Symphony in White, No. 3 was originally signed and dated 1865, the date being later altered to 1867. 1 It may then have been worked on occasionally until 1873.
In November 1865 Whistler's mother Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881) wrote to him, 'I hope you may add to the Sofa as many beautiful touches as you did to the little white girl & that Houth [sic] may be so charmed he may add more of Whistlers to his own collection.' 4 This suggests that Louis Huth (1821-1905) bought it before it was completed.
Translation: 'My brother is bringing the little painting with him. I would be very glad to know that it was in the salon of the Club. ... I would very much like to have a little word from you to tell me if you like it. You will clearly see that I still have little things to do to complete it altogether - the hands are only sketched in - I shall also touch up the flowers later.
This probably refers to Symphony in White, No. 3 [YMSM 061], and implies that Whistler was still working on it. A comparison of the present state of the oil with an early photograph (Lucas Collection, Baltimore) taken before the date was changed in 1867, shows several minor alterations, which could date from early 1867, before the oil was exhibited at the RA.
On 31 March William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) called in to see what Whistler intended to send to the Academy: 'he means to send Symphony in White No. 3 (heretofore named The Two Little White Girls).' 8 It was exhibited at the 99th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1867 (cat. no. 233) as 'Symphony in White No. 3'.
1868: In February and March 1868 one of the models, either Emilie ('Millie') Jones or her sister Augusta Maria Jones (fl. 1865), was still posing for Whistler, possibly for this oil, at the studio of Frederick Jameson (1839-1916) at 62 Great Russell Street, London. 9 Joanna Hiffernan (b. ca 1843-d.1886) was probably also posing at that time.
1873: In January Whistler told Louis Huth that the 'two figures' painting was one of two requiring further work that he would undertake 'directly the Academy work is over - and you can see as they progress whether you like to keep them for yourself.' 10 It was exhibited in the Sixth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists [Summer Exhibition], Deschamps Gallery, London, 1873 (cat. no. 112).
1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 61).
2: 16 August , GUW #11477.
3: [1864/1865], GUW #09393; but see La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine [YMSM 050].
4: A. M. Whistler to Whistler, 25 November , GUW #06526.
5: 17 January , GUW #09171.
6: Notebook 20 (Louvre RF5634, p. 17). Reff 1976a [more], repr.
7: [13/20 February 1867], GUW #08145.
8: Spencer 1989 [more], p. 79.
9: Whistler to 'Miss Jones', [February 1868/May 1869], GUW #09173, and [February 1868/1869], GUW #09175.
10: [31 January 1873], GUW #02242.


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Q: How do I pass command line args in pytest? I have a py file that takes a file name as a command line argument like so:
file_name = str(sys.argv[1])
file = open(file_name)
result = main_loop(file)
print(result)

I want to be able to test this py file with pytest
Test Code:
import py_loop
import pytest

    def test_loop():

        file = open('test_data.json')
        assert py_loop.main_loop(file) == 'Result'

The above errors. How can I test the program with command line args?

A: The pytest framework has a specific way of passing command-line arguments. You can do this via a conftest.py file or via a pytest plugin. Here's how to do this via a conftest.py file:
# /home/user/conftest.py
def pytest_addoption(parser):
    parser.addoption('--stringvalue', action='store', dest='stringvalue')

# /home/user/test_first.py
def test_test1(request):
    assert 'checkme' == request.config.getoption('stringvalue')

$ pytest /home/user/test_first.py --stringvalue checkme

The example above shows you how to set a conftest.py file, how to use that in a test, and how you would set the arg when you run pytest via the command-line.

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Der Logistische Umschlagpunkt Trabzon (Abkürzung: LogUgPkt TR) war eine Einrichtung der Bundeswehr in der türkischen Hafenstadt Trabzon am Schwarzen Meer, der der Rückführung von Material aus Afghanistan diente.

Hintergrund

Bis Ende 2014 sollte der Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Rahmen der International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) beendet werden. Die anschließende Folgemission Resolute Support hat einen erheblich kleineren Umfang, so dass ein großer Teil des Materials des deutschen ISAF-Kontingents nach Deutschland zurückzuführen war. Hierbei ging man von einem Transportbedarf von 1200 Fahrzeugen und 4800 Containern aus. Für den Transport wurden drei Routen ausgewählt:

 Türkei-Route mit Lufttransport von Mazār-i Scharif nach Trabzon und Weitertransport per Schiff nach Deutschland für etwa 85 Prozent des Materials,
 Landweg mit der Eisenbahn von Mazār-i Scharif nach Klaipėda und Weitertransport per Schiff nach Deutschland für etwa 10 Prozent des Materials,
 Direktflug von Mazār-i Scharif nach Deutschland für etwa 5 Prozent des Materials.

Auftrag und Organisation

Der Umschlagpunkt hatte den Auftrag, das auf der Türkei-Route mit Flugzeugen auf dem etwa sechs Kilometer östlich der Stadt gelegenen Flughafen Trabzon angelieferte Material für den Seetransport vorzubereiten und zu verladen. Zu diesem Zweck wurde es gesichtet, technisch überprüft, auf Schäden untersucht, neu kommissioniert und einzelnen logistischen Einrichtungen in Deutschland als Adressat zugewiesen. Dafür konnten gemäß einem Abkommen mit der Türkei bis zu 250 deutsche Soldaten eingesetzt werden.

Der Umschlagpunkt gliederte sich in einen Stabsbereich und einen als Blaue Platte bezeichneten Umschlagbereich im Hafengebiet von Trabzon. Die dort eingesetzten Soldaten kamen aus verschiedenen Verbänden der Streitkräftebasis, darunter Kräfte der Logistiktruppe, der ABC-Abwehrtruppe, der Feldjägertruppe und der Führungsunterstützungstruppe. Als Leiter war ein Offizier im Dienstgrad Oberst oder Kapitän zur See eingesetzt.

Der Umschlagpunkt war darauf eingerichtet, zunächst wöchentlich die Ladung von bis zu 15 Flugzeugen abzufertigen. Alle zehn bis fünfzehn Wochen war ein Seetransport nach Deutschland vorgesehen.

Am 21. Januar 2015 lief das letzte Transportschiff, die Britannia Seaways aus dem Hafen von Trabzon aus, um am 3. Februar 2015 im niedersächsischen Emden entladen (gelöscht) zu werden.
Insgesamt wurden 175 Transportflügen aus Afghanistan kommend umgeschlagen. Hierbei wurden 1008 Fahrzeuge sowie 480 Container mit einer Gesamttonnage von weit mehr als 14.000 Tonnen auf sieben Seetransporte verteilt.

Leiter der Dienststelle

Auflösung der Dienststelle
Am 21. Januar 2015 fand der Auflösungsappell durch den Inspekteur der Streitkräftebasis Vizeadmiral Manfred Nielson statt. Bis zum offiziellen Auflösungstermin am 31. März 2015 wickelte ein Nachkommando Restaufgaben der Dienststelle ab.

