Before he reached South Africa, Quest, the British New York-based host of "Quest Means Business" on CNN, asked his Twitter followers for questions to pose Hanekom and other members of the panel, who included Deputy Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa and Tourism Business Council CEO Mmatsatsi Ramawela.
On South African Airways: Quest apparently raised the issue of how the world perceived the issues swirling around SAA and its embattled chairwoman Dudu Myeni, saying he knew "of no other carrier in the world that has had 7 CEOs in four years".
On the indecision over the fate of SAA (which President Jacob Zuma said on Friday the government would never sell): This is a "political football and that needs to stop".
On the sports events ban: In a reference to the Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula's ban on new sporting events due to lack of transformation in sports like cricket and rugby, putting SA's chances to host the 2023 World Cup in jeopardy, Quest referred to the visa/birth certificate debacle of 2015 that killed SA tourism for the year. He reportedly called it a "repeat of a bad situation".


After Aamir Khan's "Ghajini", fans are waiting to see Salman Khan's new muscular body in his forthcoming movie "Veer". The news is that Salman Khan demanded Rs. 150 Crores for acting in "Veer". So, what's the hype all about and why is Salman charging so much for this movie?
The main reason for Salman charging Rs. 150 Crores for "Veer" is that it based on a story written by Khan himself. Directed by Anil Sharma, this is a period drama starring Salman, Sohail Khan and Mithun Chakraborty. Opposite Salman would be a debutante who looks like Katrina, this is what the sources revealed.
In a recent interview, Salman even claimed to be the highest paid actor in Bollywood. No doubt is he's getting Rs. 150 Crores for a movie he is surely the highest paid actor at present leaving behind the likes of Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar.
I watched Veer in theatre on very first day.Salman looks very strong and handsome in this movie.Newcomer Zarine also done a fair job.Not many people likes it.


