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Meet the AAG Journals Editors – James McCarthy and Ling Bian
Staff September 24, 2018 Meet the AAG Journals Editors – James McCarthy and Ling Bian2018-09-24T16:38:24-04:00 Association News, Publications
James McCarthy is the Nature and Society editor for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers and a Professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. His work analyzes the interactions of political economy and environmental politics, with particular emphases on rural areas, renewable energy, property relations, and social movements. He has published widely on these themes in geography and related disciplines, including two major edited volumes and over 50 articles and chapters. He has carried out research on natural resource management, energy policy, and connections between rural landscapes and livelihoods for the Ford Foundation and Oxfam America. Prior to coming to Clark in 2011, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Geography at Penn State University. His current research focuses on the relationships among climate change, renewable energy, and the political economy of capitalism, focusing in particular on the ways in which a renewable energy sector booming in the context of climate change is taking up land and other natural resources in ways that may slow further climate change on the one hand, but create new social and environmental claims, impacts, and conflicts on the other.
Professor McCarthy considers nature-society research and analysis to be an absolutely essential area of scholarship for geography and for society. The field's breadth, relevance, and potential for integration of diverse topics and approaches is precisely what led him to a career in academic geography after work in the environmental NGO field, and those attributes make creative and committed new work in it needed now more than ever. As editor, Professor McCarthy seeks to ensure that the full range of current nature-society scholarship in geography is represented in the Annals. He enjoys seeing both the tremendous range and vibrancy of work in the field, and working developmentally with scholars early relatively new to the publication process. Professor McCarthy sees cultivating new voices, perspectives, and topics in the discipline and journal as essential responsibilities for an editor, and prospective authors should always feel free to contact him regarding potential topics for the journal.
Ling Bian is the newest of the four editors for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, having assumed her role in January 2018. She currently serves as the editor for the Geographic Methods section of the Annals. Published six times a year (January, March, May, July, September and November), the Annals also dedicates one Special Issue per year which draws a diversity of papers from across the discipline under a single theme.
In addition to being an editor, Bian is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo where she teaches geographic information systems and sciences, remote sensing, network analysis, and geostatistics. Her research interests are in the general area of geographic information science, but she has decades of publication experience in topics related to GIScience, remote sensing, and geographic image retrieval. In recent years she has focused on the ontological foundation of spatial representation, individual-based and spatially explicit behavior modeling, network analytics, and their implementations in the context of public health.
Bian currently serves on the editorial board of the Annals and has previously served on the editorial board of The Professional Geographer and as Associate Editor of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Bian is the Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at Buffalo, which was formed in 1988, to promote excellence in GIScience research. Even though she is the methods editor, Bian believes that those wishing to publish their research in geography today should try to pay attention to more than the methods themselves. Scholars should look to tell a story with their research and strive to see the social relevance of their work.
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Matchday 18 of the FA WSL action will kick off with a historical game between Manchester United and West Ham United that is set to be played at Old Trafford on Saturday at 7:30 a.m. ET. The game will mark the first time that Man Utd Women play in the Theater of Dreams. The Red Devils will look to avenge a 2-0 loss to rivals Arsenal with a win against the Hammers, who find themselves at the bottom of the league table.
In the nation's capital, the North London Derby will go down on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. ET, with Tottenham Hotspur hosting Arsenal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Gunners are looking to snatch Manchester United's UEFA Champions League qualification spot, and winning this game is a must to achieve their goal. Meanwhile, The Spurs are safe from relegation but looking to best themselves by defeating Arsenal for the first time.
And to close Saturday play, Man City will host a tricky Reading side at Manchester City Academy Stadium at 1:30 p.m. ET.
Sunday will feature the three other matches, starting with Brighton & Hove Albion taking on Everton at home at 7:30 a.m. ET. Chelsea and Aston Villa will follow with a game at 9:30 a.m. ET at Kingsmeadow in London. And the last game of the week will see league-strugglers Bristol City and Birmingham City scrap for points at 11 a.m. ET in Birmingham.
ATA Football, NBC Sports Network and The FA Player will broadcast/stream all the games this weekend. Make sure you scroll to the bottom of the article to find all the broadcast and stream information.
Game of the Week: Manchester City vs. Reading
ATA Football, the home of women's football, will offer a free live stream of the clash between Man City and Reading at Manchester City Academy Stadium on Saturday, March 27, at 1:30 p.m. ET.
The Cityzens will look to avenge a one-all draw away at Reading in November 2021 and add another victory to their impressive 10-game-winning streak. Manager Gareth Taylor and the players are just two points behind Emma Hayes' Chelsea with six games left of the 2020/21 FA WSL campaign. The two sides will meet for a title-deciding match on April 25.
The Sky Blue has displayed top-notch football in the second half of the season with every player on the pitch showing good form. Both the defense and offense have been close to perfect since the start of their win streak in December, outscoring opponents 36-3 and keeping seven clean sheets.
On the other hand, the Royals are known for getting in the way of top sides, and they proved that in October when they drew 1-1 against Man City at Madejski Stadium. They have also seized points from Manchester United ad Arsenal this season. However, manager Kelly Chambers and her women have not been able to keep consistency throughout the season only winning two games in a row once in this campaign.
Reading helped Manchester City in its search for the title by taking down Manchester United 2-0 in Manchester in February. Nonetheless, the Sky Blue will show no remorse as they need the win to remain two points behind Chelsea in the chase for the WSL title.
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Resources Press MetTel Wins 2020 Stevie® Award for Customer Service in Telecommunications
MetTel Wins 2020 Stevie® Award for Customer Service in Telecommunications
Hands-On Approach to Communications Helps Healthcare Client Reduce Budget, Reach Cost Efficiency Objectives
NEW YORK, January 28, 2020 – MetTel, a digital transformation and communications leader, was named a winner in the Customer Service Department of Year category in the 14th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service in healthcare. MetTel was recognized for helping transform IT communication for a major long-term acute-care hospital and rehabilitation services provider.
According to reports, Americans pay more for healthcare than any other country in the world, costing about $1 trillion more per year than the next highest paying country-Switzerland. As the cost of healthcare and related services continues to rise, organizations are looking for ways to reduce overhead while maintaining the same level of care and services their patients demand.
"Customer service is at the center of everything we do at MetTel," said Marshall Aronow, CEO of MetTel. "Our customers turn to us again and again for solutions to their IT communications challenges because of our customer service team's ability to help them meet their objectives – improving IT communications to support growth, innovation, productivity and efficiency."
The MetTel Enterprise Care team worked closely with the healthcare provider, one of the largest in the United States, that was looking for a telecommunications partner to ensure 24/7, uniterpupted services, as well as a way to significantly reduce overhead costs associated with various phone services and equipment across its numerous locations. The MetTel enterprise client support service team delivered a platform that provided heightened visibility to many of the existing key telephony elements not prevously available to management. Combined with MetTel's methodical auditing approach, the account team immediately identified ways to not only provide the latest technology but also save the company overhead in maintaining telephony services at its facilities. Most importantly, the client is now well on its way to new technology with the latest features and is building a fortified network that supports present telephony requirements and is poised to expand for future technologies.
"In many ways, our MetTel enterprise client support services organization is an extension of our client's team," said Mark Marshall, MetTel's Executive Director of Enterprise Care, who oversees the company's enterprise client support service efforts. "We're proud to receive this recognition from industry peers at the Stevie Awards for going beyond the call to serve our clients."
More than 2,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry, in 48 nations, were evaluated in this year's competition.
In addition to winning a Stevie® Award for Customer Service in Telecommunications, MetTel is automatically included in voting for the 2020 edition of the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Customer Service. The general public will vote for their favorite providers of customer service, through February 14 and will be presented with a crystal People's Choice Stevie Awards at the awards banquet in Las Vegas on Friday, February 28. You can vote for MetTel here.
MetTel is a leader in communications and digital transformation (DX) solutions for enterprise and government customers. By converging all communications over a proprietary network, MetTel gives enterprises a single, unified view and control point for all their communications and advanced network services. MetTel's comprehensive portfolio of customer solutions can boost enterprise productivity, reduce costs, and simplify operations. Combining customized and managed communication solutions with a powerful platform of cloud-based software, the company's MetTel Portal® enables customers to manage their inventory, usage, spend and repairs from one simple, user-friendly interface. For more information, visit www.mettel.net, follow us on Twitter (@OneMetTel) and LinkedIn, or call us directly at 877.963.8663. MetTel.
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Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
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MCTC ranked 47 in the list which was developed following an evaluation of active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, support for learning, and graduation rates. The Washington Monthly, a national publication based in Washington, DC, noted the ranking of Americas best community colleges is based on two sources of information: the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) and graduation rates published by the U.S. Department of Education.
We are very proud to be ranked in the fifty top two year colleges within the United States. We believe that our College stands out in a fantastic way as far as student satisfaction and student success is concerned, said MCTC President Ed Story. Our faculty and staff work hard at putting students first in everything that we do at the College.Not only is Maysville Community and Technical College a good place to work, but our students think that it is an excellent college choice for them.
The CCSSE survey is managed by a nonprofit organization. The survey is given to a representative sample of students at community colleges that voluntarily choose to participate. The survey is comprised of 104 questions on a range of topics. CCSSE combines the results of those questions into aggregate benchmark scores in five categories. The benchmark scores are standardized to range from 0 to 100 with an average score of 50. Each colleges ranking also is based on graduation rates submitted by college to the U.S. Department of Education.
Two other KCTCS schools were named to the Washington Monthly College Rankings list Hazard Community and Technical College ranked at 18 and Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College ranked at 32.


