Round trip of 27 km. along the side of the Lauwersmeer, the Zuider Ee, Dokkumer Grootdiep and De Oude Zwemmer.
A route of 27 km. Extra detour to Dokkum will make it 33 km. Starting point at the locks Dokkumer Nieuwe Zijlen. There is a small campsite:"De Brandgans", tel.: 0511-408579. No kayak rentals. Take care if there's a strong wind, especially if it comes from the north or north-east. The locks Willem Loréslûs are a main passage from the province Friesland toward the Lauwersmeer and the Waddenzee. From here we start going east on the Dokkumer Diep (photo above). The water is shallow outside the channel, but with a kayak you'll have no problem. The canal makes a bend to the north and becomes wider. You pass a small island on the left side. If there's a strong wind from the north there will be tricky waves after you pass the island. From the island it will be 1,5 km before you turn left into the Raskes. There is a stone dam stretching into the lake marked with a wooden triangle to indicate the entrance of the canal. After 1,5 km you reach the locks of Ezumazijl. There is a kayak pier on the right side. You have to carry the kayak across the dike and across the bridge. Ignore the no-entrance-sign (verboden toegang) at the locks as there is a kayak pier just on the other side of the locks behind the stone edge. From here you paddle west on the Zuider Ee for about 7 km. The last part there is a main road along the canal. When you see a park on your right where people are fishing, you turn left for the 27 km trip. (For Dokkum you go straight on for 3 more kilometers, and there turn left twice). Now you come on a small canal with several bends. At the end you see the chimney of an old stone-factory. Here you have to take the kayak out and carry it for about 150 meters and lift it over one or more iron gates to reach the Dokkumer Grootdiep. At the Dokkumer Grootdiep there are just remains of a kayak-pier. The place is marked with a pole with a yellow top. From here you turn left. The Dokkumer Grootdiep was around 1600 a sea-arm on which war-ships could sail to the center of Dokkum. For a quick return to the starting point you keep following the canal east until you come at the locks of the starting point. This way you can reduce the total distance with about 3 km. The adventurous way back is turning right after 1,5 km. After a short distance you come at a bridge. You have to carry the kayak across a dam. There is a pier on the other side of the bridge. Follow the canal to the east, and it makes a bend to the right. There's another dam at the windmill where you'll have to carry the kayak around. Continue south and at the T-junction you turn left. Now you're on the Oude Zwemmer, an old stretch of river. You come at a weir and you'll have to carry around it. You can get out at a wooden shed with a round roof, or just before the weir on the right if you don't mind flattening the reed and stinging nettles before you can make your way through. On the other side there is a ditch connected to the Zwemmer where you can get in. Be careful not to break any of the flowering rush. This is a protected plant in the Netherlands. Keep going east. Just before the canal ends, you turn right en left again to reach a small lake. Across the lake you have to carry the kayak across a small dike with a road. There is a canal on the other side with a kayak pier. But because there's a lot of reed it is diffucult to find. You make your way through the reed just before the first white reflector pole and you'll find the kayak pier. Follow the canal and then turn left. The canal makes a bend to the right and you come back on the Dokkumer Grootdiep. From here it is 2,5 km to the starting point. Just before the locks you'll see a kayak pier on the left.
GPS Willem Loréslûs: Lat 53.3170, Lon 6.1593.
GPS Ezumazijl: Lon 53.3587, Lat 6.1485.
Starting point Dokkumer Nieuwe Zijlen.


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It is important to note that some lifestyle factors may have an effect on the treatments permanency. Things such as smoking, alcohol consumption and prolonged sun exposure may cause skin damage and hinder the result. Clients must also be aware that their genetics and ethnicity may also affect their results.
We require all clients schedule a patch test and possible pretreatment protocol prior to the procedure.
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Explore the wonderful world of Disney in this crazy new VR app
Melia Robinson,
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Walt Disney Studios just hush-hush released a virtual reality app on Steam that allows users to explore the Wonderful World of Disney.
Disney Movies VR, which launched on May 16 without any fanfare, promises a fully immersive experience where you can visit themed worlds from the Disney, Marvel and Lucasfilm properties.
So far, users can step into scenes from "The Jungle Book," "Captain America" Civil War," and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
From the looks of the trailer, you might catch a fireworks display from out front of Cinderella's castle or dodge shots from an AT-AT. For a diehard Disney fan like myself, it looks like heaven in a headset.
But don't get too amped up just yet: Redditors who tried the app say the experiences are mostly limited to 360-degree videos, which are hardly immersive. Still, the app's very existence suggests big-name media companies like Disney are getting in on the virtual reality action.
Disney Movies VR is currently compatible with the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift, two of the best VR systems available here in the US.
Earlier this year, Tech Insider spoke with Vicki Dobbs Beck, the Lucasfilm executive in charge of their virtual reality arm, ILMxLab, and she hinted at some exciting cinematic storytelling in the future.
"We are looking at ways to use the movies as portals to enrich and expand the universe of the film," Dobbs Beck said. "I sometimes think about it as, the movie is linear and [virtual reality] is like punching through a scene and opening it up in another direction or dimension."
It's unclear if the ILMxLab made any contribution to the Disney Movies VR app; It is not listed as a developer.
Here's hoping we can pilot an Iron Man suit or X-wing soon! Check out the full trailer right here on Steam.
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Анастасия Георгиева Чакърова по мъж Узунова е българска революционерка, деятелка на Вътрешната македоно-одринска революционна организация.

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Родена е в 1862 година в големия македонски български град Струга, тогава в Османската империя. Произхожда от стария стружки възрожденски род Чакърови - дъщеря е на Георги Чакъров, и е първа братовчедка на Христо Матов и Милан Матов. Жени се за Димитър Узунов, дългогодишен учител и борец за независима църква, близък и родственик на Григор Пърличев. Заедно с Димитър има няколко деца, сред които са дейците на ВМОРО Христо Узунов, Андон Узунов и Ангел Узунов. Анастасия Узунова е главна организаторка на жените във ВМОРО в Охридско и родоначалничка на женските организационни групи, първата охридчанка, която влиза във ВМОРО. Участва във въоръжаването на първата организационна чета в Охридско под войводството на Тале Горанов. Заедно със сина си Христо присъства на заклеването на четата като представителка на организираните от нея жени.

Изселва се в България заедно със сина си Ангел. Анастасия Узунова умира в 1948 година. Погребана е в Централните софийски гробища.

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Traffic is pretty much the hardest part about trying to make cash online, if you don't believe me just ask any Internet marketer or take a look at some Internet marketing blogs. Obviously the most challenging thing to do is to convert this traffic into a sale. We have come across a new system online that says that it can in reality take care of the conversion process for you. In this post we will be taking a look at this product and it is called "The Affiliate Earnings Booster".
I am sure you have seen every one of the products online that offer affiliate review sites. If you've ever been on one of these types of websites you are aware that the site is rather boring, which doesn't help with conversions. This system actually offers you a video walk through covering the affiliate products. Of course, if you think about it, when someone actually sees you buying the product, going through the material with them and then suggesting the product, the chances that they will transform into buyers increases.
This is a completely new idea in the world of website marketing. But it really doesn't stop at them supplying you with the reviews but you will also be given the actual transcripts to the videos, so you can do a voice over and people will hear you talking about the product. More than likely you can see the potency of having your voice upon these videos. And also the quality of the videos are in reality quite impressive as they go into detail and even provide your customers a look within the members area.
Additionally they did not limit the niche categories that they cover. You will be able to find reviews for losing weight products as well as the most popular niche Internet marketing. You can actually decide if you want to buy the non Internet marketing videos, the Internet marketing videos or you can also invest in all the videos. One of the sign up bonuses you'll be getting when you purchase any of the videos is the SEO and traffic generation system. This shows you the way to start receiving the traffic to your videos and you can even use these techniques for your websites.
There is a thing that I didn't care for, which was the voice quality inside the videos themselves. The quality of the voices is generally crystal clear but it is the voices themselves that will make the quality poor, it is as if they just had people reading from a script. Which means that you really don't want to use the videos, as is, and you will want to make sure you do a voice over so the video sounds much better. They actually make it very easy to do the voice overs since they give you the exact transcript from the video and you can even add your own flare to them.
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http://www.cluttonCox.co.UK has a free book available to download all about conveyancing which will help any buyer or seller of a property understand just what the conveyancing process is from a legal point of view. In this chapter, Paul Hajek's book talks about contracts and how they have changed over the years. Conveyancing Solicitors have also relied on a standard contract for sale to make life for sellers and buyers as easy and as fair as possible. And over time, a fair bit of tweaking to what are now called the Standard Conditions of Sale has taken place. Until 2003, there were two "Conditions of Sale"; a National and a Standard utilised by Conveyancers; the former had reached its 24th Edition, the latter reached its 5th Edition in April 2011. So common are these standard conditions that most solicitors when issuing a draft contract for sale to a prospective buyer's solicitors, only refer to them by name, and do not reproduce the conditions in full.


