text:
<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Kegiatan extends MY_Controller {

	/**
	 * Index Page for this controller.
	 *
	 * Maps to the following URL
	 * 		http://example.com/index.php/welcome
	 *	- or -
	 * 		http://example.com/index.php/welcome/index
	 *	- or -
	 * Since this controller is set as the default controller in
	 * config/routes.php, it's displayed at http://example.com/
	 *
	 * So any other public methods not prefixed with an underscore will
	 * map to /index.php/welcome/<method_name>
	 * @see https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html
	 */

	//Function: List of kegiatan
	public function index()
	{
        //Check user is logged or not
	    $this->is_logged();

		//Set Head Content
		$head['title'] = 'Selamat datang di aplikasi e-proposal' ;
		$this->load->view('include/head', $head, TRUE);

        //Set Spesific Javascript page
        $data['script']     = $this->load->view('page/kegiatan/script/script-kegiatan', NULL, TRUE);

		//==== Set Data ====
		$data['load_kegiatan']	= $this->kegiatan_model->select_all_kegiatan();

		$this->template->view('page/kegiatan/kegiatan',$data);
	}

	//Function: Process of adding kegiatan
	public function process_add_kegiatan()
	{
        //No data -> redirected to Daftar Pegawai
		if(count($_POST) == 0){
			redirect('dashboard', 'kegiatan');
		}

		//Default value is OK. If validations fail result will change to NG.
		$output = array(
			'result'  	=> 'OK',
			'msg'		=> ''
		);

		//==== Get Data ====
		$kegiatan	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ap-kegiatan')));
		$status		= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ap-status')));
		$id_user	= $this->session->userdata('sess_user_id');

		//==== Check Data ====
		$sql_keg = $this->kegiatan_model->select_kegiatan_by_name($kegiatan);

		if($sql_keg->num_rows() == 0) {
			//==== Insert Data ====
			$data_insert	= array(
									'nama_kegiatan'	=> ucwords($kegiatan),
									'is_active' 	=> $status,
									'created_by' 	=> $id_user,
									'created_date' 	=> date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
								);
			$this->kegiatan_model->insert_kegiatan($data_insert);

			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil disimpan.');
		}
		else //already exists
		{
			$output = array(
				'result'  	=> 'NG',
				'msg'		=> 'Data sudah ada, mohon masukkan data lainnya.'
			);

			//Set session flashdata
			//$this->session->set_flashdata('message_error', 'Email tidak ditemukan, mohon ulangi kembali.');
		}

		echo json_encode($output);
		exit;
	}

	//Function: Edit kegiatan
	public function edit_kegiatan()
	{
        //Check user is logged or not
	    $this->is_logged();

		//Set Head Content
		$head['title'] = 'Selamat datang di aplikasi e-proposal' ;
		$this->load->view('include/head', $head, TRUE);

		//==== Get Data ====
		$id = $this->uri->segment(2);

        //Set Spesific Javascript page
        $data['script']     = $this->load->view('page/kegiatan/script/script-kegiatan', NULL, TRUE);

		//==== Set Data ====
		$data['load_kegiatan']	= $this->kegiatan_model->select_kegiatan_by_id($id);

		$this->template->view('page/kegiatan/edit-kegiatan',$data);
	}

	//Function: Process of editing kegiatan
	public function process_edit_kegiatan()
	{
        //No data -> redirected to Daftar Pegawai
		if(count($_POST) == 0){
			redirect('dashboard', 'kegiatan');
		}

		//Default value is OK. If validations fail result will change to NG.
		$output = array(
			'result'  	=> 'OK',
			'msg'		=> ''
		);

		//==== Get Data ====
		$kegiatan	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ep-kegiatan')));
		$status		= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ep-status')));
		$id_kegiatan= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ep-id-kegiatan')));
		$id_user	= $this->session->userdata('sess_user_id');

		//==== Check Data ====
		$sql_id_kegiatan = $this->kegiatan_model->select_kegiatan_by_id($id_kegiatan);
		$sql_kegiatan	 = $this->kegiatan_model->select_kegiatan_by_name($kegiatan);

		if($sql_kegiatan->num_rows() == 0) {
			//==== Update Data ====
			$data_update	= array(
									'nama_kegiatan'	=> ucwords($kegiatan),
									'is_active' 	=> $status,
									'modified_by' 	=> $id_user,
									'modified_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
								);
			$this->kegiatan_model->update_kegiatan($id_kegiatan,$data_update);

			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil disimpan.');
		}
		else //already exists
		{
			$p = $sql_id_kegiatan->result_array();

			if(strcmp($kegiatan,$p[0]['nama_kegiatan'])==0) //'Nama provinsi' exactly the same as previous name
			{
				//==== Update Data ====
				$data_update	= array(
										'is_active' 	=> $status,
										'modified_by' 	=> $id_user,
										'modified_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
									);
				$this->kegiatan_model->update_kegiatan($id_kegiatan,$data_update);

				//Set session flashdata
				$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil disimpan.');
			}
			else
			{
				$output = array(
					'result'  	=> 'NG',
					'msg'		=> 'Data sudah ada, mohon masukkan data lainnya.'
				);
			}
			//Set session flashdata
			//$this->session->set_flashdata('message_error', 'Email tidak ditemukan, mohon ulangi kembali.');
		}

		echo json_encode($output);
		exit;
	}

	//Function: Process of deleting kegiatan
	public function process_delete_kegiatan()
	{
		//Check user is logged or not
	    $this->is_logged();

		//==== Get Data ====
		$id_kegiatan	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-dp-id-kegiatan')));

		if($id_kegiatan != '') {
			//==== Delete Data ====
			$this->kegiatan_model->delete_kegiatan($id_kegiatan);

			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil dihapus.');
		}
		else
		{
			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_error', 'Terjadi kesalahan, mohon ulangi kembali.');
		}

		redirect('daftar-kegiatan');
	}

	//Function: List of Sub Kegiatan
	public function sub_kegiatan()
	{
        //Set Head Content
		$head['title'] = 'Selamat datang di aplikasi e-proposal' ;
		$this->load->view('include/head', $head, TRUE);

        //Set Spesific Javascript page
        $data['script']     = $this->load->view('page/kegiatan/script/script-sub-kegiatan', NULL, TRUE);

        //==== Set Data ====
        $data['load_subkegiatan']	= $this->kegiatan_model->select_all_subkegiatan();
        $data['load_kegiatan'] 	= $this->kegiatan_model->select_dropdown_kegiatan();

		$this->template->view('page/kegiatan/sub_kegiatan',$data);
	}

	//Function: Process of adding Kabupaten
	public function process_add_kabupaten()
	{
        //No data -> redirected to Daftar Pegawai
		if(count($_POST) == 0){
			redirect('dashboard', 'location');
		}

		//Default value is OK. If validations fail result will change to NG.
		$output = array(
			'result'  	=> 'OK',
			'msg'		=> ''
		);

		//==== Get Data ====
		$provinsi	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ak-provinsi')));
		$jenis		= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ak-jenis')));
		$kabupaten	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ak-kabupaten')));
		$status		= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ak-status')));
		$id_user	= $this->session->userdata('sess_user_id');

		//==== Check Data ====
		$sql_kab = $this->location_model->select_provinsi_kabupaten($provinsi,$kabupaten);

		if($sql_kab->num_rows() == 0) {
			//==== Insert Data ====
			$data_insert	= array(
									'id_provinsi'	=> $provinsi,
									'jenis_wilayah' => $jenis,
									'nama_kota' 	=> ucwords($kabupaten),
									'is_active' 	=> $status,
									'created_by' 	=> $id_user,
									'created_date' 	=> date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
								);
			$this->location_model->insert_kabupaten($data_insert);

			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil disimpan.');
		}
		else //already exists
		{
			$output = array(
				'result'  	=> 'NG',
				'msg'		=> 'Data sudah ada, mohon masukkan data lainnya.'
			);

			//Set session flashdata
			//$this->session->set_flashdata('message_error', 'Email tidak ditemukan, mohon ulangi kembali.');
		}

		echo json_encode($output);
		exit;
	}

	//Function: Edit Kabupaten
	public function edit_kabupaten()
	{
        //Check user is logged or not
	    $this->is_logged();

		//Set Head Content
		$head['title'] = 'Selamat datang di aplikasi e-proposal' ;
		$this->load->view('include/head', $head, TRUE);

		//==== Get Data ====
		$id = $this->uri->segment(2);

        //Set Spesific Javascript page
        $data['script']     = $this->load->view('page/location/script/script-kabupaten', NULL, TRUE);

		//==== Set Data ====
        $data['load_prov'] 	= $this->location_model->select_dropdown_provinsi();
		$data['load_kab']	= $this->location_model->select_kabupaten_by_id($id);

		$this->template->view('page/location/edit-kabupaten',$data);
	}

	//Function: Process of editing Kabupaten
	public function process_edit_kabupaten()
	{
        //No data -> redirected to Daftar Pegawai
		if(count($_POST) == 0){
			redirect('dashboard', 'location');
		}

