The Sacramento Kings were given 14 back-to-backs scheduled this season, which doesn't give them any extra help, which they need all the help they can get being the Kings. While they didn't finish last in their division, they still won less than 30 games this season. The Kings went 13-40 against teams above .500, which is no shock to us at all. They went 14-15 against teams below .500, so they do stand some chance against the lower teams in the league. The Kings will get the Lakers four times this season, and the difference this season is they have LeBron James. The Suns were the team that finished below them in the division, and the test of young rookies will be fun to watch given both had top draft picks this offseason. Sacramento went 5-11 against their division, and 14-38 against the conference, which they get zero help from. Sacramento were three games under .500 against the Eastern Conference, which have some beatable teams now, so they could see a tick up this year. The Kings are not televised often, and it is understandable given not many want to watch them play right now. They have a couple of NBATV games, which is the low of televised TV. They do get a TNT game in November, facing off against the Clippers. They only have one in the last three months of the season. The Kings get a lottery advantage bump, as they face Houston and New Orleans twice in the last ten games. They also face Utah and Portland. It is going to be another strong year for anybody who faces the Kings on any given night. They are young, and the rebuilding project has very little direction. They also are in one of the worst markets.


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Adventures in Information Science
A Personal Research Journal
Book Review – The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information, by Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
Jack Brighton AdTech, Book Reviews, Marketing, Privacy, surveillance January 24, 2022 January 11, 2023 6 Minutes
The academic field of surveillance studies has (thankfully in my view) become more crowded during the past few years in response to the increasing use of data technologies for social control. In the early 1990s, when some of us (e.g. me) were naively celebrating the liberating potential of the internet, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. was critically examining earlier incarnations of data systems and practices that contributed to the entrenchment of existing systems of domination and social injustice. First published in 1993, his book The Panoptic Sort was a groundbreaking account of the history and rationalization of surveillance in service of institutional control and corporate profit at the expense of individual privacy and autonomy. In the a second edition, published by Oxford University press in 2021, Gandy updates his original book for the context of today's increasingly ubiquitous technologies that collect, process, and commodify personal information for instrumental use by corporate interests.
Gandy explains the panoptic sort as "an integrated system that is involved in the identification, classification, assessment, and distribution of individuals to their places in the array of life chances, which are determined in the play of tensions within late capitalism." It's about using data and computational processes to sort people into categories used to grant or deny resources, opportunities, and privileges. Importantly, Gandy emphasizes that technology is instrumental but not determinative. As technologies of the panoptic sort become socially normalized they reinforce existing power structures, but the imperative "resides not in the machines but in the people who use them" (p.51).
Throughout the book Gandy applies critical theory to assess "the character and consequences of the development and implementation of the panoptic sort" (p.16). The panoptic sort is a form of strategic technical rationalism that feeds on itself, mining past information about individuals to divide them into categories of value and risk. One consequence is the undermining of the public sphere (see: Habermas) as "a ghostly afterimage that will appear in different forms to different individuals according to their profiles" (17). Gandy draws on Max Weber's understanding of the rationalization of economic production and the "iron cage" of capitalism, where transactions and relationships are guided by measurement, calculation, and instrumentalism, enabling centralized control and bureaucratization. Individual privacy, dignity, and autonomy are irrelevant to the panoptic sort; they are in fact barriers to the desired production of economic value.
Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration comes into play as people begin to understand the rules in their information environment, and the resources they may have to navigate within it. To the extent that the rules and resources come to be seen as stable and legitimate, they develop into what we think of as "normal" institutions and social systems. An example (not explicitly discussed by Gandy, but representative of the phenomena he describes) would be the website privacy and cookie opt-out notice made nearly universal since adoption of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Most of us understand that websites seek to identify our behavior and interests, and thanks to the GDPR and various technical means to limit online surveillance, we now have some resources to limit collection of our personal data. This is a limited form of individual agency, but one that underscores the structures of website tracking in the communicative environment where we now basically live.
Gandy presents an insightful critique of Marxian theory, or more precisely, ongoing critiques of Marxian theory. Citing Dan Schiller's analysis of the information economy, he argues that the debates over Marx's labor value theory bring us closer to recognizing the surplus value of "nonproductive labor" in the capitalist exploitation of personal data we generate by merely existing, collapsing the dispute over productive vs. nonproductive labor. And as the panoptic sort divides society by assigning individuals to categories that privilege or limit their life choices, it establishes new social hierarchies that defy Marxian theory concerning class consciousness and collective interest.
Foucault's panopticism is naturally invoked as a reference point and "powerful metaphorical resource for representing the contemporary technology of segmentation and targeting, which involves surveillance of consumers, their isolation into classes and categories, and their use in market tests that have the character of experiments." As Kevin Robins and Frank Webster suggest, these technologies are freed from "the architectural constraints of Bentham's stone and brick prototype." As a result of new information technologies and practices, our socio-technical environment functions as a panoptic machine with unprecedented efficiency, power, and reach (p.24).
I emphasize Gandy's explication of his theoretical grounding, because it provides essential support for his observations on the antecedents of the information technology-based panoptic sort, and its evolution to the systems used today. He briefly covers the bureaucratization of content analysis and data reduction present in government information gathering, such as the U.S. Census, and use of government data by private corporations. The book then turns to the "corporate data machine," from employee selection, drug testing, insurance risk data, financial information, real estate and utility records, entertainment and leisure activities, education and legal records, and very importantly as a point of entry for today's panoptic sort, everything people do as consumers.
Collection of a wide range of personal data is of course a long-standing practice by commercial entities. But by the 1990s, advances in technology allowed for the integration of data from many formerly discrete computer systems, and facilitated automated processes of behavior consumer profiling and behavior modeling drawing from hundreds of data sources. These new processes provided corporations with an unprecedented power to identify, classify, and predict consumer behavior, and to target them with persuasive messages tailored to their profiles. They also increased the demand for consumer data as a commodity and the emergence of a data brokerage industry. Gandy provides details on the growth of several key players such as Amex, TRW, and Equifax.
Gandy then reports on his own research (conducted in 1990 for the 1st edition) into public perceptions and concerns about privacy, using multiple sources including surveys, focus groups, and interviews with 1,250 U.S. adults. He provides an extensive analysis of the results, and while much has changed since 1990, the study serves as a valuable benchmark for perceptions of privacy today.
The final chapter from the original 1st edition turns to challenges of data protection and the inequalities of power inherent in the panoptic sort. Giddens' structuration theory is again discussed in relation to the evolution of privacy law, and the individual's rights in a social system dominated by corporate surveillance that increasingly affects their life choices. Gandy provides a very thoughtful discussion on the meaning of individual autonomy as an ideal that in relationship with others is always contested. "The extent to which an individual conforms to the expectations of others is the extent to which she or he has given up some autonomy," he writes. "The panoptic sort threatens the autonomy of the individual by increasing the range of activities that may be brought under the watchful eye of significant others" (p.208). Constant surveillance and evaluation also reduce the nurturing of a person's individuality, a process of experimentation and self-discovery that can depend crucially on access to privacy.
Interestingly, Gandy offers a refreshed take on Warren and Brandeis's landmark Harvard Law Review article, published in 1890, which discussed the right of privacy as "the right to be let alone." If personal data is considered exclusively for its economic value, for example as suggested by Richard Posner in a often-cited 1978 Georgia Law Review article, private life under the panoptic sort is untenable, as personal data of the individual has no market power unless collected and processed en masse with the personal data of others. We might well ask if being let alone is even possible under the panoptic sort, and what this could mean for regulatory intervention.
Finally, the 2nd edition of The Panoptic Sort includes Gandy's new afterword reflecting socio-technical developments in today's world of social media, Big Data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Like Shoshana Zuboff, Gandy calls for mobilizing a collective response of resistance to "this historically unique form of power" (p.278). The challenge for those who would resist the panoptic sort will be developing a policy response that can protect each individual's right to be let alone, and restore transparency, accountability, and trust in corporate data practices. This might seem like a tall order. But as Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias argue in another recent book, The Costs of Connection, surveillance capitalism will come to dominate more and more of our social and economic lives unless we are successful in the effort to rein it in. Reading The Panoptic Sort would be a good way to start.
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Q: Double pointer in the function I am trying to insert strings in the binary search tree.
So what I am to trying is,
parsing strings from a file(contains instruction set) and then inserting in the function
insertOpcodeFromFile().
So this function will execute
(*node) = Node_insert(&node,instruction).
the node will be the root of binary tree which is located in main function.
So in simple way to explain, I want to manipulate(insert) the root pointer in the main function by using double pointer in the other function contain insert function.
I have a simple understanding about the pointer, but in this situation, I need to use more than double pointer I think.
please explain me about the double pointer clearly using this example.
Here is my code(I commenting out insert_node)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#ifndef BINARYTREE_H_
#define BINARYTREE_H_

