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Common Baltic short-film competition
Polish cultural web portal Culture.pl, the Pomeranian Film Foundation in Gdynia and the Gdynia Film School are organising a short-film competition about the Baltic Sea countries – their cultural identity, their history, their society, their transformation.
Participants have a month to submit a film lasting 1 to 5 minutes, and are encouraged to reflect on current facets of the Baltic Sea, and how to best present them on film. The competition is open to both professional and amateur filmmakers, provided they are citizens of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark , Germany, Iceland, Russia – inhabitants of Kaliningrad and the St-Petersburg area– and Poland.
Dr Włodzimierz Pessel, expert on Scandinavia, writes:
"It's been 25 years since the Baltic Sea ceased to be a buffer for Europe (…). The great transformation of Central and Eastern Europe freed the region and allowed the Baltic Sea to serve its natural function from a cultural standpoint – it is now inland, a regional basin and as such it serves the local communities. Indeed, the Scandinavians and Germans call it a lake (Swedish 'Östersjön', German 'Ostsee'), traditionally it is called 'The Mediterranean Sea of Northern Europe'. It seems that this tradition has been brought back (…). The time has come for young filmmakers to think about the consequences that stem from this neighbouring sea.
Films can be sent until August 25 and should be sent through the form available on Culture.pl. The best films will be chosen by the following jury:
Leszek Kopeć – head of jury – director of the Film Festival in Gdynia and chairman of the board of the Pomeranian Film Foundation.
Magnus von Horn – Swedish film director living in Poland. Graduate and lecturer of the Polish Film School in Łódź. His last film "The Here After" had its world premiere at the 68th Film Festival in Cannes.
Grzegorz Skorupski – film expert at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
The award ceremony will be held at the 40th Film Festival in Gdynia. Common Baltic is part of the cultural programme carried out by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Culture.pl. After projects in the countries of the Eastern Partnership and Asia, the Institute's cultural activity now turns to Poland, Russia , Lithuania, Latvia , Estonia, Finland , Norway, Sweden , Denmark, Germany, and Iceland.
More details about the contest available on Culture.pl
Contest regulations
Source: Culture.pl

