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This online Spanish course is a beginners level. Intermediate and advanced levels are given by a Tutor.
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Babies and heat rashes
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Heat rashes and babies; Prickly heat rash; Red miliaria
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Decentralized robust model reference adaptive control for interconnected time-delay systems
Hua, Changchun, Guan, Xinping and Shi, Peng (2006) Decentralized robust model reference adaptive control for interconnected time-delay systems. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 193 (2). pp. 383-396. ISSN 0377-0427Full text for this resource is not available from the Research Repository.
In this paper, the problem of decentralized robust model reference control for a class of interconnected time-delay systems is investigated. The interconnections with time-varying time delays considered are high order and the gains are not known. A class of decentralized adaptive feedback controllers are proposed, which can render the resulting closed-loop error system uniformly ultimately bounded stable. A numerical example is given to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed design techniques.
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Payment experience over the past two years has been good and the level of protracted payments and insolvencies remains low compared to other industries.
- The Australian ICT market is forecast to grow further in 2019 and 2020 (value added up by more than 4% annually). Both state and federal governments remain key investors in IT projects, while ICT spending of businesses and consumers is driven by economic growth and technological progress.
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Little Victories
I've had a couple of little victories in the last 24 hours. The first was working KH2L on 10m CW for country #121 on QRP. I was reminded during the QSO that a QRP operators have to use all the tools at our disposal to make QSO's more probable. This time I was calling with no success and noticed on the KX3 display that I wasn't quite centered on the KH2's transmitting frequency, for those with a KX3, its the CWT display. I zero beat his signal and bingo, in the log.
My other little victory was this morning. I was chasing a SOTA peak, Gespitzer Riegal, in Austria on 17m SSB. Mike, OE4MXB, was QRP on this mountain top. I was using my QRO rig and beam for this one, as I really wanted the QSO and I'm sure that Mike wanted it also. There was a lot of QRM on adjacent frequecies and Mike was in and out. Finally, the window opened and Mike was a solid 44, heard me and we made the QSO. A little QRP rig on a mountaintop in Austria worked Texas with 5 watts and a portable antenna. Oh the joy of little victories.
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Good afternoon Mike, I find that with QRP and QRPp you have more interaction with your radio. With QRO sometimes it's spin the dial make the contact and move on. With QRP there is more dealing with filters, getting spot on and keeping at it to make the contact. Great work on both the summit and getting country 21!ReplyDelete
You are absolutely correct, I am much more sensitive about zero beating a station when I am operatind QRP. Also, if your radio has filtering its comes in handy when working a QRP station.
Mike AD5A
Hello Mike, thanks for the nice post. QRP is fun on both sides, but you need more patience. 73, BertReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, patience indeed. I don't report on all the stations that I have missed on QRP, hi. But that will make the eventual QSO that much more satisfying.


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We are constantly looking at software and services that add real value in any part of our content activation model. There are new startups everyday. People will ask you, "have you heard of XYZ…" Half of the time you've not only heard of them but 5 people in your organization have already met them and scratched their heads about why or how to apply them to the business. The other half of the time, no matter how good you are, you just haven't heard of them.
I shared about three interesting content partners with different sources of content in a previous post. Three more caught my eye as very interesting. Rather than content sources, these providers either offer good workflow or some distinctive publishing capability.
Businesses that sincerely want to tune-up their content marketing capabilities while keeping it simple should look at Kapost. They provide a cloud based content workflow that a business person can easily understand. From soliciting content ideas from across a group to the actual publishing, distribution and analysis, Kapost looks pretty good.
When to use them:
If your organization has committed to a content marketing program featuring owned content sourced from multiple people and distributed across owned and shared (e.g. blogs, Web sites, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc…) and have been managing workflow via email and Excel spreadsheets, it may be time to check out KaPost.
While not a B2B resource per se, their platform does make sense for B2B players who use content marketing explicitly towards driving demand and leads.
Take a look:
My favorite little interactive on their site is the ROI calculator. It's built into the 'business case' page. Fill in your revenue target and 3-4 other estimates and the widget calculates how the "Content Marketing Machine" can enhance your goals. Not sure this is more than sales-y fairy dust but I appreciate that at least one technology company is thinking about how to communicate the business value of what they do.
These guys also promise a 'soup-to-nuts' approach the defining content, publishing and tracking. They have an analytics front end that crunches a ton of data (insert big, abstract number here) to reveal story opportunities. It reminds me a bit of the promise behind Percolate's ability to help identify the stories brands ought to be creating content about. We have our own version of that in a platform that analyzes search data in real time to make recommendations on story ideas.
The heart of Kontera for me is about creating and publishing native advertising. Presumably, their platform converts content into advertising formats and delivers them across networks that allow for native advertising (content rich and relevant advertising).
When to use them:
If your organization 'gets' paid, owned, earned media or is even more confident in paid media, Kontera or a system like theirs might be a good way to go. Here's how they describe that part of their service:
"Kontera's Content Marketing platform has pervasive reach across Mobile, Social, and Display. With activation on more than 15,000 exclusive publishers, the majority of the comScore top 1,000 sites, and the top social destinations, with all content analyzed and correlated down to the specific page and conversation level."
If you are the media guy or gal or you believe in POEM in a big way a system like Kontera's that can deliver content as advertising might be useful.
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Their marketers' page features a good summary. It highlights the emphasis on the front-end analytics and the publishing via paid, owned, earned.
Refreshingly, these guys are focused on sales relationships. How can a salesperson maintain a valuable, content-centered relationships with customers and prospects. They promise useful analytics on content and prospects. Here's how they put it:
"The heart of idio is the decision engine that analyses content (content analytics) and customer interactions to expose meaning. For example, semantically analysing an article so that the correct descriptors are stored as metadata, so that the article is understood with multiple topics rather than just a title."
