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Queering The Census: What's At Stake for LGBTQ+ Communities As The Clock Winds Down?
By Stefanie Ritoper
Published Aug 31, 2020 1:21 PM
When she learned her grandchild Lance (center) was transgender, Maria Quezada (right) found support at her local PFLAG chapter at El Centro de Ayuda in Boyle Heights. Funding for these programs is part of what's at stake in the 2020 Census. (Courtesy of Maria Quezada)
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Maria Quezada had always known her grandchild Lance to be a girl. But then one day, Lance told her, "Grandma, I'm a boy."
Quezada had a hard time understanding this. While she was familiar with what it meant to be lesbian or gay, she didn't know anyone else who was transgender.
"[He said], I'm a boy from my soul, my spirit, from the inside," Quezada says. "And that was it for me. It wasn't my job to try to understand any longer. My job right there and then was to accept."
It was a journey for Quezada to get from a place of learning to acceptance. A big part of what helped was joining her local Spanish-language chapter of PFLAG, which supports parents, families, and allies of people who identify as LGBTQ+. The group gathers at El Centro de Ayuda in Boyle Heights, which provides human services to low income families residing in Northeast Los Angeles.
She said that she knew many fellow Latinos who weren't very accepting of LGBTQ+ people, but this group was different.
"It was so wonderful to walk into this group in my neighborhood," she said. "We're all Latinos and everybody is coming together to embrace. And that is where I found comfort and my safe space."
Services like Quezada's support group are part of what's at stake in this year's census for LGBTQ+ communities. U.S. Census data determines federal funding for schools, hospitals, and a wide range of social programs.
Nonprofits like El Centro and PFlag also rely on census data to petition for funding, to expand their services to vulnerable populations, and to educate policymakers about the populations they serve.
Earlier this year the pandemic upended outreach efforts, especially in-person outreach, with community organizations having to cancel events.
Now, with a month left to go in the decennial count after the Trump administration moved up the census deadline to Sept. 30, LGBTQ+ community members are still working hard to get out the word about participation, and what's at stake.
Advocates say that the census is a way to have a voice in how federal dollars are spent locally and in government representation. Chris Records (left) and Marisa London with Equality California speak with students and young people at the Models of Pride event in 2019. (Courtesy of Equality California)
Those who are LGBTQ+ experience huge disparities in income, health, housing, and more. According to one UCLA study, 22% of LGBTQ+ people are living in poverty, compared with 16% of cisgender straight people, and 9% of LGBTQ+ people above the age of 16 are unemployed. A striking 20% to 45% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ+.
LGBTQ+ people are also more likely to be uninsured and experience discrimination in health care, housing, and employment. In fact, one out of five LGBTQ+ people are enrolled in a social safety net program: According to the same data from UCLA, 27% of those who are gay, lesbian and bisexual use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), colloquially known as food stamps, compared with 20% of non-LGBQT+ respondents.
"It's estimated that 1.17 million LGBTQ-plus people between the ages of 18 and 64 are using Medicaid as their primary form of insurance," said Amira Hasenbush, an attorney who works with LGBT families on legal issues like name changes, surrogacy and adoption. "And for trans folks, there are 18 states and the District of Columbia that include gender affirming care and Medicaid."
These statistics are a big part of why LGBTQ+ advocates are concerned about participation in the 2020 Census. The data gathered determines political representation and funding for key social services for the next 10 years, among other things.
"The census is a way to be heard. It is having a voice in how federal money is spent on programs that are important to your community," said Beatriz Valenzuela, press secretary of Equality California, a statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. "It is also having a voice in government representation, especially right now when so many marginalized communities, especially the LGBTQ+ community, seem to be under constant attack."
According to L.A. County officials, each person not counted in the decennial census represents an estimated loss of $2,000 per person each year. That's a $20,000 loss per person for schools, community programs, infrastructure, and hospitals over a decade.
With California home to the largest LGBTQ+ population in the country, the local stakes are particularly high.
"This isn't something that we can do next year," Valenzuela of Equality California said. "No, this will shape how money is spent and how our voices are heard in government for the next 10 years. We will not be able to do anything about it until 2030."
THE CENSUS QUESTIONS THAT WEREN'T
In spite of efforts to add one, this year's census still lacks questions directly asking about sexual orientation and gender identity. The 2020 Census, like most censuses of decades past, has just two boxes to check for "sex" on the census: male and female.
LGBTQ+ advocates have pushed for years to include sexual orientation and gender identity on the U.S. Census. Towards the end of the Obama administration, there was a moment it seemed like there would be a change. Seventy-eight members of Congress and four federal agencies petitioned the Census Bureau to include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Census Bureau was getting ready to begin a process of testing questions when, in 2017, the Trump administration effectively put an end to the process. Under Jeff Sessions' new leadership, the Department of Justice rescinded its review request, and the Census Bureau let it go.
One thing has changed though: This year's census includes an option for same-sex couples to identify either as spouses or unmarried partners. The 2010 Census included a question to identify a partner as husband/wife or unmarried partner. For 2020, the census has expanded this to allow people to identify partners as a "same-sex" or "opposite sex" husband/wife/spouse or unmarried partner.
According to UCLA's Williams Institute, however, only about 20% of LGBTQ+ people are living in cohabiting households, leaving the majority out of the count.
Some people who would not be visible in the data collected are people who are single, trans, bisexual and in a different sex relationship, or living in multigenerational or non-traditional households. For example, a same-sex couple might decide to live with one of their parents while they raise their kids. If the grandparent is the head of household who is filling out the census, she will indicate that she is living with her child and child-in-law, and not be able to mark the couple as same sex partners.
But it's at least something, advocates say. Now the trick is getting people to respond, no easy feat amid the pandemic and shortened time frame.
Even though the 2020 Census doesn't have ways for people to identify as LGBTQ+, advocates say it's important for people to be counted as part of their respective communities to get needed funding for services. Photo from march in defense of DACA in November 2019. (Courtesy of Equality California)
WHY THE NEED TO FILL IT OUT?
For those who do identify as same-sex spouses or unmarried partners, being counted is a big deal for services for those raising families. According to UCLA's Williams institute, 114,000 LGBTQ+ people are raising children under 18.
Amira Hasenbush, a lawyer who works with LGBTQ+ families around adoption, surrogacy and other alternative methods, says these parents are more likely to be raising children under challenging conditions.
"LGBT couples raising children are two times more likely to have a household income near the poverty threshold than different sex couples raising children," she says.
Many same-sex couples raising kids are also adoptive or foster parents. Same sex couples are far more likely to adopt than different sex couples. In fact, nearly a quarter of them are raising foster or adopted children.
Here is how census data matters to these families: Some $5.4 billion in federal spending goes into the foster care system every year. That money helps LGBTQ+ children in foster care, who are disproportionately represented in the system.
And $2.9 billion in federal funding a year goes to adoption programs, mainly to fund adoptions of children with special needs.
Even for people not living with a partner, being counted as part of one's respective community still makes a huge difference.
"You don't have to prove your queerness to get money. You can just be a low-income person or low-income parents and that is enough to get a lot of different benefits that you need," said Hasenbush.
She said that since most funding is not directly linked to sexual orientation or gender identity, being counted matters for funding any program that one might use: "And so while [tracking sexual orientation and gender identity] would certainly be able to explain a lot more about the lived experiences of LGBT people, for the time being, filling out the census still means you're counted."
The Source LGBT+Center doing outreach in person earlier this year, in February 2020. Noah Deeds (right) says that if not for the pandemic, they would have used in-person tactics to reach historically undercounted populations. (Courtesy of The Source LGBT+ Center)
OKAY, SO HOW DO I FILL OUT MY CENSUS FORM?
For the first time this year, people can fill out the census online. It includes nine questions about the head of household and seven questions about each additional household member.
The head of household will see a question about sex that has just two possible responses, "male" or "female." If you don't fill out all questions, your census form will still count, census officials have said. Advocates say that you can opt to skip this question. You should know however, that the U.S. Census Bureau may cross-check databases to fill in the blanks for you.
It's also worth noting that for this and all other data on the census, it is against the law for the U.S. Census Bureau to share identifying information with any other agency.
For same-sex couples who are living together, when describing other members of your household, you will be able to indicate their relationship to you. You are able to mark your partner as a same-sex husband/wife/spouse or unmarried partner. If you have or are caring for any children, you can also indicate them as biological, adopted, or foster children.
With limited in-person options available, advocates have had to get creative with outreach. Latino Equality Alliance hosted an online townhall about the census in April 2020. (Courtesy of Latino Equality Alliance)
A RACE AGAINST TIME, WITH PANDEMIC AS BACKDROP
As the clock ticks down to the recently revised census end date on Sept. 30, advocates are working hard to get out the word about participation.
The pandemic took away the most effective ways that these groups have used to reach traditionally undercounted communities: in-person events and outreach. Community organizations that serve LGBTQ+ people have had to get creative.
Since April, The Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia has been organizing virtual census "happy hours" that have featured local organizations, artists, and community leaders. API Equality-LA, which serves LGBTQ+ Asian American and Pacific Islanders, transitioned early to text and phone banking and created PSAs and infographics for Instagram and other online platforms.
Latino Equality Alliance hosted an online townhall geared toward Southeast Los Angeles residents, including poetry and a drag performance, and the group has participated in caravans and mobile concerts in collaboration with the City of Huntington Park. In this last stretch, they are looking for volunteers for door-to-door outreach in high density areas.
Advocates say they expect response rates to be low, given the limited ability to reach people in person. But they say they will continue to push for participation until the end date, because the census is critically important -- especially during a pandemic.
"Right now we're seeing full scale the importance of these services that we often take for granted. A lot of people are relying on public services right now for help," said Noah Deeds of The Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia.
"[Participating in the census] is not going to prevent anything like this happening," he said, "but it could make sure that our communities are a little bit better guarded for something like this in the future."


