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The title is a reference to the quote in the movie La Haine (1995) : "Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: "So far so good…So far so good…". How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!". (Tn.)
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Translated by me from the French version here. Followed by a pertinent comment from the Anarchist News version.
"10 years ago, in the same kind of meeting as today, if you'd said « white » [1], people would have broken the furniture. Today, thanks to the Indigenous of the Republic, thanks to Houria [2] one can say « the whites »." – Eric Hazan [3]
Unfortunately we are still unable to prove wrong what Eric Hazan has said above. He is the publisher, classified as extreme left, of the latest explicitly anti-semitic pamphlet by Houria Bouteldja "Whites, Jews and us", whose enormously repulsive character has not caused as many reactions as it would deserve. The categories and vocabulary of the ideology of racialisation, which for some time has been taken up in political organizations and milieus that range from the extreme left to the libertarians, are now becoming the norm and are establishing their hegemony. This vocabulary is being imposed insidiously, without being either discussed or argued. Moreover, many people are unable to politically support these untenable positions, except through affirming tautological assertions and false evidence. A semantic shift is already, for the most part, being operated : the terms "race", "white", "non-white", "racialized," "racialization", "decolonial" have overnight become analytical categories considered relevant, necessary, and are even promoted as tools with a perspective for emancipation, whereas we see this as a catastrophic failure.
We live in an epoch of generalized crisis conducive to confusion, which thrives in counter-revolutionary currents, currents which are threatening or even murderous like the red-fascists, such as racist shopkeepers like [Alain] Soral and Dieudonné [M'bala M'bala] or variants of political Islam. So some find nothing better to do than to resurrect race theory by rehabilitating cultural, social and religious attributes in line with the ethno-differentialism of the Nouvelle Droite [4]. The turnaround has gone to the point that the mere questioning of the ideology of racialisation has become impossible, both in public meetings and on the websites of activist circles, who operate a real censorship in these places. All this thrives and takes hold particularly by using the blackmail of guilt through which the proponents of this ideology manipulate the situation. Ironically, today, to refuse the terms of "Race" or "Islamophobia [5]" gets you exposed to the infamous accusation of racism, aimed at stifling any possibility of debate, of critique or of refusal. Some anarchists manage to outlaw the slogan "neither God nor master" under the pretext of "Islamophobia" and some Marxists believe that to be antiracist it is vital to add "race" to class. In fact the term "race", which was until recently the preserve of the far right, finds itself today added to all sauces. Promoting identities and cultural or religious communitarianism have never had any other function than the maintenance of social peace.
The task of a break around these issues must be clarified and worked at thoughtfully. There´s good reason to believe that, in the current situation, racialisation ideology can only lead to the war of all against all. This political offensive is fraught with consequences for everybody, and from a revolutionary point of view it's a point of rupture. Where will we be if, after a bit of time, it should prove victorious ? Sooner or later we will have to choose sides and the sooner the better.
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We call for this text to be circulated as widely as necessary, and it can be used to stimulate discussion, debate and confrontation.
[1] In France, up until a few years ago, any discourse containing the word "race" or any assumption about people based on the color of their skin would have been deemed as racist, extreme right politics. A certain part of the extreme left has embraced all the concepts related to "race", originating from American Universities. Organised non-mixed "racial" groups are now a common thing. (Tn.)
[2] Houria Bouteldja is the leader of the PIR (Indigenous of the Republic Party) who is constantly in the media and the writer of the anti-semitic pamphlet "Whites, Jews and us". She declares herself against mixed marriages and against "state philo-semitism", a supposedly republican state ideology dominated by or pushed for by Jews. (Tn.)
[3] Eric Hazan is a famous French editor who advocates alliances with the police during social struggles. Close to the "Invisible Committee", he is now a fierce defender of "racialisation" and of Houria Bouteldja whose book "Whites, Jews and us" he edited. (Tn.)
[4] The "New Right" is a school of thought following Alain de Benoist and the GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Civilization). Nouvelle Droite arguments can be found in the rhetoric of many major radical right and far-right parties in Europe such as the National Front in France, the Freedom Party in Austria and Vlaams Belang in Flanders (Belgium). (Tn.)
[5] A term that was recently exhumed by religious leaders to defend their religion, with the trick of being able to assimilate any critics of Islam as a religion to racism. Affirming atheism is presumed to be a racist threat to people who are defined as Muslim, people who are of many colours and types. This term is now proliferating amongst a certain part of the extreme left, even marxists or anarchists. (Tn.)
A pertinent comment from here:
It's the inevitable result of the rise of multi-culturalism within capitalism.
Where capitalism once used racism to keep people from uniting against it, it now uses multi-culturalism to harvest the most productivity out of its human resources, disregarding old distinctions of otherness it once used to control populations because it can no longer afford to disregard any potential productivity increases.
It just turned the dynamic of otherness on its head — when we should all be trying to destroy it instead.


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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Sarah Palin
Here's the thing though: the topline number on whether Palin makes voters more likely to choose McCain or not is meaningless: it's all in the crosstabs. If all the folks saying they like her are Republicans, I'm pretty sure they were voting for McCain anyway. I always thought the discussion of how evangelicals might stay home this year was kind of wishful thinking on behalf of the Democrats- I believe they would have turned out in November to vote for the lesser of two evils even if they weren't thrilled about it. Palin might make them more excited to vote for McCain, but an excited vote counts just the same as an unexcited one, which is of course why Barack Obama isn't blowing McCain out of the water at this point.
We'll be looking carefully when we release these polls not at the toplines on the Palin pick, but how she's playing with independents and Democratic women.
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- Bobby Coggins said...
Tell that to the extra volunteers in our county GOP HQ who attribute their involvement to Sarah Palin. A number of them are active members in the local PUMA organization.
We now have hope that we can change the future of our party for the better.