A little geeky but sensible. Ultimately, they offer a way to publish highly personalized content for a sales interaction fueled by this relevance engine.
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If you use content marketing to enable sales or, specifically, sales teams of any kind and those folks are ready for a more sophisticated approach to managing relationships, idio might be worth trying.
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State Reports Show History of Abuse, Neglect at Florida Brain Injury Treatment Center
Staff members at a Florida institute for patients with brain injuries beat and mistreated patients, according to reports by state investigators. The reports were released to Bloomberg News by court order.
The Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation (FINR), home to brain-injured patients, is currently battling an order by state authorities to transfer some 50 patients to the care of other facilities. That directive was issued in the wake of a Bloomberg story documenting a history of allegations of abuse at the center in Wauchula, southeast of Tampa. Abuse or neglect is alleged in at least five patient deaths there since 1998.
The recently released reports document 15 investigations by the Florida Department of Children and Families in the past four years. Bloomberg petitioned a Leon County court to order the state to release the reports. In each case, investigators classified the allegations of abuse as "verified," meaning a preponderance of evidence supported them.
Since 2005, a total of 526 complaints of neglect or abuse have been lodged against FINR, 37 of which were deemed verified, and 117 of which were deemed by investigators to be supported by credible evidence, but not a preponderance of evidence. In that same time period, NeuroRestorative, a company housing about half as many brain-injured patients in Florida as FINR, did not have a single verified allegation of abuse.
In one report, from August 2008, a state investigator confirmed 10 incidents of abusive treatment by FINR staff to three patients suffering from autism. In one of those incidents, an employee struck an autistic patient in the face, causing bleeding, while two other employees watched and did not intervene. The report alleges that staffers covered up the incident by blaming the injuries on another patient. The employee who struck the patient was later fired.
In another report, an employee allegedly punched a physically restrained patient in the head 10 times and dropped his knee on him. The patient was taken to the hospital with cuts and bruises. The staffer was charged with battery, pleaded no contest, and received a sentence of one year's probation.
FINR is home to patients from around the nation and is one of the largest of its kind, and some patients pay as much as $300,000 for a year's care. Its customers are often the recipients of large legal judgments or insurance payments.
In a statement to Bloomberg News, FINR owner and CEO Joe Brennick said the facility "has consistently acted in the best interest of its patients." He added that "it is important to understand that FINR serves one of the most difficult populations of patients in the country, and that these patients often act out aggressively and are extremely difficult to manage."
Robert Joyce is a Tampa brain injury attorney at Joyce & Reyes Law Firm. To learn more about the Tampa brain injury lawyer, visit https://www.joyceandreyespa.com/ or call 1.888.771.1529.


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The School of Theatre prepares young theatre artists for a sustainable, professional life. Our faculty inspire undergraduate students in a rigorous, disciplined, and collaborative academic and production environment. Our program is grounded in the philosophy of putting theory into practice from the classroom to the stage to produce creative, culturally aware, and highly effective theatrical artists.
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Love the theater? Opportunity is plentiful the next few weeks.
Joe Jefferson Players will hold auditions for their production of Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" on Jan. 16-17, 6:30 p.m., at JJP (11 S. Carlen St.). The play will be directed by Joe Fuselli and staged March 17 through April 2.
Audition forms, character descriptions, attached monologues and a rehearsal/performance schedule can be found at joejeffersonplayers.com/on-stage/auditions. You can also call 251-471-1534.
Those same dates, Chickasaw Civic Theatre will hold auditions for "Mobile Home, Sweet Home" by Pat Cook, author of the comic Harry Monday murder mysteries. The tale takes place in the Hampton Court trailer park, where residents are caught up in a new reality TV show. It will be directed by Leonora Harrison.
The play runs March 3-12. More info is available at cctshows.com.
If you're in the mood to take in a play, CCT presents "Nunsense" Jan. 13-22. Also directed by Leonora Harrison, the Dan Goggin musical comedy follows the Little Sisters of Hoboken's desperate fundraising. Led by Reverend Mother Regina, they stage a talent show featuring the varied and curious skills of their order.
Shows are at the Lola Phillips Playhouse (801 Iroquois St.). Friday and Saturday curtain is at 7:30 p.m. with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
Tickets cost $15.75, $12.45 for students/military/seniors. Call 251-457-8887 or go to cctshows.com.
Festival acquires state grant
The Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival received a grant of $4,300 for 2017 from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. The annual multi-week festival encompassing music education, literary arts and live performances begins its 19th incarnation July 24.
Things kick off with the Marcus Johnson Summer Jazz Camp, which gives area musicians of all ages various levels of jazz instruction. The past two years it has featured a field trip to the Musicians' Village in New Orleans.
The culminating event is a concert on Saturday, Aug. 5, featuring a variety of jazz and blues genres and performers at a downtown venue. Previous headliners have included Jamell Richardson, Jason Marsalis and Eddie Shaw
The grant was made possible through an annual appropriation from the Alabama Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts. This public support enables the Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival to reach new audiences, foster community development, provide the highest quality programming and demonstrate the importance of arts as a component for quality of life in Alabama.
Job opportunity at MAC
Mobile Arts Council's administrative assistant, Kathleen Stoves, was promoted to assistant program director (Congrats, Kat!) and a new assistant is needed. It's part-time, 20 hours per week and might include occasional weekend or evening work. Duties include fielding telephone calls, filing and data entry, word processing, and use of spreadsheet and presentation software.
If this sounds enticing, head to mobilearts.org for more info.
