These two programs for preschool students and their parents incorporate a variety of activities. The first focuses on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah. The second focuses on Hannukah.
This spreadsheet shows the curriculum for each grade of Oseh Shalom's religious school.
SiddurQuest In 2004, Reconstructionist educators in the Chesapeake region met to explore the "SiddurQuest" approach to liturgical text [based on Rabbi Shai Gluskin's "TorahQuest" program]. This is the schedule of the educators' meeting.
Chanukah Program for Pre-K and Families These lesson plans from 2002 allow you to teach Chanukah through art, games, stories and food for four- and five-year-olds and their families.
Purim Program for Pre-K and Families An introduction to Purim through stories, drama, music and food for four- and five-year-olds and their families from Oseh Shalom in Laurel, MD.
This self-guided tour of Israel for four- to five-year-olds and their families uses games, art and science. It comes from Oseh Shalom Religious School in Laurel, MD.
Teacher Evaluation of Religious School—Oseh Shalom (Laurel, MD) This form allows teachers to evaluate all aspects of the religious school program at Oseh Shalom.
This is a sample contract for a religious school teacher.
Curriculum Outline—Oseh Shalom (Laurel, MD) This curriculum outline provides an overview of the subjects studied by students (pre-K to 12th grade) at Oseh Shalom in Laurel, MD.
Emergency Policies And Procedures—Oseh Shalom Religious School (Laurel, MD) These procedures instruct the religious school staff what to do in an emergency situation.
Religious School Handbook—Oseh Shalom (Laurel, MD) This parent handbook includes program information about the synagogue religious school, including the calendar and mission statement.
This paper describes Oseh Shalom's five derech eretz (rules to live by) and the consequences for breaking the rules.
Religious School Teacher Manual—Oseh Shalom (Laurel, MD) This manual outlines the responsibilities of religious school teachers at Oseh Shalom.


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Q: Jquery - selecting items within forms and posting them I have a simple html page below calling a global.js file the global.js file calls a php file that gets a location for a name if it is in a database. (could have put it all on the one page but was following a tutorial).
 <!doctype html>
 <html

<title>AJAX Database</title>

Name: <input type = "text" id="name">

<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Get Loc">

global.js is :
$('#submit').on('click',function() {
var name = $('#name').val();
if($.trim(name) != ''){
   $.post('ajax/name.php', {name: name}, function(data) {
    $('div#output').text(data);
      });
}
});

it works fine as is, but if I put in  tags as shown below, it won't work. I also want to use a fieldset, but I can't even get it to work with form tags.
I have used other selectors but it won't work.
The problem seems to be the submit button, as it works if that is out of the form..
any ideas? I think using the submit within the form is getting the $.post function to send more than I want it too.
 <!doctype html>
 <html

<title>AJAX Database</title>

    <form>
Name: <input type = "text" id="name">

<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Get Loc">
</form>

the php file is:

 if(isset($_POST['name']) === true && empty($_POST['name']) === false) {
  require '../db/connect.php';

$query = mysql_query("
SELECT `names`.`location`
FROM    `names`
WHERE `names`.`name` = '" . mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_POST['name'])) . "'

");
echo (mysql_num_rows($query) !== 0) ? mysql_result($query,0,'location') : 'Name not found';

 }

Is my problem not using the right selectors, or is there some rule about using selectors for submit buttons within forms ?

A: You need to prevent the default action of the form. Either by using event.preventDefault() or adding return false at the end of the function.
$('form').on('submit', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var name = $('#name').val();
    if ($.trim(name) != '') {
        $.post('ajax/name.php', {
            name: name
        }, function(data) {
            $('div#output').text(data);
        });
    }
});

A: I strongly advise not to use the click of the button but instead I suggest this
<!doctype html>
 <html

   <title>AJAX Database</title>

  <form id="form1">
    Name: <input type="text" id="name">

    <input type="submit" id="submit" value="Get Loc">
  </form>

Where the script is
$('#form1').on('submit', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var name = $('#name').val();
    if ($.trim(name) != '') {
        $.post('ajax/name.php', {
            name: name
        }, function(data) {
            $('div#output').text(data);
        });
    }
    else {
      alert('Please enter name');
      $('#name').focus();
    }
});

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Studio: 2 Entertain
Certification: 12
Category: Television
Released: 28th October 2019
Michael Sheen and David Tennant star in this six-part miniseries based on the fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Angel Aziraphale (Sheen) and demon Crowley (Tennant) are Heaven and Hell's respective representatives on Earth and, having been on the planet for over 6,000 years, have become rather accustomed to life on the planet. However, when the eleventh birthday of the Antichrist (Sam Taylor Buck) signals the beginning of the prophesised Armageddon, Aziraphale and Crowley must find a way to avert the impending catastrophe. The episodes are: 'In the Beginning', 'The Book', 'Hard Times', 'Saturday Morning Funtime', 'The Doomsday Option' and 'The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives'.
Actors Ned Dennehy, Anna Maxwell Martin, Nick Offerman, Sian Brooke, Sam Taylor Buck, Michael Sheen, Ariyon Bakare, Nina Sosanya, David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Jon Hamm
Additional info Language(s): English, Interactive Menu
No. of discs 2 disc(s)

