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Guillermo Olmedillo
Duncan Tavares
The Executive Department provides for the centralized management of all Town functions. The Town Manager is the administrative head of the Town government and is responsible for ensuring that all operations effectively address the policy direction provided by the Town Commission in the most efficient and responsible manner. The Town Commission appoints the Town Manager and provides for general oversight. Article III of the Town of Surfside Charter provides a detailed explanation of the associated rights, responsibilities, and prohibitions governing the Town Manager.
The powers and responsibilities of the Town Manager designated in the Town Charter include, among others:
To assist the Town Manager in the personnel function, the Town operates its Human Resources function as an element of the Executive Department. All Human Resource issues are addressed in this element including personnel actions (hiring, evaluating, promoting, disciplining), benefits management (pension, health, dental, life insurance, and similar), employee morale programs, and collective bargaining.
To assist the Town Manager in communications, the Town publishes the highly visible The Gazette from the Executive Department. The Gazette is a publication which provides information on services, recent legislative action and special programs and events.
Beginning in FY 11/12 a new division was adopted within the Executive Department. The division is known as the Planning and Compliance Division. This division is responsible for code compliance, community development and planning and zoning functions.


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Art Expo in Linyi, China
It was a dreary day in Linyi, and because we didn't have anything else better to do, we decided to go to an Art Expo being held down the street that we were invited to. It was supposedly a big deal because a lot of high officials were going to be there. And of course, they wanted some foreign faces to dress up the crowd a bit. They promised us fun and food, so we really couldn't say no.
A caravan of cars showed up at the school expecting more than three willing participants. Needless to say, they were a bit disappointed that no one else wanted to brave the rain. They had me knocking on doors to see if there were any other last minute tag alongs, but there were no takers.
When we got there we were taken to a VIP room where two pretty Chinese women pinned roses on us. Apparently, it indicated we were VIP's. When we started taking pictures of the exhibits, there were people taking pictures of us like we were on display. It was humorous.
VIP Phil
VIP Gabe
If it hadn't have been for the chair and the umbrella, I think this would have been an awesome picture.
I don't know if you can tell, but that isn't food. It is jade and other stones made to look like dishes of food. Neat.
One of the many pieces of artwork we saw.
Another piece.
I think this section of the expo was stone that had been naturally shaped and just happened to look like something we could recognize.
A naturally formed stone that looks like it is painted. Looks like a Chinese village.
One creepy ass looking spider-dog.
Nice presentation, but I still couldn't bring myself to eat the entire thing. I made my host happy by eating the tail, and that was enough to almost make me hurl.
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If one wants to become a Noahide and a friend to the Jewish people at large, it would be advisable to learn about the historical development of Judaism's oral law, and how it is the basis of how all denominations read our Bible; and learn about the wide range of theological and social beliefs that historically have existed within the Jewish community.
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Simchat Bat
A Simchat bat (also, Brit Bat) is a naming ceremony for girls, welcoming them into the covenant. Some form of such ceremonies have been traditional since the early medieval era.
In medieval German Jewish communities, a simple baby naming ceremony existed for both girls and boys, the Hollekreisch. In Sephardic Jewish communities this exists as the Zeved habat, which is somewhat more elaborate than the earlier German tradition. It is usually celebrated within the first month of the girl's birth. Over the centuries there have been a variety of simple name-giving ceremonies for girls, but all were relatively informal.
In the last half-century, many in the non-Orthodox and Modern Orthodox Jewish community have revived interest in ceremonies for welcoming baby girls; we have developed innovative ceremonies which place equal emphasis on welcoming both daughters and sons. A wide variety of liturgies have been written, mostly informal, but some gaining wide use, and a few being incorporated into the liturgical works of various rabbinic organizations.
Currently, only a small number of liturgical developments have received widespread approbation within the Orthodox Jewish community. On the other end of the spectrum, an uncountable number of personalized ceremonies are being written with the Reform & Reconstructionist communities, but few of which represent an official point of view. Between these groups there exists Conservative/Masorti Judaism, which has been accepting of liturgical innovations, and working to make Jewish ceremonies and educational opportunities egalitarian.
Working within their understanding of halakhah {Jewish law} the Rabbinical Assembly has brought together a range of options within their official Moreh Derekh: The Rabbi's Manual of the Rabbinical Assembly. The liturgies include options such as (a) Lighting seven candles (symbolizing the seven days of creation) and holding the baby towards them, (b) wrapping the baby in the four corners of a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl), or (c) lifting the baby and touching her hands to a Torah scroll.
The Simchat Bat below is based on the tallit ceremony.
Rabbi's welcome
B'rukhah haba'ah b'shem Adonai.
B'rukhah at ba'ir, uv'rukhah at basadeh.
B'rukhah at b'voekha, uv'rukhah at b'tzetekh.
Welcome little one! Blessed may you be all your days, all your life;
Blessed may you be wherever you are, In all of your comings and in all of your goings.
Candle ceremony – p.A35
Parents read verses
Rabbi – p. A37
Tallit ceremony:
I will wrap {girl's name} in my tallit.
Grandparents each hold a corner of the tallit, and wrap the baby.
Rabbi reads selections from pages A-42 to A-43
Kriat Shem – Naming the Baby
Eloheinu ve'elohei imoteinu ka'yem et ha'yalda ha'zot le'aviha u'leima, ve'yikarey shmah be'Yisrael {baby's name}. Yis'mach ha'av be'yotze chalatzav vetagel emah bifri vitnah, ca'ka'tuv: El hana'ar hazeh hitpalalti vayitayn Adonai li et shiaylati asher sha'alti me'imo. Vikayem-lah, Adonai Eloheinu, mah shecatuv. Pihah patkha vi'khokhmah vi'torat khesed al li'shonah.
Hodu la'donai ki tov ki le'olam chasdo. Zot haktana {name} gdolah te'hiyeh. Yihi ratzon sheyizku horehah ligadlah li'Torah ul'chupah ul'ma'asim tovim, amen.
Our God and God of our ancestors, sustain this child. Let her be known among the people Israel as {her Hebrew name}. May her mother be blessed with renewed strength and may both parents find joy in their child, as it is written: "It was this child I prayed for, and the Lord has granted me what I sought." [ I Samuel 1:27 ]
Fulfill for her, Lord our God, that which is written: "She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the Torah of loving-kindness is upon her tongue." [ Proverbs 31:26 ]
Let us give thanks to the Lord for he is good; God's loving-kindness is forever. May this child, {her name}, grow into greatness as a blessing to her family, to the Jewish people, and to all humanity. May her parents be privileged to raise their child to womanhood, and may {name} enjoy the blessings of Torah, chupah and ma'asim tovim. And let us say, Amen.
Rabbi: Sustain this child with her father and mother, and may her name be called among the daughters of Israel: {name} daughter of {parents}. May her parents rejoice with their child.
Bircat HaCohanim – Priestly blessings – A46
May God make you like Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah.
May the Holy One bless you and keep you.
May the Holy One shine light upon you and be gracious to you.
May the Holy One turn towards you and give you peace.
Rabbi: K'shaym shenikhn'sah labrit, kayn tikanes l'Torah, ul'huppah, ul'ma'asim tovim.
Guests: As she has entered the covenant, so may she attain Torah study, the wedding huppah, and a life of deeds of loving-kindness.
Here parents sometimes choose to read verses connected with each letter of her Hebrew name (verses shown in the manual)
Talmud explained with commentary
The Talmud, which includes the Mishnah, is the core text of rabbinic Judaism. Learners find it challenging to understand unless learning alongside a teacher, or with a detailed commentary.
The Talmud is an enormous document, covering centuries of rabbinic debates, hand written and edited, long before the invention of the printing press. In order to make it a practical size, it had to be encoded in a hyper condensed style. Arguments and methods of thought are often represented with a term or brief phrase; quotations from the Torah, Tanakh or Mishnah are brief: the text assumes that the reader is familiar with the entire corpus of Bible and rabbinic literature. The document is effectively hyperlinked – each section assumes that the reader knows which other sections the text refers to. Even so, the Talmud is the size of an entire encyclopedia.
It is instructive to compare the bare text of the Talmud, to how it is explained by a master teacher, who brings in the relevant material necessary to understand the text.
Here is an excerpt from the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Pesachim, from the famous Soncino Edition. It's translation comes close to a literal, sometimes word-for-word rendering of the text:
GEMARA. What is OR? — R. Huna said: Light [naghe]; while Rab Judah said: Night [lele]. Now it was assumed [that] he who says light means literally light;8 while he who says night means literally night.
An objection is raised: As soon as the morning was light [or], the men were sent away, which proves that 'or' is day? — Is it then written, The 'or' was morning: [Surely] 'the morning was or' is written, as one says, Morning has broken forth. And [this verse is] in accordance with what Rab Judah said in Rab's name. For Rab Judah said in Rab's name: A man should always enter [a town] by day, and set out by day.
An objection is raised: As the light of [or] the morning, when the sun riseth, which proves that 'or' means the daytime? — Is it then written, 'or is morning': surely it is written, 'as the light of [or] the morning', and this is its meaning: 'and as the light of the morning' in this world so shall the rising of the sun be unto the righteous in the world to come.
What does this all mean? What precisely are the arguments being made?
The Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud – which has been published in several different editions (Modern Hebrew, French, English – from Random House, and English – from Koren) is something of a modern legend, used in Modern Orthodoxy, Chabad Lubavitch, and Reform and Conservative Judaism. Here we present the same Mishnah and Gemara – but this time including the Koren edition's introduction and translation/commentary: the commentary has the more literal parts in bold-face, while interpolated explanation is in non-bolded font.
The Torah prohibits the possession of any leaven or leavened bread throughout the
week of Passover, mandating its removal beforehand. However, the correct way to
practically fulfill these obligations is left undefi ned. At what point before the Festival
is a person obligated to remove leaven from his or her possession? How should this
be done?
Furthermore, what is the legal definition of leaven being in one's possession? The
Torah formulates the prohibition by stating that leaven or leavened bread should
not be found in one's house or quarters. This raises the question of leaven that is
physically found in one's property but is owned by a gentile: Does such leaven have
to be removed? Similarly, what should be done with the leaven in order for it to be
considered removed from one's possession? Is it necessary to physically remove or
destroy it, or is it suffi cient to renounce ownership or nullify it? Many of these questions
are addressed in the first chapter of tractate Pesaĥim.
Although the Torah requires only that the leaven be removed from one's possession,
the Sages enacted that a search be conducted and that all leaven be identified, in order
to ensure its removal before the onset of the Festival. What method should be used?
When should the search ideally be conducted, and is it valid if conducted at other
times? Who is obligated to perform the search, especially in cases where more than
one person is responsible for a property? A full discussion of these issues provides
a major focus of this chapter.
Also see our section Mishnah study.
Antisemitism on college campuses
Will our children have to endure anti-Semitism in college? Will they be surrounded by students who say that Islamic fundamentalists have the right to celebrate murdering Jews? Told that Jews are the only people with no right to safely live in their indigenous homeland? Will their teachers harass them by proclaiming that our kids are "maintaining a system of domination by Jews" ? People need to know how widespread this phenomenon is, because we can not effectively counter it without knowing it's extent.
Some important resources
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." Now the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.
Camera – the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America – is a media-monitoring and research organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East. CAMERA takes no position with regard to American or Israeli political issues or with regard to ultimate solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
StandWithUs is dedicated to informing the public about Israel and to combating the extremism and anti-Semitism that often distorts the issues. We believe that knowledge of the facts will correct common prejudices about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and will promote discussions and policies that can help promote peace in the region.
Stand With Us: Supporting Israel Around the World
Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism. Get Over It.
Recent campus debates teach us an important lesson about bigotry and how to deal with it
By Liel Leibovitz
Is anti-Zionism any different from anti-Semitism? The question is probably the most accurate seismograph we've got to measure where one stands on the ever-tremorous political grounds we all walk when we talk about Israel…. The debate we're having, true to our times, is both dumber and more malicious, and it was on display this month as at least two of our finest institutions of higher learning, Stanford and Oberlin…. Out west, a member of the school's student senate argued that it was not anti-Semitic to argue that Jews control the media, the banks, the government, and all other social institutions. And in the Ohio enclave of righteousness, several Jewish students published a letter in a student newspaper defending a disgraced professor who had posted similar allegations on her Facebook page about the Jews' malevolent omnipotence.
…At Stanford, the portentously named Gabriel Knight, a junior on the school's student governing body, claimed that it was, like, totally cool to talk about how the Jews control the world. "Questioning these potential power dynamics, I think, is not anti-Semitism," sprach Knight. "I think it's a very valid discussion."
Not to be outdone, the Oberlin crew, five Jewish students strong, produced a manifesto that ascended from the declaratory into the definitional.
"We are deeply troubled by the persistent conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, which is not only ahistorical and unfounded but also plays a central ideological role in the attempt to undermine legitimate criticism of the state of Israel…This conflation leaves us, as anti-Zionist Jews, without a community to turn to when we do experience anti-Semitism. We agree with the definition of anti-Semitism laid out by Aurora Levins Morales, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist; she writes that anti-Semitism—writing about European Jewry under Christianity—functions by creating 'a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top.'"
It's an argument not even a Deconstructionist could love: Anti-Semitism isn't the historic hatred of Jews, consistently documented for millennia and rooted in ancient theological fissures, but merely a conspiracy by unnamed rich Christian Europeans to elevate the Jews into disproportionate positions of power and influence merely to blame them later when the oppressed wise up and revolt.
… Arguing at first that anti-Zionism isn't anti-Semitism, the enlightened left has now taken to arguing that even anti-Semitism isn't anti-Semitism but, to put it in academese, a permissible form of discourse about power and privilege.
You hardly need a Ph.D. to know what all of it means. It means that it's now OK for the students and professors of our finest universities and colleges—and, by extension, for all of polite society—to entertain vile stereotypes that, as recently as five or 10 years ago, were on display nowhere outside the Sieg Heil! fringes of the rabid right.
The first lesson is that it's time to do away with the anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism debate. Whatever its intellectual merits are, or were, it's largely irrelevant in an environment scorched by the flames of prejudice masquerading as thought. To ponder minute differences when students are fulsomely supporting the sort of stuff that would've made Henry Ford blush is like debating nautical safety long after the iceberg has been introduced to the Titanic's hull.
…Those who believe Jews control the media and the banks, or that it's OK to respectfully debate whether or not they do, make no distinction between the good, enlightened Jews who wash their hands of Israel and the bad ones, who have the temerity of adhering to their faith and their nationality like any other normal people in the world. And those Jews who believe that their liberal sophistication will somehow save them from the wrath of bigotry should strongly reconsider: Never send to know for whom the anti-Semites troll; they troll for thee.
Why Are Jews the Only Minority We Don't Protect On College Campuses?
– Michael Sitver
Last week, some students at University of Chicago, where I attend, proposed a resolution to our College Council to divest from Chinese weapons manufacturers, in protest of China's severe human rights abuses and its long-standing occupation of Tibet. Members of the council were quick to condemn the resolution, and for good reason. The members noted it was political, and disrespectful to Chinese students. Other members noted that Chinese students should be given time to respond to the presenters with a counter-presentation. One representative even suggested that the College Council issue an apology to Chinese students for even considering the resolution. The resolution was tabled indefinitely.
Curiously, when a few weeks earlier the same College Council passed a nearly identical resolution condemning Israel, no one suggested an apology. These same representatives argued why it was their moral imperative to condemn Israel. …Over the past few weeks I have been told that Jews "don't count" as a minority. I have been accused of using anti-semitism to justify oppression.
All I want to know is why my campus doesn't treat anti-semitism with the same rigor with which it treats any other forms of bias. When Jews stood before the council, and asked that it recognize the Jewish right to self-determination, a basic right for all people, people in the room laughed. One representative noted that "If we were to affirm the right to Jewish self-determination … it takes away from the intent of the resolution".
Students in the room that day called us racists and murderers and "apartheid supporters", for even thinking we, as Jews, could have a voice in the discussion over the one small state we call our own.
A Jewish student was chided "You are racist and you are against me and my family's existence"… At one point, a student questioned the presenters, members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), about their organization allegedly holding a moment of silence for Palestinians who were killed while trying to murder Jewish civilians. One of the presenters confirmed the moment, then responded without missing a beat "Palestinians have a right to honor their martyrs".
If the killing of any other ethnic group had been celebrated, the University would make grief counselors available. It would send out mass emails of condemnation. They would suspend the organization responsible, and possibly the students involved in it. The organization would certainly not have any credibility to present to the student government.
Since the victims were Jews though, their celebration of murder went unchallenged.
On the third slide of the presentation in favor of the resolution, presenters claimed that voting against the resolution would mean "maintaining a system of domination by Jews".
The presenters were relying on one of the most common, long-standing, overtly anti-semitic tropes to make their case, and our representatives said nothing.
…Their coldness in minimizing the struggles of Jews, living with a legacy of being expelled and exterminated, was mind-boggling to me.
This week is Yom Hashoah, which commemorates the six million Jews that were murdered by the Nazis during World War II. On this day of remembrance, we say "Never forget. Never again". Yom Hashoah also commemorates an international commitment not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Sadly, fifty-three years after this day was first honored, we seem to be forgetting those lessons. As a campus we're remarkably tolerant of gender, race, and sexuality in general. Why is it that we're so uncaring about this one, very real form of racism?