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Quote of the day: on the benefits of victim status
On pp.48- 49 of his book The End of the Holocaust (2011), Alvin Rosenfield discusses the adoption of the "Holocaust" trope by groups like the Nation of Islam, whose leader Louis Farrakhan argued that "The holocaust of the black people has been a hundred times worse than the holocaust of the Jews."
I take no position on Farrakhan's mathematics; what I want to show is how the Oppression Hierarchy arises, and how its adherents benefit from it:
As Christopher Lasch and others have pointed out, a politics of suffering and victimization has been developing within American society over the past several decades, a politics whose proponents draw on the pervasive presence of Holocaust images in order to garner for themselves a certain moral superiority that victims have come to enjoy in our society. In the words of one commentator, "paradoxically, in our era, which proclaims happiness as a universal goal, not only preoccupies itself with—even invites despair over—certain forms of suffering, but also on an ever escalating scale it recognizes, ideologizes, and politicizes some forms of suffering and victims, making them valid, fashionable, and even official." In such a manner "suffering becomes a moral identity and a basis for political entitlement." The philosopher Tzvetan Todorov takes these insights still further:
"What pleasure is to be found in being a victim? None; but if no one wants to be a victim, everyone wants to have been one. . . Having been a victim gives you the right to complain, protest, and make demands. . . Your privileges are permanent.
"What is true of individuals here is even more true of groups. If you succeed in establishing cogently that such-and-such a group has been a victim of injustice in the past, this opens to it in the present an inexhaustible line of credit. . . Instead of struggling to obtain a privilege, you receive it automatically by belonging to a once-disfavored group; hence the frantic competition, not as in international commerce, the status of 'most favored nation' but that of the group most in disfavor."
I'll add the usual (and unnecessary) caveat that of course some oppressed people must call attention their situation so that others become aware of it. The archetype for that was this abolitionist medallion designed by the Quakers in the late eighteenth century:
But I've also seen many people who seem to revel in their own personal "lived oppression" when it is both dubious and unnecessary. The point is that one's ethnicity, gender, and so on, instantiated as victimization, does not give you moral rectitude, a correct point of view, or the right to shut up or dismiss people from other groups.
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ThyroidPlanet
Posted September 18, 2017 at 10:35 am | Permalink
Interesting, and well put.
… I also like the "show, don't tell" approach. The blood doesn't boil that way. Seems rare to me.
yazikus
But I've also seen many people who seem to revel in their own personal "lived oppression" when it is both dubious and unnecessary.
But who gets to be the arbiter of whether someone's complaints/explanations of marginalization are 'dubious' or 'unnecessary'?
painedumonde
OTOH, who is the arbiter of victimhood itself. Whether one is fully a victim or just "on the team." Hence the problem.
Indeed so. I'm just pondering this article on the heels of the one about Weinstein, where our host wrote that he had been made to 'flee' Olympia. That is the sort of language on could use to enhance a victim narrative, though I'm skeptical of its accuracy. Olympia is the state capitol, a place where many people of many differing opinions visit and reside. Where was the healthy skepticism when it came to Weinstein's claims of victimization?
mikeyc
Didn't the police warn him they could not guarantee his safety if he returned to campus? Isn't being hounded by his academic peers with demands he be fired harassment?
I'm guessing you don't like the way he has portrayed how he was treated.
Posted September 18, 2017 at 12:03 pm | Permalink
The death threats that closed down the campus were not aimed at Weinstein, they were aimed at the 'commies' who the would-be-shooter presumed attend the progressive school. And while he may have been roundly criticized by his colleagues, that is far from being made to 'flee' the state's capitol. Also, he wasn't fired, he resigned, and got a nice check out of it. I think his portrayal in the media was very forgiving, and he speaks well for himself.
As a side note, he invokes being a Jewish man as one of the reasons he wanted to protest the DoA.
I guess my point is that in the post I was responding to, you were the arbiter of whether his claims were dubious or unnecessary. IOW, you've answered your own OP question.
I suppose you meant it as a rhetorical one anyway.
IOW, you've answered your own OP question.
You got me.
For myself, as a general rule, if a person tells me they have been victimized/marginalized I'll be inclined to believe them unless presented with something that indicates otherwise. I think that this general principle holds well with my other life-values, especially the one that goes something like 'try not to be an a**hole'.
Posted September 18, 2017 at 3:06 pm | Permalink
You're forgetting some very important parts of the story.
1. Campus police called Weinstein at home and told him there was a group of students searching car to car and believed to be searching for him. The school president told the campus police to stand down and not interfere with these students in any way, or with "protesters" in the future (for weeks after), and so the campus police felt compelled to call Weinstein and his wife at home and tell them to stay away from campus because the police couldn't protect them.
2. A group of students roaming the campus with baseball bats, following students who were supporting Weinstein and waiting outside their buildings when they would go inside.
3. Weinstein received threatening phone calls.
It seems like you're accusing him of fleeing for the optics.
On point one, I would hope that the campus police would work with the city police if the threats were legitimate, not just call him and tell him to stay home. That seems dangerous and unprofessional.
One point two, there are differing narratives regarding the students with bats. I've heard that they were merely trying protect students who felt at risk or marginalized (I do not agree with their actions, and think that they should have responded differently).
On point three, I don't condone threatening phone calls or violence of every kind. I hope he reported them to the appropriate authorities.
I do not accuse him of fleeing for the optics, I'm just pushing back on the idea that he was forced to 'flee' the city at all.
I guess I'm confused. If someone leaves their home with their wife and children because they have been repeatedly threatened, you still think it's not necessarily fleeing? Do they have to actually be physically assaulted first?
Also, the campus police *could not cooperate with local or state police*. That was the point: they were explicitly told by the administration not to do anything.
And you can find reports from multiple students on the campus about what that groups with bats *actually* went around doing.
It really seems like you're just doing your best to minimize what went on.
Right. But what video I saw of the events that unfolded at the school, it would be hard not to feel like a victim.
And language is an important point here. I'm going to point out, as you've seen me do before, the internet. Once firebrands, ideologues, agitators had to work through word of mouth and printed material. Now one can find a pundit in the room next door. Not positing a solution, just observing.
Internet + humans has always been a mixed bag. And yes, I would not have protested as those students did, either.
That's the main problem with the "aggressive/regressive" left, it's manufactures victims. Or at least shades those that would visit violence on others as victims.
It is often the case that whether a claim is dubious or unnecessary is highly subjective, in which case the answer to your question is; "anyone who hears it".
Often times, I can be that arbiter. So can you. So can the man behind the tree. That's the point; many people claim a privilege they don't really have from people who do not owe it to them.
Yes, that's the case. We can all look at evidence. My claim that I'm a victim because I'm a Jew, for instance, doesn't carry any weight. I currently experience no discrimination or bars to advancement, and only a very, very few slurs. I am not a victim.
"My claim that I'm a victim because I'm a Jew, for instance, doesn't carry any weight. I currently experience no discrimination or bars to advancement, and only a very, very few slurs. I am not a victim."
I'm glad you said that. Historical oppression of a group should not mean everyone in that group is somehow vicariously oppressed. I'm not a victim either. I had relatives die in the Holocaust and during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, but that doesn't make me a victim. I have relatives today who face abuse for being Jewish where they live (mostly in Europe), but that still doesn't make me a victim. And why would I want to be one?
Well said, both of you.
Who wants to be a victim?
(Actually, I'd say anybody who thinks like a victim when they don't have to, really is one. A victim of their own creation. I've come across a few people who I'd say had a 'victim personality' and they really did not lead an enjoyable existence).
JonLynnHarvey
A friend of mine many years ago said that "oppression" is as over-used on the Left as "treason" is on the right.
He cited Monty Python's Dennis the Peasant character (from MP and the Holy Grail) as the embodiment of this tendency.
I can't remember if it's this book or another on the Holocaust and modern-day antisemitism, but whichever one it was put forth the idea that one of the biggest reasons antisemitism is making a comeback — especially on the far left, which is obsessed with its hierarchy of oppression — is that those who engage in these politics on the far left resent any group they consider white being recognized as victims. Since Jews are considered white and are recognized as being historically oppressed around the world, it's imperative that any victimhood is minimized or outright denied, and that they are presented as oppressors to deny them any place within the hierarchy. And this isn't true in just the US; one need only look at someone like Jeremy Corbyn, who has consistently managed to get away with antisemitic deeds like calling Palestinian terrorists "friends" and posing for photos with them. Corbyn has repeatedly allied himself with leaders of antisemitic terrorist organizations and Holocaust deniers, among other things (here's a good article cataloging some of his thinly veiled antisemitic past: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/alan-dershowitz-will-brits-vote-for-hard-left-anti-semite-jeremy-corbyn/article/2624883 ). How does a man like that become the new leader of the left in the UK?
Victimhood politics is an insidious force. Not only does it lead to fighting over victimhood status to claim Ultimate Oppression, but it splits people into ever smaller groups, and it leads to each group trying to deny the victimhood of others in order to gain more social and political capital. It's a terribly damaging system to everyone in any society that embraces it. It can lead only to further division and hatred.
There is a newspeak redefinition of 'gaslighting' I encountered recently and apparently it's a serious offense in left world: it now refers to attempting to convince a person from a victimhood group that they really aren't that victimized.
Horrors. Helping a person get up on their own feet is now a form of racism.
Ken Phelps
In a related vein, when listening to one of the oppressed, I often find myself wondering "What would you do if suddenly everything on the planet was made 'right'?" Or more to the point, since things in our current social environment are actually pretty damn good for most of the people I observe, why aren't you out doing whatever that thing is anyway?
It is my distinct sense that we are so far into the culture of victimhood that a lot of people don't actually have anything they want to do instead. Their entire consciousness is built around negativity. Ask them what they would do if they won a lottery and the answers will still reflect reaction, not aspiration.
Randy schenck
Degrees of oppression and comparison of one group to another is just meaningless and somewhat juvenile. Who can comprehend a worse condition than the Holocaust. What or who are you trying to impress? Why not just say, my dad is smarter than your dad.
Heather Hastie
I think this shows the importance of treating all people as in individuals, each according to their needs.
If you think of something associated with being a victim, like being raped, which affects different people differently. It depends on multiple things like how traumatic the occasion was, the victim's own capacity to handle trauma, how "bad" the attack was, the support afterwards, and multiple other factors. Some people are able to live a pretty normal life quite soon afterwards and others will have their whole life destroyed. There's obviously a whole range of reactions in between. Each one is equally valid. The person who's been attacked should be treated as to his or her need. The important thing is to be understanding and aware of possible issues.
What the modern far left does is put everyone in the same box. However poor people, for example, suffer more in society whatever their colour, religion, sexuality etc than wealthy people these days. Otoh, being wealthy doesn't mean a charmed life either.
We need to treat people according to their needs. Theis a saying about that, but it's 5am in NZ, so I can't recall it.
Glad of Yazikus' contribution – this site can sometimes be an echo-chamber – and the well-mannered responses.
Diane G.
Jason Stanley's article on what his father taught him about the Holocaust is interesting, and related to what I try to do. That is, I regard injustices as in a way belonging to the species (or maybe beyond, in the case of other animals), and so we can work together to fix. Yes, someone has to recognize who actually was killed, punched in the head, stolen from, etc.
Spotliteanime
Thanks for the criticism of this site. I suggest you visit other sites that aren't "echo chambers."
What a rude first comment.
aristobulonietoalcaraz
And you can find reports from multiple students on the campus about what that groupings with bats *actually* went around doing. campus constabulary called Weinstein at dwelling and told him there was a grouping of students searching machine to machine and believed to be searching for him.