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Jacobs University Bremen appoints Prof. Thomas Auf der Heyde as Provost and Head of Academic Operations
Prof. Thomas Auf der Heyde heads Jacobs University's "Academic Operations" department as Provost. Source: South African Department of Science and Technology
An internationally renowned scientist and science manager strengthens Jacobs University's management board. On November 1st, 2019, Prof. Thomas Auf der Heyde, PhD, will take up his post as Provost and thus as Head of Academic Operations at the private university. Auf der Heyde has a wealth of experience in science and university administration. Most recently, he was Deputy Director General of the South African Department of Science and Technology.
"We are extremely pleased that we have been able to win such an experienced and internationally linked executive for a key position in the further development of the academic profile of our unique university," says Dr. Michael Dubbert, Managing Director of Jacobs University. "Thanks to his many years of expertise as a science manager and university lecturer, Prof. Auf der Heyde will be an important driving force, especially for our professors."
According to the Academic Constitution of Jacobs University, Auf der Heyde will head the "Academic Operations" department as Provost. The department is concerned with the strategic and operational aspects of research and teaching, the development of research profiles and courses of study, and quality assurance. Before his appointment, Auf der Heyde had introduced himself as a candidate to the selection committee of the academic bodies at Jacobs University, where he was met with great approval.
Born in South Africa in 1958, Prof. Auf der Heyde has the South African and German citizenship. After completing his PhD in chemistry in 1988, he held various teaching, research and management positions at the universities of the Western Cape, Cape Town, Bern, Cambridge, Princeton and Johannesburg over a period of 25 years. As Deputy Director General of the South African Department of Science and Technology, he headed international scientific cooperation in South Africa and was responsible for strategies and initiatives in areas such as marine and polar research, astronomy, infrastructure, high performance computing and e-science. Prof. Auf der Heyde is married and father of twin sons.
About Jacobs University Bremen:
Studying in an international community. Obtaining a qualification to work on responsible tasks in a digitized and globalized society. Learning, researching and teaching across academic disciplines and countries. Strengthening people and markets with innovative solutions and advanced training programs. This is what Jacobs University Bremen stands for. Established as a private, English-medium campus university in Germany in 2001, it is continuously achieving top results in national and international university rankings. Its more than 1,600 students come from more than 120 countries with around 80% having relocated to Germany for their studies. Jacobs University's research projects are funded by the German Research Foundation or the EU Research and Innovation program as well as by globally leading companies.
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Petition: No Fox News Canada - keep CRTC chairman Finckenstein
Canada: Stop "Fox News North" Avaaz.org: Prime Minister Harper is trying to push American-style hate media onto our airwaves, and make us all pay for it. His plan is to create a "Fox News North" to mimic the kind of hate-filled propaganda with which Fox News has poisoned U.S. politics. The channel will be run by Harper's former top aide and will be funded with money from our cable TV fees
Harper hatched his scheme in a secret lunch last year with media-mogul Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News. Harper's top aide Kory Teneycke also came to the lunch, and then left the government to head up Suncor Newspapers and the new "Fox News North"...
The CRTC is part of our democracy -- it was made an independent commission precisely in order to protect against this kind of government manipulation of the media. Harper knows that he must bully his way through this institution in order to create Fox News North. And there are dark rumours in Ottawa that if Von Finckenstein will not leave his job, Harper will simply force him to give in. Von Finckenstein is upholding the best tradition of Canadian democracy and civil service in the face of a full scale attack on that tradition. Let's show him, and Harper, that Canada stands with him.
One man stands in the way of this nightmare -- the Chairman of Canada's Radio and Telecommunications Commission Konrad von Finckenstein. And now, Harper is trying to get him out of his job. Sign the petition below to send a wave of support to von Finckenstein and forward this campaign to everyone -- we'll publish full page ads in Canadian papers when we reach 100,000:
To CRTC Chair von Finckenstein and PM Harper: As concerned Canadians who deeply oppose American-style hate media on our airwaves, we applaud the CRTC's refusal to allow a new "Fox News North" channel to be funded from our cable fees. We urge Mr. von Finckenstein to stay in his job and continue to stand up for Canada's democratic traditions, and call on Prime Minister Harper to immediately stop all pressure on the CRTC on this matter.
Labels: Avaaz, crtc, Harper, media
Have You Gotten Rich Yet as a Microlender?
Have You Gotten Rich Yet as a Microlender? (A great article, as usual, by Mark Engler. You can subscribe to his website) Here is an excerpt:
Those looking to make fistfuls of cash by lending to the poor will already be aware of the following news item, but the rest of you might have missed it: a recent big initial public stock offering was not for some Silicon Valley start-up, the next Google or Amazon. Instead, it was for an outfit called SKS Microfinance, the "largest and fastest-growing micro-lender in India." The company raised $342 million, and its founder, a so-called "social entrepreneur," has personally made at least $13 million already.
You might be asking, "Isn't microcredit supposed to be a philanthropic endeavor? And, if so, how did such a thing as this millionaire-making I.P.O. ever come about from it?" For those of us of follow the politics of poverty, development, and international exchange, microcredit is always a fascinating topic. The idea of giving small loans to the very poor—often to women in the developing world—for them to start their own money-generating enterprises has been in the limelight for at least a decade now, so the basic concept will no longer feel new to most people. Web sites such as Kiva.org have become popular avenues for Americans to donate money to their own favored micro-entrepreneurs.
Microcredit ... at once embodies radical and reactionary principles. On the radical side, it asserts that the poor do not need patronizing job-training programs. They need not to be exploited. The reason the poor remain mired in poverty is that, however industrious they might be, they have no access to capital. Therefore, they must go to those who do (the bosses and moneylenders), who demand a hefty price for so kindly allowing the workers to toil in their service. By the time the day is done and debts are repaid, the poor have very little to show for their efforts. Most of the value of their work has been siphoned away by the better off. Put this way, the rationale for microcredit is almost a Marxist one. The argument is that if you eliminate the exploitative middlemen and extend capital to the poor on fair terms, they, too, will be able to earn a dignified living.
There's a reactionary side to this too, however. Microcredit is popular with market-driven neoliberals and conservatives because it focuses entirely on individual initiative. Moreover, instead of acknowledging that unchecked capitalism has created vast inequalities, it proposes that these inequalities exist because capitalism has not gone far enough. It suggests that expanding the market is the best way to solve the market's problems.
Whether the progressive side of microcredit or its conservative face will be exposed in any given instance has a lot to do with interest rates. If you loan the poor money with little expectation of profit, you're probably running a legitimate anti-poverty program. On the other hand, if you turn microcredit into a business in which shareholders expect to maximize return, your interest rates will start to creep up. At that point, you might be a shade better than the black-market loan sharks, but you are still practicing usury....
Muhammad Yunus, the "Godfather of Microcredit," ... perfectly embodies the contradictory impulses of the microcredit movement, but overall I consider him one of the good guys. These days, he's been watching his original vision being hijacked by commercial bankers, and he's not thrilled about it. Regarding the most recent I.P.O., Yunus was particularly nonplussed to see that the capitalization of SKS Microfinance coincided with the shuttering of an allied nonprofit, the Seattle-based Unitus, which was more explicitly charitable in its intent than its Indian counterpart. The Times quotes Yunus making the point that, with this change in the micro-lending landscape, "You are now encouraging the profit-maximizing part, and the nonprofits are closing down."
...Those who advocate the commercialization of microcredit argue that only the free market can provide large enough pools of capital to reach all of the poor. In a certain respect, they are right. It's always easier to find people eager to make money off of the desperate and the destitute than it is to find people who will help them without expectation of financial return. The question is whether this fact is really something worth celebrating.
Labels: capitalism, MDGs, microcredit
Rally: One School System, Sept 13, Toronto
Please see the posting on Humanist Toronto
Rally: Sept 13, 11:30-2:30, @ Royal York Hotel.
Member organizations of One School System will protest the discrepant funding of Ontario Catholic Schools via a Separate School Board in defiance of two UN disciplinary rulings against the Government on Ontario.
The event will take place on the first day of a two day international summit on education held by the Ministry of Education
Come join your fellow humanists and atheists along with other individuals and groups who oppose the public funding of religious schools in Ontario
For those who prefer an economic argument, here is a paper detailing savings of $650M by forming one school system.
Labels: catholic schools, Education Equality, GO, rally
Ban Ki Moon: End Violence Against Girls
End Violence Against Girls - The Petition Site
Target: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
Sponsored by: United Nations Foundation
Ethiopian girls face a tough choice. If they stay home, they will likely be married off before they are 15. If they leave, many are forced into labor-intensive domestic work or the sex trade. But the UN's Bright Future Program in Addis Ababa offer vulnerable girls education and protects them from violence and exploitation.
Violence against women crosses cultural and geographical boundaries. One in three women in the world faces violence, coercion or abuse as part of her every day life. More than 70 percent of women are victims of violence in their lifetimes. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made it a personal priority to end violence against women in 2010. Programs like Bright Future are an essential part of the solution.
Tell Secretary-General Ban to use the Bright Future program as a model to end violence against women. letter text begins:
"Ending violence against women is not only one of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, but you also stated earlier this year that it was one of your personal priorities for 2010.
Such a complex problem requires a broad-based, comprehensive solution. But the Bright Futures Program in Ethiopia has proven to be successful in its mission to empower women and girls.
For many girls, the center in Addis Ababa is a safe haven. In addition to getting education and training to better their circumstances, they get a few hours each day to be with other girls their own age...."
[Please see this post for related topics about difficulties women/girls face in controlling their own lives, and how education and UN programs can make a difference]
Labels: Africa, Gender, Sign, United Nations
John Robbins: Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones?
(note: John Robbins is the only son of Irvine Robbins, the co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, and was groomed by his father to run what was at one time the world's largest ice cream company. But John walked away from the company and the wealth it represented in order to advocate for a healthier and more compassionate way of life)
Monsanto has been in the news this week, with a U.S. District Court Judge ruling that the USDA has to at least go through the motions of regulating the company's genetically engineered sugar beets. Monsanto, you may know, is not likely to win any contests for the most popular company. In fact, it has been called the most hated corporation in the world, which is saying something, given the competition from the likes of BP, Halliburton and Goldman Sachs.
This has gotten me thinking about, of all things, ice cream, and of how Monsanto's clammy paws can be found in some of the most widely selling ice cream brands in the country. These brands could break free from Monsanto's clutches. So far they haven't, but maybe this is about to change.
Ben & Jerry's gets all their milk from dairies that have pledged not to inject their cows with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Why, then, can't Haagen Dazs, Breyers and Baskin-Robbins do the same?
Starbucks now guarantees that all their milk, cream and other dairy products are rBGH-free. So do Yoplait and Dannon yogurts, Tillamook cheese, Chipotle restaurants, and many others. But ice cream giants Haagen Dazs, Breyers and Baskin-Robbins continue to use milk from cows injected with rBGH, a hormone that's been banned in Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia and all 27 nations of the European Union. As if to add insult to injury, Haagen Dazs and Breyers have the audacity to tell us, right on the label, that their ice cream is " All Natural."
