To understand the nature of a city we must study its occupants. In much the same way, today I wish to explore the mind by studying its constituent parts. Until now, my articles have dealt with neurons, neurotransmitters, and organ systems. But today I wish to delve even deeper into our substance, past cells, molecules, and even atoms to the very smallest of the small. It is my hope that by understanding the occupants of our personal city we might gain a new perspective of the world we think we know.
Our journey will bring us from the nanoscopic (a size that leaves microscopes longing for their corrective lenses) all the way to the macroscopic (that which the human eye can appreciate). Along the way we will make a brief stop in the microscopic domain to study the bridge between the nanoscopic and the macroscopic world.
Our current understanding of matter begins at the smallest (for now) subdivision: the quark. Quarks, first described in the 1960s, are the nanoscopic building blocks of our world. Quarks combine in many different combinations to form, among other things, protons and neutrons (Neumann, 2008).
Protons and neutrons, in turn, combine with electrons to form atoms. The atom is composed of a nucleus of protons and neutrons with orbital rings of electrons encircling the nucleus.
Very famous atoms get their own one or two letter chemical symbol and are branded an element. The various elements are then inducted into the Elemental Hall of Fame, receiving a seat at the Periodic Table based on their atomic number (number of protons). The simplest element, hydrogen (H), is an atom made up of one proton and one electron (different "isotopes" of elements have varying numbers of neutrons).
When elements meet and strike up a partnership, they create molecules. Life would not be possible without the molecules of oxygen (O2, two components of elemental oxygen) that compose 21% of the air we breathe or the molecules of water (H2O, two components of elemental hydrogen and one component of elemental oxygen) that account for 60% of our body weight.
Now that we have completed our tour of nanoscopia, we can move on to the microscopic realm. At the microscopic level, we begin to appreciate the quality of the cell.
If molecules are informal partnerships, then cells are formal corporations. Complex boardrooms, filled with molecules, elements, and varied personalities maintain these cellular corporations, pushing and pulling to sustain the complicated dance of life. Cells can be singular, as in the bacterium, or work together in a multicellular system, as found in the human body.
When particularly successful cellular corporations acquire other cellular corporations, they begin to form monopolies. Without a Federal Trade Commission to monitor these natural monopolies, conglomerate cellular corporations (say that three times fast) join together to form syndicates known as tissues. Tissues are masses of cells and elements that execute similar and synergistic functions.
Tissue monopolies, in turn, combine to form governmental organs. The human body is the sum of these gubernatorial organs working together as a system.
The prototypical example of an organ would be the heart, functioning as the engine that propels blood and its passenger, oxygen (one of many passengers), throughout the body to provide energy for the life of our various organs, tissues, and cells.
Despite amazing technological advances in neuroscience and psychology over the previous three centuries, it still feels like describing the Self in scientific terms is like trying to understand Beethoven's 9th by dissecting the amplitude and frequency of the sound waves generated by the string section.
Needless to say, our journey from quark to Self has revealed both the profound distance and proximal intimacy of our macroscopic world with the hidden nanoscopic world.
But what can the nanoscopic world tell us about our everyday macroscopic world?
To answer this question we must return to the very small and examine the laws of nature at the subatomic (any object smaller than an atom: i.e. quark, proton, electron, etc.) level.
Let's begin our investigation with the quintessential components of an atom known as the proton, neutron, and electron. Diagrams, textbooks, and teachers depict these objects as particles.
A particle is a generic name for a very small, quantifiable, object with definite weight and volume. The classic depiction of a particle resembles a billiard ball shrunk down to a billionth of its actual size. Early scientists predicted that the particle would behave just like its analogic cousin, the billiard ball. If one were to collide two electron particles, for example, early scientists believed that they would bounce off one another at predictable angles and velocities.
Well, let's continue and we shall begin to appreciate that this early model was incomplete in its description of the natural world.
For a more complete model, we must investigate the wave. The electromagnetic spectrum, with its wavelengths and frequencies, seems so far removed from the billiard ball particle world as to be relegated to a later chapter in the Book of Atom or even hidden away in an appendix somewhere. But I assure you, the divide is not as large as one might think.
A wave on an ocean seems an intuitive object. When we speak of trough and peak or wavelength and frequency, we are able to picture, albeit with some frustration, these qualities as they apply to an ocean wave. But to make the leap from ocean wave to visual light wave required a degree of mental gymnastics that likely left the participant feeling a bit queasy. It just seems odd that the color green was dictated not by some inherent property of a leaf but by the wavelength of light reflected off of it.
A wave is represented graphically by a never-ending series of hills and valleys with regular intervals. These intervals are known as wavelengths, and the number of cycles (completed wavelengths) per second is known as the frequency. The amplitude refers to the height of the peak or the trough as measured from the zero point (level ground in our hill analogy).
Ok, so we have refreshed our memory regarding particles and waves; now what?
Well, if I were to ask you whether an electron was a particle or a wave you would likely tell me, with an exasperated roll of your eyes, that an electron is a particle.
In a Newtonian world I would agree with you, but our modern understanding of physics has unfortunately charted a course through much more unsettling territory.
Sir Isaac Newton, a brilliant and eccentric mathematician, was famously inspired to describe the law of gravitation by observing the descent of an apple from its arboreal perch to a terrestrial terminus. His career would yield a mountainous body of work, but Newton is likely best known for his three laws of motion. These laws, in conjuncture with the law of gravitation, sought to describe behavior of matter at all scales, big and small.
Newton was able to describe, with exquisite accuracy, planetary orbits, projectile trajectories, and other macroscopic phenomena using his mathematical formulations. And for nearly three centuries, scientists treated these macroscopic laws as universal in application, believing that atomic and subatomic objects occupied a Newtonian world. Thus, the particle (electron, proton, neutron, etc.) was believed to behave as a billiard ball, interacting with the world in the same precise and predictable manner.
It wasn't until physicists in the early 20th century peered into the depths of the atom and its constituent parts that the billiard ball universe was revealed to be a vastly more complex and very much less billiard-bally place than the Newtonian doctrine had suggested. To define the atom, physicists had to invent a new dictionary: quantum mechanics.
The theory of quantum mechanics rests firmly on the shoulders of many brilliant men and women whose work can be traced across the centuries. However, Max Planck, a German physicist, is often credited as the father of modern quantum mechanics. In fact, he won a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field.
