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Engineers and society in India (1850 to present times)
More than any other, the profession of engineer appears to encapsulate many of the transformations affecting contemporary India today. Engineers symbolise the rise of the so- called middle classes, and the manner in which India has positioned itself as an emerging power in the international labour market, as it has become one of the favourite destinations for major technology firms.
Despite the place this professional group has been occupying until this day in the country's economy and social structure, it has been somewhat neglected by scholars. However, the position engineers occupy within society and in the system of production makes them a particularly rich object of scrutiny for an analysis of the general dynamics of social stratification (Boltanski, 1982). Its study could also shed new light on the national specificities of capitalist development, as has been shown in other regions of the world (Meiksins and Smith, 1996).
This conference aims to fill this empirical void by gathering, along three main axes of consideration, contributions from different disciplines (sociology, history, anthropology, geography, etc.).
Axis 1: Engineers and social stratification
In India, the profession of engineer developed rapidly and was structured relatively early. In contrast to the situation in Great Britain, institutions that delivered engineering degrees were created by the end of the 1840s and the first professional associations were established at the end of the 19th century. Nonetheless, the social transformations provoked by the emergence of this new profession in the context of colonial domination, and particularly their impact on the pre-existing internal hierarchies (castes, etc.), have been under studied. Shortly after Independence, the emphasis on state planning encouraged the development of the profession, in particular through the establishment of elite institutions in the form of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). From 1973 onwards, these were compelled to apply the quota policy that reserves a certain number of seats for students from underprivileged communities. In the 2000s the profession expanded substantially, with the number of training institutions rising from around 700 in the year 2000 to over 3500 in 2013 (Lardinois 2011). This growth was stimulated both by the rise of the Information Technology sector and by the frenetic liberalisation of the education market.
This first axis will question the nature and consequences of the connections between the numerical increase of engineers since the second half of the 19th century, and the wider transformations of Indian society. Was the vast development of engineering schools after Independence, in a context where the so-called reservation policy was established, accompanied by the rise of "new" or previously marginalised social groups (low caste, religious minorities, women, etc.) or did it lead to a reinforcement of the position of power occupied by members of the former elite or the educated castes? From this perspective on the rise of a new profession, how are caste and class combined?
One topic that deserves particular attention is the commonly held view that, since Independence, technical education is perceived as a force capable of transforming Indian society. This idea is anchored in the founding of the IITs. When they were created, these institutions were exempted from the reservation policy and tended to be seen as places that trained a meritocratic elite, freed from the contingencies related to caste and their political instrumentalisation. Whether the IITs actually fulfil their claims of acting as a vector of social mobility based solely on competence will be questioned.
Lastly, this axis affords us a fresh look at the idea of "middle classes", often used to designate the engineers, although the relevance of this category in the Indian context remains widely debated (Deshpande, 2003, 2006). What can the study of a prime example of an intermediary profession teach us about the class structure in India? The question of this group's (self) representation has to be taken into account and particular attention paid to recent transformations that seem to be replacing a model of public salaried employment with a new prototype of the private sector engineer, more involved in management activities.
Axis 2: Engineers and the state
Once again, in a manner that differs from the established norm in United Kingdom, the rise of the profession of engineer in India is closely linked to state power. The institutions established by the British, from the 1840s onwards, served mainly to provide the Public Works Department with technically qualified employees and to allow the colony to be better exploited. Just after Independence, engineers were invited under Nehru to play a major role in economic planning, as technology occupied pride of place in development theory. Although the liberal shift that occurred in the 1990s contributed to reducing the responsibilities conferred upon engineers employed by the state, they managed better than in many other countries to maintain some control over major infrastructural projects (Cabalion, 2013; Girard, 2016). The reforms undertaken in the 1990s also had consequences for the educational sector dedicated to training this workforce. While the state retained a certain monopoly over the elite training courses, private institutions multiplied rapidly and a vast coaching market developed.
The first objective in this axis will be to more precisely evaluate the place engineers occupy in the state apparatus. While an analysis of the employees of the Public Works Department seems to be one of the most obvious paths, it is important to look at the role played by the engineers with political appointments and employed in other major state bodies (Indian Administrative Service, etc.). The impact, from the 1990s onwards, of the liberalisation policies and state withdrawal on engineers who were employed by the administrative services deserves to be closely examined, and particular attention paid to the process of fragmentation of the group into the elite on one side, who were able to benefit from this new situation, and employees of the local administrations, on the other side, who were increasingly criticised. Finally, it is important to consider the influence this group, or at least some of its factions, exercised over the major development projects, whereas in other countries engineers came into strong competition with other experts (Espeland, 1998). For instance, what has been the impact of the rationale of state engineers' conversion to consultancy or NGOs, on this process of increasing competition between the state and economic elites, or those connected to the private sector? And what contribution do these 'converted' civil engineers make in renewing categories of knowledge and redefining areas of intervention?
Examining the privileged relationship the profession seems to have maintained with the public administration involves investigating what this group's ethos is. What relationship did it have with the nationalist movement during the colonial period? Then, following Independence, with Nehru's development creed? To what extent was it involved with state planning? Connected to the question of ethos, is that of the type of knowledge that makes up the core skills Indian engineers are taught and those they practice. The evolution of this knowledge over time, deserves particular attention. How do the hierarchies between the disciplines that constitute the "Indian engineering science" evolve? To what extent are economic science and engineering science in opposition? Do they converge? Is it possible to identify a technocratic moment in India or a moment of glorification of the profession, where engineers' science won over political values?
These perspectives lead to a more general question, that of the evolution of the nature of the state and the relationships public authority maintains with the private sector and the economic field. During the colonial period, for example, all the major projects were sub-contracted to private contractors and the Public Works Department employees only supervised these projects (Kerr, 1995). How did this role evolve into the current Public Private Partnerships? Lastly, it is necessary to return to the rise, over the last twenty years, of the extra-academic system or the vast and almost industrially structured training market for engineers which the state has had quite some difficulty regulating. What is the social background of the entrepreneurs involved in this sector? What social classes and groups use this coaching market?
Axis 3: Engineers and Capitalist Development
The explanatory models that try to account for the industrialisation process were developed using the yardstick of Western cases scenarios. In this perspective, industrial development in India has often been seen as incomplete and limited. As a result, most studies have focused on factors that explain this incompleteness such as the colonial state's fiscal policy, insufficient capital, low internal demand, etc. (Chandavarkar, 1985). However a history of the positive features of this specific industrialisation, particularly a history of its social factors, is yet to be written. Due to the intermediary position engineers occupy in the production process, they are very useful for this type of analysis and shed new light on the trajectory of capitalist development in India.
Raising the question of the position engineers occupy within the economic field is a useful first step to define the specificities of Indian capitalism and its evolution. The scholarship on the major Indian industrial groups, particularly the historical studies, have tended to show that the capitalists emerged mainly from the merchant castes. What is the caste profile in new sectors like Information and Communication Technology? While Indian capitalism remains largely structured by families, with members of the extended family controlling the key management positions, today we see a professional elite of managers, who have no kin connections to the owners, rising to the top of major Indian firms. What position do engineers occupy within this manager group? What are the historical conditions and the specific assets which has allowed engineers to access the summits of Indian capitalist firms and, more specifically, which category of engineers?
This focus on the engineers also allows us to question the recent changes in the international division of work, particularly in the service sector. In the case of India, the situation has shifted from a workforce, which was exported towards countries that were at the centre of the world system (Wallerstein, 2004), to an implantation of major multinational companies in India itself. Here, it would be important to show how the opportunities offered by the companies established in large Indian cities (such as salaries and level of responsibility), as well as the rapidly developing urban infrastructure in these places, explains that a growing proportion of graduates from the most prestigious engineering schools, like the IITs, now find the material conditions for a 'modern' lifestyle in India rather than abroad.
Lastly, we will also examine the consequences of migration on the structures of the labour market. Which positions occupied by engineers open the doors towards an international career? What is the impact of the implantation in India of major multinationals that often bring a foreign staff along with them? Has this led to a reconfiguration of the profession? Has it resulted in some sort of competition?
Anthropologie, Classes sociales, Développement, Dynamiques sociales, État et politiques publiques, Histoire, Histoire des sciences et des techniques, Politiques publiques, Professions, Savoirs, Sociologie, Techniques, Travail Inde
Lundi 27 mars 2017 - 10:00 - 18:30
Mardi 28 mars 2017 - 10:00 - 18:30
EHESS (salles 638-640) - 190-198, avenue de France 75013 Paris
engindconference@gmail.com
Engineers and Society in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
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Trustees in Trouble
Some years ago I did some work with a Baptist minister who had got himself rather tucked up. The church ran a pre-school. It was growing quickly and a decision was made to spin it off into an independent charity. At that stage they should have got advice, which would have pointed them to a CIO, which gives the protection of limited liability if things go wrong. Things did go wrong, as they so often do, and it was decided to shut down the charity. When all the debts were accounted for, including redundancy payments, there was a deficiency of many thousands. It being an unincorporated charity any outstanding debts are down to the trustees to personally make good. At that point, rather too late in the day, I got involved; I did my best to steer this particular ship into a safe harbour.
This week I'm advising in a similar situation; a church pre-school spun off into an unincorporated charity and being unexpectedly shut down with a deficiency of up to £30,000. It makes me wonder just how many thousands of other small, and not so small charities are in financial difficulties, exposing unwary trustees to personal liabilities. This year particularly, a lot of chickens will be streaming home to roost.
This is a time to take care before implementing significant decisions, and take advice, from someone who understands what you're going through. If you're facing difficulties, or if you know of anyone in this situation, you or they should talk to someone. If you haven't anyone, write to me. I'm around for the moment, at least until I find my cabin in the woods. It's largely uncharted territory and there are no easy pathways, but there are things that can be done to improve the outcome.
After all this gloom I think we'd better end with a prayer:
"Bring your peace Lord into stress filled and anxious lives, that gentle calm into our busyness.
A moment's rest to stop, re-focus, feel your presence, hear your whisper and reconnect."
(John Birch)
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derryburn says:
12th Mar 2021 at 4:51 pm
Hi DarylThank you for that advice I am sure many people will be in this situation.Derry x
brianbenford says:
13th Mar 2021 at 12:03 pm
Sound advice from the master
Gill Morgan says:
Hi Daryl
What a timely warning
Hoping this finds you in good spirits
East to west are in a period of change – I don't know if you are on the supporters email but I have copied below in case you know of anyone who might be interested – what a great opportunity for Ant
We'd like to announce that after six years of leading the charity, Ant Horton is moving on from east to west to take on the role of Chief Mission Officer at Urban Saints.
Whilst we are sad to see Ant leave east to west, we are delighted that he has this opportunity and know he will do a brilliant job with a great organisation. Ant will continue to lead east to west until the beginning of June, working with the Board to make the transition as smooth as possible.
With this in mind, east to west have now begun the process of recruiting a new CEO. If this role interests you, or anyone you know, a job description and application form is available on our website http://www.easttowest.org.uk/join-us (Closing date: 1/4/21)
Please join with us as we pray with thanks for Ant and his new role, and as we begin the process of recruitment.
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Daryl says:
Gosh, has it been 6 years since Andy moved on! Hard to believe. I'll put the word out on this key appointment.
laurairma says:
16th Mar 2021 at 10:32 am
Lovely prayer!

