People First: A Vision for the Global Urban Age. Lessons from Nordic Smart Cities
by Olli Bremer, Niko Kinnunen, Johannes Koponen, Louna Laurila, Juha Leppänen, Maria Malho, Roope Mokka, Henrik Suikkanen
Demos Helsinki publications
June 2020, 104 pages
While it is argued that smart city development is at an impasse, we argue that it is at a crossroads. It is possible to simultaneously develop and adopt new technologies and strengthen people’s rights. This has been proven in the Nordic cities and Barcelona. The People-first vision presented in this report shows how it is possible for all cities.
The People-first vision is a new perspective to how cities can govern and benefit from digital technologies in the global urban age, by developing people’s rights and technologies in harmony. It is based on an analysis of different ways of how this is done in Nordic cities, Nordic city networks, and in Barcelona.
The People-first vision offers an alternative to technocratic governance models that are, on the one hand, being criticised for their inclination to compartmental optimisation and, on the other hand, contributing to breaches of privacy and narrowing human rights. In the People-first vision, the mandate for governance comes directly from the people itself and hence, the technological tools are used respecting their rights.
The smart city development is at a critical crossroads, where power and politics have become central to the way digital technologies are used in cities. The vast criticism of digital technologies being used to monitor, control and even manipulate people, and to centralise and take power away from citizens and public administrations, is risking the legitimacy of the smart city project. What has been the key function of the smart city project – using digitalisation to seek efficiencies in various city operations – has given way to a new phase with competing models for governing the city and the citizens.
Despite the discontinuity of the smart city development, the promise of digital technologies and operating models for cities is unparalleled. It is most evident in driving efficiency of the built environment and other urban infrastructure which offers new ways to govern urban dwellers and foster collaboration. This is a critical element of a well-functioning city of the 21st century so the need for digital tools is not going away.
There is a number of cities that show us glimpses of how the new phase of city governance could look like by actively leading their smart city ecosystems and by putting people first. In this report, the case studies of Nordic cities (Espoo, Helsinki, Tampere, and Vantaa), a city network (Nordic Smart City Network), as well as the City of Barcelona in Spain demonstrate that cities that want to take full benefit of digital technologies have to give them sufficient priority in the city organisation, move from facilitating smart city ecosystems to leading them, and recognise that different sectors of society – civic, public, and corporate – all have unique ways of creating value.
The report thus promotes a new, Nordic-born yet universally applicable way of governing digital technologies and using them to govern a city. What is presented here is not another smart city model but an alternative to the existing approaches: a new narrative of how cities can benefit from digital technologies. The narrative defines three fundamental characteristics of smart city governance that protect and promote people’s interests in a city. The three characteristics of people-first city governance are:
- Unbounded: City governance is cross-sectoral, highly networked and organised around people’s life events and universal services rather than public sector departments.
- Vision-driven: Smart city initiatives drive the city’s long term and strategic goals (and vice versa), the city leaves space for experimenting with new initiatives, and the user point of view is in harmony with the ideal of active citizenship.
- Regenerative: The city aims to empower people and allow “emergence” of digital technologies, strengthens democracy through innovations in participation and digital markets, and creates services that allow competition and real choice
These three characteristics in the cases studied explain how Nordic cities, in particular, have managed to maintain the high usability of digital services along with promotion of people’s voluntary action.
As the smart city project has been the de facto development paradigm for cities since the 2000s, the insights gained in this study yield a wider lesson to governing cities in the urban age. The discontinuity of the smart city development is symptomatic of a far deeper change in how cities are governed.
In city governance, there is an apparent move away from the passive ecosystem facilitation role to more active modes of governance. As a consequence, different and competing ideas and ideals are emerging. The main competitors to the way of governing presented in this report are the so-called Chinese authoritarian model where states and regions hold large powers, and the so-called Silicon Valley platform model where big technology companies take the responsibilities of the city. The People-first vision unites the powers of the city organisation and the urban dwellers in order to govern global issues such as digitalisation, climate change, and migration without giving away the democratic powers to, for example, the state or the private companies.
The People-first vision essentially introduces a new philosophy for the strategic management of cities based on the ideas of active citizenship and ecosystem leadership. In practice, the People-first vision enables cities to show direction and lead the ecosystems instead of just facilitating or orchestrating them. It gives cities a better view of the interactions of people, markets, and the public sector than the current public-private-(people) partnerships provide.
The People-first vision also allows city administrations to form alliances with other cities and regional or international organisations that go beyond just sharing best practices. Most importantly, it gives the grounds for city organisations to abandon the view that public services alone create wellbeing and begin to see the potential and assets of the whole urban ecosystem.


