1.	POS technology continues to evolve, and is becoming more affordable, intelligent, and ingrained into core business operations. How do you see the evolution of cloud based POS? What are the major challenges involved in its implementation?
OpEx Model: Cloud POS is available as SaaS and priced on a monthly subscription model which could be lucrative for someone who is entering the retail segment or Retail SMEs.
Simplicity: Cloud POS provides straight out of the box functionality like standard wallet, and marketplace integration to meet few of the requirements that a retailer has. Implementation of cloud POS with standard offering is also simpler while regular maintenance requirements are very low.
Functionality: When it comes to POS, functionality plays a vital role and requirements differ depending on the vertical, the marketing strategy or the target audience. In growth markets of Africa and South America, retail stores are becoming 'single stop shops' where POS is used to sell services like Event or lottery tickets, utility bill payments, and mini-ATM – all of which brings more footfall and additional revenues. Traditional POS works better in such situations as they offer wider customization choices.
Similarly if a retailer's expansion plans includes multi-verticals the requirements can be diverse. Brands within the same vertical behave differently depending on their product type, target segment, sales strategy and more. To demonstrate this with an example, let's look at two non-competing fashion and lifestyle brands – H&M and Pantaloons. While H&M is a niche fashion brand targeting mid-high income groups with selective merchandise, Pantaloons is for masses with volume sales. Such variations from same vertical may demand different functionalities from a POS solution including the ability to handle complex promotions, larger/diverse basket size, integration with private wallet or loyalty programs etc. Hence, when a CTO/CIO is evaluating investing into critical technologies like store management platform, evaluation criteria should keep future growth plans in mind.
2.	How do you see the adoption of mobile wallets in POS systems? To what extent will it affect the cards payment market?
Habituation: Today we find majority of Indian consumer using this for something habitual, like buying grocery and food items or coffee/tea which is a daily affair for many.
Incentives: Even though this is not going to last long, to gain market share, wallet providers give people plenty of reasons to load a mobile payments application and then use it repeatedly in a retail environment.
Retailer Support Training: Traditionally this could have been the biggest barrier for any technology adoption. Demonetization has addressed this quite easily too.
Our internal survey of retailers indicates that both in India and Africa, wallet adoption is gaining a larger share of POS payment method in these geographies where the penetration of credit cards has traditionally been lower to start with. Global Data's survey also reflects that the share of cash payment in total e-commerce transaction value declined from 31% in 2013 to 16% in 2017, and cards dropped from 38% to 32% whereas the mobile wallet share jumped from just 7% to 29% during the same period.
3.	How can the data collected from POS systems be analyzed to increase sales and levels of customer service?
Smart POS is capable of doing more than just the recording of sales transactions. The details about customers that could be collected include customer name, address and contact information and preferred payment method —whether it's through cash, credit card, debit card, wallet, or other payment methods. Our Data science team are creating Retail specific Machine Learning framework to analyze these in combination with data available from other channels, sources like social media, sales history, supply chain, past campaigns, survey data that is linked via SMS/email address etc to create a 360 degree profile of a customer. This extremely rich information can be leveraged to increase customer engagements and sales.
Retail, like most other industries is becoming an information data mine and so AI is going to be a key technology that would be required to analyze all the information collected and to extract actionable insights that translate into more clicks/footfalls and ultimately more revenue.
Stores Assortment – How/what gets stocked in a Kurla store in Mumbai could be far different than that in Andheri store. In such case, AI can help create more precise segmentation based on what the local community is buying and this will be further fine-tuned by more recent buying pattern of time quantum than what has typically been followed in retail. Fall fashion used to be planned at least a year in advance - with AI, the lead time required for collecting, processing and planning can be significantly reduced as well as fine-tuned. Similarly, for Toy shopping during Christmas, it is possible to fine tune SKU level stocking plan to increase the sales in last 2 critical weeks.
More Effective Marketing: Mountains of data captured via POS, e-commerce, m-commerce as well as other 9 dimensions are being analyzed to ensure more precise, individualized and real-time targeting with the help of AI. We have made it easier to find item velocity faster, find a co-related product and do a combo promotion targeting a sub-segment of consumer to ensure that product is sold within a defined period. This not only increases the revenue but also reduces the stock holding cost as well as promotion costs. According to the Smart Data Collective, the potential outcomes of real-time marketing alone can increase sales opportunities by up to 20 percent over a marketing strategy that leaves AI out.
Retail is one of the fastest growing industries in India and contributes massively to the Indian growth story. By 2020, the industry is expected to reach the $1.1 trillion mark, and right now contributes 10% to the country's overall GDP.
Growth of Organized Retail: Organized retail market in India has grown at a CAGR 24.26 percent in terms of revenue over the period 2013-2018, contributing to 8-9% of the overall retail sector. Though currently e/mcommerce is taking the larger chunk of this growth percentage, it is anticipated that Brick and Mortar is going to see some good investment and growth too.
AI, IOT and other technological adoption: New Age Retail requires cutting edge technologies to increase customer engagement, employee productivity, manage their business better, and ultimately drive revenues and profits higher. Investment in technology is expected to increase competition as the market moves from product centricity to experience centricity.


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Novi Sad To Hold Ceremony Opening Its Year As 'European Capital Of Culture'
Jan 13, 2022 | Europe
The Serbian city of Novi Sad will officially become the European Capital of Culture on January 13 after a yearlong delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The city in northern Serbia will hold a ceremony to open Novi Sad's year as a European Capital of Culture, a designation created by the European Commission to highlight the richness and diversity of cultures in Europe.
Novi Sad's program during 2022 will follow the concept originally sketched out for 2021, which consists of four areas under the theme "For New Bridges."
The program is designed to help the city develop its strategy for the sustainable development of its cultural sector with a focus on strengthening cultural institutions and participation, and renewing cultural heritage.
Novi Sad citizens and visitors will be offered various cultural programs throughout the year, both from the popular and the alternative cultural scene. According to the organizers, Novi Sad will host more than 4,000 artists during the year.
The European Capital of Culture was established in 1985 to emphasize the richness and diversity of European cultures, strengthen cultural ties between Europeans, bring together people from different European countries, promote mutual understanding, and strengthen a sense of European unity.
Since the designation was launched by a resolution of EU ministers of culture, more than 40 European cities have won the title.
Novi Sad holds the title of European Capital of Culture in 2022 with two other cities: Kaunas in Lithuania and Esha in Luxembourg.
Many cities use the designation to enable wider access to culture, improve their image, develop tourism, and strengthen cultural and creative industries.
Based on reporting by RFE/RL's Balkan Service
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Special Event: A talk by Tehama M Lopez Bunyasi author of "Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter"
Thursday, January 7th, 2021 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Dr. Lopez Bunyasi will discuss her co-authored book Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter, and expound upon how to continue the commitment to antiracism in a Biden-Harris administration.
In her book she and co-author Candis Watts Smith illuminate lessons from the current Movement for Black Lives to equip people to become effective racial justice advocates and antiracists. Blending together a wealth of scholarly work with critical reflections from popular culture, Stay Woke sheds light on the precarious nature of Black lives in the United States by unmasking structural racism and explaining how even well-meaning people can reproduce racial inequality. Created as a toolkit and written in accessible language, Stay Woke empowers its readers to become more knowledgeable participants in public dialogue, activism, and American politics.
Lopez Bunyasi's second book Breaking the Racial Contract: Conscious Egalitarianism and the Politics of Whiteness utilizes nationwide survey data and in-depth interviews with antiracist activists to explore the relationship between whites' perceptions of racial privilege and support for racially egalitarian policies and practices. In redirecting the study of racial attitudes to address the under-articulated side of racial inequality—racial advantage—this book maps out a constellation of critical resistance to the hierarchical racial order and brings attention to the not-fully-realized potential of privilege-cognizant politics.
Tehama Lopez Bunyasi is Assistant Professor at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. A political scientist by training, her scholarship is broadly concerned with matters of race, racism and antiracism in the United States, with specializations in structural inequality, racial attitudes and ideologies, racial marginalization, and the politics of whiteness.
Her article-length peer-reviewed research has been published in a number of academic journals, including Perspectives on Politics; Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Politics, Groups, and Identities; Polity; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; The Black Scholar; Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review; and Radical Teacher.
Dr. Lopez Bunyasi engages a broader audience on matters of American politics, racial disparities and racial violence by contributing commentary to a variety of national and international media outlets, including PBS, The New York Times, C-SPAN, NBC News, Voice of America, and the Scene on Radio podcast.
Prior to joining the Carter School, Dr. Lopez Bunyasi was a faculty member at Ohio University, and held the Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. She is a recipient of the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and a supportive alumna of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. Most recently, she received the Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
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At 900 years old, Nissa is finally ready to follow her mother's path and become the best Fairy Godmother she can.
She's not thrilled when her first assignment turns out to be a teenage human girl with self-esteem issues, but she knows she has to start somewhere.
Her assignment has dealt with bullies since her freshman year and they haven't let up. If Nissa can't help her regain her self-confidence her future is bleak.
To complicate matters Nissa experiences all the signs that she's met the being fated for her. This impossibility distracts her from her purpose. After all, fairies and humans aren't meant for each other.
How can her heart believe otherwise? Can Nissa successfully complete her first assignment as a Fairy Godmother?
Will the fates allow Nissa and Levi to be together? And even if they do, will Levi believe Nissa once she reveals the truth?
This book was described as "a contemporary fairy tale", so of course I couldn't wait to dive in. I'm a sucker for that kind of stories, and the gorgeous cover definitely didn't hurt! Seriously, just love it.
And the beginning was quite promising. Nissa decides she wants to be a fairy godmother and her first assignment is a teenage girl named Vicky. Then it got pretty bad.
By bad I mean the story didn't have a soul. Weird thing to say, but it was just empty. I couldn't connect with the story or with the characters.
I'm really having hard time to describe the problem here. It's like someone just tells you "main character named X meets a dude and they look each other. Now they are like feeling the connection and all. They like really fall for each other." Yeah, you can keep telling me that, but that just isn't good enough.
That pretty much describes the love story here. First Nissa meets Levi, drools over him a little, then they're suddenly sleeping together, then they're.. I don't even know what they are. There's absolutely no chemistry between these two characters so how am I suppose to believe they are falling for each other? I have no idea.
There was just this overall emptiness that bothered me so much. I really wanted to give only one cupcake, but I absolutely loved the idea behind this book and the cover, so I had to give two cupcakes.
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When sixteen-year old Jacey Adison's parents tell her they must move again, she has never questioned their life style. Until now.
When Jacey was two, her parents fled the protection of their birthplace, the mystical dimension of Nemele. Leaving was the only solution her parents believed might allow them to keep their family together and alive.
Soon, Lash will have to choose where to place his faith — in the home he has fought so hard to regain or in the forbidden love he can't bear to lose.