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Q: Why don't electrons in a fission reaction run out due to chain reactions? I was watching an explanation (found here) on nuclear fission. In the video, she described the process of fission to happen one a random neutron smashes into a uranium nucleus. This causes the nucleus to split into krpyton and barium, taking part of the nucleon and electrons with it, along with a few extra neutrons. The extra neutrons then smash into other uranium nucleuses, causing the chain reaction.
My question is, if you start with only $x$ electrons in the original uranium atom, you must run out of electrons soon in the chain reaction. Where do the extra electrons, needed to continue the chain reaction, come from?

A: A possible fission reaction equation is as follows:
$$^{235}_ {\;92}\rm U +_0^1n\rightarrow ^{236}_ {\;92}U\rightarrow ^{140}_ {\;54}Xe+ ^{94}_ {38}Sr+2_0^1n$$
This equation is balanced if neutral atoms are produced.
Even if ions were produced there would still balance of positive and negative charges.
$\rm ^{140}_ {\;54}Xe$ and $\rm ^{94}_ {38}Sr$ are radioactive because they are neutron rich and undergo beta decays which converts neutrons into protons in the nucleus with the emission of fast moving electrons (beta particles).
$\rm ^{140}_ {\;54}Xe$ undergoes four beta decays and ends up as $\rm ^{140}_ {\;58}Ce^{4+}$ and four electrons have been emitted.
Eventually the $\rm ^{140}_ {\;54}Xe^{4+}$ finds four electrons (or the intermediate products collect electrons) and a neutral atom is produced.
Similarly the  $\rm ^{94}_ {38}Sr$ undergoes two beta decays, collects two electrons and forms an atom of $\rm ^{94}_ {40}Zr$

A: The electrons balance the number of protons in matter, and the total charge is zero, and there is the law of conservation of charge.
Protons and electrons do not decay . There can be no running out of electrons (or protons) except temporarily , until the new nuclei gather by electromagnetic  attraction the necessary electrons for the new nuclei to become neutral.

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15 Interesting Facts About London
London is an amazing city. No wonder why millions of foreign enthusiastic tourists, students and permanent residents go to London every passing year. Its long and fairytale-like history reveals itself in everyday life in its architectural masterpieces, in its cultural and social diversity and its unbelievable stories.
If you believe you know everything about the UK's capital we bet you don't. To feed your curiosity, scroll down to read some interesting facts about London you might have never heard before.
1. Big Ben Is Not The Name For The Tower
It is a very common mistake, but Big Ben is actually not the name for the iconic Tower in London. Big Ben is actually the name for the clock in the Tower. Even locals nowadays refer to this place as the Big Ben tower. The tower is located in the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London. 2012 onward the object is named as Elizabeth Tower, but in the past, the tower was known as the Clock Tower.
2. London Is The Smallest City In England
Yes, you heard that right. What you think of London is actually just a small urban area part of the Greater London region. The city of London covers only 1.2 square miles and has a population of around 7,500 residents. As such, the city of London is actually the smallest city in England. Greater London, on the other hand, is an English region, which encompasses surrounding towns covering 606 square miles and having a population of over 8.7 million residents.
3. London Has 170 Museums
London is an important cultural and historical centre and museums could not have missed in this area. If you get to visit this wonderful city you would definitely lose a lot from your trip if you don't stop by one of them. The British Museum, the National Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the British Library and the Wallace Collection are just some of them.
4. The Smallest Statue In The World Is Built In London
A statue displaying two mice eating a piece of cheese is known as the smallest statue in the world. It is that small that you have to pay attention or someone must point you to it. You might probably wonder about its significance? The story behind it is quite interesting. History says that the statue was built to remember two builders who were engaged in a fight after accusing each other to have eaten their meal. Both of them died and later it was understood that mice had actually eaten their meal.
5. Death In Parliament Is Not Illegal
The story that it is illegal to die in Parliament is actually a pure myth. Its popularity has often been considered concerning and authorities have tried to convince people that there's no such restriction. Some were also interested in understanding what could have caused this belief to exist. It is said that this myth could have come from the idea that everyone who dies in the Royal Palace is eligible for a state funeral. However, entering the Parliament Houses in London wearing armour suits are prohibited and this is not a myth.
6. Over Than 300 Languages Are Spoken In London
There's hardly any other place in the world more diverse than London. Expats coming from different nationalities share a large proportion of its population, which enumerates around 8.7 million residents. They practice their original traditions and communicate in their native language. Due to this unbelievable diversity in London, it is estimated that there are over 300 languages spoken in London. Chances are that if you're on a trip to London you can easily someone to communicate in your native language.
7. What Does The Name London Stands For?
What you think today of an amazing city has a long and not completely known history. Some standing theories state that London was first built from Romans around 50 AD. The origin of its name has also a puzzling history. During history, London used to have different names including Londonium, Ludenwic, Ludenberg. The most accepted version is that the name for London has derived from the old Celtic word "Londinous" which means to be bold.
8. Houses Of Parliament Is The Largest Palace In The UK
One of many architectural landmarks that London is proud of, is definitely the Houses of Parliament or also known as the Palace of Westminster. Crowned as the largest palace in the entire country, the object was first built at the beginning of the 11th century to accommodate the King of England. Unfortunately, a fire in 1512 destroyed a large part of it and another fire in 1834 caused more severe damage. The only medieval structures to have survived those times are the Westminster Hall, Jewel Tower, the Cloisters of St Stephen's and the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft.
9. London Buses Were Not Always Red
Red buses are for sure the most typical thing that your mind associates with London. The iconic vehicles didn't always have this colour. Once upon a time each of them had a different colour with each colour signifying a different route. To stand out the competition the biggest company of buses London General Omnibus Company decide to paint their buses with the red colour in 1907. Ever since London buses have been red.
10. It Is Not Easy To Become A Black Cab Driver
In most countries, you only need a driving license to work as a taxi. But this is obviously not the case with London. Black Cab drivers you see all around the city actually undergo lengthy training before they are given the job. Typically the training may last for 2 to 4 years and candidates must memorize every single street in London. In addition, they must also be able to make fast assumptions as per which is the route that takes the least time from one destination to another. Now you can easily understand why they charge such high fares.
11. The Highest Building In The EU
Located in the district of Southwark, Central London, the Shard is the tallest building in EU and fifth tallest in entire Europe. Built in 2012, the Shard stands almost 310 meters (1,016 feet) high. The amazing skyscraper has exactly 72 habitable floors. If you get to visit London any time and want to have a breathtaking view we recommend you to climb the Shard for an unforgettable experience.
12. There Used To Be Six Ravens In London Tower
A long time ago Charles II ordered his guards to bring six ravens in the Tower of London because he thought they would protect the fortress from falling. They even had an extra raven in their palace in case of the six ravens flew away. The superstitious belief remained long after the decision of Charles II.
13. Six People Died During Great Fire
One of the most horrible events in the history of London was the Great Fire in 1666. A large part of the city was covered in flames as around 70,000 homes of Londoners were completely wiped out from the fire. However, despite its catastrophic effect, there were only six verified deaths from this terrible event. Many argue that the number of casualties has actually been higher, but the fire has destroyed every single thing including dead bodies.
14. Over 8.7 Million People Live In London
According to the most up-to-date estimation, more than 8.7 million people reside in the UK's capital. As such, London is the largest city in the UK by population.
15. Most Billionaires In The World
More than 80 billionaires live in London making it the city with the highest number of billionaires in the world. Moreover, London billionaires represent 80% of all billionaires living in the UK. In this aspect, London leaves behind big cities like New York, San Francisco, Moscow, Paris, etc,
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Backlash 2005 was een pay-per-viewevenement in het professioneel worstelen dat georganiseerd werd door World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Dit evenement was de zesde editie van Backlash en vond plaats in de Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester (New Hampshire) op 1 mei 2005.

