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You may list more or less than ten, but please share your favorite manga with us. If you would like to update your list, then just quote your previous one for a quicker and easier comparison. I'll list my top five to start off. I could only manage to fit five titles into my list, and even right now I'm not that confident in the ordering of these titles. The more I read, the more I'll be able to fill in here, so look out for titles like Kiichi!! showing up soon. Alright....I too like Lydia have far too many to list. I'll list the first favorites that come to mind. The first 3 are my true #'s 1-3 but after that no particular order is there. I don't know if I've read enough to have a top 10 list. I only read six manga! So I will list them. In order of preference. Well since ya wanna say you read so much manga I expect you to assist Aya in making the Manga section flourish. So get cracking missy. Psycho 101 wrote: Well since ya wanna say you read so much manga I expect you to assist Aya in making the Manga section flourish. So get cracking missy. Long ago there was much talk amongst us of making the actual ANN manga section grow like mad, but that was also when I ended up quitting the internet. But, I'll do what I can to make it boom on both forums! I just need to finish my application to Japan first, so give me a couple weeks, and then it's ON! Not a Jellyfish wrote: But, I'll do what I can to make it boom on both forums! I just need to finish my application to Japan first, so give me a couple weeks, and then it's ON! Oh it's ON eh? Well BRING IT! Why do I have to be the only one who reads so much manga on here?? Well, I used to read a lot more till I got to college. Then I starting watching more anime. You've reminded me of how far behind I probably am with some of the releases I've been keeping up with. Let's see... What do I have still lying around my apartment: Gunm - Last Order, Ah! Megami-sami, NHK ni Yokoso!, Akira, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Gunsmith Cats (which will likely be unloaded at Book Off in the near future), Ghost in the Shell (English and Japanese), Dominion and a pile of flotsam. The titles I've listed in italics are series I've purchased the Japanese tankoubon of. Glad I could remind you of manga. Hehehe. When I started college it was actually the anime that went and the manga that increased. Oppostie for me. Uh... that was way more than 10. Oh well. I have a lot of manga.

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The Department of Drama in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter are looking for a new Professor. Drama at Exeter is internationally-renowned for its practice, research and teaching, and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. It has had notable success in achieving external research income, including several large AHRC awards, Creative Fellow and Academic Fellowship awards, and workshop and practice-based Research Council projects. We foster a strong culture of peer support in relation to staff research, hosting three Research Centres within the Department: the Centre for Contemporary Performance Practices; the Centre for Performance Histories and Cultures; and the Centre for Performance, Science and Community. All eligible Drama staff were submitted to REF2014, in which 95% of our research was graded at internationally recognised levels. Exeter Drama has performed consistently highly in the NSS, and is currently in the top 3 in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017. We are one of the largest and best equipped Drama departments in the UK with over twenty permanent staff, eleven practice studios, and over a dozen other seminar, workshop and multimedia spaces. We offer a supportive and stimulating environment, and are well connected internationally, through our split-site programme with NIAS, Bangalore and staff and student exchanges with Austin, Texas. There is a strong tradition of Practice-as-Research. We collaborate with organisations such as the Globe Theatre, the National Theatre, the Drottningholm Theatre, regional and national theatre companies, and public sector bodies such as hospitals, prisons and schools. Researchers also have strong links with the wider creative economy sector, and graduate companies include Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations, such as Forced Entertainment, Punchdrunk and Theatre Alibi. The Department of Drama in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter are looking for a leading international figure with the ability to attract world-class academics and post-graduate research students. Applicants will be innovative researchers with a strong track record of research funding and international quality publications.The Professor in Drama, Theatre or Performance Studies will contribute to extending the research profile of Drama at Exeter, and to its dynamic teaching environment. We are particularly interested in enhancing leadership in areas related or complementary to international performance practice; or applied, community and socially-engaged performance. The University of Exeter is a Russell Group University in the top one percent of institutions globally. In the last few years we have invested strategically to deliver more than GBP 350 million worth of new facilities across our campuses with plans for significant investment in the future. This full-time post is available from 1 September 2017 on a permanent basis. Applicants are encouraged to contact the Head of Discipline, Professor Stephen Hodge (tel: 01392 724524, email: S.Hodge@exeter.ac.uk) to discuss the post further. You may also wish to consult our web site at http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk for further details of the College. The closing date for completed applications is Sunday 15 January 2017. Shortlisting is expected to take place on Tuesday 24 January 2017 with interviews likely to take place in mid-February 2017.

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The e-commerce giant’s love affair with brick-and-mortar continues with a new store concept, Amazon 4-Star. The store, which opened its doors Thursday in Soho, is similar to Amazon Books, but with a range of products besides books stocked on its shelves–all of which must have a rating of at least 4 stars by Amazon customers, Forbes reported. Kitchen appliances, home gadgets, devices and electronics, toys and games–the store is stocked with popular items most people are likely to buy.

Jan Schwartz is co-founder of Education and Training Solutions, a web-based e-learning company that produces online courses for those in the health and wellness fields. She has worked in education since 1988. I went to massage school to learn more about anatomy. I was a pretty active person and wanted to know more about how my body worked, but I had had enough of college and wanted a more fun way to learn. As it turns out, I also loved learning about massage and how it helps the body heal in certain ways. My background was in education and training so I did gravitate towards education after I was two years out of school. I was able to combine the two careers and I became an instructor and then an education director. I was fortunate in that the owner of the school I attended was big on volunteering. She steered me that direction. I was a committee chair for my local AMTA chapter, and then I became a Commissioner for the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA), then the Chair of COMTA. I did some volunteer work for NCBTMB and then became a Trustee for the Massage Therapy Foundation. For two years I was the massage therapy ambassador to the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) and currently I am on the board of the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH) and also a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Western States in Oregon. Volunteering has been a big part of my career in massage therapy. I stay engaged through my volunteer work, which is a great learning environment as well. I also go to relevant conferences and am now most interested in inter-professional education. That is, education that brings healthcare practitioners of different fields closer together in how they work with patients/clients. When I was Chair of COMTA we received our initial approval from the U.S. Dept. of Education. That was a long time coming. By the time our renewal came around we had developed the first set of competencies for the field of massage therapy. As a group we did some excellent work, that still exists today. I am proud to have been a part of those processes. More recently, I am proud to have been a co-leader of the team that developed competencies for optimal inter-professional practice through the ACIH. The best part for me now is meeting like minded people in the fields of health and wellness; working on how to make our healthcare system more equitable, more affordable and more patient/client centered. Once you get your practice going, whether you practice solo, in a group or at a spa, and feel comfortable with yourself in your new career, I would strongly advise therapists to get involved in local organizations that promote health and wellness. It could be a massage organization, or any other organization that you think would benefit from the expertise you bring. Don’t think too narrowly—it’s a great way to network! We have to carry the message that massage has many benefits to help people optimize their health.

Living at home with an incurable illness can be a painful, difficult and distressing experience without proper specialist support. Everyday tasks such as bathing, getting out of a chair and moving around become monumental challenges for both the patient and their family members to overcome. Our occupational therapists support patients who wish to remain at home by providing specialist equipment, advice and guidance to help them maintain their independence. We have our own team of social workers who can provide counselling and act as advocates for our patients and their families. Our social workers can give advice about, financial and legal matter; care packages at home, nursing homes and residential homes; and social services and other agencies. They also provide bereavement support. Our doctors are able to visit patients at home to offer specialist advice, working in partnership with primary care teams, on the complex physical and psychological effects of living with a life limiting illness.