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Q: How to make a query with properties parameter in nuxeo I want to make a request with "dynamic" properties fetch from my Java app with nuxeo 8.10.
There is the declatation of my NuxeoDocument:
    <schema name="TestDocumentProperties" src="data/TestDocumentProperties.xsd" prefix="test" />
    <doctype name="TestDocument" extends="Document">
        <schema name="dublincore"/>
        <schema name="TestDocumentProperties"/>
    </doctype>

There is the schema:
<xs:schema ...>
  <xs:element name="summary" type="xs:string"/>
  <xs:element name="content" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:schema>

There is a "Get" request to my Nuxeo server:
https:xxx/nuxeo/site/api/v1/search/lang/NXQL/execute?query=SELECT * FROM Document WHERE ecm:fulltext = 'test'&properties=TestDocumentProperties, dublincore

When i execute this request directly from my browser, the result contains all of the properties of "dublincore" and "TestDocumentProperties":
{
    "entity-type": "document",
    "type": "TestDocument",
    ...
    "properties": {
        "test:summary": "test text to search in summary",
        "test:content": "test text to search in content",
        "dc:description": null,
        "dc:language": null,
        "dc:coverage": null,
        "dc:valid": null,
        "dc:creator": "xxx",
        "dc:modified": "2017-12-13T16:28:38.44Z",
        ...
    },...
}

So, I want to execute a nuxeo nxql request from my Java application with the same parameter.
Before, i execute only the request from my java app, without the "properties" parameter with this code:
return this.nuxeoClient.repository().query("SELECT * FROM Document WHERE ecm:fulltext = 'test'");

But with "query" method from repository, there isn't possible to specify the properties to fetch. So, today, i try with this code:
    Map<String, Object> parameters = new HashMap<>();
    parameters.put("query", "SELECT * FROM Document WHERE ecm:fulltext = 'test'");
    parameters.put("properties", "TestDocumentProperties, dublincore");
    return this.nuxeoClient.automation("Repository.Query").parameters(parameters).execute();

Unfortunately, the result isn't fetch correctly, i don't have the "dublincore" properties in my response but i have the "TestDocumentProperties". If i remove the "TestDocumentProperties" in the list of fetch properties parameters, there is no change to the response...
Can you help me to correct this code or indicate me an alternative ?
Thank's

A: According to the nuxeo doc, you can choose the schemas to return using setHeader(Constants.HEADER_NX_SCHEMAS) method:
return this.nuxeoClient.setHeader(Constants.HEADER_NX_SCHEMAS, "TestDocumentProperties,dublincore").automation("Repository.Query").parameters(parameters).execute();

For the properties. if I remember correctly, you can set specific properties to return:
parameters.put("properties", "dc:title,dc:description");

or maybe you need to do like this:
import org.nuxeo.ecm.automation.client.model.Document;
// Instantiate a new Document with the simple constructor
Document document = new Document("myDocument", "File");
document.set("dc:title", "My File");
document.set("dc:description", "My Description");
parameters.put("properties", document);

This latter I am not sure, hope it helps.

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package com.easternedgerobotics.rov.measure;

import com.easternedgerobotics.rov.value.DepthValueA;
import com.easternedgerobotics.rov.value.DepthValueB;
import com.easternedgerobotics.rov.value.ExternalPressureValueA;
import com.easternedgerobotics.rov.value.ExternalPressureValueB;

public final class Depth {
    private static final double KPA_ATMOSPHERIC_PRESSURE = 101.325;

    private static final double GRAVITATIONAL_ACCELERATION = 9.80665;

    private static final double DENSITY_FRESH_WATER = 1000;

    public static DepthValueA fromPressure(final ExternalPressureValueA pressure) {
        return new DepthValueA(fromPressure(pressure.getValue()));
    }

    public static DepthValueB fromPressure(final ExternalPressureValueB pressure) {
        return new DepthValueB(fromPressure(pressure.getValue()));
    }

    private static float fromPressure(final float value) {
        return (float) ((value - KPA_ATMOSPHERIC_PRESSURE) / (GRAVITATIONAL_ACCELERATION * DENSITY_FRESH_WATER));
    }

    private Depth() {
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    }
}

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With some furnace systems, even the slightest breeze can cause the pilot light to go out, leaving a homeowner with no heat when the thermostat is turned up. Luckily, learning how to light a furnace pilot light is a simple matter.
Furnaces have a tendency of not cooperating when you need them most. Of course, if you think about it, this makes sense because winter is the time when furnaces are working the hardest and can show their age, and their wear and tear.
Here, we'll explain the basic steps for re-lighting the pilot light of a gas furnace.
Every furnace should have a label on it that tells you how to light a furnace. Sometimes, however, the printing may be small or the furnace area may be dark. In these cases, the label may be difficult to read. Keeping the following instructions near your furnace or in another safe spot where they can be located easily will make the task much easier.
Near the bottom of your furnace is a switch that normally says "Pilot," "On" and "Off." Find this switch and turn it to the "Off" position. Wait at least five minutes. This is important because it gives the gas time to dissipate, which is necessary to avoid possibly starting a fire. While you are waiting, take note of the location of the reset button, which should be near the dial you just turned to "Off."
Once the gas has had time to dissipate, turn the knob to "Pilot." Then, hold down the "Reset" button and bring the flame of a long lighter close to the pilot light opening. This should light the furnace pilot light. Once you are sure the pilot light is on, release your pressure on the reset button.
Sometimes, seeing a job being done can help if you're doing it for the first time.The video below shows you the step-by-step process for re-lighting a pilot light to help you get started.
Here are some important things to remember about re-lighting your furnace pilot light.
If you have followed the above steps on how to light a furnace more than twice and the pilot light won't light or won't stay lit when you release the "Reset" button, something is wrong with the furnace and you need to contact a furnace professional.
Don't try to light a furnace without first turning it off. Excess gas can cause serious damage in the home and can also lead to injury.
Other than the pilot light, do not attempt to fix your furnace yourself unless you are knowledgeable in furnace repair. While the furnace itself may be safe, gas can be dangerous.
If you do not have a long match or long lighter, using a tightly rolled piece of paper to put distance between you and the igniting pilot light will work.
Lighting the furnace pilot light is something that isn't necessary often, but is a skill you want to have in case it is necessary. As long as you follow the steps on how to light a furnace, you should have no problem, and your home will be warm and cozy in no time.
Some furnace problems are not as simple as a DIY fix. If it's time to replace your home heating system, our guide, "A Homeowner's Furnace Replacement Guide," below can help you compare furnace features and learn about heating enhancements or feel free to contact a HVAC professional.


