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Guest Post:Leadership & Organisational Structure in Steiner Waldorf Schools
This is the first guest post to appear on the anthropopper's blog!
It's from Bernard Thomson in Australia, who is particularly interested in the question of leadership and management in Steiner Waldorf schools. The anthropopper is also interested in this issue and has previously written on the topic, here and here. It was these posts that prompted Bernard to visit me when he came to England recently and, although we have differing views, I invited him to write a post setting out his thoughts. We both hope that this will start a discussion on an issue of vital importance to the development of Steiner Waldorf education.
But first, here is Bernard writing about himself:
"I grew up in the Midlands and attended Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School. In 1973 I went to Germany to complete my education returning to the UK in 1978. I studied philosophy of science and economics at the LSE followed by a year at the Centre for Social Development at Emerson. In 1987 I moved to New Zealand and in 2003 arrived in Australia where I became a business manager at a Steiner school south of Adelaide. After 12 years I began to work as a freelance consultant initially specialising in leadership and governance in Steiner schools. My career and work experience has been predominantly in social welfare organisations, both Steiner based and 'mainstream,' with an ongoing interest in social and organisational development."
Leadership & Organisational Structure in Steiner Waldorf Schools
by Bernard Thomson
The issue of leadership and organisational structure in Waldorf schools is not new. Indeed one could argue that it began in the early years of the first school in Stuttgart and in one way or another has continued ever since. And this should be no surprise since organisations are living systems which defy any permanent structural solutions.
However this topic is pressing and engages many of us concerned with Waldorf education and its capacity to survive and thrive in an ever changing social, political and economic environment. To date the argument has often been between assertions as to what Steiner said or meant about school leadership and the pragmatic response to perceived and, indeed, evident failures in organisational governance and leadership. Steiner did say there shall be no headmaster and he did say that every teacher was to act in full personal responsibility without recourse to the comfort of receiving directions from an overarching authority*
In this contribution I will not debate the pros and cons of College versus Principal structure as I believe this misses the real question.
I take as my starting point that a school organism, like any other social organisation, needs a structure together with process leadership to guide its performance. And it requires such a structure and leadership that best supports its purpose and function. Unlike a production industry where the purpose is an efficient process to deliver goods to willing customers, a school is in the people business; its product is what goes on between human beings namely teachers, students and parents. The human relationships are the fabric which supports the pedagogical practice. The latter cannot exist without the former and the efficacy of educational practice is directly related to the health of the human relationships.
In the production industry, which can be considered as a system of inputs, process and outputs, we might conclude that it can be optimised through specifications which precisely control as many factors as possible. Frederick W. Taylor gave his name to the first so-called scientific management system which sought to do just that. Centralised control from the top appears to be the logical answer to co-ordinating a diversity of inputs and processes. However this authoritarian structure is being challenged because it fails to take account of human (f)actors whose motivation and hence productivity is directly affected by the workplace environment and culture. Indeed there is an increasing number of organisations which are being reimagined as living entities in which ecological systems thinking replaces the mechanistic logic of direct and control, cause and effect. The human subsystem (according to Lievegoed's phases of organisational development) is, I believe, what is here being developed as part of a move towards the third phase of integration. This accords with my understanding of consciousness soul activity where we do not seek nor expect answers to the challenges we face to be available in a model or formula. Instead the ongoing engagement with other thinking human beings forms the basis for our decision-making processes. And this is the same for both production industry and human services.
This means abandoning certainty (or the illusion of it!) and becoming comfortable with the unknown, the ambiguous, in other words, the creative process. A recent book by Fredric Laloux, "Reinventing organisations" describes various approaches to this challenge, in a range of diverse industries. What they share in common is the removal of central control in favour of distributed authority in which accountability is achieved through clearly defined processes, a system for effectively disseminating information for maximum transparency.
