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Advanced Procedures for Mediation and Arbitration of Franchise Disputes to Save Time, Costs and Disruption
Written for The Franchise Voice, spring 2020 edition, a magazine published by the Canadian Franchise Association
By Frank Zaid.
Franchisors and franchisees and their legal counsel concerned about the costs and delays in litigating disputes through the traditional court process are increasingly looking to alternate dispute resolution ("ADR") including mediation and arbitration. And in these times of court closings, restrictions on public gatherings, social distancing and lengthy reschedulings innovative procedures for ADR can allow disputes to be resolved quickly with reduced costs and minimal disruption.
What types of franchise disputes are often resolved by ADR?
All Canadian franchise legislation is founded on two major principles. The first is that a franchisor must provide a prospective franchisee with a detailed disclosure document for the franchise being offered, unless an exemption is available. If a disclosure document is not provided or contains deficiencies, the franchisee has a statutory right to rescind within two years, in the case of no disclosure, or 60 days in the case of deficient disclosure, after the date the franchisee entered into the franchise agreement. The right of rescission creates a highly punitive and costly remedy in favour of the franchisee requiring the franchisor to refund any money received, purchase any inventory, supplies and equipment and compensate the franchisee for any losses.
The second principle is that franchise legislation imposes on each party a duty of fair dealing in the performance and enforcement of the agreement, including the obligation to act in good faith and in accordance with reasonable commercial standards. Breach of the duty of fair dealing can expose a franchisor to significant damages. Franchise litigation between franchisors and franchisees can result in substantial damage to the franchisor's reputation, large damage awards and potential bankruptcy.
In Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure include a program of mandatory mediation in certain areas of Ontario for complex cases under the AWA and actions certified as class proceedings. For all other actions a mediation session must take place within 180 days after the first defence is filed.
All provincial franchise legislation requires disclosure of internal or external mediation or any other alternative dispute resolution processes used by a franchisor in disputes with a franchisee and a mandatory statement regarding mediation. All disclosure documents must disclose details regarding fraud, unfair or deceptive business practices or a violation of a law that regulates franchises or business, any administrative order or penalty, and liability in a civil action. However, if a franchise dispute is resolved by ADR, the decision will be confidential and likely not required to be included in a disclosure document (unless considered to constitute a "material fact").
The Canadian Franchise Association's (the "CFA") Code of Ethics states that "both parties should make reasonable efforts to resolve complaints, grievances and disputes with each other through fair and reasonable direct communication, and where reasonably appropriate under the circumstances, mediation or other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms". The CFA's voluntary franchise ombudsman program states that "where possible, the ombudsman will suggest and refer unresolved complaints and problems to alternative methods of dispute resolution". These initiatives by the CFA reinforce industry initiatives to utilize ADR for resolving franchise disputes. Of personal note, I am the only franchise support services member in the CFA under the category of Alternate Dispute Resolution.
Now let's address how independent mediators and arbitrators and ADR organizations recognize ADR to resolve franchise disputes. I recommend that a mediator or arbitrator in a franchise dispute should have significant experience in and understanding of franchising. In 2012 ADR Chambers Canada, the largest ADR organization in Canada, established a panel of ADR neutrals who mediate franchise disputes. I am the only member of that panel whose mediation and arbitration practice is restricted to franchise disputes.
Mediation is a formal procedure which requires the consent of all parties to the dispute. Many franchisors provide for mediation in their franchise agreements or ancillary documents and it is often a pre-condition to commencing litigation or arbitration. However, the parties can agree to mediate a dispute at any time but in any case, a mediation agreement should be executed by all parties before commencement of the mediation.
Mediation has resulted in a high success rate of settlement or negotiated solutions. An independent mediator is chosen by the parties to conduct the mediation according to agreed procedures. Legal counsel for the parties and client decision-makers should be present with the authority to settle. Mediation is a confidential, non-binding open process in which the mediator assists the parties to analyse the issues, goals and possible resolution. Mediation is confidential and without prejudice meaning that nothing said or produced in mediation can be used in any court process. There are no court filings and the mediator has no authority to make orders or findings.
Here are some advanced procedures now being taken by experienced mediators to save time, costs and disruption particularly under current constraints:
1. All parties, legal counsel and the mediator must sign a mediation agreement in which the procedures are agreed including holding the mediation by audio and video conferences.
2. The parties should prepare and exchange mediation briefs setting out the facts, claims, legal arguments, authorities, and goals for the mediation.
3. Legal counsel should dispense with opening statements by including critical issues and goals in their mediation briefs.
4. The mediator should have a confidential telephone discussion with each lawyer to understand the strength of the case and goals for resolution.
5. Mediators should become trained and familiar with ZOOM video and audio conferencing and hold mediations as ZOOM hosts.
6. Parties and their lawyers can communicate separately during mediation by direct Skype, telephone conferencing or separate ZOOM conferencing.
7. Documents produced during the mediation can be transmitted by courier or scanning and e-mail.
Now let's consider why arbitration is of benefit to resolving franchise disputes, and what arbitrators and their arbitration organizations are doing to save time, costs and disruption particularly under current constraints.
What are the advantages of arbitration as a means of resolving franchise disputes? Arbitration is private and confidential. No documents are available for public review, and the public and the media cannot attend. Conventional trials are heard by a judge who will likely have no experience in franchise matters.
For a dispute to be resolved by arbitration, the parties must sign an arbitration agreement. The agreement may be a standalone document or contained in or as part of another agreement like a franchise agreement. It can require the arbitrator to have specialized knowledge of franchising and can deal with the appointment of the arbitrator(s), hearing days, procedure, motions, evidence, discovery, appeals, form of decision, damages, injunctions, and timelines. By creating a streamlined process, arbitration can be much quicker than an ordinary trial.
There are now established arbitral institutions like the ADR Institute of Canada, the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre and private ADR providers like ADR Chambers which operate under practical arbitration rules and services.
Provincial arbitration legislation allows a party to stay court proceedings brought by another party and allows an arbitrator to rule on jurisdiction which will prevent the parties from resorting to a court. Finally, arbitration legislation provides if the arbitration agreement forms part of another agreement (e.g., a franchise agreement), it is to be considered an independent agreement that may survive even if the other agreement is invalid.
Now, let's examine some procedural issues which can be dealt with in an arbitration agreement or by order of the arbitrator to save time, costs and disruption, particularly in these current times of disruption, delay, and social distancing.
1. The parties must agree to a well-worded arbitration agreement which includes fundamental rules and procedures, including the consent of the parties to allow the arbitrator to conduct the arbitration by video and audio conferencing.
2. Traditional litigation is governed by provincial rules of civil procedure resulting in disputes, costs and delays. My practice is to recommend that rules of civil procedure should not apply in a franchise arbitration. The arbitrator can make rulings and consider non-compliance with civil procedure rules when rendering a decision.
3. Another issue is the admissibility of evidence. If formal rules of evidence are followed, the hearing will become more of a trial than an expedited ADR proceeding. My recommendation is that formal rules of evidence should not apply and the arbitrator will determine whether contested evidence should be admitted and what weight it will be given. This procedure will save time and costs, and should not likely affect the end result.
4. An arbitrator should become trained and familiar with ZOOM video and audio conferencing and can conduct the arbitration as a ZOOM host.
5. If permitted, legal counsel and their clients can communicate offline with each other during breaks by direct Skype, telephone conferencing or separate ZOOM audio or video conferencing.
6. Documents produced during arbitration can be marked as exhibits and transmitted by scanning and e-mail.
One last suggestion. Occasionally mediation will lead to a partial resolution of a dispute, but some issues may not be resolved. In these cases, the parties can decide to appoint the mediator as an arbitrator to make a binding decision on the remaining issues. This process is called "MedArb." For example, in one case which I mediated multiple parties came to a complete resolution of fees, damages and ambiguous obligations in a franchise agreement, and decided to have a new customary form of agreement prepared by an independent franchise lawyer to their mutual satisfaction. Any provisions of the new agreement to which the parties could not agree would be determined by me as the arbitrator (i.e., the former mediator) in a final and binding decision.
Hopefully, these comments will encourage franchisors, franchisees and franchise lawyers to give serious consideration to the use of ADR and, in particular, mediation and/or arbitration. And with new innovative procedures, these disputes can be resolved quickly and efficiently with reduced costs and minimal disruption. I predict you will not be disappointed.
Frank Zaid practised franchise law for 40 years at a major Canadian law firm where he founded and chaired one of Canada's leading franchise law practice groups. Today he is a franchise mediator, arbitrator, and ombudsman with ADR Chambers in Toronto. He has served as Special and General Counsel of the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA), Chair of the Supplier Forum of the International Franchise Association (IFA), and the initial Chair of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Franchise Law Section. He was the first recipient of the CFA's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. He provides his services through his own business, Frank Zaid FRANlegal Support Services (www.frankzaid.com), and is a principal in Total Franchise Solutions Inc. (www.totalfranchisesolutions.com), a franchise business consulting firm. For more information, contact him at (416) 322-8300 or (416) 837-5973 or via e-mail at fzaid@adr.ca.


