At first glance, the fall play The Shape of Things is a classic Pygmalion romance: the ugly duckling transforms into a beautiful swan under the tutelage of another, and they fall in love and live happily ever after.
Except the ugly one perhaps isn't who one might think, and the ending is most definitely not happy. The show places makeover culture under the microscope and into the hot seat with its well-timed (albeit often mature) wit and realism. The play pulls the carpet out from under the audience with its ending.
The production ran from Nov 18–20 in Wampler Auditorium. Written by Neil LaBute, playwright, filmmaker and one-time Fort Wayne resident, the play was directed by Kira Lace Hawkins, lecturer of Theater at Manchester. The gifted young cast of four all come from the Manchester Theatre Society, the highest placement for an actor at Manchester University.
The audience first met the two main characters of our contemporary love story in front of a statue of God, exhibited by the small Midwestern college. Evelyn, an art student, has plans to deface the statue in protest of certain censorship, while Adam, a poor English major just trying to make ends meet, spends the remainder of his night watch shift both discussing the nature of art and simultaneously trying to talk Evelyn out of it.
As these things tend to go, the encounter leads to a date, and from then on, a whirlwind romance takes place. Over the course of a semester, Adam transforms from a nail-biting, frumpy jacket wearing pushover to a confident, more handsome version of himself. The greater his feelings for Evelyn grow, the more willing he is to push the boundaries of his comfort zone.
His transformation doesn't go unnoticed by his old roommate, Philip, and his fiancée, Jenny, whose long-suppressed feelings for Adam begin to resurface. The three friends enter a tumultuous period, with Evelyn at the forefront of the building tension as her hush-hush senior art exhibit draws nearer.
Clayton Marcum's portrayal of Adam brings life to the well-meaning "nerd," and is beautifully contrasted by the passionate, multifaceted Evelyn, Adam's modern-day "Eve," played by fellow junior Kenzie Hare. They portrayed the tender moments with the same level of ease and confidence as they did the moments of combativeness.
Stratton Smith did equally well as the cocky, hotheaded Philip, as did first-year Emily Lynn at portraying the position of sweet Jenny, who somehow finds herself in love with two, very different best friends.
Students interested in joining can contact advisor Kira Lace Hawkins, and keep an eye out for acting opportunities on campus, such as those with the Theatre Society like the One Acts held on campus each year.


751 MEPs are elected to the European Parliament which has been directly elected since 1979. No other EU institution is directly elected, with the Council of the European Union and the European Council being only indirectly legitimated through national elections. Europarties have the right to campaign EU-wide for the European elections, yet the campaigns are still taking place through national election campaigns, advertising national delegates from national parties.
Each member state has the right to elect a fixed number of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). The allocation of seats is laid down in the European treaties on the basis of the principle of degressive proportionality: countries with a larger population have more seats than smaller countries, but the latter have more seats than strict proportionality would imply. For the 2014 election, according to the Lisbon Treaty, the number of MEPs ranges from six for Malta, Luxembourg, Cyprus and Estonia to 96 for Germany.
Voting practices vary across the EU, although there are some common elements, the most important of which is that some form of proportional representation should be used. This gives larger and smaller political parties the chance to send their representatives to the European Parliament in line with the number of votes they receive. However, each country is free to decide on many important aspects of the voting procedure. For example, some split their territory into regional electoral districts, while others have a single electoral district. Countries may also decide on the exact day of the elections according to their voting traditions. European elections usually span four days, with voting in the UK and the Netherlands taking place on Thursday and residents of most other countries casting their vote on Sunday.
Elections are contested by national political parties but once MEPs are elected, most opt to become part of transnational political groups. Most national parties are affiliated to a European-wide political family so one of the big questions on election night is which of these European groupings will exert greater influence on the decisions taken in the next legislative term. The European Council must take the election results into account when choosing a nominee for the post of President of the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU.
With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament has become a powerful co-legislator and plays a determining role in shaping European policies. A vote in the European elections is every citizen's chance to influence the shape of the Parliament and the decisions it takes over its five year mandate.
The system must be a form of proportional representation, under either the party list or the single transferable vote system.
Any election threshold at the national level must not exceed five percent.
The allocation of seats to each member state is based on the principle of degressive proportionality, so that, while the size of the population of each country is taken into account, smaller states elect more MEPs than is proportional to their populations. As the numbers of MEPs to be elected by each country have arisen from treaty negotiations, there is no precise formula for the apportionment of seats among member states. No change in this configuration can occur without the unanimous consent of all governments.
European Parliament Election Updates, what's next?
European Citizens Abroad is an international, non-partisan, pro-EU political organization. Europeans Abroad Vote 2014 is our 1st initiative. Its Mission is to engage European Citizens Abroad in learning, debating and shaping EU Policy. Increase participation in the 2014 European Parliament Elections of Europeans who live outside of their native country – in the EU or outside of the EU. More information can be found here. Officially launch of campaign Europeans Abroad Vote 2014 (#EAV2014).
EU citizens are ever more aware that Europe touches the heart of their living conditions. They have understood more than ever that European countries are interdependent, and what is happening in another EU member state fully affects everyone's future prospects.
The EU Parliament has therefore launched a dedicated website to engage EU Citizens to inform themselves and participate in the 2014 Elections.


Four Whakatane venues again played hosts to another awesome event for Eastern Bay of Plenty primary school children today. Around 550 children participated from throughout the region. There was a great mix of winners this year enabling trophies to go to most parts of the Eastern Bay.
A repeat of the last two years Year 5&6 netball final saw Opotiki Primary take the win over Ashbrook School. Opotiki Primary also showed composure in the Year 7&8 grade, taking home the trophy.
There was some great talent on show at the rugby, with Kawerau South Year 5&6 beating St Joseph's Whakatane, claiming the trophy again. Te Wharekura o Ruatoki took on last year's champions Opotiki Primary to take the trophy in the Year 7&8 grade, claiming rights to take the trophy home.
In the football, St Joseph's Whakatane took on a talented Ohope Beach team to claim the championship by three goals to two and win the Year 5&6 grade.
Thanks to all our helpers and especially our officials and coordinators.


Julie Barnett is an MDT co-ordinator in the East area of the city, based out of Hendon's Riverview Centre.
Julie took up her role in December and works as part of the area's Community Integrated Team (CIT), involving her colleagues from health and social care to ensure that some of the most unwell people in the city are given the right care to support their needs.
"We work closely with GP practices looking at which of their patients need support, and we act as an interface between them and the wider CIT, sharing that information with the health and social care professionals who form our multi-disciplinary teams (MDT), to ensure they are fully up to date and supporting the right people.


St. John the Baptist hosts the annual Greek Festival on the beautiful grounds of our church in Myrtle Beach, SC. This year's festival takes place Thursday October 17th through Sunday, October 20, 2019.
Growing attendance in recent years is through word of mouth…so grab your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors and come experience Greece on the southeast coast this fall. During the weekend, you can taste the flavors of Greece with our authentic food. How about enjoying our live entertainment and try your foot at Greek dancing?
Explore and shop the Marketplace with well over a dozen vendors. Conducted, educational tours of our beautiful church are scheduled several times daily. Attractions for children round out this wonderful festival which has hosted families and friends, near and far, for over 27 years.
We look forward to welcoming you to our 'Little Piece of Greece' right here in Myrtle Beach…OPA!


It'll view almost any resources (including sound resources!) from pretty much any SCI game out there. Straight from King's Quest IV all the way up to Torin's Passage, LSL7, Phantasmagoria I believe, and others.
This is a powerful tool for developers because it has several features that neither SCI Studio nor SCI Companion have.
The biggest one is the ability to preview sound resources. You can choose which PATCH to play them through (Tandy 3-voice, Adlib, Sound Blaster, MT-32, General MIDI (if the game supports it), PC Speaker, or even digital sound (again if the game or sound resources supports it) and after that you can choose which Windows MIDI interface you want to output it through. It also includes the loop trigger feature. Some sound resources in SCI games contain loop triggers that are used in conjunction with the game scripts to loop certain parts of a music theme while the game is busy doing something. Then when the game is finished it usually calls another sound resource and plays it. You really get the feel for how Sierra used their sound resources to their advantage. Almost as well as iMuse in LucasArts games. You can also save sound resources as MIDI files and save the digital audio sound resources as WAV files.


