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Disease management: Lessons from Australasia and Europe, part one
By Nick Poole
What I'd like to give you is a view from my previous careers working in Europe, New Zealand, and now Australia with regards to disease management. I'd like to give you a flavour of some of my impressions of disease management over the last 35 years with reference to getting the balance right with regard to the disease triangle and integrated disease management.
Where are we in terms of integrated disease management (IDM)? What is IDM all about? Principally it's about trying to make sure we use all the tools in the toolbox, integrating genetic resistance with chemical fungicides, cultural control and overall crop agronomy. When we sow the crop and how we look after it with nitrogen can profoundly affect how much disease pressure we're under.
Getting it just right is never going to be easy. What's happened in Australia? Before 2002, there wasn't a huge amount of fungicide usage because it's a much less responsive environment. Then we had an "exotic incursion." Stripe rust came in from North America, probably on a grower's boots. That changed the pendulum, from a dependence on genetic resistance to a reliance on fungicides, because, overnight, a huge proportion of all of the germplasm in Australia became susceptible to stripe rust.
Meanwhile in Europe, there was a totally different swing of the pendulum. It was inspired by a new set of varieties, in this case semi-dwarf varieties. With the new cultivars and more nitrogen, crops stayed greener for longer. Suddenly yields increased enormously in the '70s. Higher yields and longer growing seasons in Europe drove growers to apply more and more fungicide. If you go to Europe now, it's all about T1, T2 and T3 – Timing 1, Timing 2, Timing 3 with fungicides as a fixed part of crop agronomy. Up until 2005 in Europe, the pendulum had swung very much to the fungicide side of the IDM pendulum.
However, that's all changed. In Europe, the profound driver for change has been fungicide resistance. Fungicide resistance influences everything that a European grower now does with fungicides. If there's one thing that I think is really important to take on, it is that fungicide resistance – if it's not affecting you now, it will be shortly unless you can moderate your use of fungicides.
What's gradually happened over time is that we've got better products with greater activity, but at the same time fewer products based on limited modes of action. There are fewer products that are more and more environmentally benign, but at the same time at greater risk of resistance development. In other words, we've moved from multi-site fungicides that killed the fungus in many different ways to single-site fungicides that do less damage in the environment but actually are much more vulnerable to resistance.
Fungicide insensitivity and resistance
Fungicide insensitivity and resistance has occurred principally in two ways. In Europe in the late 1990s and early 2000s, strobilurins, such as pyraclostrobin and azoxystrobin, came along with the biggest media hype since glyphosate. However, after only three to four years, the pathogen causing powdery mildew and then Septoria tritici (now Zymoseptoria tritici) in wheat developed resistance to stobilurins, and that's been a real challenge ever since. In two to three years, the strobilurins went from being the best products to control foliar diseases in broad acre cereals to products that wouldn't work against Septoria, a disease that is widespread in northwest Europe. I think that's when attitudes really changed and people started asking the question, "Is there a different way to control disease?"
We're in our infancy with fungicide resistance issues in Australia. We can see it in the field with powdery mildew in barley. Our triazole fungicides such as Tilt (propiconazole), Folicur (tebuconazole), Proline (prothioconazole), Prosaro (prothioconazole and tebuconazole co-formulated) don't work as effectively to control powdery mildew. With Septoria, we're not yet seeing reduced activity in the field, but the samples are showing insensitivity in the laboratory, so there is increasing threat that we will see resistance to fungicides in the field.
Europe and triazole use
What has happened in Europe with the triazoles over the last 20 years is that triazole fungicides have gradually become less effective against key diseases, firstly not working as effectively in the lab and then gradually being noted to be less effective in the field. That's why with triazoles I think it's important to talk about "fungicide insensitivity" and not "fungicide resistance."
For example, it's taken 20 years of exposing the Septoria pathogen population to the triazoles for them to become less effective. They still have activity but are now only 60 to 70 per cent effective when it used to be 90 to 100 per cent. So in Europe the triazoles and the strobilurins become less effective and ineffective for key diseases in a similar time period, but the triazoles had been gradually degrading in their effectiveness over time.
Therefore with the terminology we use, I think it's important to recognize we really have three basic modes of action that we use in broad acre cereal disease control – triazoles, strobilurins, and the new SDHIs [succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors].
With the triazoles I think it is probably more appropriate to call it "insensitivity" rather than resistance, since if you say to a grower, "It's resistant," the tendency is to think that it won't work when in reality it is still partially effective.
With regard to the SDHIs, they're not actually that new since the family of chemistry has been around for 40 years. But a new branch of SDHI chemistry is now taking Europe by storm, as the strobilurins now have less application because of resistance in key pathogens. But after only three years of commercial use with these new SDHIs, resistance is developing quickly in the net blotch and Septoria pathogens.
It's really important to recognize that fungicide resistance is changing the way in which growers and advisors elsewhere in the world manage their cereal crops. In Australia, growers and advisors are just beginning on that resistance journey. You've already had some exposure in Canada to the fact that the strobilurins are at high risk of resistance development in the pathogen. It begs the question, "What can you do about it?"
Click here for part two: The importance of multiple modes of action and linking pathology with crop physiology.
Disease management: Lessons from Australasia and Europe, part two
Video: Nick Poole discusses lessons learned about fungicide use in Australasia and Europe
Field crop disease management in Canada part two: Where are we now?
Field crop disease management in Canada part one: What the past can tell us
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Hanging up their helmets
28/10/2011 30/08/2013 Posted in FavouritesTagged Abraham Olano, Alejandro Valverde, Alex Zuelle, Carlos Sastre, David Moncoutie, Inigo Cuesta, Jose Vicente Garcia Acosta, Miguel Indurain, Oscar Perreiro, Tour de France, Vuelta e EspanaLeave a comment
A number of riders have announced their intention to retire. For some it's recognition that it's time to step down and for others it's the realisation that injuries have called time on their careers. So in 2011 we're bidding a fond farewell to a number of luminaries, most notably 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre, Ag2r's Cyril Dessel who graced the yellow jersey in 2007 and long serving domestiques Inigo Cuesta, Kurt Asle Arvesen, Charlie Wegelius, Sylvain Calzati and, one of my faves, Jose Vincente Garcia Acosta.
On Tuesday evening this week, at the Hotel Castillo de Gorraiz, in Pamplona, 39-year old "Txente" called time on a career that had spanned 17 seasons in the pro-peloton after starting as a stagiare in 1994. The Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana are not going to be quite the same without him setting tempo on the front of the peloton for a large part of the race. At 186cm and 76kg, he's a member of that very select sub-set of riders who weigh more than me. However, with a resting heart beat of 50, he's obviously in better shape. He's one of the few current riders (along with Frederic Guesdon, Pablo Lastras and David Moncoutie) to have spent his entire professional career with the same team throughout it's various guises and has ridden in support of some notable riders such as Miguel Indurain, Abraham Olano (with whom he won GP Eddy Merckx in 1998), Alex Zuelle, Jose Marie Jiminez, Oscar Pereiro and (the soon to return) Alejandro Valverde under the guidance of first Jose Miguel Echavarri and, since 2008, Eusebio Unzue.
He has a modest, but nonetheless impressive, palmares which includes a stage win in the Tour de France. He won from a breakaway on Bastille Day 2000, on 185km Stage 13 from Avignon to Draguignan, ahead of a Frenchman. He also won two stages in the Vuelta (1997 Stage 14 and 2002 Stage 19), a stage win and the overall in the 1996 Tour of Navarra, 2nd stage of the 2003 Vuelta a Burgos, 3rd stage in 2006 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon and been part of 4 team time trial victories. He's taken part in 27 Grand Tours (12 Tours, 14 Vueltas), finishing 26. He failed to finish this year's Vuelta after a fall on stage 5, on the Alto de Valdepenas de Jaen, where he fractured his arm, ribs and vertebrae, forcing the temporary postponement of his retirement announcement which he'd planned to make in Madrid. With 14 completed Vuelta's under his belt only Inigo Cuesta and Federico Echave have completed more. Txente claims his favourite race is the Tour de France, not the Vuelta.
A Basque by birth (Pasaia, Guipuzcoa), he now resides in nearby Tafalla in Navarra where he's going to be spending the next couple of months enjoying his retirement and pondering his next move. Whatever it is I wish him, and all the other retirees, the best of luck in their new careers.
Rider in red
02/09/2010 01/01/2012 Posted in CyclingTagged Alejandro Valverde, Bernard Eisel, Carlos Sastre, Daniele Bennati, Grega Bole, Igor Anton, Katusha, Koldo Fernandez, Laurent Fignon, Luis Leon Sanchez, Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma-Lotto, Peter Velits, Philippe Gilbert, Thor Hushovd, Tyler Farrar, Vicenzo Nibali, Vuelta e EspanaLeave a comment
I have had a busy couple of days. Tuesday we held our second meeting on next year's Brevet Kivilev which we're hoping to run as both a cyclosportif (timed) and a randonnee. Offering both should attract a wider field of entrants but will involve much more work and expense, the feasibility of which we're currently exploring. This was followed by the regular Tuesday meeting where the licence renewals are started to trickle in.
Of course, four hours down the club meant I had to watch the highlights of that day's Vuelta. Tuesday's stage 4 totalling 183.8km from Malaga to Valdepenas de Jaen, was another hot day which included 3 categorized and 1 uncategorized climb plus a very steep ascent to the finish line. The heat and intestinal troubles accounted for yet another rider, Mark Cavendish's wing man Bernie "The Bolt" Eisel abandoned, putting in jeopardy his participation in Melbourne.
Omega-Pharma Lotto led the chase to pull back the 4-man breakaway to protect Phil's red jersey. The peloton splintered on the last col of the day with Katusha trying to set up "Purito" for the win. The main contenders, apart from Sastre, were in the first group over the hill and down the other side to the last leg sapping climb of the day which looked to be well over 20%. It was won by Igor Anton ahead of Vicenzo Nibali and Peter Velits. As a consequence, Igor Anton moved into 2nd place behind Phil, with Joaquin Rodriguez in 3rd. Both are 10 seconds behind the leader.
Wednesday's 198.8km stage from Guardix to Lorca commenced with a minute's silence to honour Laurent Fignon, who sadly passed away the previous day. The media has been full of tributes for a rider much admired for his panache on the bike and his humility off it. Sadly, I never saw the "Professor" ride but I much enjoyed his commentary on French tv. He wasn't a man to mince his words.
1960 - 2010 RIP
Wednesday was slightly cooler and while there were no cols to speak of the terrain was pretty much up and down all afternoon. The 4-man breakaway was hauled back in 12km from the finish line thanks to the efforts of the sprinter teams. Cavendish started his sprint too soon and provided Tyler Farrar with the perfect launch pad. They finished, in order, Farrar, Koldo Fernandez, Cavendish. No change on GC.
I meanwhile had spent the morning riding over to Monaco for another VO2max test. There was good news. I have lost weight, lost fat and improved my endurance. I think I'm going to concentrate on improving further these three aspects over the autumn and winter months. This means that exclusive subset of riders who weigh more than me will become much more inclusive.
Today's Stage 6, a lumpy, 155km from Caravaca to Murcia, the home region of Luis Leon Sanchez (and Alejandro Valverde) saw the inevitable break away taken back into the peloton on the last ascent of the day. A number of the sprinters had managed to stay with the lead group and duked it out on the line. Thor Hushovd, resplendent in his Norwegian jersey, beat Danieli Bennati and Grega Bole. Phil maintained his grip on the leader's jersey but it's still far too early to rule out any of the favourites.