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With VPLEX, you install Oracle (Stretched) RAC as if it was a local cluster. No messing around with ASM mirroring, figuring out how to configure voting disks, etc. Everything looks just like any other RAC implementation. No more, no less. It also means, that VPLEX does not magically enhance Oracle's RAC features. It just allows RAC to work flawlessly across distance.
By the way, the EMC white paper Oracle Extended RAC with EMC® VPLEX™ Metro – Best Practices Planning was published a few days ago!
So what are the advantages, from a business perspective?
I would say, the most important business reason to run stretched clusters on VPLEX is: reduced risk. VPLEX hides complexity of storage replication for the database (and therefore, for the storage or database administrators) and therefore reduces risk of data corruptions, problems with servers not failing over when you most need them, you reduce performance issues in both normal operating mode, failure state and when recovering from failures. Could you do this without VPLEX? Certainly, if your administrators don't make configuration mistakes, if the clusterware does not have bugs or design flaws, if your storage system behaves as expected, and if you make all configuration changes (adding servers or storage, upgrades, etc) correctly. Theory and reality often don't match.
You also make it fairly easy to perform failover testing (potentially while the cluster keeps running, and ideally without even breaking the remote replication). This means you're protected against disasters even during D/R testing. Caveat (but I must be honest): this is future functionality in VPLEX (and I will be glad to push our engineers to drive this functionality if I can give them feedback from customers who really need this).
It is application independent. I focused my blog posts on Oracle RAC for two reasons. First, it is my job to deal with Oracle technology. Second, Oracle RAC is (as far as I am aware) the only database that can be deployed as truely active/active clusters (meaning all cluster nodes can access the same database data simultaneously). If there would be another database or application that behaved in an active/active manner (and there must be some around) they will probably benefit from VPLEX in the same way. But even active/passive cluster configurations can benefit from VPLEX. For example, Microsoft clusters (MSCS) can automatically fail-over based on the quorum disks defined in VPLEX – where normally they would need to be manually restarted in case of certain failures that cannot be resolved with the standard quorum disk or node majority mechanisms. In particular, VPLEX allows VMWare environments to benefit from the access-anywhere behavior of storage volumes. This was initially targeted more to cloud application mobility, and in a lesser extent with high-availability clustering. But VMware offers clustering features as well (VMWare HA and DRS, on top of VMotion). So VPLEX allows building a stretched VMWare cluster where failure of a complete datacenter results in all failed virtual machines to be automatically restarted on the surviving datacenter location. Without manual intervention and without risk of split-brain issues.
It opens the possibility to create application level consistency between multiple environments with what we call "Consistency groups". Application level consistency is a tricky topic and most of the people I talk to are not fully aware of the implications. So keep me to my promise that I will write another blog post on this sometime.
Vendor lock-in. EMC is the only vendor who can do this. Big problem? I don't think so. It's not like any business application that once rolled out, you can never get rid of. If, for reasons I cannot imagine, you would not like EMC as a trusted vendor, you could get rid of VPLEX and continue without stretched clusters or implement it using another (IMO, inferior) technology.
Price. Well – that's a good one. Of course, VPLEX isn't free – I praise the fact that I'm not in the sales department and therefore not aware too much of our pricing. I bet VPLEX is not completely free. But in relation to network bandwidth between the locations? Oracle database and apps licensing? And the potential performance benefit? If you do the math and include everything, I would be surprised if you cannot justify the investment.
By the way, what is the business value of risk reduction?
Update 19-10-2011: Found a good post on VPLEX from a collegue (Richard Anderson) here.
Have you done any testing with virtualized RAC? Would you consider it a benefit that the cpu cycles consumed by mirroring data (reduced IO workload) are offloaded from the RAC nodes?
I tested RAC on my old 32-bit ESX server. More for myself to get a bit of hands-on experience. My own small system is not representative for real performance tests. The tests with RAC and stretched RAC on VPLEX are done by my colleagues in EMC Engineering, and not by myself in person (but I was one of the guys that drove them to start developing this, because my customers, mostly running large, mission-critical enterprise databases, were asking for such a solution frequently).
On your question, yes, I absolutely believe offloading CPU load is an advantage. You could argue that the CPU overhead of doing storage mirroring is negligible (say, 2 to 5%). But bear in mind that, for people who have licensed Oracle by CPU, these are extremely expensive CPU cycles, that, IMHO, are better suited for application processing than for dumb storage replication.
Saving a few percent on CPU licenses may not sound like much but represented in license cost it can be significant.
And there are many more ways to improve CPU utilization, drive down infrastructure cost and making business applications run much more effective.


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De toverdrank (boek), een boek van Michael Ende uit 1989
 De toverdrank (Jerom), een stripverhaal uit de reeks van Jerom

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July 10, 2015 – Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band performs at the Windsor Bluesfest in Windsor, Ontario. (click image for more) Link to this post!
July 3, 2015 – SieraSlave performs at the Fork & Cork Festival in Windsor, Ontario. (click image for more) Link to this post!
July 11, 2015 – Gregg Rolie performs at the Windsor Bluesfest in Windsor, Ontario. (click image for more) Link to this post!
July 5, 2015 – USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) performs at the Fork & Cork Festival in Windsor, Ontario. (click image for more) Link to this post!
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Headphones and microphones specialist Audio-Technica is bringing a new pair of professional broadcast headphones to IBC2018.
The ATH-M60x have a closed-back on-ear design with a compact design yet they utilize a large 45 mm driver, the company says. The drivers have rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils. Impedance is low. Cup cushions and the headband utilize memory foam for added comfort, A-T says.
The headphones come with three interchangeable cables (1.2–3 meter coiled, 3 meter straight and 1.2 meter straight — each with a 3.5 mm (1/8-inch) mini-plug), a 6.3 mm (1/4-inch) screw-on adapter. A protective carrying pouch is also included.


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Home Cricket Eng v SA AB de Villiers and the plight of the modern cricketer
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AB de Villiers and the plight of the modern cricketer
For the last 13 years, AB de Villiers has been nothing short of a sensation.
In many ways, he has been the face of the modern cricketer. He is not constrained by any limit to the range through which his bat can fire. Like a modern batsman, audacity to him is no fetter for temperament. He can rule the shorter formats, be a ridiculously dextrous exponent of the reverse-sweep, hit balls to uncanny, hitherto undiscovered corners of the ground, and at the same time perch very near the peak of Test cricket.
And for a long time, he has done all that while flying around behind the stumps, with the bigger gloves adorning his hands.
But at the same time, de Villiers is the face of the modern cricketer in another, more alarming manner. Something that has reached a crescendo now, as reports prophesise and fans fear that he will give up Test cricket altogether.
Modern cricketer that he is, de Villiers has to shuttle around the globe, switching between whites and colours, allegiances and atmosphere, dressing rooms and formats.
Perhaps the most important word here is perhaps 'format'.
There are those who labour the point that cricketers of the past were as busy as the ones today, what with the county games being contested from May to September without a break, five or even six days a week, the better ones even having to play a few Tests in between.
True. The county pros were a hardened lot. But their travels were limited within the borders of England, and sometimes Wales. After the season they did take a break. Cricket had defined seasons, and between the different calendars in different parts of the world there were days that saw no action.
Besides, there is another point that is often overlooked. They played the same format, namely First-Class, and a limited number of one-day games after the 1960s. And the spotlight was not anywhere near this glaring.
Switching between formats is taxing, very taxing. It involves resetting your mind, re-tuning your reactions, recalibrating your approach. It is tiring in a way that goes way beyond physical fatigue.
One can experiment with blitz games in chess, switching between 1 minute, 5-minute and 30-minute matches, and going on in this way for about six hours. It will provide an idea of what such frequent adjustments can do to the mind. And then there is the matter of what the body goes through during high octane games, with the whole world watching every move that you make.
Let us look at what de Villiers did in 2015, the year before weariness had hit home.
He began the year playing a Test match against West Indies at Newlands. It was the third and final Test of the series, and de Villiers had played the first two as well in December.
This was followed by an ODI series against the same country.
The home engagements over, he flew to Australia and New Zealand for the ICC World Cup, playing 9 matches over a month and a bit.
The next engagement was in India, the annual circus of a month and a half called the IPL. Kolkata one day, Bangalore the next, Ahmedabad thereafter, onwards to Delhi, back to Bangalore … skirting through the huge country across Chennai to Mohali to Mumbai. Add to that the media madness and late night parties that are a part of the spectacle.
A month later, in early July, after a brief visit back home, he was in Bangladesh, donning national colours in a rather meaningless bilateral T20I series. He opted out of the three ODIs and two Tests, but there was no dearth of action that followed.
The next month, in August, New Zealand were in South Africa, playing a series of T20Is and then ODIs. And the following month, in September, de Villiers was back in India, this time with the national squad, playing the entire gamut of 2 T20Is, 5 ODIs and 4 Tests.
The weary team flew back in the first week of December and on Boxing Day there was de Villiers again, crouching behind the stumps as Dale Steyn fired in the first over of a new test series to Alastair Cook.
52 matches in the year, of varied formats, across different geographies.
Under the immense spotlight of international cricket and the arc-lights of the IPL tamasha.
The corporate franchises that one answers to in that sort of a tournament can be several times more demanding than Cricket South Africa. So can the fans of Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Something perhaps had to give.
His decision to hang up his whites, if we are to believe the reports, was formed after the 2015-16 season. However, the Board convinced him to carry on. Take a break and come back.
Yes, he took a break from the most taxing format of all. From the point of view of mental fatigue. Perhaps the shorter formats took less toll on physio-mental wellbeing, with the changes to approach remaining within manageable limits. Or perhaps he was finding Test cricket the least enjoyable as stress began to rear its uncomfortable head.
In 2015-16, de Villiers played 10 ODIs. He got 576 runs at 82.28 at a strike rate of 117.07 with 4 hundreds. But such feats were just a day or season in the office for him.
In 2015-16, he played 10 T20Is. He scored 271 runs at a strike rate of 166.25 with 3 fifties. The average was only 30, but only Martin Guptill got more runs at a better strike rate.
In 2015-16, de Villiers played 8 Tests and scored 468 runs at 33.42. He got to 50 three times and did not score a century. The runs were scored relatively painstakingly, at a strike rate of 45.30, rather glacial by his standards.
This was less than mediocre by his stratospheric standards.
He was not enjoying Test cricket anymore.
I did talk about the changes required between formats. The mental adjustments and modification of approach. And it is quite obvious that when one switches to Test cricket, the adjustment is a near metamorphosis. And, therefore, exceedingly strenuous.
Perhaps there are other factors at work. Perhaps the choice of coach has something to do with it. The pressures of captaincy too, which Graeme Smith has wisely asked him to eschew.
However, it cannot be doubted that de Villiers was not enjoying Test cricket. Perhaps he is not doing so even now.
Of course, we can be judgemental and berate de Villiers for opting for the shorter formats at the expense of the purest form of the game. Of course, we can clap our hands to our shocked mouths at the very hint of preference for IPL and other mercenary leagues over representing one's country in Test cricket.
However, de Villiers has played 106 Tests for his country. Along with 298 games in the two shorter formats combined. Honestly, we are not really in a position to judge him.
As a professional sportsman, de Villiers has the full right to find a way to extend his career to the fullest and maximise his earnings while he is at his peak. At 33, he is not getting any younger.
And if that optimisation plan for longevity and financial benefits does not seem to tally with Test cricket, we will have to swallow the bitter pill and let him get on with it.
But, if he does take such a decision, it will be a supreme loss to cricket. One of the most modern greats, one of the most glittering jewels in cricket's current treasury, will be seen no longer in the longest format.
And once there is definite clarity about the underlying reasons, there will be several points for the administrators of the game to ponder.
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I now admit the fact that, whenever possible, I take pictures of strangers. Is it weirdo-material? Maybeeeee.
Or maybe not, let's say I am just an enthusiast of all I had/have around. But please, promise me that if I turn my blog in a cats and dogs sanctuary you are going to call somebody very competent to cure me.
This is a little collection (click here!) of people, faces, actions I saw in Hong Kong and Macau back in May. Enjoy.
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Sigmund Hein (* 6. Februar 1868 in Freiwaldau, Österreichisch Schlesien; † 16. Dezember 1945 in Wien) war ein österreichischer Lepidopterologe.