The widespread shift in Waldorf schools across the globe to a more top down or principal leadership structure is mostly justified by the failure of a collective approach to school management. There are many examples of this failure, with which I am also personally familiar. The apparent solution, however, is also producing many failures if these are to be determined on the basis of school performance as judged by staff and parents. Indeed, in Australia at least, there has been a continual turnover of school leaders (variously called administrators, heads of school, directors, principals, etc.) where the common denominator is an authority structure in which the school board or council appoints the school leader with full authority to manage the day-to-day operations of the school. Accountability is one way, and that is up.
Now there are also good examples of leadership performance that build collective strength and support a strong collegial culture within the school. Thus we invariably conclude that it is not the structure but the people that make the difference, and this is true. So are we faced with either a collective approach which may work if there is a high level of individual and social competence, or a single authority which may also work if the "right" person is in charge? Is there nothing more to it than to simply hope or pray that we can get the right people in the right places? And who chooses the right people?
As I mentioned above we are in the people business in which human relationships are key. We are also in the human development business in which role modelling has a powerful influence and we don't need Steiner to tell us that the character of the teacher, or indeed of all adults, is central in supporting healthy development in young people. So we can confirm Steiner's vision that the school must be led by a culture of learning and human development, which he called a republican teachers' academy.
I believe in the notion that you start working in a way that is congruent with the aim. If it is true that for the students, "Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose and direction to their lives"(1), then we found teacher practice on personal initiative and self-responsibility. The supporting school organism supports and strengthens this by creating a culture of personal initiative and self-responsibility. The leadership culture embodies this.
In his 1990 book "The Fifth Discipline" Peter Senge introduced the concept of the Learning Organisation which has 5 key features which include personal mastery, building a shared vision and team learning. I suggest that in the Learning Organisation we find a close similarity with Steiner's vision of how a College of Teachers and Waldorf School management is to be understood.
Steiner's vision for school leadership and governance recognised the fact that the cultural/ social mission of Waldorf education requires a new form for human learning and collaboration. This insight is now finding resonance in a growing understanding of organisations as social organisms. The "Newtonian" mechanistic model is being replaced by a living systems approach (see "Leadership and the New Science" by Margaret Wheatley).
Organisms have an ecology which connects all the elements together in a living dynamic. They are not run or managed in the conventional sense, but may be said to operate and self-regulate according to a guiding motif. The guiding motif acts as a point of self-reference. In an animal organism we speak of the unique animal instinct which guides behaviour; in the human social organism we must speak of the mission or spiritual ideal. It is just this that Steiner said must replace the headmaster by becoming the focus for the College work. As self-responsible adults participating in a self-regulating school organism we move with our experiences from the periphery to the centre and take out to the periphery our newfound intentions. The task of leadership is to facilitate the collective learning which informs the mission and to guide the processes which transform the mission into individual resolve.
Social understanding and discernment is of course necessary for leadership. Leader-guides must be selected who have the maturity and social skill to advance leadership throughout the school. The school processes must be transparent and accountable and include practical methods for review and evaluation. But the old form where adults make themselves subservient to an "outside" authority which "knows best" has to be left behind.
This process requires a new understanding of leadership as something akin to an alchemical process in which everyone participates. The idea of an "external" reference point or standard against which to guide practice will be seen as always provisional and temporary and must ultimately be abandoned in favour of self-referencing also known as self-governance.
* Address by Rudolf Steiner 20 August 1919 on the evening prior to the lecture course translated as "Study of Man" (also known as "The Foundations of Human Experience")
(1)Marie Steiner
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7 responses to "Guest Post:Leadership & Organisational Structure in Steiner Waldorf Schools"
Tom Hart Shea
" Steiner did say there shall be no headmaster and he did say that every teacher was to act in full personal responsibility without recourse to the comfort of receiving directions from an overarching authority*