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"You can't teach an old dog new tricks," the saying goes. Often times, this is used to justify the belief that some people can be too old to change, that once a person has made a particular action or thought process a habit, they are doomed to repeat this for life.
And while it is human nature to stick to our habits, we don't necessarily have to be the victim of unhealthy ones we build.
When it comes to our habits and the brain, our biology can tell us a lot about why we tend to autonomously perform an action. Every time we think in a certain way, perform a task, or feel a particular emotion, we continue to strengthen the neural pathways in our brain in carving these processes as habits. This is called Neuroplasticity.
When we think about something differently, learn a new task, or choose a different emotion, our brain creates a new pathway. Using this pathway enough eventually replaces the old one. It just takes time to carve that new mental pathway in order to do so.
Of course, this is an ultra-condensed and simplified version of what actually goes on in the mind when we move through our habits. In real-time, we move through our habitual actions in the blink of an eye, often times not realizing what we've done until far after it's finished. When it comes to ending old habits and creating new ones: -Awareness is key: Become aware of events leading to a particular negative thought or emotion. Understand its root.-Avoid Avoiding: Allow the experience to penetrate itself. Fully.-Experience, Without Acting: It is possible to experience pain/pleasure without being driven to act upon it-Recognize that the moment is temporary and that this too, shall passWhen it comes to teaching an old dog new tricks, it turns out you can! You are never too old to change, but it does get harder to change the older you get. Anyone who is willing to do the work is able to change if they want to.
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A Grassroots Approach to a Canada-Québec-Indigenous Peoples' Social Forum
Towards a Peoples' Social Forum
Building Social Movements as Instruments of Transformation
Anger and discontent against the ruling Conservative government is on the rise all across Canada. Human rights groups, women's organizations, cultural associations, environment groups, labour, indigenous peoples, students, generally civil society organizations feel threatened and angered by the government's policies and actions.
Protests for social and environmental justice are erupting all over the country. Casseroles have been organized on the streets of many cities in support of the student movement in Quebec. The youth across Canada are joining hands with those from Quebec in challenging neo-liberal austerity policies.
Indigenous communities are also fighting against the government to preserve their culture and defend their lands from predatory mining and oil corporations. There are many campaigns, gatherings and protests planned for the months to come.
Yet our movements continue to be fragmented and ghettoized. We must work together and create a space for all these voices of dissent and strategize together our progressive agenda to help build links and solidarity across movements and issues....
These are the organizations that have already joined the discussions: Alternatives; Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ); Centre d'écologie urbaine de Montréal; Chantier de l'économie sociale; Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid(CAIA),Toronto; Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union; Common Frontiers; Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN); Conseil Central Montréal métropolitain (CCMM-CSN); Conseil québécois des gais et lesbiennes; Council of Canadians; Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ); Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ); Fédération nationale des enseignants et enseignantes du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN); Front d'action populaire en réaménagement urbain; Indigenous Environmental Network; Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement; Institut du nouveau monde; Public Service Alliance of Canada; Quebec Native Women (FAQ-QNW); Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network; Occupy Toronto; Toronto Bolivia Solidarity; Toronto Stop the Cuts
Launching the Social Forum January 26 and 27th 2013
Dear Friends
You are cordially invite you to attend the General Assembly launching the Peoples' Social Forum. That General assembly will take place in Ottawa on January 26th and 27th 2013 at the PSAC National Office building on 233 Gilmour St., Ottawa.
The purpose of the assembly is to officially lunch the social forum and set-up the structure of the forum and hold the initial discussions on the themes, process, date and place of the Peoples Social Forum.
The conference is free and open to all interested parties. We expect to have 50-60 organizations/individuals present from across Canada including a strong representation from Indigenous groups, indie media, labour and youth.
Proposed Agenda....
When Do We Mobilize? When the Canadian Government is No Longer Working for Canada
Stephen Harper's latest deals have caused a stirring across Canada from grassroots organizations and citizens opposed to the outsourcing of Canada's resources and the government's insistent catering to multinational corporations. In particular, the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) threatens to give multinational corporations unprecedented control over the Canadian government through investor-state arbitration. Harper's eagerness to appease oil-hungry China and allow foreign buy-outs of homegrown resources not only destabilizes Canada's own resource growth, but could also crucially damage the lives of First Nations indigenous communities and the prosperity of Canada's environment and coast. The discontent against these rulings is mounting as human rights groups, environmental groups, indigenous peoples, students, labour unions, and civil society organizations respond to Harper's neoliberal policies. Organizations are mobilizing and binding together under a proposed horizontal method of debate and discussion, currently conceptualized as a 'grassroots approach to a Canada-Quebec-Indigenous Peoples' Social Forum'....
Proposed Agenda
Saturday January 26th 2013
10am: The political context in Canada: different initiatives proposing a common fight against the right and neoliberalism
10:30am: What is a social forum and how does it function? How can it promote collaboration between social movements from Canada, Quebec and Indigenous Peoples? Role and function of the Social Movement Assembly in a Social Forum.
12pm lunch break
1:30pm The Canada-Quebec-Indigenous Peoples' Social Forum
- what are some of the main issues
- what regional and cross-Canada processes to lead up to a SF
- Timing: what criteria in order to decide when a Forum is held
- Venue: what criteria in order to decide upon a venue
- What kind of Forum: decentralized, centralized in one location ?
- Key structures to set-up: secretariat, program cttee, communications cttee, logistics and finance cttee, etc..
4:30pm End of first session
6:00 pm Reception: place to be advised
Sunday January 27th 2013
9:30am: Social Movements assembly: coalition and common action proposals ( Port Elgin proposal)
1:30 pm Setting up the basic structures of the SF: secretariat, program cttee, communications cttee, logistics and finance, etc..