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Parkland Blog
From Concept To Action—Implementing a Just Transition In Alberta
tamara krawchenko , jason foster
The climate crisis, low oil and gas prices and accelerating automation in Alberta's oil and gas industry has reignited decades-long pleas to diversify the province's economy and has strengthened calls for a just transition – that is, ways to manage the industrial transition so harmful impacts on workers and communities are minimized. A coalition is needed to consider the supports and interventions that will best fit the unique circumstances of Alberta and its communities. The Parkland Institute is thrilled to announce a two-day conference to take place February 2022 that will convene experts and practitioners engaged in diverse aspects of managing a just transition.
An urgent call to action
From its labour union origins, the concept of a just transition has captured the zeitgeist as societies struggle to balance the urgent need to phase out environmentally destructive industries while addressing the impacts on workers and communities. This is an agenda for sociotechnical transformation, a call for social, economic and environmental justice and a political imperative to manage the decarbonisation of economies.
This transition is urgent. Alberta's oil and gas extraction economy accounts for approximately half of the province's total emissions — emissions that have increased by around 60 per cent since the 1990s. There are growing calls for divestment and for the oil and gas industry to reduce emissions in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and limit global warming to below 2 C. At the same time, Alberta's oil and gas industry is reaching maturation and shedding jobs. This includes high-paying jobs that have sustained families and communities. High-emissions sectors have a human face, and transitions need to include them.
The majority of Canadians want their governments to act now to address climate change and the majority of fossil fuel industry workers support climate solutions that will lead to net zero carbon jobs. There is political support! What's needed is a roadmap for the implementation of a just transition. What does a post carbon economy in Alberta look like and how can we get there? How can this be achieved in a just way so rights holders and stakeholders are included in decisions that impact them and the costs and benefits of transition are fair?
Learning from Alberta's coal phase out
The idea of a just transition was first introduced in Canada in a public policy setting in 2016 as a result of the Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) government's decision to accelerate the phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation by 2030. Labour groups were highly engaged in this work, including the Alberta Federation of Labour and a broad alliance of unions (together known as the Coal Transition Coalition). Transition supports included measures for workers such as a bridge to re-employment or retirement, relocation support, tuition vouchers and employment services. For communities, a $5-million Coal Community Transition Fund was established alongside a $50-million carve-out of the Community Generation Program for small electricity projects (since cancelled by the current government), and access to a $30-million general-application Community and Regional Economic Support Program for rural communities.
Following Alberta's coal phase-out, the Government of Canada announced additional funding to support the phase-out of traditional coal-fired electricity by 2030 alongside greenhouse gas regulations for natural-gas-fired electricity. The federally convened Task Force on Just Transition for Canadian Coal Power Workers and Communities has propelled this work. This has led to investments of $35 million for the federal Regional Development Agencies to establish transition centres and a $150-million infrastructure fund to support projects and diversification in impacted communities (announced in the 2019 federal budget).
Both the Government of Canada and the Alberta government have been recognized for their leadership, as this was one of the first times a transition had been managed by the state, moving the political conversation forward. A great deal of progress was made as a result of labour advocacy, but the initiatives have remained reactive and missed the opportunity to address structural inequalities in communities — with supports mostly focussed on displaced workers. Moreover, retrofitting a coal-fired generating facility to a natural gas facility may save some jobs in the short term, but will this still be a viable source of energy in the coming decades? Communities that rely on single industries are growing tired of booms and busts. Efforts to reinvent industries must include resiliency and consider longevity and sustainability in every sense of the word. Just transition measures must consider the context of the communities and the people who depend on the sector.
Comparative learning and made-in-Alberta solutions
The literature on just transitions emphasises the importance of timely and targeted supports, community investments and regional development, transition measures in the social insurance/support system and place-based coalitions. Only some of these interventions have been used in Alberta's coal phase out. Successfully transitioning the oil and gas industries is a much bigger job.