This sounds as if he thought that teachers (and schools) do not have to operate within the framework of law (an overarching authority) which holds sway in every modern society. Did he really mean that?
'…without recourse to the comfort of receiving directions from an overarching authority….' How can this possibly work in a society as highly regulated as ours? As a headteacher I constantly turned to authority for advice and direction in matters of child protection, educational psychology, special needs, employment law, human resources, health and safety, compliance with education law, etc, etc.
And yet I WAS the head, I was able to have an influence on the values and judgements that underpinned most things that happened in the school!
Steiner's dictum seems to me to be a form of self-sabotage.
Was he unable to separate in his thinking the fact that someone may be an inspirational teacher of children and absolutely useless at relating to adults? Vice versa, there are those who are mediocre teachers but very good managers of people (in the sense of someone who can bring out the best in adults). Did he not notice that fact of human life?
If the essential purpose of a school is to educate children it is more important that the majority of staff are excellent teachers of children. When I read that statement at the head of my comment I can't help thinking that Steiner was being driven by an ideology when he made it and was not thinking of the best interests of the children.
I have come to see the phrase 'republican academy' to be completely spurious. It gives the impression that the school will be run by the college, and that college somehow represents the will of the teachers. But as far as I know Steiner never set out clear criteria for how anyone gets to be on college, he just chose them or threw others off. My experience has been that the schools are run as oligarchies by power groups who choose their own successors, and schools are very often dominated by cliques and personality cults.
If I had to name two of the most successful organisations of the last century I would name Apple and Microsoft. Both of them were led by decisive, visionary souls who knew how to get the best out of the people who worked for them. They certainly didn't achieve it all on their own. No alchemical processes in these two companies, just good management of people. My son worked for Apple for some years and told me they had the best pastoral care he had ever seen. Apple had a supportive and challenging ethos, which was continually communicated to all the work force, with everyone always on a path of development. Promotion came slowly because very few people left the company.
"Steiner's vision for school leadership and governance recognised the fact that the cultural/ social mission of Waldorf education requires a new form for human learning and collaboration. This insight is now finding resonance in a growing understanding of organisations as social organisms. The "Newtonian" mechanistic model is being replaced by a living systems approach"
I am not aware of any research which shows how wide spread or effective Steiner's insight is, or how much resonance with it there is.
The great success of the Japanese car-makers was influenced by W. E. Deming, who certainly didn't have a 'Newtonian mechanistic model' of organisations but neither was he into alchemy, an opaque concept in this context. Deming was interested in people and their needs and how to help them give of their best so that the company would flourish to the benefit of everyone in it. Deming worked with the production workers in a company at every opportunity, as well as the managers. He modeled the co-operative behaviours he wanted the management and workers to adopt.
Did Steiner actually 'model' collegiate working in his meetings with teachers?
I have the impression that he just said how things should be and everyone did what he wanted.
Steiner's model for Waldorf education was formulated ten years before it actually occurred, which means that he envisioned it as a necessary prerequisite for a true form of choice in the educational milieu. So, he gave this lecture in 1907, which was worth revising into essay-form here:
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA034/English/RSP1965/EduChi_index.html
Whatever dilemma exists in the modern scheme of education can be rendered moot when we consider Steiner's faculty meetings recorded over some five years until 1924. Herein, he dealt with all manner of issues concerning curriculum, and even individual child issues. So, we know that he cared for the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart with meticulous concern.
Today's world simply needs to know that a carefully-crafted spiritual education exists that wants to keep the child in connection with nature, and that the ordinary system of education wants to exclude, in favor of the mechanical and material. Thus, abstraction should rightfully be a much more slow and progressive process, as Steiner outlined. The child comes out of the environment in which the "Kingdoms of Nature" speak through their respective educators. To refine that into a modern world conception which maintains the primordial correspondences is the goal.
