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Politicized Teachers Push Radical Leftist Agenda
Lance Izumi Pacific Research Institute
April 24, 2017 9:12 PM ET
Typically, school choice advocates rely on school and student performance data to show that public schools are academically failing or underperforming compared to other schooling options.
But as I have documented in my soon-to-be-released book, The Corrupt Classroom, parents in California and many other states have an even more-compelling reason than academic performance to demand school choice – classroom politicization.
As we have seen recently in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide, there have been several violent protests attacking free speech on school campuses. However, the ideological inspiration for these protests may surprise you.
So who are the leaders of the violent left-wing extremists who recently attacked free-speech advocates in Berkeley? Perhaps some secretive anarchist cabal? Try public school teachers.
Meet Yvette Felarca, a teacher at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley. She is also the leader of the radical By Any Means Necessary organization, which the San Jose Mercury News described "as a 'militant' group that uses a variety of tactics, including violence, to spread its message."
According to the Daily Californian, Felarca was part of the anti-free-speech, leftist counter-protest that stated, on its Facebook page, its goal of shutting down the Free Speech Rally before it began.
"We're here to take a stand," Felarca said, "against the whole Trump administration." Felarca was also a leader in a previous protest in February at UC Berkeley that devolved into violence.
As CNN reported at the time, "The violent protesters tore down metal barriers, set fires near the campus bookstore and damaged the construction site of a new dorm." Many people were injured by this rampaging mob.
In June 2016, Felarca reportedly shoved a man to the ground at a demonstration in Sacramento. The brawl resulted in seven people being stabbed. Felarca told the Mercury News, that the First Amendment should not protect speech with which she disagrees and that she labels "hate speech."
Even parents in ultraliberal Berkeley were appalled by Felarca's actions. Many took to social media to complain that, according to the Mercury News, "her violent, in-your-face message has no place in the classroom, especially at a school named after an activist who preached for social change through nonviolence."
"A person like that should not be an educator," said Cindy Berck, a mother of a Berkeley student. "It crosses the line in terms of modeling behavior."
Yet, despite the outcry from parents, the Berkeley school district refused to address Felarca's violent radical activities.
What is worrisome is that teachers across the country are being schooled to be ideological warriors in the classroom.
A popular textbook at teacher colleges around the country is The Critical Pedagogy Reader, which promotes the ideas of Brazilian Marxist education theorist Paulo Freire.
The book openly states: "One of Freire's most important contributions to education or any form of cultural action for socialism and to Marxism itself, stems from his understanding of Marx's theory of consciousness."
The widely promoted social-justice teaching methods in public schools are, according to education professor and curriculum expert Sandra Stotsky, based on the theories of Freire, and "seek to develop their students' political understandings and attitudes – hostility or resentment in students belonging to social groups to be considered 'non-dominant,' and guilt in students who are perceived as members of 'dominant' groups."
The victims of all this propagandizing are America's children. Instead of receiving a rigorous, neutral and balanced academic education in a nurturing environment, many are receiving ideological indoctrination instead. Most parents do not want their children to be exposed to the extreme ideology of teachers like Felarca, especially when they are in a captive setting in the classroom. That's why it is so important that every parent has the right to send their child to the school of their choice.
If school districts insist on foisting politicized teachers and curricula on students, then parents should have school-choice tools, such as vouchers, tax credits or education savings accounts, to exit government schools for the private sector.
No child should be forced to endure the political propaganda of teachers like Yvette Felarca in the classroom.
Lance Izumi is Koret senior fellow in education studies and senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. He is the author of the forthcoming book "The Corrupt Classroom: Bias, Indoctrination, Violence, Social Engineering and Other Classroom Horrors."
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Lance Izumi


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package ru.adios.budgeter.api;

import org.threeten.bp.OffsetDateTime;
import org.threeten.bp.ZoneOffset;
import org.threeten.bp.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import org.threeten.bp.temporal.ChronoUnit;
import ru.adios.budgeter.DateTimeUtils;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

/**
 * Date: 6/14/15
 * Time: 3:24 AM
 *
 * @author Mikhail Kulikov
 */
public final class UtcDay implements Comparable<UtcDay> {

    public final OffsetDateTime inner;

    public UtcDay() {
        inner = DateTimeUtils.cutTime(DateTimeUtils.nowInUtc());
    }

    public UtcDay(OffsetDateTime inner) {
        this.inner = DateTimeUtils.toUtcDay(inner);
    }

    public UtcDay(String str, DateTimeFormatter formatter) {
        inner = DateTimeUtils.cutTime(OffsetDateTime.parse(str, formatter.withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC)));
    }

    public UtcDay(long millisFromEpoch) {
        inner = DateTimeUtils.fromEpochMillis(millisFromEpoch, ZoneOffset.UTC);
    }

    private UtcDay(OffsetDateTime calculated, boolean constructorMarker) {
        inner = calculated;
    }

    public UtcDay add(int days) {
        if (days == 0) {
            return this;
        } else if (days > 0) {
            return new UtcDay(inner.plus(days, ChronoUnit.DAYS), true);
        } else {
            return new UtcDay(inner.minus(-days, ChronoUnit.DAYS), true);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        return this == o
                || !(o == null || getClass() != o.getClass())
                && inner.equals(((UtcDay) o).inner);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return inner.hashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return inner.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(@Nonnull UtcDay other) {
        return inner.compareTo(other.inner);
    }

}

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Q: array_search returns incorrect position By searching the community and Googleing I can only see issues with array_search loose search resulting integer 0 to be equalled to a string.
However in my case theres no zero and strict search still doesn't seem to help.
Array:
$data= array(
            "13" => array(
                "start" => array(
                    0 => "36000",
                    1 => "43200",
                ),
                "end" => array(
                    0 => "43200",
                    1 => "50400",
                ),
            ),
            "14" => array(
                "start" => array(
                    0 => "36000",
                    1 => "43200",
                ),
                "end" => array(
                    0 => "43200",
                    1 => "50400",
                ),
            ),
        );

function:
foreach ($data as &$area) {
            foreach ($area['start'] as $key => &$start_time) {
                if (($pos = array_search($start_time, $area['end'], true) !== false)) {
                    $area['end'][$pos] = $area['end'][$key];
                    unset($area['start'][$key]);
                    unset($area['end'][$key]);
                }
            }
        }

desired output:
$data= array(
            "13" => array(
                "start" => array(
                    0 => "36000",
                ),
                "end" => array(
                    0 => "50400",
                ),
            ),
            "14" => array(
                "start" => array(
                    0 => "36000",
                ),
                "end" => array(
                    0 => "50400",
                ),
            ),
        );

what I get instead:
$data= array(
            "13" => array(
                "start" => array(
                    0 => "36000",
                ),
                "end" => array(
                    0 => "43200",
                ),
            ),
            "14" => array(
                "start" => array(
                    0 => "36000",
                ),
                "end" => array(
                    0 => "43200",
                ),
            ),
        );