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Sigmund Hein, 1868 in Freiwaldau geboren, wurde, nachdem er die Kadettenschule in Liebenau absolviert hatte, Berufsoffizier in der
K.u.k. Armee. 1905 wurde er zum Hauptmann befördert und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg als Oberst in den Ruhestand versetzt. Er ließ sich in Linz nieder, wo er als Vorsitzender der "entomologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft" tätig war.

Sigmund Hein verstarb 1945 im Alter von 77 Jahren in Wien.

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Wechselnde Garnisonen während seiner Militärlaufbahn,  wie etwa jene in Sandschak Novi Pazar, Graz, Marburg an der Drau, Görz, Imst, Jungbunzlau, Cavalese oder Olmütz, ermöglichten es ihm, aus den verschiedensten Regionen der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie eine reichhaltige Kollektion von Schmetterlingen zusammenzutragen. Daneben betrieb Hein erfolgreich die Aufzucht von Schmetterlingen. Sein besonderes Interesse galt den Geometriden und hier der Gattung Eupithecia.

Werke
 Aufsatz in: Jahresbericht des Wiener Entomologischen Vereins 22, 1911;
 Aufsätze in: Zeitschrift des österreichischen Entomologischen Vereins 5, 1920, 11, 1926, 13, 1928, 14, 1929, 18, 1933, 20, 1935 und 21, 1936;

Literatur
 Zeitschrift der Wiener entomologischen Gesellschaft 30, 1945, S. 59–61, mit Werkverzeichnis;
 Emil Hoffmann: Johann Häuslmayr †. In: Jahrbuch des Oberösterreichischen Musealvereines. Jahrgang 93, Linz 1948, S. 104–105 (, mit Werkverzeichnis).

Lepidopterologe
Person im Ersten Weltkrieg (Österreich-Ungarn)
Person (Cisleithanien)
Österreicher
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Gestorben 1945
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Q: Django Jsonresponse filtered queryset by id My objective is to get the id and make a queryset filtered by id, as in the following code:
views.py
class MyProfile(TemplateView):
model = Reports
template_name = 'template.html'
def get_context_data(request, *args, **kwargs):
    if kwargs.get('pk', None):
        q = kwargs.get('pk', None)
        queryset = Reports.objects.all().values('id','line_x','line_y',).filter(id = q)
        data = list(queryset)
        return JsonResponse(data, safe=False)

urls.py
url(r'^profiles/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.MyProfile.as_view())

It returns the following error:
context must be a dict rather than JsonResponse
Django 1.11.8

A: from django.http import JsonResponse

def different_function_name(request, *args, **kwargs):
    if kwargs.get('pk', None):
       q = kwargs.get('pk', None)
       queryset = Reports.objects.all().values('id','line_x','line_y',).filter(id = q)
       query_list = list(queryset)
       return JsonResponse(query_list, safe=False)

