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4 months, 12 days and roughly 5 hours have passed since my manager picked me up for my first day at work in order to start off my journey at Hilti. My first day was spent together with my team members at a regional team meeting. My first day of work after 18 years of school. A day that I could not imagine how it would be, but marked the start of something that turned out to be totally different than I ever would have imagined.
In 4 months, 12 days and roughly 5 hours, I feel that I have come a long way as well as nowhere at all. As an account manager I have engaged in an immersive learning process, where I started with zero experience in both sales and construction. To me it is surreal listening to myself having conversations with customers about gas-driven saws and dual-grade rotating lasers. But also, as an account manager, there is so much to experience, and I have so much more to learn from both my colleagues as well as my customers. Everyday a new question comes up that I do not have an answer to, have not thought about and that adds a new layer to my learning. With every new piece of knowledge I gain, two more questions arise.
So what are my key take-aways from my first 4 months, 12 days and roughly 5 hours? While I do not want to be quoted on sales skills or product knowledge, I want to highlight two of Hilti's core values which have affected my initial time at as an Account Manager, courage and teamwork. I have started to understand what it means to dare to fail. Coming from an academic background facing the real world was harsh, where there are no given solutions or best-practices in every single situation. I have been forced to learn how to deal with rejection and cluelessness at a scale I have not experienced before. The key is to try over and over again. Success and failure really are two sides of the same coin. Not tossing the coin does not minimise the risk of failure, but eliminates the chance of ever succeeding. And among all the moments of failing there will also be moments of success, grateful customers who are enthusiastic about the tool they just bought or the support we at Hilti provided them. As an Account Manager one experiences these ups and downs, and the best way to deal with both is to keep close with your team. Every Account Manager regardless of background seems to make the same roller-coaster experiences during the first six months, and thus every team member is eager to help you succeed in your role. Teamwork is something Hilti excels at, and the support I have received from team members, my team manager, my sales and my executive mentor has been outstanding.
These are some of my thoughts and impressions from my first 4 months, 12 days and soon to be 6 hours at Hilti. There are certainly more things to write about, other aspects to highlight, but more about that as time goes on. Now I am looking forward to spending time with my family over Christmas. After that we will be kicking off 2018 with the innovation days and new product releases at the national headquarter in Arlöv, where all of Hilti Sweden gathers to train, discuss and celebrate.


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AWS re/Start: Free Classroom-based Program for Cloud Computing
A newly launched program called AWS re/Start developed by Amazon Web Services is suitable for anyone who wants to build a career in cloud computing technology
By Srividya Narasimhan
On 6th October 2021, Amazon Web Services introduced a new learning program called AWS re/Start in India for learners from any background to build careers in cloud computing. The duration of the program is 12 weeks, where there is no requirement for any technology experience. It provides job training and helps in developing skills required for cloud computing jobs free of cost.
It is a skills-based training program, where the modules are designed to cover fundamental AWS cloud skills. The program also includes preparing the learners to improve their practical career skills such as writing resumes or attending interviews. The course enables its learners for entry-level cloud computing jobs in multiple domains such as operations, site reliability, infrastructure support, etc. Additionally, the program covers the cost for the learners to attend the AWS certified cloud practitioner certificate exam to validate their cloud computing skills along with a certification that would be industry-recognized.
AWS re/Start India will be launching in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, and Thiruvananthapuram. Five local organizations that include EduBridge Learning, Edujobs Academy, iPrimed Education, Rooman.Net, and Vinsys IT Services will collaborate with this program for providing virtual training sessions. This collaboration will also aid in connecting the learners with potential employers.
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Capgemini is financially aiding AWS re/Start program and is looking forward to hiring program graduates for various cloud computing roles. Capgemini will work closely with EduBridge Learning for the same. The CHRO of Capgemini India, Pallavi Tyagi, stated that the company is committed to shaping the talent landscape in our country by providing career opportunities for individuals to transition into high demanding roles while they build their careers. The company aims to obtain recruits to shape the future of cloud and technology job markets.
The head of AWS training and certification India, Amit Mehta, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. (AISPL), stated that the industry demand for cloud adoption is higher than the number of cloud-skilled workers available. Organizations struggle to hire talents required to implement cloud services. To achieve this, more people must be trained from non-traditional sources. Hence, this program aims to bring new hires into the cloud ecosystem, where the unemployed or people looking forward to changing their career paths can gain the required skill sets to enter this domain.
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Diversity and Global Citizenship Education
10 decembrie 2017 • Corina-Paula Florea • Liceul Tehnologic Nicolae Dumitrescu, Cumpăna (Constanţa) • România
Because of growing ethnic, cultural, racial, language and religious diversity throughout the world, citizenship education needs to be changed in substantial ways to prepare students to function effectively in the 21st century.
1. The increase of diversity
Citizens in this century need the knowledge, attitudes, and skills required to function in their cultural communities and beyond their cultural borders. They should also be able and willing to participate in the construction of a national civic culture that is a moral and just community. The national community should embody democratic ideals and values, such as those articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Students also need to acquire the knowledge and skills required to become effective citizens in the global community.
Citizenship education in the past, in the United States as well as in many other nations, embraced an assimilationist ideology. In the United States, its aim was to educate students so they would fit into a mythical Anglo-Saxon Protestant conception of the "good citizen". Anglo conformity was the goal of citizenship education. One of its aims was to eradicate the community cultures and languages of students from diverse groups. One consequence of this assimilationist conception of citizenship education was that many students lost their first cultures, languages, and ethnic identities. Some students also became alienated from family and community. Another consequence was that many students became socially and politically alienated within the national civic culture.
Members of identifiable racial groups often became marginalized in both their community cultures and in the national civic culture because they could function effectively in neither. When they acquired the language and culture of the Anglo mainstream, they were often denied structural inclusion and full participation into the civic culture because of their racial characteristics.
Citizenship education must be transformed in the 21st century. Several worldwide developments make a new conception of citizenship education an imperative. They include the deepening ethnic texture of nations such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The large influx of immigrants who are now settling in nations throughout the world, the continuing existence of institutional racism and discrimination in various nations, and the widening gap between rich and poor nations also make the reform of citizenship education an imperative.
2. Unity and Diversity – a balanced system
Citizens in a diverse democratic society should be able to maintain attachments to their cultural communities as well as participate effectively in the shared national culture. Unity without diversity results in cultural repression and hegemony. Diversity without unity leads to Balkanization and the fracturing of the nation-state. Diversity and unity should coexist in a delicate balance in a democratic multicultural nation-state. The attainment of the balance that is needed between diversity and unity is an ongoing process and ideal that is never fully attained. It is essential that both mainstream groups and groups on the margins of society participate in the formulation of societal goals related to diversity and unity.
Both groups should also participate in action to attain these goals. Deliberation and the sharing of power by mainstream and marginalized groups are essential for the construction and perpetuation of a just, moral, and participatory democratic nation-state in a culturally diverse society.
Students should develop a delicate balance of cultural, national, and global identifications. A nation-state that alienates and does not structurally include all cultural groups into the national culture runs the risk of creating alienation and causing groups to focus on specific concerns and issues rather than on the overarching goals and policies of the nation-state. To develop reflective cultural, national and global identifications, students must acquire the knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to function within and across diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, language and religious groups.
Literacy as defined and codified in the high-stakes tests that are being implemented in most states in the U.S. is often interpreted as basic skills in reading, writing, and mathematics. Although it is essential that all students acquire basic skills in literacy, basic skills are necessary but not sufficient in our diverse and troubled world. Literate citizens in a diverse democratic society should be reflective, moral, and active citizens. They should have the knowledge, skills, and commitment needed to act to change the world to make it more just and democratic.
The world's greatest problems do not result from people being unable to read and write. They result from people in the world – from different cultures, races, religious and nations – being unable to get along and to work together to solve the world's intractable problems such as:
global warming,
the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
racism, sexism, war.
Examples are the conflicts between the United States and Iraq, North Korea and its neighbors, and the Israelis and Palestinians.
Multicultural Literacy is knowledge of cultures and languages, as well as the ways in which multi – sensory data (text, sound, and graphics) may introduce slant, perspective, and bias into language, subject matter, and visual content. We live in multiculural societies, teach in multicultural settings, and our students often interact with those who come from a different place in terms of gender, rural or urban environments, nationalistically, linguistically, racially, and religiously. Awareness of and sensitivity to culturally determined norms promote understanding. In fact, when students embrace the principle that difference does not equal defficiency, they gain an appreciation for the wealth of diversity that surrounds all of us.
In addition to mastering basic reading and writing skills, literate citizens in a democratic multicultural society such as the United States should also develop multicultural literacy (Banks, 2003). Multicultural literacy consists of the skills and ability to identify the creators of knowledge and their interests (Banks, 1996), to uncover the assumptions of knowledge, to view knowledge from diverse ethnic and cultural perspectives, and to use knowledge to guide action that will create a humane and just world. Paulo Freire (1970), in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, states that we must teach students to read the word and the world. Reading the word requires basic knowledge and skills.
However, reading the world requires students to question the assumptions of institutionalized knowledge and to use knowledge to take action that will make the world a just place in which to live and work. Freire also states that we must teach students to combine critique with hope. When we teach students how to critique the injustice in the world we should help them to formulate possibilities for action to change the world to make it more democratic and just. Critique without hope may leave students disillusioned and without agency.
Education for literacy should include a focus on democratic citizenship and social justice because highly literate individuals, groups, and nations have committed some of the most unconscionable acts in human history. Germany was one of the most literate nations in the world when its leaders presided over the killing of 12 million innocent people. Victims of the Nazis included six million Jews as well as people with disabilities and people who were gay.
In his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".
There are two very different kinds of Citizenship education. The first is education intended to prepare noncitizens to become legally and socially accepted as citizens. Secondly, there is Citizenship Education that is taught in schools, as an academic subject similar to politics or sociology.
A new kind of citizenship is needed for the 21st century, which Will Kymlicka (1995) calls multicultural citizenship. It recognizes and legitimizes the right and need of citizens to maintain commitments both to their cultural communities and to the national civic culture. Only when the national civic culture is transformed in ways that reflect and give voice to the diverse ethnic, racial, language, and religious communities that constitute it will it be viewed as legitimate by all of its citizens. Only then can they develop clarified commitments to the nation – state and its ideals.
Citizenship education should help students develop thoughtful and clarified identifications with their cultural communities and their nation-states. It should also help them to develop clarified global identifications and deep understandings of their roles in the world community. Students need to understand how life in their cultural communities and nations influences other nations and the cogent influence that international events have on their daily lives. Global education should have as major goals helping students to develop understandings of the interdependence among nations in the world today, clarified attitudes toward other nations, and reflective identifications with the world community.
1. Banks, J. A., Diversity and citizenship education: Global perspectives, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
2. Banks, J. A., Multicultural education, transformative knowledge and action: Historical and contemporary perspectives., New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
3. Castles, Stephen & Davidson, Alastair, Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging, New York: The Guilford Press, 2000.
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"""List all instance operations.