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Q: Swift nested type in init function I have a nested type object describing some structure:
class Car {
   class Electro {
       class 2WheelDrive {
       }
       class 4WheelDrive {
       }
   }
}

I want to use that object as a parameter in the init function of another object which signature looks like:
init(car: Car)

However, when I try to call this init function with Car.Electro.4WheelDrive argument, I get an error:

"cannot convert value of type 'Car.Electro.4WheelDrive' to expected
  argument type 'Car'".

Which init function signature except init(car: Any) should I use to be able to use arguments like Car.Electro.4WheelDrive?

A: Your code creates four classes:

*

*Car

*Car.Electro

*Car.Electro.2WheelDrive (I don't think that's legal; it has to start w/ a letter)

*Car.Electro.4WheelDrive

These are unrelated classes; the only thing they have in common is some namespacing. Car.Electro is not a subclass of Car. If you want it to be, you need to declare that.
You likely didn't mean to make these nested at all. You probably meant to make them subclasses:
class Car {}
class ElectroCar: Car {}
class TwoWheelDriveElectroCar: ElectroCar {}
class FourWheelDriveElectroCar: ElectroCar {}

If you want to, you can still nest them of course:
class Car {
   class Electro: Car {
       class TwoWheelDrive: Electro {
       }
       class FourWheelDrive: Electro {
       }
   }
}

This just changes their names, not their relationships.

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Q: ASP.NET - How to get assembly from virtual path in custom IResourceProvider implementation I'm developing custom local resource provider implementation, which should supply resource values from resources located in App_LocalResources folders, but the resources should be compiled as embedded. So no resx files will stay in web app folder, which default LocalResXResourceProvider expects.
The problem is I need to get to assembly with the embedded resources from virtual path and I'm not able to figure out what ASP.NET class use to translate virtual path to corresponding assembly. I was looking into decompiled sources of LocalResXResourceProvider and BuildManager, but all the things are internal. I wasn't able to get the assembly even using LocalResXResourceProvider.GetLocalResourceAssembly() through reflection - it just returns null when I deployed the application to clear folder without resx files in place. It works when resx files are present though...


