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Waterfront Station
104.2 miles from seton lake, BC
Waterfront Station is a major transit hub said to be haunted by many ghosts. One is a 1920s lady who was seen dancing alone by a security guard. Another apparition was a group of three elderly ladies seen sitting on a bench. Furniture has been known to move by itself ...
Old Spaghetti Warehouse
The ghost of a train conductor visits the Old Spaghetti Factory Italian restaurant, according to local legend. He is said to have perished in an underground railway accident decades ago involving the very trolley car that's on display in the restaurant.
Water Street is said to be visited by a ghostly Asian mine worker--who has no head. The decapitated ghost, some tales say, came about when the man was walking along the tracks one night and got his foot caught in the rails. When the train came by he, quite literally, ...
Hotel Vancouver
Hotel Vancouver is haunted by a regular patron of the hotel's ballroom back in the 1930s and '40s. Jennie Pearl Cox died in a car accident in front of the building in 1944, and some say her spirit still visits. Guests have been assigned a room only to go back ...
The 1927 Orpheum Theatre is rumored to have an acrobat ghost. The vaudeville performer died in an accident and has been seen here in spirit.
Vogue Theatre
The 1940s-era Vogue Theatre closed in 1987, but rumor has it that the ghosts don't mind. It's said to be haunted by a pregnant woman who committed suicide and a man who sits in the theater seats, and sometimes brings friends along. Shadow figures have been noticed in the projection ...
St. Paul's Hospital
St. Paul's Hospital was founded in 1894 and was named after French bishop Paul Durieu of New Westminster. Both former patients and staff are said to haunt the place, seen as apparitions or strange lights or heard as disembodied voices. Witnesses have seen objects move by themselves and lights turn ...
James Cowan Theatre
Burnaby, British Columbia
The James Cowan Theatre and adjacent mansion the Ceperley House lie atop the former site of an orphanage run by cult leader William Frank Wolsey, a convicted bigamist who fraudulently called himself Archbishop John I. The man abused the boys at the orphanage in every way, and their spirits are ...
Fairacres Mansion
Fairacres Mansion, aka the Ceperley Home or Burnaby Art Gallery, was built around 1910 and is said to be haunted by the ghost of Mrs. Ceperley.
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Bernie Legge Theater
New Westminster, British Columbia
Bernie Legge Theater is said to have a ghostly Lady in White in the main theater, and some folks have heard disembodied footsteps on the stage. Other witnesses have felt an unexplained and extreme need to get out of the building.
Hycroft Manor
Hycroft Manor is a 30-room, 20,000 sq. ft. mansion haunted by prankish spirits who flicker lights and close doors. Ghosts have been seen and heard here, including a World War I soldier, a nurse, a well-dressed woman, and a crying man.
Ghostly activity in Central Park in Burnaby includes that of a little boy near the lake and a young lady near Swangard Stadium who searches for her lost children. The boy disappears upon being noticed, and the 1930s-era lady may speak garbled words. Other spirits have been seen in the ...
Irving House
The historic Irving house, built in 1865, was the home of Captain Irving and his family. Witnesses have felt a sensation of being watched and have reported strange noises, shivering walls, voices, and a strange indentation that appears in the master bedroom bed. The ghost of Captain Irving himself is ...
The Keg Restaurant
The Keg Restaurant serves up steaks, prime rib, and maybe a ghost or two. Once a railroad station, the historic building is said to have a ghost girl upstairs, a spectral lady walking through the front area, and a lady's face that appears in a mirror.
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Citations and Circulation Counts – Not Really Holiday Reading
If you think that an article called Citations and Circulation Counts – Data Sources for Monograph Deselection in Research Library Collections doesn't sound like terribly exciting reading for the holiday break you may well be right. But one thing that does sometimes get people excited (well, worked up) about libraries is when they THROW OUT OLD BOOKS!!! Especially when those old books are not just any old books but seminal scholarly works that have influenced a generation of researchers in their field and changed the course of research and someone who doesn't know anything about the subject in question has decided to retire them because they just look like, erm, old books.
University libraries buy many thousands of books every year (increasingly in electronic format and as part of packages rather than as individual titles) and, although they are all intended to support teaching or research, not all of them are timeless contributions to scholarship. And neither should they be. Many are aimed at the needs of undergraduate students or deal with the "topic of the month" and as time passes they become dated and even misleading and cease to merit their place on library shelves. In order to create space for newer titles, and to give them the prominence they deserve, libraries periodically remove older titles from their shelves and either place them in storage or dispose of them altogether. Personally I had the term "weeding" because it suggests that some books are noxious when really they're just old, but that's what it's called. Sorry.
The question then arises as to how the decision is made to remove a book from library shelves or retain it. In the distant past librarians looked at issue slips and date stamps to see how often a book had been borrowed and when it was last returned, and as library systems automated this information became available as DATA in the form of circulation counts and last-used dates. Since at least the 1970s there has been a strong consensus among librarians that weeding, which I euphemistically call deselection, should be based primarily on these system-derived data, along with the publication date, as being the best indicator of a book's value to library users – i.e. a book that is used less often than another similar one is a better candidate for removal from the shelves. There is a strong inherent logic to this, and libraries need to ensure that the books occupying valuable shelf space are doing their job of providing information to researchers and students, but books are also unique individual objects and there is a real problem with comparing apples (a scholarly work on the philosophy of Plato) with oranges (a text aimed at first year business students). The long tail, to swap metaphors, is a very real phenomenon with books and the function of a research library is to serve the highly specialised niche just as well as it does the airport market.
Of course librarians have recognised this and have tried to avoid applying circulation data in a totally formulaic way. Every subject from nursing to robotics has its classics that can't simply be removed from the shelves (although they might sometimes be consigned to "stack" collections) and a host of other older titles that are still of current relevance and importance, and deciding which of these to retain and which to dispose of becomes a matter of "professional judgment." Unfortunately librarians are generally not in a position to know which books on a given subject are of ongoing importance and which are not. (A relatively easy experiment will prove this but it can try the patience of one's colleagues so exercise caution if trying to replicate this finding.) This is not because we as a group are spectacularly ignorant, however, but because knowledge is so specialised and granulated that in any given area only a few (well, maybe a few hundred) experts know the literature well enough to say with any confidence which book is a classic, which one is a significant work and what other titles are past their use-by-dates. Circulation data are an unreliable guide to this as highly specialised works may be intellectually accessible to only a small number of readers, but no less important, or more important, than popular titles on the same topic.
For the past few years some of us at Massey Library have been using the Scopus database to find citations of books within the scholarly literature as a means of identifying these titles of long-term significance. By including full references in addition to abstracts Scopus makes this relatively easy, and by scripting a Scopus search into an Excel spreadsheet of titles it takes less than a minute per title to find out how many journal articles and books have cited each book. While this is still "only a metric" (and we are still largely ignorant of the books contents) this turns out to be a really useful metric in determining significance and, dare I say it, value, particularly when it is also possible to find the number of recent citations and those by Massey authors. Who knew, for example, that Aristotle's History of Animals has been cited 195 times since 2010 (once by a Massey researcher) while Milton Fingerman's 1981 tome Animal Diversity has only ever been cited three times, the most recent in 2003? It seems obvious when you see it like this with the numbers, but without them I would have had no way of guessing that the Fingerman book had made no significant contribution to scholarship while good old Aristotle is still receiving a lot of attention.
I became interested in testing how using citation data as well as circulation data for deselection decisions compared with using circulation data only, and whether the additional effort was worth it in terms of the additional information received. If the citation data merely confirmed what we already knew from circulation data (i.e. if Aristotle had been borrowed many more times than Fingerman) then the additional effort was not worthwhile, but if the citation data failed to correlate significantly with the circulation numbers then it was giving us new and important information. (That is if you think keeping a copy of Aristotle's work on zoology in a university library is important.) So I sat down for several weekends in the winter months of 2015 and clicked on links for over 1200 titles in zoology and political sciences and the answer was YES, the citation data did not correlate strongly with the circulation data and was supplying new and important information on which to guide our decisions. You can read the full article from the journal College & Research Libraries here.
This study relates to the deselection of print books and may seem rather out-of-date in a world where scholarly books are incresaingly becoming electronic and virtual. However, physically removing books from shelves is only one means by which libraries filter and shape their collections and we have already faced the prospect of having to remove dated ebooks from our virtual shelves. In fact if libraries and collections are to have a real meaning in future, as opposed to just an "everything that exists" approach, then some means of identifying and measuring significance as opposed to usage or popularity will become even more critical and the citation approach would seem to be a promising one. We are currently looking at the prospect of automating the citation gathering process so that in future we don't have to click on hundreds or thousands of links and that has the potential of creating a very useful tool for both librarians and researchers.
One of the nervous-making things about doing research of this kind is the possibility finding that what you have found is not original, that someone got there before you and your work is confirmatory but not original. Fortunately I didn't find that to be the case and the literature showed a strong consensus towards using circulation data only – in the rare case it was mentioned as a possible means of supporting deselection decisions it was more or less dismissed out of hand. However no good idea is entirely original and I did find one precursor paper hidden in a footnote, a 1989 article by Amrita Burdick – Science Citation Index Data as a Safety Net for Basic Science Books Considered for Weeding. At the time Burdick carried out her study Scopus didn't exist and Science Citation Index was expensive to use so her sample was only 79 titles, but she made the prescient observation that "a correlation of citation frequency with circulation statistics would provide evidence of the value of citations in predicting use." Actually what was found was that citation and circulation figures do not correlate closely but it was exciting to test her hypothesis.
Bruce White
Science Librarian
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To be a final resting place, Historic Oakland Cemetery is beaming with life. I recently visited for the second time, specifically to see the grave site of the world famous Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind. The first time I went, there was a film crew in the area and I couldn't get so close.
What a gratifying experience...as much as I've been studying her, being at her grave site gave me an odd sense of connection—more so than through some of the artifacts I've had the great pleasure of seeing up close.
Margaret Mitchell's final resting place is fairly modest, especially compared to some of the other ornately sculpted and gargantuan grave markers. But actually, of all who are buried at Oakland Cemetery, I would venture to say that Margaret Mitchell has the greatest global celebrity—not that it's a competition.
She is, however, in some great company, including golf legend Bobby Jones, Atlanta's first African-American major Maynard Jackson, six Georgia governors, and 3,000 unknown Confederate soldiers...and thousands more.
One of the very cool aspects of where Margaret Mitchell is buried—which is a family plot where her husband was later laid to rest next to her—is that you can also see the Georgia-Pacific Building (above photo, building on the left), which is where the Loew's Grand Theatre once stood—home of the premier of Gone With the Wind.
Historic Oakland Cemetery is a beautiful Victorian garden cemetery, and so much more—and I highly recommend exploring it, fully—but right now I'd like to talk a bit about Margaret's life.
So many people connect with Margaret Mitchell through Gone With the Wind the book or the movie, but she was a fairly complex person, well beyond the complexities of being a 1937 Pulitzer Prize winning author alone.
Hers is a wonderful story.
Gone With the Wind very likely would not have come about had it not been for multiple injuries, beginning with a horse riding injury Margaret sustained as a child.
But, before I go further, let me clarify the various names Margaret went by throughout her life. She was baptized Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, which is what her family and friends knew her as up until the time she went to college.
Not too long after returning to Atlanta after a year a Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, she secured a writing job at the Atlanta Journal and went by the pen name "Peggy Mitchell." She later married John Marsh and was then known as Margaret Mitchell Marsh, although it's said by her friends that she really preferred to be called Mrs. John Marsh.
Although a prolific writer—she'd been writing since she could hold a pencil, known for her plays and poetry at a very early age—and a voracious reader—she read practically everything at her nearby public library—she was a far cry from an introvert.
As a matter of fact, she loved to entertain and she loved adventure...she was fearless as far as I can figure. For example, when she took the job at the Atlanta Journal, she once let herself be swung out of a window in a sling to see how the workmen would feel who were carving the Confederate Memorial on the face of Stone Mountain. Now that's gumption!
Even more importantly, and probably the thing that I admire most about her, Margaret Mitchell was a very caring and compassionate person. She cared for all kinds of people—particularly people in distress—and not just with her words. Actually, a lot of her generosity and charity went unknown until well after her death.
For the longest time, a local federal prison held an annual Margaret Mitchell Memorial Contest, for prose and poetry—she obviously had an impact on the inmates' lives. Another count of her generosity was funding scholarships for African-American medical students at Morehouse College—with the stipulation that they practice medicine here in Atlanta. She never met any of the recipients, but again, made a significant contribution. These stories go on and on!
Margaret was very modest about her celebrity...she always wanted to be just a regular Atlanta citizen. As starstruck as I would be if I had met her, I know I would have loved her even more upon discovering that she was just a regular citizen. What an amazing feat that was to have achieved when Hollywood was at its height of celebrity fanfare!
Small in stature—she was all of 5-feet tall (My grandmother was 4'9", so I know just how tiny Margaret was!)—she is even this many decades after her passing one of the biggest celebrities the world has ever known...I wonder if she knew just how famous she was. Certainly, selling more than a million copies of her book in the first 1.5 years was an indicator, and that had not been done before, so...her modesty was truly admirable.
You know, Margaret Mitchell totally sounds like someone I would have loved to have known. Her kindness, her modesty, her sense of adventure—in life and in writing...what a great friend she must have been.
Margaret's remains may be at rest, but she is alive and well in the hearts of millions of fans around the world.


