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Federal Government's failure to incorporate any of the Inuit priorities into Bill C-91, "The Indigenous Languages Act"
June 20, 2019 – Inuit Tapariit Kanatami (ITK) regrets that that Bill C-91, "An Act respecting Indigenous languages", passed into law without inclusion of any Inuit-specific priorities. In its current format, this law does not affirm Inuit language rights or close the legal and policy gaps that contribute to the erosion of Inuktut as the first, only or preferred language spoken by Inuit in Inuit Nunangat, and does not create any new legal obligations for the Government of Canada.
ITK and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc raised the following objections:
1. Bill does not recognize Inuktut as an official language within the 4 regions of Inuit Nunangat and requires Inuit to use English or French to access federal services
2. Federal departments and agencies do not have to offer services in Inuit language
3. Inequitable federal funding policies that favor English and French vs Inuit
4. Inuit in provinces must use English or French to access language services
5. Nunavut's territorial language legislation does not apply to federal government departments.
Potential Solution
See response below
Federal Government's refusal to expand the use of Inuktuk to deliver programs and services throughout Inuit Nunangat where 84% of the population speak Inuktuk is their first language
Feb. 5, 2019 – Failure to incorporate Inuit specific recommendations into the Indigenous Language Act. "Inuktut speakers make up the majority of the population in Inuit Nunangat yet the federal government allocates a larger share of public sector resources for the English and French speaking minority populations," the position paper prepared by ITK states.
ITK also wants the new legislation to require federal services to be delivered in Inuktut within Inuit Nunangat. "Access to federal services in Inuktut is vital for Inuit, especially in Nunavut and Nunavik where Inuktut is the majority mother tongue," the report states. Inuktut is the common language spoken by 84 per cent of Inuit living in 51 communities.
Inuit priorities communicated to the federal government during the discussion phase:
* status of Inuktut in Inuit Nunangat with respect to federal laws and activities;
* use of Inuktut in the delivery of federal programs and services in Inuit Nunangat and elsewhere where numbers warrant;
* without restricting the responsibilities of provincial, territorial and municipal governments, measures to support the provision of Inuktut
programs and services in relation to education, health and the administration of justice;
* use of Inuktut in the federal public service;
* principles to govern federal financial support for Inuktut;
* the role of Inuit representative organizations in the negotiation of intergovernmental agreements in relation to Inuktut; and,
* timelines and schedules for implementation measures, supported by appropriate regulatory and other tools.
https://www.itk.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Core-Inuktut-provisions-18-November-2018.pdf
Conservative Government of Ontario for completely cancelling the $5M Indigenous Culture Fund
May 30, 2019 – Eliminating the $5M Indigenous Culture Fund in its entirety. The Fund was set up in response to calls for action from Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The initial plan was to cut $2.25 million. (Canadian Art)
The Indigenous Culture Fund was set up last year and is administered by the Ontario Arts Council. It supports First Nations, Inuit and Métis community-based cultural projects. The province was to make annual contributions of $5 million
Federal Government for funding the delivery of federal services in Nunavut to the french minority at a rate 50x greater than for the delivery of services in the majority language – Inuktuk. On a per capita basis: French = $8,190 vs Inuktuk = $184
June 7, 2017 – Inuktut language services in Nunavut Tunngavik receive similar funding to French services despite nearly 50 times more speakers (CBC)
The federal government funds $14.25M over 4 years to support 435 french-speaking people (2011 census) vs. $15.8M to support 21,515 people who speak Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun as their mother tongues. On a per capita basis $8,189.66 for French vs $183.59 for Inuktuk languages annually.
English and French are not the only official languages of Canada, especially in the north where both languages are in the minority and do not reflect the linguistic reality. The solution is the expand the number of "official" languages to include indigenous languages as well.
Mar. 20, 2019 – Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Aluki Kotierk. With this budget, the Government of Canada has strengthened funding for minority language service for English and French, yet, failed to invest equitably in Indigenous languages. NTI seeks recognition that Inuktut is the majority language in Nunavut and must be the language of public services, including education, justice and health services.
July 9, 2019 – The aspiration of Nunavut is a step closer as Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) seeks guidance for self-government from Inuit Elders and commits to becoming an Inuktut language workplace announced President Aluki Kotierk from Kugluktuk today. Inuktut language assessments have been completed with NTI staff. All staff will receive on the job training and support based on their needs. New terminology in technical fields, finance and law will be developed. More than 200 hours in Inuktitut training have been delivered with Inuit staff of NTI in the past two years.
ROADBLOCKS RESOLVED
Federal Government's failure to appoint an Indigenous Language Commissioner
April 1, 2016 – Failure to appoint an Indigenous Languages Commissioner as per Call to Action # 15 from the TRC Summary Report released on June 2, 2015
June 21, 2019 – The Indigenous Languages Act includes a provision for the creation of the Office of the Indigenous Language Commissioner.
Under Bill C-91, the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages will:
· conduct or commission research to support Indigenous languages and to obtain information on language use and vitality in light of community language assessments
· work with Canada and Indigenous organizations to support innovative language teaching projects
· promote Indigenous language use
· prepare annual reports to Parliament on the vitality of Indigenous languages
· promote public awareness of the significance of Indigenous language rights, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action and the negative impacts of colonialism and discrimination
· provide facilitation or mediation services upon request
The Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages will be overseen by a Commissioner of Indigenous Languages and 3 distinctions-based directors: one each for First Nations, Inuit and Métis languages.
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Municipal services and infrastructure are a significant energy user in any community. Buildings, vehicles, and streetlights are obvious energy users, while water and sewer pumping and treatment are less obvious.
The City has been monitoring its energy use since 2011 by tracking its consumption of fuel oil, electricity, and propane. These commodities power buildings, vehicles, heavy equipment, portable equipment, etc.
The chart below shows the breakdown of the City's energy use. The fleet includes transit, heavy equipment, and light duty fleet. Streetlights include traffic signals. Water and sewer refers to all pumping and treatment of drinking and waste water.
Make new City-owned buildings 50% more efficient than the National Energy Code.
Make City-owned building retrofits with a 20 year or longer lifespan 30% more efficient than the NECB.
Require new buildings in Whitehorse to be 30% more efficient than the NECB, National Building Code, or achieve a comparable EnerGuide Rating.
Reduce per capita water consumption.
Increase renewable energy production by the City of Whitehorse.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 2014 levels.
Click here for more information about Whitehorse Sustainability Plan targets.
The City is attempting to reduce the energy consumed by both its own buildings and operations and by households and businesses within Whitehorse.
The most significant energy savings project currently underway is the consolidation of City operations into a new building, scheduled for completion in spring 2019. Modelling shows that the building should obtain an energy efficiency of 80% better than the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB) guidelines. The City anticipates significant energy reduction by discontinuing use of the Transit building and the Municipal Services Building.
Other energy savings features of the building include waste heat recovery, air curtains, and LED lighting. The building will also include approximately 400 kw of onsite renewable photovoltaic generation.
In other areas, the City has achieved a high rate of changeout to LED lighting, including nearly 100% LED lighting in the Lion's Aquatic Centre and Takhini Arena.
In 2012, the City completed an Energy Management Plan to serve as a roadmap for achieving significant energy and cost reductions and improving the overall energy management of City facilities. The development of the Plan involved energy audits on 23 City facilities, representing over 90% of the City's floor space, as well as staff interviews, performance benchmarking, and an organizational assessment.
The Plan provides the business case and action plan for the implementation of cost-effective energy management opportunities including technical measures, operating and maintenance practices, and corporate-level energy management systems.
This project was funded by the Yukon Energy Corporation and the Gas Tax Fund.
In terms of the energy used by the community of Whitehorse, the City continues to promote active transportation and transit use as alternatives to private vehicle use.
Whitehorse has had new energy efficiency standards since 2012, preceding similar standards required under the NECB. Energy labelling is now also required in new home construction. Visit Building Inspections for more detail.
Educate yourself about your energy options. Learn about heating system and fuel options from Yukon Energy Branch and Yukon Housing Corporation. Click here for a comparison report on fuel options and impacts.
Change your household habits to reduce your consumption associated with lighting, heating, appliances, water use, yard care, and seasonal maintenance. Read the Yukon Energy Branch's Easy Tip Sheets for many great ideas.
Switch out appliances and make sensible purchases. Participate in the Yukon government's Good Energy Program. A variety of rebates and incentives will help you purchase more energy efficient appliances and upgrade your home.
Get an energy assessment. A certified energy advisor can analyse your home's energy use. Based on the information, you can decide which improvements can reduce your energy and water consumption and GHG emissions, and save you money.
Consider upgrades to your building envelope. Yukon Energy Branch offers incentives to upgrade the insulation and windows in your home.
Learn how to save electricity. The inCharge program provides rebates on LED lighting and block heater timers. You can find information on the rebate program as well as lots of helpful electricity conservation tips and tricks at inchargeyukon.ca.
If you're a home renter, you can also do your part to save energy. See BC Hydro's blog post on saving energy, or Energy Star's advice for renters.
Monitor energy being produced at the Whitehorse Dam. In the summer, Yukon Energy Corporation meets most of Yukon's needs with hydroelectricity, but in the winter, supplemental diesel or LNG is required. If you know when the peak demand is (usually morning and evening), you can plan your energy use accordingly and potentially reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced in generating electricity.
Whitehorse uses mostly clean electricity, produced from water flowing through turbines. During the winter, when less water is available, LNG and diesel-generated electricity supplements the hydro power during periods of peak demand. Typically from 6-9 am and 4-7 pm, many electricity-consuming appliances and pieces of equipment are being turned on at once, such as computers, heaters, and stoves.
Put your dishwasher on a timer rather than washing dishes right after dinner. Delaying your dishwasher after breakfast will also help reduce the morning peak.
Wash and dry your clothes in off-peak hours.
Other appliances where use can be delayed include the oven (especially self-clean cycle), vacuum cleaner, treadmill, and computer (e.g. run updates at night).
Shower at off-peak times. A quick shower in the morning is no big deal, but save long showers for before bed, or right after you exercise.
Alter your heating program. If you're not already using a programmable thermostat, consider switching so that your furnace will go down at times when you're regularly out of the house. Many people program their heat to go up when they awaken and down an hour or two later. Consider moving your heating period slightly earlier to level out the peak over a longer period of time (i.e. heat from 5-7am rather than 6-8am). Obviously, this is most significant for those heating with electricity, but oil and propane heating systems also use electricity.


