Ryan Slauson, MEET YOUR MEAT, cardboard, clay, wood, paper, acrylic paint, string. 24" x 34" x 40"
Presented in New Rochelle, NY as a collaborative venture with Residency Unlimited.
Field Projects is pleased to present Ghosts, curated by Beth Livensperger, featuring the work of Fanny Alliè, Kara Lynn Cox, Hilary Doyle, Erik Gonzalez, Will Hutnick, Mollie McKinley, Jeanette May, and Ryann Slauson.
Ghosts takes on questions of transformation, dwelling, and the unknown. The show will be staged at 5 Anderson Street, New Rochelle NY, a downtown building in the process of being gut renovated to produce upscale rentals. As a counterpart to the RU residency conducted in a future retail space, the artists in Ghosts position themselves as temporary apparitions in the building, using installation, painting, sculpture, video and performance to probe notions of occupation and inhabitance. Like tenancy, any art exhibition or performance is impermanent: artists and visitors come together for a celebration, the work makes itself available for contemplation and discussion, and then it is over. Documentation can never capture quite the same experience.
Who were the former tenants of the apartments now being used for the exhibition, what their lives were like - and who will be the next inhabitants? The artists in Ghosts would like to send them a message from the present. Whether monumentalizing, sentimentalizing, or shredding notions of home, permanence, and change, the work in Ghosts will exist for only a sliver in the history of this place. This work is a deliberate becoming, staged in a space waiting for more stories.
Fanny Alliè's practice is built on the experience of living in a city: who you pass by, who you know and who you don't, the fragments left behind in the routine of each day. Whether collage, drawing, sewing, sculpture, or public installation, figures in motion move through her work in constant flux. Her spare yet evocative outlines of these figures remind us of fleeting, recognizable moments and encounters. Collages made with cardboard, paper, and wood panel collapse environments, gestures and bodies onto each other to create new structures.
image: HORSES, collages and mixed-media on cardboard, 31.5" x 33"
Kara Lynn Cox is a painter who lifts marks and pattern from the world around her and transforms them into luminous abstract paintings. The delicacy of mesh or a confusion of organic marks overlays hyper-colored gradient washes. Cox's fascination with everyday surfaces such as asphalt, bark, or the weave of a glove which form the grammar of our visual worlds is apparent in the loving treatment she accords to each painted mark. However, her often cold, synthetic color palette and rejection of easy identification of the source imagery hints at an emotional distancing, and her paintings rest uneasily in the balance.
image: MESH, Acrylic paint, house paint, on drop cloth, 16" x 20"
Hilary Doyle's paintings are markers of ordinary domestic moments tuned to a strange pitch via intensive observation. The act of lying in bed with open eyes, or taking one last look at your smartphone before sleep, are translated through keyed up color and exaggeratedly specific surfaces into unfamiliar events. Doyle works from observation in many ways: sketches, videos, iphone drawings and objects themselves become material for her paintings. She often fabricates small sculptural models to paint from. Working out of this deep, multi-faceted knowledge of her subject leads to paintings which are magnetic as both image and object.
image: HALF-AWAKE, acrylic on canvas, 8" X 10"
Erik Gonzalez is an artist who uses a variety of media to look critically at the ways in which we create and bestow value and meaning on objects and images. His work as an independent cabinet maker has afforded him opportunities to explore various facets of production and consumption as dynamic systems, and has become an ongoing performance called Making Wood Smaller. Shown here is a project called Living the Dream. While fabricating a custom kitchen, he made drawings of the drawers on the bottoms of the drawers, and subsequently erased the drawings when the client was displeased with discovering their existence.
image: AR-VAN-D1, archival digital print, 30" x 40"
Will Hutnick's dynamic and color-saturated mixed media work and installations depart from the givens of a space as well as our understanding of abstract painting. Working in materials such as spray paint, paint marker, paper, and stenciling, Hutnick creates bursts of density and angular, ranging forms. These works expose the choices we make as to what serves as the default for our built environment. White space and right angles are overrun and embroidered with snippets of visual extravagance that seem pulled out of some alternate universe in which maximal pleasure is the norm.
image: BUT WE'RE GETTING OFF THE SUBJECT, acrylic, paint marker and spray paint on canvas, 30" x 30"
Mollie McKinley creates sculptures, performs and does video, and uses photography all in service of a multivalent exploration of time, ritual, and decay. Her work perches somewhere at the edge of what people do and what the world does without us. Her salt sculptures start as livestock salt licks, and are hammered, chiseled, power washed and left out in storms until they seem to bear the marks of natural erosion. Their worm-eaten organic qualities contrast with industrial materials or marble which McKinley often pairs with the salt.
image: SALT MONOLITH: BLOCK, Salt, Quarter Inch Steel, Approx. 12" x 24" x 24"
Jeanette May's photographic project Tech Vanitas combines banal consumer objects of various vintages into arresting, humorous, and ultimately sobering tableaus. A coffee percolator and camera bellows rest on a boombox, resting on top of an Underwood typewriter. May nods to vanitas painting as well as the act of looking itself in a play of varied surfaces and light sources, but her ultimate target might be time itself, and how what we prize loses luster with the march of technology, becomes outdated, quaint, and finally vanishes.
image: TECH VANITAS: BLUE iMAC, Archival Pigment Print, 36" x 24"
Ryann Slauson makes sculptural installations, performance, video, and drawing which tenderly skewer particularly American markers of traditions and benchmarks such as Halloween, prize ribbons, football, and the ultimate game of politics. She makes oversized papier-mache heads and wears them for performances which deal with authenticity, machismo, pathos and conflict. Objects such as a stack of titleless paperbacks (nonetheless recognizable as the high school classic Catcher in the Rye), backpack with threatening zipper teeth, and a string of Vienna sausages are equally evocative.
image: MEET YOUR MEAT (detail), cardboard, clay, wood, paper, acrylic paint, string. 24" x 34" x 40"
Beth Livensperger is a painter who lives and works in Queens, NY. She has exhibited widely, and been an artist in residence at Chashama and the Abrons Art Center in NYC, Vermont Studio Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, among others. She holds a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union and an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art.


I came to Lauren Groff's collection of stories with high expectations. This is the writer, after all, of the novel Fates and Furies, lauded by former President Obama as 'A really powerful novel'.
I wasn't disappointed. Groff's collection, which was nominated for this year's National Book Award, contains short stories of the longer variety in the main, and appears to capture whole tiny worlds, almost tiny novels, within their sphere. An intensity burns its way off the pages and into your psyche within each perfectly crafted story, reflecting the heat of the collection's namesake.
'At the Earth's Imagined Corners', the despair of a mother's feelings toward her husband are palpable, even though Groff tells the story through the eyes of her young son. Witnessing his mother's metamorphosis into a strong and self-sufficient woman whom he barely recognizes, he tells us: 'It seemed that the glossed edge of the ocean was chewing her up to her knees… one big wave rolled past her shoulders, and when it receded, she was whole again.' The young mother emerges from her formerly tremulous manner once her husband is sent to Vietnam. When the father returns, however, the boy is returned to his former snake-filled home on the Florida swamp. The story develops until the boy himself is a father, confronting the ghosts of his past. In this story, as in others, there is a subtle hint of a past fraught with racial tensions.
The Florida Groff brings to life is often claustrophobic and mysterious; a place filled with snakes, alligators, and swamps. There is certainly a snake motif running through the collection.
In 'Salvador', Groff evokes a woman in her late thirties, looks fading, who has travelled to Brazil for a month of freedom from caring from her sick mother. There, she rents an apartment and spends her days dressing respectably, wandering the halls of museums and galleries. But her nights are spent seeking young men in nightclubs. She is perturbed by a local shopkeeper, who appears to be watching her, and the story culminates in a storm, another feature of the stories, which completes the closeness and tension of the whole piece.
In many of the stories, such as 'Flower Hunters', whereby a woman's anxiety renders her unable to keep friends or socialize with her family, I wanted more about the characters, sensing a whole novel could develop from them.
One of the longest stories, 'Above and Below', tells of a young woman whose boyfriend leaves her and she, being refused more funding for her professorship, hits the road, only to find herself homeless. There are some beautiful lines here, as elsewhere: 'It was a kind of wealth you didn't know you have until you stand shivering outside in the morning, watching what you used to be,' and I read through this story breathlessly, as Groff throws into focus how easy it is to become lost and unraveled.
Florida, where Groff herself resides, provides a sultry backdrop to the stories, and is a character in and of itself. But in truth, they are what all good stories are about: people, and their relationships to other people; how we live and why we do the things we do.
Florida (2018) by Lauren Groff is published by William Heinemann.
