses without the prior written consent of the data exporter. Where the data importer subcontracts its obligations under the Clauses, with the consent of the data exporter, it shall do so only by way of a written agreement with the sub-processor which imposes the same obligations on the sub-processor as are imposed on the data importer under the Clauses3. Where the sub-processor fails to fulfil its data protection obligations under such written agreement the data importer shall remain fully liable to the data exporter for the performance of the sub-processor's obligations under such agreement.
(2)	The prior written contract between the data importer and the sub-processor shall also provide for a third-party beneficiary clause as laid down in Clause 3 for cases where the data subject is not able to bring the claim for compensation referred to in paragraph 1 of Clause 6 against the data exporter or the data importer because they have factually disappeared or have ceased to exist in law or have become insolvent and no successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter or data importer by contract or by operation of law. Such third-party liability of the sub-processor shall be limited to its own processing operations under the Clauses.
(3)	The provisions relating to data protection aspects for sub-processing of the contract referred to in paragraph 1 shall be governed by the law of the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
(4)	The data exporter shall keep a list of sub-processing agreements concluded under the Clauses and notified by the data importer pursuant to Clause 5(j), which shall be updated at least once a year. The list shall be available to the data exporter's data protection supervisory authority.
Clause 12. Obligation after termination
(1)	The parties agree that on the termination of the provision of data-processing services, the data importer and the sub-processor shall, at the choice of the data exporter, return all the personal data transferred and the copies thereof to the data exporter or shall destroy all the personal data and certify to the data exporter that it has done so, unless legislation imposed upon the data importer prevents it from returning or destroying all or part of the personal data transferred. In that case, the data importer warrants that it will guarantee the confidentiality of the personal data transferred and will not actively process the personal data transferred anymore.
(2)	The data importer and the sub-processor warrant that upon request of the data exporter and/or of the supervisory authority, it will submit its data-processing facilities for an audit of the measures referred to in paragraph 1.
Effective date of the Standard Contractual Clauses
The parties intend that these Clauses should only become effective if Art 44 of the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") applies to a transfer of personal data from the EEA to the UK, because the UK has left the European Union, and the transfer is not permitted under Art 45.
On that basis, the Clauses will become effective on:
(i)	the first date Article 44 GDPR applies to a transfer of personal data from the EEA to the UK, and that transfer is not permitted under Article 45 GDPR; or
(ii) the date of the Principal Agreement, if later.
In this clause, 'a transfer of personal data' has the same meaning as in Article 44 of the GDPR.
Data Exporter
The data exporter is you, the Customer.
The data exporter's business or organisation type is:
The data exporter is using the personal data which is being transferred for the following purposes or activities:
Advertising, marketing and public relations of the data exporter's own business or activity, goods or services.
Advertising, marketing and public relations for others, including public relations work, advertising and marketing, host mailings for other organisations, and list broking.
Data Importer
The data importer is TheYachtMarket.com Limited.
The data importer's business or organisation type is:
The data importer's activities for the data exporter, which are relevant to the transfer are:
Advertising, marketing, and public relations services.
IT, digital, technology or telecom services, including provision of technology products or services, telecoms and network services, digital services, hosting, cloud and support services or software licensing.
Data subjects
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Staff including volunteers, agents, temporary and casual workers
Customers and clients (including their staff)
Suppliers (including their staff)
Complainants, correspondents and enquirers
Categories of data
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Personal details, including any information that identifies the data subject and their personal characteristics, including: name, address, contact details, age, date of birth, sex, and physical description.
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Receiving data, including collection, accessing, retrieval, recording, and data entry
Holding data, including storage, organisation and structuring>
Using data, including analysing, consultation, testing, automated decision making and profiling
Updating data, including correcting, adaptation, alteration, alignment and combination
Protecting data, including restricting, encrypting, and security testing
Sharing data, including disclosure, dissemination, allowing access or otherwise making available
Returning data to the data exporter or data subject
Erasing data, including destruction and deletion
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We choose the most appropriate secure settings for our devices and software.
We control who has access to your data and services.
We protect ourselves from viruses and other malware.
We keep our software and devices up to date.
We regularly backup our data.
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Data transfers of this type will only take place if requested by the Data Exporter and only to the marketplace portals the Data Exporter has specified.
Such marketplace portals may be located in countries outside the EEA which may have different data protection standards.
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Data subjects are the staff of the Data Exporter whose personal details are included in the data transfers to enable routing of enquiries regarding the Data Exporter's inventory listings to the correct person in the Data Exporter's organisation.
The categories of personal data transferred include the name, address and contact details. These should normally be the data subjects' work address and contact details; not their home details. However, this depends on the information the Data Exporter has provided to the Data Importer.
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Partner Promotions at Interlaw's Singapore Partner Firm
Interlaw's partner firm in Singapore, CNPLaw, has announced that Hazel Ho-Tsastsina and Hu Huimin have been promoted to partners, bringing the total number of partners at the firm to 22.
Hazel's practice focuses on cross-border M&A, joint ventures, private equity and corporate advisory. She holds dual bar admissions in Singapore and in England and Wales. With over 10 years of experience working in-house and in private practice, Hazel has advised various companies ranging from start-ups to MNCs. She has also been consistently recognised as a "Notable Practitioner" for Corporate and M&A practice by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) 1000 in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Huimin's main area of practice is in general civil and commercial litigation with a specialisation in matrimonial proceedings, family disputes and private client matters. She has considerable experience in high value divorces involving non-disclosure of assets, cross-jurisdiction assets and multi-million dollars assets. She regularly acts for legally aided clients in court proceedings as an assigned solicitor of the Legal Aid Bureau.
Commenting on the promotions, CNPLaw's managing partner, Lisa Theng, said:
"These outstanding lawyers are specialists in their respective areas of practice and have contributed significantly towards the growth of the firm. They are client centric, have consistently demonstrated exceptional legal acumen and are trusted colleagues with a collaborative approach to practice. I look forward to our new partners leading the way in their new roles, continuing to build and grow our practices and strengthening our firm's culture of excellence."