I have been living in the Bay Area for just over a year now, and I’ve really enjoyed witnessing the full rotation of the seasons: Autumn had beautiful yellows and ambers and browns, the Winter – soft blues and greys, Spring – a verdant green with pinks and lilacs, and Summer is currently full of dry golden grasses, a muted blue sky and white clouds. One of the newest contributors to the greatest design blog on the web, Design*Sponge, is Lauren Willhite. She’s a Graphic Designer based in Portland, Oregon, and her blog, Color Collective is a treasure trove of loveliness. It’s been years now, but I’m still really gravitating toward the blue/green/grey combinations, with pops of warm colour like yellow and orange. I love this combination because the greens and blues are balances out with the warmer tones of yellow, orange and bone. And how cool would it be to paint a room more than three colours? I'd love my world painted like this! This above is quite possibly my favourite pallette out of all the ones I have featured. I love the ‘pop’ the orange gives this work without dominating the blue and green tones and the yellow-based neutral. Compliments it perfectly. Splendid! I love the inclusion of a deep, rich grey in this colour palette above. And I adore the ethereal quality of the photographs, too. Why not use all of these colours? By using the pink and purple alongside the blues and green, it feels slightly more whimsical, and high energy. And I included this one because I responded to it. I love the periwinkle walls we have at the moment, and love it balanced with the warm oranges instead of the pops of red we currently have. I love the resource Lauren offers designers, artists and others like me through Color Collective. Would be a great place to stop by and have a poke around when you’re next deciding on colours for paint, projects, etc. What colours are currently inspiring you? What colour palette would you choose if you were to revamp your space?

L.3.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. L.3.4(a) Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. L.3.4(b) Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). L.3.4(c) Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion). L.3.4(d) Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases. L.3.5. Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. L.3.5(b) Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful). L.3.6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them). L.3.3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. L.3.3(a) Choose words and phrases for effect. L.3.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. L.3.1(a) Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences. L.3.1(b) Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns. L.3.1(d) Form and use regular and irregular verbs. L.3.1(e) Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses. L.3.1(f) Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. L.3.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. L.3.2(b) Use commas in addresses. L.3.2(c) Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue. L.3.2(d) Form and use possessives. L.3.2(e) Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness). L.3.2(f) Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words. RF.3.4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. RF.3.4(a) Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. RF.3.4(c) Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. RF.3.3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RF.3.3(a) Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes. RF.3.3(b) Decode words with common Latin suffixes. RF.3.3(d) Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. RI.3.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. RI.3.7. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). RI.3.8. Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence). RI.3.4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area. RI.3.5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. RI.3.1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RI.3.2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. RI.3.3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. RL.3.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. RL.3.7. Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting). RL.3.9. Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). RL.3.1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RL.3.2. Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. Flip Charts STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! RL.3.3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. RL.3.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. RL.3.5. Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. RL.3.6. Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. SL.3.2. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. W.3.10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. W.3.5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. W.3.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. W.3.2(b) Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details. W.3.2(c) Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information. W.3.2(d) Provide a concluding statement or section. W.3.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. W.3.3(b) Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