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Related Mental Health Projects
Addiction, psychological problems, and homelessness
Addiction and psychological problems play a large role in homelessness. In the Netherlands, care and shelter for the homeless is addressed at the municipal level. The Trimbos Institute offers municipalities advice on addiction and psychological problems, homelessness policy evaluation, and client-focused research.>
For more information, contact Michel Planije
Am I in the picture?
Am I in the picture? provides assistance against stigma and discrimination as a consequence of mental health disorders; this assistance comes in the form of a handbook for healthcare providers and municipalities to be used to when supporting those who have been stigmatized due to mental illness and during the development of anti-stigma programs.
The handbook summarizes the most important scientific insights about fighting stigma and discrimination of individuals with mental health disorders, as well as outlining possible strategies to reduce stigmas. The handbook emphasizes that the society as a whole is responsible for ensuring the dignity of individuals with mental health disorders.
Children of parents with psychological or addiction problems
Children of parents with psychological or addiction problems are vulnerable but often invisible. The Trimbos Institute offers guidance on how to identify these children, how to offer them and their families needed support and services, and how to reduce future risks with these populations. A website with information for parents is also available; more information in Dutch can be found here. In addition, Trimbos organizes the National Conference on Children of Parents with Psychological or Addiction Problems twice a year. This conference informs healthcare professionals about new ways of caring for these populations, presents new research findings, and promotes knowledge exchange between professionals, caregivers, and policymakers.>
For more information, contact Rianne van der Zanden
Chin up parents (Kop Op Ouders)
The e-mental health platform Chin up parents (Kopopouders) was developed by Trimbos for parents with mental health problems or addiction. The website offers tips for parenting and improving the relationship with the children, an online group course, online self-help modules with support, community support, and anonymous help.>
For more information, contact Rianne van der Zanden
Cognitive fitness
The project Cognitive Fitness focuses on two problems that are common among individuals with psychiatric disorders: problems in cognitive functioning (planning, attention, and memory), and poor physical health. The neurocognitive trainings method Cognitive Fitness was developed to address these two problems. This method improves physical and mental conditions through physical exercise, intellectual challenges, and relaxation exercises. Fitness practices are combined with cognitive elements that stimulate the brain. This project is a collaborative effort with Parnassia-Bavo Group, Kwintes, Lister, GGZ Breburg, Emergis, and ADRZ.>
For more information, contact Maaike van Vugt
Color your life
Color your life is an evidence-based and successful blended program for those with depressive symptoms. Developed and researched by the Trimbos Institute, Color your life offers a variety of services and advice, including tailored telephone intake sessions, videos, exercises and activities, and online diary prompts. Color your life can be done as a part of a larger treatment plan or independently.
Colour your life had been implemented in primary care. Download the report for the results of the implementation in Dutch general practices and the lessons learned.
For more information, contact Odile Smeets
Control yourself
Control Yourself is an internet application for individuals with severe mental health disorders, for their informal caregivers, and for care professionals. Control Yourself enables these individuals to communicate with each other via the app and to provide access to available care, care plans, and medication. The aim of Control Yourself is to give those with a severe mental health disorder more control over their lives.>
Culturally sensitive extension for the multidisciplinary guideline for schizophrenia
The Trimbos Institute has developed the Culturally Sensitive Extension for the Multidisciplinary Guideline for Schizophrenia, in collaboration with delegates from different various professional associations and under the supervision of psychiatrist Natalie Veen. This extension to the guidelines elaborates further on ways in which health care professionals can and should interact with those from other cultures with regard to schizophrenia diagnosis and early detection, management, and treatment, including information about the side-effects of anti-psychotic medications.>
For more information, contact Matthijs Oud
Dementia and the Trimbos Institute
The Trimbos Institute aims to develop and translate knowledge that contributes to the improvement of mental healthcare, quality of life and psychological well-being of people with dementia and their caregivers. Here is a portfolio of research, monitoring studies and researches.>
For more information, contact Marjolein Veerbeek - Senster
Dementia glasses
Through Dementia Glasses, professional and lay caregivers can experience dementia themselves with virtual reality glasses that simulate the experiences of those with dementia. In addition to the virtual reality glasses, caregivers are offered further education about dementia through an e-learning program. A test version of Dementia Glasses will be tested by forty informal caregivers in the fall of 2016. Dementia Glasses are being developed in cooperation with the foundation Into D'mentia, Coolminds, and Ijsfontein. Funding has been provided by the Dutch Alzheimer Foundation and the PGGM Stimulation Foundation.
Overview e-health in dementia & aging
For more information, contact Marjolein Veerbeek - Senster
Depression free
Depression Free is a web-based therapeutic intervention based on an empirically effective group therapy model from the University of Groningen. In cooperation with the Trimbos innovation program Mental Vitality, the therapy was adapted for online use. Users can perform it at home on their own time and at their own pace, receiving telephone or
email support from a therapist if needed. As SMS text messages have proven to be one way to increase therapy adherence, clients in the recovery phase of depression are sent two messages a month asking how they are doing.
Their answers are plotted on a graph. This produces an overall view of their mood patterns and helps the therapist provide targeted feedback. It also allows the recurrence of depressive symptoms to be detected more rapidly.
Development, testing, and dissemination of video games that prevent and treat anxiety and depression in children and adolescents
Development, testing, and dissemination of video games that prevent and treat anxiety and depression in children and adolescents is a multidisciplinary research and implementation program that uses specially developed video games. The project and program team include the Trimbos Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, the University of Southern California, commercial gaming companies, Pluryn, and the Dutch Health Agency in East Brabant. This project began in March 2015 and will be completed by March 2020.>
For more information, contact Rutger Engels
Door-to-door social inclusion in a multi-ethnic problem neighbourhood
Social inclusion of people who are in long-term unemployment situations is a major challenge, particularly in densely populated large city neighborhoods such as the Schilderswijk in The Hague. Many of these citizens feel trapped in a cycle of unemployment, stigma, poverty, and complex social problems. The Hague developed a social case management intervention to increase participation and employment among long-term unemployed parents: the Door-to-Door approach (DTD). The Trimbos Institute conducted an effectiveness study to evaluate the impact of this approach and found that participation in work increased in 40% of the 111 persons in the DTD program, compared to 27% of the 85 persons in the control group who had been offered a minimum of support. These differences are relatively small but nonetheless significant.>
For more information, contact Harry Michon
EU-Compass for Action on Mental Health and Well-being
The EU Compass for Action on Mental Health and Well-being, initiated in 2015, is an EU funded tender carried out by Trimbos Institute together with an international consortium, which aims to disseminate the results of the Joint-Action on Mental Health and Wellbeing (JA-MH-WB). Essentially, the EU Compass is a mechanism to collect, exchange and analyze information on policy and stakeholder activities in mental health, to generate consensus between governmental experts and non-governmental stakeholders. It does so by identifying and disseminating European good practices in mental health, collecting data on stakeholders' and member states' activities in mental health through three annual surveys, organizing three annual reports and forum events, holding national mental health workshops in each member state plus Iceland and Norway, and developing position papers based on scientific evidence in seven priority thematic areas.
Outcomes of the EU Compass, such as identified good practices, annual reports and consensus papers, are disseminated via a good practice database, an EU Compass website, and an EU Compass newsletter. For more information, please visit the EU Compass website.>
For more information, contact Ionela Petrea
Health Behavior in School-aged Children
The Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey collects data every four years on 11-, 13- and 15-year-old boys' and girls' health and well-being, social environments, and health behaviors. HBSC includes 44 countries and regions across Europe and North America. Data collection alternates with the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs; the next HBSC study will be conducted in 2017. More information can be found on the HBSC website here.>
For more information, contact Saskia van Dorsselaer
LEDD: National expertise and implementation center for dual diagnosis
LEDD is a national implementation center which provides institutions with advice on the treatment of persons affected by dual disorders and/or diagnoses. LEDD is a collaboration between the Trimbos Institute and five mental health institutions: Mentrum (part of Arkin), GGzE and the Kempen, Palier (Parnassia Bavo Group), and Delta Psychiatric Center. These institutions leverage their hands-on knowledge and expertise to train, educate, coach, and advise institutes and organizations in the treatment of dual disorders. For more information, please click here.>
For more information, contact Anneke van Wamel
Living Arrangements for people with Dementia
The Trimbos Institute is involved in the Living Arrangements for people with Dementia study (LAD-study). The LAD-study is an ongoing monitoring project which is repeated every 2 years, and provides insight into the relationship between the characteristics of living arrangements for people with dementia and residents' quality of life, quality of care, and staff well-being. The LAD-study focuses on the effect of group living home care characteristics and staff ratio on: the quality of life of residents, the quality of care, and the well-being of care staff. It also looks at the effects of different varieties of care for people with dementia, the growing portion of group living home care and the amount of care staff required 20 years from now, and the barriers and facilitators to providing good care. More about the study can be read here.
