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- Debut of highly fire-proof Elastospir®CH PIR lamination Board
- Comprehensive Finestone®EIFS displayed
- BASF at IGEBC: Booth: 072, First floor
Beijing, China – April 2, 2013 – BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, highlighted its leading insulation solutions at the 9th International Conference on Green and Energy-Efficient Building & New Technologies and Products Expo 2013 (IGEBC), which opened at the Beijing International Convention Center today. BASF showed its commitment to continuous innovation in low-carbon solutions, in response to national calls for energy efficiency, emission reduction and sustainable development. The company also collaborates with partners along the supply chain to jointly drive a sustainable construction industry in China.
BASF exhibited comprehensive raw materials, products and system solutions from roof to floor at the expo, particularly insulation solutions. BASF displayed its latest research initiative, BASF Ultramid®PA6, which is used on a specialty vacuum film for Vacuum Insulation Panels, realizing excellent mechanical strength and puncture resistance to ensure ideal long term and durable building insulation. BASF also showcased its comprehensive Finestone® EIFS (external insulation and finishing systems), for the first time, including Finestone®STYRO-E, Finestone®Neo, Finestone® Elastopir and Finestone®Rock Wool systems. Finestone®Elastopir wall insulation and finishing system was displayed for the first time. It has various grades to offer and can accommodate to different insulation demands from different climates and fire ratings.
BASF also showed Neopor®innovation foams and Elastospray®CH polyurethane foam and Elastopir®CH PIR lamination board as well as other insulation solutions. Additionally, floor systems MasterTop® and Ucrete®as well as Basotect®- a material for sound absorption–also attracted numerous visitors. The innovative application of BASF UV topcoat adds value to construction materials.
At the expo, BASF showcased the concept of “passive house”, an integrated solution from Europe, and how it could be applied in China. A passive house is an optimally insulated building constructed with various energy-saving technologies. It can maximize the building’s insulation and airtightness, and consequently minimizes its demand for heating and cooling. Therefore the building only needs “passive” measures to realize a comfortable indoor environment, such as natural ventilation, lighting and sunlight heating. Those mechanical or “active” measures could hence be largely reduced or even eliminated totally.
During the exhibition, Mr Qiu Baoxing, Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-rural Development met representatives from BASF’s Industry Team, Construction China. Mr Mark Volmer, Senior Vice President of BASF Construction Chemicals Asia Pacific said, “As the world’s leading chemical company, BASF has been exploring for many years how to realize sustainable development through innovation. We have always paid great attention to environmental protection and energy efficiency in the construction industry. BASF will continue to explore in this direction, in order to offer customers and partners solutions and services that can help contribute to their sustainability goals and China’s energy efficiency and environmental protection goals.”
Ms. Edith Antonatus, an expert in fire protection from BASF Germany, will speak on “External Insulation Wall Fire Safety Management in Europe” at the seminar themed “Research and New Development of External Wall Insulation”, to be held on April 2.
BASF provides other solutions in addition to insulation solutions for many important projects in China, so as to cope with the challenge of short construction process, improve the reliability and durability of building structures and create more comfortable and healthier indoor environment. Such projects include Shanghai Tower, the Water Cube, Shanghai Oriental Sports Center as well as Hamburg House, China Pavilion, Expo Culture Center and other buildings in the Shanghai Expo Park.
The expo is sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and co-organized by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Finance and other ministries and commissions. This was the fourth time for BASFto participate in this influential industry event, which will last until April 3.
About BASF in Greater China
BASF has been a committed partner to Greater China since 1885. With major investments in Nanjing, Shanghai and Chongqing, BASF is one of the largest foreign investors in the Chinese chemical industry, and maintains the BASF Asia Pacific Innovation Campus in Shanghai as a research and development hub for the Asia Pacific region. In Greater China, BASF posted sales of approximately €6.7 billion in 2012 and employed 8,435 people as of the end of that year. BASF has 21 major wholly owned subsidiaries and 10 major joint ventures in Greater China. For further information, please visit www.greater-china.basf.com.
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Through science and innovation, we enable our customers in nearly every industry to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring nutrition and improving quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF posted sales of €72.1 billion in 2012 and had more than 110,000 employees as of the end of the year. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com. | <urn:uuid:0fea4427-012d-4455-b409-176955b2d52f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.eco-business.com/press-releases/basf-presents-insulation-solutions-to-support-sustainable-development/ | 2023-09-27T13:11:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.935058 | 1,202 |
Pharmaceutical industries and cosmetics
We offer you innovative engineering solutions for all areas of use, in which hygiene is an important success factor. We have important experiences in chemical handling and know the legalities and execution regulations in the system group of Ecolab. This applied knowledge replicates itself in our applicable efficient standard equipment and especially for complete systems conceptualized especially for you.
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As part of the "Transatlantic Climate Bridge", the Ecologic Institute organized a visitors programme on Green Buildings and Architecture, addressing 20 expert journalists from the USA and Canada. The informational tour took place from 11 April to 17 April 2010 in Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Berlin.
The main goal of the Program was to provide the participants with insights into the green building and architecture culture in Germany. This being the case, the Program's schedule drew attention to the German regulatory framework for the construction and retrofitting of buildings, the policies pursued by the German government to promote energy-efficient and ecologically sustainable buildings, the efforts of German architects and engineers, the LEED and DGNB green building programs, and practical examples of energy-efficient and ecologically sustainable private, commercial, and public buildings.
Over the course of the week, the journalists met with architecture firms active in green design, toured green office buildings and houses, spoke with policymakers in the fields of buildings and city development, visited a tradeshow featuring the latest in green technology for the built environment, and visited a German university to learn about its participation in an international residential green design competition.
Two specific events on the Program's schedule were a visit to Märkisches Viertel, a neighborhood in Berlin, and the Reichstag, Germany's parliamentary building. Part of Märkisches Viertel, which is located in the North of Berlin, recently underwent a complete ecological renovation. At the Reichstag, the participants were given a guided tour of Sir Norman Foster's famous dome on the roof of the building, which highlighted its environmentally friendly aspects, as well as those of the building as a whole.
Other events on the program included:
- A visit to the Light+Building trade show in Frankfurt, where participants toured the ZVEH’s E-House and were introduced to the “Design Plus powered by Light+Buidling” competition.
- A guided tour of the renovation construction site for Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt, known formerly as "Debit & Credit" and now as the "Green Towers"
- A visit to the Technical University Darmstadt, where participants visited the "Plus Energy House," a product of the university's architecture department and the winner of the 2007 Solar Decathlon
- A presentation and guided tour at the Berlin headquarters of SOLON SE, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of solar modules and solar systems technology
- A meeting with the architecture firm GMP von Gerkan, Marg und Partner and tour of their Berlin offices
- Meeting with representatives of government organizations such as the German Council for Sustainable Development (DGNB) and the Federal Ministry of transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS)
- Guided tours of green residential sites such as the KlimaSolarHaus, one of Berlin's first passive apartment buildings, and Märkisches Viertel, a neighborhood of Berlin cureently being ecologically retrofit
As part of the "Transatlantic Climate Bridge", the programme was sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office, in collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council.
- Journalists Visit Germany for a Closer Look at Green Buildings and Architecture
- Journalists' Junket to Germany (Sonja Persram, GreenInsight, 19 July 2010)
- Passive House Apartment Building is First of its Kind in Berlin [pdf, 1.8 MB, English] (Lauren Browne, ConnectPress Editor, 3 May 2010)
- Deutsche Bank Converts Horrid '80s Towers Into Horrid '80s Eco-Towers (Suzanne LaBarre, Metropolis Magazine New York / Fast Company, 29 April 2010)
- Postcard from Frankfurt (Kevin Matthews, 28 April 2010, Architecture Week)
- Ten Lessons from Germany: Don't be "Energetic Stupid" (Greg Zimmerman, 22 April 2010, Myfacilities.net)
- Deutsche Bank: The Payoff in Building Green (Nick Aster, 20 April 2010, Triplepundit.com)
- From the Editor (Greg Zimmerman, 20 April 2010, Green Building Alert for Facility Executives)
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12 July marks 1,000 days since the assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. On this anniversary, we, the undersigned organisations, once again demand justice for all those involved in her murder and the corruption she exposed.
In recent weeks, yet more disturbing revelations of state corruption and impunity related to the case continue to emerge, underscoring the weaknesses in Malta’s rule of law, and entrenched impunity for both the murder of Caruana Galizia and the high-level abuses of power she investigated.
During a June 2020 hearing to compile evidence against murder suspect, Yorgen Fenech, the Magistrate ordered the police to investigate former Police Commissioner, Lawrence Cutajar for tipping off middleman, Melvin Theuma. Providing evidence in court, Theuma said Cutajar had informed him that he was under investigation both for the murder of Caruana Galizia and money laundering.
Former Deputy Commissioner and lead investigator, Silvio Valletta is also under investigation for his dealings with Yorgen Fenech, after he fell under suspicion.
At the public inquiry on 1 July, it emerged that the police had failed to take any action against Keith Schembri, in his previous capacity as Chief of Staff for former Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, and former Energy Minister, Konrad Mizzi after Carauna Galizia revealed they owned offshore Panama companies in 2016. Responding to the testimony of Assistant Commissioner, Ian Abdilla, who has recently been replaced as head of the Economic Crimes Unit, the board of inquiry expressed disbelief that the police had done “absolutely nothing” with regards to the Panama Papers.
On 7 July, sources confirmed that Attorney General, Peter Grech, as the chief prosecutor, sent a note to police in 2016 advising them against investigating the Panama Papers, stressing that such an investigation would be “highly intrusive.” Such direct and unambiguous instructions from the Attorney General to restrict the police investigation into the content of Caruana Galizia’s work violated the responsibility of his post and was a clear obstruction to the course of justice rendering his position as Attorney General untenable.
Investigations in Italy, France, Latvia and Montenegro have also revealed links to corruption related to Caruana Galizia’s investigations in Malta.
Had the corruption which Caruana Galizia exposed – including the Panama Papers – been fully investigated and prosecuted at the time, it could have reduced the risk and isolation that she faced as a journalist, including an orchestrated campaign of harassment and vilification by high-level political and business figures in Malta.
The appointment of a new head of Economic Crimes Unit, Alexandra Mamo, and the nomination of a new Police Commissioner, Angelo Gafà, present an opportunity for the Maltese authorities to commit to tackling long-standing failures to investigate and prosecute allegations of high-level corruption and to reform institutions. In addition, the 18 June Venice Commission opinion on the Maltese government’s rule of law reform proposals is a welcome sign that the Maltese Government recognises the need for fundamental reform.
Prime Minister, Robert Abela has stated that he expects police to investigate “all corners” of the assassination. Today, we reiterate our call that the Maltese authorities honour the legacy of Daphne Caruana Galizia and ensure that all of those implicated in her murder – from the hitmen to the masterminds – are brought to justice and the corruption she revealed is finally prosecuted. The authorities should now establish Joint Investigation Teams with foreign police forces tackling related issues, so that there can finally be an end to impunity in Malta, and full justice for Daphne. | <urn:uuid:fb529977-e73b-406d-9bc7-b2b1ba3774e9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.ecpmf.eu/malta-renewed-call-for-justice-1000-days-after-the-assassination-of-daphne-caruana-galizia/ | 2023-09-27T11:52:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.956798 | 758 |
With its 32 stories and 127 meters, the Pirelli skyscraper was the tallest building in the city for almost 50 years. It was built between 1956 and 1960 based on plans by Gio Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi, in collaboration with Valtolina, Fornaroli, Rosselli, Rinardi, Dell’Orto, Danusso, Locatelli and Meardi.
Characterized by the tapered shapes of its profile and the overhanging top part, it includes all the features dear to the Milanese architect, from the breaking up of the architectural volume into flat surfaces, to the triangular geometries and the lines of light that at dusk define its silhouette.
A special thanks to Regione Lombardia for the permission to photograph and film the Pirelli tower.
Inside the 31st floor of the Pirelli tower, a panoramic 'high square' overlooking the city.
Interior details of the building designed by Gio Ponti. The dialogue between materials such as natural wood,multicolor linoleum and the attention to the use of natural light is characteristic of the building.
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Raw Umber Suede
We select from the finest Italian suedes and only use unsplit skins to ensure the suede retains its shape and structure. Raw Umber suede is a nutty mid-tan which works well with today’s subtle colour palette of neutral and earthy tones.
Our classic penny loafer last.
Oak bark tanned leather soles
Our leather soles are tanned for nine months in a solution of oak, spruce and mimosa barks for an unequalled comfort and durability. | <urn:uuid:4414ce3c-de59-4436-9200-c147f8fb7b16> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.edwardgreen.com/shop/piccadilly-unlined-raw-umber-suede-184-last.html | 2023-09-27T12:21:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.882904 | 116 |
Engineers from UC Berkeley and Squishy Robotics have developed all-shaped robots that are capable of falling more than 600 feet without any damage. The robots are built of a network of rods linked by contracting cables and can also shapeshift in order to crawl from one point to another.
The engineers believe that by equipping the robots with sensors and dropping them into disaster zones first responders could gain critical information about conditions on the ground.
The team initially began designing these “tensegrity” robots in collaboration with NASA Ames, in hopes of creating a robot that could safely fall from space to explore Saturn’s moon, Titan.
However, they realized the robots might be even more useful in other applications.
The team is currently collaborating with the Los Angeles County and the Houston fire departments to beta test the robots in disaster scenarios. The researchers unveiled the robots last week at the Techcrunch Robotics and AI Sessions held at UC Berkeley.
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How to extract feedback from a recruiter
"I'll get feedback from my client and call you back straight away."
If candidates were paid a dollar every time a recruiter says this, they could well be filthy rich.
Unfortunately, candidates don't get paid and recruiters keep saying it anyway, although it could be the last time you hear from them.
This is a grave shame. Unless you are an accountant, I assume you take your career seriously. Therefore, you need to know exactly where your strengths and areas for improvement lie.
If you want recruiters to actually call you back when they say they will, you will have to take matters into your own hands. I recommend you try the following:
1) Have low expectations but withdraw your cooperation when they're not met
There are two levels of feedback.
One is feedback from the client explaining why they rejected your CV.
The other is feedback from the client explaining why they rejected you after interview.
The first is the hardest to extract, and the most important. If you are not progressing beyond the CV stage you really need to understand the reason.
One answer you should never accept is: "they chose somebody with more experience". This vague comment helps no one and is made by those who are too selfish to provide feedback for candidates who won't earn them a fee. If you find yourself in this position your best option is to refuse to work with that recruiter again in future. Ever.
2) Be initially patient
If you've attended an interview, congratulations.
Now prepare for a long wait. Your recruiter is dealing with an extremely pressurized and understaffed hiring manager. The absence of feedback is probably a problem within the bank's process and not with your recruiter's work ethic. The HR process in banks can be lengthy so expect delays.
3) Be latently pushy
If you've been waiting more than a week and you've heard nothing, be proactive.
If you pressurize your consultant, he/she will have to pressurise the client.
After all, if you are an outstanding candidate you are in control. The banks know there is a frightening scarcity of talent and if they don't move quick enough they'll lose out. If your consultant doesn't act upon your requests, politely remind them there are plenty of other agencies calling you.
4) Contact the client directly
If a fortnight has passed and you've heard either nothing or just a feeble excuse, call the client directly.
If you are serious about getting feedback, you may need to be this proactive but ONLY if all other attempts via your consultant have failed.
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Prosecutors investigating the deadly fires that devastated parts of eastern Attica last July have summoned more than 20 people to testify next week as suspects for actions or omissions that led to the deaths of 99 people.
The crimes investigated include those mentioned in lawsuits filed by the relatives of eight people who perished in the wildfire at Mati: criminal negligence, manslaughter, arson and exposure to danger.
Among others, prosecutor Ilias Zagoraios summoned Attica Regional Governor Rena Dourou – who has also been summoned to testify on the floods in Mandra, western Attica in November 2017, which left 24 dead – Marathon Mayor Ilias Psinakis, Rafina Mayor Evangelos Bournous, former general secretary for civil protection Yiannis Kapakis, former fire service chief Sotiris Terzoudis, former police chief Constantinos Tsouvalas and other high-ranking officers of the police force, fire service and coast guard.
Psinakis is also under investigation by prosecutors for the way in which aid for the fire victims was managed.
One of the lawsuits filed by relatives of the victims was against the ministers of the interior and citizens’ protection at the time, Panos Skourletis and Nikos Toskas. Their case has been sent to Parliament for investigation.
The process of summoning suspects is usually a precursor to criminal prosecutions.
Friday’s summons were issued almost two months after the opening of an urgent preliminary investigation by Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou in the aftermath of the fire.
Dimitriou had initially requested that the completion of the investigation be held off until a report by the general inspector of public administration, Maria Papaspyrou, had been taken into account. However, she retracted her request following a storm of criticism from the media, the political opposition and the families of the fire victims.
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Sign the PDF file with Adobe Reader
The Adobe Acrobat Reader DC version can be downloaded from www.ekeng.am as a rar archived file.
Once downloaded, it should be copied to any folder, unarchived and run SETUP.BAT.
The Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software downloaded from our website will be installed independently with all its necessary settings.
Steps to sign a PDF with Adobe Reader DC
- Open the file and choose Tools button
- From the opened toolbar choose Certificates -> Digitally Sign
- After pressing the button, a popup window will appear where you need to specify OK
- Use the mouse to select the place in the document where the signature should be placed
The Electronic Signature Certificate window appears on the screen, select the Certificate and press the Sign button.
To complete, you need to save the document and enter the PIN in the Crypto Tech CSP application window.
If you need a visible copy of the signature in your signed electronic document, you should use the Appearance features of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
If properly configured, opening any PDF file signed with digital signature, the program checks the validity of the signed document. Authentication is done by sending an automatic request to the certification center.
If the signature is valid it will have the following image
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Pathway Mobility Geo Cruiser Elite EX 24V/16Ah 180W Lightweight Foldable Electric Wheelchair GC-416
The Geo Cruiser Elite EX is a heavy-duty version of the Geo Cruiser line. It also features a compact and lightweight foldable design which only weighs 59 lbs. without battery, and 65 lbs. with battery. It supports up to 350 lbs. and can be folded/unfolded in seconds.
The Elite EX lite can be easily transported in the trunk of most vehicles, as well as a van, bus, train, or boat. Furthermore, it meets government regulations for safe air travel, and in most cases, you can ride it directly to the boarding terminal.
Now you can do more with the Geo Cruiser Elite. Attend family gatherings, go shopping. visit museums, fairs, and other social events with the confidence that you will be able to enjoy yourself by gaining more independence with your mobility.
- Geo Cruiser Elite EX is a heavy-duty version of the Geo Cruiser line with 350 lbs weight capacity and wider seat.
- The Geo Cruiser EX folds and unfolds in seconds, making it perfect for traveling.
- This scooter can travel up to 15 MPH on a single charge and up to 5 MPH
- Seat Size is 17" x 17"
- Lightweight and Portable
- Folds and Unfolds in Seconds
- Adjustable Backrest & Footrest
- Pressure Relief Seat Cushion
- Quick-Release Joystick
- Max-Comfort Armrests
- No-Slip Footrest
- Leg-Guards for safety
- Front of side boarding
|FDA Cleared for Safety||Yes|
|Product Weight||59 lbs. without batteries & 65 lbs. with|
|Maximum User Weight Capacity||350 lbs.|
|Unfolded Size (L x W x H)||37" X 26.75" X 36"|
|Folded Size (L x W x H)||13" X 26.75" X30"|
|Seat Size (L x W)||17" X 17"|
|Seat Height (From Ground)||21"|
|Seat Type||ComfortRest Foam|
|Seat Cover Material||Washable Nylon Mesh|
|Removable Seat Cushion||Yes|
|Backrest Recline Positions||4-Position Recline|
|Arm Rest Height from ground)||28"|
|Arm Rest Height (from top of seat)||7"|
|Armrest Type||Contoured Soft Foam|
|Distance Between Inside Armrests||22"|
|Outside Distance Armrest to Armrest||26.75|
|Distance from Rear Wheel to Rear Wheel||25"|
|Joystick Height (From Ground)||Adjustable (average is 28.5")|
|Adjustable Leg Guards||Yes|
|Travel Distance||Up to 15 Miles|
|Maximum Speed (Adjustable)||Up to 5 MPH|
|Distance from Seat to Footrest||17.5"|
|Ground Clearance (Foot Rest to Ground)||3.1"|
|Adjustable Footrest||Yes (3-Position)|
|Battery Type||Lithium-ion 24V, 16AH (2 X 8AH which run in a parallel circuit)|
|Battery Weight||3 lbs. each (total 6 lbs.)|
|Motor||Two, 250-watt High-Performance Brushless Motors|
|Front Wheels (Diameter x Width)||7" X 2"|
|Rear Wheels||10" X 2"|
|Front Wheel Material||Solid, Polyurethane|
|Rear Wheel Material||Polyurethane/Rubber|
|Incline/Slope Capability||20% Slope (12 Degrees)|
Order Pathway Mobility Geo Cruiser Elite EX 24V/16Ah 180W Lightweight Foldable Electric Wheelchair GC-416 today from ElectricBikeParadise.com. Free shipping + free gifts on all of our Pathway Mobility Electric Wheelchairs. Sign up today and get 5% off!
It is stable, sturdy, and makes incredibly tight turns
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Providing the maximum added value for our customer is always our number one priority, Mats Jungar summarises Elematic’s strategy.
Delivering on this promise, a new version of Elematic’s core product, Extruder E9, is serving construction business with significantly better productivity.
“With the latest technology is possible to get 50 percent more output for the same investment compared to earlier. Moreover, up to 10 percent savings in labour costs are achievable with well-functioning production planning tools such as our FloorMES. These are tools for our customers to boost their competitiveness”, Jungar says.
But focus on customers is not only about offering development. It is also about developing the whole customer journey from the very first touchpoint all the way to the end of the factory lifecycle. An example from the sales part is the development of quotations. “We can now offer factory layout drawings in 3D format which provides a highly visual, concrete and realistic picture on how the different pieces of a production line and its surroundings fall together.”
“This strengthens our service to customers at a key point in their decision-making process.”
Moreover, the Elematic Customer Service team gives their contribution to strengthen the customer experience. A team of spare part sales, warehouse, sourcing and systems professionals have been developing new processes for spare and wear parts delivery to bring the delivery accuracy to a whole new level.
Generational change to hasten digitalisation
To stay at the forefront of digitalisation, Elematic started a brand-new software unit in February. Located in Tampere, Finland, the team of software developers are developing intelligent software to ensure seamless data flow from design to production.
“The construction business has always been conservative and is adapting to digitalisation slowly. While the design process is already mainly digitalised, the data flow to production needs to be more intelligent. The new software aims to cover that shadow region while responding to our customers’ needs”, Jungar explains.
“Digitalisation will ramp up in speed within the next few years, as required increase of productivity and generation change happens within construction companies. Younger generations will be able to utilise the countless possibilities offered by digitalisation to improve the operations of precast factories and efficiency.”
To further develop automation in the industry, Elematic have in the pipeline a new version of ERP for running a digitalised precast factory. The Plant Control ERP – which includes tools production planning, execution and monitoring – bridges different work processes digitally, thus enabling fully automated production together with a new generation of equipment.
“We believe that digitalisation is the solution to ensuring product quality. With fully automated machines, the risks of human errors can be eliminated. At the same time, overall factory safety will be improved.”
The construction industry is still struggling with the restricted availability of professionals. The lack of educated workers may create quality challenges on construction sites. This emphasises the importance of relying on automated processes.
5 400 tonnes less C02-emissions
Environmental issues are constantly challenging the construction industry to develop. The use of natural resources, the amount of emissions and the environmental impact in general – there are various aspects to consider.
“Increasing environmental regulations are constantly creating new markets for the prefabricated industry”, Jungar highlights.
Pre-stressed hollow-core slabs stand as a very good example of an efficient use of raw materials in prefabrication: they provide savings of up to 45 percent in concrete compared with a plain cast-in-situ reinforced slab. At the same time, the amount of pre-stressing steel can be cut by 30 percent because of the lower self-weight. For an average apartment, this means savings of 14.4 tons of concrete and 275 kg steel.
In general, factory production saves raw materials, and with the new solutions focusing on this, the raw material efficiency is improving all the time. A recent development at Elematic in this field is the new automatic Modifier E9 for marking and digging openings to hollow core slabs. Forming an efficient working unit with Extruder E9, the machine features fully automatic concrete recycling that enables concrete removed from openings to be recycled back into the hollow-core slab production process. As a result, an average hollow-core factory, producing 300 000 m2 annually, can decrease the amount of C02-emissions by 5 400 tonnes.
Urbanisation continues to create markets
Nordic countries and the Netherlands are currently the world leaders in prefabricated building. There has been a steady growth of the global precast business for a long time and the trend has been driven by the urbanization and need for mechanization in construction industry. Urbanisation, which continues to be a strong megatrend across the globe, creates increased demand for prefabricated technology also in the future.
“The coronavirus is affecting the construction business temporarily. In the long run, however, the use of precast concrete technology is increasing as productivity and digitalization is needed to respond the emerging need of decent housing in the developing countries”, Mats Jungar predicts. | <urn:uuid:07f1302d-e449-4784-adec-56534eda236e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.elematic.com/concrete-issues/daring-to-renew/ | 2023-09-27T10:59:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.916704 | 1,075 |
The following article is an excerpt from Anna Palmer’s book, Coming Home: Healing From an Eating Disorder by Finding Beauty in Imperfection. May the words here grant you deeper permission to come home to the fullness of yourself, humanness, divinity, and all. Welcome home.
Chapter 5. The Black Hole of Self-Loathing: Depression, Shame, Perfection, Worth, and Self-Esteem
I had no idea who the hell I was for most of my life. I also didn’t particularly like myself for a lot of my life, lost as I was to an Eating Disorder (ED) and bouts of heavy depression. The black hole of self-loathing is one I became all too familiar with.
After grade school, you begin to feel the external pressure to be—or not be—a certain way. Without the proper guidance of how to navigate the new emotions and unspoken social rules, it’s easy to become mired in our own sh*t along the way.
In middle school, I began struggling to find my sense of worth and value. There were so many mixed messages coming at me from all directions: from parents, friends, the church, and my newly expanded world of public school. I didn’t feel I could trust in who I was as a person, and instead began to believe opinions outside of myself to tell me who and what I needed to be.
Having been ridiculed by teachers or peers for being “too quiet,” “too small,” or “too shy,” the word “too” became my identity, accompanied by a deep sense of shame that I carried with me at all times. I was always “too” of something, so naturally “too” became the adjective I used to describe myself, my emotions, and my body.
I was too insecure. Too introverted. Too flat chested. Too short. Too box-shaped. I was too small. Too muscular. I was too nice. Too soft-spoken. Too afraid. Over time, the “too” evolved into too fat, too much, too much. I took up too much space. I was too emotional, too sensitive, too big, too, too, too.
With a fragmented sense of self, outside opinions can easily become our inner dialogue. The inner dialogue is the deadliest, most insidious weapon we can wield against ourselves.
Whose voice, but your own, do we hear every day? We are all taught, in numerous insidious, unconscious ways, to be mean to ourselves. We learn to “stay humble” by being self-critical and self-demeaning, which eventually grinds our value and self-worth down to a pulp.
It’s a f*cked-up game. Our inner dialogue becomes a nasty, mean-spirited inner critic that we hear day in and day out. It spews an endless fountain of negative thoughts, which are based on belief patterns stemming from previous painful experiences such as humiliation and rejection. The negative inner critic is extremely difficult to uproot.
As women, especially, we are told from the moment of conception to not be too much. We are told, verbally and non-verbally, to not take up too much space in the room. Don’t be too loud or outspoken. But, don’t be too small and meek either. Don’t be this way. Be this way, but only in these ways. But, please don’t be that right now.
It’s all very f*cking confusing isn’t it? You lose weight, and you’re applauded. You lose too much weight, and now you’re sickly. You gain weight and you’re ridiculed. You gain weight in all the right curvy and sexually appealing places, and then you have sex appeal. However, now you’re a threat to other women based on our competitive cultural upbringing, and are then judged and ridiculed for other flaws, and also perceived as a slut.
You are told that what you say matters, so you speak up. You say something against the grain and get slapped with the label of “crazy” or “too emotional.” You’re told to find a man, but don’t you dare give up your independence. Have a full-time career, and also you must be a mother on top of this. Basically, please be superman. No wait, superwoman. And be sexy, but not too sexy. You can wear that, but please, girl, do not wear that!
We live in a constant state of mixed messages waxing and waning between approval and disapproval of ourself, our body, our actions, how we dress, everything. The constant push-pull becomes a hyper-vigilant prison that we live in. As a woman, you can’t ever seem to get it “right.” You are exhausted and nowhere near being “happy.” No wonder many of us end up miserable, self-loathing, and depressed.
It’s hard to say what comes first in the development of an ED. Is it the ED and then the depression? Or is it the depression and then the ED? The self-hatred would make anyone depressed, though. Depression and the ED were deeply intertwined, both fueled by self-hatred.
With a disposition to mood fluctuations, trauma can be yet another thing that pushes you into developing an ED. It shapes the individual’s self-worth and their self-image. It affects your sense of self and self-esteem. You begin to question all that you previously knew to be true of yourself.
Traumatic experiences can easily become your story and identity. They can formulate your experiences and mold your perception and thinking, and contribute to the belief that you somehow deserved the pain you underwent. Trauma keeps you imprisoned in shame and unworthiness.
Pain and trauma have a way of convincing you that you deserve pain, and then shame covers the lens of your existence. You start to mold your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors around this basic premise: “I am worthy and deserving of pain.”
Anorexia and restriction became a way to withhold nourishment from myself, as I didn’t feel worthy of being alive. An ED becomes a trauma cycle in and of itself. The forced starvation, the self-induced purging, and rigorous exercise become deeply traumatic to the psyche and self.
Trauma causes us to literally flee our bodies when we don’t eat or when we inflict harm or negligence upon them. We stop inhabiting our bodies. We stop listening to their pleas for food. The traumatized brain hijacks the wise mind, and we begin to cycle through re-traumatizing the self who already underwent the original trauma. We deem ourselves worthy of one thing: pain and punishment, which are deeply rooted in feeling ashamed of the experience we underwent.
As a result of my own unique shades of trauma and growing sense of unworthiness, I developed a hard, self-critical, self-perfecting lens to see myself through and protect myself from future pain and humiliation. I believed controlling my weight and my body was a way to feel more in control of the myriad of changing variables outside of me.
I felt if I was a certain body type, size, or maintained these “perfect” standards, I couldn’t be hurt by pain or rejection ever again. Or, at the very least, I hoped my ED was pain that I, and I alone could inflict and control. And, I believed that I was deserving of this pain.
It’s a protective shield we use to keep life at bay. But we aren’t just keeping out the pain, but the joy, connection, and love too. Life is a whole gamut, a beautiful array, of emotions. It is both darkness and light. We can’t get “rid” of one, without subduing the other.
If we want to experience being loved, we have to be available to experiencing both pain and love. I tried to fight and resist this for over a decade. I tried to control how I experienced pain, and also how I experienced joy. Whether they were self-fabricated or not didn’t matter, as long as I was the one in control. The irony is you never are though; we only ever experience a false sense of control.
Read part one of this series: Coming Home: On Healing from an Eating Disorder.
Read part two of this series: How Eating Disorders are a way of Coping with Emotions & the Effects of Traumatic Events.
Read part three of this series: Hello Bulimia, My Secret Friend: When Food Becomes Survival & the Body the Enemy.
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Century Plyboards (India) Ltd has installed rooftop solar panels at its manufacturing units spread across India.
The initiative, entailing an investment of Rs 35 crore, is expected to help the company meet around 15 % of its total power requirement at each plant and reduce carbon consumption by 5900 tonnes per annum.
“With an average per unit cost of around Rs 4, the company is expected to save Rs 5 crore per annum. The already commissioned rooftop solar panel at Chennai unit is expected to generate 14 lakh units of power in FY19,” the company said in a statement. The company has units at Chennai, Guwahati, Karnal (Haryana), Kandla (Gujarat), Joka (Kolkata) and Hoshiarpur in Punjab.
The company has also started drawing power from group captive wind mill for the Chennai unit, which is another step towards sustainable green energy.
Meanwhile, Century Plyboards hopes to clock higher revenue from its laminates business post augmentation of the segment’s capacity to 7.6 million sheets a year by January 2019. “Revenue from laminates is currently Rs 400 crore. Once the expansion programme gets completed, the segment will clock a revenue of Rs 600 crore,” its chairman Sajjan Bhajanka said.
The expansion plan will not only moderate capital cost per installed capacity but also help capitalize on emerging demand. Besides, the company has introduced innovative products, fragrant and fingerprint, resistant laminates to strengthened the brand recall, trade acceptance and consumer offtake. The company’s laminate business accounts for about 20 % of its total revenue, but the share is likely to go up over the next one year, he added.
CenturyPly MDF plant in Hoshiarpur, which commenced operations in Q3 FY18, is generating a net revenue of Rs 113 crore. The company has achieved break even in the first year itself, selling almost 60-65 % of its products.
On a consolidated basis, the company’s gross revenue from operations for FY 2018 at Rs 2060 crore, was higher by 5% over the last year. Profit before tax and profit after tax were lower by 13% and 14% respectively, compared to the previous year. | <urn:uuid:0a796d44-e082-4f03-87c2-30d56f55fb6a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.eletimes.com/centuryply-manufacturing-units-become-solar-powered | 2023-09-27T13:02:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.953241 | 472 |
Equity Cash Out Refinance for investment properties, owner occupied refinance for business purpose.. Cash-Out the home you live in; Nationwide. NO FICO.
Closing Costs For Cash Out Refinance When you refinance, you will pay closing costs and fees so it typically makes sense only if you plan to stay for a while. 3. Types of Refinancing The two major types of refinancing are cash-out and.Cash Out Refinance The mortgage payment calculator determines your payments for a particular loan. If you request an amortization table, you will also see how quickly your loan balance is paid off.
If you own a home near Lords or The. wouldn’t it be nice to cash in on your niftily-located abode? Well, this World Cup you can – with a little help from HomeAway. HomeAway has been helping.
But note that Texas has unique laws when it comes to cash-out loans and home equity. In Texas, the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) you can get for your primary residence is 80 percent, adds Ziev.
Refinance Home Improvement · Sprucing up your home by remodeling your kitchen, painting the house exterior or adding a room can be costly. Home improvement projects, however, will extend the life of your home.
Exhibit A Circular 26-19-05 February 14, 2019 VA-Guaranteed Home Loan Cash-Out refinance comparison certification proposed REFINANCE LOAN Sections I through III should be completed within 3 business days of the loan application.
Cash-Out Refinance: A cash-out refinance is a mortgage refinancing option where the new mortgage is for a larger amount than the existing loan to convert home equity into cash.
Owning your home debt-free offers security and flexibility. But squeezing cash out of it comes with big risks – especially if you take on debt with a reverse mortgage or home equity line of credit (HELOC) that reduces your control of the property. Before signing anything, call a professional financial planner, accountant, or attorney who can.