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The final — and main conference day — for UXLX saw 450 people from 32 different countries flock to the the Lisbon FIL centre to hear Don Norman, Christian Crumlish, Kristina Halvorson and more. The first talk of the day really put a mark on the presentations that would follow. It was a talk about the elephant in the room in practically every design case I currently work on; big companies are usually chopped up in little departments and those departments do NOT communicate with each other. Lou held a strong plea that those departments should start working together in order to create a better user experience and outweigh your competition. Silos —Lou is a consultant in information architecture and visits lots of companies who need his help with getting their act together. Whenever he asks about search analytics, the voice of the user via the callcenter or usability research reports, most busineses have to ask three different departments about these things. There is nobody who connects theses “silos”, as Lou likes to call them. So if there is a Usability Research Silo and a Customer Support Silo, do you think they should be talking to each other? Or at least connect their findings in some way? Hell yes. And this is not only the case with research and analytics departments. Most of the time, the “brand strategy” is created in Silo A and the persona’s for the screen designs are written in Silo B. And these Silos also do not communicate with each other. These silos are missing out on the combinatorial effect: together they are better than the sum of both when viewed apart. So do we do with these silos? Well, let’s blow them up. Getting there — So how do we blow up these silos? First off, Lou tells us, you have to get out of yours. Visit some other Silos and find out what they know. Work together. Lou concludes his talk with a few pointers you need to keep in mind when establishing a decision making organ. First off: blue sky it. Ask yourself, if you’re going to build a dicision making apparatus, what would it look like? Next: Ban loaded terms and crutches from the discussion, like “omniture”, “user testing”, “market research” and so forth, because these words tend to take the discussion on roads your company has been walking on for too long. And the bottom line: blow up the silos and put people together. “Companies that integrate their silos of insight will outpace their competitors. Play, like design, is both wonderful and available for multiple interpretations – something Christian Crumlish took full advantage of in his wide-ranging talk. Starting off with the analogy of how print designers bemoaned the web’s lack of control, Crumlish suggests that we should be using the concept of play — its original meaning is ‘to dance’, which is apt as we should be thinking about allowing space. Play gives us masks, the chance to have an assumed identity, and the change to carry out re-imaginings (one entomologist is a dedicated participant in Civil War re-enactments to the point that he brings in era appropriate bugs to attack the troops!). He gave a quick overview of what makes games work. Rules are key — what is fair and what is not? Competition — we naturally compete, so that type of environment can help with play. But it’s not only option — collaboration is also a important alternative (the board game Pandemic is a great example of this). The leaderboard can draw people to that and neglect experience — people also like to work together! You don’t need to create a perfect experience, but instead one that’s tuneable. A great example of it is Twitter—you keep tuning it to get what you want (more/less). Extending the metaphor that musical ensembles are about “getting in tune” (choosing what key), he suggested that we choose to “ensemble play” in the key of a certain hashtag. And for those who know anything about Crumlish — he’s known as an avid amateur ukulele player — yes, he finished up the talk with a tune. After sun- and T-shaped thinkers Stephen Anderson decided that it was time to introduce a new type: Z-shaped thinkers. According to him these are people who think beyond the obvious, people that dare to turn the challenge around and take it a step further. “When everyone zigs, zag.” The point that Stephen wants to bring across is that it’s not about the tools, it’s about the thinking process itself. When looking at existing examples Stephen mentions people like Negroponte who dared to embrace the limitations of creating a laptop for children that would at max cost $100. Instead of being blocked by the constraints he managed to turn it around and create a really interesting laptop. Another hero of Stephen is George Lucas. When he started with the Star Wars movies nobody knew how they had to make it, but George Lucas simply said that they had to aim for the result they wanted to have and would find a way to reach it. This way of thinking makes it possible for us as UX designers to really take challenges on and make a difference. But what’s the way to do this? As an example Stephen gave the audience a simple task. First he asked everybody to “Design a vase.” When people did this he turned the challenge around and showed everybody how you should look at the challenge: “Design a better way for people to enjoy flowers in their home.” This simple task really showed everyone what the right approach is. The question that follows this is whether or not a lot of designers ever get the room to rephrase a challenge like this… often the business has a clear description of what they want and it’s difficult to change things around. But that doesn’t mean we must avoid it. It means we need to understand the importance of it and should try and talk to the right people in the right language. And this is where Leisa Reichelt’s workshop on Strategic UX fits in perfectly. … in order to envision unseen opportunities. You know that world of junk that WAL-E lives in, picking up the odd interesting trinket? That’s the way content is these days on the web. Halvorson says that those odd trinkets are the occasional piece of good content she finds in her travels as a content strategist. The elephant in the room of any conversation is where the content for a site will come from and how it will be maintained. To make matters worse, web writers are normally brought in far too late into the picture. Content is not copywriting, The content goes into a messy ecosystem, and has a lifecycle. She points out that while the field has been around for fifteen years, it’s only been recently that UX has started to pay attention to it, perhaps because it never seemed relevant. Even now she points out that UXers may think they don’t have do deal with workflow and governance. However, they do have to ask the right questions. Demonstrate — hold a mirror up to their pain. She showed an example of history.com showing Valentines Day content on the 16th of February, and a paralysing data-dump of all categories. Recognize the life cycle of content — there are a whole lot of models as to the hoops content has to jump through, but it’s most important to understand which must be changed regularly, and by who. Quoting some well known professionals goes a long way to supporting your arguments. Draw — pictures are good. Envision. Decide the picture you want to aim towards. Discussing the conundrum of CMS’s (and their somewhat failed promise), she recommends the blog CMS Myth. Ninety percent of businesses say the cross-channel experience is critical to their business success. Nick Fink talked to us about definitions, methods, tools and examples to help us create a seamless customer/user experience (he believes the names don’t matter as the goal is the same). We need to answer the question: “What is it that we need to do to (sell a bike/let people enjoy a conference)?” and create a seamless experience for our products and services. Businesses and also UXers tend to think in channels, but customers don’t. They don’t think in the silos that businesses create and perceive one business through different channels or touchpoints. So it’s important to craft a coherent cross-channel experience. But how can we do this? Of course we need to gather insights on how people use our products and services. We have to pay attention to detail and look for hacks: e.g. what do people add to a product to enhance the experience. And we need to follow the experience through to the last point and learn the business process behind it. Once you’ve gathered the insights you can create a customer journey map, an experience map or a service blueprint, all of which help you to visualize the cross channel experience. Finck takes Netflix as a good example, because they have matched the different touch points in such a way that the system is pro-active: It knows when you’ve had a problem with its service and proactively compensates you for it. It informs you when it sends a movie or received one back from you and will allow you to engage with its services on any device (iPhone, iPad, TV, laptop, …) This is a sign that Netflix has aligned its stage and backend to serve their audience a seamless experience. The question of businesses is: ” How do we do this?” We need a strategy. We need to have a unified vision of what we’re trying to do. It’s great that Nick Finck talks about the experience beyond the screen, and the theme of breaking down silos is definitely a recurring theme at UXLX (see also Louis Rosenfeld’s talk). As UX’ers we have the skills and tools to help break down the walls, so let’s go out and do it. Let’s get rrrrready to rrrrrrrumbleeeeee! I was getting really excited when I heard the title of this talk (rescheduled from Jeff Veen because of illness).Josh’s presentation was really set up as a match— from the premise, right through to the imagery of each slide (each with some old skool wrestler, boxer or luchadore in a position that reflects the context). I always like guys who put something “extra”, some delighters, in their presentation. The presentation is not backed up by statistics or real life examples, but consists of observations and temporary technical restraints that both contenders inhabit. Then he shows us the commercial for the DroidX phone, in which astronauts find a strange device in space. Within this device they find a phone that kinda integrates with the astronauts arm and forms itself into an Android phone. Did I hear a nerdgasm? The different cultures couldn’t be clearer — iPhone is about emotion, Android features and technology. So making an app for iPhone or Android can be based on your marketing strategy or the way people would want to use the app. Then there is the mobile web. “It’s webtastic. Everybody loves her”. That is because you only need to make one app and your done. You have an instant reach of everyone who owns an iPhone or Android phone (Josh briefly addresses Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, but they are irrelevant to the point). So, if everything is a match, there has to be a winner, right? No. There is no winner. Both contenders have their strengths and weaknesses, so it’s comparing apples to oranges. But Josh has a very strong point of view that in order to be something in the world of mobile devices, you should at least have a mobile website. And on top of a mobile website you could, for example, create an app for your most precious customers; an app that provides them with something handy and unique. Josh declares a winner that, in my opinion, is no contender in this match, but plays a whole different sport: the API. True, when you have a good API, building a mobile site and native apps is a breeze, but for me, this outcome was a bit disappointing, given the premise of the talk. So both have their advantages and weaknesses, no shocker there. But why not make an app that hold a frame which hold a mobile website? These Hybrid apps can work and you would have best of both world… right? Not exactly. The problem with an app is that is has to feel like an app. And an iPhone app feels differently from an Android app. So your mobile website must behave accordingly. Ofcourse this can be resolved by creating two mobile websites. Ding ding ding! But we want a winner! For his talk, Dario Buzzini used the detective novel “The Manual of Detection” as a guide to UX practice, backed up with examples from his work at IDEO. Starting with the poetic (and somewhat provocative) statement: “We designers, we write stories not manuals, we design experiences not procedures, strive for beauty not truth”, he picked 11 quotes from the book that had relevance to UX. In relation to skills needed in a job — you need to have more than one in order to seem as if you should be there! On Language — As an investigator, you need to know how to talk the right languages, objects have memory, too. Surgery situation — the nurse is touching the patient’s hand not only to comfort them, but also to measure anaesthetic. realised in surgery situation that the gadget for the nurse with stylus would eventually be used just with thumb! On Leads — follow them, to let them go. Often your first idea may be the best, but it can’t be your only one. IDEO has a parking lot for ideas on their whiteboards, so that designers get their ideas out and move on. On Documentation — most is for the wishing well, not a file . Buzzini stressed that should be actionable (echoing Dan Brown’s talk on documentation the day before). On Nemeses — important to find your opposites. IDEO create partner teams for projects (apps etc) where both sit and work together. Can be difficult but helpful. On Bluffing — If you’re caught in a lie, lie again. On interrogation—the process begins long before you are alone in a room together. By then, you should already know your answers. Cryptology — be careful what you dig up, it’s yours. Designers haven’t helped people with banking, making it hard for them to understand what happens with their money. Banksimple is using diagrams to help with that. On Solutions — a good detective tries to know everything, a great one knows just enough to see him through to the end. On Dream Detection — be careful to check whether what you’ve seen is real or a fallacy. Check exactly who it is you’re designing for. Another interesting tip he provided was to think about where the complexity occurs in a product system (aka Tesler’s Law of the Conservation of Complexity). For example, with coffee machines, in a manual it occurs with the user (making the coffee), a semi-automatic in the machine, a pod model in the packaging. He finally echoed other speakers such as Halvorson with his reminder that it doesn’t matter if a design is bad unless it starts to affect sales. By the end of the day, most people had managed to collect most (if not all) of their UX Trump Cards (apparently Bill Buxton and Robert Hockman Jnr were particularly hard to find) and Mental Notes mini-sets. While the fabulous location was a given, UXLX excelled in running a tight ship — speakers were kept to time so the four rooms never got out of sync, a common problem with conferences — and a line up of quality speakers. It’d be great to see some more local/European speakers (a prime example was how Netflix — a service that isn’t available in Europe— was used as a case study several times), but given the diverse crowd, hopefully some will cross the line from participant to speaker next year. Patrick Sanwikarja is an interaction designer at Fabrique Communication and Design in Delft, The Netherlands. He wants to make the future happen by designing it. Miranda de Groot is a User Experience Specialist & Evangelist at ReedBusiness. Pingback: Innovative UX thinking « rastplatznotizen. Pingback: Apps vs Web sites « rastplatznotizen. Pingback: Don Norman: Living with complexity « rastplatznotizen.

Until it is awkward. Until it is disturbing. Until she cracks. Lilliam Rivera discusses her new novel, DEALING IN DREAMS. I eat, and eat, and eat, and mourn. I’ve only had breast cancer once and already I know too much. Nicole Chung discusses ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. We seldom forget when people promise to give us something, whether we need or want that thing or not. I promise you death, you want a death. A comic describing the illustrator’s childhood adventures and misadventures climbing rooftops of all sorts. There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep. “Sister Love” touches on how a traditional family can fail the victim of domestic violence, and how that failure can compound the victim’s trauma. Lidija Dimkovska discusses A Spare Life, living through the break-up of Yugoslavia, her writing style, and where she now feels most at home. The female body here is as palpable as image. As the images and objects transform, so does the female’s body. I wore sobriety like a shirt that was too tight in the shoulders, and everyone around me knew it. Gayle Brandeis discusses her memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis, out today from Beacon Press. Marisa Crawford’s Reversible is an evocative collection, showcasing the ways in which pop culture saturates us with meaning, and how it teaches us to become. Julie Buntin discusses her debut novel, Marlena, why writing about teenage girls is the most serious thing in the world, and finding truths in fiction. Alana Massey discusses her debut collection, All the Lives I Want, the best piece of writing advice she’s ever received, and acknowledging the work that women do. Naomi Jackson discusses her debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, how she approached writing about mental illness and its affects on a family, and choosing to to tell a story from multiple perspectives. A flash-fire covered the horizon all around and behind her, and my mother glowed genuine blue. I saw her skeleton, or maybe her white-hot soul. Something flew up and around our heads. It would be simple to say that she is missing the internal formulation that makes one enthusiastic about dogs. And that would be true, partially. Was she, as their mother once said, a cold fish? Many days I couldn’t see the way forward, but I kept going, the way you had. It was you, after all, who taught me how to stay.