What I intend to achieve with the above function is to combine the consecutive time slots and as it can be seen, the first matching start time in the end is $data[13]['start'][1] = 43200, which matches with the position ..['end'][0], so therefore I'm expecting the $pos returned to also be 0, but the $pos returned is 1 and the wrong element gets treated.
Problem in detail
The $data array is dynamic and will not always be this. Even though the matching $start_time value in "end" array can clearly be found at position 0, the $pos value returned is instead 1.
Have been struggling with this for quite some time now and am unable to find a fault, hope someone else will.
Best,
Alari

A: This is happening because of operator precedence. !== has more precedence over =. So, in your if statement $pos is effectively getting assigned the result of array_search($start_time, $area['end'], true) !== false which is 1.
Just change your if statement to this and it should work
if (($pos = array_search($start_time, $area['end'], true)) !== false) {

A: This should work :
PHP
    foreach ($data as &$area) {
        foreach ($area['start'] as $key => &$start_time) {
            if (($pos = array_search($start_time, $area['end'], true) !== false)) {
                $val = $area['end'][$key];
                unset($area['start'][$key]);
                unset($area['end'][$key]);
                $area['end'][0] = $val;
            }
        }
    }

A: You should try this code, it's simple and work in your case
foreach ( $data as &$item ){
        ksort($item['start']);
        ksort($item['end']);
        if ( $item['start'][1] == $item['end'][0] ){
            $item['end'][0] = $item['end'][1];
            unset($item['end'][1]);
            unset($item['start'][1]);
        }
    }

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An award-winning high-yield farming system developed by young entrepreneur is currently being trialled in Wales.
Entrepreneur Adam Dixon, a Cardiff University School of Engineering graduate, has teamed up with Aberystwyth University to grow two tonnes of tomatoes in a small greenhouse this summer, using his patented Phytoponics system.
Phytoponics is an agricultural start-up co-founded with Luke Parkin and born out of Adam's hydroponic hobby.
The trial is designed to show investors the potential of the system, which produces high yields and uses 10 times less land and water than other agricultural processes, with no use of pesticides and herbicides.
Harvesting will continue into November with plans to upscale to a commercial-size pilot farm following completion.
Described as a 'Jacuzzi in a bag', the Phytoponics system rolls out and inflates to provide a safe haven for a range of commercial plants, from salads to vines, growing plants very fast.
The sealed unit delivers nutrient-rich water to roots through an integrated aerator whilst keeping moisture in, and pests out.
Adam said, "Taking a small 50m2 greenhouse to grow two tonnes of tomatoes in 6 months is a great accomplishment, but I think in Wales and the UK we need to produce much more if we are to become self-sufficient in growing our own fruits and vegetables as a country.
Phytoponics and Adam have already clinched a string of awards including Innovative Start-Up of the Year at the Wales Start Up Awards 2017, UN Young Champion of The Earth for Europe 2017, and the Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Award 2017.
This year, Adam is one of three UN Young Champions of the Earth to be selected as a Climate Trailblazer in the run-up to the Global Climate Action Summit, which takes place in San Francisco later this month.
The Climate Trailblazers have been chosen from around the world and reflect the global nature of the Global Climate Action Summit, which aims to bring together the best in international climate change activity.
Adam, who has proved himself as an emerging voice with a passion for climate issues, has been chosen to represent Europe and is spreading awareness of the Summit's ambitious goals in the lead up to the event; showing that passionate, everyday people can do extraordinary things if they choose to act.
The first harvest of tomatoes (Roma Returno) from the trial has been sold to local customers including Chef Matteo Monacelli, from the Royal Pier, Aberystwyth.


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Opposition to call no-confidence vote during official visit by Czech president
Likud MK came to Knesset with IV to help battle vote on Wed.
After Knesset speaker cancels anti-settlement conference, left-wing Meretz party declares it is determined to go ahead with move, despite previously agreeing to back down
By Stuart Winer	22 November 2018, 9:34 pm 1 Edit
Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Illustrative: A general view of the assembly hall in the Knesset during a session on November 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The left-wing Meretz opposition party said it intends to call a no-confidence vote next week during an official visit to the Knesset by the president of the Czech Republic, despite an agreement between the coalition and opposition to not hold the destabilizing vote while the foreign dignitary is in the House.
The move came after opposition parties on Wednesday abruptly pulled their no-confidence motions when it became apparent that the coalition — whittled down to just 61 of 120 MKs after Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu party quit the government last week — had enough votes to knock the resolutions down.
Meretz, which has the support of other opposition parties, declared its intentions after Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein canceled an anti-settlement conference that was due to be held in parliament during the visit Monday of Czech Republic President Milos Zeman.
In response, Edelstein accused opposition parties of trying to embarrass the government in front of its Czech guest, who is scheduled to give a speech in parliament on the same day.
"It is a shame that the opposition is choosing to break agreements and cause a diplomatic embarrassment," Edelstein said in a statement. "We will act to change the schedule on Monday to enable a friend of Israel, the Czech president, to give his speech in the plenum as planned."
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, on January 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The Hebrew-media Ynet website reported Thursday that Edelstein asked the Knesset's House Committee to enforce a special agenda for the day of Zeman's visit, canceling all side meetings.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Czech President Milos Zeman at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 7, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
The scrapped conference, titled "Hebron First" was to have pushed for the removal of all Jewish settlers from the West Bank town of Hebron where several hundred Israelis live among a population of over 200,000 Palestinians. It was organized by leader of the Joint (Arab) List MK Ayman Odeh, his fellow party member MK Dov Khenin, and Meretz MK Michal Rozin.
Rozin accused Edelstein of electioneering ahead of his Likud party's primary elections, which are expected to be held by the end of the year.
"It is not logical that on the one hand Edelstein lectures us on statehood and on the other hand acts without authority to cancel a democratic summit," Rozin said, according to a Channel 10 news report. "He should prepare for the upcoming primaries on someone else's expense, not at the expense of Israeli democracy and his important position, which has apparently slipped his mind."
Edelstein on Wednesday ordered that all meetings in Knesset rooms be aborted in order to make the space available for Zeman's accompanying staff. However opposition lawmakers rejected the idea that Zeman's team would need all of the 20-odd conference rooms in the parliament.
Meretz MK Michal Rozin (Alster/Flash90)
Following former defense minister Liberman's resignation last week and his withdrawal of his Yisrael Beytenu party's five MKs from the coalition, the government was left with a narrow, two-seat majority.
The opposition had already planned a no-confidence vote on Wednesday but withdrew the motion at the last minute after it became clear it did not have a majority in parliament, in part because MK Sharren Haskel of the ruling Likud party left her hospital bed and arrived at the plenum with an infusion in her arm in order to help defend the government.
שרן השכל מגיע להצביע במליאה עם אינפוזיה pic.twitter.com/Df7MoMSQrD
— עמית סגל Amit Segal (@amit_segal) November 21, 2018
Haskel, who was earlier hospitalized after feeling unwell, told Hadashot news that she had asked the opposition to agree to pull one of its own MKs from the vote in order to enable her to remain at the hospital. The non-obligatory arrangement is sometimes used when an MK is unable to reach parliament for a vote due to dire circumstances.
"Unfortunately, they did not agree, but all the antics of the opposition will not help," she said. "Together we are a strong coalition and I stand here alongside my party."
Michal Rozin
Meretz party
Yuli Edelstein
Sharren Haskel

