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These are the most commonly asked questions about the Jesuits and Ignatian spirituality.
What is Ignatian Spirituality?
Spirituality is a unified world view and way of life. Christian Spirituality is believing and acting in accord with God's self-revelation in Christ. There are many ways of doing this, all faithful to the Gospels, but historically, psychologically, and culturally distinct.
Ignatian Spirituality is rooted in the life and experience of St. Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius' book of the Spiritual Exercises, arising from his personal...	Show More
Ignatian Spirituality is rooted in the life and experience of St. Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius' book of the Spiritual Exercises, arising from his personal experience, was written to help people. It contains a series of meditations and prayers, considerations, rules, and good advice that can be drawn upon as needed. This book is the principle written source of Ignatian spirituality. People who have made the Exercises and have adopted their principles are living Ignatian Spirituality.
Characteristics of Ignatian Spirituality
Some of the characteristics of Ignatian Spirituality are:
Belief that we are created, forgiven, accepted, and unconditionally loved by God, and are called to a life of union with God now and for all eternity.
Conviction that God does not hold aloof from creation, but is actively working in our world and our lives.
Affirmation of the world, all the elements of which are created good and in which God may be found.
Reverence for God and gratitude for God's gifts leading to a response of love and service.
Contemplation, looking for and finding God, in all things, in action as well as in prayer.
Reverence for and reflection on human experience, since God's presence and call can be discovered there.
Continual prayer and discernment, attending in particular to interior movements of the heart through which God is manifest.
Awareness that God deals directly with each person, and that each person must be treated with individual care.
Reverence for the freedom of each individual to respond to the call of God.
Clear distinction between God and all other things which are means to the love and service of God and others.
Freedom from disordered attachments to any of these means in themselves so that we may clearly discern, rightly judge, correctly choose, and faithfully and lovingly respond to God.
Critical consciousness of the distinction between the action of God and movements originating elsewhere that undermine freedom and love.
Personal love for Jesus, which expresses itself in a commitment to work as his companion and to continue his mission in the world for the good of our fellow men and women.
Dedication to the Church, the Body of Christ, and to the Holy Father his Vicar.
Commitment to the welfare of our fellow humans — especially the marginalized, poor and oppressed — by a service of faith of which the promotion of justice is an integral part.
When they had finished their studies Ignatius and his companions decided to offer themselves to the Pope for whatever ministry he wished. They discerned that God was calling them to form a new religious order, the Society of Jesus. Rather than committing themselves to a single work and specific religious practices, they chose to keep themselves available to be sent, on a moment's notice, to any part of the world where the need was the...	Show More
When they had finished their studies Ignatius and his companions decided to offer themselves to the Pope for whatever ministry he wished. They discerned that God was calling them to form a new religious order, the Society of Jesus. Rather than committing themselves to a single work and specific religious practices, they chose to keep themselves available to be sent, on a moment's notice, to any part of the world where the need was the greatest, and to adopt the religious way of life needed for that end.
Ignatius was elected the head of this new order, called the Society of Jesus because of their devotion to the person of the incarnate Lord. They were later called Jesuits, a name meant to mock their frequent use of the name Jesus. The Jesuits embraced and adopted the name. Ignatius is the foundation on which the Jesuits, and Jesuit Retreat House of Cleveland, and its ministry are based.
To learn more about the Society of Jesus, we suggest these links:
The Society of Jesus in the United States
The Midwest Jesuit Province
The Jesuit Curia in Rome
What are the Spirituality Exercises of St. Ignatius
The Spiritual Exercises
Ignatius wanted to share with other people the fruits of his experience of God, and made notes for himself to help him do this. Those notes grew into a small book of directions called The Spiritual Exercises. It was intended to help the person who directed another in a structured thirty-day program of contemplation and prayer rather than for use by the person being...	Show More
Ignatius wanted to share with other people the fruits of his experience of God, and made notes for himself to help him do this. Those notes grew into a small book of directions called The Spiritual Exercises. It was intended to help the person who directed another in a structured thirty-day program of contemplation and prayer rather than for use by the person being directed.
Some of the major themes normally addressed in the four weeks or periods of the Exercises are:
God's unconditional, ever faithful love.
Sin: our failure and the failure of the human family to respond with love to God's love.
God's ever greater love, mercy and forgiveness.
The person and life of Christ.
Our call to discipleship, ministry and friendship with Jesus.
Knowing Christ more intimately, loving him more ardently, following him more faithfully.
The ultimate expression of God's love.
The suffering and death of Jesus for us.
The victory of Jesus over death.
Jesus' sharing his joy with us.
Being missioned by Jesus.
Being empowered by his Spirit.
The continuing presence of Christ in the world and the life of the retreatant.
The call to return God's constant love by an offering of one's whole self to God.
All Jesuits make the full thirty-day Spiritual Exercises. Over the centuries the Jesuits have adapted the Exercises into shorter individually directed retreats of six to eight days, and into conference or group retreats of a few days' duration in which the director presents various themes of the Exercises to individuals or to a group of people, who pray on their own about the material presented.
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius are usually experienced in one of these shorter adaptations, but occasionally people are moved by grace to give themselves to the full Spiritual Exercises either at a retreat house for the form of a silent Thirty-Day Retreat, or at home in the form of The Spiritual Exercises in Daily Life. [Also called the 19th Annotation Retreat.]
Jesuit Retreat House of Cleveland is the perfect setting to make the Exercises, either in their orginal thirty form or in a modified approach that fits your busy schedule.
Who is St. Ignatius of Layola?
St. Ignatius was born in the Basque area of Spain in 1491. In his early life he pursued a worldly career as a courtier and soldier. At the age of 30 he was struck down by a cannon ball in the battle of Pamplona.
During a year of recuperation he had no books to read except a life of Christ and lives of the saints. He daydreamed about being a heroic soldier and about serving God, and noticed that while both dreams were sweet, the...	Show More
During a year of recuperation he had no books to read except a life of Christ and lives of the saints. He daydreamed about being a heroic soldier and about serving God, and noticed that while both dreams were sweet, the sweetness of the first quickly faded while that of the second endured. He began to see from this that the second was an indication of God's will and that God speaks to us through our consolations and desolations and other inner movements. As he continued to read and pray over both books, he began to recognize that God was calling him to follow Jesus.
After recovering, he traveled to the monastery of Montserrat near Barcelona, and there dedicated himself to the service of God. His conversion was deepened through ten months of prayer at Manresa, a town about ten miles away. There he experienced visions and anxieties, joys and scruples, and learned to discern the difference between the workings of God and those of the evil spirit.
In mystical visions beyond words, Ignatius experienced the love of the Trinity communicating itself to us and acting within creation out of love for us. He began to free himself from anything holding him back from God. And he greatly desired to share his experience of God with others.
But, in those days, it was difficult for an unschooled layman to teach about religious matters. He had to go back to school at the age of 30, get a degree, and become a priest. He went to the University of Paris, where he found companions, among them Francis Xavier.
The ministry of Jesuit Retreat Center of Cleveland is rooted in the life of St. Ignatius. JRC provides a sacred place for contemporary men and women to make the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. We are here to welcome you!