Description Modern filter criteria are routinely used in engineering practice for the design of filters in embankment dams. Although somewhat well-developed, these criteria are based on results from a variety of non-standardised test devices and methods, and are rarely validated by means of field data or full-scale testing. Furthermore, very little work has been done towards understanding how filters built before the advent of modern filter design may be assessed. To address this knowledge gap, the Continuing Erosion Filter (CEF) test and empirical criteria for the assessment of existing filters had been developed. Decommissioned in 2003, following a long history of sinkholes, piping and seepage-related incidents, Coursier Dam presents an excellent opportunity for study. CEF tests have been conducted on soils sampled at the dam site, to determine the material susceptibility to filter incompatibility. It is concluded that the lower core from Coursier Dam is susceptible to filter incompatibility where it is in contact with a stratum of the foundation, and that this filter incompatibility may explain the occurrence of sinkholes. The finding is supported by the results of a parametric study on soil from another dam site. Furthermore, it is found that CEF testing, in conjunction with the empirical criteria for filter assessment, provides useful insights into the phenomenon of base-filter compatibility.


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Through the rear view mirror – hedge funds
Keith BarrettSeptember 20, 2016 - 5.45am
At the Conexus Financial Absolute Returns Conference, delegates were taken through the past decade of hedge fund history, and given insights into some current strategies by some of the best investors in the industry.
With global hedge fund investments sliding from just under $2 trillion in 2007 to under $1.5 trillion through the 2008 GFC, they stand at more that $2.2 trillion today and continue to grow, session chair Travis Schoenleber from Cambridge Associates said.
Compared to the S&P200 Equity Index, the hedge fund industry performed well, and provided some capital protection in the GFC in 2008.
The past five years have not been as good. In 2012, hedge funds represented only about 50 per cent of upside capture in the equity markets, and that figured dropped to less than 50 per cent and down past 33 per cent through to 2014. In 2015 and 2016, the industry was down slightly while the equity markets were up.
Fees have come down over the past decade on the back of declining performance. In 2007 the industry was averaging 19 per cent performance fee and 1.7 per cent management fee; in 2016 the performance fees are down to 16.5 per cent and 1.34 management fee, primarily due to global pressure from investors in hedge funds.
Craig Dandurand, director, debt and alternatives at the Future Fund, outlined his approach to investing.
With a hedge fund allocation of more than 13 per cent of the Future Fund's portfolios, representing more than $15 billion, Dandurand explained that investors needed to have a clear objective in place.
"Hedge funds remain a real diversifier," Dandurand said. "The primary approach we have taken with that portfolio, since its inception, is to really think about what makes the most sense in the context of an overall portfolio. Where is that value being generated, and where can we get as much of it as possible? Not a low fee, but as good a value as possible?
Manager allocation
Kate Misic, head of alternatives at Telstra Super and with a hedge fund allocation of more than $650 million, representing about 4 per cent of the portfolio, kicked off with manager allocation.
"We take an approach of investing through outlay multi-strategy managers, and then we add some other managers to try to get to our regional or strategic allocation goals. We're pursuing very moderate returns. We're not really trying to shoot the lights out with the program, it's really about being a diversifier."
Bruce Tomlinson, portfolios manager at Sunsuper, spoke about how Sunsuper has had a hedge fund strategy for about 10 years. Its allocation to hedge funds is about 6 per cent of its $33 billion portfolio.
"We're about it being diversifying, and it being a defensive, alternative program, so we're not looking at growth-like returns; we have separate growth alternatives to do that.
"We have also focused on macro trading strategies; historically, not so much recently, we had a lot of credit – both relative value and also specialist closed-end credit; and then we have a small amount of event-driven and long-short, but that's less than about a third of the program. So quite defensive, looking for cash plus 4 or 5, minimum fees."
"There's no doubt as the GFC rolled through, and then you had central banks and regulators clamping down on banking activity, we really tried to take advantage of banks pulling back and reducing their credit activities, and we've looked to invest in a range of credit strategies, effectively bank replacement type strategies, so credit, both more liquid relative value and special sits, closed-end type fund credit, is now almost 50 per cent of our program, and macro is less than 20 per cent. So it's changed a lot – back in 07-08 macro was more than 50 per cent."
Misic explained that Telstra Super was already invested in the hedge fund industry over a decade ago through a fund of funds, but moved to manage it itself.
"The first change was a decision to move to manage the asset class directly," Misic said. "It was driven by too much diversification and too much equity beta that was coming through the fund of fund side.
Global team 'on the ground'
Unlike Sunsuper, Telstra Super did little work on its hedge fund program through the GFC, and so most of its work in the area has been with the GFC behind it.
"We had a look at how we might have support from consultants and tools, and that's a big change – moving to specialist alternatives consultants. It has been great for me to have an entire team on the ground globally, my eyes and ears, and also the tools we have in place to be able to monitor and understand our portfolio. The whole industry has evolved and developed very nicely over the last 10 years."
Since Telstra Super started investing again in 2011, the biggest change has been following the really strong beta returns.
"We've been more critical about any new allocations, what the beta allocation are, and really trying to make sure those new funds are trying to diversify under more uncertain conditions.
Dandurand, who 10 years ago was at CalPERS, spoke about the contrast between his experience at CalPERS and his current role at the Future Fund.
"At the time, CalPERS had a fully functioning hedge fund program, but it was one that was in a constant state of flux. It was about having analysis into where we could we generate material value-add for the fund and do it in a reasonably diversified manner, but the emphasis between alpha and correlation really did ebb and flow over time. And so, ironically I think, where CalPERS ended up with its hedge fund portfolio before it ended up with no hedge fund portfolio at all, isn't all dissimilar to what the Future Fund is trying to do with its hedge fund portfolio."
"As the portfolio evolved it migrated from more or less a pure long-short equity portfolio to on that had a multi-strat dent, and then in '05 and '06 we added fund of funds to it, which is kind of the reverse of what people tend to associate with a build out of an institutional fund of fund program."
He explained that it was part of a core-satellite approach, and included the hiring of nine fund of funds.
"Our lesson from 2008 was that fund of funds can be extremely valuable if they aren't thinking the same way you are. Our hedge fund portfolio at the time was very heavily multi-strat, very heavily event driven and equity beta centric, and it got hammered.
"The problem with a lot of plans is working out what the next step should look like. Trying to constantly figure out what do we have, what do we need, and how do we get there? And that's the same thing the Future Fund does, that the alternative portfolios we now have look nothing like it did three years ago when I joined. And it looked then very different to what it did in 2009 when it was created."
On the topic of self-measurement, given the portfolio has been changing so much, he said it's about working out what the portfolio needs at a given point in time.
"One of the more significant changes in our alts mandate in the three years I've been there is the idea that having essentially a significant distress and event-driven, heavily corporate security loan-biased portfolio doesn't add that much diversification benefit, but it can add unnecessary liquidity, and it can add a high cost and access point to something that, in the context of an overall Future Fund portfolio, doesn't add that much diversifying value.
"Where are we now? Our view toward macro is that it is one of the rare areas where you can have someone who is congenitally negative about the state of the world and can actually get paid to feel that way. Most other asset managers are predisposed to things getting better, or things growing. I need cranky people in my portfolio."
Misic outlined that although recent returns have been disappointing, the strategy has achieved its long-term objectives.
"I've had performance more recently in line with the industry, in that it's been disappointing, but since the program's inception we've delivered exactly the objectives of the program.
"In terms of the types of ways that we measure it, we're constantly turning the portfolio over in our hands and looking at it through all the different lenses that we can to make sure that we're all over it and understand it the best that we can with the tools that we have.
"What's getting me excited is constantly getting through the work plan of where we want to take the portfolio now. Trying to find multi-strats that have low beta – it's not that common – and generally we've been finding them and having great dialogue with them.
Working in the smaller level requires far much research and insights, including travel to some more regional areas.
"We travel very extensively. We're now doing I think six trips a year overseas, and we go to some quite far flung places to try and better understand what's happening on the ground where these assets and these companies are actually going through some distress," Tomlinson says. "You've go to go beyond New York and London to really understand the opportunities and to underwrite the investment strategies when you're being pitched them.