Lists all instance operations that have been performed on the given
Cloud SQL instance.
"""

from apitools.base.py import list_pager

from googlecloudsdk.api_lib.sql import validate
from googlecloudsdk.calliope import base
from googlecloudsdk.command_lib.sql import flags

class _BaseList(object):
  """Base class for sql list operations."""

  @staticmethod
  def Args(parser):
    """Args is called by calliope to gather arguments for this command.

    Args:
      parser: An argparse parser that you can use to add arguments that go
          on the command line after this command. Positional arguments are
          allowed.
    """
    flags.INSTANCE_FLAG.AddToParser(parser)

  def Run(self, args):
    """Lists all instance operations that have been performed on an instance.

    Args:
      args: argparse.Namespace, The arguments that this command was invoked
          with.

    Returns:
      A dict object that has the list of operation resources if the command ran
      successfully.
    Raises:
      HttpException: A http error response was received while executing api
          request.
      ToolException: An error other than http error occured while executing the
          command.
    """
    sql_client = self.context['sql_client']
    sql_messages = self.context['sql_messages']
    resources = self.context['registry']

    validate.ValidateInstanceName(args.instance)
    instance_ref = resources.Parse(args.instance, collection='sql.instances')

    return list_pager.YieldFromList(
        sql_client.operations,
        sql_messages.SqlOperationsListRequest(
            project=instance_ref.project,
            instance=instance_ref.instance),
        limit=args.limit)

@base.ReleaseTracks(base.ReleaseTrack.GA)
class List(_BaseList, base.ListCommand):
  """Lists all instance operations for the given Cloud SQL instance."""

  def Collection(self):
    return 'sql.operations'

@base.ReleaseTracks(base.ReleaseTrack.BETA)
class ListBeta(_BaseList, base.ListCommand):
  """Lists all instance operations for the given Cloud SQL instance."""

  def Collection(self):
    return 'sql.operations.v1beta4'