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More Americans than ever are travelling abroad for medical treatment, according to a study released by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Approximately 750,000 Americans travelled abroad for medical care in 2007, and as many as 6 million will have received healthcare outside the United States by 2010. Advocates of medical tourism say it gives consumers more choice in and control of their healthcare, offers better care at lower prices and pushes American health care providers by creating competition.
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The increase in medical travel is causing patients to search diligently for information about the quality and outcome of the treatment they will receive.
In part, they do it because they're travelling abroad, but they are becoming more involved in their health care.
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In June 2008, the American Medical Association approved guidelines for U.S. residents travelling abroad to receive medical care and for employers considering covering overseas care.
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As more and more people have out-of-pocket responsibility, they're looking around for the best deal, and out-of-country services are an incredibly good deal if you're willing to travel.
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Overall, medical tourism is a great opportunity to reduce U.S. health spending and allow more Americans to get high-quality care abroad, says Heartland.
Source: Jillian Melchior and Maggie Goode, International Medical Tourism Is on the Rise, Health Care News (Heartland Institute), February 2009; based upon: Medical Tourism: Emerging Phenomenon in Health Care Industry, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, 2009.
For text: http://www.heartland.org/article.html?articleid=24505
For study: http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_chs_MedicalTourismStudy%283%29.pdf
For more on Health Issues: http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=16
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Mikel Obi: The former Eagles skipper continued to lead the Potters’ midfield as he captained them for the second successive game in their hard fought 3-2 win over Brentford at the Bet365 Stadium.
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Joe Biden does not have the character to be successful as President of the United States.
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What attracts individuals right into the globe of Tampa removing, and what maintains them there? It’s a mix of elements– economic self-reliance, empowerment, and a feeling of neighborhood amongst similar females. It’s a career that tests social standards and stereotypes, compeling us to examine our presumptions concerning sex job and individuals that select it.
Tampa fl pole dancers deal with the obstacle of browsing experiences with clients that go across the line. They need to insist their borders securely, frequently depending on baby bouncers and club monitoring to preserve their safety and security.
There’s a distinct sociability amongst Tampa pole dancers. In a globe that frequently courts them, they are totally free to be themselves.
The consistent objectification and sexualization can take a toll on one’s self-worth. While some females flourish in this atmosphere, others might battle with sensations of insufficiency and susceptability.
In the heart of Tampa, where the sun-drenched roads come to life at evening, there exists a globe concealed below the neon lights that couple of obtain to look. It’s a globe of dream and temptation, a globe where the line in between truth and impression obscures right into an enchanting dancing of wish and lure. What attracts individuals right into the globe of Tampa removing, and what maintains them there? Underneath the neon lights of Tampa’s strip clubs, a intricate and distinct globe flourishes. As we peel off back the layers of this surprise globe, we are advised that the lives of Tampa pole dancers are much more than the amount of their glittering efficiencies.
Under the neon lights of Tampa’s strip clubs, a intricate and distinct globe prospers. As we peel off back the layers of this surprise globe, we are advised that the lives of Tampa pole dancers are extra than the amount of their glittering efficiencies.
The customers that see Tampa strip clubs are as varied as the professional dancers themselves. For lots of, it’s concerning the dream, the attraction of being quickly moved to a globe where wish rules supreme.
In the last few years, the #MeToo activity and boosted understanding of work environment harassment have actually stimulated discussions regarding authorization and regard in the grown-up show business. Tampa bay strip clubs, like their equivalents in other places, have actually needed to attend to these problems and take actions to make sure the safety and security and wellness of their workers. It’s a recurring procedure, and it highlights the significance of developing clear borders and advertising a society of regard within these facilities.
In the heart of Tampa, where the sun-drenched roads come active during the night, there exists a globe concealed underneath the neon lights that couple of reach glance. It’s a globe of dream and temptation, a globe where the line in between truth and impression obscures right into a thrilling dancing of wish and lure. This is the globe of a Tampa pole dancer, and in the complying with paragraphs, we will certainly explore the intimate admissions of one that risks to bare all of it.


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One perk to a sail that weight, for your intended purpose, is that you can have a luff wire sewn into the sail. Or a Kevlar or Spectra webbing luff tape stitched on.
That way, you can set it flying, especially from something like a Screecher or Staysail furling
unit. So that it's easy to pull out & hoist, without having to remove or attach anything to a stay. Which is particularly handy if you have roller furling
The free flying luff, definitely has some perks. As it gives you more latitude to tune the shape of the sail; based on wind
conditions, & how high or deep you're trying to sail.
Also, with that weight of cloth, & a built in luff wire, the sail is kind of like a poor man's Code 0. Especially as, when you tighten up the luff, you can fly it upwind, to about 050 AWA+/-, until there's truly enough wind to properly switch over to your primary upwind headsail.
That typically being a 135% or so, jib
, set on the furler
(or hanks). Which comes into it's own when the wind goes North of 7kts or so.
Honestly, it's quite a common setup. The Pardey's used something akin to such, & did Beth Leonard & Evans Starzinger. http://www.bethandevans.com/sail_combinations.htm
I even had the sailmaker
rig one up for me from a light #1 (155% jib), as a cheap
fix for light air on a 40' racer
that I had for a while. It's purpose was to augment the 125% jib
which lived on the furler
Though as another poster already said, there are definitely times when it's best to get the mainsail
board flat, along with hoisting a superlight 100% headsail (Windseeker), also tuned board flat.
Albeit, in a pinch, you can use your #3 (100%) or similar, in lieu of a Windseeker.
Such a setup (combined with a flat, hard sheeted in Main) uses the boat's rocking to actually extract some energy from the seas & what little wind there is, in order to drive the boat. And in some light air conditions is a far faster rig, than if you were to hoist a 200% jib.

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The £56 million funding announced yesterday (21 February 2023) by government to increase the provision of electric vehicle (EV) charge points must create provision for commercial vehicles, according to business group Logistics UK, if the industry is to hasten its transfer to Net Zero. Speaking about today’s funding announcement, Senior Policy Manager at Logistics UK, Denise Beedell, comments:
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“Figures released in October 2022 by the Department for Transport (DfT) showed the total number of public EV chargepoints in the UK reached 34,637. However, the UK Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy report, published in 2022, notes that government has predicted the UK will require at least 300,000 charge points by 2030. So, while this funding – which will be used to expanding the current Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) pilot and deliver an additional 2,400 chargepoints to the 3,000 chargepoint already installed through the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) – is a much-needed step forwards on the route to Net Zero, the charging requirements of the commercial vehicle sector must be factored into any developments.
“Local authorities must ensure that any new public EV chargepoint installation and infrastructure provides adequate electric vehicle charging infrastructure with sufficient space for use by commercial vehicles. An immediate uplift in the number of public chargepoints that can be used by battery electric vans and a recognition of the future needs of battery electric trucks, is vital to give the logistics sector the confidence to invest in zero emission at the tailpipe vehicles.”


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Liquidators to be able to target company directors
Company liquidators will soon be able to reclaim director's bonuses, where the payment has been unreasonable.
The Senate has passed a new law, put forward by the Government after a series of large payouts to corporate leaders of failed companies.
Labor and the Democrats wanted to strengthen the bill to include greater public disclosure of payouts for executives and directors, and for a veto power for shareholders over retirement payouts.
But the Parliamentary secretary to the Treasurer Ian Campbell called on them to support it in its present form.
"It can pass this place, and it can be law within days," he said.
But Labor's Stephen Conroy questioned whether it would have any real effect.
"I will buy Senator Campbell a bottle of champagne the day the first corporate spiv is prosecuted," he said
But Senator Campbell says many of the Opposition concerns will be picked up in another bill due to be put to the Parliament later this year.


