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This article was published on April 17, 2014
Super Mario Bros. theme played on 48 wine glasses makes you forget your princess is in another castle
Roberto Baldwin
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The Super Mario Bros. theme song is one of the most recognized songs ever created. Whether you played the original game when it launched in 1985, or just heard it in one of its various incarnations over the years, it's a criminally catchy tune.
This latest version is from Dan Newbie, a wine glass and pots and pans musician. He's covered "Let It Go" from the movie Frozen and Pharrell's "Happy." Apparently if there's an earworm, Newbie will play it. With that in mind, it was only a matter of time before he covered the beloved song of a plumber trying to save the princess. And like all things Mario, this certainly won't be the last time it's rehashed for the sake of nostalgia.
See Also: An amazing resume in the style of Super Mario Bros.
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Lexington artists on the lookout for new opportunities have a variety of projects to apply for thanks to area organizations LexArts, St. Joe East, Art Connects, and NeoSho Arts Council. Artists are being sought to apply for projects, competitions, and art purchases, including a public art and sculpture beautification project for the Breeders' Cup, happening this October at Keeneland.
LexArts, partnering with Lexington Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) Corridors Commission is requesting proposals for a series of temporary outdoor artworks for four specific locations along a designated pathway into Lexington from 1-75 to Keeneland/Blue Grass Airport. Application deadline is July 5.
LexArts, partnering with Lexington Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) Corridors Commission is requesting proposals for a series of temporary outdoor sculptures. Application deadline is July 5.
Saint Joseph Hospital East is looking for original works from Kentucky artists to purchase for display. Application deadline is June 30.
The fourth annual Lexington-based outdoors painting extravaganza formerly known as "Lexingotn Cityscapes" takes place June 27. Artwork entered in the event will be exhibited at Arts Place, and available for sale through Gallery Hop on July 17.
A regional art competition open to artists 18 years of age or older, amateur and professional. Deadline for entry is July 20.
For complete details please visit www.lexarts.org/participate/artists/.


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Tofte, Minnesota on Lake Superior
Can you answer these questions?
1. Q: What season is this?
A: It's winter.
2. Q: What do you see on the ground?
A: There's snow on the ground.
3. Q: Is the water frozen?
A: No, it isn't.
4. Q: What are some fun things that you can do in the winter?
A: You can go skiing.
A: You can go ice skating.
A: You can go sledding.
A: You can go snowmobiling.
A: You can go ice fishing.
5. Q: If you go out walking along this lake, what are some things that you should wear?
A: You should wear a heavy coat, mittens or gloves, boots, a hat, and a scarf.
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If any filmmaker knows what it's like to work with Marvel Studios, it's Jon Favreau. As the director of the first two Iron Man films and a producer on The Avengers, Favreau is well acquainted with the inner workings of the superhero studio, for better and for worse.
"Edgar's a dear friend of mine – I was so looking forward to his version of Ant-Man," he said. "All Edgar's films have been studio films, it's not like he's never made one before. I think he's been used to a situation where he can have tremendous creative say around his story and casting, and Marvel has built an entire franchise around their style of telling stories. I know both parties well, and I respect his decision to see that he wasn't going to be fulfilled in the process. That's all I can really say."
Favreau also reflected on his own time with Marvel, and what it was that made Iron Man work.
"The model was the Fantastic Four films with Fox. You were expected to spend a certain amount of money that would make you a certain amount of money back as long as the effects are good," he said. "They wanted to figure out a way to get the movie to audiences for a price. I think by casting Iron Man the way we did, it classed the brand up. It allowed us to bring a certain humorous tone that had been lost from, say, the Bond franchise. With Daniel Craig, those movies gained a harder edge, meaning there was definitely room for a new humorous cad adventurer. That archetype had not been filled in a long time. Through Iron Man, Marvel found its tone and voice, but nothing was expected of it. And then the success came, and then there was pressure to continue that brand, and that's where it becomes more challenging."


Souvenir d'un Lieu Cher, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Glazunov. Vera Tsyganova and Jozef Varga, Anna Ol and Artur Shesterikov. Made in Amsterdam 2 (Christopher Wheeldon, David Dawson, Alexei Ratmansky, Krzysztof Pastor) Het Nationale Ballet, shot during general rehearsal on 9.2.2017 in Dutch National Opera & Ballet Theatre.


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Mikkel Reher-Langberg: "We all use the same words as Davanloo, but the music is different"
In this interview with Mikkel Reher-Langberg, we discuss his upcoming book on Davanloo and ISTDP and much more. Mikkel is a psychologist and president of the Danish ISTDP Society. In 2018, he published a book on Freud's concept of the self, Faces of the Freudian 'I': The Structure of the Ego in Psychoanalysis. Together with some colleagues, he has been running the private clinic Emotion center in Copenhagen for a few years now.