Verweise

Literatur

 Michael Halama. In kurzer Zeit optimale Bedingungen geschaffen. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung vom 25. April 2013 S. 8
Informationsbroschüre Trabzon (PDF; 176 kB)

Weblinks

 Logistischer Umschlagpunkt Trabzon auf der Homepage der Streitkräftebasis. Abgerufen am 1. Mai 2013

Siehe auch

 Deutsche Beteiligung am Krieg in Afghanistan
 Camp Marmal

Einzelnachweise

Trabzon
Trabzon
Militärlogistik
Deutsch-türkische Beziehungen
Gegründet 2013
Aufgelöst 2015

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Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan
A housing complex in the catchment of Sukhna Lake will affect Chandigarh's only water body (PHOTOGRAPHS: ANUPAM CHAKRAVARTTY / CSE)
WITH WIDE roads, abundant greenery and self-sufficient sectors, Chandigarh has the distinction of being India's first planned city. Residents attribute this success to strict building laws and the absence of haphazard construction. Some even claim the city has no slums. The real picture, however, is not rosy.
In the last two decades, an increased demand for labour has led to a large-scale migration to the city, gradually resulting in the proliferation of slums. The original plan of Le Corbusier, the French architect who designed Chandigarh, did not make provision for slums. To keep in tune with the master plan, the administration is now evicting slum dwellers. Nine of the 18 slum colonies have been deemed illegal and served with eviction notices.
Slums are not Chandigarh's lone challenge. The administration is also locked in a legal battle with the Punjab government over the construction of a private multi-storeyed housing complex very close to its only wildlife reserve, the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary.
In both the cases, the administration has stressed on the need to maintain the population density, as Corbusier had intended.
Clearly, the planned city, which enjoys the official status of a union territory, was not prepared for changes that are sweeping its demography and geography.
A glaring contrast
In Kansal, a bustling village in Punjab bordering Chandigarh, private real estate offices have sprouted in every corner, offering attractive discounts to property buyers. The two administrative units, separated by a 15-feet road, are a sharp contrast. On one side is a tree-lined avenue and on the other, buildings that have mushroomed everywhere. A real estate broker from the village says that property prices have increased six times in anticipation of a luxury residential project planned by Tata Housing Limited in Kansal. "This road will have two lanes or may be four," he says when asked how residents of the proposed housing complex, also called TataCamelot, will commute.
Tata Housing project violates the master plan of Chandigarh and threatens the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary
He stops as the road curves and points to a large plot of land, dotted with single-storey houses on one side and a thick forest surrounded by the Shivalik range on the other.
"This is the best view one can get in this area," he adds. As the road takes a sharp turn to enter Kaimbwala village, which comes under Chandigarh, the contrast becomes sharper— houses follow the building code of the planned city and open green spaces dot the landscape. The building code of Chandigarh restricts citizens from constructing more than four floors in residential areas of the city, which has been divided into zones on the basis of population density. "Punjab encourages people to build houses, while Chandigarh wants to protect its forests," the broker explains.
Everything but the master plan
Spread over 54 hectares, the Tata Housing project consists of 19 towers, ranging from 12 to 35 floors, with an initial project cost of Rs.1,800 crore. According to Hash Builders, Tata's Chandigarh-based contractor, a threebedroom apartment costs Rs.1.53 crore.
Map not to scale
Conceived in 2006, Tata Camelot is everything that Corbusier's plan for Chandigarh was not. The Frenchman designed Chandigarh based on the structure of the human anatomy. According to his master plan, the northern part of the city is the head. He wanted minimum human activity in this part, although some of the main administrative offices and courts, such as the Punjab-Haryana High Court, were set up here. Corbusier had planned an artificial lake in Sukhna, with the Shivalik range in the backdrop. As Tata plans its housing project, Chandigarh's residents have gone to court to save the city's green areas, with the support of the Forest Department.
In 2010, when Tata applied for a clearance for the housing project, the Punjab government gave a green signal. But 16 prominent citizens from Chandigarh, including former high court judges S S Sodhi and Kuldip Singh, challenged the decision in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which approved the government's clearance. In August 2013, they filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court on behalf of Sareen Memorial Foundation, a Chandigarh-based non-profit, against the high court's order. In October 2013, the Supreme Court asked Tata to maintain a status quo and remarked that "even a brick should not be laid in the area", and thereafter remanded the case to the Delhi High Court. The Chandigarh administration told the high court that political and business interests influenced the Punjab government's decision to clear the project. The forest department stated that the land on which the project has been planned is owned by sitting and former members of Parliament and members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The Delhi High Court is expected to hear the case on July 15. Down To Earth tried to contact Tata Housing Ltd., but there has been no response so far.
Forest Department's firm no
According to officials in the Forest Department, the project will affect both the Sukhna Lake and the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary. Officials contend that despite the Periphery Act of 1956, the Punjab government has been encouraging construction around Chandigarh. The Act states that up to 16 km of the area around Chandigarh has to follow the building code of the city.
The forest department has accused Tata of hiding crucial facts about the proximity of the project to the wildlife reserve. "Tata Housing did not disclose the existence of the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary, which is 123 metres from the project site," the petition states. While Chandigarh has defined 2.5 km around the sanctuary as eco-sensitive, Punjab has, over the years, reduced the eco-sensitive zone to just 100 metres. "If Chandigarh's formula of eco-sensitive zone is applied to Punjab, all the existing and proposed construction in Kansal will be deemed illegal," says Santosh Kumar, chief wildlife warden of Chandigarh.
Officials have opposed the project on other grounds as well. The environmental impact assessment estimates that the project will guzzle 1,615 kilolitres of water every day. The Chandigarh administration claims it will adversely impact water availability in adjoining villages. Moreover, to keep in tune with the master plan, the administration has demarcated villages such as Kaimbwala as a lowpopulation density zone with 60 persons per acre (0.4 hectare), but with the housing project in place, the population density is likely to go up by 300 persons per acre, increasing the pressure on land.
According to Kumar, the project stands on the catchment area of Sukhna Lake, which blocks the water flow. While seeking environmental clearance, Tata Housing Ltd stated that there were no water bodies within a 10 km radius of the proposed site. Survey of India maps produced in the Supreme Court last year clearly showed Sukhna Lake at a distance of 1.5 km.
Failed quest to emerge slum-free
If Chandigarh's master plan has inspired the administration to protect the city's only lake and wildlife reserve, it is the same plan that has proved disastrous for the city's poor residents. In its aspiration to emerge slum-free, Chandigarh has been trying to map illegal encroachments since 2006. The administration conducted a biometric survey that year to determine the number of people living on government land across the city so as to facilitate construction of houses for the poor on the outskirts under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). To allot a house under JNNURM, the administration has made biometric documentation mandatory. But a faulty survey methodology has rendered an estimated 50,000 poor homeless, as their names did not figure in the records. The same people have been issued voter identity cards and bpl cards by the
The administration planned to construct 25,728 flats for the poor. Only 12,736 have been built so far
Radhey Shyam, a resident of Kajheri Colony, which was demolished on May 10, was one of the many slum dwellers who was not included in the biometric survey. "The surveyors never visited our colony despite several petitions to the Estate Office," he says. The Estate Office is responsible for the disposal of commercial and residential properties in the union territory. For Kunti Devi, a resident of Janata Colony, which was served an eviction notice last month, renting a house for Rs.2,000 to Rs.3,000 is expensive. "During monsoon, our houses are flooded with water and walls collapse. We are more than eager to move out, but where do we go?" she asks.
According to the Estate Office, out of 70,000 families in nine colonies who have been asked to evict, only 23,974 families have been allotted apartments under JNNURM. In the first phase, the government covered 6,368 families and the second phase was supposed to take care of 19,360 families. The administration had planned to construct 25,728 flats on the outskirts of the city. The construction remained on paper. Only 12,736 flats have been built so far. The Estate Office says 12,992 flats are either under construction or have been shelved due to lack of funds.
"If Chandigarh's formula of eco-sensitive zone is applied to Punjab, all the existing construction in Kansal will be deemed illegal"
-Santosh Kumar, Chief wildlife warden, Chandigarh
On May 31, the police beat up slumdwellers protesting the administration's order. "There are several discrepancies in the way these people have been evicted. The biometric survey did not even cover 50 per cent of the people," says Arjun Sheoran of Ghar Bachao Abhiyan, a Chandigarh-based non-profit working for the rights of the homeless.
Since 2008, the administration has been seeking a "world heritage site" tag from unesco for the capitol complex in the north of the city close to the disputed area for the Tata Housing project. However, to achieve this feat the administration must resist the onslaught of haphazard construction. Can it accomplish this without evicting its poor?
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First Picture taken. Seems like a Confederate soldier standing near the fence.
Picture taken right after first one was taken. No figure standing next to the fence.