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When I served as secretary of state, I worked extensively with Jan Angel. I was deeply impressed with her. She always stood out as a legislator who successfully worked across party lines. Rather than being caught up in partisan politics or philosophical disputes, she worked in a practical, common-sense way to actually solve problems.
Angel benefits from having served as a Kitsap County commissioner. She dealt with specific problems and needs and with grassroots people. She governed.
At a time when Congress can’t work together and too many legislators would rather make political points than solve problems, Angel stands out an exceptional leader who practices civility, moderation and bipartisanship to serve the people extraordinarily well.
I urge you to join me in supporting my good friend Jan Angel for the state Senate.
(Reed was Washington’s secretary of state from 2001 to 2013.)


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It was late last night, about 12:30ish, when we received one of my personal favorite emails of all time. The author, Andrés, and his subject… Luchadores for Beta. Our first reaction was almost disbelief. Had graFighters just been spammed by some sort of underground Mexican wrestling league?? (Basically we imagined a picture of something that looked like Jack Black from Nacho Libre pointing a bloody and battered finger straight at our souls, recruiting the graFighters team to join forces with them like some sort of twist on the old school Uncle Sam posters. Well, our first instincts were slightly off… but not by much!
We laughed, we cried, we took a siesta, and then it hit us… graFighters is really happening and not just for our close friends and family, but for everyone. Whether the game is a day, a month, or a year from launching it doesn’t really matter. (actually we know that it really does matter) But the point is that graFighters spirit is in the air!! People want this game to happen, and it’s not just us. We can’t tell you how encouraging it is to get an email from someone we’ve never met that says (in many different ways) “I’m so ready for this game, here’s a taste of what’s to come.” And then they drop one or several awesome drawings right in our laps.
Right now, there’s this very exciting feeling that comes from these emails. It’s kinda like lighting the fuse of a firework, and watching the flame slowly creep towards the explosives. Basically, what we really want to say is thanks to all of you who have sent us drawings over the past few months. It’s way cooler to us to get your drawings in our inbox than you can probably understand. It definitely keeps us going.
Shoutouts to the dudes from Coburn Design, Chris and Alden. Also, Jack and the manager of the Luchadores, Andrés.
And so, without futher adieu, the Late Night Luchadores and other awesome creatures!


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Help your baby discover solid foods safely with Explora Heat Sensing Spoons. Our Heat Sensing Spoons change colour from red to yellow if food is too hot – ideal if you’re using a microwave to heat food, as you can tell at a glance when it’s safe to feed your baby and when it’s not.
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Customer reviews (3)
but big for babys mouth
Bought these for weaning my six month old. Theyre good in terms of heat detection but too wide for her mouth currently
Good Idea but .....
Brilliant for testing to ensure baby's food isn't too hot but the spoon shape isn't as good as others on the market, food clumps at the bottom of the spoon because it's too deep.
Great for weaning!
I love these spoons and whilst I would always test the temperature of baby's food myself, these spoons are a great double check. They're nice and soft for baby and wash really well.