3:30pm End of second session
A grassroots approach to a Canada-Québec-Indigenous Peoples' Social Forum
We are proposing a grassroots horizontal approach to organizing a People's Social Forum across Canada as a means of stimulating debate, discussion and further our sense of community and collective action. The process of the social forum seeks to reach out to a plurality of social movements, groups and progressive institutions across Canada, Québec and Indigenous communities. The short term goal being to build on existing struggles by building a united and cohesive front against the Conservative agenda of austerity and privatization but long-term to help transform the current political, economic and social paradigm, by employing creative resistance while proposing alternatives solutions
So far several organizations and individuals have come together to form Expansion Commissions in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. Discussions are going on to form similar commissions in Vancouver, Calgary, St. John's, etc. The Expansion Commissions will focus on involving as many other organizations and individuals in the process.
There is a proposal that these Commissions call for a General Assembly later this fall or in early winter to launch the Peoples' Social Forum. This general assembly will take the decisions on the name, final dates and places as well as the process leading to the forum, and its final format.
A three part organization? I part consists of 600 aboriginal nations and the second of nine provinces and three territories all of which can be lumped together as a single unit and the equal to those two is the stand alone nation of Quebec. So will the Assembly have reps from 613 identities or three?
Any of you taking part in this process? I certainly will be at some point, though I'm not attending this upcoming meeting:
I can't seem to get that link to switch into English, but you should be able to do so by clicking on "English" at the top of the page, and perhaps it will show up in English if that is your default computer language.
This will provide an indication of where the forum is at this point in terms of structure and function. Many things remain to be decided, including whether there will be a central forum (and where?) or a more decentralized process, which would obviously be easier for the participants, but not provide as much "pan-Canadian" interraction as a centralized forum would.
Hope this helps answer such questions if they are meant seriously and not as an anti-Québécois snipe.
There is also a lot of open info (in English and in French - would be nice to see some indigenous languages, eh?) at the Facebook page.
..i see this particular forum like an upside down pyramid with the pointy end as the beginning. my interest lies in the general assemblies where the decisions are made. to me, this is the heart of the notion of a forum along side the coming together of people in this way after all these years of being idle in this way.
..i haven't heard any word about the forum here in van. no announcements no invitations no gatherings..that i'm aware of. has anyone else heard something?
eta: Organize together to defeat the corporate agenda: The Port Elgin Coalition Proposal
● Regional coalitions based on assemblies, including provincial assemblies alongside Indigenous assemblies, would link up in a pan-Canadian Coordinating Assembly. The regional coalitions would build representative structures inclusive to racialized, immigrant, and other communities. The pan-Canadian Coordinating Assembly would identify common campaign issues and projects and map out strategies of action. The coordinating assembly should be multi-national, with Québec, Canada and Indigenous Peoples represented as distinct but equal components. Relations between them would be guided by protocols in the spirit of the original wampums, agreements of coexistence, respect, and distinctness between Indigenous and non-Indigenous nations.
"The coordinating assembly should be multi-national, with Québec, Canada and Indigenous Peoples represented as distinct but equal components. "
At every turn some Quebec nationalists can't resist pushing their agenda no matter what the issue. 600 FN's=1 component, 12 provinces and territories= 1 component. One province with 25% of the population=1 component. Why is that being proposed even before any assemblies have met. Nice to see that someone is driving their agenda fast and furious.
I believe that top down is not democracy. As a Canadian federalists I must disagree with the idea that Canada and Quebec have a nation to nation deal. In fact Quebec is on component of the federation and have mostly the same deal as all other components. If Quebec has a deal then BC also has a deal with Canada. At the heart of any constitutional change in Canada is how many components any new federation would have. I think that only two is not a wining number in most parts of Canada since Ontario with its resulting majority of the "Canada" population would just get to play with Quebec and the people in the outlying regions would become second class citizens.
I agree we need to do change differently which is why I think that agendas from the past should be not assumed to be part of the new paradigm. If we are going to a new format for change then it should emphasis unity and inclusiveness.
..my position on this. and it's not very old i admit and for this project. is that que has a deal with can as does the 1st people. i wait to see the process unfold to decide for sure how it works. i have concerns with the top listening to what the bottom is saying or it's intent is saying. this doesn't change what i believe is a new way of making decisions and has the potential for spreading every which way.
..if this is unacceptable it will be rejected. at this forum or later. the grassroots are engaded and this is a needed tool. since people started getting together about the forum idle no more was born. the stop the pipelines movement began in earnast. not sure if it came before or during the que student strike. all perfectly capable of speaking for themselves.
The new location is the University of Ottawa, 120 University, Faculty of Social Sciences building, Room FSS- 2005.
I have flagged your anti-Québécois racism as offensive.
Thanks, e paulo. Fortunately I have lots of comrades and friends in English Canada who have overcome such bigotry as to deny the Québécois people the right to self-determination or the existence of our nationhood.
Not all nations are sovereign states: Scotland, Wales, Euskadi, Catalonia... just to mention some of the most well-known ones.
Oh, we have our own bigots here who, like their counterparts in the RoC, would deny the national rights of First Peoples. We've been spending a lot of time in solidarity with INM these days...
..inm, que students awesome allies to have. i'm a work in progress even at my age so thank you lagatta.
I didn't read it that way, kropotkin. I read it as each nation (that is, every First Nation, Canada, and Quebec) being considered distinct nations and relating to each other as such at this event.
As for who will be the "reps" - my understanding of how social forums work is that they aren't like delegated conventions, so there are no official "reps". They're open to all, very decentralized, usually planned by a coalition of many groups and organizations, and they open up space for activists from various organizations and social movements to hold sessions on whatever activism they are involved with, and there are times and space set aside for large plenaries as well.