The rule of thumb: the more cash you need, the more attractive a cash-out refinance might be. Lower rate or payment. If your credit has improved, your home equity has increased, or you’ve just.
lawns and landscaping fill out the 1.2-acre grounds. At the center sits a four-bedroom ranch-style home built in 1964. The house has been updated and offers a mix of tile and hardwood floors across.
Sometimes life will throw big expenses your way. When that happens, tapping into the equity in your home can be a smart way to get the funds you need. In particular, doing a cash-out refinance is one.
Cash Out Mortgage Refinancing Calculator. Here is an easy-to-use calculator which shows different common LTV values for a given home valuation & amount owed on the home. Most banks typically limit customers to an LTV of 85% unless the loan is used for home improvements, in which case borrowers may be able to access up to 100%. | <urn:uuid:9e65f83d-7a8d-41c5-bd0e-352de775a69b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.elmalanes.com/cash-out-home/ | 2023-09-27T12:54:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.92285 | 651 |
Beginning in November and continuing through early January of 2017 all of Elmhurst’s residential customers will be receiving an energy saving kit containing four highly efficient LED light bulbs for home usage.
Elmhurst is committed to energy conservation and participates in many of the energy efficiency programs offered through the Bonneville Power Administration and participation in this program is another example of that commitment.
The MaxLite bulbs provided in this kit have a rated life of 25,000 hours and a 5 year warranty.
Each bulb could save you as much as $95.62 over the life of the bulb. In order to ensure you get the maximum life and savings out of each bulb we encourage you to install these bulbs in non-enclosed fixtures.
This will allow the bulbs to dissipate excess heat and prolong their life. Along with these kits Elmhurst offers other conservation incentive programs. For more information contact Mike Porter at 1-503-730- 3122 | <urn:uuid:a4cd8a75-b322-4558-becd-cd5d9e533168> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.elmhurstmutual.org/energy-conservation-kit-mailing-schedule/ | 2023-09-27T11:02:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.929173 | 192 |
NO THAT IS NOT ME IN THE PICTURE!!!….LOLOLLL!!! JUST KIDDING!!! IT HAS TO BE ME IT IS OSUN!
In an episode with Oprah, Shirley Maclaine said that if spirituality were taught in schools, and not religion, the world would be a better place. We are living as unconscious people and that is a sad thing. On the last show Oprah Winfrey did she was wise in teaching or imparting wisdom to her admirers. Regardless of the rumors of her being a part of the “New World Order”..it matters not.
In her parting words she said, we should learn to listen to that soft voice that speaks to us, the one that whispers and guides us away from danger and also guides us to greatness. This is something that I Obara Meji have been teaching for a long time. This site earns me nothing, what I am sharing with you is from the goodness of my heart, and it is what I have been led to do. When I was first awakened, I had still practiced christianity (I do not any more), my instructions were that I should follow a certain scripture from the bible as which to live my life by, and even though I no longer am christian I still adhere to that wisdom. Oprah also said
“You have a platform. You have the power to change someone’s life. Everyone has the power.” Here is where she touched me by saying,..
“Start embracing the life that is calling you.”
“You are responsible for the energy you create for yourself… You are responsible for your life. When you get that everything changes.”
I was called to the order of God with “seek ye the kingdom of God and all other will fall into place”. Since I been doing my service to society I have never knowingly wronged another human being or animal for that matter. I try to be kind, loving and fair. I love to laugh and I love people with sense of humor, and anyone who knows me loves to be in my company. Let me share with you what happened to me out of nowhere Saturday night.
There is a woman that I have never met who I always talk to on the phone and through bbm, even though we had never met, I liked her spirit and sense of humor. Last night while I spoke to her via bbm someone made a prank call to her phone and insulted her, through her voice mail, and because it was my house phone used even though we were communicating via bbm at the time of the call according to records, she, for a moment thought it was me. When my nieces laughingly told me what they did I tried contacting her to let her know that it was a prank but she would not respond to my call.
This got to me because apart from being highly upset with my unruly disrespectful neices, I was upset that she believed that I would do such a thing. My husband , after I had told him said yes, she had a right to be shocked for a minute, because she is human and it was schocking…… ME Obara Meji!! behaving badly….NEVER!!, and even though we had never met for some reason I thought she would have picked up on my character and give me the benefit of doubt, and realize that it must have been some kind of prank. She eventually called me and I explained, but even after we hung up it did not feel good that I was placed in such an awkward position.
I went to bed I and while sleeping I saw a man come over me looking like my husband but he had a yellowish hue around him, and he was talking to me as my husband while hiding a pillow he had behind his back intending to possibly suffocate me, I made a noise and my real husband tapped me on my shoulder and got me out of it. It was then that I realized that a malevolent spirit is around and quite possibly it was them that created the problem between the woman and myself using the children..These things happens my people they do, “When the normal becomes abnormal evil is at work”. The woman did not call, or bbm me today nor I her because I still feel a little funny about the whole ordeal, but I have no doubt that she believes me. after all I am not insane.
The fact that I have created this site, making people aware of things that they would have never thought of before will place me the site owner under deep scrutiny by those that do not want you to wake up. The testers will come asking for me to do this and that testing to see if I am really who I say I am. But I wait and smile, I wait and smile. Come I say…but ask yourself this question,,,have you ever witnessed Light and darkness in the same room together??… it can never happen…. I am a spiritualist and for that I am proud, no human being can do to me anything as long as God says no. My heart is in a good place, respect me. For those who visits this site and keep me company, thank you. For those who are hoping to test me I say think again, and for those who genuinely want to learn I say welcome, have a seat. Stay strong my family. Blessings!!
Your friend Obara Meji.
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This necklace reminds me of the rock candy sticks where crystals grow and bedazzle. Swarovski crystals add bling and are bound on a right angle weave rope. A hand-dyed in Montana silk thread is laced through to create a variable length necklace. Beaded portion is 6" in length.
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You may already know the basics of custody etiquette—not dropping your child off late and no bad-mouthing your ex in front of your child. While these are important, there are many other unspoken guidelines you should know about for a smooth and happy shared custody experience.
Whether you’re reaching an amicable agreement with your ex, or going to court with lawyers, here are five dos and don’ts of shared custody:
Some parents may feel it’s respectful to ask their child who they want to live with or stay with this weekend. Unfortunately, there’s no right answer a child can give in this situation. The child knows that whichever parent they don’t choose will be hurt, making it an impossible, heartbreaking choice.
Never sit a child or teen down and ask them where they want to live. It doesn’t matter if your child is four or fourteen. You shouldn’t have them make that choice. Most importantly, never ask a third party, like a friend, relative, or therapist, to have this conversation with your child—your kid knows that whatever they say will get back to you.
Things will never be completely equal. Some weeks, one parent may see a child more than the other. One parent may be able to afford a nicer vacation, while the other gets to see their child on a special occasion.
Never make a child feel guilty for enjoying that special time with their parent. Instead, they should feel loved and accepted by both parents. Never act sad or worried when a child heads to see the other parent—children are not emotionally equipped to be burdened with your conflicted emotions over sharing custody. Build your own support network of adults, such as family, friends, a therapist, or support group to vent and share these emotions.
Unless there’s something that puts the child at risk with one parent, a child does best when they get to spend plenty of time with both parents through all stages of childhood. The child and parent form a lasting bond, which allows the child to see different parenting styles and feel love from both parents.
If a bond with one parent is missing, this can have a lasting and damaging emotional impact on the child.
You, as a parent, may feel like your heart is breaking every time your child leaves you for the other parent, but know that this is what is best for them.
Every child is different. Some children have extraordinary medical needs, learning impediments, or other conditions like ADHD or Asperger’s. Often, these conditions make a predictable routine very important. These needs trump all other concerns, and if what’s best for your child is to do homework in the same house every afternoon because of their Asperger’s, then that’s more important than splitting time between parents fifty-fifty.
Including your ex-spouse in decisions about your child may be the last thing you want to do if the breakup has been painful. But this is what your child needs. There will be thousands of decisions that need to be made for your children before they reach adulthood, and judges cannot, and should not, make all these decisions for you.
Clear, respectful, consistent communication has to happen for your children, regardless of how angry you are with your ex.
Nanda always knew the courtroom was where she wanted to spend her career. She has made a name for herself as one of the top choices among women practicing family law and criminal defense in Roanoke, Virginia. She’s the owner of Davis Law Practice and her clients appreciate her empathy and commitment throughout the entire process. She helps them make the best decision for them and their family, and is always willing to go to trial to achieve the best result for her clients. Originally from northern Virginia, Nanda graduated magna cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law in 2012, and graduated from the University of Virginia in 2008. Nanda is the Vice President of the Salem Roanoke County Bar Association, and the President of the Roanoke chapter of the Virginia Women Attorney’s Association. | <urn:uuid:f68765b0-e116-4349-bac9-ca416b8d4353> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.empoweringparents.com/article/dos-and-donts-of-shared-custody/ | 2023-09-27T10:36:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.957916 | 854 |
This line of cufflinks is inspired by the Constellation watches' super-nova pattern.
The Constellation Fine Jewellery Collection has been inspired by the most distinctive elements of its namesake watches. With the iconic “griffes” – or claws – and engraved Roman numerals, these pieces elegantly reinterpret the OMEGA heritage.
The OMEGA Accessories collections are strongly linked to our watch collections. They are creative expressions that make use of different types of materials and watch finishes. Inspired by the DNA of the brand, they are a part of the OMEGA universe.
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UNAF (Union of Families Association) is a platform of NGO working for the defence and promotion of families’ rights and welfare since 1988, from an inclusive perspective of families’ diversity. Declared to be of“Public Utility” and a special consultative body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), UNAF is made up of 22 organisations working in the field of families from a number of areas, such as health, education, social and gender equality, end of gender-based violence, etc.
UNAF is acknowledge as a leading organisation in the prevention of Female Genital Mutilation in Spain. We develop a sexual health promotion program aiming at fostering sexual and reproductive rights for migrant population that includes a specific project on Prevention and Intervention facing FGM. Our approach is based on human rights, gender equality, interculturality and community action.Project’s main activities comprise awareness raising and training workshops addressed to migrant population and health, education and social workers; collaboration with cultural mediators; production of manuals, awareness-raising publications and other resources; communication; advocacy and networking. Yearly, each 6th of February, UNAF holds an International Conference against FGM. We have an international projection, willing to foster collaboration with organizations and activists in countries of origin to develop coordinated strategies to end FGM. | <urn:uuid:3f0c3c26-0f69-4867-b818-487eb7aa34cd> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.endfgm.eu/members/associate-members/union-of-families-association-unaf/ | 2023-09-27T11:32:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.933759 | 277 |
Two years after the EU began investigating whether Valve uses regional pricing and geo-blocking practices in its Steam store, the European Commission has formally charged the distributor and five game publishers. The Commission released its "preliminary view" that Valve, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax prevented consumers from purchasing videogames cross-border from some Member States. That's considered geo-blocking, and it violates EU competition rules.
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To Sir, with Love Summary
To Sir, with Love is a novel by E.R. Braithwaite that recounts Braithwaite's personal experiences as a teacher in London, where his unorthodox teaching methods won him the affections of his students.
Braithwaite struggles to find steady work after World War II. Eventually, he gets a job as a teacher in London.
Braithwaite's students are semi-literate and largely uninterested in learning. They don't respect Braithwaite, and he struggles to teach them using the official curricula of the school.
- Finally, Braithwaite decides to switch tactics and engage his student's interests directly. He finally gets through to his students, and they come to love him.
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A red double-decker bus is crowded as it creeps through the morning traffic in Algate. A man is surrounded by the rather large, crude, but good-hearted women who have already been out to do their morning shopping. As a result, the bus smells heavily of fresh fish. He is the only man on the bus besides the conductor, and his is the only black face. The women banter and make sexual innuendos; he smiles at their good-natured teasing.
The bus moves through a rather dingy part of the city, and the women disembark with their shopping bags one by one. A “slim, smartly dressed woman” gets on the bus and starts to sit down—until she sees that the man she would be sitting next to is black. She decides to stand despite the conductor’s less-than-subtle hints that there is an empty seat for her if she would choose to take it. Just as the conductor is about to humiliate the arrogant and prejudiced woman, the passenger in question sees his destination ahead and asks to get off at the next stop. The conductor gives the man an “odd disapproving stare,” as if he had ruined the official’s battle plans. The man thinks he is doing the conductor a favor, for this is a battle he will never win.
The man stands on a corner of London’s East End, which he has so romanticized because he has read so many references to it in the works of Chaucer and Erasmus, among others. It is a site full of history in his imaginings, but the reality is different. The streets are noisy and littered and full of dirt and flies. The smells are “a sickening, tantalizing discomfort.” He forces himself to walk toward his destination: Greenslade Secondary School.
As he gets closer, a small boy with a Cockney accent is just emerging from the bathroom; he has obviously been smoking. The boy asks if he can help, and the man asks for the headmaster. The boy points and the man knocks, as instructed, on the door of the headmaster, Alex Florian. He is a small man with a large head full of white, curly hair and large eyes. Though the external surroundings are obviously less than pristine, his office is neat and orderly. The short man is “nattily” dressed. He stands to greet Ricardo “Rick” Braithwaite, whom he has been expecting.
It is a warm greeting, and Braithwaite is reassured by his sincerity. Braithwaite assures him he had no trouble finding the building, as he followed the directions given to him by the Divisional Office. Florian says they are pleased to have him join the staff and, after he has had a chance to become familiar with the school, hopes he will want to stay. When Braithwaite expresses his assurance that he will like it here, the headmaster smiles and tells him things are done a little differently here than in most schools, so he tells him to wander around and see if this is the place he really wants to be. If he does, they will talk again after lunch. Florian ushers Braithwaite out the door and shuts it behind him.
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This school is, as Headmaster Florian told him, a very different kind of school. As Braithwaite walks through the hallways, he is nearly knocked over by several students running out of a classroom. He knocks and enters to see what is happening, only to find forty students unattended. By their dress and demeanor, they seem to be well aware of their maturing bodies. Everything is “a...
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bit soiled and untidy, as if too little attention were paid to washing either themselves or their flashy finery.”
When Braithwaite enters, he is accosted by students wondering if he is the replacement for their teacher, Mr. Hackman, or “Old Hack.” Hack left the room and went to the staff room, telling his students to send someone for him when they were ready to behave, and they wonder if Braithwaite has come to take his place. As they surround him, he tells them he will check on Mr. Hackman. This is not what he imagined when he thought of his first teaching job. There are no neat rows of desks filled with students eager to learn.
Braithwaite leaves the class room and goes to the staff room. On the way, he meets the student who nearly knocked him over coming out of the room. A rather untidy man greets Braithwaite and immediately makes a joke about his color. Braithwaite introduces himself and says he is from the Divisional Office; he is told that Hackman was here but left shortly after arriving and is probably registering his complaints with the Divisional Officer. Mrs. Grace Dale-Evans enters and begins cleaning up the staff lounge. She asks Braithwaite if this is his first teaching job and if he has been in the military; he tells her he was in the Royal Air Force. She invites him to eat lunch at the school, and he accepts.
The staffroom is full of miscellany and is almost as dingy as the outside surroundings. As he walks out of the building and into the courtyard, he sees litter everywhere and finds the place as depressing as a prison yard. He thinks about how different this is from his schooldays in British Guiana; they were rich, happy days filled with achievements, accomplishments, and interested parents. He wonders if any of the students here are as excited about going to school as he once was. Suddenly children are everywhere, released for recess, and Braithwaite goes back to the lounge.
Soon other teachers enter, and Mrs. Grace Dale-Evans introduces him to each of them in turn. Miss Josey Dawes is a short, strong-looking woman dressed in gray flannel. Miss Euphemia Phillips is a rather mousy and immature-looking young woman. Theo Weston, the man he met earlier, tells his colleagues that Hackman has “escaped.” Mrs. Drew is a matronly woman who is the Headmaster’s assistant. Miss Vivienne Clintridge is the kind art teacher and Miss Gillian Blanchard is the prettiest one in the room and the newest staff member. All of them ask him if he will be willing to stay; Braithwaite is so thankful for the job that he had never considered not taking the position. He asks Miss Blanchard why everyone is trying to convince him to stay; she explains that though she has only been there three days, she knows there is “something rather odd…rather frightening and challenging” about this place.
Mrs. Grace Dale-Evans says she has to help one of the girls bathe because her mother does not help her get clean and other students are complaining. She invites Braithwaite to visit her Domestic Science Department, where he sees that she is firm and has high expectations for cleanliness and order for her students. They work for her without any kind of abuse, and this gives him hope for his own successful classroom.
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At lunch, the teachers sit at a table slightly separated from the students. Headmaster Florian prays for the entire room and then the noisy business of lunch begins. Each person at each table is assigned a job, and the meal is conducted efficiently and finished quickly. When Florian stands, there is a hush before he signals to each table its permission to leave. Soon the sound of dance music emanates from the auditorium. Miss Clintridge explains that students are allowed to turn the room into a dance hall for forty-five minutes each day. Sometimes even the teachers join them.
Weston speaks up and says that dancing for these students is not a simple, innocent pastime. Instead, the “energetic morons” are using dance as their voluntary exercise to stay fit for their primary pastime—“teacher-baiting.” The ladies tell Braithwaite to ignore their colleague’s joking and scold him for being so discouraging. Weston assures them he wants the new man to stay. Braithwaite decides to observe the dancing.
These students are very good dancers, and the girls take great pleasure at showing their legs to the appreciative boys. The red-headed girl with whom he had nearly collided this morning asks him to dance, but Braithwaite mumbles a no and weaves his way through the gyrating crowd. He is “disturbed and excited at the prospect and challenge of having to cope with such nearly adult individuals.”
He meets with the headmaster, and Florian asks him immediately if this is someplace he wants to work. When Braithwaite, with controlled enthusiasm, says yes, Florian outlines his policies for this school. He explains that most of these students are classified as “difficult” because they have defied or disregarded the more traditional forms of authority found in most schools. Here, he says, they should not be forced or restricted by “arbitrary whim.” These are students who come from disadvantaged homes, and it is his hope that every teacher will strive to understand that and try to help them.
As Florian outlines the difficult circumstances of his students, Braithwaite finds himself getting angry; his experience has taught them that they have the greatest advantage any students can have—they are white. That, to him, is the single biggest divider between those who have and those who have not. Florian continues, saying they are often rude and apt to bad habits such as smoking and swearing; these are things they no doubt learn from the “unsatisfactory influences” of their neighborhood. Braithwaite can see that the headmaster truly loves the students, but he speaks of them as tiny, defenseless children rather than young people already practicing adulthood.
Others say this school practices “free discipline”; instead, they strive to “establish disciplined freedom.” Students should be free to express themselves without fear, and though they will never achieve much in life with their academic endeavors, the teachers strive to ensure their “limited abilities” are maximized. Students are encouraged to speak up for themselves here; the hope is that they will learn “directness without rudeness.” His hope is that the influence of the teachers will outweigh the evil which surrounds these students. Florian pauses for a moment and then admits he has nothing more to offer him. Braithwaite will be on his own from the first moment on; others may offer advice, but his success or failure will be in his own hands.
The headmaster vows not to interfere as long as Braithwaite stays within the confines of the guidelines he just outlined. Starting tomorrow, Braithwaite will have charge of the top class and will share the boys’ physical education duty with the other men on staff. He is advised to get familiar with things the rest of the afternoon. Florian shakes his hand and tells his newest teacher that these are good children and he thinks somehow Braithwaite will find a way to appreciate them.
In the staff room, Braithwaite announces he will be taking Hackman’s place. Most of the teachers tease him, but Mrs. Drew begins to show him the duties he will need to perform and Braithwaite spends the afternoon in her class, “observing and admiring” the way she mixes firmness, patience, and activity. There is chaotic noise as they work, but she believes when students are busy they are learning.
On his way home, Braithwaite is ecstatic at this opportunity to work “in terms of dignified equality in an established profession.” Today he is a teacher. What he does not know, he will learn. Four years ago this did not seem possible. He did not become a teacher for any altruistic reasons; he was forced to it by his simple need to eat. It all happened because of some unfortunate experiences beginning a week after his release from the RAF in 1945.
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At the Demobilization Center, Braithwaite was encouraged when he was told his experience in engineering technology as well as his advanced degree in science would stand him in good stead as he went about finding a civilian job. Braithwaite was meticulous about staying current with all new developments in his field and subscribed to all the professional and technical journals. He was confident he would be able to get and hold a good job.
During the war, he met an elderly couple, and he promised to stay with them after his demobilization. The Belmonts were kind people in every way and shared many of his interests and pursuits with an energy that belied their age. After a two-week holiday with them, he met with the Appointments Office and was assured that with his experience as a Communications Engineer for the Standard Oil Company he would be highly employable. Two weeks later, he received a letter from them along with a list of three firms which had vacancies for qualified Communications Engineers. Braithwaite wrote each of them and received scheduled interviews with each of them.
For his first interview, Braithwaite was dressed as a professional in the perfect shirt, tie, and pocket handkerchief; his shoes were polished and he was “wearing his best smile.” The receptionist treated him coldly, but the interview went well. Four men asked him numerous technical questions to gauge his level of expertise, and Braithwaite was at ease since he had been so careful to maintain his skills even during the war. At the end of the interview, one of the men told him he was “abundantly suited” to the job, but they could not hire him to be in a position of authority because too many of the white men would react adversely to a black superior. They would not offer him a lesser job, for he was too well qualified.
Braithwaite left the building in a kind of stupor. For six years in the military his blackness had never mattered. Though he saw his black face daily, he had never noticed his color. Now his bitter resentment rose up and he hurried to the nearest bathroom to be sick. He called the other two companies and told them he was a Negro, and, if that did not affect their hiring decisions, he would be happy to keep his interview appointments. Both firms said their positions had already been filled. He went to the only safe place he knew to go: the Belmonts in Brentwood.
He was twenty-eight years old and had always believed in what he called the “British Way of Life.” The ideal had sustained him when he had to work harder and run faster than the white students in high school; it had inspired him when he was in college and university at a time when ideals were succumbing to disillusionment on all fronts. He came to England and felt as if he were “the hub of fairness, tolerance, and all the freedoms.” British holdings in the West Indies all claimed British loyalties, beliefs, and traditions, and the ties were strong. Braithwaite and his parents were British in every way, and he resisted all criticism of British policies—even when they were wrong. What happened in that interview was the equivalent of a betrayal of faith for Braithwaite.
To many in Britain, a Negro represented brute strength, menial employment, and “slum accommodation.” Though there was an occasional successful Negro in the arts or professional fields, they were seen as anomalies. He was willing to die for Britain and for democracy, the freedom to work at a profession for which he was qualified without regard to his racial or religious origins. A promise had been broken. In America, at least the racial hostility was open and blatant. Britons tended to point at America as an oppressor of Negroes, forgetting that America had offered more opportunities for betterment and advancement for Negroes than any other nation in the world, even those with indigenous Negro populations.
In Britain things were different. No one spoke their prejudice to him, and people generally believed it did not exist because a black man could ride on public transportation and sit where he chose as long as he had the fare to do so, even though it was likely no one would sit next to him. He could seek accommodations at any hotel or inn, and the courteous denial was never attributed to prejudice. Braithwaite felt a greater betrayal because it was conducted with charm and courtesy.
At that moment he had to reassess his future. His savings would, if he were careful, last him two years. He was certain he would, in that time, find an employer who would be more interested in his skills than his skin color.
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After being denied a job he was perfectly suited and qualified for because of his skin color, Braithwaite tried everything he knew to get a job and got the same result from all of them. He tried to advertise himself as a Negro, but no one wanted to hire him. When he did not mention his color, they all turned him down for essentially the same reason: “too black.” At one firm, he filled out his paperwork amidst men who were clearly not as well educated and qualified as he was; however, the interviewer told him he spoke too well and was too well educated to fit in at this firm. Braithwaite took his application out of the man’s hands and ripped it up in front of him.
For eighteen months he tried to get any job but had no success. He was turned down because he was too well qualified and too educated for the menial jobs and too black for anything better, and his hatred grew. He was about to run out of the ration coupons he received for clothing when he was demobilized, so his uncle graciously sent him several suits, ties, shirts, socks, and underwear over the course of several months. Braithwaite spent his coupons on several serviceable pairs of shoes.
As he struggled with the realities of prejudice, he found himself growing distrustful of every look and gesture, seeking some hidden animosity behind them. He grew unwilling to extend basic courtesies to women and the elderly and was even hostile toward small children who looked at him with innocent eyes because they had never seen a black man. Occasionally someone would say or do something extraordinarily kind or unselfish, keeping him from falling into an abyss of bitterness.
He was sitting beside the lake in St. James’s Park when an older man, thin and bespectacled, started talking about the habits and varieties of the ducks Braithwaite was feeding. Soon he spoke directly to Braithwaite, asking how long he has been in London. The younger man was not inclined to answer, but that did not deter the man from talking. He commented that a big city is a lonely place to live, though it is not really the city’s fault; it is simply too big to be concerned about something as small as one person’s happiness. Braithwaite had been hoping the old man would just quit talking, but soon he began to see him more as an aesthete and scholar who was merely offering him kindness and friendliness.
The old man compared the city to a battlefield, and each person in it has to become a fighter if he wants to do more than just survive in it. Fighting the good fight is what will allow one to see the fun and exciting opportunities a big city has to offer. Braithwaite was in no mood for such philosophizing and told the man if he were a Negro he would undoubtedly find more excitement than he could bear. After giving him a long look, the man laughed—a rich, infectious laugh. Though he fails to see the humor, Braithwaite laughed with him. Soon Braithwaite told him everything, and the man suggested he become a teacher.
Braithwaite believed it was unreasonable to think that people would not allow him near equipment that he understood very well but would entrust the education of their children to him. The old man assured him there was a desperate need for teachers, especially in London’s East End. The younger man bristled at the implication that he was only good enough to teach the lowly and impoverished; however, the old man gently scolded him for being as much of a snob as others had been to him, dismissing the needs of the less advantaged.
They spoke easily for several hours, without even exchanging names. It was a conversation for which Braithwaite would always be thankful, as it led directly to his approval as a teacher and an appointment from the Divisional Office. From there he was sent to Greenslade School.
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Braithwaite arrives early for his first day of classes at Greenslade School. The Belmonts, whom he calls “Dad” and “Mom,” are as thrilled as he is about this opportunity. As he approaches the courtyard, he hears students using foul language and wonders if they will speak in such a way in his classroom. Mrs. Drew greets him in the staffroom and he asks her about it. She tells him students often try the words for effect but few of them even understand the actual words they are speaking. As he leaves the lounge, his colleagues give him encouragement to begin his first day.
He sits at his desk and waits for all his students to assemble and become quiet before he takes roll and collects their dinner money. Before they are called to their daily assembly, Braithwaite looks at the forty-six seats and forty-two students. Twenty-six of them are girls, young women, really, who appear rather “gypsyish” in their cheap, flashy jewelry. The boys are “scruffier, coarser, dirtier,” and all are in the jeans, t-shirts, and haircuts of their movie idols.
The assembly is not religious, though the headmaster does invoke a blessing on each student for the day. Jews, Muslims, Catholics, and Protestants are all represented here. Florian reads a poem and two classical musical selections are played; Braithwaite is surprised to see every student’s attention on the music, and not just because they were required to be in attendance. It offers him some hope for their ability to appreciate more than pop culture. Back in the classroom, Braithwaite introduces himself and says he would like each of them to read aloud from whichever one of their books they choose. The results are dismal.
Few of them can do more than stumble through a few sentences. In the back of the room, while others are reading, one boy is doing something to make everyone around him laugh. As the reading continues, Braithwaite discovers the boy is inflating a nude doll with air, lewdly distending her breasts and abdomen as if she were pregnant. When Braithwaite asks if anyone else would like to read for him, the girl with the red hair who ran into him in the hallway and asked him to dance volunteers. Unlike most of the class, she is clean and neat, and she reads well. Her name is Pamela Dare, and no one else wants to read after she finishes.
Braithwaite talks to them about reading being the basis of all other learning, and they listen attentively until it is time for their mid-morning milk break. While they are outside and Braithwaite is contemplating his next lesson, Miss Vivienne Clintridge (everyone calls her “Clinty”) brings him a cup of tea and asks how his morning went. He tells her about the boy with the doll, telling her he simply asked the boy to put it away. She hesitates for a moment and then tells him they all agree generally with the headmaster, but it is much easier to overlook trouble from inside an office. She tells the new teacher that most of these kids come from homes in which violence from parents or older siblings is the only language spoken when an order or command is not obeyed.
On the other hand, she warns Ricky (for they are now on a first-name basis) that giving them too much leeway would be dangerous, so it is important to maintain order and discipline—and he should never touch any of the girls or they will cry foul on him. When his students return from their break, Braithwaite tries to assess their math skills by asking if any of them know the table of weights used in grocery stores and the like. One smart aleck, Denhem, lists all the boxing weights and everyone in the class laughs at his joke—everyone but the teacher, who uses sarcasm to quiet the room quickly. Braithwaite asks if anyone else knows the table of weights. Tich Jackson, the boy who was smoking but directed Braithwaite to the headmaster’s door when he arrived, offers the correct answer. Braithwaite feels “rather pleased by this gesture of cooperation.”
When Denhem and a girl in class try to get more laughs from the group, Braithwaite’s sarcasm becomes scathing as he tells them they seem to find everything amusing—including the fact that most of them cannot read their own language and do not know the rudiments of weights and measures. Since they are so easily amused, he is anticipating some very good times this year. Their laughter has turned to anger, which is what he wanted, and now they listen to him talk about the background and history of measurement and how it affects their lives today. They listen attentively until the dinner bell rings.
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Yesterday’s dinner was an altogether too noisy affair, so Braithwaite does not join the rest of the school for the noon meal but eats in the peaceful staff room. His mom had sent him a lunch, and he realizes that teaching is much more draining than he had imagined it to be. Soon Miss Blanchard joins him; she has her own lunch because she does not like the food. The two of them have much in common: books, music, theater, and films. She noticed his surprise that morning when the children listened so raptly to the classical music; both of them are amazed.
As the others make their way to the lounge after dinner, they each ask Braithwaite how his morning went. A few are amused that he seems to have taken Miss Clintridge’s advice. Mrs. Dawes reminds them all that these students are not as bad as some would suggest. Weston only wants obedience and he gets it, but it appears he derives little joy from the process. Braithwaite feels the little man delights in being irritating, yet he always makes his comments with a smile on his face. He understands his recent experiences may have made him extra sensitive to any comments about race, so the newcomer decides simply not to listen to Weston any more.
As the conversation continues, it becomes clear that nearly all of his colleagues want him to succeed, and he appreciates their support. The afternoon is less satisfactory than the morning. While the children are not disobedient, laughing, or chatting, they are also not cooperating with him. They do what they are told, but there is no energy or excitement in the doing. His remarks made a negative impression on them; their “silent watchfulness” is making a negative impression on him.
There are a few exceptions. Tich Jackson is friendly and, even though he joined in the laughing, he smiles at Braithwaite in a sincere way. Patrick Fernman is an intelligent boy who shows no resentment; and Lawrence Seales, a dark-skinned boy of obviously mixed parentage, shows no resentment but also shows no indication of friendliness toward his classmates or his teacher.
Braithwaite stops in a tobacconist’s shop on his way home and sees a board with postings for goods and accommodations available. He stops to look, knowing the long trip to Brentwood will seem interminable in the wet and wintry months. He considers getting a place to live closer to the school. When the proprietor offers to wait on him, Braithwaite tells him he is a teacher at Greenslade School. The man contemplates him for a moment then tells him none of these postings is good enough for a teacher; if he will stop again, he will have something better to tell him about. This sign of deference and respect is shocking to Braithwaite, and he is moved by this stranger’s kindness.
At home that night, he discusses his day with the Belmonts, and they all agree he must do something to gain his students’ confidence and respect before their resentment has a chance to harden into something ugly and impenetrable or an incident occurs which will negate any possibility of a good relationship with them.
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Every Friday morning before recess, everyone in the school writes a Weekly Review. Students write about their week in any form they choose; they may criticize, agree, or disagree, as long as they are writing about school. No one is exempt from criticism, including the headmaster, and there are no repercussions from anything that is written. The Weekly Review is one of the Old Man’s inviolable schemes. It benefits the students, because if something matters enough to them they will put it on paper as meticulously and correctly as possible. Teachers are able to see which of their lessons were effective and which were not. Florian’s theory is that the children are generally fair in their assessments, and a “sensible teacher” will take what he reads and make adjustments.
On his first Friday at Greenslade School, Braithwaite is anxious to learn what his students really think of him. He was disappointed to read so little about himself. Students noted the existence of a new “blackie” teacher, but their biggest commentary concerned their dance sessions and one of their classmate’s success on the local boxing club team. Braithwaite assumes they are expecting him to leave like Hackman, but if he made that minimal an impression on them, he assumes it is his failing.
After that, Braithwaite works very diligently at being a good teacher but continually feels unsuccessful. He reads books on the psychology of teaching, but they are not helpful. He feels as if he is trying to teach through a thick pane of glass which separates him from his class.
In retrospect, he realizes he passed through three stages in his relationship with his students. First, they gave him the “silent treatment,” doing what he asked and staring at him watchfully when they were not working. He did everything he knew to make their lessons engaging and applicable to their lives, but he was still disconnected.
The second phase was more annoying: the “noisy treatment.” Though not everyone joined in, even the non-participants were sympathetic to the noisemakers. When Braithwaite was reading, one or two students would bang their desk lids down and then look at him with feigned innocence for the accidental interruption. Generally he would end his lesson early and assign written work, as they could not make such noises while they were writing. He knew this was not effective teaching, and he tried not to get angry that they were missing out on lessons which were prepared solely for their benefit. Braithwaite wanted to give Weston no opportunity to gloat over his failures, so he kept trying.
Finally, one morning the use of foul language began. At recess that day, students congratulated the first offender for putting the teacher in his place. After this, things grew slightly worse than before, and students became vicious as they chose pointless battles to fight. Braithwaite saw other adult behaviors during this time, with much fondling and kissing happening in dark hallways or the farthest corner of the playground. Students would stop when he walked by, but as soon as he passed they would resume their activities, which clearly had “adult intentness.” Braithwaite tried to convince himself his only concern was what happened in his classroom, but he knew it was not true.
The younger children began to mimic the older ones. One day a small boy crashed through the glass roof of the girls’ bathroom while trying to peek in; he was not seriously injured. Braithwaite found it discouraging that his colleagues were concerned about the repercussions of a serious injury but seemed relatively unconcerned about the underlying moral questions.
One afternoon during the recess period, Braithwaite returned to find a smoky classroom. A cluster of boys and girls were standing around the fireplace grate, joking and laughing and making no attempt to eliminate the source of the smoke. When he pushed through the crowd of students, he found a used sanitary napkin which someone had tried to burn. Horrified, angry, and disgusted, Braithwaite lost his temper. He sent the boys out of the room and told the girls he was sickened by their crude language, sluttish behavior, and their easy familiarity with boys.
They listened without a word of response. He told them this is disgusting behavior for young ladies and he would leave the room for five minutes while they removed the offending object and cleared the room of smoke. Braithwaite realized his students were trying to achieve a second victory by chasing him off, but he would not let them win this battle. When he reentered his classroom, everything was clean and smoke-free. He was surprised to find the girls were ashamed and the boys were waiting expectantly. Braithwaite would need a little time to make them see that the “game” has changed.
