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Creating an environment for success
A pleasant working environment is essential for productivity and retaining top talent, so why do so many companies neglect to create one?
Breeding a positive office culture can directly correlate to a business' success
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Author: Pavel Trenka, CEO, HB Reavis
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A recent survey of more than 155,000 employees worldwide revealed almost half believe their office environment prevents them from working effectively. The survey by London-based workplace research firm Leesman found that 45 percent of office workers feel this way. For businesses, this does not only highlight a major productivity deficit, it also suggests that swathes of office workers are deeply unsatisfied with their workplace.
In the era of the so-called 'War on Talent', offering anything less than an office where people love to work is a risk few companies can afford to take. Moreover, unhappy staff members can have a direct, negative impact on a firm's bottom line. So, when commissioning future workplace designs and deciding on office locations, it is essential businesses find a formula that fosters staff wellbeing and productivity.
War on Talent
The battle to recruit and retain the best talent is a global phenomenon; never has it been so intense. KPMG's 2016 Global CEO Outlook study polled 1,300 bosses across 11 industries in 10 countries, and found 99 percent are taking action to develop existing or future talent. In addition, more than half reported skill gaps in key business functions, while some 96 percent of chief executives plan to increase their headcount over the next three years – a figure up from 78 percent in the previous year.
As attracting and retaining skilled people is a business imperative, companies need to understand what staff members want from their jobs, as do the developers building their workplaces. Much has been written about how to lure in tomorrow's leaders, the so-called Millennials. But it also is worth remembering that retirement ages are rising, and the world's population is aging. As a result, the workforce will continue to include a great many people who did not grow up with a smartphone attached to them like an extra limb. Employers, therefore, need to think about how they can please all the generations that make up their workforce.
Studies such as KPMG's, which research exactly what keeps people in a job, are highlighting the emergence of the workplace itself as being just as important as other, more predictable factors, such as job role and salary – or, in some cases, even more so. For example, a survey conducted by OnePoll last year revealed location is the top factor keeping British workers in their current roles, ahead of both wages and job security: some 57 percent of respondents said they stay in their job because of its location.
So, what makes an ideal office location? Transport connectivity is the first essential, as employees must navigate through increasingly congested cities. It also matters a lot more in business culture, where the prevalence of electronic communications has placed a unique significance on face-to-face meetings, especially in a world where international travel has become faster and cheaper.
The transformation of London's King's Cross, once a rather unloved part of town, into one of the capital's most sought-after business locations is in no small part thanks to the area's rail and underground hub, from which you can access all corners of London, or even travel straight into the heart of Paris.
HB Reavis therefore sees transport connectivity as critical to new office developments. The Gdañski Business Centre in Poland, our commercial office scheme in Warsaw's fast-developing city centre fringe, is considered one of the best-connected schemes in the area. The scheme offers around 100,000sq m of modern offices and other amenities, and is located just 50 metres from a subway station. We have also financed a stairway to further improve the station's accessibility.
A great working environment leads to engaged staff members, as well as a more effective business overall
A train station is located opposite Gdañski Business Centre, and several buses and tramlines stop just 100 metres from the complex. A nearby bridge connects the site to the opposite bank of the Vistula River – a large residential provision – and a number of bicycle routes lead to the complex.
Being located in a primarily residential neighbourhood is also an effective way of ensuring people commuting into the development on weekday mornings are moving in the opposite direction to the heavier flows of transport heading out of the area.
Today's employees aspire to work in an office based in an attractive neighbourhood – or an office that functions as its own attractive 'neighbourhood'. Hence, smart employers are choosing to base their operations in districts where staff can enjoy great restaurants at lunchtime and cool leisure venues after work – the latter being a particular draw for those all-important Millennials.
When developing an office in an area that does not already have these assets, the alternative is to implement a 'placemaking' strategy, which involves creating the required amenities in or around the new office development. Curating the mix thoughtfully will create an interesting place where people want to be.
Our Twin City development in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, demonstrates the power of placemaking. Currently the largest regeneration scheme in Central Europe, the scheme will bring back to life a former industrial zone, thus creating an expansive and lively new city district. It will comprise of Twin City offices on one side of the street and a shopping centre, Stanica Nivy, with a completely rebuilt coach station on the opposite side.
The retail offering will bring life and character to the district, both at street level and higher up, with a fresh foods market, complete with an entire floor devoted to speciality foods, and a multi-functional 'green roof' featuring a greenery and an outdoor gym.
Capitalising on our international experience, we strive to bring the latest trends and solutions to the development while making sure that the area will be 'alive' and serve the entire local community.
Internal wellbeing
This brings us to what happens inside the office. There is now overwhelming evidence to suggest the quality of a workplace affects not only the happiness of its inhabitants, but also their productivity, capacity for collaboration and ability to innovate. With staff on average accounting for 90 percent of any business's operating costs, it is essential employees are as productive as possible. Productivity includes very basic ideals, such as decreased absenteeism and more efficient use of time. However, organisations are now aiming for more: their goal is improved talent management, more engaged employees and faster innovation.
Engagement is particularly interesting: training consultancy Dale Carnegie has noted that organisations with highly engaged employees outperform those with low engagement by 202 percent, a fact that translates directly into the bottom line. Modern workplaces therefore must work to engage employees.
To an extent, how an engaging workplace looks depends on the nature of the work and the demographic segments employed, as mentioned previously. The ping pong ball and bean bag-strewn workplaces pioneered by the media tech sector, which are often held up as the best model for businesses universally (especially for those seeking to recruit Millennials), are not right for every company. But plenty of workplace principles currently in vogue can be widely applied in order to improve how people experience their workplace, such as maximising natural light, ensuring good ventilation and offering a variety of settings for working to suit various tastes, moods and tasks.
Our own headquarters in Warsaw – Post˛epu 14, where 34,500sq m of Grade A office space also houses AstraZeneca, Samsung and Ikano Bank – are designed to ensure the wellbeing and effectiveness of the HB Reavis team. A variety of breakout spaces support different tasks and ways of collaborating. There are also social spaces, such as a games room featuring a football table and an elevated area with beanbags. In addition, board members sit in an open plan area and the CEO's desk is located in a commonly used 'corridor', which fosters interaction between the leadership team and the rest of the staff.
Our London office development, 33 Central, is due for completion in 2017 and was recently sold to the third largest US bank by assets, Wells Fargo. The building is a light-filled island site featuring a quarter-acre roof top garden that offers panoramic views of London's most famous landmarks. Another of our London office schemes, 20 Farringdon, will provide six external terraces and 142 bicycle parking spaces upon completion. It also promotes a 'ditch the lift' mentality: the interior stairs are double width for ease of access and are visible from reception, drawing people towards them. The 12-floor building is also a stone's throw from Farringdon train station, through which Crossrail – London's major new east-to-west transport link – is set to run from December 2018.
The winning formula
Going forward, the best offices in the world will harness digital technology and data to produce an environment that better meets the needs of their occupiers. By knowing who is in the building, where they are, and their preferred lighting and temperature conditions, technology can improve the workplace experience for all staff members – and potentially reduce the employer's heating bill as well.