We have Monsanto to thank for rBGH. Monsanto developed the artificial hormone and marketed it aggressively for years, before selling it in 2008 to Elanco, a division of the Eli Lilly drug company. Of course, Monsanto (and now Elanco) wants us to think the hormone is in every way completely satisfactory and safe. Monsanto's party line has consistently been that there is "no significant difference" in the milk derived from cows who have been dosed with the hormone compared to those who haven't.
.... injecting the genetically engineered hormone into cows increases the levels of a substance called IGF-1 in their milk. Monsanto's own studies found that the amount of IGF-1 in milk more than doubled when cows were injected with rBGH. Studies by independent researchers show gains as much as six-fold.
Does it matter whether there are excess levels of IGF-1 in milk? It decidedly did to the European Commission's authoritative international 16-member scientific committee. Their report said the excessive levels of IGF-1 found in the milk of cows injected with rBGH may pose serious risks of breast, colon and prostate cancer. How serious is the increased risk? According to an article in the May 9, 1998 issue of the medical journal The Lancet, pre-menopausal women with even moderately elevated blood levels of IGF-1 are up to seven times more likely to develop breast cancer than women with lower levels.
The artificial hormone is also notorious for causing the cows much pain and distress (and) it increases udder infections in cows, it has greatly increased the use of antibiotics in the U.S. dairy industry. If you wanted to design a system to breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria, you'd be hard pressed to do better. Does the increase in udder infections have an effect on the milk, and thus any ice cream, cheese or other product made from it? Most definitely, according to Dr. Richard Burroughs, a veterinarian deeply familiar with rBGH. "It results in an increase of white blood cells," he says, "which means there's pus in the milk!" The antibiotic use, he adds, "leaves residues in the milk. It's all very serious."
How, then, was such a dubious and tainted product ever approved for use in the U.S.? The answer provides a glimpse of how successful Monsanto's efforts have been to exert control over our nation's food policies. the FDA's 1993 decision to allow the use of rBGH was one of the most controversial in the agency's history. Made amid widespread criticism from scientists, government leaders and farmers, including many researchers and officials inside the FDA, the decision was overseen by Michael R. Taylor, the FDA's Deputy Commissioner of Policy from 1991-1994. Was Taylor unbiased? Prior to holding that position, he was an attorney at King & Spaulding, Monsanto's law firm, where he presided over the firm's "food and drug law" practice. After the decision was made which gave the green light to rBGH, he left the FDA and resumed working directly for Monsanto, as vice president and chief lobbyist.
How significant was Taylor's role in getting rBGH approved? As of August 15, 2010, he "has long been hostile to food safety," and "is widely credited with ushering recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) through the FDA regulatory process and into the milk supply -- unlabeled." (This statement was removed from Wikipedia immediately after I referred to it - Apparently, if you can get your people in and out of key positions at the FDA, messing with Wikipedia is a piece of cake.)
Things have taken a different turn in Canada, but not for want of effort on the part of Monsanto. During Canada's scientific review of Monsanto's application for approval of rBGH, Canadian health officials said Monsanto tried to bribe them, and government scientists testified that they were being pressured by higher-ups to approve rBGH against their better scientific judgment. But in 1999, after eight years of study, Canadian health authorities rejected Monsanto's application for approval of rBGH.
Late last year, the prestigious American Public Health Association officially called for a ban on rBGH. The Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports has likewise taken an official position opposing rBGH. So has the American Nurses Association, Health Care Without Harm, Food and Water Watch, Center for Food Safety, National Family Farm Coalition, Family Farm Defenders and many other groups.
At this very moment, the plucky Oregon chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is leading a nationwide effort to persuade Breyers (whose brands include Good Humor, Klondike Bars and Popsicle), and Dreyer's (whose brands include Haagen Dazs, Nestle and Edy's) to go rBGH-free. The campaign focuses on Breyers and Dreyer's because they are the two largest ice cream producers in the country today.
If you want to strike a blow against Monsanto's efforts to control the world food supply, you can follow me on Twitter, post this article to your facebook page, spread the word and get engaged. Monsanto and its allies have a grand vision. They are intent on controlling the world's food supply. Don't let them.
Labels: Corporations, food supply, hormones, monsanto
World Humanitarian Day - 19 August
The General Assembly designates 19th August as « World Humanitarian Day »
Humanitarian Principles represent the foundation of humanitarian action.
Humanity: Human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found. The purpose of humanitarian action is to protect life and health and ensure respect for human beings.
Neutrality: Humanitarian actors must not take sides in hostilities or engage in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature.
Impartiality: Humanitarian action must be carried out on the basis of need alone, giving priority to the most urgent cases of distress and making no distinctions on the basis of nationality, race, gender, religious belief, class or political opinion.
Operational Independence: Humanitarian action must be autonomous from the political, economic, military or other objectives that any actor may hold with regard to areas where humanitarian action is being implemented".
The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted in its Plenary Session on 11th December 2008, the Swedish sponsored Omnibus Resolution on "Strengthening of the Coordination of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance of the United Nations", that carried the historic decision by the world body, to designate the 19th August as World Humanitarian Day to honor all humanitarian and the United Nations and associated personnel who have lost their lives in the cause of duty and those who have worked in the promotion of the humanitarian cause. The Resolution invites all Member States, the United Nation system, within existing resources, as well as other international organizations and non-governmental organizations to observe the day annually in an appropriate manner. This is a major historic landmark for the Humanitarian Sphere and a great gain for all victims of armed conflict.
As a background to this landmark resolution, the family of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the late Special Representative of the Secretary General in Iraq, deeply moved by the tragic bombing of the Headquarters of United Nations in Baghdad on 19th August 2003 that killed Sergio and 21 of his humanitarian colleagues, resolved to work towards having the day recognized as a befitting tribute to all humanitarian personnel. In 2004 Madame Annie Vieira de Mello the widow of Sergio initiated discussions with key personalities in the United Nations and a number of governments to designate the day as the World Humanitarian Day. Based on this concept, in early April 2008 the Board of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation prepared a draft Resolution to be sponsored and adopted by the General Assembly designating 19th August as World Humanitarian Day. France, Switzerland, Japan and Brazil, contacted with the draft Resolution, agreed to co-sponsor it. They led its long and extensive debate and revision in the General Assembly. The family of Sergio and the Board of the Foundation remained engaged with following up the process. Eventually the draft Resolution was folded by the co-sponsors into the omnibus Swedish draft Resolution that was adopted by the General Assembly on 11th December.
Labels: HIV/AIDS, UN, World Humanitarian Day
Fair Vote Canada | Make Every Vote Count
Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting system reform. FVC promotes the use of fair and proportional voting systems for elections of all levels of government and throughout civil society.
You may sign their petition on this website for proportional voting.
Labels: democracy, voting
Judge Revokes USDA Approval Of Monsanto's Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Orders Review
[WOW - I can't actually believe this - Monsanto has more lawyers than GOD..]
This alert is a support for the Center For Food Safety (You might enjoy their Story of Stuffvideo on cosmetics and toxins)
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has revoked the government's approval of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators complete a more thorough review of how the scientifically engineered crops affect other food. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White Friday means sugar beet growers won't be able to use the modified seeds after harvesting the biotechnology beets already planted on more than 1 million acres spanning 10 states from Michigan to Oregon. All the seed comes from Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Additional planting won't be allowed until the U.S. Department of Agriculture submits an environmental impact statement. That sort of extensive examination can take two or three years.
White declined a request to issue an injunction that would have imposed a permanent ban on the biotech beets, which Monsanto Co. developed to resist its popular weed killer, Roundup Ready. Farmers have embraced the technology as a way to lower their costs on labor, fuel and equipment.
The Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance and Sierra Club have been trying to uproot the biotech beets since filing a 2008 lawsuit. Andrew Kimbrell, the Center for Food Safety's executive director, hailed Friday's decision as a major victory in the fight against genetically engineered crops and chided the Agriculture Department for approving the genetically engineered seeds without a full environmental review.
"Hopefully, the agency will learn that their mandate is to protect farmers, consumers and the environment and not the bottom line of corporations such as Monsanto," Kimbrell said in a statement.
Labels: monsanto
Act today and Save the world's first seed bank
Food Democracy Now - Act today and Save the world';s first seed bank
This week a Russian court ruled that the world's first seed bank outside of St. Petersburg may be destroyed to make way for private housing developments. If allowed, this decision will have a catastrophic impact on global plant diversity. Called a 'Living Library', the Pavlovsk Station, is considered the "crown jewel" of agricultural biodiversity since 90% of the collection's varieties are not found anywhere else on the planet. Scientists around the world are calling the decision an assault against biodiversity and the memory of the bitter struggle that kept this renowned seed bank alive during the darkest days of World War II.
Labels: BIODIVERSITY
RUSSIA: STAND AGAINST RAPE, Petition
RUSSIA: STAND AGAINST RAPE
Avaaz.org
The Council of Europe Convention Against Trafficking in Human Beings sets the highest standards for law enforcement to tackle the criminals who run the rape trade. If Russia signed it, it would almost certainly save thousands of girls every year.
This would put a real dent in the global rape trade - in which Russia is a key nexus. Up to 50,000 Russian women and girls are forced into the sex industry each year in Europe, and Russia also is a major route for girls trafficked from Asia into Europe. If Putin becomes personally invested in this issue, he could cause a crackdown by Russian authorities, and this would send a powerful signal to organized criminals everywhere.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/russia_rape_trade_putin/?vl
While many of our world's problems stem from powerful interests like global organized crime, they often persist only because the rest of the world turns a blind eye. If we all take action, we can persuade Putin and Russia to join the convention.
Labels: Rape, russia, Trafficking, women
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Gonzaga has never faced a more difficult week leading into the NCAA Tournament. For both the team and coach Lisa Fortier.
Instead of celebrating the highest seeding in school history, the Bulldogs have been dealing with sadness off the court and regrouping after two major injuries on the floor.
The fifth-seeded Bulldogs (28-4) will open the NCAA Tournament against 12th-seeded Arkansas-Little Rock (21-10) on Saturday in Corvallis, Oregon. When they do, the Bulldogs will be without starting point guard Laura Stockton and key reserve Jill Townsend, who both suffered significant injuries in the West Coast Conference tournament semifinals against Saint Mary's.
And they'll be doing so with Fortier still dealing with the death of her brother, Hayden Mispley, due to complications from muscular dystrophy. Mispley was hospitalized on March 12 during the WCC championships game between Gonzaga and BYU. Fortier was informed of her brother's situation and left the court during the fourth quarter of the loss to the Cougars. Mispley died the next day.
It's been a lot for the Bulldogs to handle in a short period.
Stockton, the daughter of Gonzaga and NBA great John Stockton, was the top point guard in the conference this season. She will continue to be evaluated for the next couple of weeks. The team said Townsend, the second-leading scorer at 9.4 points per game, had surgery on her lower leg Monday.
Fortier said her goal was to have a nine-player rotation during the season and that depth is now being tested. She expects Jessie Loera, who started 10 games this season, to start in place of Stockton. Loera averaged 8.9 points and four assists per game. Fortier also said Chandler Smith, who has mostly played on the wing, can handle running the Zags' offense.
Zykera Rice, the only Gonzaga player averaging in double figures at 14.8 points per game, said the Bulldogs are a gritty team.
The Zags had hoped to finish among the top four seeds and get to play at home in the first two games of the tournament. The loss to BYU basically ended those hopes.
''In a hard week it's been a little bit of a bright spot that someone is acknowledging the talent and the efforts they've put forward all year,'' Fortier said.