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The next morning Braithwaite has an idea on the way to school. Though it is not clearly formed, he is hopeful of its success. After assembly and once everyone is seated at their desks, he begins to talk to his class in an informal and pleasant way. He tells them his plans for the rest of the school year, deciding most of what he says as he speaks to them.
The first thing he tells them is that he expects them to listen attentively to everything he says without interrupting; once he is finished, they may ask him whatever questions they might have or say whatever they want to say to him without his interrupting. When he looks around the class, he sees even the least interested and engaged students are listening to what he is saying. Braithwaite tells them his job is to teach, and he promises to do so in as interesting a way as he knows how; if they do not agree or understand, he wants them to tell him so.
Braithwaite tells them that in a mere six months, they will be forced to embark on the journey of adulthood, so he means to start treating them as adults and expects they will treat each other as adults, as well. At that moment, Pamela Dare comes rushing breathlessly into the room, and Braithwaite calmly uses her as an example. He says there are two ways in which people may enter a room: one is to be controlled and dignified, the other is to act as if they have just received a kick in the rear end. He challenges Miss Dare to demonstrate the former. It is a short battle of wills, but Pamela goes out and reenters with the dignity of royalty. Braithwaite thanks her.
From this point on, all the female students will be addressed as “Miss,” the boys will be addressed by their surnames, and the teacher will be addressed as “Mr. Braithwaite” or “Sir.” The boys immediately demur, saying they know the girls and see no need to address them so formally. Braithwaite asks if there are any of the female students who are not deserving of the title, and of course the answer is no. Braithwaite tells them this is the kind of behavior which will be expected of them in the business world, so it is best for them to begin the practice now.
Next, Braithwaite discusses the general deportment and conduct of the class. He tells the girls that they must act in a manner worthy and appreciative of such courtesies, and he tells them there are several specific areas which Mrs. Dale-Evans will be discussing with them in their Domestic Science class today. (Again this is impromptu speaking, but he is sure his colleague will be glad to help.) The boys, he says, must begin to look cleaner. “A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his clothes or the way he cuts his hair.” Several years from now, as they begin to think seriously of women to marry, they will be more attractive with clean hands and faces.
Between each of these points, Braithwaite gives them time to digest what he is saying before he moves to the next topic of discussion. They are the top class, he reminds them, and they set the standards for everything that is done for every other class in the school. Younger students will emulate them, so it is important that they represent the “top” in every area of their conduct. Braithwaite assures them he will help in every way he can, and he tells them they have the potential to be the finest class in Greenslade School history.
One of the boys asks about the untidiness of Mr. Weston, and Braithwaite reminds them he is their teacher and they are free to criticize him if he does not maintain the same standards he sets for them. He then allows the students to quietly discuss what they have heard until it is time for recess; then he talks to Mrs. Dale-Evans about his promise to the girls. She agrees to help. Braithwaite spends the afternoon teaching in a way that models correctness and deference without being condescending.
Several students have moved into positions of authority within the class, and Braithwaite knows he must win them fully in order to achieve success. Denham and Potter are the male leaders; Moira Joseph is the female leader, though Pamela Dare is the brightest and cleanest student in class. As he and Miss Blanchard walk to the bus, Braithwaite explains his strategy. He is pleased at the concern in her eyes and now is even more determined to succeed.
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That Friday, Braithwaite’s students are writing their Weekly Reviews with “absorbed application.” The only words anyone speaks are a request for the spelling of “Braithwaite.” When he reads them during recess, Braithwaite feels the students were fair, but barely. They are not happy with some things, but all are glad to be treated as adults; however, not one of them mentioned the behavior leading up to the changes. They most appreciate that he speaks to them as if they are capable of learning. He takes their writing home with him to discuss with his Mom and Dad.
His parents, too, are pleased with the progress he has made; however, his father warns him not to bring his schoolwork home with him or he will be stuck in a very shallow world. Teaching is like a bank account, and one can only draw from it what one deposits in the form of life experiences and new thoughts and discoveries. Braithwaite’s father encourages him to find a girl, though his mother assures him there will be plenty of time for that. Braithwaite takes his father’s advice, and he never again brings work home to be corrected. Instead, he walks around the room and corrects errors while they are in progress, a much more effective way to teach.
The students are getting better each day. Their forms of address as well as their hygiene are improving, and sometimes the bell rings at the end of the day and they are still conducting an interesting discussion. Braithwaite strives with each lesson to help each student develop thinking and reasoning skills, useful tools for a life adulthood. Some students ask him questions about himself but others remain watchful and even hostile, looking for every opportunity to deflate their teacher when they can. Braithwaite strives not to notice such small things, preferring to concentrate on the cooperation of the majority.
Some days are not easy, though. One geography lesson deals with clothing for people who live in various climates, and Tich Jackson asks about the magazines he has seen in which black women are dancing without “any clothes on at the top.” Unfazed, Braithwaite talks about various cultures who wear little or no clothing, or perhaps just fur for utilitarian purposes. The discussion moves to the history of clothing in Britain, and Braithwaite suggests they visit the exhibits at the Victoria and Albert Museum if they want to see more. One of the girls asks if he can take the class to the museum.
Such a thought had never occurred to Braithwaite, but he says that if enough of the class was interested, he will talk to the headmaster. Most of the class says they would like to go. In the back of the room, though, a small group of boys is gathered around Denham’s open desk. Inside he has a page from a magazine which depicts a curvaceous woman in a skimpy bikini. Braithwaite takes the “disgusting thing” and tears it to shreds before throwing the pieces in the wastebasket and continuing with his lesson as if the incident had never occurred.
The class is nervous, for they are aware (as is their teacher) that Denham wanted a fight in order to upset the class—and they all know he will have one sometime soon.
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On Thursday there is a sense of excitement, and both Braithwaite and his students can feel it. In the afternoon, the boys go to their physical education class and Braithwaite asks them to line up for their activity. Denham steps forward and asks if the class can have boxing first today. Braithwaite agrees and the boys pair off by size. Denham’s partner is conveniently unable to participate, so he asks Braithwaite to spar with him. This is the moment Denhem has been preparing for since last week.
After initially telling Denham no, Braithwaite discerns that the other boys see this as a sign of cowardice and decides to spar with Denham. Everyone else lines the wall and prepares to watch. It soon becomes clear that Denham’s reputation as a boxer is well earned, and Braithwaite does his best to hold the boy at bay until he can reasonably stop the fight after having been foolishly goaded into it.
A few boys are cheering for their teacher from the sidelines; the rest do not say anything. Suddenly the boy hits Braithwaite hard in the face, and the older man reacts by punching Denham hard in the solar plexus. The boy is doubled up on the floor, and there is a moment of stunned silence before the boys come rushing to their fallen classmate. Braithwaite tells them all to line up in preparation for vaulting, and surprisingly they all do so without complaint or murmur while he ensures that Denham is fine. The rest of the boys obey with alacrity for the rest of the period, acting as if their teacher had suddenly matured into a man before their eyes.
After class, Braithwaite assures Denham it was a lucky punch and tells him to go clear his head. In a shaky voice but without hesitation, Denham says, “Yes, Sir” before going to the washroom. This is the turning point in Braithwaite’s relationship with his class. Though he still offers consistent comments and wisecracks, Denham no longer poses a threat as an enemy of his teacher. Braithwaite’s attitude toward his students also changes. While before he tried to do his best for the sake of his job, he is now concerned about each one of them and finds himself liking them individually rather than collectively.
During recess periods, students often stay in and talk with Braithwaite about their families and their concerns about things like money and basic needs such as food and clothing. In turn, Braithwaite tries to apply every lesson in every subject to their real lives and experiences. Occasionally Headmaster Florian joins their discussions. He expresses his approval of the job his newest teacher is doing, and Braithwaite takes the opportunity to ask about taking his class on a field trip to the Albert and Victoria Museum.
The headmaster is reluctant to let them go, feeling the students’ behavior is likely to be disruptive and unruly. Finally he agrees to let Braithwaite take his class if he can find one other teacher to go with him. He asks Miss Blanchard (Gillian) to go with him, and she readily agrees. The rest of the staff is dubious and share their doubts openly. When one of the boys comes to the staff room and tells Weston that Miss Dare would like to know if the girls’ netball is repaired, the teacher does not even know who the boy is talking about and the boy has to explain that he means Pamela Dare. Weston is sarcastically amazed to hear such a formality from a student and rather mocks Braithwaite for teaching his class manners.
When Weston asks if all the rest of the teachers need to start addressing students so formally as well, Braithwaite explains that each teacher is free to do what he or she wishes, but he and his class have come to an agreement regarding “certain courtesies.” This begins a conversation in which Weston is characteristically sarcastic and critical, and Braithwaite is surprised to hear the women in the room come to his defense. Weston makes sexist and racist comments, and it is clear the women are tired of their negative, prejudiced colleague. But Braithwaite thinks that what happens in the staff lounge does not really matter; the only thing that matters is the children.
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After recess, Braithwaite tells his students about their field trip to the Albert and Victoria museum next Thursday. They are ecstatic at the prospect of an outing but dubious about the presence of Miss Blanchard, their second chaperone. Thursday morning Braithwaite gets the travel voucher and comes to class after all of his students have arrived. He is stunned at what he sees. Each student is clean and tidy and dressed to make a good impression; they are thrilled at Braithwaite’s “delighted surprise.”
The trip on the subway is full of lively chatter until two women board the train and show their disdain for “shameless young girls and these black men.” Their remarks are meant to be overheard, and they are. Pamela Dare turns to the women and tells them Braithwaite is their teacher; the women are embarrassed and ashamed. At the museum, students work in groups, and it is clear to Braithwaite that they have done some preparatory work before coming to the museum. Even when they meet for tea, their discussions center on what they have seen and how what they saw impacts their lives today.
Braithwaite is proud of his class, for they conducted themselves in a manner befitting any class from any school. Denham and Potter act as marshals, ensuring every group is ready to leave when it is time to go. It is clear that the class now respects their teacher, and everything he says is taken as absolute authority. Gillian tells him she had a wonderful time and enjoyed talking to the girls in his class, though they seem to know more about life in many respects than she does. Gillian does note that Pamela Dare has a crush on Braithwaite, a thought which stuns him. He assures Gilliam he has never treated the girl differently than any of the others, and Gillian just laughs and says she is certain that is true—but it will not deter the feelings of a teenage girl.
When Gillian says she does not blame the girl, for he is “rather overpowering,” Braithwaite is in a state of confusion. He admires Gillian and wants to maintain their friendship, though she makes him feel “at once excited, delighted, and sobered.” The atmosphere between them has changed, and he walks quickly out of the room. Though he has had had several affairs in his life, Braithwaite has never been serious with any woman. Before, his color did not seem to matter; in fact, it had probably worked in his favor. Now, In England, a white woman with a black man is made to feel as if she were humiliating all womankind; it is simply not accepted.
Gillian follows Braithwaite to his room and asks if he is upset by their conversation, and their short dialogue leads to a tacit understanding of unexpressed feelings between them. He is ecstatic at this new and unexpected development. The next day the train is a bit late, making him a bit late to class. He is stunned to hear his class greet him in unison; he is equally stunned to see a bouquet of bedraggled flowers—obviously gathered from the back yards of many class members—waiting for him on his desk. He is moved, and he thanks his smiling students with a full heart.
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The students' Weekly Reviews are full of commentary on their trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Headmaster Florian reads their writing and is so impressed with the outcome that he has volunteered to help with any other ventures. It has been two months since Braithwaite began teaching, and each day the lessons are becoming more interesting. There is so much his students do not know that Braithwaite has plenty of material to cover before the school year is over. The lessons are informal and involve much class discussion.
A lesson with an unused skeleton from the Science Room reveals that his students know more than perhaps they should about reproduction and the human body. During a geography lesson, students wonder if he is from Africa. He tries to explain that he was born in British Guiana, but they understand little about Colonial territories, protectorates, and dependencies. They know the products produced in these places, but they have little interest in the people who produce them and care even less about their political struggles or their quest for economic improvement.
Even his colleagues understand little about black cultures, assuming all Negroes are caricatures (depicted in film) of indolence and shiftlessness, living in mud huts or shanties, smiling, singing, and dancing to face all their problems in life. Both students and teachers learned such stereotypes from their textbooks. When Braithwaite points to himself as a Negro who is not as depicted, they simply say he is different than the rest. He is making progress, and it is rewarding to help his eager students learn.
One evening on his way home, Braithwaite sees the old tobacconist who beckons him into the shop. He introduces Braithwaite to his mother as the new teacher at Greenslade School. She embraces him and gives him the address of a room she thinks might be good enough for him. He goes immediately, as the unreliability of the train has become a bit of a problem. The smiling woman on the other side of the door immediately loses her smile when she sees him. Clearly it is his color that causes her change of demeanor, but before she can close the door on him, Barbara Pegg, one of his students, peers from behind the door and tells her mother Braithwaite is her teacher. It changes nothing, however, and he determines to quit looking for an apartment. Barbara is embarrassed long after the incident.
Braithwaite and Gillian begin dating, and they enjoy one another’s company at the theater, ballet, films, and dinner. Her parents are rich and successful, and she quit her more lucrative job to do something more satisfying. She has her own apartment in Chelsea.
After school one evening, Barbara’s mother comes to offer him the apartment, as Barbara is upset with her for denying him the room. She has not changed her feelings toward Negroes, but she wants her daughter to be happy. Braithwaite assures the woman he will tell Barbara he changed his mind and decided not to take the apartment. Mrs. Pegg is relieved. Braithwaite explains to the girl that he has decided to stay where he is, but if he ever changes his mind, he will contact her first. She is relieved, and Braithwaite feels that he has made a small change in at least one student’s attitude about race and prejudice.
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Braithwaite spends his August break reading or attending various shows and exhibitions. Gillian is vacationing with her mother but sends him several letters. They are anxious to see one another again. When classes resume, many of his students are not there. They are on a “working holiday” in the country, working in the hop-fields in Kent. The class is lacking its usual energy. Pamela in particular seems to be disinterested, perhaps because her friend Barbara is not in class yet.
Soon everyone returns and “much of the old spirit was soon re-established,” just as Braithwaite had hoped. Students chatter about the fun they had while away and their plans to spend the money they earned. Despite the enthusiasm of the group, Pamela remains aloof and quiet. During recess breaks, she tidies the classroom and quietly does small things, unasked, for her teacher. All students gather around him regularly, asking more about him and telling him more about their families. Many mornings he finds a treat on his desk from some occasion the night before, and during the break he eats it with his tea as the student tells him all about the wedding or special event which happened the night before. Braithwaite is part of their lives, and they want to share everything with “Sir.”
Always at the edge of the crowd is Pamela, who remains observant but silent. She seems to have become more womanly, her hair now in an attractive style rather than a schoolgirl’s ponytail. Braithwaite senses he could help her if she would confide in him, but she does not. He plans to wait until she chooses to share her problem with him. One day the boys bring Braithwaite a football to fill with air and to lace, and one of the steel laces slips and pokes his finger. When he bleeds a bit, one of the boys jokingly shows surprise that the black man’s blood is red. Pamela, hovering near the group as usual, attacks the offender for his offensive remark.
The attack is vicious and aimed at all of them. She says they are stupid for always asking questions that show their ignorance, like whether Braithwaite feels the cold or bathes or gets a haircut. These are idiotic questions about things that do not matter and are insulting to their teacher. The boys are stunned at the vitriol with which she attacks them. They tell her that their teacher does not need her to defend him, but she does not back down from her position. Braithwaite sees that her scathing remarks confound the boys; she is “wonderful, tremendous in her scorn and towering anger.”
As the boys escape the room, Denham is struck by a sudden thought and tells her she is only defending their teacher because she is “stuck on” him. He rushes out of the room before he can see her reaction, but Braithwaite sees Pamela blush deeply as she looks at him and rushes out of the room. He believes that what Denham said is the truth.
Braithwaite sees his students as children and he feels only fatherly affection for them, but he can see that this situation might prove to be a problem for him and his class. He talks to Grace, and she explains that this kind of thing is typical among students of all ages. At Greenslade, male teachers have not been worthy role models and mentors for many years. Braithwaite dresses well and treats his students with courtesy, dignity, and respect; he is someone they can admire and emulate, she tells him. It is not surprising that a young woman would respond in such a way, as he is so different from the other men in her life. She tells him to be “tactful” and Pamela will soon “pull herself together.” Braithwaite appreciates Grace’s counsel.
Pamela’s emotional outburst seems to have released some of her tension, and she is once again joining her classmates in their conversations and activities. Braithwaite notices an occasional worried look on the girl’s face, but he hopes it will soon fade into normalcy. Headmaster Florian joins their class often now, inciting discussion and argument in an attempt to help the students think, reason, and analyze. Their responses are thoughtful and insightful (though not always grammatically correct), a testament to the Old Man’s philosophy of education. These students who could not gain admission into other schools are flourishing here and will be ready to “hold their own” in the adult world very soon.
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One October morning, Braithwaite is called to Florian’s office and told that one of his students, Patrick Fernman, has been arrested for wounding another Greenslade student with a knife during a scuffle. Braithwaite must prepare a report regarding Fernman’s attendance, conduct, abilities, and interests. The magistrates, he explains, already feel as if this school is too lenient on bad behavior, and this incident will solidify their beliefs. Braithwaite offers to go visit Fernman’s parents, and the Old Man gives him a note to take to them.
The class has been silent regarding their missing classmate, though Braithwaite is certain they all know about his trouble. He prepares the report and emphasizes the boy’s positive attributes, feeling justified especially since the wounded boy is a known bully. Gillian goes with Braithwaite to the boy’s home, and Mrs. Fernman has clearly spent much time weeping. As other adults are introduced to them, they, too, show signs of great sorrow. They are grateful for the kind letter from Florian and tell the teachers what happened.
The knife is a family heirloom, and Patrick had unwisely shown it, in its velvet case, to the other boy who immediately grabbed for it. In an attempt to keep the knife, the other boy was cut and Patrick’s hand was sliced quite badly. After getting the wound dressed, Patrick’s father took him to the police; the other boy had meanwhile been taken to the hospital. Braithwaite assures them he will do all he can to help their son, and Gillian is warmly comforting to them in their grief, even speaking Yiddish with the family. Braithwaite is glad she came with him.
The court hearing is on the following Monday, and Braithwaite attends. The room is full of young miscreants accused of everything from non-attendance to sexual misconduct, and most of them have brash and arrogant demeanors. In contrast, Fernman is standing abjectly with his parents and grandmother. The first case is that of a fourteen-year-old girl who has had “carnal knowledge” with several boys from her apartment building and is now pregnant. Her aunt is no longer willing to deal with her, so she is being sent to a home for young, unwed mothers. The girl remains impassive throughout the proceedings.
Braithwaite thinks about this girl, whose positive school report sounded much like that of many of his own female students, and realizes how little he knows about what happens to them outside of his classroom. Many of them are forced by their circumstances to work adult jobs to help support their families, and he recognizes how easily they could assume other adult behaviors because of their forced maturity. Braithwaite has only spoken objectively of sexual matters in the “absurd hope” that he will not offend or his remarks will not be misconstrued. Now he understands the ridiculousness of such thinking.
After several other cases, Fernman must face the judge. He is ashamed as he shuffles to the front of the room, his arm in a sling. After listening to the school report, the judge asks if the boy has ever been in trouble before. He has not, though the victim was in court just last month for burning his mother with a hot fireplace poker. The judge is serious and severe as he tells Fernman how dangerous a knife can be and how close he came to being a murderer. He understands the boy was sent on a simple errand to have the knife sharpened, but when fear and aggression are involved, awful things can happen.
The judge then turns the full force of his judicial voice on Greenslade and its too-lenient practices—though he does not actually name the school. It is the school which gives its students license to do evil and fosters in them a disregard for social institutions. The “ill-conceived schemes” of the “cranks and dreamers” who run the school are responsible for these kinds of behaviors. Finally, the judge tells the boy that his contrition is evident and likely punishment enough; however, for his own good he must see a probation officer once a week for the next year.
The family leaves the courtroom, greatly relieved, and Braithwaite spares them the embarrassment of talking to him after such a humiliating ordeal. While he in no way agrees with the judge’s assessment of Greenslade, Braithwaite now feels an even greater responsibility for the students in his care for six hours each day.
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Fernman comes back to school subdued but is soon part of the class activities and discussions. On several evenings, Braithwaite takes his class to see an opera, a play, and the Harlem Globetrotters. Braithwaite taught them the context and particulars of the play and opera before they went; afterwards, on the bus ride home, students discuss their experiences with insight and intelligence, something Braithwaite wishes the school’s detractors could hear. After the Globetrotters game, students are amazed to discover that many of the black players are college graduates. The students are beginning to expand their vision of the American Negro.
One morning the headmaster tells Braithwaite he has someone who would like to see him. When he walks into the office, Braithwaite finds a statuesque woman with auburn hair and immediately knows her to be Pamela Dare’s mother. The woman is distraught that her daughter has been staying out late and will not tell her where she has been. Mrs. Dare is confident Pamela will listen to Braithwaite, as she talks about him all the time at home and obviously admires him. When Braithwaite says her father should be the one who talks to her, Mrs. Dare tells him her husband died while serving in the Air Force when Pamela was eight and recalls that Braithwaite was also in the Air Force. He agrees to talk to Pamela.
He asks Pamela to meet with him for a few moments after school and she agrees, knowing her mother came to school out of concern. In the teacher’s lounge, Braithwaite and Gillian talk about their commitment to the children. Gillian believes Braithwaite is the more dedicated one. Weston, as always, is negative and assumes the worst every time parents (”these people”) come to school. Gillian warns Braithwaite not to treat Pamela like a child, for she is nearly a grown woman.
At their meeting, Pamela tells Braithwaite she has been spending time with her grandmother just around the corner from her house. Pamela does not think her mother cares about her as much as she does her reputation with her friends. When Braithwaite asks if she is in some kind of trouble, he can see that there is something bothering her. However, he does not want to pry too deeply or interfere in her personal life. She explains that other students gossip about her, and soon she tells him that after her father’s death, she and her mother were the best of friends. Everything changed between them after a recent holiday when her mother had begun to see other men. Pamela asks him to come speak with her mother, and Braithwaite agrees to do so, though Gillian wonders if it is a wise move. He assures her he thinks he can help and will be careful. She tells him he could teach at a much better school, but he is unwilling to consider the possibility. He realizes he has experienced some success here but has no idea if that could be replicated in another environment.
When he arrives, Mrs. Dare asks Pamela to leave the room and explains that her daughter came home unexpectedly one night during the holidays and found her in bed with a man. Nothing has been the same between them since then. Her biggest fear is that her nearly-grown daughter will find herself in serious adult trouble. Braithwaite is now sure he overestimated his ability to help and should not have come.
To get the meeting over with as quickly as possible, he speaks to Pamela in an impersonal tone, telling her he knows why she must be upset but he can see no reason for her to upset her mother by staying out so late. Both of the adults fear what could happen to her out on the streets so late at night. He tells Pamela that he expects her to treat her mother with the same respect and courtesy she has for him at school. The girl is contrite and respectful, agreeing to let her mother know where she is and to come home earlier.
Braithwaite knows this meeting had the potential to cause great scandal and is relieved to escape to the bus and his home without being seen by any of his students or their parents.
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November 15 is an important day at Greenslade School, as it is the day of the twice-a-year Students’ Council report. The older students are organizing the events and have been preparing diligently. At 10:00, students are dismissed to an assembly at which Headmaster Florian praises students for their achievements but reminds them there is still much to be accomplished. As he listens, Braithwaite knows Florian is deeply committed to this cause and these children.
When Florian is finished speaking, the two oldest students in the school (Denham and Miss Joseph) take over the proceedings. Each class will have its representatives report on the year thus far, and then a panel of teachers—chosen by the students—will take the stage and be asked questions by the student body about the activities for their classes. The class reports begin with the youngest students and move to the oldest; they all report on what they have actually learned rather than what they were expected to have learned.
When it is time for Braithwaite’s class to report, Denham calls each representative by name and the topic on which they will speak. Braithwaite is proud that Denham addresses each young woman as “Miss” and hopes that will set a tone for the rest of the students to emulate. Miss Joseph reports that their studies in every subject have focused on the interdependence of mankind. Potter tells of leaning about the two systems of measurements, one or the other of which is used in every country in the world. Sapiano explains their studies of pests around the world and how shared knowledge between countries is beginning to reduce the threat of harmful insects and bugs. Jackson and Miss Pegg talk about their geography studies. They learned that every country is interdependent on other countries because of their natural resources; they also discussed the many post-war needs around the world and organizations such as U.N.I.C.E.F. which are trying to help on a worldwide basis.
Denham, with dramatic flair, brings in the science skeleton and explains that it is a provable fact that it is a female but no one could know its nationality or its color. This is part of their science studies. The students are mesmerized by his presentation. He finishes with a diatribe against the current physical education curriculum, claiming it is boring and a good game would serve the purpose just as well. It is a popular sentiment and the crowd cheers.
Three teachers’ names are then randomly drawn from the panel discussion. Most of the questions come from the older students, and Braithwaite enjoys watching the proceedings. Denham continues his tirade regarding the form of exercise that students are forced to do for physical activity. Weston is unable to deal effectively with the boy’s reasoning, so Miss Phillips steps in and adroitly uses his own arguments against him. If Denham is strong enough and does not need the exercise, he should be helping others. And if he does not like the activities, doing them anyway is good preparation for a lifetime of having to do things he must do but does not particularly enjoy doing. The headmaster finally draws the meeting to a close, expressing his pride and appreciation for their efforts.
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Thursday is Gillian’s birthday. Braithwaite bought her a book of poetry that he is planning to give to her during lunch on her birthday. On Tuesday, she comes to his classroom and asks to speak to him. As usual, he is surrounded by a group of students, and they whisper and giggle as he excuses himself to go see Gillian. She tells him she has made reservations for a special meal at an elegant restaurant to celebrate her birthday after they go to a movie. When he comes back into the room, his students are full of questions and speculations. Pamela is the only one who remains aloof from the conversation.
On Thursday, the couple leaves the school together. Gillian looks beautiful, and Braithwaite is proud to have her on his arm. They take the bus to see their movie, and they get on another bus to get to the fancy restaurant. They are met by the maître d' who, after a questioning glance at Braithwaite, shows them to their table. The couple is lost in their strong feelings which remain unexpressed as yet. Soon they begin to notice that the tables around them have waiters hovering over them, but not a single waiter has approached their table.
Finally a waiter comes, hands them a menu, and then quickly leaves. Later, he returns to take their order but is implicitly discourteous. Both diners are annoyed but say nothing until the waiter returns with their soup and spills some on Braithwaite—and simply sneers at him after doing so. Gillian is outraged and they leave the restaurant. Outside, she asks Braithwaite to take her home. In the taxi, Gillian sits as far away from Braithwaite as possible. He wonders if she blames the waiter’s discourtesy on him.
When they arrive at her house, she bolts out of the cab and walks up the steps to her front door. He expects her to disappear inside, but she turns to ask why he is not coming in with her. This Gillian is a stranger to him, but he cares for her too much and means to “see it through.” Her entire apartment is in harmony; the only discord in the room is between them. She walks out of the room, and he takes his gift for her out of his briefcase and places it on the table. Nothing about this evening is going as he had hoped.
When she returns, she opens the gift and begins to cry in despair, asking him why he just sat and took the abuse from the waiter. She is furious at him for not defending himself, reminding him of other times when he refused to defend himself while others championed him. Braithwaite is calm, assuring her that beating up the waiter would not have changed anything. He is tired of this familiar discussion, though he has never had it with Gillian before. She suddenly throws the book of poetry at him and then follows behind it, poised “like a demented creature” to strike him.
Braithwaite grabs her and holds her until her anger turns to moans as she cries against his coat. When he feels it is safe to release her, he simply watches her, knowing their relationship is finished. Finally she asks him what they are going to do, and he tells her he does not know. Incidents like this happen to Braithwaite occasionally, but Gillian had never experienced such blatant prejudice. She asks if this is how it will always be when they are together, and he explains that it would not have happened if she had not been with him. He loves her and does not want to say such things, but it is better that she know.
Soon Gillian tells him she loves him, and he tells her the same. He tells her his life story so she will understand how he came to be here and how he is “learning what it means to live with dignity in his black skin.” She is afraid, but she wants to be with him and has even talked to her parents about him. They will go visit them next weekend. Braithwaite is stunned at the unexpectedness of life, reflecting that he has not even kissed Gillian but that their course is now set. She is an innocent who is bravely linking her life to his, and they are both a little afraid. Others have faced this problem before and survived the challenge, and so will they.
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The touchstone for Braithwaite’s happiness is school. Here he has found an understanding of the young people in his charge as well as the neighborhoods in which they live. He is known in the markets and talked to with a mix of deference and familiarity by the mothers and relatives of his students. He is gaining a real affection for his students while continuing to model the behaviors he wants them to emulate. His early condemnation of their clothing and habits is now tempered with that understanding and affection, and their behavior and dress are reflecting the change.
A new teacher, Mr. Bell, is at the school for a short time to enhance instruction; one of the areas he assists with is physical education. He is a skilled fencer with little patience for imperfection. Some of the boys in class are dexterous enough to participate without difficulty, but Richard Buckley is unsuited in every way to such an endeavor. He is short, fat, and “rather dim,” making him a poor candidate for any physical activity; however, he reacts violently when others try to keep him from the embarrassment of trying. Buckley becomes Bell’s “special whipping boy.” Some of the boys write about it in their Weekly Reviews, and the headmaster decides to address the issue during a staff meeting.
When Florian mentions Bell’s personal, derisive attacks on the boys’ hygiene, Bell is defensive. Florian explains that even the simple act of bathing is difficult for many of these boys and asks Bell to temper his remarks with some understanding. Bell is furious at what he feels was a public rebuke and continues to abuse his students. One afternoon, matters get worse. Though Braithwaite was not there, he is able to piece together the events from the boys’ accounts and Bell’s admissions.
Bell goaded Buckley into doing an activity he was clearly unable to do. The boy hurt himself, and the boys rushed to help their classmate—all except Potter, who picked up a makeshift club and advanced on the teacher. One of the boys then ran to get Braithwaite, who was able to calm Potter down as Bell disappeared from the scene.
The boys are still incited to do something to Bell, but Braithwaite diffuses their anger by charging them with caring for Buckley. Braithwaite is unsure about Buckley’s potential injuries and knows he must therefore make a report to the headmaster. However, after the conversation in the staff meeting, he fears there is likely to be a row. When he finds Bell, Braithwaite hears the defensiveness in the man’s voice as he explains that he had to make Buckley do it or he would look ineffectual in front of his students. After Bell leaves to make his report to Florian, Clinty comes into the room and asks Braithwaite what happened. He tells her but leaves quickly to go talk to his boys. He feels as if Clinty wants to say something to him, but he does not want to hear it.
Upstairs, he tells the boys there is nothing which should have moved them to such violence, even their friend being taunted and hurt. When they try to tell Braithwaite he just did not understand what it felt like to see such unfair and unkind behavior, he tells them they are missing the point. They have been talking about many things in class, and in a few weeks each of them will have to begin applying those things in real life. Today they got angry and forgot everything they had been learning and immediately resorted to violence. In life, he tells them, many things will make them angry: responding with violence will get them nothing but trouble. If this incident is a predictor of their future behavior, Braithwaite says he has little hope for them.
Braithwaite tells Potter he thinks Bell deserves an apology from him, and several boys explode with the injustice of such an act, saying he had obviously never been treated so unjustly or he would understand. Suddenly, Braithwaite is visibly emotional and tells them he has been treated unfairly many times. At times he wanted to retaliate violently, but he knows that would not improve or change anything. The boys seem to sense his pain and only ask why the teacher should not apologize to them. He explains that he can only talk to them. Braithwaite asks Potter if he is satisfied with his behavior toward Bell. When he says no, Braithwaite suggests Potter find the man and deliver the apology.
Buckley is fine and soon Potter returns to class followed by Bell, who makes a mild apology of his own and says he will see them all again next class period. The class moves on to other things.
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Headmaster Florian obtained permission for a newspaper to come to Greenslade to take photos and write a story about the school. His hope is that this will be an opportunity for the positive things that are happening in the school to be published for the rest of the country to see. He tells his staff the day before the journalists arrive, and they all decide not to tell the students in advance so that their behavior will be more natural.
Soon after the visitors arrive, Braithwaite is called to the headmaster’s office and asked to be featured as a black teacher in the school. He gets defensive and asks the purpose of the story. When they tell him it will prove that in Britain there is no racial prejudice, Braithwaite refuses to be used for such propaganda. In his classroom, Florian conducts a discussion with Braithwaite’s students and they are stellar both in behavior and content.
A week later the article is published, and it is appalling. It is primarily a series of photos with captions, and the photos intentionally depict the staff and students of the school in the worst possible light. They have been tricked, and at a staff meeting after school the teachers are outraged at the distorted view of themselves, their school, and their students. Florian is equally distressed, telling them he was duped by the promise of objective reporting. Now all the maligners have photographic evidence to support their unsubstantiated claims against the school. Gillian reminds everyone that the editors chose the story that would sell, and most people would forget what they saw and read in a few days.
Early in December, Larry Seales comes to class late and explains he will be gone for a few days. His mother died unexpectedly and he is helping his father make the necessary arrangements. After delivering the news to Braithwaite, the boy collapses into tears, and the teacher relays his news to the class. After Seales leaves, they decide they will take up a collection to purchase a floral arrangement for the funeral. By the end of the week, they have gathered money to buy the tribute and make all the necessary decisions, but no one will deliver the flowers to the house. When pressed, the class finally admits it is because they cannot be seen going to a black person’s house.
Braithwaite feels “weak and useless,” knowing all their discussions have changed nothing. He feels like an alien among them still. None of what he said or taught or demonstrated matters to them; when his students look at people, they still see nothing but color first. What lies below the skin is lost to them. Seales is one of them and his mother was white; still they worry about what people would think if they are seen associating in any way with a colored person. He leaves the room.
His discouragement and despair are strong and he would like to share it with someone, but his colleagues are all white and he wonders what they could say to him now. Braithwaite tells the headmaster his story, and Florian says he is glad this happened. Though Braithwaite has made great strides with his students in the seven months he has had them, the prejudices run deep: it is unrealistic to expect things to change so quickly. The kindly man tells Braithwaite to go back to his classroom and show his students some of the same tolerance he expects of them.
Before going back into his room, Braithwaite realizes this is exactly the kind of thing he and Gillian will face on a constant basis, and he wonders if she is strong enough to withstand it. The classroom is quiet when he enters, and one of the girls tries to explain that their reluctance to deliver the flowers has nothing to do with their regard for their friend. They are simply afraid of the consequences. There is a quiet pause and then Pamela Dare stands and says she will deliver the flowers. She says she is not afraid of the gossip and she has known Larry since they started school. Braithwaite says he will see her at the funeral. He does not mention the issue to Gillian.
