I've been thinking about time, and honestly, I'm always thinking about time. Time and I have always had a certain relationship, unfortunately for me, it isn't a health one. I'm a person that is constantly looking at the clock. Just watching my day move by, wishing I could be using my time more wisely. I want to be doing things I really enjoy and love, but day after day I find myself doing the same things. Insert obvious quote below.
Could it be I'm the only one dealing with this? I doubt it. This made me start thinking about what is really stopping me for "living my life." It began with me walking through a typical day, and what I discovered was shocking. I was going through my day without actually engaging with anything, I have switched my mind and body to autopilot.
Let me see if I can explain what I mean by autopilot. It means I get up every morning at the same time, eat the same things, travel the same route to work. I work on the same projects, listen to the same music and podcasts, travel the same route home, and watch the same shows and head to bed at the same time. Yes, this is a routine, but when does a routine become living mindlessly?
I have always thought this is what being an adult is like. You work and do the same things to achieve the big house, the perfect husband, the goofy children, the perfect career. However, I've come to the conclusion I'm not that type of person. Yes, I want a successful career and a nice place to live, but my goals probably aren't the typical American dream.
What does this mean for me? I'm not sure yet, but I'm going to set some goals. First being, don't work to just survive, work to really live. Ever since going on a life changing trip to Europe after college, I have dreamed of going back. I want to travel to places that are beautiful and astounding with people and cultures different from my own. People say traveling broadens the mind, and I'm beginning to understand that saying.
That being said, I reached out to an art exhibit in New York a month ago and was excepted as an artist to be shown for one night on December 20th. One of my life long dreams is coming true. I'm actually going to go to New York, and around Christmas no less! I'm honored and excited to have this opportunity to show my work in one of the biggest art hubs in the country. Honestly, I'm still in shock. I'll share more news as I learn more about the coming event!
Let me ask you this. What do you do to keep yourself engaged? How do you keep your days from running together? How do you stop the autopilot?


Happy Monday! How do the weekends go by so quickly?! I did get a chuckle on the walk into school when I heard a 4th grader telling a group of kids, "...and Tony Romo was smiling at all the girls, AND he's already married!" lol! Not sure where he witnessed this, but I hope his values stay that strong, the 4th grader's values, that is!
Last night I whipped up a couple of overdue birthday cards that a co-worker ordered, oops, like months ago. (I told dh tonight that I'm working on getting my *stuff* together, and I'm hoping to have that done by the time I turn 50.) She wanted something with chickens for this card, so after rooting around (get it?) in my stash, I found a few in the October Afternoon Farmhouse collection. That was an awesome collection, by the way.
I was inspired by the Unscripted Sketches #226, although I flipped it to work with that pretty stamp I used. I'm counting my three "dot" embellishments as the rooster label, date label, and Maya Road chipboard house. Close enough, right?!
Okay, gotta dash. Can't lie...when I went to google "October Afternoon farm" to see what that collection was called, I found out they have a Public Library collection!!! Get out! I am a library girl from way back, so I must go find out where to order it. NOW! heehee!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!
Fabulous card - so creative - great take on the sketch! Thanks for playing at US!
Wonderful colors and lovely card. Thanks for joining us at Unscripted Sketches.
This card is absolutely amazing!!!
I am brand new with the Unscripted Sketches Design Team and just looking around at all the wonderful entries and saying hello!
I hope that you are enjoying your weekend!! Love your style and I hope that you can play again soon.


Students prepare their plot, plant and maintain the site and harvest the produce for their own use. Each participant will exhibit produce at the county fair in August. They will also learn about harvesting their vegetables, garden cleanup and bed preparation for the next gardening season.
Vegetables not used by the students will be harvested for the Friendship Shelter.
For more information on this program, calI the MSU Extension office at 731-0272.


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Chelsea 'could sign' Martinelli as Wright begs Arsenal to cave to massive demands
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Chelsea "could sign" Gabriel Martinelli with the Arsenal star reportedly 'not even close' to agreeing a new deal at the Emirates.
A report on Tuesday claimed the 21-year-old is looking for 'pay parity with the club's top-earners as talks over a new deal get underway'.
The forward's deal doesn't expire until 2024 and the club has the option of extending that by a further 12 months, but there is an acceptance that his form merits a new and improved contract.
It is understood that negotiations have started but that 'an agreement is not close' after the Brazilian demanded Arsenal 'treble' his salary.
Martinelli is insisting that Arsenal make him 'one of the best paid players at the club if they are to extend his deal' with Gabriel Jesus and Thomas Partey earning in excess of £200,000 a week.
While there are no rumours of an exit from the Emirates, Glen Johnson believes Chelsea "could sign him" and their chances increase the longer he goes without agreeing a new deal.
"He's a very exciting young player, so I can definitely believe that Chelsea are interested," Johnson told Bettingodds.com.
"The closer he gets towards the end of his contract, then there's a chance they could sign him.
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"Chelsea's a massive football club and despite the fact that they've not been competing as much as they should have been in recent seasons, it still remains a massive attraction.
"If Gabriel gets to the summer with a year to go on his deal, then I'm sure Chelsea would want a move and I'm sure Martinelli would."
Arsenal legend Ian Wright has urged his former side to prevent any speculation by giving the Brazilian "whatever he wants" to keep him at the club.
"The way Arsenal went about that game and the way Gabriel Martinelli played… he was doing the work of two men," Wright said on his podcast The Ringer.
"He was blazing up and down that right side. I'm telling you, he's the one! With Martinelli, if I'm Arsenal, I'm going in now and offering him whatever he wants."
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Das Renaissance Zürich Tower Hotel  befindet sich in den ersten 15 Etagen eines Neubaus der Mobimo AG im Quartier Zürich-West. Es gehört zu den grössten Schweizer Hotels. Im August 2011 eröffnete die SV-Group als Franchisee von Marriott International das Hotel mit 300 Zimmern und Suiten, dem Equinox Restaurant sowie der Lucid Bar & Lounge. Das Hotel, welches großteils auf Geschäftskunden ausgelegt ist, wurde von dem Magazin Business Destinations mit dem Award Best Business Hotel Switzerland 2013 ausgezeichnet. Das Hotel befindet sich an der Turbinenstrasse 20 unweit vom Prime Tower.

Gebäude

Der Mobimo Tower ist 81 Metern hoch und beherbergt auf seinen 24 Geschossen das Renaissance Zürich Tower Hotel, das dazugehörige Equinox Restaurant und die Lucid Bar & Lounge sowie 53 Eigentumswohnungen. Das Restaurant und die Bar befinden sich auf dem Erdgeschoss. Auf der ersten und zweiten Etage befinden sich 10 Konferenzräume mit einer Fläche von ca. 1'000 m². Die Hotelzimmer belegen die Stockwerke 3 bis 14. Die Eigentumswohnungen, die nicht über die Lifte im Hotel erreichbar sind, beginnen auf der 15. Etage und erstrecken sich bis zur 23. und somit höchsten Etage.

Der Turm war zu seiner Bauzeit des dritthöchste Gebäude der Stadt, und ist (Anfang 2014) das zehnthöchste der Schweiz.

Architekt und Designer
Entworfen und geplant wurde der Mobimo Tower von Roger Diener vom Basler Architekturbüro Diener & Diener. Eines seiner Spezialgebiete ist die Urbanisierung alter Industriegebiete. Er hat neben dem Projekt Mobimo Tower auch mit der Neugestaltung des Maag-Areals zum Erscheinungsbild von Zürich-West beigetragen.

Der Designer Claudio Carbone übernahm die Raumgestaltung im Hotel. In Anlehnung an die Geschichte von Zürich-West hat der Carbone Industriemotive aufgegriffen und im Hotel verkörpert. So steht z. B. im Restaurant eine polierte Schiffsschraube aus der Zeit, als auf dem Areal die Escher Wyss AG im Schiffsbau tätig war. Darüber hinaus hängen abstrakte Bilder auf Aluminiumflächen im Hotel verteilt.

Hotel

Das Renaissance Zürich Tower Hotel wurde im August 2011 eröffnet. Seither war es unter anderem Gastgeber von Miss Schweiz 2013, für den Apéro der Swiss Music Awards 2012 und für die Elite Model Look Castings im Frühjahr 2013. Das Hotel ist Sponsor des Fussballclubs Grasshoppers Zürich. Im Mai 2013, nach dem Cupsieg des Fussballclubs, richtete das Hotel die Finalfeier aus, bei der eine Trainingseinheit auf dem Dach des Gebäudes stattfand. Die Zimmeraufnahmen des Kurzfilms Elite von Piet Baumgartner mit Michael Neuenschwander und Mona Petri wurden im Renaissance Zürich Tower Hotel gedreht.

