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WALLO
Walloon language
Walloon language explained
Nativename: Walloon: walon
States: Belgium, France
Region: Wallonia, Ardennes, minority in Door County, Wisconsin (United States)
Speakers: 600,000
Ref: e18
Speakers2: perhaps only 300,000 active speakers in rural Wallonia
Familycolor: Indo-European
Fam2: Italic
Fam3: Romance
Fam4: Western
Fam5: Gallo-Romance
Fam6: Oïl
Script: Latin (Walloon alphabet)
Iso1: wa
Iso2: wln
Glotto: wall1255
Glottorefname: Walloon
Lingua: 51-AAA-hf×××
Notice: IPA
Map: Idioma valón.png
Walloon (; natively Walloon: walon) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia in Belgium, in some villages of Northern France (near Givet) and in the northeast part of Wisconsin, US[1] until the mid 20th century and in some parts of Canada. It belongs to the langue d'oïl language family, whose most prominent member is the French language. The historical background of its formation was the territorial extension since 980 of the Principality of Liège to the south and west.
Despite its rich literature, beginning anonymously in the 16th century and with well-known authors since 1756, the use of Walloon has decreased markedly since France's annexation of Wallonia in 1795. This period definitively established French as the language of social promotion, far more than it was before.[2] After World War I, public schools provided French-speaking education to all children, inducing a denigration of Walloon, especially when accompanied by official orders in 1952 to punish its use in schools. Subsequently, since the middle of the 20th century, generational transmission of the language has decreased, resulting in Walloon almost becoming a dead language. Today it is scarcely spoken among younger people, with vast majority of its native speakers being the elderly (aged 65 and over). In 1996, the number of people with knowledge of the language was estimated at between 1 and 1.3 million.[3]
Numerous associations, especially theatre companies, are working to keep the language alive. Formally recognized as a French: [[langue régionale endogène]] (regional indigenous language) of Belgium since 1990,[4] Walloon has also benefited from a continued corpus planning process. The "Feller system" (1900) regularized transcription of the different accents. Since the 1990s, a common orthography was established (the Rifondou walon), which allowed large-scale publications, such as the Walloon Wikipedia officially in 2003. In 2004, a Walloon translation of a Tintin comic was released under the name L'èmerôde d'al Castafiore; in 2007 an album consisting of Gaston Lagaffe comic strips was published in Walloon.
Walloon is more distinct as a language than Belgian French, which differs from the French spoken in France only in some minor points of vocabulary and pronunciation.
Disputed nature of Walloon
Linguists had long classified Walloon as a dialect of French, which in turn is a French: [[langue d'oïl]]. Like French, it descended from Vulgar Latin. Arguing that a French-speaking person could not understand Walloon easily, especially in its eastern forms, Jules Feller (1859–1940) insisted that Walloon had an original "superior unity", which made it a language.[5]
The phonological divisions of regional languages of southern Belgium were studied by the contemporary linguist E.B. Atwood. He defined the precise geographical repartition of the four chief dialects of Walloon. In addition, he defined them against the dialects of Picard, Lorrain and Champenois.[6]
Since then, most linguists (among them Louis Remacle), and gradually also Walloon politicians, regard Walloon as a regional language, the first in importance in Wallonia. It is the only one to have originated from that part of Belgium. The eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica identified Walloon as the "northern-most Romance language".
Walloon is spoken in the Wallonia Region in Belgium. In addition, it is spoken in:
a small part of France: the botte de Givet in northern Ardennes, and several villages in the Nord département, making it one of the regional languages of France;
a small district of Door County, Wisconsin, US, owing to fairly large-scale immigration there in the 19th century;[7] and
Brussels, by some Walloon residents.
Although Walloon was widely spoken until the mid-20th century, today only a small proportion of the inhabitants of the region are fluent in the language. Most younger people (those born since the 1970s) know little more than a few idiomatic expressions, often profanities. The Walloon language is still part of the Walloon heritage; it is one component of Walloon identity.
Four dialects of Walloon developed in four distinct zones of Wallonia:[8]
Central, spoken in Namur (Walloon: Nameur), the Wallon capital, and the cities of Wavre (Walloon: Åve) and Dinant;
Eastern – in many respects the most conservative and idiosyncratic of the dialects, spoken in Liège (Walloon: Lidje), Verviers (Walloon: Vervî), Malmedy (Walloon: Måmdi), Huy (Walloon: Hu), and Waremme (Walloon: Wareme);
Western – the dialect closest to French proper and with a strong Picard influence, spoken in Charleroi (Walloon: Tchårlerwè), Nivelles (Walloon: Nivele), and Philippeville (Walloon: Flipvile); and
Southern – close to the Lorrain and to a lesser extent Champenois languages, spoken in Bastogne, Marche-en-Famenne (Walloon: Måtche-el-Fåmene), and Neufchâteau (Walloon: Li Tchestea), all in the Ardennes region.
Despite local phonetic differences, there is a regional movement towards the adoption of a common spelling, called the Rifondou walon. This orthography is diasystemic, reflecting different pronunciations for different readers, a concept inspired by the spelling of Breton. The written forms attempt to reconcile current phonetic uses with ancient traditions (notably the reintroduction of xh and oi that were used for writing Walloon until the late 19th century) and the language's own phonological logic.
Other regional languages
Other regional languages spoken in Wallonia, outside the Walloon domain, are:
Picard, in Mons, Ath, and Tournai;
Lorrain (also called Gaumais locally), in Virton;
Champenois, in Bohan; and
Luxembourgish, in Arlon and Martelange.
The Picard, Lorrain and Champenois dialects spoken in Wallonia are sometimes also referred to as "Walloon", which may lead to confusion.
Language family
Walloon is distinguished from other languages in the langue d'oïl family both by archaism coming from Latin and by its significant borrowing from Germanic languages, as expressed in its phonetics, its lexicon, and its grammar. At the same time, Walloon phonetics are singularly conservative: the language has stayed fairly close to the form it took during the High Middle Ages.
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Fricative
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Latin pronounced as //k// before pronounced as //a// and pronounced as //ɡ// before pronounced as //e//, pronounced as //i//, or pronounced as //a// gave Walloon affricate phonemes spelled tch (as in cherry) and dj (as in joke): Walloon: vatche (vs. French French: vache "cow"), Walloon: djambe (French: jambe "leg").
Latin pronounced as /[s]/ persisted in clusters: Walloon: spene (Fr. French: épine "thorn, spine"), Walloon: fistu "wisp of straw", Walloon: mwaîsse (Fr. French: maître "master"), Walloon: fiesse (Fr. French: fête "party, feast"), Walloon: tchestea (Fr. French: château "castle"), and so on.
Final obstruent devoicing: Walloon: rodje "red" is pronounced exactly as Walloon: rotche "rock".
Nasal vowels may be followed by nasal consonants, as in Walloon: djonne "young", Walloon: crinme "cream", Walloon: mannet "dirty", etc.
Vowel length has a phonological value. It allows distinguishing Walloon: cu "arse" and Walloon: cû "cooked", Walloon: i l' hosse "he cradles her" and Walloon: i l' hôsse "he increases it", Walloon: messe "mass" and Walloon: mêsse "master", etc.
The plural feminine adjectives before the noun take an unstressed ending Walloon: -ès (except in the Ardenne dialect): compare Walloon: li djaene foye "the yellow leaf" and Walloon: les djaenès foyes "the yellow leaves".
There is no gender difference in definite articles and possessives (except in the Ardenne dialect): compare Walloon Walloon: li vweteure ("the car", feminine) and Walloon: li cir ("the sky", masculine), with French French: la voiture but French: le ciel; Walloon has Walloon: si coir ("his/her body", masculine) and Walloon: si finiesse ("his/her window", feminine) while French has French: son corps but French: sa fenêtre.
Walloon has a few Latin remnants that have disappeared from neighboring Romance languages: compare Walloon Walloon: dispierter to Spanish Spanish; Castilian: despertar and Romanian Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: deștepta (all with the same meaning: "to awaken").
The most distinctive feature is its number of borrowings from Germanic languages (Dutch and German dialects): compare Walloon Walloon: flåwe to today's Dutch Dutch; Flemish: flauw "weak". Other common borrowings, among hundreds of others, are Walloon: dringuele ("tip"; Dutch Dutch; Flemish: drinkgeld), Walloon: crole ("curl"; Dutch Dutch; Flemish: krul), Walloon: spiter ("to spatter"; same root as the English to spit, and to spew, or German German: spützen; Dutch Dutch; Flemish: spuwen), Walloon: li sprewe (the starling; Dutch Dutch; Flemish: spreeuw, or German German: Sperling).
The adjective is often placed before the noun: compare Walloon Walloon: on foirt ome "a strong man" with French French: un homme fort; Walloon: ene blanke måjhon "a white house" and French French: une maison blanche.