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Organizer Jeremy Harrell, a veteran who served in Iraq, says isolation can be just as deadly an enemy for service members as terrorists.
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Harrell says the Veteran's Club works with the VA, and has internal programs, to help military members work through trauma.
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Q: How to run a MongoDB query in Golang with $cond I try to run a MongoDB query in Golang and getting some errors.
I would like to update the field "expiresAt" with a new timestamp if the field "section.gateBack" is equal to 0.
The data model looks like this:
{
  "_id": "78b0e7de-c24c-11eb-8529-0242ac130003",
  "expiresAt": "2021-04-22T14:06:55.069Z",
  "section": {
    "gateFront": 1,
    "gateMiddle": 1,
    "gateBack": 0
  }
}

In the first try I wrote the query like I do other (simple) $set-operations but this time with $cond to work with if-else:
filter := bson.M{
    "_id": iD,
}

update := bson.M{
    "$set": bson.M{
        "expiresAt": bson.M{
            "$cond": bson.M{
                "if": bson.M{
                    "$and": []bson.M{
                        {"section.gateBack": bson.M{"$eq": 0}},
                        {"section.gateBack": bson.M{"$exists": true}},
                    },
                },
                "then": time.Now().AddDate(0, 1, 0),
                "else": time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 1),
            },
        },
    },
}

res, err := s.coll.UpdateOne(
    ctx,
    filter,
    update,
)

But with this update-operation I get the following error:
multiple write errors: [{write errors: [{The dollar ($) prefixed field '$cond' in 'expiresAt.$cond' is not valid for storage.}]}, {<nil>}]

I found a question on MongoDB developers side which says that the update-value has to be an array:
https://developer.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongoerror-the-dollar-prefixed-field-cond-in-energy-cond-is-not-valid-for-storage/16448
This makes sense when I read the official documentation of MongoDB for the operation UpdateOne() with Aggregation pipeline:
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/method/db.collection.updateOne/#example-2
So I have changed my update value and append it to an array of bson.M:
filter := bson.M{
    "_id": iD,
}

var pipeline []bson.M

update := bson.M{
    "$set": bson.M{
        "expiresAt": bson.M{
            "$cond": bson.M{
                "if": bson.M{
                    "$and": []bson.M{
                        {"section.gateBack": bson.M{"$eq": 0}},
                        {"section.gateBack": bson.M{"$exists": true}},
                    },
                },
                "then": time.Now().AddDate(0, 1, 0),
                "else": time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 1),
            },
        },
    },
}
pipeline = append(pipeline, update)

res, err := s.coll.UpdateOne(
    ctx,
    filter,
    pipeline,
)

But now I get the error like this:
cannot transform type []primitive.M to a BSON Document: WriteArray can only write a Array while positioned on a Element or Value but is positioned on a TopLevel

I don't know how to build the operation to make it runnable.
My aim is to update the field expiresAt with different timestamps depending on the values of 'section'. I also want to make it more complex with nested if-else but should first work with simple conditions.
Something like this:
update := bson.M{
        "$set": bson.M{
            "expiresAt": bson.M{
                "$cond": bson.M{
                    "if": bson.M{
                        "$and": []bson.M{
                            {"section.gateBack": bson.M{"$eq": 0}},
                            {"section.gateBack": bson.M{"$exists": true}},
                        },
                    },
                    "then": time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 1),
                    "else": bson.M{
                        "$cond": bson.M{
                            "if": bson.M{
                                "$and": []bson.M{
                                    {"section.gateMiddle": bson.M{"$eq": 0}},
                                    {"section.gateMiddle": bson.M{"$exists": true}},
                                },
                            },
                            "then": time.Now().AddDate(0, 1, 0),
                            "else": ...,
                        },
                    },
                },
            },
        },
    }

Does someone know how to write an updateOne-operation in Golang which is working with if-else as $cond?