On the bus ride to the funeral, Braithwaite wallows in bitterness, knowing a murderer or worse would be accepted because he was white, but a black man would never be accepted. He is discouraged and disgusted with society and his students. As he approaches the Seales house, he is moved to tears when he sees nearly all of his class gathered for the funeral. He feels a small pressure in his hand. Pamela has slipped her tiny handkerchief into his palm, and he uses it to wipe his tears.
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The last days of the term are the happiest days for Braithwaite since he left the R.A.F. He and Gillian are growing closer, and they go to visit her parents. The Blanchards are reasonably affluent white people who raised their daughter to be independent and strong. Though they are not immediately comfortable with the man their daughter loves, they are pleasant and do not try to change Gillian’s mind. Most people are asked the hypothetical anti-prejudice question “Would you allow your daughter to marry a black man?” and do not really have to answer it. The Blanchards have to ask it and answer it, and Braithwaite feels sympathy for them.
They enjoy a pleasant enough lunch and ask about his current and future plans, but there is still no real connection between Braithwaite and Gillian’s parents. Afterwards, while they are smoking in the lounge in front of a fire, Mr. Blanchard mentions Aruba, a place Braithwaite knows well. They recall many things, but the one outrageous thing they both remember is the lines of men waiting to visit the state-sponsored prostitutes. The island was full of men from all over, coming to work at the oil refinery, and there were no accommodations for their wives. The men lived in barracks with community bathrooms, dining rooms, and other living spaces. Their one opportunity to escape, even for a short while, was to visit the prostitutes shipped over to the island every two weeks. Neither man ever visited the brothel, but both had seen the lines and it is their discussion of this shared experience that creates a connection between them.
Finally Gillian’s father talks plainly about his and his wife’s feelings about the relationship between Braithwaite and their daughter. He speaks clearly about their hopes that this relationship would fade, until Gillian brought him home to meet them. Now, he feels he must outline the dangers of such a marriage, knowing there will be difficult times ahead for them as a couple. He candidly explains that he would not have called himself a prejudiced man, but now he is forced to admit that he would prefer to break up this relationship if it were possible, knowing how difficult things might be for his daughter. And if the couple has children, there will certainly be problems, for they will not belong in either world.
Braithwaite is tired of these kinds of ridiculous arguments and reminds Mr. Blanchard that, years ago, Blanchard could not guarantee his wife that their children would be healthy and happy, either. If he and Gillian marry and have children, they will just have to take their chances, as the older couple had. Mr. Blanchard asks them to wait another six months to be sure of their feelings and to experience life together as a couple so they will understand the ramifications of such a venture. He then assures Braithwaite that both he and his wife like him and, if he will be joining the family, they will be friends.
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Near the end of the term, representatives from local industries come to Greenslade to recruit workers. Though many students take the proffered jobs, others have more ambitious plans and have already found more promising situations to begin their lives as adults. At first, all the students spoke eagerly of their plans to move on and have some money to spend, but as the time to leave approaches they grow more subdued and even frightened. Braithwaite knows, though, that they are frightened of jumping into the stream of adulthood but are not frightened of the stream itself. They use their last days in school to make sure everything gets said and asked and answered; in the last week there is not one absence.
Formal lessons are impossible in the excitement of these last days, so the class simply talks. Braithwaite is thrilled with many of the views they express about the relationships between people. Braithwaite reminds them that without barriers, people from all places can make their way to Britain, and these people of different races, religions, and color require nothing more from them than the common courtesies one would offer any stranger to their country.
Clinty comes into Braithwaite’s classroom one morning during recess, looking smug and announcing that Gillian will not be returning to Greenslade after next semester. Braithwaite is surprised but does not show it. Clinty said Gillian must be through “slumming,” since she told the Old Man that she could not commit to returning past the next term. Braithwaite notes Clinty’s obvious dislike for Gillian, which explains why she feels the need to tell him this news. He feels as if she came for some other reason but did not disclose it.
The Christmas party is a school-wide feast prepared by the senior girls in the Domestic Science Room with the assistance of the senior boys. The meal with the younger children goes well, but when the seniors serve the juniors Braithwaite is dismayed at what he sees. The younger students are wasteful, rude, and disrespectful. At six o’clock tonight the seniors have their party, so they leave to get dressed for the festivities. Braithwaite meets Pamela in the hallway and she asks if he will dance one dance with her tonight; he assures her he will, though “no jiving.” She promises to bring a special record for him and asks if he will call her Pamela instead of “Miss Dare” tonight. He will.
As the staff greets the students at the door, they are pleased with the transformations. All of them look their best, but the shining star of the evening is Pamela Dare. She looks sophisticated and dazzling, and Gillian exclaims that she is a beautiful girl. When Pamela comes to greet them, Gillian is struck with a bit of jealousy and takes Braithwaite’s hand, not caring who notices. It is a “very happy occasion,” and everyone is enjoying themselves.
Braithwaite dances with Gillian whenever he can, and when he dances a waltz with Clinty she remarks that he is “really gone” on Gillian. Braithwaite acts innocent and they both laugh. Pamela takes a record to Weston and soon “In the Still of the Night” is playing and Braithwaite is dancing with her. It is a lovely dance, and afterwards she asks if she can come see him sometime. He tells her she is welcome to visit whenever she is able.
The last day of school is full of good-natured teasing about the night before, and Braithwaite realizes that while some of these young people will be unexceptional, most will be productive members of society. One of the girls stands and offers a thank-you to Braithwaite on behalf of the group for his treating them as grown-ups, with respect and dignity, despite their behavior. The class erupts into applause, and Pamela rises with a package in her hands. She walks to the front of the room with great dignity, but after Braithwaite takes the package from her she quickly turns around and goes back to her seat. She is not quite adult in all ways yet.
Florian had slipped into the room when he heard the cheering, and now he and his newest teacher look at the label on the package: To Sir, With Love. Below it are the signatures of every student in the room. Florian looks at him and smiles, and Braithwaite looks over the headmaster’s shoulder at his students. | <urn:uuid:9c903c09-3269-4968-8286-57ba60cd6bb7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.enotes.com/topics/sir-with-love | 2023-09-27T11:44:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.987631 | 19,492 |
The vintage began with a mild and a long winter with little rainfall. Budding started in early April, followed by some night frosts. The month ended with temperatures below the average and well distributed rainfall. May was characterized by cool temperatures and frequent rains. June and July were hot and with little rainfall. The development of the vineyard was delayed compared to 2020. In August there were no heat waves. The harvest began on 29th August with the first parcel of Alta Langa and continued at a regular pace along with all the other grapes. Yields per hectare were below the average. The grapes were healthy and with perfect ripening parameters and surprisingly balanced in acidity.
Winemaker: Paolo Giacosa
Grapes: 100% Cortese
Growing Area: Gavi
Alcohol: 13,50 %
Food: Great with fish: appetizers, shellfish, seafood and sushi. It can be paired also with strong-flavoured sauces. Excellent as an aperitif.
Colour: Straw-yellow with typical greenish hues.
Nose: Wide, complex, notes of fresh wildflowers, lavender, sage, fruity, white peach and apricot.
Palate: Fresh, mineral, intense with a full body important acidity balance, very long persistence.
Serving: 8 - 10 °C
Cellaring: 7 - 8 years
Vines age: 35 years
Yield: 8500 kg/ha
Harvests: 100% hand-harvested
Training system: Guyot
Farming practices: Sustainable Viticulture
PRE-FERMENTATION PROCEDURES: Grape bunches are hand-sorted on a vibrating table and chilled with carbonic snow to avoid oxidation and reduce considerably the use of sulphur and softly pressed. A part is pressed and macerated in the press at cool temperature for one night.
This process is “100% screw conveyor free” to handle grapes as gently as possible.
FERMENTATION PROCESS: the grape juice is obtained by soft pressing the whole clusters in an inert environment (nitrogen). The must is cooled before fermentation in stainless steel vats at controlled temperature.
BOTTLE REFINEMENT: Monterotondo is refined on its own lees in stainless steel tanks for 6-7 months and then in the bottle.
Monterotondo Gavi del Comune di Gavi, from the municipality of GAVI, thanks to the particular “terroir” characterized by a chalky-sulphurous soil and the microclimate, represents the best expression of the Cortese grape that reaches unique levels of complexity and elegance. This wine will also surprise you with its longevity. | <urn:uuid:47efc5c0-89f9-4418-b9c2-6645a229ed20> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.enricoserafino.it/en/wine/poggio-della-rupe-gavi-docg-del-comune-di-gavi-2020-monterotondo/ | 2023-09-27T10:54:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.934215 | 602 |
OUR Annual Summer Studying List 2022 IS Listed here!
Juicy web site-turners. Types that make you think. And ones that acquire you to a faraway place… that no screen could ever acquire you.
Summertime and reading through just always go jointly so nicely. It’s the ultimate relaxation & self-treatment, imho (specially paired with an wonderful natural deal with mask + your beloved iced natural tea, kombucha…. or ya know, your covers and a snooze mask on your head like me most nights (lol).
I have been examining so significantly these days, and it delivers me the most happiness in the most basic way. There’s one thing rejuvenating about leaving your phone in yet another space (or on airplane manner), acquiring a comfortable chair/finally tucking into mattress, and dipping into an additional globe for a very little whilst. (Even if a “little while” is 23 minutes while the stars align and your kids’ naps happen to overlap… just me? Lol)
Today, my staff and I are sharing our Major 21 favorite reads of the year and the very best books to go through this summer time! I constantly like putting with each other these posts since, selfishly, I get to hear what my team’s been examining, and they alllllways have the very best recs. We have got a minimal little bit of all the things, no issue your looking through type: light seashore reads, business guides, mysteries and thrillers, parenting, non-fiction, heartwarming novels & much more.
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Melissa’s summer season reads (team SRH head of operations & client knowledge):
Audrey’s summer time reads (team SRH copywriter):
- Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell: gosh, if you have Audible and like mysteries, I really recommend any Lisa Jewell reserve! They are darkish and twisty, and normally established in London/Europe. This a person is about a female who goes missing immediately after she’s been next her therapist for a whilst, who she uncovered out was dishonest on his spouse. Lisa Jewell is the queen of unexpected endings, and listening to the character’s accents on Audible is so calming to me (even if the tales are a bit edgy)!
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- Each individual Summer time Soon after by Carley Fortune: THIS E-book! Possibly my top summer season read through rec if you are going on a vacation at any time shortly! It follows a dude and girl who fell in really like as teenagers when their dad and mom had lake properties subsequent to every single other, and then experienced a huge slipping out (that you do not know what caused until finally close to the conclusion). They arrive alongside one another later in daily life for a funeral and sparks are reignited in the greatest way. Such a fun, intimate, but also coronary heart-wrenching study.
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1. If infringement proceedings in a designated State have been commenced or are contemplated by the patentee (here, commenced and thereafter stayed pending decision in an opposition before the EPO), it is justified to give priority to an appeal in opposition proceedings and to decide it in advance of other pending appeals.
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Fee reduction/Non-official authorised language
Lacking of a small amount of a fee
I. Following the grant of European patent No. 92 308 on 27 July 1988, notices of opposition were filed by seven opponents within the nine-month opposition period which expired on 27 April 1989. There is no dispute that six of these seven oppositions were filed in time and are admissible. However, the notice of opposition of Opponent 2 has been held by the Formalities Officer of the Opposition Division in a decision dated 29 January 1990 under Rule 69(2) EPC as not having been filed under Article 99(1) EPC, having regard to the facts set out in the next paragraph.
II. Opponent 2 filed a letter dated 12 April 1989 both in English (the language of the proceedings) and in Italian. Although entitled "Notice of Opposition", the letter does not contain any reference to any ground of opposition and could not conceivably be considered as a "written reasoned statement" within the meaning of Article 99(1) and Rule 55(c) EPC. The letter states that "The original of the present notice is written in Italian since the Opponent, an Italian Company, intends to avail itself of the option provided in Article 14(4) and Rule 6(3) EPC". A copy payment voucher in respect of the opposition fee less a 20% reduction (Article 12 "Rules relating to Fees") was enclosed with the letter, showing payment on 11 April 1989. Subsequently, on 24 April 1989, Opponent 2 filed a formal notice of opposition including a written reasoned statement six pages long setting out facts, evidence and arguments in support of the grounds of opposition, entirely in English.
III. On 2 June 1989 the Formalities Officer issued a communication under Rule 69(1) EPC stating that the opposition fee had not been paid in full. Following correspondence between the Formalities Officer and Opponent 2 during which decision J 4/88 (OJ EPO 1989, 483) was referred to by the Formalities Officer and discussed by Opponent 2 (and during which the missing amount of the opposition fee was in fact paid, on 19 July 1989), the Formalities Officer issued a further communication on 1 August 1989 stating that "The matter has been passed on to the Legal Department". Subsequently, on 29 January 1990 a decision was issued in the name of the Formalities Officer, pursuant to Rule 69(2) EPC. The decision sets out the detailed facts of the case and the submissions of Opponent 2 and states that "The purpose of Article 14 and Rule 6 EPC is to provide a compensation for the nationals of those Contracting States which have accepted to renounce their official language being one of the official languages of the EPO. If this non-official authorised language is not used, then the benefit of the reduction of the fee cannot be granted. The right to the reduction is attached to the fact that said language is used and not only to the nationality or principal place of business of the requesting person. "In principle therefore, to be granted the benefit of the reduction of the opposition fee under Rule 6(3) EPC, the notice of opposition should be entirely written in a non-official authorised language". After referring to decisions J 7/80 (OJ EPO 1981, 137) and J 4/88, the decision goes on to hold that that part of a notice of opposition which is governed by Rule 55(c) EPC "should always be filed in a non-official authorised language".
IV. Furthermore, it was held that it was not considered justified to overlook the amount lacking of the opposition fee pursuant to the final sentence of Article 9(1) Rules relating to Fees, because the opponent had had the opportunity to preserve his rights, and had not paid the full amount of the opposition fee on purpose. The question whether the amount lacking, being 20% of the opposition fee, was a "small amount" for the purpose of Article 9(1) Rules relating to Fees was not decided.
V. Opponent 2 duly filed an appeal on 21 March 1990. In his grounds of appeal he contended in particular:
(a) that the present case concerning a notice of opposition was analogous to that of a request for examination, and that decisions J 7/80 and J 4/88 should be distinguished, because both were concerned with the filing of an application in an unofficial language;
(b) that a representative has a duty to make all possible efforts to preserve his client's rights (in this case, to preserve his client's right to pay a reduced opposition fee);
(c) that if the payment of a reduced opposition was not justified under Article 14(4) and Rule 6(3) EPC, the amount lacking should be disregarded, under Article 9(1) Rules relating to Fees, so as to preserve Opponent 2's interest in opposing the patent.
VI. Subsequently, in a letter filed on 10 August 1990, (possibly filed as a consequence of the notice concerning accelerated processing of oppositions dated 11 June 1990 (OJ EPO 1990, 324)), the respondent (the patentee) requested urgent action to decide the appeal as rapidly as possible, essentially on the following grounds:
(a) There is a substantial market for the patented product in the eight designated States, and it is estimated that sales of allegedly infringing products are greater than sales by the patentee;
(b) Infringement proceedings in Germany against Opponent 3 had already been stayed pending the outcome of the opposition proceedings before the EPO, and any infringement proceedings in other designated States would also be liable to be stayed on the same basis;
(c) If the patent is maintained at the end of the opposition proceedings, the longer that these take, the more difficult it will be for the Patentee to enforce the patent against established allegedly infringing competitors. Manufacture and/or importation and distribution of the patented product requires only a small capital outlay. Furthermore, Opponent 6 filed observations indicating that there should be no delay in deciding the opposition proceedings as a result of the appeal by Opponent 2.
1. The appeal is admissible.
2. Processing of the appeal and of the opposition The facts and matters set out in paragraph VI above fully justify the Board of Appeal giving priority to this appeal and deciding it in front of other pending appeals, having regard to the general principles which also underlie the Notice concerning accelerated processing of oppositions dated 11 June 1990 referred to in paragraph VI above.
So far as general principles are concerned, a "raison d'être" for a patentee obtaining and maintaining a patent is in order that he can enforce it when appropriate, and in a case such as the present, the timing of enforcement proceedings within Contracting States can be of real importance. Delays in such proceedings can be prejudicial both to the patentee's interests and to those of his competitors.
The general rule under the EPC is that after grant, a European patent is no longer within the competence of the EPO and becomes a bundle of national patents within the jurisdiction of national courts, but opposition proceedings before the EPO constitute an exception to this general rule. Against this background, particularly when infringement proceedings before a national court have been commenced or are contemplated (or as in the present case, have been commenced and stayed) the speedy processing of opposition proceedings in respect of the relevant European patent becomes especially important. In the present case, for the above reasons it is clearly important not only that this appeal is decided quickly, but also that the complete substantive opposition of which this appeal forms a procedural part should be decided quickly. In this connection, although the Formalities Officer's decision has held that the opposition by Opponent 2 has not been brought into existence, nevertheless Article 106 EPC provides that the filing of an appeal from such decision has a suspensive effect. In the context of a case such as the present, this means that Opponent 2, the Appellant, should be treated as though he had duly filed an opposition, unless and until the Board of Appeal decides otherwise. Thus at the same time as the appeal is examined and decided, the opposition should be prepared and processed with the participation of the appellant up to the point when it is ready to be decided (obviously the opposition cannot be decided until it has been decided in the appeal whether or not Opponent 2 can take part in the opposition: in such circumstances an appeal will always normally be expedited). The files concerning the opposition should in principle remain with the Opposition Division for such activities to be controlled, and only those documents which are relevant to the appeal should be remitted to the Board of Appeal (with copies retained by the Opposition Division where appropriate). The parties may then address correspondence to the Opposition Division or the Board of Appeal as the case may be, and such correspondence can be properly and expeditiously dealt with by the appropriate department having possession of the relevant files. In the present case, it is to be hoped that relatively little delay in the progress of the substantive opposition proceedings has been caused by the appeal by Opponent 2, and that the opposition can now receive accelerated processing.
3. Legality of the reduction in the opposition fee In the Board's judgment it is very clear that a reduction of the opposition fee in the circumstances of the present case is not allowable. The Board fully agrees with what was said in this respect in the decision under appeal, the most relevant passages of which are set out in paragraph III above.
4. Justification for overlooking the small amount lacking
(a) The Board does not agree, however, with the approach taken to this question by the Formalities Officer in the decision under appeal, as summarised in paragraph IV above. Whether or not, under Article 9(1) Rules relating to Fees, it may be considered justified to overlook a small amount of a fee which is lacking without prejudice to the rights of the person making the payment, must be decided on an objective basis (having regard to all the relevant circumstances of the case), and not on a subjective basis. In the decision under appeal, the fact that a reduced opposition fee was paid on purpose was considered as the sole and decisive point against the appellant, justifying a refusal to overlook the amount which was lacking and thus causing him to lose his right to be an opponent at all. However, in the Board's view, while it is necessary to decide whether the appellant's contentions concerning a reduction in the opposition fee are correct, it is inappropriate to punish him merely for making the contentions. While it would have been more prudent if the appellant had paid the full amount of the opposition fee within the nine-month opposition period, with a reservation in respect of the 20% reduction pending a decision as to whether or not he was entitled to such a reduction, it is nevertheless in practice understandable that he withheld payment of 20% in the belief that it was only by so doing that the question as to whether he was entitled to such a reduction would be decided at all. In any event, apart from the failure to pay the full amount of the opposition fee, the appellant had fully complied with the other requirements under Article 99 and Rule 55 EPC, and his contentions in respect of the grounds of opposition raised should therefore be taken into account in examining and deciding the opposition. This can best be done if the Appellant remains a party to the opposition.
(b) Furthermore, in this context in the Board's judgment 20% of the opposition fee can properly be regarded as a small amount for the purpose of Article 9 Rules Fees.
(c) In the Board's judgment, it is therefore justifiable under Article 9(1) Rules relating to Fees to overlook the amount of the opposition fee which was lacking without prejudice to the rights of the appellant to be an opponent, having regard also to the fact that the missing 20% was in fact paid within two months of expiry of the opposition period during the course of correspondence relating to it. The opposition fee is therefore deemed to have been paid in due time.
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The appeal is allowed.
2. The decision of the Formalities Officer dated 29 January 1990 is set aside.
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Outside the Bar Milano I found Bill and Mike and Edna. Edna was the girl’s name.
“We’ve been thrown out,” Edna said.
“By the police,” said Mike. “There’s some people in there that don’t like me.”
“I’ve kept them out of four fights,” Edna said. “You’ve got to help me.”
Bill’s face was red.
“Come back in, Edna,” he said. “Go on in there and dance with Mike.”
“It’s silly,” Edna said. “There’ll just be another row.”
“Damned Biarritz swine,” Bill said.
“Come on,” Mike said. “After all, it’s a pub. They can’t occupy a whole pub.”
“Good old Mike,” Bill said. “Damned English swine come here and insult Mike and try and spoil the fiesta.”
“They’re so bloody,” Mike said. “I hate the English.”
“They can’t insult Mike,” Bill said. “Mike is a swell fellow. They can’t insult Mike. I won’t stand it. Who cares if he is a damn bankrupt?” His voice broke.
“Who cares?” Mike said. “I don’t care. Jake doesn’t care. Do you care?”
“No,” Edna said. “Are you a bankrupt?”
“Of course I am. You don’t care, do you, Bill?”
Bill put his arm around Mike’s shoulder.
“I wish to hell I was a bankrupt. I’d show those bastards.”
“They’re just English,” Mike said. “It never makes any difference what the English say.”
“The dirty swine,” Bill said. “I’m going to clean them out.”
“Bill,” Edna looked at me. “Please don’t go in again, Bill. They’re so stupid.”
“That’s it,” said Mike. “They’re stupid. I knew that was what it was.”
“They can’t say things like that about Mike,” Bill said.
“Do you know them?” I asked Mike.
“No. I never saw them. They say they know me.”
“I won’t stand it,” Bill said.
“Come on. Let’s go over to the Suizo,” I said.
“They’re a bunch of Edna’s friends from Biarritz,” Bill said.
“They’re simply stupid,” Edna said.
“One of them’s Charley Blackman, from Chicago,” Bill said.
“I was never in Chicago,” Mike said.
Edna started to laugh and could not stop.
“Take me away from here,” she said, “you bankrupts.”
“What kind of a row was it?” I asked Edna. We were walking across the square to the Suizo. Bill was gone.
“I don’t know what happened, but some one had the police called to keep Mike out of the back room. There were some people that had known Mike at Cannes. What’s the matter with Mike?”
“Probably he owes them money” I said. “That’s what people usually get bitter about.”
In front of the ticket-booths out in the square there were two lines of people waiting. They were sitting on chairs or crouched on the ground with blankets and newspapers around them. They were waiting for the wickets to open in the morning to buy tickets for the bull-fight. The night was clearing and the moon was out. Some of the people in the line were sleeping.
At the Café Suizo we had just sat down and ordered Fundador when Robert Cohn came up.
“Where’s Brett?” he asked.
“I don’t know.”
“She was with you.”
“She must have gone to bed.”
“I don’t know where she is.”
His face was sallow under the light. He was standing up.
“Tell me where she is.”
“Sit down,” I said. “I don’t know where she is.”
“The hell you don’t!”
“You can shut your face.”
“Tell me where Brett is.”
“I’ll not tell you a damn thing.”
“You know where she is.”
“If I did I wouldn’t tell you.”
“Oh, go to hell, Cohn,” Mike called from the table. “Brett’s gone off with the bull-fighter chap. They’re on their honeymoon.”
“You shut up.”
“Oh, go to hell!” Mike said languidly.
“Is that where she is?” Cohn turned to me.
“Go to hell!”
“She was with you. Is that where she is?”
“Go to hell!”
“I’ll make you tell me”—he stepped forward—“you damned pimp.”
I swung at him and he ducked. I saw his face duck sideways in the light. He hit me and I sat down on the pavement. As I started to get on my feet he hit me twice. I went down backward under a table. I tried to get up and felt I did not have any legs. I felt I must get on my feet and try and hit him. Mike helped me up. Some one poured a carafe of water on my head. Mike had an arm around me, and I found I was sitting on a chair. Mike was pulling at my ears.
“I say, you were cold,” Mike said.
“Where the hell were you?”
“Oh, I was around.”
“You didn’t want to mix in it?”
“He knocked Mike down, too,” Edna said.
“He didn’t knock me out,” Mike said. “I just lay there.”
“Does this happen every night at your fiestas?” Edna asked. “Wasn’t that Mr. Cohn?”
“I’m all right,” I said. “My head’s a little wobbly.”
There were several waiters and a crowd of people standing around.
“Vaya!” said Mike. “Get away. Go on.”
The waiters moved the people away.
“It was quite a thing to watch,” Edna said. “He must be a boxer.”
“I wish Bill had been here,” Edna said. “I’d like to have seen Bill knocked down, too. I’ve always wanted to see Bill knocked down. He’s so big.”
“I was hoping he would knock down a waiter,” Mike said, “and get arrested. I’d like to see Mr. Robert Cohn in jail.”
“No,” I said.
“Oh, no,” said Edna. “You don’t mean that.”
“I do, though,” Mike said. “I’m not one of these chaps likes being knocked about. I never play games, even.”
Mike took a drink.
“I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you. How do you feel, Jake?”
“You’re nice,” Edna said to Mike. “Are you really a bankrupt?”
“I’m a tremendous bankrupt,” Mike said. “I owe money to everybody. Don’t you owe any money?”
“I owe everybody money,” Mike said. “I borrowed a hundred pesetas from Montoya to-night.”
“The hell you did,” I said.
“I’ll pay it back,” Mike said. “I always pay everything back.”
“That’s why you’re a bankrupt, isn’t it?” Edna said.
I stood up. I had heard them talking from a long way away. It all seemed like some bad play.
“I’m going over to the hotel,” I said. Then I heard them talking about me.
“Is he all right?” Edna asked.
“We’d better walk with him.”
“I’m all right,” I said. “Don’t come. I’ll see you all later.”
I walked away from the café. They were sitting at the table. I looked back at them and at the empty tables. There was a waiter sitting at one of the tables with his head in his hands.
Walking across the square to the hotel everything looked new and changed. I had never seen the trees before. I had never seen the flagpoles before, nor the front of the theatre. It was all different. I felt as I felt once coming home from an out-of-town football game. I was carrying a suitcase with my football things in it, and I walked up the street from the station in the town I had lived in all my life and it was all new. They were raking the lawns and burning leaves in the road, and I stopped for a long time and watched. It was all strange. Then I went on, and my feet seemed to be a long way off, and everything seemed to come from a long way off, and I could hear my feet walking a great distance away. I had been kicked in the head early in the game. It was like that crossing the square. It was like that going up the stairs in the hotel. Going up the stairs took a long time, and I had the feeling that I was carrying my suitcase. There was a light in the room. Bill came out and met me in the hall.
“Say,” he said, “go up and see Cohn. He’s been in a jam, and he’s asking for you.”
“The hell with him.”
“Go on. Go on up and see him.”
I did not want to climb another flight of stairs.
“What are you looking at me that way for?”
“I’m not looking at you. Go on up and see Cohn. He’s in bad shape.”
“You were drunk a little while ago,” I said.
“I’m drunk now,” Bill said. “But you go up and see Cohn. He wants to see you.”
“All right,” I said. It was just a matter of climbing more stairs. I went on up the stairs carrying my phantom suitcase. I walked down the hall to Cohn’s room. The door was shut and I knocked.
“Who is it?”
“Come in, Jake.”
I opened the door and went in, and set down my suitcase. There was no light in the room. Cohn was lying, face down, on the bed in the dark.
“Don’t call me Jake.”
I stood by the door. It was just like this that I had come home. Now it was a hot bath that I needed. A deep, hot bath, to lie back in.
“Where’s the bathroom?” I asked.
Cohn was crying. There he was, face down on the bed, crying. He had on a white polo shirt, the kind he’d worn at Princeton.
“I’m sorry, Jake. Please forgive me.”
“Forgive you, hell.”
“Please forgive me, Jake.”
I did not say anything. I stood there by the door.
“I was crazy. You must see how it was.”
“Oh, that’s all right.”
“I couldn’t stand it about Brett.”
“You called me a pimp.”
I did not care. I wanted a hot bath. I wanted a hot bath in deep water.
“I know. Please don’t remember it. I was crazy.”
“That’s all right.”
He was crying. His voice was funny. He lay there in his white shirt on the bed in the dark. His polo shirt.
“I’m going away in the morning.”
He was crying without making any noise.
“I just couldn’t stand it about Brett. I’ve been through hell, Jake. It’s been simply hell. When I met her down here Brett treated me as though I were a perfect stranger. I just couldn’t stand it. We lived together at San Sebastian. I suppose you know it. I can’t stand it any more.”
He lay there on the bed.
“Well,” I said, “I’m going to take a bath.”
“You were the only friend I had, and I loved Brett so.”
“Well,” I said, “so long.”
“I guess it isn’t any use,” he said. “I guess it isn’t any damn use.”
“Everything. Please say you forgive me, Jake.”
“Sure,” I said. “It’s all right.”
“I felt so terribly. I’ve been through such hell, Jake. Now everything’s gone. Everything.”
“Well,” I said, “so long. I’ve got to go.”
He rolled over, sat on the edge of the bed, and then stood up.
“So long, Jake,” he said. “You’ll shake hands, won’t you?”
“Sure. Why not?”
We shook hands. In the dark I could not see his face very well.
“Well,” I said, “see you in the morning.”
“I’m going away in the morning.”
“Oh, yes,” I said.
I went out. Cohn was standing in the door of the room.
“Are you all right, Jake?” he asked.
“Oh, yes,” I said. “I’m all right.”
I could not find the bathroom. After a while I found it. There was a deep stone tub. I turned on the taps and the water would not run. I sat down on the edge of the bath-tub. When I got up to go I found I had taken off my shoes. I hunted for them and found them and carried them down-stairs. I found my room and went inside and undressed and got into bed.
I woke with a headache and the noise of the bands going by in the street. I remembered I had promised to take Bill’s friend Edna to see the bulls go through the street and into the ring. I dressed and went down-stairs and out into the cold early morning. People were crossing the square, hurrying toward the bull-ring. Across the square were the two lines of men in front of the ticket-booths. They were still waiting for the tickets to go on sale at seven o’clock. I hurried across the street to the café. The waiter told me that my friends had been there and gone.
“How many were they?”
“Two gentlemen and a lady.”
That was all right. Bill and Mike were with Edna. She had been afraid last night they would pass out. That was why I was to be sure to take her. I drank the coffee and hurried with the other people toward the bull-ring. I was not groggy now. There was only a bad headache. Everything looked sharp and clear, and the town smelt of the early morning.
The stretch of ground from the edge of the town to the bull-ring was muddy. There was a crowd all along the fence that led to the ring, and the outside balconies and the top of the bull-ring were solid with people. I heard the rocket and I knew I could not get into the ring in time to see the bulls come in, so I shoved through the crowd to the fence. I was pushed close against the planks of the fence. Between the two fences of the runway the police were clearing the crowd along. They walked or trotted on into the bull-ring. Then people commenced to come running. A drunk slipped and fell. Two policemen grabbed him and rushed him over to the fence. The crowd were running fast now. There was a great shout from the crowd, and putting my head through between the boards I saw the bulls just coming out of the street into the long running pen. They were going fast and gaining on the crowd. Just then another drunk started out from the fence with a blouse in his hands. He wanted to do capework with the bulls. The two policemen tore out, collared him, one hit him with a club, and they dragged him against the fence and stood flattened out against the fence as the last of the crowd and the bulls went by. There were so many people running ahead of the bulls that the mass thickened and slowed up going through the gate into the ring, and as the bulls passed, galloping together, heavy, muddy-sided, horns swinging, one shot ahead, caught a man in the running crowd in the back and lifted him in the air. Both the man’s arms were by his sides, his head went back as the horn went in, and the bull lifted him and then dropped him. The bull picked another man running in front, but the man disappeared into the crowd, and the crowd was through the gate and into the ring with the bulls behind them. The red door of the ring went shut, the crowd on the outside balconies of the bull-ring were pressing through to the inside, there was a shout, then another shout.
The man who had been gored lay face down in the trampled mud. People climbed over the fence, and I could not see the man because the crowd was so thick around him. From inside the ring came the shouts. Each shout meant a charge by some bull into the crowd. You could tell by the degree of intensity in the shout how bad a thing it was that was happening. Then the rocket went up that meant the steers had gotten the bulls out of the ring and into the corrals. I left the fence and started back toward the town.
Back in the town I went to the café to have a second coffee and some buttered toast. The waiters were sweeping out the café and mopping off the tables. One came over and took my order.
“Anything happen at the encierro?”
“I didn’t see it all. One man was badly cogido.”
“Here.” I put one hand on the small of my back and the other on my chest, where it looked as though the horn must have come through. The waiter nodded his head and swept the crumbs from the table with his cloth.
“Badly cogido,” he said. “All for sport. All for pleasure.”
He went away and came back with the long-handled coffee and milk pots. He poured the milk and coffee. It came out of the long spouts in two streams into the big cup. The waiter nodded his head.
“Badly cogido through the back,” he said. He put the pots down on the table and sat down in the chair at the table. “A big horn wound. All for fun. Just for fun. What do you think of that?”
“I don’t know.”
“That’s it. All for fun. Fun, you understand.”
“You’re not an aficionado?”
“Me? What are bulls? Animals. Brute animals.” He stood up and put his hand on the small of his back. “Right through the back. A cornada right through the back. For fun—you understand.”
He shook his head and walked away, carrying the coffee-pots. Two men were going by in the street. The waiter shouted to them. They were grave-looking. One shook his head. “Muerto!” he called.
The waiter nodded his head. The two men went on. They were on some errand. The waiter came over to my table.
“You hear? Muerto. Dead. He’s dead. With a horn through him. All for morning fun. Es muy flamenco.”
“Not for me,” the waiter said. “No fun in that for me.”
Later in the day we learned that the man who was killed was named Vicente Girones, and came from near Tafalla. The next day in the paper we read that he was twenty-eight years old, and had a farm, a wife, and two children. He had continued to come to the fiesta each year after he was married. The next day his wife came in from Tafalla to be with the body, and the day after there was a service in the chapel of San Fermin, and the coffin was carried to the railway-station by members of the dancing and drinking society of Tafalla. The drums marched ahead, and there was music on the fifes, and behind the men who carried the coffin walked the wife and two children. . . . Behind them marched all the members of the dancing and drinking societies of Pamplona, Estella, Tafalla, and Sanguesa who could stay over for the funeral. The coffin was loaded into the baggage-car of the train, and the widow and the two children rode, sitting, all three together, in an open third-class railway-carriage. The train started with a jerk, and then ran smoothly, going down grade around the edge of the plateau and out into the fields of grain that blew in the wind on the plain on the way to Tafalla.
The bull who killed Vicente Girones was named Bocanegra, was Number 118 of the bull-breeding establishment of Sanchez Tabemo, and was killed by Pedro Romero as the third bull of that same afternoon. His ear was cut by popular acclamation and given to Pedro Romero, who, in turn, gave it to Brett, who wrapped it in a handkerchief belonging to myself, and left both ear and handkerchief, along with a number of Muratti cigarette-stubs, shoved far back in the drawer of the bed-table that stood beside her bed in the Hotel Montoya, in Pamplona.