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YouTube supergroup 'Sidemen' partner with REEF to launch new fried chicken concept, Sides, exclusively in the UK and UAE today
Will launch in the UK and UAE across 20 sites in exclusive partnership with REEF
LONDON - 30 November 2021
Today, YouTube's famed content creators, the 'Sidemen', announce the launch of their most exciting project to date. Sides, the collective's new, virtual fried chicken concept, will launch in the UK and UAE across 20 sites in exclusive partnership with REEF - the world's largest operator of virtual restaurants.
Lauded as pop-culture phenomena, the Sidemen are a collective of 7 content creators who have dominated the internet since 2013. Firmly establishing themselves as tastemakers in food, football, gaming and music, the crew have a global following of over 21 million YouTube subscribers and 3.1 million Instagram followers.
Bringing each of the 7 outrageous personalities to the new, at-home dining concept, Sides will be available for delivery only and sold exclusively online via all major food delivery platforms including UberEats and Deliveroo, facilitated by REEF.
Customers can expect a side of jokes with their mouth-watering chicken, with dishes developed personally by the culture-led crew. With the option to mix and match, diners get a choice of a protein - either chicken or plant-based vegan option - paired with either a tasty 'sando' slider or salad. Customers then get to load up their choice with one of seven delectable flavorings, including Chipotle, Classic Buffalo, BBQ, Korean BBQ, Teriyaki, Garlic Mayo, and Louisiana. The Sidemen couldn't - and wouldn't - forget the all important side dishes, with a choice of Waffle Fries, decadent Mac n Cheese, Side Slaw, Onion Rings, and delicious Cheese Poppers.
Sides is available to order in 20 locations across London and the UAE from today, with 200 sites set to open globally by the end of the year.
Vik from Sidemen said: "Food is something we're all super passionate about - to have the opportunity to launch Sides is mad to all of us. We're feeling very blessed. We can't wait to hear what everyone thinks and see the reaction - seeing fans try the food we've developed is going to be crazy!"
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SolarEdge Announces Two New Appointments:
Chief Marketing Officer for SolarEdge and Chief Executive Officer for Kokam
HERZLIYA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. ("SolarEdge") (NASDAQ: SEDG), a global leader in smart energy, announced today the appointment of Yogev Barak as Chief Marketing Officer of SolarEdge and the appointment of SehWoong Jeong as Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, Kokam.
Mr. Barak brings to SolarEdge over twenty-five years of experience in international marketing and B2B product management, including executive management positions at HP and Applied Materials. In his most recent role, Mr. Barak served as the Head of Strategy, Marketing, Products, and Business Management at HP Indigo. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
Mr. Jeong is an industry veteran with more than two decades of experience of leadership positions in Samsung Electronics. Prior to joining SolarEdge, he served as General Manager & Executive Vice President for Automotive Batteries and ESS at Samsung SDI, leading a successful, large scale lithium-ion battery and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) business. Mr. Jeong holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, US and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea. "I am excited to have Yogev and SehWoong join our senior management team and I am confident the leadership and industry experience they bring will help us continue to grow in the solar market and new segments we are addressing," said Zvi Lando, CEO of SolarEdge Technologies, Inc.
Read more: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201223005222/en/SolarEdge-Announces-Two-New-Appointments-Chief-Marketing-Officer-for-SolarEdge-and-Chief-Executive-Officer-for-Kokam


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In a small bowl stir together walnuts, panko, dillweed and salt; stir in remaining 2 tablespoons hummus until combined. Spoon over fillets, patting lightly.
Bake for 4 to 6 minutes per 1/2-inch thickness of fish until fish flakes easily with a fork. Serve with lemon wedges.


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Q: Wordpress Plugin (Singleton) - Cant add new WooCommerce endpoint and flush_rewrite_rules I'm building a Wordpress Plugin (structured as a Singleton) that, when activated, inserts three new WooCommerce Endpoints (each endpoint is stored in a separate file containing the Endpoint Class). Finally, a mandatory flush_rewrite_rules() is called. The flush must happen after the three endpoints have been inserted or the endpoints will 404 when visited.
I want to avoid having to activate 4 separate plugins (my plugin + 3 endpoints plugins). Just one plugin activation if possible would be preferred.
So far :
My plugin activates OK and the endpoints 'visually appear' OK in the navigation but will 404 when visited. and need a manual flush.
The key problems are:

*

*Where is best to include the three Endpoint class files inside my Singleton plugin? Top of Plugin? Inside the __construct? Or after the plugin?

*Where is best to call the Classes after including them?

*How to ensure flush_rewrite_rules is called after the three new endpoints have been inserted. Calling a flush_rewrite_rules() inside the register_activation_hook() doesn't seem to fix the 404ing endpoints.

Here is my abstracted code:
/* Include endpoint files here? */
include_once( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'classes/endpoint1.php');
include_once( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'classes/endpoint2.php');
include_once( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'classes/endpoint3.php');

class My_Plugin {

private $endpoint1 = null;
private $endpoint2 = null;
private $endpoint3 = null;

private static $instance;

public static function getInstance() {
  if (self::$instance == NULL) {
    self::$instance = new self();
  }

  return self::$instance;
}

private function __construct() {
  /*Call the endpoint classes here? */
  $this->$endpoint1 = new Endpoint1();
  $this->$endpoint1 = new Endpoint2();
  $this->$endpoint1 = new Endpoint3();
}
public static function install() {
  flush_rewrite_rules();
}
} /*End Class*/

My_Class::getInstance();

/*Flush rewrite rules here? */
register_activation_hook( __FILE__, array( 'My_Plugin', 'install' ) );

Any help appreciated <3

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Do you know that feeling when you've found your person? Andrea and Tim certainly do.
Andrea and I met last year when I photographed one of her fur-kids, Rambo, so I couldn't be happier when she called this year announcing her engagement.
Andrea and Tim couldn't be more perfect for each other. They share a love of the outdoors that includes camping, fishing and hunting… you name the adventure, they do it together. So it was no surprise when they asked for an 'Everglades feel' for their engagement session and boy did we capture that. The entire session theme came together thanks to all the details Andrea put together, it doesn't hurt that she is an event planner so I cannot wait to see what she does for her wedding.
Join me in congratulating this adventurous pair which I cannot wait to photograph again.
Engagement Session at Las Olas Riverfront, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
What is sweeter than a couple in love? Well, nothing is, unless they bring bubbly and rosé to their engagement session. Also, the gazebos around Las Olas Riverfront are to die for and I can't wait to be back.
Join me in congratulating Caitlin and James in their recent commitment. We had a blast during their Fort Lauderdale engagement photo session and I am beyond excited to share a bit of their gallery.