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What's on your mind right now?
As you know, I work full-time at a private ISTDP clinic in Copenhagen, and I'm still very busy learning how to work with ISTDP. Alongside the clinical work, I am in the process of writing the book we are going to talk about here. In addition, I have been busy with meditation for the past few years, which I hope to be able to do more of when the book is finished.
Mikkel Reher-Langberg
You are finishing work on this two-volume book on ISTDP. From hearing you talk about it, I get the impression that you want to contribute to some kind of "back to the roots" process: back to Davanloo's foundations. What is the background to the book?
The background is that I have been studying with John Rathauser for the past few years. He works in a style that is very close to Davanloo's technique around 1990. I saw John's work at the IEDTA congress in Amsterdam in 2016 and was completely sold on his style. I learned the basics of ISTDP through Jon Frederickson's and Allan Abbass' formats and styles, and since I started working with John I've tried to understand what is unique about his style. Over time, our collaboration has become closer and more of a friendship, and I think after a while John could see that I often understood and articulated his work in a way that he could not. Despite the fact that his clinical intuition is much stronger than my own.
John Rathauser
At one point, John suggested that we write a book together, drawing on our different strengths. That was in early 2019. I suggested we write the book as an introduction to Davanloo, which we quickly agreed on. I have mainly been concerned with the first volume of the book, which is basically an attempt at a coherent presentation of Davanloo's theory and methodology. The second volume consists of John's cases, for which we have written commentaries. For me personally, writing the book has been a way of integrating my understanding of John's work through a very close reading of Davanloo.
Would you like to share some of the key findings you have made from reading Davanloo in the way you have?
It is difficult to point to individual findings. For me, returning to Davanloo has required a fundamental restructuring of what I thought I knew about ISTDP. What I have been most interested in beyond Davanloo's conceptual apparatus has been his way of thinking about and orienting himself in his clinical work. I have tried to decode the logic of his clinical thinking by examining the contrasts between his style and later versions of ISTDP. In doing so, I may be placing too much emphasis on the differences between Davanloo and other teachers, rather than the similarities.
Having said that, I do think there is a qualitative difference between the way most of us understand ISTDP today and the way I think Davanloo understood his craft. We all use the same words as Davanloo, but the music is different, and I don't think that's just because Davanloo had/has a deeper clinical intuition than most of the rest of us.
One area where I think this is evident is that many people today seem to understand ISTDP as an emotion-focused or experiential therapy. For example, the Swedish ISTDP group on Facebook has a banner that says "the deeper you feel, the more you heal". This may seem innocuous, but in practice it means that many ISTDP therapists are most interested in "getting to the feelings", as if experiencing feelings is, in and of itself, important or relevant.
This perspective has its strengths, of course, just as other forms of therapy have their strengths, but I think it is a perspective that is qualitatively different from Davanloo's – at least the perspective he held until the late 1990s. The emotions he is (or was) interested in are specifically those associated with his work on the resistance, and they are not an end in themselves – they are a means of gaining a deeper understanding of and working through the patient's unconscious. In this way, Davanloo uses resistance in a different way than most ISTDP therapists do today, which has implications for what the work looks like in practice.
You almost say that this is talking about a new form of therapy developed post Davanloo. Can you go into more detail about what is so different, perhaps with a clinical example? How is Davanloo/Rathauser-ISTDP different from Frederickson/Abbass-ISTDP?
I do think it's worth considering if it's the same form of therapy! One specific clinical difference is that many people today have learned to "press through" resistance, choosing what might be called the "path of least resistance", whereas Davanloo follows the "path of greatest resistance". But I think the biggest difference is in the deeper conception of the work itself – not in individual technical interventions.
If you change the spirit of a method, is it still the same? It's hard to give a clinical example, but perhaps we can compare it to yoga. If you use the different postures for the purpose of gymnastics or strength training, are they still "the same" as when used for the purpose of spiritual practice? If you understand ISTDP as a form of exposure to emotional intimacy, where the therapeutic potential lies in facilitating the breakthrough of emotions or corrective emotional experiences with the therapist, as many do, it easily overshadows the part of the work that is about creating insight into the unconscious. We could say that one does not exclude the other, but in practice I still think that many people use the method as if exposure to their own feelings were an end in itself.
There's a lot of good in that – but I think it's important to be conscious of where this leads the therapy model as a whole.
You have previously written a book on Freud's concept of self and taken some interest in philosophy – things that fit well into the psychoanalytic literary tradition. Should we who do ISTDP be more interested in reading original classical texts? Or is it a positive thing that the focus of the ISTDP community is more on craft and watching video recordings?