		//Default value is OK. If validations fail result will change to NG.
		$output = array(
			'result'  	=> 'OK',
			'msg'		=> ''
		);

		//==== Get Data ====
		$provinsi	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ek-provinsi')));
		$jenis		= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ek-jenis')));
		$kabupaten	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ek-kabupaten')));
		$status		= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ek-status')));
		$id_kab		= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-ek-id-kabupaten')));
		$id_user	= $this->session->userdata('sess_user_id');

		//==== Check Data ====
		$sql_id_kab = $this->location_model->select_kabupaten_by_id($id_kab);
		$sql_kab	= $this->location_model->select_provinsi_kabupaten($provinsi,$kabupaten);

		if($sql_kab->num_rows() == 0) {
			//==== Update Data ====
			$data_update	= array(
									'id_provinsi'	=> $provinsi,
									'jenis_wilayah'	=> $jenis,
									'nama_kota'		=> ucwords($kabupaten),
									'is_active' 	=> $status,
									'modified_by' 	=> $id_user,
									'modified_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
								);
			$this->location_model->update_kabupaten($id_kab,$data_update);

			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil disimpan.');
		}
		else //already exists
		{
			$p = $sql_id_kab->result_array();

			if($provinsi==$p[0]['id_provinsi'] and strcmp($kabupaten,$p[0]['nama_kota'])==0) //'Nama kota' exactly the same as previous name
			{
				//==== Update Data ====
				$data_update	= array(
										'jenis_wilayah' => $jenis,
										'is_active' 	=> $status,
										'modified_by' 	=> $id_user,
										'modified_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
									);
				$this->location_model->update_kabupaten($id_kab,$data_update);

				//Set session flashdata
				$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil disimpan.');
			}
			else
			{
				$output = array(
					'result'  	=> 'NG',
					'msg'		=> 'Data sudah ada, mohon masukkan data lainnya.'
				);
			}
			//Set session flashdata
			//$this->session->set_flashdata('message_error', 'Email tidak ditemukan, mohon ulangi kembali.');
		}

		echo json_encode($output);
		exit;
	}

	//Function: Process of deleting Kabupaten
	public function process_delete_kabupaten()
	{
		//Check user is logged or not
	    $this->is_logged();

		//==== Get Data ====
		$id_kab	= $this->security->xss_clean(strip_image_tags($this->input->post('f-dp-id-kab')));

		if($id_kab != '') {
			//==== Delete Data ====
			$this->location_model->delete_kabupaten($id_kab);

			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_success', 'Data telah berhasil dihapus.');
		}
		else
		{
			//Set session flashdata
			$this->session->set_flashdata('message_error', 'Terjadi kesalahan, mohon ulangi kembali.');
		}

		redirect('daftar-kabupaten');
	}

	//Function: List of Kecamatan
	public function kecamatan()
	{
        //Set Head Content
		$head['title'] = 'Selamat datang di aplikasi e-proposal' ;
		$this->load->view('include/head', $head, TRUE);

        //Set Spesific Javascript page
        $data['script']     = $this->load->view('page/proposal/script/script', NULL, TRUE);

		$this->load->view('page/user/signin',$data);
	}

	//Function: List of Desa
	public function desa()
	{
        //Set Head Content
		$head['title'] = 'Selamat datang di aplikasi e-proposal' ;
		$this->load->view('include/head', $head, TRUE);

        //Set Spesific Javascript page
        $data['script']     = $this->load->view('page/proposal/script/script', NULL, TRUE);

		$this->load->view('page/user/signin',$data);
	}

	//Function: Get List of City, depends on Province
	public function get_cities()
	{
        //Get Data
		$id_p 			= $_GET['province'];
        $load_cities	= $this->location_model->select_dropdown_kabupaten($id_p);

        //Load Data
		$aattrib_c 		= array('id'=>'f-ep-city','class'=>'form-control');
		echo form_dropdown('f-ep-city', $load_cities, $aattrib_c);
	}
}

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Franz Robert Czieslik (* 11. Oktober 1965 in Leipzig) ist ein deutscher Bildhauer und Künstler.

Leben und Werk
Franz Robert Czieslik absolvierte von 1982 bis 1984 bei Fa. H. Augspach in Wismar eine Lehre als Tischler. 1997 besuchte er die Fachoberschule für Gestaltung Dresden. Er erhielt 2001 im Fach Freiraum- und Flächenplanung einen Gast-Lehrauftrag an der HTW Dresden.

Inspiriert durch einen Besuch des Ernst-Barlach-Hauses in Güstrow entschloss er sich 1979 dazu, den Beruf des Bildhauers zu wählen. Ab September 1979 erhielt er Bildhauerunterricht von Walter Strübing, einem Architekten und Bildhauer in Wismar. Um seinem Berufswunsch näherzukommen, absolvierte er zunächst die Tischlerlehre. In den Jahren 1984 bis 1987 arbeitete er an der Bauhütte der Mecklenburgischen Landeskirche in Schwerin. Hier war er als Tischler mit restauratorischen Aufgaben vorrangig in Wismar tätig. Dort arbeitete er an der Restaurierung von Kirchportalen der Nikolaikirche und an Ausstattungsgegenständen aus dieser und der Georgenkirche (Wismar) mit. Cziesliks Arbeiten sind in dieser Zeit durch figürliche Abstraktionen basierend auf Texten und zuvor gefertigten Skizzen geprägt. Die Arbeiten überschreiten selten eine Höhe von 40 cm. Das angestrebte Studium zum Holzrestaurator war ihm in dieser Zeit verwehrt, ebenso die Ausstellung seiner bildhauerischen Arbeiten. Seine erste Personalausstellung bekam er im September 1990 in der Galerie im Fenster in Wismar. Diese umfasste die Rauminstallation Winterschluss, eine künstlerische Position zum ersten und letzten Winterschlussverkauf der DDR sowie in einem Nebenraum seine abstrakt figürlichen Skulpturen. 1991 bis 1994 erlangte er mit seinen Möbeln auf der Grundlage des Pkw Trabant weltweite Aufmerksamkeit.

1995 nahm Czieslik eine Anstellung als Tischler in Moritzburg an und verlegte seinen Wohnsitz zunächst dorthin, später nach Dresden. Dort nahm er 2000 seine selbstständige Tätigkeit als Bildhauer auf. Czieslik löst sich bei der Umsetzung der Skulpturen auf der Basis zuvor gefertigter Entwürfe. Er folgt nun den Formen des gewachsenen Materials (Czieslik: "Die Zeichnung steckt im Material"). Seine Arbeiten wurden größer und raumgreifender. Er bezeichnet seine Objekte als Baumturen, eine Fusion aus den Worten Baum und Skulptur.

In der Zeit von 2000 bis 2005 war Czieslik privater Schüler und Assistent von Rupprecht Geiger in München-Solln. Von September 2000 bis Ende 2002 lebt er in Dresden und München. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Wismar betrieb er ein Atelier im Ohlerich-Speicher im Alten Hafen. Dort war er auch eingebunden in die Projektentwicklung der "Holzstadt".

In der Zeit von 2007 bis 2018 ruht seine selbständige Tätigkeit als Bildhauer. Es entstehen vor allem Texte in Form von Kolumnen und Kindergeschichten. Czieslik schloss eine Hörspielvorlage für "Downloads" ab. Ab 2013 wandte sich Czieslik wieder der Bildhauerei zu.

Seit 2018 ist Czieslik wieder als freischaffender Künstler tätig. In seinem Wohnort Groß Ippener betreibt er einen Skulpturenpark. Es entstehen zusammenhängende Zyklen mit Baumturen bis 4 m Höhe in schwarz/weiß (Materie+Licht), schwarz/leuchtfarben (Materie+Energie), leuchtfarben (Energie) und blau/leuchtfarben. Seit 2020 arbeitet er an dem Zyklus "Licht". Diese Baumturen sind vollständig in Weiß ausgeführt. Seit 2019 setzt er sich bildhauerisch auch mit Sandstein auseinander.