"Quanta," as Planck used the term, referred to the smallest discrete subatomic energy components that make up the constituent units of our known universe (quark, electron, etc.). The theory of quantum mechanics sought to describe the uniquely odd behavior of these subatomic and atomic quanta.
Quantum mechanics is so far beyond the scope of a single article that even my attempt at an outline is a bit like trying to draw a road map of the world on a paper napkin. Nonetheless, I will try to highlight the important points as I see them. Following our analysis of quantum mechanics, I will explain how a quantum philosophy can free us from our constrictive Newtonian consciousness.
For it is the space between certainties from which life emerges.
Our discussion of quantum mechanics will introduce the topics of wave-particle duality, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, quantum entanglement, nonlocality, superposition, and collapsible states. In my attempt to simplify these concepts some topics may develop inaccuracies during the distillation process. I beg the reader's forgiveness and I will attempt to highlight these simplifications along the way.
A few paragraphs ago I asked you a seemingly redundant question: does an electron behave like a particle or oscillate like a wave? Instead of providing a clear answer I tried to distract you with a history lesson. Well I will no longer avoid the question: the answer, it turns out, is that an electron behaves as both a particle and a wave.
The notion that an electron (or any other atomic or subatomic object actually) could behave as a particle and as a wave simultaneously is perplexing to say the least.
The duality of this claim is akin to describing an electron as both the rock that plummets straight down into the water as well as the ripples that fan out from the impact site.
The notion that subatomic and atomic particles behave as both a wave and a particle is known as, you guessed it, wave-particle duality.
The notion of wave-particle duality rests on a very famous experiment by 19th century physicist, Thomas Young. Young's experimental design has been tweaked, updated, and rehashed over the ensuing two centuries.
To understand how the double-slit experiment informs our understanding of wave-particle duality, we will run a simulation. In our simulation we will use a beam of electrons.
First, we set up our double-slit screen filter and place its corresponding detector a short distance behind it. We then fire a beam of electrons at the screen and its double slits.
Before continuing, let's make a prediction. If an electron behaved strictly as a particle, we would expect the beam to be split into two straight beams of electrons consistent with the shape and size of the two slits in our metal screen. We would expect our detector to provide a mirror image of the two slits. Additionally, if we fired a single electron at the filter, it would have to choose either the right or the left slit to pass through.
Now if an electron were instead to behave purely as a wave, we would expect what is called a diffraction pattern to appear on the detector after the completion of our experiment. A diffraction pattern is the result of interference between two waves. The initial wave of electrons would be split between the two slits and this filtering process would produce two wave fronts.
These two wave fronts would overlap prior to striking the detector. If the overlap between the two wave fronts occurred peak to peak, then the resulting image on the detector would be extra-bright due to the sum of the two amplitudes. This additive phenomenon is known as constructive interference.
If, however, one wave front's peak overlapped with the other wave front's trough, then they would cancel each other out and produce a dark line on the detector. This canceling out is known as destructive interference.
The pattern of bright and dark bands on the detector is known as a diffraction pattern. A final point to remember is the fact that if we fired a single wave of energy at the double-slit filter, the wave could pass through both slits without having to choose one or the other, forming two new wave fronts.
Ok, now let's fire real electrons at this double-slotted monstrosity and see what we actually measure.
A beam of electrons fired at the double-slit screen splits into two wave fronts and produces a diffraction pattern on the detector consistent with a wave. However, the detector registers this pattern as Pointillistic dots consistent with a classic particle.
Even more perplexing, when we fire a single electron at the double-slotted screen and measure its choice of slit, we still find a Pointillistic diffraction pattern. The electron only passes through one or the other slit consistent with the behavior of a particle, but it creates a wave-like interference with itself only possible if the electron were a wave and split into two wave fronts after passing through both slits!
In much the same way, an electron only appears to be defined by the characteristic of a wave or a particle if we limit our perspective. As in life, quantum mechanics is all about perspective.
Richard Feyman, a famous quantum physicist, used to remark that by contemplating the enigmatic double-slit experiment, one could appreciate all the mysteries of quantum mechanics (Greene, 1999).
Now that we have made the impossible possible let's forge ahead to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Long before he became a moniker for Walter White, Werner Karl Heisenberg was an equally famous (but far less notorious) theoretical physicist in Germany. Put simply, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that we cannot know a given subatomic object's location and momentum at the same time (Greiner, 2001). The uncertainty principle essentially dictates that to measure an electron (or any other quanta), we must pick either momentum (mass x velocity) or location. This means that if we want to study an electron's path we must freeze it to locate it, and then lose it to measure its speed and direction.
Ok, so our subatomic world consists of two-faced, uncertain, wave-particles. The reader may be convinced that I could not possibly confuse the situation anymore, but they would be wrong.
One of the most famous quantum mechanical thought experiments is that of Schrodinger's Cat. Erwin Schrodinger was an Austrian physicist who generated the famous thought experiment as a reaction to a paper about quantum entanglement written by Albert Einstein. However, to discuss Schrodinger's rather unfortunate cat, we must back track to Einstein's theoretical interpretation of quantum entanglement, superposition, collapsible states, and nonlocality.
Quantum entanglement describes the relationship between two subatomic objects that have shared atomic states. Without getting into the details, scientists are able to study entangled electrons within a superconductor and extrapolate from there.
So our unfortunate electrons are entangled, what's the big deal? Let's take a closer look at electron A and explore further.
Because of the probabilistic nature of the quantum world, at any point in time electron A has a 50% chance of having positive spin and a 50% chance of possessing negative spin. Let's remember that no matter the spin of electron A, electron B must have the opposite spin.
This sounds all well and good but we must add two rather complex correlates to an already perplexing theory.
First, the quantum principle of superposition holds that electron A actually occupies both spin states, positive and negative, simultaneously, only "choosing" one state over the other when it is measured by an observer. This "choice" is known as a collapsible state (Wimmel, 1992).
To understand superposition and collapsible states I'll ask you to flip a quantum coin.
I hand you a quantum quarter and tell you to call heads or tails. You flip the quarter into the air, catch it, and slap it on the back of your left hand, covering it with your right palm.
Now I ask you to predict whether the quantum quarter is heads up or tails up. Your instinct is to respond by choosing one state of the other. But wait! Remember this is no ordinary quarter. The quantum quarter occupies a quantum world where probability reigns and decisions are only made under the gaze of the observer.