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Frogs in a Wheelbarrow
It is July and hot weather is settling in on us. This year is already the hottest in known history. We may be able to find relief, but it is affecting people around the world, with it almost as hot in Anchorage, Alaska as it is here. Greenland's ice is melting and the ice caps at the poles are melting years quicker than any scientist had imagined.
My mother who was petite and my father who was tall and as a child seemed big as a tree had mothers who reflected their physics, so naturally they were always referred to as the Little Grandma and the Big Grandma. With summer heat the Big Grandma had a great long deep couch gotten second hand and brought home on a horse drawn wagon, with arms which served as ponies my dad rode as a child. She would open old time ice trays and fling the cubes around the couch and then place herself on them for some relief and listen to baseball games on the radio.
My Little Grandma's theory was "it only lasts about three months" so she continued cooking on "ol Faithful" one of the largest wood cook stoves ever made, producing meals she loved proclaiming came totally out of her garden. Both inspired my view of summer and endurance.
Most traditional cultures and indigenous people have a reciprocal relationship with the world. They see it literally as a series of reciprocal exchanges in which the Earth has absolute obligations to humanity, and humanity has obligations to the Earth." Indigenous peoples, and as a Cherokee, certainly count myself, David Suzuki explains for most of human existence knew we were part of nature and understood we had to be careful not to jeopardize our place in the natural world.
So clearly, according to author James Hoggan, if we want to solve these global environmental problems we need to change the way we see the world and the way we interact with nature. And we also need to shift not only our attention but also our intention. Kris Sieckert had been Miami schools' psychologist who moved back to Wisconsin decades ago always used the phrase, 'Walk softly on this earth.' Years later I saw a bumper sticker: "Leave only footprints." There is a way to do this. We have control of the energy we use and the pressure we expel on this our Common Home as Pope Francis called this planet.
Years ago, when building my house, I decided against central air and heating, installing a wood stove and an attic fan instead. I have since added a small window air conditioner, and rely on it to pull moisture out of the house. The savings went toward the above ground pool, with no regrets. This season got away and we are just now swimming in the pool, but only after pulling out hundreds of tadpoles on their way to becoming frogs and putting them where? The wheelbarrow filled with rain caught water! What a sight. It made me happy that the pool had been getting lots of use and we were able to remove the tadpoles to take our turn.
Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist David Suzuki said the problems we face regarding energy and environmental issues are not technological, political or economic. They are psychological, and the path forward lies in learning to see the world differently.
"The environmental movement has failed," because although we now have laws that protect clean air, clean water, endangered species and millions of hectares of land—we have not changed the way people think. "The failure was, in winning these battles, we didn't change the way we see the world ... We didn't get across the idea that the reason we wanted to stop logging here, or this dam, or this offshore drilling is we're a part of the biosphere and we've got to begin to behave in a way that protects the most fundamental things in our lives—air, water, soil and other species. That's the lesson of environmentalism and we failed to inculcate that in society," he said.
Now I understand as an indigenous person and an environmental activist we need to make sure we get into the wheelbarrow while there is still time. Perhaps we don't change minds perhaps we move people to want to get on board.
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Hemp investment company works with Georgia legislators to increase Black profits in the cannabis industry
by Allison Joyner June 24, 2021
With states all over already ahead of Georgia, legislators and black-owned investment firm Hemp Real Estate Investments, Inc. (HREI), are trying to make sure that more people of color will take advantage of this new opportunity that has caused many to be arrested.
For HREI, its mission is to be an investment vehicle to acquire commercial real estate properties for entrepreneurs in the hemp industry.
The founder of HREI, Tariq Khan, told The Atlanta Voice that the federal government has been against hemp for commercial purposes but says they are starting to relax the laws for daily use.
Born in Cleveland, Khan has called the metro area home since the late 1980s and has worked in the engineering, fashion, and music industries before founding HREI earlier this year.
"It's more along the lines now as the states are taking the turn," Khan said. "Colorado's doing it. Illinois is doing it. Everybody's trying to find their niche and being able to jump into a market that realistically, for our people, has been locking us up."
Next to bamboo, industrial hemp is one of the fastest-growing plants to be used for commercial purposes. Derived from the can Sativasativa species of the plant, it contains the psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The lower the concentrations of THC, and high concentrations of cannabidiol (CBD) the chemical can be used for medical and recreational purposes.
Used for over 50,000 years, its fibers can be spun into everyday products like paper, rope, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, and food.
HREI's business model includes six core components: acquisition of commercial real estate; long-term leasing opportunities and property management; leveraging minority participation; hemp education and research; and hemp accessories, products, and services.
With the hemp investment industry beginning to grow, Khan says that "we're all at the tip of the spear" when it comes to jumping into the opportunities this new endeavor can bring to the city of Atlanta and the African American community.
With Black people being more than three times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession, according to the Americans Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Khan wants HREI to help African Americans to profit off the plant instead of being imprisoned for it.
Having what he calls having a lot of "social equity" in building relationships in many different facets of business, Khan is working with legislators like U.S. Congressman Kwanza Hall and State Senator Zahara Karinskak to create laws that will be in favor of cannabis usage and easing charges for first-time drug offenders in the state of Georgia.
Since it is illegal to buy and ship hemp and marijuana in the peach state, Khan has also been meeting with the Georgia Department of Agriculture and The National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) to begin the process of hemp being grown and processed here the along with other major crops like peanuts and blackberries.
Currently, Georgia has issued a handful of licenses for growing and dispensing purposes and less than ten licenses for dispensaries in the entire state.
When mentioning this revelation, Khan says that he has seen lawmakers like Hall and Karinskak working hard to see how they can pass this progressive industry in a majority conservative state.
Last month, HREI launched its capital-raising campaign to foster high-level inclusion and create more opportunities for diverse ownership by empowering hemp businesses and entrepreneurs.
Khan says his driving force with this new venture is to "create wealth, create jobs, and create more opportunities for people of color."
He continues, "my vision for Hemp Real Estate Investments is being able to create a new investment platform for marginalized communities that want to get into the cannabis space but have a more conservative risk appetite."
They campaigned with Fundanna, creating a space for "your average Joe" to become investors and increase ownership of the underserved. Being the first regulated crowdfunding portal, Fundanna works exclusively with cannabis businesses in the U.S like HREI.
For those who have wanted to invest but may think it is too expensive, HREI is offering their shares for $300 to help acquire commercial real estate to be used for entrepreneurs in the hemp industry.
Intending to raise $5 million on Fundanna, Khan adds that with HREI, "we will be able to create opportunities that start to level the playing field and to see our people win."
Leveraging Atlanta as a hub for global business and a unique climate for business success, the startup also plans to build a "state of the art" commercial real estate office space and a research and development space for entrepreneurs in the cannabis industry.
Khan wants more African Americans to invest in hemp and cannabis and thinks that they should first do their research and learn about the laws already in place for their local area. He says educating yourself could help to reduce the misinformation as to what you should and should not do concerning marijuana and hemp.
To find out more about Hemp Real Estate Investment, Inc. log onto their website http://www.hemprealestateinvestmentsinc.com/ and to purchase shares in their company go to https://fundanna.com/equity/offer-summary/HREI
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Cette page concerne l'année 1916 du calendrier grégorien.

Événements

Janvier
  :
 entrée en vigueur de l'impôt sur le revenu.
 création du service de l'organisation des travailleurs coloniaux (SOTC) au sein du Ministère de la Guerre, en vue d'organiser le recrutement de main-d'œuvre dans les colonies  travailleurs sont acheminés en France : environ  Algériens,  Marocains,  Tunisiens,  Malgaches,  Indochinois.  Chinois, recrutés comme ouvriers civils, sont en réalité traités et administrés comme des coloniaux.
 le Service de la main-d'œuvre étrangère (SMOE) est placé sous l'autorité du ministère de l'Armement d'Albert Thomas. Des bureaux d'immigration et des centres d'hébergement sont installés aux frontières.
 9 janvier : échec de l'offensive alliée dans les Dardanelles. Les forces franco-britanniques évacuent la presqu'île de Gallipoli.
 9-10 janvier : offensive allemande en Champagne entre la Courtine et le mont Têtu (Main de Massiges).
 11 janvier : explosion à Lille du dépôt de munitions allemand des dix-huit ponts ; 130 personnes environ sont tuées, 21 usines et près de 800 maisons sont détruites ou gravement endommagées.

 29 janvier : Paris est bombardée par deux Zeppelins qui font 75 morts et 38 blessés dans les quartiers de Belleville et Ménilmontant.

Février
 8 février : création du mouvement Dada au Cabaret Voltaire à Zurich par les poètes Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, les peintres Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Sophie Taeuber et une page de dictionnaire prise au hasard.
 21 février : affrontement au bois des Caures. Début de la bataille de Verdun (fin le 18 décembre). L'artillerie allemande pilonne les positions françaises sur un front de . Plus de , environ  et .
 22 février-7 mars : la Voie sacrée entre  Bar-le-Duc et Verdun achemine sur le front  hommes et  tonnes de matériels.
 25 février, Verdun : prise du fort de Douaumont par les Allemands. Le général Pétain, commandant de la IIe armée prend le commandement du secteur de Verdun.

Mars
 4 mars : les Français et les Britanniques se partagent la Colonie allemande du Kamerun.

 9 mars : Verdun : les Allemands se heurtent à la résistance du fort de Vaux.
 10 mars : ordre du jour du général Joffre après l'arrêt de l'attaque sur les deux rives de la Meuse ; « Vous serez de ceux dont on dira : ils ont barré aux Allemands la route de Verdun ».
 14 mars : publication dans le quotidien syndicaliste La Bataille du « Manifeste des Seize » contre l'agression allemande, écrit par Pierre Kropotkine et Jean Grave et daté du 28 février 1916.
 16 mars : le ministre de la guerre Gallieni démissionne pour raisons de santé. Le général Roques le remplace.
 17 mars : le poète Guillaume Apollinaire est blessé sur le Chemin des Dames au bois des Buttes par un éclat d'obus à la tempe.

Avril
 9 avril : échec de l'offensive générale allemande sur le front de Verdun.
 22 avril : création du comité de travail féminin par arrêté d'Albert Thomas, sous-secrétaire d'État à l'Artillerie et à l'Équipement.
 27 avril :
 loi Meunier qui supprime les conseils de guerre spéciaux et rétablit l'admission des circonstances atténuantes ainsi que l'application du sursis.
 une attaque allemande au gaz est repoussée près au nord de Lens entre Hulluch et Loos.
 30 avril : Pétain, nommé commandant de l'Armée du Centre, laisse la direction de la bataille de Verdun à Nivelle.

Mai
 Mai : Coco Chanel lance les robes en jersey.
 6 mai : loi qui autorise le gouvernement à prohiber provisoirement par décret l'entrée des marchandises étrangères, loi prorogée successivement jusqu'au .
 16 mai : accord secret Sykes-Picot (Royaume-Uni et France) prévoyant après la guerre le partage des possessions arabes de l'Empire ottoman.
 25 mai-15 août : exposition de la Cité Reconstituée sur l'urbanisme organisée par l'association générale des hygiénistes et techniciens municipaux à la salle du Jeu de paume et au Tuileries à Paris.
 31 mai : loi sur la restriction du droit des sociétés à émettre des valeurs mobilières pendant la durée des hostilités et interdiction de principe pour l'inscription à la cote d'actions de sociétés étrangères. L'épargne doit se concentrer sur le financement de l'effort de guerre.

Juin
 8-9 juin : offensive allemande à Verdun. Chute du fort de Vaux puis le lendemain de Thiaumont ; Fleury-devant-Douaumont tombe le 23.
 23 juin, Verdun : les Allemands atteignent les abords de Froideterre.
 14 juin : instauration de l'heure d'été pour réaliser des économies d'éclairage.
 16-22 juin : la Chambre des députés se constitue en comité secret pour débattre de la situation militaire, de la bataille de Verdun et du contrôle parlementaire aux armées.
 22 juin : les députés votent une résolution qui institue le contrôle parlementaire aux armées ; le 27 juillet, sur la proposition de Charles Chaumet, ils confient aux grandes commissions de la Chambre le contrôle du gouvernement au sujet de la guerre.

Juillet
 29 juin-8 juillet : première « grève des munitionnettes », ouvrières des usines de munitions de l'entreprise de Dion à Puteaux, contre les baisses de salaire ; elles obtiennent satisfaction.