Palin/Jindal 2012!!! - September 6, 2008 at 12:09 PM
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awww...I'm sorry. You only have one HQ? Get some more volunteers and maybe you'll be able to open up TWO whole offices in your county! - September 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM
thunder pig tell that to all the extra volunteers that are showing up at Obama offices throughout the country. She makes Reps happy but she makes Dems even more determined to win. Thanks John, you just gave us Dems added inspiration to win this year.
- September 6, 2008 at 10:50 PM
The key cross tab question will be how Palin influences Indies and undecideds (especially the latter). If all her pick did is tiddy up the Rep base but at the expense of reaching Indies and undecideds then her selection was a bad gamble. I'd love to see the cross tabs on undecideds and Indies in your polls for FLA and Michigan. Also perhaps a little too small a subgroup, but how is Palin playing with Jewish voters in FLA?
- September 6, 2008 at 10:53 PM
- How Insane Is John McCain? said...
I'd love to see the polls on the Sarah Palin affairs.
- September 7, 2008 at 1:21 AM
If you believe that story about Sarah Palin, then you are stupid as all get out.
- September 7, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Judging from the attacks I think Sarah will do them damage. There is an air of desperation in their attacks.
- September 7, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Here are facts not groundless attacks:
Palin says she fought against the Bridge to Nowhere; wrong, she was for it before she was against it (and she was only against it when the bridge lost out in a vote in Congress)
Palin says she has fought earmarks; wrong, before her time as Mayor the town had received no federal earmarks, Palin upon assuming office hired a lobbyist connected to Abramhoff and by the end of her time as mayor had secured over %50 million in federal earmarks, this penchant for federal pork continued during her short time as gov.
Selling the state jet on eBay; wrong fact is she sold the jet the old fashioned way, at a loss, and sold it to one of her campaign contributors.
Crusader against corruption; during her short stint as gov of Alaska Palin is already facing three investigations into abuse of power.
Building a hockey rink as mayor; this story is true but Palin fails to mention that she bungled the financing for the rink so badly that when she left office she left the town in debt (before she was mayor the town had no debt). - September 8, 2008 at 12:06 AM
To all the anonymous,
It is 10 days, since the announcement of palin . There is a real momentum. I am biased but, if you think her excitement his worth the same like an unexcited voters, you are wrong. The things that can result in excitement
1) Dontations are pouring in to RNC and PAC. McCain campaign cannot get anymore money from september 1.(Remember the public finance and flip of Senator Obama)
2) Unpaid volunteers are pouring into the offices. There are extra people to make calls, carry yard signs to locations, register new voters, make a plan to mobilise voters to the precincts, write to editors and call talk shows
3) Even in the traingle area, you have started seeing more bumper stickers of McCain.
4) Rallies of McCain and Palin or creating Buzz. In Colorado Springs they had thousands of people in the rally. Those are pictures that they needed for more excitement.
5) Finally, the polls. In USA/Today Poll, the likely voters put McCain and Palin in front by 54/44.
Are you suggesting, this is nothing? - September 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM
I actually tend to be quite lazy and not vote in elections, but I am energized to vote for the Palin ticket this year.
The misogyny and sexism emanating from the Democrats is a huge turnoff, and brings back memories of everything I fought against when I was first entering the workforce in a traditionally male occupation (engineering). Every sneer that "hockey mom Sarah" is "unqualified" reopens that wounds and makes me very, very angry.
I trust McCain more on energy and national security than I do Obama, and those are the two biggest issues for me. - September 8, 2008 at 1:35 PM


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QUIGS - PAGES-PMIP Working Group on Quaternary Interglacials
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Fig 1: ìLR04 benthic d18O from Lisiecki and Raymo over the Quaternary. Full reference: Lisiecki LE and Raymo ME (2005). A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic d18O records, Paleoceanography, 20, PA1003, doi:10.1029/2004PA001071.
The PAGES QUIGS working group was active from 2015-2018, and 2019-2023.
By integrating paleoclimatic records from marine, ice and continental archives together with climate model simulations, the PAGES-PMIP QUIGS Working Group aims to improve (1) reconstructions of climate and environmental changes occurring during the Interglacials of the Quaternary and (2) our understanding of the involved processes and feedbacks.
This group is open to anyone who is interested, and early-career researchers are encouraged to be involved:
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- Contact a member of the Leadership Team
- Document and synthesize data on the temporal and spatial patterns of climate responses during Quaternary interglacials and assess the governing processes using numerical models.
- Link causal factors to observed interglacial properties (intensity, timing, and duration).
- Constrain the extent of warming relative to the latest sea-level reconstructions.
- Provide a more complete view of the range and underlying physics of interglacial properties by considering the entire length of the Quaternary.
- Assess the relevance of interglacials to understanding future climate change.
Quaternary interglacials can be thought of as a series of natural experiments in which boundary conditions - for example, the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of insolation, the extent of continental ice sheets and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations - varied considerably with consequent effects on climate (See Fig.1).
Documenting interglacial climate variability can therefore provide a deeper understanding of the physical climate responses to underlying forcing and feedbacks, and of the capabilities of Earth System Models to capture the patterns and amplitudes of the responses. In addition, past interglacials offer natural case studies in which we can view Earth system processes under a range of warm (comparable to today or warmer) conditions. They also provide the most recent (and therefore well-documented) times in which we can assess the response to regional warmth comparable to that expected in the next century.
QUIGS therefore also addresses highly relevant questions about the impacts of warm worlds. In a recent paper that reviews the state of the art on the interglacials of the past 800,000 years, the PAGES Working Group on Past Interglacials (PIGS, 2008-2015) identified a number of outstanding issues that need to be solved, including:
1. There is no simple astronomical cause for differences in the intensity of interglacials, which seems to arise at least partly from the pattern of CO2. This emphasizes the need to better understand and model the carbon cycle across glacial cycles.
2. Chronological advances, both in assessing absolute ages relative to astronomical forcing, and in aligning different proxies and locations, are essential if we are to assess the dynamics of interglacials and their termination and inception.
