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States And Cities Are Fighting Climate Change, With Or Without Nations
Ben Bradford
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 | Sacramento, CA
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A month after the election of President Trump, California Governor Jerry Brown gave a defiant speech in front of thousands of earth scientists. He promised to continue the fight to curb climate change and—with U.S. actions likely to flag—even to take the place of the federal government.
He drew a cheer when he mentioned NASA satellites that track global temperatures.
"If Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite. We're going to collect that data," Brown said.
It's not an empty threat.
California has long had its own array of ambitious climate change policies. In addition, the state is also one of hundreds of regional and local governments around the world who are collaborating in both formal and informal alliances to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists who study climate change say their efforts could match or exceed those of nations.
California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
As national governments discussed a new United Nations climate change agreement two years ago, Brown was meeting with regional leaders at the same events. Months before the Paris Agreement, California and the German state Baden-Württemberg announced their own pact: The two regional governments would lead sub-national efforts to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius (a somewhat arbitrary temperature limit, which governments and climate scientists have generally targeted to prevent the worst effects of climate change).
"Looking around and seeing the Republican Party almost unanimous in its denial of the science and its refusal to taking even minimal steps to combat climate change," Brown told Capital Public Radio in a recent interview, "Then we have to join with the willing, a coalition of the willing."
Today, the Under2 Coalition counts more than 150 local and regional governments as members, including huge cities like Beijing and small, rural, developing counties like Laikipia, Kenya.
MILLIONS OF TREES
Laikipia Governor Richard Irungu bends down to water a knee-high sapling, newly-planted. A group of women who work on conservation sing in a local dialect behind him. It's the launch of a major tree-planting initiative in the county; the goal is to install millions of new trees over the next five years.
As in most developing countries, emissions in Laikipia are expected to spike with population growth, as new residents clear more land for farms and cattle, and burn more wood and coal for fuel. Irungu says it's difficult to tell poor farmers not to take those actions to improve their quality of life.
Laikipia Governor Richard Irungu. (Muchiri Gitonga / Courtesy)
"We are having all of these problems even convincing our farmers that there is a challenge of climate change," Irungu says. But at the moment now people have started realizing that a change has come."
Irungu hopes the tree-planting, which includes giving farmers new, high-value fruit trees, will help offset increasing emissions. And, the county has included the initiative as part of its plans to limit emissions, as a member of the Under2 Coalition.
In turn, California has helped the county take inventory of its emissions, a method of calculation the state hopes other, similar regions can also adopt.
A CONGLOMERATION OF ALLIANCES
Members of the coalition agree to share information about their climate change actions—what has worked and what hasn't, and how regions have implemented new energy efficiency standards, building codes and clean transportation.
Other similar alliances to Under2 include Europe's decade-old Covenant of Mayors; the Compact of Mayors, founded by then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; the States and Regions Alliance; and the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, to name just a few.
"One of the largest attractions is that you can have mayors or governors come together and share what they're doing," says Angel Hsu, a Yale University scientist who studies sub-national climate change actions.
The Netherlands is helping San Francisco develop more energy-efficient buildings, while New York City credits Bogotá, Colombia for advice on installing charging stations for electric vehicles. California is consulting with nations, Mexico and China, as they set up their own cap-and-trade systems.
The U.N. lists more than 2,500 cities and 200 regions around the world that have committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"It's major cities that are acting," Hsu says. "If we sum up all of that activity, we're talking about a significant portion of the global population."
