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Vol 29 No 12
Reflections of a church tourist
Gillian Bouras
Churches are often tourist attractions. I once heard of an American waiting outside Winchester Cathedral, who said to his wife 'Okay, honey, you do the inside, and I'll do the outside.' As my source was the wife of a Methodist theologian, authenticity is assured. Some people make it their business to visit as many cathedrals as possible, so time must be of the essence.
I suppose I am a church tourist, too, and a mosque and synagogue tourist as well when I get the chance. Architecture is not my strong suit, for I have scant knowledge of the various styles, and the way in which very old buildings manage to stay standing is simply a mystery to me, but I admire the beauty of walls and ceilings, the decorations, and the idiosyncrasies such as little sculptures invisible to congregations and visitors, but made in faith that God could see them.
The history, the thought of generations of worshippers, the numerous associations: these are other things that fascinate. I like to remember facts like the one that Rembrandt's children were christened in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, and that the Emperor Justinian cried, 'Ho, Solomon! I have outdone thee,' when he first saw the mighty dome of his Aghia Sophia in Constantinople on its completion in 537.
But it is the atmosphere of peace that also attracts, along with a sense of calm and enduring faith. It is comforting to see a number of people sitting in the pews, deep in thought, prayer or meditation, while outside traffic roars and other people go about their daily business.
I certainly felt comforted when, during a recent visit to Melbourne, I went into St Mary Star of the Sea in West Melbourne, not far from the bustling Victoria Market. This church, I discovered later, is a listed building, and one of the largest places of worship in Australia, having a seating capacity of 1200. It also must be one of the most beautiful.
I'm not sure that one expects to be surprised in church, but I certainly was, because there at Star of the Sea I discovered an image I had never seen before: a statue called the Black Nazarene. Here is Christ, dressed in sumptuous gold-embroidered maroon robes trimmed with lace collar and cuffs, wearing a crown of thorns surmounted by a halo of three rays, and, hands outstretched, shouldering the cross.
And he is black. The practical explanation of the blackness is that the original image was carved from a Mexican dark-coloured wood in the 16th century, and then taken to the Philippines in 1606. But popular legend has it that a fire broke out on the transport galleon, so that it was charred. Whatever the case, the Black Nazarene is the most popular object of devotion in the Philippines, and is believed to be responsible for many miracles.
"It is comforting to see a number of people sitting in the pews, deep in thought, prayer or meditation, while outside traffic roars and other people go about their daily business."
In 1787, after residing temporarily in a series of churches, the original Black Nazarene found a permanent home in the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in the Quiapo district of Manila. The day of the translation is commemorated in an annual procession on 9 January, for which the record attendance is 220,000 people, with the procession itself lasting for as long as 20 hours. A procession involving the Star of the Sea replica also takes place in Melbourne, on a smaller scale.
Part of the appeal of the image is that it shows Christ's passion and suffering. Those who look upon it can relate Christ's ordeal and example to the struggles in their own lives. And they are also given hope, because it is believed healing can be accomplished via touching the Nazarene.
Not raised a Catholic, I have often found the images of the Crucifixion disturbing in their depiction of extreme suffering. But I lingered near the Black Nazarene, struck by the strong suggestions of steadfastness, acceptance, and fortitude. I was comforted: later I returned to the Church of St Mary, Star of the Sea.
Gillian Bouras is an expatriate Australian writer who has written several books, stories and articles, many of them dealing with her experiences as an Australian woman in Greece.
Main image: Filipino-Australians celebrate Feast of Black Nazarene at St Mary Star of the Sea Church in West Melbourne. (Philtimes)
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I have entered several empty none Catholic Churches during my life time and have always been struck by a sense of deadness, apart from one occasion, when in a small country chapel I was confront by a vase of freshly cut flowers on the altar, as I felt the living beauty of His creation/presence before me. I believe that the reason for this is that I am subconsciously looking for the red Sanctuary Light with its gentle living/active flame that is usually situated close to the Tabernacle. As it always provokes a feeling of recognition, in that I am not alone as a mutual presence is manifest/felt. Without the flame in the sanctuary lamp His presence is not known /felt, as it could be said, that if there was no consecrated Eucharist host within the tabernacle, the same sense of a mutual presence is manifest/felt and on the spiritual plane, it would be the real acceptance of God's presence. As in the symbolic everlasting light, or eternal flame that shines before the altar of sanctuaries in many Jewish places of worship…"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life"…When the priest says the "Body of Christ" we say Amen a declaration of affirmation and for me He is present when devoured as we become living tabernacles, living been the operative word, without this affirmation in faith, would the bread of life give life to an unbeliever?.. Is it not the willing acceptance/consent of His living presence within the Eucharist that gives life to our spirit that wells up into eternal life, as the flesh profits not. It could be said that the bread and wine are the ordained means to "total change basic reality" to draw us into the spiritual constant reality before God of His Divine Presence (Eternal living sacrifice) now and always present before/within us, when we willingly say in faith Amen, as we partake of the living bread of life and transforming sacrificial cup of eternal salvation; kevin your brother In Christ
Kevin Walters | 05 June 2019
'Religious Architecture' almost sounds like the name of a subject in the Department of Fine Arts at our old alma mater, Gillian, but, as you say, it's only if those bones live that a place comes alive. There are real heralded and unheralded gems in this country and overseas which have really touched me. The Perth Mosque, built in a very North Indian style in the early 1900s, with exquisite calligraphy, is a discovery once you get inside the high whitewashed walls. It's a very alive place, as is St Peter's Eastern Hill in Melbourne, 'just across from the Catholic cathedral St Patrick's and far, far Higher Church', with its glorious altar, candlesticks and superb woodwork. What used to be called Solemn Pontifical High Mass under the late Geoffrey Taylor at 11.00 AM on Sundays was like an Anglican transportation of the Ambrosian Rite from Milan. The amount of incense used almost asphyxiated me. Glorious experience. The Great Synagogue in Sydney, with its ceiling painted to look like a starry Heaven, makes you look up both physically and spiritually. It is also very much still alive. Top marks for religious community would have to go to those South Indian pilgrimage towns like Mahabalipuram, with their superb temples and the sort of lifestyle around which our ancestors would've experienced when going to places like Canterbury.
Edward Fido | 05 June 2019
Thank you for your insights on the the Black Nazarene, Gillian. The crucifix of San Damiano has a similar devotional significance in the Franciscan tradition, it being the icon before which the Order's founder was praying when he received Christ's call to re-build the Church: a fitting emblem, I'd suggest, for our times. This crucifix combines, through dexterous line and colour, motifs of both death and resurrection, ordeal and hope, in a way that is simultaneously challenging and consoling.
John RD | 06 June 2019
Interesting you refer to the San Damiano Crucifix, painted in the iconic style, as an icon, John RD, because a Romanian Orthodox priest once explained an icon to a bewildered Methodist Englishman as 'a window into Heaven', which sums up the traditional purpose of icons beautifully. Most windows are transparent, so, in the case of Francis' conversion experience, you could say that he, as much as is humanly possible, tried to 'see' God and that God saw him and responded. This is the supreme, totally legitimate and thoroughly orthodox Western Christian mystical experience granted to a great saint who helped revivify the Church of his day. I think that the Western Church needs to rediscover its own deep, mystical tradition, which, in the Eastern Churches, both Orthodox and Catholic, has never been lost. Kevin Walters prose poem/reflection seems to me very much in this tradition.
Thank you Edward for your encouraging comment. Kevin your brother In Christ
You perfectly capture the fascination of the buildings and the sense of peace that is very much the 'spirit of the place'. It is a worthwhile study for tourists and hopefully gives a sense of spirituality which is often lacking in the modern world.
Maggie | 12 June 2019
I quite agree, Edward, that the Church in the West needs to rediscover its mystical tradition - together with its intellectual tradition, especially metaphysics and epistemology. The fact that St Thomas Aquinas, for instance, could combine profound philosophy and sublime mystical experience - evident in his hymns - is an inspiration for our times.
Grand churches - cathedrals and basilicas - and smaller ones too - chapels as well - all of them express something of a shared cultural understanding - whether one was raised (as was I - a fundamentalist and plain interior Protestant) or in the more glorious icon and/or religious graven image and painted tradition. I read the King James 1611 Bible multiple times as a lad - there aren't too many themes I cannot pick in a stained glass window or a frescoed wall - Gerard Manley HOPKINS or Les MURRAY poetry speaks to my remembered youth. I am currently with my wife walking the northern Portugal section of the "caminho português" - churches and chapels, blessed shrines and festivals abound. In fact this very evening staying in Casa da Capela - a rather grand hostel built around a renovated chapel in the village of Pecene - just a day's easy walk to the Spanish border - from which others will walk on to Santiago de Compostela. Further south - from where we began this pilgrimage - in stunningly beautiful Porto (where intriguingly JK Rowling drew much of her fundamental inspiration for the Harry Potter series) - all the churches I entered were filled with images/carvings/statues of a dead and/or suffering Christ - not the Risen living Christ with which image in hymn and written word I was raised. Hmm?
Jim KABLE | 14 June 2019
I think you might be one of the few ES readers who are really able to grasp the manifold talents of Aquinas, John RD. Theological education, even among clerics, is abysmal in this country. There are now very few seminaries that can produce the equal of the American Bishop Robert Barron, who is steeped in Western culture and religion. This is what we have lost here.
Always, when travelling or closer to home, my eye is attracted to a church building. Some churches seemingly have little architectural merit, while ancient churches (in Europe for instance) are breathtaking. I don't regard myself as a church 'tourist' when travelling. More of a visitor keen to gaze upon the beauty and atmosphere of a place of worship. It's been said to me many times 'the church is the people, not buildings'. Still, our homes be they ever so modest are living parts of our relationships. So it is with churches.
Pam | 17 June 2019
More's the pity if that's the case, Edward. I'd say we were undergoing an attack of cultural amnesia were the phenomenon of aversion towards Western civilization in academia not deliberately engineered - ironically, by those who most benefit from it, as writers like Allan Bloom, Roger Kimball, Roger Scruton, and, more recently, Kevin Donnelly, have shown. Though some say the bird has flown, I'm more confident in the Owl of Minerva's resilience.
Pam identifies what Philip Larkin's ironically agnostic and acclaimed poem, "Church Going", misses about churches: ". . . they are living parts of our relationships" - past, present, and future.
Truly the architecture of churches , can be inspirational and I have been known to track down both the famous cathedrals of the world along with also simple local places of worship. A group of school friends meet up once a year in different country towns. We together make a point of going to a mass there.No matter the structure of the church building ,it's the warmth of welcome of the parishioners, the communication of the priest, the dignity and comfort of the Eucharist that "gets us" every time. And we have met so many fellow worshippers, some of whom have invited us to lunch , caught up with us when they have been in the city, recommended places of interest in their town. Gillian , you have hit the nail on the head by mentioning the people at prayer. And Pam it certainly is the people in prayer who are the "church".
Celia | 20 June 2019
I agree with you, John RD. From what I see Western Culture and Religion are making a comeback. Not in a stilted nor an aggressive way, but, having faced the many justified criticisms of them, moving forward and onward from there.
We recently visited the Great Stupa near Bendigo. This Budhist Temple is an amazing piece of architecture. In many ways it did feel very alien to me. Yet, as we walked around a sense of friendship, comfort and peace settled on me. The gardens surrounding the Stupa include areas that are dedicated to other religions. For example: The garden of St. Francis of Assisi. The Great Cathedrals in Europe provoke that amazing sense of awe due to their breathtaking beauty but clearly skilled architects and artists can still provide wonderful environments for meditation, reflection and prayer on a smaller scale. There are many good examples around Victoria and not just in the Christian religion.
Stephen Hicks | 22 June 2019
I had no idea of the existence of the Black Nazarene so close by. Thanks for enlightening me.
Juliet Flesch | 24 June 2019


