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Love, Labor, Lost
To Sarah Jaffe, the idea that you can love your job has become a trap.
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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
By Sarah Jaffe
Two days before a mob of Trump supporters stormed the halls of Congress and drowned out the rest of the news cycle, more than 220 workers at Google announced that they had unionized with the Communications Workers of America.
Unsurprisingly, Silicon Valley industry leaders responded with disdain and mockery to the news. Coal miners and meatpacking workers were exploited and needed unions to protect them, their argument went, but it is hard to make the same case for Google's software engineers, who chose their jobs, are passionate about what they do, and earn average compensation of over $164,000 a year to work in state-of-the-art offices complete with gyms, arcades, and foosball tables; massage rooms; and kitchens stocked with free Ghirardelli chocolates, organic string cheese, roasted seaweed snacks, La Croix soft drinks—the list goes on.
These superficial benefits mask significant labor problems at Google, from "systemic compensation disparities against women," as the Department of Labor found in 2017, to the $90 million exit package awarded to former executive Andy Rubin after accusations of coercing a subordinate to perform oral sex, to the classification of at least half the workforce as contractors, without benefits or protections from discriminatory conduct or even access to town hall meetings and holiday parties. But the perks themselves are part of the problem. They are dangled at workers to keep them inside the building, working longer hours, devoting their entire waking moments to the company. It sounds privileged to frame foosball tables as a form of exploitation, but it contributes to a mentality of substituting work for the rest of your life.
In her sweeping new book, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, veteran labor journalist Sarah Jaffe argues that it's not just at Google or in Silicon Valley where there's a startling dissonance between the passion, love, and care society tells workers to devote to their jobs and the exploitative realities they face at work.
"We're expected to enjoy work for its own sake," Jaffe writes. "[T]he things we used to keep for ourselves—indeed, the things the industrial workplace wanted to minimize—are suddenly in demand on the job, including our friendships, our feelings, and our love."
Jaffe herself notes that, as much as she loves her job as a freelance journalist, and the moments of joy it brings, it still cannot be a source of true happiness. "Most jobs will not make us happy, and even the ones that do will often be a source of deep frustration," Jaffe writes. "I am writing these words, for example, at 8:00 p.m., eating microwaved soup from its plastic container, having now spent twelve hours in front of a computer screen, and I have it pretty good." (I too have it good, and have my dream job as a reporter at Vice, but it's 7:00 p.m. and I am eating a bowl of week-old pasta after a long day of work as I write this article.)
The "labor of love" myth, or the impulse to love work, may appear to be a perennial. But in actuality, it developed in the post-Fordist, neoliberal era. Unlike today's creative and care industry workers, General Motors autoworkers in the 1950s were never expected to project the appearance of gratitude or passion while assembling car parts. In the latter half of the 20th century, when corporations sent manufacturing jobs from the United States and Europe to the global South where labor was cheaper and regulations were nonexistent, jobs in services, retail, tech, and health care took their place. These jobs often require workers to wear a smile no matter how they're feeling, and buy into the "love what you do" concept, whether that be at Walmart, Planned Parenthood, or Google. (Perversely, working in an Amazon warehouse now demands some of this performative enthusiasm as well.)
Internships are really just a justifation for the most egregious race to the bottom.
Jaffe argues that these jobs demand total devotion and excessive emotional labor, tricking workers into thinking that there's something deficient about them if they don't achieve self-actualization at work. Today's workers should even be grateful for the opportunity to work; underpaid teachers and nannies should show up for children armed with an unlimited wellspring of love every day of the week; engineers, artists, and academics should come to work with a supply of passion and creative genius that never runs dry.
"Exploitation is not merely extra-bad work, or a job you particularly dislike," Jaffe writes. "Exploitation is wage labor under capitalism, where the work you put in produces more value than the wages you are paid are worth." That's how you can tell a story about a well-off programmer at Google, free artisanal snacks and soft drinks and all, being exploited by a company that raked in $34 billion in net income in 2019.
Jaffe's book is divided into two parts. The first debunks the myth of the "labor of love" in care jobs, from its origins in the women's domestic sphere in the home to paid domestic work, teaching, retail, and the nonprofit sector. As she notes, she could have just as easily filled this section with deep dives into the emotional labor of nurses, grocery store cashiers, call center operators, or restaurant servers. Case studies feature contemporary workers living both in the United States and United Kingdom, where Jaffe has spent much of the past few years. A running theme throughout this section is that jobs that require the most emotional labor are often lowest-paid or unpaid, and feminized, with the expectation that women should fill these roles.
These chapters reflect Jaffe's years of interviewing workers and reporting in the field, from the Los Angeles teachers strike of 2019 to a worker-led campaign against Toys "R" Us's liquidation in 2018 to a union drive at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in 2017. Many of these labor organizing stories are featured in her indispensable podcast and archive of the labor movement, Belabored.
In a chapter on teaching, Jaffe traces how public-school teaching jobs came to be so poorly compensated and devalued, through a short history of the profession. Originally a part-time job for men in the earliest days of the United States, teaching transformed into low-paid women's work in the 1830s. Labor wars in Chicago and New York City in the early 1900s led to unionization, and swift demonization from politicians and administrators, condemning teachers as "hellraisers" instead of "saints." Jaffe describes how reformers de-skilled teachers in the 2000s by adding standardized-testing requirements that put interpersonal skills into the background, and introducing programs like Teach for America, where college graduates were parachuted into charter schools for short-term gigs. A wave of wildcat teachers strikes swept conservative states in 2018 in order to lift poverty-level wages and get students basic supplies.
It becomes clear through this case study how the dynamics of capitalism since its earliest days have shaped such contradictory and impossible expectations for teachers, who are asked to give all of their time and love to their students with little compensation.
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Heaps of invisible and tedious labor go into making a magazine, a video game, or a Jeff Koons art installation, seen here.
The second section of Jaffe's book focuses on the creative industries, from the video game programmer to the unpaid intern and the adjunct professor to the pro athlete. Jaffe investigates how workers in creative careers, herself included, came to be "expected to find the work itself rewarding, as a place to express their own unique selves, their particular genius." Yet heaps of invisible and tedious labor go into making a magazine like Vogue or Harper's Bazaar, a video game like Dungeons and Dragons, or a Jeff Koons art installation. "In these jobs," Jaffe writes, "we're likely to be told that we should be grateful to be able to work in the field at all."
As Jaffe writes in her chapter on interns, most interns work "in order to one day get one of those jobs that are worth loving." Scholars have defined internships as "hope labor." Interns are often expected to perform emotional labor as well as the task at hand for free, even and especially in the most prestigious workplaces—the U.S. Congress, the U.K. Parliament, Hearst and Harper's magazines. Because they're competing to be hired for paid jobs, interns often have no choice but to act grateful for the opportunity. In 2019, when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) decided to pay her interns $15 an hour, she sent shock waves through the House of Representatives. At the time, 90 percent of House members did not pay interns. In 2012, an accessories intern at Harper's Bazaar, Diana Wang, sued Hearst Magazines for violating federal and state labor law by requiring that she work for 55 hours a week unpaid until 10 at night, which became a federal class action lawsuit.
Internships, in other words, are really just a justification for the most egregious race to the bottom. They also reproduce economic and racial stratification in certain industries based on who can afford to take an internship, i.e., who has the financial security to work for free for months on end, often in an expensive city. "[T]he internship actually drives down wages by introducing a new wage floor—free—into the system," Jaffe writes. "[T]hey must be willing to do whatever is asked and do it with a smile." (Full disclosure: I interned at The American Prospect in 2015 for a $400 weekly stipend—and financial help from my parents and college.)
Jaffe's solution again is found in collective action, with a joyfully militant moment in the winter of 2019 when tens of thousands of unpaid interns marched in the streets of Quebec to demand a fair wage and formal recognition under the law. Part of the problem with the internship setup is that interns, who are not technically employees, have no formal processes to report sexual harassment or discrimination. These Canadian interns, Jaffe writes, "questioned why certain jobs were well-paid while others were undervalued, and they challenged the rules of behavior that taught young workers, most of them women, to be meek and retiring and always ready to serve."
As a journalist myself, I can thank my union, the Writers Guild of America, East, and the organizing of my colleagues who came before me for most of the good things about my job—my annual salary increases, my editorial freedom, my six-week severance package if I get laid off, and my relatively inexpensive health and dental insurance.
Should this "labor of love" myth be put to an end? Jaffe says it's complicated. As long as humans live under capitalism, ordinary people don't have much of a choice but to continue spending the majority of our waking hours at work to sustain our lives. Workers across the board—interns, public-school teachers, even Google engineers—should take every opportunity they have to organize and demand less time at work and more free time for pleasure, relaxation, and personal growth with friends, family, lovers, and neighbors. As Jaffe writes, "Work will never love us back. But other people will."
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Q: Is the following thread safe? I have the following code and wonder whether it is thread safe. I only lock when I add or remove items from the collection but do not lock when I iterate over the collection. Locking while iterating would severely impact performance because the collection potentially contains hundreds of thousands of items. Any advice what to do to make this thread safe?
Thanks
public class Item
{
    public string DataPoint { get; private set; }

