CECAM-ES. A recent CECAM Flagship Workshop held in Zaragoza (Spain) brought together current computational and experimental efforts aimed at exploring the transport, conversion, and storage of chemical energy at the nanoscale. This workshop was organized by Felix Fernandez-Alonso (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) and Fernando Bresme (Imperial College, UK). Roberto Senesi from the NAST Center (Italy) gave an invited talk on how epithermal neutrons can be used to benchmark state-of-the-art computational methods in the context of energy materials.


Following up on Randy's theme...I've seen quite a few Robins lately and am feeling hopeful for us Northeasterners.
I've seen a ton of fat Robins too and Cardinals. Those Robins have been around for a while though. The whole world is screwed up. Last year they came in early in the spring and there wasn't enough food for them and I found dead Robins (immature) all over my riding ring every morning.
Good image. Clever idea. We got another foot of snow dumped on us up here this afternoon. I feel bad for the birds who've been drifting in the past few days.
A beautiful subtle image, Master DG.


Rock Oil is proud to announce the launch of an innovative new range of light commercial fleet lubricants, VAN-GUARD®. We realised that standard automotive or commercial lubricants are not the ideal solution for protecting LCV engines, so we've specially engineered a series of bespoke products VAN-GUARD® to cover the LCV market. They are OEM specific and approved products, meaning they can be used throughout the whole life of your vehicles, including during the warranty period.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and the Bank of Scotland have been pillars of Scotland's economy and culture for over three centuries. So when the RBS was nationalized by the London-based UK government following the 2008 banking crisis, and the Bank of Scotland was acquired by the London-based Lloyds Bank, it came as a shock to the Scots. They no longer owned their oldest and most venerable banks.
Another surprise turn of events was the triumph of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the 2011 Scottish parliamentary election. Scotland is still part of the United Kingdom, but it has had its own parliament since 1999, similar to U.S. states. The SNP has rallied around the call for independence from the UK since its founding in 1934, but it was a minority party until the 2011 victory, which gave it an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament.
Scottish independence is now on the table. A bill has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament with the intention of holding a referendum on the issue in 2014.
Arguments in favor of independence include that it will allow the Scottish people to make decisions for Scotland themselves, on such contentious issues as having nuclear weapons in their seas and being part of NATO. They can also directly access the profits from the North Sea oil off Scotland's coast.
Arguments against independence include that Scotland's levels of public spending (which are higher than in the rest of the UK) would be difficult to sustain without raising taxes. North Sea oil revenues will eventually decline.
One way budgetary problems might be relieved would be for Scotland to have its own publicly-owned bank, one that served the interests of the Scottish people. True economic sovereignty means having control over the national currency, credit and debt.
It was in that context that I was asked to give a presentation on public banking at RSA Scotland (the Royal Society of Arts) in Edinburgh on November 22nd. Among other attendees were a special adviser and a civil servant from the Scottish government. The presentation was followed by one by public sector consultant Ralph Leishman, Director 4-consulting, who made the public bank option concrete with specific proposals fitting the Scottish context. He suggested that the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB) be licensed as a depository bank, on the model of the state-owned Bank of North Dakota. Lively debate followed.
Leishman stated that the SIB now has investment funds of £23.2 million from the Scottish government. Rounding this to £25 million, a public depository bank could have sufficient capital to back £250 million in loans. For deposits to cover the loans, the Scottish Government has £125 million on deposit with private banks, currently earning little or no interest. Adding just 14% of the General Fund cash and cash equivalent reserves held by Scotland's local governments would provide another £125 million, reaching the needed £250 million with six times that sum in local government revenues to spare.
My assignment was to show what the government could do with its own bnak, following the model of the Bank of North Dakota (BND). On the Saturday following the RSA event, the Scotsman published an article by Alf Young that summarized the issues and possibilities so well that I'm taking the liberty of abstracting from it here.
North Dakota is currently the only U.S. state to own its own depository bank. The BND was founded in 1919 by Norwegian and other immigrants, determined, through their Non-Partisan League, to stop rapacious Wall Street money men foreclosing on their farms.
All state revenues must be deposited with the BND by law. The bank pays no bonuses, fees or commissions; does no advertising; and maintains no branches beyond the main office in Bismarck. The bank offers cheap credit lines to state and local government agencies. There are low-interest loans for designated project finance. The BND underwrites municipal bonds, funds disaster relief and supports student loans. It partners with local commercial banks to increase lending across the state and pays competitive interest rates on state deposits. For the past ten years, it has been paying a dividend to the state, with a quite small population of about 680,000, of some $30 million (£18.7 million) a year.
The Scots are full of surprises, and independence is in their blood. Recall the heroic battles of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce memorialized by Hollywood in the Academy Award winning movie Braveheart. Perhaps the Scots will blaze a trail for economic sovereignty in the E.U., just as North Dakotans did in the U.S. A publicly-owned bank could help Scotland take control of its own economic destiny, by avoiding unnecessary debt to a private banking system that has become a burden to the economy rather than a pillar in its support.
Ellen Brown is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute. In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, she shows how a private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites are http://WebofDebt.com, http://EllenBrown.com, and http://PublicBankingInstitute.org.


Uncategorized Archives | North County Group – Sierra Club S.D.
Here is a summary of what is at stake on Wednesday San Diego Union Tribune. Approval of these 'bundled' projects would be devastating for our region. Please attend if you can and/or communicate with your Supervisor. Please see earlier post here.


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Q: How to right click in Vimperator? Mouseless browsing is great, hints are great. Is there a way to right click, without using the mouse?

A: ;c

Allows you to open the right click menu (also called the contextual menu) for links.
I'm not aware of any other ways to trigger this menu for other areas of the page and browser.

A: In addition to previous answers: if you're on Linux/Unix OS, try out KeyNav. This program allows you to move cursor quickly without mouse - it also allows you to press buttons via key presses.
Ties nicely with Vimperator / Pentadactyl, must say.

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Presenting your Tattoo Freeze officials crews!
The UKRDA is delighted to announce the officials crews for the 2016 Tattoo Freeze Invitational.
Tattoo Freeze will take place on Sunday January 31 at the Telford International Centre.
More details on the event can be found at the Tattoo Freeze website.
Thanks for letting us know, the spelling has been corrected now.


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SpaceX seeks FCC approval to bring space based internet to the entire US
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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Laying down hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre optic cable has had its day as space based internet platforms compete with established telcos. Private spaceflight firm SpaceX has been publicly planning to deploy a network of "Starlink" satellites to offer broadband internet for several...
Laying down hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre optic cable has had its day as space based internet platforms compete with established telcos.
Private spaceflight firm SpaceX has been publicly planning to deploy a network of "Starlink" satellites to offer broadband internet for several years now, but all the details, such as how many satellites to launch and where, have been on the space-based end. Now, a subsidiary company called SpaceX Services has asked the US FCC for authorisation to deploy up to a million ground transmitters to communicate with the Starlink satellites which, in short, would allow Elon Musk's latest business to blanket the entire US, and eventually the world if his plans work out, with high quality internet coverage and disintermediate the existing fixed line broadband providers all in one fell swoop.
Quantum computing Rose's Law is Moore's Law on steroids
The SpaceX plan consists of launching a large number of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) which is around 1,200 miles (2,000 km) above the Earth's surface. The company will start with 4,425 satellites in LEO supported by another 7,518 flying at "very low" Earth orbit at altitudes between 208 and 215 miles (335 to 346 km), and according to SpaceX, these very low orbit satellites will help reduce latency and increase transmission speeds in congested areas like cities, something that's crucial if you want to offer a quality internet service.
On the ground side, SpaceX now says it wants a blanket license to deploy over one million base stations on Earth that will let consumers access its satellite network. Each terminal would "make use of advanced beamforming and steerable antenna technology."
The SpaceX constellation is set to operate in the Ku-band spectrum, thus the FCC's involvement. The Earth stations will transmit at 14.0-14.5GHz and receive signals at 10.7-12.7GHz. For comparison, current LTE networks operate at 600MHz to 2.5GHz. SpaceX has said that Starlink could provide gigabit speeds with latency as low as 25ms, putting it on par with the fixed line terrestrial broadband it hopes to replace.
A recent job posting for SpaceX engineering talent also suggests the base stations will be a consumer facing devices. So, rather than having a cable or DSL modem in your house, you might have one of SpaceX's Starlink terminals and an antenna that communicates with the satellite network. These terminals are separate from SpaceX's planned satellite gateway facilities, which could number in the hundreds, and which would connect to the internet backbone, providing online access to Starlink users.
From line to plate, Tuna gets its own blockchain
SpaceX is asking the FCC to approve its application quickly in light of it's "ambitious timetable for launching satellites and deploying broadband services," and it's been calculated that if successful this could be a business worth at least $36 billion, which then simply adds more money into Musk's warchest as he makes no bones about the fact that this entire initiative is to fund his ambitions of colonising Mars.
The company is reportedly targeting the middle of this year for its first Starlink launches, and the service could be online in 2020, a deadline that is ambitious even by Musk's lofty standards.
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Beyond 5G, China eyes dominance in 6G networks by 2030
JP Morgan becomes the first major US bank to roll its own crypto coins