Borrowing from Germanic languages: the construction Walloon: Cwè çki c'est di ça po ene fleur? "What kind of flower is this?" can be compared word for word to German German: Was ist das für eine Blume? and Dutch Dutch; Flemish: Wat is dat voor een bloem?, as opposed to Standard French French: Quelle sorte de fleur est-ce? or (colloquially) French: Quelle sorte de fleur est-ce que c'est?.
From a linguistic point of view, Louis Remacle has shown that a good number of the developments that we now consider typical of Walloon appeared between the 8th and 12th centuries. Walloon "had a clearly defined identity from the beginning of the 13th century". In any case, linguistic texts from the time do not mention the language, although they mention others in the langue d'oïl family, such as Picard and Lorrain. During the 15th century, scribes in the region called the language "Roman" when they needed to distinguish it. It is not until the beginning of the 16th century that first occurrence of the word "Walloon" appeared in the current linguistic sense. In 1510 or 1511, Jean Lemaire de Belges made the connection between French, Middle (ca.1400-1600);: Rommand to French, Middle (ca.1400-1600);: Vualon:
The word "Walloon" thus came closer to its current meaning: the vernacular of the Roman part of the Low Countries. One might say that the period which saw the establishment of the unifying supremacy of the Burgundians in the Walloon country was a turning-point in their linguistic history. The crystallization of a Walloon identity, as opposed to that of the French: thiois (i.e. Dutch-speaking) regions of the Low Countries, established "Walloon" as a word for designating its people. Somewhat later, the vernacular of these people became more clearly distinct from central French and other neighbouring langues d'oïl, prompting the abandonment of the vague term "Roman" as a linguistic, ethnic, and political designator for "Walloon".
Also at this time, following the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts in 1539, the French language replaced Latin for all administrative purposes in France. Established as the academic language, French became the object of a political effort at normalization; French: [[La Pléiade]] posited the view that when two languages of the same language family coexist, each can be defined only in opposition to the other. Around the year 1600, the French writing system became dominant in the Wallonia. From this time, too, dates a tradition of texts written in a language marked by traces of spoken Walloon. The written language of the preceding centuries, scripta, was a composite language with some Walloon characteristics but it did not attempt to be a systematic reproduction of the spoken language.
Walloon society and culture
Walloon was the predominant language of the Walloon people until the beginning of the 20th century, although they had a passing knowledge of French. Since that time, the use of French has spread to the extent that now only 15% of the Walloon population speak their ancestral language. Breaking the statistics down by age, 70–80% of the population aged over 60 speak Walloon, while only about 10% of those under 30 do so. Passing knowledge of Walloon is much more widespread: claimed by some 36–58% of the younger age bracket. Laurent Hendschel estimates there are 1,300,000 bilingual people in Wallonia (Walloon-French, Picard-French...).[9] Many French words that pertain to mining and to the textile trade derive from the Walloon-Picard complex.[10]
Legally, Walloon has been recognized since 1990 by the French Community of Belgium, the cultural authority of Wallonia, as an "indigenous regional language" which must be studied in schools and encouraged. The Walloon cultural movement includes the Union Culturelle Wallonne, an organization of over 200 amateur theatre circles, writers' groups, and school councils. About a dozen Walloon magazines publish regularly. The French: Société de Langue et de Littérature Wallonne, founded in 1856, promotes Walloon literature and the study (dialectology, etymology, etc.) of the regional Roman languages of Wallonia. There is a difference between the Walloon culture, according to the Manifesto for Walloon culture, and the Walloon language (even if the latter is a part of the culture).
Walloon-language literature has been printed since the 16th century, or at least since the beginning of the 17th century.[11] It had its "golden age" during the peak of the Flemish immigration to Wallonia in the 19th century: "That period saw an efflorescence of Walloon literature, plays and poems primarily, and the founding of many theaters and periodicals."[12]
The New York Public Library holds a large collection of literary works in Walloon, quite possibly the largest outside Belgium, and its holdings are representative of the output. Out of nearly a thousand works, twenty-six were published before 1880. Thereafter the numbers rise gradually year by year, reaching a peak of sixty-nine in 1903. After that, publications in Walloon fell markedly, to eleven in 1913.[12] Yves Quairiaux counted 4800 plays for 1860–1914, published or not.[13] In this period, plays were almost the only popular entertainment in Wallonia. The Walloon-language theatre remains popular in the region; theatre is flourishing with more than 200 non-professional companies playing in the cities and villages of Wallonia for an audience of over 200,000 each year.[14]
During the 19th-century renaissance of Walloon-language literature, several authors adapted versions of Aesop's Fables to the racy speech (and subject matter) of Liège.[15] They included Charles Duvivier (in 1842); Joseph Lamaye (1845); and the team of Jean-Joseph Dehin (1847, 1851-2) and François Bailleux (1851–67), who covered books I-VI.[16] Adaptations into other dialects were made by Charles Letellier (Mons, 1842) and Charles Wérotte (Namur, 1844). Decades later, Léon Bernus published some hundred imitations of La Fontaine in the dialect of Charleroi (1872);[17] he was followed during the 1880s by Joseph Dufrane, writing in the Borinage dialect under the pen-name Bosquètia. In the 20th century, Joseph Houziaux (1946) published a selection of 50 fables in the Condroz dialect.[18] The motive among Walloon speakers in both France and Belgium was to assert regional identity against the growing centralism and encroachment of the language of the capital, on what had until then been predominantly monoglot areas.
There are links between French literature and Walloon literature. For instance, the writer Raymond Queneau set the publication of a Walloon Poets' anthology for Editions Gallimard. Ubu roi was translated into Walloon by André Blavier, an important 'pataphysician of Verviers, and friend of Queneau, for the new and important Puppet theater of Liège of Jacques Ancion. The Al Botroûle theater operated "as the umbilical cord" in Walloon, indicating a desire to return to the source. Jacques Ancion also wanted to develop a regular adult audience. "From the 19th century he included the Walloon play Tati l'Pèriquî by E. Remouchamps and the avant-garde Ubu roi by A. Jarry."[19] The scholar Jean-Marie Klinkenberg writes, "[T]he dialectal culture is no more a sign of attachment to the past but a way to participate to a new synthesis".[20]
Walloon is also being used in popular song. The most well-known singer in Walloon in present-day Wallonia is William Dunker (15 March 1959).
Limburgian
Walloon: Walon French: Wallon Waals Waals Wallonisch Walloon pronounced as /[walɔ̃]/
Walloon: Diè wåde French: Adieu Diè wah Tot ziens Tschüss Bye pronounced as /[djɛ woːt] / [djɛ wɔːt]/
Walloon: Bondjoû French: Bonjour Daag Goedendag Guten Tag Hello (Good day) pronounced as /[bɔ̃dʒuː]/
Walloon: A French: Salut Ha/haj Hoi Hallo Hi (often followed by another expression) pronounced as /[a]/
Walloon: A rvey French: Au revoir Saluu/Daag/Hajje/Diè wah Tot ziens Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye pronounced as /[arvɛj]/
Walloon: Cmint dit-st on? French: Comment dit-on? Wie zaet me? Hoe zegt men? Wie sagt man? How do you say? pronounced as /[kmɛ̃ dɪstɔ̃]/
Walloon: Cmint daloz? French: Comment allez-vous? Wie geit 't? Hoe gaat het? Wie geht es? How are you? (How goes it? / How's it going?) pronounced as /[kmɛ̃ dalɔ]/
Walloon: Dji n' sais nén French: Je ne sais pas Ich weit 't neet Ik weet het niet Ich weiß es nicht I don't know pronounced as /[dʒɪn sɛː nɛ̃ ] / [dʒɪn se nẽ]/
Languages of Belgium
Walloons - the people
Wallonia - the region
Belgian French - French as spoken in Belgium
Doncols & Sonlez: formerly Walloon-speaking villages in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Manifesto for Walloon culture
Maurice Piron, Anthologie de la littérature wallonne, Mardaga, Liège, 1978 (661 pages) .
Web page of Common Written Walloon
Walloon, a living language in the 22th century? by Lucien Mahin at the meeting "Promoting or demoting: the transmission of minority languages from past to present", University of Poitiers, France, 6 and 7 April 2018
Synthetic presentation
Comprehensive grammar of Walloon (in French and under GFDL)
Walloon Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh list appendix)
phonetic system of Walloon
Union Culturelle Wallonne
Walloon - English dictionary of computing terms - Motî walon - inglès des copiutreces
Université du Wisconsin : collection de documents sur l'immigration wallonne au Wisconsin, enregistrements de témoignages oraux en anglais et wallon, 1976 University of Wisconsin Digital Collection : Belgian-American Research Collection
