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A Jose Callejon goal helped Napoli ease into the Champions League group stage on Tuesday, while Sevilla also went through and Celtic suffered a scare in Kazakhstan before winning their play-off tie.
Updated:August 23, 2017, 10:55 AM IST
Insigne in action during the Champions League qualifying against Nice. (Getty Images)
Paris: A Jose Callejon goal helped Napoli ease into the Champions League group stage on Tuesday, while Sevilla also went through and Celtic suffered a scare in Kazakhstan before winning their play-off tie.
Third in Serie A last season, Napoli were too strong for Nice, winning 2-0 in France with Callejon and Lorenzo Insigne both scoring as they progressed 4-0 on aggregate.
Beaten by eventual winners Real Madrid in the last 16 last season, Maurizio Sarri's side took the lead when Marek Hamsik deposited a low cross from the left for Callejon to convert at the back post in the 48th minute.
The dangerous Dries Mertens then hit the post before Insigne sealed the Italians' win a minute from time.
"Napoli must keep on playing in the Champions League every season, because this is where we belong. We are happy with the qualification," said Insigne.
Nice, for whom recent signing Wesley Sneijder started, were thoroughly outplayed over the two legs and will have to settle for a place in the group stage of the Europa League instead.
Sevilla, who won the Europa League three years in a row before losing to Leicester City in the last 16 of the Champions League last season, survived an almighty scare against Istanbul Basaksehir to go through.
The Spanish side, 2-1 winners in the first leg in Turkey, drew 2-2 at the Sanchez Pizjuan to advance 4-3 on aggregate.
They went behind on the night to an Eljero Elia goal but Sergio Escudero headed in a Jesus Navas cross early in the second half for the home side.
Great play from Nolito then set up Wissam Ben Yedder to seemingly end any doubt, but Edin Visca levelled the scores again on the night and an Emre Belozoglu free-kick struck the woodwork in the last minute as Sevilla came within a whisker of going out on away goals.
'Mixed emotions'
Celtic went through 8-4 on aggregate despite losing 4-3 to Astana in the second leg of their play-off in Kazakhstan as a second-half wobble gave their hosts hope of pulling off a miraculous recovery.
Brendan Rodgers' side had won 5-0 in the first leg in Glasgow and a super Scott Sinclair strike in the 34th minute should have killed the tie.
Astana, who had gone ahead on the night through a Kristoffer Ajer own goal, were given something to cling onto as a goal by Serikzhan Muzhikov and a Patrick Twumasi brace made it 4-1 on the night.
But Olivier Ntcham ended Astana's hopes when his deflected strike made it 4-2 on the night before Leigh Griffiths reduced the deficit further in the final minute.
"I have mixed emotions because we didn't defend well enough," Rodgers told BT Sport after a scare that brought back memories of the same stage 12 months ago.
Celtic beat Hapoel Beer-Sheva of Israel 5-2 at home in the first leg of the play-offs last year and then wobbled in the return, losing 2-0 to scrape through.
"We had our Beer-Sheva moment. I thought we were going to get through this campaign without the anxiety. The players were on the ropes for 15 or 20 minutes but then they regained composure."
Greek champions Olympiakos are also back in the group stage following a 1-0 victory away to Croatian champions Rijeka that took them through 3-1 on aggregate. German international Marko Marin scored the only goal on the night.
Maribor of Slovenia also progressed, beating Hapoel Beer-Sheva 1-0 with a Mitja Viler strike as they won the tie on away goals.
The remaining five ties will conclude on Wednesday, with the highlight seeing Liverpool take a 2-1 lead into their play-off second leg against Hoffenheim at Anfield.
The draw for the lucrative group stage will be held in Monaco on Thursday.
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Q: Change primary key in PostgreSQL table I have users table in my PostgreSQL 9.3.6 database with two columns: id and another_id. The id is a primary key, the another_id is just another integer column with unique constraint.
There are other tables that reference users by primary key.
Here's the users table description:
Table "public.users"
        Column        |              Type              |               Modifiers                | Storage | Stats target | Description
----------------------+--------------------------------+----------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-------------
 id                   | integer                        | not null                               | plain   |              |
 another_id           | integer                        | not null                               | plain   |              |

Indexes:
    "users_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
    "uniq_1483a5e93414710b" UNIQUE, btree (another_id)

Referenced by:
    TABLE "foo_table" CONSTRAINT "fk_4affc6e5a76ed395" FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
    TABLE "bar_table" CONSTRAINT "fk_72936b1da76ed395" FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
    TABLE "baz_table" CONSTRAINT "fk_83adbaf0a76ed395" FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE

Here's foo_table description:
Table "public.foo_table"
    Column    |              Type              |                   Modifiers                   | Storage  | Stats target | Description
--------------+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+----------+--------------+-------------
 id           | integer                        | not null                                      | plain    |              |
 user_id      | integer                        |                                               | plain    |              |

Indexes:
    "foo_table_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
    "idx_e52ffdeea76ed395" btree (user_id)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "fk_e52ffdeea76ed395" FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE

How do I replace primary key in PostgreSQL table from id column to another_id column and maintain data integrity?

A: I've spent some time and finally came up with a working solution.
I will publish it here for future reference.
Solution
First of all, you have three tables (foo_table, bar_table, baz_table) which are pointing to your users table by means of foreign keys (called user_id in all cases). You will need to replace the IDs stored in those columns from id to another_id. Here's how you can do it:
-- We are dropping the foreign key constraint on dependant table (in other case it will prevent us from updating the values)
ALTER TABLE foo_table DROP CONSTRAINT fk_e52ffdeea76ed395;

-- Then, we're swapping values in foreign key column from id to another_id
UPDATE foo_table T SET user_id = (SELECT another_id FROM users WHERE id = T.user_id);

-- And finally we're creating new foreign key constraint pointing to the another_id instead of id
ALTER TABLE foo_table ADD CONSTRAINT fk_e52ffdeea76ed395 FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users (another_id) ON DELETE CASCADE;

You will need to repeat the above queries for each dependent table.
After that, all dependent tables will point to your new another_id column.
In the end we will just need to replace the primary key:
-- 1. Dropping the original primary key
ALTER TABLE users DROP CONSTRAINT users_pkey

-- 2. Renaming existing index for another_id (optional)
ALTER INDEX uniq_1483a5e93414710b RENAME TO users_pkey

-- 3. Creating new primary key using existing index for another_id
ALTER TABLE users ADD PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX users_pkey

-- 4. Creating index for old id column (optional)
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX users_id ON users (id)

-- 5. You can drop the original sequence generator if you won't need it
DROP SEQUENCE users_id_seq

You can even drop the original id column if you want to.
I hope it will help someone.