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I enjoyed this book, but not quite as much as the previous two of the trilogy. Some relationships and/or dialogues between characters that I treasured from past books were not incorporated into the book or were very minimal at best. I did however enjoy (in part) the dynamics of the star team that is predominant in this book. I especially liked how on several occasions when things came up, like finding food hidden in an apartment, elicited distinctly different perspectives and feeling for the team members depending on where they were originally brought up.Some of my minimal dislike may have been due to listening to this book in audio format over a longer span of time inconsistently. I also forgot to pause it a few time when taking off my ear buds so had to rewind several times.I look forward to seeing the movie of the first book and hope they will make videos of the rest of the series in the future.


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Q: How to configure different logback.xml in storm-project? Consider that I hava a storm cluster that runs two Topologies (A and B), but I just change the ${storm_dir}/logback/cluster.xml in supervisor machines, so A and B are using the same log configurations, how to configure the logback.xml in different project instead of changing it in storm-cluser? I am worried about that

A: Regarding to official documentation no other ways there. The logs are configured only in the $STORM_HOME/logback/cluster.xml (since 0.9). The main problem is that logviewer daemon depends on that file to be able to find and display worker logs. Overriding it would break the log viewer functionality.
Personally in your case you can separate your topologies by the different packages. It's allow you configure loggers for your topologies in the similar way:
<logger name="com.example.topology.A">
    <level level="DEBUG"/>
    <appender-ref ref="FILE_A"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
</logger>

<logger name="com.example.topology.B">
    <level level="WARN"/>
    <appender-ref ref="FILE_B"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
</logger>

So, you can specify different logger level and appender for different topologies just change cluster.xml file.


cyberSecure is a unique cross-industry conference that moves beyond the technology of cyber risk management, data security and privacy. Unlike other cybersecurity events, cyberSecure brings together corporate leaders from multiple function areas who help shape policies, risk management strategy, compliance programs, and an organization's cyber-incident response playbook. This two day event is designed to educate in-house counsel, compliance and privacy officers, risk managers, and CIO/CISOs about the current cybersecurity challenges affecting your business continuity. Connect with your peers, technology solution providers, law firms and advisory consulting professionals for the latest strategies and tools to strengthen your cyber resiliency in the midst of frequent data breaches and prevalent cyber-attacks.


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Introducing our new International Ambassador
by mike|Published October 14, 2020
Phil Kennedy's rise to the position of Official Accrington Stanley Supporter's Trust International Ambassador is one he says is an unlikely story to say the least, but in some sense it would almost have to be.
In the summer of 2018 Phil was in the process of convincing his friend Arran Airs to join him in creating a podcast about lower level English Football. Phil had had an interest in The Beautiful Game for more than a decade at this point, but was looking to broaden his horizons beyond watching the World Cup every 4 years, attending his local Phoenix Rising FC games, and catching the occasional Arsenal match on TV.
An avid lifelong fan of American sports, Phil wanted to channel his enthusiasm for football or soccer as it is more frequently called stateside, and combine that with his love and knowledge of other sports to help create a show that would better explain the game to American fans.
Although Phil and Arran both supported Arsenal, they didn't want to be just another show about big 6 and Premier League, but the entire English Football pyramid. The search for a team lower in the pyramid to support and cover as a flagship team for their yet to be named podcast came on the fateful afternoon of August 21, 2018. On an episode of the Total Soccer Show podcast, Phil heard a listener question (which he would later learn had been submitted by Ira Jersey) "Why is Accrington Stanley's rise funny to the English?"
On the show they would discuss the famous or infamous, depending upon your opinion, Milk Advert, but the name Accrington Stanley just stuck with Phil, and he immediately went on a deep journey to discover just "Who Are They". Once diving into it he began to learn the entire story of The Club That Wouldn't Die, all the way from the original 1890's club to the present day run into the English Football League for the reformed club.
Within the next few weeks Phil would find a name for his show Across The Pitch, and by Novemeber the first episode launched. By the second episode they were able to book Accrington Stanley midfielder Scott Brown as their first guest, and, as they say, the rest is history from. In the nearly 2 years since that first episode Phil has been joined by Accrington native resident, and prolific author of Accrington Stanley books, Darren Woodhead. Also joining the team this year was a 2nd Accrington native, Tony Robinson, who now resides in Canada but grew up on the very Stanley street that the club is named after.
The 3 have teamed up to interview almost all of the current members of the club (excluding players new to the club this year), owner Andy Holt, manager John Coleman, coaches Jimmy Bell and John Doolan, managing director Dave Burgess, dozens of retired club legends, other important figures in club history like former CEO Rob Heys, legendary Accrington fan cricketer and broadcaster David Lloyd, notable supporters, team broadcasters, and that doesn't even cover it all. In 2019 Phil, Tony, and Arran formed the first official international offshoot of the Official Accrington Stanley Supporters Trust, and with the help of President Peter Leatham, created the Official Accrington Stanley Supporters Club of North America. Phil heads the U.S. Branch based in Phoenix, while Tony runs the Canadian end of things from Toronto.
The club's first official meeting/match watch party was on November 23, 2019 at The Other Room Sports Bar in Glendale, Arizona where 11 Phoenix area Stanley supporters gathered to watch the 7-1 victory over Bolton Wanderers. Since, Phil has helped Abdulai Suburu form the Official Accrington Stanley Supporters Club of Ghana and Matt McClennan to start the Official Accrington Stanley Supporters Club of Australia, as well as interacting with groups that have formed in Spain, France, and Argentina. Phil also watches every Accrington Stanley game live on iFollow and is available on his Twitter account @AccyRising throughout every match to assist anyone with technical questions about iFollow abroad.
As of this year, Harry Austin of San Antonio Texas has also become an active member of the club stateside, and also watches every match on iFollow and is available through his Twitter handle. @Ramincol thoughout the matches. Tony runs the Official Accrington Stanley Supporters Club of North America Twitter @OASSCNA or you can reach him through his personal Twitter @ToneCat54
As things move forward Phil looks forward to the launching of the http://AccyWorld.com website which will feature and interactive map for Accington fans around the world to register their locations. This website will also feature stories about various supporters groups around the world. You can also find the Official Accrington Stanley Supporters Club of North America website at http://industryandprudenceconquer.com and Darren Woodhead is in the process of developing a website specifically dedicate to Accrington Stanley history at http://accringtonstanleymemories.com.
Through a combination of all of these projects Phil looks forward to working hand in hand with Peter Leatham to grow Accrington Stanley into a truly global brand. On a daily basis he is receiving communications from new listeners to the podcast who have "taken on Accrington as their second team", or in the case of folks like Harry mentioned above, their new 1st team. The core of Phil's belief is that the story of Accrington Stanley is eminently sellable to a U.S. audience that loves the underdog story, and believe that by continuing to spread the word around the states, and the world, that the Biggest Little Club in the World can become The World's Adopted Team, or at least 2nd team.
It is with great honor that Phil accepts the position of International Ambassador, a position which he said he has already found greater knowledge in as he now knows that ambassador starts with and "a" and not an "e". He says he understands that with great honorary power comes great responsbility, and looks forward to continuing to spread the gospel of Ye Olde Accy throughout the globe!
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Home > Industry News > ADIF awards Antequera-Granada HSL contracts
ADIF awards Antequera-Granada HSL contracts
Spain's transport ministry and the country's infrastructure manager, ADIF, have awarded several contracts worth almost €240 million to accelerate work on a new high-speed railway between Antequera and Granada.
Siemens Rail Automation and Thales have won the largest of the three contracts – a €208.7 million order for the installation and maintenance of traffic management and S&T (signalling and telecommunications) systems.
An Emte, Vimac and Neopol Sociedade Studies and Construçoes joint venture has been awarded a €19.4 million contract for catenary equipment along the 114.5-kilometre route. Finally, ADIF announced the launch of two ballast contracts worth a combined €10.7 million.
The new high-speed link will connect Granada to the Madrid-Sevilla line and develop new high-speed connections to Sevilla and Córdoba.
In a separate announcement, ADIF issued a €204 million competition to maintain overhead lines, electrical substations and associated electrification systems for more than 2,300 kilometres of the Spanish rail network.
The 10-year contract includes the high-speed Madrid-Seville, Córdoba-Málaga and La Sagra-Toledo routes and the Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona-French border line.