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The Community Reinvestment Act is a federal law that was passed in 1977, to prohibit banks from refusing to lend in low and moderate income communities. Because this "redlining," as it is called, was found to be widespread, Congress passed CRA to ensure that "regulated financial institutions have a continuing and affirmative obligation to help meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered."
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 chipped away at the CRA, but by no means repealed it. This Act slows the CRA examination cycle for banks with assets below $250 million to once every four or five years, and imposes new reporting requirements on community groups that seek to enforce the CRA, including by submitting comments to the bank regulatory agencies.
As the statute makes clear, the CRA is only enforced in connection with banks' merger and expansion applications. The federal bank regulatory agencies periodically evaluate banks for their compliance with CRA, and assign them one of four ratings: Outstanding, Satisfactory, Needs to Improve or Substantial Non-Compliance. In 1998, the agencies rated over 98% of banks as either Outstanding or Satisfactory, despite that fact that, for example, the banking industry continues to deny the mortgage loan applications of African Americans and Latinos twice as frequently as those of whites. Statistics about loan approvals and loan denials can be determined by using the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data that banks are required to make public each year.
Because the regulators have so inflated the CRA grading system, the one pro-CRA provision of the Gramm - Leach - Bliley Act (requiring financial holding companies' banks to have "Satisfactory" or "Outstanding" CRA ratings) is of little practical effect. When a bank moves to acquire an insurance company, the only venue for public participation is before a state insurance regulator, under a fair housing / consumer compliance standard, rather than a CRA standard. For this, contact the Inner City Public Interest Law Center.
Despite that fact that the regulators have been largely "captured" by the banking industry, CRA can sometimes be enforced in a way that benefits our communities, particularly when grassroots community groups challenge bank-on-bank merger and expansion applications. When banks apply to buy another bank, or to otherwise expand, CRA requires the regulators to consider the applicant bank's record of serving low and moderate income communities.
There are public comment periods on these applications; if community groups document the bank's failure to fairly serve their area, the regulators are required to look more closely, and take action. Some banks make commitments as to the amount and type of loan products and banking services that the bank wil make available. Some important issues, like questionable high interest rate lending, insurers getting into banking, or companies entirely capturing the regulators, don't lend themselves to settlement, but rather to full throttle advocacy. See, e.g., "Community Reinvestment in a Globalizing World: To Hold Banks Accountable, From The Bronx to Buenos Aires, Beijing and Basle," by Matthew Lee, in Organizing Access to Capital: Advocacy and the Democratization of Financial Institutions, Prof. Greg Squires, ed., Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. For more, contact the Inner City Public Interest Law Center.
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I've always wondered what the Catholic Church means by "blessing," especially in blessing objects. Does the object bear a new and real virtue?
I. Don't know if this site is monitored by real people..I ask questions and never get answers.how can I get my husbands ashes blessed.
Not sure about a blessing, but he needs to be buried and put to rest.
Your husband's ashes? If he had a Catholic funeral Mass his body was blessed with incense.
And Holy Water during The Mass of Christian Burial! His cremated remains need to be buried as soon as possible. They should be reverenced as you would the dead body.
Try going to a catholic church and ask the resident priest to bless them, but i must say if you husband is already ashes then you might want to ask him for a prayer intention for his soul, whats left of his mortal body is dead, his soul loves on.
In a Catholic Christian burial, a funeral mass is celebrated officiated by a priest (casket or urn). This is the second stage, the first being a Vigil service (the day/night) before with or without a rosary. The third stage is the final blessing in the cemetery before the lowering of the casket. I hope this helps!
I don't think you can bless someone's remains. When you have the funeral that is the final blessing.
Never heard of this for Catholics For Catholics There's a funeral mass only then the body is taken for cremstion then the ashes must be placed in a columbarium of a cemetery or some churches have areas where there is an area for urns to be placed My Parish has a columbarium.
Catholics can not keep ashes at home or scatter them.
You can offer a Mass with his ashes present and then have them buried. You are not supported to keep them. They can also be placed in a nitch.
Hold a burial service-which is where the priest always gives God's blessing-at the graveside.
Can I get my Rosary Beads I got from Ireland be Blessed from a Priest at my Church?
Definitely! Just ask one of the priests at your parish.
El Aceite ,El Agua Bendita Y La Sal Son Sacramentales Poderosos Que Nos Defienden De Las Fuerzas Del Mal,Pero Solo Tienen Poder Cuando La Persona Que Los Husa Cree En Dios Y El Poder Que Dios Concede A Estos Sacramentales Sin Fe De Nada Te Vale Husarlos,Y El Demonio Sabe Muy Bien Quien Tiene Fe En Dios Y Quien No.
Adonde compra aciete y q es sal son?
Carmella it is very important for Christians to receive Christian burial. Whether through physical interment /burial or cremation. It is vital to have the first Mass said for the repose of their soul.
The Blessing before the end of mass is for the people as a community. Blessings for religious objects, what we call sacramentals, is another kind of blessings and it's usually outside of mass…not unless the priest was notified to do a blessing just for that (sacramentals) and is usually for a large group of it which the parishioners are asked to hold them up. Hope this helps!
Does a priest need to be the one who does the blessing? My initial thought is 'no' as we bless our meal by saying grace before meals (?? Please correct me if my wording/thought process off track). Is there any difference between a blessing by a priest vs parishioner? E.g. Traditionally, having a priest over for a house blessing vs occupants praying/"blessing" the house themselves?
We normally scatter the ashes at the sea or river. We say a prayer and scatter some flowers with it. In my community, I hardly see people burry or keep the dead ashes. It's not common practice to burry or keep ashes in columbarium.Only a small percentage of people keep their loved one ashes in Columbarium, including Catholics.That's even only temporally.
Cremation is permitted in theCatholic Church, but ashes are never allowed to be kept or scattered. Ashes are to buried or placed in a columbarium.
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Comment Wire Donald Trump Editor's Pick Energy Environment Transport US
Can cities really fight climate change on their own?
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As the largest carbon emission contributors, urban areas should be capable of tackling climate change without government support.
But convincing people to abandon their cars and rapid urbanisation in the developing world are significant obstacles.
Timeline for Carbon emissions
UK expected to fall short on carbon emissions target
The race is on for the UK to insulate 25m homes by 2050
Since US president Donald Trump decided to remove the US — the world's second largest polluter — from the Paris Accord, mayors of over 7,400 cities in the US and around the world have pledged to meet climate targets, in spite of his decision.
This is unsurprising; cities stand to suffer the most from climate change.
The urban heat island effect makes cities up to 7.8 degrees Celsius warmer than their surrounding rural areas and many are located on major rivers or in coastal areas which make them vulnerable to rising sea levels.
Consuming two-thirds of the world's energy and generating around 70 percent of global carbon emissions, cities should — in theory — be able to fight climate change almost entirely on their own.
Urban mayors are currently acting as the driving force in the fight against climate change and many European cities are already on course to achieve their target of reducing emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels by 2020.
But, cities across the world share a common problem, cars are major polluters and people are not yet willing to abandon their private vehicles entirely.
In European cities, emissions from the transport sector have only reduced by seven percent between 1990 and 2016.
A report from the LSE found that 35 percent of Londoners still use a car as their most common mode of transport for daily travel, and the majority of Londoners still cite their car as their most preferred method of transportation.
This would not be an issue if electric (zero-emission) cars were used for these journeys, but these vehicles are yet to hit the mass market; in June 2017 just 1.8 percent of new car registrations in the UK were electric.
Public transport is already the cheapest and most efficient mode of transport in many cities, but mayors need to go beyond this by making public transport the favourable way to commute — a major challenge.
Additionally, the developing world is currently experiencing rapid rates of urbanisation; this in itself creates a problem.
As urban economies grow in size, pollution from factors such as traffic and power generation will rise in correlation.
Ensuring urbanisation is sustainable and environmentally friendly requires substantial governmental planning and financial resources, which are commonly unavailable in the developing world.
Additionally, the metals and concrete commonly used in infrastructure construction are carbon-intensive to manufacture, meaning fast urbanisation in the developing world will create significant amounts of additional greenhouse gas emissions.
Cities have proven they are willing to battle climate change, despite the lack of support from the leader of the free world. But, changing attitudes towards cars will prove the biggest challenge for urban mayors.
Also, as the developing world becomes increasingly urbanised, there is likely to be limited government planning to ensure growth creates as little environmental impact as possible.
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Volvo becomes first major car brand to go all electric
All new vehicles in the UK must be fully electric by 2040
Tesla overtakes Ford to become the second most valuable car maker in the US