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Quick guide to Email Filtering
A comprehensive guide to reducing spam and making the most out of your inbox
Why email filtering is important
How a spam filter works
Email usage for different countries
Reasons for why an email might be sorted as spam
Like everything else, email usage differs from one country to another for a number of reasons. Depending on the country you are in, email correspondence could be expected to be highly formal while in others a friendly approach would be ideal. For this reason, it is important to understand the things that are likely to cause this difference in various countries.
Understanding whom the email is addressed to is one of the surest way to ensure that you are doing things right. Write the email with your target audience in mind. You need to understand their cultural orientation. Usually, you may find it more challenging to send an email to someone in Germany than it would be to send the same email to someone in Greece and South Africa or even to China. It is important to get a personal cultural education of the area you want to send an email to before communicating especially if handling business.
Cultural norms may also play out when dealing with emails and different countries. Some countries like Germany have very strict rules concerning the way they prefer to be addressed. If you are not sure of which way to go about it then do not hesitate to ask. However, in other countries such as USA where email is used like any other form of communication, titles may not be of major significance. On the other hand, emails from US may be short and straightforward. While Americans consider this as efficient, other countries may regard it as rudeness and thoughtlessness.
Consider the difference in timelines when sending an email because the response time will depend on it as well as technology. Patience should be exercised when sending international emails. In case you still feel uncomfortable using emails because you are unsure of their level of appropriateness for that country, you should consider elevating your communication. Use emails as a start for conversations and take up telephone and video chat conversations as an alternative. This will help prevent any awkwardness.
When sending emails to France make sure they are short, direct to the point, formal and do not contain private messages. When sending to Africa make sure the message is short to be accessed via smartphones. For Chinese emails, especially those that are business related make sure that you inquire about the surname and every business arrangement detail. For US, keep it simple and fast.
China the biggest email user
China remains the country with the most internet users making it the country with the highest amount of email users in the world. With over 590.6 million users, it is several hundred million-email users more than the USA, which has the second highest number of users. Although China has the largest number of internet users and by extension email users, this only accounts for 44% of the population, which is different from the USA where almost 85% of the population uses emails. The higher number of email users in China, which is almost twice as much as that of US users, is because of the high population.
There is also the other side of the coin where certain countries register low numbers of email users. With over 4.4 billion people around the world still not being able to access internet, it is possible that some countries have very few email users. Countries in the Middle East register the lowest number of email users because of minimal internet connectivity.
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The Mongolian President Haltmaagiin Buttulga and the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of OJSC Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov have discussed current issues regarding Russian-Mongolian cooperation in the development of railways.
The two men met in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar on 2 February 2018.
During the meeting, Oleg Belozerov noted the positive results of the work of Ulaanbaatar Railways in 2017.
Transit shipments of containers through Mongolia increased 2.7 times and labour productivity was up 20%.
The head of Russian Railways informed the President of Mongolia about the plans to develop the infrastructure of Ulaanbaatar Railways in order to handle the growing transportation volumes. The major track overhaul planned in 2018 in particular will be double that of last year, while the modernisation of the transportation management system will be completed. As a result, the railway's carrying capacity will be increased by 20%.
Speaking about the infrastructure component, Oleg Belozerov said that the Central Railway Corridor between Ulan-Ude – Naushki – Sukhe-Bator – Ulan-Bator – Dzamyn-Uud – Erlan was a priority in implementing the programme to create the Russia – Mongolia – China economic corridor.
Oleg Belozerov also discussed issues affecting the development of cooperation between Russia and Mongolia in the railway sector during individual meetings with Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh and the Secretary of the National Security Council of Mongolia Gansukh Amarjargal.
In particular, the parties underlined the interest in increasing the transit of freight from Mongolia towards the ports of the Far East on the infrastructure of Russian Railways. The parties also discussed issues related to the prospects for the development of Mongolia's railway infrastructure, including the use of state financing mechanisms.
JSC Ulaanbaatar Railways was established on 6 June 1949 on the basis of an agreement between the governments of the USSR and the Mongolian People's Republic. Each side had an equal holding of shares in the JSC's authorised capital (50%-50%).
Until July 2004, the powers of the shareholder were exercised on behalf of the Russian Federation by Russia's Ministry of Railways then by the Federal Agency for Railway Transport. Since December 2009, OJSC Russian Railways has entered into the rights of trust manager for the Russian shareholding.
JSC Ulaanbaatar Railways plays a key role in providing Mongolia's transportation links. Rail transport accounts for over 60% of the country's freight traffic.
On 2 December 2017, a meeting of the Board of JSC Ulaanbaatar Railways in Moscow considered a draft long-term rail development programme until 2030.
In accordance with the programme, a list of priority measures for the modernisation of Ulaanbaatar Railways is being developed. Between 2018 and 2020, it is planned to carry out major track repairs, update rolling stock and locomotives, build a sorting hill at Zamyn-Üüd station and implement a number of other measures, including passenger transport.


Finding a tidy older bike that won't drive you nuts, needs careful consideration.
I've come across two dealerships recently that reserve the right to refuse to work on older bikes. One specified a cut-off age of 10 years. I think this deserves wider attention because if people want a cheap bike then they tend to look at something older.
do. Mashed screw heads, stripped threads and damaged components.
find they've replaced the nut with a 13mm headed item. Then they have replaced one bolt with something allen-headed. Constantly changing tools around takes time.
Next there are non-original components. I've nothing against pattern parts, if they're of good quality and made with modern CNC tooling. A lot of replica parts are as good or even better than OE ones now. No, this is the use of parts that originally belonged to a completely different motorcycle altogether. Carbs, brakes, suspension units, switchgear and clocks are all favourites.
This is why dealers don't like old bikes. They can do the work but it takes much longer and then the customer screams: "Five hundred quid for a chain and sprocket set and new pads?", not realising that it's taken five hours to get the old bits off because someone spot-welded the gearbox sprocket onto the output shaft!
Never buy a used bike without a knowledgeable mate alongside - the extra expense of buying a slight duffer is often hidden.


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Israel Tells Lebanon and U.N. Peacekeepers to Destroy Attack Tunnel
07 Dec 2018, 10:05 GMT+10
JERUSALEM - Israel told Lebanon's army and U.N. peacekeepers on Thursday to destroy a tunnel it said had been dug by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement across the border into Israeli territory.
Israel's military said this week it had identified a number of passages and sent diggers and troops close the frontier to block them.
The peacekeepers, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), confirmed the existence of a tunnel near the 'blue line' frontier between the two countries in a statement on Thursday, describing it as a 'serious occurrence."
Israel said its operation would stop on its side of the border. But Israeli media on Wednesday quoted a unnamed senior official saying Israel could broaden its actions into Lebanon. There was no immediate reaction from Hezbollah or Lebanese authorities.
All parties say the situation has remained calm on both sides of the border. But the Israeli operation has focused attention on a frontier across which Israel and Hezbollah fought a war in 2006.
The Israeli military said in a statement it 'holds the Lebanese government, the Lebanese Armed Forces and United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon responsible for all events transpiring in and emanating from Lebanon.'
It added that one of its commanders had showed one of the tunnels to the head of UNIFIL, Major-General Sefano Del Col.
'We urge ... that UNIFIL take action together with the Lebanese armed forces to clear the area, clear the access to the tunnels and make sure that it is not used for (hostile) purposes against Israel,' said Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, a senior military spokesman.
UNIFIL said in its statement it was 'engaged with the parties to pursue urgent follow-up action."
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week Hezbollah was planning to send militants through the tunnels to launch attacks and he expanded on his comments on Thursday.
'Hezbollah wants to insert several battalions to our territory with the aim of isolating communities, towns and kibbutzim (collective farms) to continue its reign of terror and abductions which could take place simultaneously,' he told a meeting of foreign diplomats.
He said Hezbollah's tunnels were big enough to be used by motorcycles, small vehicles and groups of people.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has instructed the country's envoy to the U.N. to complain that Israel is waging 'a diplomatic and political campaign against Lebanon in preparation for attacks against it," Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said.