Kasko coverage for the rented equipment – Make sure you have damage or breakage of a tool Windsurf / Kitesurf / a gear Snowkite / Surfing wave / SUP boards, Sailing / catamaran or motor boat up to 45 kW (60hp) within 15 meters long rented or as part of a tour package exclusively for private use. The insurance coverage amounts to € 1,500 on the first risk insurance year. This excludes malicious damage, burglary damage or loss. Deductible for each incident: Kitesurfing / Windsurfing € 50, sailing boat / engine € 100.
Validity all over the world – According to Swiss legal provisions, insurance coverage RCA (liability insurance) for Swiss citizens has no effect in the Swiss territory. Policyholders Swiss, however, benefit from limited RCA coverage to territories outside of the Swiss, only if a specific agreement has been concluded, for example. during their travel.


For many young people and their parents in Britain there is still a belief that apprenticeships are just for those students who want to get into some form of traditional manual work or those who were 'not smart enough' to go to university. These beliefs see thousands of sixth form students apply to university without ever fully investigating or understanding the options that are available to them. This outdated view of apprenticeships is something that the government is keen to change as they continue to push towards their goal of 3 million new apprenticeship starts by 2020.
Recently Nick Boles, the minister for skills and equalities, explained, "A lot of parents and teachers don't understand that pretty much everything from law to web developing can be accessed through a modern apprenticeship," adding, "You can get a degree through an apprenticeship, so it's not about capping your ambition. It's a choice to secure the qualification through working and studying rather than full-time study." His aim is to try and promote the scheme and change people's perspectives and opinions regarding the employability after the apprenticeships and the stereotypical view that they are only designed for those who can't achieve a degree level qualification.
Taking a more vocational than an academic route to the training offers genuine work experience and training that employers value. It is little surprise that the majority of qualified apprentices go straight into relevant work, as compared to less than half of university graduates.


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Elise Ottesen-Jensen, geborene Elise Ottesen, Pseudonym Ottar, (* 2. Januar 1886 in Høyland, heute Sandnes, Norwegen; † 4. September 1973 in Stockholm) war eine norwegisch-schwedische Sexualaufklärerin, Sozialreformerin, Journalistin und anarchistische Aktivistin, die für Rechte der Frauen auf sexuelle Selbstbestimmung kämpfte und sexuelle Aufklärung förderte.

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Elise Ottesen wurde 1886 als 17. von 18 Kindern eines Geistlichen geboren. Ein prägendes Erlebnis war für Ottesen die Schwangerschaft der jüngeren Schwester Magnhild. Der Vater schickte die unverheiratete Schwangere zur Entbindung nach Dänemark, um die Schwangerschaft zu verheimlichen. Magnhild musste nach ihrer Rückkehr in eine Anstalt für psychisch Kranke eingewiesen werden und beging später Selbstmord. Dies konnte Ottesen ihrem Vater nie verzeihen und das Schicksal der Schwester wurde für Ottesen lebenslanger Antrieb für ihren Kampf für Frauenrechte.

Zunächst studierte Ottesen Zahnmedizin, doch bei einer Explosion in einem Chemielabor verlor sie mehrere Finger und sie begann für eine Tageszeitung zu arbeiten. Aufgrund der grassierenden Armut in Skandinavien engagierte sich Ottesen für die Arbeiterbewegung und unternahm mehrere Versuche, Arbeiterinnen zu organisieren. Bald schon suchten diese aber auch Rat in Fragen von Ehe und Sexualität.

Zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs traf Ottesen den schwedischen Anarchosyndikalisten und Friedensaktivisten Albert Jensen. Das Paar heiratete und Elise Ottesen nahm den Doppelnamen Ottesen-Jensen an. Als Albert Jensen aufgrund seiner politischen Betätigung aus Norwegen ausgewiesen wurde, ging sie mit ihm nach Dänemark. Dort gebar Ottesen-Jensen ein Kind, das allerdings bald nach der Geburt starb. Auch Dänemark mussten die Jensens verlassen und zogen nach Schweden. Dort lernte Ottesen-Jensen einen Arzt kennen, der ihr den Gebrauch eines Diaphragmas erklärte. Anschließend ging sie auf eine landesweite Reise, um schwedischen Arbeiterinnen Verhütungsmethoden zu erklären. Zudem engagierte sie sich intensiv für das Recht der Frauen auf sexuelle Selbstbestimmung, sexuelles Vergnügen, freie Abtreibung, die Aufhebung der Gesetze gegen Verhütung und für die Rechte von Homosexuellen. Da ihre Aktivitäten gegen geltende Gesetze verstießen, drohten ihr hohe Strafen. Ottesen-Jensen wurde Mitglied der schwedischen anarcho-syndikalistischen Gewerkschaft Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation und engagierte sich auch hier für Frauenrechte.

In den 1920er-Jahren schrieb Ottesen-Jensen regelmäßig für die Zeitung Arbetaren über Frauenthemen. Nach Meinungsverschiedenheiten mit den Kollegen über ihre offene und tabulose Sprache, gründete sie 1925 ihre eigenen Zeitschrift Vi kvinnor (dt. Wir Frauen), die allerdings nicht lange bestand. Später schrieb sie für die anarchistische Zeitschrift Brand.

Im Jahr 1933 gründete Ottesen-Jensen gemeinsam mit Ärzten und Gewerkschaftsvertretern Riksförbundet för Sexuell Upplysning (Reichsverband für Sexualaufklärung) und war bis 1956 dessen erste Präsidentin. Ottesen-Jensen war außerdem 1953 Mitbegründerin der International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

Ehrungen
2001 benannte der Reichsverband für Sexualaufklärung sein Bulletin in "Ottar" um.

Rezeption
 Krieg der Träume. 1918–1939. Dokumentation, arte, 2018

Werke
 Ovälkomna barn: ett ord till kvinnorna. 1926
 Människor i nöd : Det sexuella mörkrets offer. 1932
 mit Nils Nielsen: ABC för ett lyckligt äktenskap. 1947
 Och livet skrev. 1965
 Livet skrev: memoarer 1886–1966. Ordfront, 1966
 Arbetarrörelsen - männens eller mänsklighetens rörelse?. Federativs, 1980

Weblinks
 Kurzbiografie, Museum für Verhütung und Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Wien

Einzelnachweise

Sozialreformer
Frauenrechtler (Schweden)
Sexualaufklärung
Journalist (Norwegen)
Journalist (Schweden)
Norweger
Geboren 1886
Gestorben 1973
Frau