Ausstellungen

1982 – 1989 Ausstellungsbeteiligungen
 in Wismar, Rostock, Dorf Mecklenburg, und Aalborg (DK)

Einzel- und Partnerausstellungen (Auswahl)
 1990 Winterschluss, Rauminstallation und Skulpturen, Galerie am Fenster, Wismar, September 1990
 1999–2000 Auf dem Holzweg (1979–1999), Retrospektive aus 20 Jahren Holzbildhauerei in der Hansestadt Wismar, 20. Dezember 1999 bis 15. Januar 2000
 2000 Baumturen, Holzinstallationen und Skulpturen, HTW Dresden Campus Pillnitz, Pillnitzer Platz 1, Dresden, Juni und Juli 2000
 2001 Lichtblicke auf dem Holzweg, Skulpturen und Malerei, Lesesaal der Außenstelle Dresden des Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der Ehemaligen DDR, Dresden, 11. Januar 2001 bis 30. März 2001
 2001 Baumturen, Skulpturen, Holzinstallationen, Malerei, Lichtobjekte, Zeichnungen, Kloster Chorin und Hotel Haus Chorin, 7. April 2001 bis 30. Juni 2001
 2001 Holzskulpturen, Forum Alstertal, Hamburg, Juli bis August
 2001 Zeichnung und Skulptur, Hotel Baseler Hof, Hamburg, Juli bis August
 2001 Lichtblicke auf dem Holzweg, Skulpturen und Malerei, Lesesaal der Außenstelle Leipzig der Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der Ehemaligen DDR, und Außenanlage am Dittrichring, Leipzig, September bis November
 2002 Baumturen last update, Holzskulpturen und Installationen aus Holz, Museum Schloss Klippenstein, Radeberg, März bis Oktober
 2002 Farbrausch Raum#1, Premiere der Künstlergruppe Farbrausch, eine Installation mit Jens Carstensen, Tom Sauerbier, Werner Neff, Kulturverein Pferdestall, Bremerhaven
 2003 Neue Formen, Studien zu Arbeiten in Aluminium, Carnaval, Peter - Auzinger-Str. 15, München, Mai bis September
 2006 Baumturen, gemeinsame Ausstellung mit Phillip Wabinski (Photographie), Galerie KUNSTstoff, Wismar, Oktober
 2016 "Baumturen" Fusionen von Baum und Skulptur, Wallerie im Walle Center, Bremen, 6. Oktober 2016 bis 22. April 2017
 2018 Baumturen, Forum Alstertal Hamburg, August bis September
 2019 Baumturen Materie – Licht und Farbe, Taufkirchen (Vils) 25. Juli 2019 bis 20. Oktober 2019
 2020 Ein Künstler, drei Orte, drei Positionen. Baumturen und Sandsteinobjekte, Badendiek (Kirche) – Kirch Rosin (Kirchhof) – Lohmen Meckl. (Kirche), 27. Juni 2020 bis 20. September 2020

Werke im öffentlichen Raum
 Christus weist den Weg, Pfarrhaus St. Laurentius, Wismar (Jahreswechsel 1999/2000)
 Überlebensraumbaum, Rudolf-Leonhard-Straße 24, Dresden (2000)
 Weltentanz, Innenhof der Tanzschule Graf, Leisniger Str. 53, Dresden (2001)
 Baum der Weltpoesie, Reihe Das offene Buch, Museum Modern Art Hünfeld, Hünfeld (2003)
 Landmarken, fünf Holzstelen mit farbigen Weinflaschen als Wegmarkierungen entlang des Weinwegs, zum Wein Berg, Fürstlich Drehna (2004)
 Gestaltung des Marktplatzes in Gägelow, Stelen zur Geschichte der Ortsteile der Gemeinde, Gägelow bei Wismar (2005)
 Baumturen, vier Holzskulpturen, Dr.-Winklmann-Weg, Taufkirchen (Vils) (2019)

Literatur
 Franz Robert Czieslik: Baumturen, Dresden, SFPS, 2000

Weblinks
 Internetpräsenz von Franz Robert Czieslik
 Literatur von und über Franz Robert Czieslik in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
 Literatur von und über Franz Robert Czieslik in der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

Einzelnachweise

Bildhauer (Deutschland)
Autor
DDR-Bürger
Deutscher
Geboren 1965
Mann

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Fifty years after Armstrong's first step on the moon, what remains in our memories of this wonderful adventure, this dream come true? Images reported by astronauts, words exchanged in ships, scientific conclusions from the study of lunar rocks build the story of an adventurous journey, ...
Fifty years after Armstrong's first step on the moon, what remains in our memories of this wonderful adventure, this dream come true? Images reported by astronauts, words exchanged in ships, scientific conclusions from the study of lunar rocks build the story of an adventurous journey, led by extraordinary heroes, as well as a successful geopolitical challenge.
A true duty to remember, this book offers a 360° reading of the lunar program and is accompanied by panoramas reconstructed from the photographs taken by astronauts...
Relive Apollo's adventures!
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Three Graces London's pieces are destined for sunnier climes, whether you're perusing local bazaars on vacation or enjoying walks in the park back in the city. This 'Livietta' kaftan is made from a striped linen-blend that's woven with touches of cotton to keep you cool, and has elbow-grazing puffed sleeves. Team it with a straw hat and espadrilles.
Shown here with: Dragon Diffusion Tote, ATP Atelier Sandals, Chloé Necklace, Alighieri Necklace.


Mohammed Dahlan, PA chairman's exiled rival, takes part in public meeting with Hamas members of parliament.
Mohammed Dahlan, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas's exiled rival, on Thursday took part in a public meeting with Hamas members of parliament for the first time in a decade.
Dahlan, a former security chief in Gaza under Abbas's Fatah faction, was ousted from the party in 2011 and fled to Dubai. His home in Ramallah was later raided by PA security forces.
Abbas has accused Dahlan of, among other things, collaborating with Israel to assassinate a senior Hamas terrorist in 2002.
Dahlan was sentenced in absentia late last year to three years in prison for allegedly embezzling $16 million while serving as a Cabinet minister.
Despite living in exile, he has been moving closer to Gaza's Hamas rulers in recent months, with rumors he could join a government in the Palestinian enclave.
A portion of the Palestinian Legislative Council, which has not met in full since Hamas seized Gaza from Fatah in bloody coup in 2007, held an emergency session Thursday, reported AFP.
Dahlan attended via video link, while seven of his allies in Gaza attended in person -- along with 22 Hamas members, according to Hamas's media office.
The 132-member parliament is dominated by Hamas with 74 members, while Fatah has 45.
Dahlan said he had been talking with Hamas to reach "understandings which are able to restore hope to the people of Gaza and alleviate their suffering."
He added that talks with the groups were going well "but we are still at the beginning of the road."
The meeting comes after a delegation headed by Hamas's Gaza leader Yihya Sinwar met with Dahlan in Cairo in June to discuss ways to resolve the crises in Gaza.
Fatah recently finally acknowledged that it has no control over Gaza and is now trying to force it to return control of the enclave by creating economic pressure on the group.
Reconciliation between Hamas and Dahlan would be seen as a blow for Abbas, noted AFP.


Yoga, meditation, service opportunities, music, & goodness.... all for free!! That's the EmbodyGR movement. Come on out this week and join Peri as she leads in my absence. You will be glad you did!
- It's ArtPrize and parking is at a premium so be sure to leave enough time.
- We are in the "tree house" for the next 2 weeks!
- Sign up online for child care & be sure to cancel early if you can't make it to leave space for another.
Hold space for me and I will see you on September 28!
Why: To feel better & do good!
September 23-24: Oktoberfest West Michigan FREE!
What: Dance, eat, and drink! The event is free to attend including access to the festival grounds, music tent and food vendor area; however there is a $5 cover for an "Over 21" wristband which will be required to drink alcohol at the event.
September 24: Ladyfest at the Lakeshore 2016 FREE!
What: Ladyfest at the Lakeshore is an inclusive celebration of women and girls, focused primarily on the rich diversity of authentic female voices in the Midwest. We seek to raise awareness about global issues regarding women and girls, while growing a community of local and regional talents and perspectives.
Ahhh September... You come into focus so slyly. One moment it's all things beach balls, bbq's & sunscreen, with summer's ease gently settling in day by beautiful day and then, seemingly, all of a sudden, bam... "back to school" items are on the shelves and we find the leaves are turning.
September is an invitation to shift energy, focus & intention. This is a month filled with reestablishing routines, reevaluating goals and recalibrating to shorter days, lower temps, and a new rhythm to our lives. It is a time of important focus- it's National Yoga Month & National Suicide Awareness Month. And in my opinion it's no surprise they are in the same month; I believe they go hand in hand. Over 90 percent of people who die by suicide have a mental illness at the time of their death. Depression is the most common mental illness. The practices of yoga & meditation are shown to play a powerful role in helping alleviate depression & enhance well-being. These practices are a pathway to approach anxiety, depression, physical illness/injury, isolation, and loneliness. Breath linked with movement, grounded in intention, practiced in community, is a perfect prescription for feeling better in our whole being- body/mind/heart. Please remember it isn't a "cure all" so if you personally struggle keep up with what your professionals advise while adding yoga, meditation, and service in community to your Rx for wellbeing! Yoga heals!
Since many of us directly suffer or have been indirectly affected by mental illness and even suicide, let us be open and honest about this reality. Though it can carry stigma and shame, both of which exacerbate stress and dis-ease in the body & mind, we at EmbodyGR work to open the conversation honestly, with compassion & a focus on healing. This work is crucial. We ground in love and belonging. We collaborate with the Mental Health Foundation, learn more aboutiUnderstand, get certified in mental health first aid. We do our best to show up for ourselves and others, we ask them if they are okay, and we do our best to offer hope and healing.
I am uber proud of all of us at EmbodyGR who, on September 10, lived out our mantra "feel better, DO good" at the Walk to Stop HIV. Many of us showed up to volunteer, support, practice yoga & walk. Some of us even sponsored walkers and donated money. It was good times for an important cause. As Ghandi said, "In a gentle way, YOU can shake the world." And yes, we did shake it up with breath, movement, laughter, tears, a 3.2 mile walk... all in community. Together it is easier to do our part knowing we are not alone. That our efforts make a difference. That we become better people while doing good for others.
I wish you a smooth transition into our new month, an invitation to continually show up for yourself, and a collective call to being present for others to offer words of love and encouragement especially when life's challenges seem to large to face alone. Together we rise!