I happen to be a doctor of Pastoral Medicine so naturally I am very happy that I developed a system of medicine that serves humankind more effectively than traditional allopathic medicine. When the world economy collapses, modern medicine will suffer a terrible fall. Money will dry up for expensive pharmaceutical medicines that poison more then they cure. Doctors will have to scramble for alternatives if they want to continue to help their patients. But such alternatives have to be based on solid, empirical evidence and research for doctors to pay much attention. My protocol that I call “Natural Allopathic Medicine” is rational and scientifically-based; pharmaceutical medicine is not. Pharmaceutical terrorism (born with I.G. Farben and the Nazi doctors) is a very real and dangerous thing and so is medical insanity, of which there is no shortage. Through the years I have written about these subjects but this week I was introduced to yet another example of pharmaceutical terrorism and medical insanity coming together. The wife of a good friend of mine started having some serious heart problems and was taken to a hospital in Brasilia, the federal capital of Brazil. In seeking a solution to her problem she saw 14 doctors who prescribed 15 different pharmaceuticals, which she is now taking all at the same time. There is not one doctor, pharmaceutical company or medical official who has any idea what will happen when these 15 chemical pharmaceutical drugs are mixed together. Each one has side effects, which will be complicated and amplified by the presence of other drugs. Going into this uncharted treatment protocol, she had heart and lung inflammation. Now she is bleeding from lungs and large intestines. We cannot feel too badly for this woman because she rejected outright a more natural approach. But we can feel badly for her four daughters and her husband who might not have her around for too much longer. Who we trust says a lot about us and determines to a great extent what happens to us in our lives. Trusting the western medical establishment can end one up very dead, bankrupt or having a host of new medical problems that calls doctors to prescribe even more dangerous drugs. One cannot ever hope to practice pharmaceutical medicine safely. Not only are all pharmaceuticals dangerous (even their safest medicines like aspirin are deadly) but none of them have been tested in combination with other drugs. The medical system is making guinea pigs of its patients by blindly prescribing drugs in combination that have never been tested together. Sounds like medical blasphemy, which is what contemporary medicine has embraced. It’s bad enough that doctors use medicines and procedures that cause cancer in their retched way of treating it. No one caught on for decades that pediatricians were injecting babies with heavy metals like mercury and aluminum that lace many vaccines. The list is endless, enough so that hundreds of thousands of people die each year from “properly prescribed” medicines. So really we do need a new medicine that goes mainstream. Contemporary medicine has to be reborn with new principles and practices. As it is it can hardly be seriously considered as anything even close to the appropriate practice of medicine. Unfortunately change comes at a snail’s pace for humans and their institutions. No one is holding their breath waiting for a medical revolution because all the professional fat cats at the top of the medical world are too fond of their privileges and pleasures to throw in the towel or become humble enough to admit the errors of their ways. I have tried my best to address the above and feel like I have succeeded. Natural Allopathic Medicine actually grew out of the best of emergency room and intensive care medicine, both of which apply concentrated nutritional medicines when all else fails. Magnesium chloride and sodium bicarbonate are at the heart of my medical approach and they are the best workhorse medicines emergency departments have. So I am putting out a request to my wide readership to send in their testimonies about their use, in full or in part, of my protocols. This would help me thrust my medicine further out into the world. For testimonies already received, please visit http://blog.imva.info/medicine/natural-allopathic-medicine-cures. The rules and conditions of life are changing and it is going to be a struggle for survival. Our already toxic world is getting more contaminated and radioactive, with modern dentistry and medicine adding significantly to this problem with their use of heavy metals, lethal drugs and radiation. The majority of people are meeting the future with significantly weakened bodies and immune systems because of dangerous deficiencies in iodine, magnesium and other essential minerals and nutrients. The strength of the cells’ adaptive capacity is directly related to nutritional sufficiency and proper cellular respiration that removes toxins and wastes through the cell wall. Cells can respond to stress in various ways ranging from the activation of survival pathways to the initiation of cell death that eventually eliminates damaged cells. Whether cells mount a protective or destructive stress response depends on different factors, but the most important is nutritional status. Bicarbonate deficiencies are also a problem, thus the reason sodium bicarbonate makes such a great medicine. Natural Allopathic Medicine uses only safe, non-toxic, non-synthetic medicinals that do not add to the toxic burden of the body. Most of the items in the protocol can be taken orally, transdermally or administered intravenously. Transdermal applications include topical application directly on the skin, intense medical baths, nebulization into lung tissues or in the use of glutathione suppositories and natural enemas. I never fell into the trap of over-identifying with any single medicinal as the answer to everything or anything. I am a confirmed protocol man and ALWAYS deal with many medicinals simultaneously. But still, no matter how deeply I have gotten into other medicines, magnesium chloride remains the heavyweight champion and ALWAYS needs to be included in EVERYONE’S daily regimen.