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Q: Comments plugin fails to update via ajax since April 5th, 2012 we are experiencing problems with the facebook comments plugin on our video page.
We are loading new content and facebook comment tags via ajax, and then calling FB.XFBML.parse() to update the comments plugin and like button. This has worked fine in the past, but now the comments are not updating properly anymore.
The comments do load, but the loading animation of the plugin never disappears and the height of the comments doesn't get adjusted.
Here's the console output when the error occurs:
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Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Please visit http://www.landwirt.com/Videos
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3. Take a look at the facebook comments plugin at the bottom
Note: comments are working fine on initial page load, the problem occurs only when new content is loaded via ajax
It looks like a bug in the facebook API, but maybe we're just doing something wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Defense Technology Monthly
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Defense Technology Monthly (DTM), the first professional defense magazine founded by the private sector in Taiwan, R.O.C., is specialized in reporting the latest development of the defense technologies, the military industry in different countries, the home countrys defense power and worldwide military news. Since Jan. 1984, DTM has been associating and corresponding with leading arms suppliers (e.g. EMBRBEA, BAE, Boeing, GAIT, IAI, GD, etc.) and military news agencies (e.g. USA Ministry of Defense, USA Navy, Japanese Ministry of Defense, NATA, etc.) to get the latest arms news in the world. DTM has also assigned overseas correspondent reporters for on-site interviews and newsgathering.With a history of 30 years, DTM has obtained the recognition by the public as the best Chinese professional defense medium. In the next five years, DTM by means of Smart Phone,iPAD, Notebooks and PC will easily receive and compile the latest arms-related message. DTM will be the most powerful and influential multi-medium in the Chinese defense communications field. Magazine Subscriptions are available for purchase inside this app. Three months subscription - $14.99 (automatically renewed until canceled)Six months subscription - $24.99 (automatically renewed until canceled)One year subscription - $42.99 (automatically renewed until canceled)Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the same price for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period unless you change your subscription preferences in your account settings. You can manage your subscriptions through your account settings after purchase on your device. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.Please visit http://www.magzter.com/privacy-policy for our Privacy Policy and http://www.magzter.com/terms-and-conditions for our Terms & Conditions
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To be a farmer you need great passion. The farmers of the Fat Ox have added constant and daily commitment to their passion. The bovines are reared in the name of quality and according to the strict dictates of the Regulation that the farmers must compulsorily approve and sign when they join in the Consortium. The animals are registered and, to ensure their identity on the sale counter, DNA is drawn from their blood. The Piedmontese is the only Italian meat breed not in danger of extinction, with a significant increase in the number of animals registered in the genealogical book in recent years: these data are the evidence of the great potential that this breed has, also in always ensuring the consumer's satisfaction at the table.


