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Korin Nolan & Sasha Parker
Korin and Sasha are the authors of the cookery book 'How to Cook in High Heels' and have created the website 'How To Live in High Heels'. The site gives tips, not only on cooking but lifestyle in general. Their brand 'How to Live in High Heels' encompasses everything positive about a modern day woman, giving tips on fashion, exercise, health, style and beauty and of course food, with fabulous recipes.
How to Cook in High Heels was written after numerous dinner parties and they devised the recipes together in the kitchen in 2010. They created recipes that promote simple, inexpensive, yet glamorous food for even the most amateur of cooks. They have proven that you don't have to be a professional chef in order to create something tasty and impressive.
'Our food appeals to all busy women who live in the real world; whether they have kids swinging around their ankles, a thriving career or a desire to be more healthy. Our food meets all those needs and requirements, because as women we understand that time (and cost) is of the essence and our lives fluctuate on a daily basis. Whether you're throwing a dinner party, preparing a healthy lunch box for your kids, or surprising your partner with a romantic meal in, we can provide the tools and knowledge that you need in the simplest form possible.'
The ladies have appeared on the TV show, Market Kitchen and have graced the pages of numerous magazines with their culinary delights, including Fabulous magazine, Tesco Real Food, a 5 page spread in OK! Magazine. They have also filmed recipes for Tiscali and Channel 4 Food online, and are also the 'faces of' pizza brand Casa Di Mama by Dr. Oetker having designed the side recipes for brands launch. Sasha and Korin regularly travel with their children, writing travel reviews for The Mail On Sunday and other publications.
They have built up a fantastic friendship and now joined at the hip after discovering their similarities as young, single mums and decided that life does not have to stop because you have a lot on your plate. Half Jamaican Sasha, grew up in SE London and was part of a well documented travel show for channel 5 when she was 17. She now works as an accountant and won Colleen's Real Women on ITV2 which gained her a prestigious modelling contract as the face and legs of Pretty Polly. In addition she has had various other modelling contracts including a contract with Rio Ferdinand's shoe brand Strutt Couture. She also has a diploma in nutrition.
Korin has trained as a dancer and has been teaching Pilates in London for almost ten years. She started her TV career on Channel 5's breakfast show, The Right Stuff as the 'booth girl', which she did for over four years. The role involved being part of the live presenting team on the live show and interviewing glamorous celebrities on the red carpet. She has written regularly for national newspapers and was the leading voice of 4 music for over two years.
Sasha and Korin are available for demonstrations in which they showcase their recipes. They proved to be a huge success at the Ideal Home Show and more recently the BBC Good Food Show in June. They recently launched a new APP demonstrating how to cook recipes from their book as well as giving cooking tips. This year they are also launching their you-tube channel, these will be a series of online videos from cocktail creations in bars, delicious recipe creations and fashion and lifestyle videos.
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Aimm has some very large Airports using its system, and these are well served by organisations running large Consultancies for Airports, to advise on Development and Planning. Similarly for the specialised field of Acoustic Consultants. In these cases Aimm is usually engaged by the Consultant to provide the accurate data they need, and Aimm will then report to the consultant rather than the Airport.
'Virtual Airport Manager' for Small Airfields and Airports.
- A Council Properties Officer will already be very familiar with arranging normal maintenance on a property, and reporting on whether targets have been met or not.
- An airfield will be a little more difficult when discussing the siteing of new hangars and visiting aircraft parking, as there are specific regulations for clearances.
These points must ALL be handled correctly for the airfield to meet the minimum required standards. If it does not, that can be problematic if an incident should occur. Aimm's Consultants are happy to advise on these points and train the Council Officer-in-Charge... but there is a strong learning curve and that training is lost when that Council Officer moves to a new position.
A cost effective solution is appointment of a 'Virtual Airport manager' to report to the Council Supervising Officer. By taking advantage of recent improvements in remote monitoring and cameras etc, it is possible to manage an Airfield remotely with occasional on-site visits as required. Aimm can put the supervisor in contact with existing Airfield Managers able to take on an additional Airfield with a 'Virtual Manager' role, and take care of all the above points... and with the benefit of their experience recommend any changes to better meet the Council's policy objectives.
What are the major services that Aimm provides for Small to Medium Airports?
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Carhartt invested in Salesforce to build a customer repository, storing contacts and critical information for employees to leverage in their day-to-day work. The IT team rolled out Salesforce with speed and agility, continuously delivering value to the business and remaining tightly aligned to their business objective of creating a complete view of the customer in a single application.
Carhartt selected enosiX to help drive adoption of Salesforce by viewing customer information from SAP, as well as to reduce the number of applications employees use when interacting with customers. During the selection process, it was critical for Carhartt to deploy an integration technology that worked with SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution (AFS), an SAP solution for the Apparel industry that features additional functionality around sizing (grids), product categorization, and seasonality.
enosiX also enabled the team to continue to focus on high priority goals without getting bogged down in the building, mapping, and maintaining of an integration.
"[In order to integrate SAP and Salesforce] we'd have to design, build, and implement. There would be SAP outputs, middleware mapping, the building of the integration pieces in Salesforce, and testing … then, there would be supporting the integration and any changes, issues, or enhancements. Those things take a long time." said Chad.
"We started with the enosiX integration to build out the wholesale customer information from SAP into Salesforce. As we did that, we found the need to see additional information that sits in SAP, specifically sales information like Order History and Order Status," Chad Poe said.
Carhartt can now view customer information that was previously held in SAP from within Salesforce, as well as pertinent real-time information that can better inform customer service representatives and help them to assist customers with ease.
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Not only has the enosiX integration streamlined processes and saved time internally, but it has also enabled Carhartt to continue to deliver on its focus on serving the customer.
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How to build baby's first library
The first baby books you get from someone else aren't likely to be the first books your baby will like. You stand a good chance of getting The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, Guess How Much I Love You, On The Night You Were Born, or Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Plus some Seuss, probably. And those are all great. But they're not the first books your baby will love.
Tiny babies six months and younger are just learning about the world and what's in it. Pediatricians recommend reading to them right from birth. But reading what? (Besides Shakespeare, of course.) They're so small--how do you get them interested in books? How do you start making reading fun for both of you as soon as possible?
It's not too hard! You want to hold their attention, associate books with fun, and create a routine around reading. The categories below will get you off to a good start: Contrast for when baby is super little, Playtime and Song books for fun, and Sleepytime books for naps and bed. Rhythm is a good intermediate category that can be used for any of the slots.
I recommend picking one book from each section, whatever appeals to you most. They also make cheap, durable, useful baby shower gifts that aren't quite as likely to be doubled up on.
High-contrast books are for early days, when your baby still gets tripped out looking at a stripy shirt. They'll help you start the habit of book time, but by three months these are pretty well out of their usefulness, so they're good candidates to borrow from the library. Try to talk about what's happening on the page, even if there's no text. Even if it's more of a DIY Rorschach test.
I Kissed the Baby (Amazon). Singsong text, simple actions, and the excitement of a new baby in the world animate high-contrast animals.
Look, Look! (Amazon). Trippy illustrations and verb-heavy text to give some action to the moment when you're ready.
Black & White (Amazon). A lot of objects to point at.
Hello, Animals! (Amazon). Cute animal illustrations with shiny foil.
Manhattan Toy Wimmer-Ferguson See and Say Board Book (Amazon). Mirror at the end, as bonus baby bait. One word per page.
These and the playtime books are the best and longest-lasting of the infant books, so you may want to pick a few. They're illustrated song lyrics, some with established tunes, some that just suggest a tune when you read the words. Sing it! The song will become memorable to your little one sooner than plain reading will, and if you can dance them around a little on your lap, it's all a great game.
*Snuggle Puppy (Amazon). This is my favorite because it's such a tender, cuddly book but still lighthearted and fun, not cheesy. Since you don't have to choose any particular tune for the simple little song, it's easy for anyone to sing.
Raffi: *Baby Beluga (Amazon), the earworm that will take over your life, or choose Wheels on the Bus (Amazon), Down by the Bay (Amazon), etc.
Five Little Ducks (Amazon). Also available in Raffi.
*What a Wonderful World (Amazon | Indiebound): The song made famous by Louis Armstrong accompanied by happy, lovely illustrations of a little kid enjoying the wonders of the world. A big hit with my family.
*There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Amazon). This version replaces the gruesome grade-school "Perhaps she'll die" with "She won't say why" and coughs everybody up at the end. The old lady is particularly spirited and the animals are amusingly freaked out.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Amazon). Not my favorite choice because you can't turn pages and do a finger play at the same time. This version is suuuuper long, though, so if you need something to use in a car or other confined area down the line it may come in handy.
Bob Marley: Cute books by his daughter based on famous songs. Every Little Thing (Amazon) and One Love (Amazon).
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Amazon). This can be read in front of a mirror for extra interaction, and the Spanish-English version is about as straightforward as dual language reading can get.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Amazon). There's a zillion versions of this; I don't prefer one over the others but it's a nice song for bedtime.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Small Hoku (Amazon). This is a longer Hawaiiana version of the classic with lovely art.
Playtime books
The Rooster Struts (Amazon). There's lots of options for books where you can make funny animal noises for your little, but this one offers the opportunity to make animal motions, swinging side-to-side to waddle like a duck or bouncing up and down to hop like a kangaroo. That's double the enjoyment for a tiny person who likes to shimmy around with you. Definitely make the noises too though!
Noise books include Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Amazon), The Jungle Book (Amazon), The Very Busy Spider (Amazon), Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada (Amazon), and really half the books you see on any board book list.
Global Babies (Amazon) can be fun too, because little babies will often recognize faces earlier than other objects, and they like to look at babies.
Rhythm books
These are mostly short, chanty, rhyming texts that are good for bridging the gap between song books and plain prose stories.
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? (Amazon). This is the last in the Brown Bear series, so less likely to show up on your doorstep four times than the original but with the same lovely illustration style and chanting rhymes. It features animals all native to the American West.
Home for a Bunny (Amazon). By the author of Goodnight, Moon, this is a daytime search for a place to call your own.
Swing (Amazon). Robert Louis Stevenson's poem and cute illustrations, as simple as it gets.
*Owl and the Pussycat (Amazon). Edward Lear's rhyme with Caribbean tropical themed illustrations. The gender roles are a bit traditional but the scenery is fabulous.
Pout-Pout Fish (Amazon). Not my favorite due to gross noises and questionable problem-solving but well-liked by kids. A pouty fish that lies around saying "gluuuuub" learns to kiss people instead.
Sleepytime books
Reading before a nap or bedtime is a great way to make sure you get books into the day, and it helps your baby know what to expect and settle down. I have a full list of bedtime books too.
Book of Sleep (Amazon). This one is short, beautiful, and has minimal text. Its sibling, the Book of Babies (Amazon), is also a good choice but less expressly bedtime-directed. In the beginning, of course, that doesn't much matter.
Going to Bed Book (Amazon). Short, rhyming, and talks about the bedtime routine without being dull.
What you don't need:
Lift-the-flap and activity books. Your baby is too small to enjoy these until probably five months old. They're just likely to get wrecked before then… and there's no rush. You will have plenty of time with them later!
Long books. The attention span of a tiny infant can be pretty long, but when they are that small you'll do just as well reading to them from whatever you've got on the nightstand. Once they are paying a bit more attention, they also have lots of other things to do. You probably aren't going to be able to spend an afternoon reading together just yet.
Educational books. Don't worry about trying to teach colors, numbers, letters, or whatever else comes in a "primer"—right now your baby is learning to experience the world. All these concepts will come much later, and they're boring for you, so don't bother.
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Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other cases? And why do some labor leaders fashion more creative and effective roles for labor unions? This work addresses these critical questions in an in-depth elegant comparative study of Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela in the 1990s. In each case, this book studies both the role of national confederations as well as individual unions in specific economic sectors in each country. It demonstrates the importance of the presence and nature of alliances between political parties and labor unions as well as the significance of competition between labor unions for the representation of the same set of workers. This book opens new horizons for appreciating the intellectual and practical importance of the variation in the interactions between workers, unions, political parties, and economic policies.
Collective bargaining is still the main vehicle for labour worldwide to negotiate wages, benefits, retirement policies, training and other terms of working with management in both the public and private sectors. Labour economists have long been active in modelling the relations between collective bargaining agreements, labour markets, and social welfare conditions. This book presents a new theoretical model of unions which offers a unified treatment of the centralization of bargaining, the credibility of labour contracts, the unionization of labour markets and the relative bargaining power of the union. Part I of the book develops the microfoundations of bargaining and examines collective bargaining interacting with public policy, investment and growth, and international trade and specialization. In conclusion Professor Palokangas challenges the commonly held view that collective bargaining has a negative impact on economics welfare, and argues that with the existence of market failure, collective bargaining can be welfare enhancing.
Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, 263 с.
A crucial challenge for economists is figuring out how people interpret the world and form expectations that will likely influence their economic activity. Inflation, asset prices, exchange rates, investment, and consumption are just some of the economic variables that are largely explained by expectations. Here George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja bring new explanatory power to a variety of expectation formation models by focusing on the learning factor. Whereas the rational expectations paradigm offers the prevailing method to determining expectations, it assumes very theoretical knowledge on the part of economic actors. Evans and Honkapohja contribute to a growing body of research positing that households and firms learn by making forecasts using observed data, updating their forecast rules over time in response to errors. This book is the first systematic development of the new statistical learning approach. Depending on the particular economic structure, the economy may converge to a standard rational-expectations or a "rational bubble" solution, or exhibit persistent learning dynamics. The learning approach also provides tools to assess the importance of new models with expectational indeterminacy, in which expectations are an independent cause of macroeconomic fluctuations. Moreover, learning dynamics provide a theory for the evolution of expectations and selection between alternative equilibria, with implications for business cycles, asset price volatility, and policy. This book provides an authoritative treatment of this emerging field, developing the analytical techniques in detail and using them to synthesize and extend existing research.
The optimal level of formalisation of contracts and their dynamic is at stake in the economic literature on the optimum design of ex post renegotiation with third party enforcement. Another theoretical interpretation is that contract adaptations may also reflect mutual learning process between contractors. Why transactors write explicit contract that they know cannot be court enforced ?
The central idea is that explicit contract terms makes it clearer to the transactors what has been agreed upon, thus are decreasing the cost of private enforcement sanctions (Klein, 1996). Empirical evidences are provided by the diachronic analysis of the full set of tri-partite contracts between one of the top-ten french large retailer and its beef suppliers before and after the BSE crisis (period 1993-1999). The analysis emphasizes also the role of this increased codification of supply contracts with a progressive change in the internal retailer's organization, i.e. increased centralization of decision and supervision mechanisms. Contract design and organizational choices are then strongly interrelated.
In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal "On the Mechanics of Economic Development" to his previously unpublished 1997 Kuznets Lectures. The chapters progress from a general theory of how growth could be sustained and why growth rates might differ in different countries, to a model of exceptional growth in certain countries in the twentieth century, to an account of the take-off of growth in the Industrial Revolution, and finally to a prediction about patterns of growth in this new century. The framework in all the chapters is a model with accumulation of both physical and human capital, with emphasis on the external benefits of human capital through diffusion of new knowledge or on-the-job learning, often stimulated by trade. The Kuznets Lectures consider the interaction of human capital growth and the demographic transition in the early stages of industrialization. In the final chapter, Lucas uses a diffusion model to illustrate the possibility that the vast intersociety income inequality created in the course of the Industrial Revolution may have already reached its peak, and that income differences will decline in this century.