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Learning Kubernetes is hard. Learning how to set up Kubernetes even harder. Developers have to provision a cluster from a cloud provider and have to start paying for that immediately. This can discourage developers who want to build scalable microservices. On big teams, usually, developers have a DevOps team who can take care of scalability and optimization.
When breaking apart monolithic applications, microservices will have to scale to handle the load of the incoming requests. As the application grows, so will the need for the microservices. When developing their applications, developers can run into the problem where it doesn't work in different environments. The phrase "It works on my machine" points fingers at a bigger problem. Developers can find this frustrating and it slows down updates to the application. The developer's workflow can prevent this by using minikube.
For large enterprise applications who use the cloud as their platform, Kubernetes has been one of the many solutions to these issues. Quickly deploy, scale, and modernize your microservices with simple commands. Minikube allows you to test this functionality without the cloud provider. As a NodeJS developer, having the functionality to develop a workflow that you would use for your production application is very valuable.
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Cultural Catchup-Lite: Parenthood, Doctor Who, Community
While I had quite a bit of grading to do over this holiday weekend, my lack of family commitments (being Canadian, and all) meant that the holiday was also a chance to catch up on various things related more to the blog.
First, I've finally created a link to my Master's thesis, which has been "available" via PDF for a while now on Acadia's library website. Perhaps I just wanted to create some distance between the project and my new endeavor south of the border, but I have been remiss in adding the link to the "About" page. In short form, the thesis is an investigation of national identity in fictional representations of the Canadian small town, with chapters on Canadian television series Corner Gas and Little Mosque on the Prairie. You can find the Abstract for the thesis on this page, while you can directly download the PDF here. Also, if you're new and never visit my "About" page, my undergrad thesis on medieval Romance and Battlestar Galactica is available here if you are so inclined.
Second, I got to some of my viewing backlog, which means I've got some brief thoughts about some of those series. While you've already read my thoughts on the conclusion of Angel's second season, I wanted to offer a few thoughts on the second season of Parenthood, Doctor Who's "The Girl in the Fireplace," the third and fourth episodes of The Walking Dead, as well as the first season of FX's Archer.
I also asked my Twitter followers what else they might want to hear more about, and so will dutifully comment on Community (although in less detail, for the sake of my productivity); I'll be saving thoughts on Fringe's third season (which has been really good, and structurally fascinating) and Terriers' first season for later (and by later I mean Wednesday in the case of Terriers, as I've seen the finale and will be writing about it and the season at that time).
Similarly, I will probably keep the Walking Dead thoughts for a brief review of tonight's episode (which I have not seen yet), and might wait to review Archer S1 when the DVD hits on December 28th (I was watching on Netflix); however, thoughts on Parenthood, "The Girl in the Fireplace," and Community after the jump.
I haven't been writing about the second season of Parenthood, which is sort of a combination of issues related to time and interest. If I thought the show warranted weekly attention I'd find the time, and if I had the time I might think that the show warranted weekly attention. With Todd VanDerWerff covering the show at The A.V. Club, the internet has its weekly Parenthood analysis, and so I've been content to spend an hour every so often catching up an episode at a time on Hulu (since that hour is particularly crowded on the DVR these days, although less so with Caprica's cancellation).
This season of the show has been…fine. While the Thanksgiving episode showed the show in comfortable territory, and seeing Haddie and Amber get more substantial storylines has been in the show's best interest, the parts of the show which occasionally drive me crazy still drive me crazy. Characters like Julia and Kristina suffer because they tend to manufacture drama through their actions, and they sometimes make that unfortunate transition from flawed to irritating. I totally understand why Julia wants another child, for example, but that she would so casually ignore Joel's position in their relationship became too selfish. Similarly, while I understand why Kristina is so pushy when it comes to a parent who has decided that her daughter's wish to not invite Max to her birthday party should be fulfilled, that the moral of the story seemed to be that the mother was being close-minded as opposed to that Kristina was being equally if not more egocentric drove me a little batty.
I always resist outright criticizing the autism storyline considering Jason Katims' own experience in the area, experience that seems to be informing these stories. However, at times Kristina is forced into a role where she plays advocate at the expense of any sense of character motivation. Her life is so driven by her son that her role as advocate can occasionally become her only role, and as Haddie's storyline moved out of the immediate family (with her relationship with Michael B. Jordan's Alex) and Adam's workplace became his focus, you realize that's sort of all Kristina has left. It's a reductive characterization, and I feel as it the autism side of things becomes more problematic in a marginalized B-Story than when it is front and center (like in the great "Orange Alert").
Everything else is in the show's basic tradition: Lauren Graham's Sarah continues to step into Lorelai shoes as she helps usher a daughter who is smarter than she is through a college admissions process (albeit here Lorelai's staunch opposition towards patronage has been replaced by a broad opportunism considering Amber's more troubled road), and William Baldwin stuck around for about as long as one would expect. I don't particularly care about Adam or his employees, to be honest, but I thought the Thanksgiving setting showed the sibling dynamics which highlight the best qualities of the four Bravermans and nicely acknowledged the ways in which Crosby has unexpectedly, but definitively, stepped into the role of the male lead of the series in many ways. No real attachment to the Crosby/Joel storyline outside of getting more of the underused Sam Jaeger, but even then Crosby's presence (and his own desire to prove himself as a father, in this case to the bored principal) elevates things. He is the one character who seems to be making an active change in his life, and that shifting identity is free of the melodrama which has somewhat plagued the very well-acted Zeke/Camille story.
Overall, the show is definitely the same show it was before: the season started out in a decent place, but it's nicely coalesced as the various parts come together. Not one of television's best, but considering that Brothers & Sisters is way past its prime I think it's the most engaging family drama on the air (especially since the "family" side of things is one of The Good Wife's weak points).
Doctor Who – "The Girl in the Fireplace"
In my pre-Series Five catchup earlier this year, I wanted to try to get through the entirety of Steven Moffat's output over the show's run. Unfortunately, I hit a hiccup catching up on Series Two due to availability, so I started with "Blink" as opposed to "The Girl in the Fireplace." In some ways, I actually think this was for the better: not because the episode is in any way a disappointment, but rather because the parallels to "The Eleventh Hour" might have led me to view the new series in a different light.
There's no question that Moffat was pilfering certain elements of "The Girl in the Fireplace" when he created the origins of Amy Pond: the first meeting in childhood, the shifting passage of time which leads to a sense of abandonment, the presumption that the Doctor was an imaginary friend as opposed to a time lord, etc. I do not necessarily mean this as a criticism: in relaunching the series in his image, Moffat simply returned to the kinds of themes and tones which he enjoyed. There's a wonderful romanticism to this tale, a decades-long love affair told in brief segments, commentary on the passage of time and the way in which departure and absence only adds to the power of a connection. Madame de Pompadour became a sort of mistress for the Doctor, a second companion who he sees only when he is able, and despite her brief tenure there is a great deal of weight to the hour for a show which peddles in transience.
Amy Pond is what would happen if such a figure were to become his companion, if someone who experienced the Doctor's arrival and departure was suddenly thrust into a life of time travel. What's different, I realize now, is that David Tennant fits the stereotype the heroic male figure – for all his weirdness, he plays white knight riding to the rescue quite comfortably. By comparison, Matt Smith's Doctor is not so comfortable as the romantic lead: he still has chemistry with Amy, but it isn't quite the star-crossed love affair that "The Girl in the Fireplace" becomes at moments (in particular their big ol' makeout session, which is a far cry from Amy's almost slapstick efforts to seduce the Doctor).
As a standalone story, I ultimately prefer "Blink" for its less frantic, more serious take on timey-wimeyness. Tennant's madcap approach, mixed with his more traditional heroism, has its moments but can't live up to Mulligan's skeptical, reserved approach to the Weeping Angels. I also felt that the Clockwork creatures were intriguing but not as well realized as they could have been: while I quite liked the reveal of why they had chosen Pompadour, and the way in which they lost their sense of purpose once trapped in a particular time, I thought the lack of context made the episode more scattered than atmospheric at points. Perhaps it was that Rose and Mickey remained on the spaceship to do some exposition, but the episode felt fractured, and I think this ultimately put it a notch below "Blink" in that regard.
And yet the episode was thematically cohesive in a way that you don't always get with a Doctor Who episode, at least from my experience. That the story resonated with Moffat to the point of inspiring Amy's creation speaks to the power of the installment, and he was right to want to return to this type of story on a grand scale. Just a really strong hour, and one which does signal Moffat's ability to tell the kinds of stories necessary to sustain the show as a whole – he clearly had big ideas, and while "Blink" showed an ability to be economical they were smart to give him a two-parter in Series Four and control in Series Five.
My Thursdays are busy, with academic commitments late in the afternoon and then Office-related commitments in the evening, which means that extra-curricular reviewing becomes a bit of a challenge. With a show like 30 Rock this isn't a huge problem, as its returns to form have been easily reflected in a tweet and its occasional struggles have been similarly easy to explain in 140 characters. However, the internet has decided (for good reason) that Community is deserving of more attention, and so I do wish that I had time to delve into each week's episode to chart the series' negotiation of both the hype and its basic premise.
I promise to check in for the Christmas episode (which just seems like the wildest of experiments, being in Rankin-Bass style stop-motion animation), but in the meantime I'm content with other critics covering the show in detail (Sepinwall, VanDerWerff) and offering the occasional tweet. This season has been heavy on "theme" episodes, offering further parallels between this show and Glee, and while I understand why some may want the show to return to simpler storylines I think the show has yet to fall to the level of gimmick. They can derive a theme episode out of something subtle like conspiracy theories or something broad like full-on zombies, and can have theme elements (like Abed as Terminator) integrated into stories like the mean girls which are pretty well grounded. I don't feel as if these are all versions of a different show, and that cohesion means that I don't feel enough whiplash to be pushed to write about each episode.