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Germany: trust in public authorities to deal safely with personal data online 2015
To what extent do you trust public authorities to protect your personal information?*
by Statista Research Department, last edited Jun 24, 2015
This statistic presents the results of a survey on the trust in public authorities to deal responsibly with personal information online in Germany as of March 2015. During the survey period, it was found that 21 percent of respondents reported that they totally trust public authorities with the protection of their personal information.
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* Original survey question was phrased as follows:
"QB18.1 Different authorities (government departments, local authorities, agencies) and private companies collect and store personal information about you.
To what extent do you trust the following authorities and private companies to protect your personal information?
National public authorities (e.g. tax authorities, social security authorities)"
Cyber crime: biggest online data breaches 2007-2019
Identity theft data breaches worldwide 2013-2018
Demographics & Use
Freedom House Index: internet freedom in selected countries 2018
U.S. internet users using the same password across accounts 2018
Statistics on "Online privacy"
Social media privacy
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Number of compromised data records in selected data breaches as of May 2019 (in millions)Cyber crime: biggest online data breaches 2007-2019
Share of internet users who are concerned about risks to their online privacy vs. their willingness to accept certain risks to their online privacy to make their life more convenient as of October 2018, by countryGlobal concern about internet privacy risk vs. convenience 2018, by country
Share of internet users who are more concerned about their online privacy compared to a year ago as of February 2019, by countryGlobal opinion on concern about online privacy 2019, by country
Share of internet users who are more concerned about their online privacy compared to a year ago as of February 2019, by regionGlobal opinion on concern about online privacy 2019, by region
Percentage of internet users in the United States who feel that their data and personal information is vulnerable to hackers as of January 2019U.S. online users who feel their data is vulnerable to hackers 2019
Percentage of internet users in the United States who feel that their data and personal information is vulnerable to hackers as of January 2019, by genderU.S. online users who feel their data is vulnerable to hackers 2019, by gender
Share of internet users worldwide who are aware of their country's data protection and privacy rules as of February 2019, by countryGlobal data protection and privacy rule awareness 2019, by country
Share of internet users worldwide who are aware of their country's data protection and privacy rules as of February 2019, by regionGlobal data protection and privacy rule awareness 2019, by region
Protective actions taken by internet users worldwide over the past year as of February 2019Online protection strategies of global internet users 2019
Actions taken in last three years because of security and privacy issues when using the internet according to online users in the United States as of September 2018Online privacy and anonymity strategies of U.S. internet users 2018
Thinking about digital privacy: Which of the following apply to you?Attitudes towards privacy in the U.S. 2018
How many of your accounts use the same password for online logins?U.S. internet users using the same password across accounts 2018
Share of internet users in the United States who use the same password for multiple online accounts as of October 2018, by age group U.S. internet users using the same password across accounts 2018, by age group
Most common methods how adults in the United States keep track of their most important login information as of January 2019Methods of U.S. adults keeping track of login information 2019
Most common methods how adults in the United States keep track of their most important login information as of January 2019, by age groupMethods of U.S. adults keeping track of login information 2019, by age group
Leading motivations for VPN usage worldwide as of 1st quarter 2018, by deviceMain usage motivations of VPN users worldwide 2018, by device
Number of global data breaches pertaining to identity theft from 1st half 2013 to 1st half 2018Identity theft data breaches worldwide 2013-2018
Share of internet users in the United States who have been victim of online identity theft as of October 2018U.S. internet user online identity theft rate 2018
How comfortable are you with companies being able to purchase data related to you, such as an email address, for online advertising purposes?U.S. opinion on companies buying personal data for online ads 2018
Share of internet users in the United States who are comfortable with companies being able to purchase their personal data for advertising purposes as of May 2018, by age groupU.S. opinion on companies buying personal data for online ads 2018, by age
How comfortable are you with companies being able to sell data related to you, such as an email address, for online advertising purposes?U.S. opinion on companies selling personal data for online ads 2018
Share of internet users in the United States who are comfortable with companies being able to sell their personal data for advertising purposes as of May 2018, by age groupU.S. opinion on companies selling personal data for online ads 2018, by age group
Share of internet users in the United States who don't mind companies sharing their data for more targeted or interesting advertisements as of May 2018, by genderU.S. internet users sharing user data for targeted ads 2018, by gender
Share of internet users in the United States who don't want companies sharing their data for more targeted or interesting advertisements as of May 2018, by age groupU.S. internet users not sharing user data for targeted ads 2018, by age group
Number of Facebook user accounts that may have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal as of April 2018, by countryCountries most affected by Cambridge Analytics Facebook scandal 2018
How much have you heard in the news recently about data obtained from Facebook by a firm called Cambridge Analytica?U.S. awareness about Facebook data scandal regarding Cambridge Analytica 2018
In the past, do you think Facebook has or has not done enough to safeguard the personal data of people with Facebook profiles?U.S. view on past safekeeping of user data by Facebook 2018
Moving forward, do you think Facebook will or will not do enough to safeguard the personal data of people with Facebook profiles?U.S. view on Facebook's future performance in safeguarding personal data 2018
How much do you trust social media companies to safeguard the personal data of their users?U.S. trust in social media companies safeguarding personal user data 2018
Share of Facebook users in the United States who have taken following steps to reframe their relationship with the social network as of June 2018Steps taken by U.S. Facebook users to change usage of platform 2018
Reasons that Facebook users in the United States are sharing less content with friends and followers on social media as of April 2018Reasons U.S. Facebook users share less content on social media 2018
Facebook usage changers over privacy concerns by adults in the United States as of April 2018U.S. Facebook usage change over privacy concerns 2018
Degree of internet freedom in selected countries according to the Freedom House Index 2018 (index points)Freedom House Index: internet freedom in selected countries 2018
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due foreign governments as of February 2019, by countryGlobal concern about foreign governments and online privacy 2019, by country
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due foreign governments as of February 2019, by regionGlobal concern about foreign governments and online privacy 2019, by region
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due their own government as of February 2019, by countryGlobal concern about national government and online privacy 2019, by country
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due their own government as of February 2019, by regionGlobal concern about national government and online privacy 2019, by region
Number of user data requests issued to Google from federal agencies and governments during 2nd half 2018, by country Google user data requests from federal agencies and governments H2 2018, by country
Global number of user data requests issued to Twitter from federal agencies and governments during 1st half 2018, by country Twitter: user data requests from federal agencies and governments H1 2018
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Spain: trust in public authorities to deal responsibly with personal data online 2015
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Trust in telecom companies to deal responsibly with private data online Denmark 2015
Trust in public authorities' management of personal data online in Sweden 2015
Spain: preferred recipients of complaints regarding personal data protection 2015
Desired enforcement level of the rules on personal data protection in Germany 2015
Germany: trust in banks and FIs to deal responsibly with personal data online 2015
UK: responsible parties for informing residents about missing personal data 2015
EU: trust in shops and stores to deal responsibly with personal data 2015
Spain: trust in banks and FIs to deal responsibly with personal data online 2015
France: trust in public authorities to deal safely with personal data online 2015
Responsible parties for informing about missing personal data in Denmark 2015
France: trust in online businesses to deal responsibly with private data 2015
UK: trust in healthcare institutions to deal responsibly with data online 2015
Level of control over personal data provided online in Spain 2015
Level of control over personal data provided online in France 2015
Trust in shops' and stores' management of personal data online in Finland 2015
Desired enforcement level of the rules on personal data protection in Finland 2015
Opinion on personal data being shared by websites in Belgium in 2016, by region
Internet usage worldwide
Internet usage in the United States
Online privacy and data protection in the European Union (EU)
Online privacy in the United Kingdom (UK)
Cyber crime and cyber security in the United Kingdom (UK)
Norwegian Computer and Data Breach Survey 2018
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2015 Cost of Failed Trust Report
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2018 CPA Canada Fraud Survey
Cyber Security as a Service
Cyber Security Report 2015
2014 Survey of Canadians on Privacy
Adults' Media Use and Attitudes Report 2018
IBM Cybersecurity and Privacy Research
Number of compromised data records in selected data breaches as of May 2019 (in millions)
Share of internet users who are concerned about risks to their online privacy vs. their willingness to accept certain risks to their online privacy to make their life more convenient as of October 2018, by country
Share of internet users who are more concerned about their online privacy compared to a year ago as of February 2019, by country
Share of internet users who are more concerned about their online privacy compared to a year ago as of February 2019, by region
Percentage of internet users in the United States who feel that their data and personal information is vulnerable to hackers as of January 2019
Percentage of internet users in the United States who feel that their data and personal information is vulnerable to hackers as of January 2019, by gender
Share of internet users worldwide who are aware of their country's data protection and privacy rules as of February 2019, by country
Share of internet users worldwide who are aware of their country's data protection and privacy rules as of February 2019, by region
Cybersecurity and online privacy concerns among adults in the United States as of September 2018
Which of these tech companies leads in terms of data protection?
Protective actions taken by internet users worldwide over the past year as of February 2019
Actions taken in last three years because of security and privacy issues when using the internet according to online users in the United States as of September 2018
Thinking about digital privacy: Which of the following apply to you?
How many of your accounts use the same password for online logins?
Share of internet users in the United States who use the same password for multiple online accounts as of October 2018, by age group
Most common methods how adults in the United States keep track of their most important login information as of January 2019
Most common methods how adults in the United States keep track of their most important login information as of January 2019, by age group
Leading motivations for VPN usage worldwide as of 1st quarter 2018, by device
Share of internet users worldwide who have used a VPN in the past month as of 1st quarter 2018, by gender
Share of internet users worldwide who have used a VPN in the past month as of 1st quarter 2018, by age group
Share of internet users worldwide who have used a VPN in the past month as of 1st quarter 2018, by region
Global consumer willingness to pay a at least 1 U.S. dollar per month to ensure protection of personal information as of October 2018, by category
Number of global data breaches pertaining to identity theft from 1st half 2013 to 1st half 2018
Share of internet users in the United States who have been victim of online identity theft as of October 2018
How comfortable are you with companies being able to purchase data related to you, such as an email address, for online advertising purposes?
Share of internet users in the United States who are comfortable with companies being able to purchase their personal data for advertising purposes as of May 2018, by age group
How comfortable are you with companies being able to sell data related to you, such as an email address, for online advertising purposes?
Share of internet users in the United States who are comfortable with companies being able to sell their personal data for advertising purposes as of May 2018, by age group
Share of internet users in the United States who don't mind companies sharing their data for more targeted or interesting advertisements as of May 2018, by gender
Share of internet users in the United States who don't want companies sharing their data for more targeted or interesting advertisements as of May 2018, by age group
Types of personal information internet users in the United States are willing to share in general versus customization purposes as of June 2018
Leading reasons for using adblocking according to internet users in the United States as of 2nd quarter 2018
Number of Facebook user accounts that may have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal as of April 2018, by country
How much have you heard in the news recently about data obtained from Facebook by a firm called Cambridge Analytica?
In the past, do you think Facebook has or has not done enough to safeguard the personal data of people with Facebook profiles?
Moving forward, do you think Facebook will or will not do enough to safeguard the personal data of people with Facebook profiles?
How much do you trust social media companies to safeguard the personal data of their users?
Share of Facebook users in the United States who have taken following steps to reframe their relationship with the social network as of June 2018
Reasons that Facebook users in the United States are sharing less content with friends and followers on social media as of April 2018
Facebook usage changers over privacy concerns by adults in the United States as of April 2018
Do you think the government should or should not regulate how social media companies safeguard the personal data of their users?
Have you ever considered deleting your Facebook profile?
If you had to guess, about how many of your friends and family have deleted their Facebook profiles?
Share of social media users in the United States who say it would be easy for social media to figure out selected traits about them as of June 2018
Percentage of social media users in the United States who have a private social media account as of September 2018
Percentage of social media users in the United States who have a private social media account as of September 2018, by age group
Satisfaction of social media users in the United States with social platform privacy and the amount of ads from 2015 to 2018
Degree of internet freedom in selected countries according to the Freedom House Index 2018 (index points)
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due foreign governments as of February 2019, by country
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due foreign governments as of February 2019, by region
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due their own government as of February 2019, by country
Share of internet users who are increasingly concerned about their online privacy to due their own government as of February 2019, by region
Number of user data requests issued to Google from federal agencies and governments during 2nd half 2018, by country
Global number of user data requests issued to Twitter from federal agencies and governments during 1st half 2018, by country
Number of user data requests issued to Facebook from federal agencies and governments during 2nd half 2018, by country
Number of user data requests made to Snapchat from U.S. federal agencies and courts from 2nd half 2014 to 2nd half 2018
To what extent do you trust online businesses (search engines, online social networks, e-mail services) to protect your personal information?*
To what extent do you trust landline or mobile phone companies and internet service providers to protect your personal information?
To what extent do you trust public authorities to protect your personal information?
If you experienced a problem concerning the protection of your personal data, to whom would you prefer to send a complaint?*
In your opinion, the enforcement of the rules on personal data protection should be dealt with at…?
To what extent do you trust banks and financial institutions (FIs) to protect your personal information?*
Who do you think should inform you if information that is held about you is lost or stolen?*
To what extent do you trust shops and stores to protect your personal information?*
Who do you think should inform you if information that is held about you is lost or stolen?
To what extent do you trust health and medical institutions to protect your personal information?*
Attitudes on the ability to correct, change or delete personal information shared online in Spain as of March 2015, by level of control*
Attitudes on the ability to correct, change or delete personal information shared online in France as of March 2015, by level of control*
In your opinion, the enforcement of the rules on personal data protection should be dealt with at…?*
Is the following statement true of false: ''All sites with advertising do sell information on you to commercial brands?''*