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Israel defence minister wants one million Israelis in West Bank by 2030 — more than double current number
'The State of Israel must change its way of thinking,' Naftali Bennett said
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks as he gives a joint statement with the justice minister (unseen) at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 19, 2018.	THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images
(Bloomberg) — Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said he aims to have 1 million Israeli citizens living in the West Bank within a decade, more than double the current number.
Bennett, who spoke at a conference in Jerusalem, also said that the 60 per cent of the West Bank defined in the Oslo peace accords as "Area C" belongs to Israel, and that he intends to extend Israeli sovereignty there.
"The State of Israel must change its way of thinking," Bennett said. "We are opening an immediate and substantive campaign on the future of the lands of Israel, the future of Area C."
The West Bank is divided into three categories with varying levels of Palestinian autonomy. Jewish settlements are concentrated in Area C, where Israel retains nearly exclusive control. Israeli negotiators have pressed to include the heavily settled areas as part of sovereign Israel under any peace agreement, with land swaps for the Palestinians elsewhere.
Trudeau accused of breaking promise to stand by Israel, following vote on UN resolution
Trudeau says Canada's UN vote on Palestinian self-determination not a shift in policy on Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to extend Israeli sovereignty to all West Bank settlements as he sought votes ahead of national elections last year. He'll face an unprecedented third vote in less than 12 months on March 2.
The U.S. has strengthened his hand, with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announcing in November that Israeli settlements in the West Bank aren't inconsistent with international law, signaling a further shift away from established U.S. policy by the Trump administration. Over 400,000 Israelis live in the West Bank, along with about 2.6 million Palestinians.
ISIS offers residents of the 'caliphate' a mix of brutality and...