In this session we will provide an overview of the new Tobii Dynavox Snap + Core First communication software. Core First focuses on growth and literacy development while successfully supporting communication engagement and providing all the tools to support users across all skill levels and competencies.
Snap + Core First is included with Indi, the world's first all-in-one, consumer-focused speech tablet and the newest member of the Tobii Dynavox speech generating device family.
Included will be a review supporting resources, such as the Core First Pathway app to support implementation and communication success across settings.


The World Health Organization (WHO) publication, Preparing a Healthcare Workforce for the 21st Century: The Challenge of Chronic Conditions calls for the transformation of healthcare professionals training to better meet the needs of caring for patients with chronic conditions. It presents a new, expanded training model, based on a set of core competencies of patient-centred healthcare, which are partnering, quality improvement, information and communication technology and public health perspective. It will however not exclude the already established core competencies; based on evidence, ethics and profession specific competencies. A copy of the report, which was launched earlier this year can now be ordered and downloaded at WHO website in English, French and Spanish.


Rafe Bartholomew and Brian Campbell try to save Adrien Broner's career and discuss their favorite #OldManFights for Oscar De La Hoya. Plus, an interview with new middleweight titlist David Lemieux.
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Hi guys, The new Launchpad MSP-EXP432P111 was released some days ago. I bought one and it arrived today . The board use the XMS432P1111 (pre-production version of MSP432) microcontroller, a Cortex M4 with 48MHz, 2MB of flash, 256KB of SRAM (very impressive), 14bit ADC and many other peripherals, like the LCD driver. Apparently, the LCD is the same of other launchpads (eg.: EXP430FR6989), very interesting to understand how to use the LCD driver and develop some projects. The Out-of-Box demo has two modes: - Blink LED, where you can controll the frequency of blink pressing the button S1 and controll the color by pressing the button S2. - Temperature mode: Show the temperature based in the internal sensor (pressing S2), or based in an external temperature sensor (pressing S1), a LMT70, but it's necessary to put a jumper in R8, powering the sensor. There is a online GUI enabling to control other parameters like special characters in the LCD. The finishing of PCB's is impeccable, as always.


(e-lair -ă) A small satellite of Jupiter, discovered in 1905 by the US astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine. See Jupiter's satellites; Table 2, backmatter.
A small satellite of Jupiter with a diameter of about 20 miles (32 kilometers), orbiting at a mean distance of 7.29 × 106 miles (11.73 × 106 kilometers). Also known as Jupiter VII.
Single Timeshare Site: The loans are associated with a single resort, Elara, in Las Vegas.
Since founding Elara Comunicaciones thirteen years ago, Jorge has fostered a company culture of openness, self-realization, employee development, and commitment to customer service and experience.
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And Elara Capital PLC, an investment bank catering to the funding needs of growth-hungry Indian mid-market companies, renewed its 4,130 s/f lease on the second floor.
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The West Elara is the first of two Gusto MSC CJ70 150A rigs to be built for North Atlantic Drilling.
The upstream segment has been disappointing because of lack of progress on gas output, and investors had been gung-ho on this business," said Alok Deshpande, oil and gas analyst at Elara Securities.
Elara Capital acted as Lead Manager and book-runner and Sacombank Securities Joint Stock Company acted as Vietnamese financial adviser on the transaction.
Elara Capital, in a research report on Monday, has given a buy rating to the stock.
They want to raise money for new projects but they are already holding so much inventory," said Surajit Pal, sector analyst at brokerage Elara Capital.
This is a crisis of confidence and the situation in Europe will reflect on the Indian market," said a report by CNBC Awaaz, quoting Raj Bhatt of Elara Capital.
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1 the outer pin fix wool thread. Loop-like thread wrap around the individual pins. Repeat this operation in a second round, so that each pin is wrapped around twice.
2. now with the needle the lower loop each over the top lift and release from the pen. Repeat this operation for all the pins until only one stitch on each pin.
3. the wool thread again loop-like wrap around the pins, so that again, each pen contains two stitches.
4. now again alternating a series cast off and wrap a number until the desired length is.
Loop can be raised and resolved. The remaining loop is removed and placed to the next PIN. This process continues until the dress all PIN is detached.
6 the last stitch with the excess wire tie.
7.den once beat to edge and sew with a button. Sew on the second button below.


Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. Pooter's diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties, minor embarrassments, home improvements, and his relationship with a troublesome son. The small minded but essentially decent suburban world he inhabits is both hilarious and painfully familiar. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's illustrations and an introduction which discusses the story's social context.


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/*
*********************************************************************************************************
*                                             INCLUDE FILES
*********************************************************************************************************
*/
#define  BSP_MODULE

#include <bsp.h>
/*
*********************************************************************************************************
*                                            LOCAL TABLES
*********************************************************************************************************
*/

/*
*********************************************************************************************************
*                                       LOCAL GLOBAL VARIABLES
*********************************************************************************************************
*/

/*
*********************************************************************************************************
*                                      LOCAL FUNCTION PROTOTYPES
*********************************************************************************************************
*/

/** This function will initial STM32 board**/
void rt_hw_board_init()
{
    BSP_Init();
    //add for finsh
    stm32_hw_usart_init();
    rt_console_set_device(RT_CONSOLE_DEVICE_NAME);
}

/**
 * RCC configuration
 */
static void RCC_Configuration(void)
{
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	//Æô¶¯GPIO
	RCC_AHB1PeriphClockCmd(RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOA | RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOB | \
	                       RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOC | RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOD | \
	                       RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOE | RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOG,
	                       ENABLE);

	//Æô¶¯USART1ʱÖÓ
	RCC_APB2PeriphClockCmd(RCC_APB2Periph_USART1, ENABLE);
	//Æô¶¯USART2ʱÖÓ
	RCC_APB1PeriphClockCmd(RCC_APB1Periph_USART2, ENABLE);
	//Æô¶¯DMAʱÖÓ
	RCC_APB1PeriphClockCmd(RCC_AHB1Periph_DMA1, ENABLE);
	/* Enable ADC1 and GPIOC clock */
	RCC_APB2PeriphClockCmd(RCC_APB2Periph_ADC1, ENABLE);
	/* Enable WWDG clock */
	RCC_APB1PeriphClockCmd(RCC_APB1Periph_WWDG, ENABLE);
}