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The most innovative tool for mediators and anyone faced with conflict.
Super Powers - Being powerful and resolving conflict in relationships and organizations
By Mediate2go - February 10, 2015
"I feel powerless"
"I want more power and influence"
"I want to be respected"
"I am powerless"
"I feel scared of asserting myself"
"I avoid making eye contact"
"Someone embarrassed me at work, and I did nothing"
"We have a workplace bully"
A blog on power by a mediator and conflict coach
Mediate to Go - Super Powers - Being powerful in relationships and organizations
What does power mean to you? Do you feel comfortable using power? Maybe power makes you uncomfortable. Do you avoid eye contact with people? Do you hesitate when making requests of other people? Do you start some of your sentences with "I know this is a stupid question, but…"? Most people don't realize this, but we exercise power on a daily basis. This blog is all about power in relationships. In order to be an effective self leader in conflict situations, we recommend the use of empowerment. Read more about power below.
Definition of Power
Power is defined as "The ability to influence the attainment of goals sought by yourself or others." (J. Dan Rothwell)
Other definitions of power include" the ability to do or act; great or marked ability to do our act; strength; might; force; legal ability, capacity, or authority; the possession of control or command over others; authority." (Dictionary.com)
Synonyms for power
The items of power include the following: "capability; skill; dynamism; gift; talent; effectiveness; aptitude; efficacy; qualification; influence; potential; virtue." (Thesaurus.com)
Antonyms for power
Antonyms of power include powerless, "incapacity; weakness." (Dictionary.com) "in aptitude; inefficiency; incompetence; uselessness; surrender; yielding; impairment." (Thesaurus.com)
Introduction to power
In order to effectively resolve conflict, and to be a self leader in conflict situations, one must learn how to manage their own power and interact with the power of other people. Power is all around us, and is not something that can be avoided. Even if one feels powerlessness, it is not possible to be completely powerless.
Given our interdependence in human relationships and groups, everyone has some form of influence. (J. Dan Rothwell) That is a form of power. In fact, in order for people and groups to achieve their goals, they must exercise power. (J. Dan Rothwell)
Forms of power
Hollander and Offerman, (1990) explain that there are three forms of power; dominance, prevention and empowerment.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Dominance is a form of competitive power, where someone's gain is someone else's loss. This type of power is most obvious in organizations or governments where are hierarchy is present. Dominance can be exercised within given situations. Sometimes, dominance is Express verbally through interruptions, Contradicting someone else, berating them and monopolizing or dominating discussions. (J. Dan Rothwell)
The only power you have is the word no.
Prevention is another form of power, which is also competitive in nature. Prevention Power takes place when someone is attempting to react to the power of dominance. Prevention power is common as a form of resistance. (J. Dan Rothwell) In the context of workplace conflict, if you've been a manager and your employees have resisted some form of change, this is known as prevention power. If you've been an employee, and someone has asked you to do something that goes against your values or the values of the organization, you may have exerted prevention power in managing this conflict.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Empowerment is much more positive out of all of these forms of power. Empowerment is all about helping others increase their capabilities and improving the influence of both groups and individuals. (J. Dan Rothwell) empowerment is all about collaboration: everyone in the group is given the tools they need to succeed together as a team. Empowerment is seen as a proactive means of helping oneself and others seek their goals. (J. Dan Rothwell)
Some people view power as a game. What is the power game? A power game is the interaction of dominance and prevention within different areas of life. As mediators and conflict coaches, we encourage people to seek empowerment, as empowerment is a form of collaborative power. We believe that through working together, people are more likely to have both of their needs and interests met. This is not to say that we should not seek any form of power. Studies have shown that people using powerful language achieve credibility and are more persuasive than others. (J. Dan Rothwell)
Power in Communication
Passive Communication
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
Passive Communication means "not expressing genuine emotions, views, and values or sharing them with apologies, excessive justifications, and self-critical statements such that other people can discount what you think and feel. Passive communication conveys that your beliefs and emotions do not matter to others. The aim of passive communication is to avoid direct expression." (U of New Hampshire) Powerless verbal communication is another term for passive communication.
In some ways, passive communication might be easier, as one might avoid taking responsibility for themselves and others. However, there are many problems and not asserting power in communication. Passive communication can create a great deal of resentment over the long term, as one might feel that they have compromised there needs to the benefit of someone else.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Also, see our blog on being a Self-Leader in Conflict Situations
Assertive Communication means "Expressing thoughts, feelings and values directly, honestly, and respectfully. Assertive communication clearly conveys someone's opinions and emotions and perspective. The goal of assertive communication is mutual acknowledgement and respect and compromise when there is disagreement." (U of New Hampshire) If you are a self-leader and conflict situations, you are an assertive communicator.
There is a great deal of Power in assertive communication. Others some people might have a negative association to the term assertive, assertive communication is collaborative in nature. To be assertive is to be authentic and open about what you need, while respecting the boundaries of others, and wanting the best for them as well.
Aggressive Communication
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
Aggressive communication means "expressing opinions and emotions directly but dishonestly and/or disrespectfully. Aggressive communication conveys that what the other person wishes, feels and thinks is unimportant enough to be dismissed. The goal of aggressive communication is to win and dominate." (U of New Hampshire)
Aggressive communication is all about competitive power and the power games. How can I win? What can I do to dominate the other person? How can I take revenge? Another problem with aggressive communication is that a "win" does not lead to positive relationships in the future. While one might feel that they're powerful on the circumstances, this might backfire.
We have all heard the terms, power game, powerhouse and power up. For some, especially passive communicators, asserting power is uncomfortable. For others, especially aggressive communicators, asserting power is almost too comfortable, given that it is at the expense of others. As mediators and conflict coaches, we recognize the importance of power in human relationships.
Power is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, groups and their members required power in order to achieve their goals. How can groups achieve their goals and effectively manage conflict? The most appropriate form of power is empowerment, which is based on collaboration. The best way to achieve empowerment is through assertive communication.
Power and powerless quotes
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
J. Dan Rothwell, In Mixed Company: Communicating in Small Groups and Teams, Thompson Wadsworth
The article by the U of New Hampshire was "Adapted from Lange & Jakubowsk (1978), as well as handouts from Missouri University of Science and Technology, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Massey University, and the University of Kansas."
Bullying and Harassment powerlessness powers
Top 10 Songs about Conflict - 2014
By Mediate2go - January 01, 2015
Mediate2go Blogger, Ashton Bult, has compiled a list of the top 10 songs about conflict and songs about conflict resolution in 2014. Read his description and analysis of conflict and conflict resolution in relation to each song. What songs do you think are missing from this list? Be sure to leave a comment at the end of the blog with your opinion. Thanks for reading (and listening)! Also, be sure to check out the Mediate to Go Top 10 tips on how to resolve conflict and Songs about Conflict Management Styles.
1. 'Shake It Off' by Taylor SwiftA song about conflict avoidance, managing anger and moving on.'Shake It Off' was one of the top hits of 2014, and an anthem towards conflict. Rather than dealing with the conflict itself however, Taylor tells her listeners to ignore the haters, and just be you.
2. 'Black Widow' by Iggy Azales
A song about destructive relationships and confrontation'Black Widow' deals with a nasty relationship between the artist and her partner. She is choosing …
Levels of Conflict
By Mediate2go.com - May 22, 2014
To fully understand organizational conflict, it is important to distinguish the types and levels of conflict. While many of these types of conflict apply to organizations, they may also apply outside of that context. The text Organizational Behavior by Schermerhorn, Hunt, Osborn (2000) was helpful in providing a framework of organizational terms.
The following are types of conflict, which are the medium within which conflict occurs in organizations. Intra-organizational conflict is an umbrella term for any type of conflict that takes place within one organization.Interpersonal conflict is one of the lowest levels of conflict, taking place between two or more individuals within the organization who are oppose one another, knowingly or not. Sometimes one employee may be frustrated with their boss, but never bring forward their concern.Intra-group conflict is conflict exists between members of one particular group, say members of a hiring committee that don't agree a new candidate.Inter-g…
Stages of Conflict
By Mediate2go - May 09, 2019
Are you looking to learn more about the stages of conflict?
Introduction to Stages of Conflict
A great source to start to understand conflict, and specifically the stages of conflict, is the article by Louis R. Pondy, entitled Organizational Conflict: Concepts and Models (Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Sep., 1967), pp. 296-320). Although the article is from the 1960s, the analysis is still applicable today, whether with respect to a conflict in the workplace, a separation or divorce or an international dispute.
Be sure to see our blog on Levels of Conflict, which compliments the information here about stages of conflict.
Defining conflict
Conflict cannot be simply defined as some of the manifestations of conflict, like anger, stress or even behaviour such as hitting someone. Pondy suggests that conflict is best understood as a dynamic process made of a series of 'conflict episodes'.
Pondy likens the definition of conflict to the definition of decision-making. In decision…
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NEW YORK – The Major League Baseball reacted angrily to the last offer of blocked players when bargaining resumed on Sunday, accusing the union of retreating and showing no signs of a breakthrough to bring back a disrupted season.
On the 95th day of the lockout, the parties talked for 95 minutes, mostly convincing each other of their positions. Talks stalled Tuesday after nine days of talks in Jupiter, Florida, and Commissioner Rob Manfred canceled the first two series of the season for each team, for a total of 91 games.
It was the first meeting since then, the first season delayed due to labor struggles since 1995. Manfred was in the MLB offices on Sunday but did not attend the negotiation sessions.
The union published many of its proposals in writing after four-day breaks.
"We were hoping to see movement in our direction to give us extra flexibility and close the deal quickly," MLB spokesman Glenn Kaplin said. "The Players Association has decided to come back to us with an offer that was worse than Monday night and is not meant to move forward. On some issues even went back. Simply put, we are at a dead end. We will try to figure out how to answer, but nothing in this proposal makes it easy. "
In trying to settle the second longest-running baseball shutdown, the parties have stayed away from each other on issues of luxury tax, minimum wages and a proposed bonus fund for players eligible before an arbitration tribunal. The union reduced the starting point for the bonus pool by $ 5 million to $ 80 million, but left its proposals for the luxury tax and the minimum wage unchanged.
The players declined to respond publicly to MLB, but said they withdrew their proposals to expand free agency and arbitration, as well as reduce revenue distribution, reducing the bonus pool request from the original $ 120 million. They also offered to agree to advertise uniforms and helmets.
After the main session, Deputy Commissioner Dan Hallem and union chief negotiator Bruce Mayer met in private. The players invited the parties to meet again on Monday, and MLB told the union it would return with a decision on the meeting.
Among the few areas with new proposals, players said the rapid competition committee should include four union members, six leadership members and one judge. The group will consider changes to the rules no earlier than 2023, which will cover a 14-second clock without runners at the base and 19 seconds with runners enabled, limiting defensive shifts and using larger bases, and it will be able to recommend offseason changes with 45 days warning for implementation.
The MLB last week proposed that the committee include six leadership officials, two union representatives and one judge. Currently, management can change the rules only with the consent of the union or unilaterally with a one-year notice.
The players said they would not allow the committee to consider one topic that MLB asked to include: robots to summon balls and punches.
The union has offered to increase the postseason from 10 teams to 12, but said it is ready to discuss the leadership's desire to get 14 if MLB will consider a "ghost victory" in the first round, in which management is not interested. the best of the five playoffs with a 1-0 series advantage.
Players want to raise the luxury tax threshold from $ 210 last season to $ 238 million this year, $ 244 million in 2023, $ 250 million in 2024, $ 256 million in 2025 and $ 263 million in 2026. $ 224 million in 2025 and $ 230 million in 2026.
Tax rates will remain unchanged and direct compensation for draft bidding for free agents will be eliminated.
The union reduced its pre-arbitration bonus pool plan from $ 85 million, but asked for an annual increase of $ 5 million for the remainder of the deal. The last time MLB offered $ 30 million compared to $ 25 million without an annual increase and suggested that the union verbally called the figure below $ 80 million when the parties discussed possible compromises on Monday night.
Under the general agreement, the players agreed to withdraw the proposed extension of salary arbitration for players with at least two years of experience, but less than three.
Players have maintained the proposed minimum wage of $ 725,000 this year, $ 745,000 in 2023, $ 765,000 in 2024 and will increase over the next two years based on the consumer price index for urban employees. The owners offered $ 700,000 with an annual increase of $ 10,000.
For players destined for minors and signing a second or later contract in the major leagues, the MLB is a minimum of $ 99,400 this year, $ 101,400 in 2023, $ 103,400 in 2024, $ 105,500 in 2025 and $ 106,600. in 2025 and 106,600 dollars, and in 2025 – 106,600 dollars, while in 2025 – 106,600 dollars2, 104, 1041, 1041, 107, and then the increase in the cost of living.
For those minors on a first major league contract, MLB costs $ 49,800 with an annual increase of $ 1,000, and this year – $ 59,500 players, followed by $ 61,100, $ 62,700 and a rise in the cost of living.
Players turned down MLB's offer of an international draft and remained in the top six selections for the proposed amateur draft lottery, one more than the MLB.
Players also want to cut the proposed MLB international games that include Mexico City; Melbourne, Australia; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and South Korea.
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Q: Zend methods / library in cron Is it possible to create an instance of zend_view in a cron tab script in zend?
What i want is to get the base url, server url within a script that is executed by the cron?
I heard that in cron tab, zend_view has no idea of the base and server url.
Is there another way for it?