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Getting our head wrapped around the status of our finances can be a really frustrating, confusing and embarrassing experience. Most of us have never been formally educated in how to make a coherent financial plan, and are frankly unsure if we're in a good place financially or if we're messing things up royally. Our financial habits are often based on negative examples found in our families (don't go bankrupt like so-and-so) or news feeds (Note to self: don't invest all your money in Beanie Babies) or some kind of positive mantras based found on Pinterest ("Always pay yourself first") that, if we're honest, we don't really understand.
Put us in a foreign culture and we really start to lose our bearings. What is normal? How much do I need to save? I'm rich here, but am I poor in my home culture? Am I making any progress financially or am I just treading water? Or, worse yet, am I frog in the pot, slowly getting boiled financially, and one day I'll realize it's too late and I'm never going to retire.
Now, for some of you, you have had the privilege of having life-long financial planners, financial literacy training, trust funds, or maybe you've worked your tail off and have more money then you're quite sure what to do with. If that's you, congrats, but this article isn't for you.
For a lot of us, we ignore the topic and hope that whatever retirement accounts we're paying into at our workplace is going to be enough for us to someday retire. If we're slightly more proactive, from time to time we might pray that social security is still around by the time we retire. If we're overseas, we are probably extra confused, because the retirement contributions may differ wildly from country to country.
Let's face the tough reality though. The world of working for GE or GM for 35 years and retiring to a Cadillac health insurance policy and healthy monthly deposits into our bank accounts isn't going to be a reality for most of us ever experience. Moving from job to job throughout your career is the new normal. Moving from country to country is "normal" for a lot of expats. And that means we're responsible for making sure we're preparing for the future. But the first step in being prepared for the future means we need to figure out where we are in the present. Today. And that can be really scary.
The idea of taking a big picture look at our financial situation can be pretty awful. Why would we do this to ourselves? We're trying to make it through life as best we can, and the idea of doing a comprehensive financial review sounds overwhelming and painful. So we avoid it. We know things aren't quite right and ends aren't quite meeting, but we somehow make it to another paycheck which gives us some breathing room for a few more days. We're surviving, but we're not sure we're making any progress. We feel like we're failing already, so why would we put ourselves through the agony of looking at the full glory of our financial ineptitude? It exposes so many of the fears and insecurities we have in this arena. So we avoid it for a little longer. And we hope that it works out somehow. But in our gut, we know that we really don't know what's going on.
Please don't do this to yourself.
But why do this now? Because the longer we wait, the fewer options we have. And because, whether we realize it or not, we are either descending into a worse position financially, or we are missing opportunities by not maximizing our financial position. Financial balance is a long game. There is a very real cost of inaction financially, and that price isn't borne by us alone. Our spouses, kids, extended families and society generally pay the cost of our inaction. And we pay the cost personally. You may not feel it today, or tomorrow, but over and over again I run into examples of people who feel that they don't have options, they missed their chance to make changes in their lives, and now they don't have the ability to make those changes. They are stuck in jobs that they don't feel safe in, disappointed that they can't provide for their kids in the way that they want, or unable to seize opportunities due to a lack of resources. That's why now is important to resolve today. It's a process to achieve financial balance, and it won't' be accomplished in a day, but it is important to start that process. The longer you put things off, the more insurmountable that obstacle will become.
So what do we do? Well, the first steps of making any change is to figure out where exactly you are, and where you want to be.
The longer we avoid the issue, the more overwhelming and terrifying it becomes in our mind. We need to commit to engage the situation, and be willing to honestly consider what we learn. Our past choices have affected our current situation, and our current choices will dictate our future situation. We cannot undo our past, and we cannot avoid the future, but we do get to have a pretty big say about the present. The worst thing we can do is avoid looking at our finances and live with the constant stress of knowing that any day a unforeseen medial bill, a repair bill or a change in our job status could derail our lives. We need to be willing to take that long hard look at our financial situation, and then take the appropriate action. This can be a scary exercise. My friends have wept as they look at their situation, filled with shame. Others have blamed their spouse, or blamed circumstances. Some (very few) have been pleasantly surprised. But the first step if financial balance is the courage to look at where you are today.
Keep track of it all. Every dollar, ringgit, pound or euro. Just write it down, type it in, scan it in or whatever method you'll keep up with for a month. For me it was writing it down daily on a clip board, and then typing it into excel with a category that was easily sorted into major categories. The goal here is not to judge, but to just get a good sense of what "normal" is for you, and then go from there. Be careful though, once you start to notice where your money is going, it can become obsessive. But take a month, and do your best to track it all. After a month, you can start to make changes, but this will serve as a baseline for your normal. You might be suprised at all the small trickles of unintentional spending, and how a small decisions can result in significant spending over time.
But just keep track. And start to notice what you spend on. And that's enough for now.


