Jonathan Balls, Transition Towns: Local Networking For Global Sustainability?
We need energy to heat our homes and provide electricity for our appliances.
Most commonly in our world, coal, oil, natural gas, and radioactive [nuclear] materials, especially the heavy metal, Uranium, supply our energy.
These materials, such as Uranium, change into other materials during which a huge amount of energy is released. Remember Albert Einstein's famous equation, e=mc2. Well, it is kind of like magic – that c2 is a very large number; e is the energy you get at the end; m is the very tiny amount of mass or "stuff" that changes from stuff you can see into unseen but powerful energy.
But before we go on we need to make sure we know what we are talking about. What is energy? Several kinds come to mind. We have mentioned three already: nuclear, electricity and heat. There is also "mechanical motion"; think about working out at the gym. Notice another thing at the gym – one's muscles get warm; so heat is produced as well as mechanical motion.
Another thing about energy: once it is released, it never goes away. It can never be destroyed. This is a perfect rule with which everyone agrees. It is actually called a "law" – the first law of thermodynamics.
What happens to the energy, after we use it, such as when I have finished moving my fingers typing this sentence?
It is lost as waste heat out "there" somewhere. It is dispersed and spreads out in all directions and can not be reused. This is called entropy and is the second law of thermodynamics.
Now what does that have to do with nuclear power and global warming?
Once you release all that energy from Uranium, as in a nuclear reactor, it is here forever, except for some fraction that radiates out into outer space as "long-wave radiation." The rest goes into the air, waterways, glaciers, dirt and rocks as waste heat, also called thermal [heat] pollution, increasing the temperature, thereby bringing about global warming.
Is nuclear the only the only source of energy that releases waste heat?
No. Coal, oil and natural gas [hydrocarbons, so-called "fossil fuels"] also release waste heat when burned.
Why is this fact not included in the title of this article?
Because many people already know that use of hydrocarbons causes global warming. Also, many believe that nuclear power does not cause global warming and that it may actually solve the global warming problem. Nothing could be further from the truth, because it produces heat and, therefore, thermal pollution.
What about greenhouse gases that are discussed on TV and the internet, such as carbon dioxide? What about other greenhouse gases such as water vapor and methane?
This is best approached by admitting that this is an area of great conflict. Well-connected scientists almost universally claim that global warming is occurring, that it is from human activity, that activity that causes the emission of "greenhouse gases" [especially carbon dioxide or CO2]. These are gases that make up a small part of the air we breathe, but they are able to hold in heat.
Millions of people agree with this. Other millions disagree. Leaders [or misleaders] of both factions present plausible evidence of wrongdoing by and conflict of interest on the other side. Both are correct about this and we should not be surprised that this is the case. Though startling claims are made about the need to save the planet, it is really about money and power, meaning here a different kind of power, that of authority and control. Imagine the wealth and personal power to be derived from selling and controlling the flow of energy to billions of people.
In fact, it appears that greenhouse gases have a small but definite effect and work together with the direct heat pollution discussed here to make the problem of global warming worse.
Neither side is interested in promoting the facts as presented in this report, because they both stand to lose. They both cause thermal pollution [global warming].
Fortunately solar and wind power do not cause thermal pollution because they use the Sun's heat, which we will get whether we use it for our energy needs or not. These technologies have matured and their costs have come crashing down and will continue to do so. The best solution for the long-term supply of electrical energy is to institute these renewable sources at the municipal level and as a cooperative effort. This gives everyone energy independence.
Of course, municipally owned, cooperatively run energy sources will be vigorously opposed by hydrocarbon and nuclear barons and those who will want to privatize, for their own profit, renewable energy sources. They will want to centralize renewable energy, and dole it out to large areas through grids under centralized control.
We, the public, must assert and struggle for what is best for us and our Planet. If we do not switch to non-heat adding solar and solar-derived energy sources, we will burn to a crisp.
– Morton S. Skorodin, MD, is a retired physician living in Oklahoma, USA, working on anti-war, anti-nuclear and global warming issues.
There is a close relationship between peak oil and population. Since the 1950s there have been many estimates of the rise and fall of global oil production, but it was perhaps inevitable that the shift has been from optimistic to realistic. After all, it is better for one's reputation to make errors on the side of caution than to look like foolish by announcing a catastrophe that does not occur. With increasing studies, however, and with increasing proximity to the critical events, realism at last takes over.
We begin with two basic facts. The first is that the world's present annual consumption of oil is nearly 30 billion barrels. The second is that the world's present population is nearly 7 billion. From there we can add some reasonable estimates of both oil decline and population decline.
The peak of world oil production is about 2010, and the most likely rate of decline after the peak is 6 percent. [5, 7, 11] That means production will fall to half of the peak level in 11 years, i.e. in 2021.
If oil production drops to half of its peak amount in 11 years, therefore, world population must also drop by half, i.e. to 3.5 billion. A drop from 7 billion to 3.5 means that, as with oil production, the annual population decline rate will be 6%.
But how will it be possible to reduce the population from 7 billion to 3.5 billion in 11 years? Would such a reduction be possible with a program of voluntary cessation of all childbirth, but with no other drastic global change in human behavior? Would a no-child policy be workable? Unfortunately, such a program would be quite unlikely to succeed. In the first place, in order to have any significant effect the program would have to be both global and immediate. In addition, most of the world is hardly amenable to the suggestion of a one-child policy, such as that of China, so it is not likely that it would tolerate a no-child policy.
In any case, cutting the birth rate without increasing the death rate would not have a great enough effect on the final numbers. Since most of the people now living would still be alive in 2021, the population would not be reduced sufficiently. There is, in fact, no feasible political means of reducing population by 6 percent annually.
Planning for such a scenario should have been started long ago. Even at this late date, however, what is needed is to accept the facts and to ease the way for those relatively few who will constitute the future of humanity. At least on a small scale, such a program will succeed.
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Peter Goodchild is the author of Survival Skills of the North American Indians, published by Chicago Review Press. His email address is odonatus@live.com.
WASHINGTON -- A sobering new report warns that oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.
The report, in Science magazine, doesn't break a lot of new ground, but it brings together dozens of studies that collectively paint a dismal picture of deteriorating ocean health.
"We are becoming increasingly certain that the world's marine ecosystems are reaching tipping points," Bruno said, adding, "We really have no power or model to foresee" the effect.
The oceans, which cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface, have played a dominant role in regulating the planet's climate. However, even as the understanding of what's happening to terrestrial ecosystems as a result of climate change has grown, studies of marine ecosystems have lagged, the report says. The oceans are acting as a heat sink for rising temperatures and have absorbed about one-third of the carbon dioxide produced by human activities.
* The average temperature of the upper level of the oceans has increased more than 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past 100 years, and global ocean surface temperatures in January were the second-warmest ever recorded for that month.
* Though the increase in acidity is slight, it represents a "major departure" from the geochemical conditions that have existed in the oceans for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years.
* Nutrient-poor "ocean deserts" in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans grew by 15 percent, or roughly 2.5 million square miles, from 1998 to 2006.