Das Hotel umfasst 252 Standardzimmer und 48 Suiten, inklusive einer Presidential Suite und einer Grand Suite. Zehn Konferenzräume erstrecken sich über 1'000 m² auf den ersten zwei Stockwerken und das Foyer bietet im zweiten Stock Raum für Pausen oder Stehlunchs. Der grösste Raum ist ca. 350 m² gross mit Platz für bis zu 335 Personen. Die Tagungsräume sind nach Schiffen benannt, die im benachbarten Schiffbau gebaut wurden und teilweise noch heute in Betrieb sind. Auf der 15. Etage befinden sich eine Executive Lounge sowie ein Fitnessstudio. Im Hotel finden regelmässig kostenfreie Konzerte statt.

Siehe auch
 SV Hotel

Einzelnachweise

Hotel in Zürich
Hotelbau in Zürich
Hochhaus in Zürich
Erbaut in den 2010er Jahren
Hotelbau in Europa
Hochhaus in Europa

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Reliance Case Studies
Case Study: How the Reliance Group to Migrated from Lotus to Scalix
Linux-based Scalix solution cut messaging costs for India's largest communications company by up to 90 percent
About the Reliance Group
The Reliance Group is among India's top three private sector business houses, with assets of over €22 billion and an €11 billion net worth. The Group's flagship company, Reliance Communications, is India's largest private sector information and communications company, with over 150 million subscribers. It has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire infocomm value chain.
Other major group companies — Reliance Capital and Reliance Infrastructure — are the market leaders in their respective areas of operation. Through its products and services, the Reliance Group touches the life of 1 in 10 Indians every single day. It has a business presence in over 20,000 Indian towns and 450,000 villages, and in five continents across the globe.
The challenge of managing messaging costs
With more than 250 companies and a user base of more than 120,000, the Reliance Group faced several major concerns:
The high per user cost of their existing IBM Lotus Domino messaging platform.
Heavy resource requirements for the vast deployment of Lotus servers.
The premium power user licensing fee they had to pay for all their users, even though 60 percent of users only needed email with occasional access to webmail.
As a cost saving initiative, they wanted to migrate the thousands of email-only users from MS Office to OpenOffice and the Thunderbird email client. However, limited Lotus integration with Thunderbird proved to be a roadblock.
The Reliance Group's SME and corporate clients for on-premises and hosted email were also looking for a feature-rich, cost effective alternative to MS Exchange and Lotus Notes.
Solution Requirements
The Reliance Mail and Messaging Team came up with key criteria for a feature rich, cost effective email and collaboration alternative:
Email, calendaring and other features on a par with Exchange and Lotus.
Clear licensing differentiation between power users and email-only users.
Equal or lesser resource requirements.
Minimal infrastructure costs for servers and third party solutions (Linux was the preferred platform.)
Feature rich, easy to use webmail.
Compatible with multiple email clients, including Thunderbird and Outlook.
Integration with existing third party applications in the ecosystem.
Customization and re-branding for offerings to outside clients.
Work with Active Directory setup and single sign-on.
Work seamlessly on thinner bandwidth such as the data cards used by many Reliance Capital field employees.
Co-existence with the legacy Lotus Notes solution, including the syncing of address books.
calable with high availability.
Support for SAN/NAS storage.
Virtualisation support.
The Scalix Solution
Using the determined criteria, the Reliance Mail and Messaging Team started evaluating several available options in market. Including Zimbra, NetCore, Atmail, Mithi, and Google, as well as Scalix.
Proof of Concept comparison tests gave the advantage to Scalix due to its offerings, flexibility open platform support, and speed of webmail on data cards from various locations.
Following the key feature tests, the Reliance and Scalix technical teams performed exhaustive Lotus-to-Scalix co-existence and migration tests.
Reliance and Scalix agreed to migrate 90,000 of their users from Lotus to Scalix over a 5-year period from 2010 to 2015. Reliance also started offering Scalix as a lower-cost hosted email solution to their SME and corporate clients.
The results of the migration from Lotus to Scalix are proving remarkable:
A 90 percent reduction in licensing fees for both premium and standard email users.
Thunderbird connectivity saved local email client costs.
Blackberry connectivity saved the additional cost of migrating the Blackberry environment.
Deployment with the Red Hat Cluster Suite along with a virtualized environment helped
educe server hardware requirements.
Linux servers brought down server OS and user license costs.
Scalix helped assure continuous operations with full 24 x 7 support for both Reliance and their clients.
According to Mr. Rohit Dighe, head of the Reliance Mail and Messaging Team, "The deployment of Scalix in our production environment, as well as the migration of mailboxes from our existing solution to Scalix, happened as planned and seamlessly. Scalix has worked very well, and has more than satisfied our expectations. In fact, we have plans to implement more licenses from Scalix in the future."
Mr. Dighe continued, "Scalix not only provides a specific niche within the messaging and collaboration industry, it also helps us to solve problems that others could not. They have a very impressive track record in the open source email market."
About Scalix
Scalix is the most field-proven Linux-based email, calendaring and messaging software that significantly expands the proven and successful HP OpenMail product on which it is based. Scalix delivers premier enterprise collaboration for standalone and hosting environments, reducing the cost and complexity of messaging and fostering freedom of choice with products based on open standards and open source. Scalix, Inc. is headquartered in New York, with international offices in London, Frankfurt, Mumbai, and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.scalix.com.


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Q: Having problems with detecting leap year avHi again,
thank you all for the help in my previous problem.
However now i have encountered another problem
int main ()
    {
        int inputSeconds,seconds, minutes, hours , days ,years ;
        int remainingSeconds ;
        int current_year = 1970;
        int current_month = 1;
        int current_day = 1;
        const int standard_year = 365;
        const int leap_year = 366;
        bool leapYear;
        int leapcounter  ; //Since 1972 is the next closest leap year, counter is set to 2

        cout << "Welcome to Epoch time/ Data converter" << endl;
        cout << "Enter Number of Seconds Since Midnight Jan 1, 1970: ";
        cin >> inputSeconds ;

        //Convert seconds into days to determine the number of years that has already passed

        days = inputSeconds/(60*60*24) ;
        remainingSeconds = inputSeconds % (60*60*24) ;

        cout << days << endl;
        //Determine current year

            while (!(days < 365))
            {
            if (leapcounter == 3 )
                {
                    current_year++;
                    days -= leap_year;
                    leapYear = true;
                    leapcounter = 0;

                }
            else
                {

                    current_year++;
                    days -= standard_year;
                    leapcounter++;
                    leapYear = false;

                }
            }

            //Check if current year is leap year or not

            if ((current_year % 4 == 0) && (current_year % 100 == 0) || (current_year % 400 == 0))
                leapYear = true;
            else
                leapYear = false;

        cout << current_year << " days remaining :" << days << " Leap year? " << leapYear << " Remaining seconds :" << remainingSeconds;

        return 0;

}
it doesnt seem to be detecting a leap year on the output.
I have tried 1972, 2004,2008,and 2012.
I cant seem to figure out the problem with it and is hoping you could help shed light on my problem
thank you in advance.

A: The logic for deciding a leap year from current_year is a bit more complex than what you have.
It needs to be:
if ((current_year % 4 == 0) )
{
  if ( (current_year % 100 == 0) )
  {
     if ( (current_year % 400 == 0) )
     {
        leapYear = true;
     }
     else
     {
        leapYear = false;
     }
  }
  else
  {
     leapYear = true;
  }
}
else
{
  leapYear = false;
}

On further thinking, that logic can be simplified to:
leapYear = ( (current_year % 400) == 0 ||
             ( (current_year % 4) == 0 && (current_year % 100) != 0)) ;

Also, you need to initialize leapcounter to 2 since day 1 corresponds to the first day of 1970 -- 2 years since the previous leap year.