"There are wonderful opportunities. We talked about bank deleveraging, and there is excess everywhere and there's growing stress as we can see. We're pretty optimistic about the future."
This article was updated on 26/09/16 to correct the byline.
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Yes, it may be a little early for Christmas lists, but this particular list is long overdue! The difference between this list and your usual Christmas list is that you can expect to be wealthy from them, compared to making the person you'd usually give your wish-list to poorer!
How often do we actually wish for things that make us money rather than make us spend money? Rarely, am'right?
Well, let's go against the norm and make a wishlist for ourselves that is actually valuable to our Wealth Journey.
Here are three things I think you should add to your personal Christmas wish-list.
Well you will get to that. The hardest part would have been already accomplished by just opening an account! Do you know how many people I have spoken to who have made it seem like they really cared about increasing their wealth but they have yet to open an investing account with their bank? I don't know if it is pure laziness or just fear!
Understanding how to invest wisely and safely without extreme risk isn't a hard task, to be completely honest. It just seems mystical because most people aren't willing to learn and they assume you need to be some hotshot Wall Street guy to make any money. Replacing a pipe on your toilet isn't impossible to do (thanks to Youtube), yet Plumbers have profitable careers!
Anyhow, opening an account is usually free and you for the most part don't need to have a minimum balance. Although I loathe TD Bank, their investing platform is rather useful!
Another surprising thing that I have learned is how few books we read on things that actually matter to our lives! In terms of investing, there are good books with value and bad books that are being used as advertising for some other agenda. The good ones will help you understand what 'investing' is, and hopefully what investing style is good for you.
Although five books in a year is a fairly low number, we all have to start somewhere.
It is easy to slack off when it comes to achieving your goals when there is no one holding you accountable. It is not that easy when you have a partner who is right behind you making sure you aren't making dumb decisions, but also praising you when you make the right ones.
If you don't have a signifiant other, look for a trustworthy friend who you can rely on to make sure you aren't blowing that money you should be putting towards your savings for a keg for your friends birthday!
Look for someone who perchance is good with their own finances or is simply willing to help you achieve your goals and be a nag when they need to be about your progress.
Of course you could lie to them if you are slacking off but don't want to tell them, but that wouldn't make you a good friend, now would it?
Find someone to be your Accountability Friend and make sure they want you to be financially free as much as you do.
Let this be the first wish-list that aides in you achieving your greatness, rather than slowing it down. Stop making the rich richer by succumbing to the consumerism that works hand in hand with them, and start taking a piece of the ginormous pie that you know belongs to you.
Value Investing Millennial Jahnome McEwan is releasing his second edition of his best-selling eBook, called 50 Rules for 50 Fools: The Second Edition on January 30, 2019!
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The religious right has been freaking out about Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos for what feels like an eternity. And, while the theological complaints seem laughable for their rancor and predictability, it's time we thought harder about what they represent, because the Christian right's Cosmos agita actually indicates a far deeper problem in religious conservatism -- the selective acceptance of Enlightenment values. Religious conservatives have selectively adopted the legacy of liberal Enlightenment, from free speech to science, and jettisoned it when it does not suit their narrow ideological aims.
The scientific consensus about global warming must be untrue, because, as Dr. Innes writes in Left, Right and Christ, the world is "not a glass ornament that we might accidentally destroy... we are not capable of destroying it, whether by nuclear weapons or carbon emissions." Young earth creationism is the ultimate attempt to both accept modern science, but also to deny it. Fundamentalists like Ken Ham argue that the world and laws we currently observe simply bear no resemblance to the past.
In truth, we cannot get fundamentalism without the scientific revolution. Fundamentalism does not exist independently, but rather defines itself in relationship to post-Enlightenment values. It is the odd melding of science and religion that creates fundamentalism -- the belief that the Bible is ultimately both a scientific and religious text. Fundamentalists, like the conspiracy theorists they resemble, will build up reams of evidence creating the case for something that can be disproven with a simple logical proposition. Few thinkers have built such an impressive edifice of logic and evidence upon such a thin foundation of speculation.
But this rhetorical flourish is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the creation narrative, and religion in general. Religion, ultimately, aims at truths deeper than science and trying to apply religious reasoning to the natural world is absurd. Augustine warned as much, telling Christians in "De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim" to avoid, "talking nonsense on these topics."
More worryingly, the idea that a rather tenuous reading of a literary work holds the same weight as centuries of scientific evidence is more than a little absurd. D'Souza is trying to selectively apply science, but without its foundation -- empirical, testable, repeatable propositions.
The reason any somewhat knowledgeable Christian is frustrated by these debates is that they simply pit one fundamentalist against another. One tries to use science to disprove religion, the other to prove it -- both apparently unaware that belief is something that cannot be "proven." That's the entire point! Too often, religious excursions into science resemble the thinking of the suicidal people described by Anne Sexton, "They ask only what tool, they never ask why build?" Fundamentalism at its core is the misunderstanding of the proper relationship between science and religion -- one practiced just as frequently by atheists as Christians.
Another form of this trend is the co-option of liberal values. The religious right cannot generally be found decrying freedom of speech or freedom of religion, instead they make a selective application of these values -- much the way they'll talk science when you question nuclear power but deny a consensus about evolution or global warming on entirely spurious grounds.
One recent example of this illiberalism was the quickness with which Catholics decried a "Black Mass" at Harvard. The "Black Mass" is merely a satanic parody of the Catholic mass -- which, while it may be offensive to some Catholics, is totally harmless in practice. Of course, the idea of Catholics demanding special privileges is not rare, but to be expected; one wonders if Satanist child abusers could claim that their church would deal with the matter internally.
Father Martin claims to put the event in perspective, and then does the opposite, equating the merely offensive with an act of white supremacy.
Lynchings were intimately tied to white supremacy in the post-Civil War South -- their intention was to establish white hegemony and create a permanent underclass. Lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan and the burning of crosses were either overtly violent or symbolically violent. The reenactment of a lynching would not be acceptable at a liberal university because it would amount to the direct threat of violence to minorities on campus. It would be aimed at suppressing their rights to expression.
One wonders how Father Martin has lived his entire life in the United States and is still capable of making such an odious comparison. The distinction between the merely offensive and what amounts to group libel or defamation is hard to make, but the Supreme Court has endorsed the idea that some speech may be more than just offensive, and can therefore be regulated. As Clarence Thomas noted in his correct dissent in Virginia v. Black,"just as one cannot burn down someone's house to make a political point and then seek refuge in the First Amendment, those who hate cannot terrorize and intimidate to make their point." Father Martin seems to miss this distinction and believes that he should be protected from ever being criticized or offended.
To both of these claims -- that many on the religious right have entirely abandoned the post-WWI liberal consensus of scientific inquiry and Enlightenment values -- there are those who would like to say the same about the left. The Economist is quick to point to GMOs as the left's version of anti-scientific inquiry. Such claims are entirely overblown. More recently, there have been claims that the left is showing the same illiberal tendencies as the right, most notably Michelle Goldberg of the Nation. She argues we are "entering a new era of political correctness," which she calls "left-wing anti-liberalism."
While she cites some rather damning movements, they are all fringe movements that have produced pixels but will not bring about change. As Marx once wrote of Communism, "In order to supersede the idea of private property, the idea of communism is enough. In order to supersede private property as it actually exists, real communist activity is necessary." We might note that the idea of illiberalism is something liberalism must countenance, even though it must be prevented from ever being existent.
The present world situation smells to heaven! And now, in the presence of colossal problems, which must be solved in Christ's name and for Christ's sake, the Fundamentalists propose to drive out from the Christian churches all the consecrated souls who do not agree with their theory of inspiration. What immeasurable folly!