The winning formula for an office that promotes staff wellbeing and productivity is comprised of multiple elements. These may range from the macro – such as the building's proximity to an airport or train station – to the micro – for instance, whether the building has bicycle parking spaces and potted plants.
The formula will be different for each business, according to the nature of the work and staff demographics – but get the equation right, and the result will be an aspirational and truly occupier-responsive workplace.
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Q: Redirect Loops and .htaccess I just moved from a CentOS dedi to an Ubuntu VPS. The site is custom coded PHP.
Frontend works fine (including rewrite rules). The admin backend I can't get rewrite rules to work...
First error:
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Then after using debug level:
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The relevant bits of my htaccess are:
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This was working fine on CentOS too.
Any ideas? I already tried adding the following as the first condition:
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That stopped it rewriting /admin completely.
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Category: Extremism
Cringeworthy, Ethics, Extremism, Greg Haitz, Health, Health care, Lies, Pandemic, Pop culture, Public health, Quackery, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
by Anne Landman • January 28, 2022 • 1 Comment
Charles Daniel Vaden
For many people, chiropractors are de facto primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved rural areas like the western slope. Many people find it easier and more affordable to see a chiropractor than an M.D., and tend see their chiropractors far more often than they do M.D.s., generating familiarity and an atmosphere of trust with these health professionals. This puts chiropractors in a great position to deliver vital information about public health to good portion of the community, like educating people in positive health behaviors, informing them about what's scientifically proven to work to keep people safe from Covid-19, and informing them about when to seek further medical care.
But instead of using their position to benefit public health, it turns out many Grand Junction chiropractors are dispensing egregiously incorrect medical information about vaccines and prevention of Covid-19. And these chiropractors aren't just flushing their opportunity to be a community asset down the toilet. Chiropractors engaging in this behavior have effectively turned on the people who trust them, by misleading them in a very dangerous way, and often doing it for profit.
Rimrock Wellness Center strikes again
Another Grand Junction chiropractor spreading false medical information about Covid-19 vaccines and the coronavirus is Charles Daniel Vaden, D.C., who goes by the name Daniel Vaden.
Vaden works at Greg Haitz's Rimrock Wellness Center at 12th and Patterson in Grand Junction. Last December, we saw how Haitz was profiting from the pandemic by marketing his own "Rimrock Wellness Center" proprietary brand of "immune support" supplement by inferring it would give "protection and support" against Covid-19.
To date no supplement has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent, treat or mitigate Covid-19, and claims like that about supplements of any kind are health fraud. The FDA has sent hundreds of cease-and-desist letters to businesses across the country like Rimrock Wellness Center that are doing the same thing.
Vaden calls Covid-19 shots "death shots"
Irresponsibly and militantly anti-vaccination
Vaden uses his status as a health care professional on his Facebook page to actively militate against Covid-19 vaccines, which are now among the most widely administered and closely studied vaccines in history.
FDA-approved Covid vaccines have been administered hundreds of millions of times in this country alone, and are proving to be extraordinarily safe and effective at reducing deaths from Covid-19 and keeping people out of the hospital, saving thousands of lives and helping save the American health care system from collapse.
Despite this, Vaden refers to Covid-19 vaccines "death shots" and falsely claims
"Real scientists have proven this vax [the Covid vaccination] is 800 times more deadly than the smallpox vaccination and has killed over 150,000 Americans."
This is untrue. Smallpox was a highly deadly disease that had been around for at least 3,000 years and had killed millions of people. The World Health Organizations (WHO) began the push to eradicate smallpox in 1959. Between 1959 and 1968, the heaviest period of smallpox vaccination in the U.S., there were 68 deaths from complications of the smallpox vaccine. The WHO declared the world free of smallpox on May 8, 1980 in what was widely considered to be the biggest international public health achievement in history.
Yet on October 31, 2021, Vaden wrote that "Vaccinations cause much much more harm than any perceived benefit. Vaccinations are a scam…"
Most of the 330 million people in the U.S. who have gotten childhood vaccines against smallpox, polio, measles, rubella, mumps, chicken pox, tetanus and a host of other diseases knows this claim is false.
Facebook has slapped warning labels on many of Vaden's posts in an effort to correct health misinformation.
Vaden, whose license does not qualify him to prescribe medications, tells people how to get the horse de-worming medication Ivermectin to use as an "early treatment" or prevention of Covid-19. Ivermectin has not been approved to treat Covid-19 and FDA warns that taking it for this purpose can be dangerous or even lethal. NPR reported last September that poison control centers nationwide were getting a dramatic surge of calls from people who were self-medicating with Ivermectin.
Vaden refers to Covid-19 vaccines as the "death shot." Facebook has slapped messages on many of his posts telling people where they can get truthful information about Covid-19 vaccines.
On Nov. 23rd, citing questionable sources (some of whom don't even have full names), Vaden wrote that people who are fully vaccinated are nine times more likely to be hospitalized. Consistently, an average of about 80% of people hospitalized locally for Covid-19 have been unvaccinated.
In a December 5, 2021 post, Vaden wrote that "it is IMPOSSIBLE for the Omicron "Variant" (or ANY variant) to exist, let alone be tested for."
Scientists use genomic sequencing to track variants of the virus.
All of these are dangerous and easily verifiable lies that spread misinformation and discourage vaccination — the best tool we have to reduce harm from the virus. Statements like the above put the community in danger.
Vaden was previously fined for practicing without a license
Vaden previously had disciplinary action taken against him by a state chiropractic board.
In July, 2016, Vaden, then under the name Charles Vaden, was fined $4,000 by the Tennessee state Chiropractic Board for practicing without a license.
We can assume that what Vaden says on his Facebook page is the same thing he is telling patients he sees at Rimrock Wellness Center, to the detriment of our entire area. Chiropractors like this are no doubt contributing to the extraordinarily low vaccination rate we suffer from in our area. To that end, he has been reported to the Colorado State Board of Chiropractic Examiners for making false and misleading statements about Covid-19. The complaint has been assigned a case number. It is Case No. 2022-693.
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by Anne Landman • January 22, 2022 • 6 Comments
Boebert, grinning while wearing a T-shirt that makes fun of the tragic death of 41 year old cinematographer Halayna Hutchins, who was accidentally shot by a prop gun held by actor Alec Baldwin, who was rehearsing a scene that required the gun. Baldwin called Boebert's wearing of this shirt "unconscionable."
News outlets are reporting on an incident that occurred at the U.S. Capitol in which Colorado House Rep. Lauren Boebert, while exiting an elevator, saw a group of Jews who were visiting the Capitol. The person leading the group was an orthodox Jew with a traditional beard, the others were wearing yarmulkes and some were rabbis. The group was there to meet with Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-NY).
Reports say that upon seeing the group, Boebert looked them up and down and asked aloud if they were there to "do reconnaissance."
The question left the group confused.
When news outlets questioned Rep. Boebert about the incident, she responded by text that she was making a joke:
"I saw a large group and made a joke. Sadly when Democrats see the same they demonize my family for a year straight."
She added that she was too short to see yarmulkes on people's heads.