A: Here you go:
bool IsALeapYear(int year) {
    return (!(year % 4) && (year % 100)) || !(year % 400);
}

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Home / News / Culture Watch / Dem. governor halts Kansas effort to protect women's sports; override falls one vote short
Dem. governor halts Kansas effort to protect women's sports; override falls one vote short
Conservative legislators have failed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a bill to protect women's sports in the state's schools.
The Senate vote on Monday to override Kelly was 26-14, leaving the measure one vote short of the necessary two-thirds majority. The result blocked an attempt to override in the House. The outcome was in doubt until the only Democrat to waver on voting against the override, Sen. David Haley, of Kansas City, cast his no vote.
Haley had been wavering on the issue for some time, and the issue that "tipped it" for him was that sports bodies such as the NCAA would avoid scheduling tournament games in Kansas.
"My concern is the first transgender girl or women has the competitive physical advantage to overcome a biologically born woman and that, in fact, there are some repercussions," Haley said.
The Bill, also known as the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, had originally passed through both the House and the Senate but was vetoed by Governor Kelly on April 22.
More than 20 states have considered such proposals this year, as Republican lawmakers have pressed the issue. Idaho enacted such a law last year, and bans were enacted this year in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia. Florida lawmakers passed a bill, and South Dakota's governor issued an executive order.
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Kelly called the Kansas measure "regressive," said it would send a message that Kansas was not a welcoming place and predicted it would hurt the state's attempts to recruit businesses.
The bill's supporters said they were trying to protect fair competition in women's sports, prevent bullying of women athletes, and preserve hard-won opportunities for female athletes, such as college scholarships.
"We're going to keep working on this issue," Director of Advocacy for Family Policy Lines of Kansas, Brittany Jones emphasized. "We're going to keep talking to leadership in both chambers, and we're going to let voters know how their legislators voted today and what the governor has done,"
The vote in Kansas came two days after Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic decathlon champion and reality television figure who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, said she opposes transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports as a "question of fairness."
It is likely similar legislation will be brought up again in Kansas, but perhaps not until Kansas has a new governor.
The proposed ban is likely to be an issue in the 2022 governor's race, when Kelly seeks a second term. The top two Republican candidates, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and former Gov. Jeff Colyer, have said they would have signed the measure.
Kelly ran as a centrist in 2018 but is now being called a liberal.
"It shows her true, far-left leanings," said state Sen. Renee Erickson, a Wichita Republican. "I think if we make it about what it truly is — it's protecting those opportunities for girls — that those are Kansas values and that at the end of the day, it will hurt the governor politically."
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Home » Partners at HBS » Life at HBS, as a Partner
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Life at HBS, as a Partner
Anja Do, Contributor
Azra Noormohamed (RC Partner) shares her personal story.
With the incoming MBA Class of 2021, we have experienced an arrival of another "class of its own." Partners (a.k.a. wives, husbands, fiancés, girlfriends, boyfriends) of HBS students every year take a leap of faith, uprooting themselves from their homes or places with which they are familiar to come to Boston with their significant other.
One of the many brave partners is Azra Noormohamed, a Canada native from Toronto who kindly sat down with me one sunny afternoon in front of the Spangler Center to share her story. I first met Azra at a Partners' lunch, organized by one of the other Partners for everyone to get to know each other over a meal. The turnout was amazing; we had two packed long tables at the Grafton Pub & Grill. I was lucky to be seated at the same table as her, and what I immediately noticed about Azra was her dazzling smile and warm personality that completely disarms you the moment she speaks.
She could not ever imagine leaving Toronto because she was happy with her life; having her family and friends close by and living in her beautiful apartment, she did not crave change. However, the topic of business school often crept into conversations with her husband, Rahim. It was his personal aspiration to get an MBA before they turned 30. This commitment became real during one of their trips to Portugal, after speaking to a couple who just completed their MBA together.
Even after he applied, she felt nervous and tried her best not to think about what their life would be like. Besides her original anxiety of coming to the United States, she also felt excited about the opportunities she would have and the diverse people she'd meet after moving to the States. In particular, she absolutely adores New York City. "It always makes me feel like I am in a movie," she declares enthusiastically and admits that whenever she steps out of Penn Station, the feeling of "anything could happen" takes over her.
What completely surprised me is the fact that she and her husband only recently got married, in June 2019. Then, two months later, they moved their entire life to Cambridge via a single car ride. In the last six months, not only did they rearrange everything in their life to relocate to another country, but also they planned the most special day in their life. I have seen the photos from their wedding, and it was gorgeous! I could tell how strong their bond is from the way Azra spoke about their journey together. She saw this opportunity as a rare experience for a newlywed couple and wants to make sure they are stronger because of it. Since this will be one of the most transformative years of his career, she hopes one day her husband can think back and say, "Azra was by my side and it was she who supported me through this."
Being a supportive partner to an HBS student comes with its own challenges, however. More often than not we dedicate our time so willingly to our partners who are studying that they can take it for granted. Azra recollects one moment, with a slight frustration, when she and her husband planned to go on a walk together after his class. As they were getting ready to leave, her husband picked up the phone and invited one of his classmates to join them. Under normal circumstances, this would not bother her at all, but because she was at HBS, far away from all of her friends, she looked forward to this walk as their time together. What is, therefore, critical, she emphasized, is to schedule dates and spend quality time with just each other.
At first, Azra was most afraid of HBS becoming her husband's own experience. She constantly worries she would remain at the periphery of his life, despite giving up everything she knew and loved—her friends, her family, her job. Fortunately, the first month at HBS has proved absolutely fantastic, and she is now a big fan of the HBS bubble. The community aspect of the school really excites her, and she really took ownership in putting herself out there. This meant going to more events, saying yes to more opportunities, and meeting lots of new people. It does not mean that she would keep doing so throughout the two years, but she believes that at least at the beginning, you need to meet everyone around you often in order for your new friendships to grow and deepen.
What she also feels grateful for are the opportunities to learn and absorb new topics and experiences at HBS. Just to name a few: she attended the HubSpot case, Community MyTakes, and a cross-stitching class with other HBS Partners. Speaking of other Partners, her face lights up, and she admits that she loves our WhatsApp group. In the very first week of class, a few of us created a WhatsApp chat to connect and share tips about settling in on and off campus. Over time, the group has grown to 50+ members and became the primary source of information sharing and social gathering. Speaking on behalf of so many of us, Azra admits that she definitely feels most comfortable among the Partners than any other group because she can be intimate and honest with how she feels about coming here with the Partners group.
As a testament to Azra's effort of being out there, getting to meet new people and making new friendships, she has always been our go-to photographer at all of the Partners' events. In our WhatsApp group, we quickly recognized that Azra takes absolutely stunning pictures, and she always generously shares them with the rest of us. Slowly and surely, her photos made their debut on the HBS Partners' Club Instagram (@hbspartnersclub), and now her photos feature in the majority of the stories.
Not surprisingly, prior coming to HBS, Azra had been working as a professional wedding photographer (@azrajenna) alongside her full-time job at Salesforce. Why did she choose wedding photography? It all started with her first job out of college, when she worked in a bank. Although she enjoyed her Management Associate program, which gave her exposure to multiple parts of the bank, she felt that "it sucked out all [her] energy." Once she came to that realization, she began searching for something that would allow her to connect with others, "something more relatable and personable," as she would say. She subsequently made it into a side hustle, thanking the workaholic side of her personality but also keeping her creative side alive.
Her one piece of advice for the MBA students whose partners have come here for them is simple: "involve your partner." Whether it is through making time for each other once a week, or sharing your experience of what happened in the classroom, or talking about what happened in the Section, it is important to make partners feel connected, included, and appreciated. At the end of the day, they uprooted their lives for you, and that can be equally as challenging as getting through the MBA itself!
Anja Do is an RC Partner at HBS who recently moved to Cambridge, MA, with her husband from Singapore. She identifies herself as a global citizen and loves meeting people from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and religions and learning about their personal stories.
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The fonds consists of records pertaining to the group's activities. It contains, among other items, correspondence; minutes and activity reports; applications for financial assistance and other financial documents; concert programmes; programme notes; tour itineraries and schedules; biographical and promotional material; documents concerning the Orford String Quartet Foundation, the group's 25th anniversary, the Juno Awards, etc.; photographs of Quartet members at different points in the group's existence; sound recordings of the quartet.
Orford String Quartet
Biography/Administrative history:
Orford String Quartet : A renowned ensemble founded in 1965 and active until 1991, originally consisting of Andrew Dawes (first violin), Kenneth Perkins (second violin), Terence Helmer (viola) and Marcel Saint-Cyr (cello). Denis Brott succeeded Marcel Saint-Cyr in 1980 and was himself replaced in 1988 by Desmond Hoebig. Helmer left the group in 1986 and was replaced by Robert Levine, whose place was taken by English violist Sophie Renshaw in 1987. The Orford String Quartet performed numerous concerts throughout the world, in such countries as France, Austria, the Soviet Union, Australia, and New Zealand. Its vast repertoire covered the works of some 30 Canadian composers including The Final Silence (Bauer), Five Fantaisies (Morawetz), Paysage dépaysé (Morel) and Jacques Hétu's Quatuor à cordes no. 1. The group also won a number of awards, including first prize in the European Broadcasting Union's String Quartet Competition, the Molson Prize and Juno Awards.
Textual record, graphic material and sound recording (Electronic) The finding aid consists of 5 pages, digitized, a descriptive list of content. Arrangement and description by Stéphane Jean. (90: Open)
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Q: SSL version set up in JMeter How to set  SSL version in JMeter
Iam looking for an JMeter equivalent to the Loadrunner step -
web_set_sockets_option("SSL_VERSION", "TLS1.2");
I get the below issue
Response code:Non HTTP response code: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

A: As per Diagnosing TLS, SSL, and HTTPS article for JDK 8 default TLS protocol is TLS1.2 so you don't have to do anything.
If your JDK is using different default protocol you can override it by adding the next line to user.properties file:
https.default.protocol=TLSv1.2

JMeter restart will be required to pick the property up.
More information:

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*Apache JMeter Properties Customization Guide

*JMeter Bug 58236

However your problem: Connection timed out: connect doesn't have anything in common with HTTPS version, it indicates that JMeter failed to establish the connection with the server within the default timeout time frame, you need to look into the connectivity issues, for example it might be the case you need to configure the proxy


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Irene Nierhaus (* 1955) ist eine österreichische Kunsthistorikerin und war bis 2021 Professorin für Kunstwissenschaft und Ästhetische Theorie.