Kate Jones is a freelance writer, yoga lover and NHS worker from the North of England. Her essays, reviews and flash fiction have appeared in many varied places, including Spelk, Feminartsy and The Short Story.


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Cape Regional Medical Center (CRMC), an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, is a general medical and surgical community hospital in Cape May Court House, New Jersey. As the sole hospital in Cape May County, CRMC serves its local community and more than one million seasonal visitors each year. In February 2017, CRMC implemented InSight in the emergency department, intensive care unit, and acute care wards with the goals of better managing sepsis, improving patient outcomes, and reducing sepsis-related spending.
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To smoothly integrate InSight into the CRMC clinical workflow, the Dascena onboarding team collected feedback from alert respondents and sepsis care teams. The onboarding team and clinical leadership collaboratively introduced iterative changes through regular PDSA (plan-do-study-act) cycles.
In particular, the alert delivery modality, content, and timing were optimized. Based on initial input from hospitalists and ED leadership, the alert was programmed to be an automated call containing patient ID, unit, and bed number with a six hour "snooze" feature. After go-live, alert respondents requested the inclusion of patient name, three repetitions of the alert content, and placement of multiple calls if initial calls were missed. Each of these features were implemented within one week of the request. Similarly, alerting thresholds were adjusted through the PDSA process to catch as many patients as possible while minimizing false alerts.
After implementing InSight, CRMC saw a 9.55% reduction in average sepsis-related hospital length of stay (LOS), a 60.24% reduction in sepsis-related in-hospital mortality rate, and a 50.14% reduction in sepsis-related 30-day readmission rate. These decreases were calculated from the reductions observed in the first post-implementation period (Feb 2017 to Mar 2017; designated green in the figure below), the second post-implementation period (Mar 2017 to Apr 2017; designated purple), and the post-implementation steady state period (Apr 2017 to May 2017; designated black) and were compared to the baseline data (Nov 2016 to Jan 2017; designated blue). The first PDSA cycle occurred before the first post-implementation period and the other two PDSA cycles were completed before the second period. The steady state commenced one month after the final PDSA cycle to determine whether the improvements were sustained. To determine sepsis-related outcomes, analysis was limited to patients who met at least two Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) criteria at some point during their stay (n = 1,328).
During the two-month period after InSight implementation, CRMC's SEP-1 severe sepsis 3-hour bundle compliance rate was 72.7%, outperforming the 2016 annual average compliance rate of 49%. In the post-implementation period, there were significant decreases in time to antibiotic, blood culture, and fluid order placement relative to time of documented suspicion of infection. Earlier intervention, especially earlier antibiotic administration, likely contributed to the decrease in sepsis-related mortality seen during the InSight implementation period.
These sepsis care improvements may lead to a positive financial impact. The average cost of sepsis care at CRMC amounts to approximately $2,311 each day, and there are about 300 sepsis cases per month. CRMC's shortened average LOS and reduced readmission rate potentially translate to an estimated $3.6 million in annual cost savings for the Cape Regional Health System.
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Q: How to ignore namespace with Apache Commons Digester? I'm trying to parse the XML from the Google Contacts API. The parts that are relevant to me and to this question are the given name, family name and the email address, and they look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
<entry>
  <gd:name>
    <gd:fullName>John Doe</gd:fullName>
    <gd:givenName>John</gd:givenName>
    <gd:familyName>Doe</gd:familyName>
  </gd:name>
  <gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work" address="john.doe@example.org" primary="true"/>
</entry>
<entry>
  <gd:name>
    <gd:fullName>Jane Smith</gd:fullName>
    <gd:givenName>Jane</gd:givenName>
    <gd:familyName>Smith</gd:familyName>
  </gd:name>
  <gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work" address="jane.smith@foo.bar" primary="true"/>
</entry>
</feed>

My digester class looks like this:
public class GmailContactsDigester {
  private Digester digester;

  public GmailContactsDigester() {
    digester = new Digester();
    digester.addObjectCreate("feed", ArrayList.class);
    digester.addObjectCreate("feed/entry", GoogleContact.class);
    digester.addBeanPropertySetter("feed/entry/gd:name/gd:givenName", "givenName");
    digester.addBeanPropertySetter("feed/entry/gd:name/gd:familyName", "familyName");
    digester.addRule("feed/entry/gd:email/", new SetPropertiesRule("address", "email"));
    digester.addSetNext("feed/entry", "add");
  }

  public List<GoogleContact> parse(InputStream xmlStream) {
    try {
      return (List<GoogleContact>) digester.parse(xmlStream);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    } catch (SAXException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }
}

and the GoogleContact class is just my little domain object with the required fields and setters.
This all works just fine, but is dependent on the namespace prefix used in the XML. I'd like it to work regardless of the namespace, just by the element local names. How do I do that? I have tried various syntaxes for the patterns in the bean property setters, like "feed/entry/*:email" and "feed/entry/email", but they are not doing the trick.

A: The solution was to make the Digester namespace aware and to make the rule matching ignore the namespace:
public GmailContactsDigester() {
  digester = new Digester();
  digester.setRuleNamespaceURI(null);
  digester.setNamespaceAware(true);
  digester.addObjectCreate("feed", ArrayList.class);
  digester.addObjectCreate("feed/entry", GoogleContact.class);
  digester.addBeanPropertySetter("feed/entry/name/givenName");
  digester.addBeanPropertySetter("feed/entry/name/familyName");
  digester.addRule("feed/entry/email/", new SetPropertiesRule("address", "email"));
  digester.addSetNext("feed/entry", "add");
}

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William Ravensbergen
Board President (Chair), Member Director; Ex-Officio Member of All Committees
General Manager, P. Ravensbergen & Sons Ltd
William grew up in his grandfather's floral greenhouse business near Smithville. He graduated as a Horticultural Technician in 1992 from Niagara College and has been General Manager at Ravensbergen since 1997. His focus as General Manager has been finances and the day-to-day business of this family run company. William joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in 2006 and became president in 2009.
Vice President & Vice-Chair, Member Director, Chair of Corporate Governance Committee, Risk Committee
Jim received his degree in Chemical Engineering from McGill University. Since then he has spent his entire career in Agricultural processing. His background includes technical, plant management and senior executive roles in Canada, the US and Europe, primarily with IGPC Ethanol Inc. as CEO, Casco, Inc. as President and its parent Corn Products International (now Ingredion Inc.) as Executive Vice President, North America. Jim served on the Board of Directors of Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative Inc., IGPC Ethanol Inc., Canada Starch Inc., Commercial Alcohol Inc. (Greenfield Energy), GTC Nutrition Inc., Renewable Industries Canada (formally the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association), and now as the Vice Chair of the Ag Energy Co-operative Board of Directors, Chair of the Ag Energy Co-operative Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of BioIndustrial Innovation's Canada Board of Directors and a member of its audit committee.
Jim is the Principal at JG Grey Consulting Inc. and is the former Chief Executive Officer of IGPC Ethanol Inc. Jim was the inaugural CEO of the company during its initial start-up and through many technological advancements. In 2017, Jim led the $120 MM plant expansion to double its capability. Jim has received the Chartered Director's (C.Dir) designation from The Directors College (a joint venture of McMaster University and the Conference Board of Canada). Jim joined the Ag Energy Co-operative Board of Directors in December 2012.
Roman Golovchenko
Secretary/Treasurer, Member Director; Audit Chair, Risk Committee
Controller, Aldershot Greenhouses Limited
Roman was born in the Ukraine and moved to Canada to pursue his undergraduate studies. While studying accounting at Redeemer University College, Roman had the privilege to work at Rosa Flora Limited and the Ministry of Revenue as a co-op student. After graduating in 2008, Roman joined Aldershot Greenhouses as a Controller. In 2010, Roman graduated from the Strategic Leadership Program and obtained his Certified Management Accountant designation. Roman joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in December 2011. He looks forward to new learning opportunities offered by the Ag Energy Board.
Pierre Bocti
Independent Director; Chair of Risk Committee, Corporate Governance and Audit Member
Pierre Bocti was vice-president of tax at Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. He has worked in the oil and gas industry with Ultramar Canada, in various financial and management positions. Pierre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and is Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). He is a fellow and was Director of CPA, CGA. In 2013 he obtained the Chartered Director (C. Dir.) designation from The Directors College. He was previously president of Tax Executives Institute, and the recipient of their International President Award. Pierre served on various tax committees to the federal and provincial governments. Pierre Bocti was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his service to the profession, his community and Canada. Pierre joined the Ag Energy board of directors in November 2013.