Back in the hotel, the night watchman was sitting on a bench inside the door. He had been there all night and was very sleepy. He stood up as I came in. Three of the waitresses came in at the same time. They had been to the morning show at the bull-ring. They went up-stairs laughing. I followed them up-stairs and went into my room. I took off my shoes and lay down on the bed. The window was open onto the balcony and the sunlight was bright in the room. I did not feel sleepy. It must have been half past three o’clock when I had gone to bed and the bands had waked me at six. My jaw was sore on both sides. I felt it with my thumb and fingers. That damn Cohn. He should have hit somebody the first time he was insulted, and then gone away. He was so sure that Brett loved him. He was going to stay, and true love would conquer all. Some one knocked on the door.
It was Bill and Mike. They sat down on the bed.
“Some encierro,” Bill said. “Some encierro.”
“I say, weren’t you there?” Mike asked. “Ring for some beer, Bill.”
“What a morning!” Bill said. He mopped off his face. “My God! what a morning! And here’s old Jake. Old Jake, the human punching-bag.”
“What happened inside?”
“Good God!” Bill said, “what happened, Mike?”
“There were these bulls coming in,” Mike said. “Just ahead of them was the crowd, and some chap tripped and brought the whole lot of them down.”
“And the bulls all came in right over them,” Bill said.
“I heard them yell.”
“That was Edna,” Bill said.
“Chaps kept coming out and waving their shirts.”
“One bull went along the barrera and hooked everybody over.”
“They took about twenty chaps to the infirmary,” Mike said.
“What a morning!” Bill said. “The damn police kept arresting chaps that wanted to go and commit suicide with the bulls.”
“The steers took them in, in the end,” Mike said.
“It took about an hour.”
“It was really about a quarter of an hour,” Mike objected.
“Oh, go to hell,” Bill said. “You’ve been in the war. It was two hours and a half for me.”
“Where’s that beer?” Mike asked.
“What did you do with the lovely Edna?”
“We took her home just now. She’s gone to bed.”
“How did she like it?”
“Fine. We told her it was just like that every morning.”
“She was impressed,” Mike said.
“She wanted us to go down in the ring, too,” Bill said. “She likes action.”
“I said it wouldn’t be fair to my creditors,” Mike said.
“What a morning,” Bill said. “And what a night!”
“How’s your jaw, Jake?” Mike asked.
“Sore,” I said.
“Why didn’t you hit him with a chair?”
“You can talk,” Mike said. “He’d have knocked you out, too. I never saw him hit me. I rather think I saw him just before, and then quite suddenly I was sitting down in the street, and Jake was lying under a table.”
“Where did he go afterward?” I asked.
“Here she is,” Mike said. “Here’s the beautiful lady with the beer.”
The chambermaid put the tray with the beer-bottles and glasses down on the table.
“Now bring up three more bottles,” Mike said.
“Where did Cohn go after he hit me?” I asked Bill.
“Don’t you know about that?” Mike was opening a beer-bottle. He poured the beer into one of the glasses, holding the glass close to the bottle.
“Really?” Bill asked.
“Why he went in and found Brett and the bull-fighter chap in the bull-fighter’s room, and then he massacred the poor, bloody bull-fighter.”
“What a night!” Bill said.
“He nearly killed the poor, bloody bull-fighter. Then Cohn wanted to take Brett away. Wanted to make an honest woman of her, I imagine. Damned touching scene.”
He took a long drink of the beer.
“He is an ass.”
“Brett gave him what for. She told him off. I think she was rather good.”
“I’ll bet she was,” Bill said.
“Then Cohn broke down and cried, and wanted to shake hands with the bull-fighter fellow. He wanted to shake hands with Brett, too.”
“I know. He shook hands with me.”
“Did he? Well, they weren’t having any of it. The bull-fighter fellow was rather good. He didn’t say much, but he kept getting up and getting knocked down again. Cohn couldn’t knock him out. It must have been damned funny.”
“Where did you hear all this?”
“Brett. I saw her this morning.”
“What happened finally?”
“It seems the bull-fighter fellow was sitting on the bed. He’d been knocked down about fifteen times, and he wanted to fight some more. Brett held him and wouldn’t let him get up. He was weak, but Brett couldn’t hold him, and he got up. Then Cohn said he wouldn’t hit him again. Said he couldn’t do it. Said it would be wicked. So the bull-fighter chap sort of rather staggered over to him. Cohn went back against the wall.
“ ‘So you won’t hit me?’
“ ‘No,’ said Cohn. ‘I’d be ashamed to.’
“So the bull-fighter fellow hit him just as hard as he could in the face, and then sat down on the floor. He couldn’t get up, Brett said. Cohn wanted to pick him up and carry him to the bed. He said if Cohn helped him he’d kill him, and he’d kill him anyway this morning if Cohn wasn’t out of town. Cohn was crying, and Brett had told him off, and he wanted to shake hands. I’ve told you that before.”
“Tell the rest,” Bill said.
“It seems the bull-fighter chap was sitting on the floor. He was waiting to get strength enough to get up and hit Cohn again. Brett wasn’t having any shaking hands, and Cohn was crying and telling her how much he loved her, and she was telling him not to be a ruddy ass. Then Cohn leaned down to shake hands with the bull-fighter fellow. No hard feelings, you know. All for forgiveness. And the bull-fighter chap hit him in the face again.”
“That’s quite a kid,” Bill said.
“He ruined Cohn,” Mike said. “You know I don’t think Cohn will ever want to knock people about again.”
“When did you see Brett?”
“This morning. She came in to get some things. She’s looking after this Romero lad.”
He poured out another bottle of beer.
“Brett’s rather cut up. But she loves looking after people. That’s how we came to go off together. She was looking after me.”
“I know,” I said.
“I’m rather drunk,” Mike said. “I think I’ll stay rather drunk. This is all awfully amusing, but it’s not too pleasant. It’s not too pleasant for me.”
He drank off the beer.
“I gave Brett what for, you know. I said if she would go about with Jews and bull-fighters and such people, she must expect trouble.” He leaned forward. “I say, Jake, do you mind if I drink that bottle of yours? She’ll bring you another one.”
“Please,” I said. “I wasn’t drinking it, anyway.”
Mike started to open the bottle. “Would you mind opening it?” I pressed up the wire fastener and poured it for him.
“You know,” Mike went on, “Brett was rather good. She’s always rather good. I gave her a fearful hiding about Jews and bull-fighters, and all those sort of people, and do you know what she said: ‘Yes. I’ve had such a hell of a happy life with the British aristocracy!’ ”
He took a drink.
“That was rather good. Ashley, chap she got the title from, was a sailor, you know. Ninth baronet. When he came home he wouldn’t sleep in a bed. Always made Brett sleep on the floor. Finally, when he got really bad, he used to tell her he’d kill her. Always slept with a loaded service revolver. Brett used to take the shells out when he’d gone to sleep. She hasn’t had an absolutely happy life. Brett. Damned shame, too. She enjoys things so.”
He stood up. His hand was shaky.
“I’m going in the room. Try and get a little sleep.”
“We go too long without sleep in these fiestas. I’m going to start now and get plenty of sleep. Damn bad thing not to get sleep. Makes you frightfully nervy.”
“We’ll see you at noon at the Iruña,” Bill said.
Mike went out the door. We heard him in the next room.
He rang the bell and the chambermaid came and knocked at the door.
“Bring up half a dozen bottles of beer and a bottle of Fundador,” Mike told her.
“I’m going to bed,” Bill said. “Poor old Mike. I had a hell of a row about him last night.”
“Where? At that Milano place?”
“Yes. There was a fellow there that had helped pay Brett and Mike out of Cannes, once. He was damned nasty.”
“I know the story.”
“I didn’t. Nobody ought to have a right to say things about Mike.”
“That’s what makes it bad.”
“They oughtn’t to have any right. I wish to hell they didn’t have any right. I’m going to bed.”
“Was anybody killed in the ring?”
“I don’t think so. Just badly hurt.”
“A man was killed outside in the runway.”
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Yogi Johnson walked out of the workmen's entrance of the pump-factory and down the street. Spring was in the air. The snow was melting, and the gutters were running with snow-water. Yogi Johnson walked down the middle of the street, keeping on the as yet unmelted ice. He turned to the left and crossed the bridge over Bear River. The ice had already melted in the river and he watched the swirling brown current. Below, beside the stream, buds on the willow brush were coming out green.
It's a real chinook wind, Yogi thought. The foreman did right to let the men go. It wouldn't be safe keeping them in a day like this. Anything might happen. The owner of the factory knew a thing or two. When the chinook blew, the thing to do was to get the men out of the factory. Then, if any of them were injured, it was not on him. He didn't get caught under the Employer's Liability Act. They knew a thing or two, these big pump-manufacturers. They were smart, all right.
Yogi was worried. There was something in his mind. It was spring, there was no doubt of that now, and he did not want a woman. He had worried about it a lot lately. There was no question about it. He did not want a woman. He couldn't explain it to himself. He had gone to the Public Library and asked for a book the night before. He looked at the librarian. He did not want her. Somehow, she meant nothing to him. At the restaurant where he had a meal ticket he looked hard at the waitress who brought him his meals. He did not want her, either. He passed a group of girls on their way home from high school. He looked carefully at all of them. He did not want a single one. Decidedly something was wrong. Was he going to pieces? Was this the end?
Well, Yogi thought, women are gone, perhaps, though I hope not; but I still have my love of horses. He was walking up the steep hill that leads up from the Bear River out onto the Charlevoix road. The road was not really so steep, but it felt steep to Yogi, his legs heavy with the spring. In front of him was a grain and feed store. A team of beautiful horses were hitched in front of the feed store. Yogi went up to them. He wanted to touch them. To reassure himself that there was something left. The nigh horse looked at him as he came near. Yogi put his hand in his pocket for a lump of sugar. He had no sugar. The horse put its ears back and showed its teeth. The other horse jerked its head away. Was this all that his love of horses had brought him? After all, perhaps there was something wrong with these horses. Perhaps they had glanders or spavin. Perhaps there was something caught in the tender frog of their hoof. Perhaps they were lovers.
Yogi walked on up the hill and turned to the left onto the Charlevoix road. He passed the last houses on the outskirts of Petoskey and came out onto the open country road. On his right was a field that stretched to Little Traverse Bay. The blue of the bay opening out into the big Lake Michigan. Across the bay the pine hills behind Harbor Springs. Beyond, where you could not see it, Cross Village, where the Indians lived. Even further beyond, the Straits of Mackinac with St. Ignace, where a strange and beautiful thing had once happened to Oscar Gardner, who worked beside Yogi in the pump-factory. Further beyond, the Soo, both Canadian and American. There the wilder spirits of Petoskey sometimes went to drink beer. They were happy then. 'Way, 'way beyond, and, in the other direction, at the foot of the lake was Chicago, where Scripps O'Neil had started for on that eventful night when his first marriage had become a marriage no longer. Near there Gary, Indiana, where were the great steel mills. Near there Hammond, Indiana. Near there Michigan City, Indiana. Further beyond, there would be Indianapolis, Indiana, where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow. Further down there would be Cincinnati, Ohio. Beyond that, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Beyond that, Waco, Texas. Ah! there was a grand sweep to this America of ours.
Yogi walked across the road and sat down on a pile of logs, where he could look out over the lake. After all, the war was over and he was still alive.
There was a chap in that fellow Anderson's book that the librarian had given him at the library last night. Why hadn't he wanted the librarian, anyway? Could it be because he thought she might have false teeth? Could it be something else? Would a little child ever tell her? He didn't know. What was the librarian to him, anyway?
This chap in the book by Anderson. He had been a soldier, too. He had been at the front two years, Anderson said. What was his name? Fred Something. This Fred had thoughts dancing in his brain—horror. One night, in the time of the fighting, he went out on parade—no, it was patrol—in No Man's Land, and saw another man stumbling along in the darkness and shot him. The man pitched forward dead. It had been the only time Fred consciously killed a man. You don't kill men in war much, the book said. The hell you don't, Yogi thought, if you're two years in the infantry at the front. They just die. Indeed they do, Yogi thought. Anderson said the act was rather hysterical on Fred's part. He and the men with him might have made the fellow surrender. They had all got the jimjams. After it happened they all ran away together. Where the hell did they run to? Yogi wondered. Paris?
Afterward, killing this man haunted Fred. It's got to be sweet and true. That was the way the soldiers thought, Anderson said. The hell it was. This Fred was supposed to have been two years in an infantry regiment at the front.
A couple of Indians were passing along the road, grunting to themselves and to each other. Yogi called to them. The Indians came over.
"Big white chief got chew of tobacco?" asked the first Indian.
"White chief carry liquor?" the second Indian asked.
Yogi handed them a package of Peerless and his pocket flask.
"White chief heap big medicine," the Indians grunted.
"Listen," Yogi Johnson said. "I am about to address to you a few remarks about the war. A subject on which I feel very deeply." The Indians sat down on the logs. One of the Indians pointed at the sky. "Up there gitchy Manitou the Mighty," he said.
The other Indian winked at Yogi. "White chief no believe every goddam thing he hear," he grunted.
"Listen," Yogi Johnson said. And he told them about the war.
War hadn't been way to Yogi, he told the Indians. War had been to him like football. American football. What they play at the colleges. Carlisle Indian School. Both the Indians nodded. They had been to Carlisle.
Yogi had played centre at football and war had been much the same thing, intensely unpleasant. When you played football and had the ball, you were down with your legs spread out and the ball held out in front of you on the ground; you had to listen for the signal, decode it, and make the proper pass. You had to think about it all the time. While your hands were on the ball the opposing centre stood in front of you, and when you passed the ball he brought his hand up smash into your face and grabbed you with the other under the chin or under your armpit, and tried to pull you forward or shove you back to make a hole he could go through and break up the play. You were supposed to charge forward so hard you banged him out of the play with your body and put you both on the ground. He had all the advantage. It was not what you would call fun. When you had the ball he had all the advantage. The only good thing was that when he had the ball you could rough-house him. In this way things evened up and sometimes even a certain tolerance was achieved. Football, like the war, was unpleasant; stimulating and exciting after you had attained a certain hardness, and the chief difficulty had been that of remembering the signals. Yogi was thinking about the war, not the army. He meant combat. The army was something different. You could take it and ride with it or you could buck the tiger and let it smash you. The army was a silly business, but the war was different.
Yogi was not haunted by men he had killed. He knew he had killed five men. Probably he had killed more. He didn't believe men you killed haunted you. Not if you had been two years at the front. Most of the men he had known had been excited as hell when they had first killed. The trouble was to keep them from killing too much. It was hard to get prisoners back to the people that wanted them for identification. You sent a man back with two prisoners; maybe you sent two men back with four prisoners. What happened? The men came back and said the prisoners were knocked out by the barrage. They would give the prisoner a poke in the seat of the pants with a bayonet, and when the prisoner jumped they would say, "You would run, you son of a bitch," and let their gun off in the back of his head. They wanted to be sure they had killed. Also they didn't want to go back through any damn barrage. No, sir. They learned those kind of manners from the Australians. After all, what were those Jerries? A bunch of goddam Huns. "Huns" sounded like a funny word now. All this sweetness and truth. Not if you were in there two years. In the end they would have softened. Got sorry for excesses and begun to store up good deeds against getting killed themselves. But that was the fourth phase of soldiering, the gentling down.
In a good soldier in the war it went like this: First, you were brave because you didn't think anything could hit you, because you yourself were something special, and you knew that you could never die. Then you found out different. You were really scared then, but if you were a good soldier you functioned the same as before. Then after you were wounded and not killed, with new men coming on, and going through your old processes, you hardened and became a good hard-boiled soldier. Then came the second crack, which is much worse than the first, and then you began doing good deeds, and being the boy Sir Philip Sidney, and storing up treasures in heaven. At the same time, of course, functioning always the same as before. As if it were a football game.
Nobody had any damn business to write about it, though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Literature has too strong an effect on people's minds. Like this American writer Willa Cather, who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action in the Birth of a Nation, and ex-servicemen wrote to her from all over America to tell her how much they liked it.
One of the Indians was asleep. He had been chewing tobacco, and his mouth was pursed up in sleep. He was leaning on the other Indian's shoulder. The Indian who was awake pointed at the other Indian, who was asleep, and shook his head.
"Well, how did you like the speech?" Yogi asked the Indian who was awake.
"White chief have heap much sound ideas," the Indian said. "White chief educated like hell."
"Thank you," Yogi said. He felt touched. Here among the simple aborigines, the only real Americans, he had found that true communion. The Indian looked at him, holding the sleeping Indian carefully that his head might not fall back upon the snow-covered logs.
"Was white chief in the war?" the Indian asked.
"I landed in France in May, 1917," Yogi began.
"I thought maybe white chief was in the war from the way he talked," the Indian said. "Him," he raised the head of his sleeping companion up so the last rays of the sunset shone on the sleeping Indian's face, "he got V.C. Me I got D.S.O. and M.C. with bar. I was major in the Fourth C.M.R.'s."
"I'm glad to meet you," Yogi said. He felt strangely humiliated. It was growing dark. There was a single line of sunset where the sky and the water met 'way out on Lake Michigan. Yogi watched the narrow line of the sunset grow darker red, thin to a mere slit, and then fade. The sun was down behind the lake. Yogi stood up from the pile of logs. The Indian stood up too. He awakened his companion, and the Indian who had been sleeping stood up and looked at Yogi Johnson.
"We go to Petoskey to join Salvation Army," the larger and more wakeful Indian said.
"White chief come too," said the smaller Indian, who had been asleep.
"I'll walk in with you," Yogi replied. Who were these Indians? What did they mean to him?
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Making the right investments in CX improvements can dramatically impact revenue. McKinsey found that auto insurers that provide excellent experiences have seen 2-4X more growth in new business and 30% higher profits than other firms8. In even more proof, 90% of customers who feel appreciated and 69% of those who feel valued will increase their spending with an insurance company9. Beyond customer-facing chatbots, insurance providers can deploy chatbots to manage broker relationships. Chatbots can answer queries, especially if they are facing complex client inquiries or need an update on the status of an application. Embracing innovative platforms like Capacity allows insurance companies to lead at the forefront of customer service trends while streamlining support operations.
Using an AI virtual assistant, the insurer can educate the customers by uploading documents with necessary information on products, policies and frequently asked questions (FAQs). Since AI Chatbots use natural language processing (NLP) to understand customers and hold proper conversations, they can register customer queries and give effective solutions in a personalised and seamless manner. For questions that are too complex and require human assistance, the chatbot can always suggest the option to connect with a live agent for better service.
A Brief History of Insurance as a Service
When a customer is attempting to purchase a specific service or product, there is a brief moment to compare other available products. It is critical to note that suggesting relevant products is essential for effective cross comparing. Chatbots can use AI technology to thoroughly review claims, verify policy details and put them through a fraud detection algorithm before processing them with the bank to move forward with the claim settlement.
Chatbots provide round-the-clock customer support, the automation of mundane and repetitive jobs, and the use of different messaging platforms for communication. Some of the best use cases and examples of chatbots for insurance agents are as mentioned below. For an easier understanding, we have bucketed the use case based upon the type of service that the chatbots can provide on behalf of insurance agents. The car insurance chatbot we developed for our client, Vitaminise, provides transparent communication and helps consumers easily understand key insurance processes, including pricing. The solution implements the key functionality of selling insurance products with the data autofill function.
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Using a dedicated AI-based FAQ chatbot on their website has helped AG2R La Mondiale improve customer satisfaction by 30%. Chatbots gather a wide range of client information and have quick access to it. One of the major benefits of well-designed chatbots is they can answer questions fast and on point. This technology is used in chatbots to interpret the customer’s needs and provide them with the information they are looking for. We power close to a billion conversational interactions a month, helping organizations drive engagements that feel Curiously Human™, not cold and robotic.
What is the future of chatbots in insurance?
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ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including the UN Development Programme, MSCI, Moody’s ESG Solutions, Alcumus, PathZero and Circulor.
The United Nations has launched a free, open-source platform which provides access to state-of-the-art maps and data on nature, climate change and human development to generate new insights on nature and sustainable development. The UN Biodiversity Lab is freely available online to governments and other stakeholders as a digital public good and was developed jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and the Secretariat of the UN Biodiversity Convention. Microsoft has committed to support the digital ecosystem of UNBL with its Planetary Computer and custom analytics as digital public goods. “The UN Biodiversity Lab will enable anyone to access state-of-the-art spatial data and dynamic indicators that will generate brand-new insights into conservation and sustainable development,” says UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. “It will provide decision-makers with access to over 400 spatial data layers across biodiversity, climate change, and development – helping them to identify new opportunities to act in the best interest of both people and planet.” According to the UN, the UNBL 2.0 release responds to a known global gap in the types of spatial data and tools, providing an invaluable resource to nations around the world to take transformative action.
Data, analytics and research services provider MSCI has introduced a new application for enterprise-level monitoring and management of climate and financial risks for investors. MSCI Climate Lab combines the firm’s climate modeling, financial risk management and portfolio analytics capabilities to help investors track and assess companies’ progress towards net-zero commitments and align their portfolios with climate targets. MSCI said the application has been built for institutional investors managing a large-scale transition of portfolios to meet net-zero goals and to manage the underlying complex and vast amounts of data supporting portfolio analysis. It will also enable aggregation at the portfolio level of MSCI’s recently released Implied Temperature Rise solution. “Many of the world’s largest institutions are repositioning their portfolios to meet climate targets, and up until now the technology has not been in place to allow for a swift, scalable and effective understanding and management of climate exposure across all funds and portfolios. At MSCI, we are focused on turning large datasets into actionable insights that our clients can apply across their portfolios,” said Jorge Mina, Head of Analytics, MSCI.
Moody’s ESG Solutions, a business unit of Moody’s Corporation, is expanding its data coverage of the physical risks posed by climate change by providing sub-sovereign climate risk scores. These physical climate risk scores quantify population-weighted exposure to floods, heat stress, hurricanes and typhoons, sea level rise, water stress and wildfires. The scores complement Moody’s existing coverage of physical risk data for locations globally, which includes scores for 200 sovereigns. Moody’s dataset leverages satellite imagery alongside global models to overlay population and economic information with granular climate data. Banks, asset managers, asset owners and other organisations can use the scores and underlying data to assess climate risk in specific areas and create benchmarks for individual property assessments to understand how a specific asset may fare relative to others in the area. “Mitigating loss requires a forward-looking view on which geographical areas are most exposed to specific hazards. Our new sub-sovereign dataset enables users to better understand the level of climate risk facing their assets and investments based on location, informing proactive risk management and resilience investment,” said Emilie Mazzacurati, Global Head of Moody’s Climate Solutions in Moody’s ESG Solutions Group.
Health, safety and ESG risk management solutions provider Alcumus now offers a standards-based ESG platform which enables businesses of all sizes to build “one true view” of their ESG performance, providing simple data analysis across 11 key areas. Alcumus said the new integrated proposition will help clients link sustainability decisions with risk management processes, so they can track, organise, interpret and present data on their ESG performance. By aggregating ESG data into one management and analytics platform, Alcumus said the solution would help users to easily manage compliance to regulatory requirements, quantify the financial benefit of ESG strategies and demonstrate responsible practices to stakeholders. “Successful ESG strategies rely on diverse data streams measured accurately and consistently across business units. Current methods of data collection and storage are not uniform, resulting in challenges to reporting ESG performance accurately. Making actions and impacts measurable is the foundation of sound business decisions, setting a challenging balance that changes behaviours for commercial benefit,” said David Picton, SVP of Sustainability at Alcumus.
Sydney-based Pathzero has raised US$5 million to develop its digital platform, which enables smaller companies to calculate and securely share their carbon emissions information. The investment round was led by Australian venture firm Carthona Capital, supported by early investors Antler Australia and Impact Investor. Pathzero’s platform provides a highly accessible way of measuring corporate carbon emissions, implementing an emissions reduction plan, purchasing verified carbon credits and disclosing carbon emissions information publicly. Having already enhanced portfolio emissions transparency for clients in Australia, the firm will use the funding to expand globally. “For asset managers, accessing emissions data for a portfolio of small listed and unlisted companies has been very challenging. The expense of performing an assessment and the lack of consistency in reporting has meant that greenhouse gas emissions information has simply not been available,” said Carl Prins, CEO and Co-Founder. “Pathzero believes that by providing corporate carbon transparency, companies will be equipped to make confident strategic decisions about their transition to a low carbon paradigm, with the support of their informed stakeholders.”
Circulor, a provider of supply chain provenance and emissions tracking services, has signed a deal to provide traceability and CO2 tracking for the nickel and cobalt trading division of physical commodity trading firm Trafigura. Under the agreement, Trafigura and Circulor will develop a programme to track dynamically and attribute CO2 emissions throughout Trafigura’s nickel and cobalt supply chains for customers, in particular electric vehicle manufacturers. Circulor will also support Trafigura’s responsible sourcing and traceability programme, in terms of the physical tracking and tracing of material, as well as the communication of ESG data relevant to the application and integration of OECD Due Diligence Guidance and UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to its value chain. The objective for both projects is to work with a range of upstream producers and downstream receivers progressively to integrate and communicate responsible sourcing due diligence and CO2 tracking data into their respective value chains via Circulor’s lockchain traceability platform. | <urn:uuid:969f1ea2-2dff-4cdb-bb9b-b7963098cfed> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.esginvestor.net/this-weeks-tech-and-tools-news-un-platform-offers-new-perspective-on-sustainability/ | 2023-09-27T10:40:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.920173 | 1,450 |
I had looked at Oracle Linux as a possible replacement for CentOS down the road, however, Oracle is too broken. First, x2go will not work because of an incomplete perl environment, and second, it is tied to 3.10 kernel which is not safe on modern Intel CPUs and lacks many features of modern kernels. As a result we will not be offering an Oracle Linux shell server.
Kernel upgrades are finally completed. It took abnormally wrong because something went wrong with the kernel install on mail and it ended up with a grub configuration pointing to two ancient kernels that no longer exist and thus it was unable to boot.
I was able to fix the grub configuration with boot repair but then had to manually mount all the shell servers NFS partitions from it as it was dead when they booted.
I am planning yet another kernel upgrade tonight starting at 11pm as there is an issue with the kernel taking memory from the wrong end of a linked list resulting in poor guest performance. Since we use VM’s to implement most of our services, guest performance is important. If this goes as smoothly as the last upgrade it should be completed well before midnight.
With respect to MariaDB database hardware, I’ve been notified by Amazon that it will be as much as a week later than originally promised, so the upgrade may not happen until the weekend of March 12th.
I found one of MariaDB’s recommended drive model on Amazon for a very reasonable price and ordered. I don’t know if my motherboard will be able to boot from it because I don’t know if the BIOS knows about it, but it should be compatible from a hardware standpoint and Linux talks directly bypassing the BIOS once booted and all this drive is going to be used for is MariaDB storage so it should be fine.
So thank you to all of you who sent me suggestions and web references. I expect to have it in hand next Friday and baring no snow will install it that weekend, else will wait for a weekend without snow.
I recently turned up a Hubzilla in addition to the Friendica Fediverse social media site here. Sunday it seemed to be okay but come Monday the server was seeing loads of around 150 or so at which point a number of web apps turned themselves off. Also it was exhausted on connections which made many peoples WordPress sites break.
After much fine tuning I’ve gotten MySQL to handle a touch over 400 transactions per second, but occasionally hubzilla spikes higher than that and the load will temporarily rise.
After doing some research on MariaDB and tuning it as best I could, now load only goes up to about 8 as opposed to 150, but virtually all waiting processes are waiting on DIsk I/O at that point so it appears that peaks are saturating the drives I/O capability. Already this is on a 4-disk RAID 10 array with everything pretty finely tuned.
Researching I am finding most people are not getting much better than 400 TPS on rotary drives and perhaps 500 TPS with M.2 SSD drives, but with a PCIE SSD drive that supports atomic writes, up to 1500 TPS has been obtained.
So I am searching for same but not having much luck. I can find lots of M.2s but can not find PCIE drives. When I search I only find PCIE SSD adapters, not what I need.
Does anybody know where I can source these and who makes them, perhaps some make and model numbers?
Wave cable uses a company called Synacor to provide their e-mail. Synacor is allowing spammers to use their servers.
We have had this problem ourselves in the past with hacked accounts being used to spam. We have solved it by installing fail2ban to limit brute force password attacks and postfwd to force a password change if/when a clients account is abused. It detects abuse by looking for a customer coming from IP’s in three or more countries in 24 hours. This pattern only happens with botnets which spammers are using to send their spam.
If anyone knows how to contact their network or mail administrator I’d be glad to point them at these resources.
When spammers use unclean e-mail lists that contain addresses that don’t exist on our server, it triggers a program called fail2ban to ban them after several unsuccessful attempts because it thinks someone is probing for user addresses to spam.
I have unbanned their servers twice but as long as they continue to allow their resources to be used for spamming, mail delivery from wavecable.com is going to be problematic.
If you are a customer of wavecable, it may help to complain to them that your e-mail is not being delivered because of other customers on synacor.com’s servers abuse them.
New Federated Social Media Hubzilla
We’ve added a new federated social media platform called “Hubzilla“, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/. It is similar to Friendica https://friendica.eskimo.com/ in that it is a federated social media platform but it has many more capabilities including channels that are similar to groups or blogs or user pages in Facebook but federated across the entire fediverse grid, although not all fediverse servers like friendica support all the features of hubzilla. It is considerably more complex however it is well documented online. Discovery of both users and resources such as channels is much easier and faster than it is with friendica and in my view the layout is somewhat nicer.
Kernel upgrades are completed. All NFS and NIS relationships verified operational. This was the fastest (15 minutes to boot, 9 minutes to check) kernel upgrade yet, all NFS and NIS relationships established themselves successfully first time around. Only problem I ran into is postfix failed to start on mx2 but started fine manually.
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The ESM’s mission is to enable the countries of the euro area to avoid and overcome financial crises and to maintain long-term financial stability and prosperity. ESM can provide financial assistance to euro area countries experiencing or threatened by severe financing problems. This assistance is granted only if it is proven necessary to safeguard the financial stability of the euro area as a whole and of ESM Members.
For this, the ESM counts on several instruments. The ESM can grant a loan as part of a macroeconomic adjustment programme, such as the one that was already used by Cyprus and Greece. Ireland, Greece, and Portugal have used similar programmes delivered by the EFSF. The only other instrument used was an ESM loan to recapitalise banks which was provided to Spain. See the full ESM toolkit below.
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Harlan + Holden's Latest Collection Is What You Should Wear All Summer Long
Filipino minimalist staple Harlan + Holden just dropped the lookbook for its Postcards collection, and it's full of summer style inspiration for guys who like layering—no matter how hot it gets. We know what you're thinking. Layering? In this weather? Well, Harlan + Holden made sure that each piece is made of lightweight material. From the cotton jackets and culotte shorts to the denim, the collection is breathable enough to escape and relax in.
"[The] collection revolves around the idea of giving go-getters summer holidays everyday, how people can escape their busy lives with utmost comfort and versatility. As we start going back to our daily routines, we encourage our customers to still find time to rest, rediscover new places and create new experiences at home or away from home," said Orange Sulisto, regional marketing director of Harlan + Holden Philippines.
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"In every generation one is obligated to view himself as though he came out of Egypt, as it says: Tell your offspring on that day saying, Because of this God acted for me when I came out of Egypt" (Shemot 13:8).
At Congregation Etz Chaim we have always viewed this teaching rather literally and for the past seven
years we have created a Second Seder unlike any other.
Each year we added more and more to the Passover experience until it felt like the story was really coming to life in our building. The evening starts with a sing- along, a walk through real sand and enactment of the sea splitting, an 8 foot display of how the Israelites camped in the desert, an animatronic lamb and doorpost lintels and so on, each year the displays grow and so does the number of
In 2019 and 2022 our Second Seder was recognized for its innovative and interactive elements when it received an international grant from the National Jewish Outreach Program. This grant makes it possible for us to invite 30 additional participants to attend our Second Seder.
Maybe you’re alone this year… the kids have decided to stay in Chicago or Los Angeles. Maybe you’ve never done a second night seder. Maybe you find yourself longing for the magical feeling that Passover had in your youth. Come to Congregation Etz Chaim and we will welcome you with open arms. Unaffiliated, culturally/socially Jewish, members elsewhere we won’t tell - just don’t miss the
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A first-line B-cell lymphoma treatment shown to reduce the risk of disease progression or relapse by 27 percent has been approved by the FDA.
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Insomnia is an old friend of mine. As a child, I would get out of bed in the middle of the night and knock my parents’ bedroom door to let them know that I couldn’t sleep. (And typically my mom would tell me: “Just close your eyes and sleep!”). So I usually ended up in bed, with my eyes closed and then thinking to myself: “OK, here we are, what am I missing now?”.
Months pass by in which sleeping is not a problem at all, and then suddenly the old friend is back and prevents me from falling asleep, or makes me wake up at night wondering if it is daytime yet.
In recent stressful weeks, I have experienced it all over again. As compared to my childhood days, it now has an extra component: I now know that I “have to” sleep, because my hours are limited (the alarm clock will ring soon), and if I am too tired I can’t get much work done – and if I don’t get the work done that I need to do, I will start thinking about that the next evening, instead of just falling asleep.
Now that I got an iPhone, I’ve tried using it to help me sleep better. Here’s a quick overview of what I’ve used so far:
I’ve only used this app for the last 2 nights, and I haven’t used it as an alarm clock yet – I’ve only been using it to track the quality of my sleep. Usually, when I wake up in the morning I have a vague idea that I woke up 2 or 3 times during the night. Now, I can use this app to actually study which part of the night I am in deep sleep, when I am dreaming, and how many times I wake up. I’ll try to use these stats to see if there is a pattern: do I wake up around the same time every night, and can I find an indication of the necessary conditions to get a better quality of sleep (less times I wake up and more deep sleep)?
With this app, you can combine some relaxing sounds, plug in the earphones, and fall asleep. I’ve used it last week, and it indeed has helped me to fall asleep faster. Usually, I keep listening to the sounds in my apartment building, but this app simply blocks out all the noise and replaces it with relaxing sounds. You can put a sleep timer, so I used it for 2 hours or 3 hours to help me fall asleep and sleep through the first hours in which people keep walking around in the building (typically, the building gets really calm around 2am, so I used the app until roughly that time of the night.
Disadvantage of this app: it can’t run in the background, so I can’t combine it with Sleep Cycle.
Similar to eSleepLite, this gives calming sounds. The quality of the sounds is richer, but the amount of options is much more limited. However, this program can run in the background, so I can actually combine it with Sleep Cycle.
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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening! Wherever you’re listening around the world, a very warm welcome from London, UK.
And welcome to a special edition of the EV News Daily podcast. We talk about cars a lot, but what’s it going to take to make the whole ecosystem work. So for the first episode of our look at everything needed to make EV become truly mainstream, we head to the maker of some of the worlds most luxurious cars ? Bentley.
Work starts this week at on a giant solar carport, which will be the UK’s largest when complete, at 2.7MW. The company behind it is called FlexiSolar and they’ll be fitting 10,000 panels to frames which will shelter almost 1,400 car parking spaces at Bentley’s manufacturing headquarters near Crewe, UK.