De belangrijkste gebeurtenis was een wedstrijd voor het World Heavyweight Championship tussen de kampioen Batista en Triple H. Batista won de match en verlengde zo zijn titel.

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East London's partying power couple on how to balance love, life and work
Being a founder is a life consuming vocation, but with sometimes up to 100 hour weeks, with little sleep and time to rest, East London based founder couple Sinead Mac Manus and Alex Haw, have blossomed their relationship as well as their businesses Fluency and Atmos Studios for over six years, and still manage to squeeze in time to party to their hearts content.
I caught up with them at their favourite Shoreditch hangout, The Vintage Emporium to discover the magic ingredients they blend to make a blissful love, life and work balance.
Firstly, tell me about each other's businesses…
Sinead: That's a good idea! Well Alex, my lovely partner, runs Atmos, an art and architecture practice that's been going for seven years. His work is incredibly sculptural and bespoke, it's really beautiful. It's made to order, it's not like any architecture that you've seen before. He does a lot of stairs, one of his most famous pieces is in a house in Wandsworth with metal and glass it's very surreal, it's incredible. He's incredibly talented, he's an amazing writer as well, he writes for a lot of publications. He is a workaholic, so he works all the time, 24/7, as much as I think I work hard as an entrepreneur like I did a 12 hour day yesterday he did a 36 hour day the day before. I'm always the first home.
Alex: So Sinead is a serial entrepreneur she's done all kinds of things like she's actually written books and she's a sort of a humanitarian entrepreneur. She wants to do stuff that will change lives not just change the bank balance. She's incredibly emotionally connected to the work. Her current business Fluency is quite new, she runs it with one co-founder and it's about training kids mostly, and young adults to be digital natives, to become tech savvy. They learn quicker and help all of those small businesses that can't otherwise do all these digital skills.
Sinead: That was great, can you do my marketing for me? (Laughs)
What do you think about how you described each others' businesses? Anything you want to add?
Alex: I would say that a lot of people react to the aesthetic of my work but it's actually about problem solving so it comes out of deep analysis. Our work is actually quite nerdy and analytical but the way I see is that it merges meaning and sensuality so we're always trying to do something that fits the context, it's very site specific. We work with houses quite a lot and clients so we're solving a problem, if it's not beautiful it doesn't really work because beauty is a core aspect, but it's got to work before it's beautiful as well.
Sinead: Alex is really interested in data and maps so a big project he did for the Olympics was called global feast, he designed and built a table of the world that sat 80 people. It was incredible and there's a mini version of it in our house. So you love to analyse data and make something beautiful out of that, one of your early pieces before you met me was taking the data from the Architectural Association and then translating that into light, it was a really stunning piece.
Alex: The last sentence about me and then you go to you! Our stuff is also trying to enable people to do something, even though it might be a beautiful situation it's trying to be participatory. That first light installation we ever did it was about expressing the activity of the school and making everyone's presence in the school contribute to this work. It's always trying to enable humanity somehow. Over to you…
Sinead: No you described it well.
Alex: Really?
Sinead: Yes, a learning platform to give people digital skills and connect them to jobs.
I've also heard that you both run a supper club together can you tell me about that?
Sinead: Alex started a geo-specific supper club called Latitudinal Cuisine 6 months before we met and it's still Alex's baby but I go to a lot of them and I hopefully I'm a big part of the Latitudinal family. There's one picture you always put in your presentations when you talk about latitude with me and two other people and there's lettuce hanging out of my mouth! (Laughs) Out of all of the pictures of all the years why that one?
Why did you have food hanging out of your mouth?
Alex: The whole idea of that supper club was love food, aphrodisiac food and there was no cutlery so you kind of just had to feed other people so we were feeding each other with our mouths and it was a bit of a funny moment.
Tell me about how you guys met…
Alex: It was online – so digital! (laughs)
Sinead: I was a bit lonely and bored and I got on Guardian Soulmates to set up some dates, I thought I'm going to have a bit of fun and date around. I met Alex on my very first date! He said let's meet at a private viewing at Redchurch Street and he was a little bit late and the viewing was finishing. I remember him walking down the street towards me and thinking 'wow he's better looking than his picture', and then I said 'it's really nice to meet you but it's finished now, there's no beers left!' and he said 'well lets have a look anyway'. He takes one look at the ice bucket, dives his hand in and picks out the one last beer that was down the bottom, opens it and hands it to me and I was like 'I just fell in love! Beer and good looking!'
Alex: And late!
Sinead: And late – totally it's been like that for six years.
Alex: (Laughs) Gives you plenty of time – you get to do your own thing for a bit, no pressure.
What were you both doing at the time, had you started your own businesses yet?
Alex: I was already doing Atmos, so I was working 100 hour weeks probably. I'd been on quite a lot of dates, I'd been doing dating like a project, I was doing a date everyday for half an hour for a coffee and lunch, because I couldn't do the evenings.
Sinead: I was doing freelancing in arts project management. He told me he had a spreadsheet for it and I was like the 40th! He was my first.
So, what was it about Sinead after all these 40 dates Alex?
Alex: She's just gorgeous and brilliant! She's perfect. We just got on immediately it was incredible. That's the way it's always been, everyone has their aggravations in their relationships, but we don't really have that.
Sinead: We have our ups and downs like everybody.
Alex: We have our discussions but we're very direct and natural with each other. We don't have this kind of tussle.
Do you have nicknames for each other?
Sinead: Well, they're based on woodland creatures which sounds a bit wanky when I say it, but it's quite adorable. I'm the fox and then Alex was the badger because he's got black and white hair. He didn't like being a badger because we've got a picture of a fox and badger in our house and they seemed kind of slow and plodding and then a friend of ours said but you mean the honey badger and then we watched the video – "He's so nasty! He eats everything, he's dynamic you put him in a cage – and he's out of the cage!" So meet the honey badger! We're the fox and the honey badger.
Do you think the fact you have done your own thing in your successful businesses contributed towards the success of your relationship?
Sinead: I think it helps because a lot of people get up in the morning and go to work and feel very unhappy, we're just very blessed that we wake up every morning and it's so exciting what we're doing. We're hopefully changing something about the world in our different ways. I think it's lovely to be with somebody who feels the same way. I think on Alex's Guardian Soulmate profile it said 'I don't care what you do, you could be a cleaner or a curator as long as you feel like you're doing something with your life and contributing.' That was really important to me as well. Not to come home and say 'Oh god, my city job, I hate it!'
Alex: I suppose both of us are in fields that are challenging somehow, it's never easy constantly trying things out, we get set backs. But we both have quite a positive outlook so we're continuously getting through the struggle like 'fuck it, let's keep going.'
Sinead: Running a startup and running a practice some days are brilliant and some days are terrible. We sort of balance each other out and just go home and have a bit of a moan about how it's terrible and nothing's going right and the next day everything is better again. Or you get a call from a client and suddenly everything is good. There's been the tough times as well.
When did you both realise what you're doing now is what you wanted to do?
Alex: For me I've been doing it for a while because I trained as an architect, when I set it up it was only because I didn't see any way of proceeding with my discipline, everything else was very unattractive I just didn't want to work for anyone else at all and I felt like there was no way forward. To be honest when I started I didn't really know what I was doing, I didn't have any clients, I didn't know what to do and I never would have foreseen we do what we do. I never thought I'd be designing these crazy sculptural tables and designing clothes or designing the things that we've done so it's all an on-going process. You have one life, every day is precious if you have that feeling sometimes creativity just invades you a little bit. I don't think there's a kind of one moment, there's this constant surging of moments of discovery if you've got an open mind and you can channel it.
Sinead: I'm kind of the opposite of Alex, I never thought I would be doing what I'm doing today. I suppose I'm on my fourth career and I never thought I'd be working in tech, I always liked computers when I was younger I'm not one of those tech people, I didn't teach myself to programme or anything like that, but all of the things I've done up until now really I think made me the perfect person to do what I'm doing now. I fit it together and I probably still have no idea what I'm doing but I'm really enjoying it and the last two years have probably been the most exciting bit of my work life ever. You've sort of seen that Alex, I was really burnt out doing freelancing and just plodding along, not making anything work properly and this feels like it's got momentum and the best thing is it's bigger than me.
Alex: You were always very positive, but now you're radiant! This planetary energy! (Both laugh)
Do help each other with your work?
Alex: Yes she's helped me loads! When I first started she did my accounts, helped me with marketing, absolutely tons. She basically did everything for me!
Sinead: We don't really have time now.
Alex: What have I done for you? I've done some photographs, I've done books for you, copy editing, events but I don't really help you much at all – She can't stand working with me!
Sinead: We have really different working styles, I try to get away with doing as little as possible, very big picture. Alex is very detailed he likes control, a bullet point list on the email with italics and things in bold. It's good, he get's stuff done.
Alex: You think it'd be a natural collaboration but she still can't stand to work with me (both laugh).
How do you still have time for each other? How do you fit in time for your business and your relationship?
Sinead: We throw a lot of parties!
Alex: We have occasional date nights as well. We arrange to meet. We're both very independent, you're always going to these events but we meet later in the evening, 9 or 10. We see each other a lot with other people, we've got quite a social hub. I've been running these dinners for seven years, now we're doing it more than twice a week, it's crazy, it's like 50-100 dinners a year. So that 1500 people we're meeting. When we both turned 40 we threw a big party and that started a slew of parties and weekend away parties. That then brought on a lot of people so we've go this incredible hub of very open, dynamic, brilliant, interesting people.
Sinead: We just started watching Game of Thrones, so that's our couch time (both laugh). Which is terrible but we're still watching, I don't know why!
Tell me more about your parties…
Alex: It's funny everyone thinks that they're sex parties and last time we got given T-Shirts because I had to write to everyone and say, 'just so you know this isn't a sex party', so this is now a T-Shirt that everyone got saying 'This is not a sex party'! Everyone gets a bit confused because we're slightly like everything goes, just do whatever the fuck you want.
Sinead: Increasingly a lot of our friends are DJ's so wherever we go for a weekend, we'll go to Corfu or have a party we just have DJs on hand which is brilliant. We love dressing up so we'll have themes. We had a Valentines one, we had a massive New Years eve party up in Dalston, Moulin Noir, the dark side of Moulin Rouge.
Alex: It's centred around the music. The great thing about weekend is you can have a great meal and every gets to talk and chat around a table so you can have a sensible conversation, then you have a massive night and dance, then you have breakfast the next day when everyone's slightly hungover and so everyone is going through this topography where you're recovering together. It's the whole of life compressed into a weekend, the ups and the downs.
Sinead: It's very open, we're not this sort of weird clique. The more people that come the better, we just love to meet people.
Why East London?
Sinead: We live and work in this area and it's just so important to us. Before I always lived south of the river, it's just changed my view of London, it's just the most dynamic area. We both cycle everywhere so we never get the tube. It's really amazing, I've been here 15 years, it's given me a new lease of life.
Alex: It was such a revelation that you could live in a place where things are alive, not just a bunch of residential houses where every things quiet. They're putting up some horrible flats around here but all the hoardings are just covered in art, everywhere is covered in art, it's like a gallery, it's incredible.
What's in the future for your businesses?
Sinead: With Fluency we're at a stage in the business where we've got a really good model, the platforms working really well, we're really great at engaging users it's just about getting the growth to a number of people not just in the UK but globally so we're in 42 countries at the moment but I want to keep expanding that as much as possible, so that's my goal in the next year.
Alex: Atmos' growth is slower, we're in a few countries, it's hard for us to get to make work happen. People come to us. We're working on the largest building in the world in a way now, slightly taller than anything else in this speculative proposal for Dubai, but otherwise all of our work is the opposite, it's really small, often residential some art projects but really bespoke very sculptural, very niche. Most people think it would be kind of minimalist, but our stuff is a bit more Gaudi-ist. Not mass market, lots of wonderful clients who are very deeply emotionally involved. Every plan I've ever had for expansion has always been thwarted, but then I've always been surprised that I don't know where the work's coming from. It's like a friendship, you don't have a strategy of having friends, when good things come along you just take that. That's exactly what it's like, it's all based on relationships, who knows who's going to come into your life.
And for you as a couple?
Alex: One major thing that we're hoping to do is find a plot and build a house together.
Sinead: The ultimate party house! We've planned the sound system.
Alex: How do you prevent your neighbours shutting down the party? It's a bit of a problem when you live in a block of flats because we don't want to piss everyone off but unfortunately we have to, sorry! And there are other things like how do you use your space. Usually you only have quite a small space, you have a bedroom and a living room and the bedroom is complete wasted space from your living room when you're not using, that's the design issue. I think it's a core part of having a private home is being able to host not just sleep, to most people it's a dormitory but I think actually it's the ability to select people together and congregate them.
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Q: Force emptying the trash on macOS from shell script If I run this command in macOS (11.2.1) Terminal:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