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The Museum of Flight
Museum of Flight brings Aviation to Life through Visual Storytelling and Tour Guide Empowerment
We built our Aviation Pavilion project budget around the use of Intuiface, which allowed us to keep overall project costs very low. Having the capability to create interactives with Intuiface enabled the Exhibits team to work independently from an agency. Not only did the team have tighter control over the end project, they were able to create the experience on a much shorter timeline.
Peder Nelson
Exhibits Developer and Digital Engagement Manager
An estimated five to six hundred thousand visitors stop by to explore the Museum of Flight each year. The astonishing aviation artifacts paired with some of the most knowledgeable tour guides, many of whom served as pilots in World War II and now act as volunteers, attract flight enthusiast from all over the world.
Peder Nelson, Exhibits Developer and Digital Engagement manager for the museum, said, "Our vision is to be the foremost educational air and space museum in the world." In order to achieve this top-notch rank, the museum staff grew the museum campus by nearly twice its size in 2014. The highlight was a 3-acre display known as the Aviation Pavilion, housing 20 rare and unique commercial and military aircrafts. With this new space and display, the exhibits team had a mission of protecting the historical aircrafts while giving guests an experience they could touch and feel.
The decision was to adopt cutting-edge digital technology within the Pavilion, taking the visitor's fascination and imagination to new heights while giving them a behind-the-scenes look into the cabin, cockpit and roles of the vast range of extraordinary aircrafts. This technology could also empower the 300+ volunteer guides to tell their personal stories in modern and engaging
ways.
Who's Flying this Plane? Maintaining Control of the Experience and Content
It was essential that any new interactives maintained the voice of the museum. Nelson had worked with interactive design agencies in the past. Through that process he spent a significant amount of time communicating the museum's objectives and vision, significantly slowing progress.
Nelson had second thoughts about working with agencies so he brought in an Assistant Digital Exhibit Developer/Graphic
Designer, Mandy Faber, to co-pilot all initiatives for interactive experiences. They had a specific vision for the Aviation Pavilion interactives. They wanted to own the interactive development process. Nelson says, "When working with digital design firms, we realized that we were doing 95% of the work. We are curators and we wanted to reduce time communicating what we had envisioned with others. Instead, we wanted to find the most suitable design suite and software to bring the planes and our digital content to life for visitors."
Can it Weather the Storm and Task at Hand?
To accommodate the need for aircraft re-configuring as exhibits and the museum collection changed, the pavilion had to be designed with an opening on one side. This was especially important in the reconfiguration of the enormous 747 and 787 prototypes, the latter of which has a 200-foot wingspan and 56-foot height. With this special design, rain penetration under the 56 to 87-foot tall roof was inevitable.
Large-format, stationary interactive displays would be subject to weather. The weather-resistant qualities of outdoor displays are impressive, but since the team's objective was centered on the ability to empower guides by enabling them to physically hand off interactive "control" to guests, the museum opted for a tablet based experience. The tablets would also help the museum to meet ADA Compliance regulations. The tablet can be handed to a wheelchair-bound visitor just as easily as to someone standing. This device also would also enable patrons to avoid inclement weather as they can take cover in a dry spot within the pavilion while still exploring interactive content.
A decision was made to use Microsoft Surface Pro tablets. Interactive content would have to both perform well and nicely accommodate small format displays. This would be a top priority when considering a software suite for content creation.
"We needed a programming solution that would meet not only our expectations, but that would allow us to surpass the expectations of our visitors," said Nelson. "We had used Intuiface in the past to update some of our other exhibits and the ease of use and capabilities made the design suite perfect for our new Aviation Pavilion initiatives. We built our Aviation Pavilion project budget around the use of Intuiface, which allowed us to keep overall project costs very low."
Having the capability to create interactives with Intuiface enabled the Exhibits team to work independently from an agency. Not only did the team have tighter control over the end project, they were able to create the experience on a much shorter timeline. "With a digital design agency, a 6-month timeline for creating an interactive was typical and would have proved to be costly. With Intuiface, we are able to complete interactives, from start to finish, within a shorter timeline and at a significantly lower cost."
Nelson addressed the unprecedented speed of interactive design." We started work on these interactives at the end of March 2016 and they were completed by June
25th of that year. Three months turnaround for the project would have been unheard of if we had worked with an outside vendor for development of the interactives"
According to the Exhibits team, most of the project time was spent curating content for the interactive. Since the experience would incorporate a 360 degree interior view of the planes, the Exhibits team worked with experts in AR/VR experience curation, to capture visual elements for the design. Once the content was developed, Intuiface offered a seamless way for the Exhibits team to organize and deliver the content just as they had envisioned.
Nelson went on to state his appreciation for the customer support offered by the Intuiface team. Nelson and Faber were not only able to get swift answers and direction from Intuiface Support personnel, they were also able to bounce off ideas for the adoption of new product features.
With the Intuiface-powered experience at the Museum's Aviation Pavilion, the Exhibit staff were able to provide tours and access to its historical planes, like the B-17 Flying Fortress, and still keep them well preserved. With
interactive digital technology, the interior of the aircrafts were protected from accidental damage yet easily viewed by attendees.
Not only are the interiors well represented, but the stories of former pilots and veterans, now serving as volunteer guides at the museum, are brought to life with easily-navigable visuals. Guides are able to hand over the controls as they tell of their personal piloting experiences. Rather than just listening to the story set in the scene of the cockpit, guests are virtually taken there and immersed in the story.
Young visitors to the museum have appreciated the accessibility of the tablet-based experience. One young visitor explained that it was as if she could carry the museum around in her pocket. Nelson said,
The Museum of Flight currently uses Intuiface in four exhibits. The team's immediate initiative is to use Intuiface to update four additional museum exhibits. Nelson says, "The next big project will be updating of the Apollo exhibit interactives in preparation for the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, which launches next Spring. We are also working on a database interactive for our collection of 427 WWII aircraft models."
With regular additions of temporary exhibits, Nelson and the museum staff will have a lot of opportunity to explore new ways of introducing interactivity to fully immerse guests in all the adventures and history of aircraft.
The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum in the northwest United States. It was established in 1965 and is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. As the largest private air and space museum in the world, it also hosts the largest K-12 educational programs in the world.
Do you like the story? Learn more about creating interactive experiences for Museums.