Jeff Newhouse
Member Director; Audit Committee
Walden Gardens
Jeff grew up on the family-owned vegetable farm and began working at Waldan Gardens in 1999 when the company was established. Waldan Gardens grow indoor potted flowers specializing in kalanchoes. His current role in the company is in administration. Jeff has completed a Business Administration, Accounting, Advanced Diploma at Niagara College and a Business Management, Finance and Accounting, B.Comm at Ryerson University. Jeff joined the Ag Energy Board as an apprentice in December 2011 and became a director in August of 2014. In 2019 Jeff was selected as a "Top 4 under 40" winner by Greenhouse Canada. Jeff and his wife Kaitlyn have 2 children Everly and Lyndin.
Peter Zammit
Member Director; Risk Committee, Audit Committee
Gay Lea Foods Co-operative
Peter Zammit has an accounting diploma from Humber College and thirty-nine years of accounting and supply chain management experience. Peter worked for Gay Lea Foods, an Ontario/Manitoba based dairy co-operative that operates eleven manufacturing plants. Over the course of his career there, he has held many positions in the Supply Chain and Finance Department including procurement manager, production planning manager, long-life plant controller, and inventory control. He is recently retired from full-time work at Gay Lea but continues to support their need for the procurement of energy resources for all Gay Lea properties, which amount to an annual volume of 500,000 GJ of natural gas and 10 million kWh of hydro. Peter joins Ag Energy's Board of Directors with several years of board experience under his belt. He was a director of Pace Credit Union from 1988-1995 and of the Ontario Packing Association from 2007-2010. Peter joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in November 2015.
Theo Slaman
Member Director; Corporate Governance Committee, Risk Committee
Slaman Greenhouses
Theo Slaman is the 3rd generation at Slaman Greenhouses in Burford Ontario. He is currently working alongside his father Brian Slaman in the daily operations of the 3-acre facility that produces cut flowers year round. Theo has been involved in the family business since a very young age and his commitment level and interest in the floral industry continues to grow each day. Theo graduated the Architectural Construction Engineering Technology program at Conestoga College in 2013. Theo joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors as an apprentice in November 2017 and became a Board Director in November 2018.
Joey Groot
Member Director
Hensall Co-operative
Joey Groot is currently the Corporate Operations Manager at Hensall District Co-operative. He has worked in the grain, processing, and fertilizer industry for 30 years where he has held various roles in maintenance, logistics, production, and operations management. He was previously the General Manager of ThirdCoast (Goderich Elevators). During this time he worked with multiple locations, specialty food products, and worked closely with many government regulatory parties. Joey holds an Interprovincial Millwright Certificate and has been active in local minor sports associations for many years acting in roles such as board member, liaison, trainer, manager, and assisting in coaching. He is still active in farming today with a small cash crop operation. He joined the board in November 2019.
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2012 - Forward
Peter Kuivenhoven
Member Director; Risk Committee, Corporate Governance Committee
Co-Owner, P.H. Kuivenhoven Greenhouses
P. H. Kuivenhoven Greenhouses in Otterville, ON are a family greenhouse operation that was established in 1991. The business primarily focuses on cut gerbera. Peter and his wife married in 2000 and are blessed with 5 children; 2 boys and 3 girls. Peter and his wife, Melanie, along with his brother Gilbert and his wife, Wilma, have taken over the family operation, which has expanded to 5 acres over the years. Peter joined the Ag Energy Board as an apprentice in November 2010 and became a director in November 2013.
Gillian Cuthbert
Gillian spent 5 years as a Business Development Manager at Meridian Credit Union. She worked within the Cash Management and Investments department with an investment portfolio in the region of $100 million. Her focus has been on commercial business development and institutional investing. In the past, she spent 15 years working in the human resources and business recruiting sector and 5 years within Public Relations and Marketing sector. She has experience working with small businesses, local government and her local community. She moved to Canada seven years ago from the UK with her husband and three children. Gillian joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in November 2016.
Mike Slaman
Member Director; Corporate Governance Committee
Nith Ridge Angus
Mike grew up working at the family business. In addition to his childhood training, Mike has over 29 years of experience in the cut flower industry. With over three acres of year-round production, he was very involved in that "hands-on" operation. He is well known in his community as a volunteer firefighter of 20 years, a minor sports team coach for 12 years, and for his 7 years on the local minor hockey executive. Mike lives on the farm with his wife, Linda, and their three children. In 2012, they started Nith Ridge Angus, a purebred cow-calf operation in Richwood. Mike is looking forward to the new challenges offered by the by the cattle industry as well as attaining his Electrician's designation. Mike joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in 2008.
Bernie Renkema
Member Apprentice (Jan. 2016)
Nanticoke Greenhouses,
Bernie Renkema graduated from Calvin College with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 and started as president and partner at Nanticoke Greenhouses Limited in 1989. In his time at Nanticoke Greenhouses, the greenhouses have more than doubled in size, from 68 000 ft² when he started, to 170 000 ft² today. Currently, Nanticoke Greenhouses has partnered with Costco, Metro and independent garden centres in Ontario to supply their spring hanging baskets, fall garden mums, and planters. Bernie previously served on the Ag Energy Board of Directors from 2001-2008. During this period, the organization experienced a significant transition from a small co-operative which operated under Flowers Canada with one employee and virtually no assets, to a strong well capitalized Ag Energy. During his Board of Director service, Bernie held the post of secretary and treasurer. Bernie passed away suddenly on May 27, 2016. Bernie was married to Maria Renkema and together they had 5 children.
Rob Bigley
Director of Canadian Operations, Keepsake Plants Ltd. (Formerly known as Yoder, pre-acquisition)
Rob was born and raised in Leamington, Ontario and has been working at Yoder Canada since 1976. He started in the soil room and has held many different positions in the company. Now he sits in the boardroom, having held the position of Director of Canadian Operations since 2006. His knowledge of the floral greenhouse industry is extensive and has developed from several years of experience. He serves on the Board of Directors of Yoder Canada. Over the years Rob has been a very active member in the local community. Rob joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in 2007 as an apprentice and became a Director in 2008. He retired from the Board of Directors in December 2012.
Jamie Van Spronsen
SVS Greenhouses
Jamie grew up in his family's greenhouse business. He graduated in 1983, with a BA in Business and Economics at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He worked in the marine and transportation industry through to 1999. Since then, he and his sister Annette have managed his father's greenhouse, SVS Greenhouses. This flower growing business now stands at 3 acres in two locations in the Brantford, Ontario area. Jamie joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in 2007 as an apprentice and became a Director in 2009. Jamie retired from the Board of Directors in November of 2013.
Jan VanZanten
Senior Manager, Van Zanten Greenhouses
Jan was born in the Netherlands and moved to Canada at a young age, where his parents began VanZanten Greenhouses. He started working in the family business, as a child, by planting bulbs by hand and keeping the walkways clean. For the last 10 years, Jan has been working on expanding the business. Currently, he manages sales and operations, which produce speciality cut flowers such as freesia and hydrangea year round with 60,000 square feet of greenhouses. When not working, Jan helps his wife with their five lovely young daughters. He joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in 2007. Jan retired from the Board of Directors in November of 2013.
Anthony Lanni
Vice President, Beaverbrook Group of Companies
Anthony is primarily engaged in the development of residential and commercial properties across North America for Beaverbrook, a family owned firm based in Toronto. With responsibility for Project and Corporate performance, as well as management of Treasury and Development functions, Anthony is involved in all facets of the development process. After graduating with a MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in 2000, Anthony joined the New York office of a global investment bank where he developed debt and equity solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Anthony is the treasurer of Ontario Flower Growers Holdings Limited and is Special Advisor to The Stephanie Lanni Foundation. He joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in November 2009. Anthony retired from Ag Energy's Board of Directors in August of 2014.
Arjan Vos
Secretary / Treasurer
Controller, Rosa Flora Limited
Arjan has had the opportunity to work at Rosa Flora Limited for over 15 years. Since university, he earned his Certified Management Accountant Certification. He employs these skills daily at Rosa Flora. He looks forward to continuing his work within the greenhouse industry, and helping the larger agricultural community. He joined the Ag Energy Board of Directors in 2003. Arjan retired from Ag Energy's Board of Directors in November of 2014.
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Rule of law as integral part of the next MFF: to what extent and why?
The impact of a potential rule of law conditionality in the management of EU funds is at the center of this piece by Maria Schinina, official representative of the Italian Chamber of deputies to the European Parliament and participant in the IEE's MEUS.
Published on Jan 16, 2020 in Academic, Articles, Cartes blanches, News, Projects, Student life
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Maria Schinina is an official representative of the Italian Chamber of deputies to the European Parliament and participant in the IEE Executive Certificate in European Union Studies – MEUS. She discusses rule of law conditionality in this text written for the Jean Monnet Module in the IEE's Executive Education programme.