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Bending the Arc
Film - Documentary | August 2 | 3:45-7 p.m. | Albany Twin
Location: 1115 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706
Featured Speaker: Pedro Kos, Filmmaker, Global Oneness Project
Director: Kief Davidson, Filmmaker, Park Pictures
Sponsors: Public Health, School of, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Thirty years ago, a group of young, enthusiastic, and caring friends came together with a goal that was both simple and complex: to provide health care for all, particularly the poor in the developing world. This inspiring documentary charts the success of Partners in Health, an NGO which builds hospitals and delivers health care throughout the world as they work to bend the arc toward justice.
Tickets required: $15
Ticket info: Tickets go on sale June 20. Buy tickets online or by calling 415-621-0556
Film - Feature | August 2 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In one of his best-known roles, Toshiro Mifune plays the boisterous, bullying, amoral ronin (masterless samurai) who calls himself simply Sanjuro ("Thirty Years Old"). When Sanjuro wanders into a town terrorized by an ongoing war between two factions, he decides to make a fistful of ryo—and have a little fun—by cleaning up the place.... More >
Le doulos
A Melvillean roundabout of ambiguity and betrayal in the underworld: Serge Reggiani is an ex-con who suspects his friend of being a stool pigeon—un doulos or finger man in French slang—and shoots him. Enter Jean-Paul Belmondo, the finger man; or is he? As in Bob le flambeur and Le Samouraï, the gangsters display an impassive, underplayed demeanor, increasing a sense of equivocation in characters... More >
Film - Feature | August 4 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
When Lucky Gagin, a luckless veteran played by Robert Montgomery, steps from the interstate bus, he is greeted by a flashing neon sign: "Buenos Dias. Howdy." The border town, known generically as San Pablo, is an indistinct zone of amalgamated cultures—Mexican Americans, gringos, and local Pueblo Indians—though it bears distinct resemblance to the Santa Fe of Dorothy B. Hughes's 1946 novel.... More >
The Hanged Man
Siegel's economical, no-nonsense direction in this early made-for-TV movie adaptation of Ride the Pink Horse (1946) is exciting in itself and well suited to Hughes's clipped prose (her "dread dream"). Santa Fe at fiesta is now New Orleans but there's no magic in Mardi Gras, only masked threat. Robert Culp does his best Robert Ryan, sloughing off aid or empathy in the role of Harry Pace, in town... More >
Based on three stories by Alice Munro, Almodóvar's most recent film finds the great director in an autumnal mood, stripping away his more manic and surreal touches to linger instead on intimacy and solitude in a mother's life. With a successful career and attentive lover, the middle-aged Julieta (Emma Suárez) still has a sorrow she cannot share. An unexpected letter triggers a breakdown, and an... More >
Le cercle rogue
Alain Delon, a highline thief who lives in studied elegance when he's not languishing in jail, plans an elaborate jewelry-store heist with two cohorts picked up almost at random: an escaped convict (Gian-Maria Volonté) and an alcoholic lapsed lawman rescued from a lost weekend (a great role for Yves Montand). The popular French actor André Bourvil is superbly cast against type as the nemesis cop,... More >
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
With this gorgeous picture set among a small Ukrainian sect, Sergei Paradjanov "was the first to indicate the degree to which folklore and local artistic tradition could once again become a source of visual wealth in Soviet national cinema. In the beautiful but fierce Carpathian Mountains, an environment of overwhelming Christian-pagan rituals, demonology, and constant struggle with overpowering... More >
The New Babylon
Film - Feature | August 10 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
We present The New Babylon with Dmitri Shostakovich's original symphonic score for the silent film. Originally banned for its excess and aestheticism, this energetic avant-garde extravaganza represents a culmination of the experimental Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), founded by directors Kozintsev and Trauberg. Set in the 1871 Paris Commune and centered around a posh department store... More >
Film - Feature | August 11 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Ray must have been after the corrosive core of doubt and mistrust at the center of Dorothy B. Hughes's most pathological novel (1947) when he took on Andrew Solt's terrific adaptation. Hughes's riveting story about Dix Steele, a serial killer trolling the streets of Los Angeles for women, was discarded like one of the novel's many victims. Still, this repurposing of Dix (Humphrey Bogart) as a... More >
Obit.
Film - Documentary | August 11 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
It's no surprise that the small team of journalists on the obituaries desk at the New York Times are a thoughtful group and make for excellent subjects in this witty and illuminating documentary. Filmmaker Vanessa Gould conceived of the subject for Obit. after being interviewed by a staff writer at the Times following the death of a friend. Her film sheds light on how deaths are covered by the... More >
Un flic
Film - Feature | August 12 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna star in Melville's last feature, a consummate cops-and-robbers tale of remarkable set pieces and an even more remarkable sense of nihilism. A windswept seaside bank robbery, a hospital breakout, a giddily ludicrous train heist: Melville's nearly wordless action scenes are miracles of staging, timing, and movement, and prove that suspense can... More >
Pepi, Luci, Bom, and Other Girls Like Mo
(Pepi, Luci, Bom, y otras chicas del montón). Madrid's nascent punk and gay underground provides the fertile setting of Almodóvar's debut feature, a manic slice of screw-you life that could outshock even early John Waters with its transgressive energy. Swearing vengeance on a rapist cop, "modern girl" Carmen Maura (beginning a collaboration with Almodóvar that would last decades) joins forces... More >
Film - Documentary | August 13 | 5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Chabrol liked Charlotte Armstrong (he based Merci pour le chocolat on her as well); like his camera, the women in her women-centered thrillers are off center. At any rate that is how our heroine's in-laws, the wealthy Regniers, attempt to portray her when she tries to divorce their mentally unstable son. In her rooming house peopled by Tarot-playing biddies and a funny tragedian, Stéphane Audran... More >
An "ordinary" housewife navigates the usual working-class suburban life of deadbeat husbands, mad mothers-in-law, sex-worker neighbors, and child pandering in Almodóvar's taboo-smashing send-up of the social realist drama, redone as crazed, John Waters–like comedy. Whether crushing her husband's head with a ham bone, selling her youngest son to a dentist, or "helping out" the kindly dominatrix... More >
No one's dancing the Madison in Dolores Hitchens's Fools' Gold (1958). Godard traded her wind-smacked Pasadena and causeless strivers for the foggy, fluvial Paris suburbs and the existential poetry of "trembling" youth. But he admires the novel's precise, pitiless prose in countless small ways in his tale of two aspiring thugs, Franz (Sami Frey) and Arthur (Claude Brasseur), who are drawn to the... More >
Antonio Gaudí
Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852–1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. Here their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience, with a haunting score by Toru Takemitsu. Less a documentary than a visual... More >
"Rebellion" is the fitting original title of this relentless social portrait of those who demand subservience, and those who have had enough. A magisterial Toshiro Mifune slow-burns his way through the role of dutiful samurai Sasahara—henpecked by his wife and dominated by his lord—whose attempts to be a "good servant" are about to end. "You retreat, and retreat," says his friend Asano (Tatsuya... More >
Relating the life of Emily Dickinson, Davies imbues the simple structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry. Cynthia Nixon conveys ferocious intelligence and unexpected warmth in her portrayal of the quietly radical poet, who moves through a life of attachments, losses, and private striving, toward an urgent confrontation with eternity—all while embedded deep within her family... More >
Passing Strange: The Movie
Free on Our Outdoor Screen!
Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Refreshments available.
The spectacular, one-of-a-kind musical Passing Strange was developed and premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and went on to be a Broadway hit, winning multiple awards including a Tony. Spike Lee captured the show on film, retaining its energy while also taking us behind the scenes. The... More >
Winner of the 1999 Cannes Best Director prize, this affectionate drama of a mother's compassion serves as Almodóvar's tribute to his two greatest inspirations: women and film. The tragic death of her son impels Manuela (Cecilia Roth) to find her long-missing husband, a trek that leads her across Madrid and Barcelona, and into the path of several women and men (and men who would be women) who need... More >
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Liverpool has an unusual gravity. Witness Davies's richly detailed portrait of working-class life and you'll feel the extreme pull of the Liverpudlian past. It's an homage to (and a forgiveness of) the daily trepidations of growing up in a brute household, ruled over by a stern father (the grand Pete Postlethwaite) and a doting mum (Freda Dowie). But Davies also finds strange comfort in this... More >
High and Low
Kurosawa's adaptation of an American detective novel is both a superb, suspenseful thriller, and a Dostoyevskian metaphysical probe into the ambiguities of guilt and innocence. In one of his finest performances, Toshiro Mifune portrays a wealthy executive who must pay ransom for the release of his chauffeur's son when the boy is mistaken for his son by a kidnapper. Kurosawa creates a constant,... More >
Of Time and the City
A lyrical cinepoem about Davies's hometown of Liverpool from 1945 to 1973, Of Time and the City taps many of the themes from his earlier narrative films—Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, childhood, and the glory of cinema. Davies narrates the film; his reflections and emotive delivery are laced with candor and irony and mixed with favorite lines by other writers and poets. The... More >
Movie in the Park at James Kenney Community Center
Film - Animated | August 25 | 7:40-10 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Corner of Bancroft & Telegraph
Come along for a relaxing evening in the park to watch a movie under the stars! Meet new friends, hang out with old ones, or just come for the movie (who doesn't love Zootopia?).
You can either meet us at the James Kenney Community Center at 8:15 PM, or meet us on campus outside of the MLK student union at 7:40 PM to travel to the park together.
Just bring yourselves, warm clothing, and a... More >
Talk to Her
Almodóvar won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this 2002 film, a detour for the director in its focus on masculine rather than feminine friendships and its restrained, earnest approach to such bonds. Javier Cámara and Darío Grandinetti star as two men who meet first at a dance performance by Pina Bausch, then in a hospital where each is caring for a woman in a coma. A friendship... More >
The Long Day Closes
"The music of the years gone by": with Nat "King" Cole singing "Stardust" while the camera slowly moves past tattered movie posters and down a dim studio street, Davies ushers us gently, lovingly into another world. This is a land of music and shadows and light, also known as 1956 Liverpool, where an eleven-year-old boy gazes through windows and dreams of pictures. The Long Day Closes maps some... More >
Bad Education
Gael García Bernal stars in Almodóvar's intricate hybrid of film noir, melodrama, autobiography, and Catholic Church exposé, "which continues Almodóvar's excavation of the deepest emotions that dwell within established film genres" (New York Times). Merging separate timelines and stories along with sexual identities, Bad Education tracks back from a Madrid scriptwriter's reunion with a former... More >
Amos Gitai to Teach Seminar on Narrative and Form: Cinema and Architecture
Film - Series | August 29	– September 26, 2017 every day | 370 Wurster Hall
The Israeli film director Amos Gitai (Ph.D Architecture 79) will teach a five week course on film that explores the concepts of narrative and space. CLASS SIZE IS VERY LIMITED SO YOU MUST SIGN UP SOON. OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS ACROSS CAMPUS.
Amos Gitai - Screening of Film "News From Home"
Film - Documentary | August 30 | 6:30-9 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
WED, AUG 30, 6:30pm. Amos Gitai (Ph.D Architecture 79) will be on hand for the film screening with Q&A to follow. The Public is welcome.
A welcome return to Almodóvar's female-powered narratives, Volver spotlights a community of strong women striving to overcome the failures or absences of men. The strong-willed Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) forge ahead for a better life with little help from the male sex, aided by Raimunda's teen daugher, their aunt, some plucky neighbors, and their long-lost mother... More >