Instead, I just sort of sit back and enjoy the ride – a great second season for a great television show.
[Like I said, more to come on other series when I find the time.]
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Sorry if I missed it but what did you think of Moffat's two parter in Series 1?
…I had forgotten about that. And likely won't be getting to it for a while.
This isn't so much meant as a slight on Eccleston as it is on time – could only go back so far at the time, might get to it eventually.
Paul M.
Hope you can eventually find the time – The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances is a really good tw0-parter. And kind of terrifying – at least it was when it first aired back in 05.
I found the bit about Madame du Pompadour being Amy's inspiration really interesting, as I don't know of many critics that made that comparison. It's also interesting when considering that major elements of The Girl in the Fireplace, the Library 2-parter and Blink were all originally part of the same episode (although you couldn't possibly have known this).
I was just going to bring this up. It's a really great two parter by Moffat too. Definitely worth checking out if you have time to do so.
Watched the first part last night – might finish tonight.
Could you sleep? (Haha.)
I'm so glad! It's the Moffat arc from the RTD years, after all. It demands to be watched. 😀
Looking forward to seeing what your thoughts are on it!
Myles,
Last night I was contemplating a re-watch of Babylon 5, and among my stray thoughts was that it would be wonderful to see you do a Cultural Catch-Up on the show. Realistically, I know that you already have two shows that you are working on, and often not even enough time for them. But I still found it an interesting coincidence when I saw today that you had mentioned B5 on Twitter and had also written a new Cultural Catchup post. I don't think that it can be argued that Babylon 5 wasn't ground-breaking in a number of ways, and on some points I believe that it is still amongst the best the medium has achieved (in terms of philosophy, spirituality, character development and plot progression). It may not be for quite awhile, but I definitely look forward to hearing your thoughts on the show, whenever that time comes.
Jeni Caetano
Ok, now I don't feel like the biggest nerd in the world for having a graduation thesis* about Chuck and the series relationship with the fans.
Both topics are so cool that I don't know which one I want to read first.
Do you know what will be the subject of your PhD thesis?
* Since we have a different educational system in Brazil, I have no idea if this is the right word to use. =D
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Gmail has a new look and had a few new tools added in top-to-bottom makeover of the free email client.
Google says the facelift will help users get more done by simplifying the way the program works.
The new version, which was long overdue a redesign, lets users click on attachments without opening or scrolling through long conversations, puts non-urgent emails in snooze mode and makes accessing Google apps from Gmail a lot easier.
What could turn out to be an annoying feature is nudge, a recurring reminder to reply to messages.
Smart Reply takes the effort out of canned responses by applying artificial intelligence to writing short messages for you.
The tool suggests three responses to emails and already drives 12% of email replies on mobiles through Gmail.
Gmail already has a reputation for applying the best spam filter, and the new version ups the ante by picking out potentially harmful emails and flagging them as dangerous.
Confidential mode is a fresh tool for Gmail that lets users set parameters for how their message recipients can handle content.
The tool can stop recipients forwarding, copying, printing or downloading messages – and sets an expiration date. When reached, the message self-destructs.
Access to the new Gmail is by roll-out which has already started.
Over the coming weeks, your Gmail settings – the cog in the top right-hand corner of the screen – will update and show a 'Try the new Gmail' option.
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Although Gmail remains free, the paid-for version G-Suite has a new look and a host of new security features, such as phishing protection.
"Email is a necessity for most of us. We use it to stay in touch with colleagues and friends, keep up with the latest news, manage to-dos at home or at work—we just can't live without it," says the Google web site.
"The new features are designed to make people more productive by helping them accomplish more from their inbox."
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Curator & Coach - Championship Weekend
Curator Sam Burnham
SEC Championship - Georgia vs Alabama
This may be the game of the year.These are the two best teams in the nation and they will be the two best teams after this game is over. To be honest, at this point, Clemson is the only team that can stay on the field with these two. The Tigers are the only team preventing this game from being the national championship game. Georgia can win this game. It requires a big day by their pass rush and their secondary to hold down Tua Tagovailoa. Alabama has won their last two games while really only playing in the second half. If they try that Saturday, Georgia will repeat as SEC Champs.
Upset Alert - A Two Alarm Week
Big XII Championship - Texas vs Oklahoma
This isn't as big of an upset as people are playing it out to be. Texas beat them before and they'll beat them again. Oklahoma has no defense whatsoever and it shows. The Longhorns will be ready and will handle their business.
I said Georgia can win and now I'm telling you they will. Georgia has a chip on their shoulder after last year's game. They've got the horses to stay in this race and while I think you'll see Jake Fromm putting up some numbers, Georgia will win this on the ground. Running the ball and controlling the tempo will help with controlling Tagovailoa and lead them to victory.
Coach Drew Burnham
As a general rule, it is incredibly difficult to beat the same team twice in one season. That is even tougher to do if the first game was close. Add a top 5 rivalry to the mix? Almost impossible. This game should be full of fireworks. I just think that at the end of the day there are too many things adding up against Oklahoma including the pressure of holding on to that playoff spot for dear life. That is pressure that the Horns don't have to deal with. Look for this one to be a high scoring affair to the bitter end again with the Longhorns making just one more play late.
The American Conference Championship - Memphis vs UCF
See "Game of the Week" about how hard it is to beat the same team twice in a year. That was a 1-point game in October. The Memphis offense has only grown more volatile since putting 490 yards and 30 points on the Knights. That attack will carry them through this game. Look for Darrell Henderson (1699 yards, 19 touchdowns) to carry the ball 30+ times in a Tiger attempt to manage the clock and keep the UCF offense off the field. I missed this upset by a single point last time I picked it, I can't be wrong twice right?
Utah vs Washington
Louisiana-Lafayette vs Appy
Texas vs Oklahoma
UAB vs MT
Stanford vs Cal
Memphis vs UCF
Alabama vs Georgia
Fresno State vs Boise State
Northwestern vs Ohio State
Clemson vs Pittsburgh
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Emily in Paris Season 2: Cast, Release Date & Everything You Need To Know
By Annie Dee
(Photo : Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
"Emily in Paris" has its fair share of controversies and criticisms, but it's overall loved so there is a season season. It might be one of the year's most polarizing shows, but it certainly makes for a good entertainment.
The series, which follows American Emily Cooper, played by Lily Collins in her new life in France, looks really lighthearted enough when it was first teased. But once it was releaseda and people have watched it, Netflix users cannot decide whether they love it or hate it.
Regardless though, the clamor was enough for Netflix to give a go signal for a follow-up season.
The exciting news was announced on Nov. 11, just a month after its premiere. Netflix probably knew about the mixed reception the series had, so the announcement was made in a cheeky letter patterned after how Emily's boss Sylvie would put it. "We hope that by extending her time in Paris, Emily will further the relationships she has already made, delve deeper into our culture, and perhaps pick up a few words of basic French," the letter read.
If you are a fan, then everything to know about "Emily in Paris" season 2 so far, is here.
"Emily in Paris" Season 2 Cast - Old and New
Will Lily Collins reprise her role? Certainly. If not her, who would play Emily? It's not as if the titular character can be removed or replaced from the show.
According to Bustle, majority of the old cast wiould return to the show, wherein some of them would get meatier roles this time.
Mindy (Ashley Park), in particular, will likely have more of a central role since she has moved in with Emily in the finale. The closer she is to the main character, the more she will be seen on the show. This is not just a good thing for her, but also her growing fans. "Any excuse to see more of Mindy, I am all for," show creater Darren Star told Glamour.
As Emily slowly gains the begrudging respect of her coworkers, she'll also likely bond more with the other characters. The artists playing them of course would return as well, including Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Samuel Arnold, and Bruno Gouery.
Season 2 is also likely to give more airtime to chef Gabriel (played by Lucas Bravo) and his now ex-girlfriend Camille (played by Camille Razat). It's too early to know if there would be new cast members and who they are but they are going to be announced in due time.
Storyline and Release Date
While Netflix gave a go signal for "Emily in Paris" Season 2 in a definitive manner, what it cannot give right now is the release date.
It's quite hard to tell when a new season will air due to the pandemic, so it is safe to assume that it is not going to happen just yet. The show is obviously filmed in Paris, and going back there is not that easy, since the country is currently placed under quarantine until Dec. 1, 2020.
"I hope we'll be back in Paris next spring and things will ease up a little bit," Darren Star said. "We start filming Younger soon in New York, so that will be an interesting challenge, but it's possible. I think hopefully we'll be in a better place by next spring," he added.
Like the new cast, it is hard to know definitely what the new storyline is going to be, except for the fact that it is continuation of Emily's life in Paris with her new friends, workmates and lovers.
When it is already safe to film, then it might take a year to wrap up. If the show would start filming in spring 2021, then the show might drop on spring 2022. Fans have plenty of time to rewatch the first season.
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Looks Like Emily is Staying in Paris! 'Emily in Paris' Starring Lily Collins has ALREADY been Renewed for a Season 3 and 4
Looks like Emily is staying in Paris!
Are You a Lover or a Hater? The Polarizing Nature of Netflix's 'Emily in Paris'
Netflix's "Emily in Paris" is that show you either unabashedly love or love to hate. Created by Darren Star, who is best known for creating shows like "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "Sex and the City," "Emily in Paris" follows Lily Collins' titular Emily, who unexpectedly gets the opportunity to work abroad in the City of Lights after the person who's supposed to go learns that she's pregnant. The series follows Emily as she adjusts to life in Paris, meets cute Parisian boys, and struggles to navigate Savoir, the French marketing firm that's her new workplace.
Emily's Back and Doing Paris Right This Time! Netflix Drops "Emily in Paris" Season 2 Trailer
Lily Collins is back as Emily in Netflix's "Emily in Paris" season two trailer! Dropped this morning, the trailer has Emily contending with the mistakes she made at the end of season one, as she juggles love triangles, work troubles, and living abroad in the City of Lights.
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Emily in Paris has been a massive hit, but it seems like critics are split with their reviews.
'Emily in Paris' Season 2: Plot, Release Date, And More
Will "Emily in Paris" get a second season on Netflix?
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According to The Guardian, "Emily in Paris" was described as "an exorcism of all of the French cliches the writers could think of."