Leben
Irene Nierhaus studierte Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie in Wien und Rom, lehrte an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Technischen Universität Graz, Gesamthochschule Kassel und an der Universität Trier.

Sie promovierte zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum der 1950er Jahre im Wiener kommunalen Wohnbau. Sie habilitierte sich zum Thema Architektur und Geschlecht. Ein Stipendium der Wissenschaftsabteilung der Stadt Wien und ein Charlotte-Bühler-Habilitations-Stipendium für Frauen des Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) unterstützten ihre akademische Laufbahn.

Anschließend war sie wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Technischen Universität Graz 1992–1996, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin mehrerer Forschungsprojekte des Fonds zur Förderung wissenschaftlicher Forschung Österreich (FWF), des Wissenschaftsfonds der österreichischen Nationalbank, des Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, der Wissenschaftsabteilung der Stadt Wien, der Wilfried Haslauer Stiftung Salzburg und des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs.

Nierhaus lehrte bis 2021 Kunstwissenschaft und Ästhetische Theorie am Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstwissenschaft – Filmwissenschaft – Kunstpädagogik der Universität Bremen.

Projekte
Seit 2010 leitet sie zusammen mit Kathrin Heinz das Forschungsfeld "wohnen +/- ausstellen" des Mariann Steegmann Institut Kunst & Gender und gibt in diesem Zusammenhang die gleichnamige Schriftenreihe heraus.

Mitgliedschaften
 1987 bis 1991 Mitglied der interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe ANISS,
 1991 bis 2001 Vorstandsmitglied der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Architektur und Redaktionsmitglied der Zeitschrift der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Architektur UM BAU,
 1992 bis 1999 Gründungs- und Vorstandsmitglied des Arbeitskreises Frauen und Architektur im Ulmer Verein für Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften,
 1995 bis 1997 Vorstandsmitglied des Österreichischen Kunsthistoriker Verbandes,
 1998 – 1999 Beiratsmitglied der ART + PUBLIC, Wien, Vereinigung zur Vermittlung der Kunst im öffentlichen Raum,
 2009 – 2016 Redaktionsmitglied der Zeitschrift "Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture" Journal/ Kingston University UK,
 seit 2012 Beirat FKW/ Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur.
 seit 2015 Mitglied des Wohnprojektes Gleis 21/ Wien

Veröffentlichungen
 WohnSeiten. Visuelle Konstruktionen des Wohnens in Zeitschriften, (Hg.) Irene Nierhaus, Kathrin Heinz, Rosanna Umbach. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2021 (wohnen +/- ausstellen Bd. 8) ISBN 978-3-8376-5404-2
 Unbehaust Wohnen: Konflikthafte Räume. Kunst – Architektur – Visuelle Kultur / Hg. Irene Nierhaus, Kathrin Heinz. Bielefeld, Transcript 2020, Schriftenreihe wohnen+/-ausstellen, Bd. 7., ISBN 978-3-8376-5122-5
 Matratze/ Matrize: Möblierungen: Möblierung von Subjekt und Gesellschaft, mit Kathrin Heinz, Band 3 der Schriftenreihe wohnen+/-ausstellen, Transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3205-7
 Wohnen Zeigen: Modelle und Akteure des Wohnens in Architektur und visueller Kultur, Band 1 der Schriftenreihe wohnen+/-ausstellen, mit Andreas Nierhaus, Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2455-7
 Landschaftlichkeit zwischen Kunst, Architektur und Theorie, mit Josch Hoenes und Annette Urban, Reimer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-496-01427-0
 Urbanografien: Stadtforschung in Kunst, Architektur und Theorie, mit Elke Krasny, Reimer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-496-01394-5
 Raum + Geschlecht: Kunstwissenschaftliche Online-Bibliografie zu Geschlechterstrukturen in Raum, Architektur, sowie deren Bildmedien zwischen 1989 und 2003 und 2004 bis 2008 in der deutschsprachigen, italienischen und französischen Forschungsliteratur. Mitarbeit M. Hövelmeyer, M. Walkowska, Annette Urban, Josch Hoenes. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-ep000106134
 Helden. Mythische Kämpferfiguren im 20. Jahrhundert und in der Gegenwart, mit Kathrin Heinz. Themenheft der Halbjahreszeitschrift Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft, Heft 41, Juni 2006,
 RÄUMEN. Baupläne zwischen Raum, Visualität, Geschlecht und Architektur, mit Felizitas Koneczny, Ed. Selene, Wien 2002, ISBN 978-3-85266-178-0
 Arch6: Raum, Geschlecht, Architektur, mit Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Sonderzahl, Wien 1999, ISBN 978-3-85449-146-0
 "Kunst-am-Bau" im Wiener kommunalen Wohnbau der 50er Jahre, Sonderband 10 in der Reihe: Kulturstudien. Bibliothek der Kulturgeschichte. Böhlau, Wien 1993, ISBN 3-205-05567-5
 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: Erinnerungen aus dem Widerstand. Das kämpferische Leben einer Architektin von 1938–1945, Promedia, Wien 1994, ISBN 978-3-85371-372-3
 Frauen-Bilder-Männer-Mythen: Kunsthistorische Beiträge, mit Isabella Barta und Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Reimer, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-496-00910-8
 Wohnen zeigen, Transcript, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-8376-2455-7

Weblinks

 Irene Nierhaus auf Academia.edu

Einzelnachweise

Geschlechterforscher
Hochschullehrer (Universität Bremen)
Kunsthistoriker
Architekturtheorie
Österreicher
Deutscher
Geboren 1955
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Ivan Santini (Zadar, 21. svibnja 1989.) hrvatski je nogometaš koji trenutačno nastupa za Zürich. Igra na mjestu napadača. Brat nogometnog vratara Krševana i sin kantautora Romea.

Klupska karijera
Ivan Santini počeo je trenirati nogomet u NK Zadru da bi 2006. godine prešao u NK Inter Zaprešić, a od 2007. do 2008. godine bio je u austrijskome Redu Bullu Salzburgu te godinu dana u njemačkome klubu Ingolstadtu 04 i onda se 2009. godine vratio u NK Zadar. U NK Zadru igrao je do kraja jesenskog dijela sezone 2011./12. kada je bio i najbolji strijelac jesenskog dijela Prve HNL a krajem siječnja 2012. godine odlazi na posudbu u njemački klub SC Freiburg.

U ljeto 2015., Santini prelazi iz K.V. Kortrijka u Standard Liège, a 2016. u SM Caen.

Reprezentativna karijera
Odigrao je 2 utakmice za hrvatsku nogometnu do 17 reprezentaciju te 2 za reprezentaciju do 19 za koju je postigao jedan pogodak.

Osobni život
Nakon očeve smrti i odbijenice Red Bull Salzburga u molbi za produženjem igračkog ugovora, Santini se vratio u rodni Zadar i upao u krizu. U razgovoru za portal Bitno.net istaknuo je kako je krizu prebrodio "zahvaljujući vjeri u Boga i katoličkom okruženju u obitelji". U istom razgovoru istaknuo je kako je u završnici belgijskog kupa tijekom drugog poluvremena ispod dresa nosio majicu s natpisom Isus te voli iz Međugoja. Nakon što je u 88. minuti zabio gol, skinuo je dres i proslavio pogodak "svjedočenjem vjere".

Odgajan je u katoličkom duhu, a kao dječak rado je čitao Sveto pismo. Rado je slušao propovijedi i predavanja Zlatka Sudca i Zvjezdana Linića. Velik je štovatelj i zagovornik Gospe Međugorske. Njegovi vjerski i športski uzori su rukometni trener Željko Babić i atletičarka Blanka Vlašić.

Priznanja

Individualna
 2011.: Najbolji igrač Prve HNL, u izboru kapetana klubova Prve HNL.