 -18 novembre : bataille de la Somme, offensive alliée vers Bapaume et Péronne.
  : création d'un impôt sur les entreprises travaillant pour la défense. Contribution extraordinaire sur leurs bénéfices exceptionnels ou supplémentaires réalisés à compter du .
 5 juillet : sortie définitive de l'hebdomadaire le Canard enchaîné crée en 1915.
 : Création du journal de tranchées, Le Bochofage, mensuel publié de 1916 à 1918.
 14-17 juillet : bataille de la crête de Bazentin. Début de la seconde phase de la bataille de la Somme (guerre d'usure).
 28 juillet, Somme : les Britanniques chassent les Allemands du bois Delville, puis prennent Contalmaison, progressent rapidement vers Péronne et s'emparent de Longueval.
 30 juillet : instauration du régime économique de l'alcool.

Août
 15 août : création à Marly-le-Roi du premier centre d'instruction des chars de combat, dirigé par Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne.

 24 août, Somme : les Français prennent Maurepas.

Septembre
 13 septembre : le général Joffre, qui a toujours un œil sur Verdun demande à Pétain et à Nivelle, de préparer sur la rive droite la reprise des forts de Vaux et de Douaumont.

 15 septembre :
 Somme : première utilisation des chars (tanks) par l'armée britannique à Flers-Courcelette. Ils aident à prendre Courcelette, Martinpuich, le bois des Fourcaux, le village de Flers avec  prisonniers. Le 25, Français et Britanniques prennent Combles, à  de Péronne.
 loi qui autorise le deuxième emprunt de la Défense nationale lancé par l'État par une circulaire du 13 octobre, émis en rentes 5 % exemptées d'impôt et non remboursables avant 1931.
 29 septembre : Blaise Diagne, député du Sénégal, obtient par une loi que les habitants des « quatre communes » soient soumis aux obligations du service militaire au même titre que les autres Français.

Octobre
  : retour à l'heure normale.

 24 octobre, Verdun : les troupes françaises du groupement Mangin reprennent en quatre heures le fort de Douaumont et réoccupent jusqu'à Vaux tout le territoire conquis depuis huit mois par les Allemands.
 25 octobre-8 novembre : résistance à la conscription dans le Sud-Constantinois.
 28 octobre : grève du personnel de la Compagnie des tramways de Paris et du département de la Seine.
 31 octobre : décret du ministre de l'Intérieur Louis Malvy légitimant l'intervention des pouvoirs publics .

Novembre
 2 novembre : reprise du fort de Vaux.
 15 et 16 novembre : réunion à Chantilly (Oise), à l'initiative du général Joffre, d'une nouvelle conférence militaire interalliée pour arrêter le plan des opérations de 1917.
 21 novembre : deuxième comité secret de la Chambre des députés sur le recensement de la classe 1918.
 28 novembre-7 décembre : troisième comité secret de la Chambre des députés sur la question du commandement en chef, sur la situation qui serait faite au général Joffre et sur la guerre sous-marine.

Décembre
 12 décembre : remaniement du gouvernement Briand (président du Conseil). Il est réduit à 10 membres au lieu de 23. Les socialistes sont écartés sauf Albert Thomas promus ministres de l'Armement.
 13 décembre : le général Lyautey, ministre de la guerre.
 18 décembre : fin de la bataille de Verdun. Les Allemands sont repoussés par les troupes françaises.
 19-23 décembre : second comité secret du Sénat qui rejette un ordre du jour, présenté notamment par Clemenceau,  Pichon et Monis contre la politique de défense nationale du gouvernement Briand.
 25 décembre : le général Joseph Joffre est nommé maréchal de France, et remplacé par Robert Nivelle à la tête des armées.
 30 décembre : réforme fiscale ; création de la taxe exceptionnelle de guerre, des taxes sur les spectacles et sur les spécialités pharmaceutiques ; augmentation les tarifs des contributions indirectes et de l'impôt sur le revenu des valeurs mobilières (6%). Le taux de l'impôt sur le revenu passe à 10 %.

Naissances en 1916
 14 février : Marcel Bigeard, militaire français († )
 21 septembre : Françoise Giroud, journaliste, écrivain et femme politique. († ).
 26 octobre : François Mitterrand, avocat, homme d'État et Président de la République française. († ).

Décès en 1916
 27 mai : Joseph Gallieni, 67 ans, militaire français, maréchal de France. (° ).

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 L'année 1916 dans le monde
 Chronologie de la France sous la Grande Guerre (1914-1918)


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Q: Android Context Memory Leak ListView due to AudioManager I have a ListView and I would expect it to be cleared from memory when the activity finishes. However, it appears that it is leaking. When I check the Memory Dump, and get the pathToGC for the ListView I get the following,
Class Name                                                          | Shallow Heap | Retained Heap
android.widget.ExpandableListView @ 0x4063e560                      |          768 |        39,904
|- list, mList com.hitpost.TeamChooser @ 0x405f92e8                 |          176 |         1,648
|  '- mOuterContext android.app.ContextImpl @ 0x40657368            |          160 |           304
|     '- mContext android.media.AudioManager @ 0x40662600           |           40 |           168
|        '- this$0 android.media.AudioManager$1 @ 0x406626b0 Unknown|           24 |            24

I see this same context leaking on a lot of of my ListView's. The trick is that, I am not using AudioManager anywhere in my app at all, no sound coming from the app at all.  Please help, it's driving me crazy. Obviously trying to figure out why this is happening and what could be the root issue?

A: Not related to OP's leak, but for people who come in here because of AudioManager causing leak:
If you see this leak because you are using VideoView, probably is because of this bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=152173
VideoView never release AudioManager if video being loaded.
the fix is, as mentioned in the link, create VideoView manually using ApplicationContext.
Edit: this work around will work, until... if the video decoder says the video has an encoding problem. VideoView tries to pop up a AlertDialog using application context. Than a crash happens.
The only work around I can think is to keep creating video view using activity context, and in activity.onDestroy, set AudioManager's mContext to application context using reflection.
Note: have to get the AudioManager using activity.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE) rather than activity.getApplicationContext.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE), since AudioManager is an member variable of Context (you will get wrong instance of AudioManager if you get it from application context).
At last, you may wonder why a member variable (AudioManager) is preventing the class (Activity) to being garbage collected. From the memory analyzer, it shows AudioManager is owned by native stack. So AudioManager somehow did not clean itself properly.

A: There are several references to AudioManager in your code that you don't create actively. E.g. each clickable View might have one to play onClick sounds [source]. I guess that is the link.
The code looks like it would not create references to AudioManager if you disable the click sounds in your Settings. You could try that and check if there is still a leak.
The reason for your leak might be that you are holding onto some View object in your ListView (Adapter?) code. If you keep them around then you might have a View that has an AudioManager reference and that keeps a Context reference)

A: I had this same issue but it went away after following the below advice.
Mr Guy recommends not doing heap dumps in the debugger and causing a few GCs before getting the dump.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/android-developers/ew6lfZUH0z8

A: You can use application context to avoid leaks in this case. I don't know why but when I started to use application context the problem was gone.

A: The most common reason that I found in my application was due to initializing some components via the XML file. When you do that, the Activity Context gets injected but sometimes all you need is an ApplicationContext. With respect to the Web View in Android, this technique greatly helped me a lot.

A: I would like to share my experience regarding the same issue, I was keeping some Activity in stack by default and not finishing them.
For those activity, I was getting same as mentioned above in hprof report.
Once I finished no longer used Activities, above references did not come. Just finish your activity when it is no longer required, then this issue will be resolved.

A: This is a very basic activity that replicates the issue (on Android 4.0.3 at least)
public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    int image[];

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        image = new int[1000 * 1500 * 4];
    }
}

As you can see there are no Views or Layots associated with activity, also I set "Silent" profile in system Sound Settings and turned off "Vibrate on touch".
Now, after few (5-7 depending on your heapSize) restarts this activity generates the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError on trying to create new array.
07-27 19:54:10.160  22542-22542/? D/dalvikvm﹕ GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 6K, 1% free 56040K/56391K, paused 25ms
07-27 19:54:10.190  22542-22542/? D/dalvikvm﹕ GC_BEFORE_OOM freed 23449K, 43% free 32591K/56391K, paused 30ms
07-27 19:54:10.260  22542-22543/? D/dalvikvm﹕ GC_CONCURRENT freed 0K, 1% free 56029K/56391K, paused 3ms+3ms
07-27 19:54:11.850  22542-22542/? D/dalvikvm﹕ GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 6K, 1% free 56040K/56391K, paused 20ms
07-27 19:54:11.880  22542-22542/? D/dalvikvm﹕ GC_BEFORE_OOM freed <1K, 1% free 56040K/56391K, paused 29ms
... Out of memory on a 24000016-byte allocation.

Dumping .hprof I also saw 2 activities, one of them is being held by AudioManager.
Calling the "Update Heap" and then Collect Garbage in Android Device Monitor really does remove the activity from memory, that is what the logcat states on this procedure
07-27 19:44:23.150        85-85/? I/DEBUG﹕ #06  pc 000382cc  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmCollectGarbageInternal(GcSpec const*)+1204)

I have also tried to build the release version of the apk and it behaves the same. So it is not the debugger holding the reference.
This seems to me as a bug in Android. The workaround would be to explicitly call the image = null in OnStop() or onFinish() of the activity. This of course is not convenient.