"It seems the revolutionaries themselves consider the fact French was enough close to the Walloon language so as not to manage Wallonia as Brittany, Corsica, Alsace or Flanders." "French: Le décret du 8 pluviôse An II (...) ne prévoit pas d'envoyer des instituteurs dans la Wallonie romane (contre l'avis de [[Henri Grégoire|Grégoire]] qui souhaitait une campagne linguistique couvrant tout le territoire). Les révolutionnaires eux-mêmes semblent donc considérer que la proximité entre le français et le wallon est suffisamment grande pour ne pas traiter la Wallonie comme la Bretagne, la Corse, l'Alsace ou la Flandre." Astrid Von Busekist, Politique des langues et construction de l'État, Éd. Duculot, Gembloux, 1998, p.22-28
Book: French . Chapitre Evaluer la vitalité : variétés d'oil et autres langues . Jean-Michel Eloy. actes du Colloque international, " Evaluer la vitalité des variétés régionales du domaine d'oïl " . Amiens . Centre d'études picardes . 29–30 November 1996.
Décret Valmy Féaux, 14 of December 1990
Book: Feller Jules . Notes de philologie wallonne . Vaillant Carmanne . Liège . 1912.
E.B. Atwood, "The phonological divisions of Belgo-Romance", in Orbis, 4, 1955, pp. 367-389.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/BelgAmrColAbout.html "Belgian-American Research Collection"
Steven G. Kellman Switching languages: translingual writers reflect on their craft, p.152.
Some other figures in Laurent Hendschel, "Quelques indices pour se faire une idée de la vitalité du Wallon", in Lucien Mahin (editor), Qué walon po dmwin?, Quorum, 1999, p. 128.
Steven G. Kellman, Switching languages: translingual writers reflect on their craft, p.152.
In his Anthologie de la littérature wallonne, Mardaga, Liège, 1978, Maurice Piron is speaking (p. 5) about four dialogues printed between 1631 and 1636
Switching Languages, Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft, Ed. y Steven G. Kellman, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003, p. 153.
Yves Quairiaux, L'image du Flamand en Wallonie, Essai d'analyse sociale et politique (1830-1914) (The Image of Flanders in Wallonia, Essay in Social and Political Analysis), Bruwxelles: Labor, 2006, p. 126.
http://users.skynet.be/lorint/wallang/index.html Lorint Hendschel, "The Walloon Language Page"
Anthologie de la littérature wallonne (ed. Maurice Piron), Liège, 1979; limited preview at Google Books Google Books
There is a partial preview at Google Books
The text of four can be found at Walon.org
Web site: Lulucom.com . Lulucom.com . 2013-03-09.
Joan Gross, Speaking in Other Voices: An Ethnography of Walloon Puppet Theaters. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Press, 2001,
Benoît Denis et Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, "Littérature : entre insularité et activisme" (Literature: between insularity and activism), in Le Tournant des années 1970. Liège en effervescence, Bruxelles, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2010, pp. 237-253, p. 252. French : Ancion monte l'Ubu rwè en 1975 (...) la culture dialectalisante cesse d'être une marque de passéisme pour participer à une nouvelle synthèse...
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As in many other businesses, knowledge of the customers' needs and their behaviour when using the products is crucial for success. For example, future customers are one of the main factors, if not the most important, for the growth of the business, current customers drive the business revenue, and prior customers have once drove the business model. Learning the behaviour that makes a customer remain as such and figuring out the signs that made a customer leave are much more important tasks than devising techniques to acquire new customers because it is cheaper, from a business cost perspective, to focus on retention rather than acquisition.
In particular, the number of customers who discontinue the service within a given period is known as the churn rate (or attrition rate). Any business that wants to grow must keep a growth rate higher than the churn rate (as the net rate will be the difference of these two). Therefore, when addressing the potential directions that a business can take the objectives are double, aim at keeping the current customers while also increasing the growth rate, and work to reduce the attrition rate.
Identify the reasons among the different units that are leading to the current attrition rate and devise actions to address the problems. For example, if the policy of the business is to cancel the subscription of a customer if the payment of the card fails (e.g., the card is expired), a plausible solution would be to keep trying for few days before actually cancelling the customer's subscription (this will incur in a cost for the business but it is likely to be lower than losing the customer).
Design and develop solutions to identify the likelihood of each customer (or a subgroup) to leave or cancel the services in an automated manner (otherwise it is probably not cost effective anyways). For example, by examining the viewing patterns of customers in different types of devices we can identify which customers deviate from other similar ones who have left the service before and signal the retention business unit so that these customers receive an e-mail suggesting new content to watch.
The nature of the technical solutions is to find some automatisation mechanism to classify each customer and provide a score that accounts for the likelihood of a customer to leave the service at the current moment given its history, and figure out a probability that measures the likelihood of doing so in the near future, i.e., within a defined period (a much harder problem is to measure such likelihood for a specific point of time and… this is what weather forecasting is after all!).
We decided to leverage on machine learning and we built a predictive classification model whose output would be such scoring (probability) per customer, one probability for the likelihood of a customer to leave the service (churn) and another one, the difference up to one, for thecustomer to remain using the service. Our first task was to define churn in our context, which we defined as "any customer who has no subscription in the next 30 consecutive days from the current day has officially churned". With such definition and the prior data we had (about 2 years) our problem became one of those under the umbrella of supervised learning.
Our predictive model would have to learn, by means of some algorithm, the differences between an already identified churning customer, and another one who was identified as non-churning as per our definition based on some prior data, putting our problem under the category of supervised learning problems. In machine learning, a supervised learning model aims at inferring a mathematical function from prior and labelled sample data so that it can be later used to calculate (predict) the label for unseen samples.
The model we built turned out becoming a neuronal network whose details will come in a later post. And as with any other machine learning model, we trained and tuned our neuronal network with about 70% of the data we had (as per standard proportions in machine learning community) and evaluated it with about 20% of the remaining data (leaving 10% for final testing). We will also describe in the next part of this post the steps we took for such training as we had to figure out a way to solve the bias introduced by the imbalanced proportion of customers churning vs non-churning in our datasets which is another problem on its own in the community.
In the following illustration we show an architectonical overview of the different elements and steps involved. With the highlighting we are trying to depict the data source of the model that is in production because there can be multiple models and each one will require a set of features, not necessarily the same among the models nor sourced in the same data either.
All the training (and prediction) happened in the Google Cloud Platform, which is used at Bonnier Broadcasting for data insights. We mostly worked with its core data warehousing analysis tool, BigQuery, a popular multi-tenant serverless database that allowed us to not only store the data itself but also do pretty much any complex analysis of our large-scale datasets. We also used the next-generation data processing tool, Dataflow, which is based on Apache Beam, an open source unified programming model to define and execute large-scale data processing pipelines.
Finally, and for the most important part, we took advantage of the distributed environment for machine learning insights, Cloud Machine Learning Engine, based on TensorFlow, a powerful open source computational framework of stateful data-flow graphs specialised in processing and running neuronal networks among other complex tasks.
In the next part of this article, we will describe the technical parts in detail. It will include details on how we selected the relevant data we used to successfully predict the churn rate, how we engineered some of the features we used in our model, further details on the algorithm we used for the predictive model, and all the automatisation process we had to prepare to be able to provide to the business unit in the organisation with a daily report of the customers and their likelihood of churning (or not :).
We would like to thank our colleagues, Kristoffer Adwent, Erik Ferm and Marcus Olsson, for their joint work on this project, and Josef Eriksson for helping us understand the quirks of some of the features we have derived for the predictive model, and many other people of other teams who have helped with their comments and efforts.