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Paul Segre
Celebrating Customer Experience Innovation in Nashville
As a creative epicenter, Nashville has long been a draw for talented people on the cutting edge of innovation, making it the ideal location for CX18. This week, we're delighted to host our annual flagship customer experience conference in "Music City" and welcome customers, partners, developers and industry experts.
The theme of this year's event, Connect, Engage, Innovate, is fitting as we explore innovations in artificial intelligence, asynchronous messaging and the Internet of Things (IoT), along with journey management from our recent acquisition of Altocloud. We're excited to share how Genesys and our AppFoundry partners are already using these next-generation technologies to help businesses elevate the experiences they can deliver to their customers and provide insight into where we're headed next.
A highlight of CX18 is the knowledge-sharing and problem-solving that occurs among all of our attendees across the Genesys community. Our Customer Innovation Award winners are prime examples of this. It's exciting to hear stories about how they've used Genesys as the engine to address challenges and pain points in new and creative ways so they can deliver a better experience to their customers.
Providing the Foundation to Give Back
At Genesys, we are committed to the communities in which we live, work and do business. We take pride in the fact that we make lives better for consumers and employees and are particularly thrilled when they improve their communities as well. One stand-out example of this is Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator ("Harambee"). This amazing story of giving back to the community is especially noteworthy—it even inspired a new category in the Customer Innovation Awards, "CX Gamechanger: Best Story of Making a Difference with CX Technology."
Harambee connects poverty-stricken South African youth to employers looking for entry-level talent. Before using the PureConnect™ platform, Harambee made about 50,000 call attempts a month. Now, it makes up to 1.5 million attempts. Not to mention, it has increased engagement with candidates by 32 percent and improved workforce productivity by 45 percent.
But that's not what strikes me most about this story. Rather, while they are using Genesys technology to achieve some truly compelling business outcomes, we're also fueling their ability to change lives. It is especially powerful when you consider Harambee operates in a market with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world.
Ditching Old Systems in Favor of Genesys
This year, there is also plenty of buzz around the significant gains hundreds of companies are experiencing as they replace their legacy contact center systems with the Genesys Customer Experience Platform. I am happy to share a few of these companies, and they happen to be Customer Innovation Award winners too.
Heineken Mexico moved from a legacy platform to Genesys PureConnect and has since made measurable improvements to both their customer experience and productivity. In fact, the company enhanced call effectiveness by over 40 percent and improved sales success by 6 percentage points, all while increasing agent efficiency, resulting in a 1.5 hour per agent reduction in the workday.
Another example is Affinbank Berhad, which moved to the PureEngage™ platform for its true omnichannel customer engagement capabilities. Since the migration, it realized a 60 percent improvement in telesales performance, 84 percent reduction in call abandonment rates, and 50 percent increase in agent productivity.
And one of New Zealand's largest banks, Westpac New Zealand, replaced a legacy on-premises Avaya platform with the PureCloud® platform. This migration enabled the bank to reduce infrastructure costs, increase outbound customer care calls by 100 percent and achieve rapid time-to-value by getting its first customer care agents up and running in just three months.
I'm proud that we have hundreds of success stories like these.
The 2018 Customer Innovation Award Winners
But today I want to focus on eight special companies. We have the honor to recognize these companies for achieving exceptional customer experience and remarkable customer service innovation and transformation:
CX Globetrotter: Best Global Rollout of the Genesys CX Platform – Emirates Airline
CX Visionary: Best Success Story of Switching to Genesys from Another Platform – Heineken Mexico
CX Pioneer: Best New Customer, Breaking Silos with a Fast Deployment (Small) – Affinbank Berhad
CX Pioneer: Best New Customer, Breaking Silos with a Fast Deployment (Mid-sized) – QuinStreet
CX Pioneer: Best New Customer, Breaking Silos with a Fast Deployment (Large) – VIPKID
CX Mover: Best Cloud Customer Migration and/or Deployment – Westpac New Zealand
CX Innovator: Best Omnichannel Success Story – Bradesco Next
CX Game Changer: Best Story of Making a Difference with CX Technology – Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator
Congratulations to each and every one of you! We are proud to be your partner and thank you for allowing Genesys to provide the foundation that allows you to innovate and deliver outstanding customer experience every time.
As we share our innovations, honor CX pacesetters and plan for the future throughout this amazing week, I'd like to personally thank our sponsors, partners, attendees and Genesys employees who have contributed to making this event so amazing and valuable for all involved. Together, we're making every moment count and creating ground-breaking customer experiences.
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Clarksville native Maddie Poppe continues on American Idol, moving to the top three after her performance Sunday night.
Butler County will welcome her home Tuesday with a parade in Clarksville at 5 p.m. followed by a free concert at the Butler County Fairgrounds in Allison at 6:30 p.m.
The parade will begin at the school in Clarksville and proceed to Main Street, then south to Superior Street, turning west and ending at the former City Hall building.
When asked how he felt about Maddie Poppe's return hometown visit, Clarksville Mayor Val Swinton said, "Like the rest of Clarksville, I'm very excited about it and so proud of her. We're happy she has done a great job representing Clarksville. It's very pleasing and very exciting for us, a feather in the cap for Clarksville. I think it will be wonderful after all these months of watching her on tv. It will be nice to see her in person and to see and talk to her again."
Sunday evening, Idol contestants each performed one song by previous Idol winner Carrie Underwood and another selection as a tribute to their mothers. Maddie's two song choices were "I Told You So", formerly recorded by Underwood, and "God Only Knows" as a tribute to her mother, Tonya.
Poppe will return to the stage next Sunday, May 20 for the American Idol finale with fellow Top 3 finishers Caleb Hutchinson and Gabby Barrett to vie for the American Idol crown.


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Baker McKenzie strengthens Transfer Pricing with the arrival of Marco Orlandi
Baker McKenzie announces the arrival of Marco Orlandi as transfer pricing director Italy.
Marco Orlandi specializes in intragroup transfer pricing and international taxation, with particular reference to corporate restructuring, financial transactions, permanent establishments and IP valuations. Marco has also gained extensive experience in litigation, as well as in APA and MAP procedures.
From 2011 to 2016, he was a tax officer of the Italian Revenue Agency, where he was responsible for carrying out checks on large multinationals on transfer pricing and international tax issues. During his time at the Italian Revenue Agency he also took part, as team leader, in a joint audit pilot project between Italy and Germany and, subsequently, in the Tax Inspectors Without Borders project between Italy and Albania.
Even after his exit from the administration, he continued to cooperate with European institutions and international organizations by providing training on transfer pricing for developing countries.
He is a member of the YIN IFA Network-Italy committee and author of several publications in Italian and foreign journals on international taxation.
Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Marco was head of transfer pricing at Ludovici Piccone & Partners in Vienna.
Francesco Pisciotta, managing partner and co-head of the Italian Tax Practice Group commented: "We are really happy to welcome Marco to our team, which has always been at the top of the transfer pricing market in Italy and Europe. His arrival represents a fundamental step in the strengthening plan in an increasingly expanding sector in the tax area but is also likely to generate significant synergies with other practices, typically IP and M&A, but not only them. Furthermore, it strengthens the already large Italian component of high-profile transfer pricing experts in our network, which has its coordination center in Amsterdam. It is a sector in which we strongly believe and we intend to make further investments and welcome new entries in the short term".
Francesco Pisciotta
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U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose to a fresh record in April, with vacancies increasingly exceeding the number of unemployed workers amid a robust labor market, Labor Department data showed Tuesday.
The gains reinforce the view that the economy is creating jobs at a pace that can absorb any remaining labor-market slack. The report follows data released last week that showed payrolls increased more than forecast in May, the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, matching April 2000 as the lowest since 1969, and wages also picked up.
March's upward revision made it the first time in data back to 2000 that vacancies exceeded the number of unemployed, a gap of 48,000. That difference grew to 352,000 in April and is poised to keep widening, as the number of unemployed dropped further in May, to 6.07 million.
Although it lags the Labor Department's other jobs data by a month, the JOLTS report adds context to monthly payrolls figures by measuring dynamics such as resignations, help-wanted ads and the pace of hiring.
The rise in openings in April was broad-based, led by professional and business services, the JOLTS report showed. Other gainers included manufacturing, trade and transportation, and leisure and hospitality.
The Midwest had the highest rate of job openings at 4.8% of total employment and available jobs. The West, which includes California and 12 other states, was next at 4.4%.
Although the Labor Department job openings data only goes back to 2000, one analyst's study based on other data determined that the last time openings outnumbered unemployed Americans was 1970.
Early in the recovery from the Great Recession in 2009, there were more than six unemployed workers for every job opening. That ratio has been narrowing ever since. In April, there was fewer than one unemployed worker for every opening.
But some jobs are filled without posting a formal vacancy. And just because someone has a job doesn't mean that they're living comfortably.
As the recession ended, there were about 6 unemployed people for every job opening. Now, there's 1 unemployed person for every opening, a sign of how the dynamics in the job market have changed.
If anything, companies complain about the available pool of talent. That said, these firms haven't aggressively bid up wages to secure the best workers.
The story isn't a new one for financial markets, particularly after the sterling jobs report released on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average made minimal gains on Tuesday.