A: If your application crashes for memory leak, then you can avoid this crash using try - catch(java.lang.outofmemory). The fact is that GC is called by JVM itself, so programer has no control on this. You can install your application in SD card, in this case SD card memory will be used. Memory leak will not occur.
Just go to your manifest file, there must be version no. version name, there also must be " Install Location" , make it "preferExternal".


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José de Oliveira San-Bento (Ribeira Grande (Açores), 21 de abril de 1893 — Ponta Delgada, 22 de janeiro de 1975) foi um advogado que se destacou como jornalista, poeta e escritor.

Biografia
Nasceu na freguesia da Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Estrela da então vila da Ribeira Grande, na costa norte da ilha de São Miguel, oriundo de uma família sem posses que lhe permitissem continuar os estudos para além do ensino primário. Seguindo o percurso típico dos jovens açorianos que nessas pretendiam continuar estudos, ingressou no Seminário Diocesano de Angra, em Angra do Heroísmo, na ilha Terceira, mas ao fim de dois anos foi obrigado a abandonar a instituição por manifesta falta de vocação para os estudos religiosos. Aos 16 anos de idade ingressou no Exército Português como voluntário, requerendo licença para estudos.

Quando a licença para estudos terminou empregou-se como secretário particular de Aires Jácome Correia, o marquês de Jácome Correia, o que lhe permitiu continuar os estudos. Em 1912, quando frequentva o 5.º ano do Liceu, publicou a colectânea de poemas Lua e Mar, o seu primeiro livro. Por essa altura passou a trabalhar no jornal A República, de Ponta Delgada, periódico político dirigido por Francisco Luís Tavares.

Concluído o ensino secundário, fixou-se em Lisboa em 1915 onde se matriculou no curso de Direito da recém criada Universidade de Lisboa, passando a trabalhar para a imprensa periódica daquela cidade. Passou também a ser o correspondente em Lisboa do Alvorada (que mudaria de nome em 1927 para Diário de Notícias), jornal da comunidade de língua portuguesa em New Bedford, o que lhe garantiu os meios para prosseguir os seus estudos. Ainda universitário, colaborou no jornal O Protesto (1916), órgão do Centro Socialista Antero de Quental, de Ponta Delgada.

Após uma interrupção para cumprimento do serviço militar obrigatório, licenciou-se em 1922, regressando à ilha de São Miguel, onde se instalou como advogado na vila da Ribeira Grande. Anos depois transferiu-se para Ponta Delgada, onde continuou a advocacia, mas foi progressivamente largando a sua colaboração na imprensa local, bem como desenvolvendo importante intervenção cultural em palestras e conferências.

Solidário com as lutas operárias da época, teve relevante militância política, tendo sido membro da comissão municipal da Partido Republicano Português da Ribeira Grande e, mais tarde, de Ponta Delgada. Foi candidato a deputado pelo círculo eleitoral de Ponta Delgada nas eleições de 1925. Apesar de oriundo da esquerda democrática, com o fim da Primeira República Portuguesa, acabou por ser absorvido pelas estruturas políticas do regime do Estado Novo.

Cultivou a poesia ao longo de toda a sua vida, deixando uma vasta obra dispersa por jornais e revistas, apara além das colectâneas poéticas que foi publicando. Ruy Galvão de Carvalho descreva a sua produção poética como «formalmente clássico-parnasiana e, conceptualmente, romântico-simbolista e de circunstância». Não aderiu ao modernismo, aparecendo por vezes a defender a os modos poéticos do século anterior.

Obras publicadas
Para além de uma vasta obra dispersa por múltiplos periódicos, é autor das seguintes obras:
 Lua e Mar. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Diário dos Açores, 1912.
 Cartas da Beira-Mar. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Artes Gráficas, 1916.
 Ao Cair da Noite. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Central, 1917.
 Poema do Atlântico. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Diário dos Açores, 1918.
 Espirais de Fumo. Angra do Heroísmo, Tip. Andrade, 1922.
 O Velho do Restelo. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Diário dos Açores, 1927.
 O Clamor das Sombras. Ponta Delgada, Papelaria Micaelense, 1933.
 O Auto de Portugal Eterno. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Correio dos Açores, 1940.
 O Fulgor. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Artes Gráficas, 1942.
 A Ilha em Prece. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Diário dos Açores, 1946.
 Vulcão em Flor. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Diário dos Açores, 1947.
 Riscos na Bruma. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Âmbar, 1952.
 Ilha de Glória. Angra do Heroísmo, Liv. Andrade, 1960.
 Asas de Luz: poemas do Senhor Santo Cristo. Ponta Delgada, Tip. Diário dos Açores, 1970.

Referências

Ligações externas
Oliveira San-Bento

Poetas de Portugal


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Besides SunPower and Hanwha, he has worked at Recurrent Energy, Scatec Solar, 8minutenergy Renewables and, most recently, EnSync Energy Systems.
His new employer, OnSwitch, was founded in 2014 by two of his former SunPower and Hanwha colleagues, Mark Bronez and Vijay Ananthakrishnan, and employs several other SunPower and Hanwha alumni.
Bronez, who is ceo of OnSwitch, worked at SunPower and PowerLight Corp., the U.S. developer it acquired in 2006, for 13 years from 1999 to 2012, becoming the company's vice president and general manager for North America systems.
Vaske joined SunPower in 2007, during Bronez' tenure, becoming director of structured finance and business development before leaving to establish and lead Recurrent Energy's project finance group in 2009.
Vaske rejoined Bronez, Ananthakrishnan and several other former SunPower employees in 2012 when he moved to Hanwha Q Cells USA Corp. as vice president of project finance.
Stints as vice president of structured or project finance at Scatec, 8minutenergy and EnSync followed his departure from Hanwha in 2014. His most recent position was chief administrative officer at EnSync.
Distributed energy developer Ensync announced that William Dallapiazza, who had served as its interim vice president of finance since July of last year, would take over as chief financial officer on Feb. 12 in conjunction with Vaske's resignation.
"We'd also like to thank Fred Vaske for his contribution to the company, including helping us develop the structured finance role and building the overall finance and accounting roles in the company," said Brad Hansen, ceo and president of EnSync, in a statement.
Simms Duncan is vice president of structured finance at EnSync, having joined from Hanwha in 2016.


Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy develops between ages 12 and 18. People with the disorder tend to have seizures that cause jerking in the shoulders or arms. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures and absence seizures may be present along with myoclonic seizures. Seizures often occur early in the morning.
People with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy have average intelligence and do not have other brain or nerve disorders. A family history of myoclonic seizures is present in about half of the people with the disorder. But the exact cause is unknown. Most people require lifelong treatment with medicine.


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Helen Fraser was researching indigo cloth and the slave trade in Africa when she saw Tal Fitzpatrick's call-out for people to stitch articles for her UDHR quilt block project. "As soon as I saw the article on slavery, I thought, this is too uncanny," she recalls.


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Seoul to spend big on renovating public infrastructure
South Korea plans to spend 32 trillion won ($27 billion) over the next four years to renovate old public infrastructure and carry out extensive safety inspections on them, the industry ministry said Tuesday.
Under the project that will run from 2020 to 2023, the government plans to draw up comprehensive safety guidelines and renovate outdated infrastructure, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
A local heating pipe burst in Goyang, north of Seoul, Dec. 4, 2018. (Yonhap)
The move came as South Korea's social infrastructure facilities have deteriorated as many of them were built in the 1970s, according to the ministry.
Around 45 percent and 37 percent of the country's dams and railroads, respectively, are 30 years or older. More than 90 percent of oil pipelines and underground telecommunication cable tunnels were built more than 20 years, the ministry added.
In December, an underground heating pipe burst north of Seoul, claiming one life, prodding the government to carry out safety inspections on underground facilities and other public infrastructure.
The ministry said it will mostly focus on improving the safety of social infrastructure facilities prone to major accidents, such as transportation-related facilities.
Underground power and telecommunication cables will be replaced with flame retardant materials, while old sewer pipes spanning 1,500 kilometers will also be repaired to prevent sinkholes. (Yonhap)


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The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is an academic journal published by Routledge.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2018 impact factor of 2.297, ranking it 2nd out of 18 journals in the category "Ethnic Studies" and 4th out of 29 journals in the category "Demography".

History
It was previously called New Community. It was first published in 1971 as the quarterly journal of the Community Relations Commission, predecessor of the U.K.'s Commission for Racial Equality. Sheila Patterson edited New Community from 1971 until 1988 when Malcolm Cross was appointed editor. In 1994 the journal was given a comparative European focus and was re-launched in 1998 with an international editorial board under its current title. In 2000 JEMS was relocated to the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex when first Russell King (from 2001) and subsequently Paul Statham (from 2014) became editors.