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Monthly Archives June 2018
The TreeZero News June 18-24, 2018
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
How to save 60% more CO2 in the fresh supply chain– Reusable containers for fruit and vegetables result in no less than 60% lower CO2 emissions than cardboard packaging. https://bit.ly/2ynoNbG
10 Tips for an Energy-Efficient Home – According to This is Money, it is possible to cut between more than $100 and $250 a year off fuel bills without losing warmth or comfort – simply by using energy efficiently and effectively. https://bit.ly/2Kd0jn3
Hytch Makes Carpooling Pay in Tennessee – Hytch pays people to carpool. Since launching in February of this year, the company has logged an impressive 2 million miles of shared rides in the state of Tennessee and signed up more than 6,000 participants. Hytch initially launched with Nissan as a sponsor. Nissan and their staffing agency signed up to offer anyone in the state of Tennessee a penny a mile if they teamed up with someone for a ride. They offer five cents a mile during certain commute hours. https://bit.ly/2IohhNu
Biz Group Vows $1T Renewables Investment in 12 Years – Nonprofit group, The American Council on Renewable Energy, or ACORE, includes Amazon, BlackRock, Deloitte, Google, IBM, Morgan Stanley, NRG Energy, Consolidated Edison, Salt River Project, Wells Fargo, universities and advocacy and research organizations, among more than 100 members. https://bit.ly/2K2SIvr
This Florida Utility Has Become a Global Leader in Renewables Investment – NextEra's recent success demolishes claims that the switch to renewables can lead to a cleaner environment at the cost of higher electric bills. The company says that its principal subsidiary, Florida Light & Power, bills its air conditioning-hungry customers 25 percent lessthan the national utility bill average – and has the lowest bills overall in the Sunshine State. https://bit.ly/2InjbhC
Flooding from sea level rise threatens over 300,000 US coastal homes – Sea level rise driven by climate change is set to pose an existential crisis to many US coastal communities, with new research finding that as many as 311,000 homes face being flooded every two weeks within the next 30 years. https://bit.ly/2tfiPUo
Looking to the long term, UPS boosts fleet with CNG trucks – UPS announced it's investing $130 million in five new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and 730 CNG vehicles, a move that will help reduce CO2 emissions and boost the company's renewable natural gas use. https://bit.ly/2tpisqy
Climate Change to Become 'Greatest Pressure on Biodiversity' by 2070 – https://bit.ly/2toNij7
DNA Database to thwart Deforestation – Project is a collaboration between the Norwegian government and the United States Forest Service's international program. Initially, the project will focus on building a database for the bigleaf maple tree on the west coast. While the experts are gathered to create the DNA Database, it relies on volunteers and citizen scientists as well. And the best part is, you can also help gather samples for DNA testing. All you have to do is complete an online training course on how to collect samples and pass the test. https://bit.ly/2MUhiMP
Deforestation for fashion: The cost of rayon – According to TextileWorld, 5.2 million tons of rayon and related cellulose-based fabrics were produced in 2015. Patagonia explains that the chemical processing is a concern: "The solvent used for this process is carbon disulfide, a toxic chemical that is a known human reproductive hazard. It can endanger factory workers and pollute the environment via air emissions and wastewater. The recovery of this solvent in most viscose factories is around 50%, which means that the other half goes into the environment." According to non-profit Rainforest Action Network's Out of Fashion campaign, 120 million trees are cut down annually to make our clothes. https://bit.ly/2MQ3kvr
Plant trees in refugee camps to stop forest loss and conflict, U.N. says – https://reut.rs/2togQ1f
Of forests and floods: Devastatingly high water raises clear-cut questions – https://bit.ly/2I2T6Eo
Certification 'making no difference' to supply chain labour abuses – https://bit.ly/2JPjwPu
A Renewed View of Some of the World's Oldest Trees – After a three-year restoration project, the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park has reopened, with less asphalt and more concern for the health of the trees. https://nyti.ms/2JLvolr
Opinion – We Need to Talk About How Logging in the Southern U.S. is Harming Local Residents – Deforestation in the American South is four times that of South America's rainforests — and it's disproportionately hurting low-income people and people of color. https://bit.ly/2wwH1qf
EACH 2018 NIKE NATIONAL TEAM KIT IS MADE WITH AT LEAST 12 RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES – For both Nike's Fast Fit Vaporknit kits (worn by Brasil, Croatia, England, Nigeria, Poland and Portugal) and Nike's Match jerseys (worn by Australia, Saudi Arabia and South Korea), the process involves melting down 12 or 18 recycled plastic drinking bottles, respectively, to produce a fine yarn. See picture below. https://news.nike.com/news/sustainability-football-kits
UK Recycle Now Campaign 2018-19 – Included in this collection is a host of adaptable campaign assets which have been designed for partners to start using from Recycle Week onwards. Recycle Week 2018- 24 September to 30 September 2018 https://bit.ly/2hiBZGR
Video – Turning beer and food waste into electricity – https://bit.ly/2tsbAsx
UK to have nationwide food waste collections – https://bit.ly/2tB8jaz
U of W student starts organic waste pickup service – https://bit.ly/2KdNf0N
Dr. Gupta: After all my years of reporting, this haunts me – I promise you that our children and grandchildren will rightly hold us accountable for this tragic misuse of food that has led to a plundering of our land, an accumulation of greenhouse gases and the loss of precious water used to grow and produce that wasted food. https://cnn.it/2tr4EMp
Investors Demand Nestle, Pepsi and Others Cut Plastic Use – https://bloom.bg/2tkQpt2
Video – It's not you. Date labels on food make no sense. Food labels don't mean what you think they mean. https://bit.ly/2KbC1tx
ShareWaste is an app that uses a digital map to connect individuals with food scraps to nearby neighbors who have a compost system like a heap or a bin. HTTPS://BIT.LY/2K2KN12
New Study Finds Recycling Bags Better than Carts at Reducing Contamination and Program Costs – York University study, "Thinking Beyond the Box" https://bit.ly/2tzB9YH
New technology to reduce food waste at grocery retailers – Apeel Sciences has developed a coating, made from leftover plant skins and stems, that it claims could more than double the shelf life of the fruit. https://bit.ly/2ly9vb4
Coral reefs 'will be overwhelmed by rising oceans' – https://bit.ly/2MR2bUc
USAID and Coca-Cola work with Ohio State's Global Water Institute to improve water access in Tanzania. https://bit.ly/2MPGMuA
This Tech Makes It Easy To Conserve Water In Your Home – Lōtik created a high tech water monitoring solution that acts like a Fitbit for water pipes. The device collects useful details like flow patterns which can help pinpoint problems like disastrous water damage lurking behind seemingly innocent walls. https://bit.ly/2yBitO4
Deadly Tensions Rise as India's Water Supply Runs Dangerously Low – A government report released on Thursday said that India was experiencing the worst water crisis in its history, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods. Some 600 million Indians, about half the population, face high to extreme water scarcity conditions, with about 200,000 dying every year from inadequate access to safe water, according to the report. By 2030, it said, the country's demand for water is likely to be twice the available supply. https://nyti.ms/2liNb50
How to Extract Clean Water from the Ground: We're No Longer Stumped! – In an article in Advanced Sustainable Systems, Professor Liangbing Hu and co-workers from the University of Maryland, USA, develop carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as a means to efficiently extract ground water via the roots of tree stumps by means of vaporizing the water under sunlight. https://bit.ly/2HXPovC
Why Bogotá Should Worry About Its Water – Colombia's capital Bogotá relies on a unique ecosystem called páramosfor its water. The tropical plants and moss in the páramo act like a sponge, trapping moisture from the foggy air, storing it in the soil during the dry season, and releasing it gradually. HTTPS://BIT.LY/2JZB4SE
National temperature and precipitation maps are available from February 2001 to May 2018. https://bit.ly/2tlnBzJ
CBS Documentary – Expedition Antarctica – A father and son journey to save the planet – Robert and Barney Swan. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/expedition-antarctica/
Morgan Stanley Survey Finds Sustainable Investing Momentum High Among Asset Owners – For more information, please see Sustainable Signals: Asset Owners Embrace Sustainability and report. https://bit.ly/2JXGZKr
Harvard Business Review – How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose – https://bit.ly/2tjpjBF
Asics plans to cut 55% of its supply chain carbon emissions – https://bit.ly/2I0WHm1
Soil Health Educational Resources Now Online – https://bit.ly/2MdkP7I
Corporate Knights seeks nominations for 4th annual Top 30 under 30 Sustainability Leaders list – Accepting nominations until Wednesday, July 18, 2018. http://www.corporateknights.com/us/30under30/
Mars leads call for advertisers to donate percentage of ad spend to conservation projects – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s 'The Lion's Share' fund was set up with the ambition of raising $100m a year within three years, with the money being invested in a range of wildlife conservation and animal welfare programs. "Animals are in 20% of all advertisements we see. Yet, they do not always receive the support they deserve. Until now," said the fund's special ambassador Sir David Attenborough. https://bit.ly/2KdM01v
Majorities See Government Efforts to Protect the Environment as Insufficient – HTTPS://PEWRSR.CH/2ICQOOQ
Hermes launches carbon ESG tool – The $60 billion global manager will launch a tool to calculate a fund's carbon performance and carbon risk as a part of its ESG toolkit to help fund managers make better decisions about investments. https://bit.ly/2IkmjuF
Honey Bees Swarm to Cox Campus – Bee Downtown partners with businesses in cities to collaboratively rebuild healthy honey bee populations by installing and maintaining honey bee hives on corporate campuses. In June, Bee Downtown delivered and installed four honey bee hives to Cox's Atlanta campus. https://bit.ly/2IiQCBV
Measurabl, Green Sports Alliance Announce Partnership to Elevate Sustainability in Sports Culture – Measurabl is creating a first of its kind sustainability benchmark that accurately compares sports stadiums around the world, allowing them to evaluate individual performance relative to their peers. https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/green-builder-magazine-may-june-2018
Investors Are Right to Consider ESG Risks, Says New Report By Corporate Governance Association – https://bit.ly/2K651qH
Sustainability Career Report – CSR/Sustainability Jobs Embedded in all Departments – Recent research identified that 87% of CSR/Sustainability professionals are embedded throughout different departments with multiple portfolios. https://bit.ly/2MgzaQP
TreeZero News June 11-17, 2018
Ossabaw Preserve celebrates wild status after 40 years – The development of nearby Hilton Head Island in the 1960s alerted many in Georgia to the prospect of intensive development on barrier islands. It motivated the state to acquire land on barrier islands. And it motivated Ossabaw's Eleanor Torrey "Sandy" West, whose parents had bought the island for $150,000 in the 1920s, to figure out a way to keep it protected despite a mounting tax burden. West and her family sold the island to the state for $8 million, half its assessed value, with the additional guarantee Ossabaw would be a heritage preserve used only for "natural, scientific and cultural study, research and education and environmentally sound preservation, conservation and management of the island's ecosystem." Philanthropist and longtime president of Coca-Cola, Robert Woodruff, donated $4 million toward the purchase and the state provided the rest. West, who was 65 at the time of the sale, remained on a 23-acre life estate on the island until 2016 when she moved to an assisted living facility in Savannah where she celebrated her 105th birthday in January. Her life estate ownership remains in place. https://bit.ly/2HTlbOl
Nation's first credit union that promotes clean energy adoption now open – Clean Energy Credit Union (CECU) today announced that it has officially launched and is now taking savings account deposits and making clean energy loans. https://bit.ly/2l862Qf
Dear Future: Coca-Cola Co. USA Calls on Young Adults for Change – Making Ideas to Renew Local Communities – Through Oct. 15, 18 to 24-year-olds across the U.S. can submit ideas to tackle community-specific challenges at coke.com/dearfuturecommunity . $30,000 grants to 17 change-making ideas. Video: https://bit.ly/2HVgKTb https://bit.ly/2HDn6WV
50-State Food System Scorecard – Ranking the states on farm and food health. https://bit.ly/2y7lGEV
BlackRock, Wells Fargo Eye ESG Funds For 401(k)s – https://bit.ly/2l9dKJW
Impact investments made by more than 70% of millennials and Gen Xers – https://bit.ly/2sUvI79
Video: Salesforce, Intel Part of a New Goldman Sachs Backed Impact ETF – https://bit.ly/2JOQ9J3
How Bidets are Saving the Planet, One Spray at a Time – The toilet paper industry is responsible for the destruction of 27,000 trees per day , or a staggering 15 million trees per year. The toilet paper production process results in 15 percent of deforestation. There's also water waste to the tune of 37 gallons just by flushing a single roll of toilet paper, whereas a bidet uses only one pint. TUSHY is a stylish, modern bidet attachment that works with your existing toilet and it's taking butt hygiene to a whole new level. https://bit.ly/2JGSyts
Food waste is going to take over the fashion industry – Through new materials startup Circular Systems , which converts natural waste fibers into usable materials, Isaac Nichelson wants to set the fashion industry on a new path toward more sustainable production and sourcing. https://bit.ly/2JOKJOr
Your Small Business Needs a Corporate Social Responsibility Report – The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) offers introductory guidelines on SME sustainability reporting. https://bit.ly/2sZxlR2
Project Catalyst is a pioneering partnership between more than 70 innovative Queensland cane growers, Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups, the Australian Government, WWF and The Coca-Cola Foundation. The project aims to support sugarcane growers and promote groundbreaking farm practices that improve water quality from sugarcane farms impacting the Great Barrier Reef. https://bit.ly/2JXsOZ3
Exclusive: Global warming set to exceed 1.5°C, slow growth – UN draft – "If emissions continue at their present rate, human-induced warming will exceed 1.5°C by around 2040," according to the report, Temperatures are already up about 1°C (1.8°F) and are rising at a rate of about 0.2°C a decade, according to the draft, requested by world leaders as part of the Paris Agreement. https://reut.rs/2sUkxeS
The European Union has agreed a 32% target for renewable energy after earlier talks on energy efficiency failed to find an agreement. – https://bit.ly/2l7ojwX
Video Can Kenya sustain its charcoal consumption? – The high demand for charcoal in Kenya is leading to major issues like deforestation, and now companies are finding ways to use it sustainably. – https://cnn.it/2MqK9rC
Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble – Antarctica's ice sheet is melting at a rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half-millimeter every year, a team of 80 scientists reported Wednesday. https://wapo.st/2l5P8By
How to save Antarctica (and the rest of Earth too) – Under the worst-case scenario of high greenhouse gas emissions and low or ineffective regulations, the global air temperature would rise nearly 5C above 1850 levels. Antarctica would contribute more than 25 cm to a total global sea level rise of more than a metre. This could lead eventually to the collapse of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and around 3.5 m of sea level rise . https://bit.ly/2JFkJsz
The #IceBoxChallenge is a contest and an experiment to demonstrate how a home can be super energy efficient AND comfortable. https://bit.ly/2JpTu58
End of the 'gas rush?' Renewables, storage reaching cost parity, report finds – https://bit.ly/2y20r7b
Millions of Florida Homeowners Owners Can Access HERO Program to pay for energy efficiency and wind resistant upgrades overtime – www.renovateamerica.com/financing/hero/communities .
What Is A Cool Roof? A Pro Explains This Affordable, Energy Efficient System – DOE Video – https://bit.ly/2LHIuwH
This concrete can trap CO2 emissions forever – Cement is responsible for 7% of global man-made greenhouse emissions, making it the world's second largest industrial source of carbon dioxide. Canadian startup CarbonCure's system takes captured CO2 and injects it into concrete as it's being mixed. Once the concrete hardens, that carbon is sequestered forever. Even if the building is torn down, the carbon stays put. That's because it reacts with the concrete and becomes a mineral. https://cnnmon.ie/2t4bWFn
Students from Columbia University Place First in Net Impact's Inaugural "Drawdown INNOVATE" Challenge Sponsored by Interface – https://bit.ly/2HPvAdP
All of Interface's Flooring Is Now Carbon Neutral – At No Extra Cost to Customers – https://bit.ly/2HHudOf
In Argentina, Coca-Cola FEMSA will become the first company to use 100 percent renewable energy – https://on.nrdc.org/2JVysrg
Scientists find affordable way to recapture CO2 and burn it – https://bit.ly/2MxPfT2
3D View of Amazon Forests Captures Effects of El Nino Drought – https://bit.ly/2HHPIhX
Amazon deforestation surges in Colombia, report says – https://bit.ly/2ldtziI
England 'highly likely' to be suffering from deforestation, campaigners warn – https://ind.pn/2JUaDUc
Chinese company also wants to restart Newberg paper mill – The Atlanta-based owner of Newberg's shuttered paper mill now says it's open to "all options" for selling the mill, after the Portland Tribune published a story documenting the company's efforts to assure the mill's papermaking machinery is turned into scrap metal so it can't be reused to make pulp or paper. htts://bit.ly/2JQPR7Y
American Express is creating credit cards made from plastic found in the oceans – https://bit.ly/2JEgahu
Spokane businesses are saving thousands by recycling, thanks to this local company's help – Erik Makinson, founder of Resource Synergy, will literally dive through your dumpster to help you find out just how much money you're wasting. "What I've found is unless four components exist, a program won't go forward: those are time, knowledge, capital and motivation. https://bit.ly/2t9I4Yn
Hello, Recommerce: The North Face Launches Used Clothing Line – https://bit.ly/2JD79C7
NBA'S HAWKS OFFER SUSTAINABILITY LESSON – The NBA's Atlanta Hawks partnered with Atlanta's Rubicon Global, to spend five days pulling out seats and then recycling as much as possible, diverting the seats from a landfill and saving 265 tons of carbon emissions in the process. "Our partnership with the Hawks and Philips Arena is a great example of a sustainable renovation on a large scale," said David Rachelson, vice president of sustainability for Rubicon. https://bit.ly/2sNH9NU
Stop Junk Mail For Good – https://www.catalogchoice.org
CNN Money Video Interview with James Quincey, President & CEO of The Coca-Cola Company – How big brands are trying to pull off a recycling revolution. https://cnnmon.ie/2JD0M1u
Podcast: Sancroft consultant, Ross Lakhdari, is joined by Lord Deben and Alison Hampton to discuss the evolving narrative around plastics from an investor's perspective. https://bit.ly/2HLw5pc
US, Japan abstain from Ocean Plastics Charter, reactions vary – https://bit.ly/2t2X5Ly
British retailer Tesco has announced that it will sell 'green' lemons to help customers facing a UK shortage, and to cut down on food waste. https://bit.ly/2JPR0MQ
PepsiCo's Recycle Rally Program Challenges Schools to Reduce Waste, Increase Recycling – https://bit.ly/2lbjXFe
How recycling more steel and aluminum could slash imports without a trade war – https://bit.ly/2lgXsi6
Wishful recycling turns wasteful: Athens-Clarke County warns of recycling contaminants – The recycling plant takes in about 80 tons of materials each day, Joe Dunlop , waste reduction administrator for the ACC Recycling Division said. About 17 percent of those materials are not recycled and are sent to the landfill because of contamination. https://bit.ly/2ycsIrH
McDonald's to ditch plastic straws – McDonald's will replace plastic straws with paper ones in all its UK and Ireland restaurants, starting from September. https://bbc.in/2MtFwgz
Burger King has announced that it will roll out compostable straws in its UK restaurants this year as it works to make all its packaging recyclable, biodegradable or compostable by 2025. https://bit.ly/2HLRYVt
SeaWorld getting rid of plastic straws, plastic bags at all US parks – https://fxn.ws/2LMvTsd
How to Rinse Your Recyclables Without Wasting Water – https://bit.ly/2l4TpW1
IS AUSTRALIA'S DROUGHT CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE? https://bit.ly/2HHQag9
Coral reefs save humans billions of dollars every year – https://bit.ly/2yiVWpd
Sushi Served with a Secret Ingredient: Microplastic – the remnants of plastic bags, takeout containers and straws that almost-but-not-quite disintegrate in the oceans — are found in 3 out of 4 fish, such as squid, cuttlefish and swordfish in markets around the world, say the authors of a February study. https://bit.ly/2MpJved
NEW ONLINE PORTAL FOR FLOOD AND DROUGHT MANAGEMENT NOW LIVE – http://www.flooddroughtmonitor.com/home
#WorldEnvironmentDay2018
While today, June 5th, is officially World Environment Day, for so many of you, World Environment Day happens each and every day. Your friends at TreeZero want to give a heartfelt thank you to all those individuals who have made stewardship of the environment their mission. It is due to your dedication, vision, inspiration and leadership that we are so optimistic about the future.
More and more organizations are measuring their impact and setting science based, public, timebound goals to increase recycling; eliminate threats of deforestation from supply chains; and reducing carbon footprints.
Designers are adopting circular economic principles that mimic nature. Where no waste is created; and products and services provide community, environmental and economic value.
Innovation and technological advances are making renewable energy not only competitive with fossil fuels, but in many cases, superior in service and cost.
Purchasing agents are creating demand for efficient, sustainable products and services by incorporating the full lifecycle costs of the goods and services we use and purchase.
Marketers are investigating the entire supply chains of their products from raw material extraction to final disposal and embedding sustainability into their brand value architecture.
Employees are volunteering to protect watersheds, pick-up litter and prevent pollution.
Consumers are demanding companies and brands provide increased levels of transparency, take greater responsibility for reducing impacts and provide solutions to any leftover pollution.
Individual, institutional and corporate investors are using social, environmental and governance commitments and performance as primary criteria for investing trillions of dollars annually.
Each of us has responsibility in our personal and professional lives to strive to leave the earth a better place than when we arrived. We can all, and must, do more.
Please accept our thanks and gratitude for your vision for environmental excellence, your servant leadership and partnership with the environment.
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Adenomyose is endometriose in glad spierweefsel. Bij endometriose komt weefsel dat lijkt op baarmoederslijmvlies voor buiten de baarmoeder. Als het endometrioseweefsel zich in de spierwand van de baarmoeder bevindt dan spreekt men van adenomyosis uteri of endometriosis interna. Ook in het septum rectovaginale kan adenomyose voorkomen. Bij adenomyose vind je bijna altijd spierweefsel in de biopten. Terwijl dit bij endometriose niet het geval is.