Both yes and no – I'm not sure that the psychoanalytic literature is relevant to our technique, just as you don't learn to run a hundred-meter race from a marathon runner. We don't use the transference neurosis, so it's hard to compare the methods other than in principle. If there is to be an exchange, I think there is something beautiful, serious and generous about our approach to ISTDP training that I think the psychoanalytic community could benefit from.
One area where I think it would be fruitful to include more psychoanalytic theory is in understanding the psychic levels which run deeper than manifest emotional life. The psychoanalytic tradition has a language for the drives and intersubjective dynamics that give rise to manifest emotions which we do not have at all in the ISTDP community. Incorporating this will have an impact on how we understand the therapeutic process as a whole. I think one of the next things that will be needed in the ISTDP community is for more people to engage in the conceptualization of phase 6/7 of the central dynamic sequence – i.e. working through – which unfortunately we do not have a coherent understanding of at the moment. This phase is closely related to the way in which we view the very purpose of the therapeutic process, as well as the therapeutic mechanisms behind what we are doing. Here I think it is necessary to return to the psychoanalytic tradition for help and to broaden our perspectives.
What do you see as the major challenges for the ISTDP community in the coming years?
I think there are many who started learning ISTDP around the same time when Co-Creating Change came out, who have spent a lot of time on technique, and who are now at a point in their development as therapists where they need something to help them gain a deeper understanding of the therapeutic process itself. I think we need literature and training that focuses on the wider processes so that we can begin to use technique in a more flexible way.
In addition to this, I personally have two things that I would like to see in the near future. First, that someone would develop a phenomenology of ISTDP – a description of the structures of the patient's and therapist's inner experiences of the process. Second, that someone wrote in more detail about the therapist's use of defenses in the process and what they usually look like. Unfortunately, I think that as a community we tend to place more emphasis on the patient's defenses than on our own, and I think that many of the technical pitfalls of the method, given the recent debate about its harmful effects, could be remedied by focusing more on our own neurotic use of the technique.
What would such a phenomenology describe and contain? Care to speculate?
How does it feel when the therapy process tilts to the transference? How is it experienced when the unconscious therapeutic alliance is high versus when it is low? How is it experienced when the conscious therapeutic alliance is firmly established versus when it is not? How are increases in complex transference feelings experienced before they break through? How is the shift from before to after instant repression experienced? What is the experience of having a projection deactivated? How does it feel to have one's central resistance properly challenged, and how does it feel when the therapist just hammers away without having made clear what the purpose of it is?
I think this type of descriptions would make it easier, especially for new therapists who have not yet developed their own experience with countertransference, to understand the patient. To be able to fine tune their approach based on the experience expressed by the patient, in addition to using the more crude objective signs such as sighs.
What are you struggling to learn as an ISTDP therapist right now?
I'm mostly working on stabilizing my empathic listening skills. One side of this is that I am trying to find a way to stop using the ISTDP therapist role as a defense against emotional closeness. Another is that I am trying to learn how to have a grip on the method that is neither too tight nor too loose.
This is something that I and many of the readers will recognize – that we use the ISTDP therapist role as a defense. Do you think ISTDP is particularly vulnerable to this kind of problem, given the focus we place on the technical aspects of the work?
Yes, I think that as ISTDP therapists we are vulnerable in at least two areas. One is the high emotional intensity of the contact with the patient that is implicit in the method. The second one is that we have very clear and high quality role models to rely on from the very beginning of our work, both in terms of technical instructions and the work of specific teachers. In this way, we have very big shoes to fill, and most of us who are interested in ISTDP are very ambitious for our own sake and for the sake of our patients.
If we think about it, it's almost a traumatic situation to put yourself in, especially as a newly trained psychologist. When we sit there and have to navigate a high level of emotional intensity that we don't fully understand, a very high technical level that we don't fully master, but that we have to convince ourselves that we have mastered. And which we believe we must convince the patient and our colleagues that we have mastered – then the stage is set for us to have a therapist neurosis, where our therapist personality does not facilitate our personal development, but stands in the way of it because it does not reflect us.
ISTDP assumes that we can go all the way from inquiry to unlocking. We need to have control of the system as a whole before it really works, and so learning the method becomes like putting together a jigsaw puzzle where the motive is constantly changing. In this way, it makes sense that perhaps more than therapists from other therapy disciplines, we acquire a kind of premature therapist identity as part of our development.
If you enjoyed this interview with Mikkel Reher-Langberg, you might be curious about our other interviews:
Maury Joseph: "How much does our theory shape the patient's experience?"
Ola Berge: "ISTDP erbjuder ett perspektiv som saknas i psykiatrin"
Johannes Kieding: "ISTDP is uniquely vulnerable to misalliances"
Jonathan Entis: "Defiance is the single most important defense"
Ange Cooper: "I am my patient, they are me"
Mikkel Reher-Langberg: "Vi använder Davanloos ord, men musiken är annorlunda."