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Stockholms stads allmänna pantlåneinrättning, som existerade 1848-1891, hade lokaler i Assistansen på Riddarholmen. Verksamheten hade sitt ursprung i det Generalassistanskontor, som inrättades i Stockholm genom av K. Maj:t utfärdat privilegium och reglemente 1772 21/11. Detta Generalassistanskontor övertogs 1833 på entreprenad av enskild person och ombildades genom K. brev 1848 22/2 från 1848 1/4 till ett stadens ämbetsverk under styrelse av Drätselkommissionen, men under förvaltning av en särskild föreståndare. 1864 övertogs inrättningens styrelse av Drätselnämndens första avdelning. Inrättningen upphörde med september månads utgång 1890 att utlämna lån och avvecklades i slutet av juni 1891.

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PEREGRINATIONS - Canadian Catholic Perspectives and Reflections by members of the PERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER
Msgr Steenson in Canada
Msgr Jeffrey Steenson (CSP Ordinary) with Archbishop Terrence Prendergast at St. Adele, Quebec for the CCCB meeting, September 2013. Abp. Prendergast has ordained men to the priesthood in Canada for Msgr Steenson.
As a member of the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops our Ordinary, though not a bishop, Msgr Steenson has a voice at their meetings. He also has warm friendships with a number of the bishops there who are friends of the CSP Ordinariate and the cause of Christian unity which it works toward.
St. Adele is a lovely place at any time of year but particularly colourful in the autumn. We pray that our bishops and our ordinary will be strengthened for service as they share prayer and fellowship.
May St. Michael the Archangel guard and protect them in their proclamation of the Gospel.
Posted by peregrinusto at Saturday, September 28, 2013
Updated Website for St Thomas More, Toronto
The website for the Toronto Anglican Ordinariate mission - St. Thomas More is:
http://www.thomasmorechurch.ca
You will find updated information about the community, Mass times, clips of choir music and information about Evangelium courses. Make our website a regular stop and give us your feedback.
You may also be interested in the Salt and Light interview in May with Msgr Steenson on the TV show
"Witness" if you have not seen it yet.
May Interview with Msgr Steenson - WITNESS
§ "We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds."
— Life of Thomas More by William Roper; More to his children, c. 1510
Posted by peregrinusto at Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Toronto Anglican Ordinariate Choir begins new season at St. Thomas More Mission, Sacré-Coeur Church
Here is the clip of an offertory motet for double choir, Ecce Vicit Leo by Peter Philips, sung by the St. Thomas More Anglican Ordinariate Choir at Sacré-Coeur Church in Toronto recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u98TpZ1cNs
Ecce vicit Leo de tribu Juda,
radix David aperire librum,
et solvere septem signacula eius. Alleluia.
Dignus est Agnus qui occisus est
accipere virtutem, et divinitatem,
et sapientiam, et fortitudinem, et honorem,
et gloriam, et benedictionem. Alleluia.
- Revelation 5: 5, 12 -
Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah,
the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book
and to loose the seven seals thereof. Alleluia.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength, and honour,
and glory, and blessing. Alleluia.
St. Thomas More Mission,
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
Sacré-Coeur Church,
"Anglican Patrimony in full communion with the Catholic Church."
SUNG MASS WITH FOUR PART CHOIR
EVERY SUNDAY AT 1:45 p.m.
Posted by peregrinusto at Monday, September 16, 2013
EVANGELIUM course at Sacré-Coeur, Toronto
ORDINARIATE EVANGELIUM COURSE UNDERWAY . . . Still time to join the group.
Pope Francis announced this Spring that he was expanding the mandate of the Anglican Ordinariates for the New Evangelization.
Those who have been baptized in the Catholic Church but have never received the sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion my also prepare with and be received into full communion through the Ordinariates.
Of course, all non-Catholics are welcome as well. If you are baptized already you can join our Evangelium Group to explore the Catholic Faith with a view to reception. If not baptized we will work out an RCIA (Christian baptismal initiation) version of Evangelium for you.
This past week we covered the first five subjects (p. 1 - 10 of the Evangelium Participant's book) but those who would still like to join may contact us at peregrinusto@gmail.com.
With a review of the first subjects, you are ready to join our seekers group. We can provide you with a book. Sessions are every Sunday until October 6 with a view to reception before Advent this year.
We meet Sundays at 12:30 - 1:30 pm (just before the Anglican Use Sung Mass) at Sacré-Coeur Church, corner of Sherbourne and Carlton, Toronto. We are meeting in the parish hall.
THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST. THOMAS MORE, TORONTO, Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
SUNG MASS according to Divine Worship: The Missal (traditional English and Anglican patrimony) - Sundays at 12:30 noon - St. Vincent de Paul Church, 263 Roncesvalles, Toronto. For more information www.stmtoronto.ca
TAUS to discuss formation of an Ordinariate Mission Parish in Toronto
May - The Month of Mary
Novena for the Presentation of the Lord
The Seal of the Confessional
Heartiest Congratulations Monsignor Peter Wilkinson
A Visit to Christ the King Ordinariate community at the Chapel Royal, Tyendinaga Mohawk Reservation
Why are some Anglicans reluctant about the Ordinariates?
The Broken Jar – Healing the Western Church
The New "Occasional Services" book for the Ordinariates is published and widely available now.
TAUS MEETING TO FORM TORONTO MISSION PARISH AND SELECT NAME Sunday, June 16 at 3 pm.
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Toronto Anglican Ordinariate Choir begins new seas...
You are welcome to this modest attempt to comment on Catholic matters and to answer questions from average Catholics, Anglicans, Protestants and others inquiring about the Personal Ordinariates and the mandate for unity.
The Ordinariates are like non-geographical dioceses for Anglicans and others coming into the full communion of the Catholic Church. In the New Evangelization, Pope Francis has extended the mandate of the Ordinariates to reach out to baptized but unconfirmed Catholics who are drawn to the commitment of faith and worship in Ordinariate Catholic communities with their distinctive traditional English liturgy, music and pastoral life.
We share the journey with fellow Christians, both those who are already in full communion and those who are considering the ORDINARIATE OF THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER (OCSP) erected January 1, 2012 under the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. Our first chief pastor was the Right Reverend Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson appointed in January 2012.
On February 2, 2016 our first bishop, the Most Rev. Steven Lopes, was ordained. The Chancery and Cathedral of the OCSP are in Houston, TX. The OCSP serves all of North America including over 40 small and some large congregations across the continent with over 70 priests and deacons (15 in Canada). Since Fall 2016 the OCSP has more than 50 instituted acolytes in subdiaconal ministry - we have three currently serving at STM, Toronto.
Our purpose here is to offer commentary on issues which concern Canadian Catholics, pastoral responses to questions and encouragement to those seekers who have sincere questions.
I, along with some associates from the Catholic Parish of St. Thomas More, Toronto (OCSP) www.stmtoronto.ca seek to provide News, information and advice for those who contact us confidentially by e-mail. We ensure confidentiality as people proceed to unity at their own pace and from a variety of backgrounds and circumstances.
We invite you then, to submit questions via the following e-mail address:
peregrinusto@gmail.com
We will attempt to answer these questions for those who sincerely respond to our Lord's prayer - ut unum sint - that we "all may be one".
Faithfully in Christ,
Fr. John L. Hodgins,
Catholic Parish of St. Thomas More,
Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.
St. Peter, pray for us.
St. John the Baptist, pray for us.
St. Thomas More, pray for us.
St. John Houghton and the Carthusian Martyrs, pray for us.
St. John Fisher, pray for us.
St. Edmund Campion, pray for us.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for us.
Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us.
The School of Athens
Stanze di Raffaello, Apostolic Palace, Vatican.