Coronavirus pandemic, Education, Extremism, Health, Pandemic, Public health, Safety
Meme in an email blast sent out by the far right group Mesa County Concerned Citizen on 11/15/21, showing that likely many local people lack any understanding of how respiratory disease and its transmission work — information that is massively important to getting a pandemic under control
The above meme was sent out in an email blast last November 15, 2021 by the far right extremist group Mesa County Concerned Citizen.
The meme makes it clear that many Mesa County residents likely lack an understanding about how the transmission of respiratory diseases works — information that is massively important to our ability to bring the virus under control. This could be one reason why the coronavirus has been able to spread so efficiently in Mesa County, and why it is likely to persist here.
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Former KKCO weatherman Butch McCain now shilling for anti-vaxxers
by Anne Landman • January 17, 2022 • 14 Comments
Former KKCO Channel 11 weatherman Butch McCain, who was fired last October for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19, stands in front of a fake weather map in a video promoting the anti-vax group Stop The Mandate GJ
Former longtime KKCO weatherman Butch McCain, who was fired from KKCO last October after refusing to get a Covid-19 vaccine in compliance with his employer Gray TV's Covid-19 vaccine policy, is now promoting the anti-vax group Stop the Mandate GJ, which is encouraging others in our area to also refuse the vaccine.
McCain now appears on the first page of StoptheMandateGJ's website, talking in front of a fake weather map and saying in part,
"It's not about Covid any more, it's about forced compliance…Let's be the resistance to their nationwide tyranny…
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Another local chiropractor spreads dangerous misinformation about Covid prevention and treatment
Photo: YouTube, 2010
In October, 2021, the U.S. News and World Report revealed chiropractors are a major force stirring up anti-vaccine sentiment and spreading medical misinformation across the country in the pandemic. Often regarded as trusted health professionals, chiropractors who do this pose a potent threat to the public by hawking supplements as alternatives to vaccines, working to help people evade vaccine mandates, recommending unapproved and potentially toxic medication regimens to treat and prevent Covid, and abetting anti-vaccine movements at the local level.
That is certainly happening here in Grand Junction, too.
Ethics, Extremism, Health, Health care, Lies, Pandemic, Propaganda, Public health, Safety, Scams, Weird western slope stuff
G.J. chiropractor recommends novel but fraudulent way for anti-vaxxers to try to avoid mandatory Covid vaccination
New Life Chiropractic on Patterson Rd., operated by Wesley Sheader, recommends "VaxControlGroup.com" to anti-vaxxers who are trying to evade vaccine mandates. The only problem is, it's fraudulent.
Grand Junction chiropractor Wesley Sheader of New Life Chiropractic at 2532 Patterson Road is giving people trying to evade Covid-19 vaccine mandates a unique way to evade the jab: he suggests they join an unvaccinated study control group which can issue them an official-looking ID card saying they can't be vaccinated because they are a participant in the study.
The only thing is, there is no study and the "control group" is a scam.
Advertising, Consumer advocacy, Dangerous Republicans, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Extremism, Generic idiocy, Health, Health care, Lies, Local scut, Pandemic, Propaganda, Public health, Republican lies, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
"Mesa County Concerned Citizen" fraudulently promotes $182 ripoff box of common OTC items as an "early and effective treatment of COVID-19"
by Anne Landman • January 9, 2022 • 7 Comments
Screen-shot from a January 6, 2022 email sent out by Mesa County Concerned Citizen in which the group links to this box of every day drug store items selling online that claims to be an "early and effective treatment for Covid-19." The box sells for $160.00 plus $20 shipping and $12.37 tax, for a total of $182.36 — all for about $60 worth of over-the-counter items.
In its January 3, 2022 email blast, the local extreme right wing group "Mesa County Concerned Citizen" included a plug for "The Defense Box," an item selling online that contains about $60 worth of common over-the counter items like Pepcid, Listerine, Vitamin C and baby aspirin, that costs $182.36, including shipping and tax.
The group says the items are an "early and effective treatment option" for Covid-19.
None of the items in the box are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment, prevention, mitigation or cure of Covid-19.
Cringeworthy, Ethics, Extremism, Generic idiocy, Health, Lies, Pandemic, Public health, Weird Grand Junction Stuff, Weird western slope stuff
Redlands chiropractor spreads dangerous medical misinformation amid pandemic
In a video on his business web page under the heading "Covid Treatments," Grand Junction chiropractor Ronald Engler of the Redlands Chiropractic and Wellness Center administers horse deworming medication to himself and encourages others to do the same to themselves, in violation of FDA guidance on use of the drug.
NOTE: This video has been banned on YouTube previously for posing a serious risk of egregious harm. It was uploaded again here for purposes of criticism in this article. We'll see if it lasts.
While some Grand Junction chiropractors are profiting from the pandemic by marketing proprietary dietary supplements that they falsely infer will prevent or treat Covid-19, others are using their credibility as health care providers to openly promote dangerous medical misinformation to the public.
One of these is Ronald W. Engler of the Redlands Chiropractic and Wellness Center.
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Cindy Ficklin ends her run for HD-55
by Anne Landman • December 26, 2021 • 26 Comments
————————————————————————–Local realtor and right wing extremist Cindy Ficklin posted on her Facebook page Sunday, 12/26/21, that she was withdrawing from the race for the House District 55 seat. She filed to run on 10/18/21. Her candidacy lasted only about two months.
Ficklin
Far right wing extremist Cindy Ficklin announced on Sunday, 12/26, that she has withdrawn her candidacy for the Colorado House District 55 seat.
Ficklin made the announcement in one of her usual extended, emoji-laden posts sprinkled with misspellings. She expressed shock that she had been called anti-semitic during her campaign, especially by her Republican Jewish friends, and admitted she had been ignorant about long-time anti-semitic tropes like saying Jews controlled all the banks the world. She expressed disappointment that people called her "gun-toting" when she only owns only "a couple baby Glocks."
Ficklin lamented that the media had referred to her as a "conspiracy theorist," saying
"I call it being the f*cking resistance, assholes."
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Local chiropractor Greg Haitz is behind "Stop the Mandate GJ," hawks unproven supplements for Covid-19
Stop the Mandate GJ's street address matches that of Greg Haitz's business, Rimrock Wellness Center
Greg Haitz, owner of Rimrock Wellness Center
Rimrock Wellness Center, a chiropractic office at 12th and Patterson that also sells fat-loss treatments and supplements, has the same street address as "Stop the Mandate GJ," the group agitating to stop hospitals, nursing homes and doctors' offices from requiring health workers be vaccinated against Covid-19, the highly communicable, often deadly disease causing the pandemic. At the same time it is encouraging people to remain unvaccinated, Rimrock Wellness Center is also trying to profit off unvaccinated people's fear of getting Covid-19, as well as their misperceptions of the relative safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines.
Haitz fraudulently promotes his own brand of supplement as protective against Covid-19
Cindy Ficklin, Coronavirus pandemic, Cringeworthy, Dangerous Republicans, Elections, Embarrassing Republicans, Extremism, Generic idiocy, Health, Mesa County Republican Party, Pandemic, politics, Public health, Republican incompetence, Weird Grand Junction Stuff
HD-55 candidate Cindy Ficklin (R) now blames taxpayers and a Daily Sentinel reporter for her getting Covid, and is taking unproven treatments for the disease
Ficklin says she "went underground" to get Ivermectin to treat her Covid-19 infection, and displays the bottle in a Facebook post. There is no evidence Ivermectin cures Covid-19, and the FDA urges people not to use it.