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ROC-United
We are 13,000 restaurant workers, 100 high-road employers, thousands of engaged consumers united for raising restaurant industry standards; we are the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). Over the last five years, we have won 13 workplace justice campaigns against exploitative high-profile restaurant companies, obtaining more than $7 million and improvements in workplace policies for workers at those restaurants. We are on the front lines of the fight to improve labor practices across the restaurant industry, eliminate the tipped minimum wage (which has been stuck at $2.13 at the federal level since 1991), and ensure one fair minimum wage for all workers.
New Campaign Campaigns
Severance for laid-off Tazza D'Oro staff
My name is Adelaide Smith and I am a former barista and coffee equipment technician at Enrico's Tazza D'Oro. I started working as a barista at the Highland Park location in April 2017 and have been with the company as it expanded from two cafes, to four cafes and a training lab. When I first started, it was clear that the management structure was somewhat disorganized and not totally functional, but as the new cafes opened, the situation became much worse. Stores have gone months at a time with no manager, so managing responsibilities were piled onto assistant manager and barista workloads. This resulted in day to day operations becoming increasingly stressful for baristas. When that trickled into bad experiences for customers, upper management would show up to hassle the staff about their performance and general attitude, leaving no opportunities for productive discourse. In the context of this managerial chaos, myself and other women consistently received lower scores on job evaluations compared to our few male coworkers, despite working for a company owned by a progressive woman. As a direct result of this disparity, men became eligible for higher raises then women at the barista level. This is a great example of how a well-intentioned feminist can perpetuate gender-based wage disparities in the workplace by failing to implement systems and structures that insure just and equitable working conditions. I don't believe the owner wants gender-based discrimination to be happening anywhere, but the current structure of her own business makes the issue difficult to address. The owner, Amy Enrico, has a history of retaliating against workers who speak out. In one such instance, where two baristas were fired after bringing up concerns at a staff meeting, the National Labor Relations Board was prepared to back the workers in a federal suit, though Tazza and the employees settled out of court. Throughout the various locations staff have been intimidated and harassed by management in retaliation to collective concerns and issues that baristas had no power over. As the equipment tech and part of the coffee quality control team, I would look into any situations where coffee quality was below our standards. On three specific occasions at the Millvale cafe, management came down on the entire barista staff accusing them of making bad coffee, when the problem was out of their control. I pinpointed the equipment issues that compromised our standards and made the issues known to management, but management continued to hassle the baristas until I was able to fix the issues and show that with properly functioning machinery, the coffee was not just adequate, but better than the other locations. Workers at the Millvale location have been targeted and blamed for the poor performance of the store despite their earnest attempts to make that cafe thrive. When management got onto them about evening shifts taking too long, staff worked off the clock to make sure the cafe was stocked and clean for the morning shift. In April of this year, the Millvale staff was told their jobs had been eliminated and the store was closed with only a day's notice. Later that day on their social media accounts, Tazza D'Oro claimed they would just be closing the Millvale cafe for only a week and reopening the following Tuesday. After the fired workers organized a picket, the plans to reopen the store were postponed. One of the workers was able to pick up part-time work at another location, while the other four are trying to make it by on unemployment. I know these kinds of issues are commonplace in the restaurant industry, but they don't have to be! We're calling on Tazza D'Oro to do the right thing and sit down with us, develop a plan to restructure the company, and pay severance to the laid-off Millvale workers.
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Protect restaurant workers from tip theft.
When a customer pays the tip with a credit card, the money doesn't always go to the server. Many restaurants allow customers to pay the bill and the tip with their credit card instead of cash. Credit card companies charge separate fees to process both of these transactions. Because the tip has to be processed through the restaurant, the restaurant can legally take a percentage of each tip to pay the transaction fee. In short, restaurants are taking the tip you gave to the employee to pay a business expense. In many states, servers are only guaranteed $2.13 per hour. The rest of our pay comes directly from guests in the form of the tip. This is an incredibly unstable way to make a living because it's only social custom that obliges a patron to leave a tip. Regardless of how hard we work or how much the bill is, only the customer's conscience determines how much we are paid. Meanwhile, if a guest refuses to pay the bill, they could be prosecuted. It is shameful that an industry that doesn't have to pay its workers a living wage would also steal its workers' hard-earned money.
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Stand with Vermont's Restaurant Workers!
Vermonters love to dine out, experience new things, and try new foods and flavors. So do the many tourists that visit our beautiful state each year. The restaurant culture and service industry isn't going anywhere and neither are the amazing humans who work in and sustain it. Not only is it not going anywhere, it has been growing and expanding rapidly. The service industry has grown 80% since the 1990s, more than any other sector of our economy in America. Nationally, 1 out of every 2 people currently works or has worked in the service industry. Under current Vermont law, tipped workers bring home $5.39 an hour before tips. This leaves a large section of Vermont's workforce - 12,300 people, nearly 80% of whom are women - vulnerable to inconsistent and unreliable pay, low wages, and harassment. This year, we're fighting to raise the standards for thousands of Vermont's tipped service workers and fight for One Fair Wage, improving the security of those who work in Vermont's profitable food service industry by raising wages across the board to at least $15 an hour before tips, phased in over several years. As someone who has worked in the industry for many years, I enjoy and take pride in this work. I also know firsthand the challenges that we face as a result of poverty wages. Elsewhere, others have also begun to recognize these challenges. Many states such as Minnesota, California, Washington, and Oregon have already agreed to One Fair Wage: a single minimum wage for all restaurant workers with tips as usual. Will you stand in support and solidarity with Vermont's tipped workforce and let our legislators know that you support #OneFairWage? Let's be on the right side of history together. Join me in signing today. Andy Sebranek Burlington, VT
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Give New Mexico Restaurant Workers a Paycheck
The restaurant industry is one of New Mexico's largest and fastest growing industries. Employing close to a half of a million people, our industry has statistically the lowest wages in the state. As someone who has worked in the restaurant industry for 15 years, I know how hard it is get by in this industry, and how helpful it will be if we pass one fair wage. According to New Mexico's Department of Workforce Solutions – the median income earning of someone in our industry is around $20,000 a year. That needs to change. States like Nevada, Minnesota, California, Washington, Montana, Oregon, and even Alaska have laws that make sure everyone, including front-of-house staff, are paid at least the minimum wage by their employer. Every New Mexican deserves a paycheck. New Mexico legislature, be on the right side of history and pass one fair wage!
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Tipped Workers Need One Fair Wage in St. Paul
As the cost of living continues to rise, one in four St. Paul workers currently makes less than $15/hr. The food-service industry is one of the top three employers of low wage workers in the metro area and many of them are tipped workers. We are the people that serve your food, mix your drinks, make your coffee, and clear your tables; we are the backbone of the restaurant industry and we deserve a living wage. Right now, the restaurant industry employs six out of ten of the lowest wage jobs in our state, meanwhile the restaurant and food-service industry continues to grow. We want to keep our industry strong and support the workers that make St. Paul a desirable place to work and dine. We deserve the full minimum wage and our tips! Fair wages not only prevent poverty and wage theft, they also help to protect workers from sexual harassment and discrimination: when workers are more dependent on tips, we're more vulnerable to the biases and, at times, predatory behaviors of customers. On a daily basis, workers in our industry are forced to weigh our dignity against our take-home pay as we face indecent behavior from customers and coworkers. A tip penalty makes this dynamic worse by forcing workers to depend more on tips and less on guaranteed wages for our income. The Minnesota Restaurant Association claims that raising the minimum wage would hurt our industry. That's not true! The restaurant industry is the fastest growing industry in the country and has grown amidst raises to the state-wide minimum wage. They say that workers would lose tips, but tipping is norm in the highest-wage food-service industries in the country. They want to take workers tips to subsidize the cost of running their businesses. We say no! We know that tipped workers, that ALL workers, need a $15 Minimum wage with #1FairWage. Tell the City Council: No carve-outs, No tip-penalty!
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Stop Tip Theft: Our Tips Belong To Us!
I am a server at Olive Garden and have been in the service industry for 35 years. For many of those years I made $2.15 per hour. I now make $2.83 per hour. Research suggests that servers and bartenders depend on our tip earnings to pay for essential expenses such as rent and utilities -- and from my experience, I know that is true. I am married 26 years now and like almost all tipped workers, I rely on my guests' tips to support my family. Meanwhile my employer, the Olive Garden, which is part of Darden Restaurants, a member of the National Restaurant Association and Fortune 500 company who's CEO Gene Lee makes 4.27 million per year, is pressuring the US Department of Labor to institute this proposed rule that would allow the company to take our tips and keep them for their own profit. Not only does Olive Garden and the National Restaurant Association think it's okay to pay us as little as $2.13 per hour, but they now also think it's okay to take our tips. But we are here to tell them it's not okay. We deserve fair wages. We deserve to keep our tips. And we deserve a Department of Labor that looks out for us as workers and does not give into the pressure of the National Restaurant Association and their millionaire members. If you agree, please sign this petition calling on the Department of Labor to say NO to tip theft and be sure that servers will get to keep our tips.
Created by James Conway
Matchbox: Respect Your Workers Rights!
We would like fellow restaurant professionals (front and back of house) regardless of nation of origin, status, race, gender, age, or identity to know that you are not alone. You deserve dignity and respect at work: the law is on your side. Stand together and make your voices heard. We stand with you. (Nos gustaría que los profesionales de los restaurantes (igual los de enfrente y los de la cocina) sin embargo de su nación de origen, estatus, raza, genero, edad o identidad que sepan: usted no está solo. Todos merecen dignidad y respeto en el trabajo: la ley está de su lado. Permanezcan unidos y levanten sus voces. Nosotros estamos unidos con ustedes.) The company has declined to hear us. Please read our testimonies, and sign and share our petition in support. Thank you. (La compañía se ha negado a escucharnos. Por favor lea nuestros testimonios, y firme y comparta nuestra petición en apoyo.) Testimonies (Testimonios) ---------------------------------------- Maria D. I worked for the company for two years as a busser. I was paid $5.00 per hour plus $15-$20 in tips. This was my compensation regardless of whether I worked half day or a full day. When I was four months pregnant I was asked to move heavy boxes. I spoke up to let them know that those boxes were too heavy for me that far along in my pregnancy. They responded forcing me to move them and by shortening my schedule to two hours a week. The entire time I worked there they never allowed me to have rest or food breaks. I was never granted a paid sick day. (Trabajé para la compañía durante dos años como busser. Me pagaron $5.00 por hora más $15- $20 en propinas por día. Esta fue mi compensación independientemente de si trabajé medio día o un día completo. Cuando tenía cuatro meses de embarazo, me pidieron que moviera unas cajas pesadas. Les hice saber que esas cajas eran demasiado pesadas para mí a esa altura de mi embarazo. Respondieron con obligarme a moverlas y cortaron mi horario a dos horas a la semana. Todo el tiempo que trabajé allí nunca me permitieron descanso ni tiempo de comer. Nunca me concedieron un día de enfermedad pagado.) ---------------------------------- Maria O. I experienced a lot of discrimination up to and including verbal and physical abuse. On one occasion, I was working on the line with one other coworker making pizzas. The chef joined us on the line to help us because it got busy all of the sudden. He put the pizza into the oven using the wooden pizza peel and proceeded to throw it at me. He was obviously upset, so I just moved into a corner and kept trying to work. He would refer to me as a useless. When I was pregnant and I asked for a day off they would give me an unpaid day off and then take an additional day off my schedule for the week. On another occasion I was reprimanded for something I hadn't done. Because I was pregnant my blood pressure got so high I ended up in the hospital. Not once during my entire pregnancy was I allowed a break to eat. I honestly believe that the company takes advantage of people's need to work and discriminates based on gender and nation of origin. I started earning $11.00 per hour. I worked there for six years and never saw a pay increase, nor had a paid sick day. (Experimenté mucha discriminación e incluso abuso verbal y físico. En una ocasión, estaba trabajando en la línea con otra compañera haciendo pizza y el chef ejecutivo se unió a nosotros porque se puso muy ocupado de repente. Despues de haber metido la pizza al horno él procedió a tirarme la tabla que se usa para meter la pizza al horno. Porque el estaba obviamente muy molesto yo solamente me mudé a una esquina y seguí intentando trabajar. Él rutinariamente se referiría a mí como una babosada. Cuando estaba embarazada, si pedía un día libre para una cita con el médico, me daban un día libre sin pagar. Luego tomarían un día adicional de mi horario para la semana. Lo que de hecho me dejó dos días sin trabajo y pago en una semana. En otra ocasión, fui reprendida por algo que no había hecho. Debido a que estaba embarazada, mi presión arterial se elevó tanto que terminé en el hospital. Ni una sola vez durante todo mi embarazo se me permitió tomarme un descanso. Sinceramente, creo que la empresa aprovecha la necesidad de las personas de trabajar y discrimina en función del género y la nación de origen. Empeze ganando $11.00. Trabajé allí durante seis años y nunca vi un aumento en salario, ni tuve un día de enfermedad pagado.) ------------------------------------------- Santos M. I suffer from a disease that occasionally makes my hands and feet swell and causes a lot of pain. They never understood that some days the pain and swelling was so great I could not walk or hold anything without excessive pain. Instead of allowing me the time to treat the swelling so I could work better, the chef would pressure me to work faster while insulting me for my symptoms. I worked there for five years. The last day I worked there was because the chef told me I was of no use to him because of my disease. He told me to go home and he never wanted to see me again. (Yo padezco de una enfermedad que ocasionalmente hincha las manos y los pies y causa mucho dolor. Nunca entendieron que algunos días la inflamación era tan grande que no podía caminar ni sostener nada sin un dolor excesivo. En lugar de darme el tiempo para tratar la inflamación para poder trabajar mejor, el chef me presionaría para que trabaje más rápido mientras me insultaba por mis síntomas. Trabajé allí cinco años. El último día que trabajé allí fue porque el chef me dijo que no le servía para nada debido a mi enfermedad. Me dijo que me fuera a casa y que nunca más me quería volver a ver.)
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Pay Us What We're Owed
My name is Michele Lindor and I am a former manager for BG's Cowboy's Saloon in Syracuse, New York. My experience working for BG Cowboy's Saloon was short-lived but definitely memory packed. I was asked to join the BG team in February 2017. After 2 months of serving, I was promoted to service manager and then quickly took on the responsibility of bar management as well. My hours were strenuous and never ending; I even have slept in the restaurant before because my commute was too long for me to leave and then turn back for my shift in less than 3 hours. I was constantly left to deal with things quite literally by myself and received little to no help from the other management staff; i.e. continually being left as the only manager within the building on weekend nights with minimal training as a manager and no support. Many of my coworkers also experienced terrible treatment by the management team that was let go in July. Turnover is high in the restaurant industry, due to low wages, lack of benefits and strenuous work. Our turnover rate at BG Cowboy's Saloon was no exception, especially for front of the house employees, where turnover was frankly astronomical and embarrassing due to the sub-minimum hourly wage, poor working conditions and the reputation acquired by the owner's failure to pay bills rent and possibly even taxes to the State of New York. With the potential closing looming over our heads, instead of taking the easier route of calling it quits, leaving my coworkers behind and moving onto a new workplace, I worked extra hard to ensure that not only I had a job, but that my staff did as well. We banded together and collectively worked together to try and better the entire restaurant. For the last month, I was ensured that the restaurant had a future for the coming holiday season, so when I received the message through text on the morning of Saturday September 23, 2017 that our restaurant was indefinitely closing its doors and our "help" that was flown in from Florida was heading straight back to South Beach, I was shocked and outraged. Not only were our jobs non-existent, but so were our paychecks. Our paychecks dated 09/04/2017-09/10/2017 had bounced and we never received payment from 09/11/2017-09/22/2017. I personally am owed $1889.70. Because of the sudden change, I as well as many of my staff have had to apply for unemployment to receive some sort of repayment for the loss of wages from BG's. Personally because of this job, I have taken hits to my own bank account by paying out of my own pocket for groceries and supplies for the restaurant because things with vendors soured when the employer failed to pay bills. As a result of going above and beyond, I have been living paycheck to paycheck. When the first paycheck bounced, I was left with $49 in my account and have been forced to live on credit. I, as well as everyone else, has had to scramble to find employment elsewhere. 4 weeks have gone by and we are still not paid for our time on the clock. It is all too common for people in our industry to be taken advantage of and disrespected. My coworkers and I from BG Cowboy's Saloon went above and beyond for our employer. We deserve to be paid for the work we performed and to be treated with respect. Please join me in asking Bobby Genovese, the millionaire who owns BG Cowboy's Saloon and BG Capital Group, to do the right thing and pay us the money we are owed and enter a dialogue about how similar situations at his other establishments can be prevented. Thank you,
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Hey Darden, #BringBackAutograt
"I served a party of 30 guests with another server. We waited on them during the dinner rush for over 2 hours. The whole party left a total of $13." -Janine, Louisiana "I am an excellent, fast, and friendly server and I love my job but sometimes I get big parties who tell me that I did a great job but they only leave $20 on a $600 check. I have to tip out my partners based on my sales so after we split the tip we only make roughly $2 each when we waited on them our whole shift." -Suzanne, New York "Without the gratuity added to parties I receive very low or no tips at all even though the parties would be there for hours. Quite a few times I have walked home with less than ten dollars in my pocket because of the loss of the autograt. This is just not right. It's disheartening." -Lauren, PA --- Up until late 2013 we, the front of the house employees at Darden Restaurants, were able to add an automatic 18% gratuity onto the check(s) of parties of 8 or more. The auto-grat was included in large party checks for several reasons including, but not limited to: 1.Guests often do not tip when they are in large parties because they either forget to or assume the host will take care of it. 2. Servers of large parties usually have the rest of their section taken by someone else so they can focus on the party. 3. Darden mandates a tip-share policy with bussers and bartenders (who are also paid sub-minimum wages) and FOH staff get left with little to nothing even though we may work one party for an entire shift. Several wage workers have a stake in the tip on large parties which is why it makes sense to have an auto-gratuity to ensure that both guests and employees are well treated. A host of restaurants around the country provide their servers with autograt to make sure that their employees don't leave their shifts with less than when they came in. So, why did Darden really get rid of autograt? Did Darden eliminate auto-grat to avoid extra payroll taxes? Therefore, we, the front of the house workers of Darden Restaurants, demand that Darden reinstate autograt.
Created by Estelle Becker Costanzo
Olive Garden: Reinstate a pregnant employee who was unjustly terminated
My name is Courtnee Dean. For the past 10 years, I have been a loyal employee of Olive Garden store 1370 in Bala Cynwyd, PA. I am also a mother, currently seven months pregnant with my second child. On October 1st, 2014, I was unfairly terminated from my employment at Darden Restaurants for a lost coupon. I offered to compensate for the coupon, but the manager, Lily, refused the money. Instead of following the customary procedure of writing me up or taking the money, she called corporate and had me terminated. Even after working at Darden for 10 years, not only was I treated as disposable but so was my growing family. That's why I am demanding that Darden Restaurants make this right by: 1) restoring my employment, 2) fully compensate me for all the time I have missed from work as a result of this unjust termination, and 3) meet with me and members of the Restaurant Opportunities Center United to address my case and the issues that workers face from Darden management all over the country, like being discriminated against for being pregnant and being forced to work while sick. Please join me in asking Darden Restaurants, the largest full-service restaurant company in the world, to do the right thing so that I can support my family and prevent similar situations from happening to the rest of Darden's employees.
Created by Courtnee Dean
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Wen, Dingqiao, Yu, Yun, Hahn, Matthew W., et al.. "Reticulate evolutionary history and extensive introgression in mosquito species revealed by phylogenetic network analysis." Molecular Ecology, 25, no. 11 (2016) 2361-2372. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13544.
The role of hybridization and subsequent introgression has been demonstrated in an increasing number of species. Recently, Fontaine et al. (Science, 347, 2015, 1258524) conducted a phylogenomic analysis of six members of the Anopheles gambiae species complex. Their analysis revealed a reticulate evolutionary history and pointed to extensive introgression on all four autosomal arms. The study further highlighted the complex evolutionary signals that the co-occurrence of incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) and introgression can give rise to in phylogenomic analyses. While tree-based methodologies were used in the study, phylogenetic networks provide a more natural model to capture reticulate evolutionary histories. In this work, we reanalyse the Anopheles data using a recently devised framework that combines the multispecies coalescent with phylogenetic networks. This framework allows us to capture ILS and introgression simultaneously, and forms the basis for statistical methods for inferring reticulate evolutionary histories. The new analysis reveals a phylogenetic network with multiple hybridization events, some of which differ from those reported in the original study. To elucidate the extent and patterns of introgression across the genome, we devise a new method that quantifies the use of reticulation branches in the phylogenetic network by each genomic region. Applying the method to the mosquito data set reveals the evolutionary history of all the chromosomes. This study highlights the utility of 'network thinking' and the new insights it can uncover, in particular in phylogenomic analyses of large data sets with extensive gene tree incongruence.