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Q: Symfony4 - MakerBundle : How to find all users by role? I would like to get all the admins among the users (ie having the role ROLE_ADMIN).
The attribute role is "json", so I think I can't use "like" or "=" operators.
I implemented user management using MakerBundle in symfony4 project (make:user then make:auth commands).
class User implements UserInterface
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="json")
     */
    private $roles = [];
}

class UserRepository extends ServiceEntityRepository
{
    public function findByRole($role){
        return  $this->createQueryBuilder('u')
            ->where("u.roles like :role  ")
            ->setParameter('role', '%'.$role.'%')
            ->getQuery()
            ->getResult();
    }
}

class MyController extends AbstractController
{
    public function edit(UserRepository $userRepository): Response
    {
        $admins = $userRepository->findByRole('ROLE_ADMIN');
        dump($admins);
        exit;
    }
}

When I call the findByRole('ROLE_ADMIN') in a controller, the error message is :
SQLSTATE[42883]: Undefined function: 7 ERREUR: l'opérateur n'existe pas : json ~~ unknown
LINE 1: ...AS reset_token_5 FROM itibr_user i0_ WHERE i0_.roles LIKE $1

I also tried to use scienta/doctrine-json-functions (https://packagist.org/packages/scienta/doctrine-json-functions), but I couldn't fix it.