Mikkel Reher-Langberg: "Vi bruger alle de samme ord som Davanloo, men musikken er en anden"
Malin Ljungdahl: "ISTDP hjälper oss att inte fastna i dualismen mellan psyke och soma"
Sandra Ringarp: "Även välmenande kommentarer kan vara mikroaggressioner"
Författare Thomas HesslowPostat augusti 18, 2021 augusti 18, 2021 Kategorier IntervjuTaggar Habib Davanloo, John Rathauser, Mikkel Reher-Langberg, The path of least resistance
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You Are Here : Home / News/ Media room / Wildlife protections branch out to new Moreton Bay locations
A highly successful initiative by Moreton Bay Regional Council to protect local wildlife on local roads is expanding to new locations in Bray Park and Narangba.
Off the back of last week's announcement about eye-catching signs to drive down the road toll for native animals, Mayor Peter Flannery today said further safety measures including koala fencing would be installed along Old North Road, Bray Park and Roberts Road, Narangba near key wildlife habitat.
"Unlike other areas in the south-east, Moreton Bay is home to hundreds of hectares of national park, wildlife reserves, parks and corridors - which are in turn home to thousands of native animals," Mayor Flannery said.
"Some of these areas are split between local roads, which is why we've created a program to make sure koalas, kangaroos and other creatures who call these places home can safely move between them.
"In just the last few years, we've been able to install more than 10,000 metres of koala fencing, build key fauna crossings along the Moreton Bay Rail corridor and roll out 26 rope bridges.
"To be able to deliver even more is part of our key focus in 2022: to go green as we grow, and is a pillar of our record $743 million budget."
Division 11 Councillor Darren Grimwade said the continued rollout of measures to protect local wildlife would go a long way to driving down the number of wildlife being hit by cars.
"With council planting more 80,000 trees in the last few years and plans to add another 45,000 in the next three, wildlife habitat is on the boom," Cr Grimwade said.
"That does mean however, an increased risk of interactions between booming wildlife populations and residents - with sadly 700 calls each year for wildlife strikes.
"Being able to install new fencing, escape poles and fauna ledges along Roberts Road will reduce that risk of interaction and create a huge benefit for animals in the local area."
Division 8 Councillor Mick Gillam said construction would commence in coming months and take approximately four weeks to complete, weather permitting.
"Together with our ongoing research to protect koalas at the Mill at Moreton Bay, it's just another measure council is delivering to protect the environment and animals we love," Cr Gillam said.
For more information on council's green infrastructure head to: www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Services/Roads/Green-Infrastructure-Network-Delivery-Program
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Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) that follows instructions and covers each part of the topic.(The title page and References list do not get included in this word count).


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Q: Why do we need Spring REST if we have Spring MVC? If we can create REST Api using Spring MVC then why do we need Spring REST?
Spring MVC is based on servlet,is Spring REST also based on servlet?
Which specifications do Spring MVC and Spring REST implement?
And if we want to use only Spring REST do we need Spring Boot?

A: There isn't a Spring REST project. The Spring REST part is based on Spring MVC. You do not need Spring Boot to create a Spring MVC project.

A: spring-boot is a project provided by spring community. It used Java Configuration over XML configuration and provide you default configuration in many scenarios.
For example, previously, you have to manually configure everything. Like DB connection etc.
But in spring-boot, in many scenarios, you just have to give the dependency name and spring-boot will configure it for you.

Spring MVC and Servlets:
Spring MVC internally uses Servlets only, so if you find any other java web project or framework, most probably, that would be using servlets internally.

Now Spring MVC and Spring REST:
First, you need to understand what is REST.
You can implement REST in spring MVC also, but again you have to do so many configurations manually.
Spring REST provides you already configuration, you just have to follow its rules and you could build a FULLY REST API.
REST HATEOS

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"As part of the Norwegian Seafood Council's key task of developing new markets for Norwegian seafood products, the Seafood Council started a targeted campaign in India in May 2016. However, the next year's cut in budgets implies significant cuts in market investments, and based on thorough assessments and tough priorities, we have concluded that our presence and market efforts in India have to be adjusted. From having a dedicated market manager in India, this work will be delivered from our headquarters from spring 2018", says Børge Grønbech, Project Risk Manager with the Norwegian Seafood Council.
The Norwegian Seafood Council's Market Manager for India, Yogi Shergill, has since May 2016 made significant efforts to strengthen the seafood trade between Norway and India. During the period, Shergill has worked hard to identify new partners and establish networks to increase knowledge about Norwegian seafood products among Indian companies and decision makers. In addition, Shergill has also strengthened Norwegian exporters' knowledge about the Indian seafood market.