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Home Expat Lifestyle Motoring A new Peugeot crossover in town
A new Peugeot crossover in town
Euro Weekly News Media
18 January 2013 @ 23:00
DYNAMIC: The new urban crossover has sculpted wings and sides indicating athletic qualities.
WITH the 2008, Peugeot capitalises on its expertise acquired with the 3008 Crossover to create a new addition to the B segment. Set to go on sale in spring at a base price of €19,000, it joins in the dynamic of the product offensive initiated by the brand with their 208 model.
At just 4.16 metres long, the 2008 innovates by combining the driving characteristics of a hatchback and the strength of an SUV with an on-board area that provides passenger space, modularity and comfort.
Equally at ease in town as on the open road, it can escape from the city with confidence due to its extended mobility features. The 2008 is to be produced close to its markets, in France (Mulhouse), in China (Wuhan) and in Brazil (Porto Real).
With its higher-driving position the Peugeot 2008, fitted with 'Mud&Snow' tyres, 17″ 'Diamond' wheels with a matt finish, has pronounced wheel arches that give it road presence and stance. The black bumpers and body sills serve to protect it from abrasions with the addition of front and rear body protection and side mouldings in stainless steel.
The boot volume, with a low loading sill, has above it a roof line with dynamic curves, inspired by the RCZ. The wide tailgate is framed by lamps secured to the bodywork.
The latest-generation engines take care both of the driving experience and fuel economy. Due to the technology of the e-HDi Diesel and new 3-cylinder petrol engines, the Peugeot 2008 features CO2 emission starting from 99 g/km.
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World Journal of Business and Management
Home > Vol 2, No 2 (2016) > Juhn
Applicability of Japanese Management and Production System in Africa: Using "Hybrid Evaluation Model" in Comparison with Other Developing Regions
Wooseok Juhn, Tetsuo Abo
The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the overall features of the Japanese management and production systems transferred into the industries in Africa, in order to examine its possibility of contribution to economic development in Africa. The most remarkable finding is that the African culture and social environment would be more or less compatible to Japanese style HRM. "Worksite–oriented" Japanese style management has been realized in various work practices not only at the local plants of Japanese firms but also of African firms under some institutional restrictions, i.e. strong labor unions and European type rigid social frameworks. For Japanese companies that are thinking of the investment in Africa, we could clarify the environment of Africa might be familiar to the Japanese management and production systems. Simultaneously, for the governments of the countries in Africa, this paper suggests that the JMPS could be one of the effective methods to develop the economy of their countries. This is the first time research approach to the transferability of the Japanese management and production systems based on the field research in Africa.
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They may be Lebanon's national ice-hockey team but they are coached by a bus driver in Montréal, who is encouraging them to take a slapshot at international sports stardom.
Ice hockey is Canada's national obsession and junior hockey is where the dream of going pro is closest to being realised. Monocle Films heads to London, Ontario, to meet the fans supporting the puck stars of the future.
We take a closer look at how Vans rose from California's 1960s skate scene to become one of the world's most recognised sportswear brands.
Winter: how even today, Christmas is breathing new life into Bethlehem, why we need skating rinks in cities and we speak to city lighting expert Mark Major.
China and Kazakhstan compete to host the Winter Olympics and Jakarta gets an artistic makeover.


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Q: Which HttpUtility decode method to use? this may be a silly question, but it trips me up every time.
HttpUtility has the methods HtmlDecode and UrlDecode. Do these two methods decode anything (Html/Http related) I might find? When do I have to use them, and which one am I supposed to use?
Just now I hit an error. This is my error log:
Payment receiver was not payment@mysite.com. (it was payment%40mysite.com).

But, I wrapped the email address here in HttpUtility.HtmlDecode before using it. It turns out I have to use .UrlDecode instead, but this email address didn't come from a URL so this wasn't obvious to me.
Can someone clarify this?