For more information, contact Bernadette Willemse
Living in the plus
The Trimbos Institute has developed and evaluated an Internet-based intervention called Living in the Plus. Improving self-management skills in older adults may improve their well-being and resilience. Feelings of loneliness might decrease for this reason. The Trimbos Institute has developed this intervention to improve or maintain self-management skills in older adults. The intervention is based on Dutch existing internet- and non-internet-based interventions, such as Psyfit and GRIP, which focus on self-management skills and/or resilience. By means of a pilot study, the feasibility of the intervention was tested and the impact of the intervention was investigated. The results showed that the intervention is feasible and acceptable. It also has a positive impact on depressive symptoms as well as on loneliness. Based on the feedback obtained from the pilot study, the intervention will be adjusted and implemented on a national level.>
For more information, contact Bernadette Willemse
Loss: an app to offer mental support to parents have lost babies
Losing a baby can be one of the hardest moments in a parent's life. The Trimbos Institute has developed an app to support parents as they grieve their loss, offering support and connection with other parents in similar situations. More information can be found here.>
Master your Mood (Grip Op Je Dip)
The e-mental health platform Master your mood (Gripopjedip) was developed by Trimbos, in cooperation with mental health offices, for teens and young adults with depressive symptoms. The website offers assessments, tips for managing depressive symptoms, an online group course, community support, and anonymous help.>
For more information, contact Rianne van der Zanden
Monitoring deinstitutionalization and mental healthcare system reform
In 2015, the Trimbos Institute began the Reforming the long-term Mental Health Sector project. The monitor was commissioned by the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports. It focuses on three themes, including reviewing developments in the care that is offered to clients, collecting the personal experiences of clients, and comparing the policies and visions of different caregivers, institutions, and policies across different regions in the Netherlands.
Monitoring the living arrangements for those with dementia
The Trimbos Institute conducts research to understand the living arrangements of those with dementia; this research is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports and the 54 participating housing associations. The research is conducted every two years to review the current status of nursing home care for people with dementia in the Netherlands. This project includes monitoring the following topics:
- the organization of dementia care;
- the quality of the care that is offered;
- the quality of life of the individuals with dementia;
- the well-being of the healthcare professional; and
- the number of individuals that work in each type of living arrangement.
For more information, contact Bernadette Willemse
National Panel: Psychologically Respected
In 2010 the Trimbos Institute initiated the panel Psychologically Respected, a large, national panel by and for people with mental health conditions. The goal of Psychologically Respected is to provide insight into the social functioning of people in the Netherlands who are affected in their communities by ongoing mental health problems, as well as their experiences with mental healthcare and living conditions. Psychologically Respected allows those affected by mental health conditions to raise their voices in societal debates about the Dutch mental health care system. The panel collects data through questionnaires, phone interviews and opinion polls. The Trimbos Institute coordinates the panel and works closely with Phrenos, LPGGZ, and Nivel. The panel is subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports.>
For more information, contact Harry Michon
NEMESIS-2 study
The Trimbos Institute is involved in large scale, longitudinal research monitoring the mental health of the Dutch population between the ages 18 to 64 years old as part of the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS-2). The aim of NEMESIS-2 is to generate basic information about the mental health of the Dutch population, as well as changes in the mental health of the adult population over time. For more information, visit the Dutch language NEMESIS-2 website here.>
For more information, contact Margreet ten Have
Prescription for wellness
The Trimbos Institute has developed the project Prescription for Wellness for those with psychosocial problems. This project was developed in collaboration with professionals and focuses on well-being, primary care professionals, and citizens. The Trimbos Institute was also involved with the implementation of the project and has written a manual to implement the project on a national level; the manual explores methods of increasing quality of life and well-being for those with psychosocial problems.>
For more information, contact Henny Sinnema
Psyfit – an online training to improve mental fitness
Psyfit is a fully automated self-help intervention aimed at improving well-being by stimulating personal growth and positive functioning. The intervention encourages people to complete their 'daily mental fitness training' (as an analogue with physical fitness training). The intervention is based on the emerging field of positive psychology in which tools aimed at flourishing and positive functioning are being developed and evaluated. Psyfit contains six modules such as goals-setting, positive relationships, constructive thinking and mindfulness. Each module offers a video, exercises, tests and tips. For more information about the course, click here.>
For more information, contact Linda Bolier
Reform of mental health services in Moldova
Trimbos Moldova, located in Chișinău, is the local contact point and organizer for Trimbos's efforts in Moldova. Since 2014, Trimbos Moldova and staff from Trimbos International have overseen the reforms of mental health services in Moldova. The office hosts workshops and training courses for the medical staff, intended to equip them with all the required tools for the provision of mental health services at high-quality standards, as well as coordinating the implementation and research efforts of the reforms. More information can be found here.>
For more information, contact Laura Shields - Zeeman
The Trimbos Institute offers an online program called Return@Work to motivate absent employees to (partially) return to work. Company doctors receive advice about supporting the employee through the program. The self-help program aids employees with mental health disorders in returning to work. The program is developed to work in conjunction with on-going treatments or interventions. The Trimbos Institute has investigated the effects of Return@Work in collaboration with Achmea Insurance, the mental healthcare institution GGzBreburg, and the University of Tilburg.>
For more information, contact Daniëlle Volker
Robbin: Mental support app for those with breast cancer
One out of seven women develops breast cancer. The treatment is physically and mentally demanding. The Pink Ribbon organization has asked the Trimbos Institute to develop an app to provide mental and social support for patients during and after treatment. The content of the app is evidence-based, and its functionalities and interface were designed in collaboration with the focus group.>
For more information, contact Eva Becking
Schizophrenia decision support tool
For people with psychotic illness and their friends and relatives, a digital decision aid for schizophrenia is now available. It informs them about the nature of at disorder and it helps them, in consultation with a healthcare professional, to make optimal choices in terms of care and services.>
For more information, contact Daniëlle Meije
The payoff of research in the field of mental health care
The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) invested 39 million Euros in 158 GGz studies in the period 2010-2015. ZonMw asked the Center for Mental Health and Economic Evaluation (CMHEE) if the research also pays off economically, in addition to improvements in patient care. The abstract of the report: The payoff of research in the field of mental health care.>
For more information, contact Joran Lokkerbol
Through the D'mentia Lens
The Trimbos Institute, in cooperation with the VU University of Amsterdam and the University of Queensland, Australia, has developed a program to deepen knowledge and understanding of life with dementia. Through the D'mentia Lens includes a Virtual-Reality (VR) experience and an e-learning module for family of those with dementia. Family caregivers tend to find it difficult to understand and cope with the changing functioning and behavior of relatives with dementia. Improved understanding about dementia could reduce stress levels and lead to a more empathetic relationship and could ultimately reduce the care burden. The implementation of the final version of Through the D'mentia Lens is scheduled for the fall of 2016.>
For more information, contact Bernadette Willemse
Vital signs for mental health
The website Vital Signs for Mental Health was developed by the Trimbos Institute to support mental fitness. The website includes a self-assessment for those struggling with stress, mental wellness, shyness, and/or mental illness. The results of the assessment show the user's level of the mental fitness and provide advice on ways to improve mental fitness when needed. The website also includes news and tips about mental health disorders, as well as general information about different types of health disorders.>
For more information, contact Odile Smeets
WMH (World Mental Health)-WHO survey initiative
The WMH (World Mental Health)-WHO survey initiative is a project of the Assessment, Classification, and Epidemiology (ACE) Group at the World Health Organization, which coordinates the implementation and analysis of general population epidemiological surveys of mental, substance use, and behavioral disorders in countries in all WHO Regions. The Trimbos Institute conducts the Dutch portion of this multinational survey.
For more information, contact Margreet ten Have
Worries (Kopstoring)
The e-mental health platform Worries (Kopstoring) was developed by Trimbos, in cooperation with mental health offices, for teens and young adults with parents with mental health problems or addiction. The website offers tips for enhancing resilience and managing the relation with the parent, an online course, community support, and anonymous help.>
For more information, contact Rianne van der Zanden
Worry less, Stress less, and Sleep better
The complaint-directed mini-interventions, Worry less, Stress less, and Sleep better, are short web-based self-help interventions without therapist guidance. These interventions were developed by Trimbos and aim to reduce depressive complaints by targeting highly prevalent complaints that are associated with depression: worry, stress, and sleep problems. Each intervention offers assessments, information, exercises, and tools for managing the complaint in question.
For more information, and for access to Worry less, Stress less, and Sleep better, please visit www.snelbeterinjevel.nl.>
You and divorce
You and Divorce is an intervention for children and parents who are going through a divorce. You and Divorce offers support for children aged 8 to 12 and their parents. The project was developed based on experience, literature, and research.>
For more information, contact Ireen de Graaf