    public Item(string dataPoint)
    {
        DataPoint = dataPoint;
    }
}

public class Test
{
    private List<Item> _items;
    private readonly object myListLock = new object();

    public Test()
    {
        _items = new List<Item>();
    }

    public void Subscribe(Item item)
    {
        lock (myListLock)
        {
            if (!_items.Contains(item))
            {
                _items.Add(item);
            }
        }
    }

    public void Unsubscribe(Item item)
    {
        lock (myListLock)
        {
            if (_items.Contains(item))
            {
                _items.Remove(item);
            }
        }
    }

    public void Iterate()
    {
        foreach (var item in _items)
        {
            var dp = item.DataPoint;
        }
    }

}

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I was curious and again profiled performance between an iteration that is not locked vs iterating inside the lock on the myListLock and the performance overhead of locking the iteration over 10 million items was actually quite minimal.

A: No, it isn't thread safe, because the collection could be modified while you look inside it... What you could do:
Item[] items;

lock (myListLock)
{
    items = _items.ToArray();
}

foreach (var item in items)
{
    var dp = item.DataPoint;
}

so you duplicate the collection inside a lock before cycling on it. This clearly will use memory (because you have to duplicate the List<>) (ConcurrentBag<>.GetEnumerator() does nearly exactly this)
Note that this works only if Item is thread safe (for example because it is immutable)

A: No it isn't. Note that all classes documented on MSDN has a section on Thread Safety (near the end): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6sh2ey19%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
The documentation for GetEnumerator has some more notes: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b0yss765%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
The key point is that iteration is not itself thread-safe. Even if each individual iterated read from the collection is thread safe, a consistent iteration often breaks down if the collection is modified. You could get problems such as reading the same element twice or skipping some elements, even if the collection itself is never in an inconsistent state.
Btw, your Unsubscribe() is doing TWO linear searches of the list, which is probably not what you want. You shouldn't need to call Contains() before Remove().

A: In theory your code is not threadsafe.

In the background foreachperforms a normal for loop and if you add an item from a distinct thread while foreachiterates through your list, an item might be left out. Also if you remove an item (from a distinct thread), you might get an AV exception or - even worse - gibberish data.
If you want your code to be threadsafe, you have two choices:

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*You can clone your list (I usually use the .ToArray() method for that purpose). It will lead to doubling the list in the memory with all its cost and the result might not be up-to-date for in-situ editions, or...

*You can put your entire iteration in a locked block, which will result in blocking other threads accessing the array while you are performing a long-running operation.

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The 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron was a part of the Eighth Air Force 7th Photographic Group that was activated in 1942 and based at Mount Farm England between 1943 and 1945.

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The unit was constituted by general orders on 14 July 1942 and activated on 2 September 1944 at was later to be known as Peterson Field in Colorado Springs as part of the 5th Photographic Group. The outfit existed essentially on paper until 21 December 1943 when 12 officers and 129 enlisted men were transferred from the 10th Photographic Reconnaissance and Training Squadron. The commanding officer was Capt. George A. Lawson. The Squadron left Colorado Springs on 17 May 1943 and traveled to England aboard the .

Mount Farm

The Squadron arrived at the RAF Mount Farm airfield on 8 June 1943. The unit was equipped with Lockheed F-5 (P-38) Lightning photographic aircraft and the first mission was flown on 24 June 1943. The 22nd Reconnaissance Squadron was combined with the 13th Photographic Squadron and 14th Photographic Squadron, into the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group that was activated on 7 July 1943.

In 1943, the 22nd was among the squadrons flying the first photoreconnaissance missions against Peenemünde.

During August and September 1945, personnel were transferred out of the 22nd squadron, some returning to the United States and others assigned to the Occupation Forces in Germany.

Equipment
The squadron used Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft photo-reconnaissance variant F-5 throughout the war. The F-5 and F-5A were used from the summer of 1943 until the summer of 1944 when F-5B, F-5C, and F-5E Lightnings were brought in. All P-38 Lightning variants were used for the remainder of the war.

Notable pilots
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Don't let doubts, fear or worry keep you from doing something.
2. Finding a job is hard.
You are not the only one having trouble finding a job. Don't be discouraged! They are hard to come by and even harder to land. The best tip I can give you is similar to number one, say yes. Go out, meet people, talk to randoms at the grocery store, send genuine emails, search online, update your Linkedin, be persistent, pray. Something will come your way when you least expect it.
3.Nothing exciting happens inside your comfort zone.
I made it a goal to talk to everyone I saw when I was shopping. I didn't know anyyyyone. I was at Francesca's and met a girl working behind the counter. I asked her if she knew of any fun things to do in Nashville (it was my first week in town). We chatted and she ended up telling me that her boyfriend was a guitarist in a band that was playing at the CMT awards…casual. She told me that if we went "downtown" we could get free wristbands to attend the show. Those were the only details she told us, but that was enough to set us off. I drug my roommate all over Nashville for HOURS looking for any sign of wristbands. This chick could have been lying and it was definitely uncomfortable to chase people around all day asking for wrist bands, but hey, it turned out alright for us. We found the men handing out wristbands and scored spots on the fourth row to watch artists like Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Little Big Town, Jason Derulo, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and even more. It was a good start to our first week in the country music capital of the world, all because we did something uncomfortable like talking to strangers and getting lost downtown.
4. Don't be afraid to bandwagon.
"Hockey? Yeah I love hockey. Go Preds! SMASHVILLE!" Just go with it. You'll make more friends that way. Thank me later.
5. Goat yoga is fun.
This is one of those "always say yes" moments. When you get a text saying, "Hey wanna go to yoga in a field of goats?" you should prob do it.
6. Be the first one to make a move.
7. Be unapologetically your self.
Do you want to start a blog? Do it. Become a fitness instructor? Start training. Go to Graduate School? Apply. Start a photography business? Get to snapping. Lead a bible study? Volunteer. You have the reigns and can steer your life whichever way you choose. Don't let comparison or fear of what another person may think stifle you.
8. Learn to parallel park.
Yeah… this goes without saying, It's a necessity that apparently everyone knows how to do except me. Also, no parking means no parking, duly noted.
9. The old friends are still the good friends.
Keep in touch! Everyone gets so busy and it can be hard to stay up to date with what you friends in other towns are doing…but make time. If you like to chat face to face, you need the app House Party. My friends and I love making House Party dates because all of us can video chat at once. It makes it easier to be apart and is more personal than texting. Try it out!
10. Groceries are hella expensive.
I miss my parents' pantry. That's all.
11. You can't talk to celebrities you encounter in Nashville.
I saw Sean Mendes and Brett Eldredge on the street and COULDN'T approach them. I still cringe inside about that. I wanted to pet Edgar reallllllly bad but apparently cool locals don't do that, soooo….
12. When you have a chance to go to Jay Z on a Tuesday, you should absolutely go to Jay Z on a Tuesday.
13. At the risk of sounding hopelessly lame, you should always follow your gut AND your heart. They're right 9 times out of 10.
Did I mention that I moved to Nashville and started Graduate School at Belmont University? Yeah, I did that. I was in business school for 3 weeks and really felt like I was in the wrong place. I did not see myself working in that capacity after graduation and missed my creative, public relations roots. I decided to pursue a PR and Marketing career and get experience in Nashville instead of forcing myself to stay in a program that I wasn't passionate about. These are the decisions that you owe to yourself. Life is too short. Chase what makes you happy instead of being drug around by what you think you're supposed to do.
14. The city may make you happy, but only the people in the city can bring you joy.
I once heard someone say that happiness is based on your external experiences and conditions, whereas true joy is based on what comes from within you: your soul and your spirit. I fully believe that a place can make you happy, but only the people that God puts in those places can bring you real joy. I didn't feel at home in Nashville until I met some really great people. It was those people that I will remember when I move. It won't be the fancy restaurants, the concerts or the job, but the people who ate with me, sang with me and worked with me. If you can be more passionate about the people than the place, then you will feel at home no matter where you find yourself.
I can't wait to see what the next move brings. I know that the place is good but the people I'm joining there are ten times better. Cheers to new adventures, new friends, new family, a new city and a new year. God is good.