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This weekend we were environmental refugees. It happened so fast. On my commute home across the Bow River foot bridge June 21, I marveled at the water's height, speed and ferocity, and took a video. Twenty-four hours later the spot I'd videoed was under six feet of water.
Here's the screenshot from 5:30 PM Thursday; happy summer solstice. I continued home to make dinner – how extraordinary that ordinariness seems now.
When something's so ferocious as to make me marvel, I should pay attention to what that's telling me.
The news reports all evening were dire pronouncements of mandatory evacuation orders of our surrounding neighbourhoods and early indications of devastation to come. Thursday midnight our city councillor texted, tweeted and emailed to "abandon ship" as floods endangered our streets too.
If all around me there's risk being managed, I should pack an overnight bag to grab on the way out.
Interesting to reflect on what we threw into bags on short notice. Our computers, iPhones and iPads, then some clothes, dog food and other stuff Trail needs, and house insurance policy. No photos, sentimental treasures or souvenirs, no important papers such as passports or financial documents. Just basics to get through the night even though we had no idea how long the emergency would last. We locked the doors, and taped a giant X to our door so emergency crews would know we'd evacuated (and shrugged off that it said the same to looters). I was ok leaving, knowing our possessions could be destroyed. It's just stuff, right? Such rationalization.
So, after 1 AM Thursday, we and two other neighbours and dogs, imposed ourselves on the kind family in a dry house on the hill. All communities with names like Ridge, Hill and Heights look very attractive now. We fell into Mark and Giovanni's guest rooms, almost comatose with exhaustion and stress. Imagine Roman, age 8, and Ani's, age 6, surprise to wake up with 4 people and 2 dogs extra at breakfast. They were beyond gracious and wonderful and the first of many such experiences over the next four days. Patty Nowlin, a co-owner of our superb local Sunnyside Natural Market, closed, flooded, and with no power, let me shop for essentials while she skillfully organized food boxes to donate to streets around us. Meanwhile, a clerk wrote a list of what I took, trusting I'd come back to pay for it when the store reopened. And remarkably, looting was minimal if at all.
Strangers helped out with no thought for their own convenience.
The rivers continued to rise and became tourist attractions despite official pleas to stay away. We became a city of gawkers, driving vast distances to – well, to gawk. One man stood outside his flooded home and yelled at gawkers taking photos to either come down from the hill and help or go home. For the most part, people came in droves to help. That was the next amazing sight to behold; Saturday, the sun and volunteers in the thousands appeared to lift the gloom. Sunday repeated and then Monday the same. With so many offices ordered closed, people had free days to help out. They just turned up to volunteer – in the thousands.
I also understand wanting to see it first hand in 'real time' because this event should be a game changer for the city.
Poppy Plaza: Calgary freelance photographer Chantelle Kolesnik.
It isn't easy to visualize the narrow blue Bow River as an angry brown lake, rushing with determination to some point past our horizon. The inscriptions on Poppy Plaza, normally towering over the riverside path, treaded water. The waves crashed against Poppy Plaza's steps that sit about 20′ above the normal river bed. Poppy Plaza is on high ground at our corner, where Memorial Drive parallels Bow River, thus sparing our street. It may not be an attractive monument but I'm grateful it was big, blocky, and there.
Parts of downtown still aren't open for business, four days after the river went to bed though it is still, in Olympic spirit, "Faster, Higher, Stronger". Short-term costs are unpredictable and long-term consequences are unforeseeable.
Calgary downtown was a dangerous mess and the famous Calgary Stampede became an uncertainty. Last year was its centenary of unbroken yearly events and this year – who knows. Calgary's known for its spirit and might find a way to remove the broken infrastructure that collapsed onto its famed festival grounds. There's less than two weeks until the fair grounds are due to open and the horse barns, livestock pens, agricultural buildings, famed Saddle Dome (in my opinion the only iconic building in Calgary), might as well be rafts. They're submerged to the door knobs with a layer of sludge under the water. Friday the relentless rain added to the woes. But, they say theStampede will go and they pulled it off. I bought multiple versions of the T-shirt: Calgary Stampede 101: Hell or High Water.
If anyone can put on a rocking Stampede #101 a mere 12 days after tragedy, it'll be this city.
There's a certain liberation in not knowing where the water would go and being impotent to do anything about it anyway. Our local streets were impassable but everywhere beyond the flood plain was as usual. There were two cities; one was under water, and one was completely unaffected, as if it were happening on the other side of planet Earth.
On Friday we moved from our rescuer's welcoming home to our friends the Reynolds'. Six of us elegantly dined, like nothing in the city was amiss, in an upscale restaurant – fiddling while Rome burns. We felt displaced yet not so disrupted. How ordinary in an extraordinary time.
Carpe diem – live the day, eat well and laugh because the river doesn't care.
Meanwhile, some of our friends were in nail biting races against a combination of sewer water from pipes that couldn't cope with the surge and cold river swells raging at four times normal speed, throwing entire trees downstream. Friends were displaced, possessionless, for months; many, many months. It puts my laissez-faire attitude of "can't change anything so might as well dance" in perspective. I had the wonderful Reynolds family's lovely home to escape into and resources to cope with whatever happened. Lots of people have neither – lots, and lots and lots of people. It turned out our home was unscathed and, eventually, we had several months of guests whose homes were uninhabitable.
Pets needs their people, people need people too.
When we accepted Trail into our home, it became our ethical responsibility to keep him safe. And he's family. We asked the kind people who took us in if we could bring Trail. I don't know what we'd have done had they said no. Now we read of the many pets left behind, or even stolen in the confusion.
We had the opposite problem. Trail had the time of his life; everyone fussed over him at both our temporary billets. The Reynolds family is now Trail crazed, even wonderful Kathy who's allergic to dogs. John Reynolds came home from work and lay down on the floor beside Trail before saying hello to us. Kathy, John and their fabulous daughters Lauren and Julia took Trail walking while we loaded the car for home. As we called Trail to leave, he walked over to the porch and lay down at their feet to watch us go. He loves us, he really does, but we're apparently not exciting enough, or at least not as exciting as the Reynolds.
We went home Friday morning to clear out the fridge and freezer before everything spoiled, and returned to our Reynolds refuge. Tweets flew fast. When we learned all our neighbours were home bound Saturday, electricity or no electricity, we packed the car. An official "Welcome Home" flyer at our door listed how to safely re-enter. Wow, this is a city with an emergency plan.
Our house was dry at 9:00 PM Saturday. No gas smell, no river or sewer water in the basement and no power. And then, at 10:40 PM, power was suddenly wonderfully restored. All the lights we hadn't turned off because we didn't know they were on lit up like homing beacons. A spontaneous street party erupted as neighbours rushed to porches to cheer the lights coming on with a chorus of John Lennon's Power to the People Right On.
We slept at home – safe, dry and beyond grateful for everything that did and didn't happen.
The budget for clean up is in the billions of dollars and the total damage hasn't been assessed yet. Rivers are still high, rainstorms are still forecast and buildings are still sloshing with water.
The City of Calgary and its impressive Mayor Nenshi had a disaster plan that worked. Within hours of peak water falling, trucks, equipment and people were on the job. Monday, I walked to my Parks Canada dream job to get my computer and mobile. I passed this line up of trucks awaiting deployment around the city. As I worked from home, a stream of uniformed people did door-to-door check-in, assessing needs and offering information. The other hordes, aside from the efficient emergency workers and caring volunteers, are the opportunistic mosquitoes thriving everywhere.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the politicking, the squabbles, the pettiness and the politics of fear just don't matter and people show off their kinship to the angels. This weekend was one of those times for many of us in Calgary. As a Conflict Manager and human who received help when in need, it warms my heart to see the impacts on our collective humanity from this collaboration at all levels.
May it continue in this spirit.
Thanks for the feedback. It's quite something, even a week later, walking the streets of my neighbourhood with all the ruined possessions on lawns and boulevards awaiting garbage collection. Even more amazing is the work crews comprised of volunteers from everywhere helping with the clean up. We are so grateful for all the expressions of support and the help. As for the river, the sandbars are visible again. The trees are leaning but on almost dry land. The rubble washed onto the river bed will soon blend into the landscape. We are adaptive, resilient and will normalize whatever happens next. That's the good interpretation. The flip side, is that if we normalize it, we'll not make any of the necessary changes. I remain hopeful we'll do the right things for the future of us and this lovely planet.
I can hardly imagine what it must be like in Calgary. You have certainly given me a better sense of it.