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This photo shows a new patch of grass that we planted this fall (2015). The pond is in the background. Two volunteers are in the picture: Fran Givelber and Priscilla Smith. A good deal of volunteer effort went into clearing the ground in preparation for seeding.
Participation on the team is an excellent way to get exercise, learn about nurturing a nature preserve in an urban setting, and appreciate the beauty of the Sanctuary.
Regularly scheduled sessions will be held twice a month, usually: the second and fourth Thursdays. May sessions will be held on the third and fifth Thursday. All sessions will run from 9 AM until noon.


Through creation from the Web, occasions transformed. At first, just individuals who might signal might make web sites, as well as earn profits from the Web.
However, lately, occasions transformed once again and much more individuals could help to make web sites as well as earn profits. It was simply because businesses such as WordPress as well as Doodlekit managed to get simpler for individuals to construct an internet site from the theme and also to begin publishing frequently.
Contrary to public opinion, these people didn't simply earn money through publishing. First of all, they'd to publish regarding something which they'd an authentic curiosity about after which they'd to become listed on affiliate marketer applications, to enable them to promote items on the weblog or even web site.
Within an affiliate marketer plan, you'll be provided a few hyperlinks or even banners to publish in your web site. In the event that among your own visitors mouse clicks the hyperlink or even banner ad after which these people purchase some thing, you're going to get the reveal from the earnings. The actual reveal may at first end up being little, close to 5% from the complete revenue, however the popular your site gets, the greater individuals may click the items and also the more income you'll help to make.
Nevertheless, many people type in the concept considering that they'll publish regarding something as well as promote regarding another thing. However, it doesn't function this way. You need to publish regarding a place much like what you need to market.
For instance, if you wish to possess a connect to the living area desk inside your post, you cannot create articles regarding soccer as well as anticipate to create a purchase. A person would need to create a good educational post about how exactly you'd style the living area, for example.
The reason being the actual visitors have to know you have understanding of eating furniture to enable them to believe in your own term. Your site or even web site could be more prosperous if you're much more dependable regarding your own market.
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You can create articles critiquing particular products, or even using a best 10 checklist for top items available on the market. Should you had been to get this done, you might have several hyperlinks within the exact same post, however ensure that you possess developed a good target audience prior to going bombarding all of them along with hyperlinks.
The secret would be to help to make the content helpful and also to help to make the actual readers seem like you're assisting all of them along with some thing. This particular accumulates believe in between your author and also the readers.
You are able to select what ever furnishings plan you prefer, however, you ought to stay with the shop that you want and also have purchased through prior to, which means you tend to be more enthusiastic concerning the products.
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Individuals consider lots of satisfaction within the style of the living area. These people often would like it is ideal and they'll wait around till they've discovered an ideal furnishings prior to they'll begin the job on the living area.
This can be a smart decision, regardless of whether they will make use of the living area or even not really. A few households may have the living area and they'll just utilize it with regard to unique events or even their own Xmas supper. The children may believe that the actual table is just a location for his or her research.
The objective of the actual living area isn't the idea. No matter what you utilize this with regard to, you should use this with regard to something that you want, however, you ought to allow it to be appear incredible the same.
For those who have lately relocated right into a brand new home and also you tend to be along the way associated with designing the actual living area, or even even though you possess resided in your home for a long time as well as wish to redevelop the actual living area, you need to continue reading for many assist in obtaining the living area correct.
1) Style from the Space — A few creative designers may let you know which presently there must always be considered a style to some living area. Many people may just like a nautical style yet others may such as some thing a bit more modern.
The actual style does not truly issue around ensuring you've got a style. Without having a style, a person operate the danger associated with tossing collectively a few furnishings plus some products may appear a little out-of-place.
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2) Table — After you have the actual style, you can begin to consider the actual desk. It is crucial that you simply consider dimensions from the space before you begin buying desk.
You will have to ensure that any kind of desk may depart a person along with sufficient room to maneuver round the desk as well as sit back without having sensation squashed within. Additionally, you will need to ensure how the desk best is actually large sufficient to support the actual positions as well as meals without having getting intolerable as well as unpleasant.
You cannot select a desk without having understanding the actual dimensions from the room you have. This simply will not function. Upon shipping day time, you could discover how the desk will not actually match with the doorway.
3) Seats — If you're able to, you should attempt to purchase living area seats that is bundled up using the desk so you realize that in the event that may complement. Nevertheless, if you discover the desk however, you can't stand the actual seats, you'll be able to purchase the seats individually.
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The kitchen area or even living area desk is a good chance to place your personal contact on the item that's utilized frequently through friends and family. You are able to choose the wooden kind as well as complete, the actual shape and size from the desk, in addition to any kind of particular carvings or even style within the wooden. For any scaled-down task, a person might want to possess a special-made highlight desk for example for any lobby in order to supply like a grow remain.
Numerous furnishings shops provide customized furnishings providers. Numerous shops provide items that may be transformed minimally, that provides a small contact associated with personalization. This particular is ideal for somebody searching for restricted style period however desires customized items. It might be that you want the fundamentals of the ready-made seat, for instance, however wish to give a couple of distinctive functions into it. There's always the option to begin through the begining. This really is whenever selecting a custom is crucial. You need to be sure you reveal exactly the same eyesight, cost range, and also have a good open up flow associated with conversation.
Regardless of what you choose, make use of a custom who are able to guarantee a person that the customized furnishings would be the just one associated with it's type. You'll be very pleased in order to move this together in order to long term decades.