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 * qdisc.h
 *
 *  Created on: 25-Oct-2009
 *  Author: Muthucumaru Maheswaran
 */

#ifndef QDISC_H_
#define QDISC_H_

#include "grouter.h"

typedef struct _qentrytype_t
{
	char name[MAX_NAME_LEN];
	double pmaxval;
	double minval, maxval;

} qentrytype_t;

typedef struct _qdisctable_t
{
	qentrytype_t qentry[MAX_QDISC_TYPES];
	int qdiscnums;

} qdisctable_t;

qdisctable_t *initQDiscTable();
void printQdiscs(qdisctable_t *qdiscs);
int lookupQDisc(qdisctable_t *qdiscs, char *name);
qentrytype_t *getqdiscEntry(qdisctable_t *qdiscs, char *name);
void addSimplePolicy(qdisctable_t *qdiscs, char *name);
void addRED(qdisctable_t *qdiscs, double minl, double maxl, double pmax);

#endif /* QDISC_H_ */

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Q: How can I protect my ASP.Net Source Code From My Developers This seems like a weird position to be in, but let me ask the question anyway.
I have created some DLLs that do some magical mumbo-jumbo that is needed to display the content for the website I am making right now in ASP.Net. I've got a small team of developers who can help me with this, but I am afraid that they will steal my code (the DLL) and use it in projects when they leave my company. In a software I can probably prove that they are using my DLL to generate the content, but on a server where the DLLs are not available to public I can't.
So in spite of having a team I've been working on this all alone.
My question is. Is there any way you can think of using which I can protect my DLL (which goes into the bin folder) so that my coders can't steal it, or it becomes unusable if stolen.
I just want to protect whatever goes into the bin folder.

A: You could have the dll check its environment and fail to work (I suggest you make it give wrong results rather than break) if the environment does not feel like home. You will also have to obfuscate the code to hamper efforts to remove the protection.
Edit: you could use an environment variable, registry key, existence of a performance counter, an obscure setting in machine.config, etc., and make it look like a genuine setting, then obfuscate and sign with a strong name.

A: This may not be appropriate to your situation but you could provide them with a proxy DLL which doesn't perform the calculations but instead calls your DLL.
You then keep your DLL on another server that only you have access to and the proxy DLL calls it via some sort of remoting protocol.

A: That is a weird position to be in... my condolences.
At the .Net level, the best you can do is obfuscate your code when you build it.  Strongly signing your assembly will let you know if tampering is going on as well.
Another approach that some people have taken is to write the really sensitive code in C++ and compile it to an unmanaged .dll, and call into it from .net using interop.  C++ bytecode is much harder to read than IL, and this throws up a lot more barriers to easy reverse-engineering.
Edit:  based on comments from the OP, here is an updated answer.
If you're simply worried about them stealing the DLL that you place in the bin folder on your web server, simply publish it to a subfolder of \bin, lock the folder down using windows permissions, so there is no way they can get into it, and change your web.config to probe it.
<runtime>
   <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
      <probing privatePath="bin;bin\mysubfolder;" />
   </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

Definitely make sure to strongly name the .dll, and keep your private key file somewhere safe.  That makes your .dll uniquely identifiable and tampering can be detected if they do get at it.

A: Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/181991/suggest-a-good-obfuscator-for-net-closed.
You might want to obfuscate your code selectively(keep public API's as is)

A: You could have the dll talk to a trusted third party (which would probably be a server you would have control of) to do a little hand-shaking to make sure it's supposed to run.
Something along the lines of
A. Hey, I'm sitting at [hostname->taken from env vars], can i do my job?
B. (checks records of registered hosts)  Yes you can.
A. Thanks.  (does what it does best)

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Of coarse, if someone else knows you're doing this, they could bind the remote address to a machine of their choosing...  at which point you haven't really fixed your original problem.

A: I don't know much about the legal system in India, but make sure you get them to sign some form of NDA, and make it clear to them that you take it serious and will sue them if they violate it.
And if possible only expose your DLL through a Windows Service or out-of-process COM server so that you can isolate your DLL where they cannot access it directly.
If they have physical access to your DLL, and they're halfway competent developers, then there probably isn't much that you can really do from a technology standpoint to actually prevent them from using it. You can slow them down a bit, but inevitably they will get what they want if they have access to the binary. Denying them access to the binary is the only effective way to prevent it.
However, if the DLL processes user input in any way and provides content to display as a result, then you can put in some kind of "Easter Egg" that will output a distinct signature of some kind based upon some obscure but specific input. Depending on the legal system that may be good enough to open an investigation and force them to grant access to investigators to prove that they're not stealing your tech. Unless they know it's there they probably won't look for it and disable it before you have a chance to invoke it.

A: I would create a web service on a secured server that would expose the functions of your dll.  Once development is done you could change the parts of the code that call the web service to call the dll directly.

A: I concur with LachlanG's strategy to distribute a proxy DLL instead of giving your developers access to the production one that could easily be cracked and reversed engineered.
Another option you can explore is to "dongle" protect your DLL. I stumbled with your question while researching a solution to my problem. I am exploring this option since I am in the same spot but with even more vulnerable PHP based solution.
I found that Keylok offers a competitive product at an affordable price that I am strongly considering. It's yet to be seen how to protect the API calls in PHP which code is not binary nor obfuscated. I dont foresee any problem with a DLL.
I was a project manager for a company that protected their SAP integration software with these kind of dongles. The final product was a CD with the code, the installation manual, the dongle and a license bill for $200k. Sweeet!!! It was 10 years ago, and I have not heard of any piracy or copyright infringement stories from them yet!
I hope this helps.