You may be able to reuse materials and equipment in your own business or another organisation may be able to reuse your waste.
Reusing your own business waste can reduce your costs as you won't need to buy raw materials or pay to dispose of the waste. You may also be able to generate income from materials and goods that are valuable to another organisation.
use greywater recycling systems for your toilets.
Manufacturing businesses, for example, may be able to reuse packaging and off-cuts, and capture waste heat generated by manufacturing processes for heating or reuse elsewhere in production.
You should speak to your staff and ask them to 'think before they throw' as someone else may want to use their waste.
You can offer waste materials, second-hand products, end-of-line products and obsolete equipment to other organisations which can use them without alteration.
You could try business-to-business online waste exchanges which trade a wide range of used industrial materials and equipment. You may also be able to sell goods and materials on online auction sites.
Scrapstores may take some of your waste materials such as fabrics, plastics, paper and card. They can make use of scrap material for children's play activities and this will save you recycling costs.
Some charities will collect your waste items at their expense. Some are licensed to take electrical and electronic goods. Schools may take unwanted computers, electrical equipment and materials. In Kind Direct collects mostly end-of-line and second-hand products on behalf of various charities and schools. The Furniture Re-use Network is the co-ordinating body for 400 recycling and reuse charities.
Websites such as Giving World Online connect businesses to charities and community projects that need donated goods and materials.
Donating goods and materials to schools and charities can improve the image of your business and demonstrate your corporate social responsibility policy.
You are responsible for making sure you comply with your waste responsibilities, such as the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations.