It may appear simple to select a bed mattress in line with the method this appears. You may think which pressing on the bed mattress may let you know sufficient regarding it's high quality as well as sturdiness, as well as setting up as soon as about the bed mattress may let you know lots of details about set up mattress is actually comfy sufficient for you personally. Nevertheless, there are some points that you ought to think about prior to purchasing a brand new bed mattress in order to rest upon every evening.
Will the actual bed mattress possess a manufacturer's guarantee, This really is particularly essential for beds which are with regard to flexible bedrooms. You'll need a guarantee in the event you discover flaws within the bed mattress or even it doesn't carry out based on the method it will. The guarantee may safeguard a person when some thing is actually incorrect using the bed mattress that you simply didn't at first identify. It may appear foolish in the beginning in order to be worried about the guarantee for any bed mattress, however it really is an essential aspect to consider prior to buy.
Think about if the cost is actually sensible or even very costly. You need to buy some thing that won't split your financial allowance, however you don't would like to get the least expensive mattress you'll find. Try to look for something which may match in your investing variety. You don't desire to be dropping rest more than the price of the matter that you're resting upon. There are lots of excellent beds obtainable which are sensible within cost and don't give up high quality.
Take into account the options that come with the actual mattress as well as regardless of whether it'll match a person in a number of circumstances. If you're not really inside a long term residing scenario, you should look at how big the actual bed mattress. Does it match an additional living area that may possibly end up being scaled-down compared to that which you have, Could it be simple to proceed if you want to proceed this, Think about the elevation from the bed mattress when you are not able to ascend in to mattress due to a personal injury.
The look ought to mix nicely together with your house's style. Obviously, you would like the actual mattress to appear enjoy it suits in your currently set up décor. Whenever buying the bed mattress, a person will start to observe that not every beds tend to be as well. A few possess really smooth outlines, plus some tend to be more conventional. Consider the way you would like your own bed room to appear as well as whether a particular bed mattress can make a great squeeze into the area.
May the actual bed mattress help with keeping a person comfy or even relieve discomfort, If you're dropping rest or even getting sensation pained, after that you have to look for a bed mattress which will give you support correctly. Not every beds can offer exactly the same assistance. You might want to think about a good flexible mattress or perhaps a various kind of bed mattress, for example foam, to make you are feeling much more rejuvenated as well as assistance to remove your own discomfort.
Study evaluations regarding various kinds of beds and discover away the other individuals consider their own bedrooms. You might find that certain kind of bed mattress appears to be much better from relieving discomfort or even helping maintain individuals sleeping through the night compared to other people. They are the actual bedrooms that you ought to concentrate on whenever likely to purchase a bed mattress.
May be the mattress peaceful as well as steady, You don't would like a fresh mattress that's squeaky or even unpredictable. Should you rest along with another person, you don't would like their own actions disturbing a person through the night. The mattress that doesn't tremble whenever a individual comes more than or even can make squeaky sounds is actually more suitable. Should you buy a good flexible mattress having a engine, make certain the actual engine is actually peaceful therefore it won't disrupt a person.
Your own outside furnishings is made to endure substantial effect in the components, however wind gusts as well as down pours may nevertheless depart your own furnishings looking for a great cleansing. Furthermore, for those who have children, you know the actual clutter which chocolaty fingertips as well as burning popsicles may depart in your outdoor patio arranged. What ever kind of furnishings you have, you will need to discover the actual ideal method to thoroughly clean this. The following advice will help you keep the outside furnishings thoroughly clean as well as within it's most effective situation.
To wash your own wooden garden furniture made from planks, redwood, or even pinus radiata, you may need a gentle wash clean along with a solution made to supply upon wooden. Very first, you will need to wash the actual wooden in order to release any kind of grime as well as particles. Adhere to the actual manufacturer's instructions about the solution as well as complete through hosing away any kind of deposits. Make sure to put on rubberized mitts whenever carrying out cleansing duties. Should you choose, you may also blend upward your personal solution along with 1 quart associated with drinking water, ¼ mug associated with ammonia, as well as 2 tablespoons associated with whitened white vinegar.
With regard to teak furnishings, that is well-liked, you should use the teak solution as well as adhere to the actual directions about the container. Without having teak solution, "[a]pply combination of 1/4 mug washing soap and something quart whiten to 1 gallon drinking water. Permit to stay upon with regard to 10-20 min's. Wash along with gentle bristled clean as well as wash along with hose. inch (Source: "How to wash Deck as well as Outdoor patio Furniture", The current Homeowner) Once again, make use of a gentle clean in order to release grime prior to using the actual solution as well as wash having a hose to wash till your own wish requirements.
To wash your own steel or even wrought metal furnishings, merely then add meal cleaning soap to some pail associated with tepid to warm water. Lower the gentle scrubbing up clean and start cleansing your own furnishings. Should you discover any kind of corrosion places whilst cleansing, stroke all of them aside along with a few fine sand document. Following rinsing your own cleaning soap in the furnishings, you will need to utilize a few primer as well as touch-up fresh paint in order to any kind of uncovered places a person eliminated corrosion through. The actual touch-up fresh paint may avoid corrosion through coming back to help you keep the furnishings within ideal situation.
To wash plastic material furnishings, you should use a little cooking soda pop along with a moist cloth or sponge to do cleansing duties. The actual cooking natural powder can make an excellent harsh. This process additionally is effective with regard to resin-molded furnishings. As soon as every item may be scoured free from grime as well as particles, you are able to wash all of them completely having a hose. Even though plastic material furnishings might not be made to final so long as other forms associated with garden furniture, it's a air flow to wash.
Generally, you are able to thoroughly clean cushioning handles through getting rid of all of them as well as cleaning all of them inside your washer. Nevertheless, avoid using the actual clothing clothes dryer in order to dried out all of them. Substitute all of them about the soft cushions in order to dried out in position to lessen the chance associated with shrinking.
These pointers will help you keep your garden furniture as well as maintain this searching brand new. You should purchase long lasting outside furnishings this kind of teak since they're "extremely dense-grained as well as extremely proof in order to decay, bending, shrinking as well as inflammation. inch (Source: "Why Select Teak", Terra Outdoor patio & Garden) You need to thoroughly clean your own furnishings at the start from the comfortable period to get rid of any kind of dirt or even grime through storage space. Likewise, you need to thoroughly clean your own furnishings at the conclusion from the period to get rid of any kind of grime deposits in the summer time.