"How can I stop wasting time on Facebook and 9GAG (a meme site)? Because it's ruining my life." someone asked me. Bad internet habits are a common problem.
We're social beings and Facebook is connecting with the core of that so don't hide in shame, it's only natural to spend hours on social media – but that doesn't mean it's good for you.
We all seek approval from those around us, but where those around us 10 years ago were our closest friends and family, it's now hundreds, even thousands of periphery acquaintances. Strangers. Not healthy, beneficial relationships that can lift your life.
Because Facebook relationships don't lift you up when you're sad. Real relationships do.
And it steals our time as well. Time that isn't spend productively. You'll get to see the newest cat video, or even get a hundred "likes" on a picture from your holiday but you won't be any closer to happiness. You won't be any closer to reaching what you want in life.
A Danish study from the Happiness Research Institute about Facebook's impact on happiness found that people who gave up Facebook for a week(!) had a measured 18 % higher feeling of being present in the moment, as well as an overall increases in well-being, than before they gave it up.
And I had a similar experience. I used to have both Facebook Messenger and the Facebook app installed on my phone so every time I had one second of nothing to do I pulled out my phone and opened Facebook. When I deleted the apps, it didn't take long before I felt less stressed and more productive.
We have so many distractions in life that keep us from growing and living our lives, we don't need more.
Browsing meme sites is a guilty pleasure for me as well. And it makes sense that we find our way back to everything we find entertainment, pleasure or solace in.
You should work. But you don't want to so there's a negative feeling surrounding it. Or you can look at funny pictures of puppies – not a difficult choice if you ask your emotions.
But as with anything in life, if we only allow our emotions to determine what we do, we won't get anything productive done. A balance is needed.
In other words: bad internet habits are… well, bad.
More time in a busy day means more happiness. Stopping bad internet habits gives you more time.
In short: It's easier than ever to get distracted. There are thousands of websites that fight and claw at each other to steal away our attention and click through their articles. Some are so ferocious they'll even blatantly lie and cause damage to society to increase their clicks.
But they rarely give you any news or input that benefit you in your life. They're mainly entertainment, and they're not that entertaining.
Spending your time on things you want is more productive than going zombie mode, doing what is easy, clicking through mindless (fake) entertainment.
It will make you feel better about yourself, and about your life.
One way to give up or limit these timewasters is by making it more difficult to escape from what you should be doing.
Your phone is always within reach, and with it these greedy thieves of time follow.
It might be difficult but after a while you'll see that you don't NEED to answer Facebook messages immediately. If someone is trying to contact you and it's an important message they will call you. If it's truly important people don't text. They call.
You can also tell your friends and family to contact you on other media like text message or WhatsApp, to cut away the worst of the clutter. The people who aren't important to you will most likely continue to contact you on Facebook, and those messages you don't need to answer immediately. They can wait until you check them in the evening on your computer.
No problem is so bad it doesn't have an answer.
You don't have to give up Facebook completely. There are still many advantages to it. I travel a lot and Facebook is a great tool to keep track of everyone I've met or keep in touch with them.
But spending hours each day is too much and you don't need that. You can download apps or extensions to your browser that limit your access to those sites to stop you from mindlessly accessing your social media for no reason other than to procrastinate.
Same goes for any other sites.
I use an extension for Google Chrome to block a football news site and 9gag, because I was spending (wasting) two hours a day scrolling through it without any real benefits… I stopped watching football years ago, why should I continue to read about it?
Forest. An app and Google Chrome extension, where you plant a tree and if you go on Facebook it withers and dies. I haven't tried this myself, but it sounds amazing.
Block Site. A Google Chrome extension that blocks whichever site you want it to. This is what I use.
Offtime. An app that allows you to decide which times you want to be able to access certain sites.
Another way to limit the raiders of Chronos (timewasters) is to ask yourself what you gain from what you're doing in the moment, and what you would gain if you were doing something else.
If you're doing something constructive it won't be difficult to find a reason to continue, but if it's not (like watching cat videos) it becomes clear to you that you're wasting your time.
It's clear that if you continue watching cat videos, you'll be mindlessly entertained, but you'll also suffer the following day.
You knew that before you started watching videos, but the dark magic of procrastination shrouds your judgment in the moment and a wakeup call, like asking yourself what you gain from your actions, can help you make a better decision.
If you feel like you don't have enough hours in the day, quitting your bad internet habits can be a great way to find more. And there are tangible remedies against it. You can fight technology with technology or you can become more aware of the consequences of your procrastination.
If you have an internet addiction or a bad habit, try out these tools and see if they work. If they do, share them with someone close to you who's also a victim of the timewasters, so they can find more time in their day, and feel better.
All the best. Take action. Make a change.
I love this article, thank you! It's so true, we are all so used to the instant gratification and connections that social media gives us. I love the sound of the Forest app, I might have to try that one out.


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Posted on July 1, 2021 September 28, 2021 by sarah
now that we were in a new location, more central to all the parts of the park, with electric hookups to keep this sweet pup cool while we were gone for long periods of time, we had a lot more options for possible hikes and things to do. and with the kids all rested up for two days (three if you count a leisurely stroll), we were ready for another big adventure.
we decided to head back across (mostly across) the park, to avalanche lake. it's a hike we did last time, but we knew it was a good one, and it's in our sweet spot for length and difficulty, and there's good reason it's the most popular hike in the entire park.
but first. the drive. couldn't resist stopping for this crystal clear mirror image in st. mary lake on the ride in.
and! we had another bear sighting. two bears actually. we were the only car in the area, so we were able to stop for a little while and watch them as they made their way through the brush.
on yesterday's drive, we played a sort of mean (but hilarious) trick on isaac, and when we went past the "weeping wall" we got a little bit close and rolled his window down and locked it. this time, when we passed, the girls requested that we do the same for (to?) them. they loved it.
at the parking area, we had to drive around for twenty minutes or so to get a parking spot, which is something we were prepared for, but was still stressful. for me. not for derek. he seems to like these sorts of things. eventually, we came upon someone who was backing out and we were in! let the festivities begin.
the first part of the hike travels along a carved out gorge, full of rushing snow melt waters. it's very pretty and sort of terrifying.
the hike is about 800′ elevation change, which isn't too bad, but it was still just so hot. we trudged along and took breaks often.
and after 2.7 miles or so, we were there. and it was perfect. in 2017, we were here at the end of july/early august, so the waterfalls had dried out a little and things looked a lot different. or so i remember.
we cooled off in the icy waters. and met some new friends. hazel hit it off with their kiddo, despite being thwacked in the head with a giant rock by said kiddo (completely inadvertently). isaac joined us for a moment before departing to be all teen angsty. we ate snacks and chatted and enjoyed the beauty and the break. somehow managed a family photo even though isaac already had one shoe on and refused to take it back off. see if you can figure out the compromise.
even though i am sure i could have sat there forever, just looking at the lake and the surrounding scenery, eventually we had to leave. on our way out, we had a close encounter with a deer who crossed the trail right in front of us. we had a slight incident when hazel face planted, while running downhill and using her hiking pole as a vaulting stick. but otherwise, we made it back safely.
back at our campground, hazel wrote a postcard to her pal maddie, detailing her days tragedies. later, we hung out with some new friends who pulled up next to us, who happen to live just a few hours from us in south carolina. the girls hit it off immediately, and busted out all of their playmobil, while the boys disappeared to play video games and the grownups chatted about life and kids and adventures and rvs and so on.
another top notch glacier day in the books…
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glacier. going-to-the-sun road.
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THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
Celebrating the Musical and Cultural Connections between Eastern and Western Civilizations
Kayla Behforouz
JON LIECHTY
Piano, Composer
American composer and pianist Jon Liechty has performed at the Gülüstan Palace and the Art Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan; the Lotus World Music and Dance Festival in Bloomington, Indiana; the American Composers Alliance Festival in New York; the Summer Keys Festival in Maine. At the Boston Conservatory he gave the premiere performance of Andrew Nishikawa's Piano Concerto No. 1, written especially for him. Liechty's compositions have been performed in New York's Weill Hall; at the Midwest Composer's Symposium in Oberlin, Ohio; at
the Indiana Contemporary Music Festival in Terre Haute, Indiana; at the Sound in the Land Festival in Waterloo, Ontario; and at the Escuela Nacional de Música in Mexico City. He is the recipient of grants from Meet the Composer and the Indiana University Honors Division. Jon Liechty is a graduate of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
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Marketing property without awareness of the location brand in which it sits cannot be effective. Accordingly, tracking the evolution of location brands is a vital part of keeping in touch with the attitudes of businesses who want to be based in central London.
It's fascinating to hear the views of these leading market figures. Perhaps the most striking impression from the research is how complementary the brands of each location are. This distinctness has got to be worth preserving as there would be little point in trying to make the brands more similar to each other.
If I were Brand Manager for London, I would aim to define the values and characteristics of each location and use this as a guide to influence policy. Whilst improving the offer of each location, as this research highlights, it's important to maintain sufficient distinction between them.
In the commercial property business, while there is great concentration on the marketing of individual developments and buildings, the overall brand characteristics of locations is perhaps something that is not captured as well as it could be. However, as this study shows, there is location brand awareness in the business but there is also room for improvement in how that positively feeds into the property marketing process.
Getting into the mindset of occupiers is clearly central to this. The frame of reference of a business decision‐maker born in 1959 is very different from that of one born in 1979. They are influenced by differing values and this differentiation applies as much to property as it does to any other product. Accordingly, it's essential to keep track on how evolving brands impact on decision‐makers.
That's the challenge for all of us involved in property marketing. As a consultancy we recognise the importance of both individual building brands and place brands in marketing and our property clients are taking an increasingly forensic approach to how branding influences their strategy.
The research highlights different views as to whether the changing offers will affect occupiers' flexibility over which locations they will consider. Personally, I can see more occupier mobility in the future as factors such as staff preferences and building sustainability become relatively more important whilst at the same time amenities continue to improve in the City and Canary Wharf. This places more importance on individual building brands and the characteristics of micro-locations.
In my mind, this raises the importance of 'brand matching'. That is how marketing needs to demonstrate on an occupier by occupier basis how the characteristics of location brand + building brand = occupier brand.
Property marketing may need to catch up. For example, the research tells us that building quality and efficiency is becoming increasingly important in the City, so can we learn some marketing lessons from the automotive and technology industries?
We hope this study will provoke further debate about how branding influences the property business and how we can capitalise on the intrinsic strengths of London as an international location for doing business.
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Ah, you spotted that omission then. We thought about including Midtown but opted to keep it simple, however I agree Midtown is a really interesting market in its own right.
My guess is that its 'brand' image may be less distinct because the sub-areas within have very different characters. So if Jaguar, are we talking XK, classic Mark II or new XJ, or more likely all three?
Interesting piece of work chaps. Thank you. For me, the absence of reference to 'Midtown' – a performing, resilient market – as an established property term in London in the research is worth raising as an issue for discussion here. What do other's think? And if a car brand…..Jaguar?