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Is Your Air Conditioner Condensate Drain Line in Trouble?
Temperatures are already beginning to climb here in the Richmond area, and we all know what that means. Soon enough we will be turning on our air conditioners for the season. When you do so, it's important to make sure it's functioning as effectively as it can.
If you have a clogged AC drain line in your Richmond, TX cooling system, however, then the AC unit can't possibly operate efficiently. Of course, it's natural if you don't particularly have much interest in this topic, if you don't know what a condensate drain is or what it does!
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Thanks to everyone who inspired these songs: Amanda, Nicki, Erin, Hunger, Phineas and Ferb, and Tim Ferriss.
Thanks for people who listened to the songs and gave me constructive feedback: Matt, Whitney, Steve, Eric, My Parents, Jim, Aaron, and Brian.
I want to thank Jim Kennedy for the graphic design, although I had to recreate it thanks to not being able to identify rights holders!
Thanks to Elisabeth Moore for the photo for "Testosterone Baby Shower."
in line for roller coaster riding?
Do you like cow tipping?
Do you like skinny dipping?
That we could do something?
That I think you're exciting?
Do you like base jumping?
I live on the edge! I live on the edge!
I shave with an edge! A razor blade edge!
One toll booth fare! One turnpike fare!
I grill on the edge! I grill on the edge!
I'm driving my car out on the edge!
Now I don't want... cereal no more!