As generally recognized, systematic problems related to rule of law may have an impact in the area of union finances. Based on the link between rule of law and sound management of EU funds, the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) adopts, on the one hand, a "protective" approach – i.e. safeguarding the EU budget from breaches of rule of law – and, on the other hand, a "strategic" one, reinforcing the leverage of the EU Funds to promote European common values.
The rule of law conditionality to protect the EU budget
It is a "protective approach" that explicitly inspires the new "rule of law conditionality", introduced by the proposal COM (2018)324. It sets up a mechanism whereby a generalized deficiency as regards the rule of law in a Member State affects or risks affecting the principles of sound financial management or the protection of the financial interests of the Union, measures related to EU Funds can be adopted. They include the suspension and reduction of payments and commitment, and the prohibition to enter into new legal commitments.
The proposal breaks into the controversial debate on the legal feasibility and political opportunity to introduce the "rule of law conditionality".
From a legal point of view, the main legal objection to the mechanism is related to the fact that the current Treaties do not contain any explicit legal basis for connecting financial consequences to the breach of the Art. 2 values, but set up a specific mechanism for the protection of the Rule of Law (Art. 7 TUE).
However, the argument can be countered on the basis of the proposal's target to protect EU financial interests. In the proposal, not every "generalized deficiency as regards the rule of law" but only the deficiencies "which affect or risk affecting the principles of sound financial management or the protection of the financial interests of the Union" could lead to appropriate measures (Art. 3). Although weak, the explicit link between the rule of law breach and the EU spending can support the legal basis identified by the Commission (Art. 322 TFUE, financial rules determining the procedure to be adopted for establishing and implementing the budget).
Moreover, the EU law already knows "exogenous conditionalities" that link the assignment or the suspension of EU Funds to obligations and targets not directly related to the spending programmes, but connected to different EU policies. One example is the macroeconomic conditionality set out in MFF 2014-2021, which establishes a direct relation between the suspensions of payments related to the structural Funds and failures in respecting economic governance prescriptions.
However, differently from the macroeconomic conditionality, connected to formal economic governance procedures, the proposal does not establish any link between the new conditionality and the mechanism set up in the Art. 7. The new procedure bypasses the article 7 and potentially overlaps with it.
This risk is even more obvious if one agrees on the opinion that the suspension of certain of the rights deriving from the application of the Treaties envisaged in the article 7, par. 3, could include the right to be beneficiaries of EU funds.
Furthermore, the lack of coordination between the two mechanisms could reflect on the institutional balance, affecting asymmetrically the powers of EU institutions in protecting the rule of law.
As pointed out by the Court of auditors and the Committee of the Regions in their opinions on the MFF, the new mechanism gives the European Commission a discretionary power in initiating the procedure and assessing the general deficiencies. The absence of certain, clear and specific criteria defining what would constitute a 'generalized deficiency' or how measures would be implemented even produces a risk of abuses.
Conversely, the role of the main actors involved in Art. 7 procedures is either not mentioned (European Council) or substantially weakened (European Parliament and Council). In particular, the provision of the "reverse qualified majority" in the Council diverges from the normal voting rules and is criticized by several institutional actors (among them, the Italian Government and the Czech Senate).
Moving from an institutional to a more practical approach, no impact assessment accompanies the proposal, making hard to evaluate its implications on the sound management of EU Funds and its economic effects on the beneficiaries and the regional and territorial areas of the Member States. On the one hand, the proposal only recalls the principle of proportionality without identifying clear criteria for the choice and extent of measures. On the other hand, the safeguards envisaged by the Commission for the implementation of the programmes and for the payments to beneficiaries are not considered as an efficient shield from an adverse impact on final recipients of EU programmes (Court of auditors; German Bundesrat).
The EP, in its first reading position, tried to address these shortcomings, introducing a detailed definition of general deficiencies and a panel of independent experts assisting the Commission, and measures to protect the final beneficiaries.
In the Council the debate is still open, and the most controversial points of the proposal will be addressed only at a later stage. They include the voting modality in the Council and even the subject matter of the proposal. The latter would risk being completely distorted, if, as proposed, the proposal was applicable in case of "generalised malfunctioning of Member States authorities as regards budget-related aspects", instead of "generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law".
The rule of law as a strategic driver in the EU Funds programming decisions
If the rule of law conditionality seems mainly directed to promote a sound management of EU Funds and protect the EU budget, conversely, the EU funds can potentially play a role in fostering the rule of law dimension.
In this respect, the reinforced link between the cohesion policy and the European Semester set out by the Common Provision regulation (CPR) can be seen from a rule of law angle.
The European Semester is the cycle of economic and fiscal policy coordination among Member States established in the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis. It starts in Autumn with the Commission's Annual Growth Survey (AGS), setting out the EU economic and social priorities for the following year, and has its key-moment in May-July, when each Member States receives the Country-specific recommendations (CSRs) providing policy guidance on how to boost economic investments, jobs and growth. The progress made in addressing the issues identified in the previous year's recommendations are assessed in the Winter package by the Country reports, which, starting from this year, include a new investment Annex identifying the priorities for 2021-2027 cohesion policy.
With the aim of a closer alignment between the share managed Funds and the European Semester, in the new programming period 2021-2027, the CSRs are taken into consideration at the beginning of the programming (when Member States prepare and submit the documents setting out the national plans on how to use EU funding) and during the mid-term review.
The described reinforced link between European Semester and Cohesion policy can be particularly relevant from a rule of law perspective, if we take into consideration the increasing focus of the European Semester on the rule of law dimension. Well-performing public institutions, along with "the rule of law, effective justice systems and robust anti-corruption frameworks are key priorities in the next cycle" (AGS 2019). As for Hungary, the issue of judicial independence and the fight against corruption is addressed in the CSR n. 4.
In the next MFF the promotion of rule of law could be potentially seen as one possible driver of the dialogue in the EU Funds programming decisions for the period 2021-2027
Moreover, the Investment guidance, annexed to the Country report considers "improved measures to prevent and address conflict of interest, fraud and corruption" as a factor for the effective delivery of the cohesion policy. As for Romania, prevention and fighting against conflict of interest, fraud and corruption are mentioned in the Investment Annex and, although not directly covered in the CSR, considered "relevant for developing a positive socio-economic environment in the country". Concerning Poland, rule of law issues are recalled in the Poland country report and in the CSR, but not directly considered in a specific recommendation.
In light of the considerations above, in the next MFF the promotion of rule of law could be potentially seen as one possible driver of the dialogue in the EU Funds programming decisions for the period 2021-2027. In this perspective, the strategic use of EU funds in strengthening the rule of law would be supported by the recommendations for structural reforms within the European Semester, and, as such, could prove to be more effective.
In conclusion, through an approach both protective and strategic, the new MFF connects the EU Funds to the rule of law, with the aim of both safeguarding the EU budget and promoting the rule of law. As shown by the negotiations in the Council on the MFF package, the "avenue" undertaken by the European Commission is filled with political obstacles. The next months are decisive to evaluate to what extent the efforts of the Finnish Presidency and the strong political commitment of the President-elect Ursula von der Leyen will be effective to "to make the rule of law an integral part of the next Multiannual Financial Framework".
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Project Release: Juan Orrantia, "The afterlife of coca (and its) dreams"
The photographer and publisher Alec Soth and I have started a small project together on our mutual sites that will take a look at contemporary photography in Colombia. We're looking at trends and traditions; events, institutions, and venues; as well as photographers who deserve more recognition for the work that they are doing.
Even as we talk with more people and get feedback and suggestions from readers - as well as from the photographer and educator Gabriel Mario Vélez who will be joining us on this project - we've started looking at and posting work. Soth published a piece today on the work of Guadalupe Ruiz and here we feature the work of Juan Orrantia along with a short Q&A with him that follows below.
"The afterlife of coca (and its) dreams" (2010-in progress)
After three decades of the so-called war on drugs, not much has changed for many whose lives have been crossed by the narcotics trade in Colombia. Coca fields are continuously burnt and destroyed and peasants are left with illusions and memories of what remained. In many of these places the images of heavily armed young men hanging out at cantinas, of bundles of cash and moments of petty luxury seem to linger in the atmosphere. Stories of excess, of wealth and fear are now part of reality as peasants find new ways of making a living. Young people are wondering what to do, seeking ways of recovering what they lost, because as they say, money, lots of it came, but it just went away.