Republican House District 55 candidate Cindy Ficklin is using non-medically approved treatments for Covid-19, including the animal de-worming medication Ivermectin. She also says she is inhaling "silver and Glutathione" with a nebulizer to "prevent conjestion [sic] from hardening in my lungs."
Cindy Ficklin, Coronavirus pandemic, Crazy Republicans, Cringeworthy, Dangerous Republicans, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Lies, Pandemic, politics, Public health, Republican lies
Anti-mask, anti-vax Republican candidate for HD55 Cindy Ficklin has Covid-19, blames it on government
Cindy Ficklin announced on December 19 that she has Covid-19. Ficklin is a militantly anti-mask, anti-vaccination Republican known for spreading the ideas masks are symbols of oppression and vaccines contain "nanotechnology."
Anti-mask, anti-vaccination candidate for HD-55 Cindy Ficklin (R-Mesa County) announced December 19 on Facebook that she has contracted Covid-19 and is blaming it squarely on the U.S. government.
Ficklin announced she had the disease after emerging from a 30 day ban from Facebook. Facebook has banned Ficklin numerous times for spreading lies and conspiracy theories on her page. Ficklin has repeatedly asserted without proof that the SARS CoV2 virus was created in a laboratory to target obese, elderly and unfit people; she has spread lies about vaccine deaths and about public health physician Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, profiting personally from the virus.
Activism, Andrea Haitz, Angela Lema, Conservatives, Corruption, Dangerous Republicans, Education, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Extremism, Inept Republicans, politics, Republicans violating laws, Willie Jones
New conservative school board members violate CO Open Meetings Law, make decisions in secret
Newly-elected D-51 School Board member Andrea Haitz promised transparency, but is violating open meetings laws and attempting to enact policy without public comment. At about 4:43 into the meeting video, after a suggestion that the Board could get more information about potential law firms to hire, Haitz says "There's a certain point where you can get too much information."
It took no time at all for the newly sworn-in District 51 School Board members to violate Colorado's Open Meetings Law (pdf), violate their campaign promises of transparency, and indicate their willingness to spend excessive taxpayer funds for no clear reason, and they did it all in one breathtaking move they sprang on everyone a full four hours into their first board meeting December 14.
Conservatives, Crazy Republicans, Democracy, Embarrassing Republicans, Extremism, Fake patriotism, Generic idiocy, Tina Peters
"Stand for The Constitution" is little more than Constitution theater
by Anne Landman • December 4, 2021 • 6 Comments
Comments under a video Stand for the Constitution posted of the Tina Peters Rally Dec. 1. The group blocks speech they don't like from their Facebook page, showing they oppose the spirit of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Constitution
"Stand for the Constitution," (SFTC) a Mesa County group that claims to defend the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and the integrity of local elections, has started blocking critics and deleting comments it doesn't like from its public Facebook page while defending the only person in Mesa County who has ever publicly refused to count hundreds of legitimately-cast ballots: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters.
The First Amendment of the Constitution makes it illegal for government to enact laws restricting freedom of speech and expression. Stand for the Constitution is a private group, not a government entity, so it has every right to block people from its social media pages. But despite claims that it exists to promote freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, SFTC blocks speech they do not want to acknowledge.
Anti-semitism, Cindy Ficklin, Crazy Republicans, Dangerous Republicans, Ethnic/Minority, Extremism, politics
Response from a local citizen to Republican CO House 55 candidate Cindy Ficklin's spreading anti-semitic tropes and misinformation on social media
by Anne Landman • November 29, 2021 • 7 Comments
Cindy Ficklin (Photo Credit: video by Stand for the Constitution)
On November 21, 2021, the Daily Sentinel published an article titled "Ficklin denies anti-Semitic leanings," that examined statements and outrageous, unfounded claims made by Republican Colorado House Representative District 55 candidate Cindy Ficklin in her social media posts.
Ficklin's writings included anti-semitic tropes about prominent Jews being "monsters in the shadows" who "control all the banks in the world."
Conservatives, Cringeworthy, Dangerous Republicans, Deplorables, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Ethnic/Minority, Extremism, Harassment, Homophobia, Intolerance, Lauren Boebert, politics, Stupid Republicans, Vile Republicans
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) makes homophobic comments about Transportation Secretary Pete Butigieg taking parental leave to care for prematurely-born newborn twins
Colorado Republican House Rep. Lauren Boebert, has been lobbing homophobic comments at U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Butigieg at fundraisers, on television shows, and in a YouTube video of her own making that she calls "Bullet Points."
Boebert berated Butigieg, the first openly gay person ever appointed to a cabinet-level position in the federal government, for taking parental leave to help care for his and his partners' prematurely-born adopted twin babies.
Cringeworthy, Deplorables, Embarrassing Republicans, Extremism, Intolerance, Lauren Boebert, politics, Racism, Trump Insanity, Vile Republicans
CO House Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) uses bigoted joke to disparage Democratic colleague
While speaking at a campaign event in Pueblo on Saturday, November 20, during Congress' Thanksgiving break, Republican CO House Rep. Lauren Boebert made a bigoted, anti-Muslim joke at the expense of her Muslim colleague, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), intimating Omar could be a suicide bomber if she was wearing a backpack.
Boebert told the crowd she had just entered an elevator at the Capitol when a Capitol Police security guard came running just up as the doors were closing. Boebert said she turned and saw Omar and said to the guard, "Well, she doesn't have a backpack. We should be fine."
According to Rep. Omar, Boebert lied about the scenario, because the incident never happened. Omar condemned "hateful and dangerous Muslim tropes," saying they don't belong in Congress.
Conservatives, Cringeworthy, Deplorables, Embarrassing Republicans, Extremism, Inept Republicans, Lauren Boebert, politics, Vile Republicans
CO House Rep. Lauren Boebert challenges wheelchair-bound House colleague to a sprint
In a light-hearted competition among the most extreme right wing Republican members of Congress to see who could glorify killer Kyle Rittenhouse the most after his acquittal this week, Colorado House Rep. Lauren Boebert (Republican-CO) turned down an arm-wrestling challenge and instead challenged her colleague, House Rep. Madison Cawthorn, to a sprint.
Rep. Cawthorn is in a wheelchair due to injuries sustained in a 2014 vehicle accident.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC). Photo: Campaign web page


In this study, metal particles were added during the spot friction welding (SFW) process, a solid state sheet metal joining process, to create a localized metal matrix composite (MMC) for the improvement of lap shear strength in AISI 6111-T4 aluminum alloy sheets. The Ancorsteel® 1000 particles were compressed between the upper and lower sheets and distributed concentrically around the tool axis perpendicular to the plate surface, which formed a localized MMC and were effective as the reinforcement particles in aluminum 6111-T4 alloy sheets. Results revealed that the MMC reinforcement improved the lap shear strength of SFW joints by about 25%. An aluminum-ferrous solid solution was formed around the steel particles along the aluminum matrix interface. The load-deflection curve shows that the steel particle MMC increased both the strength and ductility of SFW joint. This is attributed to two phenomena observed on the failed lap shear tensile specimens with SFW MMC. One is the longer and more torturous crack path, and the other is the secondary crack on steel particle MMC reinforced SFW joints.