You can't predict an accurate future.
When your time in life becomes limited, life becomes more precious.
We all know we are not immortal. This awareness of our finite time on earth can enhance our appreciation of our daily lives when we are healthy. When faced with a serious illness, however, that same awareness can devastate us when we most need peace of mind and freedom to focus on getting well. One way to achieve this freedom is to make known our desires about the event none of us want to contemplate - total incapacity and death. There are two good reasons for doing this: first, to ensure that your wishes are respected and, second, to avoid burdening your family and friends with the need to make painful decisions.
During the dying process there is an extraordinary opportunity for all involved to respect personal integrity and restore death to its sacred place. There are now more choices with the advent of hospice and home care offering flexible services which are more meaningful and personal addressing the values and meaning of life. Often spiritual dimensions provide moral strength which can improve the care of a dying patient.
End-of-life care has changed dramatically over the last hundred years. A century ago, little could be done except to try to afford some level of comfort, which was largely unsatisfactory and unsuccessfully palliative. Over the last five, ten, and twenty years, there have been remarkable technological advances in the care and treatment of medical problems, with newer treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases made possible by up-to-now unimaginable advances in the clinical sciences and in patient care. Where forty years ago palliative care was only a word, it's now a major industry with the hospice movement, hospice beds, and hospice-type care, which have totally changed the venues and programs required to provide high-grade palliative care.
Yet, despite all these achievements, millions of people in America and all over the world seek palliative care that is compassionate, holistic and sensitive to the whole person's needs, and yet it is not being delivered. This, in part, is inexcusable with all of our knowledge, but because of limited resources and money, we are constrained to deliver the best care we can, which, to a large degree, is inadequate for the major part of the population, suffering with a diagnosis of cancer or another life-threatening disease. Palliative care is better accomplished in major clinical centers, but yet, there are great deficits in providing programs. With upcoming solutions and improved care and treatments, more people will be alive longer and healthier while trying to get the most out of the last few weeks, months, and years of life.
It is felt that the deepest and most profound impact occurs when there is a life-threatening illness. With recent discoveries, this challenge is being met so that physical symptoms are addressed with compassionate medical care, as well as the patient's mind-body issues.
Total patient care takes awareness, understanding, healing and thoughtful consideration of the needs of the patient, family, and friends to help put together a total patient care program. This is supported by numerous organizations and medical studies done over the last forty years, which have proven these concepts to be relevant and reasonable.
We are dedicated to promoting better palliative care through awareness, information, better healing processes, and a strong movement for mind-and-body care. Fortunately, many foundations are becoming more aware of the problem and are giving their aid, but it is still inadequate. Thus, it is important for each person, family, and friends to become knowledgeable and interactive with patient, family and medical team to help promote better and more compassionate care. It is our hope, as well as that of others, that by promoting better ELC, we can ease suffering and provide better comfort for those entering into this last phase of life.
When a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness is made, there is often a wake-up call, when patients become acutely alert to life, and possibly death and also share their thoughts and feelings to help promote communication with loved ones and promote better understanding of the illness and problems needing to be solved.
Group support, as well as individual one-to-one psychological support, has become very important in promoting understanding of the illness process, as well as providing compassionate care. A diagnosis of cancer or a life-threatening illness is usually unexpected, and it comes like a bolt of lightning, which, in just a few seconds, changes the lives of patient, family and friends. Most everyone wants to help, and the person with a life-threatening illness faces new challenges that need immediate solutions. Unfortunately, medicine often moves at a slow pace, and it may takes days, weeks, and occasionally even months to arrive at the appropriate diagnosis and a plan for what needs to be done. Speed really helps, as there is tremendous anxiety every minute and hour. The patient, family, and friends are continually worried about what can and should be done and object vehemently to the obstructions set in their pathways by the regulations of governmental and state insurance and doctors' rules, as well as the problems that exist just getting through an inefficient system that seems endless.
Emotional healing is one of the essential ingredients needing attention in the healing process. The body and the psyche are major concerns, with each person dealing with the situation in his own way. We strive to live each day to the best of our ability through the love of our family and friends and to try to forgive those who have offended or taken advantage of us. This helps to dispel some of the anger and unhappiness that occur toward the end of life, when one wishes to be free of the encumbrances that often plague us, causing depression, sadness, despair, and resentment.
Many people are unable to forgive and live with negative emotions, anger, and rage, which often disturb the psyche and do not allow the freedom that one obtains through benevolence and forgiveness, which may help lessen pain and depression.
Through awareness and compassion, one is able to obtain some semblance of the healing process psychologically, as well as the physical benefits of relief through the forgiving process. Shakespeare said, "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." We know from experience that the inner thoughts that run through our minds, shape and color the decisions that direct every aspect of our everyday lives. The connection between our thoughts and our biological processes is unclear.
Advances and medical progress can have a very powerful positive or negative effect on health and well-being. We hope to give our patients a direct experience, showing how conscious and unconscious thoughts affect every aspect of the experience of life, including physical well-being. The mind provides meaning virtually to everything it focuses on, and each patient gives his own interpretation to the illness, which can dramatically affect the ability to assess, choose, and interpret treatment opinions, side effects, and response or lack of response to care. We may make many inaccurate assumptions about cancer and life-threatening illnesses through misinformation that can affect and burden the unconscious mind. People who believe that challenges will make them stronger and better may react quite differently in treatment from a patient who is secretly convinced he is being punished for something in the past. This concept of guilt and self-punishment is devastating and can really affect the mind and body and cause depression, evil thoughts, provide some rationale for insomnia, and can affect a person's physical and mental health.
Each person attaches some need to the significant medical problem, and this can lead to sadness, unhappiness, and inability to cope and recognize that these patterns that can totally affect how one functions and lives. Deeply held convictions are brief stops that cause detours in one's pathway due to poor information and philosophy. Following one's particular religious or philosophical approach may be very helpful in keeping one's orientation along a more straightened pathway to help one live a more productive and meaningful life. The goal is to help discover what conscious choices can be made and what possibilities can occur to help gain solace and comfort in life.
Each person wants to live as long as possible and with as much comfort and enjoyment as feasible. This becomes more significant when a person is gravely ill or enters into an end-of-life process. Early in life, each person in the teens, middle life, the 40s and 50s, and in old age still sets goals to live by and hopes to attain. Goals give a meaning for living and are points in life that one hopes to achieve.
Many people try to define their goals, and one of the best principles is that of Ben Franklin, who would take a blank piece of paper and draw a line down the middle. On the right side he put the positives and the negatives on the left. He then started making a list of the positive things he would like to achieve or enjoy in life. On the negative side he wrote things that were hindrances or roadblocks that were negative, depressive, or unobtainable. This list was just a beginning that was continued and reviewed frequently with items added on or deleted. This yields a pathway of what is important in life and becomes goals and objectives to live by. Using this goal-oriented type of philosophy, create family histories and review them with parents, grandparents, spouses and children.
People often feel satisfied and at peace with their situation toward the end of life and make decisions on how they wish to have the end of life accomplished. One does not want to encumber some members of the family, may think they know what you want, but have not communicated with you or have miscommunicated with you and things are not accomplished.
Writing down your basic philosophy, thoughts and wishes about end of life can be very helpful and a blessing, which is called The Legacy of Love. This is your legacy to those you love to Help Spare them from having to make decisions about you, which may or may not be appropriate and are not always in sync with your wishes.
There are things you can and should do in the completion of your life include Advance Directives special codicils on how you wish to exit life, and the type of comfort care you require. For myself, I used the phrase terminal sedation, which means don't hold back Morphine, Demerol or narcotics if I'm in pain to see if the pain will go away. If, for example, I do have pain, I want it treated now, not next week or next month, or in five minutes, because if I'm having pain, treat it! That is my request, and if that is not accomplished, it means that someone is absolutely negligent and should be shot!
It is often nice to make a life assessment of what you have done to help your children appreciate what you think. When one tallies accomplishments from high school, college, in marriage, or with children, it is often amazing to see what stands out as significant with special meaning, and it's important to recognize these feelings. Being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease is often a catalyst to promote such deep and fearful thoughts because of the potential loss of control that occurs somewhere along the pathway toward the end. It is important to identify what you think is important in life and what the significant aspects of your existence are, which can give great satisfaction, at least for most people, that life has had value and was worthwhile. Our spirit lives on, and a lot depends on your religious and ethical philosophy of life. I admire Catholics for their philosophy that if they have lived a good life, are given absolution, have gone through Confession, and received the Sacraments of the Ill, know they are going to Heaven and will meet their family, and other members who follow can join with them. Most religions, including the Jewish and Buddhist faiths, do not have this guarantee, and that assurance at least gives the Catholics a lot of confidence if they are true believers. I can remember vividly helping sedate a Catholic lady in severe pain, and her family, although they did not want her to be in pain, wanted to be with her consciously at the end of life. I received an admonition for not allowing this, although I felt my obligation was comfort care and relief of suffering, but that was not what the family had requested. You have to listen to both patient and family to know what their needs and wishes are, remembering that the patient's wishes come first.
One's spiritual life, thus, can be very important in not only living a full life but also ending a satisfactory life. The incredible mystery of what life really means to a person is vital and may reflect the ultimate love and freedom that can be part of the healing as well as the dying process. It also may set an example for future generations in how best to live and maintain optimal quality of life.
I would like to give credit to the Geffen Cancer Center and Resource Institute for some of the philosophic thoughts engendered in this summation of my thoughts and some of their philosophy.