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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (1998 in Turkish, English translation 2001).
Pamuk winner of the Nobel Prize shortly after this book was published has written a fascinating book on several levels. First, it is a good murder mystery novel. Each chapter is written in first person, with the name of the person talking being the chapter head. The first chapter is the corpse that is the center of the story, reminding me of Sunset Boulevard. Secondly it is a love story. Thirdly, Istanbul itself is one of the characters. Fourthly it is an insight into the various classes in Istanbul at that time. And fifthly, it is about miniaturist paintings in the Ottoman Empire in the 1500s. You learn a lot about pictorial art and Islam, and why the miniaturists were allowed, but the “Frankish” art in which you could actually recognize the person and in which perspective was introduced so that a dog might be bigger than a tree was considered unholy. This discussion illuminates the philosophical differences between Islam and the West today. Highly recommended.
The Oracle of Stambul by Michael Lukas (2011).
The number of books that feature a girl protagonist who is not nicely balanced with a boy is rare. And such a girl – young, plucky, genius – was a particular pleasure. Once again Istanbul itself is one of the major characters, and since I read this book and My Name Is Red while in Istanbul or shortly thereafter, the pleasure was doubled. This time, however, we are at the end of the 19th century, and we glimpse again life within the Topaki palace. From what Lukas says in his introduction and who he cites as inspiration, I surmise that he meant this book to be deeper than I found it. Also, the writing itself is only O.K. Mostly it does not get in the way of the story, with only a few slips. But the story is charming and if I should into another book of his, I would not be afraid to give it a go.
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction by Manfred B. Steger (2009).
This was a “work” book that I am glad to have read. It is a useful overview of the subject looking at five, intertwining domains – economic, political, cultural, environmental and ideological. I may use it as one of my textbooks for Introduction to International Studies. In addition to an overview of a subject Steger’s word choice and presentation would make it a good introduction to reading critically and analyzing the information and the perspective from which it is being presented. If you are interested in the subject, I recommend this as a good starter book.
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb (1998).
Caravaggio (who incidentally worked at the same time that My Name is Red is about) is one of my favorite painters, and this book has been sitting on my shelf for years. Not much is known about Caravaggio’s life, although he is known for being a “bad boy” who challenged social and sexual mores of his time and who died mysteriously. Robb manages to take the approximate 50 pages of actual information one can gather about him from police records, letters and histories and manages through repetition and convoluted story telling to turn it into a 500 page book. It could easily have been cut to 300 pages without losing any details or his vivid descriptions of the paintings themselves. But if you are interested in this late 16th-early 17th century painter who wowed the art world of his time, it is worth plodding through the prose for a good story and a better understanding of his art.
O’Halloran’s Luck and Other Stories by Stephen Vincent Benet. (I couldn’t find a publication date on this old book, but copyrights for the individual stories were from 1926-1939, with most of them coming between 1936 and 1939)
Apparently Benet was quite popular during his time, including winning a Pulitzer Prize for a long poem that he wrote. I found this to be an interesting collection. I would call the writing style “dated,” but not the themes, and I have a soft spot of “old styles” of writing (I am presently reading Dr. Thorne by Anthony Trollope.) The stories in this collection included folksy, charming stories and other pondered the modern human condition. A couple were written in response to the totalitarians he saw in Germany and elsewhere at the time. None of the stories were bad, but then again, none of them left me saying “golly gee, wow.” My favorites were:
- The title story in which a leprechaun has followed the Irish immigrants to America.
- Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates because of its conceptions of heaven and hell and that an atheist (more or less) gets to discover them. It has one of the best opening lines.
- The Blood of the Martyrs, which tells of the last day of a scientist who doesn’t care a fig about politics but is living under totalitarian rule.
- Everybody Was Very Nice for its twist at the end. A man is telling an old school buddy he hasn’t seen in years about his first marriage, divorce and remarriage.
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The only good news for Britain's battered economy is that the country's deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s should bottom out this year.
In the process, 1981 is certain to be a very painful year for many Britons, and a politically trying one for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her wobbling monetarist, survival-of-the-fittest strategy for coping with the crisis.
In recent public-opinion polls, Thatcher's Conservatives have fallen more than 20 percentage points behind the opposition Labor Party, which under its new, more militantly socialist leadership wants to return to expanding the welfare state and increasing government intervention in the economy.
Thatcher's government relaxed its monetarist policies slightly late in 1980, especially by reducing the minimum lending rate from 16 to 14 percent. But it still is trying to cut government spending while having to pay out much more in unemployment benefits. And it is being forced by the recession's impact on government revenues to increase taxes. These steps are expected to continue bleeding an already anemic economy.
Britain's industrial output will continue to decrease markedly in 1981, with more factories closing, more businesses collapsing completely and hundreds of thousands more jobs lost. The gloomiest independent forecast, by the International Organization for Economic Cooperation and development, predicts that unemployment in Britain will continue to rise rapidly from one of the highest rates in history -- more than 9 percent at the end of 1980 -- to nearly 12 percent. This would mean more than 3 million jobless workers -- numerically if not proportionally as many as during the 1930s.
Exports are expected to fall off sharply because of the worsening recession elsewhere in Europe and the increasing uncompetitiveness of British goods on the world market. Their comparative prices have been driven up by nearly 50 percent since 1978 by increases in production costs and the high exchange value of the British pound sterling, kept up by the bankability of Britain's one certain economic asset -- North Sea oil.
One beneficial byproduct of the severe recession and Thatcher's policies has been a steady decline in the inflation rate, which should continue through 1981. It has fallen from a peak of 22 percent in mid-1980 to just over 15 percent and is expected to drop about 10 percent within a year.
Imported materials and products cost less because of the high exchange rate of the pound sterling, and hardpressed British businesses have been forced by the enconomic crisis to keep prices down and pay workers less. Thatcher's government also is trying to hold down pay raises in the government and the nationalized industries. Last year those raises averaged more than 20 percent; this year the government hopes to keep them to about 10 percent.
Surviving business also have been forced to tighten their belts and increase productivity, although no lasting national productivity improvement is yet discernible because total production continues to plummet. Austerity also has dangerously decimated profits and discouraged new business investment, which likely will slow and limit the extent of the economy's recovery, now expected to begin in 1982.
Thatcher has been forced to ask the country once again to patiently endure at least one more year of things getting worse before getting better.
It also is expected to be a year of belt-tightening in the much richer Scandinavian countries across the North Sea.
Ironically, Denmark's socialist government of Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen is being as Draconian as Thatcher in tightening money, forcing down the standard of living and deflating the Danish economy -- which has been depending far too long on borrowed money. Its gigantic trade and government-budget deficits had threatened to bankrupt the country.
But Jorgensen's government acted during 1980 to steeply increase taxes on energy and consumption and slow the growth of both government spending and the money supply. Denmark's monetary base is contracting, inflation is falling and Danes are being forced to accept a loss affluent life style. Both disposable after-tax income and consumption have decreased by nearly 5 percent and are expected to continue falling.
Those measures also mean fewer welfare-state social benefits for better-off families and more unemployment -- both sharp contrasts to the post war trend in Denmark. The unemployment rate is expected to continue rising dramatically to 8 percent in 1981 and nearly 10 percent by 1983. New "social income" criteria to limit welfare-state benefits -- such as unemployment compensation and child allowances for high-income families -- are part of a drive to stop government spending from increasing faster than the inflation rate in the early 1980s.
Svend Andersen, a governor of the Danish Central Bank, believes the previously profligate Danes' attitudes are being changed by the economic crisis."People are no longer so willing to go into debt," he said. "What we are doing was necessary, but it also has not been uncourageous. There are some complaints, but Denmark's position is better than a year ago."
Both the budget and balance-of-payments deficits remain large, however, because of the enormous interest payments on money borrowed to cover past deficits and Denmark's dependence on expensive imported oil.
This may be the year when Sweden also faces the necessity of tackling similar problems. The contraction of its traditional manufacturing industries, particularly shipbuilding, are making it more difficult for the private economy to support the Swedish welfare state's public sector, which consumes 65 percent of the country's gross national product and accounts for 40 percent of its jobs.
Despite holding just a one-vote majority in parliament, the right-of-center coalition government has begun what it promises will be annual rounds of spending cuts during the 1980s. Business and housing subsidies are to bear the brunt this first year, but spending for welfare-state social services may eventually have to be trimmed. The value-added sales tax also has been increased to 23.5 percent, the highest in Europe, to help cut the government's budget deficit.
Norway, with its burgeoning North Sea oil income (proportionally much larger than Britain's because Norway's population is one-tenth the size), and Finland, with its assured trade with the Soviet Union, expect brighter years in 1981. But to fight inflation in both prices and wages that could stunt their more robust economic growth, their governments and central banks also intend to pursue restrictive fiscal and monetary policies that could, in Finland at least, significantly increase unemployment.
So even after the cold Nordic winter ends, it could still be a chilly year in Scandinavia.