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You Don't Have to Leave Birmingham to Have a Vacation
By Frank Griffin
If you are looking for a weekend getaway or a great place to spend your summer vacation, Birmingham has a lot to offer.
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
A good place to start is the reason the city was founded. The Sloss Furnaces was an iron producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. When it shutdown, it was restored, making it the only preserved blast furnace in the United States.
Today it is listed as a National Historic Landmark, offering visitors a wide range of events and educational opportunities, including its metal arts program, concerts and festivals.
The Birmingham Zoo


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November 7, 2007 at 8:10 pm #76060
Maybe some of you recall that I have posted about this topic before. It happened to us as long ago as 1995. We bought a bank foreclosure and the full price was declared on the escritura. It was such a good buy that we bought another. First one no problem but the second one we received a bill from Hacienda for another c. 2000 pounds. Our Lawyer said we could appeal but the money had to be deposited anyway, plus we would have had lawyers fees and was advised that it is very rare to win this type of case against hacienda.
However, we paid such a low price we thought that this was just an annoyance and matter of principle. Even if we had been forwarned we would have still proceeded. I agree it is unfair though.


text: On 05/17/2013 10:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 02:21:47PM -0400, Skardal, Harald wrote: >> Occasionally VMM ends up in this state: >> >> I want to create a new VM by right-clicking on the connection and >> selecting "New". >> >> On the next screen is the field where I enter the VM name, but below it >> is an error triangle and the message: Error: list.remove(x): x not in >> list. >> >> I.e. no options for install. > > Well this sounds like a bug. Did you see if there are any existing > bug reports or file a new one? > Exactly, sounds like Bug 887106 [1]. Feel free to check if it looks the same and comment on the bug. >> How can I reset the libvirt/qemu infrastructure without having to reboot >> the two systems: where VMM is running and where I want to create the VM? > Can you create new one by clicking on the "New" button? Martin [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887106


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- Local EB-5 VISA Fraud
- National Whistleblower Appreciation Day
- Regulatory Compliance: It's the Little Things…
- WA Consumer Protection Law applies extraterritorially
- Waiver Under Washington's Deed of Trust Act Permitted Where Technical Violations Did Not Harm Plaintiff
- Business Liability for Foreseeable Harm
- Failure to Reconvey: Quiet Title Without a Quiet Title Action
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- Why Organize Early?
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U.K. Begins to Advance Protection of WhistleblowersU.K. Begins to Advance Protection of Whistleblowers Jes Staley, the American CEO of Barclays went after whistleblowers the American way – "get that rat!" This time the U.K.'s Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct did something about it. They called it an ethical breach and put pressure on Barclays to do something. Barclays issued a statement stating it reprimanded Mr. Staley and will make a "significant" cut to his bonus. How does this balance out? The whistleblower loses his or her career and the executive who cause that damage may lose some part of their future bonus. In the U.S., the SEC insists on revealing the name of the whistleblower if there is a settlement. The SEC justifies its policy by claiming it is merely trying to buttress internal reporting. In my experience, corporations circle the wagons when there is credible whistleblowing. Corporate counsel interrogates and human resources attempts to find legal grounds to terminate. Investigators comb the whistleblower's computer and office looking for something negative. Usually whistleblowing is a career ending exercise in the U.S. The U.K. does not give rewards to whistleblowers. The SEC does but refuses to allow anonymous filings. It allows temporary anonymity if the whistleblower uses an attorney to file the claim. Like many CEOs, Mr. Staley apparently thinks whistleblowers are disloyal and he felt in this case it was "an unfair personal attack." After he was told it was not appropriate to inquire into the identity of the whistleblower, he continued to pressure his internal security investigator for the information. A U.S. law-enforcement agency was asked to help. Consider Wells Fargo Bank. It...
Local EB-5 VISA FraudLocal EB-5 VISA Fraud SEC Complaint: 15-sec-v-dargey-complaint Recent Seattle newspaper headlines have informed us that Lobsang Dargey, a local real-estate developer, has agreed to plead guilty to EB-5 fraud allegedly involving at least $125 million from 250 Chinese investors. This type of fraud is a form of securities and immigration fraud and has become more common on both sides of the transaction: investors make fraudulent claims regarding their eligibility for the program and promoters misappropriate their investments. EB-5 was enacted by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. Under a pilot program enacted in 1992, and regularly reauthorized since then, investors may also qualify for EB-5 visas by investing through regional centers designated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) based on proposals for promoting economic growth. On September 29, 2016, President Obama signed Public Law 114-223 extending the regional center program through December 9, 2016. Ten thousand visas are allocated each year and processing times can be two years. Not only does the investor and family need to be vetted for the visa (e.g. where did the money come from?). There are two investment amounts $500,000 and $1,000,0000. Both require creation of ten full time (35 hours per week) permanent jobs. The $500,000 is by far the most popular and is only available in rural and high unemployment area. This is where the developers get involved. They package a deal, arrange for USCIS processing, and arrange permanent management. Teams of well-paid sales agents sell the package in China and elsewhere. Since the package involves an investment with an expectation...
National Whistleblower Appreciation DayCELEBRATING WHISTLEBLOWING Where were you on July 30, 2016? The United States Senate unanimously declared July 30, 2016 as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day" in a resolution adopted on July 7, 2016. It stated ". . . in 1777, before the passage of the Bill of Rights,10 sailors and marines blew the whistle on fraud and misconduct harmful to the United States. . . . the Founding Fathers unanimously supported the whistleblowers in words and deeds, including by releasing government records and providing monetary assistance for reasonable legal expenses necessary to prevent retaliation against the whistleblowers. . . . on July 30, 1778, in demonstration of their full support for whistleblowers, the members of the Continental Congress unanimously enacted the first whistle blower legislation in the United States that read: 'Resolved, That it is the duty of all persons in the service of the United States, as well as all other [of] the inhabitants thereof, to give the earliest information to Congress or other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds or misdemeanors committed by any officers or persons in the service of these states, which may come to their knowledge'" The 2016 resolution further provided: ". . . . it is the public policy of the United States to encourage, in accordance with Federal law (including the Constitution, rules, and regulations) and consistent with the protection of classified information (including sources and methods of detection of classified information), honest and good faith reporting of misconduct, fraud, misdemeanors, and all other crimes to the appropriate authorities at the earliest time possible. . ." The resolution was cosponsored by Grassley and Wyden...
Regulatory Compliance: It's the Little Things…
Regulatory penalties can be devastating for a company, yet many companies, especially small companies, fail to plan for or devote resources to regulatory compliance. These companies can be confused and incredulous when they become the focus of investigations or sanctions and may delay responding until their very existence is at stake. Proper counsel can help companies understand regulators' focus which helps them to prepare for and address compliance issues in a timely manner.
WA Consumer Protection Law applies extraterritorially
Under the CPA an out-of-state plaintiff may bring a claim.against a Washington corporate defendant for allegedly deceptive acts. Similarly, an out:of-state plaintiff may bring a CPA claim against an out-of-state defendant for the allegedly deceptive acts of its in-state agent.
Waiver Under Washington's Deed of Trust Act Permitted Where Technical Violations Did Not Harm PlaintiffMerry v Nationstar –Wn App 324745-III Background to Deed of Trust In 2007, Sharon Weirich borrowed $205,440 from Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. and executed a Deed of Trust on her real property as security. The deed identified Countrywide as the lender, Landsafe Title of Washington as the Trustee, and the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) as "a separate corporation that is acting solely as a nominee for Lender and Lender's successors and assigns." In Bain v. Metropolitan Mortgage Group, 175 Wn.2d 83, 93, 285 P.3d 34 (2012), the Supreme Court of Washington held that the MERS registry's business practices in creating and transferring beneficial interests with regard to mortgages conflict with the requirements of Washington's Deed of Trust Act. Beginning in 2011 MERS made a number of assignments and changes in ownership of the note, beneficiary, and trustee using the business practices found to conflict with the Deed of Trust Act. Following these changes, in October 2012, Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. served Mrs. Weirich with a notice of default on behalf of Bank of America. The same month Ms. Weirich executed a deed of trust to Thomas Merry. This deed of trust secured payment of a $68,000 promissory note. Ms. Weirich also executed a power of attorney and an assignment of legal claims to Mr. Merry. In December 2012, Ms. Weirich received a notice of trustee's sale informing her that her property would be sold on April 19, 2013 to satisfy her promissory note she originally gave to Countrywide. However, property was not sold on April 19, 2013 and no sale was rescheduled within the 120-day window...
Business Liability for Foreseeable HarmMcKown v Simon Property Group, Supreme Court of Washington, March 5, 2015 Decision: 050405-McKnown-v-Simon-Properties After 40 years of practicing U.S. law, I have grown to appreciate the gift we received from our colonizing parent, the common law. The civil law systems suffer from the same rigidity that all statutes impose: one size fits all. The legislature drafts a statute as a solution to a perceived problem not understanding how it might be unjust in a different fact situation. The common law can smooth out these injustices by providing court-made law which reacts to the facts and needs of justice in a particular case. The negatives of the common law system that has decisions made by juries include unpredictability and indefensible awards. The common law has invented tools to minimize the negatives. One of those tools is "foreseeability". It allows a court to claim that no one could have foreseen the harm so the defendant is not liable. Foreseeability is often the only legal barrier protecting a business from liability. Unfortunately it has proven to be a two-edged sword. The limits of foreseeably was highlighted in McKown v Simon Property Group. On Sunday, November 20, 2005, Dominick S. Maldonado walked into the Tacoma Mall and opened fire on shoppers and mall employees, injuring seven people. Maldonado wore a dark trench coat concealing a MAK-90 rifle and an Intratec Tec-9 pistol, and carried a guitar case filled with ammunition. McKown, an employee at one of the retail stores, tried to stop Maldonado, but was shot and wounded. Simon Property Group owned the Tacoma Mall. Under Washington Law, the Tacoma Mall is liable to McKown...
Failure to Reconvey: Quiet Title Without a Quiet Title Action
What do you do when a seller fails to reconvey the title to property following payment of the loan, then dies? Failure to reconvey puts a cloud on the title that must be quieted. Quiet title actions can be drawn out and expensive. Is there a way to obtain a quiet title without the quiet title action? This article explores four possible tools for obtaining a quiet title outside a traditional quiet title action.