3. The paucity of terrestrial records hampers the assessment of many important aspects of climate.
4. Although existing records suggest that sea level is quasi-similar at the apex of each post-800 ka interglacial, obtaining additional data is essential, both to understand the pattern of ice sheet forcing of climate, and to define the questions that need to be asked about the state of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in warmer interglacials.
5. Identifying the controls on intra-interglacial variability remains a challenge.
6. The predictability of interglacials and the prognosis for the current interglacial with and without anthropogenic climate change.
Key aims
QUIGS aims to:
1. Document and synthesize data on the temporal and spatial patterns of climate responses during Quaternary interglacials and assess the governing processes using numerical models;
2. Assess the relevance of interglacials to understanding future climate change.
Within this framework QUIGS examines in particular (i) warm extremes, (ii) glacial terminations, and (iii) interglacials of the Early Pleistocene '41kyr-world'.
QUIGS develops strong synergies between the paleoclimate modeling and data communities who together can provide expertise on experimental design, data compilations and syntheses, model-data comparisons, and interpretation of results.
Phase 1 of QUIGS (2015-2017) formulated the research questions, identified knowledge gaps and the steps to fill these gaps. In particular, it guided the definition of coordinated model experiments as part of CMIP6 and PMIP4 and enabled the collection and the synthesis of datasets (see Fig 1, above).
Phase 2 of QUIGS (2019-2022) aims to return to the research questions identified in Phase 1 with improved datasets and new model experiments that will have been generated by then, ultimately aiming to gain a quantitative understanding of interglacials controls.
In 2018, QUIGS also joined forces with the PALSEA working group to organize a cross-cutting meeting on "Climate, ice sheets and sea level during past interglacial periods" (24-27 September, Galloway, USA). The aim was to foster a more organized collaboration between scientists from the different climate, sea-level and ice-sheet communities working on past interglacials.
Research highlights for Phase 1
Otto-Bliesner et al. (2017) described the scientific objectives and experimental design for the Last Interglacial coordinated equilibrium experiments (refered to as lig127k) performed in the framework of CMIP6-PMIP4. Read here.
Capron et al. (2017) produced a data-based time slice synthesizing high-latitude surface temperature changes at 127 ka and provided a critical evaluation of the latest LIG surface climate reconstructions as well as recommendations for their use for model-data comparison exercises. Read here.
Tzedakis et al. (2017) proposed that an interglacial occurs when a peak in insolation energy exceeds a threshold that decreases with time elapsed since the previous deglaciation; this simple rule correctly predicts the deglaciation history of the past 2.6 million years, including the change in frequency of glacial-interglacial cycles about one million years ago. Read here.
You can read more about our scientific questions and workplan for Phase 1 and Phase 2 on our Scientific goals page.
Learn more and participate
This group is open to anyone who is interested, and early-career researchers are encouraged to be involved:
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Bette Otto-Bliesner (NCAR, USA)
Emilie Capron (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Anders Carlson (Oregon State University, USA)
Anne de Vernal (GEOTOP, UQAM, Canada)
Andrea Dutton (University of Florida, USA)
Laurie Menviel (University of NSW, Australia)
Chronis Tzedakis (University College London, UK)
Eric Wolff (University of Cambridge, UK)
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☐ We carefully consider and can justify how long we keep personal data.
☐ We have a policy with standard retention periods where possible, in line with documentation obligations.
☐ We regularly review our information and erase or anonymise personal data when we no longer need it.
☐ We have appropriate processes in place to comply with individuals' requests for erasure under 'the right to be forgotten'.
☐ We clearly identify any personal data that we need to keep for public interest archiving, scientific or historical research, or statistical purposes.
Other resources
For more detailed checklists and practice advice on retention, please use the ICO's self-assessment toolkit - records management checklist
In brief
- What is the storage limitation principle?
- Why is storage limitation important?
- Do we need a retention policy?
- How should we set retention periods?
- When should we review our retention?
- What should we do with personal data that we no longer need?
- How long can we keep personal data for archiving, research or statistical purposes?
- How does this apply to data sharing?
What is the storage limitation principle?
Article 5(1)(e) says:
"1. Personal data shall be:
(e) kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by this Regulation in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subject ('storage limitation')"
So, even if you collect and use personal data fairly and lawfully, you cannot keep it for longer than you actually need it.
There are close links here with the data minimisation and accuracy principles.
The UK GDPR does not set specific time limits for different types of data. This is up to you, and will depend on how long you need the data for your specified purposes.
Why is storage limitation important?
Ensuring that you erase or anonymise personal data when you no longer need it will reduce the risk that it becomes irrelevant, excessive, inaccurate or out of date. Apart from helping you to comply with the data minimisation and accuracy principles, this also reduces the risk that you will use such data in error – to the detriment of all concerned.
Personal data held for too long will, by definition, be unnecessary. You are unlikely to have a lawful basis for retention.
From a more practical perspective, it is inefficient to hold more personal data than you need, and there may be unnecessary costs associated with storage and security.
Remember that you must also respond to subject access requests for any personal data you hold. This may be more difficult if you are holding old data for longer than you need.
Good practice around storage limitation - with clear policies on retention periods and erasure - is also likely to reduce the burden of dealing with queries about retention and individual requests for erasure.
Do we need a retention policy?
Retention policies or retention schedules list the types of record or information you hold, what you use it for, and how long you intend to keep it. They help you establish and document standard retention periods for different categories of personal data.
A retention schedule may form part of a broader 'information asset register' (IAR), or your general processing documentation.
To comply with documentation requirements, you need to establish and document standard retention periods for different categories of information you hold wherever possible. It is also advisable to have a system for ensuring that your organisation keeps to these retention periods in practice, and for reviewing retention at appropriate intervals. Your policy must also be flexible enough to allow for early deletion if appropriate. For example, if you are not actually using a record, you should reconsider whether you need to retain it.
If you are a small organisation undertaking occasional low-risk processing, you may not need a documented retention policy.
However, if you don't have a retention policy (or if it doesn't cover all of the personal data you hold), you must still regularly review the data you hold, and delete or anonymise anything you no longer need.