A couple years ago, Hsu studied pledges to act against global warming that states, cities and regions made at the New York Climate Summit, convened by then-U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-Moon.
She found their concrete commitments to reduce emissions could equal India's total annual output and rival what nations pledged in the Paris Agreement. But, Hsu says the data also revealed a major problem.
BEDEVILED
"The devil is always in the details," she says. "Whether they will actually be able to follow through on their plans and report back transparently to the public and to their citizens what they've been able to achieve and what their challenges are."
Only five of 29 commitments had teeth, Hsu says. Most governments haven't laid out how they'll meet their goals—whether they're practical or just aspirational—nor do they publicly share their emissions and reductions, as they occur.
For instance, Laikipia has committed to foregoing coal in favor of solar and wind energy, but Governor Irungu says it will need help.
"The initial capital is huge to our farmers, and, therefore, if we can also get technology support and we get financial support, we as a county can remain committed to reduce carbon emissions," Irungu says.
Irungu is looking to Under2, but Ken Alex, who oversees the organization for Jerry Brown, says the organization has little, if any, stable funding.
"We're learning, we're building the airplane as we're flying it," Alex says. He notes the organization has more signatories than the Paris Agreement. "And oh by the way there are at least 10 languages."
He counts one full-time employee working on it. Instead, Under2 has largely relied on informal arrangements.
For instance, a U.C. Berkeley professor who does work in Kenya helped Laikipia calculate its total emissions. Another class at Berkeley law school, made up of international students with law degrees in their home countries and taught by a former colleague of Alex's, is scouting potential new allies.
Local governments have typically adopted climate change policies more quickly than countries, and the thought is if enough regions band together, they can push nations to act. Conversely, without a critical mass, Governor Brown says places that have commitments will waver.
"California can't be an island," Brown says. "If we keep imposing regulations and taxes and climate change strategies that create a competitive disadvantage, then we won't sustain it, we will give up at some point. So we need allies. We need a world that is consistent with where California is going."
These alliances could play a key role in creating that world, but Under2 is under two years old. With the clock ticking to curb emissions, it still has a lot to figure out, and quickly.
Coalition Of States, Regions Fighting Climate Change Meet In China
California Governor Jerry Brown's mission to fight climate change has taken him to China this week, but he's not committing to support more ambitious renewable energy goals back home.
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Letter. Marielle's murder has led to a wave of mobilization that has gone beyond the borders of Brazil, and her death reminds us how valuable the practice of international solidarity is. With the help of these networks, the struggles are being waged with renewed strength.
In Brazil, the picture is less gloomy thanks to Marielle Franco
written by Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz
If we look at the legacy of Marielle Franco and the battles and victories won by the black movement, the women's movements and the feminists, this can give us a more complex and multifaceted view on the grim picture of Brazil that emerged with the election of Bolsonaro last November.
While Bolsonaro was indeed elected with a political project based on sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and worsening class inequalities, at the same time, the number of women elected from left-wing parties was higher after the last elections: among the newly elected we find Joênia Wapixana, the first indigenous woman elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the history of Brazil, and Érica Malunguinho, the first trans black woman deputy from the country's northeast. Furthermore, the number of black female deputies has risen overall, although it is still much too low, at just five, in a country where over half the population is black.
Thus, the election of Bolsonaro was also a reaction, full of resentment and political hatred, on the part of those who have realized that their class, race and gender privileges are being replaced with rights for all. It was a reaction against the successful struggles carried out in recent decades by black women, feminists, non-heteronormative persons, the black movement and the indigenous peoples.