text:
import assert from 'power-assert'
import {Stream} from 'most'
import {subject} from '../lib/index'

describe('subject()', () => {
  describe('stream', () => {
    it('should be an extension of Stream', () => {
      const s = subject()
      assert.strictEqual(s instanceof Stream, true)
    })

    it('should inherit Stream combinators', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      stream
        .map(x => x * x)
        .forEach(x => {
          assert.strictEqual(x, 25)
        }).then(done)

      stream.next(5)
      stream.complete()
    })
  })

  describe('observer', () => {
    it('should have next for sending new values', () => {
      const stream = subject()
      assert.strictEqual(typeof stream.next, 'function')
    })

    it('should allow nexting events', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      assert.strictEqual(typeof stream.next, 'function')

      stream.forEach(x => {
        assert.strictEqual(x, 1)
      }).then(done)

      stream.next(1)
      stream.complete()
    })

    it('should allow sending errors', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      assert.strictEqual(typeof stream.error, 'function')
      stream
        .drain()
        .then(assert.fail)
        .catch(err => {
          assert.strictEqual(err.message, 'Error Message')
          done()
        })

      stream.next(1)
      stream.next(2)
      stream.error(new Error('Error Message'))
    })

    it('should have complete for ending stream', () => {
      const stream = subject()
      assert.strictEqual(typeof stream.complete, 'function')
    })

    it('should allow ending of stream', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      stream
        .forEach(assert.fail)
        .then(done)
        .catch(assert.fail)

      stream.complete()
    })

    it('should not notify existing observers after end', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      stream
        .forEach(assert.fail)
        .then(done)
        .catch(assert.fail)

      stream.complete()
      stream.next(1)
    })

    it('should not notify existing observers after error', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      stream
        .forEach(assert.fail)
        .then(done, () => done())
        .catch(assert.fail)

      stream.error(new Error())
      stream.next(1)
    })

    it('should allow new observers after end', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      stream.complete()

      stream
        .reduce((x, y) => x.concat(y), [])
        .then(x => assert.deepEqual(x, [1, 2, 3]))
        .then(done)

      stream.next(1)
      stream.next(2)
      stream.next(3)

      stream.complete()
    })

    it('should allow new observers after error', done => {
      const stream = subject()

      stream.error(new Error())

      stream
        .reduce((x, y) => x.concat(y), [])
        .then(x => assert.deepEqual(x, [1, 2, 3]))
        .then(done)

      stream.next(1)
      stream.next(2)
      stream.next(3)

      stream.complete()
    })

    it('should support transient use as a signal stream', done => {
      const stream = subject()
      const signalStream = subject()

      const observeUntilSignal = () => stream
        .until(signalStream)
        .observe(() => {})

      observeUntilSignal()
        .then(() => {
          const promiseToEnd = observeUntilSignal()
          signalStream.next()
          return promiseToEnd
        })
        .then(done)
        .catch(assert.fail)

      signalStream.next()
    })
  })
})

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We are surrounded by devices that use accelerometers. The most well-known are in modern smartphones, but they can be found in everything from hard disks to cars and cutting-edge robotics technology. They allow the devices to do everything from the simple to the incredibly complex.
They are not magic, but what they allow devices to do seems like it. So, let's take a look at what an accelerometer is and how it works.
The name is quite misleading because accelerometers measure much more than just acceleration. In fact for very specialised applications they can measure up to 13 axes. This allows modern devices like smart watches to detect very fine movements and gestures that can then be linked to specific actions.
However, like all things that today are almost microscopic, the origins of the accelerometer was more big-tech than hi-tech! In fact the first accelerometer was created back in 1783 by George Atwood. Atwood's device measured linear acceleration, but it's not clear what is was invented for back then. It wasn't until 1923 when the accelerometer had evolved into a 'tiny' 1Lb device made of multiple carbon disks in an E-shaped frame and measuring ¾" x 1-7/8" x 8-1/2". It was used in bridges, dynamometers, and aircraft; and measured forward and side-to-side motion and stresses.
Modern accelerometers are indeed tiny and fit into the smallest of modern devices. They don't even use moving parts, but instead use various mechanisms, such as piezo-electric, capacitive and even thermal technology to measure tiny fluctuations in movement and angle.
The simplest use is to detect when the phone is picked up and put down. The action of picking the device up and holding it vertically creates an acceleration and angular force, which can be interpreted to mean you want to look at the screen. The boffins therefore program it so that when you do this, the screen turns on…cool!But it can also be used for everything from playing motion-based games to looking at 360-degree pictures on Facebook.
In the old days (by that I mean the 90s!) when a laptop was turned on, you had to treat it like a desktop. If you moved it and banged it on a table or, God forbid, you dropped it, you could kiss your hard disk, and all your data, goodbye. Modern hard disks use accelerometers to detect when the laptop is lifted and moved, or dropped, and then instantly park the hard disk's reading heads. This means that you can be quite rough with a laptop and lose no data.
The airbags in cars are triggered by 2-axis accelerometers (as they simply need to detect excessive forces in the horizontal axis). So a hard deceleration that is then followed by a hard stop triggers the airbag to deploy before you even start to move forwards!
For many years, fleet managers have wanted to get more data about how their vehicles are being driven. Are drivers driving well or accelerating and decelerating too much? Smooth driving means less fuel wastage, so being able to measure this is a big bonus. Driver safety is also a factor, so knowing the moment an accident happens allows the fleet manager to take all appropriate actions.
3 axes allow you to measure forward/back, left/right and up/down movement. This is really important to understand braking events, harsh driving, such as heavy lean caused by too much speed around corners and obviously hard acceleration and braking. But the vertical Y-Axis can also measure if they drive over deep potholes or too-fast over speed bumps, which could cause damage that then needs maintenance attention.
The device itself uses a small chamber of gas that is heated. Because temperature rises, the gas at the top of the chip is hotter than at the bottom. There are multiple temperature sensors that then measure the temperature at these fixed points. So, if the device is level, wherever the gas rises evenly to the top and that is therefore 'up'. As the device moves, the gas does too and the hotter gas can be measured in different areas. OK, to simplify that a bit, imagine that it was water instead of gas and the water sloshes about inside and is measured by sensors. It's basically the same technique, just smaller and lighter.
Because every vehicle is different, one of the key factors of ProVision's professional installation is to log the physical position of the main DVR relative to the ground. This is because the device can be fitted horizontally or vertically and sometimes even upside down. By logging how it is installed, we can then properly report on the forces being applied, so you receive the right alerts for each type of event.
The tiny, yet mighty, accelerometer has revolutionised how we interact with technology and the information IoT (Internet of Things) devices can provide us. It's just one of the amazing pieces of technology carefully selected and installed in all our vehicle camera and tracking systems.