Chawla, N., and Chawla, K. K., 2006, "Metal Matrix Composites", Springer, Berlin.
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Arul, S. G., Kruger, G. H., Miller, S. F., Pan, T. Y., and Shih, A. J., 2008, "Spot Friction Weld Strength Improvement Through In-Process Metal Matrix Formation," Proceedings of the 2008 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference , Evanston, IL, October 7–10.
Tozaki, Y., Uematsu, Y., and Tokaji, K., 2006, "Effect of Welding Condition on Tensile Strength of Dissimilar FS Spot Welds Between Different Al Alloys," "Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Friction Stir Welding", Saint-Sauveur, Nr Montreal, Canada, October 10–13.
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Q: What do you call the main telephone number? I understand that someone's work phone might have an extension. What do you call the main number of that office, which would normally be answered by an operator or a computer voice system?
Would it be the "Main Line", the "Main Station", the "Root of Extension"? I would like to know the technical name as well as some more informal or slang terms, if there are any.

A: From the days when large offices had their telephone lines connected through a mechanical switch, you would ask for a number that will connect you to the switchboard or the switch operator (or when it was not deemed to be sexist, the "switch girl").
As they became more technologically sophisticated, corporations might replace their switch with a private automatic branch exchange (PABX). In that case, their central number would connect to that and calls would be distributed to the EXT (extension) lines.

A: I hear main line a lot but main (phone) number is fine too.  If you tell many people (of course not ELU users) that here is my switch(board) number you might leave them confused.  Also google and other search engines are spitting out main phone number far better than switch(board) number.

A: ''Board number'' would be the word sounding more correct in my ears.


It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that we are entering 2018. Last year was an excellent beginning for the LEVIT with a total of 89 students joining our Arabic programs from May to December!
We moved the classrooms to the other side of the building, expanding accommodation capacity.
In collaboration with a local organization, we relocated the learning center for children one block away from the institute.
Our team expanded with 3 new teachers!
We were selected by the United Nations program Entrepreneur 4 Social Change (E4SC) and participated in a 10 day training in Turin.
In collaboration with Utopia, a local NGO, and Mercy Corps Lebanon, LEVIT started a program to raise awareness among Tripoli's new generation informing them about recycling and waste management.
"I was with LEVIT for their 4 week Levantine Immersion course in December. The city is cheap, the food is good, the people generous and the architecture charming, if decayed. The culture of the institute itself is one that is open to the city, the opposite of the bubble you might find elsewhere. The students I found already there were, like the institute, deeply involved in the social life of city, their local networks formed by work, volunteering with the various voluntary projects for social good the institute has going and just being nice and chatty in general. The teaching and teachers were excellent - the levels of Arabic found in a class can be uneven, but this is offset by small class sizes of three to five people, with individual lessons always an option. I can only speak for my sense of safety as a young man, but I never felt threatened in the city, day or night. And Beirut is never more than two hours away. Highly recommended."
Arabic classes have had a constant pace, with motivated groups of students attending our Levantine Immersion program at beginners and intermediate levels, as well as MSA classes. This month we have included more comprehension exercises based on Lebanese movies, famous TV series, and comedy shows as students explicitly requested wanting to engage more with popular Lebanese media. Our teachers organized listening and comprehension activities, as well as preparing presentations on a variety of topics in order to test and push their speaking and communication abilities.
Beyond the classroom, teaching activities have included various trips to some of Tripoli's most renown spots, like the old vegetable and clothes souks, and the XV century Mameluke soap Khan.
The Maan Centre has been going through some structural changes in the last few months, as the premises of the Centre were moved from the Institute's building to a new location, one street away, still in the same neighbourhood of Zehrieh. Arabic, French and English classes for Syrian children grade 3 to 6, have been taking place at a normal pace despite the disruption caused by the transfer. Around 60 children are registered at the Maan center and 20% of LEVIT's benefits is invested into this project.
Other students have been very active with the local NGOs providing English lessons, with "March" in the Beb Al Tebbeneh neighbourhood or with "Seeds" in Mina giving french lessons to Syrian refugees.
Selected out of hundreds of social entreprises, the LEVIT got the chance to take part of a 10 day training in Torino, Italy in November 2017. Along with 24 other participants, we gained visibility and a solid network from this experience. Huge thanks to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Fondazione CRT for making this program an excellent opportunity for young entrepreneurs to build solid basis for growth.
Check one of our video here!
Tripoli has major waste management issues and certain habits need to be changed. As for any change in societies, it has to come from the new generation.
In partnership with Mercy Corps Lebanon and Utopia, we rehabilitated a dump site located right under our building and turned it into a green space for awareness sessions. The main objective is to make sure new generations are aware of the danger of pollution and bad habits such as throwing everything in the garbage without sorting. We will be welcoming classes all along the year hoping to make a change for the times to come.
We also brought 4 containers and will start collecting plastic, paper, metal and glass in the coming weeks and send it to a sorting and packaging facility in the Koura region.
This is it for 2017!
Keep an eye on the Institute's course calendar if interested in joining or returning to the Institute for a period of study in 2018. Don't hesitate to contact us for any information.
And keep on following us through our Facebook page!
We seize the opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year!


The rule of thumb is that bankruptcy will discharge most unsecured debts that are not taxes or domestic support obligations (which are two of the most common "non-dischargeable debts" that will survive a bankruptcy). This means that child support, domestic support owed to an ex-spouse and many taxes are never discharged in any form of bankruptcy. However a fine line can be drawn where some payment obligations in a divorce decree can still be discharged, but only in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
The divorce obligations that can be discharged in Chapter 13 bankruptcy (but not in Chapter 7) are payments that relate to property settlements such as a cash equalizer. Cash equalizers are common, for example, when there is equity in a homestead that needs to be fairly divided between the spouses when one spouse will stay on deed to the home. The general standard for discharging these types of divorce-related obligations is whether the payment is "domestic support" in nature (non-dischargeable) or is more of a property settlement (dischargeable).
In Chapter 13 cases, payments due to an ex-spouse on account of a property settlement are not allowed in the debtor's budget since these obligations typically are considered general unsecured debt similar to a credit card. Also like a credit card, the ex-spouse can file a proof of claim in the Chapter 13 case to claim their right to receive a proportionate distribution paid to all unsecured creditors, with any amount unpaid being discharged at the end of a successfully completed Chapter 13 plan. While usually this distribution is only fraction of the amount that is owed, unsecured creditors may nonetheless file a claim.
Support obligations are never dischargeable in any form of bankruptcy and a Chapter 13 debtor will be expected to continue making these payments during the course of their Chapter 13. These include child support and domestic support owed to an ex-spouse, but not necessarily property settlements, cash equalizers and possibly other payments owed.
Located in Edina, Minnesota, Lynn Wartchow represents clients in all Chapters of bankruptcy in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Ramsey and Hennepin County, and throughout Minnesota.
Bankruptcy and Divorce: What Should Come First?