A: Use bson.A{bson.M{...}, bson.M{...}} instead of []bson.M{...} the mongo driver aliases map and slice types and looks for bson.M{} bson.A{} types when converting your query.

A: Sorry for the late reply. I totally forgot to post the solution.
Like @prasad_ was saying, I tried to use the switch-case operator, but with UpdateOne().
ctx := context.Background()

filter := bson.M{
    "_id": ID,
}

back := bson.M{
    "case": bson.M{
        "$and": []bson.M{
            {"$gt": []interface{}{"$section.gateBack", 0}},
            {"$exists": []interface{}{"$section.gateBack", true}},
        },
    },
    "then": time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 1),
}

middle := bson.M{
    "case": bson.M{
        "$and": []bson.M{
            {"$gt": []interface{}{"$section.gateMiddle", 0}},
            {"$exists": []interface{}{"$section.gateMiddle", true}},
        },
    },
    "then": time.Now().AddDate(0, 1, 0),
}

front := bson.M{
    "case": bson.M{
        "$and": []bson.M{
            {"$gt": []interface{}{"$section.gateFront", 0}},
            {"$exists": []interface{}{"$section.gateFront", true}},
            {"$in": []interface{}{"$section.access", []string{"gate", "door"}}},
        },
    },
    "then": time.Now().AddDate(1, 0, 0),
}

cases := bson.A{back, middle, front}

update := []bson.M{
    {
        "$set": bson.M{
            "expiresAt": bson.M{
                "$switch": bson.M{
                    "branches": cases,
                    "default":  time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 0),
                },
            },
        },
    },
}

res, err := coll.UpdateOne(
    ctx,
    filter,
    update,
)
if err != nil {
    return 0, err
}

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Q: How to Round up timestamp to number of Days? PreparedStatement psnmt=con.prepareStatement("SELECT (?)-(?) as DiffDate FROM dual");
psnmt.setTimestamp(1,ctenderdate);
psnmt.setTimestamp(2,btenderdate);
ResultSet resrt=psnmt.executeQuery();
if(!resrt.next())
{
     out.println("No Records Found");
}
else
{
  do
     {
        datediff=resrt.getString("DiffDate");
     }
  while(resrt.next());
  System.out.println("the no of days Difference"+datediff);

}

ctenderdate=2015-06-27 00:00:00.0
btenderdate=2015-06-29 00:00:00.0
datediff=1 10:18:51.940000000
Expected datediff=2

How to round it off datediff to number of days

A: EDIT
Subtract TIMESTAMP values
If we really want to subtract two TIMESTAMP values, then we have to work with the INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND datatype that's returned. The easiest way to work with that is to use the EXTRACT function.
If want to return integer number of days (emulating the CEIL function) then we could test whether any part of the time (HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND) was non-zero. If they are all zero, we can use just the DAY portion. Otherwise, we have to add 1 to the DAY portion, and return that.
For example:
  SELECT EXTRACT(DAY FROM diff.idts)
         + CASE
             WHEN EXTRACT(HOUR   FROM diff.idts) > 0
               OR EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM diff.idts) > 0
               OR EXTRACT(SECOND FROM diff.idts) > 0
             THEN 1
             ELSE 0
           END
         AS days_diff
    FROM ( SELECT ? - ? AS idts FROM dual ) diff

ORIGINAL ANSWER
For Oracle database, you can perform this operation in the database:
SELECT CEIL(TO_DATE(?,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.F')-TO_DATE(?,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.F'))
  FROM dual

This assumes the bind parameters are passed as strings, in format that matches the format model specified in the TO_DATE function, for example:
  '2015-06-27 14:45:21.0'

(I'm assuming Oracle because of the use of the dual table, and because you are using subtraction operation between two dates. You would need a different statement for a different database.)
To unpack that expression a little bit...
The Oracle TO_DATE function converts a character string into an Oracle DATE value.  The second argument is the format model, specifies that format of the first argument.
A subtraction operation between two DATE values returns the difference as a number of days (integer days plus fractional days.)
The CEIL function rounds a non-integer value up to the next higher integer.
FOLLOWUP
Q: how to use it with timestamp?
A: A subtraction of two TIMESTAMP values gets returned as an INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND datatype. And I'd prefer to avoid working with that.
In Oracle, when we do a subtraction of two DATE values, we get a decimal number. That's much easier to work with.
And in terms of "rounding" up a difference in days, I'm fine with disregarding fractional seconds.
If I had to pass in TIMESTAMP values, I would convert them to DATE values. The expressions above are already expecting string values, so I would just replace the ? with
 TO_CHAR(?,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')

If I had a requirement to pass in TIMESTAMP datatype, and return integer days difference rounded up, I would use a query like this:
 SELECT CEIL( TO_DATE(TO_CHAR( ? ,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'),'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
            - TO_DATE(TO_CHAR( ? ,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'),'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
        ) AS days_diff
  FROM dual

A: Check out this link. There are answers for results in hours or minutes. What you are looking for should be similar.
My bad. I should not post just-a-link-answers. What you can do, as described there is:
SELECT TRUNC (SYSDATE) - TO_DATE ('10/20/2012', 'mm/dd/yyyy') FROM DUAL;

Notice the following details:

ENDDATE - STARTDATE will give you a number that corresponds to the
  number of days between the two dates.
If you want the result in hours, multiply by 24; if minutes, multiply
  by 24*60 and so forth.
You can also convert the result to an INTERVAL. There are two type of
  intervals: NUMTODSINTERVAL(ENDDATE - STARTDATE, 'DAY') or
  NUMTOYMINTERVAL(ENDDATE - STARTDATE, 'DAY')


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Foxconn settles with workers who threatened mass suicide
The company says 150 of its workers were involved in the protest, of whom 45 apparently resigned rather than take the deal.
January 12, 2012 10:44 AM PST
Employees at a Foxconn factory in Wuhan, China, some of whom reportedly threatened to kill themselves over a wage and working-conditions dispute, have instead come to an agreement with the manufacturer.
Foxconn, which makes products for Apple, Microsoft, and others, said today that it had reached a deal with the protesting employees, the NYT reported. Most of those workers will return to work, although Foxconn also said that 45 workers involved in the dispute had resigned.
Earlier this month, workers at Foxconn's Xbox factory in China grew disgruntled after their requests for pay raises were denied. On January 2, the employees reportedly said they would stage a mass suicide--by jumping off the roof of the factory--if their demands were not met.
Microsoft took the threats seriously and immediately launched an internal investigation into the matter. Although that investigation is still ongoing, the company announced what Foxconn reiterated today, telling CNET that a deal had been reached.
"It is our understanding that the worker protest was related to staffing assignments and transfer policies, not working conditions," a Microsoft representative told CNET yesterday. "Due to regular production adjustments, Foxconn offered the workers the option of being transferred to alternative production lines or resigning and receiving all salary and bonuses due, according to length of service. After the protest, the majority of workers chose to return to work. A smaller portion of those employees elected to resign."
Over the last two years, at least 16 Foxconn employees have committed suicide in the company's Shenzhen, China factory. Three other workers attempted to kill themselves at the factory. Those deaths have prompted the company to say that it will install "suicide nets" around the factory to discourage employees from jumping from buildings. Foxconn has also offered some workers a 20 percent wage increase to improve morale.
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She had been a sufferer for the past five months, but in all her suffering she was patient and cheerful. "Co" as she was familiarly known had a kind word for everyone, always ready to do her part, and such nerve and presences of mind as she manifested in her last hours is seldom seen. She called each member of the family and friends to her bedside and bade each one a last goodbye, begging them not to grieve for she was ready to go and wanted rest. She leaves a host of friends to mourn her loss.
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Q: Elementary proofs involving inequalities So the task of this exercise is to prove each statement.