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A Systems modeling technique to visualize and act on deeply entrenched systemic issues.
Everyone carries a model, fuzzy as it may be, a map of sorts to navigate reality as perceived. As team members we have expectations from each other. This internal picture of our expectations, and reasons, and emotions, and all the mess that is being human is our mental model. The differences between what actually happens and what we expected it to be, reinforces our mental models or alters it. Learners are able to update their mental models more often, and thus adjust their actions and expectations with ever emerging reality.
I find that curiosity is the doorway to learning. Accumulation of knowledge on the other hand is founded on the mistaken belief that knowing about a thing is the same as knowing the thing.
By learning, I do not mean accumulation of knowledge or a collection of jargon to impress your colleagues. By learning, I mean understanding that enables you to take actionable steps in a very real practical sense.
Here I want to share an actionable technique that I have used to assist teams in learning together. But first, let’s acknowledge that everybody has a blind spot. No one at any time, not even once, can be all knowing.
Everybody has a blind spot
Learning never stops, and this is the humbling truth. Mental models are at best approximations of reality, and can never be perfect.
As a hobby motorcycle rider, I constantly update my ‘model’ by continuously orienting myself to [sic]changes[sic] in road conditions, weather, other drivers on the road. We make up for lack of accuracy in our mental models by noticing these changes and adjust accordingly.
On the other hand, developing a perfect model will require that the rider account for every breeze, every pebble in order to develop an accurate picture of the situation at hand. And then take the next course of action. This as we know is analysis-paralysis. This affliction is detectable when people mistake knowledge about a thing, to knowledge of the thing. People who know about motorcycle maintenance talk more and do less, where as actual mechanics talk less and do more.
We do not want to be bogged down with minutia, but act in response to emerging reality. A rider observes to validate or update their understanding of ground conditions. Additionally the rider continually scans/reorients to collect a good enough picture of emerging reality.
“Never let your eyes fix on an object for more than two second, keep looking around.”Motorcycle rider manual.
Intense periods of concentrations may improve your resolution, but it comes at the risk of increasing your overall blind spot. If you have driven under snowy conditions, you know about the perils of tunnel vision. Focusing to appreciate each unique snowflake is not a recommended way to force an invitation to meet with your maker.
Without further ado
Step 1: I wonder …
There is no learning without curiosity. So what are you curious about? I find that framing your curiosity as “I wonder … “ opens people up to alternative possibilities, and perhaps awakes our inner playful inquisitive spark. Following are some examples:
- I wonder why my team does not take on challenging work, or increase their productivity.
- I wonder why management focuses on metrics so much?
- I wonder why my team is unable to release software more often?
Step 2: Just talk
Bring your curiosity to your team, and check for interest in exploring this topic further. Give up on knowing, and you will invite others to wonder together with you. ‘Just talk’ is best practiced as a relaxed conversation with your team members.
Remember everybody has blind spots. No one, not even you will have complete understanding. By ‘just talking’ you and the team members are exploring various factors that surround a topic.
We will use the first statement as an example for illustration.
I wonder why my team does not take on challenging work, or increase their productivity.
A brief 5-10 minute conversation within your team may yield the following related factors:
Related factors are often the ones that are perceived to change (increase or decrease) along with the topic at hand.
For example, in your ‘just talk’ session – you may have a talk about the situation when following a certain process step imposed by higher management leads to misunderstandings in team processes. You may capture this as two related factors “higher management process mandates” and “team understanding of management processes”, or as I have expressed above “team has autonomy over processes”. Fewer factors is better, and best not to get bogged down with wordsmiths.
CAUTION: These are by no means the only possible factors. And in your discussions within your team there will very likely be a different set of factors.
Within a team, each member has their own blind spots, but collectively the diversity within a cross-functional team will allow team members to cover for each others gaps in understanding.
Step 3: Sensitivity check
Expect that different members in the team will have different degrees of sensitivities, and therefore you may find more than a handful of factors.
While it may be tempting to acknowledge everyone’s sensitivities on this matter, trying to consider too many factors at once will lead to analysis-paralysis. And our goal in this exercise is to be actionable.
CAUTION: From the superset of related factors, select no more than eight factors. Fewer than four and you may not have considered the diversity of factors, and more than eight (or perhaps ten) and your collective efforts will remain stuck in analysis-paralysis.
As a team you can collectively agree on top eight factors, or use a prioritizing technique, such as dot-voting, to select factors that closely correlate with the subject of your team’s curiosity.
In our example, we have selected the following eight factors.
Step 4: Around the clock
Organize your items on a physical/digital whiteboard so that items together form a large enough circle, with the items arranged roughly on the hour positions of a clock.
This step is best performed by randomly selecting one of the eight or so factors, and placing these randomly on the hour positions. Avoid unnecessary analysis.
Step 5: Select a facilitator
I strongly recommend that you have a facilitator for this step. During the next analysis step, your team will dive into the relationship between selected factors. A dedicated facilitator will
- prevent the whole group from getting too bogged down into the details.
- move the team along, and avoid tunneling
The facilitators primary concern is to avoid analysis-paralysis, which merely leads to accumulation of knowledge, but no practical understanding that enables action.
The facilitator focuses on group interactions for remaining steps, and does not contribute in any other way.
Step 6: Simple cause and effect (Analysis)
The facilitator will invite team members to discuss relationships between sticky notes. The facilitator invites discussion within the team by posing a question.
“Is it because of [cause] therefore [effect] ?”
This is by far the most tedious step in this process, and takes a while to get comfortable with. As a facilitator you will need to use this phrase over and over again. By repeating the same sentence structure you are refraining from undue influence, and establishing a pattern for others to know when you are inviting discussion to consider the next relationship.
Round and around, relationships in a merry go round
(a) ~ Is there a cause-effect relationship? and which way?
Starting with the first sticky note item at the 12 O’clock position, the facilitator will ask the rest of the team to check for simple cause & effect relationships.
“Is it because people feel empowered therefore we have inspiring goals/vision ?”
AND then, after a brief pause check for causality in reverse
“Is it because of inspiring goals/vision therefore people feel empowered ?”
By checking for directionality of cause and effect in both ways, your team may quickly discover the nature of the relationship between the two sticky notes (factors)
– OR –
conclude that these factors are not directly influencing each other.
In the example above, your team may agree that inspiring goals/vision, make them feel empowered.
(b) ~ Is there a dominant direction?
Now keeping the same sticky note at 12 O’clock position as the anchor item, and moving clockwise, the facilitator will ask the team to check for relationship between the anchor item and the next in line factor.
“Is it because people feel empowered therefore increase in team productivity ?”
AND then, after a brief pause check for causality in reverse
“Is it because of increase in team productivity therefore people feel empowered ?”
While the team is analyzing the relations, the facilitator must avoid getting dragged into their considerations. The facilitators role is to prevent analysis-paralysis from taking hold. While facilitating, ask the team members to pick one directionality as dominant.
DO NOT ALLOW FOR A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACTORS TO BE BI-DIRECTIONAL.
I say this with extra emphasis, not because bi-directional relationships do not exist, but because opening the exercise to also consider bi-directionality will confuse matters in the long run, and will get in the way of being actionable.
So when your group thinks that there is bi-directional relationship between two factors, pick one direction that is more likely or truer for your specific case.
In the example above, your team may find that when people feel empowered the productivity of the team improves as the more dominant relationship. Although it may also be true that when the team is productively humming, its sense of empowerment improves.
(c) ~ Round robin
Keeping your 12 O’clock factor as the anchor, check for cause-effect relationship with remaining factors. Once your team has considered the relationship between the anchor factor “people feel empowered” with remaining factors, you will go through the same process all over again.
This time, you will move clockwise and select the factor at 2 O’clock position to be the anchor item. Since we have discussed the relation between the new and the previous anchor, we will have one less relationship to discuss.
After cycling through anchor # 2, you will select the next in line anchor moving methodically in clock-wise fashion. Each time you cycle through, there is one less relationship to discuss. Until finally there is only one relationship to discuss between the seventh anchor and the eight factor.
Hence, my caution in step 3 above to limit the number of factors to a maximum of eight.
This analysis is essential. By exploring cause-effect relationships the team is collectively forming their shared mental model of factors and relationships between them.
You may end up with a map of cause and effect relationships like this.
(d) ~ You can not present this.
This messy ball of relationship yarn, must be confusing to you. Just as it should be. You were not involved in the discussions that led to it. This diagram would mean as much to you as it does to a playful kitten. Something to toy around with, and perhaps to get entangled in a cute mess with.
The value of Simple cause and effect analysis lies in enabling structured conversations within the team. This is an approximation, at best, of shared understanding of the context within which this team operates. The hidden systems structure that governs observable behaviors and events. This visual representation means a lot to the team members who participate in its creation. It provides a reference for all team members to visualize together. A snapshot of how team members intuit their organization system to really work. How cool is that!
Curiosity (I wonder …), and participation (engagement) are prerequisites to understanding. You cannot present this model. It will make no sense to your manager or your friend. They will have to engage in a conversation with your team and influence the shape of this shared mental model. And as a consequence they will share their learning with others, to increase overall team awareness. Therefore, I strongly encourage managers to participate and wonder along with their teams.
The services of a facilitator are crucial. Their patience, and methodical channeling of discussions to keep momentum helps a team to not get bogged down in minutia. With practice, Step 6 – Simple cause and effect takes 15 – 20 minutes.
But the facilitator’s role is not done yet. The best is yet to come.
Step 7: Dominant factors (Synthesis) – debrief
Learning together as a team involves owning your insights and taking actions based on them. You cannot borrow these insights from the “best practices manual”, and no tool is a substitute for judgement. As a team you will have to arrive at your own insights, and take action based on your own understanding.
In complex systems, any system that involves people, there is never really a single cause nor a real single effect.
Things are interconnected, and in surprising ways.
With the simple cause and effect diagram above, our objective is not to play post-it billiards. Instead we want to develop a shared understanding by considering the system as a whole. There are revealing insights in the picture above, if you know how to look for it.
For each factor count the number of arrows going out, and the number of arrows coming in.
A quick reminder on our curiosity that led us here –
I wonder why my team does not take on challenging work, or increase their productivity?
💡~ Dominant effects
Reviewing our counts reveals that the system as modeled, through team conversation, has the following dominant effects:
- Team takes on challenging work. (0 – OUT, 6 – IN)
- Increase in team productivity. (0 – OUT, 4 – IN)
Nothing terribly surprising here. Of course since the manager and/or the team is curious about lack of initiative from the team in taking challenging work and wants to increase productivity, we are now assured this is indeed a visible outcome of this systems structure.
To put it simply, dominant effects are the most visible.
Everybody sees the dominant effect, and worries about it. Visibility attracts attention. And as a consequence of attracting attention, it gets measured.
Any real or perceived lack of meeting expectations, or desire to showcase improvement will draw attention to this most visible factor. The dominant effect.
Managers may rush to create a team member skills competency matrix so they can hold them individually accountable. Or hold a team meeting to set expectations on the number of story points/breadth expectations from the team. Such interventions are easy to announce, and may show marginal improvement in the short term. And therefore, perhaps, these continue to be tried over and over again.
Such interventions are naive, because they work against systemic leverage. Understanding points of leverage within your system and directing interventions appropriately can unlock long term shifts.
💡~ Dominant causes
A quick review of our counts reveals that the system as modeled, through team conversation, has the following dominant causes:
- Culture of trust (4 – OUT, 0 – IN)
- Inspiring goals/vision (4 – OUT, 0 – IN)
- Team has autonomy over processes (4 – OUT, 1 – IN)
Notice that I am ignoring factors that have almost the same number of arrows IN and OUT.
A dominant cause is one that affects many factors directly or via other factors. Interventions aimed to make desirable shifts in dominant causes hold more promise.
To put it simply, dominant causes are points of leverage.
Dominant causes often become entrenched and hidden. They can be hard to pin down. And this is why we have gone through all the steps so far – so the system at play can reveal its secrets.
Systems modeling is a collective activity for the whole team, and not for a manager alone. Through modeling, team discussions, and visually representing a shared model, your team will unlock additional insights that could hold revealing breakthrough to make shifts at these crucial points of leverage.
For our purposes, we will go through the example discussed to consider some practical steps that can be taken by a team. These may not be applicable to your specific situation.
Building a culture of trust can be a humongous task when considered at the scale of a corporation. But at the same time building pockets of trust may be feasible within a single team. What can team members do to improve trust between themselves and with their managers ? Your team may start holding retrospectives again, or take time out to socialize over lunch. For an example of technique that I have used, see sharing values exercise to improve the degree of trust within your sphere of influence.
Managers may also consider easing down on prescriptive ways or, even better, set up a decisions agreement with their team, see decide how you are going to decide, so the team and management can have explicit agreements in areas where the team has autonomy over its processes.
Understanding the points of leverage for your system at play can open up a wide array of possibilities. A tiny change at these points of leverage can have disproportionate (non linear) impact on the overall system dynamics.
Get creative. Mix and match to design counter-measures that make a tiny dent across multiple factors, or consider a set of related counter measures to be tried all at once.
Because the dominant causes are so entrenched, they may not easily budge. And so, paradoxically, attempts to influence dominant causes lead to safe-to-fail experiments. Because big changes cannot be tried at once, you have to take incremental steps. And also because no one expects you to actually tip the system, you have the advantage of attempting multiple creative interventions.
Of course there is no way we can model all the factors that are involved. Remember everybody has their blind spots.
Clearly there must be some other factors that cause changes to “culture of trust” and “inspiring goals/vision”. Just because in our systems diagram there are no factors that affect them, it does not mean that there are no other factors that effect these dominant causes.
Our understanding of factors itself will also also be incomplete. Of course a culture of trust is not the only factor that affects a team’s autonomy over its processes. There may be instances where we collectively modeled incorrectly, or failed to notice a relationship that actually in fact exists. These are our collective blind spots.
These boundaries of comprehension and understanding are our limits. Teams benefit from keeping this visualization so that the shared systems model can be easily updated.
There is no way one can consider the totality of everything involved to make the best decision. Courage to act from incomplete understanding is foundational to team learning. And this simple cause and effect systems modeling technique can aid your team to collectively build shared understanding of your system at play. So you can decide and agree on what to do about it.
💡~ Curiosity awakens
I wonder ….
Learning never stops. After attempting this activity in your first area of concern, you will undoubtedly uncover new areas of inquiry.
My hope is that managers and leaders open doors to team learning through their example of practicing curiosity, engaging in collective learning and boldly attempting counter-measures to some of the deeply entrenched issues of the modern work environment.
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For deep energy retrofits — extensive, often disruptive projects that aim to save 30 to 50 percent or more on a building's energy use — the right timing and the appropriate scope are two of the most important elements of success. And they're very much related.
"The fundamental way to know if you have the possibility for a deep energy retrofit is to get a sense of the value it will bring," says Scott Muldavin, president of the Muldavin Co. and senior advisor to the Rocky Mountain Institute. "If you're going to prioritize where to spend money, it should be where you can create the most value."
But the biggest question is how to decide whether to do a simple like-for-like upgrade, or a full-scale deep energy retrofit, or something in between. A deep energy retrofit is a big commitment, of both time and money.
"It's a really big thing to think about how far you're going with the work you're doing," says Sean Denniston, project manager with the New Buildings Institute. "If you're going to get 30 percent or more savings, you don't really do that by accident, nor do you do it by doing the basic stuff."
Indeed, planning a deep energy retrofit is a challenging process — not unlike constructing a new building from scratch. But the payoffs can be enormous.
"The best possibility for a deep energy retrofit is simply when you have poor current energy performance," says Muldavin. "You're more likely to have the outcomes you want if you plan around particular deep energy retrofit triggers. The right trigger is essential to determining deep energy retrofit success."
Poor performance is the most obvious trigger, but there are others, like the size of the spend to replace a single piece of equipment. "As components come up for replacement, the more expensive the piece of equipment, the better the opportunity," says Denniston.
A higher cost makes it easier to roll in more retrofits to approach the 30 to 50 percent threshold. Take as an example a chiller due for replacement because of age. Given the cost of that work, it may be possible to upgrade the thermal performance of the building envelope, then downsize the chiller, for an acceptable incremental cost, given the long-term energy savings the project will produce.
Experts suggest that facility managers not limit themselves to only energy-using equipment when considering a trigger for a deep energy retrofit. For example, if fire or life safety equipment needs replacement, it might be possible to roll energy-saving equipment into a bigger project. Code-required upgrades can be another trigger. "Anything that requires substantial disruption provides an opportunity to do energy efficiency on a more cost-effective basis," says Muldavin.
Denniston agrees: "You're already making a disruption, so it makes sense to make the most of that disruption. Even if the systems that trigger the project don't have anything to do with energy, take advantage of the opportunity."
Repurposing space in an owner-occupied building or doing tenant improvement in a multi-tenant building could also trigger a wider energy retrofit project. "Look at tenant churn," says Denniston. "TI is a great opportunity."
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Updated: Jun 11
Business texting has become a powerful marketing tool. Some reasons for this are the ability to deal with clients on a personal level, the ability to get a quick response, and the potential to save money. However, before sending business messages to a customer, you must obtain their permission or opt-in. Also, to run a successful SMS campaign, your SMS list must expand with more subscribers.
So, let's discuss below how you can get more SMS subscribers and what are the benefits of getting opt-ins the right way.
Top 10 ways to get more SMS subscribers
Do you know the easiest ways to get more SMS subscribers to your business?
Here are some proven ways to grow a huge list of contacts for your SMS marketing campaign.
Now let's look at how each of the above methods strategies can be used by businesses to grow their SMS marketing contacts.
01. Start a text-to-join campaign
Text-to-join is the easiest way to collect phone numbers.
Text-to-join campaigns let your customers sign up to receive promotional messages from you. By this method, you can also collect additional information such as full name, zip code, and product preferences. This information can be used in your future marketing campaigns as well.
Starting a text-to-join campaign is very easy. You just need to create a keyword relevant to your business and promote it. Ask your audience to text that keyword to your business phone number or short code number.
Everyone who sends the keyword you mentioned will be added instantly to your SMS subscription list.
When somebody joins your SMS list, they will receive your automated reply and that will let your customers know that they have successfully opted in.
02. Offer incentives for joining your subscriber list
Sometimes, you may need to encourage your customers to join your SMS marketing contact list. You can do this by offering incentives, rewards, and special offers to your customers.
If you make an offer that your audience can't refuse, your SMS subscriber count will boost in no time.
Just assume you own a car cleaning business. Give them a 50% discount on their next vehicle wash if they join your SMS list. Suppose your business is a supermarket: you could give a Buy one, get one free deal on selected items for signing up for your messages.
Other than the above you can also offer incentives like free products, giveaways, event tickets, early access to soon-to-be-launched products, etc.
03. Get the numbers when your customer leaves
Another smart way to collect customer numbers is to ask them to sign up when they check out.
When your customers check out from your business place, ask them to join your SMS list. Inform them that they will be able to receive exclusive offers as SMS subscribers. This allows you to easily obtain many customers’ phone numbers for your SMS marketing.
If you own a Salon or Spa, you might offer a discount on their next treatment if they opt-in to receive business text messages from you.
04. Use website traffic to collect opt-ins
If you have a business website with a decent amount of web traffic, use them effectively to grow your SMS marketing list.
You can use visual banners on your website to invite your customers to opt-in to your messages. Even you can highlight coupon codes, free products, or services that they get for signing up for your messages.
Using pop-ups and opt-in forms on your website is also another great way to convert your website visitors into SMS subscribers.
But make sure that the popup you are using is not annoying for your website users. Otherwise, it will be a reason for them to bounce off your website.
Generating new SMS subscribers is very easy if the pop-up is displayed to web users at the right time with useful incentives.
05. Convert your existing email or newsletter subscribers
Have an email or newsletter subscriber list already?
If then, you can convert the same people into text subscribers easily. You just need to send an email to your email list and ask them to join your SMS marketing program.
Getting the people on your email list to opt-in to SMS can also have a positive impact on your business. Because SMS marketing is more effective than email marketing.
06. Add an opt-in option to the sign-up or checkout flow
Do you have a newsletter sign-up form on your website? Then on the same form, you can ask if they want to receive text offers as well.
Also, you can consider adding an SMS signup option for online checkout pages to grow your SMS subscribers.
For example, if you have a field on a checkout page where clients can enter their phone numbers, you could put a checkbox next to it that says, "send me promotional messages and updates via SMS." This could help you to get more opt-ins easily for your future SMS marketing campaigns.
07. Use social media to promote SMS opt-in
You have the chance to turn your social media followers into SMS subscribers if you have social media accounts with a number of followers. Use social media effectively to cross-promote your SMS marketing channel and gain new SMS subscribers.
08. Influencer marketing
Influencer marketing is a sponsored partnership between you and an influencer. This will help in promoting your business on their social media handles such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, etc. Further, you can ask influencers to mention SMS keywords in their posts that would help customers sign up for your SMS marketing campaigns.
09. Ask for referrals
Offering rewards or special discounts to customers for promoting your services or products to others is one of the best methods to increase your SMS customer list. Consider offering a discount of 10%-20% for each successful referral. You can grow your SMS subscribers in this way.
10. Convert web chat leads into SMS subscribers
Web chat is a simple way for your customers to communicate with you. You can automate chatbots to ask your website visitors if they want to sign up for SMS marketing texts.
How to retain your existing SMS subscriber list
Treat your subscribers as VIPs
Who doesn't like to be treated as VIP? So as your SMS subscribers.
Consider offering exclusive deals to your SMS subscribers so they can feel the value of becoming a subscriber of the exclusive community. As a result, you will be able to reduce the opt-out rate.
But make sure you respond faster to their messages, and also ensure that you give them bigger and better discounts than non-subscribed customers.
Stop annoying your customers!
Sometimes getting lengthy text messages can be annoying to your customers. It also might be a reason for them to opt out. Therefore, make sure the messages you send are easy to understand and they have a clear call to action. Every message you send must provide value for your customers.
Don't text your subscribers too much. Also, it's better to send them business text messages only during office hours.
Segment SMS audience by interest
Categorize your SMS contact list depending on their interests. Some people would like to receive messages about flash sales, some may like to get messages about offers and discounts, and some may like to get updates about new product information.
Therefore, try to send messages depending on the interest of each audience and perform your text marketing campaign. Then you will be able to retain your SMS subscribers without losing them.
Always be compliant
Opt-ins are a must when you are doing an SMS marketing campaign.
According to the TCPA rules for SMS marketing, you need a customer's prior permission (opt-in) before sending them business text messages, and also you can send texts to them only between 8.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. in their respective time zones.
Being compliant with these rules means that you have fewer complaints about your SMS marketing campaign and higher customer satisfaction. Ignoring these rules can result in the loss of valuable contacts from your SMS marketing subscriber list.
Falkon SMS can help grow your SMS list
Now you know a number of ways to capture and grow your SMS subscriber list. Consider implementing those methods to grow your SMS list.
The more SMS subscribers you have, the more likely you are to convert them into sales.
Are you ready to build your own SMS subscriber list? Or do you need to launch a campaign to your existing SMS list? We at Falkon SMS can help you with that. Let's discuss it!
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The FCPC library collection includes fiction and nonfiction books, periodicals, videos, archived materials, a children’s corner, and more. We invite you to stop in and browse, check out materials, or stay and read a while. We hope you find the library a welcoming space for reflection and study, and that you find something to inspire you on your spiritual journey. The FCPC library is located on the main level of the building just outside of the sanctuary near the elevator.
FCPC Librarians Carolyn Bruce and Avery Burns
Librarian Avery Burns highlights new acquisitions and seasonal favorites below.
From the book jacket: “The urge to create sacred spaces is so deep in the human psyche that we often create them unconsciously. A gathering of photos on a piano, an arrangement of personal objects on a desk or fireplace mantel, are perhaps outer manifestations of an inner desire to establish hallowed and holy spaces in our environment…. In Altars, [Denise Linn] demonstrates in photos and text how you can enrich your home or office by creating unique shrines for healing and contemplation.”
In this fictional story of a young Pakistani-American girl, Amina tries to stay true to her culture and heritage while also trying to navigate her middle school friendships. As if sixth grade isn’t enough of a struggle, her local mosque is vandalized leaving her scared and distressed. In the end, will Amina use her voice in more ways than one to bring everyone together? Reviewer R.J. Palacio states: “For inspiring empathy in young readers, you can’t get better than this book.”
From the book jacket: “The bright morning light greets four children as they step into a day filled with joyful activity: climbing a tree, swimming through clear water, toasting marshmallows at twilight. And when they feel lost or lonely, friends are never very far away. In a gentle adaptation of Psalm 139, the author and illustrator have created a prayer of abiding love and hope - and a sun-dappled world where comfort is around every corner and no one is ever truly alone.”
Book Reviews Welcome!
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In this post, our Baltimore vets explain heatstroke in dogs and share a list of symptoms to watch for. We also share recommendations about what to do in a heatstroke emergency. Plus, tips on how to prevent the condition.
What is heatstroke in dogs?
As the summer weather arrives, heatstroke (also referred to as heat exhaustion) is a serious, potentially fatal danger for dogs. When a dog's body temperature rises above a normal range (101.5°F), fever (hyperthermia) can occur.
Heatstroke is a form of hyperthermia that occurs when your dog's heat-dissipating mechanisms are overwhelmed by excessive heat. When body temperature is elevated above 104°F, he enters the danger zone. Once the body's temperature is past 105°F, this is classified as heatstroke.
This is why we need to make sure our dogs remain as cool and comfortable as possible during the summer months.
What are the causes of heatstroke in dogs?
On hot summer days, the temperature inside your vehicle can quickly rise above dangerous levels (even when the inside of your vehicle does not seem very hot, remember that your dog has a fur coat to contend with). Leave the dog at home if at all possible while you shop.
A lack of access to shade in water at the beach or in your backyard can also be problematic. Water and shade are essential on warm weather days, particularly for senior dogs, and dogs with medical conditions such as obesity. Breed may also factor into heatstroke; short-nosed, flat-faced pooches tend to be more vulnerable to breathing issues. Dogs' thick coats can easily become uncomfortable.
Every dog (even ones who love spending active time outside) needs close supervision, especially on days when the mercury is rising.
What are symptoms of heatstroke in dogs?
During spring and summer, watch your canine companion closely. Heatstroke symptoms in dogs include:
- Excessive panting
- Mental “dullness” or flatness
- Red gums
- Signs of discomfort
- Unable or unwilling to move (or uncoordinated movement)
- Collapsing or loss of consciousness
What should I do if my dog is suffering from heatstroke?
Fortunately, heatstroke in dogs can be reversed if detected early. If you notice your pup displaying any symptoms listed above, immediately take him to a cooler place with good air circulation. If symptoms do not improve quickly and you are not able to take your dog’s temperature, contact your vet immediately for advice.
Take your dog’s temperature if you have access to a rectal thermometer. If his temperature is less than 105°F, this qualifies as an emergency and your dog will need to see a vet. If this temperature is above 105°F, hose or sponge your dog’s body with cool (not cold) water. Pay special attention to his stomach. A fan may also be useful.
After a few minutes, retake his temperature until it gets down to 103°F. Do not reduce the temperature below 103°F, as this can also lead to problems. Take your dog to a veterinarian immediately whether you are able to reduce his temperature or not.
How can I prevent heatstroke?
Be very cautious about how much time your furry friend spends outside or in the sun during the summer. Do not expose your dog to heat and humidity - their bodies (especially those with short faces) are unable to handle it.
NEVER leave your dog in a car with closed windows - even if you park in the shade. Provide your pooch with lots of shade to retreat to and easy access to cool water. A well-ventilated dog crate or specially designed seat belt for dogs may also work well.
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Learning how to drive a golf ball for beginners is arguably one of the most exciting elements of the game.
However, it is quite difficult, especially for people who do not have experience on the golf course.
The majority of people want to step onto the tee for the first time and hit the ball long and straight into the fairway.
It is not impossible especially if you follow the valuable advice below on our top driving techniques.
In This Article
Top Driving Tips For Beginners
Always use the proper equipment
Rules laid down by the golf associations state that in competition a maximum of fourteen golf clubs can be carried.
This is usually made up of a Driver, 3 wood, 5 wood, putter, irons numbered 9 down to 3 plus a pitching wedge and sand iron.
Modern golf clubs have continued to improve and new rescue woods and open-faced lofted irons are now available as a matter of choice.
The different named or numbered clubs are based on the angle of the loft on the clubface.
A driver having a flat face with a low degree of loft is anticipated to hit the furthest distance.
A sand iron with a 60-degree angle is needed to lift the ball over a bunker face.
As a player becomes more proficient they will become accustomed to which club will suit the distance they are capable of hitting.
To fast-track, your way to a simple consistent golf swing Click this link
The Loft of the Golf Club for Height and Distance
Note that equipment today is not necessarily tailored for 7-8 degrees drivers like it was the case in the past.
To drive the ball longer, understand that it needs to be up in the air on an excellent trajectory. 9 & 10 degrees divers are what many expert golfers use and can quickly drive the ball over 300 yards.
Nowadays, however, average driver lofts for beginners are 11.5 degrees.
They are ideal because a higher lofted driver will give the player more of a carry and it can also help you to stay more consistent with the shots.
The flatter the face of the golf club the more difficult it is to control direction. A pun on the golf circuit is ’Only God can hit a straight one iron’.
Remember that the driver’s loft affects the carry and roll. When it’s highly lofted, it can move the ball for long distances which enables you to take advantage of the most distance that your drive can deliver.
Worth noting is that it can give better performance in wet conditions.
Invest in a lower loft if you want drives that give you a lot of roll on the fairway.
These are ideal if you will be playing on courses that feature straight and long fairways so that you can enjoy more distance off the bounce.
See also: Golf terminology explained for beginners
Adopting the Correct Stance Position
While learning how to drive a golf ball, helps to focus on understanding the perfect position to hit.
To achieve the proper golf stance position, your eyes, shoulders, hips, knees, and forearms need to be parallel to the target line.
The simplest way to visualize this is to think of a railroad track where the ball is on the outside rail and the body is inside the rail.
The feet should be at shoulder width. If you are looking for a shorter stance, narrow the distance by about two inches.
It is an excellent position as it enables the player to rotate towards the target to downswing.
Note that flexibility and the speed of body rotation will determine the right foot placement.
The swing should be natural and not forced. Let the club do the work!
Balance body weight on the balls of the feet and not on the toes or heels.
When you are ready to take the swing, slightly flex your knees so that they are directly over the balls of the feet.
This should give incredible balance.
Remember that you should bend the body from the hips and not the waist.
The hands should hang forward of your pants zipper. Note that shoulders and arms should form a triangle while the elbows are supposed to point to the hips.
The upper body should always be tension free, but you may feel a little bit of pressure on the inside of the back leg.
The proper position will increase your chances of success significantly. Drive for show, putt for dough! or so the saying goes?
Avoiding Some Common Mistakes
Some mistakes are pretty common on the golf course for both beginners and professionals. An example of such is the hook and slice which can be a downfall for any golfer.
You do not have to be part of the statistics because you can correct the mistake before they cause too much frustration on the course.
Avoid being accused of being a slow player by following these simple tips.
A slice happens when the ball travels in an arch from left to right for the right-handed golfer.
A hook occurs when the same golfer hits the ball, and instead of going straight, it cuts back to the left severely.
Both these defects occur because the stance is out of alignment or the swing is being forced. A quick lesson with the club pro normally fixes the problem.
Knowing the physics of the golf ball and how it spins in the air comes in handy for anyone who wants to learn how to drive properly.
If you consistently hook the ball, open the stance more when addressing the ball.
You can also try to pull the left hand through with the swing instead of snapping wrists at impact when the swing is too fast.
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THIS HAS SPOILERS FOR EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE LATEST MANGA CHAPTERS.
IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH THE MANGA THAN YOU ARE GOING TO BE SPOILED.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
This is a rewrite since the original was deleted. I couldn't find the original. Besides it was a bit awkward so I fixed it. Here you go.
They say that while saints have a past, only sinners have a future.
Ulquiorra was sure that he was a sinner, just as he was sure that he had no future. And for a reason that he was completely oblivious to. He believed that whatever he did not see did not exist, believed it, fought by it, lived by it--he was defined by it. Yet when it came to thing that would kill him, he was as blind as, well, as a bat. The irony of the situation threatens to swell up and choke whatever life remained out of him.
That woman was killing him.
The gold that shone in his eyes was killing him. Killing him was perhaps the wrong word. His scientific mind supplied that she was not killing him. No, she was doing something much much worse. She was unmaking him. Whatever he was, whatever essence had followed him through all the painful transformations that had brought him to the state of being the Fourth Espada, Ulquiorra Schiffer, she was undoing. The threads of his being were being slowly pulled apart, one by one. Soon there would be none left, the fabric of his being would be gone. All because of a sunset haired woman that he had never actually viewed as a threat.
He had known she would be trouble the moment she came with him for disgustingly selfless reasons. Then when she had refused to break despite every hateful word he had clubbed her with, he knew. He did not know for sure when she had been defying him. No he had thought of her as being weak, pathetic and disgustingly weak. She was worse than that trash that she defended so blindly. At least that trash had some notion of self-preservation. The woman clearly had none. she was stupid trash. Stupid, selfless trash. That his eye could see and that was nothing his eye cared to see. Perhaps if he had taken better notice he could have foreseen what was happening as a possible outcome.
The part that amused him the most was that even in his most frightening state, there was no fear in her eyes. Resolve, hope, maybe a little anger but there was no fear. Even Kurosaki had looked afraid when he transformed initially and terrified when he had gone to his second form. He was glad he had shattered his mask, it made watching the fear blossom on his face so much more enjoyable. Behind his glasses Ulquiorra could see fear in the eyes of the Quincy. But the woman who should have, by all means, been terrified of him was not. She was glaring at him like she wished that she could find a more painful way to unmake him.
The wings on his back felt like a joke. He knew they weren't really there anymore and for a moment he did mourn the loss. He had enjoyed the feeling of flying, it was one of the things he did enjoy and one of the things he regretted not being able to do in Las Noches. Now of course he could not fly. The fairies that were negating his existence, they could fly. He could see their wings on the outside of the gold shield he was under. He reached up towards the gold shield. His arm felt so incredibly light, as though gravity had ceased to exist within the confines of the gold shield he was under. His finger reached for it but it remained elusive.
His entire body felt light, as though everything he was was disappearing. A part of him wished that she had used Tsubaki on him. She was probably furious enough to do it effectively. She had seen him scream at Ichigo. It had been the first time in such a long time that he had an outburst like that. It actually felt--it felt good to scream at someone. Usually he felt so numbed, so dead, to feel that sheer infuriation, it felt like an addict being given drugs. He wanted to scream and shout at the top of his lungs again. Even though he could breath, he had a feeling that any sort of vocal ability was long gone. What else was gone? His wings, his vocal chords, probably soon his body would be gone as well.