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Lighten up your dinner and sneak in more veggies by swapping out traditional pasta noodles with spiralized zucchini (a.k.a zoodles). Top them off with this flavor-packed Creamy Avocado Cilantro Sauce and you're set for a super supper that will lift you up rather than slow you down.
Because this recipe substitutes regular noodles with vegetable noodles, you're getting the goodness of zucchini and the rich flavor and nutrients of the avocado. Healthy and delicious? We'll take it!
Each scoop of Regular Girl gives you 5 grams of prebiotic fiber and 8 billion active probiotics. It moves through your system at just the right pace without the excess gas or bloating.
Zucchini noodles are very low in calories, especially compared to noodles made with wheat flour, rice or other grains. In fact, you can eat approximately five cups of zucchini noodles for the same number of calories that you'd get from one cup of regular wheat-based noodles.
Zucchini is also packed with vitamins A, C, B6 and potassium and also brings fiber to the party. In addition, they are low in carbs, starches and natural sugars, perfect for that keto diet or if you're just trying to cut down on carbs.
Avocado is a unique fruit (yep, it really is a fruit) known for being very nutritious and for its yellowish-green flesh color. It is loaded with healthy fats, fiber and various important nutrients like vitamins K, C, B5 and B6. They are higher in potassium than bananas, and also high in folate.