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Arriva order 50 new Wrightbus StreetLite and StreetLite Max buses
Posted: 16 March 2015 | Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport
Arriva will take delivery of 50 new Wrightbus StreetLite and StreetLite Max buses in late spring 2015. The new buses will feature Cummins Euro 5 engine as well as Wrightbus' exclusive and innovative 'Micro Hybrid' Technology. The new buses will be distributed across Arriva's regions across the UK and will comprise of 34 StreetLite […]
Arriva will take delivery of 50 new Wrightbus StreetLite and StreetLite Max buses in late spring 2015.
The new buses will feature Cummins Euro 5 engine as well as Wrightbus' exclusive and innovative 'Micro Hybrid' Technology. The new buses will be distributed across Arriva's regions across the UK and will comprise of 34 StreetLite Max 11.5m and 16 StreetLite (four of which will be 8.8m and the rest 10.8m).
Following an open tender process 34 of the buses are the StreetLite Max product. A total of 28 of the StreetLite Max vehicles will be manufactured to Arriva Sapphire premium specification which is widely recognised as one of the highest specification services available today – designed to improve the quality of bus travel and encourage more people to use public transport. The bus features high-backed luxury seating and audio-visual announcement systems, as well as free Wi-Fi and charging points.
The hybrid technology captures energy generated from a bus's braking system, and redistributes this energy to power pneumatics, hydraulic and electrical systems which would otherwise require power from the engine. The result is a reduction in fuel consumption of up to 10%, leading to substantial savings over a bus's typical 15-year operational service life.
Arriva have 103 StreetLite vehicles in service, an extra 50 will now join the fleet. The mechanical platform for the buses will be built at the company's dedicated chassis facility in Antrim, with the bodywork completed at the Wrightbus headquarters at Ballymena.
Ian Downie, Managing Director, Sales and Customcare for Wrightbus, commented on today's announcement: "With Arriva being a long established customer of Wrightbus, we're pleased they have come to us again for this significant order.
"Our StreetLite range is a tried and trusted offering that is not only used by Arriva, but also by many other operators around the UK on a daily basis, we are pleased that due to the proven excellent fuel consumption performance and reliability these buses have again been selected by Arriva."
Mark Yexley Operations and Commercial Director for Arriva UK said: "We have a long standing partnership with Wrightbus which continues to provide us with exceptional vehicles offering the levels of fuel efficiency that we seek"
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By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport


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2021 Virtual Event
Chair & Moderator
Perry Spitznagel
Vice Chair, Bennett Jones LLP
Perry Spitznagel is Vice Chair of Bennett Jones, a former longstanding Managing Partner of the Calgary office and a senior corporate lawyer with extensive national and cross-border experience in a broad range of matters. Perry has acted for clients in some of the largest transactions in Canada, including many of Canada's and North America's largest national and cross-border financings and mergers. He has been recognized by Financial Post Magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in corporate Canada. He is also widely recognized as a leading lawyer in his areas of expertise.
Perry is a director of a large private holding company and is a director and past Chair of WinSport which manages the legacy assets and programs of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. He is also a director of the Calgary Zoological Society and a member of the Advisory Board of the Samara Centre for Democracy, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening Canada's democracy. He is a past member of the Alberta Securities Commission Advisory Committee, a past Co-Chair of the Pipestone Securities Law Conference and a past director of Alpine Canada, the governing body for alpine ski racing in Canada.
A former international ski racer, Perry remains active in skiing.
Perry is a graduate of McGill University, BA (Economics), 1979, with great distinction, and Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1982.
He is a frequent speaker and has chaired national and international conferences on a variety of topics. Perry speaks French and German.
Best-Selling Historian; Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
Niall Ferguson is one of our most influential commentators on geopolitics and the global economy. The wide range of his expertise underscores his ongoing importance as a keynote speaker.
A Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is also a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
He has published sixteen books, including "The Pity of War" (1998), "The Cash Nexus" (2002), "Empire" (2003), "Colossus" (2004), "The War of the World" (2007), "The Ascent of Money" (2009), "Civilization: The West and the Rest" (2012), "The Great Degeneration" (2014), is currently writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which—"Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist"—was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. His recent book, "The Square and the Tower," was a New York Times bestseller and was adapted to a three-part television series called "Niall Ferguson's Networld," airing on PBS in March 2020. His latest book, "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe," was published in May 2021.
His first, Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927, was short-listed for the History Today Book of the Year award, while the collection of essays he edited, Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, was a UK bestseller. In 1998 he published to international critical acclaim The Pity of War: Explaining World War One and The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. The latter won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History and was also short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Literary Award and the American National Jewish Book Award. In 2001, after a year as a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, he published The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.
In 2003 Ferguson wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004 by Penguin, and prompted Time magazine to name him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Two years later he published The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, a television adaptation of which was screened by PBS in 2007. The international bestseller, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, followed in 2008; it too was a PBS series, winning the International Emmy award for Best Documentary, as well as the Handelszeitung Economics Book Prize. In 2011 he published Civilization: The West and the Rest, also a Channel 4/PBS documentary series. A year later came the three-part television series "China: Triumph and Turmoil." The book based on his 2012 BBC Reith lectures, The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, was a New York Times bestseller within a week of its publication.
An accomplished biographer, Ferguson published High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg in 2010 and is currently writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which was published in 2015—to critical acclaim—as Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist. The book won the 2016 Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. In 2011 his film company Chimerica Media released its first feature-length documentary, "Kissinger", which won the New York Film Festival's prize for Best Documentary.
He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series "The Ascent of Money." His many other prizes and awards include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013).
Ferguson was the Philippe Roman Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics in 2010-11. He is a member of the board of trustees of the New York Historical Society. His many prizes and awards include the GetAbstract International Book Award (2009), the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012), the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013), the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize (2013), and the Philip Merrill.
Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education (2016). He has received honorary degrees from the University of Buckingham (UK), Macquarie University (Australia), and the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile).
In addition to writing a weekly column for the Sunday Times (London) and the Boston Globe, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a Cambridge-based advisory firm. He also serves on the board of Affiliated Managers Group and is a trustee of the New York Historical Society and the London-based Centre for Policy Studies.
Niall Ferguson is married to the author and women's rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. He has four children.
David Dodge
Former Governor of the Bank of Canada
During a distinguished career in the federal public service, Mr. Dodge held senior positions in the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Anti-Inflation Board, and the Department of Employment and Immigration. After serving in a number of increasingly senior positions at the Department of Finance, including that of G-7 Deputy, he was Deputy Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1997. In that role, he served as a member of the Bank of Canada's Board of Directors.
In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health, a position he held until his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada.
Mr. Dodge, appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada, effective 1 February 2001 for a term of seven years, retired on 31 January 2008. From July 2008 to June 2014, he served as Chancellor of Queen's University. From 2009 to 2015, he was a member of the board of directors of Canadian Utilities Limited, ATCO Limited and the Bank of Nova Scotia. Mr. Dodge is Senior Advisor at Bennett Jones LLP one of Canada's leading law firms. He also serves on the board of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Chairs the National Council of the C.D. Howe Institute.
A native of Toronto, Mr. Dodge received a bachelor's degree (honours) from Queen's University, and a PhD in economics from Princeton.
During his academic career, he taught economics at Queen's University; at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; at the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia; and at Simon Fraser University. He also served as Director of the International Economics Program of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Mr. Dodge has been awarded honorary degrees from a number of Canadian universities. In 2009, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Deborah Yedlin
President & CEO, Calgary Chamber of Commerce
Deborah Yedlin joins the Calgary Chamber of Commerce with a background that includes experience on Wall Street and Bay Street, and more than two decades as a business columnist for various media outlets, commenting on the nexus of business and politics since 1996.
Since moving to Calgary in 1992, Yedlin has been very active in the Calgary community – as a board member on a number of not-for-profit organizations and including serving as the co-chair of the 2016 United Way Campaign.  Yedlin is currently serving as the 14th Chancellor of the University of Calgary and is one of three co-chairs of the $250 million Calgary Cancer Centre fundraising campaign.
A first-generation Canadian, born and raised in Edmonton, Deborah is a graduate of the University of Alberta and Queen's University. She also completed her ICD.D designation through the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary.
Deputy Director,
ARC Energy Research Institute
A respected public speaker, podcaster, blogger and author, Peter has devoted his career to energy, first as a geophysicist, then as an economist and investment strategist. Peter has written two bestsellers — A Thousand Barrels a Second and The End of Energy Obesity — and in 2020 launched his new project, energyphile.org, and book, The Investor Visit and Other Stories: Disruption, Denial and Transition in the Energy Business.
Passionate about studying how society evolves its energy use and applying lessons of the past to today's strategic business issues, Peter created Energyphile to encourage people to think about the energy business in a whole new way.
In 2015 Peter was seconded to the four-person Royalty Review Panel for the province of Alberta — the world's eighth largest producer of oil and gas — where he led the redesign of the fiscal policy. In 2016 he was inducted into the Alberta Petroleum Hall of Fame and in 2021, he joined the board of Contemporary Calgary, and the Institute of Sustainable Finance Advisory Board.
Peter has an undergraduate degree in Geophysics from the University of Alberta, a graduate degree in Econometrics from the University of Southampton UK, and a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Peter and his colleague Jackie Forrest also host the ARC Energy Ideas podcast, exploring trends influencing the energy industry. Subscribe to the podcast.
Hon. Lisa Raitt, P.C.
Former Deputy Leader of the Official Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada
The Honourable Lisa Raitt was the President and CEO of the Toronto Port Authority. She was elected into the House of Commons in 2008, where she went on to hold three senior portfolios serving as Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of Labour, and Minister of Transport. Most recently, Ms. Raitt was the Deputy Leader of the Official Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada.
Joining CIBC Capital Markets in January 2020, having previously worked in both the public and private sectors, Ms. Raitt's current focus is on senior client coverage and business development with clients in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors, which align closely with her deep expertise.
Ms. Raitt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis Xavier University and a master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Guelph. She possesses an LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario bar in 1998. In 2020 Ms. Raitt was named a Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow of the Canada Institute.
Premier Jason Kenney
The Honourable Jason Kenney, 18th Premier of Alberta, is an Ontarian by birth and an Albertan by choice, with a happy Saskatchewan childhood in between. He burst onto Canada's political scene in the early 1990s as the 22-year-old President of the new Canadian Taxpayers Federation and a passionate, articulate advocate for individual freedom, democracy, and free enterprise.
First elected in 1997 as the Reform Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Calgary Southeast, he played a major role in creating and expanding the modern Conservative Party of Canada, leading to its election in 2006. During the following decade he served as Minister of Multiculturalism, Citizen and Immigration, Employment and Skills Development, and National Defence. Unofficially, due to his tireless networking among diverse Canadian cultural communities, he was also known as the "minister of curry in a hurry."
Returning to Alberta in 2016, Jason Kenney undertook a 3-year mission to revive and unite the province's free enterprise coalition. In an unprecedented succession of political achievements, he first won the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, then won a referendum creating the new United Conservative Party, then won election as UCP leader, then won a seat in the Legislature as Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, and finally, in the 2019 election, led his party to a majority government with the highest vote tally of any party in provincial history.
He was sworn-in as Premier on April 30, 2019, and ever since his government has been working hard to get Alberta back to work, make life better for Albertans, and stand up for Alberta's right to develop its resources and control its economic destiny.
Rex Murphy
Social Commentator, Editorialist & Distinct Canadian Voice
Rex Murphy is a trusted face and voice across Canadian media. His intellect and biting humour strike through the heart of profound political and social issues.
Currently he writes and reports for CBC's The National and is a columnist in the National Post. Canadians are treated to weekly commentary from Rex on CBC's The National along with his Saturday column in the National Post.
He's also acted as an editorial contributor to CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera. For over 20 years he was the host and moderator of CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup. The show brought over 1 million listeners and at times 15,000 callers wanting to join in discussions.
As a speaker, Rex radiates intelligence and trustworthiness. His endearing style brings forth a sarcastic intellect and deep insight into issues affecting individuals and businesses. Audiences can expect to be simultaneously informed and entertained by Rex's provocative commentary. He knows what makes Canadians tick, and what drives our political and social affairs. Rex makes us important and reminds us we have culture beyond hockey. His thought-provoking, sometimes stinging commentary and original insights are delivered through a vocabulary to make Webster's consider updating.
A Rhodes Scholar, Rex was born and raised in St. John's, Nfld., where he graduated from Memorial University. He went to Oxford University, along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Rex later ran twice in provincial elections and lost both times. Maybe he was too honest?
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MANCHESTER UNITED winger Nani looks set to leave the club in the summer according to his agent.
Nani has been linked with a move to Juventus, Fiorentina and Inter Milan, while his representative Andrea Pastorello has revealed he could be available in the summer.
Having recovered from injury, the 27-year-old made his first United appearance of 2014 when he came off the bench during the 4-0 Premier League win at Newcastle on Saturday.
But even though Nani's future looks in doubt with the Premier League champs, Pastorello admitted the Serie A sides interested in snapping him up will have to contend with his wage demands.
"Nani is a very important player and at this time the only thing I can say is that he is likely to leave Manchester," Pastorello said.
"The problem for Fiorentina and the other Italian clubs is the player's salary.
"Surely we will evaluate all bids. Our relationship with United is great.
"Fiorentina have to speak with Manchester United about Anderson and maybe it will be an opportunity to talk about Nani too.