Divorce is often a precursor to bankruptcy, for either one or both of the divorcing spouses find themselves in need of discharging debts in the face of earning only a single income once again. The difficult question is determining what should come first: the bankruptcy or the divorce.
The answer of course depends on a multitude of circumstances including whether the spouses can cooperate and agree to a joint (and amicable) bankruptcy filing before the divorce is finalized, how long it may be before a divorce decree is entered, which assets owned jointly versus individually, whether there are any joint debts, how the incomes of each of spouse may affect a joint bankruptcy both during a bankruptcy proceeding and after the divorce is final.
When divorce and bankruptcy overlap, the first question is timing. Often family attorneys may advise their clients to file a bankruptcy before finalizing the divorce, which has the optimistic effect of clearing up those debts so the divorce decree has one less thing to divide up between the spouses. However, there are reasons why it may be better to wait to file bankruptcy until after the divorce is complete, especially for debtors that may owe monetary obligations to their ex-spouse as part of the divorce decree. While child support and alimony (or maintenance, as it is sometimes called) that are based on the financial need of the other spouse are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, certain other financial obligations to one's ex-spouse may be dischargeable in bankruptcy, including property settlements and other financial obligations that are not based on the financial need of the other spouse. Under some situations, these types of divorce decree obligations can be discharged in a Minnesota consumer bankruptcy filed under Chapter 13.
Another reason to wait to file bankruptcy until after a divorce is finalized: a divorce decree can slap a debt back on one spouse, effectively mooting the entire reason for filing bankruptcy. In Minnesota—which is not a community property state—one spouse typically cannot be held liable for debts incurred solely by their spouse unless both spouses signed the credit agreement (there are some exceptions, such as medical debts which can be enforced against one's spouse under state statute). A divorce decree usually divides all debts amongst the spouses. For example, the husband may assume the entire responsibility for all joint and individual credit cards in his name while the wife will take over the homestead and accompanying home mortgages and individual credit cards in her name. If the husband files bankruptcy before the divorce is finalized and discharges his legal responsibility to his credit card companies, the divorce decree can still subject the husband to responsibility to his wife for any payments she is forced to make on the joint credit cards that she will still owe in spite of his bankruptcy because she did not file with him. In this example, while the credit card companies could not sue the husband because of his discharge received in bankruptcy, however they could still sue the wife for the joint debts and the wife, in turn, can then sue her ex-husband for indemnification under the divorce decree if she is forced to pay on the joint credit card debts that were otherwise assigned to him. The point is that you never know how the debts will be divided until the stamp is dry on the divorce decree, and you don't want to waste a bankruptcy discharge (which you can only get once every 8 years) on debts that may be re-assigned to you in the divorce.
Other issues to be considered when bankruptcy and divorce intersect: equity in a homestead may not be exempt if it is no longer one's homestead (a marital lien alone does not satisfy "occupancy" to obtain a Minnesota homestead exemption); child support and spousal maintenance counts as income for the purposes of qualification for Chapter 7 under the means test; an indemnification clause in the divorce decree may undermine the effect of a bankruptcy discharge; unless a full disclosure is made and the divorcing spouses are cooperative, the bankruptcy attorney may have conflict of interest issues that prevent joint representation of divorcing spouses.
Lynn Wartchow is a bankruptcy attorney located in Edina, Minnesota and representing clients in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 consumer bankruptcy proceedings throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota.


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20-21 Back to School Guide
Dear LPS Families and Community Members:
Welcome back! In these turbulent times, it feels good to be going back to something as reliable as a new school year, even though school looks different for many families this fall. On behalf of the Board of Education and LPS staff, I want to thank you for the flexibility you exhibited and the grace you extended to us last spring as we worked through the onset of a global pandemic to continue to provide students with quality learning opportunities. It was, and continues to be, a time of learning and growth for all of us, and I'm hopeful that we have all learned lessons in how to be innovative, resourceful, and resilient that we can carry with us through life.
Meaningful work continued over the summer, as many of our schools and facilities received upgrades from the bond this community generously passed in November 2018 to begin to replace, improve, and prolong the lives of our district's aging schools. There were improvements made to parking lots, playgrounds, mechanical systems, HVAC systems, lighting, and kitchens. New furniture is starting to be deployed throughout the district, and this will continue in the coming months. Take a drive by the construction sites for the new elementary school in the Ames community and the new Newton Middle School to see these new buildings begin to take shape!
Other summer work included that of the Restart Task Force, composed of teachers, school staff and administrators, parents, community members, district-level instructional administrators, district nurses, and others. They spent many hours developing plans to enable the district to meet any of several learning models for the fall, and their work will be instrumental if we find ourselves needing to change how we structure learning due to Covid-19. I want to recognize and thank the Restart Task Force for their hard work!
I also want to thank LPS employees, including custodians, operations techs, transportation and nutrition services staff, as well as teachers and our learning services team, all of whom are working so hard to make school not only possible, but the best it can be for our students. This is challenging work. Our teachers, our staff, are the very best; together, we can work to keep our students, families, and staff safe. This work does not go unnoticed, and it is appreciated!
LPS continues to grapple with a budget shortfall, which has been further impacted by Covid-19. Surveys indicate the LPS community highly values quality teachers, physical safety, mental health support, and expanding programming to include career, technology, and skilled trades classes that provide students with real world job skills. In order to continue to be a destination district that draws the best teachers, provides outstanding programs for students of all ages, keeps our families engaged, and attracts out-of-district enrollment, the district will need to seek additional funding locally, as state funding for public schools plummets at an alarming rate. The Board of Education decided to place a mill levy override question on this November's ballot at their August 13, 2020 meeting. I recognize that this is a financially challenging time for many of the district's families, but preparing our students for their lives both now and in the future is a very important investment, and we need your support. The Board of Education will also continue to work with our local legislators to advocate for additional funding at the state level.
Finally, I want to thank our entire community for coming together to support our students. These are unprecedented times, and it is my hope that LPS students will come out of them better equipped to handle whatever life brings. LPS is committed to ensuring all students have a year of meaningful learning and growth, and it is invaluable that our community supports their education. We look forward with great anticipation to the day when our students can pursue their passions free of health restrictions.
Brian Ewert
During its regularly scheduled meeting on August 13, 2020, the LPS Board of Education voted to move forward with plans to place a mill levy override on the November 2020 ballot. Throughout the summer, the Board studied various options available to fill the anticipated ongoing $12 million budget gap LPS will face caused by the COVID-19 economic downturn in Colorado and due to the State of Colorado's chronic inability to adequately fund its public schools. Colorado has shortchanged LPS more than $156 million over the past decade, which has placed tremendous and increasing pressure on the district's budget. No state solutions are in sight. If local solutions are not found, people and programs – the very parts of our schools that the LPS community values most – will face drastic cuts for the 2021–2022 school year.
The Board began exploring local solutions last January. After making $4.2 million in cuts for the 2020–2021 school year, and projected cuts of $12 million for 2021–2022 (and beyond) looming, the LPS Board recognized that these budget cuts will negatively impact the academic excellence this community values and expects of LPS:
Continuing to attract and retain quality teachers
Maintaining school counseling for mental health and suicide prevention
Providing career, technology and skilled trades classes that provide students with real world job skills such as health care, skilled trades and computer science
As presented to the Board of Education at its August 13, 2020 meeting, the local mill levy override would raise $12 million to fill the $12 million state funding gap for the 2021–2022 school and in the years ahead. The money would be used to keep the teachers, academic programs (including those in the skilled trades), mental health support and physical safety measures that are currently in place.