How has Winter 2012 been for everyone?
We are having a really weird winter. In the past week, I got 63 miles of bike riding because of 50 degree fahrenheit weather. Crocuses are pushing up out of the ground. Friday, we have had 2 inches of snow with 30 mph winds. From Thursday thru Friday, we went from 45F to 16F with rain turning to ice and turning to snow. I got to the bank and then to the grocery store. I have to go to stores again tomorrow because there was a run on groceries. The items that I was looking for there was nothing on the shelves. The 2 inch snowfall that in a normal year is nothing, the road crew completely forgot how to salt and clean the roads due to the fact that they have not done it this year! The streets and roads were an absolute mess. Its going to be back in the 40F range in 2 days and a week from now there is a 7 day string of 50F range! Today's snowfall makes 4 inches for the season. And this little bit of snow paralyzed the city.
I posted this in an email Friday night to Pasha while we were working on Mount Washington Fog problem. He felt I should share this with you. I would also enjoy hearing how your winter has been so far.
Luckily, I was able to complete my grocery shopping on Saturday. While doing laundry on Saturday evening, 48 hours after rain turned to ice and then to snow, the road crew came down my road and cleared the remains of the 2 inch snowfall and salted the road.
We had the warmest November on record and a very warm December. So far, we are having a very warm January and since the snow removal crew had not had practice in a very long time, they completely forgot how to clear and salt roads. Normally, winter makes an appearance here in November and stays until the middle of March. We have been lucky.
How has winter been for everyone else?
Re: How has Winter 2012 been for everyone?
Here in the Netherlands is a very mild winter.
There are of course a few records broken. Too high average temperature and total rainfall.
This year we had much rain and wind, with occasional sunny day. .
A few times we've had frost on the ground.
The next day frost is predicted.
That's good cycling weather. Every day by bike to work. (25 km).
But winter is not over. February may even given a winter .
we don't have a real winter season on Mallorca OK it is now much colder like a couple of weeks ago, so the lowest temperature in this wintertime was last night with 5°C and had also a litte bit rain (14 l/m2). The last day with rain before was 28.11.2011!!!
We changed the year with temperatures above 20°C But this situation we had nearly all the 14 years I'm on Mallorca now.
Last Sunday I did a bit of snow. As it is a fact that does not happen very often, I documented the event with a music video (made near my home) I uploaded the site Youtube Putignanonelmirino.
Now it is very cold (2 degrees Celsius) after a long period with a time almost spring.
(Herman, congratulations for your 25 km bike that even if facts all the plain are always a good distance!).
I would like to share a few pictures of Winter in my area from the past month.
On January 21st, the Mansfield area had a 4 inch snowfall that I actually got to shovel. I live in what is known as the Snow Belt. Winds come across the Great Lakes and drop a lot of snow on my area. A normal winter, I would have to shovel atleast four 12 inch snowfalls. It is also normal to have atleast one week with temperatures near 0 degrees fahrenheit. There was one evening this winter that was minus .1 degree fahrenheit.
I have spent this winter wearing a light weight fleece jacket as the average temperature is around 39 degrees fahrenheit. Tuesday morning, we had snow and Tuesday afternoon was 40 degrees fahrenheit. When our snow comes down, it is immediately melted. This is really an unusual winter.
February 22nd Crocuses have Bloomed before they should!!!!!
I took the above picture of my little blue flowers that just bloomed today before I went for a 20 mile bike ride. So far this year, with the warm winter weather, I have 151 miles of bike riding for the year. Each one of my bike rides has been atleast 20 miles. Normal for this time of year is to go out for 1 hour and get a 12 mile bike ride as you are riding on a 35 degree fahrenheit day. My rides this year are almost all 45 degree fahrenheit (or higher) days.
I know there is still more winter to come. But so far, this winter has been more like Autumn turning into Spring.
I have seen on the news that it has been COLD in Europe. Has it warmed up any?
The Southern Hemisphere Winter 2012 is just starting. I cannot talk for all Southern Hemisphere countries, but in Johannesburg, South Africa, the start of Winter has, so far, been very mild. Today the mercury sits at 22 Celcius and in places more than that, which is to me unusual for April in Joburg. Sometimes summer lingers to the end of May and then hits us with an almighty cold front from the Southern Cape.
I would assume that "Winter 2012" is a northern hemisphere play because their winter starts well before the new year and carries on well into April or later, and then restarts again at the end of the year. I would call it "Winter 2011/2012" because your next winter starts in October and will then be "Winter 2012/2013".
The Southern Hemisphere Winter starts and ends within the same calendar year. So we can safely say "Winter comes but once a year, and for that we are eternally grateful".
A ok. So we could be in for a few cloudy days etc? I've only ever been in August when it is wall to wall sunshine so not sure what to expect or pack? Will jeans be too hot for an evening?


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Q: Android ListView adapter loads wrong For some reason when I use this code it doesn't work properly. Instead of putting each crossroad in its place, it puts the last one in the first and the rest are empty.
package com.Itay.lightalaram.lightalarm;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class CrossroadsActivity extends Activity {
    private List<Crossroad> crossroads;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.crossroads);

        crossroads = new ArrayList<Crossroad>();

        populateListView();
    }

    private void populateListView() {
        ListView list = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.crossroadsListView);
        crossroads.add(new Crossroad("Oranim", 50, 30));
        crossroads.add(new Crossroad("Evelina", 40, 85));
        crossroads.add(new Crossroad("Sacker", 43, 22));
        crossroads.add(new Crossroad("bagger", 43, 22));

        ArrayAdapter<Crossroad> adapter = new CrossroadAdapter();

        list.setAdapter(adapter);
    }

    private class CrossroadAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Crossroad> {
        public CrossroadAdapter(){
            super(CrossroadsActivity.this, R.layout.item_crossroad, crossroads);
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            View itemView = convertView;
            if(null == itemView) {
                itemView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_crossroad, parent, false);

                Crossroad currentCrossroad = crossroads.get(position);

                TextView name = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.item_crossroadName);
                TextView redLight = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.item_redLightDuration);
                TextView greenLight = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.item_greenLightDuration);
                try {
                    name.setText(currentCrossroad.getName());
                    redLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getRedLight());
                    greenLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getGreenLight());
                } catch (Exception e) {
                }
                return itemView;
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
}

Output:

A:  private class CrossroadAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Crossroad> {
    public CrossroadAdapter() {
        super(MainActivity.this, R.layout.item_crossroad, crossroads);
    }

    TextView name, redLight, greenLight;

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View itemView = convertView;
        Crossroad currentCrossroad = crossroads.get(position);
        if (null == itemView) {
            itemView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_crossroad,
                    parent, false);

            name = (TextView) itemView
                    .findViewById(R.id.item_crossroadName);
            redLight = (TextView) itemView
                    .findViewById(R.id.item_redLightDuration);
            greenLight = (TextView) itemView
                    .findViewById(R.id.item_greenLightDuration);

        }
        try {
            name.setText(currentCrossroad.getName());
            redLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getRedLight());
            greenLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getGreenLight());
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
        return itemView;
    }
}

A: Explanation
The issue occurs because you set the inflated layout only once, when your condition of convertView is null. However, after the first time itemView ins't null. Your items are not updated except the first one. Also, you need to return all the views (itemView) for the list items.
Solution
In your adapter, the getView method needs to inflate a layout (once) and returns this layout:
// inflate the layout to the row (items)
View itemView = convertView;
if(null == itemView) {
    itemView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_crossroad, parent, false);
}
// Then return the inflated view and all its stuff
return itemView;

Also, you need to attach all the item's views to the layout as follows:
 // itemView.findViewById(...) to retrieve the id which is on the inflated layout
 TextView name = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.item_crossroadName);

Finally, to improve the performance of your Adapter, you should use a ViewHolder. This will avoid you to call ever and ever all the findViewById methods. Here's a great tutorial and a simple example. Then, your method might be:
 // Init your variables
 public ViewHolder {
     TextView name, redLight, greenLight
 }

 @Override
 public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
      View itemView = convertView;
      // create the ViewHolder variable
      ViewHolderItem viewHolder;

      if(itemView == null) {
           itemView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_crossroad, parent, false);

           // create a new ViewHolder
           viewHolder = new ViewHolderItem();

           // get your views with the ViewHolder and attached to the inflated layout
           viewHolder.name = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.item_crossroadName);
           viewHolder.redLight = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.item_redLightDuration);
           viewHolder.greenLight = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.item_greenLightDuration);

           // store the ViewHolder
           itemView.setTag(viewHolder);
     }else{
         // this is not the first, reuse the stored ViewHolder
         viewHolder = (ViewHolderItem) convertView.getTag();
     }

     // do your stuff...
     Crossroad currentCrossroad = crossroads.get(position);
     try {
         viewHolder.name.setText(currentCrossroad.getName());
         viewHolder.redLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getRedLight());
         viewHolder.greenLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getGreenLight());
     } catch (Exception e) { }

     // return the layout inflated
     return itemView;
}

A: change the getview method to
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
View itemView = convertView;
if(null == itemView) {
    itemView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_crossroad, parent, false);
}
    Crossroad currentCrossroad = crossroads.get(position);

    TextView name = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.item_crossroadName);
    TextView redLight = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.item_redLightDuration);
    TextView greenLight = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.item_greenLightDuration);

    name.setText(currentCrossroad.getName());
    redLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getRedLight());
    greenLight.setText("" + currentCrossroad.getGreenLight());

    return itemView;