One day it will be keenly understood what it means when Christ said: "Lest ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Steiner's school-concept wanted to keep that connection from the very beginning of the educational process.
Thank you, Steve. I do not see anything in your reply which would point to why the healing process of education cannot happen without being lumbered with counter-productive and at times destructive college system.
Tom, you wrote:
"I do not see anything in your reply which would point to why the healing process of education cannot happen without being lumbered with counter-productive and at times destructive college system."
Tom, I think that in a general sense I answered the above when I said that Steiner's educational model was based on a "new concept of education", which relates the child to the external world, while wanting to maintain affiliation with the nature-kingdoms of originating perception. What did he know at the time, c. 1919-1924, that the entire system would be made into a bureaucracy with ever-increasing complexities of standards, like inspections and meeting testing criteria?
The original model was a private school for children of the Waldorf factory, in which Emil Molt, owner, saw in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, the means to give a proper education to children that retained spiritual perception. Steiner's faculty meetings with teachers were about how to best conduct classes in the real-world situation, and not about the administrative concerns of the future. He had one school to lead in a new direction.
Today, it is all about the headaches you imply. Any public school that seeks to model itself on the Waldorf concept is going to have to compromise. That is why Steiner schools are best kept private, in order to keep the original pedagogy intact. Read the lectures that Steiner gave to the Department of Education, Basle, in April-May 1920, "The Renewal of Education", and you will be convinced that he had it all worked out exactly from the principles of spiritual science.
Sorry not to reply sooner, but I only saw this earlier today. Please help me if I still do not get your concern.
Dear Bernard, Tom and Steve,
Thanks for your comments on Bernard's post. In principle, I agree with what Bernard says in his article. It is a great ideal that Steiner has set out for the schools to follow. In practice, I see a good deal of less than satisfactory school performance. There is a strange paradox, in that we have what for many families is the ideal kind of education for their children but we also have some schools with an unfortunate capacity for upsetting and alienating parents. My experience and observation is that this weakness resides in an unreformed College of Teachers system.
Where is the leadership to come from that will take us from where we are to where we ought to be? Unless that leadership capability resides within the school, and can be given time and the authority and support from colleagues to do what needs to be done, how can change be brought about? Anyone who knows Steiner Waldorf schools will know of teachers whose inadequacies are never addressed, who are hiding away from the world rather than engaging with it and all its challenges; and the College system suits them just fine, because nothing ever changes and they are never challenged. Too often College is run in the interests of the teachers, not the children. If the College system worked as it should, then we would see other organisations wishing to replicate it, but I can't think of a single example of anyone wanting to introduce it anywhere. Tom Hart Shea who was himself a head teacher in the state system but also an experienced trustee in a Steiner school, knows all this from bitter personal experience.
Bernard has said "As self-responsible adults participating in a self-regulating school organism we move with our experiences from the periphery to the centre and take out to the periphery our newfound intentions. The task of leadership is to facilitate the collective learning which informs the mission and to guide the processes which transform the mission into individual resolve." But a school today, certainly in the UK, does not have the luxury of allowing much time and effort to be expended on a system that can make lots of mistakes on its journey towards becoming a self-regulating school organism. It has to deliver a good education, every day. All schools today need a much more professional approach, because both the regulators and the parents demand and require it.
This is why I am interested in the interaction of principal and College. as we see in some of the new publicly-funded academies, because surely there is a possibility here of useful checks and balances that will enable all parties to give of their best. Interestingly, we are starting to see similar models in some of the independent schools, such as at Wynstones and Canterbury.
Bernard Thomson has sent some further thoughts:
Can leadership be taught?