* Oxygen concentrations have been dropping off the Northwest U.S. coast and the coast of southern Africa, where dead zones are appearing regularly. There is paleontological evidence that declining oxygen levels in the oceans played a major role in at least four or five mass extinctions.
* Since the early 1980s, the production of phytoplankton, a crucial creature at the lower end of the food chain, has declined 6 percent, with 70 percent of the decline found in the northern parts of the oceans. Scientists also have found that phytoplankton are becoming smaller.
Volcanic activity and large meteorite strikes in the past have "resulted in hostile conditions that have increased extinction rates and driven ecosystem collapse," the report says. "There is now overwhelming evidence human activities are driving rapid changes on a scale similar to these past events.
"Many of these changes are already occurring within the world's oceans with serious consequences likely over the coming years."
One of the consequences could be a disruption of major ocean currents, particularly those flowing north and south, circulating warm water from the equator to polar regions and cold water from the poles back to the equator. Higher temperatures in polar regions and a decrease in the salinity of surface water because of melting ice sheets could interrupt such circulation, the report says.
The change in currents could further affect such climate phenomena as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation. Scientists just now are starting to understand how these phenomena affect global weather patterns.
"Although our comprehension of how this variability will change over the coming decades remains uncertain, the steady increase in heat content in the ocean and atmosphere are likely to have profound influences on the strength, direction and behavior of the world's major current systems," the report says.
Kelp forests such as those off the Northwest U.S. coast, along with corals, sea grasses, mangroves and salt marsh grasses, are threatened by the changes the oceans are undergoing, the report says. All of them provide habitat for thousands of species.
The polar bear isn't the only polar mammal that faces an escalating risk of extinction, the report says; penguin and seal populations also are declining.
"It's a lot worse than the public thinks," said Nate Mantua, an associate research professor at the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group.
Mantua, who's read the report, said it was clear what was causing the oceans' problems: greenhouse gases. "It is not a mystery," he said.
There's growing concern about low-oxygen or no-oxygen zones appearing more and more regularly off the Northwest coast, Mantua said. Scientists are studying the California Current along the West Coast to determine whether it could be affected, he added.
Fred Pearce keeps on saying that population growth is no longer a problem. He said it again as part of his World Population Day message.
In Fred's view, it's very simple. Fertility rates have come down sharply over the past half century. Problem solved.
Sorry, Fred, saying that population growth is no longer a problem doesn't make it so, no matter how many times you say it. Neither does wishful thinking.
While admitting that world population may increase by another 2 billion or so by midcentury, he dismisses this increment as a "time-lag" problem.
Earth to Fred: 2 billion more people is a lot of people to a world that is already struggling to feed 6.8 billion people. It's a lot of people to a biosphere that is threatened with what leading biologists refer to as the Sixth Mass Extinction. And it's a lot of people to a planet that is already threatened with the effects of climate change. And while "population momentum" (i.e., large numbers of people entering their reproductive years) may account for some of the projected increase in human numbers, much of it is being driven by the fact that fertility rates in many developing countries around the world are still well above the "replacement rate."
Yes, Fred, we must do something about consumption. Unless we in the developed world do more to curb our consumption of fossil fuels and scarce minerals, the world is headed for an ecological and humanitarian disaster. We need to lower our per capita consumption of fossil fuels and other scarce resources. A lot. But I don't see the G8 or the G20 putting their heads together right now in an effort to lower consumer spending. Really, I don't. Neither do I see anything happening with respect to climate change.
And that's why it's especially important to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the U.S. and other developed nations. Sorry, Fred, it doesn't matter that America's fertility rate is right around the "replacement rate" or that Europe's is well below it. A baby born here or elsewhere in the developed world will still consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources and contribute disproportionately to the world's environmental problems.
It's also important to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the developing world. The reasons, however, are different. It really doesn't matter whether global fertility rates have dropped sharply; they remain unsustainably high in many of the least developed areas of the world. Yes, Fred, fertility rates have come down sharply in Iran and Bangladesh, but women in Afghanistan and Somalia and other desperately poor countries are still having four, five, or six children on average. Some poor countries, like Uganda and Niger, are on track to triple their populations over the next 40 years. Africa's population will likely double by mid-century.
Looking ahead, Fred, will these countries be able to feed themselves? Will they have enough safe drinking water? Will their lands be deforested or their rivers polluted? Will their maternal mortality rates and infant mortality rates remain unacceptably high? Will they be caught in a demographic poverty trap? Will they become failed states? If you have good answers to these questions, please let me know. Because if you don't, then we need to ensure that women in these developing countries are given the information and the access to contraceptives that they need to prevent unwanted and unintended pregnancies.
Someday we will be able to declare victory. Someday every woman will have access to family-planning services and reproductive health care. Someday world population will be in decline. Someday world population levels will pose no danger to the health of the planet. But that day has not arrived. Not yet. In the meantime, your breezy dismissal of the "population problem" does an enormous disservice to the planet and every living creature that calls it home.
Robert Walker is executive vice president of the Population Institute.
... While local sustainability has become a politically important discursive goal, in practice neither top-down governmental nor grassroots community models have gained widespread uptake or success: the former have failed to connect with or involve a grassroots public; the latter generally have few resources and limited capacity.
It is in this context that the Transition Model is interesting. A non-governmental community-led model: Transition advances an action-based approach, comparable to community sustainability models. Yet, with a fast growing network of Initiatives, Transition is much closer to the top-down governmental models. Transition combines the advantages of an organic support base, with the capacity and resources of a networking organisation.
The 'Transition' concept, co-founded by Rob Hopkins, who has a background in permaculture, builds upon a core thesis: that the modern industrial capitalist economic and social system, based upon cheap oil and resources, is unsustainable, making a major restructuring of economy and society imperative, and inevitable. Transition contends that citizens and communities need to act proactively and positively at the local scale, in a process of 'Transition' and 'powerdown' to build localised and resilient communities in terms of food, energy, work and waste (Hopkins, 2008). The goal is a societal paradigm in which de-carbonised local communities are resilient in their capacity to "hold together and maintain their ability to function in the face of change and shock from outside." (Hopkins, 2008:8). Transition is modelled to be a self-organising community-led model, for people to 'act now and act collectively'.
... What I see as 'push factors' contend that materialistic and capitalist economic and social structures are unsustainable, with the following principle issues outlined: climate change; peak oil - see the World Energy Outlook (2008); environmental degradation; and discourses on the finite planet thesis.
Outlining these 'push factors', Heinberg's (2004) Powerdown argues that: "we have already overshot Earth's long-term carrying capacity for humans – to such an extent that some form of societal collapse is now inevitable." (Heinberg, 2004:10).
... On the 'pull factor' side, Transition theory celebrates the perceived benefits of a paradigm of re-localised and resilient communities. Arguments to this extent include Holmgren's Permaculture (2002), calling for permaculture ecology principles to be applied to human settlement and agriculture. Similarly the Blueprint for Survival (1972) and Jackson's more recent Prosperity without Growth (2009) outline re-localisation paradigms.