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Taboos and Solidarity: Speaking up for choice in Poland
2017 ISSUE 1 poland reproductive rights
Thank you for publishing 'Poles Refuse to Put a Good Face on a Bad Game' by Krystyna Kacpura and Anka Grzywacz. I grew up in Polish immigrant communities in Canada and the United States. Abortion was taboo and not open to discussion—the assumption being that if you were Polish you had to be antichoice. Which is why I was proud to join Catholics for Choice for a solidarity protest at the Polish Embassy in [Washington,] DC, in May. Having such a large number of Polish men and women stand up for access to abortion care this past year was exhilarating and validating. It was the first time I felt my conviction that abortion care must be safe and dignified was not antithetical to my identity as a Polish, Catholic woman. I felt a deep sense of solidarity in a way that I had been led to believe was impossible.
We cannot let antiabortion rhetoric control the abortion narrative anywhere—whether it's coming from the Catholic Church or antichoice legislators. We must continue to affirm that abortion must be safe and accessible to all, regardless of economic status, religion or location. I look forward to working side by side with fellow advocates here and in Poland as we stand up for our shared values.
AGATA PELKA
Staff Attorney, National Health Law Program
2018 Issue 2 reproductive rights
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Fake Health Centers
On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its 5–4 ruling in NIFLA v. Becerr...
2018 Issue 1 Abortion Chile reproductive rights
One Step Beyond—How Victory was Won in Chile
After 27 years of protests, struggles by various groups and failed legislative initiatives, the Ch...
2017 Issue 3 Abortion Democratic Party public policy reproductive rights
The Democratic Party Is Not the "Prochoice Party" and It Never Will Be
There are few controversies in American politics more enduring than the argument over whether the De...


This ministry's purpose is to be dedicated Christians praising God through songs and hymns, while carrying out the mission of the Church and keeping God as its head. To be dedicated to the support of the Pastor, Church, Officers, and the mission of the Male Chorus at all times. To attend Sunday school, Bible study and worship services and set the positive standard for the youth and young male adults of the church. The chorus will work to increase visitations and support of the elderly, the incarcerated and the bereaved. It will carry god's message to those unable to attend church and set good examples and to be a positive role model for young males and all youth of the church. It will create fellowship among the male chorus members and target young adults for membership. The chorus will work to increase fellowship with other ministries of this church and with other male chorus ministries. It will help the church to build a scholarship fund and make contributions to that fund.