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A recall on one of Mumbai's most charming and cosmopolitan couples, Jehangir and Shirin Sabavala
Aafreed Sabavala, Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote remember evolving under the aegis of one of Mumbai's most charming and cosmopolitan couples, Jehangir and Shirin
Mirror Image (1997)
It was the 1960s when the Sabavalas embarked on one of their many cross-country trips across India. Known to pile into their Standard Vanguard and drive for long, stopping at frill-free guesthouses rather than posh hotels, this particular trip was along the Tungabhadra in Karnataka. After enjoying the coracles, the family was resting for the day, when, "suddenly, a huge dust storm — a gigantic yellow opaque wall — was headed in our direction. It was frightening as we watched it from our hotel window," says their daughter Aafreed Sabavala. It has been six days since her mother, Shirin, a noted figure in the literary and art circles of India, breathed her last after a trying time with cancer. It has been nearly six years since her father, Jehangir, one of post-colonial India's leading artists, passed away. And, with a slight shudder, the 58-year-old, momentarily reliving her childhood memory adds, "My father's Tungabhadra series reminds me of that trip."
Portrait of Shirin (1953) Jehangir Sabavala
We are seated in the veranda of the Sabavala's Altamount Road home, an iconic and intimate oasis where the afternoons stretched into nights in the "carefully curated" company of poets and artists. The living room is where Arun Khopkar shot Colours of Absence (1993), his award-winning film on Jehangir; it is where cultural theorist and art critic, Ranjit Hoskote and, author Jerry Pinto have, among others, conversed with the Sabavalas on everything from James Ensor to the Metaphysical poets.
Shirin and Jehangir pose as a painting by Giovanni Boldini and Van Gogh's Zouave
A cosmopolitan love
"When I think of Shirin and Jehangir, I think of all the road trips they made across the country, through Rajasthan, down the West Coast, along the Tungabhadra. On returning from Europe in 1951, they embarked on their very own 'discovery of India'," says Hoskote, who has authored the biography titled Pilgrim, exile, sorcerer: The painterly evolution of Jehangir Sabavala.
Studying in London, at the Heatherley School of Art from 1945 to 1947, Jehangir met Shirin, whilst she was enrolled at the London School of Economics. When back in Bombay, the story of how Jehangir mounted his first exhibition in the country with his spouse is practically a legend these days. It was 1951, a period commonly described as when "we didn't have Jehangir Art Gallery". The couple, known to be among the most stylish in the beau monde of then Bombay, improvised on the sacrosanct interiors of the Prince's Room at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel for that exhibition — also part of Sabavala history now.
Jerry Pinto
In his biography, Hoskote recounts that the artist was often perceived as an outsider owing to inescapable reasons — he descended from the elite mercantile Parsi family of the Readymoneys, his academic upbringing had flourished in Europe (but as had several other artists from the city). And, then, there were choices that Jehangir made — his disinterest in the prevailing "folk iconography cross-bred with a mode of figuration drawn from the School of Paris" and his rejection of group affiliations. "It was unfortunate that people had narrow preconceptions about them. Critics and fellow artists, who should have known better, held the banal belief that if you came from privilege, then your art and world-view were suspect," says Hoskote.
"Father was a very private person, and so were mum and I," says Aafreed. When Mehlli Gobhai, one of the country's leading abstractionists, would call the Sabavalas to holiday in the seaside town of Gholvad, it depended on Jehangir's progress with a work. "He could leave a painting only when he had either resolved it in his mind or when it was complete, but never in between," says Aafreed. Keeping the artist constant company in the studio, was their pet Siamese cat, Nicholas. "If you have seen Siamese cats, you will know how poised they are. Father was no less," she laughs.
Shirin was the daughter of a prominent botanist and grew up largely in Nagpur, where her father Jehangir Dastur was employed.
Holidays were spent in the hill station of Pachmarhi as much as in bustling Bombay. While Shirin majored in social sciences, she could, with ease, identify most plants that she encountered in their English, local and Latin botanical names.
Once married and in India, the couple's fascination with nature continued. In mountainous terrain, Jehangir observed the differences in the quality of light in the Tropics and Europe, an observation that greatly informs his later paintings along with their echoes of Cubist structures. Even a trip to Juhu Beach, recalls Aafreed, meant that Jehangir would take ample notes — the colours of the sea, the sky, every little detail was recorded.
"These visits, as varied as Sanchi, and the Nilgiris nourished Jehangir's paintings, their archetypal resonances. The presence of nature was so strong in their lives, and it was far from the metropolitan couple they are stereotypically made out to be," says Hoskote.
Influencing art and poetry
Jerry Pinto calls to mind the many handwritten letters he has, from both Shirin and Jehangir, responding to the articles he had written in the papers. Jerry writes to us over an e-mail correspondence, "Adil Jussawalla, Dom Moraes and Ranjit have all written poems with Sabavala's works in mind. The tone of these poems is elegiac, their writers responding to some deep interior melancholy that showed up in the works. You could not look at a Sabavala work and not see this sadness; you did not see it in the man, however. He was always vibrant, always active."
The Jehangir Sabavala Foundation, which Shirin set up soon after her husband passed away, comes, therefore, in the line of the cultural patronage of the Readymoneys, who gave the city the Jehangir Art Gallery and the Cowasji Jehangir Hall. The Foundation annually holds a memorial lecture and also supports the publication of anthologies of unpublished poets. More recently, a substantial bequest of Jehangir's works and studio material were made to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. "When Jehangir died, Shirin and I had to sort through his personal effects; the clothes to go to charities and friends, the papers to go to the archive at the Museum along with the last paintings which were part of the Sabavala bequest that is now in the Jehangir Sabavala Room at the museum. Think about it, six paintings by a modern master, that's a gift that runs into crores of rupees and there was also a supporting bequest to the museum for educational material and for refurbishing the space," says Pinto.
As we say goodbye to Aafreed, she shows us around the house where two portraits of Shirin, as envisioned by Jehangir, hang on opposite walls. In one, she resembles a Spanish lady. In another, painted in 1949, Shirin is featured twice, a painting that Hoskote says is evocative of "the couple's wonderful relationship — its simultaneous intimacy and mystery".


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Guide Dog Books has announced that they've accepted my non-fiction book, The Popular Uncanny, for publication in 2008-9. The Popular Uncanny studies the mass marketing of nostalgia and terror in postmodern media culture, and features chapters on: the doppelganger in advertising, films featuring dismembered hands, Stephen King's fiction, and uncanny multimedia online. An early version of this title served as my doctoral dissertation at the University of Oregon; I'll be updating it over the year ahead.
Visit Guide Dog Books for news about this book and other exciting academic publications upcoming from D. Harlan Wilson and JoSelle Vanderhooft.


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How can I get the label of each column in a result set to prepend the name if its table?
I want this to happen for queries on single tables as well as joins.
SELECT first_name, last_name FROM person;
| person.first_name | person.last_name |
| Wendy | Melvoin |
| Lisa | Coleman |
SELECT first_name AS person.first_name, last_name AS person.last_name FROM person;
I know this question is a bit old, but perhaps someone will stumble over the answer and it will help them out.
The proper way to do what you're looking for is to create and use a View. Yes, it will be a bit tedious one-time to type out all those new column names as aliases, but if there are a lot of columns here's a trick you can use to leverage the PostgreSQL metadata to write out the text of the view:
select 'CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW people AS SELECT ' ||
(select string_agg(column_name || ' AS person_' || column_name, ', ')
from information_schema.columns
where table_name = 'person'
group by table_name) ||
' FROM person;';
running this yields:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW people AS SELECT last_name AS person_last_name, first_name AS person_first_name FROM person;
1 record(s) selected [Fetch MetaData: 0/ms] [Fetch Data: 0/ms]
[Executed: 4/21/12 2:05:21 PM EDT ] [Execution: 9/ms]
you can then copy and execute the results and voila:
select * from people;
person_last_name person_first_name
------------------- --------------------
Melvoin Wendy
Coleman Lisa
2 record(s) selected [Fetch MetaData: 1/ms] [Fetch Data: 0/ms]