A: See What is meant by  htmlencode and urlencode?
It's the reverse of your case, but essentially you need to use UrlEncode/Decode anytime you are using an address of sorts (urls and yes, email addresses).  HtmlEncode/Decode is for code that typically a browser would render (html/xml tags).

A: This same encoding is also used in Form POST requests as well.
My guess is something read it 'naked' without decoding it.
Html Encoding/Decoding is only used to escape strings that contain characters that would otherwise be interpreted as html control characters.  The process turns the characters into html entities and back again.
Url Encoding is to get around the fact that many characters are not allowed in Uris; or because they too could be misinterpreted.  Thus the percent encoding is used.
Percent encoding is also used in the body of http requests.
In both cases, of course, it's also a way of expressing a specific character code in a request/response independent of character sets; but equally, interpreting what is meant by a particular code can also be dependent on knowing a particular character set.  Generally you don't worry about that - but it can be important (especially in the HTML case).

A: When you see %xx this means percent encoding has occured - this is a URL encoding scheme, so you need to use UrlEncode / UrlDecode.
The HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode methods are for encoding and decoding elements for HTML display - so things like & get encoded to & and > to >.

A: URLEncode converts characters that aren't allowed in a URL into character equivalents which are parsable as a URL.  In your example @ became %40.  URLDecode reverses this.
HTMLEncode is similar to URLEncode, but the target environment is text NESTED inside of HTML.  This helps the browser from interpereting your content as HTML, but when rendered it should look like the decoded version.  HTMLDecode reverses this.

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Using internet marketing allows you to increase your sales potential. Give your customers a chance to be on your email list whenever you make a sale. Make signing up easy by directing them to a page with all of the necessary information. You don't need full data, just a name and email. Make sure they are aware of the discounts and information they are going to be getting by being on these mailing lists. Make use of email software that can help you send professional and personalized emails with creative and compelling subject lines. Open rates for mailings with unique titles are higher. You should make sure to include plenty of links to important information on your website. To get more email subscribers, only offer specials to people who sign up. You should always be a communicative business owner, so use email to thank your customers for their business. These emails should always have an option to reply or visit a page in order to leave feedback on the services or products you provide.
Try multiple marketing tactics to cover different areas of the internet. This will give you the best odds of reaching your potential customers. For example, you may have a client base that would prefer to receive content through a social networking site, rather than a traditional email marketing campaign. One good idea is to take a look at your competition's marketing strategy. Consider the ways your competition reaches your customer base, and then come up with ways to improve these strategies for your own use. To learn what your own customers prefer, try asking them to complete a survey. Depending on the products and services that your business offers, you may need to put more thought into which strategies you decide to employ. Make sure that you are marketing your products through appropriate channels. Try as many different techniques as you can think of.
Inventing new ways to pursue affiliate marketing can be very adventurous. Always remain in contact with previous customers, if possible, and always look for ways to grow your customer base as well. These are great strategies to think about as you come up with your own personal methods as well.


A remnant from days gone by, wedding telegrams provide a method to inform the happy couple you are unable to attend their wedding. Normally read by the best man after his speech, wedding telegrams may be thoughtful, humorous or contain a picture. Send your telegram message with the idea that not only the bride and groom will hear the message, but everyone attending the entire wedding reception, so make it suitable and not too personal.
Send a message that expresses your condolences about missing the happy day with congratulations, or relate a short story about how the happy couple met. A simple, "Regrettably are unable to attend this joyous occasion and want to extend our best wishes to the happy couple," is acceptable. Telegrams.com offers these suggestions, "We wish you every happiness as you celebrate the love you share," and "We share in your happiness and wish you all the best."
Acceptable for all guests to hear, messages that allow for a laugh suggest humorous actions. You can send a funny story about the couple or use a prepared quote. According to weddingspeechinfo.com, a telegram that usually receives a laugh is, "A woman usually begins by resisting a man's advances, and then ends by blocking his retreat." Another favourite is, "We wish you well on your special day, may all your dreams of marriage come true, may all your troubles be small, and remember that marriage is like a three ring circus: first is the engagement ring, then the wedding ringc and then the suffering."
Send a telegram that contains pictures and words. A telegram of a dove symbolising eternal love with a heartfelt, "May your love grow stronger each day," creates a keepsake for the couple. Or, choose an open bottle of champagne and the telegram message, "Couldn't be there in person to celebrate so raising a glass to your nuptials here." Another option shows a set of wedding bands, and states, "May your love be like these circles, never-ending."