"These are extreme circumstances; COVID has placed an additional strain on many of our families and on our district's budget. But with Colorado's inability to adequately fund its public schools, we are facing truly catastrophic cuts. While this is a hard time to have to do this, we are a public school district. So we need to at least ask the public and let them decide," said Board of Education President Jack Reutzel. "We have exhausted all other options. A local mill levy override would give us the chance to save the things our community values the most – the very people and programs that makes Littleton Public Schools so special, which in turn would allow us to keep providing our community with an outstanding education."
Thank you to LPS voters for the opportunity to make exciting improvements throughout Littleton Public Schools! Investment in our educational infrastructure enables us to provide all students with the best possible opportunities and experiences.
Projects made possible by the 2018 voter-approved $298M bond continued through the spring and over the summer. Major projects included:
Demolition of Ames Elementary School and the beginning of construction on the new elementary school on the Ames campus
Construction work on the new Newton Middle School, which will continue throughout the 2020–2021 school year
Turf fields at Euclid, Goddard, and Powell middle schools
Parking lot and entrance upgrades at Goddard Middle School, as well as construction of a new elevator;
New playground equipment at Hopkins, Lenski, Peabody and Sandburg elementary schools
Kitchen improvements at Euclid Middle School, Wilder Elementary School and Centennial Academy of Fine Arts Education
Bond dollars are also being used to replace old, outdated student desks and classroom furniture in every school with new furnishings that will facilitate modern instruction while accommodating students with a variety of needs. The 2018 Bond allows the district to strategically replace or prolong the life of aging facilities and provide accommodations and accessibility for all students and families.
Bond work continues on schedule despite the district's budget constraints, since bond dollars cannot be used to offset general fund deficits caused by inadequate state funding. By Colorado statute, bond funds can only be spent on capital expenses, such as: facility repairs, upgrades, construction, grounds maintenance, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) modifications, electrical, plumbing, etc. Therefore, bond funds cannot be used for things like teacher salaries, curriculum, or other operating expenses, which come out of the district's general fund.
The Long-Range Planning Committee (LRPC) has been working on updating the district's attendance boundaries since the fall of 2018. Updating boundaries was part of the original charge from the Board of Education when the committee was formed in early 2017, and the committee has worked to improve the boundaries in order to best serve students, address transportation challenges resulting from increased traffic, provide boundaries for the new elementary schools and balance enrollment. The committee has spent countless hours reviewing maps and demographic data, projected enrollments and building capacities, instructional programming within buildings, information from principals and district administration, input from transportation, and community feedback.
Based on feedback received, the committee developed new scenarios and has been working closely with the Board of Education on potential solutions to the district's current boundaries. The Board of Education is scheduled to make a final decision on attendance boundaries at their regularly scheduled meeting on August 27, 2020. New boundaries would go into effect in the fall of 2021.
You Invest. We Connect. Students Thrive.
The Littleton Public Schools Foundation provides funding above and beyond the District's budget to give LPS students every opportunity to succeed. Our fundraising empowers teachers to pursue their best ideas and gives students access to innovative programs that wouldn't be possible without the Foundation's support.
Because of you and your generous hearts, the LPS Foundation had a banner year, even amidst a global pandemic that shut down states, cities, and the traditional school setting. That speaks volumes about our amazing community and its ability and willingness to lean in and make a difference for LPS kids, families, and teachers even when surrounded by so much uncertainty. We are incredibly grateful for your generosity and support. THANK YOU!
As did the school district, the LPS Foundation pivoted in a major way and learned how to flex with the ever changing needs that arose from the coronavirus outbreak. Taking all of our late winter and spring fundraising efforts online, we were able to engage with more community members, parents and businesses to garner donations for our Crisis Relief Call-To-Action which included mental health resources, distance learning supports, internet connectivity through providing hotspots to families in need and additional funding to aid in the breakfast/lunch program that ended up serving over 125,000 meals to kids in our community.
We weathered an ice and snow storm for The Stride way back in October of 2019, hosted our first-ever Theater Night event and our annual golf tournament as well as partnered with many LPS schools' PTOs for an incredible Colorado Gives Day in December. The funds generated from those efforts produced enough funding to provide 70+ LPS teachers with over $65,000 in grants for additional resources that created innovative programs and extraordinary experiences to prepare students for a lifetime of success.
In addition, we were able to provide funding for every elementary school in the district to have access to a unique heart rate monitor program that helps kids learn how to manage their emotions and understand that they can take steps to positively control their mental health. Please check out this news story for more details.
The mental health & wellness of our students is a priority for our fundraising efforts and we provided funding to help with workshops for students, staff and parents as well as student/peer programs, innovative mental health interventions and research, and direct support for students and families. This will remain a major focus of ours as we enter into the 2020-2021 school year.
We are really proud to partner with our community to make an impact on kids and their educational journey through Littleton Public Schools. We strongly believe that we are providing important funding that will help launch LPS students into whatever they define as success and, in doing so, we are helping to strengthen our community, one student at a time.
We hope that you will join in our efforts this year as we traverse these new normal times. If you would like to help students and families prepare for a successful school year, please check out our most recent Crisis Relief call-to-action for school supplies.
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Littleton Public Schools Nutrition Services is serving healthy choices for successful students to more than 5,000 students daily!
We know that many of our parents and students are immersed in a world of unknowns. That is why we are dedicated to ensuring our community not only feels safe but can rely on us to be a constant in your family's life. Whether that be providing your student(s) with a nutritious meal that will help keep them healthy or ensuring students have a clean and safe place to eat their meals, we are here for you! We have implemented many new protocols that will ensure proper social distancing, mandatory face masks and shields for staff, and thorough sanitization between cohorts. Here at LPS Nutrition Services we have your back.
Did you know we have over 25 scratch-made recipes on our menu?! Our meals are taste-tested and kid-approved. They include local ingredients, whole grains and an assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables. Breakfast is served before school starts at The Village Preschool, Ralph Moody Elementary, East Elementary, Centennial Academy, Euclid, Goddard and Powell middle schools, Options Secondary Program, Arapahoe, Heritage and Littleton high schools. "Breakfast After the Bell" is available following the first bell at no charge to all students at Field Elementary. Lunch is served in all LPS schools.
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A dramatic One Pound of Muscle Model (450g of muscle) made of pliable long-lasting vinyl. The Pound of Muscle Model is an ideal educational tool for GPs, nurses and other health, sport and diet professionals to demonstrate muscle bulk in a 3D format. Passed around a group, the muscle replica is a memorable way to start a discussion on the effects of exercise and diet on the body, and their importance to a healthy lifestyle.
The pound of muscle is available in a larger 5 pound version, and Life/Form 1 pound and 5 pound fat models are also available to buy online at Anatomystuff.co.uk.