"Just because it's small does not mean it cannot be luxurious," Isabelle LaRue says in reference to apartments that individuals lease.
The Host and Producer of Engineer Your Space is now in her third career and leading one of the eight companies participating in the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center's inaugural "The Works" accelerator.
After an initial start as a building engineer and later as a market researcher for a pharmaceutical company, LaRue is focused on helping individuals bring their own ideas and tastes to the places they call home.
The native of a community near Montreal lived in Chicago and New York City before landing in Los Angeles. It was during her time in the Big Apple that LaRue decided to try her hand at making her 450 square foot studio apartment reflect her needs and tastes.
"I came-up with ideas to customize the space without changing the walls," she says. The work started soon after she had taken a job with a Public Broadcasting System station, so she was able to combine her new career in video production with her previous work as an engineer.
"I posted my first video on YouTube in 2011," LaRue says. Today, she has about 127,000 subscribers and is approaching 10 million views. You can view her channel here.
In one of the most recent shows, LaRue explains how she setup her living room in only 75 square feet of space.
"You'll see how I dealt with not so pretty wall-to-wall carpet and how I decorated the walls, including how I added a lot of color and texture to a big wall without painting it, putting wallpaper or making any holes in it," she wrote in describing the video.
LaRue is particularly proud of the way that she approaches each video.
LaRue also has a fondness for balconies, a part of an apartment that she says is typically underused.
"You can transform them into a beautiful oasis," she explains.
As far as "The Works," LaRue says she was recruited to participate, and the timing was right. It also provided the opportunity to explore a partnership with Scripps Networks Interactive, sponsor of the four media companies.
"I was ready to move to a bigger project," she explained. That project is part of the tiny house movement, but with a twist. LaRue is developing her ideas for a house that would be in the range of 325 square feet, but have the ambience of a trendy Manhattan condo.
She notes that people have enjoyed small living structures for years – recreational vehicles as well as mobile homes.
As far as participating in "The Works," LaRue, who is sometimes referred to as the "love child of MacGyver and Martha Stewart," says it has provided a great structure to move her ideas along.
"It's been a whirlwind," she adds.