It was a nice thought that he would linger, in some form, for a while afterwards. He would be the glaring reminder of Kurosaki's failure and of the fact that for once that woman had decided to be something other than helpless. He had captured her when she had been training to be stronger, to help her friends or some pathetic reason like that. But he had taken her before she had been able to show any of that strength. Well here it was, "the violation of the realm of the Gods" in action. Or maybe she was working with the Gods. Ulquiorra had trouble thinking that there was a God who would have allowed him to remain in existence. Where was the God in dealing with the rest of them? Maybe this was all part of whatever plan someone had. If it was he was glad to be finished in it. He was weary of playing such a role anyway.
He allowed his eyes to drift from the fairies controlling the shield over Kurosaki's features still contorted in fear, disgust and confusion. He must be confused by her new strength. Unwillingly Ulquiorra felt amused at the thought. Good, he was glad that Kurosaki was confused. He would have preferred him to be in agony, but confused was a good second. The Quincy seemed to be taking it better but the fear and confusion in his eyes was all about the woman. Ulquiorra knew that neither of them had imagined that she was even capable of something like unmaking him. It was ironic really how little they knew about a woman they were willing to fight monsters to bring home.
They did not know that if she was frightened she slept with her hairpins in or clutched tightly in her hand. They did not know that she slept curled on her side, her back to the door so that if someone came in to spy on her she did not have to see them. They did not know that every tear she shed, every drop of blood she spilled--even what she was doing to him now--it was all for them. She had never taken anything for herself, it was all for her friends. She would go to hell for them but never for herself. It was disgusting really, her lack of self preservation. What was more disgusting was that none of them seemed to realize the lengths she was willing to go for them. If she was going to be pathetic and sacrifice everything, she should at least do it for people who were worthy of such selflessness, not trash like them.
The feeling of floating increased. He could barely feel the hard rock under his back anymore. He heard her inhale sharply, her fingers digging into the gold shield.
"Inoue, maybe you should--" the Quincy began.
"No!" Orihime cut him off, "I'm ending this right now."
Ulquiorra had to admire her determination. He had been with her enough to know that she was not going to be conscious for long. Still she stared at the shield, her eyes locked on the gold barrier. Her grey eyes slowly moved until they were locked with his. Ulquiorra stared back at them. They were perfect inverses of each other. He was dark, and cold, his hair plain and his eyes jarring. She was light and warmth, her hair stunning and her eyes rather plain. But still they looked at each other even as white began to cloud Ulquiorra's vision. He saw the sweat bead her forehead as she looked down at him, her body shaking.
That wretched shout was Kurosaki's, followed quickly by the Quincy's. Were they both in love with her? It would make sense that they would be slaves to such a pathetic emotion. He knew that woman was more than a little in love with the orange haired idiot who would never deserve such an emotion from her. She really was trash, giving her heart away so easily. Perhaps if she looked after herself a bit more they would not be in this position. Her teeth gritted together as she continued to look at him. The white seemed to swarm up, covering his vision like dust. It felt hard to breath as well, like the dust was getting in his lungs. He felt his chest spasm but coughing seemed to be impossible. Breathing seemed difficult as well. It did not hurt but the lack of control was shattering.
The dust seemed to swell up and consume him completely. He was not drowning, he was floating. Floating far away. The last thing he saw was her determined grey eyes and for some reason, when his own finally faded he was not afraid. Perhaps the anticipation of being unmade was worse than the act of it itself. He was not afraid or in pain or anything really.
He simply exhaled the last bit of air in his lungs and the world went away.
Orihime trembled violently as she held the shield in place. She heard Ishida and Kurosaki calling for her, their voices loud and worried but all she could focus on was the task at hand. Her hand was pressed tight against the shield, otherwise she would have toppled over a long time ago. Cold seemed to creep up her spine as she looked at swirling dust that filled the glowing half moon of her shield. Was that supposed to happen? She did not know. She had never really done anything like this before. She wanted to see the dust settle, she wanted to know that this was finally over.
She wanted to know that she had saved everyone.
Everything it was over, it had to be over. Everyone--everything--it was the end here. The end of all things. Good Bye Halcyon Days. But the dust continued to swirl, covering everything in the glowing half moon. She could not see what was going on strain got to be too much. Against her will the world began to slide out of focus. Her body trembled violently, as if she was the one who should be in there instead of him. Everything it was over, it had to be over. Her hand slipped down the side of the shield as the ground rushed up to connect with her cheek. Orihime's eyes slipped shut before the shield had fully dissipated. All she saw was gold and white before the world dissolved into darkness.
"Kurosaki," she breathed her eyes closing fully.
"Inoue!" Ichigo staggered to his feet, lurching forward on limbs that had no place in moving, "Inou--" he stopped dead in his tracks, adrenaline and shock the only things that kept him upright.
"Inoue," Uryuu breathed, looking at the two figures before him, "what did you do?"
They say that while saints have a past, only sinners have a future. On that day it was clear to everyone gathered there:
There were no saints in Hueco Mundo, only sinners.
Just to clarify, Ichigo is behind Uryuu. So those two figures are....
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It’s Manifesto Time!
Manifestos can be wonderful community-forming, revolution ranting things. I cannot recall why (I just needed to I think) but I created my own little silly declaration in 2005:
A cross-media creator…
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That zucchini in your garden will be ready before you know it. One zucchini plant seems to produce about 1,459 zucchinis, so, if you’re like me, you’re probably looking for more recipes to use up all that zucchini and yellow squash! This recipe for cheesy yellow squash and zucchini casserole is definitely a new family favorite!
We are definitely enjoying our summer days around here now that elearning is over. Elearning definitely wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Thankfully our girls were fairly independent and completed most of the work by themselves. B took a FACS class second semester, so she made some recipes for extra credit and I gladly welcomed the chance to let someone else cook for me for a change!
Here’s a glimpse of what life has been like for us these past few weeks.
I started a new job in January…more on that later as I’m trying to gather my thoughts for a post on the job change. I left my assistant teaching position and started working for a family-owned design company in our town. I’m keeping the books (gasp! Never thought after keeping books for the farm that I would actually want to keep someone else’s books, but I LOVE it.) Thankfully, it’s only part-time and they are very understanding of family, so some days the girls go to work with me since COVID has definitely thrown a wrench in our schedule, just like everyone else’s. Jo is almost ready to be put on payroll! She may do a better job with Quickbooks than myself somedays!
We welcomed two snails into our home. Eleven (from Stranger things, I guess…I don’t watch the show) joined us in April when Jo found her while mushroom hunting. No mushrooms, but we found a snail! Otto was found by a friend’s pond. If we did our research correctly we think we have a male and female, so we’ll see what happens! Snails are my kind of pet because they are the easiest things to care for!
We’ve had some pretty amazing skies in the Midwest lately. With all that’s going on in the world right now, it definitely gives us a chance to pause and reflect! Oh! And we also finished planting! Whoohoo!
Now, back to the Cheesy Yellow Squash and Zucchini Casserole recipe. (Try to say that 5 times fast!)
Cheesy Yellow Squash and Zucchini Casserole
You will need:
3 Cups yellow squash
3 Cups zucchini
1 teaspoon onion powder (or 1/2 cup chopped yellow onion. I’ve made it both ways and prefer the onion powder)
1 10 3/4 oz can cream of chicken soup
1 Cup mayonnaise
1 Cup sharp shredded cheese
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 sleeves Ritz Crackers
1 stick (1/2 Cup melted butter)
Begin by washing and chopping the squash and zucchini and place in a large bowl.
Pour this mixture over the squash and zucchini and stir until well coated.
Pour the mixture into a greased 9×13 pan. Next, crush the crackers and pour into a bowl. Melt butter and stir into crackers until coated. Pour the crackers evenly over the squash. Bake covered for 30 minutes, then remove the foil or cover and bake for an addition 15-20 minutes or until bubbly and golden brown.
Just look at that yummy topping! Seriously, the topping is the best part, so you can make more that the recipe calls for if you wish!
I would also like to try this over a campfire to add in that smokey flavor! I think I’m going to try it on our next camping trip!
So pretty and so delicious!
Cheesy Yellow Squash and Zucchini Casserole
- 3 Cups yellow squash diced
- 3 Cups zucchini diced
- 1 teaspoon onion powder you can also use 1x2 cup chopped onion if you wish. I've tried it both ways and prefer the onion powder
- 1 103/4 oz can cream of chicken soup
- 1 Cup mayonnaise
- 1 egg
- 1 Cup sharp shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 sleeves Ritz crackers crushed
- 1 stick 1/2 Cup melted butter
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x13 pan.
- Dice the yellow squash and zucchini and place in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the onion powder, cream of chicken soup, mayonnaise, eggs, cheese, salt and pepper.
- Pour over the squash and zucchini and toss until well coated.
- Pour in greased 9x13 pan.
- Crush crackers and place in bowl.
- Melt butter and pour over the crackers and stir until well coated. Pour over zucchini mixture.
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As you know, this whole season of Unsuitable is concerned with one question: What does it look like to form deep relationships as people who are not married? So, what do you think?
The question may seem straightforward now, but I was a year into a quest to find the cure for loneliness by the time I decided to ask every guest on the sixth season of my podcast that one question: What does it look like to form deep relationships as people who are not married?
When Loneliness Became Real
The gravel grated under my sneakers as I made my usual three-mile loop around the Central Park reservoir. I was re-listening to How The Light Gets In by Louise Penny on my walk. It’s the ninth book in my favorite mystery series and I was nearing the end of the story when the scene cut from catching the murderer to a wedding. At the ceremony, the officiant read a poem. As I rounded the second to last turn in my path he recited: “Now there is no more loneliness.”
I froze. A deep ache crept over me. It was the feeling I’d been avoiding through work and walks and watching TV. It was loneliness. I stood on the path and felt sadness clutch at my throat when I was hit with another revelation. It wasn’t just that I was lonely. I also had no idea what to do about it.
That loop around the Central Park reservoir and my audiobooks had become my closest companions in the spring of 2020. I was grateful to have them when no other companions were allowed. It was nearly summer, month three of New York City’s pandemic lockdown. In the early days, I focused on pushing through. The city became the global epicenter of the virus and its media coverage. Two close friends got sick. The chef I used to work for died from Covid. I went ten weeks without a hug. Still, I was good at being alone, and I could hear birds chirping on Third Avenue for the first time because there was no traffic to drown them out. I kept thinking I could ride this out.
I began walking in the park as a way to make sure I left my apartment at least once a day. At six o’clock, I’d close my laptop, change into workout clothes, and head out. As I walked my three-mile loop, I listened to novels.
I paused the audiobook and kept walking as I mulled over the line from the fictional poem and its effect on me. The quote seemed to suggest that marriage was the cure for this feeling. At that point, I’d already been writing and podcasting about being single in a marriage-obsessed church for two years. Perhaps that’s why I wasn’t buying what the quote seemed to be selling. This left me with a question—Is there a cure for loneliness?
What kind of problem is loneliness?
The next year turned into an informal and personal investigation into that question. My first attempt was to cure my loneliness spiritually. Did Jesus ever feel lonely? I was drawn to the stories of Jesus in the wilderness, Jesus in the garden when his friends couldn’t stay awake with him, and Jesus on the cross—moments of isolation and abandonment. Jesus’s companionship in loneliness satiated my feelings for about an hour. It mattered, but there had to be more.
Next, logic dictated that feeling isolated could be vanquished by finding creative ways to be around people. Logic had its barriers and my brain fought me. Was I bothering people? Was I being needy? What was reasonable for me to ask of my friends? I took a deep breath, said a small prayer, and sent out a series of texts asking each of my friends if they were in town and had time to go for a walk.
Physical proximity seemed to help, but I still felt like I existed on an island all to myself. Many times I felt a tug to share my struggle with loneliness and quest to cure it as I matched my stride with my walking partner, but tugging on the opposite end was my strong desire not to be a downer now that I finally had someone to be around. Clearly, there was an emotional component to the cure that simple presence and spiritual confidence couldn’t bypass.
Eventually, in spite of my ambivalence, I confided in my friends. It was a quest, after all, I had to try every approach. Isolation was causing certain relational muscles to atrophy, I told them. I laid out how my time alone kept me from the everyday situations that required conflict resolution, compromise, or articulating my thoughts and feelings with my out-loud voice. I talked about experiencing touch deprivation for the first time. When the world was afraid of passing on a deadly virus, how was I supposed to ask for a hug? If the cure had an emotional component I would need more than venting, I’d need to find kindred spirits. So I asked questions about my friends’ lives and well-being. Was it just me? They answered, confiding their own questions and fears. It turned out we all had our islands and our atrophies.
Still, the inciting question lingered. Even as I developed theories and language around loneliness, I couldn’t come up with a cure. The loneliness was acknowledged but ever-present.
A Cue Not a Cure
That’s when I took the quandary to my podcast: So, what does it look like to form deep relationships as people who are not married?
Sarah Gardner, a bi-coastal actor, said, “I hear book after book and couple after couple talking about the things to hold your marriage together. Why don’t we talk about the things that can hold your friendships together?” Pieter Valk and I talked about how singles can find commitment and safety in relationships. Bridget Eileen Rivera said, “So many Christians get so focused on the nuclear family that we forget that the model we see in scripture is church as family.”
With every interview some of the heaviness of the past year lifted. Until those conversations, I hadn’t realized how much shame I’d been carrying about my loneliness. Part of me believed if I worked harder or was better at relationships or closer to God, surely I wouldn’t be feeling lonely. My perspective was beginning to shift. The universal human search for companionship, with all its layers and nuances, can’t be treated as just an emotional issue, or a spiritual one, or an intellectual one, or a physical one, or an individual one. It’s all of it. Of course, marriage isn’t the cure. How could one person be all of that?
In my quest for the cure for loneliness, I realized that maybe I shouldn’t be thinking in terms of a “cure” at all. Our lives can’t be stacked so perfectly that we never feel lonely. The emotional, spiritual, physical, mental, and intimate relationships wouldn’t always overlap perfectly. There will be gaps and in them, loneliness will define the void. Loneliness didn’t need a once and for all cure, instead, I need to see it as a cue, a signal of my humanity.
Each person is made to live in concert with other people. Loneliness shines a spotlight on the part of us that knows we need a shared life. Like hunger cues tell us to eat and anger cues alert us that a boundary has been crossed, loneliness is a cue that tells us we’re experiencing relational lack. When I feel lonely my natural response is to let my loneliness lead me to despair or to over-intellectualizing my circumstances or to walking around numb like a social zombie. But if I think of that ache of loneliness as a cue that I am truly human, that I have relational needs and my heart and soul are alerting me that I’m living in lack, then loneliness is an invitation to reimagine how I engage my relationships and communities. A reminder to share my life, to share myself.
Of course, I never did find the cure for loneliness—there isn’t one in any absolute sense. Two years after that day in the park when a story forced me to recognize the loneliness I had been ignoring, I’m still awkwardly, slowly rebuilding my social life. The feeling I tried to cure has become its own kind of intermittent companion. I recognized the cue and keep working on my shared life.
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A business can easily increase their reach by creating an ecommerce store that either reflects its physical stores or acts as the primary store. This sudden rise in the number of online stores is in a way powered by services like Shopify.
What exactly is Shopify?
Let’s find out.
What is Shopify?
Shopify is an online service that helps users create ecommerce stores easily by providing the necessary tools needed to do so. Shopify provides a simple and easy to use interface that enables sellers and merchants to create professional-looking online stores even if they have no prior experience or coding knowledge.
Simply put, Shopify is an ecommerce website builder that takes care of the web-hosting, domain name purchases, and helps in quickly setting up an online store. Shopify also makes it easier to customize the online stores to their liking.
Apart from that, Shopify also provides a shopping cart service that also includes its very own shipping suite – Shopify Shipping. The Shopify Shipping suite provides its sellers and merchants with calculated rates and options to select from major shipping carriers. It also allows the printing of labels from within the suite instead of relying on third-party services.
Shopify Business Model
How Does Shopify Work?
Shopify has a platform business model approach – Shopify acts as a platform that enables users to create an online store in order to sell their goods online. Shopify helps businesses connect with consumers by providing the businesses with the tools necessary to build an ecommerce site.
Let’s look at the list of solutions it offers on its platform to get a better understanding.
Shopify’s Ecommerce Solutions
Shopify is a multilateral platform that provides a host of services that enables the creation and functioning of ecommerce stores –
- Creation of storefront
- Shopping Cart Suite
- Store management
- Marketing & SEO
- Web hosting
- Mobile App
- 24/7 support
Which brings us to –
The key partners that help Shopify work.
Shopify’s Key Partners
Investors & Integrators
The business investors and VCs help the company stay afloat.
Shopify also allows other platforms and sites to be able to integrate Shopify into their services for seamless integration and this is one area of primary focus for Shopify. For example, Shopify has integrations with Facebook and Amazon, which helps Shopify users to be able to easily list the products on either of the sites with just a few clicks.
Blogs & Acquisitions
Shopify has its own blog where it provides a lot of resources on using its platform to start an ecommerce site and more.
On the other hand, Shopify also depends on its primary acquisitions of companies like Oberlo and Handshake among the few. Oberlo, in particular, is an important acquisition and partner since it helps integrate drop-shipping services into Shopify.
Shopify has its own payment gateways and also supports various other payment gateways in order to provide a variety of options for its users and their customers to choose from.
Here are few payment gateways supported by Shopify:
- Amazon Pay
Shopify’s Operating Model
Besides from providing the necessary tools and services in order to create and run an ecommerce store, Shopify also allows retailers to sell products without having to carry inventory, eliminating the need for stockrooms and creating significant cost savings in rent, storage, and shipping expenses along with helping in the creation of the online stores.
Shopify works just like any other website builder service when it comes to the creation of the ecommerce stores:
- Create an online store
Which brings us to –
How does Shopify make money if it is just a website builder at its core?
How Does Shopify Make Money? | Shopify Revenue Model
Shopify makes the majority of its revenue via several levels of monthly subscription plans for the usage of its services.
These are the three subscription plans offered for most businesses:
- Basic Shopify – This costs $29/month and provides essentials features and services for starting and maintaining a small ecommerce store.
- Shopify – This costs $79/month and provides better Point of Sale service features.
- Advanced Shopify– This costs $299/month and provides the lowest fee per transaction charged among the three subscription plans making it the best bet for large volume businesses and merchants.
Other than that, Shopify also has two other subscription plans:
- Shopify Plus – This plan is for high volume traders and businesses.
- Shopify Lite – This plan costs $9/month and is more suitable for those looking to sell products on Facebook.
Merchant Solutions Fees
Shopify has its very own payment gateway and it is a major source of revenue for Shopify. Here are the different fees charged by Shopify under the different subscription plans for using Shopify Payments:
- Basic Shopify – Shopify charges a fee of 2.9% + 30 cents for every payment transaction done via Shopify Payments.
- Shopify – Shopify charges a fee of 2.6% + 30 cents for every payment transaction done via Shopify Payments.
- Advanced Shopify– Shopify charges a fee of 2.4% + 30 cents for every payment transaction done via Shopify Payments.
Payment Gateway Fees
Apart from earning from the monthly subscription fees, Shopify also charges a fee for the usage of payment gateways other than its own Shopify Payments. The fee charged is different for each subscription tier –
- Basic Shopify – Shopify charges 2.0% for every transaction done using other payment gateways.
- Shopify – Shopify charges 1.0% for every transaction done using other payment gateways.
- Advanced Shopify– Shopify charges 0.5% for every transaction done using other payment gateways.
Point of Sale Service
Shopify provides Point of Sale software services that help track sales and transactions that take place in your physical stores and provides unified analytics that blends in-store and online store sales. The POS features on offer vary according to the subscription plan –
Shopify also earns quite a bit from the sales of themes via its theme store to its users looking to quickly customize their sites.
Shopify also provides a lot of extra add-ons and integration to other sites for a fee respectively. This also factors into its revenue stream.
Why Shopify Works?
We can attribute Shopify’s success to it being able to provide an ecommerce building and hosting tool with additional features that help simplify the seller’s tasks.
Shopify provides a neat, clean and minimal platform that even those with minimal coding skills can use to create a professional-looking store within a short period of time.
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Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is committed to the highest standards of training, consultation, and service. FFT trains and certifies groups of three to eight therapists in a wide variety of settings. We ask potential FFT-G providers/sites to begin by reviewing the materials on this page and contacting us to complete the application for site certification. A conference call will then be arranged with representatives of the site and FFT to answer questions, identify challenges and think through the next steps. Once both parties concur the site is ready to proceed, the initial phase of FFT-G training will be scheduled.
Phases of FFT-G Training
Through a mutual commitment to the training process and to developing adherence and competence in the FFT-G model, our phasic implementation process has proven highly successful in community replication of our family therapy model. Phases of the FFT-G training and certification process include:
- Phase I - Clinical Training
- Phase I - Clinical Training
- Phase II - Supervision Training
- Phase III - Maintenance Phase
The initial goal of FFT-G implementation is to ensure that the site builds a lasting infrastructure that supports therapists to take maximum advantage of FFT-G training/consultation. Extensive work is done upfront to build working relationships with key community stakeholders from various systems that work with gang-involved youth. During this phase, therapists are trained in the core constructs and interventions, and how to use the FFT-Clinical Services System (CSS) to gather data. It is expected that Phase 1 be completed in one year, but not any longer than 18 months. By the end of Phase 1, FFT’s objective is for therapists to demonstrate strong adherence and high competence in the FFT-G model.
The goal of the second phase of FFT-G implementation is to assist the site in creating greater self-sufficiency in FFT-G, while also maintaining and enhancing site adherence/competence in the model. During this phase, FFT trains a site’s extern to become the onsite supervisor. This intensive, hands-on, training experience focuses on clinical supervision techniques for FFT-G. After initial training, the onsite supervisor is then supported by FFT via monthly phone consultations and a one-day follow-up training. In addition, FFT provides any ongoing consultation as necessary and reviews the site’s FFT Clinical Services System (CSS) database to measure site/therapist adherence, service delivery trends, and outcomes. Phase II is a year-long process.
The goal of the third phase of FFT-G implementation is to move into a partnering relationship to ensure ongoing model fidelity and staff development, interagency linking, and program expansion. FFT provides annual training activities and consultation services to support the site’s continuous education and competence in FFT-G. The annual oversight and consultation practices are considered necessary for an FFT-G site to remain certified.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between FFT and FFT-G?
FFT-G shares the same intervention focus and activities as FFT. However, given the higher intensity of the risk factors and behaviors that are present with gang-involved youth and their families, extensive work is devoted to developing and sustaining working relationships with community stakeholders to ensure that there is a coordinated and coherent approach to work with these youth and their families. This plan includes safety considerations as well as a focus on working to ensure that youth remain in the community. Developing such systems-level relationships is not unique to FFT-G. All FFT programs do this as a routine aspect of practice. What is unique in FFT-G work is the focus on engaging stakeholders with key knowledge and experience with the local community and gangs.
What are the qualifications for an FFT-G clinician?
Master’s level is preferred, including clinician’s being supervised by a licensed supervisor. Experience working with delinquent youth is preferred.
What is a typical FFT- G caseload?
FFT-G should be implemented with a team of 3-8 master's level therapists, with full-time caseloads based on the level of risk and needs within a gang-involved target population. This typically is approximately 8 youth/families. The site supervisor is also required to carry a caseload. Site supervisors may reduce their caseloads to meet the requirements of the position; however, this caseload must be a minimum of five active cases at all times.
How many therapists can one onsite supervisor support?
One FFT-G site supervisor can support up to a team of eight.
How close to the families (in geographic terms) must the FFT-G therapist be?
Since the risk in the early stages of treatment with families is dropout, FFT-G therapists meet with families based on risk factors and family needs. Distance should not be a reason why a therapist doesn’t meet with a family. Thus, a site must consider whether the geography a therapist covers will allow them to still be responsive to families, particularly in early sessions. If not, dropout will increase and outcomes will diminish.
Is it safe to work with gang-involved youth?
FFT has safely worked with gang-involved youth in many contexts around the world. This has also been the case with FFT-G. Safety is a joint effort. It is recommended that all agencies have safety protocols in place for doing work in the community/home. As part of the implementation process, FFT works closely with teams to ensure that stakeholders from other systems are also involved in safety planning.
How accessible do FFT-G therapists need to be after-hours?
For extenuating clinical issues or those situations that impact agency policy and procedure, FFT would expect that the agency has a designated supervisor or other processes to address after-hours issues. Many agencies are required to provide after-hours crisis service. However, it is not a requirement of the model to offer 24/7 access to the FFT-G therapist.
How often do FFT-G therapists meet (via phone conference) with an FFT-G national consultant?
The FFT-G national consultant will talk to the therapists weekly via phone. This call typically occurs at the same time each week. Consultation includes general topics, such as issues around documentation or caseloads, and moves into being more clinical, utilizing the FFT model of supervision and staffing of cases. The weekly call is considered a requirement for site certification, so attendance is mandatory.
Can staff work part-time in FFT-G and part-time in another service/model as long as they are adherent to FFT-G in their capacity as an FFT-G therapist?
Given the high-risk nature of the target population and work within the community with stakeholders, priority should be given to the FFT-G work the therapist is doing. FFT works with providers through application processes to determine with other non-activities are advisable in a project.
For youth coming out of residential care, can an FFT-G therapist begin working with the family/client in the weeks immediately preceding residential discharge?
FFT-G works in different ways with this population. FFT-G can begin when discharge is imminent and sessions can be held with the identified client and family in the facility or during the youth’s home visit, or FFT-G can occur as a recommended service at discharge. The FFT-G therapist can begin engaging the family and youth prior to discharge and start FFT-G immediately once the youth is home. Different potential re-entry models can be explored directly with FFT-G during the application process.
Is a psychiatrist part of the FFT-G team? Are they ever contracted in?
FFT-G has trained psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and even teachers. Psychiatrists in some states are required to provide medical necessities for a client and will refer to FFT-G if appropriate. It is essential that the psychiatrist in this role understands the structure of the model. Some psychiatrists fulfill an administrative or clinical role while most of the time they are used for consultation with the family around issues such as medication management. Though the costs can be high, in some cases, psychiatrists have been integrated into FFT-G training and case consultation. | <urn:uuid:865f77ac-ca89-45a8-8fd1-bc1b7d3600e6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.fftllc.com/fft-gangs-training | 2023-09-27T10:46:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.954459 | 1,738 |
Status Classification: Exempt vs. Nonexempt
Do you know how to respond when someone offers to purchase your cell tower lease? Property owners with a lease for a cell tower or cell antenna on their property routinely receive six-figure offers to buy the lease and future leasing rights. While attractive, those offers - typically structured as perpetual easements - pose unusual legal, financial, and technical risks that the property owner and its regular attorney typically are not familiar with. And unsolicited offers are usually too low - well below typical sales prices. This topic will guide property owners and their attorneys as they evaluate and respond to such offers. It includes covering what drives the offers, typical prices, how to evaluate financial terms to determine whether selling makes sense (and when it doesn’t). You will be better able to evaluate purchase offers, identify and modify the very one-sided documents offered by purchasers, and address some of the risks involved in a sale. Such risks include making sure the property owner is not hindered in developing or using its property, ensuring that future sums promised by the purchaser in fact are paid and the contract honored (and the sale terminated if they are not), insurance and bankruptcy protections, as well as questions as to the financial solvency of the buyer. These risks increase as the easement term increases (typically from 50 years to perpetual) given that the property owner continues to own the underlying property. Government agencies face all of the preceding issues, plus special questions of municipal authority, compliance with municipal finance/procurement statutes, prohibitions on waste, and risks of accidently triggering property reverters.
Who should attend?
- Cell Tower Sales Basics
- Financial Underpinnings - Current and Renewal Rents, Revenues From Future Tenants
- Why and How Lessors Can Raise Rents at Renewal and Amendment Time
- Legal Structure - Easement, Lease Assignment or Purchase of Property
- Key Differences in Sales of Leases for Antenna Sites on Buildings and Other StructuresKey Factors on Sales Prices, Terms, Business Risks and Benefits
- Typical Sales Prices - Why Initial Offers Are Too Low
- Financial Analysis of Selling vs. Continuing to Lease
- Payments Over Time – Evaluating Same
- When Cell Tower Sales Make Sense, and When They Don't
- New Tenant Revenues - Pros and Cons
- Purchaser's Financial Strength; Ability to Perform for 50+ Year Term
- Avoiding Unfavorable Sales Terms That Can Hurt the Property OwnerLegal Risks
- Lease Terms That Impair or Prevent a Sale
- Addressing One-Sided Deal Documents
- Evicting Purchaser for Nonpayment, Nonperformance
- What if Purchaser's Lenders Foreclose?
- Bankruptcy Protections
- Insurance Provisions for a 50+ Year Deal
- Buyer Compliance With Building, Safety CodesState and Local Government Issues
- Dillon's Rule, Governmental Authority for a Sale
- Property Specific Restrictions, Reverters
- Municipal Finance, Bond Issue Risks
- Procurement, Waste IssuesDrafting and Counseling Issues
- Business Pros and Cons
- Visualizing the Deal (Ground Level Sites; Building Sites)
- Getting Multiple Offers via a RFP Process
- Reimbursement of Property Owner's Legal Fees and Other Transactional Fees
- Dealing With Objections From Existing Site Tenants
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Replications enlarged or reduced to any size...
With advancements in digital scanning, 3D printing and casting technologies, any one of the completed sculptures in the Liberty (R)evolution collection can now be reduced or enlarged to any size, in real bronze. Timeless has penned a special message for each completed sculpture to be permanently engraved into some large replications or embedded into the base of smaller castings. These will literally carry the message of Liberty into the future.
In this way we pass along what books and films, institutions and governments cannot; safe under the protection of the genuine lovers of freedom who own them.
The magic of digital scanning, 3D printing and modern casting techniques...
It starts with taking thousands of high resolution images guided by vertical, horizontal, wavy lines and grids cast onto the original, so a “digital copy” of the sculpture can be painstakingly created on the computer. The computer then drives either a 3D milling machine or a 3D printer (Not unlike a document printer, only it “stacks” material with each pass.). Even fine wood grains and char textures are transferred! Bronze sections are individually hot-cast, using the “lost-wax” method. The assembled works are then meticulously patched, detailed and polished and a “patina” is applied. This process results in remarkable, weatherable sculptures at a fraction the cost of their one-of-a-kind wooden “originals”.
The latest sculpture to join the collection, by the process above, is now being enlarged to10 feet, in enduring bronze.
Here's more about Liberty (R)evolution, the sculpture
Artist, Matthew “Timeless” Welter
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Springer's Preteen Ministry- Club 3:16
Springer's offers a special Preteen Zone for their 4th, 5th and 6th graders with age-appropriate games, field trips, activities and their very own Bible studies created just for 4th, 5th and 6th graders. Our after-school members and summer campers in the 4th, 5th and 6th grade make up our Preteen Zone Club 3:16. Join us for the fun at Springer's.
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Think of an injury case like navigating a ship from one port to another. Signing up the case is the equivalent of throwing off the ropes and pulling safely away from the dock. Being at sea is analogous to litigation. Some days you will eat the bear and some days the bear will eat you. Stay your course. Invariably, chart adjustments will be necessary, but the final destination always remains the same: favorable resolution of the case. Settling the case equates to pulling into port. However, it is not the last act. The ship must be successfully docked and secured. The Settlement Release is part of this final act. It must be done properly to avoid damaging the ship.
Our law firm handles both workers’ compensation and personal injury/wrongful death cases. It is not uncommon to have both types of cases arising out of one accident. For example, we represent a gentleman who suffered numerous catastrophic injuries in a motor vehicle crash. Since the accident happened in the course and scope of his employment, he was covered under workers’ compensation. We recently settled the workers’ compensation case. The common law liability case, against the second vehicle’s owner and our client’s co-worker [brought under a theory of gross negligence to overcome workers’ compensation immunity], remains ongoing.
As part of the workers’ compensation mediated settlement, the workers’ compensation carrier agreed that the settlement did not affect the liability case against the third party or the co-worker. Nevertheless, the General Release it submitted to us contained wording that could be construed as preventing our client from proceeding against the co-worker. We have reworded it to avoid this outcome.
This scenario resembles another case presently pending in our office in which we represent a gentleman who lost a leg while operating a lawnmower. We settled his common law liability case against the owner of the lawnmower one week before the workers’ compensation case was settled against the employer. We are now in the paperwork stage of both cases. Even though both cases are settled, we must nevertheless be careful to avoid any language either side might try to use to nullify an agreement. We have not yet received the liability release from the other side. However, this week we received the workers’ compensation General Release and had to modify it to eliminate any construction that could threaten the liability settlement.
Defendants like to use broad release language — not to be confused with confidentiality and hold harmless language, which can be the topic of another blog — in their Releases which often goes beyond the reasonable understanding of the settling parties. In many instances it doesn’t matter. The resolved case is the only possible case that can or will be pursued. However, it is still wise to pair down the wording to reflect the actual settlement. When it does matter, the consequential language cannot be allowed to remain or it must be qualified to limit its scope.
Anyone wishing to discuss these issues or see the language we include in our Releases to protect the rights of our clients, feel free to phone or email.
Contact us at 305-758-4900 or by email to learn your legal rights.
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While prompt resolution of your legal matter is our goal, our approach is fundamentally different. Our clients are “people” and not “cases” or “files.” We take the time to build a relationship with our clients, realizing that only through meaningful interaction can we best serve their needs. In this manner, we have been able to best help those requiring legal representation. | <urn:uuid:85d6dab4-11ca-4182-a975-18809359d273> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.floridainjuryattorneyblawg.com/jeffrey-p-gale-p-a-proceed-cautiously-with-settlement-releases/ | 2023-09-27T10:54:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.959644 | 807 |
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Tilt, Vertical, or Horizontal | Exercise 4
Learn to articulate one element at a time. Your three options of movement are tilt, vertical, or horizontal.
You now have the freedom to move into one of 3 horizontal directions, 2 vertical directions, or 4 tilt directions. Practice fluidly moving from one move to the next, always passing through neutral, and always maintain your kickstand leg. Articulate these movements independently, communicate them in partnership, and play within the structure.
Slow down and take the time to explore movement that feels good, and then let your inner child dance!
Practice with the Spotify playlist and also with your favorite tunes.
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Dye Covid-19 Supply Chain Investigation Shifts Focus to NY/NJ in Phase Two
Commissioner Rebecca Dye’s Fact Finding investigation of COVID-19 related impacts to the supply chain (Fact Finding 29) is entering Phase Two with a concentration on issues related to operations at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) and surrounding facilities. She is also announcing plans for an online seminar addressing key topics of interest to the industry.
Three teams consisting of truckers, terminal operators, shippers, intermediaries, and other parties critical to the movement of intermodal ocean cargoes through the PANYNJ facilities will support Phase Two of the investigation. These teams will study what operational adjustments will prepare the bi-state port complex for dealing with increasing cargo volumes in the future. Successes will be captured and analyzed for their applicability at other ports. Additionally, as in Phase One in Southern California, Phase Two Supply Chain Innovation Teams are tasked with identifying any operational challenges to efficient port and supply chain operations and then proposing an industry-driven solution for improving matters.
“I heard from many parties that Fact Finding 29 should take a regional approach in its examination of COVID-19 related impacts to the supply chain. Given its prominence as an East Coast gateway, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is the logical focus for Phase Two of my investigation. As with Los Angeles, we will be examining how the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is both adjusting operations in response to the pandemic and laying the groundwork for handling higher cargo volumes in the future,” said Commissioner Dye.