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Arab "Moderates" Are More Dangerous
Than Openly Extremist Arabs (Part 1)
(Originally published by JTF.ORG on October 20, 2004) Arabs who pretend to be "moderate" are far more clever and dangerous than Arabs who openly proclaim their genocidal Islamic goals
Egyptian Muslim Nazi dictator Anwar el-Sadat taught the Arab Muslim Nazis how to play the "moderate" game for foolish Western "infidels"
Hitler fan Anwar Sadat plays the "moderate" Arab Muslim Nazi with self-hating Jews Golda Meir and Shimon Peres
Self-hating Jewish Marxist Yitzchak Rabin pays his respects to Egyptian Muslim Nazi dictator Anwar Sadat's Cairo tomb
There are no Arab "moderates." The universal goal of the Arab world is the destruction of America, Israel and Western civilization.
The clever Arabs who pretend to be "moderate" when speaking to naive Christians and Jews are far more dangerous than the less clever Arabs who honestly and openly proclaim their Nazi genocidal goals.
In the next two weeks, JTF.ORG will prove this point by revealing the truth about the ultimate representative of the Arab "moderates," the late Egyptian Muslim Nazi dictator Anwar el-Sadat, yimach shmo ve-zichro (may his name and memory be obliterated).
An openly genocidal Egyptian Arab Muslim Nazi, at odds with the far more clever and dangerous policy of Egypt's military regime, waves his Koran through prison bars
Sadat was far more clever than openly genocidal Egyptian Muslim Nazis like Ayman Zawahiri (l.), the medical doctor and close personal associate of Osama Bin Laden
Sadat taught the Arab Muslim Nazis how to play the "moderate" game with foolish Americans, Israelis and other Westerners. In the next two weeks, we shall review the devastating consequences of Sadat's Nazi strategy of deception, trickery and lying propaganda.
Until 1970, the Arab world was ruled by bloodthirsty Muslim despots who openly proclaimed - even to Westerners - that their goal was to "push the Jews into the sea" and "finish Hitler's job" (to quote Ahmed Shukari, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United Nations and the first chairman of the terrorist PLO).
The leader of the Arab world has usually been Muslim Nazi Egypt, which is the largest and strongest of the 22 Arab nations that surround little Israel.
Nasser was violently anti-American and anti-Christian - positions universally popular in the Arab Muslim world - Nasser relaxed with the bloodstained foreign minister of Communist China, Chou En Lai, and received a medal from the equally bloodstained tyrant of Soviet Russia, Nikita Khrushchev
From 1952 to 1970, Egypt's dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser publicly called for the physical extermination of Israel and the Jewish people - a call that was enthusiastically echoed by the other 21 Arab dictators.
Egypt's Muslim Nazi dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser publicly called for the physical extermination of Israel and the Jewish people - a call enthusiastically echoed by his 21 fellow Arab dictators - Nasser (l.) met with a youthful Moammar Khaddafi, the Muslim Nazi dictator of the Libyan terrorist regime
Nasser was also violently anti-American and anti-Christian - positions that were and are universally popular in the Arab Muslim world.
Because the Arab Muslim Nazis were completely united in their publicly stated goal of annihilating Israel, Israeli Jews were united in their steadfast determination to defend the Jewish homeland and to prevent another Holocaust against the Jewish people.
The backs of Israeli Jews were against the wall. They had no choice but to fight in order to survive. In this situation, tiny Israel won her greatest triumphs.
Nasser and an Egyptian Muslim Nazi general during Egypt's military buildup before the 1967 Six Day War - During the war, Nasser's generals dared not tell him that the Egyptian air force had been destroyed on the ground by Israeli jets. (Some generals were later murdered by Nasser for losing the war.)
In the 1967 Six Day War, Israel quadrupled in size in only six days despite being outnumbered by the Arab Muslim Nazis by a margin of 70 to 1.
Nasser (l.) and Sadat (r.)
However, in November 1970, Nasser died of a heart attack. He was replaced by a new Muslim Nazi dictator, Anwar el-Sadat.
Arabs always lie - even to each other - During Israel's glorious and miraculous victory in the 1967 Six Day War, Nasser and Jordanian Muslim Nazi dictator King Hussein lied to each other, and to their people, by claiming that the armies of Egypt and Jordan were overrunning Israel - even though it was clear from the start that Israel was smashing the invading Arab forces
Sadat immediately told Westerners that Egypt was prepared to enter into a "peace agreement with Israel."
This was the beginning of a new era: the era of the Arab Muslim Nazi campaign to destroy Israel in stages.
Sadat's strategy was explained by his close confidant Mohammed Heikal, the editor of the official Egyptian regime-controlled newspaper Al Ahram, who wrote on February 25, 1971:
"Arab policy at this stage has but two objectives. The first, the elimination of the traces of the 1967 aggression through an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories it occupied that year.
Sadat with the left-wing, Jew-hating peanut farmer Jimmy Carter at the Pyramids in Egypt - Carter's brother Billy was openly placed on the payroll of Muslim terrorist Libya
"The second objective is the elimination of the traces of the 1948 aggression, by means of the elimination of the State of Israel itself. This is, however, as yet an abstract, undefined objective, and some of us have erred in commencing the latter step before the former."
Thus, Sadat's strategy was to first weaken Israel by getting her to make suicidal territorial retreats from the lands which she liberated in the 1967 Six Day War. After the Israeli retreat to indefensible borders, the Arab world would then attack the greatly weakened Israel in an all-out war to completely exterminate the Jewish State and the Jewish people.
Sadat, adored as a "moderate" throughout the West, spent his life emulating Hitler and Mohammed - He revealed his true nature during a interview in which he savagely excoriated his enemies
Sadat's strategy to destroy Israel in stages has now been adopted by much of the Arab and Muslim world. The Arab and Muslim world is now divided into two camps: first, the more clever Muslims, who pretend to be "moderate" when speaking to Western "infidels," and who seek to annihilate Israel in stages; and second, the less clever Muslims who openly demand Israel's immediate destruction.
Sadat - who is adored today by Jews who are self-hating or just plain stupid or both - spent his entire life emulating his two idols, Adolf Hitler and Mohammed, the founder of Nazi Islam.
As a child, Sadat - like virtually all Arabs and Muslims - worshiped Hitler.
Sadat wrote in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of Identity:
A "moderate" and "distinguished" Arab Muslim Nazi terrorist, Egypt's military dictator Anwar Sadat posed on the cover of his autobiographical In Search of Identity - In his autobiography, Sadat proudly recounts his lifelong identification with Adolf Hitler and Hitler's Muslim counterpart, the pedophile terrorist "prophet" of Islam, Mohammed
"I was in our village for the summer vacation when Hitler marched from Munich to Berlin, to wipe out the consequences of Germany's defeat in World War I and rebuild his country. I gathered my friends and told them we ought to follow Hitler's example...."
During World War II, when Egypt was a British colony and the German Nazis invaded North Africa, Sadat and other Egyptian Muslims conspired to help Nazi Germany win the war. Sadat and his co-conspirators were caught by the British. Sadat was convicted of collaborating with the German Nazis and served four years in British prison.
While in British prison as a convicted Nazi collaborator, Sadat taught himself German. He fervently read and studied Hitler's strategy, tactics and speeches, which he himself would later mimic as the Muslim dictator of Egypt.
Again, Sadat's fanatic Hitler-worship is typical of the almost universal admiration for Hitler and the Nazis in the Arab and Muslim world.
Adolf Hitler's infamous Mein Kampf is admired and required reading at the Egyptian Military Academy
An Arabic edition of Mein Kampf, the most popular book among Muslims after the Koran
Hitler's notorious book, Mein Kampf, is required reading at Egypt's Military Academy. After the Koran, Mein Kampf is the second best-selling book in the Arab world. The Saudi terrorist regime spends millions of dollars each year reproducing Mein Kampf in numerous languages and distributing it throughout Islamic nations.
In September 1953, several news wires reported that Hitler was still alive. This report caused enormous excitement in the Arab and Muslim world, where Hitler is idolized. The official Egyptian regime-controlled weekly, Al Musawwar, asked prominent Egyptians the following question in response to the report:
Sadat with West German leader Willy Brandt - Brandt was forced to resign after his personal assistant was unmasked as a Soviet spy
"If you wanted to send Hitler a personal letter, what would your write to him?"
One of those questioned was Colonel Anwar el-Sadat. Sadat responded with the following open letter to Hitler:
"My dear Hitler,
"I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. Even if you appear to have been defeated, in reality you are the victor.
Like virtually all Arabs and Muslims, Sadat adored Adolf Hitler - "My dear Hitler," Sadat wrote in praise of the German dictator, Sadat's idol since childhood, "I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart...."
"You succeeded in creating dissensions between Churchill, the old man, and his allies, the sons of Satan [the Americans].
"Germany will win because her existence is necessary to preserve the world balance. Germany will be reborn in spite of the Western and Eastern powers. There will be no peace unless German once again becomes what she was. The West, as well as the East, will pay for her rehabilitation - whether they like it or not. Both sides will invest a great deal of money and effort in Germany, in order to have her on their side....
"We will not be surprised if you appear again in Germany or if a new Hitler rises in your wake."
Indeed, Sadat's lifelong dream was to be the "new Hitler" who would finally finish off the Jewish people completely.
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Tessian
Who are Tessian?
Whether it's protecting you from accidentally sending an email to the wrong person, or protecting your Company from accidentally disclosing personal date or intellectual property, Tessian is looking out for you.
At Tessian, we have the ambitious goal of protecting enterprise networks against new and intelligent email-based cyber threats, from human error to malice, ultimately making it impossible for sensitive information to end up in the wrong hands.
Through advanced machine learning and natural language processing, Tessian prevents email data-breaches in real-time, outsmarting traditional rule-based, admin-intensive approaches which can only report a breach after it has occurred.
Founded by a team of Imperial College engineers, we're backed by some of the world's leading technology investors. We work with international clients in the financial, legal and professional services sectors who trust us to find the most intelligent ways to keep their data secure.
Tessian has recently been selected to join the Microsoft Accelerator. The programme, which beginning in October 2017, will provide Tessian with unprecedented access to top Microsoft partners and customers, powerful business connections, and world-leading technical knowledge. Additionally, we recently closed a fundraising round of $2.7m led by Accel and LocalGlobe and we are looking to work with the brightest minds to help us accomplish our goal and help us defend our clients against the biggest cybersecurity problems.
What projects / schemes / initiatives to support women's recruitment, retention and progression in STEM are Tessian involved in?
At Tessian, we have female members at levels all across the organisation, including our investors, senior management, and heads of division, and we set an example through our actions, and by making sure there is visibility of women leading in STEM.
Through our support, we hope to show that it's both the right thing to do, and that it's also in everyone's best interests, and we see the benefits of diversity in our senior management team every day.
As a startup we have the benefit of agility and writing the rulebook from scratch, and we have sought to join WISE early in our tenure as a funded company as we believe that you cannot hold-off on trying to address a concern as vital as this.
We provide informal training on avoiding gender bias in interview and screening processes, and we tailor our job descriptions to equally encourage candidates of all backgrounds and genders.
Our staff have also, in previous capacities, engaged in STEM mentoring for school children, trying to dissolve early the false perception that STEM subjects 'are only for boys'.
Most of our senior management have STEM backgrounds, so we've seen the gender imbalance as far back as school-days, and with some of those STEM senior management employees being female, we know exactly how arbitrary the distinction is.
Whatever factors contribute to the imbalance, we wish to correct them, because we have all seen first-hand that there is no good reason why women should be underrepresented in STEM.
Why did Tessian join WISE?
"As a technology startup with the majority of senior management hailing from STEM backgrounds, Tessian has seen first-hand that there's a long way to go in achieving a gender balance in STEM. It's important to us to be proactive in addressing this inequality."
– Sabrina Castiglione, Chief of Staff
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The ancient secrets of green tea
The green tea that a Japanese brought back from ancient China 1200 years ago was a completely different shape. The green tea called Dancha was hard and compressed in a rectangular frame like chocolate. Here, I will solve the secret mystery.
Green tea cannot be cultivated anywhere in the vast Chinese land. The latitude range of tea production is limited. Ancient capital Xi'an and Beijing are far away from the production areas. The tea leaves offered to Chinese emperors and vassals must be transported for months.
Around the 12th century, China sold tea leaves to Mongolia and purchased warhorses as the exchange. For the Mongolians, green tea had become an indispensable part of the life of traveling in the cold grassland with horses.
How can I minimize the massive cargo? In this situation, many workers and carriages will be required for transportation.
Surely, the ancient people must have lamented. Solidification was done to solve this problem. That means saving logistics costs.
Soft water is not always everywhere
If ancient green tea was aimed at extracting health ingredients, people have to look for soft water. In fact, soft water areas and hard water areas exist like mosaics on the earth.
However, the Japanese archipelago is miraculously soft water in most cases. People in Japan who realized the benefits of the ingredients thanks to soft water have been improving to taste raw tea leaves instead of hard solidified green tea like Dancha. Its 1200-year history forms the current Japanese green tea. But please rest assured even in case of outside Japan. Matcha can be enjoyed even in hard water.
This mystery solving is my guess.
ZENJIRO's book is now available on Apple Books!
From parent site: https://www.zenjiro.online/post/zenjiro-s-book-is-now-available-on-apple-books ------------------------ The book introduce correct ways to enjoy Japanese tea which nobody ever wrote.
The perfect sweets for green tea time
How to incorporate green tea into your morning