The quantum quarter is actually in a superposed state, occupying both heads up and tails up. It is only when you remove your right hand and measure the outcome that the quarter collapses into a heads up or tails up state.
Returning to our paired electrons, we might recall that they possess an inverse spin relationship. So each of the pair is in a superposed state, occupying a positive and negative spin until one of the two electrons is measured, at which point both collapse simultaneously into their respective inverse states. For example, if electron A is measured to have positive spin, electron B immediately collapses into a negative spin. Collapsing implies a change (as if the quantum quarter switched from heads to tails or vice versa), but that is not entirely accurate because we are dealing with a nanoscopic world that exists in probabilities, not in one-to-one relationships.
Einstein referred to the second correlate of quantum entanglement, nonlocality, as "spooky action at a distance." The theory of nonlocality states that if we were to separate electron A and B by some distance, their entanglement would not be disrupted; collapsing one state would instantaneously collapse the other. The farthest documented experimental distance in which nonlocality and entanglement has been measured was at the University of Geneva in 2008. Physicists were able to demonstrate intact entanglement in two photons separated by a little over 11 miles (Salart, 2008).
Ok, so there is some invisible connection that transmits information from electron A to electron B. Nope! First and foremost, you will recall that according to Einstein's theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. The Geneva experiment showed that the mutual collapse of studied electrons into their respective spins occurred instantaneously without even the slightest time delay. Therefore, even information traveling at the speed of light could not account for the nonlocality effect.
11 miles may not seem that large of a distance but the theory of nonlocality postulates that quantum entanglement persists even at an infinite distance. This means that the collapse of entangled electron A in this corner of our Milky Way galaxy into a positive spin state would immediately "cause" (cause and effect are a little hazy at this scale) electron B in our nearest spiral galaxy cousin, the Andromeda galaxy, some 2.5 million light years away, to instantaneously assume a negative spin state. To put this distance in perspective, a modern shuttle would take approximately 93 billion years or a little less than 7 times the age of the known universe to travel to electron B in our distant neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy.
Phew! Now that we have examined quantum entanglement, collapsible states, and nonlocality, let's return to Schrodinger's forsaken feline.
Schrodinger proposed a reductio ad absurdum thought experiment to shift the bizarre nanoscopic quantum world of superposition, collapsible states, nonlocality, and quantum entanglement onto a more conceptually palatable, macroscopic scale.
Schrodinger proposed that a hypothetical cat be placed into a hypothetical lidded box. To the box, Schrodinger requested that a tiny radioactive atom be added, decaying at a rate such that over the course of one hour it had a 50% chance of emitting a radioactive ion and a 50% chance of remaining intact.
Schrodinger's cat thus stood a 50% chance of surviving the hour and a 50% chance of perishing at the hands of this pitiless physicist. This experiment gets weirder (if possible) when we examine the quantum state of the hypothetical radioactive atom.
According to the theory of superposition and collapsible states, the radioactive atom occupies both a decayed and intact state prior to measurement. By extension, the Geiger counter-hammer-vial series is both triggered and not triggered. So Schrodinger's cat is both dead and alive prior to Schrodinger opening the box at the end of the hour; it is only upon removing the lid that the cat collapses into a dead or alive state.
Current models of this thought experiment suggest that the state collapse occurs at the moment that the atomic decay is detected by the macroscopic Geiger counter, but Schrodinger's original thought experiment is more interesting in its incorporation of a human observer as the determining factor of reality.
Lest you begin to feel intellectually doomed like Schrodinger's fictitious feline, let's stop adding new concepts and review.
Quantum entanglement, superposition, collapsible states, nonlocality, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, wave-particle duality… Newton and his billiard ball universe now seem a distant memory. But what a seductively simple and reductionist memory it is.
The human mind takes comfort in absolutes. The red and green lights reassure us while the yellow light produces consternation and a heavy foot. The human mind chooses to see the world through a Newtonian lens. But I would suggest that the comfort we derive from this unambiguous definition of our world is a sedative that only obscures reality.
The Newtonian consciousness imagines a mutually exclusive world with right and wrong, black and white, yes and no. The Newtonian conscious discriminates, judges, and differentiates. In this world of black and white there exists a Self and other, and never the two shall meet. We separate ourselves in our mind and insulate ourselves from a sense of universal duty, indiscriminate love, or true interconnection.
And yet, our soup cans oscillate between square and circle. The very foundation of our bodies exists not as concrete and mortar but as a shifting landscape of possibilities. We occupy a quantum world no matter how much we attempt to rationalize our way into a Newtonian dream.
We limit ourselves by calling an event bad or good. We judge ourselves to be a success or failure based on our arbitrary definitions. We feel sad when our expectations do not align with our realities. We feel happy when we believe our expectations have been fulfilled.
A quantum world would exist in total equanimity. Life would be perceived as a kaleidoscope of infinite, superposed possibilities, only limited by one's choice and desire. And our past would not be seen as a chapter that required revision, but a collapsed state that materialized from an infinite number of possibilities to occupy the unassailable singularity we call Now.
We would not feel the urge to fight others to change the circumstances of the world because we would realize our entangled nature. We would change ourselves and allow the web of entanglement to transmit the rest.
The anxiety of desire would crumble under the humbling enormity of the universe and our realization of our negligible control over it.
We are each Schrodinger's cat, both dead and alive; dead and oblivious to the expanse of possibilities contained within an infinite universe, but decisively and vibrantly alive despite our own denial. Take comfort in the mysteries of the quantum world, for it is your world too.
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Will Cloud-Based Rolling Updates Spell the Death of Product Launches?
by Nintex
Posted on August 21, 2017 October 9, 2020
We are approaching the so-called "Fall launch season", a four-month period from September to December when the biggest tech launches—this year being Apple's iMac Pro and iPhone 8, Google's Pixel 2, Android's "Android O" operating system and even the first widely-affordable Tesla Car—come to the fore.
But why has the start of September become the ideal time for releases of the latest tech?
There are a few potential reasons, from the tactical tie-in to the holiday shopping season ($3.34bn was spent during Black Friday in 2016, a new record) to strategizing against competitors or aligning with the vendor's fiscal year.
But while the holiday season will ensure consumer tech continues to witness these buying surges, I believe the enterprise is slowly moving away from the structured product release approach. A new, more constant approach to product and update releases has emerged. One that poses the question as to whether product launches, at least in the enterprise, are a thing of the past.