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Vassilieff, Danila Ivanovich (Daniel) (1897–1958)
by Felicity St J. Moore
Danila Ivanovich (Daniel) Vassilieff (1897-1958), painter and sculptor, was born on 16 December 1897 at Kagalnitskaya, near Rostov-na-Donu, Russia, son of Ivan Ivanovich Vassilieff and his wife Eudoxia, née Perepelitsina. His father was a Cossack and his mother a Ukrainian. Educated at a technical school at Novocherkassk and at a military academy in St Petersburg, Danila specialized in mechanical engineering. From mid-1917 he served on the Eastern Front with a Don Cossack cavalry regiment. He saw action with the White forces in the Russian Civil War and claimed to have risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel. After being captured by the Reds at Baku in April 1920, he escaped and made his way via Persia and India to China. At the Shanghai Russian Church on 13 May 1923 he married Anisia Nicolaevna; they separated in 1929 and were divorced in 1947. Convinced that he was sterile as a result of his wartime sexual exploits, he continued to be a womanizer.
In July 1923 Vassilieff and his wife had arrived in Queensland where they bought a sugar-farm at Yuruga, near Ingham. By 1928 he was employed on railway construction at Mataranka, Northern Territory. Although he was naturalized in 1929, he left Australia that year. He studied art under Dimitri Ismailovitch in Brazil (1930-31) and exhibited in the West Indies and South America (1932-33), and in England, Spain and Portugal (1933-35). While living in England, he mixed in White Russian circles, befriended Vladimir Polunin, and began to see a relationship between the modernist movement and Russian decorative art.
Vassilieff returned to Australia in October 1935 and settled in Sydney. Combining an iconic style with immediate experience, he painted turbulent street scenes of inner-city areas. He also produced still lifes, such as 'Red Roses', unflattering portraits, and lively landscapes of the windswept Woronora area. His expressionist paintings impressed Basil Burdett, Sydney Ure Smith, Gavin Long and John Young, and he exhibited twice at the Macquarie Galleries. In 1937 he eloped with Helen Macdonald. They lived at Biloela, Queensland, and then in Melbourne. Enthusiastic reviews of his paintings—often of children playing in the streets of Collingwood, Fitzroy and East Melbourne—established his reputation.
Welcomed into the city's artistic circles, particularly by George Bell, Adrian Lawlor, Vance and Nettie Palmer, and John and Sunday Reed, Vassilieff joined the Contemporary Art Society. His confident attack on 'fine art', and his insistence that 'gut' response and 'message' mattered more than intellect and aesthetics, influenced younger artists, among them Albert Tucker, Lina Bryans, Joy Hester and (Sir) Sidney Nolan. In 1939 he oversaw the building of, and became foundation art teacher at, Clive and Janet Nield's experimental Koornong School, Warrandyte. Nearby, he built Stonygrad, a house of stone and logs. He sang bass in the choir of a Russian Orthodox Church, and mixed with members of the Covent Garden Russian Ballet during its Melbourne seasons.
For Connie Smith, Vassilieff painted a four-part screen, 'Expulsion from Paradise'. Its theme of the fall of man had a lasting impact on Arthur Boyd and John Perceval, both of whom visited him to learn to paint quickly. Vassilieff, however, regarded religious subjects as suitable only for the decorative arts. His rejection of all dogma—religious, political and aesthetic—annoyed the social realists. In 1944 he helped to defeat the communist attempt to take over the Contemporary Art Society. Helen's departure that year provided a catalyst for a series of cryptic and costumed allegorical pictures, including 'Firebird from Drummoyne', which triggered Nolan's blending of iconic and folk traditions in his Ned Kelly paintings. Vassilieff's 'Peter and the Wolf' gouaches (1948) responded, perhaps jealously, to the success of Nolan's Kelly paintings.
At Wesley Church, Melbourne, on 20 March 1947 Vassilieff married Elizabeth Orme Hamill, née Sutton, a 31-year-old lecturer and a divorcee, who had bought Stonygrad from him. After a number of paintings on the theme of marriage, he transferred his energies to sculpture, using limestone from Lilydale; power tools enabled him to work faster and to respond spontaneously to the grain. Vassilieff reconciled the formal language of European iconic art with the lively shapes of folk art in his vigorous standing figures, such as 'Petit Bourgeois', 'Mechanical Man' and 'Stenka Razin'. The aesthetic elements—which he sometimes sacrificed to the more urgent need for expression in his paintings—were achieved through the brilliant finish which revealed the metamorphic pattern of the marble. In the early 1950s the titles of his paintings and sculpture assumed an aggressively anti-imperialist mood, due in part to his wife's political activity. In 1953 he became vice-president of the Contemporary Art Society.
As his relationship with Elizabeth deteriorated, Vassilieff explored the theme of conflict between the sexes in a series of paintings and sculptures. The couple separated in 1954. In May he obtained a post with the Education Department as art teacher at Mildura High School. He painted portraits of the school's staff, expressed his reaction to provincial society in a number of 'psychological' paintings, and fished in the Murray River. Transferred to Swan Hill High School in 1955, he carved some small pieces, and painted mildly satirical watercolours of the local population. He exhibited at the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, in 1956, but his work was barely noticed. A retrospective exhibition of his sculpture at the same gallery in 1957 was disparaged by the critics. The Education Department sent him to Eltham High School that year and then dismissed him on the grounds of unsatisfactory performance.
Keen-eyed, sallow and lean, Vassilieff spoke broken English in a low, resonant voice. He spent his final months in a shack near Mildura painting watercolours that suggest the fragmentation and absurdity of life. Survived by his wife, he died of a coronary occlusion on 22 March 1958 at Heide, the Reeds' property at Bulleen, and was cremated. A memorial exhibition of his oeuvre was held at the Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, in 1959. His work is represented in major Australian galleries.
K. Scarlett, Australian Sculptors (Melb, 1980)
F. St J. Moore, Vassilieff and his Art (Melb, 1982)
F. St J. Moore, Vassilieff, exhibition catalogue (Melb, 1985)
F. St J. Moore, 'Force of Nature: Danila Vassilieff's, Stenka Razin, 1953' in D. Thomas (ed), Creating Australia (Syd, 1988)
Art in Australia, series 3, no 62, 15 Feb 1936, p 70
Angry Penguins, Sept 1943
Meanjin, vol 17, no 1, Apr 1958, p 83
Art and Australia, vol 4, no 2, Sept 1966, p 113
F. St J. Moore, 'Vassilieff's ''Expulsion''
Screen and Melbourne Expressionism', Art and Australia, Autumn 1986, p 358.
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Reed, John Harford (friend)
Reed, Lelda Sunday (friend)
Nield, Joseph Clive (work colleague)
Nield, Janet Blake (work colleague)
Bell, Elizabeth Galloway (sitter)
Nolan, Sidney Robert (influenced)
Felicity St J. Moore, 'Vassilieff, Danila Ivanovich (Daniel) (1897–1958)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vassilieff-danila-ivanovich-daniel-11916/text21347, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 17 January 2021.
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Know NIO's Marketing Strategy, The Tesla of China
When you think of electric vehicles (EVs), what is the first brand that comes to mind? Tesla is the obvious choice. To be clear, Tesla does not spend any money on this marketing strategy. You did, however, consider Tesla. Why? Well, there is one more brand that is making waves in the EV market. That is NIO EV competing with Tesla face to face with elegancy, performance, and innovative marketing strategy. Let's Talk about it! #TWN
When you think of electric vehicles (EVs), what is the first brand that comes to mind? Tesla is the obvious choice. To be clear, Tesla does not spend any money on this marketing strategy. You did, however, consider Tesla. Why? Well, there is one more brand that is making waves in the EV market.
NIO is a Chinese firm that designs and manufactures high-performance premium electric vehicles. William Li founded it in 2014, and it has received investment from companies such as Tencent and Baidu, propelling it to the top of China's domestic EV industry. The company's mission is to provide users with a sense of freedom and joy through its autonomous driving solutions and premium EVs.
We will talk about how this Chinese company is giving a tough time to its rivals in EV markets and how it handles its marketing strategies.
China's EV sales are expected to exceed 6 million units by 2025, and NIO could be a frontrunner in meeting this demand.
NIO's Business Model in 7 Wonder Steps
It is difficult for a start-up like NIO to compete with the might of well-established OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers). Nio has been able to compete by emphasizing user experience and feedback in the development of product design and upgrades. Let's take a look at some of the other aspects of NIO's business model that have helped it become a game-changer. China's EV sales are expected to exceed 6 million units by 2025, and NIO could be a frontrunner in meeting this demand.
Robust R&D
NIO focuses on innovation to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving EV market. In the last five years, it has filed around 300 patent applications. These include communication systems, safety features, lighting, HVAC systems, distribution, and electric power conversion.
It opens up the possibility of patent licensing for the brand, resulting in innovator status and revenue. NIO strives to offer technologically advanced premium EVs to the market, with three research centers in China and one each in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
NIO Autonomous Driving
NIO's NAD is autonomous driving technology. The NIO ET7 sedan is the brand's first autonomous driving model, launched in January 2021. To make autonomous driving safe, NAD combines NIO Aquila Super Sensing and NIO Adam Super Computing.