A: The solution I found is based on https://www.remipoignon.fr/symfony-comment-verifier-le-role-dun-utilisateur-en-respectant-la-hierarchie-des-roles/ (sorry, it's a French article)
I created a GrantedService and then in my controller :
public function edit(UserRepository $userRepository){
        foreach($userRepository->findAll() as $user){
            if( $grantedService->isGranted($user, 'ROLE_ADMIN') ){
                //do something...
            }
        }
}

For my current project with very few users, it's OK. But I have other projects with thousands of users, I know that findAll() then test all is not a good practice. So I will have to fix this problem later on

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HomeNewsGaza: Two Palestinians Killed in Israel Air Strike
Gaza: Two Palestinians Killed in Israel Air Strike
At least two Palestinians have been killed during a fresh Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say.
"Two Palestinians were killed and another wounded Sunday morning in an Israeli air raid on targets east of Jabaliya," Adham Abu Senmya, a spokesman for the Gaza emergency services, told AFP.
The attack came a day after several Palestinian factions, including the Hamas resistance movement, expressed commitment to a national agreement to restore calm with Tel Aviv.
After a week of deadly bombardments of the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tel Aviv was ready to act with "great force" against Palestinians.
Hamas announced on Saturday that it was committed like other factions to calm and that it would not give Israel "any pretext to launch another war against Gaza."
"Palestinian factions have discussed the recent surge in Israeli attacks on Gaza. They are all committed to remaining calm in order to prevent the occupation [Israeli] forces from committing any more crimes against humanity," said Ismail Radwan, a senior Hamas official.
The Islamic Jihad movement, however, said it would not allow Israel to use the Gaza Strip for "target practice."
"We will not accept the situation that Gaza is used for target practice by Israeli forces to show the military skills. We have stated it clearly that any attack will be met with strong response from the Islamic Jihad," a prominent Islamic Jihad official Khalid al-Batsh said.
The meeting between Palestinian factions came amid fears that Israel might wage another war against the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have carried out large numbers of ground and air attacks on Gaza since the end of Operation Cast Lead against the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2009.
More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three-week Israeli land, sea and air offensive in the impoverished coastal sliver. The offensive also inflicted USD 1.6 billion damage to the Gazan economy.
Israel laid an economic siege on the Gaza Strip in June 2007, after Hamas took control of the enclave.
The blockade has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip.
Some 1.5 million people are being denied their basic rights, including freedom of movement, and their rights to appropriate living conditions, work, health and education.
Poverty and unemployment rates stand at approximately 80 percent and 60 percent, respectively, in the Gaza Strip.
(Press TV)
Gaza Parties Committed to Calm
Majority of Palestinian Voices Still Being Ignored


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Some volunteering activities require learning new skills. Gaining a new ability can provide mental stimulation that we would otherwise not experience. Also, in growing our skill set to make a difference for others, we can gain a sense of pride and identity, which can lead to having a more positive view of oneself.
Regardless of our age, volunteering can give meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in different ways. Whether it's with seniors, children, animals or due to a natural disaster, the willingness to do what's needed in the moment can put things in perspective while expanding our minds, hearts and worldview.
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Research shows that feel good hormones and brain activity spike during volunteer activities. Humans are designed to be in community, serving one another. Volunteering makes the world a better place.


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Innovation has everything to do with something new. In competitive business situations, success often comes to the best innovators. It may seem strange, but we can learn about innovation - making something new - by studying innovations and innovative methods from the past.


ACOEM publishes numerous books, reports, and position statements, as you can quickly see on their web site at www.acoem.org. Due to some terminology confusion that has since been addressed, two very different publications were originally called "guidelines" - (a) the medical practice guidelines and (b) the paper on preventing needless work disability which is the foundation for The 60 Summits Project.
Perhaps the most widely-known ACOEM publication is the Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines, which are addressed to treating clinicians and which describe specific diagnostic steps and treatments for most common work-related conditions. The Practice Guidelines are several hundred pages long, and are sold on the ACOEM website.
In contrast, the ACOEM paper on preventing needless work disability is a "Guidance Statement," which is a much shorter document addressed to all stakeholders, and which describes in general how to make a shared process work better. It is about 20 pages long, and is free on ACOEM's website.
In medicine, this means that something should not be done because it poses a serious risk to a patient, for example giving penicillin to someone with a history of anaphylaxis from previous exposure to penicillin.
The word "disability" (or "disabled") has two distinct meanings in American society today.
1.	In employers' benefits programs and employment policies, in insurance laws, regulations, and policies, "having a disability" or "being disabled" refers to being absent from work or not working at full productive capacity for reasons related to a medical condition. This is the meaning used in The 60 Summits Project.
2.	In equal employment and anti-discrimination programs, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and advocacy organizations, the words "disability" and "disabled" are used to describe physical or functional impairments.
For example, a person who has an impairment that affects one or more life functions is considered to have a disability under the second definition. However, people with ADA-qualifying impairments who are working at full productive capacity would NOT be considered disabled according to the first definition (or work disabled according to The 60 Summits Project), because they are at work.
The disability benefits systems of North America include all the programs that protect workers when they become unable to work for medical reasons - especially those that provide financial support - such as sick leave, workers' compensation, short term disability (STD), long term disability (LTD), and Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) in the United States. Other closely related programs include the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the ADA (in the US) and their Canadian counterparts, though they do not pay benefits per se. The estimated total annual cost of disability benefits paid under all these systems in the US exceeds $100 billion.
Every disability benefit program usually requires a physician's signature on a letter, note, or form of some kind before benefits can be awarded or denied. Other than that one similarity, disability benefit programs and the processes for administering them are better characterized by their many differences. Each has its own complex rules and processes for eligibility determination and for administration of benefits. Experts in one system often do not know much about the others. Each of the programs has generally received significant study and attention on process improvements and benefit program design, but each one has been considered in isolation. The programs are not knit together into a coherent, coordinated whole, and the whole has not received similar attention to potential improvements.
This is a term we have coined. Iatrogenic usually refers to an unfortunate medical event that was caused by the doctor, the hospital or the healthcare system. In our usage, we broaden the meaning to include adverse outcomes caused by the failure of the stakeholders to respond appropriately to the needs of the injured or ill worker and collaborate in driving the episode towards a good outcome. Invalidism refers to a state in which people see themselves (inaccurately) as invalids, as people who "can't". And, unfortunately, once someone believes they "can't", that point of view becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"There's nothing useful this person can do."
"We don't allow light duty."
"I don't have time to fuss with this stuff."
"We can't figure out how to provide work within these limitations."
"There's no way to get her to work if she can't drive."
"Our labor contract prohibits light duty."
Difficulties at work due to the inability to attend work or situations	function at previous levels that are attributed to a medical condition. This includes episodes of workplace absence or withdrawal; questions about fitness for duty; performance problems, discipline, termination or other job loss due to poor attendance or inability to perform.
1.	The worker requires care in a hospital, day treatment program or has a medical care appointment.
2.	The worker is confined to bed or home.
Generally, this is because of (a) prostration and need for rest due to acute response to injury or trauma; or (b) concerns about contagion or immunity.
Note that absence that appears to be medically-required is often really due to circumstances such as the nature of the commute or workplace factors, and not due to the nature of the condition itself. In other words, if the circumstances were changed, the contraindication to working would disappear.
Lost workdays and productivity that are impossible to justify but hard to eliminate completely. Basically, most of this absence is due to the lack of a sense of urgency, to bureaucracy, flabby management, and poor accountability. However, a lot of workdays and productivity are also lost due to delayed, inadequate or ineffective medical care.
Lost workdays and lost productivity that is not medically required. Needless work disability is either medically-discretionary or medically-unnecessary.
A medical specialty, a part of the general field of preventive medicine	health problems or concerns due to workplace exposure.
Occupational physicians prevent and treat work-related injuries (usually covered by workers' compensation) as well as occupational illnesses such as asbestosis, repetitive stress and musculoskeletal disorders caused by exertion and overuse. Occupational medicine also includes worksite wellness and health promotion programs and more recently has begun to include an emphasis on work disability prevention and management as well as workforce well-being and productivity.
A sequence of questions, answers, actions and decisions made separately by parties in different sectors of society (workers, employers, doctors) that, taken as a whole, determines whether a worker will stay at work in spite of a medical condition, and if not, determines whether, when, and how the worker will return to work during or after recovery. However, this process is often stalled or short-circuited because the focus is on certifying, corroborating, justifying or evaluating the extent of disability rather than preventing it.
All those who get involved in medically-related employment situations or who participate in or have influence over how the stay-at-work and return-to-work process functions: employers, working people, physicians and other healthcare professionals, the disability benefits and workers' compensation insurance industries, regulators, policymakers, unions, lawyers, judges, legislators.
Absence or withdrawal from work, or working at less than full productive capacity (e.g., transitional work or "light duty") attributed to a medical condition. See also disability.
A secondary prevention technique, in which the focus is on keeping a small problem small, or as the old adage says "a stitch in time saves nine." In the particular context of work disability prevention, the technique can be summarized as "getting right back on the horse and in the saddle." The focus is on preserving or restoring normal daily routine within days or at most a few weeks in order to avert delayed recovery and the development of iatrogenic invalidism.
Work disability prevention is NOT injury prevention, NOT safety, and NOT wellness or health promotion. These are examples of primary prevention techniques which focus on avoiding problems completely.
Work disability prevention is also NOT traditional return to work programs or vocational rehabilitation. These are examples of tertiary prevention techniques, which focus on mitigating damages in situations where substantial harm has already occurred. Traditional return to work and vocational rehabilitation programs typically kick-in after several months or years of absence from work.