Social movement theory helps explain how the Transition Model has built up grassroots support, bringing in new community-based Initiatives at an exponential rate across space and time.
... Pepper (1984) speaks of the period in the late-1970's to early-1980's when a series of 'drop-out' communities formed, seeking to re-establish close and fundamental ties with nature and 'mother-earth'. Transition is in many respects ideologically and theoretically comparable to such models; however it differs in that it has spawned a network, becoming a 'viral social movement'.
Looking specifically at the theory and ideology of the Transition Model, it lies at heart within the environmental field of political ecology or 'ecologism'. The Transition Model proposes a radically reformist shift away from industrial society, which it sees as heading towards a 'crunch'; where resource depletion, climate change and environmental degradation threaten some form of societal collapse. Critiquing materialistic and capitalistic modernity, Transition seeks a new paradigm involving re-localisation and 'powerdown'.
Transition's radical agenda has been crucial in attracting people to the movement; especially those with past environmental activity, many of whom believe that radical change is essential. Around half the people I interviewed held strong 'ecologist' positions, critical of the status quo; Transition forums similarly reflecting this position. Eleven of my interviewees foresaw drastic scenarios resulting from climate change, peak oil, power and food shortages. The majority of interviewees believed it inevitable that societies and economies would need to re-localize. Crucial to this point, Transition was seen by all as a viable and workable model and pathway to sustainability.
While Transition theory proclaims a radical message, in practice Initiatives are developing ideas and projects that can be characterised as 'mainstream' environmental work, including: community gardens, pushing funding for renewable energy projects, encouraging recycling and raising awareness. Such projects hardly indicate the radical aspects of Transition theory.
Bringing together a grassroots base of support around the principles of Transition, into what I call a 'Transition Coalition' is crucial to the model. The Transition Model has to date successfully merged radical and mainstream views and practice, creating a 'brand' and image that attracts a wide base. This is a key primary element that allows Transition, a community-led and action-based model, to extend itself beyond any one place or core issue, while retaining grassroots support. In contrast, other grassroots community models, whether groups radically isolating themselves from mainstream society or communities seeking to ban plastic bags, struggle to gain participation beyond their issue base and their place of operation; while most governmental initiatives fail to connect to a grassroots base.
Establishing an identifiable 'brand', defining general principles and goals.
Providing a networking framework. (I address this last function separately).
... As a national 'brand' the model has been building momentum, capacity and visibility, which individual Initiatives can latch onto. For example, in Berkhamsted I was told that the Transition group was considered by the Council to be bigger and more influential than it perhaps was. Additionally, Transition's brand is perceived to come without negative 'baggage' or stereotypes associated with many environmental organisations.
The Transition Model aims to have covered much of the groundwork in practical areas of sustainability, so that for Initiatives 'the wheel is not continually re-invented'. To this extent a key function of the model is to provide resources, information, knowledge, training and support. Included in this is: material and information for recently established Initiatives; the twelve steps of Transition; and ideas, experience and information shared on Transition websites and forums. For example talks, films, discussion topics, and project ideas are shared, especially for awareness raising.
... Above these core functions is the principle of self-organisation. Beyond their approval by the trustees of the Transition Movement, Initiatives structure and organise their activities independently. The theory and practice is simple: any ideas, strategies or projects a group has, they can just get on with it. Responsibility is passed down, with the principles of Transition adapted to local conditions. This self-organising and fundamentally democratic structure is crucial to bringing in new Initiatives, people, ideas and projects.
... Indeed, most Initiatives follow locally adapted strategies, few follow the twelve steps of Transition closely, and almost none have considered an EDAP to date. Further, many Initiatives rarely used online materials or resources. A minority were applying these materials closely. Transition more than anything was seen to provide the vision, values and principles that Initiatives could independently work with.
... Initiatives that are thriving are those with motivated, energetic and skilled individuals in the core team, driving strategy and projects. Indeed, in several cases, where members of the core group had left, the Initiatives struggled to continue. Further, personal networks were crucial to people becoming involved with Transition and for new Initiatives being formed. People I interviewed had been members of environmental organisations from the Green Party through to Climate Camp, as well as coming from academic, community, social justice and peace group backgrounds. Networks and contacts within these organisations play a central role in bringing new people into the 'Transition Coalition'.
... However, in the longer-term place does matter, with certain communities appearing to be better suited to Transition. Communities with past social activity provide a good base, such as Ottery St. Mary, famous for the protests of 'Swampy' against road-building: "Ottery is a funny little place in that its got a good community but it has also got a history of green social enterprise... it acted as a sort of base for an anti-road protest." (Clive, Ottery). Similarly, pioneering Initiatives such as Totnes, Stroud, Lewes and Glastonbury are all communities with histories of 'alternative' action. It further seems likely that in smaller market towns and to an extent in the city neighbourhoods: community size and cohesion offers the greatest potential for Initiative's to embed locally. This is crucial for longer-term grassroots community participation, momentum and energy.
A bottom-up, grassroots movement with collective goals and principles: Transition can be characterised as a social movement. I have conceptualised Transition as a discourse coalition, enabled by a democratic and self-organising structure. Crucial to Transition being good at building a 'Transition Coalition' is the movement's ability to tap into a latent demand, and in many cases a sense of urgency for reformist action. The idea is that "something needs to change, something needs to happen" (Gill, Bruton). Transition's promotion of a paradigm of localised sustainability taps into a groundswell of opinion, mobilising a grassroots base much as a social movement.
It "was the frustration that at that point nothing was happening at the governmental level that was addressing issues of climate change or peak oil" (Mark, Bath).
"We're here really because there was a need to… a small group of us really wanted to do something else following on from the inspiration of... Rob Hopkins. " (Steve, Llandeilo).
"You know for me it is the bigger picture, I see this as part of a grassroots movement; eventually to grow big enough so that politicians sit up and take notice. " (Willi, Marlow).
"We… bill ourselves as a cultural organisation. We are wanting to change perceptions, educate people " (Mark, High Wycombe).
However, while Transition is attracting people with environmental and community concerns to join and establish Initiatives, this does not mean that whole communities are participating. My research shows that participation of communities is in every case a minority, usually five to ten percent of a population on mailing lists. Whether this is a weakness in the Transition Model is unclear; especially as gaining majority participation for any 'cause' within communities is rare.
... Personal contacts, including links through third party organisations facilitate networking. Yet it is the internet that is crucial in growing the Transition Network. The internet allows people to network cheaply; sharing information, expertise and best practice as well as building the capacity of Transition as an organisation. From Initiatives networking to understand the funding options for installing solar panels, to city initiatives sharing their experiences of raising awareness, the Internet provides an indispensible tool. My research showed that the internet is arguably being underutilized, with some Initiatives not using the internet to network.
Transition: Utopia for Local Sustainability?
A PDF of the complete dissertation is online (54 pages,633 KB).
My dissertation was written as part of my final year undergraduate course. I therefore don't really have a long biography to attach to the work, except that I have just graduated this year in Geography from the University of Cambridge and that I will hopefully be moving on to further phd work around sustainability in the next year.