I am, of course, talking about rolling updates on cloud-based platforms.
Companies are now able to innovate around the clock thanks to the 'always-on' nature of the cloud, and the products they are selling reflect this—users are provided with the latest functionality as soon as it is available, rather than waiting for months or years before it's bundled into a new platform (which they must pay for).
It's because of this that I believe the once-revered product launch may be on the verge of dying out. Or at the very least, its gravitas is weakening year on year, given the fact that the cloud is only growing—propelled forward by the flexibility of subscription-based pricing models.
We have implemented rolling updates with several of our Nintex solutions, some updating more frequently than others. As Senior VP of Technology Strategy at Nintex, I thought now would be a good time to share some of my views and experience with structured physical product launches versus constant, rolling updates in the cloud.
Learning the Cloud
We must remember that for some organizations, rolling updates are not some new fad, but the only method of product updates. A routine product launch would be an alien concept to social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, for instance.
But long-standing organizations who have made their living on-premises now must learn to adapt, or risk being left behind.
Microsoft is the biggest and best example of this. As the most valuable company in the world in 1998, Microsoft struggled to pull itself away from its previous success on-premises and with physical product launches. This is, after all, a company that could sell out stadiums for the release of SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013.
That leads into what I think is the biggest challenge we face with rolling updates: anticipation.
When you're spending three years on a product, dedicating so much time to research and development, you naturally want to sing that product's praises at its release. And your customers are ready to sing along with you.
But when you spend two weeks responding to feedback and fine-tune existing functionality, that enthusiasm is much harder to come by, especially with regards to creating hype and marketing material. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be a good amount of content to support your updates, it just needs to be the right content.
This is what we learned from the Nintex Workflow Cloud.
Rolling Updates in the Nintex Workflow Cloud
Today, the Nintex Workflow Cloud receives regular rolling updates.
It might sound like a lot in a short space of time: from internal rollout to development to production every two weeks.
But the process has evolved to a point that each sprint meeting—where we discuss new features, updates, and fixes—was so well-structured we could immediately start pushing to production. With smaller product updates, there is lower risk and higher predictability compared to our initial three-month goal, which is more heavy-duty and rolling more capability around.
It's become a more manageable, and I think more profitable, update model.
While the production and development side have relished this quick turnover, the product marketing side was a little slower in the uptake. A two-week turnover is not a common approach. Even a company like Salesforce, who many credit with getting the cloud 'off the ground', don't push out releases more frequently than every change of season. Content needs to be created between the product updates being finished and released, so we're working within a very small timeframe.
To combat this, our product marketing, particularly on Nintex Workflow Cloud, is less about the actual feature itself (because as I've mentioned, there is sometimes not a great deal to talk about) and more about how the customer can benefit from it.
Every release comes with a set of release notes and deep-dive blogs to help them get a grip on the technical stuff.
But our focus is creating a benefit-oriented story alongside that, not just telling our customers, but showing them what new problems they can solve with each new release. Even if that's something as small or rudimentary as adding in a new digital workflow connector or providing improvements to task escalation.
Keep on Rolling
The enterprise product release—in the form of large-scale events—is fading. Not through any real fault of its own, but from the promise of cloud-based rolling updates. It has even had a knock-on effect with our on-premises version of Nintex Workflows, as we've moved from one big update per year to a quarterly release cycle.
But while rolling updates change the frequency of product releases and the style of content that accompanies them, the focus remains customer-centric.
With cloud-based, pay-as-you-go subscription models becoming more popular, the products themselves need to reiterate their value just as frequently.
That's something we've achieved with the Nintex Workflow Cloud.
For more information on the Nintex Workflow Cloud, regarding its capability, benefits or the latest updates to the platform, get in touch with us today.
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Mary Fuentes
When Miami-Dade County, Florida, began using GIS 29 years ago, Mary Fuentes was there.
Fresh out of Florida International University with a degree in computer science, she was hired as one of the county's first programmers. The information technology department had five staff members—two analysts and three programmers—and Fuentes implemented the county's first computerized budget system before she was enlisted to help develop Miami-Dade's GIS from the ground up.
"I did not become interested in GIS; GIS recruited me," she recalled. "I did not know what something like topology meant…or connectivity or polygon. It was brand new."
But she dove right into the project.
"We started to look into the technology and [analyze] what would be the best, most economical way to really proliferate [it] in the county," she recalled. "We learned how to look at things in a totally different way"—spatially.
With executive support from the get-go, Miami-Dade implemented GIS as an enterprise system straightaway, rolling it out first to the police, fire, and building departments. Fuentes was initially paired with the police department.
"People didn't know where the bulk of the crime existed," she said. "I designed the county's very first crime analysis system in 1988″—becoming the first programmer at Miami-Dade County to implement an app in GIS.
From there, Fuentes was instrumental in getting GIS up and running in the solid waste department. The fledgling GIS team had managerial support to build a routing app for garbage truck drivers, but the mostly male field crews were resistant to the technology. They said they knew their routes and didn't need maps. So Fuentes, still in her 20s at the time, boarded the trucks.
"We got on those garbage trucks, and we helped them," she said. "We saw everything they did. […] When you do their work through their eyes, you start out as a partner."
While the garbage truck drivers knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going, Fuentes and her colleagues focused on the amount of time it took them to complete their jobs.
"What if you could finish two hours earlier?" they proposed.
That stuck. And now Miami-Dade County's solid waste department is a huge user of GIS.
"We've come a very long way," said Fuentes, who is now the director of enterprise GIS at Miami-Dade County. GIS is "in every department, every line of business in the county."
And although Fuentes manages other enterprise systems as well, she says GIS is her favorite.
"It's all about the map!" she exclaimed.
GIS in Everything
Miami-Dade County, which comprises more than 30 cities and around 2.7 million residents, is known as an innovator in GIS.
"I am really proud of the adoption of GIS in Miami-Dade County," said Fuentes. "One of the ways that we have, throughout my career, looked at technology is that we are not users or developers but partners."
When cases of the Zika virus emerged, Fuentes and the GIS team jumped right in to help Miami-Dade County by mapping spray zones and mosquito-related 311 calls.
With that mind-set, GIS has become fundamental to everything the county government does—from managing public safety, transportation, economic development, and neighborhoods and infrastructure to administering health and human services, recreation and culture, and internal government operations.
"GIS is in everything," said Fuentes. "It's part of the fabric of Miami-Dade County's technology."