The idea being that whomever comes, shares their activism with other activists from other groups. They tend to be very organic - when I say that they're "planned" by a coalition of groups, what I mean is that the space is planned, and then activists sign up to fill that space with their own thing.
Here's a really good description of how social forums are generally organized.
e-paulo, thanks for posting about this. radiorahim and I were considering coming out to this, but unfortunately, we have a couple of scheduling conflicts we can't avoid. I look forward to seeing report-backs on this here and elsewhere.
You are right about that. Unfortunately I didn't get to the World Social Forum - if only I were fluent in Portuguese! but I have interpreted at the European Social Forum and attended smaller regional ones.
Indeed, there are no representatives, and in general, the Social Forum is not a decisional body, though of course there are actions (usually symbolic protests or celebrations) based on consensus. It is a great fair in the best sense of that term!
I was at the European Social Forum in Paris, and there was an outdoor show of solidarity by Basque artists with the people or Iraq - and the Basque artists were from both the "Spanish" and "French" sides of the Basque nation. Sort of like Mohawks, eh?
Social Fora are also based on diversity, so I don't see why there should be a problem with recognizing the very specific Pacific Rim diversity of BC. Oh yes, in practice there always are big honchos (Monbiot, etc) who are "more equal than the other equals" but Social Fora are not any different from other gatherings in that respect. And the honchos do get the odd dressing down.
We may be able to get a spokesperson for the social forum to come on babble for a Q & A. Is that something babblers would be interested in?
Thanks for starting this thread epaulo13, btw!
We may be able to get a spokesperson for the social forum to come on babble for a Q & A. Is that something babblers would be interested in?
Thanks for starting this thread epaulo13, btw!
Yes, definitely.
..my pleasure michelle and catchfire
..yes to a spokesperson!
Red Squares, Red Feathers People's Social Forum Brings National Movements Together
After a year of marching with the carré rouge pinned to coats, lapels and backpacks, activists are now donning Idle No More's red feather—joining a slew of movements attempting to work together to overcome shared struggles.
Dave Bleakney, a national union representative for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was invited to Port Elgin by activist and "rogue page" Brigette DePape, who infamously protested against Stephen Harper during the 2011 Throne Speech. Bleakney will be attending the assembly along with the CUPW National President Denis Lemelin.
He said the CUPW will use the opportunity to learn from other movements.
Bleakney said that participating in a Social Forum will be in some ways "a return to the roots of the labour movement," which he describes as having been, "ignited by being a social force on the ground, not by making pleas to power—but actually claiming power."
The CUPW has a history of working with First Peoples activists, having also forged links with the Algonquins of Barrière Lake.
"We were invited into their community to observe the traditional electoral process, and were quite moved by that," said Bleakney, referencing the Nation's participatory approach to democracy.
"I think we're being more and more influenced by indigenous traditions, and I really hope that they pollinate the labour movement to become something other than what we are."
This is exciting!
A peoples' forum ... without the hierarchy of 'elected' 'representatives'.
Direct democracy ...at least for those who can afford to go ...
What about interactive live streaming so all ... most ... some more ... can participate too? :D
Maybe premature but I can see it happening ... soon.
I assume open to all?
That has always been the major contradiction for social fora. In terms of people with little money and little free time, it definitely remains at best "representative" - someone delegated by a trade union, community association, activist movement. Unless you are from a nearby place in, say, Brazil (a lot of people from many Brazilian cities, and even from Argentina and Uruguay, got to Porto Allegre in (rather dodgy) mini-vans.
To take a West Coast example, some people from Québec made it to Seattle, but were pretty much all delegated by trade unions, by Alternatives, by major women's groups etc. In that case, people from Vancouver definitely had better access (as long as they could cross the US border, which more than a few veteran activists can't).
There is an interactive streaming and other component to all the Social Fora, but it still isn't the same as being there and meeting yer comrades from other places and interventions.
arielc, yes, it is open to all. I don't know if anyone has ever been excluded for harassment, right-wing provocation, gross sexism or racism etc.
I have flagged your anti-Québécois racism as offensive.
Last time I looked Quebec was one of ten provinces and that at least 50% of the people who live in Quebec want to keep it that way.
Define nation. You jumped down my keyboard for stating that a Premier is normally a provincial leader in Canada by quoting varying definitions of what PM or Premier mean in various places to show that even the normal usage in Canada can be played with.
However if I disagree with your version of the term nation I am a racist.
Definition of NATION1 a (1) : nationality 5a (2) : a politically organized nationality (3) : a non-Jewish nationality <why do the nations conspire — Psalms 2:1 (Revised Standard Version)> b : a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government c : a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status
I see BC as a community of people of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government. You may say it is not a nation but that is your bias not mine. I just hate it when other people try to define my nation. I don't deem to tell you that Quebec is not a nation I merely point out it is not the only nation.
Leaving Canada aside, the idea that all 600 FN's are accorded the same status as Quebec is political and not inclusive. The forum didn't need that in its preamble and it only serves to aggrandize one settler group to the detriment of the 600 FN's they equal. In my view it is merely one settler group using this issue to advance their dispute with the whole of the Canadian settler group. I don't see that as necessary or productive.
If this is meant to be a peoples forum then let the people who take part self identify and take part as individuals in solidarity.
rabble.ca is supporting Common Causes/Causes Communes, an assembly of social movements dedicated to defending democracy, the environment and human rights. More info in this thread.
Sounds great, Catchfire, but how can there be "a spokesperson" for a social forum? ;)
But yes, I'd love to hear from somone who is involved in the planning and/or logistics!
Perhaps it would be better to say an organizer? But these include people speaking to the media, and promoting the process among potential participants.