typedef struct node *NodePtr;

typedef struct node {
  char   *word;
  int     count;
  NodePtr left;
  NodePtr right;
    } Node;

NodePtr Node_alloc();
NodePtr Node_insert(NodePtr node_ptr, char *word);
void clearArray(char a[]);
void insertOpcodeFromFile(FILE *opcodeFile, NodePtr *node);

void    Node_display(NodePtr);
char   *char_copy(char *word);

#endif

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {

FILE * opFile;
FILE * progFile;
struct node *root = NULL;

if ( argc != 4) {               // # of flag check
    fprintf(stderr, " # of arguments must be 4.\n" );
    exit(1);
}

opFile = fopen ( argv[1], "r");
if(opFile == NULL)
        {
            fprintf(stderr,"There is no name of the opcode file\n");
            exit(1);
        }
progFile = fopen ( argv[2], "r");
if(progFile == NULL)
    {
            fprintf(stderr,"There is no name of the program file \n");
            exit(1);
    }

insertOpcodeFromFile(opFile, &root);
//Node_display(root);

}/* main is over */

void insertOpcodeFromFile(FILE *opcodeFile, NodePtr *node)
{
int fsize = 0;
int lengthOfInst = 0;
int c;
int i;
char buffer[100];
fsize = getFileSize(opcodeFile);
enum flag {ins,opc,form};
int flag = ins;
char instruction[6];
unsigned int opcode = 0;
unsigned char format;
 while (c != EOF)
{
    c = fgetc(opcodeFile);
    buffer[i++] = c;

    if (c == 32){
        switch (flag) {

        case ins:
            flag = opc;

            memcpy(instruction,buffer,i);
            instruction[i] = '\0';
            clearArray(buffer);
            i = 0;
           // printf("인스트럭션 : %s\n",instruction );
             break;

        case opc:
            flag = form;
            opcode = atoi(buffer);
            clearArray(buffer);
            i = 0;
           // printf("옵코드 : %d\n",opcode );
            break;

        default:
             break;
        }/* end of switch */
    }/* end of if(space) */
    if((c == 10) || (c == EOF))
    {
        if (flag == form)
        {
            format = buffer[0];
            clearArray(buffer);
            i = 0;
           // printf("포멧: %c\n", format);

        }
        flag = ins;
       //node = Node_insert(node,instruction);

    }
}
//Node_display(node);
}
int getFileSize(FILE *opcodeFile)
{   int fsize = 0;
fseek(opcodeFile,0, SEEK_SET);
fseek(opcodeFile,0, SEEK_END);
fsize = (int)ftell(opcodeFile);
fseek(opcodeFile,0, SEEK_SET);
return fsize;
}
int countUntilSpace(FILE *opcodeFile, int currentPosition)
{   char readword[1];
char *space = " ";
char *nextLine = "/n";
int i = 0;
//printf("현재: %d\n",currentPosition );
while(1)
{
    fread(readword, sizeof(char),1,opcodeFile);
    i++;

    if(strcmp(readword,space) == 0 || strcmp(readword,nextLine) == 0)
    {
        //printf("break\n");
        break;
    }
}

fseek(opcodeFile,currentPosition ,SEEK_SET);
//printf("끝난 현재 :%d\n",ftell(opcodeFile) );
//printf("%I : %d\n",i );
return i - 1;
}
void clearArray(char a[])
{
memset(&a[0], 0, 100);
}

NodePtr Node_alloc()
{
return (NodePtr) malloc(sizeof(NodePtr));
}

NodePtr Node_insert(NodePtr node_ptr, char *word)
{
int cond;

if (node_ptr == NULL) {
    node_ptr = Node_alloc();
    node_ptr->word  = char_copy(word);
    node_ptr->count = 1;
    node_ptr->left  = node_ptr->right = NULL;
} else if ((cond = strcmp(word, node_ptr->word)) == 0) {
    node_ptr->count++;
} else if (cond < 0) {
    node_ptr->left = Node_insert(node_ptr->left, word);
} else {
    node_ptr->right = Node_insert(node_ptr->right, word);
}
return node_ptr;
}

void Node_display(NodePtr node_ptr)
{
if (node_ptr != NULL) {
    Node_display(node_ptr->left);
    printf("%04d: %s\n", node_ptr->count, node_ptr->word);
    Node_display(node_ptr->right);
}
}

char *char_copy(char *word)
{
char *char_ptr;

char_ptr = (char *) malloc(strlen(word) + 1);
if (char_ptr != NULL) {
    char_ptr = strdup(word);
}
return  char_ptr;
}

A: In this case, in main(),
Node *root;

Why do you need to use a "double" pointer ( Node ** ) in functions that alter root is because root value as to be set in these functions.
For instance, say you want to allocate a Node and set it into root.
If you do the following
void alloc_root(Node *root) {
   root = malloc(sizeof (Node));
   // root is a function parameter and has nothing to do
   // with the 'main' root
}
...
   // then in main
   alloc_root( root );
   // here main's root is not set

Using a pointer to pointer (that you call "double pointer")
void alloc_root(Node **root) {
   *root = malloc(sizeof (Node)); // note the *
}
...
   // then in main
   allow_root( &root );
   // here main's root is set

The confusion comes probably from the Node *root in main, root being a pointer to a Node. How would you set an integer int i; in a function f? You would use f(&i) to call the function f(int *p) { *p = 31415; } to set i to the value 31415.
Consider root to be a variable that contains an address to a Node, and to set its value in a function you have to pass &root. root being a Node *, that makes another *, like func(Node **p).