And according to several of her colleagues, Fuentes is a chief reason that GIS has been extended so successfully across the county.
"She's a visionary," said Karen Grassi, the GIS technical support manager at Miami-Dade County. "She has a vision, and she goes with it."
"She's one of those persons that has grasped ahold of [GIS], understood it, and…can advertise it, put it out there, meet the higher-ups, and make it understood," said Charlton Lewis, Miami-Dade's IT/GIS manager.
"She's worked very hard—because of her knowledge and passion for GIS—to try and integrate it everywhere," said Patty Madrid, the county's computer services manager. "What I've seen her do is make sure the departments understand that we can give them more than just a map."
GIS is now an integral part of so many systems at Miami-Dade County. For public safety, it was instrumental in building a multijurisdictional 311—reportedly the first in the country—and is entwined with the county's 911 operations. Crime mapping has evolved significantly, and a lot of it is available online. GIS helps police geolocate various kinds of crimes, and the county has created an array of apps, including one for arrest warrants that lets officers easily record where an arrest takes place, where the crime happened, where the offender lives, and where the victim lives. This is a good way to share information with other municipal departments, and it allows the police to see patterns, such as whether people typically commit crimes close to home, in certain neighborhoods, or near particular businesses.
The fire department uses GIS to do things like predictive analysis and maintain fire hydrants, sending work order forms for out-of-service hydrants directly to the water and sewer department so they can get fixed quickly. There's an app called Parks 305 that lets people look for picnic tables in any park in Miami-Dade County. And the popular Artificial Reefs app helps residents and visitors find artificial reefs to explore off the coast.
"We probably have about 1,200 layers that are updated all the time in our central repository," said Fuentes.
But it's not the layers that bring the most value to the county.
"The value that GIS has in Miami-Dade County, as an asset to Miami-Dade County, would never have been realized without [enterprise GIS] because part of that value is not one type of layer—it's not a park layer; it's not a parcel layer; it's not a water line," said Fuentes. "All of that works together."
Evolving Citizen Engagement
Just like GIS layers are most valuable when they work together, so, too, is Miami-Dade County when it works with its citizens.
"I think it's really important to engage citizens," said Fuentes.
The county did this over the summer when cases of the Zika virus popped up in and around Miami.
"As soon as this Zika issue started becoming a crisis, she jumped in there and said, 'We can help you,'" said Madrid about Fuentes. "We ended up doing a lot of work for Zika."
Much of that included working with residents.
"We had to make tons of phone calls to let people know that [their neighborhoods] were going to get sprayed the next morning," recalled Fuentes.
The county also planned sprays around events. If there was a football game at the local high school, for example, the county would spray before the game.
Fuentes is pleased with her department's citizen engagement strategies and proud of having been "part of something in this county that has touched every citizen." This is also where she sees Miami-Dade's enterprise GIS continuing to grow.
"Citizen engagement through the deployment of more and more and more mobile technology, I think, is the next step," she said. "I want to see everything we do readily available at the tap of a phone…and I think we have all the tools to do that."
A Spatially Aware Metropolis
To get this done over the next few years, before she retires, Fuentes will need to continue working closely with her team members—every one of whom she admires.
"They take such pride in their work," she said. "Everybody feels a strong sense of commitment; everybody feels a strong sense of pride; and everybody feels a strong sense of teamwork. They're always looking for what to do next."
She will also need to continue evangelizing GIS to everyone at the county. But that's where she excels.
"She has really shown—from the mayor all the way to the IT staff and end user—how GIS can work for them, what it can do for them, and how GIS can help them get their point across," said Madrid.
"This metropolitan is now spatially aware because of, I would say, 80 percent of what she's done," said Lewis about Fuentes. "Mary has taken GIS from day 1 to day 10,001 and held it together and let it grow to where it needs to be. She's a true leader."
Read other articles in the "GIS Heroes" series.
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Jim Bryson, a state Senator representing Williamson County and a portion of Davidson Counties for one term before running for governor in 2006 against Phil Bredesen, has been appointed as deputy commissioner of Parks and Conservation by Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Commissioner David Salyers.
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By Brian Mashford
Building the infrastructure to meet the world's energy transition goals will require a lot of mining. That mining can be done responsibly.
"If you can't grow it, you have to mine it."
Our daily lives depend on minerals and metals. We need them for almost every component of our modern world, as well as the world we are building. Mined materials are used to create batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines. The demand is here and is growing along with these technologies.
The mining industry must meet the demand for minerals and metals while operating in a responsible and sustainable way. To that end, many in the industry are reconsidering what it means to mine successfully and responsibly. Now, in addition to considering maximum throughput and revenue, miners must think about their environmental footprint, community acceptance, and workforce inclusion.
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The world needs the minerals and metals that enable modern life, and we need mines that produce those resources responsibly.
Minerals and metals are part of everyday life
The Minerals Education Coalition estimates that every American will need approximately 3.19 million pounds of minerals, metals, and fuels in their lifetime. We need mined materials for sidewalks (cement), lightbulbs (copper), and chairs (iron). We also need them for simple things like toothpaste (calcium carbonate) and kitty litter (bentonite). Beyond this, the surge in demand to create more lithium batteries, electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines means we will rely on mining even more in the future.
Generating and moving electrical energy requires metals. Wind turbines are made up of copper, nickel, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, zinc, and rare earth elements. And the battery and charging components of an electric car require six times the amount of mined materials compared to a conventional car, according to the International Energy Agency.
Many of us who work in the mining industry are familiar with a negative perception of mining. But the truth is that everyone relies on mining in some way every day. And the good news is the perception can change as people understand that mining is becoming more responsible, sustainable, and necessary.
Consider how much mining is needed to build our infrastructure and buildings.
A focus on sustainability in mining
Mine operators are prioritizing environmental, social, and governance considerations. Terms like sustainability, corporate responsibility, and social capital are all part of mining today. We all benefit from increased accountability from mine owners. Mines now must obtain their social license to operate, undergo thorough environmental assessments, adhere to strict safety standards, and plan for closure and reclamation of the mine.
Consumers are driving demand for sustainably sourced products. Environmentally conscious companies now offer low-carbon nickel or "green" copper. Some companies have made great strides in finding ways to reduce carbon emissions, use water efficiently, and integrate zero waste into the production of those metals.