The criticism of so called "College run" schools is rightly based on the many examples of poor performance and even abject failure to manage the various demands of the school as an institution. I suggest this is due to a lack of leadership capability, process clarity and accountability, and not the vision of College leadership.Leadership has become a buzz word of our time and has acquired numerous definitions depending in part on the circumstances in which it is to be applied. Invariably however it includes an internal dimension related to personal authority, authenticity, self awareness. In this connection the question has arisen: can leadership be taught?" This question is usually answered in the affirmative but with qualifications. Sometimes the response goes: "it cannot be taught, but it can be learned" or "leadership potential can be developed but not everyone is born with the same potential". The same kind of question is sometimes put about teaching and we may refer to someone as a natural or born teacher and equally suggest that someone is not "cut out" for teaching.We don't ask the same question about learning to knit or wash the dishes, becoming a mechanic or a bricklayer. These are skills which most people with the physical capability can learn. The more a skill draws on inner capabilities such as self-reflection, positive attitude or mindfulness, then we consider that these require a degree of maturity or character formation which may develop over time but imply an inner transformation. The task of education is in part to assist with the acquisition of skills in the students, but more importantly to support the unfolding of the individual and character development. Hence aside from specialist subject knowledge the Steiner teacher is expected to work on his or her inner development as this directly impacts the learning environment.In an article on the social task of organisation development by Michael Ross* the distinction is made between specialist subject knowledge and organisational capability. It is suggested that in the second phase of organisation development (cf Bernard Lievegoed: "The Developing Organisation", what was united in the pioneer is now differentiated out and organisational management and leadership are developed alongside or "over and above" technical or subject expertise. Typically, the subject specialists are no longer expected to run their own affairs and the organising is handed over to a new breed of "specialists".* An English translation of this article can be downloaded Here.There can be no doubt, that the increasing complexity of the work place, not just in a technical sense but perhaps more importantly on the human level, demands new skills and capabilities in general management, human resource management and a whole host of other coordinating and leadership functions. While professional expertise is achieved through the specialised development of human talents, leadership in particular is built on self awareness, strength of character, the capacity to discern and ask the right question, just what we want to achieve with our education. Hence my contention that management and leadership are practised throughout the organisation since every thinking human being is involved in managing and exercising leadership regardless of the professional specialty. It is part of what it means to be a modern human being and it is what we aspire to with our "Education Towards Freedom".
This is not to say that we do not need appropriate structural forms (which will change over time) to focus and direct our collective efforts. We cannot all deliberate on every matter that needs attention within a school. Many of the challenges facing schools have both technical and legal aspects which many teachers are not sufficiently familiar with. This presents us with a particular challenge which applies in many areas of social life: how to exercise our responsibilities as adults, participate in decision making when issues are complex, potentially requiring specialised knowledge and expertise? Well, the fact is we do do it, and we claim the right to form our own judgments, seek out new information and assess its relevance to a particular situation. Ricardo Semler demonstrated how the employees at Semco could take ever greater control, not only over their respective roles and functions, but over the whole enterprise itself. And there are other examples of employee-run enterprises, using various forms of decision making (see Reinventing organisations). Indeed there is an open field for practice and the so called "College model" could also be one.Personal responsibility, standing in front of the students in full consciousness of the affairs of modern life in all their complexity, these are not trivial matters and certainly worthy of pursuit. But we need to start where we are and not confuse an aim with a model. Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey & Company determined that there are two main tasks of leadership, 1. to intensify the company mission from year to year and 2. to enable as many co-workers as possible to lead. I see this as the challenge of leadership in a Steiner school, namely to develop a "College" culture of leadership.On our way towards this goal we will apply our best efforts in attending to the whole range of tasks that confront us, from the mundane to the overarching vision. We expect teachers and all other staff to apply their specialist knowledge while continuing to learn. School leaders are challenged to pursue the vision of a "teachers' republic" with their feet firmly on the ground.
The link mentioned in Bernard's comment above can be accessed here: http://bernardthomson.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/The-Social-Task-in-Developing-the-Organisation.pdf