..here's a facebook link. anyone have any links to this weekend?
What – as a diverse movement – must we do/accomplish in 2013?
Members of the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (London and Southampton chapter), Anti-capitalist Initiative, Peoples Assemblies Network, Occupy London activists and The Friern Barnet Library occupation called for
ie: Ideas/Theory/Vision
- Fight Sectarianism
- Developing Agreed principles
- Using Plain Accessible language
- Managing Differences/Working Together
- Self Education
- Focus on One Point
The People's Social Forum is formally born today!!
Tahrir and the undying spirit of revolt
If there is one lesson we have to learn from the endless struggle of the Egyptians, it is this: don't rely on anyone to make your revolution for you.
Indefatigable. That's probably the word that best describes Egypt's revolutionaries, two years since the start of their revolt. Fearless and heroic are some others that instantly come to mind. Firmly committed to their cause. Fully conscious of the immense obstacles. Fiercely determined to succeed. There are many things we savages in the West can learn from our brothers and sisters in Egypt. The most important, perhaps, is never to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. People died for this revolution. It will not be hijacked by those who piss on their legacy....
That is great - I would have loved to have gone, but I had a big job to get done here.
Notes from the Canada-Quebec-First Nations social forum
Progressive activists may not agree on much, but there is a broad consensus that capitalism and its attack on the earth and its people has to be stopped. To do this, we have do organize differently. Somehow.
In the wake of global social uprisings that have emerged over the past three years, old models relied upon by progressives are being re-imagined by new and old activists alike....
The Unist'ot'en Camp Spokespeople attended this rally today alongside hundreds of other grassroots Indigenous Peoples one day after a weekend meeting for the Peoples' Social Forum where we made history with many many many other powerful allies!! THE REVOLULTION IS GROWING!!
Idle No More Founders Jessica Gordon and Sheelah McLean at the People's Social Forum meeting in Ottawa on January 26th 2013. Both spoke and then Q n A.
That's disappointing. Total focus on party politics isn't what I expected of such a process.
So, lapsed babbler Corvin Russell will be joining us on Friday to chat about Common Causes and the People's Forum. More news to come!
..hope i can make it. welcome back corvin!
..nothing is ever simple. txs left turn. if you don't mind can you please talk about the bc subcommittee? who, what when where kind of thing. and if there's any plans for another meet.
etchange..i reread nora and take back what i thought i saw.
..nothing is ever simple. txs left turn. if you don't mind can you please talk about the bc subcommittee? who, what when where kind of thing. and if there's any plans for another meet.
The last e-mail I received regarding the people's social forum was on January 7th. All the communication was happening through regular e-mails -- peoples individual e-mails being entered individually in the "to:" and "cc:" fields, not a formal e-mail list -- so I don't know if there havn't been any further e-mails intended for the whole sub-committee, or if my e-mail may have got dropped from the list. Which means I have no idea if and when there may be another meeting. I'll certainly keep you posted if I hear anything.
That's disappointing. Total focus on party politics isn't what I expected of such a process.
There's nothing explicitly pro-ndp about the people's social forum process at the moment, but I do get the feeling that some of the folks involved in this are not being upfront about their intentions. I also fully expect that NDP aparatchicks will try to steer this process in a pro-NDP direction as it gets closer to fruition.
There are two precedents for my skepticism. The first is how the anti-Iraq War movement in the United States got steered into John Kerry's presidential campaign following the March 2004 day of action against the war. Note that John Kerry ran a pro-war campaign in which he claimed he could end the war sooner by fighting it better.
The second concerns the experience I had with the organizing for the Grand March For Housing that took place in Vancouver in April 2009. The march was the idea of the Citywide Housing Coalition (CHC). CHC is not a real coalition -- many of its members represent only themselves, and new members have to be approved, and they generally want people with a solid history of housing activism.
Anyways, in November 2008, the CHC started holding monthly public meetings -- meetings that anyone could attend -- supposedly to plan the Grand March For Housing. In February, with this group having had lengthy discussions about various aspects of the march, but having made no decisions, we were informed that this group was not a decision making body, and that all decisions would be made by a coordinating committee made up entirely of CHC members.
The other issue was that the Canadian Peace Alliance had called a day of action against the war in Afghanistan for the same date as the Grand March For Housing. The CHC refused, despite a concerted campaign from me, to either change the date of their march, or to put a speaker from Vancouver's Stopwar coalition on the rally portion of the event.
So please forgive me if I'm skeptical about our ability to prevent this process getting collapsed into the NDP's 2015 election campaign, or if I consider the possibility that Alternatives and other groups may try to restrict who gets to make certain decisions about this and/or try to restrict the politics of it.
epaulo13 wrote:..nothing is ever simple. txs left turn. if you don't mind can you please talk about the bc subcommittee? who, what when where kind of thing. and if there's any plans for another meet.
The last e-mail I received regarding the people's social forum was on January 7th. All the communication was happening through regular e-mails -- peoples individual e-mails being entered individually in the "to:" and "cc:" fields, not a formal e-mail list -- so I don't know if there havn't been any further e-mails intended for the whole sub-committee, or if my e-mail may have got dropped from the list. Which means I have no idea if and when there may be another meeting. I'll certainly keep you posted if I hear anything.
..txs once again left turn. appreciate the heads up.
..i've just posted this video in the idle no more thread. this is what i believe is the reality of the struggle. the grassroots are setting the agenda for themselves. this is part of a global resistance that has been happening for some time now. this is the que students. this is the occupy. this is the zapatistas. the "leadership" needs to catch up or they will be left behind. from spain "no one represents us"
Stop work order put on Manitoba mine
..we could use the port elgin proposal as a way of supporting this struggle collectively. right now. today. i have confidence that it will come through. that the activists will find a way of making the assemblies posible.