Please note the Life/Form muscle replica represents approximate volume of real tissue; weights vary and the muscle model is not designed to be an accurate anatomical representation. To show the difference between the volume/size of a pound of fat and muscle, consider the 'Fat Chunk' and Mighty Muscle' models or the 'Globs of Fat' and 'Mass of Muscle' models, both available as a set or individual 1lb and 5lb models.
Muscle Model dimensions: approx. 9cm high; sits on 13cm diameter base.
I run a weight loss class and I bought a fat and muscle model as an ice breaker and to inspire my members to lose weight and imagine how the weight loss would feel in their bodies. They went down a storm.... Recommended!


The efficiency of DSSC has continued to increase in the last 20 years, with a confirmed record of 14.1% which was achieved by G24 Power advisory board member Professor Michael Graetzel and his team at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
These research-cells are produced in the laboratory with the knowledge and advances in DSSC efficiencies due to be transferred into production cells at G24 Power in the near future.
The chart on the right is adapted from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Research Cell Efficiency Records chart.
The efficiency of DSSC and other solar cells for outdoor applications, such as building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), is typically measured under standard test conditions (STC); Temperature 25°C, Irradiance 1000 W/m² (1sun), Air mass 1.5 (AM1.5) spectrum.
Under these test conditions a solar cell with 1m² surface area producing 100 watts of power is measured at 10% power conversion efficiency (PCE).
However, the calculation of DSSC efficiency for indoor applications differs. The air mass (AM1.5) is not relevant for indoor PV operating conditions.
For example, if we used a realistic indoor light level and surface area for an indoor application – Irradiance 100mW/cm2, with a 1cm² surface area producing 10mW then the PCE is measured at 10%.
Using power density can be a more tangible performance measurement of GCell when used indoors. The method uses power output (e.g. microwatts) for a given area (e.g. per cm²) at a luminance level (e.g. 200lux).
The potential for improvement in the power conversion efficiency of DSSC is one of the reasons it is regarded as a highly promising method for efficient and economical conversion of light in to electrical energy.
DSSC improvements are buoyed by the development programs within large chemical companies that enable new combinations of materials, chemical formulation and cell structures to be considered. Areas for potential improvements include dyes, electrolytes, redox couples, photoanodes and tandem cell configurations.
The theoretical photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE) limit of the DSSC, using a simple junction configuration, under standard test conditions (STC) is 32%Â according to Professor Michael Graetzel.
A two level tandem DSSC embodiment could reach 46% efficiency under the same conditions. Higher PCE's reaching close to 40% can be achieved indoors or in diffuse daylight that has a low infrared light content.
To learn more about indoor energy harvesting capabilities visit GCell.


Summary: Expecting flexibility to single handedly deliver a revisited Europe can only feed disappointment. It cannot replace a clear understanding among EU members about the future of Europe.
As the European Union flounders under a myriad of challenges from the populist movements to migration to growing confrontation with President Trump's America, flexibility has reborn as the fashionable concept of the day. At the last European Council June session, the fragile compromise reached on migration found its way thanks to the possibility of flexible bilateral arrangements between Union members. More recently, in Lisbon, Emmanuel Macron rekindled an old French idea about reshaping the European architecture around three concentric circles that would embody different shades of integration. And with the new momentum over the debate on the so called re-foundation of the European Union, the flexible option has been popping everywhere, be it in MEPs' interventions, intellectual circles' discussions or governments' informal papers.
This renewed interest for the flexibility concept should not come as a surprise. As Europe strives to demonstrate it is serious on confronting the numerous challenges that lie ahead while preserving the fragile coherence of the EU, flexibility comes out as the perfect compromise between movement and unity, action and cohesion. It offers to those European governments looking for enhanced integration the right recipe to deliver new momentum to European affairs without openly advocating division or separation.
Yet reality seems to undermine this inflated hope of a one-size-fits-all solution. If only one observes the many attempts in the past to push ahead any ambitious flexible scheme, the results have been far from convincing. Efforts at the launch of the Economic and Monetary Union to set up a core group of Union members inside the euro zone never happened to fly; implementing the enhanced cooperation provisions foreseen in European Treaties for the last twenty years only caught halfhearted support; and recent attempts in the security and defense field at encouraging a pioneering group finally ended up last Spring with the PESCO (Permanent Structured Cooperation) decision which gathers nearly all the member states with the exception of UK, Denmark and Malta.
Why has flexibility delivered so little so far? There is a difference between two different ways of handling flexibility that is often wrongly appreciated. A first pragmatic approach looks for inclusivity; its purpose is to smooth the integration process to a more united Europe; it foresees different paces with the same destination and allows some to move faster and others more slowly but with the common objective of a more integrated union. This multi-speed Union has in fact many illustrations in EU legislation when a Union member or a group of members is granted a temporary derogation to the rules agreed by all. Dogmatic flexibility is of a totally different nature: it exploits the flexible option for the purpose of differentiation and even possible fragmentation; its divisive nature favors a multi-tier Europe with the admission that all union members may not share in the end the same goals for the future of Europe. It then opens the door to differentiated membership which often takes the form of opt-outs as already conceded in the past to individual member states like UK or Denmark.
Much as pragmatic flexibility can be endorsed by all, dogmatic flexibility is conversely a much more controversial matter. For those members who feel they are about to be left out of a substantial flexible arrangement leading to a new multi-tier framework, this scheme sounds very much like a relegation. And for members willing to take part in a core group of that sort, this flexible scheme brings the advantage of a process leading to gradual separation without saying so. This antagonism is further complicated by a growing perception that this debate hides a more fundamental confrontation between Eastern and Western Europe as Eastern Europeans see flexibility as a trick to gradually lock them into a second class zone.
Unsurprisingly, European Treaties only provisioned the pragmatic version of flexibility as their permanent objective was and remains the cohesion and unity of the Union. For the promoters of a more ambitious flexibility leading to deep political reforms, the only channel for their plan then requires a process outside of the Treaty provisions. This is how the first steps of what became later the Schengen provisions started in the 80's. And this is why more recently France, unsatisfied with the extended PESCO membership, proposed to a few like-minded members to join its European Intervention Initiative (EII) as an inter-governmental process outside of the Lisbon Treaty.
At the heart of this ambiguity between the two forms of flexibility lies a misunderstanding over the nature of flexibility itself. It is a tool, not a policy. If the endgame of the ongoing discussion is significant reforms capable of tackling the structural problems of Europe, flexibility as envisaged by the Treaty cannot deliver the appropriate solution as it is not an organizing principle for the future of Europe. The definition of a genuine migration policy, the consolidation of the euro zone, the protection of the rule of law or the conception of a new architecture for EU external partners, including post Brexit UK, are challenges that call for an orderly vision of what a renewed Europe should look like.
Expecting flexibility to single handedly deliver a revisited Europe can only feed delusion and disappointment. Flexibility can help smooth the way forward. It cannot replace a clear understanding among Union members about their perspectives on the future of Europe. No one doubts this discussion will not be a smooth ride. It is likely that, as in the past, EU members may prefer to resort to the old recipe of going for half-baked compromises. Yet the merit of debating flexibility could well be in the end to underline that the usual way of handling European affairs may have reached its limits and that a new process for defining and implementing genuine reforms is necessary.
This article was originally published by E!Sharp.


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