During my college years I passed through one such town repeatedly. I never really stopped there much, as there seemed to be a heavy mantle of fear that would cling on to me and not let go until I was sure we had already left. Armed young men were seen at cantinas while others patrolled town. In the outskirts were the coca fields and one could see the paths leading off to the processing labs. Mules would be seen carrying big tins of chemicals. You could feel eyes on your back. Rules were clear; keep quiet, mind your business and move on. This was the turf of a very well known paramilitary who controlled the fields, and with out a doubt, was king. Today he is serving a prison sentence in the US. Besides the drug trafficking, there are processes of murder and sexual violence against him. Memories are complicated here, entangled in politics, rights, loyalty and imagination.
Recently I decided to return here. Glimpses of the past came about in every corner, and I felt a kind of thrill as I walked into homes once partially forbidden to me. Forbidden for the mere act of fear. The last time I saw this town it was filled with men in army fatigues carrying grenade launchers and looking despairingly at me. It took me a few days to get rid of that sense of surveillance and begin to uncover a present filled with images of things past.
This project is about engaging such a place; about people's lives after the dream dissipates and what is left are the loose ends of what once was and what there is. It is also about my own memories—those that I was never able to photograph back then—and how they are entangled in the web of a complex history that partially begins to reveal itself.
fototazo: What surprised you or particularly interested you as you had the chance to return to the pueblo and go inside doors and have interactions that had been off-limits previously?
Juan Orrantia: My impressions of this town were based on college years, passing through, and working based on stereotypes as well as very direct engagements with the reality of such places, like dealing with paramilitary rule in the area and hearing the stories of coca and cocaine production. Chatting with a friend who also knows the area very well and is now working with me on the project, we have both spoken about the first night we spent in the town, post-coca times. It was a mix of fear of past images and the reality of waking up at a new time, in a place we both probably never thought we would actually really experience. It has been putting a face on names that I associated with fear for example. And then, it has been a space to engage the reality of people living in these situations, themselves also dealing with the stereotypes and the reality of what can be the beginnings of a post-conflict situation. Ultimately, dealing with the real people behind the images and stereotypes, but doing it through my own personal memories in the present.
f: You're based in South Africa and were born in Bogotá; does being an expatriate photographer returning to Colombia influence your ideas, vision, or perspective when you photograph here?
JO: I have been living outside of Colombia for some years now, but I am not sure if its been that long to be an expatriate as such. Also, just the fact that I am from Bogotá means I am engaging this situation from an outsider's perspective. And that is something we definitely want to bring to the project, an element of reaching out to the experience of memory in the Colombian conflict across class lines, where the role of imaginaries really played a part in how people were defined. Having said that, being involved in other photographic communities and traditions in the south like the South African one, and more recently the Indian one, has been incredibly rich and nourishing, and is shaping the way I see my own place, photographically that is. It is also a challenge to not be comfortable with the situation, since I think many times we can be a bit lazy by relying on the fact that we photograph "our communities" because we are dealing with our country, and it's not necessarily so.
f: How does your project attempt to move the conversation beyond the visual stereotypes of drugs and violence in Colombia while still considering these themes?
JO: That is the biggest challenge I think. The fact that we are dealing with our own memories as well as the past and present experiences of these people implies an engagement and commitment with the way the conflict has been lived and experienced differently across very demarcated lines that define Colombian society, but that nevertheless implies points of contact between these different experiences. That is an issue we want to raise through this. It is also an engagement with going back to memories of fear and confronting them today, moving forward so to speak. In that way, we are trying to take the element of time and its relation to the conflict from a more complex manner, instead of "freezing" the images of people into a "this is how they are" or "this is how they were." Rather, we want to open the space for the complexity of the situation to come across through less defined images.
f: How do your images fit into the context of other photography created in Colombia?
JO: I think that photographically there have been limits imposed on the representation of the conflict (and the country) both from outside as well as from within, in terms that people want to "see," to take the role of the photographic medium as something that illustrates, denounces - makes visible. But that is one part or one way of engaging the medium, and it usually gets caught up in the unproductive divide between "documentary" and "art." However, I think there is now a space for people to be engaging with the recent experiences of the conflict in a way that deals with the more murky implications of it, and does not fall into cliches. I am thinking for example of the works by Clemencia Echeverri or Jose Alejandro Restrepo. These are works that bring to the fore the role of experiences and histories of violence as such, and its relationship with memory (both personal and collective) and representation. These are things that definitely interest me.
Juan Orrantia, born in Bogotá, Colombia; based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Working in the documentary arts, my practice is based on the evocative possibilities of photography as a critical form of documentary. I also explore the medium in its relation to text, sound, ethnographic film and new media. I have been interested in questions of memory, history, dislocation and time, through projects on the aftermath of violence (Colombia and Mozambique); postcolonial cities and nostalgia; autobiography and the Colombian cocaine trade; and more recently, the anticolonial thinker Amilcar Cabral and his traces in Guinea-Bissau.
Awards include the Tierney Fellowship in Photography (2010) as well as various grants and residencies at research institutes. Solo exhibitions have been held in Germany, Colombia, and South Africa, as well as various group shows including the New York Photo Festival, Le Cube (Paris), Cape Town Month of Photography, Bonani Africa Festival of Photography, and Ethnographic Terminalia (New Orleans). My work has appeared in publications such as Sensate (a journal for experiments in critical media practice), Visual Anthropology Review, Iconos, and online platforms such as Foto8, Documentography, and F-Stop.
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Le Café Politique De Camus De Café: WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE REMOVAL OF DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ FROM HER POST AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE DNC BY A DIRECT VOTE OF THE DNC MEMBERSHIP.
WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE REMOVAL OF DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ FROM HER POST AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE DNC BY A DIRECT VOTE OF THE DNC MEMBERSHIP.
The Democratic Party needs (and deserves) a better leader. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has managed to bring together thousands of Grassroots members of the Democratic Party in unified opposition to her autocratic actions as chairperson of the DNC.
Five different organizations [MoveOn.org, Change.org, RootsAction.org, Credoaction.com, WhiteHousePetition.lookatthisnow.com] are currently circulating petitions calling for the immediate resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee.
Calling for her resignation is not enough. We are hereby calling for her REMOVAL from office by direct vote of the members of the DNC. We request that 25% of the DNC members call for a full meeting of the Committee in order to vote to REMOVE Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairperson of the DNC. If the members of the DNC fail to call a meeting and fail to vote DWS out of office, it is actually the members who damaging the party by allowing DWS to stay on as Chairperson.
As a group, the members of the DNC were responsible for placing Debbie Wasserman Schultz into the position of Chairperson. The members of the DNC have the authority and the responsibility to recall the Chairperson.
We The People demand the immediate removal of Debbie Wasserman Schultz from her position as the the Chairperson of the Democratic Party.
The procedure by which a Chairperson may be removed from office is clearly defined in The Charter and the Bylaws of the Democratic Party.
Five (5) separate petitions are calling for the IMMMEDIATE resignation of DNC Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Please click on the links and sign all of the petitions.
(1) The White House petition states: "It is crystal clear to America that Debbie Wasserman Shultz is trampling the American democratic process in the manic attempt to eliminate any and all competition to her friend Hillary Clinton's campaign."
(2) The MoveOn.org petition states: "As a result of a complete and total lack of coordinated messaging, and horrific dissemination of available resources, all ending in the absolute failure of her mission, Debbie Wasserman Schultz must resign or be removed as DNC Chair. Honorable people who have failed so miserably in their mission would hurry to apologize and get out of the way. But apparently, Ms. Wasserman-Schultz's hubris will not allow her to do so."
(3) The Change.org petition states: "During this election season, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has demonstrated the utmost sense of contempt and disdain for the Democratic Party, its principles, and the democratic process. Instead of treating each Democratic candidate fairly and equally, she has used her position to manipulate the electoral process in favor of Hillary Clinton. She has brought shame upon herself, on her position, and on the name "Democrat". She has run the DNC in a manner that is contrary to its principles and has betrayed the party as a whole."
(4) The RootsAction.org petition states: "In Congress, she has served as a pro-militarist and corporatist tool of the high bidders. We demand that Debbie Wasserman Schultz step down as chair of the DNC."
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Here's my take on the "Colstrip for a Buck Bill" it will likely be up in FRET committee on Monday.
As one of your state representatives, I need to let you know that a bill in the Legislature, Senate Bill 331, will allow Northwestern Energy (NWE) to make a bad deal and then stick it to the ratepayers for hundreds of millions of dollars. What really sets my hair on fire with the situation is that this isn't the first time Northwestern Energy has bilked ratepayers through a lousy deal. It's not even their first bad deal over Colstrip! There's a history of this behavior.