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# AngularJS generator

> Yeoman generator for AngularJS projects by SysGarage

## Prerequisites

* Node.js - Download and install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org)

## Install

Install Yeoman

`npm install -g yo`

Install generator

`npm install -g generator-sys-angular`

## Usage

Make a new directory, and `cd` into it

`mkdir my-new-project && cd $_`

Run generator

`yo sys-angular:module`

## Generators

Available generators:

* sys-angular:controller
* sys-angular:directive
* sys-angular:module
* sys-angular:route
* sys-angular:service

## Project Structure

Overview
```
└── src
    └── app                 - Application files
        ├── directives      - Directives shared by the whole application
        ├── modules         - Application modules
        └── services        - Services shared by the whole application
```

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Tag: Pay disparity
Pay and Wealth Disparity Webinar
November 23, 2021 November 23, 2021 Chris Cox
Good corporate governance, the "G" in ESG, allows for companies to better lean into the challenges and opportunities. Well-governed companies drive change rather than being subjected to it.
Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, famously described executive compensation as the acid test of corporate governance. For my part, I think the Oracle of Omaha may only be half right. Yes, executive compensation is critical, but it is only half of the picture. The other half of the picture is looking at the wages of the lowest paid, most vulnerable within a company or within its supply chain. It's a matter of looking not only from the top down, but also the bottom up.
On November 19th, we continued efforts to educate ourselves on issues related to pay and wealth disparity and about some actions we can take to address them. We are grateful that Brandon Rees of the AFL-CIO and Rosanna Landis Weaver of As You Sow joined us to enrich our conversation.
A couple of weeks ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made headlines as the first person in history with a net worth exceeding $300 billion. The other part of that story is that, by comparison, the median U.S. worker would need more than 4 million years to make that much.
SGI has a long history in this space. From our founding in 1973, Fr. Mike Crosby has advocated for a living wage. SGI consistently advocates for increasing the federal minimum wage.
In 2013, President Obama said, "Rising income inequality is the defining challenge of our time." Pope Francis, in the same year, noted, "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?" As a consequence, one of Fr. Mike's final efforts was a campaign for pay equity in 2014 by filing shareholder resolutions with 12 retailers. SEC allowed companies to omit the resolution based on "micro management." SGI members continues to challenge retailers and restaurants to pay living wages, for their own workers and for those in their supply chain.
In hopes of building an economy that works for the many, not one that concentrates more and more wealth in the hands of a privileged few, we keep coming back to this issue to see if there are new ways that we can address income and wealth disparity. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration proposal on racial equity & starting pay at the Walmart AGM obtained strong shareholder support for a first-time resolution. SGI members have joined this year's ICCR campaign to ask restaurants to raise their sub-minimum wage for tipped workers.
Increasingly, economists have come to see that wealth and income disparity harm the economy. Rising concern for pay and wealth disparity in proxy voting and changes at the SEC lead us to think the tide may be shifting, and so we come to today's conversation to get better informed and to renew our commitment to act.
Again, we are very grateful for the presence of Brandon and Rosanna in this webinar, for their commitment to this work, and their generosity in sharing their wisdom and experience with us. As always, we welcome your feedback via a confidential evaluation found here. Slides are available here.
Pay and Wealth Disparity Resources:
Executive Pay Watch website from the AFL-CIO
As You Sow's page for CEO Pay
Will New Pay Ratio Disclosure Lead to "Public Infamy?" (a blog from Rosanna Landis Weaver)
Shareholders Begin to Discuss Fairness in Proxy Voting Guidelines (a blog from Rosanna Landis Weaver)
Inequality.org, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies
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Pay and Wealth Disparity: Still our greatest social challenge
June 4, 2021 SGI-CRI
By Frank Sherman
Sister Sue Ernster's (Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration) proposal on racial equity & starting pay at the Walmart AGM earlier this week obtained strong shareholder support for a first-time resolution (12.5% of total shares or 27% of independent shares voted). Congratulations to Sue and the many ICCR co-filers.
I'm reminded of Father Mike Crosby's 2015 campaign on income disparity. At that time, President Obama called the growing pay & wealth gap in our country "the greatest social challenge of our time"…. and it hasn't gotten better since then. We didn't get very far back then after the SEC's sided with the companies, permitting them to omit our proposal from the proxy based on the "ordinary business" exclusion.
Starting in 2011, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 required companies to include disclosure of the total compensation of the top 5 paid executives in their annual proxy statements. Shareholders are allowed to cast a non-binding advisory vote for or against these pay packages ("say-on-pay"). Very few companies "failed" their say-on-pay vote in recent years. A failure occurs if the company does not obtain majority support from shareholders for the executive compensation proposal.
The tide may be shifting. Twice as many say-on-pay proposals failed this year as in previous years, including some companies that had never had a failure in these resolutions. As You Sow's Rosanna Landis Weaver does great work digging through the fine print of the "Compensation Discussion and Analysis" section of each company's proxy statement with an annual report on the 100 Most Overpaid CEOs. A recent NEI article on CEO compensation (A Promising Start To The Challenge Of Excessive CEO Pay) notes that support for pay packages among S&P 500 firms fell to an average of 87%, down 3 percentage points from 2020 and 2019, and down 4 points from 2016 to 2018. It references a report from the Institute for Policy Studies (Pandemic Pay Plunder: Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules – to Pump up CEO Paychecks) which found that 51 of the S&P 500 firms with the lowest median worker wage revised their pay rules in 2020, so that median worker pay fell 2%, while CEO pay rose—by 29%.
Investors pushed corporations to tie their pay packages to stock performance (…to better align management pay with investor returns) in the early '90s. Little did they know that this would be used by companies to successively ratchet up CEO, and as a result, the rest of management's, comp packages every year to a level that makes U.S. CEOs stand out on the global stage.
The Dodd–Frank Act also required companies to disclose the ratio of CEO compensation to the median compensation of their employees. The rule has only been in effect since 2017, but the SEC allows companies "substantial flexibility" in the calculation of the ratio, making it difficult for investors and society to make meaningful comparisons.
Of course, CEO's know that their pay relative to the median pay of their workers is out of control. But even if they wanted to change this (and I'm not sure many "want" to do so), they are reluctant to be a first mover on restructuring pay because it would "negatively impact retention and make them less competitive".
As we complete the next draft of SGI's strategic plan and think about our engagement focus for the 2022 season (which starts this summer), I believe pay disparity has to be high on our list. I hope you concur.
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An eyebrow raising statistic
December 4, 2017 December 4, 2017 Chris Cox
Annually, Oxfam, in conjunction with Forbes magazine and its global rich list, publishes a report on how many of the world's wealthiest are needed to match the wealth of the bottom half of the planet. In recent years, as market values have soared and wealth has concentrated evermore increasingly, the number has shrunk from 80 wealthiest in 2015 to just eight men holding the same wealth as the bottom 3.6 billion people in 2017.
Recently, researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies refined the statistics to reflect the U.S. alone. Their conclusions were eyebrow raising:
It can be hard to grasp just how much money is concentrated in just a few hands in our lopsided economy today. But here's a start: The richest three people in the United States — Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett — together have more wealth than the entire bottom half of the country combined.
To put an even finer point on it: That's three people versus about 160 million people.
To really comprehend just how insane the wealth concentration has become, consider Bezos, the head of Amazon. Worth about $90 billion, he recently was declared the richest man in the world. In October alone, his wealth jumped by $10 billion — or about $4 million per second.
The authors made a particular point that the wealthiest of the group, Jeff Bezos, pays some of his warehouse workers as little as $12.84 an hour.
The report initially appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and more information can be found on the IPS website.
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Priests of the Sacred Heart continue to challenge TJX's executive pay policies
May 10, 2017 July 21, 2017 Chris Cox
The TJX Companies, which includes well-known discount chains of TJ Maxx, Marshalls and Home Goods, is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the U.S. …and worldwide. They claim 40 years of sales and earnings growth to the satisfaction of their shareholders. But not all shareholders are happy. "TJX maintains one of the largest pay gaps in America," said Mark Peters, Director of Justice, Peace and Reconciliation for the Priests of the Sacred Heart. "As public scrutiny of the gap between CEO and worker pay increases, TJX may be risking the health of its labor force and the reputation of its brand."
Mark filed a shareholder resolution with TJX concerning their executive pay policies and the widening pay gap with their workers for the third year in a row (see proxy memo). "The company's proxy states that developing and retaining talent is a key component of their continued success. But this attention should not be limited to their executives. Their Associates' pay has stagnated while executive compensation packages continue to escalate. Long term, this hurts the company and society."
CEO pay has grew by almost 1000% over the past 40 years, greatly outpacing the growth in the cost of living, the productivity of the economy, and the stock market. This disproves the claim that the growth in CEO pay reflects the performance of the company, the value of its stock, or the ability of the CEO to do anything but disproportionately raise the amount of his pay (Economic Policy Institute).
Beginning in 2018, a Dodd-Frank Act provision requires companies to report the ratio of the CEO's total compensation and that of their median employee. While the Trump administration is reviewing this requirement as too burdensome, Mark believes that it is not enough. "Shareholders need a historic view of this ratio and board's informed view on whether the CEO-to-worker pay gap comes at the expense of the health of the Company's human capital and long term shareholder value."
See also: Priests of the Sacred Heart_TJX Proposal 8- 2017_Memo
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Investors with $3 Trillion in Assets Call for CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratio Disclosure
March 22, 2017 April 17, 2017 Steve Herro
Seventh Generation Interfaith members Congregation of St. Agnes, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Dana Investment Advisers, Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order, Racine Dominican Sisters, Priests of the Sacred Heart (U.S. Province), School Sisters of St. Francis, and Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, joined over 100 institutional investors in a letter to the SEC in support of maintaining existing CEO-to-worker pay ratio disclosure requirements.
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The Human Thread Campaign is a program of Seventh Generation Interfaith that seeks to foster awareness that promotes solidarity between consumers of clothing and those who produce them to create a more just economy and sustainable communities.
SGI Webinars
Every three months, SGI hosts a webinar. Here is a listing of our recordings:
Water Stewardship (August 2021)
Proxy Voting (April 2021)
Essential Workers: COVID-19 and Racial Equity (February 2021)
Fossil Fuels: Divest or Engage (November 2020)
Positive Screens: Going Beyond the Negative (August 2020)
Human Rights Due Diligence (April 2020)
The Ag Sector: The Nexus of Migration and Human Trafficking (February 2020)
Faith-Based Fiduciary (November 2019)
Corporate Governance (August 2019)
Holistic Approach to Socially Responsible Investing (April, 2019)
Decarbonizing Electricity Webinar (Feb. 2019)
Supply Chain Human Rights (November 2018)
Shareholder Resolution Process Webinar (August 2018)
Health Webinar (April 2018)
Orientation Webinar (March 2018)
Immigration and the Shareholder (Feb. 2018)
Navigating the ICCR and SGI website (Dec. 2017)
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Through the lens of faith and the promotion of human rights, Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investment builds a more just and sustainable world for those most vulnerable by integrating social and environmental values into corporate and investor actions.


With a focus on carefully designed user experiences able to propel companies from underdogs to market leaders, recent years has seen large companies buy up or add design practices to stave off well designed competition. In a move to further improve McKinsey & Company's design and digital capabilities for clients, the firm has acquired international design consultancy Lunar. Lunar will continue to work under its brand name from its offices. Roughly 80 employees transfer to McKinsey, the value of the deal has not been disclosed.
While function is one of the key elements of a product, recent decades have seen a surge in focus on design. When function can be mass produced – what sets products apart today is their ease of use and their aesthetic appeal. Recent years have shown a considerable move toward delivering carefully designed products, with Apple's rise from David to Goliath as an example. After Apple's momentous rise, others companies have taken stock – GE, IBM, Google and Facebook too investing heavily in buying up design firms to improve the design of user experiences and to spread their brand.
On Friday McKinsey & Company – the globe's largest and arguably most prestigious strategy consulting firm – unveiled that it has acquired Lunar. The design consulting firm, founded in 1984, offers clients advice in a wide range of design related areas, from improving product aesthetics to improving the user friendliness of products. With well-designed products improving customer engagement and therewith, brand strength, the firm helps clients compete through design excellence. The firm has worked with some of the most high profile clients in the market, including the likes of Apple, HP, Philips and SanDisk. The firm is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, and Munich. Lunar has approximately 80 employees on its payroll.
The move highlights the growing importance of design capabilities in the wider corporate landscape. The acquisition is designed to allow Lunar to keep its name and to continue to work out of its office globally, however, now offering new and old clients the combined perspectives of its design team as well as McKinsey's strategic prowess.
For McKinsey the acquisition will see it able to offer clients access to a wide range of design capabilities that can provide solutions to client in a broad range of disciplines, including design in everything from products, branding, and business models to corporate strategy and structure. Lunar's offerings will complement the service portfolio of among others McKinsey Digital, Marketing & Sales and Business Technology Office (BTO).
McKinsey is not the first of the big consultancy firms to acquire design expertise – Accenture for instance poached Fjord in 2013, while the Digital practice of rival BCG – BCG Digital Ventures – bought Strategic & Creative (S&C), a digital design firm based in Sydney, Australia. Further back in time, in December 2012, Booz & Company, now Strategy& (rebranded following the sale to PwC), acquired Axon Advisory, which stood at the basis of Booz Digital.