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice
 Ivan Santini na hnl-statistika.com

Hrvatski nogometni reprezentativci
Nogometaši Freiburga
Nogometaši NK Inter Zaprešić
Nogometaši NK Osijeka
Nogometaši Red Bull Salzburga
Nogometaši Standard Lièga
Nogometaši NK Zadra
Životopisi, Zadar
Aktivni nogometaši


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Green exporters struggling to access finance
Americas / 05-04-13 / by GTR
Tata solar projects in India get boost from MUFG
EKF, commercial lenders help Australia's largest-ever wind farm to financial close
UK joins Morocco infrastructure gold rush with £4bn in export support
IFC launches US$6bn financing platform to tackle food insecurity
Citi, EKF put wind in Enel's sustainability sails
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has urged trade financiers to capitalise on the growing need for climate-friendly produce.
GTR was present at a gathering of bankers and exporters in Washington at which Ajay Narayanan, the IFC's head of sustainability, global financial markets, said that the rewards of supporting climate-friendly initiatives are great and that the market is crying out for liquidity.
The IFC is currently extremely active in the "climate-smart" market, but without the advanced support of commercial funders, there are big-ticket transactions that are unable to attract finance.
Earlier this year, for instance, the IFC guaranteed a US$13.5mn letter of credit (LC) import issued by JP Morgan to Yapi Kredi bank in Turkey for the import of solar-powered gas turbines. It's a typical transaction for the corporation in this sphere but isn't big enough to meet demand, particularly in emerging markets.
"The opportunities are in the hundreds of millions, if not billions," Narayanam told the audience, adding that there is an "enormous amount of value" available to those offering working capital and trade finance facilities in places such as Sub-Saharan Africa, where green vendors have been increasingly active since the onset of the eurozone crisis.
Also, with diesel and other fuels unaffordable in some developing countries, there has been a convergence between renewable energies and mobile technologies. In order to accommodate the rise in consumer demand, Naraynam suggested that demand for solar energy could be about to rise dramatically. Again, though, a lack of working capital and trade finance facilities may prove to be insurmountable without direct commercial involvement.
At the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim)'s annual conference, green exporters also lamented the reluctance of the private sector to fund their activities, but praised US Exim for helping to bridge the gap.
Richard Walker, CEO of Zero Motorcycles, an exporter of electric-powered motorbikes, said there is "no better guarantor" than the US government and that prior to involvement with US Exim, his company had major receivables trouble and often had to request payment upfront from customers.
The exporters again referred to the opportunities in emerging markets – particularly in India and Sub-Saharan Africa – but nodded to the difficulties they face in financing them. In Nigeria, for instance, there is a population of 160 million and while the country is rich in natural energy resources, there is a real challenge in power distribution. This, said James Brown of First Solar, creates a space for companies like his, but access to local capital is nigh on impossible to come by.
Inderpreet Wadhwa, CEO of Azure Power, recently started operating a 35MW solar facility in Rajasthan. The company is able to sell the electricity for 15 US cents per KW/hr. In Liberia, a 25MW plant would be sufficient to power the entire country and he could sell the electricity generated for 50 cents per KW/hr, Wadhwa said. Getting access to the finance to construct a solar plant in Liberia, though, would be extremely tough.
The emerging markets' green energy sector currently sits around the US$400mn mark. The potential is there to grow it exponentially. There needs to be a willingness of the commercial banking sector to become involved, or the industry may never pass this critical inflection point.
Tags: Ajay Narayanan, Export Finance & ECAs, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Project Finance, Renewable Energy, US Exim


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Wilhelm Staedel (Homoród, 1890. január 12. – Marburg an der Lahn, 1971. október 11.) erdélyi szász evangélikus püspök.

Élete
Teológiai tanulmányait Jénában, Budapesten és Berlinben végezte. Először Nagyselyken szolgált, majd az első világháború során tábori lelkészként tevékenykedett. 1919-től Erkeden, 1924-től Szászhermányban volt lelkész.

1930-ban annak a Waldemar Gustnak a támogatásával lett Brassóban lelkész, aki később a nemzetiszocialista Romániai Német Néppárt (Deutsche Volkspartei in Rumänien, DVR) vezéralakjaként vált ismertté. Alfred Bonfert állatorvossal együtt Staedel átvette a Deutsch-sächsisches Jugendbund nevű ifjúsági szervezet vezetését, és módszeresen a nemzetiszocializmus irányába alakította át. A diákok önkéntes táborokban vettek részt, ahol a közhasznú munka végzése mellett politikai-ideológiai képzésben is részesültek. Staedel és Bonfert, aki 1935 júliusában a DVR pártelnöke lett, az ifjak nagy részét a DVR-be terelte.

A fiatalok körében népszerű Staedelt az 1932 óta hivatalban levő püspök, Viktor Glondys fenntartásai ellenére megbízta az ifjúsági egyházi munka vezetésével, néhány hónappal később azonban illojális magatartása miatt felmentette ebből a tisztségből. 1936-ban az egyház vezetése és a radikális nemzetiszocialisták szembekerültek egymással, mivel az egyház vezetése megtiltotta az egyházi alkalmazottaknak a pártpolitikai összejöveteleken való részvételt. Staedellel együtt 68 DVR-tag megmakacsolta magát, ezért fegyelmi eljárást indítottak ellenük, és ideiglenesen megfosztották őket a hivataluktól és díjazásuktól. Staedelt 1937 áprilisában négy évre felfüggesztették a tisztségéből.

1940 őszén, a romániai Deutsche Volksgruppe megalapítása után Staedelt a Volksgruppe kultúrhivatalának vezetőjévé nevezték ki. A beteg Viktor Glondyst rövid időn belül lemondatták, és Staedel a Volksgruppe jelöltjeként indult a püspökválasztáson. A püspökválasztó zsinaton Andreas Schmidt, a Volksgruppe vezetője fenyegetésekkel, maga Staedel ígéretekkel hatott a küldöttekre. 1941. február 16-án Staedelt 60 szavazattal püspökké választották, az akkor püspöki vikárius Friedrich Müller 37 támogatóval jócskán lemaradt mögötte, noha a falvakban és az egyházkerületekben tartott előválasztáson még ő vezetett. Az egyházi fegyelmi bizottság külön rendelettel rehabilitálta Staedelt.

Staedel püspöksége alatt majdnem korlátlanul teljesítette a Volksgruppe vezetésének követeléseit és útmutatásait. Először is átadták az egyházi iskolákat a Friedrich Müller vezette konzervatív ellenzék szervezett ellenállása ellenére. További lépésként Staedel kezdeményezte az Institut zur Erforschung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben (a német egyházi életre gyakorolt zsidó befolyást kutató intézet) erdélyi munkacsoportjának megalakítását. Ennek közvetlen következményeként átalakították a hitoktatás tantervét olyan módon, hogy az ószövetségi anyagot germán mitológiával helyettesítették. A püspöki hivatal módszeresen igyekezett félreállítani az ellenzéket.

Alig hat héttel azután, hogy 1944. augusztus 23-án Románia szembefordult az addig szövetséges Németországgal, a lelkészek küldöttsége lemondásra szólította fel Staedelt. 1944 októberében Staedelt letartóztatták, és a zsilvásárhelyi fogolytáborba szállították. Innen 1946 tavaszán nyugatra szökött.

A vesztfáliai Minden városában kórházi lelkigondozóként tevékenykedett, egészen 1959-es nyugdíjba vonulásáig. Aktív tagja volt a korábbi Német Keresztények körének, megtartotta a német felsőbbrendűségre vonatkozó elveit és a kereszténységen belüli zsidó elemekkel szembeni gyanakvását. Nyugdíjas éveit Marburgban töltötte.