There is a little cheese shop down the road from my parent's house in NJ that I really love. It is called the Cheeseboard. It is part cheese shop, part gourmet shop, part sandwich shop. If I were ever to own a restaurant of some sort it would be like this one. Good food, in and out, casual. On Fridays they serve Baked Potato Soup and that is where the inspiration for this recipe came from. I love a potato soup, but I do not like a cream based one. I like to add my calories on top and let the base stay simple. I have made this soup countless times and it is fool proof. Unless you get a wooden spoon stuck in the blender and it flies all over your house and gets on the floor, cabinets, and ceiling. My husband ended up painting over dried up potato soup. Gross. But that is a story for another day.
I have made this soup using various methods, but it really tastes best when you bake the potatoes. It adds a depth and warm flavor to the soup that you just cannot get when you boil the potatoes. This recipe is more of a guide than an actual recipe. Basically you are making a really runny mashed potato thinned with chicken stock. So use as many potatoes as you would like and adjust the amount of liquid to that. I like to make a really big pot and eat it the next day for lunch. This soup is a favorite with kids too. They really like to top their soup themselves.
Bake your potatoes and let them cool. Scoop out the flesh.
I use my immersion blender for this, but until I got that, I used a regular blender and pureed it in batches. Add the potato to a pot and add some chicken stock.
Add enough chicken stock to get the consistency of a thick soup. Add salt and pepper. It will take a lot of seasoning so add slowly and taste frequently. Heat over low to medium heat until hot and serve.
Top the soup as you would a baked potato.
Like eating a bowlful of hugs.
I think you just made my day! I LOVE baked potato soup but all those cream based soups are not good for me. I can't wait to try this one out, hopefully the weather will begin to feel like fall in Colorado sometime soon!
I made this about a week ago when we had some chilly temps, but now we are back in the 100s. Not soup weather here anymore.
I made baked potato soup the other night for dinner, but wish I had waited and seen this beautiful post from you. What a lovely idea to puree the potatoes after they've been baked with just chicken broth. Simple usually is best and my hips are hating me for all that cream and butter I used.
But I bet that the one that you made was delicious… cream and butter are pretty amazing.
I love how simple this is and how delicious it looks! I cannot currently eat white potatoes but do you think that this would work with sweet potatoes?
Sweet potato soup is delicious. I would use the same method but would maybe switch out some of the toppings.
Love your inspiration and your recipe. Fortuitous posting too- baked potato soup on next week's menu. Can not wait to try this one!
I am glad that my timing helped you out. Hope that you love it as much as I do.
Not going to lie. This looks pretty awesome. I want this with some crusty french bread to dip in the soup. Mmmm carb coma…..
Bree, I love all kinds of potato soups. This is the best version of baked potato soup I've seen. I can even think of a very fine, very expensive restaurant that serves baked potato soup that is not nearly so good as this one. They puree the skins as well, and the soup often has a bit of a burnt taste to it–not good!
wow… thank you for the compliment. I hope that you love this soup as much as I do.
It is one of my favorite things on the planet to eat. That is saying a lot, because I really love to eat.
I love the idea of keeping the base simple (and light – i.e. no cream!) so that you can go guilt-free on the toppings. Thanks for the idea and base recipe.
I agree 100%. I want to have the toppings and not feel so bad about it.
YUM! I want to make this right this second! It is my carb dream!
It is a total carb dream and completely worth it.
The weather is finally starting to turn round to "cooler" weather, though not quite fall yet here in San Diego – but once it does, I want to start making soups! This looks like a real winner, too – love your photos!
Thank you Mary. It is one of my all time favorites.
Thank you so much for coming to speak in my dreamweaver class. You have inspired me so much, you have no idea. If you have any more advice and tip please lay them on me. Your recipes and pictures look and sound so amazing i will be trying some at home because i love cooking.
You are so sweet Stephanie. I hope that you do start a blog and share what you know.
I had this at my son and daughter-in-laws home this past weekend. We were making donuts and ice cream with the other members of our family. I know…but it was the last splurge of the year.
Anyway, what a delightful first course before our indulgence. I really didn't realize there wasn't any cream in the soup. However, I did realize how absolutely delicious it was. We all asked for the recipe. Little did we know how easy and healthy it was for us. Thank you.
That is always a nice surprise isn't it? To eat something that is rich and delicious and not fattening? The ice cream and donuts sound amazing.
I just finished making this. JUst waiting for it to all warm back up. I skipped reading well so we peeled the potatoes and I decided to make roasted potato soup. wowza on the flavor. It does take more broth this way. My 15 yr old says it tastes like it has bacon. None was added and I don't even have any for the garnish.
I am sure that it delicious with roasted potatoes.
I'll have to try it.
Just made this for dinner and it was sooooo amazing! I used a few strips of trader joes turkey bacon and chopped them up and stirred them in yum yum yum! And topped with sour cream and shap cheddar ! I looooove this soup so simple and delicious!
Me too! I have not made this in awhile, I should put it on my menu for the week.
sounds amazing but am curious as to what you would add as a topping if you made it with sweet potato?
Wow your Baked Potato Soup looks very delicious! And I super love potatoes. Can't wait to try it this weekend! Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome Shannon, this is one of my favorite cold weather soups.
Kathy made this soup tonight. Delicious!
Hi Joe! Can't wait to see you guys.
Silly question, when you baked your potatoes, how long and at what temperature do you leave them in the oven? Also, do you rub any vegetable oil on them? My husband likes more for a harty soup, so I don't want to get them too soft.
How long do you bake the potatoes for?
It depends on what size, but really I just cook them until a fork comes out easily.
The baked potato soup looks dazzling!
Thank you! It's a favorite over here.