Further reading – records management and retention schedules
The National Archives (TNA) publishes practical guidance for public authorities on a range of records management topics, including retention and disposal. This guidance can help you comply with the storage limitation principle (even if you are not a public authority):
FOI Records Management Code – Guide 8: Disposal of records
The Keeper of the Records of Scotland also publishes guidance on Scottish public authorities' records management obligations, including specific guidance on retention schedules.
How should we set retention periods?
The UK GDPR does not dictate how long you should keep personal data. It is up to you to justify this, based on your purposes for processing. You are in the best position to judge how long you need it.
You must also be able to justify why you need to keep personal data in a form that permits identification of individuals. If you do not need to identify individuals, you should anonymise the data so that identification is no longer possible.
For example:
- You should consider your stated purposes for processing the personal data. You can keep it as long as one of those purposes still applies, but you should not keep data indefinitely 'just in case', or if there is only a small possibility that you will use it.
A bank holds personal data about its customers. This includes details of each customer's address, date of birth and mother's maiden name. The bank uses this information as part of its security procedures. It is appropriate for the bank to retain this data for as long as the customer has an account with the bank. Even after the account has been closed, the bank may need to continue holding some of this information for legal or operational reasons for a further set time.
A bank may need to retain images from a CCTV system installed to prevent fraud at an ATM machine for several weeks, since a suspicious transaction may not come to light until the victim gets their bank statement. In contrast, a pub may only need to retain images from their CCTV system for a short period because incidents will come to light very quickly. However, if a crime is reported to the police, the pub will need to retain images until the police have time to collect them.
A tracing agency holds personal data about a debtor so that it can find that individual on behalf of a creditor. Once it has found the individual and reported to the creditor, there may be no need to retain the information about the debtor – the agency should remove it from their systems unless there are good reasons for keeping it. For example, if the agency has also been asked to collect the debt on behalf of the creditor.
- You should consider whether you need to keep a record of a relationship with the individual once that relationship ends. You may not need to delete all personal data when the relationship ends. You may need to keep some information so that you can confirm that the relationship existed – and that it has ended – as well as some of its details.
A business may need to keep some personal data about a previous customer so that they can deal with any complaints the customer might make about the services they provided.
An employer should review the personal data it holds about an employee when they leave the organisation's employment. It will need to retain enough data to enable the organisation to deal with, for example, providing references or pension arrangements. However, it should delete personal data that it is unlikely to need again from its records – such as the employee's emergency contact details, previous addresses, or death-in-service beneficiary details.
A business receives a notice from a former customer requiring it to stop processing the customer's personal data for direct marketing. It is appropriate for the business to retain enough information about the former customer for it to stop including that person in future direct marketing activities.
- You should consider whether you need to keep information to defend possible future legal claims. However, you could still delete information that could not possibly be relevant to such a claim. Unless there is some other reason for keeping it, personal data should be deleted when such a claim could no longer arise.
An employer receives several applications for a job vacancy. Unless there is a clear business reason for doing so, the employer should not keep recruitment records for unsuccessful applicants beyond the statutory period in which a claim arising from the recruitment process may be brought.
- You should consider any legal or regulatory requirements. There are various legal requirements and professional guidelines about keeping certain kinds of records – such as information needed for income tax and audit purposes, or information on aspects of health and safety. If you keep personal data to comply with a requirement like this, you will not be considered to have kept the information for longer than necessary.
- You should consider any relevant industry standards or guidelines. For example, credit reference agencies keep consumer credit data for six years. Industry guidelines are a good starting point for standard retention periods and are likely to take a considered approach. However, they do not guarantee compliance. You must still be able to explain why those periods are justified, and keep them under review.
You must remember to take a proportionate approach, balancing your needs with the impact of retention on individuals' privacy. Don't forget that your retention of the data must also always be fair and lawful.
When should we review our retention?
You should review whether you still need personal data at the end of any standard retention period, and erase or anonymise it unless there is a clear justification for keeping it for longer. Automated systems can flag records for review, or delete information after a pre-determined period. This is particularly useful if you hold many records of the same type.
It is also good practice to review your retention of personal data at regular intervals before this, especially if the standard retention period is lengthy or there is potential for a significant impact on individuals.
If you don't have a set retention period for the personal data, you must regularly review whether you still need it.
However, there is no firm rule about how regular these reviews must be. Your resources may be a relevant factor here, along with the privacy risk to individuals. The important thing to remember is that you must be able to justify your retention and how often you review it.
You must also review whether you still need personal data if the individual asks you to. Individuals have the absolute right to erasure of personal data that you no longer need for your specified purposes.
What should we do with personal data that we no longer need?
You can either erase (delete) it, or anonymise it.
You need to remember that there is a significant difference between permanently deleting personal data, and taking it offline. If personal data is stored offline, this should reduce its availability and the risk of misuse or mistake. However, you are still processing personal data. You should only store it offline (rather than delete it) if you can still justify holding it. You must be prepared to respond to subject access requests for personal data stored offline, and you must still comply with all the other principles and rights.
The word 'deletion' can mean different things in relation to electronic data, and we recognise it is not always possible to delete or erase all traces of the data. The key issue is to ensure you put the data beyond use. If it is appropriate to delete personal data from a live system, you should also delete it from any back-up of the information on that system.
Alternatively, you can anonymise the data so that it is no longer "in a form which permits identification of data subjects".
Personal data that has been pseudonymised – eg key-coded – will usually still permit identification. Pseudonymisation can be a useful tool for compliance with other principles such as data minimisation and security, but the storage limitation principle still applies.
How long can we keep personal data for archiving, research or statistical purposes?
You can keep personal data indefinitely if you are holding it only for:
- archiving purposes in the public interest;
- scientific or historical research purposes; or
- statistical purposes.
Although the general rule is that you cannot hold personal data indefinitely 'just in case' it might be useful in future, there is an inbuilt exception if you are keeping it for these archiving, research or statistical purposes.
You must have appropriate safeguards in place to protect individuals. For example, pseudonymisation may be appropriate in some cases.