Here's an interesting bit of news we picked up at last weekend's Spring show in Toronto: WestJet is now offering motorcycle shipping through Canada and abroad, via its cargo division. And, the pricing looks good.
According to the rep in the booth, the program actually started last season, once WestJet got its dangerous goods transportation certification in order.
WestJet's deal is similar to the Air Canada program that's already been in place for years. Motorcycles must pass a dangerous goods inspection before flying, and can only be flown between airports where WestJet takes widebody jets. That means, for now, WestJet is only flying bikes out of Toronto and Calgary in Canada, with overseas destinations of Dublin, London (Gatwick), Barcelona and Paris.
However, WestJet is planning to add more destinations, and also has an affiliation with Expair Cargo that greatly expands its network. Expair's website lists additional departure possibilities in Edmonton, Montreal and Vancouver, and WestJet's rep says the tie-in here means the possibilities are endless.
WestJet's pricing seems to be roughly the same as Air Canada's in-country fees. The booth rep said a Toronto-Calgary flight would cost about $850. Air Canada's inter-Canada flights started at the $650 mark when the program began, but have risen in recent years, we've been told. Pricing does seem to fluctuate, and in the past couple of years, Air Canada has told us to just call them to arrange a price, instead of quoting a flat Canadian rate. Air Canada doesn't publish its cargo price list.
Where WestJet seems particularly attractive is its overseas flight pricing. At this point, WestJet is supposed to be offering round-trip shipping to Europe for $1,500 US for its Euro destinations. By contrast, Air Canada pricing has usually been a bit unclear on return trips from overseas, due to the vagaries of dealing with foreign regulations and airports. However, the numbers we saw in 2015 generally put round trip pricing above $2,000 CDN., and prices have risen since then, due to fuel costs. The price tag also varied wildly depending which European airport you were flying from, which could make WestJet's flat rate much more attractive, if that flat rate does indeed hold for all its overseas destination.
To be clear: You definitely want to check for yourself on pricing from WestJet, if you're budgeting for a trip. To do so, call West Jet Cargo at 1-866-952-2746, and tell them you want to ship a motorcycle. In our experience, this is the only reliable way to know your costs.
You should also call Air Canada at 1-800-387-4865 (in Canada) to ask about a competitive rate, and take a look at Air Canada's cargo website.
Don't forget that pricing discounts are usually tied to passenger fares (airlines want you to buy your passenger seat aboard the plane in order to get a special motorcycle shipping rate). And, you'll also have to pass your Dangerous Goods inspection before the flight as well, which adds its own expense.
PG to Halifax would be amazing.
Flew my RT AC to Calgary and back from Vancouver last year (2018) — great service, no problems at all. DG certificate not a problem, AC inspectors were far more thorough. $1,000 + taxes both ways.
Excited to hear that Westjet is offering this service. We have done this with Air Canada but ran into numerous issues when trying to arrange the return trip home. Financially, the cost to ship is equivalent to renting a motorcycle in Europe for about a 2 week period. So if you want a longer vacation, shipping your own bike has great benefits.
The dangerous goods certificate was a breeze, costing roughly $75.
Hope Westjet adds Halifax to their shipping program.
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ZZ Top dropped from Bridge School lineup
Posted on October 12, 2008 by Shay Quillen
Update 11:30 a.m. 10/14: Seattle indie-rock quartet Band of Horses has been added to the lineup for Saturday. If you enjoyed My Morning Jacket's set at the Bridge shows last year, this might be right up your alley. Hey, maybe they'll work up a version of "Tube Snake Boogie"!
ZZ Top, who promised to bring a bit of rock energy to the first of this year's two Bridge School Benefit concerts, has been dropped from the bill. A press release from Live Nation says the Texas trio is no longer performing at the concert set for 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, "due to a scheduling conflict."
That's a big shame, as it leaves a lineup of acts that is decidedly on the sleepy side, with host Neil Young being joined by Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco and Cat Power. The following day's show, set to begin at 2 p.m., adds Josh Groban and Smashing Pumpkins to the bill and subtracts McLachlan. (Let's hope they add someone to boost that Day 1 roster — we'll keep you posted if they do.)
Lawn tickets for both shows are still available for $39.50 at Livenation.com. As always, proceeds from the all-star acoustic show go toward the Bridge School, a non-profit institution that helps children with severe speech and physical impairments.
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May 12, 2022 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday May 12, 2022
Use Highway 407 to ease GTA traffic woes
Premier Doug Ford raised some eyebrows last week when he talked about highways, and actually made a lot of sense.
That's not what we've become accustomed to hearing from the premier in this area. He seems bound and determined to build new highways wherever he can, no matter the financial cost and environmental consequences.
But when it comes to Highway 407, the underused, mostly private toll route across the northern GTA, Ford hit the bullseye.
"I would never have sold it," he said. "What did they sell it for, $3 billion? And it's worth, what, $20 billion now? So I don't believe in selling off toll roads."
Two things on that. First, current estimates actually put the value of Highway 407 closer to $30 billion, making the sale back in 1999 look even more foolish. And second, it was a Progressive Conservative government, the one led by Mike Harris, that sold off the highway for what we can now see amounted to a handful of beans.
But never mind. Ford wasn't part of that government and it's a long time ago. The essential point is that even a PC premier can now see the folly of selling a valuable public asset for far below its long-term worth.
Too bad, though, that the premier hasn't made a connection between the problems with Highway 407 and his own plans to build yet another multi-lane route across the northern fringes of the GTA, Highway 413, or as it's formally known, the GTA West Corridor.
Highway 413, according to the government, will address the issue of traffic congestion and long commuting times in the fast-growing suburban areas along its projected route.
There are many problems with this idea, which the previous government cancelled in 2018 for very good reasons. And there are alternatives to an expensive new highway through farmland and environmentally sensitive areas.
One of the most obvious alternatives is making more efficient use of Highway 407, which is notable for two things — very high tolls and a striking shortage of traffic. It can cost $66 to drive the 108 kilometres of the privately operated section of the road, which keeps traffic volumes low.
Many experts, including those on the panel that recommended not proceeding with Highway 413, have urged finding a way to divert more traffic to Highway 407, thus relieving congestion on other roads without the need to construct another major roadway.
One idea, supported by the advocacy group Transport Action Ontario, is for the government to encourage trucks to use Highway 407 by paying their tolls. The group estimates that would divert up to 21,000 trucks a day, at a cost of some $4 billion over 30 years.
That sounds like a lot, but it's a considerably less than the $10 billion or so the new Highway 413 will cost taxpayers. That's a rough number because the government itself won't even give an estimate of the cost.
Letter to the Editor, January 5, 2022
Regarding Graeme Mackay's recent cartoon (Dec. 28): As a boy, I am sure Doug Ford was told by his parents, at the kitchen table to "always eat your greens". Now he just takes it to another level.
John H Miller, Hamilton