A: Create a controller name CronController  add any action let say
Class CronController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
   public function workAction()
   {

         $view = $this->view ; //access for zend_view
   }
}

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wget -q --spider http://www.mysite.com/public/cron/work

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Il missile Tartar era l'esponente a medio raggio della serie dei missili 'T', americani. Esso era praticamente un'arma derivata dal Terrier, con la rimozione del booster di accelerazione e, data la minore massa e lunghezza, era adatto alle navi minori, come i cacciatorpediniere; con gittata inizialmente di 13 km e alla fine, di 32 km, è stato sostituito dallo SM-1.

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RIM-24A : Versione originale utilizzata per i test (1958)
RIM-24B : Primo sistema imbarcato con il nome Tartar (1961)
RIM-24C : Versione finale che sarebbe servita per lo sviluppo del sistema RIM-66 Standard (1963)

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Elenco di alcune classi di imbarcazioni hanno utilizzato il sistema missilistico RIM-24 Tartar
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Many IT pros think VMware's small business software holds many 'gotchas'. Our VMware expert reveals the downsides that could affect your small to medium-sized business.
Editor's note: This is part two of this series from Mike Laverick. Check out part one here.
When purchasing VMware small business software, one of the common questions I'm asked is: 'Are there any gotchas with these SMB packages'?
One gotcha surrounds the hardware you buy. With VMware's Essentials editions, you will be limited by the fact that there are a limited number of cores per physical socket allowed and also by the number of vCPUs offered to the virtual machine (VM). So if your workload changes significantly, or you are trying to squeeze more from your initial purchase than you planned, you might find yourself limited by the SKU. For this reason some small and medium-sized businesses opt for one of VMware's Advanced Acceleration kits instead.
The SMB and Enterprise classifications can cause a lot of confusion. Many businesses are SMB in size, but have scale and availability demands that make them more like enterprise customers when it comes to consuming software and hardware. They should look at the Midsize Acceleration Kit (with Enterprise) or the Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit, which offer the best routes for getting all the features with the ability to upgrade as needed.
The alternative is to start looking at SKUs normally presented to enterprise customers, and use a handy matrix that shows the SKUs by feature, that is similar to use, in terms of look and feel, to the small business software version.
When introduced, Enterprise Plus irritated a significant number of VMware's largest, most loyal customers because they thought they had future-proofed their purchase by buying the highest SKU, but Enterprise Plus had these extra features compared to the Enterprise version. It was as if those customers had built the world's tallest building, only to find VMware had built a taller building by putting a metal spike on top of it to take the record.
My advice to customers when they first look at VMware licensing from an enterprise perspective is to look at the Enterprise Plus SKU and ask themselves if it is worth the premium price attached to it. Frequently, I'm asked if I think VMware will change its position on the way the Enterprise Plus SKU is constructed – as if VMware tells me such commercially-sensitive information. However, I wouldn't be surprised if, as with the SMB SKUs, we see features previously residing in the Enterprise or Enterprise Plus SKU finding their way into the lower-priced products. This pattern would match the recent changes in the SMB SKUs with the arrival of vSphere 4.1.
I believe, though, we will have to wait until we get the next generation of vSphere. I also believe VMware will maintain the "Plus" distinction. After fighting a (losing?) battle to justify its existence, it would be brave of the company to put up its hands and admit it made a mistake with this small business software.
The second area of concern surrounds VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) tool that moves VMs around to improve the performance of a VMware cluster. When the company introduced clustering features in Virtual Infrastructure 3, it decided to license the clustering feature of High Availability (HA) and DRS Performance separately. This approach persists to this day, despite the fact that VMware HA is increasingly found in the lower SKUs for both SMB and Enterprise products. In fact, you will find a bundle of features that are only available in the Enterprise SKU —and not in the Standard or Advanced SKUs. These include support for the vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) and Storage VMotion (SVMotion).
I suspect it will be difficult for VMware to stop the support for VAAI and SVMotion from drifting into the Advanced SKU by the next release. By then a lot of entry-level storage arrays will have the firmware required to run VAAI, but customers could find themselves lacking the right version of vSphere 4 to leverage the performance benefits.
Similarly, the ability to move VMs from one storage location to another without claiming a maintenance mode will become very much like vMotion – a standard feature customers expect, without a premium. With that said, the location of VMware DRS remains more important. After all, studies by VMware have shown that this automated system of placing VMs on the right ESX host and moving them to improve performance works better than an administrator making those decisions manually.
It's hard to espouse the idea of a dynamic virtual data centre that constantly tunes and optimises itself on demand – whilst placing the feature that allows that functionality in a premium Enterprise SKU. What triggers many customers' decision to buy the enterprise bundle, over the advanced bundle, is access to the DRS feature. Ironically, the other features they also get (VAAI and SVMotion) make it easier to sell it to their management, and the addition of this feature adds value to the purchase at the same time.


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All experience is mediated—by the mechanisms of sense perception, mentation, language, etc.—& certainly all art consists of some further mediation of experience.
However, mediation takes place by degrees. Some experiences (smell, taste, sexual pleasure, etc.) are less mediated than others (reading a book, looking through a telescope, listening to a record). Some media, especially "live" arts such as dance, theater, musical or bardic performance, are less mediated than others such as TV, CDs, Virtual Reality. Even among the media usually called "media," some are more & others are less mediated, according to the intensity of imaginative participation they demand. Print & radio demand more of the imagination, film less, TV even less, VR the least of all—so far.
For art, the intervention of Capital always signals a further degree of mediation. To say that art is commodified is to say that a mediation, or standing-in-between, has occurred, & that this betweenness amounts to a split, & that this split amounts to "alienation." Improv music played by friends at home is less "alienated" than music played "live" at the Met, or music played through media (whether PBS or MTV or Walkman). In fact, an argument could be made that music distributed free or at cost on cassette via mail is LESS alienated than live music played at some huge We Are The World spectacle or Las Vegas niteclub, even though the latter is live music played to a live audience (or at least so it appears), while the former is recorded music consumed by distant & even anonymous listeners.
The tendency of Hi Tech, & the tendency of Late Capitalism, both impel the arts farther & farther into extreme forms of mediation. Both widen the gulf between the production & consumption of art , with a corresponding increase in "alienation."
With the disappearance of a "mainstream" & therefore of an "avant-garde" in the arts, it has been noticed that all the more advanced & intense art-experiences have been recuperable almost instantly by the media, & thus are rendered into trash like all other trash in the ghostly world of commodities. "Trash, " as the term was redefined in, let's say, Baltimore in the 1970s, can be good fun—as an ironic take on a sort of inadvertent folkultur that surrounds & pervades the more unconscious regions of "popular" sensibility—which in turn is produced in part by the Spectacle. "Trash" was once a fresh concept, with radical potential. By now, however, amidst the ruins of Post-Modernism, it has finally begun to stink. Ironic frivolity finally becomes disgusting. Is it possible now to BE SERIOUS BUT NOT SOBER? (Note: The New Sobriety is or course simply the flipside of the New Frivolity. Chic neo-puritanism carries the taint of Reaction, in just the same way that postmodernist philosophical irony & despair lead to Reaction. The Purge Society is the same as the Binge Society. After the "12 steps" of trendy renunciation in the ' 90s, all that remains is the 13th step of the gallows. Irony may have become boring, but self-mutilation was never more than an abyss. Down with frivolity—Down with sobriety.)
Everything delicate & beautiful, from Surrealism to Break-dancing, ends up as fodder for McDeath's ads; 15 minutes later all the magic has been sucked out, & the art itself dead as a dried locust. The media-wizards, who are nothing if not postmodernists, have even begun to feed on the vitality of "Trash," like vultures regurgitating & re-consuming the same carrion, in an obscene ecstasy of self-referentiality. Which way to the Egress?
Real art is play, & play is one of the most immediate of all experiences. Those who have cultivated the pleasure of play cannot be expected to give it up simply to make a political point (as in an "Art Strike, " or "the suppression without the realization" of art, etc.). Art will go on, in somewhat the same sense that breathing, eating, or fucking will go on.
Nevertheless, we are repelled by the extreme alienation of the arts, especially in "the media," in commercial publishing & galleries, in the recording "industry," etc. And we sometimes worry even about the extent to which our very involvement in such arts as writing, painting, or music implicates us in a nasty abstraction, a removal from immediate experience. We miss the directness of play (our original kick in doing art in the first place); we miss smell, taste, touch, the feel of bodies in motion.
Computers, video, radio, printing presses, synthesizers, fax machines, tape recorders, photocopiers—these things make good toys, but terrible addictions. Finally we realize we cannot " reach out and touch someone" who is not present in the flesh. These media may be useful to our art—but they must not possess us, nor must they stand between, mediate, or separate us from our animal/animate selves. We want to control our media, not be Controlled by them. And we should like to remember a certain psychic martial art which stresses the realization that the body itself is the least mediated of all media.
Therefore, as artists & "cultural workers" who have no intention of giving up activity in our chosen media, we nevertheless demand of ourselves an extreme awareness of immediacy , as well as the mastery of some direct means of implementing this awareness as play, immediately (at once) & immediately (without mediation).
Fully realizing that any art "manifesto" written today can only stink of the same bitter irony it seeks to oppose, we nevertheless declare without hesitation (without too much thought) the founding of a "movement," IMMEDIATISM. We feel free to do so because we intend to practice Immediatism in secret, in order to avoid any contamination of mediation. Publicly we'll continue our work in publishing, radio, printing, music, etc., but privately we will create something else, something to be shared freely but never consumed passively, something which can be discussed openly but never understood by the agents of alienation, something with no commercial potential yet valuable beyond price, something occult yet woven completely into the fabric of our everyday lives.
Immediatism is not a movement in the sense of an aesthetic program. It depends on situation, not style or content, message or School. It may take the form of any kind of creative play which can be performed by two or more people, by & for themselves, face-to-face & together. In this sense it is like a game, & therefore certain "rules " may apply.
All spectators must also be performers. All expenses are to be shared, & all products which may result from the play are also to be shared by the participants only (who may keep them or bestow them as gifts, but should not sell them). The best games will make little or no use of obvious forms of mediation such as photography, recording, printing, etc., but will tend toward immediate techniques involving physical presence, direct communication, & the senses.
An obvious matrix for Immediatism is the party. Thus a good meal could be an Immediatist art project, especially if everyone present cooked as well as ate. Ancient Chinese & Japanese on misty autumn days would hold odor parties, where each guest would bring a homemade incense or perfume. At linked-verse parties a faulty couplet would entail the penalty of a glass of wine. Quilting bees, tableaux vivants, exquisite corpses, rituals of conviviality like Fourier's "Museum Orgy" (erotic costumes, poses, & skits), live music & dance—the past can be ransacked for appropriate forms, & imagination will supply more.
The difference between a 19th century quilting bee, for example, & an Immediatist quilting bee would lie in our awareness of the practice of Immediatism as a response to the sorrows of alienation & the " death of art."
The mail art of the '70s & the zine scene of the '80s were attempts to go beyond the mediation of art-as-commodity, & may be considered ancestors of Immediatism. However, they preserved the mediated structures of postal communication & xerography, & thus failed to overcome the isolation of the players, who remained quite literally out of touch. We wish to take the motives & discoveries of these earlier movements to their logical conclusion in an art which banishes all mediation & alienation, at least to the extent that the human condition allows.
Moreover, Immediatism is not condemned to powerlessness in the world, simply because it avoids the publicity of the marketplace. "Poetic Terrorism" and "Art Sabotage" are quite logical manifestations of Immediatism.
Finally, we expect that the practice of Immediatism will release within us vast storehouses of forgotten power, which will not only transform our lives through the secret realization of unmediated play, but will also inescapably well up & burst out & permeate the other art we create, the more public & mediated art.
And we hope that the two will grow closer & closer, & eventually perhaps become one.
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"Walter Bender, the OLPC's president for software and content, said in his weekly news update that, up to now, the Brazilian project has been coordinated solely by that country's presidency with the assistance of the Ministry of Education. 'They will now begin to work more deeply with other ministries,' Bender said via email..."