This must be your only purpose. If you justify indefinite retention on this basis, you cannot later use that data for another purpose - in particular for any decisions affecting particular individuals. This does not prevent other organisations from accessing public archives, but they must ensure their own collection and use of the personal data complies with the principles.
How does this apply to data sharing?
If you share personal data with other organisations, you should agree between you what happens once you no longer need to share the data. In some cases, it may be best to return the shared data to the organisation that supplied it without keeping a copy. In other cases, all of the organisations involved should delete their copies of the personal data.
Personal data about the customers of Company A is shared with Company B, which is negotiating to buy Company A's business. The companies arrange for Company B to keep the information confidential, and use it only in connection with the proposed transaction. The sale does not go ahead and Company B returns the customer information to Company A without keeping a copy.
The organisations involved in an information-sharing initiative may each need to set their own retention periods, because some may have good reasons to retain personal data for longer than others. However, if you all only hold the data for the purposes of the data-sharing initiative and it is no longer needed for that initiative, then all organisations with copies of the information should delete it.


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Grand Forks, ND (February 18) - The 2014 season may not have been the best year Casey Mack has ever had, but the East Grand Forks, MN Sprint Car pilot still had a very successful season. Mack finished the year in the runner-up position in both the River Cities Speedway and NOSA Sprints point standings and recorded one feature win. That lone victory came on August 1st at River Cities and was Mack's 28th career NOSA win, which broke a tie with the great Brad Pake and put Mack in 4th place on the all-time NOSA Sprint Car wins list.
Mack now trails Lou Kennedy Jr., who sits 3rd with 51 career NOSA victories. The driver of the Bert's Truck Equipment #8 has now won at least one A-main in each of the last nine years and will look to make another charge for the NOSA Sprint Car Series championship in 2015.


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Between the beaches, national parks, vineyards and theme parks, California has plenty of tourist draw cards, but now an unlikely attraction has made the list — the home of a serial killer.
The boarding house run by Dorothea Puente, a Sacramento woman convicted of killing her elderly residents, became a tourist attraction when the city decided to add the building to its local tour of featured and historic homes.
Although the building has undergone some updates in the three decades since the gruesome murders, visitors are still able to see the room where the killer drained the body fluids from her elderly victims.While the home of a serial killer may seem like a strange attraction to visit during a vacation, macabre tourist sites are nothing new. Here are a couple other dark attractions that visitors flock to:
Choeung Ek. More than one million people were slaughtered during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, and Choeung Ek is one of the most well known Killing Fields. Nearly 9,000 bodies are buried in mass graves here, and visitors can see a giant glass memorial filled with 5,000 human skulls.
Auschwitz. This World War II concentration camp in Poland saw the deaths of more than 1 million prisoners at the hands of the Nazis. Each year, millions of visitors pass through the gates of the memorial and museum located at the site.
Fukushima Nuclear Reactor. It's not quite an attraction yet, but a proposal is being considered to turn this Japanese disaster site into a tourist destination. Tourists would stay in hotels designed to protect them from high levels of radiation and would be able to take photos of the reactor while dressed in protective suits and respirators.


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7 Essential Cybersecurity Tips for Online Shoppers
According to a recent survey, almost a third of all consumers in the U.S. were victims of a hacked online account in 2017.1 Currently, online crimes including server breaches are the single largest criminal threat facing small businesses. This means that protecting yourself when you shop online is something you need to take seriously. These seven tips can help you to safeguard your information when you buy from an online retailer.
1. A Good, Secure Password
Your password is the first line of defense; make it a strong one. Avoid simple, easy to figure out passwords like 'Pass1234.' If your computer supports the ability to generate random passwords, choose that option, but if it doesn't then create a password which does not contain full words, names, dates, phone numbers or addresses. Instead, try using partial words and symbols to replace letters such as '!' for an 'i,' '$' for an 's,' and '@' for an 'a.' Don't forget to change your passwords on a regular basis and avoid keeping a list of your passwords on your computer. To help with this use a password manager. Here is a link to a free password manager.
2. Protect Your Password
Always use a different password for each site or service you use. This is to prevent hackers from gaining access to all of your other accounts if one is compromised. Avoid giving out your password to other people, even friends, and family. If the person's computer is hacked, you may wind up becoming an additional victim.
3. Invest in Quality Cybersecurity Software
Everyone should purchase and install a cybersecurity software, which can help identify and prevent viruses from downloading to your computer system. While there are many free cybersecurity programs available, these programs do not always provide the latest updates. There are many low-cost cybersecurity options you can choose from, and their small upfront cost is definitely worth it to safeguard your personal information. Here is a review of many different options.
4. Never Click on Links
Yes, you know by now that you should avoid clicking on any links you receive in an email or chat but are you? Spoofed messages, making links appear to be from a trusted source when they aren't, and redirecting links to a different website have been fooling for years. Instead of clicking, always type the URL directly in the address bar. Resist the urge of clicking on a pop-up and no matter how great an offer may seem.
5. Don't Put Yourself at Risk
The internet is immense, and you can get yourself in a lot of trouble if you insist on visiting the sketchy areas online. Certain types of sites which contain adult entertainment, some discussion forums, file-sharing, and streaming services tend to result in an increased likelihood of downloading a virus to your computer. But it is important to remember that even if you avoid the fringes of the internet, you are still in danger.
6. Don't Use Debit Cards Online
Once you make a purchase with a debit card, the money is immediately deducted from your bank account. If a cyber criminal gains access to your debit card information, the criminal can quickly drain your bank account. While you may get your money back, in the end, you will not have access to your funds until your bank resolves the issue. Instead, use a credit card and let your credit card company worry about it.
7. Check Your Credit Score for Changes
Set aside a day each month to check your credit scores online. Many people make it a habit to check their scores on the same day that they pay their bills. There are several sites which offer free credit scores, and many banks offer the service to their customers. Consider enrolling in a credit monitoring service for extra protection.
Cybercrime is scary, but it is part of modern day life. Taking precautions like those above can help you lower your chances of becoming another victim.