/**
 * NVIC Configuration
 */
static void NVIC_Configuration(void)
{
#if  defined(VECT_TAB_RAM)
    // Set the Vector Table base location at 0x20000000
    NVIC_SetVectorTable(NVIC_VectTab_RAM, 0x00);
#elif  defined(VECT_TAB_FLASH)
    // Set the Vector Table base location at 0x08000000
    NVIC_SetVectorTable(NVIC_VectTab_FLASH, 0x00);
#elif defined(VECT_TAB_USER)
    // Set the Vector Table base location by user
    NVIC_SetVectorTable(NVIC_VectTab_FLASH, USER_VECTOR_TABLE);
#endif

}

/**
 * GPIO Configuration
 */
static void GPIO_Configuration(void)
{
	GPIO_InitTypeDef GPIO_InitStructure;

	/* PA13:SWDIO PA14:SWCLK for debug, can't set to output mode */
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Pin = GPIO_Pin_All & (~(GPIO_Pin_13 | GPIO_Pin_14));
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Mode = GPIO_Mode_OUT;
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_OType = GPIO_OType_PP;
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_PuPd = GPIO_PuPd_NOPULL;
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Speed = GPIO_Speed_50MHz;
    GPIO_Init(GPIOA, &GPIO_InitStructure);

    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Pin = GPIO_Pin_All;
    GPIO_Init(GPIOB, &GPIO_InitStructure);
    GPIO_Init(GPIOC, &GPIO_InitStructure);
    GPIO_Init(GPIOD, &GPIO_InitStructure);
    GPIO_Init(GPIOE, &GPIO_InitStructure);
    GPIO_Init(GPIOF, &GPIO_InitStructure);
    GPIO_Init(GPIOG, &GPIO_InitStructure);

	/******************ϵͳÔËÐÐLEDָʾµÆÅäÖÃ*******************/
	GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Pin = GPIO_Pin_12;
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Mode = GPIO_Mode_OUT;
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_OType = GPIO_OType_PP;
    GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_PuPd = GPIO_PuPd_NOPULL;
	GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Speed = GPIO_Speed_50MHz;
	GPIO_Init(GPIOB, &GPIO_InitStructure);
}

/**
 * IWDG_Configuration
 */
static void IWDG_Configuration(void)
{
    IWDG_WriteAccessCmd(IWDG_WriteAccess_Enable);
    IWDG_SetPrescaler(IWDG_Prescaler_64);
    IWDG_SetReload(1875);
    IWDG_ReloadCounter();
    IWDG_Enable();
}

/**
 * feed IWDG dog
 */
void IWDG_Feed(void)
{
    IWDG_ReloadCounter();//reload
}

/**
 * SysTick Configuration
 */
void  SysTick_Configuration(void)
{
    RCC_ClocksTypeDef  rcc_clocks;
    rt_uint32_t         cnts;

    RCC_GetClocksFreq(&rcc_clocks);

    cnts = (rt_uint32_t)rcc_clocks.HCLK_Frequency / RT_TICK_PER_SECOND;
    cnts = cnts / 8;

    SysTick_Config(cnts);
    SysTick_CLKSourceConfig(SysTick_CLKSource_HCLK_Div8);
}
/**
 * This is the timer interrupt service routine.
 *
 */
void rt_hw_timer_handler(void)
{
    /* enter interrupt */
    rt_interrupt_enter();

    rt_tick_increase();

    /* leave interrupt */
    rt_interrupt_leave();
}

void assert_failed(u8* file, u32 line)
{
    /* User can add his own implementation to report the file name and line number,
     ex: printf("Wrong parameters value: file %s on line %d\r\n", file, line) */
    /* Infinite loop */
    rt_kprintf("assert failed at %s:%d \n", file, line);
    while (1) {
    }
}
/*
*********************************************************************************************************
*                                     LOCAL CONFIGURATION ERRORS
*********************************************************************************************************
*/

/*
*********************************************************************************************************
*                                               BSP_Init()
*
* Description : Initialize the Board Support Package (BSP).
*
* Argument(s) : none.
*
* Return(s)   : none.
*
* Caller(s)   : Application.
*
* Note(s)     : (1) This function SHOULD be called before any other BSP function is called.
*********************************************************************************************************
*/

void  BSP_Init (void)
{
    RCC_Configuration();
    NVIC_Configuration();
    SysTick_Configuration();
    GPIO_Configuration();
//TODO  Now temporary comment this code, the official version will open his
//     IWDG_Configuration();
}


Lately, we've published an article on Palestine and one on Pandit Ravi Shankar. We'll come up with a few more soon. But, if you need an article on a certain topic or help with a certain issue, send us an email (here) or let us know in the comments.
Thank you ever so much, Soumya!


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Q: JavaScript to Change Tooltip to Uppercase Is there a method in JavaScript to change a tooltip/title attribute to all uppercase? I know that tooltips can't be controlled through CSS, but I don't know anything about JavaScript.
I need to only change it on specific elements if possible.
Thank you for any information.

A: if you are using bootstrap, just apply "text-uppercase" to the tooltip element. It will automatically convert it to uppercase.

A: You can use Javascript's .toUpperCase() in the following way using jQuery:
$('#SomeSelectorOfToolTip').attr('title', $('#SomeSelectorOfToolTip').text().toUpperCase())

A: Assuming you are talking about the default tooltip which appears upon mousing over an element with a title, you will have to do this by manipulating the title itself. You can access the title property through the DOM with:
var newTitle = document.getElementById("myElement")[0].title.toUpperCase
document.getElementById("myElement")[0].title = newTitle

Now this is, of course, inherently more difficult than simply changing the title itself, but if these are the criteria for what you are trying to accomplish it should work.
UPDATE
It appears there may be a pure CSS solution actually. Take a look at the top answer to this question: Styling native tooltip from title="Tooltip text"


I have finally had enough of this manmade climate change global warming nonsense. Even people who I know and respect as critical thinkers have come under the sway of this insidious and diabolical scam. It is time to promote the truth while we still can. Remember, even a little truth in any area acts like a bright light that send the cockroaches of darkness and evil scurrying away. That little light breaks down the walls of delusions and is a threat to all who would usurp the power and freedom of the people. Let it shine. Please share this with everyone you know so we can defeat these flat-Earthers and bring back sanity.
Le Bourget is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.6 km (6.6 mi) from the center of Paris.----- they are having a world meeting on climate change. Obama has said it is the number one problem facing us. Can you believe the audacity? Sorry Isis, poverty, crime, cancer, you will have to get in line.
If this were not incredibly dangerous it would be funny. It is lunatic and unscientific and yet many people I know, who are otherwise very intelligent, believe in manmade global warming or as it has been cleverly marketed under a new label "climate change".
Since the corporate presstitutes are fully behind this scam and are liars anyway, I am supplying some links to real information that refutes this insane concept of manmade climate change. If you still want to belong to the flat earth society that is up to you. But don't call it science. It is propaganda and brain washing 1-2-3 in the service of billions of dollars of profits and increased power through more regulations and centralized control. It is dangerous because if they can pull this over your eyes they can make you believe anything at all. Science will be dead. It is all about money and power and we have to stop these snakes now before they completely capture the next generation and truth is no more. You will believe only what the Ministry of Truth tells you from cradle to grave. They are getting closer to this. They have the Big Screen and the Big Microphone.
We fight it by seeking and facing the Truth in so far as we can find it. When Al Gore said the debate is over he was shouting in the loudest voice that his view was not science. He left the office of Vice President with 2 million and now is worth over 200 million. There is good money in climate fake science. Ask all the new "climate scientists" and ask all the true scientists who are denied a government grant for research because they will not toe the climate change line aka global warming.
That taxes will sky rocket, industry will suffer even more in the US is not the worst aspect of this great lie. That we are being conditioned to believe in a world that does not exist more and more, being led to live in this fantasy world, is the real danger. Because once we accept all the lies and propaganda in the end we will find it is a prison from which our minds cannot escape, reinforced by high tech monitors and complex computers that have no mercy and obey only their masters, the ruling spiders who spun the lies to entrap us in their web. Even now we are told emphatically that there are no cures for many diseases like cancer and yet there are doctors in other countries routinely curing many of these diseases. But, the money is in big medicine and drugs. Money wins, truth loses.
Read a few of these articles or just look at the titles. My goal is to get you to at least question the assumed validity of these worldwide delusions they foist upon us as the one and only way of looking at things. The war is on whether you believe it or not and the war is for your mind, body and possessions and maybe even your soul.
Many more sources but I got tired. It is scary how so many reputable scientists in the actual field can literally scream that manmade global warming is junk science and yet not get the message out. The media is almost completely under the control of the elite, ruling classes whoever they are. They apparently do not want us to be free since a well informed public is crucial to the continued existence of a free and democratic society. Thanks Big Brother.