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In 62 United States counties, citizens have to right to know if their food has been genetically altered, and more communities throughout the US (in some 37 states) are continuing to fight against unlabeled GM foods. The American population continues to learn of the harm GM is doing to our farmlands, to our bodies, and to the Earth's biodiversity. Yet, Monsanto and other Bio Tech companies continue to submit new GM crops for approval with the USDA and the FDA, including the "Botox" GMO apple and GM'ed salmon.
Food regulators have been approving GMO foods for over 20 years, with very little independent research conducted to understand the long-term effects that GMO will have on humans and the environment. Thankfully, more of such research is now being undertaken by universities, independent scientists, and, the regulators. For example, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently revealed that several commercial GMO products include fragments of the viral gene called Gene VI.
So let's be frank… more and more research is showing that GM'ed foods are probably doing more harm than good. They are weakening living organisms – plants, animals and people – and opening us up to degenerative diseases, food allergies, increased cancer, and causing catastrophic damage to our environment. Perhaps the sales pitch offers the nice idea that all this is to end world hunger, but really, crop biotechnology appears to be better suited for genocide, and for the monopolization of all food into the hands of a relative few.
Currently, no country or regulators officially monitor the consequences of GMOs, so at this point, we have many indicators that GMOs may be causing us harm, but no dependable scientific data to help us gain a clear and convincing picture. Research findings about viral Gene VI, tumors in rats, and botulism in poultry, are typically dismissed as inconclusive, are said to lack a solid scientific foundation, or are publicized as irrelevant to public health (ie. just because GMO corn causes tumors in rats, doesn't mean it will cause tumors in humans).
Yet, there are heros in every battle; heros not willing to stand ideally by as Monsanto takes over our right to eat healthy, to sow our own food, and to care for our planet.
75-year old Vernon Hugh Bowman is an example of someone willing to face the multibillion-dollar mammoth. He is taking Monsanto to the US Supreme Court this week to argue that, as a farmer, he has the right to sow the seeds of his own crop (even if this crop was from Monsanto GMO seed) and from seed that was purchased from local grain elevators. Monsanto argues that it has patent rights to all its seeds, and all of the seeds from the crop that were grow from its seeds, and all the seeds sold by third-parties that are descendants of the original GMO seeds.
The days of small local farmers have been over for some time now (at least in the US), but if Bowman is victorious, the last few surviving farming communities may stop being targets for patent infringement lawsuits and regain some of their rights.
Face it. Big Agra and Biotech industry giants are not operating with concern for the public or the environment. This is too dangerous to ignore any longer. It is time we boycott and opt-out of the kind of products and practices that mock our best interests, and start supporting and joining the thousands of activists putting forth the effort to save the basic right to know what is in our food. If we are not allowed to know what's in our food, we are slaves that have no choice over the most basic issue in life.
Also search the internet for Right to Know GMO initiatives in your state.
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Why sponsoring a sports team is so much more than just a name on a shirt
Recruitment firm Hunter Selection believe their sponsorship deal with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club shows a host of similarities between the organisations
Joshua Kane
Updated 18:37, 21 AUG 2019
Hunter Selection are the new shirt sponsors of Gloucestershire County Cricket club (Image: Martin Bennett 2019)
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Hunter Selection, based at Leigh Court Business Centre in Abbots Leigh, are one of the UK's leading recruiters for engineering, manufacturing, service and technology.
Established in Bristol in 2004 and now expanded to include three further regional centres in Cardiff, Coventry and Stafford, the organisation has a national reach and local expertise offering first class recruitment services to a broad range of industrial, engineering and technical employers.
This year, Hunter Selection have put their time and resources towards sponsoring Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (GCCC) for the beginning of the T20 season that kicked off last month at the Fergal O'Brien Cheltenham Cricket Festival.
However, the affiliation between Hunter Selection and Gloucestershire Cricket produces a host of similarities within both organisations ethos, mentality and overall values.
Commercial businesses such as Hunter Selection provide a range of services for both individuals and employers where targets are met by seeking the most talented individuals in a competitive and often global marketplace.
Implementing such methods within a sporting organisation such as GCCC presents common behaviours that resulted in an easy association and sponsorship deal to conclude on that basis.
Both organisations implement similar working practices through discipline and teamwork that leads to generating a close and healthy relationship between both organisations.
Founder and Managing Director of Hunter Selection, Russell Smith, shared his delight at the new sponsorship deal.
He said: "We are so pleased to be sponsoring Gloucestershire Cricket in what we are confident will be an exciting season for the club and their young and explosive T20 squad.
"The affiliation between our business, which is built around the values of energy, discipline and teamwork and those of a successful sporting side like Gloucestershire, is easy to recognise. Here's to a season to remember."
But the relationship between the two organisations stems further than just company and team ideology.
Nick Willis-Stovold, Director at the Bristol Branch, also has a strong sporting connection to Gloucestershire having been a cricketer for Gloucestershire C.C.C. from 1999-2003.
But Nick is not only a former player at the club but the son of a GCCC stalwart Andy Stovold.
The right handed batsmen made over 17,000 runs during his time at GCCC and stands proudly as a legend at the club.
Neil Priscott, GCCC Commercial Director said: "It's fantastic to have Hunter Selection, a company started by sports lovers, become our T20 front of shirt sponsor. Their connection to the Club was established years ago through Nick before Hunter Selection was even born and it's great to see his success in business come full circle.
For more information on the services Hunter Selection offer, log on to www.hunterselection.co.uk
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Dashu Township () is a township under the administration of Duchang County, Jiangxi, China. , it has two residential communities and 12 villages under its administration.