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3rd Annual India Privacy Summit: Privacy & Security in the Age of Intelligent Machines
By Paolo Balboni 27 Aug 2017 Privacy, Privacy and data protection Data Protection, Event, India, Privacy	Permalink 0
I will be a speaker at the 3rd Annual India Privacy Summit on September 21, 2017 at Taj West End, Bangalore. Speakers will deliberate on best practices and field-tested solutions for the latest privacy issues facing a wide range of businesses and expert speakers are invited by the Executive Committee will give keynote speeches and all issues ...
David Bernet receives German documentary film prize for "Democracy – Im Rausch der Daten"
By Paolo Balboni 02 Jul 2017 Democracy - Im Rausch der Daten, Privacy, Privacy and data protection Democracy - Im Rausch der Daten	Permalink 0
Many congratulations to David Bernet and his for his outstanding work! More information about the award, which consists of 20.000 euro, can be found here.
New Article 29 Working Party Opinion Published: Opinion 2/2017 on data processing at work
By Paolo Balboni 24 Jun 2017 Article 29 Working Party, GDPR, Privacy, Privacy and data protection Art29WP, Article 29 Working Party, Data Processing, Opinion	Permalink 0
The Article 29 Working Party adopted Opinion 2/2017 on data processing at work on 8 June 2017. The Opinion builds on Opinion 8/2001 and its 2002 Working Document on the surveillance of electronic communications in the workplace, adapting to the context of present technologies that have changed the field of employee data processing and therefore impacting the ...
Cloud technology options towards Free Flow of Data: A whitepaper from the DPSP Cluster
By Paolo Balboni 20 Jun 2017 Cloud Computing, DPSP Cluster, Privacy, Privacy and data protection Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, DPSP Cluster, Privacy in the Cloud	Permalink 0
I am part of the DPSP Cluster, focused on Data Protection, Security and Privacy in the Cloud. The Cluster is a result of the first call of H2020 LEIT WP2014-2015 which provided a number of grants for research on privacy in the cloud, data protection and data security. The whitepaper looks at technology solutions that the projects in the ...
David and Goliath: the GDPR and regulating the data-centric society
By Paolo Balboni 08 Jun 2017 Corporate Social Responsibility, GDPR, Privacy, Privacy and data protection Data Protection, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, OOH, Out Of Home	Permalink 0
One year from the direct applicability of the new European Privacy Regulation... "Regulating the internet giants: The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data" published in the May 6th 2017 edition of The Economist explains the enormous power that Internet companies have due to their control over data. It rightly describes that "uantity ...
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Draft Opinion on ePrivacy
By Paolo Balboni 30 May 2017 ePrivacy, Privacy, Privacy and data protection ePrivacy	Permalink 0
The Draft Opinion from Rapporteur MEP Kaja Kallas (ITRE) welcomes the change of legal instrument from a Directive to a Regulation, the extension of its scope, and the Commission's attempt to be technologically neutral, but proposes several amendments to the Draft ePrivacy Regulation. Specific qualms from the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy include provisions on tracking and ...
Italian DPA Releases video on #GDPR stressing privacy as a right
By Paolo Balboni 26 May 2017 DPA, Garante Privacy, GDPR, Privacy, Privacy and data protection Garante, GDPR, La protezione dei dati è un diritto di libertà, Video	Permalink 0
Watch the video in Italian here.
The Italian DPA issued its first guidelines on the GDPR
By Paolo Balboni 11 May 2017 DPA, Garante Privacy, GDPR, Privacy, Privacy and data protection Garante Privacy, GDPR, Guidelines	Permalink 0
My article published on Lexology. Scenario On 28 April the Italian Data Protection Authority ("Garante") issued its first guidance on the new provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), consisting of a schematic overview of the changes in the current legal framework and recommendations on how to face them. The Garante focused on six specific aspects: Lawfulness ...
DIGITAL OUT-OF-HOME (DOOH) ADVERTISING AND THE FUTURE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
By Paolo Balboni 29 Apr 2017 Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Privacy, Privacy and data protection CSR, Data protection by design, Digital advertising, DOOH	Permalink 0
Have you ever heard of Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) advertising? Probably not, but it has most likely seen you, without your consent and without you even realizing it. The world of advertising has made incredible progress thanks to the digitalization of something as simple as the billboard. Shopping malls, airports and train stations are full of strategically ...
Complementing the GDPR: The ePrivacy Regulation Part I
By Paolo Balboni 20 Apr 2017 ePrivacy, GDPR, Privacy, Privacy and data protection ePrivacy	Permalink 0
This is the first blog of a series of posts which will explore aspects of the ePrivacy Regulation adopted on 10 January 2017 which aims to provide stronger privacy protections in electronic communications. On 10 January 2017 the European Commission adopted the Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (the Draft ePrivacy Regulation) concerning ...


We will be at The Lakes Region Farmers' Market Christmas Fair at the Poultney High School Gym, in Poultney, Vermont Friday and Saturday, Novermber 27th and 28th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be all sorts of interesting home and folk arts there. It is an event NOT to miss!! There is no entry fee and it is a great place to do some of your Christmas shopping!!


Show off your Dog Bones. Here is a set of Dog Bones you can place ANYWHERE you want. The 5 decals are cut from vinyl and has a permanent adhesive backing. complete set shown is aprx 8z" x 12".
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Q: Passing variable into different functions I'm having trouble getting the value of a variable I calculate elsewhere to work in another function. I know I'm missing something obvious, but not sure what. Here's what my code looks like:
var total_count;
    function getDistances() {
    $.getJSON('https://something.com', function(data){
       var total_count = data.rows[0].count; //this is the correct value for total_count
    });
    $.getJSON('https://anotherthing.com', function(data){
      d1_1 = [];
      var limit = 4;

       $.each(data.rows, function(index, item){
         if(index > limit)
           return false;
         console.log(total_count); //This is undefined
         d1_1.push([Math.round((item.count/total_count*100)*100)/100,index]);
         //because total_count is undefined here, I get NaNs
       });
   });

A: You can do something like below.
function getDistances() {
    $.getJSON('https://something.com', function (data1) {
        var total_count = data1.rows[0].count;
        $.getJSON('https://anotherthing.com', function (data) {
            d1_1 = [];
            var limit = 4;

            $.each(data.rows, function (index, item) {
                if (index > limit) return false;
                console.log(total_count);
                d1_1.push([Math.round((item.count / total_count * 100) * 100) / 100, index]);
            });

        });
    });

A: You need to undeclare total_count a second time:
var total_count = data.rows[0].count;//var total_count has been declared

change to
total_count = data.rows[0].count;

A: You've already declared total_count outside of
function getDistances() {
$.getJSON('https://something.com', function(data){
              var total_count = data.rows[0].count; //this is the correct value for total_count
    });

Because of the scope change, the value gets assigned to the inner total_count rather than the outer one.
So in summary, the code should be:
var total_count;
function getDistances() {
$.getJSON('https://something.com', function(data){
              total_count = data.rows[0].count; //this is the correct value for total_count
    });