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Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager by Craig Kalpakjian
Joe Fyfe by Josh Blackwell
Katharina Grosse by Ati Maier
Luis Camnitzer by Alejandro Cesarco
Jim Shepard by Christie Hodgen
Thomas Pletzinger by Sufjan Stevens
Sebastián Silva by Christian Viveros-Fauné
Robert Wyatt by Shadia Mansour
Sibyl Kempson by Kristen Kosmas
A Stroll through Literature by Roberto Bolaño
Abandon Normal Instruments by Deb Olin Unferth
Parable of the Birds by Paul Maliszewski
The Color of Night by Madison Smartt Bell
Four Poems by Rebecca Wolff
Three Poems by John Tranter
Jorge Queiroz by Emilie Clark
Rona Yefman by michel auder
Michelle Segre by Huma Bhabha
Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango: A Fanzine about Felt & Co. by Clinton Krute
Hervé Le Tellier's Enough about Love and The Sextine Chapel by Lee Ann Brown
Sic Alps's Napa Asylum by Elisa Ambrogio
Danzig Baldaev's Drawings from the Gulag by John Reed
Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all by Marc Joseph Berg
Francine Prose's My New American Life by Simon Van Booy
Radical Light. Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000 by Lucy Raven
Tris Vonna-Michell by Cathleen Chaffee
Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, Cloud Cuckoo Land , 2008, video excerpt.
Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, The Story of Elfranko Wessels , 2011, video excerpt.
Craig Kalpakjian I'm interested in the way you use music; the vocal storytelling. Do you see yourself in relation to someone like Robert Ashley and to an avant-garde music tradition?
Erik Moskowitz Not in particular, but we are working with narrative through the use of song. The voice is so expressive that it becomes musical in and of itself.
Amanda Trager Joan Jonas spoke her lines in that Ashley piece [ Celestial Excursions , from 2000].
EM For me, her way of speaking and interacting with the music became emotionally heightened and accessible—like a song.
CK The theatrical stylization of everyone singing the lines together evokes a Greek chorus.
AT Technically, it's just the two of us singing the lines of all the characters.
EM The idea for the artists as chorus was to incorporate a kind of unreliable narrator who may, actually, be the central focus of the piece. The chorus acts as something the viewer can hold onto while the narrative runs off the rails.
CK The scenes in Cloud Cuckoo Land with your characters editing the video of themselves make me think of Gimme Shelter showing Mick Jagger in the editing room as he goes over footage of his concert where the person in the audience gets stabbed. Altamont is always seen as the end of the '60s, the "death of the Woodstock Nation;" one of the moments when it all crashed.
Still from Cloud Cuckoo Land , 2008.
EM Growing up in the art world I witnessed a similar crash of idealism in New York's downtown art scene. There had been a notion of "This community is special. Being a part of it is special. And then there are those other people—"
AT Like my people on the Upper East Side?
EM "—and they're outside of this community." But the notion of a difference between the art world and another world was obliterated at a certain point. I think that unspoken hierarchies are common to supposedly utopian communities. A line is drawn that separates something from something else. Initially, that was my interest in this project: to look at that line and how it gets fucked up. So we created characters that are specifically geared toward making a mess of the situation.
AT In Cloud Cuckoo Land the character I play is really uptight. As she joins this community it's revealed that she can't deal with Erik's character. He's completely accepted by the others although he's walking into things while reading books or crawling into bed with couples in the middle of the night so he can cuddle. Creating this piece, I definitely envisioned my actual self with my own hang-ups in this scenario. I wouldn't have done well. Another thing about this return-to-the-commune story: it's unfolding in the present moment. There's a dovetailing of the manner in which people today, including artists—with all of their neurotic, super-controlling attitudes—are implausibly trying to do something inspired by the '60s.
EM Looking at this kind of society through a lens and the editing process—and that's why I like the Altamont reference—relates to the panopticon, a kind of violence, which is somewhat inherent in the imaging process itself.
CK In Gimme Shelter there's a sense of trying to figure out "what happened;" analyzing or reliving a trauma.
Still from The Story of Elfranko Wessels , 2011. Image courtesy of the artists.
EM Or retelling the story of personal trauma. Maybe it's more of a personal message than a social statement. This relates to our latest piece, The Story of Elfranko Wessels , where our persona as an "artist-couple" is enmeshed with our subject's socio-political struggles. We emphasize the home as opposed to a site of production.
AT That's also from the '60s, mostly feminism: the personal being the political.
EM But specifically in terms of the art world—at this point the difficulties associated with institutional intervention feel overwhelming, though the need to do so seems more pressing than ever. Questions which come out of addressing an audience seem easier to deal with on a personal level. Relating the issues around Amanda and I making a particular work and presenting it in a particular way feels like a manageable way of looking at the situation.
CK This returns to what you were saying earlier about an us-versus-them mentality. The idea of defining a group or community by drawing a line is very much like Carl Schmitt and his politics of the enemy. This outside or Other complicates the usual ideas of utopia in an interesting way, as does the crisis or the external catastrophic event in Cloud Cuckoo Land . Do you know Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf?
AT We talked about that film a lot.
EM His films are amazing. Not just the way they tell stories but the ways in which they interact with the cinema audience. He's really adept at addressing the context and architecture of the cinema and how it's expected to operate.
CK Like when the character in Funny Games addresses the camera (and the viewer) directly, breaking the fourth wall.
AT The self-reflexivity. But if you're not interested in those things, there's always just the story itself. That notion is attractive to us; there being different entry points to our work.
Cloud Cuckoo Land , 2008, Various Works, Installation view at 303 Gallery, New York, 2009. Image courtesy of the artist.
CK Erik, you performed with the avant-garde theater ensemble The Wooster Group, right?
EM I went to an alternative public school in the West Village. When I was in elementary school, we never had to do anything, literally. We would come to class and the teacher would ask: "What would you all like to do today?" Eventually I kind of stopped going because I got involved with The Wooster Group. I'd go to school for half the day and then Spalding [Gray] would pick me up and bring me down to the Performing Garage for rehearsal. Talk about utopian refuge!
AT When we bought the building we now live and work in, there was an offhand notion to realize utopian dreams, you know, in a small way. Our first tenant downstairs was a theater company from a Bushwick high school mentored by The Wooster Group! They'd use the space to rehearse and to present classics like Shakespeare to people in the neighborhood and beyond. Initially it was an amazing experience, but it turned into a kind of hell. The kids were given the keys to the space to rehearse but they'd use it on weekends to party until 4 a.m. I mean, a lot. So it was like: the utopian dream is over—I need to get some SLEEP.
EM They did this version of Paradise Lost where they used the building as a physical metaphor: they were on the ground floor but they referred to the upstairs (our space) as heaven and the basement as hell. There was this little trapdoor they used to descend to hell. It was genius. It pointed out the ridiculousness of us being up here, playing the landlords, the artists.
Craig Kalpakjian is an artist working in New York. He has exhibited in The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has previously published an interview/conversation with the writer Sarah Kessler in the online journal Triple Canopy and is currently working on another with Arkady Plotnitsky, author of The Knowable and The Unknowable and other writings on the relationships among literature, philosophy, and science.
experimental theater
Julia Loktev by Gabriela Jauregui
"I liked thinking about the word occupy literally. To occupy something. To occupy a sensation or a history and then to be kicked out of it and be squatting near it and trying to reinvest in it."
Sharon Fogarty by Zachary Small
"They said, 'You'll be in charge of the children and the dogs.' And I said, 'Okay! But what does that even mean?'"
Featuring interviews with Joe Fyfe, Katharina Grosse, Luis Camnitzer, Jim Shepard, Sebastián Silva, Thomas Pletzinger, Robert Wyatt, and Sibyl Kempson.