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*$\forall a \in$ $\mathbb R$: Prove that $a^2 \ge 0$

Does it suffice to say that $a^2 \gt 0$ or $a^2 = 0$, which means that $a \gt 0$ or $a \lt 0$, or $a= 0$?

*$\forall a,b,c \in \mathbb{R}$: $ a \lt b$ and $b \lt c$ $\Rightarrow$ $a \lt c$

Isn't this statement just self-explanatory?

*$\forall a,b \in \mathbb R^{-}$: $a \lt b$ $\Rightarrow$ $a^2 \gt b^2$

I've written that if you multiply both sides with each other that the order reverses. Should that be enough?

*$\forall a,b \in \mathbb R^{+}: a \lt b \Rightarrow a^{2} \lt b^{2}$

This is just the opposite of statement n°3. So the order remains because you multiplie both sides respectively with $a$ and $b$.

*$\forall a,b,c,d \in \mathbb R: a \lt b$ and $ c \lt d \Rightarrow a + c \lt b + d$

I don't know how to prove this one but just like statement 2 I think this is just self-explanatory.

*$\forall a,b,c,d \in \mathbb R: a \lt b$ and $ c \lt d \Rightarrow a-d \lt b-c $

Same with statements 2 and 5.

*$\forall a,b \in \mathbb R_0^ {+}: a \lt b \Rightarrow a^{-1} \gt b^{-1}$

Here the reason why the order reverses is because of the fact that the absolute value of $b \gt a$ which means that if you take reciprocical $ \frac 1b \lt \frac 1a$

*$\forall a,b \in \mathbb R_0^-: a \lt b \Rightarrow a^{-1} \gt b^{-1}$

Same idea as statement 7 but only with negative real numbers.

*$\forall a,b,c,d \in \mathbb R^+: a \lt b$ and $ c\lt d \Rightarrow ac \lt bd$

Same with statements 2, 5 and 6.

*$\forall a,b,c,d \in \mathbb R^-: a \lt b$ and $c\lt d \Rightarrow ac \gt bd$

The absolute value of both $a$ and $c \gt b$ and $d$ which causes the order to reverse.
Could someone give me hints how to "prove" statements 2,5, 6 and maybe fill the gaps in other statements?

A: It looks like you want a rigorous proof based on axioms.
Let $\mathbb{R}^{+} \subset \mathbb{R}$ satisfying:

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*For $a \in \mathbb{R}$, exactly one of the following holds: $a \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$; $-a \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$; or $a = 0$ (The trichotomy law)

*$a,b \in \mathbb{R}^{+} \Rightarrow a + b \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$ (Closed under addition)

*$a,b \in \mathbb{R}^{+} \Rightarrow ab \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$ (Closed under multiplication)

(In these definitions, 'closure' means you stay within the set which both elements are taken from. For example, $\mathbb{Z}$ is closed under multiplication since $a \times b \in \mathbb{Z}$ for any $a,b \in \mathbb{Z}$. But it is not closed under division, since $\frac{3}{4} \notin \mathbb{Z}$. If a set is not closed under some operation, it means you can 'get outside' the set using that operation on elements from the set.)
Then we may call $\mathbb{R}^{+}$ the positive numbers and say $a>0$ means $a \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$
Now, for something like your statement $`a \in \mathbb{R} \Rightarrow a^{2} > 0'$, we could give a rigorous proof case by case.

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*$a = 0 \Rightarrow a^{2} = 0\times 0 = 0$

*$a \in \mathbb{R}^{+} \Rightarrow a\times a \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$ by multiplicative closure

*$ -a \in \mathbb{R}^{+} \Rightarrow (-a) \times (-a) = a \times a \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$, again by multiplicative closure.

For this third case, you will want to have a proof handy that $(-a) \times (-b) = a\times b$, of course!
These kinds of very fundamental proofs can seem a bit heavy handed at first, but really it is important to be detailed and rigorous or else more advanced mathematics is built on shaky foundations.
Additional example:
Prove that $a<b, c<d \Rightarrow a+c < b+d$
By definition, $b-a \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$ and $d-c \in \mathbb{R}^{+}$. We have
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 & (b-a) + (d-c) \in \mathbb{R}^{+} \,\, \text{by closure} \\
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Q: Redirect/Security Issue With Website Link I'm running into a rather annoying problem with my website.
I have a valid SSL certificate running on my domain but every time I try to manually access a certain page from my website it appears as non-ssl.
If I browse the pages starting from my homepage they all appear to be fine but if I  go directly to a page the browser tells me that is not secured.
The odd thing is that this only happens when I type the link without "https/https" and www. Ex: "mywebsite.com/my-page".
If I'm entering "www" before the domain name or http/https it redirects to the secure version.
As a side note, I'm using WordPress as my CMS.
I would highly appreciate the help.
Thank you.