... after entering my Mac password in the system dialog, the trash is successfully forced empty.
But if I try to force empty the trash from this script file, the system dialog appears OK, and the notification works as expected, but the trash is not force emptied:
#!/bin/bash
if osascript -e "do shell script \"sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*\" with administrator privileges";
then
osascript -e "display notification \"Trash was forced empty.\" with title \"OK\""
else
osascript -e "display notification \"Trash was NOT forced empty!\" with title \"ERROR\""
fi

What am I doing wrong?


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Bruce Swedien (* 19. April 1934 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; † 16. November 2020 in Gainesville, Florida) war ein US-amerikanischer Toningenieur.

Wirken
Swedien wurde in Minnesota als Nachkomme schwedischer Einwanderer geboren. Er begann seine musikalische Karriere 1959 in den Tonstudios der Universal Recording Corporation von Bill Putnam in Chicago.

Aufgenommen und abgemischt wurden von ihm unter anderem folgende Künstler und Soundtracks:
 Jazz: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock
 Pop: David Hasselhoff, Patti Austin, Natalie Cole, Roberta Flack, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Sarah Vaughan
 Film-Soundtracks: Nightshift, The Color Purple, Running Scared

Bei den Musikschaffenden in Europa wurde Swedien bekannt durch eine Workshop-Tour in den 1990er Jahren sowie die Werbekampagne als Famous Monster für die Firma Monster Cable.

Er war beim meistverkauften Album der Welt, Thriller von Michael Jackson, der Toningenieur am Mischpult und arbeitete noch weitere Jahre mit Jackson zusammen. Er wurde 12-mal für den Grammy nominiert und fünfmal mit einem Grammy Award ausgezeichnet, für die Michael-Jackson-Alben Thriller, Bad und Dangerous sowie 1990 für Back on the Block und 1996 Q's Jook Joint von Quincy Jones.

Am 10. November 2001 erhielt er für seine Verdienste als Toningenieur einen Ehrendoktortitel in Philosophie von der Technischen Universität Luleå, Schweden.

Literatur
 Bruce Swedien: Make Mine Music. MIA Musikk, 2003, ISBN 8299675618.
 Bruce Swedien: In The Studio With Michael Jackson. Hal Leonard, 2009, ISBN 9781423464952.