There is now a large scholarship on just transitions and many practices to learn from. In the past 20 years, around 80 regions in advanced OECD countries have shifted from high-emissions economies. We can learn from how these transitions have been managed and take lessons on what to do and what to avoid. But this type of comparative learning will only get us so far. Alberta needs place-based solutions fit for its industries, communities and workers. It is essential to convene both international expertise alongside home-grown experts, networks and stakeholders to consider the wide range of interventions needed for a transformation of this scale — from social supports to regional and community development, climate solutions, industry supports, workforce and skills development and economic development programs to name a few.
We hope you can join us in February 2022 for this call to action to implement a just transition in Alberta. We are grateful for the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada alongside our conference partners: the Alberta Federation of Labour, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-BC, the Corporate Mapping Project (UVic), UNIFOR and the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts.
Stay tuned for more conference details!
Jason Foster
Jason Foster is associate professor of Human Resources and Labour Relations at Athabasca University. He is author of Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401 and co-author of Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces. His research interests include workplace injury, union renewal, labour and employment policy, and migrant workers in Canada.
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Dr. Tamara Krawchenko, a former Edmontonian, is an assistant professor of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and a member of UVic's Institute for Integrated Energy Systems. She is an expert in comparative public policy and regional development.
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Rock appears by the light of the glorious fire.
Thanks to the advertising of the Prudential insurance company, Americans have become familiar with the profile of the Rock of Gibraltar, and I thought I knew what to expect on my recent first visit to this British overseas territory. I was shocked to realize that my mental image of the rock was 180 degrees off! I have not recently experienced such a radical revision of my world map (up is down, east is west) so I spent more than a few minutes getting myself oriented properly to how the Rock sits in the world. Which way do you think the Rock "points"?
Cable cars take visitors to the top of the 1,400 foot peak.
Looking north from the ridge of Gibraltar, you can see Spain and bays on both sides of the peninsula.
My assumption has forever been that the highest point of the Rock was pointed south toward Africa, as if the slope was the ramp up from Europe, and the peak were the last support for a bridge across the Strait to the other continent. Imagine my surprise to see that the highest part of the peninsula was closest to Spain and the descending ridge looked more like a sledding run down to the sea level tip that just failed to reach Morocco. My surprise was partly to learn the correct orientation, and partly to realize that rearranging my mental map was so disruptive for me!
Gibraltar is a tiny colony, just two and a half square miles of Britain on the edge of Spain. The Rock itself contains a large natural cave system (limestone, remember). Thanks to the peninsula's strategic military potential, it now contains over thirty miles of tunnels built by the British in the 18th century during various battles and the Great Siege which ended in 1783. The scant, flat skirt of village which lies close to sea level at the base of the Rock looks like any coastal village of Spain, Portugal or the Canary Islands.
Only the youngest monkeys look really cute.This adult had the same grumpy expression as the rest.
Most of the peninsula is a nature preserve where semi-wild, tailless monkeys roam free. The monkeys hop around on the trees, stairs, railings and walkways of the visitor viewpoints. Generally they do not bother people but any rustling plastic bag or digging in handbags is their instant signal that food is available. Either of those brings them running, perhaps jumping onto your shoulders or pulling at the bag. They run all over tour buses too, and do "swing by" damage to windshield wipers.
How do the 30,000 inhabitants make a living on such a tiny locale? The Atlantic-side bay of Gibraltar is filled with large ships; this is the largest Mediterranean port for outfitting and fueling ships. On land, banking and internet gaming are the main businesses. Our guide told us that Gibraltar helps people "not with tax evasion but tax avoidance"! Most of the gaming customers play from Australia or the UK – but I expect the Gibraltarians (rhymes with libertarians) are not fussy about clients' origins. Business is business, and all have an equal opportunity to lose money.
Family of monkeys lounges at a viewpoint overlooking the ships refueling in Gibraltar harbor.
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I, too, always assumed the rock pointed toward Africa. And driving on the right side of the road? Now you've got me really confused. This great description doesn't come close to how I envision Gibraltar (except for the monkeys). Add to that my Boston upbringing – I may have lost my accent, but I ever knew until recently that there's an "r" at the end of Gibralta.