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Ask enough people who live in the north eastern corner of North Carolina about where to take a weekend getaway and you are sure to start hearing the name New Bern. Never heard of it? Not to worry, we had not heard of it either, then we relocated here and discovered the secret for ourselves. In our photography of New Bern you will see it is a pre-colonial, classic American small town built on the peninsula where the Trent and Neuse rivers meet. You can certainly learn a lot from our photography of New Bern but you might also be interested to know it has a history that connects with the beginning of the nation, the civil war, and the invention of Pepsi. Over the years it's also had quite the literary history. Jules Verne once set a novel here. The romance writer of the Notebook, Nicolas Sparks has a home here and one of the Outlander books features our Tryon Palace. All of that aside. Its a beautiful place and the people are nice. You should come see it for yourself.
Global Image Creation's Creative Director, Jeremy Mason McGraw recently embarked on a travel photography adventure in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy to explore the light-shaping capabilities of their smallest studio light, the A1.
Professional food photography is about more than food: it is about the story that all of the elements that make up a photograph tell about that food. A great culinary photographer understands the way that composition, lighting, crockery, and background all come together, and how to guide these elements to tell a story for a specific purpose. The story that restaurant photos on a website should tell is different to the story that should be told in editorial food photography in a magazine. At Global Image Creation, we excel at telling all of these stories.
Over the past 15 years we have worked as travel photographers for many clients and in many countries, but there is one place we keep coming back to: Switzerland. We hope that, in our Switzerland photography, you can feel how much this place has captured our hearts.
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Photos are at the center of your marketing and communications efforts, and they're important to get right. At Global Image Creation, we have been working in luxury hotel photography for more than 15 years. Whether you are looking for a resort photographer to capture feel of your surroundings , show off incredible architecture and design of your property, or want to arrange a lifestyle photoshoot that conveys the experience of being a guest at your hotel, we can help.
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A creative portrait incorporates multiple perspectives, including that of the subject, the photographer, the viewer, and the overall narrative. There are also a range of technical elements and details that need to be navigated, including lighting, background, composition, and expression. It's a style of photography that requires not just a skilled photographer, but also a curious and creative one.
At Global Image Creation, the emphasis of our work is on conveying the true experience a place offers, not simply its physical reality, in all of our images. Lifestyle photography can be an incredible marketing tool in the luxury tourism industry; it can help potential guests really imagine themselves enjoying the services and experience you offer. However, lifestyle photography may also requires a larger team than many other types of photography, and may require a wardrobe stylist, hair and makeup artists as well as other professionals on the crew.
There are few countries in the world with as much to offer as Italy. The food, the culture, the people, the history, and the architecture all come together to make this country one of the most spectacular places to visit, illustrated by our gallery of Italy images. The cities and towns are immediately entrancing, and, in our experience working as travel photographers in Italy, we have found there are always deeper, richer, and more exciting layers to discover.
Automotive photography is about more than just capturing cars. It's about more than the shape, or the lines, or the details. A good professional car photographer strives to capture the character of a car: it's timeless beauty, or its modern philosophy. Car photography is about telling a story about the car, and the lifestyle that car embodies.


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Devsar è una suddivisione dell'India, classificata come census town, di 8.869 abitanti, situata nel distretto di Navsari, nello stato federato del Gujarat. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe V (da 5.000 a 9.999 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 20° 45' 55 N e 72° 58' 20 E.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Devsar assommava a 8.869 persone, delle quali 4.539 maschi e 4.330 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 953, dei quali 523 maschi e 430 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 7.086, dei quali 3.826 maschi e 3.260 femmine.