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORRAINE
Angus Reids's latest poll on the popularity of premiers and opposition leaders happens to fall on Lorraine Micheal's birthday.
The Leader of Newfoundland and Labrador's New Democratic Party has reason to celebrate. She led her party to an historic high of five seats in the House of Assembly in last fall's Provincial Election. In fact, the party she inherited from Jack Harris received more votes than the Liberals, who squeaked out one more seat to form the Official Opposition
The Angus Reid survey says that Lorraine is the countries most popular opposition leader, with 55% support. I have voted for Lorraine on three occasions. I am proud of our local member. She is one of the hardest working, most diligent, energetic and community minded politicians in the province. She is also as tough as nails.
She has led the NDP for six years. While it may not be polite to discuss a women's birthday, Wikipedia says that Ms. Micheal was born in 1943, which would make her 69.
While she is showing no signs of slowing down the hectic pace that has raised the NDP to it's current performance in the province, one can only wonder how much more of her life that she willing to give to the public. She will be 74 when the next provincial election rolls around.
Gerry Rogers was born in 1964, Dale Kirby was born in 1971, Christopher Mitchelmore was born in 1985 and George Murphy was born in 1963. Than means the average age of the NDP caucus is just 41.
Most certainly the New Democrats will have a new leader, the question is not if, but when, and who? The four other members of the caucus are well established, energetic high profile individuals, all of whom would make dynamic leaders to build on the great work of Micheal. There is also the potential that St. John's South - Mt. Pearl MP, Ryan Cleary, could return to NL and attempt to lead his party to the promised land. Premier Cleary, it has a ring!
There is also the question of who might replace Micheal in her provincial district of Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi.
One thing is for certain, the NDP is the opposition party with the momentum, organization, policy and finances to challenge the Progressive Conservatives for government. Whenever she chooses to move on, Micheal is leaving her party in great shape for the future.
Which means a three way race to government in 2015, unless the Liberals can not manage to pull it together by than.
* As of July 1, Newfoundland and Labrador had the highest median age in the country (43.8 years)
Posted by Peter L. Whittle
Labels: Candidates in NEwfoundland, Christopher Mitchelmore, Dale Kirby, George Murphy, Gerry Rogers, NDP
Wm. Murphy said...
Premier Cleary, it has a ring!
Have you lost it Peter???
Ryan Cleary is a complete moron and buffoon. I challenge anyone to name a local politician that is more incompetent and out to luch as Cleary. Go ahead name one!!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 6:31:00 PM GMT-2:30
Peter L. Whittle said...
90% of them.
What is the problem with Clear? He is bright, young, good looking, educated articulate, an MP, a publisher, an editor, a debater and a leader.
He would be formidable leader.
Ryan is all ego, I know I worked with him. If you could buy him for what he is really worth and sell him for what he thinks he is worth, you would be rich!
He might just be able to win
Whow, Cleary with his ego sitting in the House of Assembly I cannot imagine,.. like the old Newfie saying that guy is "too big for his britches". I might add Kirby is almost as bad cannot imagine him as Leader of the Party either.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 8:55:00 AM GMT-2:30
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Arun Kumar brings 'good news' from US on innovative investments
by Arun M. Kumar / On October 23, 2018
World Trade Institute
The World Trade Institute was pleased to host the Director General of the US and Foreign Commercial Service on 12 November during his visit to Switzerland aimed at supporting and encouraging the deepening of the "robust commercial partnership" between the two countries.
Arun M. Kumar, who is also Assistant Secretary for Global Markets, addressed a large group at the WTI that included government officials, academics and students, and spoke on the topic 'Innovative investments in the US: Good news from Washington', with the focus on the US investment promotion strategy and efforts to foster entrepreneurship and innovation. Assistant Secretary Kumar was welcomed to the WTI by its deputy managing director, Manfred Elsig, and said he was happy to be in Bern for his first official visit to Switzerland since taking office in 2014.The gathering at the WTI was like a mini United Nations, he joked. The US embassy in Bern was represented by Ambassador Suzan LeVine, Economic Officer Jeremy Beer and Public Affairs Officer Stephanie Morimura and Senior Public Affairs Specialist Gaby Bloem. Touching first on US-Swiss economic ties, the assistant secretary said Switzerland was one of the United States' leading commercial partners, and the US was grateful for this robust relationship. Switzerland is a top-10 US export market for services trade and in the top 20 for the total trade market. In addition, Switzerland is the eighth-largest investor in the United States, the top investor in US research and development, and the regional headquarters for major US companies. The scope of these ties is particularly impressive given Switzerland's population of only eight million, he added. Two-way investment between the United States and Switzerland in 2014 exceeded $305 billion. US and Swiss companies, through these investments, employ thousands of each other's workers on both sides of the Atlantic every day.
Turning next to the US strategy for investment promotion, the assistant secretary said the US was the world's premier destination for investment and home to more foreign direct investment than any other country in the world. It had had to work hard to achieve this status. Business investment into the United States is coordinated by SelectUSA, established by President Obama in 2011 and which serves as a single point of contact for investors. SelectUSA connects business decision makers, economic development organizations (EDOs), and investors; and helps EDOs and investors to find answers on federal rules and regulations. Since 2011, SelectUSA has facilitated over $20 billion of investments in the United States, generated thousands of jobs; and spurred economic growth. The United States welcomes additional Swiss investment and hopes for even stronger Swiss participation in future, Kumar said.
Fostering entrepreneurship
Highlighting the Commerce Department's commitment to fostering entrepreneurship, the assistant secretary said America's entrepreneurial spirit was "both a source of domestic competitiveness and indeed one of our greatest exports". "Before joining Commerce in 2014, I spent several years in the private sector as an entrepreneur. I know first-hand the hard work and creativity it takes to start, run and scale a business. Thus I am particularly motivated to work with other senior Commerce leaders to ensure that our department is prepared to move at the speed of business so that we can support entrepreneurs to build and realise their dreams," Kumar said. "As more Swiss companies, especially start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises, look to set up operations in the United States, our team at SelectUSA is prepared to assist them." Startup Global is a new initiative that helps entrepreneurs and early-stage companies to think global from day one by providing the know-how and technical assistance they need in order to export their goods and services from the United States to overseas markets. Another initiative, Skills for Business, aims to better align worker education and training programmes with the jobs in US communities. A Joint Declaration signed in July between the US Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education and the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research of the Swiss Confederation provides a framework for the two countries to cooperate in areas as work-based training, curriculum development, credential recognition, pathways to career development, and the expansion of programmes into new industry sectors, Kumar said. Following the signing, a number of Swiss companies, including Nestle, Buhler, and Zurich Insurance, have announced plans to expand or create new apprenticeship programmes in the United States.
An ecosystem for innovation
The Commerce Department is "America's Innovation Agency", Kumar said. It issues patents to protect intellectual property, offers start-ups the tools to think globally from day one, and deploys entrepreneurship ambassadors to mentor and inspire young innovators at home and abroad. Commerce is also working with communities to develop comprehensive economic development strategies that maximise their strengths and attract manufacturers to their markets. The task of promoting innovation is essential to the long-term prosperity of the US, Kumar said, "because when entrepreneurs have the chance to pursue their dreams, they form leading firms; they enhance our competitiveness; and they create jobs". "Switzerland is a world leader when it comes to innovation, having topped the Global Innovation Index two years in a row, in 2014 and 2015. I hope that the United States and Switzerland can continue to share best practices when it comes to promoting innovation," the assistant secretary said in conclusion.
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Spite and envy
Broadsides from the pirate captain of the Jet Set
On board S/Y Bushido
With plenty of time on my hands to read — television and DVDs are forbidden on board although both are available — I am shocked at the severity, downright viciousness, in fact, of the reviews about my two old friends, Jimmy Goldsmith and John Aspinall, in John Pearson's book The Gamblers. You'd think they'd murdered somebody and got away with it, judging not from Pearson's opus, but from those reviewing it. OK, Lucan did murder an innocent, but got away with nothing. I have not read the book, just some criticisms, and the latter tells a lot about some of the reviewers. Let's be open about this. Ugly people are more likely to dislike those born with good looks, just as people who are mal baisé tend to be jealous of those whom women find attractive. Just think. Here are two men who went to public school, made their own way in life without a penny from their fathers, had a great time, made hundreds of friends, and left fortunes behind for their children, not to mention breeding and saving thousands of animals in the case of John Aspinall. Oh, yes, I almost forgot, and having lotsa beautiful, very much desired women in the process, as in Jimmy Goldsmith's case.
I ask you, what is wrong with that? So they didn't invent a cure for cancer, but nor have those calling them gruesome, fascist and nasty. Both Jimmy and Aspers did not suffer fools, did not take crap from anyone, especially from those calling themselves journalists, and lived their lives as they saw fit. The answer, of course, is envy. Here's a pretty gruesome-looking chap, with a grotty wife, grotty children and a grotty house. He is assigned to review a book about people he has never met and only knows about from reading the tabloids. He looks around his grotty environment and begins to read about a world which he can never enter. Bingo! Enter the green-eyed monster and then some. In fairness, just because someone doesn't fancy the lifestyle of, say, flamboyant men like my two buddies doesn't necessarily mean they envy them, but human nature being what it is, I'm not about to give them the benefit of the doubt.
As luck would have it, there's also a new book out about another old friend, Porfirio Rubirosa. I recently profiled him in this space, so I won't bore you with more details. Again, I haven't read the book, so I don't know if the writer or the reviewer got his dates wrong, but someone surely did. Yes, it's true, Rubi wasted his life, but did he hurt anyone except for me in the boxing ring? So he hit and ran where women were concerned. So have I all my life, and so have billions of others. And, no, I do not sit up at night worrying that the Commen-datore's statue is about to come alive and take me down below. Rubi never spilled the beans about women, nor did Jimmy, Aspers or, I'm glad to say, yours truly. We will extend that privilege to the 'gentlemen' of the press. In the meantime, I will enjoy the memories of many beautiful ladies.
But enough about spite and envy. Let's talk a little about bull—t. As in Tony Blair hailing the late King Fahd's 'great vision and leadership'. Come again? If it weren't for the short-sightedness of Fahd, a big buddy of Aspinall's, incidentally, perhaps Harry Laden — aka Osama bin Laden — would have been content to buy drinks in White's bar instead of blowing people up. (Apparently, both the Duke of Beaufort and Nicholas Soames are in trouble with the club because neither has apologised for sponsoring him as a member.) Blair's latest posturing about terrorism, while he remains committed to supporting the European human rights convention, is as phony as his message to Saudi Arabia. Human rights mean only one thing. They can kill and maim us with impunity, whereas we have to have proof beyond any doubt to try them if and when we catch them. Posturing is what Blair is all about, no ifs or buts about it, and his ministers are even worse than he is. Yet his popularity keeps climbing. Tells us something about modern Britain. And the new Brit.
Mind you, I shouldn't be writing about such low lifes. Here I am anchored off Patmos, the sacred Greek island dominated by the imposing monastery of St John, standing on top of the hill above the harbour. I visited the cave where St John wrote the Book of Revelation. St John the Divine was exiled here from Ephesus in the year 95 AD by the Emperor Domitian for preaching Christianity, and it was on this island that he lived the life of an ascetic and wrote the Apocalypse under the influence of visions. Patmos is a civilised island where civilised people like John Stefanidis and Michael of Greece own houses. Stefanidis's is a jewel of a house, built on a cliff with terraced gardens hanging as in a theatre set. Only a fool like me can be in Patmos and write about the people I've just written about.
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La Skorpion est un modèle de motocyclette du constructeur allemand MZ.