The Angiotensin II EIA kit is a colorimetric, competitive immunoassay kit with results in 3.5 hours.
Application Notes: For the quantitative determination of species independent Angiotensin II in plasma and serum samples.
Scientific Background: Angiotensins are small peptides derived from angiotensinogen. Several of the known angiotensins are established endocrine effectors in the regulation of blood pressure, but they are also known to have other functions locally, in several organs and tissues (paracrine) and at the cellular level (autocrine / intracrine). Angiotensin I (DRVYIHPFHL) has no known effector function but it is an immediate precursor of Angiotensin II (DRVYIHPF). Angiotensin II binds AT1 receptors, which promote vasoconstriction, sodium retention, release of aldosterone, release of Arg-vasopressin, cell proliferation, inflammation, fibrosis, anxiety, and cardiac hypertrophy. Angiotensin A (ARVYIHPF), and Angiotensin III (RVYIHPF), also bind AT1 receptors. Angiotensin (1-7) (DRVYIHP) binds a different receptor called MAS-1 which has opposite effects (vasodilation, natriuresis, antiproliferation, NO release, PGE release, and apoptosis). Angiotensin IV (VYIHPF) binds yet another receptor called AT4 (IRAP), which promotes increase of blood flow, angiogenesis, and natriuresis, and which has also been implicated in memory formation and in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. The peptide LVV-hemorphin-7 (LVVYPWTQRF), which is not an angiotensin, also binds the AT4 receptor. There are other angiotensin peptides that have been identified, including Ang (1-9) (DRVYIHPFH), Ang (1-12) (DRVYIHPFHLVI), Ang V(3-7) (VYIHP), as well as several other shorter peptides that have undetermined functions.


Patrons of the Ska Brewing Tasting Room, located at Ska's World Headquarters building in Bodo Park, Colo., will soon have a new menu to consider while sampling Ska's craft beer fresh from the source. The Container Restaurant, made from two repurposed shipping containers, is scheduled to open Aug. 5. The restaurant will feature a year-round menu — with food made from scratch and many ingredients sourced locally or in-state — to complement and enhance the beer tasting experience.
Matt Vincent, Ska co-founder and vice-president, has had his eye on using shipping containers since before the World Headquarters was built in 2008.
The menu features several items made with Ska beer, including a sandwich made with Sunnyside Farms pork shoulder and Steel Toe Stout barbecue sauce and a Steel Toe Stout brownie. The restaurant's local, house-ground beef — finished on spent grain from the brewery — highlights the rewards of cooperation between local food producers.
Based in Durango, Colo., Ska Brewing was founded in 1995 and now produces over a dozen medal-winning beers including the Pinstripe Red Ale, True Blonde Ale and Steel Toe Stout. Four Ska beers are now widely available in cans: ESB Special Ale, True Blonde, Modus Hoperandi IPA and the summer seasonal Mexican Logger.