A: You can force https by adding the following to your htaccess file:
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Dick's Sporting Goods might stop selling guns. Data shows this won't hurt the chain
The debate over gun legislation has led to a lot of chatter and just as many quiet CEOS. That is, except Ed Stack of Dick's Sporting Goods, who may be the first store to do something about retail guns.
Jared Russo
One of the largest sellers of firearms and ammunition in the nation, Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DCK), may bite the bullet and cease all sales of guns. According to an interview with CEO Ed Stack, sales numbers of firearms at Dicks aren't up to par, and the company may get out of their sales altogether. Actual numbers on gun sales won't be out until this Thursday's quarterly earnings call, but we're looking ahead to what all of this could mean.
We looked at the possible ramifications of a stop on all firearm sales, and from the data we saw a spike in Twitter follows after Dick's decided to drop assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. That was just two weeks after the tragic Stoneman Douglas shooting back in February 2018, and so far Stack is the only CEO to speak up and do something in lieu of gun violence.
That leads us to believe there isn't going to be a big enough backlash to hurt Dick's, because link sharing was already up-and-down over the last two years.
The biggest takeaway from the data was the same uptick in Facebook likes after the decision to halt assault rifle sales in early 2018, and things have been steady ever since. Whether the positive reaction was couched in the fact Dick's still sells handguns and shotguns still makes us wonder if this will be the start of a trend for other companies (like Walmart, who had its own tragic shooting in a store this month).
It looks like other than this potential pivot in strategy and PR, it's going to be a strong quarter for Dick's by all accounts. We'll let you know if anything drastic happens to them, or the data, as soon as it happens.
Thinknum tracks companies using information they post online - jobs, social and web traffic, product sales and app ratings - and creates data sets that measure factors like hiring, revenue and foot traffic. Data sets may not be fully comprehensive (they only account for what is available on the web), but they can be used to gauge performance factors like staffing and sales.
Gap job postings grow as its footprint fades
Nordstrom earnings loom - can the retailer fight off the retail apocalypse?
Target job postings slide, store count grows and the retailer takes on a new vertical
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The Sitting Sickness: Is It Silently Killing You?
If you've heard that life is movement, it's true. If you've heard that just sitting around can kill you, it's also true. Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide!
Could Just Thinking About Dessert Make You Gain Weight?
We've all heard this from a despairing dieter: "Just thinking about dessert (or pasta or bread or chocolate) makes me fat!" You may have said it yourself. But could it actually be true?
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Could Your New Year's Exercise Goals Make You Gain Weight?
Did you make a New Year's resolution to get to the gym more often in the hopes of slimming down? Science writer Gary Taubes suggests that the exercise habit might just keep some people fat.


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Ísbjörninn cold store's arrival reduces traffic
The arrival of HB Grandi's new Ísbjörninn refrigerated cold store at Nordurgardur has resulted in a reduction in freight traffic by road through the city of Reykjavík, with 110 fewer trips than usual so far this year. So far 1300 tonnes of frozen produce has been shipped out from the new cold store. The volume is equivalent to 55 containers, each containing 24-25 tonnes.
Before the new cold store was commissioned, trucks were used to transport containers from the Sundahöfn freight terminal to the Grandi area and back.
Landar ehf manages stevedoring services for HB Grandi, and according to managing director Reynir Daníelsson, the advent of the new Ísbjörninn cold store has ushered in a few changes.
'The cold store was commissioned on 1st of June last year and there were immediate changes to the way frozen products were stored and shipped. Before that, we had used trucks to move refrigerated containers through the centre of the city and out to the Grandi district where they were loaded. Then the containers had to be trucked back through the city centre to the Sundahöfn freight terminal to be shipped out. This has now reduced significantly the number of trucks passing along Mýrargata and Skúlagata,' Reynir Daníelsson said.


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EXCLUSIVE: Ray Liotta's distraught fiancée Jacy Nittolo returns home
EXCLUSIVE: Ray Liotta's distraught fiancée Jacy Nittolo, 47, appears visibly distressed as she returns to LA from Dominican Republic where star, 67, died in his sleep
Jacy Nittolo, Ray Liotta's fiancee, was seen on Friday morning returning to the home they shared in the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, 24 hours after his death in the Dominican Republic.
Ray Liotta, beloved star of Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, died in his sleep on Thursday while filming in the Dominican Republic.Ray Liotta, beloved star of Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, died in his sleep on Thursday while filming in the Dominican Republic.The legendary gangster actor passed away on the Caribbean island while he was recording Dangerous Waters.1.
His fiancée Jacy Nittolo, 47, was with him at the time: on Friday morning she returned to the home she shared with Liotta in Los Angeles.She was seen being helped to carry floral tributes into the house, looking sombre following her early morning flight home from the Caribbean.She was seen being helped to carry floral tributes into the house, looking sombre following her early morning flight home from the Caribbean.Nittolo and Liotta began dating in 2020 and got engaged in December of that year.It is not yet clear what he died of or when but he has left behind his fiance Jacy Nittolo as well as his daughter.The pair were set up by their children: Nittolo is a mother of four with her film producer ex-husband, while Liotta has a 23-year-old daughter with his ex-wife.The pair were set up by their children: Nittolo is a mother of four with her film producer ex-husband, while Liotta has a 23-year-old daughter with his ex-wife.
EXCLUSIVE: Ray Liotta's distraught fiancée Jacy Nittolo returns home Ray Liotta looks happy and healthy in selfie days before dying at 67 Kevin Costner pays tribute to Field of Dreams co-star Ray Liotta Jennifer Lopez pays heartbreaking tribute to 'partner in crime' Ray Liotta
She'll be bouncing up and down on some new fella by next week. The gravy train has jumped the rails… Understandable! Have you thought about giving her some privacy?
EXCLUSIVE: Ray Liotta's distraught fiancée Jacy Nittolo returns homeJacy Nittolo, Ray Liotta's fiancee, was seen on Friday morning returning to the home they shared in the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, 24 hours after his death in the Dominican Republic. so sweet of you to exploit that The hell you want her to do. Be happy/laughing and bouncing off the plane. What did you expect here to be fgs so show some respect and leave the woman alone.
Ray Liotta looks happy and healthy in selfie days before dying at 67The Goodfellas actor seemed in good condition as he graciously posed for a photo with a female fan on Sunday just four days before he suddenly passed away. He looks awful are kidding me lol
Kevin Costner pays tribute to Field of Dreams co-star Ray LiottaKevin Costner has paid a touching tribute to his Field of Dreams costar Ray Liotta, who died on Thursday at the age of 67, writing, 'Devastated to hear the news of Ray Liotta's passing.'
Jennifer Lopez pays heartbreaking tribute to 'partner in crime' Ray LiottaJennifer Lopez took to social media to share a heartbreaking tribute to former co-star and friend Ray Liotta
Jennifer Lopez shares tribute for Shades Of Blue co-star Ray Liotta'Ray was my partner in crime on Shades of Blue … the first thing that comes to mind is he was so kind to my children,' the fiancée of Ben Affleck began her note. 💔
Ray Liotta dies in his sleep in the Dominican Republic aged 67The legendary gangster actor passed away in bed at Casas del XVI in Zona Colonial on Thursday weeks after filming started on Dangerous Waters. Should have been his ass 6ft under. not ray what good actor gone 2 soon RIP 🙏
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Seems kind of a must and was unfortunately highlighted by the recent search plugin slaughter of 2.0.6.
Yes, this is a must. I have to put the "search pages" plugin into every WP site. Maybe an option to search comments could be included as well?
On the option page how about a Search section with three simple checkboxes: Posts, Pages, Comments.
That way each user can select exactly how much of the site is being searched.
Search needs a major overhaul and some improvements were made in 2.1, but yes, it'd be nice to have search be uber for 2.2 (operators, page searching, etc.).
Maybe a Search Results page that lists automatically Posts, Pages, and Comments. And allow plugins like Forums, Gallery, etc... to add option of additional things to search, posabbly even the whole web.
And be administered in Settings > Search in the back end.
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Ideally, I'd like the flexibility to either force searching of certain areas from a back-end config panel or include checkboxes under the public-facing search form so that visitors could decide for themselves.