Decorating the home for Christmas is a wonderful time for your family. For your aging parent, this is a great way to keep their spirits high, boost their mental and emotional health, and create a warming, welcoming environment for the holiday season. Decorating is a fun way to spend quality time together as well. You can get the generations together to create a beautiful holiday display, enjoy seasonal treats, watch movies, and have fun together. When you are decorating for the holidays, however, it is important to keep your senior's safety in mind. Even indoor Christmas decorating can pose hazards to your senior, so it is important to take careful steps toward creating decorations that are safe and beautiful.
If your parent still has an old artificial tree, now may be the time to upgrade. Look for a new tree that is labeled "fire resistant". Another benefit of these trees is that they are usually pre-lit, eliminating the tangled wires and overloaded outlets.
If your parent is still using old lights, check them over carefully. Make sure the wires are in good condition and that the bulbs are intact. Consider replacing aged strands with new versions with better energy rating.
Keep a real tree well-hydrated throughout the season. This not only makes cleanup easier at the end of the season, but also reduces fire hazard.
Avoid letting any wires cross over areas where your parent or others will walk.
Do not use real candles on or near a Christmas tree, even an artificial version.
Avoid putting real candles near anything flammable. Consider replacing all candles with flameless versions.
Keep any breakable decorations out of reach so they do not accidentally fall and shatter.
Avoid plugging too many things into any outlet. Overloading can lead to a short, which can be a fire hazard.
Make sure your parent is able to easily access the controls to turn the lights off each night. Look for lights that are operated by a simple floor pedal or remote.
There's no need to feel alone in your journey as a family caregiver. Help is available, and one of the most beneficial and effective forms of this help is elderly care. An elderly home care services provider acts as a source of support, supplemental care and assistance, and completely customizable companionship and help to ensure your parent gets everything they need at all times. Whether you live at a distance and aren't able to be with your parent as often as you'd like, struggle with your own challenges and limitations that keep you from being able to fulfill these care needs, have an extremely busy schedule that keeps you from being with your parents, or have other issues, elderly care can fill these care gaps. An elderly home care services provider can also simply diversify your parents care, giving them the additional benefits of more social stimulation as they age.
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Burchard von Suhm (* 5. Juni 1666; † 14. März 1720 in Paris) war sächsischer und polnischer Diplomat.