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The B-17 Bomber: For Some a Piece of History. For Others, a Part of Their Lives
By Patti
Hope you enjoyed the 4th of July holiday. When I think of Independence Day, I think of freedom. We wouldn't enjoy the freedom we have if it were not for the men and women who have fought and are still fighting to protect us. I had the honor of meeting two of those men at the Bi-State Development Agency's St. Louis Downtown Airport earlier this week. Both men were especially interested in seeing a B-17, World War II era bomber at the airport.
The B-17 flew in the Fair Saint Louis Air Shows on Wednesday as well as in the air show for children and adults with special needs hosted by St. Louis Downtown Airport and Jet Aviation in partnership with Fair Saint Louis.
Despite the scorching hot temperatures on the 4th of July, 91-year-old John F. Young from Belleville, Illinois braved the heat and attended the air show with his wife and daughter. He sat with his family in a golf cart in the shade of one of the wings of the plane named Aluminum Forecast and remembered. He had been a flight engineer on the B-17 when he served in the armed forces. He said, "We kept them flying."
Mr. Young's daughter, Anne said he never seemed to want to talk about the war. But today, under the wing of Aluminum Forecast, he shared some of his past, including a story about sleeping with bombing plans located nearby, with orders to shoot anyone who tried to take them.
The sweltering heat could not keep Donald Alwine from St. Louis away from the airport or the B-17, and he enjoyed talking about his experiences. He had countless memories about what it was like as a B-17 radio and gunnery instructor. He talked about what it was like to fly in the B-17 and about some of the close calls he experienced.
For both war veterans, the fully restored B-17 was a window to their shared past.
But Mr. Alwine and Mr. Young were not alone though in their appreciation of this remarkable aircraft. The Flying Fortress garnered a lot of attention during the air shows and when it was parked at the airport. Fans of the plane were experiencing it up close for the first time. Some walked around it in awe, others took tours of the plane, and enjoyed the experience of a lifetime and took a ride on the B-17.
The Experimental Aircraft Association brought the aircraft to St. Louis is now offering tours and rides on the B-17 at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield through July 8. It's too late to book a flight online but you can get information about the charges for the B-17 tours and the flights. And if you are interested in touring the plane or purchasing a flight, just go to Spirit of St. Louis Airport Saturday morning, July 7 or Sunday morning, July 8.
After that, this incredible piece of America's history and reminder of what so many have sacrificed, will fly away.
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Katharina Otto-Bernstein is a two time Emmy nominated filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. She is the author of the biography of theater director Robert Wilson and has worked as a dramaturge in theater and dance. Currently she serves as the president of Film Manufacturers Inc., New York, where she develops and produces independent films, documentaries, and television series. A graduate of Columbia University Film School, Katharina Otto-Bernstein received the 2009 Columbia University Alumni Medal of Achievement and is the chair of the Dean's Council of the School of Arts. Otto-Bernstein has been nominated for Critic's Choice Award, a Cinema Eye Award, a GLAAD Award, a Grierson Award and won the Silver Hugo at International Film Festival of Chicago and the Art Basel, Art Film of the Year Award. Professional memberships include the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Writers Guild of America and Women in Film and Television.
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Originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, Joseph Ruscitto received a Bachelor and MFA in Film and Media Arts as well as a Bachelor in Music from Temple University. Mr. Ruscitto has been with Film Manufacturers for the past eight years and worked as the Associate Editor and After Effects Editor on the award-winning FMI production Absolute Wilson. For the past three years, he has held the position of Office Manager in charge of post-production, archives, distribution and sales as well as doing script editing work on the screen plays for the Georgette Heyer Series, currently in joint development between FMI and Filmpool Fiction. Previously, Mr. Ruscitto has worked as the associate and after effects editor on award winning documentary Herb and Dorothy, by director Megumi Sasaki. He was an Associate Editor and Post-Production Supervisor on Body of War, a film by Phil Donahue, which was awarded the Best Documentary for 2007 by the National Board of Review. Mr. Ruscitto was the Editor and Co-Producer on Jonathan's Return, a feature-length documentary by Eran Preis, dealing with a family's struggle with schizophrenia. He also produced and directed Traces: A Meditation on Impermanence, a video interpretation of a composition for bass flute, by the composer Alba Potes, and Between the Edges, a documentary about the Colombian muralist, Ana Uribe, which premiered on WYBE in Philadelphia. As a musician, Mr. Ruscitto has performed internationally and appeared on the albums of the musical groups Spoken Hand and Atzilut.
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Oleg Dubson has worked in the film industry for the past 8 years. In his previous positions, he was the Director of Digital Publicity and Marketing at FilmDistrict and the East Coast Field Manager at Apparition, US Film and Television distribution companies. Prior to that, Mr. Dubson worked as the Publicity and Marketing Coordinator of the New York Film Festival and was the Marketing Associate at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He holds a degree in Film Production from Brooklyn College. His short films have been exhibited at the Berlin, Sarajevo and Lucca film festivals. In addition to his film work, Mr. Dubson has been acting in theater since the age of 12. He was part of theater-studio Class-A! in Minsk, Belarus and Science Project, New York. For the past 10 years, Mr. Dubson has been part of a Brooklyn-based experimental troupe Laboratory Theater.