Marielle's political activities as part of the City Council of Rio de Janeiro were bothersome to many, as she fought against the historical practice of silencing oppressed groups, a practice carried out by the groups possessing greater social privilege: in particular, by white, heterosexual, middle-class men. Black women from the lower classes, indigenous people and black people have always resisted and forged their own traditions of knowledge, fighting the experience of oppression. Marielle embodied this practice of resistance, and carried it inside an institutional space that traditionally used to belong to white, heterosexual men from the middle classes. The presence of her body, as a political body, in this space, and the policies she defended, still carry force today, precisely because they demonstrate the ability to have a voice in places where such a voice used to be denied.
Marielle's mandate represented a collective and social space where discourse could be uttered from her standpoint as a woman, black, socialist, feminist, lesbian, mother, and favela dweller—a place for speech, from which she would at the same time denounce and attack the material and epistemic violence of racism, sexism, lesbophobia and transphobia, capitalism and the policies of military intervention aimed at waging war on the poor. Even more: all of us who, while not sharing the same social standing as she had, identified with her political project could recognize ourselves in her political mandate.
Marielle, together with many other black and trans women who are now occupying spaces that have been historically denied to them, are all saying that their words and their discourse about the world is legitimate, and are challenging the system of authorizing particular discourses, a system that claims to establish which subjects and which bodies are entitled to describe reality, name it and govern it.
It is absolutely critical to recognize and defend all these places for putting forward one's own discourse and exercising power that have been conquered by those who are oppressed and have to suffer constant attempts to be silenced—even by murder—to ensure that they are put "back in their place." […]
With her presence on the City Council, Marielle demonstrated that it was possible to leave the "place" that had been socially assigned to her from the start, and, because of this, the simple fact of being there made her presence a "hostile" one. There is a real fear among the dominant groups that the subjectivities who are being oppressed will speak out, and that they themselves will have to listen.
As Djamila Ribeiro wrote: "When black persons claim the right to have a voice, they are claiming the right to their own lives" (O que é o lugar de fala, 2017). It is no coincidence that Marielle had problems with not being allowed to speak during Council meetings: "I will not be interrupted." Her speech and her body made the dominant subjects uncomfortable, because the problems of the favela dwellers, of women, of black youth and of lesbians—people whom she represented—are all problems that belong to the whole of society.
Marielle's murder has led to a wave of mobilization that has gone beyond the borders of Brazil, and her death reminds us how valuable the practice of international solidarity is, creating a web of relationships of support and sharing; with the help of these networks, the struggles are being waged with renewed strength. In Italy, the most prominent form this has taken has been feminist solidarity, especially by the Non Una Di Meno movement, which was able to welcome and promote Marielle's political project, organizing meetings with Monica Benício, Mariella's fiancée, and Fernanda Chaves, one of Marielle's assistants and the only survivor of the assassination.
With shared passion, we have tried to collectively understand her political destiny, which, despite the differences between our two countries, is now pushing us to analyze how racism manifests itself in Italy today, how it is interwoven with sexism and lesbo-homo-transphobia, and how it is given shape in institutional policies.
With passion and determination, we continue to build feminist alliances that reach across every border, with Marielle forever in our hearts.
Extract from the afterword to "Marielle Presente!" by Agnes Gazzera, to be published by Capovolte, with an introduction by Marie Moïse and a special message from Mônica Benício.
Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz
Originally published in Italian on March 12, 2019https://ilmanifesto.it/brasile-il-quadro-e-meno-cupo-anche-grazie-a-marielle-franco/