When Northwestern Energy purchased a 30 percent share in Colstrip 4, it paid about $187 million. When they went before the Montana Public Service Commission, they claimed $407 million to be the amount which ratepayers should reimburse them for Colstrip 4. Again, the actual cost to the company was $187 million, but the amount which ratepayers must pay the company back for the purchase is $407 million.
SB 311 is the latest train wreck to come down the Northwestern Energy track. SB 331 is written to allow Northwestern Energy to take over a larger portion of the Colstrip coal-fired power plant for the grand total of one dollar. Why would the current owners agree to such a deal? It's because Colstrip is in trouble and now is a good time for the current majority owners to jump ship. Their supplier of coal for the plant is in bankruptcy and although their mine may remain open for another year or more, Colstrip will have to pay loads of cash to revamp for a different type of coal when they change supplier. By the way, should they buy their coal from Wyoming like they want to, the state will lose a lot of tax revenue.
Simply put, when SB 311 passes, the risks and the costs will once again devolve to Northwestern Energy customers. We will lose again. Contact your legislators and let them know that you're concerned.


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Praise for train driver after topless man is seen walking on tracks at Headingley
A train driver has been praised for quickly taking action after seeing a trespasser wandering between the tracks at Headingley.
By Joe Cooper
Monday, 3rd June 2019, 11:59 am
Passengers wait at Headingely station (file image).
The driver of the LNER train - which was not schedule to stop at Headingley - stopped in plenty of time after seeing a topless man.
-> Mother makes desperate appeal for the public's help to find her 'vulnerable' missing daughterLouisa Wade was on the 7.52am Horsforth to Leeds service when the train came to a halt just outside Headingley station.
The train message board at Weeton.
She said: "I was stood next to the window, after about 15 minutes we were informed the driver had noticed someone on the tracks and the police had been called.
"I could see the man on the tracks myself when I looked out of the window. He looked distressed was shouting.
"The police arrived and they were speaking with him for just over an hour, whilst he was pacing around the tracks. The man disappeared for about 15 minutes, but was eventually found.
"He was brought on to the train and dropped off at Headingley station and put into the back of a police van."
She added: "Shout out to driver of the train - it wasn't scheduled to stop at Headingley and should have been going at a high speed. If he hadn't have noticed the guy on the track it would have ended tragically."
-> Next stage of flood defence "to avoid £400m of potential damage" to go before Leeds decision-makersServices on the Harrogate line were severly disrupted throughout the morning rush hour.
Train operator Northern said all services were back to normal by 10.20am.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: "At 7.46am we were called to reports of a trespasser on the tracks close to Leeds.
"Officers attended and a man has been taken to a place of safety."


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The Special Education department works with parents, teachers and students to assess and address student needs. Special Education teachers provide in-class and pullout support to implement IEPs, 504 Plans and other building level support. programs. For more information, contact Erin Vredenburgh (info below).
Meet Erin Vredenburgh. Ms. Vredenburgh comes to the Dobbs Ferry community by way of Hyde Park Central School District (approximately 4,000 students) where she was the Special Education Coordinator for the past four years. During her tenure there, she supervised special education teachers and support staff at all three levels (elementary, middle and high school), overseeing a caseload of 400 students with IEPs. She facilitated CPSE and CSE meetings working closely with parents and teachers, and was also able to improve effectiveness of the K-12 special education programs and increase student achievement. She began her career as a math teacher at Valley Central School District in Montgomery, New York and then spent three years at Orange-Ulster BOCES in Goshen, New York teaching secondary mathematics to children with emotional disabilities. Ms. Vredenburgh holds a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with a minor in secondary education and a Master of Arts in Special Education, both from Mount Saint Mary College. She received her Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in Educational Administration from SUNY New Paltz.
Trailguides is a support group created by parents for parents in Dobbs Ferry who have a struggling learner: with an IEP, 504, or other learning difference. We try to connect parents to resources, programs, and other families in the area. In addition, we provide education and advocacy for families to help understand their rights, changes in the laws, and other issues. If you have questions regarding your students needs, we try to connect you with the information, organizations, or people that can help. Above all, we believe that parents and guardians are their children's best advocates and we support families through the process.
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Monitoring is key if you want to avoid problems with bees and wasps, especially if you know the area you are occupying has this pest problem. It is always easier to prevent a problem before it happens, rather than to wait for them to invade your home or garden.
Check for nests - Check your home and garden for nests, usually walnut or golf ball in size at the beginning - early small nests have fewer wasps and are easier to treat quickly. Look for nests in garages, sheds, cavity walls or under eaves.
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Although high numbers of bees or wasps in your home or garden almost certainly means there is a nest nearby, getting rid of a hive/nest may not always be a possible solution. If the hive/ nest is not on your property, you will have very limited control on what you can do to remove it. Nests located in confined, hard-to-reach areas (such as cavity walls) will also be more difficult to treat.
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Preethi Gopalan has been associated with Nandalala Mission since she moved to the Bay Area in 2008 and has been associated with the parent organization, Nandalala Seva Samithi Trust, in Chennai since her childhood. With the able guidance of her mentor Gayathri Sundaresan, she was inspired to volunteer in the back to school drive and has been volunteering for the same year after year along with other like minded volunteers. She also volunteered as the communications lead and Vice President for the Mission. Being a part of Nandalala Mission, she has learnt to be patient, work as a team with people with diverse ideas and backgrounds.
Nandalala Mission has given her an opportunity to give back to the community in a small yet soul satisfying way and she hopes to continue her service to the mission.
Preethi works as a Senior Program Manager at Cisco Systems, San Jose


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Q: Fabric: Digits not working iOS 10 I used Digits for mobile number OTP verification. After updating Xcode 7.3 to Xcode 8. I cant get OTP.
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[02:53:28] <dmess> dude... you didnt???
[03:53:12] <seb_kuzminsky> someone wanna write up emc2 for Linux Journal?
[03:55:14] <SWPLinux> is that the one you pointed out today or yesterday?
[03:56:12] <SWPLinux> what exactly is "WSVGA"? is that 960x600"
[03:56:30] <SWPLinux> - that last "
[03:56:32] <jmkasunich> probably, wasn't SVGA 800x600?
[04:07:18] <eric_u> I know that, but I needed a signed note from my mom to convince the best buy "experts"
[05:15:00] <dareposte> i did attempt to set the switch type to only "x home" to try to avoid the limit problem, but it did not seem to help.
[05:20:31] <cradek> did you check both neg-limit and pos-limit?
[05:20:35] <dareposte> curiously it says "joint" instead of "axis"
[05:20:44] <dareposte> would that mean anything to you?
[05:20:54] <cradek> joint 0 is "X"
[05:25:48] <cradek> so you hooked this one input to both limits and also home?
[05:26:36] <cradek> when you try to turn the machine on does it give an error right away?
[05:28:04] <cradek> did you change those too?
[05:28:16] <cradek> is MIN_LIMIT less than MAX_LIMIT?
[05:34:09] <cradek> what are the min and max limits?
[05:41:27] <cradek> yeah it can only move .001 mm??
[05:42:04] <cradek> what's your travel on X?
[05:43:12] <cradek> what version of emc is this?
[05:46:51] <cradek> so a recent trunk cvs checkout?
[05:46:59] <cradek> or is it old?
[05:49:47] <cradek> how is the limit switch wired?
[05:50:31] <cradek> so one side of the switch goes to ground and the other to the parport input?
[05:51:31] <dareposte> which signal would you recommend checking?
[06:05:36] <cradek> so you saw halscope trigger on the noise?
[06:06:33] <cradek> and the best thing I can do is go to bed!
[06:06:42] <dareposte> thank you for your help!
[06:06:51] <cradek> you are on the right track - good luck and report back!
[06:12:20] <KimK_> dareposte: cradek said "I bet you need pullups", but you said "well the noise occurs when the limit switch is not made, i.e. at 0v" and "when the limit switch is made, the board is getting +5v applied to it, and the signal looks nice with no noise". So maybe you really need pulldowns? Are there any now?
[06:26:07] <KimK_> dareposte: If your board/interface already has pullups available, you could jumper one in and then reverse the sense of your switch to active low both in wiring and in the hal/ini files, if that's easier for you.
[06:50:47] <KimK_> I wouldn't think a .005 would hurt there, since the signal is coming from a mechanical switch anyway. You could try a .1, but there might be issues. I guess we'll see?
[06:57:44] <KimK_> And there's another 1K in series from +5 through the switch?
[07:02:12] <dareposte> it's just put together with hookup wire, run in the same area as the VFD motor wire, with no shielding. Not that surprising that I'm having problems now that I think about it.
[07:03:14] <KimK_> OK, worth a try, we'll see. On the other hand, a 250 ohm pulldown (4 1Ks) is only 20ma at 5V, not unreasonable at all for a non-gold-plated switch.