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By Paul Punturieri. "A local blog with news, events and things that matter to all citizens of Moultonboro"
"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
This is a well run Commitee following Roberts Rules very well. Program included a review of library funds and accounting, and the library passed with complements. Two new members were introduced, and the second quarter town fiscal report reviewed. Praise focused on Heidi. The recreation revolving fund was described in depth for the benefit of a new member. It's sources of income, and expenses it should pay still seem to be a bit vague. It is a good video, and should give us confidence in their oversight.
Personally speaking, the town website is great. The TA and staff should be commended.Maybe it is time, with increased broadband use by town residents and taxpayers (not the same) that the town website function be reviewed and expanded. Namely, an example would be the quarterly reports that the ABC "mentioned" in this video. Why not publish the report on the website ... the source document ... not a narrative. Why aren't many of the source documents made available on the website? Some are ... some are not.Let the town see the quarterly budget results. Let the BoS approve/reject what goes on the website (administratively, and with caution, to censorship). Maybe another committee (he says, while chuckling).We've got a Tech Fund with $186,000+++ in it. Maybe the BoS should spend some of it (prudential matters doctrine) and provide the town with an internet/broadband mechanism for direct taxpayer feedback. Please ... don't invoke privacy issues! Public entities/works are just that ... PUBLIC! Yes I'm familiar with RSA 91-A. It's becoming a "motherhood" statement! Non-public meetings ... by advisory committees ... that are subject to RSA 91-A ... criteria.http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/VI/91-A/91-A-3.htmAlmost as ludicrous as the Carroll County registry of deeds saying no internet access because of privacy issues! Sure, but most of the other NH registry of deeds have been doing so for years ... and giving back to the constituents a service needed.The BoS/town might not need as many committees! Aren't most of the committees "advisory"?Might help minimize the need to "attend meetings". We've got video ... now, we need official feedback mechanism.The BoS, and then, the town meeting decide anyway.Why not create a mechanism via the/a website that provides for direct town feedback ...not speaking about this blog (which is great)? Town Policy #31 (on town website)http://www.moultonborough.org/Pages/MoultonboroughNH_Admin/policies/Policy31%20Internet%20Intent%20&%20Implement022113.pdf"9.) Periodic Review and Revisions:Annually, at the time of goal setting for the budget, the Town Administrator shall review this policy with staff to determine how effectively it is meeting its purpose. Suggested revisions shall be submitted to the Board for consideration and adoption with the annual budget message submitted by the Town Administrator."We are in the 21st century ... even MoBo. Why not reflect on that, and a little less on historical buildings.
Dear Mr Cormier, The thought that the closet would voluntarily solicit our opinions in an online timely fashion is very much in our favor. Will be costly tho, they will need a much bigger drawer.We've got a Tech Fund with $186,000+++ in it. Maybe the BoS should spend some of it (prudential matters doctrine) and provide the town with an internet/broadband mechanism for direct taxpayer feedback. This website is as close as we get to having a voice. Ever see a word from the Town Administrator on it ? He does NOT want to communicate with us, or listen to us. Took 3 to 5 years to get a sound system in town hall. This concept will be stonewalled longer.
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Engraving a Bespoke Engagement Ring
Couples designing a bespoke engagement ring often want to include a personal engraving. Bespoke implies one-off and unique, and what better way to demonstrate what the ring means to you than a personal engraving?
At Rare Pink we offer the intricate machine engraving, traditional hand-engraving or the more technical laser engraving. Read on to see the benefits of each.
You can’t beat the age-old technique of hand engraving, and my engravers use this method to create a longer lasting, deeper engraving.
Gold is the perfect metal for hand engraving as it is soft allowing the engraving to be made deep into the metal so that it remains even as the layers of gold wear away over time.
I love the fact that hand engraving is highly skilled. It reflects the whole process of creating bespoke engagement rings, which are a labour of love.
Some of our engravers have over 40 years experience. Working from long-established workshops, they use the time-honoured techniques of their craft to painstakingly perfect intricate engravings.
I have even had commissions requiring letters smaller than 1.5 mm, and although these can take up to a week, my engravers make it worth the wait.
We only use this type of engraving when the detail required is so fine that no hand is able to engrave a custom engagement ring quite like a precision laser or diamond tip can. Flat surfaces are needed here. Patterns are engraved with a diamond tip and are shallow, almost like scratches.
When engraving any bespoke designed engagement rings with a note on the inside of the band we prefer to use hand-engraving, which is described below.
We are in the technological age after all and the benefits of laser engraving can’t be ignored. It can be quicker than hand engraving and the details clearer and deeper.
Used for complex patterns by big design houses, this work is difficult and still takes time.
My Simple Summary
Engraving is a personal choice, but can be a wonderful addition to bespoke engagement rings. Talk to me during the design stage and we can discuss quality and engraving options. All Rare Pink custom engagement rings come with a complimentary engraving.


There are several reasons why services delivered over fixed networks are going to face tougher competition from mobile services, ranging from orders of magnitude more mobile bandwidth to lower mobile network sunk costs to higher network utilization rates to changing end user demand.
Simply put, demand for consumer-focused mobile services now vastly outstrips demand for fixed network services.
According to the International Telecommunications Union, fixed telephone subscriptions have declined from 15.2 to 14.5 per 100 persons, globally. That abandonment of fixed network voice is occurring at the same time that mobile subscriptions have reached 98.6 percent.
To be sure, demand for fixed network Internet access grew, but slowly, in 2014. Fixed network Internet access subscriptions grew from 10.3 percent to 10.8 percent.
Also, relatively speaking, it is going to be easier to wring cost out of mobile platforms, compared to fixed platforms, in most markets.
Mobile networks cost less than fixed networks, and can be deployed and upgraded faster.
Though the pattern is by no means uniform globally, the cost of a mobile network, including spectrum purchases, is less than that of a comparable fixed network.
But mobile markets typically feature multiple mobile operators (three to five, for example) operating with their own facilities, while many fixed network markets feature only a single network operator, or possibly two, in some markets.
In addition, mobile network infrastructure costs are described in terms of costs to serve “people,” while fixed network costs are “per location.”
That makes direct comparisons somewhat more difficult. But a study of U.S infrastructure costs showed mobile or wireless networks were less costly than fixed networks when loop length requirements were 12,000 feet, for example, when the comparison was a single new mobile network and a single new fixed network.
Total investment might differ if multiple mobile networks overbuild a single fixed network. In some cases, the total cost of all the mobile networks could be higher than that of a single fixed network.
Operating costs often also are lower for mobile than fixed networks, sometimes because the fixed networks have cost structures typical of former-monopoly providers, while mobile service providers often start with lower cost structures.
Also, as customers abandon the fixed network, more of the assets are stranded, and unable to generate a financial return. Rare is the cell tower that does not serve paying customers, or enough paying customers to earn an actual profit.
And ability to reduce costs is going to be essential, if one believes, as does the International Telecommunications Union, that retail consumer communications service prices are going to drop by 40 percent by 2020.
To be sure, prices might not drop by 40 percent for every service, offered by every provider, in every market. Prices for fixed services might even rise, as consumers opt to buy more-expensive services running at higher speeds up to a gigabit per second in some markets, but easily to hundreds of megabits in more markets.
The analogy there is smartphone prices, which are higher than what consumers used to pay for feature phones.
Still, stranded assets and shifting demand are going to create increasing pressures for fixed network service providers. Mobile operators will not be exempt from the pricing pressures, either.
Some might already argue that many fixed network providers, and even some leading mobile providers, have business models that are going “upside down.”