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It's 2021 and people will (hopefully) soon be back to planning vacations and staying at hotels.
In this 30 minute video for HospitalityNet, Odia Kagan, a partner in Fox Rothschild's Privacy & Data Security Practice, discussed the five top things hotels should think about relating to data privacy compliance.
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In atypical 2020 fashion, Santa actually gave UK the #1 present on its Christmas list: adequacy for cross-border data transfers from the EU as part of an overall trade deal.
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"I don't expect a new solution instead of Privacy Shield in the space of weeks, and probably not even months, and so we have to be ready that the system without a Privacy Shield like solution will last for a while," European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiorowski told Reuters
Norway's Data Protection Authority Offers Brexit Warning on Data Transfers to the UK
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Norway's Datatilsynet does not mince words in its Brexit guidance:
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"If the European Commission…
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Annexes and pick-and-choose modules (C2C, C2P, P2P, P2C).
Lots of emphasis on the laws of the country of transfer and pushing back on government requests.
Reiteration of some Article 26 (joint controller agreement) and Article 28 (data processor agreement)
EDPB Adopts Measures on Post-Schrems II Supplemental Data Transfer Tools
Brace yourselves, the post-Schrems II supplemental measures are coming!
The European Data Protection Board adopted recommendations on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the European Union level of protection of personal data, as well as recommendations on the European Essential Guarantees for surveillance measures.
"The implications of the Schrems II judgment extend to all transfers to third countries. Therefore, there are no quick fixes, nor a one-size-fits-all solution for all transfers, as this would be ignoring the wide diversity of situations data exporters face. Data exporters will need to evaluate their data processing operations and transfers and take effective measures bearing in mind the legal order of the third countries to which they transfer or intend to transfer data," said EDPB chair Andrea Jelinek
The European Essential Guarantees recommendations provide data exporters with elements to determine if the legal framework governing public authorities' access to data for surveillance purposes in third countries can be regarded as a justifiable interference with privacy rights.
Details in this EDPB Press Release.
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I am very sorry indeed that the news about Victor White is so bad and the end apparently so near.
If you have any chance to let him know about myself I should be much obliged if you would tell him that I am at peace with him and that he should not worry any more.
I am quite convinced of his sincere and human loyalty.
I am sorry if I should have upset him by my attempt to explain to him the reason for a certain critique I had to make.
In my letter to him which contains the explanation, I also told him that it did not matter and he should not worry about it.
I don't know what more I could tell him to reassure him of my feeling.
If I were young and could trust my physique I would certainly come over to England and reassure him of my personal feeling.
Unfortunately, however, extravagances are out of the question.
So I would be most obliged if you would kindly let him know of my letter to you.
He has sent his new book to me which I am going to read just now (having had to finish another book first).
I am very interested in it and it was my intention to write to him only after having gone through his book as carefully as possible.
I am afraid the reading will take some time.
Under these circumstances I would perhaps do better if I wrote to him soon.