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Being in chronic pain is more common than many Americans may realize
Although the autopsy results from Prince's death have not yet been released, many stories have surfaced that the artist suffered from an addiction to prescription painkillers.
Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson speaks with Lev Raphael, author and MSU creative writing professor, who recently wrote an article about Prince and opiate addiction in the Huffington Post.
You may be so wild with pain you can imagine that killing yourself is the only solution.
That's not a lifestyle. That's not drug abuse.
That's hell. And one in seven of us gets trapped there at some point in our lives.
"[Prince] was not taking these drugs to get high, he was taking these drugs to deal with pain," says Raphael.
Prince's use of prescription medication is not that uncommon, says Raphael.
"Anytime anybody dies, the first thing they say is they found prescription medication in her or his home, but a lot of us have prescription medication in our homes… If one out of every seven people in the country deals with chronic pain at some time in their lives, then this is a national issue."
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Home Gaming E-sports to be featured in major multinational sporting event
E-sports to be featured in major multinational sporting event
Earl Carlo Guevarra
Electronic sports or "e-sports" is going to be featured as a medal event in the 2021 edition of the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG).
The Asian Electronic Sports Federation (AESF), which organizes the AIMAG made the announcement via Twitter.
Esports to Feature As Medal Sport at 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (2021 AIMAG)https://t.co/fZWFEn77cl pic.twitter.com/B0Cocyr5mQ
— Asian Electronic Sports Federation (@ConnectAESF) March 10, 2020
AIMAG is considered one of the largest pan-continental sporting events in Asia with 25 sports categories being played back in 2017.
This multinational sporting event is hosted by the countries of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) every four years. There are no details regarding the game titles that would be included in the 2021 AIMAG at the time of this writing.
E-sports was featured as a medal event in the recently held 2019 South East Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines.
An ongoing event
This is the third time that e-sports has been included by the OCA in this iteration of the event.
Back in 2013, the e-sports category featured six titles including FIFA 13, Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed, StarCraft II, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, League of Legends, and Special Force.
In the 2017 edition held at Ashgabat in Turkmenistan, the OCA and its local partners decided to feature e-sports as demonstration sport instead of a medal category. Only four titles made the final cut: Hearthstone, StarCraft II, The King of Fighters XIV, and Dota 2.
E-sports is expected to continue to boom
To put it simply, e-sports refers to competitive video games that are played between two individuals, pairs, or teams with different gaming titles.
Some of the most famous e-sports titles today include StarCraft 2, Tekken 7, Dota 2 League of Legends, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, among others.
According to Newzoo, a gaming market intelligence company, e-sports is projected to become a US$1.1 billion industry this year, with a year-on-year growth of 15.7%, up from a US$950.6 million in 2019.
An interesting thing to note is that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a first-person shooter game, breached the one million all-time user mark a few weeks ago.
Effects of the pandemic
In light of the recent coronavirus outbreak, it is expected that e-sports and online gaming will continue to gain popularity.
Whether the COVID-19 virus affects next year's AIMAG remains to be seen. After all, many e-sports and general sporting events have been canceled this year due to fears over the virus outbreak.
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Q: HTML5 - append a form I want to a generate a form in JavaScript and append the form, but it does not work:
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var formData = new FormData();
formData.append("part_num", "123ABC");
formData.append("part_price", 7.95);
formData.append("part_image", somefile)