Melanie Parsonage is a KRI certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Being a dedicated mum to my 2 sons over the past 18 years, I have always had a great passion and interest in the holistic approach to life. After a few health problems with my eldest son and myself, this pushed me to look at alternative healing methods as the conventional health system had no effect and I instinctively knew there would be a cure for us and there was!
Over the last 17 years I have trained in many holistic practices from Massage, Reflexology, Crystal Healing, Nutrition, Life Alignment, NES Health to name just a few. My physical practice was mainly Pilates for many years and I could never understand why my aching lower back would never go regardless of the hours spent on the Reformer or the mat! This then led me to Iyengar Yoga, within a couple of weeks, no more achy lower back! After a couple of years continuing with Iyengar, I was instinctively drawn to Daria's wonderful Kundalini class, I immediately fell in love with the Mantras, Music, Meditation and the Kriyas, what more could my Soul ask for?! After 3 years of going to class I felt the call to take the Teacher Training Course with the Divine Hari Har Ji which was probably one of the most amazing, challenging and life changing courses I have ever taken. I have overcome so many fears and challenges on this journey and feel honoured to be teaching this wonderful blessing to humanity.


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Poor credit is a barrier to affordable housing. Lending circles are a tool for those in poverty
Nicole Hayden
After a grueling workday, Rafael Campos comes home to a makeshift bedroom, tucked between a tower of shelves and piles of boxes. Near a television and mismatched couches, he mimics privacy in the living room of his rented, manufactured trailer. A portrait of his late father sits on a shelf above his mattress.
His 800-square-foot home is a cramped maze of slim walkways that only one person can squeeze through at a time. Even when he's in his bed, Campos still doesn't have complete silence. His mom, Lilia, can often be found just a few feet away cooking in the kitchen. His sisters, Ruby, 25, and Sophia, 12, are usually nestled in their rooms with headphones on.
It's less crowded than before. Five of his sisters originally lived in the two-bedroom home in Thousand Palms, Calif. – three women to each of the two beds. In the past few years, three of his sisters married and moved out.
That created more room to breathe. But it also meant fewer wages to help pay the bills.
"Better housing is something that's important to me because I'm going to work every day and coming home to a house that's not the best," said Campos, who makes an average of $15 per hour to take care of his mother and two sisters. "It's like, I'm killing myself for this?"
At 7:30 a.m. each weekday, Campos paints houses. At 4 p.m. he works as a ranch hand at one farm and from 5 p.m to 8:30 p.m. he does the same at another. On Sundays, he cleans offices. On Saturdays, he sleeps.
Together, the Campos family makes barely enough — about $30,000 annually — to scrape by, just above the federal poverty level for a family of four.
While they would like to buy a home — or rent one that is slightly larger, slightly newer, slightly nicer — they've been denied because of poor credit. Lilia's credit score, which is around 540, plummeted after the family could no longer pay a mortgage in Los Angeles during the recession. Rafael's dropped after he maxed out his credit cards when he was younger and trying to afford life on his own. Under 600 is considered a poor score.
The Desert Sun is identifying the Campos family members by their middle and last names, which they requested due to fear of retribution from their landlord.
"It's hard because you need good credit to rent or they ask for three times the amount of what rent is for a security deposit to make up for it, and that's impossible," Campos said. "The cheapest I could find was a two-bedroom for $1,500. Maybe we could do that, but that would be me sleeping in the living room again, and that would be assuming the landlord is OK with that because usually, they want one person per bedroom."
The Campos family's low credit scores prevent them from accessing credit cards or loans, essentially barring them from establishing a record of credit payments to drive their scores back up. Income also can be a factor in qualifying for a new loan or credit card.
They're locked in a poor-credit cycle of poverty.
Their situation is common across California and the country. Thirty-four percent of Americans have poor credit scores, like Lilia and Rafael, with Latino and black households more likely to have poor credit than white consumers, according to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's most recent survey in 2015.
Additionally, 18% of Californians are credit invisible, which means they either have no credit or don't have enough to warrant a score, according to the bureau. Latino, black and low-income individuals are more likely to have no credit, and "recent immigrants" are also affected, according to the bureau.
These factors are often barriers to financial security and contributors to systemic poverty. Poor or no credit can lead to higher insurance rates and utility deposits. Additionally, people with poor credit can be denied jobs, loans and housing – even Section 8 housing.
This means that while tens of thousands of affordable housing units are planned to be built in California over the next decade, the Campos family — and other families in similar situations — will still struggle to access that housing because it will require a decent credit score.
But one organization is hoping to alleviate this barrier with a program called "lending circles," a loan in which people pool their money together to lend and borrow. The Campos family will be one of the first in the Coachella Valley to participate in this program, which is just one tool for families with poor or no credit to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty.
How lending circles work
Lift to Rise, a Coachella Valley nonprofit that collects housing and poverty data to push policy change, launched a local lending circle program aimed at serving poor, minority residents in January. They're working with San Francisco-based Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit that launched the concept in 2008.
Lending circles work a bit differently from other loans. Participants aren't borrowing a large sum of money upfront and repaying it; instead, they pay into a pool of money and take turns receiving the savings. This simultaneously establishes payment history and a savings fund. It has been an informal but common practice within Latino communities for centuries. They're traditionally known as tandas, the Spanish word for informal lending circles.
Mission Asset Fund adapted this concept but took it a step further, requiring participants to sign promissory notes recognized by banks and credit bureaus. Formalizing the program in this way allowed participants to establish or improve their credit scores, since payment histories would be reported to the three major U.S. credit companies.
Participants contribute a set amount of money each month, typically ranging from $50 to $200. Lilia makes her first payment of $100 in February. Six other participants in her circle will do the same over the course of six months. Each month, a different participant will receive the $600 total. Financial planning and education are coupled with the program.
"We have to start somewhere. We are at rock bottom in our credit and we can't sink anymore," said Campos, who plans to join a lending circle after his mother completes the one she is in — they can only afford to participate in one at a time.
Lift to Rise is providing three circles tailored to different needs. One is aimed at individuals who want to improve their credit score to find better housing. Another is intended for people who are interested in qualifying for a small business loan, and the third circle is for undocumented residents who want help saving their money to pay for immigration documents. In this first round, Lift to Rise hopes to work with 40 people among those three circles.
Mission Asset Fund has partnered with more than 50 organizations across the country, like Lift to Rise, to provide lending circles to more than 9,000 clients since 2008. Founder and CEO Jose Quinonez said 56% of those participating in a Mission Asset Fund lending circle nationwide are Latino.
"Our work is definitely focused on helping low-income immigrant communities generally improve their financial security," Quinonez said. "Because our work has been focused on that segment we learned that this community already had this rich tradition of coming together to help each other. We are basically lifting this activity up."
In California, nearly 24% of Latinos in California lived in poverty in 2017, compared to 12.5% of white individuals. Latinos make up 52% of California's poor population, but 39% of all Californians, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
Tandas are ingrained in Latino communities