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Township-level divisions of Jiangxi
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A man sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for spearing a Sydney teenager in the head with a metal pole had his request to appeal the jail time dismissed.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted after he gatecrashed a party in Forestville in January 2013 and hurled a steel rod at then 17-year-old Liam Knight's head.
The man, who was 16 at the time of the offence, had tried to have his jail sentence shortened on the grounds that he was an "immature adolescent" at the time.
His application was rejected in the NSW Supreme Court today.
Barrister Chris Bruce, SC, argued his client's sentence was "manifestly excessive" and that he had thrown the metal pole in the "spur of the moment".
Mr Knight was found lying motionless on the ground with the pole protruding from his head.
Firefighters had to cut away a part of the pole before transporting Mr Knight to hospital for emergency surgery.
Mr Knight, now 21, suffers ongoing brain damage and epilepsy.
He now runs anti-violence charity the White Knight foundation.


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UBL's URL
By Roger L. Simon Oct 07, 2004 10:25 AM ET
During the presidential debates both candidates seemed to be assuming Bin Laden is alive. Maybe they know more than we do. Senator Kerry, the man who wouldn't even attack Saddam after he invaded Kuwait, went so far as to vilify Bush for letting Usama "escape" in Tora Bora, although no one has any proof he did escape (or any real proof that Usama was really there, to my knowledge). Perhaps the Senator was relying on this report from the head of German intelligence, only made public today. But even that is equivocal. I remain skeptical that Usama is alive. A narcissist of that magnitude could not resist parading his phiz on television. (And, yes, I'm aware of the "he's injured" argument, but it wouldn't take Bernardo Bertolucci to deal with that possibility.)
But more important I don't think it matters much if UBL is alive. It's simple-minded to think that his death or incarceration would change much, just as it is tendentious to blame everything on "Al Qaeda." "Al Qaeda" is no more than one constantly morphing name for the hydra-head of Islamism. Kerry's argument that Bush was shirking his duty by not concentrating on "Al Qaeda" is specious and, I hope (for all our sakes), the Senator is smart enough to know that. I also I assume that his supporters in the Mainstream Media are intelligent enough to know that Saddam could support the Islamists one day and kill them the next. This is the way things go, as anyone covering the Mafia for decades (as that same MSM does) would know. Making that clean break between Saddam and "Al Qaeda" is just another Big Lie of the Mainstream Media, but it is such an obvious one that it is almost embarrassing. Time to change their URL along with UBL's.
Roger L. Simon is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, award-winning novelist and blogger, and the co-founder of PJ Media. His book, Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown, was re-released in an updated edition in 2011.
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Mad Men's fourth season finale on Sunday night averaged 2.44 million. That's up 5% from last year's finale that averaged 2.32 million.
Rubicon finished its first season with 1.04 million. That's down from the 1.26 million its penultimate episode averaged. I haven't seen the demo numbers yet, but Rubicon has typically averaged a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating. Sure, there's a lot of critical acclaim, but the ratings have been anemic even by AMC's standards. Because it's cable and hard to predict, I won't say Rubicon has no chance, but it's white knuckle time.
We'll have the demo information later today and it will be posted in the daily cable ratings section.


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Q: Height calculation script gives false results because of Cached HTML Here is a script I made...
Basically it makes sure a div is at least as high as the viewport when there is no content..
The problem I am facing is when I clicking around my main navigation, because of caching (I presume?), contentHeight is miscalculated (the previous value is kept). When I hit F5 the script works correctly. How can I solve this?
(function ($) {
      Drupal.behaviors.backgroundExpand = {
        attach: function bgExpand (context, settings) {
          // Calculate the height of the div we want to apply the background on,
          // the distance of our backgroud div from the top of the viewport,
          // the height of the viewport, the footer and Vo branding bottom bar.
          var contentHeight = $(".content-background-canvas").outerHeight();
          var viewportHeight = $(window).height();
          var votopHeight = $("#vo-top").height();
          var headerHeight = $("header").height();
          var footerHeight = $("footer").height();
          var vobottomHeight = $("#vo-bottom").height();
          // Only if our content is shorter than the viewport height,
          // make it as high as the viewport, minus the values we calculated
          // above.
          if (contentHeight < viewportHeight) {
            jQuery(".content-background-canvas").height(viewportHeight - votopHeight - headerHeight - footerHeight - vobottomHeight);
          } else {
            // Do nothing.
            return false;
          }
          // Bind the Resize event to our function so that the height is
          // recalculated on resize.
          $(window).bind("onload sliderLoaded resize", bgExpand);
        }
      }
    })(jQuery);

A: You have to trigger it:
$(window).bind("ready sliderLoaded resize", bgExpand).resize();
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Old Town Festival of Speed & Style Presents $3,000 to USO of Metropolitan Washington – Baltimore
Alexandria, VA – July 24, 2020 – In line with its deep commitment to the community, the organizers of the Old Town Festival of Speed & Style presented the USO Metro Washington-Baltimore with a special donation to assist during these challenging times.
With a handful of classic cars providing an elegant backdrop at the Alexandria National Cemetery, members of the Organizing Committee of The Old Town Festival of Speed & Style presented Meghan Butler, Corporate Development Director for USO-Metro, with a $3,000 check to help support the USO's mission.
Cars ranging from a Morgan, MG, Austin Healey, and BMW, along with the USO Ford Escape, were on display with their owners – spaced at a safe distance, for the check presentation.
The mission of the USO is to strengthen America's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation. The USO-Metro is one of two charities of choice for The Second Annual Old Town Festival of Speed & Style, presented by Burke & Herbert Bank.
The Old Town Festival of Speed & Style is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization chartered to donate funds to charitable organizations – both local and national. It hosts a spectacular single-day, high-sensory event on the unique lower blocks of King Street in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia every year.
Originally scheduled to take place last month, the second annual Festival is now scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 6 – over the Labor Day weekend. Event organizers are working closely with the City and State health officials on implementing safe distance protocols to ensure that the Festival fun while protecting attendees and participants.
The Second Annual Old Town Festival of Speed & Style, presented by Burke & Herbert Bank, will feature 100 rare and exotic supercars and motorcycles from around the world for viewing enjoyment. The Festival celebrates the heart and spirit of the community and highlights the elegance and style of Old Town.
The Festival is free to spectators and open to all.
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Giving Back At A Safe Distance: Festival Organizers of Old Town Festival of Speed & Style Donated $3,000 To Local Charity Partner ALIVE!
This past weekend, organizers of the Old Town Festival of Speed & Style presented by Burke& Herbert Bank presented local Alexandria based charity Alive! with a unique and special check presentation with the George Washington Masonic Temple and a collection of classic cars serving as the backdrop.
Six rare and usual supercars ranging from an Austin-Healey to a Ferrari, with their owners present at a safe distance, presented Alive! Executive Director, Jennifer Ayers with a $3,000 check to help support the non-profits critical mainstay programs, such as shelter, food, assistance programs, and early education services that have been deeply impacted by Covid-19. Alive! is one of the scheduled benefactors of this year's speed & style festival.
"Our charter has always been to do something special for the community — while giving back to the community," said Rick Myllenbeck, founder and chairman of the Old Town Festival of Speed & Style. "We are delighted that we can share the proceeds generated from the Festival with a very deserving local charity, ALIVE!, which is so wonderfully making a difference for many local families at this great time of need."
The 2nd Annual Old Town Festival of Speed & Style was originally scheduled to take place this month, will now currently take place on Sunday, September 6 over Labor Day weekend. The event will feature more than 100 rare and unusual supercars and vintage motorcycles from around the world for viewing enjoyment. The event will span across three blocks on lower King Street near Old Town's waterfront. The event is scheduled to feature a fashion exhibition presented by the Old Town Boutique District in which boutiques will showcase styles from the themed cars on display. The event organizing team is currently working with the City on safe distance protocols for the event.
Copyright © 2019. Old Town Festival of Speed & Style. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization.