[07:06:42] <KimK_> I hope to use one Opto board and one Mesa board. We'll see if I have any problem like yours.
[07:07:23] <KimK_> Hi Benjamin_Mullin , don't know if I can help, but what's your question?
[07:09:04] <Benjamin_Mullin> The first machine only appeared to have a resolution of 640x480 available. The documentation indicates that if it is in 800x600 the vid card is likely unrecognized... if its worse than 800x600 is that the same issue?
[07:09:54] <Benjamin_Mullin> The second machine, which is a PII 450 (so getting fairly old), just stalled at installing hardware drivers. Any thoughts?
[07:16:34] <tom1> sounds like pulldowns needed. look at the signal in the untriggered state before any mods. if it's floating, or easiliy influenced by your bod, then try pulll downs.
[07:34:16] <dareposte> KimK_: switching it to a NC switch relieved the problem, but the noise is still there on the ground line. Now if the machine is on the limit it will sporadically fault out, but it runs fine once it's homed and stays off the limits.
[07:37:23] <KimK_> Benjamin_Mullin: I had lots of trouble on the 8.04 release, and even on the 8.10 (so, not an EMC2 problem), with unrecognized video resolution, 640x480, even 320x240, etc.
[07:37:57] <KimK_> I tried lots of things, finally had to put in an empty X.conf file, then it seemed happy.
[07:38:42] <KimK_> Sorry, didn't mean to be gone so long.
[07:39:01] <KimK_> OK, goodnight. Let me know later how it went. Thanks.
[07:39:36] <Benjamin_Mullin> I was trying the 6.06 "Dapper Drake" version.
[07:40:48] <KimK_> Thanks, I'll let you know (eventually). Might fool with it on the table over the Christmas break.
[07:41:21] <KimK_> Benjamin_Mullin: 6.06? Oh, OK. Not sure then. Are you using an Nvidia card?
[07:42:20] <Benjamin_Mullin> Actually I'm not sure. The old machine which didn't even finish loading is an old Gateway machine so its probably a built in video. The other I'm not sure.
[07:44:04] <KimK_> Have you tried Ubuntu 8.04 (with or without EMC2) or 8.10 on the older machine to see if it changes a no-start to a start?
[07:47:32] <KimK_> Or anything really, it would be nice to know if any recent distro would run on your P2 450.
[07:51:03] <KimK_> Sometimes there are start options you can invoke which might help, like noapci, framebuffer, etc., maybe check the start menu for help or options? Worth trying, anyway.
[07:51:37] <Benjamin_Mullin> I have not. I'll try 8.04 in the near future.
[07:54:52] <KimK_> I seem to recall that EMC2 ran OK on a friend's P2 750(?) Maybe a little slow on the menus, etc, but OK if not in a big hurry.
[07:55:56] <KimK_> I could make sure and go back and check with him on that if you wish.
[07:57:52] <KimK_> eric_u: What's your machine interface?
[07:58:23] <maddash> oh no! for the first time in my life, staring at the word "Linux" brought the sound of LIN-NICKS to my head!
[08:05:19] <KimK_> eric_u: What have you got attached to the 5i20? I'd guess a 7i33 quad servo, and, what, a pair of 7i37 16-in/8-outs?
[08:06:25] <KimK_> Any DC I/O on the other two 5i20 connectors?
[08:07:16] <KimK_> OK. Keyboard/Mouse/F1/F2 E-stop?
[08:08:42] <KimK_> How big is big?
[08:11:06] <KimK_> Hey, whatever gets it in your hands, right? You said servo driven, was that factory? I thought they were all big steppers?
[08:12:49] <KimK_> Well, good choice then, going to servos should make an even better machine out of it. Have you run them on the bench with EMC2?
[08:14:14] <KimK_> What do you do?
[08:14:52] <KimK_> OK. And your new servos had encoders already, I imagine?
[08:16:37] <KimK_> Oh, nice! I like it when drives do that. Solves a lot of problems. Sometimes the motors have resolvers, and even that's OK, then.
[08:17:37] <KimK_> It gets better. What make are they? How big are the motors/drives?
[08:18:31] <KimK_> Did you have to make an adapter, or did they just drop in where the big steppers came out?
[08:20:17] <KimK_> I don't remember, is the Series II belt or rigid coupled to the ballscrews?
[08:21:30] <KimK_> Ouch. Did your finger recover?
[08:22:06] <KimK_> You're a lucky feller.
[08:23:12] <KimK_> If your finger count still equals 10, that's a good thing. What did you learn?
[08:23:50] <KimK_> Why, what happened?
[08:26:07] <KimK_> Ah, and you had some kind of mixup in the U/V/W Hall effect feedback or something?
[08:27:20] <KimK_> OK. But in any case, it took off spinning unexpectedly. Well, "May Start at Any Time", I guess?
[08:30:21] <KimK_> Well, that's a long trip. Virtual travel, then.
[08:35:03] <Benjamin_Mullin> Minneapolis? Are you in MN too KimK_, or just your friend with the BP?
[08:35:10] <KimK_> Yes, so I am told. Maybe because of the old controls and old (trouble-prone?) stepper drives? Well, like I said, whatever gets them into our hands at a bargain price, right?
[08:36:26] <KimK_> Benjamin_Mullin: No, I'm in Omaha. My friend with the Series II is in Minneapolis. You're in Minneapolis, then?
[08:39:17] <KimK_> Do you have a machine in mind for EMC2?
[08:41:20] <KimK_> That should be interesting. Planning three-axis, or more?
[08:42:34] <KimK_> What will you use for a spindle?
[08:43:18] <KimK_> I'm on dialup, I'm still waiting for your pix. I'll go look again.
[08:44:57] <KimK_> OK, pix is in.
[08:51:23] <KimK_> OK. People who should know tell me that common tools like Dremels, routers, and even die grinders have too much runout for fine work. (Engraving? PCB milling? What?) FWIW. I've never tried to measure runout on one of these. Anyway, you might want a plan B just in case, since your work envelope is small.
[08:55:58] <Benjamin_Mullin> It's way past time to be in bed for me though. Thanks for the assistance. I'll probably be around more in the coming days/weeks.
[08:57:03] <KimK_> Yes, that's a point too. Besides, you may find that you have a lot of unwanted play in the actuators, etc, that might be hard to remedy. In that case, maybe a Dremel is good enough?
[08:58:32] <KimK_> eric_u: It's probably late enough for me too. Thanks for jumping in.
[13:28:28] <anonimasu> drilling out cracks?
[13:31:22] <F1514> ? now i also confuse on plating crack?
[14:12:27] <F1514> gtg.. thx for all, have a nicest day.
[15:35:00] <micges> I have spindle with changeable tool pockets. how can I control it with emc ?
[19:58:26] <eric_u1> did you make your dropouts?
[19:59:15] <eric_u1> what kind of droputs are they? SS?
[20:00:33] <DanielFalck> is it showing up?
[21:39:18] <alex_joni> how's he servo running?
[21:44:41] <skunkworks> I will be milling it soon.
[21:45:14] <skunkworks> alex_joni: how is the apartment coming?
[22:12:19] <dmess> what is it for?
[22:20:23] <anonimasu> like for cutting a stub or a hole..
[22:21:12] <anonimasu> the heidenhain is a wonderful workshop control for that..
[22:21:30] <anonimasu> hacking togther quick jobs like making holes and stuff is insanely fast..
[22:22:29] <anonimasu> on a heidenhain control?
[22:23:23] <anonimasu> dmess: everyone dosent own catia.
[22:26:46] <skunkworks> DanielFalck: where are you located?
[22:27:00] <anonimasu> dmess: did you miss the full extent of what I said?
[22:31:22] <dmess> where are you Skunk??
[22:37:00] <dmess> i see no snow??
[22:37:36] <dmess> is it all remotely operated??
[22:41:04] <anonimasu> dmess: fast or not, defining and calling a hole pocketing cycle is faster then programming it by hand..
[22:41:50] <dmess> depends on how you deal with By hand??
[22:42:08] <anonimasu> less pushes of any keys..
[22:42:48] <eric_u1> anyone remember how to do an automated setup of x in ubuntu?
[22:43:59] <anonimasu> or you could just do the ramping yourself and just call up the cycle withput any plunge.
[22:45:41] <anonimasu> dmess: how many lines of g-code do you think it would take?
[22:46:23] <dmess> whats the tool change time on that chip to chip??
[22:48:45] <anonimasu> if I ever build a machine I'll make the control housing round on top.
[22:50:08] <anonimasu> oh.. I mean collet chucks..
[22:50:53] <anonimasu> I'm going to make something where I can stick tooling into..