Amid the renewed interest in manned space missions to the Moon and beyond, there has been a great deal of talk about the American public's interest in space—or more accurately, its lack of interest. In some quarters, the feeling even verges on hostility.
Of course, it's all too easy to exaggerate the change, given the somewhat romanticized view of the enthusiasm for space exploration in the 1950s and '60s. There is, of course, nostalgia for the heady early days of the Space Age, when everything seemed new and major "firsts" followed one another in quick succession. There's also a fondness for big communal moments when the nation as a whole was united in a common feeling, and moments like the shock of Sputnik and the exultation in the Apollo Moon landings satisfy the craving.
However, as William E. Burrows notes in This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, the interest in space was always much more intense for scientific, political, and military elites, and "the zealots, the dreamers" who wanted to go along for the ride, than the general population. This is not to say that space has not produced tangible benefits in the form of myriad space services (like digital communication) and spin-off technologies (as in computing), but space programs generally took a distant back seat to much more mundane concerns for the vast majority of the public.
The interest in space was always much more intense for scientific, political, and military elites, and "the zealots, the dreamers" who wanted to go along for the ride, than the general population.
Still, it's clear that in the days of the Apollo program, support for such initiatives was more widespread than it is today, and many plausible reasons why are now familiar talking points to those who follow the issue. One is disillusionment with a program that had for too long been organized around expensive stunts, especially after the ending of the Cold War that had once seemed to justify those stunts. (The International Space Station, underperforming and far more expensive than initially planned, started as an American response to Soviet space stations such as Mir.) Another is the dashing of over-optimism about both the technical problems that had to be mastered, and the likelihood of quick, dramatic results. (Forty or fifty years ago, Venus seemed much more hospitable, and rocket design likely to progress much more quickly, for instance.) Still another is the sense that other fields represent the real cutting edge of technology. The space age gave way to the information age, and many believe us to be on the threshold of a molecular age.
The real change was in the disappearance of the positive images that had made the future a source of inspiration as well as fear, the "future with a capital F" as William Gibson once put it. The allure of space travel was strongly tied to that Future with a capital F, humanity's flight into space widely expected to cap off (or perhaps spur) the building of a better world, the start of a new human adventure out among the stars promptly crowning our achievements here on Earth.
That Future, however, simply failed to arrive, and people have stopped expecting it. To take one example, albeit a crucially important one, consider what "the post-industrial society" once meant: the start of a "post-scarcity" age in which economic growth ceased to be a value in itself, the market became less important, and other priorities like leisure, culture and the environment took precedence.
This wasn't just the view of flower children proclaiming the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, but of serious futurists, many of them conservative in their politics. Writers like Herman Kahn and Daniel Bell predicted that circa 2000 health care and education would be public goods; that a minimum national income scheme (an idea even Milton Friedman supported) would insure a decent life for even the least fortunate; that the average work year would be down to perhaps eleven or twelve hundred hours, and you would be able to comfortably support a middle-class lifestyle waiting tables. Geneticist Gunther Stent in his book The Coming of the Golden Age wrote of a "new Polynesia" in which we would all lead carefree lives of plenty and ease.
The rest of the world may have been slower to join the United States in this paradise, but it was expected to come along soon enough. C.P. Snow in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution made the case that the industrialized nations had "discovered the secret of getting rich," which would lift up the whole world by century's end. Nor was there only "one path" to prosperity. What Snow said applied equally well to socialist as well as capitalist economies in his analysis. Indeed, Kahn and Bell both predicted that the Soviet Union would be part of the post-industrial world by the end of the millennium.
The real change was in the disappearance of the positive images that had made the future a source of inspiration as well as fear, the "future with a capital F" as William Gibson once put it.
Instead of overflowing material prosperity, the experience for most was one of endless austerity. When I was growing up the word "budget" was almost always immediately followed by the word "cut." The conventional wisdom is that there are no public goods, not even police and defense—let alone public utilities, health services and schools. The social safety nets, far from being expanded, seem to be constantly scaled back. Forget national minimum income. The average young American man or woman doesn't even believe that Social Security will still be around when they come of age.
At the same time Americans work longer hours, not fewer—twenty percent more, according to Fareed Zakaria, who celebrates the fact. Wages have stagnated and even decayed under inexorable downward pressure. To cite just the most egregious example, had the minimum wage only kept up with inflation from the 1960s and 1970s on, it would be in the $10 an hour range today. Had it kept up with economic growth, too, it would be near $15 an hour. No one imagines that such an increase is politically possible today.
All of this suggests a wide-ranging drop in living standards, but many argue that such is not the case. Cheerleading business journalists are always telling us that we've never had it so good. They point to our DVD players and cell phones as evidence of our unprecedented prosperity. What they fail to notice, or refuse to admit, is that the price of these consumer items is trivial compared with the rising prices of housing, education, and health care. They also prefer to avoid mentioning that our ability to afford these things is conditional on our working all those extra hours and borrowing a lot more money, both of which have real costs. People lead more harried lives—and all too often they're falling behind anyway, though they don't dare admit it, just like the "middle-class" people we hear of every once in a while who can't pay their bills, who frequent second-hand clothing shops and food banks to save a few pennies they don't have. And, of course, the lot of the average inhabitant of the former Third World is much more painful and disappointing.
At the same time there is little sense that things could be any other way. Never mind the ideological ecumenism of writers like Snow. There is just one path now, and as Thomas Frank put it, it's adherence to "The God That Sucked." And so the mentality seems to be: Don't think of tomorrow; worry about how you're going to make it today. Planning? Forget it. It's hubristic. And you can't count on the public sector to get a job done, even if the private sector can't or won't do it.
All of this could not but have a profound impact on the popular interest in space exploration and expansion. The deep psychological connection with a badly battered grand narrative of progress aside, the current mood presents practical problems as well. To flourish such a program requires long-term thinking, long-range planning, and public investment, exactly the things the current mood militates against. Additionally, amid all that belt-tightening and austerity, when accomplishing the mundane is difficult enough, playing around with rockets seems like a luxury, a thing we can do without. (After all, wasn't one of the main criticisms leveled against big space budgets even then by figures like Arnold Toynbee that all that money would be better spent on the Earth's poor?) A future among the stars appears to be one more thing out of reach, just like the rehabilitation of the natural environment, the curing of social ills, democratic world government.
A future among the stars appears to be one more thing out of reach, just like the rehabilitation of the natural environment, the curing of social ills, democratic world government.
That difficulty we now have picturing a positive future is evident in the way space expansion is depicted in popular science-fiction, particularly television, as M. Keith Booker points out in his book Science Fiction Television. The original Star Trek, very much a product of its era, epitomized "the Future," the realization of which began in earnest with Zefram Cochrane's first warp-speed flight. Despite all that had changed in the twenty years that followed, The Next Generation offered a stirring defense of that vision, the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" airing in the very same year that Gordon Gekko declared greed to be good.
However, even Star Trek couldn't keep this up forever. Deep Space Nine went in a darker direction, though it succeeded in balancing this darker tone with the show's utopianism, something the later shows didn't quite pull off. Voyager and Enterprise felt comparatively formulaic and anemic, and in the latter case this drove the show's producers to take it in new directions—less than successfully.
The other space-themed shows of the last two decades didn't even try and take up the challenge of imagining a bright future among the stars. Firefly was an almost literal attempt to set a Western in space, and can easily be read as an attack on grand narratives of progress. Andromeda is set after the collapse of a multi-galactic civilization of which Earth was but a minor member, and which post-collapse had become just an obscure victim of the universe's "barbarian hordes." The underrated Lexx took the idea further than any of the rest: Earth as such simply has no future. It is recognizable at a glance as just another "Type 13" planet which will inevitably self-destruct, and does so in the series finale.
Not every series has been quite so gloomy, but even the more optimistic portraits were highly conditional—or saw the promised land as a lot further away. In Farscape, Earth stumbles onto interstellar travel, but isn't ready to deal with the menacing wider universe—and so astronaut John Crichton closes off the wormhole leading home. In Stargate SG-1 humans do an amazing job of copying alien technology and holding their own against extraterrestrial menaces, but that's all top secret, and the situation is on the whole one of unending emergency as the heroes battle off an unending succession of threats.
Space therefore appears as a wonderful backdrop for high adventure, compelling drama, and biting satire, as it has always been, but its former place as the crown to the realization of the Enlightenment is ever more dubious—just as the Enlightenment has seemed ever more dubious. Of course, it is conceivable that the "vision thing" could return. One may take the view that our current attitudes don't so much show up our earlier vision as represent a temporary diversion from our proper track. Jeremy Rifkin notes in his book The European Dream that the postmodern attitudes which emerged in the 1960s may have been brushed off in the United States, but succeeding in planting roots in Europe. Indeed, Rifkin has pointed to Western Europe as a place that may actually be moving in the direction described above (though that movement does seem to be besieged by globalization), and that the rest of the world will follow.
Space therefore appears as a wonderful backdrop for high adventure, compelling drama, and biting satire, as it has always been, but its former place as the crown to the realization of the Enlightenment is ever more dubious—just as the Enlightenment has seemed ever more dubious.
In the meantime the closest thing we have to such a vision is trans-humanism/post-humanism, and the seemingly limitless promise of the technological "Singularity." Of course, this line of thought seems to have replaced outer space with cyberspace. Still, after nano-scale robots have enabled us to dispense with economics, and a hyper-abundance of computerized brainpower made cracking any problem just a matter of time, what is to stop us from heading out to the stars? It even seems like the logical next step.
Still, the Singularity is a Pandora's Box which can as easily bring forth new hells as new heavens. For every person who sees it as "the Rapture for nerds," there's at least one other who fears that those same engines of creation will turn the planet into gray goo, and that all that computerized brainpower will turn on us—or simply accelerate our descent into techno-dystopia.
And there's still another who expects it all to prove rather banal, as suggested by some of the earliest commercial uses of nanotechnology, like sturdier tennis racquets and stain-resistant designer pants. Self-replicating molecular assemblers, which can build cities out of seawater? Hyper-intelligent computers that usher in an age of "spiritual machines"? That's all as plausible as, well, space colonies by 1999 they say, and after all the disappointments, it's not easy to dismiss them. Still, only time will tell where our technological development will lead, and in particular, whether this line of thinking can yet bring back that future with a capital F.
In addition to having written extensively about space, security and international issues, Nader Elhefnawy has written on science fiction and culture for numerous publications including The New York Review of Science Fiction, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, The Humanist, and Changing The Times, and is also a reviewer with Tangent Online.