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Talking Alone: Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Tools to Predict Loneliness
, (2020, September 24). Talking Alone: Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Tools to Predict Loneliness. Psychreg on Mental Health. https://www.psychreg.org/artificial-intelligence-loneliness/
For the past couple of decades, there has been a loneliness pandemic, marked by rising rates of suicides and opioid use, lost productivity, increased health care costs and rising mortality. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated social distancing and lockdowns, have only made things worse, say experts.
Accurately assessing the breadth and depth of societal loneliness is daunting, limited by available tools, such as self-reports. In a new proof-of-concept paper, published online in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, a team led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used artificial intelligence technologies to analyse natural language patterns (NLP) to discern degrees of loneliness in older adults.
'Most studies use either a direct question of ' how often do you feel lonely,' which can lead to biased responses due to stigma associated with loneliness or the UCLA Loneliness Scale which does not explicitly use the word lonely,' said senior author Ellen Lee, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine. 'For this project, we used natural language processing or NLP, an unbiased quantitative assessment of expressed emotion and sentiment, in concert with the usual loneliness measurement tools.'
In recent years, numerous studies have documented rising rates of loneliness in various populations of people, particularly those most vulnerable, such as older adults. For example, a UC San Diego study published earlier this year found that 85% of residents living in an independent senior housing community reported moderate to severe levels of loneliness.
The new study also focused on independent senior living residents: 80 participants aged 66 to 94, with a mean age of 83 years. But, rather than simply asking and documenting answers to questions from the UCLA Loneliness Scale, participants were also interviewed by trained study staff in more unstructured conversations that were analyzed using NLP-understanding software developed by IBM, plus other machine-learning tools.
'NLP and machine learning allow us to systematically examine long interviews from many individuals and explore how subtle speech features like emotions may indicate loneliness. Similar emotion analyses by humans would be open to bias, lack consistency, and require extensive training to standardise," said first author Varsha Badal, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow.
Lonely individuals had longer responses in the qualitative interview and more greatly expressed sadness to direct questions about loneliness.
Women were more likely than men to acknowledge feeling lonely during interviews.
Men used more fearful and joyful words in their responses compared to women.
Authors said the study highlights the discrepancies between research assessments for loneliness and an individual's subjective experience of loneliness, which NLP-based tools could help to reconcile. The early findings reflect how there may be 'lonely speech' that could be used to detect loneliness in older adults, improving how clinicians and families assess and treat loneliness in older adults, especially during times of physical distancing and social isolation.
The study, said the authors, demonstrates the feasibility of using natural language pattern analyses of transcribed speech to better parse and understand complex emotions like loneliness. They said the machine-learning models predicted qualitative loneliness with 94% accuracy.
'Our IBM-UC San Diego Center is now exploring NLP signatures of loneliness and wisdom, which are inversely linked in older adults. Speech data can be combined with our other assessments of cognition, mobility, sleep, physical activity and mental health to improve our understanding of ageing and to help promote successful ageing,' said study co-author Dilip Jeste, MD, senior associate dean for healthy ageing and senior care and co-director of the IBM-UC San Diego Center for Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living.
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John Banovich-Cause Celeb
Artist Banovich Is Dedicated To Protecting The Wild In His Wildscapes
Wednesday Oct 8, 2014 11:46 AM
BY GIACINTA PACE
John Banovich is an artist and conservationist that is internationally known for his dramatic portrayals of wildlife. Banovich's oil paintings can be found in museum, corporate and private collections around the world. Through his career,artwork and his publishing company, Banovich Art, Banovich has developed effective ways to help implement and support conservation programs and is utilizing his imagery to promote a message of wildlife preservation.
The Banovich Wildscapes Foundation (BWF) (https://johnbanovich.com/wildscapes- foundation) is a nonprofit organization fostering cooperative efforts to conserve the earth's wild places. Their goal is to benefit both the wildlife and the people that live there. Founded by John Banovich, BWF is the culmination of conservation efforts over the past two decades.
Q: Tell us about your organization?
John: My organization is the Banovich Wildscapes Foundation….the word Wildscapes being key as it is the wild in our landscapes that make them an ecological treasure for all of us to enjoy. We have all travelled to places where the ig things with big teeth have been displaced or removed. Something always feels dead to me in those hallowed environments. There are still a few vestiges of habitat that harbor the mega fauna and ecosystems that, when encountered, lift our minds, replenish our spirits and renew our passions for living. In fact, spending time in wild, intact ecosystems has scientifically proven health benefits.
The mission of Wildscapes is to foster cooperative efforts to conserve the earth's wildlife and wild places benefitting the animals and people that live there. We accomplish this in three ways: 1) Supporting important science research and education. 2) Protecting large conservation landscapes. 3) Finding ways to benefit community development.
I founded BWF because I saw there was a chasm between the sportsman conservationists and the conservationist environmentalists. Prior to the 1960's, these individuals and groups worked, for the most part, in tandem on environmental and conservation issues. The majority of the time they were one in the same. Today you see the left and the right working independently because of differences in fundamental beliefs that either wildlife is a resource to be used, or wildlife should have individual rights and be protected at all costs…even at the cost of the species as a whole. The reality is that wildlife must be utilized, both consumptively and non-consumptively (depending on the landscape) and local people must benefit from its presence. If not, the wildlife will disappear. I call this the second inconvenient truth. Today wildlife must pay in order to stay. In an ever exploding human population of over 7 billion and growing, wildlife must bring value to communities; it must compete economically with other land use choices. In the future these wildscapes will become more valuable than anything we have….more valuable than anything that can grow on them, anything that can be built on them, or anything that can be extracted from underneath.
I once invited the Kenyan Speaker of the House to the USA to look at our wildlife policy; both the successes and failures, at the state and federal level as well as our national parks and private lands. He said to me, "John, people come to my country and say, 'you have beautiful wildlife…you must protect it. You must save it.' I call them suitcase conservationists. If they love it so much, why don't they take it home in their suitcase, because it eats my grass, it eats my cows and it even ate my brother." (His brother was killed by a lion.)
Kenya banned any sort of consumptive utilization of wildlife in 1977 and as a result of species not having any real value outside of protected areas (only 8% of its landscape), what was once the greatest wildlife country in Africa has now lost nearly 80% of its wildlife in less than 40 years.
Q: What is the most important thing you want people to know about your cause?
John: I don't think the word cause may be the best here. I would rather say mission. The mission of BWF is to awaken and inform the people. If we don't do something now, then wildlife and wild places will be gone forever. Never before has the wild kingdom faced the level of threats as it does right now. Animals are being poached and slaughtered at an unprecedented rate, and millions of human livelihoods depend on their survival. Rural people around the world can benefit from the utilization of wildlife, but if the animals continue to be poached, removed and exploited because they are viewed as an expensive burden, then we, as humans will all lose a part of ourselves.
Q: What is the nicest thing that someone has done for you?
I have been truly blessed with so many wonderful people in my life. Many have helped me open doors, surmount challenges and have lit the way when there was simply nothing but darkness on the horizon. To narrow down all of my blessings would be fortuitous and is simply too difficult, but recently one the nicest things was done for me was by my good friend Mary Hart and her husband Burt Sugarman. My book "BEAST- The Collected works of John Banovich" was released a few years ago, and Burt and Mary were kind enough to host a Book Launch Party at the Barnes and Noble store at the Grove in Los Angeles. They invited many of the "who's-who" in business and entertainment, and hosted a private dinner after the book signing. I brought two young lion cubs (arranged by my friend Jack Hanna, who wrote the forward in my book) to join our guests.
A few years prior, we had started a Lion Conservation program called the Lion P.R.I.D.E. Initiative. I saw this as a perfect opportunity to introduce the plight of the lion to our guests. NBC's Entertainment Tonight featured the event between Paul McCartney and Dick Van Dyke…and after the show aired, the number of hits to our website was over the moon. It was so important because much of what I do in my work contains an environmental message. Burt Sugarman and Mary Hart both love and appreciate animals and are very concerned about conservation issues and the well-being of rural people in developing nations. They really helped to shine a light on the importance of saving our wild places. It is this kind of reach that is important to spreading the message about the vital role that wild animals play in proving a quality of life on earth.
Q: Is there anything else you would like to add?
John: Today we are at a precipice, and the decisions that we make now will seal the fate of wildlife for the generations to come. Just read the headlines…we are all well aware of the challenges facing our civilization in many areas, but one bright spot is that some species have made heroic comebacks from the brink of extinction. Animals are tenacious and resilient. All they need are the fundamentals of life to survive. We do not need to save one single species to accomplish this; all we need to do is to provide land and water. The animals will save themselves.