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26 Outraged Reactions To The Cancellation Of The NYE Festival
The New Year's Eve event to be held at the newly opened Wet'n'Wild Sydney has been cancelled just hours before it was due to start. People are not happy.
The NYE Festival was set to be the best combination of water slides and music to happen all year. But this afternoon, the organisers decided to "postpone" the event until Australia Day on January 26, due to "last minute production issues." Needless to say, the people who had planned to celebrate their NYE at Wet'n'Wild are extremely disappointed - and they took to social media to let the world know.


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Soooo, women's health research is LIT these days.
And y'all know (omg did I just say y'all?) I'm a card-carrying member of the nerd alert club. As often as I can I'm reading studies, papers, and meta-analyses in order to learn about (and disseminate with you guysss) the latest information I can find related to fitness, nutrition, pregnancy, and everything/anything it means to be a healthy active mama with healthy active kiddos.
A lot of the time I'm surprised (in both good and bad ways) by the data I find. But sometimes, something magical happens: I find evidence that reinforces EXACTLY the kind of stuff I utilize not only for myself but for my community, too.
So, for those of you who've used my C-section recovery plan, you can imagine how loudly I squealed when I stumbled across a recent randomized controlled trial published in the September/December 2018 issue of the Journal of Women's Health Physical Therapy.
FYI, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are legit AF when it comes to research study design. And while all studies should be read with a critical eye, I'm thrilled to say that this one offers some insightful and bona fide evidence as to why I STRONGLY recommend tissue work in my C-section recovery program. And as far as I know, this is the first RCT investigating this topic.
So go ahead and start reading about the study—I'll catch up with you after I'm done jumping for damn joy over here.
(quoted by Nancy Anderson from her c-section recovery plan)
Dealing With C-Section Related Pain? Evidence Supports Soft Tissue Mobilization for Relief
The authors of this study begin by pointing out a pretty amazing statistic:
Of the 1.27 million+ cesarean sections (C-sections) performed every year in the United States, up to 18 percent of them will result in chronic pain. That's potentially almost a quarter of a million new mamas dealing with chronic pain and dysfunction annually. WTF.
The team of researchers (all of them physical therapists, most of them with doctorates) wanted to see whether soft tissue mobilization reduced pain and improved function and scar mobility for women who've undergone C-sections. To determine this, they recruited 28 women with C-section pain and randomly divided them into two treatment groups:
- Group 1 got superficial abdominal and lumbothoracic massage in addition to superficial skin rolling of the painful scar
- Group 2 recieved this plus abdominal myofascial release and direct deep scar tissue mobilization
After four treatment sessions, both groups saw statistically significant improvements in pain, scar mobility, and scores on the Oswestry Disability Index, aka ODI (this is considered the gold standard for evidence-based outcome measures of back pain treatment). These positive benefits were the same regardless of BMI and number of prior C-sections.
The authors conclude succinctly: "This study demonstrates that 4 sessions of [soft tissue mobilization] techniques are effective in reducing stable chronic pain following C-section." Can I get a, 'yasssss!'
UGH: It just FIRES me UP to see therapists, researchers, and scientists carrying the banner and doing more research on important topics like this! This is what we need to have the tools and backing to PUSH for better standard of care for c-section Moms. This is a big WIN for us.
Any drawbacks of the study? Relatively small sample size, for one. There also was some missing follow-up data for a few of the subjects, and notably missing was a true control group that got only "sham" treatment (which, the authors point out, is tough to do in physical therapy practice, anyway).
But the researchers used reliable and valid outcome measures—including the ODI, the numeric pain rating scale ("rate your pain on a scale of 0-10," which is surprisingly accurate and consistent), average scar tissue pain pressure threshold (as measured with a digital pressure algometer), and the modified adheremeter (a nifty little tool used to measure scar tissue stretchability).
Plus, the trained therapists providing the treatments were blinded to the results of the outcome measures, and the subjects and people who measured the pre- and post-treatment results were blinded, too—greatly reducing the chance for bias.
AND I'd be remiss to point out something that I'm sure a lot of you guys have noticed—these women only underwent FOUR sessions of tissue work. Just FOUR! Imagine how much more improvement could be seen after ten, twelve, or more sessions?
It's exciting to think about.
Learn About Soft Tissue Mobilization (And So Much More) In my C-Section Recovery Plan
There's something really interesting about this study I haven't mentioned yet:
There were no significant differences in the outcomes between the two groups—the superficial treatment offered to the women in Group 1 was just as effective as the combined deep plus superficial treatment offered to the women in Group 2.
I'm actually a little surprised but at the same time kinda happy to hear this, because it suggests that even simplest at-home work we do on ourselves can reduce C-section pain and improve scar mobility.
I mean if that ain't butt-kicking self-care, I don't know WHAT is.
That said, I believe that if we don't address the deeper core and organ layers affected by our C-sections (which I tell you how to do yourself in my program), then we're simply not going to heal and thrive as optimally as possible—and we're potentially setting ourselves up for longer-lasting complications. Additionally, the authors logically point out that if their sample size had been larger, the data may have been more accurately able to shake out any differences in superficial only vs. deep plus superficial treatment (I agree with this).
We go into ALLLLL sorts of detail about this in my C-section recovery program. I tell you:
- When and how to self-mobilize both superficial AND deep layers
- Explain the many (surprising) ways your external AND internal scarring is likely affecting your health (and your sex life, and your gut, and your lymphatic system, and your body image, etc.)
- When to consult with a physical therapist or other women's health professional for extra help
But true to my shotgun approach for optimal healing, I also talk about topical treatments, nutrition, and a lot more—all the other tools in our disposal we can use to optimize our healing and recover from the trauma of a cesarean delivery.
Interested in learning more? Get in touch with me with your questions and be sure to check out my one-of-a-kind C-section recovery program. It has already helped hundreds of women, and I'd be honored if it found its way into your recovery corner.