NIO Aquila is made up of 33 high-performance sensing units, including 8-MP high-resolution cameras, 1 ultralong-range high-resolution LiDAR, 5 mm-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic sensors, and 2 high-precision positioning units, all of which work together to generate 8GB of data per second. NIO Adam is a supercomputer that processes all of this data to generate high-clarity images and enhanced details for autonomous driving.
Baas (Battery as a Service)
The battery is the heart of an electric vehicle and typically accounts for at least one-third of the total cost of the vehicle. China issued a new regulation in April 2020 that explicitly exempts "battery swap model" vehicles from the policy's "300,000 RMB price threshold for receiving subsidies."
BaaS is a subscription-based or leasing service that aims to lower consumer costs. Customers who use this service can save up to 100,000 Yuan by not owning the battery.
Alternatively, they can lease the battery for around 1,280 Yuan per month for six years and then own it. It enables consumers to address the three-pronged problem of battery degradation, upgradeability, and lower resale values.
NIO Power
Consider how anxious you would be if your laptop battery died in the middle of a critical presentation and you had no way of charging it. Isn't it a terrifying experience? One of the most important factors influencing the purchase of an EV is the vehicle's range on a single charge.
Arranging for a spare laptop is still possible, but no one wants to be stranded in the middle of nowhere with their vehicle dead. Range anxiety is a real thing. To put this in context, 58 percent of Americans are concerned about running out of power before they can charge their vehicle.
NIO Power alleviates range anxiety by offering a variety of mobile internet-based power solutions to customers. One such option on the NIO app is "One Click for Power," which is a 24/7 on-call valet charging system. It offers a pick-up and drop-off service for recharging an NIO vehicle in the shortest amount of time possible based on the best option (Power Swap, Mobile, or Charger).
NIO Power offers services both at home and on the road. Power Home Plus chargers allow for fast charging of vehicles at home. Power Swap for on-road use includes battery swapping, Power Charger, and Power Mobile, which is similar to a portable power bank for a vehicle. The Power Mobile service delivers a charging van to the requested location, with a range of 100 kilometers after a 10-minute charge.
As of December 31, 2020, NIO had 792 Power Chargers spread across 53 cities in China, as well as 318 Power Mobile vans.
Battery Swapping
Technology can be difficult to grasp, and being the first to market does not guarantee success. Better Place, an Israeli start-up that filed for bankruptcy in May 2013, was the first to introduce battery swapping.
Tesla introduced the Model S with battery swapping capabilities in 2013, but the initiative was discontinued by 2015. The technology was revolutionary, but putting it into practice was anything but simple. NIO has solved the puzzle by developing a Power Grid.
As of December 31, 2020, NIO had 172 Power Swap stations in 74 cities across China, having completed 1.4 million battery swaps. Their Power/Battery Swap station 2.0, which was expected to be released in the second quarter of 2021, will reduce battery swapping time to under three minutes and accommodate up to 13 battery packs, which is significantly more than the current number of 5 battery packs.
Also Read: Customer feedback, Jimny's Future - Reality Check
NIO House
Customer experience is ranked as a critical factor in establishing brand loyalty by 73% of consumers.
84% of customers will be persuaded to buy a product if it is recommended by a known person, i.e., word-of-mouth marketing.
66% of users will increase their spending on brands to which they are loyal.
Are you wondering why I'm bombarding you with numbers? Is it forbidden for me to write about strategy? Just one more statistic, I assure you.
According to 86 percent of Fortune 500 companies, brand communities provide insights into customer preferences.
NIO House is an offline channel that fosters an NIO user community. It serves as a showroom as well as a clubhouse for NIO users, their families, and friends. The NIO House is divided into seven sections: a café, a library, and a living room, each of which caters to different consumer preferences. As a result, NIO's business model is centered on building a brand community that is responsible for customer experience, word-of-mouth marketing, and brand loyalty.
A brand community is a high-yielding business strategy. Consider Harley-Davidson or Royal Enfield, or IKEA and its famous meatballs. NIO House, as well as NIO Spaces, which are similar to traditional showrooms, contribute to the sense of community. NIO Day is an annual celebration of the NIO community that includes product launches and user interaction with the brand.
NIO Life
NIO's business model entails more than just selling electric vehicles and related services. As previously stated, NIO is establishing a community.
NIO Life is a lifestyle brand that offers products in a variety of categories such as apparel, home and living, travel, and bags. So, what makes it unique, you ask? NIO has worked with over 100 designers from around the world to reuse and restyle vehicle scrap into lifestyle and fashion products under the NIO Life label. Since 2016, over 2.6 million NIO Life items have been sold through online and offline channels.
NIO is not a mass producer, nor is it a sales-driven company. It may appear absurd given the auto industry's high capital intensity.
NIO's business model is more than just premium EVs. It is a hybrid of EVs and charging solutions (NIO Power), subscription services (BaaS), NIO Life, NIO Spaces, and NIO House.
NIO focuses on a long-term strategy to drive sales by creating an ecosystem by providing premium and personalized services. It considers a customer's lifetime value rather than a one-time purchase. Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon are all supporters of the ecosystem strategy.
After all, was said and done, NIO derived 93% of its revenue from Vehicle Sales in Q4 FY2020. 'Other Sales' increased by a whopping 184.1% to $71.6 million in Q4 FY2020, accounting for the remaining 7% of revenues. Despite this, NIO lost $812.9 million in 2020, though this was 53% less than the previous year.
NIO was on the verge of bankruptcy at the end of 2019 but has since staged a remarkable turnaround, thanks in large part to the Hefei government's investment.
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Even if it only tends to dominate the Chinese market, the brand has significant growth potential, and it has its sights set on the global market. The Chinese government's strong support, a significant market value of $74 billion (more than Ford Motor Co.) as of July 2021, raising awareness of EVs, and a customer-centric strategy are just a few of the powerful propellants driving this growth.
NIO, with its seven wonders business model, appears poised to navigate the rocky terrain of the automotive industry's rising costs to become a dominant force in the world of EVs.
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One December many, many years ago a little cactus and its brothers got purchased by a very thoughtless woman. In case of the little cacti thoughtless to the point of evil.
Like many thoughtless women she is mainly occupied with making cute gestures.
That year she gave all of her birthday guests a little reminder of the nice party they had attended - a cactus. And what with Christmas not being far away she sprayed all the cacti with snow spray. Awwwwwwwwwwwwww, lookey, how cute! Lookey how cute the suffocating cacti look! Awwwwwwww!
I presume the little cactus' brothers all died a slow death, but let us not dwell on this.
One little cactus was given to us, and we - fuming with rage (and getting covered in thorns) - scrubbed the little cactus as gently as humanly possible clean under running warm water. Not all of the spray came off, and some thorns were lost, but after a long period of waiting and watching the little cactus it became clear that it had survived.
It started growing, further cracking up the spray remains and enlarging the clean surface areas. Brave little cactus!
All those years it slowly grew, but it never came to real health. It grew very crooked and with a "waist" that was way too slim for it.
One fatal day not too long ago the not so little anymore cactus fell off the window sill, breaking in two!
Not wanting to give up on the more healthy upper part of the cactus yet, our father tried planting it into a flowerpot. And it survived.
And now, after all these years, this upper part brought forth its first blooms ever.
We never would have thought it from the bedraggled and crippled way the cactus used to look, but the blooms proved it to be our third (and fourth?) Königin der Nacht (Queen of the night).
And - lo and behold! - last night the little cactus opened its very first bloom. I suppose the others will follow suit tonight.
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Well done to our two Kids' Lit Quiz teams. After an exhausting day at Papakowhai School answering 100 questions about snakes, monkeys, Middle Earth and many more topics, our teams ended up a very creditable 10th and 19th out of 51 teams from all around the Wellington Region. Great work guys - you represented Raroa with pride. Wellesley College came in first, Mt Cook School were second and Evans Bay Intermediate third.
IF YOU WERE A BOOK WHAT SORT OF BOOK WOULD YOU BE?
Here's a fun quiz from EasyBib you can do to find out where you would be shelved in the library. No surprises that book loving Ms Forrest ends up in the 800's = literature! What sort of book are you?
138 years ago, on 10 March 1876, Alexander Bell transmitted human speech for the first time. What momentous words did he utter - " Mr Watson - come here - I want to see you!" Mr Watson was in the next room and heard this request clearly and so began the amazing form of communication that we take for granted today.
Too many books . . . too little time?
If you're like me and have piles (I mean, literally piles) of books to read then maybe this is the answer for getting them all read before the next great pile of books arrive!
Read this article from The Huffington Post about a tool that lets you read one word at a time at a speed that suits you. Which could be really fast! Try it out - it's intriguing.
However, maybe you can't believe all you read - check out this article refuting any of these claims.