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Q: Pretty print JSON preserve property order I've read several posts on using JSON.stringify to pretty print a JSON string with Javascript. However, it seems to re-order the nodes. I would like to have a formatted JSON object in the same order as the string provided.
Here's an example of what I get using the prescribed methods
var sJson = '{"2":"stuff", "1":"care"}';
alert(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(sJson), null, 2));

Result:
{
  "1": "care",
  "2": "stuff"
}

Desired Result:
{
  "2": "stuff",
  "1": "care"
}

I'm happy to use an external library if JSON.stringify is unable to do this. Note: I'm starting with a minified JSON string from the server.

A: Because in JavaScript Objects are not ordered, properties in an Object do not preserve order. In order to keep your order you would need to change your JSON to use an array instead: [{"2":"stuff"}, {"1":"care"}].

A: We had a similar question regarding JSON formatting for a display. A couple of robust solutions are available:

*

*The 'json-order' package offers parsing, formatting & pretty-printing with stable ordering. This is based on having ordered input.

*The 'fast-json-stable-stringify' package offers deterministic formatting based on sorting.

My quick testing with Chrome also found that JSON.parse() seemed to preserve order; this covers much of the browser market (Chrome, Edge, etc) but is not guaranteed on other browsers. This may offer a cheap partial solution, but is not fully robust.

A: I was able to port the php function I found on this page; it's working like a champ.
function pad(width, string, padding) {
  return (width <= string.length) ? string : pad(width, padding + string, padding)
}

function json_pretty(json, html)
{
    var
        out   = '',
        nl    = "\n",
        cnt   = 0,
        tab   = 4,
        len   = json.length,
        space = ' ';

    if(html == true) {
        space = ' ';
        nl    = '<br/>';
    }

    k = space.length ? space.length : 1;

    for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
        char = json.substring(i, i+1);
        if(char == '}' || char == ']') {
            cnt--;
            out += nl + '' + pad(tab * cnt * k, '', space);
        }
        else if(char == '{' || char == '[') {
            cnt++;
        }

        out += char;
        if(char == ',' || char == '{' || char == '[') {
            out += nl + pad(tab * cnt * k, '', space);
        }

        if(char == ':') {
            out += ' ';
        }
    }
    return out;
}


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Wilhelm Dilthey 1833-1911
The Wilhelm Dilthey quotation given below is from Alastair J Reid's blog.
http://nomadismpractice.blogspot.com/
He is from Cambridge in the UK and writes that he is 'a historian of social movements in modern Britain, especially those that come from and contribute to a pluralistic perspective. I also have a longstanding engagement with literature and spiritual traditions, and am interested in ways scholarship can interact with personal experience.' and 'thst 'Wilhelm Dilthey, summarising his own approach to cultural history and philosophy, also got close to the heart of the issues being explored' in his blog.
The historical consciousness of the finitude of every historical phenomenon and of every human or social state, and of the relativity of every kind of faith, is the final step toward the liberation of human beings. With historical consciousness human beings attain the sovereignty to enjoy every experience to the full, to surrender themselves to it completely and unencumbered, as if there were no system of philosophy or faith that could bind them. Life is freed from conceptual cognition, and spirit rises above all the cobwebs of dogmatic thought. When everything beautiful, everything holy, every sacrifice is re-experienced and interpreted, they open up perspectives that disclose a reality. And in the same way we accept what is evil, frightful, and ugly as having a place in the world, as containing some reality that must be justified in the world system and cannot be wished away …
… The doctrine of an objective value of life is a metaphysics that surpasses what can be experienced. We do experience, however, a connectedness of life and of history in which every part has a meaning. Like the letters of a word, life and history have a sense. There are syntactical moments of life and history that are like particles or conjugations, and they have a meaning, which is sought by every kind of human being. Previously, life used to be conceived on the basis of the world. But the only route possible is to proceed from the interpretation of life to the world …
From 'Drafts for a Critique of Historical Reason', translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and William H. Oman, in Wilhelm Dilthey, Selected Works. Volume 3. The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (Princeton University Press, 2002), pp. 310-11.


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Attheyella brehmi är en kräftdjursart som först beskrevs av Hartford Hammond Keifer 1929.  Attheyella brehmi ingår i släktet Attheyella och familjen Canthocamptidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Problems of Federal Reserve Policy—And How To Solve Them
"Money and the Rule of Law" discusses the dangers of discretionary monetary policy and advocates a consistent, rules-based approach
Thomas L. Hogan June 7, 2021
Image Credit: Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images
The U.S. government is constantly expanding its influence on the economy, including the monetary system. With inflation on the rise, political tensions high and congressional dysfunction in Washington, D.C., what should we expect from our central bankers and monetary institutions? How can we get monetary policies that will benefit ordinary Americans?
A new book tackles these questions with vivid historical examples and surprisingly uncommon "commonsense" economics. "Money and the Rule of Law" by Peter Boettke, Alexander Salter and Daniel Smith discusses the difficulties of central banking, especially when decisions are made according to subjective discretion rather than stable, predictable rules.
As the central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) manages the supply of money in the economy, the most important determinant of short-term economic outcomes. While many economists love the idea of the federal government running the monetary system, Boettke, Salter and Smith explain a number of difficulties faced by central bankers that can make the economy worse, not better. As the authors describe, "Discretion in monetary policy is the reason central banking fails to live up to its lofty promises of economic and financial stability."
Knowledge Problems and Political Incentives
One problem with central banks is that governments simply do not have the information or knowledge necessary to run a complex economy. The Fed uses aggregate statistics that may not represent underlying trends or up-to-the-minute changes affecting businesses and consumers.
Even if the data were accurate, there is no agreed-upon theory the Fed could use to manage the economy. How should it balance inflation and unemployment? How should it respond to supply-side shocks or to asset price booms? These questions cannot be resolved with economic science, meaning the Fed's actions are, at least to some degree, purely guesswork. And because the Fed's economic decisions vary depending on who the central bankers are, they are difficult to predict, increasing economic uncertainty and instability.
A second well-known problem is that government officials face political incentives. The authors provide many examples of Fed decisions driven by political motives instead of sound economics. These include poor monetary policy decisions, such as Fed Chair Arthur Burns' capitulation to President Richard M. Nixon's request to boost the economy in an election year, as well as the repeated accommodation of federal government debt and caving to special interests and powerful banks.
Historical Challenges
Historically, the Fed's actions have increased the severity of economic downturns and financial crises. During extraordinary circumstances, the Fed has ignored its legal limitations and traditional guidelines in favor of whatever seemed viable at the time. For example, many economists, including former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, agree that the Fed's mistakes of the 1930s turned what would have been a regular recession into the Great Depression.
Boettke, Salter and Smith argue that the same thing occurred in the 2008 financial crisis. Ignoring traditional economic guidelines, the Fed's emergency lending programs bailed out insolvent banks, increased risk in the financial system and magnified the credit crunch. Unconventional monetary policies of quantitative easing and paying banks interest on their reserves still cause economic distortions today.
There are simple ways to improve upon the discretionary, and often disastrous, decisions of central bankers. First, discretionary policy should be consistent and predictable so that consumers and businesses can plan for the future. Second, monetary policy decisions should be based on simple rules that are well known but also "robust," meaning they can be effective without requiring discretionary actions even when things go wrong. Third, rules should be formalized to the greatest extent possible to form a "monetary constitution" that governs the monetary system by the rule of law, just as the legal system provides a foundation for commerce.
These guidelines would provide a stable and predictable monetary system resistant to the mistakes and politics that have plagued discretionary central banking. Although these lessons may seem clear to the casual reader, they are strongly contested by central bankers who prefer to maintain their discretionary powers.
To stabilize the economy, informed citizens must study the faults of discretionary central banking and call for reforms to protect against them. "Money and the Rule of Law" accomplishes the first goal. The second is up to us.
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Psalistops solitarius är en spindelart som först beskrevs av Simon 1889.  Psalistops solitarius ingår i släktet Psalistops och familjen Barychelidae.

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