Weblinks
 Website von Bruce Swedien

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Toningenieur
Grammy-Preisträger
Ehrendoktor der Technischen Universität Luleå
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1934
Gestorben 2020
Mann


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Home BREAKING NEWS US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy forced to resign by Trump administration
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US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy forced to resign by Trump administration
By Lenny Bernstein
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy has been removed by the Trump administration and replaced temporarily by his deputy, Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams.
Murthy, a holdover from the Obama administration, was asked to resign, according to a statement released Friday night by the Department of Health and Human Services. The statement said that "after assisting in a smooth transition into the new Trump administration," Murthy "has been relieved of his duties." Trent-Adams, a 24-year veteran of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and a former chief nurse officer of the Public Health Service, will fill the role for now, the statement said.
In a post on Facebook, Murthy wrote that "for the grandson of a poor farmer from India to be asked by the President to look out for the health of an entire nation was a humbling and uniquely American story. I will always be grateful to our country for welcoming my immigrant family nearly 40 years ago and giving me this opportunity to serve." His dismissal came on the eve of the March for Science, which drew thousands of demonstrators to the National Mall.
A physician, Murthy, 39, is a longtime believer that gun violence is a public-health issue, a view that stalled his nomination in the Senate for more than a year and probably did not align him well with the current administration. He took office in December 2014, and in an interview with The Washington Post four months later, he did not back off those views.
[Surgeon General wants to move U.S. health care toward a "prevention-based" system]
"The statements I've made in the past about gun violence being a public health issue, I stand by those comments because they're a fact," he said then. "They're a fact that nearly every medical professional who's ever cared for a patient can attest to."
His biggest accomplishment may have been the publication in November of a landmark report on drug and alcohol addiction, which placed that condition alongside smoking, AIDS and other public health crises of the past 50 years that previous surgeons general have tried to address. The report called the addiction epidemic "a moral test for America." Murthy's office sent millions of letters to doctors asking for their help to combat the opioid crisis.
In 2015, amid a serious measles outbreak, Murthy urged parents to have their children vaccinated, adding his voice to the chorus trying to counter the small but burgeoning anti-vaccination movement. "The most important message I have is to please, please, please get your child vaccinated," he said at the time. Later that year, he called for a walking campaign to combat chronic disease and obesity.
[Surgeon General issues landmark report on America's addiction crisis]
Sometimes known as the "nation's doctor," the surgeon general has little power beyond the ability to call attention to serious public health problems and offer data and solutions. He or she oversees the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, more than 6,600 uniformed public health-care personnel who work in various parts of the federal government. Some worked on the recent Zika and Ebola crises.
Murthy had nearly two years left on his four-year term as surgeon general. The news release said he was asked to resign, then relieved of his duties. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) criticized the dismissal in a news release, saying that Murthy "U.S. surgeons general are not supposed to be fired midterm. They have served administrations of both political parties because keeping Americans safe and healthy isn't a partisan issue. Dr. Murthy helped steer our country through the frightening Ebola and Zika outbreaks, and rightfully focused on the devastation of addiction."
James T. Currie, executive director of the Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service, a non profit that represents officers in the USPHS, said his group plans to campaign to persuade Trump to nominate a permanent surgeon general from within the ranks of the Public Health Service, which, he said, is required by federal law.
According to her biography on the Surgeon General's website, Trent-Adams was the chief nurse officer for the USPHS from 2013 to 2016, advising on the "recruitment, assignment, deployment, retention, and career development" of nurses in the corps. She also held a senior position in the HIV/AIDS Bureau at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). She is not the first nurse to serve as surgeon general; Richard Carmona, who held the post from 2002 to 2006 under President George W. Bush was both a nurse and doctor.
Murthy wrote in his Facebook post that "the world is locked in a struggle between love and fear. Choose love. Always. It is the world's oldest medicine. It is what we need to build a nation that is safe and strong for us and our children.
"Healing happens when we are able to truly talk to and connect with each other," he added. "That means listening and understanding. It means assuming good, not the worst. It means pausing before we judge. Building a more connected America will require us to find new ways to talk to each other."
(The Washington Post)
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GaryG roughly estimates that he has included around 400 photos in his 2018 articles, in turn culled from thousands of initial shots. He found it both enjoyable and a little difficult to select his favorites for the year, but has managed to squeeze it down to his favorite 24 photos, all first shown on Quill & Pad during 2018.
One of the great pleasures GaryG has of being a contributor here at Quill & Pad is that it gives him an excuse to set aside other priorities on a regular basis and immerse himself in the world of macro watch photography. Along the way, he has been asked by a number of folks to reveal techniques that he uses to create the images you see in his articles, so here he shares some of his tips.
Given GaryG's musings on these pages about the relative roles of rarity and complication in driving the value of a watch, he thinks it appropriate to dedicate this "Behind the Lens" entry to a piece that is both complicated and limited in production: Patek Philippe's Reference 5950A. What's so special about this watch? Well, first of all it's a split-seconds chronograph. What else?
A generous friend recently offered GaryG the opportunity to shoot his white gold Kari Voutilainen Masterpiece Chronograph II so that Gary is able to share photos of both his custom pink gold Chronograph II in comparison to his friend's custom white gold version.
For this edition of Behind the Lens, GaryG shares a series of photographs of one of the great watches of our time, the Philippe Dufour Duality. The Duality, with its linked twin escapements, was originally planned for production in a series of 25 watches. In a turn of events that seems almost unbelievable today, a lack of initial demand eventually led Dufour to limit production to just nine pieces.
As part of my "enthusiast collector" role here at Quill & Pad I will be taking a look at watches that strike my fancy, and sharing the visual results with you along with a few observations on photography, the watches themselves, and the collectors who own them.
Let's get started, shall we? Our subject for this episode: the F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain with remontoir d'égalité.


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Lacaria araucanaria är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Orfila och Schajovski 1960. Lacaria araucanaria ingår i släktet Lacaria och familjen mätare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Mätare
araucanaria


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Un filet anti-requins est un dispositif de protection civile installé en mer près de plages ou de lieux de baignade susceptibles de connaître des attaques de requins. Il se présente comme un filet déployé autour du site fréquenté pour empêcher les requins de s'approcher des usagers de la mer. Utilisé notamment en Australie, en Afrique du Sud ou à La Réunion, il est parfois critiqué pour son impact environnemental : il agirait comme un filet de pêche détruisant la faune marine sans une discrimination suffisante.

Notes et références

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Attaque de requin.
Vigie requin.
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Q: Bit vs Byte in memory adress? I know that 1 byte = 8 bits.

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*Can I access 1 bits in memory or it should be a full byte?

*Let's suppose the memory starts at: 0x0000 then what's the next position? 0x0001 or 0x0008?

A: It depends on how many bit processer you have. I don't think there are any 1-bit processors around.
But a 8-bit processor would read a full byte, and then you can mask bits to actually read the only one you care about.
Therefore, considering the most common architectures, the next address would be 0x0008
Edit: Based on the comments, there are 1-bit processors


Welcome to Plant Thailand located in Amata City Industrial Estate, Rayong Province. BMW's Plant Thailand is part of the global production network of BMW Group which is a network of 31 production sites in 14 countries. Plant Thailand, however, is unique as it is the only plant in the world to produce BMW, MINI, and Motorcycle under one roof.
Please booking at least 2 weeks in advance and can only be made up to 3 months.
Maximum age is 14, all visitors aged between 14-18 years must be accompanied by an adult.
Photography is strictly not permitted in production areas but is permissible in the plant's exhibition space.
Mobile phone, handbags, and cameras cannot be taken on the tour.
Max. 35 people per session.
Morning session: 09.00 – 11.30 a.m.
Afternoon session: 01.30 – 04.00 p.m.