These are important steps to practice at all times but especially during the holidays. Be safe out there!
1 www.statista.com/statistics/380912/share-of-online-accounts-which-have-been-hacked/
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When we finally get far enough down the road on health care reform, it will become clear that a driving force in the intensity of the fight was a heart attack. Not the medical kind – the political kind.
Independents swung decisively to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. And it is this shift by independents who repositioned themselves from center-right to center-left and gave the Republican right the political equivalent of cardiac arrest.
In 1992, 19 million independents voted for Ross Perot. In 2008, 19 million independents voted for Barack Obama. Over the span of 15 years, the largely white, center-right independent movement realigned itself with Black America and progressive-minded voters.
This did not happen out of the blue. It did not happen by magic. It happened because the progressive wing of the independent movement did the painstaking and often controversial work of bringing the Perot movement and the Fulani movement together at the grassroots. The Fulani movement refers to the country's leading African American independent, Dr. Lenora Fulani, who exposed the black community to independent politics and introduced the independent movement to an alliance with Black America.
No doubt the dramatics that the right wing brought to the town hall meetings this summer were intended for the television cameras. But the organizers, strategists and radio personalities who orchestrated the theatrics had a particular audience in mind: Independents. If they could tarnish Obama's image with indies, they could damage the black and independent alliance and re-establish the Republican Party as an influential force amongst independents.
Some of that could be accomplished, they felt, by claiming Obama's health plan would drive up the national debt – a concern that animated the early Perot movement. Some Republican strategists felt that if they simply branded Obama a socialist, it would scare independents away – not from the health care plan (everyone recognizes a plan of some kind will get passed) but away from the center-left coalition that elected him.
If indies are feeling somewhat disillusioned with President Obama over the health care reform fight, it has more to do with fears that he is being overly influenced by the partisans in Congress. Since independents voted for him to be a more independent president, it's easy to see how some felt disappointed by his handling of the Republican onslaught.
Obama's independent appeal was based on his challenge to the prevailing culture of Clintonian opportunism in the Democratic Party and partisanship inside the Beltway. Put another way, the independent vote for Obama was an effort to define a new kind of progressivism, one that was not synonymous with Democratic Party control.
After years of hard work and organizing, independents have become a sought-after partner in American politics. They elected President Obama and New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, arguably the country's two most independent and pragmatically progressive elected officials. No wonder the Republican Party right wants a clawback.
Independents are vulnerable to being peeled away by the Republican right. The Pew Research Center reports that were the 2010 midterms to be held today, independents would lean towards Republicans by a 43-38 percent margin. But, the evolution of a 21st century independent movement is not that simple. First, the movement is very fluid and very new. Historical movements develop through twists and turns, not in a straight line.
The far right has attempted to take over the independent movement before. In 1994, Newt Gingrich crafted the "Contract with America" to woo Perotistas back into the Republican tent. And in 2000, social conservative Pat Buchanan hijacked the Reform Party presidential nomination, though he was roundly repudiated by independents in the general election.
If Republicans are increasing their influence among independents, the Democratic Party left has not been a friend to the independent movement. Sure, Democrats were happy that indies broke for Obama. But they were disappointed that we didn't become Democrats. They equate progressivism with being in the Democratic Party. But they're wrong.
Neither major party has been enthusiastic about the development of indies as a third force. For different reasons, surely. But they share a common goal: to maintain the primacy of two-value logic (where there is only one or the other, never neither) and make sure independents are passive companions.
That's one reason that the fight for open primaries – which allow independents to cast ballots in every round of voting – and the campaign to appoint independents to the Federal Election Commission are so important. Those fights are about our right to participate and our right to represent our interests in changing the political culture.
The independent movement went left in 2008, after many years of grassroots organizing to link it to progressive leadership. Now the right wants to peel it back. Obama, presumably, wants to hold on to the partnership, but must also privilege his own party, which turns independents off and makes them more susceptible to Republican attacks.
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UPDATE – Alleged Drunk Driver Appears in Court – Victims Identified as Missoula Sisters [DOCUMENT]
Tom George Vineyard, 38, made an appearance via video in Missoula Justice Court from the Missoula County Jail on Thursday afternoon before Judge Karen Orzech.According to court documents, Vineyard caused the death of Roberta Emmert and seriously injured her sister, Pamela Demmert, while allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.
In the affidavit filed by Deputy Missoula County Attorney Jason Marks, at about 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 16, a resident in the 600 block of North 5th Street West called 9-1-1 to report a crash.
"Shannen Cavalier told officers he heard the crash and looked outside to see a pickup truck on its side in his front yard and two women lying on the sidewalk," the document reads. "Officers arrived and found Roberta and Pamela Demmert lying on the sidewalk. Roberta was unresponsive, but Pamela was conscious and able to speak. She told officers that she and Roberta were walking to get cigarettes. Both women were transported to the hospital, where Roberta was pronounced dead. Pamela was hospitalized with serious injuries, including a broken leg."
The court document said Tom Vineyard was located in the cab of the Ford Ranger pickup.
"Vineyard admitted he was the driver, and stated he had been drinking downtown and was driving home. He stated that he had consumed two pitchers of beer while downtown," the document said. "Vineyard repeatedly asked officers to arrest him and stated that he was at fault and wanted to take responsibility for his actions. Vineyard provided a breath sample that registered a .239 Blood Alcohol Content."
Vineyard was charged with negligent vehicular homicide while under the Influence and negligent vehicular assault, both felonies. The homicide charge carries a possible penalty of up to 30 years in prison and or a $50,000 fine, while the assault charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and/or a $10,000 fine.
At the justice court appearance, Judge Orzech remanded Vineyard to the county jail with bail set at $200,000. His next court appearance will be May 30.


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Sam's Club offers free women's health screenings
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Membership-based retailer Sam's Club is offering free health screenings for women, the company said.