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It's no mystery that humans are attracted to nature — the summer crowds at Yellowstone can attest to that! In 1973, this relationship got a name, and it's called biophilia. Nature revives us. It impacts us psychologically, emotionally, and socially. People often say that when they head into the wilderness, they go to "recharge their batteries," and that really is the case!
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Taking nature into account when designing new buildings is nothing new. In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright famously did this in his design, Fallingwater. It's a house in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania. His cantilever design embedded the home in the rocks above a waterfall, beautifully harmonizing the home with nature. Since Fallingwater, designers have applied the biophilia concept to countless buildings, attempting their nature harmonization in projects of all types.
Biophilia: The love of nature – "It recognizes the intrinsic need for nature in our lives, including its psychological benefits." (3)
In recent years, research has driven a push to build with nature at the forefront. The book Biophilic design: The theory, science, and practice of bringing buildings to life describes the paradigm shift, saying the biophilic design is "critical to human health, performance, and well-being." (2) That book, as much as anything else, has begun a revolution in design.
Research proves the value of incorporating nature into buildings, but it's undoubtedly more important in mental health facilities. Healthcare Design Magazine wrote, "Because biophilia inherently results in environments that soothe, comfort, orient, and calm, it's specifically relevant to the design of spaces that support behavioral health." (3) New construction using biophilic design principles, isn't an option for most. With that in mind, is it possible to apply some of the concepts?
"Patients don't have access to the outdoors, so the onus was even greater on the design to provide ties to nature." (3)
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(1) Greene, K., & Keltner, D. (2017, March 1). What happens when we reconnect with nature. Greater Good Magazine. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_happens_when_we_reconnect_with_nature
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Collins College's Website Design Receives 2007 Silver Davey Award
Tempe, AZ (Vocus) November 15, 2007
Collins College recently launched a new website to reflect the school's new film and art programs and its emergence as a leader in design and technology. For its creativity, the site won a 2007 Silver Davey Award. The Davey honors creative traditional and interactive work worldwide. This year more than 4,000 companies entered the competition. To view Collin's new website design, visit collinscollege.edu
DreamWorld Studios designed the website for Collins. The new design is energetic and incorporates interactive as well as standard elements. Unique features include the site's landing page that offers potential students three paths of entry: Film, Video & Visual FX; IT & Interactive Media; and Visual Arts & Design. The audio enhanced site includes a student and instructor art gallery. The audio enhanced site features more than 80 examples of graphics, animation, design, and of the student samples. There is also a faculty gallery with more than 25 images on display.
About the Davey Awards
The Davey Awards exclusively honor the "Davids" of creativity, the finest small firms, agencies and companies in the world. David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock - the sort of thing small firms do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the "Creative Davids" who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets. The Davey Awards is the leading awards competition specifically for smaller firms, where firms compete with their peers to win the recognition they deserve. Please visit http://www.daveyawards.com for more information.
The Davey Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit http://www.iavisarts.org for a full member list and more information.
About Collins College
Collins College, a school of design and technology, provides students with a career-focused education. Approximately 2,000 students from across the nation attend Collins College. Collins offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in game design, visual arts with a concentration in game art, graphic design, interior design, film & video production, and a Bachelor of Science in information technology. Associate degrees are offered in information technology, digital video production and graphic design. For more information, visit http://www.collinscollege.edu
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How to watch the Fortnite Pro-Am – Format, schedule, teams, and more
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The weekend of June 15 to June 16 is pack full of Fortnite shenanigans as Epic is holding the Fortnite Summer Block Party in Inglewood, California which includes the Creative Showdown and Pro-Am.
The Fortnite Pro-Am is returning for a second year which puts 50 duos of celebrities and Fortnite personalities up against each other.
Each team is fighting for a slice of the massive $3,000,000 prize pool which all goes towards charitable causes.
Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins and DJ Marshmello won the event last year, so who will talk away with the Victory Royale in 2019?
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The format of the event isn't exactly known, but so far everything for the Fortnite Pro-Am followed in 2018 seems to be remaining the same for this year.
We do know, however, the prize splits. Each team gets to donate their winnings to the charity of their choice.
1st: $1,000,000
2nd: $500,000
3rd: $250,000
4th: $100,000
5th: $80,000
10th: $30,000
11th-50th: $20,000
The last day of the Summer Block Party, June 16, will feature the Fortnite Pro-Am event which is slated to kick off around 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT.
As always, fans can tune into the official Fortnite stream to check out the tournament if they are unable to attend in person.
The Fortnite Pro-Am will feature 50 duos which will have one Fortnite personality and one celebrities teaming up.
Some of the most prominent Fortnite stars on the list of participants are Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins, Jack 'CourageJD' Dunlop, Tim 'Timthetatman', Vikram 'Vikkstar123', and Nick Eh 30.
Unfortunately, Jack 'Cizzorz' is expected to miss the event due to sickness. We hope he gets well soon!
Here is the full line-up:
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June 16 will be a star-loaded day of Fortnite and we can not wait!
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Let us know your predictions in the comments below.