What Edition does your group use?
@JeremyECrawfordWe just wrapped up a #DnD campaign I've been DMing for over 5 years. I already look forward to the next one! You could say I love this game.
What Edition does your group use? Did it change over the 5 years?


Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with the study of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial systems. Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposed a number of models to explain interesting aspects of collective behaviors such as movement coordination, shape-formation or decision making. Recently, algorithms and methods inspired by these models have been proposed to solve difficult problems in many domains. ANTS gives researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current developments and applications.


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Modern retrospective
In December 2019, the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan unveiled three textile and craft-centric exhibitions that will run until March 2020 exploring how innovative people and teaching methods influenced design…
A waterfront study in contrast
This private waterfront residence located on the shore of Lake Michigan is the culmination of the combined creative and technical talent of Sears Architects, Cannarsa Structure and Design, and Zahn…
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Driving curve
Hailed as the "Versailles of Industry" during its debut in 1956, the General Motors Design Dome and Auditorium was an unprecedented architectural feat for the automotive industry designed by renowned…
Playful planar
The Rapson Thirty-Nine Collection is a masterful composition of lyrical, clean lines and a planar form incorporating both comfort and functionality. The furniture line not only leaves an impressionable mark…
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Behind the camera:
Landre Photography
Photography has been an important tool in documenting the human experience since early experiments in the heliograph and daguerreotype captivated both innovator and subject alike nearly two centuries ago. It is an art and practice in visual communication; both objective and subjective in recording the cultural, social, and natural world. It is a craft that is arguably one of the most significant inventions since the printing press, with genres and artistic styles that run the gamut from objective photo-journalism and montage portraiture to abstract landscapes and naturalistic architecture. Great Lakes By Design Magazine spoke with some of the photographers in the region to learn more about their work, inspiration, and…
Featured, Form
In Western Springs, Illinois, a young family aspired to create a modern, light-filled suburban residence that would integrate the openness of their previous urban loft with a seamless transition to the outdoors. It was then the award-winning, full-service, architectural design firm of dSPACE Studio in Chicago was tapped for the residential new build. The team sought to leverage minimal thresholds between indoors and outdoors with privatized living spaces and a fortified thermal envelope. The site of the future 4,100-square-foot home—an average, flat, suburban lot bordered by neighbors, and positioned on a street corner—warranted an equally innovative solution to maximize privacy in the busy neighborhood. The result was a precedent-setting, new…
Builders resource
In Traverse City, Michigan, a local building materials and solutions showroom is leveraging its national footprint to offer customers a diverse portfolio of products and services. Spanning approximately 17,000 square-feet and set next to its own lumber yard, Builders FirstSource's local Traverse City showroom offers a diverse selection of pre-built designs that showcase only a sliver of the company's capabilities. Every redesign or new project needs good bones, and Builders FirstSource intends to deliver them. Founded in 1998, Builder's took advantage of the late 1990s housing boom that saw more than 1.6 million private homes built. The company expanded steadily until 2008 during the peak downsizing of lumber yards…
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Healthful interiors
The International Interior Design Association's eighth annual IIDA Healthcare Design Awards continue to honor and celebrate the originality and excellence of current designs shaping interior healthcare spaces around the world. Beside those based in the southern and eastern United States, this year's winning firms and projects—announced in late September—also bring the Great Lakes region into the spotlight. "With this annual competition, we witness the latest innovation and transformation within the healthcare design world," said Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the IIDA, in a press release. "This year, the winning projects focused on both function and overall end user well-being, offering elegant, creative…
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Walloon Lake warmth
The village of Walloon Lake, tucked near Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay, has roots in northern Michigan's tourism industry that date back to the late 1800s. It is still a getaway destination for those seeking a quaint and picturesque reprieve alongside multi-seasonal outdoor adventure and this is credited in part to the Hotel Walloon. The lakefront boutique hotel continues to be a centerpiece among the developing village, gaining accolades along the way, such as its status as the only privately owned, AAA Four Diamond awarded resort in northern Michigan and, recently, a 2019 Travel Award for Best Wine Country Hotel by USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice. Offering vintage elegance, warm…
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The edible medium
A cake is a symbol of celebration often found at the center of special events such as birthday parties, weddings, and important milestones; and having one to mark the occasion has become tradition for many. For Heather Leavitt, owner and cake designer of Sweet Heather Anne in Ann Arbor, Michigan, designing custom cakes for clients is not only a tradition, but also a career she is passionate about. Established in 2010, Sweet Heather Anne, a boutique cake studio, offers online ordering for signature cakes and desserts, a temporary in-shop dessert counter for holidays and special occasions, by-appointment tastings in shop, and custom cakes made specific to a client's needs. Leavitt,…
Three Cats
As Detroit becomes home to more creative dining concepts, a new upscale retail and dining destination in Clawson, Michigan is making eclectic small plates and a singular shopping experience accessible to the city's northern metropolitan region. Now known as Three Cats, the full-fledged restaurant and bar opened this fall in the repurposed historic Clawson Theatre and was established by longtime Detroit area restaurateur Matt Prentice and retail connoisseur Mary Liz Curtin. Curtin and husband Stephen Scannell also own the eclectic and upscale lifestyle store Leon & Lulu right next door, which they opened in 2006 in what was formerly the 15,000-square-foot Ambassador Roller Rink. Leon & Lulu's previous lunch-time eatery…
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Federal Tires' Evoluzion F60 has won the prestigious Red Dot Award 2019. With this year's win, Federal Tires has now been awarded by Red Dot Product Design Award for three consecutive years, reinforcing Federal's global leadership in tire design.
The Evoluzion F60 is Federal's flagship UHP tires for super cars. New silica-infused tread compounds provide outstanding rigidity and enhanced durability while triple circumferential grooves and inner tread grooves maximize wet traction at high speed. These features accentuate unprecedented responsiveness, expert handling, ultimate tread life, and comfort all together.
"Winning Red Dot Award consecutively is truly monumental to our tire performance and quality. We are very proud that our Evoluzion F60 has received such global recognition from the Red Dot Award again and we will continue to enhance our product competitiveness through continuous R&D concentration," said Da-Wu Chen, Global Sales and Marketing Director of Federal Tires.
The Red Dot Design Award is considered one of the world's biggest design awards. Evaluations are made based on innovation, aesthetic characteristics, applicability, functionality, and efficiency. This year's Red Dot Design Award included applicants from over 55 countries and 5,500 products.