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representing talent
A band on their path to greatness. Arguably the most exciting rock band on the Scandinavian music scene right now. At the age of 18 and 19 Rud Aslak and Rasmus Theodor released two debut-albums instead of one as a testament to their creativity, diversity, productivity and a general salute to the album format that they love. The band are currently working on their follow-up due for release in 2020.
Gritty and rebellious, KING makes nuanced and mature pop music with genuine emotional heft. KING first announced herself on the world stage in summer 2016 with the release of debut single 'Promise'. The Danish/Cuban singer just released her debut album 'I Made It', unravelling KING in a modern, international and varied soundscape, that oozes of raw energy the way a true debut-album does.
L.O.C.
Widely considered the biggest talent ever to emerge from the Scandinavian hip hop scene, Liam O'Connor has risen to near legend status with his enduring, uncompromising and artistic incorruptibility. Platinum hits, countless awards and record-setting is one thing, timelessness another. L.O.C. carries that rare gift of genius, loyalty, integrity, humility and courage.
Korantemaa
Korantemaa is the moniker of 19-year-old Swedish vocalist and musician Johanna Karlsson. After years spent writing, recording and performing music for an audience online via her YouTube channel, Karlsson has grown beyond the borders of Sweden with impressing millions of views and subscribers on her YouTube channel. Taking the young DIY artist to European festival scenes like Lollapalooza, Eurosonic and Pitchfork Festival.
Liberty is Mattias Kollstrup's long anticipated indie-pop-punk solo project set to hit the scene this summer. Mattias achievedplatinum status, toured the globe and won heaps of awards (European Boarder Breakers Award, Danish Music Awards, Gaffa Awards, P3 Guld) with his first band Duné back in the 2010's. Liberty is ready with the debut album "Haven't Felt This Great Since 1988", set for release this summer on his own label Fickle Binge Records. Having his own label provided full creative control to make an uncompromising, eclectic and fiery rock album catering to no-one. Galvanized by the indie rock pop song the album inhabits the punk attitude of the 80's and the spirit of the 70's rock gods, and above all delivers the good songs.
Having industriously worked his way up from the Copenhagen underground with an extensive stream of releases since 2013, Snavs constantly pushes his creativity, exploring new genres and alternative collaborations, seeing him garner worldwide acclaim. Relentless touring and a second-to-none work ethic have taken him to every corner of the Earth, at prestigious headline slots and festivals alike.
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Although it may not be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about improving our planet and incorporating sustainable practices, making eco friendly choices with regards to your clothing can really make a huge tangible difference.
In New York City alone, 12,000 tons of waste is produced ever single day and 5.7% of New York City's total waste is textiles. If we assume that 5.7% of New York City's 12,000 ton output of waste per day is textiles, that means that each day, New York City produces a staggering total of 1,368,000 pounds of textile waste…per DAY.
Recycling old clothing and textiles can have a huge impact by reducing total carbon emissions in substantial amounts. Here are a few eco friendly brands that you can purchase from in an effort to reduce your ecological footprint.
Although fast fashion brands like H&M contribute their fair share to the production of carbon emissions, they have started a few initiatives to help dial things back. In 2013, H&M launched their very first Conscious Collection which uses eco friendly fabrics and production processes.
H&M's 2015 Conscious Collection is currently available in stores now. Keep in mind, however, that many of these pieces of clothing are still produces abroad and thus the actual process of transporting these garments to market involves a huge amount of carbon emissions.
H&M offers alternatives to the Conscious Collection to support environmental initiatives such as a clothing recycling program. You can hand in any unwanted garments to any H&M retail location.
While they might not come to mind initially as an eco friendly brand, American Apparel's dedication to manufacturing clothing within the United States rather than abroad actually allows them to reduce the total carbon emissions spent to get their garments to market by a huge margin.
Additionally, American Apparel believes in a "one roof" production process.
In other words, garments produces by AA are manufactured and designed under the same roof. This choice means that samples and fabrics aren't shipped back and forth internationally for approval, making the entire production process a lot more environmentally friendly.
Warby Parker was the first and only carbon neutral eye wear brands in the world. While the tagline suggests that Warby Parker has a net carbon emissions of 0, actually tracking down a clear definition of what Warby Parker means by their claim of "carbon neutral" has proved to be pretty difficult, despite the fact that they like to mention it frequently.
Even so, Warby Parker is a B corporation which means that they are evaluated by a B-Lab and graded based on standards of sustainability and environmental performance. Consistently, Warby Parker has met the highest of these standards.
Recycling can, and should, happen beyond sorting your trash. Textile production and the products that are brought to market in fashion industry have a huge impact on our planet. The stats I gave in this article are from New York City alone. Think about how much total waste the entire planet is generating each day.
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Hotel, tourism executives say lodging is overbuilt here, but they remain optimistic
By the end of this year, Spokane County is expected to have 5,800 hotel roomsabout double the number it had 10 years agobut room receipts arent growing as rapidly as rooms are being added, and occupancy rates are down.
Put simply, the lodging industry here is overbuilt, say Spokane hotel and tourism executives.
In particular, many new limited-service hotels have sprung up in the last several years, mirroring a national trend toward more economy-oriented hotel properties.
The executives point out, however, that many hotels here continue to do well, although the proliferation of new hotels has fragmented the business in more ways than ever.
Limited-service hotels have cut into the corporate pie and are cutting into the leisure market, too, says Lori Farnell, a vice president at Cavanaughs Hospitality Corp., of Spokane, which operates four Spokane-area hotels. We dont need any more (hotels) right now.
Terry Wynia, president of Hospitality Associates, of Spokane, which operates more than 50 hotels in the West, including five in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area, has a slightly different take on the Spokane hotel market.
Instead of being overbuilt, he says, I think were underdemolished. There is product here that shouldnt be here anymore.
Hartly Kruger, president and general manager of the Spokane Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, says that Spokane already has enough hotel rooms in the downtown core to serve the larger conventions and meetings that are expected to be attracted here if Spokanes convention facilities are expanded, which has been proposed.
I think because of the increase in hotel-room inventory, (the hotel industry here) is going to struggle unless we have a convention-center expansion, Kruger says.
The city of Spokane is expected to seek money from the Washington Legislature in 1999 for an expansion of its downtown complex of convention facilities thats estimated to cost $70 million and likely would be constructed on the block just to the south of the Opera House, Convention Center, and Ag Trade Center. If funding were secured quickly, the expansion could open in three or four years.
Without such an expansion, its harder to attract new convention and meeting business, and its possible the Spokane area could lose conventions that its had for years, Kruger contends. Some groups, such as the Northwest Mining Association, which have held conventions here many times, are outgrowing the available meeting and exhibit space.
That wouldnt bode well for the hotel industry here, which also has had to contend with a significant drop in tourists from Canada in recent years, due to the weakened Canadian dollar. Overnight visitorship also has been hurt by improved air service that allows corporate travelers to fly in and fly out in the same day, he contends.
Farnell and Wynia say that expanded convention facilities would benefit the entire hotel industry here, not just hotels downtown. As downtown hotels fill up with conventioneers, other business is bumped out to hotels in outlying areas, they say. Its just that ripple-out effect, Farnell says.
Carl Naccarato, general manager at the new boutique Hotel Lusso downtown and former longtime general manager of whats now Cavanaughs Ridpath Hotel, says the lodging industry here is at a critical juncture.
Were kind of at a turning point. We could become a primary (convention) market overnight, Naccarato says.
A primary convention market readily can attract higher-budget national conventions that can fill a block of around 900 rooms a night, versus regional meetings that fill 250 rooms a night and make up much of the convention business that comes here now, Naccarato says. Becoming a primary convention market would put Spokane in direct competition with places such as Seattle and Portland and likely would improve Spokanes status among tourists as well, he adds.
Expanded convention facilities, combined with improved downtown shopping and attractions through the $110 million renovation of River Park Square, the Steamplant Square project, and others, could propel Spokane from being a secondary convention destination to a primary one, Naccarato says. He believes that hotel developers in recent years have been banking on such a changewhich obviously would fill more rooms and could allow for even more hotel expansion.
If Spokane doesnt evolve to become a primary market, Naccarato contends that the proposed Davenport Hotel renovationwhich would add close to 400 more roomscould kill you.
Cavanaughs Farnell echoes that: Right now, I dont know that theres room for the Davenport. I dont think the city can handle another 300 rooms on the market. She says that much of Cavanaughs success in the marketplace has come from its ability to serve a variety of different clients at various price points through its four hotels in the downtown area and believes that the cost of the planned Davenport renovation would force that historic hotel to charge high prices.
Ralph Tasman, a Washington, D.C.-based consultant who is working on the Davenport Hotel project, says that while its true that the Spokane hotel market for the most part is overbuilt, its lacking in one important segmentvery upscale, full-service hotels. Thats the market the Davenport will aim to fill, he says.
His own market study, plus market studies done by independent consultants, including one hired by the hotels potential lenders, have shown theres room here for a four-star hotel that will cater to the business market, Tasman says. He contends much of that business is going across the Washington-Idaho line to the Coeur dAlene Resort now.
Nobody will have under one roof what we have, Tasman asserts. We will have the most luxurious hotel at realistic pricesperiod.
He says he cant speculate on exactly when construction will get under way on the Davenport renovation project, but says that the hotels owners are intimately involved in negotiations with lenders and a national hotel-management company. They also have selected a top designer to design the hotels interior, he says.Higher revenue, lower occupancyOverall, Spokanes lodging revenues are growing at a fairly good clip.
In 1997, the city of Spokane and Spokane County collected about $1.3 million in room taxes, up about 7.5 percent from 1996, says Kruger. In both the city and county, a room tax of 2 percent is levied on the amount charged for a room at establishments that have more than 40 rooms. Kruger predicts that in 1998, room-tax revenues will rise about 5 percent.
We will have a good spring, summer, and fall, based on what we know is booked in terms of convention and meeting business, he says. Plus, the CVB has launched a $200,000 advertising campaign to attract leisure travelers, mostly within a 200- to 300-mile radius of Spokane.
Still, even though hotel revenues are growing, theyre not growing fast enough to keep up with lodging-industry expansion, Kruger asserts.
Thats reflected in lower occupancy rates. Gordon/Rood Hospitality Consulting, of Bellevue, which tracks hotel occupancy rates here and elsewhere, says that in 1997, occupancy rates here averaged about 57.9 percent, down from 60.2 percent in 1996. Through the first four months of 1998, occupancy rates here averaged 51.2 percent, down from 53.6 percent for the same period in 1997.
Wolfgang Rood, a principal at Gordon/Rood, says the Bellevue company uses data from 13 hotels in Spokane, one in Cheney, two in Pullman, and one in Clarkston to calculate those occupancy figures. Overall, he says, the market here is posting relatively low occupancy figures. A hot hotel market will post annual average occupancy rates of 70 percent and higher, he says. Through the first four months of 1998, downtown Seattle had an occupancy rate of 70.8 percent.
Obviously, relatively few Spokane hotels are included in Gordon/Roods survey. Cavanaughs properties here, for instance, are notably absent from the survey. The prospectus for that companys recent initial public offering, however, said that Cavanaughs River Inn posted a robust occupancy rate of 74.2 percent for the 12 months ended Oct. 31, 1997. Cavanaughs Inn at the Park, Cavanaughs Fourth Avenue, and the newly added Cavanaughs Ridpath Hotel posted occupancy rates of 61.1 percent, 51.7 percent, and 57.3 percent, respectively.Finding an angleIf Spokanes hotel market is overbuiltor underdemolishedwhy are developers continuing to add hotels here?
At least five new properties are expected to open this year and bring another 400 rooms to the market. One of them, the Lusso, opened in January, and another, a Country Inns & Suites by Carlson outlet, being developed by Hospitality Associates for a limited liability company here of which Hospitality Associates is part owner is expected to open shortly in the Crown Centre commercial development near the main entrance to the Spokane Business & Industrial Park. Wynia and Naccarato say hotel development in the Spokane market now boils down to finding a nichein location, service, ambience, or some other attribute.
Naccarato says the Lusso, which opened in January, has tapped into a clientele thats looking for luxury and quality in a unique setting. Were running at a better occupancy than I expected at this time, he says. He claims some corporate travelers have decided to spend an additional night in Spokane so they could stay at the Lusso.
Wynia says that Hospitality Associates decided to build the new Country Inns & Suites by Carlson because the company believed the Sullivan corridor was underserved.
The city can absorb more roomsit depends on what type of rooms, he says. Certain neighborhoods or segments may offer opportunities. We feel confident that the Spokane market is good.