document.getElementById("form").append(formaData);

A: It looks like you are misusing the FormData object.
See how to use it here.
It is used to send data to the server, not to build forms on the client.
See how you should do it this.

A: This question at SO: JQuery create a form and add elements to it programmatically
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Q: Sorting numbers in string format with Python I have a list that has some chapter numbers in string.
When I sort the keys using keys function, it gives me wrong results.

keys = ['1.1', '1.2', '2.1', '10.1']
keys.sort()
print keys

['1.1', '1.2', '10.1', '2.1']

How can I use the sort function to get

['1.1', '1.2', '2.1', '10.1']

What if the array has something like this?

['1.1.1', '1.2.1', '10.1', '2.1'] -> ['1.1.1','1.2.1','2.1','10.1']

A: from distutils.version import StrictVersion
keys.sort(key=StrictVersion)

Since chapter numbers are a subset of version numbers, this covers your needs.

A: This works:
keys.sort(key=lambda x: map(int, x.split('.')))

A: keys.sort(key=lambda x: [int(y) for y in x.split('.')])

A: Provide a custom key argument to sort or sorted.
From http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#sorted:

key specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison key from each list element: key=str.lower. The default value is None (compare the elements directly).


From today, to help us focus attention on your comments and questions, the Opera Facebook page will no longer have the public wall posts to the left of the timeline. Of course, everyone can still comment on our timeline wall posts (to let us know what we are doing right and wrong); this change will mean we can spend more time answering questions and issue reports via direct message as much as we can.
The trouble comes when noise starts to drown out communication. For as long as my team can remember, we've had an interesting, tricky challenge with, what many would call "spam" (although I prefer the term "level 10 super random comments") on our Facebook wall.
Sometimes non-sensical, often irrelevant and always a huge amount (over 750 a day!). And, the ever-increasing volume means that sometimes relevant comments and questions have been getting lost in the vortex. Not cool.
Who is answering comments on Facebook … and beyond?
We don't have a huge team of dedicated community support agents (although a girl can dream right?). Instead, we have a small, dedicated group of awesome Opera employees who spend some of their time everyday to help where they can. Some of them are in the social-media team, while others are actually building the apps, but all of us just really value talking to our community and hearing what you think.
As much as we enjoy the chats, for us, the most important thing is that you get the information, answers and channels to give feedback that you need – quickly. That's why we've made this change today, but we're also focusing a lot this year on improving all our support channels from the FAQ pages, opera.com, in-app support and beyond.
As our communities across the world grow, including our Facebook-ers, I hope we can not only help you make the most of our useful apps and browsers, but also just enjoy sharing information and having your say in what's going on, because isn't that what the web is about?
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Deeply racist and evocative cartoon on Hinduism.
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CoHNA writes to Harvard University about a deeply racist and evocative cartoon on Hinduism
The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) wrote a letter to Harvard University today expressing outrage regarding a deeply racist and highly evocative cartoon on Hinduism.
On April 23, 2020, the Harvard University Press ("HUP") tweeted an announcement regarding Dr. Ajantha Subramanian's upcoming virtual talk titled "Meritocracy and Democracy: The Social Life of Caste in India," which also featured guest speaker TM Krishna. The talk and discussion were related to her book "The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India," and were organized by the Bangalore International Centre.
In promoting the talk by Dr. Subramanian, HUP failed to review the contents of the link, which contained a gory cartoon depicting a Hindu religious figure holding holy books while adding ingredients to a traditional mill stone and conjuring up a skeleton from the ingredients, crushing many black human figurines and killing them or throwing them into what seems to be waves of fire. One black figurine is also seen holding on to the feet of the religious figure in a desperate attempt to save itself.
Interestingly, the image is not from the book but was specifically selected for the tweet and the promotion of the event. The image, known as "Millstone of Caste System" is the 1917 work of cartoonist Gaganendranath Tagore.
Racist cartoons are reminiscent of the antisemitic caricatures about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th century, using bodily stereotypes and showing them as immoral, criminals, corrupt businessmen, usurpers, etc. Similarly, African Americans were depicted as animalistic, crazed and savage based on pseudo-scientific anthropological theories of the late 1800s. It is well known that such characterizations were used to openly justify oppression of the people and endorse a violent history of oppression of Jewish, African American, women, LGBTQ and other communities. Indigenous peoples were also depicted in cartoons in prejudicial ways in early 20th century to justify their conquest.
While Tagore's cartoon is different and comes from Indian culture itself, it is important to note that such a cartoon needs to be viewed and presented in a cultural context, which this use of Tagore's art did not do.
"In our view, the use of the cartoon is prejudicial and sensationalist, and without providing that context of colonial critique, the cartoon seems to present a racist view of Hindus and can be seen as pejorative, and reinforces the kind of narratives that were created about Hinduism to justify colonial conquest and conversion," remarked Nikunj Trivedi, president of CoHNA. "At a time when Hindus have been the subject of attacks on college campuses and places of worship, endorsements of such bigoted portrayals of Hindus and Hinduism by Harvard and HUP further reinforce racist colonial theories, and are a matter of great concern in the Hindu community."
Indeed, such endorsement do lend to the political view that Harvard endorses Hinduphobia, something that CoHNA hopes is not the case.
CoHNA has demanded that the HUP acknowledge this error of representation, and in good faith, issue an immediate apology to the Hindu community. In addition, CoHNA asks that Harvard sponsor a seminar by Hindu scholars to discuss the problematic nature of such endorsements and the issue of representation about Hinduism to reduce prejudice.
"As an institution which prides itself in its rich intellectual history and on inclusion of diverse voices, it is important to set the record straight about the absence of prejudice in such communications," remarked Rajeev Menon, Vice President of CoHNA. "The choice of the Tagore cartoon does not demonstrate that unprejudiced view."
CoHNA is working with several Hindu organizations to raise awareness of this episode as well as the broader impact of such endorsements and promotions on Hindus on campuses and beyond.
Press release with appropriate links can be found at
https://cohna.org/cohna-harvard-cartoon
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Q: Accessing the compiled code of a virtual member function I need to verify the code of a virtual member function in my other code. So how do I get a pointer that points to the correct code?
class MyInterface {
    public:
        virtual void VirtualMethod() = 0;
};