Au salon de Birmingham de décembre 1992, MuZ présente sur son stand un prototype de roadster équipé d'un monocylindre Rotax de .

Quelque temps plus tard, un deuxième prototype voit le jour, avec un monocylindre Yamaha de . Le coût de production élevé, difficilement supportable par une entreprise qui vient de se relancer, serait la cause de ce changement de motoriste.

La fourche télescopique de 41 mm de diamètre provient de chez Paioli, tandis que le monoamortisseur est choisi chez Bilstein. Les jantes et les freins sont des Grimeca.

Commun à toute la gamme, le cadre est de type périmétrique.

Les reposes-pieds et le guidon sont réglables.

La Skorpion Tour est le modèle de base.

La Skorpion Sport est mécaniquement identique à la Skorpion Tour. Elle est pourvue d'un carénage tête de fourche, et une selle en deux parties.

La Skorpion Traveller se présente comme une alternative plus apte à voyager. Sur une base de Skorpion Tour, elle utilise un carénage intégral et offre des sacoches latérales rigides Hepco&Becker. Elle est vendue .

La Skorpion Sport Cup est dérivée de la Skorpion Sport. Le carénage devient intégral et un capot de selle recouvre la place dévolue au passager. Une compétition monomarque voit le jour avec cette machine.

La Skorpion Replica est une extrapolation plus luxueuse sur base de Skorpion Sport Cup. Le frein avant est remplacé par un double disque Brembo série Or. Les suspensions sont siglées WP et la fourche est inversée. Les jantes sont remplacées par des Marchesini. Les pneus ont des dimensions de 120/70 x 17 et 160/60 x 17. L'unique silencieux d'échappement est remplacé par deux silencieux en inox qui remontent le long des flancs de selle, permettant une hausse de la puissance de 2 chevaux.