However, the size of the market, strong economic growth and, not least, increasing demand for seafood will make this an important market for Norwegian seafood exports in the future. Thus, the Council will decide on an adjusted approach to the Indian market that safeguards the knowledge and network that have been developed. This provides a good basis for future marketing investments if the funds, market strategy and market situation allow.
Shergill will continue to lead the work in India until the end of April 2018. Subsequently, the work will be managed and delivered from the headquarters of the Norwegian Seafood Council in Norway.


I really want one of these days.
all day, ever day, julie.
my husband likes to tell my brand new son to "treat yo'self" when i'm trying to get him to latch on. fun stuff. love p&r!
oh my gravy...parks and rec is my favorite, favorite. and oh yes, wish i could have a treat yo self day. i needed that clip right now..thanks.
um lindsey jo... you are hilarious. and so is this clip... i've never seen the show. sometimes i feel like i'm amish because i don't watch tv... but then i realize i have a phone, car and the internets... so i guess i'm not totally amish. i just, 'treated my self' to an erin condren planner ;) yay!
we totally watched that episode a few days ago. sooo funny. the batman part was hilarious.
Also, I think I need a DJ with a boom box to announce when I enter the building.
I so so so love this show, and this episode, and the message of doing something for yourself every now and then!
Love the show. "Bring me all of the bacon and eggs that you have."
i almost fell off the couch when we watched that episode. LOVE that show!!!
I love parks and rec! Ron is my make believe husband. Treat yo self!
That is hilarious! Thanks for sharing!
... as I'm drinking a decaf grande salted caramel mocha.
can you believe we don't watch that show???
i have my treat yo self day all planned out and counting down the days already!
Love parks & rec, love this episode, love it all! Thanks for the smile tonight!
Loved that episode! So hilarious.
Dude. You just made me spit milk out of my mouth. Best. Show. Ever. Leslie rules.
when we move in for the night, i think we need to stay up all night and have a marathon. he KILLS me. i'm dead.
That's one of our favorite shows! My husband works in local city government so he finds it even funnier (and far too realistic).
Was dying over that episode. It's our "first up" when we sit down to go over our taped shows. After that Batman stint, I'm trying to convince the mr. to treat himself to a Sleestak costume for Halloween. Because, really, that's a treat for everyone.
This show is so good. This guy is so classic.
This is my 2nd favorite Tom Haverford moment after last year's apps and zerts / chickie catch / food rake episode. LOVE HIM.


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ELLIOT WUU: 1st Prize Winner
ELLIOT WUU | USA | Age 14 | Piano B
First Prize Winner
Haydn Sonata in C Major, Hob.XVI:50, Allegro
Raclnmninoff Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 No. 4
Elliot Wuu has won numerous state, national and international competitions and performed across the globe. Most recently, Elliot was the winner of California State as well as the Southwest Division MTNA Competitions, and he won Second Place in the MTNA National Competition in Chicago. Other notable top prizes he received include First Prize and special award in the Kaufman International Youth Piano Competition, First Prize in Young Musician Category and Second Prize in Junior Category of the International Russian Music Piano Competition, two-time First Prize and the special Centennial Award of the Pacific Musical Society Competition, Winner of the Piano Award of the Mondavi Young Artists Competition, Winner of California CAPMT Competitions for numerous years, Winner of Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition of the Peninsula Symphony, and First Prizes in the US Open Music Competition. As winner of El Camino Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, Elliot was a featured soloist performing with the Symphony.
In the recent years, Elliot has performed in major venues in the U.S., Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, and China. His performance at the Merkin Concert Hall was aired on WQXR. He also performed at Holywell Music Room where Haydn performed before. Elliot made his solo recital debut in the Sherman Clay Steinway Young Pianist Recital. He also performed in Steinway Society Young Artist Concert, Pacific Musical Society Centennial Gala, Peninsula Symphony Family Concert, Junior Bach Festival and Old First Concert in San Francisco. He has also performed in masterclasses for Ruth Slenczynska, Dame Fanny Waterman, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Matti Raekallio, John Perry, Niel Immelman, and Yin Chengzhong.
In 2013, he was selected as one of the twelve young pianists from around the world to participate in the Inaugural Lang Lang Junior Music Camp in Munich, Germany, where he performed and worked with Lang Lang. Since 2014, Elliot is named a young scholar of Lang Lang International Music Foundation.