According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the misuse of medication results in over one million adverse drug events every year. In a recent blog, our attorneys discussed the current efforts made by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) to establish a universal standard for prescription drug labels and instructions, by issuing a series of recommendations in order to add more consistency to prescription labeling—to reduce medication errors that can result in personal injury or wrongful death.
The USP is a Maryland-based nonprofit organization that issues standards that are legally enforceable for the quality, strength, and purity of medicines in this country. In 2007, the USP developed the Health Literacy and Prescription Container Labeling Advisory Panel to examine the different ways prescription drug labeling could be improved.
The IOM claims that health literacy affects ninety million adults, who are unable to benefit properly from the health care due to a lack of understanding of drug instructions and information about medication interactions. After the IOM called for new drug label standards, the USP panel recently released recommendations that are based on patient well being, and health literacy—as bad health literacy can cause medication errors, and increase the potential for heath risks and personal injury.
According to Joanne G. Schwartzberg, co-chair of the panel, standardizing the medication labels can markedly improve the health and safety of patients, by providing reliable, simple and straightforward information. The USP panel recommendations cover the appearance, content, format and languages on prescription labels, in an effort to optimize patient understanding, and eliminate medication error and misuse.
•	Organizing the labels on the prescriptions to best represent the way patients look at medication labels—featuring the most important and critical information, so patients can safely comprehend the drug instructions, which leads to the safe usage of the medication.
•	Simplifying the language on prescription labels with regular sentences and terms that don't include unfamiliar words or phrases, like Latin terms, or medical jargon that is unclear, in order to increase patient understanding and promote effective drug use.
•	The prescriber's included purpose should be clearly visible on the label, and stated in a simple language, and any critical information must be included on the drug label in simple, clear text and font, with normal sentence punctuation, and not truncation.
•	The labeling of prescription containers should be in a patient's preferred language. Any translations should be made using a translation process that is high-quality, in order to increase comprehension and drug usage.
•	Any supplemental information should be reduced to critical evidence-based information only, and displayed in a manner that is standardized for better patient understanding and comprehension.
•	With more e-prescribing, the development of patient standards is important for prescription directions, and could lead to a more consistent language throughout all healthcare systems. All Latin abbreviations should be eliminated as they are often vulnerable to misunderstandings both patient understanding and translation.