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Director of Finance for day to day administration.
management of risk throughout the organisation.
priorities and resource requirements for the year.
and Branch network, the Women's Section) and Subsidiary Companies.
build stakeholder requirements into department plans.
Ensure plan is developed to meet the Audit Committee's expectations.
and approving plans as they are developed and communicated to clients.
clients as they may surface.
are maintained at all times.
ensure the department's goals are achieved and customers satisfied.
need to do their jobs well and meet customer expectations.
ensuring department targets and customer satisfaction is not compromised.
leveraged as effectively as possible.
identify areas for improvement for the organisation as a whole.
organisation to request audits and implement recommendations.
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This job description reflects the current requirements of the role.
subject to amendment in consultation with the post-holder.
To implement the Equal Opportunities Policy into your daily activities.
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Description

org.springframework.context

This package builds on the beans package to add support for
 message sources and for the Observer design pattern, and the
 ability for application objects to obtain resources using a
 consistent API.

org.springframework.context.event

Support classes for application events, like standard context events.

org.springframework.context.support

Classes supporting the org.springframework.context package,
 such as abstract base classes for ApplicationContext
 implementations and a MessageSource implementation.

org.springframework.jms.config

Support package for declarative messaging configuration,
 with Java configuration and XML schema support.

org.springframework.messaging.simp.user

Support for handling messages to "user" destinations (i.e.

org.springframework.scheduling.annotation

Java 5 annotation for asynchronous method execution.

org.springframework.transaction.event

Spring's support for listening to transaction events.

org.springframework.web.reactive.resource

Support classes for serving static resources.

org.springframework.web.socket.messaging

WebSocket integration for Spring's messaging module.

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.context

Methods in org.springframework.context with parameters of type ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

void
ConfigurableApplicationContext.addApplicationListener(ApplicationListener<?> listener)

Add a new ApplicationListener that will be notified on context events
 such as context refresh and context shutdown.

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.context.event

Subinterfaces of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.context.event

Modifier and Type
Interface and Description

interface
GenericApplicationListener

Extended variant of the standard ApplicationListener interface,
 exposing further metadata such as the supported event and source type.

interface
SmartApplicationListener

Extended variant of the standard ApplicationListener interface,
 exposing further metadata such as the supported event and source type.

Classes in org.springframework.context.event that implement ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Class and Description

class
ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter

GenericApplicationListener adapter that delegates the processing of
 an event to an EventListener annotated method.

class
GenericApplicationListenerAdapter

GenericApplicationListener adapter that determines supported event types
 through introspecting the generically declared type of the target listener.

class
SourceFilteringListener

ApplicationListener decorator that filters
 events from a specified event source, invoking its delegate listener for
 matching ApplicationEvent objects only.

Methods in org.springframework.context.event that return ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

ApplicationListener<?>
EventListenerFactory.createApplicationListener(String beanName,
                         Class<?> type,
                         Method method)

Create an ApplicationListener for the specified method.

ApplicationListener<?>
DefaultEventListenerFactory.createApplicationListener(String beanName,
                         Class<?> type,
                         Method method)

Methods in org.springframework.context.event that return types with arguments of type ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

protected Collection<ApplicationListener<?>>
AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster.getApplicationListeners()

Return a Collection containing all ApplicationListeners.

protected Collection<ApplicationListener<?>>
AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster.getApplicationListeners(ApplicationEvent event,
                       ResolvableType eventType)

Return a Collection of ApplicationListeners matching the given
 event type.

Methods in org.springframework.context.event with parameters of type ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

void
ApplicationEventMulticaster.addApplicationListener(ApplicationListener<?> listener)

Add a listener to be notified of all events.

void
AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster.addApplicationListener(ApplicationListener<?> listener)

protected void
SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.invokeListener(ApplicationListener<?> listener,
              ApplicationEvent event)

Invoke the given listener with the given event.

void
ApplicationEventMulticaster.removeApplicationListener(ApplicationListener<?> listener)

Remove a listener from the notification list.

void
AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster.removeApplicationListener(ApplicationListener<?> listener)

protected boolean
AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster.supportsEvent(ApplicationListener<?> listener,
             ResolvableType eventType,
             Class<?> sourceType)

Determine whether the given listener supports the given event.

Constructors in org.springframework.context.event with parameters of type ApplicationListener

Constructor and Description

GenericApplicationListenerAdapter(ApplicationListener<?> delegate)

Create a new GenericApplicationListener for the given delegate.

SourceFilteringListener(Object source,
                       ApplicationListener<?> delegate)

Create a SourceFilteringListener for the given event source.

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.context.support

Methods in org.springframework.context.support that return types with arguments of type ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

Collection<ApplicationListener<?>>
AbstractApplicationContext.getApplicationListeners()

Return the list of statically specified ApplicationListeners.

Methods in org.springframework.context.support with parameters of type ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

void
AbstractApplicationContext.addApplicationListener(ApplicationListener<?> listener)

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.jms.config

Classes in org.springframework.jms.config that implement ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Class and Description

class
JmsListenerEndpointRegistry

Creates the necessary MessageListenerContainer instances for the
 registered endpoints.

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.messaging.simp.user

Classes in org.springframework.messaging.simp.user that implement ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Class and Description

class
MultiServerUserRegistry

SimpUserRegistry that looks up users in a "local" user registry as
 well as a set of "remote" user registries.

class
UserRegistryMessageHandler

MessageHandler that handles user registry broadcasts from other
 application servers and periodically broadcasts the content of the local
 user registry.

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.scheduling.annotation

Classes in org.springframework.scheduling.annotation that implement ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Class and Description

class
ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor

Bean post-processor that registers methods annotated with @Scheduled
 to be invoked by a TaskScheduler according
 to the "fixedRate", "fixedDelay", or "cron" expression provided via the annotation.

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.transaction.event

Methods in org.springframework.transaction.event that return ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

ApplicationListener<?>
TransactionalEventListenerFactory.createApplicationListener(String beanName,
                         Class<?> type,
                         Method method)

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.web.reactive.resource

Classes in org.springframework.web.reactive.resource that implement ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Class and Description

class
ResourceUrlProvider

A central component to use to obtain the public URL path that clients should
 use to access a static resource.

Uses of ApplicationListener in org.springframework.web.socket.messaging

Classes in org.springframework.web.socket.messaging that implement ApplicationListener

Modifier and Type
Class and Description

class
DefaultSimpUserRegistry

A default implementation of SimpUserRegistry that relies on
 AbstractSubProtocolEvent application context events to keep
 track of connected users and their subscriptions.

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    public HasBeenRollBackException(Throwable cause) {
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Emilia and I were married at Mar Hall Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland. Planning a wedding is a daunting, yet exciting, task for anybody. However, we currently live in Australia, so had the added challenge of planning from overseas.
We had been to Glasgow the previous year to visit Emilia's family and had visited Mar Hall as a possible wedding venue. We immediately loved the place.
One of Nick's albums had been placed in the foyer at Mar Hall and looking through his photographs only emphasised that this was the place for us.
When we returned home we hit the internet, looking up photographers, emailing bands, asking friends if they knew florists, researching cakes & table settings. We made the decision early on not to use a wedding planner & quickly realised that there are a large number of people out there, but selecting the one for you takes time. Skype is more valuable than you can imagine when you're on the other side of the world.
Our florist was a friend of Emilia's cousins, the band came recommended by a ceilidh group we had met at another wedding. We asked my brother Ben (a very keen photographer) what he though of NDK photography. He already knew of Nick's work and I don't think would have let us choose anybody else. Ben lives in America, so Nick's reputation has definitely travelled some distance.
Our planning moved at quite a pace at first, but slowed as we got to the finer details closer to the wedding date. Making a list of things to complete is a must, even if you don't follow it closely.
We arrived in Scotland a week before the wedding and set about completing our very long list of last minute tasks. Checking suits (and their sizes!), designing the table layouts (IKEA has never seen such a large purchase of candles and candle holders in their history) and fine-tuning the run-sheet for the day.
It's the little things that make the difference; is the iPod charged for dinner music, is there a cable for the iPod. Changing seating arrangements for guests who could not make it at the last minute. Yes there were some hiccups, but nothing that couldn't be sorted out. And no, the bride doesn't need to know about them…especially on the day!
The wedding day itself was better than either of us could have imagined. The staff at Mar Hall could not have been more accommodating. We had a string quartet playing during the ceremony and drinks, strawberries and champagne kept the guests entertained and Nick became a ghost seen only from the corner of your eye. Ross our celebrant was brilliant, adding many personal touches to make the ceremony uniquely us. During the reception we had a photobooth for some ridiculous moment and the ceilidh band had everybody on their feet. The band performed an acoustic version of 'You got the love' by Florence and the Machine for our first dance.
One of the most important things to remember on your wedding day is to take a quiet moment, stand back from the crowd, and just admire what you have achieved. Gathering of old friends, of new friends, generations of family. The laughter coming from tables.
Looking back on the photographs of the day, it amazes me how seamlessly Nick slipped into the crowd, capturing some very special moments. Even now when I look through the photographs, I am again filled with a sense of being back in the room. I can almost feel it. I think this is a testament to the great work that Nick produces.