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Jake Lucchini, the senior captain of the Huskies, was named to the All-WCHA Preseason Second Team.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Michigan Tech was picked fourth in both WCHA preseason polls the league announced on Monday (Sept. 24). Senior captain Jake Lucchini was named to the media's All-WCHA Preseason Second Team.
In the Mankato Free Press Preseason Coaches' Poll, the Huskies received 64 points, including one first-place vote, ranking behind Minnesota State (88), Northern Michigan (80), and Bowling Green (76). The UAHHockey.com Preseason Media Poll had the Huskies behind the same three teams with BGSU in second ahead of third-place NMU.
Lucchini also received votes from the coaches in their Preseason All-WCHA Team. He played in all 44 games for Tech in 2017-18 and led the Huskies in goals (16), assists (23), and total points (39), finishing seventh overall in the WCHA in points. This season's Tech captain was named to the NCAA East Region All-Tournament Team, the WCHA Offensive Player of March, and a WCHA Offensive Player of the Week (Feb. 5). He has 78 career points in 126 games, entering his senior campaign.
Gavin Gould and Jake Jackson received votes in the media's preseason picks at the forward position, and Mitch Meek garnered votes as a defenseman. Gould appeared in all 44 games last year and was second on the team with 14 goals, third with 29 points, and fourth with 15 assists. He enters his junior year with 52 career points (26 goals, 26 assists) in 77 career games. Jackson was third on the Huskies with 13 goals last season, tallying a career-high 26 points in 39 games. The alternate captain enters his senior campaign with 91 games under his belt and 43 career points 924 goals, 19 assists). Meek had 10 points in his first season with the Huskies, appearing in 43 of 44 games.
Tech opens the 2018-19 season on October 12-13 against Minnesota Duluth at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena. The first WCHA series is November 2-3 at Alabama Huntsville.
Second-year head coach Joe Shawhan will return 19 players from last year's team that won 20 games for the fourth season in a row. Tech finished 22-17-5 and won the Jeff Sauer Trophy as WCHA Tournament Champions for the second straight season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years.
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Definition - What does Shannon's Law mean?
Shannon's law is a mathematical theory for encoding information by applying a value (either 0 or 1) to it. This formulation is considered the foundation for digital communications. Shannon's law was conceived by mathematician Claude Shannon, who demonstrated that mathematics could be used to calculate the theoretical highest amount of information transmitted by a communications system based on the physical laws of thermodynamics. Shannon's Law states that the maximum attainable error-free data speed, in bits per second (bps), is a function of the signal-to-noise ratio and bandwidth.
Shannon's law is stated as shown below: C = B log2< (1 + S/N) where: C is the highest attainable error-free data speed in bps that can be handled by a communication channel. B is the bandwidth of the channel in hertz. S is the average signal power received over the bandwidth calculated in watts (or volts squared). N is the average interference power or noise over the bandwidth calculated in watts (or volts squared) S/N is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the communication signal to the Gaussian noise interference depicted as the linear power ratio. The function log2 signifies the base-2 logarithm. All logarithms are exponents. Assuming that x and y are two numbers, the base-2 logarithm of x is y, provided that 2y = x. Shannon's explanation of information for communication networks helps to identify the important relationships between several network elements. Shannon's equations helps engineers determine the amount of information that could be carried over the channels associated with an ideal system. Shannon's is still the base for engineers and communication scientists in their never-ending quest for faster, more robust, and more energy-efficient communication systems. He showed the data compression principles mathematically and also showed how controlled error rates can be used to assure integrity when information is carried over noisy channels. Practical communications systems that can be operated close to the theoretical speed limit described by Shannon's law have not yet been devised. Some systems that employ advanced encoding and decoding are able to achieve 50 percent of the limit specified by the Shannon for a channel with fixed signal-to-noise ratio and bandwidth.


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A man estranged from his family receives word that his father has chosen to take himself off life support within forty-eight hours.
Sing Sideways in the Style of "Darryl Worley". Stingray Karaoke Country, 2001, English, Key D.
A local bull rider ends up in jail after killing the brother of his girlfriend.
TOCSIN is a short film about a young musician, who travels to a remote island studio in search of inspiration. While attempting to overcome his creative block, he discovers a much darker secret hidden within the shallows.
Celebrities gather to commemorate the past year in sports by recognizing major achievements and reliving some of the most unforgettable moments.


Why is EHHS using Mozy instead of Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Carbonite, or another popular product for computer back-ups?
Mozy has a long history in the area of computer back-ups. There was a long and rigorous process in selecting Mozy, which included input from many higher-level administrators from throughout the university. This process involved analyzing all of the technical and physical processes each company used to protect data and the support capabilities of each company to attend to the needs of a group as large as EHHS.
Mozy is a cross platform system with support for Apple Macintosh computers running OS X on Intel-processors and multiple iterations of Microsoft Windows running on any type of PC. The company has also expanded to support iOS and Android for accessing data and is exploring other avenues for access on mobile devices. Mozy's parent company, EMC, is one of the most highly regarded experts in data storage and Mozy utilizes EMC's technologies in their datacenters.


"A study on tumor necrosis factor, tumor necrosis factor receptors, and" by Barbara St. Pierre Schneider, Douglas A. Granger et al.
This chapter presents the main novel findings concerning human fetal astrocyte tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNF-Rs) and nitric oxide (NO). The focus is on interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) treatment that leads to increased soluble TNF-R concentrations in astrocyte supernatants without a detectable change in surface TNF-Rs, the inhibition of cytokine-induced soluble TNF-Rs by pentoxifylline (PTX); but it does not affect surface TNF-R, the association of elevated soluble TNF-R levels with increased TNF and NO production. It is concluded that during CNS inflammation, such as MS, NO production is accompanied by changes in TNF-Rs, which may either limit or prolong the effects that NO has on surrounding cells or invading pathogens. Indeed, NO concentrations may be regulated, in part, by modulating TNF-R shedding. Recent findings suggest that TNF effects on a target cell are mediated, in part, by the presence of soluble extracellular TNF receptor (TNF-R) fragments cleaved from intact surface receptors by proteases. These soluble TNF-Rs can bind to TNF and inhibit or prolong its activity, and are additional pathways by which TNF can be modulated. Thus, the maintenance of NO levels within a nonpathological range may depend not only on limiting inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), but also on regulating cytokine pathways associated with iNOS activation. One of the aims of the chapter is to discuss the evidence of the production and regulation of TNF, TNF-Rs, and NO production in human glial cell cultures. These studies are based on the hypothesis that TNF, IL-1, and NO mediate demyelination in multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques and neuronal damage in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) dementia, both of which may contribute to the clinical manifestations of these conditions.
Schneider, B. S., Granger, D. A., Wong, J. L., Merrill, J. E. (1995). A study on tumor necrosis factor, tumor necrosis factor receptors, and nitric oxide in human fetal glial cells. Advances in Pharmacology, 34 415-438.