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Restaurant / dining 3D renderings are now more than photo-realistic. You can control the camera angle, styles of furniture and color, and create whatever mood you want (daytime, nighttime, etc.). The best part is you can use 3D renderings before the dining room or bar is ever made and never need to use photography afterwards. This saves you time and money with governmental approval, subcontractors, real estate professionals and your clients.
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This week, we talk to Bogi Godtfred and Hjalti Bogason, they're a father and son (respectively) who recently released a Christmas album in Faroese. Bogi translated about a dozen songs into Faroese and Hjalti did the singing. We'll talk about music, and Christmas on the Faroes, and even hear a track from the new album.
This week, the sounds of day three of the 2012 G! Festival. We sample some salmon, get compliments, then hear from great music from SAKARIS, Fraendur, and Teitur. If you didn't get a chance to attend this year's G! Festival, slip on some headphones and let us take you there.
This week, a conversation and music with Knut Eysturstein. We hear home of his G! Festival performance, then we sit down and talk about his new album, and the emergence of the Faroese music scene in the 1990s. Then we hear Knut's new single.
Plus, a report from this summer's G! Festival.


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Q: Merging two GEOJSON polygons in Python Is there a way to merge two overlapping GEOJSON polygons in python, returning a single merged GEOJSON object?

A: This is how I was able to do it using the packages/modules json, geojson, shapely, pyproj, and partial from functools:
import json
import geojson
from functools import partial
import pyproj
import shapely.geometry
import shapely.ops

# reading into two geojson objects, in a GCS (WGS84)
with open('file1.json') as geojson1:
    poly1_geojson = json.load(geojson1)

with open('file2.json') as geojson2:
    poly2_geojson = json.load(geojson2)

# pulling out the polygons
poly1 = shapely.geometry.asShape(poly1_geojson['features'][2]['geometry'])
poly2 = shapely.geometry.asShape(poly2_geojson['features'][2]['geometry'])

# checking to make sure they registered as polygons
print poly1.geom_type
print poly2.geom_type

# merging the polygons - they are feature collections, containing a point, a polyline, and a polygon - I extract the polygon
# for my purposes, they overlap, so merging produces a single polygon rather than a list of polygons
mergedPolygon = poly1.union(poly2)

# using geojson module to convert from WKT back into GeoJSON format
geojson_out = geojson.Feature(geometry=mergedPolygon, properties={})

# outputting the updated geojson file - for mapping/storage in its GCS format
with open('Merged_Polygon.json', 'w') as outfile:
    json.dump(geojson_out.geometry, outfile, indent=3, encoding="utf-8")
outfile.close()

# reprojecting the merged polygon to determine the correct area
# it is a polygon covering much of the US, and dervied form USGS data, so using Albers Equal Area
project = partial(
    pyproj.transform,
    pyproj.Proj(init='epsg:4326'),
    pyproj.Proj(init='epsg:5070'))

mergedPolygon_proj = shapely.ops.transform(project,mergedPolygon)

A: This example from here seems to be a lot more concise:
from shapely.geometry import Polygon
from shapely.ops import cascaded_union

polygon1 = Polygon([(0, 0), (5, 3), (5, 0)])
polygon2 = Polygon([(0, 0), (3, 10), (3, 0)])

polygons = [polygon1, polygon2]

u = cascaded_union(polygons)

A: The dissolve() function within GeoPandas makes this very simple. For example, I had a GeoDataFrame containing US counties (along with their polygons) and their corresponding Catholic diocese. I wanted to create polygons showing the outline of each diocese for each county. To do so, I used the following code:
diocese_boundaries = df_dioceses.dissolve(by = 'Diocese')

This returned a new DataFrame containing one row for each diocese. Each row had a new geometry column that contained the outline of each diocese.


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Fernand Caremans est un footballeur belge né le  à Anvers, où il est mort le .

Il a évolué comme défenseur au Royal Antwerp Football Club et a été Vice-Champion de Belgique en 1925.

Il a été International en 1922.

Palmarès
 International le  : France-Belgique, 2-1 (match amical)
 Vice-Champion de Belgique en 1925 avec le Royal Antwerp FC

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Joueur du Royal Antwerp FC
Naissance en juillet 1893
Naissance à Anvers
Décès en décembre 1967
Décès à Anvers
Décès à 74 ans