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Additive manufacturing: there's no going back
James Varley reports from a recent media event to mark the opening of the new Materials Solutions 3D printing factory in the UK, a major investment by Siemens in the industrialisation of additive manufacturing.
A new phase has been reached in the development of additive manufacturing (AM): techniques such as 3D printing are now increasingly enabling complex components to be designed and reliably manufactured that can achieve a level of performance not attainable by conventional manufacturing. Examples of this new "value driven" era for additive manufacturing are 3D printed combustion components to be used in Siemens' new HL large frame gas turbines, and to be deployed at Keadby 2 in the UK, as well as for the Lincoln County peaker and Morrow repowering projects in the USA.
"You couldn't make these parts conventionally", says Markus Seibold, VP, AM, Siemens Power and Gas, "so there's no way back. And we have enough trust in the technology that we are using it even in the HL." In fact, he points out, "you couldn't get to all of the performance features of the HL if it were not for these 3D printed components."
Seibold was speaking at a media event in December 2018 to mark the opening of a new state-of-the-art 3D printing factory at the Worcester, UK, site of Materials Solutions.
The opening of this new factory can be seen as an important step towards Siemens' goal of fully industrialising additive manufacturing (in which components are built up layer-by-layer from 'sliced' CAD models (or 'digital twins'), typically by melting/sintering of metal powders with precision controlled high power fibre lasers).
Materials Solutions, founded in 2006 by AM visionary Carl Brancher, has pioneered the use of selective laser melting (a 3D printing technique) for the manufacture of high-performance metal parts, in particular high temperature super alloys (Ni/Co/Ti), notably nickel alloy 247, said Phil Hatherley, general manager, Materials Solutions. The focus of the company to date has been on high-end prototyping and serial production for applications in a range of demanding industries including aerospace, motorsport/automotive (eg, conformally cooled tooling for engine block manufacture), as well as power generation, with over 5000 parts supplied to around 80 plus customers worldwide. Siemens acquired a majority (85%) interest in the company in 2016 and it is now 100% owned by Siemens.
Siemens says its investment of €30 million in the new Materials Solutions facility will "enable the growth of the business by doubling the number of 3D-printing machines to 50 and will also increase its post-processing capabilities."
With power generation applications accounting for about a third of the new factory's business, Siemens believes there is considerable scope to leverage the in-depth expertise it has acquired as a user of 3D printed components in its own machines to benefit external customers via Materials Solutions.
By employing industrial methods to scale up production, Siemens aims to bring down the costs of AM by serial manufacturing of high-end complex metal parts in a fully digital "robust industrial environment."
The new factory has a footprint of 4500 m2 and is adopting what is described as a "true industrial approach, housing multiple machines across a shop floor", with a mezzanine concept for handling the metal powders. The parts move through a variety of processes, with engineers ensuring that they are compliant. The digital approach embedded in the factory site creates "a modern digital factory and provides end-to-end service to customers", says Siemens, employing many of its latest digital factory and AM technologies, including an end-to-end PLM (product lifecycle management) chain, Siemens' computer-aided design software, NX, and MindSphere, the Siemens cloud-based, open IoT operating system that "connects products, factories, systems, and machines with data analytics."
The facility is employing principally 3D printing machines supplied by EOS (eg M270, M280, M290, M400, and M400-4 (the four denoting four lasers)), and also has a Renishaw 500Q. Siemens has developed a close relationship with EOS, providing software, automation technology and drives, as well as working on the co-development and industrialisation of future 3D printing machines. Siemens is also partnering with Solukon on an advanced system for removal of metal powder from complex internal cooling channels inside components.
As well as the Materials Solutions investment, Siemens is significantly expanding AM activities at its Finspång site in Sweden, with a focus on repair and serial production in support of Siemens-supplied power generation equipment and plans to substantially increase 3D printing capacity there (from 15 machines (EOS) currently to around 60). The company in addition has a 3D printer (EOS M400) in Charlotte, USA, two in Berlin (EOS M290 and EOS M400-4), and has established what it calls the Additive Manufacturing Competence Center, in Erlangen.
Additive benefits
Siemens took its first major step in additive manufacturing in 2009 when approval was given to the purchase of a selective laser melting machine (M270) from EOS for installation at Finspång.
Significant 3D printing milestones achieved by Siemens since then have included:
2013. Burner tip replacement for SGT-800 gas turbines. 3D printing then used to provide burner repairs and components (burner tips and swirlers) for SGT-700 and SGT-800 gas turbines. Components that used to consist of a dozen parts reduced to a single (3D printed) part. 90% lead time reduction. 30000 EOH fleet experience. Swirler design only achievable by 3D printing.
2016. Additively manufactured SGT-1000F burner head in commercial operation at power plant in Brno, Czech Republic, achieving over 8000 engine hours, demonstrating the concept of "spare parts on demand" (created as needed by 3D printing rather than being stored in a warehouse). Lead time reduced by around 50%.
2016. 3D printed impeller for a fire protection system water pump installed at Krsko nuclear power plant, Slovenia (replacing an original component dating from 1981).
Early 2017. Successful full load engine tests of SGT-400 gas turbine stage one blades produced entirely using additive manufacturing. These blades operate at temperatures of up to 1250°C and experience 11 t pull.
2018. SGT-700 burners "designed for additive manufacture" achieve over 8000 hours at E.ON's Philippsthal combined cycle plant. The first burners produced by Siemens' intelligent burner manufacturing (IBUMA) programme based in Finspång, each burner head is 3D printed in one piece, rather than the 13 parts and 18 welds of the conventional design. Design improvements, such as making the pilot-gas feed part of the burner head instead of the outside fuel pipe, allow the operating temperature to be kept lower, with improved component and gas turbine life. This was a joint effort with E.ON.
2018. 3D printed sealing rings installed on SST-300 steam turbines in India.
In total, Siemens says it has now gathered more than 110 000 hours of engine experience with 3D printed gas turbine parts in fully operational power plants.
Vladimir Navrotsky, CTO Siemens Power Generation Services, who can be seen as another additive manufacturing visionary, recognised early on that 3D printing should be applicable to the intricacies of gas turbine manufacture and was the driving force behind the 2009 decision to invest in 3D printing (which was not without resistance at the time).
Speaking at the Materials Solutions event, he likened AM to the growth of a snowball, building on itself. Usually in technology development "if you improve one area you expect some sort of negative feedback in another area", but in the case of additive manufacturing "more or less everything is going in the positive direction."
Among the many mutually reinforcing benefits of AM he lists:
Dramatic reduction in development schedules and reduced time to market for new products, with faster prototyping, ability to try out radical new ideas ("if you can dream it we can print it"), reduced development risks, and increased reliability of the final component/product. There are for example almost unlimited possibilities for design of internal passages and structures within components for better heat transfer, improved cooling (eg, turbine blades) and fuel/air mixing (eg, burners).
Ability to manufacture more complex and "smarter" components, with, essentially, a severance of the link between cost and complexity. In fact "the more complex the better", as manufacturing costs are pretty much the same.
Improved quality, with better traceability and full process transparency, thanks to monitoring and analysis of each layer during the layer by-layer manufacturing, basically "integrating quality into the manufacturing process" and constituting a "closed loop" quality system.
Increased flexibility to respond to market requirements, in terms of both product design and manufacturing (with "individualised" serial production). "There is no way back to the way we used to design in the past."
Capability to provide "spare parts on demand", as already noted.
Improved energy and resource efficiency at the manufacturing stage.
At the same time Navrotsky also cautions that the applications to be targeted by 3D printing need to be prioritised carefully. For example, gas turbine hot gas path components tend to be complex, and therefore selective laser melting manufacturing techniques are worth pursuing, whereas compressor blades currently look like less promising candidates because SLM could make them expensive, "like a compressor made from gold" (but other additive manufacturing techniques might prove cost effective).
For gas turbines, Siemens is currently focusing its additive manufacturing development efforts on burners, swirlers, nozzles and mixers in the combustion system and turbine heat shields, blades and vanes. For steam turbines the current focus is on steam path, seals, valve parts, bearings and shaft ends.
As designers get to grips with the potential of additive manufacturing and develop components specifically with AM in mind we are going to see some radical rethinking of familiar components. Navrotsky mentions gas turbine blades, and also completely new gas turbine burner concepts employing, eg, lattice structures only achievable with AM and optimised for mixing natural gas and hydrogen, enabling an SGT-800 turbine to run on 60% hydrogen, for example.
We are only at the early stages of appreciating what additive manufacturing can achieve.
Above images: Materials Solutions 3D printing factory
Some of the milestones on the Siemens journey to fully industrialised additive manufacturing (AM), aka 3D printing
A brief history of Materials Solutions
Laser printing underway (four-laser EOS3D printer)
3D printed burner heads at the new Materials Solutions factory
The "first functional additively manufactured turbine blade" (SGT-400 gas turbine). Made by Materials Solutions using Alloy 247
3D printed burner head
3D printed burner for E.ON's SGT-700 gas turbine at Philippsthal, Germany
Siemens/Materials Solutions used 3D printing to reverse engineer a damaged steering box as part of restoration work on a 100-year-old Ruston Hornsby vintage car (inherited when Siemens bought Alstom's industrial turbine business in 2003, which included the historic Ruston site in Lincoln, UK). With no original technical drawings available, the parts of the broken steering box were reassembled digitally, creating a digital working model (aka "digital twin") that could be additively manufactured