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Climate Change: Why is it So Often "Sooner than Predicted"?
Posted by admin3 on Jun 21, 2019 in Climate change, Featured, International, Location, National - USA | 0 comments
A June 15th headline elicited feelings in me of both shock and déjà vu: "Climate change: Arctic permafrost now melting at levels not expected until 2090" [Independent, June 15, 2019]. Shock because that's quite a bit ahead of time. Déjà vu because how often does a climate change headline or story use a phrase like that? "At levels not expected until" or "faster than expected" or "sooner than predicted"? I opened a search engine and started plugging in these and other variants to find out. It didn't take long to answer my question: regularly, as it turns out.
Here are a few examples, from 2014 to the present [all emphasis is mine]:
"As the Climate Council has reported, hot days have doubled in Australia over the past half-century. During the decade from 2000 to 2009, heatwaves reached levels not expected until the 2030s. The anticipated impacts from climate change are arriving more than two decades ahead of schedule." ["'It's been hot before': faulty logic skews the climate debate," The Conversation, February 20, 2014]
"Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner than thought" (University of Leeds study) [Science Daily, March 16, 2014]
"New research shows climate change will reduce crop yields sooner than expected" (different study) [Arizona State University, March 25, 2014]
"Dangerous global warming will happen sooner than thought – study: Australian researchers say a global tracker monitoring energy use per person points to 2C warming by 2030″ [The Guardian, 9 March 2016]
"Scientists Warn Drastic Climate Impacts Coming Much Sooner Than Expected: Former NASA scientist James Hansen argues the new study requires much faster action reducing greenhouse gases." [Inside Climate News, Mar 22, 2016]
"Florida Reefs Are Dissolving Much Sooner Than Expected" [ClimateCentral, May 3, 2016]
"Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change:" "We predicted moderate warmth for 2016, but nothing like the temperature rises we've seen" [Thomson Reuters Foundation, July 26, 2016]
"Ice-free Arctic may happen much sooner than predicted so far: study" [DownToEarth, 16 August 2018]
"Ground that is not freezing in the Arctic winter could be a sign the region is warming faster than believed" ["Scientists surprised to find some Arctic soil may not be freezing at all even in winter," CNBC, Aug 22 2018]
"Paris global warming targets could be exceeded sooner than expected because of melting permafrost, study finds" [Independent, 17 September 2018]
"Climate change impacts worse than expected, global report warns" [National Geographic, October 7, 2018]
"Ocean Warming is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds" [NY Times, Jan 10th, 2019]
"Scientists warn climate change could reach a 'tipping point' sooner than predictedas global emissions outpace Earth's ability to soak up carbon" [Daily Mail, 23 January 2019]
"Scientists who study the northern Bering Sea say they're seeing changed ocean conditions that were projected by climate models – but not until 2050." ["Bering Sea changes startle scientists, worry residents," AP, Apr 13, 2019]
"New Climate Report Suggests NYC Could Be Under Water Sooner Than Predicted" [Gothamist, May 21, 2019]
"Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Way Faster Than Expected, Scientists Warn" [Huffington Post, 06/14/2018]
"Arctic Permafrost Melting 70 Years Sooner Than Expected, Study Finds" (The original source for the Independent article) [Weather.com, June 14th, 2019]
So why does this keep happening? There are several reasons:
#1: IPCC as standard-setter
In the contrast between reality and predictions, the conventional baseline for predictions is set by the IPCC, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For governments, NGOs and media, the IPCC reports are the institutional yardstick.
However, the bureaucratic process that produces IPCC reports is not exclusively scientific. Final documents are created by consensus among all the participants, some of whom are policy-makers without scientific backgrounds or knowledge. Political concerns come into play, such as how the recommendations will affect their home industries and what kind of story they're trying to sell to their populace. Additionally, because this process is slow, the data is not current. When an IPCC report is released, the numbers in it are often at least five years old.
In describing how the IPCC operates, Meteorologist Nick Humphrey said: "Essentially making sure it's not too dire [and] shows economic paths to success." Clearly, such methodology has been giving us a picture that underestimates the true situation, and that is not in anybody's interest.
#2: The Situation is Complex
Though the over-arching term is "global warming," the situation isn't as simple as consistently increasing temperatures in all areas all the time. For example, a warming Arctic has destabilized the jet stream, and in some cases this has sent polar air south, chilling regions to below their normal ranges. Such local cold snaps are not the proof that global warming isn't real, as some claim when they happen, but rather a demonstration of how real it is.
Further, multiple feedback loops are in effect which are not fully understood or easily predictable individually, let alone in the aggregate. For example, less ice in the Arctic Sea leads to more heat being absorbed by the ocean (since open water is darker in color than ice), which in turn leads to higher temperatures. Higher temperatures in the region lead to more permafrost thawing, which releases methane into the atmosphere, increasing temperatures further. Which leads to more ice melting… (For more, see Dahr Jamail's "How Feedback Loops Are Driving Runaway Climate Change.")
Those are only two of many, many factors—all interrelated in ways we don't understand—that all have their own "tipping points," which are events when runaway change strikes, leading to rapid transformations. We have yet to experience one of those in modern times, but paleoclimatologists have found evidence of these events in the past. (The last such period, the Younger Dryas—12,900 to 11,700 years ago—corresponds to the rise of agriculture in the Mideast, which—ironically—established both civilization and ecocide, leading us directly to our sorry situation today.)
A little-discussed and poorly-understood factor in all these trends is climate sensitivity, and the difference between short and long term sensitivity. For a brief explanation, I quote Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, who commented:
"There is a big difference between the short term sensitivity, which is used to calculate warming over a few years, and the long term sensitivity which represents how much warming the earth is going to be subjected to if you don't add more CO2 but let the effects of the present levels work their way fully through the climate system. Short term sensitivity is 2-4.5 C, but long term is more like 10C. The crime of IPCC and other modelling outfits is that they are aware of this difference between short and long term, but still use the short term value even when they are doing hand-waving studies of what is going to happen over the next century or two."
#3: Lack of Big Picture Perspective
"Climate change is an interdisciplinary problem," is how Humphrey puts it. "Marine biologists, conservation biologists, sociologists, political scientists, geologists, meteorologists, glaciologists, etc, really fill the gap where the climate scientists do not go because it simply isn't their specialization or have the time to go in their research."
The increasing specialization of the sciences and the isolation of its many branches from each other is a trend that has been happening for over a century, and has become extreme at this point. There is a tendency not merely to miss the forest for the trees, but the trees for the leaves.
In order to fully comprehend, accurately predict, and rationally respond to our situation, we must look at the big picture—how the leaves make up the forest—but very few people are doing that. This is a job for generalists capable of integrating seemingly disparate but—in actuality—intimately connected threads, and of clearly conveying what they see. However, neither academia nor the employing world encourage generalists at this time; quite the opposite, in fact. Virtually the only way to find your place and make your way in the sciences is by establishing a niche. This is not serving us.
#4: No Money for Predicting Undesirable Outcomes
Researchers require resources to do their thing, which nearly 100% of the time entails pleasing an institution, whether that's an employer or a grantor. Such funders have their own agendas, and few (if any) are interested in hearing about unhappy endings.
#5: Scientists Hit the Hopium Pipe Too
Finally, scientists are products of our culture just like everybody else, and our culture is primarily one of denial, whether that's about the reality of our past (genocide and slavery) or our present (brutal military and economic hegemony, inverted fascism). Most scientists not only don't want to deliver a dire message, but they don't want to believe it themselves either, even if that's what their findings show. This is understandable on a personal level. Scientifically, though, it is fundamentally dishonest.
Cartoon by Ken Avidor. More of his work can be found at Bicyclopolis.
Okay, so then what?
It's increasingly clear that our situation is worse than we've been told, perhaps far, far worse. One can choose to scoff at those predicting drastic outcomes like near-term human extinction, but how does one support that kind of skepticism when "reasonable" projections have so far proven to be woeful underestimates?
But when it comes to making accurate predictions, maybe it's no longer important. Perhaps the lesson here is just that it's worse than we think and worse than we want and—we must consider this possibility—worse than we can fix. So then our challenge is to accept that and to take responsible action.
If you hit someone on the road, the responsible action is to go back and see how s/he is. It's fair to describe US culture as a high speed vehicle striking one innocent creature after another without ever looking back, individually or collectively. This is untenable in a host of ways, and always has been.
Acting with malice takes a toll on both perpetrator and victim. In our case, the victim is the planet and she's turning the tables on us, on her own schedule, whether we see it coming or not. Heads up!
Source: Resilience
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By: Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, originally published by Macska Moksha Press
LINK: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-06-19/climate-change-why-is-it-so-often-sooner-than-predicted
Rapid Melting of Arctic Permafrost Shocks Scientists
The Canadian Arctic is raising alarm bells for climate scientists. The permafrost there is thawing 70 years earlier than expected, a research team discovered, according to Reuters. It is the latest indication that the global climate crisis is ramping up faster than expected.
The surface, which was frozen is now sinking and sprinkled with melt ponds. A series of unusually warm summers destabilized the upper layers of giant underground ice blocks that had been frozen for millennia. That triggered a spike in melting rates at three research sites, even though ground temperatures remained low. The melt has caused ponds and knolls to form. Conventional wisdom said the permafrost would remain until at least 2090, according to the Independent.
"What we saw was amazing," said Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, as Reuters reported. "It's an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years."
Romanovsky and his colleagues used a modified propeller plane to visit three exceptionally remote islands in the Canadian Arctic, including an abandoned Cold War-era radar base more than 185 miles away from the nearest inhabited settlement, according to Reuters.
The research team analyzed data gathered from 2003 to 2016 and published their findings last week in Geophysical Research Letters. The scientists recorded permafrost thawing depths that were not expected until average temperatures reached the level that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted in one of its moderate climate change models — a level predicted for after 2090, according to LiveScience.
Mould Bay on Prince Patrick Island showed the most melting, according to the study. The permafrost thawing there was 240 percent higher than historic levels and the ground sank three feet over the 12-year research period, as the Independent reported.
"We were astounded that this system responded so quickly to the higher air temperatures," said Louise Farquharson, a co-author of the study, as LiveScience reported.
When the scientists arrived at the research site, they surveyed a landscape completely different and unrecognizable from the icy arctic terrain they studied a decade earlier. The ice had vanished and left a landscape pocked with ridges of waist-high depressions and ponds known as thermokarst, according to Reuters. Vegetation had started to flourish in once sparse pockets of land. Thermokarst alters ecosystems and waterways. It invites new plant growth, disrupts stable nutrient cycles and it lets sediment settle in streambeds, according to LiveScience.
"We had this flat terrain when we started monitoring," Farquharson told LiveScience. "In 10 or so years, we saw the landscape transform."
Romanovsky told Reuters the scene had reminded him of the aftermath of a bombardment.
The melting permafrost threatens to accelerate the global climate crisis. When it thaws, it releases carbon dioxide and other trapped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which raises temperatures and accelerates an endless cycle of permafrost melt.
"It's a canary in the coalmine," said Farquharson, as Reuters reported. "It's very likely that this phenomenon is affecting a much more extensive region and that's what we're going to look at next."
LINK: read:https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-permafrost-melting-2638917839.html?rebelltitem=1
Himalayan Glacier Melt Has Doubled Since 2000, Satellites Show
The researchers assembled the most detailed look to date at the last 40 years of Himalayan ice loss to date, combining contemporary satellite information with data from declassified U.S. spy satellites. They found that average ice-loss per year had doubled between the periods 1975 to 2000 and 2000 to 2016, and that the glaciers had lost more than 25 percent of their ice in the study period, The Guardian reported.
"This is the clearest picture yet of how fast Himalayan glaciers are melting since 1975, and why," research leader Joshua Maurer of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth observatory told The Guardian.
Melting since 2000 has been especially dramatic, The New York Times reported. The glaciers lost a foot and a half of ice every year since then, and have lost a total of eight billion tons of water each year recently, the equivalent of 3.2 million Olympic size swimming pools. Most of this melting was caused by the climate crisis. While researchers said some ice lost was due to soot from the burning of fossil fuels, most was due to warmer temperatures, which rose by higher rates on average between 2000 and 2016 across the more than 1,200 mile range.
Study co-author Joerg Schaefer, as at Columbia, told CNN that unless we act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cool the planet, we would see a "pretty devastating scenario for Himalayan glaciers."
University of Leeds glaciology specialist Duncan Quincey, who was not involved in the research, explained why.
"In the short-term, such rapid melt rates will mean summer floods become more frequent as river discharge is increased, but the long-term prospect is one of drought as the glacier reservoir becomes depleted," he told CNN.
Around 800 million people across Asia now rely on Himalayan glaciers for energy, agriculture and drinking water. But this study is part of a growing body of evidence showing how much climate change threatens these glaciers, and the communities they support. A February study found that even if world leaders managed to limit global temperature increase to the Paris agreement goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, one third of the ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region would still melt by 2100. If temperatures hit two degrees, half of the ice would melt, and if temperatures rose to four or five degrees Celsius, two thirds would disappear.
University College London climate science Prof. Chris Rapley, who was not involved in the study, said ice loss was "already undermining the viability of small communities in the Himalayas as they suffer ever more serious water shortages." If it continued, it would displace a significant number of people.
"Better for all of us to accelerate to net zero as a matter of the highest priority," he told CNN.
LINK: read:https://www.ecowatch.com/himalayan-glacier-melt-doubled-2638927563.html?rebelltitem=2
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Health& Beauty @Hermanus is about the extension of youthful health and vitality, as well as the creation of paradigm shifts in focus; from treating symptoms after a disease has occurred, to early detection and prevention of disease and promotion of optimal health and well-being for all ages.
People are now living longer than they ever have before in history. But it is not enough just to live longer--It is important that people be able to continue to enjoy a high quality of life as they grow older. Fortunately, medical technology is being developed that can slow and perhaps even reverse the physical and mental deterioration normally attributed to ageing.