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HomeNew musicGRAHAM COXON releases soundtrack for second season of 'The End of the F***ing World'
GRAHAM COXON releases soundtrack for second season of 'The End of the F***ing World'
November 4, 2019 Mark Millar New music, News 0
The second soundtrack album from Graham Coxon – featuring original songs and score from the new series of acclaimed Channel 4/Netflix show 'The End of the F***ing World' – will be released as a digital download on 8th November 2019 ahead of a vinyl release scheduled for January 2020.
Following his soundtrack for last season, Graham Coxon has returned with all new original songs and score for the hugely popular RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated series which returns to Channel 4 today and Netflix on 5th November.
The 20-track album was written, composed and performed by Coxon and recorded in his home studio during the summer of 2019. The first track to be released is titled 'She Knows', listen below:
Over eight addictive episodes in 2017's series one, written by Charlie Covell, viewers followed teen runaways James and Alyssa on a darkly comic road trip, which saw them caught in a spiral of dangerous events. Charlie Covell returns to write 'The End of the F***ing World' which is inspired by the characters from the award-winning series of comic books by Charles Forsman and is directed by Lucy Forbes (In My Skin) and Destiny Ekaragha (Gone Too Far).
Dining Room Stand-Off
Madder Than Me
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A Better Beginning
Bonjour, Monsieur
Bonnie The Kid
Beautiful Bad
I'll Race You Home
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Threw It Away
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About Graham Coxon:
Chiefly known as the guitarist in Blur, Graham has also played saxophone and drums on many Blur tracks. He composed 1997's "You're So Great" and sang vocals and composed much of the band's 1999 hit single "Coffee & TV". Blur's latest release, the 2015 album 'The Magic Whip', which Graham produced alongside Stephen Street, debuted at No 1 in the UK album chart.
Graham has released eight solo albums – 'The Sky is Too High' (1998), 'The Golden D' (2000), 'Crow Sit On Blood Tree' (2001), 'The Kiss Of Morning"' (2002), 'Happiness In Magazines' (2004), 'Love Travels At Illegal Speeds' (2006) 'The Spinning Top' (2009)., 'A+E; (2012) The Original Songs and Score to The End of the F***ing World Season 1 was released in 2018 to widespread critical acclaim.
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Grab the source from Github: https://github.com/kumar303/hawkrest