For the safety of children and adults, proper training, information and habits can prevent many accidents. A program to educate the community on ways to avoid accidents and to prevent specific illnesses can be life changing.
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With Its Fancy New Coffee Machine, Milk SF Wants to Help Revolutionize the Service Industry
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Katey "Scoots" McKee and Sharon Ratton in front of their queer-friendly Mission District coffee shop, Milk SF. (Lady Nigel Butterfly)
haron Ratton was metalcasting in the Bayview when the world stopped. She stepped back, tried to turn COVID into an opportunity to develop new skills. Maybe furniture making. That's when she met Katey "Scoots" McKee, known affectionately as such by her many friends in the queer community. The two met three days after Ratton's birthday in September 2019.
Ratton says the date turned out to be her real birthday present.
"I put on my best shoes to take her out to a fancy dinner," the longtime metalworker says. "It must have worked because we're still together."
Once the pandemic hit, the couple stayed in each other's pods before they uhauled, a term in the queer community for lesbians moving in together. Then came a new kind of proposal. "We got engaged first," McKee says. "But instead of planning an engagement we decided to plan a business."
That business, a new coffee shop in the Mission called Milk SF, will open on Saturday, June 26 at Mission and 14th. The cafe will serve nice pastries and nitro coffee. But it's also touting a new piece of coffee technology from West Oakland's Ground Control Coffee that the business claims will revolutionize the coffee world—if it hasn't already.
A Fancy New Coffee Machine
"We make bold claims," Eli Salomon, owner and founder of Ground Control Coffee, says. "But they're backed with data. It's better than any pour-over a barista can make on a repeatable basis."
That's a bold claim indeed, considering how ubiquitous the pour-over approach has been in the Bay Area's high-end coffee scene, each individual cup meticulously hand-brewed by a barista wielding a small copper kettle. Ground Control's brewer, on the other hand, is the first new batch brewing technology—wherein a machine quickly brews a large quantity of coffee—since the 1950s. The Forbidden Planet–looking device uses a patented vacuum technology to extract coffee from the grounds two or three times, drying the coffee grounds between takes to prevent bitterness. Your typical drip coffee brewer uses gravity to bring water through the grounds. The Ground Control machine fully immerses the coffee grounds in water, more like a French press.
Close-up view of the Ground Control Coffee brewer's patented vacuum brewing mechanism in action at Merchant Coffee in Prescott, Arizona. (Sean Marin/Merchant Coffee)
The coffee industry has always been dynamic, even if classic diners are still making their coffee with old-fashioned Bunn brewers. More recently, FETCO coffee brewers added important innovations like customizable settings for brew time, temperature and volume. And "smart" brewing, as practiced by companies like Ground Control, is a quantum leap.
Salomon says his machine has passed every hurdle. It even manages to earn green points by using ⅔ the amount of coffee beans to produce the same cup as other brewers. Salomon says there was a lot of skepticism when Ground Control launched in Salomon's San Francisco kitchen eight years ago. "Now," he says, "folks have had a chance to try the cup, and most of our critics have joined our side."
Count Umeko Motoyoshi among those who are fully convinced. They are the host of coffee podcast A Better Table and are high-key famous in the coffee world. The Q grader and former barista spent an entire week solely focused on learning how the Ground Control machine works.
"With a batch brewer, baristas don't have to live in fight-or-flight mode just to keep up," Motoyoshi writes in an email to KQED. "And Ground Control's extraction technology is such that it's not just consistent, it's consistently excellent."
The labor-saving aspect of the machine, which can produce 11 12-ounce cups of freshly brewed coffee at the touch of a button, is especially appealing to Motoyoshi. They say that the expectations that customers have of a cafe can never really be fulfilled by the baristas, and that any technology that can support the work experience is a godsend.
"This would have saved so much stress, hassle, and bodily wear and tear," Motoyoshi writes of their time working the bar. "Moreover, it would have sent a message that the owner cared about my health and happiness."
The machine also impressed Helen Russell, co-owner and founder of Equator Coffees and Tea, who says the difference is "like propeller planes to jets." Russell used to drill extra holes into the baskets of her Bunn batch brewer in order to coax more flavor out of the beans. Now that she's installed the Ground Control brewer in her Fort Mason shop, making Equator Salomon's first Bay Area customer, those extra steps are no longer necessary.
"For us to be putting it in our stores says something about the product," Russell says. "It was a huge risk."
Now, Equator's Proof Lab in Mill Valley and its new location in Culver City also use Ground Control machines. The Michelin three-starred chef Dominique Crenn even asked about the machine during a visit to Equator. Now she's got one in her new Salesforce Tower bakery.
Throughout the world the company has placed a little over 200 of their machines. In the Bay Area, they've installed about 30. But in the coffee shop–laden Mission, the technology is still catching on. While Dandelion Chocolate sports a Ground Control brewer, Milk SF is the only business exclusively using the rig.
In part, that decision was the result of a personal connection between the two businesses. Long before Salomon launched Ground Control, he would get his hair cut by McKee at Glama-rama!, the venerable Mission District hair salon she now owns, every few weeks for the better part of a decade. Knowing McKee loved coffee, he invited her for tastings in his living room once he'd developed a prototype. At the time, McKee joked that she would buy a machine from Salomon one day. "I have a friend who is going to change coffee," she says. "And now I have the opportunity to be a part of it."
A Better Post-Pandemic Service Industry
Does the coffee itself live up to the hype? A few weeks ago, I had the chance to sit outside Ground Control's retrofitted garage warehouse in West Oakland, sipping coffee prepared on the machine as a generous East Bay sun beamed down. And I, too, was convinced: The coffee was really, really good. It reminded me of the first time I tried coffee at a Bay Area coffee shop back in 2018 and my small-town Washington mind was fully blown. Clean, fruity, sweet and tasty—words I had never associated with coffee. The Ground Control coffee felt similarly new.
But cafes are about more than just the taste of their coffee: They're about the time, labor and money that go into their drinks, too. According to Salomon, Ground Control aims to make a positive difference in those aspects as well.
"Service folks should live without fear that they won't be able to pay their student loans," Salomon says. "To make ends meet, cafe owners sometimes take money from their staff in the form of permanent below-living wages, and that isn't ethical. If you can't pay your team in a way that they can live in their community without fear of a deep financial burden, that's a doomed scenario."
A Ground Control machine in the wild at 392 Caffe in Davenport, Iowa. (Matt Umland)
The Ground Control system runs about four times the cost of a typical drip machine, but to Salomon, the high price point of the machine is an investment in community betterment. The machine is easy to use, which means there's less of a barrier to entry for someone to become a skilled barista. And because the coffee produced by the Ground Control machines is popular, in theory they allow business owners to pay their employees better, too. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, for example, Ground Control customer Cirque Coffee went from selling five gallons of iced latte a day to 30 gallons, earning an estimated additional revenue of $40,000 a month. It's unsurprising, then, that Ground Control's business septupled during the pandemic.
It's true, however, that a coffee shop owner might simply choose to pocket any additional profits rather than hire back COVID-furloughed employees. The relative simplicity of the Ground Control machines might even allow a cafe to reduce its workforce even further. Salomon, for his part, says he doesn't want Ground Control to replace employees.
"One of the great tragedies of COVID has been that many members of the coffee community have lost their jobs," he says. "And many of them being those at the most financially vulnerable members of the coffee community, in entry-level roles."
"The belief that baristas should hand-pour each coffee borders on a fetishization of service labor." Umeko Motoyoshi of A Better Table