In this post I want to talk about intense passionate innovation (I.P.I.). Most solopreneurs, creative professionals (i.e. musicians, artists, etc.) and small business owners have to wear many proverbial hats to succeed in their endeavor. In many cases the only way to accomplish everything they need to is to attack it with intense passionate innovation – keeping focused and motivated by your passion while utilizing whatever resources are available to creatively, and often cost-effectively, get things done successfully.
It's important for such creative professionals and small business owners to be resourceful and let their passion provide the energy they need to be relentlessly resourceful. These efforts will help them achieve the results they need to grow their business to a more sustainable level. Plus, when working with little capital and a whole lot of innovation the idea is that as the business grows it will be less desperately dependent on those resourceful efforts. However, I would encourage entrepreneurs not lose that sense of necessary intense innovation as their business does grow and become more financially viable for that is often the authenticity that resonates with fans and customers.
That vitality is what enthuses people, your customers your clients your fans, and that enthusiasm is contagious so when it comes to approaching your business do so with intense, passionate innovation all the time, be excited about what you're doing all the time, be optimistic about what you're doing all the time even when challenges arise – when there's a will there's a way – you have creative knowledge within you and with the resources available to you, you will find a way if you want to find a way.
Don't allow unfounded or unnecessary fears and apprehensions hold you back from achieving your goals and dreams.


Book: Genesis (1), Joshua (1), Galatians (1), Hebrews (3).
Series: The Life of Abraham (2011) (2), Death of Christ (1).
Service: Brotherhood Baptist Church, Eldoret, Believers' Fellowship (2), Grace Baptist Church, Eldoret, Sunday Morning (1).


Noble Hops is definitely Tucson's original restaurant serving a variety of high end craft beer and food. The menu at Noble Hops is constantly changing with new craft beers and fine fare.
Noble Hops is locally owned and operated by Aric and Josh Mussman. These native Tucson brothers combined their love of hand-crafted food and beer into the Noble Hops restaurant in Oro Valley AZ.
The name Noble Hops was coined to reflect the key ingredient in outstanding craft beers. Hops are the heart and soul of beer. The name Noble Hops is a gesture to an ancient group of respected European hops that are historically low in bitterness and high in aroma.
Noble Hops offers a seasonal menu of high-quality, delectable food. The menu consists of daily specials, soups and salads, small plates, burgers and hearty entrees. Oh, and homemade desserts to die for.
An excellent selection of over 150 beers from around the world is available. At least 28 are on tap on any day. Noble Hops also features kegs of house wine, bottles of fine wine, and of course a full bar.
The patio seating area provides stunning views of Pusch Ridge and the Catalina Mountains. This spacious patio is over 700 sq ft and is comfy year-around with misters, a huge gas fire pit and built-in heaters.
A centerpiece of Noble Hops is the distinctive 30-foot-long indoor/outdoor bar. Should the clouds bring a little rain these is also indoor seating at the bar and cozy lounge. A dining room just off the entrance is available for additional indoor dining or private parties.
A large chalkboard wall is regularly changed with daily food and craft beer specials.
Craft beer, excellent fare, terrific service and spectacular views. Noble Hops is the perfect spot for lunch or dinner.
Happy hour runs from 2 to 6 PM. There is also a reverse happy hour that runs from 10 PM to closing Sunday thru Thursday.
Happy Hour 2 P.M. – 6 P.M.
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On December 9, 2001, Vancouver Dafa practitioners held a large-scale group practice and clarified the true facts about Falun Dafa in Chinatown . The splendid practice scene, the peaceful attitude of the practitioners, the video, posters and banners aroused many people's interest to come to look and inquire about the truth. We were pleased that many people's futures would benefit by getting rid of their misunderstanding of Dafa.


Mophie has just launched the Juice Package Plus. The juice pack plus is the perfect balance of additional battery energy pack and durable protection from whatever you find yourself getting into.
The iPad 2′s includes a A5 processor, which is a speedy dual-core chip, that provide nine times better gaming performance than the "iPhone 4" A4 chip does. Apple is also working on adding a A5 chip to the next gen iPhone (iPhone 5 / iPhone 4S), but 9to5mac is reporting they already found photos of the iPhone 4 equipped with the A5 chip-processor.
iOS 7 is the biggest update since the first iPhone. All the skuomorphism is gone and modified by a easy, particular and sleek design. I like it a lot, but can understand if some people do not like it. It's a whole new design. But the most important aspects are the many many new features.
The important factor essentially everyone was awaiting during the WWDC 2013 keynote was iOS 7. The apple company previewed the latest edition of its cellular function program and revealed the viewers the new look and many new functions.
9to5Mac reports that Apple is likely to launch its annual "Back to School" promotion in the United States and other countries this week.
Siri allows you use your speech to deliver information, routine conferences, position telephone calling, and more.* Ask Siri to do factors just by discussing the way you discuss.
Tech giant Apple recently introduced its latest operating software at the just concluded WorldWide Developers' Conference.
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Brian Beatty: Writer. Jokester. Bearder.
"One of my favorites. Odd, endearing, adored by hipsters and Wobegonians alike." — Maria Bamford
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July 3, 2011 Brian Beatty
Rehearsals for "Once Upon a Time in the Suburbs" begin soon. The Ferrari McSpeedy production for this year's Minnesota Fringe, this hilarious play will be my first "acting" gig. I've said many things on many stages, but never anything written by other people in the U of M Rarig Center Thrust Theater.
Fortunately, Joe Bozic and Mike Fotis are funny dudes. Smart dudes, too. They've (type)cast me as a cranky coot. That I can handle. I'll also be playing original banjo ditties in the show. Because I'm incapable of playing other people's banjo ditties. Anywhere, anytime.
Between now and August, I'll be recording audio versions of my two stories about squirrels for a project I'll post more about later, after it's been officially announced to the world. Or at least the Twin Cities arts and parks communities.
I've got a couple of new stories in the works, which means I'll be distracted by new poem ideas any minute.
Finally, the gf and I are preparing for our Scotland visit in late August, which means developing a taste for haggis and/or heroin.
← My thoughts exactly.
Every job is an acting job. →
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I can't wait to see you in that show. Plus: Ferrari McSpeedy. Aaaahhh! Too much awesome to handle.