A government that had the public interest in mind — especially one that knows the owners of Highway 407 got a very sweet deal — would be prepared to put a lot of pressure on those owners to make better use of their route. Especially when the government has already given them a big break by opting not to pursue penalties of about $1 billion when traffic levels fell below contractual levels during the pandemic.
The government should connect the dots. Taxpayers got hosed when Highway 407 was sold off. But it can now be part of a solution that would prevent more billions going on a highway that isn't needed. (Hamilton Spectator Editorial)
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I was inspired to pursue advanced study in theology when I realized that many of my philosophical questions were actually theological questions. As an undergraduate philosophy student, I became curious about what understandings of truth and falsity were at work in various philosophical claims and systems. I did extended research and writing on Nietzsche and his conception of truth. It was only after I finished my undergraduate degree that I really discovered theology as a discipline, finding a wealth of contemporary theological work on truth and language (D. Stephen Long's Speaking of God: Theology, Language, and Truth was especially helpful). This work introduced me to many theologians who have also wrestled with questions about truth similar to those I'd asked while studying Nietzsche and others. I then had the resources to ask questions I'd asked but didn't know how to begin answering, like: In what sense can certain theological or biblical claims be called "true"? Upon whom or what do these claims depend? Is there a difference between public and private knowledge? How does something like power influence human knowing or Christian claims to truth? What difference does it make that Jesus calls himself "truth"? Questions like these continue to animate my theological thinking. I'm inspired to continue this kind of work by my conviction that thinking through such questions can be a form of faithful Christian witness, even worship. I'm inspired by those theologians whose work makes Creation a more interesting and, Deo volente, a more beautiful place.
Like many of my classmates, I hope to teach, preferably at the university level. I have deep gratitude for the teachers in my life who have taught me that asking questions and seeking greater understanding of God is a good thing. I'm grateful for those who've shown me that transformed understanding and transformed living are not mutually exclusive but, in many ways, one and the same. I would like to be the same sort of teacher for others.
I also am constantly looking for ways to connect the theology and philosophy I study to the life of the church and communities that I inhabit. There is merit enough in theological reflection and contemplation for its own sake, but I'm driven by questions about how what I learn is connected to how others and I share life together. So I ask, what form does my life already have, and what sorts of theological assumptions contribute to this form, for better or worse? What needs to change about how I live, and what change in theological thinking would this require? Or, conversely, based on how I think theologically, what sort of life does this imply that I should live? What kind of community would such a life require? At present, for instance, these questions have led me to take up community organizing efforts in congregational settings. In such settings I have to think about what kinds of common life I and my fellow congregants want to work toward, both with others in our church community and in our wider communities: neighborhood, city, state, &c. How do we take other people's differences seriously and hospitably without comprising what makes us, as Christians, different from others? What does Christian hospitality in a liberal democratic political environment look like? How do Christians and church communities work for healing with those whom they have harmed, or been harmed by? These are the kinds of questions that my theological education presently helps me both to ask and to explore.
My general approach to life is to consider all of how I live, insofar as I'm able, as a response to God's gift of love given in the person of Jesus. In this sense, I try to imagine whether the things I do or don't do could be called a faithful response to that gift. For whatever reason, I have the interests and loves that I do—in theology, in philosophy, with writing, people, music, or anything else. And so I try and use and enjoy these loves and interests and talents as ways to be thankful for and reflective of God's gift of love. I'm grateful that my intellectual and academic work can help me reflect on and embody what it means to be faithful to God's gifts and love. My hope is that my work somehow helps others to do that, too.
I would summarize my paper as follows: St. Augustine, a theologian, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, a philosopher, think similarly about truth, and about what it means to tell the truth. They imagine that telling the truth is like making a confession. Confession is something that we learn how to do only in the presence of other people. Since they understand confession and truth telling as similar or even identical activities, they understand truth itself as something basically personal. That is, we can't know what truth is, or what kinds of things are true, apart from the presence of and relationships with other people. So I take these insights from Wittgenstein and Augustine to explore what it could mean that Jesus claims to be the truth. Jesus doesn't claim that some set of propositions about him is true, but instead that his very person is truth itself. I then try to show that confession, as Wittgenstein and Augustine understand it, is a practice that helps us see that telling the truth is about giving and receiving something basically personal, rather than claiming, knowing, or reporting something factual. In this way, I imagine that telling the truth is a radically contingent activity—we depend entirely upon others to learn how to do it well. Most importantly, we depend on Christ's gift of himself as truth to us.
It's made a difference in two very practical but distinct ways. First, it's made a difference as a form of encouragement of theological exploration and contemplation. At the end of much study and writing, students like me can often feel overwhelmed, even defeated, and perhaps left wondering whether or not studying theology is worth our time. The work of Theological Horizons and opportunities like the Goodwin Prize allow us the chance to present and publicly share our research, thought, and work, with the hope that it will be helpful and beneficial to those who engage with it. It's encouraging to receive an award like this from Theological Horizons, whose work focuses intently on how the work of theology makes a difference for how Christians live, move, and have their being in the world.
Second, it's made a difference as an aid to my doctoral applications. I hope to continue on to doctoral work next fall in theology and ethics, and the Goodwin Prize will certainly help me with the costs of the application process!
Please do! Theological Horizons and the Goodwin Prize do a great service to the continuation of theological reflection, study, and conversation by creating space for these things to happen. The essay competition is a good way for students like me to get a sense of what sort of work my peers are doing, and how they're doing it. For me, this helps develop a broader frame of reference and interest for my own theological work. I'm convinced that the most beneficial and credible theology springs from conversation and interaction with many different friends, teachers, peers, and interlocutors—even enemies. I think that Theological Horizons and the Goodwin Prize encourage this kind of theological work.
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Q: Need help writing a regex pattern I am trying to find a pattern in a string that has a value that starts with ${ and ends with }. There will be a word between the curly brackets, but I won't know what word it is.
This is what I have \$\\{[a-zA-Z]\\}
${a} works, but ${aa} doesn't. It seems it's only looking for a single character.
I am unsure what I am doing wrong, or how to fix it and would appreciate any help anyone can provide.