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You are here: Home COMMUNITY The Community today
He who accepts the common life possesses God (Augustine Sermon 355.6)
Since 2016, we have joined with our Sisters from Liverpool to form Our Lady of Hope, a single Community on two sites, Boarbank and Ince Blundell Hall. This, sadly, involved the closing of Park House in Liverpool, from where the foundresses of both Boarbank and Ince originally came.
At present, eleven Sisters live at Boarbank (including one Benedictine) and six at Ince Blundell. We also have a resident chaplain and another resident priest. They say daily Masses for the Community, patients and visitors and support our pastoral care.
The spiritual life of the Augustinian Canonesses is structured on the Gospels and the Rule of St Augustine, which begins: 'Before all else, live in harmony, being of one heart and one mind on the way to God, sharing everything in common.'
Our Constitutions enable us to put this into practice, summing up the characteristics of our life as Canonesses as: liturgical and personal prayer; sharing all things in common; and the service of the sick and needy through works of mercy and hospitality. This life is lived in the stability of a monastery, which, implanted in a particular church, 'aspires to be a centre of vibrant love for the building up of the Body of Christ'.
Others who share in the life
All our caring and hospitality is centred around the liturgical life of the community. It is a joy to share the Eucharist and the Prayer of the Church with our residents, guests and other friends of all denominations and none. The many priests and religious who stay with us enhance this aspect of our life. We are delighted to welcome ecumenical groups to our Guest house, and to host the annual Advent Carol Service for Churches Together in Grange-over-Sands and District.
We have an ever-expanding network of international friendships, with both religious and students staying with us in recent years from Africa and the Far East as well as most of the countries in Europe. They come to learn English, to gain work experience and to learn something of our life.
Canonical life
At a time when other devout Christians were turning to the ascetic isolation of the Egyptian desert, St Augustine found his inspiration in the common life of the early Christians (Acts 2.42-47). As a priest and then a bishop, he founded religious communities to live with him, as a witness to the unity proclaimed by the Gospel. He recognised that men and women would be attracted to Christ when they saw his love revealed in their life together.
Following St Augustine, men and women over the centuries have come together to try and live out the same ideals. They share their possessions, talents and time, to witness to the Gospel and to serve the mission of Christ. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Rule of St Augustine became particularly popular among reformers such as St Norbert. Many new orders and congregations have been founded over the centuries which use his Rule to live out the fundamental spirit of the Gospel and to meet the needs of their own day.
To live the canonical life is to share in the experience of forming the Church: to share griefs, joys, hopes and challenges. Empowered by this vision, men and women serve through many different means: parish work, teaching, nursing, hospitality and centres of silence. Yet each form of service is rooted in personal prayer and in shared praise, and each leads back to these:
'The company of those who believed were of one heart and soul' (Acts 4.32).
Augustinian links
About Saint Augustine
Web site about Saint Augustine of Hippo
Augustinian Canons
About the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine
Augustinian Friars in Britain
Augustinian resources
Augnet is a reference site to Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Order of Saint Augustine.
Saint Augustine biography
Biography of Saint Augustine in Catholic Encyclopedia
Saint Augustine's Rule
Text of St. Augustine's Rule
Is Boarbank the place for you?
We need women who want to dedicate themselves to Christ as religious Sisters, sharing our life of prayer and community and our charism of hospitality of all kinds, particularly care for the poor and sick.
Could that be you?
Come and see...