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Tianjin Airlines UK Contact Details
For booking related or other general enquiries contact Tianjin Airlines UK office on their phone number displayed in red color here.
Formerly known as Grand China Express Air and now Tianjin Airlines is the Chinese private airline based in Tianjin, China. The airline was founded in 2004 but commenced its operates in 2007 due to some technical issues. The airline operate flights to 109 destinations, it flies to almost every airport in China and other than China, the airline is focused on flying to various cities of Japan, South Korea, and Russia, it also flies direct flights from Tianjin to Australia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Hongkong, New Zealand, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
Tianjin airline owns the mixed fleet of 94 planes, which includes Embraer and Airbuses, at the moment it doesn't have any codeshare agreement with any airline.
For flight bookings and other enquiries, please use Tianjin Airlines UK contact number mentioned on top of this page.
Tianjin Airlines London office phone number: 0129 366 0556.
London Gatwick Address: North Terminal of Gatwick Airport, opens 3 hours prior to departure and closed after the departure.
Town office address: Gatwick House, Peeks Brook Lane, Horley, Surrey, United Kingdom, RH6 9ST.
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Your old phone could become a medal for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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By Cyan Zhong
If you live in Japan, you might have a chance to see top athletes all over the world wear your old phones on their necks next summer.
Well, not quite, but close. The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has been collecting used electronics all over Japan, including old cellphones and home appliances. The plan is to extract the metal and make – you guessed it – Olympic medals.
A Japanese factory is melting the electronics to extract the metal within. (Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo)
"The Medal Project," as the committee calls it, is a big part of sustainability innovations ahead of the games. Kicked off in April 2017, the project is now near the finish line – March marks the last month of collection, said Tatsuo Ogura, senior manager of international communications for the committee.
"When we started this project in 2017, we expected it to finish in two years," Ogura said. "We are on the right track and we almost met with the goal."
The committee fulfilled the 2,700-kilogram goal (that's nearly 3 tons) of bronze collection last June. In October, it met 93.7% of the target for salvaging gold and 85.4 percent for silver, Ogura said.
A total of 1,500 municipalities across Japan are involved in the medal project, and they put the signature yellow donation boxes at post offices or street corners for citizens to donate their used devices, Ogura said. They can also donate at 2,400 NTT DOCOMO stores nationwide, Japan's predominant mobile phone operator.
"We believe that, by supporting schemes like the medal project which encourage participation by the public, we can draw attention to the importance of recycling and help realize an environmentally friendly and sustainable society," a NTT Docomo representative said in an email.
The yellow donation box allows people all over Japan to donate their used electronic devices. Many athletes are on board with the project and signed their names to back the cause. (Cyan Zhong)
NTT Docomo began recycling used mobile phones in 1998. The company is dedicated to "urban mining," the process of "reclaiming raw materials from used products, buildings and waste," according to SINTEF, a European independent research organization.
Surging demands for electronic devices each year indicate huge market potential in urban mining. The annual production of electronic goods in the world required "320 tons of gold and over 7,500 tons of silver, with a combined value of $21 billion," from which only 15% is recovered, according to a study by the Solving the E-waste Problem initiative (StEP).
As part of its contribution to the Medal Project, NTT Docomo also runs educational workshops to teach school children about the precious mineral resources in mobile phones and other consumer electronics, the representative said in the email.
Over the span of the project, Japanese municipalities received approximately 47,488 tons of used electronic devices in total, including 5.07 million used mobile phones. People need to be informed on how many resources they have just within their homes, Ogura said.
The old phones collected will be dismantled and metals extracted. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee)
Promoting an environmentally friendly and sustainable society is deeply connected to Tokyo's vision for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. "Sports has the power to change the world and our future," Ogura said, and the international sporting event is a great opportunity to send a message to the world.
"We tried to show our stance to the vision and it is really important to leave that intangible legacy to Japanese society and also to the world, especially for the younger generation," Ogura said.
The purpose behind this project is twofold, he said. Following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by the United Nations, the Tokyo Olympics committee is dedicated to achieve zero waste through recycling, but it also wants to engage and excite the public ahead of the games.
The committee almost reached its target for gold extraction. (Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo)
People usually start engaging when volunteer applications open or ticket sales start, Ogura said, but the medal project gave them an early opportunity to take part in the quadrennial event.
"Tokyo won the bid in September 2013. At that moment, Japanese people are really enthusiastic about hosting the games, but it's a long way," Ogura said. "We obviously need to retain the enthusiasm and excitement."
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Fast fashion is out, sustainable fashion is in
This is a gown that fashion designer Ryan Jude Novelline made out of children's books in a demonstration of sustainable fashion's potential on the runway. However, the same concept of sustainable, fashionable clothing can also be found in your local thrift stores. (Wikimedia)
Louis Staub
Nutrient recovery & upcycling
Jessica Pokrandt
Emma L. Gould
CANCEL buying plastic that is unnecessarily packaged
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'Gross' and unpopular, but dumpster diving can help the planet
Here's an unpopular, but environmentally friendly habit that can prevent food waste and reduce the amount of waste that heads to the landfill: Dumpster diving. And, surprise! You might also make some money doing it. (Photos by Peter Jurich/University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Peter Jurich
Planet Forward Correspondent | University of Wisconsin-Madison
At the Institute: Living and learning off the grid
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Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University
The Prius problem
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SUNY ESF
Waste-to-Energy: How Syracuse makes clean energy from waste
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SUNY-ESF
Universities challenge throw-away culture
Three large Dumpsters sit outside of University of Mississippi residence hall. (Bryce Johnson/University of Mississippi)
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Where does it go? Composting at GWU
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Q: Unknown annotations in Azure DevOps Pull Request files tab I was reviewing a pull request in our Azure DevOps instance and I noticed that in the Files tab some lines of code were annotated with flags, checkmarks and exclamation marks (see screenshot). I wasn't able to figure out what they mean. Hovering over them didn't display a hint balloon. Does anyone know?