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The underground-electronics lovers of the Bunker go big tonight, with two rooms of great music awaiting your arrival. The main floors see aural action from the RVNG recording duo Blondes that doles out a woozy, sweeping psychedelic techno sound; Rrose, one of the deep-techno acolytes of Berlin's Sandwell District collective and label; Johannes "Tin Man" Auvinen, whose style takes in moody acid, tough techno and warm house; Kondaktor (also known as Slydex), a major player on the Athenian party scene; and Bunker mastermind Bryan Kasenic. The Panther Room rocks to the housed-up rhythms of four sterling DJs, with Kim Ann Foxman, Bunker resident Mike Servito, and Wrecked's Ryan Smith and Ron Like Hell all on the wheels of steel.


The following was published as a prolog to the first issue of Changing Work, a print magazine predecessor to the GEO Newsletter.
WELCOME to Changing Work! But – a fair question – why yet another magazine? How will Changing Work be different?
For one thing, there is no magazine with our special focus, which touches almost everyone, on the transformation of worklife – a focus differently illustrated in this issue by the O&O Supermarket takeovers, nurses in transition, and the Nicaraguan cooperatives.
Secondly, Changing Work has distinctive aims: to provide a forum for sustained dialogue on the goals and strategies of reconstructing work (e.g., on how worklife can be made not only more democratic, but a source of joy and creativity); to help build solidarity among the often disconnected groups seeking to increase democracy at work; to foster alliances between these groups and others with allied goals, such as labor, ecological, and health care groups; and to develop collaboration on changing work across national boundaries. Moreover, these broad aims will be pursued concretely and with continuity; e.g., through our regular and staff-coordinated department: Co-op Ed, European Scene, Resources, Corporate Watchdog, Health Care Work in Transition.
Third, we think Changing Work addresses some crucial neglected concerns of an unusually diverse range of people. We see it reaching not only readers already experienced in "worker ownership" and "democratic management", but those who have felt what Studs Terkel called the "violence" of mainstream work, and have just begun to consider alternatives. No less important, our magazine will work to develop an especially active relationship with our readers; we want (see Special Message, "Join us in Changing Work", p. 61) our audience to become contributors of both written and graphic material, and we'll provide editorial support when they do.
Fourth, our politics will be clear, evolving, and aimed at nurturing a vision of liberated worklife, and at combining that vision with practical, shorter-term resources and steps towards its realization.
Last, we will work at these ambitious plans with humor as well as seriousness, with colorful graphics as well as bold politics, and with a dancing as well as resolute spirit.


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Madiba not ill, says foundation
Pretoria - The Nelson Mandela Foundation has hit out against speculation around former President Nelson Mandela's health, saying that he is well.
"The fact is that Mr Mandela is as well as anyone can expect of someone who is 91-years-old and who has lived an active and demanding life as he has," said chairperson of the foundation Professor JG Gerwel in a statement on Friday.
"He obviously needs to rest more than he has in the past, and indeed to do the things that he enjoys in his well deserved retirement."
Gerwell said that the former president had recently decided to cut back his engagements even further to spend more time with his family.
The foundation said that while Mandela was President of the country he was open about the state of his health, an openness that since continued.
"People everywhere can therefore be assured that Mr Mandela and his family will continue this trend and will keep the public informed should there be any significant deterioration in his health," it said.
The foundation also appealed to all concerned to respect Mandela's privacy and that of his family citing that speculation often led to intrusive questioning of those around him.
SARS extends office hours ahead of deadline


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Scott Jolliffe:
I'd like to now move to Continental Europe, to our office in Paris and introduce you to Jérôme Patenotte and Simon Lowe. Our partner Jérôme is also a corporate lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions with an emphasis on private equity transactions and transactions in the mid-cap market. We also have with us, Simon. Simon Lowe is a dual qualified lawyer in the UK and France, although he's spent the last 20 years practicing in Paris. Simon himself specializes in inward investment into France, whether asset or share purchases or the startup of new entities. Jérôme and Simon, let me turn it over to you.
Simon Lowe:
Thanks very much. Good morning Canada from Paris. Jérôme and I are going to run through with you, quickly, the context today, both economic and legal in France. Some opportunities that you might like to consider in the French market, but no doubt you all have businesses and you all know your markets, no doubt better than we do. Then we'll touch on some legal considerations as well. We have a title of our presentation, was CETA coming and Holland going out, New opportunities for foreign investment in France. Over the last month we've had two interesting developments, particularly for Canada. One is CETA and other people will be talking about that shortly. The other is the announcement last week that Francois Hollande will not be standing for re-election as President next May. I'll just say a word about that because when Francois Hollande came into power 5 years ago, we saw a definite difficulty for foreign investment in France because of the tax regime that was applied. Over the last couple of years there's been a certain amount of backtracking and I think that France is in a much better position today for business than it was 5 years ago. I think there is some hope and the fact that what business hates most is uncertainty, today the fact that Francois Hollande will not be standing next year, is probably something which will favour inward investment into France. A word to start with about the general regime in France because in fact it is extremely liberal for inward investment. Consequently the fact that may it be Canadian, or a US business, or any other foreign entity wishes to set up in France, by and large the regulation is pretty light based on the fact that you are a foreign company. There are presently approximately 20,000 foreign businesses registered in France for business. The context is that generally speaking when you invest in a French business you don't require authorization unless you're in a particularly sensitive area as such as public health or national security. That's the context as regard foreign investment. Of course, we have regulations in France so if you're a particular sector, I think somebody was asking a question a few moments about services and so on. Yes, of course we have regulation applying to individual types of services. But those will be the national rules and there will be no distinction made about the fact that you are a foreign entity coming into France. Equally, I think other people will be talking and touching on merger regulation. Of course we have merger regulation but again, the fact that you are a foreign investor, will not in any way prejudice you.