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Swords into Ploughshares
Labour • December 22, 2021 • Sam Gindin and Simon Black
Simon Black, lead organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade, speaks to Sam Gindin, former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers (now Unifor), about the promise of repurposing the Canadian arms industry's resources for socially useful production – and winning a just transition for arms industry workers.
Simon Black (SB): Let's start with some context. A 2018 study of the defence sector found that it contributed $6.2-billion in GDP and 60,000 jobs to the Canadian economy. Between 2016 and 2020, the main recipients of Canadian arms exports were the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, accounting for 49 percent of all arms exports, and the United Arab Emirates at 17 percent. Saudi Arabia is also the primary destination for US arms exports. The largest advanced manufacturing export contract, and largest arms deal, in Canadian history is the $14-billion light armoured vehicle (LAV) deal between General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada and Saudi Arabia, a deal secured by the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) and the Harper Conservative government in 2014. Workers at General Dynamics in London, Ontario, where the LAVs are manufactured, are members of Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union. What do these facts and figures tell us about the role of the arms industry in the political economy of Canada and in the political economy of the American empire?
Sam Gindin (SG): We need to be clear that what drives these arms exports is above all the geopolitical context. The US supports Saudi Arabia as a trusted partner in superintending developments in the Middle East. Canada, as a subordinate ally of the US, follows suit in arming Saudi Arabia. The jobs and the resultant corporate profits are, of course, not unimportant, but they are secondary to that larger context. In the case of jobs, they help sell Canada's shameful international role and isolate critics, as the government can say to the public that this or that arms deal 'creates jobs'.
Some unions are complicit in this. In the absence of a broad political response to Canada's foreign policy, the jobs involved [in the arms industry] trump other considerations. Even unions that may not be involved in arms production, and that may even be uncomfortable with Canada's role [in the arms trade], will tend to avoid criticizing the job priorities of other unions. This essentially gives those producing arms a veto over censuring Canada's complicity in undermining human and democratic rights.
The high value of these exports does signal an impressive level of technology, investment, and skills – a sophisticated set of productive capacities that could be used in so many alternative and socially positive ways. When [Canadian aerospace company] De Havilland was threatened with closure, I once asked some of its engineers what else they could make, and they looked at me incredulously. They pointed out that as airplane manufacturers, "we can make anything. We're intimately involved in propulsion systems and a wide range of materials. We could be making hydroplanes or mechanical ventilators for hospitals. We can make anything." So the argument that a union might make about dependence on a particular arms contract is only a viable argument when you stop thinking about alternatives. The catch, of course, is that those alternatives are hard to put forth when you're in a capitalist economy that values possibilities in terms of their profitability. If we counter this [focus on profit] by asking, "Are we making useful things?" or "Are skilled workers contributing to the production of useful things?" then we get very different answers.
SB: Canadian arms exports to Saudi Arabia have been opposed by a range of civil society organizations, from Amnesty International to Oxfam. Collectively these organizations have also called for the federal government to work with trade unions representing workers in the arms industry to develop a plan that secures the livelihoods of those who would be impacted by the end of arms exports to Saudi Arabia. And in Labour Against the Arms Trade's work with these organizations, we've always stressed the importance of centring this demand. Why is it important that mainstream, liberal human rights and humanitarian organizations are calling for a just transition for arms industry workers?
SG: These progressive organizations have come to see that, absent alternatives, workers making arms are locked into survival mode and tend to ignore calls for ending arms production or even see them as a threat to their family's livelihood. Even faced with the climate crisis, which is so much closer to home, workers will resist supporting policies that undermine their jobs – unless there is an alternative, which means both comparable jobs in terms of compensation and a transition to such jobs.
But simply calling for a 'just transition' won't cut it. It may seem a good way to win people over to something that seems logical, but workers are rightly skeptical about it happening – they do have some experience with, and understanding of, the power relationships that exist in capitalist societies. If we're not ready to assert that this [transition] will mean raising the question of planning, and not just "planning" but the kind of intervention that will challenge the profit priorities of capital (business and finance) with social priorities, the discussion isn't happening on a sufficiently complex and radical level.
Progressive organizations like Oxfam and Amnesty are right to see that this [challenge to profit priorities] is a challenge to capitalist power and capitalism itself and so can be a barrier to convincing people, particularly workers and communities where these arms are manufactured, like the LAVs in London, Ontario. But it's the only honest – and possible – way forward. The message is not just that there are potential alternatives, but also that they could be introduced only if we could build the kind of social force that's necessary to [implement them]. Sometimes people want to obscure the fact that our demands are radical, because they feel like [this reality will make it] harder to mobilize. [But] unless we can respect workers enough to address the reality and win them over, we're left with a progressive demand that is in essence an abstract slogan.
SB: Let's talk specifically about Unifor and the LAV deal. The workers who manufacture the LAVs at General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada in London, Ontario, are members of Unifor Local 27. Unifor has not made a public statement about the Saudi arms deal since the 2015 federal election. In that statement, the union said it is "committed to standing up for jobs and human rights," but also, "The bottom line is the contract has been signed … No one is losing any jobs." In May 2021, the union rightly condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and called for the Canadian government to immediately impose a full weapons embargo on Israel, stating: "We should not be supplying arms that Israeli forces are using to commit these human rights atrocities against the Palestinian people." What should the union's position be on the LAV deal? How can it stand up for jobs and human rights?
SG: If unions haven't done any preparatory work and there's still a general sense in the country that Canada is on the side of the angels, we can't expect to change much. So a good place to start the discussion may be not with a direct challenge to [union members'] jobs, but by calling on unions to educate their members about – i.e. expose – what's happening in Saudi Arabia, in Yemen: what the arms are for. The union should be informing their members about this. Workers should know what they're involved in; doing this kind of preliminary education is not asking too much of unions. The union involved might set up a committee to investigate arms deals and their relationship to the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia and the war in Yemen, pass on this information to its members, and start investigating possible alternative [uses for the industry's] facilities.
Second, we need to broaden the issue beyond particular unions and particular arms exports. A similar approach should be taken regarding plants that manufacture products that harm the environment, when they could be converted to making socially useful products for addressing the ecological crisis. In fact, there are plants regularly closing in every community across the country because they do not meet corporate profitability goals; it is in these situations that workers have a clearer reason to think about alternative uses of our productive capacities. This opens the door to a more general demand for all union locals to have committees that concern themselves with the viability of their workplace and preparing for convertibility when a corporation leaves them in the lurch.
This could then also lead to specific demands on the state, and unions should be looking ahead to develop plans that can come to fruition with the help of the state. The government should be instituting a national conversion agency, which will support and plan for these kinds of conversions and think about procurement. Unions in a multitude of locations should be asserting that they have an environmental policy and believe that their facility can, if threatened, be converted into playing an important environmental role. To this end, union locals everywhere need to plan for such eventualities, and lobby for supportive state structures. If this in fact happens in many locations, then it becomes a national campaign/project. But unless unions themselves take a leadership role, it won't get on the agenda in a significant way. The state will rather hide behind what the union says about the need to protect jobs.