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O-Bank's primary stakeholders are employees, customers, shareholders, suppliers, government agencies, the local community, the public, and the news media. The matters they care about are diverse, and have wide-ranging impact. To fulfill its corporate social responsibilities, O-Bank maintains a number of channels for two-way communication with stakeholders, and identifies material topics of concern to stakeholders to set the agenda for key management policies and plans for their execution. Making reference to the CSR Reports of peer companies in the financial industry, O-Bank has identified employees, shareholders, government agencies, customers, suppliers, the local community, the public, NPOs/NGOs, CSR experts and scholars, artists, media, and labor unions as potential stakeholders. CSR representatives from the Bank's various units have met for internal discussions and redefined the scope of stakeholders to exclude CSR experts and scholars, labor unions, media, and NPOs/NGOs. This decision was based on the dual principles of relevance to the business of O-Bank's departments, and frequency of contact. In addition, they merged artists and the local community into the more broadly defined stakeholder category of the public, resulting in six major stakeholder categories: employees, shareholders, government agencies, customers, suppliers, and the public. O-Bank's highest authority for governance is the Board of Directors, which has 15 members with diverse professional backgrounds, skill sets, and industry experience. The directors are responsible for reviewing the company's business plan, any organizational expansion or downsizing, budgets and year-end accounts, appointment and dismissal of key managerial officers, and approval of matters of material importance. Also, in order to ensure sound decision-making and improve managerial and oversight mechanisms, the Board maintains various special-purpose committees, including an Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, Investment Committee, and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee. The purpose of the Audit Committee is to assist the Board of Directors with its supervisory duties. The purpose of the Compensation Committee is to assist the Board of Directors with evaluating and supervising the Bank's overall compensation policy and the compensation of Directors and managerial officers. The purpose of the Investment Committee is to assist the Board of Directors in evaluating and supervising investment quality and reviewing investment plans. The purpose of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee is to set CSR-related regulations, policy direction, and carry out CSR plans. To effectively optimize internal controls and put the company on stronger organizational footing, O-Bank has adopted the three lines of defense model for effective risk management and control. This approach has entailed the establishment of a self-audit system, a legal compliance system, a risk management system, and an internal control system. In the area of legal compliance, O-Bank adopts an annual legal compliance plan. Under this plan, in addition to reviewing compliance systems, structures, and regulations, the Bank also conducts an integrated inspection of all departments' compliance self-assessments, analyzes reasons for serious compliance failures, and makes suggestions for improvement. In the area of risk management, the highest authority in O-Bank’s risk management organization is the Board of Directors, and below it are the Auditing Department, Audit Committee, Investment Committee, and Compensation Committee. Reporting to the President are the Asset and Liability Committee, Investment Product Quality Evaluation Committee, and Loan Evaluation Committee, which assess the risk of related projects. As for internal auditing, the Auditing Department conducts periodic on-site audits at every unit and also supervises their self-audits. Once each half-year, the chief auditor reports on these matters to the Board of Directors. To implement ethical best practice, O-Bank has adopted a Code of Ethical Conduct, a set of Ethical Best Practice Standards, and a Handbook for Ethical Corporate Management Procedures and Practices. The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee's Corporate Governance Subcommittee is responsible for the following: adopting and implementing ethical best practice policies as well as measures for preventing malfeasance; ensuring that directors, managerial officers, and other employees do not violate ethical principles; monitoring the effectiveness of the company's ethics standards; and periodically reporting to the Board of Directors. Also, O-Bank has established a Whistleblower System to encourage any person to blow the whistle on any unethical or improper conduct. Under this system, someone who discovers a possible occurrence of crime, cheating, or regulatory violations can report the matter via a tip box to the chief auditor. A whistleblower's identity, and the content of his or her report, are kept strictly confidential. To ensure that all employees comply with the Ethical Best Practice Standards in the conduct of their job duties, O-Bank in 2017 retained a professional from KPMG Taiwan to provide instruction to O-Bank employees on the Handbook for Ethical Corporate Management Procedures and Practices. The purpose of the course, which was completed by 75 persons, was to improve understanding of ethics concepts among risk officers and other employees. Also, O-Bank used its e-learning platform to carry out online instruction and testing of employees throughout the entire company, thus improving all employees' familiarity with ethical best practices, ensuring comprehensive legal compliance, and preventing unethical conduct. The online training was completed by 805 persons, which translates to a participation rate of 100%. After reorganizing as a commercial bank in 2017, O-Bank's staffing needs increased significantly. At year-end 2017, the Bank employed 904 people. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, ethnicity, or other such factors. O-Bank employed equal numbers of men and women in 2017, while women accounted for roughly 48% of management and 47% of all promotions. These figures show that all employees enjoy fully equal opportunities for career development and advancement. In addition, O-Bank employed 11 persons with physical disabilities (1.2% of total staff), which exceeded the regulatory standard. O-Bank also maintains clear regulations against any kind of sexual harassment, discrimination, or threatening behavior, and its on-the-job training programs include courses on gender equality, prevention of sexual harassment, and the needs of disadvantaged persons. O-Bank's starting salaries are above the minimum required by the Labor Standards Act. In 2017, starting monthly salaries for university graduates hired by the O-Bank Group were 1.6 times the minimum wage, and the Bank makes annual salary adjustments, granting an average raise of 3% in 2017 to 97% of all employees who took part in performance evaluations. Employee benefits are also generous. In addition to providing employees with labor insurance, national health insurance, and retirement pensions as required by law, O-Bank also offers employees and their family members with comprehensive group insurance. Also, O-Bank arranges regular health examinations that exceed regulatory requirements for employees. In 2017, 87.2% of employees took advantage of the health examination program. Living expense allowances include: holiday bonuses; birthday bonuses; scholarships for dependents; birth, marriage, and funeral allowances; company dinner allowances; preferential-rate deposits for employees; and collaboration with daycare facilities for childcare discounts. In addition, we have also adopted the O-Bank Rules for Administration of Employee Loans to assist employees with housing purchases or other financial needs. In addition to helping employees achieve work-life balance by offering menstrual leave, parental leave, paternity leave, and family leave, O-Bank goes beyond the statutory minimum with additional paid leave options such as family ties leave (for employees who need to care for family members), community service leave (to encourage employees to take part in community service activities), paternity leave for prenatal checkups (so that husbands can accompany their wives to prenatal checkups), and birthday leave (to allow employees to leave work a half-day early on any day of their choosing during their birthday month). And in addition to this extremely varied benefit and leave system, the O-Bank headquarters building has a reading room, an employee lounge, a health kiosk, a massage and rest area, a music room, and an art gallery where employees can go to relax and enjoy art. As for employee training, in addition to arranging in-house and outside training courses, we have also launched the O-Bank digital academy digital learning platform, which offers access to a wide range of online courses covering such fields as financial services, legal compliance, anti-money laundering, information security, and professional and managerial techniques. In addition, O-Bank offers employees allowances to offset first-time testing fees for professional licenses regardless whether the qualifications are sought for business purposes, to satisfy legal requirements, or for personal reasons. To encourage the pursuit of excellence, O-Bank has a comprehensive performance evaluation system and conducts annual performance management. Under this system, each employee is interviewed by his or her immediate supervisor for a preliminary evaluation. This is then followed up with an inter-departmental secondary review to conduct a performance alignment by senior management for all employees at the same occupational rank. The purpose is to ensure consistent application of standards throughout the entire bank. Because of the company's rapidly growing personnel needs, O-Bank has established an Assessment Center to identify employees with outstanding potential and provide them with proper training. To prevent workplace accidents, O-Bank has adopted a set of Working Rules for Occupational Safety and Health, which sets out express standards for workplace safety and health and provides clear and detailed instructions regarding first aid measures, use of emergency equipment, and accident reporting procedures. At the same time, the Bank carries out employee safety and health training as well as disaster preparedness drills, and works to raise safety awareness. In 2017, O-Bank's safety and health training courses as well as its secondary fire and earthquake preparedness team drills were completed by 182 and 108 employees, respectively. These activities have improved employees' emergency response capabilities. O-Bank has created a smokeless working environment, regularly tests its CO2 emissions and use of lighting, and rigorously enforces its door access restrictions to ensure employee safety. The Bank's employee health assessments and workplace health promotion program work extremely well, and the company has received a Healthy Workplace Certification from the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Health Promotion Administration. In the area of labor rights, O-Bank holds meetings of its labor-management council to discuss labor legislation safeguards, and after the council passes resolutions it incorporates the content thereof into the Bank's internal work rules and announces the rules to all employees. Also, in order to create more opportunities for interaction between employees and senior management, O-Bank in 2017 held a series of company events to provide venues for two-way communications between employees and senior management. In addition, O-Bank has established a Complaint Mailbox and a Sexual Harassment Complaint Mailbox. Cases reported via these channels are treated as confidential matters in order to protect the interests of complainants. The company also maintains a We Care mailbox to encourage suggestions for ways to care for employee needs. For many years now, O-Bank has provided its corporate customers with comprehensive solutions by creating boutique financial services featuring real-time convenience, professional sophistication, and reliable security. In January 2017, O-Bank reorganized as a commercial bank, branched out into retail banking, and tapped into digital technology to become the first native digital bank in Taiwan. Ordinary consumers can now use their mobile devices to access financial services online, thus turning O-Bank's vision of financial inclusion into reality. O-Bank's corporate business services include corporate banking, global transactions banking, financial markets, investment services, securitization, and trust services. In addition, the Bank also provides stepped coupon bonds that are tailored to meet specific customer needs under specific market conditions. Also, O-Bank has launched a Corporate Internet Banking service (to provide corporate customers with convenient and secure electronic banking services), uses an e-Advice automated messaging system (which provides customers instantaneous access to the latest business and market information), and offers Automated Clearing House services (which enable customers to receive and pay funds, thus increasing the convenience and security of transactions). For each corporate customer, O-Bank provides a dedicated account representative to ensure maximum service quality. At the same time, the Bank holds a special campaign to show appreciation to its customers and build stronger ties with them. Since O-Bank formally launched its retail banking services in 2017, consumers have been able to use mobile devices to access a wide range of financial services, including fully online account openings, fully online loan applications, online purchasing of shares in investment funds, and robo-advisor service. In addition, O-Bank has developed many innovative new online app features. One of these is the O-Bank Easy Payments, which can use QR codes, GPS data, or mobile phone numbers to execute funds transfers. Another is the Payment Analysis, which facilitates analysis of the user's account transactions and debit card payments. Yet another is the O-Bank Red Envelope, which customers can use to send red envelope cash gifts in digital form via their mobile devices. All these features serve to integrate financial services into the lives of O-Bank customers. And in order to better understand the views of consumers, in addition to online surveys targeted to major online communities, the Bank held an event in December 2017 to meet face-to-face with O-Bank fans, hear their thoughts and suggestions, share information with them concerning future product launches, and invite them to take part in product testing. The idea is to provide digital banking services that better meet the needs of consumers. O-Bank has taken a series of measures in all its business operations to protect customer information. In addition to complying with the requirements of the Personal Information Protection Act, the Financial Supervisory Commission's Regulations Governing Security Measures for Personal Information Files at Designated Non-Public Agencies, and other related legislation, the Bank has also adopted its own O-Bank Rules Governing Security Measures for Personal Information Files and related information security management systems, and hired an information security firm to install an information security system. By inventorying personal information, carrying out risk assessments, and implementing personal information management measures, the Bank has raised employee awareness of the need to protect personal information, successfully safeguarded the security of customers' personal information, and fulfilled its duty of due care. O-Bank strives in the course of routine operations to act in an environmentally conscious manner. The company does everything possible to reduce the company's environmental impact, and seeks to exist in harmony with the environment. Amidst today's rapid advances in the digital sphere, O-Bank has gone paperless with numerous official documents and