}
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WIFTV is pleased to offer Tricksters and Writers in Vernon and Kamloops.
The program is implemented over three phases.
Four two days workshops will be held, rotating between Vernon and Kamloops. Further venue details will be provided soon.
Workshop dates are April 27th and 28th, June 15th and 16th and two further weekends in the fall.
Workshops will provide screenwriting instruction, discussion, film viewing as well as reading aloud from each other's works in progress.
Three to five writers and their scripts in progress will be selected for Phase Two which offers a one on one story editing session with a professional Indigenous story editor.
Three to five writers and their scripts will be selected to participate in workshops where professional actors and a director or story editor will workshop the script.
The program is for Indigenous women living in the Vernon and Kamloops area. When the workshops are in the Vernon area, limited travel and accommodation subsidies are available to those living in or near Kamloops. When the workshops are in Kamloops, limited travel and accommodation subsidies are available to those living in or near Vernon.
All those who are eligible are welcome to attend providing you commit to attending all four workshops, that you register and that you submit a brief description of the film project you'd like to write.
To register, click on the Register now button above and complete the form. The deadline to register is April 22, 2019.
Your project description should be at least one paragraph but not longer than three pages. It may be for a short or feature film or a web series. It may be fiction or documentary. Email your project description by April 22, 2019 to Jessie Anthony at jessieanthony@womeninfilm.ca.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact the WIFTV office by email at jessieanthony@womeninfilm.ca or call 604-685-1152.
To learn about the instructors and the Tricksters and Writers team, please see here.
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specifies the mechanism specified in RFC 1575 .
basic tool set for the OSI network layer for the Internet.
1F(hex)  - for the echo-response Selector.
flag in the 8473 header.
utility MUST report the error code to the user.
B0 (hex) - Unsupported Option not Specified.
"lifetime" field value of 2.  The first hop decrements the "Lifetime"
an error packet (ER NPDU) with one of the two "Lifetime Expired"
81(hex)  - Destination Address Unknown.
to the user.  More than one echo packet, may be sent at a "Lifetime"
implementation of this traceroute function.
The current IP traceroute has a 3rd party or "loose source route"
These errors may indicate a problem with the "loose source route"
errors should be reported to the user of the traceroute function.
- other    for routes from other sources.
the user to get some basic CLNS routing information.
in monitoring of multi-protocol, managed resources in the Internet.
2) clnpRoutingTable - OSI routes in system routing table.
authoritative source for the MIB definitions.
<first octet>.<2nd octet 3rd octet>.<4th octet 5 octet>.
significance other than to make the address easier to read.
This value quickly shows the AFI and the NSEL octets on either end.
us to get rid of the ISO jargon and make the document more readable.
Working Group of the IETF for their comments.
of Underlying Service", May 1987.
Merit/NSFNET, Stanford University/BARRNet, February 1994.
Intermediate Systems to Support Forwarding of ISO 8473 packets.
9452)", RFC 1238, cisco Systems, Inc., June 1991.


[opensuse-factory] New Tumbleweed snapshot 20170616 released!
of the title bar should not depend on the caption content.
+ cmake: delete excidentail reintroduced line.
xen_p2m_addr associate memory directly during m2p translation.
PV domU dumpfiles for kernel 3.19 and later (bsc#1043501).
* minitasn1: updated to libtasn1 4.11.
IP addresses against DNS fields of certificate (CN or DNSname).
constraints present in higher level certificates.
(i.e., transitional encoding) if the domain cannot be converted.
that perform the same conversion.
modules not to be considered.
the private key printing now uses the same format as the rest.
overriding the hostname advertised to the peer.
an invalid encoding in the DER time fields.
allows decoding errors in time fields even when in strict DER mode.
is enforced in other fields.
when a very long variable name is provided by the developer.
* Fixed undefined behavior when negating integers in _asn1_ltostr().
* pamgauss: Fix skewed output with even dimension.
* pamcrater: fix incorrect output with non-square image.
* fix incorrect output with -mixtransparency.
* pamcomp: remove debug trace message with -mixtransparency.
* pnmtojpeg: fix array bounds violation in argument list.
* ppmpat: Add -argyle1, -argyle2.
rather than produce an invalid TIFF.
default instead of whatever yields 8K strips.
can be represented as a C unsigned integer.
* svgtopam: Fix crash when out of memory.
* libnetpbm: ppmd_fill_path: remove debug trace.
* pnmpad: Fix bug: incorrect output width.
* Fixed calculation of top border.
* Fix warning: Typo in enum notation.
* Fix warning: Not all models implement AppPid.
* Fix warning: x has no RESET, and this is unnecessary.
list, This is for the law requirement (bsc#1043834).
* Revert "Recreate boot log at each boot instead of appending"
num_share_modes == 1 assertion failure; (bso#11844).
+ Fix flakey unit tests for eventd; (bso#12792).
+ CTDB daemon crashes if built with clang; (bso#12770).
+ smbcacls fails if no password is specified; (bso#12765).
+ idmap_rfc2307: Lookup of more than two SIDs fails; (bso#12757).
+ systemd: fix detection of libsystemd; (bso#12764).
+ Can't case-rename files with vfs_fruit; (bso#12749).
+ wrong sid->uid mapping for SIDs residing in sIDHistory; (bso#12702).
+ vfs_acl_common should force "create mask = 0777", not 0666; (bso#12562).
+ Ordering of notify responses broken; (bso#12756).


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Q: Frida - Function to dump/inspect object I'm trying to write a function using Frida that takes a Java object instance as an argument and returns a JS object with all the values and types of the Java object fields, possibly recursively.
For instance, if we have something like:
public class Person {
  private String fullName;
  private int age;
  private List hobbies,

  public Person(String fullName, int age, List hobbies) {
    ...
  }

  public void hello() {
    ...
  }
}

I'd like to be able (in a Frida JS script) to run something like
Java.use("Person").hello.implementation = function() {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(dumpObject(this, 2)));  // dump recursively 2 levels deep
  this.hello();
}

and see something like:
{
  "instance":"0x1234",
  "type":"Person",
  "fields' [
    {
     "name":"fullName",
     "declaredType":"java.lang.String",
     "actualType":"java.lang.String",
     "value":"John Smith",
    },
    {
     "name":"age",
     "declaredType":"int",
     "actualType":"int",
     "value":25,
    },
    {
     "name":"hobbies",
     "declaredType":"java.util.List",
     "actualType":"java.util.ArrayList",
     "value":{
        "instance":"0x4567",
        "type":"java.util.ArrayList",
        "fields": [
           ... all the fields of this ArrayList instance, 2 levels deep
        ],
     },
    },
  ]
}

I tried several different approaches, but I keep having lots of errors and problems. Before I dig deeper, is anyone aware of some existing implementation that would save me quite a bit of time? I Googled extensively, but could only find scripts that dump class methods and field names, nothing that intelligently looks at values, including corner cases requiring _name access, static members, recursive dumping, etc...
Thanks!

A: If you have JSON library loaded in memory (or you can load it dynamically w/ Module.load) you can invoke deserialize and pass the Java instance.
If you want to do it w/ Frida you can use Java class API to enumerate fields & methods, here is a boilerplate to start from.
var BreakException = {};

function describeJavaClass(klass) {
  var limit = 100;
  Java.enumerateLoadedClassesSync().forEach(klass => {
    if (--limit < 0) throw BreakException;
    var instances = [];
    Java.choose(klass, {
      onComplete: function () {
        if (instances.length != 0)
          console.log(JSON.stringify(instances, null, 2));
      },
      onMatch: function (instance) {
        var _class = instance.class;
        var c = {
          instance: instance,
          class: klass,
          methods: [],
          fields: {}
        };
        _class.getDeclaredFields().forEach(f => {
          var _field = f.toString().split('.').pop();
          var val = instance[_field].value;
          c.fields[f] = val ? val.toString() : val;
          instances.push(c);
        });
        _class.getDeclaredMethods().forEach(method => {
          c.methods.push(method.toString());
        });

      }
    });
  });
}

Java.perform(describeJavaClass);