FM Logar call with Russian FM Lavrov
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Foreign Ministers exchanged information on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in their countries and in the international community.
Minister Logar expressed solidarity with the Russian Government and the people of Russia underlining the importance of security, mutual trust and partnership in tackling global challenges. The counterparts reaffirmed the good bilateral relations agreeing to pursue political dialogue on key bilateral issues and enhance economic cooperation, particularly through the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation.


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One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure!
You never know what you will find when driving down the street! This is the time of year everyone gets the bug to clean out whatever they have not used during the past year – it’s YARD SALE SEASON!
On May 7th from 8 am to 4 pm the town of Blossburg will be hosting a community wide yard sale – including Arnot and Morris Run.
A map of yard sale locations will be available on the Blossburg Together Facebook group page.
If you would like to get on the map, contact Wendy at 570-404-1226.
If you need a place to set up a yard sale table, the Blossburg Memorial Library is offering space for $10. Contact the library at 570-638-2197 to see if any spaces still available.
Writing: Tonya McNamara
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(Paranormal) In yesterday’s Situation Update podcast, I revealed that all the seemingly insane events of Big Government can best be understood by realizing the globalists are pursuing an active campaign of global genocide against humanity. The order has gone out, and human beings are to be exterminated by the billions. This explains the engineered food scarcity, deadly vaccine injections, engineered bioweapons, deliberate economic collapse and more.
(Article by Mike Adams republished from NaturalNews.com)
But people everywhere desire to be free, and populist uprisings are taking place everywhere across the globe, even reaching into the financial sector with the Robinhood / GameStop phenomenon that has made headlines all week.
Because of their ability to communicate through decentralized platforms and electronic means, the populists are winning the war of awakening humanity to the fundamental human right to be free. This groundswell in human awakening — spurred by the junk science and media lies surrounding the plandemic of 2020 — is terrifying the globalists who now realize they are rapidly losing control of the people they seek to enslave.
To try to halt the populist uprisings, governments of the world are turning to terrorism against their own people in the form of psychological terrorism and even kinetic terrorism.
This shift into terror now characterizes the brutal Biden regime, which is already hard at work destroying jobs for American workers and flooding the United States with violent illegal alien criminals. Efforts are also under way to launch a new government police state expansion to spy on the 80+ million people who voted for Trump and aren’t buying the obviously rigged election.
Rest assured that in order to justify the existence of this new police state expansion, the Biden regime will carry out large-scale false flag attacks on U.S. soil to blame conservatives and gun owners while demanding more police state powers to spy on everyone.
Gun confiscation is an important waypoint that globalists see as necessary to achieve depopulation. So the order of events goes like this:
False flag event -> Gun confiscation -> Genocide
The false flag event — which we should expect to see this year — will be used to justify the gun confiscation that disarms the 150+ million Americans that the brutal Biden regime seeks to exterminate with government death squads.
Notably, President Trump refused to use the powers of government to protect Americans from left-wing terrorism, so Joe Biden will be happy to use the powers of government to destroy Americans using government-sponsored terrorism. This means America, under Biden, has become a state sponsor of domestic terrorism targeting its own voters.
In other words, the swamp see voters as the enemy. And that’s why they had to separate the voters from the capitol building using razor wire and fences that look like a scene ripped right out of Third Reich holocaust camp.
Three black swan events that might disrupt Biden and his coming reign of terror against Americans
As far as we know, there are only three things that can prompt the military to remove Biden from power due to his acts of sedition, corruption and treason against the United States:
- A domestic nuclear attack on a major U.S. city using dirty bombs or nuclear detonations, both of which were threatened to be used against Trump by the deep state. The most likely originators of dirty bombs or nuclear bombs in the US are Democrats, deep staters and globalists. The FBI is no doubt trying to recruit scapegoats for this scenario right now. Think about who has access to uranium: Mueller, Clinton, Brennan, etc. (Read up on the Uranium One scandal.)
- A cascading debt collapse that obliterates most of the value of US stocks, which would cause a collapse in pension funds, retirement investments and equities held by tens of millions of Americans.
- War with China. This war looks increasingly likely to occur, and China is engaged in sabre rattling against Taiwan, while the outgoing Trump administration labeled China a nation engaged in “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.” Under Trump, the US dropped its “one-China policy” and recognized Taiwan as an independent nation.
After any of these three possible black swan events, we anticipate regional warfare and horrific chaos. This era will be characterized by utter lawlessness, violence, arson, looting, food shortages, gun battles and basically every nightmare scenario you can imagine.
When this scenario occurs, anyone stuck in a blue city can basically kiss their chances of survival goodbye. America’s cities will be turned into death zones.
Biden’s popularity under such circumstances would, of course, plummet well below 30%, and the US military would obviously have the justification it needs to step in, remove the illegitimate pretender-in-chief Biden and work to restore the rule of law in America, which would require holding new, honest elections using paper ballots.
These topics and more are covered in today’s Situation Update podcast:
Barring some breaking emergency, there will not be a new podcast on Saturday or Sunday. (I am busy prepping for what’s coming, just like you…)
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Mr Michael Sengol (left) receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Asian Gastronomic Awards of Excellence ceremony
Michael Sengol, Chief Executive Officer of Meritus Hotels & Resorts (MHR), the Singapore-based hotel management company owned by Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) was awarded the Fonterra Lifetime Achievement Award at the Asian Gastronomic Awards of Excellence 2011 convened at Grand Hyatt Singapore last Saturday, 16 April 2011.
Organised by Peter Knipp Holdings Pte Ltd and supported by Singapore Tourism Board and Workforce Development Agency, the annual Asian Gastronomic Awards of Excellence seeks to recognise outstanding local and regional luminaries in the food and beverage industry.
Assessed by a qualified and stringent team of professionals including F&B connoisseurs and over 300 selected jury members, the prestigious Fonterra Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred to an exceptional visionary whose significant contributions over a minimum span of 15 years have led to the promotion and growth of excellence within the food & beverage industry.
As Chief Executive Officer of MHR, Michael oversees the expansion of the Company in strategic locations, with particular focus on building brands under its portfolio and establishing new benchmarks for hospitality standards where the Meritus brand is present. New developments under his direction span fast-growing business and tourism hubs in Southeast Asia, China, and Europe.
The seasoned hotelier who has a self-professed “zero tolerance for non-performance,” has devoted over 30 years to the industry, always seeking the highest standards in hotel management and operations. His experience has taken him on key assignments with the world’s most renowned hospitality companies across Europe, Australia, Guam, and the Asia Pacific region, particularly Mainland China where he spent more than 20 years preopening hotels, establishing hotel brands, and developing industry professionals to include General Managers and Managing Directors.
The Fonterra Lifetime Achievement Award is yet another testament to Michael’s passion for the business of people, food and wine. “It is truly a great honour for me to receive this award. As we see more and more well-travelled customers getting sophisticated with their choices, it is imperative that food & beverage operators continue to innovate and uphold Singapore’s reputation as a gourmet paradise,” says Michael.
About Meritus Hotels & Resorts
Meritus Hotels & Resorts is the hospitality division of Singapore Exchange-listed Overseas Union Enterprise Limited (OUE) which is amongst the key property players in Asia, and one of the few integrated developers in Singapore boasting a complete portfolio of prime assets across the retail, commercial, residential, and hospitality sectors.
As a hospitality brand, Meritus is synonymous with Asian hospitality and heritage, with luxury properties strategically located in key cities and idyllic resort destinations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Mainland China. Its current portfolio includes the flagship Mandarin Orchard Singapore, Marina Mandarin Singapore, Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort & Spa Langkawi, Shanghai JC Mandarin, Meritus Mandarin Haikou, and Meritus Shantou China.
Combining chic contemporary décor, comprehensive meetings, business and leisure facilities, and warm intuitive service, Meritus strives to consistently deliver an impeccable hospitality experience steeped in Asian grace, warmth, and care.
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After experiencing a year of significant shocks to their systems, credit card operators are poised to once again increase ad spending spending. In 2009, the industry has been plagued by bad press surrounding high interest rates which coincided with a time of overwhelming personal indebtedness and rising unemployment across the country. But credit card companies ranging from American Express to Chase have increased their mailing significantly in the past month, according to Mintel CompereMedia.
The research firm says that about 180 million U.S. consumers received credit card offers in October 2009. This volume compares to the 134 million offers made in September 2009.
According to Andrew Davidson, SVP of Mintel Comperemedia, "[c]redit card mail volume is still down significantly from a year ago, but October's sharp increase is an excellent sign for the industry. With recent green shoots of economic recovery, card issuers feel more confident about the future. I anticipate that this winter will mark the start of a turnaround in credit card direct marketing that will be sustained through 2010. This could very well be the beginning of the end for credit card direct mail declines."
The new credit card offers are well-timed for consumers who want to make purchases for the 2009 holiday season and who feel more optimistic about their personal financial situation for next year. Davidson also indicates that credit card issuers will be releasing large mailings in 2010 with respect to the CARD act. New provisions which are due to take effect next year require lenders to refrain from a number of historical practices that hiked fees and interest rates for borrowers. As lenders increase their mailings to explain their new business standards next year, they’ll likely use the opportunity to market their services to clients as well.[Source: Mintel CompereMedia release, 11.19.09]