As part of Fact Finding 29, Commissioner Dye will hold an online seminar where she will provide a briefing on service contracts and related vessel capacity and cargo forecasting issues. Details regarding the specifics of the event will be announced at a later date.
Concurrently, Commissioner Dye continues to engage key industry leaders in Southern California about progress they have made in implementing four approaches that can immediately address critical operational issues at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. These objectives were identified by Supply Chain Innovation Teams created for Phase One of Fact Finding 29.
“A key to improving supply chain efficiencies is overcoming the lack of ‘ownership’ for the most serious operational issues. Everyone wants to see meaningful operational changes at our Southern California port gateway, but solutions will require serious engagement between ocean carriers and marine terminal operators. Toward that goal, we have directly involved the most senior U.S.-based executives of ocean carriers belonging to the three alliances and expressed the expectation they work with their terminal partners on the four issues identified by the Phase One Innovation Teams. In particular, priority will be given to allowing truckers to return empty containers to the terminal where they picked up the loaded container. We will continue supporting the progress to improve preparations for increased future volumes and will have continued conversations with the carrier CEOs and marine terminal operators in this regard,” said Commissioner Dye.
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SPECIALIST PRODUCTION SERVICES
Photography is very personal, so we appreciate that sometimes you might have special requests. Below are some of the production services we offer to meet such needs.
Some clients, often for religious reasons, want their images to be viewed and handled by women only. We can accommodate this with our female-only process, which ensures only female members of staff work on the album from order to shipping.
All files for the project are kept on a secure server and logins are only provided to female members of staff. Order sheets are also concealed in separate, clearly marked folders. And if any spreads need to be reprinted, perhaps due to a blemish for example, we shred the old spreads so they can’t be seen.
Once the order has shipped, we delete all the project files from our server and shred any related paperwork.
If you’re working with high-profile or celebrity clients you may need the protection of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). We have an NDA that we can send to you for completion and for us to then sign.
We also assemble a small team to work on the project to minimise the number of people involved in it. And all relevant files are stored on a secure server, with access to them limited to the selected production team. Once the order has shipped, we delete all the project files from our server.
If, for whatever reason, you or your client need a product delivered sooner than the usual turnaround times, we do what we can to fulfil the request. And we don’t charge extra for it.
As we’re very conscious of maintaining standards for the work we already have booked in, we can’t always handle rush orders, but it’s definitely worth asking.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for among our products, please get in touch – we’re always happy to talk about bespoke projects. Whether you need a different fabric, shape, size or finish, we’ll look at what we can do to make it work.
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Fall Florals: 5 Ways To Wear Florals In The Fall
It’s that time when you’re transitioning out of summer and into winter! Where does that leave your wardrobe?
In the summer, your wardrobe is often full of bright colors and loose fabric. But as the cooler weather approaches, that shouldn’t mean your style has to change. Many bloggers have dubbed this look the “fall florals” trend.
Floral prints are a timeless, classic fashion staple. You can wear it with a sweater and boots or a shirt and sandals. If you’re wondering how you can stay stylish all year, keep reading for five ways to incorporate this floral in the fall trend.
1. As a Scarf
In the fall, you can wear florals as a scarf to add a touch of femininity and prettiness to any outfit. Wearing a floral scarf can also be a great way to incorporate the season’s trends into your wardrobe without going overboard.
Floral scarves are versatile and you can wear them in various ways. You can wear it with a casual outfit, like jeans and a t-shirt, or a more dressy outfit, like a skirt and blouse. You can also wear it as a headscarf or around the neck.
2. As a Dress
There are so many ways to wear florals that you’ll be spoilt for choice. From a floral maxi dress to mini dresses, you can shop floral dresses for women for every occasion.
Team your floral dress with a denim jacket and sneakers for a casual daytime look. Pair your floral dress with heels and a leather jacket for a night out. Whatever your style, there’s a floral dress for you.
3. As a Brooch
Fall florals are a great way to add color to your outfit. You can wear florals in various ways, but one of the unique ways to wear them is as a brooch. It is a great way to add a touch of femininity to your look.
There are a few different ways to wear a brooch as a fall floral. You can pin it to the center of your shirt or dress or wear it on the side.
You can also wear it on a scarf or in your hair. There are endless possibilities when it comes to wearing fall florals as a brooch. Get creative and have fun with it!
4. As a Hair Accessory
You can put a small flower in a half-up hairstyle, using a floral headband or clip, or even make your flower crown. Florals can also be worn in updos, such as a floral bun or chignon.
You can wear a flower in your hair if you prefer a more low-key look. No matter how you wear florals, it is a great way to add a touch of femininity and romance to your fall wardrobe.
5. As a Belt
Whether you are cinching in a loose dress or accenting a pair of high-waisted jeans. A floral belt is a perfect way to add a pop of color and a touch of femininity to your fall outfit.
It is best to choose a thinner belt for this look to focus on the flowers, not the thickness of the belt.
Get Your Fall Florals Today
There are five great options if you’re looking for a way to wear fall florals in the fall. You can choose a floral print dress, a brooch, or a hair accessory.
You can also accessorize with a floral scarf or belt. Whatever you do, make sure you have fun with it!
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German Pancake (Also Called Dutch Baby)
photo by Chef Donzo
- Ready In:
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and put a cast iron skillet (if using) into the oven to heat up.
- After about 15 - 20 minutes (or longer if your oven is slow), the skillet should be hot. Add the butter to the skillet and return it to the oven. If you're using a cake pan, add the butter to the cake pan and put it into the oven.
- Add 3 eggs and the sugar to blender and blend on low speed for 1 minute. The eggs should be light colored and bubbly. Then add the flour and milk and blend for 10 seconds, until evenly mixed.
- Take the skillet or cake pan out of the oven and make sure the butter has completely melted, with a baster spread the butter over the entire surface of the pan. Pour the batter into the hot skillet or pan and scatter the fruit on top of the batter if using.
- Bake at 425 degrees F for 18 - 22 minutes, or until the sides and middle have puffed up and browned.
- Serve with fresh fruit and a lemon slice and powdered sugar or maple syrup.
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Photography has been my hobby for many years and so has cooking. I am by no means a seasoned chef. Most of the recipes on here are new challenges for me, but I love trying new things, and I've discovered a real love for baking (especially desserts, as you can probably tell) The majority these recipes are my original recreations. There are a few family recipes and some adaptations of existing recipes. I will rarely post an exact copy of a source's recipe because I love to fiddle with ingredients. | <urn:uuid:ae11ae09-c140-4d45-aa73-7b0be667fc33> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.food.com/recipe/german-pancake-also-called-dutch-baby-406122 | 2023-09-27T11:28:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.930668 | 424 |
Jersey Bean Crock (Un Poit Et Des Pais Au Fou)
- Ready In:
- Soak beans overnight in sufficient water to cover.
- Drain and put in beancrock and season with pepper.
- Cover with pig's trotter, shin of beef, carrot,.
- onion and herbs. Pour boiling water over contents until covered. Place, without lid, in a hot oven, gas mark 6, 200°C (400°F).
- Cook uncovered until contents bubble then put on lid, turning oven to low, gas mark 2, 150°C (300°F).
- Leave cooking all day, topping up with boiling water when necessary. One hour before serving, remove meat, vegetables and herbs, strip meat from bones.
- Discard bones, gristle, excess fat, vegetables and herbs.
- Mix into the beans, adding salt and pepper to taste.
- Preparation time is for soaking the beans.
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SIDE A: Piero Umiliani – Discomania (Jolly Mare Lifting)
SIDE B: Piero Umiliani – Discomania (Versione Originale)
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COME, LONG EXPECTED JESUS!
The Key of David
Day 5 Thursday
EXPLORE THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
For us there is one God, the Father,
from whom are all things and for whom we exist,
and one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom are all things and through whom we exist (1 Corinthians 8: 6).
ISAIAH 9: 6-7
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and of peace
there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
ISAIAH 22: 22
And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
REVELATION 3: 7
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.’”
Today’s name continues the theme of David’s everlasting kingship being fulfilled in Jesus. Keys can be symbols of authority. The one who has the key has the authority to open the door. It could be the door to a treasure house, throne room, armory, intimate chamber or secret passage. Having the key means access, including the right and the power to use it.
From our passages today, how do you imagine Jesus wielding the power of David’s keys?
What doors in particular would you like Christ to unlock or seal shut?
PRAY THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
Begin with the Jesus Prayer. Pray it reflectively several times, for yourself or on behalf of another.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Then pray the day’s prayer slowly and repeatedly for at least a minute (that’s about seven times). Allow the prayer to take you into the meaning of the day’s facet of Jesus’ name. Pray it for yourself and/or on behalf of another. Take your time and trust this process!
Lord Jesus Christ, Key of David, key to the everlasting promises of God,
open my mind to know you and my heart to receive you.
LIVE INTO THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
He has granted to us his precious and very great promises,
so that through them you might become partakers of his divine
nature . . . For this very reason, supplement your faith with
virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness,
brotherly affection and love (2 Peter 1: 4-7).
ACTS 14: 27
And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
1 CORINTHIANS 16: 9
For a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
How have you seen Jesus open doors of faith in your life and in the lives of others?
Pray particularly for doors to open for Christ’s work through you today.
Close by praying this name of Jesus, first through the more literal translation of this O Antiphon,
O Key of David and scepter of the House of Israel,
You open and no one can shut;
You shut and no one can open:
Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house;
Those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.
And then, as you sing this verse of “O Come, O Come, Immanuel,”
O come, thou Key of David, come
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O Come, O Come, Immanuel.
Ancient Latin prayer, trans.
John Mason Neale. 1851.
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Millie joined us and our ‘old man’ Tigger 2 years ago.
Millie is an anxious girl. It took months of patience, gentle ear rubs and the company of our happy soul Tigger to bring her out of her shell. The first time she wagged her tail was a cause for celebration.
So when old age caught up with Tigger, and he was no longer with us, it was so sad to see Millie withdraw.
A call for help was made to FOTH, and like a whirlwind Cricket came into our lives.
This outgoing girl with no fear of anything soon made herself at home, kept us on our toes, and put the bounce back in Millie’s step.
Rather than an old dog teaching a new dog tricks, Cricket showed Millie how to work a toy and zoom around the yard. It made us so happy the first time we saw them chase each other.
Thank you for the work you do to bring these lovely companions into our lives, they have brought so much joy and life into our home.
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This afternoon, Georgia Tech's athletic department released the official injury report prior to this weekend's game against NC State.
GEORGIA TECH INJURY REPORT (NC STATE)
Zach Laskey (shoulder)
Charles Perkins (knee)
Some of the biggest news here is the absence of Pat Gamble, who last week had a monster game as a first-time starter at defensive end before leaving the game on a cart. Though the injury last week required so much precaution as to require him to be carted off, it looks like Gamble will be playing this week -- good news for a defensive front that had one of its best games of the year with him participating last week.
Also discussion-worthy on here is the continued absence of an ailing Zach Laskey, as well as Charles Perkins. Both returned to practice this week, but would seem to not be in physical condition to play just yet. Here's to hoping they both make it back for Clemson, when Georgia Tech will need every bit of offensive firepower available against one of the nation's top defenses. | <urn:uuid:f470923d-8948-47da-b823-4b394e06788f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/2014/11/6/7171017/georgia-tech-football-injury-report-for-yellow-jackets-nc-state | 2023-09-27T10:48:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.97673 | 223 |
The classics are always there when we need them. They are perfect to get lost into, focus, reminisce. They entangle our ears with the subtle sounds of piano, violin, cello – only to take us to heights, the loud, and the forceful melodies. So go ahead and enjoy this wonderful release full of the great composers such as Mozart, Dvorak, Gershwin, Schumann, Debussy, Chopin, Brahms and more.
OnClassical is a digital label founded in 2003. You can find their wonderful recordings anywhere online and in your local record stores. But today you can also find them on Jamendo all under the Creative Commons license.
This release comes with 32 tracks – all classics from the most acclaimed composers of our times. There is 28 Preludes, Op.28, Nocturne No.2, and Étude Op. 10, No. 3, ‘Tristesse’ from Chopin; Sonata No. 16 in C Major and Sonata No. 11 from Mozart; 16 Waltzes from Brahms. So dive right in and download this one tasty release.
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Dry weather could impact P.E.I. blueberry yield
August 17, 2012 By Journal Pioneer
August 17, 2012, Tignish, PEI — The dry, hot summer could negatively impact the overall blueberry yield for Prince Edward Island producers.
Recent rain was a welcome sight for the province’s blueberry growers but the dry weather that preceded it, coupled with frost damage last spring, will likely result in fewer pounds of blueberries for producers. READ MORE
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Written by: Dan Sheridan
On this Monday morning we had our longest ride to date. After enjoying a Sunday of sightseeing in beautiful Flagstaff, we left behind the friendly Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran church and began a 50 mile downhill, dropping 2,000 feet with a brisk tailwind. We had a snack stop at an intriguing roadside rest, with buildings that perfectly suited the ridges and mesas in the area. Huge red boulders were piled in the rest area, but signs warned us to beware of poisonous snakes and insects. This cycling dream was interrupted only by flat tires, as our tires picked up small pieces of wire from shredded steel belt radial tires. We persevered, stopping to do some “Standin’ on the corner in Winslow, Arizona”, as the line goes in the song “Take It Easy” (written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey).
The last 40 miles of our 92 mile journey were flatter, but our delightful tailwind mostly continued, interrupted by an occasional headwind when the freeway turned south. We cycled into Holbrook, where our hosts at St. George Episcopal church had lunch waiting for us. They also made a delicious dinner, with homemade rice, watermelon, and enchiladas. For dessert, they gave us freezer pops. After dinner, Nadine shared about our mission of ending poverty housing, and we learned about the special challenges that folks in their area have. We very much enjoyed interacting with our hosts.
A block from the church, the Native American youth of the Holbrook summer dance group were performing traditional dances while wearing tribal regalia. It was fascinating to watch. Soon the narrator asked each dancer to select an audience member to dance with them. A very shy 11 year old girl asked me to dance with her and I agreed. She showed me the dance moves, and helped me to not mess up too badly. It was a memorable day, putting us more in touch with our mission of ending poverty housing. Our simple living on this journey has helped us to appreciate the importance of simple, decent housing. | <urn:uuid:80b0724f-cc69-408e-9c31-702e50353544> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.fullercenterbikeadventure.org/blog/downhill-to-holbrook/ | 2023-09-27T11:47:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510297.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927103312-20230927133312-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.972366 | 427 |
Written by: Brian Niedert
It was hard to believe the ride was coming to a close as we made our way to Tougaloo College today in gusty head winds – the kind that make me wish I were back in West Texas.
This morning’s pre-ride devotional was particularly moving… the story of “the ragman.” The story is an illustration of what Christ has accomplished and continues to accomplish through his people. The ragman goes about, giving of himself, until there is nothing left to give but his own life. Death in this case is not the end of the story. This ‘ragman’ is brought back to life and offers the opportunity for those who would follow him and his way to experience the same victory over the grave. His offer is to surrender one’s own life and prerogative for his purposes; to give of oneself for the sake of the world.
Reminded once again, with a tear in my eye, of the great sacrifice Jesus made for me, as he gave of himself willingly and replaced my filthy ‘rags’ with clean white clothes, I set off with immense gratitude and resolve to give freely and follow.
And follow we did!
So many riders today pulled together and worked as a team to make the ride into the headwinds bearable. Many groups rode in pace-lines, each taking turn at the head of the group, like a locomotive engine, pulling the rest behind. Despite fighting heavy headwinds for roughly 70-miles I averaged my highest speed of the entire trip.
And now it is almost time for dinner at the presidents’ house here at the college. Millard Fuller, founder of the Fuller Center for Housing established a scholarship for students of this school. The mealtime together here is always shared with great honor and affection. I’m sure tonight will prove to be no different.
What a blessing it has been to share God’s grace, peace and hope this week!
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It’s “talls for smalls” night at Caves Lounge, and Krum, perhaps in defiance of the idea that he’s a Christian rapper, is sipping on an IPA poured into a towering glass. This is not to say that all Christians don’t drink beer, but it’s also not say that all rappers who are Christians are “Christian rappers.” And though his rap career indeed started with that faith-based designation, Krum has reinvented himself as an artist on his own terms.
Though he lives in Arlington now, Krum grew up in the panhandle town of Border, rhyming in a teenage Christian rap crew called S2 before moving to Dallas after high school. While getting an audio/video degree from the Art Institute of Dallas, he was signed to Christian music label Tooth & Nail. Almost instantly, he was a teenager with a record deal, playing shows all over the country and in Europe. But back home, on breaks from touring, he’d realize that nobody really knew who he was. He took a break from the road and went deep into the Dallas battle rap circuit, though he got burnt out on what he describes as basically “telling ‘yo momma’ jokes that rhyme.”
The Christian music scene wore him out, too.
“I just thought that in order to do what I needed to do, I had to be on a Christian label,” he said. “And then, a year and a half into that deal, and you’re touring and seeing the real world and you’re not a teenager anymore … I was like, ‘This is not me.’ ”
Krum also started to see the label in terms of its commercial purpose.
“Any music genre that’s labeled ‘Christian’ … at the end of the day, it’s a business,” he said. “And if you offend this person or that person, then you’re directly losing money. And that’s why it’s so wack.”
Though Krum still reps his faith, he isn’t shoving it in people’s faces.
“I’m a real dude, and I don’t want to paint this holier-than-thou, preachin’, comin’ down at people” picture, he said. “I’ve got all my own vices, just like everybody does.”
Last year, he solidified his departure from his Tooth & Nail past with Bareknuckle Gospel, what he thinks of as a “collab album” with producer Rob Viktum. But it wasn’t until Blue Eyed Devil, the solo album he released in February, that he felt like he was finally on his own. But even that new one, he said, is a stepping-stone of sorts.
“Basically, the Blue Eyed Devil album I put out was stuff I was working on while working on this current album,” he said. “I do most of the production myself. I work on a lot of jams, and some of them don’t make the cut … so the stuff on Blue Eyed Devil is the stuff I didn’t think was a good fit for” Bareknuckle Gospel.
When he’s not working on the new record, he woodsheds his live show, which includes DJ Sean P and a drummer named Mikey Brew.
“The live show is a big deal for us,” Krum said. “We started adding video to the mix. … It’s better, but I can’t just take every show anymore … which is insane because shows are my bread and butter. I do way less local shows, but I think I’m taking the right ones.”
Though Krum has worked hard to move beyond the confines of Christian music, he says his faith remains the most important thing in his life. He drops some names of MCs he’s into –– Milo, Oddissee, Your Old Droog –– who he says are “ill with the pen.” Krum said he appreciates lyrics that ask you to think about the world, though for him, it’s experience that drives the challenges to his beliefs.
“I wouldn’t say listening to people makes me question my faith,” he said. “I think living life does … but I think it’s healthy to question what you believe.”
And after all, questioning is what’s led him to find himself as an artist.
“There’s gotta be room to question things,” he said. “That’s how you learn. That’s what’s awesome about God. I think God wants to have a relationship with you. It’s not just, ‘Here’s the do’s and don’ts.’ It’s like, ‘Man, I’m gonna figure this out.’ ”
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10 Brand Building Mistakes to Avoid for Business Success
10 Brand Building Mistakes To Avoid For Business Success
by F Yeah! Creative | May 12, 2023 | Branding
10 Common mistakes businesses make when building their brand…and how to avoid or fix them.
Brand building mistakes can significantly hinder the growth and success of your business. In the present day’s fiercely competitive environment, it is indispensable to craft a robust brand persona that resonates with your intended demographic and sets you apart from other businesses. However, many small service-based business owners make common branding mistakes that prevent them from reaching their full potential.
In this blog post, we will discuss 10 major brand building mistakes and provide practical solutions for overcoming these challenges. By understanding these pitfalls and implementing effective strategies, you can elevate your brand’s personality, enhance customer loyalty, and ultimately grow a successful business.
Table of Contents:
- 10 Brand Building Mistakes and Their Fixes
- Failing to Define Your Target Audience
- Ignoring Social Media Presence
- Overlooking Content Marketing Strategy
- Not Networking or Collaborating With Others
- Lacking a Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
- Common Branding Mistakes: Poor Customer Service and Communication Skills
- Common Branding Mistakes To Avoid
- Being Afraid of Change and Taking Risks
- Common Branding Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Business
- Common Branding Mistakes
- The Biggest Mistake Brands Make on Social Media
- The Consequences of Getting Branding Wrong
- Why Building a Brand is Important
10 Brand Building Mistakes and Their Fixes
Embarking on a business venture can be exciting, yet it comes with potential issues. Let’s dive into the top 10 common branding mistakes that could hinder your progress, and learn how to fix them for a more successful brand.
- Failing to Define Your Target Audience
- Neglecting Consistent Visual Identity
- Ignoring Social Media Presence
- Not Conducting Market Research
- Copying Competitors
- Not Having a Clear Marketing Strategy
- Not Focusing on Your Brand’s Personality
- Not Building a Strong Brand Image
- Not Understanding Your Customer Base
- Trying to Appeal to Everyone
Now that we’ve identified some of the most common mistakes in brand building, let’s explore how to fix them and create powerful (and authentic) brands.
Fixes for Common Branding Mistakes
1. Define Your Target Market: Identify your target audience and tailor your messaging to their needs and preferences.
2. Develop a Consistent Visual Identity: Use professional, high-quality brand elements, in addition to consistent colors, fonts, and imagery to create a recognizable brand.
3. Leverage Social Media: Use social media platforms to connect with your audience and build brand awareness.
4. Conduct Market Research: Understand your target market and competitors to inform your marketing strategy.
5. Differentiate Your Brand: Stand out from competitors by highlighting what makes your brand unique.
6. Develop a Clear Marketing Strategy: Define your goals and tactics to reach your target audience effectively.
7. Define Your Brand’s Personality: Develop a unique brand voice and tone that resonates with your audience.
8. Build a Strong Brand Image: Use consistent messaging and imagery to create a strong brand identity.
9. Understand Your Customer Base: Continuously gather feedback and insights from your customers to improve your brand.
10. Focus on Your Target Audience: Don’t try to appeal to everyone, focus on your target audience to build a loyal customer base.
Building a successful brand takes intentionality and hard work, but avoiding these common branding mistakes can help you create a brand that resonates with your audience and becomes a market leader.
Reviewing and grasping frequent errors in constructing a brand can assist you to evade them for your enterprise. Examining in greater detail the process of identifying one’s intended consumer base is key.
Failing to Define Your Target Audience
One common branding mistake is not clearly defining your target audience when you have enough data that supports this declaration. This can lead to wasted resources on marketing efforts that do not resonate with potential customers. To fix this issue, conduct thorough market research, create detailed buyer personas for better targeting, and and test your concepts to confirm viability.
- Conducting Market Research: Start by identifying your target market and customer base. Analyze their demographics, interests, and behaviors to understand their needs and preferences. This will help you tailor your marketing strategy to their specific needs.
- Creating Buyer Personas: Once you have conducted your market research, create detailed buyer personas that represent your ideal customers. These personas should include information such as age, gender, income, interests, and pain points. Use these personas to guide your marketing efforts and ensure that your messaging resonates with your target audience.
- Testing Concepts: Testing the true viability of an idea is a sure fire way to gauge how your idea/product/service is received. Let your potential customer base test it out and capture their honest feedback. This will either show you that the idea does not hold up to moving forward as is, or it will give you critical feedback on where improvements can be made.
Failing to pinpoint your desired consumers can be a costly misstep; it is essential to comprehend who you are targeting and selling to in order for your business or brand to succeed. Neglecting consistent visual identity is another common misstep when building a successful brand, as having cohesive branding across all platforms will help customers recognize and trust the company.
Neglecting Consistent Visual Identity
Maintaining consistency in your brand’s visual identity is essential to create a professional image. A lackadaisical approach can give off an unprofessional vibe, which is something no one desires. To avoid this branding mistake, develop a set of brand guidelines covering elements such as logos, fonts, and colors. Make sure these are applied across all platforms, including social media, for a cohesive brand image that screams “I’ve got my act together.”
Neglecting a consistent visual identity can lead to confusion and dilution of your brand, so it is important to develop clear guidelines for its use. Ignoring social media presence also has the potential to hurt your business, as having an active online presence helps build relationships with customers and increase visibility.
Ignoring Social Media Presence
Oh, the power of social media. It’s a crucial ingredient in today’s brand building recipe. Don’t be that entrepreneur who ignores this goldmine for customer engagement and showcasing your brand’s personality. Here are some tips to rock your social presence:
- Choosing Relevant Platforms: Pick platforms where your target audience hangs out.
- Crafting Platform-Specific Content: Tailor content to each platform for maximum impact.
Without an online presence, your brand may struggle to gain exposure and reach its target customers. Crafting a sound content marketing approach is critical to connecting with the right people and engaging them successfully.
Overlooking Content Marketing Strategy
Don’t let your brand be the wallflower at the party. A solid content marketing strategy is essential for getting noticed and engaging with your target audience. To avoid this common branding mistake, follow these steps:
- Set Content Goals: Determine what you want to achieve (e.g., increased website traffic, lead generation).
- Identify Distribution Channels: Choose platforms that best suit your content and audience (e.g., blog posts, social media).
Building a successful brand takes hard work and avoiding common branding mistakes. Here are some other branding mistakes to avoid:
- Ignoring Market Research: Understanding your target market (or who you want to help) is crucial for building a brand that resonates with your customer base.
- Not Defining Your Brand’s Personality: Your brand image and personality should be consistent across all channels to create a strong and recognizable brand.
- Neglecting Social Media: Social media is a powerful tool for building brand awareness and engaging with your audience. Don’t miss out on this opportunity.
- Copying Other Brands: While it’s important to stay up-to-date on industry trends, copying other brands can make your brand appear unoriginal and unauthentic.
- Trying to Appeal to Everyone: Focusing on a specific target audience can help you create a more effective marketing strategy and build a loyal customer base. Find your people. Assemble your tribe. Don’t fret over those that aren’t in alignment with what you want to be/do/accomplish.
- Forgetting to Adapt: As your brand grows and evolves, it’s important to adapt your marketing strategy to stay relevant and competitive in the market.
By avoiding these common branding mistakes, you can build a powerful brand that resonates with your target audience and establishes you as a market leader.
Not having a content marketing plan is one of the major missteps companies make in terms of constructing their brand. On the other hand, leveraging existing networks and collaborating with others can help build your business’s visibility and reputation.
Not Networking or Collaborating With Others
Building relationships with other professionals in your industry is essential for growth. Avoid working in isolation – attend networking events, collaborate on projects with others, and seek out mentorship opportunities to expand your reach.
Attending Networking Events
- Meetup groups
- Local Chamber of Commerce events
- Industry conferences and workshops
One of the common branding mistakes is not networking or collaborating with others. Building relationships with other professionals in your industry is essential for growth. Avoid working in isolation – attend networking events, collaborate on projects with others, and seek out mentorship opportunities to expand your reach. By doing so, you can learn from others, gain new perspectives, and build a network of contacts that can help you in your brand building efforts.
Successful brands have a strong network of contacts that they can rely on for support and advice. They understand the importance of building relationships with others and work hard to maintain those relationships over time. By doing so, they are able to create a strong brand image and brand’s personality that resonates with their target audience.
One of the most powerful tools for building relationships with others is social media. By using social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, you can connect with other professionals in your industry and build a network of contacts that can help you in your brand building efforts. However, it’s important to remember that social media is just one part of your overall marketing strategy. You still need to do the hard work of building relationships in person and through other channels.
Another common mistake that businesses make is not doing enough market research. Before you can build a successful brand, you need to understand your target market and customer base. You need to know what they want, what they need, and what motivates them to make a purchase. Without this information, you won’t be able to create a brand that resonates with your audience.
Successful brands also understand the importance of being a market leader. They don’t just follow the trends – they set them. They are constantly innovating and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in their industry. By doing so, they are able to stay ahead of the competition and maintain their position as a market leader.
Finally, it’s important to remember that your target audience should be at the center of everything you do. Your brand should be designed to appeal to them and meet their needs. By doing so, you can create a brand that resonates with your audience and helps you build a loyal customer base.
Not networking or collaborating with others can be a costly mistake for small business owners. Thus, to be distinguished from rivals, it is essential to recognize and communicate one’s individual competitive advantage.
Lacking a Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
Have you ever felt like you’re lost in a sea of sameness? Your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is your lifebuoy, my friend. Failing to establish one may cause potential customers to choose other brands over yours. So, let’s dive into identifying and communicating your USP effectively:
- Identifying Key Differentiators: Find out what makes you stand out from the crowd. Is it your product quality, customer service, or innovative ideas? Pinpoint those gems.
- Communicating Your USP: Shout it from the rooftops. Use branding efforts like social media and content marketing to showcase why you’re the best choice.
Having a unique selling proposition is key to standing out from the competition and will help you build your brand. Focusing on enhancing customer service and communication is critical to success; neglecting these can be ruinous.
Common Branding Mistakes: Poor Customer Service and Communication Skills
One of the most common branding mistakes is poor customer service and communication skills. Strong communication skills are vital when dealing with clients and customers. Poor interactions could damage your brand’s image and reputation permanently, leading them towards competitors instead. It is essential to invest time in improving these abilities by enhancing your interpersonal skills and ensuring positive experiences throughout the entire process, whether it be via email, phone calls, or social media.
Improving Interpersonal Skills
- Practice active listening.
- Show empathy and understanding.
- Maintain a positive attitude.
Providing Excellent Customer Support
- Respond promptly to inquiries.
- Solve problems efficiently.
- Gather feedback for improvement.
Enhancing the customer experience necessitates fostering better interpersonal connections, optimizing customer service capabilities and emphasizing delivering value to customers. To ensure that time and resources are managed effectively, it is important to develop organizational habits while prioritizing responsibilities.
Common Branding Mistakes To Avoid
Building a successful brand takes hard work, but it’s easy to make mistakes along the way. Here are some common branding mistakes to avoid:
- Mismanaging Time/Resources: Entrepreneurs often struggle with managing their limited resources, resulting in wasted energy and money on unproductive tasks. To avoid this branding mistake, focus on crucial aspects that directly impact your success and growth.
- Ignoring Market Research: Without proper market research, you risk targeting the wrong customer base or missing out on opportunities to stand out from competitors. Take the time to understand your target market and create a marketing strategy that resonates with them.
- Neglecting Your Brand’s Personality: Your brand’s personality is what sets you apart from competitors and creates a connection with your audience. Don’t neglect it in favor of following trends or copying other successful brands.
- Not Utilizing Social Media: Social media is a powerful tool for building brand awareness and connecting with your target audience. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to engage with your customers and establish your brand’s presence on social media.
- Trying to Please Everyone: It’s impossible to please everyone, so don’t try to. Instead, focus on your target audience and create a brand that resonates with them.
Developing Organizational Habits
Improving your productivity by developing strong organizational habits like setting daily goals, prioritizing tasks, and delegating responsibilities when necessary can help you avoid many of these common mistakes.
Create a priority list to allocate time and resources effectively and ensure smooth business operations without any hiccups along the way.
Neglecting to allocate resources properly can result in a misallocation of time and funds. Failing to be daring or not embracing transformation can likewise have a detrimental effect on company expansion.
Being Afraid of Change and Taking Risks
Embracing change and taking calculated risks are necessary steps towards achieving long-term goals. However, many individuals hold themselves back due to fear and uncertainty surrounding unknown factors involved in these decisions. To overcome your fears, embrace new opportunities and challenges presented throughout your journey.
Adapting to changing circumstances is essential for business owners who want to remain competitive. Keep an open mind when it comes to industry trends or market shifts that could positively impact your business.
Taking Calculated Risks
Risks are inevitable in any venture; however, calculated risk-taking can lead to significant growth. Analyze potential outcomes before making bold moves while ensuring you have a contingency plan in place.
Overcoming fear and trepidation is essential to unlocking a plethora of potential opportunities. Many entrepreneurs fall into the trap of allowing their fears to prevent them from taking action; yet, it is achievable to battle such adverse feelings and develop the assurance necessary for triumph.
Common Branding Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Business
However, there are some common branding mistakes that can hurt your brand’s image and personality. Here are some of the most common mistakes to avoid:
- Not Doing Enough Market Research: Before you start building your brand, it’s important to do your research. Understand your target market, customer base, and competition. This will help you create a marketing strategy that resonates with your audience.
- Ignoring Your Target Audience: Your brand should be tailored to your target audience. If you don’t understand your audience, you won’t be able to create a brand that speaks to them.
- Not Having a Clear Brand Personality: Your brand’s personality is what sets it apart from the competition. Make sure you have a clear understanding of your brand’s personality and that it’s consistent across all channels.
- Not Using Social Media: Social media is a powerful tool for building your brand. Make sure you’re using it to connect with your audience and promote your brand.
- Trying to Be Everything to Everyone: It’s impossible to please everyone. Instead, focus on your target audience and create a brand that speaks to them.
- Copying Your Competitors: Your brand should be unique. Don’t copy your competitors. Instead, focus on what sets your brand apart.
By avoiding these common branding mistakes, you can create a powerful brand that resonates with your audience and sets you apart as a market leader.
Common Branding Mistakes
When it comes to brand building, there are several common mistakes that businesses make. These mistakes can hinder the success of a brand and prevent it from reaching its full potential. Here are some of the most common branding mistakes:
- Failing to define a target audience
- Neglecting consistent visual identity
- Ignoring social media presence
- Overlooking content marketing strategy
- Not networking or collaborating with others
- Lacking a unique selling proposition (USP)
- Poor customer service and communication skills
- Mismanaging time/resources
- Being afraid of change/taking risks
- Letting self-doubt hold you back
The Biggest Mistake Brands Make on Social Media
One of the biggest mistakes brands make on social media is not having a clear strategy that aligns with their overall business goals. Ideally, the content you release should uphold your brand strategy and objectives. Always be cognizant about how your content will be perceived and the value or purpose that it provides to your audience. This includes choosing relevant platforms for their target audience and crafting platform-specific content that engages users while maintaining brand consistency. It’s essential to develop an effective social media strategy.
The Consequences of Getting Branding Wrong
If your branding is inconsistent or doesn’t resonate with your target audience, it can lead to confusion about what your business offers and ultimately result in lost customers. A weak brand may struggle to build trust among consumers and fail at establishing long-term relationships necessary for success. To avoid these pitfalls, invest in building a strong brand. We can help! F Yeah! Creative specializing in creating brands that support your badassery. Contact us today to see how we can help!
Why Building a Brand is Important
Building a strong brand is often understated because its impact isn’t immediately visible like other marketing efforts such as advertising campaigns. However, successful branding creates recognition, loyalty, and trust among customers over time, which leads to increased sales and growth opportunities. Understanding the importance of brand building is crucial for long-term success.
In conclusion, avoiding common branding mistakes is crucial for small service-based business owners looking to level up. By defining your target audience, creating a consistent visual identity, utilizing social media presence and content marketing strategies effectively, networking with others, identifying your unique selling proposition (USP), improving customer service and communication skills, managing time and resources efficiently while embracing change and taking calculated risks, you can build a successful brand.
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