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Political science journals
Routledge academic journals
Ethnic studies journals
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package main

import "github.com/codegangsta/cli"

var (
	menu = []cli.Command{
		{
			Name:   "setup",
			Usage:  "run this first!",
			Action: setupZaha,
		},
		{
			Name:   "set",
			Usage:  "set the current app",
			Action: set_app,
		},
		{
			Name:  "config",
			Usage: "manage app configuration",
			Subcommands: []cli.Command{
				{
					Name:   "app",
					Usage:  "reconfigure the current app",
					Action: config_app,
				},
				{
					Name:   "list",
					Usage:  "list the current app configuration",
					Action: config_show,
				},
			},
		},
		{
			Name:  "cloud",
			Usage: "manage app clouds",
			Subcommands: []cli.Command{
				{
					Name:   "create",
					Usage:  "create cloud for the current app | 'cloud create <name> <provider> <num_workers> [blueprint]",
					Action: cloud_create,
				},
				{
					Name:   "status",
					Usage:  "status cloud for the current app | 'cloud status <name>",
					Action: cloud_status,
				},
				{
					Name:   "resize",
					Usage:  "resize cloud for the current app | 'cloud resize <name> <size>",
					Action: cloud_resize,
				},
				{
					Name:   "destroy",
					Usage:  "destroy cloud for the current app | 'cloud destroy <name>",
					Action: cloud_destroy,
				},
				{
					Name:   "list",
					Usage:  "list the current cloud configurations",
					Action: cloud_list,
				},
			},
		},
		{
			Name:  "db",
			Usage: "manage app clouds",
			Subcommands: []cli.Command{
				{
					Name:   "init",
					Usage:  "initialize the Zaha! app databases",
					Action: db_initialize,
				},
				{
					Name:   "migrate",
					Usage:  "migrate and upgrade Zaha! app databases",
					Action: db_migrate,
				},
				{
					Name:   "reset",
					Usage:  "reset the Zaha! app databases",
					Action: db_reset,
				},
				{
					Name:   "export",
					Usage:  "export the Zaha! app databases",
					Action: db_export,
				},
				{
					Name:   "import",
					Usage:  "import the Zaha! app databases",
					Action: db_import,
				},
			},
		},
		{
			Name:   "create",
			Usage:  "create a Zaha! app",
			Action: create_app,
		},
		{
			Name:   "start",
			Usage:  "start a Zaha! app or component; locally or in the cloud",
			Action: start_app,
		},
		{
			Name:   "stop",
			Usage:  "stop a Zaha! app or component; locally or in the cloud",
			Action: stop_app,
		},
		{
			Name:   "restart",
			Usage:  "restart a Zaha! app or component; locally or in the cloud",
			Action: restart_app,
		},
		{
			Name:   "status",
			Usage:  "status of a Zaha! app or component;, locally or in the cloud",
			Action: status_app,
		},
		{
			Name:   "push",
			Usage:  "push a Zaha! app or component;, locally or into the cloud",
			Action: push_app,
		},
		{
			Name:   "dev",
			Usage:  "dev...?",
			Action: dev,
		},
	}
)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
package models

type OAuthTokenResponse struct {
	AccessToken      string `json:"access_token"`
	TokenType        string `json:"token_type"`
	Error            string `json:"error"`
	ErrorDescription string `json:"error_description"`
}


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Portable electric device found to slow and reverse growth of glioblastoma
A non-invasive, portable electrical device tested at the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital along with other major medical centres around the USA, has been found to lengthen the lives of some patients suffering from glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest form of brain cancer.
The device proved to be so successful in early testing that an independent monitoring committee recommended cutting short the latest phase of its clinical trials and allowing all test patients to be treated with it.
"This is not a cure," says Tobias Walbert, a neuro-oncologist and researcher in the department of neurosurgery at Henry Ford Hospital. "But these early results have been so impressive that we might be looking at a game-changer in the treatment of glioblastoma."
The electrical device, designed to be worn at least 20 hours a day to be effective, weighs about six pounds (2.72kg), is powered by rechargeable batteries and is carried by the patient in a small backpack. It received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2011 only to treat patients with recurring glioblastoma, not first-time cases.
The manufacturer, Novocure, is currently seeking FDA approval to use the device on all glioblastoma patients. Marketed under the brand name Optune, the equipment creates low-intensity alternating electric fields, referred to as tumour treating fields, and delivers them through wires attached to the patient's shaved scalp by four adhesive transducer pads that target the brain tumour. Individual placement of the transducers is determined by MRI scan. The clinical trials showed that the tumour treating fields reversed the tumour's growth and killed cancer cells by disrupting mitosis, the process by which cells divide and replicate.
Research results were presented by the study's leader Roger Stupp, chairman of the oncology department at Switzerland's University of Zurich, at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology in Miami, USA. Data collected from the first 315 of around 700 patients included in the international clinical trials showed:
Patients treated with both tumour treating fields and temozolomide chemotherapy showed a "significant increase" in progression-free survival compared to those treated with chemotherapy alone – a median of 7.1 months compared to 4 months;
Those treated with both tumour treating fields and temozolomide also showed a "significant increase" in overall survival compared to temozolomide alone – a median 19.6 months compared the 16.6 months.
43% of patients treated with both tumour treating fields and temozolomide chemotherapy were still alive after 2 years compared to 29% treated with the chemotherapy alone.
The only side effect reported by the researchers was irritation of the scalp where the transducers were attached. "These results are spectacular, a lot better and much more convincing than we ever would have dreamt of," says Stupp.
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India, 15 April 2019 -- The history of the healthcare industry was not so developed, but in the present the entire industry of the healthcare has grown more significantly and it is expected that this industry is become one of the richest market around the globe with the significant developments in the healthcare organizations and enormous technological advancement. Whereas, the market of flow cytometry has grown with the significant amount of investment by the players in the development of technologies and techniques of doing work for increasing the demand. The flow cytometry is method which utilized to effectively perceive and measure the physical and chemical characteristics of a population of cells or particles. The flow cytometry is customarily utilized in the basic research, clinical trials, and clinical practice. Furthermore, the players of this market are playing an important role while changing the techniques of doing work and employing the young force which utilized the product with great efficiency and increase the demand across the globe. This also led the market growth more significantly in the coming years.