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Questions & Answers : Water giant SUEZ is summoned on the basis of duty of vigilance law
What are the facts behind this legal action based on the French duty of vigilance law?
During the evening of 10 July 2019, some 2,000 liters of oil were released at the Caipulli drinking water treatment plant managed by ESSAL, an entity controlled by French multinational SUEZ, which is responsible for the sanitation network in the Chilean city of Osorno. The leak was due to negligence in the plant's maintenance and management. The plant's water source was contaminated with hydrocarbons, thereby affecting the entire water supply for 49,000 households, equivalent to 140,500 inhabitants (97.9% of the population). The contamination also reached two waterways – the Rahue and Damas rivers. The health crisis could have been avoided if the problems of poor lighting, faulty infrastructure and staff shortage had been properly handled.
At first, ESSAL informed the Los Lagos regional ministerial health secretariat that the situation was under control and that the service would be restored within 24 hours. But the situation turned out to be more complicated and the water supply was cut off for more than 10 days, during which time the inhabitants of Osorno, as well as establishments providing essential services to the city – hospitals, health centers, dialysis centers and residential care homes for the elderly – were deprived of their drinking water supply, prompting a major health crisis.
Because of the serious health implications, a health emergency was officially declared on 12 July 2019. During this period the health crisis grew worse because of the delayed and incomplete installation of alternative water supply points that should have been immediately put in place by ESSAL. In addition, the water supplied was insufficient and of poor quality. Water supply services were not fully restored until 21 July 2019, and the health emergency had to be extended until 31 August 2019, the goal still being to tackle the health emergency.
The result was a violation of Osorno inhabitants' right to the physical and psychological integrity of the person, which is connected to the right to remain healthy, the right to live in a healthy environment and the right to water.
These human rights abuses are all the more serious partly because ESSAL failed to introduce preventive and remedial measures, even after the Superintendencia de Servicios Sanitarios (SISS), the public entity in charge of inspecting this type of service in Chile, had warned about the many irregularities in the infrastructure and the related "high risk" back in 2018. This was therefore not an isolated incident, but a health crisis caused by ESSAL's dereliction of its duties.
In August 2020, the SISS also imposed a record fine on ESSAL of 2,720 annual tax units, equivalent to approximately $1,640,878,080 (Chilean pesos) or approximately €1,880,000.
The deterioration of Chile's sanitation services must be seen in a broader context stemming from privatisation. Until the end of the 1980s, the State was responsible for providing these services. Between 1977 and 1997, drinking water needs in urban areas rose from 85.6% to 99.3%. Conversely, since the beginning of the privatisation process initiated under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and continued in the 1990s during the democracy, under pressure from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, urban sanitation coverage slowed down as prices shot up disproportionately, the pretext being the need to finance the infrastructure and supply sanitation equipment. For example, rates for Osorno clients rose by 343.6% between 1998 and 2017, while income growth for sanitation companies was 69.8% (up to $448.803 billion in 2018), with profits close to 50% (amounting to $345.632 billion in 2018). At the same time, inhabitants saw a gradual decline in service quality: although profits have risen, total investments have steadily declined since 2014.
What were the health impacts?
During the crisis, the Minister of Health sounded a warning on the effects on public health, especially the risk of increased numbers of gastrointestinal diseases and hepatitis A due to poor water quality. Without epidemiological tests, there is no data to establish the precise number of deaths and illnesses caused by the water contamination and by the fact that vital services in the hospitals, healthcare centers, dialysis service and seniors' residential care homes had no potable water for 10 days. This water crisis prevented the province's main hospital, San José de Osorno, from running smoothly, affecting emergency admissions, intensive care units, surgery, general medicine, pediatrics and neonatology services, among others. Furthermore, patients needing urgent attention were sent to other hospitals, and about 500 people suffered from cancellations in surgery, medical procedures, and consultations with specialists.
Besides the impact on health, the economic impact of the crisis was strongly felt by small and medium-sized local businesses that suffered huge losses since they could not function properly and, in some cases, had to close their businesses during the water shutdown.
What does the action filed today by FIDH, Observatorio Ciudadano, Red Ambiental, and LDH consist of?
France's Duty of Vigilance law governing parent and instructing companies was enacted on 27 March 2017. It requires companies of a certain size to identify and prevent risks of violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and of damage to health, safety and the environment stemming from their operations and those of their subsidiaries and/or business partners (sub-contractors and suppliers) by drawing up, publishing, and effectively implementing a vigilance plan.
After giving the companies formal notice, victims, organisations, and unions that have a proven legal interest in the case can go to court to ensure this obligation is fulfilled. The judge can order companies to publish and effectively implement their vigilance plans in accordance with the law. Furthermore, multinational companies can be held responsible under the terms of civil liability for the impacts of their activities on the environment and the population. They could be ordered to "compensate for the harm that could have been avoided by fulfilling these obligations."
As of 29 January 2020, five formal notices had been issued in France to companies on the basis of the law, while two writs had been submitted before the court. Under the terms of this law, which allows organisations to demand that companies fulfill this obligation, Red Ambiental Ciudadana de Osorno, a community association based in Osorno, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations in Chile and France, Observatorio Ciudadano, and Ligue des droits de l'Homme (LDH), formally notified the SUEZ Group, as parent company, that it must comply with the law on Corporate Duty of Vigilance. It must take steps to make up for the failings and illegalities in the provision of a water supply to Osorno in order to prevent another health crisis from occurring in the city or in other locations in Chile where ESSAL and other subsidiaries of the French group are operating.
Our organisations demanded that SUEZ publish a new vigilance plan that includes detailed and adequate measures to mitigate and prevent the risk of human rights abuses, particularly the right to good health, water and a healthy environment, as well as a mechanism for monitoring the effective implementation of these measures.
Following this formal notice, FIDH, LDH, Observatorio Ciudadano, and Red Ambiental Ciudadana de Osorno met with SUEZ twice to discuss and try to obtain a modification of the vigilance plan that would take their concerns into account, and thus avoid the recurrence of such a health crisis in the future.
As the 2021 vigilance plan published by SUEZ on 29 April 2021 did not meet the expectations expressed by the four organisations, they summoned the company to appear before the Nanterre judicial court.
What will be the next steps?
The Court will have to rule on the requests of the applicant associations to order the SUEZ Group, if necessary under penalty, to publish within six months a new complete due diligence plan meeting the obligations set out in the French duty of vigilance law. In particular, the SUEZ Group is asked to detail its risk mapping by prioritising the risks and including the precise methodology used to prioritise the risks and the methods of consultation with local communities and stakeholders. It is also asked to describe the measures for mitigating these risks and preventing serious human rights violations.
The purpose of this vigilance plan will be to put in place effective measures to prevent new health crises from occurring due to the negligent behaviour of SUEZ's subsidiaries.
Why is this legal action relevant?
The demonstrations that have taken place since October 2019 and throughout 2020 in Chile express the public's discontent with the consequences of the military dictatorship's and successive governments' neoliberal policies, a prime example being the management of the water supply, which was suddenly privatised during the Pinochet dictatorship.
The system of privatisation of public services is now being seriously questioned because of major disruptions to the supply of drinking water to a signifcant part of Chile's urban population. The water supply sector in Chile is subject to regular incidents. Between 2010 and 2017 sanitation companies in Chile were penalised 699 times – an average of 87 sanctions per year – for failing to fulfill their obligations to provide contractual services. Fines amounted to close to 25.110 billion USD, or 3.140 billion USD annually, on average. In the case of Aguas Andinas, the company that controls ESSAL, for instance, between 2008 and 2017 five major shutdowns were reported, affecting over 1.1 million clients for 26.9 hours.
The situation regarding access to water is already critical and is further aggravated by Chile's considerable exposure to hydrological risks. Projections for the rise in water demand show that Chile will be one of the countries most affected by climate change due to the rise in temperature, decreased rainfall, melting glaciers, and increased cloud cover, requiring the introduction of tangible, far-reaching measures to secure water for the population.
It is thus essential for the concession-holding companies and their parent companies to factor in and address the risks of future human rights violations connected to these incidents.
The ill-feeling of Osorno residents towards ESSAL and the many deplorable incidents that can be blamed on the company, convinced the Municipality of Osorno to include the question of whether to terminate the current ESSAL concession agreement in Osorno in its citizen consultation on a possible new constitution for Chile. The population voted 90% in favor of this proposal and only 6.7% against. If the municipality of Osorno were to take back public control of the water supply, it would be a first for the country.
Faced with the risk of losing the Osorno concession contract, the SUEZ Group threatened to turn to private arbitration courts as it had previously done in Argentina and Indonesia. These mechanisms for settling disputes between investors and the State form a parallel justice system that is obscure and only available to the most powerful. Many multinational companies have used this system to call into question environmental and public health policies as well as regulations on rates for drinking water among others, by demanding billions of euros in compensation. Often, the very threat of recourse to this type of private arbitration is enough to dissuade governments from taking action to protect human and environmental rights.
The Suez Group has a large presence in Chile and, at the time of the events denounced, held 43% of the water market in Chile through several sub-subsidiaries. On 11 September 2020, SUEZ, through its subsidiary Aguas Andinas SA, which previously controlled the sub-subsidiary Empresa de Servicios Sanitarios de Los Lagos SA ("ESSAL"), entered into an agreement with the Canadian company Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. for the sale of its 53.51% stake in ESSAL. However, as of July 2019, SUEZ controlled ESSAL and still controls a large part of the Chilean water market.
Why introduce this action in France rather than in Chile?
While Chilean health and judicial authorities have sanctioned ESSAL, a SUEZ-controlled company in Chile, multiple times, the quality of water provision has not been substantially improved.
In such a situation, the French Law on Corporate Duty of Vigilance could be used to oblige SUEZ, ESSAL's parent company, to live up to its responsibility to respect human rights and ensure that they are respected in its value chain. SUEZ earned €159 million in profits from the operations of its subsidiary Aguas Andinas, through which it controls ESSAL and other subsidiaries in Chile, but has not been held accountable for the catastrophic impacts of the recurring water shutdowns and the irregularities in its water provision services.
It is common knowledge that SUEZ has many operations in Chile: 43.8% of the Chilean urban population is supplied by companies controlled by the SUEZ Group, making it a major player in Chile with regard to impact on respect for human rights and the environment. The company must take urgent action to avoid another health crisis like the one that struck Osorno and must ensure that the country is equipped to cope with water stress, considering the present situation regarding climate change. Moreover, the company must comply with the obligations that are imposed both by the French Law of Corporate Duty of Vigilance and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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HomeHow Being the 'Emotional' Jewish Woman Actually Makes You Smarter — and More Successful
How Being the 'Emotional' Jewish Woman Actually Makes You Smarter — and More Successful
Elissa StraussNovember 17, 2015
Remember Sophie Portnoy, Philip Roth's portrait of a smothering Jewish mother? Or how about Fran Fine, the star character of "The Nanny," who speaks almost exclusively in the whiny and needy upper nasal register? Or Cher Horowitz in "Clueless," who is guided nearly exclusively by instinct rather than reason (well, until she is reformed by her Sartre-reading boyfriend)?
Or — to take a nonfictional example — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was recently described by Donald Trump as "crazy" and "highly neurotic"?
These are just a few examples of Jewish women whose feelings are presented as clouding their capacity for logic or judgment. What is a JAP or a Jewish mother if not someone who is simply terrible at emotional restraint?
There's good reason to recoil at these caricatures. They're heavy-handed, misogynistic and are most often used to keep women in their place. They also rely on the notion that feeling and thinking is a zero-sum game.
Thankfully, a new study suggests that this notion might be fading into the past. Research conducted in Israel by a team from Humboldt University of Berlin found that men were "rated as both more emotionally competent and more intelligent in general when they showed restraint." This is the unsurprising part. What's notable is the fact that for women "the opposite pattern emerged, in that they were perceived as more emotionally competent and intelligent when they reacted immediately."
This is good news for all women, but especially Jewish women. Our supposedly heightened sensitivity has long been seen as in conflict with our intelligence. These findings represent a possible shift away from the detached stoic as the apotheosis of a fully realized intellectual and toward a vision of mental acuity in which the emotional and intellectual feed into each other.
And they're not the only evidence. In The New York Times, Claire Cain Miller wrote recently about how cooperation, empathy and flexibility are becoming increasingly valuable in the workplace.
"Occupations that require strong social skills have grown much more than others since 1980, according to new research," Miller wrote. "And the only occupations that have shown consistent wage growth since 2000 require both cognitive and social skills." In other words, if you want your children to make it, teach them to think and feel, preferably at the same time.
And in November, British Spy Agency MI6 placed a job advertisement on a website for moms, emphasizing the importance of qualities like "creativity, insight, curiosity, empathy and intuition" in their work. (Fran Drescher as the next Bond, anyone?)
The idea of emotional intelligence, or an EQ (emotional quotient), has been around for a few decades now. In 1995, Daniel Goleman introduced the world to this idea in his internationally best-selling book, "Emotional Intelligence," in which he argued that, yes, empathy and sensitivity are just as important as intelligence for achieving success.
But even as emotional intelligence was praised, it was still seen as separate from general IQ. In fact, when a 2013 study on Vietnam veterans yielded findings that suggested otherwise, the scientific community voiced surprise. In the study, a group of neuroscientists from the University of Illinois had discovered that the same regions of the brain that perform cognitive tasks may be responsible for social intelligence.
"We're fundamentally social beings, and our understanding not only involves basic cognitive abilities but also involves productively applying those abilities to social situations so that we can navigate the social world and understand others," study co-author Aron Barbey said.
Of course, this statement supports the more fluid take on the interplay of intelligence and emotion that we see recognized in the Israel-based study. It's just a shame, then, that only women were seen in this light. For women who express their feelings to be perceived as more intelligent is great, but we'll know we've really ditched the women=emotional, men=intellectual binary when men who express their feelings are perceived as intelligent, too.
Here's the thing: Just as women have been thinking in addition to feeling for all these years, men have been feeling in addition to thinking for just as long. In fact, a 2014 study by a group of neurologists in the United Kingdom found that men actually have stronger emotional reactions than women. A separate study from the same group of researchers found that 67% of men said they were more emotional than they appeared.
Just imagine the rich possibilities, not to mention the more fully realized men and women that will come to exist when we all start to accept the ways in which our thoughts and feelings can enrich one another. There just might be more to Sophie Portnoy, that "patron saint of self-sacrifice," yet.
Elissa Strauss is a contributing editor to the Forward.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward.
Elissa Strauss
Elissa Strauss has written for the Forward over a number of years. She is a regular contributor to CNN, whose work has been published in a number of publications including The New York Times, Glamour, ELLE, and Longreads.