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Every time I read the words of Jesus in the verses from Matthew's Gospel I feel like breaking out into song.
Our Evangelical Lutheran Worship hymnal has a hymn, written by Marty Haugen [ELW #641], with the refrain, "All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place!" I found a calming version of this tune on YouTube which you can enjoy by clicking HERE.
As I write these thoughts, I can't help but hum these tunes. Consider yourself fortunate that you only have to read and not hear me.
Welcome is such a simple word. Many of us have welcome mats outside of our front doors. Often, our welcome mats simply say, WELCOME. Sometimes, we have welcome signs hanging outside the front door of our house. We may have a welcome plaque hanging in our entry hallway. In all cases we want to communicate to those who are entering that they are welcomed.
What does it mean to welcome someone? Simply put, you are glad to see them. You are delighted and pleased. You are very happy. You have a happy smile on your face which sends a message that you are happy that the person is here.
Jesus encourages us to share the gift of welcome. In two brief sentences, Jesus used the word "welcome" SIX times. Perhaps the best place for us to practice sharing that gift is in our worship service.
Being welcoming is stressed repeatedly in almost all churches these days. As I travel around the synod, most congregations have a person, or a team of persons, assigned to welcome the bishop. But my clothes – specifically my clerical collar – make me readily identifiable. And I can't help but wonder, how would I be received if I were dressed differently?
How challenged would you feel if asked to welcome a stranger, a refugee, a homeless person; or anyone whose religion, or lifestyle – whose life – is "different," from what you may consider normal?
As Jesus welcomed all people: tax collectors and prostitutes, Pharisees and even the occasional Gentile; so we, who are followers of Jesus, are called to be welcoming also.
Nevertheless, Jesus knew that his message and his disciples would not always be welcomed wherever they went, which is why he stresses welcome so much in this brief reading. He spent the preceding verses of this chapter telling them that some people may not welcome them. Some people may be hostile. In fact, their own family may not accept their missionary work.
"Whoever welcomes you welcomes me," Jesus said. The next person you meet could put you in the presence of the Living God in strange and unusual ways. How welcoming will you be?
Thursday evening, June 29, I will offer devotions for the youth at the Hartville Migrant Center as they enjoy their Sport Night.
The Hartville Migrant Ministry began in 1952 to offer support to the migrants who work on the farms in Hartville during the growing season from April to October. It is one of the few remaining ecumenical migrant ministries in the United States. During my years as a parish pastor in Canton, I served on the Board of the Hartville Migrant Council and found it to be some of my most fulfilling ministry.
The volunteers work with other agencies and organizations to provide medical care, educational summer programs, adult education classes, a legal clinic, bible studies, and a community center with a bilingual library and computer center. These services are all volunteer staffed and funded by donations and grants.
I will be with the people of God at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Stow on Sunday, July 2.
July 9, I am at Bethel Lutheran Church in Bath, at 10:00 in the morning.
That same July 9, at 3:00 p.m., I will be at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Salem to rejoice with the faithful there as they celebrate their 100th Anniversary.
Monday Musings will not publish next week due to the Fourth of July holiday. The next edition will appear on Monday, July 10. Have a safe and enjoyable Independence Day.
In the meantime, may God's love embrace you, and may you be a sign of God's merciful welcome to all those you meet this week and always!


Caring for an animal companion isn't something you do some of the time. It takes a lifelong commitment. If you wait until your pet becomes ill to bring them in for veterinary care, you could be compromising their chances at enjoying a long, healthy life. Instead, focus on being proactive about your pet's care, keeping them healthy and preventing illness and disease whenever possible. This is the concept behind wellness care, and it's one of the most important components of your pet's ongoing health and happiness. Vineyard Veterinary Hospital offers comprehensive wellness services to help each patient we serve achieve a lifetime of good health.
Through these annual or semi-annual visits, your pet will receive regular physical exams, a customized vaccination plan, parasite prevention and control, nutrition and weight management, behavioral counseling, routine diagnostic testing and anything else deemed necessary to keep them well. Our doctors will work closely with you and get to know your pet so that we can develop a more personalized approach to your companion's health care. We know your pet is unique, and we want to create a system of care that will support his or her specific needs through every stage of life – from puppy or kittenhood on through the golden years.
By seeing your pet regularly, we are also able to identify potential medical conditions before they've had a chance to develop into a more serious and costly problem. When we catch illness and disease in its early stages, we can address it right away, which can vastly improve the chances of a positive outcome. Early detection and disease prevention through wellness care can add years to your pet's life and improve the quality of those years exponentially.
Another big part of our wellness services, and something which sets our clinic apart from others in the area, is our focus on client education. We believe that you, as your pet's caregiver, are also their biggest advocate and most trusted ally. That's why, in everything we do, we work hard to include you as an active participant in your pet's health care. We want to arm you with all of the tools, education and support you need to keep your companion happy and healthy year-round, in between vet visits.
Finally, but certainly not of less importance, routine wellness visits allow our doctors and support staff to develop a relationship with you, and forge an important, lifelong bond with your pet. It is through this trust and familiarity that we are better able to provide your companion with the best possible chance of enjoying a long, healthy life. At Vineyard Veterinary Hospital, we know you want the absolute best for your pet, and we share that very same goal. It starts with a foundation of wellness care.


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Q: two labels for each row with pickerView I'm trying to implement the viewForRow delegate so I can have two labels for each row. I currently have it working with just one label per row. Any help is highly appreciated.
func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView, viewForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int, reusingView view: UIView?) -> UIView {
    var returnLabel = view as UIView!

    if view == nil {
        returnLabel = UIView()
    }

    var pickerLabel = view as! UILabel!
    if view == nil {
        pickerLabel = UILabel()
    }

    let titleData = List

    let myTitle = NSAttributedString(string: titleData[row], attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "Helvetica Neue", size: 17.0)!,NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()])
    pickerLabel.attributedText = myTitle
    pickerLabel.textAlignment = .Center

     var pickerLabel2 = view as! UILabel!
     if view == nil {
         pickerLabel2 = UILabel()
     }

     let subtitleData = subtitleList

     let mySubtitleTitle = NSAttributedString(string: subtitleData[row], attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "Helvetica Neue", size: 12.0)!,NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()])
     pickerLabel2.attributedText = mySubtitleTitle
     pickerLabel2.textAlignment = .Left

    returnLabel.addSubview(pickerLabel)
    returnLabel.addSubview(pickerLabel2)

    return returnLabel
}

func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView, rowHeightForComponent component: Int) -> CGFloat {
    return 60
}

A: You did not specify frames for your labels. Refer to full snippet:
class ViewController: UIViewController, UIPickerViewDelegate, UIPickerViewDataSource {

    let rowHeight:CGFloat = 60.0
    let List = ["data1_1", "data1_2", "data1_3"]
    let subtitleList = ["data2_1", "data2_2", "data2_3"]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

    }

    func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView, viewForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int, reusingView view: UIView?) -> UIView {

        var returnLabel: UIView!
        var pickerLabel: UILabel!
        var pickerLabel2: UILabel!

        if view == nil {
            returnLabel = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, pickerView.frame.size.width, rowHeight))
            pickerLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, returnLabel.frame.size.width, rowHeight / 2))
            pickerLabel2 = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, rowHeight / 2, returnLabel.frame.size.width, rowHeight / 2))
            returnLabel.addSubview(pickerLabel)
            returnLabel.addSubview(pickerLabel2)
        }

        // title

        let titleData = List

        let myTitle = NSAttributedString(string: titleData[row], attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "Helvetica Neue", size: 17.0)!,NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()])
        pickerLabel.attributedText = myTitle
        pickerLabel.textAlignment = .Center

        // subtitle

        let subtitleData = subtitleList

        let mySubtitleTitle = NSAttributedString(string: subtitleData[row], attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "Helvetica Neue", size: 12.0)!,NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()])
        pickerLabel2.attributedText = mySubtitleTitle

        return returnLabel
    }

    func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView, rowHeightForComponent component: Int) -> CGFloat {
        return rowHeight
    }

    func numberOfComponentsInPickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView) -> Int {
        return 1
    }

    func pickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView, numberOfRowsInComponent component: Int) -> Int {
        return List.count
    }