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package org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.security.reactive;

import java.net.URI;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.endpoint.EndpointAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.endpoint.web.WebEndpointAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.env.EnvironmentEndpointAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.health.HealthContributorAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.health.HealthEndpointAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.info.InfoEndpointAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfigurations;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.security.oauth2.resource.reactive.ReactiveOAuth2ResourceServerAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.security.reactive.ReactiveSecurityAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.security.reactive.ReactiveUserDetailsServiceAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.assertj.AssertableReactiveWebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.runner.ReactiveWebApplicationContextRunner;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.springframework.http.server.reactive.ServerHttpRequest;
import org.springframework.http.server.reactive.ServerHttpResponse;
import org.springframework.mock.http.server.reactive.MockServerHttpRequest;
import org.springframework.mock.http.server.reactive.MockServerHttpResponse;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.ReactiveAuthenticationManager;
import org.springframework.security.config.Customizer;
import org.springframework.security.config.web.server.ServerHttpSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.web.server.SecurityWebFilterChain;
import org.springframework.security.web.server.WebFilterChainProxy;
import org.springframework.web.server.ServerWebExchange;
import org.springframework.web.server.WebHandler;
import org.springframework.web.server.adapter.HttpWebHandlerAdapter;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;

/**
 * Tests for {@link ReactiveManagementWebSecurityAutoConfiguration}.
 *
 * @author Madhura Bhave
 */
class ReactiveManagementWebSecurityAutoConfigurationTests {

	private ReactiveWebApplicationContextRunner contextRunner = new ReactiveWebApplicationContextRunner()
			.withConfiguration(AutoConfigurations.of(HealthContributorAutoConfiguration.class,
					HealthEndpointAutoConfiguration.class, InfoEndpointAutoConfiguration.class,
					EnvironmentEndpointAutoConfiguration.class, EndpointAutoConfiguration.class,
					WebEndpointAutoConfiguration.class, ReactiveSecurityAutoConfiguration.class,
					ReactiveUserDetailsServiceAutoConfiguration.class,
					ReactiveManagementWebSecurityAutoConfiguration.class));

	@Test
	void permitAllForHealth() {
		this.contextRunner.run((context) -> assertThat(getAuthenticateHeader(context, "/actuator/health")).isNull());
	}

	@Test
	void permitAllForInfo() {
		this.contextRunner.run((context) -> assertThat(getAuthenticateHeader(context, "/actuator/info")).isNull());
	}

	@Test
	void securesEverythingElse() {
		this.contextRunner.run((context) -> {
			assertThat(getAuthenticateHeader(context, "/actuator").get(0)).contains("Basic realm=");
			assertThat(getAuthenticateHeader(context, "/foo").toString()).contains("Basic realm=");
		});
	}

	@Test
	void usesMatchersBasedOffConfiguredActuatorBasePath() {
		this.contextRunner.withPropertyValues("management.endpoints.web.base-path=/").run((context) -> {
			assertThat(getAuthenticateHeader(context, "/health")).isNull();
			assertThat(getAuthenticateHeader(context, "/foo").get(0)).contains("Basic realm=");
		});
	}

	@Test
	void backsOffIfCustomSecurityIsAdded() {
		this.contextRunner.withUserConfiguration(CustomSecurityConfiguration.class).run((context) -> {
			assertThat(getLocationHeader(context, "/actuator/health").toString()).contains("/login");
			assertThat(getLocationHeader(context, "/foo")).isNull();
		});
	}

	@Test
	void backOffIfReactiveOAuth2ResourceServerAutoConfigurationPresent() {
		this.contextRunner.withConfiguration(AutoConfigurations.of(ReactiveOAuth2ResourceServerAutoConfiguration.class))
				.withPropertyValues("spring.security.oauth2.resourceserver.jwt.jwk-set-uri=https://authserver")
				.run((context) -> assertThat(context)
						.doesNotHaveBean(ReactiveManagementWebSecurityAutoConfiguration.class));
	}

	@Test
	void backsOffWhenWebFilterChainProxyBeanPresent() {
		this.contextRunner.withUserConfiguration(WebFilterChainProxyConfiguration.class).run((context) -> {
			assertThat(getLocationHeader(context, "/actuator/health").toString()).contains("/login");
			assertThat(getLocationHeader(context, "/foo").toString()).contains("/login");
		});
	}

	private List<String> getAuthenticateHeader(AssertableReactiveWebApplicationContext context, String path) {
		ServerWebExchange exchange = performFilter(context, path);
		return exchange.getResponse().getHeaders().get(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE);
	}

	private ServerWebExchange performFilter(AssertableReactiveWebApplicationContext context, String path) {
		ServerWebExchange exchange = webHandler(context).createExchange(MockServerHttpRequest.get(path).build(),
				new MockServerHttpResponse());
		WebFilterChainProxy proxy = context.getBean(WebFilterChainProxy.class);
		proxy.filter(exchange, (serverWebExchange) -> Mono.empty()).block(Duration.ofSeconds(30));
		return exchange;
	}

	private URI getLocationHeader(AssertableReactiveWebApplicationContext context, String path) {
		ServerWebExchange exchange = performFilter(context, path);
		return exchange.getResponse().getHeaders().getLocation();
	}

	private TestHttpWebHandlerAdapter webHandler(AssertableReactiveWebApplicationContext context) {
		TestHttpWebHandlerAdapter adapter = new TestHttpWebHandlerAdapter(mock(WebHandler.class));
		adapter.setApplicationContext(context);
		return adapter;
	}

	static class TestHttpWebHandlerAdapter extends HttpWebHandlerAdapter {

		TestHttpWebHandlerAdapter(WebHandler delegate) {
			super(delegate);
		}

		@Override
		protected ServerWebExchange createExchange(ServerHttpRequest request, ServerHttpResponse response) {
			return super.createExchange(request, response);
		}