Every worker should have the right to come home healthy and safe. But in New Zealand, work-related fatalities are three times as high as the UK and nearly twice as high as Australia.
On the 4th April 2016, the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) was introduced. The HWSA recognises that a well-functioning health and safety system relies on participation, leadership, and accountability by government, business and workers. To improve workplace health and safety in New Zealand, business need to be responsible for the health and safety of their workers. Workers must take reasonable care for their own health and safety. And everyone must follow policies and procedures relating to health and safety in the workplace.
These checklists have been developed by WorkSafe New Zealand to assist in managing safe practices in your workplace. Each template can be downloaded to your mobile device, or download the print versions here.
Use this form to record details of an accident.
Includes operator competency, safe operation and equipment checks.
This checklist can be used to record details of hazards, and controls to minimise them.
These checklists have been developed by WorkSafe New Zealand to ensure there is a consistent approach to construction and manufacturing workplace inspections, throughout New Zealand. You can use these checklists to improve safety in your organisation, and identify areas which need attention.
This checklist has been designed to support inspectors when conducting visits on construction sites involving asbestos.
This toolkit checklist has been designed to support inspectors when conducting visits to construction sites.
Use this checklist template to perform inspections on excavator equipment and operators.
Includes setup, operator competency, documentation, and equipment checks.
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Sarah Kropski of Wilmette, Alicia Berneche of Evanston and Maggie Clennom Reberg of Chicago sample local craft beers Oct. 14, 2018 at the annual Evanston Oktoberfest in the north suburb hosted by Downtown Evanston.
Crisp fall weather was on tap for the Oktoberfest and craft beer fest in Evanston recently, featuring area breweries, live music and local food at the city's farmers market location.
Hundreds gathered Oct. 14 to sample more than 40 different styles of craft beer and hard cider from local and regional breweries, taking part in an Oktoberfest-style fundraiser for Downtown Evanston.
to raise awareness about downtown Evanston and to help support local businesses.
William Metcaff of Chicago attended Oktoberfest with his wife Alexandra, and said they came to get away from the city.
"You can find most everything you'd want in Evanston, it's like the city but with a more relaxed suburban feel," Metcaff said.
A $15 entry fee provided guests access to craft beer and outdoor food vendors, a commemorative tasting glass, and live music curated by Out of Space, Evanston SPACE'S Outdoor music program.
Addison, 5, and Ella Lark, 6, of Evanston participated in the kids' corner with fall themed arts and crafts Oct. 14, 2018 at the annual Evanston Oktoberfest in the north suburb hosted by Downtown Evanston.
Local Breweries like Sketchbook Brewing Company, Temperance Beer Co., and Smylie Brothers Brewing Co. were featured, along with area food vendors and a music lineup that included performances by The Cactus Blossoms, Devil in A Woodpile, Al Scorch and Railheart.
"It's a perfect fall day for music, friends and food, and for supporting our local breweries which are popping up all over Evanston," Alicia Berneche of Evanston said while attending with friends.
"Evanston Oktoberfest has grown a lot since its inception in 2014, it's a testament to how much community supported breweries have grown locally and regionally," said Sean Dowd, event co-founder and regional sales manager Finch Beer Co.
The city's annual Oktoberfest was held Oct. 14, 2018 in downtown Evanston, at the site of the farmers market, and was hosted by the organization Downtown Evanston.
Gina Grillo is a freelancer.


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MONTREAL – By the conclusion of Wednesday's first Just For Laughs New Faces showcase, festival goers were, with good reason, practically drowning in a sea of untapped comedic talent. But drowning in a good way, like if you were to dive into a swimming pool full of Spaghetti-Os. With the affable Neal Brennan resuming hosting duties for round two, things kicked off with an insider anecdote about Barack and Michelle
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Ambiguous about the specifications of new iPhone XS, XS max? Well, the latest iPhone offered by the Apple involves special modification in their previous models involving iPhone X, 8 and iPhone 8 plus. The new iPhone XS shares the same stainless-steel edges and 5.8 inches wide display as in iPhone X. The company is offering with another phone, the iPhone XS max, with a wide 6.5 inches display and a footprint as in iPhone 8 plus. This model offers the largest display among all the models offered so far by Apple.
Both these new models offer a varied range of colors including space grey, silver, and rose gold. People are more prone to a straw shade golden color rather than the previous rose gold.
Talking about the iPhone XR, it has a 6.1 inches wide display with a fine aluminum glass body. it is not present in stainless steel body. Apple offers more color range in this model as compared to the previous models. It comes in red, blue, yellow, white and black color. This model costs $749 or AU$ 1229 on preordering. The iPhone XS, costs $999 in 64GB's and iPhone XS Max charges $ 1,009 FOR 64 GB's.
This year, Apple has been offering more efficient A12 Bionic processor this time in these three models that are believed to be 15% more efficient than the previous A11 processor.
Talking about the camera specifications, iPhone XR is equipped with the single rear camera while XS and XS Max offers the dual camera in them.