Sam's Club said it would offer screenings worth $150 for both men and women, including those for thyroid-stimulating hormone to for potential women's health issues due to issues with thyroid functionality, prostate-specific antigen to test for signs of prostate cancer in men, blood pressure, body mass index, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, blood sugar and vision. In addition, the chain will give away more than 25,000 free breast self-exam tests with the screenings. The events will take place at every Sam's Club with a pharmacy on Oct. 13.
"Many health issues affecting women often do not show symptoms and can be identified only with testing," Sam's Club SVP health and wellness Jill Turner-Mitchael said. "For the second year in a row, Sam's Club is committed to offering free screenings and kits that lift awareness of important women's health concerns like breast cancer to better serve the communities in which we live and work."
The company noted that over the course of a lifetime, 1-in-8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Country Stars Soak Up Summertime [PICTURES]
Summertime: The days are bright, the nights are warm, and the water is beckoning with its waves. Millions of Americans go on vacation, cool off in a pool or pitch a tent during the summer, but how do country stars soak up the summer months?
The answer? Pretty much the same way us non-superstars do it: Luke Bryan, of course, gets out his fishing pole; LeAnn Rimes rocks her bikini body; Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum swims with his furry friend; and Chase Rice sips on beer and chows down on biscuits ... while on a boat. Some of country's biggest stars even hang out together, like Bryan, Jason Aldean and Dierks Bentley. The three of them combined can catch some pretty big fish!
Even though many country stars have more than enough money to pull a Chris Janson and buy themselves a boat (er, a yacht ... or two yachts, if we're being honest), most are content to sit back, relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of summer. Even if they're doing so in the Bahamas. (We're looking at you, Kellie Pickler!)
Click through the photo gallery below to see how your favorite country singers enjoy the summertime ... and then get out there and enjoy it yourself!


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Jeremy Smith, Governor's Chair for Molecular Biophysics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has helped reveal a key trigger of Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker (GSS) syndrome, a rare but deadly neurodegenerative disease. The finding could have far-reaching implications for the treatment of other neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's.
Smith conducted his research with two collaborators in Italy: Isabella Daidone, a former postdoctoral researcher of his who is now at the University of L'Aquila, and Alfredo Di Nola of the University of Rome "La Sapienza."
Most GSS patients begin developing symptoms in their late fifties. Symptoms include loss of memory, difficulty speaking, and unsteadiness and lead to progressive dementia, and then death within a few months or years. There is presently no cure or treatment. The disease results from a single, tiny mutation in a protein, resulting in it having a wrong shape—through "misfolding"—then aggregating to form amyloid plaques in the brain.
"Ever since the 'mad cow' scare in Britain in the 1990s, which led to several hundred human deaths and 4.4 million cattle being destroyed, I've been interested in finding out more about these fascinating diseases of wrongly-shaped proteins," said Smith, who was born in England.
The team compared high-performance computer simulations of the structures of the normal and the GSS–mutant proteins. They found the GSS protein looks dramatically different from the normal form and revealed how its shape is primed for plaque formation.
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The findings can be found in the article, "Molecular Origin of Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker Syndrome: Insight from Computer Simulation of an Amyloidogenic Prion Peptide" in this month's edition of the Biophysical Journal.
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Impose someone to do something
I read this sentence and I felt kind of weird about it:
The suppliers imposed us to absorb price increase.
I won't say that it's wrong to use IMPOSE in that sentence, neither that ABSORB cannot be used like that, but wouldn't it sound better, and maybe even clearer to use one of the following alternatives? 1. The suppliers forced us to accept price increase. 2. The suppliers made us accept price increase. 3. The suppliers left us no choice but to accept price increase. 4. The suppliers left us no choice but to deal with price increase. 5. The suppliers imposed price increase on us and we were forced to accept it. 6. The suppliers imposed price increase on us and we were forced to deal with it. 7. The suppliers imposed price increase on us and we could do nothing about it.
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Looks like thesaurus abuse, although I don't quibble with using absorb--a company absorbs extra costs when their supplier raises prices without permitting them to raise prices for the end users. But using impose like that is just wrong, wrong wrong; maybe impelled was meant? Though even that would be weird--I'd go with compelled.
Either THE SUPPLIERS FORCED US TO ACCEPT A PRICE INCREASE or THE SUPPLIERS FORCED US TO ACCEPT PRICE INCREASES.
MADE US ACCEPT is equally good.
IMPOSED US is ungrammatical, and ABSORB is very ambiguous!
Yeah, I think the main problem is the phrase "imposed us." Impose is not a transitive verb. It takes a preposition.
The original sentence was:
"The big issue that we have in face is the suppliers imposed us to absorb price increase."
I would feel more comfortable saying something like:
"The main problem we are facing is that the suppliers left us no choice but to accept price increase."
Well, thanks for the opinions so far...
But now I am a little of confused... Jessica convinced me that ABSORB is a good alternative, then Dave said it is ambiguous (which was my first opinion). Any other thought on that?
impose upon, or impose on.
You cannot impose somebody; you can impose something upon somebody.
Absorb is used correctly.
My vote for the sentence would be: "The suppliers made us absorb the price increase."
Depending on context, you may also want to soften the tone of the sentence and say something along the lines of "The suppliers expected us to absorb the price increase." This also sounds a bit more proactive; it does not come across as an excuse, blaming the suppliers for causing whatever problem is at hand.
Of course, if you have no choice but to buy from this supplier, and they raised their prices but didn't allow you to raise yours, you might as well call it what it is. Forced, however, is too strong a verb (unless your supplier is the drug cartel!)
"Price increase" should also take an article.
Andrea is on the right track. There's nothing wrong with using the word "impose" in this context. The surrounding grammar is incorrect though. When uninvited (and unwelcome) guests drop by, they are imposing on you. I think a similar meaning applies in your example. Someone or something can "impose" something "on" someone or something: "The governement imposes income taxes on the working populace" or "The British crown imposed a tariff on tea". There would be nothing wrong with slightly modifying your example as follows: "The suppliers imposed on us to absorb a price increase." I really don't see how "absorb" would be at all ambiguous. What else can it mean other than, your supplier expects you to just buck up and accept a price increase with no change in the terms of your previous agreement and no increase in value or service? As Jessica said, companies are often forced to accept price increases from their suppliers without raising their prices, but the supplier has nothing to do with permitting them to raise prices or not. It's the customers and the end market that determines that. The supplier couldn't care less what the company charges its customers, unless, of course the company stops buying from the supplier because the company is no longer competitive. This may (or may not) make the sentence incongruous, but not ungrammatical.