Playhouse, University of Lousiville, circa 1977.
Brith Sholom Temple, Louisville, Kentucky, 1919.
Logan Company iron staircase, 1928.
Logan Company iron stair railing, 1928.
Logan Company iron staircase railing, 1928.


Since being accepted into the Doctor of Education program at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary back in 2013, my blogging has certainly slowed to what is best described as a slow crawl. In many ways to say I have been too busy is a poor excuse not to do something I enjoy so much. On the other hand, there is more going on than just higher education! I suppose it is time for a thorough update for my regulars!
Since I have already mentioned school, I suppose I should begin there. A few weeks ago, I successfully completed comprehensive exams and defended my research prospectus. The prospectus was approved pending changes. I submitted those changes earlier this week! Having completed coursework and arrived at this milestone, I am now officially a doctoral candidate.
A couple of things on that: first, it is through the grace of God that I have arrived at this milestone in my studies! I give Him all of the praise for providing clarity of thought, arranging my schedule in a way that allowed me the necessary time to study, and providing the energy I needed to get through days when I received little sleep the night before due to working on something related to my studies. Second, my wife and family have been the most loving, understanding, supportive, and encouraging people a man could possibly ask for! Studies such as these are difficult (for good reason) and I am so blessed to have them as part of my support! There is still the matter of executing the research I have proposed but I have an amazing advisor and am confident that the next six months will be fruitful as I work towards completing my work.
My wife is working on here own higher education goals pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is about halfway through her program and roughly eighteen months behind me in terms of graduation. I am amazed when I watch we doing her schoolwork. It seems to come so easily for her whereas I have to spend a lot of time reading, re-reading, studying, contemplating, etc. before I can manage to get much of substance accomplished. For those of you who know her that comes as no surprise!
Both Joshua and Hannah are doing well in school. Each will be moving up to a new school in the next school year and so as this academic year barrels towards a fast and furious finale, they are both already beginning to look ahead towards the exciting new challenges that will await them in the fall. Like most kids, they are in a hurry to grow up too quickly yet there is so much of my wife and I that I see in them each day. I couldn't be more proud of the young people that are and who they are growing to be. Onward towards middle school and high school!
Last summer I was nominated for deacon service in our church. The process is very detailed and quite thorough. I had a peace about the entire process as I went through it seeking simply to honor God however our local church might seek to use me in our shared ministry together. In September, I was ordained to deacon ministry where I will serve a three-year term consistent with the polity of our congregation. To say I am humbled suffices only because I have no other words that describe my thoughts and feelings on the matter.
This brings me to the last thing I wanted to share with you. On March 22, 2015 First Baptist Church Woodstock will be licensing me to gospel ministry. Again, I am humbled beyond words. The journey our lives have taken since we returned to Georgia in 2008 is amazing! We could not have predicted the path the Lord had chosen for us nor could we have understood why He placed certain people in our lives at specific points along the way. The journey is not yet concluded but we have a pretty good idea which direction we are to follow.
As always I covet your prayers and promise I will be more active in the blogosphere in 2015!


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is a Japanese male  track cyclist, and part of the national team. He competed in the 2007 and 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He is also a professional keirin cyclist.

References

External links
 Profile at cyclingarchives.com

1979 births
Living people
Japanese male cyclists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Cyclists at the 2006 Asian Games
Cyclists at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in cycling
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Keirin cyclists

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<?php
namespace Enola\Support;
/**
 * Esta clase representa el motor de dependencias que permite adminsitrar la inyeccion de dependencias entre las clases
 * @author Eduardo Sebastian Nola <edunola13@gmail.com>
 * @category Enola\Support
 */
class DependenciesEngine {
    /** Referencia al contexto de la aplicacion
     * @var \EnolaContext */
    protected $context;
    /** Referencia a todos las dependencias que son singletons
     * @var array */
    protected $singletons;
    /** Definicion de todas las dependencias
     * @var array */
    protected $dependencies;
    /** Definicion de todas las dependencias auto cargables por tipo
     * @var type */
    protected $loadDependencies;
    /** Constructor */
    public function __construct() {
        $this->context= \EnolaContext::getInstance();
        $this->init();
    }
    /** Realiza lar carga inicial */
    protected function init(){
        //Carga las dependencias en base a la lista de archivos definidos en configuracion global
        $this->dependencies= array();
        foreach ($this->context->getDependenciesFile() as $nameFile) {
            $this->dependencies= array_merge($this->dependencies, $this->context->readConfigurationFile($nameFile));
        }
        //Define las dependencias que se cargan segun Type
        $this->loadDependencies= array();
        foreach ($this->dependencies as $key => $value) {
            if(isset($value['load_in'])){
                $this->loadDependencies[$key]= $value;
            }
        }
    }
    /**
     * Recorre las dependencias con load_in y analiza si carga o no una instancia de la dependencia en el objeto.
     * Las nombres de las propiedades son las claves en la definicion de cada dependencia
     * Es llamado por GenericLoader en su construccion para inyectar las clases correspondientes.
     * Esta funcion supone que las Clases de la dependencia ya se encuentran importadas.
     * @param type $object
     * @param string $type
     */
    public function injectDependenciesOfType($object, $type){
        //Analiza las dependencies que tienen seteado "load_in"
        foreach ($this->loadDependencies as $name => $dependency) {
            $types= explode(",", $dependency['load_in']);
            //Si la libreria contiene el tipo se carga
            if(in_array($type, $types)){
                $this->loadDependencyInObject($object, $name, $name, $dependency);
            }
        }
    }
    /**
     * Carga cada una de las dependencias indicadas en su correspondiente propiedad del objeto
     * Esta funcion supone que las Clases de las dependencias ya se encuentran importadas.
     * @param type $object
     * @param array $dependencies
     */
    public function injectDependencies($object, array $dependencies){
        $dependenciesDefinition= $this->dependencies;
        //Recorre las dependencias indicadas y las que existe las carga
        foreach ($dependencies as $property => $dependencyName) {
            if(isset($dependenciesDefinition[$dependencyName])){
                $dependency= $dependenciesDefinition[$dependencyName];
                $this->loadDependencyInObject($object, $property, $dependencyName, $dependency);
            }
        }
    }
    /**
     * Carga la dependencias indicada en la propiedad del objeto
     * Esta funcion supone que la Clase de la dependencia ya se encuentra importada.
     * @param type $object
     * @param string $propertyName
     * @param string $dependencyName
     */
    public function injectDependency($object, $propertyName, $dependencyName){
        $this->injectDependencies($object, array($propertyName => $dependencyName));
    }
    /**
     * Injecta definicion de propiedades a una instancia
     * @param type $object
     * @param array $propertiesDefinition
     */
    public function injectProperties($object, $propertiesDefinition){
        $properties= $this->parseProperties($propertiesDefinition);
        $reflection= new Reflection($object);
        $reflection->setProperties($properties, TRUE);
    }
    /**
     * Carga la dependencia y la setea en la propiedad del objeto a inyectar
     * @param type $object
     * @param string $property
     * @param string $dependencyName
     * @param array $dependencyDefinition
     */
    protected function loadDependencyInObject($object, $property, $dependencyName, $dependencyDefinition){
        $dependency= $this->loadDependency($dependencyName, $dependencyDefinition);
        $reflection= new Reflection($object);
        $reflection->setProperty($property, $dependency, TRUE);
    }
    /**
     * Realiza la carga de una dependencia que luego va a ser inyectada
     * @param string $name
     * @param array $dependencyDefinition
     * @param array &$loadedDependencies
     * @return type
     */
    protected function loadDependency($name, $dependencyDefinition, &$loadedDependencies = array()){
        $newInstance= NULL;
        //Si es singleton analiza si existe y si puede devuelve la msima
        if(isset($this->singletons[$name])){
            $newInstance= $this->singletons[$name];
        }else{
            //Veo si tiene namespace y si tiene le agrego el mismo
            $namespace= (isset($dependencyDefinition['namespace']) ? $dependencyDefinition['namespace'] : '');
            $dir= explode("/", $dependencyDefinition['class']);
            $class= $dir[count($dir) - 1];
            if($namespace != ''){ $class= "\\" . $namespace . "\\" . $class;}