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Impeachment – From the Ukrainian Perspective
Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism
Ilya Kabakov and the Rubbish Heap of History
How to Make Precarious Russia Habitable – or, What Russians Want in Putin's Fourth Term
All the Russias' Blog
A space for news and opinion, sponsored by The Jordan Center
Rereading Akunin: A Conversation with Eliot Borenstein
Eliot Borenstein and Maya Vinokour	| Friday, December 20th, 2019
Fandorin is just not a joiner. And specifically, if there's one principle to which he's committed above all others, it's this notion of "personal human dignity" and the individual's prerogative to sequester themselves in their own preferences. Fandorin doesn't want to work for the Okhranka or for any other part of the Imperial government, which he sees becoming increasingly brutal and unreasonable. He doesn't want to be with the progressives, either; he just wants to be on his own. And what's interesting is that, for him, the only path to true independence is to be insanely wealthy. It's one big libertarian dream.
"One Soldier's War" and the New Literary War Hero
Elena Pedigo Clark and Logan Stinson	| Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
In literature and in real life, there is a new type of veteran. From the West's GWOT (Global War on Terror) "hitters" to the generation Russia lost to Chechnya, the days of victory parades, shared belief and struggle, and the romanticized idea of the "War Hero" or "Veteran" is gone. This is reflected in modern war literature, as veterans of these recent wars attempt to tell their truth to what they frequently perceive to be an indifferent or hostile audience back home, and bridge a gap they themselves often claim to be unbridgeable.
Ten Years of Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: Time to Take Serious Steps
Anar Valiyev	| Monday, December 16th, 2019
Within Azerbaijan itself, both the population and the political establishment see their future with Europe. This stance dictates prioritizing policies that would move the country closer to both the EU and the international community. For instance, with the EU's help, Azerbaijan could accelerate the process of joining the WTO; continue to promote institutional reforms; and build more strategic partnerships in the region. However, if the EU and Azerbaijan continue to exist in a relationship defined by passivity and inaction, the moment could be lost, leaving Azerbaijan vulnerable to other regional centers of political gravity.
What About Tomorrow? An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot
Alexander Herbert	| Thursday, December 12th, 2019
Punk arrived in Soviet Russia in 1978, spreading slowly at first through black market vinyl records and soon exploding into state-controlled performance halls, where authorities found the raucous youth movement easier to control. In fits and starts, the scene grew and flourished, always a step ahead of secret police and neo-Nazis, through glastnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War. Despite a few albums smuggled out of the country and released in Europe and the US, most Westerners had never heard of Russia's punk movement until Pussy Riot burst onto the international stage. My book, a history of Russian punk rock from the Soviet era to Pussy Riot, is technically an oral history — but it also includes several chapters written in journalistic style, expressing my personal opinion about things like punk in the provinces and Pussy Riot's place in the scene.
Excerpt from Anne Lounsbery's "Life is Elsewhere," Part II
Anne Lounsbery	| Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
This week, All the Russias is delighted to feature excerpts from Anne Lounsbery's "Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917," just out from Cornell Press. The below segment derives from Chapter 8, "Melnikov and Leskov, or, What is Regionalism in Russia?"
Excerpt from Anne Lounsbery's "Life Is Elsewhere," Part I
Anne Lounsbery	| Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
This week, All the Russias is delighted to feature excerpts from Anne Lounsbery's "Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917," just out from Cornell Press. The below segment derives from the book's introduction, titled "Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground."
"Let's Look in the Mirror": Egor Zhukov's Courtroom Statement
Hilah Kohen and Kristina Safonova	| Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Today, "All the Russias" is reposting a court statement by Egor Zhukov, a 21-year-old student at Moscow's Higher School of Economics and a libertarian YouTube personality, originally published on "Meduza." Zhukov stands accused of issuing public calls for extremism and has been subject to legal action since August 2019. He faces four years in a prison colony and will be sentenced on Friday, December 6.
Culinary Detente: Pepsi in the USSR
Rebekah Hodge	| Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
As the New York Times reported in 1976, Russia-based Pepsi plants were on track to produce 216 million bottles of Pepsi per year as of 1978. While not everyone in the USSR was able to, or wanted to, drink it, the penetration of the market and the popularity among Russians at the time suggests that Soviets were far more open to Western goods than their leaders may have supposed — or wanted to exploit.
The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects
Abby Latour	| Monday, December 2nd, 2019
Soldiers are constructing whatever they can: Oil cans become stoves, artillery shells become kerosene lamps, overcoat fabric becomes wicks. Government officials regularly checked these trench "cities" for proper ventilation, light, heat and nutrition. They also became grounds for officials to disseminate the war's goals and for connecting people from diverse regions, classes and ethnic groups.
Energy Aesthetics: Force, Flow, and En-tropy in Russian Culture
Abby Latour	| Monday, November 25th, 2019
Literature, visual arts, popular science brought together Russian scholars in fields ranging from visual arts to literature to anthropology. The aim of the interdisciplinary symposium was to examine "energy as a shaping force in Russian literature, visual culture, and social practice from the mid-nineteenth cen-tury to the present."
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USPS shipments comments
Brad Thompson
Hello--
I recently sold two Tektronix plug-ins to someone in NJ via the USPS.
I packaged each plug-in in its own sub-carton and packed them in a
well-padded single larger carton. The package weighed a little over 18 pounds.
Here are a couple of things I learned:
--Parcel Post no longer exists for general mail-- this package shipped via Priority mail
for $30.00. There were no less-expensive modes.
--The outer double-walled carton once held expensive brandy. I partially obliterated
its original markings and bar codes. "Not good enough", said our postmaster,
"Everything that looks even remotely like an address will mess up delivery." He
proceeded to completely overmark everything.
--On a different topic, I learned that small component-class envelopes
get screened for flexibility and thickness. The envelope and contents may weigh
only a couple of ounces, ($1.30 postage maybe), but if it's too thick (over 1/4 inch)
the postage escalates to $4.00 or more.
Why not use UPS or FedEx? I'm located two miles from a US post office
and 10-14 miles from UPS or FedEx pickup points. I figure 20-28 miles round trip.
That's most of a gallon of gas ($3.40 st the moment).
I've had good luck with USPS shipments-- don't skimp
on the packaging.
Hope this helps, and 73--
Brad AA1IP
We used UPS for decades now very poor service and wastes time.
DHL is hopeless as the owner German post has outsourced to a different entities per country so custom clearance and tracking takes weeks.
Only use Fed Ex now both us and international
All shipping costs have gone up 20-70 % i last year.
The postman was 100% on extra adresse or labels causing misdirection we have had that.
The $30 for two plug-ins was a great bargain.
Finally we have better results with new double wall boxes than recycled or two box package
Dave Seiter
The only problem I've ever had with FedEx is that they usually check to see if the box is actually rated for shipping. A few years back they rejected a box I had used and I had to buy one of theirs. My box was heavy enough and the item wasn't heavy, but they didn't care. USPS doesn't care about boxes, unless they once held items that would be hazardous, like motor oil (ask me how I know that!). I shipped a 7488 to Germany about 2009, and the buyer wanted to use DHL because he had a company account & discount. It was still around $300, but made it there in one piece. (one of the harmonica connectors did vibrate off, so it's good practice to check connections after receiving anything similar, especially if it's flown a long way.)
On Monday, October 18, 2021, 11:57:50 PM PDT, Jean-Paul <jonpaul@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
John Parkins G8KVP
Just a word of warning......... from the UK.
I run the parts department of an agricultural dealer, as you can imagine some of the parts that are delivered to us are large, heavy and you would think unbreakable. Don't you believe it, in the past year we have had more damaged, broken, delayed parts than ever before and not to mention the parts that just don't turn up at all. On top of that because of our wonderful, self inflicted, Brexit we have had no end of problems with customs. At the moment we are trying to send an engine (£25,000 worth) back to Germany, so far it's made 5 trips and been returned each time. We're not told why it comes back...........
Costs have gone through the roof, a regular customer had a near monthly order. It used to cost £30 to get it there, it now costs £180! 6 times as much.
So the moral is, pack extremely well, then do it better. Photograph everything so you have a record of not only what you've sent but how you've packed it. Do the paperwork and then get someone else to check the paperwork. Give it to the courier and wave goodbye.........
Some couriers are better than others, but they have all let us down at some point.
John mailto:john@g8kvp.com
Ken Eckert
I had a very light meter, Huntron Tracker, that I shipped via Canada Post/USPS. The meter arrived with the back of case smashed and a damaged PCB. The box was totally stove in on one side. After much, much hassle (and not helped by an uncooperative recipient) Canada Post coughed up a partial refund on the shipment. And that was with complete documentation.
They didn't do more since "I didn't pack for machine handling of the package" Bloody hell, the damage was from being crushed. I have packed stuff for years, that damage was not from machine handling.
In talking with our UPS driver, he worked for a while in the warehouse, he watched package handlers deliberately damage shipments by dropping, throwing or hitting packages. The supervisors do nothing.
Great..............
Paul Amaranth
It's all over.
I had 3 pallets of solar cells delivered and there was a 20% breakage rate
(glass smashed, frames bent). I think they dropped one pallet off a loading
dock. About the only thing they didn't do was run a forklift straight
through the box.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 08:26:09AM -0700, Ken Eckert wrote:
Paul Amaranth, GCIH | Manchester MI, USA
Aurora Group of Michigan, LLC | Security, Systems & Software
paul@AuroraGrp.Com | Unix/Linux - We don't do windows
My wife worked for a while in a BC Liquour control board warehouse, guys would drive the forks into a pallet just for a giggle............
Ken Eckert wrote on 10/20/2021 11:51 AM:
I worked for an industrial-robot startup-- some systems were sold to auto manufacturers
and occasional accidents [sic] would take place in which a forklift tine went through
a CRT display screen.
They're out there, folks....
Jim Ford
Wasn't there a Dilbert strip like that where the company provided beer for the employees to loosen things up? They ended up jousting with the forklifts in the warehouse! Jim Ford Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Ken Eckert <eckertkp@gmail.com> Date: 10/20/21 8:51 AM (GMT-08:00) To: TekScopes@groups.io Subject: Re: [TekScopes] USPS shipments comments My wife worked for a while in a BC Liquour control board warehouse, guys would drive the forks into a pallet just for a giggle............
stevenhorii
I once picked up a Project Mercury horizon scanner from a surplus dealer in
Los Angeles. I was headed home and already had a lot of stuff that I was
taking back as baggage, so I decided to ship it. I put my address on the
instrument, packed it using the star-shaped cutout foam that the US
Military uses for shipping aircraft instruments, and put an address label
on that box. Then the box went into a larger box that allowed for
two-inches (about 5 cm) of foam around all sides. It was a new box, no old