The Obligations Group and the Centre for Corporate Law of Melbourne Law School invite you to join us in celebrating the launch by Justice Michelle Gordon, AC, of Dr Rosemary Teele Langford's book - Company Directors' Duties and Conflicts of Interest.
Company Directors' Duties and Conflicts of Interest provides detailed analysis on directors' duties arising under UK case law, codes and statutory regulation, with extensive reference to the law in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and New Zealand. The book provides comprehensive analysis of the conflicts faced by directors, including conflicts of duties, unauthorised profits, corporate opportunities, multiple directorships, nominee directorships, and conflicts involving stakeholders' interests. The author subjects difficult aspects of these topics to rigorous and original analysis informed by a range of common law jurisdictions. This extensive, multi-jurisdictional examination presents solutions to complex legal issues that have, to date, confounded courts and commentators alike and enables clarification of existing legal approaches. This is both a key reference work set in a practical legal context and an exhaustive and original theoretical re-assessment of this important and dynamic area of company law.
Dr Rosemary Teele Langford is an Associate Professor with the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, where she teaches a broad range of subjects including Corporations Law, Principles of Business Law and Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties. She has a first class honours degree in Law (as well as a Bachelor of Arts majoring in French and German) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Monash University. Prior to entering academia Rosemary practised with Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters). Rosemary edits the Directors' Duties section of the Company & Securities Law Journal and is on the advisory board of the SSRN eJournal, Fiduciary Law. She is an active member of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and the Not for Profit Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Rosemary has published and presented nationally and internationally on the topic of directors' duties. In June she will commence a three year project on governance and regulation of charities funded by an Australian Research Council grant.
Justice Michelle Gordon AC was appointed to the High Court of Australia in June 2015. At the time of her appointment, she was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, to which she was appointed in April 2007. She graduated in law from the University of Western Australia. She was admitted to practice in Western Australia in 1987 and joined the Victorian Bar in 1992. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003. She practised in state and federal courts principally in commercial, equity, taxation and general civil matters. She was appointed a Professorial Fellow of the Melbourne Law School in July 2015.


The Footprints Foundation is a UK based charity which was set up to help improve the lives of vulnerable people, young and old, around the world.
In 2007, the charity launched Project South Africa, an annual volunteering programme which puts hands on the ground rather than solely providing financial support.
This year, Craig Whelan, our New Business Manager is amongst those volunteers offering their help to orphanages and community care centres across the region.
Inspired by the Foundation's ethos of, 'be about doing something, not about being somebody', Craig and his wife, Adele, will visit a number of key sites supported by The Footprints Foundation.
The Footprints Foundations was originally launched by Seneca Director, Bob Holt, and Craig explained that Bob's presentation on the initiative played a big part in his involvement.
What is Project South Africa?
Project South Africa began in 2007 and has seen The Footprints Foundation taking back volunteers every year since. They support a number of South African orphanages and community centres in Benoni, Zenzeleni and Masibambane.
As with Craig and Adele, volunteers are a vital part of the project and many join the team each year to help assist with the ongoing maintenance and development of the partner projects.
Sithabile Youth & Child Care Centre | The Sithabile Youth & Child Care Centre is a non-profit community project that provides outstanding initiatives for local children and families.
Zenzeleni Village Centre | Managed and run by two sisters, Lucia and Lindi, the Zenzeleni Village Centre is a community-based orphanage which takes on the responsibility of feeding up to 400 children per day from nearby schools and villages.
It's no exaggeration to say that parts of the community would struggle without their services, making it such a worthy part of The Footprints Foundation project.
Little Angels Children's Home | This incredible social service is run by a 27-year-old woman who took over the orphanage after her mother passed away in 2006. Many children that use the facility are either HIV/AIDS orphans or are no longer with their parents, meaning that the shelter and food they receive is genuinely lifesaving.
As sponsorship increases, more money will be available for medication and counselling, helping these children to live long, healthy and meaningful lives.
Masibambane Community Care and Support | The Masibambane Community Care and Support organisation was founded from tragedy following the death of a number of men, women and children in poverty-stricken ghettos of Lawley. HIV/AIDS support and treatment is available as well as hot meals, education and development courses.
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So far, Craig and Adele have raised more than £4,000 for this fantastic cause, but the fundraising doesn't stop there. Every penny can help to make the world of difference to these communities, so whether it's £1 or the proceeds from a bigger fundraiser, all donations are wholeheartedly welcome!
Check out the official JustGiving page for more information on how you can donate.
During September 2018, Craig Whelan, our New Business Manager was amongst those volunteers offering their help to orphanages and community care centres across South Africa, on behalf of The Footprint's Foundation.
Inspired by the Foundation's ethos of, 'be about doing something, not about being somebody', Craig and his wife, Adele, visited a number of key sites supported by The Footprints Foundation.
Members of Gorilla Accounting undertook a cycling challenge through the Lakes and Dales Loop, a 318km circuit, starting and ending in Kirkby Lonsdale, to raise funds for two local OnSide Youth Zone charities; Bolton Lads and Girls Club and Wigan Youth Zone.
The challenge took place on 14 September 2017, across three days, and the fundraising total came to - £10,481 (incl gift aid).
Both charities; Wigan Youth Zone and Bolton Lads and Girls Club are located in the North West, close to the Gorilla Accounting office.
The team was captained by three riders, Norman Molyneux, Gordon Lane and Tim Murphy, director of Gorilla Accounting.
The team from Gorilla consisted of Craig McCall, Operations and Technical Director and Team Leaders, Richard Hepburn and Adam Scholes, alongside experienced riders from Seneca and Acceleris.
Craig Whelan, Head of New Business, will be taking to Selby, Yorkshire, on 5th August for a Wing Walk – all proceeds will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
The event involves being strapped to the top of a Boeing Stearman biplane, all the way through from take-off to landing, which will travel at speeds of up to 135mph. The pilot will be taking the aircraft through barrel rolls and loops for a 10-15-minute period.
"This has been personally funded as a 30th Birthday present from my wife as it's something I've been wanting to do for a long time," said Craig.
If you would like to show your support, you can make a donation through Craig's Just Giving page.
Gorilla Accounting are now proud patrons of Bolton Lads and Girls Club.
Each week, the Club delivers a wide variety of programmes to nearly 3,000 young people ranging from recreational opportunities, performing arts and a diverse range of sporting activities, with an overall membership currently at over 8,000 children and young people. They are dedicated to offering young people fun and exciting ways in which to spend their free time. Learn more about the fantastic work of Bolton Lads and Girls Club by clicking here.
The Gorilla team were tested to their limits down in Delamere Forest, Cheshire. We conquered a gruelling half-marathon (21km) in order to raise money for Bolton Lads & Girls Club.