}


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BCD Travel Partners With VATBox to Alleviate VAT Challenges in the Travel Domain
VATBox, the recognised technological leader in the VAT/GST recovery domain, announced its partnership with BCD Travel, a global travel management company that offers the full spectrum of corporate travel-related services across 109 countries. BCD travel leverages VATBox's platform to provide its customers with an optimised VAT/GST recovery process, as well as insightful analysis into their total travel spend per employee, so companies can clearly isolate any spend that is booked out of policy.
VATBox Continues to Revolutionize VAT Recovery and Compliance by Launching Version 6 of Its AI Platform
VATBox, the pioneer and leader in automated VAT compliance and VAT recovery, announced today the release of the 6th generation of its AI platform, which has reached a new level of success with VAT analysis on invoices thanks to its continued technological growth and focus on artificial intelligence.
VATBox Ranked #91 on the Inc5000 European fastest growing companies!
Meet the Inc. 5000 List of Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies From Toulouse to Tallinn, entrepreneurship is thriving, as the 2018 Inc. 5000 Europe shows. Check out Inc.'s fourth-annual list of the fastest-growing private European companies.
VATBox Continues Pan-European Expansion
VATBox, the recognized leader in automated VAT recovery & compliance announced today, the joining of Remco Dewaerheijt to its executive team. Mr. Dewaerheijt is joining the company as Vice President Tax & Product Strategy, heading the new European Headquarter in the Netherlands. The move reflects VATBox's continuing growth and expansion in the Europe region.
VATBox Named to the 2017 Fintech 250, Highlighting Advancements in Automated VAT Recovery
CB Insights today named VATBox to the prestigious Fintech 250, a select group of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking financial technology. CB Insights CEO and co-founder, Anand Sanwal, revealed the Fintech 250 companies during The Future of Fintech, a gathering of the world's largest financial institutions, best fintech startups, and most active venture investors.
Additional $20M in Funding Secured by VATBox
VATBox announced today the successful completion of a $20 million financing round. The investment by Target Global Fund – with the participation of existing investors Viola Private Equity and other private investors – brings the total equity raised since founding to $50 million. The financing will accelerate VATBox's international expansion and the rollout of its innovative VAT solutions.
Regtech Market Map
Companies are increasingly looking to tech solutions that can help streamline and manage data, processes, filings, and more. A host of tech startups in the regulatory space has emerged that offer a range of software, services, and tools aimed at bringing more data and efficiency to regulatory compliance. This category of tech companies is also called regtech, companies developing technologies aimed at simplifying and streamlining compliance, risk management, reporting, data management, and more.
CB Insights has identified over 100 private companies in regtech and organized them into several categories.
Is There Room for Innovation in VAT Recovery?
Traveldoo checked with VATBox the unique possibilities of VAT recovery with the help of innovative technology.
Many companies throw in the towel when faced with cumbersome and complex manual procedures that leave room for errors, and take little interest in reclaiming VAT on expenses. This source of savings is still seen as poorly controlled and offering limited benefits, so its real potential is often overlooked. This potential is very real, however, with an accepted savings level of 4% of a company's expenses. So a company that repays 2 million euros in expenses can expect a potential annual saving of between €60,000 and €80 000, provided that the expenses are "compliant" in the eyes of the relevant tax authorities.
The 50 Most Promising Israeli Start-Ups in 2016
To mark Israel's 68th Independence Day, Calcalist, a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. The ranking was put together by soliciting feedback from some of Israel's top venture funds, including Carmel Ventures, Aleph, 83 North, Magma, Battery Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Marker and others.
VATBox is a Finalist for the 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award
VATBox announced today it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honouring the year's most promising private technology ventures from Europe. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from acrossEurope.
Fintech Hubs to Watch in UK, USA & EMEA
As the hype around fintech grows, cities are competing to crow the loudest about their fintech credentials. Here's a snapshot of the hot hubs to watch this year with key stats, notable exits and who to watch.
VATBox Wins Spot in Inaugural Global MasterCard Start Path Class
Launched in 2014, MasterCard Start Path supports early-stage startups working on the next generation of e-commerce solutions, including building big data, mobile, and cloud-based applications.
VATBox.com Closes $24 Million Growth Round Led by Viola Private Equity
VATBox, the leading cloud-based provider of automated VAT recovery and governance solutions, announced the closing of $24 million in a new financing round led by Viola Private Equity with participation of existing private investors. The funding will further fuel VATBox's aggressive growth plans, accelerating its expansion in the massive, growing market of VAT recovery and governance.
Concur and VATBox: A Win-Win Combination
Combined with Concur's Travel & Expense Management Solutions, the partnership will maximise VAT recovery – domestic deductions as well as foreign returns – and ensure visibility and compliance.
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Q: Configure a router to support two private networks I have a ZTE modem/router and I want to have 2 interfaces related to two privates networks: 192.168.1.0  192.168.2.0 with gateways 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.1, at the same time I need both interfaces to be connected to the internet (WAN), an be able to communicate between them. The Pc choose if they want to belong to the net 192.168.2.0 by static IP, otherwise the dhcp will give an IP in 192.168.1.0 by default.
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PC| ->192.168.2.1-> |        |
                    | Router |-> WAN
PC| ->192.168.1.1-> |________|

How can I achieve that with only one router/modem?
EDIT
It must work whether the devices are connected thru physical LAN or WLAN.
Router model: ZXV10 W300

A: You mention in the comments your router can use VLANS by using PVIDs.
What this means is that the router will tag the physical Ethernet port (The one you plug the network cable into) as part of a vlan.
Lets take your example. If I was to mark the port that 192.168.1.1 is plugged into as VLAN 1 and the port that 192.168.2.1 is plugged into as VLAN 2, it will segregate them.
If I add another device and plug him into another port and make him 192.168.2.2 VLAN 2 then those two devices will be in the same VLAN.
If I add a fourth device and make him 192.168.2.3 but I don't tag him, he cannot talk with 192.168.2.1 or .2
Your router may have an option to determine if communication between the vlans is allowed. If not, the VLANs may be isolated from each other.


You have this burning desire you want to be on your own. The temptation is so great that you want to quit your job.
Almost every day, I talk with people who want to start their own home-based businesses. I receive an interesting reaction when I ask people, "What are you looking for in a home-based business?" The most common response I get is, "Umm, well .
Implementing changes, even when they're good for your business, can be tough. As the old adage goes, old habits die hard and it's just as true in business as it is in our personal lives.
It's not uncommon to reach your 30s, 40s or even 50s and still wonder, "What do I want to be when I grow up?" Few people are fortunate enough to be certain of their destinies early on and the rest of us are forced to do some soul searching.The desire to own a business is becoming more common as workers grow more frustrated with the economy and working in corporate America.
I've seen terrible images today on the television and internet-bodies of the elderly and infants floating in attics, buildings collapsing, seals washing up in the middle of highways. All I can say is that our thoughts go out to those in New Orleans, Gulfport and surrounding areas in this sad time.


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There is no amateur golf championship in Canada with a richer history than the Canadian Men's Amateur Championship. More than a century old, the Amateur was first contested as one of the newly formed Royal Canadian Golf Association's first orders of business in 1895 at the Ottawa Golf Club. When T.M. Harley of Kingston Golf Club defeated A. Simpson of Ottawa Golf Club 7 & 5, a proud tradition of Canadian championship golf was born. Hall of Famer George S. Lyon won the Amateur an incredible eight times between 1898 and 1914 and was runner-up two more times while the inimitable Sandy Somerville made it to the match play final ten times between 1924 and 1938, capturing six championships of his own.
A match play event from the beginning, the Amateur changed to stroke play for the 1969 championship and remained that way through 1994 when it reverted to match play in honour of the RCGA's and the championship's centennial in 1995. The championship once again reverted to stroke play in 2008.
Inter-provincial team matches between Ontario and Quebec were first played in 1882, eventually developing into the Willingdon Cup in 1927. This team event, which pits teams from every province against each other in stroke play competition, has been played in conjunction with the Canadian Amateur since 1931 and remains one of the highlights of tournament week. The Willingdon Cup is contested concurrently during the first two rounds of stroke play in the championship.
In 2010, the Canadian Men's Amateur Championship changed to a double field format for the first time ever.
The champion receives an exemption into next year's RBC Canadian Open.
Canadian Men's Amateur Championship Qualifier
Host Club: Duncan Meadows Golf Course
Duncan, British Columbia
CANADIAN MEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Qualifier Round
Aug 3,2018
2018 Canadian Men's Amateur Championship
Host Club:Duncan Meadows Golf Course
Co-Host Club:Pheasant Glen Golf Resort
Practice Round: Aug 4th - 5th, 2018
Tournament: Aug 6th - 9th, 2018
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Majority COVID rules to end in UK: What you need to know
Picture Courtesy: CNN
As the UK continues to struggle in controlling the growing coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that starting July 19th, most of the covid related rules in the UK will end. In a press briefing, he said that the 'UK must learn to live with this virus'.
The confirmation meeting regarding this will be held on July 12th, when the details of which rules will be removed be available to all.
As per the final plan of easing covid restrictions, face masks will not be mandatory and social distancing will be scrapped. The work from home guidance issued by the government will also be removed.
More details regarding the schools and traveling will be discussed in the following days.
The Prime Minister said that the vaccine rollout has played a major role in allowing the government to ease these restrictions. This comes after the number of cases in the UK is expected to reach 50,000 per day.
There have been instances around the world, where countries prematurely lifted the restrictions resulting in a higher number of cases, but the UK government seems to be confident about the precautions they have taken.
On July 4th, UK reported 23,818 single-day tally of new infections due to COVID-19. About 68% of the population in the UK has received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine.