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Merchandise exports grew 7.3% in annual terms in October, picking up markedly from the 2.6% expansion registered in September, but nevertheless missing market analyst expectations of an 8.0% growth print. The acceleration was largely due to a favorable base effect compared to the same month last year, as there were three more working days in the month this year. Nevertheless, growth in the 12-month trailing sum of exports inched up from 8.7% in September to 9.0% in October. On the other hand, export orders in September—which usually lead actual exports by two to three months—increased 4.2% year-on-year (market expectations: +5.0%), down from 7.1% yoy in August. This indicates that momentum in the external sector should remain sluggish through year-end.
"seasonally adjusted exports fell by 7.2% m-o-m after a rise of 8.0% in September. Meanwhile, year-on-year growth in electronics parts exports (accounting for 34% of total in 2017) rose only slightly in October despite the base effect, suggesting weak sales of new iPhones could weigh on Taiwan's manufacturing activity".
In terms of regional segmentation, shipments to every key region also picked up, once again due to the base effect, but growth in exports heading to mainland China and Hong-Kong—Taiwan's primary export market—remained much weaker than in H1.
Import growth meanwhile rose from 13.9% in September to 17.6% in October, due largely to a surge in imports of mineral products—notably petroleum—and electronic parts. Growth of the 12-month trailing sum of imports increased from 10.6% in September to 12.2% in October.
Lastly, the trade surplus fell sharply to USD 3.4 billion in October, from USD 4.3 billion in September. Meanwhile, the 12-month trailing trade surplus fell to USD 52.1 billion in October, from USD 54.0 billion in the 12 months up to September.
Our panelists forecast that exports will expand 4.6% in 2019 and imports will rise 4.7%, bringing the trade surplus to USD 64.1 billion. In 2020, our panel expects exports will expand 2.0%, while imports will rise 3.9%, bringing up the trade surplus to USD 59.6 billion.


Shun Classic knives combine traditional Japanese style with the superb performance of Damascus steel and the elegance of ebony PakkaWood handles. Damascus steel blades are known for being tough and resistant to shattering, as well as their capability of being honed to a sharp, resilient edge. Pakkawood is constructed of carefully selected foreign and domestic hardwood veneers which undergo a process that creates multiple fused layers of treated hardwoods, making a weather, bacteria and moisture resistant handle that is dimensionally stable. This knife features full-tang construction for added strength and balance. The 8 1/4-inch blade of this bread knife is set at a lower angle for cutting bread without interference, and the design of the blade reduces blade-to-food sticking which makes prep time quicker. A balance point between the handle and blade enhances accuracy. The unique combination of a VG-10 stainless steel cutting core and 32 layers of Damascus steel creates an incredibly sharp, strong blade with unmatched edge retention. The D-shaped handle is designed to fit perfectly into the curve of your grip for a comfortable hold, and the stainless steel accents add a unique finishing touch. Each Shun Classic blade features the Shun logo emblazoned onto the side, and should be hand washed to preserve the quality. This Shun Classic offset bread knife can cut cake and watermelon as well as slice bread without leaving crumbs.


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Jay Farrar Has Been Writing Great Songs About Trump's America For Nearly Thirty Years
Steven Hyden
Cultural Critic
Since the late '80s, Jay Farrar has been writing beautiful songs about not-so-beautiful topics — dead-end small towns, substance abuse, political malpractice, and the decaying infrastructure of middle America. Over the years, Farrar occasionally has brushed shoulders with the mainstream, first as the co-founder (with Jeff Tweedy) of the pioneering alt-country band Uncle Tupelo, and then as the leader of Son Volt, whose 1995 debut Trace is one of the greatest country-rock records ever made. But for the most part, Farrar has cut his own path as a troubadour outside of the pop world. It hasn't always been easy, but Farrar has remained stalwart, and more consistent than he gets credit for.
With Son Volt's latest release, the excellent Notes Of Blue, Farrar's timeless songwriting about working-class people once again seems more of the moment than ever. From his home base in St. Louis, Farrar has an up-close view of so-called "Trump America," and he writes with uncommon empathy and insight about how hopelessness has accumulated over decades in countless middle-American communities.
Leavening his usual folk and country influences with amped-up Skip James-style blues riffs, Farrar has created one of the first great anti-Trump albums of 2017, though it's not entirely intentional. (Much of the album's anti-fascist language doubles as a broadside against the record industry, another haven for no-nothing blowhards.) But still, many of the songs have a queasy resonance. On the album-closing "Threads And Steel," Farrar writes about an authoritarian figure — "a man going around, taking names" — who scours communities looking for people to evict. Farrar didn't set out to write an album about the fear permeating contemporary America, but it definitely seeped into his songs.
With a new Son Volt tour just underway, Farrar spoke about six of his best songs and what they say about a side of America that is often overlooked.
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Biggie is certainly not a forgiving man and the lazy housemates definitely have first-hand experience at the man's wrath.
The Housemates were clearly ready for their Friday night games and due to recent loses, they all had some kind of point to prove.
And like soldiers well prepared for combat, they all geared up in their usual orange uniform and awaited Biggies signal.
However, the oga had different plans. Instead of their usual attire, he handed them their freedom on a silver platter and allowed them to dress to impress while showing off their pair's uniqueness. This to further inspire them to work smarter perhaps.
For starters, Bamteddy (Bambam, Teddy A) and Rineeka (Rico Swavey, Ahneeka) were disqualified with immediate effect after failing to heed to Biggie's attire instruction and came dully geared up in their battle uniform.
This seems to have been 'saving grace' from Biggie because all the participating pairs, from Van-Dee (Vandora, Dee-One) to Leolex (Leo, Alex) failed miserably. It's better to miss a fight than lose it maybe. Not?
The Housemates were tasked with completing a four levelled puzzle challenge made up of colour coordinated balls, pyramid forming circles, and angular objects to be used to form a square. With ten minutes on the clock, to say they failed would be disrespectful to the word itself.
The Housemates were tormented. With all the pairs getting stuck on square making puzzle, one similar to the previous week's challenge where Angel proved his superiority and hit the nail on the head, winning himself a treat. Even the champ himself drowned.
The Game in its entirety is proving to be more difficult than meets the eye and the Housemates seem to be approaching it carelessly, showing absolutely no urgency in their executions and constantly celebrating failure.
Even after having been warned by both Biggie and Ebuka, they seem to be fully submerged in the pool of comfort. So much so that till now, their strategies or lack thereof are like white paint on a clean canvass, unclear. Will this change? Only time will tell.