Beyond the physical process of mining itself, companies are considering the lifecycle of the product and encouraging recycling and the longevity of end-use products. Metals are infinitely recyclable. Increased reuse and recycling will bolster metal supplies and limit the amount of new mining that's needed. This change in thinking about the lifecycle of a product gets us one step closer to a circular economy.
Mining operators today pay more attention to environmental impact than ever before. Here, Stantec environmental scientists are at a mine site in Canada testing air and water quality for mine expansion permitting.
Sustainable mining in Australia
Australia is at the forefront of sustainable mining. Both TransAlta and BHP are working on a large-scale solar farm in Australia, with a battery storage system to provide renewable energy to two of their mines. This moves them closer to their commitment to provide low-carbon, sustainably sourced nickel.
The Northern Goldfields Solar Project aims to provide fuel savings and reduce BHP's Scope 2 emissions from its Leinster and Mount Keith operations by 540,000 tonnes of CO2 over the first 10 years of operation. This renewable energy project is the first solar photovoltaic build in Australia for TransAlta and provides a platform for further renewable energy development.
Our need for renewable and greener energy sources emphasizes the importance of mining.
Creating new standards for a successful project
Over the last two years, we've seen a spike in demand for sustainable mining and net zero mining services. Mining companies that have committed to ambitious net zero, carbon neutral, and corporate social responsibility goals now need plans. Then, they need to put those plans into action.
In doing this work, we help mining companies answer questions like: How can we reduce energy consumption and emissions? Or, can we replace a conventional energy source with a cleaner one? Or, is there a way to be better water stewards during the entire mining lifecycle?
The Northern Goldfields Solar Project in Australia.
Mining's future is our future
The world needs the minerals and metals that enable modern life, and we need mines that produce those resources responsibly. The big wins come when the general population accepts mining as a crucial part of daily life and essential to the energy transition.
Our need for renewable and greener energy sources emphasizes the importance of mining. We're also making great strides as an industry to become more sustainable. Remember: If you can't grow it, you have to mine it.
In his many years of engineering, Brian has worked primarily in the mining industry including several years of hands-on work in structural engineering and design.
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Garfield's gut instinct is to eat—and eat BIG! And why not? That's how the fat cat became famous, enjoying enormous success worldwide. And that's how the big-bellied glutton still rolls. Garfield fans can binge-read his comics in this fun-filled collection!
Jim Davis was born on July 28, 1945, in Marion, Indiana. He later attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he distinguished himself by earning one of the lowest cumulative grade point averages in the history of the university. The Garfield strip was born on June 19, 1978, syndicated in forty-one U.S. newspapers. Today it's syndicated in more than 2,100 newspapers worldwide with more than 200 million readers, leading Guinness World Records to name Garfield The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World. Davis has had many successes with Garfield, including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program and induction into the Licensing Hall of Fame (1998), but his most prized awards are from his peers in the National Cartoonist Society: Best Humor Strip (1981 and 1985), the Elzie Segar Award (1990), and the coveted Reuben Award (1990) for overall excellence in cartooning.
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Publication Date: December 20th, 2016
Series: Garfield
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Top 10 Q&As of 2021
Q: Hey, it's the end of 2021!
A: Somehow, yes.
Q: What a year.
A: It was a year, that's true.
Q: So, they want us to lock down our 10 favourite Q&As of 2021.
A: Please don't say "lock down".
Q: Choose? Select? Curate? Throw darts at a wall?
A: Much better.
Q: I always find picking our favourite 10 difficult.
A: That's true – they're all deserving.
Q: Well, most of them. A few weeks there I was definitely phoning it in.
A: Yes, but that was because of social distancing.
Q: True. So, without further ado…
A: Here are our top 10 Q&A posts for 2021… Enjoy!
Near the start of the year, we asked the question that no one ever asks at a spelling bee – WHY is it called a spelling BEE? Not only did we discover the answer, but we could also use it in a sentence…
Any gains in 2021 certainly felt hard earnt. Wait. Hard earned? Oh dear. In this discussion, we looked at "earnt" vs "earned" and discovered some classic Australian beer ads along the way…
Famous for bicycles, windmills and a perpetual fear of flooding, The Netherlands has always struggled with its identity. Is it "THE Netherlands" or just "Netherlands"? And wait, what's "Holland"? We get to the bottom (below sea level) of this low-lying mystery…
In world terms, Australia's capital cities are relatively new. But they each still have a story to tell about how they got their names. We share them here in one of the only trips around Australia that WAS possible in 2021…
They're an Aussie favourite and loved all around the world. But how exactly did the humble "Tim Tam" biscuit get its name? We go in search of the delicious truth…
Even the experts struggle with this confusing word distinction (dis-stink-tion?). Because while you might get away with speaking them fast enough to not notice the difference, when written, each has a different meaning…
We see them everywhere, from sales to pharmaceutical ads – the humble "asterisk" sitting innocently about the "8" key and ready to dish out fineprint at a moment's notice. Simple enough. So, why then, do so many of us call it an "asterix"?
Things like "Wikipedia" and "Wiki Leaks" are commonplace in the landscape of 2021. But where exactly did the "WIKI" part come from? And what makes something a wiki? We catch a bus and go in search of its origins…
Often tossed about as nonsense words, what is the REAL story around the terms "flotsam" and "jetsam"? Is there a difference between the two? In this fascinating discussion, we head out to sea in search of etymological treasure…
And finally, we took on a small four-letter word that has done a lot of heavy lifting in the 21st century – the "meme". We were surprised to discover its real origins and learn exactly what counts as one…
Of course, that's just a fifth of the many topics we explored this year. Explore our complete list and you'll have enough reading material to keep you cursing the English language all summer long!
Categories: World of words, Writing style Q&As
Q&A: "Finding a needle in a haystack"?
Q&A: "Bury the lead" or "bury the lede"
Q&A: Grams, ounces, pounds, stones and tons...