Joseph Lauchlan, who coordinates lending circles for nonprofit Southwest Solutions, said Latino clients he works with are often already familiar with how the payment structure works because it mirrors the idea of tandas.
Southwest Solutions, which manages housing in Detroit, first launched lending circles through a partnership with Mission Asset Fund and Chase Bank in 2016.
"When we mention tandas to (our clients) they generally understand what we are talking about and it's easier to convey this new idea," Lauchlan said. "It's less easy explaining what we are talking about in terms of the credit reporting system, particularly when we are working with the undocumented or unbanked population; that is why education and coaching is so important."
While the goal of Mission Asset was originally focused on helping minorities out of poverty, the tool is relevant across all communities.
"Program participants are freeing themselves from the grasp of predatory lenders by opening bank accounts, building credit histories, paying down high-cost debt, and increasing their savings," Quinonez wrote in a paper in 2016.
Quinonez said he found that when you couple the concept of tandas with an end goal of being a first-time homebuyer or securing a small business loan, then the follow-through on lending circle participation tends to increase.
"When circles are integrated as a solution to a problem someone is already facing, it becomes a welcomed solution," Quinonez said. "You can talk to people all you want about getting a house but without good credit, you are just talking."
How lending circles can be beneficial
Heather Vaikona, Lift to Rise director, said nonprofit financial counseling programs often assume people are financially illiterate, so they also teach money management skills. However, she said, many low-income households — like the Campos — are already excellent at that.
What families need is a tool that will break their cycle of poverty, she said. An improved credit score can help.
For example, three years ago, the Campos' air conditioning unit broke. The landlord refused to fix it, and Campos was afraid to challenge him out of fear of being evicted. So, the family paid for a new unit with their own cash, forcing them to lose a large portion of their savings and tighten their monthly budget. This often happens when repairs are needed in their home.
The Campos family's monthly expenses are:
$900 rent
$320 for gas for the family's single vehicle
$415 for food
$200 for winter utilities (includes electric, water, gas and trash, but that increases to about $700 in the summer, when Campos' sisters work more to help with bills)
$175 for a family phone plan
$80 for internet, which Campos' youngest sister needs to do her homework
$10 Netflix
$300 sent to Campos' grandparents in Mexico to help with their bills
$100 for the lending circle
"We have a little girl and we can't have her in that heat, so of course we have to replace it," Campos said of the broken air-conditioning unit. "She's who we are trying to take care of the most."
Having the opportunity to buy the air-conditioning unit on credit could have alleviated some of that immediate financial stress. Similarly, the family recently tried to purchase a stove via a rent-to-buy option but were denied because of their credit.
Campos says his 12-year-old sister is often afraid to ask him for things she needs for school, like shoes or books. She knows that any extra costs mean he will have to pick up extra work shifts to afford it.
Lending circle participants average a 168-point increase in their credit score and decrease their debt after 11 months, according to reports from the Mission Asset Fund.
For participants who started with no credit, 69% successfully established a credit score within 10 months of participation, according to Mission Asset Fund. The nonprofit doesn't keep long-term data to track if former clients are able to maintain their financial health, according to Southwest Solutions.
But Mission Asset Fund's lending circles have had enough success to catch the attention of major financial instructions across the country.
JPMorgan Chase Bank donated $1 million to the Mission Asset Fund in 2019 to help the nonprofit continue to launch more lending circles, said spokeswoman Amalia Kontesi.
And Rod Griffin, director of consumer education at Experian, one of top three credit-reporting agencies in the country, said lending circles have contributed to increased credit scores nationwide.
"(Lending circles drive) financial inclusion and improved financial health by facilitating access to lower-cost financial services," Griffin said in an email. "For many people, lending circles can be the first step toward building a traditional credit history and a way out of predatory lending."
Undocumented residents can get help, too
Those credit successes are not just limited to legal residents. People who don't have legal documentation can participate in the lending circles as well.
Just like they are able to obtain credit cards and small bank loans, undocumented residents can join the Mission Asset Fund program if they have an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). For people who can't get a Social Security number, an ITIN allows them to make income, file taxes and open a checking account.
This is how Campos plans to join a lending circle, likely about a year after his mom improves her credit. While his whole family has legal documentation, Campos does not. His parents filed papers for him after they moved to California from Mexico when he was a year old, but he doesn't know why the process wasn't finalized. He was also denied DACA because of prior misdemeanors.
For undocumented residents without an ITIN, Lauchlan said he often works with a family member who does have one to set up a lending circle. This can be especially beneficial in California, where 12% of households are mixed-status families — meaning some may be undocumented immigrants and others might have legal status.
How lending circles are limited
One caveat to the success of lending circles is the small number of people they serve, said Lauchlan.
The first program that Southwest Solutions launched in Detroit was open to anyone and everyone. Over the first three years, the nonprofit had 175 participants. But about two years ago, they decided to tighten the participation requirements and mandated that program participants also enroll in other finance programs at Southwest Solutions. This included agreeing to have a financial coach throughout the length of the lending circle. Lauchlan said the nonprofit wanted to be able to build better personal relationships with their clients in order to have more successes.
Presently, Southwest Solutions has just 17 individual lending circle participants but has seen fewer loan defaults, according to Lauchlan. The program now has a 0% loan default rate, an improvement from their original 6% default rate — the industry standard is more than 10%. Overall, Mission Asset Fund has a default rate of 0.7% in their lending circles.
Lauchlan said Southwest Solutions' improvement is likely due to their staff being able to work more closely with participants, which allows them to provide more financial education.
That education can range from money management workshops to home-buyer education classes.
Lending circles aimed at poverty cycle
Ultimately, the Campos family's goal is to fix their credit to buy a home — something that could still be a few years away as they work to improve their credit and save for a down payment.
But the lending circle still feels like a light at the end of the tunnel, Campos said.
He has continuously felt trapped in a cycle of wanting and working toward a new home, but never getting any closer due to low wages and the shadow of his credit score.
His family's situation looks a lot like other minority families living on the outskirts of Coachella Valley cities.
In the Coachella Valley, the median household income is $55,402. That drops to about $25,000 in the unincorporated communities that stretch along its eastern border. In Thousand Palms, where Campos lives, residents average just below $44,000 a year.
These same communities also experience household overcrowding, like the Campos family, at higher rates. While just 6% of Coachella Valley households are overcrowded, that trend spikes in the predominantly Latino unincorporated areas — to 26% in Mecca, 16% in Oasis and 13% in Thermal.
This means those households are trying to provide for more — often clustering multi-generational families together — on lower wages.
Campos hopes to one day break free from the cycle. He wants to have a three-bedroom home with an efficient air-conditioning unit. He hopes to have days off to enjoy hobbies — he recently discovered his love of horseback riding while working as a ranch hand. He hopes to get more sleep and work more reasonable hours.
But mostly he hopes that his youngest sister will never be afraid to ask him for new shoes again, out of fear of adding to their family's financial stress.
It's something a young child should never have to think about, he said.
Desert Sun reporter Nicole Hayden covers health and healthcare in the Coachella Valley. She can be reached at Nicole.Hayden@desertsun.com or (760) 778-4623. Follow her on Twitter @Nicole_A_Hayden.