A: I think this could help you

var str = "The quick brown ${fox} jumps over the lazy ${dog}";

var re = /\$\{([a-z]+)\}/gi;

var match;

while (match = re.exec(str)) {
  console.log(match[1]);
}

Click Run code snippet and check your developer console for output
"fox"
"dog"

Explanation

*

*+ means match 1 or more of the previous term — in this example, match 1 or more of [a-z]

*the (...) parentheses will "capture" the match so you can actually do something with it — in my example, I'm just using console.log to output it

*the i modifier (at the end of the regexp) means perform a case-insensitive match

*the g modifier means match all instances of this regexp in the target string

*The while loop will continue running for each match that re.exec finds. Once re.exec cannot match another instance, it will return null and the loop will exit.

Additional information
Try console.log(match) using the code above. Each match comes with other useful information such as the string index where the match occurred
Gotchas

This will not work for nested ${} sets

For example, this regexp will not work on "The quick brown ${fox jumps ${over}} the lazy ${dog}."

A: A good website for regex reference and testing is http://rubular.com/
It looks like you need to add a +, which tells the regex to look for one or more of a character.
Try: \${[a-zA-Z]+}

A: You're close!
All you need is to use a + to tell the expression that there will be one or more of whatever was just before it (in this case [a-zA-Z]) like this:
\${[a-zA-Z]+}

A: You need to use * (zero or more) or + (one or more). So this [a-zA-Z] would be [a-zA-Z]+, meaning 1 or more letters. The entire regex would look like:
\$\{[a-zA-Z]+\}