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Poulton, Paul – Genesis for Ordinary People
This commentary has an interesting take on blending scientific knowledge with a relatively literal approach to the text. So how do you understand Genesis?
Genesis must be one of the hardest books of the bible to write a commentary on, as there are so many different ways of interpreting the creation stories that you could lose readers in the first few pages. Some take the accounts literally and try to calculate Earth's age in years, while others dismiss the text as merely mimicking Mesopotamian myth. It is so easy for people to write you off as soon as you show any deviation from their personal understanding.
Poulton's unique approach is harder to place on the literal-mythical spectrum. Generally, he takes the text very seriously as it stands (including people's long ages and Eve's supernatural creation).
He tends towards the literal so much that he ponders about God physically walking in the garden, to the extent of wondering how loud his footsteps were; whether he told Adam poetically about creation using the days of the week; and whether he would sing, and Adam pass the songs down the family as far as David.
He writes (p.155) "I don't think we should view it as strange that God should walk on the Earth he created... We are made in his image, which means that God was able to be manifest in the same form as us... image means optical, it is something we see."
Yet Poulton distances himself from fundamentalists, and concurs with the scientifically accepted age of the Earth. He is keen to incorporate geological, biological and historical discoveries, placing our knowledge of DNA into his exposition of the text. His second chapter is all about the synchronisation of science and scripture.
Neither is he afraid to deal with the similarities between Ancient Near Eastern texts and Old Testament scripture – but I'd like to have seen him make more of how and why they differ, as that sheds vital light on the writer's understanding of God (if you understand Genesis to have been written in the Babylonian exile, although Poulton runs with Moses as the author).
This mid-spectrum approach means that, while there will be assertions that people at either end disagree with, there is also a lot to challenge their assumptions.
Having to provide a coherent approach to the developing story, he understands that there would have to have been an established community of humans at the point that God breathed life into Adam, which makes sense, given clues at the end of Genesis 4. He notes the Ancient History Encyclopaedia's contention that "most probably, Eden in the Genesis narrative is modelled on Eridu," the well-excavated civilisation established some time before 5,000 BC, watered by canals from the Euphrates.
This is where I find some of his explanations suffering in the tension between the literal and metaphorical: while a naked pre-Fall Adam works easily within the context of a poetical creation story, I am not convinced of it being his literal manner of (non-)dress within an already-established community outside Eden.
Poulton makes much – and possibly too much – of "the seed" planted in Adam to germinate in Christ, asserting (p.51) "The 'life' that was deposited in Adam made its way into his offspring too and somehow they received the benefits of it.... They lived long, were strong and were handsomely proportioned with a certain amount of intelligence, which is what we would expect if the creator of the universe had breathed something into their first forefather."
I do have questions about the premise of this series ("For Ordinary People") as far as it implies something negative about an academic approach. So we do not get, for example, comments about the dualistic themes that run through Genesis to bring out the brokenness of creation, as might be brought out if considering the literary approach to the text.
But Poulton is a good non-academic choice, who has already earned my respect in his usual role as musician. His work is full of creativity, intelligence and integrity.
He also earns respect for his research here, combining scientific, geographical and historical background to get below the surface of the story. And that is one of his strengths in this book. He does dig as deeply as he can to tell the story with plenty of colour, for example, taking the structure of ancient names and investing them with some purpose and character ("The Sumerians used the prefix 'En' to denote a ruler...Seth named his son Enosh and Cain named his son Enoch..." (p.61). Poulton offers that these could have been early kings of Eridu).
Poulton spends a lot of time at the start of the book, explaining his approach in personable style and often jumps from the Genesis text to implications for today – presumably part of the series' rationale of being "for ordinary people."
Poulton has also written a follow-up "Exodus for Ordinary People," and his gifts for unearthing background, developing stories and imbuing characters with motives that are easy for casual readers to miss could be particularly useful there, away from the controversies of the Genesis creation accounts.
He may sometimes add 4 to 4 and suggest it equals 9, but at the very least, Poulton will make any reader think hard and check their own assumptions – a vital attitude, wherever you fit on the literalism-symbolism spectrum.


Politicians who are blaming Mexico for sending immigrants to the U.S. might want to notice the latest trend: immigration from Asia.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, immigrants from China and India have overtaken immigrants from Mexico in the numbers coming to the U.S. The shift has been building for more than a decade, the Census Bureau said in a May release. Of the 1.2 million newly arrived immigrants, China led with 147,000 followed by India with 129,000 and Mexico with 125,000.
The Census Bureau says this is in contrast to the 2000 census, which counted 402,000 immigrants from Mexico and no more than 84,000 each from China and India.
In addition, according to the Texas State Demographer, the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the state each year has dropped by more than half since 2005.


GPCRs are a superfamily of diverse integral membrane proteins that allow detection and transduction of a large variety of extracellular signals. In Dictyostelium only seven members of one family, the crl (cAMP receptor like) family had been identified and studied in detail. The analysis of the genome sequence uncovered 48 additional putative GPCRs grouped into the secretin (family 2), metabotropic glutamate/GABAB (family 3) and the frizzled / smoothened (family 5) families of receptors. The presence of family 2, 3 and 5 receptors in Dictyostelium was indeed surprising because they had been thought to be animal-specific. GABA (gamma amino butyric acid), the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in mammalian brain, signals through ionotropic (GABA(A)/GABA(C)) and metabotropic GABA(B) receptor systems. The functional GABAB receptor is a heterodimer of receptor 1 and receptor 2 subtypes. The Dictyostelium genome harbours 17 different genes encoding GABAB receptor like proteins each having slightly closer resemblance to one of each subtype. Yeast two-hybrid studies led us speculate that the C termini of these receptors alone may not be sufficient for their interactions to form homo or heterodimers. The detailed analysis of one of each type of receptors namely - GrlA and GrlJ was undertaken. Both these receptors are expressed throughout the development of Dictyostelium with a marked elevation in the later developmental stages. Mutant analysis revealed both GrlA and GrlJ to be involved in post aggregation morphogenesis in Dictyostelium. Strains lacking GrlA displayed a delay in development consistent with its expression pattern and completed development 3-4 hours later than the wild type cells. Furthermore, GrlA was found to be involved in controlling sporulation events as grlA- cells were defective in the generation of the signal required for spore differentiation, SDF-2. This may be due to a decrease in the levels of TagC, a protease present on the surface of prestalk cells that cleaves AcbA (formed in prespore cells and released) to form SDF-2 and the SDF-2 receptor, DhkA. Transcriptional profiling of the grlA- (16 h) displayed downregulation in the serum response factor (srfA) induced genes, which further strengthened the role of GrlA as an important component in sporulation and spore maturation. Our data suggest that GrlJ controls events during the transition from aggregation to post aggregation. grlJ - develops precociously after aggregation stages forming thin fingers that break several times on their way until culmination and form smaller fruiting bodies with malformed spores which are less viable. However, grlJ - does not exhibit any defect in the production or response, neither to the peptides controlling sporulation such as SDF-1 or SDF-2 nor towards GABA or Glutamate like the wild type cells.