Művei
 Griechenland; in: Akademische Blätter 13 (1909); Hermannstadt
 Die sächsische Fortbildungsschule: Ansprache gehalten in der Hauptversammlung des allgemeinen siebenbürgisch-deutschen Jugendbundes zu Reps am 25. Mai 1924; Flugschriften des Allgemeinen siebenbürgisch-deutschen Jugendbundes 1
 Stephan Ludwig Roth. Rede; Flugschriften des Allgemeinen siebenbürgisch-deutschen Jugendbundes 6; Schäßburg 1928
 Auf dem Weg zur völkisch-deutschen Schule der Siebenbürger Sachsen; év és hely nélkül
 Für Wahrheit und Recht in unserer Kirche; Hermannstadt, 1936
 Meine Verteidigung. Ein Ruf zur Besinnung in unserer Kirche; Kronstadt, 1937
 In Gottvaters Haus: Predigt über Johannes 14,1–2a; Kirchliche Blätter, 1942
 Kirche im Volk. Bericht über die 39. Landeskirchenversammlung der evangelischen Landeskirche A.B. in Rumänien vom 31. Mai bis 3. Juni 1942 mit Installationspredigt und Eröffnungsrede des Bischofs Wilhelm Staedel; Hermannstadt, 1942
 Kritische Bemerkungen zu Robert Schulz: Deutsche in Rumänien – Das Nationalitätenproblem in der Rumänischen Volksrepublik; Leipzig, 1955 körül
 Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen (szerk.): Die Volkskirche der Siebenbürger Sachsen; gépírásban, 1957
 Anmerkungen, Fragen und Berichtigungen zur "Dokumentation der Vertreibung der Deutschen aus Ost-Mittel-Europa (Bd 3): Das Schicksal der Deutschen in Rumänien."; gépírásban, 1957
 Dr. Josef Capesius: ein siebenbürgisch-sächsischer Schulmann um die Jahrhundertwende (21. Juli 1853-25. Oktober 1918); in: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter (Sodt Vjbl) 11 (1961)
 Andreas Scheiner d.J. (1890-1960); in: SodtVjbl 11 (1961)
 Andreas Scheiner d.J. zum Gedächtnis (1890-1960); n: Siebenbürgisch-sächsischer Hauskalender, 1962
 Geheimrat Professor Dr. Franz Schmidt; in: SodtVjbl (14) 1964
 Deutsche Jugendpflege, Jugendarbeit und Jugendbewegung Siebenbürgens im 1. Viertel des 20. Jahrhunderts; Tagungsband der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für südostdeutsche Volks- und Heimatforschung, 1966
 Unvergessen und unverloren. Predigten und Ansprachen von Wilhelm Staedel; kiadja Herta Staedel; Marburg, 1978 (posztumusz)

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Erdélyi szász püspökök
1890-ben született személyek
1971-ben elhunyt személyek


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Social Media for Good
How to Get Around Broadcast Limits on WhatsApp and Reach More People
by Timo Luege/ March 3, 2017/ Nonprofit technology/
Photo: Hernán Piñera (CC BY-SA 2.0) on Flickr
As mentioned in my previous post on messaging apps, one of the biggest gaps is a lack of support for broadcasting messages to large groups of people. This makes it very difficult to use them to communicate with communities, such as displaced people in a camp.
Market leader WhatsApp for example limits the number of people who can be reached via one broadcast list to 256. Many other applications have similar limits. If you want to reach more people, you manually have to divide your contact list into different groups/lists and repeat your message for each of them. This is hardly an efficient way to work and increases the risk of errors. In large refugee camps like Zaatari for example you might potentially have to manage a dozen or more groups if you manage to roll out a successful CwC programme.
A while ago I noticed that one of my local newspapers offers a daily WhatsApp newsletter with links and the headlines of the day and I was pretty sure that they are not manually sending their newsletter to 256 people at a time. A little more digging revealed that they are using WhatsBroadcast, a German service provider that helps customers send broadcasts to large groups of people on WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram and Insta.
I wasn't able to test the service in great detail, but here are some of the positive things that I found during my brief test. I also spoke to their customer service people:
You can send broadcast messages to very large numbers of people without having to worry about the limits imposed by the services. WhatsBroadcast manages the distribution lists for you in the background and hides the different groups from you. This means that for you, it looks like you have a single big group, but WhatsBroadcast is splitting that list into multiple groups and addresses them individually in the background. It's a typical case of a service hiding from you how the sausage is made and leaving you to focus on your core tasks.
Messages can include both text, images, audio (up to 5 mins), video (up to one minute) or PDF documents (up to 5 MB). I particularly like the ability to send audio messages since this can be a good way to reach groups with poor literacy.
Messages can be scheduled.
You can send broadcast messages to all four supported messaging services through one interface.
I briefly tested non-latin script and it seems like the service renders it correctly. But this is just my best guess and you'd have to properly test it yourself. The backend is available in nine languages, including Arabic.
You can create very simple polls. (add-on; costs extra)
You can define keywords that trigger pre-written responses. Calling this a "bot" is an exaggeration in my opinion. (add-on; costs extra)
You have the option to respond directly to replies to your newsletter. These replies are put in a private chat and not visible to the whole list. (add-on; costs extra)
A young woman from Syria checks her mobile phone in Greece. Photo: Georgios Makkas / Panos
And here are some issues:
As mentioned above, WhatsBroadcast dynamically splits subscribers into different groups. In some cases, this means that different subscribers will be communicating with different WhatsApp accounts (i.e. phone numbers) which you manage seamlessly through one interface. WhatsBroadcast hides this mess from you, but it potentially creates another problem: since WhatsBroadcast dynamically generates groups and phone numbers, you cannot communicate a single WhatsApp number to your audience on posters or flyers! Instead, WhatsBroadcast relies on links or widgets that automatically place a subscriber in a bucket. When I asked WhatsBroadcast about this issue, they suggested the use of QR codes on printed materials. While this is a workaround it's not ideal. Interestingly, WhatsBroadcast told me that the switch to a new phone number is not directly linked to the group-limits imposed by the messaging service. Apparently, a new number is being activated for every 800 to 1,000 subscribers.
WhatsBroadcast offers a free trial and the basic package starts at 49 € per month. However, it can get expensive rather quickly (click here for pricing). Additional subscribers cost extra, enabling one-to-one chat costs extra, having a lot of one-to-one chats costs extra, polls cost extra, etc. All things considered, this can easily cost you as much as an SMS program. On the positive side, WhatsBroadcast offers a 50% non-profit discount on the basic package without add-ons, so it's quite cheap to set up a pilot program and give it a shot.
Photo: Jeso Carneiro on Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Whether a messaging app, SMS, billboards or megaphones are the best way to reach your target audience depends a lot on the context you are working in. I can see messaging services as being particularly interesting in camp settings where people frequently have access to wifi, but may not be able to afford to top-up their SIM cards. In these cases, testing a service like WhatsBroadcast could be very interesting (and I'd be happy to help you run the pilot!).
I have been looking for competitors to WhatsBroadcast, but haven't been able to find another company that offer a comparable service. If you know of any, please leave a comment below!
Please also take a look at "How Messaging Apps Can Support Disaster Response" if you want to know more about the opportunities and risks of using messaging apps as a channel.
Rohit Sharma April 5, 2017
Hi, I think whatsatool is an alternative of whatsbroadcast.
Amar Thapa October 3, 2017
I am using Redmi Note 3 phone for whatsbroadcast sine 2 yrs. But now our broadcast list is gradually increasing and our whatsapp is not responding to handle all broadcast list..
So i want to know that how much list i can use easily without hanging problem?? or if any other solution kindly suggest me…
Timoluege October 11, 2017
Hi Amar! That seems like a question for their technical support. I'm afraid I can't help you there.
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Discussion in 'Browning T-Bolt Rifle' started by jstanfield103, May 21, 2017.
The following is a post from another site that I posted earlier. Must not have been allowed, because Shooter13 wanted the link dropped and the post changed. So here is the changed post and Shooter13 if you would please delete the other post. Thanks !
Like I said this post is from someone else including the pictures. So Tim1976 at RimFireCentral gets all the credit for this part of the post. I believe he saw it from another thread some where.
But anyway I did this to my T-Bolt and what a huge difference it made. You now have full range of trigger adjustment and I do not have a scale but believe my trigger to be around 2 pounds. No take up and very little movement. I did do a few bump tests and had no accidental discharges. Plus if I ever decide that it is to light I can use the adjustment screw to take the screw all the way past the level of factory setting. This rifle for me is strictly a target rifle (paper puncher) so I really need a nice trigger, it is almost as nice as my Remington 540X and my Clarks Custom 10/22. Anyway made a huge difference in mine.
After seeing the simplicity of the trigger set up I noticed that the spring which the adjustable grub screw affects is under a substantial amount of preload due to the plastic housing protruding about 2.5mm higher than the housing of the grub screw.
After a couple of minutes gently shaving the housing in line with the top of the housing for the grub screw the spring now sits more relaxed and the result is a 2 1/2 lb trigger with full adjustment via the adjustment grub screw. Wound out with no pressure on the spring the trigger pull is a perfectly crisp 2 & 1/2 lbs and can be adjusted back up to as heavy as you want.
Thanks for being understanding on the first post. I will try not to do that again.
Might have to try this out, this evening!
I love the rifle except for the lawyer trigger. I looked for and found an after market trigger but decided against ordering it do to the high cost. This looks like a easy, no cost fix. Thanks for sharing.
Well that was a little disappointing. After finishing my 'trigger job' and getting the rifle put back together, I only managed to get one pound reduction. The trigger pulled was tested five times with a electronic tester and with the adjustment screw backed all the way out. An improvement yes but not down to the 2.5 lbs I was hoping for.
2.5 lbs. is respectable. I believe the Ruger BX trigger chimes in around the same.
I would have been very happy with 2.5 lbs. Mine is sitting @ 3.25 lbs.
I've looked around to no avail...is there an aftermarket spring to replace the factory spring for a lighter pull rather than physically shaving off the 'shelf' ?
Ordered 2 sear springs directly from Browning, figured to try them for reducing the pull weight without my unsure hand trying to shave plastic that can't be replaced.
It's a cheap enough attempt so if I screw it up I have not had to sell the farm.
Still have 2 factory springs in the shipping envelope. Using the one installed in the rifle was enough to complete this modification, and if that fails I can replace a factory spring at least. Cost was about $15 for the 2 springs I didn't use.
I gotta say it is a bit nerve racking to get into it but once I had the cover off and on a few times during the bending process it is not that bad. Did not need to ruin a spring to learn what to do. I suppose the lawyer shelf would be next if desired.
Factory trigger was as light as it would go at 4.25....after the spring work it sits at 3.0...not all I was hoping, 2.0 would be sweet... but this a real improvement and I'm glad I took the plunge...personal choice, always default to a qualified gunsmith (how's that for a disclaimer). So I'll leave it there until after the next field day to see how it works with real targets.
Never would have considered this job without this forum and that good post with pictures on rimfirecentral.
One addition I did was to blue Loctite the trigger weight adjusting screw as it is loose enough now to jiggle out since there is no pressure on it.
Jard is always available but at 3.0 and as crisp and clean breaking as the factory trigger is I am hoping this will end my trigger woe's.