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Happy 99th Birthday to the Late Gov. William Milliken
Published on March 25th, 2021 by FLOW Editor - Blog Posts, News
March 26 marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of the late William G. Milliken, regarded as the Michigan governor most committed to protecting Michigan's water, air and land. Milliken passed in 2019.
For many, remembering Governor Milliken's birthday affords the chance to reflect on the Milliken family's legacy of public service. Governor Milliken referred to his late wife Helen as his "conscience," and her impact on his policies and legacy encompassed support for not only the environment, but also human rights. Together, the Millikens were known for promoting civic engagement in the public sphere. This legacy lives on at FLOW, and can grow through gifts to The Helen and William G. Milliken Fund For Love of Water, which FLOW established in 2020.
FLOW's Milliken Fund supports efforts to promote public trust rights in the Great Lakes Basin through three key programs that sustain the Milliken legacy:
Protecting the Great Lakes and the people who depend on them by fueling FLOW's core programs in applying the public trust doctrine to protect against the contamination and diversion of the Great Lakes and ensure access to clean drinking water for all.
Inspiring community action by funding challenges designed to inspire widespread participation, making it possible for FLOW to match individual donations in support of selected local Great Lakes projects and programs.
Mentoring the next generation of leaders by underwriting internships at FLOW to foster environmental policy leadership in students and young professionals.
Resources donated to this fund connect FLOW to the story of Michigan's progress in embracing protective measures that safeguard the Great Lakes. At the same time, these gifts empower the public, through FLOW, to hold government accountable and, in turn, deepen our trust in government.
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For more information about the Milliken Fund, or to make a gift, please visit FLOW's website or contact FLOW Development Director Diane Dupuis at 231-944-1568 or Diane@FLOWforWater.org. FLOW is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit working in the public interest. Donations to the Milliken Fund are tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by law.


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Ticketed for driving like a wild tiger
Columns | January 10, 2008
Alison Berkley
"Ma'am, you're going to have to get out of the car please," the policeman said, the sun lighting up his blues eyes just so. He had short blonde hair that made his head look like a peach.
"Why do I have to do that?" I asked, feigning nervousness with a sense of entitlement, which is how I usually get away with stuff.
I was about 15 miles east of Rock Springs, Wyo., on my way back from Jackson Hole last weekend when I got pulled over. I acted surprised when the cop told me he clocked me doing 120.
I gave him the old, "it's the turbo," excuse, which is sort of true. Like I assured my Dad, I really don't drive that fast anymore. I only go as fast as the car will let me go, and my Jeep is more about freestyle than racing. But I wasn't in my car and so it seems perfectly reasonable that I just wasn't used to the acceleration of the Audi. It is so totally the Audi's fault.
"Ma'am, if you're going to drive that fast, we need to have a little chat," he replied, his smile revealing an unmistakable dimple in his left cheek.
"I'm alone and I'm a long way from home, so I don't have that much time," I said, trying to communicate with my eyes that I planned to throw a giant fit if he even thought for two seconds about taking me to jail.
"Where're you from?" he asked, his words syrupy with that redneck drawl.
"Aspen," I said, even though my friends always tell me not to admit I'm from Aspen when I'm in, um, less fortunate areas. They say I should tell people I'm from the Roaring Fork Valley or the Glenwood exit or something like that.
"That's not that far," he said, nonplused by the Aspen thing.
"Well. I don't want to have to drive in the dark, then," I said, reaching for any excuse to avoid getting thrown in the clink.
"Please get in my car from the passenger side," he said. "I'll be waiting."
Of course all kinds of scenarios played out in my head, from a visual of me getting cuffed and stuffed to, well, getting stuffed and cuffed " if you know what I mean. There I was, in the middle of nowhere, with this fine looking cop complete with gun holster, hamstring muscles that popped out of his tight, striped polyester pants, and black leather boots that seemed to scream authority.
I get in the car and we have this nice chat about why I think it's understandable that I'd be driving that fast. Stuff like, "there's nothing in your way out here," and "it seems perfectly safe to go whatever speed you want when you can see 500 miles in every direction."
He's listening to some alternative rock station on XM radio and songs by Nirvana and Sublime create a laid back atmosphere. At one point his cell phone rings and he answers it. "Can I call you back? I'm on a stop," he says. I resist the urge to ask who it was that called, even though I want to. Meanwhile, he's scribbling in some form and calling my I.D. into dispatch.
"So you're blonde then," he says, shooting me another dimpled grin. "Weight?
What, a buck-ten?"
I nod.
"My wife's from Colorado. She drives fast, too."
Wife? I wonder if that thickens the plot or ruins it.
"I'm gonna mark this down to 103 so you only have to make a court appearance," he says.
I wonder what the alternative might have been in the great state of Wyoming. I see myself getting dragged behind horses or something with hooves involved.
Needless to say, the porn movie that's playing in my head goes static.
A few days later, I had the distinct pleasure watching the New Hampshire primaries with a friend of mine whose parents are very much the real deal when it comes to political activism and devoting an entire lifetime to rallying for the Democrats. I've learned a lot from her and when she talks politics, I listen. She went on this long tirade about how America is like this wild tiger and the best candidate is the one who can ride it, or tame it, or something along those lines.
Basically what I gather is it's one big dog and pony show. You know, who's the best performer, who can command the biggest and most attentive audience. I told her I have a hard time paying attention to the political speeches because I feel like it's a bunch of lip service. She said of course it is, but the one who is the best at delivering it wins.
So today I'm in the car listening to NPR, and they were interviewing these two African American ladies on Fresh Air who were quite funny. One was a Clinton supporter, the other rooting for Obama.
"We're black, and we're women, so we can't lose either way," one of them said.
Back in Sweetwater, Wyo., the nice police officer handed me his card and told me to e-mail any comments I had regarding my experience. He didn't ask me for a blowjob or have my car impounded or take me to jail. He said, "we're the friendly state patrol," and I think he really meant it.
Me, on the other hand, was completely full of it for the most part.
"Thanks," I said, getting out of the car and enjoying the fresh air of freedom. I'm pretty sure I could ride a tiger if I knew it would get me out of trouble. That's when it occurred to me that I should probably think about becoming a politician.
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"Just a year back, I was seated on a couch with my mother and watching reruns from the IPL archives on TV. I always dreamt of being here and today I am here. Life can change, this is unbelievable," Mayank Markande says hinting at his new found glory. He is the talk of the town, the boy everyone is raving about and Mumbai Indians man with the golden arm – well, for now atleast.
Even for captain Rohit Sharma he was an unknown commodity until Markande made it to the nets and impressed everyone. If his first game against Chennai Super Kings wherein he picked up the big fish MS Dhoni with an unreadable wrong'un, got Rohit gleam in surprise, an extended spell on Thursday night against Sunrisers Hyderabad only reinstated the growing faith the captain had in his youngster.
Markande didn't disappoint. He picked up four wickets – four genuinely good deliveries, majority being off the wrong'un that fizzed and looked unreadable. He had got Mumbai Indians back in the game, with a sniff, with a chance of registering their first win in the competition. That was not to be though.
Sunrisers Hyderabad might have clinched a last ball thriller, but it was Markande who was making all the right waves across commentary boxes, former cricketers and social media platforms. So much so that Harbhajan Singh went on to tweet in Markande's praise – a compliment that brought a smile to the 20-year old's face who had the opportunity to share bowling space in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
He might be leaving everyone by surprise with his leg-spin, but not many know that bowling loopy leggies and the right wrong'uns wasn't his first choice. It was infact - fast bowling. "I wasn't too big on playing cricket as a child. I would just go and play for fun and try to bowl fast. Even then, I would bowl the back of the hand delivery – my googly very well.
And, what a decision that has proven to be. From watching all the action on TV to being a part of it, Markande knows he still has a long way to go. He is right now the top wicket-taker of the tournament and proudly wears the purple cap on his head. But, he knows this is just the beginning.
P.S. On a lighter note, like every other youngster, Markande too is social media savvy. Before the IPL he had around 2000 followers on his Instagram account. Now, it's clocked 38.8k followers. How many wickets and followers at the end of the tournament? Time will tell.