The Unist'ot'en Land Defenders join a rally in Ottawa at the Parliament Buildings. They joined everyone in giving notice to all of the elected officials that they are trespassing on the Original Peoples' Lands.
The People's Social Forum: Coming in 2014
You know an event will be special when a planning meeting, almost two years in advance, bursts the seams of its venue. Such was the case this weekend in Ottawa, as activists from across Canada converged to prepare for the People's Social Forum, Canada's version of the World Social Forum.
We have confirmation from Corvin - he'll be here at 2pm EST tomorrow, Friday February 1. We'll open a separate thread for the discussion tomorrow.
People of Colour Caucus at Social Forum Gathering, Jan 2013
We are thankful for being on the unceded Algonquin territory that this launch is taking place on, and for the inspiration that Idle No More and Indigenous communities provide us.
We honour all the Original peoples of Turtle Land and we honour the diverse lands of theOriginal peoples of Turtle Island on which we individually reside. We recognize the legacy ofall Indigenous teachings across this continent and the world. We are committed to working insolidarity as allies with the Indigenous caucus and with the Original peoples of Turtle Island -in words and in actions - again colonization. We are committed to supporting the needs of yournations.
We are happy that some of the struggles and dreams that unite communities of color and allpeoples who are present here today were included in the discussions yesterday. We do, however, wish to ask for reflection in this process, by means of sharing our collectivethoughts, feelings and questions.
1. The invisibility of the struggles that are particular to communities of colour was feltstrongly in this space. This includes but is not limited to struggles against police brutalityand imprisonment, immigration laws that render peoples of colour as non-people,education and media systems that continue to be racist and colonial, poverty and manyother relationships of exploitation and exclusion.
2. This invisibility is also explicit in the naming of the proposed social forum as theCanada-Quebec-Indigenous Peoples Social Forum. Many peoples of colour do notidentify with nationalist blocs of Canada and Quebec. In fact, many are actively andlegally excluded, for example temporary migrant workers and non-status people. It isimportant to note that 1 in 20 people in Canada are not Canadian.
We assert that the Social Forum must be accountable to communities of colour, buildmeaningful relationships, and that movements and groups representing communities ofcolour struggles not be co-opted or tokenized. We need to be part of active leadership anddecision-making roles of the social forum at all levels.
We are available to be part of the processes that make sure that all these concerns are animportant part of developing the elements that will make the social forum an inclusive andparticipatory space, not only for communities of colour, but for all peoples that experiencediverse forms of oppression.
We ask that the social forum be grounded in both unity and the meaningful and practicalconsiderations of the particularities of struggles as evidenced by the common, different andcomplex oppressions that we all face.
Peoples' Social Forum
The proposal adopted at the general assembly is to convene the forum in the summer of 2014.
It will be a centralized forum with a decentralized process that will include local, regional or provincial forums and caravans.
The location is yet to be determined - consideration will be given to sites that are in the central or western part of Canada.
There was a strong general sentiment that the emphasis of the forum should be to promote action and solidarity and have less of a focus on dialogue.
An Interim Steering Committee was established with proposed working groups. Several people still need to secure authorization from their organizations or communities to participate.
Three caucuses were also created: People of Color and Spanish speakers merged into one caucus, Native Peoples, and Quebec. Each of these caucuses developed written recommendations with proposals and principles for working together. These will be made available online. Other working groups are proposed including youth, women and others.
The general assembly is aware that there are discussions in the US about a potential third US Social Forum in 2014 as well. They want to assure that there is communication with the NPC so that the forums do not overlap and that the two processes can coordinate. Two participants had taken part in the USSF Peoples Movement Assembly process. Heather Milton Lightning, former organizer for the USSF Indigenous Advisory Committee was also present.
Some Reflections on Social Forum
On the 26th and 27th of January an unprecedented launch of People's Social Forum was held in Ottawa. In its brochure it is introduced as "A grassroots approach to a Canada-Québec-Indigenous People's Social Forum". In the following you will find some reflections on what a Social Forum is or can be. They are neither inclusive nor fully developed, or genuine. Such as they are, however, I hope, they would shed some light on the issue and entice some hope for its further development.


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- Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles- love them or hate them, but we need them.
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New software will be able to look at you and determine your level of pain
Science fiction is becoming simply science -- robots may soon be able to know exactly how you're feeling.
Researchers from UC San Diego School of Medicine have developed software that can detect pain levels by looking at facial expressions. According to an article, published in the journal "Pediatrics," researchers came up with a computer vision algorithm that recognizes levels of un-comfort by analyzing the expressions of the brow, eyes, lips, and jaw. It seems like the song, "If You're Happy and You Know It" has a whole new meaning!
Below is example of a child's facial expressions of pain from the study, illustrating many of the core facial actions observed in pain.
As Engadget reports, the technology could be used in the future at hospitals - where nurses could tell if a patient needs more pain medication after surgery.
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Monolith wants to be the Google Analytics of the offline advertising world in retail stores
Monolith aims to track what people are watching on TV or billboards, the offline advertising world if you will. It all started when co-founders Martin Birač and Tomislav Fistrić decided they wanted to explore the potential of Microsoft's Kinect accessory for the Xbox 360.
Now, the startup is now working on both the software and the hardware for gathering data about shopper behavior in retail stores. The company has won a slew of startup awards to date, but most promisingly it has customers lined up already, including Nike as well as Johnson&Johnson, and is planning pilots with Bogner.