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Charity talk to Sid Vale Rotary
SID Vale Rotary Club enjoyed a talk given by a member of a charity close to the group s heart earlier this week. David Guy, a representative of ShelterBox, spoke to the club at their meeting at the Blue Ball on Monday evening about the importance of the
SID Vale Rotary Club enjoyed a talk given by a member of a charity close to the group's heart earlier this week.
David Guy, a representative of ShelterBox, spoke to the club at their meeting at the Blue Ball on Monday evening about the importance of the charity and how their fund-raising makes a difference.
A massive 55% of its income comes from money raised by Rotary Clubs world-wide.
John Rush, a Rotary Club member, said: "David and a team of volunteers from Shelterbox tour the area and provide information and updates on the work of the charity.
"For instance, at the meeting on Monday we heard information on the 'School Box' which provides temporary schooling facilities in areas where no other accommodation is available.
"This information is important not only for Rotary Clubs but any other organization which may be raising funds."
David explained the West Country Rotary charity, is currently stretched to its limits as four teams work around the clock to provide the life-saving equipment to those who need it most.
The charity is now urgently seeking funds to enable it to provide aid for those affected. To find out more information about ShelterBox visit www.shelterbox.org.
Sid Vale and Sidmouth Rotary clubs will be in the Market Place on Wednesday fundraising for the 'Tree of Light' collection in support of local charities.
Paget and Derryman star as Sidbury defeatist closest rivals for divisional honour
Ottery win derby meting with Honiton and stay top with five games remaining
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Francis S. Chase discusses education, art, and science ; part 2
BROADCAST: Dec. 30, 1964 | DURATION: 00:11:53
Francis S. Chase discusses education, art, and science. Chase also discusses creativity, human behavior, and technology among other topics.
Studs Terkel So a man because man is considered a thing to consume, thus we have planned obsolescence. The car of last year is no longer good this year. And so man is like, you know, the Strasbourg goose the geese of Strasbourg. You know, a funnel is put in their mouths and they're stuffed and stuffed and stuffed with food until they die. The liver expands this becomes pate de foie gras. So man is like the Strasburg goose in a way is he not?
Francis Chase That's a very good analogy.
Studs Terkel It's funneled in again what's the purpose? Who is man? I mean this goes back to man as against the thing we come back to this again. You spoke of a new literature and you mentioned several of the books of one reviewed just as Panorama last week carried the literary supplement of The Daily News carried an excerpt of your magnificent talk. It got reviewed by by Lauren [Barrets?] of a book by that you mentioned in your talk the Technological Society by Jacques Ellul and he's quite pessimistic about this.
Francis Chase He's very, I've read that recently and he's an interesting writer and he claims not to be entirely pessimistic, but the whole tone of his treatment is pessimistic. And he makes statements that I think are not supported by the evidence that he gives. And actually, he's almost as as pessimistic as Friedrich Junger who wrote on the failure of technology. But all three of these, at least two and and Norbert Weiner himself was concerned with one aspect of our modern technology and that is the enormous rate at which it uses up the raw materials of the universe. This goes faster and faster. We we can now use low-grade ores that we couldn't use before. We're developing synthetics. But nobody knows how long this process can go on, whether we can use up the basic resources of the earth. And most of these people including Weiner feel it's a foolish optimism to feel that we can go on and on using up the iron and the manganese and the magnesium the aluminum. The aluminum is the most nearly inexhaustible, I suppose, of these metals. And the water resources and so on without some care for the future. Now the a lot of people are very much concerned about passing on a burden of debt to the unborn generations. It seems to me we ought to be equally concerned about passing on a deficit of the resources which would make life pleasant and tolerable for those who come after-
Studs Terkel Because as you're saying this, you know, the challenge seems overwhelming. Yet, you don't feel you don't feel as Ellul and Younger feel do you?
Francis Chase No, because I have a kind of old-fashioned even 18th-century faith in the fact that if man can be helped to understand he can exercise some controls. Now, this is is quite old-fashioned, but I think if one looks at man he sees aspirations in all kinds of people, even those whose record of behavior isn't very good. And if we work a little bit harder on how to release these aspirations and give them free play and to change those conditions which make man hostile to his fellow man. In other words, I I think that that human reason can be applied as readily to creating conditions which give free to the playfulness, capriciousness, the reflective aspect of man's nature, as to those aspects of man's nature which are satisfied by material goods.
Studs Terkel I know that Dr. Bronowski shares your feeling. This is this is not so much optimism in the sense as you say old-fashioned optimism that is so greatly needed today, but not so much that as a certain truth that man does. If man can create all this certainly certainly he can create a world that is fit for man.
Francis Chase Now I'm not talking about a utopian condition. I'm not talking about a world that is going to be entirely free from conflict. Fact, if that's all we wanted maybe technology is the way to do it. But this would mean eliminating from man many of his impulses which give him the greatest joy, exhilaration. Somethin' I was readin' yesterday something in the magazine Daedalus about exuberance of these earlier scientists and Bronowski was talking about that. And William James a psychologist talked about the way in which the creative mind throws up thousands of ideas and then selects only a few to work with and the richness of of this. These perhaps come from the subconscious, from previous experience, from all sorts of external stimuli. James thought, and a great many others have thought that this was something that was open only to very few people. This is not clear that is it's not clear that if children had the kind of environment that led them to exercise their imagination to ask the fruitful question to carry on the dialogue with others around them that we might not develop that kind of richness of intellectual life and a great many more people.
Studs Terkel Freeing freeing that just, you used the word exuberance. Joy perhaps too is this. It's the absence of this or the suppression of this which you call you said if caprice might become downright subversive and indeed contemplation might this is connected with exuberance, with joy-
Francis Chase Yes I think- that
Studs Terkel that one senses. As a friend of mine a British director named Joan Littlewood, Dean Chase. She speaks of this is her raison d'etre really. She looks for this in her productions. She looks for it in bars. She perhaps romanticizes but it is she says it's there. It's there if only we can what get our values in one way or another straightened out as to who's more important the man or the thing, I suppose. Dean Chase perhaps one last thing, well there are several, but in in your talk to you, you spoke of a certain cartoon that was funny but that disturbed number of people in which the machine is going. A cartoonist the new computer technology one encounters one encounters terms previously used to note human characteristics the machine: memory, learning, thinking, even feeling. Is that a cartoonist a picture, a computer including among us. Output the phrase cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am. It occurred to me that sum could be pronounced with a short M. Cogito ergo sum. Just so.
Francis Chase Alluding to this characteristic desire on the part of many of the people who think this way to quantify
Studs Terkel Yes.
Francis Chase If it doesn't, if it can't be handled by binary mathematics, why it isn't any use.
Studs Terkel Well Dean Chase, our guest Dean Francis Chase. Based upon, by the way is this talk of yours available? This is a copy I have. I'm sure, are there, has the university, is the university putting out copies of this, you know. 'Cause I'm sure a great many listeners would probably like to-
Francis Chase It it's it's been suggested it might be published in one of the magazines at the University, but I'm not sure of this. I think it's being considered.
Studs Terkel Well, if if it does ever come out I know there will be questions in the audience. I know that right after this broadcast is your talk available in in in in printed form. We let them know as soon as it is. Dean Chase it is in defense of caprice, and the caprice that Dean's talking about is not I know he says caprice conjoined with order and a discipline, of course. You're not talking now about the artists who were in rebelling [viled?] at all disciplines either that which is called the irresponsible arts. You mentioned that somewhere to caprice for the sake of caprice is just as evil as order for the sake of order.
Francis Chase When it becomes the usual it has lost its usefulness.
Studs Terkel Yes yes yes. Again the service of man. Anything else you'd care to say? Do you just-we haven't any bases we haven't touched that are on your mind at this moment?
Francis Chase Well, the thing that that I'm trying to think through in my own way is the relationship between technology and education and science. And it seems [match striking] to me that we have to fuse in education all of these aspects of culture. The older humanistic culture, which gives man a sense of continuity was a long struggle of mankind. His aspirations and his tragedies, his defeats, and his victories. And with the new scientific modes of inquiry, which has given us a new way of testing ideas and hypotheses and verifying the way that it gives them a wider acceptability than the older ways of knowing. But then we also must help people to understand the nature of this technology so that our system generally may see that human controls are possible and can be inserted for humane ends. And the ways in which this can be worked out, parts of a continuing concern with me. I don't think we have to be the victims of our own technology. I think we can again assert our mastery over it.
Studs Terkel Dean Francis S. Chase former Dean of, isn't that right of the Graduate School of Education of the University of Chicago.
Francis Chase Yes.
Studs Terkel And this is not a play, it's just a comment, really, for us to understand ourselves our connection with past. We we we are not, we don't live in a vacuum with a history of man and his development for humane ends he said. Perhaps not too far removed from what Erich Fromm once said what is cry-a crying need for today is a renaissance of humanism in a way, the un-do do you subscribe to that?
Francis Chase Yes, yes I do. But I think it must be a humanism that takes full account of the conditions of modern man which, after all, appreciably changed from even 50 years ago.
Studs Terkel So thus, there's a challenge unprecedented really. A man has always had this challenge. A challenge, man is on the threshold of being even more in understanding himself through his progress being even more human than ever possible understanding himself or becoming like the machine. The challenge that Dean Chase asks us to face to look at to think about and I hope to do about. Thank you very much Francis Chase.
Francis Chase Thank you. I enjoyed talking with you.
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Wolfgang Rubsam discusses his career as an organist and Associate Professor of church music at Northwestern University
Interview with Professor Adolph Baker, Professor Jurgen Hinze, Professor Richard Lewenton and Father William Wallace ; part 2
Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, educator & author discusses his book "The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes"
Peter van der Linde discusses his book "Time Bomb"
Micheál Mac Liammóir discusses his show "The Importance of Being Oscar"; part 2