Estate planning is complicated because people do not understand there are different rules which govern different assets. In addition, there are a myriad of contingencies that need to be solved for so to speak. It would be easy if there were not so many rules and if we knew who exactly would survive, etc. There are probate avoidance consideration, tax considerations, family dynamic situations.
Rule number 1: Not all assets are governed by a will.
There are many rules that govern the disposition of assets when someone passes.
Retirement accounts are governed by the beneficiary designation on file with the plan administrator or custodian.
Life insurance is governed by the beneficiary designation on file with the insurance company or sometimes if it is owned in a trust, the trust governs what happens to the proceeds.
Assets that are owned "jointly with the right of survivorship" will pass automatically to the surviving joint owner or joint owners by operation of law.
Assets that are owned jointly with no right of survivorship will be "tenants in common" assets and will be categorized as probate assets.
Assets owned in a trust or payable to a trust via a beneficiary designation will be governed by the terms of that trust.
As a result, you can see how it would be easy to mess up your planning. All of these assets need to be properly coordinated. We usually dictate the terms and instructions the client wants (including the contingencies) in their papers which includes a revocable living trust. Then to make the plan and the revocable living trust fully effective, we need to then address all the assets and make sure they are titled properly and or payable via designation properly to accomplish the goals.
For example, assume Tracy and Joe own several CD's, some of which are owned by Tracy alone, some by Joe alone. And let's say there are a few accounts where the children or one of them is co-owner. They did that so a child would have access to accounts if something went wrong. If Tracy and Joe are not careful, they can end up with a hodge podge of results. Different accounts can end up going to different people that were not intended.
Usually, as I stated before, it is best to have a properly coordinated plan. To say, upon my death, this child gets my house and the other child gets my bank and brokerage accounts can lead to disastrous results. We had a case where this was the planning, done by another attorney, and ten days before the mother died, her house had been sold. Now, that meant the child who was to get the house got nothing. It is better to dictate in terms of percentages. For real estate, it is a good idea to consider giving a right of first refusal to siblings prior to sale of a family house.


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Q: Is it possible to maintain state between Postgres trigger invocations? I am implementing a trigger in PostgreSQL using Python that
sends an AMQP message via amqpy.
A connection is required to send the message.  Currently,
the only way I know to do this is, when the trigger is
invoked, open a connection, send the message, and close the
connection.
I would like to not have to keep opening a new connection
for every trigger invocation.  Is there a way to initialize
the connection once, and then make it available to future
trigger invocations?
There would also have to be a way to detect if the connection
went down and re-establish it.

A: You can share data between pl/python functions.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/plpython-sharing.html
It should be possible to open a connection, stash it in "GD" and reuse it. Don't know if AMPQ needs a clean close on its connection though.


Celebrate Independence Day with this fat quarter bundle! Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue! This collection offers classic Americana patterns and patriotic colors fit for any 4th of July celebration.
Contains 11 fat quarters measuring approximately 18" x 22" each.


Flexibility is the key when it comes to any aspect of life especially the business part as it allows us to express ourselves better we can be more creative this, in turn, helps us in achieve more both personally and psychologically.
One thing that can help us achieve all those business goals of ours is the flexible business loans. With flexible business loans, we can have the freedom to choose among the various business alternatives available to us.
A businessperson may require business loans for any of the following purposes.
All these uses that business loans show that these business loans can be used in many cases thus showing their utility and flexibility.
Flexible business loans provide us with the flexibility of choosing between a secured business loan and an unsecured business loan. Not everyone can go in for a secured loan as not every person in the world has security to render people like tenants new starters they can choose the unsecured loans. On the other hand, people like to play a safe game can choose a secured loan and can avail the benefits of an easier repayment schedule etc.
Flexible business loans provide flexibility to the borrowers in other forms as well in that the borrowers can choose between a fixed rate of interest and a variable rate of interest as not everyone is equipped to pay the interest at a fixed rate so this flexibility helps a lot of people. Other ways in which the flexibility is achieved is with the loan amount which ranges from $1000 to $100,000. This serves almost every class of business requirement. With this, we can see that flexibility brings more than rigidness.
Flexible business loans are available to everybody even to people who have a bad credit history. They and other people just need to apply for the loans online or to a local Singapore money lender to get the small business loans depending on your requirement and circumstances the loan can be approved quickly and to your terms.
It is easier to be flexible than be rigid. Flexibility brings a lot more options into the picture for a large number of people. Hence we should aim for flexible business loans to serve our purpose to its fullest.


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Anissa Blondin, Miss Universe Belgium 2014, debuts her National Costume during the Miss Universe National Costume Show at the FIU Arena on Wednesday January 21st. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP
Chanel Beckenlehner, Miss Universe Canada 2014, debuts her National Costume during the Miss Universe National Costume Show at the FIU Arena on Wednesday January 21st. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP
Hellen Toncio, Miss Universe Chile 2014, debuts her National Costume during the Miss Universe National Costume Show at the FIU Arena on Wednesday January 21st. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP
Yanliang Hu, Miss Universe China 2014, debuts her National Costume during the Miss Universe National Costume Show at the FIU Arena on Wednesday January 21st. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP
Paulina Vega, Miss Universe Colombia 2014, debuts her National Costume during the Miss Universe National Costume Show at the FIU Arena on Wednesday January 21st. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP
Karina Ramos, Miss Universe Costa Rica 2014, debuts her National Costume during the Miss Universe National Costume Show at the FIU Arena on Wednesday January 21st. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP
Ivana Misura, Miss Universe Croatia 2014, debuts her National Costume during the Miss Universe National Costume Show at the FIU Arena on Wednesday January 21st. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP
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A follow up workshop was held on Wednesday 26 February 2014 to take forward the outputs and insights from the "Running on Empty" conference held in November 2013.
The event highlighted seven priorities for the Coalition to consider in its efforts to inspire effective action on Fuel Poverty in Northern Ireland.
The workshop report can be obtained by clicking on the link below.