labels or printing on it. Address label on it, covered the label with clear
tape, and took it to the local UPS. I had used them before and they had a
sign that said "Pack for a four-foot drop onto concrete". My package would
meet that spec.
When they weighed it, they told me "There will be a surcharge for this
package. It is too large for the weight". I pointed to their sign and said
that I packed it to meet that suggestion. They would not relent so it was
an extra $10 (this was back in the '90s). I can understand why they do this
- packages like this take up more space in their trucks or air freight
containers so it winds up being less economical for them. Still to get
charged extra to meet their suggested packing was irritating.
If you don't know already, FedEx Ground in the US is different from FedEx
Express. The Ground service uses independent contractors, though the US
Labor folks decided that they are employees so FedEx had to adjust their
policies for that. Still, it means for far more variability among the
drivers. I have had packages that arrived very clean and with little
evidence that they had been shipped at all. Others arrived like they had
been dropped onto concrete - from far more than four feet - and then
drop-kicked into and out of the truck. The reason for putting address
labels on everything is that a friend of mine shipped a fairly large camera
and the person who bought it got an empty box with one side torn open. UPS
denied the claim since it was "inadequately packed". Then they said there
was no way they could get it to the destination even if they could find it
because there was no label on the camera. It would eventually wind up for
sale in an "unclaimed freight" auction. My friend had to refund the cost to
the buyer so he lost out twice - what he paid for the camera and then
refunding the purchase price to the buyer. Well, and the shipping cost as
well. Oh, and he had the camera packed by a company that packs and ships
stuff, he did not do it himself. He also lost out on the packing cost. The
packer/shipper said he always packs to UPS standards so he would not refund
the packing cost.
Back to the USPS thread. I have a jeweler in Chicago that does custom work.
I have her design something when I need a gift for my wife. We talked about
shipping. She almost exclusively uses USPS. Why? It is a theft deterrent.
If a package is stolen from UPS or FedEx, depending on the value, it's a
crime but subject to civil law. If a package is stolen from the USPS, it is
a Federal crime (well, depending to some extent on the value - but we're
talking jewelry here) so a thief might think twice before stealing a USPS
package. She said that most of her jeweler friends do the same thing. They
will all use FedEx Express if requested and they insure the packages and
require a signature on delivery. But this is also for jewelry - generally
small and light, not a 50-pound Tek scope.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 02:32 John Parkins G8KVP <john@g8kvp.com> wrote:
I run the parts department of an agricultural dealer, as you can imagine
some of the parts that are delivered to us are large, heavy and you would
think unbreakable. Don't you believe it, in the past year we have had more
damaged, broken, delayed parts than ever before and not to mention the
parts that just don't turn up at all. On top of that because of our
wonderful, self inflicted, Brexit we have had no end of problems with
customs. At the moment we are trying to send an engine (£25,000 worth) back
to Germany, so far it's made 5 trips and been returned each time. We're not
told why it comes back...........
Costs have gone through the roof, a regular customer had a near monthly
order. It used to cost £30 to get it there, it now costs £180! 6 times as
So the moral is, pack extremely well, then do it better. Photograph
everything so you have a record of not only what you've sent but how you've
packed it. Do the paperwork and then get someone else to check the
paperwork. Give it to the courier and wave goodbye.........
Some couriers are better than others, but they have all let us down at
Merchison Burke
No only did your friend, with the camera, get punched in the face but he got punched in the stomach and kicked in the groin as well. Not that I approve, but I can see why some people turn to the gun to settle their grievances.
On 2021-10-20 10:39 a.m., stevenhorii wrote:
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maurit
I am Italian an electronic hobbyist.
In 20 years, with eBay sales, I have shipped more than 2500 packages around the world.
From what I have read on this topic I have understood that "the whole world is a country".
I sympathize with you but unfortunately we are helpless victims.
I use Poste Italiane to send, to receive from the USA I ask for USPS.
I rarely use private couriers, only with eBay with their "shipping manager" and if it's convenient.
In any case: Bomb-proof packaging !!!
Roy Thistle
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:57 PM, Jean-Paul wrote:
Only use Fed Ex
Here in the colonies, we sometimes use Dead Ex... did I spell that wrong? (Highly talented in the arts of package contents destruction, they can fatally break stuff in any package just by accepting it for shipment.)
The only individuals I know that are faster than Ursain Bolt, at least on the 50 meter dash, are courier drivers that drop-deliver packages to residential. (And yes! They really do drop the package, when they deliver it.)
The postman was 100% on extra adresse or labels causing misdirection we have
had that.
I can see, sort of, if there's an old label with a bar code, or a bar code printed on the box. I remove those, or black them out, with a marker. I'm not so sure why it should matter... particularly with printing or writing on the box... since the "post office" uses a particular bar code, which ought to be fairly unique. The sorting machines are supposed to scan for the U.S.P.S. label on the box. If the "postman" sends your plugins back to Kimberly-Clark because you posted them in a Huggies box, with a U.S.P.S. label on it... well... it's just another day at the post office: right?
I reuse boxes all the time, and have a huge selection, because even though most of what I ship goes in the flat rate boxes, some items don't. I always either strip off old labels or black them out, and have never had a mis-delivery (except when I shipped the wrong slot car to Japan; that was an expensive mistake, but at least both buyers understood!). USPS does use FedEx as a currier (or maybe the other way around), so you can't say "I don't need to black it out because I'm not shipping the old box with the same currier. For really pricey stuff (like a set of jeweler's collets I sold a year ago), I always put the "to and from" info on the inside as well, usually tape to the item.
On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 04:56:21 PM PDT, Roy Thistle <roy.thistle@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Michael A. Terrell
My last UPS delivery arrived as an empty, torn box with tire tracks on it.
The Ebay seller won't even reply to me, so I'm going to ask for a refund
from Ebay or Paypal.
A UPS delivery before that was from the VA. It was in one of their plastic
bags, but the corner of the box and the bag were torn, so my Hydrophilic
foam dressings were ruined and full of dirty water.
A delivery from Sam's Club was missing some cans, and that box was ripped
open as well.
They have misdelivered several items that were never located, as well. I'm
sick of poor service!
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 2:57 AM Jean-Paul <jonpaul@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
DHL is hopeless as the owner German post has outsourced to a different
entities per country so custom clearance and tracking takes weeks.
The postman was 100% on extra adresse or labels causing misdirection we
have had that.
Finally we have better results with new double wall boxes than recycled or
two box package
That sounds like a Drew Carey show episode where Oswald smashed the scanner
in shipping while playing on a forklift.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:19 PM Jim Ford <james.ford@cox.net> wrote:
Wasn't there a Dilbert strip like that where the company provided beer for
the employees to loosen things up? They ended up jousting with the
forklifts in the warehouse! Jim Ford Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Ken Eckert <eckertkp@gmail.com>
Date: 10/20/21 8:51 AM (GMT-08:00) To: TekScopes@groups.io Subject: Re:
[TekScopes] USPS shipments comments My wife worked for a while in a BC
Liquour control board warehouse, guys would drive the forks into a pallet
just for a giggle............
I've been to quite a few warehouses to pick up stuff I had delivered by
freight. It's a lot cheaper to pick it up compared with home delivery since
they need to dispatch a truck with a lift gate for most home deliveries
(unless you have a truck dock!) I have had to uncrate stuff in the customer
parking area when the crate was too large for my SUV.
I know why they generally do not allow customers to walk around the
warehouse. It's dangerous. The forklift drivers zoom around and are not
expecting inexperienced folks to be on the floor. I have been allowed on
the floor when they were having trouble finding the crate I was expecting.
They did find it with my help - it turned out that it got moved to a
staging area for a later pickup day than I had told them.
I got talking with one of the foremen about the hazards of the fork lifts.
He told me that they are usually very good and that accidents with
shipments are few (but he would say that). He did tell me about a couple of
incidents with the driver running the forks through a crate. One of them
was a large screen flat-panel TV (in those days it meant a large insurance
payout). Things falling off the forks is another problem, but the drivers
usually know when they start to lift a pallet or crate if it is not far
enough back on the forks. I worried a little when they used a lift to get
my crate into my SUV. I could imagine the forks going through the rear
bumper or something. But the guy got it in and then raised the forks so the
ends of them were at the wood frame around the rear of the crate. He then
very slowly pushed it all the way into the back of the SUV managing to
avoid pushing into the backs of the front seats (I had folded the rear
seats down). These guys can be careful when they need to be.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 07:03 Michael A. Terrell <
terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote:
Wasn't there a Dilbert strip like that where the company provided beer
forklifts in the warehouse! Jim Ford Sent from my Verizon, Samsung
Date: 10/20/21 8:51 AM (GMT-08:00) To: TekScopes@groups.io Subject:
I have driven forklifts and worked in a workbasket from one. That time, the
idiot driver who was assigned to the job kept disappearing. It ran out of
propane while I was working near the roof, running cables. He replaced the
tank, and opened the valve. It was leaking badly. I yelled to close the
valve. He just shrugged and said, "It'll stop", and walked off. My yelling
got the attention of the plant manager. They stopped the leaking propane,
and went to find him. The jackass could have destroyed the building and
killed over 100 production workers with a single spark. It took hours to
get the odor out of the building. They could only open all the doors to let
out the gas, because the contactors on the motors would have set off an
explosion if the machines were shut down.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 9:01 AM stevenhorii <sonodocsch@gmail.com> wrote:
That sounds like a Drew Carey show episode where Oswald smashed the
-------- Original message --------From: Ken Eckert <eckertkp@gmail.com
Liquour control board warehouse, guys would drive the forks into a
My brother-in-law worked for a law firm that specialized in maritime law. He tells a story that happened at the port of Oakland- someone was importing two old MIGs, and they had survived the trip thus far without a scratch. A team was supposed to move the planes (I would assume the fuselages at this point) onto flatbed(s) with forklifts. They dropped the first one almost right away, thought they had figured out what they had done wrong (I guess, or didn't care), and then proceeded to drop the second one. The customer was NOT happy, to say the least!
On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 06:01:31 AM PDT, stevenhorii <sonodocsch@gmail.com> wrote:
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Q: Rails app dynamic subdomain not working on apache and passenger Same question asked multiple times but no feasible answer is available yet and also the available answers just support hard coded subdomains:
I applied dynamic subdomain in my rails 3.2.13 app and its working locally by using lvh.me instead of localhost as specified by rails cast.
My urls are like
local
subdomain.app_name.lvh.me:3000/