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See how they run like pigs from a gun
As a report this week from English Pen and Index on Censorship pointed out, Iraq is not the only country where the courts have been used to stifle press freedom. British libel laws, too, it says, are increasingly being used to "bully people who try to hold them to account". But the case against the Guardian in Iraq is notably alarming. Despite repeated hearings over several months, the paper was not asked to present written evidence or provide statements from the editor or the reporter involved. Compensation was apparently awarded for damage to the Iraqi prime minister, even though he was not a party to the legal action. The Iraqi people were promised freedom after the fall of Saddam. They deserve a free press and fair courts, robust enough to stand up to government.
Above is the concluding paragraph of the Guardian's editorial "Reporting from Iraq: Freedom at risk" and, as a friend at CNN noted of the silence from other outlets (including CNN) on the phone, "It really is 'see how they run like pigs from gun'."
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
As the Beatles noted ("I Am The Walrus"), I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. It would be good if the press would grasp that. On some level they do and a NYT friend rushed to assure me on the phone that the paper is doing all it can on the issue behind the scenes. To which I responded, "Behind the scenes? What the __ do you think this is? Vietnam and a journalist is facing [US] military pressure? This was a court verdict that needs to be called out." But never fail to be amazed by the insular nature of NYT which always convinces itself of both (a) its own inherent power and (b) its huge (self) importance.
I am he as you are he as your are me and we are all together.
And for those who can't wrap around the depth of John Lennon, we can offer another quote, Benjamin Franklin: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." For the press, it means the same thing.
The Guardian is out there pretty much all alone. No outlet has stepped forward to stand with them. That's disgraceful. And when Nouri's other cases (both pending ones and ones yet to be filed) against news outlets come forward, some of these same outlets are going to want others to stand up for them and stand with them. Why should anyone bother?
When none of them can stand up for the press right now, why should anyone later stand up for the cowards?
It's shameful. I never cease to be amazed by how craven the press has become and I was raised with no illusions about the press. But one thing they did use to know how to do was stand together.
A friend at a paper I won't name notes that they have correspondents in Iraq and making any "waves" would make it more difficult for their correspondents. And making no "waves" makes it easier?
No, it doesn't. Don't kid yourself.
You're emboldening Nouri to continue his attacks on the press and, point of fact, these attacks are now over three years old and part of a long standing pattern. They should have been loudly called out some time ago. When, for example, Nouri's disdain for the press and his attacks on it are so widely known that an Iraqi soldier knows he can get away with pointing a gun at a NYT reporter in an attempt to intimidate, can fake shooting him, and the paper's only response is to pull that reporter out of Iraq, there's a huge problem that goes to cowardice and a desperation for access -- the same sort desperation, please note, that led to some pretty craven behavior by CNN over the years, the sort that led to Eason's now infamous NYT column where he whined for forgiveness for CNN's efforts at covering for Saddam in order to have continued access to Iraq.
And let's note that the bulk of US daily papers do not have correspondents in Iraq and will not. What's their excuse for the silence? What's their excuse for not offering a fire breathing editorial in defense of press freedoms?
There is no excuse.
There is only cowardice.
As noted in yesterday's snapshot, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen (New York Times) interviewed four former Blackwater execs who stated that, in December 2007, approximately one-million dollars was used to bribe officials in Iraq in order to get them to look the other way in the face of Blackwater's continued assaults. Iraq's Minister of the Interior Jawad al-Bolani spoke to CNN (link has video as well as text) and stated that his ministry had launched an investigation into the assertion that Iraqi officials took bribes. James Risen (apparently due to the Times' fear of a Nouri-related lawsuit) rushes to print this morning to proclaim, "The Times article reported that former Blackwater executives who learned of the plans said they did not know whether the money was, in fact, delivered to Iraqi officials."
James Glanz and Walter Gibbs (New York Times) contribute a bad article this morning. Peter Galbraith (long called out at this website -- search the archives) finally gets the write up for his help or 'help' which was accompanied by efforts to enrich himself. We've noted the most recent issues already. We're providing a link to the article but there are multiple errors and I'm not going through bit by bit -- (a) I don't have the time and (b) I'm not sure how much is public. I'm pretty sure anyone reading the article will spot at least one big error quickly.
Meanwhile the violence never ends in Iraq. Reuters reports a prison break in Basra with three escaping last night, a Baghdad roadside bombing today injuring three people, a Baghdad car bombing injuring four people, a Balad shooting yesterday which claimed the life of 1 police officer (three more injured) and a Kirkuk shooting yesterday which injured a police officer. Zhang Xiang (Xinhua) reports 2 Sahwa members were shot dead today in Jurf al-Sakhr. Sahwa are also known as "Awakenings" and "Sons Of Iraq" (there is also a "Daughters Of Iraq"). The US government paid them to stop attacking the US military and its equipment. Richard Sale (Washington Times) reports today:
A congressional staffer who spoke on condition that he not be named because he was discussing sensitive intelligence said that after the U.S. stopped paying Sunni forces directly in June, it wasn't long before payments to the tribes "simply stopped. You got paid if you were a power in the government, and the tribal leaders were last on [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki's list," the staffer said.
The Iraqi Embassy in Washington declined to comment.
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The House of Representatives debate on the health insurance "reform" is over with the Democrats failing the people and the Republicans disgracing themselves as having left their minds back in the third grade (with apologies to third graders).
House Democrats were determined to pass any bill with a nice sounding name, such as "The Affordable Health Care for America Act". Single payer, full Medicare for all was never on the table even though a majority of citizens, physicians and nurses support that far more efficient, free choice of health care professionals, system.
There are no effective cost containment or prevention measures in the bill. The public option is so weak it will be a receptacle for the sickest of patients among the meager number of people who qualify for its coverage. There are no provisions to reduce the number of people (100,000) who die annually from medical malpractice in hospitals.
Nor is there a major program to reduce the tens of billions of dollars that is stolen yearly out of Medicare from criminals inside and outside the medical profession.
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A Message for Parashat Bo 2017
The detailed laws that Am Yisrael was commanded on the night before their exodus from Egypt reveal a recurring theme of the "house" and "household." They were instructed with regards to the korban Pesah, "let every man take a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a household" (12:3), and further informed that if the household was too small to consume a full lamb, "it must take together with its neighbor who is close to its house" (4). The blood of the lamb was to be placed on "the doorposts and lintel of the house" (7), serving as "a sign for you upon the house in which you are" (13), in order that "He shall not allow the Destroyer to come into your houses to scourge" (23). Each man was commanded to not leave the entrance "of his house" until morning (22), and to teach his children in the future: "A Passover sacrifice to God, who passed over the houses of Bnei Yisrael in Egypt when he scourged Egypt, and our households He rescued" (27).
The significance of the "house" and "household" to the story of yessiat Misrayim became clear when the nation was twice commanded to remember the exodus from the "house of slaves" (13:3, 14).[1] They were perhaps being taught in that instance that their freedom from a "house of slavery" was appropriately designated by the establishment of independent "houses" and "households."
The Torah surprisingly shifts from its emphasis on the "house," however, when commanding future observance of the laws of Pesah. Whereas the nation was initially commanded, "The very first day you shall expunge leaven (se'or) from your houses," and, "Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses" (12:19), the command upon entrance into Israel was different: "And no leavening of yours shall be seen in all your territory" (13:7). Whereas the theme of "house" and "household" dominated the description of Pesah in Egypt, its repeated command for future observance bore no mention of it whatsoever.
This conspicuous change in theme was repeated in the context of another dominant feature of the commands – the distinguishing "sign" (ot) of Am Yisrael. In Egypt, the blood on the houses stood as their "sign": "And the blood will be a sign for you upon the houses in which you are" (12:13). The future "sign," however, bore no connection to houses or households and instead lived on through the tefillin: "And it shall be a sign for you on your hand and a remembrance between your eyes…" (13:10, 16).