A: Once you have configured a pipeline that collects and publishes code coverage, it posts a code coverage status when a pull request is raised. By default, the server checks for atleast 70% of changed lines being covered by tests.
In the changed files view of a pull request, lines that are changed are also annotated with coverage indicators to show whether those lines are covered. Check Code coverage for pull requests for details.


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import me.stevenkin.boomvc.http.cookie.HttpCookie;
import me.stevenkin.boomvc.http.kit.StringKit;
import me.stevenkin.boomvc.http.multipart.FileItem;
import me.stevenkin.boomvc.http.session.HttpSession;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Set;

public interface HttpRequest {

    String UNKNOWN_MAGIC = "unknown";

    String URI_PATTERN_VALUES = "uri_pattern_values";

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    default String host(){
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Jane Austen in the White House
By Rosslyn Smith
Some people seem to be just discovering the odd position Valerie Jarrett has held in this administration. They also seem to be struggling to find a metaphor for her role. I have seen her compared to Rasputin, but that doesn't fit the dynamics of the relationship. Barack Obama may be as detached from the threats of his day as Tsar Nicholas II was 100 years ago, but Rasputin was very much his and the Tsarina's social inferior. I suspect Jarrett considers herself at least the Obamas' equal if not their superior.
When I consider Valerie Jarrett's role in things, I imagine that Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse had gotten the idea in her head that she was a top-notch political adviser as well as matchmaker extraordinaire. For Valerie Jarrett is a Black American Princess version of Austen's spoiled heiress. She shares Emma's wildly misplaced confidence in her abilities, misreads what is going on under her own nose, and shares a penchant for encouraging those she sees as social inferiors to improve themselves. Unlike Emma, however, there doesn't seem to be any dawning self-awareness on the part of any of the characters.
To understand Valerie Jarrett's strange position with the Obamas one has to look at two spheres as insular and cliquish as those occupied by many of Austen's characters among the landed gentry of Regency England -- that of upper class Chicago blacks and that of the red diaper babies, the children of Americans on the radical left in mid 20th century America. Jarrett used her membership in one to get her hooks into Michelle and the other to make Barack feel she was indispensable.
Jarrett's father, James E. Bowman was a prominent physician whose own father had been a dentist. Her mother, Barbra Taylor Bowman, was a prominent early childhood education expert whose father was the architect the infamous Robert Taylor housing project was named after. Only child Valerie Bowman enhanced those connections by marrying the son of widely respected journalist Vernon Jarrett. He was a prominent fixture on local TV stations and newspapers for decades as the voice who explained events in the black community to whites across Chicagoland. That marriage gave her a last name widely recognized outside of the borders of Chicago's black upper crust.
Michelle Obama's parents, Fraser C. and Marian S. Robinson III, weren't in the same heady stratosphere of Chicago's black elite, likely creating stress on the young Michelle Robinson as she began her professional career following graduation from Harvard Law School. Moving from the middle class into the upper rungs of the professional class can cause personal anxiety in anyone of any race. I have seen new lawyers whose careers became limited because they struggled to adopt the deportment expected of associates of Chicago's large law firms.
Valerie Jarrett took young lawyer Michelle Robinson under her wing, helped introduce her to the people who mattered, and let her know that she, too, could belong in Valerie's elite world, much as Emma did with Harriet Smith. Jarrett's advice no doubt had some value to young lawyer Michelle Robinson as she made the transition.
Both the Bowmans and Vernon Jarrett were also part of the radical American left the Dunhams, Barack Obama's white grandparents all belonged to. When Barack Obama moved to Chicago, he needed a political "rabbi," someone to introduce him to the right people. Such introductions are crucial for any outsider in a town where the working motto of all political operatives tends to be "We don't want nobody that nobody sent." Without people to vouch for you, a Chicago political operative might meet with you out of politeness, but no one will ever invite you to actually join their game.
In Jarrett, Obama had someone who opened a lot of doors. She had started out aligned with the radicals, but she also became the first member of Mayor Harold Washington's administration to make peace with the Daley administration in return for a job. While her heart may be on the left, she demonstrated that she could be bought by the machine. By implication, so could anyone she introduced. The one thing the Daley machine always feared was a black man who also appealed to white reform minded voters as Harold Washington had. If Valerie Jarrett was his political rabbi, Obama would not have been seen as a threat to the Daley power structure, no matter how much he might talk about reform. If Jarrett was his rabbi, the hard left also knew his long-term plan was radical change and would open up their wallets to finance his campaigns.
Valerie Jarrett then also acted as matchmaker, introducing Michelle to Barack. With a chronic shortage of young black men of comparable education, Barack Obama was a real catch for young lawyer Michelle Robinson. Indeed, his African roots would have made him seem especially desirable in many black social circles. Some members of the American black middle class go as gaga over anyone who is African in the same way some American whites go gaga over any Brit who speaks with a plummy Oxbridge accent. That is probably why Barack Obama's literary agent's biography had him born in Kenya. Residents of the Hyde Park community he, Jarrett, and Bill Ayers all lived in tend to eat that stuff up with a spoon.
Years later, when her protégés probably did far better than she had ever expected them to do, Valerie Jarrett was there, flattering both of them into thinking they could have done none of it without her. If Emma Woodhouse had married off the ambitious Vicar Elton to the woman of her choice and he had later become Archbishop of Canterbury, you just know Emma would be at their side, telling both of them how it was all because of her and letting them talk her into moving to Lambeth Palace with them.
Since Austen's day the upper class woman who makes a reformation project of a young woman from a lower social class, with varying degrees of success, has become a stock character in fiction. Obama shares characteristics with a stock Jane Austen character, the charismatic marriage prospect who initially charms so many people, but who may have dark secrets in his past and who comes to be seen as rotten or hollow to the core. Michelle Obama could be any number of minor Austen characters who marry not because they were madly in love but because the man who asked was seen to be as good an offer as was likely to be available if she wanted the financial security marriage brought and children.
It would be funny if we were reading it in a novel rather than watching it happen in the White House.