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GMI appoints Dr. Anne Jones as CEO
Genomics Medicine Ireland (GMI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anne Jones as Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Jones brings to GMI 25 years' experience working in the life science, chemical analysis and diagnostics arenas, in Ireland, the UK and the USA, working across a broad range of markets, products and functions.
A native of Tipperary, Dr. Jones joins GMI from US-based Danaher Corporation, where she was Vice President and General Manager for Pall Corporations Lab, Food & Beverage business. In this role, she had P&L accountability leading a team of up to 800 people for three business units spanning drug discovery research and development through to the food and beverage market.
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Commenting on her appointment, Anne said: "GMI is a fantastic company which has achieved significant milestones in its short history, including launching population-wide genomic studies in a number of disease areas as well as building Ireland's first purpose-built genomic sequencing centre. I am excited to be joining the company as it continues to expand into new research areas. The promise of genomic research is recognised globally and GMI and Ireland have a unique opportunity to contribute to the advancement of genomics and precision medicine in a very direct and unique way.
"I consider being a part of this journey to advance drug discovery, clinical diagnostics and potentially wellness in my home country of Ireland a privilege. I love to work with great teams and I am very confident that this is the right team to advance science and medicine in a very meaningful way".
Dan Crowley, who is a Co-Founder and has been Acting CEO of GMI, said: "We are delighted to have attracted a candidate of Anne's considerable talent and track record to GMI. We're excited to have Anne join GMI to spearhead the company's mission of solving disease through genomics. I wish her and GMI every success."
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Q: Creating a value made out of two bytes at compile-time instead of runtime I have an enumerator which can be used as a uint8_t and I want to use a combination of two values of this enumerator to create a number of type uint16_t where the leftmost and the rightmost bytes are determined by these 2 enumeration values.
I then need to use this resulting value as the key element type of a unordered_map<uint16_t, something> where I store several something values.
So I came up with this code which resolves two enumeration values into a key at run-time.
The comments just indicate that the real problem involves more than the elements showed in the example below.
enum Value : uint8_t {
    V1, V2, V3, V4 // , ... , VN
};

static inline uint16_t compose(Value a, Value b) {
    return ((uint16_t) a << 8) | b;
}

static const unordered_map<uint16_t, something> elements = {
    { compose(Value::V3, Value::V1), something1 },
    { compose(Value::V4, Value::V4), something2 },
    { compose(Value::V1, Value::V2), something3 },
    // { ... }, { compose(Value::VA, Value::VB), somethingN }
};

If I'm not mistaken, compose will be called several times when the program starts and tries to initialise the variables and the constants before running main.
Now the big question:

Is there a better way to do this in order to compose the number at compile-time instead of runtime?

I could potentially hardcode the numbers instead of running compose, but that would be a very ugly and possibly unsafe solution.
Imagine if I had to switch the position of two or more "values" of the enumerator; that would require a complete revision of the hardcoded numbers so that's not an option at all.
It also would be very nice to maintain the names of the two enumeration values that are composing a uint16_t so when I need to edit the something corresponding to V1 and V4 I can find it easily.
Unfortunately I don't think that the preprocessor can do something like this and I doubt that the compiler is able to optimise compose even though I used the inline keyword.
Please help me.

A: In c++20, you can make compose a consteval function. Then it's guaranteed to be evaluated at compile time:
consteval std::uint16_t compose(Value a, Value b) {
    return ((std::uint16_t) a << 8) | b;
}

Here's a demo.
Note that you won't be able to call this function at run-time if you need to.

A: You could mark compose as a constexpr function. That way, the compiler might be able to use the result of the function as a compile-time constant:
inline constexpr uint16_t compose(Value a, Value b) { ... }

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The State of CSR in Australia
Australian organisations - public, private and Not for Profit - are embracing corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a means of delivering improved competitive advantage and creating new products and services, Australia's largest CSR survey has revealed.
Australian organisations – public, private and Not for Profit – are embracing corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a means of delivering improved competitive advantage and creating new products and services, Australia's largest CSR survey has revealed.
However, improved reputation remains the strongest outcome from CSR, research by the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) has found.
The State of CSR Annual Review: 2010-2011 surveyed almost 500 managers across a broad spectrum of Australian industry sectors.
The Annual Review is billed as one of the largest on-going research projects on CSR anywhere in the world and the biggest survey of CSR practice and performance in Australia.
The report also revealed that 80 per cent of respondents to the survey agreed that CSR contributed to strengthened reputation, more than double to 2008 figure of less than 40 per cent.
Just over 60 per cent of respondents said CSR contributed to reduced costs, up from less than 20 per cent in 2008.
The State of CSR Annual Review: 2010-2011 also reveals changing attitudes towards climate change within Australian businesses.
The report says that there was a significant decline in organisations reporting the need to understand climate change, suggesting Australian organisations are moving towards a 'business as usual' approach to managing climate change concerns.
It says reducing environmental impact and building an understanding of CSR within their organisations were rated the most important issues for CSR managers this year.
The ACCSR research also found that CSR staff and budgets, which saw cuts during the Global Financial Crisis, were on the rebound with strong increases in hiring and spending forecast for 2011.
Launching the report, ACCSR's Managing Director Dr Leeora Black says this year's results showed that CSR is gaining traction as a strategic business opportunity.
Black says organisations are reporting increasingly strong links between CSR capabilities and positive performance – economic, environmental and social.
She says it is encouraging to see Australian organisations moving beyond a focus on risk minimisation and regulatory compliance and more towards innovation capabilities as the value of CSR.
She says the business case for CSR is also widely accepted by organisations, although the research shows there's still a long way to go before corporate social responsibility is truly integrated into business strategy.
She says the research provides a clear insight into the state of CSR in Australia and identifies trends in corporate social responsibility and sustainability practice.
The research also identified the CSR Top 20 – the organisations in various industry sectors with the most advanced CSR capabilities.
Four Australian Not for Profits are listed in the top 20 organisations – Charities Aid Foundation Australia, Mission Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation and The Smith Family.
Click here to view the top 20.
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Voting for the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) 2018 Winter Election and Referendum closed on March 21 with a voter turnout of 32.8 per cent. Despite less than a third of all eligible SSMU members voting, this figure represents the highest voter turnout in the past 14 years. 7,100 of[Read More…]
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Financial transparency is severely lacking at SSMU
Students are now in the homestretch of the Winter semester, but there is one obstacle: Election season. Over the next two weeks, McGill will be treated to another round of prospective Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) executives for the 2018-2019 school year. Student politicians have often tried to earn[Read More…]
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It's that time of year again: Your friends from rez and frosh are inviting you to Facebook events and announcing their candidacy for various Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) positions. But, despite their well-lit headshots and carefully-worded bios and platforms, voter turnout in recent SSMU elections suggests that most[Read More…]
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An apolitical BoD is in everyone's best interests
On Jan. 14, the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) Board of Directors (BoD) ratified the Judicial Board (J-Board) ruling on the case of Glustein v. Koparkar. The J-Board received an appeal after the Oct. 23 Fall General Assembly (GA), when students passed a motion to vote on each BoD member's[Read More…]
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This summer, Dalhousie University student and Vice-President (VP) Academic and External of the Student Union, Masuma Khan expressed frustration with the Canada 150 celebration via Facebook, emphasizing solidarity with indigenous students and calling out white students for their continued support of the revelry. The post was reported by a fellow[Read More…]
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SSMU President must step up, or step down
The current state of the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) is disconcerting, to say the least: Executives and employees have resorted to publishing op-eds against each other, and five of the six remaining executives have formally expressed a position of non-confidence in President Muna Tojiboeva, due to a lack[Read More…]
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It's time to decide on AVEQ affiliation—whatever that means
If you Google the acronym "AVEQ," the top result is a Quebec electric vehicle association—Association des Véhicules Électriques du Québec. The website probably saw an unexpected spike in traffic during McGill's 2016 Winter Referendum, when students voted on the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) becoming a member of the Association[Read More…]
The VP External should support student initiatives, not direct them
On Sept. 15, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited McGill to inaugurate a new Facebook Artificial Intelligence lab. However important the initiative, Trudeau's welcome was lukewarm. A group of students, including Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) Vice-President (VP) External Connor Spencer, protested the Prime Minister's visit. The protesters accused Trudeau[Read More…]
October 3, 2017 by Gabriel Rincon
Separating criticism from cynicism when evaluating McGill's student leaders
Often, students at McGill regard the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) as an inefficient, incompetent, and divisive organization. Some of these perceptions are reasonably grounded in SSMU executives' past mistakes. Last February, campus was rocked by Vice-President (VP) External David Aird's resignation, following a statement released by the Community[Read More…]
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Estee Lauder Cos Inc bought French luxury perfume brand Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, its third acquisition in less than a month as the company looks to boost its portfolio of high-end luxury perfumes and skin care brands.
The maker of M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown beauty products joins rival L'Oreal in bulking up on niche brands, which have been eating into their market share.
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Paris-based Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle is known for its collection of fragrances designed by master perfumers around the world. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"The company has had a history of buying small brands and pushing them through its distribution channels. Frederic Malle will probably be the next generation of that," Sanford Bernstein analyst Ali Dibadj told Reuters.
The Frédéric Malle fragrances, which cost upwards of $150, are sold through five standalone stores in Paris and New York. They are also sold at Barney's in the United States and Liberty in London, Estee Lauder said.
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Sprawował urząd gubernatora Portoryko od 6 kwietnia 1923, kiedy to zastąpił na stanowisku Juana Bernardo Huyke, przez sześć lat do 1929. Jego następcą został James R. Beverley. Zarówno poprzednik jak i następca Townera sprawowali swój urząd tymczasowo.