The Bannock County Historical Museum houses exhibits, objects, and records relating to Bannock County and Pocatello's history.
The Idaho Museum of Natural History is home to collections in Anthropology, Earth Sciences, and Life Sciences. The Museum also maintains an archive which documents its history as well as the history of the collections. Researchers pursue scholarly study of the collections and publish their findings in peer-reviewed and museum-sponsored publications.


Casio Auto Race LCD Vintage Tabletop ELECTRONIC Hand held ARCADE GAME Japan F/S. There is a little aging degradation. Very hard to find and reasonable price! Batteries for the game are not included. If you are worried, please pay plus 15GBP for your item(s). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as "gifts" -US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. The item "Casio Auto Race LCD Vintage Tabletop ELECTRONIC Hand held ARCADE GAME Japan F/S" is in sale since Wednesday, June 20, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectables\Vintage & Retro Collectables\1980s". The seller is "akihiko2009" and is located in Tokyo.


The Eco-Warriors have been busy helping Mrs Smith to empty our recycling bins in the foyer. Thank you so much for all of your efforts in recycling. Please see below some posters which tell you more about what can be recycled in these schemes. Please note that the Bic pen recycling can be ANY brand and isn't just biro/felt-tip pens! Other items such as highlighters, fountain pens and even tippex can be recycled too. The Biscuits and Snack wrapper recycling unfortunately does not include crisp wrappers.
We also recycle Ella's kitchen food wrapping and batteries.
Please be sure to put your recycling into the correct receptacle to make it easier for our Eco-Warriors to empty.


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[ARCHIVED] City of Loveland appoints Peter Rancatore Jr. as new Director of Finance
At the June 12 City Council meeting, Peter Rancatore Jr. was sworn into office by Mayor Kathy Bailey as the city's new Director of Finance. Mr. Rancatore formerly served as the Finance Commissioner for the City of Toledo in addition to serving as the Chief Deputy Auditor of Lucas County Ohio. In total, Mr. Rancatore brings over 26 years of governmental accounting to the City of Loveland. "Peter has a wide range of skills and background, we are fortunate to have him join us to serve the financial needs of our city and continue the accounting excellence which has been established by former Directors of Finance" Mayor Bailey said.
Mr. Rancatore's first day on the job was June 8th, and he looks forward to meeting residents and business owners in the coming months.