In porduction:
subdomain.app_name.abc.com/

My site is on appache + passenger
and it seems that appache not forwarding request to passenger.
Am I missing something?
I followed this
http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3
Note:
I don't need hardcoded subdomains as they will be generated dynamically and at extensive level.

A: 1) Point *.abc.com in your DNS setup to your server.
2) Setup an Apache vhost to catch the star pointer:
<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName  abc.com
  ServerAlias *.abc.com

  DocumentRoot /home/public_html/yourapplication/current/public

</VirtualHost>


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#pragma once

#include "Common.h"

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 public:
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Five employer lessons from ADAAA "temporary injury" decision
Posted in Americans with Disabilities Act, Civil Procedure, Discrimination
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has come out with a decision interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act that pretty much confirms all of our worst fears about the scope of that new law.
And I think the Court's legal analysis was 100 percent correct.
Sorry, employers, but the Fourth Circuit nailed it.
The Fourth Circuit hears appeals from federal courts in Maryland, the Carolinas (North and South), and the Virginias (West and "classic"). But the Fourth Circuit decision is significant regardless of where you operate, because, according to the decision, it is the first appellate-level decision interpreting "disability" under the ADAAA. And because of the Court's thorough and careful analysis of the ADAAA and the EEOC's regulations, it is likely that other appellate courts will cite and follow it in the future.
Summers v. Altarum Institute
The plaintiff, Carl Summers, was hired as an analyst at the Altarum Institute, a government contractor in Alexandria, Virginia. A few months after he was hired, he fell and hit both knees on a commuter train platform. His legs were seriously injured. According to his lawsuit, his doctors said he would not be able to walk normally for about 7 months and absent treatment would not have been able to walk for more than a year. He had to have "surgery, bed rest, pain medication, and physical therapy."
Mr. Summers claims that he asked Altarum's human resources department about continuing to work from home while he received short-term disability benefits. HR initially told him that he should just collect his benefits and concentrate on his recovery. He then suggested "'a plan in which he would take short-term disability for a few weeks, then start working remotely part-time, and then increase his hours gradually until he was full-time again.'" He alleges that the company never responded to this proposal, not even to say "no" or suggest an alternative. He was terminated shortly afterward "'in order to place another analyst in his role.'"
A federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia dismissed his wrongful termination claim* on the ground that Mr. Summers did not have an "ADA disability" because his injuries were temporary. Mr. Summers appealed to the Fourth Circuit, and two heavy-hitters -- the AARP and the National Employment Lawyers Association -- filed briefs on his behalf.
*Mr. Summers also had a claim of failure to make reasonable accommodation, but he did not appeal the dismissal of that claim.
The Fourth Circuit panel found that the District Court incorrectly dismissed the wrongful termination claim in light of the amended ADA. So Mr. Summers' lawsuit will be allowed to proceed.
"It's a new day -- darn it!"
(NOTE: At this very early stage, the courts had to assume that everything Mr. Summers alleged in his lawsuit was true. As the evidence develops, it is possible that Altarum may win the "war" after having lost this preliminary "battle.")
What does the Summers decision teach employers about the ADAAA?
1-The standard for "disability" is now different -- and much more lenient -- than it was before the ADAAA. Congress intended to make that change and had the right to do it, and the EEOC's regulations interpreting the ADAAA are consistent with congressional intent.
2-The ADAAA provides that "mitigating measures" -- including "bed rest, pain medication, and physical therapy" -- are not to be considered in determining whether someone has a disability. The employee's condition must be viewed in its "unmitigated" state. In other words, in assessing whether Mr. Summers had a "disability," the court had to look at the effect of his injuries as if he had not received any treatment or therapy. (The court did not decide whether "surgery" falls into the same category.)
3-Although the "regarded as" provisions of the ADAAA talk about a six-month minimum duration, the same does not apply to an "actual" disability. For an actual disability, only "transitory and minor" conditions are unprotected. A "sufficiently severe" injury can be a disability even if its duration is less than six months.
4-Even if Mr. Summers could have continued to work using a wheelchair, that does not affect the analysis of whether he was "disabled." (Of course, his ability to work would be very relevant to a reasonable accommodation analysis, but not to whether he had a disability in the first place.)
5-The fact that Mr. Summers's impairment was caused by an injury (as opposed to an illness) was irrelevant to his status as a person with a disability within the meaning of the ADA. This was true both before and after the ADAAA.
According to the Fourth Circuit, Altarum and the District Court relied on cases based on claims that arose before the ADAAA took effect. I have cautioned employers in the past about making this mistake. (See link in first paragraph, above.)
The overarching lesson from Summers is that, post-ADAAA, employers must err on the side of treating the individual as being "disabled" and having the protection of the ADA. The days when an employer can defeat an ADA claim simply by contending that the plaintiff does not have a "disability" are over. Employers should spend their efforts making sure that they have effective protocols in place for reasonable accommodation, medical leaves of absence, and termination of employees who are unable to perform their job duties for arguably medical reasons. Then they need to be sure they follow those protocols, and with the help of their counsel if necessary.
For more on this topic, here are a few links from my old blog posts that may be of interest:
ADAAA Litigation "Goes Live"
How to Survive the ADAAA: Seven Best Practices for Employers
What Exactly Is This "Interactive Process" We Hear So Much About?
And here are some other employment law bloggers who've covered last week's Summers decision:
From Jon Hyman at the Ohio Employer's Law Blog: Are Temporary Impairments ADA-Protected Disabilities? You Bet.
And from Eric Meyer at The Employer Handbook: FACT OR FICTION: A temporary disability may be an ADA disability
Image credits: Wikimedia Commons. Hammer and nails are sculpture by Hans Godo Frabel, on display at Smithsonian Institution. Painting is "A New Day" by William Henry Margetson (c. 1900).
Tags: A New Day, AARP, Alan Alda, Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, Consultants, CPEhr, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Eric Meyer, Fact Checker, Fourth Circuit, Glenn Kessler, Golden Rule, Handcuffs, Hans Godo Frabel, Harriet Tubman, Hostile Work Environment, Intentional Infliction, Jon Hyman, Kirsten Allman, Mitigating Measures, Mr. Dithers, National Employment Lawyers Association, National Labor Relations Board, Ohio Employer's Law Blog, Passive-Aggressive Employer, PBS, Res Ipsa Loquitur, Rule 12(b)(6), Smithsonian Institution, Stephanie Thomas, Summers v. Altarum Institute, The Employer Handbook, The Proactive Employer, Virginia, William Henry Margetson, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Williams v. Blue Cross Blue Shield


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School Planners
Convenience Planners
Yearbook Theme Ideas
Organize your yearbook in order of events that occurred.
Club and group pages have a timeline on the page, showing the order of important events that took place within each club/group.
Look How Far We've Come
A great theme for a school celebrating a big milestone (10, 25, 50, 100 year celebration etc.)
Use past pictures of teachers, events or buildings.
Include a quote about the importance of a journey. For example, "It's not about the destination, it's about the journey."
Some kind of path or trail (representational or obscure) could continue throughout the pages.
Create a dream-like design.
Feature students' dreams of what they want to do when they grow up.
Include a fun page with students talking about weird dreams they have had.
Becoming Us
Use a quote like, "What we learn becomes a part of who we are…"
Focus students' learning and how it is impacting what they want to do with their lives.
Capturing the Moments
Emphasis on cameras and photography.
Film strip connecting pages.
Fun page with selfies.
Our Piece of the Puzzle
Could include a quote like, "Realize that everything connects to everything else." ~ Leonardo de Vinci
Each club or group has a puzzle piece that is a part of a puzzle put together somewhere in the book; this could be a puzzle made from a picture of the school's mascot.
The Adventure
Use a quote like, "We must have adventures in order to know where we truly belong…"
Pages could include facts about historical adventures or adventures students would like to go on.
Include descriptions and pictures of items that are currently important to students.
Cover could be an image of things students would leave in a time capsule.
Use a quote like, "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Use images of staircases, steps or footprints.
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- Jamie, H. Kenneth Kirchner School
Picture Day Reminders
Power of a Smile Contest
Spreading Smiles Contest
Teacher of the Year Contest
Yearbook Legacy Contest
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