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Green Beans recipe – 74 calories
Green Beans recipe – 74 calories
1 (15 ounce) can green beans, partially drained
1 tablespoon bacon grease
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt (to taste)
1/4 teaspoon black pepper (to taste)
1. Add all ingredients to a saucepan.
2. Let it simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Serve hot.
Servings: 4
Nutritional information for one serving:
Calories: 74
Calories from fat: 30
Total fat: 3.3g
Cholesterol: 3mg
Total carbs: 10.8g
Protein: 2g
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I.Sushi is a two-storey eatery with a traditional yet innovative menu, aiming to take popular Japanese dishes to another level. The restaurant can seat 40 people, with an average spend per person of about 150 yuan (US$24.4). With tablet computers as the menu, diners can sort out items with ease - for example, by popularity or type. Traditional fare like nigiri is on offer, and recommendations include the assorted sushi combo at 118 yuan. Other a la carte offerings include tuna, salmon belly and surf clam at 58 yuan. Around two thirds of customers are foreigners, and some items are not found on traditional Japanese menus cater for their palate. The "dream series" consisting of special rolls in more than 20 varieties is one of the I.Sushi signatures. The most popular two are butterfly roll - made of prawn, eel, crab salad and avocado, and moto that is made up of spicy tuna, crab salad, crab roe and avocado. I.Sushi also provides set lunches and delivery services to cater for its busy customers, with the price ranging from 38-58 yuan per set. A range of drinks are available with a top up for 5-8 yuan.
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- NEW: At least 32 people are hospitalized
- Three people died in fire, officials say
- Fire strikes nursing home in western suburb of Sydney
- Arson investigators are on the scene
Fire roared through a suburban Sydney, Australia, nursing home early Friday, killing three people and injuring more than 30 others, police officials said.
"Detectives from homicide and arson are on the scene," Police Assistant Commissioner Robert Redfern said of the incident in the western suburb of Quakers Hill.
"We are treating this like we treat all fires of this nature -- as suspicious," Redfern said.
Nearly 90 people were inside the facility, which was about 20% destroyed.
Fourteen patients, five with severe burns, were in hospital intensive care units, officials said. Eighteen non-ICU patients were hospitalized.
CNN Sydney affiliate Nine News showed video footage of residents in hospital beds being cared for on sidewalks.
The fire began in two rooms, destroyed beds and traveled via the roof, said New South Wales Fire Chief Greg Mullins.
"Upon arrival, smoke was so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face," Mullins said.


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Of course a smile is nice but do you feel that that's a potential opening to a conversation? does a girl with a neutral face scare you or make you more nervous? Does it make a difference?
And if catch a girl's eye will you only talk to her if she smiles at you? Or if you were ACTUALLY interested would you initiate conversation ANYWAY regardless of facial expression?
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The Role of Nonadiabatic Pathways and Molecular Rotations in the Oxygen Abstraction Reaction on the Al(111) Surface
In: Chemical Physics Letters, Jg. 373 (2003), Heft 3,4, S. 366 - 371
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The Role of Nonadiabatic Pathways and Molecular Rotations in the Oxygen Abstraction Reaction on the Al(111) Surface
Binetti, Marcello; Weiße, Olaf; Hasselbrink, EckartLSF; Katz, Gil; Kosloff, Ronnie; Zeiri, Yehuda
The adsorption dynamics of O₂ on Al(1 1 1) has been studied exptl. using mol. beams and laser spectroscopy as well as theor. using a multi-dimensional multi-electronic surfaces model. Expts. find that: (i) abstractive chemisorption is operative at all translational energies; (ii) it increases markedly with translational energy; and (iii) rotational excitation of the mols. suppresses the abstraction process. The model calcns. semi-quant. reproduce the exptl. findings and demonstrate that: (i) a nonadiabatic description is necessary to reproduce the exptl. results and that (ii) the rotational hindrance is due to a restricted cone of acceptance in direction of the surface normal.


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During July GovCamp Australia has been convening the Innovation Dialogues (iD): a series of gatherings in each capital city as part of Australia's Public Sector Innovation Month 2015.
To complete this 2015 GovCamp series we are convening an interactive National Forum – iN Forum – in Canberra on Friday, 28 August.
The iN Forum will draw together the threads and themes of the Innovation Dialogues, plus other Innovation Month activities. It will bring in insights from leaders, commentators and participants from the capital city events, and build on them to coalesce a national picture of public sector innovation. This will feed into the work of the Department of Industry and Science, the Public Sector Innovation Network and the newly formed cross-agency Innovation Champions Group. The key questions being explored will include:
- What does the public sector innovation landscape look like?
- What is the value of mapping a public sector innovation ecosystem?
- What next?
Download the draft program (PDF)
'iN FORUM': THE NATIONAL VIDEO ROUNDTABLE
This interactive National Forum is part-meeting, part-workshop and conducted via video from the University of Canberra INSPIRE Centre – hosted independently to enable open knowledge exchange across jurisdictions and sectors.
Distilling the massive learnings from the 8-city iDialogues series, the theme is "People, Spaces, Conversations: Finding Mutual Value in Public Sector Innovation". Join in to find out…
- What pattern emerged between city dialogues?
- What were the topics people most wanted to discuss?
The 3-hour intensive session will deliver
- Presentations
- Video interaction between cities, and
- Thought leadership and commentary on public sector innovation from a highly experienced 'iNsight Circle'.
Two special guests via video
- From Denmark Christian Bason – author of "Leading Public Sector Innovation" and known to many from his work in Australia – will comment on understanding the PS innovation ecosystem, as discussed at the iDialogues.
- From Canberra, the new head of the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) – Paul Shetler – will explore digital trends in PS innovation drawing on his recent experience in London within the UK Cabinet Office's Government Digital Service (GDS).
iN Forum innovation iNsight Circle
We're pleased to have convened a great team who will join for the whole program to bring their combined experience and unique perspectives.
- Sarah Pearson: Board member, DFAT Innovation Xchange; CEO, Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN)
- Pia Waugh: GovHack founder / Aust Gov DTO)
- Alex Marsden: lecturer /public sector advisor; fmr co-founder,Design Gov
- Carolyn Curtis: CEO, the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) and Board member, global Social Innovation Exchange (SIX)
- Martin Stewart-Weeks: public sector advisory, Public Purpose P/L and Deloitte; board member, TACSI.
As well, we will hear from three specialists:
- Alex Roberts: Innovation Advocate, Australian Government Department of Industry & Science; coordinator of the Public Sector Innovation Network.
- Alun Probert: former head of Communications, NSW Department of Premier & Cabinet; head, GovCom Group
- Peter Elford: Director Government Relations & e-Research Liaison, AARNet
WHO will be participating?
- Senior public sector leaders
- Public sector innovation practitioners
- Innovation experts and commentators
- Academics, institutes, civic innovators and private service providers.
WHY participate?
The purpose will be to collectively take a national snapshot of what's happening around Australia in public sector innovation and to explore options for further momentum through connected dialogue and knowledge exchange between jurisdictions as well as sectors.
- This is a unique national workshop on public sector innovation trends.
- It will give all participants a rare opportunity to be part of a national conversation on strategic issues in a way that practical linkages can be mapped to their work program
- You can co-create next steps in GovCamp's PSI Ecosystem Dialogue Project
- We will preview the 10+ city GovCamp LiVE challenge program
If you were part of the Innovation Dialogues in your city, you experienced leadership panel discussions, conversation cafes and more than 130 GovCamp-style sessions on a wide range of themes – from societal to institutional to personal – discussed in an open and participatory way.
Hear what 570 people said about…
- What TRIGGERS PS innovation currently – and what perhaps should
- Where TYPES of PS innovation happen – and where it should
- The ways we VALUE PS innovation – and ways we should
Maintaining momentum
This national link-up will also make progress towards two key initiatives:
- Shared knowledge: The GovCamp Innovation Dialogues have built momentum towards a national dialogue on mapping the public sector innovation ecosystem. There is considerable support from within the GovCamp community across Australia as well as from leading advisors and learning institutions to continuing with this initiative under the GovCampus umbrella.
- A national dialogue: The opportunity to make a contribution to shaping GovCamp LiVE – a national one-day program on 21 November designed to host open dialogue sessions to identify key PS operational & societal challenges, to map new options, and interacting across more than a dozen locations
So please join us to hear what others have been saying around the country, and help shape the next stage of this national conversation on public sector innovation ecosystems and skills.
Download the draft program (PDF)