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Q: What is the DRY way to configure different log file locations for different settings? I am using python's logging module in a django project. I am performing the basic logging configuration in my settings.py file. Something like this:
import logging
import logging.handlers
logger = logging.getLogger('project_logger')
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

LOG_FILENAME = '/path/to/log/file/in/development/environment'
handler = logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler(LOG_FILENAME, when = 'midnight')
formatter = logging.Formatter(LOG_MSG_FORMAT)
handler.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(handler)

I have a separate settings file for production. This file (production.py) imports everything from settings and overrides some of the options (set DEBUG to False, for instance). I wish to use a different LOG_FILENAME for production. How should I go about it? I can repeat the entire configuration section in production.py but that creates problems if /path/to/log/file/in/development/environment is not present in the production machine. Besides it doesn't look too "DRY".
Can anyone suggest a better way to go about this?

A: Why don't you put this statements at the end of settings.py and use the DEBUG flal es indicator for developement?
Something like this:
import logging
import logging.handlers
logger = logging.getLogger('project_logger')
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

[snip]
if DEBUG:
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else:
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handler = logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler(LOG_FILENAME, when = 'midnight')
formatter = logging.Formatter(LOG_MSG_FORMAT)
handler.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(handler)

A: Found a reasonably "DRY" solution that worked. Thanks to Python logging in Django
I now have a log.py which looks something like this:
import logging, logging.handlers
from django.conf import settings

LOGGING_INITIATED = False
LOGGER_NAME = 'project_logger'

def init_logging():
    logger = logging.getLogger(LOGGER_NAME)
    logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
    handler = logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler(settings.LOG_FILENAME, when = 'midnight')
    formatter = logging.Formatter(LOG_MSG_FORMAT)
    handler.setFormatter(formatter)
    logger.addHandler(handler)

if not LOGGING_INITIATED:
    LOGGING_INITIATED = True
    init_logging()

My settings.py now contains
LOG_FILENAME = '/path/to/log/file/in/development/environment

and production.py contains:
from settings import *
LOG_FILENAME = '/path/to/log/file/in/production/environment'


text:
Stocks to Buy / Gores Guggenheim Stock Looks Attractive as Polestar Has All Ducks in Row
Gores Guggenheim Stock Looks Attractive as Polestar Has All Ducks in Row
Polestar is executing its strategy very well, putting in a different league to other SPAC-backed EV start-ups
March 14, 2022 By Faizan Farooque, InvestorPlace Contributor Mar 15, 2022, 8:05 am EST March 14, 2022
We are getting closer to the reverse merger between Gores Guggenheim (NASDAQ:GGPI), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and Swedish electric-car maker Polestar. The deal is expected to close in the first half of the year. However, the markets are not reacting favorably to GGPI stock. And can you blame them?
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In recent months, growth stocks have been drowning in red ink and are struggling to maintain their momentum. The Federal Reserve is looking to tighten its monetary policy. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) believes we could be in for at least seven hikes. There is a high level of geopolitical tension due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Due to all these factors, investors are bailing on non-profitable growth stocks. Instead, safer and stable investments, such as retirement and dividend stocks, are getting more attention. Plus, when it comes to electric vehicle stocks, there is a been there done that energy to the space.
You have also-rans in the shape of Workhorse (NASDAQ:WKHS). And you also have the high-risk ones, such as Fisker. Finally, Tesla commands an astronomical valuation while selling a fraction of the cars that traditional automakers manage.
However, as the adage goes, "don't judge a book by its cover." Unlike several other electric vehicle start-ups, Polestar is up and running. It delivered 29,000 vehicles in 2021. The figure represents year-on-year growth of nearly 185%, an admirable feat for a budding enterprise. It delivered revenues of $1.6 billion last year and has set ambitious goals for the next few years.
As the merger nears and we have more short-term catalysts, GGPI stock will continue to pop. However, there are compelling reasons you should pick up this stock once it dips after the reverse merger closes.
In Pole Position
Electric cars are not new but have only recently begun to gain traction. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the future of these vehicles and whether or not they will become mainstream because they are expensive to buy.
Investing in electric vehicles can be risky, and if done without proper research, it could end up being a waste of time and money. Complicating matters is that several electric vehicle start-ups are currently at the developmental stage. Therefore, they are trading more on potential than anything else.
That is not the case with Polestar. Here's some helpful information on the enterprise: Volvo partnered with China's Geely Motors (OTCMKTS:GELYF) to launch Polestar. Geely holds a commanding position in the Chinese market, selling 1,328,029 units last year.
Polestar offers unique options for those switching to eco-friendly mobility. It has a lineup of cars that includes the Polestar 1 and the Polestar 2. They plan to release three more new models by 2025. Incidentally, the company is hoping for 2025 to be a big year, with a goal of 290,000 deliveries and $17.8 billion in sales.
Polestar has been doing better than most companies in its industry. We are just a few weeks removed from Lucid (NASDAQ:LCID), slashing its production target by 40% for 2022. Some investors are still recovering from the financial problems associated with the Workhorse debacle.
Meanwhile, Polestar does not suffer from any of these failings. The company offers many tangible benefits over competitors such as high return on investment (ROI), early adoption, and a much greater long-term viability. Therefore, whether in the near term or long term, GGPI stock is an interesting investment.
What Are Bears Concerned About?
As mentioned in the intro, there are certain concerns investors have regarding growth stocks at the moment. However, when we talk about Polestar itself, certain bearish arguments are worth considering.
First, over the last few years, a glut of EV SPACs has come and gone. Usually, the story goes that investors make some nice change before the penny drops and the merger closes. Then most companies fade into the background. Also, while Polestar has avoided any major issues thus far, that does not mean it could not face the same challenges that companies like Lucid are facing at the moment. All it takes is one bad press release in this space, and things will start going south.
At the same time, any company with a connection to China is looked at skeptically. However, on this point, although Polestar is taking advantage of its Chinese associations, it is a Swedish enterprise and is not structured like a variable interest entity (VIE).
So, Polestar is a global company that wants to broaden its reach by opening several manufacturing facilities and implementing sales networks worldwide.
Electric vehicles are becoming more popular, and many companies are investing in them. However, these stocks are risky because they can easily lose value.
However, electric vehicle stocks will become more common and less risky in the future. The technology for electric cars is improving rapidly and will be used in more places. With this momentum, the value of these stocks will likely rise significantly in the future.
Therefore, you have to pour capital into a company that is executing its strategy effectively. Polestar has ambitious plans for the future and is growing rapidly. As the merger date approaches, GGPI stock could rise on positive news such as stockholder approvals, for example. But even beyond this, Polestar will be a great investment once it starts trading.
On the publication date, Faizan Farooque did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
Faizan Farooque is a contributing author for InvestorPlace.com and numerous other financial sites. Faizan has several years of experience in analyzing the stock market and was a former data journalist at S&P Global Market Intelligence. His passion is to help the average investor make more informed decisions regarding their portfolio.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2022/03/ggpi-stock-looks-attractive-as-polestar-has-all-ducks-in-row/.


Like your car, needs to go lower man.
Pretty cool, got summit like that recently, nice touch.
Like yours too (not cause you like mine etc etc lol) - I like the colour. And your headlights maan!! My eye sight's pretty fucked as it is.
They are colour coded lad?
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Megan is always looking so great in her portraits. This is our second session and a 3rd is on the books!
I love to make sessions more than just a photo, I want to make it an experience and an art portrait.
Over the weekend I invited a few photographers so we could try some new and old lighting techniques. We all tried something that was out of our element and I think it turn out to be a big success! A big shout out to Derek Hildebrandt, Zach Holt, Alicia Marie, Katelin Woods and Giana Martinez. If you are not following them on Instagram do it now! Click their names to go to their page! Here are a few of what a captured. Be sure to follow me as well ;) I will be using more of the color gels in my senior sessions this year.