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Heinrich Behnke (* 9. Oktober 1898 in Hamburg; † 10. Oktober 1979 in Münster) war ein deutscher Mathematiker an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

Behnke war international bekannt für seine Forschung in der komplexen Analysis ("Münstersche Schule der komplexen Analysis"), das heißt der Funktionentheorie mehrerer Veränderlicher.

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Er studierte Mathematik an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, wo er Vorlesungen unter anderem bei David Hilbert, Edmund Georg Hermann Landau und Erich Hecke hörte. Er sandte seine Dissertation "Über analytische Funktionen und algebraische Zahlen" an die neu gegründete Universität Hamburg, auf die Erich Hecke zuvor gewechselt war. Sie wurde dort im Mai 1922 empfangen.

Nach seiner Promotion an der Universität Hamburg wechselte er kurzzeitig an die Universität Heidelberg, wo er seine spätere Ehefrau Aenne Albersheim kennenlernte, die er im Mai 1925 heiratete. Danach ging er wieder zurück an die Universität Hamburg, wo er sich 1924 habilitierte. Seine Frau starb 1927 bei der Geburt ihres einzigen gemeinsamen Kindes.

Behnke erhielt im selben Jahr eine Professur an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, an der er bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1967 und noch darüber hinaus tätig blieb. Er heiratete 1932 Elisabeth Hartmann, die in Jena, Göttingen und Münster Mathematik studiert hatte.

1934 publizierten Behnke und Peter Thullen den Aufsatz "Theorie der Funktionen mehrerer komplexer Veränderlichen". Thullen musste aber schon 1933 Deutschland verlassen, da er von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgt wurde. Obwohl Münster schon während des Krieges zerstört war, hielt Behnke weiter Vorlesungen. Nach dem Krieg wurde er Dekan der Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Münster bis 1949. Von 1954 bis 1958 war er Präsident der Internationalen Mathematischen Unterrichtskommission (IMUK) sowie 1964 und 1965 Präsident der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Neben seiner Forschungstätigkeit hat Behnke sich auch stets um den Zusammenhalt von Universität und höherer Schule gekümmert.

Mit Otto Toeplitz gründete er 1932 die Zeitschrift Mathematische Semesterberichte.

Zu seinen Doktoranden gehören unter anderem Karl Stein, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Reinhold Remmert, Peter Thullen, Günter Scheja, Hans Grauert, Hans Langmaack, Jürgen Eickel, Friedrich Sommer, Norbert Kuhlmann, Harald Holmann, Heinz Griesel, Wolfgang Rothstein,    Karlheinz Spallek und Uwe Storch.  1978 erschien Behnkes Autobiographie: "Semesterberichte - Ein Leben an deutschen Universitäten im Wandel der Zeit".

Heinrich Behnke starb am 10. Oktober 1979 in Münster. Der wissenschaftliche Nachlass Behnkes wird im Universitätsarchiv der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster verwahrt.

Ehrungen
 1960: Ehrendoktor der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich
 1968: Ehrendoktor der Freien Universität Berlin
 1969: Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
 1971: Officier de l'ordre Grand-Ducal de la Couronne de Chêne de Luxembourg
 1977: Verleihung der Paulus-Plakette der Stadt Münster

Mitgliedschaften
 Mitglied der Gelehrtenakademie Leopoldina (seit 1936)

Schriften
 Semesterberichte – Ein Leben an deutschen Universitäten im Wandel der Zeit (Autobiographie), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 978-3-525-40724-0.
 mit Peter Thullen: Theorie der Funktionen mehrerer komplexer Veränderlicher, Springer Verlag, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 1934, 2. Auflage unter Mitwirkung von Reinhold Remmert 1970
 mit Friedrich Sommer: Theorie der Funktionen einer komplexen Veränderlichen, Springer Verlag, 3. Auflage 1965
 Vorlesung über Differentialgeometrie, Münster, Aschendorff, 7. Auflage 1966
 Vorlesung über gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen, Münster, Aschendorff, 4. Auflage 1963
 Vorlesungen über Algebra, Münster, Aschendorff, 3. Auflage 1958
 Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie, Münster, Aschendorff, 5. Auflage 1961
 Vorlesung über klassische Funktionentheorie, Aschendorff
 Vorlesung über Infinitesimalrechnung, Aschendorff
 Herausgeber mit Horst Tietz und anderen: Fischer Lexikon Mathematik, 2 Bände, zuerst 1964
 Herausgeber mit Hans-Georg Steiner: Mathematischer Unterricht an deutschen Universitäten und Schulen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1967
 Herausgeber mit Kuno Fladt, Wilhelm Süss: Grundzüge der Mathematik, 3 Bände, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1958 (englische Übersetzung bei MIT Press)
 Herausgeber mit Detlef Laugwitz: Mathematik für Studienanfänger, BI Hochschultaschenbuch
 Herausgeber mit K. Kopfermann: Festschrift zur Gedächtnisfeier für Karl Weierstraß. 1815–1965, Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Band 33, Köln und Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1966

Literatur
 Uta Hartmann: Heinrich Behnke (1898–1979) : zwischen Mathematik und deren Didaktik, Frankfurt,M. ; Berlin etc. : Peter Lang 2009 (zugleich Dissertation an der Universität Hamburg 2009) ISBN 978-3-631-58860-4.
 Hans Grauert, Reinhold Remmert: In memoriam Heinrich Behnke. In: Mathematische Annalen. Band 255, 1981, S. 1, (uni-goettingen.de).
 Karl Peter Grotemeyer, Arnold Kirsch (Hrsg.): Mathematik an Schule und Universität – Heinrich Behnke zum 65. Geburtstag gewidmet. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1964.
 Horst Tietz: Im Herbst des Lebens. Heinrich Behnke zum 80. Geburtstag. In: Math.Phys. Semesterberichte. Band 25, 1978, Heft 2, S. 165 (und sein Nachruf in Math. Phys. Semesterberichte 1980, Heft 1).
 Volker Remmert: Ungleiche Partner in der Mathematik im Dritten Reich: Heinrich Behnke und Wilhelm Süss. In: Math.Phys. Semesterberichte. Band 49, 2002, S. 11

 Sanford L. Segal: Mathematicians under the Nazis. Princeton University Press, 2003

Siehe auch
 Satz von Behnke und Stein

Weblinks

 Geschichte der Mathematik an der Universität Münster, u. a. Biographie von Behnke (PDF; 9,8 MB)
 Autoren-Profil in der Datenbank zbMATH

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Träger des Ordens der Eichenkrone (Offizier)
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Ehrendoktor der Freien Universität Berlin
Absolvent der Universität Hamburg
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A production supervisor has perhaps one of the most difficult and thankless jobs in a factory. I learned firsthand one summer as an intern at a GM Factory in Saginaw, Michigan, where I filled in for vacationing supervisors. There I was, a 21-year-old college kid supervising a bunch of grizzled workers. It was daunting at first, but I learned a lot that summer—including not to lip off too much at your going away party at the bar. After picking up my broken glasses and dusting myself off, they bought me another beer.
That memory serves a larger purpose in my service offerings today. I learned that the rubber meets the road with the supervisor. They are the ones orchestrating the activities with the value-adding workers every day to try and achieve the goals for safety, delivery, cost, and quality. In the old days, they were called foremen and they were a tough bunch who managed using their extensive knowledge of the area and their strong force of personality to get things done. They could sense when things weren't quite right, and they'd make adjustments on the fly. They'd expedite parts, hop on a forklift, work around the issue, or cobble the machine back together. Doing the job well meant doing whatever was needed to get the job done.
Today, we expect more from our supervisors. We want them to be proactive problem solvers and not reactive firefighters. We want them to be coaches and not tyrants. Hopping on the forklift is now a bad thing that is discouraged because we want them doing the standard work of a leader. We want them identifying continuous improvement opportunities and using Lean techniques. When there's a quality problem, we want them to conduct an 8D investigation, and after that they need to lead daily stand-up meetings in a way that engages their workers. They must also do standard work audits to ensure that the process is being followed.
Too often, I've seen times where management dumps these new expectations on supervisors without doing the heavy lifting to prepare them for it. Anecdotally, I have heard that 50 percent or more of supervisors don't make it when companies decide to implement Lean manufacturing. I think that's a travesty and a failure of management. These are the people that were the best in their departments, and they were instrumental in getting the company where it is, and now they are suddenly obsolete.
Even if we look past the ethics of demoting or terminating a long-tenured supervisor that has historically been successful, how are you going to replace them? I've found outside hiring for supervisors to have a very low probability of success. Perhaps there are a couple of diamonds in the rough that you can promote, but it won't be enough to cover all the needs the position requires.
We must figure out how to help regular, everyday supervisors become the supervisors that we want in this age. The answer isn't clear, but I've been around enough companies to know that most are struggling with this issue. My instincts tell me that this is a long-haul development program that starts at the top, with plant managers teaching production managers and then passing that on to supervisors. It's a slow, long-term process and there are no easy shortcuts.
I've looked at numerous development programs, but I haven't seen a genuinely effective one. Usually, these programs are centered on training. But training is only one piece of the puzzle. If you know of an effective program or approach, one that has truly helped supervisors cross the bridge, I would love to hear from you. I think supervisors are an underserved part of the manufacturing community. Yet they are vital to the success of any improvement program.