Jérôme Patenotte:
The fact that you are a Canadian investor actually will even improve your situation. As you probably all know CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, was signed on the thirtieth of October, this year. And it will enter into force soon, when all the European Country's Parliaments will have rectified its provisions. The Treaty has been designed to facilitate an increase investments between Canada and the European Union. To provide greater certainty, greater stability, transparency and protection of your investments. Canadian investors will be protected from discriminations in their transactions and will be allowed a transfer without restriction or delay of capital, dividends and interests of proceeds from the sales of any company or liquidations and earnings of the foreign personnel who is working on the investments. The CETA also provides for a dispute resolution mechanism through a dedicated arbitration tribunal composed of 15 arbitrators, 5 Canadians, 5 Europeans and 5 arbitrators from third countries. CETA should really provide an adequate frame to enhance business relations between Canada and the European Union.
We thought we should touch on Brexit, although we allowed Chris to struggle with the subject for a few minutes just now, because it's more a problem for the UK then it is for us sitting in Paris. I think that we can deal with Brexit rather quickly. There are two levels where I think Brexit could impact, and generally speaking, it probably will actually create opportunities for inward investment into France. It will rather depend, I suspect, on whether there's a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit. All that essentially boils down to is the extent to which the UK will continue to have free access to the single market. Insofar as that doesn't happen there may be particular reasons why, and I'll touch on it in a few moments, why you may wish to use Paris as a hub within Europe. Chris, I imagine you were working last night preparing your presentation, you didn't get a chance to see what Michele Barnier was saying. He's the EU negotiator with you. He said you have 18 months and the clock started running. You maybe need to think about your 4 month period. Anyhow, we wish you luck with that.
Also in the legal context in France is the employment environment. The French employment law is truly very specific and it's often perceived as a scarecrow of our legal environment for foreign investors. However, managed upstream and planned correctly it's not as bad as people say. It is in fact like a game. You should not play a game when you don't know the rules. Once explained it becomes really much easier.
We just wanted to run through some specific opportunities we think the Paris market is favourable today. Paris is a European hub. I think you can look at it in two ways. One, geographically. We are a very interesting jurisdiction. In researching my presentation I saw that we were considered to be number one world-wide for cross-border trade. I wasn't quite sure what the criteria with it, but if it is the number of borders you have, then obviously you'd see why. We have 8 countries border France; Italy, Monaco, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. We're only 2 hours 20 minutes from the Eurostar from London. We are indeed, physically, a great European hub from where you can do business. As I've touched upon, it's too early to say yet, but if there is a hard Brexit then Paris will become more and more attractive as a place for your European headquarters.
Also France has a very dynamic tech and life science sector, for instance. France benefits from excellent universities, private laboratories, training high quality engineers. Technical hubs have been created in Paris, in Lyon where the old French pharmaceutical industry lies. Also in Sophia Antipolis, in the South of France. Where mature companies and startups coexist rather happily. State and private funded incubators of startups have mushroomed in the recent years providing an environment of very interesting targets for foreign investors wishing to set foot in France through an acquisition, for instance.
I just want to touch again on some of the stronger sectors we have. Retail Tourism is one. I think France is still considered to be the number one tourist destination world-wide. Tourism contributes approximately 70 billion Euros to our GDP each year. That represents about 10% of our GDP and 11% of our jobs are tourist based. Luxury goods is another very, very strong sector in France; Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior, Hermes, to mention but a few. Real estate, I think, is also, with a lot of investment in French real estate, I think at two rather different levels. Commercial real estate, because France is a physical hub in Europe, we've seen a lot of development over the last few years of logistics and the creation of logistics parks throughout France. We also have a very strong office investment sector. We also have three areas of sort of top end residential real estate, where we attract a lot of foreign individuals, very often high net worth individuals. Purchasing a chateau in France, which with the centralization of everything around Paris means that, in fact, the real estate is very reasonable to purchase a chateau and vineyards. That's an area we quite often act in. Then we have the chalets and the French Alps, which is a very important sector and villas in the South of France.