            $newInstance= NULL;
            if(isset($dependencyDefinition['factory-method'])){
                $factoryMethod= $dependencyDefinition['factory-method'];
                if(isset($dependencyDefinition['factory-bean'])){
                    $factoryBean= $this->getDependency($dependencyDefinition['factory-bean'], $loadedDependencies);
                    $newInstance= $factoryBean->$factoryMethod();
                }else{
                    $newInstance= $class::$factoryMethod();
                }
            }else{
                //Consigo los parametros del constructor
                $params= array();
                if(isset($dependencyDefinition['construct'])){
                    //Parseo los parametros correctamente
                    $params= $this->parseProperties($dependencyDefinition['construct']);
                }
                //Creo una instancia con el constructor correspondiente en base a los parametros
                $reflection= new \ReflectionClass($class);
                $newInstance= $reflection->newInstanceArgs($params);
                //La agrego a loadedDependencies para dependencias circulares
                $loadedDependencies[$name]= $newInstance;
            }

            //Si es un singleton la guardo como tal
            if(isset($dependencyDefinition['singleton']) && ($dependencyDefinition['singleton'] == "TRUE" || $dependencyDefinition['singleton'] == "true")){
                $this->singletons[$name]= $newInstance;
            }

            //Injecto las dependencias a las propiedades
            //Primero veo si hay Referencia a otras dependencias y cargo las mismas y luego guardo las propiedades
            if(isset($dependencyDefinition['properties'])){
                $properties= $this->parseProperties($dependencyDefinition['properties'], $loadedDependencies);
                $reflection= new Reflection($newInstance);
                $reflection->setProperties($properties, TRUE);
            }
        }
        return $newInstance;
    }
    /**
     * Parsea los valores en string al tipo que corresponda segun el valor y el tipo definido.
     * @param array $propertiesDefinition
     * @param array &$loadedDependencies
     * @return array
     */
    protected function parseProperties($propertiesDefinition, &$loadedDependencies = array()){
        $parseProperties= array();
        foreach ($propertiesDefinition as $key => $definition) {
            $property= NULL;
            if(isset($definition['ref'])){
                //Conseguimos la dependencia
                $property= $this->getDependency($definition['ref'], $loadedDependencies);
            }else{
                //Casteo el valor al tipo indicado
                $property= $definition['value'];
                settype($property, $definition['type']);
            }
            $parseProperties[$key]= $property;
        }
        return $parseProperties;
    }
    /**
     * Devuelve la dependencia en base a un nombre y una lista de dependencias.
     * Si no existe devuelve NULL
     * @param type $name
     * @param array &$loadedDependencies
     * @return Object o NULL
     */
    protected function getDependency($name, &$loadedDependencies = array()){
        $dependency= NULL;
        $dependencies= $this->dependencies;
        if(isset($dependencies[$name])){
            //Si la dependencia ya fue cargada anteriormente de forma circular se usa la misma, si no se carga y se
            //guarda en la lista de dependencias cargadas en la iteracion
            if(isset($loadedDependencies[$name])){
                $dependency= $loadedDependencies[$name];
            }else{
                $dependency= $this->loadDependency($name, $dependencies[$name], $loadedDependencies);
            }
        }
        return $dependency;
    }
}

/**
 * Esta clase se encarga de acceder y setar las propiedades de los distintos objetos y clases.
 * @author Eduardo Sebastian Nola <edunola13@gmail.com>
 * @category Enola\Support
 */
class Reflection{
    protected $object;
    /** @var \ReflectionObject */
    protected $reflection;
    /**
     * Cosntructor - Se le pasa el objeto a tratar
     * @param type $object
     */
    public function __construct($object) {
        $this->setObject($object);
    }
    public function setObject($object){
        $this->object= $object;
        //Crea un Reflection para acceder a las caracteristicas del objeto
        $this->reflection= new \ReflectionObject($object);
    }
    /**
     * Lee una propiedad de un objeto. Para poder la propiedad debe exister el metodo get public y/o ser una variable
     * de acceso public. Primero intenta con el metodo get.
     * @param string $property
     * @return type
     */
    public function getProperty($property){
        //Primero Busco por get
        $getMethod= 'get' . strtoupper($property[0]) . substr($property, 1);
        if($this->reflection->hasMethod($getMethod)){
            $reflectionMethod= $this->reflection->getMethod($getMethod);
            //Si existe el metodo set y es public lo seteo
            if($reflectionMethod->isPublic()){
                return $this->object->$getMethod();
            }
        }else if($this->reflection->hasProperty($property)){
            //Si existe la propiedad y es public la seteo
            $reflectionProperty= $this->reflection->getProperty($property);
            if($reflectionProperty->isPublic()){
                return $this->object->$property;
            }
        }
        return NULL;
    }
    /**
     * Retorna un array con todos los valores de las propiedades.
     * Para leer cada propiedad llama al metodo getProperty.
     * @param array $properties
     * @return array - propertyName => value
     */
    public function getProperties($properties){
        $values= array();
        foreach ($properties as $key => $value) {
            $values[$key]= $this->getProperty($key);
        }
        return $values;
    }
    /**
     * Setea la propiedad de un objeto. Para ahcer esto busca que el metodo set exista y sea publica, despues que la
     * variable tenga visibilidad publica y por ultimo si se indica que se cree la propiedad se crea (en caso de que no exista).
     * Si la variable existe pero no se puede aceder no la setea
     * @param string $property
     * @param type $value
     * @param boolean $create
     */
    public function setProperty($property, $value, $create = FALSE){
        //Primero Busco por set
        $setMethod= 'set' . strtoupper($property[0]) . substr($property, 1);
        if($this->reflection->hasMethod($setMethod)){
            $reflectionMethod= $this->reflection->getMethod($setMethod);
            //Si existe el metodo set y es public lo seteo
            if($reflectionMethod->isPublic()){
                $this->object->$setMethod($value);
            }
        }else if($this->reflection->hasProperty($property)){
            //Si existe la propiedad y es public la seteo
            $reflectionProperty= $this->reflection->getProperty($property);
            if($reflectionProperty->isPublic()){
                $this->object->$property= $value;
            }
        }else if($create){
            //Si no existe la variable y esta seteado que se cree, la misma es creada y seteada
            $this->object->$property= $value;
        }
    }
    /**
     * Setea las propiedades de un objeto.
     * Para setear cada valor llama al metodo setProperty
     * @param array $properties
     * @param boolean $create
     */
    public function setProperties($properties, $create = FALSE){
        foreach ($properties as $key => $value) {
            $this->setProperty($key, $value, $create);
        }
    }
}

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Business activity in the region drives employment and creates opportunity while generating the tax revenues that enable the public sector to provide and coordinate crucial services.
In 2013, the Economy League and the CEO Council for Growth released the Global Positioning Strategy (or GPS) for World Class Business Growth in Greater Philadelphia. The culmination of a multi-year regional priority setting and strategy development effort facilitated by the Economy League, the Business Growth GPS outlines goals, priority strategies, and key indicators to help focus and guide cross-sector collaboration to boost business growth throughout our region.
New and growing businesses fuel a dynamic regional economy that builds on Greater Philadelphia's industry and research strengths and connects to global opportunities.
Greater Philadelphia is a place where entrepreneurs can successfully create and grow businesses to scale.
Read about how the World Class agenda was developed.
Despite more than 80 percent of global GDP growth projected to occur outside the U.S. between 2013 and 2018, only five percent of American companies currently export and, among those that do, 58 percent export to only one market. These numbers underscore the significant opportunity for Greater Philadelphia and other U.S. metros to grow by going global. In fact, estimates indicate that doubling Greater Philadelphia's annual export growth rate to bring it in line with competitor metros could generate up to 40,000 new jobs in our region over five years.