The establishment of Am Yisrael as a free and independent nation began with complete separation. This was initially performed by God through the plagues,[2] and then symbolized by the nation's various observances in their "houses" and "households" which separated them from the "house of Pharaoh." The future vision for the nation, however, was considerably different. The distinguishing "sign" was no longer displayed on their houses, but instead concealed on their arms. The spatial isolation necessary for Am Yisrael's establishment in Egypt was replaced by self-realization and demonstration.[3]
We often misunderstand our communities' source of strength. We believe that it is the separate "houses" and "households" that empower the members, and we therefore fear involvement with others. The Torah's deliberate shift in description from the initial creation of Am Yisrael to its eternal existence teaches otherwise. Freed from the "house of slavery," the nation was further freed to endeavor from their "houses" and appropriately engage with others. Though a sense and practice of separateness was eternally enduring, it no longer existed as a spatial segregation but as an existential realization and performance.
[1] A depiction of the bondage as a "house entrapment" is particularly striking considering the etymology of the name "Pharaoh," from the Egyptian words "great house."
[2] Recall last week's devar Torah, "Separation."
[3] Most appropriate in this context is R. Eliezer's well-known interpretation, "It shall be for you a sign – for you a sign and not for others a sign" (Menahot 37b).
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After a close race between Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy on November 6, the two are now headed to a runoff for the Mississippi U.S. Senate seat.
Mississippi GOP officials are urging support of Hyde-Smith over the next three weeks.
Here's what Governor Phil Bryant, who appointed Hyde-Smith to the position earlier this year, had to say about the candidate:
Longtime Congressman Gregg Harper, who has announced he is leaving his position in D.C. and will be replaced by Michael Guest from Madison was part of Hyde-Smith's campaign tour just before the election:
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said she never expected to be a U.S. Senator and leave her position as Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce for Mississippi, but felt that this is where she was being led to serve and so she embraced it when she was asked to take the appointment by Governor Bryant:
Chris McDaniel, Hyde-Smith's opponent in the election, told his supporters to unite before the runoff and support President Trump's endorsement of Hyde-Smith. If nothing else, McDaniel said, to keep Espy from going to Washington.
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My grocery store knows more about me than my husband does.
It was exactly 10 years ago this past weekend that I signed up for one of their preferred savings cards. I was nervous about it. I don't like the idea of the cash register collecting information about my buying habits. But if you want to get Dannon yogurt at 20 for $10.00 (that's how my store always shows the specials, so dumb people buy 20 of everything) you have to give your name, address, and answer all sorts of impertinent questions about yourself.
Now the cash register knows when I shop, and exactly what I buy.
It spits out coupons specifically for me. I bought a 20-gallon box of cheap Gallo wine once. Once! But the register remembers. It thinks I'm a lush. Every time they're running a special on wine or beer, out comes a coupon. The guy in front of me buying tofu didn't get a booze coupon. The register knows its prey.
Not only does the register know and remember, it judges. In the early years, it would automatically print coupons for Hot Pockets and Dove Ice Cream bars. But I think it has figured out that the kids are out of the house, and that I'm buying all that stuff for myself. No more ice cream coupons. Now it prints coupons for Kashi Go-Lean cereal and Weight Watchers frozen dinners.
I just know my grocery store's register is sharing my information with all its computer brethren. You think I'm paranoid? Don't be naïve! Of course they all talk.
Last time I had a cold, I went to the drugstore and bought some Nyquil. I used my drug store preferred card to get 50 cents off. I stopped at the grocery store just 15 minutes later and the register spit out coupons for Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup and Puffs tissues.
This has gone on long enough. I decided to turn in my card and find a new store, one that doesn't know all my secrets – one that doesn't judge me. Time for a fresh start. When I went there yesterday I fully intended it would be for the last time.
I went to the checkout…and got a coupon for a dozen red roses. It remembered our anniversary!
Maybe I've been too hasty. You don't throw away a 10-year relationship on a whim. I'm going to give this thing another chance. After all, they've got 2-for-1 on Charmin toilet tissue this week.
But only for special customers.
p.s. I went to this store last night after I posted this blog. I got 0 coupons at the checkout. Zero. First time, ever. Don't you dare think that computers don't talk to each other. – obviously the register heard about this post and was getting back at me.
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Aw, thanks. You made my day!
I hope your grocery store reminds you when my birthday approaches.
Dang! And they call themselves a full-service store.
I, too, have a few grocery cards for the in-store deals. I resisted getting for the same reasons but Pat got them because he does most of the food shopping. I know, we're connected, but still it's his name on the card, not mine. Don't like that they are tracking what we buy.
It's justified by calling it marketing research, to provide better customer service, blah, blah, blah.
Did you know they are already mapping the brain's reaction to commercials/ads? Yes, they map the part of the brain that responds or fires and WHAT it responds to. (Like the chocolate lobe for you, Peg) 🙂 That data will help them refine their "sublime" attack on the unconscious mind to buy or ??? Food for thought. (couldn't resist).
Is our whole family paranoid, or just realistic? A shrink would have a field day with group sessions, no?
I'm going with realistic since the information is right there in the news. Teaching Psychology and our interest in the brain, clues me to these stories. Creepy is right.
OK, time to go EXERCISE – but wait, Wimbledon is in the men's quarterfinals…must watch, must watch…only a few more days of tennis before the drought between the grand slams.
Why not play along in the living room? You can be swinging your racquet right along with Chrissy Everett, and to hell with Pat's bric-a-brac!
You'd think if they know so much, they could just have your stuff waiting for you when you get to the store or better yet, deliver it to your house and cook you dinner. I too reluctantly signed up for the cards, but really hate the feeling of having my every purchase tracked and analyzed. Creepy.
Now THAT would be service.
I used a store courtesy card for years before the computer caught on and wouldn't honor it and I had to fill out the application. Drat! Now I've got those little pieces of plastic for places all over the planet.
I don't know, I would have to be very Mrs. Robinson to flirt with most anyone that worked at my grocery store. I think when the employees hit 21, they send them to the Carousel, and recruit a new batch from the high school.
Logan's Run – I loved that movie! And Soilent Green, and Omega Man. They used to make cool Sci Fi back in the 70s.
My store is the same way. They start hiring at 15 and I feel like I should help the little bag boys lift the heavy stuff.
Now beef is grown in labs and comes into the world in pre-measured portions, ready to be wrapped up in black foam trays, which means they can charge $1 more per pound than if they were on white foam.
Oh, they talk. They follow you around. They not only spit out creepily accurate coupons; they also post ads on the websites you use. I'm waiting for them to give me something for free. That never seems to happen. Great post!
Whenever I get the freebie coupons, I carry them around in the cavernous pig-sty that is my purse, until I remember them 2 weeks later. They always expired the day before. I think they use special, date-changing ink.
I thought I recognized you from the meetings.
No, YOU made MY day!. Nuh-uh, you made MY day. Did not…if any day-making was being done, it was you doing the doing.
So glad to be a member of this mutual admiration society!
Ahahahhaa fantastic!! That's how I felt shopping in Tesco. Now we changed to shop in Morrisons and I miss Tesco surprises and putting their nose in my privacy! 😀 Lovely entry!!! so much laugh!
I guess we do miss what is familiar, but not the nosiness!
Now if they were really good at this marketing stuff, they would give the coupon for the dozen roses to your husband every time he visited!
After I said my grocery store gave me roses, my last line WAS, "which is more than I can say for my husband" but I changed that. Although it would have been funny, I thought he might not appreciate it.
No, I'm sure your grocery store cares deeply about you and your loads of $$$. Maybe their register doesn't feel the need to change you. It thinks you're perfect just the way you are!
"vanilla wasted" – oh my, that's a lot of ice cream! But better than tequila wasted, eh?
very funny – wish we had a system like that in sa – no-one here uses coupons. have a great day.
again – how is the family challenge going??
Thanks! I posted an update on Monday – that is my plan, a weekly update. It's going very slowly. I was discouraged to have gained 1/2 pound today – how does that happen? I guess I shouldn't weigh myself everyday. Sigh.
It's hard not to love coupons and free sample snacks, soothing 80s music and the smell of fresh plastic bags. Why am I getting married again?
Those plastic bags can get mighty cold to snuggle up to on long, winter nights.
had a good laugh reading your witty post!
Thanks – it's very nice of you to say so!