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Life / People
For art sake
By Mark Graham (China Daily European Weekly)
Guy Ullens first discovered Chinese contemporary art when he was conducting business deals in Beijing in the 1980s. [Mark Graham / for China Daily]
Contemporary artists have a wealthy Belgian benefactor
During regular visits to Beijing, billionaire businessman Guy Ullens became intrigued by contemporary Chinese art, a fascination that developed into a passion and, ultimately, led to the founding of the personally-funded Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. The Belgian benefactor knows many of the big-name artists personally, having struck up friendships - and bought their work - when he was on business trips to the capital city during the 1980s, long before the world woke up to the wealth of new talent emerging in China.
"I spent my weekends, with the art people," he recalls. "It just happened by sheer accident that the place to relax was the art community; they were not overloaded by work and had plenty of free time and I started to spend time with them.
"It was unique, it was a fun time, they were soaking up information like sponges they wanted to know what was happening in the rest of the world. They were called embassy artists because the only people they would see was the cultural attach and they would sell 15 paintings a year. They were the first to have cars, Japanese cars.
"At first, I started to buy the art as a hobby I would not fall dead from the prices, so I would buy 15 or 20 at a time. The next step was to promote the artists. Foreign museums would write to me and ask to lend pieces and I said yes, naturally. We then started to promote them in Europe and CCTV did a prime-time program about the enthusiasm for Chinese art. It grew from there."
That growth was dizzying during the earlier part of this decade, when price records for contemporary Chinese art seemed to fall almost monthly. While that was happening, Ullens was at work on a scheme of his own, securing the necessary permits for a large-scale Beijing gallery dedicated to showing the most thought-provoking examples of contemporary Chinese art.
After a long series of negotiations, Ullens secured space in part of a disused suburban East German-built factory, an imposing brick structure designed in the Bauhaus style of architecture.
The 798 factory complex, as it is known, already housed a rag-tag collection of artists and small galleries; the debut of the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA) four years ago put the location firmly on the map for locals and visitors.
A rite of tourist passage for anyone vaguely interested in art is to visit UCCA and then spend time wandering around the scores of smaller galleries and coffee shops.
"Some say that is gentrified but do you want to go to a place that is dilapidated?" asks Ullens rhetorically.
"Some people didn't come here originally because they thought it was too crummy but I think it is still very bohemian. I don't think you have this in any other Western cities.
"Personally, I have a nice relationship with the Chinese artists - they are a pretty unruly crop! They say, 'why don't you do this, why don't you do that' all the time. The fun is to see the young generation come up, you see a crowd of young Chinese to me that is the big satisfaction."
Ullens personally bankrolls the operation, stumping up sponsorship for the artists to embark on wild flights of fantasy without worrying about the cost.
A recent show had a waterfall gushing noxiously smelly black ink, giant plastic bubbles filled with butterflies, a video installation housed in a makeshift building named RMB City and a darkened room showing a series of black-and-white movies beamed on screens from old-style projectors.
Just how much it cost to found, and fund, the UCCA is a question Ullens politely declines to answer but, apart from one-off exhibition funding by fashion brands such as Dior, ticket sales from the modest entrance fee and income from T-shirts, posters and plates and the popular restaurant, every last yuan comes from the deep pockets of the founder.
It has allowed the recruitment of top professionals, such as Paris-born director Jerome Sans, an expert on China contemporary art and sometime rock musician.
Visitors familiar with art-world landmarks like the Tate Modern in London, another building with a former industrial heritage, are invariably impressed, amazed even, to find such a slickly run operation in China.
Ullens can easily afford the costs, having made his fortune from leveraged buy-outs, but is keen for the showcase project - the most important contemporary art facility in the country - to eventually be funded locally, with help from corporate sponsorship.
"We need to expand," he says. "In the West then major industrial constructions such as 798 are being used for galleries.
"The Tate Modern in London, for example, is one of the most stunning in the world. They are putting a huge new addition and using the old fuel tanks.
"In many ways, that was a template for the UCCA. I am trying to send this message that you have more of these kinds of buildings around it, and keep them all together, it could be a new concept. We need two shows simultaneously. There is no space for a permanent collection. At first we were going to have a museum and then we thought no it would be too boring."
Septuagenerian Ullens, who is semi-retired and spends spells of the year on his custom-built luxury yacht, Red Dragon, makes several annual visits to Beijing, with wife Mimi, to check on his pet project.
The tycoon's family connections with China go back to the early part of the last century, a time when expatriates generally had a reputation for taking art out of the country, not encouraging its development.
His father was posted to China as a junior Belgian embassy attach, arriving fresh from military service in World War I.
"As a child I heard a lot about his love of China, he was very much impressed by the Beijing environment," Ullens says. "He was a boy diplomat, aged 21 and just out of the trenches. He ran errands around China for the embassy - the Belgians were very active in railways and tramways. He met a lot of simple Chinese: when he was going to look at a major bridge construction he had to go and live with the crew, he loved that."
Ullens senior could little have imagined that his son would become a major art-world player in the dynamic new 21st-century China, building a collection of 1,000 key works.
His contribution to the development of new art - and provision of a classy facility to display it - is indisputable; the question now is how the UCCA will fare when the benefactor is no longer personally involved.
Adds Ullens: "This place has to be run by Chinese in the long run and we should fade out. Who will take the risk? It is very common in the rest of the world. What we are trying to demonstrate to China is that you can have places like this ..."
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How Could A Curtain Wall Save You money?
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Curtain walls are an aesthetically-pleasing, non-expensive alternative to regular windows as they offer many benefits to the property they ensconce. Not only do they look good and carry a variety of environmental benefits, they can also help you to save on a range of business expenses. Here are just a few ways that curtain walling can save your business money today – and tomorrow.
Curtain wall material can be lightweight and thin and therefore reduces production and construction costs. As they are non-structural they can be incorporated into a variety of projects keeping the overall architectural design without the added financial burden and the often extensive and time-intensive groundwork involved in structural work.
Curtain walling incorporates the additional use of glass which means that natural light and energy can penetrate through, improving ventilation and reducing lighting and energy costs overall. This is a great environmental benefit which not only saves money but also reduces your company's carbon footprint by increasing the energy efficiency of your building or business premises.
Once upon a time, high-rises and skyscrapers carried an enormous construction cost due to the augmented number of building materials required, but also due to the amount of glass and individual window panes which needed to be manufactured and fitted. As curtain walls are used to cover entire buildings in glass, you will save on the money that would have been spent on individual windows – this is especially useful for larger businesses, buildings or workplaces.
Curtain walling is lightweight and can, therefore, be constructed from cost-effective materials such as aluminium. Aluminium is very easy to recycle, is simple to clean and will not rust or rot – making it both good for the environment and resistant to harsh weathering which could compromise the structural safety and aesthetic appeal of a property. When used in conjunction with other materials Aluminium is also light and strong – making it perfect for more delicate or unusual constructions.
If you're thinking about improving the economic factor of your building and saving money by covering your business premises securely whilst being ecologically friendly, curtain walling is an energy efficient and green way to go ahead. Speak to us today to find out more about the services we offer and how we can design and build a structure which benefits both your business and the environment.