If you are married or in a de facto relationship with an Australian citizen, you may be eligible for a partner visa. Under this visa, you will need to provide evidence that you are in a genuine and committed relationship with an Australian citizen. Partner visas are an attractive prospect for people wanting to remain in Australia with their spouse or partner. However, this application involves expensive government fees and has a refusal rate near 40%. This article will explain how to make sure that your application is correctly prepared to maximise your prospects of success.
The partner visa application process is a combined evaluation of you (the visa applicant) and your partner (the sponsor).
travel in and out of the country.
After receiving the temporary visa, you can apply for the permanent residency visa two years from the date that you applied for the temporary visa. In certain situations, the two year wait for the permanent residency visa can be waived. This is as long as you and your partner have been in a relationship for no less than three years. Or, if you have been in a relationship for no less than two years and have dependent children.
You can apply for the partner visa from overseas (subclasses 309 and 100) or from within Australia (subclasses 820 and 801). The visa takes typically around 21-26 months for the Department of Home Affairs to process it. If you want to enter Australia sooner and are applying from offshore, you may need to apply for a different visa. If you apply from within Australia and your current visa is due to expire, you will need to apply for a bridging visa. This visa will allow you to remain in Australia between the time that your current visa expires and the partner visa decision is made.
What Are the Key Elements of the Partner Visa Application?
you and your partner have a mutual commitment to share life together.
It is important to prepare evidence that addresses each of these four elements.
What Kind of Evidence Do I Need to Prepare?
commitment aspects of your relationship.
Witnesses to your relationship will also need to prepare statutory declarations in support of your visa. The person making the statutory declarations need to sign it in the presence of a justice of the peace (such as your immigration lawyer) or an eligible witness. Making sure that all statutory declarations are truthful is essential. Intentionally making a false statement in a statutory declaration can result in four years imprisonment.
Why Might My Partner Visa Application Be Denied?
If any of these adverse factors apply to you, it may be tempting to try to leave them out of your application to increase your chances of being successful.
For example, you might have a speeding offence from many years ago that doesn't appear to be important enough to mention in your application. However, you should always honestly disclose any adverse factors.
It will reflect poorly on your application if you attempt to conceal information and the Department of Home Affairs finds out about it later. If they believe that you have supplied misleading information in your visa application, you may be barred from applying for an Australian visa for up to ten years.
evidence addressing any character or health issues.
If you have any questions about obtaining a partner visa, contact LegalVision's immigration lawyers on 1300 544 755 or fill out the form on this page.


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Obama, effort not to repeat failures on military reductions – Fails
by bcse | Jan 13, 2012 | Politics-DC
By SUA Staff
Last week, Barack Obama delivered a confirmed message from the Pentagon Situation Room speaking to the deep reduction of the Defense Department operating budget over the next ten years. Obama said the Department of Defense would seek smart and strategic spending priorities from this point forward. This comes from the default trigger as the Super Committee failed to come to terms with reduced government spending.
The defense cuts are much larger than the White House and Leon Panetta in fact are revealing. The new military strategy includes $487 billion in cuts over the next decade. An additional $500 billion in cuts could be coming if Congress follows through on plans for deeper reductions. The United States military is aging rapidly and needs funding to keep pace with future technology threats such as Russia, China, and Iran.
Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta supported Obama's decision to reduce spending which includes drastic reductions in ground troops and an increase in the number of special forces working in cooperation with a militarized CIA force. At first appearance, this possibly reveals that future wars will be fought with nastier weapons, in the cyber world, and in space with satellites being at the core of technology.
The Iranian nuclear threat, partnered with Syria, Russia, and Venezuela, all demonstrated by the IAEA report published late last year is the top priority because it directly threatens our interests, in a way that would be the most likely to need US military intervention. What gets very little attention however, is the fact that a large amount of nuclear material/inventory is owned by countries that have not taken thorough precautions and applied all measures possible to keep them safe from would be terrorists.
There are additional challenges that must be included in the war-gaming dialogue and may be included, but with the exit of troops in Iraq and the drawdown of those in Afghanistan prior to the schedule of 2014, reliance on spies and black operations becomes more important. As the Middle East continues to grow as a threat with deeper partnerships and alliances, 'trade craft' and subterfuge are the preferred tools of choice. Opposition to the West by many factions in the Middle East has spread to Latin America as we watch once again, Ahmadinejad completing yet another South America friendship tour. Please review the country by country nuclear index.
Please take a look at this map of worldwide conflicts and who is involved.
The Obama re-election campaign is in full swing and gutting our military as Commander in Chief is reckless pandering to his liberal base, despite re-focusing the message. Obviously, war is expensive on many fronts especially with the risk to warriors being so steep, but not applying all the tools within the Rules of Engagement and making large use of political correctness was reckless, for the sake of the Muslim world and its radical Islamization and Caliphate objectives. This has forced the United States to be at war much longer than our own abilities dictated, wars that should have ended long ago.
But this is a political season, and re-designing the military due to forced economic woes instead of heady, unpressed re-design efforts designed to secure our future, we get deep, dangerous cuts with political spin. This is a recipe for disaster, yet Obama tried to couch it in terms that pre-empt comparisons to past failures of past administrations and his own mis-handling of our current economic crises.
From the Denver Post article: President Obama recruits military to outflank congressional Republicans on defense budget
For a president denounced by Republican rivals as a weak and irresponsible commander in chief, the show of military support represented a political windfall for Obama as he begins campaigning in earnest for a second term.
But it also marked an evolution in Obama's practice of Washington politics, evidence that after being outmaneuvered by congressional Republicans several times, he does not intend to make the same mistakes in an election year.
Hence, they set up a wonderful photo-op for a speech, and make no mistake, it was a forced photo-op, after-all, as Commander-in-Chief, those soldiers and their brass are mandated to be there, and Leon Panetta is a political appointment he made only recently. From the Star Tribune:
Here we go again. President Obama made the same mistake Thursday in announcing his new military strategy that virtually all of his predecessors have made since the end of World War II.
He said: "Moreover, we have to remember the lessons of history. We cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past — after World War II, after Vietnam — when our military was left ill-prepared for the future. As commander in chief, I will not let that happen again. Not on my watch."
Unfortunately, Obama's plan does exactly that. It forgets the lessons of history.
So, we have a gutted military infrastructure facing our nation, a failed cyber war, and too many lost or foresaken diplomatic victories. That is not leadership. It is clearly political ideology, disguised and veiled under false pretenses to foster "fundamental change'!