4 What To Look For in the Best Cat Trees for Kittens?
Kittens are frail but still need much of the same exposures as adult cats like climbing, scratching and jumping.
Kittens won't stay small for long and it can seem like buying furniture for a short period of time is a waste of money.
The latter being a poor excuse because the best cat trees for kittens will also be useful to them as adults. Stay away from the flimsy, cute crap that is meant to be a literal money sink and purchase sturdy, functional structures that your kitten is more likely to use.
In addition, you should be adding MORE pieces as your cat grows and to start collecting cat furniture from when they are kittens makes the financial requirements less burdensome.
This is one of our top recommendations because of the unique style of the condo. It has plenty of space for your kitten to hide, play and still interact with the outside undercover.
The platforms are situated close together for easy climbing and under 5 ft tall, this cat tree is low enough where you do not have to worry about it suffering from an unexpected fall.
The extra scratching surfaces are also a plus because not only will your kitten be able to scratch them but it will also be able to climb or shimmy up them.
If you have multiple kittens, this is a great option because there is plenty of room for them to play and it can suitably hold multiple kittens.
This cat tree is perfect for single or multiple kitten homes. It is a couple inches over 5 ft but that's not enough to cause concern.
Your kitten will get plenty of stimulation while dashing up and down the ramp and back and forth through the tunnel. There is plenty of relaxing areas in and out of site so your kitten won't feel exposed.
The poles are covered in sisal rope which is excellent for scratching and shimmying up. They will be so busy using this tree that they'll forget about the couch arm.
Your kitten will enjoy the softness and comfort of this cat tree. It is rare that any product receives 5 out of 5 stars overall but this one does out of 185 reviewers!
This is a good cat tree for your kitten because it features a ramp that leads to not only one but two large condos. It also has protective barriers on the platform beds which will protect your kittens from falling while rolling around whether in play or in sleep.
It is also sturdy and safe for your kitten being made out of CARB certified board which means in plain terms that the board doesn't contain any harmful chemicals like some other manufactured versions.
Although this is partially plastic, this tree is a really nice concept. It is literally a tree.
Its a shame the leaves are plastic but I'm not sure there are any other options other than real leaves that won't survive your cat's battery.
The platforms are hidden within the tree and your kitten will have a taste of nature as it safely climbs from one level to the other. It is suitable to hold 32 lbs so it can hold multiple kittens at once.
If you like the cuter things in life this is a good one for you that is also a great option for your kitten. I mean, one of the platforms are shaped and decorated to look like a kitten paw. How cute is that?!
In addition, it makes use of the ramp as a scratching post which means that you can be pretty sure its climbable.
The downside about this cat tree is that there isn't much hiding places for your kitten as some of the others we've shown you prior so it might feel a little exposed. But your kitten will be playing a lot more than the average cat so that's not quite a deal breaker in this instance.
It's easy to assume that your tiny ball of fur doesn't need much besides a ball of yarn. While a ball of yarn is a great interactive tool for you and your kitten to play with together, it will not fulfill all of your kitten's needs.
Remember that most development in any animal happens when it is young. For this reason, it is especially important for you to expose your cat to climb, scratch and jump.
This allows it to practice the hunting motions that its body is driven to perform even if it never actually hunts a day in its life.
Getting your kitten a cat tree will help its musculoskeletal system to develop properly by exposing it to getting a good workout on a properly equipped cat tree.
Many people think that it is ok for their cats to get their workout on household items. This common practice is impractical and dangerous.
First of all, your cat's claws are not suited for materials other than wood like concrete and other slippery surfaces. In addition, your cat can cause an accident by unintentionally turning on a switch like the one to your stove top.
This creates a potentially harmful situation as it can lead to a house fire. Take my word for it because this has happened to me. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Get your kitten and cats the right climbing structures for the betterment of your entire household.
What To Look For in the Best Cat Trees for Kittens?
As I eluded to in the intro, there are tons of options when it comes to kitten climbing structures most of which are complete garbage. This is because they are flimsy but also because they don't meet any or most of your kitten's needs.
I don't know about you but in my mind, the best way to spend money is to get the MOST out of my money instead of buying cheap which leads to even more money spending over time.
So before we get into our recommendations, I want to let you know why we have chosen these and what you need to look for if you decide to go rogue and keep searching on your own.
Just like an adult cat, kittens have their own set of needs, habits, and preferences that must be met in order for them to develop into healthy adults.
For instance, kittens love to play and in particular climb. They have razor sharp claws that do not retract until they are a couple of months old.
Kittens enjoy shimmying up poles but would prefer to stay closer to the ground as they have not yet developed enough skills to handle heights.
I personally like the Go Pet Club; it looks practical and fun for kittens. I will show this article to my girlfriend, I am sure she will love it!
Hey Marlinda, thanks for this article. I recently got a new kitten and wanted to see if he would be okay with my eldest cat tree structure or if I should invest in a new one more fitting for him. I think I will just get him one of these, so he can have the best experience. My older cat is just lazy now days and won't enjoy it his current. Thank you for this great information.
Hey Victor! I'm so happy you enjoyed and found value in this information. Hope your kitten enjoys his new tree!
Also, your older cat might be experiencing some joint issues as cats usually do as they age. If you haven't already, you may want to take him to get checked out by his vet to be sure 🙂 Here's more info if you need it, click here.
This is a great site, I have looked over a couple things and I actually will be putting a order in soon, my cat deserves one of these beautiful trees. I like how everything is organized and every product is very well described and detailed. This number 3. SONGMICS Cat Tree Condo with Scratching Post Pad is amazing.
Hey Tommy! That's awesome! Thanks so much and I'm glad you're hooking ur Kitty up with a nice cat tree! Hope s/he enjoys it!