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Barack Obama knows the trick of making best-of-the-year lists
This former president knows how to make a playlist.
Image: Reuters/Yuri Gripas
Dan Kopf
Barack Obama very clearly understands the art of the year-end list.
Every year in December, the former president releases a list of his favorite songs of the past 12 months. For about a decade, my friends and I have done the same, and we've realized that a great year-end list celebrates both the popular and the obscure. Obama has learned this too.
Obama's list of songs for 2018 runs the gamut from Cardi B's "I Like It"—one of the most popular songs of the year—to "Ekombe" by Congolese band Jupiter & Okwess. At the time he released his list, "Ekombe" had received less than 20,000 streams on Spotify.
By putting putting "I Like It" on the list, Obama demonstrates that he is not some sort of snooty hipster, and gains the reader's trust. Just because it was a hit does not mean it is not still a great song—and "I Like It" is a great song (try reading the lyrics without laughing).
But if Obama's list featured only popular songs, it would be pretty boring. By sprinkling in less known songs like "Ekombe" and "Historia De Un Amor" by the bassist Tonina, he demonstrates his sophistication and offers the listener something new.
The following chart shows the number of Spotify streams each of Obama's recommended songs had received as of the evening of Dec. 28. It's a great list of songs, and you can listen to it on this Spotify playlist made by Quartz.


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Lincoln Elementary School Principal Katie Russo congratulates "Spotlight Student" Annika Ricker.
"You know if you are the Spotlight Student that I call your parents to tell them about the award. I know your mom has already heard about it. Is there someone else you'd like me to call?" asked Lincoln Elementary School Principal Katie Russo to second-grader Annika Ricker while pinning a "Spotlight Student" button on her shirt.
Lincoln Elementary School's PBIS (Positive Behaviors Interventions & Supports) Team came up with the idea for a "Spotlight Student" last summer. In the past, Mrs. Russo occasionally did "Principal Shout-Outs" on the morning announcements and the team decided to make a more consistent program to recognize students.
Any staff member can nominate a student through an electronic form, which is linked to a spreadsheet where Mrs. Russo keeps track of who has been nominated and honored. It is very important to have a system to track the award so that the school isn't missing or duplicating students. The nominating criterion for a Spotlight Student is being a role model for respect, responsibility and safety at Lincoln School.
The program is used as a motivator for all students. Lincoln School is seeing and hearing more and more kids talk about what they have to do in order to be nominated. Mrs. Russo reads the staff member's nomination on the morning announcements each day with UPK/K student on Monday, first-grader on Tuesday, second grader on Wednesday, third grader on Thursday and fourth grader on Friday.
The Spotlight Students comes to the office and gets to wear a button all day so that other students and staff can acknowledge the student.
The student receives the photograph to take home after it is taken down along with the nomination and a certificate. The school is thrilled with the response to the program and plans on continuing it next year.


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Now And Zen
This week, Barack Obama asked Congress for additional military authorization to degrade ISIS but, as in the case of "Fifty Shades of Grey," it's not entirely sure yet who's actually going to get a spanking.
For those who may not know (i.e., conservatives) "Fifty Shades of Grey" is a film based on a best-selling erotic novel in which women are shamed, punished, shackled, spanked, and tortured - and they freaking love it. As do the millions of randy readers and progressives who claimed to be outraged by the far less degrading mischief at Abu Ghraib.
But returning to the president's "Fifty Shades of Fail" strategy, his request for new military powers contains some odd language which practically sounds like he's begging to have his hands tied (or handcuffed, if that's closer to his fetish). Specifically, he wants Congress to sign off on statutory language which "does not authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces in enduring offensive ground combat operations." Wow, take that ISIS!
But he also wants language stating that "the use of military force shall terminate (in three years) unless reauthorized." In other words, our kinky commander-in-chief is up for a little playful pain, suffering, and masochism but only if he can first establish a "safe word" which will get him out when he's had enough.
As if all of this wasn't depressing enough, the president (in a recently televised interview) is still describing ISIS as a bunch of non-Islamic "violent zealots" killing "random folks."
Clearly, B. Hussein enjoys wearing a blindfold - but Hope n' Change would never ever ever suggest that it's because he gets an erotic thrill out of it.
Although, it might help explain how he was able to father children.
BONUS: Calendar Girl
Damn those Gregorians!
The day Holder found out what "Lean Forward" actually means.
Things took a decidedly weird turn this week when alleged news network MSNBC's Melissa "Super Absorbency" Harris-Perry interviewed Attorney General Eric "Real Purty Mouth" Holder and asked him to quack like a duck.
The bizarre request was predicated by Ms. Harris-Perry's revelation that she and her imaginary fans have nicknamed Holder "The Duck." Which made sense to Hope n' Change since we assumed it was her way of crediting the outgoing Attorney General with helping the Obama Administration "duck" Benghazi, Fast & Furious, Illegal Immigration, the IRS scandals and more.
But noOOooo. The reason he's called "The Duck" is because, in Holder's words, "for an African-American guy, the thing was to be cool, you know? You gotta be cool." So he always tries to present a calm demeanor on the surface, but "those little duck feet are just moving as fast as they can underneath!"
Frankly, this is an image which we'd really rather not have in our heads, because we now also visualize Holder gobbling soaking wet bread crusts and cluelessly squirting diarrhea as he waddles aimlessly around the Department of Justice. Although in fairness, we were imaging those things long before we heard of this whole "duck" business.
In the interest of trying to find something - anything - nice to say about this idiocy, we'll concede that Ms. Harris-Perry is every bit as good a journalist as Mr. Holder has been an Attorney General.
We just wish that both of them would hurry up and get the flock out of here.
BREAKING UPDATE: Brian Williams has officially been suspended from NBC without pay for six months. In the interim, another liar will take his place on the NBC Might Be News.
BONUS: Check out Lefty Lucy's understated reaction to the news about Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show.
We're keeping things short and simple today (hey, it is Monday after all), but can't help speculating that young Barack "Christianity and Western Civilization have always sucked" Obama must have treated history class the same way. At least, when he wasn't out in the parking lot getting high with his "Choom Gang" buddies...
BONUS: SPOT SHOT
All of the political brouhaha surrounding measles and vaccines reminded us of this old cartoon from our good friend and eternal victim Johnny Optimism...


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Q: Populating custom field through jackson I have a POJO as below:
@Data
@Builder
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class CalendarData {

    @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")
    // field to contain formatted date as per clients requirement - shud be mirror of "date"
    private String formattedDate;
    private long date;
    private String errorCode;
    private String subErrorCode;
}

Downstream service is only sending date field as epoch and i want to have the formattedDate populated in run time in given format.
I can always write a custom function to format the data, but want to understand is there any native jackson way or custom setter to do that.

A: You're almost doing it right. However having a @JsonFormat-Annotation on a String field does not make to much sense, because if it already is String, there is nothing to convert for Jackson anymore. You can just make both fields of type Date and the @JsonFormat annotation on the formattedDate field will serialize it into the proper JSON String representation, exactly in the format you specified in the pattern. Jackson will by default serialize all java.util.Date Object of an object it needs to serialize into the epoch milliseconds as a regular JSON number. So this would work for you. However, as both fields in the final JSON will refer to the exact same Date object it feels weird to have them both as fields of the CalendarData object. I would suggest you just give CalendarData a single field date and then create a getter method for the formattedDate field. Here is what this could look like. By default Jackson will pick up all  getter functions and serialize their returned data into the generated json object.
@Data
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class CalendarData {

    CalendarData(final Date date) {
        this.date = date;
    }

    @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")
    private Date getFormattedDate(){
        return this.date;
    };

    private Date date;
}

UPDATE
As you updates you question I also want to update my answer. I recommend you the following (analogous to what I already explained above).
@Data
@Builder
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class CalendarData {

    private Date date;
    private String errorCode;
    private String subErrorCode;

    @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")
    // field to contain formatted date as per clients requirement - shud be mirror of "date"
    private Date getFormattedDate(){
        return this.date;
    };
}

Then in my main I tried it out
public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException {
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

        CalendarData data  = CalendarData.builder()
                .errorCode("23")
                .subErrorCode("42")
                .date(new Date())
                .build();

        System.out.println(mapper.writeValueAsString(data));
    }

Which perfectly prints out
{
    "date": 1676642216673,
    "errorCode": "23",
    "subErrorCode": "42",
    "formattedDate": "17/02/2023 13:56:56"
}


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