	}

	@Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
	static class CustomSecurityConfiguration {

		@Bean
		SecurityWebFilterChain springSecurityFilterChain(ServerHttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
			http.authorizeExchange((exchanges) -> {
				exchanges.pathMatchers("/foo").permitAll();
				exchanges.anyExchange().authenticated();
			});
			http.formLogin(Customizer.withDefaults());
			return http.build();
		}

	}

	@Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
	static class WebFilterChainProxyConfiguration {

		@Bean
		ReactiveAuthenticationManager authenticationManager() {
			return mock(ReactiveAuthenticationManager.class);
		}

		@Bean
		WebFilterChainProxy webFilterChainProxy(ServerHttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
			return new WebFilterChainProxy(getFilterChains(http));
		}

		@Bean
		TestServerHttpSecurity http(ReactiveAuthenticationManager authenticationManager) {
			TestServerHttpSecurity httpSecurity = new TestServerHttpSecurity();
			httpSecurity.authenticationManager(authenticationManager);
			return httpSecurity;
		}

		private List<SecurityWebFilterChain> getFilterChains(ServerHttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
			http.authorizeExchange((exchanges) -> exchanges.anyExchange().authenticated());
			http.formLogin(Customizer.withDefaults());
			return Collections.singletonList(http.build());
		}

		static class TestServerHttpSecurity extends ServerHttpSecurity implements ApplicationContextAware {

			@Override
			public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
				super.setApplicationContext(applicationContext);
			}

		}

	}

}

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Sep 26, 2011 Sep 26, 2011 14
The Medium Is the Message: Should a College Call, Text or Tweet?
By Rebecca R. Ruiz
The Choice at Nacac
The Choice takes readers backstage as nearly 5,000 admissions officers and counselors gather in New Orleans.
The Gap Year: Breaking up the "Cradle to College to Cubicle to Cemetery" Cycle
Do Admissions Interviews Matter?
Crafting an Application Essay That 'Pops'
Applying to College in the United Kingdom
In Praise of the Teenage Brain
College Counselors Convene in the Big Easy
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Members of the millennial generation may be stereotyped as rabid text messagers, but a group of nearly 10 high school seniors and college freshmen agreed on Saturday that they would most like to hear from a college they are interested in by phone.
The group of students, all from the New Orleans area, spoke during a session called "Technology in the College Process: The Student Perspective," held as the curtain came down on the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
Mystified counselors sought clarification.
"You don't want us to text you?" one asked in disbelief.
A 12th grader replied, "If you're going to use the phone, taking the time to call is a lot better, a lot more personal."
Another university representative asked when might be the best time to call.
"Outside of school hours, because there's not very good service at my school," the student replied. "Also because I want to be sure I'll be able to answer."
Another revelation for counselors came when the students expressed little interest in connecting with colleges on Facebook, suggesting that a university's presence on their news feeds was invasive.
Interviewing with a college is a signal of an applicant's interest in actually attending, said Karen Richardson, associate director of admissions at Tufts University, on Friday.
But unless a student fails to show up or speak, the meetings certainly do not "make or break" a decision, she noted while speaking on a National Association of College Admissions Counselors conference panel entitled "Those Darn College Interviews: A Firm Handshake, A Feeble Purpose?"
Ms. Richardson emphasized in earnest that the interview is every bit as much for the student to learn more about an institution as it is for the institution to learn more about a student.
She and her fellow panelists stressed that, while admissions interviews are powerful informational tools, they can be deeply flawed.
Kelly Sortino, director of college counseling at Crystal Springs Uplands School in California and a former admissions officer at Princeton University, pointed to the potential inadequacy of interviews conducted by graduates. "Just because someone got a degree from an institution doesn't mean they have the best things to say or know the most about it," she said.
Ms. Sortino shared an anecdote of a high school senior she encountered who, asked to meet at the home of an interviewer who was a graduate — "which was weird to begin with" — was asked to sing a Miley Cyrus song. The student reported the incident to the institution to which she was applying but, Ms. Sortino said, that alumnus could well have continued interviewing applicants due to how understaffed many admissions offices are in times of rising application numbers. "They need bodies on the ground," she said.
As a former interviewer herself, Ms. Sortino encountered underprepared applicants and warned against walking into a conversation without research and practice. In an extreme case, one student she interviewed, speaking on his interest in Princeton proclaimed his love of Boston: "He was wasting my time, and I was wasting his time."
Sep 23, 2011 Sep 23, 2011 3
Stanford University's application for admission includes a prompt directing students to write a letter to their future freshman roommates. The exercise is a good one for all applicants – regardless of their interest in Stanford – as a fun, fresh jumping-off point in the essay writing process, Rebecca Joseph, a professor of education at California State University, said on Friday.
"It's all about loosening up," said Ms. Joseph, who was on a panel called "Communicating Stories: Strategies to Help Students Write Powerful College Essays," part of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors conference in New Orleans.
She quoted various students' "Dear Roommate" pieces:
"If you want to borrow my music, just ask. If you want to borrow my underwear, just take them."
"I eat ice cream with a fork, and I drink orange juice right after I brush my teeth just for the sour taste."
"If you have anything other than a Dodgers poster on the wall, I will tear it down."
"Using 'I' is scary," Ms. Joseph said, but students must get comfortable with their first-person voice on paper in order to craft successful, resonant essays.
Interested in more than a semester abroad but unsure of how to navigate a foreign admissions system?
For American students considering studying in Britain, be encouraged: the student visa application process has been remarkably simplified in recent years, according to Robert Willis, international admissions officer of the University of Edinburgh.
"The detail and data required have been substantially reduced," he said on Thursday, speaking on a panel titled "Global Destinations: The Best of British Higher Education," as part of the annual convention of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
There are about 130 universities in Britain, nearly all of them public and the majority of them within England.
Most undergraduate programs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are three years, Mr. Willis said, and students must specialize from the outset – there are no undecided majors. (In contrast, Scotland, like the United States, has four-year programs that afford flexibility in course selection during a student's first and second years.)
Students may earn professional degrees at the undergraduate level in Britain, though not all programs are available to students matriculating from outside of the European Union. For example, while law programs (three to four years) and architecture programs (five to seven years) are open to American students, programs in medicine (five to seven years) are restricted to European Union citizens.
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The developing teenage brain – "stupid, irrational and reckless" – is best suited to select a college, so suggested Jonah Lehrer, a neuroscience writer and an author of "How We Decide," in his keynote speech Thursday kicking off the 67th annual convention of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or Nacac, in New Orleans.
Mr. Lehrer advised that students "trust the gut" in deciding what college to go to, citing scientific experiments to emphasize that rational thinking can be debilitating.
He referred to a study in which a group of people were asked to choose one car from 16 options. Half of the group was left to think over the choices; the other half was distracted with word puzzles. When made to choose, those that were not distracted made superior decisions. Score one point for rational, concentrated thinking.
But when the selection was more complicated – with 48 different types of cars to choose from – and the experiment was repeated, 70 percent of those that were distracted by puzzles and forced to choose out of instinct rather than reason made "the best possible decision," whereas those that had been completely focused on considering all 48 choices made that best selection only 20 percent of the time.
Guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the country are gathering in New Orleans on Thursday for the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
As Jacques Steinberg has written of the gathering before:
It is a perennial college-admissions rite so integral that a prospect's name scribbled on the back of the right business card can sometimes carry the weight of a high standardized-test score.
We at the Choice will be attending the conference, observing its happenings and sitting in on a handful of the hundreds of educational seminars that deliver advice on topics like financial aid tips and study-abroad suggestions. The conference ends Saturday.
We pledge to pass on whatever useful information we gather. Be sure to check back for our continuing coverage.