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Haldane UK, the market leader for the manufacture and installation of specialist handrails has bagged another prestige contract with the completion of the flagship London store for Gucci owned, Bottega Veneta, the luxury Italian handbag and accessories supplier which caters for clients with "impeccable taste and style.
The project called on Haldane to manufacture and install a stunning "kidney-shaped" spiral handrail with associated ramps and ends made from American Black Walnut, however the critical element was lead time. Thanks to Haldane's considerable investment in process efficiencies, the company was able to complete the contract from enquiry to installation, including survey, in an amazing 10 days.
Managing Director, Forrester Adam, said "Haldane has worked on many prestigious retail contracts in and around London, however we are particularly proud to have successfully completed this superb project within an extremely tight timeframe."
He continued, "Whilst Haldane has a well established reputation for producing quality products, we find clients are often surprised by the level of service they receive. Over the last 12 months we have worked hard and invested considerable sums to improve our efficiencies from enquiry through to invoice and we believe we are in a stronger position than ever before to react quickly to the needs of our customers in delivering an unbeatable product in the shortest lead time. In addition, the improved efficiencies have also made significant cost savings which are reflected in new pricing policies."


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China wants its territorial dispute with the Philippines over the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) resolved through dialogue, said a report on Wednesday, June 1, in China's state-run Xinhua News Agency.
In the report, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying urged the Philippines' incoming President Rodrigo Duterte to "return to dialogue" to resolve the dispute between Manila and Beijing over the West Philippine Sea.
"We hope the Philippines' new government can honor their commitments and return to dialogue with China to properly handle the disputes so as to contribute to the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations," said the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Hua was reacting to the comment by incoming Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr supporting bilateral or one-on-one talks between the Philippines and China.
Yasay on GMA News on Monday, May 30, said talking with China remains "necessary" to resolve the West Philippine Sea dispute.
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American businesses are filing and fighting fewer lawsuits, according to Fulbright & Jaworski's fourth annual Litigation Trends Survey. Seventeen percent of respondents have not defended a lawsuit in the past year, compared with 11% in the prior year. The rate of corporations bringing at least one new lawsuit dropped to 65%, compared with more than 70% in the prior year and 88% in 2004. Only 22% of in-house counsel expect their companies to be involved in more legal disputes during the next year."