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Apple's "Mail Privacy Protection" is an Earthquake for Email Marketers
By Alex Williams
Apple introduced new privacy features at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in June, and they will have an earthquake-like impact on email marketing. It's time for email marketers to shift from opens to more impactful engagement metrics.
The Mail app in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey will now allow users to opt-in to "Mail Privacy Protection." This effectively breaks the "open rate" and all of the data that traditionally comes with it. Apple's guidance for marketers sums up the changes quite succinctly:
"If you've been using remote images to measure the impact of your campaigns, there are a few changes to be aware of. Since Mail content may be loaded automatically after delivery, the time of Mail viewing will no longer be correct. And since that content is loaded without revealing people's IP addresses and without detailed headers, the location and type of device reading the Mail aren't revealed. And you'll see your emails as being opened, regardless of if the user read it or not." – Apple's privacy pillars in focus – WWDC 2021
So, once a user enables Mail Privacy Protection (and we expect close to 100% adoption), Apple will effectively download all images in every email almost as soon as the emails hit their servers. This will make the 'open rate' and the 'time of open' useless, as every message sent to an Apple user will show as opened when they download the images. Additionally, the actual IP, device, and location will not be passed back to the sender.
It was only a matter of time until the privacy movement reached email marketing. We have to hand it to Apple; it's an elegant approach. Instead of blocking the tracking pixels themselves, they made them useless by flooding them with inaccurate data.
This movement will impact certain aspects of every email program. While the open rate itself has always been a flawed metric, it still weaved into practically every aspect of email marketing, for better or worse. The fundamentals of email marketing will remain, with or without open rates. We don't expect Apple to backtrack on any aspect of the Mail Privacy Protection, so we should all start planning for it.
Shift These Areas of Email Programs to Accommodate Mail Privacy Protection
In our experience, people opened at least 30%-40% of emails in the Mail app on Apple devices in most email programs, and the percentages have been much higher in many cases. But how many emails are delivered to those clients? They will all show as having been opened in the future. So we've put together a list of considerations to start evaluating, rethinking, and re-engineering to help with the new OS (which launched on September 20, 2021).
Journeys & Automations – Many programs have email automations and triggers dependent on whether someone has opened an email. Check all business rules in the journeys and automations for decisions based on email opens, as the flood of false positives dramatically increases the number of users receiving those messages.
Subscriber Segmentation – If the classification of 'active' or 'engaged' subscribers includes those who have only opened an email, this needs to change. Fundamentally, clicks and conversions signify a much higher quality of intent anyway, along with activity in other channels, such as the app/website, as well as offline behavior. (A CDP will help tremendously in this area.)
Subject Line Testing – Many ESP's have tools for facilitating A/B tests for subject lines. Typically, these have delivered the winner to the rest of the audience based on open rates. It will be interesting to see how they address that functionality in the future. As with many other areas, testing using opens will need to shift to clicks. While still early into this privacy protection transition, some folks have been discussing testing subject lines to a non-Apple audience. We don't see a future for that, as we believe Google and the other email services will probably buddy up on Apple's approach pretty soon.
Reporting – All of the metrics that include opens (clicks to opens, unique clicks to opens, etc.) will become obsolete. The email-specific reporting tools showing time spent reading, device used, and forwarding/printing will also stop being useful. Clicks and conversions have always been the critical signal to a thriving email program anyway, and the removal of opens doesn't change that fact. If anything, email has always been under-attributed because of the simplicity of the open rate (which has never meant they actually read the email anyway.) Now will be a great time to reconsider attribution models to show the true impact of email on organizations. If the ability exists to export all legacy data out of the ESP, start those discussions now. Exporting all data will allow the creation of reference points for future analysis.
Deliverability – Some of the most vocal critics of Apple's changes have argued that open rates are critical for maintaining a healthy list. While we sympathize with that argument, the trade-off for privacy is too high. Plenty of other signals and data points provide better feedback, and we expect to see some innovations from service providers to address these concerns. Suppose a marketing company has loose acquisition practices, an aggressive cadence, heavy-handed call-to-actions, and irrelevant content. In that case, the lack of open rates will not be the reason they run into deliverability problems. We suggest conducting an audit to ensure the whole email marketing program is in tip-top shape.
Real-Time Content – Apple caching images at some point of time between delivery and open will remove the usefulness of real-time image content, as the images will not need to be downloaded again after the initial download. More broadly, any business model based on open rate CPM will be disrupted. We are keeping an eye on this space and will share more once we know how those businesses will respond.
Stakeholder Education – Take the time to get everyone in the organization up-to-speed on the changes. With the removal of third-party cookies, conversations should already be happening. If open rates have been a critical component of your reporting to management, start having those discussions now. Quarterly (and annual) business reviews will need an official reset button, as the data reference points so often used will need a giant asterisk to explain to your stakeholders what exactly has impacted your metrics in the preceding months. QBRs and ABRs provide a great opportunity to showcase performance, but they should ultimately be geared more towards the strategy side of things. Map out a reaction to the new landscape after addressing the implications of the Apple Privacy Protection.
Long-term implications of evolving privacy protection
With the upcoming death of the third-party cookie, and now the loss of IP and pixel tracking, what should we prepare for next? This is only the beginning of a long line of privacy regulations we are likely to see take hold in the coming months and years, as consumers become increasingly aware of the collected data and how that data is being used.
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1) Mt. Hermon: I attended my very first writer's conference ever, the Mount Hermon Christian Writer's Conference at the beginning of April. What an amazing experience. I felt God's hand on me each and every day. He led the right people to meet me at the right times. It was wonderful to put faces to the names I knew from my online writer's groups, and to meet new friends.
I met a wonderful woman of God, Sharon Hinck, and we hit it off immediately. She has been an incredible support and cheerleader for me in the revising process since I've been back from the conference. I can't imagine revising "The Corinthian Rules" without her. I fully expect a publishing company to contract for her novels "The Restorer" and "Amber Bay" soon. She's an amazing writer.
I also met Cherise Olsen, who lives in Boulder Creek, only 10 minutes from Mount Hermon, and only 45 minutes from me in south San Jose. We immediately stuck together like Rocky and Bullwinkle! She's funny and writes Chick-Lit also. I can't wait to get together with her again--we've promised each other to meet in a few weeks to hang out again. She really encouraged me during the conference with prayer when I needed it, a laugh every time we went to the women's restroom (don't ask!) and a smiling face to look forward to each morning in the Fiction 101 workshop track.
I had a phenomenal time meeting editors and agents. I submitted the synopsis and first chapter of "The Corinthian Rules" to two publishing houses, Bethany House and Westbow (who publishes Kristin Billerbeck's Chick-Lit series about Ashley Stockingdale).
Jenny Baumgartner from Westbow gave me the nicest rejection I've ever seen. She said (very correctly, I discovered over the course of the conference) that I needed to take my writing to the next level and suggested "Self-Editing for the Fiction Writer" by Browne/King. She even took the time to write a few comments in the margin of my synopsis and chapter.
Christopher Soderstrom from Bethany liked my proposal and asked to meet with me, but he did express concern that it might not fit Bethany's readership. There was a great deal of talk that weekend about edginess and the acceptability of different genres within the CBA (Christian Booksellers Association), and this seemed to fall in that category. But Christopher did ask me to keep in touch, suggested that I revise my writing more, and invited me to send the revised proposal.
I also got the chance to meet with Jeff Dunn from RiverOak Publishing, and he asked me to revise and send him the full manuscript when it's completed. He especially likes "edgy" and unusual fiction that may not fit standard CBA guidelines. I also pitched to Karen Ball from Zondervan and to agent Deirdre Knight, who both requested I send them my proposal.