Freedom and Flourishing: Is there a close relationship between subjective and objective indicators of environmental protection?
Is there a close relationship between subjective and objective indicators of environmental protection?
The subjective indicator of environmental protection that I have in mind is data from the Gallup World Poll on the percentage of respondents who say they are satisfied with efforts to preserve the natural environment. I have used this as one of several indicators of opportunity for individual human flourishing in a draft of Chapter 6 of 'Free to Flourish', the book I have been writing.
The objective indicator of environmental protection that I have in mind is the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) which is the result of a major collaborative project of research agencies associated with Yale and Colombia universities. The EPI is calculated on the basis of 22 performance indicators reflecting facets of environmental public health and ecosystem vitality.
The relationship between the two indexes is shown in Figure 1 below.
In broad terms, the relationship is positive, but not close. The people in some countries (e.g. Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Singapore) seem to be much more satisfied with efforts to protect the environment than would be predicted on the basis of objective indicators. By contrast, the people in some other countries (e.g. Mongolia, Bulgaria and Italy) seem to be much less satisfied with efforts to protect the environment than would be predicted on that basis.
Some light is shed on what seems to be happening by a regression analysis which seeks to explain satisfaction with efforts to protect the environment in terms of government effectiveness (using the relevant indicator in the World Bank's suite of governance indicators) and the EPI. The analysis suggests that the governance variable is much more important than the EPI in explaining satisfaction with efforts to protect the environment. This is shown graphically in Figure 2, which plots the satisfaction variable against government effectiveness. The points shown as blue squares are the predicted values for each country based on the multiple regression (including both of the explanatory variables). The values barely diverge from the black line in which the government effectiveness variable is the only explanatory variable.
My conclusion is that satisfaction with efforts to protect the environment is more a measure of satisfaction with governance than a measure of environmental protection. On this basis it would probably be preferable to use the EPI as an indicator of the impact that environmental factors are likely to have on opportunities for individual human flourishing.I am using the EPI in the latest draft of Chapter 6 of 'Free to Flourish'.