2 things: Firstly why can I not find a simple way of sorting out a problem either by a direct email to tech staff at Homestead, of by a live chat.? The community help is simply not precise enough. Given too the fee I pay each year I find it outrageous that there is no obvious straightforward way of contact. Not even Facebook as far as I can see! Secondly: I want and need to sort out html on my site(s) but it is more complicated no doubt due in part to the fact that when following your initial instructions my computer crashed. I have tried following the instruction on the community help section and that gets me nowhere - I need help from a member of staff who can deal with MY problem,not a generalisation.
I'm of the same opinion, Barbara2146. The community helps, but it's not exact enough when it comes to some issues. Homestead may lose customers if they don't fix this.
We cannot tell you how to create your sites via HTML if that is what you are asking. We have a builder available to you for building your sites. Anything outside of that, you will need to learn outside of Homestead.


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Mayor Bill de Blasio has joined many on the City Council in calling for the "defunding" of the New York Police Department.
Christopher Sadowski
After more than a week of protests and unrest in New York City following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Mayor de Blasio has finally given in to the pressure and joined many of my colleagues on the City Council in calling for the "defunding" of the New York Police Department.
It's amazing how rapidly progressives' priorities shift — and the alacrity with which they embrace ever more radical positions.
A year ago — June 2019 — was marked by the suicides of four NYPD officers in a span of three weeks. By October, 10 members of our Police Department had killed themselves, and the City Council proposed legislation that would dramatically improve mental-health resources for officers. But that legislation has sat idle, and the mayor only offered a mere $1 million for additional mental-health services for cops.
Two years ago, the city mourned the Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS mass shooting in Florida with protests and calls for gun reform. Conversations about school safety were at the forefront as numerous threats arose in the weeks that followed. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli even released a report stating that many New York City schools weren't prepared for a shooting or other emergencies. But today, advocates and the Department of Education want the NYPD school-safety agents out of their buildings completely.
Before this city's lawmakers rush to set a national precedent by shifting funding away from NYPD toward education and social services, let's first consider how those agencies are wasting taxpayer money.
Rather than investing in poorly performing schools in the communities that need it most, the DOE's priority is to eliminate screening for the city's best middle and high schools. To accomplish that flawed mission, the DOE employs 1,189 officials with desk jobs who make upward of $125,000 per year. At least 50 of those executives bring home more than $200,000 per year.
Yet the DOE wants to eliminate, rather than expand, the number of gifted and talented programs throughout the city that could provide more students with better opportunities to succeed.
ThriveNYC, the city initiative to tackle the mental-health crisis, still has a proposed budget of $231 million for the coming fiscal year despite heavy criticism from the City Council in 2019. Under the leadership of Co-Mayor Chirlane McCray, the department has failed to show any measurable outcomes for its services. Yet progressive activists would have the city shift critical NYPD funds to this failing boondoggle.
The Department of Homeless Services itself wastes an absurd amount of money on contracts with nonprofits that fail to live up to their duties. For example, Children's Community Services operated 25 homeless shelters for more than $500 million since 2017, but it is now under investigation for defrauding the city of millions more.
This isn't to say that the NYPD should be immune to budget cuts while our city is in the middle of a historic financial crisis. If anything, cuts to the police budget should start with the security details for the City Council and the mayor, who took NYPD officers around the country during his embarrassing presidential campaign.
But while the national movement to defund police departments continues to grow, New York City saw 13 murders last week. The number of shooting incidents was up by 21 percent as of May. Burglaries were also up by 38 percent in May, and that trend was capped off by a looting spree last week in which more than 2,300 burglaries were committed on June 1.
Yes, we should divert city funds toward youth and social services in an effort to keep our youth out of the criminal-justice system. That is absolutely vital to the future of this city. But divert those funds by spending smarter and eliminating the millions in waste from the agencies that are supposed to accomplish those tasks. Our police are just as vital to the future of our city.
City Councilman Robert Holden represents District 30 in Queens.
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The March 2 meeting will be in WEL304, 3rd floor of the new Welcome Centre building at the southwest corner of Kipling and Lake Shore Blvd West.
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This drain strainer orifice system, a prototype, is a steam system component that permits drainage and removal of water from a steam line while in use. A version of this is approved as the first metal part created by additive manufacturing for shipboard installation and will be installed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. Photo via NAVSEA.
NAVSEA, the largest of the U.S. Navy's five systems commands, builds, buys and maintains naval ships, submarines, and combat systems to "meet the fleet's current and future operational requirements." With this responsibility, the command has previously integrated new technologies such as additive manufacturing to advance overall ship maintenance.
The command has 3D printed a tie bolt anti-rotation tool used for fixing structurally supportive frames and trusses, an F-35 stealth fighter landing gear door component, and flip-top valves for oxygen masks worn by Naval aircraft crews. With experience in plastic materials, Huntington Ingalls Industries – Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS), manufacturers of Navy aircraft carriers, proposed installing a prototype metal DSO assembly on the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) ship for test and evaluation.
"By targeting CVN 75 [USS Harry S. Truman], this allows us to get test results faster, so-if successful-we can identify additional uses of additive manufacturing for the fleet," added Rear Admiral Selby.
The DSO assembly is a steam system component that enables drainage and the removal of water from a steam line while in use on an aircraft carrier. The metal 3D printed prototype has passed functional and environmental testing, which involved the evaluation of material, welding, shock, vibration, hydrostatic, and operational steam.
This process used traditional mechanical testing to identify requirements and acceptance criteria. Following such tests, the prototype assembly will be removed for analysis and inspection.
"Specifications will establish a path for NAVSEA and industry to follow when designing, manufacturing and installing AM components shipboard and will streamline the approval process," said Dr. Justin Rettaliata, Technical Warrant Holder for Additive Manufacturing.
Final requirements are still under review as the 3D printed DSO assembly continues to be evaluated within a low temperature and low pressure saturated steam system.
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Home Mexican States Tabasco experienced the most severe floods in decades last autumn
Tabasco experienced the most severe floods in decades last autumn
When Tabasco experienced the most severe floods in decades last autumn local community brigades were put to the test. Leveraging their human and social capital developed through our joint work they provided early warning and quickly organized first response operations in cooperation with Civil Protection and the Mexican Red Cross.
By Jonathan Ulrich, Jimena Cuevas, Brenda Avila Flores and Francisco Gabriel Reyes Gil
Creating community brigades to build flood resilience
The Mexican Red Cross has worked with flood prone and marginalized communities in Tabasco as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance since 2013. These are communities who used to struggle to access the support they needed, and lacked social mechanisms for preventing and responding to floods.
To fill these gaps the Mexican Red Cross have initiated and supported the creation of community brigades. These community-based groups of up to ten people receive training on for example evacuation, shelter, and first aid and are equipped with resources including tools, first aid kits, and protective equipment. Special attention is being paid to social inclusion so that the brigades reflect the diversity of community members.
The idea behind the brigades is to strengthen the first link in the emergency response chain. So that when hazards occur, the community is able to self-organize and respond to the emergency until external support arrives. Once support arrives, the community brigades can support with coordination, management, and provision. Brigades in the different communities we work with are connected with each other and with relevant authorities and institutions, particularly with the institute for Civil Protection, a national government body responsible for protecting the population during disaster events.
Since brigade members are part of the communities, they are present not only in the aftermath of a disaster, but can engage in longer term activities. For example raising awareness of flood risks.
The worst floods in a decade
In October and November 2020, several cold fronts as well as hurricanes Eta and Iota brought intense rainfall and floods to Tabasco.
Communities we are working with, or have worked with in the past, as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance were badly affected. These were the worst floods since 2011. Road Access was cut, people's homes flooded, and crops were lost. Many community members were forced to evacuate, often more than 40 kilometers from their homes.
While the floods were the worst in a decade, communities were prepared. The community brigades proved to be of great value to their communities before, during, and after the floods.
Put to the test, community brigades demonstrate their value
Recognition of the community brigades by local authorities, particularly Civil Protection, was really valuable as it meant they received the latest forecasts and information. This was passed between brigades and onto other community members who could take timely action to prepare. For example, some families removed assets and belongings from flood threatened areas and stored them in safe places.
The good communication between the brigade coordinators was helpful to know what was happening in each community and what actions the communities have taken.
Yngrit Pérez, Brigade Member
Thanks to the early warnings, and strong communication between stakeholders, community brigades could start planning response activities even before the flood arrived. In Monte Grande for example community members cooperated to purchase fuel and, together with the Civil Protection of the Municipality of Jonuta, worked to remove the water using motor pumps provided by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance.
Community brigades are able to identify needs and receive support
Through their connections with Civil Protection and the Mexican Red Cross the community brigades were able to quickly access emergency support.