Now, it's the waiting game. I'm working with Sharon to revise "Corinthians" and hopefully get it sent to Jeff by the end of May.
2) Work: In the first week of March, I interviewed and received a job offer from a biotech company in the south Bay area (a 30-minutes-against-traffic commute, baby!), and I have been working there for about 6 weeks now. Aside from the difficult transition from unemployed homebody to biology researcher again, the hours have been really long as we struggle to meet a deadline by the end of the month. My supervisor is smart and very good, and my coworkers are all nice. It's just the heavy workload that's killing me. But it has also made me long even more to write full-time. I enjoy biology research, but it's writing fiction that is my true calling. I have been praying and trying my best to persevere, and hoping that one day God may allow me to quit my job and write full-time. It may never happen, but I am trusting Him to know what's best for me. I need to remember that it'll only happen in His timing.
3) My husband: still unemployed, but interviewing and trusting God to provide for us. Becoming a phenomenal cook, and spending lots of time playing PS2 and fishing.
4) Snickers: still a pain in the behind, but a bit more obedient after six rounds of dog classes (whew!). She passed the Canine Good Citizenship test (barely!) and we are taking a break from classes right now.
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GREAT FALLS – A rancher near Cut Bank would sing "The Farmer's Daughter" by Merle Haggard to his daughter Candice.
That sentiment would one day grow into a fiber-dyeing business that captures the Treasure State's colorful culture. We headed to The Farmers Daughter Fibers in Great Falls for this Montana Made report.
English says her Montana roots are saturated in a blend of cultures that are at the heart of The Farmer's Daughter Fibers after spending her early years on a ranch near the Blackfeet Reservation
"Having a Native American mother and then a rancher for a dad it was just, I realized how unique that kind of was," English said.
She says the combination of those two worlds inspire her business — which came to life after she decided to quit her corporate job. "I was just not happy and instead of kind of settling for a 9-5 job and being stressed out and all of these things that I was gonna change that."
English set out in 2015 to find what was needed most in the fiber arts industry, "dyeing yarn seemed like it was, um y'know a good idea."
Starting in her basement, English began to hone her skills, watching tutorials, reading books and traveling to craft festivals and shows until hand-dyeing yarn became second nature.
Since then, The Farmer's Daughter Fibers has moved behind the Columbus Center in the old hospital laundry facility — another piece of history threaded through the business that adds uniqueness to their products.
"What we produce in the colorways we create are very much, kind of a, have a nostalgic feel to them and so being in the building just fit in with all of that," English said.
She credits her businesses' growth to the sentimentality of simpler times- which many find here in the Last Best Place.
"When you're in the city, or y'know more urban areas, it's harder to do that so I wanted to kind of be able to bring that to people and so that I think is why we attract so many people outside of the state," English said.
While many think of The Treasure State as a place of the past, English says Montana is full of culture — something she is proud to share wherever her yarn is shipped.
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KAIPO is made up of inspiring, talented, thoughtful, and hard-working members, and we are proud of each and every one of you! We asked our members to submit (anonymously or not) peer-to-peer recognitions to showcase some of the efforts, accomplishments, and achievements of our members. Below are the responses we received. Thank you to everyone who submitted a response! Also, thank you to everyone for all your hard work, and congratulations to everyone for their accomplishments and achievements!
"I would like to recognize Jessica Patterson for her new position as Senior Advisor for International Work Sharing Team. She will work with stakeholders to improve and expand the Office's international work sharing opportunities." – Anonymous
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Along with LED, LCD is the most common type of monitor you will find available currently. LCD monitors consist of two panes of glass with liquid in between and thousands of rows of pixels to organize said liquid.The following are the five types of monitor: 1. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), 2. LED (Liquid Emitting Diode), 3.
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Monitors and computers are Class 1 earthed appliances and are powered via an earthed IEC 3 core 230 V power lead, although there are exception which are powered from low voltage PSUs which can be Class 1 or Class 2 double insulated products.
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A computer monitor, also known as a CRT, is an electronic output device which displays images in pictorial form on the screen. A monitor usually consists of the screen, circuits, casing, housing, and power source.
How many types of monitors are there?
There are basically 6 types of monitors currently being sold by major manufacturers. They include LCD Monitor, LED Monitor, OLED Monitor, Plasma Monitor, CRT Monitor, and Touch Screen Monitors.
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A traditional monitor is only used to display (output) information from a computer and provides no source of input. For this reason, a computer monitor is considered an output device.
Do I need 2 or 3 monitors?
Three monitors will provide a more immersive experience over a dual monitor setup, though the latter is no slouch in that department either. This increased immersion can be helpful while playing computer games, editing videos, or even watching movies or TV shows.
What is a another name for monitor?
Answer: The computer monitor is also known as a visual display unit, screen, display, video display, video display terminal, etc.
Is the LCD the screen?
An LCD screen is the display under the glass screen that is the source of the image displayed on your phone. For most devices, you can purchase an LCD screen assembly which includes everything: the outer glass, touch digitizer and LCD.
Is LCD or LED monitor best?
In most cases, an LED monitor holds the advantage due to its longer lifespan, better picture quality, thinner design, fast response time and more environmentally friendly construction. These qualities offset the higher initial price point that might have you considering an LCD option.
Is IPS better than VA?
Here's the final takeaway: IPS panels are significantly better than VA panels when it comes to viewing angle and somewhat better than VA panels when it comes to color. VA panels, however, almost always offer deeper black levels and better overall contrast.
What is a OLED monitor?
What are they? OLED monitors are flat computer displays which consist of pixels made from OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) rather than liquid crystal filled units. Unlike LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) technology, OLED does not require backlighting to function.
What is Type C monitor?
A USB-C monitor is a monitor with built-in USB-C ports. Any laptop with a USB-C port or USB-C adapter can be connected to the monitor with just one cable, for instant access to everything you need to be as productive as possible.
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Are laptops Class 1 or 2?
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Why is a monitor important?
The computer monitor is one of the most important parts of a computer system. It is the primary visual output device that displays images, text, video, graphs, etc.
How does a monitor look like?
A monitor looks like a TV screen. The CPU uses the monitor to show us photos, movies and games. The front portion of the monitor is called the screen, or display. CPU (central processing unit) is the most important part of a computer.
What is the monitor called now?
What are the types of LCD monitors?
There are three main types of LCD panels: In-Plane Switching (IPS), Vertical Alignment (VA), and Twisted Nematic (TN).
Is OLED or LED better?
Is 4K LED or LCD?
4K sets using OLED (organic light emitting diode) screens have an advantage over their traditional LCD-based counterparts thanks to some innovative technology. OLED displays are able to adjust the lighting for each individual pixel rather than using a backlight to dim or brighten the whole of the display.
Which is better LED LCD or IPS?
An IPS display typically produces a much better image than LED displays because of its accuracy and sharpness, regardless of your viewing angle. Conversely, LED monitors display less color accuracy and reliability alongside the limited viewing angles at which you can get the best quality.
Are monitors HDMI input or output?
The HDMI port is an input port. Yes, you can plug your cable box into it. The cable box will think it's a TV. However, it does not have speakers.
Is HDMI a monitor?
An HDMI monitor is a monitor that is connected through a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) port. The connection is generally the first obstacle you encounter when buying a monitor. Most LCD monitors use VGA and HDMI ports, with the latter being somewhat more important.
Is a CPU input or output?
Central Processing Unit. ... The CPU is also known as the processor or microprocessor. The CPU is responsible for executing a sequence of stored instructions called a program. This program will take inputs from an input device, process the input in some way and output the results to an output device.
What are the 3 types of monitors?
3 types of monitors are given below. LCD – Liquid Crystal Display. LED – Light Emitting Diodes. CRT – Cathode Ray Tube. Q. What are the 2 kinds of monitor? 2 kinds of monitors are given below. LCD – Liquid Crystal Display. LED – Light Emitting Diodes. Q. Which type monitor is best? LCD and LED monitor is the best for computers.