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Cordesman: Report to Congress on Iraq War Borders on 'Deception'
Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading analyst of the Iraq war, says that the Defense Department's latest report to Congress on the status of the Iraq war borders on "deception" by painting an overly upbeat picture. The situation in Iraq has "steadily deteriorated," he says, in large part because the Iraqi political parties have failed to come together.
Interview by Anthony H. Cordesman, Interviewee
Bernard Gwertzman, Interviewer
June 7, 2006 9:21 am (EST)
Wars and Conflict
Congresses and Parliaments
Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military and intelligence analyst of the Iraq war, says that the Defense Department's latest report to Congress on the status of the Iraq war borders on "deception" by painting an overly upbeat picture. He has written that the report is worthy of an "F."
"You cannot have a climate where you lose this much time without seeing the situation deteriorate," says Cordesman, who holds the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "We need to assess these risks, and we need to assess them honestly if we are going to organize the kind of U.S. effort that has the highest possibility of preventing civil conflict" and defeating the insurgency, Cordesman says.
You've been quite critical of the latest quarterly report by the Defense Department to Congress on the situation in Iraq. Why so?
We are seeing a pattern in which we have never had realistic reporting to Congress. But this quarterly report has really failed to address the issues in ways which border on deception.
Can you summarize your criticism?
I think everybody needs to understand we are talking about a sixty-page document. Parts of it deal with the president's strategy, and there is some useful material mixed in with problems that range from sloppy editing to massive omissions and conceptual failures.
But essentially, you can break down its failures into four parts. The first is political. The report argues that there is political success because there have been elections, and the Iraqis have finally been able to agree on a government. It does not address any of the political problems with any realism, it does not talk about the fact that the elections showed that Iraq was polarized along ethnic or sectarian lines, or seriously address the risk of a major civil war.
The second is economic. The report provides an analysis of the economy that does not track with other U.S. estimates. It makes no sense in basic econometric terms, provides a misleading picture of "success" in a country with 20 to 40 percent unemployment, and does not address any of the massive problems in the U.S. aid effort and the U.S. use of Iraqi funds. It essentially talks about an economy in Iraq which does not exist.
The third is analysis of the threat. There are some useful aspects of the analysis, dealing with trends in the insurgency. But the report so badly downplays the growing risk of sectarian and ethnic conflict that it produces a totally misleading picture of the threat, and this is compounded by a use of poll data which it does not explain or validate. It uses cherry-picked polling results, some of which contradict each other in terms of other tables or text.
Finally, there is the analysis of progress in developing Iraqi forces. The report does provide some useful data on Iraqi force development, and there has been progress. But the report exaggerates this progress. It does not provide any picture of the level of continued U.S. support necessary to bring this program to success. Finally, at a time when the militias, the police, and the various protection services have reached a crisis point, and where there is truly a major question of whether Iraq is moving toward civil war, the report dodges around all of the problems and simply does not give either Congress or the American people anything approaching a realistic picture.
You say this whole report gets an overall grade of "F." You and I have had several interviews over the last several years, and I have never heard you so negative about anything the government has done. What has gotten you so upset?
There is a lot of very good government reporting in terms of individual speeches, testimony, and reports, if you look at the statements of the ambassadors and senior U.S. commanders in the field. If you look at some of the reporting that comes out in detail from the commands, there often is a very clear picture of what is happening and a lot of insight, as well as critiques and reservations. But this is supposed to be the summary report to Congress. It is supposed to prepare Congress for what we need to do to implement the president's strategy.
It is not supposed to be an exercise in cheerleading. It is not supposed to be something that simply provides a status report without indicating how well the United States is doing or what it has to do in the future. What we are talking about is not the overall war in Iraq; we are talking about one report. You have referred to the summary comments I have made on it, and that is a perfectly accurate statement of the summary. But I think it is important to note that this is a fifteen-page critique. It is not a critique of our policy in the war. It is a fifteen-page critique, which says this reporting omits critical issues, is incompetent, makes basic errors in definition, and hides the nature of poll data, which is systematically misused. I think if you compare this paper against the critique on a line-by-line basis, the grade "F" is not something given casually.
How would you describe the situation if you were writing a report to Congress?
One thing we need to understand to put this into perspective is we have lost six months. No one who is looking at this situation would have predicted that the election would produce this level of paralysis. The insurgency has been able to attack for half a year while a newly elected government was not present and capable of action. What we have seen so far from Prime Minister Nouri [al-]Maliki is reassuring. President Jalal Talabani and other officials have taken a very constructive role. The U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has been very proactive and, in general, his actions have worked well.
But you cannot have a climate where you lose this much time without seeing the situation deteriorate.
This is a situation so fragile that if any kind of civil conflict takes place, what little economy does exist could collapse in many areas. That brings us to the security situation, and even though Iraqi forces are making progress, we need to understand they are not going to replace U.S. forces quickly. At this point in time, they are indefinitely dependent on U.S. airpower, U.S. artillery and armor, backup from U.S. Special Forces, reports from U.S. intelligence, U.S. tactical transportation, and, in some cases, even contract service and logistic support.
They may or may not become substantially less dependent during the course of 2007, but everything depends now on the political situation and Iraqi unity. And probably we are talking [about] a deep American commitment, although perhaps with some small fraction of today's combat forces, well into 2010. That situation, however, is dependent on both the political process succeeding and the other dimension here, which is whether the insurgency can push Iraq into more and more intense civil conflict.
So you're saying the situation is deteriorating in Iraq?
One of the great problems here is that the police and the security services, the militias, crime, local security forces, and action forces all have divided along sectarian and ethnic lines. They are, in general, corrupt, and they lack the kind of leadership and training that is needed. There is nothing convincing to say things are getting better, and it is very possible that the political situation could become paralyzed or divided, and if so, then this deterioration along sectarian and ethic lines, coupled to problems with the police and militias, could confront us with something far worse than exists today. I do not want to be pessimistic about this. I think the fact is, however, we need to assess these risks, and we need to assess them honestly if we are going to organize the kind of U.S. effort that has the highest possibility of preventing civil conflict and that kind of victory for the insurgency.
Is there any progress being made in Iraq?
I think if we break this out into the key components involved, there has been progress in one area: the intelligence effort has been able to target the insurgency better. There have been important strikes against leaders in the insurgency. There have been some elements of victory in terms of seizing key insurgent leaders. But the minute we move beyond that, we come to different situations. In the political structure, the fact is, what the election really reflected is a division of the country along ethnic and sectarian lines.
There is not a national unity government; there is an extraordinarily awkward compromise, which still has not been able to produce a minister of defense or a minister of interior. There is still no leadership in the two most critical ministries. No one knows what is going to happen next because once this government finally begins to function it will face major budget problems. It suddenly will have to solve the problem of security in ways which will force major reorganizations of the police, the interior ministry, and much of the military effort.
It faces the problem of having to clarify the constitution, where there are fifty-five areas to be addressed in some four months [referring to the four-month window to amend the constitution], including questions of money, federation, control of the armed forces, and oil. Then we drag out the process if we are successful: there are sixty more days for a referendum [on the amendments]. Then people have to find out if there is a new system of government [that] comes out of this, what it means and whether it can work.
The fact is that this is ignored in this report. We will be well into December at a minimum if we are successful and probably well into 2007. In the economy, what we have is the end of the massive flood of aid. We have used up the money Iraq had when we invaded. We have the special inspector general for Iraqi reconstruction disclosing massive American corruption and failures in every aspect of the aid program—failures that are so embarrassing that there seems to be an effort on the part of [the] congressional leadership of the Republican party to basically find ways of avoiding any further criticism and putting the operation back into the bureaucracy where it will not become public.
This is truly a critical issue because we are talking about employment levels, particularly in the most threatened and high insurgency areas, which make it almost impossible to bring stability. We have to solve the economic issues. We really do not see progress in revitalizing the oil sector; we do not see the kind of progress in providing government services—medical, education, sewer and water services, electric power—that are really needed to bring a new dimension to help defeat the insurgency. What we do see is reporting that dodges around whether any of the aid and other efforts are meeting requirements. This is particularly critical because oil is so important as a source of revenue. Are things getting better? No. Are they getting demonstrably worse? Probably not.
An obvious conclusion would be that the Pentagon report was done for political reasons to try to make things look better than they are in Iraq with elections coming up in November for Congress.
One wonders. It certainly spins things in a very favorable way in many areas. But the truth of the matter is that it is simply incompetent. It shows a lack of concern for detail, for the facts, [for] addressing the issues that really need to be addressed. That is one of the most discouraging aspects of it. This is a highly partisan environment. There are really bitter and increasingly polarized debates in Congress, among the American people, and in the media over what is happening there. People really need to know the facts, they need to know the risks, and they need to know what level of commitment is needed. It simply is a failure in basic analytic integrity.
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'On the Shore' by Sir John Lavery
A New Discovery
We are delighted to present a newly discovered work by Sir John Lavery entitled 'On the Shore'. This early work by Lavery is to be offered in our Spring edition of The Classic Tradition to be held in Edinburgh on Thursday 28th May.
In the summer of 1887 John Lavery was recalled to Ulster to paint a large plein air group portrait of the Smiley family who lived at Drumalis, Larne, in county Antrim. Smiley was co-owner of The Northern Whig, and through his wife, his business interests extended to the Coats, Clark, Kerr thread making conglomerate that came together in Paisley in 1896.
LOT 87 | SIR JOHN LAVERY R.A.., R.S.A., R.H.A. (IRISH 1856-1941) | ON THE SHORE