Welsh Conservatives have called on the Welsh Labour Government to develop a new strategy to boost Welsh exports to North America. The calls come as new Welsh Government statistics revealed a sharp decline in exports to the region since figures were first collected in 2012.
Shadow Education Secretary, Russell George, raised the figures during Economy Questions this afternoon, highlighting an 'over-reliance' on Welsh exports to the European Union.
For the United Kingdom as a whole, just under a half of all exports go to EU nations (49.4%), but that figure is significantly higher in Wales. For the 12 months up to and including September 2016, exports to the EU accounted for 67.7% of the all exports; compared to just 44.6% during 2012.
Over the same period, exports to North America declined starkly – from 26.8% of all Welsh exports in 2012, to just 15.4% during the year to date.
There is some good news in the figures, and Mr George, welcomed a modest rise (1.6%) in the volume of all exports during the year to date: from £8,829,000,000 in the first three quarters of 2015, to £8,976,000,000.
Mr George said that the figures suggested a welcome resilience in the Welsh economy, but urged the Welsh Labour Government to make developing trade with North America a top priority for 2017.
"In recent years the First Minister has made a number of high profile trade missions to North America, and yet trade with the region has fallen dramatically since 2012.
"It's clear that the Labour Government's approach is failing, and the over-reliance of the Welsh economy on exports to the EU is becoming a significant problem at a time when we have an opportunity to broaden the markets to whom we export.
"Whilst the EU accounts for around 49% of all UK exports, more than two-thirds of all Welsh exports are to Europe which suggests a wider issue with the Welsh Government's economic approach.


Keurig has been the king of the coffee pod revolution, letting people brew their own hot beverages at the press of a button. Now the company is hoping to do the same thing for cold drinks—though the battle to win over consumers may be harder this time around.
No, Keurig hasn't forgotten about competitors like SodaStream. What makes this product truly a "first" isn't its ability to carbonate drinks, but to make drinks cold. "The innovative KOLD chiller uses an aerospace-inspired thermal transfer system to rapidly cool beverages to the ideal chilled temperature," the brand boasts.
Another leg up Kold has on the competition is that it doesn't need a CO2 canister to carbonate. Instead, the system "uniquely uses Karbonator beads, which are contained within the pod and hold beverage-grade CO2. During the drink making process, CO2 is naturally released into the beverage to perfectly carbonate each drink." The marketing department must have had a field day naming all these trademarked systems.
Outside of that, Keurig can also hang their hat on partnerships with Coca-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple, meaning the appliance is launching with pods for Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Fanta, Dr Pepper and Canada Dry. They also have all sorts of private label brands to make things like sports drinks and iced teas.
However, if the idea of a fresh-made, instantly cold soda isn't appealing, Keurig doesn't offer much more to encourage you to get on board. With a suggested retail price of $369.99, the system isn't cheap to buy, and the pods are pricey too: between $4.49 and $4.99 for a four-pack. That's over a dollar a pop for drinks that come in only eight-ounce servings. You can get a whole two liters of Coke for that price. And unless you are painfully short on fridge space, keeping your cola cold usually isn't a big deal.
Coffee inherently needs to be brewed and tastes best when it's still hot and fresh. Cold drinks, on the other hand, have yet to prove they require as much urgency. In fact, just sitting around is how a lot of things go cold to begin with. Plus, it doesn't help that soda in general, be it sugary or diet, has been seeing a lot of backlash recently. It'll be interesting to see whether Keurig has any tricks up their sleeve to really get Keurig Kold moving off shelves.