text: John, the founder and CEO of fashion label FUBU, presents the inspiring story of his life, from his upbringing as a poor black youth to his rise as a fashion juggernaut, recently ranked #15 in men’s magazine Details’ “50 Most Influential Men,” and presented a Crain’s Business “Top Forty Under Forty Award.” Born into a broken home in Queens, New York, John grew up hustling for money. Always interested in hip-hop and the latest fashion, John got his break selling “urban clothes” at hip hop tours, introducing New York style and trends to the rest of the country. Soon, John went private, creating his own brand name, FUBU-originally BUFU, By Us For Us, until the name got switched around-that would soon become as much an icon of hip-hop as the stars he sought to emulate. An inspirational tale for any reader, John specifically reaches out to aspiring black entrepreneurs, showing them how they too can achieve their goals. Business advice is speckled throughout the text, drawn from such disparate places as the kitchen of Red Lobster (demonstrating the importance of small increments in pricing) to the top of Trump Towers (the importance of branding). Informative and well-written, and less self-congratulatory than its title would suggest, this is a worthwhile read for aspiring businessmen, fashionistas and laymen alike.


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ASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) has announced its second Specialty Workshop Series on In-Situ Technology Readiness for Applications in AM Qualification and Certification will take place on January 26, 2022, in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. The workshop will be held in collaboration with the NASA and Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
In-situ monitoring technologies for AM may be used as a means of controlling part quality, reducing ex-situ inspection requirements, and providing insights on elements of the AM value chain, including feedstock and design. Ultimately, in-situ technologies may provide a solution to quality assessment of components with complex geometries that are hard to inspect via traditional inspection techniques.
Government, industry, and academic participants will meet to address relevant topics, including:
- Approaches to qualification using in-situ methods as a quality assurance tool in critical applications
- Integrations of in-situ monitoring systems in production for real-time monitoring and closed-loop control
- Correlation of in-situ monitoring data to material defect states and process escapes, computational models, and traditional inspection techniques
Due to COVID-19, the capacity of this event is limited. Interested individuals may now join a waiting list; registrations will be confirmed by ASTM in early December.