What is a computer monitor?
The term "monitor" is often used synonymously with "computer screen" or "display." The monitor displays the computer's user interface and opens programs, allowing the user to interact with the computer, typically using the keyboard and mouse. Most people use computer monitors daily at work and at home. There are various types of monitor.
What is the difference between LCD and LED monitors?
LCD monitors are 40% more efficient than older CRT monitors, while LED monitors offer 20% energy efficiency compared to LCD monitors, which qualifies them with Energy Star certified. The following video shows the actual difference from an LCD monitor to an LED.
What is the difference between CRT and LCD monitors?
CRT monitors have weighted than LCD Monitors. LCD Monitors have lightweight than CRT Monitors. Harmful radiation emitted from CRT monitors is not good for your health. Whereas LCD Monitors do not emit harmful radiation in large quantities. When it comes to your computer monitor, you want the best quality.
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Why is OLED monitor rare?
High costs and lower demand mean that electronics manufacturers aren't prioritizing the OLED monitor niche. While OLED monitors are expensive, you can still get great picture quality from LED monitors.Why isn t there OLED monitors? Big OLED screens simply are too expensive yet to use widely. Why are OLED monitors better? Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) Instead, the pixels on the display panel...
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How They're Doing It in Denmark
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In the coronavirus crisis, the Danish government has been an early mover, both on public health and on protecting jobs. Photo: Fagbevægelsens Hovedorganisation, cropped from original.
The Danish government has struck a historic deal with unions and employers' associations to stop mass layoffs during the pandemic.
Over the next three months, the national government will cover 75 percent of the wages of workers who would otherwise be laid off, up to $3,300 per month. Companies will cover the remaining 25 percent of wages, while workers will give up five days of future paid vacation time.
The deal covers companies who would have to lay off at least 30 percent of employees, or 50 employees or more. In return, companies commit to no layoffs while they're receiving government compensation.
The Danish government was one of the first in Europe to issue stay-at-home orders for all non-essential workers. This early reaction has helped the country keep its COVID-19 toll low.
A WORTHWHILE INVESTMENT
Covering 75 percent of wages may seem like a huge investment for the government, but it is much smaller than it seems. Layoffs would mean lost tax income and the expense of paying unemployment benefits. Although the deal is partly a handout to companies, it's an investment in maintaining economic confidence and an attempt to avoid a more costly economic crisis.
Rather than relief for the financial sector as in the U.S. bills, the Danish model provides a boost to the real economy—the production of goods and services. That indirectly helps the financial sector too: for instance, fewer people will be forced to default on mortgages.
More important, the Danish way encourages and enables workers to stay home—avoiding the spectacle seen in other countries of millions of low-wage workers still feeling they must show up, despite the danger, to get paid.
Finally, for workers, staying on the payroll with a job to return to is far superior to being laid off, even if unemployment benefits are generous (in the U.S., for example, Congress recently increased benefits by $600 a week, while in Denmark the lowest level of benefits for adult citizens without dependents starts at $1,690 pre-tax. Immigrants get somewhat less, while people with a longer employment history get $2,790 for two years).
Especially for nonunion workers, who have no seniority right to their old jobs after a layoff, the Danish model addresses the profound insecurity so many workers in other countries are now experiencing.
"The echo of what we are doing now will be heard into the future. Now we are laying the tracks for companies and employees to get well through the crisis," said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
Initially, money has been set aside to cover a relative small proportion of non-public employees, but the Social Democratic government is willing to put the full financial power of the state behind the deal: "There is no ceiling," Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen said as the deal was unveiled March 15.
The deal demonstrates the Danish tripartite model of labor relations, where employers and unions negotiate collective agreements that cover 83 percent of the workforce. The government oversees the process and resolves conflicts by law. While union density is one of the highest in the world, the new Danish law is not all-inclusive: The self-employed, owner-managers, and people on casual and zero-hour contracts (where workers are essentially on call, with no guaranteed hours) are not covered. They are already among the hardest hit by layoffs, but poorly represented by unions and other interest organizations.
What will happen after three months remains an open question. Many employers, especially in the hospitality industry, expect a much longer downturn. Such employers would rather lay workers off than pay 25 percent for staff they don't and won't need. However, the resolute commitment of the government and the popularity of these measures may open the door for similar policies in the near future.
KEEPING THE ECONOMY GOING
From an international perspective, the Danish model is instructive, given how deeply the failure to contain the pandemic in the UK and the United States is connected to Boris Johnson's and Donald Trump's wish to "keep the economy going." Denmark, with its protection of employment and its solidaristic sick-pay rights, looks much better suited to weather the economic storm as well as the public health one.
These policies also make people and companies more likely to respect the quarantine: workers' right to aid is also a matter of public health. In other countries, many will face evictions and be unable to self-quarantine, unless moratoriums are put in place or rent and mortgage strikes are organized.
The question is whether this deal is merely a temporary compromise where employers and government are forced to respect workers, or a step toward a new post-pandemic economic order. Maintaining the existing structure of employment presumes that the crisis is temporary—simply a result of the shock of COVID-19. In fact, the extreme impact of the virus reveals the preexisting vulnerability of the global economy.
To build something more lasting, the Danish government would have to reckon with the fact that the classical social democratic policies it's employed for so long now find themselves in a different world. The post-World War II boom initially helped build the welfare state, but economies in Europe and North America have been sluggish for decades. Now many of Denmark's trading partners are facing an epic economic collapse.
After the pandemic, economic growth and profit rates are unlikely to return to the levels that allowed Denmark and other European countries to compromise with unions and instate a strong social safety net with worker benefits. Conflict between workers and employers will increase over how the losses are distributed.
Some jobs have been saved for the next three months, but it remains to be seen whether these workers will be needed after the lockdown, as the recession bites. And just as some jobs will be unsustainable for economic reasons, others are ecologically unsustainable, such as oil drilling and aviation. These are so-called batshit jobs, crazy because they require workers to participate in the destruction of the conditions of life—in order to make a living.
The crisis is an opportunity to shift employment into ecologically sustainable jobs such as teaching and health care or restorative agriculture and the windmill industry. However, it remains to be seen whether unions are ready to lead the fight for a just transition to a green economy.
In the coronavirus crisis, the Danish government has been an early mover, both on public health and on protecting jobs. It has revealed how much can be done when the political will and economic urgency is there. But in the coming global crises, unions will need bolder politics to respond to the deep recession and climate change. They will need to fight to transform labor relations and the economy more profoundly.
Bue Rübner Hansen is an editor of Viewpoint magazine. A version of this article first appeared in Jacobin magazine.
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Katrin Kuhlmann is the President and Founder of the New Markets Lab and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Her work focuses on the intersection between law and economic development, trade and development, agricultural regulation, regional trade, and international legal and regulatory reform. She is published widely and speaks frequently on these topics. Katrin is also a Senior Associate with the Global Food Security Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a member of the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa of the Office of the United States Trade Representative, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, and a representative on a number of boards and advisory boards. She has also served as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and an international trade negotiator and has held senior positions at think tanks and non-profit organizations as well as practiced international law. Katrin holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Creighton University and was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study international economics.