Today's fast-paced digitalization and increasingly turbulent global markets mean that the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, and succeed is more important than ever. The effectiveness with which a company is able to respond to the increasing variability of markets and technologies is what we commonly understand as agility – its ability to adapt and swiftly reconfigure internal processes and resources to meet new challenges.
Back in 2006, researchers Stefano Brusoni and Andrea Prencipe wrote a case study for Organization Science called "Making Design Rules: A Multidomain Perspective." In focus was the Italian multinational tire manufacturer Pirelli, who in the late 1990s introduced MIRS, the Modular Integrated Robotized System. At the time of that introduction, the tire industry was struggling with the dramatic potential of robotics in product development and manufacturing processes. Pirelli was in an especially difficult position, noted the researchers – caught between the high expectations of carmakers that required customized tires and its own low innovation trend. If Pirelli wanted to continue to meet the needs of customers in the medium to high-end market segments, however, innovation would be required.
After Pirelli's bid to acquire a major competitor failed, MIRS was the company's last hope to defend its reputation as a market supplier for high-quality tires. For Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci, associate professor of organizational behavior at ESMT Berlin, the MIRS strategic choice illustrates how radical innovation paired with architectural knowledge can navigate a company through organizational change.
Organizations are complex systems that need all parts to work well together. According to Prof. Carnabuci, for this to happen, they need to develop two kinds of organizational knowledge. The first – specialist knowledge – pertains to the organization's distinctive competence areas, such as logistics, marketing, or production. The second – architectural knowledge – pertains to the interdependencies that exist across those areas.
First, architectural knowledge is mainly tacit, hence hard to detect. It resides in the minds of those who have it but it is difficult to see by (or communicate to) those who do not.
Second, the value of architectural knowledge tends to become visible only when it is too late, that is, when changing the organization's resource configuration generates cascades of unanticipated, cross-competence problems because no one really understood their deep interdependencies.
Third, HR systems and managerial attention are still largely geared towards appreciating specialist knowledge.
As Brusoni and Prencipe note in their research, Pirelli succeeded with MIRS by recognizing, valuing, and furthering the cross-domain connections of knowledge architects. Yes, the company recruited those with specialized skills, such as tire designers and software engineers. But the introduction of robotics demanded an integrated approach, say the researchers, so that such specialists could contribute their knowledge to the development of whole other areas of organizational competence. Such radical innovation would have been otherwise impossible.


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He's running, but they're hunting him and they're getting close…
A gang of kids on a perilous journey through a country that will lock them up first and ask questions afterwards. They must live on their wits, all of them – even Jake's dog, Jet – and they must work as a gang to survive.
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Shortlisted for YA Book Prize, longlisted for Branford Boase Award, nominated for Carnegie Medal.
This is a great, heart-stopping adventure for 12-plus about a burning hunger for freedom that shakes the soul with its contemporary political echoes. It has a moral compass that should put it bang in the centre of our kids' imaginations.
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Gripping, action-packed, but with moments of tenderness, Shaw's first YA novel tackles contemporary issues, balancing them with timeless themes of love, loyalty and freedom.
The picture of England which Shaw creates is at once recognisable but also truly horrifying and all too plausible…This has the feel of a post-Brexit novel yet I can see it staying relevant for years to come. Shaw tackles difficult moral issues and her characters have to make uncomfortable and frightening decisions. Their naivety is often exposed as a weakness and the child's willingness to trust sometimes leads to great danger.
Now more than ever, people of all ages are reading young adult books, and some of the best writers around (like Shaw) are providing them… I very much hope she is working on a follow-up to this.
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"The Guide to Paris"
Steven with a tall well built man just reaching middle age who I knew only as a business acquaintance. I never did any actual business with him and in fact knew very little about him except for the position he held with an importing firm in the beverage industry.
The only time we ever saw each other was at some industry function, a meeting or dinner. Our occasional meetings were casual with only small talk. As it happened one evening we did sit together at an industry dinner meeting and he told me this story. Why I have no idea but I am sure it is true. He had no reason to make up the story or try to impress me.
A few years before a French cognac firm, his importing company represented in the U.S., invited him to tour their facilities and plant. He went alone and after a few days spent with his French hosts then left to see Paris. He did not speak French and as he arrived by train into Paris he stood at the station rather puzzled as to how to proceed.
As he stood there an attractive woman, very well dressed, came up to him and asked him in English if she could be of help. She was obviously French, in her late thirties or early forties, elegant both in poise and dress.
He told her he had three days to spend in Paris before returning to San Francisco and that he would like a small hotel with a central location as a base for his visit.
She smiled, said she knew just the place, hailed a cab and together went to the hotel. She then suggested a restaurant nearby and again together they went to dinner. Over dinner it was agreed that she would spend the three days and nights with him and be his guide in Paris.
Steven said it was a memorable three days. She was a wonderful person to be with, intelligent with a keen sense of humor and certainly passionate in bed. But in all that time she never gave him her last name or told him anything about herself or how she became fluent in English. Steven was honest with her and told of his wife and children in San Francisco.
She had plenty of money of her own and asked nothing of him. Sometimes she would even pick up the check at a restaurant or bar.
As the time neared for him to go to the airport to catch a plane back to San Francisco she did confide to him that she was married, quite happily as it were, but her husband was away for a time.
As he stood by the cab to take him to the airport she kissed him good-by, waved and walked away.
It was the last he ever saw of her. We both agreed it was the stuff dreams are made of.
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Disclaimer: I should disclose that I am a little annoyed at Dianemo. They have stopped responding to my emails (15 days without ANY response to 4 emails, and 24 days with no response to a specific request).. I wonder how quickly that will change with this post?. That said, I don't mean to rant (well maybe a little), and I figure some of this info may be useful to others.
Why did I buy Dianemo?
Basically I have had problems with MythTV crashes in the past, and thought I would try and take some of the hassle out of LMCE and try out the Dianemo solution - which as I understood it had a newer version of Myth, and was less buggy.
What I was not aware of is that, while the Dianemo solution claims to be more stable, it has had a bunch of things cut out of the standard LMCE distro that I was not aware of (and that were not disclosed). After highlighting these - I was told they could be 'configured for me' but as you can see from the below - a bunch of them never worked... Including MythTV frontend which was a showstopper.
There was a bunch of other stuff I never tried (USBUIRT, zwave etc) because I never got it to a point where I could use it.
I should also mention that I am currently running the LMCE 0810 Final (not Dianemo) and it has resolved _all_ of the problems listed above... Including MythTV which seems much more stable than I remember from the Beta!
I think that covers most of it. Andrew has always been very helpful on the forums, but my experience with Dianemo was pretty terrible all said. Curious if anyone else has had issue like this?
Hi wombiroller - we have not responded to any emails because we have not received any from you for 26 days. Prior to that we tried numerous times to Remote Access your system but each time it was not accessible.
This MythTV issue has been fixed for several weeks. Clearly updates were not applied.
Gyration support and Fiire remote support has been available as an Update since the 2 Sept.
Adding Samba/NAS shares is working.
Media tagging via Amazon is broken and will hopefully be fixed in an update shortly.
Lack of support for Intel GPU's is clearly stated in the Dianemo S10.10 docs here on the Forum. However experimental support for Intel GPU's was reinstated on 24 Aug in an AVwizard update.
Configuration and setup of Dianemo does not require us to remotely login but we do offer that to assist new users if required (as we have to you numerous times... but for the most part your system has repeatedly not been accessible unfortunately). Anyone who is familiar with LinuxMCE configuration will feel very at home configuring Dianemo. The only area where a learning curve applies is if you want to create your own DCEwhisperer based Device Templates (DCEwhisperer is a Dianemo software framework for creating DCEdevices in the Bash language. We have numerous examples now of forum members creating there own DCEwhisperer device templates and we are really excited by all the activity here now around DCEwhisperer as it is of course also available for LinuxMCE-0810 so any devices you build can be used in Dianemo or LinuxMCE. We also hope to have a way to automatically move Device templates between Dianemo & LinuxMCE in the future allowing for bi-directional importing of Device templates between the two systems.
Mouse/Cross Hairs cursor management has been full working since before Dianemo S10.10 was released.
USBUIRT & ZWave support is full working and has been since Dianemo S10.10 was released.
Hopefully I have answered all of the points you have raised above. As you can see I think in all or almost cases your impression of functionality that is not working is somewhat out of date or incorrect. If you apply the updates that are currently available then there is no reason to not have a fully functional and working system. As ever if you need assistance to get your system operating how you require then we are willing to assist you using Remote Assistance or help you learn how to make the changes you are attempting yourself. However to allow us to do either of these your system must be powered up and accessible and you must be willing to be available to test the changes we make or benefit from any guidance we can provide too you.
Bit hard to swallow Andrew. Unless you have added me to your gmail spam list - I have been responding to the same message thread in gmail and you have responded to that in the past. You responded to one on the 13th Sep (15 days ago which shows you have been getting my emails in the last 26 days) that didn't address my request. I responded to that 4 times since... with no response.
You did promise someone would remote access in, though again – after several days after I would query why nothing had changed and you would tell me that someone had 'tried' but couldn't get access. Nobody ever told me when they were trying to get access and it failed so I could take a look - it was always me chasing up and being given what I perceived to be excuses. The only time the box was ever off air was when the licence failed because I was not issued a permanent one.
I'll forward the email thread for the 5th time, or happy to post the whole thing if you'd prefer.
Clearly, if you read the emails I sent, (that included log files and outputs from the update) I had updated it. It may have worked for others, but there was something clearly broken.
Actually I tried this as well, once the error in URL was communicated (as I outlined in my emails). That didn't work for me either... not found.
Again – this is patently untrue. Granted the time difference between Aus and the UK makes it difficult, but the box was never offline (with the exception of when the licence failed) and this was only ever used as an excuse after I would ask why nothing had changed several days after someone was supposed to login. No one ever notified me as they tried to connect.
Not by default.... "....By default we disable the mouse & cross hairs cursors as none of our users use mice or gyration style control for their MM's..." and as I stated, I couldn't get this to work on an MD - on the hybrid only.
Again – not out of date or incorrect – they just didn't work. Anyway, as I have outlined in several emails, I no longer have Dianemo installed. I went through this for a month and don't have the time or inclination to repeat the experience.
All I ask is you respond to my email request... Which I have resent for the 5th time.
Could I suggest picking up a phone, wombiroller? I know it's long distance, but surely a quick phone call to sort out this apparent email problem is preferable to this?
Anyway, I will mind my own business now.
I still do not have an email from you. I will email you please just reply to that email.
We have large numbers of users successfully using Dianemo S10.10 so whatever problems you have experienced I am confident that they can be resolved. If for some reason your updates did not get applied then that might cause some specific features to not function. If that is the case we can look at that remotely for you to resolve that issue too.
We provide remote assistance to users who hit problems or need some help with specific issues - for the most part this is usually to do with adding or configuring Device Templates. However most users do not need any remote assistance at all, and it is not assumed that is is required for a normal successful install, but it does depend on specific system configurations as system these can vary enormously. If we had to remotely configure every Dianemo S10.10 install for each customer we'd need a much bigger support team!
Fair point, though all I wanted was the license to be cancelled and a refund - it was at that point all me emails seemed to go missing, so I figured I was just been ignored. Anyway - we probably don't need to continue this publicly - I have said my piece..
Andrew - I replied to your email (same address as before). If you didn't get it (and I am not in your spam list) please let me know.
Hi Andrew - As above - I also PM'd you but still no response...?
Andrew - still no response to any email or multiple PM's. Could you PLEASE respond to one of them?!
I poked Andrew for you today and he said he didn't receive any emails from you. He said he sent you another email today. Not sure where things break down.
EDIT: Is there another Dianemo I can forward the email to?
And guess what - all this time, still not a peep. Initially I felt a bit bad about posting this - now I feel fully justified.
I've not followed this issue but I really doubt that Andrew is ignoring a customer. He is a very committed, friendly and smart guy. I'd suggest to give him a call to resolve this issue.
I am a user of Dianemo S10.10 too.
I can say that the support that the Dianemo-Team gives to me is realy great, and belive me, I had and I will have a lot of questions to Andrew and his team.
I had some problems at the beginning, mainly with my gt220, but Andrew was helpful and commited.
I sent him around 10 emails and all of them got replied.
Hope you solve your issues soon.
Glad some others are not having the same problems as me, however I still am still not getting any reponse from Andrew to my refund request.
Anyone want to buy my licence at an appropriate discount??