class MyImplementation : public MyInterface {
    private:
        int m_value;
    public:
        MyImplementation() : m_value(0) { }
        virtual void VirtualMethod() {
            m_value = 1;
        }
};

void main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    MyInterface* pInterface = new MyImplementation();
    // In my real code on the following line, we do not have access to the declaration of MyImplementation
    unsigned int* pFunctionPointer = (unsigned int*)pInterface->VirtualMethod;
    // Now we want to access the compiled code of MyImplementation::VirtualMethod.
    printf("0x%08x\n", *pFunctionPointer);
}

In my actual code, I do not have access to MyImplementation declaration at all from the "main" function, if you get my drift.

A: Here's a little bit of code that I hacked up, which (in g++ 4.6.3) appears to give the expected results.
However, before I get downvotes simply because I'm trying to solve an unsolvable probel, this is absolutely relying on "undefined behaviour". Since the standard doesn't even go into how virtual methods are supposed to be implemented with regards to vptr, vtable, etc, there is no way that you can actually implement this without knowing what the compiler does - and of course, a new version, even in a minor revision, or using different compile options  of compiler may change this (e.g. debug mode vs release mode could be different - but that would make it hard to mix debug and release or mix code compiled with old and new compilers)
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class A
{
public:
    virtual void f();
};

class A2
{
public:
    virtual void g();
};

class B: public A, public A2
{
public:
    virtual void f();
    virtual void g();
};

void print_my_addr(const char *name)
{
    cout << "Address of " << name << "=" <<
    __builtin_return_address (0) << endl;
}

void A::f()
{
    print_my_addr(__FUNCTION__);
}

void A2::g()
{
    print_my_addr(__FUNCTION__);
}

void B::f()
{
    print_my_addr(__FUNCTION__);
}

void B::g()
{
    print_my_addr(__FUNCTION__);
}

// p:           pointer to a class object to inspect.
// base_number: which base-class to inspect. 0 = first baseclass
// func_no:     function number within the baseclass.
// returns the address as a intptr_t
intptr_t findvirt(A *p, int base_number, int func_no)
{
    intptr_t **vptr = reinterpret_cast<intptr_t**>(p);

    intptr_t *vtable = vptr[base_number];

    return vtable[func_no];
}

int main()
{
    A a;
    B b;
    cout << hex << "Address of A::f()" << findvirt(&a, 0, 0) << endl;
    a.f();
    cout << hex << "Address of B::f()" << findvirt(&b, 0, 0) << endl;
    b.f();
    cout << hex << "Address of B::g()" << findvirt(&b, 1, 0) << endl;
}