operations, including the Board of Directors' Meeting Agenda and related attachments, the audit report of the Audit Committee, and the electronic forms system. Employee training, meanwhile, is conducted through the O-Bank digital academy digital learning platform to reduce printing of paper teaching materials, and the Bank is also working to reduce paper use by setting copiers and printers in all departments to do double-sided printing by default. In addition, the Bank communicates with corporate customers via the e-Advice automated messaging system to reduce printing and mailing. On average, these measures reduce paper forms usage by some 5,000 items per month, which means an 84% reduction in paper usage. O-Bank is addressing the problem of global climate change by implementing energy conservation policies. In 2017, the Bank phased out inefficient halogen lamps and high-pressure sodium lamps, keeping the original fixtures and switching in more efficient LED tubes. A total of 361 lamps were replaced over the past year, reducing annual energy consumption by an estimated 59,949 kWh (69.91%) and cutting CO2 emissions by some 31.71 metric tons. The O-Bank headquarters employs inverter air conditioning and a variety of sun shades to improve indoor cooling efficiency. It also employs software to control elevator traffic. The number of elevator cars in operation varies from peak to off-peak hours, with only one car kept running on weekends and holidays. As for water resource management, O-Bank relies solely on the public water supply, and has installed infrared sensors at restroom taps to control water usage. All water supply devices are regularly cleaned and filters are changed and inspected, while plants and landscaping are watered according to season and weather to adjust consumption. O-Bank's suppliers are primarily construction contractors and providers of IT equipment, office equipment, and office supplies. The Bank's Rules for Purchase Requisition and Payment Procedures places priority on green products, giving first consideration to environmentally friendly vendors to gradually increase the proportion of collaboration with green suppliers, while at the same time promoting the concept of green consumption to all suppliers. For example, at the Taipei Vie Show Branch and the Zhongxiao Dunhua Branch, both of which the Bank opened in 2017, green purchasing has accounted for 15% total disbursements. O-Bank reorganized in 2017 as a commercial bank and relies primarily on virtual delivery channels, which means it is the first native digital bank in Taiwan. Having the borderless service model of a digital bank greatly reduces the energy consumption that would otherwise accompany the establishment of physical branches. Consumers no longer need to expend fuel to travel to physical branches to conduct their banking business, and online transactions generally do not involve the printout of paper vouchers. Technology, in the hands of O-Bank, helps us all live in harmony with the environment. O-Bank embraces the ideals of giving back to society and using sustainable business practices, seeks to reflect a corporate culture of always sincere, always here in its social outreach and philanthropic activities, and strives to create a financial group with a human touch. Since the O-Bank headquarters building in the Neihu Science Park was completed in 2008, the O-Bank Educational Foundation has held frequent concerts, lectures, and exhibits in its first floor concert hall and gallery space. Furthermore, the Foundation's Stars of TiDing Arts Promotion Project has provided a venue for new and aspiring artists. The Ninth Annual Stars of TiDing Plan received a total of 71 performance and exhibition proposals, and selected 16 performances and 7 exhibits. These events will support a total of 71 budding artists. In addition, the O-Bank Educational Foundation encourages the younger generation to innovate boldly and realize their dreams of entrepreneurship. It has combined government and academic resources to hold the WeWin Entrepreneurship Competition for 10 consecutive years. It has also held business startup fairs, business startup workshops, and other such activities. In 2015, O-Bank established the O-Bank Community Volunteer Club. O-Bank Vice Chairman Tina Y. Lo, who chairs the Bank's CSR Committee, serves as the Club's honorary president. As of year-end 2017, the Club had 50 members, which was 5.5% of the Bank's Taiwan-based employees. Since its founding in 2015, the Club has made a special effort to serve the needs of schools in remote areas where the children of immigrants account for a relatively large share of all students. The Club donates NT$12,000 per semester, for example, to fund scholarships for students at Jiqing Elementary School in New Taipei City, with scholarship support going to 36 students each semester. Also, in order to help students in remote areas develop a proper understanding of personal financial planning and learn how to spot scam artists, the O-Bank Community Volunteer Club held financial literacy events at remote elementary schools in New Taipei City, attracting 88 participants in 2017. In addition, O-Bank also held a Holiday Spirit community service program, a Cinema for the Mind program, and a Rural Schools Culture & Arts program to create a wide range of extracurricular activities for young students. In addition, O-Bank has run a Summer Internship Program annually since 2015 to assist low-income students at colleges and universities with their career development efforts. Participation in this six-week program is open to students from underprivileged backgrounds who are currently enrolled in 3rd year or above (including graduate students). During the program, in addition to learning about the financial industry and receiving on-site training at financial institutions, interns also earn a salary, and stellar performers have an inside track for job opportunities after graduation. O-Bank hopes that these training opportunities will make the internship participants more competitive in the job market. Four students took part in the program in 2017. O-Bank maintains diverse ties with social enterprises. For the past three years in a row, the Bank has held farmers' markets at its headquarters building, inviting social enterprises to come and sell organic fruits and vegetables, and it has joined forces with a social enterprise named Do You a Flavor to hold food drives in which employees of the Bank donate extra food from home to Do You a Flavor, which then makes the food into meals that it distributes to the homeless. O-Bank also purchases products from social enterprises to give away as holiday gift items. It bought over 500 such products in 2017 for a total of more than NT$300,000. For its efforts, O-Bank received a 2nd Class Buying Power Award in the new product and service of social innovation Purchase Reward Program from the Small and Medium Enterprise Administration of Ministry of Economic Affairs. And in order to further support the development of social enterprises, O-Bank in 2018 launched the “Exclusive Social Enterprises Demand Deposit Accounts featuring preferential interest rates “as well as the preferential Social Enterprises payroll account features and services. Enterprises are an important force for social change. O-Bank hopes to tap into the power of Taiwanese enterprises and work together with them to achieve its vision of co-existing with the natural environment and benefitting together with society. For this reason, O-Bank launched a B Corp Campaign in 2017 to encourage other Taiwanese firms to become a Certified B Corporation. This certification, which is based on the B Lab’s B Corp standards, constitutes recognition that a certified company, in addition to pursuing profits, also pays due attention to environmental and social concerns. Such a company is an entity that does the best for employees, the environment, and society. In hopes of acting as a catalyst, O-Bank itself obtained B Corp certification on 30 October 2017. Besides being the first listed bank in the world to become a B Corp, we are also the first listed company in Taiwan and the first financial services firm here to do so. To fully achieve the B Corp ideal of not best IN the world, but best FOR the world, O-Bank has joined with the Taipei City Government and B Lab Taiwan in holding a Best for Taipei corporate challenge, which offered 20 different courses to help companies prepare for the challenge. In addition, O-Bank also helped B Lab Taiwan hold the 2017 B Corp Asia Forum in Taichung, where scholars and representatives of over 30 overseas Certified B Corporations with representatives of Taiwanese B Corporations to interact and learn from each other. In November 2017, O-Bank joined with B Lab Taiwan in co-hosting a forum on B Corp issues, where representatives of Taiwanese B Corporations gathered to discuss their experiences and identify ways to care for the needs of employees, the environment, and society. The event was attended by more than 200 owners and senior executives of many different companies, some of which are O-Bank clients and suppliers. And to support the development of Taiwanese B Corporations, O-Bank has also set an industry precedent by offering exclusive B Corp demand deposit accounts featuring preferential interest rates, preferential B Corp payroll account features and services, and a special loan program for companies with B Corp Certification. © O-Bank, All rights reserved. Championed by the U.S. non-profit B Lab, the B Movement urges businesses to care for not only financial returns but also social and environmental issues through the B Corp Certification that assesses a company’s overall impact across five dimensions of governance, workers, community, environment, and customers. Together with the growing B Corp community worldwide, O-Bank will continue to strive for the vision of financial inclusion via digital innovations, use business as a force for good, and ultimately redefine success in business.