It's a new season and with a new season I have a new job. I will be self-employed and if I play the cards right, will be able to create an income. With that said I have felt many warnings of the Lord. Honestly I haven't had the direction of whether these warnings are to stop or to go. So in this I've been more sensitive to the Scripture that talk about money.
Money is a loaded gun. A gun has potential to give through hunting for food or for taking life for shooting another human.
It's dangerous. It's the same with money.
It can ruin us more easily than it can make us. And so with that we need the wisdom of God.
Love of money is the root of all kinds of evil (1 Tim 6:10). Money is not bad or good, it's our relationship to it. See here it says "the love" of money and not money itself. But even in that our relationship with money can be very deceitful. Mostly in that we deceive ourselves.
It is dangerous to want to get rich. "People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction" (1 Tim 6:9). Being wealthy isn't wrong as there were many in Scripture who were (Abraham, David and others), but how we seek after that wealth and why we seek that wealth matters. Almost 100% of the time we will always justify a desire to get rich ("I can do more for God"). It's the innate deceitfulness of wealth. "Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs" (Mt 6:10).
Our natural tendency is to store up money and hoard which is contrary to God's wisdom. Jesus clearly says "Do not store up treasures on earth…" (Mt 6:19). But the scariest Scripture is in Luke 12:13-21 where a farmer has an overly-abundant year and builds bigger barns to store his wealth. It makes it so he can retire early. Then read this, "But God said to him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' This then is how it will be with anyone who stores up for himself but is not rich towards God."" It's not that it's wrong to store up reserves as it is the wise thing to do (Prov 30:25) but there is a limit to how much we should store up.
Money is a master. It's one of the masters we can serve. But if we serve it, we cannot also serve God (Mt 6:24).
1) Excess money, beyond something that is reasonable to store up, is to be used for the benefit of others.
"At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need" (2 Cor 8:14).
2) Our faith remains in God, not money. Money is power and when you have it, you have more "power" to make decisions and take action. It's tempting at this point to make decisions and use our money more based on what we want to do (good or bad) than to continually be led of the Lord. Not only that but it's tempting to see money as our foundation, our deliverer, our safety net, and our hope for a better life. But the Scripture says this: "Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment" (1 Tim 6:17). The real test is if we lost it all, how much would our lives change? Would we still have the same joy, peace, rest and security that we did before we were wealthy?
3) Contentment with our daily needs being met is great gain.
"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength" (Php 4:12-13).
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Will David Stocks be the next leader of North Lanarkshire Council?
The SNP took one more seat than Labour at North Lanarkshire Council, however both parties are looking to form the new administration.
The SNP won 33 seats to Labour's 32, but the Conservatives pulled off a major shock having 10 councillors returned while there are two independents.
Councillors Stocks said: "As far I'm concerned we won the election in North Lanarkshire and it is our right to try to form the next administration.
"Obviously I'd hoped for a majority and I believe we would have got it had it not been for the Tories entering the fray in a big way.
"I have some people to speak to, but one thing I can say is we will not form a coalition with the Tories, as far as we're concerned they have one policy and that is to stop an independence referendum.
Councillor Logue is still hopeful he can continue to lead an administration despite being at a numerical advantage.
He said: "There was no outright winner, the SNP have one more member, and that means we have to have a totally different mind-set.
"There are 10 Tories and two independent members, those two independents may decide they'd prefer to work with Labour.


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The nutraceutical industry is worth an estimated $270 billion, and that figure is expected to increase to over $600 billion by 2018. Of the 160 plants declared to have medicinal properties worldwide, over 80 are endemic to Jamaica. Executive director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr Cliff Riley, believes that Jamaica is poised to capitalise on an industry that is continuously increasing in market size and reach as people become more health-conscious and return to using their food as medicine.
But Riley also recognises the current trend in healthcare. "People want natural remedies," he explains. "They don't want synthetic drugs. Food becomes your medicine. Health is not gastric bypass. It's your lifestyle – what you're doing on a daily basis." Hence the explosion of the nutraceutical industry.
Bring under one umbrella practitioners and support agencies in a manner that is systematic and coordinated.
Amend the Food and Drug Act under the Ministry of Health to incorporate the classification and registration of nutraceutical products.
Build media interest to educate the public and healthcare practitioners of products and trade market impact.
Build consumer confidence in these products through the promotion of research and development standardization.
Expand the market locally and also to gain a great share of the international global markets.
Lay the scientific/medical and social ground work to facilitate this emerging and expanding market.
Riley explains why this is important: "Neutraceuticals must go through some scrutiny," he says, noting that national regulations ascertain product quality, because they facilitate the examination and documentation of every aspect of the production process. "This becomes especially essential if, for example, a person has an allergic reaction to a particular ingredient in a product." Using the example of honey, Riley says: "All honey is not equal." He explains that down to the very bark of the tree in which the bees build their hive or the plant from which they get pollen can affect the quality of the honey and the consumer's experience.
He notes that the SRC is working assiduously to combat this. "We've done extensive work on endemic [plant] species, like bird pepper, cashew bark, guinea hen weed …," he says. But there are challenges. Chief among them are the regulations stipulations outlined in the Food & Drug Act (composed in the 1970s). The Act makes a clern distinction between what is categorised as "food", and whst is considered "drugs", and does not make allowance for a food to be registered as a drug, even if it has medicinal properties and is being marketed for this purpose.
"We have had discussions," says Riley. "Submissions have been made to Cabinet for amendments to recognise nutraceutical foods as drugs … and to create a more favourable space for safeguarding and improving Jamaica's nutraceutical industry." This, Riley believes, will pave the way for the nation to derive the many benefits of the nutraceutical industry.
He laments the fact that most Jamaicans only think of nutraceuticals in terms of "tonics, capsules and tablets", when in fact, there are myriad jobs that are created in every step of the nutraceutical creation and marketing process. One area he thinks is underutilised is that of functional foods. He says more persons could be marketing foods for their health value. So, for example, instead of just marketing a piece of pumpkin, the marketer would highlight that it is a vitamin-rich food that provides multiple health benefits.


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Google Play Store: these are the news coming to your Android
A Google works continuously to improve its platforms and services such as the store Google Play Store. Now in January 2023 we have several changes and improvements gradually being rolled out to the official content store for Android.
Next, we'll let you know what's new on the way to this store for apps, games, movies and much more, with significant improvements not only to the look, but also to how it works. It is one of the biggest updates for this Android store.
It should be noted that this is official information, released by Google itself through its channels.
Google Play system update brings several improvements in January 2023
Firstly, we have improvements to the Play Store on Android devices, also increasing the protection and security of content. The security boost is probably the most significant improvement coming this month.
In addition, these innovations will be present not only on smartphones, but also on tablets, cars, televisions, smart watches and ChromeOS equipment, among others.
At the same time, we also have changes and news that are more suitable for programmers and those responsible for applications. Next, let's look at the definitive list of what's new for the Play Store.
Smartphones and PC – Increased type of users and use cases supported for the Google Play Games (Games) profile.
New features to help us discover new Android apps, as well as games that are sure to please users. Optimizations to allow downloading, installing and opening contents faster, without lag or crash when installing a new app in order to make them more reliable. Continuous improvements to the Google Play Protect system (already applied), to keep your Android smartphone safer Various improvements in performance, performance and solutions for various errors and instabilities detected on the platform and Google Play Store.
Services for Android Developers
Smartphones – New developer roles so that Google and third-party application developers can enable, accept, and incorporate new developer services related to network connectivity. In other words, to promote better integration of connectivity options in Google's own apps and third-party apps for Android.
Finally, users of Android tablets and smartphones, as well as other platforms, can check and use the news right now by updating their Google Play Services application. The most recent version is 01.23indicating January 2023.
On the other hand, the general distribution of the news started on January 5th, so it should already be present on your smartphone with access to the Google Play Store.
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			AdditionalMappingInfo();
		}

		/// Partial method for adding additional mapping information in a partial class.
		partial void AdditionalMappingInfo();
	}
}

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