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TTC letter warns homeowners their houses might be expropriated for Scarborough subway
By San GrewalUrban Affairs Reporter
Tues., May 31, 2016timer3 min. read
Residents on a quiet Scarborough street, some who have lived there for four decades, have received letters from the TTC warning them their houses might be expropriated to make room for the new subway extension.
"I'm not going, they're going to kill me to take me out of here," Scott Cole said Monday, after receiving a letter on May 25 from the "Toronto Transit Commission" informing him that the bungalow he's lived in on Stanwell Dr. for 26 years might be subject to a "Property Acquisition Process."
There has been no official approval of the subway alignment — running north-south under McCowan Rd., which the homes back onto — that would affect these homeowners, but they're now convinced it's a done deal.
The letter says this particular alignment will be presented at a public meeting Tuesday, the first in a series of meetings planned over the next three weeks. However, the letter, received by at least a dozen neighbours, says no decision has yet been made by council, and the recommendation has not even been seen by the City of Toronto's executive committee.
"Staff will report their recommendations for the Scarborough Subway Extension (including property impacts)," the letter states, adding that the "meeting date (is) still to be confirmed." The letter states that the TTC board will receive the recommendations July 11 and Toronto City Council on July 12, 13 and 14.
"I love this place," said resident Vivek Bhatt. "I've been here 14 years. My kids grew up here."
Bhatt said he won't accept less than $2 million for his property from the city, but was adamant that he is only interested in expropriation as a last resort. "I don't want to leave."
The letter states that the city will undertake property-value assessments to make sure fair offers are made to each owner.
He said that in his opinion, the process of selecting an alignment — despite the lack so far of public meetings or a council vote — has already been made. "Obviously. Do you think they would do all this, send all this out, do all this planning, unless they already made their decision?" he said, holding up the eight-page package he received.
He vowed to make sure local Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker, who has been staunchly pro-subway and sits on the TTC board, will not be re-elected in 2018. De Baeremaeker could not be reached for comment.
TTC spokesman Brad Ross said the agency sent less than 100 notices to homeowners in the potential path of the future line, alerting them that all or part of their land might need to be expropriated.
The final alignment for the heavily debated extension of the Bloor-Danforth line has yet to be confirmed, but it's expected to run between Kennedy station and the Scarborough Town Centre. Council is scheduled to approve an alignment this year, with construction set to begin in 2018; the line wouldn't enter service until 2023.
The letter, shown to the Star by three residents, includes detailed satellite images of each specific property, with lines indicating where the subway tunnel will run and where the adjacent rights-of-way will be located.
Cole says his property "is going to be turned into a parking lot, for all the trucks and equipment to build the subway," according to his letter.
Only six feet of his rear yard is needed for the project, according to the detailed map and drawings he received. He questions what will be done with the rest of the land being expropriated. Ross said it's possible that not all of a required property will be needed — it's unclear if only parts of properties might be expropriated in some cases.
"In my opinion, they're just going to sell all of this to big developers and make tens of millions of dollars," Cole said.
He said he was given one year to live after he was diagnosed with cancer 14 years ago, and is now ready for a much easier fight.
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"I don't want anything they could offer me, $2 million, $3 million. This is my home. I'm staying, whether they like it or not."
With files from Ben Spurr and Jennifer Pagliaro


Digital agencies Babiel and Aperto were able to win over the Foreign Office in a multiple-phase tender process, and together are now developing the agency's and its embassies' new digital presences. The goal of the project is to consolidate all existing national and international websites and migrate them to a standardised Content Management System (CMS) with a new design. Tasks include the worldwide implementation, maintenance and development of the CoreMedia 8-based CMS, as well the development of new and existing apps.
The Foreign Office represents Germany's interests throughout the world, promoting international exchange and offering Germans overseas protection and help. The external communication is conducted through the agency's extensive internet presences. These currently comprise the German and English versions of www.auswaertiges-amt.de as well as over 500 websites from the 230 German embassies — in 64 languages.
Through the relaunch, a responsive web presence will be created according to the latest technical standards, that both represents foreign policy in a sophisticated and professional way and offers access to extensive information about all states worldwide. The future CMS will also cover all the latest IT security requirements, and retain high accessibility, in order to guarantee the access to travel and security information.
All employees of the Foreign Office, irrespective of their location, will be assisted with the CMS throughout the world.
The service delivery period for the collaborative relaunch project has been set at four years, with the option to extend. The Foreign Office already features in the portfolios of both Babiel and Aperto with various projects.


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Q: How to automatically stub out dependencies when testing a recipe function I have a function foo() that in turn calls function bar().  How can I confirm that bar actually gets called?
Example of complex business logic method to test:
class Car
{
  IStarter starter
  IKeyhole keyhole
  IBrakePedal pedal
  Drive()
  {
    keyhole.InsertKey()
    keyhole.RotateToStart()
    starter.TurnEngineOver()

    ...

    if (pedal.Pressed)
      this.SlowDown()
  }
}

I have a method that brings together 6 external dependencies (interfaces with methods), and runs them in a sequence, order is not important.  I would like to make sure each was called.  In another test, I'd like to tweak conditionals and ensure that a subset was called.
In C# with Moq, I have a full page of setup code.
Here's what I'd like to see in my unit test:
let `check that brake pedal slows down car` =
   let car = new Car()
   car.pedal.Pressed <- true
   car.Drive()
   car.SlowDown |> wasCalled

The rest should be inferred from usage.  I have a real need to reduce noise in tests.

A: The closest thing I know to what you want is an AutoMockingContainer.
In a nutshell, it's an IoC container that gives you a Car with all IStarter, IKeyhole, IBrakepedal stubbed out and wired to the Car instance, without you explicitly registering any of them. You then proceed to set your expectations as usual (in your case, "car.SlowDown() was called"), then call the method under test.
The specifics depend on the IoC container and mocking framework used. The original one was written with Windsor and an old version of Rhino Mocks, but now there are AMC for StructureMap, Ninject, Autofac + Moq, etc.
You could start with one of these and wrap it to make it more idiomatic in F#.
It has its downsides, it's not something I'd recommend using "by default".