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Q: Adding a dollar sign to a text field in Zend Framework Is there a way to add a "$" right before the <input> for a Zend_Form element? (using standard ZF stuff would be great, of course).
EDIT: For example, if the html generated by Zend_Form for a cost element is something like: (very simplified)
Cost:
<input type="text" name="cost" />

I'd like it to output this:
Cost:
$ <input type="text" name="cost" />

A: Using the AnyMarkup decorator, you could do something this:
$element->setDecorators(array(
    'ViewHelper',
    array('AnyMarkup', array('markup' => '$', 'placement' => 'prepend')),
    // And any other decorators, like Label, Description, Errors, and
    // other wrapping like td, tr, etc.
));

As usual, be sure to register the namespace for the decorator with the form. So, if you use the class as named in the linked snippet My_Decorator_AnyMarkup located in the file My/Decorator/AnyMarkup.php on the include path, then you'd need something like:
$form->addElementPrefixPath('My_Decorator_', 'My/Decorator', 'decorator');

A: You can use callback decorator to put whatever html you want in your elements:
For example in your case I could do:
    $el1 = $this->createElement('text', 'el1')->setLabel('Cost:');

    // Anonymous function that will generate your custom html (needs PHP 5.3).
    // For older PHP there are other ways of making anonymous functions.
    $myHtml = function($content, $element, array $options) {
                return '$';
            };
    $el1->setDecorators(array(
        'ViewHelper',
        'Errors',
        array('Callback', array('callback' => $myHtml, 'placement' => 'PREPEND')),
        'Label'
    ));

This should result in the following html code:
Cost:
$
<input type="text" name="el1" id="el1" value="" />

Hope this will be helfull or at least point you in the right direction.

A: You can add it as a description
$this->createElement('text', 'cost')
     ->setLabel('Cost:')
     ->setDescription('$');

And then configure element's decorators properly.
Upd:
Suggested element's decorators:
array(
    'ViewHelper',
    array('Description', array('placement' => Zend_Form_Decorator_Abstract::PREPEND, 'tag' => 'em'))
);

Note the placement option.


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Surfside building collapse: Victims file $5 million lawsuit against condo association
'Repair needs had been identified,' suit says
The first lawsuit has been filed in connection with the deadly collapse this week at a South Florida condominium.
By: WPTV Staff
SURFSIDE, Fla. (WPTV) -- The first lawsuit has been filed in connection with the deadly collapse this week at a South Florida condominium.
The suit was filed late Thursday night, less than 24 hours after the Champlain Towers building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, killing at least four people.
It was filed on behalf of Manuel Drezner and attorney Brad Sohn of The Brad Sohn Law Firm for the victims involved in the tragedy.
The class-action lawsuit against the building association seeks to compensate the victims and says the defendant failed to "safeguard the lives and property" of residents.
The suit goes on to say that the association failed to "properly protect the lives and property" of the plaintiffs.
"According to public statements made by Defendant's attorney Ken Direktor, 'repair needs had been identified' with regard to certain structural issues but had not been implemented; one of the most breathtakingly frightening tragedies in the history of South Florida followed," the lawsuit said.
The plaintiffs in the case are seeking restitution, recovery of damages and the cost of attorney fees following the tragedy.
They are seeking to recover $5 million for the victims, according to the lawsuit.
Sohn said he has been contacted by numerous victims who said they did have concerns over the structural integrity of the building prior to the partial collapse.
The attorney said the goal of the lawsuit is to try to make the victims whole again as soon as possible and to start holding those accountable so that evidence may be preserved.
Direktor, the attorney representing the Champlain Towers South Association, rejected the lawsuit.
"I don't know what caused this building to fall down, you don't know what caused this building to fall down, government officials do not know what caused this building to fall down, the engineers don't know what caused this building to fall down," Direktor said. "Please, explain to me how this lawyer knows what caused this building to fall down."
MORE: How to help those impacted by the Surfside condo collapse
More than 150 people are still unaccounted for as first responders continue to sift through the rubble looking for survivors.
The building was constructed in 1981 and set to undergo a 40-year recertification process, which is mandated by code enforcement in Miami-Dade County.
This story originally reported by Michelle Quesada and Scott Sutton on WPTV.com.
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Okay, I honestly have no idea how to pronounce Æbleflæsk. But the A connected to the E is pretty fancy, isn't it? What I can tell you, though, is that apple and pork always makes for one heck of a classic flavor combination, no matter what language we're talking.
No wonder why pork chops and applesauce was my favorite meal as a kid, even if the pork was cooked until it was completed obliterated of any moisture and flavor (remember those good old times when our moms were super concerned about trichinosis?). Leave it to the Danish to take this pork and apple pairing to the next level with…drumroll please…bacon.
And while we are talking about flavor combinations that pretty much rock our world, when I think apple and pork, especially in the fall (I know it's technically still summer but my brain switches to fall as soon as the school year begins), you gotta have some sage in the mix.
So let's review. Apples, bacon, and sage. Oh, and to make those apples even more ridiculous, we're going to let them cook and get nice and friendly with the bacon drippings.
I remember the stories min Mor used to tell us. They had several apple trees in the front yard. When food was scarce in the fall, all 8 of my mother's brothers and sisters were sent out to pick up all the apples that had fallen off the trees. Every one usually had a "slab" of bacon. With the bacon and apples, what a meal. When I was having company one Sunday afternoon, I made this dish and my company thought I was nuts, after all, apples and bacon, fried in a pan. Well, as you know, I was asked to make it again, and again….. Keep posting my favorite "poor man's meals". Another favorite is the lettuce, tomato, potato and egg rye bread open face sandwich. All time favorite!