Crystal Clear, or is it?
Many rum critics point to the lack of regulation in the rum industry (aging, congener level, nomenclature, etc.) as one of its downfalls and weaknesses but, at the same time, this flexibility is used by most (and abused by some) to create a plethora of products that appeal to a very wide segment of the drinking population.
Gift-buying season can bring with it a sense of stress, especially when a rum drinker wants to buy a special gift for a Bourbon or Brandy drinker, for example. Those decisions are often relegated to the recommendations from liquor-store floor sales people who may be receiving incentives from the brands themselves. Why not, then, stay in the rum category and try to select a rum from within the ranks?
• Bourbon: try an aged Agricole Rhum, the odds will be in your favor, since both Bourbon and Rhum Agricole have similar congener levels and, if you select a particularly well-aged rhum, you'll be sure to score a hit.
• Un-Aged (White or Silver) Tequila: try a traditional Cachaça or a white (Blanc) Rhum Agricole. • Aged Tequila: Aged American Craft rum or Jamaican Aged rum should do the trick (Appleton is the highest selling imported rum in Mexico for a reason).
• Vodka: Low congener rum from Puerto Rico, Cuba or USVI should make any vodka drinker feel right at home.
• Brandy: sweet, Spanish-style rums with Sherry or Port finishes will be great here.
The above list is not comprehensive by design. It is intended to be a starting point so that both the person buying the gift and the one receiving it can further explore the world of rum.
Even if regulations are not adopted globally, we can still bring order into the rum industry by understanding the differences between the styles and distillation methods. Let us all do our part by staying in our category and by teaching others about its full range.


You know how much I love a good before and after story! Today brings the complete transformation of a Billard / Media Room of a Windsor Home.
What was once a dark, green cavern we transformed into a rich textural room without much more than wallcovering, paint and new furniture?
The basic elements of the room are all the same. The dark stained beadboard ceiling and wainscoting. Even the door trim was white previously, you just couldn't see it behind the dark green damask draperies. All few new light fixtures updated the room although still very traditional, the new light fixtures relate to all the other elements in the room. We used an A-Mazing black and tan color combination along with tons of texture to bring the room a comfortable easy feel. Raffia walls and patterned sisal rugs are a great neutral backdrop while the leather recliners ( yes – I said recliners!) I hate them as a whole, but sometimes I just have to give in. The art on the wall is black and white photos of African wildlife and are grouped in pairs with wall sconces on each side.
There is no denying my love for a good Before and After story. This one is no exception.
My clients came to me after purchasing the waterfront home for the beautiful River view, they loved the lot, location and size of the home. They were not quite as impressed with most of the interior layout, the windows, the Bathroom, the Kitchen and the complete lack of architectural details in the house.
Let's just say they were prepared for a Major renovation.
It helps to understand that my clients we completely open to any ideas I had for making changes to the house. There were some absolute must-do items on their to-do list which would require reconfiguring the floor plan and some major reworking things like ceilings and flooring. The Master Bathroom was definitely a high priority on the to-do list. The original plan had two separate areas – his with shower and hers with a shower and a tub between both. The bathroom was divided from the Master Bedroom by a hall visible from the Living Room. Passing through the hall you would come to another hallway with closets on each side.
You can see the configuration in the photo below.
Who says coastal has to be palm trees and fish? How about birds and seashells instead. To get this Traditional yet Casual look I just mixed it all up and created a coastal look with modern elements. Mahogany furniture mixed with casual cane and a light colored traditional runner on a cream polished marble backdrop.
I can hardly believe how long it's been since we wrapped this Jupiter Island Renovation project up. The images from the project have been among some of my most well received and it is still one of my favorite projects. Although each project I have worked on is like a child of mine and picking a favorite is difficult, I love all of them, each for different reasons.
Fast forward to today and I am back working on on this house again. This time getting to do what we didn't do the first time around, the Kitchen and Master Bath. Stay tuned to see how they turn out. Still in the planning phase at the moment, but as per far too often a fast-paced project with a deadline quickly approaching!
If you take a look at the before photo below, you can see a cupid style sconce. Yup – that's about what the whole place looked like when we started.
When my clients first brought me on a tour through the new home they purchased we all agreed on many items on the renovation To-Do List. I was a little blown away that they were fine with the existing fireplace while I had a strong opinion to the contrary from the moment I saw the original fireplace.
As is the case with home renovations, the after photo looks so amazing it is hard to imagine the room ever looking any other way. Truth is it takes a good long time to get to the finished product.
Simple is the most difficult design decision to go with. I think we all have a constant battle within to always want to do more, add that one more thing that will finally complete the look.
But the truth is like Van Der Rohe said, Less is More! Simple is So Right – So Often.
This was a Major home renovation I did a few years ago in Windsor. The entire project Before was exactly the opposite of less is more!