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Popular Hawaii hiking trail, damaged by Kilauea volcano, reopens
A massive boulder on the newly reopened Kilauea Iki Trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
(National Park Service)
By Mary ForgioneAssistant Travel Editor
The popular Kilauea Iki Trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park recently fully reopened, a year and a half after Kilauea erupted and more than 60,000 quakes rattled the volcano's summit. The shaking last year damaged much of the park, including the popular four-mile loop from the rim of a crater to its floor. Now visitors will see something new along the way: large boulders that tumbled down during the seismic shaking, a park release says.
Hikers trek on the newly repaired Kilauea Iki Trail, which starts out in lush rain forest habitat.
(Janice Wei / National Park Service)
The trail starts out in lush forest and gives way to the sparse floor of the crater, which in 1959 was a "seething lava lake, with lava fountains up to 1,900 feet high," according to the park's website. Hikers now walk on hardened lava where decades later there's still hot molten rock below the hardened surface that steams.
The newly repaired Kilauea Iki Trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park reopened Sept. 21.
Part of the trail reopened in April; the full trail reopened Sept. 21 after final repairs were completed. Work crews from the national park and nonprofit Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park helped make repairs.
It's all part of the park's slow recovery from the eruption that forced the park to close for an unprecedented 134 days in 2018.
Work crews with the Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and other national parks repaired the Kilauea Iki Trail.
Some of the park's features were forever changed. The bubbling lava lake within Halemaumau Crater near the summit disappeared after lava was sucked underground, and the crater quadrupled in size. The park's Jaggar Museum, which contained geologic and cultural artifacts, sits precariously close to the unstable newly formed rim.
Rocks had to be removed and repairs made to the Kilauea Iki Trail.
The building may never reopen. Museum exhibits may be relocated to Pahoa, a town near the park.
Outside the park, more than 700 homes in a neighborhood called the Puna District were destroyed by the walls of lava from the volcano eruptions.
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Mary Forgione
As Los Angeles Times assistant Travel editor, Mary Forgione writes and edits stories for the digital and print Travel section. She loves tips and stories about running, hiking and anything to do with the outdoors.
Column: Complaints about movers soar as millions relocate because of the pandemic
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Stanford students aim to be youngest to conquer nearly 8,000-mile Triple Crown of hikes
Sammy Potter and Jackson Parell set out New Year's Day to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. They plan to also traverse the Continental Divide and the Pacific Rim.
Disneyland killed its annual pass program. Why, and what comes next?
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At Lake Tahoe, unfurling the statewide welcome mat is 'awkward' as pandemic rages
Tahoe's western shore will be partly reopened for the holiday weekend, helping the economy but renewing fears about COVID-19 and crowds.
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Travel with your 'pod' on a private hiking or biking tour
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Home › News Center › IEC 62321 STANDARDS – 2013 EDITION
IEC 62321 STANDARDS – 2013 EDITION
The 2013 edition of IEC 62321-1, -2, -3-1, -3-2, -4 & -5 unanimously passed the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) stage. The results of the vote were posted on the IEC website and publications have already published.
The standard was developed to ensure that tests are conducted in a consistent and reliable manner by laboratories all over the world, while following the same method specification in order to ensure compliance with the standard regulations.
As usual in standardisation the 2008 edition of standard IEC 62321 underwent a maintenance cycle in order to include best practices and technical progress in the procedures. Main changes from the 2008 edition of IEC 62321 to the 2013 edition include that the single document will be split in a family of standards. New test equipment like Combustion Ion Chromatography (C-IC) and Cold Vapour Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry (CV-AFS) have been introduced and the sample preparation standard IEC/PAS 62596 has been included. Table 1 gives an overview on the first set of 2013 edition standards which will be published soon.
IEC Standard
62321-1 Introduction and overview
62321-2 Disassembly, disjointment and mechanical sample preparation
62321-3-1 Screening of electrotechnical products for lead, mercury, cadmium, total chromium and total bromine using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry
62321-3-2 Screening of total bromine in polymers and electronics by combustion – Ion chromatography (C-IC)
62321-4 Determination of mercury in polymers, metals and electronics by CV-AAS, CV-AFS, ICPOES and ICP-MS
62321-5 Determination of cadmium, lead, and chromium in polymers and electronics and cadmium and lead in metals by AAS, AFS, ICP-OES and ICP-MS
Completing the set of standards mentioned above there are four additional standards in different draft stages under preparation to provide test methods for PBB/PBDE (IEC 62321-6), hexavalent chromium (IEC 62321-7-1 and -2) and phthalates (IEC 62321-8). It is expected that those standards will be published sequentially once they have received the positive voting of the national committees.
Planned publication date for IEC 62321-6 is February 2014, IEC 62321-7-1 is expected in April 2014, IEC 62321-7-2 is expected in November 2014 and the last part IEC 62321-8 will be published most likely in March 2015.
Information resource: IEC WEBSTORE 62321-2013 Publications
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Norway prohibits PFOA in consumer products
Norway has banned the use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in consumer products from 1 June 2014, the country's Environment Agency has announced. The ban will apply to solid and liquid consumer products, as well as textiles.
ECHA updates the Candidate List for authorization with six new substances of very high concern (SVHCs)
ECHA's Member State Committee (MSC) has unanimously agreed to identify six new substances as SVHCs. These six substances are added to the Candidate List for authorization. The Candidate List now contains 144 substances.