Run the tests
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You can run the full test suite with the `tox`_ command::

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To just run Python 2.7 unit tests type::

    tox -e py27-django1.8-drf3.2

To just run doctests type::

    tox -e docs

Set up an environment
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Using a `virtualenv`_ you can set yourself up for development like this::

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Note that this won't install any libraries that are tested at different
versions. You need tox for that.

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In your development virtualenv, you can build the docs like this::

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To publish a new release on `PyPI`_, make sure the changelog is up to date
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Run this from the repository root to publish on `PyPI`_ as both a source
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.. _virtualenv: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
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For women and with women!
Amasra municipality in Turkey is clearly making a statement for gender equality. – We don't accept any discrimination or violence against women in our city says, Recai Çakır, the Mayor of Amasra.
The mayor himself, the vice mayor Meltem Öz, Birgül Çay, and Ayşe Kaşıkırık from an NGO, constitute the team of Amasra in ICLD's programme Human Rights Based Approach. The team has chosen to implement gender-responsive budgeting in Amasra municipality as a strategic instrument for achieving a more gender-equal and inclusive local administration for all, especially for vulnerable groups. The objective is that a gender perspective should systematically be included in all steps of the budget process to ensure that the municipality's resources can be distributed to promote gender equality.
The mayor of the small port town situated next to the Black sea, Recai Çakır, has one daughter, and he wants her to live in a society where women have the same rights and possibilities as men.
– Our municipality strives to have more women in leading positions. At the moment, five out of nine department leaders are women, he says.
Also, Amasra municipality signed the European Charter for the equality of women and men in local life on 25 November 2022. The signing ceremony was attended by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Municipality staff, representatives of the Municipality Council, and civil society.
Recai Çakır, the Mayor of Amasra, together with ICLD programme officer Jim Enström. Photo: Maria Jansson
The ICLD project
Some of the activities that Team Amasra will conduct within the scope of their project are to enhance awareness and knowledge about gender-responsive budgeting among high-level managers, conduct workshops on gender-responsive planning and budgeting to the municipality staff, provide managers and staff with gender statistics and analysis's, make the gender-responsive approach more transparent on the municipality website, create structures for the exchange of experience on gender budgeting and actively promote the dissemination of relevant resources, tools, and lessons on gender budgeting to other municipalities.
Read more about ICLD's programme "Human Rights Based Approach".
Concluding the Zimbabwe Leadership Programme
After five cohorts and eight years in the country, the ICLD programme "Capacitating Local Leaders in Zimbabwe" has come to an end and all activites have now been completed. The overall objective of the programme has been to strengthen the leadership and networks of local politicians and local authorities throughout Zimbabwe.
The programme, funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Harare, has been conducted since 2014 by ICLD in cooperation with the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works, Gender Links, and Midlands State University whose contribution, support and guidance to the ICLD staff were determining its success.
130 leaders from almost all 92 local authorities
Eight years of the programme have resulted in important achievements both within the development of the programme and on the ground in Zimbabwe. It has completed five cohorts where more than 130 male and female leaders from almost all 92 local authorities in Zimbabwe have improved their leadership abilities through knowledge, experience, cooperation and action.
The overall objective of the programme has been to strengthen the leadership and networks of local politicians and local authorities throughout the country. The Sustainable Development Goals have been at the core of the training and the focus has been set on raising knowledge and awareness about them, especially regarding gender-related issues.
The final workshop
Between 29 November and 1 December 2022, the ICLD staff went to Harare for the final workshop where the participants of the last cohort presented the results of their change projects as well as took part in peer-teaching workshops and study visits about strengthening the impact and securing sustainability of their project results.
Project result presentations – Bubi Rural District Council team. Photo: Emma Herlitz
Project result presentations – Binga Rural District Council team. Photo: Emma Herlitz
Participants of the programme have formed teams consisting of one Senior Council Official and one elected Councilor and worked together on their leadership skills while developing a community project related to the Sustainable Development Goals. They now have the potential to act as advocates and role models for other men and women who may consider making a career in politics. The programme has also sought to foster institutional change through capacity building and individual learning in several areas relevant to local development with the premise of participation and inclusiveness – leaving no one behind. This will make an impact on local democracy and human rights in the future.
"I was exposed to reviewing my own qualities as a strategic issue to improve my leadership style. Then this leadership style translated into my organisation. It was interesting that it made me a better leader, it made me a better officer to lead the efforts of others and to accomplish our goals. This is spilt over to society. Where the same culture that we inculcated within the council is cascaded down to the broader society. Trust me, it has brought unity and a purpose. We now know where we are coming from and where we are going!"
Siqubumthetho Dube, Bubi Rural District Council
Certificate ceremony for the participants with the Ambassador of Sweden in Harare. Photo: Emma Herlitz


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Rupee sinks below 67/$, may dive to 70 this year
The rupee sank below 67-mark against the US dollar on Monday, prompting economists to forecast its fall to 70 within this calendar year.
They are expecting the rupee to tumble to the 70 level if crude prices continued to climb up and India's trade balance with the US deteriorated further.
D K Srivastava, chief policy advisor, EY India told DNA Money that he sees rupee stabilising at 70 in a quarter or so, with US pressure on India's trade and crude likely to soar more.
"I would presume it (rupee) would stabilise around 70 (against the US dollar). It would take a little while for it to reach that mark – at least a quarter or so. This would be due to US pressure on both India and China. China is facing a trade deficit in this quarter with US while India's trade balance with US is also deteriorating," he said.
Richa Gupta, senior director and senior economist, Deloitte India, did not expect the rupee to hover around 70-mark for long.
According to her, the Indian currency is likely to be in the range of 65-68 in the current year.
"We don't expect it to stay at 70, even if it goes there. There will be a correction, and then it (rupee) will come down again. It will probably remain in the range of 65-68. It may go down to 70 because the crude is rising and the dollar is strengthening. It may go down to 70 but that rate will hurt imports and therefore there might be a correction. This is our expectation," she said.
The rupee plunged to a 15-month low on Monday at 67.14 against the US dollar, down over 27 paise from its previous close of 66.87 per US dollar. It slipped to that level on rising global crude oil prices and a stronger dollar.
Several polls on the trend of Indian rupee have revealed that it is likely to breach the 70-mark this year. Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Bank of America, Yes Bank, IFA Global and Edelweiss Financial Services reportedly predicted the local currency to hit the 70-mark or fall beyond it.
EY's Srivastava said India's relatively low inflation, in general, had till now kept rupee from falling more sharply than it did.
He also believes that if India's growth further picked up and investment increased then the rupee could appreciate on its own. Srivastava said there were already signs of a robust growth visible in the service sector.
"If India's growth picks up and investment flows improve, rupee could rise on its own otherwise it would require (central bank) intervention. Growth is robust. Services sector is picking up. There are clear signs through PMI. One has to see whether this can be sustained," he said.
He also said that improving private investment, not external but internal, could check the fall in rupee to 70 and below.
Deloitte's Gupta sees a weaker rupee putting a stress on the fiscal deficit target for the current fiscal but she said it would depend on the revenue collection.
According to her, more than fiscal deficit, it would be the current account deficit (CAD) that would be strained due to a depreciated rupee.
She too felt that revival in economic growth would stop the free fall of rupee to some extent.
Gupta said any call by the RBI to intervene would be taken only after studying its impact on the bond market, yields and inflation.
Srivastava was of the view that rupee could be allowed depreciate to more extend; "Right now, the rupee was appreciating out of turn. So, I don't see the need for invention for some more time. To some more extend, the rupee can be allowed to depreciate".
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Koomina makes a comeback with "Beautiful Thing" MV
On February 25th, rookie singer Koomina released her comeback music video for "Beautiful Thing," where she shows off her cute and playful charms.
Koomina made her debut in Korean in July of 2014 with her first album and title track, "Suddenly." Seven months later, she is now making a comeback with her second album, Beautiful Thing. The album contains a total of seven tracks and an instrumental version of the title track, "Beautiful Thing." Many of the tracks are remixes of songs that were part of her first album.
In the beginning of the video for her second album's title track, "Beautiful Thing," the music has a cool club beat as she walks into room and throws off her jacket. Her dancing around the room shows that she definitely knows how to have a good time. The addictive club beat and trendy outfits throughout the music video bring together the scenes and illustrate the concept for her comeback.
In the past, Koomina has also showcased her dancing abilities by performing a dance practice version of the Korean version of her song "Suddenly." To learn more about this rookie artist, check out her official YouTube or Twitter.
Check out the music video for "Beautiful Thing" below! What do you think of the song?
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Marketing, advertising and branding are closely linked concepts and people often confuse between them. Though they all have the customer in mind, they function separately and are composed of different things. Read on to find out more.
Branding can be considered to be a strategy and advertising as a tactic. The advertising convinces people to be wowed, and to buy into the product or service while branding is a long term process of making people emotionally connected to the company and its products. Loyalty is a big factor to be considered while discussing branding.
The advertising agency will focus its efforts in convincing the customer that the product in question is the best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be. They use creativity, content and persuasion, blending the three to make an irresistible offer to the potential customer. The job of an advert agency is to grab eyeballs in a bid to attract customers and they use mediums like television, banners and hoardings, to name a few. They are a necessary factor for a company, but branding is a different cup of tea.
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The Dadabai family has a rich legacy in the Kingdom of Bahrain, having started its operations as a leading family Group in the early 1950's. The Group grew and rose to the challenges of the times, playing a significant role in the transformation of the Kingdom. Over the years, the Group has kept pace with the changes in the region, adapting, innovating and evolving to meet the growing demands of an emerging country on a fast track of economic growth.
The Group draws strength from its in-depth knowledge and understanding of the market and is committed to realize its full potential in the core areas of its operations spanning construction, education, real estate, logistics, car rental, hospitality management and training. The Group is geared to face new challenges, push boundaries and set new standards in quality and value in all aspects of operations, contributing to the progress of the national economy.
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Being a progressive, innovative and successful educational institution.
Ensuring that our students become academically and practically competent, efficient and flexible in order to be creative and productive leaders.
Seeking to develop individuals who have the ability to become effective members of an operational team.
The hospitality sector in the Kingdom has been developing at a fast pace to meet the growing needs of the tourism industry. Bahrain's Hospitality & Tourism industry is poised to grow 7.6 per cent this year thus contributing to increased human resource development and training in the hospitality, travel and tourism sector. Bearing this in mind, BIHR has entered into a partnership with HTMi, Sorenberg, Switzerland in providing with International Hotel and Tourism Management course. The motto is simple – to be a leader in developing and offering quality and cutting-edge programs of study that are recognized by the industry. The program is designed to equip students with necessary skills to compete in the areas of service industry operations. By partnering with HTMi Sorenberg, BIHR has created a niche for itself in the Hospitality sector. Students can now undertake the HTMi course program here in Bahrain. Our curriculum meets the requirements of five star hotel companies worldwide.
BIHR in collaboration with Awarding bodies like American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI), Australian Retailers Association (ARA), London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Institute of Commercial Management (ICM), City and Guilds London Institute deliver programs in Hospitality management, Accounting, Retail, tourism, finance, Marketing.
At the Corporate Training division of BIHR we understand the current business scenario, where the cliental needs have become more complex and specialized, widening the gap between HR needs and work force capabilities, and thus accentuating the ability of training and development consulting organizations to fill this gap. They helps the business organizations to develop and retain the human capital to enhance the overall business performance.
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Dedicated faculty members of strong academic background and areas of specialization are the pillars of the program. Professional hospitality certifications, robust market exposure and industrial experience make up our diverse faculty.
Our team of excellent academic minds is ever dynamic with continual in-house training, international conferences, technical training and active participation to professional organizations. A line of professional activities conducted for SCY 2014-15 excels them at their respective disciplines.
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Q: python3.7 django after runserver command 127.0.0.1:8000 is not available, no error message(Linux Gentoo) I logged in via ssh to my Linux Gentoo server and tried to run my python3.7 django code with "python3.7 manage.py runserver". When I tried to visit the website with my chrome browser on "127.0.0.1:8000" I get the same message like when I didn't ran the "runserver"-command. When I ran the code on my laptop, everything worked fine!
My settings.py code is:
"""
Django settings for ProjectCappuchino project.

Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 2.2.3.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/settings/

For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/
"""

import os
from django.urls import reverse_lazy

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'XXXX'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL=reverse_lazy('dashboard')
LOGIN_URL = reverse_lazy('login')
LOGOUT_URL= reverse_lazy('logout')

SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 60 * 60 * 8

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'capchine',
    'crispy_forms',
    'bootstrapform',

    'django.contrib.humanize',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'ProjectCappuchino.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'ProjectCappuchino.wsgi.application'

# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}

# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]

# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

#TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Berlin'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS=[
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
]

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get('EMAIL_USER')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('EMAIL_PASS')
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

Could it be, that there are some firewall issues or sth from the server?
It is a managed server btw...

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Holidays are coming,
December 22, 2012 December 22, 2012 upyourstreetLeave a comment
Merry Christmas on a Tesco noticeboard.
A Bakers Arms view in Leyton
One Christmas tree ready for Tuesday.
out and aboutTesco community noticeboard E17 managed by Up Your Street, The Hornbeam Café E17
Up Your Street. Final Issue for 2012. No. 23.
December 21, 2012 January 11, 2013 upyourstreetLeave a comment
Starting in the New Year there are free walks coming up with "Footsteps",
all sorts of uplifting courses nice and cheap at the Centre for Better Health in Darnley Road, Hackney
and almost opposite there has opened "Unpackaged" a shop where you can take along your container and buy the amount of pulses, wine and other commodities that you want.
There's a major art exhibition scheduled for the new year at the Mill E17 and variety shows on Friday evenings with The Stuart Low Trust.
On Fridays there will be free classical recitals at Claremont.
Not forgetting Wednesdays at Theatre Royal Stratford east (TRSE) For £3 sing along with Stratford East Singers (SES) with Byron Gold conducting.
I'll be updating you in my regular listings.
Thurs 10th Jan £2.50 at Hackney PictureHouse a screening of "A Taste Of Honey" followed by actor Murray Melvin taking Q&A.
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Next issue of Up Your Street Sat 19th Jan. Issue 1. 2013
eventsClaremont Project Islington, Stratford East Singers, The Centre for Better Health Hackney, The Mill community arts hub in Walthamstow., The Stuart Low Trust, Theatre Royal Stratford east (TRSE), Unpackaged in Hackney
Lipstick Santa
Image December 20, 2012 December 20, 2012 upyourstreetLeave a comment
Rio Cinema, Dalston Hackney. Well done!
December 20, 2012 upyourstreetLeave a comment
RIO BUS STOPS UPDATE – SUCCESS!
In 2008, we began a campaign to persuade Transport for London (TfL) to add the
Rio's name to two adjacent bus stops. After four years the promised renaming had
not taken place but in July this year we finally received an apology and an
assurance from TfL that this would be done "once the Olympics were over".
The eagle eyed among you may have noticed that the bus stops have now been
changed and the Rio is officially a landmark on TfL's bus routes.
The on-board bus announcements and electronic signs may take a little while
longer to update but we would like to thank TfL for fulfilling their promise
and, more importantly, to congratulate Rio Board member Laurian Davies on her
dogged determination to see this through.
Our sincere thanks once again to everyone who signed the original petition and
expressed their support in other ways
events, out and aboutbus stop called Rio Cinema, Rio Cinema Hackney, TFL, tfl procrastinated big time.
Argall Industrial Estate
December 19, 2012 December 19, 2012 upyourstreet2 Comments
It's ten days now since I've waited and rung the environmental lot in Waltham Forest four times for a single now single soaking wet mattress to be removed from my front yard. The last I was told by the office supervisor was that she would send an email, send an email! ( Garlic bread?) to escalate the job. That meant there was a note allegedly and not in pencil saying that the job should be done within 24 hours. Oh do me a favour! Should? The word "would" is juggling for position.
That's why Waltham Forest is a mattress borough. It isn't a mattress borough entirely because there's a transient society here: There's actually an huge stagnant society doing the right thing.
On the corner of my road is a built corner protector, a piece of 'street furniture' (I know!) which is used daily as a prop for people's bags of rubbish, broken umbrellas, old cots and mattresses, strewn and ripped clothes previously left out for AgeUK collectors and whoever trades in rags. One day the council truck came a-collecting and I asked why fly-tippers were being excused and money spent sending out trucks and men to gather and dispose of people's domestic rubbish. Answer "Oh, it's the foreigners, see. They don't know about how to dispose of rubbish." Well, not on my and their back yards then! By that logic only white British-born, you know the new ethnic minority, know how to get rid of rubbish.
Behind what was the Burwell Residential Estate off Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney is the disgusting mess that is Argall Industrial Village. Its name changes like the weather but I like "industrial village" because it is so not that.
There are Argall Estate patrol cars checking out that all is well on the land, so I was told. The single decker bus W19 actually travels into it but ignores its own timetable so that's not much use to residents. The place is nasty. Litter swirls around in any whiff of wind. Abandoned stinking mattresses provide hiding places for feral cats and the Black Path is known as Rats' Alley by locals who know too well the stench of yeast and bread from Kingsmill. Hoo Hing Supermarket is a neon-lit beacon for those who lose their way or who fear being accosted by underage vagabonds. Only the mini-industry workers aka Eastern Europeans and nervous dog-walkers walk the walk.
In 1986 Argall Industrial Village was dire and on the brink of going under. It went under and post Olympics it is doubly dire. Like Hackney Wick it provides recyclable buildings for weekend churches where the white-robed congregations are not fussed about what they step in. Unlike in Hackney Wick, where established artists mix oils with Forman fish whiffs, other creative types safe in E17's Tokarska Gallery and The Mill would only evaporate remotely in Argall.
I've yet to see what's good about it. I try.
"Where there's muck, there's brass", I mutter.
My lovely neighbour over the back fence who is long dead told me how in the thirties on a Thursday morning you could hear each door shut on the Burwell Estate as each housewife in her scarf and carrying her shopping basket or wheeling her wicker trolley made her way across the factories ( now the Argall Industrial Estate) and through the rat-ridden pathway (now The Black Path) up into St James' Park and onto Coppermill Lane for the market day. Love that story. Her brother's still at the back of me. He served in the army up in the Orkneys during WW2. Great geezer.
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L B Waltham Forest Comedy of Errors. Shoulda Coulda Woulda
December 19, 2012 December 19, 2012 upyourstreet1 Comment
We are really sorry to hear that you tried to get in contact with us and nobody responded to you – I apologise for this. Having looked into this further, it appears that you emailed a member of the events team when they were on leave. You should have received an automatic response with an alternative contact so I apologise if this did not happen. Either way, you should then have been contacted upon my colleague's return from leave, to answer any queries you had and add you to the waiting list for a ticket in case any became available. Unfortunately we did not receive many cancellations and so it is unlikely that you would have been successful in gaining a ticket, but we should have let you know this and I am sorry that we did not. This appears to have been an oversight due to the large number of enquiries we received.
ha ha ha! A response to my enquiry to an officer at WF Town Hall. Ha ha ha!
"A Taste of Honey" plus Murray in Hackney
December 18, 2012 upyourstreet1 Comment
Thurs 10th Jan 2013 £2.50 1pm Hackney PictureHouse " A TASTE OF HONEY " screening followed by Murray Melvin taking questions.
events"A Taste Of Honey"(1961 X rated), Into 2013 with Up Your Street, Murray Melvin archivist at Theatre Royal Stratford east, reminiscence screenings at Hackney PictureHouse, Rita Tushingham, senior cinema in London
31st January 2013 HIC screening Sobibor
Thurs 31st JAN 2013 £3. West Green Learning Centre (230 and 41 buses ) Film screening.
The next Haringey Independent Cinema film will be on Thursday 31 January and, as ever, doors will open at 7pm and we will start the evening at 7.15pm. Claude Lanzmann's 2001 documentary about the remarkable uprising at Sobibor, one of the Nazis' most 'efficient' extermination camps, is an amazing – and little told – example of organized revolt against the odds. Focusing on the testimony of one man, Yehuda Lerner, speaking about his experiences some forty years after the facts, Lanzmann reconstitutes the jaw-dropping events of 14 October 1943, when six hundred Jewish inmates of Sobibor attempted to elude the gas chamber which awaited them, by killing their guards and making a break for it over the barbed wire and into the surrounding forest.
events, out and aboutHaringey Independent Cinema, Jan 31st 2013, Sobibor, West Green learning Centre N15
Stratford east PictureHouse E15: A winning community venue.
Thinking about where Up Your Street ventured in 2012 and taking into consideration the experiences of seniors who were looking for a good welcome and an ordered environment in a community space then the Stratford PictureHouse E15 came out tops. From the security guy to the ushers, the complimentary cup of tea-makers to the receptionist who bothers to look up, these were markers which enabled seniors to feel visible and wanted as clients. Good on yer PictureHouse E15!
Contenders, in no particular order, were
Priory Court Community Centre E17 Hermitage Community Moorings Wapping E1
The Centre For Better Health Hackney Rich Mix in Bethnal Green
Stratford east PictureHouse West Green Learning Centre N15
Hackney PictureHouse William Morris Gallery
Hackney Museum Stratford Circus E15
The Hornbeam Café E17 The Mill E17
Theatre Royal Stratford east Brady Arts Centre in Bethnal Green
The Claremont Project
out and aboutStratford east PictureHouse E15
Issue 22. Up Your Street
Sun 16th Dec free 2-4pm. Carols and choirs. Hosted by Friends of Lloyd Park. Behind William Morris Gallery, Forest Rd E17.
Mon 17th Dec free 3.30-7pm Three Mills Craft Association event at The Hub, 123 Star Lane, Canning Town. Mince pies, good company and bring a camera to take a photo with an Olympic/ Paralympic Torch
Tues 18th Dec free between 11 and 4pm.Come on down and help Sainsbury's staff at Liverpool Street Islington pack customers' bags in Sainsbury's. The Stuart Low Trust is Sainsbury's nominated charity. Phone slt beforehand to let them know you're helping.
You can contact slt at: Office 7, Claremont, 24-27 White Lion Street, Islington, N1 9PD
Telephone: 020 7713 9304 Fax: 020 7833 3484
info@slt.org.uk Website: http://www.slt.org.uk
Wed 19th Dec free 11-1pm and 6-8pm Adult Learners Open Day Gainsborough Learning Centre. Taster sessions in photography, paintng, textiles and fashion, cup cake decorating and more.
Sat 22nd Dec free noon-3pm Friends of Lloyd Park Festive Singalong. Meet at the Island in Lloyd Park for mulled wine.
Mon 24th Dec free 11-noon Christmas Eve coffee morning for Claremont members in the New Hall, Claremont, White Lion Street by Angel, Islington. Christmas crackers, pass the parcel, tea and mince pies!
Tues 15th Jan free 11-1pm DeafBlindUK meeting of at the Local Space Ltd, 58 Romford Road, London, E15 4BZ (11.00am – 1.00pm). We undertake activities, socialising, speakers and day trips. For more detail contact Tania DeeTania.Dee@deafblind.org.uk
Sun 20th Jan. free (for each Sunday for a month) 10-11am Lloyd Park at the Community Bowling Green. Tai Chi for seniors 50+
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eventsCarols at the back of William Morris Gallery, Claremont Project Islington, Styart Low Trust at Sainsburys, The Stuart Low Trust and Sainsburys, Three Mills Craft Assoc.