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Abu-Lughod: Writing against Culture
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We've selected Writing against Culture (1991) by Lila Abu-Lughod for our second reading. This discussion will be chaired by OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury.
DOWNLOAD: Abu-Lughod, Lila (2006/1991). Writing against Culture. In Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, Henrietta Moore and Todd Sanders ed. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 466–479.
Omar Joseph Nasser Khoury [2011] Silk Thread Martyrs. Ccollection of 22 garments, each unique. Embroidered, fabric, coloured and dyed by hand using natural materials (indigo, tea).
In this academic text, Lila Abu-Lughod unpacks the pitfalls of anthropological methods of research and analysis, which often construct generalised and over-simplified assumptions based on cultural difference.
Abu-Lughod proposed three different strategies of "writing against culture" to counter ethnographic accounts of the time, which presented culture as something that is static, discrete, homogeneous and coherent, ignoring the cross-over between societies, social and cultural change, subjectivity and everyday contradictions.
Suggested further reading
Clifford, James and George Marcus ed. (1986). Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. School of American Research Advanced Seminar. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press.
Foucault, Michel and Gilles Deleuze (1977). Intellectuals and Power. In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, ed. Donald F. Bouchard. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 205-217. PDF
Owens, Craig (1992). The Indignity of Speaking for Others: An Imaginary Interview. In Beyond Recognition, Berkley: University of California Press, pp. 259-262.
Owens, Craig (1983). The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism. In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, pp. 57-82.
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Completion Notices: More Pointy, Still Pointless?
Completion notices have always been a blunt tool, little used by local planning authorities. The Housing White Paper proposes sharpening them, but to what end?
– Development must have been begun within the time limit on the planning permission and that time limit must have now expired.
– If the LPA considers that the development "will not be completed within a reasonable period" they can serve a completion notice stating that the planning permission will cease to have effect after a period specified in the notice which must be at least 12 months.
– Any notice is only effective if confirmed by the Secretary of State, who may extend the 12 months' period. Any person served with a completion notice who objects within a time limit set out on the notice (must be at least 28 days) has a right to a hearing before the Secretary of State before he reaches his decision.
– If the notice takes effect, the planning permission becomes invalid at the end of the specified period, but this does not affect any development carried out under the permission before the end of the period.
– It doesn't do what it says on the tin. It does not secure completion of the development. If development has stalled, the developer is already having pretty fundamental problems. The threat of a completion notice is not going to lead to a developer finding significant amount of money to overcome those problems – indeed it could jeopardise a solution being found if funders are spooked.
– Instead, use of the procedure is likely to lead to an uncompleted development – it should perhaps be called an uncompletion notice. Furthermore, the courts have resisted to date any notion that if, by the end of the specified completion deadline, only part of a building has been built, the part built is in any way no longer unauthorised (Cardiff County Council v National Assembly for Wales, Davis J, 22 June 2006 – in that case, an unsightly part-built garage, which the Council sought unsuccessfully to enforce against after the deadline in the completion notice).
– The test as to whether the development "will be completed within a reasonable period" is too vague, particularly in relation to major projects. What is it to be judged against?
– The need for approval by the Secretary of State adds to the potential for delay and uncertainty.
"A.107 The Government proposes to amend legislation to remove the requirement for the Secretary of State to confirm a completion notice before it can take effect. Local authorities know their circumstances best, and removing central government involvement will help shorten the process, and give authorities greater control and certainty. The opportunity for a hearing will be retained where there are objections.
* Greater thought should be given to tailoring the time period in the standard condition relating to the commencement of development to fit the situation. In particular, the period could be reduced to two years for minor development.
* The Government's advice, then in Circular 11/95, against including a condition requiring that the whole of an approved development be completed should be reviewed.
* No justification for referral to the Secretary of State, and this should be replaced by a right of appeal.
* Better publicity for the system could lead to its greater use.
The first recommendation in the white paper echoes the 2001 report and is hardly controversial. There should be no reason to require confirmation by the Secretary of State if objections to the notice haven't been received.
Owners and developers are normally vigilant to keep planning permissions alive by carrying out a material operation prior to the implementation deadline on the permission, reflecting the frequent reality that detailed architectural and engineering work post-permission, as well as the funding structure to underpin a development, often including necessary pre-lets in the case of commercial floorspace, take longer than the deadline for implementation (in relation to which the default period is now proposed to be reduced to two years). Missing the deadline means going down a very long snake to submit a fresh application for planning permission.
The white paper proposal envisages that an LPA could serve a completion notice at any time after the developer has carried out a material operation, even before the implementation deadline has expired. What would there be to prevent an LPA serving completion notices as a matter of routine where development appears to be slower than was previously indicated, or than housebuilder averages? The white paper itself questions whether this would "impact on the willingness of lenders to invest". The answer is that it surely would as there would be no certainty for a lender that if the borrower developer defaults on its loan the lender will have time to step in and secure the completion of the development under the same permission – or work through another solution with the borrower. The underpinning certainty of the permission is lost. Two years to implement a permission is no period at all and if relatively minor works within that period may not suffice to keep the permission alive, banks will undoubtedly want to consider the risk profile vis a vis particular authorities very carefully.
– Remember the section 106BC procedure? Revised section 106 arrangements alleviating affordable housing requirements ceased to apply to those parts of the development that had not been completed within three years. That sort of structure could be considered by LPAs in section 106 agreements where justified.
– Any viability review mechanism could be expressed as only operable if specified amounts of development had not been achieved by defined milestones.
– Encourage LPAs to tie any funding they control, eg use of CIL monies for the benefit of the scheme, to timely build out progress.
So much can be achieved by planning obligations and conditions, instead of spending time working out how to hack at the problem with what is hardly the sharpest tool in the box.
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Bright prospects for Vietnamese sports in 2019
After a successful 2018, managers and fans are brimming with hope that Vietnam's sportsmen and women will obtain more international successes this year.
The Vietnamese football team (Photo: VNA)
Achievements come one after another
The year 2018 began with a historic achievement, with the U23 national men's football team finishing second at the 2018 Asian Football Confederation Championship in China in January. This was Vietnam's highest ever finish at a continental-level football tournament.
Next, the Olympic team qualified for the semi-finals of the 2018 Asian Games (ASIAD 18), losing out to eventual winners the Republic of Korea.
The crown came in December, as Vietnam finished the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup at the first place for the first time in 10 years.
The men's football teams won praise from around the world, largely thanks to the grit they showed against heavyweights like Australia, Qatar and Japan.
Vietnam also won four gold, 16 silver and 18 bronze medals at the ASIAD 18 in August, finishing 17th in the medal tally.
The four golds were in pencak silat (men's 70-75 kg and 90-95 kg), women's long jump and women's lightweight quadruple sculls categories.
At the Asian Para Games two months later, Vietnamese athletes with disabilities won eight gold, eight silver and 24 bronze medals across seven sports. Notably, all the four weightlifters won medals, including two golds, one silver and one bronze.
In the year, Vietnam also held the 8th National Sports Festival, with the participation of more than 7,000 athletes across the nation. A total of 48 national records were set in athletics, archery, shooting, swimming, diving and weightlifting.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien said the event shows the quality of sport development in each locality, sector and the whole nation.
Reaching international level
In 2019, the sports sector will work to improve results in key sports towards high achievements at the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 30) and the 10th ASEAN Para Games in the Philippines, the first World Beach Games in the US, the qualifying rounds for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and other events.
In men's football, national teams of different age groups have ambitious goals of qualifying for continental and international events, with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a particular focus.
Regarding international cooperation, the sector will focus on the implementation of agreements signed and enhance ties with other ASEAN nations and sporting powerhouses like China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the US.
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I thank the Member for his question. We are in absolute agreement on one point: the Good Friday Agreement sets out the requirements for parity of esteem and equality to be conferred on each tradition in this society, with due and equal recognition of the British identity and the Irish identity. We live in a divided society, as the Member knows. As political leaders, we need to create the...
Inevitably, a piece of work such as this has a price tag. The report has been very costly to compile, but the issues were complex and challenging, and the commission — your party was represented on it, along with the other main parties represented in the Assembly and on the Executive Committee — did due diligence in addressing the entire suite of challenges. My big concern is that, having...
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At Iona Hostel we are committed to working sustainably. We strive to provide an excellent service for our guests while minimising the environmental impact of our activities. Our membership of the Green Tourism Business Scheme is a reflection of these practices.
Iona hostel opened in August 2001. It was built because there was no budget accommodation on the island and there was a perceived need for such.
It was designed and built with a clear environmental ethos. While there was neither time nor money to build a fully developed 'eco-house', I believe that within those constraints an attractive and environmentally friendly building and business has been created.
To look at the hostel from the outside you would think it is an agricultural building. It is! The hostel is essentially a sheep shed with a hostel hung inside it. We strove to build something with a small footprint and that sat comfortably with the local vernacular architecture.
The hostel could be easily removed from the landscape. It is effectively hung on 16 reclaimed telegraph poles and the foundations are mostly made up of insulation –not load-bearing. Corrugated tin was used for the skin so as to blend in with other agricultural buildings on the island as has been the building material of choice in this part of the world for the last 150 years. I am particularly pleased at how unobtrusively it sits in the landscape. Built in a hollow it is either virtually invisible or has a very low impact from most directions -an important consideration when building in an area of such precious beauty.
Much use has been made of recycled or antique fittings in the interior. The beautiful wood of the front door, the kitchen and common room, including the floor and the table, is all reclaimed timber from the whisky industry. Saw it, and you get a lovely waft of Glenmorangie ! Some of the rugs are Oriental and date from the 19th century and the lamp outside the door lit the way to a stable in the New Town in Edinburgh for a hundred years. The flooring is traditional organic lino: much warmer, more durable and kinder than vinyl and it also smells nice ! In the hall is the original Telegraph Box of Iona, dating from around 1911, I believe. Gorgeous –and utterly useless, but with plans that one day it will become the worlds smallest internet café!
The hostel is heavily insulated both on the outer and the inner walls, and the windows are Swedish triple glazed units. Given the gales that hit the north end in winter it does extremely well. The walls might shake – but they don't let the cold through.
Outside the hostel, a garden, conservation area and woodland are being developed. It's a haven for wildlife and I love working in it as time allows. A dry-stane wall was built by a local dyker and it is a very fine piece of work.
The hostel is located on the croft of Lagandorain, which I work in a relaxed sort of way. I have a flock of around 50 black Hebridean sheep (the native sheep to this area) from which I produce gorgeous woollen blankets and mutton, which is sold to local restaurants and through the hostel. Much of the land you see is in some sort of conservation scheme or another. The machair and much of what you see below Dun I is classed as Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) and I am in conservation agreement with the National Trust for Scotland. Just behind Cnoc Buie is an area set aside for Corncrakes and Cnoc Buie itself is my own conservation project, as mentioned, with around 1500 native trees planted. Though not certified as Organic, in almost all respects I work to organic principles (animal medication being the exception). I had an environmental audit carried out on the croft a few years ago, and this is available for you to read on request. My longer term plans are to further strengthen the links between the croft and the hostel.
At Iona Hostel my staff and I are committed to conducting business with respect for our environment. Our business and housekeeping practices are conscious choices with this goal in mind.
We ask our guests to leave their shoes in the lobby. This practice provides a cleaner and cosier atmosphere, and reduces the amount of cleaning agent used.
The air quality of Iona is wonderful. We allow the rooms to breath by daily opening the windows to let the air circulate. We use only dilute plant essential oils to freshen the bedrooms.
You will notice that the hostel is quieter than most. We sweep rather than vacuum as an aesthetic and environmental choice. There is no television, internet access or radio, rather, we have a small library in the Common room. We like top think of ourselves as a technology free zone! The internal walls are heavily insulated, and for the benefit of the majority we try to promote the hostel as a quiet and peaceful environment.
We use cloth towels in the kitchen and bathrooms rather than disposable paper products.
Our windows are triple glazed and we keep them clean with vinegar and water.
Our recycling site in the kitchen has bins for paper, glass, aluminium and tin. We also have a compost bin.
We keep the use of chlorine bleach to a strict minimum.
We use Ecover: washing up liquid, toilet cleaner, floor soap, washing powder, and cream cleaner.
Ecover products are biodegradable, contain no petrochemicals, artificial fragrances or colourants. Additionally, we also use a non-biological laundry powder. Enzyme based biological powders can cause skin irritation. We experiment with and monitor a variety of products.
We use low energy lightbulbs, inside and out.
We have a drying room, with dehumidifier, for damp clothing.
We burn waste construction timber and driftwood in the stove.
Our central heating is on a time switch and is on at peak times only.
We have thermostatic radiator valves in all rooms and which are turned down when rooms are not in use.
We divide our showers between two instant and two boiler supplied (in case of power cuts).
Our commercial washer and tumble dryer also have a low energy rating.
The building is heavily insulated throughout as is the hot water tank.
Our hostel garden is effectively organic. We build our soil from seaweed from the shore, cow manure and compost. Although our garden is primarily for our staff, when we have an abundance it is placed in the kitchen for our guests. Our Hebridean sheep provide gorgeous meat which is sold in the hostel, in season.
We have been a 'Gold' member of this scheme for seven years and strongly support their work. Highly regarded and probably the foremost scheme of its kind in Europe you will find more information about it through the link here.