Signed and titled, indistinctly signed verso, oil on board | 16.5cm x 26.5cm (6.49in x 10.43in) | £8,000 - £12,000 + fees
Lavery's grand project, however, did not go well, and from two other extant small oil sketches, we can infer that the skies were unpredictable and sometimes overcast. The painter, nevertheless, managed to complete a portrait of his patron's four-year-old son (unlocated), which was shown in the winter exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1887. He and Hugh Houston Smiley remained in contact and the artist returned to Larne during August 1890, expressing his enthusiasm in an undated letter to his friend, Robert Macaulay Stevenson, and suggesting that he, James Guthrie and other Glasgow School painters might join him. Although this did not happen, Smiley enlisted George Walton, the architect brother of fellow 'Glasgow Boy', EA Walton, to redesign the interiors of the Larne house in 1893.
The present small sketch which dates from Lavery's first sojourn, can nevertheless be placed securely on the rocky county Antrim shore because of the unique character of a coastline that features black volcanic basalt boulders. Thrown up over four hundred million years ago these relics of lava layers, broke through the limestone crust and can be seen in the cliffs and sands of the area. They proved exciting to geologists in the first post-Darwinian age, in indicating that the world was much older than the Biblical creationists of the day had calculated. Although he would return regularly to Ulster in later years, these tiny Larne beach scenes were among the first pictures painted of Lavery's native province.
We are delighted to offer this newly discovered work by Lavery in our forthcoming live online auction of The Classic Tradition on Thursday 28th May.
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ResQ - finding a buyer for that leftover cupcake
ResQ Club
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http://www.millorquenou.cat
Millor que nou - Repaired to be better than new
Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB)
Other (Catalan)
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https://podzielnia.pl/
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Po-Dzielnia
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https://www.neocomp.eu/
Neocomp: recycling glass-fibre-reinforced plastics
Neocomp
Pulp and Paper Industry (PPI)
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https://www.lt.fi/en/
Lassila&Tikanoja: collecting and processing waste oils
Lassila&Tikanoja
L&T organises the collection of waste oils, oil-contaminated water and a range of emulsions from industry. The collected materials are analysed and processed at L&T's recycling plant.
https://www.greendot.com.cy/en
Green Dot Cyprus - a collective compliance system for packaging and packaging waste
Green Dot Cyprus
Green Dot Cyprus is the first collective compliance system for packaging and packaging waste in Cyprus.
https://frutafeia.pt/en
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Fruta Feia
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Better World Fashion
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Replacing single-use water containers with glass in the Basque Country
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Circular Cities - A practical approach to develop a city roadmap focusing on utilities
https://nordic.climate-kic.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2018/05/Circular-Econ...
Circular Cities - A practical approach to developpin a city roadmap focusing on utilities
Other (White paper)
EIT Climate KIC
Charleyne Terry , Irene Vivas Lalinde, Cristian Matti, Morten Meldgaard
Charleyne TERRY
Cities can play a pivotal role in creating an enabling environment through regulations and incentives, but the private sector needs to collaborate and explore the cross-sectoral synergies required to achieve a circular model. There are immense opportunities for public-private collaboration in achieving goals that might not otherwise be possible for cities to accomplish alone.
Cities are embedding circular thinking in their utility processes, placing the onus on the private sector to come up with new business models that are both economically viable and ecologically sustainable. This could potentially result in a situation whereby circular products and services become the new market standard.
Circular economy strategies for adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings to reduce environmental impacts
Academic/Research paper
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Gillian Foster
Cultural heritage buildings hold a unique niche in the urban landscape, as they embody the local cultural and historic characteristics that define communities. Extending their useful lifespan has multiple benefits that go beyond the project itself to the surrounding area, contributing to sustainable development, but decision-makers lack knowledge of the environmental benefits and tools for adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings.
To this end, this article provides a circular economy framework for the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings to reduce environmental impacts. The framework integrates methods and techniques from building and construction literature that aim to reduce lifecycle environmental impact of buildings through a circular product supply chain approach.
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Waste Management and the Circular Economy in Selected OECD Countries
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As the selected reviews were published over a seven-year period, information for some countries may be more recent than for others. Nevertheless, the policy recommendations emerging from the reviews may provide useful lessons for other OECD countries and partner economies.
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UN Environment Programme
Other (United Nations)
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Facts and Figures about plastic and plastic pollution: the Plastic Atlas 2019
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Heinrich Böll Foundation, #breakfreefromplastic
EU, Germany
Lisa Kuch
Lili Fuhr
Delphine Lévi Alvarès
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Circular economy for climate neutrality: Setting the priorities for the EU
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Other (Policy Brief)
Vasileios Rizos, Milan Elkerbout, Christian Egenhofer
Vasileios Rizos
Milan Elkerbout
Christian Egenhofer
The previous Commission policy on resources management was part of the priority for jobs and growth and economic competitiveness. The circular economy will be no less important for the new political priority of climate neutrality; it will become one of the indispensable elements for meeting the EU's ambitions.
EU climate policy and the circular economy are, by and large, complementary and mutually reinforcing. The circular economy is more than just another 'product standards' policy.
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Briefing on textiles in Europe's circular economy
Other (Briefing)
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EU Circular Economy and Trade Report
Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
Kettunen, M., Gionfra, S. and Monteville, M.
Marianne Kettunen
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Finally, the paper highlights the links between the circular economy, trade and sustainable development, emphasising the need for better policy coherence among these areas in the EU.
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Società Cooperativa Reware - Impresa Sociale
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Lieke
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networking seminar for European Governmental Competence Centres for Sustainable Public Procurement
Seminar for European Governmental Competence Centres for Sustainable Public Procurement
Behavioural incentives
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On 20 October 2020 at 13:15 – 17:30 (CET), the Competence Centre for Sustainable Procurement and the European Commission are organising the first online networking seminar for European Governmental Competence Centres for Sustainable Public Procurement and other governmental actors active in this field.
EVENT: Scaling the circular economy for industry
Scaling the circular economy for industry
Cement, Steel, Chemicals
Industrial symbiosis
Other (Industrial symbiosis)
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GSTIC - Circular Economy theme
26 Oct 2020 to 28 Oct 2020
GSTIC2020 - Digital circular economy as a cornerstone of a sustainable society
Belgium, EU
GSTIC - Global Science Technology and Innovation Conference
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EU Green Week 2020
EU Green Week conference
Other (protecting biodiversity and nature)
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CEPS: How to encourage consumer engagement in the circular economy?
How to encourage consumer engagement in the circular economy?
Empowering Consumers
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CEPS: Incentivising new circular economy business models
Incentivising new circular economy business models
Economic instruments
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Toolkit for Circular Packaging in the Retail Sector
EU Circular Talks - Packaging in the retail sector
European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform, EuroCommerce
The EU Circular Talks is a new exchange concept of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform. It aims to encourage stakeholders to interact and discuss the circular economy topics in the platform.
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Online workshop: "Cooperation for circular economy R&I"
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Other (Circular economy policy and joint programming)
Are you a programme owner or a policy maker keen to advance the transition to a circular economy? Join CICERONE in building a circular economy joint programming platform to enable more cooperation!
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A circular economy network of ports to facilitate the transition
FUNDACIÓN VALENCIAPORT
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REPLACE - How to Assess Circular Economy projects?
How to assess circular economy projects?
online event #EURegionsWeek
REPLACE, European Week of Regions and Cities
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Circular Challenge
Participate in the 2019 CITEO circular challenge?
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I-Nov concours d'innovation - 4e vague
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3 key questions on circular economy
EPRS answers 3 key questions on circular economy
New EU initiative
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Call for experiences and good practices - Waste legislation
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Repurposed Materials Challenge: Post-Soda Lime
Competition: EUR 20,000 in prizes for best ideas in repurposing byproducts from soda production
Poland, Spain
Soda production (for the glass, water softening, pulp and paper or detergents industrial processes) generates by-products called lime, which accounts for approximately 40 % of the soda ash production volume.
So far the soda lime has been traditionally used in agriculture as a calcium fertilizer, with limited added value.
CIECH, a leading European soda manufacturer, is seeking for new applications for "post-soda lime" such as new marketable solutions or products (other than calcium fertilizers for agriculture), and launches a competition for best proposals in:
New application areas for post-soda lime
Process/technology for the conversion process
Survey on attitudes on Reuse and Recycling
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CE100 Acceleration Workshop held in Catalonia
Spain, United Kingdom
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Sustainable Finance: give your feedback on the Taxonomy Technical Report
Sustainable Finance: Commission's technical expert group calls for feedback on their report on Taxonomy for sustainable economic activities
The Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, set up by the Commission in July 2018, has launched on 4th of July 2019 a call for feedback on their Report on Taxonomy published on 18 June 2019.
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ISO TC/323 connects the dots for a circular economy
EU, Switzerland
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Austria Circularity Gap Report
June 2019: Austria is the first nation to issue its own Circularity Gap Report
At the beginning of June, Circle Economy and Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) released the Circularity Gap Report Austria, which makes Austria the first nation to measure the Circularity Gap. This landmark report paves the way for nations to lead the transition from a linear economy of Take-Make-Waste to a circular economy.


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