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Comments: Article L. 515-19 provides a security to the benefit of the bondholders.
Comments: Article L. 515-34 and seq. of the French Monetary and Financial code.
Comments: Article L. 515-27 of the French Monetary and Financial code excluding any extention of insolvency procedure of the parent company of the issuer.
Comments: Countries with the best possible rating with one of the rating agencies recognised by the French banking supervisor. In practise, SFHs have solely domestic loans for now.
Quarterly publication on the cover pool.
Comments: Only loan amounts up to 80% LTV are taken into account in the asset test.
Comments: 5% is the minimum level required by the law, and 8,1 % in the documentation.
Comments: Done by the specific controller.
Comments: There is an Asset Monitor and a specific controller.
Comments: There is an Asset Montor and a specific controller who gives a sepcial authorization for any issue superior to 500 mio euros.


text:
package com.exilant.exility.core;

import java.util.Map;

/***
 * Save messages into a message file. extends GetMessage just to reuse
 * getFileName()
 *
 * @author Exilant Technologies
 *
 */
public class SaveMessages extends GetMessages {

	/***
	 * grid with name messages is expected in dc with bulkAction as action, and
	 * other message attributes as column. Messages collection in memory is
	 * updated and resource file is saved. Unlike RDBMS update, we do not
	 * guarantee against concurrent updates here. Feature wise this is fine.
	 */
	@Override
	public int execute(DataCollection dc, DbHandle dbHandle, String gridName,
			String[] parameters) {
		Grid messagesGrid = dc.getGrid("messages");
		if (messagesGrid == null) {
			dc.addError("Data for messages is expected in 'messages' table. It is missing.");
			return 0;
		}

		int n = messagesGrid.getNumberOfRows();

		// first we validate grid against memory
		Message[] messagesInAnArray = new Message[n]; // hold parsed messages
		String[] actions = new String[n]; // and actions
		boolean gotError = false;
		Message message = null;
		String action = null;

		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			// copy columns of this row into dc.values, so that Object manager
			// can create a Message instance with those attributes
			messagesGrid.copyRowToDc(i, null, dc);

			message = new Message();
			ObjectManager.fromDc(message, dc);
			messagesInAnArray[i] = message;

			// let us validate
			action = actions[i] = dc.getTextValue("bulkAction", null);
			Message existingMessage = Messages.getMessage(message.name);
			if (action.equals("add")) {
				if (existingMessage != null) {
					dc.addMessage("error", message.name + " (row " + (i + 1)
							+ ") already exists with severity "
							+ message.severity + " and text \"" + message.text
							+ "\".");
					gotError = true;
				}
			} else {
				if (existingMessage == null) {
					dc.addMessage("error", message.name + " (row " + (i + 1)
							+ ") not found.");
					gotError = true;
				}
			}
		}

		if (gotError) {
			return 0;
		}

		Messages messages = new Messages(); // one to be saved
		Map<String, Message> msgs = messages.messages;
		int nbrSaved = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			action = actions[i];
			message = messagesInAnArray[i];

			// remove from memory first
			if (!action.equals("add")) {
				Messages.removeMessage(message);
			}