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The data subject can, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Automattic/Quantcast from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Automattic/Quantcast may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data relating to a use of this Internet site that are generated by the Jetpack cookie as well as the processing of these data by Automattic/Quantcast and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must press the 'opt-out' button under the link https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/ which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set with this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies are deleted on the system of the data subject, then the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.
With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the possibility exists that the websites of the controller are not fully usable anymore by the data subject.
The applicable data protection provisions of Automattic may be accessed under https://automattic.com/privacy/. The applicable data protection provisions of Quantcast can be accessed under https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/.
9. Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn
10. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Pinterest
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Pinterest Inc. Pinterest is a so-called social network. A social network is an Internet social meeting place, an online community that allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or allow the Internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Pinterest enables the users of the social network to publish, inter alia, picture collections and individual pictures as well as descriptions on virtual pinboards (so-called pins), which can then be shared by other user's (so-called re-pins) or commented on.
The operating company of Pinterest is Pinterest Europe Ltd., Palmerston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2,Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Pinterest component (Pinterest plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically prompted to download through the respective Pinterest component a display of the corresponding Pinterest component. Further information on Pinterest is available under https://pinterest.com/. During the course of this technical procedure, Pinterest gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Pinterest, Pinterest detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Pinterest component and associated with the respective Pinterest account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Pinterest buttons, integrated on our website, then Pinterest assigns this information to the personal Pinterest user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Pinterest receives information via the Pinterest component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at Pinterest at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Pinterest component or not. If such a transmission of information to Pinterest is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Pinterest account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Pinterest, which is available under https://about.pinterest.com/privacy-policy, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Pinterest.
11. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Tumblr
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Tumblr. Tumblr is a platform that allows users to create and run a blog. A blog is a web-based, generally publicly-accessible portal on which one or more people called bloggers or web bloggers may post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blogposts. For example, in a Tumblr blog the user can publish text, images, links, and videos, and spread them in the digital space. Furthermore, Tumblr users may import content from other websites into their own blog.
The operating company of Tumblr is Oath (EMEA) Limited, 5-7 Point Square, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland.
Through each call to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Tumblr component (Tumblr button) has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject causes automatically the download of a display of the corresponding Tumblr component of Tumblr. Learn more about the Tumblr-buttons that are available under https://www.tumblr.com/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Tumblr becomes aware of what concrete sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Tumblr component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and to increase our visitor numbers.
If the data subject is logged in at Tumblr, Tumblr detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Tumblr component and associated with the respective Tumblr account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Tumblr buttons, integrated on our website, then Tumblr assigns this information to the personal Tumblr user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Tumblr receives information via the Tumblr component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at Tumblr at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Tumblr component or not. If such a transfer of information to Tumblr is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Tumblr account before a call-up to our website is made.
The applicable data protection provisions of Tumblr may be accessed under https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy.
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called 'tweets,' e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user's tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.
The operating company of Twitter is Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Further information about the Twitter buttons is available under https://about.twitter.com/de/res/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Twitter component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).
We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.
Developed by the specialists for LegalTech at Willing & Able that also developed the system for electronic contracts. The legal texts contained in our privacy policy generator have been provided and published by Prof. Dr. h.c. Heiko Jonny Maniero from the German Association for Data Protection and Christian Solmecke from WBS law.