Monolith is comprised of a Microsoft Kinect device enclosed in the company's own casing and armed with its pattern recognition software. It tracks shopper behavior and characteristics while they are doing their shopping, but claims to maintain the shoppers' privacy by making it impossible to identify a particular person using the captured data.
The hardware, which can receive upgrades over the air, is capable of telling its owner which one out of a series of ads gains the most attention by potential customers in a given area. The software side of things meanwhile looks like this:
At the TNW Conference, Monolith is announcing a solution to what it refers to as "the problems of the data-starved retail industry." Here's the pitch:
Unlike the online world, the offline retail world is yet to attain a "big data" platform such as Google Analytics – a constant stream of data about the behaviour of its customers. We promise to deliver such a platform with our Monolith device.
Monolith transforms the collected data into a set of metrics that the company calls Kinegraphics. Kinegraphics are comprised of shopper characteristics such as gender, age group, and clothing style as well as shopper behaviors such as walking paths, interactions with products, and visual attention in relation to the retail environment.
The company hopes its customers can use this information to redesign their offers, their services, or even their whole store in the best way that will enhance the shopping experience.
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Social marketing plan adapted to a new non-profit
A social marketing plan for a new non-profit is not the same as a plan for an existing non-profit as it begins with distinguishing the planning components; vision, strategy, tactics & standards, from a master plan (equivalent to
a business plan in the for-profit sector); including several sub-plans such as a financial plan, a social marketing plan, and other plans when relevant: human resources, logistics, legal, and others.
With a new non-profit social entrepreneurs have to rely more on subjective assumptions and qualitative marketing research by interviewing representatives of relevant non-profit organizations as well as potential beneficiaries of our planned services and their close ones extensively as possible.
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- current macro environment highlighting the social and legal trends.
- basic competitive trends - NOT the upcoming competition of the organization!
- basic consumer behavior trends - NOT the upcoming segmentation of the organization!
- opportunities and threats that do not depend on your new organization - only a partial
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this week in charcuterie news: germans! texas wesleyan,basques!andrew george jr,timothy banthongsack
We're retiring our This Week In Sausage News feature. It had plenty traction but we're expanding the topic to include charcuterie. After a lifetime spent curing and smoking meats it seems logical to branch out from just-sausage and also weave tales of other meat forms into our narrative.
In honor of Big Jim Sullivan, one of the premiere meat curers in the Kentucky of the 20th century. Apparently Germany has not learned their lesson http://biztimes.com/article/20140418/BLOGS/140419765
A dining guide for Texas Wesleyan folks http://therambler.org/2014/04/21/texas-wesleyans-best-breakfast-spots/
Ham festival established in 1464 http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=304537880
Excellent article on Andrew George Jr., a member of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, who places an emphasis on charcuterie in his aboriginal cuisine http://life.nationalpost.com/2014/04/22/aboriginal-cooking-the-original-local-food-movement-goes-modern-with-french-techniques-game-charcuterie/
There is an especially hot circle of Hell for tip jar thiefs, and when you take from hard working sausage vendors we imagine Ol Scratch loads a little extra coal on the fire http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2014/apr/23/suspect-charged-in-theft-of-tip-jar-from-albany/


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News Feed News
Big changes are coming to your Facebook News Feed.
Contact Your Elected Officials with Facebook
Facebook has made it easy to share your opinion with your elected officials. Washington Post
Reach More Local Customers
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Small Giants
"It seems as though you can't turn on the television or pick up a magazine without coming across a politician or pundit extolling the virtues of small business and the role it plays in the U.S. economy. " The Future of Business Belongs To The 'Small...
TV Viewer vs Online Video View
Digiday explains nicely why a TV viewer is not equal to a online video view. Apples and Oranges
Facebook Marketplace
Stepping onto eBay and Craigslist turf, Facebook has introduced Marketplace in an effort to get some of its 1.7 billion users to buy and sell stuff while on the platform. Facebook Marketplace: Is this the new...
Clickbait be Gone
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One of the apps, which you are going to find on Google plays store under photography category, is Fotorus for PC. Everyone who loves photo can tell how disappointing it can be having photos, which need editing, and the app they are using is failing them or rather they do not have any photo editor. With Fotorus, this case can be fully settled within no time. You just need images and creative mind. The best part of this application is the fact that you can use it without having the need of the user manual. You just download and go through it and after that be able to check on it as you try it out with some photos.
More about Fotorus for PC
This app as we have said it deals with photo editing and it is available free. What you need in order to get it is ensure that you Smartphone are compatible or use this guide to download it in your PC. Fotorus was developed by a company known as Fotoable Inc and since the time it was launched on the store there is no doubt people started downloading and it has now hit one of the most downloaded apps. The company has not developed an official PC version yet but they have also authorized the use of it on PC and we are going to give you a guide, which is going to help you download and install it.
Features of Fotorus for PC
- Fotorus is available for download free of charge
- You can get photos and edit them using Fotorus for PC
- You can add photos in Instead one of the attractive features of this app and after that make it look like it is in a magazine
- There are more than 300 magazine collage templates, which you can use and make your photos look professionally edited.
- With Fotorus you can get photos from your camera and edit them
- Another thing is that you can be able to add different kinds of effects on your photos
- It has a simple to user interface
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Download Fotorus for PC – Free Guide
- Go bluestacks.com where you are going to find Bluestacks App Player and download it. This is one of the best android emulators available and it is free. Note that this is necessary have in this process or any other emulator for androids.
- Using Bluestacks search Fotorus for PC and once you find it click to download and install it on your PC.
- After that is done open My Apps and search for Fotorus for PC, which you have just downloaded, and open to use.
The process is that simple and you cannot be confused in any step. All you need to do now is tell a friend that you have been able to install Fotorus for PC successfully and share this post with them.