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But to determine the standard of what’s unsafe, EWG doesn’t use the EPA’s standard. Nor does the group use California’s much lower standard of 1.1 mg per day (for a 154-pound adult). Crossing the California standard moves the cancer chances to one in 100,000 for an average adult. EWG extrapolated the glyphosate standard it applied for testing by applying a couple of adjustments to California’s standard. First, EWG decided to use California’s line for drinking water contaminants, which has a stricter standard than the EPA’s. Then, EWG used the increased vulnerability of children, whose immune systems aren’t fully developed, as the reason to apply the “10 times safety factor” in the 1996 EPA Food Quality Protection Act. “With this additional children’s health safety factor, EWG calculated that a one-in-a-million cancer risk would be posed by ingestion of 0.01 milligrams of glyphosate per day,” EWG’s report states. That’s a standard that’s 1/100th the amount of glyphosate California considers safe for adults and about 1/200th of what the EPA says you can eat daily without a problem. Grading on the EWG’s curve, 31 of 45 products failed the testing done for EWG by Eurofin Analytical Laboratories. EWG says a 60-gram serving would be two cups of Cheerios (average of 497ppb in EWG’s tests) or 3/4 cup of Quaker Old Fashioned Oats (average of 930ppb in EWG’s tests). That’s about 1/4 cup less than a single soup bowl of cereal. As for the Quaker Oats, Quaker’s directions say 3/4 cup is enough for one-and-a half servings. While both Cheerios and Quaker Old Fashioned Oats exceed the EWG standard, neither comes close to being a problem under the California standard or the EPA standard. You’d have to eat almost 28 bowls of Cheerios per day or 26 servings of Old Fashioned Oats for the state of California to consider your breakfast a cancer risk.

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As teens from across the country descend on Washington, D.C., for a massive march to end gun violence, an underground network of high school students is helping to secure hundreds of homes for their out-of-town peers. The organizers — five friends from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md. — have set up temporary housing for at least 200 students from as far as California as they travel to participate in Saturday’s March For Our Lives. Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to demand school safety measures and push for stronger gun restrictions in response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla, which left 17 students and staff members dead. In just two weeks, Mai and her friends have convinced about 300 hosts to open their homes, churches, synagogues, college dorm rooms and rental properties along D.C.’s Metro transit system for free over the weekend. The housing network heavily relies on social media and the use of shared Google documents, but it’s a concept with longstanding roots in activism circles. Like many young activists, the students from Maryland say they were moved to action out of frustration following the Parkland shooting. The friends said they knew many of their peers wouldn’t be able to attend the March For Our Lives in Washington without help. They began spreading the word about their home-sharing network for March For Our Lives at the end of February, and soon several dozen students and hosts signed up. The young organizers then compared the online forms each participant had to fill out to match like-minded individuals. While organizers can’t guarantee anyone’s safety, they have been trying to screen for potentially dangerous situations. For example, they contact parents for permission when students under 18 sign up, and they ask for letters of recommendations from hosts’ employers as part of a background check. They also do their best to pair students with families. Philip Freeman, a 17-year-old high school student from St. Louis, has been texting and communicating on Snapchat with his Maryland host family for the last two weeks. He said he wouldn’t have been able to take part in March For Our Lives without the home-sharing network. Now, the teen from Missouri — who wants to pursue a career in politics — is counting down the days until he’s in Washington, pressuring leaders to enact tighter restrictions on gun or get voted out of office, and marching alongside thousands of his peers, including the survivors of the Parkland shooting. “There’s no more reason not to go,” he said.

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The official life cycle of Python 2 exceeds on 2020-01-01 but few days ago we found some issues (T199959, T203435) caused by the Cryptography package. After py2.6 and py3.3 has been dropped and py2.7.2 and 2.7.3 is proposed to be dropped soon (T191192) I propose to abandon the support of Python from 2.7.4 to 2.7.6 too. If someone cannot upgrade to a newer version of Python, the older Pywikibot releases are still available either via pypi package or the corresponding tag in our repository but one should be aware that these issues may still lead to problems with the Cryptography package. Dvorapa added a subtask: T191192: Drop support for python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. Note that python 2.7.6 is what is currently installed in the Toolforge environment, so that should likely depend on T199003. I checked several systems and both run 2.7.6. . This task is way too soon. Come back in a couple of years. You're going way too fast on this dropping campaign. I think that encouraging people to use updated versions that do not depend on vulnerable dependencies is a good idea. While I agree it can be hard or annoying to go system by system to do so, I feel this is not something we should wait a couple of years to accomplish. Thanks. PS: I would suggest to slowly move from Trusty, because in April 2019 the maintenance support period end is expected. This comment was removed by Xqt. Xqt added a parent task: T213287: Drop support of python 2.7. urllib3\util\ssl_.py:160: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. The minimum version is 2.7.9 to stop this error from occuring.