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Online safety tools to protect students using school iPads!
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classroom.cloud is featured on ICT Evangelist's Appvent Calendar!
It's that time of year again when Christmas bells are ringing, and there's no better way to kick off the holiday season than with an Advent calendar to get the festivities in full motion! Taking a new approach to the traditional Advent calendar, Mark Anderson (@ICT...
classroom.cloud is now available for use with student iPads!
We've just made classroom.cloud even more flexible for schools to use by adding a student app for iPads to the mix! This is a great addition to the list of Windows, Chromebooks, Android and macOS platforms it already supports. Perfect for schools or districts that...
New PDFs of NetSupport School's corporate training capabilities
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NetSupport's solutions are now compatible with Windows 11
Windows 11 has arrived! Released on 5th October, it is available as a free upgrade on eligible Windows 10 PCs and will also now ship on all new PCs. The good news is that we've been working hard to ensure that our products are compatible with the new release, so if...
classroom.cloud is a finalist at the Bett Awards!
We're thrilled to share that our cloud-based classroom management and teaching platform, classroom.cloud, has been chosen as a Bett 2022 finalist – for the second year running! Produced in association with BESA, the Bett Awards is a prestigious program that honors...
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A design/build architecture group, contact information on site.
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Austrian firm specializing in vaulted wine cellar construction around the world, with antique materials. Detailed project portfolio.
Bert Notch, architect. Design, architecture, interiors, engineering with styles ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright to I.M. Pei.
Design/build construction industry, partnering companies from every sector of commerce and industry.
Project management, complete design and building service, new build or refurbishment projects.
Oldest firm headquartered in Southern California.
Atlanta Ga. based. One of the largest general contractors, construction managers and design-builders in the United States.


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made from honest, fresh-from the market-ingredients.
Breakfast is coming from local producers that we know personally!
Home-food, simple but healthy and nutritional.
Cooking…like we are at home! Eating primarily plant-based foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes. Here in Crete, we only cook our foods with extra virgin olive oil from our own production. This experience gained over many centuries led to an interesting culinary tradition that made the most of the resources of the land. The traditional diet of the Cretans is our true wealth.
Enjoy your private meal or dinner, whenever you want. Tell us a few hours before to prepare for you exclusively.


Without a quick fix to the flight-control system, other airlines are also likely to follow.
Southwest is already canceling about 90 flights a day because its 34 Max jets have been grounded since mid-March. That's a small percentage of Southwest's 4,000 daily flights during summer. Still, unless the airline finds replacement planes quickly — and that can be a complicated process — Southwest will scrap about 10,000 flights that could have carried nearly 1.8 million people between now and early August.


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10 Scientific Breakthroughs We Literally Couldn't Live Without
by Patrick J. Kiger, Colleen Cancio & Kate Kershner
The use of antibiotics has dramatically reduced the mortality rate linked to certain diseases. iStock/Thinkstock
For most of human history, virtually everyone on the planet faced the risk of dying in epidemics of bacterial diseases that sometimes ravaged multiple continents. One such disease, bubonic plague -- the "Black Death" -- killed an estimated 200 million people in the 14th century alone [source: BBC].
Then, in the late 1920s, a London physician named Dr. Alexander Fleming, who was trying to develop an antibacterial agent, noticed mold that had contaminated a petri dish inhibited the growth of a pathogen he was studying. Fleming published a scientific article on his discovery in 1929, and one of his students, Dr. Cecil Paine, eventually became the first clinician to demonstrate the effectiveness of penicillin, a drug derived from the mold, against bacterial disease in human patients [source: Wong]. Since then, the use of penicillin and other antibiotics has led to reductions in the mortality rate from certain infections like syphilis, septicemia and, of course, bubonic plague [source: Hemminki and Paakkulainen]. Interestingly though, antibiotics can't claim all the credit when it comes to decreased mortality rates in common bacterial diseases. Other breakthroughs on our list, like clean water, have a big role to play, too [source: Hemminki and Paakkulainen].
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The Carnegie Foundation offers a Post Baccalaureate Fellowship Program, a paid, two-year program that provides recent college graduates with a chance to learn from and contribute to the Foundation's efforts in the field of education and, more specifically, networked improvement science in education.
Post-Baccalaureate Fellows serve in full-time appointments at the Foundation and are placed in different programs and departments and are assigned a supervising mentor. Fellows gain a range of widely applicable professional skills in research, communication, group facilitation, teamwork, project management, writing, and leadership.
Fellows must be willing to commit to the two years of the fellowship program starting July 2018, must have obtained their Bachelor's degree, completed within the past two academic years (May 2016-June 2018), and must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the U.S.
Applications are received on a rolling basis. You can apply here.