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John Leonard: Reducing the number of MPs would be bad for democracy
John Leonard, an IT Consultant, looks at the potentially damaging effects on democracy of reducing the number of MPs.
Recently, Nick Clegg proclaimed that he wants to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 500. Here are a few thoughts why this is such a bad idea and why Clegg is so badly out of touch.
Every MP represents on average 25% more citizens today than they did in 1931. As the population has grown the number of representatives has not kept up and unsurprisingly there is an increasing perception that our politicians no longer provide value for money.
It is a matter of debate what level of representation is appropriate but with the complaints from MPs that they cannot do their jobs with the appropriate level of diligence it would suggest that the current levels of representation are insufficient.
If democracy is the goal then it is reasonable to expect that the number of elected representatives grows/shrinks proportionally to the size of the population. Clearly this policy proposal ignores any such considerations. This centralist proposal reduces the voter's influence upon national affairs in this country.
The 1998 Devolution Act effectively resolved the issue of national representation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by introducing National Assemblies. This has increased the representation levels in those Home Nations to way above that of the 1930's. However, by not providing an effective democratic assembly solution for England, the Devolution Act effectively has created second class democratic citizens within the United Kingdom. The English based voter has approximately three times less representation than any voter in the other three home nations.
Given that outside England there are only 117 constituencies, it is fair to assume that such a reduction will be undertaken proportionately to the greater extent. A quick analysis shows that that would result in a Parliamentary make up of England 406 (-127) Scotland 45 (-14) Wales 31 (-9) Northern Ireland 18 (NC). Northern Ireland's seats are protected under the Northern Ireland Agreement.
So the English would take the brunt of the cuts. The impact of this in terms of representation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is negligible but English national democratic representation would be reduced by a further 25% and in comparison to the other Home Nations, English based voters would have at least four times less national representation.
Clearly Clegg wants to exacerbate the West Lothian Question as well.
If we then further analyse Clegg proposals we see that what he is actually saying is that we will get less national democracy for greater cost. Not only does he wish to funnel the 'savings' from the constituency cuts and Government advertising into the political parties but also raise an optional £3 poll tax as well. Potentially, such savings and redirected taxes could benefit political parties by up to £350 million (ten times the amount proposed in the Phillips report). So Clegg believes we should pay significantly more for a significantly lesser quality of service and have significantly less influence. I suggest the opposite is true.
In addition, if one considers how such a change might affect the state of the parties it is difficult to analyse without more detail of how the Boundary Commission might address such a reduction. Without that detail perhaps the only way of looking at it is to do so proportionally. Based on the 2005 results then the parties would lose the following number of MPs: Labour -83, Conservative -46, Libdems -14, Others -7.
In real terms the LibDems would fair much better than both Labour and the Conservatives with the potential of causing significant disruption for the leaderships of both parties (which MPs would be got rid of?). Has Clegg considered such self-serving effects of his policy?
Of course Nick Clegg will say that by devolving power to the regions and councils he is breaking up the power base of Parliament, but would he really be doing that?
It seems unlikely that he will hand down the creation and strategic control of policy and funding but will instead further hand down the implementation and operation of policy. Individual councils have neither the finances nor strength of mandate to take on the will of Parliament on issues of policy.
Therefore, effectively all Clegg will be doing really is concentrating power into the hands of an even smaller group of people who will more than ever be able to blame the lower tiers of Government for any failures that occur.
Considering Clegg's refusal to offer a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, it is of little surprise that in proposing such a significant change to our political that he does not even consider putting this directly to the voter in a referendum. It is time he acknowledged that this country's political system belongs to the people and not to politicians. Any such proposal must be voted on specifically by the people and not by his elitist establishment in Westminster.
So we have a policy that on the face of it wants the voter to pay more for less national democracy, denies the voter a direct choice, further discriminates against the English based voter, further concentrates power amongst a smaller elitist group and provides benefit for the Libdems, whilst penalising both the Labour and Conservative Parties.
As such it would seem that Clegg, rather than taking on the 'elitist establishment', is attempting to prove his credentials to join it by adding a new dimension to the concept of 'autocratic centralisation'.
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Vintage Trailer Supply is a great spot, ok, top spot to get all the vintage Airstream parts. They have a little bit of everything and have great advice for the parts that you need per unit/year. They're insanely helpful. Give them a look. Here's an unboxing of some replacement parts for our renovation!
Jackie and I decided that we didn't want to go back to vintage original. Although we certainly could have as the previous owner Jim saved EVERYTHING, we're going to go with a rear bedroom, mid-cabin bathroom layout. This pretty much renders everything furniture-wise inert for our build out. Also, since we're taking the time to do a full solar/battery/off-grid boondocking setup, it doesn't make much sense to put appliances that have lower efficiencies than what we're capable of getting today.
Time to start getting Wally all cleaned out!
Now that we have Wally the Airstream in storage and ready to be worked on, it's important to get him all cleaned out so we can begin work on both the interior and exterior. Jim was nice enough to grab all of the things that he had taken off of the Airstream during his frame restoration and put them inside for the long trip home. Now that I had a few projects in mind, it was time to move everything out and start sorting what we had. It's kind of a mess.


Southwestern sophomore Jada Perkins signed a National Letter of Intent Monday to continue her academic and volleyball career at William Penn University in Oskaloosa.
Breanna Ross signs with Spartan Volleyball.
CRESTON, Iowa—After a year away from athletics, Zoie Lecy, a 2018 graduate of Murray High School, will be back on the court playing volleyball for the Spartans of Southwestern Community College during their fall 2019 season.
Taylor Clendenen signs to play for Spartan volleyball.
Lela Bales signs to play volleyball for the Spartans.
Brooklyn Herr from Winterset has committed to the SWCC volleyball team for the 2019-20 academic year.
Southwestern Community College Head Volleyball Coach Casey Quiggle picked up a middle hitter from Johnston High School late last week.
Creston's own Taylor Buxton has committed to the Southwestern Community College volleyball team for their 2019 run.
The Southwestern Spartans have picked up momentum after a slow start to the season.
The Spartan volleyball team opened up their 2018 season on Saturday, Aug. 24, playing in the Southeast Tournament at Southeast Community College in Beatrice, NE.
Casey Quiggle, a native of southern California, was announced today as head coach of the SWCC women's volleyball program.
After a one-week hiatus, Sydney Maynes is back in the headlines as ICCAC Athlete of the Week for Oct. 23-29.
Wednesday is the last home game for the Spartan volleyball team, therefore they have lots planned.
Southwestern middle hitter Sydney Maynes, of Corning, has been named ICCAC Athlete of the Week.


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