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How a Small Set of Strategies Can Benefit the Greatest Number of Outcomes
Houston-based Adele Houghton has taken an interesting route in her development as an architect and green building advocate. To expand her perspective, the president of Biositu, a building consultancy dedicated to linking environmental sustainability with enhanced community health, enrolled last year in the DrPH program at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In June she published a piece in the Harvard Public Health Review on the importance of co-benefits in the building and community design process. The journal selected it for its "Best of Harvard Public Health Review 2014-2021" issue, due out this fall. Last week, I reached out to Houghton to talk about the co-benefits framework, which appears to hold great promise for community engagement and public health.
MCP: Martin C. Pedersen
AH: Adele Houghton
MCP:
As an architect and a public health Ph.D. student, you have a unique perspective that could be helpful to designers. You talk about the concept of "co-benefits." What are co-benefits, and how should architects think about this as an approach?
The concept of "co-benefits" is frequently used in fields like public health to weigh different policy options. The idea is to look for a cluster of strategies that meet a wide array of objectives. In other words: Which small group of strategies will benefit the greatest number of desired outcomes? It's a natural fit for the design process, because the best designs seamlessly meet the sometimes contradictory requirements of building owners, investors, and code officials. Add to that the additional considerations about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting buildings and their occupants from climatic events, and the increasing emphasis in our society around advancing social equity, and the picture quickly becomes complicated. The co-benefits framework can be useful in those situations, because the complexity stops being a barrier and becomes the raw material for a broader picture of interconnected benefits.
Some architects and designers might already be using a similar approach, but not calling it that. Unpack the idea of co-benefits in more specific terms, and tell us why it would be valuable to both designers and the people they design for?
One way to imagine the co-benefits framework is as a long list of detailed strategies on the left-hand side of a diagram, a short list of desired endpoints on the right-hand side, and an empty space in between. The goal of a co-benefits exercise is to identify as many ways as possible to connect the design strategies on the left side with as many endpoints on the right side as possible. As you go through the exercise, you begin to see patterns where strategies cluster around certain co-impact pathways that benefit multiple outcomes.
When this approach is applied to the public health context, each connection is supported by evidence. In the recent article, I proposed using the co-benefits framework within the context of Covid-19 re-entry plans, because it can sometimes be difficult to break out of linear thinking when a client comes to you with money that's earmarked for a single use, in this case, Covid. Too often, the money is used in such a targeted way that it misses an opportunity to support other needs. Then, when the next crisis comes along, owners are asked to allocate more money to protect the building from the new threat. The co-benefits approach asks the owner and the design team to take a step back and ask themselves if the money earmarked for one thing (Covid-19 re-entry) could be leveraged to address other priorities as well (say, future proofing the building against weather events that could disrupt the power supply)?
This seems like a way to avoid siloing issues like health, equity, and climate action. Can you talk about how that works?
Co-benefit diagrams often show clearly which impact paths will benefit the most desired outcomes and, therefore, the most stakeholders. In that way, it's a great way to break down silos. People can see how the strategies that they're responsible for work with other team members' strategies to benefit everyone.
For example: an existing building that's going to be modified to make it safer for occupants during this final (we hope) phase of the pandemic. A co-benefits exercise might consider which design and operations strategies could perform double or triple service. Are there impact pathways that would pull together a group of strategies to address the threat of Covid and also reduce greenhouse gas emissions, enhance the building's resilience, and advance environmental health equity in the neighborhood. An example might include a pair of impact pathways that reduce demand for fossil fuels and reduce reliance on centralized infrastructure. Here we might simultaneously address Covid, climate change, and social equity through a combination of weatherization, operable windows with screens, HEPA filters in the mechanical system, and an on-site renewable power micro-grid that connects to rooftop solar installations on buildings in the surrounding neighborhood. Most of these ideas might be value engineered out of the project, if presented on its own. But when it's presented as part of a cluster of strategies that meet multiple goals, the business case for implementing this approach becomes self-evident.
It also seems like an effort to diagram a more systems-oriented approach to design. Why do you think that's necessary? At what point in the design process would you recommend introducing the concept of co-benefits?
I think that's right. Similar to systems thinking, the co-benefits framework makes visible connections that often remain invisible throughout the design process. Over the past few decades, the building industry has moved more and more in the direction of specialization and quantification. So much so that many architects and developers feel like they're drowning in data and metrics. They aren't sure which data to use and to what end.
The co-benefits framework can help the design team and project stakeholders map out the reason each analytic tool is being used, what outcome it's benefiting, and how. From my perspective working in public health, this is a great benefit. It makes it easy for me to show team members how prioritizing a public health endpoint (like reducing outdoor air pollution) connects back to energy modeling, landscape design, and decisions about whether or not to include operable windows.
The other major benefit of this approach is that it gives the community a stronger voice in the design process. For better or worse, building codes and best practice guides are not tailored to the needs of individual properties or neighborhoods. And project delivery schedules are often too rushed to allow for sustained engagement with the community. As a result, a building could be certified LEED Platinum and receive multiple design awards without making any tangible improvement to the environmental health of its surrounding neighborhood. Bringing the community into the co-benefits conversation gives them the opportunity to help develop clear definitions for the desired project impact. They're often the best positioned to identify which pathways will make a tangible difference to their daily lives.
A few years ago, I worked on a project that both measured the environmental exposures from a freeway in Houston and proposed design changes to nearby schools to help protect their students and staff from the negative health consequences of a proposed expansion project. A number of our recommendations for one of the most highly exposed elementary schools were standard, given the fact that the school campus was located across the feeder road from an eight-lane freeway. But we also noticed that the school backed up to a park, which the kids used as their play space, because the school did not have dedicated fields or a playground on site. When we asked the school nurse and principal to share their most significant health concerns for the students, they quickly pointed to traffic safety (many kids walked to school along the feeder) and asthma (they were constantly exposed to traffic-related air pollution [TRAP] at school and at home). Those insights led the team to look for design solutions outside the boundaries of the school campus. To address the concerns about traffic safety and exposure to TRAP, our final recommendation included changes to the sidewalks connecting the school and the neighborhood where many students lived.
This feels like an idea ripe for adoption in design education. How would you envision teaching it?
I'm so glad you asked that question. I went back to school to earn a Master of Public Health (MPH) after practicing architecture and green building for seven years, because I felt that I did not have the technical background I needed to recommend which health priorities were most important for any given project. One thing led to another, and I am now pursuing a Doctor of Public Health degree at Harvard. Having said that, it's not realistic to expect all building professionals to pursue MPHs.
I have dedicated part of my professional career to facilitating workshops and educational sessions at professional conferences to teach practitioners how to make use of public health co-benefits frameworks in their daily work. In June, I facilitated an online workshop on the topic at USGBC Live. I am also co-authoring a book called Architectural Epidemiology, which walks through the steps to pull together the context-based data that is needed to run a successful co-benefits exercise. Our publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, expects to release the book late next year.
My approach is inspired by my experience as an undergraduate architecture student at Princeton. I remember the professor of our first architectural history/theory class telling us that she was going to teach us how to see our surroundings in a new way. Similar to the way a biologist notices more plants and animals during a walk in the woods than a lay person would, an architect learns new ways to notice his or her surroundings. A walk down the street might become a meditation on weatherproofing details—where they did their job, where they failed—on a street of building facades. When I talk in workshops about the links between public health and building design, I provide another way to look at that facade. How will it perform when the power goes out in a heat wave? Do the windows open? Are there screens to keep the mosquitoes out (and the diseases they carry)? How easy is it to walk to the building? And, crucially, what are the health needs of the people who live and work in this neighborhood? What is this building doing to contribute to a safe and healthy environment for its residents?
There's been a dramatic increase in interest in these issues over the past three years. Why?
My hunch is that interest may come from a growing sense of frustration within the industry that 20 years into the green building movement, the carbon footprint of buildings continues to increase, and trends in health conditions that are strongly influenced by the built environment—like obesity and heart disease—are moving in the wrong direction.
The role of indoor environments in transmitting the SARS-CoV-2 virus only added to the desire within the design community to begin to engage with the fundamental questions posed by epidemiology. Where did the disease originate? How is it spreading? What can be done to stop it? It is my hope that methods like the co-benefits framework and the problem-solving framework laid out in my book will help demystify the ways buildings influence community health, for better or worse. As designers begin to understand how their work influences the health of both building occupants and the surrounding community, it's my belief that they will begin to take a more proactive role in shaping the future we all want to inhabit.
Featured image: Via Verde in the Bronx, New York. Developed by Phipps Houses and Jonathan Rose Companies, the mixed income, multi-family residential development was designed to support healthy eating, physical activity, and good health. Houghton calls it "one of the best examples I have seen of a project that took a co-benefits approach to the design process." All photos and diagrams courtesy of Biositu.
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Martin C. Pedersen is executive director of the Common Edge Collaborative. A writer, editor and critic, he served as executive editor at Metropolis magazine for nearly fifteen years.