So it requires laying out a larger strategy, a strategy of the workers themselves starting to have committees that investigate this and think about this and ally with people who've thought about it, and look at other examples of where this [transition] has happened. Even if there aren't a lot of examples, there are quite a few that can be looked at. And the union can help with research to get started, but it should also be part of a larger strategy that's talking about conversion more generally. And it can extend from the question of arms, of things we shouldn't be making, to a lot of things that we actually need.
Environmental concerns are often seen as a threat to jobs, but if we recognize that addressing the environment means addressing everything about how we travel, live, and work – and that this will require material supports – then the closing of any facility undermines our productive capacities to address the environment and other social needs. Putting arms conversion in such a broader strategic perspective can help build the kind of political movement that can also build the power to get issues like arms exports to Saudi Arabia on the agenda.
I'm worried that if we don't take a larger perspective but limit ourselves to specific cases – as important as they are – we will be isolated. And so we need to build, taking on the entire so-called "defence" industry and other sectors related to the critical environmental crisis. The oil and gas industry is one such sector, but the entire environmental question is just an enormous opportunity to think about conversion. And it's also a message to the public sector that instead of thinking about cutbacks, we should be talking about expanding the sector through conversion and through planning – and even where there are cutbacks, there [are still opportunities to convert facilities] to make socially useful things.
More generally, [this approach is] part of starting to think about an economy that is democratically planned for social use. People are stumbling along trying to defend their own jobs, accepting restraints or concessions to keep those jobs but ultimately finding that in their own small space they just can't win or make the advances a rich society should offer. It's time to raise the larger questions; that's the only possible way of moving to truly protect ourselves.
SB: Right, I agree. Returning for a minute to Unifor's official position on the LAV deal. Historically, has Unifor, or the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union before it, taken a more principled stand on militarism and the arms industry? Especially an instance in which its members' jobs were at stake?
SG: Yes, I recall an example from the late 1980s. The peace movement was putting out an ad against spending money on new fighter helicopters, which were due to be manufactured at a CAW plant in Winnipeg, and [movement organizers] came to us asking for support for the campaign. I took it to [CAW President] Bob White as something that I thought we should do, but I understood the political difficulties. Bob's response was that we should do it and we should do it because, even just in our union, we had a responsibility to the membership as a whole and not just to a particular plant. And we couldn't ignore the impacts on people who would suffer from Canadian and US militarism, the victims of imperial aggression abroad, people who were going to be bombed. And we had a responsibility to go and explain this to the members in Winnipeg who would be making these fighter helicopters. We went to Winnipeg and made the case that in representing the union as a whole, and in considering the social justice issues we believed in, [the national CAW] wouldn't be supporting this contract. We would be supporting the peace movement mobilizing against it.
Now, as you can imagine, those members weren't very happy with this decision. This was a group of workers that were new to the union, and they were extremely frustrated and angry over the national's decision. The leader of the local did appreciate the larger questions, but he still felt that his responsibility was to the members at the plant. So, we took quite a lot of flak for this.
Not too long later – I can't remember how long, maybe it was a half a year – that contract ended. And we got a note from the local basically saying that the position the national union had taken was the right one; that had the local leadership joined with us to argue for producing civilian aircraft rather than military aircraft, in the long term that would have provided much more stable demand. They noted that they'd been too short-sighted and wanted to let us know that after all the criticism they'd thrown our way, the national union had been right in making its decision.
SB: I think people would be surprised to see the current leadership of Unifor take such a position.
SG: I agree. And that's a reflection of the lowering of expectations: of the union itself, of what's possible and what its social role is. People would be surprised by the union taking such a position instead of avoiding confrontation with a local.
SB: In the wake of the closure of the GM Oshawa Assembly Facility, Green Jobs Oshawa launched an inspiring campaign for public ownership and conversion [of the facility] for socially beneficial manufacturing. In the past, workers have made [similar] demands for the conversion of arms manufacturing into socially useful production; perhaps the best-known case is the Lucas Plan in the UK. What can Labour Against the Arms Trade learn from examples like Green Jobs Oshawa and the Lucas Plan?
SG: As I argued earlier, in every community there are plant shutdowns happening because corporations don't find those plants profitable, and maybe they aren't profitable, but they're productive facilities that – if you evaluate them in terms of their potential, rather than their potential for corporations – you could convert. So, in those cases you are talking to workers who are losing their jobs, and you're saying, "Why aren't we talking about converting this?" That engages workers in fighting for their jobs directly and links that struggle to these larger environmental and geopolitical questions in Saudi Arabia. It opens the door to a larger political program on conversion that organically raises questions about planning and democracy, yet always linked to actual struggles on the ground. And I think that's key.
We have to find a way of engaging workers and supporting struggles with this kind of dynamic. In every community, the labour council should take on being a catalyst to get locals to set up committees to prepare for the economic restructuring around them, because once their facility or service is lost and we aren't prepared, it's generally too late to start a campaign. In a case like arms for Saudi Arabia, actually saying, "Isn't it possible that with all this technology we could make something that is socially useful? And have more guarantees of job security at some point, if we win in the fight to say we shouldn't be selling arms to Saudi Arabia in the first place?" The union should be ready, because we don't want to be the ones to say we don't give a shit about what happens to other people. So, we must be preparing and struggling with how to link the larger issues to concrete local struggles.
In Green Jobs Oshawa, we've learned about all kinds of possibilities. But the difficulty is winning workers over. It wasn't that workers in Oshawa didn't think [conversion for green jobs] was logical or common sense or a good idea; it's that they didn't believe that we had the power to do this, and part of that was they didn't see their unions doing this! So, winning unions over is critical, and a modest start is to ask unions to at least educate their members about [these possibilities] and set up committees to investigate them, because that isn't a difficult thing. And part of the shame here is that unions aren't even doing that.
SB: And why is that?
SG: There's been a massive defeat of the labour movement and workers are demoralized and their expectations of what they can do have been lowered. This is a problem that we must overcome, and it's reflected in the leadership as well, who don't have that political imagination, are themselves defensive – not wanting to stir up anything that might raise larger questions or demands for a new direction – so they become more conservative. And it's a reflection of the weakness of the left, our inability to put these larger questions on the agenda and organize. From that perspective, the work that Labour Against the Arms Trade is doing is so important. •
This article first published on the Midnight Sun website.
Sam Gindin was research director of the Canadian Auto Workers from 1974–2000. He is co-author (with Leo Panitch) of The Making of Global Capitalism (Verso), and co-author with Leo Panitch and Steve Maher of The Socialist Challenge Today , the expanded and updated American edition (Haymarket).
Simon Black is an Assistant Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University. Simon is lead organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade, a grassroots coalition of peace and labour activists working to end Canada's participation in the international arms trade. Follow his tweets at @_SimonBlack.
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March 20 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – March 22