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Q: Native Base Picker generating "Unsafe legacy lifecycles" I created a very simple page in react native. However, I'm getting the warning:
Warning: Unsafe legacy lifecycles will not be called for components using new component APIs.
%s uses %s but also contains the following legacy lifecycles:%s%s%s
The above lifecycles should be removed. Learn more about this warning here:
https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/27/update-on-async-rendering.html, Styled(PickerNB), getDerivedStateFromProps(), ,
  UNSAFE_componentWillReceiveProps,
It is happening because the native-base Picker. If I remove the picker, I do not receive the warning.
...
class ChangeProperty extends Component {
   constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      selectedProperty: '1'
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.props.getProperties(); // It just loads a properties data from action component
  }

  onChangeProperty(value) {
    this.setState({
      selectedProperty: value
    });
  }

  updatePropertyBTN = async () => {
    await AsyncStorage.setItem('CurrentPropertyID', this.state.selectedProperty);
    NavigationService.navigate('iRent');
  }

  ...
  <Picker
            mode="dropdown"
            iosHeader="Select Property"
            placeholder="Property"
            iosIcon={<Icon name="arrow-down" />}
            selectedValue={this.state.selectedProperty}
            textStyle={{ color: '#C0C0C0' }}
            style={{ width: '100%' }}
            onValueChange={(text) => this.onChangeProperty(text)}
          >
          {Object.keys(this.props.properties).map((key) => {
              return (
                <Picker.Item
                  label={this.props.properties[key]}
                  value={key}
                  key={key}
                />
              );
          })}
   </Picker>
}

It is not causing any error in my code, but the warning message in the terminal is disturbing me because I do not know what is causing it.
Thanks

A: The warning is occurring because the NativeBase picker appears to be using legacy life cycle methods (eg componentWillReceiveProps like was mentioned in the warning) that are no longer supported by React - this has nothing to do with your code.
Ensure your NativeBase is updated to the latest package version and if it is you can raise an issue on their repo here


You got braces to make your smile brighter and better, but maybe your teeth aren't as pearly white as you'd like. Can you whiten teeth with braces?... Rinse, and then check your teeth. Rinse thoroughly. Examine teeth and braces in the mirror, and remember to look for any remaining food particles. Rinse thoroughly. Examine teeth and braces in the mirror, and remember to look for any remaining food particles.
Best Answer: Do not whiten your teeth with braces. If you attempt to whiten them with braces the place where the bracket is will remain the original color, when you get your braces off you would have a bunch of yellow squares.... Teeth straightening is an orthodontic treatment focusing on gradually shifting teeth into their correct alignment. It is often achieved with dental braces, including traditional metal braces and clear braces such as Invisalign.
Braces Color Wheel For Your Teeth If you are also one of the people who felt less confident to smile because your teeth less presentable lineup, so have the time you can try wearing braces or braces is one of the efforts to improve the composition of your teeth. how to make white letters on white transfer paper You got braces to make your smile brighter and better, but maybe your teeth aren't as pearly white as you'd like. Can you whiten teeth with braces?
What it is: The dentist makes a mold of your teeth to create thin plastic trays that fit like mouth guards. You fill the trays with bleaching gel and wear them for three days, an hour a day, every three months.


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Q: Linear Algebra, power of matrix [Linear Algebra]Please help. Without using the method of Diagonalization.

I have tried changing the matrix into
[sin(pi/6), -tan(pi/6)]
[-tan(pi/6), sin(pi/6)]
and try to figure out what is the linear transformation of A. It seems not to work.
I have also tried to write down the first few power and hope to find the pattern of it, but it doesn't work too.

A: There are only a few things that can happen in 2D. A symmetric matrix has orthogonal eigenvectors and real eigenvalues, so this is simply a stretch in two orthogonal directions by different amounts.
There are many ways to solve this. For instance, you can write this matrix as a sum:
$$A=\frac12-\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} \sigma$$
where $\sigma=\begin{bmatrix}0&1\\1&0\end{bmatrix}$.
It follows that $\sigma^2=1$. In fact, the set $\{1,\sigma\}$ is a subgroup of $\mathbb{R}_{2\times 2}$, so all powers and products of such matrices will have the same form.
For instance you have $\det (a+b\sigma)=a^2-b^2$ and
$$(a+b\sigma)^2=a^2+b^2+2ab\sigma$$
$$(a+b\sigma)^{-1}=\frac{1}{a^2-b^2}(a-b\sigma)$$
You can use this to compute anything you want. For nonnegative $n$:
$$(a+b\sigma)^n=\sum {n\choose k}a^{n-k}(b\sigma)^k$$
$$=\sum_{k\in \text{even}} {n\choose k}a^{n-k}b^k+\sigma\sum_{k\in\text{odd}} {n\choose k} a^{n-k}b^k$$
You could also simply guess the results or brute-force the multiplications.
Edit: the group, generated by ${1,\sigma}$ are the split-complex numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-complex_number
EDIT: the above was an idea how to compute all the powers. As I said, this matrix just compresses and stretches along two perpendicular axes. Because of symmetry (components of the vector can be reversed), you know that one eigenvector is along the diagonal $x=y$ (squeezing direction) and the other along the other diagonal (perpendicular to the first one). The transformation is squeezing diagonally. There isn't much more to it. The matrix is nothing special - it doesn't preserve angles or area. I'm not entirely sure if the hint about geometric meaning helps in this case.


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Cyanide – pierwszy singel promujący album Termination Bliss szwedzkiej grupy Deathstars. Wydany w 2005 roku.