Familie
Burchard von Suhm entstammte der Adelsfamilie Suhm und war ein Sohn des königlich dänischen Staatsrat und Amtsverwalter in Pinneberg Heinrich von Suhm (1636–1700) und der Margareta Dorothea von Felden (1648–1711).

Seine Brüder waren u. a. der dänische Admiral Ulrik Frederik von Suhm (1686–1758) und der kursächsische Generalmajor Ernst Heinrich von Suhm (1668–1729). Der Historiker Peter Frederik Suhm (1728–1798) war sein Neffe.

Suhm war seit 1689 mit Gesilla von Brüggemann (1672–1711) vermählt. Aus der Ehe gingen sechs Töchter und sieben Söhne hervor.
Darunter die beiden Diplomaten Ulrich Friedrich von Suhm (1691–1740) und Nicolaus von Suhm (1697–1760), der Schoutbynacht Heinrich von Suhm (1693–1744), sowie der kursächsische Generalleutnant Peter von Suhm (1696–1760).

Leben
Er studierte in Straßburg, Genf, Frankfurt sowie seit 1686 in Leipzig. Dem schlossen sich mehrere Reisen durch Frankreich an. Anschließend scheint es so, dass er nach 1700 zunächst seinem Vater als Amtsverwalter in Pinneberg nachfolgte.

Vermutlich folgte er, wie andere seiner Familie dem Ruf Anna Sophias, der Gemahlin des Kurfürsten an den sächsischen Hof nach Dresden.

Dort wurde er zunächst Kammer- und Legationsrat, dann Geheimer Rat. Unter der Förderung durch Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, wurde er 1709 sächsischer Gesandter in Frankreich, nahm mit seinem Sohn Nicolaus für Kursachsen am Friedenskongress in Utrecht teil und wurde ca. 1714 Geheimer Kriegsrat.

1720 verstarb er in Paris, sein Nachfolger als Gesandter in Frankreich wurde Carl Heinrich von Hoym.

Literatur
 Zbigniewa Wójcika (Hrgb.): Historia Dyplomacji Polskiej. Band II, 1572-1795, Warszawa 1982, S. 406, 446.
 Judith Matzke: Gesandtschaftswesen und diplomatischer Dienst Sachsens 1694-1763. (Dissertation) Dresden, 2007, PDF, S. 373

Anmerkungen

Deutscher
Adliger
Polnisch-litauischer Diplomat
Sächsischer Diplomat
Geboren 1666
Gestorben 1720
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Birth: 05-02-1976 , Mumbai
Abhishek Bachchan, the anything but angry young man, came out of the shadows as Amitabh Bachchan's son to build a success story in Bollywood.
He was born as Abhishek Amitabh Srivastav in Mumbai. What set him apart from other babies born on that day was that he was the son of superstar extraordinaire Amitabh Bachchan and actress Jaya Bachchan of the Guddi fame, who is currently a Samajwadi MP at the Rajya Sabha.
He has an older sister Shweta, married to industrialist Nikhil Nanda, the son of Ritu Nanda (Rita Kapoor-Nanda), daughter of famous Actor Raj Kapoor
Abhishek is the grandson of Harivansh Rai Srivastav (pen-name Harivansh Rai Bachchan) who was an acclaimed poet. Both Abhishek and Amitabh took on the Bachchan from this pen-name.
He is partly Punjabi Sikh on his paternal side and a Bengali Kulin Brahmin on his maternal side.
Abhishek studied at the Jamnabhai Narsee School and Bombay Scottish School, both located in Mumbai and also Modern School in New Delhi. His college years were spent in Aiglon College, Switzerland amongst the cheese, clocks, and banks. He moved to Boston University in U.S to study business only to return back to India to help his father with ABCL, which was hit by a financial crisis.
He was engaged to the Indian actress Karishma Kapoor back in 2002. They went public during his father's sixtieth birthday celebration. It lasted as long as January 2003.
He got engaged to the most beautiful woman on earth Aishwarya Rai, actress & former Miss World, in 2007 and tied the knot with her a few months later at the Bachchan's residence, Prateeksha.
Abhishek Bachchan has endorsed brands like Motorola and Idea Cellular. He appeared with Aishwarya in the Lux ad and the star couple will be seen together in a PETA campaign.
Sanjana kapoor


Retirement Planning Baby Boomer. Rich Boomer Poor Boomer.
The retirement planning baby boomer has many things to consider these days. Which baby boomer are you planning on being?
As a baby boomer myself, when we started work, the age pension was the 'norm' for retirement funding. Expecting the 'government' to take care of us in our old age.
However,in our mid 30's early 40's, the 'government' soon realised the enormity and impact the baby boomer generation would have on funds. So the introduction of Superannuation Guarantee Charge in 1992 and the move towards 'private' superannuation.
Retiring poor or sick.... dosn't have to be an option.
Retirement prospects for the not-so-lucky generation.
Qualitative research done by Myra Hamilton, University of Sydney and Clive Hamilton of The Australia Institute, show how diverse retirement planning for baby boomer is. The gap between those with lower incomeversus the higher income earners and how their expectations are vastly different.
High income boomers tend to see 'retirement' as a change of pace, slowing down and working less. However they still expect to 'be involved' having more flexibility to pursue hobbies and leisure interests. These are the ones who have wealth and are self funded retires.
High income boomers tend to see 'retirement' as a change of pace, slowing down and working less. However they still expect to 'be involved' having more flexibility to pursue hobbies and leisure interests.
These are the ones who have wealth and are self funded retires.
On the other hand the lower income retirement planning baby boomers expectations of retirement is very different. The now, 50 - 65 year olds have virtually no wealth and will be relying on the age pension to 'exist'. Knowing they may have to continue working well past 'retirement age'.
If they can, they'd like to 'stop work' and spend their retirement years in leisure activities and very unhappy with the prospects of 'having' to continue working.
It is the baby boomer women who feel more hard done by than men as many have not been in a position to accumulate as much super as men due to their more intermittent engagement in paid work and their lower salaries.
In addition to the diversity between the Rich Boomer and Poor Boomer, the retirement planning baby boomer is up for more complex issues then 'just' income.
The question and concern is how to manage the baby boomer healthcare issues. Costs of health care, aged care and services available.
Despite the doom and gloom for the lower income baby boomers. It's not too late. In your early 50's? You still have 10 good years to change your destiny and by putting in place a residual income programplan for yourself.
For the retirement planning baby boomer the question is: Which would you rather be: Rich Boomer or Poor Boomer?
So, what's stopping you from creating a passive residual income that can take you into your retirement years healthy and financially comfortable.


Yeah, my supposed buddy just tells me to read the rules for it, otherwise I am completely useless. Well, I don't work that way, I need more then just the damn rules to figure out a game. I am the watch and learn type, so sorry if it inconveniences people.
To be honest, I am a little over my head, though it is an interesting game.
I did go in the chat. Yesterday and today. I didn't get to say much.
Thank you for moving it for me.
I'm not even sure what's happening, haha.