Another opportunity we wanted to stress is about the tax regime. Thanks to CETA again, Canadian investors will benefit in France from a business friendly tax environment. Suppressing all the withholding taxes, most of them at least, and applying to them for most favoured nation clause, which is in the Treaty. So the tax field is now covered and is really easier than it was before. We'll turn then to a few legal considerations about potential investment or ventures in France. First, I will touch the sector of the sourcing and supplying of goods and services. From a regulatory standpoint, sourcing and supplying goods for services throughout Europe is possible with a single entry point, thanks to the European passport mechanism. Since the Brexit, sorry Chris, a number of foreign investors envision to switch from the UK to one of the Continental European countries to be the starting point of the passport and France is a very convenient one then to reach out to then rest of Europe. Of course we have a legal environment which for the supplying of goods and services is quite protective of consumers and non-professionals in general. But we can help you manage upstream, again, these legal constraints to achieve your goals.
Wanted to talk to you about establishing a business in France. It's a pretty straightforward process, as I've said, because foreign investment is generally not regulated. It's a fairly easy process. There are effectively three ways you can come onto the French market and have your own establishment. The first is by setting up the representative office. To be frank, in the 20 or so years that I've been practicing in France, it's very rare that the setting up of the representative office as such has been worthwhile, in my view. You can't have the commercial activity if you do that. So you can't use it as a sales office, effectively. If you do so then you become a permanent establishment for tax purposes and you're fully within the French system. My experience is that you can use it if you are generally looking at the market, and you just want to test the market, but if you are going to actually conduct business then it's not an appropriate vehicle. The two other choices, and they tend to be tax driven, are the setting up a branch of an existing Canadian company, for example, which is again a straightforward process but you are then in the full French tax regime so you have to file accounts in the same way and make tax declarations in the same way as if you were a French entity. Or, more usually, setting up a fully blown French subsidiary. We have minimal capital requirements. It takes only a few weeks. In fact it would take very little time at all. The one issue, which in practice can be a problem, is actually having a French bank account because the banks are less helpful, than perhaps other areas, in setting up the company. But normally it can be done within 2 or 3 weeks. The other way of coming into France is to acquire an existing business and there are effectively two ways of doing that. Buying the business is a going concern to an asset deal. That has the advantage of course, you purchasing assets, and generally speaking, not liabilities. Jérôme has touched upon the difficulties we have and the bad reputation we have in France for employment law. Not always justified in my view, and under European regulation, we have the obligation to transfer the employees with the business. So in fact if you do an asset deal the key issue, which is very often not understood in my experience by North American clients, is that all the employees have to come over with the business as a going concern. Other than that it is a much simpler process because you don't actually take over the pre-existing liabilities, which cuts down on due diligence, and obviously on risk.
Having said that, from a tax point of view the going concern value is tax at 5% , which is quite high. Perhaps the more common way is a share transaction. If properly structured you would expect, that's in the real estate sector where it is slightly different, but if it's not in the real estate sector you would expect to structure it to pay 0.1% of the share value in tax. So again, very favourable tax regime. I would say that the last 10-15 years we've made a lot of progress in France over normalizing our contracts, in that on share deals today we effectively use Anglo-Saxon type of mechanisms and SPA's. We have the same types of warranties. There's been a lot of harmonization world-wide, I'd say, over the approach to buying companies. If you are in a modern sector, such as the tech area or life sciences in France, you would expect to probably negotiate the deal in the English language today with the contract being actually signed in English. That's a sea-change from 10 years ago, or 15 years ago, when it would be very difficult to negotiate a contract in the English language. So that's what I want to say about share deals.
Still we have a few employment pitfalls when you do transactions in France and a number of these are quite odd for investors. For example, you cannot implement and emanate an action entailing a change of control in the company which employs more than 50, if you do not propose each employee in a company to buy the company first. Or if you do not collect the prior advice of the works council in the company. Not collecting the prior advice of the works council is even a criminal offense. However, this advice is not a veto right. If the works council says, "No. Never." to a project, well, it doesn't matter. You can proceed, nevertheless, to the transaction as long as you have an answer. So it is simply a question of process, after all, and don't worry we're use to managers so we'll accompany you.
Thanks Jérôme. Just to sum up, I think France is a jurisdiction which is very much open to business, which welcomes foreign investment. As I say, we have 20,000 businesses already established here and obviously in a presentation like this we have to keep it a very high level. If any of you wish to have an informal conversation with Jérôme: or I, on any of the subjects we've touched upon, please just pick up the phone and give us a call. Thanks.
Scott Jolliffe: Thank you very much Simon and Jérôme.
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