[22:53:15] <anonimasu> or a vfd and some time to hack togther a macro to position the spindle..
[22:53:36] <anonimasu> no retainer knob drawbar on my machine either..
[22:56:02] <anonimasu> eric_u1: for $1000 ?
[22:57:34] <anonimasu> dmess: well it makes profit isnt that nice?
[23:15:47] <DanielFalck> I wonder which 'real thing' he refers to?
[23:16:48] <anonimasu> he thinks cnc machines shouls act like windows programs probably..
[23:18:06] <DaViruz> mach user interface is very clear?
[23:29:58] <castle> Hi, does anyone have knowledge or experience compiling emc2?
[23:31:01] <eric_u1> do you want to compile cvs?
[23:36:31] <eric_u1> was there a special reason to build from a tarball?
[23:39:45] <castle> plus have a few spare machines with most of the support software in place, but I like your suggestion. Do you have a URL/source for an iso image?
[23:41:08] <castle> does that CD require any real-time stuff such as RTAI installed prior to use?
[23:42:52] <castle> sounds like a plan, has anyone run it with the Sherline CNC mills?
[23:51:37] <castle> most of it is small panels, medium sized parts, knobs, gears, etc, it look like the Sherline would be a good starting point. Comments?
[23:52:26] <dmess> looks like you need it to do alot a work???
[23:59:58] <dmess> what do you fly?


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The size of the company's affairs are left to Minghui to deal with. The company has just started, Minghui is so busy that she has no time to go home to eat every day. I want to go to the company to help. On the surface, my mother-in-law refused my participation because she didn't understand the computer. In fact, she excluded me as an outsider. In order to take better care of Ming Hui and Su Su, I went through the formalities from the unit and went home to work as a "full-time gentleman" wholeheartedly.Minghui seldom eats several meals at home a week. I try to choose her favorite dishes to eat for her. In the evening, when Minghui comes back from school, I tutor her to do her homework. Usually the house is well organized. Minghui asks where the scarf is. I can find it and hand it to her right away. Minghui went home and threw his shoes on the ground. I picked them up silently, put on the shoe polish, wiped them clean and put them in place. The next day Minghui could go out in bright shoes.
Not long after the quiet days, in 1999, Ming Li officially joined the company, reinvested, turned into a network company, and soon took charge of the company's finances. In just a few years, it is reasonable to buy a house and a car. Minghui's heart is somewhat discontented, and this anger has been passed on to me invisibly.I know Minghui 娴撶簿娴囩亴缇庡鐨勫瓙瀹� is under great pressure, so I just give in, but I didn't expect to be taken advantage of by people with ulterior motives. That man is an employee of her company. He knows something about my family. Often in front of us, a man can not earn money to support his family, let his wife fight outside, too hard and wise.
also good for quality 鍙互鎾斁鐨剒00sk00ldog I am a man, so long as I work hard my life can be guaranteed. So I went to my dormitory empty-handed.


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Traversing the Ruptures
Posted on August 26, 2020 by johanna
In a recent piece in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times author Susanne Antonetta writes of her desire to speak of her hallucinations in a way that breaks through enforced secrecy, a silence which she finds almost as disorienting as delusion. She says "I ..believe that hallucinations hold truth, though a hard truth to stay with for very long." { Susanne Antonetta ,"Even When I'm Psychotic I'm still Me" New York Times 2-23-20 Sunday Review p 10) To view the interruptive events in her life as debilitating is not the full truth for Antonetta; they also hold meaning and need to be unpacked.
Our lives do not have to be invaded by psychotic incidents to become familiar with rupture. Many people have experiences that cut into reality as we think we know it, making us face the task of unpacking and deciphering their meaning. I was asked a few months ago by a friend to talk with her about the ruptures in my life as they have affected my gender and about the light they cast on my thinking about misogyny, my fears and hopes for the lives of women. The invitation forced me to face three major periods that broke into my existence in way that caused a "before," with the result of an "after" that steered me in a specific direction. They shared with Antonetta's experiences the quality that all were in their own way debilitating and also that all hold meaning and that by unpacking their meaning I may come to a more profound understanding of my self in relation to the world.
The first rupture of my life and the most cataclysmic was the one created by the Second World War. Still in my mother's womb when in 1940 war broke out in my country, The Netherlands, I was almost five when it ended in May 1945. The period was one of great duress and deprivation for everyone, and I grew into my teenage years and young adulthood in the wake of the devastations created not only in my country but in all the countries surrounding us. While my family suffered no losses as shattering as those of the hunted and murdered Jews and other groups targeted for extinction in our midst, no one in our communities escaped the effects of five years of occupation and all it brought about. For everyone life was suffused with fear and in addition the twelve years of the Third Reich's domination cast a long shadow once they were over. When the war ended revelations began about mass murders and death camps, and I grew up surrounded by the story, the song and the photography documenting what had befallen us.
I have told the story of the effects of this war on me and my world of thought in an early book called Reformed and Feminist, in which I considered my feminist commitments through the lens of my life as a young child. I wrote that my eventual view of women as a dominated group was forged under the Nazi boot and that I learned how crucial alliances are needed to bring about change in conditions of hatred and discrimination. "….the child that grew up carried with her forever the consciousness that structural injustice brings about the worst kind of oppression and that the battle against injustice must always involve systemic change."(Reformed and Feminist [Westminster/John Knox, 1991], p. 14] Not until I was in my late forties could I begin to consider the ways in which the rupture of war and domination had shaped my outlook on the world and the human community.
While I was a young child during the war without awareness or participation in what overcame her, the second rupture took place with cooperation and even eagerness on my part. As a young woman I married an American citizen, left my home country and settled in the United States, for many years living as a resident alien and eventually as a citizen. For a long time I did not consider this step a rupture because I had agency in it and I undertook it with enthusiasm. There was no way that I could foresee the enormous changes it would bring about in my existence. I was adult when I crossed the ocean but still young and heading into maturity. At a time when the separation by ocean and continents was far more of a radical break than it is today, I left behind not only a loving family and friends, but a culture that in many respects was alien to the ways of my new home. Emigration is a radical step whether taken willingly or out of desperation.
My difference was the more difficult because I spoke English fluently and the push to assimilation from my context was powerful. It took years before I could articulate at least in part the meaning of what I had undertaken. I belong here, in this country, in this town where I buried my husband, where our children and grandchildren live, but a sense of difference and not belonging always remains. By extrapolation this rupture has helped me to develop a deeper understanding of people who are forced by winds of war or other deprivations to leave their homes and head for different shores. My own experience is useful insofar as it helps me to raise my voice in harmony with the biblical ethic of welcome to the stranger and to resist the talk and the practice of barring and ill-treating immigrants and refugees.
The third rupture happened when I became a female member of an all-male faculty more than forty years ago. This engagement too I undertook willingly and even eagerly, setting my feet on the path of my chosen career. It was, all the same, an experience that more than anything that came before shocked me into awareness of the patriarchal dominance of my world. We come to our convictions in different ways. I had lived my life until my mid-thirties having survived the tsunami of the Second World War, recovering from the loss of my country, absorbed in my studies and family, largely unengaged with the turmoil of Second-Wave Feminism. Once I started working outside my home, it made all the difference. The discrimination I experienced in my work environment was minor compared to that of other women, especially women who were less privileged , a fact pointed out to me frequently by my male colleagues. What escaped them and what became clear to me is that in an environment where being white and male is normative I could not escape the constant pressure, the "psychic battering," coming the way of one who did not fit the mold. My main support at the time came from the women students who had pressured the Faculty to hire me. For the past forty years I have devoted my energy to uncovering women's history, celebrating our accomplishments and advocating for change in the patriarchal order of things.
Ruptures are chasms that need to be traversed and examined. The rupture of war taught me that the path of dehumanization and discrimination inevitably leads to annihilation; the rupture of emigration put me on the side of the stranger, the one who does not belong; the rupture of functioning as a female in an all-male environment brought home to me the reality of the inequalities that dominate women's lives, and how far we still have to go in terms of recovering women's full humanity and dignity. All three of these experiences taught me the life-saving value of alliances, the need for support across the lines that divide us, lines of class, race, occupation and other borders we construct to keep us apart and divided. . It will always be the woman who suffers already from being declared "less than" because of class, ethnic origin, religion, gender identity, who will carry multiple burdens. The how of bringing change is not always clear, but I know that there is one thing we cannot do without: Only through making life-saving alliances across borders that separate us and ultimately serve patriarchal ideas and practices are we able to create a rupture in the way things are, bending the path away from the destruction of "before" toward an "after" in which all humanity will flourish because a woman's dignity and full humanity is no longer questioned.
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