In 2017, we made many strides at Driveline Baseball in an effort to further our ability to help athletes develop. If you follow our social media, you've seen that one of those ways was through implementing structured pitch design sessions with the use of Rapsodo and Edgertronic cameras. The other, less glamorous, way has been to improve command through use of our weighted and command balls. Though not as talked about on social media, the differential command balls have helped athletes, both at Driveline and schools around the country, make significant strides.
In an effort to explain some of the science behind them and help provide a bit of guidance to those struggling with command, let's break down the science behind our command balls and how we structure programming with them to obtain the best results.
This chaos of change in size and weight immediately leads people to exclaim, "Ahh! Training proprioception!" And yes, that's likely a major contributor of why this system helps improve command. After all, proprioception is the ability to unconsciously perceive movement and orientation from stimuli within the body, as it relates to motion, position, and equilibrium, and that's exactly what we're looking to have athletes feel. We want athletes to feel and make adjustments based off the different weights and sizes. In theory, this should help improve an athlete's ability to be more aware of where and how the ball is being released.
Research supports this theory. There are several studies examining training proprioception and its effects on skill acquisition. One such study examined proprioception training through balance and its effects on soccer skills. The study showed a significant increase in several of the skills and noted the importance of having both diverse and complementary proprioception training programs (Bekris et. al. 2012).
The keyword in that statement is in the necessity for a diverse program. As baseball players, we've thrown 5-oz baseballs with a 9-9.25 inch diameter for our entire careers. There's no diversity in the implement, so eventually our ability to improve that skill diminishes because our bodies have adapted to it. In order to further grow, we have to make changes, and one way to do this is through the use differential command balls to help provide a proprioceptive change.
Contextual interference (CI) is the second and far less understood piece regarding the benefits of differential command balls. CI is a motor-skill acquisition theory claiming that by randomizing the motor skills you are trying to teach, you improve skill retention and transfer.
For example, a study by Hall et. al. looked at the effects of CI with hitting. This study examined if a blocked, random, or control group would have better success improving an athlete's ability to hit three different pitches solidly. The pitches were curveball, fastball, and change-up. The random group saw 15 of each pitch in a random sequence with no pitch being repeated more than twice in a row. The block group faced 15 of each pitch all in succession, and the control group received regular BP only. The results found an improved ability for the randomized group's performance compared to the other two groups.
However, the randomized group initially performed worse than the blocked group. This is because the initial increase in randomization results in poorer performance early in training, which is potentially even worse than baseline performance with the understanding that over time the transfer and skill retention will actually be higher. This, however, brings up the importance of data tracking and monitoring skill increases over time, as it is possible to over randomize for an athlete's skill level. If this occurs, the athlete will likely not be able to adapt to the stimulus.
Throwing the command balls is difficult, but it's important to understand the challenge. We start by testing an athlete's command with a 5-oz baseball to establish a baseline and then begin slowly randomizing the program to allow time for the athlete to adapt. We start with our 4 and 6 ounce weighted balls and then move onto the differential command balls.
We also require athletes to have a certain percentage of pitches thrown for strikes twice at each stage of the process before advancing in difficulty. Initially, we don't even mix in the over- and undersize balls because most athletes haven't ever tried throwing strikes with them. This on its own is a significant amount of randomization.
As athletes progress, we begin increasing the randomization or individualize the program based on what the athlete's response to the training is. For example, if an athlete constantly misses arm side, the program can be tailored to correct for this by working through an oversized and overload focus. The inverse is true for an athlete who has a tendency to cut and pull the ball across the zone, missing low and gloveside. Regardless, when implementing the program, it's important to keep it simple initially and then build as an athlete's command percentage at each stage of the program meets the measured objectives.


I thought it would be a quick and easy task to implement the Firebase gaming services in my game build in Unity. I was so very wrong, lots of things to do just to get a simple achievement system incorporated in my game.
Now don't get me wrong, it's the first time I've tried to use the services, so I'm certain I'm not understanding some things and making it harder than it needs to be. Hitting the wall and as my podcast says, now is my moment of greatest learning.
I'm sure there will be more thoughts shared on this soon, and maybe even a tutorial or two if I can make sense of it all.