Got 5-10 minutes spare. Why not have a go at making these fun pattern dyed eggs for Easter?
Start off by making your dye. Into a plastic cup add hot water so it is about 2/3rds full. Pu in a dollop of gel food coloring and give a good stir to make sure it is completely dissolved. Top up the cup with white vinegar so it is half full.
Prepare your eggs. I am going to assume you know how to make hard boiled eggs. Once they have cooled cut thin stips of painters mask tape and stick them around the eggs. I went for a simple random placement but you could go for something more exotic.
Put you egg into the dye and turn the eggs over slowly with a spoon. the longer you leave the egg in the deeper the color.
The dye only takes to the exposed area of the egg. Aren't they pretty.
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Yesterday, the 18th of February, mrs Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat has passed away at the age of 90. Not only was she considered to be the richest woman in Argentina, she has always loved her country and has always been generous through her trust fund, founded in 1976. This fund had the goal to support all kinds of research and initiatives : scientific, educational, cultural and other.
she was also an important art collector. She will always be remembered through her museum, named after her, in Puerto Madero, where you can see her collection.
Check out my old article on her and her museum.
When you live in the first world, you take everything for granted. When you live in the third world you are convinced that everything in the first world always goes smoothly. How common it is that a taxi driver, fussing about something, tells you : 'I am sure this does not happen in your country', and is surprised when I answer 'sure it does'. I suppose my expectations are too high, as Argentinised as I am, I am always surprised when something in the first world gets out of control. And it happens every time again. Not everything goes smoothly here.
Just like now. For 4 days they have been predicting snow on Friday 12am. Everyone was prepared and for a change (after the disaster of last year) there is enough salt available. Everyone could have been ready to prevent a possible chaos, but when snow came, with a 2h delay, the whole Flemish (west) part of Belgium was and still is paralysed. There is a 1300 km traffic jam (highways only). Nobody in the whole country suspected we had that many highways. There is a traffic jam of 4500 km secondary roads included (waw!). The average speed on the highway is 5 to 8km an hour, that is, if you you are lucky to be moving.
And above that, the traffic information system crashed, the biggest cell phone operator is down (only texting works) and God knows what else… Fortunately the radio stations make the best of it. Some are really funny and succeed to make the people laugh in their misery. They play christmas songs saying it finally feels like christmas, let people request the most impossible songs as long as they are fun. They make you (at least : me), laugh.


WULR is an AM radio station broadcasting at 980 KHz. The station is licensed to York, SC. The station airs religious programming.
God bless you, I would like to find out information on possibly advertising a job fair for your listeners. Please contact me on pricing.


Chad White is the Casanova that the ladies crave! He keeps his beard neatly trimmed for his lovers' pleasure, and his manly physique is sprinkled with just the right amount of body hair. Check out this stud as he whips out his stiffie and works his charm for the total satisfaction of his partners.