In Monte Grande they carried out a Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (DANA) which was used to request specific support from government institutions.
The brigade coordinator communicated directly with the coordinator of the Civil Protection Institute of the State of Tabasco and was able to express the community's needs. As a result, the Mexican Army delivered 450 food parcels and the federal government activated a water treatment plant.
I consider that the benefits of the brigade were that we were able to create the situation report, to communicate about the situation in each community, and to send the report to the state civil protection. Fortunately they answered our mail. They know that there are brigades in Jonuta, and that they are active and ready to help during the emergency.
The community brigades also mobilized to support recovery activities led by Mexican Red Cross, generously supported by Zurich Mexico. Together with Red Cross staff and volunteers, community brigades distributed health kits to households. These were accompanied by sessions to promote good practice health and hygiene, particularly important in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Seeing the importance of brigades more community members want to join
After the floods, as community members have seen the value of community brigades in an emergency, interest in joining has grown significantly. In the past we have faced challenges with limited participation in some communities. Since the flood it has been much easier to inspire community members to join and invest in the local brigade.
Nation-wide recognition and scale-up of the community brigade methodology
This latest test for the community brigades has once again highlighted the important role they play in building community flood resilience. There are strong arguments for establishing similar community-based groups in other flood prone communities, in Mexico and elsewhere.
It's great that the local, state, and federal authorities recognize this too. In 2019 the Mexican Red Cross received the National Civil Protection award for the community brigade methodology we've developed and it has been included in Tabasco's most recent State Development Plan (2019 – 2024).
If you want to find out more about the work that the Mexican Red Cross is doing as part of the Zurich flood Resilience Alliance have a look at our where we work page or our Year 2 Learning Report where you can find a case study about the community brigades.
Source: floodresilience.net
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How do we excel as engineers?
Where should we focus our feedback to each other on how to improve?
What are we looking for when we evaluate engineering candidates?
What we've come up with is a list of suggestions for how to be an effective engineer at Asana. Along with the broader Asana values, this list is our best attempt to make engineering values at Asana transparent. We believe these are highly resonant in our culture, although some are more established than others. They're inspired equally by our accomplished leaders and those who are just getting started.
This is intended as a guide to all who want to succeed as Asana engineers, but we understand that all values have a counter-value that contains its own wisdom.
Not sure where to start? Learn with curiosity. Struggling to get it all right? Strive for simplicity. Want to move forward? Articulate your mental model.
Not sure how to lead? Teach with compassion. Trying to win the marathon? Ship fast, sustainably. Need to inspire others? Fix problems, even when they're not yours.
We're excited to share the Asana engineering team's values with you. What are your team's core values?
Maintaining a learning, self-driven mindset is crucial to being a good engineer—whether you're a newbie or have ten years of experience. When you join a new company, you will be working in an unfamiliar codebase. Once you settle in, you'll be solving problems for which no one already knows the full solution.
When you become an Asana engineer, you're paired with an onboarding mentor, who's tasked with making sure you're able to quickly ramp up and never blocked. My onboarding mentor, Cliff, helped unblock me. More importantly, he helped me learn how to unblock myself. He encouraged me to jump in and learn about things (how a particular framework works, where performance pitfalls lie, etc.) instead of simply asking for answers. Asana engineers take responsibility for their own growth and empower themselves to become better engineers.
What had to happen to create this situation? What can I learn from this? How can I shift my behavior going forward?
We even encourage ourselves to continually look for new areas of expertise we can grow into. Opportunities like Polish Week, Grease Week, and Hackathons allow us to jump into unfamiliar parts of the codebase, work with new people, and learn new things. We change teams often enough to learn new approaches that we can, in turn, bring to other teams.
At Asana, we view failure as a crucial step towards success and an opportunity to learn. When things don't go as expected, we practice an exercise called "Five Whys", which encourages us to analyze a problem with a curious mindset without blaming.
When contributing code, we always ask ourselves the question: "Could this be simpler?" Striving for the simplest viable solution requires time and effort up front but pays off in the long run.
Simple solutions are easier to understand, especially since as our codebase grows, we often spend more time reading than writing code. Having code that's easy to reason about enables us to more quickly spot bugs and make modifications with confidence.
What is the singular purpose of this entity? Will my teammates understand my code? How much context is needed to understand this?
One way we practice manifesting simplicity is striving for functional purity in components, and by developing patterns that achieve this purity by default. Purity leads to more isolated and inherently simpler components, thereby bringing about a less-braided and simpler system.
By eliminating complexity we are able to create a more correct, reliable, maintainable, and testable application, and therefore a better experience for our users. As Rich Hickey lays out in his excellent talk "Simplicity Matters," striving for simplicity is the most important work that we do as technical designers, and it will make everything else substantially easier.
Deep in Asana's essence is clarity. We serve to give organizations clarity into their work. We do it by getting clarity about our own work.
What are the goals of this project? How does your solution achieve those goals? What are the implications of your choices?
At Asana, every non-trivial project starts with a design. We share designs through Asana projects like "Design Docs" and "Data Model Changes" to allow all interested engineers to engage in discussions about them and ask questions. We're able to share wisdom and patterns effectively even across teams that don't share code directly, and we can use these documents to jump-start plans for future projects with related purposes.
Articulating our mental model helps us ensure that we understand the logic of our own ideas. It enables us to iterate faster than we can through writing and rewriting code. Once we're clear on what we're doing, we implement without needing to regularly check that what we're building still makes sense.
Teaching with compassion means sharing your knowledge and realizing the leverage of empowering your teammates. It's not making someone feel inferior for not knowing what you know, it's giving them the patience they need to make progress. To do this, we strive to understand from the learner's perspective. Where they come from, what their learning style is, and how they absorb information are just a few salient elements we consider in our teaching.
What would help this person grow? What might I take for granted that they don't know? How can I have wider impact by empowering others?
We place a huge emphasis on mentorship, which results in a focus on teaching (and, consequently, learning as well). Not only do people care about mentoring others, we believe that everyone has unique knowledge and experience which they can impart with others. From onboarding buddies to managers to interview mentors, we look for every opportunity to create helpful relationships.
But, more importantly, our base assumption is that we are all mentoring each other all the time. We understand that there are multiple axes of skills and that we all have something to share and room to grow.
Shipping code is the most visible way that Engineering contributes to the success of Asana, and this value is at the core of how we ship.
Shipping fast starts with serious investment in tooling, like continuous deployment with multiple pushes per day. Our developer experience team measures success by minimizing the amount of time engineers spend waiting for tests to run while maximizing test coverage. Shipping fast takes focus and flow, the kind you get during a No Meeting Wednesday.
But shipping fast sustainably takes more than just effective work. Study after study shows people, especially in creative jobs like software engineering, will actually get more done if they work fewer hours. When we're focused, we write higher-quality code, and higher-quality code means less technical debt, faster iteration, and less time fighting fires. While lots of hours in the office lead to the illusion of a lot of work, it often results in a lot of energy spent just treading water.
Do you have enough energy to be creative? Are you regularly achieving flow? What tools could make you more effective?
This is a long-term investment. We have a lot of friends and peers who have quit Silicon Valley entirely after being burned out after very short careers in software engineering. That's a lot of experience, mentorship, and leadership that gets taken out of our community because we have the pervasive misconception that shipping fast means working unsustainably. Software isn't going anywhere, and Asana's engineering culture aims to support people to work well for decades to come.
Company problems fall into a few categories: problems you recognize as your own, problems you recognize as other people's, and problems that don't clearly belong to anyone. Fixing your own problems is easy: You've got context on them, and fixing them gives you pride in your work. At Asana, problem-solving goes beyond that.
We value seeing problems beyond your own scope and getting them fixed—we've all got 100% responsibility for everything at Asana. This is an engineering instantiation of some of my favorite company values: egolessness and a company as a collective of peers. We're all responsible for suggesting our next move. At Asana, I feel encouraged to see what could be better about the company; I feel empowered to strive for change I see as positive and to do the work necessary. We request ideas from the whole company for what our product roadmap should look like and how we can improve both Asana the product and Asana the company.
Within engineering, we manifest this in ways like refactoring code as we encounter it, in having all hands on deck to fix performance issues (which are notoriously difficult to pin down responsibility for!), and having several rotating on-call systems for things like our infrastructure, desktop product, mobile apps, testing systems, and helping developers fix their tooling.
We also put energy into trying to say "Thank you!" well, through our traveling Narwhals and Unicorns program. Each week, a group of "traveling" stuffed narwhals and unicorns make their way to a different co-worker's desk along with words of gratitude about a recent achievement or contribution. Whoever receives the narwhal decides on the next recipient, helping us consistently share gratitude across the entire company.
What opportunities do I see? Do I think they should be prioritized? Am I equipped to act, or what do I need to see this accomplished?
What are your team's core values? Tell us about them in the comments. If these values resonate with you, we'd love to hear from you.