But Salomon says proper implementation should keep income high and staff turnover low. And for baristas at Ground Control–equipped shops, the tech also has the potential to improve the quality of their work life. Salomon says his brewer frees up baristas so they have time to build the meaningful customer relationships that allow local businesses to thrive. For instance, the machine makes a batch of cold brew in just eight minutes (instead of overnight), so cafe workers never have to scramble to make more of the increasingly popular drink. According to Russell at Equator, those time savings allow baristas to learn more about coffee and machine repair without having to constantly whip out drinks.
Replacing pour-over might also be a step toward making the job of a barista more sustainable. "In my opinion, the belief that baristas should hand-pour each coffee borders on a fetishization of service labor," Motoyoshi writes. "It's just not possible to execute that level of quality again and again, flawlessly, for hours."
A Healthier Place to Work
The bright pink walls of Glama-Rama! let you know you've arrived at one of the Mission's most venerable hair salons. It's been around almost 25 years and has about 10,000 clients. McKee purchased the famous business from its founder in December 2016.
"Queers on the East Coast know about us," McKee says. "Working there is where I had my own self-discovery."
With Milk SF, she and Ratton wanted to create a daytime space that would be accessible to the queer community—and to create jobs for that community in the same way as the salon.
"When we opened the business, Scoots says to me, 'Put your labor where your mouth is,'" Ratton says. To get the business off the ground, they've opted to DIY everywhere they can.
"It's COVID, so budgets are tight," Ratton says. "Luckily I have a lot of friends who are carpenters and metalsmiths."
It's not lost on them that they are across the street from Four Barrel, a coffee company that has faced accusations of sexual harassment and of being a toxic workplace. "I've worked on the block the entire time," McKee says. "What happened was wrong."
McKee also chose Ground Control in part because she doesn't want to compete directly with the established shops nearby. She's hoping it'll be a magnet for deep coffee nerds, too. And, as another way to distinguish themselves, they plan to use the machine to batch-make tea.
"Having the machine in our space lets us do something a little different than everyone else on that block," McKee says.
The machine's reliability is also a big sell. The folks at Glama-Rama! have gone through many defunct Mr. Coffee machines, McKee laments.
McKee and Ratton also want to bring Salomon's vision of a better service industry to fruition at their shop. McKee notes that in her work as a hairstylist, and during a stint working at a Peet's, she has suffered from tendinitis.
In fact, many baristas experience wrist and elbow injuries in the long term, and panic attacks behind the bar are also quite common, Motoyoshi confirms.
"Most folks don't realize the specialty coffee industry chronically overworks baristas," Motoyoshi writes. "Considering all this, it's amazing how good baristas are at producing consistent coffee."
What McKee and Ratton are hoping is that Ground Control will help them to create a healthier work environment. For a small, bootstrapped cafe like Milk SF, the machine's ease of use also means they'll be able to get their business up and running more quickly than they would otherwise.
"We're in our thirties. We don't have time to waste," Ratton says.
Milk SF opens on Saturday, June 26 at 302 Valencia St. in San Francisco. It will be open daily 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
A previous version of this article contained a quote by Katey McKee that has been interpreted as downplaying workplace allegations at Four Barrel Coffee. This was not McKee's intention. After consultation and review, KQED has agreed to remove the quote.
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My Brother's Keeper catching on in Baltimore
Programs designed to help urban youth get leg up
Tim Tooten
Even before the president's plan was announced, Baltimore was one of several cities already trying to deal with the problem of urban youth falling behind.
A day after President Barack Obama launched his national initiative to build ladders of opportunity for boys and young men of color, it seems to be catching on in Baltimore.Mobile users tap here to watch videoMy Brother's Keeper is a series of programs designed to help urban youth get a leg up. More than 80 percent of the nation's African-American and Hispanic fourth-grade boys are reading below grade level. Even before the president's plan was announced, Baltimore was one of several cities already trying to deal with the problem.The president said he used to be one of those struggling to succeed."I didn't always take school as seriously as I should have. I made excuses. Sometimes I sold myself short," he said.The president has turned to some of the nation's largest foundations to make investments in his program, among them the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation."I think the big difference is we are starting with trying to get as clear as we can on what actually works. We don't want to just talk, we don't want to just sound the alarm, we want to look at what all of us as a group of foundations have found out actually works," said Patrick McCarthy, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.More than seven years ago, Baltimore started an all-male school focused on science, technology, engineering and math called the Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy.One of the school's founders welcomes the president's efforts to help raise the bar for boys of color in Baltimore."He has stepped up to do something about it no matter what the race; we are going to do something about these urban males and we are going to see that they become good citizens, educated or with a skill," said Anne Emory, chairwoman of the school.The Carpenter House is one of a number of groups making a pitch to run the Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy next year. It's a group founded by former National Football League players from the region. Two other professional athletes are also on board."You're talking about guys that are highly educated. You don't talk about young African-American men that have gone to Division I schools on athletic scholarships and we have degrees. So we are qualified to help these young brothers get on the right path and show them how to be successful," said Keion Carpenter, founder of The Carpenter House.As for My Brother's Keeper, the president has charged a number of groups to come up with new strategies over the next 90 days. A second all-male school is set to open its doors in Baltimore in 2015.
BALTIMORE —
A day after President Barack Obama launched his national initiative to build ladders of opportunity for boys and young men of color, it seems to be catching on in Baltimore.
Mobile users tap here to watch video
My Brother's Keeper is a series of programs designed to help urban youth get a leg up. More than 80 percent of the nation's African-American and Hispanic fourth-grade boys are reading below grade level. Even before the president's plan was announced, Baltimore was one of several cities already trying to deal with the problem.
The president said he used to be one of those struggling to succeed.
"I didn't always take school as seriously as I should have. I made excuses. Sometimes I sold myself short," he said.
The president has turned to some of the nation's largest foundations to make investments in his program, among them the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation.
"I think the big difference is we are starting with trying to get as clear as we can on what actually works. We don't want to just talk, we don't want to just sound the alarm, we want to look at what all of us as a group of foundations have found out actually works," said Patrick McCarthy, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
More than seven years ago, Baltimore started an all-male school focused on science, technology, engineering and math called the Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy.
One of the school's founders welcomes the president's efforts to help raise the bar for boys of color in Baltimore.
"He has stepped up to do something about it no matter what the race; we are going to do something about these urban males and we are going to see that they become good citizens, educated or with a skill," said Anne Emory, chairwoman of the school.
The Carpenter House is one of a number of groups making a pitch to run the Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy next year. It's a group founded by former National Football League players from the region. Two other professional athletes are also on board.
"You're talking about guys that are highly educated. You don't talk about young African-American men that have gone to Division I schools on athletic scholarships and we have degrees. So we are qualified to help these young brothers get on the right path and show them how to be successful," said Keion Carpenter, founder of The Carpenter House.
As for My Brother's Keeper, the president has charged a number of groups to come up with new strategies over the next 90 days. A second all-male school is set to open its doors in Baltimore in 2015.


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