Stephen Bergmeier is Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University. He collaborates with groups across the United States and around the globe on synthetic methods development and Medicinal Chemistry. His research topic is Small Organic Molecule Therapeutics.
Interviewed by Sylvia Ernst, PhD, Sr. Director Community Growth, Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.
Thank you Stephen for being available to tell us a little bit about your research and how you got to where you are, what you're doing and especially, of course, we are interested to learn more on how you collaborate. But first perhaps you can just tell me a little bit about yourself and your research just and introduce yourself.
Okay. Well I'm a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. My research area is synthetic organic, and medicinal chemistry. We do a lot of synthetic methods development chemistry in terms of the very basic research. But out of that has grown a lot of medicinal chemistry. Since we are very much a chemistry group, we do very little, if any, biological chemistry or biochemistry or pharmacology or anything like that within our group. We have to collaborate, if we're going to do anything like that, with people who have expertise in that area.
Interesting. So, how do you collaborate and can you talk a little bit about the type of collaborators? Are they in, let's say, commercial or academia or international or located where you are, and so how do you distribute the work?
Well the answer is yes to all of those things. I have a couple of small biotech companies that I collaborate with. One of them is in Athens; the other one is on the other side of the United States. I also collaborate with a variety of other academicians, here at Ohio University but I've also got collaborations going on elsewhere within the United States as well as internationally. So sometimes that is a little bit more of a difficult proposition for us, trying to handle all of the various aspects that a project like this entails doing it both internationally as well as just around the country where you may have a collaborator on the other side of the country and so multiple time zones, et cetera.
So when you say collaborating, what kind of tasks are each lab doing there? It sounds like you do method development or some medicinal chemistry, so is it more the traditional split that some labs do the biological screening for compounds which you synthesize or do you share your work also in other regards?
It is very much the traditional approach, I guess I would say, in that we do the design and synthesis of small molecules, and we then ship those off to a biological collaborator somewhere else. It might be here at Ohio University, might be on the other side of the world, but we ship them off and they will look at them in some biological assay or system that they have developed and we hopefully will then get feedback from them and we will then make some new compounds based upon the feedback that we get from them.
And, you mentioned a little bit about like the, you didn't call it challenges, but it sounded like it's sometimes easier to work with people who are really close by then the ones who are further way.
Yeah. That's certainly always true.
So can you talk a little bit about what other challenges or what goes easy when you collaborate?
Well one of the easy things about collaborating with people at your own University is getting the compounds to our biological collaborator. Along with getting the actual physical compounds, we also have to get information to them regarding structure, stability, and things like that, and then they have to then get information back to us such as: This killed every cell in the well so don't make any more like this sort of thing. Or, oh, it killed every cell in the well so make more like these things. So locally it's really easy. They just simply walk over to our lab. They take the vial with the sample in it back to their lab, and I might see them at lunch or at coffee the next day and they will tell me that, "Oh, yes, we looked at your compound and that looks really nice," or "No, that did not look really nice, but I'll drop off a list of the inhibition," or whatever it was, "when I see you at class, in a faculty meeting tomorrow" or something like that. So those sorts of things are really easy to do. The more challenging aspects, of course, are when you're dealing with someone who is not here at the University. Ohio University is a little bit out of the way so getting other places sometimes takes a little bit longer and so, for example, I have a collaborator at the University of Montana and both of the universities are kind of off the beaten path, if you will, relative to the UPS guy and so next day shipment of a compound is usually a two to three day shipment of a compound. And so we have to be able to plan for that in terms of: Do I need to have that compound stay cold the entire time? And, you know, we've gotten very good at shipping things.
I have a collaborator in Egypt now so not only do we have to deal with shipping compounds to another country, but Egypt is still a little bit unsettled and so getting things through the customs on either end is becoming a little challenging, but we're dealing with that. One of the things I like about CDD actually is that it allows us to simplify some of the things that we normally have to do. So for example, I don't have to ship a hard copy of compound structures as the samples all have a little code on it and then all one has to do is go to CDD and look up the code if we want to look at the structure or anything else like that which is actually really nice for them and for us.
Interesting. So that's a question which I wanted to ask you, too, but since you mentioned it, is there anything else how you use CDD in your collaborations where this is helpful? Is there something you would like to talk about in this regard?
Well I guess one of the things that's really nice for both me and collaborators is that oftentimes, they say, "Oh, you know, I read some paper where they were going on and on about this property of molecules being really good for drugs," and they'll say, "Well, can you calculate this property," and I say, "Hey, you don't have to. All you have to do is go to CDD and these properties are actually there so just click on the molecule and you can find, for example, a calculated LogPs, and polar, and surface areas, and things like that. And it helps everybody to sort of look at things like that in terms of what sort of properties are we building in the molecules and it really kind of opens up communication between myself and collaborators that we – that they can say, "Oh, yeah, I was looking at this molecule and it had property X is that important?" And we can talk about various things like that whereas I think previously I certainly would not have done that routinely. Oftentimes, biological collaborators don't always have much interest in the chemical properties of things and so bringing up a chemical property or something like that isn't something I would bring up with them. But now, this information is out there for them and they can simply, looking at it, they can say, oh, well, I saw that the LogP of this thing was three and I was reading in this article that this is really important. Should we be looking at this? And we can have a conversation about it at least. So that's kind of nice.
I am actually really happy with it. I rarely get any sort of software or anything like that that I'm really happy with just in terms of the molecular modeling aspect of our work. I don't know, you probably don't want to advertise competitors, but we used Spartan and we used some of the Schrödinger things like Glide and stuff like that for docking. And those things can be sometimes difficult to use if you haven't used it in a while. For example, there are definitely aspects to them such that if you don't use them all the time or you haven't used it in awhile, you have a learning curve to figure out how to do things all over again. CDD, I really don't have that issue which I really, really like. It may not have, all sorts of modeling capabilities in there, and I don't know that I really would want to do that because I'm sure it would just increase the complexity and make it harder to use and I wouldn't use it as much. So I'm actually really very happy with it. It has enough stuff that I'm quite happy with it. Actually one thing which always irritates me periodically is that sometimes when you're looking at the molecules you actually have to almost open up the editing window in order to see the structure of the molecule because if you have a big molecule on there it fits it all into the tiny little box that shows up and so it's large. Maybe I need a better monitor, but you can just sort of barely see the details. It's like, yeah, there's a molecule there and I think it must have the structure on there and even when you sort of click on it and you get to the slightly larger one, it's still big enough that you can't really make out a lot of the important details. You actually have to go to the editing window to look at the structure sometimes.
That's good to know, thank you. I will put this on our list. This is how we make progresses is just by listening to our customers. I will definitely bring this forward to our product development. Thank you very much for saying all those nice things about CDD, but I also want to add is you said competitors that's totally fine for us. When you collaborate, you also have to kind of embrace your collaborator and competitor – your "co-optitor". And that's sometimes an interesting path to walk because in the end we all need each other. I just wanted to share that from my view.
Obviously, you are having really nice active research going. Did you have something like a breakthrough moment or an ah-ha moment in your science or in your work? Is there something sticking out? Something exciting?
I don't know that I've really had an "aha moment". I read articles in various magazines like the Scientist and others like that, or various things online where they talk about their ah-ha moments and I have never really had an ah-ha moment. There are certain things that I look back on and I say, "oh, wow," that was actually a really good decision to have done that. I think they're more, at least for me, have been more strategic decisions in saying that, I'm not going to pursue this line of research anymore, I'm really going to focus on this other stuff that we're doing because it really does seem to have better potential.
That is interesting. Obviously, decision making is always the hard part and some people have the talent to make better decisions than others. Do you have any advice on how to make good decisions? It seems you have a pretty good track record on that so anything you want to tell the readers or listeners on how to make good decisions?
Don't listen to me. No, I've certainly made a number of bad decisions. But I think a lot of it has simply been things that I really found interesting to do and things that I have really found interesting to do have generally worked out. I guess if there's a piece of advice to tell people, it's the things that you find really interesting, you will make them work out in one way or another because you're going to spend more time on it, you're going to spend more thought on it and it will end up working out. If you have something where you think oh, you know, this is something the grant agency's going to love or this is something which everybody's doing so I can get it published easily, but I'm not really all that keen on it but I think it's a good thing to do, I think you're just not going to work on it in the same way that where you look at a project and you say, "oh, this is really cool" and you're then going to really sit there even if you think that nobody's going to fund this stuff, but you still think it's really cool. I think eventually you get somebody to fund it, people will publish it and things will work out. I guess that's my little bit of advice there if there is any.
That's wonderful advice, that resonates 100% with me. Thank you. That's a real big word of wisdom which usually would be a great moment to close the interview, but I want to ask you, too, whether there is anything else which you would like to share? Something else you would like to say?
Actually, one of the things – one of your questions here that you had there before, you asked – how did you manage your data or collaborate? So one of the things we've been doing is going through and getting rid of the way that I used to manage data. I have sitting on my desk a shoebox kind of box and it's got little four by six file cards and on each one of these four by six file cards I have a structure drawn and it's got a compound identifier and we have someone's name on there as the person who made the compound and on the various cards there are sort of little pencil marks indicating that we sent so much of it to somebody or we looked at it in a particular assay. And so, you know, actually this is another one of the reasons I really like CDD, is I'm getting rid of my shoeboxes of file cards.
So you really had a manual process there.
Oh, yeah, it was totally manual. We're about half way through the shoebox of putting them into CDD now.
So in your evolution you just jumped over the step of Excel, which is where many people sit for awhile and it's interesting that you took the jump right away into a database and collaborative technology.
Well, I never really liked Excel, there was the Chemdraw Excel program but Chemdraw kept changing what they supported or what they didn't support and sometimes it worked well with Excel and sometimes it didn't. I just really didn't care for upgrading or not upgrading depending upon some software manufacturer's, schedule. Another reason I like CDD is it's just this web-based product where I don't really need to have a certain computer operating system or need to upgrade whatever operating system I have so that I can continue using it and things like that.
Thank you for pointing that out. That is probably one of the really nice things which I like, too. Not just about CDD but about all the things which appear which are web based now which makes life so easy. So that was very cool talking with you. Thank you, Stephen, for your time.


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Jens Ludvig Paul Flor, född 1 januari 1888, död 29 maj 1952, var en norsk arkitekt.

Jens Flor ritade framför allt järnvägsstationer, samt byggnader i Ålesund. Han anställdes omkring 1913 på Norges Statsbaners då inrättade "NSB Arkitektkontor". Där ritade han stationsbyggnader, de flesta i samarbete med kontorets chef Gudmund Hoel. De första byggnader han ritade var stationer på den nordliga delen av Dovrebanen i slutet av 1910-talet. Senare ritade han liknande byggnader för Bratsbergbanen, Sørlandsbanen, Sunnan-Grongbanen (Nordlandsbanen) och Raumabanen.

År 1917 blev Jens Flor chef för Ålesund boligråds kontor och var stadsarkitekt där 1918–1919. Han ritade en rad byggnader, flertalet som privata projekt, stilmässigt från nyklassisism till funktionalism.

Verk i urval

Järnvägsstationer
 Expeditionsbyggnad på Lena station, 1913 (tillsammans med Gudmund Hoel)
 Hvalstads station, 1915
 Expeditionsbyggnad på Ådalsbruks station, 1915 (tillsammans med Gudmund Hoel)
 Stationsbyggnader på norra delen av Dovrebanen, bland andra Engans hållplats 1915 (flyttad till Halsetløkka camping), Driva station 1916, Oppdals station 1916, Fagerhaugs station 1915, Ulsbergs station 1915, Berkåks station 1915, Soknedals station 1915
 Selsbakks station 1919 (tillsammans med Gudmund Hoel)
 Brusands station på Jærbanen 1919

Ålesund
 Ny flygel till Latinskolen, Kirkegata 6, 1922, numera del av Ålesund videregående skole
 Frimurarlogen, Giskegata 12A, 1922-1923
 Spilkevigs Snøre-, Not- og Garnfabrik, Øwregata 2, 1937
 Hyreshus på Keiser Wilhelms gate 60, 1939-1941

Ny-Ålesund
 Nordpolhotellet, 1917
 Skolen, 1919 (troligen)
 Blått hus, 1919

Bildgalleri

Källor
Om Jens Flor på www.artemisia.no

Norska arkitekter under 1900-talet
Födda 1888
Avlidna 1952
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