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Updated on August 31, 2016 8:33pm EDT
3 Stocks That Quadrupled in the Past Year
By Leo Sun Fool.com
Some investors might think that stocks only quadruple over multiple years. However, several stocks delivered "four-bagger" returns over the past 12 months. Let's examine three such stocks -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), Five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN), and Weibo (NASDAQ: WB) -- and see if they can keep delivering comparable returns in the future.
AMD is an underdog chipmaker which battles Intel in the CPU market andNvidiain the GPU market. It lost market share in both markets for years, sales fell, and its losses widened as it boosted spending to keep pace. AMD hit a 52-week low of $1.65 on Jan. 20, after it posted a 23% annual decline in revenue during the fourth quarter and offered weak guidance for the first quarter.
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But if you had bought AMD that day, you would be sitting on a gain of over 350% today. AMD's sales fell 19% during the first quarter, but it announced strong guidance for the second quarter. During the second quarter, it posted 9% sales growth -- its first annual sales growth in two full years -- on robust demand for its semi-custom SoCs for gaming consoles. It also expects demand for those SoCs to rise as Microsoftand Sonyrespectively release upgraded versions of the Xbox One and PS4. AMD also returned to non-GAAP operating profitability during the quarter.
Image source: Company websites.
AMD now expects its sales to rise 18% for the third quarter, andanalysts believe that it could finish the year with 3% growth. Sales of its new Polaris-based GPUs, which have dramatically lowered the price point for VR-ready PCs, could boost its GPU sales, while its upcoming Zen chips might help it regain some market share from Intel.
Five9 provides cloud software for managing customer relationships at call centers. Its subscription-based VCC (Virtual Contact Center) platform competes directly against Salesforce's Call Center, but Five9 focuses on smaller businesses instead of Salesforce's larger enterprise customers.
Five9 went public in April 2014, and has delivered over 20% annual sales growth in every quarter since its public debut. Its revenue rose 29% lastquarter, up from 26% growth in the previous quarter and 23% growth in the year ago quarter. Analysts expect the company to post 22% sales growth this year.
Fire9 also announced an annual dollar-based retention rate of 100% last quarter, up from 94% a year earlier, along with all-time records in enterprise and commercial bookings. Wall Street has already noticed Five9's hot streak -- if you had purchased Five9 at its 52-week low of $3.48 last October, your initial investment would have risen nearly 320%. Five9 is unprofitable by both GAAP and non-GAAP measures, but its losses are narrowing.
Weibo, the microblogging site often referred to as "China's Twitter," has rallied almost 340% from its 52-week low of $10.90 last October. That massive rally was fueled by Weibo's impressive sales growth -- its revenue rose36% annually last quarter, compared to 24% growth in the previous quarter and 39% growth a year ago. Weibo attributes that growth to "the strong adoption of social marketing" boosting spending among major companies and SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). Analysts expect Weibo's revenue to rise34% this year.
Image source: Google Play.
Weibo's monthly active users (MAUs) rose 33% annually to 282 million during the quarter, with 89% of users accessing the service from mobile devices. Its daily active users (DAUs) rose 36% to 126 million. By comparison, Twitter's MAUs rose just3% to 313 million last quarter. Weibo's non-GAAP net income surged 225% to $35.5 million last quarter. On the same basis, Twitter's net income rose 92% last quarter.
However, both Weibo and its parent company Sina facethe threat of government censorship andabrupt shutdowns. Chinese censors temporarily shut down Sina before, erased Weibo accounts, and threatened the companies over poor self-censorship practices. Those threats indicate that Weibo's growth could abruptly grind to a halt due to government intervention.
Mind the valuations...
With the market near all-time highs, investors should be mindful of AMD, Five9, and Weibo's valuations. AMD doesn't look expensive at 1.5 times sales, but Five9's P/S of 5.3 and Weibo's P/S of 18.3 look pricey. Therefore, investors should realize that these rallies could fade quickly if their streaks of hot sales growth end.
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