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 8.

Saints

 Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy.  (see also: March 26)
 Saint Maria the Martyr, in Perge.
 Saint Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Egypt (c. 358)
 Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th century) (see also: May 14)
 Saint Sophronius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Theodosius, in Palestine (542)
 Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople (610)
 Venerable Jacob the Confessor (James the Confessor), Bishop, of the Studion (late 8th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 Saint Beryllus, Bishop of Catania (c. 90)
 Saint Lupicinus of Condat, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains, Gaul (480)
 Saint Enda of Aran, Abbot of Arranmore, monk, earliest leader of Irish monasticism (530)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (Michael of Soluneia), at Thessalonica (1544 or 1547)
 Venerable Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949)

New martyrs and confessors

 New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vvedensky, Priest (1931)
 New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeyevsky), Archbishop (1938)  (see also: October 10)

Other commemorations

 Glorification of Venerable Pachomius, Abbot, of Nerekhta (1384) (see also: May 15)

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Notes

References

Sources
 March 21/April 3. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
 April 3 / March 21. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
 March 21. OCA – The Lives of the Saints.
 The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 23.
 March 21. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
 The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 82–83.
Greek Sources
 Great Synaxaristes:  21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  Συναξαριστής. 21 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
Russian Sources
  3 апреля (21 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia – Pravenc.ru).
  21 марта (ст.ст.) 3 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

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