Is Vogue UK Headed Toward Diversity Now That Edward Enniful Is The New Editor?
I am here for all that Edward Enniful's appointment promises to those of us who believe media and the creative arts can change our world for the better.
The shade was so real in late August when Naomi Campbell's deliciously manicured finger graced the screen of her phone to press 'post'. She sent a message that the sun is melting the snow storm that is the current Vogue editorial staff team. The gleaming mundanity of a rooftop shoot where untroubled smiles announced that there is nothing radical to be missed with the now former editor-in-chief, Alexandra Shulman's goodbye.
The old order is beaming in their blissful unawareness of the pulsating diversity of modern multicultural London in the streets below where hijabs, box braids, afros and weaves of the highest quality float gracefully down an Oxford Street that belongs to us all.
I have seen an army of people come for Queen Naomi Campbell over the years, but she will only read you for filth for mighty good reason. Alexandra Shulman needs to "check her lipstick" as well as her white privilege after this. The white supremacist legacy she is leaving behind doesn't really deserve to be remembered. She held on far too long without any real gumption or daring. On a BBC Radio 4 interview, she rounded off a brief question about diversity in fashion with a paltry and deflective answer, stating that Man Booker prize winning author Paul Beatty's desire to be known as an 'American writer' rather than an 'African American writer' resonated with her. This quite awkward sweeping under the rug is so lumpy with denials and dismissals that it is quite perilous to walk across.
Naomi Campbell graced the cover in August 2002 and it wasn't until February 2015 with Jourdan Dunn that a model with some real melanin was allowed to slay again. Yes, Beyoncé and Rhianna were given some shelf space during that time, but how many mediocre white women have been given the endorsement of a Vogue cover? In fashion, it is still very much true, as Papa Pope reminded a tearful Olivia in Scandal, that "you have to be twice as good to get half as far".
Edward Enniful is set to come swashbuckling in like a modern Toussaint Louverture with an order of degentrification for the hordes of landed fashionistas. Their Mulberry bags are too soft to serve as protective shields. The significance of Edward Enniful's appointment cannot be overstated — a black gay man is at the helm of a Condé Nast titan. The black excellence of Naomi Campbell and Edward Enniful is a vindication of meritocracy. We are not allowed to win, unless we have proved one hundred times over that we are deserving.
If Enniful's ingenious approach to this year's Pirelli calendar is anything to go by, Vogue readers will finally have their appetite for color, innovation and cutting edge fashion satiated with a healthy dollop of ironic humor. There are so many British women of color waiting in the wings for their covers: Philomena Kwao, Munroe Bergdorf, Leiomie Anderson, Freida Pinto, Gemma Chan. The often-quoted myth that women of color do not sell covers has been disproven. We sell them and we buy them. We spend more than anyone else on beauty and our beauty is undeniable.
Yet the rationalist in me calls for temperance. If we have learned anything from The Obama Era it is that one person can only achieve so much and the backlash will be right on time and savagely rabid. Edward Enniful can't make London into Wakanda but Angela Basset, Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira are needed for a spread for the release of Black Panther in 2018. Visions of afro futurist utopias sustain us and are always ripe for the camera's gaze.
The magazine industry has profited from the practice of internships given to graduates with parents who can afford to finance the lives of Beckies who declare war on gluten and are fueled by soy lattés. As Heidi Klum says on Project Runway "In fashion, one day you're in, and the next day you're out." Well, as far as Alexandra Shulman was concerned, whiteness was always in. Perhaps with Edward Enniful at the helm and Naomi Campbell, Pat McGrath, Steve McQueen and Adwoa Aboa as editors, we may have a publication that helps propel our society into the future like Elaine Welteroth is doing with Teen Vogue.
I am here for all that Edward Enniful's appointment promises to those of us who believe media and the creative arts can change our world for the better. We are constantly told that change can and sometimes must be done from the inside. I am holding my breath. I'm also smiling with my eyes and arching my back. This time, I do hope Vogue notices.


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I sometimes must wrestle myself into prayer. It often seems that I'm waging an all-out battle against distractions, laziness, daydreams, aridity, and sudden inexplicable desires to latch onto any shiny bit of trivia that will keep me from praying.
God Himself, the Creator of the universe and the One Who loves me beyond all imagining, is waiting to comfort and heal and bless and listen to me. He is, quite literally, waiting.
And I, in effect, ignore Him so I can turn my attention to....... what?
Let's see. In just the last few days, I've put off prayer in order to focus my attention on junk mail, crossword puzzles, television, a book just borrowed, idle chatter, tiredness, a fleeting headache, various Internet links, and at least one catalog order that suddenly "had to" be placed right then and there and not half an hour later.
Interesting. I don't see anything at all there about my family or the work I've needed to do. All I see is a list of totally inconsequential things that suddenly become of paramount importance when weighed against spending time with, well... with the Author of Life.
See what I mean? It makes no sense.
This morning I was graced with a glimpse of the senselessness. Weakly, I asked God for help. That's when the thought crossed my mind: "at least go through the motions." Don't feel like taking time for prayer? Take a few minutes anyway. Don't feel inspired? Pick up a prayer book and mouth some words. The Bible and Breviary seem to weigh a ton today? ("oh...hooow will I ever liiift them?!"). Pick one up anyway. Make the effort. Do something. If your heart feels wired shut, at least open your mouth.
So I did. With a heart that felt like dried, fissured, ancient rock, I tried to focus while my mind flitted .... somewhere. With mind unengaged, heart uninvolved, attention scattered to dusty winds, I went through the motions.
Then it happened. Like a lamp in a house whose electricity had been out, suddenly I knew I was connected. It felt as if chains were shattered, and indeed - I think that's true. But that would not have happened if I hadn't begun by going through the motions.
And does this post even make any sense? Possibly not, but regardless - I'll hit "publish." With a prayer for anyone else who might be having trouble making the decision to take a few minutes in prayer.. and with a prayer for myself as well.
After all, tomorrow's another day. I know how this goes: it is a daily battle. I will face it again, and again.
I pray for grace to go through the motions.
Yes. Exactly. Thank you for putting my feelings into words!
This makes perfect sense. It also gives me much needed encouragement. Thank you Nancy.
I am ignoring God so I can go read a few blogs... but then again, reading your blog helps me get closer to God. In fact, I am feeling inspired to close my computer and turn to prayer, even if I have to 'go through the motions' after reading your post! Thank you!
Thank you Nancy. This post was very helpful! What bothers me the most is when I'm distracted during Mass, especially during the consecration. Sometimes I realize that I missed it completely and was not paying attention at all. So many graces wasted! But everyday, I pick myself up and try again, hoping that my very presence is pleasing to the Lord even though I am not completely there in spirit.
thanks. I've been NOT going through the motions for several years. I needed this today, to encourage me to start again.
Thank you all, so much! Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone in this. That's especially helpful as I go through the motions again and again. Anne, I shudder to think of how many Mass Consecrations I've knelt through in total distraction; and how many times I have received Our Lord in Communion and then barely told Him 'hi' before a distraction latched right onto my mind.
Isn't it wonderful that He lets us know, through each other, that we have the same basic struggles?
As a former Protestant, I began my life as a Catholic very worried about things like "vain repetition." For that reason, "going through the motions" seemed to me to be something to be avoided at all costs. I gradually came to realize that the alternative, at certain times in my life, to going through the motions is to not pray until I happen to feel like it - in other words, to rely on my very unreliable emotional state to determine whether or not I am going to do what we have been commanded to do: pray without ceasing.
Just like you, I find that when I make the effort no matter how I happen to feel, God comes running to embrace me.
Renee, I had the same kinds of concerns some years ago. I clearly remember the day when it hit me that I could love God by decision, and that thus I could tell Him I loved Him regardless of how I "felt." I could thank Him and speak words of praise, because He was always worthy no matter what was happening in me. It revolutionized my prayer life! Yet, still I have to fight myself day by day. And when I make the effort, He comes with the embrace... even when I don't "feel" it, I know He is there with the embrace. And often, He (in one way or another) lets me know that He is there.
Oh....this is just what I needed today Nancy! I am caught up on housework and have time for prayer...but I am *flitting* about doing a bunch of nothing.
I did push myself to pray one of the daytime Hours...and glad I did. I have to keep that up today!
I pushed myself today also, and it was a difficult task. I hope to write on (Friday-ish?) a bit more about what God seemed to be showing me as I did this!
Thank you for letting me know this is familiar to you also :)! I laughed myself this morning, when I placed an order for lotion. Had to be done TODAY!!
Thank you for my great big smile right now!! I may or may not do the exact same thing from time to time (to time) (to time).
It is indeed a battle...thanks for sharing and encouraging!
Thank God I'm not the only one! Thanks Nancy!
He is so generous to allow us to (and help us to!) find one another!
I too am a Protestant convert, in my mid sixties before finding God in my life. I've been through periods of much consolation and knew how much I was loved by the way I was spoken to through my reading.
I used to daydream during the rosary, thinking of images I would like to see while praying, distraction...major issue with me. I'm so imperfect and God still meets me where I am everyday I seek him out. I sometimes have to go through the motions and find it comforting to know that we have this gift of prayers handed down to us through the centuries that we can pray. I don't feel that any of them are vain repetition because after all we are calling God to let us come near.
I just stumbled onto your blog this day and I love reading your messages and inspirations.
Thank you for taking the time to do this ministry.