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Mission critical facility failure frequency is growing. Public utility power outages occur so often that data centers, in the U.S., see an average of over 2.5 outages per year. Other countries surpass these statistics, with some as high as having daily power outages. Power surges and the aging utility components cause the majority of U.S. public utility outages.
Enter backup generators. According to the Uptime Institute, the generator system on a data center is actually the 'primary' power system. It may very well have redundant generators to support it, and have a public utility power source as an added 'convenience'.
Recently, companies such as Amazon, Yahoo, SalesForce, Intuit, and many other data centers and hospitals have had their businesses interrupted because of loss of power. This means that the public utility, the generator system and whatever redundancy there was in the generator system all failed to keep the business online.
Mission critical facilities sell guaranteed uptime, and count on it to make money. Customers pay highly for it. Generator failure, due to poor designs and installations, is in the news regularly. Data centers and hospitals have been going 'dark'. Without power, businesses and people suffer. When loss is incurred due to a power failure – customers feel misled, and do not understand how better planning and proper maintenance wouldn't have prevented the incident. After all, Utility power failures are not a surprise. They have been going on for as long as there has been distributed power, and will continue. The total costs of down time are difficult to estimate. Immediate sales impacts are more tangible then long term effects, such as reputation and dissatisfied customers.
Aside from common maintenance items, such as generator battery, low coolant level, low coolant temperature and having the generator switch in the 'off' position, the vast majority of generator start failures are accredited to the diesel fuel system. Items such as pump cavitation, no fuel, poor fuel quality and high fuel level alarms are among the causes of failure. Generator manufacturers state that 95% of the time generators fail – it is due to a failure within the diesel fuel system. This is true, not only during generator start, but also failures while the generator is running.
The diesel fuel system is a unique one. It requires contracting expertise in many fields; general, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, computer, national and local code compliance etc. Few people possess the knowledge to correctly design, install, run or analyze these systems.
Due to its complexity, the interactivity between many fields and the fact that it is so important to business continuity, it is critically important to know every detail about the diesel fuel system. The knowledge needs to be in the hands of, not only the facility personnel, but the upper management, IT department, business continuity personnel and redundantly stored off site so that is permanently available to the company.
New facility diesel fuel systems are usually designed by engineers. Engineers have many 'hats' to wear and do not, normally, have enough knowledge about diesel fuel systems, their overlapping disciplines and ever changing codes, to design one. The construction specification lists the diesel fuel system as the responsibility of the mechanical or plumbing engineer. These engineers then turn to specialty vendors to help them out with the designs. The vendors may be pump suppliers, day tank or control manufacturers, fuel suppliers etc. Vendors have agendas of their own, and definitely want to move their products even if it is not in the project owner's best interest. Add in the fact that they have little training in areas other than their own products, and that no one in the group knows anything about risk, redundancy and recovery… and you are guaranteed an inadequate installation.
The systems seem to work fine at first, because they are forced to. The general contractor and plumbing contractor don't get paid unless it seems to work. New systems typically haven't been through extensive commissioning or risk and failure analysis. The documentation is poor, and initial personnel training on the system, if any, consists of 1 to 8 hours training during start up – a month when the facility personnel are being trained for every other system in the plant. These personnel are added to and transferred often, so most knowledge of the system is quickly diluted or lost.
Facility upgrades, expansions, purchases by new owners etc. add layers of complexity. Commonly, facility managers only have minimal knowledge about their diesel fuel system and the risks associated with it, but upper management, IT management and the business continuity departments are relying heavily on them.
There is an enormous gap between what most companies need to know about their diesel fuel systems, and what they actually do know about it. The solution is to hire a third party expert to analyze the system and provide a detailed audit and recommendations/ solutions. The resulting information needs to be disseminated to the facility manager and to upper management so that individual goals can become aligned. If there is risk exposure because of a substandard installation, component or sequence of operation – corrections can be planned and executed prior to a failure.
The number one item, on Janco's "Baseline for Best Practices" – List of 10 Commandments of Disaster and Business Continuity Management, is:
Analyze Single Points of Failure
Single points of failure, within a complex diesel fuel system, can exist in many places.
'Loss prevention consultants' who are experts in diesel fuel systems provide onsite inspections to identify potential failure points. The results of the inspections identify risk by providing detailed analysis of the system, its capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and compare the findings to a certain standard.
These are the same consultants that insurance companies, who write loss prevention due to power failure, utilize. Hiring a third party expert ensures an unbiased study of the system is being conducted.
"Diesel System Experts" is the leading diesel fuel systems expert company in the world. We are risk mitigation/ loss prevention consultants and are experts in diesel fuel system design and inspection. We have designed over twenty five hundred diesel fuel systems, installed hundreds, and possess the knowledge you need to have applied to your diesel fuel systems. Our site inspection program includes an over 1,500 point checklist. Our reports provide weighted recommendations tailored to fit your risk tolerance goals. Working globally, our business contributes to the business continuity that your business needs. To set an appointment for inspection, receive a proposal, or to interview us, please call: (1) 650-265-1111


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How To Help Hammertoe Pain
is a secondary problem originating from fallen cross arches. The toes start to curl and get pulled backwards, as the collapsed or pushed out metatarsal bones pull the tendons and ligaments, and causes them to get shorter and tighter. This condition causes the toes have higher pressure and they have limited movement and cannot be straightened fully. This can lead to numbness and pain in the toes as muscles, nerves, joints and little ligaments are involved with this condition. As the top part of the toe can rub against the shoe, it can cause corns and calluses.
Hammer toe results from shoes that don?t fit properly or a muscle imbalance, usually in combination with one or more other factors. Muscles work in pairs to straighten and bend the toes. If the toe is bent and held in one position long enough, the muscles tighten and cannot stretch out. Some other causes are diabetes, arthritis, neuromuscular disease, polio or trauma.
Hammertoe and mallet toe feature an abnormal bend in the joints of one or more of your toes. Moving the affected toe may be difficult or painful. Corns and calluses can result from the toe rubbing against the inside of your shoes. See your doctor if you have persistent foot pain that affects your ability to walk properly.
Your doctor is very likely to be able to diagnose your hammertoe simply by examining your foot. Even before that, he or she will probably ask about your family and personal medical history and evaluate your gait as you walk and the types of shoes you wear. You'll be asked about your symptoms, when they started and when they occur. You may also be asked to flex your toe so that your doctor can get an idea of your range of motion. He or she may order x-rays in order to better define your deformity.
Non Surgical Treatment
There are many non-surgical treatments to help relieve symptoms of hammertoe. The first step for many people is wearing the right size and type
Hammer toes
of shoe. Low-heeled shoes with a boxy or roomy toe area are helpful. Cushioned insoles, customized orthopedic inserts, and pads can provided relief as well. Splints or straps may be used to help correct toe position. Your doctor may show you toe stretches and exercises to perform. Your doctor can safely remove corns and calluses. You should not try to remove them at home.
Surgical Treatment
Treatment of a severe hammertoe that has become rigid includes surgery. What is done during the surgery depends on how misshapen and inflexible the toe is. The surgeon may make a cut over your toe and release the tendon by cutting the tendon away from the bone. The surgeon may remove a small piece of bone from the toe. The surgeon may realign the tendons to reposition your toe or fasten the bones with pins. Sometimes the surgeon may have to join the bones in the toe. In this case, you will no longer be able to bend the toe, but the toe will be flat.
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After my blog "came out" on Geneabloggers this past weekend, I received some really nice comments and was happy to subscribe to a few new blogs as a result. The Armchair Genealogist (Lynn Palermo) stopped by, too, which was really cool because her website has already helped me as a newbie genealogist. Cooler than cool, though, was that she included Old Family Stories in her Monday Morning Mentions… and seriously complimented my writing! I was not prepared for such flattery, which is why I hid behind the couch for two days.
This is what she said:
New Genealogy Blog – we will tip our hat to a newcomer who impresses us right out of the box
This week's mention:
Yvette at Old Family Stories is off to a wonderful start. I was intrigued because of her French-Canadian heritage, after looking through her blog I love her organization and writing, nice family history blog. Yvette writes like she is a detective off to find her next clue, very compelling to read. Pay her a visit maybe you can help her uncover her family history mysteries.
Thanks again, Lynn. You made my day.


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IMAGE: A simulation-based tool for the appraisal of advanced glazing
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|Building Simulation '99, September 13-15, 1999, Kyoto, Japan
|The IMAGE (IMplementation of Advanced Glazing in Europe) project was funded by the European Commission and involved glass manufactures, consultants and research organisations (see acknowledgements). The aims were to encourage appropriate applications of advanced glazings, to raise awareness of existing products amongst designers and to improve building simulation in relation to combined thermal and lighting appraisal [IMA1998]. A principal outcome of the project was the release of a PC application – hereinafter termed the IMAGE tool - for use by the glass industry to assess the impact on energy use, thermal comfort, daylight availability, glare, etc. of applying any advanced glazing component to any building type in any climate. The IMAGE tool comprises a user interface, which gives access to databases of building types, glazing components and climates. This interface supports the rapid composition of building/glazing/climate combinations and controls the commissioning of fully dynamic thermal/lighting simulations. This paper describes the principles inherent in the design of the IMAGE tool, the adaptations made to the ESP-r system to support automatic multivariate performance assessment, and the protocols developed to manipulate building models, glazing components, climates and performance appraisal returns.
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