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Four Reasons Apple is Making us Wait for the iPhone 5
Contrary to popular belief, greed isn't the primary factor.
After this week's lackluster unveiling, many have accused Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) of milking the system. This is the easy thing to do whenever a company rehashes an existing product.
(To see how to profit from Benzinga's Cash Generator, click here.)
But while Apple announced the iPhone 4S knowing that there are millions of consumers who will buy it despite the lack of major innovations, the company didn't take this path for the sake of profits alone.
Why, then, did Apple choose to launch another version of the iPhone 4?
Reason #4: Color Changes Aren't Enough
Remember the white iPhone 4? It wasn't an upgrade. It wasn't a fresh phone in any regard. But that did not stop Apple from hyping it as the next best thing in smartphone development.
Consumers tended to agree. When the new color launched earlier this year, most Apple stores held onto its stock for the full day. But if you had believed the pre-release hype, you would have expected it to sell out as soon as it was released.
Apple could add another color to the iPhone lineup. But compared to a red or blue iPhone (or even an all-silver design), the iPhone 4S seems downright awesome.
Reason #3: Sprint (Likely) Wanted a Better Deal than Verizon
With the $20 billion deal now apparently confirmed by Bloomberg, Sprint (NYSE: S) is going all-in with the iPhone. Thus, it's not a stretch to assume that the company asked Apple for a better (read: more exciting) unveiling than Verizon (NYSE: VZ) received earlier this year.
For better or worse, Sprint got one. Now its customers can proudly buy a "new" phone instead of another iteration of last year's model.
Reason #2: Innovation is a Slow Process
I don't want to defend Apple's decision to hold off on releasing a superior phone. But while we love to tell ourselves that Apple is an all-mighty innovator that should never wrong us, there is the strong possibility that the company is incapable of the level of innovation we expect.
That being the case, some might argue that the company should tone down its marketing and pre-announcement hype. But Apple doesn't sell products with open and honest advertising – it sells them by raising our expectations. While other companies often suffer for not fulfilling those expectations, Apple has enough customers to get away with this sneaky strategy – year after year.
We (the Apple skeptics) are equally to blame, however. If we didn't continue to expect big things from Apple, we wouldn't have to feel so disappointed when the company fails to deliver. And considering how many times Apple has failed to deliver in the last 12 months, isn't it about time for us to move on and lower our expectations, no matter what the hype, rumors and so-called "confirmed" reports tell us?
Reason #1: Fear
Change can be a scary thing. It might have made arcades rich in the '80s, and it might have made voters elect our current President. But in general, people fear change. Companies do as well.
(To see why calling it the iPhone 4 was a bad idea, click here.)
While the current iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad formula has been successful, Apple could be afraid to make any drastic changes, knowing that it may ultimately make or break a product people already love. Consequently, Apple might believe that it is better to risk alienating consumers with high expectations than it is to risk alienating the mainstream market, which still believes that the iPhone is the best and most groundbreaking product in its class.
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Mar 8, 2019 - Stephanie Garza
Happy International Women's Day! How we're working to inspire and educate women in STEM
We're shining a light on some of the initiatives we're proud to support, helping us to give back and foster a global community of women in technology.
As one of our six core values, diversity is more than just a single project or initiative for GitLab. It's crucial for the success of our globally distributed team, and for the future of the tech industry as a whole. GitLab aims to make a significant impact in efforts to foster an environment where everyone can thrive. We have designed a multidimensional approach to ensure we uphold a culture which embodies transparency, opportunity, and open communication.
As we celebrate International Women's Day today, we're taking a moment to reflect on the progress so far, while recognizing there's lots of work to be done to #BalanceforBetter.
We're on a mission to support organizations where women thrive
We hope to shine a light on some of the initiatives we're passionate about to help build awareness and encourage others to get involved.
Free workshops with Django Girls, Girls Get Geeky, and Rails Girls
Django Girls and GitLab partner to provide women free code workshops across the globe. Django Girls (DG) strives to empower women to pursue careers in technology. The free workshops equip women with a solid coding curriculum to kick start their professional journey. Along with DG, we partner with Girls Get Geeky and Rails Girls, organizations created to inspire and educate young women in tech. The free workshops provide community, networking, and coding lessons to women of various backgrounds. The women share their goals, dreams (and delicious treats), which GitLab happily supports.
GitLab Diversity Sponsorship
Through the GitLab Diversity Sponsorship program, we are able to contribute financially to the initiatives. The goal is to foster a community of organizations with the desire to inspire, encourage, and empower women. We have had the pleasure of partnering with Wonder Women in Tech, FemPower, Women Who Code, and Women Hack, other incredible female-focused powerhouses in the industry. The collaborations allow Gitlab to connect on a greater scale with amazing women around the world. Visit our Sponsorships page to find out more and to apply.
The greater GitLab team is actively striving to impact change, raise awareness, and fully support global initiatives. We came together at a recent summit to promote the STEM Gems, the foundation devoted to giving girls role models in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). GitLab team-members came together to share their stories in hopes of inspiring women to pursue STEM. These collaborations allow GitLab to connect on a greater scale with amazing women around the world. We hope to inspire the community to join us in our pursuit to provide opportunity. Visit the organizations' websites to learn more about contributing through volunteering, mentoring, or sponsoring.
Our goals for 2019 are even more aggressive
With the development of the GitLab Mentorship program we hope to inspire and motivate women from across the globe. The goal is to contribute to the development of a better trained and engaged community. Our first round of applications is already in and, once paired, mentors will help mentees learn the ropes at the company, develop relationships across the organization, and identify skills to work on developing. The next cohort of mentee applications will open in August.
Education and encouragement play a vital role in women's pursuits. In a typically male-dominated field, it's important for women to come together and support, mentor, and encourage one another. The women of GitLab embody this belief, taking on various projects, workshops, and volunteer opportunities. We rally together to connect our distributed team.
Of course, these initiatives are just a drop in the ocean. Uniting our team through charity, sponsorship, and mentoring is one stride toward making global change. Narrowing the gender gap will remain a constant goal. We aim to provide all GitLab team-members with the opportunity to thrive, contribute, and succeed. A balanced and inclusive team will accelerate our potential. #BalanceforBetter
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Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans
Filed in Grants and Gifts on June 27, 2018
Here is this week's news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Savannah State University, the historically Black educational institution in Georgia, received a five-year, $950,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for programs to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.
The School of Nursing at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for programs to support students who want to pursue a nursing career in underserved areas.
Historically Black Hampton University in Virginia received a $200,486 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund the university's Nurse Faculty Loan Program that will provide funds to hire nursing faculty for the 2018-19 academic year.
Emory University in Atlanta received a five-year, $3.7 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effectiveness of a $140 million World Bank-funded water project in the African nation of Mozambique. The researchers will study how effective new water supplies have been in improving child health.
Tuskegee University, the historically Black educational institution in Alabama, received a $300,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation for programs to increase the number of Black male students who study in technology disciplines. The program brings male middle school students and their teachers to campus for a three-week on-campus program designed to increase interest in technology.
Historically Black Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a program that will bring nine undergraduate students to campus for an eight-week summer research program in an effort to increase the number of students who pursue graduate degree in STEM fields.
Talladega College, a historically Black educational institution in Alabama, received a $500,000 grant from the state of Alabama, to help in the construction of a new art museum on campus that will showcase the Hale Woodruff Amistad Murals.
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Fox Refuses To Air Super Bowl Ad About Abortion Survivors - Greenlights Commercial Featuring Drag Queens
Fox Refuses To Air Super Bowl Ad About Abortion Survivors – Greenlights Commercial Featuring Drag Queens
Drama surrounding Super Bowl commercials is back in full force.
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The Super Bowl is set to take place on Sunday, which means countless advertisers have spent the past few months working on the commercials that will air on Fox during the game. Unfortunately, it has just been revealed that FOX has refused to approve a powerful commercial about abortion survivors, yet the network had no problem with green lighting an ad featuring drag queens.
The pro-life group Faces of Choice is speaking out this week to slam Fox Sports for refusing to air an ad they produced during the Super Bowl, according to LifeSite News. The ad originally ran during this year's March For Life, and it tells the story of fourteen people who survived abortions.
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"We were one of the very first people to submit anything to them," explained Lyric Gillett, the founder of Faces of Choice. "We met every single stipulation that they asked for and every time we met the line they moved the line further to request something else."
Gillett went on to say that she was initially told by Fox that they would get back to her by October about whether or not the ad had been approved, but she never heard anything else from them. After she repeatedly tried to get in touch with Fox's legal department, she was finally told in November that all Super Bowl advertising slots were full. Last week, however, Fox announced that more advertising slots had become available for the Super Bowl, so Gillett resubmitted the application.
At the time of this writing, Gillett has yet to hear back about the commercial.
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Gillett expressed surprise that Fox asked her at one point to give them information about everyone who had donated to the ad. Though Gillett found this request to be "untenable," she ultimately complied and handed over the information.
"I think it's very clever what they're doing," Gillett continued. "If they directly said 'no' then we could say 'this is asinine, look at the suitable ad that Fox rejected,' but they haven't directly said 'no,' they've ignored us, wasted our time, refused to give an answer and refused to either give us clearance or simply say 'no.'"
What Fox is doing is even more offensive given the fact that the network had no problem approving a Super Bowl ad that featured contestants from the reality television show "Rupaul's Drag Race." Drag queens Kim Chi and Miz Cracker will be appearing in a fifteen-second ad for Sabra hummus products, according to NBC News.
Bob Witeck, a marketing expert for LGBTQ audiences, described the commercial as "revolutionary."
"For queer audiences, [drag] is an art form and an 'outsiders' language," he explained. "Reaching the Super Bowl means taking our language into every home in the nation and millions around the world."
Sadly, abortion survivors will not be receiving this same representation during the Super Bowl. Gillett lamented that abortion survivors "have been ignored their whole lives and that they now faced being ignored again."
"The main goal [of the commercial] is for every day Americans to actually see choice — to be able to look it in the eye," Gillett told FaithWire. "It is ironic and it is incensing to me that these survivors of abortion had their very voices almost stolen from them from the moment of conception, and now the media is doing that again."
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She added that she believes it's important for Americans to see the faces of abortion survivors so that they can realize that they're human beings too, and more than just a "choice."
"Every single humanitarian effort, every civil rights effort that has actually made a difference has been through the voice of a survivor, and that is because the culture actually realized these people are human," Gillett explained.
The Super Bowl is a sporting event that is enjoyed by people of all faiths and political beliefs, so it's a real shame that the network being it is taking sides in a political argument. If drag queens can be represented during the Super Bowl, abortion survivors deserve to be as well.
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