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Finally, please send me any missing contact info you have on classmates or corrections to what I have. Hopefully, we'll be able to track everyone down by the reunion.
P.S. I apologize in advance for the mistakes I know I'll make.
Based on the Yearbooks, 93 of us entered WCHS as freshman and 67 of these made it to senior year. The senior class total was 73 as many joined us and left along the way. Altogether, 109 were in the class at one time or another.
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I absolutely love and appreciate really good food and drinking quality beer. So, when I first read the Sourcebooks email, my mouth began watering just thinking about the newly published The Ultimate Beer Lover's Happy Hour cookbook by John Schlimm (August 2014, $14.99, Paperback). But when the review copy actually arrived by snail mail and I cracked open this new book, that appetite turned from a trickle into a waterfall.
Loaded with more than 325 mostly easy recipes to make at home, both familiar and innovative bar snacks and beer cocktails, this cookbook even offers up beer and appetizer pairings -- something I've never seen before.
"Cooking should be as fun as eating," says Schlimm, "and with The Ultimate Beer Lover's Happy Hour all my fellow beer lovers can now hit the ground running, chugging, and partying all day long!"
There's truly something in this book for every beer lover as well as each connoisseur of world-class fare, whether of the sophisticated junk food or healthy variety. Alehouse Agave & Chipotle Mixed Nuts are an example for fans of the former, while The Grilled Portobello Burgers (see recipe below) is just one of the many healthier delicacies you'll discover inside this book.
Grilled Portobello burgers are popping up on menus everywhere, but none of them can hold a candle to this marinated version boasting a culinary treasure trove of ingredients – balsamic vinegar, vermouth, Old Bay, soy sauce, and chiles, to name a few. The only thing that can possibly make this burger better is its sidekick of a Belgian Ale, American Wheat Ale, or American or English Pale Ale. And that's before you even hit up the potential variations that follow, including a Portobello Fire Burger, Buffalo-Style Portobello Burger, and Sauerkraut & Portobello Burger.
MBE Note: You'll find four variations to this recipe in The Ultimate Beer Lover's Happy Hour including Mushroom Lover's Burger paired with Amber Lager, Portobello Fire Burger paired with Chili Beer, Buffalo-Style Portobello Burger paired with India Pale Ale, and Sauerkraut & Portobello Burger paired with Oktoberfest beer.
John Schlimm is a member of one of the oldest and most historic brewing families in the U.S., Straub Brewery. His claims to fame are many. He is an international award-winning author of several books, having appeared on national shows like Ellen, NPR's The Splendid Table, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food and Fox & Friends. Schlimm also holds a master's degree from Harvard University.
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Governors have opened a new war front with the Senate by giving conditions that must be met before they can appear before House committees. The Council of Governors (CoG) which is chaired by Turkana Governor Josphat Nanok says the Senate has powers to summon governors only on matters relating to funds from the National government and not those touching on county-generated revenue, loans and grants.
In a statement, the CoG which announced that it will hold a four-day induction conference for new governors and deputy governors after the election, said senators should not summon governors about matters pending before the County Assembly.
The induction forum, which is scheduled for September 4 to 7 in Mombasa, would be used to align the visions of the new county bosses with the spirit and principles of devolution.
Quoting the High Court ruling which said the Senate had no basis of summoning Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya if he had been cleared by the County Assembly, the CoG argued the powers of the Senate were restricted to matters of revenue allocated by the National government.
The statement sent by its Director of Communications Andrew Teyie, said senators can only take audit queries raised by the Auditor General if the matter is not before the County Assembly.
According to CoG, if the County Assembly has considered the Auditor General's report, the Senate can take up the matter and may take into account findings of the assembly.
"Where the Auditor General has submitted its report to the County Assembly under Article 229 (7) and (8) for consideration, the spirit of Article 6 (2) and Article 10 of the Constitution prohibits the Senate from simultaneously considering the report," reads the statement.


Below the earth a looters' tunnel has been discovered beneath the tomb of Jonah, a biblical prophet for Christians, Jews and Muslims alike.
Jonah's tomb once served as a shrine, but was blown up by the Islamic State group known as ISIS, or Daesh during the occupation of Nineveh from around June 2014 until January 2017.
The book of Jonah can be found in the bible and recounts the prophet as the son of Amittai who was sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh. In the bible book Jonah tries to escape his divine mission, but eventually succeeds after first being swallowed by a huge fish for three days and three nights.
A total of seven inscriptions were found in four tunnels beneath the prophet Jonah's tomb in ancient Iraq inside the city of Nineveh.
One of several looters' tunnels in ancient Iraq.
Its important to note that modern day scholars often divide Assyrian history into three periods: Old Assyrian, Middle Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian periods, which dates are a source of debate. Archaeologist have dated the recently discovered inscriptions to be about 2,700 years old, which describe the rule of Assyrian king Esarhaddon.
The Assyrians are a people who lived throughout the Middle East in ancient biblical times. Throughout history we know they conquered mass territories spanning from Southern Iraq and the Mediterranean into the Northern kingdom of Israel and beyond.
Both Assyrian inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible say that the Assyrians, under King Sargon II (reign ca. 721-705 B.C.) completely destroyed Israel. Sargon II said in an inscription that he "conquered and sacked" all the towns and cities in Israel and "led away as booty 27,290 inhabitants." Before this feat king Esarhaddon reigned from about 681 BCE until 669 BCE and was the third king of the Sargonid Dynasty during the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Assyrian king Esarhaddon is mentioned in the bible in II Kings 19:37, Isaiah 37:38, and Ezra 4:2 and is most known for re-building Babylon, which his father king Sennacherib had destroyed. Babylon and Assyria shared many of the same gods, which is why it is believed king Esarhaddon was moved to rebuild Babylon's city.
ISIS looters apparently dug the tunnels in search of archeological treasures revealing one inscription that read, "The Palace of Esarhaddon, strong King, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylong, King of Sumer and Akkad, king of the kings of lower Egypt, upper Egypt and Kush.
Kush leaders ruled Egypt at one point, according to ancient inscriptions found at different archaeological sites, which also say that Assyrian king Esarhaddon defeated the Kush rulers and chose new ones to govern Egypt.
Ancient inscriptions in tomb beneath the prophet Jonah.
Yet another newfound inscription beneath the tomb of Jonah says that Esarhaddon "reconstructed the temple of the god Assur," rebuilt the ancient cities of Babylon and "renewed the statues of the great gods." The god Assur was known as the chief god of the Assyrians.
Several inscriptions have also been discovered near the tomb of Jonah during the 1987-1992 excavations. One of which was written on prism shaped clay. It discusses king Esarhaddon's military conquests, calling Esarhaddon "the one who treads on the necks of the people of Cilicia." Cilicia was located on the southern coast of what is now Turkey.
Esarhaddon claims in the inscription that "I surrounded, conquered, plundered, demolished, destroyed and burned with fire twenty-one of their cities together..." The inscription also discusses his conquest of Sidon, which is located in modern-day Lebanon, claiming that Esarhaddon's army tore down the city's walls and threw them into the Mediterranean Sea.
King Esarhaddon was known as an avid follower of astrology, consulting in oracles throughout his reign. Esarhaddon claimed in his own writings that the gods had ordained him to restore Babylon, cleverly omitting information that would implicate his father king Sennacherib for his role in Babylon's fall.
King Esarhaddon died while on a campaign in Egypt and left the throne to his son, Ashurbanipal. Amongst other accolades king Ashurbanipal assembled in Nineveh the first systematically cataloged library in the ancient Middle East of which approximately 20,720 Assyrian tablets and fragments have been preserved in the British Museum.
The remains of ancient inscriptions from other sites that ISIS attempted to loot and destroy have also been discovered. Thankfully the inscriptions on the walls cannot be ransacked and leave behind ancient details that provide vast insight into archeological history.