In March 2017, Community Foundation Sonoma County hosted the second annual Women's Leadership Circle Retreat for Sonoma County nonprofit executives. The retreat is designed to support leaders through networking, self-care, and mutual support and expertise.
Beth Brown, President and CEO of Community Foundation Sonoma County facilitated the retreat and has generously offered to answer a few questions about it.
Why is there a need for the Women's Leadership Circle?
I am so impressed and inspired by the executive directors in our county. They are tireless in their dedication to the programs they provide and clients they serve. They are also charged with running a business. Whenever a group of nonprofit leaders get together, I've noticed that they compare notes and strategies on programs and community needs which is great, but they speak less about what keeps them up at night in terms of the business aspect—management, operations, finance, and human resources. I saw a need for leaders to get together to talk more about their role as directors and the challenges, both personal and professional, that come with that role. And while there are great opportunities and paths to leadership for women in nonprofit organizations, there are still unique challenges women face as leaders and really benefit from the support of one another. I know "it is lonely at the top" is a very cliché saying but it speaks to the truth that when you are leading an organization, you do not have a peer group on your team because you are the boss. The Women's Leadership Circle provides such a peer group and an annual convening in a retreat setting accelerates connection and trust that builds the foundation for all kinds of support and collaboration.
What has changed over the past year for women leaders in the group?
For the women in the group, it has been a year of ups and downs.
To a person, these women can give examples of how they've relied on one another for support which has been a big plus and empowered them to be bolder than they might have otherwise. At the same time, the national policy environment and changes are of big concern to their organizations as they wonder if government funding will shift and how the issues their organizations champion, from arts to homelessness to support education and immigrant families to health and child care—may be impacted. But hope, resilience, innovation, and good humor are in strong supply with this group. Their boards and donors should feel proud and confident about how these leaders can handle change and challenge.
What is the value of building networks and community for these leaders?
By being curious about how others are running their organizations and by being generous in sharing their approaches, they are raising the standards for their own work and that of their organizations. We can't have thriving organizations without thriving leadership. As one of our participants noted, if we spend too much time as leaders working "in the business" and not enough "on the business" then we never get to the next level or organizational development. As a foundation, it is critical that we invest not only in direct service but in all of the resources required to make the organization hum. Giving leaders the resources, including that of time and connection, that the need to reflect and improve and even give themselves permission to take a victory lap is key.
There are so many practical ways these women are helping each other from volunteering at each other's fundraising events to reviewing development plans to applying for grants together and the list goes on and on.
You have been privy to exceptional growth and support between these leaders. How has this impacted you personally?
I created this group because I wanted to give these leaders an experience of reflection and connection. I did not anticipate how much I also needed to reflect and connect and I am honored and touched by the trust the group has given me which is not always the case when you represent a foundation because of the power and privilege you represent. I now consider these women colleagues, friends, and mentors. I learn from them and laugh with them. I can think of no greater gift.
Where will these retreats take you and the other participants next year?
Sea Ranch is a really magical place because the beauty of the setting immediately transports you. I can feel a collective exhale when the group arrives and even the drive, windy as it may be, is part of the process in terms of having space between the demands of the job and the experience of the retreat. If all goes well, we'll return to Sea Ranch once again in 2018.
Read input from some participants after last year's retreat.