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An Honest Look at the Clean Beauty Cult and One Brand That's Doing it Right
The never list.
Writer Allie Turner
Gregg Renfrew, founder and CEO of Beautycounter.
For most of us, the sheer volume of clean beauty jargon circling the stratosphere is overwhelming. The list of chemicals never ends and the -oride, -oxy, and -ate suffixes make eyes glaze over. It's like trying to visualize the number quadrillion. In short, the list is scary.
To some extent there may be fearmongering at play to sell an idea of wellness—an aesthetic of linen, clean lines, and cream coloured walls, a branded commodified model of health in a world blissfully without "chemicals".
Everything in our universe is chemicals. The word is not the problem. The lack of transparency of effects is.
It is the responsibility of each nation's governing body to determine what is healthy or harmful. Brands can take advantage of the lack of regulation and the confusion in the marketplace to greenwash their products. It's something Gregg Renfrew, founder and CEO of Beautycounter, finds very unsettling: "I do not believe in that type of practice. I believe in authentic and transparent communication with your consumer." She cites an article from 2016 that tested beauty products in stores claiming to contain aloe vera, a plant that has well documented benefits. The products contained zero traces of aloe vera. The unfortunate thing is the lack of cosmetics watchdogs in the U.S. It doesn't fall under the FDA's jurisdiction if you put it on your skin and not in your mouth.
That too is a concern. The skin is a porous organ and, as we continue to discover, what we put on it does have lasting health effects on our bodies, like cancer, hormone disruption, developmental toxicity (which is essentially an adverse disruption to homeostasis in the body caused by an environmental assault), and, in extreme cases, infertility.
It also has an adverse effect on the environment, and after watching The Inconvenient Truth Renfrew came to realize what many people are just waking up to now. Changes must be made.
"I became aware of the fact that we as human beings were doing things that were truly detrimental," she says. "So, I started to make changes in my life to try to be better for the Earth." It was easy to make changes in the home—recycling, ditching her non-stick pans in favour of stainless steel, and switching to water and vinegar cleaning solutions—but when it came to skincare and color cosmetics, she couldn't find any products that suited her needs.
It's a statement we have heard many times at this point. And it should be noted that Renfrew's story isn't new to us now. But back in 2013, when she launched the brand as a certified benefit corporation, it was all new territory.
"All of the old traditional brands that I had known and loved growing up were filled with chemicals of concern," she notes. "And when I could find a few small earthy niche brands that were eco-friendly, they weren't particularly well suited for the beauty space, they weren't high performance."
Renfrew saw an opportunity to increase awareness of the issue through advocating for safer products in the U.S (and subsequently Canada), and she set about creating them herself. The goal was always to create high-performing products, created with ingredients that are not harmful to the health of the Earth or to humans, that work as well as traditional brands.
It should be noted that Renfrew's story isn't new to us now. But back in 2013, when she launched the brand as a certified benefit corporation, it was all new territory.
To combat the scourge of terminology and misinformation Beautycounter released the Never List. The key difference in this list, which still has all the eye-glazing chemical jargon, is that there is an explanation of the chemical's purpose and detrimental effects underneath. It also took it one step further and created an ingredient list of every ingredient it uses in its products, an explanation of its purpose and origin, and what product it was used in, as well as considerations of supply chains. "We have banned or restricted approximately 1600 ingredients from our formulations," says Renfrew. "I think that the Never List was the beginning of the clean beauty movement—of really restricting certain chemicals of concern from the formulations."
Developing these lists are work intensive. The team examines the scientific research behind the chemical's effects from all sides, consulting non-profit organizations, green chemists, universities, and "best in class" science before synthesizing the results. Then the end-to-end process is screened for trace contaminants before the specialists revaluate the overall life cycle of the product to determine it has no ingredients linked to endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Renfrew would call Beautycounter an activist brand, not because it spends time disparaging or shaming other brands but because the team is focused on advocacy for systemic change in environmental and personal care product reform. "We believe that North American citizens should have the right to safe products and in the absence of more comprehensive and health protective laws that won't happen," she says. "And so, we are an activist brand but I do think a hopeful positive thinking activist, not an angry activist."
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Vernazza is world famous for its beauty, for being an UNESCO site within the Cinque Terre, for its wine and for its cozy colorful restaurants on the main square.
Vernazza is amazing as amazing are its kids and their crazy jumping-in-the-waves tradition!
They do that from the Ventegà, the small pier below the ancient Belforte bastion, where during summer time ferries dock. They plunge in the undertow to get back on the pier with the wave.
not to mention the wonderful pics taken by our friend Sasha.
A true performance attended by lots of amused or shocked people.
To visit Vernazza and fall in love with her (yes, she's a Lady), I recommend getting there before 9:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m. Being the pearl of the Cinque Terre from a photographic point of view means it's also the most visited during the day, but morning and evening are still excellent moments to appreciate it.
Anyway, I highly recommend not to go by car! The train is convenient, cheap and frequent and in this article on the Cinque Terre Express you will find all the information you need to take it from Levanto.
For an unusual walking itinerary through Vernazza, I recommend this article where I tell you about my birthplace and its perfumes.
Once in town, do not miss a visit to the Cheo Winery! It is located a few hundred meters from the station and organizes tastings every afternoons.


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« Bank nationalisation
Slimming the BBC would be so easy »
Coincidences with Scottish by elections
By | Published: November 1, 2008
We have seen a £2.7billion emergency package to deal with the problems of Labour's tax reforms, and the announcement of new aircraft carriers. This time round there is the £37 billion financing package for RBS, HBOS and its possible new partner, Lloyds.
The government will tell you that these spending items are unconnected to by-elections. I do notice, however, that some are keen keen to spin that the bail out of Scottish banks by English and Scottish taxpayers shows Scotland would be too small to go it alone.
Neil Cuthbert
I don't think anyone from the UK can seriously argue that Scotland is too small to go it alone. We should never forget that Malta was granted independence from the British Empire as a stand alone state – and many others all over the world as well.
What the Unionist parties are arguing is that Scotland benefits economically from the Union and this 'bail out' is an example of the 'Union dividend'. Its hard at the present time to argue against that.
Scotland entered the Union on the back of an economic disaster – the ill-fated Darien scheme of the 1690s. Part of the sweeteners for Union was that those Scottish nobles who had lost money were compensated by the English Government. "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"…as the French might say!
mikestallard
The credit crunch works so quickly and decisively. Who would have thought, say, six months ago, that Labour might have won Glenrothes?
As an ordinary punter/voter I must say that I find politicking most distasteful. All this stuff about trying to win by elections with other people's money and leaking information and so on is most unpleasant.
I suppose it is the Great Game for politicians?
If so, please may we have two teams on the pitch instead of just one Scottish one?
Adrian Peirson
But the Aircraft Caeeiers will be slowly handed over to the EU Navy once ours has been demoralised and culled out of existance through lack of funding.
The Aircraft Carreries will be unusable. With out the supporting defensive craft to provide an airscreen, anti submarine counter measures and other defensive measures, they will never be able to leave dock.
Carriers will need a battle group each, and a flight deck equipped with sufficient aircraft. Without those things, without additional surface warship support we are simply providing a huge sitting target for the enemy.
David Eyles
Personally, even if the announcement of the aircraft carrier order was made in time for the by-election, I would not give a monkey's. We actually need not two, but three (one to be maintained or in home waters whilst the others are away on service elsewhere) and preferably five. But we also need the destroyers, frigates and hosts of small ships to make up the losses made by this government and to re-equip to counter future threats. By the same token, the RAF and army need more and better kit urgently, just to get to grips with our existing commitments, as well as doubling or trebling the numbers of active service personnel.
What I do think is a travesty is the bailing out of RBS/HBOS and the Northern Rock and rest, because that really is pure electioneering as well as condeming the entire country to a future of high taxes and low growth. This latter strategy will ensure that our armed forces remain impoverished and our service men and women endangered by a cynical, irresponsible and incompetent government.