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Is it okay to send a student on Erasmus to Northern Ireland?
Yes, there's no problem with someone doing a traineeship Northern Ireland. The student will recieve the UK rate while on exchange.
Whose job is it source traineeships? The international officer or the student?
Traineeships can be sourced by either an institution's international department or by the students themselves. A number of institutions maintain long-term links with overseas companies similar to the links they maintain with other European institutions for study placements but that's not mandatory. The only thing international officers have to make sure of is that the receiving organisations meets the guidelines outlined on page 38 of the Erasmus+ Programme Guide.
Is it possible for a student to do two separate traineeships in the same (foreign) country?
Yes, so long as both traineeships meet the criteria for traineeships outlined in the programme guide.
What are the minimum number of weekly hours defined for a traineeship?
Technically, there are no outlined number of minimum weekly hours for an Erasmus+ traineeship. In a rare instance for the programme, common sense is expected to prevail here. If someone's going abroad and only doing two hours work a week then that is not really acceptable that as a traineeship. That doesn't mean, however, that a traineeship has to have the same number of hours as a normal working week. It can certainly be less. International officers are asked to look objectively at each position being offered and ask themselves whether it really is a traineeship or if it's just an excuse for a long holiday.
What happens if a student goes to two different countries to work in the same company?
The student would have to be registered as two separate grants, one for each country. It's also important to note that, even though it's the same company, the student would have to be present in both countries for the minimum requirement of two months.
One of our teachers will be accompanying a student abroad. Is this eligible to go through Erasmus as a Staff Training mobility?
For someone to go on exchange there needs to be a receiving organisation of some sort. A HEI with a Erasmus Charter or an "organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training and youth." If there's no receiving organisation we're not allowed to authorise the exchange.
Can I use teaching funds to support staff mobility and vice versa?
Yes. Annex II of the grant agreement goups both teacher training and staff mobility into the same category: "Staff Mobility for Teaching and Training Between Program Countries". Given that both groups belong to the same category, funding is freely transferable between them.
Some of my students will be finishing their mobility sooner than expected. Beyond the usual grace period of 5 days, is there any other leeway available?
Unfortunately, beyond the aforementioned 5 days, there's no leeway we can offer to students whose mobility finished earlier than expected. Any excess funds will have to be reimbursed.
Is it possible to give a student a top up on their grant from OM if they are struggling in relation to finance while abroad?
Unfortunately, top ups are not allowed under the Erasmus+ programme.
In article 2 of the grant agreement it asks for the exact dates of the mobility period. Are provisional dates acceptable?
As long as they represent an educated guess, provisional dates are fine.
My finance officer insists that the student's bank details are filled out on a separate form which they use to process payments. Instead of filling in the students bank details on the grant agreement, can I just attach this form?
No. Unfortunately, the students bank details have to be directly filled in on the grant agreement. While this may be an inconvience, it is necessary to ensure the integrity of the grant agreement as a contract.
Instead of filling in the "After the Mobility" section, can I just attach the student's transcripts?
No. Unfortunately, you are required to fully fill in the learning agreement. This includes the "After the Mobility" section of the agreement.
ICM - Can a student undertake credit mobility to their home country?
Yes but just like with KA103 mobilities it is expected, in the event of competition, you will give preference to students whose mobilties are not to their country of origin.
ICM - What documentation is needed for KA107 mobilities?
The same documentation that is needed for KA103 mobilties. A learning agreement or staff teaching/training agreement, a recipet of grant, a grant agreement and certificates (or emails) of attendance.
ICM - Does it matter if a beneficiary doesn't have citizenship/residency in their country of application?
No. However, if the incoming beneficiary is an Irish citzen then the rule of preference mentioned before applies.
ICM - With regard to student mobility incoming and outgoing, we applied for 3rd cycle and were approved for 1st cycle, is it okay to send and receive 3rd cycle students?
For incomming students, yes. In the case of outgoing students it is acceptable so long as that country has been approved for both 1st and 3rd cycle students.
If a student goes abroad for the first semester, and then applies to stay on for the second semester, do we need to prepare a new grant agreement for the second semester?
Yes, you are required to prepare and sign a new grant agreement. The student is technically applying for a whole new grant when they decide to extend their stay.
The additional modules for semester 2 are typed into Table A2 as "added components". There doesn't seem to be any place on the form for additional approval signatures, either for changes or additions to the study programme during the mobility. Are these not necessary?
All you need is an email confirmation from the associated parties. No actual signatures are necessary.
Is it now possible to transfer funds between incoming and outgoing mobility for KA107?
Yes, as long as the amended project respects the core of the initial project, the Programme Guide and any secondary criteria set by the National Agency
Is it necessary for host companies to complete both the after traineeship section of the traineeship agreement and also a separate confirmation of completion of placement?
No. The after section of the training agreement is sufficient.
If a student from a bilingual household goes on mobility do they have to do the OLS assessment?
Not if the institution believes that they qualify as fluent in the language of the host institution.


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The Persuasive Power of Opportunity Costs
Shane Frederick wrote a nice short article in the January-February 2011 issue of the Harvard Business Review on "The Persuasive Power of Opportunity Costs." He points out that framing choices by making opportunity costs explicit can persuade people to make certain choice--especially because the opportunity costs can be chosen to appear large or small. Opportunity cost, of course, is one of the first concepts taught in any intro economics course.
Here's an example from Frederick where the explicit opportunity cost appears large:
"While shopping for my first stereo, I spent an hour debating between a $1,000 Pioneer and a $700 Sony. Perhaps fearing that my indecision would cost him a sale, the salesman intervened with the comment "Well, think of it this way--would you rather have the Pioneer, or the Sony and $300 worth of CDs?"
Wow. The Sony--and by a large margin. Twenty new CDs were too great a sacrifice for the slightly more attractive Pioneer. Although I could subtract $700 from $1,000 and was capable--in principle--of recognizing that $300 could be used to buy $300 worth of CDs, I hadn't considered that until the salesman pointed it out."
Here's an example from Frederick where the opportunity cost is framed to sound small:
"[Here's a] strategy for those offering expensive products or policies: Cast the opportunities given up as something unattractive or unimportant. An ad by De Beers did this brilliantly. It depicted two large diamond earrings with the tagline "Redo the kitchen next year." Clever. It implied that the cost of the diamonds was merely a slight delay in a renovation. In fact, if a consumer spent the money reserved for the kitchen on the diamonds, it might take him or her much more than a year to save that amount again."
And here's a political example of making opportunity costs explicit, from the 1953 "Chance for Peace" speech given by President Dwight Eisenhower, who said:
"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.…We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."
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This is the extreme version of making sun prints on construction paper. I walked passed this solar print paper at the store and decided to give it a try.
From the Amazon Rainforest we traveled south to the ice cap of Antarctica on our trip around the world. Google defines an ice cap as: a covering of ice over a large area, especially on the polar region of a planet.
For 9 weeks we will be doing a unit on biomes. The first week was an introduction to habitat & biomes & a review of the continents. The next seven weeks we will be visiting (in our imaginations) each of the 7 continents & stopping in 7 different biomes. The last week we will use to tie up any loose ends.


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