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CEDIA UK EXPO
Redactie AV & Domotica | 13 juli 2009
(Ingezonden mededeling)
The biggest, single market in European residential custom installation has come out strongly in support of an 'overwhelmingly successful' CEDIA UK Expo 2009 (22-25 June, ExCeL London), says the event's organiser CEDIA (the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association).
"In challenging circumstances, the backing we have received from visitors and exhibitors for this year's CEDIA UK Expo has been, quite simply, incredible" says CEDIA Chairman, Robert Hallam. "The CEDIA Board, office staff and the show's exhibitors have worked tirelessly to make the event as compelling, relevant and valuable as possible for the industry. And, we are delighted that visitors have responded so positively, turning out in force to see the raft of new products and technologies that are here, taking part in CEDIA training and showing their backing for the UK custom installation industry. Those exhibitors that were here have been justly rewarded with an overwhelmingly successful CEDIA Expo, which, in more than a handful of cases, has been their best ever."
Against the backdrop of a global recession, more than 150 CI brands supported the show with an array of new product launches and benefited hugely from steady, high quality visitor traffic on the Tuesday and Thursday of the show, and a spectacular attendance on the middle day of the event. Attendance for this year's CEDIA Expo totaled 5,082.
Amongst the attractions which had the event buzzing was the popular Show Floor Seminar Theatre. The programme was headlined by Richard Farleigh of Dragon's Den fame, whose engaging and entertaining keynote address drew the crowds on what was already the busiest show day by far. Also attracting standing-room only audiences were experts from BERR (UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), Cisco Systems, the BBC, the BIDA (the British Interior Design Association) and the BRE (Building Research Establishment). The industry's very own Steve Moore and Mike Heiss were also on hand to give their own unique take on what was-not-to-be-missed at the show.
Another huge hit at CEDIA Expo 2009 was the dedicated CEDIA conference run for design professionals. Sponsored by the BIDA (British Interior Design Association), leading interior design magazine idFX and Decorex, the interior design show for professionals, 'Designing Interiors with Technology' was a hugely successful outreach event attended by over 110 architects and interior designers. CEDIA Marketing Chair, Jane Scotland, Angus Gibson and Matthew Tillman from Gibson Music, Lucy Martin of John Cullen Lighting and Malcolm Stewart from Kensington Home Technology delivered a programme designed to give a better understanding of the world of the CEDIA professional and to explain how integrated audio, visual, lighting and other systems could be used to enhance interior schemes.
The conference proved to be an invaluable introduction to the technologies that delegates would later see on guided tours of the exhibition. The presence of so many design professionals on the show floor created a tangible buzz and undoubtedly contributed to what was already a standout day. In total, the CEDIA education programme provided over 100 hours of quality training for delegates on and off the show floor. This content was supplemented by a substantial amount of free training courses provided by Trade Suppliers at the event.
"The conference was excellent" says delegate Simon Atkins from Interiors etc. "I found it very useful, particularly as this is quite a new area for us and we need to get our knowledge up to scratch for clients coming through who want the latest integrated technology. Having the guided tour around the show was also very helpful, as our guide understood our needs as interior designers and was able to relate the products directly to our requirements. Overall, a really good day".
There were some great new products on show, with a number of exhibitors pulling out all the stops in the quality and creativity of their stand design. Invision UK and PMC were particularly successful in this respect, attracting the attention of David Pegler, ExCeL's Managing Director to win Best Stand at Expo and Best Shell Scheme Stand, respectively in the annual CEDIA Awards. Meanwhile, industry website HiddenWires received a bottle of champagne from CEDIA for bringing in the most amount of visitors on their unique visitor code. The CEDIA Expo also received 'royal assent' this year as CEDIA Chair, Robert Hallam conducted a Sheikh from the Qatari Royal Family on a specially arranged VIP guided tour of the show on the opening day.
Away from the show floor the usual mix of networking and fun once again proved to be a winning formula with the industry drinks reception offering some well-deserved R&R to exhibitors after Wednesday's busy show. Over 300 attended the informal get together which was held in the Fox@ ExCeL. And, this year CEDIA Expo played host to the very first CEDIA Expo 5-A-Side Charity Football Cup, organised by Essential Install magazine. 16 teams competed, including: Armour, KEF, Invision, Opus, Pulse Marketing, Future Automation, PMC, Design Logistics, SMC, T&T Automation, Imerge, Prestige Audio and Sonos. The evening culminated in a Future Automation vs KEF final, with Future Automation lifting the coveted trophy in a penalty shoot-out. More than £2000 was raised for Essential Install's chosen charity, Macmillan Cancer Support and a good time was had by all!
Electronic systems designers, installers and trade suppliers represented the vast majority of the overall audience, with 40% of visitors taking their first ever trip to CEDIA UK Expo. Boosted by the success of this year's event, CEDIA is consulting with the event's stakeholders on plans for 2010, with details on location and likely format scheduled to be announced within the next month.
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More than 30 farmers from the midlands have brought High Court proceedings alleging a golf club is interfering with their long-standing grazing rights on commonage in Co Laois.
The farmers, who live on lands known as the Great Heath near Portlaoise where they have grazed animals for many years, have taken the action against the Heath Golf Club, Portlaoise; the Minister for Finance and the Office of Public Works, which manages the land. The defendants deny the claims.
The farmers, who mainly graze sheep on the heath, are seeking a declaration that they are entitled to graze animals over the heath and they also want an injunction preventing the club from interfering with that right.
They want to restrain the golf club from carrying on any business beyond the area of land leased to them by the State in September 1971. They say the State should ensure that the club complies with the terms of that lease.
pasture, including planting trees, enclosing parts of the heath for a driving range or mowing the grass to an excessively low length.
They say the club also should not be engaging in the daily collection of animal droppings from the course as this deprives the grass of its natural nourishment, nor should it be removing sods of turf from the heath to repair greens or extending the course beyond 18 holes. The club should also be restrained from using tractors and quadbikes which had caused flooding, they say.
The farmers are also seeking to have taken down a number of structures allegedly built without planning permission. In addition, they want the club to reinstate grazing lands where three additional golf holes were constructed.
Cormac Ó Dulacháin SC, for the farmers, said in court yesterday it was his clients' contention that their rights had been infringed as the golf club has expanded.
The case, before Mr Justice Thomas Smyth, is expected to last several days.