			// add the latest one, unless it is to be deleted
			if (!action.equals("delete")) {
				Messages.setMessage(message);
				msgs.put(message.name, message);
				nbrSaved++;
			}
		}

		// save resource file
		String fullName = this.getFileName(dc);

		ResourceManager.saveResource(fullName, messages);
		dc.addMessage("info", nbrSaved + " messages saved to resource "
				+ fullName);
		return 1;
	}

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Provinces & Cities: HUNG YEN
Placing People, Businesses at the Heart of Digital Transformation
9:14:01 PM | 4/5/2022
In response to the Prime Minister's Decision 749/QD-TTg on national digital transformation program to 2025, with a vision to 2030, Hung Yen province has been striving to launch comprehensive digital transformation. Its three pillars for digital transformation are: developing digital government with smart cities; developing digital economy with digital businesses; and developing digital society.
Mr. Do Dinh Quang, Deputy Director of Hung Yen Department of Information and Communications, said, Resolution of the 9th Meeting of the 19th Provincial Party Executive Committee on digital transformation in Hung Yen in 2021 - 2025, with a vision to 2030, also affirms that digital transformation is an important foundation and a driving force for building a smart society and modern economy, promoting economic restructuring with new growth models, improving energy efficiency, labor productivity and provincial competitiveness. The administrative and social management system is operated digitally, effectively and efficiently. By 2030, Hung Yen province will be among Top 20 provinces and cities in digital transformation.
Specifically, by 2025, all online public services of Category 3 and Category 4 will be provided on various means of access, including mobile devices; all administrative activities of governmental agencies, provincial to commune levels, use digitally signed electronic documents; 90% of work records at provincial level, 80% at district and commune levels are processed on the network environment. Besides, Hung Yen City and My Hao Town will meet basic criteria on smart cities. The province will strive to make the digital economy account for 20% of the GRDP; the share of the digital economy in each industry or field to reach at least 10%; and the share of people with electronic payment accounts to over 50%.
Over the past years, Hung Yen has actively applied information technology to administration to lay a foundation for building e-government towards digital government for people and businesses. Up to now, the document management and operation software has been centrally deployed to connect four levels of government, from central to grassroots commune, on the Vietnam Data Exchange Platform (VDXP). The province's email system ensures provision of electronic mailboxes for public employees from provincial to commune levels. The provincial web portal has been updated with quite complete and timely information. The Public Service Portal and the electronic single-window information system provide 1,896 administrative procedures, including 573 at Category 3 and 949 at Category 4.
As for upcoming tasks, according to Deputy Director Do Dinh Quang, the information and communications sector will continue to advise on implementation of the following solutions:
First, digital transformation is an inevitable trend, especially in the double-challenge context of COVID-19 pandemic prevention and active, safe, flexible and effective adaptation to the pandemic for socioeconomic recovery and development. Digital transformation with three main pillars - digital government, digital economy and digital society, affects all agencies, units and localities, therefore, people and businesses must be the center, the subject and the goal, the driving force of digital transformation. At the same time, people and businesses must also participate in digital transformation in the most effective way.
Second, adhering to ratified targets of Resolution 06-NQ/TU of the Provincial Party Committee and having innovative thinking, strategic vision, solutions and appropriate ways to start focused phased-out digital transformation.
Third, further raising awareness of the importance of digital transformation at all levels and sectors, especially leaders; improving personnel quality for digital transformation; strengthening communication to all people and businesses to create a high consensus.
Fourth, boosting investment in building telecommunications and information technology infrastructure, achieving the goal of a fiber optic cable for all households and smartphone for all residents; fostering non cash payments; bringing agricultural products to commodity exchanges, enabling agricultural and rural development.
Fifth, pay attention to building incentive mechanisms to attract investment in industry and information technology; encouraging digital transformation enterprises; and piloting new technology solutions for people and businesses anytime, anywhere.
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