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Violence Prevention Network gGmbH, Alt-Reinickendorf 25, 13407 Berlin, founded in 2004 (as a non-profit association) – registered at the Local Court Berlin-Charlottenburg under the commercial register number: HRB 221974 B (formerly association register number: VR 244 27 B). The change in legal form took place on October 12, 2020, on the basis of the Transformation Act. The complete identity of the legal entity is given.
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1. Liability for Content
We make every effort to keep the information on our Web site current, but accept no liability whatsoever for the content provided. Pursuant to §7 par. 1 of TMG (German Tele-Media Act), the law limits our responsibility as a service provider to our own content on these Web pages. According to §§8 to 10 of TMG, we are not obligated to monitor third party information provided or stored on our Web site. However, we shall promptly remove any content upon becoming aware that it violates the law. Our liability in such an instance shall commence at the time we become aware of the respective violation.
2. Liability for Links
We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our organisation. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH. The use of the Internet pages of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject. The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH. By means of this data protection declaration, our organisation would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled. As the controller, the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.
The data protection declaration of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used. In this data protection declaration, we use, inter alia, the following terms:
Name and Address of the controller
Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is: Violence Prevention Network gGmbH Alt-Reinickendorf 25 D-13407 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 30 917 05 464 Email: post@violence-prevention-network.de Website: www.violence-prevention-network.de
Name and Address of the Data Protection Officer
The Data Protection Officer of the controller is: Frau Franziska Kreller Violence Prevention Network gGmbH Alt-Reinickendorf 25 D-13407 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 30 917 05 464 Email: datenschutz@violence-prevention-network.de Website: www.violence-prevention-network.de Any data subject may, at any time, contact our Data Protection Officer directly with all questions and suggestions concerning data protection.
The Internet pages of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser. Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate the individual browser of the dats subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID. Through the use of cookies, the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting. By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user's computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online shop. The online store remembers the articles that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie. The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.
The website of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems. When using these general data and information, the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our organisation, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
Contact possibility via the website
The website of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our organisation, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.
Routine erasure and blocking of personal data
The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to. If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.
Furthermore, the data subject shall have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. Where this is the case, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer. If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of access, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement. If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of Violence Prevention Network gGmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately. Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH will arrange the restriction of the processing.
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others. In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH.
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The Violence Prevention Network gGmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. If the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH will no longer process the personal data for these purposes. In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest. In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or similarly significantly affects him or her, as long as the decision (1) is not is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject's explicit consent. If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject's explicit consent, the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision. If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH.
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to withdraw his or her consent to processing of his or her personal data at any time. If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Violence Prevention Network gGmbH.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
On this website, the controller has integrated the component of Google Analytics (with the anonymizer function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimization of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising. The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States. For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application "_gat. _anonymizeIp". By means of this application the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us. Google Analytics places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google Analytics component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Google, inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements. The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of visits of our website by the data subject. With each visit to our Internet site, such personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties. The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs. In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled by the data subject or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons. Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google-AdWords
On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a service for Internet advertising that allows the advertiser to place ads in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to pre-define specific keywords with the help of which an ad on Google's search results only then displayed, when the user utilizes the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google Advertising Network, the ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords. The operating company of Google AdWords is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES. The purpose of Google AdWords is the promotion of our website by the inclusion of relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the search engine Google and an insertion of third-party advertising on our website. If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on the information technology system of the data subject through Google. The definition of cookies is explained above. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain sub-pages, e.g, the shopping cart from an online shop system, were called up on our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and the controller can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, executed or canceled a sale of goods. The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used in order to determine the total number of users who have been served through AdWords ads to ascertain the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our organisation nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject. The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties. The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by our website, as stated above, by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from placing a conversion cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, a cookie set by Google AdWords may be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs. The data subject has a possibility of objecting to the interest based advertisement of Google. Therefore, the data subject must access from each of the browsers in use the link www.google.de/settings/ads and set the desired settings. Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
Legal basis for the processing
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our organisation subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our organisation and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our organisation or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).
The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
Period for which the personal data will be stored
Provision of personal data as statutory or contractual requirement; Requirement necessary to enter into a contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of failure to provide such data
We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our organisation signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.
Existence of automated decision-making
As a responsible organisation, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling. This Privacy Policy has been generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the External Data Protection Officers that was developed in cooperation with the Media Law Lawyers from WBS-LAW.
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