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OTRS Proposal[edit]
I understand that there is soon to be some funding made available for OTRS related projects, and that proposals are being accepted for the use of such funds. No doubt much of this funding will be directed at technological advances; the following is much more basic but no less critical. I would like to propose the development of a substantive and thorough on-line guidebook for new agents, a training manual that covers not just the technical aspects of creating an account and responding to tickets but that explains in detail exactly what agents should do with certain kinds of tickets or certain requests from editors or members of the public, and that provides specific historic examples of well-handled tickets that reviews how that outcome was achieved. Every OTRS volunteer has stories about interesting tickets they have handled, but these stories have never been distilled into a format that can be used by new agents to guide them. While there is certainly nothing to prevent an agent from seeking the advice of other agents, this seldom happens: it takes too much time to send messages back and forth or to try to search the ever-ballooning archive of tickets for reference, so new agents simply rely on their own good sense. There is nothing wrong with that, and most agents do a pretty good job considering the dearth of actual training they are offered.
The presumption is made that anyone able to pass muster as an OTRS volunteer already understands the expectations of the position, and that no further training is necessary. I personally believe this could not be further from the truth, and that the entire OTRS process would be greatly enhanced by the creation of a guidebook that thoroughly explains the architecture of the OTRS system, helps standardize agent responses to incoming requests, and gives agents solid, useful instruction on how they might want to handle the often gray areas of being a volunteer. What we currently have is a basic how-to guide of selecting and responding to tickets along with a series of boilerplate responses— this is basically a click-here-to-do-that kind of guide (for which I am extremely grateful!), but it says very little about the actual handling of the tickets. It also provides little explanation of the wide range of ways that clicking here and doing that can affect what happens to a ticket and why, and it has no historical synthesis of what agents have done in the past and which tickets appear to have ended up being handled well vs. those which have ended up provoking some kind of legal threat against the Foundation or have turned into endless pointless interactions that do nothing but waste agents' time and drain their enthusiasm for volunteering.
I also believe that because there is no guidebook, agents feel very free (and, as volunteers, of course, they always are very free) to be occasionally careless with tickets. I think that a guidebook that covers the ins and outs of being an OTRS volunteer would instill the greater sense of responsibility that comes with having a manual to refer to. I am not suggesting new rules for being an agent— I do not believe the OTRS process would be aided by the development of more restrictions on behavior or the threat of consequences for failure to do a good job, but I do believe that agents by and large want to know what to do with their position so that they do not muck things up! It is somewhat terrifying to suddenly have access to the entire queue of messages coming in to the English Wikipedia from the public as well as being the face of that Wikipedia as it responds to those messages (to say nothing of the other language Wikipedias and the OTRS agents that handle the tickets coming in from them— God help them all!). While the learn-as-you-go process appears to have sufficed so far, it is almost never preferable to having some basic standardized training in what to do and some recounting of what has been done in the past. Santayana's immortal statement that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" has always resonated for me. OTRS volunteer work comes with access to the entire past but no synthesis of it, which is almost as bad as having no ability to remember it. Rather than drown in its enormity, we cross our fingers and trust instinct rather than knowledge. We can do better. I am certain of it.
I have mentioned the idea of creating such a manual to one of the OTRS admins in the past, but without a staff of any kind to develop it, the idea appeared impractical and no forward movement was made. In order for such a manual to come to exist it needs people's time and effort, and OTRS volunteers are already donating that in huge amounts. No one expect technicians to donate their time, and I fear that unless funds become targeted specifically at the development of such a manual, it will never appear on its own (or, if it ever does, it will never be more than cursory, haphazard, and incomplete). I know nothing of how such funds get disbursed, and do not have in mind a specific set of people to be solicited for compensation in exchange for their willingness to work on such a guidebook. Nor do I have a specific dollar amount for its cost. Perhaps its somewhat amorphous scope means that is not practical to try to fund it, since unlike technical improvements we will never really know if we got our money's worth. But I also think that recruiting people to make a professional, paid effort at the creation of it would be of enormous benefit to the men and women on the front lines who are doing the one-on-one interaction with the public and who sometimes find themselves struggling with knowing what they are supposed to do (especially when starting out). However competent or knowledgeable a person may appear to be as an editor, OTRS work— all of it also unpaid— is different: like editing, it is usually very independent work, but unlike editing, the results cannot be easily reverted. We work mostly as trusted but isolated respondents to people who believe we have the authority of admins, the accountability of professional staff, and that we all agree on what we are doing and how to do it. I don't think any OTRS volunteer would agree that any of that is true, and while having a well-developed manual will not and should not change the first, I think it could go a long way towards improving the appearance of the second and the reality of the third.
I look forward to hearing others' thoughts on this idea, even if only to dissuade the further pursuit of it. I bring it up only because it seems like a very good idea, and because my own limited experience as an OTRS volunteer has had enormous impact on my own life and on some of those whom I have had the opportunity to help (I am thinking especially of ticket #2016032910015145 here, which is only one example of what an OTRS agent can do— I so wish we had a collection of such stories to emphasize how important it is that a ticket like that never fall through the cracks... Not that this one was at risk of that, just that it seems so important).
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It's only been a couple weeks since my last update, but I've made steady progress eliminating complexity from my life.
I've sold some of my material possessions, including a couple towel sets, some winter clothes and miscellaneous gadgets. I also have a small pile of things that I want to sell, from my CD/radio alarm clock to more clothes I no longer need. This month I've made more than $100 selling things I don't need.
I'm planning a trip to the landfill next week to dump the broken china cabinet in the garage, the frame from the IKEA couch that broke right after I bought it (I would have returned it if the nearest store wasn't two hours away), and a few other things.
I'm also working on closing out some of my bank accounts. Some of them were opened as mystery shops that are no longer shopped; others have just crept into my life. Ideally I would have just one checking account, a brokerage account, retirement account and maybe 2-3 credit cards. I have a long way to go, but I have already closed one checking account and will close a second one next week.
I'm also closing out the restaurant's finances. I bought TurboTax, closed our merchant account, and plan to close our bank account before yearend.
It feels good to simplify.