In just the space of a few months, a local group of villagers have taken a DIY approach to overcome dreadfully slow internet speeds.
Villagers from a tiny Welsh community were so fed up with slow internet speeds they took matters into their own hands and built their own super-fast broadband network.
The residents from the rural village of Michaelston y Fedw, with a population of 300, were receiving speeds as slow as 1.2-1.4MGB, frustrating local businesses and householders.
"Life is so difficult without internet," resident Ben Longman, who runs the local pub, told Wales Online.
Residents of Michaelston y Fedw laying the cables.
After a bit more discussion at the local pub, residents came up with a plan: install a 1GBS fibre-to-the-premises network, by themselves.
They established a community interest company in October 2017 with the goal of laying out the network with funding from government grants, fundraising and volunteers to keep costs low.
They achieved their goal in just the space of a few months – work began in February, with locals digging and laying ducts across a 12 kilometre line.
Live connections were achieved by June as the village began boasting that it was the first rural community with a 1GB FTTP network in Wales.
"We lead the field in affordability, equal upload and download speeds, bringing the community together in both digital and analogue environment, and we have the capability to deliver 10 Gbs," the community website reads.


WASHINGTON — Seven programs that help homeless veterans would remain eligible for federal funding for another year under legislation filed Tuesday by Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Westlake Village.
The programs are set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress acts. Brownley's legislation, the Helping Homeless Veterans Act, would not allocate money for the programs but would reauthorize the programs and make them eligible for funding for another year.
"I feel very, very strongly that no one who has valiantly served our country should be living on the street," Brownley said. "I think that is unacceptable.
Brownley has made veterans' issues a priority since she began serving her first term in the House of Representatives this year. She serves on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and is the top Democrat on the veterans' Subcommittee on Health.
The seven programs that would be reauthorized under Brownley's bill are the Health Care for Homeless Veterans program; Acquired Property Sales for Homeless Veterans program; Therapeutic Transitional Housing component to the Compensated Work Therapy program; Incarcerated Veterans Transition program; Homeless Veterans Reintegration program; Grant and Per Diem Program for Homeless Veterans with Special Needs; and Supportive Services for Veteran Families program.
An estimated 13 percent of the homeless people in Ventura County are veterans, according to statistics released by the county in January. The statistic translates to 1,774 homeless people in the county, 230 of them veterans.
Programs like those that would be reauthorized under Brownley's bill benefit homeless veterans in Ventura County and across the country, the congresswoman said.
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Q: Memory Issues Using xlslib I'm attempting to get the xlslib library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xlslib/) to work in my Windows MFC program (VC 2010).  The Excel file generated can be somewhat large and I need to be able to write multiple Excel files without closing the dialog, which has caused some problems.
The root class is called "workbook".  I initially declared:
workbook xls;

in the function that handles Excel export, but that blew up the stack.  xls got too large.
Next attempt I declared m_xls in the class definition for my dialog, but I can't figure out how to clear m_xls between calls and if you run the Excel export more than once when the dialog is open, the data from the first run ends up in the second, the third run gets data from the 1st and 2nd, etc.
I tried clearing the data from the first run at the end of the export function.  I looked at what was done in the deconstructor for the class to delete the data from the main data storage vector.  The workbook class is very complex with many sub-classes and no matter when I try the program becomes very unstable after the first run through the Excel code (after clearing the data) and I get an assert in a thread pool function when I quit the program and a number of first chance exceptions in the output window.
Lastly I declared a workbook pointer in the class and then dynamically allocated a workbook with:
m_pxls = new workbook;

at the start of the function.  At the end I deallocate with delete:
delete m_pxls;

This blows up the program with the following error message:
HEAP[Program.exe]: Heap block at 06329360 modified at 0632950A past requested size of 1a2
Windows has triggered a breakpoint in Program.exe.

This may be due to a corruption of the heap, which indicates a bug in Program.exe or any of the DLLs it has loaded.

This may also be due to the user pressing F12 while Program.exe has focus.

The output window may have more diagnostic information.

It looks like all that was allocated was the basic class with no data in it and all data added by the functions in xlslib went way outside the bounds of the memory allocated.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but don't the deconstructors for workbook and all its subclasses get called when the memory is deallocated?
I need to figure out how to do one of two things here:
1)  Figure out how to re-initialize the statically declared m_xls in the class definition on further calls to the Excel code.  OR
2)  Figure out what is going on with the allocation and deallocation and get new/delete to work properly.
I've been programming for some time, but this gets into a nuance of memory management I've never run into before.  I know I'm probably missing something obvious about new/delete I should know...
Thanks in advance


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The Siata Daina is an Italian car produced by Siata from 1950-1958. The Daina was available as a coupé or a convertible and had custom bodies by Stabilimenti Farina, Bertone and other coach builders.

Performance
Like all Siata cars, the Daina was based on heavily modified Fiat mechanics. In this case it was the Fiat 1400; the frame was reinforced and shortened while the engine was developed with new head valves, new manifolds, carburetors, and on some models, Abarth exhaust systems. The Daina could be had with a 1.4L (1,395 cc), 1.5L (1,500 cc) or 1.8L (1,817 cc) overhead valve I4 engine, all of which were sourced from Fiat. It featured independent front suspension and a live rear axle with coil springs all around, as well as 4-wheel drum brakes. It could be had with either a 4-speed or 5-speed manual gearbox.

History

From 1950 to 1958 there were approximately 200 to 250 Daina Series cars produced.  However, only a few of the Series were produced after 1953. Initially a 3 "posti" (seats) coupe and Cabriolet (trasformabile) were  designed and  built in aluminium with steel doors by Stabilimenti Farina. A Limousine and a sportscar named "Rally" were also built in the early days. Towards the end of the production of the Coupe and the Trasformabile a roadster was added to the line at Stab. Farina, the "Gran Sport", a closed version of the Gran Sport was added to the range, the "Sport".  About 20 Daina Sport (coupes) are thought to have been built, at least eight are known to exist today. The Gran Sport comprised most of the Daina Series cars. The Gran Sport had a steel body with an aluminum hood designed by Stabilimenti Farina (3 all aluminum bodied Gran Sports were made as well) but when Stab. Farina closed in 1953, Bertone took over production with both the Sport and the Gran Sport. Furthermore some cars have been built by other coachbuilders.

The most well known Dainas were the Gran Sport (convertible) versions used in racing, with many calling it the "little Ferrari". The car was built to take part in the International Grand Prix and the Mille Miglia. The Daina's most notable finish was at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1952 when Dick Irish and Bob Fergus piloted a 1,500 cc Daina Gran Sport to first in class and third overall.

Wayne Thomas, an English connoisseur of automobiles, said: "Driving a Siata Gran Sport is simply a dream, the problem is that you do not see them around anymore, and whoever owns one keeps it tight. of this car is style, maneuverability and its ability to go like a missile if it is solicited. "

References

Cars introduced in 1950

Convertibles
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Roadsters
Siata vehicles

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