Lista utworów
 "Cyanide" – 3:55
 "Termination Bliss" (Piano version) – 3:12
Single wydane w roku 2005


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New moon nail polish design will be unveiled at Nelsons New Year's Eve bash
Nelson's New Year´s Eve bash is taking place on the evening of Dec. 31, but its a big event with a lot of things going on.
One of the most anticipated events is that of the moon, and in the days leading up to the New Year, there is a chance that you may see it in the moon.
The new moon nail design will debut during the evening on Dec. 28, the official launch day of the new Nelsonic line.
Nelsons Moon Nail Art will be launching a new line of Nelsonyas Moon Nails, which will feature moon nail designs, including a moon nail that will hang on your arm for a special night of entertainment.
There is also a moon lipstick called "Moon Nail," which will be available for a limited time, and there is also the Nelsonics new moon lipstick "Moon Lips," which has a moon in it.
It is a special time for Nels, which celebrated its 40th anniversary on Dec 14, and the line has a lot to celebrate.
We caught up with the Nlesons creative team to see what's on the line, and what we can expect to see in the new moon line.
Nels' Moon Nips will be on sale starting at 6 p.m. on Dec 28.
This is the first time Nels is releasing the moon nail collection, which was launched in 2016.
I can't wait for the new year!
The moon nail is an homage to the moon as it is said to shine in the morning.
The Moon Nip is an elegant blend of a gold and silver glitter, and it will be sold exclusively at the New Years Eve bash.
NELSON`S Moon Nipples will be the first nail polish to be sold at the bash.
"The Moon Lips" is a matte gold lipstick that has a light pink shimmer.
For the first night of the bash, you can get the NELSONS Moon Nippers, as well as NELSONYAS Moon Nipples, a new moon lip gloss.
To celebrate the New YEAR, there will also be a moon party in the NELSON's house, and a special moon dance party.
Nelsonic Moon NIPS will be made available at the Nelson's house starting at 5 p.b.m., and the NALSON`s Moon LIP will be at 6:30 p.c.
New Nelsonies Moon Nipper is priced at $15 and comes in a matte black and matte silver.
Moon Nip will be out in stores beginning at 6 a.m on Dec 31, and NELSon`s Nelsoni Moon Nipple will be launched at 8 a.d. on Jan. 1.
(Via Nelsona)
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Mayors and Ministers Roundtable
The Ministry of Economy and Development is responsible for Greece's overall development strategy including urban development and is mainly responsible for financing the actions undertaken for urban development.
http://www.mindev.gov.gr/
City of Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. The city is central to the country's economic, political, and cultural life. While Athens is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities, with a history that spans four millennium, it remains at the forefront of urban innovation. In 2018, Athens was named the European Capital of Innovation by the European Commission.
https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/
The OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation of 36 countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and free-market economy. The OECD provides the preeminent policy forum where governments compare policy experiences, identify good practice, and co-ordinate domestic and international policies. It applies its wealth of information to help governments foster prosperity and fight poverty through economic growth and financial stability. It helps ensure the environmental implications of economic and social development are taken into account.
Mutual examination by governments plays a pivotal role at the OECD, which facilitates a multilateral review process through which the performance of individual countries is monitored by their peers. Discussions at the OECD level sometimes evolve into negotiations where OECD countries agree on rules of the game for international co-operation which can culminate in formal agreements by countries, for example on combating bribery or the regulation of capital movements.
http://www.oecd.org/
The OECD would also like to thank the Ford Foundation for its support to the Roundtable.
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Veterinarians recommend puppies and kittens start receiving vaccinations between nine and 12 weeks of age. Booster vaccinations need to be administered one year after a dog or cat has their initial vaccinations. Booster shots are formulated to strengthen immunity responses of first vaccinations while ensuring pets are protected against a variety of infectious diseases. Even older pets that have not been vaccinated would enjoy the health benefits of vaccinations, especially if their lifestyle involves socializing with other pets and outdoor activities.
Core (essential) vaccinations for cats are rabies, herpesvirus, calicivirus, and panleukopenia (feline distemper). Most of these diseases affect a cat's upper respiratory system, causing severe coughing, nasal discharge, fever and weight loss. Non-core vaccinations (vaccinations not necessary for taking cats abroad or boarding them in kennels include feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus. Your veterinarian will discuss your cat's lifestyle with you and recommend non-core vaccinations if needed.
Distemper, rabies, hepatitis, parainfluenza and parvovirus are core vaccinations for dogs. Canine hepatitis (canine adenovirus type 1) is a serious disease usually leading to pneumonia once it reaches the respiratory system. This virus can also spread to a dog's liver or kidneys, causing organ failure and death.
Non-core vaccinations for dogs include bordetella (kennel cough), leptospirosis (a bacterial disease targeting liver and kidneys), coronavirus (chronic diarrhea) and canine influenza virus (CIV).
Veterinarians recommend rabbits receive two specific vaccinations before they are one year old: the myxomatosis vaccination and the rabbit hemorrhagic disease vaccination. Myxomatosis is viral disease transmitted by fleas and ticks. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease is a contagious, sometimes fatal viral disease infecting both wild and domesticated rabbits that causes internal bleeding and flu-like symptoms.
If your bird stays in the home and is not around other birds, your veterinarian may not recommend getting your bird vaccinated. However, a vaccine against the polyomavirus is available for birds. Polyoma disease is more prevalent in macaws, lovebirds, budgies, cockatiels and ringneck parrots, producing a swollen abdomen, weight loss, vomiting, depression and feather abnormalities in birds. Bird owners should ask their veterinarian whether their bird needs to be vaccinated against polyoma.
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Santa Elena town gets new sign
NTUCB elects Floyd Neal as new president
Young's law firm remains open
Published by BBN Staff at March 20, 2017
Posted: Monday, March 20, 2017. 10:27 am CST.
By BBN Staff: Young's Law Firm hasn't yet closed its doors, as had been previously speculated.
The Young firm, however, has made it clear that offices are still operational though business is winding now.
Deceased attorney at law, Michael Young, was the sole proprietor of the law firm.
According to his family, his sudden death has caused them and the firm's staff to make personal sacrifices to maintain the operation.
The family revealed that the estate owners attempted to transition the law firm into a limited liability partnership along with the remaining attorneys, but that was not successful.
As a result, his executors, some of the staff, and the Barrow & Williams law firm acting as assisting attorney, are working on the proper winding-down of all of the firm's matters.
However, according to the family, the firm will remain open until all matters have been properly addressed and/or transferred, along with the clients' consent.


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System for Non-vocal Speech Communication
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Some patients with speech deficits, such as individuals with laryngectomy or brain injury, cannot vocalize. Others, such as Special Forces soldiers, may need to rely on voiceless communication for covert operations or noisy environments. Imagine a wearable technology that gives voice to the voiceless, or provides silent communication.
We are collaborating with researchers from BAE Systems, the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center and Northeastern University (Boston, USA) to develop a non-vocal speech communication device that translates facial muscle signals produced when silently mouthing words into automated speech.Current algorithms can process continuous speech from unimpaired and speech dysfunction subjects with less than 10% error rate from a 2,500 word vocabulary. Improvements in the detection technology and in the signal processing algorithms are under development to render a practical implementation with a reduced error rate and for prosodic elements of speech.
Our preliminary results are detailed in Publication list below.
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Colby G, Heaton JT, Gilmore LD, Sroka J, Bend Y, Cabrera J, Roy SH, De Luca CJ, Meltzner GS. Sensor Subset Selection for Surface Electromyography Based Speech Recognition, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Working at sea and being away from home for long periods can be mentally straining. In a preparatory study, researchers at VTI will examine how prevalent mental ill health is among ship crews in Sweden, and how the shipping companies' preventative efforts are working.
Ships are very special workplaces where you often spend months at sea, cut off from family and friends. The work and life on board can cause major mental strain.
But knowledge about the mental health of Swedish seamen is in short supply. To obtain and retain various certificates, they must pass health checks, but these do not include mental health. Mental ill health is rarely something you speak about on board.
"There is a macho culture in shipping that makes it hard to speak about, say, feeling depressed," says Joakim Dahlman, senior researcher at VTI.
Many cases go unreported
A 2014 investigation showed that the second most common reason for sick leave among people with certain types of certificates was mental ill health. It also represented a growing proportion of the problems that the seamen sought help for.
"We were surprised to learn that so many had mental health problems. Many cases probably go unreported as well," says Joakim Dahlman.
He is now, together with Gabriella Eriksson, leading a preliminary study to examine the prevalence of mental ill health in a large group of ship crew members and how preventative work is being done by the shipping companies, and in practice on board the vessels. This will form the basis for a longitudinal 3-year study which will include monitoring the systematic preventative work on board that has received funding and will start in parallel.
Text: Johan Sievers/redakta
Photo: Igor Stevanovic/mostphotos.com
Translated by: Semantix AB
This is an article from VTI aktuellt no. 3–2019.
Read more in the magazine (in Swedish).
(Published 23 October 2019)
Please contact me for further information
Joakim Dahlman joakim.dahlman@vti.se