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Q: PostgreSQL - join statement duplicate row data combine to single row I am joining 3 tables and getting some duplicated data for certain columns. I want to combine the data to a single row.
The following is the database structure and data.
CREATE TABLE customers (
    id integer NOT NULL,
    fname character varying(50),
    lname character varying(50)
);

COPY customers (id, fname, lname) FROM stdin;
1   Thomas  Jefferson
2   Benjamin    Franklin
\.

CREATE TABLE customers_products (
    id integer NOT NULL,
    customers_id integer,
    products_id integer,
    account_info json
);

COPY customers_products (id, customers_id, products_id, account_info) FROM stdin;
1   1   1   {"account_number":"000001", "date":"05/28/15"}
2   1   2   {"account_number":"000002", "date":"05/28/15"}
3   2   1   {"account_number":"000003", "date":"05/28/15"}
4   2   3   {"account_number":"000004", "date":"05/28/15"}
\.

CREATE TABLE products (
    id integer NOT NULL,
    name character varying(128)
);

COPY products (id, name) FROM stdin;
1   checking
2   savings
3   credit card
\.

This is the query I'm using.
SELECT
    c.id,
    c.fname,
    c.lname,
    p.name,
    cp.account_info
FROM
    customers c
INNER JOIN
    customers_products cp
ON
    c.id = cp.customers_id
INNER JOIN
    products p
ON
    p.id = cp.products_id

This is the resulting dataset.

How would I get the dataset back in 2 rows with the account information combined into single rows? This is the data structure I would like to end up with.
[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "fname": "Thomas",
        "lname": "Jefferson",
        "account_info": [
            {
                "name": "checking",
                "account_number":"000001",
                "date":"05/28/15"
            },
            {
                "name": "savings",
                "account_number":"000002",
                "date":"05/28/15"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": 2,
        "fname": "Benjamin",
        "lname": "Franklin",
        "account_info": [
            {
                "name": "checking",
                "account_number":"000003",
                "date":"05/28/15"
            },
            {
                "name": "credit card",
                "account_number":"000004",
                "date":"05/28/15"
            }
        ]
    }
]

The solution was:

SELECT
    c.id,
    c.fname,
    c.lname,
    string_agg(p.name, ', '),
    json_agg(cp.account_info)
FROM
    customers c
INNER JOIN
    customers_products cp
ON
    c.id = cp.customers_id
INNER JOIN
    products p
ON
    p.id = cp.products_id
GROUP BY
    c.id, c.fname, c.lname
ORDER BY
    c.id;

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I am making my way through the hauntingly familiar streets of a South American city. There are landmarks I remember: street corners, alleys, shortcuts I know I have taken before, though perhaps I can't recall in what order they ought to come or where they lead. But I have been here before. It isn't just a feeling. I know I've been here.
A broad, crowded city square. Spices on the air, the smells of barbecue. Fried plantains served in the peel from a vendor's cart. Uneven cobblestones. There is a breeze, a sense of open water nearby, a cool palate of greys and blues punctuated by the bright colors of people's clothes. I feel no sense of claustrophobia, yet the buildings and awnings crowd in so close I can't see the sky.
At the west end of the square is the opera house, a breathtaking, intricate marriage of baroque and neoclassical styles. Staggered clusters of pillars, three-tiered and set with alcoves where larger-than-life marble figures in robes lounge together discussing philosophy and art like the figures of Raphael's _School of Athens_. I lean over the rail at the edge of the curb and stare at them for a long time, astonished, more moved than I have every been by anything in the Old World. What a pompous idiot you'd have to be to criticize this place as the product of crass colonial aspirations. There is more earnestness in this facade than in that of the Coliseum.
But I stir. My attention wanders, and I follow it. There is so much more here, all so different, new. I am so glad to be back.
My cousin Luke lives in this city. His apartment is only a few blocks away, on the tenth floor of a high-rise overlooking a strangely monastic tropical garden. Moss everywhere. Weeping willows. A plaque, bearing a dedication describing the rigors undergone and good works achieved by students attending a convent school in Peru. A peaceful place, especially at dusk, with the warm light from the windows of Luke's building trickling from above. He lives alone, in a narrow, ascetic room with his bed built into the wall behind a lightweight cotton curtain. I was there last night; I slept on his floor. Now I am trying to find my way back.
Instead I take a right, a left and a right and find myself in a cul-de-sac among the back streets of the city's Little Tokyo. An asian dude in a black running suit gives me a suspicious look as I make my way past his posse towards a spiral staircase, vaguely recalling a shortcut somewhere above opening onto Luke's street. But as I lose myself among the cloudy veils of laundry lines and sharp looks from old ladies on balconies, I begin to have my doubts.
Sheepishly, I begin to make my way down again.
I never make it, but awake instead.


Sweet Potato Cornbread is a sweet combination of two of my favorite fall foods: sweet potatoes and cornbread. It also uses my love of cooking in cast iron, so really, Sweet Potato Cornbread is the perfect recipe.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a large cast iron skillet (butter or vegetable oil).
Whisk together cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice (optional). Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or large mixing bowl, beat eggs. Add sweet potatoes, yogurt, buttermilk, dark brown sugar, butter and honey. Mix until combined. Do not over mix.
Add dry ingredients and mix until all batter is wet. Do not over mix, this will result in tough cornbread.
Pour batter into prepared cast iron skillet. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Test using the toothpick test. Serve with Cinnamon Honey Butter.