2020 Words of the Year
Q&A: Misinformation or disinformation
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Liberation and Revenge
Kingdom of the Blue Whale
Out Of Shadows
Chased by Sea Monsters 2of3
Springsteen and I
Freddie Mercury In His Own Words
Grizzly Man
The Last Dance Episode IV
Eat Fast and Live Longer
Moments Like This Never Last
"Gold" Sort by
The Joy of Mozart
Tom Service plunges into the life and times of Mozart to try and rediscover the greatness and humanity of the living man in his moment. Mozart's prodigious output and untimely death have helped place him on a pedestal that can often blind us to the unique brilliance of his work in the context of his life and times. Service visits the key cities and rooms in which Mozart lived and worked, plays some of Mozart's original instruments and scores, and gradually uncovers the brilliance and originality of his work." There is the prodigious childhood when Mozart was feted as an infant phenomenon around Europe's most glittering courts, and his golden decade in Vienna in which masterpiece followed masterpiece - operas, symphonies, piano concertos, string quartets - as if this short, high-voiced man-child must have been taking dictation from some divine source, until his death at the age of just 35 in 1791. Even more than the music, Mozart's tragic demise sets the seal on his myth. The trajectory of Mozart's life sets the template for the romantic paradigm whose throes we are still in today, which requires our creative heroes to die young to prove that they were too good for this madding world, whether it be Wolfgang Amadeus or Jimi Hendrix. Service travels from London to Vienna and Salzberg, unpicking the living, breathing genius that was Mozart. With Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nicola Benedetti, Paul Morley and others.
The Wall Street Code
Super quick computers and advanced mathematical formulas have taken over trading on the financial markets from human beings -algorithms- which seem to have a life of their own. The only ones who understand the system in any way are its architects, the algorithm developers. Haim Bodek is one such algo-developer. After finding some strange wrongdoings he set out on a personal crusade against this elusive system". The machinery behind our financial markets, consisting of mathematical models, data centers and miles and miles of fiber optic cables, is disguised by technological complexity and secrecy. The builders of this financial system are a new breed of Wall Street employees -quants- mathematicians and physicists who are responsible for a technological revolution. Haim Bodek is a quant; he specialized in artificial intelligence and worked for Goldman Sachs. He knows the system from the inside, he helped build it. Haim Bodek was invited to tell his story at the "Battle of the Quants" - a recurring event where quants discuss high-frequency trading, amongst other things. Bodek wrote an algorithm for trading machines that would generate guaranteed income - a money machine that weathered the financial meltdown of 2008. But then from one day to the next the algorithm stopped working.
Return to Jurassic Park
It walks through the making of the film, the hurricane during shooting, and how it helped change the world of special effects. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This is a extra for the Jurassic Park Trilogy and is broken into three parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min) Making History (20 min), and the Next Step in Evolution (15 min)
Birth of the British Novel
Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain's radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all the literary genres we recognise today. It was a golden age of creativity led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney and William Godwin, amongst others. Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy are novels that still sparkle with audacity and innovation. On his journey through 18th-century fiction, Hitchings reveals how the novel was more than mere entertainment, it was also a subversive hand-grenade that would change British society for the better. He travels from the homes of Britain's great and good to its lowliest prisons, meeting contemporary writers like Martin Amis, Will Self, Tom McCarthy and Jenny Uglow on the way.
Foreigners in their Own Land
One hundred years after Columbus' arrival in the Caribbean, Spanish Conquistadors and Priests, push into North America in search of gold and to spread Catholicism. With the arrival of the British in North America, the two colonial systems produce contrasting societies that come in conflict as Manifest Destiny pushes the U.S into the Mexican territories of the South West. As the Gold Rush floods California with settlers, complex and vital communities are overwhelmed. The elites, including Mariano Vallejo and Apolinaria Lorenzana lose their land. Mexicans and Mexican Americans are treated as second-class citizens, facing discrimination and racial violence. Resistance to this injustice appears in New Mexico as Las Gorras Blancas (The White Caps), burn Anglo ranches and cut through barbed wire to prevent Anglo encroachment. At the same time, New Mexicans manage to transform themselves through education, managing to preserve Hispano culture in New Mexico and their standing in the midst of an era of conquest and dispossession.
Series: Latino Americans
Secret History of Comics


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Mondiali
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1 argento (Parigi 1952)
1 bronzo (Milano 1951)

Nordamericani
1 medaglia:
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Chairman - Cenex
Brendan is Chairman of Cenex (Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon & Fuel Cell Technologies) based at Loughborough University. Cenex was originally funded by DTI (now Business, Innovation & Skills) but is now an independent consultancy led by a consortium of UK automotive systems companies and representative bodies. Previously Brendan was Chief Executive Officer at Cosworth Racing between 2001 and 2003 during which it provided engines to various teams in Formula 1, US Indy Racing League, CART and World Rally Championships. He was the recipient of MIA Business of the Year Award in 2003. Brendan has held senior general management positions in TRW and Lucas and currently holds a number of Non-Executive Board appointments in both the public and private sectors. He is Chairman of Midlands Air Ambulance and an Independent member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Board.


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Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2's Character Creator Is Comprehensive
By Jenni Lada October 10, 2016
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2's PlayStation 4 closed beta is running until 1am PT on October 11, 2016, with an open beta running from 1am PT on October 14, 2016 until 1am PT on October 17, 2016. While that means you'll need to pack as many activities as possible into a three day period, I'd put aside at least an hour for character creation. When I began playing the closed beta, I was allowed the opportunity to create one character and, with all the options available, I spent over half an hour making a Majin. (Imagine that!) To help make things a bit easier for you once the beta begins, here are some things to know about character creation. Hopefully, it'll help you hit the ground running.
After what's basically an animated infomercial for the Time Patrollers, starring Trunks and the Supreme Kai of Time, character creation in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 begins. You start by picking a species. You can go with a Frieza race individual, Earthling, Majin, Namekian, or Saiyan. For the three races with genders, being a male or female will offer different positive and negative traits.
Since it's easier to go over this in list form, here's what you can expect from each character build.
Earthling: All Earthlings have balanced stats, automatically regenerating Ki, and an attack that rises when maxed. Their Strike Super Attacks are stronger than females, but females have stronger Ki Blast Super Attacks.
Frieza race: These characters move quickly and has stamina that regenerates as you attack. Their health is low, though, and they get slower the weaker they get.
Majin: Majins Have high defense, which gets higher when they have max stamina. However, they have a slow stamina recovery. Males have higher health and defense, while females' breaks are shorter and they have less health.
Namekian: Namekians have stamina that refills quickly, high health that regenerates when it gets low, and is better at using items, but they have low attack stats.
Saiyan: Saiyans have a high attack, which rises when their health gets low, but low health. All of their stats rise after they fall and are revived. Males' melee attacks are stronger and buffs last longer, but have weaker Super Moves. Females have better Ki and Stamina recovery, and can use Z Assists more often, but have lower health than males.