Now you have supplied the whole sentence, it is much clearer what you meant by ABSORB.
I believe the point would be that an advertiser or company trying to portray themselves in good light would use "impose" and "absorb" because it sounds less demeaning to the customer.
I don't believe that "price increase" requires an article. To use an article in this instance would change the meaning. "A price increase" and "the price increase" are not the same as "price increase."
please elaborate, anonymous (sept 4th). How does "price increase" without an article make any sense? If there is a different distinction in meaning, please tell us, what is it? It only makes sense with an article. "Price increases", plural, makes sense without an article, but not in the singular.
>"The big issue that we have in face is the
>suppliers imposed us to absorb price increase."
Wow. That's incredibly bad English. Is this from a non-native speaker?
>Yeah, I think the main problem is the phrase
>"imposed us." Impose is not a transitive verb.
>It takes a preposition.
Actually, "impose" is a transitive verb. It takes both a direct object and an indirect object. In this case, the direct object is "price increase", and the indirect object is "us". So "The suppliers imposed price increases on us, which we had to absorb" would be fine.
>You cannot impose somebody;
> you can impose something upon somebody.
Well, you can impose one person on somebody else. For instance, if you coerce someone into babysitting for you, then you're imposing your kids on them.
I believe it when you say that there is such a thing as imposing a person on another person but an example that comes to my mind is if someone imposes a person on you who you don't relate to and/or don't get along with, it could mean that that individual(s) is or is attempting to make you befriend or socialize and/or be "exceptionally" nice to the person who you don't relate to and/or don't get along with even though you may refuse to befriend or socialize and/or be "exceptionally" nice to that particular person.
I think you could say something like, "The supplier was forced to impose upon us a price increase."
Gramatically this is correct but it reads like garbage.
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Parshat Yitro
Hearing of the miracles G-d performed for Bnei Yisrael, Moshe's father-in-law Yitro arrives with Moshe's wife and sons, reuniting the family in the wilderness. Yitro is so impressed by Moshe's detailing of the Exodus from Egypt that he converts to Judaism. Seeing that the only judicial authority for the entire Jewish nation is Moshe himself, Yitro suggests that subsidiary judges be appointed to adjudicate smaller matters, leaving Moshe free to attend to larger issues. Moshe accepts his advice. Bnei Yisrael arrive at Mt. Sinai where G-d offers them the Torah. After they accept, G-d charges Moshe to instruct the people not to approach the mountain, and to prepare for three days. On the third day, amidst thunder and lightning, G-d's voice emanates from the smoke-enshrouded mountain and He speaks to the Jewish People, giving them the Ten Commandments:
- Believe in G-d
- Don't worship other "gods"
- Don't use G-d's name in vain
- Observe Shabbat
- Honor your parents
- Don't murder
- Don't commit adultery
- Don't kidnap
- Don't testify falsely
- Don't covet.
After receiving the first two commandments, the Jewish People, overwhelmed by this experience of the Divine, request that Moshe relay G-d's word to them. G-d instructs Moshe to caution the Jewish People regarding their responsibility to be faithful to the One who spoke to them.
Does Shabbat Like You?
"Remember the day of Shabbat to make it holy"
May I ask you a personal question?
Hows your Shabbat?
Does every Shabbat make you feel suffused with holiness? Does every rock and building and tree whisper to you "Shabbat!" Do feel so much closer to G-d than the rest of the week?
If the answer to one or more of these questions is no, then you should know youre part of a very large majority.
Many people find Shabbat a burden: You cant watch the TV. You cant go to the ball game. You cant go shopping. You cant do this. You cant do that. When is it going to be dark already?
And even if Shabbat isnt a burden, and we enjoy the food, the company, the Shabbat nap, but do feel that we have left one reality and entered another world?
Why dont we feel that kedusha, that holiness? Why dont we feel Shabbat?
Many years ago, I remember a magic Shabbat. I prayed at the Wall and had the Friday night meal at some friends in the Old City. After the meal, as I was walking back to my apartment, I dont know why, but I stopped for a moment, closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and said very quietly to myself "Ahh Shabbat!" And then I said it again, and again and again. I walked through the magical streets of Meah Shearim. I came upon a small synagogue. I went in and opened up a Talmud tractate and started to learn. I had never been in that synagogue before, and Im pretty sure that I couldnt find it again. Maybe it only existed for that one night. Who knows?
I learned for a while. It could have been a few minutes or an hour. Then I got up and walked home. I got into bed and my last words before sleep overtook me were "Shabbat, Shabbat!"
You might think that Shabbat is a day in the week.
You might think that Shabbat is a 24-hour period of time between Friday afternoon and Saturday night.
Youd be wrong. Its not.
Shabbat is a being. Shabbat is an existence with feelings and likes and dislikes. Shabbat can choose to come to you once in your life, or every week or never. Because if you never felt Shabbat, its because it never came to you. It didnt feel comfortable with you.
Because you dont feel comfortable with it.
Shabbat is very sensitive, and very picky. If it senses that your commitment to it is shaky, then it wont come to you. You can light your Shabbat lights and make Kiddush and eat your cholent to your hearts content, but if you arent really there for it, Shabbat knows that, it senses that, and passes on down the block.
"Remember the day of Shabbat to make it holy"
Every we week, we have to remember to make Shabbat holy, to exert ourselves and infuse those precious hours with Torah, with spirituality, enthusiasm and kedusha, for if we make it holy then the Shabbat queen will arrive with all her retinue of blessings to crown our week.
Based on Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz in Daat Chochma UMussar