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Corporate America and Hollywood: A Love Story
The tech giants stormed Hollywood this past week:
Amazon.com Inc.
announced its plan to buy the storied MGM studio for nearly $8.5 billion, including debt.
The story of outsiders trying to take on Hollywood is one with many sequels. Since the mid-20th century, companies in sectors as far-flung as soft drinks and oil fields have come to Los Angeles hoping to strike it rich in the film business. Long-gone players have included Coca-Cola Co., Gulf & Western and
General Electric Co.
Nearly all the outsiders have ended up slinking out of town, defeated. There's a reason producers often refer to outside financing as "dumb money."
Look at the owners of studios through time, though, and larger corporate trends emerge, from the postwar supersizing of industrial conglomerates to the rise of Japanese players in the 1980s and '90s. When
bought Columbia Pictures in 1989, the cover of Newsweek declared JAPAN INVADES HOLLYWOOD." Very little at what is now Sony Pictures changed, outside of the installation of a sushi bar, but similar concerns were raised when Chinese investment started flooding into Hollywood around 2015.
In the past 20 years, cable giants and telecom companies have plowed billions into the business, in an effort to capitalize on the shift to smaller screens and establish themselves as creative forces of their own. Few have succeeded. Earlier this month, AT&T became the latest to step back from the business, unwinding much of the foray it had made into entertainment with its $80 billion-plus acquisition of WarnerMedia in 2018. The move lowers AT&T's debt load and returns the company's focus to its core telecom business.
It's a movie we've seen before. At one point during Gulf & Western's ownership of Paramount Pictures, the company considered selling the studio's back lot on Melrose Avenue to a developer who planned to turn it into a cemetery. Paramount survived, though, and is today nested within its own conglomerate, ViacomCBS Inc.
It remains to be seen if the world's biggest online retailer will succeed where other business titans have failed. But in the long-running love story between Hollywood and corporate America, the acquisition doesn't seem like a shocking twist.
Major acquisitions of film studios since 1960
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Turner Broadcasting purchases MGM, quickly sells it back to Kerkorian
Time Inc. acquires studio parent Warner Communications
Sony buys Columbia/Tri-Star, creates Sony Pictures
Crédit Lyonnais takes control after Pathé's owners default on loan payments
Comcast makes unsuccessful takeover attempt
Viacom spins off television operations into CBS Corp., retains Paramount
MGM files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; creditors led by hedge fund Anchorage Capital take control
Disney acquires Fox entertainment assets, later renames movie studio Twentieth Century Pictures
AT&T spins off media assets, including Warner Bros., into venture with Discovery
Sony buys
Columbia/
Tri-Star, creates Sony Pictures
Viacom spins off
television operations into CBS Corp.,
retains Paramount
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China seek to retaliate US through sanctions, amid resumed trade talks yet with uncertainties.
Weak Fixed Assets Investment reveals concerns on the effectiveness of China's fiscal policy.
China's Premier Li will speak at Summer Davos Forum and may provide clues to the economic outlook.
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The Chinese Yuan extended losses against the U.S. Dollar for the third straight week, with the USD/CNH approaching 6.90 once again. The Yuan also lost to most of other major currencies, except the Japanese Yen. Looking forward, China has a light economic calendar; a major risk will be from the on-going US-China trade war. Also, amid the weak Chinese fundamentals, the Yuan may test the threshold again and look to the PBOC for guidance. In addition, China's Premier Li Keqiang will speak at the Summer Davos Forum, which could answer some heated questions, from the trade war to the economic growth.
China told that it is seeking to impose $7 billion annually in sanctionson the U.S. through World Trade Organization (WTO). This is a retaliation against the U.S. as it failed to revoke its anti-dumping measures which was ruled in favour of China by WTO. This is the first time that China submitted such a kind of request against a losing party in a WTO dispute, since it became a member in 2001. The sanctions could make up for some losses from the tariffs on $267 billion Chinese goods that U.S. President Trump threatened to launch soon (assuming the tariff rate is 15%, then the absolute value will be $40 billion).
However, it will still not cover all the losses; the rest could continue to hurt the Chinese economy, with signs of damages already: Chinese August exports figure dropped to 9.8% verse 12.2% in July and 10.0% expected. In addition, the August manufacturing PMI print of Guangdong province, a major export province, dropped to 49.3, the contraction territory (below 50) for the first time since March 2016. In specific, new orders dropped 1.7 to 48.7, the first time in 30 months, hinting a bearish outlook over the following months.
At the same time, China welcomes an offer from the Trump administration to resume bilateral talks. Yet, whether any material progress will be achieved is still a question: Trump commented on the talks that "they (Chinese) are under pressure to make a deal with us", while China's Foreign Affair Ministry disagreed with this.
China's Fixed Assets Investment Excluding Rural Areas set a new 18-year low in August, falling to 5.3%. Both government-led investment (a measure of fiscal policy) and private investment are weak. We discussed that China's monetary policy is mainly used to curb financial risks and thus will mostly likely stay prudent; the task to stimulus the economy is heavily relying on the proactive fiscal policy. There was an unusual public discussion on China's fiscal policy between regulators a month ago, hinting at a difficult condition that Chinese policymakers were facing to support the economic growth. The August figure indicates that no significant improvement has been seen yet.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will attend the Summer Davos Forum on September 19 and 20 and deliver a speech at the opening ceremony. Industrial revolution and innovations will be a major focus at the Forum. This topic is not only relevant to many disputes in the US-China trade war but also may determine the faith of China's growth over the following years. The economy can no longer rely on cheap labors that it enjoyed for decades and has to find new momentum to drive growth. Thus, a detailed strategy or measure (if any) from the top policymaker could help to reveal the outlook of the economy, as well as the Chinese Yuan.