Karen Hartman is a local playwright, who is gaining national recognition. Her newest play, Roz and Ray, is getting a co-world premiere production between the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. The artistic director of Victory Gardens, Chay Yew, supplely directs this production and two veteran actors with national theater credits take on the roles in this roiling, emotional two-hander.
The unassuming title gives nothing away about what kind of relationship Roz and Ray have. It is definitely unique, in that Roz is a hematologist and Ray is a parent of twin hemophiliacs who need constant medical attention and blood products to stay alive. The play jumps back and forth in time from the late 1970s to 1991. This is key to the subject at hand.
We're talking about AIDS. It's a potent topic, not significantly explored in many plays, The Normal Heart, Angels in America: Parts I & II and Rent being a few of the exceptions. Those plays focused primarily on the impact of AIDS on Gay men, Gay life and Gay culture, which is widely known. But what many of us don't know and can stand some education about is how AIDS affected people who needed blood product to live normal lives.
We're introduced to the doctor and patients when the twins we never actually see are seven years old and are being taught how to self-inject Factor H. We learn that this is a new (in the late '70s) kind of blood product that revolutionizes how hemophiliacs can manage care, including allowing them to inject at home, safely - they thought - and avoiding hospital care and improving clotting to enjoy a very much more normal life.
But immediately after that, we jump to 1991 with Ray shouting to the heavens that Roz killed his son! It's a huge - and theatrically gripping - moment. It immediately intrigues and takes the play out of any normal relationship.
There is a great deal of fascinating dialogue and just enough medical information to allow us to understand how AIDS reached into this population's medical care and destroyed faith in the national blood donation treatment process. Hartman smartly doesn't overwhelm here.
The two actors, Ellen McLaughlin and Teagle F. Bougere, are nationally known stars who have both been on the Rep stage from time to time, to our delight. They are of the caliber of actor who could read the phone book and keep an audience interested.
Bougere has the more engaging character, here, with more emotional levels and more humor. McLaughlin's character has much less humor and more personality confusion, in terms of how to interact with a man she comes to care for while keeping professional boundaries. They have an awkward chemistry, which makes sense in this context.
In this iteration of the script, there is an unfortunate subplot. Plays often go through a lot of collaborative feedback and suggestions from other playwrights, directors, and theater friends, and sometimes things might creep into a play that derail it from its full potential. It is impossible, without a conversation with Hartman, to determine how or why a romance got inserted into this play. Maybe it was Hartman's idea from the start.
However, the topic and the relationship of desperate need between a doctor and a parent of medically fragile children is fraught enough to be fascinating fodder for the play. The interdependence might indeed cause them to be tricked into the idea that they might be romantically interested and psychology has much to say on that topic. But at present, the romance derails the whole play into more of a soap opera and a jilted lover-type scenario rather than a real medical tragedy.
In fact, there might be an easy fix, since the script is so very solid in every other way. Take out the actual romance (even if one leaves in the moment when they make a mistaken physical connection) and remove the uninspired mawkish ending and you have a play that will demand being produced everywhere in the English-speaking world. It's potential is that good.
To see this fascinating play, go to www.seattlerep.org or call 206-443-2222.
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