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Toshiba appoints ironman to lead channel
New channel manager looks to better tier two relations
Rob Irwin (ARN) 01 May, 2007 17:29
DSTech
Dynamic Supplies
Tech Data Australia
Toshiba has filled the big shoes left by the death of industry veteran and national channel sales manager, Angus Roberts, with former Toshiba NZ country manager, Callum Eade.
Eade, who has been involved with Toshiba for the past four years, stepped away from the lead role in NZ in October to indulge his passion for triathlons.
Angus Roberts passed away in early November.
During the sporting sabbatical, Eade had discussed taking on the local channel role with Toshiba Information Systems Division (ISD) general manager, Mark Whittard.
"Angus was a mentor of mine and, in his absence, the workload was taken up by Mark," he said. "So it will be good to step into the role, lighten that load and work with a team that is very passionate about the products."
In the role, Eade will be responsible for the local channel business, managing its national channel sales team and sales centre, and working with corporate sales teams which service Toshiba's business-to-business clients.
Eade will also work its new Toshiba NZ country manager, Gary Wicks, to develop consistent channel strategies between the two countries. He said one key focus would be to increase the importance of tier two resellers.
"I see a real opportunity to work with the tier two sector in Australia, especially given the cosmopolitan nature of the market to align with tier two resellers," he said. "Before that, I do want to walk the streets a bit because I'm conscious that I've been in NZ, so I need to focus on understanding all the idiosyncrasies of the channel market here."
Liana Nio has also signed on with Toshiba as a dedicated channel marketing manager.
Eade said he was looking forward to working with her on specific channel marketing activities.
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Andersson's men are aiming to reach the last four for the first time since 1994 when they finished third in the United States.
Sweden's success at this year's tournament, which saw them eliminate the Netherlands and Italy in qualifying, as well as finish top of a group containing holders Germany in Russia, has been built on defensive organization and clinical counter-attacks.
Sweden, devoid of a freescoring talisman in the wake of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's international retirement, have worked hard on being difficult to breakdown and a major threat from set-pieces.
Andersson says he is unlikely to spring a surprise on England coach Gareth Southgate.
"There was a coach once who said his team was quite easy to analyze but difficult to beat. That is a good description of us," Andersson told reporters on Friday.
Captain Andreas Granqvist has embodied this collective philosophy most of all.
The 33-year-old journeyman defender has formed a formidable center back pairing with Manchester United's Victor Lindelof, as well as scoring twice from the penalty spot in Russia.
"We are a team and we do this together, on and off the pitch and this is behind our success so far," said Granqvist.
One key area where the quarter-final could be won or lost is on set-pieces, with both teams excelling in this regard so far.
Sweden have scored twice from set plays, while England have scored three, the most at the tournament.
"The set piece situation will be a clear factor – for the first time I think we are coming up against a country that is more or less on par with us in that respect," warned Andersson.
If Sweden manage to defeat England, a team they have only lost to twice in the last 15 meetings, they will face either Russia or Croatia in the semi-final.


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Local lawyer makes a big move up
Written by Kash Knight Wednesday, Jan 11 2023, 5:49 AM
Judge Stephen Kritzer (photo courtesy of Pam Kritzer)
A Swift Current lawyer was recently appointed a new position as the Lloydminster Provincial Court newly re-opened.
Stephen Kritzer received the call early last month and will be making the move up as a Judge.
"It's a real humbling experience," he said. "You think about it as a lawyer, but you don't realize what it's going to be like until you're actually on the bench. It's a lot of responsibility, and I just hope that I can do a great job of it because it's important to anyone that comes into the courtroom."
Kritzer started his career in Swift Current back in 1994, first working for the firm MacBeam Tessem, then quickly making a jump to Public Prosecutions.
In his 28 years of living in the city and working in the public sector, Kritzer nurtured his passions for sports and community. He was a board member for the Swift Current Broncos, president of the Southwest Crisis Services Board, and a member of both Big Brothers & Big Sisters Swift Current and KidSport Swift Current.
Judge Kritzer has also been active in charity work around the southwest; having canvassed door-to-door for the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Cancer Society, fundraising for the United Way and Maverick School in Swift Current, and packing gift hampers for the Salvation Army for the holidays.
In a provincial release announcing his new appointment as Judge, Justice Minister and Attorney General Bronwyn Eyre said, "I have no doubt that Judge Kritzer will serve Lloydminster and the province honourably and well. His extensive experience, strong reputation, and deep commitment to community will enable him to fulfill his judicial mandate with distinction."
Most recently, he was teaching at the Saskatchewan Police College in Regina, which Kritzer described as a dream, getting to teach and work with motivated and great human beings.
"I want to thank all of the people that I've worked with," he said. "Glenn Herman, Curtis Wiebe, Justice Bazin, all of the defense counsel in in town—because it's a body of work, and they play a huge role."
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