Each Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 race and gender has its own pros and cons, so personal playstyle will be most important when it comes to making a character.
After picking a race and gender, you're plopped into the most time consuming part of character creation – picking out the fine details. Depending on the type of character you're making, different options will be available. Like a Majin will have heads/hairs, eyes, pupils, mouths/jaws, and ears as customization options, while every other character will also let you pick out a nose. Likewise, pupils and makeup are conditional customization options, dependent on the sorts of eye and mouth/jaw options you've chosen.
This doesn't mean each character type has the same sorts of options available to all of them. It all depends on race. Earthlings and Saiyans have mostly identical customization options. Males of each species have the same 26 hairstyles, while females have the same 35 hairdos. This also goes for eye, pupil, nose, mouth/jaw, and ear options. Earthling and Saiyan women have 18 kinds of eyes, 8 noses, 15 mouth/jaw options, and 4 different ears. Earthling and Saiyan men have 20 types of eyes, 14 noses, 20 mouths and jaws, and 4 ears. It's also important to note that incidentals like scars or facial hair will show up under the eye and mouth/jaw categories.
The Majin males and females, Namekians, and members of the Frieza race are a little more unique. Their facial features aren't exactly ones you would, or even could, see on an Earthling or Saiyan, after all. Majin females have 33 types of "hair," 16 types of eyes, 16 mouth/jaw options, and 7 ears, while Majin males have 27 kinds of "hair," 17 eyes, 22 mouth/jaw options, and 9 ears. Their pupil options tend to be far more limited, sometimes even nonexistent, due to their race. Namekians have 23 hair/antennae options, 11 eyes, 14 noses, 28 mouth/jaw options, and 4 ears. Finally, Frieza folks get 15 kinds of eyes, 15 noses, 15 mouth/jaw options, and 7 ears. Put simply, there are plenty of options to mix and match to create a hopefully unique character.
Especially since you can alter the color options as well. For each character, you can adjust the skin tone and eye color, as well as the upper body, lower body, hand, and feet clothing and accessories. Depending on the race and facial features, you may be able to alter their hair and makeup colors. Some races even have multiple skin tones, with Namekians having three options and Frieza races having four. While it isn't possible to adjust color sliders to go with unique colors for characters, there are 112 colors to choose from in the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 palette.
After the arduous and time consuming face and color choices, the last few decisions are rather easy. You pick a voice and name, then a fighting style. The three options are "I like it up close, nice and personal," "I'll hang back and blast'em from afar," and "Close or far, I keep it balanced." I went with the ranged moveset, which meant I began with Consecutive Energy Blast, Energy Charge, and Energy Shot Super Attacks, a Super Back Jump Evasive Skill, and a Full Power Energy Blast Volley Ultimate Attack.
When the full version of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 launches, you're going to have plenty of opportunities to make characters and see what does and doesn't work for you. For this beta, it's more about testing the waters with a single character to get a feel for this installment. Seeing as how open beta participants only get three days, it probably won't be possible to see many of the new features. But, you can make the most of the character creator right from the start and see what sort of person you'd like to be.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 will come to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in North America on October 25, 2016. It will come to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Europe on October 28, 2016, as well as PCs in North America and Europe.


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2010 MUCH BETTER YEAR FOR CONTAINER GLASS PRODUCTION
Production data 2010 published today from the European Container Glass Federation (FEVE) (1) show a general recovery from the drop of the previous year. In 2010, the industry produced 20.7 million tonnes of glass compared to 20.1 million tonnes in 2009 marking an increase of 3.5%.
The biggest increase in production was recorded in Turkey (27%) and
United Kingdom (9.5%). In Italy (5.2%), Poland (5.7%) the increases were more important than in Portugal (1.9%), Spain (2.7%) and North & Central countries (1.7%). In Germany the situation was quite stable (0.2%) as well as in France where a slight decrease was recorded (‐0.1%).
"The industry was able to react firmly to the impact of the previous year's financial crisis – says FEVE President Niall Wall – and to maintain its place as a key player in the packaging market notwithstanding the harsh competition (2). This is important if we are to offer consumers choice because glass is their preferred packaging (3)
thanks to its environmental, health and taste preservation qualities. For some natural and healthy products like milk, yoghurts, baby food or mineral waters, consumer demand for glass packaging is not being met because of the lack of choice on supermarket
The industry continues to make efforts to improve the efficiency of manufacturing process, to reduce environmental impacts and to reduce costs to ensure that brands are provided with a premium packaging solution at competitive prices when compared to other materials.
The European container glass industry provides a wide range of glass packaging products for food and beverages as well flacons for perfumery, cosmetics and pharmacy to their European and world
customers. With its 160 manufacturing plants distributed all over Europe, it is an important contributor to Europe's real economy and provides direct employment to about 50,000 people, while creating a large
number of job opportunities along the total supply chain.
(1) Production of container glass for food and beverage, flacons for perfumery, cosmetics and pharmacy. Published on www.feve.org
(2) Euromonitor. Published on www.feve.org
(3) InSites Research. Published on www.feve.org
About FEVE
FEVE is the association of European manufacturers of glass containers and machine‐made glass tableware. The members of FEVE produce over 20 million tonnes of glass per year. The association has some 60 corporate members belonging to approximately 20 independent corporate groups.
Manufacturing plants are located across 23 European States and include global blue chip and major companies working for the world's biggest consumer brands. The Container Glass industry accounts for 60% of the total glass production in Europe and is spread throughout some 160 plants,
including Switzerland and Turkey. The EU is the world's largest producer of container glass. The glass container industry in Europe employs 46,000 people.
See more on www.feve.org
About Glass
As packaging, glass containers assure the preservation, safe delivery and attractive presentation of a vast array of consumer products, supplied to European and world markets. Whether used for drinks, food, cosmetics, perfumes or pharmaceuticals, glass plays a vital role in supporting European trade and commerce. Glass is 100 percent recyclable, virtually inert and preserves the original taste of the products it contains. Baby food products – like milk ‐need the protection of its container to preserve
its purity and its vitamins. A container is not just a commodity. Because health is not only in the ingredients but also in the packaging that preserves these ingredients.
Glass does NOTHING to the food or drinks it contains, it alters NOTHING to the taste or vitamins it preserves. To know more about "Nothing"? See www.nothingisgoodforyou.com
Source: http://www.feve.org
Etiquetas: Company News


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