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Today i spent some hours to do the next experiment with my earth electrode antenna that i have installed in a forest near Heidelberg. The 2 earth electrodes are about 600 m spaced, with 20 copper earth rods at each end. Location is 49.44894N_8.724619E. The todays goal is to reach the RX of Michael Oexner in about 50 km distance at 8970 Hz. He is one of those who successfully copied my signal on my 2nd VLF experiment, 15th, March (> 70 km distance). Today he started running his PC using the soundcard and SpecLab as the RX. His antenna is a PA0RDT design. He is still at work, so i am awaiting his report with interest;-) It would be a new distance record on VLF with earth electrode antennas. The day appeared reasonably suitable in the morning hours. Although there was some rain, the QRN was down to -90 dB on my DFCW-600 window on the VLF grabber (http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/schaef ... abber.html), just about the level as in my last test. The last test was done with the 300 m antenna and about 70 W. There, the signal was about 10 dB above noise on my grabber in 5.0 km distance. A summary of that can be found on rogers site: http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2010/06/l ... rmany.html . Today i transmitted about 0,2 Hz lower since DF6NM also tried to copy the signal and he has currently some noise at 8970.0 Hz. Today i used the SMPS, generator and the small PA (300 W), running at 250 W. Sadly i had forgotten my amperemeter for the antenna current and so the power was just measurable at the DC side of the PA, taking about 20 A at 13,8 V DC. The first attempt was arround 8:30...9:00 UTC (still visible on my grabber) but i didn't get the power into the antenna (means too high Z), so there was something wrong with it. I found that the electrode connections were disconnected, most probably done by some animals. They even tried to grup out some earth rods So in the first attempt the antenna was rather a lossy inv L antenna. When applying about 400 V rms (not kV ) to this inv L antenna, the signal was about 10 dB above ground anyway (pic1.jpg). After solving that problem the antenna acted like a loop again. Sadly a storm and heavy rain came up during the experiment. I couldn't hear and thunder so i thought it is a normal rain. But there must have been some charged clouds and charged raindrops falling down since later i found heavy white vertical lines on the grabber like is is usual during thunder storms. This kind of noise appears rapidly and goes rapidly, often the noise level increases and decreases by several 10 dB during just some seconds. So it was a pity that this happend just during the test. Maybe the situation at Micheal Oexner's QTH is totally different! Compared to the last test, the TX power was 6 dB higher and the antenna has twice the length. The gain due to the increased size was measured to be 8 dB (RX level difference of DHO-38). But, the signal was 30 dB above noise in 4,5 mHz ( pic2.jpg), (DFCW-600 window) although the noise was about 5 dB higher than in the last experiment (see Rogers picture on his site). So, there is another 11 dB gain (35dB -(10dB+6dB+8dB)). The radiation direction of the antenna and distance didn't change significantly so where does this gain come from?! I suppose it is the wet soil that decreases the earth resistance near the earth electrodes! If this mountain/hill is mostly out of stone, the inner conductivity does not change too strong but the electrode resistance seems to do!? So, i mean, a wet soil is an advantage, not a disadvantege, as long as the overall soil is not wet but just the upper layer. What do the experts mean? BTW, i have never seen people looking so astonished, seeing this generator running in the middle of the forest on a rainy friday morning! So, hopefully Micheal will tell us some news this evening. If not positive, we will go on. It was a first attempt at that distance and the conds were really not perfect. Additionally there is a loss of about 2 dB if the antenna acts like a loop. Markus/DF6NM received nothing but if the antenna acts like a loop, it has it's minimum into Markus' direction, sadly. Marco/DD7PC is in 60km distance and pretty exact in the radiation maximum of the antenna, so he could become another RX station? Since 10:25, Stefan is on air again with his ground loop. Signals on his own grabber are even better than yesterday, perhaps due to somewhat lower QRN. I am also looking here but don't have much hope, as the TX antenna is N-S oriented and Nuernberg is 180 km due east. reception. Maybe DD7PC is QRV in DFCW-600 (abt 4 mHz) again the next time? The distance of the todays experiment is: 49.6 km. is the antenna orientation. TX power was 250 W, just like yesterday. Tnx to Michael for the effort to catch that signal (Markus as well).

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Saturday was the big day for me to install the main bulk of my work at Esotera. I am eternally grateful to Nick Weaver and Nigel Evans for their invaluable help carting, transporting and installing my work – the 3 of us driving in convoy with full loads meant that I didn’t have to do several trips the same day. I was installing from 8.30am-7pm, aided by some lovely refreshments courtesy of Shirley and Andrew Harvey. Thanks also to Jason Nosworthy, who helped with the landscaping side of things. Apart from the grass not growing quite enough to enclose the site for my main installation at Esotera (a set of silver birch trees), I am really pleased with the site – its dappled light and colours give it a magical quality, which just happens to play and harmonise with my work. Until the work was installed (partly) on Saturday, I had no clear idea of these effects. I still have a serpent and giant nest to finish, so won’t linger. I plan to add a fuller write up about the final installations after completion later this week, when a photographer will visit the site to take better pics. Then it’s the opening/talk/workshop/private view on Saturday… Good luck everyone! In addition to collecting materials on walks in the area and at Pylle scrapyard, my work has relied on the kindness of numerous local donors, who have given me recycled materials and/or their time. A huge thank you to the following: Sam Garland, John Shepherd Feeders, Ridgeway Garage, Station Road Garage, Pete Reakes, Fon Cosens, Somerset Earth Science Centre, Andrew and Shirley Harvey, Vicky Grinter, Georgia Grinter, Caroline James, Jason Nosworthy, Nigel Evans, Peter Osborne, Denise Campbell, Nick Weaver, Adrian Candy. I have struggled to keep up with my own self-inflicted deadlines for making the Abundance installations, especially during this school summer holiday, although I am making progress. With September nearly upon us, I’ll need to accelerate in order to get it all completed on time. My large ‘fallen nest’ is coming along ok and I hope to complete it in the next week. Other parts to the lichen-inspired installation have now been shaped and patinated using reclaimed copper and lead. I have a couple more items to make, and will then set it all out again in my garden as a mock up. It’s been great fun exploring techniques and finding new ways of working with materials. We are meeting with the owners at Esotera this Friday for a final update on the work and Art Weeks arrangements. Very soon it will be time to install…. better get moving! Pieces are steadily coming together. The aim is to create a mass of giant growing forms, inspired by lichen, linked to the Eden concept and utilising found objects. It involves hours of weaving, wrapping and forming, using soft and hard materials together, which is relatively new for me and occasionally I wonder if I’ll ever get it finished. Anyway, it’s becoming a daily activity and no matter what else the day holds, I try to spend a few hours on the Abundance work. I’m hooked on what I’m making, and what I would really like is to have no other interruptions but life isn’t that simple.. Earlier this week we went to Esotera again to measure the installation area and confirm a few details with Zoe. A landscape designer friend, Jason, came along to help work out where the grass might be allowed to grow a little, in order to create more of an enclosure for the work. Owners Andrew and Shirley have been very accommodating with this. On reading the other Abundance artist posts, I like the idea that there seems to be several crossovers in our work; connections which somehow tie the Trail together. Today was a perfect day to revisit Esotera. My first visit with Zoe was on a grim winter’s day. But today blazing sunshine had brought out new flowers from bulbs, ferns were unravelling, ducks, chickens, fish and a very sociable cat ‘Gengis’ were all glorifying our brilliant 1st of May. As I wandered around, I could understand why Esotera gets so many visitors who stay for hours. The owners and garden envelop you into their world – a place at peace with itself, whilst buzzing with the magic of life and I found it hard to leave! Undecided about the exact location of my installation, with several possibilities, I took plenty of photos and absorbed the ambience. It helped to confirm my ideas for the project, and 3 hours later I left, armed with a load of reclaimed materials for my work there, generously donated by the owners Shirley and Andrew. My ideas have moved on to something a little more ambitious. The work will be time-consuming but fun to make! My thoughts have lingered on Genesis’ Garden of Eden – the most abundant garden where plants, creatures and humans grow and roam freely in complete harmony. It is the first Utopian concept, explored by many including Plato, Thomas More etc… Utopian ideals encompass world peace, enlightenment, labour, arts and science, fulfillment, harmony between man and nature, all needs supplied by the abundance of nature. Next week I’m revisiting the garden to get more of a feel for it, discuss my ideas with Shirley and Andrew, see the garden blooming and arrange practicalities.

PROMOZIONI (Promotions in English) revolves around the surreal experience of a promoter who tries to establish honest relationships with her customers and the people she works with, but she slowly realises that her values are not reconcilable with the nature of sales. The people she meets, the attacks she gets and the reminiscence of her beloved grandma starts to convince her to pursue her real dream before anything else. Nobody’s Child is a London based theatre company founded and run by Italian collaborators. Founder Anna Carfora established the company to create a link between Italian and English theatre and to bring her work, stories and background to the English theatre audience. Promozioni is directed by Norwegian director Tonje Wik Olaussen. The play, originally written in Italian by Anna Carfora, has been translated to English by writer Tim Parks. Cast: Anna Carfora, Rachele Fregonese, Alida Pantone, Iacopo Paradisi, and Davide Roberti.