A self-proclaimed military brat, Christopher moved six times before he was eight years old, which sparked his passion for real estate at a very young age.
After a career as a professional ballet dancer was cut short by injury, Christopher worked his way through college in Baltimore and enjoyed a tenured career as a marketing executive before he rediscovered his childhood passion and pursued real estate professionally, which Christopher proclaims as "the most fulfilling career decision I've ever made".
Bringing more than 15 years of professional experience to each real estate transaction, Christopher's proven ability to deliver specialized services to a wide variety of clientele demonstrates his "Client-Centered" approach to business, which continues to serve as his philosophy today.
Christopher helps Buyers and Sellers successfully achieve their real estate goals with remarkable business acumen and astute negotiation skills. His performance helping clients navigate the intricacies of the DC metro area's complex real estate market has earned him several Top Producer awards and more than $60 million in closed transaction volume since 2012.
In 2015, after spending several years working side-by-side building successful careers as individual real estate agents, Christopher Bulka & John Peters merged their businesses and created Bulka/Peters Residential. The dynamic partnership between these two highly respected Realtors allows them to combine their superior customer service, innovative marketing techniques, skilled negotiation strategies and professional transaction management to enhance their clients' home buying and selling experiences.
When he's not working, Christopher enjoys dining out, spending time with friends and family, and being outdoors as much as possible. He is currently the Treasurer of the Crispus Attucks Development Corporation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit community organization, which owns and operates Crispus Attucks Park in Washington, DC's Bloomingdale neighborhood, where Christopher and his partner recently completed a top-to-bottom renovation of their circa 1900 Victorian home.


The following is attributable to Engine Executive Director Evan Engstrom.
"Engine is proud to support the Support Our Startups Act, a bill that would reduce tax burdens on entrepreneurs in their first year of business. The bill from Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) would help startups hit the ground running by increasing they amount they can write off as federal tax deductions in their first year.
"According to estimates, launching a startup requires tens of thousands of dollars of capital upfront to be able to afford things like business consultants, advertising, rent, and supplies. Currently, startups can deduct up to $5,000 of those expenses from their federal taxes in their first year of business. The Support Our Startups Act would raise that deduction to $20,000 making it more cost efficient for brand new companies to pay for the resources they need to get off the ground and enabling entrepreneurs to put those additional savings back into their businesses and make greater contributions to economic and job growth.
"Under the current system, the $5,000 is reduced by any startup expenses over $50,000. The Support Our Startups Act would raise that to $120,000, so that entrepreneurs would have to spend over $120,000 in startup costs before their deduction would be reduced. The bill would also make the deduction available to more businesses, regardless of whether they're organized as a partnership, LLC, or corporation.
"We hope Congress moves quickly on this measure to encourage more entrepreneurs to invest up-front in the startups that are innovating and contributing to the U.S. economy and job market."


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One of the most sensible methods to boost your diet and provide a fun an interesting hobby is to plant an organic gardening. , although you will have to invest some energy and time to have success within this venture Knowing where you should start when planning an organic horticulture are most significant.
Pick the proper soil to obtain the greatest results. You might also have the capacity to design an artificial area that uses just one form of soil.
Once the fall season approaches, it is a chance to plant your fall edibles. A pumpkin can be a festive container for kale and lettuce.Once you cut an opening on top of the scoop and pumpkin out the insides, spray the sides and inside with Wilt-Pruf to stop rotting.
Before you decide to dig the first hole, come up with a plan. This can help you in recognizing your tiny plants whenever they learn to show up.
Be aware of ideal times to harvest the vegetables inside your garden. Each veggie has unique time for harvesting in the peak of flavor. Would be best picked from your vine later if they are very ripe, even though for instance, baby and zucchini peas would be best picked young.Tomatoes.
Plant items with fall season color in mind.Maple trees produce red and yellow leaves, and so are dogwood and beech trees. When thinking about shrubs, think of cotoneaster, hydrangea or barberry.
A prosperous organic garden is the result of hard work and a good understanding of the principles involved. Persistence and patience may also be important traits for successful organic gardener. Remembering the above mentioned tips, you may successfully grow an organic garden.


Venomtip Needlers are aggressive wasps that occur in the level 85 version of Zul'Gurub. They have the same appearance as the non-aggressive Florawing Needlers in the same instance except for the glowing green tips (presumably venom) on their largest legs. These disappear upon taming.
Venomtip Needlers use the non-boss silithid wasp model and can occur in four different colours: dark blue with purple highlights (SilithidWaspBossSkin3), fluoro pinkish-purple (SilithidWaspBossSkin2), bright yellow-orange (SilithidWaspBossSkin) and green with red markings (SilithidWaspBossSkin5).
Are these in packs, or is it conceivable to get in and tame one and get out solo?
I'm pretty sure you can just pull and tame one solo from the edge of the green poison field.
You can solo tame one of these guys.
Trick is to enter the dungeon. Hop off the left side of the platform and go around behind the fence, on the left. There is one of these beauties flying close enough that you can avoid the poison cloud & tame him. If you try to get to the same wasp from in front of the fence line you'll die fairly quickly from the gas. I let myself die twice trying to tame him that way.
They are gorgeous pets, despite not being a rare. They change colour each time you pull them out.
I've only just tamed mine now as the server was shutting down for the week, so I'm yet to see how he'll handle a fight.
The Florawing Needler and Venomtip Needler can come in 3 different Colors (A deep purple, a Fiery Orange and a color sceme that resembles Princess Huhuran) in Zul'gurub. With only their abilities that separate the Mobs, other wise they look identical.
Other then 1 Rare in the Swamp of Sarrows this is the only other area to find this Color sceme.
This NPC can be found in Zul'Gurub (10).
Pets tamed before 5.0 will randomly choose a purple, orange, dark purple, or green skin upon appearing from dismounting, Call Pet, or Revive Pet.


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Siargao hosts international gamefishing tournament
April 30, 2010Philippines, Siargao Islands, Surfing, Surigao del Norte, Vacation No comments
Canadian angler Richard Sharpe proudly shows a sailfish he caught off the fishing village of Pilar on Siargao Island during the '3rd Siargao Gamefishing Tournament 2010' where anglers from at least 14 countries participated. (AFP)
BUTUAN CITY – At least 41 anglers across the globe, 18 of them Filipinos, challenge the seas of Siargao Island in Surigao del Norte for the big catch during the "3rd Siargao Gamefishing Tournament 2010" that started Thursday.
Leticia Tan, Caraga Region office of the Department of Tourism (DoT) director, said the participating anglers came from Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States (US), and the Philippines.
"The anglers will challenge the seas of Siargao for the big catch, their ticket to take home as much as P30,000 to P50,000 cash prize under the five contest categories," said Tan.
According to Tan, the Siargao International Gamefishing Tournament proved to be a very successful tourism promotional initiative.
She also said that for its 3rd year, the tournament has continued to gain popularity among anglers across the globe making Siargao a favored destination.
During the almost week-long international gamefishing tournament in Pilar town on Siargao Island, the local government units (LGUs) in that so called "Paradise Island" in Northeastern Mindanao, will also present several cultural shows and other prepared programs.
The big international event will close on Saturday where top national, regional, provincial and municipal officials are attending.
DoT Undersecretary for Sports and Wellness Cynthia Carreon was named as guest of honor to grace the affair, Tan added. (ManilaBulletin)
Siargao experiencing power outage for a week now
04/09/2010 - SIARGAO, Surigao del Norte – Siargao Island is suffering in the dark for a week now. The blackout, however, might continue up until the May elections.
Siargao Electric Cooperative (Siarelco) general manager Sergio Dagooc said the power outage is due to a damaged underwater electric cable.
Dagooc said the cable, located at the vicinity of Barangay Doña Helen in Socorro town, was damaged Thursday last week.
Siarelco has already dispatched divers from Davao City to check the cause.
Dagooc admitted that blackouts may possibly last up to the May 10 elections as they have more than 9 kilometers of cable to check.
Francisco Pobe, regional director of the Commission in Elections (Comelec) in Caraga, meanwhile, said he already informed the central office about the problem.
Pobe has requested power generator sets to address the issue.
The Comelec office in Surigao del Norte, meanwhile, is also working on printing the voters' list. (abs-cbnnews)
Siargao hosts international gamefishing tournament...